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LUCIAN A. BAUTER, M. D.
Lucian A. Bauter, M. D., is a well known physician and surgeon at Redding, Shasta county, and he has made a reputation in the profession along both scientific and practical lines, for outside of his everyday work as a practitioner he has carried on lines of investigation in his specialty, and as a result has given to the medical fraternity several valuable works. He is a well trained and enthusiastic devotee to the healing and chirurgical arts, and is popular in both professional and social circles in Redding. which has been his field of endeavor for the past fifteen years.
Mr. Bauter was born at Oswego, New York, June 3. 1860. He comes by his profession almost by inheritance, for some member of the family for several generations back has followed the medical career. His great- grandfather. Henry Bauter, was a physician, and belonged to an old French family whose history extended so far as the time of Charles IX. His grand- father, F. Bauter, and his father, F. I. Bauter, were also physicians, and the latter was a native of Louisiana and later lived in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Bauter's mother was also born in Louisiana, and was a daughter of J. K. Marble, whose line of French ancestors went back two hundred years be- fore the reign of the good King Henry VIII.
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Dr. L. A. Bauter gained his early education in the public schools of Chicago, and graduated from the high school at the age of eighteen. When twenty years old he began the study of medicine with his father and with Dr. Ward Green Clark, in Chicago. In 1882 he entered the California Medical College, taking two courses, and then engaged in other pursuits until 1887, in which year he re-entered the California Medical College, where he was graduated May 17, 1889. On May 20, 1889, he located at Redding, Shasta county, and has engaged in practice with steadily increas- ing patronage and success. In 1894 he published the "Essentials of Ob- stetrics and Diseases of Children," the data for which work he had ob- tained while at work among the poorer classes of Chicago and San Fran- cisco, and this work has become a popular volume in many professional libraries. He has recently completed and published a treatise on the ve- nereal diseases which ranks with the authentic books on that subject. He is the official surgeon of the Great Western Gold Mining Company, which owns the following mines in Shasta county: The Liberty group, Scottish Chief, and Afterthought. He is ex-president of the board of health in Redding, and is a member of the State and National Medical Society of the Eclectic School. He is aerial physician of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and affiliates with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a Democrat in politics.
Dr. Bauter's first wife was Ella (Pitt) Bauter, a descendant of the Pitts of England. Of this marriage there was a son, Lucian F., who is eighteen years old and attending college at Seattle, Washington. Dr. Bauter's present wife was Miss Lorena Mikesell, a daughter of A. J. Mike- sell, one of the pioneer educators of California.
FERDINAND STABEL, M. D.
Ferdinand Stabel, M. D., of Redding, Shasta county, is one of the most prominent members of the medical profession in northern California, em- barked on a career of usefulness to his fellow men such as is open only to the man of high native ability and talent and with an extremely broad and generous scientific training. During the six or more years that he has been located at Redding he has gained high favor with those needing his services and has taken rank among the foremost of the fraternity. But most of his years up to the present have been spent in preparation for the broad field of work which he contemplates as his future career, and his devotion to his profession and the thoroughness with which he has worked out its initial problems are a manifest index to his ability and worth as a practitioner of medical science.
Dr. Stabel was born at Langheckerhof, Bavaria, Germany, February 23, 1871. His father, Johannes Stabel, was a dignified and distinguished citizen of his community, and was a descendant of an old and very promi- nent family in that part of the fatherland. - He served as mayor of the town of Imsbach for eighteen years, and was otherwise a leader in the public matters as well as successful in his individual pursuits.
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Dr. Stabel was educated after the thorough German fashion, following the common schools with courses at the Latin and then the Real gymnasium, which was all equivalent to an American university education. He gradu- ated at the age of eighteen, and then came to the United States to work out his destiny. In order to learn the language rapidly he enlisted in the United States regular army for a term of five years, but after serving two years purchased his discharge. He was stationed at Alcatraz, California, and during most of the time was in the hospital corps. One of the bright features of his army life was his acquaintance and friendship with Captain W. H. Scott, now living in Alameda. He looks upon the captain as his benefactor, for it was through his advice and encouragement that he mapped out his future career, and from him also obtained financial assistance to secure his medical education.
Immediately after his discharge in 1892 he entered Cooper Medical College, but in the following year took a position in the Hospital for the Insane at Napa, doing this for two reasons-that he might secure money for his further education and also to make a study of insanity from practical observation. In 1895 he returned to Cooper College, and graduated with the degree of M. D. in December, 1896. He then became assistant physi- . cian and surgeon in the German Hospital at San Francisco, and in April, 1897, took the position of physician and surgeon for the Alaska Packers' Association, spending the summer in Alaska. In September, 1897, he located in Redding. Shasta county, which has been his permanent center of pro- fessional activity ever since. He was constantly alert and eager to improve his attainments, and in March, 1903, began a tour of Europe, studying and making observations at the clinics and medical schools in Heidelberg, Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna, Rome and Paris, and returned better equipped than ever, in January, 1904.
Dr. Stabel affiliates with the Masonic order, the Woodmen of the World and the Knights of Pythias. In August, 1898, he married the belle of Redding, in Miss Mabel L. Williams, a daughter of W. H. Williams, who is a prominent mining man of Shasta county. Dr. and Mrs. Stabel are prominent in social circles in Redding, and they are among the upholders of culture and refinement and moral and intellectual progress in this section of the state.
W. J. GILLESPIE.
IV. J. Gillespie, the prominent hotel proprietor of Redding, Shasta county, is one of the best known men of the western country, and his genial and wholesome personality and business-like character have figured in hotel enterprises of the west for over thirty years. He is a self-made man in the best sense of the term, gained his education by his own efforts, began fighting the battle of life for himself when fourteen years old, and the highly praise- worthy success that he has gained is the result of self-achievement and a worthy personal character.
Mr. Gillespie began the life which has since been identified with locali- ties far apart and in diverse sections of this country, by his birth in Taun-
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ton, Massachusetts, October 30, 1852. Thence at nine years of age he was taken by his parents to Yankee Jim's, Placer county, California, and there during the following five years he was privileged to continue an education which on the whole was very meager. Thrown upon his own resources when fourteen, he was still desirous of furthering his educational equip- ment, and as the result of his varied struggles of boyhood, from a Western Union messenger boy to a clerk in a mercantile house, he was enabled to enter a military academy at Oakland, where he took a business course. When he had finished his schooling at the age of twenty, he began his career in connection with the hotel business. He became a hotel clerk in Reno, Nevada, in the employ of W. R. Chamberlain and H. A. Clawson, and when the latter partner sold his interests in Reno and opened a hotel in Los Angeles, Mr. Gillespie went along and assumed charge of the new house as manager.
He showed his fitness for business of this kind, and gained hosts of friends among all his patrons. He later became manager of the hotel opened by Mr. Clawson at Ogden, Utah, and in 1889 he took the management of the Depot Hotel at Redding for Mr. Clawson. In 1890 death claimed his old friend and employer, and it was then learned that he and H. D. Parker had become joint heirs of Mr. Clawson's hotels at Redding, California, and Ashland, Oregon. Mr. Gillespie and Mr. Parker, the one at Redding and the other at Ashland, continued for some time the conduct of these two hotels as partners, and aside from their business relationship they were very warm personal friends. In fact, their thorough unanimity of purpose and high business capacity have throughout operated for their mutual ad- vantage and unvaried success. When they finally dissolved partnership Mr. Gillespie became sole owner of the Redding house, and conducted it until June I, 1903, at which time he entered into a copartnership with J. H. Hoyle under the name of Gillespie and Hoyle. They then closed the old hotel and moved into capacious and modern quarters on Yuba street about two hun- dred feet from the depot. Their new hostelry, known as the Lorenz Hotel, is a fine four-story brick structure, containing one hundred and fifty-two rooms, and is handsomely furnished and equipped after the most up-to-date fashion, being electric lighted and with Otis elevators for all the floors. It is the largest and finest hotel on the California and Oregon Railroad between Sacramento and Portland, and its patronage is evidence of its great popular- ity, especially among the knights of the grip, who find its comfortable accom- modations and its genial and warm-hearted landlord an oasis in a desert of inferior places.
Mr. Gillespie is a prominent Mason, being affiliated with Weber Lodge, F. & A. M., El Monte Commandery, K. T., and a Shriner of the Islam Tem- ple at San Francisco, having attained the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite Masonry. He is also a member of Lodge No. 286, B. P. O. E., at Sacramento. On April 21, 1892, Mr. Gillespie married Miss Zelinda F. Andrews, one of the charming ladies of Redding and the youngest daughter of the late Hon. A. R. Andrews, of Redding. Her father was a native of Kentucky and a descendant of a very prominent old family. He had been
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a soldier in the Mexican war, and for many years was a leading mining man of Shasta county and also an attorney at law. He represented with great credit to himself and his constituents his district in the state legislature.
EDWARD FRISBIE.
Edward Frisbie, president and principal owner of the Bank of North- ern California at Redding, has been a prominent character in Shasta county for over twenty-five years, having been one of the first to develop and im- prove the immense farming and grazing acreage of this part of the state. He has been a resident of the state for forty-five years, and although he had made a substantial start in a business career while still a resident of the east, the most useful and fruitful portion of his life has been passed in the Golden state, where industrial and financial interests of great im- portance have been awakened and built up through his energy and busi- ness judgment. He is now in the shadow of his eightieth year, and since his boyhood days back in the old York state he has won a most honorable success and become an influential man of affairs in several communities, so that he has good reason to be happy and content while his last years are gliding by.
Mr. Frisbie was born in Albany, New York, November 18, 1826, be- ing a son of Eleazer and Cynthia (Cornell) Frisbie, who both descended from families known along the Hudson river since colonial times. Mr. Frisbie had educational advantages in the public schools and academies of New York, but at the age of fourteen he left home and began casting his anchor at strange ports as an individual craft on the career of life. He entered the employ of a dairy farmer, with whom he remained four years and learned the business in all its details. For the following four years he was engaged in the same line of business on his own account, at Al- bany, and he then moved out to Syracuse, New York, where he had a dairy farm. In 1855 he sold his concern, and went around by the Isthmus of Panama to California, making his arrival in Napa county early in 1856. He bought a farm and resided in that county until 1877, with prosperous results from his activity.
In 1877 he bought what was known as the Redding grant, a tract originally consisting of twenty-six thousand acres, but six thousand had been previously sold. Mr. Frisbie at once took possession of this magnifi- cent domain, and entered upon an extensive series of farming operations. He also had a logging and sawmill enterprise on the Sacramento river for one year, and during that time he put on the market four million feet of fir and pine lumber. In 1885 he sold the major portion of his ranch and retired from his long continued activity as a farmer, and then moved into Redding, where he has since made his home. In 1888, associated with Mr. Dakin and Mr. McCormick, he established the Bank of North- ern California, of which he was chosen president, and which was incorpo- rated with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars, fifty-six thousand of which was paid up at that time, and at present the paid-up capital amounts
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to seventy-seven thousand and the surplus, $8,306.00. In 1880 Mr. Fris- bie bought Mr. Dakin's interest in the bank, and in 1902 Mr. McCormick's, so that he now owns all but the few shares held by the directors. The officers, all men of financial integrity and ability, are Edward Frisbie, presi- dent; E. Firth, vice president; E. L. Bailey, cashier; N. B. Frisbie and C. F. Nourse. The bank is located at the corner of Yuba and Market streets, and by its conservative and sound financial policy has for long years been an important factor in the business circles of Shasta county.
Mr. Frisbie has always been a Republican since the organization of that party, and gives a good citizen's attention to political affairs. He owns his nice home on East street, and his family are honored members of society in this and other centers of the west. Mr. Frisbie was married, in 1845, to Miss Phebe A., daughter of George Klink, a prominent farmer of Albany county, New York. Of this union eleven children were born, and the nine still living are all located in California. Mrs. Frisbie died in 1885, and in 1886 Mr. Frisbie married Laura A., a daughter of Jerome Walden, of Redding, California. Of this marriage two children have been born.
HUGH ALEXANDER CRAWFORD.
Hugh Alexander Crawford, a capitalist of Napa, is numbered among the prominent and representative business men of central California, and his success is attributable entirely to his own efforts. A man of great natural ability because of the exercise of his native powers and his unremitting diligence, his prosperity came to him soon. He was born in Newcastle, Pennsylvania. in January, 1844, a son of Alexander L. and Mary (List) Crawford. His father bought and operated the Etna blast furnaces of the Crawford Iron & Steel Company at New Castle, Pennsylvania. Few men did more for the substantial improvement of Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Missouri, and the development of their natural resources. He owned and operated a blast furnace at New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, of which Presi- dent McKinley's father was manager, and carried his efforts into other states, establishing and controlling blast furnaces at Lowell, Ohio; Terre Haute, Indiana, and at Sligo, Missouri. His quick recognition of business opportunities was one of the salient facts in his success. He was one of the organizers of the Pittsburg & Ashtabula Railroad Company and of the New- castle & Beaver Valley Railroad, and built and owned the Nashville & Knox- ville Railroad. His business activities were ever of a character that pro- moted not alone his individual success, but also proved of marked value in advancing general prosperity through the promotion of industrial and com- mercial interests. It was Alexander L. Crawford who made the first ship- ments of Lake Superior ore, which he transported around the falls of Sault Ste. Marie and then loaded upon another vessel, whereby it finally reached its destination. One-half of this ore was sent to his rolling mills at New- castle, Pennsylvania, and the other to a Mr. Wick at Youngstown, Ohio. The quantity was comparatively small, something between ten and twenty tons, but Mr. Crawford was the pioneer in this enterprise, which has since
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developed into splendid proportions. This shipment was made in 1850, and the shipments of to-day amount to twenty million tons annually.
Hugh Alexander Crawford pursued his early education in the public schools at Newcastle, continuing his studies until seventeen years of age. His father desired that he should pursue a college course, but his natural predilection was toward an active business career and he declined to con- tinue his studies longer, not desiring to become a physician, a lawyer or a minister. His tastes and talents were in the line of active business under- taking and he wisely directed his energies into such fields of labor. His first position was that of a weigher of coal and shipping clerk for a New- castle iron company. Near the closing of the Civil war he was offered a position of bookkeeper by that firm, but declined in order that he might pursue a twelve weeks' course of study in the Iron City College at Pittsburg. He afterward, at the age of twenty-one years, accepted the management of a coal mine in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and also became a fourth owner in the property. By the time that he had been with the company three weeks he persuaded the owners to spend more money in order to take out additional quantities of coal and increase the volume of their business. The figures which he presented to them showed the advantage of increasing their facilities, and Mr. Crawford directed his energies to this work. He quickly noted the opportunities and put his ideas into practical form. He built a railroad from the mine to a main line of railroad in order that excellent shipping facilities might be secured, erected many new houses on the prop- erty of the company in order to establish homes for the employes of the mine, and bought adjacent farins. He expended in all upward of thirty thousand dollars in new improvements. The enterprising, progressive and determined young manager, working seventeen hours a day, now began to forge ahead, and in a period of nine years-the term of his connection with the company-he developed a business which had turned all the invested money back into the treasury with profits additional.
In 1874 he became associated with Col. Tom A. Scott, William L. Scott, and j. M. Mccullough, famous railroad and mine operators, and was made general manager of the Missouri Iron Company, with a capital of one million dollars. At the same time he was actively engaged in railroad construc- tion in Missouri. In 1880 he became a large owner of the Sligo Furnace Company, with sixty-eight thousand acres of land, which he sold in 1901. He then came to California and settled at Napa, where he has a palatial home at the corner of Pine and Seminary streets. He is a man of keen discrimina- tion and sound judgment, and his executive ability and excellent manage- ment brought to the concerns with which he has been connected a large degree of success. The safe and conservative, yet progressive policy which he always inaugurated commended itself to the judgment of all and secured to the companies a patronage which made the volume of trade transacted of great importance and magnitude. He was always watchful of all the details of his business, and of all indications pointing toward prosperity. In busi- ness affairs he is energetic, prompt and notably reliable. Tireless energy, keen perception, honesty of purpose, a genius for devising and executing the
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right thing at the right time, joined to everyday common sense, guided by resistless will power, are the chief characteristics of the man.
Mr. Crawford was married in St. Louis in 1878 to Mrs. Judith Evans, a native of England. Their home is the center of a cultured society circle, and this beautiful residence is supplied with all the adornments that wealth can secure guided by a cultured taste. Mr. Crawford has not only been an active business man, but has been a student of the times and has ever kept in touch with the best thinking men of the age in relation to those subjects which largely affect the national welfare. He is the author of a pamphlet on the tariff, which was written just before President Harrison's election and which has attracted national attention, showing deep research and in- vestigation and a thorough knowledge of the trade relations and conditions of America.
CHARLES E. MILLER.
Charles E. Miller, a retired business man of Grass Valley, Nevada county, is to be classed among the old-timers of California, where he has wrought out a career of unusual success during the past half century and found ample scope for his great energy, constancy of purpose and high- minded endeavor.
He was born in Germany about seventy-seven years ago, on October 27, 1827, being a son of Frederick and Margaret (Schlifer) Miller. His father, who was the only surviving member of that particular branch of the family, followed the profession of teaching, and was a prominent and talented man. He was a musician and a brilliant performer on the piano. He had contested before royalty and had carried off many medals. He (lied in 1847. His wife, who died in Wisconsin in 1852, was of an old Ger- man family, and her father held the office of government forester. She had two brothers who served under Napoleon in the memorable campaign into Russia, and one of them was frozen to death in Russia and the other disap- peared.
Mr. Charles F. Miller was reared and educated in Germany, where he remained until he was seventeen years old, and in 1845 embarked for Amer- ica. He learned the trade of wagon and carriage making, and followed it in Illinois for a time. He came out to California in the summer of 1853, and was located in Sacramento and different places for several years. In 1856 he came to Nevada county, and until 1859 engaged in placer mining. One June 1 of the latter year he settled in Grass Valley, which has been his settled place of residence for forty-five years. He started a wagon and blacksmithing business, and continued it with excellent success until 1889, since which time he has been retired from active work. He has been inter- ested in various mining propositions.
Mr. Miller has been a stanch Republican from the formation of the party to the present time. While living at Rough and Ready in 1856 he voted for Fremont, and on account of the strong Democratic element was almost afraid to show his ballot. He has never desired or accepted nomina- tion for office of any kind. In 1862 a company known as the Union Guards
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was formed in Grass Valley, and there was considerable feeling between the southern and northern sympathizers there, they being about equally divided. The company never left Grass Valley, but was always ready for a call. Mr. Miller was elected second lieutenant of this company, and during Governor Stanford's administration the officers were called to the camp at Oakland and drilled steadily for ten days. Mr. Miller was afterward re-elected sec- ond lieutenant, and had several interesting experiences during his service.
Mr. Miller was married in Grass Valley, February 2.2, 1872, to Miss Mary H. Dunbar, who was born in Maine of an old American family of Scotch descent, their residence antedating the Revolution. Her father, Man- ning Dunbar, was a prominent man of Washington county, Maine, and occupied public office for thirty years, being under sheriff for a long period. He died in 1890 at the age of seventy-two years. Mrs. Miller was a school teacher in Maine for ten years, and was engaged in the same line of work for two years in Grass Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have one son, Fred Manning, city engineer of Grass Valley, whose history is given below.
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