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THOMAS S. BONNEAU
THOMAS S. BONNEAU, County
Clerk of Marin county,
State of California, is a native
of Brewster, Massachusetts,
born on October 15, 1848. His education was received in the States of
New York and New Jersey, and was
completed in San Francisco. He came to California
in the year 1862, via Panama,
on the steamer Ariel on the Atlantic side and the Golden Age on the
Pacific. He went to Portland,
Oregon, in April, 1865, and returned to San
Francisco in the fall of 1866. Mr. Bonneau comes
from the old Huguenot stock. He is the
third of six children born to Thomas C. and Ann Bonneau,
the former a native of South Carolina. The mother died in 1857, in San
Francisco, and was interred in Lone
Mountain cemetery.
Mr. Bonneau was joined in marriage, March 7, 1872, with Miss C. S. Meeker a native of New
Jersey, and to them were
born five children, all of whom are deceased.
He was elected County
Clerk of Marin county
in 1884, again in 1886, again in 1888, and again in 1890, making four times he
has been called to fill this important office.
He is a staunch Republican and has been of much service to his party.
Transcribed
by Cathi Skyles.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2,
page 312, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2005 Cathi Skyles.
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