Sacramento County
Biographies
MURDOCH ALEXANDER MacDONALD
MURDOCH ALEXANDER MacDONALD.—A substantial and thoroughly dependable representative of Sacramento
County is Capt. Murdoch Alexander
MacDonald, who was born on June 25, 1869, in Sutherlandshire,
in the Highlands of Scotland, the son of Kenneth and Catherine (MacGlashan) MacDonald. His father was proprietor of
the Tourist Hotel until he passed on. The mother was laid to rest in the
native country.
Mudoch Alexander MacDonald, the third oldest in a family of
five children, was educated in the schools of Scotland. For
a while he helped his father, who had a tourist hotel in the Highlands of
Scotland, there being thirteen lakes in easy distance and noted for trout
fishing. When he was eighteen years old he emigrated
to the United States and located in San
Francisco in 1887, where he stayed for one
year. He then went to Fresno County where he stayed
for a short time, and then came to Stockton, Cal., and was
employed on the dredges. He became captain of dredges and worked on
reclamation of Rough and Ready, Union and Roberts
Islands and other islands in the Sacramento
delta. He is now captain of the "Lisbon,"
one of the largest dredges employed in reclamation work. He has made his
residence for many years in Stockton,
residing with his family at 2916 E Street.
The
marriage of Capt. MacDonald occurred in Stockton, and
united him with Miss Cecil Metcalf, born in Napa
of pioneer parents of English descent. They were blessed with four
children: Myrtle, Bernice, Jeanette, and Emery. The latter, when
seventeen, joined the aviation section of the United
States army, being stationed at Kelly field
for nine months, until he was mustered out. Soon after his return home he
was accidentally shot and killed while hunting. Although a Republican,
Captain MacDonald maintains a nonpartisan attitude, voting for the man rather
than the party. Fraternally, he is an Eagle, and has been a member of the
San Francisco Caledonian Club for twenty-six years, and is a member of the
Caledonian Club of Sacramento. He is very fond of outdoor life, and is
especially interested in hunting and fishing.
Transcribed 5-17-07
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 809-810. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.