Sonoma-Placer County CA Archives Biographies.....Craig, O. W. 1809 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Craig, O. W. Born in Rumney, Grafton county, New Hampshire, April 3, 1809, where
he resided until sixteen years of age. He spent several years in traveling
through the Middle States, and on July 6, 1849, brought up in San Francisco. He
immediately proceeded to the mines in Placer county, where he remained for two
years. In 1851, came to Sonoma and settled upon his present farm of three
hundred acres, where he has since resided. Manufactures from twenty thousand to
thirty thousand gallons of wine, and from two thousand to six thousand gallons
of brandy, annually. Married Sophia T. Clark, February 14, 1849; she was born at
Rockport, Massachusetts, October 8, 1820.

Additional Comments:
Sonoma 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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