Marin-Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Sweetser, J. R. 1840 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  J. R. Sweetser. The subject of this sketch is a native of Cumberland county,
Maine, having been born there June 7, 1840. At the age of nine years he
accompanied his parents to California, by way of Cape Horn, and arrived in San
Francisco September 9, 1850. They first settled in Alameda county, where J. R.
Sweetser received his education and resided until 1857, when Mr. Sweetser, Sr.,
with his family, removed to Marin county, and located on the Novato grant. In
1866 he visited his native State, and there, May 17, 1867, espoused Francis E.
Johnson, returning at once to their farm in Novato township, where they have
since resided. Their family consists of Fred W. and Maria J.

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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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