Sonoma-Butte-Fresno County CA Archives Biographies.....Cralle, L. J. 1818 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Cralle, L. J. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work,
was born in Campbell county, Virginia, September 12, 1818. In 1836, he moved to
Union county, Kentucky; thence in 1849, to California, crossing the plains with
an ox-team as far as Salt Lake City, then with pack-animals over the mountains,
arriving at Lawson's Ranch, September 6th, of that year. Not unlike others who
came to this coast at that time, he commenced operations as a miner on the White
Rock claim, in Butte county, prosecuting this business three years; then went to
Oakland, where he engaged in farming five more years, then settled at King's
River, Fresno county. In 1860 he again commenced mining at Mono and White
Mountain, till 1864, when he settled near Petaluma, in this county, but in 1869
took a residence in Santa Clara county; thence in 1872 to his present home in
Santa Rosa township, where he owns three hundred and twenty acres of land. At an
altitude of several thousand feet above the sea, among the mountains, is the
home of Mr. Cralle. It is one of the most lovely and picturesque places in the
county. As we stood on one of the more prominent peaks a little beyond his
house, what a grand panorama opened out to our view! Mountain after mountain
rose in every direction, while the intervening valleys were covered over with
trees and underwood of varied kinds and shades, and down which glide the creeks
and rivulets, ripple after ripple, dancing in sunlight like ribbons of silver,
as they hurry on to the mighty ocean. Then add the further fact that in the
valleys, on the hills and over the mountains, six hundred and fifty Angora
goats—the property of Mr. Cralle—are scattered here, there, and everywhere,
giving the landscape an appearance of snow-balls among the evergreens, and the
reader has the outlines of a picture which their imaginations must fill. We feel
assured we will be pardoned by the reader for digressing from the events of Mr.
Cralle's life to give a slight description of his home among the mountains, when
we say no scenery, in Sonoma county, has impressed us so favorably as this. But
to resume. Mr. Cralle married Mrs. Nancy J. Middleton, nee Farley, October 27,
1863. She was born in Warren county, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1833. She has
one daughter, Lillie Middleton, by a former marriage, who was born February 12,
1857.

Additional Comments:
Santa Rosa 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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