Sonoma-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Jackson, Lorenzo 1810 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Jackson, Lorenzo. Born in New Hampshire on December 8, 1810. When but four years
of age he was taken with his parents to New York, settling eighteen miles from
Sacket's Harbor, where he resided till 1832, when he emigrated to Illinois, and
located in Pike county, and prosecuted fanning until 1853. In the Spring of that
year accompanied by his wife and six children, he started for California by way
of the plains to Salt Lake, wintering on South Willow creek, twenty miles south
of Salt Lake City. In the Spring of 1854 the journey was continued and on
arrival in California first settled on land thirty miles north of the city of
Sacramento, where they remained until the Fall of 1855, at which time they came
to Sonoma county and occupied their present farm of one hundred acres. Mr.
Jackson died March 24, 1867. Mr. Jackson married Eunice Clauson on March 17,
1840, a native of the State of New York, by whom there are now living, Anna,
born Novembsr 23, 1854; Mary, born February 8, 1857; Lorenzo, born December 15,
1859; Francis, born January 14, 1862; and Eunice, born July 2, 1866. There are
six of the family dead, one of them, Emily, was killed by a fall from her horse
at Point Reyes, under very distressing circumstances.

Additional Comments:
Vallejo 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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