Marin-Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Church, S. H. 1829 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  S. H. Church. Born in St. Lawrence county, New York, December 24, 1829. When
twelve years of age he moved with his parents to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but only
remaining there a few years they proceeded to Dodge county, where the subject of
this sketch was educated and brought up on a farm. In 1854 he went to Humboldt
county, Iowa, where he prosecuted farming until 1862, in which year he crossed
the plains with ox-teams, and arrived in Sonoma county about the middle of
October of that year. In the Spring of 1863 he came to Marin county, and in the
Fall of the following year located on his present ranch of two hundred and sixty
acres. Married, July 4, 1851, Cynthia Jane Fleming, a native of New York, by
whom he has Howard E., Walter A., Herman H., Frank H., May Belle, Delbert, Clara
E., Olive, Laura, and Glendora.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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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