Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Shuey, H. S. 1840 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

H. S. SHUEY.—The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work, is
the son of John and Lucinda (Stowe) Shuey, and was born in Adams county,
Illinois, August 17, 1840. His father went to Oregon in 1847, making the trip
over the plains and Rocky Mountains with the earliest emigrants. He returned to
California in the Spring of 1850, via the Isthmus of Panama, and went back the
same year to Illinois. In 1856 he made the third trip to California, with his
family, via the Isthmus, and it was then that our subject first arrived, the
date being May 22,1856. For the first two years he resided with his parents in
Moraga valley, when he removed to Fruitvale for the purpose of attending the
Deveant School, now the State University. Afterwards, he commenced the battle of
life on his own account, and for two years was engaged in mining. Returning from
the mines, he was variously employed until 1867, when he commenced running a
wagon and selling goods through the country, a class of business he has greatly
increased and still continues. In 1873 he opened a store in the thriving village
of Walnut Creek, in partnership with his brother, M. M. Shuey; but in 1878 the
association was severed, since when he has been alone in business. Married, July
2, 1868, Miss Geneora Dougherty, of Lafayette, who was born December 17, 1850.
By this union there are seven children, viz: Virgil M., born November 8, 1869;
Nettie F., born December 14, 1871; Mary E., born December 24, 1873; Morris H.,
born November 10, 1875; William A., born December 16,1877; George, born February
10, 1880, and an infant son, born May 10, 1882.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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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