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P. A. Hamilton
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sixty acres, located on the north fork of Eel river, about fifteen miles north of Covelo. In early times, Mr. Diggins took a very active part in the fre- quent fights with the Indians, and often escaped by only a hair's breadth. He was once wounded in the leg.
Philip A. Deuel. Born in Washington county, New York, December 16, 1829. In 1847, he, leaving his parents, went to Illinois, where he fol- lowed farming until 1850, when he crossed the plains to California with horse-teams, arriving at Hangtown (Placerville), July 4, 1850. Commenced at once to mine, which he followed for three years. After this, he spent about three years in the Sacramento valley, farming. Then followed hunt- ing until 1862, when he came to Mendocino county and to Round valley, where he followed different occupations for about two years. He then com- menced work for the Government on the Indian reservation, which he followed for nine years, when he settled on his present place, consisting of two hundred and twelve acres, located about one mile from Covelo, where he has since followed farming.
James L. Dunlap. Born in Washtenaw county, Michigan, March 11, 1843. When about five years of age he, with parents, moved to Illinois, where they resided until 1850, when they started across the plains to Cali- fornia. The father was drowned while crossing the Humbolt river, the remainder of the family, consisting of Jaines L., his mother and two half-brothers, arrived at Sacramento in August. Here they resided for three years; then settled on Cache creek in Yolo county, where they resided four years; then moved to Petaluma, Sonoma county. Here
the subject of this sketch followed carpentering until 1868, when he came to Mendocino county, and settled in Covelo, where he has since resided, being engaged in carpentering. He is Constable of Round Valley township. Married March 10, 1867, Miss Maggie Brightenstien. They have six chil- dren : Ida May, Ena Belle, James Leroy, Mabel Isadore, Francis Linden, and Carrie Nettie.
Charles H. Eberle. Born in Philadelphia, May 31, 1833. His father, Charles Louis, was also a native of that city, and was of German descent. Mrs. Rachel Eberle, the mother of Charles H., was of Puritan stock, a native of Massachusetts, and came from the Atherton and Adams families of that State. At the early age of twenty-five, she was left a widow with four small children, her husband having been lost on the steamer Lexington on Long Island Sound. Mrs. Eberle gave all her children the advantages of a good education in the excellent schools of the old Bay State. Charles H., arrived in San Francisco on the 6th day of July, 1849, on the ship Edward Everett from Boston. He was the protege of Captain Smith, the Master of the vessel, and was the youngest member of the ship's company, some two hundred in number. He proceeded, immediately on his arrival, to
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Sacramento, spending the summer and fall there, in the employ, as clerk, of Sam. Merritt, the man who built the first brick house in that city, on the corner of Second and J streets. Steve. Massett, afterwards known through- out the world as "Jeems Pipes of Pipesville," was then doing an auction business a few doors from there. The following winter was spent by him in San Francisco. In February, 1850, he started for the Feather river mines. Joined the crowd bound for Gold Lake,-did not find that famous lake, but, with his crowd, arrived at Rich Bar, middle fork of Feather river, and was among the first to locate claims there. He and three others, in less than an hour, took from a crevice on the bar, thirty-seven pounds, weighed by steelyards, of heavy, coarse gold. He followed mining, trading, and pack- ing until 1857, when he left the mines, and came to Mendocino county, and located upon a ranch in Round valley, about two and one-half miles from Covelo. In 1874, he moved to that town, but still owns and conducts his ranch, consisting of four hundred and forty acres. Married, October 23, 1879, Mrs. Melissa A. Robinson, a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, Mr. Eberle has seven children by a former marriage.
William T. Gilbert. Born in Arkansas, July 23, 1850. When but a mere child, one year of age, his parents immigrated to California, and settled in Sacramento. After a residence here of four years moved to Trinity county, resided about six years; thence to Tehama, and resided ten years. In 1877 became a resident of this county, locating in Round valley, where he has since resided. Married, February, 1874, Mary Pratt, a native of Pennsylvania.
George W. Henley, Whose portrait will be found in this work, was born in Clarke county, Indiana, November 26, 1833. He received his educa- tion at the Charleston Seminary. In 1853 he, with his parents, came to California, via Panama. They arrived at San Francisco on June 1st of the above-mentioned year. The father was appointed postmaster at San Fran- cisco, and the subject of this sketch acted as clerk under his father for about eighteen months, when the father was appointed superintendent of Indian affairs. George filled the position of clerk under his father for two years longer, when he was appointed store-keeper in the United States Appraiser's store in San Francisco, which office he held- until January 1859, when he resigned the position. He came to Mendocino county and settled in Round valley at the above date where he has since resided, being engaged in farm- ing and stock-raising. Mr. Henley was in the Legislature in the session of 1869-70, and is an enterprising and thorough-going gentleman, and while not a professional politician, always strives to advance the best interests of his county, and doubtless with better success than the aforesaid professionals.
Thomas B. Henley. The second son of Thomas J. Henley, was born in Clarke county, Indiana, October 8, 1836. He came to California via
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Panama, in 1854. He went to Tulare county and remained there two years, being employed as clerk on the Tejon Indian Reservation. In 1856 he came to Mendocino county and remained two years on the Noyo Reservation, being employed as clerk. In the summer of 1857 he went to Round valley on a trip, going by way of Little Lake and Eden valley, and returning by Long valley. In 1858 he went to Round valley and located permanently, buying a half interest in several preemption locations, comprising a portion of what is now known as the Henley ranch. He remained here and engaged in farming and stock-raising until 1865, when he went to northern Mexico, and remained one year, during the Maximillian occupation of that country. In the spring of 1866, he returned to Round valley and remained till 1868, when he went to Elko, Nevada, at the time that the terminus of the Central Pacific railroad was at that point, and it was also the supply point of the White Pine mines, which were just then at the height of their attraction. He remained in Elko until 1879, being engaged in the real-estate business. Mr. Henley was married in 1874, to Miss M. A. Bigelow. In 1879, he, with his family, returned to Round valley for the purpose of getting a pleasant and more healthful climate. They have two children, Dora and Arthur, as the result of their matrimonial union.
Whitcomb Henley. Born in Clarke county, Indiana, December 5, 1844. In 1853 he, with his parents, came to California via Panama, arriving at San Francisco in June, of the above year. The father was appointed postmaster in San Francisco, which office he held for two years, when he was selected as superintendent of Indiana affairs, which office he held for four years. During this time his family resided in San Francisco, where the subject of this sketch received his education. In 1860 he came to Men- docino county, and engaged in stock-raising in Round valley, in company with his brothers, Hiram, Thomas, and George, where he remained until 1867, when he received a position as timber agent for the Sacramento land district, which he filled for about four months. He then went to Elko, where he engaged in hotel and store-keeping for two years, and then returned to this county and settled at Covelo, where he is engaged in mer- chandising in company with J. N. Rea, also in stock-raising with his broth- ers. Married, October 21, 1879, Miss S. Frances Eddy, a native of Missouri.
Sanders Hornbrook. Born in Indiaua, June 13, 1828. When about eleven years of age, he, with his mother, his father being dead, moved to Illinois. After a residence of about five years there, the subject of this sketch left his mother and drifted about until 1849, when he came to Cali- fornia, crossing the plains with ox-teams, and arriving at Feather river in October. He engaged at once in mining which he followed but a short time, and then settled on a farm in Butte county, where he followed farm- ing and stock-raising until 1856, when he came to Mendocino county, and
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settled in Round valley, where he has since resided, being engaged in farm- ing. He owns two hundred and seventeen acres, located about three-fourths of a mile from Covelo. Married, February 16, 1854, Miss Mary A. Onyett, a native of Indiana.
Harry S. Lovell. Born in Indiana, June 24, 1849. When but a child he, with his parents, immigrated to California via Panama, and settled in Placer county, where the father engaged in contracting, building, ditching, etc., etc. In 1864 the family came to Mendocino county and settled in Round valley, where the father was engaged as foreman on the Henley ranch until he died, November 4, 1868. The subject of this sketch has made Round valley his home ever since, being engaged in different occupations. Married, in June, 1868, Miss Sarah E. Begdey, a native of California. They have five (living children, Clara, Harry, Walter, Maud, and Frank. They have lost one, Silva.
L. D. Montague, Whose portrait appears in this history, was born in Windsor county, Vermont, June 14, 1836, where he lived on a farm with his parents until nineteen years of age, when leaving his parents, he came to California, rounding Cape Horn as a sailor before the mast, and arrived at San Francisco May 1, 1856. He went at once to Half Moon Bay, where he spent the summer working in a dairy, and in the fall went to the mines, where he followed mining in different places until the fall of 1860, when he came to Mendocino county, and to Round valley, where he has since resided. For the first six years he followed fishing, hunting and fighting Indians, leading a frontiersman's life generally. In 1866 he commenced the hotel and saloon business, which he followed until 1876, when he leased his prop- erty and made a trip to his native State, leaving San Francisco June 12th. He visited the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, as well as his native State, Vermont, and returned in August of the same year. In the spring of 1877 he bought an interest in a general merchandise store, and was associated with J. P. Thomson at Covelo through the summer, selling his interest in the fall. Since that time he has turned his whole attention to stock-rais- ing and wool-growing. For the first six years of Mr. Montague's life in Round valley the Indians were troublesome, making raids into the valley and driv- ing off stock, etc. The settlers had frequent fights with them, in which the subject of this sketch always took a very prominent part. The Indians, after making an attack, would come into the valley for protection at the reservation. The settlers became so enraged at this that they made an at- tack upon the reservation on August 16, 1862. In this fight about twenty- two Indians were killed, and one white man by the name of Shady Lamb. The subject of this sketch received a gun-shot wound in the right leg, which disabled him for three years, and from which he still suffers. In the fall of 1861, in a fight in Horse valley, he was wounded by an arrow which took
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effect in his breast, but not seriously. Mr. Montague was always ready and at his post, escaping many times by only a "hair's breadth." Was married August 25, 1870, to Mrs. Ann J. Martin, a native of Ohio. Their children are: Henry W., Lemuel D., and Franklin.
George W. McDaniels. Born in Mason county, Kentucky. August 21, 1828, where he lived on a farm till 1846, when, his parents having died, he went to Wisconsin, where he followed lead mining till 1848. He then crossed the plains to California, arriving in the Sacramento valley Oc- tober 18, 1849. He engaged at once in mining, which he followed till 1855, when he commenced farming in the above-named valley. This he followed till 1857, when he came to Mendocino county, and for the next three years he followed hunting in Humboldt, Lake and Mendocino counties. In 1860, he settled on a farm in Round valley remaining one year. He then spent a summer in the Humboldt mines. In the spring of 1862 he settled in Eden valley and farmed one year. In 1863 he went to Humboldt county, where he spent five years, and then returned to Mendocino county and located on a ranch consisting of about two thousand acres, situated on Main Eel river, about sixteen miles from Covelo, where he is engaged in wool-growing, having about five hundred head of sheep.
William M. Michel, M. D. Born in Tazewell county, Virginia, Octo- ber 1, 1839. His father was an artist. When but a child they moved to Charleston. And after a residence of about two years here they moved to Washington, D. C. Here the subject of this sketch was educated at the Rugby Academy. At the age of sixteen he entered the Virginia Military In- stitute, at Lexington, which he attended two years. He then commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Johnson Elliot, where he gradu- ated in March, 1860; after which he joined the rebel army and served about five years, taking an active part in drilling soldiers. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Sailors Creek, and was held prisoner for four months. Was captured about four hours before Lee surrendered. Was re- leased after the close of the war, and went at once to Eastville, Virginia, where he commenced practicing medicine, which he continued about one year. He then returned to his native county (Tazewell), where he prac- ticed for about two years, when he was appointed surgeon on a Pacific mail steamer, and came to San Francisco, and was transferred to the Golden Age and went to China, and remained in China and Japan about two years. He then returned to California, and after practicing in Nevada county, Knights Landing, Yolo county, Elmira, Solano county, St. Helena, Napa county, and Ukiah, Mendocino county, he finally, in October, 1877, settled in Covelo, Round valley, where he is engaged in active practice of his profession. Married in 1867, Miss Lucy Dennis, a native of Virginia. They have five children: H. Maynard, Genevieve, Lizzie, Miriam, and Lucy.
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James Robert Mathews. Was born in Marysville, Butte county, California, in 1855. He lived there one year and then moved to Sutter county and remained ten years with his parents. His mother died in 1863. He went with his father and brothers to Sonoma county in 1866, to the vicinity of Santa Rosa, where they remained on a farm for two years. Attended school at Windsor one year, in 1869. Then he went to the State of Nevada with his father, who was then in the cattle business, and remained there two years. From Nevada he returned to Santa Rosa, Sonoma county, California, and attended the Pacific Methodist College for two years. He went to Round valley, Mendocino county, in August, 1872, where he kept books for Riley & Bransford for one year and for Fairbanks & Bransford two years. He then, in January, 1875, returned to Santa Rosa and was employed in the Recorder's office for one year, under B. S. Woods. His term of office having expired, Mr. Mathews then returned to Round valley, where he took charge of a sutler store for Thomson & Updegraff, on the United States Reservation of Round valley, superintending the business for two years. During this period his father, John Mathews, died at Ukiah. Messrs. Thomson & Updegraff finally suspended their sutler's store, and bought out the drug store formerly conducted by Walter L. Bransford, present County Clerk, and Mr. Mathews took charge of the new business, where he has since remained. He was united in marriage, November 4, 1879, to Miss Josie Reid, whose father was physician and surgeon on the reservation.
William Pullen. Born in Kennebec, county, Maine, March 18, 1841, where he resided, being engaged in lumbering and farming, until the fall of 1860, when he went to Virginia, where he was engaged in getting out ship timber until April, 1861. When the State seceded from the Union Mr. Pullen, in company with a few others, made their escape in small boats and were picked up by a steamer. He returned to Maine, where he remained until June, when he sailed, via Panama, for California, arriving at San Francisco July 13, 1861. He came at once to this county and engaged in lumbering on the Albion river, where he remained until January, 1863, when he moved to Round valley, where he has since been engaged in farm- ing and is an active member in several societies. Married, July 8, 1875, Miss Laura C. Long, a native of Illinois, and one of the first families of McHenry county. They have one child, Cora L.
Frederick A. Redwine. Born in Virginia in 1815. In 1834 he, leaving his parents, went to Missouri, where he followed farming, also filling the office of Justice of the Peace until in May, 1846, when he joined the Mexican army, serving under General Price for one year. In 1849 he crossed the plains to California, arriving in Nevada county in August, and made the discovery of gold in that county August 19th. Here he remained
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mining until November, when he returned, via Panama, to Missouri; and in the spring of 1850 he again started across the plains, bringing his family with him. He returned direct to Nevada county, where he followed mining until February, 1851, when he went to Georgetown, El Dorado county, where he followed mining and hotel keeping until 1855, when he went to Sacramento and worked on the railroad that was then being built from that city to Folsom, about five months.' He then moved to Placer county where he followed mining and practicing law until November, 1865, when he came to Mendocino county and settled in Round valley, where he has been engaged in farming ever since. Mr. Redwine has held the office of Justice of the Peace for six years since coming to this county, at different times. Married, May 7, 1844, Miss Mary Turner. By this union they have ten living children; Mildred C., Lewis W., James W., John S., Sanford L., August P., George R., Edward E., Mary N., and Martha M. They have lost one, Emma J.
Joseph N. Rea. Born in Ripley county, Indiana, November 28, 1844, and lived in different parts of that State until 1859 when he, with his parents, moved to Flora, Illinois. Here he received his education and resided until Feb- ruary, 1864, when he entered the army as Lieutenant in the 152d Illinois Vol- unteers, and served until September, 1865. He then returned to Illinois, where he followed clerking until 1869, when he came to California and located at Ukiah, Mendocino county, where he clerked in a store for two years; then went to Pomo, where he merchandised for three years. In 1874 he came to Covelo and engaged as clerk for J. M. Ellis & Co. for about one year, and then bought a half interest, and the firm name was changed to J. N. Rea & Co .; and in May, 1877, the firm name was again changed to Henley & Rea, Henley having bought Ellis' interest. Mr. Rea married, November 26, 1868, Miss Mary J. Eddy, a native of Missouri. They have three children: Alice, Roy, and Frank.
John P. Thomson. Born in Grant county, Wisconsin, May 14, 1842. When nine years of age he, with parents, crossed the plains to California. On arriving they settled in Butte county, where the subject of this sketch received his education and resided on a farm until 1867, when they moved to Round valley, Mendocino county, where the father settled on a farm, while the subject of this sketch attended Heald's Business College, San Francisco, for five months. In the fall of 1868 he returned to Round valley and engaged in stock-raising, about twenty miles north from Covelo. This he followed until the spring of 1874, when he bought an interest in a a general merchandise store at Covelo with H. T. Fairbanks, which he held until September, 1879, when he disposed of it; since which time he has been engaged in speculating and settling up old accounts. Married,
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October 5, 1877, Miss Lizzie Dolan, a native of Grant county, Wisconsin. They have lost one child; three months later the mother died.
Jacob Updegraff, Whose portrait appears in this history, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. April 13, 1830, where he resided on a farm until 1847, when he went to Stark county, Ohio, where he learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed until the 13th of March, 1850. Leaving his parents for California, he arrived at St. Joe, Missouri, on the 25th of March, where, buying stock and laying in provisions, he left St Joe on the 13th of April to cross the plains, arriving at Deer creek, Tehama county, California, July 4, 1850. After mining one year we find him engaged in blacksmithing at Chico, Butte county, on the ranch of Major Bidwell, where he remained three years, after which he returned, via Panama, to the scenes of his boyhood. In December, 1854, he again crossed the Isthmus and located in Colusa county, where he was engaged in stock- raising for four years; then sold out, and in the fall of 1859 came to Round valley, Mendocino county, and engaged in blacksmithing and farming. Was an employé on the reservation as blacksmith four years; then engaged in sheep-raising and farming, having one thousand two hundred acres of land in Round valley besides a large sheep ranch in the mountains. Married, November 13, 1872, Mrs. Mildred C. Thomas. By this marriage they had three children: one dead, Marty; two living, Estella C., and Frank William. By her first marriage Mrs. Updegraff has one child, named Aurilla Thomas. .
William E. Willis. Was born in Virginia, July 16, 1825. At the age of eighteen he went to Missouri, and followed farming till 1849, when he came to California across the plains, arriving August 9th. He followed mining for two years, and then opened a blacksmith shop in Sacramento. At the end of eighteen months he went to Colusa county, where he, in com- pany with Hiram Willits, conducted a shop. At the end of a year he and Benjamin Knight opened a shop in Colusa, which he conducted two years. He then went to Lake county and engaged in stock-raising, which he fol- lowed three years. In 1859 he came to Mendocino county and located at Little Lake, where he spent one year, then went to Calpella, and spent a year at blacksmithing; thence to Potter valley, and spent a year at ranching; thence to Redwood valley, where he bought a steam saw-mill which he run one season; thence.to Ukiah, where he conducted a livery stable for a short time, and then speculated in real estate for about five years; thence to Coyote valley, where he spent one season; thence to Round valley, where he bought a livery stable, which he still conducts. He also has a black- smith shop and wagon shop, and is the owner of the Ukiah and Covelo stage line. He. married, August 5, 1858, Miss Mary Parton, a native of Missouri. Their children are: Alazena, Napoleon, Lucien, and Lillie.
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George E. White. This pioneer gentleman, whose portrait it affords us much pleasure to present to our readers in the body of this work, is a native of Virginia, having been born in Lewis county, that State, August 17, 1832. He is a descendant, through his mother, of the noted family of Jack- sons, so well and favorably known all through Virginia; the brave and honored Stonewall Jackson, who fell at his post during the late war, being a cousin of Mr. White. Young White was reared on a farm, attending the common schools a part of the time, and remained in his native State till 1849. In April of that year, leaving his parents behind, he crossed the plains with an ox-team, in company with an uncle, Cummings E. Jackson, one brother, Sylvanus White, and two second cousins, James T. and Edmond J. Jackson. The party arrived at Lawson's ranch, on Deer creek, September 10th, of the above-mentioned year. After remaining there about one week Mr. White and his friends went to Shasta county where they engaged in mining. In a short time Mr. White became ill and was obliged to abandon that vocation, and he returned to the Sacramento valley where he spent the winter of 1849-50. His uncle remained in Shasta county, and having contracted a fever, died during that winter, and in the course of the next season his cousins returned to the East. His brother spent the winter with him, and in the spring they purchased some teams and goods and went to Nevada City, where they opened a store, which they continued for three or four months only. They then disposed of their interests there, and returned with the teains to Sacramento City, and engaged in freighting from that place into the mountains. Their next business venture was the establishment of a ferry across the Sacramento river in Tehama county, twelve miles below the town of Tehama, which they did in the fall of 1850, and conducted it during that winter. In the spring they disposed of this business, and Mr. White proceeded to Rush creek, where he engaged in mining, and his brother returned to the East. He continued his mining operations at the above-named place during the summer, and in the fall went to what was known as Ford's ranch, where he spent the winter. In the spring of 1852 he returned to the home of his youth, via Panama, arriving in March and remaining till July of that year. He then went to Missouri where he resided till April, 1853, when he again set out across the plains with an ox-train, this time accompanied by his brother Sylvanus. Mr. White and another of their party left the train behind, and arrived in Marysville in September. From there he proceeded to Stony creek, where he spent the winter. In May, 1854, the subject of this sketch, accompanied by George Hudspeth, Dr. Atkinson, James White, Calvin White, and another man whose name has been forgotten, passed over the mountains and entered Round valley, Mendocino county. The party was prospecting for gold in the mountains of that section, and it was by accident that they came upon the beautiful valley. In the valley they came upon the trail made by Kelsey
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