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JOHN D. PALMER was born in Washing- ton County, Ohio, June 5, 1843. His father, Oscar F. Palmer, was a native of Ohio and was born April 27, 1823. His mother, Anna M. Chamberlain, was born in Washington County, Ohio, May 22, 1824. (For ancestry of these families see I. L. Palmer's biography on another page.) They were married August 24, 1842, and had four children, of whom J. D. was the eldest. His mother having died June 27, 1852, his father went to California in 1853, and he went to live with an uncle and aunt. Here he went to school part of the time and helped on the farin in the busy season. At twelve years of age he went to work for farmers in the suminer and to school three months in the winter until he was fifteen years of age, when he learned the carpenters' trade. He then he- came a brakeman on the railroad and afterward fireman. On April 22, 1861, he enlisted for three months in Company C, Third Ohio Infan- try, at the end of which time he again enlisted for three years and was mustered out July, 1864. He enlisted for the third time, in Company C,
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One Hundred and Eighty-second Ohio, in Au- gust, 1864. His regiment, the Third Ohio, the Fiftieth and Eighty-first Indiana, the Eightieth Illinois, and two companies of First Tennessee Cavalry were sent on a raid under command of Colonel A. D. Straight. They were ordered to intercept and destroy communications between the rebels and their supplies. They were sur- rounded, and after a fight of five days and nights were captured. The men were, after fifteen days, paroled, and the officers put in Libby Prison. After being in that terrible prison for some time Colonel A. D. Straight made a tunnnel from one street to another, which opened into a eellar. through which he and abont 600 men escaped, but about half of them were re-captured. He was mustered ont July 14, 1864, but again en- listing he was sent back and took part in the battle of Nashville, under General George H. Thomas. He remained in the army until the close of the war and was mustered ont in July, 1865. He then married Miss Lydia S. Swift, of Washington County, Ohio, daughter of Charles and Amy Swift, who was born May 2, 1844. Their union has been blessed with eight children: Ida L., born in Washington County, Ohio, June 20, 1866, who married Mr. J. F. McCann, of Athens County, Ohio, and has had four children: Leota Blanche, born in San Diego, August 11, 1884; John Harold, born April 9, 1886, and died April 20, 1887; Forest Glenn, born in San Diego, April 19, 1888, and Howard, born April 15, 1890; Oscar Fitz Allen, born Feb- ruary 18, 1868, in Washington County, Ohio; William Henry, born January 19, 1870, in Morgan County, Ohio; Maggie L. and Mattie L., born March 10, 1872; Andrew S., born February 22, 1878, in Morgan County, Ohio; Edgar Winfred, born January 30, 1880, in Morgan County, and Bessie Claire, born Feb- ruary 11, 1883, in Morgan County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan and their daughters are mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church; she is also a member of the women's relief corps of the G. A. R. Mr. Palmer is an Odd Fellow and a inember of the G. A. R. He was engaged for
fourteen years in the saw-milling business in Ohio, but his property was swept away by a freshet, when he eame to California in 1884. He landed in San Diego with only $16 in his poeket, but immediately engaged in contracting, building and moving houses. He has been offered as high as $20,000 at one time for his real estate in San Diego, and he has an outfit for moving buildings valued at $10,000. The history of such a stout-hearted, self-reliant man should inspire with conrage every poor man who has met with misfortunes to take courage and by honest industry rise again.
M. McDONALD, born at Richmond, Vir- ginia, February 8, 1854, came to San Diego, California, May 8, 1868. His oeeupation was formerly stoek-raising, and is now deputy constable of San Diego Township, under José Cota. He is a member of Coronado Lodge, No. 328, I. O. O. F.
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AMES VERNON is a native of Middlesex County, England, and was born July 17, 1843. His father, John Vernon, was a tailor in the city of London and married Miss Ellen Kelly, who died three years after James, the subject of this sketeh, was born. They had eight children, seven boys and one danghter. One son, Charles, is a woolen-tweed manufact- urer, and Thomas is a tailor in Los Angeles. Mr. Vernon attended school until twelve years of age, when he ran away and went to sea on board the Leonidas. He apprenticed himself for three years. at the end of which time he had become an expert sailor. When his term ex- pired he sailed about for two years, mostly be- tween England and the United States. He made one trip to the Baltic, went several times to South America and was also in Yokahama. On his return to England he fell out of the main top mast, struek on the main sheet and fell ou
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the deck, during a gale. He broke one thigh, one arm and four ribs and was seven months recovering. Four others fell at the same time, all of whom were severely injured and two killed ontright. This caused him to retire from the sea, and at the age of seventeen he took up his father's business, which he has continued ever since. He was a journeyman tailor in London for ten years, and in 1864 he came to the United States. He has been in the merchant tailoring business with Hughes & Muller, Phil- adelphia, for five years, with Huff Brothers, School street, Boston, for one year, and was with Chase of Providence. He then spent two years in London, and was one year in Morgan's house in the Isle of Wight, the greatest yachting out- fitting house in the world. He then went to Chicago and was one year with George Matthews, the largest merchant tailoring establishment in Chicago. He then went to San Francisco with Bullock & Jones, where he remained three years, when he came to San Diego in September, 1885. The population of San Diego at that time was estimated at 7,000, but in 1889 it had increased to 30,000. He purchased property in San Diego, where he has a large merchant tailoring business, with many of the best citizens for his customers. Since coming to America Mr. Ver- non has made eight trips across the Atlantic for the purpose of selecting English snitings. There is no country that excels the west of England in the manufacture of broadcloth. The French may be said to excel in silk mixed textures but not in broadcloth. In 1869 Mr. Vernon was mar- ried to Miss Eleanor Jane Page, daughter of John Page, of Cambridge, England. She was born in 1846. Mr. Vernon is a member of the order of Odd Fellows and is a very agreeable business man.
HARLES DELEVAL was born at Pays de Calais, France, March 29, 1832; his parents were also natives of France. In 1851 he came to America, sailing from Havre
to New York, and across the Isthinns of Pana- ma to San Francisco, where he arrived in 1852. He went to placer mining in Fresno and Mari- posa counties, prospecting for about six years. He then came to Los Angeles and started a grocery store, which he successfully carried on for eight years, also running a flour-mill at San José, continuing the two lines of business until 1870, when he sold out and caine to San Diego and started a commission and wholesale grocery store, under thre firm name of Deleval & Water- man, which they continued until 1874. They sold out to Stewart & Capron, and started the liquor business on the corner of F and Fifth streets, putting up their own building. But this business proved disastrous, and in 1880 they went into liquidation, and Mr. Deleval re- turned to Los Angeles, where he resumed the grocery business for five years and then sold out and speculated, during the boom of 1886, in real estate. In 1889, from pure love of the climate of San Diego, he returned to that city and entered the wholesale and retail liquor business, under the firm name of Charles Dele- val & Co., buying out and succeeding the San Bernardino Wine Company, aud they now carry a stock of about $5,000 in wines and liquors.
Mr. Deleval was married at Los Angeles, March 12, 1861, to Miss Marie Hennequin. They have five daughters.
AMES MURPHY, a retired rancher re- siding in San Diego, is a native of County Kilkenny, Ireland. He was born July 21, 1843. His father, John Murphy, was a farmer in Ireland, and his mother, whose maiden name was Bridget Kennedy, was also a native of Ire- land. They were married in 1827, and had twelve children, all of whom reached the age of eighteen, and eight of whom still survive. His mother and sister are still living at the old home in Ireland. He obtained his education at the national school in the town of Castle Cor- ner, County Kilkenny. When through with
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school, he sailed in the steamship Kangaroo from Queenstown to New York, where he landed June 1, 1864, and worked for nearly two years in a bonded warehouse. In Febru- ary, 1866, he left New York for California, and landed at San Francisco. He went to Petaluma and engaged in dairying and agriculture, where he remained until 1869, when he left there and moved to San Diego, where he worked for five or six months at whatever he could get to do. He tried farming in 1872, but the dronth was so great that the crop was a failure. He then engaged in sheep-raising, and followed it for ten years. During that time he located 160 acres of Government land, lying six miles south of El Cajon, on the Sweetwater river, and afterward bought 700 acres adjoining his home- stead, where he remained a little over five years. There were few neighbors at that time, while now there are many fine places that were then considered of little or no value on this ranch. He built a honse and barn, planted a variety of deciduous fruit trees and a few orange and lemon trees. The fruit trees were intended principally for family use. He carried on dairying and agriculture, and part of the time sheep-raising, and realized two or three thousand dollars per annum from his ranch. His cattle were good grade dairy cattle. He carried on farming quite extensively, raising in a single year as high as 250 acres of wheat, barley and corn. He planted one sack of corn and harvested seventy-eight sacks, the soil receiving no culture after plant- ing. In August, 1887, he sold his real estate at the ranch for $40,000, the property with the buildings costing him $3,000, when he came to San Diego and built a nice honse on some lots he had purchased of Mr. Horton in 1869, ex- pending about $4,000 in improving these lots.
He was married in February, 1878, to Miss Emma A. Webb, a native of California, who was born October 12, 1860, in Point Arena, Mendocino County. Her father, G. W. Webb, was a native of Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Mur- phy have a family of six children: Alice, born October 24, 1879, on the Jamaica ranch, San
Diego County; John, born May, 1881; Ida, February 26, 1883; Jane, December 25, 1884; Mary Agnes, August 5, 1887, and James, born in San Diego, May 29, 1889. Mr. Murphy is a member of the Catholic Church, and also a member of the San Diego Society of Pioneers. While on his ranch in 1885, he gave an acre of ground on which a nice $1,000 school-house was built. He was a trustee of the school from then until he came away. At present he is re- tired from business. He is another fine illus- tration of what industry and close application will do for a man.
A. McDOWELL, Sheriff of San Diego County, was born in Orange County, New York, October 11, 1839, and came to this coast in 1864. He spent the succeeding ten years in different sections of the State, principally in the Sierra valley and Siskiyou County. In 1874 he settled in San Diego, where he has since resided. In 1879 he was elected Supervisor, which office he held several successive terms. In 1884 he was elected Auditor and Recorder, and retained the office, until 1886, when he was elected Sheriff. In 1888 he was re-elected to the office, which he has always filled with faith- fulness and ability.
OBERT BAILEY was born in New York city on the 9th day of September, 1828. He attended the public schools of that city until he was sixteen years of age and then, being of a restless disposition and wishing to see the world, he struck ont for the Middle Western States, but met with no particular experience until 1849, when in the gold excitement of Cal- ifornia he decided to visit that great El Dorado of the far West, and to that end joined a large party in Missouri, and with ox teams set out on that long journey across the plains, seeing no Indians and meeting with no particular adveu-
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ture. They crossed the Rocky Mountains by the South Pass and around by Fort Hall, came into the Sacramento valley by the Lawson ronte and arrived at Lawson's ranch after six months of wearisome traveling. They then went to Bidwell's bar on the middle fork of the Feather river, when they began their mining experience. They worked with " rockers " with very good results, but soon moved to the Cor- racco bar, where they made about $50 per day. Food was scarce; damp, hard, worm-eaten flour, costing $2 per pound; but money was plenty and easily made and little value was put upon it; an ounce of gold was given for a day's labor. In 1850 he went to San Francisco for a time, as a clerk, then in September went to Shasta County and began mining on the Sacramento river, but with poor results: so went into the em- ploy of Bull, Baker & Co., of Shasta, wholesale and retail grocers, remaining until 1854, when he went up the south fork of the Salmon river, meeting with very fair success until the freshets came and mining closed for the winter; then went to Red Bluffs in the employ of J. D. Dall & Co., general merchandise and liquors, re- maining until 1858, when a company of eighty men was organized nnder General Kibby to go and suppress the Pit River Indians, Mr. Bailey being First Lieutenant. They killed inany of the Indians and captured about 1,500, who were taken to San Francisco and from there sent by steamer to the Mendocino reservation in Mendocino County. He then worked in the office of General Kibby for about six months, when a company of eighteen was formed to go and search for the celebrated Gun Sight lead ont near Death valley in Inyo County. Death valley is 150 feet below the level of the sea and very barren, there being no fresh water and consequently no vegetation. Valley about thirty miles across and sixty miles long; emigrants suffering great hardships in crossing and often death for want of water. The company failing to find the lead disbanded and returned to San Francisco; then in 1861 he went to the Tahiti Islands in the South Seas, then by Valparaiso
up the South American coast to Panama, and then taking steamer back to San Francisco. Then prospected in Idaho during the sminmer of 1862, meeting with fair success; after work- ing claim out went into Oregon and located some good claims at Cottonwood gulch, where he and a partner built a cabin and worked through the winter with good success. In the spring of 1868 left partner and went to Idaho, prospecting in California gulch near Placerville and was interested in the Thorn Creek ditcli at Idaho City, which was a very rich claim, and remained about two years. In 1865 he went to Montana, remaining about two years and losing a great deal of money in running bed rock tun- nel at Orifina gulch. In 1867 he joined a com- pany of seventy-five men under the leadership of Jeff Stanford, to prospect in the Big Horn mountains in Wyoming. Camping on the Big Horn river they collected and dried game to the amount of fifty pounds to the man, then crossed the river on rafts; then, dissatisfaction arising in the company, some wishing to go to Salt Lake, the company divided and Mr. Bailey was elected captain of the band to visit the Big Horn mountains. They crossed the mountains but found little gold, and came out on the Tongue river. The Sioux Indians were very trouble- some, and they killed two of their party while out hunting; their bodies were afterward found scalped and filled with arrows. Prospecting be- ing unsuccessful the company disbanded, and being near Fort Phil Kearny, Mr. Bailey se- cured the position of mail carrier to Fort Lar- amie, down near the Platte river, distant abont 130 miles. The country being infested with Indians, much riding was done at night and the round trip took him eight days, and he was thus employed for nine months.
In 1867 he went with the Eighteenth Regi- ment under Colonel Carrington, to Fort Mc- Pherson, and was then appointed chief of scouts and came to Fort Saunders on Laramie plains with General Gibbon. He there received the appointment and built the company post during the winter of 1867; leaving in the spring of
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1868 for Camp Douglas at Salt Lake, and again began prospecting at Bingham cañon, but met with poor success. Then joined a company of six for White Pine mountains, but luck being down, sold some valuables and started for San Diego, arriving in July, 1869; then went pros- pecting in the Julian mountains, but, finding no placer mines, returned to San Diego and took a position as barkeeper with Mr. Elliott at foot of F street; after five months was ap- pointed Deputy Sheriff, which continued about eight months. Was employed as first bar- keeper at the Horton House, then opened a saloon on Fifth street, continuing in business until September, 1888, when he retired until July, 1889, and then opened his present stand on E, between Fourth and Fifth streets.
A man of varied experiences, and one who has suffered many hardships, but still, at the age of sixty-one years, remains in the prime of life.
C. HOLLAND, one of the early pioneers to California who after twenty-seven years of hard and continuous labor has settled down in peace and contentment, in his comfort- able cottage at the corner of Tenth and F streets. He was born at IIyde, Cheshire County, England, October 25, 1834. He was the young- est son in a family of thirteen children, and after getting an education and learning the trade of bricklayer, at the age of twenty one years, he left home, family and country, to seek name and fortune in the vast country of the United States, whose arms are extended to the indus- trious of every nationality, provided they seek her shores with honesty of purpose, and become loyal to the flag which floats over them. Mr. Holland crossed in a sailing vessel, landing in New York. He then spent two years in Can- ada and five years in Indiana, working at his trade and at contract work. In 1862, he re- turned to New York en route to California, by the Nicaragua route, on the steamner America 13
on the Atlantic, and the Rolling Moses on the Pacific, and arriving at San Francisco, July 12, 1862. He was then sick about one year, from fever contracted at Nicaragua. After recover- ing he spent three months at Virginia City, and then sailed for the Sandwich Islands, where he passed five years working at his trade, contract- ing in both brick, stone and street building. He then returned to San Francisco and came direct to San Diego, arriving November 5, 1869. He immediately built himself a residence, cor- ner of Tenth and F streets, and moved in before Christmas of the same year. The first contract work in San Diego was the old Express Build- ing corner of Sixth and G streets for A. E. Horton; he also built the court-house and several sınaller buildings. In 1873 he returned to San Francisco, working in and about the city for eight years. From 1880 to 1885, he worked at San Diego, San Bernardino and Los Angeles, returning to San Diego in June, 1885; then operated a little during the real-estate boom, but is now living quietly and happily in his comfortable home.
Mr. Holland was married at Ingersoll, Can- ada, June 17, 1856, to Miss Snsan B. James, of English and Canadian descent. Having no children of their own they adopted a little girl, who is now with them. Mr. Holland is a mem- ber of the Society of San Diego Pioneers.
ACOB M. JULIAN, of San Diego, is a pio- neer of California, having lived in San Francisco when there were but five or six sınall houses in the now great city of 300,000 inhabitants. Such has been the growth in forty years in one city in California. Mr. Julian is a Southerner; with the sterling quali- ties of a good man he combines those of a generous, courteous gentleman. He was born October 6, 1816, in Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama. His father, George E. Julian, was a native of South Carolina. His grandfather, Samuel Julian, was born in South Carolina and
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was a descendant of the Huguenots who were driven from France on account of their religions views, and, seeking religious liberty in America, settled in the southern portion of the United States. Mr. Julian's grandmother, Anna (Hons- ton) Julian, was a daughter of Mr. H. Honston, and niece of the celebrated Sam. Houston. Her husband, Solomon Reese, was a native of North Carolina, of Scotch- Irish extraction. Mr. Julian's father was born in 1792 and his mother in 1796. They were married in 1815, in Cairo, Tennessee, and their union was blessed with eight children, seven sons and one daughter, the subject of this sketch being the eldest. In 1828 he commenced to learn the printer's trade under the management of General Henry S. Foote, and followed that business until February 16, 1889, sixty-one years, being a long servitude to the business. He published the St. Charles (Missouri) Clarion, the second paper printed in that place, for three years, and then went to St. Louis in 1844, where he was connected with two papers, the IIerald, a religious paper, and the American, a Whig paper. It was sold out in 1846 and he ceased to be connected with it. In 1849 he came to California. His yoyage was made in the Alexander von Humboldt from Panama. In 1850 Fitch, Ewer, Russell and Mr. Julian established the first paper published in Sacramento, called the Transcript. Owing to the death of his wife and child, whom he had left in Missouri, he returned to that State in June, 1850. In 1852 he was the editor of the old Lexington Express and published it until the war broke out, when he went to St. Louis to get away from the Union soldiers. They sold a part of his office and destroyed what they did not sell. Mr. Julian lost about $30,000 by the transaction. He lost the old files of the paper, which he valued most highly. Mr. Julian was a man of peace and took arms on neither side. In 1866 he returned to Lexington and established with others the Caucasian, which was a pop- ular paper for some years. He sold his interest and removed to Warrensburg, Johnson County, Missouri, in 1870, and published the Johnson
Democrat. Owing to the ill health of his wife he sold it and came to San Diego in 1874. The removal was very beneficial to Mrs. Julian, as when she came to San Diego it was thought she could not live a year; but her health im. proved and she lived for nine years. Mr. Jn- lian engaged in the printing business in San Diego and was editor and publisher of the World for a year and a half. It was then merged into the News and Mr. Julian continned its publi- cation for four-years, when it was sold to the Sun Publishing Company and the paper ceased. In 1885 he started the San Diegan in support of Mr. Cleveland and the Democracy, and con- tinned its publication until February 16, 1889, when he sold it to N. H. Conklin and it is now run by Sullivan & Wait.
Mr. Julian was married in 1837 to Miss Frances L. Wray, daughter of John Wray, and they were blessed with five children, three of whom still survive, viz .: William C., born in St. Charles, Missouri, in 1839; Ophelia F., born in 1845, in St. Charles, and Missouri M., born in St. Louis, in December, 1845. Their mother died March 6, 1849, and Mr. Julian was again married to Mrs. Violetta (Martin) Mundy, daughter of Lewis and Catherine Martin, of St. Louis, born in 1816. Mr. Julian is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and belongs to the San Diego Pioneers, also the pioneers of San Francisco.
COLONEL DANIEL II. HORNE, of Oceanside, was born in Dover, New Hamp- shire, February 26, 1828. His father, Samuel Horne, was born in the same town, in 1802. His grandfather, who lived until ninety- two years of age, was a native of Scotland. The family were Protestants. His mother, Lydia (Blake) Horne, was born in Dover, New Hamp- shire, in 1805. She was the daughter of Major William Blake, who was of English descent. She was married to Mr. Samuel Horne in 1821, at Dover, New Hampshire, and had a family of
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twelve children, nine of whom reached the age of maturity. The subject of this sketch was the third child; he attended school in his native town until fifteen years of age, when he went to Haverhill, Massachusetts, where he learned the tanner and currier's trade. After a two years' apprenticeship he embarked in business for himself at Salem, and afterward at Woburn, Charlestown and Boston, and continued in it until he was twenty-six years of age. He was married at Woburn, Massachusetts, April 22, 1849, to Miss Maria L. Hovey, a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, born June 26, 1826. Mr. Hovey was a relation to the originator of the Hovey seedling strawberry. In November, 1854, Mr. Horne started alone for Kansas, ar- riving at Kansas City on November 30. At Lawrence he was selected by other settlers as chairman of a committee to select a town site. The result was they went thirty miles to the site of the present city of Topeka and spent the night there on the banks of the river, and selected that site. Colonel Horne built the first cabin and wintered in it with others. When the farm claims were divided, Colonel Horne secured the second choice of location. The man who had first choice sold his claim for $15. It has since become of great value. The Colonel pre-empted and retained his selec- tion, built and lived on it for many years, and has seen the " wilderness blossom like a rose," and seen the desert transformed into a large and rich city, full of life and business. He voted at the meeting that gave the town its name, "Topeka," the Indian name for wild potatoes, that grew along the river. He was chosen marshal of the Free State Squatters, and captain of the Topeka Guards. In the fall of 1855 he was captain of another military company, which was organized to go to the re- lief of Lawrence, which had been surrounded by the border ruffians, with 100 men under his command. On their arrival at Lawrence Cap- tain Horne united his forces with those of Dr. Robinson and Colonel James H. Lane. Breast- works were hastily erected, the town fortified
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