Marin-El Dorado-Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Harrington, Benjamin (Jr.) 1831 - 1873
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Joel Harvey. Born at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, July 21, 1801. Married Lydia
Barber, in Worcester, Mass., 1826. Emigrated to Pittsfield, Ill., in 1836; then,
in 1846, moved to Atchison county, Mo., and in July, 1849, started over the
plains for California, and arrived in Salt Lake October 17, 1849, and wintered
there, and the first of May, 1850, started again for California, and arrived
July 15, 1850, and camped thirteen miles from Sacramento, on the old Coloma
road, and built a tavern called the Pittsfield House, keeping the place for
three years, and farmed and raised stock, and in January, 1853, sold out and
came to Tomales, and bought the place now owned by Sartoris, and lived upon it
for twenty years, selling in 1873; then went to Sonoma valley, to live with his
son, and on August 27, 1873, he died in Sonoma, at the age of seventy-two years;
was the father of seven children, two of them now living. His widow is still
living at the advanced age of eighty-one years and two months.

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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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