Alameda County Biographies

GEORGE CROPSEY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	A prosperous rancher of the Livermore Valley, is one of the prominent pioneers of 
Alameda County, and most worthy of mention in this history.  He has been a prominent farmer 
and stock-raiser for nearly thirty years, and is now residing with his family upon his farm of 
350 acres three miles and a half west of Livermore.  He is also engaged in raising live-stock, 
including roadsters and speed horses, among them one stallion, �Redwood,� that has a record of 
2:27 on the track, and others of less speed.  He has a race course upon his own ranch.
	Mr. Cropsey is a son of Giles B. and Maria (Lockwood) Cropsey, who were natives of New 
York State but are now deceased, the father dying in 1877.  Mr. Cropsey, of this sketch, was 
born at East Troy, New York, December 8, 1836, and moved with his father to Rochester, that 
State, where he received his schooling.  In 1858 he came by way of Panama to San Francisco, and 
for two years he was at various points on the coast, -- Sacramento, Russian River, Cloverdale, 
etc.  In 1860 he went to Haywards and worked for a time, then to Portland, Oregon, where he was 
in the commission house of J. M. Blossom & Co. for a short time; then he went up the Salmon 
River, and to the Cariboo country in British Columbia; next he was engaged in quartz-mining in 
Nevada for several months; then he followed farming at Haywards until 1870, when he visited his 
native State.  On his return to California he settled at San Lorenzo until 1877, when he went 
upon his present ranch.
	He was married in Oakland, October 30, 1883, to Miss Matilda Rudebeck, and they have two 
children, Giles B. and Earl D.

Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891