Contra Costa-Santa Clara-Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Norris, Leo 1804 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

LEO NORRIS.—The son of John and Barbara (Moore) Norris, was born in Nelson
county, Kentucky, March 3, 1804, and there received his education, farmed, and
for five years worked in a distillery. When twenty-six years old, he moved to
Morgan county, Illinois, where he resided seven years. He next moved to St.
Louis, and then up the Missouri river, to where is now the town of Weston, being
there engaged in farming. In the year 1840, Mr. Norris went to Atchison county,
Missouri, where he remained farming until his start for California. In May,
1846, in company, with his family, traveling with fifty wagons, our subject,
commenced the journey to the far-away Pacific shores, and after a weary voyage
of six months, on October 4th, arrived where Sacramento now stands, the march
being continued to the mission at Santa Clara. In June, 1847, he moved to
mission San Jose, where he dwelt until the Fall of 1850, when he settled on the
property he now owns, consisting of one league of land in San Ramon valley.
Married in Nelson county, Kentucky, July 21, 1829, Miss Jane Kizzie, a native of
Kentucky, who died March, 1855. By this union there are five surviving children,
viz: William H., Mary, (now Mrs. Lynch,) Annie, (now Mrs. Perkins,) James and
Emily, (now Mrs. Lewelling.)

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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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