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Thomas F. Beatie. Born in Virginia, July 5, 1830. When but a child, his parents moved to Missouri, where the subject of this sketeh lived on a farm until 1846. His parents, both being dead, he engaged in briek laying, which he followed in Missouri until 1850, when he crossed the plains to California with mule-teams, arriving at Hangtown (Placerville), August 9th of the above-mentioned year. Mr. Beatie commeneed at onee to mine, which he followed until the fall of 1852, when he came to Sonoma county and again commenced work at his trade, which he followed until November 19, 1857; he then came to Mendocino county and settled on a farm, consist- of one hundred and sixty aeres, located about three and a half miles south from Ukiah, where he followed farming as well as brick-laying until the fall of 1867, when he moved to the opposite side of the river, and about six miles fron Ukiah, where he has sinee resided. Having given up briek-laying, Mr. Beatie has turned his whole attention to farming and hop-growing. Mar- ried, December 1, 1853, Miss Luey Chambers, a native of Ohio. By this marriage they have five living children: Andrew S., Charles M., Susan L., Leonard C., and Luey. They have lost two, James W .; and Thomas J.
W. L. Bransford, Jr. A native of Ray county, Missouri, born January 4, 1850. In 1864 crossed the plains with parents to California, arriving at Plumas county in October, 1865. They soon after found their way to Sonoma county, and settled in Petaluma, where the subject of this sketch attended school most of the time until 1868, in which year he came to Ukiah, this county, and was employed as clerk in a general merchandise store for eighteen months. In November, 1869, we find him behind the counter in the capacity of clerk at Crescent mills, in Plumas county. In 1873 he returned to this county, and elerked for Fairbanks & Bransford for some time, and then, in company with A. C. Perry, opened a drug store at Covolo, and three months later bought his partner's interest and continued it on his own account until September 1879, when he was elected County
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Clerk, at which time he sold out his business and moved to Ukiah, to attend to the duties of his office, where he at present resides. Married, November 12, 1876, Alice Haskett, a native of California. By this union they have had one child, Miranda, now deceased.
M. C. Briggs. Born in Howard county, Missouri, September 24, 1827, where he resided on a farm until 1850, when he, leaving his parents- behind, came across the plains to California with ox-teams and arrived in Sonoma county October 15th of the above-mentioned year. He was in the employ of Captain Mallagh as Superintendent of the Santa Rosa ranch until the spring of 1852. He then took up a claim on the Fitch grant, about two miles south from Healdsburg, where he lived until he camne to Mendocino county in the fall of 1857, and settled on land which he had located in Potter valley in 1852. He resided in Potter valley until 1859, when he moved to Ukiah, where he built a livery stable, which he conducted until September, 1861, when he returned to his ranch, where he resided until 1865, when he once more moved to Ukiah and built another stable, which he conducted until 1867. He then again returned to the ranch, where he resided, being engaged in stock-raising, farming and wool-grow- ing, until 1870, when he again returned to Ukiah and engaged in the saloon business, and also built another stable, which he conducts in connection with his saloon. He still holds and conducts his ranch. Married, August 18, 1852, Miss Elizabeth Potter, a native of Missouri. They have five living children: Nancy, Jennie J., Bell G., Charles S. and Moses C., and have lost- three, John R., Gilvanah and William.
Edwin Ruthven Budd (deccased). Was born in Elizabethtown, Ohio, on the 18th of December, 1818, but from carly childhood until 1850 he resided in the State of Indiana, where he followed his occupation of printer until 1850, when he came to California and settled in Nevada. There he became asso- ciated with the Hon. A. A. Sargent, in the Nevada Journal, which; under the proprietorship and editorial conduct of Budd & Sargent, became one of the most influential journals of California. On the 15th day of September, 1854, Mr. Budd disposed of his interest in the Nevada Journal, and after- ward removed to Santa Rosa, where, in company with Mr. A. W. Russell, he established the Sonoma Democrat, of which he remained chief editor until 1860, when he became afflicted with rheumatic gout, and under the advice of his physician he came to Ukiah, hoping by a change of climate and locality to regain his failing health. On the 9th of November, 1860, the first number of the Mendocino Herald, the first newspaper ever published in this county, was issued in Ukiah under the proprietorship and editorial charge of Mr. Budd, and continued under his charge until February, 1870, when, having lost his health and strength, the paper was discontinued. There are few men who have performed inore mental and physical labor than Judge
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Budd has. The most of his life was passed in the printing office and in posi- tions that required brain labor as well as mechanical skill to discharge the duties that devolved upon him. These arduous labors, accomplished through a long series of years, often when he was afflicted with disease and racked with pain, manifested an indefatigable will power and the very heroism of endurance. As a public man Judge Budd has filled many honorable posi- tions. In 1863 he was elected County Judge of Mendocino county, which position he honorably filled until the expiration of his Judicial term on the last day of December, 1867. He has also filled the position of Superin- tendent of Public Schools of Mendocino county, and being a zealous friend of education, has several times acted as School Trustee. In 1870 he held the office of Census Marshal for this county. In all the positions of honor, trust and profit, which public confidence has assigned him, he has conducted him- self honestly and come out with a record unsullied. Politically, Judge Budd was a Democrat until the commencement of hostilities in 1861, when he joined the Republican party, and has since heen closely connected with its history in California. For his frankness and sincerity he has always enjoyed the utmost confidence of those with whom he has been politically connected- Senator Sargent, his former partner and co-editor of the Nevada Journal, has been for the long years since their first acquaintance his unswerving friend. The immediate family of the deceased, upon whom his death falls with keenest sorrow, are his widow, Mrs. A. S. Budd, well known in literary circles, and his five children. The funeral services were conducted by Abell Lodge, No. 146, F. and A. M., of which Judge Budd was at the time of his death Secretary, and of which he was one of the charter members. The Teachers' Institute, which was in session in Ukiah, adjourned as a mark of respect to the deceased, and in a body joined in the long funeral procession which honored him. The following resolution of respect was adopted by the Teachers' Institute of Mendocino county :
" WHEREAS, it has pleased the All-wise Ruler of human events to take from among us a pioneer in the cause of Education, and the second Superin- tendent of Public Schools of Mendocino county, E. R. Budd,
" Be it Resolved, We, the present Teachers of the Public Schools of said county, do hereby extend to the bereaved widow of the said E. R. Budd, our heartfelt sympathy and condolence for the loss we have all sustained in the decease of a mutual friend and co-operator in the cause of Education; and further, that a copy of this resolution be sent to Mrs. E. R. Budd.
" Very respectfully and sympathizingly, Ukiah, June 2, 1875.
"JOHN C. RUDDOCK, Secretary."
Thomas Langley Carothers, Whose portrait will be found in the pages of this work, is the son of James and Margaret Barnes Carothers, and was born at Carthage, Hancock county, Illinois, September 26, 1842. Crossed the plains with his father's family in the spring of 1853. His father settled at Stony Point, Sonoma county, in the fall of 1853, where he remained until
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1857; Thomas, in the meantime, attending the neighborhood school, and working on his father's farm. In 1857 the family moved into Petaluma, where they resided until the spring of 1859, Thomas attending the public schools of that place the while. In the spring of 1859 the family moved to Sacramento City, where Thomas attended the public schools until the fall of 1861. At the close of the regular term of the High school of Sacramento, in September, 1861, he entered the law office of Harrison & Estec, of that city, where he studied law until January 1862, when the family returned to Petaluma, on account of the flood then existing at Sacramento. On arriving at Petaluma, Thomas immediately entered, as a student, the law office of the Hon. George Pearce, where he continued his studies until October 5, 1863. when he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of the State, he then being ten days over twenty-one years of age. He then began the practice of law in Petaluma where he remained until May, 1866, in the mean- time filling the position of Deputy District Attorney of Sonoma county, for two years, under Hon. William Ross. In May, 1866, he removed to Ukiah City, Mendocino county, where he has practiced his profession ever since. In December of that year, he was married to Miss Lucy Peirson, daughter of the late Dr. E. M. and Harriett N. Dennis Peirson. Since his admission to the Supreme Court, he has been admitted as an attorney of the U. S. Circuit and District Courts at San Francisco. In 1867 he was appointed a Notary Public by Governor Low, which position he has held ever since. He has also been District Attorney of Mendocino county for two years, and has been for several years a U. S. Commissioner. He has been continuously a trustee of Ukiah City since its incorporation, and has during all that time also been President of the Board of Trustees. For several years he was the law partner of the Hon. R. McGarvey, now Superior Judge. He has acquired a large and lucrative law practice, and particularly as a criminal lawyer, he has attained fame. He has one child, M. Mack, born January 3, 1868.
R. W. Colson. A native of Maine. Was born September 24, 1853. Here he spent his boyhood, and when ten years of age he, with his mother, his father having died, came via Panama to California, arriving at San Francisco in January, 1863. Here they spent about two months, and then proceeded to Washington Territory. Here the subject of this sketch served an apprenticeship at the shoe-making trade. In 1872 we find him engaged in the sheep business, traveling through Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. He finally brought up at Salt Lake, where he spent about six months at his trade. In November, 1873, he established a boot and shoe store in Virginia City. This he conducted until November, 1875, when he came to Men- docino county and established a similar store in Ukiah, where he has since remained. Through fair dealing and being possessed of good business quali- ties, Mr. Colson has built up a good trade. His mother died in Washington
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Territory, July 5, 1875. Mr. Colson married, June 5, 1880, Miss Frances A. Redemeyer, daughter of A. F. Redemeyer of Ukiah, who was born at Santa Rosa, on the 22d day of November, 1860.
D. C. Crockett. Born in Tennessee, November 12, 1829. When about eight years of age his parents moved to Missouri, where Daniel received his education and resided on a farm until 1850, when he, leaving his parents behind, crossed the plains to California. On arriving here he engaged at once in mining, which he followed until the spring of 1852. He then came to Sonoma county and worked in the saw-mill erected by Capt. Stephen Smith at Bodega, until the fall of the same year. He then returned via Panama to Missouri, where he engaged in farming and stock-raising until 1857, when he again crossed the plains to this State. He came direct to Mendocino county and followed farming and stock-raising about two and one-half miles south from Ukiah until the fall of 1863, when he moved still further down the valley, about nine miles from Ukiah. He lived there until 1865, when he moved to Ukiah and has since resided there. In 1867 he was elected Sheriff of the county, and re-elected at the next election, serving four years in all. Mr. Crockett married, December 25, 1853, Miss Esther M. Snyder, and by this union they have eleven children: Robert J., born November 5, 1854; John T., born September 17, 1856; Sarah C., born October 11, 1858; William R., born February 8, 1861; Nettie, born July 23, 1863; Isabelle, born December 9, 1865; Mattie, born July 7, 1868; Eugene, born October 22, 1871; David C., born October 27, 1873; Jessie, born February 14, 1877; Ralph, born April 25, 1879.
Edward Cox. Was born in Ohio November 25, 1831. When but a child his parents moved to Logansport, Indiana, where they remained about five years, and then took up their abode in Missouri. Then, in the spring of 1850, Edward left his parents and crossed the plains to California, spending the 4th of July at Pacific Springs (South Pass), arriving in Sacramento on the 7th of September, where he became engaged in mining until the fall of 1851, when he returned to Missouri by way of Panama, where he remained until 1854, when he again crossed the plains, but this time turning his face toward Oregon. After a long, tedious and dangerous journey, he finally reached his destination. In 1850 the emigration was very large, and many fell a prey to different diseases. In 1854, on Boise river he had a very narrow escape from the Indians; but Ward's train was not so fortunate, and all except the Captain's two sons were massacred by them-seventeen persons were butchered in the most brutal manner imaginable. He remained in Oregon, in Rogue River valley, until the spring of 1856, being engaged for four months in the service of the United States Government in fighting the Indians, who were committing sad havoc on the settlements. He then came to this State, and after spend-
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ing one year in Sonoma county came to Mendocino county, which was then but thinly settled, where he has since resided. He now lives about a mile and a half south of Ukiah, where he has two hundred and fifty acres of land. Mr. Cox was married February 26, 1861, to Miss Catherine Neece, a native of Missouri. They now have three children : Low D., born January 25, 1862; James M., born August 21, 1863, and Hugh E., born August 7, 1870.
W. W. Cunningham. Born in Smith county, Tennessee, November 23, 1821, where he received his education, and at the age of fourteen en- gaged as apprentice to the saddler's trade, which he completed at the age of eighteen. He then spent about three years working at his trade in differ- ent places, after which he opened a shop at his native place, Dixon's Springs, which he continued until the spring of 1850, when, leaving his family be- hind, he crossed the plains to California. He came with mule-teams, and made the trip in just one hundred days, arriving at Georgetown, August 23d of the above-mentioned year. He engaged at once in mining, which he followed until the fall of 1851, when he returned via Nicaragua to Ten- nessee, where he spent the winter, and in the spring of 1852 once more crossed the plains, bringing with him his family, consisting of wife and three children, losing one of them on the way. He came this time with ox-teams, and was about six months on the road, arriving at Sacramento about the first of October, where they spent the winter, and in the spring went to Michigan Bluff, Placer county, where he engaged in mining and keeping hotel for ten years. We next find Mr. Cunningham in San Francisco, and at the establishment of the Democratic Press-now the Examiner. He was employed as traveling agent, which position he followed until the summer of 1865, when he came to Mendocino county and located at Ukiah, where he has since resided. The first year of his residence here he kept the " Ukiah Hotel," and the next year he kept the " Plaza " saloon, after which he served a term as Under-Sheriff under D. C. Crockett. He then engaged in the sa- loon business, which he followed about one year; then served a term as Deputy Clerk under James Fowzer. We next find him in Round valley engaged in saloon-keeping, which he followed about fifteen months; then returned to Ukiah, and was defeated in a race for County Recorder; after which he served a term as Under-Sheriff under S. J. Chalfant. He was then elected County Assessor, which office he held four years, the term expiring in March, 1880. Is now Justice of the Peace and Town Recorder. Married January 9. 1844, Miss Mary J. Farley, a native of Buckingham county, Virginia. They have four living children: James T., Thomas W., Elizabeth W .; and Charles.
A. O. Carpenter. Was born in Townshend, Vermont, November 28, 1836, where he resided until August, 1851, attending district school summer
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and winter. In that year he entered the office of his step-father, George W. Nichols, proprietor of the Windham county Democrat, where he remained until November, 1854, and then returned to Townshend for a four months' course in the Leland Seminary. In the summer of 1855, he went to Meri- den, Connecticut, and worked a few weeks with Othniel Ives, an uncle, and thence to Kansas with the fourth party from the East, under the imme- diate charge of Governor Robinson. Teaming and chopping wood filled in the time until the survey of Topeka was made, our subject carrying the chain over Kansas' future capital. When the Herald of Freedom was inaugurated, young Carpenter helped to start the paper, setting the first type in the State; again assisting in the founding of another paper, the Free State, in the winter of 1855 and 1856. In February, 1856, he removed to Osawatomie, and built a log-house, and superintended a stock of goods for a short time for Samuel Geer. In May of that year, he joined other rel- atives and made a settlement on Ottawa creek, near Prairie City, where he remained until May 27, 1857, taking an active part in repelling border raids, and being wounded at the battle of Black Jack, June 2, 1856. In May, 1857, in company with his father-in-law, Thomas McCowen and family, and Samuel Mewhinney and family, he started for California, arriv- ing at Nevada early in November. Mining at Selby Flat, occupied his attention until the spring of 1858, when he purchased and removed to Hill's ranch, near Grass Valley. Ranching, teaming, and type-setting in the Tele- graph office, furnished sufficient employment for his active disposition until 1859, when he was appointed Road Overseer, then being barely twenty-one years of age. Selling his ranch and resigning his office in November, 1859, he moved to Mendocino county, settling in Potter valley, where he still retains a citizenship in spirit, and a home in fact, in the shape of a fine farm of one hundred and ninety acres. In 1860, he again assisted in the founding of a newspaper, the Herald, published at Ukiah by E. R. Budd, in which paper he purchased an interest in the spring of 1862. Selling out to his partner in 1864, Mr. Carpenter went to San Francisco and entered the employ of Dewey & Co., assuming the foremanship of the office of the Mining and Scientific Press. Coming back to Mendocino county in February, 1865, on a visit to his family, he was surprised at receiving unsought the appointment of United States Assistant Assessor from the Revenue department. After urgent entreaty, only, the office was accepted, and Mr. Carpenter was sworn in at Santa Rosa, April 13th, on the same day receiving word of the fall of Rich- mond. Staging to Cloverdale, he was compelled by change of time of the Ukiah stage, to wait there three days for that conveyance, or seck other modes of transportation. With his mountain training, walker's train seemed the quickest way over bad roads, and easier than riding and packing a rail as was necessary between Santa Rosa and Cloverdale. He arrived in Ukiah with the news of the fall of Richmond, two days ahead of the mail, and
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assumed the duties of the office, which he has continued to discharge, first, as assistant Assessor, and afterwards as Deputy Collector through five suc- cessive administrations, until the present date. Making Potter valley his home, he found time in the interim of official duties to improve two farms, hauling the fencing and lumber eighteen miles, sleeping over night with his teams, and driving the pickets amid the winter's rains. Republican though he was, and resident in a strong Democratic precinct, he was twice elected Road Overseer, and only resigned the position in 1869, to remove to Ukiah, where he built a residence and photograph gallery, which latter profession he has continued to date. During 1862-3, he was also foreman of the Consti- tutional Democrat, published in Ukiah. In 1872, he was appointed Deputy County Assessor under J. H. Donohoe, having previously served part of two years under S. W. Haskett in the same capacity, continuing to act in this capacity two years, he declined the re-appointment in 1873, and in 1874 went to San Francisco, and took charge of the mechanical department of the Daily Fair Press, published in the Mechanics' Institute Fair, during August and Sep- tember, by Dewey & Co. In 1876, he again took charge of the same publi- cation, both editorial and mechanical, as also in 1877 and 1878. Returning to Ukiah in September, 1874, he entered the office of County Recorder Den- man, as deputy, which he held for two years. In 1875, and again in 1876, he was appointed Road Overseer of Ukiah district. In 1877, he was elected . the first Marshal of Ukiah, then incorporated, declining a re-election the following year. In January, 1879, he purchased the Ukiah City Press, and assumed once more the editorial tripod, and in February associating with Charles S. Paine, formerly of the Petaluma Argus, and more lately on the San Francisco Evening Post. Of an active, restless disposition, Mr. Carpenter has constantly in hand multifarious business interests, and has earned the commendation of all in the discharge of his public and private duties, of which not near all can be mentioned in this brief sketch. He was married Christmas, 1856, to Miss Helen McCowen, in Kansas, and an interesting and talented group of four children bear witness to a mother's earnest care and cultivation: May, born March 15, 1858; Grant and Grace, born Febru- ary 21, 1865; Frank L., born November 8, 1870.
J. A. Cooper. Was born in Rutherford county, North Carolina, December 25, 1852. His ancestors were of English descent and were among the earliest colonial settlers in the United States. His grandfather, Nathan- iel Webb, was engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill, and was in the army of the Colonists during the entire period of the Revolutionary War. The subject of this sketch was educated at Ashville Academy, North Carolina, from which he graduated in 1869. In 1870 he left his native State, and came to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he resided till May 1876, being engaged in teaching, and devoting his time during leisure hours and his vacations to reading law. In the above year he came to California, and
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immediately entered the law office of Hon. A. Thomas, of Santa Rosa, under whose instruction he completed his law course, and was, after examination in open court, admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of California, July 11, 1877. In August of that year he came to Ukiah, at which place he permanently located and immediately entered into the active practice of his profession. He has now a numerous clientage and is doing an active business. He was employed in the defense of Brown, Gaunce and Wheeler, the famous " Mendocino outlaws."
L. T. Day. Born in Jackson county, Missouri, July 28, 1848. When five years of age he, with his parents, crossed the plains to California, and arrived at Diamond Springs in September, where the father engaged in hotel-keeping, which he conducted until the following October, when the whole family took passage on the Yankee Blade for the East, leaving San Francisco October 5, 1854. When about seventy miles off shore by Santa Barbara the steamer was wrecked, but no lives lost. The subject of this sketch, with his parents, went ashore and settled in Los Angeles, where they engaged in hotel-keeping until 1855, when they moved to Michigan Bar, Sacramento county, where the father conducted a hotel until the summer of 1858, when he went to Suisun, Solano county. where he conducted a hotel for one year; then went to Magnolia Station, Sacramento county, where they remained until January, 1860; then moved to Colusa, where the father died, May 20, 1861. In 1863 the mother was killed by the falling of a porch at a mass-meeting at Marysville, and in the fall of the above year, the subject of this sketch went down to Petaluma, Sonoma county, where he attended Lippitt's High School for about nine months. In the fall of 1864 he came to this county and spent the first ten years in farming. In 1874 he was appointed Deputy Sheriff under S. J. Chalfant, which office he held one term; then held the same office under J. R. Moore for two terms. In the fall of 1879 he was elected County Assessor, which office he is now filling.
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