Stanislaus
County
Biographies
GEORGE T. McCABE
George T. McCabe, a representative
of the mercantile interests of Oakdale, Stanislaus County, is a native of
Driftwood, Cameron County, Pennsylvania, born on the 6th of
February, 1858, and he traces his ancestry back to a Scotch-Irish source. His father, Asa McCabe, was born June 24,
1824, in Nova Scotia, learned the trade of a shipbuilder and removed to
Philadelphia where he followed his chosen occupation. He was also for some time engaged in building
bridges for the Philadelphia & Pittsburg Railroad Company, during the
construction of its line. He continued
in business in the Keystone state throughout the remainder of his life, and
died September 30, 1884, at the age of sixty years. He married Miss Nancy Sullivan, a native of
Ireland, born July 4, 1828, who yet survives her husband and is now living with
her son George in Oakdale, at the age of seventy-six years.
George T. McCabe is their only
child. He attended the public schools of
his native county and in early life engaged in clerking, being employed in
several mercantile concerns in the east, where he acquired a thorough knowledge
of the business. In 1884 he came to California,
locating at Knight’s Ferry, where in 1885 he established a general mercantile
business, meeting with excellent success and soon becoming a leading merchant
in the town. He continued in business until
1897, when he removed to his present location in Oakdale. Here he keeps a carefully selected stock of
goods, including everything found in a first-class general mercantile
establishment, and he enjoys the good will and patronage of a large portion of
the best people of the town and surrounding country. He is known to be a merchant of the highest
honor and probity of character and is an obliging and genial gentleman, so that
he makes friends, which has much to do with his success as a businessman.
Mr. McCabe was happily married on
the 16th of September, 1887, to Miss Kate Parker, a native daughter
of California, born at Knight’s Ferry, July 31, 1866. Her father, Domin
Parker, was a respected California pioneer.
Their union has been blessed with four children, namely: Velma B., Asa D., James Garfield and Ruth
Naomi. Mr. McCabe is a Republican in his
political views, and while at Knight’s Ferry he served for four years as the
postmaster of his town, by appointment of President Harrison. While there he also acted as notary public
and justice of the peace and was the agent for the Wells-Fargo Express
Company. Prominent in the Masonic
fraternity, he has taken the symbolic degrees and the chapter degrees and is
now a past master of his lodge. He is
thoroughly informed on all its teachings, its tenets and its principles and
holds high the standard of masonry, having no sympathy with anything that will
lower it. For the past four years he has
had the honor of being district inspector of the order, and both he and his
wife are members of the Eastern Star, in which she has taken an active and prominent
part, filling the position of associate conductress. They have made hosts of warm friends since
coming to Stanislaus County to reside and are highly respected by all who have
the pleasure of their acquaintance.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
“A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern
California”, Pages 650-651. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.