Solano County Biographies

C. J. PITTMAN

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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(deceased)  Born in England in the city of Bristol, in the year 1824, and 
emigrated to California in 1850, where he engaged in hotel keeping in Grass 
Valley, and conducting the International Hotel in San Francisco, after which he 
moved to Grass Valley, there also pursuing the same occupation.  In 1854 he 
returned to England and having married, he, accompanied by his wife, returned to 
the United States and landed in New York City, but only sojourned there six 
weeks.  Mr. Pittman once more started for California in the fall of 1854, on 
board the steamer �Sierra Nevada,� and, arriving in San Francisco he became 
proprietor of the City Hotel there, which he carried on for some time.  In 1855 
he settled in Cordelia, where he kept a hotel, and moving once more in 1862, he 
built the Bridgeport house, which establishment is now kept by his widow.
            Mr. Pittman married in Bristol, England, Louisa J. May, of that 
city, May 28, 1864, by whom there is an only daughter, Carrie E. J.  He died in 
1864.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 433-434