Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Barlow, Solomon Q. 1837 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Barlow, Solomon Q. A native of Sullivan county, New York; was born May 20, 1837.
There he received his early education, and assisted his father in the business
of farming and lumbering, finishing his education at the Ellenville high school
at the age of twenty-one, under Prof. L. A. Law Post, principal. He then
purchased the homestead, farm and saw-mill of his father, who had removed to
Napanock, New York. There he continued the business of farming and lumbering
till 1862, when he removed to Pompton, New Jersey, where he was agent for James
Horner & Co. for two years, during the erection of their steel and file works at
that place. He then emigrated to California via Panama, and arrived and settled
in Two Rock Valley in this county, April 21, 1864. In 1872 he settled on his
present estate, containing one hundred and forty-four acres, in the same valley,
six miles west of Petaluma. February 8, 1860, Mr. Barlow married Miss Elizabeth
J. Denman, a native of Sullivan county New York. She was born March 14, 1837,
and died December 3, 1874. Their children are Eva R., born April 17, 1861;
William Denman, December 29, 1862; Anna D. and Fanny D., twins, born July 4,
1865; Thomas Edgar, born February 2,1867; and Libbie Louisa, born February
12,1870; one deceased, William Denman, September 16, 1863. Mr. Barlow's second
marriage took place at Point Arena, California, October 9, 1879, to Miss Louisa
Brandon, a native of Iowa City, Iowa, born November 16, 1841. He is giving his
children a liberal and practical education, and is engaged in mixed agriculture,
for which his locality is well adapted.

Additional Comments:
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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