Sonoma-San Joaquin-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Board, William 1825 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Board, William. Was born in Callaway county, Missouri, May ll, 1825, and resided
there until 1849, when he emigrated to California, crossing the plains, via
Mexico, with ox teams. After his arrival ho engaged in freighting from Stockton
to the southern mines. He followed this business three years, and then returned
to his native State by water, where he remained over Winter, and in the
following Spring he recrossed the plains, bringing with him a drove of one
hundred cattle. He now located in Santa Clara county, and disposing of his
cattle, remained until the Fall of 1856, when he came to this (Sonoma) county,
and settled at the head of Dry Creek valley, twelve miles above Healdsburg,
where he has a pleasant house, and resides there at the present time engaged in
farming and stock-raising. In the Fall of 1872 he again visited his native
State, this time going and returning over the Union and Central Pacific
Railroads. He married Miss Mary Hamilton, July 14, 1855. Mrs. Board was born in
Tennessee. June; 8, 1835, and died in Sonoma county, California, on the 22d of
October, 1875. Her remains are interred in the Oak Mound Cemetery, at
Healdsburg. Four children were the result of this union: Horace D., born
November 4, 1856; Oscar, born March 29, 1858, and died September 28, 1858; Iter
A., born July 20, 1861; and Willie A., born September 27, 1863. On the 4th of
May, 1879, he married Miss Izora A. Oliver, a native of Canada, who was born
December 24, 1851.

Additional Comments:
Mendocino 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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