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DEWELL, BENJAMIN. Was born in Ohio October 27,1823. In 1840 he, with parents, moved to Indiana, where he resided
until 1845, when, in company with several others, he crossed the plains to California, arriving in Napa Valley
in October of the above year. The first winter was spent where Calistoga is now located; and in the spring of 1846
he went to Sonoma and served in the Bear Flag War, and then joined Fremont's regiment, and in the fall the regiment
was ordered below, but only got as far as Los Angeles when a treaty was made and the war ended. The subject of
this sketch then returned to Sonoma and in the spring of 1847 settled in Guilicos Valley, where he followed farming
and stock raising until May, 1854, when he came to Lake County and settled on his present place, consisting of
one hundred and sixty acres, located just above Upper Lake, where be has since been engaged in farming and stock
raising. Mr. Dewell was one of the parties who made the Bear Flag which was raised at Old Sonoma June 14, 1846,
and his mother in law, Mrs. W. B. Elliott, furnished part of the cloth of which the flag was made. Mr. Dewell married
May 5, 1850, Miss Celia H. Elliott, by whom he has eight living children: Samuel L., Luella, Orlena, Elmer E.,
May, Lottie, John K. and Charles W. They have lost two, Sarah E. and Jane.
From:
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California
Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1881
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