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BARRY M. BAINBRIDGE
An attorney of Stockton of wide
influence is Barry M. Bainbridge, who was born at Paulingville,
in St. Charles County, Missouri, on June 30, 1865 the son of Dr. James A. and
Mary Elizabeth (Herold) Bainbridge, the former a native of Wisconsin, the
latter of Missouri. Both are now
deceased, kindly remembered by many for the usefulness and nobility of their
lives. Dr. J. A. Bainbridge was an
eclectic physician, and was educated at the Cincinnati Medical College; and he
practiced his profession in Wisconsin and Missouri. They arrived at Stockton on December 14, 1874
and took rooms at the old Antelope Hotel, which stood at the corner of
Sacramento Street and Weber Avenue. The
father bought two separate sections of land near Ripon, one of which is now
known as the West Vineyard Colony, and practiced his profession in the San
Joaquin Valley, in a territory extending from Sacramento to Merced, and
eastward into the mountain counties. For
many years, often at much inconvenience and through unwearyingly labors, he
ministered to the sick and unfortunate, and was beloved by the wide circle to whom he was so well known.
He was an active man to within a short time of his death, which occurred
in May, 1914 at the age of eighty-one.
He was a Master Mason.
Ten children were born to this
worthy couple, five being boys and five girls, and two of the sons followed in
the professional footsteps of their father.
Dr. J. C. Bainbridge is a resident of Santa Barbara, while E. D.
Bainbridge was the only one of the family to follow farming as a livelihood,
and he now resides on his ranch, three miles northeast of Ripon. He undoubtedly derived much guidance from his
mother; for while Dr. Bainbridge practiced medicine, the sons managed the home
ranch, under the leadership of Mrs. Bainbridge, who had exceptional executive
ability.
As a boy, therefore, Barry
Bainbridge also worked upon the home farm, helping to fence one of the sections
of land, the first section so to be enclosed in the district; and at that time
the entire valley was a vast grain field, and houses were few and far between. He attended the public schools of Stockton,
and also the Stockton Business College.
At the age of eighteen he received a teacher’s certificate, and for
twenty years in the county taught school, both in country districts and in the
City of Stockton, and in the Sacramento as well as the Stockton Business
College. During this period of his
pedagogical activity, he studied law, and after putting in one year at the
University of California, was admitted to the Bar on June 24, 1907. He served as justice of the peace of Castoria Township, and is now an honored member of the San
Joaquin County Bar Association, and one of the American Bar Association.
Mr. Bainbridge has been twice
married, and he had two children by his first wife. Moire L. Bainbridge
is a detective in the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and a daughter
is Mrs. Lima A. Dahl, of Watsonville. By
his second wife he has one child, James Clark Bainbridge. Mr. Bainbridge joined the Truth Lodge of Odd
Fellows, No. 55, at Stockton, and later was demitted to Farmington Lodge, No.
296. He is also a trustee and member of
the Loyal Order of Moose at Stockton.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1324. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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