An illustrated history of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day, Part 50

Author: Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1038

USA > California > Los Angeles County > An illustrated history of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day > Part 50
USA > California > San Diego County > An illustrated history of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day > Part 50
USA > California > Orange County > An illustrated history of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day > Part 50
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he returned to Pottsville, where he remained three years, and returned to San Diego October, 1887. He has one child, Bertha, who was born in San Francisco County, in 1863. Jndge Bush is now a Notary Public, deals in real estate, and is secretary of the Society of San Diego Pio- neers.

ENERAL S. CADWALLADER springs from a line of Welsh ancestry dating back for 200 years on American soil. Some of the names, in each generation, have been dis- tingnished in the civil and military history of the country, from its first settlement to the present time. His father, Dr. Joseph Cadwal- ler, was born in Grayson County, Virginia, in 1801; moved to southern Ohio in 1818; studied medicine under Dr. Samuel P. and Joseph An- thony, eminent physicians and surgeons of Clin- ton and Highland counties, Ohio; took his degree of M. D. at Cincinnati, Ohio; practiced medicine a year at Portland, Indiana, and moved to Marion, afterward the county seat of Grant County, Indiana, and followed his profession there until his death in 1833. Dr. Cadwallader was the first regular physician who settled there; was the first Postmaster of Marion when the post-route was established from Richmond to Logansport; rode on horseback to Indianapolis to meet the assembled Legislature, and had Marion established as the county seat; and was an active, public-spirited man who contributed largely in developing what was then a trackless wilderness. Dr. Cadwallader married Catharine Cox, who was born at Cox's Mills, Randolph County, North Carolina, in 1802.

Sylvan us Cadwallader, the subject of this sketch, was born near New Vienna, Clinton County, Ohio, November 17, 1825. His father and mother both died the first week in December, 1833. His home was thereafter with his ma- ternal grandparents till 1840. He received a common-school education near the place of his birth, and took a partial academic course at

South Salem, Ross County, Ohio. He was first married at La Porte, Indiana, March 16, 1851, to Katherine Rosamond Pan], born at Danville, Vermont, and lived mainly at Walnut Hills, Ohio, till after her death, in 1856. During part of his residence there he was Postmaster of the suburb. His second marriage, in October, 1867, was to Mary Isabella Paul, still living. His only surviving child is a son by the second marriage, at present professor of mathematics in the San Diego College of Letters, and named Rawlins, after General John A. Rawlins, Gen- cral Grant's first Adjutant General, Chief of Staff and Secretary of War.

General Cadwallader moved to Kenosha, Wis- consin, in the summer of 1859, and published the Kenosha Democrat and the Racine Press, until March, 1862. He was city editor of the Milwaukee News for about six months after leaving Racine, and was then employed by Messrs. Story & Worden, owners of the Chicago Times, to go to General Grant's headquarters, then at Jackson, Tennessee, and procure, if pos- sible, the release of Mr. Isham (a former cor- respondent of the Times and brother-in-law of Mr. Story), from the Alton military prison, where he had been confined several months by General Grant for sending " contraband" news from the army. He was also an accredited correspondent of the Times. He secured Mr. Isham's release as soon as he presented the case, and in doing so made the favorable ac- quaintance of General Grant and staff and was invited to remain at headquarters and witness the pending operations against Holly Springs, Mississippi.

He accompanied the army on what is known as the Tallahatchie expedition, in November and December, 1862; returned to Memphis about January 1, 1863; proceeded down the Missis- sippi river to Young's Point in company with Captain Prime and Lieutenant (afterward the distinguished General of Cavalry) J. II. Wilson, engineers on the staff, to inspect the canal or " cut-off" in front of Vicksburg, and thereafter remained at headquarters by the special invita-

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tion of General Grant, and was in constant and daily intercourse with him, except when absent on short leave, from Vicksburg to Appomattox, from Appomattox to Raleigh, and for two years in Washington city after the close of the war. He was the only war correspondent ever allowed to remain at General Grant's headquarters.

He witnessed the battle of Raymond, May 12; the battle of Jackson, May 14; the battle of Champion's Hill, May 16; the fighting at Big Black, May 17; the investiture of Vicksburg. May 18, and all the subsequent siege operations ending in the memorable surrender of that world-renowned stronghold, July 4, 1863.

Some time previous to this he liad been em- ployed by Frederick Hudson, managing editor of the New York Herald, to write private letters to James Gordon Bennett, Sr., to be used only in shaping, governing and outlining the policy of that paper, concerning military commanders and military operations in the southwest. These letters were an important factor in securing for General Grant the steadfast support of that in- finential journal -- a support which never re- laxed for a single day until Grant became President. His private correspondence ended in his leaving the Times and devoting himself exclusively to the Herald. He gave the name of "Champion's Hill" to the battle fought May 16, because it was on a long timbered ridge on Mr. Champion's plantation. His dispatches were published all over the North, and the name be- came so fixed in the public mind that General Grant's official name for it -- " Baker's Creek" -- is scarcely known outside the records of the war department.

At a critical period in General Grant's career during the siege of Vicksburg, General Cadwal- lader (then holding no commission) rendered him signal military and personal service of a nature which cannot properly be stated here, but the obligation was never forgotten by Gen- eral Grant and his intimate friends. For this service he was tendered a place on the staff with the rank of Captain, but could not accept it. Until this time his standing at headquarters had

only been that of a favored war correspondent, but thereafter he was accorded extraordinary privileges, which continued until the Union armies were disbanded. General John A. Raw- lins, Chief of Staff, Colonel William L. Duff, Chief of Artillery, and General Cadwallader messed together most of the time until they arrived at City Point, in June, 1864. At the latter place he kept open house on New York Herald account and ran a private mess of his own.

Speaking of the service rendered General Grant during the siege of Vicksburg, one of the most distinguished Generals on his staff said in a recent letter to General Cadwallader: " Yon did an excellent day's work, not only for Gen- eral Grant, but for the country. It gives mne great pleasure to add, that to my personal knowledge you were always held by both Grant and Rawlins in the highest personai and official esteem. You were regarded personally as a member of the staff, as you were in fact and deed. I am sure no secrets were ever concealed from you; and in view of your relations with the press, I am confident no higher compliment could have been paid you, then or now."

General Cadwallader rode with the staff; messed with them; had his tents pitched and struck, as for a staff officer; was introduced as a staff officer; often performed important and con- fidential staff duty; and has in his possession General Grant's written orders, to be used wherever and whenever necessary, directing " all gnards and all picket gnards, in all the armnies of the United States, to pass him at any hour of the day or night, with horses or vehicles; order- ing all quartermasters of transportation to fur- nish him transportion on demand, for himself, servants and horses; and ordering all cominis- saries of subsistence to furnish him subsistence on demand for himself, horses and servants." In addition to this he has some unused passes, properly written and signed by order of General Grant, having blank spaces in which to write names, by which (when away from headquarters and unknown) he could send whomsoever he

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pleased over all the military lines of transporta- tion within General Grant's command.

He was offered inany military appointments and commissions, ranging from Second Lieu- tenant, Second Infantry, United States Army, to a full Colonelcy on General Hancock's staff; but as his pay already exceeded that of a Briga- dier General, and his opportunities for serving his country were quite as good in the newspaper field as in the military service, he declined them all, and was never mustered under any commis- sion As correspondent-in-chief of the New York Herald, he had from twenty to forty trained wien subject to his instant and absolute orders, and was responsible to the New York Herald for all the war news east of the Alle- ghany mountains.

After reaching City Point there were many reasons, public and private, why General Grant was never allowed to leave his headquarters withont some one with him, whose anthority to act for him temporarily would be recognized in case of accidents or emergencies. Rawlins, Bowers and Cadwallader came to be the only members of General Grant's first military fam- ily in the West, who still remained with him. Rawlins, as chief of staff, was compelled to re inain in charge of the army in Grant's absence. The result was that Bowers or Cadwallader al- mnost invariably accompanied him (no matter who else might be along) on all trips to Fortress Monroe, Baltimore, Washington city or else- where. General Cadwallader was in the roomn when General Lee surrendered, and was intro- duced to him among such of the regular staff as were present, by General Grant. He also accompanied General Grant to North Carolina, and witnessed the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston's army.

He saw the three principal mine explosions of the war-the Fort Hill mine at Vicksburg; the Burnside mine at Petersburg; and the Dutch Gap mine on James River. He was captured twice, but escaped in less than twenty-four hours each time, and before he could be committed to a rebel prison. His first capture was by a

detachment of Van Dorn's cavalry between Collierville and Germantown, Tennessee, im- mediately after the Holly Springs affair. His second capture was by a company of the Seventh Virginia Cavalry, the Saturday night after the battle of the Wilderness. The dispatches found upon him were of such importance that the Richmond newspapers cousoled themselves for the loss of a battle by publishing them in full, to show, as they expressed it, "how Lee was plowing the Yankees under" on the Rapidan. He was in thirty-four battles and engagements of varying magnitude; an orderly was killed at his heels in front of Fort Hill, Vicksburg; one horse was disabled at Cold Harbor, and another killed by a shell at Hatcher's Run; and hie es- caped from all with a slight flesh wound in the knee from a minie ball while riding across the field under fire, in front of Petersburg, April 2, 1865.

On his return to Washington city at the end of the war, he was chief of the New York Herald bureau till October, 1866. General Rawlins and himself brought their families to the capital; rented a large honse in George- town, and lived together as one family, sharing the expense jointly. He was one of the editors and proprietors of the Milwauke Daily News, and secretary of the Milwaukee News Company from January 1, 1867 to June 1, 1874; was Assistantant Secretary of the State of Wisconsin from January 1, 1874 to Jannary 1, 1878; was Quartermaster General of the State of Wisconsin, with the rank of Brigadier General, from Jann - ary 1, 1874 to January 1, 1876; was financial agent for Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, from 1879 to 1883 inclusive; was on the edito- rial staff of the Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, Missouri, till June, 1884; was superintendent of the Springfield Water Company, Missouri, till January, 1887; arrived in San Diego March 14, 1887; was secretary of the Oceanside Brick and Lumber Company, and of the San Diego Bitu- minons Paving Company, from April 1, 1887, to September 1, 1889.

By birth and parentage General Cadwallader

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belonged to the Society of Friends, cominonly called Quakers, but has of late years been a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Mad- ison, Wisconsin; Summit Presbyterian Church, Barton County, Missouri; the First and Second Presbyterian Churches, Springfield, Missouri; and the First Presbyterian Church, San Diego, California; and was ruling elder in all of these except the First Church of Springfield; was Commissioner from Ozark Presbytery to the General Assembly in 1882, and from Los Angeles Presbytery in 1890; was made a Mason in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1849; was junior and senior warden of Science Lodge, No. 50, F. & A. M., Sandusky, Ohio; was twice Master of Cyn- thia Lodge, No. 155, F. & A. M., Cincinnati, Ohio; was ex-officio, a member of the Grand Lodge of Ohio for a number of years, ending with 1859; has been dubbed a Knight Templar and Knight of Malta; and in politics is classed as an independent Democrat, or free-trade Re- publican.

NDREW CASSIDY .- One of the pioneer residents of San Diego is Andrew Cassi- dy, a native of county Cavan, Ireland. When seventeen years of age he emigrated to the United States, landing at Boston. Having had the advantage of an excellent education in his native land, he was well prepared to accept of a position which was offered him in the En- gineer Corps at West Point, under the immedi- ate direction of George B. McClellan. He re- mained at this point for three years, and fromn there went to Washington, where he was em- ployed in the Coast Survey office, under Pro- fessor Bache. He remained in that position about a year, when he was ordered out to the Pacific coast with a party of five others, under Captain W. B. Trowbridge, of the Engineer Corps, U. S. A. The party came by way of the Isthummus, and landed at San Francisco in July, 1853. They were there engaged for abont two months in putting up a self-registering gauge

at Fort Point. Leaving one man in charge, the others started for San Diego. They char- tered a schooner and made a series of observa- tions on the way down the coast. They entered the harbor of San Diego, and landed at Point La Plaza, where they put up another gauge, and Cassidy was left in charge. He was sta- tioned here in charge of meteorological and tide observations for seventeen years. During this period he made Old San Diego his headquar- ters the greater part of the time. In 1864 he saw an excellent opportunity to engage in stock- raising, and availed himself of it; he employed a man to take charge of the details, and only exercised a general supervision until he re- signed his position in the coast survey. His ranch, which was then known as Soledad, sit- uated twelve miles from Old Town, contained 1,000 acres of exceedingly rich land. He had on this place at times 1,000 head of cattle. The present town of Sorrento is npon this ranch.

Mr. Cassidy continued in the stock business from 1864 to the beginning of the year 1887. He then sold out all his stock interests and sub- divided his ranch, realizing a handsome sun fron the proceeds of his land sales. Besides his interests at Sorrento he owns considerable city and suburban property. He served one term as City Trustee in 1865, and again in 1871 was elected County Supervisor for two terins (four years).

In 1853 Mr. Cassidy began a collection in natural history, composed of birds, fishes, rep- tiles, moths, and all live animals of the smaller species. The collection of fish was particularly valuable, coming as it did from the Pacific ocean, the Colorado river and the Gulf of Cali- fornia. This collection was forwarded to the Smithsonian Institute, at Washington, District of Columbia, where his friend, Professor Henry, then held a position.

Mr. Cassidy has been twice married, but is now a widower. He has one daughter, born to his second wife. Besides condueting his large farm intereste Mr. Cassidy has been a true friend of San Diego, contributing his share toward the

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eity's material advancement. Personally he is very courteous, and his address marks him as one who has mingled munch with men of the world. He is extremely popular among his ac- quaintances, and everywhere regarded as at once a progressive and substantial citizen.

R. J. R. DOIG, of San Diego .- Abont the middle of the last century, Mr. Robert Doig came from Scotland to America and settled in Washington County, New York. In 1810 there was born to him in Washington County a son, whom he named James R. He gave this boy a most liberal education, and for many years he held the professorship of lan- guages in Mound College, IIllinois. In 1843, he was united in marriage with Miss Grace Rankin, who was also of Scotch descent. Their union was blessed with a family of nine children. He died in 1883, at the age of 73. The eldest of their family was John Rankin Doig, born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1846; he obtained his literary education at Washington College, lowa. In 1862, when only sixteen years of age, he eulisted in Company C, Nineteenth Iowa Regi- ment. At the end of his year's service, in 1863, he was discharged and immediately re-enlisted in the Second Iowa Cavalry, and was with the Army of the Tennessee, in General A. J. Smith's command. General Coon was in this department. The Doctor participated in the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, at the siege of Vieksburg, and at the battle of Nashville. Ile was mustered out in October, 1865, at Selma. Alabama. When he returned home he began the study of medicine and graduated in 1867, at Iowa University, and later graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Chicago. He practiced for some time at Williamsburg, Iowa, and at Des Moines. Then he practiced at Newton, and in 1879 removed to Ellsworth, Kansas, and practiced there until 1886, when he came to San Diego. He has invested here, has a nice home near Florence Heights, and a

good office on the corner of Fourth and C streets. He is very nicely situated and has come to San Diego to stay. lIe is a member of the San Diego Medieal Society, and belongs to the Masonie fraternity in both Temple and Shrine. In 1881 he was united in marriage with Miss Nellie Seaver, born in Canada in 1857. The Doctor is well versed in his profession, has a good practice and enjoys the confidence and respeet of his fellow-citizens.

OHN H. GAY, JR., is a native of the parish of Iberville, Louisiana, born March 21, 1853. His father, Edward J. Gay, was born in Liberty, Virginia, but moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1821, and was among the first settlers of that town. His grandfather was a native of Stanton, Virginia, and was a pioneer merchant in St. Clair County, Illinois. His son, Edward J. Gay, succeeded him in the busi- ness, and was there as merchant all his life, but had business in St. Louis, Missouri, and in New Orleans, Lonisiana. They were of English and Freneh descent, and a branch of the family are descended from Pocahontas. Mr. Gay's great- grandfather was a soldier in the Revolution, under General Washington. Mr. Gay's grand- mother was Sophia Mitehell. She was a mein- ber of a family whose male members were Methodist preachers for many years. His mother, Lovina (Hyncs) Gay, was the daughter of Colonel Andrew Hynes, who was on the staff of General Jackson in his wars with the Indians and at the battle of New Orleans. Mr. Gay's father and mother were married in Tennessee. He received his early education at home, and in 1871 was sent to Washington and Lee College, and was there three years. General R. E. Lee was president of the college. After leaving college he engaged on the sugar plantation in Louisiana, and was there from 1874 to 1885, and then on account of his health came to Cal- ifornia, landed in San Francisco, and visited nearly every county in the State, and settled

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in San Diego Connty in 1886. He bought a ranch at Linda Vista, fourteen miles north of San Diego He has a section of land and is spending considerable money in developing water. His water storage is a success and when generally adopted will revolutionize the agricult- ural condition of the county. Mr. Gay was married December 20, 1877, to Miss Rebecca P. Connell, a native of Mississippi, born Sep- tember 6, 1854. She was a daughter of Mr. Lemuel P. Connell, a native of Mississippi; he was a planter and a lawyer, and is now at Natchez, Mississippi. Her mother was Fanny E. Turner, a daughter of Judge Edward Turner. The family were of English descent. Mr. Gay is a member of the Methodist Church, South.

H. JULIAN, a tried business inan and pioneer of San Diego, was born in Ala- bama, October 7, 1834. His father, George Julian, was a native of South Carolina. and was married to Miss Lavina Reice. The subject of this sketch was their youngest child. He received his education at a private school, and at eighteen years of age went to learn the tinners' trade, at which he has worked for thirty years. He enlisted in 1847 in Company A, First Battalion, Alabama Volunteers, under General Scott's cominand, and served to the close of the Mexican war. After being innstered out of the service he again went to work at his trade in Tuscaloosa, where he remained for two years and nine months. He then went to Tus- cumbia, Alabama, and with his brother, William R. Julian, opened a shop and remained there until 1852, when he removed to Sacramento and worked at his trade. After a year he went to Sierra County, and Yuba and Plumas counties, until 1863, when he removed to Marysville and opened business there. In 1864 he removed to Brown's valley and continued business there. From there he went to Dutch Flat, Placer County, and was in business there three years. He then removed to San Francisco and engaged

in the manufacture of pipe for the Spring Val- ley Water Works. He was there four months, and then came to San Diego in 1868 and opened his present business on the ground where it now is. He has carried on the tin, hardware and plumbing business in San Diego for twenty-one years, and has seen the ups and downs of the. growth of this place. Twice his stock and build- ing has been burned to the ground, and each time with the inost commendable energy and pluck there has risen out of the ashes a better building than before. In 1862 he was married to Miss Mary M. Swain, danghter of William H. Swain, born in Cincinnati. Mrs. Julian's maternal ancestors were German. They have had seven children, six of whom still survive: Mary B., born in Marysville, Ynba County, California, May 5, 1864; William A., born near Brown's valley, September 10, 1865; George F., born in Dutch Flat, Placer County, December 28, 1868; Charles, born in San Diego, and Ar- thur Roy, born in San Diego. His oldest son, William A. Julian, is now in business with his father in San Diego, and is a modest and indus- trions young man, who merits the patronage of his fellow-citizens. Mrs. Julian is a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Julian joined the Odd Fellows in 1856, and the Masons in 1870. He is now a member of the board of city delegates for the third terin, which consists of two years each. Mr. Julian has also held the office of superintendent of sewers.

DWARD DOUGHERTY .- Among the pioneers of California we find many who were natives of other lands, who came here to take advantage of its broader resources, and the freedom of thought and speech, and among that number we must class Mr. Dongh- erty. He was born in Ireland, in September, 1834, being the oldest of a family of seven chil- dren. His father was a farmer. Edward came to the United States in 1850, alone, spending the first four years in a lumber camp on the

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Susquehanna river, in Pennsylvania, Clearfield County. They scored and hewed timber for market by the old method, using axes and broad-axes. In 1854 he came to California by the Isthmus of Panama. He then went to Cal- averas County, where he mined for a time; then started a grocery store at Angel's Camp, and meeting with good success he continued for a number of years. In 1863 he moved to Copper- opolis, continuing in the same business for five years. He then went to San Francisco, but on account of his healthi sought the inilder climate of the south and came to San Diego, June 15, 1869, where for fifteen years he was engaged in the liquor trade. He then went into the hay and grain business, and in 1886 entered into the real estate, having made many purchases of land prior to that date.

Mr. Dougherty was married in San Francisco in 1868, to Miss Kate Mullon, a native of coun- ty Tyrone, Ireland. They reside in their resi- dence on the corner of Cedar and Columbus streets, San Diego.

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Author: Lewis Publishing Company Publication date: 1890 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 1038

Author: Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1038