Sonoma-Amador County CA Archives Biographies.....Ormsby, J. H. 1817 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Ormsby, J. H. Born in Lake county, Ohio, December 16, 1817, where he was
educated. When nineteen years of age his parents moved to Missouri, where the
subject of this sketch lived for about two years, when he left the paternal roof
and took up his residence in Quincy, Illinois, where he learned the trade of a
brick-mason, which he followed for four years. From Quincy he went to Dane
county, Wisconsin, where he farmed for eight years. We next find him in
Marquette county, where he was engaged in the flouring-mill business for
fourteen years. In April, 1862, he left for California, crossing the plains with
ox and mule-teams, arriving in this county in October. He first located on a
farm near Valley Ford, where he farmed until the first of the following April,
when he prosecuted mining in Amador county for a few months. He then went to
Idaho, prospected some, and after being absent from the county for about one
year, he returned and settled on a farm in the upper end of Vallejo township. In
1875 he settled on his present place, comprising ninety acres. Mr. Ormsby
married Miss Betsy Carrill, a native of New York and born March 26, 1818. They
have four children living, John W., Mary P., George W. and Martin P., and have
lost two, Warren G. and Julia F.

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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