Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Hinshaw, E. C. 1830 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Hinshaw, E. C. A native of Yadkin county, North Carolina; born May 30, 1830;
received his education at Normal College, in Randolph county, from which he
graduated July 17, 1856. He then returned to his native county and taught school
one term, and in January, 1857, he proceeded to Jackson county, Missouri, where
he remained until the April following, when he, in company with his brother, W.
P. and H. E. Lawrence, started across the plains, with ox teams, for California,
and arrived in this county in October following. Spending the winter in Two Rock
valley, Mr. Hinshaw embarked in merchandising in Petaluma under the firm name of
Hinshaw & Co. After conducting this business for about eight months, he engaged
in school teaching for some time, when he settled in Big valley and prosecuted
farming three years, after which he located on his present farm, comprising
three hundred and ten acres, in Two Rock valley, about three miles from
Bloom-field. Mr. Hinshaw has served three times in the California Legislature.
He married, July 1, 1864, Miss Lou Taylor, a native of Johnson, Missouri, born
February 6, 1843. By this union they have three living children, James N., born
April 18, 1865; Bite B., born June 14, 1868; Fannie D., born August 12, 1877.
One deceased, Mary A., born June 6, 1873, died August 18, 1876.

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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.



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by ALLEY, BOWEN & Co.,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

PACIFIC PRESS,
Oakland, Cal. Printers., Stereotypers and Binders.


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