Mendocino County
Biographies
Denman, Martin
Martin Denman. Was born in Sullivan county, New York, February 2, 1839. He received his early education in the common schools, and at the age of seventeen went to the New York Conference Seminary, in Schoharie county, New York, and remained in school there for the next three years. He at once proceeded to Sonoma county and began farming, which he followed in connection with teaching school till 1866. He then went to Mendocino county and located at Manchester, Arena township, where he followed farming for three years. In 1869 he purchased his present ranch of two hundred and ninety acres, where he has since carried on farming and dairying. In 1872 he was elected County Recorder of Mendocino county, which office he filled for one term of two years. In 1875 he returned to his ranch, where he has since resided. September 26, 1860, he was united in marriage with Miss Antoinette Schofield, a native of Connecticut, born August 5 1848. Their children are: Fannie E., born July 10, 1877, and Charles Edward, born December 12, 1878.
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 518
Transcribed by Pat Howard
Hoyt, Sylvanus Sanford
Sylvanus Sanford Hoyt. This worthy citizen and pioneer of Mendocino county, whose portrait will be found in this work, was born in Bakersfield, Franklin county, Vermont, May 11, 1813, and is the oldest son of Guy and Hannah Tyler Hoyt. He resided at his birthplace until he reached his majority, receiving the education which was afforded by the common schools of the day. In 1834 he went to Lanesborough, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and worked at farming for about two and a half years, at the end of which time he returned to Vermont and sojourned there for the next eighteen months. This brings him up to 1838, when he went to New York City and embarked in the dairying business, where he remained till 1849. He then went to Hudson county, New Jersey, where he continued in the same occupation till 1853; March 19th of that year he sailed for California from New York City, on board the steamship Prometheus, bound for Nicaragua. He came up on the Pacific to San Francisco, arriving on the 21st of April. He settled in San Francisco, and engaged in the milk business, which he continued till 1859. In December of that year he came to Mendocino county and settled on his present place in Arena township, where he has since been engaged in farming, stock-raising and dairying. His farm consists of three hundred acres of land. In 1872 he paid a visit to the Weston States of three months’ duration. July 10, 1850, Mr. Hoyt was united in marriage with Miss Sarah M. Van Winkle, a native of Geneva, New York, who was born January 31, 1831, and from this union one child, Charlotte Isabel, now Mrs. Scott, was born April 6, 1851, in New York City.
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 518, 519
Transcribed by Pat Howard