San Francisco County
Biographies
CHARLES
BERNARD OVERACKER
CHARLES
BERNARD OVERACKER, a Deputy County Clerk of Alameda county,
residing at Niles, was born in Placerville, California, September 27, 1854, a
son of Michael J. and Katrina (Schulte) Overacker. The father, a native of Ohio, came to this
State early in the ‘50s, and, after spending a few years in the mining region
of Placerville, came to this county and took up the career of a farmer near
Centerville, which he followed until his death in 1881, at the age of
sixty-five. The mother is still living. The surviving children of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Overacker are Charles B. and Dora, now Mrs. R. J. Swain, of
Alameda.
Charles
B. Overacker, the subject of this sketch, entered the
University of California at sixteen, and
remained three years, leaving in his senior year because of ill health. Since arriving at man’s estate, a large part
of his time has been spent in different county offices—five years, 1877 to
1881, as deputy to Sheriff Tyrrell; one year as Deputy Tax Collector under
Charles E. Palmer; Deputy County Clerk, detailed as Clerk of Department Two of
the Superior Court, 1889 to 1891, and again Deputy
County Clerk by re-appointment in 1891.
Meanwhile he was engaged three years, beginning with February, 1883, in
mercantile life as traveling salesman for a San Francisco house; in 1886 he was
occupied chiefly with his fifty-acre fruit ranch at Niles, and in 1887-8 with the
California Nursery Company. He is much
interested in horticulture, giving most of his spare time to its study and
practice, more especially in the department of roses and chrysanthemums.
Mr. Overacker is a member of the University Society Zeta Psi; of Oakland Parlor No. 50, N. S. G. W., and of the
Alameda Club of Oakland. He was married
May 5, 1882, to Miss Ella M. Dayn, born in Illinois, a daughter of J. W.
and Mattie (Kilpatrick) Dayn, and granddaughter of
Colonel Kilpatrick, who was killed in the battle of Shiloh.
Transcribed by Donna L.
Becker.
Source: “The Bay of San
Francisco,” Vol. 2, Page 665, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2006 Donna L. Becker.
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