Sonoma-Yuba-Tuolumne County CA Archives Biographies.....Parker, Freeman 1822 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Parker, Freeman. Born in Orange, Orange county, Vermont, April 5, 1822. When
five years of age, his parents moved to Washington, Orange county, same State.
Here he attended the common schools for several years, then attended the
Brownington Academy at Brownington, Vermont, then the Newburg Seminary and
Theological school, and finished his education at the Norwich Military
University. During the eight years he attended these latter institutions of
learning, he acted as teacher in many branches. Finishing his education, he
engaged in farming and lumbering; and was also interested in a starch factory.
In 1849, he disposed of his interests here and started for California, and after
a delay of two months in Panama, he succeeded in getting passage on the steamer
"Senator," and arrived in San Francisco late in October. He was here stricken
down with the Panama fever, which disease he had contracted at Panama by
sleeping in a room with eighteen invalids who were suffering with the epidemic.
In February, 1850, he proceeded to Long Bar, on the Yuba river, and prosecuted
mining with good success for three months, then prospected a short time, when he
repaired to San Francisco about the time of the big fire in 1850; thence he set
out for the mines in Tuolumne county, prospected a little, and then returned
again to San Francisco, remaining a few weeks; thence to Marin county, on the
northern part of the Novato Rancho, called the Hoyo, and farmed until 1852, when
he returned to Vermont in December. In June, 1853, we once more find Mr. Parker
on his way to California, this time accompanied by his family. On December,
1853, he located upon his present farm, where he now resides. Married Cynthia A.
Roberts in Vermont October 14, 1847, she being a native of Williamstown,
Vermont, born June 20, 1821, and died June 4, 1867. By this union they have:
Pitman Wilder, born October 1, 1848; Gelo Freeman, born January 17, 1854; Alma
Ruzilla (now wife of Hon. James Hynes, of Petaluma), born February 14, 1856;
Laura Ada, born January 25, 1858, died October 6, 1864; George Washington, born
July 4, 1860. On January 18, 1879, Mr. Parker married Mrs, Eliza Ann Jones, a
native of Ryegate, Vermont. Mr. Parker is, and has been for many years, much
interested in all true reforms that tend to save time and money and to make the
masses honest and just, independent and intelligent thinking beings. "In
literature, short-hand writing, fonetic printing and the spelling reform hav
resevd his harty suport for mor than forty years. He was educated acording to
the strictest sect of the Congregationalists."

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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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