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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.


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