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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Samuels, Hon. James. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait win be found in
this work, was born April 3, 1831, in Butler county, Ohio. His parents' names
were James and Ann Samuels. His mother having died when he was nine years of
age, and his father when he was sixteen, Mr. Samuels was thrown, at that early
age, upon his own resources. He received his education in the common schools of
the State, and also spent one year at Mount Pisgah Seminary, in Indiana. During
the last few years previous to his coming of age, he learned the harness and
saddlery business. On the 9th of April, 1852, at the age of twenty-one, he
started for California, coming via the Panama route. He arrived in San Francisco
May 19, 1852. He at once went to the mines near Downieville, and spent a year at
that business. In 1853 he came to Marysville and spent a few months there. He
then came to Petaluma, Sonoma county, arriving September 1, 1853. Here he
engaged in the saddlery and harness business till the Spring of 1857. He then
engaged in farming in the Russian river valley, near Healdsburg, which he
carried on successfully till 1866. He then purchased a stock ranch, twenty-eight
miles north-west of Healdsburg, where he resides at the present time. He was
elected to the Legislature in 1875, by a large majority over two competitors.
While a member of this body he made a handsome record, introducing several
reformatory bills, which save to the State a large sum annually. He was
appointed a Commissioner by the State Agricultural Society to the Centennial
Exposition. Mr. Samuels is one of Sonoma's most energetic and thriving citizens,
and one most highly esteemed by all who know him. Mr. Samuels was married April
9, 1856, to Mrs. Sarah H. Myers, daughter of Joseph and Dorothy Fellows, a
native of West Plymouth, New Hampshire. When they were married she had one
child, Luella, still living, and married to John Sibbold. One child, Isaballa,
has been born, to them, still living.

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Mendocino 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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