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The subject of this sketch was brought up on his father's farm and educated in the public schools. He afterwards entered the Normal School at Gorham, and taught his first school in Maine in 1877. He was superintendent of schools in Hiram in 1880-'81, and has taught school every year since 1877. In 1882 he came to California, and has taught in this county every year since. In 1886 he came to
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Linden, and has been principal from that time to the present. His first school in California was at Ripon in this county.
Mr. Moulton was married July 31, 1887, to Miss Edith Dow Yaple, a native of California, born January 14, 1867, a daughter of Perry and Martha M. (Burley) Yaple, of Ripon. (See sketch of Mr. Yaple.)
Mrs. Moulton was educated in the district school of Ripon and the State Normal School at San Jose, from which she was graduated in 1885. She has taught every year since, and has had charge, in 1888-'89, of the intermediate de- partment of the Linden school.
CDOUGALD, SANGSTER & CO., wholesale liquor merchants of Stockton, succeeded by purchase in July, 1888, to the business established by Evans & O'Brien in 1868. Later on the business was carried on by John H. O'Brien alone until August, 1877, when he sold ont to J. A. McDongald & Co., in which the " company " represented the Mr. John Sangster of the present firm. In 1879, J. A. McDougald lost his life by drawing his gun, muzzle toward him, from a wagon, and the business was bought by the former owner O'Brien. Two brothers McDougald, D. A. and W. A., formed a partnership February 1, 1886, to carry on a wholesale liquor business in this city, and in July, 1888, they bought out Mr. O'Brien. They do a jobbing business in this and neighboring counties as well as in this city.
John Sangster was born in Scotland, in 1842, a son of Jolin and Maggie (Gray) Sangster, both deceased, the mother in Scotland, and the father at the age of sixty-two in Canada, whither he had emigrated in the childhood of his son. The latter, brought up on his father's farm in Glengarry County, Canada, and there educated, afterward learned the trade of a tailor, and worked at it some little time there as a journey- man. Coming to California in 1864, from New York city by way of Panama, he arrived in Sall
Francisco, March 29, 1864. He worked about one month in the Revere House in Napa, then several months at his trade in Marysville, when he went to the mines in Trinity Connty, in the fall of 1864, remaining there about six months. He then took up farm work in that county eighteen months and followed the same line afterward in Humboldt County nine years, meanwhile buying 160 acres, which he worked on his own account one year. Selling his land he returned to Canada in the winter of 1876, remaining but three months, when he camne by railroad to Stockton and went to farming near Modesto for nine months. 1n 1877 he returned to this city and was engaged for three months in delivering for a coal and ice company. Au- gust 1, 1877, he embarked in his present business as a member of the firm of J. A. McDougald & Co. After the death of his partner in 1879 and the purchase of the business by J. H. O'Brien he remained with the latter until May, 1880, when he went to Oregon. There he be- came the agent of an Eastern manufacturer of agricultural implements, dealing mostly with conntry merchants. After four years in that business he returned to Stockton in 1885, and a few months later helped to form the present firm.
Mr. Sangster was married in this city, June 12, 1887, to Mrs. Catherine Roberts, a widow with two children: Mary and Maggie Roberts. Mrs. Sangster died in September, 1888. Mr. Sangster is a member of the I. (). O. F., a Knight of Pythias, and a member of the Im- proved Order of Red Men.
William Archibald McDougald, of McDou- gald, Sangster & Co., wholesale liquor mer- chants of Stockton, was born in Glengarry County, Canada, in 1838, a son of Archibald and Mary (Corbett) McDougald, both natives of Can- ada, of Scotch descent. Great.grandfather John Corbett, the original emigrant on one side, lived to be eighty, and grandfather John McDougald, the first emigrant on the other side, lived to be sixty-five. Grcat-grandmother Margaret (Mc- Donald) McDougald, lived to be over eighty, and grandmother Flora (Forbes) Corbett reached
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the age of seventy-three. Mrs. Mary (Corbett) McDougald, born in 1817, died in Canada in 1872 and her husband, Archibald, born in 1809, died in this city in 1878. Of their chil- dren fonr sons and one danghter came to Cali- fornia and settled in this city, and are all living here in 1890, except one son, John A., who was accidentally killed in June, 1879, leaving a widow and three children. Donald Alexander, a widower with three children, is a member of the firm of McDougald, Sangster & Co .; John D. is the well known rancher and capitalist of this city, and Miss Mary A. McDougald is one of the matrons of the State Insane Asylum.
The subject of this sketch received his edu- cation in a country school in his native county and then learned the trade of painter in Mon- treal, where he also worked in a grocery store for some time. He came to California in 1863, by way of New York city and Panamna, and worked at liis trade in San Francisco until he came to Stockton in 1865. Here he became a member of the firm of Quinn & McDougald, in the painting and paper-hanging line, in which they remained until January 1, 1869, when they went into the grocery business; John A. McDougald being also a partner, without change of style. In the fall of 1870 they sold out, and the subject of this sketch, for the benefit of his liealth, moved to Los Angeles, where he engaged in the paint and oil business until June, 1873. He then returned to Can- ada and embarked in the grocery and liquor business in Ottawa, under the style of W. A. McDougald & Co., until 1874, when he was burnt out but resumed for a short time. Be- coming dissatisfied with that country a longing for the sunshine of California seized him, and winding up his business he returned to Stock- ton in the fall of 1875, accompanied by his father and sister. He rejoined his old partner, Mr. Quinn, in the original business of paint- ing and paper-hanging, under the old style of Quinn & Mc Dougald, which continued until the formation of the present firmn, as already stated on February 1, 1886.
Mr. McDougald was president of the Cale- donian Club of this city until its death in 1885. He is now a member of the Caledonian Club, and of the St. Andrew Society of San Francisco.
NOCH PEYTON, a resident of San Joa- quin County with brief exceptions since 1850, was born in Stafford County, Vir- ginia, in 1831, a son of William Washington and Lncy (Masou) Peyton, both natives of that county, the father born in 1799, and the mother in 1801. The father owned several hundred acres, and three or more country stores. The inother died in 1838, leaving ten children, of whom eight grew to maturity, and of these three are living in this State in 1890: Valen- tine M., of this city; Miss Mary E., of San Francisco, and the subject of this sketch. After the inother's death the father inoved to Missis- sippi, settling on a cotton plantation near Jack. son, where he died in 1847. Grandfather Val- entine Peyton, M. D., an English emigrant, joined the patriots of the Revolution and served as a surgeon in the army of Virginia during the struggle for independence, and was married in that State after the war, to a Miss Washing- ton, a relative of General Washington. Grand- father Enoch Mason was a planter at Clover Hill, Stafford County, Virginia, and was inar. ried to Miss Lncy Roy, both dying in that State a few years apart, aged about fifty.
The subject of this sketch received a limited education in his youth in Virginia and Missis- sippi, and at about the age of fifteen went to work for his brother, William W., a commis- sion merchant in New Orleans. With another brother, John R., and his comrade, William Crow, Enoch Peyton came to California across the Isthmus in 1850, arriving in San Francisco August 21, 1850. All three went to mining on the north fork of the American river, re- maining about two months, gathering each about an ounce a day in gold dust. After a brief stay in Martinez, they came to Stockton,
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whence he went with Mr. Crow to Sonora, but soon returned to this city and went to teaming to the southern mines for wages one year. He then bought his own team and continned freight- ing on his own account abont twelve years. He remembers selling a span of mules in 1855 for $1,100. In 1863 he went to Idaho with two mule teams, having sold the rest of his stock before leaving, returning to this city every win- ter but one during his stay in that section. The venture in Idaho proved a loss, and in Idaho City he first opened a public house. He had secured 160 acres near Collegeville in this county some years before, and, returning from Idaho in 1868, he went to farming on his place during the year 1869. He owned also 320 acres on the French Camp road, a few miles within the eastern limits of this county, and on that ranch he went into the business of sheep- raising in 1870, driving his flocks to the monn- tains in summer, and grazing them on his ranch and other rented pastures in winter, sometimes owning as many as 6,000 head. In the fall of 1875 he closed out his sheep industry and em- barked in the public house business at his present stand, 232 Main street.
Mr. Enoch Peyton was married in Stockton in 1868, to Miss Mary V. Bateman, born liere about 1851, a daughter of Dr. Bateman and his wife, by birtlı a Miss Kimberlin. Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Peyton have two living children: Ed- mund Randolph, born in 1874, and Harry Mason, born in 1878. Mr. Enoch Peyton is a member of the San Joaquin Valley Society of California Pioneers.
ELSON McCUEN, assistant superintend- ent of the Stockton Combined Harvester and Agricultural Works, was born in North Gare, Ontario, March 10, 1837, a son of George and Sophiia (DeLancet) McCuen, both natives of Canada. The father, who was of Scotch parent- age and engaged during mature life chiefly in farmning and lumbering, lived to the age of
seventy-five; and the mother was seventy-three at her death. Grandfather David and Mary (Patterson) McCuen raised a large family, and lived to an advanced age, the husband being over seventy-five. Uncle Nelson McCuen, now living in Seattle, Washington, is engaged in active superintendency of his blacksmith shop, at the age of seventy-five. Grandfather Lewis De- Lancet had been an officer in the French arnty before coming to Canada, where he was married to Miss Mary Jane Schneider, by birth a Ger- man, but raised in Vermont. They had twenty- two children, most of whom grew to maturity. Mr. DeLancet owned a saw-mill and was ex- tensively engaged in lumbering, and was a man of great personal vigor to the last. He was killed by falling from a scaffold while at work on a building, at the age of seventy-nine, and the wife lived to the age of seventy-five.
The subject of this sketch was taken by his parents, in 1840, to St. Lawrence County, New York, where the father purchased a farm near Potsdam. There he received the nsual common- school education, and when of proper age helped to clear the woodland farin and raise the crops, re- maining on the home place uninterruptedly un- til 1856. He then went to Minnesota, where he bought a claim to some land, which he sold the following year and returned to his old home.
He was married, in Potsdam, October 22, 1857, to Miss Altha Shaw, born in that town, May 22, 1837, a daughter of Reuel and Cather- ine (Earle) Shaw. The father, a native of Ver- mont, afterward a farmer of St. Lawrence Coun- ty, New York, came to California in 1869, and settled in San Leandro, Alameda County, with his wife and youngest daughter. He died at the age of eighty-five, and the mother, born in Rome, New York, about 1815, is still living.
Mr. Nelson McCuen continued at farin work after his marriage until he enlisted, in May, 1861 in the Sixteenth New York Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded at the battle of Bull Run, July 22, 1861, and was discharged in August, 1862, because he was unfit for service on account of his wound. He re-enlisted in
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December, 1863, in the Eleventh New York Cavalry, and served until the close of the war, being mnstered out in August, 1865. His brother, Lewis McOnen, served in the Nine- teenth New York, and his brother David in a New Hampshire regiment.
After being mustered out Mr. MeChen went to learn the trade of house-carpenter, and was so engaged until 1867, when he changed his line of work to that of millwright until 1869. He then left Potsdam, New York, for California, with his wife and three children, and on his ar- rival in this State settled at San Leandro. He then went to work for Baker & Hamilton, of the Benicia Agricultural Works, in 1870, serv- ing one year at the bench. In 1871 lie was ap- pointed foreman of the agricultural works, and filled that position nntil 1883. On the invita- tion of one of the directors of the Stockton Combined Harvestor and Agricultural Works he came to this city in 1883, and was made gell- eral superintendent of the works, holding that place until the consolidation with the Houser Works, when another superintendent was ap- pointed. He then returned to the bench, work- ing thereat until the autumn of 1889, when he went to work for the Central Pacific Railroad, at Oakland, as a train inspecting carpenter. In November, 1889, he was invited back by the Stockton Combined Harvester and Agricultural Works, and took charge here Jannary 9, 1890, as assistant superintendent.
Mr. McCnen joined the A. O. U. W. in San Leandro, in 1877, and is now a member of Pa- cific Lodge, No. 6, of Oakland. Mr. and Mrs. McCuen are members of the First Presbyterian Church of this city, and Mr. McCuen was trustee of the same about 1886 and 1887. They have five living children, the three eldest being born in Potsdam, New York: George Herinas, born Angust 6, 1858, now a machinist in the Pacific Improvement Shops of the Central Pacific Rail- road, in Oakland, was married at San Leandro, August 6, 1884, and has one child, Howard, born April 1, 1888; Mary Belle, born in May, 1868, was married, September 1, 1888, to
Thomas Story, of Oakland, and has one child, Earle Nelson, born July 18, 1889; Adelbert Reuel, born December 19, 1866, is a machinist in a sash, door and blind factory in Oakland; Frank Angustus, born in San Leandro, Cali- fornia, February 10, 1871, is a dry-goods clerk in Oakland; Allen Nelson, also born in San Leandro, December 23, 1873, is learning the trade of machinist in the Stockton Combined Harvester and Agricultural Works.
AMES CULBERTSON MCCALL, M. D., of Stockton, was born in Cumberland, Guernsey County, Ohio, May 25, 1855, a son of Dr. J. H. and Cynthia Howe (Wilhelm) McCall. The father, a native of Ohio, prac- ticed in Cumberland for thirty years before his death, in 1878, at the age of sixty-one. The mother, born in Ohio in 1821, came to Stock- ton toward the close of 1885, and is living liere in 1889. Grandfather Wilhelm, a native of Kentucky, of German descent, moved to Ohio and was there married to a danghter of Colonel Chandler, from whom Chandlersville, in Mus- kingum County, was named. She lived to all advanced age. Grandfather McCall, a native of Pennsylvania, died in Ohio, about 1859, at the age of seventy; grandmother McCall, by birth a Miss Patten, of Pennsylvania, survived lıim six years, and was also qnite old. James Mc- Call, a brother of the elder Dr. McCall, is liv- ing in Illinois, in 1890, at the age of seventy- and a sister died in Ohio in 1887, aged seventy- six.
The subject of this sketch was graduated from the high school in Cumberland, read med- icine with his father, attended medical lectures in Columbus, Ohio, and was graduated from the medical college of that city in March, 1879. He first practiced in his native town, where his father had practiced so many years. He after- ward took a special course at Bellevue, New York, and also a post-gradnate course in that city, when he resumed practice in Cumberland,
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Ohio, and there remained nutil he came to Stockton, in December, 1885. For eighteen months he was associated with Dr. D. Peyton, in this city, and has since then practiced alone. Hle is a member of San Joaquin County Medi- cal Society.
Dr. J. C. McCall was married February 14, 1888, in Columb s, Ohio, to Miss Jeanett Was- son, a native of that city, born in March, 1860, a daughter of the late attorney John and Mary (Armstrong) Wasson, both natives of Ohio. The mother is still living, and is a resident of this county since June, 1888.
ATHANIEL MILNER, City Justice and Judge of the Municipal Court of Stockton, was born in Indiana, in 1826, a son of John and Nancy (Case) Milner. The father, born in Virginia, a son of Williamn and Elizabeth (Ely) Milner, was married in Indiana. His immediate ancestors of the Milner and Case families were long-lived, the former dying be- tween the ages of seventy and eighty, and the latter reaching ninety years or more. The sub- ject of this sketch received a limited education in his youth, was brought up on his father's farm, and at the age of eighteen began to learn the trade of carpenter. After his apprenticeship he worked as journeyman a few years at wages ranging from $1 to $1.50 a day. He came to California in 1850, arriving in Georgetown, El Dorado County, in August of that year. He gathered about $2,000 in two years, and in the fall of 1852 moved into Tnolninne County, where he followed inining another year, and in 1853 bought a general store in Shaw's Flats, which he kept until 1862, being interested in mines at the same time. Meanwhile he became interested with three others in a saw-mill in 1857, and continued in that line until 1864, when he sold out. He then went into the freight- ing business between Sacramento and Virginia City and Reese City, chiefly. He was also man- ager of a lumber interest, with headquarters in
Virginia City, and superintended his freighting business from that point. In 1867 he sold out everything and weut into quartz-mining in Tuol- umine County, where he sank all his earnings, about $8,000, in three years. He came to Stock- ton in 1870, and earned $2.50 a day packing grain in a warehouse, working in that line a few years, and from his savings paid off au indebt- edness he had incurred of $1,000. In 1874 he was superintendent of a grain warehouse in this city, filling that position abont one year. He then traveled soliciting grain storage for the Farmers' Union Warehouse, and remained in that business at intervals for three or four years. He was elected city justice in 1882, and re elected the three following years. In 1886 he was elected township justice, holding the po- sition until 1888, when he was again elected city justice, and in 1889 was appointed judge of the municipal court under the new charter, filling botlı offices.
Mr. Milner was married in Shaw's Flats, June 11, 1877, to Mrs. Jane Elizabeth (Wright) Geer, born in Massachusetts, Angust, 1831. She was then a widow with two children, of whom one, Lena Viola Geer, born in Tuolumne County, survives in 1890, the wife of Eugene C. May- hew, a native of the same county, and now of Stockton. They have one child, Lois Viola, born December 3, 1884. Mr. Milner has been a member of the I. O. O. F. over thirty-six years, being initiated in Sonora in 1853, and in 1855, at Shaw's Flats, became a member of Mouut Horeb Lodge, which was afterwards transferred to Ripon in this county. He is also a member of the American Legion of Honor and of the San Joaquin Valley Society of California Pioneers.
RTHUR LEONARD LEVINSKY, of the law firm of Louttit, Woods & Levinsky, of Stockton, was born in Jackson, Amador County, July 9, 1856, a son of John and Ma- thilde (Lewig) Levinsky. The father, born in
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Prussia in 1822, emigrated in his youth to Lon- don, England, and thence to New Orleans, about 1849, and to California in 1850. With two brothers he formed the firm of Levinsky Bro- thers, who carried on four miners' supply stores, at Jackson, Sutter Creek, Rancheria and Dry Town. A few years later he visited Germany, and on his return was married in New York city in 1855, to Miss Lewig, born in Hamburg in 1834. Grandfather Lewig lived to the age of seventy-eight, his wife was eighty-one at her death, and grandinother Levinsky reached the remarkable age of 105 years.
The subject of this sketch received his edu- cation first in the district school in Woodbridge, and then in 1867, in Jackson, Amador County, about a year. In 1869 he went to the Lincoln grammar school in San Francisco, and was gradu- ated from that institution in 1872. He had spent one year in the State University, when a serions accident to his father impelled him to earn his own livelihood. He took the position of traveling salesman for the Pacific Glove Works, and in 1876 went to work for a whole- sale boot and shoe house, first as book-keeper and later as traveling salesman, remaining with them until 1880. Meanwhile he had opened a general store in Lodi, placing it in charge of a manager, and in 1881 he took personal charge of that business. In April, 1882, he sold out his store, and was about to return to his former avocation of traveler for a large boot and shoe house in San Francisco, when he concluded to become a lawyer. He had formed the acquaint- ance of James A. Louttit, a prominent member of that profession, and, securing his release from the contract to travel, he entered the law office of Louttit & Lindley as clerk, with a chance to read law. Making an industrious use of his opportunity he was admitted to the bar August 3, 1885. Mr. Louttit was elected to Congress in 1884, and the firm of Louttit & Lindley was dissolved. Mr. Levinsky became a member of the new firm, Louttit, Woods & Levinsky, Sep- tember 1, 1885, and is among the more promi- ment, industrions and successful of the younger
members of the Stockton bar. He is also a member of Stockton Parlor, No. 7, N. S. G. W.
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UGENE LEHE, President of the City Council of Stockton, was born in New York city, January 25, 1841, a son of David and Magdalene (Benet) Lehé, both natives of France. They came to New York in 1830, and conducted a French laundry in that city for some years. In October, 1841, they took the infant Eugene to France, and returned to New York early in 1842, leaving him in Nancy with his grandmother, the widow of David Lehé, prefect of the Paris police from 1822 to the downfall of Charles X. These grandparents had twelve sons and one daughter, and seven of the sons were in the military service of France in 1849. The grandfather died at the age of eighty-seven, but the grandmother lived to be 102 years old. The parents of Eugene Lehe are living in Williamsbridge, New York, in 1890, the father being eighty-nine and the mother about eighty-six years old. The Lehés are of Huguenot descent, and the Benets are Roman Catholic.
The subject of this sketch received his pri- mary education in French, but being brought back to New York in 1849, most of his formal education was received in that city. At the age of sixteen years he went to work as clerk, and filled various situations of that class until 1855, when he went West, being employed one year in Valparaiso, and spending the winter of 1856- '57 with an aunt, Lehe, by marriage a Mrs. Brown, of Delphos, Ohio, whence he returned to New York in 1857, where he resumed the work of a clerk. He enlisted in 1861 as a volunteer, but was withdrawn by his father, when he enlisted on Governor's Island, in the regular army, and was appointed to the Ninth regiment of regular infantry. With twenty- seven other young musicians, for the Fourth and Ninth, he was sent ont to join his company at Steilacoom, on Puget Sound. The com-
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panies of the Ninth being gathered together from their different outposts, the regiment was ordered to the Presidio of San Francisco, in November, their places in the north being filled by the California militia or volunteers. Mr. Lehé was promoted to Second Lientenant of Company C, Second California Volunteer In- fantry, which was ordered to remain on the coast, to meet a possible emergency in this State. Lieutenant Lehé resigned his commis- sion July 31, 1865, and after six months of un- settled purpose came to Stockton in December, 1865. He here became a partner with a Mr. Stuart in the photograph business, under the style of Stuart & Lehe, continuing three years. He was appointed agent here for the Pacific Union Express, January 1, 1869, and held the position until it was merged in the Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express, toward the close of the year. He then became book-keeper for a furniture store in this city until 1872, and from 1872 to 1876 conducted a restaurant. He was appointed Deputy County Treasurer in 1876, and held it nnder two treasurers until July, 1882. He was in the service of the Pacific Railroad three months in Oakland, when he resigned and re- turned to this city. He was then appointed traveler and general agent on this coast for the Northwestern Masonic Aid Association of Chi- cago, and retained the position one year. His next position was that of book-keeper for the late D. J. Oullahan of this city, which he held nineteen months, when, Mr. Oullahan being ap- pointed State Treasurer, Mr. Lehé became book-keeper for J. H. O'Brien, remaining with him three and one-half years, and since June 1, 1888, he has been with E. May as salesman and traveler. In 1865 Mr. Lehé joined the Stockton City Guard, rising to the rank of Cap- tain, which he resigned in 1867. When the Stockton Guard, National Guard of California, was organized in 1871 he became Second Lieu- tenant, and held every grade from that to Brig- adier General of the Third Brigade, National Guard of California, which he resigned after nine months' tennre. He is now colonel of the Sixth
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