Santa Cruz County Biographies

A. NOBLE

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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        This gentleman is a pioneer of 1849, having arrived in San Francisco 
July 19 of that year. He is a member of the Santa Cruz County Pioneer 
Association, and a resident of the Soquel district, of Santa Cruz County, having 
purchased in 1856 a part of the Soquel and Augmentation Rancho, upon which he 
has since resided, engaged in farming and fruit raising.
        Mr. Noble was born of English parents, in Baltimore, Maryland, December 
28, 1823, and while quite young moved with his folks to Salem, Massachusetts, at 
which place he resided until the date of his leaving for California, in 
December, 1848. He obtained passage on the bark Eliza, bound from Salem, 
Massachusetts, to San Francisco and the Sacramento River, via Cape Horn, 
carrying a cargo of provisions. Mr. Noble thinks that this is the first cargo of 
provisions that left the Eastern coast for California.
        After arriving in San Francisco he remained a few days, then proceeded 
to Sacramento. In November, 1851, he left Sacramento, and, going to San 
Francisco, embarked on the steamship Pacific for New York, via Nicaragua.
        He was married in 1852, and returned the same year to California. From 
this date until his arrival in Santa Cruz County he resided in Sacramento and 
San Francisco.
 
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.-  E. S. Harrison, 
Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891