California Genealogy and History Archives
Biographies
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Sacramento County
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GEORGE
HOOK The
life of that once well-known Californian, George Hook, formerly of
Contra Costa county, spanned the period of thirty years, from 1S51 to
1880. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, was there reared and educated and
from there came, a young man, to California. It was at Placerville and
in Contra Costa county that he passed most of his active life and in the
latter place he died, sincerely mourned by a wide circle of
acquaintances. In 1874 Mr. Hook married Miss Mary Green, a native of San Bernardino, Cal., whose father in 1849, when nineteen years of age, left Ohio and crossed the plains to California. Mrs. Green, a native of England and now a resident of Sacramento, remembers all of the details of the eventful journey on the overland trail. Mrs. Hook bore her husband a son and a daughter, Henry and Sarah C. Hook. The former is married and lives at Roseville, Cal., and Sarah is a member of her mother's household. |
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Source: Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011 |