San Benito County CA Archives Biographies.....Norton, Roscoe G. 1839 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

ROSCOE G. NORTON, a prosperous farmer and popular citizen of San Benito county,
California, was born in Somerset county, Maine, December 5, 1839. He resided in
his native county until May, 1861, when he embarked for the Golden State, via
the Panama route. His first enterprise on the frontier was herding sheep. After
accumulating sufficient means, he bought his present farm, on which he has
continued to live for eighteen years. When the adjoining city was platted and
sold, in 1891, Mr. Norton bought forty acres. He also leases 300 acres in his
vicinity, all of which he successfully improves, and is classed among the most
important farmers of his county.

   Mr. Norton was married August 29, 1889, to Miss Mary Merrill, an intelligent
lady, a native of New Hampshire, and a daughter of Robert E. Merrill, now a
prosperous stock rancher of San Benito county. Mrs. Norton came with her parents
to California when a child. They have one child, Robert Merrill Norton, born
February 2, 1891. Mr. Norton has two sisters in this vicinity, both prominent
ladies. Elizabeth P. Norton, unmarried, has been for forty years an educator,
and is at present teaching school in San Benito county. The other sister, Mrs.
Sarah F. Hight, is a widow, residing in Hollister.

  If any doubt prevailed as to the desirability of locating in California, it
would be dispelled by the phenomenal success achieved by the subject of this
biography.


Additional Comments:
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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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