Marin-Tuolumne-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Severance, Charles C. P. 1820 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Charles C. P. Severance. Was born in Madison county, New York, February 8,
1820, where he received his education and learned the trade of a blacksmith. In
the Spring of 1845 he went to New York City and engaged in a general commission
business, which he conducted until 1848, when he returned to Madison county and
kept a hotel until March, 1852, in which year he started for California via
Nicaragua, arriving in San Francisco April 10th. He proceeded at once to
Tuolumne county and there mined for seven months, when he erected a saw-mill and
engaged in the lumber business, which he continued until elected County
Treasurer in 1858, an office he filled for two years. He next proceeded to
Virginia City, Nevada, and was for two years prospecting and mining in that
district. At the end of this term he opened a pork-packing business in San
Francisco, an industry he followed for three years, after which he became
traveling salesman for Smith, Brown & Co., for four years; he then speculated in
mining stocks until 1877 when he retired from business and made his residence at
Saucelito. Married, April 26, 1843, Sarah M. Wylie, a native of New York. They
have four children-Clemissa H, Charles W., Samuel J., and Frederick V.

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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