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CHURCH. M. W. farmer and stock raiser, seven and one half miles from Rough and Ready, his post office, and sixteeu from Nevada City, owns 640 acres of land, valued at $6,000. He was born in Michigan. iu 1835. In 1851 he came to Yuba county, California, and kept hotel one year, and then settled on his present location; from 1862 to 1866 be ran a fast freight and express from Sau Francisco to Virginia City; then went to Truckee and built the .W. U. Telegraph line from the Sink of the Humboldt to Promontory Point; he then returued to his farm. In 1858 he married Miss Jennie Arthur, a native of Canada. They have two sons and two daughters.
CLARKE, THOMAS, muiner, Newtown; post office Rongh aud Ready. He was boru in England, in 1827, where he remained until 1851, when he came to America, settling in Iowa. In 1852 he came across the plains to Nevada county, Califor- nia. He has followed mining ever since, and went to Frazer river for a while iu 1858, but soon returned.
CLINCH, R. W., resides at Truckee. He was born in New Brunswick, in 1836, and remained until 1862, engaged as a railroad conductor. He theu went to Frazer river, and miued until 1864, and tben went to Australia, but returned in 1866 and mined in Amador county. Iu 1867 he entered the employ of the C. P. R. R. Co., when Cisco was the terminus of the road. He was conductor of a snow plow six winters, aud took the first train into Wadsworth. He is now conductor of a passenger traiu between Truckee and Winnemucca. While the road was being constructed across the forty- mile desert he ran the water train.
CLINE, JOHN T., lives at Eureka, and bas 100 acres of mining land. He was born in Tennessee, 1832, and remained there until 1855, engaged in farming. He then moved to Missouri, and lived there till 1856, when he erossed the plains to Nevada county, California, and bas since lived in Eureka. He followed mining for some years, and is now engaged on Eureka Lake Ditch as agent.at Eureka. In 1868 he married Miss Margaret Pfister, a native of California. They have three boys and two girls, all living. Post office Graniteville.
CLOUDMAN, O. K., resides at You Bet, ten miles from Nevada City and Grass Valley, where he owns town property. He was boru in Maine, in 1842, and in 1863 came to California, and mined at Michigan City until 1866, and then went to Gold Run and mined until 1870. He then came to You Bet. and hecame a member of the firm of Fox & Cloudman, dealers in general merchandisc. They have the largest building in the town, and also own residences in the place. Daily stages connect with Dutch Flat and Nevada City. In 18,7 Mr. Cloudman married Miss Jennie E. Caldwell.
COLEMAN, EDWARD, resides at Grass Valley. He was born in England, in 1830, and in 1846 went with his parents to Canada. In 1852 he went to New York City, and in 1853 came to California. He niined on Kane creek, El Dorado county, until 1855, and then went to Placer county. In March, 1400, he came to Grass Valley. In 1865 he became interested in the Idaho mine, which has become so famous, and of which he is the presi- dent and anperintendent. Hle is interested in the Mohawk Lumber Co,, is director of the N. C. N. G. R. R. O., and President of the Board of Edu- cation. lu 1865 he married Miss Louisa Dunn, a
native of Maine. A view of bis residence and of the Idaho mine appear in this work.
COLEMAN, JOHN C., resides at Grass Valley. He was boru in England, in 1823, and went to Canada in 1846, and to Milwaukee, St. Louis, New Orleans and back to St. Lonis in 1848. He remained iu St. Louis until 1850, and then came across the plains to California, aud settled in El Dorado county aud mined there until 1854, and then in Plaecr county, and then to this county in April, 1865. He is president of the N. C. N. G. R. R. Co., Treasurer of the Idaho Mining Co., and interested in the Mohawk Lumber Co. He was elected to the State Senate iu 1877. He was married in 1858 and his wife died iu 1868. In 1870 he married Miss B. H. Sibley, a uative of Ver- mont. He has had three sons, two living, and cight daughters, six living. A view of his residence is given on another page.
COLLEY, JAMES, resides in Nevada City. He
was boru in Maine in 1829, and left Boston August 20, 1849, for California in the schooner "Mary M. Wood," arriving at Sau Francisco after a long and tedious passage around the Horn of 171 days. He worked in San Francisco two months and then went to Foster Bar, on the Yuba river, and mined with poor success, wasting cousiderable time in turning the river from its bed. He then went to Downieville and Dugau Flat and did well. Iu October he returned to Maiue, but came to Cali- fornia again the following spring, by the Nicaragna route. He settled in Nevada City, where he has since resided, being engaged most of the time iu butchering. He has been more or less interested in mines, sometimes at a pecuniary loss. February 22, 1861, he married Miss Snsan Wald, of Nevada City, who died May 9, 1876. He again married, Jaunary 20, 1878, Mary Cawley, of New Hamp- shire.
COLLIER, JOHN, resides at Grass Valley; post offices Grass Valley and Lowell Hill. He was born in Tenuessec in 1829, and in 1840 removed to Illinois and to Missouri in 1841, engaging in farm- ing. In 1852 he came to California and lived in Napa Valley until 1854 when be went to Rough and Ready and mined, then to Yuba county and »was in tbe stoek business until 1864. He then spent one year in the State of Nevada, and then returned to tbis county, where he has siuce remained, with the exception of some time spent in Nevada. He kept a feed store on Main street, Grass Valley, iu 1875. Since 1864 his principal occupation bas been mining, and since March, 1878, he has been at the Planet Mine, uear Lowell Hill. He was elected constable in 1877, but resigned. ·
COLLINS, DANIEL, resides at Grass Valley, where he owns property. He was born in Ireland in 1829 and in 1848 eame to the United States. He lived in Massachusetts until 1853 and then came to Nevada county, California. He has mined at a number of places, but has always considered this county his home. Ile kept store in Nevada City from 1859 to 1863. He was City Marshal of Grass Valley three years, Trustee two years, aud in 1875 he was elected County Assessor, which office he still holds. In 1861 he married Miss Hannah Finnigan, a native of Ireland, and has five sons and five daughters.
COMBE, AUGUSTE, resides sixteen miles from Grass Valley, where ho owns 280 acres of land; post office Clipper Gap, Placer county. IIe wns born in France in 1827, and in 1850 came to Cali-
fornia and mined at Downieville. In 1851 he eame to Nevada county. While mining on Bear river he coneeived the idea of planting grape vines, and so purchased six for seven dollars. He has a fine orchard of 85 trees, planted in 1859, and twelve acres of alfalfa.
CONAWAY, CARVILLE, resi_ es on South Anburn street, Grass Valley. He was born in Queen Anne county, Maryland, May 12, 1810, and in 1824 moved to Baltimore and was engaged in manu- facturing until 1850. He then came to California by the Isthmns ronte, arriving in San Francisco Angnst 9, 1850. He came to Grass Valley in November, 1851, and has been largely interested in mines and Inmber. In 1865 Mr. Conaway with his two sons started the lumber yard now owned hy Conaway Brothers. He is also interested in the soapstone quarry on the Nevada and Placer county line. He was School Trustee in Grass Valley a great many years, also Town Trustee. He was married January 1. 1832 to Miss Elizabeth O'Connor, a native of Baltimore, and has had four sons, two of whom are deceased, and three daugh- ters. He brought bis family here in 1857. Two of his children are living here and the others are married and reside in the East. A view of his place appears in this work.
COOPER, A., resides at Lowell Hill. He was born in Maine in 1835 and in 1854 eame to California and worked in Nevada City as a stone masou until 1858. He then went to Liberty Hill and has since been mining, since 1867 at Lowell Hill. He was one of the former owners of the Swamp Angel elaims. He has held tbc office of School Trustee of the Liberty Hill District. Iu 1863 he married Miss Mary Lowell, a native of Maine, and has three sons and one daughter.
COOPER, G. A., lives at Nevada. He bas 160 acres of land, and was born iu Maine in 1824, where he remained until 1853 clerking in a store and Inm- bering. He then emigrated to Sierra county and mined there until 1855, when be removed to Nevada county, where he has been engaged in mining and lumbering for the past eighteen years. COOPER, GEORGE F., lives two and one-half miles northwest of Nevada City, his post office, and owns 80 acres of land. He was born in St. Jobn's, New Foundland, in 1819, and moved with his parents to Prince Edward's Island in 1823. He engaged in the grocery business, and in 1853 came to California. He was porter in a warehouse until 1856, and then came to this county and mined on Brush creek, where he has since lived, and since 1866 has been farming. In 1850 he married Miss Anna Webb, a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, who died in 1874. They have had fonr sons, three of whom are deceased, and four daughters.
COTA, MITCHELL O., resides aud owns property on the Crandall road, two miles from Grass Valley and ten miles from Colfax. He was born in this county in 1860 aud has resided here ever since. His father keeps a bar at the junction of the Colfax and You Bet roads, eight miles from Yon Bet. Mr. Cota is au only ehild.
COWGER, A. K., lives at Snow Point. He was
horn in Tennessee in 1832, and lived there until 1836, wben his parents moved to Missouri, where he remained nutil 1857 engaged in Inmhering and saw mill business. He theu emigrated to California and settled in Nevada county, where he lias lived ever since, engaged in mining upon Snow Point, excepting only one month in Sierra county. Post offico Moore's Flat.
CRAIGAN, JAMES, lives at Beckville, four miles west of Nevada City, post office Grass Valley. He was born in Ireland in 1828, and in 1844 went to sea four years. In 1848 he eame to the United States and shipped at New York for California, arriviog in San Francisco in the fall of 1849. He spent the winter on the American river, and came to this county in the spring of 1850, where he has sinee been engaged chiefly in mining. He owns 160 acres of land.
CRANDALL, T. P., is the Postmaster at North Bloomfield. He was born in New York in 1836, and iu 1853 went to New Orleans and thence through Texas to Fort Gibson .. From the fort a party of six started for Salt Lake, and only four of them arrived there in the fall, in a starving condition, the train having been plundered by Indians. He arrived in Nevada county in 1854. He mined several years, and then kept livery stable and buteher shop in Graniteville. The past five years he has been merchandising at North Bloomfield. He was elected Supervisor in 1873 and served one term. In 1874 he married · Miss L. V. Mobley, a native of California, and bas one daughter.
CRASE, T., resides on Kate Hays Hill, Grass Valley, where he owns property. He was born in England in 1830 and came to the United States in 1851 He mined in Michigan one year and then went to Australia, and from there to England, and returned to Michigan. In 1855 he arrived in Grass Valley where he has since resided, and has been continu- ously engaged in mining. In 1872 he married Miss Jane Crase, a native of England, and has two sons, had also a danghter now deceased.
CRAWFORD, W. H., lives in Nevada City. He was born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1833, and remained there until 1856. For a number of years he was in the hardware business in Nevada City, but is now agent for the Enreka Express Co. He beld the office of County Treasurer for one term. In 1865 he married Margaret L. Thomas, a native of New York City, and has two danghters ; his property is valued at $4,000.
CREEGAN, JAMES, lives at Lake City, post office North Bloomfield. He was born in Ohio in 1818 and in 1834 moved to Virginia, and clerked in a store until 1842. He then went to Iowa and engaged in merchandising until 1849, and then came to Nevada county. He has followed mining, ditching. saw milling and farming, and owns 200 acres of land. In 1857 he married Miss Wineford Foye, a native of Ireland, aud has two sons aud two daughters.
CROCKER, C. W., resides at 1609 Sutter street ; office, 226 California street, San Francisco. He was born in Troy, N. Y., in 1826, and iu 1836 moved with his parents to Indiana, and in 1840 to Ohio. He here learned the trade of hat making. and in 1847 went to South Bend, Ind., aud iu 1850 came across the plaius with Charles and H. S. Crocker. He muiued that winter on Big Canon. and iu the spring opened a store iu his cabin. They started a store in Sacramento in 1852 and were burned out November 2, and erected a tent and con- menced business again. They were flooded in 1853. They then erected a fire proof building, and iu 1834 Mr. Crocker sold to his brother Charles and re- turned East. While there he married Miss Julia Kimball, a native of Peuusylvania. He came again to California iu 1856, and bought a farm ju Yolo county, where he lived ten years. Iu 1860 be weut into the general merchandise business
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in Cisco, and then went in company with Sisson, Egbert & Co., of Truckce, and has been with them ever since, the firm being changed to Sis- son. Wallace & Co. in 1869. He has had four sons, two of whom are living, and five daughters, of whom four are still living.
CROCKER, J. R., proprietor of blacksmith shop, corner of Mill and Neal streets, Grass Valley. He was born in New York in 1827, and in 1853 came to this State and lived in El Dorado county, mining and blacksmithing until 1861. He then went to Carson City and mined until 1863, and re- turned to El Dorado county. In 1865 he recruited Company K of the Eighth Regiment California Volunteers, and in the same year moved to Grass Valley, aud has been mining and blacksmithing ever since. At his shop he is prepared to do a general blacksmithing business, Mr. Crocker married his second wife, Miss Elizabeth Coe, a native of New York, in 1874. He has one son and two step children. He has been Chief Engineer of the Grass Valley Fire Department.
CROSETT, J. L., resides at North Bloomfield. He was born in the State of New York in 1830, and went to Jackson, Michigan, in 1844. In 1852 he came to Nevada county, California, and mined until 1855. He then went to Michigan, and re- turned to this county six months later.
He mined until 1878, and has since kept the Der- bec Hotel. On his first trip to this State he. was shipwrecked on the steamer North America, near Acapulco, and was six months on the journey. In 1860 he married Miss Mary Bridge, and has had five sous, but one of whom is now liviug.
CROSS, CHAS. W., Attorney at Law, Nevada City, was born in Syracuse, N. Y., in 1848; remained until 1853; tben to Illinois; remained until 1872; engaged in practice of law (from 1870); then to California; engaged in practice of law at Nevada City; was elected to and served in the Constitu- tional Convention of 1878-9. Was nominated for Attorney-General by three parties in 1879, but re- fused to be a candidate on account of his private business. Married, in 1869, Helen A. Allen, daughter of Dr. B. F. Allen, of Joliet, Illinois, a poet aud romance writer of considerable local fame. They have two boys, both living.
CROWLEY, D. J., resides at Truckee. He was born in Maine, February 11, 1854, and came to California with his parents in 1858, who still live at Forest Springs, Nevada county. He received his education in this county, and read law in the office of Hon. Niles Searls. He was admitted to practice in the County Court before he was twenty- one years of age, and to the Supreme Court in 1876. In 1879 he was one of the firm of Crowley & Mc- Glashan, attorneys, and publishers of the Truckee Republican.
CULBERTSON, R. D., lives nine miles from Ne- vada City and three and one-half miles from Quaker Hill; post office, You Bet. He owns 290 acres of land. He was born in Roseville, Placer county, California, August 5, 1855. His father, J. H. Culbertson, died in 1856, and his mother moved to Red Dog in 1859. In 1867 hc went to You Bet, and in 1871, having left school, he went to Kansas. and remained onc year. In 1876 he moved to where he now resides, and is mining at the Sailor Flat Mine. In 1879 he married Miss Emma Jane Skelton, a native of Kansas.
DARRAHI, II., resides in the town of Truckee. He was born in Montreal, Canada East, in 1843. In 1860 he commenced running on the lakes between
Chicago and Buffalo, and in 1862 began railroadiug on the Great Western road of Canada. Two years later he went to the Pennsylvania oil regions and spent nine months, then went to Canada, and came to California in the spring of 1867. Here he has been in the employ of the C. P. R. R. Co., and has been a conductor for nine years, and for the past seven years has run a passenger train between Truckee and Winnemucca. In 1867 he was mining coal at Mt. Diablo. September 8, 1875, he married Miss E. J. Cornell, a native of Nevada county, California, and bas two sons.
DAVENPORT, S. B., insurance agent, Nevada City, was born at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1819. In 1839 went to Alexandria, Virginia; remained until 1845; then to Greenwood Cemetery. Long Island; engaged there, and at Cypress Hill Cemetery, in tbc monumental business; came to California in 1855; engaged in mining up to 1862, from which time to 1873 was engaged in collecting and assess- ing U. S. Internal Revenue in the counties of Nevada, Placer aud Sierra. Since 1873 has been actively engaged in business, as Justice of the Peace, Notary Public and General Insurance Agent, and in the care of his homestead property. Married in 1841 to Mary Ophelia Hunt, a native of Alexandria, Virginia; they have five children living, two boys and three girls. Mr. Davenport lives in that part of Nevada City known as Piety Hill; has about three and one-half acres of land in a high state of cultivation, having over tbrec hun- dred fruit trees and fifteen hundred choice grape vines, which produced in 1878 about twelve tons of apples and five tons of grapes.
DAVEY, WILLIAM H., farmer; lives at Anthony House, his P. O; owns 160 acres, valued at $4,000. He was born in England in 1843; in 1863 he came to the United States; after spending one year in New Jersey, he went to Michigan and mined until 1869, when he came to Yuba county, California; in 1873 he came to this county; he mined until 1878, since when he has been farming. In 1868 he married Miss Marie Monk, a native of England; they have one son and five daughters.
DAVIS, E. H., lives two and one-half miles from Nevada City and two and oue-fourth miles from Grass Valley, his post office. He was born in England in 1819 and in 1837 went to Australia and followed the occupation of a baker until 1851, when he went to San Francisco, and was a baker there one year. He then went to Mokelumne Hill and mined there one year, at Camp Oseko and Lanchaplan. He then went to Copperopolis and engaged in copper mining until 1861. He then spent four months in Virginia City and went to Mariposa and mined until 1865. He came to Nevada county that year and mined until 1874, since wbich time he has been farming. He owns 160 acres of land, valued at $6,000. In 1850 he married Miss Bridget Hughes, a native of Ireland, and has had four sons, but one of whom is now living, and has six daugliters.
DAVIS, HAMLET, is a merchant in Truckee. He was born in Nelson county, Kentucky, November 17, 1809. In 1834 Mr. Davis moved to Illinois and engaged in mercantile pursuits. Ten years later he passed down to New Orleans and established himself as a Western produce commission mer- cbant. When gold was discovered he camc to California in 1849 on the second trip of the steamer Panama, proceeding to the mincs on Yuba river. Three months later he went to Sacramento and established himself under a tent on a lumber pile,
in time to see the city drowned out. In May, 1850, he started with a stock of dry goods for Caldwell's store on Deer creek, but found upon his arrival that it had become Nevada City. He helped to lay out the southwest portion of the city, establishing bimself on Broad street and com- bining with his business that of express agent and dealer in gold dust, etc. In 1855 he went to Dutch Flat and engaged in horticulture. In 1868 he moved to Truckee where he has since been a prominent business man. Mr. Davis has suffered severely by fire in Nevada City and Truckee, hut by his energy and business ability bas recovered from his losses. While residing in Placer and Nevada counties he has taken an active part in educational matters. Mr. Davis has never been married.
DAVIS, HENRY, is a Justice of the Peace at Grass Valley. He was boru in New York in 1817 and in 1841 went to Ohio and from there to Tennessee. In 1845 he went to Michigan and in 1857 came to Nevada county. He commenced the practice of medicine in 1845, in Michigan, and continued it until 1871, when he took the office of Justice of the Peace. In 1847 he married Miss P. A. Wheeler, a native of Pennsylvania, and has one son and one daughter. He was elected Supervisor in 1858 and served one teru.
DAVIS, HENRY, miner; lives two miles from Rough and Ready, his P. O., and the same distance from Grass Valley; has 80 acres of land, valued at $500; he was born in England in 1833; in 1857 hc emi- grated to California, and engaged in mining on Sutter creek, Amador county; in 1859 be moved to this county and has continucd mining. He was married in 1864 to Miss Mary Kane, a native of Pennsylvania; they have four sons and two daughters.
DAYS, WOOLBERTON, lives eight miles from Grass Valley and four miles from Colfax, his post office. He was born in Dunkirk, N. Y., about the year 1809 and was the first white cbild born in Chautauqua county. When he was uine months old his pareuts moved to Pittshurg, then to Fredericktown and then to Baltimore. When twelve years of age he was sent to St. Mary's College, Baltimore, to study for the Priesthood, and three years later ran away and shipped for Rio de Janeiro, where he was employed to care for the present Emperor of Brazil, then hut oue year old. He left this employment in 1831, aud in 1836 returned to Baltimore and shipped as Hos- pital Steward on the South Sea Exploring Expedi- tion of Commodore Wilkes, and after being wrecked in the Peacock, landed and shipped from Yerba Buena (San Francisco) in 1840, and was discharged in New York the following year. He then served as Purser's Clerk on board the Union three years and was discharged at Washington. He theu went on the John Adams and was discharged at Boston, in May, 1848. Hethen went to Washing- ton and married Miss Martha Park Custis, a native of that city, in 1848. He moved to Ohio, and September 29, 1849, arrived within one-half mile of where he is now living. He has one son, W. WV. Days, boru August 3, 1853.
DEAMER, W. E., manufacturer of ginger ale, soda water aud cider, corner of School and Richardson streets, Grass Valley. He was horn in England in 1830, and was left an orphan at an early age. ITe , was taken to sea by a brother-in-law as a cabin boy, and served a term of five years as an appren- ticed sailor. He followed the sea for some time
and came to California around Cape Horn, arriv- ing in San Francisco in January, 1851. Remained in San Francisco a year and onc half and then went to Auburn and in 1854 to Nevada City, where he engaged in the manufacture of soda water. He sold out two months later and returned to Auburn. He sold out again in the fall and went East and to Europe, returning to California in 1855. He settled in Oroville and in 1865 came to Grass Val- ley. He was married in England in 1855 to Miss Martha White, and has one son and has had a daughter, who is now deceased. His soda water establishment is very complete and he keeps two wagons running all the time. His residence is on Bean street, Grass Valley.
DEDMAN, D., lives eleven miles from Grass Valley, his post office. He was born in Kentucky in 1827 and wben four years of age went to Illinois and in 1837 to Missouri. In 1850 he came across the plains and settled in Coloma. In December, 1850, he went to Kelsey Diggings, and in 1851 to the American river. In the spring of 1852 he went to El Dorado county and then to Placer connty, en- gaging in farming and keeping hotel. In 1857 he went to Sacramento county, and in 1865 he moved to the ranch he now occupies, which contains 160 acres. He is farming and raising stock. In 1867 he married Miss A. J. Yates, a native of Alabama. and has one daughter.
DICKSON, JOHN H., resides on Cherokee street at North San Juan, where be owns a residence and one half interest in three buildings on Main street. He was born in Rutherford connty, Tennessee, in 1816 and remained until 1838 engaged in farming. He then went to the Wisconsin lead mines and five years later returned to his old home and farmed. In January, 1847, he again went to the lead mines and in October, 1849, came to Cali- fornia by way of New Orleans and tbe Isthmus. He mined ou the north fork of the American river and in March, 1851, settled in Nevada City. He mined there until 1855, then went to Scales' . Diggings in Sierra county and mined two years and in Bridgeport township. Nevada connty. until 1865. From 1859 to 1861 he had the office of Under-Sheriff. In 1865 he bought in with Schar- din & Brust at North San Juan, and sold in February, 1868. Since then he bas held interests in miuing claims and has been prospecting.
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