Mendocino County Biographies Raymond W. O�Niel Transcribed by: Pat Howard This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Was born in Vigo county, Indiana, November 12, 1852. When he was one year old his parents crossed the plains to Oregon, where they resided one year. In 1854 they came to California and settled at San Jose, where they resided for one year. In 1856 they went to Healdsburg, Sonoma county, and in May, 1857, they settled two miles north of the present village of Point Arena. Young Raymond attended the common schools of the section and also spent one year in the Alexander Academy in Healdsburg. In 1876 he began his present business of drugs and groceries in Point Arena. He was married, November 12, 1878, to Miss Ada J. Lyman. SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 524