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


DR. JOHN A. PETTENGILL.  Surgeon Dentist Was born in Methuen, Essex County, Massachusetts, 
March 24, 1829, and is the son of Deacon Benjamin and Frances Carrier Pettengill. Was married January 
30, 1850, to Corrella F. Prescott, born in Mount Vernon, New Hampshire, March 4, 1832. He came to 
California that year via Panama, and engaged in mining and mercantile pursuits, which he followed 
nearly one year. On his return, accompanied by his wife, he visited, professionally, Mexico, and 
remained nearly five years. From Mexico he went to New Granada and Venezuela; from thence to all 
the Dutch, English, and Spanish West India Islands. In May, 1861, he sailed from New York in the ill-
fated bark "Almena" for the East Indies, and practiced his chosen profession in Java, Singapore, 
Penang, Hong Kong, and the Philippine Islands. From the islands he arrived in 1870, almost an invalid, 
and bought his present place, the White Bock Vineyard, for the purpose of recuperating, and is now 
engaged in wine-making.