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JOHN LEWTHWAITE
JOHN LEWTHWAITE,
superintendent of the California Paper Mill of Stockton since 1877, was born on
the Isle of Man, October 26, 1844, a son of Alexander Lewthwaite and his wife
(by birth a Miss Kinraid). The mother died young in 1848, leaving six children,
all living in the United States. The father, born February 10, 1810, came to
America in 1856, settling in Saratoga County, New York, where he is still
living. Grand-uncle Anthony Lewthwaite, born in England, was ninety-four at his
death in the Isle of Man.
The subject of this sketch came to America
in 1857 with an older brother and his two sisters, to rejoin their father in
their new home. He there continued his education until the age of fifteen, when
he went to learn the papermaking business at Rock City Falls, New York,
remaining two years, and then in Pioneer Mill, West Milton, New York, about one
year. In 1862 he enlisted in the Seventy-seventh New York Volunteer Infantry,
serving about two years and ten months, to the close of the civil war. He was
wounded in the Wilderness and at Cedar Creek. Upon his discharge from military
service, Mr. Lewthwaite returned to work in the same mills in Rock City Falls,
where he first learned his trade, remaining one year. He afterward worked for
two years in a paper mill in Greenwich, Washington County, New York, until he
set out for California in 1867, coming by way of Panama. On this coast he
worked at his trade with S. P. Taylor & Co., in Marin County, until 1872,
when he made a visit of two or three months to Saratoga County, New York.
Returning, he came to Stockton and went to work in 1873 in Lane’s Mills, just
then converted into a paper mill. When the new works were erected on Mormon
Channel by the California Paper Company in 1877-’78, he was appointed
superintendent, and has held that position to the present time.
Mr. Lewthwaite was married in Stockton, in
1874, to Miss Alice C. Moore, born in Catskill, New York, in 1849, a daughter
of William U. and Eliza C. (Brandow) Moore, who came to California in 1870, and
are both living in this city, aged about seventy-five. Mr. and Mrs. Lewthwaite
have three children: William Edward, born December 29, 1875; John Bradbury,
August 13, 1877; Alice, October 17, 1880.
Mr. Lewthwaite has been a Mason about
twenty four years, joining the order in Greenwich, New York, about 1866, and
being now a member of Morning Star Lodge, No. 68, F. & A. M., of this city.
He is also a member of Stockton Lodge, No. 23, A. O. U. W.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 515-516. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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