Santa Clara County Biographies


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C.W. YOUNG 
Pioneer of Alviso, California
 
Born in Cayuga county, New York, January 26, 1826, and was there educated, and 
reared as a farmer. In 1852 he came to California, arriving in July and at once 
went to the mines near Sonora. Coming back, at the end of a year, to San 
Francisco, he entered the employ of I. Friedlander, and was with him four years. 
He next was engaged by Kennedy & Hopkins for a year. He then in 1858, came to 
Santa Clara county, and settled at Alviso. Here he was for ten years in the 
Alviso flour mills, and is now a farmer. Married,
September 6, 1862, Mary Pollard, and has an only child, Mary F.

The Pioneer, published San Jose, Saturday, February 25, 1882
transcribed by jchavnar