Sonoma-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Whitaker, G. W. 1834 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Whitaker, G. W. Whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Indiana July
27, 1834. When he was but two years old his parents moved to the then Territory
of Iowa and settled in what is now Union township, Van Buren county, where Mr.
Whitaker received his education. He did not attend any college, only a high
school. He claims the honor of being principally a self-educated farmer, having
been a constant reader of all agricultural works since the Winter of 1853. In
the Summer of 1853 he crossed the plains to California in company with an elder
brother, W. S. Whitaker, and Mr. Robison. He engaged in mining in El Dorado
county for three years, in partnership with his brother and Mr. Robison. He then
returned to Iowa, via Panama and New York. While at his old home in Iowa he
married Miss Elmira E. Day on October 28, 1856. She was born in Hamilton county,
Ohio, on April 13, 1836. They remained in Iowa and engaged in farming till the
Spring of 1862. He then crossed the plains with his family to this State, partly
for his health and to follow his occupation of farming, and in November, 1866,
settled in Bennett valley, Sonoma county, where he has since resided. During his
residence in this county he has been identified with many public interests,
being one of the foremost to organize the Sonoma County Farmers' Club, which
gave the county's agricultural interests such wide circulation, and the first to
advocate the grange interest and the advantages of their organization, the first
grange in the county being organized at his residence on May 27, 1873. He is a
firm advocate of public schools and education, and a strict moral and parental
training of the young. During the last election he was a candidate for the Lower
House of the State Legislature. The names of his children are: Willson R., John
B., James P., William H, Kate R., Arthur S., Walter L., Rhoda M., Mark S., and
Rosa A. Three were born in Iowa, and four at his present home in Bennett valley.

Additional Comments:
Santa Rosa Township

Extracted from:

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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