Sonoma-Placer-Mendocino County CA Archives Biographies.....Downs, Vernon 1829 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Downs, Vernon. Farmer and stock-raiser. Born in Hancock county, Maine, May 3,
1829, where he resided until 1846, when he went to Tallahassee, Florida, where
he resided until March, 1850, when he emigrated to California, via Panama, and
after about two months travel landed in San Francisco. He immediately proceeded
to Placer county and engaged in mining, which he followed for three years when
he came to Santa Rosa, and was one of the parties who built the Santa Rosa
Flouring Mills. In 1863 he went to Idaho and followed mining for four years; the
remainder of the time, excepting one year spent in Mendocino county, he has made
this county his home. Married, in 1858, Miss Elizabeth Rawles, who died in 1859.
Married his present wife, Miss Martha Jane, daughter of Judge William Churchman,
October 29, 1867, she being born in Washington county, Iowa, December 1, 1845.
Lillian, born August 14, 1868; Vernon, born November 3, 1870; Carrie, born
December 3, 1873; George Hancock, born March 26, 1876, and an infant son, Henry
Augustine, born May 19, 1879, are the names of their children.

Additional Comments:
Santa Rosa 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.


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