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PAUL H. BOGGS
P. H. BOGGS, liveryman and
proprietor of the Stockton Horse Market, is a native of Warren, Knox County,
Maine, born October 8, 1837, and son of Paul and Elizabeth (Vose) Boggs. Paul
Boggs, also a native of Warren, Maine, and a merchant and shipbuilder, was in
the fifth generation from the progenitor of the family in this country, who was
Scotch-Irish. The mother of our subject was also born at Warren, and the Vose
were one of the fifty families which first settled in the town.
P. H. Boggs was reared and educated at his
native place, and at the age of eleven years entered his father’s store as a
clerk. Thereafter he followed mercantile pursuits, and from 1861 to 1865 was
engaged in the wholesale Yankee notion trade. In the latter year he came to
California for his health, landing at San Francisco from the steamer Golden
City, on the 16th of April, 1865. The same year he bought a $40,000
ranch on Sherman Island, and after a residence of three or four years in the
city he removed to his ranch and farmed there for eight years. During the next
twenty months he resided at Antioch, then returned to Sherman Island.
In 1878 the levee broke and the island was
completely flooded, and has remained in that state ever since, causing immense
loss to the land owners. In 1879 Mr. Boggs rented a section of land and put in
400 acres of grain. Just before harvest time, the following spring, he was
flooded out there, losing his entire crop. He then came to Stockton and
commenced business at his present location on Hunter street. He does a large
business in buying and selling horses, besides conducting a livery and feed
stable. He also has a grain warehouse on Roberts’ Island, which he built in the
fall of 1880. It is located at Lindstrom’s Ferry, and has a capacity for the
storage of 3,500 tons of grain.
Mr. Boggs was married at Warren, Maine, in
September, 1860, to Miss Eveline T. Andrews, a native of that place. They have
seven children, viz: Lizzie, Ada A. and Henry T., born in Maine; Mamie, born in
San Francisco; Helen and Clifford, born at Sherman Island; and Eva B., born in
Stockton.
Mr. Boggs is a progressive business man,
genial and courteous in disposition, and has borne up under unpreventable
disasters that would have utterly discouraged most men.
He takes an active interest in public
affairs, and, while not in any sense a politician, affiliates with the
Democratic party.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 595-596. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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