Sonoma-Placer County CA Archives Biographies.....Gaston, Martin 1826 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Gaston, Martin. Born in Columbiana county, Ohio, February 26, 1826. He was
educated at Washington College, Washington county, Pennsylvania; emigrated to
California across the plains with ox-teams in 1852, engaged in mining in Placer
county until March, 1853, when he came to this, county and settled on his
present place, consisting of five hundred acres, located about four miles west
from Petaluma. He also owns five hundred and thirty acres of stock range in
Mendocino county. Mr. Gaston married, May 11, 1854, Miss Malinda Frost, a native
of Iowa, born June 14, 1839, and died November 3, 1879. By this union he has two
living children: John W., born May 16, 1859, and Dora E., born December 16, 1862.

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Petaluma 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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