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ROBERT RILEY
WILCOX
Although twenty-three years have passed since the death of R. R. Wilcox, the memory of his long years of honorable, upright life and kindly nature is cherished by those who knew him, and his name is inscribed high on the roll of California's esteemed citizens. He was a native of Rhode Island and in that state was reared and educated to young manhood, when he left his native state for Kansas where he homesteaded a tract of land and engaged in general farming.
Mr. Wilcox was married while residing in Kansas to Mrs. Julia (Summers) Titman, the widow of John Titman, a prominent and successful farmer and stockman, who passed away in early life survived by his widow and five daughters. Mrs. Wilcox was born in Indiana in 1848 and accompanied her parents to Iowa, where she married Mr. Titman. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox were the parents of two children, Mrs. Mary Thoman Agien, whose sketch also appears in this history, and Mrs. Annie Morgan of Stockton. In 1880, the Wilcox family came to California and visited at the home of their relatives, Frederick by name, at Ripon; three years later Mr. Wilcox located on a ranch near Taylor's Ferry on the Stanislaus River, where he farmed successfully until his death in 1899. He was classed among the enterprising, progressive and influential citizens of his locality and could be relied upon to support any movement for the advancement and development of county or state. Mrs. Wilcox survived her husband until 1914, when she passed away at Lathrop.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham,
George H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page 1511. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
©
2012 V. Gerald
Iaquinta.
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