Sonoma-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Barnes, Alfred N. 1818 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Barnes, Alfred N. Born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 1818. In
1838, he procaeded to Lee county, Illinois, and engaged in the mercantile
business. In February, 1849, he went to Independence, Missouri, and April 24th
he started in company with Col. Russell's company across the plains for
California, arriving at Sacramento city August, 1, 1849. He immediately
proceeded to Coloma and married, and carried on the mercantile business until
the Spring of 1851, when he returned to Illinois. Here he followed the
merchandising business until 1865, when he returned by water with his family and
located in Petaluma city. In the Spring of 1866 he opened a general merchandise
store, but closed out in 1869, and went to White Pine, Nevada; mined five
months, then returned to this county and embarked in the business of
sheep-raising, and continued the same until 1877, when he repaired to this city
and engaged in his present business. He married Juliet M., daughter of Reuben
Hamlin, of Peoria, Illinois, February 22, 1852. She was born in Somers
Connecticut. Ida F., born on February, 23, 1855, Charles A., born on December
10, 1857, Hattie Louise, born on February 15, 1868, are the names and births of
their children.

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Petaluma Township

Extracted from:

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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