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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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