Sonoma-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Holmes, Henderson P. 1821 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Holmes, Henderson P. Was born in Bedford county, Tennessee, November 21, 1821.
When two years old, his parents moved to Carroll county in that State, where
they resided till 1836, when the subject of this sketch went with his father's
family to Benton county, Arkansas. In the Spring of 1849, he crossed the plains
to California, and was five months making the journey. He first located at Long
Bar, on the north side of Feather river, and was engaged in mining until the
Fall of 1850, then moved to Yuba county and pursued farming and stock-raising.
The following year he returned to the mining country and carried on the butcher
business. In the Fall of 1851 he went to the State of Arkansas, where he
purchased a drove of cattle, bringing them across the plains to the place where
he now lives in 1852. He was successful to a small extent in the speculation,
and the following year he again visited Arkansas and Texas, returning with a
larger drove of stock. Several years alter this he bought a tract of land and
has since made it his permanent home. He made a visit to Arkansas in 1856 and
again in 1859, when he married on July 13th Mary E., daughter of Presley R.
Smith, then Clerk of Washington county, Arkansas. She died July 19, 1869. Their
living children are: Rachel, born October 27, 1862, and Frank H., born March 13,
1865. In 1869, he, in partnership with T. N. Willis, then of Santa Rosa,
returned to Texas and bought some twelve hundred steers for the beef markets of
California. The great drouth of 1870-71 caused the enterprise to be somewhat
disastrous. While on this trip to Texas, was married to Mrs. Rebecca Oldham,
formerly of Louisville, Kentucky, but living then, July 4, 1869, in Fort Worth,
Texas. They have one child, Ella Elizabeth, born May 17, 1873.

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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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