U.M. REESE

 

U.M. Reese, contractor and builder, Sacramento, was born in Dansville, New York, June 14, 1826, the third of a family of five children, four of whom were sons. His father, John Reese, was a native of Pennsylvania, and was reared in his native State. After reaching manhood he enlisted and served in the War of 1812. After his return he emigrated to New York State. The subject of this sketch received a common-school education, and learned the trade of carpenter and joiner with his two older brothers, and afterward worked at his trade in Rochester, New York, and also in the city of Buffalo. On the 24^th of February, 1852, he went to New York and embarked for California, on the ship Georgia, which was disabled and put back. He was transferred to the Ohio at Havana, and finally arrived at San Francisco on the 1^st of April, 1852. He went to Stockton, and from there on foot to the southern mines, and returned to Sacramento in the same manner, and went to work at his trade for George Wallace, the builder. In 1860 he went to Virginia City, Nevada, and was there during the Indian war, in which General Meredith and Major Ormsby were killed. In June 1864, Mr. Reese was married to Miss Carrie E. Trimble, daughter of John Trimble, of New York, and they have one son living, Charles E. Reese, engaged in mercantile business on J Street, in this city. Mr. Reese returned to Sacramento in 1868 and engaged in contracting, and since then for the past twenty years has been prominently identified with building interests in this section of the State. He has erected a large share of the finest buildings in the Capital City. He is a member of Capital Lodge, No. 87, I.O.O.F., also a member of Occidental Encampment, and a member of Patriarchs Militant, and served as District Deputy Grand Patriarch. For the past fourteen years he has resided at his present comfortable, attractive home on H Street.