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HARTWELL, GEORGE FREDERICK. Was born in Orange County, Vermont, March 2, 1824, and is the son of David and Lois Clark Hartwell. He resided at his birthplace until he was fourteen years of age, being edu- cated at the common schools and in the Bradford Academy. He then began life for himself by becoming a clerk at Wells River, a position he filled for nine years. In 1850 he went West, and was engaged with the Milwaukee and Mississippi (now the Milwaukee and Prairie Du Chien) Railroad, and was connected with different railroads in that State for the next fourteen years. In 1865 he came to California, engaging with the Central Pacific Railroad, which he followed until 1870. He then became General Superin- tendent of the California Pacific Railroad, and in 1871 he moved his family to Napa. Since 1875 he has been engaged chiefly in farming and mining, being the principal owner in the Ida Easely Mine, north of Calistoga. In 1876 he was elected Justice of the Peace, which position he held for four years, and was re-elected in 1880. He was married in September, 1859, to Miss Cordelia V. Pierce, in Delaware, Ohio.
HOWLAND, JOTHAM H. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, April 19, 1828, was educated at the Friends' Academy of that city, and Spring Hill Academy, Sandwich, Massachusetts. When twenty years of age he left his native place and sailed from Boston on the bark "Carib," December 20, 1848, for San Francisco via Cape Horn, and arrived in that city June 23, 1849. The "Carib" was the first vessel which left the Atlantic
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coast for California after the news of the discovery of gold. On arriving in San Francisco, Mr. Howland, with two young friends, Charles Lumbard and Thomas G. Bates, camped on the lot on which the What Cheer House now stands. After remaining there a few days he left for Coloma and reached there July 4th. He immediately went to mining, washing out with an ordinary hand rocker one ounce per day. Not being satisfied with this, he proceeded to Big Bar where miners were averaging $100 per day. In consequence of the illness of his partner, Charles Lumbard, he remained there only a few days and returned to San Francisco. December 15, 1850, he left that city and returned to New Bedford. May 21, 1851, the day of the big fire, he arrived in San Francisco for the second time. He went from there to Jacksonville, Tuolumne County, where with fifty others, after working six months, succeeded in turning the river. When their hopes were highest for an immediate return for their great exertions, the very night of its completion the dam gave way and all their labor was lost and they were left in debt and without anything. Mr. Howland then returned to San Francisco and became a member of the firm of Collins, Cushman & Co. In February, 1852, he again returned to New Bedford. April 8, 1852, he was married to Miss Potter, of that city. He left the 20th of April for California, arriving in San Francisco May 21, 1852. In July, 1852, he came to Napa and entered into the general merchandise business in the building now occupied by G. Barth, on Brown street. In 1853 he was elected Public Administrator of Napa County. In 1855 he returned to the city and revisited New Bedford in 1856, spending fifteen months there. He returned to San Francisco in 1857 and again went into business in Napa where he has since continued to reside. In 1864 he was elected County Recorder and ex-officio Auditor, to which office he was three successive times elected. In 1875 he was appointed Postmaster by President Grant, and re-appointed in 1879 by President Hayes, which position he held till Sep- tember, 1881. In all the various positions to which he has been called, he has given universal satisfaction.
HAECKL, LOUIS. Son of George and Gertrude DuBoise Haeckl, born in Strasburg, Alsace, France, August 2, 1832, and remained in his birthplace until he was thirteen years of age. His parents having died previous to this time, he went to Bavaria, locating in Munich, and engaged as waiter at the Golden Cross Hotel until 1849, when he engaged as curier au famille to Prince Giza, from Roumania en route to Bucharest, leaving after three months for Constantinople, where he was engaged to travel with a party of scientific men to Asia, Bagdad and the coast of the Arabian Seas, coming in turn through Palestine and Egypt, returning to Constantinople in the sum- mer of 1851, and starting with the Russian Charge du Affaires, Mouss. Le
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Compt Covalevsky, for a trip around the Levant and Europe, also Egypt, and remained in his service till August, 1853, when he enlisted in the French Army, to go to the Crimean War, as a private, and was afterwards promoted as dragoman to Omeer Pasha, in which service he remained till the close of the Crimean War, when he removed to Cairo, Egypt, where he remained at Shephard's Hotel three years, and then moved to Melbourne, Australia, in 1858, where he got married August 6, 1861, to Johanna Kelly of Scotland, and moved in 1866 to California, where he arrived in November. He remained two years in San Francisco, and came to Napa City in March, 1868, and arrived in Calistoga in March, 1873, where he still remains, and has run the Star Hotel since his arrival, and at present holds the office of School Trustee. He has a family of twelve children, six girls and six boys, named as follows: Mary, Justus, John, Louis, George, Theresia, Charles, Willie (died March 31, 1881), Annie, Laura, Eva and Mabel.
HARRIS, HENRY HARRISON. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Scotland County, Missouri, April 24, 1838, and is the son of P. F. and Mary J. Mize Harris. He resided at his birthplace until 1853, when, with his parents, he came to California. They crossed the plains with ox-teams, and were on the road from April 1st till September. They first settled in Napa County, one and one-quarter miles east of Yountville. In 1860 the subject of this sketch began life for himself, farming near Yountville. In 1870 he purchased his present place of one hundred and fifty-five acres, and is now engaged in stock- raising and farming. In connection with his home-place he has leased the Rutherford Park, a tract of one thousand acres, on which he raises chiefly grain. In 1875 he was elected Supervisor, which position he held for two years ; and he has also held the office of Road Master. He is a thorough- going, active business man, and does all he can to advance the welfare of the county in which he resides. He was married February 16, 1860, to Miss Lurinda Stice, who was born in Missouri, May 6, 1844. They have one child, Minnie Maud, born September 3, 1874. They have also reared three orphan boys, two of whom are grown, and the third one is eleven years of age.
HACKETT, F. M. Was born in Orange County, Vermont, June 29, 1828, being the son of Benjamin A. and Nancy Knox Hackett. Residing at his birthplace until twelve years of age, he, with his parents, moved to Rock County, Wisconsin. In the City of Beloit he received his education; also, at that place, he began the study of dentistry under Dr. Bradley. He continued at work in this profession for two years, and at the age of twenty he started across the plains for California, arriving at Coloma August 16, 1849. He immediately began mining, which he followed for two years. In
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1851 he removed to Sacramento, and in 1854 he began the practice of den- tistry in that city, in which he continued for two years. He then removed to San Francisco and has since practiced his profession. In 1865 he first came to Napa and resided until 1873, when he once more returned to San Francisco, and again in May, 1879, he, with his family returned to Napa City, where they now reside. United in marriage October 16, 1878, to Mrs. Mary C. O'Neil.
HALE, CARRICK N. The subject of this sketch is a native of Cali- fornia, and is the son of Marion and Mary Grisby Hale, born November 25, 1855. At the age of four years, in 1859, his parents moved to Napa County, locating and engaging in farming near Yountville, where he at- tended the common schools until sixteen. He then took a course at Heald's Business College of San Francisco. Then he returned to Rutherford and vicinity, where he has since resided, with the exception of two years spent in Stanislaus County, where he was engaged as clerk. He then came to St. Helena and engaged in his present business, being a member of the well- known firm of Hale & Bell, grocers, of that place. Mr. Hale was united in marriage June 16, 1880, to Miss Mary P. Ball, a native of Mendocino County, California. From this union was born a daughter, Edna Gladys, July 16, 1881.
HEWES, FRANCIS W. The subject of this sketch is the son of Rev. Charles W. and R. M. Grafton Hewes, and was born in Lonsdale, Rhode Island, September 17, 1848. When he was but three months old his parents moved to Lansingburgh, New York, and in 1857 they moved to Albany, and here Francis received the principal part of his education at the common schools. He there resided until the fall of 1862, when he, with his parents, moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, and there remained for the following seven years. In the fall of 1869 he came to California, and first found employment in the store of Hewes & Richards, Mr. Hewes being an uncle of the subject of our sketch, and the gentleman of the golden spike fame, it being he who gave the golden spike that bound the two iron lines of the national highway together. The subject of our sketch remained in his uncle's store for two years, and then, owing to ill-health, was advised to follow agricultural pursuits, his father having purchased a fruit ranch of twelve acres one mile from St. Helena; in December, 1871, Francis moved to the place, where he has since resided.
HUNT, BYRON EDGERTON. The subject of this sketch was born in Walworth County, Wisconsin, December 24, 1839, and is the son of Charles E. and Minerva Middick Hunt. He resided there until he was fifteen years old, receiving his primary education at the public schools, and afterward attended the Hillsdale College of Michigan for two years. He then began
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teaching school, which he followed until 1861. In the above year, he came to California and located in Butte County, where he taught school until 1867, and in the same year graduated from the State Normal School, stand- ing number two of a class of eight graduates. After this he continued teaching, and in 1878, took charge of the Marysville High School, as prin- cipal, which position he resigned in 1880. November 18th of the latter year he was admitted to practice law before the Superior Court of Napa County, and is now one of the practicing lawyers of this city. He was married June 1, 1873, to Miss Martha C. Gesford, a native of MeHenry County, Illinois, born March 9, 1845, and by this union they have two children : Lulu F., born September 7, 1877, and Maud G., born December 15, 1880.
HOOVER, GEORGE. This old pioneer of '49 is the son of Jacob and Rosanna Orviller Hoover, born in Richland County, Ohio, in May, 1826. He moved with his parents, when eight years old, and settled in Quincy, Illinois, where he attended school and helped his father on the farm, and remained in that place until March, 1849. He then started for California, coming the old emigrant route, and first located in the Golden State at Hang- town (Placerville), where he followed mining for two years. He then made a visit to his home in Quincy, where he sojourned until September 1st, when he proceeded to New Orleans, and sailed from that port for San Francisco September 10, 1852, coming via Panama, and arriving in San Francisco October 20th of the above year. He then proceeded to Salem, Oregon, where he engaged in farming, and followed this for three years. In the fall of 1856 we find this old pioneer anchored in Napa Valley, on the place where he now resides, consisting of one hundred and twenty acres, two miles west of Calistoga, surrounded by his family and respected by the com- munity in which he lives. He was married in Calistoga to Miss Elizabeth Bartlett, a native of Canada. Their children are Charles, Mary, Bell, and Ada.
HUNT, DANIEL O. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, April 10, 1831, where he resided until he was nineteen years of age, and was educated at Lawrence Academy. August 28, 1850, he sailed from New York for San Francisco via Panama, arriving in this State October 7, 1850. After remain- ing in San Francisco a short time he then engaged in farming in Santa Clara County for two years. He then again returned to San Francisco and en- gaged in the dairying business, and remained there until he came to Napa County, which event occurred in October, 1863. He first located in St. Helena, and purchased seventy acres of land of Mr. Knapp, and engaged in farming for several years, and then embarked in the lumber trade, and con- tinued in this until 1872. He then sold out, and has since lived on the fruits of a prosperous and well-spent life, owning much valuable property in the
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town where he resides, and is much respected by the whole community. Mr. Hunt married, March 23, 1871, Mrs. Sophie E. Cutter, a native of Bal- timore.
HANSEN, CHRISTIAN. Was born in Kongsburg, Norway, December 24, 1852, and is the son of Hans Hansen and Karena Christiansen. He re- sided at his birthplace until he was nineteen years of age, when he immi- grated to America, and settled in Batavia, Illinois. In his native country he served an apprenticeship to the tailor's trade under his father; and on his arrival in Batavia he immediately began work at his trade, and followed it for nine months. He then went to Chicago, where he found employment for a short time. Thence he went to Aurora, Illinois, where he worked for one year. Then he moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he remained until he came to California, in 1873. He first located in San Francisco, where he followed his trade until 1878, when he, with his present partner, Mr. Olsen, came to Napa City, and began their present business of merchant tailoring, in connection with which they carry a complete line of gentle- men's furnishing goods. He was married August 7, 1878, to Miss Emma Buttoff, who was born in Mendocino County, California, in the year 1859.
INK, THERON H. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait ap- pears in the body of this work, was born in Thompkins County, State of New York, May 24, 1831, and is the son of George and Mary Rose Ink. He resided at his birthplace until 1849, when he moved to Ohio, where he was engaged in teaching school for two years. In April, 1852, he started across the plains to California, coming via Fort Hall, entering the State July 17, 1852. He soon engaged in mining on Coloma Bar, which he fol- lowed until November 29, 1853, when he came to Napa County. He at once engaged in working on a farm, which he continued till the fall of 1854, when he rented Fly's place on Carneros Creek, and conducted it for one year. He then took up a piece of land, and afterwards purchased it. In 1861 he moved to Marin County, where he began the stock raising and dairying business, beginning with no capital whatever; but in a short time he ac- quired a fine ranch of two thousand six hundred and fifty acres ; and he resided there till 1873, when he moved to his present place, where he is en- gaged in farming and stock and sheep raising. He now owns in Napa and Lake Counties upwards of five thousand two hundred acres of land, and his old place in Marin County. In 1874 he was elected to the position of Supervisor, and he served three terms. He was appointed by Governor Perkins as a Director of the Fourth Agricultural District Fair, and is now a member of that Board. He was married December 25, 1860, to Miss H. P. Jane Goodrich, a native of Michigan, born October 8, 1842. Their children are, May, born June 17, 1867, and I. G., born February 17, 1872.
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JAENSCH, WILLIAM. Was born in Germany February 6, 1837, and resided there till 1863, when he came to Napa, California. Com- menced work at all kinds of common labor. In the year 1866 he engaged in the mercantile business on a small scale in Phoenix Block, where he pros- pered and increased his business, continuing in said place until 1870, when he removed his business to the store known as " James' Corner," the brick building known as Edgington's Block, where he continued his business until 1880, when he erected the brick building at the corner of Brown and First streets, which he now occupies and where he carries a large stock of dry goods, clothing, groceries, etc. He was married July 11, 1879, to Helen Shulz, a native of Germany, born November 7, 1851, daughter of the Royal Music Director Shulz, who is well known as Gorzer Shulz, composer. They have one child, a boy, born May 13, 1881, whose name is Edwin.
JACKSON, THOMAS. Son of Dawson and Josephine Gafney Jack- son, was born in Johnson County, Iowa, March 7, 1853. In April of that year his parents came across the plains to California, arriving in El Dorado County in August of that year. There the family stopped, and his father embarked in mining until the spring of 1854, when they moved to Stockton, and in the same year moved to Suisun Valley, Solano County, and resided there until 1867, when they moved to Napa County and settled in Capelle Valley, where the subject of this sketch remained until 1875. He then came to Chiles Valley and located on his present ranch of five hundred and thirty-three acres, where he has since been engaged in farming and stock raising. He was married September 15, 1880, to Kansas Bonham, who was born in Clark County, Illinois, September 20, 1856.
JAMES, BENNETT. Was born in Monroe County, Illinois, April 6, 1826, and resided at his birthplace until 1853. He was reared on a farm, and received his education in the schools of his native State and in St. Louis, Missouri. On the 8th day of April of the last named year, he set out with ox-teams to make the long and tedious trip across the plains to Cali- fornia, and he arrived in the State in September of that year. He at once began mining operations at Hangtown, now Placerville, which he followed until the summer of 1858. He then returned to Illinois via the Isthmus route, and remained there until 1868. He then once more set his face west- ward, coming via Panama. He came at once to Napa County, and shortly after his arrival he located on a farm near Napa City, which he still owns. He served one term as Supervisor, and in 1875 was elected to the office of Sheriff, which position he still fills by re-election with credit to himself and to the full satisfaction of the people. He was married April 19, 1860, in Monroe County, Illinois, to Miss Emily Bamber, a native of Monroe County, that State, born July 5, 1841. Their children are, Leander Laurel, Agnes, Annie, Edward, Willie and Frank.
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JACKSON, COLONEL J. P. Colonel Jackson, whose portrait appears in the body of this work, is an Ohioan. The first fourteen years of his life were passed in the beautiful city of Cleveland, and the next twenty-one years in Cincinnati, where he practiced law for fifteen years. In his pro- fession he was successful, and achieved high honors. This, too, at a bar that numbered among its practitioners whom he daily met in regular forensic rivalry the historic names of R. B. Hayes, George E. Pugh, George H. Pen- dleton, Alphonso Taft, Milton Sayler, Stanley Matthews and Edward F. Noyes. In 1862, he served with the Army of the Cumberland, under Rosecrans and Buell ; and from Pittsburg Landing to Corinth, a detached service, under Grant. He went to Europe in 1867 to negotiate the bonds of the California Pacific Railroad Company, and this service resulted in his moving to the Golden State, where he aided in building the road named, and remained its President until it was bought by the Central Pacific Com- pany. He then personally built the Stockton and Copperopolis Rail- road and the Stockton and Visalia branch, until it, in like manner, became by sale the property of the Central. Finding no further ter- ritory in the State that would justify in venture, he then turned his attention from railroading to other channels of business. From his earliest boyhood he has been prominent as a public speaker. At the age of nineteen he represented the young men of Cincinnati in the presentation of a purse of money which he accompanied by a most happy original speech. As an elector for Lincoln and Johnson, he stumped the States of Kentucky, Southern Ohio and Indiana, and afterwards did the same service for Grant and Colfax, speaking often in company with Grant's father, Schuyler Col- fax and John Sherman. His speeches in California in the Republican cause confirmed his Eastern reputation as an eloquent orator, and one of his efforts in a late canvass was made a campaign document by the State Central Committee. A specimen of his style is afforded by his speech on the occa- sion of a banquet to John Russell Young, given by the journalists of San Francisco, at which was present Generals Grant, McDowell, Kautz and others of the military, and representatives in full of the local press. It will pass as a model of post-prandial felicity in speech. Notwithstand- ing his great interest in politics, Colonel Jackson has always eschewed official life. He has found his chosen sphere of happiness in active busi- ness, home life and with his books. He has six sons, two of whom are nearly ready to graduate from college, one at Amherst, Massachusetts, and the other in Harvard University. In 1864 Colonel Jackson received the unanimous nomination of the Republican party for Governor of Kentucky, and afterwards declined to go as Congressman from the Sixth District of that State, when his nomination was equivalent to an election. Near the close of Andrew Johnson's term his friends pressed upon him the
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Commissionership of Internal Revenue, but he refused the appointment and subsequently declined the position of First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Grant. Turning his attention to journalism, he found the Daily Evening Post not much larger than a good-sized sheet of paper; but, taking charge of it, in less than five years he has twice enlarged its size, changed its politics from Democratic to Republican, and made it a recognized power in the journalistic field. As an authority upon and defender of min- ing interests it exercises an influence unequalled by any other Pacific Coast journal. The career of the Post under Colonel Jackson's charge is the most conspicuous journalistic success in San Francisco. To meet the increased demands of its patrons a new press has been made by the Bullock Light- ning Press Company, Philadelphia. While managing the entire business of the paper and many other varied interests as well, he writes very largely the editorial column and wields a ready and able pen. Ideality and causality are both leading qualities of his temperament, and hence a poetic imagination is happily supplemented by logical reason. This makes his writing both engaging and convincing. In 1872 he became the proprietor of the Napa Soda Springs, and is now giving great attention to the improve- ment of that property, expending large sums of money annually for that purpose. In 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Colonel Jackson was united in marriage with Miss Anna Hooper, a native of Kentucky. They have nine children, seven sons and two daughters, five of whom were born in Kentucky and the remaining four in California.
JUAREZ, DON CAYETANO. This pioneer of pioneers, whose por- trait it gives us great pleasure to present to our readers, was born at Monterey Presidio, February 24, 1809, and is the seventh son of Joaquin and Josefa Pasquala Garduno Juarez. He received his education from private tutors. April 1, 1827, he enlisted in the Mexican Army, under Lieutenant Martinez and Alferez Sanches, and was located at Presidio, San Francisco, until August 14th of that year, when he, with the company, was sent to Sonoma to keep the Indians of Napa and Sonoma Valleys in subjection. At this time there was also another company located at San Rafael. Their duty for three months was to take a survey of the town every night and morning, including a circle of about two miles of the adjacent country. One night in the latter part of September a very curious and unnaccount- able phenomenon occurred. Suddenly it grew extremely hot, and the heavens were all ablaze like as though every star of the firmament was falling. The priests came forth with their crucifixes and implored protec- tion from what seemed to be a pending destruction, while the soldiers were frightened extremely at the unusual occurrence. Nothing more of importance occurred during the years 1827-8. On the night of February 19, 1829, while
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