Santa Clara County
Biographies
FRANK FIELDING MOULTON
FRANK FIELDING MOULTON. In reviewing his forty-eight
years of life Frank Fielding Moulton has little of which to seriously
complain, the lights and shadows having been fairly evenly distributed, and a
reasonable number of advantages thrown his way. His is one of the pioneer
families of 1850, and he himself is a native son, having been born in San
Francisco October 9, 1856. For many years he has made his home in
Menlo Park, from which headquarters he is engaged in looking after his estate,
a work that he finds both congenial and remunerative, and leaves him an
abundance of leisure in which to enjoy the many things of interest to be found
along the coast. His family consists of his wife, formerly
Mrs. Nellie S. Pierce, and a daughter, Nellie Phyllis.
Mrs. Moulton was born in San Francisco, and her marriage occurred in the
town of her birth February 17, 1887. The Moulton home is at Fair
Oaks, and those who have visited it and partaken of its lavish hospitality,
agree as to the appropriateness of its name.
Mr. Moulton is the third of two sons and three
daughters born to Josiah and Adelaine Watson (Parker)
Moulton, both born in New Hampshire. Josiah Moulton was reared on a farm
in New Hampshire, and came to California in 1850, selecting the water rather
than the land route. He had a fair amount of capital to start with, and
established a paint and oil store in San Francisco, which gradually called for
larger quarters, and proved its owner a man of ready wit and resource. In time
he started a wholesale paint and oil business on Davis street,
and conducted the same with increasing success for many years, or until shortly
before his death, in 1886, at the age of sixty-four years. He was a man of
leading characteristics, of shrewd business sagacity, and unquestioned
integrity, and for years was a director in the Mechanics’ Institute of San
Francisco. In politics he was a Republican, and in general tendency a liberal
and progressive man. His children were given a practical common school
education, as well as more advanced training in the colleges of the west, Frank
Fielding being educated at Urban College.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard 20 April 2016.
Source: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Pages
1082-1087. The Chapman Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1904.
© 2016 Marie Hassard.