Alameda County
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JUDSON C. COBURN
For many years Judson C. Coburn has been connected with the business and official life of Alameda county, for the period of eighteen years having served as postmaster of Emeryville, in which city he is still located, now acting as foreman for the Judson Manufacturing Company. This is one of the most important industries of Emeryville, the works covering thirteen acres and giving employment to about four hundred and fifty men, the output being shipped to various cities of the west and the business adding no little to the commercial prestige of the place. A native of Whiteside county, Ill., Mr. Coburn was born in May, 1839, the son of John and Czarina (Church) Coburn.
At the time of the gold excitement in the west John Coburn came to California, crossing the plains in 1849 by ox teams. Like the many others who sought the west at that period, he was first interested in mining, but not meeting with the success which alone makes that life endurable, he went to Plumas county and established a hotel. This venture proved a success and he continued in that location until 1887, when he returned to Morrison, Ill., where his death occurred at the age of eighty-seven years. Five years after his father came west, in 1854, Judson C. Coburn also sought the Pacific coast, taking, however, the sea route, coming by way of the Isthmus of Panama. Immediately after landing in San Francisco he joined his father in Marysville, and soon after went to Plumas county, where he remained for some years. In San Francisco, in 1868, he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Scott, a native of Scotland, after which, for the four succeeding years, he was employed as gate keeper at the San Quentin State Prison. In 1883 he came to Emeryville where he accepted a position with the Judson Manufacturing Company, becoming foreman of the laborers at the works, since discharging the duties with great credit to himself and satisfaction to his employers. To himself and wife were born three children, of whom John, the elder is town clerk and recorder of Emeryville, notary public and deputy postmaster; William is an iron molder, and Mabel who died at the age of eighteen years. Politically Mr. Coburn is a Republican and has always supported the principles which he endorses, faithful as well to all the duties which have been his as a citizen of the city, county, state or national governments. He enlisted, in 1861, in Company F, Fifth California Regiment, as a soldier in the Union cause. He is a member of Lyon Post No. 50, G.A.R., of Oakland, and fraternally is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. As an upright, honorable man and citizen, Mr. Coburn enjoys to an unusual degree the esteem of his fellow citizens.
Transcribed
6-3-16 Marilyn
R. Pankey.
ญญญญSource: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Pages 1204-1207. The Chapman
Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
ฉ 2016 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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