Yolo-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Pond, Samuel P. 1818 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

SAMUEL P. POND, a retired farmer residing at Woodland, was born October 25,
1818, in Vermont, the son of Willard and Ama (Patrick) Pond, natives of the same
State. He was-but four years of age when his mother died, and when he was eleven
years old his father died, and he went to live with an aunt (of the subject) at
Hubbardton, Vermont. At the age of fifteen years he went to Brunswick, New York,
and found employment upon a farm for two years; next he was engaged on the Erie
Canal for two years; then for four years he followed the sea; then he was on a
farm again in Vermont, working for his cousin until 1842; and in 1843 he
purchased a farm in New Haven, Addison County, that State, where he resided
until 1850, when he came to California. In this State he followed mining until
1852, in the Big Canon in El Dorado County; he then took up a ranch near
Cacheville, in Yolo County, and occupied it until 1858, when he disposed of it
and bought 160 acres about a mile and a half northeast of Woodland. In 1886 he
moved into Woodland, buying a fine little residence on Lolas street, where he is
now enjoying life.

  In 1842 he married Anna Gregory, a native of Vermont, who died March 7, 1889,
at the age of seventy-two years. They reared two adopted daughters,-Ellen W. and
Alzada S.


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Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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