Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Mock, William 1811 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 3, 2006, 9:42 pm Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880) Mock, William. A native of Davidson county, North Carolina, born March 24, 1811, where he received his primary education and lived upon a farm until he reached the age of twenty-one years. He then attended the Military Academy at West Point, from which institution he graduated in 1836. He then took part in the Florida war as second Lieutenant and was soon promoted to first Lieutenant, serving in all five years, when he resigned and proceeded to La Fayette county, Missouri, where he followed farming. Also held the office of County Surveyor in the above county, but in 1849 resigned the office and emigrated to California, crossing the plains with ox-teams. They arrived at Lassen's, two hundred miles above Sacramento, on the Sacramento river, November 1st of the same year. He soon proceeded to the mines on Feather river, where he remained until 1853, when he came to this county and settled on his present farm, comprising one hundred and twenty-seven acres, located in Vallejo township, about five miles from Petaluma. Mr. Mock held the office of County Surveyor in this county in 1856—7 and surveyed and established the present county line between Sonoma and Marin. Has also held the office of Magistrate of Vallejo township and has made himself a useful man in the neighborhood where he lives. Married, May 25, 1858, Mrs. Mary B. Goodwin, widow of John T. Goodwin, who died in this county February, 1856. She was born in Maine, July 29, 1818. Additional Comments: Vallejo Township Extracted from: 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sonoma/bios/mock329gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb