Sonoma County Biographies

A. S. PURRINE

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, July, 2007.

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

                  Was born in Butler County, Ohio, January 9, 1817. When quite 
young his parents took him to Union County, Indiana, but when the subject of 
this sketch was twelve years of age, they returned to Butler County, Ohio, and 
after residing there for a few years, once more went back to Indiana and settled 
at La Fayette. At this time, he whose name appears at the head of this notice 
left his father and mother and engaged in farming in Mercer County, Illinois, 
continuing thereat until 1849, in which year he emigrated to California, making 
the journey by way of the plains, and arrived at Steep Hollow, Nevada County, on 
August 11th of that year. Purrine now prosecuted mining until February 1852, 
when he returned to Illinois by way of Panama, and in the following year 
returned to the state via the plains, bringing with him his wife and five 
daughters, arriving at Stockton in September, 1853. In October, 1854, he removed 
to Sonoma County, and after a stay of about six weeks in Petaluma, settled on 
his present farm of one hundred and seventy acres, located about one mile south 
from Freestone. Mr. Purrine married April 7, 1839, Sarah Jenkins, a native of 
Kentucky, by whom he has four living children, Louise, Amelia, Rebecca and 
Sarah. Three are deceased.
 
Source: "History of Sonoma County, Cal.," Alley, Bowen & Co., San Francisco, 
1880, p. 497.