Sonoma-San Francisco-Humboldt County CA Archives Biographies.....Call, G. W. 1829 - ************************************************ 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, 3:05 am Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880) Call, G. W. Whose portrait appears in this work, was born in 1829, in what is now Lake county, Ohio. After living in several of the Western States, he in 1851 left his home in Illinois and went to Missouri, from which State he crossed the plains to California, in 1852. After remaining one year in the mines he went to San Francisco, thence to Oregon and Northern California, and finally went into the lumber or rather the logging business at Humboldt bay. In 1855 he left Humboldt, and the next year, while at San Francisco, he became acquainted with Mr. Adams (generally known as Grizzly Adams), who was then exhibiting some grizzly bears on Clay street, and they made an arrangement by which Call furnished Adams with money to start the museum and menagerie on the corner of Clay and Kearny streets. This institution soon became quite celebrated, and the receipts were large; but the expenses were also heavy, and for over two years Mr. Call, being unable to withdraw from it, remained ostensibly the financial agent, but really the owner of that establishment. In 1858 he went to Puget Sound and Vancouver Island, and in February, 1859, sailed from San Francisco for South America; and as his business called him to all the principal cities and towns of that country, he chartered a schooner and visited most of the ports between Panama and Patagonia. He afterwards traveled for about two years, mostly in the interior of Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and the Argentine Republic. He also spent two years as a sub-contractor on one of the South American railroads. In 1865 he established a business in Valparaiso, Chile, which business he continued until 1872. During the same period he also took several contracts on the government works then in progress in Valparaiso, bought, improved and sold real estate, etc. Soon after settling in Valparaiso he married Miss Mercedes Leiva, of San Fernando, Chile. In 1872 he sold his property and business in Valparaiso and returned with his family to California. He soon after bought some real estate on Hampton Place, San Francisco, where he lived for one year; and in 1873 he bought and moved on the place where he now lives, at Fort Ross, Sonoma county, California. Additional Comments: Salt Point 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/call924nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb