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SHURTLEFF, W. T., resides and owns property in Grass Valley. He was born in Canada in 1853, and in 186, came to this State with bis father. Ile lived in Nevada City until 1872 and then went to Illinois. In 1879 he returned and settled in Grass Valley and started in business under the name of W. T. shurtleff & Co., dealers in groceries, provisious, crockery, etc., on Mill street. In 1873 he married Miss M. Dillon, a native of Illinois, and bas one daughter.
SIGOURNEY, T. W., lives in Nevada City; was born in Albany, New York, in 1832, remained until 1852, engaged in hotel und merchandising; then to California and started a store in Placer county, and at the same time, one in Nevada county; was elected County Treasurer in 1856 and served two term»: since then has been engaged in mining aud loaning money, etc., also as business manager. of Nevada County Narrow Guage R. R. Company. Married Sarah Cross in 1860, a native of St. Louis, who died in 1876. They had four children, two of whom are now living, T. W., Jr., born in 1864; Wilson H., born iu 1867. A view of his place is given on another page.
SIMMONS. GEORGE W., lives at Town Talk House. He was born in Pennsylvania, 1833, and remained until 1835, when his parents removed to Oh o; anl again in 1844 to lowa, when he was crayon in farming until 1859; when he emigrated to 13 D ral, county, California, and mined about sA m ntbs. Ile then farmed in Napa county until 1961, once which time he has resided in Nevada « Lity, mining, farming, lumbering, etc. Hlas kept the Town Talk House since June, 1878. In Ir's he married Miss Susan Martel, a native of M'al'foroin. They have two children-girls. Post 1 1 . . friss Vall .v.
FIN ,LETON, MICHAEL ANGELO, was born in Yes Or ans, Louisiana, and came across the pains is Iste from the State of Jowa. In Dc. or l'er of that year he farmed at Brophy's ranch w fe Ynba river, six miilea cast of Marysville, with Col John Brophy. In the spring of 1850 he
sold his interest and went to the mines, locating on the ridge between the Middle and South Yuba rivers, at a place be named Snow Tent. Ile sold goods here through the summer and then devoted his time to mining. Ju the summer of 1851 he returned overland to lowa, and in the next year re- traced his steps to California, and engaged in mining at Jefferson, on the South Ynba. In the fall of 1833 he formed a partnership with S. S. Fenn, to conduct ranching, mining and merchan- dising. In 1855 this partnership was dissolved and Mr. Singleton moved to Sierra county, where he continued farming and mining. In 1867 he moved to Eureka South, in this county, where he has had mining interests since 1853.
SKIDMORE, R. D., lives at North Bloomfield. He was born in New York in 1832, and in 1854 came to California, and the same year to Nevada City. lle remained there till 1857 and then came 10 North Bloomfield, where he has since been mining, and since 1859 in the bakery business. He was Mining Recorder a number of years. In 1862 he married Miss Elizabeth Pliteli, a native of Ger- many, aud has two sons and three daughters.
SLOAN, ALEX., lives in Nevada City, where he has two houses and lots, Was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, May 20, 1836, and remained there until 1858, heing engaged while there iu the saw mill business. In the latter year he emigrated to California by way of the Isthmus, and established a luiher business in Mendocino county. In 1859 he removed to Nevada City, and was interested in mining at and ahout that place until 1867. Soon afterward he op ned a saloon on Broad street, and has continued in that business ever since. Upon April 22, 1868, he married Mary Osborne, a native of Milltown, New Brunswick. They have had six children; four only are now living. Mary Ger- trude, born June 26, 1869; Jennic, born April &, 1871 (died November 10, 1875); Thomas Edward, boru March 16, 1873: Alex. Hurbert, born June 10, 1875; Mabel Alice, born January 20. 1877 (died March 12, 1878); Elizabeth, born January 10, 1879.
SMITHI, J. L., resides on the Crandall road to Colfax. three-fourths of a mile from the center of Grass Valley, his post office. He was born in Scotland in 1827, and in 1848 came to the United States, aud to California in 1853, and settled on the place he is now occupying.
SMITH, JOHN M., lives four miles from Nevada ('ity, his post office, and owns forty neres of land. He was born in Germany in 1824, and went to I'hiladelphia in 1845, where he followed shoe- making till 1857. Ilc then came to the plaer he now occupies, where he has been chiefly engaged in mining. In 1847 he married Miss Barbara Long, a native of Germany, aud has one son and has lost a daughter.
SMITH, JOHN MILTON, lives teu miles from Grass Valley, his post office, and owns 400 acres of land. He was born in Ohio in 1830, and in the spring of 1852 came to California. Hle teamed in Placer- ville until November, 1855, and then came to this county and has since been engaged in farming and stock raising. He owns lime kilns and the fine stallion Buckeye. Ile owns, also, fifty acres of alfalfa, from which he cuts an average of five tons of hay. In 1852 he married Miss Sarah A. Thomp- son, a native of Ohio, and has five sons and two daughters.
SMITH, WM. Il., is a wholesale and retail dealer in groceries, liquors, etc., upon Commercial street,
Nevada City. He was born in Jefferson county, New York, March 7, 1829. Emigrated to Califor- nia in 1864, and settled in Nevada county. Mar- ried Miss C. J. Hallagan August 10, 1862, she heing a native of Iowa, and horn January 20, 1842, com- ing to California iu 1860. They have two girls and one boy. Alice, born December 8, 1863; Emma, born November 13, 1865; Willie, born November 19, 1867. Mr. Smith has held office as Supervisor of District No. 1. Nevada county, for three years. His present business was established in 1879, and is paying well.
SNELL, B. F .. lives at You Bet, and owns town property. He was born in Maine in 1833, and came to this State in 1854. He mined at Iowa Ilill, Placer county, till 1855, and then came to this county, engaging in the dairy business at Hunt's Hill. In 1857 he came to You Bet, and was butehering until 1873, when he opened a store. He has been Post Master since 1869 and Constable since 1872. He owns the Buekeye Hill hydraulic elaims near You Bet. In 1864 he mar- ried Miss Lucinda Wilkinson, a native of Canada, and has one sou.
SOUTIIERN, JOSEPH, owus the Larimer Quartz Mill, one and one-half miles south of Grass Valley, on Wolf creek; residence one-fourth mile from the mill. He was born in England in 1826. and moved to Wiseonsiu in 1851, and mined until 1854. when he came to Grass Valley, and has sinee lived here. Ile was married in 1876, and has one son and one daughter. The mill has nineteen stamps, with a capacity of forty tons per day. and docs custom work. It is run by steam and water power, and crushes roek for mines as far distant :14 twenty miles.
SPENCER, WILLIAM K., resides corner of School and Neal streets, Grass Valley. He was born in England in 1823, and went to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1841. In 1844 he went to Mississippi, and engaged in the cotton gin business until 1851, and then came to California. He mined at Mormon Island until 1855, and then came to Grass Valley. He opened a stationery store where the Holbrooke House now stands, and was burned out in 1855. He then removed to the opposite side of the street, where he still continues the stationery business. notwithstanding the fact that he was again burned ont in 1873. In 1858 he married Miss D. J. Bar- ber. a native of Rhode Island, and has five sons. and one daughter. He has been Notary Public for the last twelve years.
SPRAGUE. J.W., resides at Nevada City. Ile was born in Massachusetts in 1830, and engaged in mercan- tile business until 1853, and arrived in California in 1854. IIe mined in Sierra county till 1856. in the north part of this county till 1863, in the State of Nevada till 1867, in Mono enunty till 1870. in UTtah and Nevada again till 1878, and in January. 1879. came back to this county, and is Superin- dent of the Nevada City Gold Quartz Mine. In 1867 he married Miss M. W. Mayhew, a native of Massachusetts.
STAPLES, THIOS., lives two miles from Eureka South. He was born in England in 1835, and in 1845 shipped to the Enst Indies, Followed the sea until 1857, when he settled at Bloomfield, Nevado county, California, und engaged in mining. lle was onee shipwrecked opposite Jado, Asin, and has crossed the Arabian desert on camels, In 1866 he married Miss MaryF. Anderson, a nativeof Illi- nois. They have had four boys (three living) and two girls (both living). Post office Graniteville.
STEESE, B. F., lives at Spenceville; post office there, or Wheatland, Ynba county. He was born in Ohio in 1840 and iu 1854 came to Newtown, in this county. He has followed mining iu this county ever since, and is at present foreman of the San Francisco Copper Mining Co. at Spenceville. STENGER, AUGUSTUS, lives at Gold I lat; post office, Nevada (ity. He was born in Bavaria in 1832, and in 1839 went to St. Louis, Mi-conri, with his parents. In 1850 he came to this co ty and mined and merchandised until 1854. and then went back to Missouri and engaged in saw ii. ing till 1858, when he returucd to this county & I bought the Cold Spring place. He was there a year and then went to Washington and kept hotel till 1861, then mined at Gaston Ridge till 1863, then pros peeted on Fall creek until that winter, when he came to Nevada City, and has since been engaged as an engineer and in mining. In 1857 he mar- ried Miss Mary Smith, a native of Luxemburg, Germany, and has two sons and five daughters.
STEVENS, F. P., lives in Truckce. He was born in Oswego county, New York, iu 1834, and went to Iowa in 1854 and engaged in the stove and tin ware business until 1857, when he erossed the plains. He mined in Plumas county till 1858. in North San Juan a few months, then was in Nevada City until 1862, at the Carriboo mines three years, iu Sonoma nine months, in Grass Valley two years. and then came to Truckee. He has been in the stove and tin ware business for himself since 1×68. and owns two stores and three dwelling hou-es. In 1879 he married Mrs. Mary E. Henry, a uative of Galena, Illinois.
STIDGER, JAMES A , resides and owns property in North San Juan. He was born in ('anton, Stark county, Ohio, in 1837, and remained there until 1857. He was United states Enrolling Officer for the townships Bridgeport, Eureka and Rough and Ready. in this county in 1863, and was Sergeant at Arms of the State Senate during the fifteenth session. In 1866 he was admitted to the bar of the Fourteenth Judicial District of C. liforuia. and has since been practicing law. He has been Notary Public for eight years. In 1-72 he marrie 1 Mi-s Maria Connor, a uative of Ireland. and bas one son.
STIDGER, O. P., lives and owns property in North San Juan. He was born in Canton. Stark county. Ohio, in 1814, aud engaged in farming until 1549. when he came to California and Lept hotel in Sac- ramento till 1850. He theu moved to Faster Jir. Yula county, and engaged in merch ind s'ng aud mining until 1851 and then went to Marysvi' e. and lived umtil 1856. While there he published the Marysville Herald. He thiu nu ved't North San Juan and published the Press in 1503. In 1864 he moved the material to, Nevada City and issued the Gazette, which he > k a year later and returned to North San Jnau and practiced law until 1873. He then went to Nevala City sı 1 owned an interest in the ?' ans us fur ment!s and again returned and edited the Te su tl 1878, when he resumed his law practice. He h. < held the office of Justice of the Peace and tear nte Justice of the Court of Sessons of Y1 a connty. lu 1836 he married Viss Fia Hau . a native of Pennsylvania. He was san marr & 1 to Miss Almira Il. Lyon, a native of New York. Ile has three sons livin ..
STOAKES. A. L., Lives at Quaker Hl, piet chce Nevada City. He was born in Indiana in 14 . and came to California with his parents in /wii,
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His father kept a store at Irish creek, El Dorado county and then hotel at Todd's Valley, then mined at Michigan Bluff's and at Gold Run, Placer county, where he died in 1865. Mr. Stoakes mined there and kept hotel till 1878 and then had a >abon in Nevada City, and is now mining at Quaker Ifill. In 1876 he married Mrs. A. L. Lyons, a native of New York, and has one son and clic daughter.
STOCKDALE, M. Jives three miles from Nevada ( ity, a d two and one-half miles from Grass Valley, his post office, and owns eighty acres, worth $1,000. le was boru in Ohio in 1833, and in 1853 came to this county and mined until 1856. He then went back to Ohio and returned in 1859, and has since lived here, except during 1863, when he was in Alpine county. In 1864 he married Miss Louellen Fon, a native of Missouri, and has two sons and our daughters.
STOLL, JOSEPH, lives in Truckce. He was born in Germany in 1834, aud in 1852 went to Ohio and engaged in haking until 1854, when he went to Grass Valley, California. Hle was a baker there one year, mined thirteen years, kept store six years, and in 1874 went to Dutch Flat, and a year later came to Truckee, where he is proprietor of the St. Louis Brewery. In 1873 he married Miss Mary Klensorge, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, and has one son and two daughters, having Jost one son.
STONE, J. P., resides at No. 52 Church street, Grass Valley. He was born in Massachusetts in 1827, and went to Ohio in 1847 and engaged in mercan- tile pursuits until 1849. He then came to this State in 1849 and lived in Placerville till 1850; then to Sacramento City, to Yuba river and in same summer to Grass Valley, and has since remained here. He owns the Empire Ditch with Mr. Grithiths. August 1, 1852 he married Miss Rose Farrington, a native of Maine, and has four children, Marion P., Harold, Emma S. and Anna. The eldest is teaching the Grammar School in (ilass Valley.
STONEBRIDGE, CHARLES, lives near Nevada C'ity and owns eighty acres of land, valned at $2.500. Ile was born in Bremen, Germany, in 1831, and weut to New York in 1845. Huengaged in the grocery business ten years, was on the Sixth Avenue railroad eight years, and has since been en- gaged in manufacturing tin foil. His family came to California in 1875 and he came here in 1878, but returned to New York in 1879. 1n 1856 he mar. ried Miss MI, Sayres, a native of New York City, all has four sons and three daughters.
STRANAHAN, S. N., lives one aud one- fourth miles north of Nevada City, and owns 14,400 acres of land. Hle was born in New York in 1825, and was engaged in farming and the fruit business until 1850, when he came to California. Ile mined and rut two ditches in Calaveras county nutil 1854, rined and kept hotel in Tuolumne county till 1862. and struck the first lead on Table Mountain and framed the laws for the district. He then went to Contra Costa and San Francisco, being interested in ou and coal. In 1866 he came to Nevada county aml is largely interested in mines, expecially the Mammoth Blue Gravel Mining Con pany.
In 1849 he married Miss Adaline Stranahan, a native of New York. They had a laughter who died at the Stockton Female Sem- inary in 1850; they have now an adopted daughter. STUART, MRS. E. J., lives twelve miles from Nevada City and three miles from Rough and Ready, her post office, and owns 400 acres of land.
She was born in Kentucky in 1832, und in 1847 went to Missouri. In 1848 she crossed the plains to Mutter's Fort, California. Her husband carried the chain when Sacramento was mid out. In 1849 they went to Rose Bar, Yuba county, and a few months later to Fremont, Yolo county. In 1851 they moved to the place she now occupies. ller husband, W. K. Stuart, was a native of Maryland, and married her in 1848. He died in 1873. Ilcr land lies on the edge of Pen Valley and she has been offered $6,000 for it. Mrs. Stuart was the first white woman that cooked a meal in Sacra- mento ('ity. She has three sous and one daughter, having lost two daughters.
SUTTON, P., lives two miles from Nevada City, his post office, and the same distance from Grass Val- ley, and owus 280 acres of land, valued at $13,000. Ile was born iu Canada in 1823, and in 1850 came Nevada county. He miued until 1852 and then went back to Canada, where he engaged in farm- ing and boot aud shoe manufacturing uutil 1857, when he returned to this conuty. He has been engaged in farming, except for two years past, when he had a grocery store in Nevada City. Ile is now farming and dairying. Ile has been in the milk business for many years, and for the last fifteen years has raised quantities of mangel wurzel beets. Hlas a side track from the railroad at his place. In 1865 he married Miss Agnes Fraser, a native of Canada, and has two daughters.
SWEETLAND, JAMES O., lives at Sweetland. IIe was born in Virginia in 1833, and went to Ten- nessce iu 1846, where he clerked until 1853. He then came to California, and settled in Sweetland, named after his brother, 11. P. Sweetland, who first settled therc. Ile has since been miuing, aud owns considerable mining property. In 1856 he married Miss Martha V. Scott, who died in 1873. Ile has four sons and one daughter, and has lost a son and a daughter. For the last two years he was Deputy County Assessor.
TAM, ANTONIO, live in Nevada City, where he owi s two houses and lots. He was born in Italy, 1841, and remained there until 1859; then emigrat- ing to Missouri, United States, where he en- gaged in confectionery and saloon business. In 1861 he removed to Sacramento county, California, where he kept a restaurant till 1864. From there he went to Grass Valley, and engaged in mining and hotel business. In 1869 hc removed to Nevada City, and was steward in the National Exchange Hotel for two years; then started his present business upon Pine strect. Ile married Maria Finley, a native of Ireland, in 1869.
TAYLOR, BENJAMIN, lives in Grass Valley. He was born in Kentucky in 1826, and went to Missouri with his parents in 1834. In 1849 he came to California, and engaged in mining and stock raising at Buena Vista Ranch, in this county. . He is now farming and owns 300 acres of land. He is one of the principal owners in the road to Colfax. Ile has made three trips across the plains, twice with stock. In 1856 he married Miss E. Ilnling, a nalive of Indiana, and has two sons and two daughters. A view of his place is given elsewhere.
TAYLOR, CORNELIUS, resides and owns property in Grass Valley. He was born in Mississippi in 1839, and came to Nevada county in 1853. From 1855 to 1860 he attended the Tennessee State University, and then returned to this county. He read law in the office of McConnell & Garber, Vir- ginia City, und was admitted to practice in the
Supreme Court of California in 1861. He then mined in the State of Nevada till 1864, and then came back to this county, and has since been practicing his profession. In 1865 he married Miss R. Carson, a native of Missouri, and has two sons and one daughter.
TAYLOR, C. O., lives two miles from Grass Valley, and two miles from Rough and Ready, his post office, and owns eighty acres of laud, valued at $1,000. He was born in New York City iu 1827, and went to New Jersey with bis parents in 1829. In 1850 he went to New York, and in 1852 came to this county, where he has since resided. He bas beeu chiefly mining, but from 1856 to 1858 was in the saw mill business. In 1849 he married Miss Matilda Ball, a uative of New Jersey, and has two sons.
TAYLOR, JOHN W., lives six miles west of Rough and Ready, his post office, and owns 160 acres, worth $1,000. He was born in England in 1834, and went to San Francisco in 1849. In 1850 he went to Yuba county and mined till 1857. Was then in San Francisco five months, since which time he has lived in this county. In 1872 he married Miss Sarah E. Milliner, a native of Missouri, and has one son and one daughter, having lost two sons.
TAYLOR, M. C., proprietor of the Mill Street Fonudry, Grass Valley. He was born in Ireland in 1828, and went to Ohio in 1844, and was ap- prenticed in a machine shop till 1847, wheu he went to Cuyahoga Falls and then to Mississippi, in the machinery business. He started for Califor- nia in 1852, aud ran a steamer at Panama until he became ill, when he went to New Orleans. Iu 1854 he came to this State and lived in Sacramento till 1855, when he came to Grass Valley. In 1856 he started the Mill Street Foundry, with others, and has been sole owner of it for twenty years. In 1865 he married Miss Maria Quinn, a native of Irelaud, and has two sons. A view of his foundry is given in this work.
TIIOMAS, REUBEN, resides at Grass Valley. He was born in England about 1826, and in 1852 came to California by the Isthmus of Panama. He has been engaged in mining in this county ever since. He owns seventy-eight acres of miuing ground and a nice home in the edge of Grass Valley. In 1862 he married Miss Maria O'Conuor, a native of Ireland, and has two sons and one daughter.
THOMPSON, B., resides at Rough and Ready at the toll house, and owns 160 acres of land. He was born in Vermont in 1826, and came to Califor- nia in 1852. He miued until 1854, and then re- turned to Vermont. and iu same year went to Wisconsin. After farmuing there until 1859 he again crossed the plains, and has since been min- ing, farming and managing a toll road. In 1848 he married Miss Emily Douglass, a native of New York. They have an adopted daughter.
THOMPSON, HENRY, lives in Nevada City. He was born in Santa Barbara, Austria, in 1844, and remained there until 1862, when he became a sailor and went to New York; afterward spent about two years upon a packet ship running be- tween that port and England. Removed to Nevada county, California, and engaged in min- ing, being also employed by the Yuba Canal Co. He married Mary Oliver, a native of Cauada, in 1877. They have one son, Henry, born July 4. 1878.
TIERNEY, JOIIN, resides and owns property in Boston Ravine; post office Grass Valley. He was born in Ireland in 1831, and in 1846 went to New
Orleans, and thence to Wisconsin, where he mined until 1853. He then came to Grass Valley, where he has ever since been mining. He is Superintend- ent of the Alaska, Shamrock and Omaha mills and miues. From 1850 to 1859 he was merchan- dising. In 1858 he married Miss Mary Ann McGoldrick, a native of New Orleans, and has five sons and four daughters.
TOMPKINS, E. A., M. D., office and residence cor- ner of Church and Neal streets, Grass Valley. He was born in Tompkins county, New York, in J$13. In 1850 he came to this State, and lived in Placer- ville six months, Marysville three months, Rose Bar five months, engaged in practicing los pro- fession aud in mining. He then came to Grass Valley, which has since been his home. During the war he was Assistant Surgeon of the Fourth California Volunteers, stationed in Oregon and Washington Territory. In 1863 he returned to Grass Valley, and later was Surgeon one year of the steamer "Sierra Nevada," plying between San Francisco and Panama. He was interested in the well known Lucky quartz mine, and is now President of the Planet Gravel Mining Co. In 1842 he married Miss Henriette S. Leonard, a native of Havana, New York. They have had one son and four daughters, of whom but one daughter is now living.
TOMPKINS, E. O., lives one mile from the Anthony Honse, his post office being there or at Nevada City. Ile was born in New York in 1821, and ia 1851 came to this State. He lived in Bear Valley a number of years, and at his present place the past four years, engaged in larming and stock raising-with his son. He kept hotel some years in Bear Valley. He has been Deputy Sheriff and Marshal of Nevada City, and is now Sheriff of Nevada county. In 1854 he married Miss R. Butterfield, a native of Maine, and has one son.
TOWER, A. D., lives in Nevada City, where he is agent for Wells, Fargo & Co. He was born in Rochester, New York, 1831. and removed in 1840 to Florida, W. T., where he remained till 1853, engaged in clerking. From there he went to san Francisco, aud remained until 1857 as Express Messenger; since that time he has occupied his present position.
TÓWL, EZRA W., lives at Nevada City. Ile was born iu Vermont in 1827, and arrived in thi- State in 1854, living that year in Ynba county, aud has siuce made Nevada county his home, engaged in mining and farming. In 1870 he married Miss s. E. Jones, a native of Vermont. A view of his place is given elsewhere.
TÓWLE, H. D., lives in Nevada City. He was born in Vermont in 1837, and ju 1856 came to this county, and has been engaged in lumbering. Since 1862 he has lived on the plare he now owns, and for the past seventeen year, has been diteh agent for the South Yuba Canal Co. In 1866 he married Miss Jennette Ellisou, a uative of Edinburg. Scotland, and has two sons.
TRATHEN, WILLIAM, resides at Dutch Flat, Placer county. He was born in England in 1826. and went to Michigan in 1855, where he engaged in mining. In 1856 he came to Dutch Flat. where he has since lived, engaged in mining. In March, 1877, he became Superintendent of the East New York drift miue. In 1864 he married Miss Mary C. Harris, a native of Massachusetts, and has two sous and one daughter.
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