Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Atwater, Henry H. 1837 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Atwater, Henry H. The subject of this memoir was born in Luzerne county,
Pennsylvania, on April 13, 1837. Here he attended the common schools till
fifteen years old, when he commenced the battle of life on his own account,
first as a clerk in a general merchandising store for three years, then in 1855
he was employed as book-keeper for a coal company till 1858; then he proceeded
to Binghampton, New York, and there procured employment as a book-keeper for
Messrs. Weed, Ayers & Morgan, where he remained until he emigrated to California
via Panama. He arrived in San Francisco, May 15, 1859, and immediately came to
Petaluma and engaged as a clerk with Hinman & Co., which situation he filled
until 1866, when he accepted the position as cashier of the First National Gold
Bank of this city, and is still filling this place of trust. He married on May
3, 1856, Miss Addie A. Daley, who was born in Canada on October 6, 1836. By this
union there is one son, Frank H, born June 15 1857.

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Petaluma Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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