The history of Mary C. Norton and her kinsfolk : Berkeley, Calif. : TDS, [1946?].

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The history of Mary C. Norton and her kinsfolk : Berkeley, Calif. : TDS, [1946?].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122539554

Typed, biographical monograph of the Norton family, by the grandson of Mary Catherine Norton Ayer. Includes a chapter on the genealogy of the Norton family from 1066, and a second chapter tracing the family from Martha's Vineyard in the 18th century, to Mary Catherine Norton's parents in New York state. The third chapter, which covers about half the monograph, narrates the family history from the time of Mary's parents, following her immediate family's migration to Wisconsin and Illinois, where she met her future husband, Charles Alvin Ayer; their marriage in 1863, children, migration (sometimes separately, sometimes together) to and from Calif. and Illinois; the family's eventual settlement on a dairy ranch near Calistoga, in Napa Valley, in 1870; and Mary Catherine's later life with her daughter and family in Calistoga after her husband's death. Includes ten photographs, including those of members of the Norton and Ayer families, a portrait of Sam Brannan, who developed the resort at Calistoga, and related topics.

1 v. (42 leaves + 10 photographs)

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Ayer family.

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Ayer, Mary Catherine Norton, 1840-1921.

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Hutchinson, Fred C. (Fred Clarence), b. 1894.

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New England family who came to Calif. in the 19th century by way of the Midwest. From the description of The history of Mary C. Norton and her kinsfolk : Berkeley, Calif. : TDS, [1946?]. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122539554 ...

Norton family.

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Brannan, Sam, 1819-1889

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Sam Brannan (1819-1889) was born in Maine and moved to Ohio as a teenager. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 1844 began printing The Prophet, a Mormon newspaper, in New York. In 1846 Brannan sailed aboard the Brooklyn with about 240 other Mormons to San Francisco, where he was made first president of the California mission and established the California Star as the first newspaper in San Francisco. In 1848 Brannan traveled to Sutter's Mill as a representative of th...