Contra Costa-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Sherburne, Albert 1833 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

ALBERT SHERBURNE.—Was born September 4, 1833, in the town of Bennington,
Gennesee (now Wyoming) county, New York, where he resided until seventeen years
of age. In 1840, he removed to Kennebec county, Maine, where he received most of
his education at the public schools, and the Maine Wesleyan Seminary of Kent's
Hill in that county. He then entered a woolen mill and learned the
manufacturer's trade, which he followed until January, 1852, acting as overseer
during the last four years of the time. January 2, 1852, he left Maine for
California, via New York, whence he sailed January 10th, on the steamer Ohio for
Chagres, where he landed about January 20th. He ascended the Chagres river in an
open boat to Gorgona; thence to Panama, where he took Walker's line and arrived
January 22d. On January 28th, he sailed in the bark Philander for San Francisco,
and after a passage of seventy days, landed in Acapulco. Here he took passage in
the steamer Winfield Scott, and arrived in San Francisco April 28, 1852. There
he remained only one day, when he left for Placerville, El Dorado county, and
engaged in mining, an occupation he followed most of the time until May, 1856.
May 21st, of that year, he arrived, with his family, in Contra Costa county, at
Martinez, and thence proceeded to the San Ramon valley, first settling on a farm
owned by his brother near the old Cox place. In the Fall of 1857, he took up a
stock range in Alameda county, where he remained until 1861, when he sold out
and removed to Sycamore valley, in this county, where he resided until 1870, in
which year he disposed of his farm and came to Walnut Creek, where he conducted
a mercantile establishment until December 20, 1879, when his store and contents
were consumed by fire. He again rebuilt on the same ground and now owns the
store occupied by Mr. Gambs, and the saloon conducted by Mr. Burpee, Mr.
Sherburne's son-in-law.

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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