California Biographies
Bodwell, C. A.

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Bodwell, C. A. Born in Farmington, Hartford, county, Connecticut, November 24,
1822; received his education at the Farmington Academy. At the age of sixteen
entered a drug store as clerk in Hartford, where he remained until March, 1849,
when he started across the plains, in company with Livingston & Kinkead, who
were on their way to Salt Lake with a large stock of goods. The subject of this
sketch spent the Winter in Salt Lake, and in the Spring returned to Missouri,
where he remained a short time, when he again made a trip to Salt Lake and spent
a second Winter. In the Spring of 1850 he crossed the plains to Kansas, and
established a trading post on the road from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe. About
one year later he crossed the plains to California, bringing with him a drove of
cattle. Engaged in the stock business one year in Butte county, and in December,
1854, we find him in San Francisco. In October, 1856, he became a resident of
this county, purchasing a farm in Vallejo township. Here he farmed until 1864,
when he settled upon his present estate of two hundred and fifty-five acres,
located at Lakeville, where he has since maintained a continuous residence. Mr.
Bodwell is the postmaster at Lakeville, and H also agent at this place for the
San Francisco Steamboat and Transportation Company. Married, January 5, 1864,
Miss Charlotte F. Chadbourne, a native of Maine. By this union they have two
children: Charles A., and Charlotte E.

Source: HISTORY OF SONOMA COUNTY, Alley, Bowen & Co. 1880