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Regiment, National Guard of California. He joined the Grand Army Republic in 1867, and is Senior Post Commander of Rawlins Post, Grand Army Republic of this city. He was elected to the city council in November, 1887, and re-elected under the new charter in May, 1889, for two years, and was chosen President of the council. He has been a Mason since 1866, and is High Priest of Stockton Chapter, No. 28, F. & A. M .; is Past Great Sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men, and Past Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias; Post Arch of the Druids, and Past Master of the A. O. U. W.
Mr. Eugene Lehe was married in Stockton, August 20, 1867, to Miss Henrietta Pierpont, born in Kentucky, November 5, 1849, a daugh- ter of Noah and Elizabeth (Joyner) Pierpont. The father came to California in 1850, and in 1852 went East and returned with his family. Born March 17, 1820, he is living in this city in 1890. Mrs. Pierpont died here April 18, 1888, aged sixty-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Lehé have one son and three daughters: Eugene David Noah, born October 12, 1868; Gracie Elizabeth, February 6, 1870; Adele Albertine, November 15, 1871; Henrietta, November 1, 1873. Adele Albertine was married September 25, 1889, to Leonard C. Stockwell, of this city; and Eugene D. N., who is an employé of the Sonthern Pacific Railroad Company, was mar- ried February 3, 1890, to Miss Lettie Cham- bers, a native of this State and resident of this city.
CICINATO, proprietor of the Eagle Baths and Barber shop, is a native of Italy, born at Taranto, County Lecce, State of Puglia, December 13, 1859, his parents being A. and Angel Cicinato. His father died No- vember 3, 1885, and mother January 22, 1890. He spent his early boyhood days at his native place, and when quite young acquired the bar- ber's trade. In his sixteenth year he entered
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the Italian naval service, and was assigned to the warship " Castello Fidardo," on which he traveled around the world, visiting Gibraltar, and principal ports of Spain, France, England, Greece, Turkey, Japan, China, South America, etc. He was in the navy thirty-nine months, and on leaving the service he resumed his trade and traveled through the principal cities of Europe. Finally he went to Liverpool, Eng- land, where he worked a few weeks when oppor- tunity presented. One day lie went down to the wharf, and meeting the captain of a barque asked him if he could pass him to America. The captain replied that he would take him over if he was willing to work his way. Mr. Cicinato accepted these terms, and when, on Sunday afternoon, the vessel sailed out of the harbor of Liverpool, he was among the crew. The sea voyage lasted ninety days, and a good opportu- nity was thns afforded of observing the habits and abilities of all the inen. Most of the crew were strongly addicted to hard drinking, and during their drunken spells were worse than useless. Mr. Cicinato, while being a sober man, had also the benefit of his long experience in the Italian navy, and proved a useful man, and as he became accustomed to his particular duties became better day by day. The captain observed this, and treated him well accordingly. One day he came to Mr. Cicinato and told him he would like to engage him as one of his crew for future voyages. Mr. Cicinato, fearing he might not receive so good treatment if he refused the offer, and knowing that he would be well used for the remainder of the voyage, if he accepted, said he would agree to remain. The captain suggested that he sign articles and produced an agreement for two years' service, which Mr. Cicinato signed. It was not his wish to con- tinue in life on the sea, however, and when the vessel landed at Philadelphia in March, 1881, he took the first opportunity to decamp. He had to leave his clothes, however, and all his belong- ings on the vessel. He remained out of the way until he learned that the barque had cleared for Calais, after which he felt safe. Ile resumed
his trade, and leaving Philadelphia started on a tour of the eastern cities. He worked at New York, Boston, Providence, on Staten Island, at Long Branch, etc., etc., and eventually estab- lished a shop in New York city. Selling out there, he started on the road again, and went to Roanoke, in the Carolinas, where he remained for a time. Leaving the South, lie came to California in 1883, and remained a couple of weeks in San Francisco. He then came to Stockton, where he has since remained. He worked as a journeyman about two and a half years, then started in business for himself on Levee street. In November, 1888, he removed to his present location on Hunter street square, between Main and Levee, where he has kept improving until he now has the finest barber shop and bath rooms in Stockton.
He was married in this city, in November, 1887, to Mary A. Smith, and they have one child, born December 13, 1889, and named Michele.
Mr. Cicinato is a member of the A. O. U. W. He is a man of wide experience, gained by travel, is courteous and genial in his manners, and enjoys a wide business popularity.
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TAMES UDELL CASTLE, a rancher of ('Neil Township, residing in Stockton, was born in Bovina, Delaware County, New York, February 28, 1832, a son of and Mary (Champlain) Castle. The father, born in Connecticut about 1789, resided many years in the State of New York, and in 1847 moved with his family to Wisconsin, settling on a farm of 160 acres, where he lived to the age of seventy-fonr. The mother, born January 28, 1793, is living in Wisconsin in 1890, at the age of ninety-seven. She visited her son in Stockton in 1870, remaining until 1872, and was ninety-two years old before she began to use spectacles. Her father, William Cham- plain, enlisted in the army of the Revolution while quite young and served seven years, rising
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to the rank of captain. He afterward resided for some years in Vermont, and was in receipt of a pension of $8 a month in his old age. He died at the age of ninety and his wife (nee Cads) at eighty-seven. Grandparents Castle lived to be over seventy, raising a family of nine children, of whom one, Mrs. Mary Warner, is living near Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1890.
The subject of this sketch received the usual district school education in his youth, and inoved with the rest of the family to Wisconsin in the autumn of 1847. He there helped on the farm until the spring of 1852, when he left for Cali- fornia coming across the plains and arriving in Placerville in August of that year. The first gold dust he gathered was $40 paid him for building a board cabin, but with that amount of ready money to procure the necessary outfit he went to mining on the American river and worked at that industry at several points until 1856. He then came to this county and settled down to farmning with his brothers George H. and Christopher C. near French Camp, where the former had settled on their arrival in 1852 and the latter had joined him in 1854. The three brothers owned three-half sections in 1859, and raised in one season, 1859 or 1860, 14,000 bushels of barley and 5,000 of wheat. In 1861 C. C. and J. U. Castle sold their joint holdings near French Camp and bought lands in severalty in this township, the former near the Five-Mile House on the lower Sacramento road, and the latter, six miles north of this city at what is now known as "Castle's Switch," on the Central Pacific Railroad. Here the subject of our sketch now owns 965 acres devoted chiefly to the raising of wheat, but with enough barley for feed and some stock, giving personal attention to the ranch from this city, where he has resided for many years in the enjoyment of a very well appointed residence.
Mr. J. U. Castle was married in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, in March, 1868, to Miss Emma Agnes Watkins, born in that State, a daughter of George and Maria (Chamberlain) Watkins. The mother, born in Connecticut in
1813, died in Wisconsin in 1888. The father, of English birth or parentage, died about 1852, on his farm in Wisconsin, aged forty-five. Mr. and Mrs. Castle came to Stockton after their marriage, in 1868, by way of New York, Pan- aina and San Francisco. Mr. Castle lias since inade two other visits to the East, in 1883 and in 1886, chiefly to see his aged mother in Wis- consin.
Mr. Castle is a charter member of the Stock- ton Lodge A. O. U. W., and a director of the Farmers' Union, being the first elected at the organization of that corporation.
YMAN LYSANDER HUNTLEY, a ranch- er of Dent Township, was born in Allegany County, New York, September 8, 1826, a son of Harlow and Elmira (Partridge) Huntley. The father, born in Massachusetts about 1804, and the mother in Connecticut about 1806, were married in Allegany County, New York, in 1825. They moved to Erie County, New York, about 1830, and in that and the adjoining county of Ashtabula in Ohio they spent twelve years. In 1842 they moved to Pike County, Illinois, where they died, the mother in 1875, and the father in 1879. They were the parents of twelve children, all of whom grew to maturity, and of whom ten are living in 1889. A son, William, was killed in the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, and Hattie, the youngest child, died in Pike County, Illinois, of diphtheria, at the age of eighteen. Grandfather Amos Huntley, a native of Massachusetts, died in the State of New York, aged about sixty-eight; and grandmother Adah (Pardee) Huntley was nearly ninety. Grandfather John Partridge, a native of Con- necticut, died in De Kalb County, Illinois, aged seventy-five; and grandmother Roxanna (Love- land) Partridge was seventy-eight at lier deatlı.
The subject of this sketch received the usual schooling of those days, and worked on his father's farın until he was twenty-one. He was married in Pike County, Illinois, September
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18, 1847, to Miss Matilda Brown, born in that State January 5, 1829, of Dyer and Jane (Mc- Mullen) Brown. The father was born in Can- ada, of American parents, and the mother in Ohio. Upon the death of the latter in 1853, Mr. Brown came to California with his seven children, including Mrs. Huntley, who with her first-born thus rejoined her husband at Dry Town, Amador County. Mr. Brown lived to be eighty-four, dying at Mr. Huntley's in March, 1889.
The subject of this sketch came across the plains in 1850, arriving in Grass Valley on Au- gust 18, of the first wagon train by the Truckee ronte. He mined one month at Michigan Bar in Sacramento County, then at Dry Town in Amador County six years. Having accumu- lated a little money, he bought sone cattle and moved down on the Stanislaus, where he now resides, a mile north of the river. He there pre-empted 160 acres in 1857, and in 1889 is the owner of 1,000 acres, of which 600 are across the river in Stanislaus County, and 320 form the homestead ranch. He put in a crop in 1858, but carried on cattle-raising till 1863, when the land began to be fenced in and cattle could no longer have a free range. Since 1863 Mr. Huntley has devoted his attention to the raising of wheat and barley, and the care of his large family of ten living children: Estella Jane, born in Pike County, Illinois, September 8, 1848, now Mrs. John Hall, of this township (see sketch of Mr. Hall); one boy died an in- fant in Illinois; Edward Everett, born in Dry Town, Amador County, California, May 14, 1854; Julia May, also in Dry Town, October 9, 1856. Those that follow were born in the present home of the family: Frances Ella, De- cember 3, 1859; Laura Ann, August 7, 1862; Hattie Grant, April 8, 1865; Mary Susan, Sep- tember 28, 1867; Robert Pardee, December 20, 1869; Jesse Horace, April 22, 1873; Edith Ethel, January 9, 1876. Edward E. was mar- ried to Miss Hattie Thornton, and they have three daughters and one son, and are living on a 320 acre farin across the Stanislaus, given
them by Mr. Huntley; Julia May, now Mrs. David Dean Hahn, of Fresno County, has three girls; Frances Ella, now Mrs. John F. Warner, of San Diego; Laura Ann is living at home; Hattie G., now Mrs. William Boyd, of Stock- ton, has a boy and a girl; the four youngest are living at home, and the two youngest go to school to Oakdale, seven miles away, for the opportunity of a superior education. From 1883 to 1888 Mr. Huntley resided on his prop- erty in Stockton, chiefly for the purpose of giving his children superior advantages in edu- cation, as he much prefers a country life. He has been a school trustee for twenty years, mainly because of his interest in the proper education of children. He was among the first to join the San Joaquin Valley Society of Cali- fornia Pioneers, and is still a member. In 1889 he made an important addition to his home, en- hancing the comforts and happiness of its in- mates.
ANTHONY HUNTER, a rancher of Doug- lass Township, was born in County An- trim, Ireland, March 10, 1819, a son of Anthony and Eliza (Lynn) Hunter. The moth- er died young, but the father lived to be over eighty. With a limited education in his youth, Mr. Hunter worked on his father's farm until he left his native land for the United States.
Arriving in New York city in February, 1844, he proceeded westward to Ohio, where he bonght a small farm of fifty acres in Monroe County, for which he paid $500. This he lield two years, when he sold it for $1,000. For the ensning five years he was variously employed; among other jobs he worked on the suspension bridge at Wheeling, and kept a milk dairy near that city.
In 1851 Mr. Hunter came to California by the Isthmus route, arriving in San Francisco on the 1st of Angust. Thence he went to mining in Calaveras County, where he stayed nine years, and then came down to Stockton, where
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he resided from 1860 to 1863, doing but little of anything. In 1863 he bought a ranch of 500 acres near Waterloo, on which he lived until he sold it in 1867. In that year he went East to Ohio, remaining only a few months.
Returning to this State in 1868, Mr. Hunter was married in Murphy's, Calaveras County, to Miss Eliza Magill, also a native of Ireland, born near Belfast iu 1839, a daughter of David and Jennie (Mateer) Magill. The Hunters, Magills and Mateers of that section are all of Scotch de- scent. In 1868 he bought the ranch on which he has since resided, about nine miles east of Stockton, on the Copperopolis road. It com- prises 120 acres of very good land, well adapted to all kinds of farming or fruit-raising. There is an orchard of fourteen acres, and the rest is devoted chiefly to wheat and barley. He also owns 322 acres about three miles away, near Linden, which he lets on the shares, Mr. Hun- ter being too far advanced in years to give it personal superintendence.
Mr. and Mrs. Hunter are the parents of one child, Jennie Mateer, born August 22, 1869, in this township. She has attended a business college in Stockton, and is now finishing her education at Mills' Seminary, near Oakland.
DWARD HICKMAN, dry.goods mer_ chant of Stockton, was born in Lewis, Delaware, July 24, 1830, a son of George and Mary (Marriner) Hickman, both now de- ceased. The father was a merchant in Lewis, as far back as 1812, died in 1853, aged seventy- five; the mother survived him about thirty years and was over eighty at her deatlı. One son, Hardeston, died in Lewis, December 31, 1889, at the age of seventy-three; another son, William M., living in San Francisco in 1890, is sixty-five. Eight sons and three daughters lived to raise families and all but three sons are ' living in 1890, the youngest being fifty-two.
The subject of this sketch left school at the
age of seventeen, having received an academic education, entered a dry-goods store in Phila- delphia as clerk, remaining three years, and has been in that line of business ever since. He came to California by way of Panama, arriving in San Francisco March, 1850, whence he came to this city, entering the dry-goods and clothing store of his brother, Hardeston, who had settled here in 1849. He worked for the brother at the present location, 206 Main street, until 1854, when he bought the stock, the brother return- ing East, and in 1861 bought the building also. He has carried on business " at the old stand " for thirty-six years.
Mr. Hickman was married in this city, Jnly 24, 1856, to Miss Hepsabeth B. Fisher, born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, a daughter of Samuel and Hepsabeth (Brown) Fisher, both natives of Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Hick- man have four living children: Albertine; Al- thea, married December, 1889, to F. E. Dunlap, an attorney of this city; Edward Samuel, now in business with his father as clerk; Willard Salis- bury, deputy city assessor of Stockton, married December, 1889, to Miss Emma Smith, born in Canada, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Smith.
Mr. Edward Hickman has been a Mason since 1854, belonging also to the Royal Arch Chapter, and the Knights Templar. He is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, and of the Knights of Honor, and of the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Association.
ILLIAM HILLER HUGHES, a ranch- er of Dent Township, was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1821, a son of James and Mary (Hiller) Hughes. The father, a native of that State and a farmner by occupation, lived to be over seventy, dying in 1863. The mother, also a native of that State, died comparatively young, but she had borne ten children, dying a few weeks after the
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birth of the youngest child. Four of her chil- dren are living in 1889, the oldest being seven- ty-one.
Grandfather Thomas Hughes was an emi- grant to Pennsylvania, and was there married to Miss Elizabeth Swan, a native of the State. He was a justice of the peace in Greene County for many years, and was universally recognized as a man of the strictest integrity. His judg- inents were never appealed from, as they were governed by his sense of right and justice; and lie was very successful as an arbitrator between angry litigants. He lived to a good old age, as did his wife also. They had four sons and five daughters who grew to maturity and raised families. Grandparents William and Margaret (Meyers) Hiller were Pennsylvania Gerinans, and also lived to an advanced age. They had three sons and five daughters, all of whom raised families.
The subject of this sketch received a very limited education, was brought up to farming, and picked up the trade of carpenter. He worked on his father's farm until his twenty- fourth year, when he was married, January 12, 1845, to Miss Margaret Hill, a daughter of Caton and Margaret (Olden) Hill, born near Johnstown, Licking County, Ohio, in 1823. The father was a native of Ohio, and the mother of Pennsylvania.
Soon after his marriage Mr. Hughes rented a farm near Jefferson, Greene County, Pennsyl- vania, which he held about three years, and in the - spring of 1849 moved thence to Missouri. He there rented a farm one year in Clark County, where his wife died in March, 1850, leaving a son and daughter: George F., born in 1845, now a rancher of Stanislaus County, with four daugliters and two sons; and Mary Frances, born in 1847, now the wife of Ezra E. Under- wood, a rancher and at one time supervisor of Stanislaus County, but now living in Santa Cruz. They have three sons, of whom the sec- ond, Alfred, is married.
Mr. William II. Hughes was again married, March 20, 1851, to Miss Eliza Jane Dye, born
in Ohio in 1831, a daughter of John and Nancy Dye.
The Dyes were among the pioneers of Scot- land County, Missouri, having moved there from Ohio. Mr. Hughes bought 200 acres in that county, on which he raised corn chiefly. In 1853 he sold out and came to California, with his wife and three children. Arriving in Sonora, September 24, 1853, he went to mining at Shaw's Flats, and followed that pursuit until February, 1855. He then bought 160 acres of timber land three miles south of Sonora. This he cleared and went to raising hay, which lie sold for $65 a ton in Columbia, in 1856. In November, 1857, he moved to this county, and bouglit a settler's right to 160 acres near Ripon, which he pre-empted and entered when it came into the market. He has made his home there ever since, raising wheat and barley chiefly. About 1860 he bought the half section adjoin- ing, and soon afterward the remaining quarter of the section. About 1870, he bought 281 acres adjoining on the north, including most of the site of the village of Ripon, in whichi he sold the first lots, and afterward exchanged his portion for a ranch outside. He owns 330 acres in Castoria Township and 981 in Stanislaus County-in all about 2,300 acres. He erected a liandsome and comfortable residence in 1874, at a cost of over $2,000.
Mrs. Hughes died March 11, 1888, leaving eight children: John L., born in Missouri, in June, 1852, owns 800 acres in Stanislaus County, and has two sons and two daughters: Lucy Ann, born in March, 1854, now the wife of D. F. Northrup, also a native of this State, a rancher, but residing in Stockton, has one daughter, Nancy Jane, born in 1856, now the wife of Samuel Foster, a rancher of Stanislaus County, has two daughters; James G., born in 1858, owns 640 acres and farms 330 acres of his fa- tlier's estate, both in Castoria Township, and lias four sons and two daughters; Medora, born in 1861, now the wife of John Dirst, a rancher of Stanislaus County; Francis Marvin, born in 1863, farms on his father's land in Stanislaus
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Connty, has two boys; Minty May, born in 1865, now the wife of John T. Bloomer, at one time a trader and notary public at Ripon, but now residing in San Pedro, Los Angeles Coun- ty, has two sons-Thomas Clarence, born July 27, 1875, the only child still under the parents' roof, and attending school at Ripon.
OLT BROTHERS, of the Stockton Wheel Company, established their factory here in 1883, for the manufacture of wheels and other materials required in the making of car- riages and wagons, including hardware and trimmings, as well as the hardwood lumber. The factory comprises a brick building, 46 x 102 feet, three stories, a frame building, 44 x 84 feet, and a boiler and drying-room, 26 x 40 feet. They employ about twenty-five men. In 1869 a branch of their Concord, New Hampshire, house was established by Charles Henry Holt, who was soon joined by William Harrison Holt, the goods being shipped from the Concord fac- tory. In 1871 two other brothers, A. Frank and Benjamin, were admitted into the firm. A. Frank afterward became the resident partner in Concord, and died there about October 1, 1889. Benjamin, the resident partner in this city, was born in London, Merrimac County, New Hamp- shire, January 1, 1849, a son of William Knox and Harriet A. (Ames) Holt. The father, also a native of New Hampshire, a lumber dealer for many years, died in that State, aged seventy- two; the mother, a native of Canterbury, New Hampshire, died at the age of fitty-eight. Grandfather Benjamin Holt. also born in New Hampshire, of English ancestry, by occupation a farmer, died at the age of ninety, and his wife, by birth Anna Knox, lived to be eighty-six. Grandfather Ames and his wife, by birth an Ayres, lived to be eighty-seven and seventy- eight, respectively.
The subject of this sketch, educated first in the public schools and then in a boarding-school for three years, went into his father's factory at
Concord at the age of twenty, and was given an interest in the business in 1871. In 1883 he came to California and took charge of the fac- tory in this city.
Charles Henry Holt, who is in charge of the business in San Francisco, established by him in 1869, was born in New Hampshire, in Octo- ber, 1843. After receiving his education he became a book-keeper in Boston, at about the age of twenty. He went to New York city a year later and there filled a similar position for another year, when he came to California. He spent some few months in San Francisco, when he went to Hydesville, Humboldt County, where he taught school about three years. Returning to San Francisco, he established the branch house already mentioned, and was there married, in 1872, to Miss Nettie Finch, a native of New Jersey. They have three children: Grace, Car- ter and Edith.
ENRY WILSON, a carpenter and builder, was born in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, July 25, 1835, a son of John and Eliza- beth (Celler) Wilson. The father, a native of Sweden, canie to America in young manhood and was married in Pennsylvania, where he be- came the owner of a saw mill. He died at about the age of fifty-three; the mother, a na- tive of Germany, survived him many years, being over seventy at her death. Grandmother Celler was still older, reaching the age of eighty-five.
The subject of this sketch received some schooling in his youth and at the age of fifteen went to New York city, where a married sister was then residing. There he went to learn his trade as an apprentice and afterward worked at the same as a journeyman one year. He then traveled, as was nsual in those days, working at his trade at different points as he went, and thus went through parts of Mississippi, Lonis- iana and Alabama. In the autumn of 1857, he was employed by a contractor with twenty-
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