Alameda County Biographies

F. C. JARVIS

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	Was born in Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine, September 16, 1832, and is the son of 
Commodore Joseph R. Jarvis, U. S. N.  Having resided at his birthplace until the year 1846, 
he was taken by his parents to Portland, New York.  In 1850, he commenced a seafaring life 
and followed it until the spring of 1851, at which date he came to California.  His first 
employment was weighing hay for Ritchie & Stearns in Sacramento, and at the end of a year 
proceeded to the mines, and was there engaged until 1857, when he went to the Frazer River, 
being absent about twelve months, when he returned to San Francisco and commenced coasting, 
which he followed until settling in Alameda County in 1865.  Married in 1873, Miss Emma Wiley, 
and has Olivia, Evelyn Otis, Emma Carr.

History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 914