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DICKSON, JOSEPH G., resides in North San Juan, and owns a house and lot. He was born in Mur- freesboro, Tennessee, in 1820. He engaged in farming and in 1846 was Revenne Collector for the county, and was constable four years. In 1847 he moved to Wiscousin to the lead wines, and followed merchandising at White Oak Springs. In April, 1850, he started across the plains and arrived at Shiugle Springs. El Dorado county. in 72 days. He mined there till the next March, when he came to this connty aud mined uutil 1836. He then weut to Colusa connty and farmed. but soon returned here and miued at Badger Hill until 1863. In March, 1851. Mr. Dicksou served as juror on the first miuiug case brought in the courts of the uew county.
DIKEMAN, S. H., resides at Rough and Ready. Ele was boru in Prussia, in 1829, and emigrated to Illinois in 1845, and in 1851 came to Nevads county, California. He has been engaged in miu- ing and ditching, and is at present Superintendent of the upper end of the Excelsior Mining and Water Co.'s ditch. In 1857 he married Miss
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Mary Krousa, a native of Prussia, and bas four sous and one daughter.
DOAN, L. E., resides at Boca, and owns 20.000 acres of land. He was born iu Michigau, in 1836, and iu 1853 went to El Dorado county, California, and engaged iu miuing, keeping toll road and lumberiug until 1865, when he went to Placer county, and continued the lumber business. In 1869 be came to Boca, and embarked in the lumber and ice business and built the Boca Brew- ery. He is the principal owuer in the Boca Mill and Ice Co. and Boca Brewing Co. In 1860 he married Miss Mary E. Logan, cousin of John A. Logan, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, and has two sons and two daughters.
DORSEY, J. J., resides corner of Main and High streets, Grass Valley. He was born in Indiana, in 1823, and went to Arkansas with his brother in 1836. In 1852 he came to Grass Valley, and has since been interested in mining, and since 1877 has been agent of the Grass Valley Water Works. He was Supervisor from 1865 to 1869, County Assessor from 1869 to 1872, and City Trustee sev- eral terms. In 1851 he married Miss E. J. Brutou, a native of Mississippi, and has two sons and three daughters.
DOYLE, WILLIAM R., lives one-fourth of a mile from the Anthony House, bis post office. He was born in Kentucky, in 1852, and in 1864 went to Illinois, and in 1865 to Missouri. He farmed there until 1874, wben he came to Nevada county, where he has since been farming. He rents 240 acres of land. He married Adeline Bryan, of Missouri, in 1871, and has one son, and has had four daughters, of whom three are now living.
DREYFUSS, L. W., brewer, Nevada City. Was horn in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1825. Remained until 1846, engaged in the manufacture of cloth; then to New Orleans; remained until 1851, en- gaged in U. S. Bakery; then to Nevada City; engaged in hakery until 1861; then engaged in his present business. Was burned out tbrce times, rebuilding at present place. Married Louisa Greiger in 1859, a native of Baden, Germany. They have eight children living, four boys and fonr girls, three having died. Mr. Dreyfuss has held the office of City Treasurer.
DRUNZER, PETER, hotel-keeper at You Bet. He was horn in Germany, in 1831, and emigrated to New York city in 1851. He worked as a harber until 1856, and then came to California. He fol- lowed bis trade in Nevada City until 1860, and in Red Dog until 1866. He then kept hotel there until 1868, and moved to You Bet, and has con- tinued in the hotel business. He lias been burned ont six times, and still survives. He has the only hotel in You Bet. In 1865 he married Miss Mary Draup, a native of Germany.
DUNE, DANIEL G., owns a butcher shop and slaughter house in You Bet. He was born in Indiana in 1845. and was a government contractor for a number of years previous to 1868. He then went to Dutch Flat, California, and in May, 1868, engaged with L. P. St. Clair, butcher, and in February, 1879, came to You Bet, and purchased the butchering business of Snell & Merroll. He has a slaughter house one-half mile from town, and keeps one wagon and pack animals on the road. He is interested in the Star Drift Mine, near Omega. 1u 1875 he married Miss Eva M. Copp, a native of Indiana.
DUAS, J. S., resides two and one-quarter miles from Nevada City; owns 160 acres of land; post
office, Nevada City. Was born in New York, in 1814; remained until 1847, engaged in merchan- dising; tben to Miebigan; remained until 1849, engaged in trade; tben to California; engaged in building canals and water ditches and selling water to the mines. Was married in 1837, wife a native of Connecticut. His wife died in 1870. They have lost two daughters, hoth of whom died in California. Mr. Dunn has held tbe office of School Trustee for several years. A view of his residence is given elsewhere.
EARLY, J. D., resides on Church street, Grass Valley. He was born in Salem, Indiana, in 1830, and in 1850 came to this State. He mincd on Gold Flat until 1855 and then came to Grass Valley. He has been engaged in mining and is uow superintendent of the Steep Hollow Gold Mine, one and one-half miles from Lowell Hill. His post office address is Grass Valley and Dutch Flat. In 1861, he married Miss Mary Kenan, a native of Anu Arbor, Michigan, and has one son and one daughter.
EASTIN, C. D., resides at Lowell Hill. He was
born in Kentucky, iu 1834, and while an infant moved with his parents to Missouri. In 1853 he came to this State and county and mined at Washingtou until 1869. In 1871 be went to Dutch Flat and milled until 1878, and then moved to Lowell Hill. He is in the general merchandise business, in tbe firm of Eastin & Co., wholesale dealers in provisious, cigars, tobacco, patent med- icine, etc. Since September, 1878, he bas been Postmaster.
EBAUGH, C. B., lives at Deadwood Mine and has twenty acres of mining land. He was born in Missouri, 1841, aud remained till 1864, engaged in farming; when be crossed the plains to Nevada county, California, where be has since lived, mining most of the time for himself. In 1878 be married Miss T. M. Murphy of Missouri. They have one boy. Post office, Nevada City.
EDDY, A. H., proprietor of National Excbauge Hotel, Nevada City, was born in Ontario (now Wayne) county, New York, in August, 1808; remained until 1849, engaged in farmning and man- ufacturing, lumber, flour, etc .; then to California via the Isthmus in the first steamer sent out by the Pacific Mail S. S. Co .; remained in San Francisco, engaged in bnildiug for three months, came to Nevada county, April 10, 1850, engaged in mining at French Corral which he continued until 1873, bought the National Exchange Hotel in 1874. Married in 1836, Ann Hickey, a native of Wayne county, New York: they have living three chil- dren, Stanley, born in 1837; Ann Eliza, born in 1839; and George, horn in 1841. Hotel now leased to C. E. Pearson.
EDDY, WILLIAM, lives on Lost Hill, Nevada City. He was born in England in 1833, and came to America in 1849. He lived in Pennsylvania until 1853 and then came to California. He lived in Grass Valley one year and came to Nevada City in 1854. Mining has been his constant occu- pation. His wife, formerly Miss Emily Jeffrey, of England, died in 1879. He has three sons and three danghters.
EDEN, JOIIN I1., resides at Indian Flat, two and one-half miles from Nevada City, his post office. He was born in Ilanover, Germany, in 1834, and went to New York City in 1849. He clerked in a storo until 1853 and then went to Australia and mined until 1855, when he came to California and settled on Indian Flat where he has since heen
mining, and for the last few years ranching also. He owns 100 acres of land, valued at $1,600. In 1861 he married Miss Margaret Gieseking, a native of Germany, who died in 1876. He has three sons and four daughters.
EDWARDS, GEORGE, resides at North Bloom- field. He was born in Deumark in 1828 and went to sea in 1842. He followed the sea six years and then went to New York and continued bis sea- faring life until 1851. He then came to California and mined in Butte county until 1852, and in Sierra county till 1857. He then came to tbis county and engaged in mining and hose making. In 1862 he went into the hotel business and is proprietor of the Grand Central Hotel in North Bloomfield. In 1862, he married Miss Mary O'Connor, a native of Ireland, and has three sons and three daughters.
EDWARDS, WILLIAM, resides at Edwards' Bridge on South Yuba Turnpike. He was horn in New Jersey in 1826, and remained until 1848, sboemak- ing; he then went to Illinois and followed shoe- making and farming until 1852, when he came to this county, arriving at Blue Tent August 15, 1852; he mined until 1854, and then ran a ferry at Illi- nois Bar, on South Yuba river. In 1855 he built a road and bridge from Blue Tent to Lake City. In 1861, with others, formed a company and built a road to Henness Pass. In 1864 he went to Meadow Lake, built a road and remained until 1867, when he came to where lie now lives. He was married, in 1878, to Mrs. Elleu Black, a native of Sweden. wbo has four sons and two daughters by her former husband. His post office is Nevada City. We give a view of Mr. Edwards' place else- w bere.
ELLEN, ELLE, resides near Truckee. He was born in East Friclend in 1823, aud having learned the cabiuct trade, came to the United States in 1845. He worked at his trade in St. Louis until 1850, and then came to Califoruia across the plains. He engaged in tbe lumber business in El Dorado county uutil 1868, and then came to Truckee, and is tbe proprietor of the Truckee Saw Mill. From 1869 to 1872 he had a branch yard in Salt Lake City. Mr. Ellen huilt the first flume at Truckee, three miles long, at a cost of $9,000. He owns 2,560 acres of land, valued at $40,000, from which be obtains timber for his mill. He erected the first planing and sbingle mill in Truckee, and lost mills and dwelling house by fire in 1878. Wben he first came to the State he mined two years, and was engaged in quartz mining in El Dorado county from 1859 to 1864. In 1847 he married Miss Mar- garet Bowen, a native of Friclend, who died in 1866. May 28, 1868, he married Charlotte Houyer, a native of Hanover. He has had three sons and six daughters, of wbom only three daughters are still living.
ELLIS, G. A., lives at Eureka Soutb. He was born in Maine in 1832, and remaincd there until 1847, when he removed to Massachusetts and en- gaged in peddling until 1849, when be emigrated to Sau Francisco, and remained tberc till 1850, when he went to Long Bar, Yuha county, where he stayed till 1851, and then mined upou Bullard's har until 1853. He then went to Sierra county, and mined there till 1855; tben to Amador county until 1857; then hack to Sierra county, where he mined till 1859. Engaged in various occupations until 1865, sinco which time has kept a saloon. Post office, Graniteville.
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ELLISON, RICHARD, lives at Wet Hill, ncar Nevada City. He was born in Yorkshire, Eng- land, in 1823, and went to South America in 1844, and was foreman on a large estate until 1851. He then came to California, and mined several months at Winter's Bar, Moquelumne river, then James' Bar and Moquelumne Hill. In 1852 he went to Australia, and stayed until 1859, aud then went to Fraser river, British Columbia. A month later he went to Crescent City, and stayed one year, and then came to Nevada City, where he has since lived and followed mining. In 1853 he married Christina Patters, a native of Scotland, who died in 1874. In 1875 he married Mary S. Paull, a native of England.
ELY, JOHN, butcher, firm of Ely & Doose, lives iu Washington, twenty miles from Nevada City; post office, Washington; was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1826; remained until 1850, engaged in flat boating; then came to Nevada county, Califor- nia, overland, arriving September 27. 1850, where he has since remained, with the exception of an occasional absence of a few months; has heen en- gaged in miuing a large share of the time; worked at the carpenter trade some two years; has carried on his present business in Washington five years. ENGLEBRIGHT, W. F., civil engineer, Nevada City, was born in Massachusetts in 1855; came to California when quite young, where he still re- mains in the practice of his profession.
EUSTIS, JOSEPH, butcher, Nevada City, was born in 1837 in England; came to the United States in 1840; resided in Wisconsin until 1855, when he came to California; engaged in mining until 1874, since that time in tbe butchering business in Ne- vada City. Married in 1867 Catherine Farren, a native of Ireland.
EVANS, JAMES, lives at Penn Hill, Nevada town- ship; post office Nevada City. He was born in Wales in 1841 and farmed there nutil 1862, when he came to California and worked in the New Almaden Mine in Santa Clara county uutil 1866. He then worked in a coal mine in Contra Costa county until 1871, then went to Lake conuty and a few months later to Nevada county. He has been engaged iu mining since coming here. In 1874 he married Miss Mary E. Young, a native of England, and has one son and had a daughter. now deceased.
FARLEY, GEORGE S., M. D., resides in North San Juan, where he owns property and practices medi- cine. He was born near Montgomery, Alabama. in 1825 and in 1835 went to school in Massachu- setts, ahout five miles from Boston. In the fall of 1840 he went to Pittsfield, Mass., where he attended the first course of medical lectures at the Berkshire Medical Institute. In 1843 he returned liome, and in 1847 weut to Philadelphia and graduated the following year from the medical department of the University of Peunsylvania. He theu practiced medicine iu Montgomery. Ala .. until April, 1850, when he came to California with his father. He settled at Jefferson in this county and in the fall went to Nevada City, theu to Marysville and back to this county. He was mar- ried in 1862 to Miss Avaline Dicken. a native of Illinois, and has three sons aud two daughters.
FAULKNOR, JAMES, lives seven uniles from Grass Valley, his post office, and five miles from Colfax. He was born in New York in 1829 and in 1850 came to this State. He mined in Butte conuty until 1853 and then lived in Nevada City until 1860. He went to Virginia City aud mined until
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1864, when he came to Grass Valley. He kept the Empire Stables from 1864 to 1866 and the Fashion Stables until 1869. Hc then spent two years in the East, and returned to Grass Valley. He kept the Half Way House, between Nevada City aud Grass Valley until 1875. Hc lived then a year in Nevada City and a short time in Grass Valley, when he purchased the old Wheeler ranch, of 300 acres, and has since heen farmiug. He married Miss Mary Dee, August 28, 1869, a native of Massachusetts.
FENTON, W. G., lives at Pine Grove Reservoir, two and one-half miles from French Corral. Hc was born iu New York City in 1837, and moved to Chicago when he was quite young, with his uncle. He afterwards moved to South Bend, Indiana, and attended the University of Notre Dame, and then weut to Kansas. He crossed the plains in 1855 and mincd in Yuba county until 1868, when he came to this county. He has since heen in the employ of the Milton Mining and Water Co., and holds mining interests in Yuha county. In 1868 he married Miss Mary Ann Labadie, a native of Indiana, and has two sons and two daughters.
FERGUSON, R. P., resides at Pacific Statiou; post office Boca. He was born in New York iu 1812, and came to Nevada county in 1869 and cmharked in the lumber husiness. He is one of the firm of Thompson & Ferguson and Vice President of Crystal Ice Co. He served in the 144th N. Y. Reg. from 1862 to 1865. In 1868 he married Miss E. S. Dysart, a native of New York, and has two sons and one daughter. His property, including 480 acres of land, is valued at $10,000.
FINNIE, ROBERT, merchant on Mill street, Grass Valley. He was born in Scotland in 1831 and removed while quite young to Canada, with his parents. In 1846 he weut to New Orleans. He came to California in 1850 and lived in Yuha county until 1859, wben he came to this county. He is President of the Board of City Trustees of Grass Valley.
FISHER, MRS. E. E., the leading popular jeweler of Grass Valley, has heen in husiness in that place ahout three years. By her untiring energy and attention to husiness she has established an excel- lent trade. Within the past year she has opened a hranch store in Nevada City, thus controlling the trade of the entire county. Mrs. Fisher is the only woman in the United States who controls and manages an extensive jewelry business. Her stores on Mill street, Grass Valley, and Broad street, Nevada City, are the main attractions of those principal thoroughfares. A view of her store is given on another page.
FLETCHER, GEORGE, resides and owns property in Grass Valley. He was born in England in 1837 and went to New York City in 1855, where he was engaged as a silk broker until 1863. He then went to Nevada and mined until 1864, when he came to Grass Valley and engaged in merchandis- ing until 1875. Since then he has been Secretary of the N. C. N. G. R. R. Co. In 1866 be married Miss M. E. Farrell, and has one son and two daughters.
FOLSOM, G. N., lives at Clinton; post office, Boca. He was born in Maiue in 1829, and went to Cala- veras county, California, in 1857, and engaged in the lumber business. From 1861 to 1872 he fol- lowed the same husiness in Washoe, Nevada. He then came to this county, and is a member of the Pacific Wood and Lumber Company. He was a member of the Convention that drafted the Con-
stitution for the State of Nevada, and was County Commissioner of Washoe county. He married Miss P. T. Norcross, a native of Maine, January 9, 1855, and has had four sons, two of whom are living.
FORD, MARTIN, member of the firm of Ford & Judd, Boston Ravinc; post office, Grass Valley. He was horn in Ireland in 1834, and went to New York in 1851. In 1855 he came to Grass Valley, and has been merchandising here for twenty-two years. For the past seven years he has hcen in- terested in the same husiness in Virginia City. He is also largely interested in quartz mines. In 1872 he married Miss H. A. Lane, a native of New York, and has two sons and one daughter.
FOSTER, A. J., merchant, at No. 13 Mill street, Grass Valley. He was born iu New York in 1831, and in 1852 came around the Horn to San Fran- cisco, where he clerked iu a store until 1855. He then went to Tuolumne county and followed min- ing and painting until 1859. He was then con- nected with the Overland Mail Company uutil 1861, and settled at Carson, where he remained until 1866. He came to Grass Valley in that year and commenced dealing in paints, oils, glass, var- nish, hrushes, wall paper, window shades, mould- ings, picture frames, etc., and by attention to husi- ness has built up an extensive trade. In 1864 he married Miss Kate Kauffman, from Illinois, and has one daughter.
FOSTER, WILSON, lives one-half mile from the town of Washington, his post office. He was born in Pennsylvania, in 1830, and remained until 1853, having learned the blacksmith trade. He then went to Marysville, California, and remained four months; then mined a short time at Placerville, and then went to Nevada City and mined until 1858. From that time until 1861 he mined at Omega, and has since been living at Wasbington. In 1854 he formed a partnership with J. Grissel, which still continues. They own 160 acres of land, and have 250 fine bearing fruit trees, and, with Mr. White, own the Champion Mine on the South Yuba river.
FOWLER, S. B., lives at the Planet Mine, twenty miles from Grass Valley and one from Lowell Hill, both of which are bis post office. He was born in Maine in 1842, and in 1853 went to Grass Valley. Has been Superintendent of the Planet Drift Gravel Mine since September, 1879.
FRASER, JAMES, farmer, lives four miles from Nevada City and one and one-half miles from Blue Tent; owns 160 acres of land; was horn in Scotland in 1821; remained until 1831; then moved to C'auada with his parents; remained until 1852, en- gaged in farmiug; then to Nevada county, Califor- nia, via Panama; engaged in mining until 1860, siuee which time he has cultivated his present farm. Married, in 1846, Catherine Geddes, a native of Scotland. They have had six ehildreu, three of whom are now living-Agnes, born Feb- ruary. 1847; Sarah G., born November, 1849: and Lizzie M., born December 9, 1861. Farm and in- provements are worth about $4,000.
FRITZ, CHARLES, lives in Grass Valley. He was horn in Germany in 1814, and in 1848 weut to St. Louis, Missouri. He engaged in brick making there until 1853, and then came to this State, mining in Yuba county until 1861, and at Virginia City, Nevada, until 1866. Hle thien came to Grass Valley, and minced and started the Grass Valley Brewery, which he still owns.
FRYE, H. T., lives at Relief Hill. Ile was born in Ohio in 1834; in 1855 he emigrated to Califor-
nia, and remained until 1859, mining in Nevada City. From there he went to Relief Hill, where he has since lived, mining in Logan's Canon. Post office, North Bloomfield.
FULLER, MRS. MARGARET, resides ten miles from Grass Valley; post office. Colfax. She was born in Canada, and when a child moved with her parents to Illinois. In 1860 she moved to Missouri, and in 1875 to Sacramcuto. California, and a year later to this county. In 1877 she was married to D. J. Fuller, of New York. Owns 637 acres of laud, and is farming, milling and stock raising. Fuller's Mill was huilt on present site in 1866, and in 1860 one mile distant. It is run hy stcam and has a capacity of 3,000 fcct per twelve hours.
GARTHE, LEOPOLD, Nevada City, was born in Germany in 1826; remained until 1847, engaged in a book store; theu to Clay county, Missouri; remained until 1850, engaged in merchandising; then to Nevada county, California, arriving in November; engaged in mining from 1850 to 1870. Married at Nevada City, in 1873, a native of Mary- land. They have one boy and one girl living. Mr. Garthe has held the following offices : Deputy County Recorder, County Recorder, and Justice of the Peace. Land and improvements are worth about $3,000.
GARVER, M., engineer, Nevada City, was born in Ohio in 1824; remained until 1835; then to Dearhorn county, Iudiana; remained until 1846, engaged in farming and milling; tben to Mexico, in the army during the Mexican war; returned to Ripley county, Indiana, iu 1847; engaged in milling until 1851; then to California, via Cape Horn, arriving in San Francisco July 19, 1852; came immediately to Nevada county, where he has since remained, with the exception of the year 1861, while on the Sacramento river, and one year in Virginia City, Nevada. Was chief engincer of the stcamer Washoe for a short time, leaving her two or three days before she blew up. His principal business has been in Nevada county. mining and running mining machinery. Mr. Garver was elected member of the Legislature iu 1878.
GASSAWAY, C. D., lives four and one-half miles south of Rough and Ready, his post office. He was boru in Kentucky in 1826. and engaged in stouc cutting until 1850, when he crossed the plaius, and settled in this county. He mincd until 1853, and has siuce been stock raising and farming. He went to Kentucky in 1856, and re- turned the following year with stock, just ahead of the train that was massacred at Mountain Meadow. He owns 370 acres of land, valued at $6,000. In 1855 he married Miss Margaret Lyou, a native of Indiana, and has four sous and seven daughters.
GAYLORD, E. H., attorney at law, Nevada City. was born in Queida county, N. Y., April 19. 1829; moved to Illinois in 1845; remained until 1850; then to California, arriving at Nevada (ity September 30, 1850. Located at Little York in 1852, and engaged in merchandising until 1854: was then elected to the Assembly from Nevada county, and served one term. Commenced the study of law iu 1858 with A. A. Sargent, at Nevada ('ity; was admitted to the bar in 1861, and then elceted District Attorney of Nevada county; served two years and five months. In 1873 was appointed by the Board of Supervisors to fill the vacancy in the office of District Attorney caused by death of M. S. Deal; was appointed in 1874 to till the
vacancy in the office of District Attorney caused by the resignation of Niles Searls. In 1875 was elected District Attorucy of Nevada county ou the Republican ticket; re-elected in 1877 and 1879. Married, in 1864, Olive S. Miller, a native of Maine: they have one sou, Eugene Preston, born October, 1865.
GEORGE, WILLIAM, resides at Grass Valley, and owns town property. He was born in England in 1840, and came to California with his father in 1859. He lived until 1861 in Sierra county, and then came to Grass Valley. Ile worked for a butcher until 1864, and then started a store, since when he has been merchandising. His place of business is on the corner of Auburn and Neal streets. In 1866 he married Miss Mary Ann Kitto, a native of England, and has two sons and two daughters. A view of his store and residence is given on another page.
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