Sonoma-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Holmes, Calvin H. 1825 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Holmes, Calvin H. The subject of this sketch was born near Huntington, Carroll
county, Tennessee, on December 16, 1825. Here he received his education until
twelve years of age, when he moved with his parents to Benton county, Arkansas,
and there finished his schooling. On April 17, 1849, he started for California
with an ox-team, there being one hundred and ten wagons in the train, and made
over twelve hundred miles of their road on the 8th of November of the same year,
arriving at Lawson's ranch, on the Sacramento river, from which place he
proceeded to the mines on Feather river, there remaining during that Winter and
the following Spring. From this locality he went to the mines on the Yuba,
arriving there during the Summer of 1850, a portion of which he employed in
running a pack-train from Marysville to Stake Range, on the Yuba. This turning
out a profitable investment, he commenced business as a cattle-raiser, drover
and sheep-raiser, which he has since followed. In the Fall of 1850, in
partnership with his brother Henderson P., Mr. Holmes located a ranch near
Marysville, on the Horn Cut, which he sold at the end of one year, when he
returned to Arkansas, by way of Havana and New Orleans, returning to California
in 1852, bringing with him a drove of cattle across the plains. On October 1st
of this year he located near Santa Rosa, in this county, on the farm now
occupied by his brother, Henderson P. Holmes. Still retaining this property, the
brothers proceeded to Texas in 1853, and there purchasing cattle, drove them
across in the following year to Santa Rosa. From 1854 to 1861 Mr. Holmes was
principally employed in stock-raising, and for two years of this period was in
the wholesale slaughtering business in San Francisco. In 1861 he located in
Knight's valley, on his present splendid property, which comprises two thousand
five hundred acres of the finest land in the county. Last year, 1878, he erected
his present elegant and commodious mansion, near the Calistoga road to the
Geysers. Mr. Holmes married, March 16, 1854, in Collins county, Texas, Miss Ella
E. Huffman, of Shelbyville, Kentucky, by whom he has: Kate H., born January 14,
1855; William F., born September 10, 1858, and Edward M., born January 31, 1862.

Additional Comments:
Knight's Valley 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.



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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