Sonoma-Tuolumne-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Williams, George B. 1809 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Williams, George B. A native of Lincoln county, Maine, born December 5,1809.
Here he received his education, and was reared a farmer. At twenty-one years of
age he managed and conducted a farm on his own account. On December 18, 1849, he
emigrated to California, on board the schooner "Danascone," and arrived July 12,
1850. After disposing of the cargo, he being one of the owners, he proceeded to
the mines at Pine-log crossing. Here he found his brother, John M., who had
emigrated to the State previously. In 1850, in company with his brother and two
other gentlemen, erected a building on Commercial street, San Francisco, known
as the Globe Hotel; here he conducted the hotel business for one year. In
November, 1851, Mr. Williams came to Petaluma, and purchased a preemption right,
in company with Capt. H. Luce, of Massachusetts, which comprised about one-half
of the present site of Petaluma, but lost it by litigation. On March 14, 1853,
he and W. M. Wright purchased a ranch of Major Singley, one mile north of this
city, where he resided until 1855. June 1, 1855 Mr. Williams' wife arrived from
the East, while he had departed but a few days previous to accompany her to this
State. The fact of her being in California he did not know until he reached
Boston. He soon found his way back, joined his wife, and on December 25, 1855,
took up their residence in Petaluma. In the Spring of 1854 he commenced the
erection of the Washington Hotel, hauling the lumber from the redwoods. He was
proprietor of the Washington Hotel for one year, after which he teamed for some
time. Mr. Williams has done much toward the advancement of the town in the way
of building, and has ever manifested a spirit of thrift and enterprise, and has
lived to see the fruits of his labor crowned with success, which will ever
remain in remembrance of him who did not weary in welldoing. Married Miss
Mehetable, daughter of George and Johanna Lilly, November 20, 1834. She was born
in Lincoln county, Maine, February 17, 1807. George R, born February 20, 1839
(residing in East Oakland); Rosa Lilly, born December 24, 1840 (widow of P. E.
Weeks); Laura J., born November 26, 1842, are the names and births of their
living children.

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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