Sonoma-San Francisco-Marin County CA Archives Biographies.....Van Allen, John J. 1826 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Van Allen, John J. Was born in Columbia county, New York, April 30, 1826. Here
he received his education and resided until June, 1849, when he emigrated to
California, arriving in San Francisco October 4th of that year. After spending a
few days there he went to Jackson Bar, and there prosecuted mining and hunting
for about one year, after which he worked in a lumber yard in San Francisco for
two years. He next engaged in farming and hunting in Marin county for eight
years, and then came to Sonoma county and settled in Petaluma. In 1871 he
located on his present farm of one thousand and two hundred acres in the
mountains, at the head of Dry creek. Mr. Van Allen married, in 1871, Miss Bryan,
a native of Ireland, by whom he has one child, named Maria.

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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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