Contra Costa-Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Thomson, Peter 1839 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

PETER THOMSON.—Born in Lenark city or town, Canada, March 28, 1839. When eight
years of age his parents moved to Waterloo, when after a short sojourn there
they went to Bayfield, Huron county. In the latter part of 1851, our subject
suffered the loss of his father, and young Thomson, at the early age of
thirteen, started to learn the trade of blacksmith, at which he served his term
of three years, and afterwards worked as journeyman for four years more. He
then, in 1859, with two companions, started for California, sailing from New
York May 10th of the above year, and arrived in San Francisco the 24th of the
following June. After a few months spent in Oakland, he came direct to
Lafayette, Contra Costa county, which has since proved to be his home, and began
to work at his trade as journeyman in the shop he now owns. In the Summer of
1863, Mr. Thomson bought his employers out, and has since carried on a general
blacksmith business, in which he has been very successful, now owning some three
hundred acres of land adjoining the town of Lafayette. Mr. Thomson was married
in Lafayette, March 23; 1862, to Miss Angenett Maloney, a native of Connecticut,
by which union they have five children living and two deceased. The names of
those living are: Clara A., William B., Angenett, Franklin C. and Ethel.

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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