Re: [COLBY] Gilbert W. Colby, NH > California
by Matthew D. Colby, DC, LCP, DPhCS
Is this Gilbert Winslow Colby who married Caroline Amelia Smith?
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Subject: [COLBY] Gilbert W. Colby, NH > California
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> COLBY, GILBERT W., was born in Bradford, New Hampshire, May 5, 1825;
> taught school several years, and afterwards engaged in civil and military
> engineering till February 3, 1849, when left Boston on the bark Drummond;
> arrived last of August in San Francisco and took schooner for Sacramento
> City with merchandise; formed partnership with three fellow passengers,
> Trescot, White and Kellogg, and landed goods in the Round Tent on J
> street, being largest business place in Sacramento, containing several
> firms, and headquarters of Pioneer Stage Company and the city authorities.
> Kellogg was left with the goods, and Trescot, White and Colby piled their
> traps on Abe Kensey's mule team and started for Mormon Island, arriving
> there four days after. Commenced mining and merchandising at Red Bank, and
> in 1850 grain-raising, which he has continued ever since with
> stock-raising. He represented Sacramento County in 1851-2 in the Assembly,
> in the Senate in 1854-5, was City and County Engineer f!
> or several terms, State Locating Agent for school lands from 1860 to 1869,
> when it was transferred to Surveyor-General. He was admitted to the bar in
> 1852; practiced in local offices and Interior Department at Washington. He
> has large farming and stock interests in each of the following counties:
> Colusa, Tehama, Butte, Yuba, Solano and Contra Costa. In 1862 he commenced
> merchandising at Colby's Landing (now Nord); firm name Colby & Pond. He is
> President of Grangers' Bank and Director of several other banking and
> business corporations. He has been Postmaster there for several years.
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> 1880 Sacramento County Biographies, page 281
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