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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

JAMES B. SNIVELY, one of the representative men of Monterey, was born near

Buffalo, New York, October 21, 1835. He enlisted in the Thirty-Eighth Illinois

Infantry, August, 1861, and served three years; being mustered out at Atlanta,

Georgia, October, 1864. The rigors of a soldier's life had left him an invalid;

so he resolved to seek a more congenial climate, and, as California seemed to

promise such a climate, he emigrated to this State, arriving in 1868, and the

following year engaged in the lumber business with Capt. T. G. Lambert.



  In 1873, he was appointed Wells, Fargo and Company's agent at Monterey, and

has held that and the Western Union Telegraph office ever since.



  He was the first president of the Board of City Trustees under the new

incorporation. He is connected socially with the G. A. R., I. 0. O. F. and F. &

A. M.



  He has two brothers, Richard and Daniel, the former a successful dairyman and

fruitgrower in the Carmel valley, ten miles from Monterey, who arrived in

California in 1863. The latter brother, Daniel, is a successful fruitgrower in

Santa Clara county, having come to the State in 1868.



  Mr. Snively is a highly respected gentleman and faithful employe of the

company whom he has served for so many years.



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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.



Illustrated.



Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the

Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of

its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its

Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent

Citizens of To-day.







HENRY D. BARROWS,

Editor of the Historical Department.



LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,

Editor of the Biographical Department.



"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will

never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote

descendants."-Macaulay.





CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.

1893.

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