San Joaquin County
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LOVEMAN LUMAN RUMRILL
LOVEMAN LUMAN RUMRILL,
deceased, was born in Vermont, January 13, 1829, a son of John Loveman and
Susan (Chittenden) Rumrill, both of New England descent for several
generations. The father lived to be eighty-eight, and the mother seventy years.
Grandfather Chittenden was a Revolutionary soldier, and lived to an advanced
age; grandmother Chittenden’s family was long-lived, one brother living to the
age of ninety.
Loveman L. Rumrill, the subject of this
sketch, received the usual district-school education, and learned the trade of
millwright, which was also his father’s, and worked in that line for several
years in Springfield, Vermont. March 9, 1851, he was there married to Miss
Phoebe Diana Eddy, born in that State, December 4, 1829, daughter of Jacob and
Sally (Salisbury) Eddy, both deceased at the age of sixty and fifty
respectively. In 1860 Mr. and Mrs. Rumrill came to California by the Panama
route. After a few weeks in Stockton, and about three months in Murphy’s, they
settled on the Calaveras, spending four years working on a place about two
miles north of Waterloo. In 1864 he bought 160 acres, afterward 200, about ten
miles northeast of Stockton, where Mrs. Rumrill still resides, the owner of 360
acres left by Mr. Rumrill at his death. He had bought and sold other lands
during his life. The chief products of the home ranch are wheat and barley.
John Loveman Peck, a nephew of Mr.
Rumrill, is now employed on Mrs. Rumrill’s place. He was born in Vermont, April
21, 1850, a son of Hiram H. and Maria (Rumrill) Peck, both deceased.
Grandfather Calvin Peck was over ninety years at his death. J. L. Peck came to
California with his uncle in 1869, and lived with him until 1875. He then went
into cattle-raising in Lassen County, for five years, and afterward clerked in
a store at Hayden Hill seven years. For two years he mined in that district,
making only wages; and in 1889 came back to the Rumrill homestead to work on
the ranch for Mrs. Rumrill. He was married December 25, 1882, to Miss Ruth A.
Anderson, a native of Ohio, born September 23, 1862, of Harmon and Nancy
(Cummings) Anderson. She came to California with her widowed mother in 1865.
Mr. and Mrs. Peck have one child--Clarence Luman, born September 29, 1883.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 242. Lewis Pub. Co.
Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2008 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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