Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Whitney, Albion Paris 1825 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Whitney, Hon. Albion Paris. The subject of this memoir, whose portrait appears
in this work, is the son of William and Olive Whitney, and was born in Corinth
Penobscot county, Maine, September 15, 1825. In 1840 his parents removed to
Aroostook county, in the northern part of the State. His education was obtained
in the common schools of the State, and at the age of twenty he engaged in the
lumber and milling business, pursuing the same at Fairfield, and at Kent in the
same county, until 1856, when he removed with his family to Minneapolis,
Minnesota, where he remained one year, and then removed to Meeker county, in the
same State, and laid out the town of Kingston, erecting mills, and engaged in
flouring and lumbering business. At the same time he commenced a general
merchandising business to meet the wants of the new settlement then on the
frontier. Here he soon succeeded in building up a large business and securing
the esteem of his fellow citizens. In 1858 he was elected by the Republicans and
Douglas Democrats to the State Legislature to represent Meeker, Benton and
Stearns counties. In 1859 he removed to California, making the trip overland,
and spent the first two years in the mines, until 1861, when he removed to
Petaluma and engaged in the grocery business with Mr. Cross, in the old store on
the corner of English and Main streets, opposite his present location. From this
small beginning he has worked his way steadily upward, until his business has
become the largest in the county. He has united warehousing, commission and
shipping business with his other vocation, having six large warehouses and
employing several packets between Petaluma and San Francisco. He has ever taken
a deep interest in all movements for the development of the resources of the
county and the welfare of the people. He has been one of the most zealous
supporters of the Sonoma and Marin District Agricultural Society, and its
President for the last two years. He was a delegate to the National Convention
at Cincinnati in 1876, which nominated President Hayes, and in 1877 he was
elected State Senator from Sonoma county, hitherto largely Democratic. During
the time he was in the Legislature, he was upon several important committees,
and was a laborious and prominent member of the Senate. On February 21, 1850, he
married Susan D. Eastman, a native of Jackson, New Hampshire. Mr. Whitney has
seven children living, the oldest of whom is in business in San Francisco; the
second son is in the University of California; the eldest daughter is married
and happily settled near Petaluma.

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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