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ISAAC STOUTENBURG HAINES
ISAAC STOUTENBURG HAINES,
proprietor of the Avenue Stable in Stockton, was born in Rising Sun, Indiana, in 1832, a son of
Matthias and Elizabeth (Brower) Haines. The father, a native of Vermont, died in 1863, aged seventy-seven, and the mother, a native of New York State, died in 1874, at the age of seventy-four.
Grandfather Abraham Brower, a native of New York city, died in 1865, aged ninety-nine, and his wife Elizabeth
(Stoutenburg) Brower, also a native of New York, lived to be over seventy. A. Brower and M. Haines, both physicians,
were of the early settlers of Indiana, arriving in 1816, the former in
Lawrenceburg and the latter in Rising Sun. Jeremiah, a son of A. Brower, M. D.,
was also a physician in Lawrenceburg and served as a surgeon in the general
hospital before Vicksburg in 1863, where he died of blood-poisoning contracted
in the discharge of his duties. The subject of this sketch was partially
paralyzed in infancy, and at the age of fifteen sprained his ankle, when his
uncle, Dr. J. Brower, amputated the limb with such success that he has suffered
no serious inconvenience in all these years except a certain unavoidable
stiffness in the knee joint. Abraham Brower Haines, M. D., a brother of I. S. Haines, practiced in Aurora, Indiana, also served in the army from 1862 to 1865 as surgeon
in the Nineteenth and afterward in the Forty-sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
He died in Aurora, Indiana, in 1887, aged sixty-four. The founder of the Haines
family, Samuel Haines, was among the pilgrims of 1635, and settled in New Hampshire. I. S. Haines is a lineal descendant of the Deacon
Haines, in the seventh generation. The Browers are of Knickerbocker descent,
and the Stoutenburgs are Hollanders, who moved to this country previous to the
Revolutionary war. Mr. Haines has in his possession a ring made in 1727 for his
great-grandparents Isaac and Elizabeth Stoutenburg, enclosing portions of the
hair of each and inscribed with their initials I. and E. S. Mr. Haines was
educated in the district school in Rising Sun and afterward clerked in a store
at that place for four or six years. He came to California in 1852, and went to work at Fourth Crossing in Calaveras County as clerk in a store, remaining three years, when he
engaged as a farm hand for two years. He went East in 1857 and settled again in
Rising Sun. He was married in 1862 to Miss Margaret Smith, who died without
issue in 1880. After her death he returned to this State and settled in this
city, being engaged from 1880 to 1885 with his brother John S. on Main street in the stable business. In 1885 he bought the stable
now conducted by him at 308
Weber avenue. It is an old
location, established in 1853. Mr. Haines was again married in 1884, in this
city, to Mrs. Emily Petty, deceased, in 1886, also without issue. Mr. Haines
has been a Mason since 1857, joining the lodge in Rising Sun, of which his
father was a charter member. He is now a member of Morning Star Lodge of this
city.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 377-378. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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