Alameda County Biographies

CAPTAIN ANTHONY MILTON

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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            The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work, was 
born in the Azores, Portugal, March 29, 1823, but at eleven years of age came to 
the United States, and settled at New Bedford.  In that prosperous and busy 
seaport he grew up, with the ships of many nations around him, and following the 
example of hundreds of his fellow-townsmen, adopted a life on the ocean wave as 
a profession, and followed it in all parts of the world, until he found himself 
in California in the year 1865, when he purchased his present property in 
Alameda County, and took up his residence there.  Here the worthy Captain has 
time to cogitate upon the mutability of things mundane, and have pass before him 
in vivid procession the personal recollections of stirring scenes full of 
adventure, and enjoy the fruits of a well-spent life.  Married in September, 
1867, Miss Alicia Healey, a native of Ireland, and has two children living, 
viz.:  Manella, and Joseph P.
 
History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 943

[transcriber�s note:  I could find no reference in this book as to the location 
of the portrait mentioned above]