California Biographies
Miller, Thomas B.

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Miller, Thomas B. Was born in Rhea county, Tennessee, December 31, 1826. At four
years of age his parents moved to Gaylesville, Alabama, where they remained
until Thomas was between eight and nine years of age, when they removed to
Benton county, Arkansas; here he lived until 1849, when he started for
California with an ox-team across the plains, being some five months in making
the journey. After stopping a few days in Sacramento he proceeded to the mines
in Placer county, where he engaged in mining during the Winter of 1849-'50. In
the Spring of 1850 he went to Gold Run, near Nevada, and there prosecuted mining
for about two months; thence to Yuba, where he was engaged during the Summer in
mining in the bed of the river, and finding but very little gold, he then
proceeded to the south Yuba, and remained but a short time, when he went to
Cache creek, in Yolo county, and engaged in farming, but on account of the dry
season he left, and in the Fall of 1851 came to this valley and began farming,
about three miles south of Sebastopol, where he continued till the Winter of
1853, when he moved near to Tomales, in Marin county, where he prosecuted
farming until 1855, when he moved to Russian river, four miles above the city of
Healdsburg, an& farmed until 1874, when he came to Santa Rosa and purchased
property, which he still owns; residing in Santa Rosa until May, 1877, when he
removed to his present farm, consisting of three hundred and twenty acres.
Married, April 17, 1853, Mary Ann King, a native of Jackson county, Missouri,
born February 14, 1835, by which union they have ten children: James P., born
May 18, 1854; Charlotte E., February 24, 1857; Thomas B., January 6, 1859;
Louisa H., January 8, 1861; Mary A., December 19, 1862; Irena B., November 1,
1864; Josephine, November 14, 1866; Laura E., August 27, 1868; Henrietta,
October, 27, 1870, and Robert L., June 25, 1875.

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