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EDWARD W. TRYON
A prominent business man of San
Joaquin County, who is extensively engaged in the raising of sheep and the
marketing of wool, is E. P. Tryon, residing at 234 East Cleveland Street,
Stockton. He was born near Sacramento,
California, November 8, 1871, a son of Horatio and Abigail (Cone) Tryon, both
natives of Ohio. In 1863 this family
migrated west across the plains with ox teams, arriving in Sacramento in the
fall of that year; later the father located at the Old Union House, which is
still owned by the Tryon estate and operated by a brother of our subject. In 1882 Horatio Tryon retired from his
farming pursuits and removed to Middletown, Lake County, where he passed away
in 1885, aged seventy-one years. He was
survived by his widow and five children.
The mother of our subject resides in Santa Rosa at the venerable age of
ninety-five, and retains her faculties, being interested in every-day affairs.
E. P. Tryon began his education in
the public schools and his earliest recollections are those of farm life and
sheep raising.
In 1901 he purchased 1,000 head of choice Merino sheep and the following
year he moved them to San Joaquin County, making his camp in Corral Hollow,
west of Tracy. Year by year he has
successfully carried on sheep raising, herding his flocks in the Delta and on the
West Side section of Contra Costa, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties. He owns 8,000 acres of choice range land near
Patterson, as well as a desirable farm and range in Calaveras County, about
seventy-five miles east of Stockton; the latter place is used for resting his
flocks when on their annual migration to and from the High Sierras and his West
Side range.
The marriage of Mr. Tryon united him
with Miss Mabel Alley, daughter of Mrs. Marie Alley of Stockton, who came to
California from Chicago, Illinois, in 1911.
Her father, Curtis Alley, a prominent insurance man, passed away in
Stockton in 1921, aged sixty-nine.
Fraternally Mr. Tryon is a member of the B. P. O. Elks, No. 218, of
Stockton.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1156. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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