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Patrick J. Nugent did not have much time to acquire an education in the usual way, but he had plenty of experience in earning his own way in
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the world. He began his apprenticeship in New York City and finished after he came to California in 1890. For eleven years he was an employee of the California Powder Works. For two years he worked for the Standard Oil Company, having charge of a crew of men in steam-fitting work; but twenty-three years of his life have been spent in the employ of the Santa Fe Railway Company.
On November 27, 1904, Mr. Nugent was married to Miss Annie May Maloney, a daughter of Michael and Bridget Maloney, all natives of Ireland. There were ten children in Mrs. Nugent's family, three of whom died in infancy. Mrs. Nugent is the youngest of the family. She has one sister living in San Francisco, Mrs. Katherine Brennen, whose hus- band is a nephew of Father Brennen, among the oldest and most esteemed Catholic priests in San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Nugent are the par- ents of two children: Nicholas, a student in the law department of St. Mary's College in Oakland; and Mary Anita, now in the high school. The family are members of the Catholic Church.
GEORGE LANDON SPAULDING .- A successful hardwood floor layer of Richmond is George L. Spaulding, who has had a varied life since the age of fifteen and has passed through some thrilling experiences in Indian warfare while in the army. He was born at Erie, Pa., on June 4, 1856, a son of Dr. Almond and Catherine (Landon) Spaulding, both natives of the Keystone State and now deceased. On the maternal side he is descended from German and Scotch ancestry. The brothers and sisters are: Julia, who married M. Weindorf and is deceased; Elizabeth I., also deceased; Frank P., a pensioner of the Standard Oil Company, living in Richmond; and George L., of this review. Dr. Almond Spaulding was a commissioned officer during the Civil War.
After finishing his schooling at the age of fifteen, George L. Spaulding entered the United States Navy on the S. S. Michigan, which is still doing duty on the Great Lakes. One year later he entered the regular army and served for five years, being stationed at Fort Apache, Arizona, where he was a non-commissioned officer. While he was at Fort Apache the fort was attacked by the Indians and several officers, privates, mail-car- riers and emigrants were killed in a battle. Colonel Carr, commanding the Sixth Regiment at the fort, went out after the medicine man who had incited the fight and he was brought in dead. Around his neck was found a medal larger than three silver dollars, with the image of Grant on it with the words "Peace on Earth Good Will towards Man." He had told the Indians that the bullets of the white men would not kill the Indians, . hence the attack. After Mr. Spaulding's experience he sailed the Great Lakes for a time, and then sold insurance for the Prudential Insurance Company. He also was in the life-saving service at Cleveland, Ohio.
Upon his arrival in California in 1908, Mr. Spaulding went to work for the Standard Oil Company for a year. He then began laying hardwood
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floors, and ever since has been carrying on a prosperous and successful business. He has done work in nearly all of the business blocks and in many of the residences erected in the city since he started. His work is thorough, and he has gained the confidence of the contractors of the city, as well as of the citizens. He is a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge and Encampment back in Erie, Pa., and has represented his lodge at the Grand Lodge.
On July 5, 1899, Mr. Spaulding and Miss Laura P. Feightner were made man and wife. In her parents' family there were six girls and three boys. Mr. and Mrs. Spaulding own their own home at No. 595 Eighth Street, Richmond. Mr. Spaulding enjoys a game of baseball and is an ar- dent fan. He also enjoys hunting and fishing.
JOHN OTT .- For more than twenty years the constable of Town- ship 5 of Contra Costa County has been John Ott. He was first elected in 1906 and has been re-elected every four years since. This gives some idea of the esteem in which he is held as an officer and as a citizen by his neigh- bors. Mr. Ott is also senior member of the Concord Building Material & Transfer Company, dealing in lime, cement, plaster, sand, gravel, crushed rock, brick, wood and coal. In addition to his official duties as constable, he was appointed deputy sheriff under Sheriff Veale in 1898 and has served the community in that capacity ever since.
John Ott was born in Pacheco, Cal., on December 25, 1873, the son of the late John N. Ott, a highly respected citizen who died in 1907. The father was a baker, and also engaged in the undertaking business at Pacheco for many years. He was born in Germany and came to San Fran- cisco during the pioneer days of the early sixties. Later he removed to Pacheco, where he engaged in business and also in farming. He had learned the baker's trade in Germany, and he also followed carpentry. By the exercise of his various talents he prospered and became a substantial landowner, planting out a vineyard of fifteen acres. Then he made a trip to Germany, where.he married a childhood sweetheart, Wilhelminia Fuhr- man; and to them three children were born: Frederick, now in business in Seattle ; Tillie, deceased at the age of twenty-six, who married Alfred Roe- der and resided in Los Angeles; and John, the subject of this sketch.
John Ott received his education in the grammar school of Pacheco. When he was nine years old his mother died, and a few years later he left Pacheco and went up into Oregon. For a time he worked for the Union Pacific Railway as a brakeman, and on going to San Francisco he was em- ployed on the Market Street Railway as a motorman. In 1889 he returned to his old home, and he has been a resident of Pacheco and Concord ever since.
Mr. Ott was married in San Francisco in 1898 to Mrs. Annie Hagen (nee Neilan), whom he had met in Oregon. Her daughter, Hattie Hagen, is now the wife of Frank Newman of San Diego. Mr. and Mrs. Ott are the parents of one child, Wilhelminia, now the wife of Edgar Bacon of
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Concord, and the mother of one child, Betty Bacon, six years old. Mr. and Mrs. Ott moved to Concord from Pacheco. Mr. Ott was elected constable shortly afterward, and at about the same time founded his busi- ness, which has prospered. He is a charter member of the Pittsburg Lodge No. 1474, B. P. O. E., having joined the order in Richmond. He was a member of the first board of trustees and has always taken an active interest in the order. He is also a member of both the Odd Fellows and the Red Men of Concord. In politics Mr. Ott is a Republican.
JOHN PITT WOODS. - A capable executive and a citizen of worth, highly esteemed by all who know him, is John Pitt Woods, the superintendent of the Alhambra Cemetery Association, which was organ- ized in the early sixties. The park contains between seven and eight acres of land, and under the able supervision of Mr. Woods a system of lots and blocks has been established whereby correct data regarding every interment can be obtained. He has carefully preserved all the old records and put them in such shape that anyone desiring information regarding any burial can obtain it at a moment's notice. Mr. Woods became super- intendent of the Association on April 11, 1909, and since that time has devoted his entire attention to the work connected with his responsible position.
His birth occurred in Madison County, Mo., May 8, 1864, and he was fourth in a family of eight children born to D. N. and Mary A. (Pitt) Woods, natives of Kentucky and Indiana, respectively. D. N. Woods was a farmer and also engaged in carpenter work; he married Miss Pitt in Indiana and then removed to Randolph County, Ill., where he bought a farm between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in what was known as the American Bottom, noted for the exceptional fertility of its soil. After his death, the mother of our subject was married the second time, to a Mr. Kirby. Mrs. Kirby spent the latter part of her life in California, coming here in 1901; and from 1908 until the time of her death, on January 19, 1924, she lived in Sacramento. She lacked but nine months of reaching the advanced age of ninety years when she passed on to her reward.
John P. Woods was united in marriage with Miss Nannie E. Burrow, born in Lawrence County, Mo., a daughter of Richard R. and Lovonia Burrow, Missouri farmer folk, now both deceased. Mr. Woods at first rented land in Missouri, which he farmed; then he bought forty acres in Lawrence County, which he afterward sold, and then rented land and farmed on shares, continuing thus until 1899, when he came to California. Settling in San Francisco, he worked for a contracting firm until 1901, when he removed to Contra Costa County and settled at Franklin Canyon, where he was employed in a nursery. In 1903 Mr. Woods moved to Martinez, primarily for the purpose of educating his children. The fam- ily home since 1912 has been located at 848 Talbart Street. Mr. and Mrs. Woods have had ten children, four of whom are now deceased. Glen
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Ellen is the wife of Russell Scott, an attorney in Salinas, Cal .; they have two children, Burrow and Shirley June. Fred L. is assistant manager of the Stadium Garage in Berkeley, Cal .; he married Miss Geneva Trojan and they have one child, Fred L., Jr. Fern is the wife of Joe Keller, and they reside in Martinez ; John Melvin is in the garage business at Crockett, Cal .; and the others are Dell and Richard Milton. Mr. Woods is prom- inent in the I. O. O. F., being Past District Deputy Grand Master of District 49, Martinez, and a member of Benicia Encampment No. 96. He is also a member of Laurie Camp No. 145, W. O. W., of Martinez, and of Fraternal Brotherhood No. 443, of the same place. Mrs. Woods is an active member of the Rebekah Lodge of Martinez. Politically Mr. Woods prefers to vote independently, casting his ballot for men of prin- ciple and capability.
HARRY McNULTY BEEDE .- A member of the board of directors and a valued employee of the Antioch Lumber Company, Harry McNulty Beede is easily recognized as a leader in the business and financial circles in his home city. He was born in Antioch on April 13, 1873, the son of the late Henry Fuller Beede, who is mentioned on another page of this his- tory. The middle name of our subject recalls that pioneer J. J. McNulty, who served for many years as a justice of the peace when his district cov- ered the entire eastern part of Contra Costa County. He was of Scotch- Irish birth and came to California in 1852 from Louisiana, where he owned a sugar plantation. Upon his arrival in California he engaged in mining at Columbia, Tuolumne County, later coming to Antioch. His daughter, the mother of our subject, taught school at Nortonville in 1868, when she was about eighteen years old, and also taught in Antioch.
Harry McNulty Beede is the oldest son and child of the nine living children of his parents and he grew to young manhood in Antioch and here attended the public schools, later taking a commercial course at Healds Business College in San Francisco. During his spare time while he was going to the local schools he worked in the yards of the Antioch Lumber Company, learning the business. In 1889 he was a clerk in the office of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company and continued there until 1896. From that date until 1898 he worked for the Antioch Lumber Company. The latter year gold was discovered in Alaska and Mr. Beede quit his position and went over the Chilcoot Pass to Dawson, where he prospected and mined, sometimes for himself and sometimes for others, and during the six years he was in Alaska met with a fair degree of success. Upon returning to California he went to Bakersfield where he put in a year with the Bakersfield Sandstone Brick Company, but since 1906 he has been steadily engaged with the Antioch Lumber Company.
In 1907, at Antioch, Harry McNulty Beede was united in marriage with Miss Leonora Scott, a native daughter, born in Red Bluff, where she grew up and later taught school, and also taught in Kings County, and in Seattle, Wash. She takes an active interest in the Eastern Star, in
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which she is a Past Matron. Mr. Beede is a Past Master of Antioch Lodge No. 175, F. & A. M .; Past High Priest of Antioch Chapter No. 65. R. A. M .; Past Patron of the Eastern Star; and a member of the Sciots, all in Antioch.
ORVILLE E. HAYWARD .- One of the particularly well-known ranchers and horticulturists of Contra Costa County is Orville E. Hay- ward, whose ancestry dates back to the small band of sturdy pioneers who came over in the Mayflower and established a new country where they could have the freedom of their religious convictions. Born near Medora, Macoupin County, Ill., on September 10, 1852, he is the son of Ansel and Rebecca (Silsby) Hayward, the former a native of Massachusetts and the latter of Vermont. The parents were married in Illinois, and both died when Orville E. was a boy, the father's death occurring in 1862, and the mother following him the next year. The years of his youth and young manhood were somewhat shadowed by these two events, and he had to make his own way in life from an early age.
Ambitious to gain a good education, young Hayward attended the public schools, and entered Blackburn University, where he was a senior student when he left for California in 1875. After his arrival here he took a business course at the Pacific Business College, in San Francisco, and then entered employment as a bookkeeper with a wholesale fruit company. His state of health forced him to go to Alameda County, and later to Napa County for a season. The next two seasons he spent at Sonora, Tuolumne County, and from there he went to the Yosemite Valley for five or six months ; but finally, in 1881, he came to Martinez and pur- chased ten acres of land, the nucleus of his present thirty-acre fruit ranch, situated about two miles south of Martinez. Here he has followed fruit growing with success, and through intelligent operation of the acreage has become one of Contra Costa County's foremost horticulturists, using intensive, modern methods in his fruit cultivation.
The marriage of Mr. Hayward, occurring at Oakland on March 28, 1883, united him with Miss Mary E. Bagge, a native of that city, and daughter of the late Christian E. and Emilie (Sultow) Bagge, highly honored California pioneers, who came to Oakland in 1852. Christian E. Bagge was a prominent man of his time in Oakland, where he was a large owner of realty, in both city and county. He served as land agent for the San Francisco Savings Union for a period of twenty-five years, and was considered an authority on land values in this section of the State. He owned a large tract of land, then devoted to ranching, near San Leandro, where Elmhurst is now located, in Alameda County, and was active in the building up of central California. His death oc- curred on May 17, 1901, and his good wife died in 1907.
Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hayward, Emilie and Or- ville Ansel. Emilie is the wife of Frederick T. Slack, a resident of Oak- land, and one child has been born to them, Hayward Childs Slack. Or-
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ville Ansel is now with the General Chemical Company at El Segundo. His marriage, in 1924, unted him with Miss Gladys West, of Redlands, and they reside at Hermosa Beach. Mr. Hayward has served for many years as clerk of the school board for his district. Both he and his wife are prominent in Masonic circles, Mr. Hayward having joined that order in 1896. He is a Past Master of Martinez Lodge No. 41, F. & A. M., the oldest lodge in Contra Costa County, and has served as its secretary for fourteen years; and he has served as secretary of Martinez Chapter No. 31, R. A. M., since 1913. Mrs. Hayward is a Past Matron of Los Ceritos Chapter No. 234, O. E. S., and for eighteen years served as sec- retary for that order. Prominent socially as well as fraternally, Mr. and Mrs. Hayward are among the most highly respected citizens of Contra Costa County, and have been actively interested in its advancement for several decades past. Mr. Hayward is a member of the Society of May- flower Descendants, one of the most highly prized distinctions in Amer- ica, holding membership at San Francisco.
ALBERT H. JONGENEEL .- An outstanding figure in the indus- trial and commercial circles of Pittsburg, Cal., is Albert H. Jongeneel, who for eighteen years was the vice-president and general manager of the Redwood Manufacturers Company, one of the largest enterprises of its kind in the West. It was organized by the late C. A. Hooper and the plant now covers 100 acres of land and employs from 600 to 700 persons in the manufacturing of doors, sash, frames, interior and exterior finish, cabinet work, tanks, water pipes, etc. It makes a specialty of using red- wood, although it handles great quantities of pine and hardwood, shipping its products to all parts of the world. Mr. Jongeneel is now the general manager of the C. A. Hooper Company, which enterprise has done much to foster and develop home building in the prosperous and fast growing industrial city of Pittsburg.
Albert H. Jongeneel was born on April 5, 1872, in Holland, the son of A. W. M. and Gretta Jongeneel. The family came to California in 1889 and settled in Sacramento County, on the Sacramento River near Walnut Grove, where they engaged in horticulture, and they also had an orchard in Santa Clara County, near San Jose. Albert H. Jongeneel at- tended Gardner Business College at San Jose and when his course was finished found employment with the C. A. Hooper Company. He soon rose from a mediocre position to the important office of vice-president and general manager of the Redwood Manufacturers Company, which po- sition he held from 1903 to 1921. Mr. Jongeneel has always been active in the promotion of the educational interests of the community and for eighteen years has been a member of the board of education of the city of Pittsburg, and secretary of the high and grammar schools. When he first became a member of the board of education there were only two teachers and one principal. The Roosevelt Union High School was located at Antioch, but the extraordinary growth of Pittsburg neces-
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sitated the building of a separate high school at Pittsburg. Mr. Jongeneel is keenly interested in the advancement of education and has seen to it that Pittsburg's educational facilities have kept pace with the rapid growth of the city's population.
On October 11, 1903, A. H. Jongeneel and Miss Berta Smyth were united in marriage. She is a daughter of an old pioneer family from Vaca- ville, Cal. Their family consists of two children: Francis, a student at Stanford University; and Elizabeth, attending the Berkeley High School. Fraternally, he is a member of Pittsburg Lodge No. 429, F. & A. M., at Pittsburg; and of Aahmes Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Oakland. He is a very active member of the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Jongeneel is a most progressive and enterprising citizen, whose sound business judgment and ability have aided greatly in the development of the industrial and financial interests of Pittsburg. Mr. Jongeneel resides in Berkeley but keeps in close touch with business affairs in Pittsburg by trips every two or three days.
REV. CHARLES C. CHAMPLIN .- In Rev. Charles C. Champlin, Pittsburg has a citizen whom all take pleasure in honoring and than whom no more earnest worker in the cause of Christianity, civic righteousness and well being, can be found. He is always in favor of any movement cal- culated to be of material assistance to his adopted town and county, and is an active member of the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce, the Lions Club and the Masons. A man of wide travel and broad intellect, he is adding immeasurably to the moral and spiritual welfare of this section.
Charles C. Champlin was born in Sonoma County, Cal., December 21, 1876, the elder of two children born to Asahel W. and Adeline Bradford (Park) Champlin. Grandfather Charles C. Champlin crossed the plains from Illinois with his wife and several small children, one of whom, Asahel W., rode a horse all the way across to California. Great-great- grandfather John Champlin served in the War of 1812. Grandfather Champlin purchased 300 acres of land in 1856 from M. J. Vallejo, and this ranch has always remained in the family. The mother of our subject was born in Boston, Mass., and was a descendant of Gov. William Brad- ford of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Rev. Champlin has one sister, Mrs. Grace Champlin-Adams, now a resident of Antioch. The father, Asahel W. Champlin, died in Martinez on August 24, 1926, at the age of eighty- one years. He crossed the plains to California in 1850.
Charles C. Champlin began his preliminary education in Sonoma County, and in 1902 he was graduated from the University of California, in the social science course, with the degree of B. L. He then went to Japan, where he was lecturer on English literature and professor of French at the University of Tokio for two years. Rev. Champlin speaks Japanese and French and can readily read Greek, Spanish and Latin. Returning to California, he entered the Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley and during his college term was student pastor at Pittsburg. In
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1909 he was ordained by an Ecclesiastical Council a minister of the Congregational Church and thereafter continued his ministry until his graduation in 1910, when he received the degree of B. D.
Rev. Charles C. Champlin was married in 1910 at Alameda to Miss Maude Frazer, a graduate of the University of California, Class of 1901. They had two sons, Frazer Bradford and Malcolm Ross. During 1912 and 1913 Rev. Champlin took a trip around the world in order to study non-Christian religions, and the knowledge gained at that time gave the world the book entitled "The Non-Christian Religions." Returning to California, he became the pastor of the Congregational Church at San Rafael and remained there two years, when he was called back to Pittsburg. During the World War he served as chaplain and was active in army Y. M. C. A. work until after the armistice was signed. The family then moved to their ranch in Sonoma County, hoping that the out-door life would benefit Mrs. Champlin's health; but she passed away in March, 1923. Rev. Champlin continued to live on his ranch until he received a call to return to Pittsburg after the death of Reverend Muir in 1925. This makes the third time he has ministered to this congregation. On December 21, 1925, Rev. C. C. Champlin was united in marriage with Cordia Zimmerman Brown, of Pittsburg.
JOSEPH F. MATHERON .- Among the many fine people residing in Clayton Precinct of Contra Costa County are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Matheron, both of whom are representatives of old pioneer families who contributed much toward the upbuilding of the county. They take a proper and justifiable pride in the preservation of the history of the pioneer period, realizing its influence upon the present generation and generations yet to come. Mr. Matheron holds the responsible position of manager of the old Kirkwood ranch, which is now owned by I. L. Bor- den, after whom the Borden Highway was named. Mr. Borden, who is a wealthy man of many business interests, resides in San Francisco, and he selects his executives with considerable care, hence Mr. Matheron is hold- ing his present position only because he is a man of exceptional ability in that branch of management.
Joseph F. Matheron was born in Clayton Precinct, December 25, 1888, the son of Frank Matheron, now a retired farmer residing at Martinez, and Annie (Loring) Matheron, who was born in San Francisco. Both parents are still living, the father seventy-two years old and the mother sixty-seven. Joseph was the eldest of a family of six children, four boys and two girls. He grew up in Clayton and married on September 6, 1919, in Oakland, May Rumgay, who is a native of Concord and a descendant of Andrew and Martha (Lewis) Rumgay, natives of England and California respectively, and one of the California families of 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Matheron are the parents of two children : Andrew Newell and Franklin Loring. Politically Mr. Matheron is a Democrat. He became manager of the Kirkwood ranch of 407 acres in 1920. It is
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one of the show places in Clayton Precinct, producing principally oats and hay and feeding some cattle. Mr. Matheron is a fine example of the native born Clayton Precinct boy, of a type of citizenry of which any com- munity may well feel proud.
ERNEST H. HIGGINS .- Since October 20, 1912, Ernest H. Hig- gins has been a resident of Richmond, where he is looked upon as a very public-spirited citizen and enterprising business man. He first saw the light of day at Point Arena, Mendocino County, on November 6, 1882, a son of Archibald and Alice Higgins, pioneer dairy folk of Mendocino County. The father died in 1905, but the mother is living and makes her home in Santa Rosa. The boyhood and youth of Ernest H. Higgins were spent on the ranch and he attended the common schools of the neighborhood and worked with his father on the dairy ranch. After he had grown to manhood he carried on a dairy on his own account for seven years in his native county. Working early and late and seldom having any vacation, Mr. Higgins decided that he would seek a location where he might make a living without such arduous labor. Coming to Richmond, where his brother Leland was the pioneer blacksmith at the Point, having the first shop there, he found employment with a street contractor and for three years did about as hard manual work as he had ever done, working early and late. He saved his money, however, and in 1916 was able to buy the transfer business carried on by Johnston and Brain, who also handled some material for building purposes. By giving his entire time and at- tention to the enterprise, Mr. Higgins began to build up a large trade in plaster, lime, gravel and cement, and for seven years he had this field with no competition. He has supplied material for half the buildings in the city of Richmond since he embarked in business, and has prospered ac- cordingly. Now he has four competitors in his line of industry, but retains all of his old customers and gets his share of new accounts.
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