Mendocino County Biographies

R. H. Rawles

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Was born in Buchanan county, Missouri, January 23, 1845, and when 
he was quite young his parents moved to Mills county, Iowa, where they resided 
for four years. They then moved to Nebraska, and settled near the Platte river, 
where they remained one year. In 1857, they crossed the plains to California, 
and the winter of 1857-8 was spent in Sonoma county, near Santa Rosa. In June, 
1858, they moved to Anderson valley and began the business of stock-raising. In 
1870, they added a flock of sheep to their stock, and in partnership with his 
brother, A. N. Rawles, he has three thousand head of sheep, and owns about two 
thousand four hundred acres of land. Mr. Rawles was married June 28, 1874, to 
Miss Blanche Brown, who was born December 5, 1850, and died June 12, 1875. Mr. 
Rawles has held no offices in the county, but has always taken a deep interest 
in the welfare and prosperity of the section in which he resides. His education 
was received at the Alexander Academy at Healdsburg.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 514, 515