Contra Costa-Alameda-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Norris, William H. 1832 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

WILLIAM H. NORRIS.—The son of Leo and Mary J. Norris, was born in Morgan county,
Illinois, July 6, 1832, and is now in his fifty-first year. When seven years of
age his parents moved to Platte county, Missouri, where they resided for three
years, and then moved to Atchison county, same State, where they remained until
their coming to this State. May 10, 1846, he with his parents joined a company
that consisted of some thirty persons, and with ox-teams started to cross the
plains to California. After a weary trip of five months they arrived at
Johnson's ranch on Bear river, a place well known to all the early Californians,
October 13th of the same year. Staying but a short time, they proceeded to the
Mission San Jose, where his father engaged in the general merchandise trade, in
which he continued until June, 1850; he then with his parents came to Contra
Costa county, and located on their present place, where our subject now resides.
Mr. Norris was united in marriage in San Francisco, January 8, 1860, to Miss
Margaret, a daughter of Thomas Nash, and a native of Lower Canada. By this union
they have four children: Leo, born November 29, 1860; Thomas, born December 30,
1862; Henry, born September 14, 1864, died August 19, 1881; George, born
February 3, 1867, and Mary, born November 21, 1869.

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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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