Sonoma-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Bodwell, C. A. 1822 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Bodwell, C. A. Born in Farmington, Hartford, county, Connecticut, November 24,
1822; received his education at the Farmington Academy. At the age of sixteen
entered a drug store as clerk in Hartford, where he remained until March, 1849,
when he started across the plains, in company with Livingston & Kinkead, who
were on their way to Salt Lake with a large stock of goods. The subject of this
sketch spent the Winter in Salt Lake, and in the Spring returned to Missouri,
where he remained a short time, when he again made a trip to Salt Lake and spent
a second Winter. In the Spring of 1850 he crossed the plains to Kansas, and
established a trading post on the road from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe. About
one year later he crossed the plains to California, bringing with him a drove of
cattle. Engaged in the stock business one year in Butte county, and in December,
1854, we find him in San Francisco. In October, 1856, he became a resident of
this county, purchasing a farm in Vallejo township. Here he farmed until 1864,
when he settled upon his present estate of two hundred and fifty-five acres,
located at Lakeville, where he has since maintained a continuous residence. Mr.
Bodwell is the postmaster at Lakeville, and H also agent at this place for the
San Francisco Steamboat and Transportation Company. Married, January 5, 1864,
Miss Charlotte F. Chadbourne, a native of Maine. By this union they have two
children: Charles A., and Charlotte E.

Additional Comments:
Vallejo 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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