An illustrated history of Sacramento County, California : containing a history of Sacramento County from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its prospective future portraits of some of its most eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers and also prominent citizens of today, Part 103

Author: Davis, Winfield J., 1851- 4n
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 916

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which he has passed the chairs, and is also a member of Sacramento Lodge, A. O. U. W.

SAAC LEA, farmer, Brighton Township, was bonr in Yorkshire, England, April 22, 1827, son of Jolin and Harriet Lea. In 1847 John Lea died in New York, while on his way to the West. The next year his wife died, in England. Mr. Lea was a nurseryman all his life, on a large scale, and became a man of com- fortable circumstances. He had six sons and one daughter: Thomas has been a resident oť San Francisco for thirty years, is wealthy and retired from business; John ran a ferry for nearly thirty years, and is now bridge-tender for the Central Pacific Railroad Company at Tehama, Tehama County, this State; Charles is a farmer at Florin, this county; Sidney is a inerchant in Australia, whither he went from California in 1857; and Mrs. Joseph Scholfield, who came by water in 1863 and is now living in Brighton Township. Mr. Isaac Lea, the subject of this outline, was approaching seventeen years of age when he left old England all alone in 1844, and located in Kane County, Illinois; Rhodes, now deceased, came in 1848; Sidney and John in 1849; Thomas in 1852; Charles in 1855. All the living sons except Charles came to California in 1852 and made homes here. On arrival in Illinois, Isaac worked on a farın, then in a printing-office two years during the Mexican war, and then bought ten acres of ground and commenced farming; afterward he purchased forty acres more, and did not sell the farm until 1860, several years after he came to California. On coming to this State he had six horses and two light spring wagons, into which he put everything he might need; and when about half way here he sold one of the wagons, as abont one wagon-load of provisions and provender was consumed. The wagon-boxes were made water- tight, so that they would float in crossing streams. Mr. Lea had an enjoyable trip. On reaching Carson Valley he sold four of the

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horses, for more than they cost. Directly after arriving at Hangtown he worked for two months on. the Hangtown canal, and as soon as the rains set in he resorted to mining, working a year there. The next year, in June, 1853, he came down into the valley and was employed by A. D. Patterson, then sheriff, on his ranch. On the 17th of September he went down into what is called "The Pocket," between the Sacramento and Cosnmnes rivers, and bought land, and after that time of the year cut fifty tons of hay, hanl- ing twenty tons for Patterson and selling it to him for $20 a ton. November 15 he put in a crop of vegetables; and on the first of May, 1854, he took a load of potatoes to Sacramento, the first new potatoes bronght in that year, and sold them at twenty-five cents a pound. That year he bought some peach trees in San Fran- cisco, shipped from New Jersey, set them out, and also some apple trees from Oregon, which were sold at auction in San Francisco. He lived on that place two years, and then removed to his present ranch, bringing along with him a large number of hogs, which class of animals he had commenced raising on the first farm. To his present place he has hauled 100,000 feet of lumber in making the improvements. In this county he now has 720 acres of land, and 1,275 acres at Napa Junction, Napa County, a stock farm. On his Florin place there are about seventeen acres in fruit trees and six in vines; twenty orange trees, some of them over thirty years old; 100 bearing olive trees, fonr varieties, the largest number in Sacramento County that are bearing; also citron and lemon trees, pome- granates, dates, plums, camphor trees, sweet hay and 100 fig-trees, some of them twenty years old and eighteen inches in diameter. He was the first to plant fruit trees in his section, and the first to put in olives, oranges, etc. In 1883 he erected his fine residence, which he and three hired men put up in ten weeks, from digging the cellar to completing the roof. Mr. Lea has always been a Republican. He was married in 1866 to Mary Murgatroyd, a native of England, and they have seven children: John Ward, Ida

Mary, Sarah Kate, Mabel, Harriet, Lonisa, and Isaac Arthur.

HARLES LEA was born February 26, 1833, at Sworby Bridge, near Halifax, England, son of John and Harriet (Dyson) Lea. He left home at the age of twenty years and was employed by the Milne Bros. in the manufacture of wines and liqnors. He was given charge of the vaults, packing, keeping np stores, etc. He remained with them until 1853, when he went to Manchester, England, and en- gaged in the same business. He stayed there a year, having charge of the entire business. In 1855 he sailed from Liverpool to America on the steamer John Rutledge. He remained in New York till the steamer Star of the West was ready to sail, then took passage for California, coming via Greytown and Nicaragua, and land- ing in San Francisco July 28, 1855. The voyage was prolonged on account of the cholera being prevalent on board, they stopping to bury their dead until they became so numerons that they at last shoved them overboard with a piece of iron grating or anything that would keep them from floating. In San Francisco he went to work for his brother Thomas, who was engaged in the manufacture of malt, he being the first man to start a malt honse in San Francisco. Charles remained there only a few months, then came to Sacramento and at once located 160 acres of land in this county. He now owns 220 acres of choice farming land, under a fine state of cultivation. He himself has made all the improvements. He does a general farming business, raises hay, grain and stock, and has fifteen acres of vineyard in a most promising condition. Like most other Californians, he tried mining, at Greenwood and Georgetown, but was not successful. He was married, Nov- ember 6, 1860, to Miss Johanna Percell, a native of Ireland, who came to California in 1858, in company with her brother and sister. After a few years of happy married life she was called

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away, leaving her husband with six children, four of whom are now living: Harriet, wife of Fred Smith; Emma, wife of Charles Buell; Dora and Charley. Mr. Lea was again married, September, 1876, to Miss Anna Digman, a na- tive of Ireland, who came to America in 1864, at the age of twenty one.

OUDALPH LAUPPE, farmer, was born in Sacramento, Jannary 12, 18 -. His father, also named Rondalph, was born in Germany, and owned and occupied the farm upon which the son is now residing; he is now work- ing for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. The farm is devoted principally to grain. Four acres are in orchard, which is one of the finest in this part of the country. Mr. Lanppe, the subject of this paragraph, married Rehina Shafer, who was born in Switzerland, and they have five children: Rondalph, John D., Anna, Edward J. and Lonise.

EORGE EDMUND DUDEN, farmer and blacksmith, Sutter Township, was born in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, Sep- tember 26, 1832, a son of David and Anna (Barrick) Duden, both natives of Pennsylvania, and of German descent. Both his grandfathers, Daniel Duden and William Barrick, came from Germany, and both families also moved to Licking County, Ohio, in 1833, and there passed the remainder of their lives. In Daniel Duden's family were two danghters and fonr sons, viz .: William, David, Jacob, George, Elizabeth and Betsey. The only member of the family now living is George, of San Francisco. In Will- iam Barrick's family were twelve childre ı, viz .: Henry, James, Samuel, Elizabeth, Anna, Re- becca, Polly, Samantha, Catharine, and three others. Of these there are three daughters and three sons living. All of them lived to a good old age, and brought up children. David Dnden

lived in Ohio, where he followed farming and blacksmithing, and died there abont fourteen years ago. His wife, a native of Pennsylvania, died in Missonri. In their family were nine children, as follows: William, who resides in Monroe County, Iowa; George E., the subject of this sketch; Adolphus D., who resides in Iowa; Daniel D., in Henry County, Missouri; James B., in Iowa; John Fletcher, in southern Missonri; Charles W., in Henry County, Mis- souri; Anna, in Licking County, Ohio, and Lewis, in Henry County, Missouri. Mr. Dnden, our subject, was brought up in Licking County, Ohio, most of the time of his youth near New- ark, the county seat .. At the age of sixteen years he made a trip West, through Illinois, etc., and worked at his trade in Canton, Fulton County, that State. In 1849 he returned to Ohio and worked a year and a half in a shop in Sylvania, Licking County; next, in partnership with another man, he carried on a shop at Ga- lena, Delaware County, Ohio, until the fall of 1852. Starting then to California, he stopped at Booneville, Missouri, and took a job of iron- ing a number of wagons. The next spring he came on, in a party of thirty-two, starting from Howard County, Missouri, with a drove of cat. tle and mules, and coming by what was called the northern route. After halting for the night, on one occasion, and hitching their horses, on Salt River, they discovered the remains of a portion of 200 emigrants who died there the year before, of cholera. The corpses, although they had been buried, had been exhumed by the coyotes, and, being exposed and in a state of de- composition, constituted such a sickening and repulsive sight that the party immediately hitched up again and moved on, not finding a decent camping-ground until midnight. An- other incident might be mentioned. At one time they were surrounded by several hundred Indians. The wagon train was in charge of an old Santa Fe man named Frank Broudar, who told his men that they must put on a bold front and not permit the Indians to think that they were afraid; also to see that their fire-arms were

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in good order. The result was, the Indians left without molesting them. In the train were some very nice race-horses, valuable cattle, mules, etc. The party arrived at Sacramento August 26. Mr. Duden found work at his trade until Feb- ruary, then until the 1st of October following was engaged at mining at Clarkville, El Dorado County. Returning then to Sacramento, he purchased a shop on Ninth street, between J and K. In 1859 he sold out this place and bought a shop at the corner of Ninth and K, and prosecuted his trade there until 1864. In the autumn of this year he purchased his present place in Sutter Township, on the upper Stock- ton road, five miles from, Sacramento, where he has ever since resided. This farm contains eighty acres of good land, in a fine state of cul- tivation. When he entered upon it, it was en- tirely unimproved. The place is now well stocked with a great variety of fruit and orna- inental trees. The farm generally is devoted to hay, grain, etc .; and ever since he located there Mr. Duden has carried on a blacksmith shop upon the premises, also carriage building and painting, etc. He is also the proprietor of the Sacramento Thoroughbred Poultry Yard, and is an importer of thoroughbred poultry, having on hand all the leading varieties. This industry he started here only two years ago, but it has already proved a success. Orders are coming in faster than he can fill thein. His ambition is soon to have a poultry yard second to none in the State. Mr. Duden was married December 31, 1857, to Emma P. Burke, who was born in St. Louis, Missouri, January 6, 1842, and was brought by her parents, in 1853, in their emi- gration, to this State. They settled in Sacra- mento city, on L street, between Tenth and Eleventh. Her father was William W. Burke. Mr. and Mrs. Dnden have brought up ten chil- dren: William L., born August 26, 1860; Edith L., April 4, 1862; Ellsworth Fred, July 5, 1864; Frank H., July 16, 1866; Alice O., March 25, 1868; Florence A., May 6, 1870; Mabel V., March 3, 1872; Lillian L., July 21, 1874; Leona A., October 31, 1877, and Ethel A., No-

vember 17, 1879. Ellsworth is an excellent stenographer and caligraph operator, in the office of Hon. W. J. Davis, court reporter, Sac- ramento. Mr. Duden is a veteran Odd Fellow, belonging to Sacramento Lodge, No. 2.

M OSES M. DREW .- In New Hampshire, under the shadows of Mount Washing- ton on the east and nestling close to the river which forms its western boundary, lies Grafton County, where on the 15th of March, 1830, was born to Zaccheus Drew, a farmer, and to Nancy (Kimball) Drew, a son,-the youngest of five children in a good old-fashioned family of eleven children. There he lived, breathing the free mountain air and developing a physique well calculated to endure the hardships of a re- markably active life, until fifteen years of age, when he with his parents removed to Boston, Massachusetts. Five years later, in the spring of 1851, he came to California. He engaged in mining at different points, notably at Mormon Island, where he worked a claim with Judge Cat- lin and others; in 1855, he went to the Kern River district with Joe Comstock, where they met with excellent success. For two years, with Levi D. Leeds, he was prospecting and mining in Sierra County; in 1858, during the Fraser River excitement, he went there, and later on to Pine Grove in Placer County. He finally came to Sacramento and bought out the saloon on the corner of Sixth and K streets, which was then, and afterward, headquarters for the promi- nent men of this city. There he remained nn- til 1875, when he was elected sheriff, which office he held for two terms. It was during his administration that Dye, the public adminis- trator of this county, was' apprehended, tried, convicted of murder and hanged. In 1879 he was a member of the State Board of Equal- ization, which office he resigned after two years to become United States Marshal in 1881, under President Arthur, with headquarters at San Francisco, and filled the important position four

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years. Upon returning to Sacramento he was once more taken up by his friends as their can- didate for sheriff, was elected and served three terms. Mr. Drew has been, and still is, a very prominent man; it is safe to say that no man stands higher in the regard of all classes of the citizens of Sacramento County; pre eminently of a social disposition, he is the center of a large circle of friends.

HILANDER H. DODGE, manufacturer of gloves, 1017 Ninth street, Sacramento, was born May 2, 1847, at Monroe, Waldo County, Maine, and was educated in the public schools, graduating at the high school. In September, 1864, being then only seventeen years of age, he enlisted in Company G, Ninth Maine Regiment of Infantry, for a period of one year or during the war. His father, who had been in the army and discharged for dis- ability, sought to dissuade him from going, but finding him determined reluctantly gave his consent. His regiment was ordered to Chapin's Farm, on the James River, in front of Rich- mond, and assigned to the division commanded by General B. F. Butler. Ilis regiment took part in an engagement, in which it lost about ninety men. Soon after the fight he was stricken with rheumatic fever and sent to the hospital at Portsmouth, Virginia, where he re mained abont seven weeks. In the meantime his regiment had been ordered to Fort Fisher, where he rejoined it, arriving two days before that battle was fought and in which with his regiment he took part. After the fight the brigade under General Terry marched to Wil- mington, North Carolina, and thence to Raleigh. On the way it was learned that General Schofield was fighting with General Joe Johnston, and in order to render him assistance a forced march of forty-four miles was made in one day. On arriving at the scene of battle, material aid was given General Schofield and victory crowned the Union forces. This was the last battle in which

General Johnston's army took part during the war. On arriving at Raleigh, General Terry established his headquarters, and Dodge was detailed with others for duty at the General's headquarters, where he remained until the sur- render of Lee, when he was ordered to report to his regiment to be mustered out. On re- turning to his home in Maine, he attended school for one term, then bought an interest in the firm of J. B. Morse & Co., manufacturers of edge tools, located at Dixmont, Maine. But, not liking the business, he remained only six months, when he sold his interest to his part- ners and engaged as traveling salesman for a Boston grocery house, with whom he stayed till 1868. In April of that year, he started for California, coming across the Isthmus and ar- riving in San Francisco in May. At this time the Central Pacific Railroad was in course of construction and the work in need of men and Mr. Dodge being willing to do anything to af- ford an honest living, hired as teamster and was engaged in hauling railroad iron. At the end of six weeks an opportunity offered for him to go to Emigrant Gap; thither he went and for four months was engaged in logging, with S. Pntnam of that place. In the fall of the year he went to Yolo County and obtained employ- ment on a ranch, where he spent the winter. In the spring of 1869 he went to San Joaquin County, purchased a lot of wild horses and en- gaged in teaming, chiefly in hauling grain. In the autumn he disposed of the team and went to Roseville, Placer County, where he took a con- tract for cutting wood, in which he employed a considerable number of men. In the spring of 1870 he went to Colusa County and engaged in raising sheep. In the fall he sold his band, and during the winter taught school at Colusa. In the spring of 1871 he went to Nevada and again bought sheep, spending the remainder of the year in that State, wintering his band at Pueblo Valley near the Oregon line. Early in 1872 he sold his sheep and returned to Califor- nia, and after spending some time in the mount ains he went to Red Bluff, Tehama County, and

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engaged as foreman for Phillips & Chandler, the largest stock-raisers in the county, remain- ing with them till December, when he paid a visit to his home in Maine, spending about two months there. On his return to California he went to Colusa, and during the season gave his time to shearing sheep, traveling from Colusa to the State of Nevada. At the end of the shearing season, and until early in 1875, he op- erated a stage line and kept a hotel in the mountains. In 1875 he came to Sacramento and engaged as a salesinan for Horace Briggs, who was manufacturing a patent spring bed, and also sold furniture for W. D. Comstock and others. At the expiration of his contract with these parties, he opened a wood-yard in Sacramento, which he operated during the win- ter. In the spring of 1877 he disposed of this, and removed to Butte Meadows, Butte County, where he built a hotel, remaining as "mine host" for about four years, when he sold out, re- turned to Sacramento and engaged in his present line of business, the manufacture of gloves. He has been very successful, and has a repu- tation second to none in his line. His business relations are quite extended, his goods being sold not only in California but also in Nevada, Oregon and most of the Territories. Mr. Dodge's thorough knowledge of the requirements of his trade, and the fact that all skins used in the manufacture of his gloves are tanned at his own tannery and under his own personal supervision, enables him to place his goods on the market with the positive assurance that no competitor can excel him. In the operations of his factory and tannery, he employs twenty girls and six inen. In the business he is highly regarded, and enjoys to the fullest extent their confidence and esteem. During his visit East in 1872 he was married to Miss Emma Sunderland, a daughter of Major Henry Sunderland, of the British army at Montreal, Canada. Mr. Dodge is active in the Grand Army of the Republic, being a member of Sumner Post, No. 3, also of Leland Stanford Camp, No. 11, Sons of Vet- erans. Of the last named organization he has

been Captain. Is also prominent in the Odd Fellows order, being a member of Capital Lodge, and the Occidental Encampment of Pa- triarchs Militant. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias, and is now Chancellor Com- mander of Capital Lodge. In politics Mr. Dodge is a "dyed-in-the-wool" Republican, and nses all his energies to further the interests of his party both locally and nationally.

OSHUA FOUNTAIN was born in Mary- land, February 27, 1811, his parents being Andrew and Rebecca (Barwick) Fountain. His maternal grandparents were James and Mary (Fisher) Barwick. Grandmother Barwick lived to be over seventy. The Barwicks are Marylanders for several generations. His grand- father Fountain bore the naine of Andrew, and lived to be nearly seventy. Joshua Fountain's great-grandfather, who is believed to have been also named Andrew, was one of three brothers who had come to America from France before the middle of the last century. One settled in Maryland, one in Long Island, and the third went South, but afterward returned to France, where he died, leaving, it is said, a large for- tune to his indirect heirs in America. A grand-uncle was a Colonel Fountain in the French-Indian wars, about 1760, serving on the side of the British colonies; and is said to have received the grant of one or two sections of land over which the city of Baltimore has since spread. Whether the alleged $8,000,000 of Fountain's inheritance includes this as well as the foreign claim, or whether one is confounded with the other, or whether either is genninc, Mr. Joshua Fountain is unable to say, and meanwhile is little concerned about the pros- pective millions which perhaps is little better than a lawyer's lure to gather a handsome re- tainer from American Fountains. Joshua Foun- tuin was brought up on a Maryland farm near the Delaware line; and was married in 1834 to Miss Prudence Rebecca, a danghter of Solomon

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and Anvibater Fountain, born June 15, 1815. He rented a farm for the first year after his mar- riage, and in 1835 moved to Michigan, where be bought a farın in Cass County. In 1838 he moved to Iowa, buying a farm near Farming- ton; and then moved into Lee County, where he farmed for seven years. In 1850 he came to California, across the plains, accompanied by his oldest son, then a boy of fourteen. Arriving in Grass Valley on September 15, 1850, he went to mining there that winter, assisted by his boy. In the spring he went to prospecting for three months, and again settled down to work at Big Rich Bar, on the north fork of Feather River. Coming down to Oregon Gulch, below Oroville, he there mined in the winter of 1851 and the spring of 1852. In the summer he came down to Sacramento seeking a location, having ac- cumulated about $3,000, and bought a place at Eiglith and O streets. The son followed in No- vember with $1,000 which he had won from the mines at the age of sixteen. He went into his old business of brick-making, which he carried on from 1852 to 1861 in Sacramento. August 20, 1855, Mr. Fountain returned to Iowa to bring out his wife and family of four children, leaving his son in charge of the business and twenty men. In 1857 he bought the ranch of 240 acres in the northeast corner of Franklin Township, which he still owns, and on which he came to reside in 1859. During his brick- making career in Sacramento he went to Grass Valley in 1857, and there made brick for the Catholic Church of that place; and in 1859 to Suisun City, where he made brick for the court- house and jail. On his farm he raises grain, though it is well adapted for fruit-raising with proper irrigation. Mrs. Fountain died Deeem- ber 13, 1871, having borne the following ehil- dren: William Andrew, born June 9, 1836; James Barwick, July 11, 1838; Aun Eliza, January 13, 1841; George Walton, January 19, 1844; Sarah Jane, December 17, 1847, deceased in 1849; Mary Marion and an nnnamed twin sister, who died soon after birth, were born March 17, 1849. Mary Marion died in 1831.

Of these, William A. was born in Michigan, and the others in Iowa. The following were born in Sacramento: Joshna, Jr., April 2, 1857; an unnamed child, born March 31, 1861, died April 12, 1861; Charles Henry, born April 6, 1862; died February 12, 1884. The two oldest carry on a brick business in Sacramento as Fountain Brothers. Ann Eliza is the wife of F. S. Ilotchkiss of the same city. George W. is in the dairy business on the Loeke and Levin, son place, below Courtland. He supplies half the stock, the firm the other half and the land, the product being owned in equal shares. He is married to Louisa Hollman. Joshua, Jr., is a traveling salesman for the hardware house of Hillburn Brothers, of Sacramento, and is mar- ried to Clara Hoyt. December 30, 1874, Mr. Fountain was married to Miss Mary Myers, born in Dade County, Missouri, in 1855, a daughter of Garrett Laure and Delina (Robert- son) Myers, the father being of French and the mother of English descent, both now living in Sacramento.

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Author: Davis, Winfield J., 1851- 4n Publication date: 1890 Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 916

Author: Davis, Winfield J., 1851- 4n
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 916