Shasta-Napa-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Dozier, Thomas Bona 1865 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

THOMAS BONA DOZIER is the junior member of the law firm of Wiley & Dozier,
Redding, one of the most reliable and capable law firms of the city. Mr. Dozier
was born in Williamsburg District, South Carolina, March 12, 1865. Four
generations of his family were born in that portion of South Carolina, namely:
John Dozier, his great grandfather, who was a lawyer; his grandfather, Anthony
White Dozier, born in 1801; his father, Dr. L. F. Dozier, born September 23,
1835, and himself. The Dozier family were of French extraction, settled in the
South in a very early day, and were a noted family of influence, talented and
wealthy. His grandfather, Anthony White Dozier, was a prominent lawyer and a
member of the State Senate from his district for several terms. His father was
adjutant on General Longstreet's staff all through the civil war, and there were
eight brothers all in the Confederate service, and one of them a commander of
one of the ships of the Confederate navy. Another uncle, Dr. Joseph Beard, was
the founder of the New Orleans small-pox and yellow fever hospital, a man of
great skill as a physician and surgeon and in wealth a millionaire. Mr. Dozier's
father married Miss Agnes Bona, a native of his own district and daughter of Mr.
Thomas Bona, a descendant of the French Huguenots and a man of large means. She
was raised in New Orleans. His parents had five children, and his mother died in
September, 1868. His father now resides at Napa, and has had charge of the
Asylum for the Insane for the last sixteen years. Only two children survive: the
subject of this sketch and his brother, Dr. W. E. Dozier, who is now located at
Susanville, Lassen County, California.

  Mr. Dozier was brought to the State of California by his parents in 1868, when
he was only three years of age, and in the fall of the same year he lost his
mother. He attended the public schools until ten years of age. After that he
attended the Oak Mound School for boys and young men located at Napa City. He
graduated in its high school department when sixteen years old, and got his law
degree in the Hastings Law College of California, graduating there June 26,
1888. He purchased an interest in his present firm in September of the same
year, and at once commenced the practice of his profession, in which he has so
far been remarkably successful. He is highly spoken of as a talented young man
and a gentleman. He is First Lieutenant of Company E, Eighth Infantry Battalion,
Fifth Brigade N. G. C., and has been a member of the guards at San Francisco for
a number of years. As might be expected he is an enthusiastic young Democrat,
takes a lively interest in politics, has been a member of both the last county
conventions of his party, and "stumped" the county in 1888 and also in 1890, in
favor of the Democracy. Mr. Dozier's firm have a fully equipped office, are
agreeable and liberal in affairs of the town, are hard workers, have a good
practice, and have such honorable and straightforward ideas of business that
they are destined to draw a large share of the law business of their own and
adjoining counties.

  Mr. Dozier was married, April 22, 1889, to Miss Maud Watson, only daughter of
W. C. Watson, of San Francisco. Mr. Watson established the Bank of Napa in Napa
County in 1870 with the Hon. Chancellor Hartson. His wife is the
great-granddaughter of George C. Yount, the first white man to have a Spanish
grant north of San Francisco, he having had granted to him a portion of Napa
Valley. George C. Yount came to California in 1829 and established the first
flour-mill in the country, also built the first shingle-mill. Mr. Dozier's wife
is the granddaughter of Dr. J. C. Davis, who died leaving large properties in
San Francisco, around Washington and Kearny streets, and is also the niece of
Senator J. P. Jones, of Nevada. Mr. Dozier and wife have lost one child, a boy,
Sydney W. Dozier, aged a few months. Mr. Dozier has been the first to experiment
with table and raisin grapes in Shasta County, and has proven that they could be
successfully grown.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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