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Sacramento County
Biographies
1880
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 279.
ADDISON, STEPHEN, was born on the 26th day of December,
1823, in the Parish of Romuldkirk, Yorkshire, England. Left England March 4,
1850, and arrived at San Francisco, California, September 20, 1850. Went to Grass
Valley in May, 1851, and mined on Wolf Creek until 1855; moved to Folsom in
1855, and went into the lumber business, where he has carried on that business
up to the present time; he moved with his family to Sacramento City in April,
1870, still carried on his lumber business in Folsom, and also opened a lumber
yard in Sacramento City, N. W. cor J and Twelfth streets, in 1873, and carried
that on until 1876, when he closed it up, and has been giving his personal
attention to the lumber yard in Folsom since that time. He built his residence
on G, between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, in 1873, a view of which appears
on another page. Married in 1863 by Bishop Kip to Eliza Lang, a native of
Devonshire, England.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 279.
AITKEN, ANDREW, was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1824,
and emigrated to Canada in 1832. In 1817 he went to Lawrence, Massachusetts,
and superintended the stone-cutting for a dam and mill. The next year he went
to Holyoke in the same business. In 1849 he came to California, and mined a
year on Condemned Bar, American River. He then commenced teaming to the mines.
In 1852 engaged in the stone and marble business, and is now the oldest
established in that business on the coast. He opened a marble quarry and erected
a mill at Indian Springs, El Dorado
County. Mr. Aitken has been Trustee of the Fire Department and President of the
Board of Delegates. He has the leading marble establishment outside of San
Francisco, which he has built up by strict attention to business; has monuments
and grave-stones in all parts of the State. He is now the senior of the firm of
Aitken & Fish, No. 617 K street, Sacramento. In 1860 he married Miss Jessie
Davidson, a native of Scotland, who died in 1868. He again married, Miss Hattie
C. Marsh, in 1869. He has one son and two daughters. One son died in 1869.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 279.
ALEXANDER, DANIEL EPAR, was born in Jackson, Mississippi,
in the year 1845, and remained there till 1854, when his parents removed to
Sacramento. From 1854 to 1865 he attended school in Sacramento, after which the
study of law was begun; on the 5th of February, 1866, was admitted to the
Supreme Court of California, since which time he has continued the practice of
the law in Sacramento City, his Post Office.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 279.
ALSIP, EDWARD K., was born in the State of Indiana, in
the year 1844, and remained there till 1855, when his parents came to
Sacramento; in 1865 Mr. Alsip was clerk in a real estate office, and continued
in that capacity till 1870, when he entered into partnership with A. C.
Sweetser in the real estate business. Mr. Alsip married Mary A. Brown, of
Illinois, in 1868; they have three children, all girls. Mr. Alsip has been a
Director of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Secretary of the
Union, and of the Occidental Loan Associations. Post Office Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 279.
ANDERSON, W. A., attorney-at-law, Sacramento; was born in
Wisconsin in 1845; crossed the plains in 1849, then less than four years of
age; has lived in Sacramento County ever since, with the exception of five
years while at college. Was admitted to the Supreme Court in 1865, and in same
year ,was elected Auditor of Sacramento County and ex-officio Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors, Clerk of the Board of Equalization, and Clerk of the
Board of Swamp Land Commissioners; held the above offices until March, 1868. In
1867 was appointed by Governor Low Assistant Adjutant General Fourth Brigade N.
G. C., which position he still holds. In 1875 he was appointed City Attorney
for Sacramento City, which he held until March, 1878. Has been married; has one
boy, aged ten years.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 279.
ANDROIT, P. B., was born in Burgoigne, France, in 1817 ;
remained until 1837 ; then to Paris, and engaged in the wine business; was a
resident of various other places from that time until 1849, at which time he
came to California; engaged in mining and merchandising; engaged in the grocery
business in Sacramento about 1865. Married Mrs. Pauline A. Polina in 1869, a
native of France; born to them one daughter in 1870. Mr. Androit died January
14, 1879, leaving his widow his interest in established business at corner of N
and Second streets, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 279.
ASH, ROBERT W., carriage and sign-painter, 1115 J street,
Sacramento; was born in Pennsylvania, December 25, 1852; came to California
with his parents in 1855, and settled in Sacramento, where, after leaving
school, he learned the trade of painter with J. F. Hill; commenced business for
himself in February, 1879. Mr. Ash married Mary C. Badgley, October 20, 1875, a
native of Niagara Falls, New York; born to them two daughters Florence, born
Dec. 20, 1876, died March 7, 1877; Gertrude, born March 24, 1879.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 279-280.
BAKER & HAMILTON, of Sacramento. This firm consists
of L. L. Baker and Robert Hamilton, and is one of the pioneer houses in the
hardware and agricultural implement trade, having been started in 1853,
occupying at that time but a small building, No. 21 J street, and dealing in
seeds, agricultural implements and other useful articles necessary for the
proper tillage of the soil. The few husbandmen who then commenced to till the
soil in the immediate vicinity of Sacramento, as well as in northern
California, soon became patrons of the house. From year to year, by marked
attention to the wants of their customers, and as the farming interests of the
coast increased, Baker & Hamilton have increased their stock of goods and
business, showing good judgment in taking the lead in all new and improved
machines. Understanding perfectly the
wants of the country, they have been able to furnish the farmers on this coast
a better variety and better class of machines than can be found in any other
place in the world. The firm have increased their stock to such an extent that
they now occupy more warehouses and storerooms than any house in the city.
Their main store is on J street, 60x65 feet; also, one on Second street, 40x160;
and a wareroom on Third street, 40x40, besides basements and yard room covering
almost half a block, which are used for storage purposes. They have constantly
on hand all kinds of agricultural implements and farming tools, as well as the
largest stock of shelf hardware to be found on the coast. They are exclusive
agents for many of the standard machines, which are well known by farmers, such
as the Ames straw and wood-burning engines, Pitts' genuine thresher, Case &
Co.'s California headers, Bain wagons, Buckeye mowers and reapers, Champion
mower and reaper, Hollingsworth and Tiger rakes, Althouse and Raymond
wind-mills, and many other machines they have control of for this coast. The
firm, in 1868, to meet the requirements of their business, opened a house in
San Francisco, which has prospered much more than they at first expected. They
still further advanced their business by establishing a factory at San Leandro
for the manufacture of gang plows, harrows, cultivators, and such other goods
as can be manufactured at a profit on this coast. Their two houses are now
doing a very large business, with sales of nearly two million dollars annually.
They employ here some twenty clerks and men about their stores; in San
Francisco almost double this number. At their factory they employ an average of
almost fifty mechanics all the year through. In talking with the manager of
their Sacramento house, we find that their trade is continually increasing;
that Sacramento merchants are drawing more trade here, and holding it, much to
the advantage of country merchants, as they can buy here as cheaply as in San
Francisco, and receive their goods much sooner after ordering, besides saving
considerable on freights. This firm has many advantages in handling the large
amount of goods they ship all over the country. Being so near the depots and
steamers, and having their warerooms so situated on the two grades of the city,
they are able to load or unload at any door, saving expense of elevating and
lowering from floor to floor. This house enjoys a reputation for strict
business integrity which is equaled by
few and excelled by none. Mr. C. H. Hubbard, the manager, has been connected
with the house for fourteen years last past, has charge of the Sacramento
business, and enjoys a reputation for strict business integrity equal to the
fame of the house.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 280.
BASSETT, L. F., was born in New York, in 1859, and
resided there until 1870, engaged at school; from New York he went to Des
Moines, Iowa, and remained four years, working in the City Engineer's office;
from this place to Nebraska, engaged on railroad surveys; in 1875, moved to
Salt Lake City, remained a year, engaged in mining; then came to Sacramento,
where he has since been engaged in civil engineering; married Ellen G. Jackson,
a native of Indiana, in 1878. Mr. Bassett is City Surveyor of Sacramento. Post
Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 280.
BAYER, ULRICH, was born in Wetzlar, Germany, in 1818. He
was educated for the medical profession. Immediately after the great fire in
Hamburg, in 1842, he sailed for New York; on his arrival, he went to work for
Blarsom & Chaplin, in a hardware store; from here he went to Yazoo,
Mississippi. When the gold fever of 1848 broke out, he left at once for California,
overland, via the Texas and Southern route, and ran into the Mexican war; but,
with good, bad, and ordinary luck, arrived in San Francisco, April 22, 1849.
Early in the summer, he hired a boat, and, after much delay, arrived in
Sacramento, and from there went to the mines of El Dorado County, and found
employment in a store, at four hundred dollars per month. He next came to San
Francisco, and went into business with F. G. Hohman. During the winter of
1852-3, Mr. Bayer, with many others, suffered. 1854, engaged in the bakery
business. Finally settled in Sacramento, where he was severely damaged by the
floods of 1862-3, but where he now owns valuable properly. In 1854, Mr. Bayer
married Juliana Haserich. With his wife, he has made three trips to Europe, and
is now there, but hopes to return soon, when he will make his home in
California. Post Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 280.
BREUNER, JOHN. Was born in Baden, Germany, on the 14th of
September, 1828, and remained there until 1842. Worked as an apprentice in
Strasburg and then removed to Paris. Removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and worked as
journeyman cabinetmaker. In 1856 came to Sacramento and engaged in
cabinet-making, and as whole-sale and retail furniture dealer, at 604-6 8 K
street; he still continues the business. Mr. Breuner married Katie Kuchler, of
Manheim, Baden, Germany, in 1864. They have two boys and three girls, viz.:
Johnnie, born April 25th, 1868; Louis Frederick, born August 15th, 1869;
Minnie, born May 7th, 1865; Katie, born November 20th, 1866; Carrie, born June
17th, 1876. Mr. Breuner's Post Office is Sacramento. A view of his store and
residence is given elsewhere.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 280.
BREWER, BENJAMIN B., was born in Kingston, Canada, in
1839, and remained there till 1864; engaged in farming till 1863, when he
devoted his attention to the study of dentistry. In 1864 he came to California;
practiced one year in San Francisco and removed to Sacramento, and continued
the work of a dentist. He has also given his attention to invention among
others are steam engines, air compressors and electric lights. Was married on
the 20th of January, 1869, to Miss H. A. Wartman, a native of Canada. They have
two children, a boy and a girl; the boy is six and the girl ten years of age.
Mr. Brewer has not held and does not intend to hold any office. Post Office,
Sacramento.
BRONNER, GEORGE F., lives 1425 L Street, Sacramento. He
was born in Baden, Germany, in 1831. He was a clerk in a mercantile house until
1852, when he moved to Fremont City, Ohio, and engaged in mercantile pursuits.
In 1854 he came to this State and settled in Sacramento City. Until 1862 he was
clerk to Dr. J. F. Morse, then Wells, Fargo & Co.'s delivery clerk until
1870, then in business for himself until 1876. He was elected Public
Administrator of Sacramento County in 1876, and re-elected in 1879. In 1866 he
married a Boston lady; they have five boys and three girls. Mr. Bronner's land
and improvements are worth about $5000.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 280.
BROWN, DANIEL, was born in Essex County, New Jersey, in
1821, and remained there till 1839; learned the blacksmith's trade, and in 1842
removed to Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he stayed five years, working at his
trade. Be next moved to Galena, Illinois, and from there came to California;
located in Sacramento in 1853; went to work blacksmithing, and has continued it
to the present time. On the 19th of September, 1850, Mr. Brown was married to
Frances Parker, of Galena, Illinois. Mrs. Brown died February 27, 1873, in
Sacramento City. Mr. Brown married Kate White, of New York, on the 27th of
August, 1874; they have four boys. Mr. Brown has held the following elective
offices : School Director, two years; Supervisor, six years; Fire Commissioner,
three years. Post Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 280.
BRUNER, ELWOOD, attorney-at-law, Sacramento, California;
was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1854; remained until 1856; then came to
California with his parents. Graduated from the University of the Pacific in
1874. Studied law with Moore, Laine, Delmas & Leib, of San Jose, from 1874
to 1877. Was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court in April, 1877 ;
commenced practice in Sacramento City the same month. Was elected to the Assembly
from Sacramento County, September, 1879.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 280.
BRYTE, MIKE, lives in Sacramento City, and owns 2500
acres of land, valued, with improvements, at $100,000. He was born in Ohio in
1828, and pursued farming until he came to California in 1849; has been engaged
in farming and dairy business, selling milk in Sacramento ever since 1850. He
was married in 1855 to Miss Elizabeth Schadt, a native of Germany; they have
three boys and two girls. Mr. Bryte has been Supervisor of Yolo County and
Sheriff of Sacramento County. A view of Bryte's Block is given elsewhere.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 280.
BUSH BROTHERS. This firm, composed of George T. and
Edward N. Bush, are the largest dealers and importers of gas-fitting and
plumbers' goods on the coast, outside of San Francisco. Their place of business
is No. 9 J street, between Third and Fourth streets.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 280.
CADWALADER, EDWARD, real estate and stock-broker, Tenth
and N streets, Sacramento. Was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1840; remained
until 1855; then to Sacramento, where he still resides, engaged in the real
estate business. Married in 1871 Louisa G. Rudolph, a native of New York State;
they have one daughter living. Mr. Cadwalader now holds the office of Notary
Public and United States Commissioner.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 280-281.
CADWALADER, GEORGE, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in the
year 1830, and remained there until February, 1849, when he struck out for California,
and reached it in July, 1849. After a year's rough experience as a miner at the
headwaters of the American River, he settled in Sacramento City, where since
1855 he has been an assiduous and successful counsellor-at-law in the highest
departments of that profession. This is attested by nearly fifty volumes of the
Decisions of the Supreme Court of this State. He married Eliza B. Wells in
1873. They have three children-Bertram, Charles and Linda. Office-holding seems
to have been eschewed by him, and his time devoted "Rather to excite your
judgment briefly, than to inform it tediously." A view of Mr. Cadwalader's
residence is given elsewhere.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 281.
CALLAHAN, DANIEL E., was born in 1819 in Lycoming County,
Pennsylvania. He remained in his native State till 1846. Came to California in
1849 and engaged in hotel-keeping. Mr. Callahan started the Golden Eagle Hotel,
corner of Seventh and K streets, in the Spring of 1850. In 1843 he married
Rebecca Sebring, by whom he has had two sons and one daughter, viz.: George and
Willie, and Ada, who died at the age of twenty-four years. Mr. Callahan has
held the office of County Treasurer for two terms (four years) and has been
re-elected for the third term. Post Office, Sacramento. A view of his residence
appears on another page.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 281.
CARROLL, JOHN H., capitalist, Sacramento. Was born in
Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1825; remained until 1827; then to Woburn,
Massachusetts; remained until 1843; then to Albany, New York; engaged in boot
and shoe store. Came to California via Cape Horn and settled in Sacramento
City, where he now resides. Has been engaged in merchandising, flour mills, and
is now in life insurance, also capitalist. Married April 2, 1857, a native of New
York City. They have two boys and three girls living. A view of his residence
is given elsewhere.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 281.
CHESLEY, GEO. W., a native of Dover, New Hampshire; now
lives in Sacramento; in early life he was a clerk in a dry goods store in
Boston; from there went to Providence, Rhode Island, and engaged in same
business; in 1849 left for California on the second trip of the steamer
Crescent City, and arrived in San Francisco, on the steamer Oregon's second
trip, June 13th, 1849. Here he engaged in the auction and commission business
for a year, then removed to Sacramento and continued the same business. After
the fire of 1852 Mr. Chesley returned to San Francisco, and was, by Governor
Bigler, appointed a Notary Public in 1853. Returning to Sacramento he formed a
partnership with A. J. Bryant, ex-Mayor of San Francisco, and engaged in
business as importers and wholesale dealers in choice groceries, wines,
liquors, etc. Having bought his partner's interest, he yet continues the
business at No. 51 Front street. Mr. Chesley married Alice M. Whipple, of
Massachusetts; they have had two boys and one girl, none of whom are living.
Post Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 281.
CLUNIE, HON. THOMAS J., was born in 1849, at St. Johns,
Newfoundland, where his parents had gone on a visit. In 1855 his parents
removed to California, and settled in Sacramento. Mr. Clunie was educated,
principally, in the public schools of Sacramento; the Legislature of California
of 1867 passed a law declaring Thomas Jefferson Clunie, a minor, of lawful age,
though but eighteen years old. He at once applied to the Supreme Court, and
(after passing a severe examination, of which the Press of Sacramento spoke in
the highest terms) was admitted to practice in the highest Court of the State.
Mr. Clunie at once went into the practice, having formed a partnership with the
Hon. A. C. Freeman, which continued for five years. At the lapse of this time
he formed a partnership with the Hon. N. Greene Curtis, with whom he is now
associated. Mr. Clunie, in politics, has always been a Democrat: he was elected
to the Legislature from Sacramento County, and the record there made induced
the Democrats of the Second Congressional District to nominate Mr. Clunie for
Congress in 1879. The District is strongly Republican; the Democratic ticket
received 5,000 votes, while Mr. Clunie although defeated received about 13,000
votes. He was one of the projectors of the Sacramento Street Railway, and of
the Riverside Turnpike Drive in East Park. Mr. Clunie owns a fine building on
the corner of Eighth and K streets; the lot is 200 feet on K street by 160 feet
on Eighth street. This is doubtless the largest piece of land held by one owner
in the business center of Sacramento City. A fine view of the building may be
seen on page 26 of this book.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 281.
COGGINS, PASCHAL H., attorney-at-law, Sacramento; was
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1852; removed to California with parents
in 1853; settled at Sacramento in 1855, and has ever since resided at or near
that city. He graduated from the law department of the University of
Pennsylvania in 1872, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Law. Was admitted to
practice before the Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania and California in 1873, and
has practiced law in the City of Sacramento ever since that date, except one
year, during which he practiced in Oroville, Butte County. Was married to
Caroline Leonard in 1876, and has one child, Albert H., born July 17, 1877. In
the fall of 1879 was elected Justice of the Peace for the City of Sacramento
for the year 1880.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 281.
COLBY, GILBERT W., was born in Bradford, New Hampshire,
May 5, 1825; taught school several years, and afterwards engaged in civil and military
engineering till February 3, 1849, when left Boston on the bark Drummond;
arrived last of August in San Francisco and took schooner for Sacramento City
with merchandise; formed partnership with three fellow passengers, Trescot,
White and Kellogg, and landed goods in the Round Tent on J street, being
largest business place in Sacramento, containing several firms, and
headquarters of Pioneer Stage Company and the city authorities. Kellogg was
left with the goods, and Trescot, White and Colby piled their traps on Abe
Kensey's mule team and started for Mormon Island, arriving there four days
after. Commenced mining and merchandising at Red Bank, and in 1850
grain-raising, which he has continued ever since with stock-raising. He
represented Sacramento County in 1851-2 in the Assembly, in the Senate in
1854-5, was City and County Engineer for several terms, State Locating Agent
for school lands from 1860 to 1869, when it was transferred to
Surveyor-General. He was admitted to the bar in 1852; practiced in local
offices and Interior Department at Washington. He has large farming and stock
interests in each of the following counties: Colusa, Tehama, Butte, Yuba,
Solano and Contra Costa. In 1862 he commenced merchandising at Colby's Landing
(now Nord); firm name Colby & Pond. He is President of Grangers' Bank and
Director of several other banking and business corporations. He has been
Postmaster there for several years.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 281.
COMSTOCK, W. D., was born in New Hampshire, in 1839, and
remained there till 1860, engaged in farming; then went to Boston, and
conducted the grocery business until 1864, when he came to Sacramento, and
clerked in a variety store for five years. In 1869, he established his present
business, that of wholesale and retail
dealer in furniture, bedding, mirrors, etc. Mr. Comstock imports largely from
Chicago, Boston, and other Eastern cities. Was married to Susan F. Gregory in
1867. They have one child-a girl, whose name is Sophia G.; she was born May 3,
1872. A fine view of Mr. Comstock's factory and place of business may be seen
on another page of this book. His Post Office is Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 281.
COOK, T. H., wholesale and retail grocer, corner of
Eighth and J streets, Sacramento. He was born in England, in 1824, and followed
a seafaring life until 1846, when he came to Buffalo, New York, and followed
the same business on the lakes. In 1849, he came to California, across the
plains. He mined for a time at Coloma, and then commenced a draying business in
Sacramento, which he continued for seventeen years, in connection with a wood
yard, which he started in 1860; has always been in business here since 1850,
except one year he spent in England. He started his present business in 1874,
and has occupied the present location since 1875. In 1853 he married Miss
Hannah Skelton March, while on his visit to England.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 281.
COX, FRED., lives in Sacramento, between Nineteenth and
Twentieth, T and U streets. Mr. Cox is fifty-two years of age, and came to this
State from Wisconsin in 1850. In the spring of 1852 he formed a partnership
with Mr. Clarke under the name of Cox & Clarke. They raise and deal in
stock. A fine view of Mr. Cox's place is given on another page.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 281.
CRAVENS, ROBERT O., lives in the city of Sacramento. He
was born in Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia, in 1829. Removed with
parents to Davies County, Missouri, in 1839. Emigrated to California in 1850;
lived in El Dorado County till 1851, engaged in mining. He then removed to
Sacramento and engaged in merchandising till 1852, and then removed to Yankee
Jim's, in Placer County, and remained till 1865, engaged in mining and
merchandising. He then removed to Auburn, the county seat of Placer County, and
associated with Gen. Jo Hamilton, late Attorney General, in the practice of law
till 1870. He then removed to Sacramento, and was appointed State Librarian,
which office he has ever since held. He married Mary J. Robinson, a native of
New York, in 1855. They have one daughter living. He held the office of Justice
of the Peace in Placer County four years. He owns real estate in Sacramento
City.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 281-282.
CROCKER, JUDGE E. B., was born at Oswego, New York, April
26, 1818. He graduated from the Troy Polytechnic Institute, and then studied
law in the office of J. L. Jernegan, South Bend, Indiana. He was admitted to
practice in the Circuit Court of that State in 1842, and became a partner of
Mr. Jernegan, and in 1847 succeeded to the entire practice. In 1852 he came to
California, and located permanently in Sacramento. Upon the resignation of
Stephen J. Field as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, Judge
Crocker was appointed to the vacancy by Governor Stanford. Upon retiring from
the bench he became attorney for the Central Pacific Railroad, of which road he
was one of the first projectors and stockholders, and afterwards was the
general agent and a Director. In June, 1869, at the close of some very
difficult business, he was stricken with paralysis, from which he never
recovered. He died at his residence in this city, in June, 1875. Adjoining his
elegant residence he erected an art gallery, in which he placed a collection of
paintings unsurpassed by any private collection in the United States. In early
political life he was a Whig. He early joined the anti-slavery faction, and was
one of the organizers of the Republican party on this coast. A fine view of the
Crocker mansion, art gallery and residence appears in this work.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 282.
CRONIN, WM. P., proprietor of the Golden Eagle Oyster
Saloon, 616 K street, Sacramento; was born in Ireland in 1839. In 1846 he went
to London, and was engaged in the butcher business for a number of years before
leaving for New York in 1855, where he was employed by the Singer Sewing
Machine Company until 1858. He then came to Sacramento, California, and was
employed at the Golden Eagle Hotel eleven years, of which D. E. Callahan was
proprietor. In 1869 he started his present business, which he has carried on
continuously ever since. On May 13, 1860, he married Rosanna Hosey, also a
native of Ireland; they have one son and two daughters.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 282.
CROLY, E. J., of the firm of Cane & Croly of
Sacramento, was born in Western Canada in 1836, and remained there until 1864,
engaged in the oil business. He was unsuccessful, and went to Chicago and was
engaged in building till 1867. He then went to Denver, Colorado, and in 1869 to
Sacramento, California, where he embarked in his present business of contractor
and builder. In 1879 he married Miss Bertha Van Vorman, a native of Canada
West.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 282.
CROSS, SAMUEL, resides in Sacramento City. He was born in
Londonderry, Ireland, in 1812, and emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1819. Here he
remained teaching and studying until 1837, and then moved to Missouri and
followed the same pursuits. In 1849 he came to California, and engaged in the
practice of law in Sacramento. In 1836 he married Miss M. A. Wright, a native
of Trenton, New Jersey. Mr. Cross is a self-made man of the true stamp, and can
congratulate himself consistently on his success. For seventeen years he has held
commissions as a Notary Public.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 282.
DAVIS, JAMES G. wholesale and retail furniture dealer,
411 K street, Sacramento; was born in Haywood County, Tennessee, in 1838; with
parents moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1842, and in 1855 came to Sacramento,
California, where until 1869 he was engaged in various occupations. In March of
that year he started his present business, which commands a large share of the
trade in his line. Mr. Davis married in 1863 Mary Frances O'Brien, a native of
Ireland. They have six children: Anna H., born February 3, 1866; Mary Ellen,
February 14, 1868; James H., January 28, 1870; George W., December 15, 1872;
Lottie J., November 14, 1874; John F., June 18, 1877. A fine illustration of
Mr. Davis' residence and business building can be seen on another page.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 282.
DAVIS, JEROME C., who resides on N Street, between Sixth
and Seventh, Sacramento City, his Post Office, was born in Ohio in 1822, and
remained there till 1845, engaged in farming, merchandising and hotel-keeping.
He joined a government exploring party under John C. Fremont, and left for
California, arriving at King's River December 26, 1845. Shortly after Mr. Davis
was sent East in company with Kit Carson and General Beals with dispatches. He
remained in St. Louis till summoned to Washington, D. C., to give evidence in
behalf of John C. Fremont, accused of insubordination. In 1848 a second
expedition was fitted out, and Mr. Davis was sent to St. Louis to procure the necessary
outfit, but wearied with the delay of the Government, he left the service and
went to work in St. Louis. Early in 1849, in company with nine men, he started
overland; the company sold goods enough to the Mormons at Salt Lake to pay all
the expense of the trip. Soon after the arrival in California, Mr. Davis joined
Captain Owens' company and went to the mines, but, taking sick, soon returned
to Sacramento. After his recovery he and J. B. Childs (his father-in-law)
started dairy business, opposite Sacramento. The present town of Washington was
laid out by these gentlemen. Mr. Davis and Mr. Childs bought the "Laguna
de Santos Calle" ranch, on which, for many years, large crops of grain and
great numbers of cattle were produced. Mr. Davis built the first grist mill in
that section. The California Pacific Railroad runs through his ranch, and the
town of Davisville is named in his honor. Mr. Davis married Mary A. Childs, a
native of Missouri, in 1850; they have had one daughter, now deceased.
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DAVIS, WINFIELD J., was born in Utica, New York, December
5, 1851. In 1862 his parents removed to Lincoln, Placer County, California, and
engaged in farming, and he attended the district school, and studied phonography.
In 1869 he removed to Sacramento, and entered the Grammar school, graduating
from there in April, 1870. After attending the High school for about a year, he
was apprenticed to learn the printing trade, but abandoned it in 1872, and was
engaged as a local editor of the Sacramento Daily Union, which position
he held until August 31, 1874, when he was appointed Official Reporter of the
Sixth District Court by Judge Ramage. He was re-appointed to the same office by
Judge Denson on January 5, 1876, and still occupies the position. In February,
1874, Mr. Davis founded the Sacramento Valley Agriculturist, and he was
one of its editors and proprietors unti1 April, 1875. In August of that year he
started the Sunday Morning Enterprise, but the venture was not a
success. On October 7, 1879, he was admitted to the bar as an attorney and
counselor at law. He was married at Centerville, Alameda County, to Maude M.
Cameron on December 30, 1875, and they have two sons - Winfield Ashley, born
November 27, 1876; and Duncan Cameron, born July 11, 1878.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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DEDEBERNARDI, DAVID, proprietor Sacramento Market, 308 and 310 K
street; was born in Switzerland in 1843; attended school until 1857; then came
to California alone, arriving in Sacramento January 15, 1858; engaged in
merchandising in a small way in fruit, nuts, &c.; then worked as a florist
in San Francisco for two years. In 1863 he invested all his capital in trying
to establish a successful business in raising silk worms; it proved a failure,
and he lost everything. In 1867 he commenced business on Front street,
Sacramento---first keeping a fruit store and afterwards a restaurant---until
1872, in which year he started his present business on K street, of fruits,
provisions, and general family supplies, which has increased continuously each
year since its establishment.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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DENSON, JUDGE SAMUEL C., was born in Adams County,
Illinois, September 23, 1839. He remained in that county until 1860, attending
public school and college, and in that year left his parents and removed to
Butte County, California, where he engaged in mining and other employments.
Judge Denson applied himself closely to the study of law at Oroville, and in
1864 removed to Carson City, Nevada, where he commenced the practice of law,
having been admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Nevada soon after his
arrival in the Territory. November, 1864, he was elected a member of the
Assembly of the first State Legislature of Nevada, and he filled that office
one term. In November, 1866, he was elected District Attorney of Ormsby County,
Nevada, for a term of two years, and in November, 1868, was re-elected to the
office, but resigned soon afterwards and removed to Sacramento, where he
associated himself with Judge H. O. Beatty in the practice of his profession.
In December, 1871, Judge Denson was elected City Superintendent of Common
Schools of Sacramento, and he held that office for two years from January 1,
1872. On October 20, 1875, he was elected District Judge of the Sixth Judicial
District, composed of the counties of Sacramento and Yolo, defeating Judge
Lewis Ramage and A.P. Catlin. He assumed the duties of that position on January
1, 1876, but the office was abolished by the new State Constitution on January
1, 1880, before his term had expired. On September, 3, 1879, Judge Denson was
elected one of the Superior Judges for Sacramento County, and he assumed the
function; of that office on January 1, 1880. In 1868 he was admitted to the bar
of the Supreme Court of California, and in 1875 was admitted to the bar of the
Supreme Court of the United States. In 1879, when the Sacramento Free Library
was established, Judge Denson was selected by the city authorities as one of
its Directors, and he was elected President of the Board by his fellow members.
The Judge is also a Director of the People's Savings Bank. In 1866 Judge Denson
was married to Miss Mary M. Beatty, a native of Kentucky, and they have three
children-Mary B., born in 1867; Henry B., born in 1870, and Alice G., born in
1878.
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DREW, N. L., lumber merchant, Sacramento, California. Was
born in Ashland, New Hampshire, in 1824. Remained until 1835, then went to
Vermont, remaining a few months; then to Boston, Massachusetts; remained until
1849, engaged in carpenter work. Came to California, via Cape Horn; stopped in
San Francisco two months; then to Sacramento in January, 1850. Engaged as
builder until March, 1852; then in the lumber business on Front street. Removed
in November, 1853, to present locality N. L. Drew & Co., Dealers in Lumber;
offices, corner M and Second streets and Front and Q streets. Married in 1841
to Sarah Bates, a native of Maine, who died November, 1852. Married August 3d,
1853, Charlotte A. Loveridge, a native of Mississippi; they have two girls
living. Mr. Drew has held the following offices: County Supervisor, Vice
President and Secretary California Pioneers of San Francisco, President of
Sacramento Society California Pioneers, and Treasurer of same for many years,
and Treasurer of Pioneers' Hall and Library Association; also, a member of
State Board of Agriculture. A view of N. L. Drew & Co.'s business place is
given on another page.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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DUNLAP, PRESLEY, Attorney-at-Law, Sacramento; was born in
Mercer County, Pennsylvania, January 10, 1817; remained until 1836, engaged in
farming; then to Rushville, Schuyler County, Illinois; remained until 1840,
engaged in farming, and commenced to study law; then to Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa; remained until 1849, engaged in clerking and studying law; then
to Sacramento, California, where he has since remained, engaged in clerking and
practicing law. Married in 1860 Sarah E. Madeley, a native of Beverly, Massachusetts;
they have one daughter living. Mr. Dunlap has held the following offices:
County Clerk of Des Moines County, Iowa, elected 1842, for two years; County
Recorder of Des Moines County, Iowa, from 1844 to 1846; Deputy Clerk of the
United States District Court for Des Moines County, Iowa, from 1840 to 1846;
Deputy Sheriff under D. B. Hanner, Sheriff Sacramento District California, from
October 10, 1849, to December 26, 1849; Clerk of the Court of First Instance in
Civil Cases for Sacramento District, California, from December 26, 1849, to
April 15, 1850; County Clerk of Sacramento County, California, elected April,
1850, for two years; Recorder of Sacramento City, elected 1857 for one year;
Delegate to Constitutional Convention from Sacramento County, elected June,
1878. Owns a lot and improvements in Sacramento worth about $3,500.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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DWYER, S., wholesale and retail grocer, corner Sixteenth
and J streets, Sacramento; was born in Ireland in 1828, and came to St. Louis,
Missouri, via New Orleans, in 1847; in 1853 came overland to California, and
mined at Placerville until 1857; returned to St. Louis, where he married, and
with wife came to Sacramento. After two years of a mercantile life, moved to
Auburn, Placer County, and sold goods there for sixteen years; came back to
Sacramento, and established in present location in 1869. Married Kate Geary in
1857, who was born in Ireland in 1840. There were born to them eight children,
six of whom are now living: Mary, born in Sacramento, September 15, 1858;
Edward, born in Auburn, July 27, 1864; William L., born in Auburn, May 20,
1866; George, born in Auburn, July 7, 1868; Emma, born in Sacramento, November
17, 1872; Frank, born in Sacramento, September 14, 1875.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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FARR, GEORGE W., now living in Sacramento, was born in
Littleton, New Hampshire, on the 18th of September, 1846. He remained in his
native State, working on his father's farm and clerking in a store till 1867; came
to California in 1871, and engaged as clerk in a hotel. In October, 1874, Mr.
Farr was appointed Chief Clerk in the Sacramento Land Office, which position he
held for four years; is now a member of the firm of McFarland & Farr, land
and mine attorneys. Mr. Farr was married, January 6, 1874, to Lizzie A. Deal,
adopted daughter of the Rev. Dr. Deal. They have one boy and one girl, viz.:
George Albert, born January 10, 1876, and Stella D., born October 28, 1874. Mr.
Farr's Post Office is Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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FIGG, E. P., was born in Danville, Kentucky, April 24,
1819; when eighteen years of age he went to Harrodsburg, and clerked for his
brother, who kept a hat store and dealt in furs. Two years later he bought out
his brother. In 1844, by accident, his business was ruined, and he then went to
Lexington, Missouri, and bought furs and shipped to St. Louis, and was salesman
in a store at Lexington. In April, 1849, started overland for California, being
seventy-two days on the route to Sacramento; clerked thirteen days for Henry E.
Robinson, for which he received $130; clerked for Alexander Sibley for some
time, and then bought him out, and commenced wholesale merchandising at No. 56
I street; became member of the firm of Bullard, Figg & Co. In the fire of
1852 the firm lost $150,000; the firm had a branch store at Marysville. Mr.
Figg then continued in business alone until 1854, when he formed a partnership
as E. P. Figg & Co. He then spent six months at his old home in Kentucky.
In 1855 he married Mrs. H. M. McCormick; they have two sons, Edward I. and
George L. He abandoned mercantile pursuits in 1862, and has since been engaged
in mining and real estate business. A view of the Figg building is given on
another page.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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FLINT, DANIEL, residing at 620 N street, Sacramento; was
born in New Hampshire in 1832, where he remained until 1852; he engaged in
farming and as dealer in sash, doors and blinds. Next moved to Crown Point, New
York, and again engaged in manufacturing doors, sashes and blinds. Came to San
Francisco, and remained until 1868, engaged in storage and in the Custom House;
removed to Sacramento, and engaged in nursery and fruit growing and
hop-culture. Mr. Flint was married at Crown Point, New York in 1854: they have
seven boys and two girls. Mr. Flint is a Director of the State Agricultural
Society, and Superintendent of the Park. He has a farm of two hundred acres,
worth about $200 per acre. Post Office, Sacramento, California.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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FOLGER, F. R., lives in Sacramento City. He was born in
New York City in 1823, and was engaged as a clerk until 1851, when he came to
California. He entered the hardware business in this city, and was afterwards city
editor of several journals. He is now a clerk in the C. P. R. R. freight
office. In 1854 he married Miss Sarah J. Osborn, a native of New York City;
they have one daughter, Miss Jane McArthur Folger.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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FREEMAN, ABRAHAM CLARK, attorney-at-law, Sacramento, was
born in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1843; remained until 1861, when he came to
California; near Elk Grove engaged one year in school teaching and one year in
farming. In 1863 came to Sacramento to study law, and has remained there ever
since. Was admitted to the bar in 1864; was Deputy District Attorney from
March, 1864, until March, 1870, since which time he has been a practicing
lawyer. He has published the following treatises on legal topics: In 1873 one
on the "Law of Judgments," in 1874 on "Co-Tenancy and
Partition," in 1876 on "Executions," and in 1877 on "Void
Executions and Judicial Sales." Was a member of the late Constitutional
Convention. Married, in 1867, Josephine B. Faulks, a native of Ohio; they have
one daughter.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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GOTTLIEB, S., proprietor Golden Gate Meat Market, corner
of Seventh and N streets, Sacramento; was born in Rhine, Bavaria, Germany, in
1835, and remained there until December 4, 1853, engaged in merchandising and
butchering; then came to New York, arriving January 19, 1854, from whence he
went direct to Cincinnati, where he joined a brother, who was engaged in
mercantile pursuits, besides the butchering business; left there for Pike's
Peak, via St. Louis, March 16, 1859; arriving at Wyandotte, Kansas, purchased
oxen, wagons, and outfit, and started across the plains, arriving at Denver,
Colorado, June 26; remained there only two months; then started for California;
stopped at Salt Lake one week, and arrived at Sacramento, October 29, with but
one yoke of oxen, two yoke having perished on the plains. Mr. Gottlieb worked
two years at butchering, for wages, and then (1862) started in the business
with a partner; sold out in 1865, and started alone in his present location,
March 15, since which time he has given the business his personal attention,
with exception of the year 1876, during which time he was at the Centennial
with his family. Besides his own brick business building, he owns the one
adjoining, which he rents, and has four fine residences, three of which he
rents. He also has a fine grain ranch of two hundred and forty acres, seven
miles from the city, under cultivation. Mr. Gottlieb married Annie Kelly, born
in Ireland, who came to the United States with parents, when a little child.
They have one daughter Nettie, born December 17, 1869; one son, born February
14, 1867; died the same day.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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GREEN, CARL ROBERT, was born in Grossenhain, Saxony, in 1824.
He came to the United States and settled in Baltimore, where he remained till
1850, engaged in book-binding. The next move was to California, in 1850. When
he arrived he went to the mines, and remained for two years. In 1852 Mr. Green
settled in Sacramento, and has ever since remained. He engaged in the saloon
business, in partnership with E. Klebitz. Was married to Lisetta Hackmeier.
They have two boys and one girl. Mr. Green's Post Office is Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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GREEN, CHRISTOPHER, of Green & Trainor, proprietors
of the Empire Market, Sacramento, was born in Ireland in 1830. In 1844 he
crossed the water to New York City, and engaged in butchering until 1852, and
then came to California, via Nicaragua. He spent eight months in San Francisco
and then came to Sacramento. In 1855 he formed the present partnership, and
located at the present stand. The firm has an extensive stock and grain ranch
of nine thousand acres. Mr. Green married Miss Alice Toland, in December, 1858,
a native of Ireland. They have had eight children, of whom four daughters and
two sons are living. Mr. Green was twice Mayor of the city, and for six years a
member of the Board of Directors State Agricultural Society.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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GUTHRIE, J. W., was born at Natchez, Mississippi, in
1849; came to California via the Isthmus route with his parents in 1856.
Learned the tinner's, plumber's and gas fitter's trade, and in March, 1875,
engaged in business at No. 127 J Street. Was married to Georgia C. Bruce, a
native of Sacramento, on the 6th of September, 1874; they have two children,
girls, viz.: Maud C., born February 24, 1876, and Daisy E., born April 12,
1879. Mr. Guthrie has held the office of Second and First Lieutenant, Captain
of Company A, Infantry Battalion, and Adjutant on Colonel Haymond's staff. Post
Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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HAINES, G., was born in Germany in the year 1814,
emigrated to America in 1836, and located in Wisconsin. Left Wisconsin for
California in 1851, and for nine years conducted a business for himself. At the
election of 1861 Mr. Haines was elected Justice for Sacramento City, and served
two years. Again in 1866 he was re-elected and served till 1870, and again in
1872 he was chosen to the same place, which he now holds. In early times in
California, Mr. Haines encountered severe trials; he passed through the
hardships of the two great fires of Sacramento, and has seen the city flooded
more than once. Is a married man. Post Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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HAMMER, L. K., now living in Sacramento City, was born in
Hagerstown, Maryland. In early life he moved to Mansfield, Ohio; from here he
started to California, overland, in 1849, and arrived in Sacramento on the 10th
of September, same year. Mr. Hammer was married on the 16th of November, 1854.
Since the 1st of August, 1856, his home has been constantly in Sacramento City;
is there engaged in the music business, and is sole agent, and has been for
sixteen years, for the Chickering Piano.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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HAYDEN, CALEB CHANCEY, was born at Boston, Massachusetts,
in 1816, and remained in his native State till 1849, engaged in book and
stationery business; came to California in 1849, and went to the placer mines;
returned to Sacramento and engaged in the commission business; changed
afterwards to auction business, then to hotel business, and again to commission
business, which he has since followed in connection with insurance. On Mr.
Hayden's first trip to California he was one of the owners of the brig Rodolph.
He has held the office of Alderman in Sacramento City, his Post Office.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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HAYMOND, CREED, lives in Sacramento City; he was born in
Virginia in 1836, and came to California in 1852. Here he studied law and
commenced practice in 1859, and has been a very successful practitioner. He was
Chairman of the California Code Commission, and has represented Sacramento
County in the State Senate. In 1872 he married Miss Cornelia A. Crawford, a
native of Auburn, California. His residence, of which a view is given in this
work, is valued at $10,000.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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HEILBRON, ADOLPH, was born in Germany in 1833, where he
remained till 1852. Then he came to St. Louis, Missouri, and engaged in the
tobacco business till 1854. From St. Louis he moved to El Dorado County,
California, and there worked at mining. The next move was to Sacramento City,
where he has since resided, engaging in farming, stock raising and butchering.
In 1860 Mr. Heilbron married Miss A. Schaar, a native of Hamburg, Germany. They
have two boys and one girl. His property, three hundred and fifty acres of land
and improvements, together with his business, is worth about $30,000. Post
Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 284.
HEINRICH, CHARLES, grocer and provision dealer, corner of
L and Third streets, Sacramento; was born in Anhalt, Coethen, Germany, in 1824,
and was engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1845, in which year he came to New
York and engaged in the grocery business. In 1846 joined the now famous
Stephenson's Regiment, and was with it until discharged at Monterey,
California, October, 1848. After mining a short time at Coloma and other places
he came to Sacramento in March, 1849, bought lot and commenced business in July
of same year, where he now is and has continuously been, except when
interrupted by inundating floods or devouring flames; from the latter, in 1852,
he suffered entire loss of buildings. Mr. Heinrich married Sophia Neubauer,
also of Germany, March 17th, 1850, which was the third wedding in the present
city of Sacramento. Born to them thirteen children; three sons and two
daughters now living.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 284.
HENRY, W. A., Police Judge, Sacramento was born in
Lexington, Kentucky, December 16th, 1832. Emigrated to California in 1854 and
settled in Placer County; was engaged in teaching school and farming in that
county for several years. He subsequently removed to Yolo County; was for some
time editor of the Yolo Democrat; was afterwards elected Justice of the Peace
in Woodland; at the expiration of his term of office was appointed Under
Sheriff of Yolo County, and served two terms. He removed to Sacramento City in
January, 1875; served four years as clerk in State Land Office, under Surveyor
General Minis. Married to Mrs. S. H. Carroll in January, 1876. In the Fall of
1879 was elected Police Judge of Sacramento City, which position he now holds.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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HINKSON, ADD. C., is by profession a lawyer. He came to
California in 1852. He was elected Auditor of Amador County in 1865, and County
Clerk in 1867. He came to Sacramento in 1870, and was elected Superintendent of
Schools in Sacramento City in 1873; re-elected in 1875, and again in 1877. He
is married, and has one son living, and has lost one daughter.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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HOGEBOOM, FRANK, resides in Sacramento City. He was born in
Greene County, New York, in 1831, and went to San Francisco in 1852. He
embarked in shipbuilding until 1855, and then went to the mines of Nevada
County. In 1861 he returned to San Francisco, and in 1865, on account of bad
health, he traveled through Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and the British
possessions. In 1867 he again went to San Francisco and entered the coal
business, and in 1868 came to Sacramento, and has since been engaged as a
carpenter and builder. He owns property on Twelfth street between O and P
streets, and on Seventeenth between P and Q streets. In 1868 he married Miss L.
E. Austin, a native of Catskill, New York. They had one child, who died in
1870, and the mother died in 1871. In 1875 he married Miss Mattie C. Folger, a
native of Indiana. They have one little daughter.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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HUGHSON, W. A., was born in Canada in 1845, and remained
there till 1870, when he moved to Wisconsin, and engaged in the practice of
medicine for three years, at the end of which term he came to California,
located in Sacramento, and continued the practice of medicine. Married Libbie
M. Gee, a native of Canada, in 1871. They have two children (both girls), named
Edith and Iva. Post Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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HUNTINGTON, HOPKINS & CO., OF SACRAMENTO AND SAN
FRANCISCO---A HISTORIC BUSINESS HOUSE. To give a complete history of this house
is to write a long chapter in the history of the State, and not a short one of
the history of the Nation, as out of this house sprang one of the greatest
achievements of the age.
C. P. HUNTINGTON, of Hawinton, Conn.; born October 22,
1821, and early taught self-reliance and the necessity of hard labor to attain
excellence, came to California in the historic old ship Humboldt, in 1849.
Finding mining not agreeable with his tastes, and being naturally inclined to
commercial pursuits, he came to Sacramento in that year, and began to purchase
variety merchandise from newly arrived ships and sell the same from a
store-room on K street, then No. 54. He early took into partnership his
brother-in-law, Mr. Hammond, and a Mr. Schultz, and the firm entered into the
hardware business, doing a safe and careful trade. In 1852 Hammond and Schultz
retired, and Massol and Merwin joined Mr. Huntington in the Spring of 1853.
This partnership continued until the Spring of 1855, when it expired by
limitation, and Mark Hopkins and C. P. Huntington formed the firm of Huntington
& Hopkins. Mr. Huntington was chief salesman, and Mr. Hopkins bookkeeper and
financial manager of the house. Both were shrewd, cautious business men,
resolved upon achieving success and attaining a reputation for business
integrity and enterprise, and upon commanding a broad and unequaled trade. All
these things followed, and the firm soon became known in all parts of the
country. January 1, 1868, Albert Gallatin, William R. S. Foye, Charles Miller
and Horace H. Seaton, employees of the firm previously, were admitted into the
partnership, and the firm of Huntington, Hopkins & Co. was formed. January
1, 1872, the house in Sacramento purchased the goods and business of the
Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Company at San Francisco, and opened its
second business establishment in the State. The management of this house was
intrusted to Messrs. Miller and Seaton. January 1, 1877, Mr. Seaton retired
from the firm. Mr. Hopkins died March 29, 1878, and thus the active members of
the firm left are Messrs. Huntington, Gallatin, Foye and Miller, who still
continue the business in both cities, and retain the old firm name of
Huntington, Hopkins & Co. The character and extent of this business it
scarcely is necessary to more than advert to with extreme brevity, because it
is so extensive and so well known, that to enter upon a detailed description will
be but to repeat a most familiar story. It is the largest hardware and iron
house upon the Pacific coast; its trade is with all sections of the Pacific
slope; its ledgers show dealings with nearly every mart of the world; while its
credit is accepted in all home, Eastern, and foreign trade circles as desirable
at any time. Some personal mention of members of the firm will serve to throw
light upon the composition of this pioneer and leading house. Of Mr. Huntington
brief reference has already been made.
MARK HOPKINS was a lineal descendant of the Pilgrims who
landed at Plymouth, December, 1620. Mr. Hopkins was born in Jefferson County,
New York, and received a sound business training. Early manifesting a love for
business, he was enabled to gratify it by service in several excellent
establishments of the East. Being of frugal habit, he saved his earnings, and
January 23, 1849, in company with E. H. Miller, Jr., and a number of others,
sailed in the ship Pacific for California from New York. They arrived in San
Francisco August 5, 1849, and the company which had brought with it
impracticable machinery and houses in sections, disbanded. After some wandering
and some teaming from Sacramento to the mountains, and one or two trading
ventures in the mines, Mr. Hopkins joined with E. H. Miller, Jr., in the
grocery trade in Sacramento, on J, near Sixth Street, opening about July 1,
1850. They built up a fine trade, and in two years' time had real prosperity
and unlimited credit, though adhering closely to the cash system. They built a
brick store at 50 K street, were burned out by the fire of November 2, 1852,
built a temporary structure a block above, and soon rebuilt at No. 50. In the
Spring of 1854 the firm dissolved amicably, Mr. Hopkins retiring, having
already arranged to join Mr. Huntington in his hardware business, these two
seeing in each other the business qualities and habits that each admired and
declared essential to success. In the Spring of 1855 the partnership was
formed, and the firm of Huntington & Hopkins was born to the business world
and located at 54 K street, the then number.
ALBERT GALLATIN was born in Sparta, Livingston County,
New York; attended a country school; labored by summer to avail of educational
advantages in winter; saved earnings enough to secure a season's course at a
commercial school in Baltimore, and, while yet a lad, started for the great
West with but nineteen dollars capital. This sum took him as far as Hudson,
Michigan, where, by not despising a lowly occupation, he won the confidence of
a hardware merchant, and soon became the chief employe in the house, where he
served four years, and then went to St. Louis in time to deposit and lose his
savings in the bank failures of 1857. He found a year's employment in
Lexington, Kentucky; laid up sufficient to bring him to California, by the
Panama route, in April, 1860. After failure as a miner at Salmon River, he
reached Sacramento in June, 1861, penniless, and took the position as porter in
the store of Huntington & Hopkins, and gradually rose to be a salesman. In
March, 1864, he and George P. Howe opened a hardware store at Dayton, Nevada.
In January, 1867, he sold out to Mr. Howe, and again took a salesman's position
with Huntington & Hopkins. January 1, 1868, he became a member of the firm.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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W. R. S. FOYE was born in Wiscasset, Maine; was educated
in Boston, and received there a practical business training. He struck out for
California and broader fields in 1856; came at once to Sacramento; early in 1857
became a salesman with Huntington & Hopkins, and in 1868 was admitted to
the firm. Quiet, retiring in disposition, a devotee to his business and still
its chief salesman, his life has been, outside of his salesroom, uneventful and
marked by no strong contrasts.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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CHARLES MILLER was born in Green County, New York, and
was educated in that State. In 1856 he came to California by the steamer route,
and at once located in Sacramento, finding employment early with E. H. Miller,
Jr., & Co., as a bookkeeper, where he remained until 1860, when he was
employed by Huntington & Hopkins as bookkeeper. Here he served until 1862,
when he became chief bookkeeper in the firm of Hooker & Co., wholesale
hardware merchants, and was subsequently admitted to that firm. In 1868
Huntington & Hopkins bought out Hooker & Co., and Mr. Miller became a
member of the firm, as already stated.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 285.
HORACE H. SEATON was born in Weathersfield, Connecticut, and
educated at the Public High School in Newark, New Jersey. He was a clerk in his
father's store at Newark when but a lad of twelve years. When sixteen he became
a member of the firm, and subsequently served in the great house of A. T.
Stewart & Co., New York. In 1862, under the advice of, and in company with
his uncle, C. P. Huntington, he came to California, and found his first
employment in the dry goods house of Hardy & Hall, J street. He was soon
after given the position of bookkeeper with Huntington & Hopkins, and
served in that capacity until admitted to the firm, January 1, 1868. He retired
from the firm January 1, 1877, and, since May, 1878, has resided in the City of
Oakland.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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HUNTINGTON & HOPKINS were free-soilers and slavery
haters. They were pioneer members of the Republican Party. Their sentiments
drew about them men of like thought. In their store gathered Leland Stanford, a
Sacramento merchant, on K street; Charles Crocker, a J street merchant; E. B.
Crocker, his brother, a lawyer; E. H. Miller, Jr., the grocer; T. D. Judah, a
civil engineer; and others; and out of this association of men, who used to
assemble at 54 K street and discuss current topics, grew the idea of entering
upon that gigantic work, the construction of the Central Pacific Railway. Once
resolved upon it, determined by the far-seeing financial ability of Huntington,
the cautious judgment of Hopkins, the executive ability of Stanford, the
business conclusions of the Crockers and Miller, and the technical knowledge of
Judah, and supported by a few, a very few, kindred spirits, they began the
great work, in the face of what, to ordinary men, would have been accepted as
insurmountable obstacles. This great work soon absorbed their attention, demanded
the presence of Huntington in the East, and called for others to take charge of
the still growing and now magnificent hardware business of Huntington &
Hopkins. Hence, the admission to the firm of the young men already named, who,
by their devotion to business, their fitness for trade, and the commercial
tuition they had received from their employers, were, of all others, best
adapted to assume the active management of the numberless ramifications of the
vast business of the house. Such is the merest outline of the history of the
now wealthy firm of Huntington, Hopkins & Co., a history replete with
incidents of rare interest, and whose annals are milestones in the record of
California's growth and the Nation's advancement during the last thirty years.
Could space be given for the elaboration of this history, it might be filled
with a record, which, like old wine, would grow richer with age, and would
serve to point business morals, and adorn commercial history, more
appropriately than the annals of any business establishment known to the
Pacific Coast.
The members of the firm are honored and respected in
their communities, and wield a powerful influence in the conduct of the affairs
of their State and their cities, which is acknowledged to be for good. They
have now wealth and honorable business position, and in the prime of life
having attained unsurpassed success, can look back with satisfaction upon their
past lives, and point the young men of this day to the path they have trod, in
exemplification of the truth that no true business success is to be attained
without hard labor, and a strict observance of those unchangeable economic laws
which prevail in the commercial world, and will not be set at defiance. A few
words must be given to the store-rooms of this firm in Sacramento, located on
the south side of K street, between Second and Third streets (the old 54 K
street of historic memories). The front of 80 feet is of recent erection, and
is ornamented without being extravagant, and massive without being involved in
columns or pillars. A recent story has been added to a portion of the building,
thus giving three floors to the west forty feet of frontage 160 feet deep. The
east 40 feet is 80 feet in depth, and has two floors. This latter contains the
offices, counting-rooms, and massive vault and storage rooms, for tools, nails,
shovels and wire. Beneath, on the basement floor, are stored woodenware,
trucks, straw and hardware papers, black-lead crucibles, and crates of heavy
goods. The west 40 feet front has a 100-foot deep sales and shelf-room, for
house and light hardware, bolts, ship chandlery, tents, blacksmith goods,
chains, etc., headlights, bolts, nuts, cutlery, etc. In the midst are the
entry, receiving and stock clerks' offices, and lines of display counters, with
their tops setting at angles of 45 degrees to each other. Besides the front
lights, a spacious well-hole, beneath a lofty skylight, is immediately above
the sales offices. Cut off by an arch brick wall, there is to the rear of this
section a 40 by 60 store-room, packed with gas-fittings, wire cloth, brass
goods, heavy hardware and tools of all grades, horse-shoes, blacksmiths'
supplies, axles, springs, belting, hose, rubber packing, etc. In the basement
beneath the whole, 40 by 160, are heavy hardware, nails, spikes, handles, etc.,
all in boxes and bundles, and ready for shipment. Upon the upper or third
floor, lighter tools and hardware, and traps, kitchen and farm hardware, pantry
utensils, guns, pistols, sportsman's goods, novel implements, light cordage,
shears, house cutlery, etc., are stored. In all these departments every inch of
space is utilized, and compactness and economy of space is the constant rule.
Elevated platforms, double counters, arrays of pigeonholes, double shelving, etc.,
are noticeable on all sides, and even the ceiling is used, from which hang many
varieties of goods. The alley which runs between the K and L street buildings
is upon a level with the basement stories of both structures. The grade rises
to Second and Third streets by easy inclines, and thus goods can be taken from
any floor directly to the truck with remarkable ease which renders the handling of goods a matter of greater facility
than is usual in such large establishments. The L street building is reached by
a neat bridge spanning the alley. This warehouse is 100 by 160 feet in size. No
adequate description of its admirable internal arrangements and the novel
devices and machinery employed for handling and storing the tons of iron here
kept, can be given in the brief space to which this account is necessarily
limited. Here, in short, are stored, in the east 60 by 160 feet, in admirably
arranged racks, and fitted for rapid transfer to railway tracks which run here
and there in the warehouse, vast quantities of black sheet and galvanized iron,
bundles of gas, steam and water pipe, wrought iron, lap welded, etc., all
marked with the manufacturers' guarantee tag. Norway shoe-shapes and Swedish
bar iron, Norway round, square and oval iron, frog and blister steel, round
machinery steel, planer and drill steel; lay, tool and cast steel, heavy, flat
and square tool steel (all in bundles), refined iron, steel and bar iron,
punched, strap or track iron, bundle band hoop, oval, half oval and half round
iron, etc. The west 40 by 160 feet of this building is the coal house, and has
from its alley level floor an incline for carts leading up to the L street
grade, 12 feet above. On either side are the coal bunkers and the storage
spaces above for cask coal. Here, too, nails and barbed fence wire are stored
in vast quantities. On the edge of the city limits the house maintains a
magazine for the storage of the Oriental Powder Mills' product, amid also that
of the Hazard Powder Company. Such, in brief, is a sketch of the vast store-rooms
of the firm of Huntington, Hopkins & Co. in Sacramento, where are employed
actively thirty-three persons as salesmen, book-keepers, price clerks,
receiving, shipping and stock clerks, porters and draymen. The San Francisco
house has spacious store-rooms on Market street, at the junction of Bush
street, a description of which cannot be entered upon at this time.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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INWALL, JOHN J., proprietor of "Our Corner"
saloon, corner of J and Front streets, Sacramento, was born in Cincinnati,
December 5, 1844. In 1861 he went lo Indianapolis then to St. Louis, then to
Leavenworth, Kansas, then to Virginia City, Montana, then to Salt Lake City,
and finally to California, arriving in Sacramento in 1866, where he has resided
continuously ever since; he made a trip East in 1877 by steamer. He married
Miss Anna W. Kripp, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, March 30, 1870; she was born
October 25, 1852; they have a son, John Henry, born February 7, 1871.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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JACOBS, ENOCH, lives in Sacramento city. He was horn in
Worcester Co., Mass., in 1819. He engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1849,
when lie came around the Horn in the ship Edward Everett, as a director of the
Edward Everett Company, of 150 men, of which J. A. Benton was Chaplain. The
company went to the Mokelumne river and soon disbanded, and but few of them are
now living on this coast. Mr. Jacobs began forwarding and teaming from
Sacramento to the mines, and in 1859 commenced farming. He owns 1800 acres of
land, valued at $25,000. In 1857 he married Miss A. S. Rich, of Boston,
Massachusetts, who died in 1860. In 1870 he married Mrs. A. Phelps. He has one
son, W. S. Jacobs. Views of Mr. Jacobs' farm, and property in Sacramento are
given elsewhere.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 286.
JELLY, SAMUEL, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, December
29, 1827. He embarked on the brig Christiana August 15, 1849, for California,
and arrived in Sacramento February, 21, 1850. The brig was but twenty-one hours
in making the trip from San Francisco to Sacramento. He embarked in the watch
and jewelry business on Front street. He moved to J street, between Second and
Third, and was burned out in the great fire of 1852. He went East in October,
1853, and in August, 1854, he married Miss Carlton in Salem, Massachusetts. She
died in 1856, giving birth to a son, Arthur C., who is now in Harvard College.
He went East again in 1857 and returned in 1858. He moved to the corner of
Fifth and J streets, and from there to his present store, a few doors below. He
went East again in 1864. In August, 1865, he was married in this city to Miss
Cushing, of Boston. At his store on J street, between Fourth and Fifth streets,
he has a complete assortment of watches, diamonds, jewelry, silver and plated
ware. His residence is on Second, between O and P streets.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 286.
JOHNSON, Hon. GROVE L., was born in Syracuse, New York,
in 1841, where he remained till 1863. He came to California and has been and
now is engaged in the practice of the law. Mr. Johnson was married at Syracuse,
New York, to Miss Annie de Montfredy, in 1861. His wife is a native of Onondaga
County, New York. They have two boys and three girls. Mr. Johnson has held the
following offices Deputy Assessor, Clerk of the Board of Swamp Land
Commissioner, of Sacramento county, Assemblyman from Sacramento county in
1877-8; and now holds the office of State Senator from the same county. Post
Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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JOHNSON, MATT. F., Attorney-at-Law, Sacramento; was born
in the State of Arkansas, in the year 1844; emigrated to California in 1852;
settled in Sacramento county in 1862, and has been a resident of the county and
city ever since. Studied law in the office of the late James W. Coffroth; was
admitted to practice at the Bar in 1867, and since that time has been regularly
engaged in the practice of his profession. He held the position of Deputy
Attorney-General under Jo. Hamilton. In 1871, he married Miss Clara Jones, of
Sacramento; they have one child, a girl, living. Mr. Johnson is at present a
member of the Board, of Education of the city of Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 286.
KATZENSTEIN, GEORGE BLOOM; was born in New Orleans,
Louisiana, November 28, 1848, where he remained to 1853, when, with his
parents, he came to Marysville, California. Here he resided, with a brief
residence in Nevada county, till 1867, when he removed to Sacramento, his
present home. The duties of clerk, bookkeeper and Insurance Agent, have each
engaged his attention. At this time he is a member of the firm of Rowland,
Mills and Katzenstein. Mr. Katzenstein is a prominent member of several
Fraternities, holding high positions in their societies. In 1871 he was chosen
Secretary, by the Grand Lodge, Independent Order Good Templars, and by his
great clerical skill and experience he soon systematized the work on a
favorable footing. He still holds the office of Secretary of the Grand Lodge,
I. O. G. T. Mr. K. is a strong and vigorous writer, and has been a contributor
to the Press for several years. In 1869 he married Miss Ida M. Richards, of
Lowell, Massachusetts, by whom he has three sons. Post Office, Sacramento city,
California.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 286.
KELLOGG, MISS L. J., M. D., office and residence,
Nathan's Building, con. 7th and I streets, Sacramento; was born in Haverhill,
N. H., in September, 1841; when a year old her parents removed to Springville,
Erie county, New York, where she was brought up and educated. She is a graduate
of the 'Woman's Homeopathic College of New York. After graduating she spent
some years lecturing in Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, and Iowa, to ladies, on
Physiology and Hygiene; came to California in February, 1874, and after
lecturing in San Francisco, Oakland, Napa, Sacramento, and some smaller places,
located in Sacramento for the purpose of practicing her profession. The Board
of Trustees, in the spring of 1879, appointed her a member of the City Board of
Health, and the Board of Health at its first meeting thereafter elected her
Secretary of the Board. She is probably the first woman in the United States
who has been honored with a similar position. Her practice increased so rapidly
that in the fall of 1879, she associated with herself, as a partner, Miss Alice
Burritt, M. D. from New York, and a graduate of her own Alma Mater. (Photo donated by Carol Flemmer.)
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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KELLOGG, LEONARD, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, in
1823, where he engaged in the stove and tin business till 1849. Arrived in
California, July, 1850, and at once began the wholesale and retail stove and
tin trade at No. 819, J street, and has ever since conducted business at the
same place. Mr. Kellogg keeps a fine stock of plated and glass ware, crockery,
carpets, and furniture; he has held the office of President of Board of
Delegates Sacramento Fire Department. Post Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 286-287.
KELLER, W. B. G., Attorney-at-Law, Rooms 7 and 8,
Sacramento Savings Bank Building. cor. 5th and J streets; was born at Peoria,
Illinois, February 28, 1846; came across the plains in 1852, with his parents,
and he has resided here ever since; he was married to Miss Sallie Burnett, in
August, 1864, by whom he had two children: Frank L., born May 31, 1865, and
Joseph C., born March 7, 1867, of whom Joseph C. died in infancy. Mrs. Keller
died of consumption, March 16th, 1868. Mr. Keller was again married to Miss
Maggie Fritsch his present wife, June 1, 1871, who bore him three boys and one
girl: Wm. C., born March 4, 1872; Howard H., born March 13, 1874; L. Burnett,
born July 18, 1875, and Alice Maud, born June 23, 1879. The child Howard H.,
died in infancy. Mr. Keller studied law in the late firm of Coffroth &
Spaulding. Was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court, April 6, 1868. He has
taken considerable interest in politics and was nominated by the Workingmen's
and New Constitution parties in 1879, as a member of the State Board of
Equalization, but was defeated by the Republican nominee by a small plurality,
he himself beating the Democratic nominee in the 2nd Congressional District,
7,553 votes.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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KILGORE, ELLIS, was born in Sacramento County,
California, in 1855. When twenty years of age was engaged as book-keeper for
George Cox & Co., grocers. In 1878, he formed a partnership with T. M.
Tracy, and bought the business of his former employers. Mr. Kilgore was
married, May 5, 1878. His wife is, like himself, a native of California. They
have one child, a girl. Mr. K.'s Post Office is Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
KLEBITZ, EDWARD, resides in Sacramento City. He was born
in Liebnitz, Silesia, Germany, in 1817. In March, 1851, he arrived in California,
having come around the Horn. He mined in Butte County, and then kept store in
Volcano, Amador County. In 1854 he entered into business in Sacramento City,
which he has since continued. He is married and has two daughters.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
KLEES, JOHN, of the firm of Nash & Klees,
manufacturers of Nash & Cutts' Grain Separator, 906 K street, Sacramento,
was born in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, in 1832, and in 1845 he moved with his
parents to Ohio, and soon after to Wisconsin. In 1849, he came overland to
California, arriving at Weaverville, October 2, 1849, where he mined for a
while, and then moved to Sacramento and engaged in wood cutting and teaming; he
then kept a hay-yard for some years in connection with a ranch. In 1854 he went
back to the mines in Grass Valley and vicinity; he kept hotel and mined. In
1857 he went to Orleans Flat; in 1860 he returned to Sacramento and kept a feed
store and hay-yard; burned out in 1864, and two years later moved on to the
Norris ranch; was burned out there in 1867; came back to the city and started
in the teaming business, and in 1870 entered his present business. In 1871 he
moved to the present stand, and in 1877 he and Hiram Nash became sole
proprietors. In 1860 he married Victoria Cooper, a native of Canada; they have
had six children, of whom one son and two daughters are living.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
KREBS, CHARLES HENRY, was born in Hanover, Germany, in
1832; worked at painting, glazing, and learned how to make paint, varnish and
brushes. At sixteen he came to St. Louis, and in 1853 he came across the plains
to California. Bought an interest in the business of Fredericks and Franks, and
in 1854 the firm was Fredericks and Krebs, and so continued till 1863, when a
branch store was established at Virginia City. The business was soon divided,
Mr. Krebs taking the Sacramento store. This he conducted alone till 1877, when
his nephew, A. H. Rott, bought an interest. Married Charlotte Miller, of
Sacramento, in 1860; they have five children, one boy and four girls. Post
Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
LAGES, CHRISTOPHER, resides in Sacramento. He was born in
Germany in 1838, and emigrated to New York in 1852, where he was in the grocery
business. In 1854 he removed to San Francisco, and continued in the grocery
business until 1869, when he came to Sacramento and embarked in the malting and
milling business at Nos. 1018 and 1020 Fifth street, between J and K streets.
In 1868 he married Anne Bergmann, a native of Germany; they have one son. A
view of his residence is given elsewhere in this work.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
LANDES, F. L., was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1846,
where he remained till 1852, when his parents came to California, and located
in Sacramento. During the year 1855 he went to the gold mines of Nevada and
Sierra Counties where his home was till 1860, when he went to Dutch Flat and
engaged as clerk in a book store. 1863 found Mr. Landes again in Sacramento
where his home has since been; his first employment was as an apprentice in a
sash and blind factory, (where he had a hand crippled in a machine). From this
he went to college at Benicia, (paying his board and tuition by teaching) and
then to teaching in the public schools. In 1874 was married to Miss Frances H.
Dippel, a native of California; they have two children living, a boy and a
girl. Mr. Landes held the office of County Superintendent of schools from 1876
to 1880, and is now (1880) city Superintendent of Sacramento City. His home is
worth $4,000. Post Office, Sacramento, Cal.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
LANSING, JAMES, was born in Lansingburg, New York, in
1826, where he remained, engaged in farming and manufacturing, till 1849. At
that date he came to California; located in Sacramento City, where he has since
resided. Mr. Lansing was elected to the police force in Sacramento in 1853; was
elected Chief of Police in 1856; City Marshal in 1857; Chief of Police again in
1858; was Deputy Sheriff in 1862-3, and elected Sheriff in 1865. Mr. Lansing
was Superintendent of the County Hospital in 1873. At the election of 1875 he
was chosen County Assessor; in 1866 Mr. Lansing was the proprietor of the Union
Hotel, and is now the proprietor of the
International Hotel in Sacramento. Married Mrs. Mary W.
Russell in 1868. They have one boy and three girls. Mr. Lansing owns 170 acres
of fine land worth about $20,000. Post. Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
LAWSON, POWELL S., was born in New York City in 1829;
learned the tinsmiths' trade in early life; left New York in 1849 via Cape Horn
for San Francisco; when he arrived, at once went to work at his trade. In 1850
went to the mines, where mining was followed with varied success till 1852,
when he returned to San Francisco again and went to work at his trade. During
1854 went back to the mines amid remained till 1859, when he came to
Sacramento, and established his present business of metal roofing. Was married
to Miss Alice S. Carrington in 1862; they have one child, a daughter. Post
Office, Sacramento. A view of his place is given elsewhere.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
LEONARD, ALBERT, lives in Sacramento, his Post Office.
Born July 31, 1826, at West Springfield, Mass.; removed to Palmer, Mass , in
1834; from there to Norwich, Conn., in 1837; from there to New York city in
1841; and to California, in 1849, arriving at San Francisco on the bark
"Strafford" August 30 of that year. October 23, 1851, at the City of
Sacramento, he married Caroline S. Merrill, a native of Ohio, who came o
California from Illinois with her parents and family in 1849, arriving in
Sacramento in October same year. They have seven boys and four girls living,
and have buried three boys and one girl.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
LEWIS, LEONIDAS LEE. was born in New York in 1831, and
remained in his native State till 1844, when he moved to Illinois; here he made
his home for three years, when he moved to Iowa, where he engaged in farming.
From Iowa he went to New York; engaged in tin and tinware business till 1859,
when he came to California; located in Sacramento and engaged in the plumbing
and tinware business. In 1867 was married to Lerisa Carriger, a native of
Missouri. They have three children, all girls, aged respectively, two, six and
ten years. Mr. Lewis has property and improvements worth about $30,000. Post
Office, Sacramento. A view of his residence and place of business is given on
another page.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
LITHAUER, LOUIS J., wholesale and retail dealer in
clothing and gentlemen's furnishing goods, 418 J street, Sacramento; was born
in Hartford, Conn., in 1852, and remained until 1860; then moved to New York
with parents, and attended school until 1868, in which year he came to
California alone, by the Isthmus route, and engaged in book-keeping in San
Francisco until 1872, then started business corner Post and Kearny streets, San
Francisco, which he still carries on in connection with his business in
Sacramento; established in May, 1879. With the exception of an absence of eight
months in 1878 (in which he visited the Sandwich Islands, Japan, Australia and
South Sea Islands), he has been closely confined to his business since first
established.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
LYON, WM. M., was born in Ohio in 1836, but, with his
parents, went to Wisconsin in early life. From Wisconsin he came to California
and located in Sacramento City, where he has been engaged in the wholesale
produce business; his place of business is on J street, between Front and
Second streets. Mr. Lyon married Martha E. Willey in 1868; they have no
children. Post Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287-288.
MARTIN, ED. M., was born in Muscatine, Iowa, in 1845; in 1852
he came to Sacramento, and has since resided in that city. Read law, and was
admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the State on the 21st of October,
1867. Since that date he has followed his profession in Sacramento City. In
1870 Mr. Martin married Emily E. Jones, a native of Charleston, South Carolina;
they have no children. Mr. Martin has held the office of Notary Public for ten
years; and for six years was Court Commissioner of the Sixth District Court.
His office is No. 607 I street. Post office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
McDONALD, A. H., was born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia,
in 1830, where he remained till 1855. Commenced teaching in 1843, and taught
and studied till 1851, when he engaged in mercantile business for four years.
Removed to Sierra County, California, and remained one year engaged in mining;
then to Nevada County, engaged in civil engineering; then to Dutch Flat and
engaged in teaching; from there to Placerville; and January 24, 1870, to
Sacramento, where he has for ten years been employed as Principal of the
Grammar School. Married Naomi R. Landes in 1861. Mrs. McDonald taught school
both before and since her marriage. They have one boy and four girls. Mr.
McDonald was for year's a member of the City, County and State Board of
Examination. His property is worth about $5,000. Post Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
MASSEY, JR., C. P., was born in Philadelphia, March 17,
1842. He received a public school education, graduating from the Philadelphia
High School in July, 1858. He at once obtained a position in a mercantile
house, and retained the situation until 1863, when, under engagement to a San
Francisco firm, he came to California. In the spring of 1874 he relinquished
this employment and moved to Sacramento, to commence a business there in
carpets and upholstery, but retired in January, 1879, to give his full
attention to his dairy, known as the "Grove Dairy," a sketch of his
farm appearing in this work. He was married in 1869 to Miss Asenoth O. Dodge, a
native of Dodgeville, Massachusetts, and has two children, (girls,) aged
respectively eight amid ten years. He values his land, improvements, etc., at
$12,500.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
MCKEE, EDWIN H., lives in Sacramento city; was born in
the town of Essex, Chittenden Co., Vermont, on the 16th day of May, 1847;
started for California at the age of eight years; arrived in Sacramento, on the
13th day of March, 1855; went to steamboating on the Sacramento river to Red
Bluff, April 1, 1864; remained until April 10, 1865, then commenced an
apprenticeship at the molder's trade, at which he worked until March, 1877; was
then elected City Auditor and ex-officio Clerk of the Board of Trustees of
Sacramento city, for a term of two years; was re-elected March 12, 1879. Mr.
McKee was a member of the S. P. F. Department for three years; was elected
foreman of Engine Company No. 1, Sept. 9, 1876; was also a member of Co.
"A," City Guard, California State Militia, for twelve years, and held
a commission as first-lieutenant in that company for four years. Married Miss
Emma L. McKee, June 10, 1869, a native of Philadelphia, Penn. They have one
girl, Evlayn A. McKee, born January 10, 1871, and one boy, born Dec. 12, 1872.
Land and improvements are worth about $1,500,
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
McKUNE, JUDGE J. H., was born in Sullivan county, New
York, on the 22d of March, 1819. He read law from 1839 to 1844 with Bentley
& Richards, of Montrose, Pa. Mr. McKune was admitted to the bar in 1844. In
1849 he came to California where he worked at mining till 1850, when he settled
in Sacramento City. At the election, April, 1850, he was elected County
Attorney, and held the office for two years. The President of the United States
appointed Mr. McKune law agent for the U. S. Land Commission in 1854, and he
held that office two years. At the general election of 1856, he was elected on
the Democratic ticket to the Legislature, and during the session of 1857 he
took a prominent part, acting as Chairman of the Committee appointed to conduct
the impeachment of State Treasurer Bates. He was elected District Judge of the
Sixth Judicial District, at the election of 1858, and at the special election
of 1863, having been the candidate of time Douglas Democrats. This office he
held till December 31, 1869, since which Mr. McKune has practiced law in all
the courts of the State, as well as in the Supreme Court of the United States.
In 1872 he was appointed one of the Code Commissioners; on the 26th of
February, 1855, Mr. McKune married Mary G. Burnett.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
McNEAL, ARCHIBALD, of Ricker & McNeal, carpenters and
contractors, Sacramento, was born in Huntington county, Pa., in 1815. Having been
engaged in farming, he moved to Indiana in 1836, and soon after to Galena,
Illinois; he worked at carpentering until Dec., 1839, and then went to Mobile,
Alabama, and worked at his trade until 1846; he then went into the Government
Navy Yard at Pensacola: He came across the Isthmus to California in 1849, and
mined until the fall of 1852, near Ophir (Oroville); came to Sacramento after
the great fire in Nov., 1852, and commenced business as contractor with his
present partner, G. W. Ricker. In 1859, he married Mary Alice Alexander, a
native of Jackson, Miss., who died in 1862. In 1867, he married Lucretia M.
Kenedy, of Fort Madison, Iowa. She died in 1868, leaving a daughter three days
old; his residence is No. 1116 Third street.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
MEISTER, JACOB, was born in the Canton of Solothurn,
Switzerland, Aug. 15, 1828; in 1854, with considerable experience in the dairy
business, he embarked for the United States, via New York and Panama, landing
at San Francisco in the middle of June; after about one year's experience as a
gold miner, he went into the dairy business at Sacramento with his brother
John, who came to California in 1852; in 1856 they bought 945 acres, 4 miles
north of Sacramento, and in 1874, also, the farm near the Tivoli House, 105
acres, northeast suburbs, Sacramento. In 1876 they dissolved partnership, John
keeping the dairy business and the Tivoli farm, and Jacob, the subject of our
sketch, the farm of 945 acres which was changed from tule land into good
farming land by the 1862 high water that left thereon five feet of sediment,
(thereby making it a valuable vegetable and grazing farm). In 1879 he bought
the N. E. corner lot of 17th and I streets, where this year he is putting up a
good substantial two-story dwelling in a modern style, which is shown on
another page of the work. Was married in Sacramento, May 22, 1862, to Miss
Kathrina Kopp, of Baden, Germany; their children were: Minnie, Katie, Laura,
Emma and Nellie, all living, except Miss Minnie, who died Oct. 22, 1879, near
the age of 17 years. A view of his place is given elsewhere.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
MEISTER, JOHN, was born in the Canton of Solothurn,
Switzerland, April 17, 1820; was in the dairying and farming business there
until 1852, when he came to the United States, coming direct to St. Louis via
New Orleans. Only staying a few days at St. Louis, he proceeded to Jefferson
City, where he, with two of his countrymen, purchased an emigrant outfit and
started across the plains to California; after 142 days they arrived at
Placerville. After a short experience in gold-washing with the cradle, he
embarked in the dairy business at Sacramento, with 30 head of cows on the
unoccupied lands about Sutter's Fort. In the spring of 1855, his brother Jacob,
who had lately come from Switzerland, and he commenced the dairy business, and
time year succeeding they bought 945 acres across the American River, 4 miles
north of Sacramento, and largely increased the dairy and stock business. In
1863 he bought the block of land on 16th and D, and then built his residence,
which is shown on another page, and also at the same time erected there his
large barn to house his cows during the winter months. In 1874 the brothers
bought the piece of land 105 acres, near the Tivoli House, Sacramento, for a
dairy; in 1876 John Meister and his brother Jacob dissolved partnership, the
former keeping the Tivohi farm and the latter time farm across the river; John
keeping the dairy business to the present time. Mr. Meister married Miss
Pauline Herr, formerly of Baden, Germany, January 28, 1858. She died November
28, 1872. The children were Albert, Annie, Pauline, and Louisa, all now living
at home. November 7, 1876, Mr. Meister again married Miss Aurelia Wirth,
formerly of Switzerland. A view of his place is given in another page.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
MEISTER, JOHN R., was born in Zurich, Switzerland, in
1830, and emigrated to Missouri in 1849. In 1853 he came overland to California
and mined below Goodyear's Bar, on Goodyear's Creek and Monte Cristo, Sierra
Co.; in 1853 entered the drug business in San Francisco, afterwards in Virginia
City and Portland. In 1870 he opened a drug store in Odd Fellows' Temple,
corner of Ninth and K streets, Sacramento, in which place he still continues.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287.
MIER, FREDERICK, was born in Germany in 1825. In early
life learned the cooper's trade; 1848 came to the United States, working at his
trade in Pittsburg, St. Louis, and finally establishing the business at Georgetown,
Illinois. During 1850 he came overland to California; on arriving, went into
the butcher business with Frank Keller. After a short time sold out; tried the
saddlery business a little while, and then left for the mines. In May, 1851,
came to Sacramento; opened the Sierra Nevada Hotel, which he conducted till
burned out by the fire of 1852. Next bought the Gault House on K street, which
was also burned the same year. Then bought a dairy ranch; then came to the
city, took the Belvidere Hotel, which he kept till November, 1854 ; after which
he bought a grocery store; and in May, 1876, sold the store and engaged in the
Capital Furniture Factory, and has since followed that business. Mr. Mier
married Josephine Bauer, in 1857, who had two children by a former husband.
They have had eight children, some of whom are now living. A fine view of Mr.
Mier's factory can be seen on another page. His 'Post Office is Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287-289.
MILLER, WILLIAM B., jeweller, 628 J street, Sacramento,
was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and remained there until 1852;
then with parents moved to Cincinnati; two years later, to St. Louis. In 1859,
at the early age of eleven years, came to California alone; was employed
farming and taking charge of cattle until 1864; then learned the trade of
jeweler at Oroville, at which he worked a few months at Grass Valley, Nevada
county, California, and afterwards in Sacramento, until December 4, 1878, at
which time he established his business in present locality. Married Florence M.
Leet, May 2, 1873, a native of the State of New York.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 289.
NELSON, A. T., came to Sacramento, California, in
January, 1852, from the State of New York, and established his well known
saddlery and harness business at 327 K street. He was a very active Mason and
every ready to respond to the call of a brother for assistance, and when he
died, December 22, 1876, at the house of his son, Clarence, his loss was deeply
lamented by the Masonic Fraternity. For some time before Mr. Nelson's death
four generations of the family had been living together. At the time of his
death he was connected with the Board of Education, the members of which
deplored his loss. He was succeeded in his business by his son, Clarence, who
had been his partner, at the original location. Clarence Nelson married Maggie
M. Prior, in 1869; they have one son and two daughters.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 289.
NIXON, A. B., M. D., Sacramento, was born in Butler,
county, Ohio, March 1, 1821 was educated in the common schools and at the Miami
University, in which institution he took the "scientific course." In
the spring of 1843, he commenced the study of medicine with Cyrus Falconer, M.
D., in the city of Hamilton, county seat of Butler county; graduated from the
Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati in the spring of 1846, and commenced the
practice of his profession in Hamilton, where he remained until the spring of
1849, at which time he emigrated to California, and in 1852 established himself
in the practice of his profession, in connection with the late Dr. Charles
Duncomb. Since 1852, he has resided permanently in Sacramento. He married the
oldest daughter of Geo. B. Bingham, Esq., of Hamilton, Ohio, in the fall of
1845, and they have now living four children, one daughter, and three sons. Dr.
Nixon has held the following offices whilst residing in Sacramento, viz. :
State Senator, Surgeon of the Board of Enrollment for the Middle District of
California, during the late civil war, and Commissioner of Lunacy. The latter
office he has held during the last twenty-two years, and still holds it. For
the last ten years he has been Surgeon-in-Chief of the C. P. R. R. Hospital,
and is now occupying that position. For several years he has held the office of
Secretary of the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement, and has served
also as its President. Has also held the position of Secretary, Vice-President,
and President of the State Medical Society. He built the house where he now
resides on M street, between 9th and 10th streets, in the fall of 1856, which
is one of the oldest substantial private residences in the county; it is now
supplied with all the modern improvements. In 1856, he took an active part in
the organization of the Republican party, and in party principles has been a
radical Republican; of late years, however, he has taken no part in politics
except to vote. A view of his place is given elsewhere.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 289.
NIXON, S. S. ; horse shoer, 615 K street, Sacramento; was
born in the County of Down, Ireland, in 1831, and remained until 1847, with
parents on a farm. Then came to Philadelphia, United States, and learned the
trade of horse-shoeing and general blacksmithing, and worked at the business in
that city until coming to California in 1853; arrived here in March, and for a
year mined in various places, then worked three years at his trade for the
California Stage Company, at Red Bluff. In 1860, started his present business,
which is horse-shoeing, to the exclusion of all kinds of general blacksmithing.
Mr. Nixon married, May 1, 1865, Annie W. Gates, who is a native of the State of
New York. There were born to them six children, of which two daughters and one
son are now living. A view of his place is given elsewhere.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 289.
OATMAN, IRA E., M. D., resides in Sacramento. He was born
near New Albany, Indiana, in 1819, and lived in Chicago and Dundee, Illinois,
until 1849, practicing medicine. He graduated at the Bush Medical College,
Chicago, in 1845. He came to California in 1849, where he mined and practiced
medicine, returning to Illinois in 1850. He came back to this State and resumed
his practice in Sacramento, where he has since remained. He was Commissioner of
Insanity for five years; Assistant-Surgeon of the Fourth Regiment, California
Militia; United States Recruiting Surgeon; United States Examining Surgeon for
Pensioners since 1870; a member of the Sacramento City Board of Health for
eighteen years, and for nine years its President. He is a member of the Society
of California Pioneers, of the Medical Society of the State of California, and,
since 1873, its Treasurer of the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement, of
the American Medical Association, of the Gynecological Society of Boston. While
engaging in general practice of medicine and surgery, he gives special
attention to the diseases of women and children. With the exception of a few
essays his published writings have been on the more practical of the medical
sciences. In 1845 he married Miss V. C. Freer, a native of Auburn, New York.
They have three sons and one daughter.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 289.
ODELL, M. M. & SON, Sacramento. The senior member of
this firm was born in Ohio, in 1830, and moved to Michigan, in 1836; here he
engaged in butchering until 1852, when he removed to Illinois and pursued
farming. He then went to Pike's Peak, Colorado, and engaged in butchering until
1861, when he came to California and entered the same business; his partner is
his son, M. F. Odell. In 1851 he married, an Ohio lady; they have two sons and
one daughter. A view of Mr. Odell's place is given on another page.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 289.
OSBORN, H. P., wood and coal yard, 236 J street,
Sacramento, was born in Otsego county, N. Y., in 1803; remained until 1824,
engaged in the tailoring business; then to New York city, where he remained
until 1849, engaged in same business; then to Sacramento county, Cal.; engaged
in the grocery trade in Sacramento until 1858; then engaged in farming, twelve
miles from Sacramento until 1870; then returning to Sacramento located in his
present business, viz., wood and, coal yard. Married in 1825 to Jane McArthur,
a native of Hudson, N. Y., who died in 1831; married in 1832 to Marrietta
Folger, who died in January, 1879. Mr. Osborn has six children living, one boy
and five girls; he has held the office of School Trustee and President of
Sacramento Society of Pioneers.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 289.
OUGH, JOSEPH, corner of eighth and N streets, in
Sacramento; he was born in Canada in 1841, and remained there until 1864,
learning the carpenter's trade, and studying architecture; went to
Pennsylvania, where he worked one year at his trade; then went to Cincinnati,
where he worked for three years at his trade. In 1868 went to Montana and
worked at carpenter work; in 1869 came to Sacramento, overland, by the northern
route, via Fort Benton, and has continually carried on carpenter, contract and
architectural work. He married Hannah Thompson, a native of Canada, in 1865.
There have been born to them three daughters, two of whom are now living.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 289.
PELTIER, ANDRE, Proprietor of Boston Meat Market, corner
of L and Second streets; was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1828, and from
boyhood was engaged in the dry goods business, until 1857, in which year he
came to California, where, until 1859, he mined and carried on the butcher
business in Jackson, Amador county. He then moved to Sacramento, and has
carried on the butcher business ever since, occupying his present location
since 1878. Mr. Peltier married, wife now deceased, in 1851; married wife
living in 1874, and has two sons and three daughters, now living.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 289.
PIONEER BOX FACTORY, Front and M streets, Sacramento,
Cooke & Son, proprietors (Matthew Cooke and Robert J. Cooke). This factory
commenced business August 3, 1874, under the management of the senior member of
the present firm. From February 1, 1875, to February 1, 1878, the firm was
Cooke & Gregory; since February 1, 1878, it has been Cooke & Son. In
1875 the amount of lumber used was five hundred and fifty thousand feet; in
1879 the amount of lumber used was nearly three millions of feet. The increasing
demand necessitated the building of a manufacturing branch at Alta, Placer
county (at the lumber mills of Towle Bros.), in 1879; also branches at
Newcastle, Placer county, Vacaville, Solano county, and Los Angeles. The trade
of this firm extends from Salt Lake City on the east, to the Pacific Ocean on
the west, from Marysville north, to San Diego south; the sales of this firm in
1879 were over $66,000. This firm attributes their success in building up a
first-class box business in Sacramento to following their established
principle, fair dealing as buyers and sellers. A view of the factory may be
seen on another page.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 289-290.
PLATT, P. E., was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in
the year 1852. When two years of age his parents emigrated to Australia; in
1858 his parents returned to New Jersey and remained two years, when he was
taken to Massachusetts. During 1868 he came to Sacramento, where he has since
resided; he worked at hard work for several years, and, by economy, saved a
handsome sum. Invested in one of the oldest and heaviest fruit, produce and
seed houses in the city. The firm is W. R. Strong & Co., and is closely
identified with the producing interests of Sacramento county. In 1874, Mr.
Platt was married to Miss Levina A. Barrett, a native of Wheelersburg, Ohio.
They have one child, a boy. Mr. Platt's property is worth at least $8,000. Post
Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
POLITZ, GODFREY, resides at No. 600 K street, Sacramento
City; he was born in London, England, in 1845 and emigrated to New York in
1847. In 1849 he came to California; he arrived in Sacramento in 1854, and
began life peddling fruit and peanuts in a basket. From this small beginning he
has risen to be proprietor of the Capitol Clothing House, No. 600 K street. In
1878 he married Miss Bertha Peck, a native of Prussia; they have one son and
one daughter. His place is valued at $5,000.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
POWERS, AARON HUBBARD, born in New Durham, N. H., March
16, 1829; moved with parents to Boston in spring of 1839; at the age of 20
years joined a company of 150, who purchased the ship "Edward
Everett," loaded same with lumber, bricks, tools, provisions, mining
utensils and a small steamer, and sailed from Boston January 12, 1849, arriving
in San Francisco July 6, in the same year. The small steamer was launched. With
100 of the original company went into the mines on the Mokelumne River; but
their inexperience in mining made it a losing speculation, and so the company
dissolved partnership and sold the vessel. Mr. Powers then engaged in the
lumber business and contracted for furnishing the poles for the first telegraph
line in the State, also the piling for making the first wharf in San Francisco;
cut lumber at Redwood City and towed in rafts to San Francisco by tug. In one
instance a raft worth $4,000 broke away and was a total loss. Was Deputy
Assessor at San Francisco County in 1853-4. Was married in 1853 to a daughter
of Judge Sweasy, now doing business at Eureka, Cal., and part owner of
Steamship Humboldt. They have had borne to them nine children, seven of whom
are now living, five boys and two girls. Moved to Calaveras County in 1855, and
engaged in farming and stock raising until 1867; moved to Sacramento, where he
engaged in the wholesale liquor business, in which he remained until the
present, being now connected with the firm of Wilcox, Powers & Co. of
Sacramento. A view of the business block is given elsewhere.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
REESE, U. M., whose residence is one of the illustrations
in this book, lives at 1236 H street, Sacramento City. Mr. Reese was born in
New York, in 1826. Early in life he learned the carpenter's trade, and has
worked at it to this date. Since 1852 his home has been in California, most of
the time at Sacramento; he is one of the oldest and most reliable contractors
in the city. On the 3d of January, 1864, Mr. Reese was married to Miss Carrie
E. Trimble, a native of New York, by whom he has had three children, only one
of whom, a son, is living.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
ROSE, M. R., resides corner K and Ninth streets,
Sacramento. His lot, 80x160 feet, with improvements is valued at $15,000. He
was born near Johnstown, Columbia County, Pa., July 4, 1828, where he engaged
in woolen manufacture until 1851, when he came to California. Previous to 1858,
he was variously occupied, but in that year he embarked in his present
business, manufacturing water works. In 1857 he married Miss Elizabeth T.
Given, a native of Pennsylvania; they have four sons, and have lost an only
daughter.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
RYAN, JOHN, came to this State from St. Louis, Missouri,
in 1852. Shortly after his arrival he engaged, for two years, in mining. During
the year 1854, he began brickmaking and contracting, which he has followed to
the present time. Post Office, Sacramento City. A view of Mr. Ryan's residence
appears in this work.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
SALSBURY, T. G., wood and coal yard, residence No. 67 H
street Sacramento, was born in Ellsworth, Maine, in 1823, and remained until
1840; then went to sea, following a sailor's life until 1849, at which time he
arrived in California as first officer of the barque "Susan Jane,"
which he left soon after her arrival at San Francisco. Two months after, came
to Sacramento county, keeping the 16-mile House, on the Coloma Road, seven
years. In 1856, he took the first contract to build the first railroad in
California, from Sacramento to Folsom. Soon after established first station on
his own land, of which he owned 517 acres, now known as Salsbury Station. In
1850 he built, at same place, the first frame building in the county outside of
the city of Sacramento, which was framed in Boston and shipped to him around the
Horn; has owned and occupied the same place continuously for twenty-eight
years, as a hotel, farm and stock ranch; is also senior partner of the firm of
T. G. Salsbury & Son, doing business in wood, hay and grain, adjoining
residence. Mr. Salsbury has been Alcalde, Justice of the Peace, and has held
other offices.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
SCHAUMLOEFFEL, HENRY, proprietor eighth street Market,
corner 10th and H streets, Sacramento; was born in Germany in 1840, and
remained until 1859; engaged in farming; then went to South America and worked
in a flouring mill in Chile until 1874; he then returned to Germany on a visit,
and in 1876 came to Sacramento, California, and started the meat market which
he has continually carried on since; married Katie Gruhler, August 31, 1879,
who is also a native of Germany.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
SCHELD, PHILIP, resides corner of Eleventh and L streets.
Sacramento; he was born in Germany, in 1826, and emigrated to America in 1845.
In 1850 he was engaged in the hotel business at Coloma, El Dorado county, Cal.;
in 1852 he embarked in the brewing business in Sacramento; he owns the
Sacramento Brewery, corner of M and Twenty-eighth streets, a view of which is
given elsewhere in this book; a description of the brewery will be found in the
chapter on manufactures. In 1878 he married a native of Germany, and has one
son.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
SCRIVER, C. D., Sacramento, Cal.; was born in Lennox county,
Canada, in 1845; remained until 1863; engaged on farm with parents; then came
to California, across the Isthmus; engaged in the hack and livery business; he
now has charge of a livery business at 72 and 74 K street, Sacramento, Cal.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
SCRIVER, ROBERT McDONALD; was born in Canada West, in
1847, and remained there till 1866, engaged in farming. After his arrival in
California he was engaged for four years in the livery business. His next
employment was as storekeeper for the Central Pacific Railroad Company, at
their shops in Sacramento; this position he held for six years. April, 1878, he
was appointed Clerk of the Water Works for three years; his property is
valuable, and is worth not less than $10,000. In 1869 he married Mattie H.
Hegnett, a native of Maryland; they have no children living; the only one born
to them was a girl, who died when ten months old. Post Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
SCHROTH, GEORGE, was born in Germany, in 1829, and remained
there till 1846; he then came to New York, and conducted a bakery till 1849;
then went to Texas and New Mexico, and in 1851 came to Sacramento, where he
worked in a bakery on K street till 1854, when he bought into the business with
J. W. Lehman. In 1855 they moved to J street and opened the Pioneer Bakery. Mr.
Schroth became the sole proprietor in 1869. To obtain still better advantages
Mr. Schroth some years ago purchased an interest in the Eagle Mills, at
Knight's Landing; these mills are equipped with all the necessary machinery for
the manufacture of flour, middlings, bran and ground feed. The firm owning the
mill is Arnold & Schroth; they have a warehouse at No. 22 J street
(adjoining the bakery), where a large stock of goods manufactured by the firm
is constantly kept. In 1857 he married Amelia Fuchs, a native of Germany; they
have three boys and three girls, all living. Mr. Schroth's Post Office is
Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
SIDDONS, WM. M. Proprietor of Occidental Exchange Saloon,
204 J street, Sacramento ; was born in Charleston, S. C., in 1826. Went into U.
S. Naval Service in 1838, which he left in 1841, and engaged in merchant marine
service until 1846, when he re-entered the naval service on U. S. ship
"Ohio," serving at Vera Cruz, and also on Pacific Coast. Was
discharged at San Francisco, August, 1849. Engaged in business pursuits in
Benicia until February, 852, and then mined in various places until 1856, in
which year he came to Sacramento, and has ever since been identified with the
business of the city. He is a life member of Sacramento county Society of
Pioneers, and is the owner of the famous field piece Union Boy, and
under his command the Union Squad have done some remarkable artillery feats
with it. Notably, on October 24, 1879, 22 rounds were fired in honor of Gen.
Grant in 2 minutes and 10 seconds.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290-291.
SIMMONS, GUSTAVUS LINCOLN, M.D.; was born in Hingham,
Plymouth county, Massachusetts, March 13, 1832; both his paternal and maternal
(Lincoln) ancestors were among the early Puritan settlers of Plymouth county.
He received his preliminary education in the schools and Derby Academy of his
native town, and in 1849, when but a boy, he became a pioneer to the Pacific
Coast, rounding Cape Horn to join a brother-in-law---the late Dr. Henry B. May,
in San Francisco. In 1850, during the terrible epidemic of cholera then raging,
he removed to Sacramento City and joined his medical relative in the business
of the "Old Boston Drug Store," where he remained until he was
twenty-one years of age. He then returned to the East and entered the Tremont
street Preparatory Medical School, in Boston, and afterwards the Medical
Department of Harvard University, receiving his degree of Doctor in Medicine and
Surgery, from the last-named institution in 1856. Soon after graduating he
returned to Sacramento, where he has practiced surgery and medicine ever since,
with the exception of the time spent in two somewhat lengthy trips to Europe,
taken for the purpose of observing the Hospital practice of the old country.
Dr. Simmons is a member of the American Medical Association, and served on the
Committee of Arrangements at the San Francisco meeting of that body in 1871;
also a member of the Massachusetts State Medical Society, of the California
State Medical Society, and of the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement.
He has served for over twenty years as a Commissioner in Lunacy; for ten years
as a member of the City Board of Health; for three years as County Hospital
Surgeon and Physician, and for several terms as a member of the City Board of
Education; acting as Secretary of the Board and ex-officio
Superintendent of Schools. He was married in 1863, to Celia, daughter of Rev.
Peter Crocker, formerly of Richmond, Indiana, and Barnstable, Massachusetts.
They have three living children two boys, Gustavus and Samuel, and one girl,
Celia. A view of Dr. Simmons' residence appears on another page.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 291.
SLATER, JOHN F., manufacturer, importer and dealer in
hats, 409 J street, Sacramento; was born in Hagerstown, Md., in 1841. In 1845,
moved with parents to Newark, N. J.; remained until 1849; then to St. Louis,
Mo., and soon after by the Isthmus route to California, arriving in 1852. After
mining in the mountains for two years, he learned the hatter's trade in San
Francisco, finishing it in 1861, with J. C. Meussdorffer; then, as a journeyman
hatter, started eastward, working in New York for a short time; then went to
Europe, worked in Paris, Berlin and Frank-fort; also traveled through Germany,
Italy, Switzerland and England, to learn all the different modes in his
business. Returned in 1865, and commenced business in Sacramento as manager for
J. C. Meussdorffer, whom he succeeded in 1877. Married. Annie R. Hoagland, June
26, 1867, a native of Salem, N. J. They have two sons, John C., born August 19,
1870; Henry D., born October 24, 1872.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
SNIDER, DR. T. A., lives at 913 M street, Sacramento, his
Post Office. His office is southeast corner K and Second streets. He was born
in Albemarle County, Virginia, October 13, 1824. Studied medicine with his
father, Dr. J. Snider; attended medical lectures for two years at Philadelphia;
a course of lectures for two years at Transylvania University, Kentucky, and
another course of lectures at the University of Louisiana, in New Orleans,
where he graduated in 1848. Dr. Snider practiced his profession in North
Louisiana till the close of the war of the Rebellion. In 1868 he removed to
California and located in Sacramento, where he has since success fully followed
the practice of medicine. Dr. Snider was married in 1849, to Miss Mary Connell,
by whom he has eight children, five boys and three girls, all of whom, except
the youngest son, were born in Louisiana. The oldest daughter is married to Mr.
J. H. Glide; the oldest son, Thomas C., is in charge of the ranch of 800 acres
in Yolo County, on the Sacramento River. The next son, Adrian H., is in the
junior class at the University of California. Miss Kate and the remaining
children are residing at home. Two of the sons, John and Fort, are attending
the High School; the youngest daughter, Mary, is a member of the grammar
school, and the youngest son, Willie, is in the primary school. When a resident
of Louisiana, Dr. Snider was a member of the Louisiana Medical Society. At this
time, he is a member of the California State Medical Society, and also of the
Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement. A fine view of the residence of Dr.
T. A. Snider may be found on another page of this book.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
SPIEKER, J. J., druggist, on the northwest corner of
Sixth and K streets, Sacramento; was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855, where
he remained until 1875, engaged in the drug business; he then came to San
Francisco, and in 1876 to Sacramento, where he embarked in the drug business at
his present location. In 1879, he married Miss Cornelia Ackley, a native of
Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
STARR, HENRY, attorney-at-law, Sacramento; was born in
Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, September 14, 1819; was raised on his father's farm
until sixteen years of age; then served an apprenticeship of three years at
tanning and currying of leather; went to the State of Maine in 1839, and
attended school at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary until 1841; then went to the
State of Connecticut and served as clerk of a boot and shoe store for one year;
emigrated to Illinois in 1842; read law with John J. Brown, of Chicago, and was
admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Illinois in May, 1844. Married
Sarah Ann Shipley, a native of Pennsylvania, in July, 1845; they have two sons
and one daughter living in Sacramento. Was elected County Judge of Grundy
county, Illinois, in 1849; came to California in 1852; was elected City
Attorney of Sacramento city in 1856; was elected from Sacramento county to the
Legislature of the State of California in 1859; was elected District Attorney
of Sacramento county in 1871, and served one term; has held the office of
Lieutenant, Captain, Major and Colonel in the State militia.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
STEFFENS, JOSEPH, merchant, Sacramento; was born in York
township, Upper Canada, January 15, 1837; his parents removed to Carroll
county, Illinois, arriving in May, 1840, where his father, stepmother and two
children still reside; he was deemed physically weak, and at the age of
nineteen was by his parents advised to leave the farm, attend the Rock River
Seminary, Ogle county, Illinois, and Bell's Commercial College, Chicago, to
prepare for a mercantile life. After leaving those institutions, and teaching
school two on three terms, in 1859 he engaged with G. M. Clayton & Bro.,
paints and oils, Freeport, Illinois, at $20 per month, where he remained three
years. In the summer of 1862 he crossed the Plains, with Levi Carter, now of
Stockton, arriving in Sacramento and San Francisco September 9. The last of the
same month he secured the position of bookkeeper with Fuller & Heather,
paints and oils, San Francisco, at $50 per month; remained with them until the
house consolidated with that of Cameron, Whittier & Co., same business, in
1869, under the name of Whittier, Fuller & Co. After one year there he
came, in February, 1870, to Sacramento, to take charge of the firm's branch
here. He was admitted as partner in this firm in January, 1874, being still a
partner in the Sacramento house. January 15, 1865, at San Francisco, he married
Miss E. Louisa Symes, of Hoboken, New Jersey, who arrived in that city by the
"Moses Taylor" November 27, 1862. They have four children Joseph
Lincoln, born in San Francisco, April 6, 1866; Lulu, in same city, August 24,
1868; Lottie, born in Sacramento, October 26, 1872, and Laura, in same place,
June 18, 1874. Store, Orleans Building; residence, southeast corner Sixteenth
and K streets.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
STRONG, DEMAS; was born at Middletown, Connecticut, April
22, 1820. He served three years of apprenticeship in a watch-case manufactory,
of New York city, and seven years clerking in a wholesale house of the same
city. In 1847-8 he came to California, established trading ports at Big Bar,
and Sutter's Mill. Afterwards went to San Francisco, built a store, but in a
short time removed to Sacramento, where he continued merchandising. Mr. Strong
was one of the first Aldermen in Sacramento; was President of the Board during
the Squatter Riots, and when the Mayor was shot by the squatters, he became
Mayor. In 1850, returned to Brooklyn, N. Y., and in 1856 closed out his
business in California. Having studied law during his evening hours of
merchandising, he commenced the practice, and in 1854, he was appointed by the
city of Williamsburgh on the "Consolidating Commission," to
consolidate the Cities of Brooklyn and Williamsburgh; 1859, he was elected
Alderman by the consolidated city; re-elected in 1861; made a State Senator in
New York in 1864, and is the author of the law founding an Institution for the
Blind, at Batavia, N. Y. Originally, Mr. Strong was a Democrat, then a
free-soil man, (being a member of the Convention in 1848, that nominated Martin
Van Buren), and is now an active Republican. He was the projector of the
Brooklyn Cross-Town-Railroad, and in 1872-73, was the acting President and
Treasurer. Mr. Strong was married August 19, 1841.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290.
STRONG, W. R.; born at Scipio, Cayuga county, New York,
in 1817. Removed with his parents to Rochester, in 1821. Later in life engaged
as a druggist's clerk, till twenty-one years of age, when he commenced the
manufacture of buck gloves, whips, and so forth, on his own account. In 1849
came to California, engaged in the mines of Stanislaus, Calaveras, and Nevada
counties. During the year 1852, he removed to Sacramento city, and began the business
of merchandising, by dealing in fruits, seed, produce and the like. Married
first time at Rochester, where his wife died. In 1854, Wm. Strong married Mrs.
Jane Martin, a native of New Jersey. They have two children. A view of his
residence is given elsewhere. Post Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 290-291.
SULLIVAN, JAMES H., a contractor, of Sacramento; was born
in Montreal, Canada, in 1830. In 1833 moved with parents to Monmouth county, New
Jersey, and in 1835, to New York, he learned and worked at the cooper trade
until 1849, when he came to California around the Horn, arriving September 14.
Carried on coopering on Montgomery street, San Francisco, until 1850, burning
out twice in that short time. In September started back to New York, on bark
"Golinda," and was wrecked this side of Acapulco. Aided by Capt. Lane
and Capt. Mace, who were also passengers, they saved the vessel after it was
given up as lost by captain and crew, and made harbor without the loss of a
life. After a few months' stay in Nicaragua where he was engaged in transfer of
passengers and treasure, by that route, he gave up intention of going to the
States, and returned to California and started again in business of coopering
at Sacramento, which he carried on until 1857, when he abandoned it, to fill
the office of City Treasurer. In 1858, he went to Victoria, B. C., but returned
in a short time and carried on coopering as before, until appointed Deputy
State Controller. In 1859, returned again to cooper business, and in 1862 lost
nearly everything in the flood of that year. Then in company with John Rooney,
built by contract all the levee to Sutterville, and afterwards changed the
channel of American River near its mouth, so as to render it less dangerous to
the city. In 1863 and 1864, was Superintendent of Pond mine at Aurora. In 1864,
in company with John Rooney, contracted with the State, and completed a canal
30 feet wide on bottom, and 28 miles long, across part of Solano and Yolo
counties. In 1866 and 1867, served as Deputy Sheriff under James Lansing. In
1868, and 1869, in same office, under Sheriff White, and in 1870, and 1871, had
charge of Sheriff's office under J. S. Woods. Since then has engaged in
contracting and ranching. His ranch of 183 acres is seven miles east of
Sacramento, on the American river. Mr. Sullivan, married August 9, 1859, Emma
Anderson, a native of Australia. There were born to them seven children, of
which one son and four daughters, are now living.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 291.
SWEETSER, ALBION CHASE, who now resides at time northeast
corner of Tenth and G streets, in the city of Sacramento; was born in
Waterville, Kennebec county, Maine, November 3, 1818. He removed to Belfast,
Maine, in 1824. He resided here and in Winterport for the next seventeen years,
and learned the trade of a house and ship joiner. In 1841 he removed to Boston,
living there and in Cambridge during the next eight years; engaged in building
and in merchandising. In April, 1849, he started for California by the overland
route, and reached Sacramento on the 27th day of September of that year. It is
a remarkable fact that the company with which he came used no intoxicating
liquors on the entire journey. When they reached the muddy Mississippi and were
compelled to drink its waters, they were told by a man who professed to know:
"Now, boys, you must drink whisky, or this water will kill you," the
resolute answer to which was: "Then we'll die." They did not die,
however. Mr. Sweetser has resided in Sacramento now for more than thirty years,
having been in its early history, and down to the present time, one of the
staunchest temperance men. For years he was Deputy Grand Worthy Patriarch of
the Sons of Temperance and for two years was Grand Treasurer. After his arrival
in Sacramento he first engaged in the business of a builder and contractor;
this he followed until 1859, when he went into the real estate and insurance
business, in which he is still engaged, being now the senior partner in the
firm of Sweetser & Alsip. He married Miss Sarah Snow Pratt, a native of
Portland, Maine. They have had only one child, a daughter, who died in 1857,
aged two years, ten months and ten days. Mr. Sweetser has held the offices of
School Director and Secretary of the Board of Education; also of Notary Public.
He is a life member of the Sacramento Society of California Pioneers. In the
early days of Sacramento he took an active part in Sunday school work, being at
one time the Superintendent of the Congregational Sunday School for four years.
Post Office, Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 291.
TAYLOR, EDWARD F., Sacramento; has 560 acres of land; was
born in Clark county, Ohio, in 1836. Remained there until 1855, engaged in
school. Then to Sacramento, Cal.; remained until 1856, engaged in speculating.
Then to El Dorado county, and remained until 1869, engaged in the cattle trade.
Then to Sacramento; remained until the present time, engaged in land agencies
and speculating in land warrants, currency and scrip. Married Miss Susan Woods
in 1859, a native of Covington, Kentucky. They have three boys and one girl
living. Mr. Taylor has held the following offices: District Recorder, Justice
of the Peace, Member of Legislature and Register of United State Land Offices.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 291.
TAYLOR, L. S., attorney-at-law, Sacramento; was born in
Ohio, in 1827; remained until 1835. Then to Illinois; remained until 1850. Then
to California, engaged in the practice of law. In 1859 married Miss L. E.
Dixon, a native of Ohio. They have one boy and one girl living. Mr. Taylor has
held the office of Court Commissioner in 1869 and '70.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 291.
THRAILKILL, WM. OSCAR, D. D. S.; born in Mississippi,
December 25, 1854. He graduated at Baltimore, Maryland, at the age of twenty.
He came to California in 1877 and settled in Sacramento city, southwest corner
of Sixth and K streets, at which place he still resides. He was married in San
Francisco in 1878. In 1879 he published The Teeth, Natural and Artificial.
In 1879 he invented the "Eureka" plugging press and pluggers
(instruments for manipulating materials and filling teeth); also the
"Eureka" amalgam (a gold and platinum alloy for permanently filling
teeth), which he is sole manufacturer of. In the same year he opened a dental
depot in connection with the practice of dentistry, for the supply of the
various dental instruments and materials to the dental profession of the
Pacific Coast. In September of the same year he published a sample copy of the Dental
Zairus, a monthly journal of dental science, he occupying the position of
editor and proprietor. January, 1880, the Zairus was enlarged and
improved, and still continues a monthly.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 291.
TRACY, FELIX, the agent for Wells, Fargo & Co.,
Sacramento; was born at Moscow, Livingston county, New York, March 19, 1829.
Left New York for California March, 1849, arriving at San Francisco September
18; he engaged in merchandising until 1850. He then went to the mines, working
for a time on the North Fork of the American river; afterwards in the vicinity
of Downieville. In the summer of 1851 he entered the employ of Sam. W.
Langton's Express, as messenger between Marysville and Downieville, a position
full of incident and adventure, a portion of the route being at times only
passable by means of snow-shoes. In June, 1852, he entered the service of Adams
& Co., as messenger between Shasta and Marysville; made one or more trips
as messenger to Portland, Oregon, and also a trip in the same capacity between
San Francisco and New York city; upon his return from this trip he entered the
San Francisco office as clerk, and shortly after was sent by the company to
Salt Lake City to establish an express and stage line between Los Angeles and
St. Louis. This was the first express ever carried into Utah Territory. Mr.
Tracy, being left entirely without means by the failure of the company, was so
fortunate as to secure the position of Clerk of Quartermaster's Department
under General Step-toe, then in command of the troops stationed at Salt Lake,
and thus worked his passage back to California. Arriving in Shasta in July,
1855, he was appointed by the Pacific Express Company their agent at that
place. Upon the failure of this company, in the summer of 1857, he entered the
service of Wells, Fargo & Co., at Shasta, with which company he has
remained until the present time, a period of nearly twenty-three years. Mr.
Tracy took charge of the Sacramento office in March, 1868 and is probably the
oldest expressman in California, having been engaged in this business, with
less than three months' interim, a period of nearly thirty years. Mr. Tracy
served Shasta county two terms as its Treasurer. In Sacramento he occupied the
position of School Director for the city two terms, and for three years was
President of the Board; was also one of the Directors of the State Agricultural
and Mechanics' Art Colleges (elected by the Legislature) who selected time
present site of the State University. Mr. Tracy is respected and trusted by all
who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. He has long been a prominent leader
in the Presbyterian Church, and went as delegate from this State to the General
Assembly held at Chicago. Though modest and retiring, Mr. Tracy is a
first-class business man, so recognized, not only by the firm he has so long
and faithfully served, but by all with whom he has done business during his
long residence in California.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 291.
TRAINOR, H. C., of Green & Trainor, proprietors of
the Empire Market; was born in New York city, June 1, 1830, and remained till
1851, engaged in butchering. He then came to California by the Isthmus. He came
to Sacramento in June, 1852, and embarked in time butchering business for
himself in 1855, forming a partnership with Christopher Green. They have always
occupied the present location. In connection with this business they have a
ranch of 9,000 acres on which they raise grain and many of the cattle for their
market. In 1858, he married Rose
Toland, a native of Ireland. They have had seven sons, of whom five are now
living.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 292-293.
TREICHLER, HENRY, who resides in Sacramento, was born in
Staffa Canton, Zurich, Switzerland, March 19, 1821, and remained there until
1842, engaged in tailoring, then went to France and worked at some business
until 1845, when he came to the United States, at New Orleans and Memphis,
Tenn. Worked a short time at his trade, and at San Antonio, Texas, and Baton
Rouge, carried on the business for himself; leaving the latter place in 1849 he
came to California. On the Isthmus, he suffered very severely with the fever,
which induced him to decline a very tempting offer to stay there and embark in
sugar manufacture. Arrived in San Francisco, December 27, 1849, and soon after
embarked on a sail vessel, which on account of the great flood was more than a
month in reaching Nicolaus, in Sutter county. From there went into Auburn
mines, afterwards mined on the Yuba and worked elsewhere, part of the time
farming, until August, 1850, when he came to Sacramento. Ranch life for three
years near Sacramento was rendered disastrous by the floods, and in 1853 he
bought a small building, which he kept as a hotel until 1860, when he built the
Mechanics' Hotel on the same site, and kept it until 1869. In 1874, built his
present brick residence, cor. 20th and H. Mr. Treichler married Emma Zimmerman,
January 31, 1863, a native of Switzerland. There were born to them seven children.
They have now living two sons and two daughters.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 293.
TURTON & KNOX. William F. Knox was born in Boone
county, Virginia, in 1827, and remained until 1849, engaged in building. He
then came to California, settling in Sacramento. He is a member of the firm of
Turton & Knox, general contractors. The firm built the railroad from
Sacramento to Niles Station for the Western Pacific Railroad Company; from
Watsonville to Soledad on the Southern Pacific Railroad; from Healdsburg to
Cloverdale on the North Pacific Railroad; from Galt to lone on the Amador
branch; also the N. C. N. G. R. R. from Colfax to Nevada City. Mr. Knox was
appointed by Governor Irwin as one of the Commissioners of the Sacramento River
Drainage District. He was President of the Sacramento Society of California
Pioneers for one term. He was Second Trustee and ex-officio Street Commissioner
for six years. In 1857 he married Miss H. A. Farnsworth, a native of Virginia,
who came across the Plains in 1850. They have two sons and two daughters. WILLIAM TURTON crossed the Plains from
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1849; arrived at Bidwell's Bar, on Feather river, in
October. He married Miss Ellen Kaye, in Milwaukee, in 1846. They have one son
and four daughters. He resides on the southwest corner of O and Seventh
streets.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 293.
VAN HEUSEN, GRAHAM K., of the firm of Van Heusen &
Huntoon, manufacturers of and wholesale and retail dealers in furniture, J
street, Sacramento, was born in Albany, New York, in 1814, where he engaged in
carpentering until 1837, and then he went to Brooklyn, where he was a
manufacturer of sashes, doors and blinds. In 1849 he came to California by way
of the Isthmus, arriving in Sacramento October 11, 1849. He immediately
embarked in the contracting business. The first house he erected was the
Elephant House; he also built the Sutter Hotel and several buildings for Samuel
Brannan. Having brought with him sash and door tools he had a monopoly of the
business for a time. In 1854 he started in the furniture business and in 1868
received J. L. Huntoon as partner. In 1852 he married Miss Sarah Harned, born
in New York, in 1823, who died in 1876. They have three sons and two daughters.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 293.
VENABLE, ABRAHAM B.; was born in Prince Edward county,
Va., in 1840. He graduated at College in 1857, and in the law in 1860. He
entered the Confederate army in April, 1861, as a private, and participated in most
of the battles of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was promoted several times,
wounded three times and taken prisoner once. At the close of the war he
practiced law at Farmville, Va. Founded the Planters' Bank of that place and
was one of its officers for six years; also Banking and Insurance Co. of same
place, and was its President for six years. He established and edited The
New Commonwealth, a newspaper of Farmville, and subsequently founded the Daily
Appeal at Petersburg, Va. Bought out the Daily Index and combined
with the Appeal into the Daily Index-Appeal, which he edited
until he became editor of the Richmond Enquirer. He was Director of the
State Central Lunatic Asylum three years; was District Military Examiner for
three years. He was financially ruined in the panic of 1873. He then came to
California and edited the Daily Examiner of San Francisco, nine months.
He was Secretary of the State Board of Transportation Commissioners. He is now
practicing law at No. 45 Fourth street, Sacramento. He was married, March 28,
1865, to Miss Sally Spotwood Bridges, a native of Richmond, Va.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 293.
WEBER, F. H. L., grocer and dealer in feed, produce, 1217
and 1219 L street, Sacramento, was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1835. Came to
New York alone in 1846, and was employed in a drug store until 1849, then moved
to Wisconsin and was engaged in farming until 1859, in which year he came to
California overland and engaged in same occupation until 1861, when he
volunteered his services for three years in the army, and by re-enlistment
served until 1867, being among the last discharged from the service. He engaged
in his present business in April, 1869, and in 1873 built the fine brick
building which he now occupies as store and residence. Mr. Weber married Lizzie
Weber in 1868, who was a native of Boston. There were born to them four
children, two of whom are now living, viz., Luther Theodore, born May 22, 1869,
Lizzie Etta, born July 31, 1870; Frank Parshall, born July 30, 1873, died July
2, 1877; Freddie Tileston, born September 27, 1875, died May 13, 1877. Mr.
Weber's land and improvements are worth about $10,000.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 293.
WEBSTER, J. R., was born in England in 1834, and remained
there for ten years. In 1844 he came to Boston, and for six years followed the
sea. He came to California in 1850, and for seven years followed various
pursuits, when he established a laundry, which he carried on till 1867. From
1868 to 1872, he was assistant storekeeper at the store of the C. P. R. R.
Company. During 1872, he went to St. Louis and engaged in railroad supplies and
metals; he then returned to Sacramento in 1876 and established the grocery
business which he has since conducted.
Was married to Mary Gaffney, a native of Ireland, in 1857. They have had four
children, two of whom are now living, viz., John F. and Kate F. Mr. Webster's
Post Office is Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 293.
WEISEL, CHRISTIAN, proprietor of the Baltimore Market,
wholesale and retail dealer in meat, leather, etc., 726 L street, Sacramento;
was born in Germany in 1834. He was a butcher and pork packer, and in 1852
emigrated to America and entered the same business in St. Louis. In 1854 he
came to Sacramento and has followed the same business here. He established the
Sacramento Glue Factory and the German Tannery. Mr. Weisel has been President
of the Germania Building and Loan Association since 1874. In 1860 he was
married and has two sons and three daughters.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 293.
WILCOX, NELSON, was born in Lebanon, Madison County, N.
Y., in 1825. He engaged in contracting and building at Hamilton, in the same
county, until 1858, when he came to Sacramento County, California. He farmed
until he moved into Sacramento city in 1866, since which time his business was
that of a contractor until 1877, when he entered the grocery business. In 1879
he became Superintendent of the Giant Crevice Mine. His property in the city is
valued at $12,000. In 1847 he married Miss Abigail Keyes, of Madison County, N.
Y. They have had eight children, of whom one son and one daughter are living.
Three were buried in Hamilton, N. Y., and three in Sacramento, Cal.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 293.
WILLIAMSON, ROBERT, resides in Sacramento City. He was
born in Louisiana in 1827, and in 1833 moved to Illinois. Here he engaged in
farming and nursery business until 1862, and then came to California were he
embarked in nursery and merchandising. He was the founder of the Capital
Nursery at Sacramento, and the Orange Hill Nursery, in Placer county, of which
Williamson & Co. are the owners, and he has a one-third interest in the
fruit, produce and seed store of W. R. Strong & Co., of Sacramento. In 1853
he married Miss P. M. Crawford, a native of Illinois. They have five sons.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 293.
WILSON. J. A., wholesale and retail dealer in furniture
and bedding, 415 J street, Sacramento; was born in Sweden, in 1819, and
remained there until 1845; engaged in the manufacture of furniture. Then came to
Boston, Massachusetts, leaving there in 1847 to go to New Orleans, where he
remained two years, after which he spent one year in St. Louis, Missouri, at
each of these places working at his trade of furniture making. In 1850 he came
to Sacramento, California, and clerked for Wilson & Spaulding over a year.
In 1851 made a trip east and married Ellen Quigley, a native of Ireland; with
wife returned to Sacramento in 1852; went to work at trade for others, working
for one firm ten years. In 1864, in connection with H. H. Hasselgren, started
in the furniture business, which they sold out in 1872. In that year Mr. Wilson
started in business alone, which he has carried on continuously ever since,
occupying his present location the past three years.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 293-294.
WINTER, CHARLES, Professor of Music, was born at Hanover,
Germany, on the 18th of October, 1828, where he received his education at the
Lyceum, which was flourishing at that time, under Professors Grotefend,
Kuehner, Curtuis and others. His musical education was under the direction of
the well-known and celebrated Dr. H. Marsdiner, the royal Capelmeister, and H.
Enkhausen, the Court Organist. He left Germany in April, 1849, for California,
via Cape Horn. He arrived in San Francisco in the middle of October, 1849, and
in company with seven of his fellow-passengers, under the Captainship of Fred.
Gerstaecker, the renowned traveler, took passage on a schooner bound for
Sacramento. The ship wrecked opposite where New York of the Pacific now stands.
They took to the small boats and had to pull up to Sacramento, where they
arrived in about four days. Here they bought mules and provisions to start for
the mines at Coloma, where they worked for a long time at the South, Middle and
North Forks of the American river. Sickness compelled him to leave his company
and start for San Francisco in time early part of 1851. Here he was caught in
all the big fires, on the 4th of May and 10th of June of that year, and lost
all he had made in the mines. There being no pianos at that time in San
Francisco, of course, he had to look after other business, and so it happened
that sometimes he was merchant, musician, clerk, politician, and, in fact,
everything else which offered him a chance to make his living. Since 1853
people from the East commenced to bring their families out, and then it was
that he commenced teaching music of the piano and organ, and helped to organize
the first musical societies of San Francisco, viz. : The Philharmonic Society,
now the Handel and Haydn Society, of which he was the first Musical Director,
as also the Harmonic and other singing societies. Up to 1859 he continued to
teach in San Francisco, but had to leave on account of sickness, and has since
then settled for life at Sacramento. Mr. Winter is a Vice-President of the
Pacific Coast Musical Association, is a life member of the Sacramento Society
of California Pioneers, has been for seven times one of its Directors, is also
an active member of the Turn Verein, and Director of the Turner Harmonic, a
Society well known in musical circles of California. He has been at several
times Director and pianist of the Sacramento Philharmonic Society, and organist
of the Congregational and Grace Churches.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 294.
YOUNG, JOHN N., law firm of Young & Young, southeast
corner of 5th and J streets Sacramento; was born May, 25, 1844; graduated from
the Law Department University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1869, came to
Sacramento in the same year and engaged in practice of law; was admitted to
Supreme Court of the United States October 23, of the same year: was member of
Board of Education in Sacramento City from 1877 to 1878; was elected to State
Legislature September 3, 1879. In February 1875 married Mary Josephine
Hamilton, a native of Santa Clara County, California, born December 6, 1853;
daughter of Rev. Hiram Hamilton; was educated at the State Normal School at San
Francisco; subsequently entered Perry's Seminary at Sacramento, graduating with
honor in May 1873. After her marriage she studied law in the office of her
husband, and on May 13, 1879, was admitted to the bar of Supreme Court of
California, after a most rigid examination; so that to her belongs the honor of
being the first, and up to this date the only woman admitted to the Supreme
Court in this State. In June 15, 1879, she formed a law copartnership with her
husband under the firm name of Young & Young. "Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper" of August 16, 1879, contains a fine portrait and
sketch of Mrs. Young.
SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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ZOLLER, LEOPOLD, Proprietor of M Street Meat Market,
corner of Eighth and M streets, Sacramento; was born in Carlsruhe, Baden,
Germany, in 1831, and came to United States in 1849. Was engaged in butcher
business in St. Louis, Missouri, until 1855, in which year he came to
California by way of Isthmus, on steamers George Law and Golden Age, arriving
in November. Worked for wages at butchering in Sacramento until 1858, and then
went to Camptonville, Yuba County, and engaged in the brewery business for a
short time. In October of the same year, returned to Sacramento, and started
his present business. Mr. Zoller married Josephine Niedacker, a native of
Alsace, in March 1858. Born to them five sons, of whom four are living, and
five daughters, two of whom are now living. He is owner of the brick building
which he occupies for business, and the fine residence adjoining.