Sonoma-Yuba-Mendocino County CA Archives Biographies.....Ferguson, Henry Osborne 1837 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Ferguson, Henry Osborne. A native of Clay county, Indiana, born November 9,
1837. In 1845 he removed with his parents to Iowa, and settled in that portion
of the State now known as Jasper county. Here they remained until May 7, 1849,
when he with his parents emigrated to California across the plains with
ox-teams. After a wearisome journey of seven long months, they reached a point
called Larsen's, where they remained about three months; thence to a little town
on Feather river, known as Yuba City, Yuba county. After a residence here of one
year, a rival city—Marysville—sprang up, which completely demolished our infant
city in a business point of view, and, like many others, they deserted it and
took up their residence in the rival city, remained there one year, and then
proceeded to the mining district in Brown's valley, and remained until 1853,
when they took up their residence at a place known as Keystone Ranch. Here his
father engaged in the saw mill business, and built a large hotel styled the
"Keystone House." After a short residence here he returned to Brown's valley,
thence to a mining camp called Ohio Flat, in Yuba county, near Forbestown, and
engaged in mining and hotel keeping until 1857, when he came to Sonoma county
and settled on a portion of the Sotoyome grant, in Alexander valley, named in
honor of Cyrus Alexander, one of the pioneers of this county. In 1864, the
subject of this sketch entered the Sotoyome Institute at Healdsburg, and there
completed his education in 1866. He then returned home, but lived most of the
time with his brother until November 18, 1878, when he was united in marriage to
Miss Lucy M. Crigler of Mendocino county, a native of Monroe county, Missouri.
He at once engaged in farming in Alexander valley. In September 1871 he
proceeded to Healdsburg and engaged in the grocery and general produce business.
On account of his wife being in ill health, he was obliged to sell out his
business in about eighteen month's time, and moved to Cloverdale, where he
remained about two years, when his wife's sickness terminated in consumption,
and finally resulted in her death on June 4, 1876. He then returned to
Healdsburg and once more engaged in the same business under the firm name of Gum
& Ferguson. He married secondly on May 12,1878, Miss Mary E. Miller, formerly of
La Porte, Indiana. He then made a trip East, accompanied by his wife, and on his
return purchased the grocery business of S. J. Johnson, in Healdsburg. Removed
to Masonic Block, where he may be found at present. James W„ born March 1, 1870,
and died on January 25, 1872, and Minnie I., born June 9, 1872, are the names of
his children by his first wife. By his present wife he has one child, George P.,
born June 24, 1879.

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Mendocino 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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