Sonoma-Nevada County CA Archives Biographies.....Skaggs, Alexander 1826 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Skaggs, Alexander. The subject of this sketch is a native of Baron county,
Kentucty, where he was born in June, 1826. When twenty-six years of age he
accompanied his parents to Missouri, and there followed farming until 1853, when
he emigrated to California, coming by way of the plains, with ox-teams. He
arrived in Nevada county September 7, 1853, and commenced business as a
stock-raiser, which occupation he continued until 1857, when he moved to Sonoma
county and became possessed of the lands on which are located the famous springs
and Summer resort known as Skaggs' Springs, a description of which will be found
in the chapter on springs and mines in the first part of this volume. Mr. Skaggs
married in April, 1850, Eliza Thomas, a native of Kentucky, by whom he has four
children, Charles W., Elizabeth, William and George H.

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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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