Sonoma-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Bosworth, Calvin M. 1827 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Bosworth, Calvin M. Was born in Solon, Somerset county, Maine, August 4, 1827.
His father was a highly respected and well-to-do farmer, and Calvin's early
years were spent on the home farm, assisting him. In the Winter of 1852 the gold
excitement of California caused a large emigration from the Eastern States, and
he, wishing to try his fortune, with the rest, in the far-famed land of gold, in
company with three other young men from Solon, left his home, with the intention
of making a trip to California, by the way of Panama. Arriving in New York, they
found the tickets for a trip across the Isthmus had all been bought up, for
several months ahead; so, rather than abandon the idea of a trip altogether, or
wait for several months, they determined on a trip around the continent, and on
the 22d of February, 1852, they sailed from slip No. 2, on the ship "Grecian,"
bound for California, around Cape Horn. During the voyage, one of the company, a
cousin of Calvin's, in a fit of delirium, cause by typhoid fever, from which he
was prostrated, jumped overboard and was lost at sea. After a long and tedious
passage they arrived in San Francisco on the 11th of the following September,
with another one of their little band prostrated by the same fever. He lived but
a few weeks after arriving, Calvin staying with him and administering to his
wants to the last. While watching over this sick and dying friend, he received
much kindness from Hon. Samuel Soule and B. F. Tuttle, for which he has ever
felt the deepest gratitude. This left but two of the once buoyant little
company, to try their luck in the gold mines. They went into Sierra county,
where they spent about three years in successful mining; and in May, 1855,
Calvin started for Maine, by way of the Nicaragua route, where he arrived the
tenth of June. After his return he was prostrated for several months with Panama
fever, together with chills and fever. On November 1, 1855, he married Prudence
N. Wilson, daughter of Daniel Wilson, of Bingham, Somerset county, Maine, Having
bought a farm he once more turned his attention to farming, which he followed
until the Fall of 1858, when not finding the cultivation of the soil as
remunerative as the mines had been, he decided to again seek a home in
California's sunny clime; and once more bidding adieu to friends and native
land, on the 1st day of February, 1859, with wife and two children, sailed from
New York for California, by the Panama route.

    Fond, lingering looks were cast on the receding shore,
    They sighed to think, perhaps, they'd never see it more.
    Farewell, a long farewell! thou free and happy land,
    That we may live to see thy peaceful shores once more.

Arrived in San Francisco the 1st day of March, 1859. After remaining in San
Francisco a few days he returned to La Porte, Sierra county, his old mining
camp, where he was engaged in mining until the Fall of 1867. Not being as
successful in mining as formerly, he resolved to try the agricultural portion of
the State, and in October, 18G7, came to Cloverdale, Sonoma county, living there
four years; then moved to Geyserville, on to what is known as the Doctor Ely
ranch, where he now lives.


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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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