Sonoma-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Gregg, George Timmons 1829 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Gregg, George Timmons. Born in Ross county, Ohio, October 25, 1829. On October
12, 1838, he, with parents, moved to Logansport, Indiana. On July 25, 1839, he,
with parents, moved to Polk county, Missouri, where he remained until 1854. In
April, 1864, he started across the plains for California. He resided about one
month at a point some eighteen miles east of Sacramento, and on October 26th of
the above year came to this county, first locating on a ranch at Mark West, at
the springs now owned by Louis Lemay and others, this being in the Winter of
1855-6. September 1856 he leased H. Beever's farm and raised two crops there (it
now being in that part of the city of Santa Rosa, known as the E. T. Farmer and
C. Ames Addition). October, 1858, he located on the farm now owned by Winfield
Wright. Here he remained for two years. In October 1860, he moved to his present
ranch of ninety acres, where he has since made his home. In 1871 he returned to
his native home, where he arrived April 29, 1871, and on October 3, 1872, he
married Susan Charlotte Cunningham; She was born in Hopkins county, Kentucky,
February 17, 1849. On October 26, 1874, he again settled on his place in this
county, where he expects to remain. Isaac Augustus, born October 23, 1873,
Charles Wesley, born October 12, 1875, and George Nelson, born March 29, 1878,
are the names and births of their children.

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Santa Rosa 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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