History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . his home. He then drifted to Chicago, where he soon after enteredthe army, enlisting in the eighth Illinois Cavalry Regiment. He servedwith his regiment in the Army of the Potomac until the battle of Antietam,in 1862, when he was disabled from further field duty, and was placed ondetached service. In 1864, just before the close of the war, he was marriedto Miss Elenor P. Hall, at Brooklyn, New York, and shortly after quit theservice, returning to his old business. From t
History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . his home. He then drifted to Chicago, where he soon after enteredthe army, enlisting in the eighth Illinois Cavalry Regiment. He servedwith his regiment in the Army of the Potomac until the battle of Antietam,in 1862, when he was disabled from further field duty, and was placed ondetached service. In 1864, just before the close of the war, he was marriedto Miss Elenor P. Hall, at Brooklyn, New York, and shortly after quit theservice, returning to his old business. From that time until 1871 he heldthe position of foreman in several large daily newspaper offices in the Westand East, when he suddenlj^ in consequence of sickness in his family,determined to remove to California, which he did in the fall of that located on this coast at Santa Barbara, taking charge of the Press asforeman. In July, 1872, he commenced the publication of the SantaBarbara Index, advocating the claims of Greeley. Being offered theposition of business manager of the Press, the following year, he disposed. ^^ ^^^^ UKIAH TOWNSHIP. 671 of his interest in the Index, and took charge of the former, where heremained until the election of Irwin, in 1875, when he removed toSacramento, taking charge of the job department of the State PrintingOffice, which position he held until the change in the State administrationin January, 1880. In that month he made his first trip into Mendocinocounty, for the purpose of looking up a field in which to engage in thenewspaper business. At that time negotiations were opened for the purchase,in connection with Mr. H. A. Peabody, of one of the Democratic paperspublished in Ukiah, which culminated in securing the Democratic WeeJdyDispatch, the new firm taking possession on the 10th of April, 1880. He isthe father of eight children, all boys, five of whom are still alive. Frederick 0. Townsend, Whose portrait appears in this book, is anative
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