San Joaquin County
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PATRICK ELIOT
PATRICK ELIOT, a rancher of
Douglass Township, deceased June 16, 1883. The subject of this sketch was born
in Otsego County, New York, March 1, 1810, son of George and Jane (McCarthy)
Eliot. The family moved to Kentucky and thence to Indiana, where the father
died on his farm in Putnam County, aged forty. The mother lived to be
seventy-two, dying in Iowa. Both grandfathers were emigrants, Eliot being
English and McCarthy Irish.
P. Eliot was brought up to farming, and
was married January 14, 1830, in Putnam County, Indiana, to Miss Ann Westfall,
born in Miami County, Ohio, a daughter of Levi and Margaret (Pettit) Westfall.
The family moved to Putnam County, Indiana, and afterward to Boone County,
where the father died, aged sixty-six. The mother died at Lafayette, Indiana,
aged sixty-eight, and was buried beside her husband at Thornton, Iowa.
Grandparents Jacob and Mary (King) Westfall died in Indiana, the former at the
age of seventy-seven and the latter about ninety. Grandfather John Pettit died
in Ohio, aged sixty.
Mr. and Mrs. P. Eliot came to California
by the Panama route in 1859, and on their arrival in San Francisco proceeded by
boat to Sacramento. They settled on a farm near Sutterville, where they
remained until 1862, when they moved to the 160-acre ranch in Douglass
Township, in this county, still occupied by the family. It is good farming
land, wheat and barley being the chief marketable products.
Mr. and Mrs. Eliot have had eleven
children, of whom ten are living in 1889: George D., born December 30, 1830, is
married and resides in Missouri; Levi W., born April 11, 1833, became a
physician and was married in Illinois. He came to California in 1876 and
practiced in Stockton eight years when he returned to the East, settling in
Valparaiso, Indiana; Margaret Jane, born July 1, 1835, by marriage, in
November, 1854, Mrs. Samuel A. Hummer, died in Illinois in February, 1856;
Isaac W., born July 16, 1837, came with his parents to California in 1859, went
East in 1861, studied medicine in Philadelphia, practiced in Chicago nine
years, returned to California in 1883, and is now an orchardist in Pasadena;
Jacob, born January 28, 1840, came to California in 1861, went East after a few
years, and is now a farmer in Washington Territory (or State); Henrietta, born
February 19, 1842, now Mrs. Peter Glasscock, of Clay Station, Sacramento
County, has one son, David Orpheus, born in March, 1870; Sarah Caroline, born
August 3, 1844, now the widow of Robert Nason, of O’Neil Township, who died
July 10, 1889; Francis Marion, born November 23, 1846, married November 30,
1869, to Miss Rose Bruce, now resides in Washington State (or Territory); they
have one child, Ernest D., born in 1883; Winfield Scott, born July 7, 1849,
married December 23, 1880, to Miss Mary M. Lewis, born February 11, 1858, in
this township, a daughter of David and Mary Ann (Medlin) Lewis; they reside on
the Eliot ranch, and have three children: Roy B., born August 11, 1881; Annie,
June 4, 1884; Alice Adele, June 6, 1886; Miriam, born June 2, 1852, married
September 7, 1870, to Barton Hurd, now a rancher of Yolo County; they have six
boys and three girls; Patrick Henry, born July 28, 1855, resides on the Eliot
ranch, and is unmarried. With his brother, W. S., he owns 500 acres near Clay
Station.
All the children have been well educated.
Besides the two physicians mentioned George D. also studied medicine, but did
not follow it as a profession.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 623-624. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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