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 146

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

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Mr. Wilcox was married at Sacramento, in 1915, when he chose Miss Gladys Suber for his wife; and Emily Louise and Richard Thomas are their children. Mr. Wilcox is a Mason and also an Odd Fellow.

JULIUS BLAUTH .- Julius Blauth was born in Sacramento, on April 6, 1884, the son of Theobald and Caroline ( Hack) Blauth, who came to California among the sturdy pioneers of 1879. Mr. Blauth en- gaged in the wholesale liquor business in 1880, and lived to see the 28th of February, 1918, and to acquire considerable property, which he left in his estate. His good wife also died here.

Julius Blauth attended the public schools and also Howe's Academy, and then associated himself with his father, in business. He had taken up farming, and raised hops and barley on a ranch in Yolo County, the farm including 450 acres of land. Be- sides raising hops he also engaged in general farming

In 1920 Mr. Blauth was married to Miss Pearl Casselman, of Yolo County. He is a member of Sunset Parlor No. 26, of . the Native Sons of the Golden West. He is fond of fishing, and outdoor life generally. In national politics Mr. Blauth is a Republican; but he is also one of the best non-parti- san boosters for the locality in which he lives.

HARRY G. DENTON .- A public official, well- known and highly respected in the city of his birth. Harry G. Denton, the efficient city clerk, was born on July 8, 1890, the son of Charles H. and Florence (Brown) Denton. The latter is a native daughter of San Francisco, while the father is a native of Canan- daigua, N. Y., and has been a resident of the state since 1863.

Harry G. Denton was educated in the grammar and high schools of Sacramento, and his first em- ployment was with the firm of Ennis Brown Com- pany, as a clerk, where he remained for six years gaining a fund of knowledge that has stood him in good stead ever since. He next engaged in busi- ness on his own responsibility, doing advertising and publicity work for four years. His ability was recognized and in 1916 he was appointed an assistant record clerk in the office of the city clerk of Sacra- mento, remaining there until he joined the air serv- ice, to study military aeronautics during the World War. He was stationed at Mather Field till after the armistice, when he received an honorable dis- charge in June, 1919. Again taking up civilian life he was appointed deputy city clerk and on May 4, 1922, was appointed to the responsible position of

city clerk and has been filling that post ever since to the entire satisfaction of his fellow-citizens.

In the city of Sacramento, on August 18, 1922, Harry G. Denton was united in marriage with Miss Elsa Koch, who was born in Irwin, Pa., but was reared and educated in Sacramento, being gradu- ated from the local high school. Mr. Denton is a member of Calvary Baptist Church, having served as financial secretary for many years. He is also a very active member of the Christian Endeavor organiza- tion and has served as state president of that body of Christian workers, doing his full share to further and systematize the workings of the Endeavorers. He is also a member of Sacramento Post No. 61. American Legion. Mr. Denton is deeply interested in all that pertains to the well-being of his native county and city and shows his public spirit in many ways for the uplift of humanity. He is fond of tennis and fishing and of all clean sports.

REV. FATHER DOMINIC TAVERNA .- Inti- mately connected with the history of the Catholic Church in northern California is the Rev. Father Dominic Taverna, who is an earnest, intelligent and indefatigable worker, now serving as the pastor of St. Mary's Church in Sacramento, an Italian parish of some 1,000 families. Father Taverna is a man of scholarly attainments, the master of several lan- guages, and is most earnest and consecrated in his work. His birth occurred on August 18, 1876, at Cas- tellazzo, Bormida, in the province of Alessandria, Italy. He made his classics at the College of the Silesian Fathers of Don Basco in Turino and his philosophy and theology at the Seminary of Alles- sandria, being ordained on December 22, 1900, by Bishop Joseph Capecci. He served as assistant pastor for five years. Then, in answer to the invitation of Bishop Grace of Sacramento to become a missionary for Italian congregations in the Sacramento diocese, he and Father Mela responded. Father Taverna spent a few months studying English at the Silesian College in London and then came to California in 1906, serving as assistant at various places until September, 1909, when he was appointed pastor at Sutter Creek. He remained there nine years, and his district embraced from within thirteen miles of Sacramento to the Nevada state line. On the death of Father Mela in October, 1918, he was appointed on November 25, 1918, to succeed him as pastor of St. Mary's Church, and since then he has built the par- ochial residence.

St. Mary's was started by Father Mela in 1905. In 1906 the property at N and Ninth Streets was pur- chased and church opened there. In 1914 the pres- ent property at Seventh and T Streets was bought and the church moved hither. Rev. Mela was a priest of wide Christian spirit and died a martyr to his duty during the flu epidemic. While assisting at Placerville, Father Taverna was appointed chaplain at Folsom Prison for two years and prepared about twenty prisoners for the Sacrament of Confirmation, and for the first time in the history of the institution Bishop Grace came to the prison to administer the Sacrament. In 1920 Father Taverna was sent to Italy by Bishop Grace to represent him at the "Visit ad Limina," and in consequence of his appointment he had the honor of a private audience with Pope Benedict XV. Rev. Taverna is a fourth-degree Knight of Columbus.

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ROY SWAIN POST .- A contractor who is both a very practical and an artistic interior decorator, and who is able, at short notice, to undertake ex- tensive work in general painting, is Roy Swain Post, a native of South Bend, Ind., where he was born on August 2, 1888, the son of Swain A. and Retta (Speelman) Post. His parents came to California in the winter of 1890, settling first at San Francisco; and in 1900 they came to Sacramento. In 1909, S. A. Post, the father, died. He had been associated with C. H. Krebs & Company's paint-house for nine years. He was highly regarded in his life- time. and was honored as an able and honest man.

Roy S. Post went to the Sacramento public schools, and entered the employ of C. H. Krebs & Company, where he remained from 1904 to 1912 taking up decorating, and branching out into contracting. Now he employs a large force of men to help him carry out the contracts with which he is constantly favored and confines himsef to decorating the finer homes. He opened a store and headquarters on March 15, 1921, at 1207 J Street and in February, 1923, moved to 1017 Ninth Street to a larger and more commodi- ons store where they are located at the present time. He belongs to the Sacramento Chamber of Com- merce and the Retail Merchants' Association, and also to the Lions Club.

Fraternally, Mr. Post has been an Odd Fellow for a long time, being active in all branches of the order. He is a thirty-second-degree Scottish Rite Mason, and belongs to Ben Ali Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Sacramento. He is also a past patron of the Eastern Star. In national politics, he is one of the long line of patriots claiming Lincoln, Grant, Mc- Kinley, Roosevelt and Harding as honored and illus- trious leaders.

THOMAS H. DAVID .- A prominent representa- tive of a more and more popular method of modern medical science is Dr. Thomas H. David, the chiro- practor, of the Ochsner Building, in Sacramento. He was born at the foot of MIt. Hermon, near the city of Damascus, Syria, November 29, 1884, the son of Habib and Salema David, and he had the mis- fortune to lose his father when he was a child. In 1901 he came to the United States and settled in North Dakota.

Thomas H. David attended the schools of Damas- cus, studying Arabic, English and French, and then taught in that city in a private college; and when he came to the United States he resumed his studies in English. He had really come to study medicine, intending to return to the old country; and he had to work, to support himself, while studying. He also studied photography, and eventually took up chiro- practic. Then, for two years, he took post-graduate work in Chicago, New York and Davenport, Iowa, receiving the chiropractic degree of doctor for courses in mechano-therapy, pathology, etc.

Dr. David has practiced in Minneapolis and Wil- liston, N. D., and while in the latter town, he was president of the Williston Commercial Club. For twelve years he has followed his professional work, profiting naturally by the wonderful strides made through great leaders in the domain of chiropractic, which is coming to be recognized as one of the most efficient and certain and also relatively rapid ways of reaching and treating certain troubles. He has also conducted many interesting experiments himself, and

in a modest way has, through his own work in Sac- ramento, advanced the technique of the science. He has developed a painless treatment, which the most delicate person can take without fear of suffering. He is very rapid and efficiency is his guarantee.

Dr. David is also interested in horticulture, and has an attractive vineyard of his own, in the care of which he takes great interest. He is a Royal Arch Mason; and he has served as Grand Master of the Knights of Modern Syria. In national political af- fairs he is a Republican, but he votes for the man. rather than the party.

CLAUDE EUGENE FOOTE .- A young inan whose already valuable experience, together with his broad and patriotic views, has proven of real service to the community in which he operates and is phe- nomenally successful, is Claude Eugene Foote, a na- tive son who was born at Sacramento on August 17, 1892. His father, John A. Foote, came out to California in 1864, a native of Carroll County, born near Savannah, Ill., and here married Miss Hattie Alice Shearer, who had come from Frederick County, Md., in 1887. They were both pioneers, therefore, and our subject is naturally imbued with the true Cali- fornia spirit. Grandfather William Foote was a con- tractor of note, and saw his eighty-seventh year; while Grandmother Foote survived him nearly four years. John A. Foote was a farmer during the long years of his progressive toil, and now he is able to rest comfortably in well-earned retirement.

Claude Eugene Foote not only attended the gram- mar school of his district, but he went through the excellent Sacramento high school, and finally topped off his studies at the Capital Commercial College. Then he became an employee of the Southern Pacific, entering their store department and advancing to office work, and after that he joined the Union Oil Company, also doing office work. Then he was with the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, as a traveling representative in northern California and Nevada, and in June, 1917, he cast his fortunes in with the Earl P. Cooper Battery and Electrical Com- pany, located at 1014 Twelfth Street, engaged in battery and electrical service. However, on May 31, 1922, they changed the corporation name to Gar- vey-Foote, Inc., and in September, 1922, sold the Sacramento store and removed to San Francisco. where the headquarters are at 382 Golden Gate Ave- nne as manufacturers and agents. Their specialty now consists in selling replacement parts for auto- mobiles. Mr. Foote takes care of all of the outside business, at present, necessitating his traveling con- tinually all over the state of California. Mr. Foote is both vice-president and manager. and assists to direct the twelve people employed in their constantly developing business. The concern covers the Sac- ramento territory, and handles the incomparable Prestolite batteries for northern California and the state of Nevada. One of the most natural things for Mr. Foote to do, on establishing himself in Sac- ramento, was to join the well-organized Chamber of Commerce, and he has done his part to make that excellent organization still more effective in the great work of California development. He also belongs to the California Auto Trades Association, is one of the honored representatives in the Rotary Club, and is a member of the Del Paso Country Club. He generally votes to endorse the Republican platforms.

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which means that he does what he can at the polls to safeguard American commercial interests, and to favor California.

At Stockton, Mr. Foote was married in 1913 to Miss Clare Sue Gill, a native of fowa, but recently a resident of Santa Rosa, and their union has been blessed in the birth of two children, Jean Elizabeth and Alice Sue. Mr. Foote is an Elk and a Mason, and has advanced to the thirtieth degree, Scottish Ritc. He is fond of golf and also of fishing, and enjoys with Mrs. Foote and the family most of the pleas- ures of out-of-door life, for which California is so famous.

HENRY SPRING .- Well-known among the suc- cessful men of the motor field in Sacramento as one of the best-informed concerning motoring interests in Californ.a is Henry Spring, the far-seeing and enterprising proprietor of the busy Henry Spring Company, dealers in motor trucks and commercial transportation units. A native of Michigan, he was born in the university town of Ann Arbor, on Jan- uary 15, 1891, the son of E. C. and Emma (Heinrich) Spring, worthy folks in their day, who left an influ- ence likely to extend far beyond their generation; and he attended the Ann Arbor grammar and high schools, and later matriculated at the University of Michi- gan, where he specialized in business administration. He then joined the Liquid Carbonic Company, and for a year and a half traveled as their salesman.

Leaving that firm, and coming out to California, in 1915, Mr. Spring connected himself with the Stan- ton Lumber Company of Los Angeles, where he re- mained for eight months; and then he went into the insurance business with Mr. Archer. In 1916, he came up to Sacramento and entered the local auto- mobile field as a member of the firm of Goodrich, Ballard & Rouse, Ford dealers, and continued with them until 1918. Disposing of his interest, he then established a business for himself. He purchased a corner on Twelfth and G Streets. He erected his own building, a fireproof concrete building 80 by 120 and took possession on September 14, 1920. He has seven counties for his territory, and handles the White trucks, the Utility trailers, commercial transporta- tion units and Goodyear tires and employs fourteen or more people. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club. Busy as he and his associates are, he always finds time to lend a hand in any patriotic movement, or any undertaking hav- ing the strong endorsement of his fellow-citizens; and he was active in the recent World War in behalf of the various drives in defence of the honor and se- curity of the country.

Mr. Spring was made a Mason in Sacramento Lodge No. 40, F. & A. M., and is a member of Sacra- mento Chapter No. 3, R. A. M., and Commandery No. 2, Knight Templars. He is a charter member of Ben Ali Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and made the pil- grimage to Washington, D. C., to attend the Na- tional Convention of Shriners in 1923. Returning via his old home he visited friends there and also visited his old grandmother who is now eighty-three years old. He is also a member of Sacramento Lodge No. 6, B. P. O. E .. and a popular member of the Sutter Club and Del Paso Country Club, as well as a member of the California Auto Trades Association and Motor Car Dealers' Association of Sacramento. He is deeply interested in the past of northern California,

and as a natural result, is proportionately the more optimistic and enthusiastic as to the certain brilliant future of Sacramento County.

J. C. CRUMP .- A progressive rancher whose pros- perity serves as an index of his experience and de- veloped natural ability, is J. C. Crump, who owns some eighty choice acres on rich Grand Island, while he enjoys home life in charming Isleton. He was born in Malone, Franklin County, N. Y., on March 15, 1863, the son of David and Mary Crump, farmer folk who made an impress on the locality in which they lived and operated. Mr. Crump was a native of Canada, coming from Toronto, and lived to be seventy years old. Mrs. Crump also first saw the light at Malone, and came from an old, substantial New York family and she saw her ninety-third year, ending her days in comfort. David Crump came out to California for the first time in 1861, but returned again to the East; and in 1867 he came back to Cali- fornia, bringing his family with him, and settled at Clarksburg. He purchased 450 acres of land on Mer- ritt Island before the days of reclamation work and for a few years farmed there. He also owned 156 acres now known as the Strautman ranch in Sacra- mento County. He sold both of these ranches and went to Pendleton, Ore., where he lived nine years; and on returning, took up his residence again at Clarksburg, where he passed away.

J. C. Crump is the youngest of a family of four sons and three daughters. David served in a New York regiment during the Civil War and was hon- orably discharged. He came to California and was accidentally drawn into a lake in this county while hunting. He made shore, but died of the intense cold and exposure. Theodore served in a New York regi- ment throughout the Civil War and he died in Wash- ington. Abraham died in Rio Vista; Lydia, Mrs. Neil Hogaboom, died at Clarksburg and Jeanette is also deceased. Mary is Mrs. King, of Colusa.

Mr. Crump went to public school at Clarksburg until he was twelve years old, and then began work for his own support. At first, he did odd jobs, but finally he took up veterinary surgery, and under the guidance of an old, experienced veterinary, obtained a thoroughly practical knowledge of horses and domes- tic animals, and this scientific work he followed for twenty-seven years in the delta islands, during which time he afforded much relief to the dumb creatures in his care, and also aided the farmer materially in saving and caring for his beasts.

Then Mr. Crump went back to farming, and pur- chased eighty acres of asparagus land a few miles above Isleton, on Grand Island, and he still owns this property. He also leased a ranch of 1871/2 acres, on Twitchell Island, devoted to the cultivation of asparagus and the raising of truck vegetables. He is a Democrat, favoring the old party that has so long championed state rights and the privilege of the honest, law-abiding individual to do all and whatever he pleases that is right. Since 1891 he has resided in Isleton with his family in a residence he built.

At Sacramento, on April 18, 1888, Mr. Crump was married to Miss Alice Feran, who was born on Mer- ritt Island, the daughter of Henry and Lucina Fer- an. Her father was a farmer and an early settler, who lived to be sixty-five years old. They had three sons and two daughters. Frank died from lock-jaw; then came Jefferson Davis, and after him, George:

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Mrs. Crump was the fourth in the order of birth; while Ida lived but six years. Mrs. Feran saw her seventieth year. Alice Feran attended the schools on Merritt Island, and she has had two children of her own. Ethel E, born on her father's birthday, in 1890, is now Mrs. William de Back; and Henry Guy lives in San Francisco. He served in the World War for over eighteen months. He is now a captain navigating in San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento River. Fraternally Mr. Crump is a member of Isle- ton Lodge No. 108, I. O. O. F., and is a past grand He has belonged to the Asparagus Growers' Associa- tion since the time of its organization, and is also a member of the Californina Federation of Farmers.

ALFRED T. TRAINOR .- A far-seeing, alert agent who thoroughly understands both the theory and practice of modern insurance, especially as it applies to California conditions and laws, is Alfred T. Trainor, a native of Sacramento, in which city he is now one of the leaders in his important field. On July 31, 1874, he joined the family circle of Hugh Charles and Rose (Toland) Trainor, the former a sturdy pioneer who came to California around the Horn from New York in 1852, and here engaged in both butchering and farming, in time marrying Miss Toland and taking a six months' honeymoon trip to New York around the Horn. For the last fifteen years of his life, he lived retired at Sacramento, Cali- fornia, and now that both he and his wife have joined the vast "silent majority," it is worth while to record that the world was much the better for these worthy folks having lived and labored in it, leaving the following sons who are still engaged in business in this community: Isaac J. Trainor, Charles E. Trainor, Frank C. Trainor, Alfred T. Trainor, and Walter E. Trainor.

Alfred T. Trainor enjoyed both the grammar school and the high school courses and then took up sur- ' veying for two years. His next venture, however, was the trial of his aptitude for insurance; and in this new departure, he succeeded so well that he has been one of the recognized aggressively progressive in- surance men for the past twenty-eight years. He has done far more, too, than make an enviable success for himself; for in encouraging others to take just what insurance they ought to have, no less and no more, and in thus helping them to adopt one of the most approved safeguards for the future, Mr. Trainor has benefited thousands, in numerous cases doing bet- ter by others than they, with their inexperience or natural indisposition, if left to themselves, could have done. The Sacramento Chamber of Commerce enrolls Mr. Trainor among its membership; and the Democratic party enlists his support.

Mr. Trainor married Miss Maude Rhoads of Sac- ramento on September 26, 1915. Miss Rhoads is the granddaughter of John Pierce Rhoads, one of the early pioneers who came to California overland in the carly part of 1846 with the ill-fated Donner Party, separating from them, however, before crossing the mountains, to which circumstance he later owed his life; and taking the trail suggested by the Indians, he crossed the mountains in safety, but, hearing of the plight of his friends, he turned back to their aid and making two severe trips rescued several. Their domestic happiness is revealed in four promis- ing children : Alfred Thomas, Jr., Rose Mary, Charles Richardson and Isaac John. Mr. Trainor finds his

fraternal society in the circles of the Elks, and is also a member of the Sutter Club. He enjoys out- of-door life, for which reason he is always interested in Sacramento, with its favoring conditions for sport, recreation and long life; and he takes a deep interest in Sacramento's historic past.

WILLIAM F. PEYTON .- An enterprising, lik- ab'e business man of Sacramento County is William F. Peyton, who was born September 14, 1890, on a farm near Amador City, in Amador County, Cal., the son of James and Sarah ( Ford) Peyton. Mr. Peyton, Sr., came to California in 1868, and engaged in farm- ing. He passed away about 1893, greatly mourned by his widow. Mrs. Peyton was born in Volcano, Amador County, Cal. She is seventy years old, and is considered one of the oldest native daughters of the Golden State. Her father, R. M. Ford, was one of the early pioneers who came to California in 1848, crossing the plains. In 1851 he returned East across the plains and in 1852 he again returned to California via overland routes.

William F. Peyton attended the public schools of Amador City. He became a miner and followed this occupation throughout the mining states west of the Rockies. While working as a miner, he learned the blacksmith trade, and in 1916 he took up automobile work. He came to Sacramento in 1919 and was em- ployed by the Bowman Carriage Works for two and one-half years. In July, 1922, he opened his own place of business, taking as his partner, Henry A. Hanley, a sketch of whose life is given below. The concern of Hanley & Peyton specializes in automobile spring work, body repairing and building, etc., and general automobile blacksmith work, being located at 1221-23 I Street.

In Placerville on May 2, 1917. William F. Peyton was united in marriage with Miss Bertha Schance, a native daughter of El Dorado, Eldorado County, the daughter of Robert and Eliza (Marks) Schance, born in California. Her father was a miner and farmer and is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Peyton are the par- ents of one child, Marvin William. Fraternally, Mr. Peyton is a member of the Sacramento Aerie No. 9, Fraternal Order of Eagles. He maintains a non- partisan attitude, voting for the man rather than the party. A man of the highest principles, and unques- tioned integrity, Mr. Peyton and his family are held in the highest regard in the community.

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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 146

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