Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Ramage, Samuel Franklin 1836 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

SAMUEL FRANKLIN RAMAGE.—Was born in Butler county, Ohio, July 1, 1836. When
three years of age he, with his parents, moved to Pike county, Illinois, and
resided there and in Adams county, same State, until 1856. On September 8th of
that year, he sailed from New York, via Panama, for California, and settled in
Contra Costa county. For four years on arrival he was engaged in stock raising,
and in the mean time, in 1858, went to Oregon and drove cattle to Contra Costa
county. Since 1860, with the exception of three years, when he was engaged in
hauling coal from the mines to Antioch, he has followed farming on the San
Joaquin for three years on the Marsh Rancho and on the land where he first
located and now lives. Mr. Ramage was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1881,
which office he now holds, and is School Trustee for Green Valley District.
Married firstly, in 1860, Sarah J. Flippen, who died in 1873. By that union
there are four children, John A., Joseph C., James W., and Clara E. Married
secondly, October 2, 1879, Mrs. Lizzie Boswell, Oakland, California, and has one
child: Robert C.

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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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