San Joaquin County
Biographies
ELIHU BEECHER STOWE
ELIHU BEECHER STOWE, a
real-estate, insurance and general business agent of Stockton, was born in East
Granville, Massachusetts, June 15, 1856, a son of Elihu
and Elizabeth M. (Alling) Stowe. The father, Elihu Stowe, was a native of East Granville, Massachusetts,
by trade an ax-temperer, worked in the great ax
factory of Collinsville, Connecticut, and died in 1856, aged thirty-nine years,
leaving three children: Alta M., by marriage Mrs. J. B. Webster of this city,
now deceased; Lucy Adelaide, now Mrs. George Merrill, of Oakland, and the
subject of this sketch. The mother, born in Norfolk, Connecticut, February 25,
1825, was married November 29, 1848, and, left with these children at the death
of her husband, was again married in 1859 to Edwin P. Stowe. The family came to
California in 1859, and, after a few years’ residence in Marysville and Capel valley, came to this county about 1863, settling in O’Neil
Township, where Mr. Stowe bought 180 acres in 1866, about five miles east of
Stockton. Mr. Stowe died in 1878, and Mrs. Stowe still resides upon the farm.
Grandmother Stowe died in her Eastern home at the age of eighty-four; and
grandmother Alling died in this county aged
eighty-seven, having spent the last few years of her life with her daughter,
Mrs. Stowe and Mrs. J. L. Beecher. The Stowes and Allings are of New England descent for several generations,
and, including the Beechers and relatives by
marriage, there are about thirty-seven in this county.
E. B. Stowe, the subject of
this sketch, received his education in the district-schools, with a brief
period in the high school of this city, in all about six years. He began to
work at the age of seventeen, as clerk in a clothing house of this city,
continuing in that line to the age of twenty-two. In 1879 he engaged in the law
and patent agency business with J. B. Webster, of this city, remaining in that
connection until January, 1887. He then formed a partnership in the real-estate
and insurance business with George Hornage, under the
style of E. B. Stowe & Co., and after eighteen months bought out his
partner in July, 1888, and has since carried on the business alone under the
style of E. B. Stowe. He buys and sells real estate, places insurance,
negotiates loans, solicits patents, making the necessary drawings, and makes a
specialty of collecting old and disputed claims, and
of attending to legal business.
Mr. E. B. Stowe was married
in Merced, California, January 31, 1882, to Miss Irene Adelle
Howell, born in Calaveras County, March 14, 1858, a daughter of William L. and
Irene Adelle (Aldrich) Howell, both natives of
Pennsylvania, and now residing in this city. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Stowe have two
children, William Elihu, born April 12, 1883, and
Herbert Arthur, born April 13, 1886. Mr. Stowe is a Republican in politics, a
member of Stockton Lodge, No. 11, I. O. O. F., and of Stockton Lodge No. 23, A.
O. U. W.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 453. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Golden Nugget Library's San Joaquin County
Biographies
Golden Nugget Library's San Joaquin County
Genealogy Databases