History of Sacramento County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present, 1923, Part 138

Author: Reed, G. Walter
Publication date: 1923
Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1026

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Mr. Keithly married Gertrude Chatterton, who was born in New Jersey in 1843, daughter of the late John

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Chatterton, who located in Sacramento County, in 1853, coming out here with his family by way of the Isthmus of Panama. There are many descendants of this famous pioneer family, but the only survivor of the immediate family is James Chatterton, the retired rancher of Sacramento. Four children made up the Keithly family. Mary E,, born in 1862, resides at Keithly rancho, and owns a part of it. Louise, born in 1864, is the wife of James Denham, and resides in Kings County, a rancher near Hanford, having nine children. William U., who was born on April 2, 1867. is a rancher at home. James D. was born on July 25, 1879, and is also at home, on the ranch, where the four children have been reared. They attended the Center Union school, and their father served as a trustee for forty-five consecutive years The sons have successfully carried on general farming opera- tions for years, and formerly were extensive grain- raisers in the Grant, leasing hundreds of acres. They are also owners of desirable oil property in Kern County.

MRS. ANNA A. BOGLE .- The daughter of Cali- fornia pioneers, Mrs. Anna A. Bogle was born and reared in Sacramento County, and has spent most of her life on Grand Island, becoming one of the well- known residents of the district and an advocate of all measures having for their object the further develop- ment and advancement of her home community. Born on Grand Island, she is the daughter of Frederick and Catherine (Verbarg) Meyer, both natives of Hanover, Germany; the father, after receiving his education in his native land, emigrated to the United States in 1857, desirous of taking advantage of the greater op- portunities to be found in the new world. Loyal to his adopted country from the very beginning, he served one year in the 4th Ohio Cavalry during the Civil War. After working for a time in Cincinnati, Ohio, he came to Sacramento, in 1866, coming to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and worked one year for his brother. Henry, who had preceded him. In 1869 he purchased a seventy-two- acre ranch on Grand Island, situated on Steamboat Slough, from his brother, and started ranching on his own account, and prospered as the years went by; he started out in life empty-handed and overcoming the obstacles in the path of the pioneer ranchers of the state, he accumulated a competence and a property which is today a visible evidence of his life of thrift and business acumen. Mr. Meyer was married while in Ohio, July 30, 1859, to Miss Catherine Verharg, also a native of Hanover, Germany, born October 21, 1841, a daughter of Diedrich and Margaret Verbarg, Hanovarians likewise, and in 1858, in company with a brother, she came to America and was a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, up to the time of her marriage and until their removal to the Pacific Coast. Frederick Meyer passed away April 30, 1890, of pneumonia, his widow surviving him until October 1, 1910.

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Meyer became the parents of four children: Caroline, now deceased; Minnie, de- ceased; Henry, residing on Ryer Island, and Anna A., now Mrs. Samuel M. Bogle, and the subject of our interesting review.

Anna A. Meyer received her education at the pub- lic schools in her home vicinity and at Mount St. Gertrude Academy of Rio Vista. Her marriage to Samuel Morris Bogle occurred at her home October 30. 1889; Mr Bogle was a native of Circleville, Pick-

away County, Ohio, born March 10, 1863, a son of James and Mary M. (Clayton) Bogle, the father a native of Virginia and the mother of Ohio. In 1876 Samuel M. Bogle came to California with his uncle and aunt, Andrew and Hannah V. Bogle, who set- tled on Merritt Island in Yolo County. He was only thirteen years of age at the time and attended the public school here and in Oakland, after which he be- came interested in ranching on Grand Island. After his marriage he began farming the old Meyer place, which his wife had inherited. He was also the owner of eighty acres on Sutter Island. A public-spirited man, he served fourteen years as clerk of the board of the Grand Island district school. Fraternally he was a member of Pythian Castle No. 105, K. of P., at Courtland.

Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bogle: Vernon F., and Muriel O. Vernon F. was born on Grand Island March 12, 1891, and was educated there, finishing with a business course at the Sacramento high school; he married at San Jose, Cal., November 1, 1916. Francis Shamhaugh, a native of Chicago and daughter of William and Sophie Shambaugh, the father a Presbyterian minister who later came to Cali- fornia and engaged in ranching near San Jose, where he still resides. Four children came to Vernon and Francis Bogle, Muriel, Warren, Lois and Samuel. Since his marriage, Vernon F. has made his home on his parents' eighty-acre ranch on Sutter Island, where he raises hogs, fruit and vegetables. Muriel married, December 15, 1920, Ichabod C. Elder, born at Sacra- mento, a son of Joseph and Malinda Elder, who were of a pioneer California family. Mr. Elder has been identified of recent years with Weinstock, Lubin and Company, as an outside salesman.

After her father's death, which occurred April 30, 1890, Mrs. Bogle acquired title to the Frederick Meyer place on Grand Island, and there she has maintained the family home since that time, rearing her children in her old childhood home. They also purchased an eighty-acre ranch on Sutter Island, devoted princi- pally to orchard. Her husband's death occurred on the homestead, September 19, 1921. The seventy-two- acre ranch is devoted entirely to fruit culture; and its beauty and prosperity are a fitting tribute to the fore- sight of the founder of the family in California, Fred- erick Meyer.

LOUIS TERKELSON .- A very experienced or- chardist is Louis Terkelson, who has a fine orchard of sixty acres at Rio Linda, purchased about ten years ago. He came from Whittier, to claim the virgin soil found in this section as his heritage, and he has made the most of his opportunity.

Mr. Terkelson was born near Harrington, Morris County, Kans., on April 18, 1862, the son of Jacob and Anna Marie (Bunder) Terkelson, who immigrated to America from Denmark, in 1856, and in 1861 moved on to Kansas. Jacob Terkelson was a farmer, and also a successful veterinary ; and his services were al- ways in demand. It thus happened that while Louis was reared on the home farm, and attended the gram- mar schools, he early took up the veterinary studies, and owned and operated a model stock farm near Har- rington, until 1893. In that year, he sold out and moved with his family to California, and he located on a ranch at Los Nietos, near Whittier, and there de- veloped a valuable alfalfa hay ranch. In 1913, he made a successful exchange of his property for seventy

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acres at Rio Linda, of which he owns today all but ten acres.

In Kansas, Mr. Terkelson was married to Miss Mary Vine, a native of Rockingham, Va., who accom- panied her parents, worthy farmer-folk, to Kansas in 1870. Four children have blessed this union. Ralph served as an aviator in the World War, and is now a rancher at Waterford; he has a wife and a daugh- ter. Warren is an expert tractor engineer: Leona is the wife of Earl Tracy, of Modesto; and Vera is still with her school-books. Mr. and Mrs. Terkelson are among the most highly esteemed citizens of Rio Linda; for they have made success come their way through the practice of thrift, and the Terkelson or- chard home is a show-place in blossom time. His home was completed on the tract in 1914, and was the first house to be erected in the fast growing Rio Linda district. He has developed his ranch into orchard of almonds, peaches, pears and a field of alfalfa, and irri- gation water is supplied at a very nominal cost. In a sense, he may be said to be the founder of this col- ony, for he brought the first twelve families, from Whittier, who settled in the then thinly inhabited region.

WALTON E. HOLMES .- Prominent among the esteemed representatives of important financial inter- ests in Sacramento may well be mentioned Walton E. Holmes, the assistant cashier of the Capital National Bank. A native son, he was born on a farm at Florin, near Sacramento, on June 12, 1890, the son of James W. and Flora (Camfield) Holmes, the former a pioneer who came here when he was fourteen years of age, with his parents, who came by steamboat to Davis, Cal., to the Schwingle ranch, where the family were employed by the Schwingles at farm work. Later the family removed to a ranch about five miles south of Sacramento and there the grandfather, Henry Holmes, passed away in 1900. J. W. Holmes worked for the Schwingles and then removed to a ranch he purchased about six miles east of Florin where he farmed until 1908; then he sold out and moved to a part of the Henry Holmes ranch, where he now lives. Mrs. Holmes, the mother of our subject, died in January. 1916. closing a beautiful and useful life.

Walton Holmes attended school in the Excelsior School district, and then the Sacramento high school for a year and a half; but at the end of that time he was offered a position in the California National Bank, which he accepted, and entered upon a four years' ser- vice. He left the bank to sell real estate for O. H. Cope for four months; but in January, 1911, he joined the staff of the Capital National Bank, as bookkeeper, and through various successive grades he advanced to his present position. His fidelity, natural ability and developed experience were duly recognized in his pro- motion, in 1915, to the post of assistant cashier, and he is the manager and vice-president of the Sacra- mento Clearing Association. A Republican with re- spect to national political affairs, Mr. Holmes is broad-minded and non-partisan when it comes to local movements, platforms and candidates. He served as deputy city treasurer under F. WV. Biewener, Jr., for eight and one half years, then for sixteen months was city treasurer, or until the city adopted the manager form of government.

In the year 1911, at Sacramento, Mr. Holmes and Miss Hazel Greenlaw were married, the latter a na- tive daughter of Sacramento. Their union has proven

a happy one, and resulted in the birth of two children, Eleanor and Marjorie. Mr Holmes is a past president of Sunset Parlor, N. S. G. W .; and he belongs to the Elks, and the Hermitage, and is a member of the Del Paso Country Club. He is a member and ex-treasurer of the Lions Club and a director of the Chamber of Commerce. He is fond of baseball and golf, and all outdoor life.

LEWIS Y. LEONARD .- An eminently proficient representative of Sacramento County is Lewis Y. Leonard, the Agricultural Extension agent at Sacra- mento. He was born at Bronson, Mich .. on July 25. 1887, the son of A. B. and Virginia Elizabeth (Butts) Leonard; the latter, who died in 1897, was a native of Illinois, and a most estimable woman. Lewis came out to the Northwest when the family removed from Michigan to Washington, in 1896, and his father is still a resident of Spokane.

Lewis Leonard thus came to attend the public schools of Spokane, and the Washington State Col- lege at Pullman, from which he was graduated with the class of '06 in the elementary department, four years later receiving from the same college the B. S. degree, and in 1918, also from that higher educational institution, the degree of M. S. He then matricu- lated at the University of California, doing advanced work on his degree of Doctor of Philosophy. On May 17, 1920, Mr. Leonard came to Sacramento, having been appointed, on the first of that month, to this University of California cooperative post in the service of the Government. He belongs to the Cham- ber of Commerce, and is the secretary of the Fruit and Agricultural Bureau; and he is also a member of the Rotary Club, at the head of the boys' work division.

At Spokane, in the year 1914, Mr. Leonard was married to Miss Tacoma Belle Forbes, of Tacoma. and their fortunate union has been blessed with three children, Bennie Lewis, Virginia Elizabeth, and Jane Ardella. Mr. Leonard is a Knight of Pythias, and first, last and all the time, a good fellow.

EDWARD LYMAN EDDY .- A wide-awake, ex- perienced and thoroughly progressive dealer in real estate and insurance, specializing in hotel properties throughout the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. is Edward Lyman Eddy, the popular broker, who is justly credited with being one of the best-informed men as to Sacramento County affairs in northern Cali- fornia. He was born in Cowley County, Kansas, on September 21, 1880, the son of Edward and Harriet (Rathburn) Eddy, who have since passed on to the reward of their long and unselfish labors.

Lyman attended the public schools and thoroughly imbibed the patriotic spirit of the true young Ameri- can; and later, he enjoyed an exceptionally fine law course. When he decided to come to the Coast. he took up newspaper work in San Francisco; and in 1902 he went south to Los Angeles and continued his journalistic career until, in 1906, he removed to Sacra- mento. Since then, he has been active in his present field, safeguarding the interests of those already estab- lished here, and encouraging others to invest. Con- ditions in respect to real estate in California have for years been so peculiar that the happy combination of experience and honor has been of the greatest in- portance to all concerned when possessed by the operator; while conditions in the insurance world at

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large demand the qualities for which Mr. Eddy is so widely known. Now Mr. Eddy, as the result of his idealistic efforts and common sense conservatism, en- jeys a dependable patronage by those well-acquainted with his principles and service, and he is undoubtedly one of the most successful men in his field.

A Republican in matters of national political import, Mr. Eddy is a live wire in the Chamber of Commerce of Sacramento, in which he has served as a director; he is also a member of the Ad Club, and is a Knight Templar Mason and a Shriner. He is fond of all outdoor life, and is unceasing in his efforts to pro- mote the best interests of Sacramento City and County.

HON. J. M. INMAN .- A California statesman who has won distinction of an enduring kind rather carly in his career, is the Hon. J. M. Inman, the well-known attorney who has become the popular state senator responsible for so much sane and important legisla- tion of the past few years. He was born at Bishop, in Inyo County, Cal., in 1875, first seeing light on the last day of the year, the son of Joseph W. Inman, who had come to California in 1852, and who the next vear at Hangtown married Miss Minerva Gunter. Mr. Inman followed the occupations of other early settlers. Both parents now rest from their labors, their long and useful lives having been closed with becoming honor.

J. M. Inman attended the public schools, and later studied law privately; and having been admitted to the bar in 1907. he opened an office in Sacramento in the same building in which he is still headquartered. For a couple of years, from 1913, Mr. Inman served in the California state assembly, and in 1916 he was elected to the state senate, and in 1920 reelected. From 1913 to 1919, he was particularly active in the legislature. and introduced bills to do away with leasing lands to persons ineligible to citizenship. He organized the California Oriental Exclusion League, and became, as he is today, its president, and he was instrumental in drawing the anti-alien land bill passed this last elec- tion. Mr. Inman was chairman of the committee on commerce and navigation, and in the session of 1923 he was chairman of the committee on public util- ities. In this session, among other important bills he succeeded in passing, was the foreign language school bill, which prohibits schools in California to teach a school wholly in a foreign language. In 1917 he se- cured the passage of the indeterminate sentence bill. During the World War he served in the 6th U. S. Bat- tery, Field Artillery, being stationed at Camp Taylor, Ky .. until after the armistice, when he was discharged. Aside from his profession, Mr. Inman is also inter- ested in ranching, owning two fruit ranches in Sutter County, which he has improved from raw land.

Senator Inman was married, in 1906, and at Sacra- mento, to Miss Edith Trainor, the daughter of Frank and Katherine Trainor, and they have two children, Edith Minerva and Dorothy Frances. The senator is a Knight Templar Mason and a charter member of Ben Ali Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Sac- ramento. He is also a member of the Sciots, and with his wife is a member of the Eastern Star. He is also a popular member of Sacramento Lodge No. 6 of the Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, and Native Sous of the Golden West, and he belongs to the Del Paso Country Club, and is a popu-

lar member of Sacramento Post of the American Legion. He is fond of hunting and fishing, and was the first president of the Wild Goose Country Club.

CHARLES A. DRIVER,-For the man who real- izes carly in life the necessity of choosing a specific vocation, success lies in the near future, and such an individual is Charles A. Driver, who was born on November 25, 1874, on the old Driver homestead, near his present home place. He is the son of Elisha Sample Driver, one of the early pioneers of 1850, who crossed the plains in search of gold. His mother, Mary E. (Forsyth) Driver, is deceased. Charles A. Driver has resided on the surrounding ranches of his native city all his life. For many years he assisted his father on their extensive grain and stock ranch. Nineteen years ago, he bought 160 acres of land, then known as the Keys ranch, and with the 320 acres, which his father bestowed upon him as his share of the property, he has become the owner of a choice strip of land along Dry Creek. He planted almond trees and grape vines on a forty-acre ranch which he cultivated fourteen years ago, but at the present time he intends to plant a part of this ground to pear, cherry and prune trees. The irrigation on one part of his ranch is operated by the pumping process; the water is obtained from a nearby creek, which passes through one end of the ranch; the rest of the land is sub-irrigated.

In 1904, at Sacramento, Charles A. Driver married Lorena Johnston, born at Pleasant Grove in 1884, the daughter of the late Thomas Johnston, a native of Sacramento. Her father, now deceased, was born on December 25, 1855; her mother, now Mrs. Jones, of Grass Valley, formerly Miss Mary J. Strauch, was born on October 29, 1862, the daughter of David Strauch, a pioneer. Charles A. Driver and his wife are the parents of the following children: Melville A., born November 25, 1904; Charlotte L., born January 9, 1907; C. Alfred, born March 19, 1909; Gertrude K., born December 9, 1911; Dorothy E., born September 13, 1915; Florence M., born October 3, 1918; and Willis T., born March 10, 1921. All of these children were born in Sacramento County. Mr. Driver has closely followed in his father's footsteps, both in public spirit and in the community welfare work. He has served as trustee of the Center Union school for fifteen years.

JAMES G. SMITH .- Among the leading citizens, and also a pioneer of Del Paso Heights of Sacramen- to County, is James G. Smith, who settled in the Johnson Heights subdivision in 1911. Later, in 1915, he removed his family to Del Paso Heights, where he has developed a fine ranch of fifteen acres to cherries, peaches, almonds and apricots; recently he has become interested in hog-raising, which has be- come a highly lucrative industry. He was born in Glasgow, Ky., January 7, 1880, a son of George W. and Julia A. (Harrison) Smith. In 1899, Mr. Smith was graduated from the Temple Hill normal school and for two years followed the profession of teach- ing, when he entered the Georgetown College; but his health failing, he was forced to leave college. In 1901 he removed to California and the first two years were spent in ranch work at Winters; then he re- moved to Sacramento and engaged in the marketing of fruit and has been the representative of many of the largest fruit houses in the city.

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In 1907, Mr. Smith was married to Miss Ada R. Brown, a native of Kendallville, Ind., and four chil- dren have been born to them: James R., Marion Rose, Howard Claire, and Virginia Ruth, all born in Sacramento. Mr. Smith was instrumental in or- ganizing the Del Paso-Robla farm bureau center and has served as its president. Mrs. Smith is an active member of the Parent-Teachers Association, as well as a member of the home department of the farm bureau. Mr. Smith is a Republican in politics and is a booster for the advancement of Del Paso Heights.

FREDERICK R. DATHE,-Like many of the sons of other lands who have come to settle in the midst of the promise and prosperity of the Sacramento Valley, Frederick R. Dathe came to America in 1876 and to California via Panama on July 4 of the same year, and has since been engaged as a successful orchardist. He was born in Saxony, Germany, Janu- ary 15, 1856.

The marriage of Mr. Dathe united him with Miss Anna Po'lam, a native of Sacramento County, and daughter of a pioneer family who were large manu- facturers of chickory, owning extensive holdings on the Sacramento River near Sutterville. Mrs. Dathe passed away in 1895, survived by her husband and six children. Subsequently, Mr. Dathe was married to Mrs. Rosa Lutz, who had one son, Frank Lutz; and they have two children: George resides in Los An- geles; and Bertha, now Mrs. Elwood Kuhn, resides in Fruitridge. There are three grandchildren. Mr. Dathe received his United States citizenship in Judge Ramage's court and for many years voted the Demo- cratic ticket, but of recent years has been independent in his political choice. Mr. Dathe formerly owned ten acres at the corner of the Fruitridge and lower Stock- ton roads, but recently has disposed of five acres. retaining five acres which he has developed to an orchard.

DR. FRANK B. WHIDDEN .- Prominent among the distinguished exponents of health science accord- ing to the chiropractic school who have contributed much to advance its theories and to legalize its prac- tice in California, is numbered Dr. Frank B. W'hidden of 1139 Thirty-third Street, Sacramento. He was born at Calais, Maine, on September 16, 1872, young- est of ten children of Charles R. and Mila Frances Whidden, by whom he was christened Frank Bou- telle. His father was an attorney, and became col- lector of customs at Eastport, Maine, a prosecuting attorney, and a member of the state of Maine legis- lature; and our subject thus came to enjoy the best of educational advantages, at Worcester Academy (from which he was graduated in 1889), and Brown Uni- versity (where he was a member of the class of '93), while growing up in a stimulating home atmosphere.

Dr. Whidden early embarked in newspaper work, engaging himself with the Worcester, Mass., Tele- gram, later doing work as a reporter for the Boston Herald; and then he became Sunday editor of Hearst's Boston American. He joined the editorial staff of the New York Herald, and later was on the editorial staff of the New York World. Coming out to the Northwest, he was news editor of the Seattle Times from 1910 to 1920. About that time his health failed, and he was restored by a chiropractor. As a result, he resigned his newspaper position to study

chiropractic. He went to Davenport, Iowa, and was graduated from the Palmer School of Chiropractic there. On July 18. 1905, at Boston, he had married Mrs. E. Elinor Stansfield, and she has also become a graduate of the Palmer School of Chiropractic.

Dr. Whidden is now president of the Northern California Chiropractors' Association, and is vice- president and a member of the executive committee of the State Chiropractic Society, For two years he has been editor and publisher of The California Chiropractor, a monthly publication with large, state- wide circulation. He is highly progressive and emi- nently practical, wields a ready, convincing pen, and is the author of numerous essays on chiropractic themes. Fraternally, Dr. Whidden is a member of the B. P. O. Elks.

MRS. ROSE SARMENT .- This rancher of Sacra- mento County was born on Grand Island, Sacramento County, a daughter of John and Mary Smith. Miss Rose Smith received her education at the Georgiana district school in the vicinity of her father's ranch. In March, 1896, at San Francisco, Miss Smith was first married to John Bettencourt, a native of the Azores Islands, a son of Antone and Antonette Bet- tencourt. John Bettencourt was a young man of twenty-one years when he left his native land and came to California, first settling in Butte County, where he engaged in farm work. Removing to Sacramento County, he worked on farms in the delta region; then leased fifty acres, where he raised beans and asparagus, remaining there for twelve years.

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History of Sacramento County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present, 1923, Part 138

Author: Reed, G. Walter Publication date: 1923 Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co. Number of Pages: 1026

Author: Reed, G. Walter
Publication date: 1923
Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1026