Sonoma-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Bouton, Andrew 1831 - ************************************************ 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, 10:29 pm Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880) Bouton, Andrew. A native of Courtland county, New York, born April 10, 1831, where he remained until twenty-one years of age, when he went to Steuben county, where he engaged in farming, grafting, lumbering and teaching, in season. In 1858 he emigrated to California. Spending about two months in Yuba county, he proceeded to Napa county and engaged in fruit-growing for ten years. November, 1868, found him in this county. His place is known as the "Heart's Desire" Orchard. Follows fruit-growing as a business. This fruit farm is located in Washington township, about five miles from Healdsburg. Additional Comments: Washington 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/bouton342gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb