Sonoma-El Dorado-Humboldt County CA Archives Biographies.....Peters, A. N. 1827 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Peters, A. N. Born in Franklin county, Vermont, June 2, 1827. When only four
years of age his parents moved to Macomb county, Michigan, where the subject of
this sketch received his education, and labored on the farm until twenty years
of age, when he left and took up his residence in Linn county, Iowa, where he
engaged in farming about two years, when he emigrated to Sheboygan county,
Wisconsin. On January 28, 1849, he started for California, but remained in St.
Louis until April 2nd, when he joined a company of twenty-five men, and with
three ox-teams set out on their journey, headed by Captain Warncastle, of
Atchison county, Missouri. They arrived at Sacramento August 25th. Mr. Peters
located at Cold Springs, on Weaver creek, near Placerville, and followed mining
for about one year. He then went to Salmon creek, and was engaged running a pack
train between the above point and Port Trinidad for about seven months, and was
then obliged to abandon the business on account of the hostility of the Indians.
He then proceeded to El Dorado county and engaged in the mercantile business
with Isaac Ricketts, and was also engaged in mining on a claim owned by himself
and other partner, which lay just across the river in Placer county. On November
2, 1851, the subject of this sketch returned to Wisconsin, where he remained
until 1852, when he again crossed the plains with ox-teams, arriving in
Sacramento in October of the above year. He then spent about two years in
farming in Colusa and on Grand Island. In the Fall of 1854 he took up his
residence in Amador county, and engaged in farming and dairying, but remained
here only about five months, when he transferred his dairy to Sacramento county
and furnished the city with the lacteal fluid. As this business was not
congenial to his taste, he soon disposed of the dairy and followed mining at
Georgetown, El Dorado county, until July, 1860, when he came to this county and
engaged in his old business, dairying, for four years, when he settled on his
present estate, comprising one hundred and sixty acres of land located in
Vallejo township, about three miles from Petaluma, where he has since resided,
carrying on farming and dairying. The subject of this sketch is a man who has
met with adversity on many occasions, but being so thoroughly imbued with that
pluck and spirit which will not succumb to misfortune, he has succeeded in
securing for himself and family a good comfortable home, in close proximity to
the best schools in the county, where he can educate his children in all the
branches, and not be deprived of their company while growing into manhood and
womanhood, as is often the case when children are educated abroad. Mr. Peters
married in Marysville, October 6, 1852, Miss Eleanor Lowe, a native of Nova
Scotia, born May 3, 1828. By this union they have nine children, as follows:
Johannah, Charles R., Frances A., Cassius M. C, Emma J., John L., Clara B.,
Nellie and Jesse S.

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.


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