A Volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of northern California, including biographies of many of those who have passed away, Part 54

Author: Standard Genealogical Publishing Company, Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Chicago, Standard Genealogical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 902

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in the future of Califorma than of Nevada, he that year returned to Sacra- mento to accept the management of the business of the Bell Conservatory Company and later became sole owner of the enterprise. In 1889 he admitted a partner to the business and to him was left the management of the nursery. while Mr. Dillman turned his attention to the colonization and settlement of various tracts of land. He dealt in lands in Placer, Eldorado and Sacramento counties, and in 1895 he disposed of his nursery interests and placed his land in the hands of a real-estate agent, in order that he might have time to assist in the organization and development of the Capital Telephone & Telegraph Company. He became one of its leading stockholders and was made vice- president and general manager. The business has increased with the utmost rapidity and has become a very important concern in commercial circles. It was established with two hundred and fifty local instruments, but has grown until it now has an exchange of fourteen hundred local telephones, together with territorial lines extending through Sacramento county into Placer. Eldorado, Amador and Yolo counties. He was one of the original founders of the Sacramento Improvement Association which did so much public-spirited work. Later he became a member of the Sacramento Street Improvement Company, and gave his time and money liberally to the work of the Sacramento Natural Gas and Development Company.

Mr. Dillman is a most public-spirited and progressive citizen, and has withheld his suport from no enterprise or movement calculated to prove of general benefit. Ile was one of the pioneer members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children: was one of the founders of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce; and for two years he served with public favor as a member of the city board of education. Also he was the president of the Sacramento County Citrus Association, which made stich an elaborate exhibition of the citrus fruit in Mechanics Pavilion in San Francisco, with other countries, in January, 1895. When the people, by the change of ownership and character in the street-railway system of the city, were about to lose the line running to the city cemetery. Mr. Dillman took hold of the matter, and, almost unaided, secured the right of way for the new Henry line along Tenth street and effected the increase in the bond issue to insure its construction. So, too, in many other public enterprises he has labored efficiently and unselfishly. He is one of that nature and disposition that pushes forward every good work on the basis of the truth that every man in the community owes it to his best energy to forward its · highest interests. Mere sympathy with a good work is not enough for him: he believes in laboring for progressive ends as well as combating error and viciousness.

In 188; Mr. Dillman was united in marriage to Miss Mary Josephine Drake, a daughter of James H. Drake, one of the pioneer citizens of Straw- berry valley, Yuba county. They are the parents of three children, of whom two are Iving. Margaret. the eldest child, having died when two years of age M. J. Jr .. and Pauline, aged respectively ten and six years, are both attending school.

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In his political views Mr. Dillman is a Republican, and his loyalty to the party in which he firmly believes is above question. In September of the present year, 1900, he received unsolicited the party's nomination for super- visor from the third district, the largest in voters in Sacramento county, and was elected by a majority of three hundred and fifty-seven, over a man who was considered the most popular the opposing party could name. Certainly few men are better qualified for office. He is precise and correct in business methods, familiar with public affairs and has a full knowledge of the econo- mies the county should practice in the administration of its business. In manner he is cordial and genial, yet without any assumed familiarity which is so often characteristic of those who become candidates for public offices. He is a broad-minded, liberal-spirited, progressive and determined man, and his business career and private life alike commend him to the confidence of his fellow men.

JAMES J. BRADY.

James J. Brady was born in Dublin, Ireland, on the 12th of May, 1830. a son of Philip and Ann ( Carlon) Brady, both of whom were natives of the Emerald Isle, where the father followed the trade of a tanner and currier. Both he and his wife were valued members of the Catholic church and they had a phenomenal family of eleven sons and eleven daughters, including several pairs of twins. The father attained the ripe old age of ninety years and the mother also lived to an advanced age.

James Joseph Brady was the eleventh son and the youngest member of the family. He was educated in the city of Dublin, but his opportunities were limited, and when only eleven years of age he was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade. Since that time he has earned his own living, depending entirely upon his own resources, and whatever success he has achieved is the merited reward of his labor. In 1846 he took passage on the sailing ves- sel Orizaba from Liverpool, England, and they landed at New Orleans on Christmas day of that year. There were many passengers on the ship and forty-seven died during the voyage and were buried in the ocean. Mr. Brady was then but sixteen years of age.

He came to this country with his brother John, who was the eldest of the family, and he worked at his trade in New Orleans until 1852. He was married in that city to Miss Mary McCann, a native of county Cavan, Ire- land, who came to the United States in 1848. Mr. Brady left his wife with relatives in New Orleans while he proceeded to California, in 1852, hoping to acquire a comfortable fortune in the Golden state. He journeyed by way of the isthmus route, and from San Francisco made his way to Coon Hol- low, in Eldorado county, where he was engaged in mining, working for wages, at six dollars a day. He remained with his first employer for four days and three nights and thus received his first start in California. Subsequently he went to White Rock where he secured a claim of his own, but he was never fortunate in his mining operations. As soon as he had acquired sufficient

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money he sent for his wife, who came by way of the isthmus route in com- pany with a young lady friend, arriving at White Rock late in July. The re- union was a happy one and in 1855 they took up their abode in Upper Rancheria, in Amador county, where Mr. Brady secured a claim which he operated for a short time, meeting with only moderate success, however. lle was there twenty months, working on his own account.

Ile then removed to Dutch Flat, where he arrived on the 3d of July. 1857. Here he engaged in mining and working at his trade. He has erected many of the buildings in his town, and these stand as monuments to his in- dustry and handiwork. The pleasant cottage in which he and his wife now reside was erected by him in 1858. During the forty-eight years in which he has made his home at Dutch Flat he has acquired the reputation of being one of the most reliable and trustworthy citizens of unimpeachable honesty and unflagging energy. His integrity in all business matters has gained him an unassailable reputation and he enjoys the unqualified confidence and re- gard of his fellow townsmen. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Brady have been born five children, namely : Charles, who is now residing in Marysville : George, of Sac- ramento: Ann. who won second honors in her graduating class in the San Jose normal school and became a successful teacher at Dutch Flat, but de- parted this life in the twenty-second year of her age. beloved by all who knew her: an infant who died at the age of fifteen months; and Carroll, who departed this life in the twenty-seventh year of his age.

Mr. and Mrs. Brady have the love and sympathy of many of the leading and influential citizens of the town. Their residence here covers a long period and they are widely known, their circle of friends being almost co- extensive with the circle of their acquaintances. In his political affiliations Mr. Brady has been a life-long Democrat, yet has voted for the men whom he regards as best qualified for the office at local elections where no issue is involved. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having been one of its faithful and active members for the past twenty-seven years. He has filled all the chairs in the lodge and has ever endeavored to live up to the beneficent and ennobling principles of the fraternity. His career is a crellit to the order and he is highly esteemed by his brethren, all of whom have a good word for the kind-hearted James Joseph Brady, who for forty- eight years has been actively identified with the interests of California.

HENRY LUKE.

Henry Luke, who has served as a supervisor of Nevada county and has been actively and honorably identified with the growth and prosperity of Grass Valley since 1866, was born in Cornwall, England, on the 14th of December. 1848, being the youngest of the eight children born of William and Anna ( Ward ) Luke. His father and mother were descened from old English families, and the former died in 1857: but the mother survived until 1882, when she also joined the silent majority.

Henry Luke spent his youth in the land of his nativity, and in early life

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began work in the mines, where his father had been employed for many years. At the age of eighteen he came to America, taking up his abode in Grass Valley in that year. 1866. For fifteen years thereafter he was actively connected with the mining interests in that section of the state, and then turned his attention to merchandising. He established a boot and shoe store and soon afterward added a stock of dry goods, carrying on business in those lines for fifteen years. At the present date he is the proprietor of a well equipped "delicatessen" store on Main street, and his son is now the active manager of the business, the father giving his supervision thereto but devoting most of his time to other concerns.

Politically Mr. Luke affiliates with the Republican party and is deeply interested in its growth and success. He became an American citizen in 1872 and has always voted with the organization that upheld the Union during the Civil war, that has ever stood as a protector to American institu- tions and that is now the champion of the policy of expansion. In 1896 he was elected county supervisor of the second district, and prior to that date he served for one term in the city council of Grass Valley, doing all in his power to promote the welfare of his town. In his social relations he is a "Red Man" and a Forester, and in the former organization he has filled many offices. His home life is very pleasant. He was happily married March 20, 1875. to Miss Kate .A. Eddy, a lady of English birth and a daughter of William C. Eddy. a miner of Grass Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Luke are the parents of twelve children,-William H., Lilly, John, Albert T., Effie, Hary W., Marguerite, Richard, Clifford, Mabel, Catherine and Fred. For more than a third of a century Mr. Luke has resided in Nevada county. He is a gentleman of broad intelligence, of sterling worth and unassailable reputation. and is numbered among the honored early settlers of this locality, a pioneer to whose energetic efforts his town and county owe their prosperity and prog- ress in no small degree.

CHARLES EUGENE DAY.

Of the "art preservative of arts," Charles Engene Day is a representative. being the editor and publisher of the Calaveras Chronicle, the oldest weekly paper in the state. The publication of this journal was begun in October. 1851, and has never missed an issue! Mr. Day has not only kept it up to its highest standing but has also improved it in many respects.

He was born on the 7th of September, 1862, and is of French descent. his father, Francis Day, having been born in France, whence he came to the United States when fourteen years of age, establishing his home at Mokelumine Hill in 1854. When making the voyage to California the vessel on which he took passage was shipwrecked on San Mezitas island, but with others Mr. Day succeeded in escaping to the island, losing, however, all of his pos- sessions. On a whaling ship he completed his journey to California and resided at Mokelumne Hill until his death, which occurred in 1897, when he was eighty-six years of age. He had married Miss Josephine Stiquel, a

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native of his own country. Their marriage occurred in New York. Mrs. Day came to California with relatives in 1856 and now resides with her son Charles E. at Mokelumne Hill, at the age of seventy-six years. She was the mother of four children, one of whom was born in the east and the others in this city.

Mr. Day of this review was educated in the public schools of Mokel- umne Ilill and here learned the printer's trade, continuing in the office from 1884 until 1892. after which he became a member of the force of the San Andreas Prospect for eight years. Since that time he has been the editor and publisher of the Calaveras Chronicle. He has made journalism his life work and is a capable and reliable newspaper man.

Mr. Day is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the former is a past master. while in the latter organization he has served as noble grand. He also belongs to the Order of the Daughters of Rebekah and is an exempt fireman. A lifelong Repub- lican, he upholds the principles of that party in the Chronicle, and through the columns of his paper he has done effective service for Republican inter- ests. He is now the chairman of the Republican county central committee and his management of the campaign is fruitful in its beneficial results.

In his business Mr. Day is associated with AAlfred Pincombe, who was born in Vallejo, California, on the 28th of January, 1862, and is a practical printer. He was admitted to partnership by Mr. Day, and both gentlemen enjoy the confidence and good will of the patrons of the paper.

JAMES W. JAMESON.

James W. Jameson, the postmaster and one of the merchants of Dutch Flat. is a western man by birth, training and preference, and is imbued with the true western spirit of progress and enterprise. He was born in the state of Nevada, on the 17th of November. 1864, and is of Scotch and Welsh lineage. His father, James Jameson, was born in Scotland, in 1831, and when a young man crossed the briny deep to the new world, locating in San Francisco, in 1849. In 1854 he became a resident of lowa Hill, where he followed the barber's trade. Ile at one time was a mine-owner, but lost money in his mining operations. For two years he resided in Nevada and then re- turned his home in California, taking up his abode at Dutch Flat, where he resided from 1865 until the time of his death, which occurred in 1886. When nineteen years of age he was married, and by that union were born three daughters. The ollest. Belle, deceased, was the wife of Frank Batcheller. of San Francisco: May became the wife of Zeb Day and resides in Oakland ; while Katie is now the wife of George Dansti and resides in Nevada City. After the death of the mother Mr. Jameson was again married, in 1850, his second union being with Mrs. Susanna Anthony, who had one son, Ed. 11. Anthony, by her former marriage. Two children were born of the second union: Maggie, now the wife of Charles F. Uren, a resident of Tuolumne : and James W., who is the immediate subject of this sketch. Mrs Jameson

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still survives and is now in the seventy-second year of her age, her home being with her son James in Dutch Flat. She crossed the plains with oxen in 1850 and is one of the courageous pioneer women who braved the dangers of that long and arduous journey and also met the hardships and difficul- ties of pioneer life during the early development of the Golden state. She is respected by all who knew her and her circle of acquaintances is extensive.

James W. Jameson was only two years of age when he came to Dutch Flat. He obtained his education in the public schools of the town, learned the barber's trade under his father's direction and at the age of fifteen began to earn his own living in that way, following the business continuously in Dutch Flat up to the present time. In 1894 he was appointed to the posi- tion of postmaster, which he has since acceptably filled, discharging his duties with promptness and fidelity and thus winning the confidence of all concerned. On the 8th of April, 1900, he purchased his present business and is now carrying a large stock of dry goods and notions, meeting with a good trade in the new enterprise. Mr. Jameson was happily married, on the 7th of August, 1885, to Miss Louise Barber, a native of Alta, Placer county, and :: daughter of Mrs. Opel, of Dutch Flat. Mr. and Mrs. Jameson now have one son, Ralph Edward. The subject of this review holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has filled all the chairs in both branches of the lodge. For the past eight years he has been the secretary of the lodge. His wife is a member of the Order of Rebekah and has occupied many official positions therein. She also belongs to the Native Daughters of the Golden West and is a past president of the parlor at Dutch Flat. They are people of the highest respectability and are widely known in this locality.

IRVIN W. HAYS.

Dentistry may be said to be unique among other occupations, as it is at once a profession, a trade and a business. Such being the case it follows that in order to attain the highest success in it one must be thoroughly conversant with the theory of the art, must be an expert with the many tools and appli- ances incidental to the practice of modern dentistry and must possess business qualifications adequate to dealing with the financial side of the profession. In none of these particulars is Mr. Hays lacking, and he is accounted one of the leading representatives of the dental profession in northern California, enjoy- ing a large and lucrative practice in Grass Valley.

The Doctor is a native of Missouri, born March 8, 1843. His father. Irvin W. Hays, Sr., was born in Kentucky in 1818, and the grandfather, Benjamin Hays, was a native of North Carolina and a representative of one of the old and influential families of that state. In 1820 the grandparents removed with their family to Missouri, where their son, Irvin W., was edu- cated and learned the miller's trade, which he followed throughout the greater part of his business career. At the time when the tide of emigration was steadily flowing westward he crossed the plains to California, locating at Oro- ville, Butte county, in 1849. One who now visits this garden spot of the

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world can scarcely realize the condition of affairs at that time. The popula- tion of California was composed mainly of miners, who lived in tents or crude shanties; but as transportation facilities were improved all the accessories and conveniences of the east were introduced and California took its place among the most advanced states of the commonwealth. For two years Mr. Hays engaged in mining and butchering. In 1858, however, he returned eastward, remaining in Missouri until 1878, when he again made a visit to California. He died in Grass Valley, in 1894. His wife's maiden name was Mary Jane Carson, who died in Missouri in 1853. She was a native of Mary- land and a daughter of Nehemiah and Rachel ( Bull) Carson. Her father was born in the north of Ireland, and crossed the Atlantic to the United States in 1795. locating in Maryland, in which state his wife was born. She was a sister of Dr. John Bull, one of the first congressmen from the state of Mis- souri. On both the paternal and maternal sides the families were connected with the colonial army during the Revolutionary struggle and were also rep- resented in the early Indian wars.

In early life Dr. Hays become connected with the miller's trade. His residence in California dates from May. 1865, and for a year he followed mining and engineering. He was then called to public office, serving as deputy assessor for five years, and during that time he began preparation for the practice of dentistry, under the direction of Dr. S. M. Harris. Hav- ing acquired an accurate and comprehensive knowledge of the science, he opened an office in San Francisco where he remained for some time. after which he took a post-graduate course in the Ilaskell Dental College, of Chi- cago, in which he was graduated with the class of 1882. On his return to California he located in Grass Valley, where he has since made his home. He has met with most creditable success in his chosen profession, his skill and ability winning him a very liberal patronage. He has always been a close student of the science of dentistry, and the many medical journals seen in his office indicate that he keeps abreast with the theories and discoveries that are continually being made along that line. Ile is a distinguished member of the State Dental Association, with which he has been connected for many years. In 1804 5 he was the first vice-president, and in 1895-6 was the hon- ored president of the organization, a fact which indicates his high standing in the profession.

On the 9th of April, 1884. Dr. Hayes was united in marriage to Miss Lucy K. Carson, a native of Richmond, Missouri, and a daughter of George Carson, who died in 1890. She is also a granddaughter of Thomas Mc- Kenny, a native of North Carolina, and is related to the Stephens family that has furnished so many eminent representatives to the United States navy.

Politically the Doctor is allied with the progressive wing of the Dem- ocratie party and takes an active interest in political matters. He is also promi- nent in society circles, hokling membership with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has passed all the chairs, while in 1877 he was the grand patriarch of the grand encampment of the state of California. Ile has also filled the offices in the Order of the United Workmen. He is espe-

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cially fond of out-door sports, is particularly proficient with the use of rod and gun, and is a member of the Grass Valley Gun Club and a charter member of the State Sportsmen's Association. The cause of education finds in him a warm friend and he is a public-spirited citizen who gives a loyal support to every measure calculated to secure advancement in intellectual, social, moral and material lines.

B. N. BUGBEY.

This gentleman occupies the position of tax collector of Sacramento county and is a most capable official, his loyalty to the public trust being above question. His reputation in all life's relations is unassailable, and he justly merits the confidence reposed in him by those who chose him for the important and responsible office which he is now filling. He was born in Stafford, Con- necticut, on the 3d of September, 1827, and is descended from one of the good old Revolutionary heroes.

His paternal grandfather, John Bugbey, who also was a native of the Charter Oak state, joined the colonial forces when the attempt was made to throw off all allegiance to the mother country. Through seven years he fought for the independence of the nation, and after the war was over he was granted a pension of ninety-six dollars annually throughout the remain- der of his life. He died in Skaungamug .- a little settlement south of Tol- land, Connecticut, in February, 1838, at the age of eighty-six years and three months. His wife was in her maidenhood a Miss Peters.

Their son, Eleazer Wales Bugbey, was born in Tolland, in 1793. and married Miss Hannah L. Norton, whose birth occurred in Suffield, Connect- icut, and who was a daughter of Harvey and Miss ( Loomis) Norton. They, too, were residents of Connecticut, where they spent their entire lives.

The father of our subject was a merchant and served as postmaster under Presidents Jackson and Polk at West Stafford, Connecticut. He served as a private in the war of 1812 and participated in the engagements at Saranac bridge, at Plattsburg, New York, where the English bullets flew thick and fast, and at New London, Connecticut, manning a gunboat and peppering the British in that memorable fog. He also devoted much of his time to church work, in which he took great interest, being a minister of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. His life was ever honorable and upright, com- manding the respect of all with whom he came in contact. His wife died at Windsor Locks, Connecticut, at the age of eighty-eight years.

The family has always been noted for loyalty and patriotism, and when the Civil war was inaugurated two brothers of our subject entered the service and fought to maintain the Union which their grandfather had aided in estab- lishing. George H. Bugbey became a member of Company A, Hartford Light Guards, First Connecticut Volunteers, which was the first regiment from the state that went to the front. He was the first Connecticut soldier wounded, his left shoulder being shot away at Vienna, Virginia, on the 16th of June, 1861. His brother, Charles E. Bugbey, was in Company K, Twenty-second

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A Volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of northern California, including biographies of many of those who have passed away, Part 54

Author: Standard Genealogical Publishing Company, Chicago, pub Publication date: 1901 Publisher: Chicago, Standard Genealogical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 902

Author: Standard Genealogical Publishing Company, Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Chicago, Standard Genealogical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 902