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DANIEL JOSEPH SPELLMAN
DANIEL JOSEPH SPELLMAN, of
the firm of Kenealy & Spellman, proprietors of the Stockton Works, was born
in Amherst, May 15, 1852. Mr. Spellman learned his trade in Boston while still
a youth, serving an apprenticeship of four years in the largest marble works in
that city, owned by Oliver M. Wentworth. He continued in the same city as a
journeyman nine or ten years, until he set out for California in 1876, arriving
in San Francisco, July 9, by way of New York and the Isthmus. He went into
business on his own account in San Francisco for two years, and came to this
city in 1879, where also he started a marble shop, which he also conducted
about nine years. In 1885 he formed a partnership under the style of Kenealy &
Spellman, and established the Stockton Marble and Granite Works at the present
location, corner of California and Rose streets. Mr. Spellman was married in
Stockton, July 15, 1885, to Miss Clara M. Walker, born in Ohio, February 3,
1854, a daughter of Henry A. and Sarah M. (Howland) Walker. The father, a
native of Vermont, died in Nashville, Tennessee, in June, 1864, at the age of
forty-three years, leaving three children, of which Mrs. Spellman is the only
one living in 1890. Her grandfather, Alvin Walker, a farmer in Vermont, lived
to the age of sixty-seven years, and his wife, Clara Fawcett, lived to be
eighty-five years old. The mother, also born in Vermont, March 18, 1827, a
daughter of John and Marion (Snow) Howland, was married in Woodstock, Vermont,
in 1850, and soon afterward moved to Ohio. Widowed in 1864, she came to
California in 1875, and is living in this city, in 1890. Her father, a native
of New Hampshire, moved to Vermont after his marriage, and was in his
seventy-fifth year when he died. The mother, also born in New Hampshire, lived
to be seventy-five years old. Grandparents James and Sally (Mason) Howland,
natives of Massachusetts, lived to be respectively ninety-six years old, but
his wife, Lydia Ager, died at the age of fifty-five years. Great-Grandfather
John Howland, a Congregational minister at Carver, Massachusetts, lived to an
advanced age. He was a lineal descendant, perhaps the grandson of “John Howland
the Pilgrim,” one of the Mayflower’s historic band.
Mr. and Mrs. Spellman have two children:
Walker Maurice, born May 3, 1886, and Mildred Irene, born March 25, 1888.
Mr. Spellman is a member of San Joaquin
Lodge, No. 19, F. & A. M., and of Truth Lodge, No. 55, I. O. O. F.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 541-542. Lewis Pub. Co.
Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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