Sonoma-Nevada-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Roney, J. M. 1833 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Roney, J. M. The subject of this sketch was born in Warren county, Pennsylvania,
March 6, 1833. Here he resided until March, 1854, and on the 6th of that month
he left the city of New York on the steamer "Northern Light" to the Isthmus, and
from there on the steamer "Sierra Nevada" to San Francisco, arriving on April 2,
1854. He immediately went to the mines in Nevada county, where he was engaged in
mining for one year; then he moved to Sierra county, remaining till 1856, and
returned to Nevada county. In 1858 he again went to Sierra county, working at
the blacksmith's trade until 1859, and then at Orleans Flat, Nevada county, till
February, 1862; thence to Santa Rosa, and commenced the retail liquor trade,
together with the real estate business, until 1873, when he opened the wholesale
liquor trade. Mr. Roney married on October 14, 1870, Mary Fitzgerald. Maggie M.
and Edith E. are the names of his living children. He has lost one, Alice M.

Additional Comments:
Santa Rosa 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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