Sonoma-El Dorado-Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Gallaway, Andrew J. 1817 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Gallaway, Andrew J. Was born in Knox county, Tennessee, November 14,1817, where
he resided until about sixteen years of age, when he moved with his parents to
Morgan county, Indiana, where he resided about nine years. He then went to
Missouri, where he remained about five years, after which he made a trip to New
Mexico, remaining about one year; returned to Missouri, and in the Spring of
1850 crossed the plains to California, and on arriving there he engaged in
mining in El Dorado county, where he remained about three years. He then engaged
in farming and stock-raising in Yolo county until 1857, when he went back to
Missouri via Panama. In the Spring of 1859 he again started across the plains
with a drove of cattle, and came to Yolo county, where he remained a few months,
after which he came direct to this county, where he settled on a farm about
three miles north from Geyserville, where he remained until the Fall of 1864,
when he located on his present farm, consisting of one hundred and thirty acres
on Dry creek, about three miles from Healdsburg. He married Miss Deborah Price
October 14, 1857. Their children are: Allen K., born August 3, 1858; Nancy E.,
born September 22, 1859; Henry M., deceased; Andrew J., born March 10, 1863;
Amanda A., born December 27, 1864.

Additional Comments:
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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