Contra Costa-Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....Grigsby, Erasmus D. 1841 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

ERASMUS D. GRIGSBY.—A native of Missouri, born October 2, 1841. In the Spring of
1852, then being but eleven years old, he started with his parents, two brothers
and two sisters, to cross the plains to the Golden State, and after an
uneventful trip of six months, arrived in Napa valley, locating on the place now
owned by his father, Terrel L. Grigsby, one of the best known men of Napa
county. He lived with his parents on their farm until October, 1864, when he
married, came to this county in 1868, leased land on the Marsh Grant, also
leased land in Stanislaus county for four years, carrying on the two farms, and
in 1876 purchased his present valuable farm of three hundred and twenty acres,
four miles north of Point of Timber. He subsequently purchased one hundred and
sixty acres more land and is now engaged in general farming. Married in Napa
county, October 28, 1864, Miss Elmira Miller, a native of Illinois. By this
union they have four children—two sons and two daughters: Laura S., Warren M.,
Lillie J., and Byron L.

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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.

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