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HODGE, THOMAS, of the firm of Thomas Hodge & Co., proprietors of the City Brewery, Grass Valley, was born iu England in 1838, and in 1848 went with his parents to Connecticut aud from there to Pennsylvania. In 1854, he came to Grass Valley with his father, Samuel Hodge, and was interested in mining uutil 1859. Samuel Ilodge purchased the City Brewery, aud in 1863, Thomas Ilodge took charge of it. They are brewing ale. porter and beer, and aro the only establishment making XXX ale and parter. The brewery origi- nally stood on the corner of Church and Main streets, and in 1861 was moved to its present loca- tion on Mill street. Ju 1864. Mr. Hodge married Miss Delia Connolly, a native of Maine, and has four sous and four daughters. A view of the City Brewery is giveu elsewhere.
HOGAN, JOHN, resides and owns property in North San Juan; he was born in Maine in 1835, and engaged in the stage business until 1857, when he came to California by way of the Isthinus. He lived in various parts of California and at Virginia City and Carson. In 1870, he settled in North San Juan and has since been in the stage business; he is one of the firm of Green & Co., who operate the stage lines from North San Juan to Nevada City, North Bloomfield and Forest City. He is also engaged in the livery business, and has a ranch of 380 aeres, and is breeding fine blooded horses. In 1871, he married Miss Hattie Clay, a native of Illinois.
IHOLBROOK, J. S., lumber and carpenter business, Nevada City; he was born in Canada in 1826, remained uutil 1844, then engaged in the map business, remained until 1852, then to California. Married in 1850 Mary A. Scribner, a native of Burlington. Vermont, they have one girl living. Mr. Holbrook has held the office of Justice of the Peace two terms. Was appointed Post master at Nevada City, April 3. 1878. Lot and improve- ments are worth about $2.050.
HOLBROOKE, D. P., is proprietor of the Holbrooke Honse, on Main street, Grass Valley; he was born in Massachusetts in 1823, and came to California in 1849. 1[e went to and fro between San Fran- cisco and Sacramento until 1852, and then mined iu Oregou six months; he then went hack to Massachusetts but returned to this State in a few months and settled in Grass Valley in 1856. Was one of the locators of Mammoth Bar Mine, on American river, and is still an owner. He has been interested in Grass Valley mining and business, and in January, 1879, purchased the Holbrooke House. In 1867, he married Miss Ellen Thurston, a native of New Hampshire. He huilt a hridge across Bear river iu 1852. A view of the Hol- brooke house is given elsewhere.
HOLZENBAKER, MRS. T., lives five miles from Nevada City, her post office, and four miles from You Bet. She was born in Baden Baden in 1818, and went to New Orleans in 1848 and in 1852 to San Francisco, and soon after to Nevada City. For the past nine years has lived on her raneh of 160 acres. She was first married to John Leahr. and in 1867 to Charles Holzenbaker, a native of Germany, who died in 1873. She has one sou and one daughter.
HOSKINS, RICHARD, lives on Deer ereek, one and one-half miles from Nevada City, his post office. He was horn in England in 1825 and went to Wisconsin in 1848. He engaged in farming and mining until 1852 and then crossed the plains and settled iu Nevada county. being five mouths and two weeks on the jouruey. Since coming here he has been engaged in mining. In 1830 he married Miss M. J. Williams, a native of England. aud has had two sons and six daughters, of whom one son and one dangbter are now liviug.
HIORTON, L., lives five miles south west from Rough and Ready, his post office; he was born in New York in 1827, and moved to Ohio with his parents in 1837; he taught school until 1852. and then crossed the plains to Nevada City, California: he has been on the ranch he uow owns since 1833, farm- ing and stock raising, and has mined some; he is at present Master of the Indian Springs Grange: he owns 240 acres of land, valned at $3,500. In 1860, he married Miss E. MeCoweu, a native of Ohio, and has five sons and one daughter. A view of his place is giveu on another page.
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HOTTINGER, B. M., lives at Quaker Ilill, six miles from Nevada City, his post office; he was born. in Germany in 1839, and in 1856 went to Indiana, and in 1859 crossed the plains and was in Butte conuty two years; he then went to Washoc and was engaged in blacksmithing and afterwards was iu the same business in Nevada City one year; he then came to Quaker Hill and has since been engaged in mining, and owns an interest in the Knickerbocker Hydraulic Mine; he has also a band of Angora goats. He is School Trustee of Quaker Hill District. In 1870, he married Miss C. Burus, a native of England, and has three sons and two daughters.
HOUSMAN, L., lives at Gold Flat. IIe was born in Pennsylvania, in 1829, and in 1848 went to Pan- ama, where he remamed one year and returned to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On November 13, 1849, he arrived in Sau Francisco, and traveled abont California until 1850, when he went to Feather river and engaged in mining, etc .. until 1855, when he removed to Forest City, Cold Spring Ranch. Here he kept hotel some fourteen montlis. Thence to Nevada; then to Russian River Valley, and back again to Nevada, where he remained about a year, and married Miss Isadore Snow, of Missonri, in 1858. She died in 1862. From Nevada to Eureka, Nevada county, where he lived until 1862. Then back to Nevada, and again returned to Nevada county, where he has since lived. Has mined nearly the whole time, and has followed amalgamating for the past twenty years. Was married again to Mrs. Elizabeth Daily, a native of Pennsylvania, in 1875. Has had three children. Only two living, a boy and a girl.
HUBER, JOSEPH II., lives in Sweetland. He was born in Germany, in 1853, and in 1854 came witli his parents to the United States, and settled in St. Lonis, Missouri. In 1863 he came with his parents to California, and has since resided in this connty. He came to Sweetland iu 1876, and is now in the employ of the American Mining Co. In 1878 he married Miss Ella Wood, a native of Sweetland, Nevada county, California.
HUNTER, JOHN V., was born in Yarmonth, Nova Scotia, April 10, 1828, and moved to Eastport, Maine, in 1836. He resided in Maine until 1849, when he went to Boston. In 1856 he come to Cal- ifornia. He was married in 1873. He owns large interests in mines, and resides at Nevada City. A view of his residence is given on another page.
HUNTRESS, J. S., resides in Rough and Ready. He was horn in Maine, in 1834, and in 1855 came to California. He mined iu Ynha county nntil 1857, and then came to this county, where he has since been mining. In 1867 he married Miss Mary Hewitt, a native of Arkansas, and has two daughters.
HUPP, GEORGE S., was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, in 1828. He eamue to California, in 1854, and located in Nevada City, in the prac- tice of the law. In 1863 he went to Nevada and engaged in the practice of his profession with Judge Garber and Delos R. Ashley, for several years. In 1874 he returned to Nevada City, and resumed the practice of law there, where he has enjoyed a leading business ever since, being espe- cially successful in criminal causes. In February, 1856, Mr. Hupp was married. and has had borne to him xix children, five of whom are living.
HUSSEY, JOIIN, resides at You Bet, where he owns 500 acres of mining property. He was born in Ireland, in 1830, and in 1849 went to Virginia.
In 1851 he came to California and mined at Doty's Flat nntil 1852, and then went to Remington Hill until 1858, and then to Yon Bet, where he is now mining. He owns the Hussey Hydraulic Mine of 500 acres. He was Supervisor from 1869 to 1872. In 1862 he married Miss E. Murphy, a native of Ireland, and has four sons and four daughters. A view of his place is given elsewhere.
HYMES, JOHN. lives at Spenceville. He was born in Olio in 1830, and moved to Illinois in 1849, and engaged in farming. In 1853 he crossed the plains to Oregon and mined till 1855. He then went to Marysville, California, and worked in a market. From August, 1862, to 1867, he followed ranchiiug. He then came to this toll road and opened a public house, and five years ago commenced merchan- dising. In 1859 he married Miss Anna Berry, a native of Ireland, and-lias three sons and seven daughters. Mr. Hymes is Post Master at Spence- ville. We give a view of his place elsewhere.
ICARD, JOHN, lives one mile from Rough and Ready, his post office, and seven miles from Ne- vada City. He was born in North Carolina in 1821, and in 1845 went to Texas and Mexico, serv- ing in the army till 1852. He then came to Cal- ifornia and has been mining aud farming in this county. He is at present farming and stock rais- ing on his ranch of 160 acres, valned at $1,000. In 1854 he married Miss Margaret S. Steen, a native of Ireland, and has two sons and five daughters; he has also lost a son.
IRWIN, WILLIAM, resides in Truckee. He was born in Michigan in 1849, and remained until 1864. He then traveled through New York, Ohio, Illinois and Southern . States, and went to Reno, Nevada, in 1870, where he engaged iu teaming until 1872. Ile came to Truckce in 1874, and owns a fine livery stable, valued at $4,000.
ISOARD, A., proprietor of a saloon on Broad strect. Nevada City. He is a native of France, aud arrived in San Francisco Jannary 21, 1850, and at Nevada City, or Caldwell's Store, March 24, 1850. He has since made Nevada City his home, engaged principally in mining and liquor business. He was married July 17, 1858, to Miss Louisa Moos- back, of Neufchatel, Switzerland, and has six sons and two daughters.
IVANCOVICH, G., M. D., resides at Grass Valley. He was born in Austria in 1848, and remained until 1866, attending college during his youth at Ragusa. He then studied medicine in London nutil 1870, when he came to California. He prac- ticed his profession in Lake county until 1877, then to San Francisco till 1878, taking the degree M. D., and then to Grass Valley, and continues his practice here. ITis office is in the Harris Building, on Mill street. In 1876 he married Miss Nellie R. Jones, a native of Illinois, and has one son and one daughter.
JAMES, JOHN D., resides and owns property in Birchville. lle was born in Wales in 1815, aud was engaged in coal and iron mining until 1838. He then came to the United States and settled in Alleghany county, Maryland, where he engaged in farming and owus a farin there at the present time. In 1852 he came to California by way of the Isthinns, and settled at Mormon Island, where he mined eighteen mouths. Hle went hack to Maryland, but returned to this State a year later, and mined ou Alder creek, Sacramento county, for eighteen months. Iu 1857 he again weut to Mary- land, and returned to this State in 1861, accom- panied by his eldest son, and mined iu Sierra
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county until 1870, when he came to Birchville, and has since heen principally engaged in farming. His family came to the State in 1862. He was married in 1839 to Miss Ann Jones, a native of Wales, and has one son and one daughter. His post office is Sweetland.
JEPSEN, CHRIST O., lives at Relief Hill. He was born in Schleswig in 1844, and was employed as a sailor. In 1863 he emigrated to Nevada connty, California, where he has ever since lived and followed mining. In 1873 he visited his native country and remained one year. He mar- ricd Miss Ingeborg Jorgensen, a native of Schles- wig, in 187.4. They have one child, a boy. Post office North Bloomfield.
JOHNSON, ANDREW H., resides in Truckee. He He was born on Staten Island, N. Y., in 1830, and came to California in 1.850, previous to which time he had been engaged in steamboating. He lived in San Francisco until 1858, and then went to Fraser river and in 1861 to Oregon. In 1865 he went to Sau Francisco agaiu and six months later to Sacramento. He lived there a year, theu to Virginia City six months, and then returned to Sacramento. A year later he went to Cisco and lived there one month, and then to Virginia City for five months, and then to Truckee, in August, 1868. In 1871 hie weut back to New York, but returned the same year and went to San Diego, hnt soon returned to Truckee, where he has since resided.
JOHNSON, G. A., lives at the White House, one mile from Yon Bet, his post office, and nine miles from Colfax. He was born in Kennebec county, Maine, October 15, 1822. In 1851 he came to California and settled in Amador county. In Jau- nary, 1852, he went to Illinoistown and clerked until October. He then went to Red Dog and engaged in merchandising and teaming nutil 1861, when he removed to the place he uow occupies on the Colfax road, and is engaged in making shakes. He owns a fine piece of timber land 480x320 feet.
JOHNSON. JAMES B., Attorney at Law, Nevada City. Was horu in Ontario county, New York, in 1815; remained nutil 1840, attending school until eighteen years of age, and teaching school the remaining years; then to Pike county, Illinois; engaged in teaching nntil spring of 1842; then to Grant county, Wisconsin; remained until 1852, engaged in teaching. Jead mining and mercantile business; then to California across the plains; en- gaged in mining, Inmbering and teaching. He was one of the members of the first Board of Supervisors of Nevada county. In 1865 he suffered heavily hy the loss of his lumber and mills by fire. Commenced reading law and was admitted to the bar in 1866, and in 1867 purchased the inter- est of E. P. Hlawley, in the firm of Ilawley & Williams, of Nevada City. Until the death of Mr. Williams, in 1872, the firmn name was Williams & Johnson; in 1875 took in as partner Hon. C. W. Cross, under firm name of Johnson & Cross. Mar- ried, in 1840, Miss Buell, a native of New Hamp- shire. They . have two danghters and one son living. Mr. Jolinson has held the following offices: In Wisconsin, Justice of the Peace, Town Clerk, and Superintendent of Schools, also member of the Legislature; in California, member of the Board of Supervisors two terms. Mr. Johnson owus three lots in Nevada City, worth, with improvements, about $2,000, also some real estate iu Sau Fran- cisco.
JOHNSTON, C. E., lives at Eureka Sonth, Was horn in Vermont in 1845, and remained there until 1865, when he emigrated to Nevada county, California, where he has since lived, engaged in various kinds of business; has done some mining. Is at present engaged on the Eureka Lake Co.'s ditch, as agent at Eureka. In 1876 he married Miss Annie Fowler, a native of Pennsylvania. They have one boy living. Post office Graniteville.
JOHNSTON, GEORGE, lives in Grass Valley. He was born in Scotland in 1832, and went to New York in 1852, and then to Pennsylvania. In 1868 he came to Grass Valley aud has since been en- gaged in mining. Ile was engineer for the Massa- chusetts Hill, and Enreka Mines for over fifteen years, and has been Enperiutendent of the New York Hill Miue for the past three years.
JOHNSTON, MRS. J. E., Nevada City, is sole owner of furniture business, corner of Pine and Com- mercial streets. Was horu in Guernsey county, Ohio; remained nntil 1863, then came to Califor- nia with parents. Married at Nevada City, in 1864, to J. E. Johnston, a uative of New Brunswick, and an old resident of Nevada county. Mr. John- ston was born in Jannary, 1828, and died May 21, 1879. Born to them for children: James Albert, born April 12, 1865, died August 18. 1865; Odella A., boru June 3, 1867, died May 18, 1871; George Edward, born December 16, 1869; and William Earl, boru March 16, 1872.
JONES, LEE, resides in Truckee. He was horn in Illinois in 1839, aud weut to Pike's Peak in 1861, aud mined oue year. He traveled for a year and settled in Sacramento City and engaged in team- ing till 1866. He then came to Truckee and Las resided here ever since, except in 1869-70, when he was prospecting in El Dorado county. Sinee then he has been clerking four years, and for the past four years has been merchandising.
JONES, R., lives on Massachusetts Hill, Grass Val- ley. He was born in Cheshire, England, in 1×29, and in 1851 went to Massachusetts. In 1834 he came to Grass Valley and has been mining in this county ever since. He is part owner and Under- ground Superintendent of the New Rocky Bar Mine. He married Miss Hannah Buttarworth, a native of England, and has four sons and fonr daughters.
JONES, WILLIAM HENRY, lives six and one-balf miles from Nevada City and one and one-balf from Quaker Hill; post office, You Bet. He was born in Philadelphia, February 28, 1827, and Octo- her 1, 1859, started for California viu the Isthmus. He has resided in Nevada connty ever since, engaged in mining, fariuing and stock raising. He owns 120 acres of land. Has been School Trustee of Quaker Hill District. He married Miss Catha- rinc Driver, a native of Pennsylvania, February 1. 1858. and has six sons.
JORDAN, S. C., lives at Quaker Hill and owns 108 acres of mining laud. He was born in lowa, 1848. and remained nntil 1852, when, in company with his parents, he emigrated to Grass Valley, Nevada county, where he lived until 1854, and then moved to Dutch Flat, Placer connty. In 1857, he removed to Nevada county, where he has siuce lived. en- gaged în book-keeping, general merchandising, mining, hotel keeping, etc., etc. In 1879, he married Miss A. M. Horuer, a native of Swelen. Post offices, Nevada City and You Bet.
JUDD, JAMES F., resides in Boston Ravine; post office, Grass Valley. He was born in Boston
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Ravine, January 8, 1855. He attended school here until 1865 and then went to the Santa Clara College until 1873. 1Ie then was in the npholster- ing establishment of Goodwin & Co., San Francisco, two years. In 1875, he came to Grass Valley and March 6, 1876, purchased an interest in the store of Martin Ford, in Boston Ravine. Mr. Judd has a brother and sister. Their father was an old pioneer of (irass Valley and died in 1860.
JUDD, JOHN H., was born in the county of Wick- low, Ireland. Early in life he removed to Australia, where he remained until 1850, and then came to California. He stayed in San Francisco one year. In 1851, he went to Grass Valley and engaged at onee in quartz mining, which he con- tinned with varying success until 1858. At this time the Massachusetts Hill Mine was principally owned by Mr. Judd, the two Messrs. Watt and Joseph O'Keefe. During the year 1858, a rich lead was struek, and the mine hecame very valna- hle. It was profitably worked until 1865. In 1850 Mr. Jndd married Miss Ellen Casey. They had six children, three of whom are still living, two sons and one danghter. Mr. Judd died iu 1860. A view of bis old home-where Mrs. Judd still resides-appears npon another page. Her post office address is Grass Valley.
KEISER, JOHN, resides at Truckec. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1823, and in 1843 went to St. Lonis and worked at earpentering nntil 1845. He then worked at the same trade in New Orleans one year, when he went to Texas as a soldier in the army during the Mexican war. He was a Lientenant in the army a year and then went to La Gro, Indiana, and a year later to Burling- ton, Iowa. In 1849 he came across the plains and mined in El Dorado county, being one of the dis- coverers of MarmaInke Hul. In 1856, he went to Yankee Jims, Placer county, and in 1867 came to Truckee where he has kept hotel part of the time. For the past eight years he has heen Justice of the Ponee. His property is valued at $5,000. In 1847, he married Miss Elizabeth Bedsaul, a native of Indiaua, and has had five daughters, three of whom are still living.
KEITH, L. C .. mill owner, Nevada City; owns three lots on the eorner of Sacramento and Bonlder streets, on which are his residenee and stamp mill, machine shop and foundry; was born Angust 30, 1819, in Bristol, Ontario county, New York; remained until 1840; engaged in learning trade of carriage ironing, then to Rochester, where he remained one year. working at his trade; then to Cleveland, Ohio, where he remained until 1844, engaged in a carriage and steel spring mannfactory at his trade; then to Indiana, remained until November 15, 1849, engaged at his trade and making plows; then to California in "Brig Orleans," via Cape Horn. Arriving at Los Angeles in August, 1850; he commeneed work at his trade and re- mained nearly a year; then to Nevada connty, where he arrived April 4, 1851, engaged in mining for a year, then carried on blacksmithing trade at Negro Hill, El Dorado county, until his return to this conuty. In 1867, commeneed hnsiness at bis present place, first putting up a hlacksmith shop, and two years later built the stamp mill of which he is the sole owner, the machine shop and foundry, part of which were built in 1879, and rented to Lawrence and Barlow.
KELLER, NIKOLAUS, lives in Nevada City, owns honse aud lot, was boru in Baden, Germany, 1828, remained nntil 1850, engaged in bakery; then to
New York, remained until 1856, engaged in same business; then to Sacramento, California, remained until 1861, engaged in farming; then to Nevada City, where he has sinee remained, and is engaged in baking. Since 1863, he has worked at his trade of baker. Married in 1856, Rosa Kaeser, a native of Germany, born to them a son whodied in 1868. KESKEYS, WILLIAM, lives at Lowell Hill. He was born in England in 1845, and went to Penn- sylvania in 1863, and mined nntil Angust of the same year and then came to Grass Valley, which has since been his home. For the last three years he bas been around Lowell Hill and is now work- ing in the Planet Mine .. In 1879 he married Miss Mary J. Connelly, and has one son.
KIDDER, JOHN F., is Superintendent of the N. C. N. G. R. R. and resides at Grass Valley. Ile was horn in New York City in 1830, and moved to Syraerusc with his parents in 1840. In 1861 he weut to the State of Nevada in the Government service, and in 1863 he went to El Dorado county until 1866. He engaged in railroading and resided in Sacramento and Nevada State until 1868, when he went to Oregon and eontinned in the same husi- ness. In 1871 he went to Washington Territory, and in 1873 returned to this State, living in Solano and Monterey eonnties until he came to Grass Valley. By profession, Mr. Kidder is a civil engineer. He was a member of the Assembly from El Dorado connty in 1865-6. " In 1874, be married Miss S. A. Clark, a native of Ohio.
KING, N. C., lives ten miles from Grass Valley, his post office, and five and one-half from Colfax. He was horn in New York in 1835, and eame to this connty in 1855. He lived here a short time and then in Placer eonnty, returning in 1860, and has sinee been engaged here in farming and stoek raising In 1872, he married Miss Louisa Ohsen, a native of Germany, and bas one son named Frank.
KIRBY, E. B., resides at Lowell Hill. He was born in Boston in 1857, and went to San Francisco in 1877, and from there to Arizona. In February, 1878, he went to Grass Valley, and in Angnst came to Lowell Hill, where he is keeping hooks for the Swamp Angel Mine. He is interested in the Bay State Mine, with S. L. MeKim.
KIRKHAM, THOMAS, lives five and one-half miles from Nevada City; post office, Blne Tent. He was born in Ohio in 1816, and moved to Illinois in 1826, where he was engaged in farming until 1839, and in the same business in Iowa until 1849. He tben crossed the plains and remained until the fall of 1850, when he went baek to Illinois. Iu 1859 he weut to. Kansas and was engaged in farm- ing and bntehering until 1864, when lie again erossed the plains, and has sinee been mining in this eonnty. In 1838 he married Miss P. J. Holmes, a native of Ohio. He has had six sons and three daughters, and has five sons and two daughters now living.
KISTLE, JOHN, saloon, corner Pine and Spring streets, Nevada City; he was born in Cornwall, England, in 1836, emigrated with his parents to Joe Davies eonnty, Illinois, in 1841; remained until 1854; then to California across the plains, arriving September 6, 1854, in Nevada City; engaged in mining nntil 1858; then served as a soldier in the Modoc war; at its close ran the express business from Yreka City to Klamath river; sold out and returned to Nevada City in 1859, kept a hotel at Hunt's Hill until 1860; then engaged again in mining, which he followed until 1866, except a short time in 1863, when in the saloou business,
until burned out by the great five of that year. Located Pacific Mine in 1865, which he soon after sold. In 1866 started present husiness; burned ont again in 1871, when he huilt his present resi- denee and hriek buildings adjoining. Ou April 25, 1869, married Ann Welsh. Born to them, William J., horn February 13, 1870; died Mareh 5, 1870; Esther Aun, horn April 6, 1871; John N., born Oetoher 12, 1872; William J., horn November 17, 1874; Mary Asenath, born September 7, 1876. KNEEBONE, JOSEPH, lives one and one-half miles from Spenceville, his post office. He was born in Cornwall, England, in 1838, and farmed there until 1867. He then went to Sacramento, California, and from there to Virginia City. In 1869, he went to Grass Valley and teamed until 1872, when he moved upon the place he now occupies. He is teaming and farming and stock raising on his ranch of 1,500 acres. Fairy Falls, on Dry ercek, are on his land. In 1860, he married Miss M. M. Reed, a native of England, and has had five sons and three danghters, of whom three sons and two danghters are now living. KOHLER, HENRY, resides at Washington, where he owns town and mining property. He was horn in Germany in 1825, and went to Indiana in 1851. In 1854 he came to this eonnty and has heen here ever since. He mined until 1861 and then commenced merebandising in Washington and eontinned in the business to the present time, keeping a stock of groceries, provisions, hardware and miners' supplies. In 1867. he married Miss C. Bender, a native of Germany, and has two sons.
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