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 150

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

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In San Francisco, on January 4, 1890, Mr. Maes- tretti was married to Miss Meadie Orr, a native daughter born in San Francisco. Her father, An- drew Young Orr, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland: while her mother, formerly Phoebe Westwood Dyson, was born in Liverpool, England. Andrew Y. Orr came to California in the early days and followed the sea. He served through the Civil War, and after the war went back to England and again followed the sea; but he soon returned to the land of the Stars and Stripes and located in California, residing here until he passed away in 1914, at the age of seventy-six years, his wife having preceded him in 1895. Meadie (Orr) Maestretti was the elder of their two children. She is a well-educated, refined woman, and presides competently and gracefully over her home. Mr. and Mrs. Maestretti are the parents of seven children. Walter, Emma, and An- drew are engaged in ranching near Lockeford, Cal .; George is employed in the People's Garage in Sac-

ramento: Mrs. Josephine Aldrich lives near Locke- ford; Alfred and Wesley follow ranching and make their headquarters with their parents. Walter en- tered the United States Army in the World War. serving at Camp Lewis; and George was also en- listed just before the armistice. Mr. Maestretti is an Ancient Odd Fellow. In national politics he aligns himself with the Republicans.

JOHN B. MARTIN .- The subject of this sketch was born in the Azores Islands, April 3, 1877, a son of Antonio and Mary Martin, both natives of the same place, who came to California in 1893. Here the mother died, but the father, now eighty years old. is hale and hearty. When our subject was fourteen years old, he left his native home and came to the United States and directly to Sacramento, where he received a fair education in the public schools; he learned the barber's trade and was also employed by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Since August, 1915, he has been a city employee, occupy- ing the position of city pound master.

The marriage of Mr. Martin in 1896 united him with Miss Rose Azevedo, a native daughter of Sac- ramento, and they are the parents of five sons and one daughter: John B., Jr .; Irene. Mrs. Frank Gregory, now the mother of two children: George, Ralph and Arthur, employed by the Southern Pacific, and Raymond. Fraternally Mr. Martin is affiliated with the Red Men. U. P. E. C. and the I. D. E. S. of Sacramento and in politics votes with the Republican party.

AUGUST KLOSS, JR .- August Kloss. Jr., was born in Sacramento, on September 29. 1889. His father, also named August, a native of Hanover. Germany, came to California when a young man and for some years worked on the McFessel ranch on Colusa plains, driving the big teams in the grain- fields, until he decided to engage in the mercantile business in Sacramento, where for a time he carried on a general merchandise business. Returning to ranching, he purchased a farm comprising 240 acres at Franklin, and there engaged in raising grain. He married Amelia Rott, who was born in St. Louis. Mo. Their union proved very happy and resulted in the birth of four children: Edward, a rancher and stockman; Adolph, a dairyman: August, Jr., of this review: and Emma, Mrs. J. M. Keema, all of Frank- lin except the last-named, who lives at Elk Grove. August Kloss, Sr., was interested in the cause of education, serving as trustee of Franklin school dis- trict for many years, and also being a trustee of Elk Grove Union High School for years. He is a mem- ber of Schiller Lodge of Odd Fellows. Sacramento. In 1912 he made a six months' trip back to Germany, visiting his old home and other places of interest. He is now living retired at the age of seventy-six years, his wife having passed away in 1912 at the age of fifty-nine years.

August Kloss, Jr., after completing the local school. engaged in farming, and when seventeen years of age took charge of the home place. In August. 1912, he was married, the ceremony occurring at Franklin and uniting him with Miss Gussie M. Walter, who was born at Thornton. Cal., a daughter of pioneer parents. She was a graduate of the Stockton Normal School and engaged in teaching until her marriage. The

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union of Mr. and Mrs. Kloss has been blessed with one child, Edwin Henry. Mr. Kloss now owns ninety-three acres of the old homestead. He has in- stalled two pumping-plants, has set out a twenty-acre vineyard, and has seeded his fields to alfalfa, being also engaged in dairying. Politically, Mr. Kloss is a Republican; and fraternally, he is a member of Elk Grove Parlor No. 41, N. S. G. W.

GLENN E. KIRKPATRICK .- A man of good business capacity, honest and honorable, is found in Glenn E. Kirkpatrick, vice-president of the Wood- Curtis Company, wholesale produce dealers in Sacra- mento. His birth occurred in Plymouth, Amador County, Cal., March 21, 1886, a son of Robert Bruce and Eliza (Sampson) Kirkpatrick. The family re- moved to Sacramento when their son, Glenn E., was a small child of two years. In this city the father passed away and here the mother now makes her home. Glenn E. Kirkpatrick received his educa- tion in the Sacramento public schools and completed it with a course in Howe's Business College. After completing his schooling he entered the employ of the Wood-Curtis Company and in a short time be- came a salesman; later he was manager of a branch house operated by the same company; and in 1913 he became a partner in the business and was made vice-president of the company.

The marriage of Mr. Kirkpatrick united him with Miss Celia Shaw, a native of Sacramento, Cal. Mr. Kirkpatrick belongs to the B. P. O. Elks, the N. S. G. W. and the Sutter Club, and during the World War he took an active part in all patriotic drives in his section of the state; he is a Republican in politics.

BENJAMIN and FRANK A. JAUCH. - Two native sons who are making a success of dairying on the Cosumnes River, near Slough House, are Ben- jamin and Frank A. Jauch who were born in Sac- ramento County, the one near Elk Grove in 1893, the other near Arno in 1897, the sons of Joseph and Josephine (Zraggen) Jauch, natives of Switzerland, who came to the United States immediately after their marriage, about 1880. Coming directly to Cali- fornia, the parents engaged in dairying in the Sac- ramento Valley. In January, 1898, they located on the Plummer ranch, on the Cosumnes River, where Mr. Jauch was foreman of the hop-field; and later he leased the ranch and engaged in dairying. He took out the hops, and instead planted the field to alfalfa. He was energetic, and by close application made a success of his business until he retired. Joseph and Josephine Jauch were the parents of eight children: Mrs. Mary Atkinson, of Sacramento; Mrs. Josephine Kurtz, of Live Oak; Joseph, living in Wheatland; Fred, assisting Jauch Bros., as is also their sister Annie: Benjamin and Frank, of Jauch Bros .; and Mrs. Lillie Thorsen, of North Sacramento. The mother passed on in 1912, and some time afterwards the father married again, being united to Mrs. Cath- erine Bowman; he now makes his home in Woodland.

Benjamin and Frank Jauch attended school in the Stone House school district. From the time they were lads, they assisted their father on the farm and there learned dairying, as they were specializing in that branch of agriculture. On July 1, 1919, Ben- jamin and Frank formed a partnership and purchased their father's dairy business; and they have since

continued together harmoniously, meeting with de- served success. Their fields of alfalfa, together with pasture lands, give them ample feed for their herd of cattle; and they milk about seventy-five head of high-grade Holstein cows. In former days they manufactured cheese, but now the milk is separated and the cream is sent to Sacramento.

Frank Jauch is married, the ceremony having oc- curred in Sacramento on February 28, 1922, when he was united with Miss Eva Allison, born at Plymouth, Cal., a daughter of William and Mary Allison, pio- neers of this state. The mother is still living, but the father has passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jauch have one child, Grace Lillian. Enterprising and progressive, Jauch Bros. are aiding in the de- velopment and upbuilding of the Cosumnes region. In political matters they are stanch Republicans.

CHARLES E. WILSON .- A public-spirited American who has been privileged, as a well-trained, experienced and practical man, to render a valuable service to California, is Charles E. Wilson, a native of Indianapolis, End., where he was born on No- vember 29, 1866, and now residing on a ranch south of Herald. His father was Anthony Mullen Wilson, a native of Kentucky and a building contractor, who had moved to Paris, Monroe County, Mo., with his good wife, who was Miss Susan Anderson before her marriage, and their six-year-old boy, our subject, and had there followed his line of trade; he passed away at the age of seventy-eight, his wife breathing her last when fifty-four years old. Both were highly esteemed.

Charles E. Wilson was one of a family of six children, and along with the rest he was given the best educational advantages of his home-section. He attended Strother College in Missouri, and when of age, he started out into the world for himself. He came out to California and Sacramento in 1886, but went on to Butte County and lived at Chico for a year. And after that he spent one year as fore- man of the Reavis Ranch at Napa. Next he went to San Jose and was employed as an attendant in the State Hospital at Agnew for eleven years, and during the last year there he was supervisor of all male employes. Upon leaving there he received an appointment to the same kind of position at the Ukiah State Hospital, where he spent four years. He then became secretary to the Ukiah medical super- intendent, and remained in that capacity from 1904 to 1915.

In the latter year, Mr. Wilson came to Herald, Sacramento County, and purchased twenty acres of the Allen ranch, which is devoted to fruit, and has 1,000 sugar-prune trees, 400 peach trees. and 100 trees of family orchard, making 1,500 fruit trees in all. This ranch is irrigated by two three-inch pumps, driven by eight and six horse power engines; and our subject set out the trees himself. Mr. Wilson also owns eighty acres of land, used as a stock ranch, in Clay County, Oregon.

Mr. Wilson is a graduate of Kent's School of Law, then in San Jose and now one of the famous institutions of higher learning in San Francisco; and he has been admitted to practice in all the courts of the State of California. In 1918, he was elected justice of the peace in Alabama Township, Sacra- mento County, and he vacated this office on January

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8. 1923, leaving behind an enviable record for insight, devotion to patriotic duty and fairness to all.

At San Rafael. on September 15, 1908, Mr. Wilson was married to Miss Charlotte Zipf, a native of Idaho, and the daughter of the well-known pioneer, Albert Zipf. Mr. Wilson joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1890, and he now belongs to the lodge at San Jose. Politically he is a Repub- lican.

MOSES NIXON KIMBALL .- In the varied career of Moses Nixon Kimball, president of the well-known firm of Kimball-Upson Company, who are conducting one of the largest sporting goods stores in the West, all the trials and disillusionments inevitable to a man of his courageous spirit and prin- ciples of right and honor have been present, yet it is the testimony of all who know him well that his attitude toward mankind is most generous and his optimism regarding life one of his leading character- istics. Born in Council Bluffs, lowa, June 23, 1862, Moses Nixon Kimball was the fourth eldest child of a family of fourteen born to Caleb and Frances (Nixon) Kimball, natives of Pennsylvania, and among the early settlers of Iowa. Mr. Kimball is a thorough American, descended from the first Puritan settlers of Massachusetts. No question as to the validity of his claim to membership in the organization of the Sons of the Revolution could arise, since the direct ancestors of both his father and mother served in the war for independence. On the paternal side, his great-grandfather, Jacob Kimball, while yet a mere boy, was among the first to enlist in a division formed in Salem, Mass .; while among his mother's illustrious progenitors were both Col. Ethan Allen, distinguished in history because of his wonderful service not only in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, but in numerous other engagements as well, and John Nixon, president of the first Continental Congress, which convened in May, 1775, at Philadelphia.

Mr. Kimball received his early education in the public schools of Iowa and served an apprenticeship under his father, who followed the vocation of con- tractor and builder. In 1883 he left his home in Coun- cil Cluffs to locate in Stockton, Cal., where he re- sumed his studies for four years in Clark's Commer- cial College and Normal Institute, graduating from both departments in 1887, after which he came to Sacramento, where he was offered a situation in the Bainbridge Business College and Normal Institute, serving efficiently for two years prior to entering into a real estate partnership with Charles F. Gardner, who at that time was receiver of the United States land office at Sacramento. A year later, in 1891, Mr. Kimball engaged in business for himself at 705 J Street, purchasing a bicycle stock, supplemented by a small line of sporting goods, and in 1893, having in the interim taken L. S. Upson into the company, he transferred the business to the building on the corner of Seventh and J Streets, where the new bank of D. O. Mills now stands. During the succeeding ten years, they continued their trade upon this site, and in 1903, upon the incorporation of the firm of Kim- ball-Upson Company, moved to 609-611 K Street, where they are still located.

Leaving the care of his interests in Sacramento in capable hands, Mr. Kimball spent most of the eleven years from 1897 to 1908 in Alaska, where he was engaged in mining and speculating, during this time

spending seven or eight winters in the frigid north meeting the adventures, hardships, fortunes and mis- fortunes incident to the northland. Since 1908 he has resided in Sacramento, having resumed his old work in his business house.

On December 16, 1903, Mr. Kimball was united in marriage with Miss Clara Miller, a native of George- town, Cal., whose parents, John H. and Ellen (Spen- cer) Miller, pioneers of California, were among the earliest settlers of this state. Mr. Kimball is a mem- ber of the Arctic Brotherhood, and the Pioneers of Alaska, and the Odd Fellows, and locally is a mem- ber of the Chamber of Commerce and the Del Paso Club. In politics he is a Republican and maintains a wide interest in both civic and national develop- ments, his special attention centering in his home sec- tion which he is most generous in supporting.

ERNEST B. CHAPPELL .- An aggressively pro- gressive hotel manager of exceptionally valuable ex- perience, Ernest B. Chappell easily makes the well- appointed St. Francis Hotel, of Sacramento, one of the most popular hostelries in northern California. He was born at Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1880, the son of George H. and Tresa (Trefee) Chappell, who came out to California when he was four or five years of age. Previously, George H. Chappell had been at Boulder Creek, where for a number of years he had conducted a general merchandise business and a hotel; and now that he has put behind him many years of hard, intelligent and honest labor, he is able to live in retirement, in Sacramento, and quietly enjoy the companionship of appreciating friends. The companion of these earlier years, his devoted wife, passed away years since, mourned by the many who had come to admire and love her for her fine womanly qualities.

After having benefitted by instruction of the public schools, Ernest Chappell learned the trade of an in- terior decorator, which he followed for twenty-five years; and for eighteen years he was in business with Schneider, Chappell & Jones, later for eight years being a member of the firm of Chappell & Lubbard. painting contractors, in which he was successful. In July, 1922, he was made manager of the St. Fran- cis Hotel, or apartment house, owned by the city. and the favor with which the institution is regarded is the best proof of his success as manager. He be- longs to the Rotary Club, and the Builders' Ex- change; and in politics he is Republican.

Mr. Chappell married, in 1904, Miss Pearl Lub- bard, an accomplished native daughter, and they have had one child, Thelma Bernice. Mr. Chappell likes fishing but his real hobby is bowling.

EARL M. RALLS .- The practical work of the broadly experienced painter is coupled in an inter- esting manner with that of the artistic decorator in the extensive operations of the enterprising contrac- tor, Earl M. Ralls, a native son hailing from Bieber, in Lassen County, where he was born on January 17, 1887. His father was Morgan Ralls, who crossed the great plains with oxen and settled in Lassen County, where he met and married Miss Laura Shinn. whose father and mother had likewise made their way with oxen across the continent, and had settled in the same locality. In the beginning, Morgan Ralls raised cattle; then he took up general farming: and later, and until his death, he sold pianos and

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organs, while Mrs. Ralls taught music, particularly piano, in Sacramento, passing away in 1921. Both parents were among the worthiest of pioneers.

After Morgan Ralls' death, Earl M. Ralls came with his mother to Sacramento, and having had to com- mence working for a living rather early, he studied under his mother's instruction, for she had also been a school teacher. He was ambitious, however, and by evening study he made up for a lot of what he lost through his manual work in the daytime; and he succeeded in closing the period of his apprentice- ship with credit. Since then, for the past two years, he has been in business for himself. He painted and decorated the Keeney private school, and also the buildings on the new Moreing Field baseball grounds, and he has given his most artistic decora- tion to many private residences. He belongs to the Builders' Exchange, is an independent in poli- tics, and when tired of the ordinary affairs of busi- ness and social life, he hies himself off to hunt for dleer and ducks.

THEODORE B. ERICKSON .- A broad-minded and liberal-hearted business man of the city of Sac- ramento is Theodore B. Erickson, who was born July 19. 1882, at Stillwater, Minn., the son of Nels and Eva Charlotte (Anderson) Erickson. His father was a contractor and builder, who came to California in 1906 and now lives retired in San Pedro, Cal. They had six children, five of whom are living. A brother, Ralph E., served in the 316th Engineers and was sent overseas and was killed in the Argonne forest.

Ted Erickson, as he is familiarly called by his friends, attended the public schools of Stillwater and Minneapolis. After leaving high school, he went into business with his father and learned the carpenter's trade. In 1904 he went to Bellingham, Washington, and the same year made his way to Sacramento, arriving in the fall of 1904. He followed carpenter- ing until in 1921 he became a partner with A. L. Johnson of the A. L. Johnson Company, builders and contractors, and has helped to build up the company's thriving business. Ted Erickson is a member of the Odd Fellows, Lodge and Encampment; the Order of Vasa: Concord Lodge No. 117, F. & A. M., Sacra- mento; and the Woodmen of the World. The firm belongs to the Builders' Exchange and the Master Builders' Association. Politically, he adheres to the Republican party. He is an active worker for the pro- motion of the public welfare, and is found in the van- guard where progress is the watchword.

HERMAN KLATTKE .- A prominent citizen of Sacramento County, and one whose efforts have been used for the good of the community, is Herman Klattke, the founder of the present firm of Klattke and Wahl, sheet metal workers in North Sacramento. He was born on July 27, 1876, in Germany, and knew very little of a father's care, as he died when the child was but two years old; his mother is still living in Germany. Herman was educated in the schools of Germany and there he learned his trade of sheet metal worker, beginning when a lad of fourteen and working for his board, putting in from five in the morning until nine at night in summers, but in the winter worked from seven until bedtime. He spent four years at this hardest kind of labor, then for a time he was in business for himself in Berlin. In 1906 he came to the United States and worked

first in Louisville, Ky., then went to Chicago, and while there he attended night school to learn the English language, at the same time he worked at his trade. He then came west to Spokane, Wash., and from there to San Francisco. In June, 1913, he came to Sacramento and worked as a journeyman, at the same time that he bought some land and developed a chicken ranch. In 1921, he sold his country property and in March, 1922, he bought the property and erected the building where he is now doing business. Later he took in a partner in the person of C. H. Wahl, a native of Humboldt County. They specialize in sheet metal work of every description and have a large country trade. The firm are members of the North Sacramento Chamber of Commerce and the Builders' Exchange.

On July 12, 1911, Mr. Klattke was united in mar- riage with Miss Amelia Foul, also a native of Ger- many, and they are deservedly popular in their local- ity and deeply interested in all progressive move- ments. He is a member of the Sacramento Turn- verein, one of the oldest organizations in Sacramento, and in politics he is independent.

REV. ERNEST STORER BARTLAM .- A na- tive of England, where he was born at Birmingham, on May 2, 1881, the Reverend E. S. Bartlam, present Vicar of the Pro-Cathedral of the Episcopal Church in Sacramento, has demonstrated his scholarly at- tainments to those who know him as pastor and as friend. His father, Reverend William E. Bartlam, is Vicar of Luddenden, Yorkshire, England, and is beloved by all for his humanitarian principles, and with his good wife, Elizabeth A. Storer in maiden- hood, is enjoying life to its full at their English home.

Ernest S. Bartlam was educated at the Wakefield grammar school and took the classical courses at Clare College, Cambridge University. On account of his health he came to Idaho and spent six years riding the range as a cowboy in that state and in Afontana and Wyoming, from the date of his arrival in the United States in 1901 until 1907. It was in the latter year that he came to California, and in 1915 he was ordained a deacon at St. John's Episco- pal Church at Petaluma. In 1916 he was ordained priest in St. Paul's in Sacramento, then held charges at the Holy Innocents in San Francisco and at St. Peter's in Red Bluff, and on May 30, 1920, became Vicar of his present church.

The marriage of Rev. E. S. Bartlam, September 23, 1904, united him with Miss Bertha Jean Bruner ; and two children were born to them, Ernest Percy and Lois Margaret. Mrs. Bartlam died September 27, 1915. On December 31, 1917, Reverend Bart'am married, for his second wife, Miss Fanny Ardley. Reverend Bartlam is deeply interested in the various movements for the advancement of the social, edu- cational and moral conditions in Sacramento and is ever ready to do his full share to promote every good work brought to his attention. He is a mem- ber of the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Elks and Sons of St. George. He finds recreation in hunting and fishing and also greatly enjoys a camping trip where one gets closer to nature. He also finds pleasure in working with tools, and spends much of his spare time doing constructive work with edged tools in his little cabinet shop. As a citizen he takes an active part in all progressive movements

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of a non-partisan character, and although a Repub- lican in national politics he is a supporter of men and measures for the greatest good to the greatest number.

THOMAS McCONNELL .- A well-known leader in the Sacramento motor-world is Thomas McCon- nell, the proprictor of McConnell's Auto Repair Shop at 1114 Twenty-first Street. He is not only a native son, but also a native of Stockton, where he was born in 1875, and he naturally has a very warm place in his heart for both the Golden State and its central valley. His parents were Charles and Mary (El'iott) McConnell. Under a stimulating, foster- ing home environment, Thomas attended the gram- mar and the high school of Oakland, and then for twenty years followed in the footsteps of his father, who was an experienced cattleman, operating on an extensive scale. He had the usual ups and downs of those in the cattle industry, and when he came to Sacramento, in 1919, he was rich in experience. In June of this year, Mr. McConnell bought the Supe- rior Garage, taking in at first a partner, and they acquired a large concrete fireproof building; and after a while he bought out his partner's interest, which he sold in 1921, and a little later opened his present place of business. He maintains both a re- pair shop and a service department, with the result that a customer once obtained is sure to come again.

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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 150

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