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ILLIAM INGLIS .- Among those to whom Stockton's reputation for solid- ity and stability is largely due, is the gentleman whose name leads this brief sketch. Mr. Inglis, who is a native of Scotland, came to California in 1851, arriving in San Francisco on the 26th of September, and at Stockton on
the 10th of the following month. He estab- lished the New York Restaurant on Levee street, and kept it until 1859, when he became pro- prietor of the State Bakery, succeeding its founders-John Gross and Joseph Levique. It has been a continual success under bis manage- ment.
In 1868 he became interested in the Stockton Savings and Loan Society, that great financial institution noted at length elsewhere in this volume, and lias been a director ever since. In October, 1888, lie was elected president of the Stockton Combined Harvester and Agricultural Works Company, and now holds that position. A special article is devoted to that institution elsewhere.
Mr. Inglis has never put forward any claims to political preference, but notwithstanding this fact has been four times elected to a seat in the Board of Supervisors of San Joaquin County, and three times to the city council of Stockton.
He is an active business man, yet safe and conservative in his methods, and is one of the solid, substantial men of the county.
APTAIN SAMUEL HENERY, Chief Engineer of the California Navigation and Improvement Company, was born at Stenbenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, June 24, 1842, his parents being Samuel, Sr., and Eliza- beth (Donaldson) Henery, both of whom were natives of Scotland.
He was reared at Steubenville, and there learned the machinist's trade. After the break- ing ont of the civil war, he offered his services in behalf of the old flag, and was assigned to Company F, Eighty-fourth Ohio. During his service with this regiment he was engaged in the guarding of Cumberland, Maryland. At the expiration of his term he was discharged and returned to Steubenville. After a few months at his trade there, he again went to the front, and became an engineer in the Govern- ment service, in the Mississippi squadron. In
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this capacity he was first on the Silver Lake, next the Reindeer, then the Victory, and finally the Grossbeak. While in the Mississippi squadron he was engaged in the fighting in which its vessels took part on the Mississippi, Tennessee, White, Arkansas, Cumberland and Ohio rivers, on all of which streams they silenced rebel batteries. Among the principal fights in which he participated were those at Johnsonville, Tennessee, where they defeated three gunboats and inany steamers, and at Nashville, when Thomas whipped Hood, the navy doing valiant service. At the close of the war Captain Henery went home to Steubenville on waiting orders, and after he had been there three months he received an honorable dis- charge, with full pay to date. In April, 1866, he started for California, making the trip via New York and Nicaragua, on the steamers San- tiago de Cuba and Moses Taylor, landing at San Francisco from the latter vessel May 18, 1866. After a couple months at Napa, he en- gaged in the work of putting the engines in the steamner Cora, a Stockton-built boat. He next went as engineer on the old Washoe, which was then in service as the San Francisco-Oak- land ferry-boat. When he left that boat he went to the Colorado river, and was chief en- gineer for the company navigating that stream, from Fort Mojave to Port Isabel, at the head of the Gulf of California. He held that posi- tion six year and a half, then went to San Fran- cisco, where he becaine interested in the Cali- fornia Navigation Company. He became chief engineer of the line, and now holds that position with the present company. He has for a portion of the time been acting agent for the line, etc.
He was married in this city, June 3, 1877, to Miss Lydia A. Walcott, a native of Maine.
Captain Henery is a prominent Past Com- inander of Rawlins Post, G. A. R. He is a inember of San Joaquin Lodge, No. 19, A. F. & A. M .; is Scribe of Stockton Chapter, No. 28, and Iras been for three years Warden of Stockton Commandery, No. 8, Knights Tein- plar. He belongs also to Stockton Lodge, No. 37
23, A. O. U. W., and he and Mrs. Henery are members of the Eastern Star.
Mrs. Captain Henery was one of the organ- izers of the Women's Relief Corps in this city, and is Past President of the local corps.
ATHANIEL SIGGONS HARROLD, a rancher of Dent Township, was born in Warren County, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1833, a son of Daniel and Hilda (Martin) Harrold. The father, a native of the State of Pennsylvania, of German descent, was a black- smith by trade. The mother was born in Ohio, of Scotch and English parentage. In 1838 they moved to Iowa and settled on a farm in Lee County, and both died in that State, the inother at sixty-five, and the father at eighty years and eight months.
N. S. Harrold received a limited education, but learned farming pretty thoroughly in his youth. In 1849, in company with a brother-in- law, John N. Taylor, he set out for California. They were members of the " Iowa Democratic Train" of sixty-four wagons, all drawn by oxen. The Indians were hostile and hovered around, but did not attack them. The train was divided at Laramie, and the captain of the small party of twelve wagons, with which Mr. Harrold's fortunes were cast, was killed by the Indians while at some distance from his com. pany, on the headwaters of Feather river. The party arrived at Wood's creek November 14, 1849, and Mr. Harrold tried mining for a few days, and still treasures as a relic the gold then gathered. He soon learned that mining was not his forte, and he earned his first ready money as cook at the "Texas Tent," a wayside tavern, four miles west of what is now Farm- ington. He filled that position all of his first winter in California, at $150 a month. He next served as teamster for a freighting firm for five months, and in the fall of 1850 he bought four oxen and two wagons and went to freighting on his own account.
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In 1851 he bought the Oregon ranch on French Camp slough, near Farmington. In 1852 he' made a second trial of mining for six weeks, only to become more settled in his con- viction that mining was not in his line. In 1853 he sold out his teaming business and em- barked in the cattle-raising industry. He went into sonthern California, buying cattle at dif- ferent points. He followed that line for five years, buying, grazing, driving and selling cat- tle, sometimes having 12,000 head, of all grades, of which he would drive perhaps 1,000 head, from time to time, to a market in the mines.
In 1858 he made the Oregon ranch the cen- ter of his cattle trade, having a partner, and selling chiefly to drovers. The ranch of 320 acres was increased by purchase from various parties until it comprised 5,400 acres. In 1864, being with his partner a heavy loser by the drouth of that season, they drove 2,300 head into Montana to save a remnant of their herds. In 1865 he entered more largely into general farming, which has been his chief business since that time. In 1868 he erected a fine brick residence on his place in Farmington, at a cost of about $10,000 for building and $3,000 for furnishing. He also bought land in various quarters, and was owner of 15,000 acres before 1880. In 1884 he bought 1,440 acres in Dent Township, eleven miles sontheast of Farming- ton, which he had increased to 2,560 in 1889. He uses all the modern conveniences for farm- ing on a large scale, and expects to plow and hanl with a traction engine within two years. He has been County Treasurer for one terin, 1873-'74, and School Trustee for ten years or more. He prefers farming to office-holding, and always finds enough to do in caring for his landed interests.
Mr. Harrold has been twice married, first at his place in Farmington, May 17, 1856, to Miss Elizabeth Ann Smith, born in Clarke County, Ohio, September 14, 1840, a daughter of Sanı- uel and Levisa (Welchance) Smith. The father, born in Virginia in 1800, the son or grandson of a German emigrant, moved to Olio before
his marriage, came to California in 1854, and died in Stockton in 1864. The mother, a native of Ohio, of Welsh descent, died in that State at the age of thirty-nine. Mrs. Harrold came to California in 1853, with her sister Amanda, the wife of William Stamper, M. D., who set- tled in Stockton. Mr. and Mrs. Harrold have had eight children, of whom these six are living in 1889:
(1) Aaron Montague Harrold, born Decem- ber 28, 1857, finished his education in the Uni- versity of the Pacific at San Jose, where the mother and children resided from 1875 to 1884. The four oldest children attended that institu- tion for some years. A. M. was married April 4, 1881, to Miss Henrietta Bruner, a native of Marysville, a daughter of Rev. J. and Margaret Bruner. She died May 7, 1887, leaving two chil- dren: Clarence William, born January 29, 1882, and Allison Nathaniel, born December 23, 1886.
A. M. Harrold was again married August 21, 1889, to Miss Lucy Ann Cowdrey, born in Campo Seco, California, February 6, 1868, a daughter of Isaac B. and Alice (Mullen) Cow- drey. The mother died Angust 7, 1878, and the father October 30, 1884, aged sixty-two, both at Campo Seco.
Mr. A. M. Harrold owns 600 acres two miles sonth of Farmington, on which he has erected a nice residence, at a cost of $3,000 to $4,000. He is a member of Lodge No. 296, I. O. O. F.
(2) Arthur Winfield Harrold, born at Farm- ington, September 29, 1861, was educated there and afterwards at San Jose, receiving a diploma from the Business College of San Jose in March, 1881. He then went to farming on his 490-acre ranch, three miles southwest of Farmington. In 1883 he rejoined the family in San Jose, and in 1884 returned with them to Farmington. He next went to clerking in a dry-goods store in Stockton for one year, and afterwards into the manufacture of Canyontell Bitters, as a member of the firm of W. T. Don- nell & Co., of San Francisco, for about two years. That business was closed out February 27, 1889, and on the 4th of August of that year
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Mr. Harrold returned to his ranch, where he proceeded to erect a neat house, at a cost of about $2,000.
Mr. A. W. Harrold was married in San Jose, to Miss Ellen Carter, born in that city, and they have two children, both born in San Francisco: Ruby, July 7, 1887, and William Arthur, No- vember 27, 1888.
(3) Mollie Pacific, born Jane 14, 1864, finished her education at San Jose, was there married September 6, 1883, to Charles E. Blythe, and has two children: Alice Eva and Samuel Allison.
(4) Nevada, born December 26, 1867, also finished her education at San Jose, was married at Farmington in 1885 to Peter J. Chalmers, and has two children: James Arthur and Will- iam Wallace. (5) Arizona, born March 15, 1872, and (6) Clarence, born August 30, 1874, are both liviug with their mother at the home- stead in Farmington.
Mr. N. S. Harrold was again married June 17, 1881, to Miss Mary Lodema Butler, born in Iowa, May 1, 1848, a daughter of Pierce Gould and Elvira (Lamson) Butler, both natives of Connecticut. The mother died young. The father, born September 24, 1821, son of Martin and Cynthia (Potter) Butler, is still living on his farm in Mahaska County, Iowa. Martin But- ler was of English parentage, and by calling a sea captain. The Lamsons are of New England birth for several generations. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Lamson, the parents of Mrs. Butler, moved to Iowa and lived to a good age, the mother being over seventy when she died.
Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Harrold are the parents of three children: Hulda Louise, born October 5, 1883; Lena May, May 1, 1886; Nathaniel Gould, March 22, 1889.
R. W. E. GIBBONS, of Stockton, is a na- tive of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, born March 18, 1837. He spent his early boy- hood days at his native place and received his education there and at St. Louis, finishing at the
Christian Brothers' College, in the latter city. On leaving college he decided to learn a trade, and adopted that of harness-making. In 1863 he came to California via Panama, and after working at his trade for a time, became con- nected with the city and county hospital, with which he was identified for six years. His constant association with the medical staff of the institution gave him an excellent oppor- tunity to study medicine, and he determined to adopt the profession, Dr. William A. Douglas, of the hospital, becoming his preceptor. Upon leaving the hospital, he entered St. Mary's Col- lege, San Francisco, where he took a two years' course in Latin and the higher branches. That completed he began an attendance at the med- ical department of the University of California. He took one course of lectures there, then at- tended the medical department of the Univer- sity of the Pacific, where he was graduated in 1878.
He commenced practice in San Francisco, but removed to Amador County. After two years and a half at Sutter Creek, in that county, he came to Stockton, where he has since been en- gaged in successful practice.
Dr. Gibbons is vice-president of the San Joa- quin Medical Society, and is a man of the high- est standing among his brethren of the profes- sion. He is Examining Surgeon of the Catholic Mutual Benevolent Association, and Society Surgeon of the Y. M. I.
He was married, in San Francisco, to Miss Mary Agnes Roley.
LARA M. FREEMAN, M. D., a prac. ticing physician of Stockton, was born in Sierra County, California, May 6, 1861, a daughter of William and Clarissa Jane (Rich - ardson, by birth Hughell) Freeman. The father, born in Green County, Tennessee, January 19, 1816, had also been previously married, and had three sons and a daughter by the first mar- riage, of whom two sons are living in 1890.
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The mother, born in Tremont, Tazewell County, Illinois, August 10, 1829, was married while quite young, to Charles Francis D. Richardson, by whom she had two children, both deceased. A young widow of nineteen, she was married to Mr. Freeman, August 10, 1848. There are two sons and three daughters of this marriage living: George Washington, born in Iowa, De- cember 22, 1849, came with his parents and a younger brother to California in 1859, and is now a carpenter in Sacramento; Frank, born in Iowa, October 17, 1858, was married to Miss Ada Parker, a native of Mason Valley, and is now a rancher in Nevada. These have three children: Lucretia Jane, born May 19, 1886; Ada Belle and William James. The three daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William Freeman, all born in California, are: Clara M., the sub- ject of this sketch; Ada, born December 10, 1864, now Mrs. J. J. Stubbs, of Grub Gulch, Fresno County; Laura M., now Mrs. J. W. Isom, of Sacramento. Matilda Freeman, a daughter by the first marriage, was married to Oliver Farr, and their daughter, Rhoda P., was married October 22, 1888, to J. B. Logan, of Stockton. The mother of Mrs. Logan is de ceased, but the father is living in 1890, at the age of fifty-three. William Freeman died at Cloverdale, Sonoma County, December 16, 1877, but Mrs. Freeman is still living iu 1890. Grandparents George and Phœbe (Pugh) Hugh- ell lived to an advanced age. The former, born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Decem- ber 31, 1783, died in Jefferson County, Iowa, December 7, 1873; and the latter, born in South Carolina, November 30, 1786, died in Jefferson County, Iowa, September 30, 1872. They had been married in Ohio, March 4, 1805.
The subject of this sketch received her early education in the public schools, and in 1881 entered the California Eclectic Medical College in San Francisco, from which she was graduated after a full course of three and one-half years, in April, 1885. Her practice in this city is largely taken up with women and children, as
she had expected and desired. Dr. Freeman is a member of the California Eclectic Medical Society.
OLOMON LYTLE CONFER, of the firm of Confer & McDougald, manufacturers of San Joaquin river brick, was born in Ohio, in 1838, a son of Solomon and Jane (Lytle) Confer. The mother a native of Ohio, of Irish descent, was married in Dayton and died in Greene County, Ohio, of child-birth, at the age of thirty-six, leaving five children, all living in 1890. The father, a native of Mary- land, came to Ohio with his parents and settled in Greene County. He lived to the age of sixty-eight, dying in Terre Haute, Indiana. Grandfather Michael Confer, born in Germany, first settled in Maryland, and afterward moved to Ohio, settling on a farm in Greene County, near Yellow Springs, being one of the pioneers in that section.
S. L. Confer learned the trade of bricklayer in Rock Island, Illinois, from the age of sixteen to twenty, and there worked two years at his trade as journeyman. He came to California in 1860, across the plains, arriving in Stockton, whither his brother William, still residing in this city, had preceded him. S. L. Confer has followed lıis trade of mason and builder here for twenty-eight years, being partner with his brother William, under the style of Confer Brothers, from 1881 to 1888. In May, 1889, he engaged in the manufacture of brick at Lind- storm's Ferry, on the San Joaquin, under the style of Confer & McDougald, he being the manager of the business, employing from forty to fifty hands in the working season.
He was married in Stockton, in 1866, to Miss Annie Campbell, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, who died in 1881, at the age of thirty- eight, leaving three children: Charles Henry, born in 1872, a pupil in the high school in 1890; Frank Solomon, born in 1875; Frederick William, born in 1881. Mr. Confer was again
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married in this city, in January, 1884, to Miss Katie S. Hawkins, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, who had come to California in 1879, with her mother and two sisters, now residing in San Francisco.
Mr. Confer is a member of Stockton Lodge, No. 68, F. & A. M .; of Royal Arch Chapter, No. 28; of Stockton Commandery, No. 8; of Homo Lodge, O. E. S .; of Truth Lodge, No. 55, I. O. O. F., and of Stockton Lodge, A. O. U. W.
HOMAS CUNNINGHAM, Sheriff of San Joaquin County, is a native of Coun- ty Longford, Ireland, born August 17, 1838, and when ten years of age came to the United States, locating at Brooklyn. There he served an apprenticeship at the harness-maker's trade with a brother-in-law. He worked there until 1855, when he removed to California, via Panama. He left New York on the steamer Illinois, and landed at San Francisco from the steamer Sonora, on Saturday, June 16, 1855. He came at once to Stockton, and went to work for Peachy & Baggs, where Buckley's hat store is now located. He afterward changed his place of employment to the shop of George Ells- worth, who kept in an iron building on Hun- ter street. After this he worked at the estab- lishment of Bird, who was succeeded by H. T. Dorrance.
In 1860 Mr. Cunningham started in business for himself on Main street, near El Dorado, liaving bought out J. W. Scott there. In 1871 he was elected sheriff of San Joaquin County, took the office on the first Monday in March, 1872, and a year later closed ont his harness business. He has held the office of Sheriff ever since his first incumbency by virtue of re-elec- tion, and during that time no emergency has ever risen to which he was not equal, though there have been very many instances in which great tact was required, and many others call- ing for unflinching courage. (See chapter VII.)
He was married in this city, in 1861, to Miss Catherine Burke (now deceased). There are three children of this marriage, viz .: Lillie M., Maggie E. and Katie.
Mr. Cunningham is a member of Morning Star Lodge, A. F. & A. M .; of Stockton Chapter, Stockton Council and Stockton Commandery. He has been a member of Charity Lodge, No. 6, I. O. O. F., since 1858. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias, and to the Red Men. He was identified with the old volunteer fire department when it was in vogue, and was for two years foreman of Eureka Engine Company. He has also served in the city council of Stockton.
S. HATCH, of Stockton, was born at Cor- inth, Maine, thirty miles east of Bangor, September 27, 1832, his parents being Harvey and Nancy (Walker) Hatch. He was reared at East Corinth, Penobscot County, and learned the trade of blacksmith and horseshoer with Charles .Herrick. After serving an ap- prenticeship of three years, he still remained with Herrick, and was with him until 1859, when he removed to California, via Panama. He landed at San Francisco, January 10, 1860, but remained in the city only over night, going the next day to Stockton by boat. From here he proceeded to the mines, going to Jenny Lind, where he worked a year and a half at his trade He then went to Murphy's, where he conducted a shop until 1870. He then went East, but in 1873 returned to California, and located in Stockton. In February, 1873, the firm of Hatch & Holmes started in this city a general job and horseshoing shop. In the fall of the year they opened another shop, at Livermore, and Mr. Holmes went there and took charge, Mr. Hatch remaining in control of the Stockton shop. They were together abont two years, then dissolved, Mr. Hatch taking the shop in this city. Since that time he has carried on the business of horseshoeing alone, and his estab-
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lishment has a reputation for first-class work second to none in California. His foreman is William Fitzgerald, who has been in the shop since the 9th of July, 1879, and who is one of the best horseshoers in the United States. Their work is not confined to fast horses, but the finest race horse in the country could be shod here to the entire satisfaction of the most fastidious owner. Horseshoeing of that kind is an art in itself. Mr. Hatch knows what a good roadster is, himself, and, in fact, keeps some good ones of the Nutwood stock.
He is a member of Morning Star Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and of the A. O. U. W. He was Master of Ophir Lodge, No. 33, for five years.
Mr. Hatchi was married to Miss Mary Jane MeMahon. They have three children, viz .: Nellie, wife of D. H. Guernsey; Cora, wife of Edwin Gross, and Jennie Gertrude.
Mr. Hatch is a genial, courteous gentleman, and has many friends.
OIIN B. DOUGLASS, a well-known " Forty- Niner" of Stockton, was born on Sixteenth street, between Seventh and Eighth avennes, in New York, August 6, 1830, a son of John and Eliza (McDevitt) Douglass. The father, a native of New London, Connecticut, followed a seafaring career from early youth, and was for twenty-two years chief officer of a merchant vessel in the New York and Liverpool trade, and was lost at sea in 1837. The mother died in 1836, aged twenty-two, leaving two children, the subject of this sketch and a daughter, Mar- garet, three years younger, now Mrs. James Cullen, of Bloomington, Illinois. Grandfather Donglass, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a cooper by trade, came to America in early manhood and settled in New London, Connecti- cut. He lived to the age of ninety-six and was able to work to the day of his death, being ac- cidentally killed by falling thronghi an open trap-door. His wife reached the age of seventy- five. The McDevitt family of New York,
to which the mother of the subject of this sketch belonged, were of Dublin (Ireland) birth or parentage, and at least one brother of Mrs. Donglass was a merchant of some prom- inence in New York city.
John B. Douglass, an orphan at seven, began to do light work of various kinds in early youth, receiving some little schooling. With the passing years he managed to pick up a fair education, and at the age of sixteen became a clerk for a few years, in his native city, the larger part of the time in a shoe-store. After a three months' visit with his relatives in New London, Connecticut, he left that port early in 1849, on the barque Flora for California, by way of Cape Horn, arriving in San Francisco July 3, 1849. He went to mining in Coloma, and after fourteen monthis so engaged left for the East, September 5, 1850, by way of Panama. Returning to this coast by the same route in the spring of 1851, he came to this city and embarked in the public house business, but went East again before the close of 1852. He was married in New London, January 10, 1853, to Miss Ellen Dart, and set out again for California three days later. Resuming his business, which he had left in charge of another, lie carried it on here until the antumn. He then mnoved to Columbia, Tuolumne County, where he con- ducted a public house and filled the position of stage-agent for sixteen years. Meanwhile, in 1857, he went East once more and returned with his wife to Columbia. Mr. Douglass was a member of the board of trustees of that town several years and president of the board two years. He there acquired some mining interests, a few of which lie has retained to the present time. Selling out his business in Columbia he came to this city and opened a saloon in the Yo Semite Honse, July 4, 1869, which he carried on until February 28, 1885. In part- nership with Stephen Badger, since April 20, 1885, under the style of Douglass & Badger, he bought his present business at 339 Hunter street, established some dozen years before. Mr. Donglass served as chief engineer of the
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