. 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. e eldest son, John T., makes his home in Petaluma with hiswife, formerly Jennie Anthony, and their four children, Lyel, George, Effa andRuby, the eldest daughter, Effa, being the wife of George Hawkins. EdwardB. married Mollie Davis and has two children, Bert and Jessie, by this marriage;his present wife was formerly Miss Emma Hueberger. Ida Jane became thewife of Nathaniel Benson, by who
. 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. e eldest son, John T., makes his home in Petaluma with hiswife, formerly Jennie Anthony, and their four children, Lyel, George, Effa andRuby, the eldest daughter, Effa, being the wife of George Hawkins. EdwardB. married Mollie Davis and has two children, Bert and Jessie, by this marriage;his present wife was formerly Miss Emma Hueberger. Ida Jane became thewife of Nathaniel Benson, by whom she has three children, Roy (who marriedBertha Casta), Harold and Forest. Politically Mr. Merritt is a believer inDemocratic principles, and always casts his vote in favor of that partys candi-dates. Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to Petaluma Lodge No. 180, andto Chapter No. 22, R. A. M. JOHN D. the men who gave the strength of their best years toward the devel-opment of the resources of Sonoma county few are more kindly rememberedthan the late John Bailiff, and the work which he so nobly began and whichhe laid down at his death, December 27, 1900, is being carried forward by his. HISTORY OF SONOMA COUNTY 755 son and namesake, John D. Bailiff. A native son of the state, the latter wasborn in Sonoma cdunty August 31, 1875, and when he was only one year oldthe family settled on the ranch of which he is now the proprietor, near SantaRosa, and he has therefore known no other home. When he attained school agehe became a pupil in the public schools of Santa Rosa, attending both the gram-mar and high schools of the city, after which he became associated with hisfather in the maintenance of the ranch. John D. Bailiff was a young man of twenty-five years of age when the deathof his father left the care of the ranch upon his shoulders. That he had an apti-tude for the calling of the agriculturist has been unmistakable, amply demon-strated during the past ten years o
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