Alameda County Biographies

LOREN B. ANWAY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	Was born in Seneca County, Ohio, January 14, 1829, where he resided until his coming 
to California, being previously engaged in farming.  On May 1, 1852, he left the Mississippi 
River in company with W. H. Parker, of Marysville, with a party of seventy-four persons in a 
passenger train and arrived in Yreka, Siskiyou County, August 7th of the same year.  Having 
engaged in mining for six years he returned to Ohio in 1858, but, in 1861, came back to 
California and settled in Siskiyou County. Having maintained a residence there until March, 
1864, he once more paid a visit to the Eastern States.  The same year saw him back on the 
Pacific Coast, however, bringing with him a band of cattle.  In 1865 he located in Alameda 
County on his present farm, comprising one hundred and sixty acres, where he is now engaged 
principally in fruit-culture and stock-raising.  He has twenty six acres of as fine an orchard, 
stocked with various kinds of fruits, as is to be seen anywhere.  Mr. Anway has held the office 
of Roadmaster, while he has for nine years been an active and prominent member of the Eden 
Grange, of which he has served two terms as Master.  Married in Ohio, June 23, 1859, Miss Fannie 
J. Horton, and has, Clayton L., Dora, Jay B., Mary, Katie.

History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 839