Sacramento County
Biographies
HARRY
TILESTON LUFKIN
HARRY TILESTON LUFKIN was born October, 31, 1856, in “the brick house,” about midway between Richland and Freeport, on the Sacramento, his parents being David Tileston (see sketch) and Mary Ann (Dalton) Lufkin. He attended high-school and a preparatory school in Sacramento, but instead of going to the university he went to teaching school in Solano County, near Vallejo, at the age of twenty. He followed that avocation for seven years, and in 1883 went into business at Walnut Grove, where he still conducts a general store and a public hall, built in 1885. He is a member of the Masonic order, and of the Native Sons of the Golden West, and was a school trustee for three years. Mr. Lufkin was married July 16, 1879, to Miss Louisa Jane Wise, a native of this county, a daughter of Joseph (see sketch) and Nancy Jane (Phipps) Wise. Mr. And Mrs. Lufkin are the parents of three living children: Harry Roscoe, born June 3, 1880; Stella Grace, born October 30, 1886; and Irene Tileta, born November 27, 1889.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 673-674. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.