California Biographies
Mock, William

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Mock, William. A native of Davidson county, North Carolina, born March 24, 1811,
where he received his primary education and lived upon a farm until he reached
the age of twenty-one years. He then attended the Military Academy at West
Point, from which institution he graduated in 1836. He then took part in the
Florida war as second Lieutenant and was soon promoted to first Lieutenant,
serving in all five years, when he resigned and proceeded to La Fayette county,
Missouri, where he followed farming. Also held the office of County Surveyor in
the above county, but in 1849 resigned the office and emigrated to California,
crossing the plains with ox-teams. They arrived at Lassen's, two hundred miles
above Sacramento, on the Sacramento river, November 1st of the same year. He
soon proceeded to the mines on Feather river, where he remained until 1853, when
he came to this county and settled on his present farm, comprising one hundred
and twenty-seven acres, located in Vallejo township, about five miles from
Petaluma. Mr. Mock held the office of County Surveyor in this county in 1856�7
and surveyed and established the present county line between Sonoma and Marin.
Has also held the office of Magistrate of Vallejo township and has made himself
a useful man in the neighborhood where he lives. Married, May 25, 1858, Mrs.
Mary B. Goodwin, widow of John T. Goodwin, who died in this county February,
1856. She was born in Maine, July 29, 1818.

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