California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

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


GEORGE WILLARD LAWRENCE.  Son of Joseph and Harriet Taber Lawrence, was born in Falmouth, 
Massachusetts, June 7, 1849. In 1855 he, with his parents, came via Nicaragua, to California, arriving in 
May of that year. The family resided in San Francisco until September, 1856, when they came to Napa 
County. George was educated in the public schools and the Napa Collegiate Institute. In 1863 he began 
an apprenticeship to the printer's business in the Register office at Napa, and remained connected 
with that paper until 1869. He then began clerking in the drug store of E. N. Boynton, where he has 
since remained. He is an industrious, reliable and capable man.