Sonoma-Sacramento-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Snow, J. 1817 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Snow, J. Born in Brewster, Barnstable county, Massachusetts, September 7, 1817.
When but a youth of thirteen summers he "went to sea," which he followed until
1846, visiting many ports in Europe and the East Indias. At the expiration of
sixteen years as a seafaring man, he returned to his native State and was once
moie with home and friends. In December, 1849, he was made first officer of the
bark "General Green," and on his way to the Pacific coast. He arrived in San
Francisco in the latter part of July, 1850. From here he went to Sacramento,
where he received an honorable discharge from duty. After following boating on
the Sacramento river for one month, he repaired to San Francisco and conducted a
hotel on Pine street above Montgomery, for six months. In 1851 he sailed on a
whaling boat to Marysville and was there engaged in selling goods to the miners
for some time, when he returned to San Francisco and was employed by Messrs.
Page & Webster as clerk in a store ship for one year. On January 8, 1852, he was
joined by his wife from the East, at which time he was engaged in freighting
goods from San Francisco to Stockton until late in 1854, when he established a
line of sailing vessels over the same route. In 1859 he became a resident of
this county; he first located in Vallejo township, two and a half miles east of
Petaluma, and carried on farming until 1868, when he came to Petaluma. In 1871
he embarked in the real estate business, this being his present occupation.
Married Miss Lucy E. Holton, June 3, 1847. She is a native of Irving, Franklin
county, Massachsetts, born August 3, 1825. By this union they have one son,
Frank H., who is now a resident of Portland, Oregon, born February 23, 1855.

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Petaluma 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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