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JAMES STUART MOULTON
JAMES STUART MOULTON,
Principal of the schools of Linden, 1886-’89, was born in Hiram, Oxford County,
Maine, September 28, 1856, a son of Jordan Fogg and Mary A. (Stuart) Moulton.
The father came to California in 1883, and is living in Stockton; the mother
with her two daughters came in 1885. She died September 25, 1887, aged
fifty-five. Grandfather Reuben Moulton, a farmer in Maine, lived to be
eighty-five, but grandmother Rebecca (Harmon) Moulton died at fifty-five.
Grandfather Asa Stuart, also a farmer, moved from Saco to Hiram, where he was
Selectman a number of years, and Representative in the Legislature one term. He
died in middle life. Grandmother Elizabeth (Andrews) Stuart, born about 1810,
is still living in Scarborough, Maine. The Moulton family, founded by an
English emigrant about three generations ago, were among the pioneers in that
section of Maine.
The subject of this sketch was brought up
on his father’s farm and educated in the public schools. He afterwards entered
the Normal School at Gorham, and taught his first school in Maine in 1877. He
was superintendent of schools in Hiram in 1880-’81, and has taught school every
year since 1877. In 1882 he came to California, and has taught in this county
every year since. In 1886 he came to Linden, and has been principal from that
time to the present. His first school in California was at Ripon in this
county.
Mr. Moulton was married July 31, 1887, to
Miss Edith Dow Yaple, a native of California, born January 14, 1867, a daughter
of Perry and Martha M. (Burley) Yaple, of Ripon. (See sketch of Mr. Yaple).
Mrs. Moulton was educated in the district
school of Ripon and the State Normal School at San Jose, from which she was
graduated in 1885. She has taught every year since, and has had charge, in 1888-’89,
of the intermediate department of the Linden school.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County, California,
Pages 631-632. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago,
Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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