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ELMER E. CADY
A native son of California and the
son of a pioneer of the gold days, Elmer E. Cady has succeeded in the cattle
and sheep business to a profitable degree.
Born on May 2, 1867, at Stone Corral, Calaveras County, California, Mr.
Cady is the son of Addison and Bridget (McNamee) Cady, the father a native of
Massachusetts who walked across the Isthmus of Panama and arrived in California
in the spring of 1850. He first engaged
in mining in Calaveras County; then engaged in the hotel business in Pleasant
Valley, near Jenny Lind, for a few
years, then sold out and located at Stone Corral and ran a hotel and butcher
shop. In those days this section of the
country was wild and unsettled where Indians and wild animals abounded in
plenty. About 1875 the father moved
across the county line into San Joaquin County and bought 300 acres of land at
Bellota; this he improved by building a residence, barns, corrals and fences
and engaged in farming pursuits until his death in 1907. The Cady ranch was a landmark for many years
in that section and among the very first to be developed in the Bellota
district. Mr. and Mrs. Addison Cady were
the parents of ten children, five of whom are living: Addison resides at Linden; Elmer E.; Frank is
a farmer near Linden; Charles resides in Waterloo; Mrs. Julia Welch lives at
Sacramento.
Elmer E. Cady attended school in the
Bellota district and at the age of fifteen went to work on the Prather ranch
near Linden, where he spent seventeen
years, when he established himself in the sheep business and has been engaged
in raising sheep and cattle ever since, his present partner being Charles H. Harrold of Stockton.
Both of the partners own ranches near Bellota, where they carry on their
sheep industry, Mr. Cady owning 1,000 acres, a portion of the General Douglass
ranch, of which 160 acres is fine rich bottom land, which he farms. Mr. Cady was one of the organizers of the
Central California Wool Growers’ Association and is a member of the executive
committee of the Stockton branch; he is also a member of the California
Cattlemen’s Association.
The marriage of Mr. Cady in
Stockton, October 3, 1900, united him with Miss Elizabeth A. McDonald, a native
of Stockton and the daughter of Patrick McDonald, a pioneer blacksmith who
married Miss Margaret Fennell. Mr. and
Mrs. Cady are the parents of one son, Elmer E., Jr., a graduate of the Stockton
high school with the class of 1920.
Fraternally Mr. Cady is a member of the Stockton Lodge No. 218, B. P. O.
Elks, and the Knights of Columbus.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1572. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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