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 68

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

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In 1905 Mr. Jenkins married Miss Amanda L. Rickey, of Sacramento, a daughter of Aaron R. and Martha Rickey, both now deceased; and of this union have been born two children, Ora E. surviving. Mr. Jenkins is a Knight Templar Mason and also a char- ter member of Ben Ali Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is likewise identified with the Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows, being a charter member of Oak Park Lodge, of which he is a past grand. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party. He has never been unmindful of the duties of citizenship nor of his obligations to his fellow men, and his labors have been beneficially productive. He

is one of the foremost civil engineers in the Pacific Coast region, and California is proud to number him among her native sons.

F. S. McCULLOH .- A prominent and successful stockman is F. S. McCulloh, who is a native of Sac- ramento County born in Excelsior school district. His father, John McCulloh, was born in Coshocton, Ohio, of Scotch lineage, his ancestors being carly settlers of Virginia. He crossed the plains to Cali- fornia in 1850 and for a time followed mining and then engaged in cattle-raising. He was married after his arrival in the Golden State to Miss Elizabeth Burch, who was born in Michigan and had also crossed the plains in pioneer days. They ranched at Lone Tree until 1872, when they located in the Forest House district, Amador County, where he resided until his death, October 25, 1907, his widow surviving him ten years. F. S. McCulloh is the second oldest of their four children and received a good education in the public schools. From a boy he assisted his father in the stock business, so he naturally selected that branch of agriculture for his vocation.

Mr. McCulloh was married in Sonoma County, January 5, 1888, being united with Miss Lizzie Laugh- lin, who was born at Mark West, Sonoma County. Her father was also a pioneer of California and a native of Tennessee. He came to Iowa when a lad of ten years, where he grew up and married Miss Davison. In 1851 he crossed the plains and followed mining in Eldorado and Amador Counties. His wife having passed on, he returned East in 1853, and in 1854 he was married to Mathilda Faught, who was a native of Indiana. Mr. Laughlin brought his bride across the plains, locating on Mark West Creek, So- noma County, where he became the owner of a 700- acre ranch which he devoted to stock-raising and fruit-growing, the place being known as the Lone Redwood ranch. His wife died in 1876 and he passed on in 1891. There were eight children born of this union, four of whom are living. Lizzie Laughlin spent her childhood on her father's ranch and there she grew to womanhood. She attended school in the Lone Redwood district and obtained a teacher's cer- tificate when eighteen years of age and began teach- ing in Sonoma County. Afterwards she completed her education in MeMeans Normal in Santa Rosa and continued teaching in Mariposa, Tuolumne, Sac- ramento and Amador Counties. After her marriage she continued teaching for four years, or until her first child was born; and then after having raised her children she again took up educational work. In 1910 she began teaching again in Slate Creek district. and has continued in the profession ever since.

Mr. McCulloh has been very successful in the stock business. In 1888 he purchased a portion of his present ranch; and as he prospered he has added to his holdings until he now owns 3,200 acres in Ama- dor and Sacramento Counties, well watered by Indian Creek and numerous springs. For many years he raised shorthorn cattle but since 1921 he is breeding the polled Herefords, his brand being a "T" on the left hip. His ranch is well improved with suitable buildings and also with cattle scales; and he is also raising fields of alfalfa, and for some years he ran a dairy and manufactured butter. Now, however. he devotes all of his time to raising cattle.

Mr. and Mrs. McCulloh's union was blessed with the birth of three children. Cora was a graduate of

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MfcMean's Normal at Santa Rosa and taught school till her marriage with Mr. Klotz; she now resides near Freeport. Ramona was educated at Ione high school and the University of California and is now the wife of Rodger McEwen of Sacramento. Ruth was at- tending Sacramento high school when she passed away in 1912. Mr. McCulloh has served acceptably as trustee of Forest Home school district and is a Republican in national politics. For over thirty years he has been a member of the California Cattlemen's Association, and has served as president of the El- dorado and Amador County Stock Association, at present being a member of the advisory board.

HARRY S. MADDOX .- An enterprising repre- sentative of business interests in Sacramento is found in Harry S. Maddox, one of the city's successful life insurance men, who is also a former state market director and a recognized authority on production and marketing. Mr. Maddox is a native of Ohio, born at Georgetown, Brown County, August 24, 1866, a son of David E. and Martha A. (Connor) Maddox, natives of Brown and Adams Counties, Ohio, res- pectively, and descendants of old pioneer families. The ancestors on the paternal side came originally from England to the present site of Baltimore and bought land from the Lord Baltimore grant. Eleven members of the family participated in the Revolution- ary War, and the family has been represented in all the wars of this country, including the late World WVar. Grandfather Thompson Maddox located in Brown County, Ohio, where he was a pioneer farmer. David E. Maddox, the father of Harry S. Maddox. was also a farmer, and served in the Civil War as a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in Mc- Kinley's Division. He removed to Kansas in 1884, and located in the city of Paola, where he bought a farm and now resides. The maternal family of Con- nors came from the north of Ireland and were of Scotch descent. They settled in Ohio, and farmed in Adams County. The mother passed away years ago.

Harry S. Maddox is the eldest of seven children, and was educated in the public schools of Ohio and Kansas. He attended the Paola Normal School and afterwards graduated from the Sedalia Business Col- lege, in Sedalia, Mo. He entered the employ of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad as a tele- graph operator, and later went to Colorado, where he was employed as ticket and freight agent in the operating department, for eighteen years, for the D. & R. G. Railroad. He became interested in cham- ber-of-commerce activities and spent three years with the Canon City Chamber of Commerce in Colorado, and then came to California, in 1912, as secretary of the Yolo County Board of Trade, continuing in that position for four years. He then became secretary and manager of the Sacramento Chamber of Com- merce, serving over three years, when he was ap- pointed state superintendent of weights and meas- ures by Governor Stephens. Soon after, he was pro- moted by the governor to the office of state market director. Taking up his duties, he served with ability for over one year, when in July, 1922, he resigned to return to private business, taking up his life-work of many years, life insurance, as general agent for the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, with offices in the Capital National Bank Building. During its inception Mr. Maddox promoted the new Sacra- mento Market, an innovation new to Sacramento.

His years of investigation and his surveys of the markets of different states, in which he had covered more than 2,500 miles, convinced him that Sacra- mento was ready for a market such as he had in mind.

Mr. Maddox was married in Galva, Kans., to Miss Mary A. Colby, born in Ashtabula County, Ohio. They have one daughter, Annette, who graduated from high school in Canon City, Colo., and continued her education in the University of California. She is now the wife of Peter R. Gadd, Jr., of Sacramento. Mr. Maddox is a Master Mason and a member of the A. O. U. W., and also belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and other civic organizations. He is vice- president of the American Center Church, and is a director of the County Anti-Tuberculosis Association. During the war he took an active part in war work and was a four-minute speaker. He also served as city and county food administrator, making one of the best records in California during the World War. He is a member of the Grace M. E. Church, and a member of its official board; and he is president of the Men's Club of the church.

OSMER W. ANDERSON .- Among the most progressive, able and prominent lawyers of Sacra- mento is Osmer W. Anderson, who since 1915 has been engaged in general practice in this city, his ability carrying him forward into important relations and winning for him a creditable clientele. He is a native son of California, his birth occurring at Sac- ramento, August 22, 1868; he is the son of William A. Anderson, a well-known jurist of Sacramento, who is now deceased. Osmer W. Anderson began his education in the grammar schools of his native city, then entered high school, and after graduation entered his father's office as a law student. He then went to San Francisco, where he was in the employ of the United States government for four years; and afterward he was with the Crocker Es- tate Company for two years. In 1898 he enlisted for service in the war with Spain, in the 1st Cali- fornia Volunteers, and was sent to Manila, where he served for one year. He then returned to Sac- ramento and worked in the state printing office for some time, after which he entered the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, with whom he remained for the next twelve years. Having com- pleted his law studies, on February 25, 1915, he was admitted to the bar and began practice as a partner in the law firm of Anderson & Anderson. At the outbreak of the World War, he entered the 118th Engineers, and was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. He saw service in France, and was there when his father passed away, on April 18, 1919; he then returned to Sacramento and assumed the practice of law on September 1, 1919.

The marriage of Mr. Anderson united him with Miss Emma E. Meyer, of Sacramento, a graduate of the University of California. Mr. Anderson is a Veteran of Foreign Wars, and a member of the American Legion; he is also interested in National Guard work, and is now serving as scout master for a troop of boy scouts. In politics he is a Repub- lican; and in fraternal affiliation he is a Mason, a member of Concord Lodge No. 117, F. & A. M., and of Sacramento Chapter No. 3, R. A. M .; Sacramento Commandery No. 2, K. T .; and Ben Ali Temple, Mystic Shrine, Sacramento; and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Loyal Order of Moose.

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WILLIAM R. O'BRIEN .- The importance of Sacramento as a center of plant-industry has been demonstrated repeatedly, and by no one more so than by William R. O'Brien, whose plant headquarters at the corner of B and Thirty-first Streets, in Sacra- mento, are visited annually by many people. He was born in that city on May 8, 1857, the son of Thomas F. and Kate (Ford) O'Brien, the former a native of Ireland who had reached California by way of the Isthmus in 1850. He mined for a time; and then he accepted the responsible position as foreman and manager for Smith Bros., and had charge of their gardens near Sacramento, where Meister's dairy is now located. There was but a very small levee at that time, and there was no overflow until hydraulic mining was begun. He next established himself as a florist, and after that was engaged in the raising of asparagus, operating in his own way and as one of the real pioneers in his field. He was a landscape gardener and florist and he drew plans for the Capi- tol grounds, which were accepted; he also laid out grounds of the finer homes in Sacramento and also in San Francisco. He was ably assisted hy his good wife. They had six children: Thomas, deceased; and William R., Mrs. Mary Sheehan, George, Fred, and Frank, all born in Sacramento and living here.

William R. O'Brien went to the public schools, and then to the Christian Brothers' College, and after that he took a fine commercial course at Howe's Business College; and when ready to push out for himself, he joined his brother, Thomas F. O'Brien, and engaged in the raising of asparagus on their own property above McKinley Park. In 1893, he extended the scope of his operations by beginning to raise plants, both vegetable and flowering, and for a while he was located on Twenty-seventh Street, although he has been in his present location for a long time. His brother, Thomas, died in March, 1920, esteemed by all who knew him.

The marriage of William R. O'Brien to Miss Mary Curstens of New Orleans occurred in 1890, and they have one son living, Ford, who responded to the call of his country in the World War, was as- signed to the artillery, and saw seven months' service in France. Another, Roy O'Brien, died at the age of fifteen. The O'Briens also have a daughter, Lau- reen, who is now Mrs. Joseph Gideon, of Sacramento. A grandchild is William Gideon. In respect to his political preferences, Mr. O'Brien is a Democrat. He was a charter member of Sacramento Parlor No. 3, N. S. G. W., and he has lived to sec Sacramento grow from a straggling village to a city of consider- able size.

ROGER GIORGI .- Popular among the leading and most successful Italian-Americans in Sacramento County, Roger Giorgi, of the well-known firm of Messrs. O. Giorgi & Son, occupies an enviable posi- tion of influence. He was born in Tuscany, Italy, on March 7, 1874, the son of Oreste and Gelsimina (Cagniacci) Giorgi, his father being an ambitious pioneer of 1876, who came across the ocean to Amer- ica in the Centennial year and settled in San Fran- cisco until 1880. Then he went back to Italy for ten years, and returned to San Francisco in 1890; but a year later, he located with his family in Sacramento.

On April 2, 1891, Mr. Giorgi established the busi- ness of merchant tailor at 828 J Street, and in time the house removed to 304 K Street, owing to their

need for larger quarters. Then they removed to 406 J Street, and still later they had their place at 1011 Third Street, and after that at 422 J Street. Oreste Giorgi died in October 5, 1912, but his devoted wife is still living.

Roger attended a private school in San Francisco, and then he joined his father in business and on the death of his father, he became the head of the busi- ness. In time, the firm bought the two-story, modern brick building at 605 J Street, and on Febru- ary 1, 1922, they threw open the doors of their up-to- date tailoring establishment, where they employ twelve men. Roger Giorgi is assisted hy his son, Oreste. Mr. Giorgi did much to effect the bringing of the Bank of Italy to Sacramento and he is one of the directors of the Sacramento branch. He was at the head of the Italian brigade which participated in raising the $73,500 for the American Liberty Loan drive; and when the Italian Government raised their loan in the United States, Mr. Giorgi had charge of the campaign in the Sacramento district. He is presi- dent of the Italian-American Club, was formerly the secretary of the committee on Italian schools, and is in many ways a very respresentative citizen.

At Sacramento, on August 25, 1899, Mr. Giorgi was married to Miss Matilda Consiglieri. of Sacra- mento, a native daughter and member of an old pio- neer family. Her mother is still living at the age of seventy-six. A son, William R., is pro-assistant cashier of the Bank of Italy at the head of the for- eign exchange department. Another child is Oreste, a graduate of the Sacramento high school; a daughter is named Anna, and the youngest of the family is Roger, Jr. Mr. Giorgi is a member of the Eagles, secretary of the Bersaglieri Lodge, No. 3, and past noble arch of the Druids, and was also district deputy in the Order of Foresters, now associated with the Bersaglieri; he belongs to lodge No. 6 of the Sacramento Eiks, and is a Knight of Columbus of the third degrec. He is fond of hunting and fishing.

ARTHUR SERVISS DUDLEY .- Arthur Serviss Dudley was born at West Salem, Wis., January 20, 1883, the son of Lewis R. and Nora (Serviss) Dudley, the former a pedagogue who at length re- tired, leaving an excellent record as principal in the public schools. He came from New England stock, and was born at Guilford, Conn .; for there the family, originally of o'd English stock, had settled in early days. Mrs. Dudley, estecmed and beloved by those who were privileged to know her as neighbor or friend, died some twenty years ago.

Arthur Serviss Dudley attended the grammar and also the high school of West Salem, and in 1900 was graduated from the high school; and three years later he received his diploma from the Illinois School of Photography. In December of the same year, he came out to California and Palo Alto following his marriage, on the 29th of the previous September, to Miss Ada Broome of Effingham, Ill. At Palo Alto he purchased a studio, and in 1904 he established the California College of Photography, and conducted it until the earthquake, in 1906. He then returned East, to Scranton, Pa., where he joined the American Photo Text-Book Company, and devoted three years to editing a ten-volume work, "The Complete Self- Instructing Work of Practical Photography," the first effort of the kind anywhere made, as far as is

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known. In 1910, he made a six-month circuit of the United States, to direct the sale of this book; and he remained with that company as manager for one and one-half years. Then he was with the Chambers Press, of Philadelphia, as advertising manager and editor of "The Bulletin of Photography" and "The Camera," and in September, 1913, he came to River- side County, California, and bought ten acres in the Lake View district, where he tried his luck at farm- ing. But he was washed out there, and in June, 1914, he came to San Jacinto, and opened the photo- graph gallery there, and helped organize the Cham- ber of Commerce, for which he was secretary for six months. Then he was employed by the supervisors of Riverside County to represent the county at San Francisco during the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and also at San Diego.

In April, 1915, Mr. Dudley was elected secretary of the Riverside Chamber of Commerce, and he held on to the dual job of representing the counties at the Fair, until April 1, 1916, when he was appointed as- sistant secretary of the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- ineree, under the celebrated Frank Wiggins; and on August 15, 1920, he came to the City of Sacramento as secretary of the Sacramento Chamber of Com- merce. In this position he added to the Chamber's laurels, as well as to his own. He was appointed on the advisory board of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and not only did good work outside, but also reanimated the local organization He is responsible, for example, for the new Cham- ber of Commerce Building costing $100,000, and far the ""putting over" of "The Days of '49," requiring such an endless supervision. In 1908, he was for a year president of the Secretaries of the California Chambers of Commerce; and from 1921 to 1922, he was director of the National Association of Commer- cial Organization Secretaries, and was reelected for 1923. In polities, Mr. Dudley is Republican.

Mr. and Mrs. Dudley may well be proud of their children, Tirzah May, Arthur Guilford, Carolyn Ruth, and Marian Jane. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley are very fond of camping and outdoor life, and also of hunting. And when he has plenty of time, he is de- lighted with a brisk game of tennis. He has a re- markable staff of assistants, and through their cooper- ation is able to accomplish much in a day. Sacra- mento has come to appreciate Arthur Serviss Dudley. whose faith in the future of Sacramento County is being daily crystalized into forward steps in the progress of its remarkable development.

FREDERICK NOLD .- An experienced, clever plasterer, who is also a very enterprising and success- ful contractor, well-known throughout Sacramento County, is Frederick Nold, of the capital city, where he was born in what is now the Capital Park, Thir- teenth and L Streets, on March 13, 1864. His parents were Fred and Carrie (Engle) Nold; and his father, mother and the sister, then an infant, came via Pan- ama to California in 1854, and located at Sacramento, where the father rounded out the remainder of his life, dying in 1910, aged eighty-one, full of honor and rich in friends. Two years later, his devoted wife, the mother of their five children, only two of whom are living-William, of Oakland, and Fred-breathed her last, aged eighty-three, beloved by all who had the privilege of knowing her.

Fred Nold went to the public schools, and then when duty called him, although a mere boy, he went

to work for a living. During a laborious apprenticeship, he learned the blacksmith trade; but when once he had mastered that, he gave it up to learn the trade he concluded he would like better, that of the plas- terer. He worked hard, and when ready to set out, he was also ready to set up in business for himself; and for the past thirty-five years he has had his own shop, his own customers, and been his own "boss." He plastered many of the best residences in town, and such special buildings as the Kimball & Upson Store, and the Metropolitan Store; and as becomes the pioneer plasterer here, he has finished the plaster part of both the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Jewish Synagogue. Coming from an old pioneer fam- ily, Mr. Nold feels a deep interest in Sacramento, both town and county, in respect to its historic past and to its promising future; and he is ever ready, in his business enterprises, to lend a helping hand in the matter of broad and permanent building. He be- longs to the Builders' Exchange; and in politics he allies himself with the Republicans.

In 1907, Frederick Nold was united in marriage with Miss Rose Augusta Egner, of Colorado; and they have one child, Helen Rose.

FREDERICK CONRAD WEIL .- An enterpris- ing, progressive and experienced business man, who has done what he could to further commercial opera- tions in and around Sacramento, is Frederick Conrad Weil, a native son who was born in Sacramento on the site of the present Catholic Cathedral, entering the family of Conrad and Barbara (Fritz) Weil on February 25, 1860. The devoted parents had come to California in 1852, before their marriage, traveling in separate wagon trains across the great plains from St. Joseph, Mo .; and getting acquainted here, they were married about 1855 and started life together in the Golden State. Mr. Weil opened a grocery at the southwest corner of Eleventh and J Streets, and for some years it was one of the best stores in town. He died in 1871, leaving an enviable record for honest dealing and loyal citizenship, and in 1897 he was fol- lowed to the Silent Land by his devoted wife, who left a family of six children, three of whom are in this state: Louisa, in Germany; Mrs. Katy Arth, of San Francisco; Frederick C., of this sketch; Ottilie, in Germany; Dr. Conrad, of San Francisco; and Sidonia, living with her sister Louisa.

Frederick Weil received his education in the excel- lent schools of Germany, to which land his parents had gone in 1868, via Panama, taking their six chil- dren. Returning to California, the father died at sea. In 1876 Mrs. Weil came back to America, and Fred- erick returned with his mother and entered the Scheldt Brewery in Sacramento. Afterwards he was with Rothfeld Brothers, dealers in dry goods. In 1879 an uncle, John Weil, was elected state treas- urer, and Fred was in that office three years with him. From 1883 until 1890, he was with Hunting- ton & Hopkins Company, and then he joined the Buffalo Brewing Company, where since 1919 he has been the manager.

In 1885, Mr. Weil was married to Miss Laura Miller, daughter of John S. Miller, a genuine Forty- niner, and his good wife Esther, the ceremony taking place at San Francisco; and they have two children, Fred Loring and Ethel, now Mrs. Albert S. May, who is the mother of two children, Janet and Albert

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Stoddard, Jr. Mr. Weil is a member of the Cham- ber of Commerce, and a director of the Industrial and Home Products Bureau; and is also a charter mem- ber of the Sacramento Rotary Club. In politics he is a Republican. He was a member of the original Company E, Ist Artillery, organized by Col. H. Wein- stock, and after serving for three years was trans- ferred to the 1st Artillery Band, with which he played for a number of years. He is fond of music, and for fourteen years played the clarinct in the local thea- ters. Their orchestra eventually became known as the Sacramento Symphony Orchestra, and was popu- lar with music lovers in Sacramento. Mr. Weil is deeply interested in the development of both Sacra- mento City and Sacramento County, and has seen the capital city grow from almost nothing to the populous and important center it is today.

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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 68

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