Marin-Placer-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Estey, Thomas H. 1826 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Thomas H. Estey. Born in Sharon, Massachusetts, August 12, 1826. At the age of
seventeen he left his native State and followed the sea until the gold
excitement of 1848. On February 10, 1849, sailed from Boston, arriving in San
Francisco September 12th of the same year. Went to the mines in October, at Mud
Springs, Placer county, worked there for the most part of three years.
Afterwards followed hunting in the Sacramento valley in the Winter. In May,
1857, came to Marin county and commenced dairying on Salmon creek. In 1862 left
Marin for San Luis Obispo county, bought stock and lost them in the drouth of
1863-4. Returned to Marin in 1865; in October, 1866, leased for five years nine
hundred acres of land and one hundred cows from the late James Black, in
partnership with his brother Charles. At the end of the lease, in i87l, they
bought their present home of two hundred and forty acres. Married January 15,
1875, Hannah E. Gannon, a native of New York. Mr. Estey was a member of the
Constitutional Convention in 1878.

Additional Comments:
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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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