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KRESS, GEORGE, resides at Kress' Summit, three and one-half miles from Grass Valley, his post offiee, and five miles from Nevada City. He was born in Germany in 1826, where he was Market Master and onee Depnty Sheriff. Iu 1844 he went to Missouri, and in 1852 eame to this State. He
lived six months in San Franciseo, and then mined in Calaveras nntil 1853. He then went to Jackson, Amador county, and merchandised there nntil 1864, except two years spent in Volcano. He also had a bakery aud the well-known Congress Hall hilliard. rooms. He erected the building that was then rented by the Amador Dispatch. Hle is now farming on 200 acres of land. He was County Surveyor in Amador county in 1860. In 1874 he married Emelia Suneja, a native of Franee.
LAKENAN, J. M., resides and owns property in Grass Valley. Ile was born in Missouri in 1833, and eame to California across the plains in 1853. He engaged in the machinery business in Sacra- mento until 1856. He then came to this county and has sinee resided here. He is the owner of the Grass Valley foundry, which was started by him in 1864. In 1863 he married Miss Manual F. Schofield, a native of England, and has two sons and two daughters.
LANDSBURG, J. S., lives at Relief Hill: post office, North Bloomfield. He was born in Nova Scotia in 1845, and went to Massachusetts in 1854. where he was engaged in teaming until 1867. Ilc then came to this State and settled at Relief Hill, wbere he has since resided, and followed teaming and mining. He was married in 1871 to Miss Snsana Peurose, of Relief IIil!, and has three sous and one daughter.
LARSEN, H. P., resides at Relief Hill: post office North Bloomfield, He was born in Denmark in 1847, and engaged in farming until 1871. Ife then came to California and settled at Relief Ilill, where he has sinco been mining, and
is one of the proprietors of American Bar on the South Ynha river. In 1873 he married Miss Encena K. Granning, a native of Denmark, and has two sons and one danghter.
LAWRENCE, JOHN, of Barlow & Lawrence, fonn- dry, Nevada City. Was born March 26, 1832, in - Canada; engaged in the foundry hnsiness from the age of fifteen until 1858; then crossed the plains from St. Louis to California; engaged in mining in Nevada connty until January, 1879, when he asso- eiated himself with C. O. Barlow in present hus- iness. Married, in 1855, Anna Wilkinson, a native of Canada; born to them one ehild in 1856, died in 1857.
LEAVITT, CHARLES CARROLL, of Oakland, Cal- ifornia, was born in New York City in 1832. After spending a few years as a clerk in his native city, he moved to Beloit, Wisconsin, in 1847, where he engaged in merchandising nntil 1854. He then went to Hastings. Minuesota, and pursued the same business. In 1859 he came to California and settled in Nevada City, where he was a merchant and miner until 1872. He then moved to San Francisco, and in 1877 took up his residence in Oakland. He has been the Inspector of Customs and is uow the Adinster of Duties at the U. S. Custom Honse, San Francisco. In 1863 he married Miss Elizabeth Gleason Cowles, of Belleville, Illi- nois, and has two sons and two daughters. His post office address is hox 1585. San Francisco, or No. 1000 Peralta street, Oakland.
LEECH, CHARLES, resides on the Buena Vista road, four miles from Grass Valley. his post office. He was born in Massachusetts in 1835, and came to Grass Valley in 1856. He has been engaged since eoming here in Inmbering and mining. He was for several years connected with the Mohawk Lumher Co. He is at present Superintendent and President of the Stockbridge Quarrying and Man- ufacturing Co. The company is organized for working a quarry of ashestus and soapstone and manufacturing them into merchantable articles. sitnated on the N. C. N. G. R. R. in Placer county. In 1864 he married Miss H. V. Conaway, a native of Baltimore, and has four sons aud one daughter.
LEVEE, JEREMIAH, lives two and one-half miles from Lowell Hill, his post office, and six from Little York. He was born in New York in 1835, and came to this State in 1859. He lived in Grass Valley until 1860, and then mined at Little York until 1865. For the past seven years he has been farming, stock raising and mining, and was the original owner of the Steep Hollow Placer MIine. He owns 160 aeres of land. He was elected to the Assembly in 1879. In 1857 he married Miss Emily R. Graves, a native of New York, and has tive sous and two daughters.
LEWIS, JOHN T., attorney at law, Nevada City. . was born in Lewis county, Missouri, November 6, 1838; read law in Cantou, Missouri, in 1865, 1806 and 1867; commenced practice in 1869; was admit- ted to the Supreme Court of Missouri in 1875 and to the Supreme Court of Califoruin in 1878. Mar- ried Mary L. Wolfliu, born in Boyle county, Ken- tueky. in December, 1849; they have two children liviug, both girls. Mr. Lewis has held the follow- ing offices: Mayor of the City of Cantou, Missouri. in 1872 and 1873; represented the Twelfth Elec- toral District of Missouri iu the Electoral College of 1876; was also nominee of the Workingmen and New Constitution parties for Superior Judge of Nevada county, being beaten by a small ma- jority.
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LEWIS, S. G., resides at Grass Valley. He was born in Western New York in 1830, and in 1844 went to Northern Illinois, and engaged in clerk- ing. In 1855 he came to California and embarked in stock raising twelve miles ahove Sacramento. In 1862 he went to Alpine county and mined until 1874. He was editor of the Alpine Miner, Notary Public, Post Master, and for fifteen years n Sehool Trustee. January 1, 1874, he established the Foothill Weekly Tidings, at Grass Valley, au inde- pendent newspaper, devoted to local affairs, the interests of the foot-hills of California, and to miscellaneous family reading. A large 30x44 eight-page quarto, 48 columns, haudsome weekly. Grass Valley, the " Golden Heart of California," the central town of the foot-hill region, celebrated alike for its gold quartz mines, its vine- clad hills, and its extensive orchards; its cosy homes and delightful climate, has a population of 7,003, the county 19,134, and the adjoining foot-hill counties (none of which contain a paper of this character and scope), fifty to sixty thousand. Mr. Lewis was married in 1852 to Miss E. S. Frink, a native of New York, and has two sons and three daugh- ters. Two of his daughters are married, one hav- ing three children and the other oue. A view of Mr. Lewis' residence and office can be seen on another page,
LINDERMER, J. C., lives at Quaker Hill, six miles from Nevada City, post office You Bet. He was born in Germany in 1840 and went to New York with his parents in 1852. In 1858 he came to this State, living at San Francisco until 1859, and then to Hunt's Hill and from there to Quaker Hill. Since coming to the county he has been engaged in mining. He is part owner of the Knickerbocker Hydraulic Minc at Quaker Hill, employing ten men. In 1878 he married Miss Kate Castello, a native of Ircland.
LINDERMER, J. M., lives six miles from Nevada City, his post office. He was born in Germany in 1832 and in 1851 went to New York. In 1859 he came to this county, and has resided here ever since, with the exception of two years in Nevad: State. He has been constantly engaged in min- ing. September 28, 1869, lie married Miss K. F. Kornbammer, a native of Germany, in Syracuse,
LINDSEY, R., lives at Snow Point. He was boru in Virginia, 1834, where he remained until 1841, wlien he accompanied his parents to Illinois. In 1852 he emigrated to Oregon across the plains, ar.d engaged in farmning. In 1853 lie removed to Sain Joaquin county, California, and farmed there until 1854, when he removed to Nevada county. He has since followed mining pretty extensively at Missouri Bar, Omega. Bowman's dam, and Eureka. At the latter place engaged in livery business and butchering for about two years. He is now water agent for the Eureka Lake Co. it Snow Point. Married Miss Kunigund Pfister, a native of California, in July, 1871. They have had three boys (two now living), and one girl (liv- ing). Post office Moore's Flat.
LOGAN, J. V. B., lives at Boca. He was born in Kentucky in 1840 and in 1846 went to Iowa, and in 1852 crossed the plains to El Dorado county, in this State. In 1861 he enlisted in Co. E. 5th Cal- ifornia Infantry and served three years, and was discharged at La Mesilla, New Mexico. Hfc re- turned to California in 1865 and lived in Sacra- mento county until 1872, when he came to Boca. He is engaged in the fish business, dealing in
trout, of which he ships annnally from 30,000 to 50,000 pounds. In 1871 lie married Miss Annie Taylor, a native of Missouri, and has two daughters.
LONKEY, OLIVER, resides at Virginia City, Nevada, which place and Boca, California, are his post offices. He was born in Canada in 1833 and engaged iu lumhering until 1856. He then went to Grass Valley, in this county, and had a saw mill until 1864. He then went to Washoc and was in the saw mill business there until 1872 and then to Virginia City, He is a member of the firm of Lonkey & Smith, who have lumber yards in Virginia City and Virdi, Nevada, and at Prosser Creek Station, in this eounty. They are also in the real estate business in Virginia City. They own 1,500 acres of land. In 1860 Mr. Lonkey married Miss Mary Belile, a native of Canada.
LUCHSINGER, NICHOLAS, lives three and a half miles east from Nevada, on the Washington road, and owns 240 acres of laud. He was born in Switzerland, 1825, and remained until 1845, when he emigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and eugaged in wood carving. In 1850 he removed to El Dorado county, California, and there mined until 1852. He then mined iu various portions of California until 1864, when he settled in Nevada county, and has since lived there, engaged in farming. In 1870 he married Mrs. Johanua Ott, a native of Germany. They have two boys and five girls; also three daughters of Mrs. Ott. Post office Nevada City.
LUEY, S. S., lives at Deadwood mine, and has twenty acres of land. He was born in New Hamp- shire, 1828, and remained there till 1852, engaged in railroading and farming. He then removed to Santa Clara county, California, and farmned till 1854, then to Nevada county, where he has since lived, mining. He is a part owner in the Dead- wood Quartz Mine. Post office Nevada City.
LOUTZENHEISER, WILLIAM, resides and owns property in Grass Valley. He was born iu Obio in 1824, and was engaged in teaching and reading law until 1850, when he came to California, Nevada City, and has remained in this county ever sinec. He has been engaged in the drugand stationery business since 1851 in Grass Valley. When a young man he attended a course of med- ical leetures in Louisville. In 1854 he married Miss L. Grymes, a native of Tennessee, and has two sons and two daughters.
LUETJE F. C., jeweler and farmer, lives at Nevada City; owns 156 acres of land, and one-half interest in 166 aeres in Rough and Ready Township; also a town lot in Nevada City; was born in Holstein, Germany, in 1830; then to Chicago, Illinois, in 1851, after the war with Schleswig-Holstein against Den- mark, in which he was engaged for two years; re- mained until 1854, engaged in watchmaker's trade; then to California via New York and the Isthmus; engaged in the jewelry business in Rough and Ready, Nevada . county, until 1865; then to Gold Run, Placer county, in same business; remained one year; then to Nevada City; engaged in his present business, and also in carrying ou his farm at Kentucky Flat. Land and improvements arc worth ahout $4,000.
LYONS, JESSE J., lives at Deadwood Mine, where he owns mining land. He was born in New York, 1835 and remained till 1844 when he removed to Michigan, where he stayed till 1852, and then went to Nevada county, California, and has since lived there, mining, Ile owns an interest iu the Deadwood mine, also in the New York canon and
Adalante mines. The Deadwood is a quartz mine and has about sixty acres of land. Post office Nevada City. In 1874 he married Miss M. A. Williams, a native of Missouri.
MACKINTOSH, JOHN R., lives at Relief Hill; post office North Bloomfield. He was born in Nova Scotia iu 1850, and was engaged in lumber- ing nntil he came to California in 1870. He fol- lowed mining at Nevada City until 1874, and then went to Puget Sound and engaged in lumbering. In 1876 he returned to this county and has since been mining.
MAGUIRE, F. T., lives six miles from Little York and two miles from Lowell Hill, his post office. His parents were Irish, and he was born on the Atlantic Ocean while they were en route to the United States, in 1824. He lived in Massa- chusetts until 1837, and then went with his parents to Canada, and in the same year to Ireland. The subject of this sketeh came back to this country the following year, and lived in Virginia until 1845, and then engaged in lumbering iu New Hampshire. In 1849 he came to California around Cape Horn and settled in Redding's Diggings, Shasta county. In the spring of 1850 he purchased a paek train and operated between Illinoistown and the American river. In 1851 he went to Sae- ramento and thence to Shasta with pack train. He tlien mined at Cherokee Bar until 1852, at Nevada till 1853, at Little York till 1854, and then pur- cbased claims at Lowell Hill. He ceased miuing in 1864 and has ince heen farming. He owns 160 acres of land, 4,055 feet above the sea level. In 1859 he married Miss Sarah Swift, a native of Ire- land, and has had four sons, of whom three are still living.
MALTMAN. OSCAR, resides at Nevada City. He was born in New York City in 1828 and remained until 1850, engaged in house building. He then came to California and mined successfully until 1853, when he returned home. In 1858 he again came to this State and has sinee been a resident of Nevada City. He engaged in the metallurgieal business and owns fine reduction works for the ex- traction of gold from sulphurets hy Plattner's chlorination process. He is interested in mining and has a new process for working rebellious ores for which a pateut has been applied. He was married in 1853 to a native of New Jersey, who is now de- censed. They had three sons and one daughter. He was married again in 1866, and had two dangh- ters and one son. His children now living are threc sons and three daugliters. A view of his residence and of the reduction works appear in this work.
MARINER, W. P., lives at North Bloomfield where he owns a mining elaiun. He was born in Maine in 1852, and went to Pennsylvania in 1864 where he engaged in lumbering until 1869. He tben went to Colorado and the same fall to Idaho, where he engaged in Inınbering. He then went to Hlum- holdt county, California, and followed lumhering till 1873, when he came to this county aud has been in the same business. In 1878 he married Miss Mary Malon, a native of Canada.
MARSH, M. L., of the firm of M. L. & D. Marslı, saw mill owners and lumber dealers, Nevada City, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1831. He served three years as an apprentice to the earpen- ter and building trade, and then came to Califor- nia in 1851, and settled in Nevada City. He mined at Kentucky Flat, French Corral and Mid- dle Yuba in 1852, and in November of that year went to Sacramcuto and engaged in contracting
and building. In 1855 he returned to Nevada City, which has since beeu his residence. In 1859 lie engaged iu the lumber business, which has since occupied his attention. In May 1864 he married Miss E. A. Ward, of Santa Cruz county, California, a native of Wisconsin. He has three sons and one daughter. Mr. Marsh served one term as Supervisor.
MARTIN, JOHN C., lives one-half mile from North Bloomfield, his post office. He was born in Ger- many in 1830 and in 1844 went to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and engaged in blacksmithing and farm- ing until 1850. He then crossed the plains to this State and engaged in blacksmithing and mining in El Dorado county until 1863, when he went to Mexico, but returned six months later; in 1868 he came to this county and has been engaged in hlacksmithing, mining and farming. He owns 120 acres of land, valued at $5,000. Iu 1868 he married Miss Elizabeth Edmonds. a native of England, and has one son, Albert L, born April 15. 1870.
MARTIN, W. H., lives at Canada Hill; post office Nevada City. He was born in England in 1847; and came to California in 1865. Ile was engaged in mining and moulding at Grass Valley in 1867 and then in Sierra county until 1874. He has since been mining in Nevada county. He is one of the firm of Mitchell & Martin, who own 400 acres of mining land. He was married in 1874 to Miss Elizabeth Chorley, a native of England, and has one daughter.
MATTESON. A., lives two and one-quarter miles from Grass Valley. He was born in Rhode Island in 1824, and came to Grass Valley in 1851, where he bas sinee resided. He mined for twelve years and is now engaged in farming and stock raising. He owns 400 aeres of land. He was married in 1849 to a lady who died in 1851. In 1859 he mar- ried Miss Lydia Green, a native of Rbode Island. He has had one son and one daughter, both de- ccased.
MAXWELL, R. G., lives in Spenceville. He was horn in Marshall county, Alabama, in 1838, and when quite young moved with his parents to Washington county, Arkansas. He eugaged in farming until 1860 and then came to this State. He mined and teamed in Calaveras county nutil 1864, when he went to Idabo and mined until 1866. He then came back to this State and went to Oregon, and engaged in farming until 1868, when he returned and farmed in Yolo county until 1871. He then engaged in the sheep business in Ynba county until 1878, when he came to Spenceville, where he is engineer for tbe San Francisco Copper Mine. In 1873 he married Miss Katie Williams, a native of Indiana. They have an adopted daugh- ter.
MAXWELL, THOMAS W., lives at Speneeville. He was born in Washington county, Arkansas, in 1843, and came to Calaveras county, California, in 1860. He mined until 1864 and then served two years in the army in Arizona. He then farmed in Oregon until 1878, and is now engineer for the San Francisco Copper Mine, at Spence- ville. In 1867 he married Miss MI. Z. Ruggles, a native of Illinois, and has two sons and four dangh- ters.
MAYBANK, J. B., lives at Eureka South. He was born in South Carolina, 1828, and remained there until 1846; thence to Mississippi, where he farmed until 1860, when he removed to Nevada City, and engaged in miniug. In 1866 he removed to
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Eureka, where he still resides, engaged in miniug. Post office Graniteville.
MCALLISTER. F. H., lives and owns property in Sweetland. IIe was born in New Brunswick in 1846, and in September, 1866, came to California ria the Isthmus. He followed mining at Columbia Hill one year, and was in the lumber business at Cherokee four years. IIc mined and tcamed for R. C. Black of North Bloomfield awhile, and then taught school a year at Relief Hill, at North Bloomfield two terms, at North Star aud at Nevada City one year. While teaching he studied short hand aud then was court reporter at Nevada C'ity one year. He gave up that business and was clerk at the Union Hotel nearly a year; then was in the general merchandise huxincss eight mouthy with T. P. Crandall & Co., North Bloomfield. He is now teaching school at Swectland. In 1874 he married Miss Ella J. Long, a native of Orleans Fint, Nevada county, California, and has one daughter. His father came to California in 1850, returned in 1854, came again iu 1859 and returned in 1867, and still lives in New Brunswick. Mr. McAllister holds a first grade County Certificate and a State Diploma.
McBEAN, JOHN, cabinet maker; lives at Washing- ton, twenty miles from Nevada City; was born in Edinburgh in 1831; remained until 1834; then to New York with parents; remained until 1838: theu to Canada; engaged in cabinet making; remained until 1850; then to Rochester, New York; remained one year, engaged in cabinet making; returning to Caunda remained onc year, and then came to Nevada county, California, Across the plains. Married in 1864 to Esther Chamber- lain, a uative of New York; born to them three children; C. F. horn in 1865, died in 1874. Jessie horn in 1876 and Esther horn in 1878.
MCCARTHY, JOHN, lives one- fourth mile from Washington, his post office. He was horn in Ire- land in 1839 and went to Pennsylvania in 1851, to Cincinnati in 1854, to Iowa and St. Louis in 1855, and to Vickshurgh and Jackson, Mississippi, in 1836. He remained there railroading until 1865, when he went to San Francisco, aud iu 1866 came to this county, where he has since been engaged in mining. He married Miss C. Buckley, a native of Ireland, in October, 1866.
MICCAWLEY, THOMAS, lives at Nevada City. He was horn in Pennsylvania in 1857, and came here . iu 1878, aud is engaged as engineer at the Wyom- ing mine.
MCCORMICK, HAMILTON, lives on Gold Flat, and owns 160 acres of land, valued at $4,000; post office Nevada City. He was born in Ohio in 1825, and was merchandising in 1850, when he left for C'aliforuia, his journey consuming six months, seventy-eight days heing spent in Central Amer- ica. Since coming to the State he has been con- tinuously mining in this county. In 1848 he mar- ried Miss Mary Crouse, a native of Ohio, who died in 1849. In 1859 he married Miss Catherine Noonun, a uative of Ireland, who died in 1861. In 1872 he married Miss Emily P. Southerlaud, a untive of England. He has two sons and one daughter.
MCCORMICK, DR. WILLIAM, office ou Main street, Grass Valley. He was born in Pennsylva- nia in 1813, and in 1839 went to Iowa City, Iowa, and practiced lsis profession. In 1849 hie crossed the plains by the southern route, and arrived in Los Angeles in December. Three months later he prospected in Tulare county and San Joaquin
valley and thence to this county. He mined for A time, but hcing unsuccessful resumed the prac- tice of his profession, and is now the oldest prac- ticing physician in Grass Valley. In 1860 he married Miss L. M. Adams, a native of Ohio, and has one son and one daughter living, aud one son deceased. A view of his residence appears in this work.
MCCOY, JOHN, HON., was born in Fairview, Pennsylvania, April 10, 1831. In 1837 his parents removed to Cook county, Illinois, and there his father carried on a large stock farm, and was also engaged in hotel keeping. Mr. McCoy divided his time between the distriet school and the farmu, and afterwards beenme a student at the Galesburg College. After retiring from college he remained at the homestead until 1853, when he came to .California, arriving at Sacramento from across the plains in August. He At onee weut to Gold Hill, El Dorado county, and engaged in mining, whiel industry has since engaged his attention in El Dorado, Sacramento, Sierra, Butte aud Nevada countics. Mr. MeCoy has paid two visits to the home of his yonth, one in 1858 and one in 1868. It was during the former that he was united in marriage to Miss Louisa J. Holt, of Salem, Minn .. March 24, 1859. They have had four daughters, three of whom died in infancy, and two sons. In 1874 Mr. MeCoy was elected Supervisor, and in 1878 was chosen to represent the county in the Constitutional Convention. Mr. McCoy is now engaged in mining at Sehastopol, one mile from North San Juan, where he has a homestead of five and one-half neres of land, part of which is laid out in a fine vineyard, and the remainder taste- fully ornameuted with shade trees.
MCCUTCHAN, R. G., lives at Canada Hill and owns 80 acres of mining ground; post office Nevada City. He was born in Ireland in 1822 and re- mained until 1841, when he went to Australia and engaged in merchandising. In 1847 he went to New Zealand in the same business. In 1860 he went to Sau Francisco, and in September, 1851, came to this county, where he has since been eu- gaged in mining on his own account, In 1850 he married Miss E. J. Henry, a native of Ireland. He has had four sons and six daughters, of whom three sons and four daughters are now living.
McDONALD, JAMES, lives at Prosser creek; post office Boca. He was born in Ireland in 1841 and went to Boston with his parents in 1845. In 1859 he came to this State, living in San Francisco until 1867, when he went to Truckec. He built suow sheds for the C. P. R. R. Co. until 1872, when he came to Prosser creek, and is foreman for tlic Summit Ice Co. In 1874 married Miss Katic Ryan, a native of Ireland, and has one son and one daughter.
MCDONOUGH, M., lives in Grass Valley. Hc was born in Ireland in 1836 and weut to Boston in 1852. In 1853. he came to this State via Nicara- gua, and lived until 1857 in San Francisco, when he came to Grass Valley. He merchandised in Nevada City, and at one time was in business with Martin Ford. He has been largely interested in miues, and is Secretary of the Shamrock, Irish American, Vulcan, Fahy, Venus, Central and Bulldoser quartz mines, and the Enterprise gravel mine. He deals in mining stocks and has an office with A. B. Brady, on Main street. In 1874 be married Miss Mary Campiou, a native of Ire- land, They have an adopted son.
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