Sonoma-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Hooper, George P. 1826 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Hooper, George P. The subject of this memoir, whose portrait appears in this
work, was born at Old Point Comfort, Virginia, on August 12, 1826. Served in the
Mexican war of 1846, and was with Colonel Doniphan when he effected his famous
march. At the close of that expedition he was appointed a Lieutenant in the
Fifteenth United States Infantry, with which regiment he served till the close
of hostilities, when he was appointed a sub-assistant surveyor in running the
boundary line in accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
between the territory of the United States and Mexico. In 1852 he established
the first trading post in Fort Yuma in the south-east corner of the State, and
there started the house of George F. Hooper & Co., which he continued until 1860
when he removed to San Francisco. In 1867 Colonel Hooper retired from business
and visited the Eastern States, came back after a short stay, and on the
establishment of the First National Gold Bank in San Francisco was elected to
the presidency, a post he resigned in 1876, on coming to reside on his
remarkably beautiful ranch in Sonoma valley, where he has since lived and taken
a prominent share in the introduction of choice vines and rare fruits, all of
which surround a noble mansion of great beauty, the verandahs of which command a
prospect of wonderful splendor. Colonel Hooper married Frances Mary, daughter of
the Honorable William Halstead, of Trenton, New Jersey, who died on February 17,
1879.

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Sonoma 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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