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SAMUEL WALKER ELLIOTT
SAMUEL WALKER ELLIOTT,
superintendent of the Stockton Combined Harvester and Agricultural Works, was
born in Bow, New Hampshire, March 16, 1850, a son of James G. and Elvina
(Walker) Elliott. The father, born in August, 1827, is a farmer in the town of
Bow, about five miles from Concord, New Hampshire, in 1890. Grandfather Samuel
Elliott died at the age of forty-nine; grandmother Martha (Green) Elliott is
living in Bow, New Hampshire, in 1890, aged eighty-nine; her father “Colonel”
Green, was ninety-three at his death, in the same town.
S. W. Elliott received a common-school
education and helped on his father’s farm in a small way until 1864, when he
went to learn his trade of carriage-making with the Concord Coach Company,
entering the wood-work department. He remained with that concern six years,
three of which were spent as an apprentice and the others as journeyman. In
1870 he went to work in his line in Amesbury, Massachusetts, and had an
opportunity to get a comprehensive understanding of the carriage-making
business in all of its departments. There he was placed in charge, in 1880, of
a carriage factory having a capacity of manufacturing 2,000 vehicles of all
kinds annually.
In 1883 he was induced to come to this
city, and was employed by the Holt Brothers, of the Stockton Wheel Company,
with whom he remained until 1888. He then found it of financial advantage to go
to work for his present employers in the Stockton Combined Harvester and
Agricultural Works, as superintendent of the car department, and at the annual
meeting of the directors in 1889 he was chosen superintendent of the works.
Mr. Elliott was elected to the city
council in 1886 and held that office until the adoption of the new charter,
which became operative in June, 1889.
He has been an Odd Fellow since the age of
twenty-one, joining the order in Concord, New Hampshire; was afterward a member
of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, and is a charter member of Truth Lodge,
No. 55, of this city, being also one of its first representatives to the Grand
Lodge of California.
Mr. S. W. Elliott was married in Concord,
New Hampshire, June 7, 1870, to Miss Estelle E. Judkins, born in that State
December 26, 1852, a daughter of Gilman and Adeline (Garvin) Judkins, both
living in that city. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott have two children: Frederick Weeks,
born in Massachusetts in July, 1878, and Estelle May, born in Stockton,
December 26, 1885.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County, California,
Page 623. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago,
Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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