Sonoma-Butte-Nevada County CA Archives Biographies.....Thompson, Peter H. 1834 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Thompson, Peter H. Born in Russia, December 15, 1834, where he received his
education, and worked on a farm until the Spring of 1854, when he sailed for
California via Cape Horn, arriving in San Francisco, in November of the same
year. He immediately proceeded to the mines in Butte county, and prosecuted
mining at Thompson's Flat one year, when he went to Nevada county, and mined
until 1867. He then resided in San Francisco about eight months, thence to
Contra Costa county, and engaged in stock raising until 1870, when he made a
trip to Europe with his family, and after an absence of one year, returned and
located for one year in Napa City. In 1873 he came to this county and settled on
his present estate of one-hundred and seventy-seven acres. Married August 25,
18G4, Miss Eveldene C. Jepsen. She was born in Russia, November 3, 1846; Eva,
born July 3, 1868; May, born March 17,1870; Henry, born July 18,1872; Frank,
born April 27,1874; Florence, born January 5, 1876; and an infant son born
August 22, 1879; are the names and births of their children.

Additional Comments:
Sonoma 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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