Sonoma-San Francisco-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Schroyer, Aaron 1828 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Schroyer, Aaron. This gentleman was born in Bunker Hill, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, March 26, 1828. When he was two years of age his parents moved to
Germantown, about six miles north of Philadelphia. Here they resided for the
next six years. They then moved to the city of Philadelphia. Young Schroyer
received his education at the Germantown Academy, from which institution he
graduated at the age of seventeen. He then engaged in the grocery business, in
which he continued during the next four years. July 3, 1849, he sailed from
Philadelphia, on the ship "Europe," for California via Cape Horn, and arrived in
San Francisco February 8, 1850. He at once engaged in the business of
lightering, and continued in it for a few months. He then went to the mines in
El Dorado county. He remained in the mines for two years. He then started a
trading post four miles south of Mud Springs, El Dorado county, where he
remained for about two years, when he went down into the valleys for the purpose
of engaging in ranching. He located on the Cosumnes river, where he remained
until 1856, at which time he went over into Marin county, locating on the
Nicasia rancho in 1863, where he carried on the business of dairying until 1873.
At that time he sold out and moved to his present location. His ranch lies just
south of Fort Ross, and is very well adapted to the purposes of dairying. It
contains two thousand and two hundred acres. He does an extensive business,
milking upwards of one hundred and fifty cows, and from December 1, 1878, to
October 1, 1879, he made nineteen thousand five hundred and sixty pounds of
butter. While in Marin county he was Justice of the Peace for eleven consecutive
years. January 22, 1864, he was married to Mary E. Fitzgerald, daughter of James
R. and Elizabeth Jane Routledge. She is a native of Boston, and was born August
25, 1836. They have had one daughter, now living, Anna Elizabeth.

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Salt Point 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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