Solano County Biographies

THOMAS MENZIES

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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was born in New Brunswick, June 13, 1832, where he received his education and 
followed farming.  Married January 4, 1855, Miss Margaret Currie, who was born 
January 4, 1834, in New Brunswick.  Mr. Menzies came to California by water, in 
1866, and settled in Petaluma, where he resided and worked on a farm for one 
year.  Came to this county September 16, 1867, and purchased 160 acres of land, 
where he now resides, six miles west of Rio Vista and nine miles east of 
Denverton.  He farms in all 320 acres.  Has reared a family of twelve children, 
ten of whom are still living:  James, born January 17, 1856; John C., born June 
17, 1857, and died January 9, 1872; William W., born July 5, 1859; Dora A., born 
November 1, 1861; Thomas, born November 8, 1863; Robert A., born April 2, 1866; 
David S., born June 4, 1868; Eliza J., born March 21, 1870, and died December 
31, 1871; Emma J. and Edward A. (twins), born October 23, 1872; Maggie E., born 
March 22, 1874; John B., born July 22, 1877.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 474-475