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TREANOR, J. M., lives four miles from North San Juan, bis post oflive, and three from Cherokee, and
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owus cighty acres of land. lle was born in Hamilton, Canada West, in 1829, and from 1849 to 1851 lived in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. Ile then crossed the plains and reached Nevada City July 15, 1851, and has since made this county his home. He has been engaged in mining, farming, water agent and ditch tend- ing, and is at present farming and teaming, and owus mining interests. Ju 1857 he married Miss R. Rojas, a native of Chili, South America, and has two sons and three daughters.
TREDINICK, JOHN, lives at Gold Flat. He was born in Cornwall, England, 1850, and remained until 1869, engaged in mining, when he removed to Nevada county, California, and worked on snow sheds of Central Pacific Railroad Co. for ahout four months; theuce to Humboldt county, where he was en- gaged in fishing for about three months; thence to Grass Valley, and has lived in the county ever since, mining and engineering. Was engaged in the English service about oue year, and had to pay one hundred dollars for his discharge. In 1871 he married Miss Helen Jeffery, a native of Pennsyl- vauia. They have three hoys and one girl. Post office Nevada City.
TURNER, A. G., lives at Hunt's Hill; post office Nevada City. He was horn in Maine in 1823, and was a farmer and ship carpenter till 1849, when he came around the Horn to California. He mined at Long Bar, Yuba county, till 1850, at Downieville six months, in Yuha county till 1851, in Sierra county until 1859, and then came to Hunt's Hill. He is owner of the Easton and Maine hydraulic claims, containing 100 acres. He was married in Maine in 1859 to Miss Carrie W. Prchle, a native of Whitefield, Maine, boru in 1833. They have two sons and two daughters.
TURNER, WILLIAM, lives six miles from Grass Valley, his post office, and cigliteeu from Anburn, aud owns eighty acres of land. He was horn in Ireland in 1840, and in 1849 went to New York, and remained until 1855 in the dairy business. He then went to Iowa and farmed until 1861, when he came to Grass Valley. He mined, then worked for a rancher, and hy industry and econ- oiny saved enough to huy his present place, where he is farming and stock raising. In 1865 he married Miss Annie Driscoll, a native of Ire- land, aud has one son and four daughters.
TUTTLE, C. F., lives at Lowell Hill. He was born in Indiana in 1849, aud farmed there until 1874, when he came to this State. He was in the laundry business in Visalia till 1878, and in Dutch Flat six months, and has since heen in the same . business in Lowell Hill. He was married in Indiana in 1874 to Miss Nancy White, born in Muncie, Indiana, in 1850, and has one son and one daughter.
TWAMLEY, RICHARD, resides and owns property in North San Juau. He was born in Genesee county, New York, in 1831, and came to California via the Isthmus in 1849, and mined in Yuba county until 1854, when he settled in Marysville, and engaged in the livery business until 1857. He then followed farming and stock raising in Sutter and Colusa counties till 1865, when he came to North San Juan. He mined for a while and then embarked in the lumber business. He has been East three times since first coming to the State. In 1868 he married Miss Jane Millin, a native of Canada, and has one son and one daughter.
TYLER, GEO. A., lives at.Eureka South. He was horn in Maine, 1847, and lived there until 1863,
when he enlisted and served as a soldierin Arizona until 1867, when he went to San Francisco; thence to Gilroy, Santa Clara county; and thence to Sut- ter county with stock. In 1869 he went to Nevada county, where he is now engaged in mining. In 1875 he married Miss Inez E. Lazelle, a native of New York. They have two children, both girls. Mrs. Tyler is post mistress at Graniteville.
VANAUKEN, T., lives three miles from Rough and Ready, his post office, and eight miles from Nevada City, and owns 160 acres of land. He was born in New York in 1837, and came to Cal- ifornia in 1850. He lived in, El Dorado county till 1851; then in Sierra county six months; then in Yuba county till 1852, and since in this county. Ilas hcen continuously engaged in mining. In
1873 he married Miss Lola C. Wheeler, a native of Maine.
VAN ORDEN, W. B., grocer at No. 42 Main street, Grass Valley, was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1832, and in 1854 went to San Francisco. In 1856 he went to Marysville and six months later to Long Bar, Yuba county, and merchandised until 1869; then to Butte county in same business till 1867. He then came to Grass Valley and clerked for R. Finnie ten years, and in 1878 opened his present store. In 1867 he married Miss Eliza Garvey, a native of Ireland, and has two sons and one daughter.
VILLAIN, JEAN B., lives at Empire Flat. French Corral. He was horn in France in 1831. and was a waiter in a Paris restaurant when he left in 1854, coming hy New York and Nicaragua to California. He mined in Nevada and Yuba counties till 1858, aud then settled in French Corral, where he has principally engaged in mining and owns town lots and mining property. In 1862 he married Miss Fannie Maluevre, a native of France, and has two boys and three girls. He owns property iu Sau Francisco and San Jose.
VON SCHMITTBURG, G., was born in Germany in 1823 and emigrated to America in 1850, settling in St. Louis. In 1852 he came to California, and has engaged in mining and several other occupa- tions. He has been Post Master at Nevada City and Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of that place four years. He is at present Treasurer of Nevada county. He was married in 1869 to a native of Germany, and has one daughter. His post office is Nevada City, California.
VOSS, LOUIS, owns a saw mill and 2,560 acres of land thirteen miles from Nevada City and seven- teen from Grass Valley; post office You Bet. Hc was born in Germany in 1828, and in 1849 came to California aud mined in various localities until 1855, and has since heen in the lumber business in this county and owns a large saw mill, a view of which appears in this work. In 1860 he married Miss Amelia Yager, a native of Germany, and has two daughters.
VOYCE, LUKE, lives just west of Nevada City, his post office, and owns eighty acres of land. He was horn in Gloucestershire, England, in 1841, and came here in 1867.
WALDERS, G. G., post office North Bloomfield. He was born in Holland in 1821, and from 1835 to 1848 was a sailor in the East India trade. He came to California in 1850 and was. for four years a pilot in San Francisco hay. He then came to this county and has since been mining ou American Bar on South Yuba. Mr. Walders made a voyage from San Francisco to Hong Kong in the ship " Osceola," and was wrecked in the China sea, heing picked
up by a British war vessel after being nine days in an open boat. In 1871 he married Mrs. Adilade Keegan, of Washington, Nevada county, Califor- nia, who was born in Dublin, Ireland. She came to California from Australia in 1867 in the ship " Golden Sunset," and was wrecked on Edinburg Island iu the South Pacific Ocean, she heing picked up with others by an American vessel after spend- ing thirteen days on the island. She has two sons and one daughter by her former husband.
WALKER, A. M., resides and practices law in Truckee. He was born in Breckenridge county, Kentucky, in 1826, and in 1828 went to Schuyler county, Illinois, and in 1849 to Grant county, Wis- consin. In 1850 he crossed the plains to Placer- ville, and that fall went to Barnes Bar, North Fork American river, returning to El Dorado county the following spring. In the fall of 1852 he went to Sacramento and kept a horse market till June, 1853, when he went to St. Louis, Sierra county, and mined until 1859. He then practiced law at Downieville three years, at Gibsonville till 1864, at Virginia City eight months and at Washoe City with E. S. Chipman seven months. He then went to Meadow Lake, Nevada county, California, and in 1868 came to Truckee. He has held the office of Justice of the Peace six years past. He was admitted to the Supreme Court of Kentucky in 1847 and of Wisconsin in 1849. In 1878 he married Mrs. Mary E. Thomas, a native of Guern- sey, England.
WALLING, J. M., lives in Nevada City. He was horn in Seott county, Iowa, in 1841, and remained there until 1861, engaged in farming; then enlisted in Union army and remained in the service until December, 1865. In March, 1866. he emigrated to California, and settled in Rough and Ready, Nevada county, where he kept hotel. In March, 1872, he removed to Nevada City. In 1876 he began practicing law and is still engaged therein. He married Miss C. E. Snell, a native of Nevada county, in 1872, aud has three children living. two boys and one girl. Mr. Walling was First Lien- tenant in the Union army, and since his arrival in California has been County Recorder and Justice of the Peace in Nevada county.
WALRATH, R. C., was horu in Chittenango, Madi- son county, New York, November 30, 1828. · At the age of fourteen years he commeuced clerking in a country store and at the age of twenty-Que hecame a member of the firm, continuing in the firm until 1860. He then engaged in the business of boat building and dry dock ou the Erie canal, at Chittenango. In 1868 he came to California and associated himself with J. V. Hunter and Z. Amos, importing hard wood, Imber, timber and wagon and carriage materials. In 1871 he engaged in mining at Nevada City, which is his present address. Ile married in 1854, and has a sou and a daughter. His wife died in San Francisco, De- cember 26, 1870.
WALWORTH, S. L., resides at No. 8 Richardson street, Grass Valley. He was born in Oswego county, New York, June 19, 1822, and engaged in farming till he came to California in 1852, and has since lived in Grass Valley. In 1834 Cornell & Walworth made the first brick in the county, and he continued in the business till 1876, since when he has been farming. Ile owus 360 acres iu Rongh aud Ready township, ten miles from Grass Valley. on the MeCourtney road. In 1862 he married Miss R. E. Collins, a native of Indiana, and has three sous aud oue daughter.
WARNER, GEORGE W., Fives two and- miles from Nevada City and one and one-fall from Grass Valley, bis post office. He was New York iu 1822, and went to hr I farming there till 1849. He then crosee the [ and mined that winter at Rome L'ar, Y and at Downieville until 1-51. He then i, this county, where he has been milis z. tr z and farming, and own- fifty arre of ar , va
at $3,000. In January, 1×48, he married M . Sophia Gill, a native of New York. The Late three sons and nine daughters, eleven f e children having been born in ( aliforma.
WATSON. B. J., proprietor of the Truckee Fiege. lican, resides at Truckee. He was born in = .* Genesee county, New York, March 2. 1 2 moved to Troy, Wisconsin, when nine years of He attended public school till he arrived at te age of fifteen and then pared three years Milton College. He read law and was admitted to the Circuit Court of Wisconsin in 1-61. He taught school till 1804, and then came ₺ this State, arriving May 24, 1864. He e mme teach school at Forest springs, in it> o. i. B July, 1864. He remained three year and stra returned East. but returned in 18,0 and tan.b: az Forest Springs till 1872. He was th a el County Superintendent of School and caught in Nevada City one year, when he purchased a ha : interest in the Nevada Transcript. and edited :_ a: paper three years. He established the Nos Weekly Gazette, and six months later » d his i ser- est in hoth papers and traveled tw vea- ix - - wife's health. He was elected J. ins pena: . f : Nevada and sierra connties in 1 -... and : 1. purchased the Truckee Repu . In 1-" married Miss Marie Louise Winne, in W - and has a son in the san Francisco press Both Mr. Watson and his wife had Life E :. + tional Diplomas.
WATSON, W. R., resides at Truckee. He was a in York county, Pennsylvan a, May 9. 1 .. . came to California in February, 1:23 :__ Tinin Master of the C. P. R. P .. at frachee.
WATT, DAVID, lives in Burton Ravine, Gras V- ley. He was horn in Ec iland in 1-224 and - 1:54 went to England. In luil he came t Cali and has since resided in Grass Val v. H- > Superintendent of the Empire mi e. I 14 Le marrie I Miss I. G. Dow, a native vi Su 1- 2. has one son. A view of his residence :. ... another page.
WEBER, NICOLAS. Fre st Indian FAL : and one-fourth miles from Nevada Civ. Es pai He was born in France in 1:32. si Tes: : ... York in 1850. He was in a glass fact . t uutil 1853, and then in s grocery i New Ura- till 1854. when he came : the siste. He in Sierra county till 1sol. and has . ce Auml the same occupation in this contr. He .. . ateres of laud, valued at $1. . - -- ried Annie Antvant. a native ef Filo. l has three sous and two daughie's
WEBSTER. I. R. DR. was heter of August, [536, near Greenmile. P In 1844 his father Sau tel Wels. co pel two forms in Hickory T. P. Una sylvania, where he reunved s me year. Here the . . .. ... labored hand nuti the s began to feel the tord
- whilst working in the Set. Le til T- he was going to who d .
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father said he could not spare him, finally, how- ever, he yielded and allowed him to attend & selvet school in Ohio, where he boarded himself. His father beiug well pleased with his proficiency, permitted him to continue at school two terms of the year, part of the time at Kingsville Academy, until he was prepared for teaching, which he followed during the winter; working on the farm in the spring aud summer, and attending school again in the fall. He soon became one of the first teachers in Mercer county, and obtained a per- petual certificate. About this time he commemced the study of law; but on account of weak eyes was obliged to abandou it. He continued teach- ing for about five years. In 1860 he left his home for Keuturky, his father offered him money on leaving, but he refused it, saying, I will sink or swim a'one. He perused the study of medicine with Dr. A. Jackson of Richmond, Kentucky, and graduated at the University of New York City iu March, 1864. He was engaged as Contract Sur- geon during the war of the rebellion under Post Surgeon Field of Indiana. He was called to act as surgeou and physician in St. John's Hospital, Cincinnati. He was physiciau to the New York Lying.in Asylum of New York City. After grad- uating, he practiced his professiou, principally in Ohio until 1874. He held the position of surgeon ou the Lake Shore and Michigau Southern R. R .; until after his arival iu California in March, 1874, when he resigned, since which tin.e he has been engaged in his profession. He is now the only U. S. examining surgeon in Nevada county. He was married in 1865 to the eldest daughter of Dr. C. C. Riggs, D. D .. now a resident of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Blansville Ladies' Seminary of Pennsylvania. As a result of this marriage, two children were born, a son and daughter, the latter died in infancy. Dr. Webster believed in "paddling his own canoe." and although the most of his time was occupied in assisting to clear and cultivate a rugged farm, yet he engaged himself in odd spells in cutting cord wood from lis father's farm and delivering it in town, two miles distaut, at the low price of one dollar per cord. His hahits are strictly temperate, using neither tea, coffee, tobacco or whiskey. He pa-sed through college unaided, and notwithstanding his severe trials in youth, he has by diligence and persevernce made life a success. A view of Dr. Wehster's residence appears in this work.
WEED, ISAAC L., lives four miles from Nevada City and one and one-fourth miles from Grass Valley, his po-t office. He was born in New York in 1822, and went to Connecticut in 1824 where he learned and worked at the hatter's trade. January 10, 1849, he left New York on the bark "Harriet Newell " and arrived at San Francisco from around Cape Horn July 24, 1849. He mined first at Mormon Island, and arrived at Grass Valley, Augint 6, 1850, and has since made this county lis home. Ile has followed mining most of the time, and is now farming and fruit raising on his place of 160 acres. on which is an orchard of nearly 700 trees. In 1857 he married Miss S. A. Fester, a native of Iowa, who crossed the plains in 1849 and came to this county in 1851. They have two sons and one daughter.
WEISENBURGER J. J., lives in Nevada City. He was born in Hollowayville, Bureau county, Illinois, on the 4th day of February, 1855, and lived in that State until the winter of 1862. In the spring of 1863 he came to California with his
parents. Lived at Downieville, Sierra county, for three years, and then went to Sheridan, Placer county, where he lived one year. From there lie went to Nevada City, and in the fall of 1876 began the study of law, and is still eugaged therein.
WEISS, E., resides in Nevada City; has nearly four acres of land with dwelling house, brewery, harns, etc .; was born in Alsace, France, July 10, 1823, and remained there until 1838; thence to Basel, Switzerland, where he remained until 1841, learn- ing coopering trade; thence to Strasburg where he remained until 1843, learning brewing. He next traveled through the French provinces, spending three years in Southern France. Returned honie from Paris in 1847. In 1848, sailed from Havre for New York in steamer "Santinee." Eight
days before arrival, four lives were lost by light- ning. February 6, 1850, he left New York for California in the ship "Saratoga," and arrived at San Francisco in July. From there he went to Sacramento, and walked thence to Nevada City, then a small mining camp. In August, 1850, he built a brewery and house in Nevada City, which were destroyed by fire in 1856. In the same year he built his present establishment, Mr. Weiss believes himself to be the longest in business of any hrewer in California, and would be glad to hear if the claim is disputed. He married Caro- line Lampa, a native of Bremen, Germany, Jan- ary 6, 1853. They have had ten children, of whom there are now living three sons and five daughters. The eldest son, E. F. Weiss, was born January 17, 1854, and is engaged with his father in business. The eldest daughter was born, January 23, 1856, and is the wife of Leopold Legand of San Fran- cisco. The other children are all at home, the youngest, 11 years. Two years ago Mr. aud Mrs. Weiss celebrated their silver we ding, having the same minister, the same bridesmaid and groom, and largely the same company who attended their marriage in 1853.
WELCH, GEORGE W., lives in Nevada City; was horn in Monroe county, New York, in 1827, and remained there until 1838, when he removed to Michigan. In 1852 he emigrated to California, overland, and arrived in Nevada City during September of that year; was engaged in mining until 1856, wben he started a book aud stationery business immediately after the great fire of that year, and has continued therein ever since. In 1857 he married Mary R. Van Bergen, a native of Wisconsin. They have one son, W. E. Welch, born August 18, 1871,
WELLINGTON, D., lives in Nevada City; was horn in Wooster, Massachusetts, in 1816, and remained there until 1846, engaged in hotel keep- ing; thence to St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained till 1852, engaged in the rivertrade to New Orleans. In that year he emigrated to California and engaged in mining in El Dorado county. In 1855 he removed to Folsom, where he built the Central IJotel, which he kept until 1861; thence to Nevada where he kept hotel at Wellington sta- tion, and ran stages to Aurora and Carson City until 1869. Then returned to Massachusetts, bought a farm, and stayed one year. Theu returned to California and settled at San Mateo, running stages to Pescadero until 1872. Then moved to Grass Valley and ran stages from Nevada to Colfax until the railroad was built in 1876. Then moved to Nevada City, where he now keeps the Empire livery stable, and runs stages to North Bloomfield, Moore's Flat and Eureka. Married
Lucy F. Flagg, a native of Holden, Massachusetts, in 1838, by whom he had two children, George E., born 1840, and Nettie, born 1860. In 1867 he married Maria Rice. Born to them a daughter in 1874, who died the same year. .
WENTWORTH, J. H., resides at Gold Flat, where he owns 100 acres of land, valued at $5,000: post office Nevada City. He was born in York county, Maine, in 1818, and went to New Hampshire in 1827, where he taught school until 1844. He then was merchandising and had a machine shop and foundry in Massachuset's till 1852, when he came to this State and to this county in March 1853, and has since heen miuing and lumbering. In 1858 he married Mi-s Myra S. Bradford, a native of Maine, and has two sons and one daughter. He was U. S. Revenue Assessor in 1871-2.
WEST, E. R., owns a livery stable and feed store at Nos. 38 and 40 Main street, Grass Valley. He was born in Connecticut in 1827, and engaged in blacksmithing and carriage business till 1852, when he came to Grass Valley. He mined a number of years and started his feed store in 1861, and the livery stable in 1877. In 1876 he married Miss Flora Edwards, a native of Virginia.
WETZEL, JR., THEODORE, resides at the Derbec Shaft, North Bloomfield, He was born in San Francisco in 1855, and was engineer at the giant powder works till 1879, passing uninjured through several explosions, the one of January 14, 1879 occurring just after he had left the building. He is now engineer at the Derbec mine.
WHEELER, F. N., resides at Grass Valley. He was horn in Georgia in 1849, and went to Illinois in 1856 with his parents and in 1859 to Calaveras county, California. In 1861 the family went to Sacramento and in 1862 came to this county. In 1864 his father purchased the farm on the Colfax road, now owued by J. Faulknor. Mr. Wheeler attended school till 1866 and theu traveled in different parts of the State. In 1872 he went to Eureka, Nevada, and in 1875 settled in Grass Val- ley. Since 1876 he has been Deputy Assessor, and in 1877 was employed eight months as an expert in examining the books at the time of the defi- ciency. In 1872 he married Miss J. D Dorsey, the second white child boru in Grass Valley. He has a daughter, Ludora E., and a son, Frederick Dorsey.
WHEELER, LEWIS, lives seven miles from Colfax and five from Grass Valley, his post office. He was born iu Maine in 1839 and came to this county in 1861. He was mining in the State of Nevada from 1863 to 1864. He has a hydraulic gravel claim on his place, which he is working, and owns a timber ranch of 320 acres. In 1871 he married Miss Isabella Woodfield, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, and has two sons and one daughter. WHEELER, S., hanker at La Porte, Plumas county, California. He was born in New York in 1826, and came to California in 1849. He mined in Butte and Yuha counties and has since heen resid- ing in Sierra and Plumas counties. He has always heen interested in mining and is now interested in the Liberty Hill Con. M. Co. of Little York town- ship, in this county. In 1856 he married Miss M. J. Brown, a native of Canada.
WHILLDIN, EDWARD. lives at Gold Flat: post office Nevada City. He was horn in Wales in 1812 and mined till 1845, when he weut to Penn- sylvania and mined till 1854. He then came to this county, where he has since been mining. He has spent forty years of his life uuderground. In
1841 he married Miss Mary Williams, a native of Wales, who died in 1876. He has two sons and five daughters, and has lost two sons.
WHITE, JAMES D., Jate County Clerk of Nevada county, resides at Nevada City. He was born in Macedon, Wayne county, New York, December 30. 1831, and came to California in the spring of 1851 from Ohio. Was elected to the Legislature of 1855-6 from El Dorado county. Was again elected to the Legislature of 1867-8 from Nevada county. Served as Deputy County Clerk under Jolın Pattison, Clerk, during the year 1875, Was elected County Clerk of Nevada county for the term commencing March, 1876. Was re-elected to the same office for the term commencing March, 1878. Ran for the same office in 1879. and was defeated by a small plurality. He was married to Lucy A. Hinekley, a native of Illinois, at Nevada City, November 27, 1867. Has four children: Mary Josephine. born October 24, 1868; Howard James, born October 8, 1870; Jane Rosamond, born August 8, 1872; Shirley, born May 24, 1878.
WHITE, CAPT. JOHN G., lives on Auburn street, Grass Valley. He was born in England in 1819 and came to Grass Valley in 1852, where he mincd until 1800. He then went to Virginia City and was Superintendent of several mines till 1871, when he returned to Grass Valley, where he has lived, with the exception of six months in 1873. He is Superintendent of the Pittshurg mine, near Nevada City. In 1842 he married Miss Mary 1). Harvey, a native of England, and has had eight children, of whom two sons and one daughter are now liviug.
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