Sonoma-Shasta-Trinity County CA Archives Biographies.....Lawrence, Henry E. 1828 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Lawrence, Henry E. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this
work, is the eldest son of James and Elizabeth Damewood Lawrence, of Tennessee.
He was born in Robinson county, Tenneesee, January 17, 1828. In 1833 he
accompanied his parents to Jackson county, Missouri, moving with them in 1837 to
Cass county in that State, where he attended school and resided until 1849. In
the Spring of that year he crossed the plains, and on arrival in California
passed that Winter at Shasta City, where he engaged in mining, from here he
proceeded to Trinity and Salmon rivers, continuing mining till the Fall of 1850,
when he came to Sonoma county, and for one year made his home with James
Hudspeth, of Analy township. In the Fall of 1851 he entered into partnership
with Mark York, in farming, near Stony Point. In that same season Lawrence,
leaving York behind, returned, via Nicaragua, to Missouri, and there purchasing
a drove of cattle, drove them back across the plains, in company with Isaac
Smith and Levi Schlosser, in 1852. His partnership with York continued until
1855, when it was dissolved. [Mark York died in Ukiah in October, 1879.] In 1856
Mr. Lawrence again returned East, via Panama, and once more, in 1857, crossed
the plains with stock, there being with him W. P. Hinshaw. In the Fall of that
year he moved to Tomales township, Marin county, and commenced stock-raising in
that section; he continued this until 1876, when he leased his farm and came to
Petaluma. He is proprietor of one thousand four hundred and twenty acres of the
Blucher grant; is one of the stockholders of the Tomales Bank of Marin county,
has been one of its directors since 1876, and still holds that position. In
1859, having visited Missouri, he married Keziah, daughter of Jonathan and
Malindia Hicklin, (her mother's maiden name being Malindia Young,) on January
12, 1860, by whom he has Linnie B., Josiah W., Myrtle Lee.

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Petaluma 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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