Alameda County Biographies

MARK AGER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Was born in Jefferson County, New York, June 7, 1842, and there resided until the breaking 
out of the Rebellion, when he answered his country’s call, and enlisted, April 19, 1861, in 
Company F, Thirty-fifth New York Regiment, from which, after two years’ service, he was 
discharged and re-enlisted in Company F, Twentieth New York Regiment, serving in this corps 
until the close of the war.  In 1865 he came to California, located at Folsom, Sacramento 
County, and was in charge of the post-office there until 1869, when he moved to Pleasanton, 
and was the first agent of the Western Pacific Railroad Company there.  Resigning this 
position in 1871, he moved to Sunol and opened the present railroad office there.  In the 
following year he commenced operations in his present store, and in 1874 erected the first 
warehouse in that place, constructing another like edifice in 1875.  Married, September 24, 
1866, Miss Sarah E. Sanborn, and has two sons, Archie and Fred.


History of Alameda County, California…, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 837