Contra Costa-Solano-Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Veal, Richard R. 1838 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

RICHARD R. VEAL.—This successful farmer of Township Number Five is a native of
Pike county, Illinois, was born July 5, 1838, on a farm, and was educated at the
common schools of his native county until 1856. November 5th of the latter year
he, with his parents, two brothers and three sisters, started, via New Orleans
and Panama, for the Golden State, arriving in San Francisco January 24, 1857.
After a short time spent in Solano county, they removed to Sonoma county, and
engaged in stock-raising, where the subject of this sketch resided until his
coming to this county, which event occurred February 22, 1868, locating on his
present valuable farm of eight hundred acres, in the Eden Plain district, four
miles from Brentwood. Mr. Veal is a thorough and successful farmer, enjoying the
confidence and esteem of the whole community in which he lives. Was united in
marriage, in Martinez, March 11, 1880, to Mrs. Selinda Sexton, a native of New
York. A portrait of Mr. Veal will be found in this work.

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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