Marin-San Francisco-Tulare County CA Archives Biographies.....Barstow, Simon Fitch 1832 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Simon Fitch Barstow. Was born in Hartford, Connecticut, March 26, 1832, and is
the son of John and Eliza Fitch Barstow. When but one year old he was taken by
his parents to Bridgeport, Fairfield county, Connecticut, there receiving his
early education, and residing until he attained the age of eleven. After this he
went to Westminster, Connecticut, where he finished his schooling. He next
proceeded to Rochester, New York, and was employed by his uncle in the hardware
business, where he continued for three years, at the end of which time he
entered the office of the Chautauqua County Journal in Jamestown, New York, then
the property of F. W. Palmer, now postmaster of Chicago, and there served an
apprenticeship of three years to the printer's trade; he then returned to
Bridgeport and resided for one year. In April, 1854, Mr. Barstow came to
California via Panama, and arrived in San Francisco in that year, and commenced
working at his trade. Was on the staff of the Bulletin during the years 1854, 5
and 6, when the Vigilance Committee held sway in San Francisco, and in 1858
commenced an engagement on the Alta California, where he remained for eleven
years. The subject of this sketch moved to Tulare county in 1871, where he was
engaged on the Visalia Delta for one year, afterwards in October, 1872, coming
to San Rafael and purchasing the Marin County Journal, a paper which he has
since conducted with much success. Married in Petaluma, December 26, 1864, Laura
J., daughter of George B. Williams, by whom he has one child living, Anna P.,
born June 25, 1874. He has lost three daughters, Emma Lilly, Clara Fitch and
Laura Irene.

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HISTORY OF MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA;
INCLUDING ITS
Geography, Geology, Topography and Climatography;
TOGETHER WITH
A Full and Particular Record of the Mexican Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the most Authentic Sources; Names of Original Spanish
and American Pioneers;

A Full Record of its Organization; A Complete Political History, including a
Tabular Statement of Office-holders since the Formation of the County;

Separate Histories of Bolinas, Nicasio, Novato, Point Reyes, San Antonio, San
Rafael, Saucelito, and Tomales Townships;

Incidents of Pioneer Life, and Biographical Sketches of its Early and Prominent
Settlers and Representative Men;
ALSO
An Historical Sketch of the State of California,
In which is embodied the Raising of the Bear Flag

ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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