Contra Costa-Santa Cruz-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Rumrill, Azro 1831 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

AZRO RUMRILL.—Born in Pittsford, Rutland county, Vermont, March 15, 1831. When
very young he was taken by his parents to Jefferson county, New York, where he
resided until he reached thirteen years of age, when he was placed in school at
Oswego. On the completion of his studies he joined his father in Hartford,
Washington county, Wisconsin, where he engaged in farming until the Spring of
1853, when he started for California, sailing on the 13th April, from New York,
in the steamship El Dorado to the Isthmus, and thence to San Francisco in the
Columbus, arriving May, 24,1853. He next went to Watsonville, Santa Cruz county,
where he joined a brother, who had preceded him, in farming. In the Fall of
1854, he found his way to the mines, where he passed the Winter. Afterwards he
engaged in agricultural pursuits in different parts of California until October,
1856, when he settled in Contra Costa county, first locating on a parcel of land
about a quarter of a mile from his present ranch, which latter, comprising sixty
acres, he purchased in 1860. Mr. Rumrill has been a School Trustee for a dozen
years, while, in 1877, he was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, a
function he discharges, at the present writing, with much ability. Married in
San Francisco, April 9, 1864, Maria Fannon, a native of Ireland, and has:
Calista, Julia, Mary, Harriet, and Herbert C.

Additional Comments:
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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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