Marin County Biographies

 HENRY ELPHICK

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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             Was born in England March 31, 1839.  In 1848 he 
emigrated to America with his parents and first settled in Herkimer county, New 
York.  Here he was educated, and on February 20, 1861, came to this State via 
Panama, arriving in San Francisco in March of that year.  He took up his 
residence for a short time at Half Moon Bay, thence he went to Sonoma county, 
near Bloomfield, and came to his present ranch, where he is engaged in dairying, 
five years ago this Fall.  Married Lizzie Bates November 20, 1871.  She was born 
in San Francisco January 7, 1853.  Their children are as follows:  Elijah, aged 
eight years; Henry, aged six years; Martha Elizabeth, aged four years; and 
James, aged one year.
 
History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, 
Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, Bowen & 
Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880