Sonoma-Sacramento-Placer County CA Archives Biographies.....Bell, Henry 1824 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 3, 2006, 1:57 am Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880) Bell, Henry. Was born in Lewis county, New York, January 1, 1824, where he received his education and learned the cabinet-makers' trade, which business he followed in connection with farming until 1850, when he emigrated to California via Panama. Taking up his abode in Sacramento, he followed the business of manufacturing cradles for washing gold, for about seven months, when he proceeded to Placer county, where he engaged in quartz mining for five months; returning to Sacramento he worked at carpentering during the Winter, and the following Summer was spent on the Yuba river mining. He then returned to Sacramento and remained until February 1853, when he proceeded to this county and located at Windsor, where he at present resides, being engaged in the lumber business, farming and wagon-making. Married Miss Catherine Keyser in 1845, who was born in Germany, April 3, 1826. The following are the names and births of their children: Mary, born March 21, 1847; Melissa E., August 25, 1848; Emily, October 5, 1850; Nancy, February 21, 1855; Warren, December 23, 1856; Noah, January 10, 1864; Luther, March 15, 1866; Lucinda, June 3, 1868; Genevia, April 11, 1873. Additional Comments: Russian River 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sonoma/bios/bell907nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb