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In March, 1878, he opened an office alone in the McKee building at Stockton, and though without influential friends or relatives, he soon acquired a large and lucrative practice, particu- larly for one of his age and experience. In September, 1879, he was appointed City Attor- ney for the city of Stockton, to fill a vacancy, and was twice thereafter elected to the same position, at the end of which time he declined to be again a candidate for the position, and thereafter confined himself entirely to the civil practice, giving particular attention to land titles and litigation, in which he is an ac- knowledged authority. He has never held any other official position except court commissioner of San Joaquin County, to which he was ap-
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pointed in 1883. In January, 1885, he resigned this position for the purpose of forming the law firm of Carter, Smith & Keniston, which con- tinued until September, 1887, when Mr. Kenis- ton withdrew from the firm and retired from the practice, leaving the business in the hands of the present firm of Carter & Smith.
Mr. Carter is a prominent and influential member of the order of Knights of Pythias, becoming a member in 1876. He became an officer of his lodge upon the night of his ad- mission, and held office continuously in the lodge and in the Grand Lodge until the spring of 1884, wlien he was chosen Grand Chancellor. During his term he instituted the largest num- ber of new lodges ever organized in the State, averaging more than two for each month of the term. He is the author of the official digest of the laws of the order in use in this State, and is justly considered one of the best authorities upon the laws of the order.
He was married at Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1879, to Miss Armenia Oliva, and has a family consisting of two sons and a daughter.
DWARD WALKSMUTH, proprietor of the Tracy Hotel at Tracy, Tulare Township' was born in Germany, January 31. 1834. He was reared and educated in his native place. In 1857 he came to the United States, locating at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. In 1861 he en- listed in the army and served until 1864. He was engaged in the battles of Yorktown, Will- iamsburg, Fredericksburg, Seven Days' fight on the retreat witlı General McClellan, battle of Malvern Hill, battle of the Wilderness under Hooker, Chancellorsville Spottsylvania, Gettys- burg under General Meade, etc. At the battle of the Wilderness he was wounded in the right wrist and breast. He was carried to the hos- pital at Alexandria, Virginia, and cared for until his recovery. In 1864 he received his discharge at Washington, District of Columbia. Soon after he went to Franklin, Pennsylvania,
where he was employed as engineer for a short time; then engaged in the grocery business. In 1868 he sold out his business and set sail for California, remained but one year and then re- turned for his family. He bronght them to Sacramento, but after six montlis came to Ellis, this township, and engaged in the hotel business; leased the hotel for two years, when he went into the wool-raising business, in 1875, then resumed the hotel business in 1877, moved the hotel to Tracy in 1878, where he is running a first-class house, and, being an honest, straight- forward, accommodating gentleman, is doing a large business.
He was married April 25, 1865, to Miss N. Bayer. They have four children, namely: Mil- lie, Elda, Mary and Eddie.
DUARD SAALBACH is a native of Prussia, now a part of Germany, where he was born March 26, 1826, his parents being Christian and - (Fontram) Saalbachı; the latter died when our subject was quite young and his father married again, his second wife's name being Mary Hall. By his first marriage there were five children, four sons and one daughter, of whom Eduard is the youngest.
Eduard spent the early part of his life at home and attended school up to the age of fifteen, after which he took up mining and for many years followed that occupation, both in the old country and in California. In 1849 lie decided to leave his native liome on account of a revo- lutionary spirit that manifested itself among the people of his native country, and, not wishing to become involved in it in any way, he came to the United States, sailing from Antwerpen on board the American vessel Kirkwood, and landing in the city of New York on the 2d day of May, 1849. He continued his journey over the continent as far as Wisconsin, where he found employment on a farm, where he remained about four months. He then went to Milwau- kee and there took a steamer bound for Eagle
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Harbor, on Lake Superior, where he intended to take up work in the copper mines there. Ar- riving there, however, lie had to spend two months chopping wood for contractors for the purpose of steamboats. When everything was ready he entered the mines and continued to follow that occupation for some time. The great gold excitement in California at length induced him to return to New York and set sail from there for the land of gold. He came via the Nicaragua route and arrived in San Francisco on the 11th of November. He came up to Stockton, and from there went to Sonora, where he went to mining on Wood's creek, remaining about six months. Then he went into Calaveras County, near the neighborhood of Vallacito, where he followed his vocation assiduously for thirteen years; there were fonr in the party who worked the claim, and, although it was operated under great expense, they took out large amounts of the precious metal. One little incident of a striking character happened to the parties who owned the claim before they took hold of it: it was the taking out of a single piece of gold weighing twenty-six pounds; this occurred in 1850. Mr. Saalbach continued his operating on this claim until it was entirely worked out, when he abandoned it, also the business of mining. He came to this valley in 1864 and purchased the ranch where he now resides, taking up the business of farming which he has successfully carried on up to the present time.
He was married in 1860, in Vallacito, to Kattarina Wagner, a native of Bavaria, who came to the United States in 1854, resided in Cincinnati two and a half years, a similar length of time in New Orleans, then came to California in 1859. They have a family of seven children, six of whom are sons, the youngest a daughter. Their names are as follows: Leobolt F., born February 28, 1861; Fritz, July 6, 1866; Eduard, June 1, 1868; Karl, October 1, 1870; Adolf, October 14, 1872; Otto, January 17, 1875, and Bertha, May 2, 1878; the oldest of the children was born in Calaveras County, the others in San Joaquin County.
Mr. Saalbach's ranch is situated on the Upper Sacramento road, six miles from Stockton, and contains 2133 acres of good farming land, well improved. The buildings are good and sub- stantial, and his handsome residence, which was put up in 1878, gives a valuable and pleasing appearance to the place.
ILLIAM SAMUEL BUCKLEY, ex- Judge of the Superior Court of San Joaquin County, was born in Wood County, Virginia, December 17, 1829, a son of John F. and Margaret (Aulkier) Buckley. His father was a farmer, and both parents died while the subject of this sketch was quite young. An older brother, Harrison Wade Hampton Buck- ley, is still living in his native county, in 1890, aged seventy-nine. Grandfather Buckley, also named John F., born in Virginia, the son of an Irish emigrant, lived to an advanced age. Thrown on his own resources at an early age, the future judge managed to acquire a fair edu- cation, and before he reached his majority his mind was fixed on pursuing a legal career. Meanwhile he earned his living in various vo- cations, among others as clerk on the steamboat Colorado, engaged in the Pittsburg and St. Louis trade, for about eighteen months; then as part- ner in a general store, under the style of Weaver & Buckley, in Elizabethtown, Virginia, where he first began to read law under the guidance of a local lawyer named Hall. The firmn of Weaver & Buckley moved to Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1849, and carried on business there about two years.
In 1852 Mr. Buckley came to this coast and entered an academy in Portland, Oregon, to prepare himself for his chosen profession. While thus engaged, about 1854, he with four other students made the first known ascent of Mount Hood accomplished by white men. But the In- dian war of 1855 interfered for a time with his professional aspirations, as lie felt it a duty to aid in subduing the sworn enemies of his peo- ple, and he promptly enlisted as a private. Iu
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December, 1855, the white volunteers, number- ing 330, had a fight with the enemy at Fort Shinn, on the Umatilla. By a night march they surprised the Indians, capturing Mox-Mox, chief of the Walla-Wallas, his son and several others, and destroying their village. They then made a forced march of thirty-five miles, only to find themselves confronted by 3,000 Indians, well supplied with arms and ammunition. After a brief consultation it was decided to break through their lines or perish in the attempt. A desperate conflict ensned, extending over a dis- tance of ten miles. Mox-Mox and his fellow- captives attempted to escape to their friends by cutting and slashing their guards with the knives they had been permitted to retain, and it became necessary to kill theni in self-defense. The heroic band escaped through the enemy's lines with a loss of seventeen killed and about forty wounded. When Cascade City was after- ward taken by the Indians, Mr. Buckley again volunteered under Captain Powell, and while in this service his company went into the field with the regular troops under Philip H. Sheri- dan, then a Lieutenant of infantry. Soon after- ward Mr. Buckley was commissioned by Gov- ernor Curry as Captain of an independent company of rangers, and ordered to join Major Leighton's command at the Dalles. Captain Buckley's company had a few successful skir- mishes with the Indians, but the war closed be- fore any heavy engagement was fought. After completing his academic course, he was ap- pointed deputy postmaster of Portland, filling the position in 1856 and 1857, and reading law in spare hours under Logan & Shattuck, and later on under Williams & Gibbs. In 1859 he was elected assessor of Multnomah County, and discharged his duties of that office to the general satisfaction of his constituents. In 1860 he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Oregon, and in the fall of that year moved to San Francisco, where he became as- sociated with Ray Reese and N. Northrup in the publishing of the Evening Journal. In 1861 he moved into this county, and was elected
Justice of the Peace for Liberty Township, which he soon resigned. He taught school for about two years, and then engaged in the practice of law. In 1865 he helped to form in Wood- bridge the first anti-Chinese organization of this county, and in 1866 delivered a lecture in this city upon the Chinese question, in which he enunciated the views afterward embodied in the Chinese Restriction bill. In May, 1874, he was appointed County Judge by Governor Booth, for the unexpired term ending in 1875, and was then elected for a full term of four years. In 1879, the office of County Judge having been abolished by the new constitution of this State, he was elected Judge of the Superior Court for the term ending December 31, 1883, and at its close resumed the practice of law. To do right, regardless of everything but law and justice, appeared to be his guiding principle on the bench, and as a lawyer he has always been recognized as thorough in preparation, and faithful to the interests of his clients, as well as an able exponent of the laws and decisions affecting each case. Though a Democrat of pronounced convictions, he has been repeatedly elected to the bench in a county having on each occasion a decisive Republican majority.
Judge Buckley was married in Sacramento County, May 8, 1865, to Miss Minerva C. Craw- ford, born in Illinois, March 29, 1847, a daugh- ter of Morgan and Henrietta (Castle) Crawford, who came to this State with their family in 1860, and are still living in Oakland in 1890. The oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Judge Buck- ley is William Langdon Buckley, born in this city, October, 1871. He was educated in the public schools, the business college and high school of Stockton. He is now filling the posi- tion of time-keeper for the Howard Street Rail- road Company, of San Francisco. The younger members of the Buckley family-John R., born in 1877, and Maud Crawford, born in 1879- are attending the public schools of this city. Brought up a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church, Judge Buckley regularly attends the service of the Central Methodist Episcopal
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Church of Stockton. He is a member of Stock- ton Lodge, No. 11, I. O. O. F., and of Charter Oak Lodge, No. 20, K. of P.
ANIEL HOWARD, farmer of Elliott Township, San Joaquin County, was born in Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, May 28, 1823, son of Daniel and Rebecca Howard. He was reared in Walpole to the age of twenty years, then went to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he learned the shoe- maker's trade, and followed it for seven or eight years. Then determined to come to California; accordingly took passage upon the ship Dubois, and reached San Francisco after a voyage of 194 days. He remained in that city but four weeks, then went to the mines. Soon after bought his farın of 300 acres of fine land, sitnated on the Mokelumne river and about two miles from Clements. There he has remained ever since, devoting his time to farmning and improving his land.
He was married in San Joaquin Connty, December 6, 1868, to Miss Clara Flanders, a native of Wisconsin, who came to California when four years of age. They have two chil- dren, namely: Frankie L. and Jennie V.
SAAC STOUTENBURG HAINES, pro- prietor of the Avenne Stable in Stockton, was born in Rising Sun, Indiana, in 1832, a son of Matthias and Elizabeth (Brower) Haines. The father, a native of Vermont, died in 1863, aged seventy-seven, and the mother, a native of New York State, died in 1874, at the age of seventy-four. Grandfather Abraliam Brower, a native of New York city, died in 1865, aged ninety-nine, and his wife Elizabeth (Stoutenburg) Brower, also a native of New York, lived to be over seventy. A. Brower and M. Haines, both physicians, were of the early settlers of Indiana, arriving in 1816, the former in Lawrenceburg
and the latter in Rising Sun. Jeremiah, a son of A. Brower, M. D., was also a physician in Lawrenceburg and served as a surgeon in the general liospital before Vicksburg in 1863, where he died of blood-poisoning contracted in the discharge of his duties. The subject of this sketch was partially paralyzed in infancy, and at the age of fifteen sprained his ankle, when his uncle, Dr. J. Brower, amputated the limb with snch success that he has suffered no serious incou- venience in all these years except a certain un- avoidable stiffness in the knee joint. Abraham Brower Haines, M. D., a brother of I. S. Haines, practiced in Aurora, Indiana, also served in tlie army from 1862 to 1865 as surgeon in the Nineteenth and afterward in the Forty-sixth In- diana Volunteer Infantry. He died in Aurora, Indiana, in 1887, aged sixty-four. The founder of the Haines family, Samnel Haines, was among the Pilgrims of 1635, and settled in New Hampshire. I. S. Haines is a lineal descendant of the Deacon Haines, in the seventh genera- tion. The Browers are of Knickerbocker de- scent, and the Stoutenburgs are Hollanders, who moved to this country previous to the Revolu- tionary war. Mr. Haines las in his posses- sion a ring made in 1727 for his great-grand- parents Isaac and Elizabeth Stoutenburg, en- closing portions of the hair of each and inscribed with their initials I. and E. S. Mr. Haines was educated in the district school in Rising Sun and afterward clerked in a store at that place for four or six years. He came to California in 1852, and went to work at Fourth Crossing in Calaveras County as clerk in a store, remaining three years, when he engaged as a farm hand for two years. He went East in 1857 and set- tled again in Rising Sun. He was married in 1862 to Miss Margaret Smith, who died without issue in 1880. After her death he returned to this State and settled in this city, being engaged from 1880 to 1885 with his brother John S. on Main street in the stable business. In 1885 he bought the stable now conducted by him at 308 Weber avenue. It is an old location, established in 1853. Mr. Haines was again married in
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1884, in this city, to Mrs. Emily Petty, deceased, in 1886, also without issue. Mr. Haines has been a Mason since 1857, joining the lodge in Rising Sun, of which his father was a charter member. He is now a member of Morning Star Lodge of this city.
NSEL LITCHFIELD was born in Ohio in 1831, went to Illinois in 1837, came to California in 1852 via the Isthmus of Panama, thence by the steamer Winfield Scott to San Francisco, she carrying 1,400 passengers, three of whom died on the passage, one being buried at Acapulco and two at sea. He saw the great fire at Sacramento city November 2, 1852, and the flood shortly after. Went to San Jose valley in Jannary, 1853, and a few months later came to Stockton. He was mar- ried to Mrs. M. J. King in 1860, whose maiden name was Cross, born at Lockport, New York, in 1830. Residence No. 606 San Joaquin street, Stockton, California.
F. MOLLENHAUER .- Among the en- terprising business men of Stockton, who take an active interest in public affairs, is he whose name heads this sketch. He is a native of Germany, born in the old kingdom of Hanover, September 7, 1852, his parents being John Frederick and Doris (Kobbe) Mollenhauer. He was reared at his native place, and educated to the age of fourteen years, after which he was engaged in farm work. In 1868 he emigrated to America, landing at New York, where he en- gaged as clerk in a grocery store on the corner of Ninth avenue and Fifty-third street. He afterward changed his place of employment to a store on the corner of Ninth avenue and Fifty- fifth street.
In 1878 he came to California and located in Stockton, where he bought the grocery business of John Ducker, on Weber avenue. This store
was established by Mr. Ducker in 1858, and was carried on by him until succeeded by Mr. Mollenhauer. The latter has kept up the high reputation of the store established by his pre- decessor, and enjoys an extensive trade with city and county. He has a well equipped store, and his well-known fair dealing and uniform habits of courtesy have given his establishment a reputation second to none.
Mr. Mollenhauer was married, on the 7th of September, 1881, to Miss Ella Wolleson. They have three children, viz .: Freddie, Willie and Jesse. Mr. Mollenhauer is a member of the Verein-Eintracht, and of the U. A. O. D.
OHN COWEN BYERS was born and raised near West Alexander, Washington County, Pennsylvania. After the completion of his education, he went. South, read law, and was ad- mitted to the bar in the State of Arkansas: he afterward came North and settled in the south- ern part of the State of Indiana, where he prac- ticed law a number of years, and then removed to Nebraska City, Nebraska, where he continued the practice of law until the gold excitement in Colorado drew him to that country, from which, after a year's stay, he came across the plains to California and settled in Stockton, in the month of September, 1861, where he has ever since been and still is engaged in the practice of law.
L. DUDLEY .- Among those who have given character and solidity to the Stockton Bar is the gentleman whose nanie heads this sketch. He is a native of Chesterfield, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, born December 20, 1824, his parents being Moses and Persis (Pratt) Dudley. The Dudleys are known as one of the old families of New England, and the father of our subject, a native of New Hampshire, was born at Londonderry, Sullivan County, and died in April, 1874, aged
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seventy-eight; his widow, who lived to the ad- vanced age of ninety-one years, died in January, 1885; she was born at Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
The subject of this sketch commenced his literary education in his native county, attend- ing Chesterfield Academy and finished at Brat- tleboro, Vermont. He commenced reading law in the office of Larkin G. Mead, at Chesterfield, and afterward studied at Brattleboro, and later was with Allen P. Dudley, his brother, at Nashua, New Hampshire. He finished his preparation for the legal profession at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire in 1846, and commenced practice at Chesterfield. His profession then commanded his attention until the current stories of the golden wealth of Cali- fornia caused him in 1849 to join the Gordon Association, organized for the purpose of giving its members an opportunity to test for them- selves the truth of these reports. On the 20th of February, 1849, they sailed from New York and landed at San Juan. Hence they pro- ceeded via the San Juan river and Lake Nica- ragua to the Pacific. They had expected to charter a vessel there or go up on a steamer, but steamers passing there had all they could carry, and five months elapsed before they could secure transportation. At length they took passage at Rio Lejo on a sailing vessel bound for San Fran- cisco. The voyage proved an eventful and tedious one. Water and provisions gave out, and they ran into a little bay above Cape San Lucas, Lower California, where they lay a week, taking in water and other supplies. At length, Octo- ber 5, 1849, they put into the harbor of San Francisco. Mr. Dudley was sick when they landed, and he remained a week with Postmaster Moore, who was a New Hampshire man. He then came to Stockton, and from here proceeded to Calaveras County, where he engaged in inin- ing. At Mokelumne Hill he was elected Al- calde in 1850. In April, 1851, he went back to New Hampshire, via Panama, but returned to California in May, 1852, bringing with him
his law library, and engaged in practice at Mokelumne Hill. In 1867 he came to Stock- ton, which has ever since been his place of resi- dence. During the quarter of a century he has resided there he has occupied his present place in the front rank of his profession, a represen- tative of its strength and dignity.
Mr. Dudley was married at Newcastle, Can- ada, November 11, 1858, to Miss Mary C. Doak, a native of Northfield, Massachusetts, and daughter of Thomas D. and Elizabeth (Mead) Doak. Her mother was a sister of Larkin G. Mead, father of a well-known sculptor of that name,-the designer of the National Lincoln monument at Springfield, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley have four children, viz .: Elizabeth Mead; Ellena G., wife of L. H. Parker, of Be- loit, Wisconsin; W. L., Jr., who is connected with one of the banks of Stockton; and Mary Frances.
Mr. Dudley was a member of the Constitu- tional Convention of 1880, and served on the Engrossing Committee of that body. He was elected to Congress on the Anti-Lecompton ticket in 1857, but did not go on to Washing- ton to claim his seat. In 1858 he declined a renomination.
AVID P. MARTIN is a native of Wetzel County, West Virginia, where he was born January 12, 1836, his parents being Felix S. and Eliza (Harrison) Martin, both na- tives of West Virginia. Felix S. moved to Ohio with his family, where he remained twelve years. About 1851 he returned to Virginia, where they made their home till 1855, when he moved to Lee County, Iowa; seven years later he crossed the plains to California, arriving in this valley September 22, 1862. For almost ten years he was toll collector at the toll gate on the Water- loo road, where he died October 16, 1881, at the age of seventy-four years. Mrs. Martin died June 16, 1853, in West Virginia. She was the mother of ten children, four sons and six daugh- ters, as follows: Glorvina, wife of L. Herbert:
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she died in this county, in July, 1862, leaving one daughter; Mary Belle, married and living in Kansas; Amanda, married, residing in San Jose, California; D. P, the subject of this sketch; Richard Harrison, residing in Missouri; Mar- garet Clinton, who died at the age of four; Benjamin F., residing in Tacomo, California; Charles L., a resident of San Joaquin County ; Eliza Virginia, married and residing in San Francisco; and Anna, the youngest, who died in Virginia, in 1855.
David P. Martin remained with his parents up to the year 1855, when he went to Missouri, and acted as foreman or overseer on a farm, where a number of slaves were employed in tlie raising of grain, tobacco, etc. This position he occupied for five or six years, at the end of which time he came to California, in the year 1862. During his residence here he lias been occupied in ranching most of the time. The place where he now lives was bought in the fall of 1867: it consists of 160 acres, besides 193 acres he owns in partnership with his brother, Charles L. Martin.
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