Sonoma-San Francisco-Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Douglass, Robert 1822 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Douglass, Robert. A native of Hancock county, Maine, was born in November, 1822.
His father was a ship carpenter, and Robert was brought up on the sea, serving
his apprenticeship to the same trade under his father. On October 16, 1849,
Robert sailed from Boston for California. Rounding Cape Horn, he arrived at San
Francisco May 16, 1850. He remained in the city until his parents arrived,
August 23d, the same year. They then went to Antioch, Contra Costa county, where
they remained until the Fall of 1851, when they all came to this county and
settled in Petaluma, being among the first who settled in the now prosperous
city. Here the subject of this sketch followed his trade, building the first
hotel in the city, where he resided until May 12, 1863, when he moved to Alpine
county, where he engaged in mining for two years, when he returned to Petaluma,
where he spent one Winter, and in the Spring he went to Sonoma, where he passed
the Summer, and in the Fall moved to Bodega, where he followed his trade until
1866, when he commenced farming, which business he has followed ever since. In
1872 he settled on his present place, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres,
located in Bodega township, about one mile north from Freestone. He married
December 31, 1852, at Petaluma, Miss Hannah Hathaway, a native of Washington
county, Maine. This was the first wedding in the city of Petaluma. Their
children are: Emma J., born September 14, 1856; William L., June 25, 1858;
George W., March 9, I860. They have lost two, Amelia and Heber G.

Additional Comments:
Bodega 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.



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by ALLEY, BOWEN & Co.,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

PACIFIC PRESS,
Oakland, Cal. Printers., Stereotypers and Binders.


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