Contra Costa-Tuolumne-Calaveras County CA Archives Biographies.....Ward, Henry E. 1837 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

HENRY E. WARD.—Was born in China county, Maine, August 2, 1837. When sixteen
years of age he went to Virginia, and there learned the trade of ship-carpenter.
He resided there some three years, and then, after a brief visit to his Eastern
home, he sailed, in March, 1855, from New York, via Panama, arriving in San
Francisco in April of the above year. He immediately proceeded to Tuolumne
county and engaged in mining, which he prosecuted until 1861. We next find Mr.
Ward in the coal mines of Contra Costa county, where now stands the town of
Somersville. He followed mining until 1873, when he engaged in his present
livery and feed stable, in which business he has since continued. Mr. Ward held
the office of Deputy Sheriff, under Sheriff Ivory, in 1873, 1874 and 1875. Was
united in marriage, in Calaveras county, March 16, 1864, to Mrs. Caroline
Briggs, a native of Illinois. They have one son, Everett C.

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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