Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Standish, Stranus 1826 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

SYRANUS STANDISH.—Is the son of William H., and Harriet (Havens) Standish, and
was born in Rhode Island, September 25, 1826. When our subject was ten years of
age, his parents moved to Auburn, New York, where they resided a year, and then
went to Delaware county, Ohio, where he received his schooling, In 1844 he
accompanied his father to Columbus and there worked with him at moulding for two
years, when he entered a machine-shop in that city and remained until 1856.
After two years passed on a farm he started for California, via New York and
Panama, and arrived in San Francisco, June 1, 1858. Coming direct to this county
he located in Pacheco, and after one year, concluded to make California his
home; therefore, he returned to the Eastern States and came back to this coast,
accompanied by his wife and family. He now engaged in his former business in
Pacheco. In 1864 Mr. Standish proceeded to Nevada, where he was employed most of
the time till December, 1867, when he returned to California and assisted his
cousin, P. H. Standish, in building the famous steam-plow in Martinez. He next
opened a machine-shop in Concord in company with Paul Lohse, but in 1869
returned to Nevada, where he remained until 1873, when he once more visited the
Atlantic States. Returning to California, he re-commenced business in Pacheco on
December 4, 1877, where he has now a machinist and blacksmith's shop. Married in
Columbus, Ohio, October 25, 1847, Elizabeth Senter, a native of Maryland, and
has six surviving children, viz: Clarice, (now Mrs. P. Loucks); Mary H., (now
Mrs. H. Mills); Florence B., (now Mrs. A. L. Gartley); Charles S., William S.
and George E.

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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