San Joaquin County
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GEORGE ALLEN ATHERTON
GEORGE ALLEN ATHERTON, City
Surveyor of Stockton and County Surveyor of San Joaquin County, California, was
born November 14, 1860, a son of John William and Ellen (Osgood) Atherton, both
living in Marin County. His father, John W. Atherton, born in Maine about 1833,
was a seafaring man some five years, rising to the position of mate in the
merchant marine. He settled in California in 1858, where his wife, also a
native of Maine, joined him in 1859, coming to this coast by way of Panama.
Settling in Marin County, Mr. Atherton carried on a dairy business and also
some general farming, with San Francisco near at hand as a market. He filled
the office of County Supervisor for more than twelve years, and was the
Representative of his district in the State Legislature for two terms, being
elected on the Republican ticket. Mr. and Mrs. Atherton, senior, are the
parents of two sons and two daughters, of whom the subject of this sketch and
his sister Hattie, by marriage Mrs. Hyland E. Barber, are residents of this
city.
G. A. Atherton was educated first in a
district school in his native county and afterward in the University of
California, where he took a full course in civil engineering, and from which he
graduated in the class of 1880. His first employment after leaving the
university was with the Oregon Navigation Company, and afterward with the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company, as a surveyor. After three years’ service
with that corporation he came to this city in 1884, and was appointed Deputy
City and county surveyor. He was chosen city surveyor by the city council in
the spring of 1886, and in the fall of the same year was elected county
surveyor, and in due time re-elected for a second term, closing December 31,
1890.
Mr. G. A. Atherton was married in this
city, September 22, 1887, to Miss Hattie Weller, born in Stockton in 1864, a
daughter of the late George E. and Mattie (Saunders) Weller. Mr. and Mrs.
Atherton have one child, Edith, born March 17, 1889. Mr. Atherton is a member
of Truth Lodge, No. 55, I. O. O. F.; of Stockton Parlor, No. 7, N. S. G. W.; of
Stockton Lodge, No. 23, A. O. U. W.; and of Willow Lodge, No. 55, K. of P.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 533. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago,
Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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