Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Lovejoy, A. P. 1826 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Lovejoy, Doctor A. P. Was born in Vassalborough, Kennebec county, Maine, in
1826, and although a dentist by profession, is more widely known as a
telegraphist, being, so far as is known, the oldest telegrapher on the Pacific
Coast. He received a high-school education, and at the age of twenty went to
Boston, Massachusetts, to engage in telegraphy; there being no opening for him
at that time he assisted in building the first telegraph line between that city
and Portland, Maine, and on its completion, in October, 1857, was put in charge
of the Portland office, having learned the art of sending and receiving messages
as the line progressed; he made such proficiency that early in the following
year he was sent to New York as assistant operator on the old American line,
between that city and Boston; the office at that time being situated at No. 5
Hanover street, corner of Beaver; here he remained until the Spring of 1850,
when he returned to the Boston office, and after working for a few months was
offered the management of the Bangor, Maine, office, which he accepted and
filled for one year; he was afterwards manager of the Syracuse, New York, and
other offices, until 1853, when he left the business and entered upon the
practice of dentistry in Massachusetts and New York States, in the latter of
which, in 1855, he was married to Miss Kate Hutton, of Malone, Franklin county;
he continued the practice of dentistry till 1863, when he came to California,
and settled in Petaluma. Soon after his arrival here he was offered the
management of the telegraph office, then just opened, which he accepted and held
fourteen years, resigning in the latter part of 1877, and resuming the practice
of dentistry, which he still continues. Dr. Lovejoy is in politics a Republican
of the pronounced type (which is not a matter of wonder, when it is known that
he is a blood relation of Wm. Lloyd Garrison), but during the exciting times of
the rebellion he managed the business of his office with such impartiality as to
command the respect and confidence of both political parties.

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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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