Sonoma-El Dorado-Siskiyou County CA Archives Biographies.....Gibbs, Henry 1814 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 28, 2006, 8:42 pm Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880) Gibbs, Henry. Was born in Saratoga county, New York, November 16, 1814. When he was but a mere child his parents moved to Jefferson county, New York, where the subject of this sketch was educated and labored upon the farm. In 1844 he emigrated to Jefferson county, Wisconsin, and followed carpentering as a business for six years. In 1850 he emigrated to California, crossing the plains in company with several others. While on the Humboldt their horses became exhausted, and they were therefore obliged to divide their teams, strip the harness from their backs, and leave the wagons. Mr. Gibbs walked most of the way from there to California. After remaining in Placerville about three months, he then went to Oregon and spent the Winter, and in the Spring of 1851 went to the Yreka mines in this State, and then returned and spent the Summer, after which he went to Shasta county and mined one year, and in the Fall of '52 returned to Wisconsin, making the trip by water, arriving in Jefferson county, where he had left his family on December 9th. Here he spent the Winter, and in the following March he and his family, consisting of wife and four children, crossed the plains with ox and horse teams, and arrived in Shasta county October 8, 1853, where they remained only a few days, when they proceeded to Trinity county, where he engaged in the hotel business and also had charge of the ferry across the Trinity river for about three years. In the Fall of '56 they came to this county and settled on their present place, located in Two Pock valley, about eight miles west of Petaluma. Mr. Gibbs married, December 20, 1840, Miss Mary Allison, who was born in Jefferson county, New York, June —,1820. By this union they have seven children: Amelia A., Orcelia J., Edward, Mary C, Elbert C., Frederick H. and Carrie E. Additional Comments: Petaluma 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sonoma/bios/gibbs757bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/cafiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb