Sonoma-Nevada-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Van Doren, William Lawson 1810 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Van Doren, William Lawson. Born in Somerset county, New Jersey, June 2, 1810,
and is the first son of Joseph Van Doren and Marie Conover. When sixteen years
of age his parents moved to Warren county, Ohio, and there farmed. He married,
December 10, 1833, Sarah Ann Hageman. In October, 1835, he moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, and settled nine miles west of Springfield, on the south side
of Spring creek. In September, 1845, he moved to St. Louis, where his wife died,
October 20, 1847. In 1850 he crossed the plains to California and settled in the
town of Nevada, and remained some time engaged in mining. In October, 1851, he
bought a ranch on the north side of American river, two and a half miles from
Sacramento. In March, 1853, Mr. Van Doren married Mrs. Cornelia Fulkerson. In
1864, after a visit to the Eastern States, he went to the city of Nevada, and
stayed in that county till July, 1856, when he came to Petaluma and kept hotel
eight years (Petaluma House and Washington Hotel), till April, 1863, then went
over to Nevada Territory and took charge of the White House, Carson City, where
he remained during the exciting times of changing the Territory to a State and
through the first session of the Legislature. In 1864 he returned to Petaluma
and built a home, and the following year sold out and went to Brooklyn, New
York. In 1866 he bought in the Chenery House in Springfield, Illinois, which he
kept till 1869, returning again to Petaluma, as his home, and went into stock
raising on Austin creek in this county, remaining there till 1877. After the
death of his wife, February 5th, Mr. Van Doren sold out and came to Petaluma to
live. He has five children by his first wife: Joseph, born in Warren county,
Ohio, October 3, 1834; John S., born in Sangamon county, Illinois, April 29,
1836; William Henry, same place, September 19, 1839; Anna Maria, same place,
March 4, 1845; Lewis, born in St. Louis, Missouri, February 25, 1847. Joseph is
married and lives in Ouray, Colorado; no children. John S. is in Petaluma and
has a daughter about seventeen years of age. William H. married, in
Jacksonville, Illinois, a daughter of Dr. Jones, who lived about two years and
died November 17, 1869. Anna Maria married Oliver G. Rogers, and lives in this
county and has two children, a daughter and son. Lewis resides near Rio Vista,
Solano county, and is unmarried.

Additional Comments:
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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