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History

of

Sonoma County,

California

WITH

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

OF

The leading men and women of the County, who have been identified with its growth and development from

the early days to the present time.

History By

Tom Gregory

ILLUSTRATED

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY

LOS ANGLES CALIFORNIA

1911

1112 pages on 1 CD

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. - Sonoma—Valley of the Moon

CHAPTER II. - Sonoma Enters California History

CHAPTER III. - Hidden in the Coast Range

CHAPTER IV. - Conception and her Russian Lover

CHAPTER V. - El Fuerte de los Rusos

CHAPTER VI. - Captain Sutter Absorbs the Russian Realty

CHAPTER VII. - The Spaniard Reaches Sonoma

CHAPTER VIII. - Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

CHAPTER IX. - Mexican State of Alta California

CHAPTER X. - A Free and Easy People

CHAPTER XI. - The Digger in His Eminent Domain

CHAPTER XII. - "Lachryma Montis." Home of Vallejo

CHAPTER XIII. - Appearance of the Pathfinder

CHAPTER XIV.- "Republic of California"

CHAPTER XV. - Commodore Sloat at Monterey

CHAPTER XVI. - Fremont the Man of the Hour

CHAPTER XVII. - Painting the Banner of the Bear

CHAPTER XVIII. - Bringing Order Out of the Wilds

CHAPTER XIX. - Castro on the War Path

CHAPTER XX. - Country Drifting to Uncle Sam

CHAPTER XXI. - The Historian Continues the Conflict

CHAPTER XXII. - General Vallejo in California History

CHAPTER XXIII. - California the Mecca of a Mighty Pilgrimage

CHAPTER XXIV. - John A. Sutter and His Fort

CHAPTER XXV. - When the State of California Was Not a State

CHAPTER XXVI. - Sacramento Corrals the State Capital

CHAPTER XXVII. - Sonoma County Settles Down to Housekeeping

CHAPTER XXVIII. - Captain Stephen Smith of Bodega

CHAPTER XXIX. - Peopling the Rich Sonoma Valleys

CHAPTER XXX. - Vulcan—Builder of a Continent

CHAPTER XXXI. - Within the Vale of Santa Rosa De Lima

CHAPTER XXXII. - Mapping Out the City of the Rose

CHAPTER XXXIII. -  The Changes of the Years

CHAPTER XXXIV. -Thoroughbred Horses of Sonoma County

CHAPTER XXXV. - Petaluma and Her Name Origin

CHAPTER XXXVI.- Tragedy of the Vigilance Committee Bell

CHAPTER XXXVII. - City of the Little Chicks

CHAPTER XXXVIII. - Where the Analy Apple Grows

CHAPTER XXXIX. - Nature's Ancient Grove—Redwood Township

CHAPTER XL. - Dale of the Clover Bloom

CHAPTER XLI. - In the Earthquake's Deadly Zone

CHAPTER XLII. - Luther Burbank—Traveler in Plantland

CHAPTER XLIII. - Farmers' Organizations of Sonoma County

CHAPTER XLIV. - Sonoma County Statistics

Index

Abel, Ackerman, Adams, Adler, Atruida, Aldrich, Alexander, Allen, Alves, Anderson, Andrews, Arenberg, Arfsten, Arnhart, Atchinson, Atwater, Austin, Austin, Ayers, Avers, Babbino, Bacon, Bailhache, Baker, Barham, Barlow, Barnes, Barnett,  Barry, Bassett, Bassi, Batchelor, Bauer, Beeson, Bell, Benjamin, Beretta, Bettinelli, Bidwell, Bird, Birkhofer, Bish, Blackburn, Blank, Bline, Bloom, Bock, Bodwell, Bohan, Bolla, Bondietti, Bones, Bonniksen, Bourke, Bowman, Boyes, Boyse, Boyson, Brandt, Brown, Bruner, Burgess, Burris, Bussman, Butler, Byce, Cable, Cadwell, Cahill, Campigli, Canepa, Casarotti, Cassiday, Cassin, Charles. Chauvet, Cheney, Chenoweth, Christensen, Clark, Clarke, Cline, Clough, Collins, Combi, Comerford, Comstock, Conkle, Cox, Cozzens, Crawford, Crystal, Cullen, Cummings,  Cunningham, Dahlmann, Daken, Dambrogi, Dannhausen, Dayton, De Bernard, Denman, Denner, De Rezendes, De Turk, Dillon, Dinucci, Dixon, Douglas, Dowd, Downs, Doyle, Drago, Drees, Drosbach, Drouillard, Duerson, Dufranc, Durand, Fades, Early, Eckert, Eckman, Edgeworth, Elder, Elphick, English, Evans, Evart, Fairbanks, Fehr, Fenk, Fetters, Filippini, Fitch, Fognini, Folsom, Foresti, Fowler, Fredericks, Frei, Fremont, Fulkerson, Fuller, Furlong, Gale, Gallawav, Garloft, Garzoli, Gaye, Genazzi, Geuglima, Giberson, Gibson, Giggey, Gilman, Gisel, Goatley, Goeller, Goodenough, Gossage, Gould, Graham, Graves, Gray, Greenwood, Gregory, Greppi, Grider, Griffith, Grohe, Grove, Guglielmetti, Gustafson, Gutermute, Hall, Hallberg, Hallengren, Halley, Hammell, Hansen, Harbine, Hardin, Harris, Hart, Hartsock, Haskell, Herbe, Hesse, Higby, Hill, Hoar,  Hockin, Hodges, Hooten, Hopper, Horn, Hotchkiss, Hotle, Howard, Howell, Hubbell, Hunt,  Hutchinson,  Irwin, Jacobs, Jacobsen, Jamieson, Jensen, Jesse, Johnson, Jones, Joy, Juhl, Juilliard, Karr,  Kelly, Kent, Keough, King, Knittel, Knowles,  Koch, Kuhnle, Lafranchi, Lambert, Lamoreaux, Landis, Larison, Lasher, Laton, Lauritzen, Lawrence, Laymance, Lea, Leahy, Leonard, Leslie, Leveroni,  Lewis, Lichau, Liggett, Lippitt, Lock, Lorenzini, Loser, Lumsden, Luppold, Luttringer, Lynch, McAfee, McCandless, McCargar, McChristian, McCutcheon, McDonald, McElrov, McNamara, McNear, McPeak, Maclay, Maestretti, Maggetti, Mancini, Mandarini, Manion, Mann, Martin, Masciorini, Mather, Matzen, Mazza, Meagher, Mecchi, Mecham, Meek, Meeker, Mell, Merritt, Meyer, Miller, Mitchell, Mock, Moebes, Moke, Montgomery, Moonev, Mordecai, Moretti, Morris, Morse, Moser, Mossi, Mowbray, Murdock, Nagle, Nay, Neil, Nerz, Nesbitt, Newburgh, Nicoletti, Nisson, Noble, Nobles, Nolan, Nunn, O'Farrell, O'Leary, Oellig, Offutt, Oliver, Orr, Ottmer, Overton, Parker, Patocchi, Patten, Patterson, Paxton, Peoples, Perkins, Peters, Petersen, Petray, Piazza, Pickrell, Plow, Poehlmann, Pool, Poppe, Poulin, Powell, Price, Proschold, Prunk, Puccioni, Purrington, Quanchi, Ramatici, Rambo, Rand, Reid, Richards, Ricioli, Rickman, Ridenhour, Riebli, Rielly, Robinson, Rodd, Rosie, Ross, Rosselli, Rossi, Rule, Sacchi, Sanborn, Sandberg, Sartori, Sarto, Sbarboro, Scatena, Schieck, Schieffer, Schultz, Scott, Scrutton, Seawell, Shaffer, Shaver, Shelley, Shelton, Simi, Sinclair, Singley, Skiffington, Slattery, Small, Smith, Snider, Spencer, Spurgeon, Stagg, Stengel, Stevens, Stewart, Stornetta, Stradling, Stratton, Strode, Strom, Stuart, Sullivan, Sweet, Taylor, Temple, Thomas, Tombs, Traversi, Tripp, Trondsen, Trosper, Trowbridge, Truitt, Turner, Urban, Valentini, Vallejo, Varner, Vogensen, Waldrop, Walker, Walls, Ward, Watson, Weeks, Welch, Welling,  Weyhe, Whitaker, White, Whitney, Wickersham, Williams, Wilson, Winkler, Winton, Wolfe, Wood, Woods, Woodward, Wyatt,  York, Young, Zamaroni, Zanolini, Zartman, Zweifel,