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that year. He handled the same department, with a wider scope, for Moore & Smith, who succeeded the old firm in 1878, and in 1884, became in name as well as in fact their general manager. When the Moore & Smith Lumber Company was incorporated, in 1884, Mr. Fyfe remained at the head of their business interests centering in Stockton, which he lias built up to immense proportions. He is a stockholder in the company, and in those kindred organizations, the Kings River Mill & Lumber Company, and the Port Discovery Milling Company (State of Washington).
While his lumber interests are most impor- tant, lis enterprise is by no means coufined to that particular direction of industry. He has been a director since the oganization of the Stockton Land, Loan and Building Association; is Vice- President of the Stockton Street Railway Company; a director of the San Joaquin Valley Bank; a director of the Alta Insurance Com- pany, and of the Stockton Insurance and Real Estate Association. Ever since locating in Stockton, he has taken an active interest in public affairs. He has been prominently iden- tified with fire department matters, and in the time of the volunteer organization, was presi- dent of the Hook and Ladder Company for years. He has served eight years as a member of the city council, and was for three years of that time chairman of the finance committee. He lias been a member of Morning Star Lodge, F. & A. M., since 1870, belongs to Stockton Chapter No. 28, and Stockton Commandery No. 8, and is a director of the Masonic Hall Association. He is Past Chancellor of Charter Oak Lodge, No. 20, Knights of Pythias, and has been president of the Pythian Hall Associ- ation. He was for years chief of the Stocktou Caledonian Club.
Mr. Fyfe is a native of Ayrshire, Scotland, born on the 6th of June, 1850, his parents be- ing James and Elizabeth (Mckenzie) Fyfe, the former of whom died in 1873 and the latter in 1865. He was reared and educated at his na- tive place, and served an apprenticeship in the
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shipbuilding trade in the establishment of Con- nell & Co., and of J. G. Thompson. In 1869 he removed to America, locating in California, and coming to Stockton the following year, as before mentioned.
He was married in San Francisco, June 5, 1873, in St. John's Episcopal church, to Miss Annie Morton Bruce, a native of Glasgow, Scot- land. They have two children, viz .: Joseph and Annie Morton Bruce.
Mr. Fyfe is one of the most enterprising business men of Stockton, and always stands ready to assist with push and energy all move- ments calculated to advance the interests of the city.
TOCKTON IRON WORKS .-- There is no subject which commands more atten- tion in a progressive community than that of manufactures, and when a change in proprie- torship takes place in a leading institution of this character, the interest of all thinking cit- izens, having the welfare of the community at heart, is at once enlisted. Such a change has taken place in the proprietorship of the Stock- ton Iron Works during the year 1889, and it is a matter of congratulation that the previous high standing of the firm has suffered no loss from the change.
The Stockton Iron Works is one of the old established institutions of the city. Away back in 1868, H. S. Farrington, G. C. Hyatt and H. L. Farrington started the business on a small scale under the firm style of Farrington, Hyatt & Co. The integrity of their business opera- tions, and the high standard of work turned out built for thein a reputation which brought them a large trade, maintained for years. H. L. Farrington's death caused the only change up to 1889, though the firm name was not changed. On the 1st of April, 1889, Farrington, Hyatt & Co. retired, and were succeeded by the present fırın.
Tretheway, Earle & Dasher, the present pro-
prietors, have already demonstrated their good judgment in combining to assume the responsi- bilities of such an important works. At the time of this writing their bee-hive employs for. ty-two skilled workmen, a larger number than was ever before utilized in connection with the business.
Their manufactured product, while retaining its strong hold on the local trade, is in demand as far south as Fresno, and in the counties east and west of San Joaquin. Even San Francisco adds to the volume of the trade, though, of course, the demand from there is principally for specialties. Architectural iron work, a feature not included in the work of the old firm of late years, has been taken in hand by Tretheway, Earl & Dasher, with gratifying results. They have also taken up the building of traction en- gines, and find that they can turn out a machine better suited in every way to the needs of the territory they supply than any imported eugine. Already two of these completed monsters have been turned out of their shops.
Agricultural and mining work, brass and other castings are also among their principal products, while attention is given to general job- bing and repairing, boiler repairing, pattern work and machine blacksmithing.
The three proprietors are experts in their re- spective departments, Mr. Tretheway having charge of the pattern department, Mr. Earle per- sonally superintending the work of the corps of machinists, and Mr. Dashier being in control of the foundry work. To give an idea of the especial training and fitness for their respect- ive positions, brief sketches of them are here given :-
WILLIAM E. TRETHEWAY, of the above firin, is a native of London, England, born in 1857. His father, Richard Tretheway, was superin- tendent of extensive docks, his uncle being a director of the company. When the subject of this sketchi was a mere child the family came to America, but after two years in Indiana went back to England. In 1867, however, they re- turned to the United States and came to Cali-
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· fornia via Panama, locating in Stockton, where the father followed business as a contractor, and where he lived until his death. William E. Tretheway attended the public schools of Stockton until he was fourteen years old, then went to San Francisco, where he attended the Lincoln public school and served an apprentice- ship as pattern-maker in the Risdon Iron Works. In this branch of industry he at once rose to prominence. He built the Hope Iron Works, and turned out the patterns for the California Street Cable Company, San Francisco. Leaving that city in 1877, he returned to Stockton and took charge of the pattern department of Far- rington, Hyatt & Co., where he was engaged until the present firm was organized. He is Past Grand of Charity Lodge, I. O. O. F.
R. T. EARLE, a native of Collingwood, On- tario (near Toronto), was reared in New York State, and at a suitable age commenced the ına- chinist's trade in the great shops of the New York Central Railroad at Buffalo. Thirteen and one- half year's experience in this great establishment, during which he acquired every detail of the trade in the long range from railroad to steam- boat work, qualified him for the undertaking of any and every thing connected with the ma- chinist's trade.
When the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail- road built its Topeka shops, Mr. Earle was se- cured to take charge of the tool department, and held that position until the machinery was in position in the shops. Any experienced ma- chinist knows what that position involves.
In March, 1884, he came to Stockton, and after three and a half years in the S. C. H. & A. Works, took charge of Holt Brothers' machine shops. He left that position to enter upon his new duties in connection with the Stockton Iron Works.
SAMUEL D. DASHER, who is in charge of the foundry department, was born in Blair County, Pennsylvania, in 1843. He was reared in his native State, and learned the molder's trade with the firm of MeLanahan, Stone & Co., gen- eral founders and machinists, Hollidaysburg.
In 1862 he entered the service of the Union in Company G, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, with which he served nine months. From that time until the close of the war he was in Company D, One Hundred and Ninety-second Pennsylvania Regi- inent. He was diecharged at Harrisburg, then returned to Hollidaysburg, where he resumed work with his old firm.
After traveling through the Eastern States, he went to Omaha, and secured employment in the shops of the Union Pacific Railroad, then building. In 1876 he came to California and became foreman for Baker & Hamilton, at their San Leandro works. He was next in charge of their establishment at Benicia, for about thir- teen months, then went back to San Leandro, where he resided most of the time until com- ing to Stockton to enter the present firm. In the meantime, however, he was for one year in charge of the foundry of the Stockton Combined Harvester and Agricultural Works.
Mr. Dasher is a master of his business, and personally superintends the work in his depart- ment of the Stockton Iron Works. He is a member of the G. A. R.
ORVAL HARRISON, a rancher, residing in Stockton, was born in Monongahela County, West Virginia, in 1830, a son of William M. and Matilda (Everley) Harrison, both natives of that county. They moved to Lee County, Iowa, in 1846, where the father continued the work of farming, to which he had been brought up. He died at about the age of fifty, and the mother lived to be sixty. Grand- parents Richard and Nancy (Martin) Harrison, both natives of Monongahela County, lived to the age of sixty or over.
The subject of this sketch received a little schooling in his youth and was brought up to farm work on his father's place until the age of twenty. With an older brother, Joseph F., born in 1822, and two companions, he left Lee County,
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Iowa, in April, 1850. After crossing the Missouri at Omaha, they joined a larger party and came to California by the Humboldt route through Truckee Pass. Arriving in Yuba County, the brothers Harrison with the two comrades tried mining a short time, near what is now Nevada City. All four engaged in teaming from Stock- ton to the mining districts, in 1851, keeping together some eigliteen months; and the brotli- ers Harrison continuing in the same line a fur- ther period of about the same duration. In 1854, Joseph F., who had learned the trade of harness-maker, opened a shop in Stockton, and Norval went into the business of cattle-dealer, bnying in Southern California, driving to the mining regions where he sold to the butchers, the brothers being still partners in both enter- prises. In 1856 they located 160 acres each in this county, and soon afterward bought another half-section, meanwhile continuing the harness- making business in this city until 1858. They engaged with N. S. Harrold of this county abont 1859 in buying land and cattle-raising, some tracts, bought in common, remaining nn- divided until the early part of 1890, when a final partition and settlement was effected. Meanwhile the brothers J. F. and N. Harrison engaged in various enterprises, mostly farming and stock-raising, always together. Joseph F. Harrison was first married in his native county about 1846, to Miss Jnlia Shively, a native of that county, and with his wife followed his par- ents to Lee County, Iowa, where she died before the brothers left for California in 1850, leaving one child-William Bruce Harrison. In 1858, Joseph F. went East and was again married in his native connty to Miss Lee Ann McGill, born in that county about 1834, with whom he returned to this county. Norval Harrison, still unmarried, and having a permanent residence in this city since 1878, has been all these years interested in farming, and in 1890 still owus stock ranches in Butte and Tulare counties. He has been a Mason for about thirty years, being a member of the Stockton Command- ery as well. He is also a member of the
San Joaquin Valley Society of California Pio- neers.
Joseph F. Harrison died March 1, 1886, leav- ing a widow, living in Oakland, and four chil- dren, the issue of his marriage with her: George Edmund and David Arthur, owning and farming 243 acres in this township besides their undivided interest in their father's estate; Helen Louisa and Leonora, living with their mother in Oakland.
HARLES KIMBALL BAILEY, a rancher of Douglass Township, was born in An- dover, Massachusetts, June 9, 1830, a son of Samuel and Prudence (Farmer) Bailey. The father, a Massachusetts farmer, lived to be seventy five, and the mother sixty-three years. Grandmother Bailey was over eighty years old when she died, and her brother, Jesse Trnll, was eighty-five years old. Grandfather Bailey also died at an advanced age. The Bailey, Farmer and Trull families are believed to be long settled in New England.
C. K. Bailey went to school more or less nn- til the age of twenty years, but after he reached the age of fourteen he drove a market wagonin spare hours, and when there was no school. His father was a farmer and market gardener, and the son had early opportunity to learn the busi- ness. In 1851 he went to work in a grocery store in Lowell, and in June 1853, he came to California by the Nicaragua route. After one month in San Francisco he went to mining at Mokelumne Hill, and followed that business in that section for nearly ten years. After six years' mining he could have wound up with about $8,000, but going into larger ventures the net result was about one-quarter of that amount when he quit, January 1, 1863.
Mr. Bailey was married at Mokelumne Hill, January 8, 1863, to Miss Mary E. Belknap, born in Mis onri, Marchi 4, 1846, a daughter of James D. and Rachel (Rhoads) Belknap. They came to California in 1850. The mother, a native of
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Pennsylvania, is now living in Tulare City, aged about seventy years, and grandmother Barbara Rhoads (?) is living in Kansas at the age of nearly 100 years.
In 1863 Mr. Bailey bought 160 acres of land in partnership with C. W. Carpenter, a comrade of six years' standing, and in 1865, 208 acres adjoining on the Calaveras, in Douglass Town- ship. In 1871 and afterward they added 3,300 acres north of that river, and over 1,500 acres in another county, for summer pasturage. On the home place 368 acres are devoted to grain and horse raising. Of these he there raises an- nually about thirty-five lead, besides a herd of 160 to 170 head elsewhere. Mr. Carpenter died in 1883, aged fifty-seven years, and bequeathed his property to Mr. Bailey's children, but tlie will has been contested by his relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Bailey are the parents of five children, viz .: Nettie Orilla, born July 28, 1866, now Mrs. L. M. Walker, of Delano, Kern County, has two children-Gladdis Orilla and an unnamed baby boy; Addie Mabel, born April 5, 1868, now Mrs. E. D. Middlekauff, of Stockton; Hattie Maud, born December 25, 1869, Edward Franklin, October 18, 1873; and Mamie Etliel, November 30, 1881.
RANK HARTFORD SMITH, an attorney of Stockton, was born in the town of Mon- mouth, Kennebec County, Maine, April 23, 1850, a son of Joseph Henry and Abigail (Noyes) Smith. The father, born in Exeter, New Hampshire, March 22, 1813, learned the trade of shoemaker and afterward had a shoe store in Angusta, Maine. Later on, he carried on a general store in Monmouthi, and was for inany years engaged in mercantile business. Still later, he returned to his original pursuit, being employed as foreman for ten years in a shoe factory in Winthrop, Maine. Since 1879 he has been disengaged from active business, and in 1889 came to Stockton, accompanied by Mrs. Sınith, a native of Monmouth, Maine, where she 38
was born September 22, 1817. The grandfather Smith and his wife, by birth a Miss Dutclı, lived to a good age, and their son Charles, born abont 1817, is still living in 1890. Grandfather Samuel Noyes, born in Norway, Oxford County, Maine, in 1790, learned the trade of carpenter. He served in the war of 1812, rising to the grade of sergeant, and was afterward captain of a local artillery company. He was a man of fine phys- ique and was much respected in the community for his personal worth. For many years before his death, in 1868, he was engaged in the sheep and cattle trade. Grandmother Betsey (Smith) Noyes, born in Monmouth, Maine, a daughter of James Smith, was not akin to the Smith family into which her daughter married. Grand- parents Noyes raised a family of nine children, who all lived to maturity, and of whom the oldest is Mrs. Joseph Henry Smith, now of Stockton. Mrs. Betsey (Smithi) Noyes was eighty-nine at her death in Maine, about 1882. The Smith and Noyes families, from whom the subject of this sketch is descended, had come to Maine from Massachusetts, and more remotely from England, but the exact date of the arrival in New England of the founder of either family is not ascertained.
Frank H. Smith was successively educated in the district school, Monmouth Academny, the Waterville Classical Institute, and Bates College in Lewiston, from which he was graduated in 1875. He then read law for some months in the office of W. R. White, who afterward became United States Attorney for Idaho. Mr. Smith came to this city in March, 1877, and read law in the office of James A. Louttit, then city at- torney and afterwards a member of Congress from this district. Mr. Smith had tanght school in Maine and in this county, and having pre- pared himself for the profession of his choice as opportunity offered, he was duly admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of this State in June, 1879, and in July was appointed Deputy County Clerk, and assigned to conrt-room service. This position he held to the close of 1882, when he entered on the practice of his profession January 1, 1883, as senior partner of the firm of Smith
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& Keniston. By the accession of Mr. S. L. Carter, January 1, 1885, the firm became Carter, Smith & Keniston, and since the withdrawal of Mr. Keniston in August, 1887, it is known as Carter & Smith. Meanwhile Mr. Smith was elected City Attorney in May, 1883, and held that office until January, 1887. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library in 1882, and again, by appointment, since June, 1889. He is a member of San Joaquin Lodge, No. 19, A. F. &. A. M., and of Truth Lodge, No. 55, I. O. O. F.
Mr. Frank H. Smith was married in Stockton, June 27, 1887, to Miss Bella McGuffic, born in Benicia, California, May 9, 1862, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Green) McGuflic. Both parents, born in Scotland and married in New York State, came to California in 1853, and are residents of Stockton in 1890.
BEN STODDAR, a manufacturer of agri- cultural implements, in Stockton, was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, April 13, 1823, a son of David and Johanna (Stowell) Stoddar, both born and deceased in Hinghanı. The father, born in 1786, learned the trade of mason and became a contractor and builder, working chiefly in Boston. He died in 1866, surviving his wife, born in 1784, about eight years. Grandfather Stoddar, born in Hingham, and married to a native of that place or vicinity, died there, and the wife also, both at an advanced age. Grandfather Stowell was a pensioner of the war of 1812, and lived to be about ninety, surviving his wife several years, she being about eighty at her death.
The subject of this sketch learned tlie trade of wagon-maker from 1838 to 1841, and has worked at that and related industries ever since with but few and brief intermissions. He was married in Hingham, January 6, 1848, to Miss Lucy A. Bicknell, a native of that place, born December 14, 1827, a danghter of Ezra and Lucy (Cain) Bicknell. The father, born in Weymouth,
Massachusetts, was a shoemaker by trade, and died in 1882, aged about seventy-seven; the mother, born in 1808, is still living in Hingham in 1890. Grandfather James Bicknell was also a shoemaker, and lived to be over seventy, and grandmother Nancy Burr (Wilder) Bicknell, was eighty at her death.
Mr. Stoddar worked at his trade in Hinghamn, and had been running his own shop some years, when he set out in 1856 with three comrades for California, leaving Boston February 1, and reaching San Francisco by the way of Panama, before the close of the month. He then went to mining in Tuolumne County, at Jimtown and Pov- erty Hill, making about $4 a day. The novelty of gold-hunting having worn off in five months, Mr. Stoddar came to Stockton, and went to work at his trade at $4 a day. Early in 1858 he rented a shop, and with one journeyman was able to clear about $200 a month. Having ac- cumulated some money he returned to his home in Hingham, in September, 1859, intending to remain; but the contrast between the $9 a week lie could earn there and what he had been mnak- ing in Stockton when he left. together with the difference in climate, decided him to start again for this coast. He left in February, 1860, and three and one-half years later was rejoined by his wife and daughter, who left New York Sep- tember 3, 1863, and arrived in Stockton before the end of the month, being met in San Fran- cisco by Mr. Stoddar. On his arrival in 1860, he went to work at his trade for Webster & Brother, and afterward for the H. C. Shaw Plow Works abont fifteen years. In 1887 he rented hiis present shop at No. 418 California street, and is doing fairly well. He has never been sick and is hale, cheerful and active for his years. He was a member of the Masonic order twenty years ago, but has allowed his membership to lapse.
Mr. and Mrs. Stoddar have one daughter, Lucy Ellis, born in Hingham, October 3, 1850. She was married in Stockton in 1870, to Thomas Olin Crawford, a native of Maine. Both were teachers in this city, and in 1876 moved to Oak-
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land, where Mr. Crawford has been principal of the Lincoln school about ten years, and super- intendent of the Blind Men's Home some eighteen months. In 1888 he opened a private school in that city, known as Crawford's Acad- emy. Thay have one daughter, Eva Ella, born in Stockton December 31, 1872. She is still prosecuting hier studies under her parents' care in Oakland.
AMES SANGUINETTI, a rancher of Dong- lass Township, was born in Italy in 1852, a son of Bartholomew and Giovanna San- guinetti. The mother died while her son James was a baby; the father, born in 1811, is still living in Italy in 1889. The subject of this sketch came to America in March, 1867, direct from Italy to San Francisco. Two brothers, Angelo and Stephen, both of this county, had preceded him. James went to work for his brother Stephen on his vegetable farm for two and one-half years. Then with two partners he rented thirteen acres, on which they raised vegetables for the Stockton market for six years.
In 1876, in company with a third brother, Andrew, and two others, Mr. Sanguinetti bought forty acres on the Calaveras, six miles from Stockton. About one year afterwards the brother met his death by an unprovoked assault at the hands of a murderer, who immediately fled the country and met his well-earned doom of a violent death in Mexico. The remaining partners divided the forty acres equally, and Mr. James Sanguinetti conducted his thirteen and one-third acres as a vegetable garden until 1886. Selling his place, he worked on a farm a short time, and then on his brother Angelo's place one year. Meanwhile, in 1880, he had bought 320 acres in partnership with this brother, abont two miles east of Peters, and, with the same, 120 acres two months later in the same region. By later purchases and division of interests with his brother, he ill-
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dividually owns in 1889 480 acres, entirely de- voted to wheat.
In June, 1876, Mr. James Sanguinetti was inarried in Stockton to Miss Maria Lagomar- sino, born in Italy, October 31, 1856, a daugh- ter of Andrew and Angela (Kodomarti) Lago- marsino, both still living, aged abont sixty-five. She had come direct from Italy to San Fran- cisco, and thence to Stockton in 1876. They are the parents of five children: Andrew, born August 27, 1877; James, August 16, 1880; George, October 26, 1883; Louisa, Jannary 1, 1886; Emilia, June 23, 1888.
AMES STUART MOULTON, Principal of the schools of Linden, 1886-'89, was born in Hiram, Oxford Connty, Maine, Septem- ber 28, 1856, a son of Jordan Fogg and Mary A. (Stnart) Moulton. The father came to Cali- fornia in 1883, and is living in Stockton; the mother with her two daughters came in 1885. She died September 25, 1887, aged fifty-five. Grandfather Renben Moulton, a farmer in Maine, lived to be eighty-five, bnt grandmother Rebecca (Harmon) Moulton died at fifty-five. Grandfather Asa Stuart, also a farmer, moved from Saco to Hiram, where he was Selectman a number of years, and Representative in the Legislature one terin. He died in middle life. Grandmother Elizabeth (Andrews) Stnart, born abont 1810, is still living in Scarborongh, Maine. The Monlton family, founded by an English emigrant abont three generations ago, were among the pioneers in that section of Maine.
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