Marin-Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Ward, Porter 1821 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Porter Ward. Born in England, March 3, 1821, where he received his education
and resided until he attained the age of nineteen years, when he came to
America. On arrival on this side of the Atlantic he first engaged in steamboat
building at St. Louis, where he remained for ten years. In 1850 he journeyed
across the plains to California and followed mining for one year, after which he
came to Sonoma county, where he stayed until 1854, in which year he transferred
his domicile to Marin and settled on his present estate of about three hundred
and forty-nine acres. Married December 31, 1846, Annie Wild. By this union there
are two living children, Ellen E. and William H. Married secondly, Mrs. Hannah
Shaw, on June 24, 1868, a native of England.

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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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