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On arriving at the mines, they dug a canal and turned the river bed September 5, but the very next day a heavy rain washed away their works. Mr. Howard lost $1,500, and thus the company was broken up. Mr. Howard and an- other man went up the river again, four miles, to another mine, and the very first day they dng out $85 apiece, and in the next ten days over $500 apiece Thence they came by freight wagon to Stockton, where he remained a short time, and then went to San Francisco, where he worked at his trade until the spring of 1851, at $12 a day. For the next five years he was a contractor. His health then failed, and he was advised to go upon a ranch; and accordingly he bought one near Mt. Diablo, where he regained his health. In 1887 he disposed of that place
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and moved to Walnut Creek, where be pur- chased a fine home, comprising an acre of ground. In 1889 he returned to his native place in Mas- sachusetts, after an absence of forty years, and spent five months there, with great pleasure.
He has three daughters, two of whom are married, viz .: Elizabeth A. Smith and Millie S. Ridgway; the name of the unmarried one is Kate F. The mother died in June, 1877.
EORGE ALFRED POORE, a '49er, and one of the reputable citizens and business men of Redding, is the proprietor of the job printing office of that city. John Poore, the patriarch of this now very numerous family, was born in 1615, in Wiltshire, England, and emigrated to America in 1635, settling at New- bury, Massachusetts, the first man of that name who settled in America. The house which he built has stood for 250 years, and eight generations of the family have been born in it; and it is still in their possession. He was a leading citizen of his time, holding numerous offices of honor and trust. He had seven children, and died November 21, 1684, perishing with hunger and cold while hunting in the woods near Andover. His son, John Poore, was born June 21, 1642, lived on the homestead of his father, was a col- lector of taxes, held other offices of trust, married, February 27, 1665, Mary Titcomb, had eight children, and died February 15, 1701. His son, Jonathan, was born February 25, 1678, lived on the old homestead, was a selectman of his town, held various other offices, was mar- ried August 18, 1703, to Rebecca Hale, a native of Newbury, had nine children, and died June 30, 1742. His son Daniel was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, March 13, 1716, set- tled on wild land given him by his father in Haverhill, Massachusetts, cleared it and built upon it; this property still remains in the family. He was a prominent land owner and a surveyor, Ile married, November 27, 1739, Anna Merrill, a native of Haverhill, and they
had six children. In his will he bequeathed his estate to his son Jonathan, emancipated his negro girl named Phillis, and died July 9, 1792. His son John was born in Plaistow, New Hampshire, July 8, 1756, graduated at Howard College in 1775, became a school-teacher and was the first principal of the Young Ladies' Academy, established in Philadelphia in 1787, which was the first institution of the sort in the country, and perhaps the first in the world. He taught vocal music, and while in Phila- delphia taught one of the three Sunday-schools then in the city; it was on Cherry street. He was also ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church. He was twice married,-first Novem- ber 2, 1777, to Sarah Folsome, by whom he had four children. She died August 3, 1784; and for his second wife he married Jane Neely, by whom he had six children; he died December 5, 1829. His son, Charles Merrill Poore, was born in Greenland, New Hampshire, July 14, 1782; was a dry-goods merchant, commencing business in 1805, at Fells Point, in the eastern part of Baltimore, Maryland; removed in 1812 to York Haven, Pennsylvania, where he lived until his death, from cholera, November 3, 1832, at Baltimore, where he had gone on busi- ness. He was Postmaster in York Haven, for over twenty years, a man of sterling integrity noted for his moral and religious principles, founded and conducted the first Sabbath-school and was ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church of York, Pennsylvania. He married July 4, 1809, Mrs. Elizabeth, widow of Francis C. Roberts, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Karg. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, December 21, 1784, and died at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1858. Her parents were from Brunswick on the Rhine in Germany. They had teu children, of whom George Alfred Poore, the subject of this sketch, was the youngest.
He was born in West Hanover, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, December 14, 1825, and moved with his mother and sisters to Ohio, in 1839, and in 1840 began to learn the print-
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ing business, at which he worked until 1848. His residence then was Independence, Missouri, whence he went to Santa Fe, New Mexico; was there one year and left in May, 1849, for Cali- fornia, where he arrived in September. He kept a hotel and trading post in Green Valley, El Dorado County, from the winter of 1849 until the summer of 1851. He farmed and raised stock five miles south of Sacramento from the fall of 1851 to 1859, when he moved to Tehama County and continued farming, etc., until the fall of 1866 when he moved to Vallejo, Solano County, and started the pioneer newspaper of that place, the Vallejo Recorder, issning the first number February 23, 1867. It was at first a weekly, then a semi-weekly and finally a daily. It was the leading Republican paper in the Third Congressional District.
Mr. Poore was married June 29, 1851, at White Oak Springs, El Dorado, County, Cali- fornia, to Miss Margaret Melvina Patchet, thie danghterof John and Esther (Passmore) Patchet, born near Springfield, Illinois, Jan. 19,1836. Her death occureed at Red Bluff, this State, January 28,1878. Her father was a native of England, and her mother a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Poore had nine children, four of whom are living, namely: Charles McFadden, Martha Ann, Margaret Isabella and Mary Jenison, all natives of California. Mr. Poore removed from Red Bluff to Redding with his family in 1887, and opened his job printing office, in which he is doing a successful business. He is a stanch Republican and a member of the 1. O. O. F.
ASPER A. OSTRANDER, M. D., home- opathie physician, Fairfield, Solano County, is a native California, born in Merced County in 1856. His parents were H. J. and Lydia A. (Wheeler) Ostrander, natives of New York State and still residents of Merced County, where the father still owns and operates a ranch and is interested in the firm of Ostrander & Sons, real-estate agents. Dr. Ostrander at an
early age was sent to the public school at Santa Clara, and later to the Friends' Academy, and at Union Springs, Cayuga County, New York, four years; and then one year at Ithaca Acad- emy, and one year at Cornell University,-these schools being in New York State. Returning then to California, he attended the State University at Berkeley one year. His health failing, he was obliged to abandon his course of study and returned to his father's farm, where he remained until 1884, engaged in agricultural pur- snits, thus fully recovering his health and vi- gor. In the year 1885 he entered the Hahne- mann Hospital Medical College of San Fran- cisco, where he attended lectures for three years, graduating in the class of 1888. He practiced in Oakland until June, 1889, when he purchased the practice of Dr. II. S. Bradley at Fairfield, where he has since resided engaged in his chosen profession. He is a member of the Homeopathic Medical Society, of the order of the Knights of Pythias and of the Native Sons of the Golden West.
The Doctor was married October 23, 1884, to Mrs. E. S. Moberly, a native of Illinois, and they have two children, Olive L., born August 14, 1885; and Annis M., born May 30, 1890.
AMES WARREN STITT, M. D., has been a resident of California for the past eight years, and of Vacaville for seven years. He was born near Carlisle, Kentucky, in 1854. lis parents, William J. and Mary (Bradley) Stitt, were also natives of that State. Graduating at
the Versailles Academy, in 1872, he com- menced the study of medicine under the precep- torship of Dr. Daniel Drake Carter, one of the best known physicians of Kentucky. After studying with him until after 1878, and at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, of New York city, he graduated at that institution and immediately commenced practice in company with his former preceptor at Versailles. Find- ing his health somewhat impaired at the end of
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three years, he went to Las Vegas, New Mex- ico, and took charge of the Railroad Hospital at that point; but, not liking the situation, he proceeded to Ysleta, Texas, where he passed a year and a half in the practice of his profession. Next he spent a year in San Francisco, where he found the climate unsnitable to his condition, and then he came on to Vacaville, where he has built up an extensive practice. He is a member of the State and County Medical Societies, of the Solano County Board of Health, of Land- mark Lodge, No. 41, F. & A. M., of Versailles, Kentucky, and of Vacaville Lodge, No. 83, I. O. O. F. He is also interested with three other gentlemen in a fruit farm of eighty acres in Capay Valley, set out in peaches and apri- cots, not yet in bearing.
Dr. Stitt was married in 1880, to Miss Jen- nie Stevenson, a native of Vacaville and a daughter of Colonel A. M. and Mrs. Maria (Gardner) Stevenson; her father is a native of Versailles and her mother of Arkansas. Dr. Stitt has one child living, Annie Elizabeth, born in Jannary, 1889. One child, Marie, died at the age of two years, in 1884. Dr. Stitt's par- ents are now residents of Vacaville, his father owning a fruit ranch of twenty acres adjoining the town.
OEL A. HARVEY, County Clerk and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, dates his first residence in California in 1859. During that period, however, he has passed some years in the mining region of Nevada. He was born in Herkimer County, New York, in 1838, and was brought up on a farm. At the age of seventeen years he taught school two terms, and then went West, settling in Elgin, Illinois, where for two years he ran a livery stable, in the warehousing business, and also operated as a clerk in the postoffice.
In 1859 he came to California across the plains, assisting a consin to bring a herd of cattle from the prairies of Illinois. Starting in
April, they reached California September 30. following, and he remained in the mountains for a short time. Next for a few months, dur- ing the winter of 1859-'60, he clerked in a Placerville hotel. The next June he crossed to Nevada, settling in Genoa, Carson Valley, then a part of Utah Territory and under Mor- mon control. He there engaged in dairying, in which business also he had been brought up in New York. At the end of two seasons he sold out, and then, in December, 1861, on the organization of the Territorial government of Nevada, he was appointed Connty Clerk of Donglas County, by Governor James W. Nye, Genoa the county-seat; and on the organization of the State he was elected to the same office, and he was subsequently re-elected several times up to 1867. Meanwhile he was agent for Wells, Fargo & Co., and held the office of Notary Public and Commissioner of Deeds for California. Was then admitted as an attorney at law in that State, he began the practice of the profession, after a trip to the East; but soon he became agent for Wells, Fargo & Co., first at Wadsworth, Nevada, and then in 1869 at Vallejo, California, for a year. He then estab- lished and operated until 1874 the San Fran- cisco & Vallejo Express, and at the same time conducted a brokerage business. In 1873 he was elected Connty Clerk of Solano County, taking his office in 1874; he was re-elected in 1875, and held the office until March, 1878. In the fall of 1877 he was a candidate for the office of County Judge, but, with many others on the same ticket, was defeated. He then practiced law for some time, when he was elected to the State Constitutional Convention which framed the present constitution of Cali- fornia. He was then again engaged in his pro- fession nntil he was again elected County Clerk in 1880, which office he held until January 8, 1883. He was a member of the State Assembly at Sacramento in 1883-'85. After practicing law for two years more, he was again elected County Clerk in 1886, and re-elected in 1888. and that position he now liolds.
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He has always been a stanch supporter of the Republican party, and his popularity is demon- strated by his frequent re-election.
He was married in 1862, to Miss Almeda L. Hubbard, a native of Canada, and a daughter of Tily and Hulda (Parish) Hubbard, the former a native of Vermont, and the latter of New York; they left Michigan for California in 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey have six children: Joel H., now Deputy County Clerk of Solano County; Amanda L., now the wife of T. M. Doyle, of Vallejo; May A., Inez A., Blanche L. and Maud F. The family reside in Vallejo.
EVIN N. SCOTT, a citizen of Yolo, in Yolo County, retired from active business, is a son of Robert J. and Charlotte Scott, the former a native of North Carolina, and the latter of Maryland, who emigrated in early day to Adams County, Ohio, where Levin was born, December 6, 1820. He was but five years of age when the family moved with him to Illi- nois, where they remained for twenty five years, the father being a farmer most of the time. In 1841 Mr. Scott, our subject, married Miss Wyatt, and had one danghter, Jamima Ann. She died in Illinois, in February, 1843, and in 1847 Mr. Scott married Miss N A. Daughhetee, a native of Illinois. In 1850 they came over- land to this State, stopping first in Nevada County, after a journey of six months and five days. Here Mr. Scott remained about seventeen years, engaged in farming and merchandising about three miles from Nevada City, on Rock Creek. He then moved into Placer County, purchased a ranch and was engaged in its cul- tivation until 1889, when he disposed of it and bought a fine large residence of fourteen rooms, sitnated on a thirty-acre tract of land in Cache- ville. There are now four children in the family, and two have died. The living are George H., Mary C., Edgar C. and James F .; and the deceased are Edward B. and Nancy A. Mary C. is now the wife of J. P. Williams, and
has one child, named Mainie I. George, the eldest son, is now engaged in freighting goods through the mountains from Lincoln and Auburn to Michigan Bluff, Forest Hill, etc., and Edgar C. is attending the Commercial Col- lege at Woodland.
ILLIAM A. ALBERTSON, the Post- master of Roberts, Shasta County, Cali- fornia, was born in Ohio, November 22, 1839. His grandfather, Jacob Albertson, and his father, Joseph K. Albertson, were both natives of Pennsylvania. The family originated in Amsterdam, Holland. His father married Amanda Hutchinson, a native of Ohio, and they had ten children; six of whom are still living.
Mr. Albertson, the second child, and the sub- ject of this sketch, partly learned the black- mith's trade in Ohio, and when nineteen years of age, in 1859, came to Millville, California. and there completed his trade. Since then he has been a farmer, blacksmith and miner. He took up 320 acres of land on Cow Creek, and added to it 320 acres of railroad land, and in- cluded in his farming also stock-raising. Some years afterward he sold his property and pur- chased eighty acres where Roberts now is, on which, in 1882, he built his residence, and later his shop and postoffice. He is now en- gaged in blacksmithing and wagon-making. He received the appointment of Postmaster, under Garfield's administration, and has it now under the Harrison administration. He has been the fortunate discoverer of some valuable mines, and has now a fortune in them. He located the Silver Creek Mine in 1862, and was unfortunate in not having good reduction works. He has developed the mine some, and is work- ing other ledges in that vicinity. He also owns the Chick Mine and the Gray Eagle, and ex- hibits some fine specimens of ore with gold in them, and the company are now to put in a new process which will, no doubt, prove a grand success.
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In 1866 Mr. Albertson was married to Miss Elizabeth Chisholm, a native of Texas, and they had seven children, five of whom are living,- all born in Shasta County. Amanda died when a year old, and Mary died when nine years old. The others are Martha, Jane, Catherine; Henry K., William B. and Edgar W. After twenty- four years of married life Mrs. Albertson sick- ened and died in 1890, and was lamented by all who knew her as a faithful, loving wife, kind and affectionate mother and an excellent neigh- bor and friend. Mr. Albertson belongs to the I. O. O. F., and is a stanch Republican. He has been thirty-one years an industrious and worthy citizen of Shasta County., and it now seems that the rich treasures hidden in the mountains of California are about to reward him for his patient waiting.
OUTHY W. LONG, who has resided in Vaca Valley since 1850, is a California pioneer of 1849. He was born in Ver- sailles, Woodford County, Kentucky, March 17, 1822, his parents being John and Mary (Steven- son) Long, natives of Kentucky, whose parents had come from Virginia among the first settlers, one grandfather coming with Daniel Boone. While Mr. Long was yet a child the family re- moved to the vicinity of Liberty, Clay County, Missouri, in 1826; and this was young Sonthy's home until 1846. IIe then joined Company C of Colonel Doniphan's regiment for th eMexi- can war. This command, raised in Northwestern Missouri, marched from Fort Leavenworth through Kansas, the Indian Territory, and into Chihuahua, forming a junction with General Taylor at Walnut Springs, near the Rio Grande. Before this the regiment had been engaged in the battles Brazito and Chihuahua, as well as in some minor engagements with Indians. They were about fifteen months making the march, going as far as Durango, and losing only a few men in those engagements. After the close of the war they marched to Brazos at the mouth of
the Rio Grande and took ship to New Orleans, . where they were paid off-the money thus re- ceived being the first that was paid to them during their whole term of service.
Returning to Missonri, Mr. Long remained there until the spring of 1849. He had already three brothers-John Pope, Henry Clay and Willis-who had settled in California in 1846. In the spring of 1849 our subject, in company with his brothers James and William Buck, left St. Joseph in April, and traveled with ox teams across the plains and mountains, reach- ing California in August on horseback, while the wagon teams did not arrive until the next month. Mr. Long went at once to the mines and operated on Feather River, near Oroville, until March, 1850, mining and merchandising, with fair results. He and his brothers then canie to Vaca Valley and purchased a half league of land (2.219 acres) and engaged in stock-raising; later Mr. Southy W. Long added fruit raising to his industries. In 1862 he be- came interested in mining in Idaho and Mon- tana. His farm now comprises eighty acres, fifty acres of which is stocked with bearing fruit trees and vines, consisting of Zinfandel grapes, peaches and apricots. About the 10th of August, 1887, he was striken with paralysis, and since then has been an invalid.
He was married in 1874 to Miss Sallie Clark, a native of Missouri, and a daughter of Robert and Sarah (Long) Clark; her father a native of Virginia and her mother of Kentucky.
HARLES R. HOPPIN, a farmer of Yolo, is the son of Thaddeus Curtis and Tamar Iloppin. His mother descended from the Daniels family, of the State of Massa- chusetts. His parents, in 1844, moved to Niles, Michigan, where the father died in 1856, the mother in 1881.
Charles R. Hoppin was born in Madison County New York, March 29, 1829. When eight years of age he went to Onondaga County,
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New York, where he remained six years, and then went to Michigan and lived there until 1849. Then with ox teams, he came to Cali- fornia, reaching Lassen ranch October 20.
After mining until some time in the year 1850, he went into Yolo County, where he with one of his brothers bought 8,000 acres of land on Cache Creek. Mr. Hoppin has lived ever since on his ranch near Cache Creek, where lie farms 500 acres. In the year 1875 he returned to Niles, Michigan, where he married Miss Emily Bacon, and they have four children: Harriet, Edward, Edith, Charles R., Jr.
EREDITH RAINES MILLER, one of the oldest pioneers of the coast, came to Oregon in 1847, to California in 1849 and to the immediate vicinity of Vaca- ville in 1851, since which time he has been a resident here. He was born in Newbern, the county-seat of Montgomery County, West Vir- ginia, in 1818. His father, Abraham Miller, was a native of Pennsylvania and of German descent, and his mother, nee Mary Raines, was a native of Virginia and of Scotch descent. In 1826 the family removed from Virginia to Illinois, locating forty-five miles east of Spring- field, on the north fork of the Sangamon River. Meredith's uncle, Daniel Miller, had moved with his family to that vicinity, locating the quarter section on which the city of Decatur is now situated, and was the first man to stretch a surveyor's chain in Illinois, under a contract with the United States Land Department, and surveyed from what is now East St. Louis to Chicago. In 1828 Abraham Miller moved with his family to the lead-mine region in southern Wisconsin, where he remained until 1848, engaged in farming and mining. In 1847 the subject of this sketch, as before inti- mated, joined a wagon train for Oregon, and drove an ox-team in consideration for the trans- portation of his trunk and clothes and subsist-
ence and mutual protection. Leaving Inde- pendence, Missouri, May 10, he arrived at Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River in October following. His first work there was the erec- tion of a house for the man for whom he drove the ox team across the continent.
He and a friend who had come West with him and helped in the building of the house, started up the Willamette Valley to look up a claim, which they located about 100 miles from Portland on the Willamette River. On return- ing, and while preparing to purchase supplies and implements to improve their claims, they heard news of the Whitinan massacre, in which the Indians had killed Dr. Whitman and his wife and all the men but one, who escaped, and took the women and children prisoners, at the Methodist Mission on the Walla Walla River. The local anthorities raised a command of about 500 men to fight the Indians and at the same time selected nine men to accompany a man named Meek on a trip to Washington, District of Co- lumbia, to enlist the service of troops and ob- tain other recognition of the Territory of Ore- gon. Mr. Miller was selected as one of those men. They accompanied the troops as far as the scene of the massacre, having two days' fight with about 1,000 Indians near the Umatilla River. After going beyond the Blue mountains they returned and began to recross the continent, after encountering many great difficulties and hardships, they completed their journey, stop- ping at Fort Boyce and Fort Hall on the way, finally meeting the westbound emigrants. Meck went on to Washington while the other men re- mained in Missouri. The result of Meek's mis- sion was the appointment by the Government of Territorial officers for Oregon and a detach- ment of troops for protection against Indians.
In the fall of 1847 Abraham Miller sold out in Wisconsin and inoved into Missouri, where Meredith met him on his return to Oregon in the spring of 1848. Remaining in Missouri until ·the summer of 1849, he joined a party coming to California by way of Santa Fe. In this party there were eighty persons, well
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equipped with teams and supplies. Near Santa Fe they sold their outfit and came with pack animals the remainder of the trip, reaching Cali- fornia by way of Colonel Cook's road to Los Angeles, and thence they came to San Francisco on the schooner J. R. Whiting, arriving about the middle of February, 1850. Mr. Miller im- mediately went to the mines on Feather River, reaching Long's Bar early in March, 1850. He remained in the mines until August, 1851, meeting with good success. He then came to Pleasant Valley and located on a Government claim of 160 acres, on which he lived for thirty- three years. Later he purchased an adjoining quarter section. This ranch he entered with a land warrant which he had received fromn the Government for military service in the Black Hawk war in 1832, when he was a member of Captain Moore's company, which was recruited at Mineral Point, Wisconsin. At his new home here in California he first engaged in the rais- ing of fruit and live-stock, and later he substi- tuted general farming for the specialty of live- stock. Ife sold his place in 1883 and removed to Vacaville, where all his interests are now centered. He is a member of Vacaville Lodge, No. 134, F. & A. M., of the Royal Arch Chap- ter, No. 43, Suisun, and also of the Solano County Association of California Pioneers. In 1852 he made a trip to the East by way of Pan- ama, New Orleans and Mississippi River to Mis- souri, where he married his first wife, Miss Mary Ann Troutman, a native of Kentucky. The same season he came with his bride and a younger brother across the plains with ox teams, arriving in California in October. Mr. Miller has made the trip across the plains by wagon and horseback and on foot four times, oue of these, in returning from Oregon, being the most difficult and dangerous journey, and he has also crossed the continent twice by rail.
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