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E. W. King, M. D. Was born in the town of Alexander, County of Genessee, State of New York, on the 15th day of June, 1831. When but five years old, he emigrated with his parents to Illinois, where he re- mained till 1850, when he crossed the plains to California, arriving in Placer- ville July 17th, where he engaged in mining. From 1850 to 1862, he con- tinued at work mining, with varied success, when on account of severe losses he abandoned mining. While in Illinois, in 1848, he commenced the study of medicine under his brother, Dr. A. W. King, a graduate of Rush Medical College, and in the winter of 1849-50, attended the Rock Island Medical College. While mining, in 1857, he again commenced the study of medicine, which had been interrupted by mining excitement, and in the fall of 1862, he went to San Francisco and attended lectures in the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, and graduated in the spring of 1863. In June of that year he commenced the practice of medicine in Howland Flat, Sierra county. In 1868 he moved to Santa Clara county. In the spring of 1870 he moved to Ukiah, Mendocino county, where he has been engaged in the practice of his profession for ten years.
J. M. Luce. Born in Maine, July 1, 1838. Here he received his educa- tion and followed as an occupation farming and teaching school, until 1860, when he immigrated via Panama to California. He spent the first year of California life working in a quartz-mill in Nevada county. In Janaury, 1862, he returned to Maine via Panama. Here he followed farming until the spring of 1866, when he again came to California by the same route, bringing his wife with him. He went to Sutter county and was engaged in different occupations until the fall of 1868, when he went to San Francisco, and in company with A. T. Pinkham, engaged in the grocery business. After about fifteen months, Mr. Luce disposed of his interests and engaged as foreman on a large ranch in Santa Barbara county. Here he remained one year. He then spent one year in Sutter county; after which he went to Butte county, and in company with three of his brothers, rented a large tract of land, which they conducted until the fall of 1877, when the subject of this sketch came to Mendocino county and located on his present place, consisting of one hundred and thirty acres, situated about three miles below Ukiah. Mr. Luce married, March 12, 1865, Miss Annice M. Pinkham, a native of Maine, born in Anson, 1846. Their children are: Kate E., born in San Francisco, February 15, 1869; Samuel T., born in Santa Barbara county, January 8, 1871; Bertha, born in Butte county, February 11, 1873; and Clara M., born in Ukiah, Mendocino county, December 27, 1879.
Charles Luce. Son of Joseph Luce, was born in the town of Industry. Franklin county, Maine, September 12, 1832, and resided in the same place till October 1, 1855, when he started for California. His father was a mechanic and farmer, and Charles was reared to the occupation of farming,
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which he followed. as his principal employment until he left his native State, though the last three years were diversified by teaching school in the win- ter and farming in summer. His educational privileges were very limited, having only from six to ten weeks of public school a year. But an accident, the dislocation of a limb, at the age of seventeen, caused him to turn his atten- tion to books. He studied grammar, geography, philosophy, and history, on his bed, and laid the foundation of a fair education, which he attained at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary after his health was restored. But, in the excitement of the California fever, he left farm, books and school, and sought the golden shores of California, where he landed safely on the 3d day of November, 1855. He came by the way of Nicaragua, and was on the ship that was shot into by the natives in the time of Walker's war, and saw and suffered much of the horrors of a filibustering war. But safe in California, he went directly to the mines in the vicinity of Grass Valley, Nevada county. Being unsuccessful in the mines, he turned his attention to me- chanics, of which he had received a good idea from his father. At first he labored at house and mill carpentering, till the fall of 1856, when his boss, that noted inventor, Zenas Wheeler, put him to running a stationary engine. Being apt at all mechanical work, in two years he was employed as head engineer on Gold Mountain, in Nevada county, where he remained until August, 1861; when he left the mines and went to farming in the eastern part of Sutter county, near Bear river, which he followed up to October, 1877, when he came to Mendocino county. In the spring of 1865 he returned to his native State and spent the summer, returning in October of the same year, with his father and mother, and other friends, one of whom was Miss Helen Cutts, whom he married on the 7th day of April, 1866. His father died November 26, 1869, and his mother is with him to this day, well and stout, at the age of seventy-seven and a half years. Professing religion in early youth, he never engaged in those wicked habits of early life in California; and in the fall of 1862, he received license to preach the gospel as a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and has ever been ready to speak in that noble cause. He was ordained Deacon in the fall of 1874, at Stock- ton, by Bishop George F. Pierce. Arriving in Mendocino county late in the fall, he rented a farm near Ukiah, and in the following June he pur- chased the same, and has since then been improving, clearing the brush and logs away, and fitting it up for a future home. In September, 1879, he was elected to the office of Supervisor of the county, and at the first meeting of the board, was chosen chairman. His family consists of wife and four chil- dren. His wife was Helen M. Cutts, of Franklin county, Maine. Their chil- dren are: Katie, aged twelve years; Jane N., aged ten years; James Marvin, aged eight years; and Sarah Ocena, aged one year and a half.
Hon. Robert McGarvey. It is with the greatest of pleasure that we present to the readers of the History of Mendocino county a biographical
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sketch and a portrait of the present. Superior Judge of the county, Honor- able Robert McGarvey. Judge McGarvey was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1, 1825. His father, William McGarvey, was a native of Ireland, but his innate energy caused him to early leave his native country, and seek for a home, and he hoped, a competence, in the broad and fertile domain of the United States. He was a man of liberal education, which served him in good stead in his new home. That he was enterprising and determined to make a home for himself and family was evinced by the fact of his pushing into the wilds of the West, as only men of nerve and energy braved the toils and privations of pioneering at that time in the history of the nation. In 1830 we find him superintending a lead mine in Galena, Illinois, at which place and time he fell ill and was called from the scenes and cares of mortal life to work in the broader and nobler fields of the Lord's vineyard on high, leaving his wife, and young Robert; then only five years of age, to do battle for themselves " in the bivouac of life." During the year 1830 his mother accompanied her father to Dearborn county, Indi- ana, taking with her young Robert. The family was not blessed with an abundance of this world's goods, and poverty at that time meant privation, struggling, and too often want; but young Robert soon began to evince a spirit that showed that he would overcome obstacles, no matter how great they were. By the work of his own hands he earned enough to keep him in the best schools of that section, and at the remarkably early age of twenty we find him a Professor of Mathematics in the Seminary at Lawrenceburg, Indiana. About this time he wisely decided to adopt the profession of Law, and with that object in view entered the office of William S. Holman, a very highly respected citizen of that place, and one who had served the peo- ple, for a number of years, as Congressman from the third district of Indi- ana. In the midst of his studies as a law student the shrill notes of the bugle of war were sounded over the nation calling upon the brave and true men to come to the succor of their distraught land, and Robert McGarvey's name was soon enrolled among the country's defenders, and with books, hopes and ambitions all left behind he was marching away to the fields of carnage on the bloody plains of Mexico. He served during the war, and was present at several engagements. At Buena Vista he received two wounds, neither of which, fortunately, proved fatal. After receiving an honorable discharge he returned to Indiana, and immediately re-entered the law office, and remained there till the wonderful report of the gold that was to be had for the picking up in California, reached his section of the country. Early in 1849 a company was formed at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, for the purpose of going to the land of gold, and he enrolled himself among their numbers, and on the first day of April, of that year, they set their faces westward. They " came the plains across," which was then a very danger- ous as well as tedious route, and arrived at the Feather river about October
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1st, being about seven months on the journey. What a change since then! The journey which then required seven months by ox-teams, is now made in as many days in palace cars. Verily, this is the nineteenth century-the age of progress! He remained on the Feather river, engaged in mining with pick and shovel for about two months, and although successful, still he hoped to "strike it richer " elsewhere, hence at the end of that time he set out for Tuolumne county, where he engaged in mining for a season. He then carried on the business of freighting for a while, and finally embarked in merchandising, until 1853. For a number of years we have lost sight of the mother, but the boy-for boy he was to her-had not forgotten her, and during this year, 1853, he made a special trip to the State of Iowa to bring her to California, that he might have her near him in her declining days, for he had now fully resolved to make California his permanent home. On his return trip he brought over a large band of cattle, which he disposed of to good advantage. On his return to the State in 1854 he located in Stan- islaus county. Here his natural abilities and merit soon received a substan- tial recognition, for he was elected County Clerk. At the next election the people promoted him, and conferred the honorable position of County Judge upon him. He, however, only served about one-half of his term of office, when he resigned, in 1861, and came to Ukiah, Mendocino county, where he has since resided. He at once entered actively into the practice of his profes- sion as a lawyer and probably no man in the county has been more successful. Since he has resided in the county he has been honored with the offices of District Attorney, County Judge, Member of the Legislature- as Member of the Legislature he served two sessions in the Senate, during the last was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, which is the most responsible position in that body-and is at present Superior Judge of the county, all of which stations he has filled with a degree of ability not to be excelled. He was united in marriage with Charlotte Lenora Davis, a native of Indiana, in Stanislaus county, California, on the 28th day of December, 1854; and the issue of said marriage has been six children-four girls: Belle, Mollie, Sallie and Vic; and two boys: Stephen S. and Robert-all of whom are living with their parents in their comfort- able home in Ukiah.
Robert Henry Morgan. Was born in Lawrenceburg, Anderson county, Kentucky, April 7, 1849. He spent the time of his early youth, and up to 1864, at his birthplace. In that year he went to Windsor, Canada West. In 1870, he went to the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, where he remained till 1874, when he went to Elko, Nevada, and remained four years, engaged in raising cattle and money loaning. He then went to San Francisco, and engaged in the grocery business for two years. In Novem- ber, 1879, he went to Ukiah, Mendocino county, and is at present engaged in
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merchandising at that place. He was married, July 4, 1880, to Miss Nannie E., daughter of William Isbell, a native of Missouri, born January 11, 1859.
J. B. McClure. Born in the city of Philadelphia, February 29, 1828. When at the age of nine years, with his parents, moved to Kentucky; then to Indiana, and in the year, 1839, to the State of Illinois, where he resided till 1849, when the reports of the richness of the gold fields of the Pacific coast attracted his attention, and he at once set about making arrangements, and in the summer of that year, crossed the plains, arriving in Sacramento, October 18th, and for five years wielded the pick with steady blow, and will be recollected by old miners in many of the prominent enterprises of the early mining days of Butte, Plumas, and Sierra counties. Engaging in
merchandising for a few years in partnership with Hon. Creed Haymond, now of Sacramento, but on the news of the discovery of silver in Washoe, went there and engaged in mining, and assisted in assorting and shipping the first box of silver ore sent to an assayer in San Francisco from the Com- stock. Was married to Miss Hattie Boker, a native of Kentucky, in December, 1864, who died June 28, 1880, leaving five children as follows: Sophia, born 1865; Nelson, born 1869; William, born 1872; Victor, born 1875; Arthur, born 1878. In 1869, Mr. McClure, with his family, moved to Mendocino county, and bought the farm where he now resides, two and a half miles east from Ukiah, containing nine hundred acres of land with good and substantial improvements. On his farm, hop culture is made a speciality, and no better recommendation is needed than his trade-mark on the bale.
John W. Morris. Was born in Ohio, December 21, 1816. At the age of nineteen, he moved to Indiana, where he engaged in teaching for two years. He then returned to Ohio, and taught for three years. He then went to Logansport, Indiana, and opened a saddier's shop, which he con- ducted for five years. He then went to St. Louis, where he remained two years, and in 1849, he crossed the plains to California, arriving September 12th. He followed mining about three years, and then returned, via the Isthmus, to Ohio. In the spring of 1853, he again crossed the plains to Cal- ifornia, bringing a drove of cattle. He took his stock to Sonoma county, locating near Sebastopol, where he remained for two years. In June, 1856, he came to Mendocino county, and located in Walker valley, where he fol- lowed stock-raising till May, 1859, when he was elected County Treasurer. He held this office for three terms. He then engaged in farming and butchering. In 1876, he sold his farm, and has since been engaged in the latter business. He was married, August 25, 1859, to Miss Mary White, a native of England. They have one living child, William H., and they have lost four : Ida M., Alice M., Alexander R., and Sarah.
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James R. Moore. Was born in Kentucky December 22, 1833. His parents moved to Coles county, Illinois, and when he was about fifteen years of age he entered the office of the Charleston Courier as an apprentice. In 1850, he crossed the plains to California, arriving August 22d of that year. He moved about from " pillar to post," being engaged in all manner of enter prises, including mining, packing, merchandising, etc., till February 1857, when he came to Ukiah, Mendocino county, and engaged in stock-raising till 1859, when he was appointed Deputy Sheriff under Dr. J. B. Price, Shortly after this he opened a billiard saloon where W. A. Hoffman's drug store now is, which business he followed till 1874. In the fall of 1875, he was elected Sheriff, which office he filled for four years. He married Mrs. Nancy J. Watson, a native of Illinois, who had one child, Lucy F., by her former marriage.
George W. Mcclellan. Son of Benjamin McClellan, born in Cole county, Missouri, August 22, 1823. When but a child he, with his father (his mother being dead), moved into Fayette county, Kentucky, where they lived on a farm for about fourteen years, then moved into Shelby county, Indiana. Here the subject of this sketch married and after a residence of about ten years, moved with his family to Madison county, Iowa, where he followed farming until 1864, when he moved into Des Moines county, where he farmed until 1871, when he came to California, and October 8, 1871, settled on his present place, consisting of one hundred and fifty acres, located about two miles north from Ukiah, where he is engaged in farming. Married, January 9, 1845, Miss Mary J. Bishop, a native of Kentucky. They have six children : Valentine, Bradford, William J., Patience B., Marrietta, and Helen. They have lost two: Samantha and John R.
J. J. Morrow. The subject of this sketch is the oldest son of John and Phoebe Carson Morrow ; and was born in South Mountain, Canada West, April 29, 1848, and resided at his birthplace till 1870, receiving his education at Kingston, Canada West. In the last-named year Mr. Morrow came to California, and located at Caspar, where he worked in a mill for three months. He then went to Mendocino City and accepted the position of book-keeper for W. H. Kelley, where he remained for five years. In 1877 he opened the Caspar Hotel, and was its proprietor till he disposed of it to F. Anderson, the following year. In September, 1879, he was elected on the Democratic ticket to the office of County Recorder, which office he still fills to the entire satisfaction of the people of the county. Mr. Morrow is a most worthy, steady, and industrious gentleman; and any political or other preferment that can be conferred upon him by the people of Mendo- cino county, will prove to be good and fitting. He was married June 12, 1873, to Miss Julia W. Lansing, a daughter of Captain Lansing, one of Mendocino City's very earliest pioneers. She was born in that place
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March 21, 1857. They have two children: Howard, born June 12, 1874; and Maud, born December 30, 1879.
G. W. Neece. Born in Cedar county, Missouri, February 16, 1842. Here he resided on a farm until 1860, when he, with his parents, crossed the plains to California, arriving in Mendocino county September 30, 1860. The subject of this sketch went into the redwoods in Calpella township, where he resided about four years. He then bought a farm in Ukiah valley, where he farmed one year, after which he sold out, and bought his present place, consisting of three hundred and sixty-two acres, located on the Anderson Valley road, about four miles from Ukiah, where he has since resided, being engaged in farming and wool-growing. Mr. Neece married, December 30, 1873, Miss Laura A. Ham, a native of Missouri, born in 1857. The marriage ceremony was performed by Mr. C. P. Prather, Justice of the Peace. They have two children: Etta May, born December 31, 1874; and George Thomas, born March 14, 1878.
Samuel Orr. This worthy pioneer, whose portrait will be found in the body of this work, was born in Harrison county, Kentucky, January 7, 1817. In 1837 he, with his parents, moved into Champaign county, Illinois. Here he resided until 1840, when he moved to Van Buren county, now Cass county, Missouri. He was engaged in farming and trading with the Indians until 1850, when he crossed the plains to California, with ox-teams. On arriving here he engaged in mining, which he followed about one year. In October, 1851, he moved to Sonoma county, where he followed farming until 1858. He then came to Mendocino county, and located on a ranch about thirteen miles above Ukiah. Here he engaged in raising cattle, sheep, and hogs, until 1864, when he moved to Ukiah, where he has since resided. He still owns five thousand four hundred and thirty-seven acres of land, and conducts the stock business. Mr. Orr has served two terms as County Treasurer, being elected in 1865 and 1867. He has always been identified with the best interests of the county, and is a man of sterling worth to the community in which he resides, being honorable and upright. June 8, 1845, he was united in marriage with Miss Urith Murray, a native of Missouri, born in Cole county, April 30, 1829, and died April 4, 1867, leaving eight children, as follows: Catherine, born April 16, 1847; James H., born June 6, 1849; Barbara J., born January 27, 1852; Thomas D., born September 15, 1854; Samuel M., born October 26, 1856; Rachel B., born September 29, 1859; Rosie L., born February 5, 1862; John L., born November 14, 1864; Mary A., born November 14, 1864; Murray, born March 27, 1867. They have lost three, as follows: Catherine, born April 16, 1847, died April 2, 1848; Barbara J .. born January 27, 1852, died July 23, 1854; Murray, born March 27, 1867, died September 9, 1867. He married Mrs. J. Nicholson, a native of Missouri born December 25, 1831. She had two children by her
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former marriage: James R., born May 11, 1850; Marshall, born October 24, 1865. By the last union there are two children: William J., born November 23, 1869; George W. born February 1, 1872.
A. C. Perry, Was born in Indiana October 17, 1838. When he was six years of age his mother moved to Missouri, his father having died pre- viously. Here he received his education and learned the saddler's trade, which he followed until 1854, when he crossed the plains to California. He spent most of the next two years in Nevada county, and in 1856 he returned to Missouri via Panama. In the following spring he returned to California, crossing the plains the second time, bringing with him his mother and several other relatives. He located in Sonoma county, and in the spring of 1858 he came to Mendocino county, and settled in Potter valley. At the end of a year he returned to Sonoma county and remained there till 1862. He then came to Mendocino county and settled in Ukiah where he opened a saddle and harness shop. At the end of eighteen months he moved to Round valley, where he remained eleven years. In 1878 he returned to Ukiah and opened the Ukiah livery stable, which he has since conducted. He was married, August 9, 1866, to Miss Susan A. Shores, a native of Missouri. Their children are: William, Minnie M., Nannie E., James, and Walter.
James G. Phillips. A native of Iowa. Was born April 10, 1854. In 1865, he, with parents, came via Panama, to California, and located at St. Helena, Napa county. After a residence here of one year, they returned to Iowa. Here James received his education, and remained until 1872, when he, leaving his parents behind, again came to California. and engaged in merchandising at St. Helena, Napa county. Here he remained until 1876, when he returned East. In April, 1877, we find him in Ukiah, Men- docino county, engaged in general merchandising, in company with his cousin, Frank Phillips. He married, January 28, 1880, Miss Delia Haskett.
Frank Phillips. Was born in Olympia, Washington Territory, Decem- ber 15, 1858. When but three years of age, his parents moved to Napa City, California, afterwards living in Oakland, San Francisco, and San Rafael until 1869, when they went to Denver, Colorado. Returning to San Francisco, the next year his father entered the wholesale grocery business, and Frank attended the public schools. Soon afterwards, his parents returned to Denver, Colorado, and he went to St. Matthew's Hall, San Mateo, California, for two years. In 1875, he also went to Denver, and in the high school there, completed his education. In April, 1877, when but eighteen years old, he formed, with his cousin, the firm of J. G. & F. Phillips, and is at present in the merchandising business.
Henry Adams Peabody. Was born in Detroit, Michigan, March 19, 1837. His father was born and raised in New Hampshire and his mother in New York City. From Detroit his parents moved to Cleveland, and
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afterwards to Cincinnati, Ohio. At Cincinnati, at the age of ten, Henry acquired a slight knowledge of, and taste for, the printing business, his father being editor of the Prices Current and commercial editor of the Daily Commercial. And it was in Cincinnati that he first became a news- boy. In 1850 his parents moved to Perry county, Tennessee, and from there to Boone county, Missouri. In 1853 he entered the Sentinel office, at. Columbia, Boone county, Missouri, as an apprentice, and served for four years, acting as foreman of the office during the last year. In 1857 he crossed the plains to California in search of health and adventure, traveling with a train under the control of John Tiffey, of Sonoma county, California. He secured work in the Sonoma Democrat office, then just established. He afterwards worked in San Francisco, first on the Daily Globe and then on the National as a compositor. In June, 1859, he returned to Missouri, via Panama, Key West and New Orleans, where he cast his first vote for Presi- dent, John C. Breckinridge, being his choice. When the war of the rebellion began he was attending school at the State University, but withdrew at once and entered the Missouri State Guard as a private, under the command of General Sterling Price. The first duty he was detailed to do was that of printing the first muster-rolls for the Guard. Having a fair knowledge of infantry tactics, acquired in the State militia, he was promoted to a Lieu- tenantcy and made a drill-master. In the fall of 1861 he entered the regular Confederate service as a private, and finally arose to a Captaincy of cavalry. As he was almost all the time detached from the regular service, and assisted very materially in the recruiting service, and that, too, far inside of the Union lines, his chances for promotion were indeed slim, but he always retained the confidence of his commanding officers. In the fall of 1862 (September) he was captured when within eighteen miles of the Missouri river, in Osage county, and was exchanged in December following (under an assumed name and for another prisoner) at the mouth of the Yazoo river, just above Vicksburg. During the period of his imprisonment he was held in prisons at Linn, Osage county, Jefferson City, and St. Louis (Gratiot street), Missouri, at Alton, Illinois, and Johnson's Island, Lake Erie. As he was captured inside the lines over two hundred and fifty miles, he was held as not subject to exchange, and so, through the aid of friends on Johnson's Island, he was enabled to return South, contrary to the wishes of those who held him. He rejoined his command in Mississippi, but was ordered west of that river again as a recruiting officer. When General Price entered Missouri on his last raid Captain Peabody was detailed to go ahead of the command, recruit for the army, and secure all useful informa- tion in his power. During that memorable raid he was with the army but three times-in Cole, Saline, and Lafayette counties. At Lexington he was ordered north of the river with seventeen commissioned and non-commis- sioned officers, and they went into Ray, Clay, Platte, Buchanan and other
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