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MARQUIS LAFAYETTE McCALL
A highly esteemed business man and
rancher of San Joaquin County, residing on the Waterloo Road, is M. L. McCall,
who was born in Jefferson County, Missouri, March 24, 1882, the son of M. L.
McCall, a native of Ohio, who had married Annie Eliza Williams, who bore him
five children: Clarence; Llewellyn, now
deceased; Jennie, Mrs. Percy L. Bliss, of Oakland; Marquis Lafayette, of this
review; and Lyman C. In 1890, the McCall
family came to California; and soon after settling at Stockton, Mr. McCall
built the Aurora flouring mill on East Weber Avenue, which he conducted until
he retired in 1904. Those who remember
him recall a wide-awake, high principled man who was ever ready to lend his aid
to all worthy projects for the development of his adopted city and county. He died on May 10, 1914, at Stockton, at the
age of sixty-eight years. Mrs. McCall
passed away at the age of sixty-three years, on December 10, 1913.
M. L. McCall, the subject of this
article, attended the Jefferson school and the Stockton High School. He worked with his father in the mill from
the age of thirteen, at the same time attending school. In 1904, the father turned the mill over to
his two boys, M. L. and Clarence A., who carried on the business until
1910. The mill had a capacity of 150
barrels of flour per day; it usually was operated on a capacity basis.
At Stockton, on November 24, 1915,
Mr. McCall was united in marriage with Miss Ellen Victory Martin, born on the
old Martin homestead; and part of the house in which they live was built in
1853. After their marriage the young
couple began their married life by settling on the old Martin ranch, about ten
miles from Stockton, which is now owned by them and consists of 180 acres of
fine farming land. Mr. McCall is a
member of Charity Lodge, No. 6, I. O. O. F., and politically supports the best
men and measures regardless of party lines.
He is ever alert to do what he can for the betterment of his locality
and believes that the interests of one should be the interests of all.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
908. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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