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


T. S. SCRIBNER.  Is the youngest child of Enoch and Chloe Sprague Scribner, and was born in Saratoga 
County, New York, January 31, 1840. He received his education at the common schools, and resided in 
his birth county until 1856. He then went to New York city, and in March of the following year sailed on 
the steamer "Northern Light" to Panama, and at that port took passage on the "Orizaba" to San 
Francisco, arriving in April. He spent the first year at Mount Diablo, and then moved to Benicia, and 
there followed hunting and ranching until 1863. He then moved to Napa City, and was employed in 
hauling soda water from the Soda Springs for eight years, in connection with which he established a 
livery business in 1866, which he conducted until 1870. In the latter year he began to run a stage from 
Napa to Knoxville, which he conducted until 1878. In 1875 he moved his family to Knoxville, where they 
opened a hotel, which they run until 1877. He then removed to his present estate, consisting of six 
thousand three hundred acres, located in the upper end of Berryessa Valley, where he now resides. 
He was married in 1868 to Miss Anna Jackson, who died in 1873. He was married secondly to Miss Ella 
Sweet in 1876, and by this union they have one child, Thaddeus M.