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1850--Mendocino County was created 18 February 1850 as an
original county. County seat: Ukiah  Link to Covelo, California,
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Ward and Branch Records The two principal histories of Mendocino
County are Lyman Palmer, History of Mendocino County,
California... (San Francisco, Cal.: Alley, Bowen & Co., 1880)
and Aurelius O. Carpenter and Percy H. Millberry, History of
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California... (Los Angeles, Cal.:
Historic Record Co., 1914). Both cover the early history and
settlement of the county and include several biographical
sketches and some portraits. There are two notable
autobiographies of Ukiah residents. The first is by
horticulturalist Carl Purdy, My Life and My Times (Naturegraph
Press, 1976). Purdy (1861-1845) migrated to Ukiah in 1870 and
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