San Joaquin County
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EDWARD ELBRIDGE HOOD
EDWARD ELBRIDGE HOOD, the
official court reporter and stenographer of San Joaquin County, was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, November 27, 1844, a son of John A. and Jane (Baker)
Hood, both born in Massachusetts, the mother in 1816, and the father a few years
earlier. The father, by trade a carpenter and millwright, came to California in 1850, and mined in Tuolumne County until 1853. The mother with her children, the subject
of this sketch and his sister, afterward Mrs. F. M. Renous, came out in 1852 by
the Panama route, arriving in San Francisco in May of that year. In 1856 the family settled in
Yreka, Siskiyou County, where the father has since followed his trade of
carpenter, and where the father and mother still reside in 1890. After his
arrival E. E. Hood went to school in San Francisco until 1856, when he moved to Yreka, going to school a
few months each year until 1862. Meanwhile he began to learn the art of
printing in 1857; and in 1862 went to a college and in 1864 to a law school,
from which he was graduated and admitted to the bar, October 1, 1866. The
ensuing year he came to this city and practiced his profession until he was
appointed court reporter in 1873. He had commenced to learn phonography while learning
his trade of printer, and by long practice had become an adept in the art. He
is a member of Morning Star Lodge, No. 68, F. & A. M.
Mr. E. E. Hood was married in Stockton, September, 14, 1867, to Miss Esther Hull, born in Galena, Illinois, a daughter of Philip and Clarissa Hull. The mother,
of American descent for several generations, died about 1879, aged perhaps
sixty; the father is engaged in stock-raising in Arizona,
in 1890, aged over eighty years. Mr. Hood’s grandfather, Jeremiah Hood, born in
Massachusetts, and a farmer by occupation, moved with his family to New
Hampshire and died in Milford, in 1864, aged about eighty; his wife Mary, some
years his junior, died a few years before, aged probably about seventy. Grandfather
Baker died in middle age, but his wife Nancy survived until
about 1872, being over seventy at her death. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Hood have four
children,--William Haskell, born in 1868, by occupation a seaman and now a
master mariner, holding the position of mate of a merchant vessel since 1889;
Francis J., born in 1875; Philip L., born in 1876; and Lettie Etta, born in
1878,--all three attending school in Stockton.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 368. Lewis Pub. Co.
Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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