San Francisco County
Biographies
JOSEPH LINCOLN SCOTCHLER
JOSEPH
LINCOLN SCOTCHLER, of Scotchler & Gottshall,
real-estate agents of Oakland and Berkeley, was born in San Francisco, October, 1856, a son
of Joseph B. and Ellen M. (Taggard) Scotchler.
The father, born in Boston, May 7, 1831, a son of James and Harriet
(Huntress) Scotchler (see sketch of his brother, John J., in this volume),
after graduating from the high-school of New Bedford, Massachusetts, where the
family then resided, spent two or three years with Lawrence Grinnell in the
insurance business in that city. In 1852
he came to San Francisco by way of Cape Horn, and obtained a situation as
bookkeeper for a wholesale house, where he remained two or three years. After filling a similar position for another
mercantile house for about a year, he became the confidential agent of Jonas G.
Clark, who is famous among other things for having endowed the University of
Worcester, Massachusetts, with $1,000,000.
J. B. Scotchler filled several responsible positions in this section,
but was perhaps best known as the President of the Merchants’ Mutual Marine
Insurance Company of San Francisco, which he helped organize. He was its first Secretary and then its
President until his early death, October 10, 1874. He was also prominent in the Masonic
order. Six children and their mother
survived him. The sons are J. L., the
subject of this sketch; Thomas G. and Harold Scotchler. The mother, born in Charlestown,
Massachusetts, in 1832, a daughter of John L. Taggard, formerly a merchant of
that city and of San Francisco after 1852, is in good health and vigor for her
years. Her parents lived to be over
sixty.
J. L.
Scotchler was educated chiefly in the schools of Oakland, and in the University
of California, class of 1879; his first work was as bookkeeper for Whittier,
Fuller & Co., in this city; then in San Francisco with J. N. Knowles in the
shipping and commission business; then as cashier of the Sun Insurance Company
of San Francisco, organized in 1882, being its cashier and bookkeeper from the
first and continuing five years. In
July, 1887, he formed a partnership with Louis Gottshall, under the style of
Scotchler & Gottshall, real-estate agents, first at 1010 Broadway, and now
at the southeast corner of Ninth and Washington, Oakland, with an office also
in Berkeley. Mr. Scotchler has been
Chairman of the Republican County Committee, campaign of 1888. He is a member of Durant Lodge, No. 268, F. &
A. M., and of Oakland Parlor, No. 50, N. S. G. W.
He
was married in San
Francisco,
in 1881, to Miss Nellie B. Whirlow, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1858, her father
being of Pennsylvania and her mother of New England descent for several
generations. Mr. and Mrs. Scotchler have
three children: Wallace, Mabel and Nelson.
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. _,
pages 181-182 Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2006 Donna L.
Becker.
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