Sonoma-Calaveras-Marin County CA Archives Biographies.....Gillespie, Henry 1827 - ************************************************ 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, 1:01 pm Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880) Gillespie, Henry. Was born on Long Island, New York, in 1827, where he was educated, and lived with his parents, who conducted a dairy ranch, until 1851, when he emigrated to California via Panama. He first located in Calaveras county, where he followed mining until 1854, at which time he engaged in the dairy business in Marin county. In 1864 he came to this county and settled at Healdsburg, where he has since resided, with the exception of two years, which he spent at Santa Barbara and Grass Valley, Nevada county. He married in 1864 Mrs. Eliza J., widow of M. M. Bates. She has two children, John L. and Thadeth K. Additional Comments: Mendocino 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/gillespi696bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/cafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb