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After the death of her husband, Mrs. Doyle continued to reside in Paso Robles until she moved to San Francisco, where she purchased her present residence at 1365 Vallejo street. From her home in San Francisco she looks after her varied interests in San Luis Obispo County and other places. She is intensely interested in San Luis Obispo County, and is very optimistic for its future development and greatness. Being well posted on its soil, products, and climate, she firmly believes that it has greater advantages to offer the individual than any other county in California.
Mrs. Doyle is a consistent member of St. Bridget's Catholic Church. San Francisco, as well as of its sodalities. She is liberal, enterprising and progressive, and believes in building up the communities where she resides ; and she is always willing to give of her time and means towards any worthy object that has for its aim the advancement and growth of the state, and the enhancing of the comfort and the pleasures of its people.
FRANK CLINK .- Among the native sons who are making a success in dairying and stock-raising, is Frank Clink, who was born near Stockton, San Joaquin county, July 6, 1870. His father was David Livingston Clink, who was born in Ontario, Canada, became a pioneer of California, and died when Frank was a lad. His mother was Rachael Harris, a native of Indiana, who crossed the plains in 1852 with her parents, and now resides in San Luis Obispo. Frank's maternal grandfather, Dr. A. Harris, is represented in this work in the sketch of Mrs. Charles Carson.
Frank Clink came to San Luis Obispo County when a child, in 1872. living near Cayucos, and later on his grandfather Harris' farm in Adelaida. where he received his education in the public schools, meanwhile learning farming and the care of domestic animals from Dr. Harris, who was a vet erinary surgeon of much ability. He remained with his grandfather till seventeen years of age, when he proceeded to Los Alamos valley, Santa Barbara county, where he was employed at ranching for a period of three years. Ile then came to the Eagle ranch, San Luis Obispo County, and worked at horticulture for about two years.
Having become acquainted with Miss Fidelia Langlois, an attachment sprang up which culminated in their marriage at Morro. She was born in Sonoma county. Cal. Her parents came from the Isle of Guernsey, and were pioneer settlers of Sonoma county.
After his marriage, Mr. Clink followed truck farming on Morrercreek for five years; and then, on account of his health, he removed By Arizona and. having learned the blacksmith trade under his father-in-law. William Ling- lois, he started a blacksmith shop at Buckeye, Ariz., and plied his trade for a year. His health returning, he came back to San Luis Obispo County and 45
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starteda dessmith shop at Templeton, which he ran from the spring of 1900 until the fall of 1902. when he sold it to engage in stock-raising. For this purpose Ill leased the James Taylor ranch near Klan, and raised cattle for two Years. He then leased the lower Langlois ranch, where he ran a dairy and raised beans for six years.
In 1909 he bought the Loscano place adjoining Pozo, on which he lo- cated with his family. This he improved, sowing twenty acres to alfalfa. and followed dairying until he sold the property at a good big profit. Next he purchased eighty acres in Madera county, and for a year ran a dairy. Then selling out, he returned to Pozo and leased the Sinsheimer Koshlau ranch of eight hundred acres on Bear creek, which he is devoting to dairying. He has fifty well-selected cows in his dairy herd, and the cream is separated and shipped to San Francisco. Mr. Clink is one of the largest, and also une of the most enterprising, dairymen in the Pozo country.
On November 1, 1910, Mr. Clink was bereaved of his beloved wife. She left him four children, as follows: William A., foreman of the James Goodwin ranch : and Walter L., Frances J., and Kenneth L., who are still at home.
Mr. Clink has always taken an active interest in the cause of education, and has served as trustee in different districts. He is now serving on the Pozo school board. He is enterprising and progressive, and is deservedly popular and highly esteemed for his integrity and moral worth. Politically, he endorses Republican principles.
CAPT. FREDERICK J. PETERSON .- Frederick J. Peterson was a de- scendant of the ancient Norsemen. A man of sturdy strength and rugged appearance, he made his influence felt on both land and sea. He was born on the Danish island of Alsen, January 23, 1838. His native home afterwards became a part of the Kingdom of Prussia.
.As a young man, Mr. Peterson followed the sea. the same as his ancestors, and continued in that vocation for many years. He came to the United States in 1853: and upon attaining his majority, he became an American citizen.
In the year 1857, Mr. Peterson made a voyage to his native land, re- maining in Denmark for some six months, when he went to Australia and Failed up and down the Australian coast for some twelve years. During the time Mr. Peterson was in Australia, he also engaged in mining. Ile was married in 1867 to Miss Susan Adelaide Elliot.
Coming to California in 1869, he gave up seafaring and settled on a ranch of some three hundred acres in Harmony valley, about half-way be- tween ( avucos and Cambria. Here he remained until he moved to the county- Fit and purchased the Booker place on Monterey street, one of the finest resi- dences in the county, where he remained until the time of his death, on July 2% 1910.
Vthough Mr. Peterson was seventy-two years of age, he was a man of Brno Dos stitution and enjoyed the best of health until a month before his Neolie & boothe Suffered an attack of dropsy, which terminated fatally.
Montes a beloved widow, the following sons and daughters were left to monto der loss . Mrs. Florence Thompson, of San Luis Obispo ; Mrs. Lilly I Sorkao Templeton . Frederick H. Peterson, of Los Angeles : Mrs. Isabelle Bondeg med Air- Adelaide Sanders, of San Luis Obispo, and Elliot S. Peter-
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Mr. Peterson was a man among men, kindly, gentle, and fearless, and was looked up to and respected by the people as a straightforward, honest business man and a successful farmer.
HENRY WEIR. llenry Weir has been a resident of the Estrella region since the fall of 1883, and is a man who is well posted regarding the resources of this part of San Luis Obispo County. He was born in St. Louis county, Mo., February 28, 1868. Ilis father, Peter Weir, was born in Germany, and had two brothers, John and Nicholas, who came to California in pioneer days, afterwards locating in San Luis Obispo County, where they resided until their death. Peter Weir located on a farm near St. Louis, Mo., where he was married to Catherina Stroh, also of German birth. In the fall of 1883 he brought his wife and family of six children to Estrella, this county, where his brothers were living. He homesteaded one hundred twenty acres ad- joining Estrella, and there his wife died over twenty-five years ago. He now makes his home with his son, Henry. The six children of Peter and Catherina Weir were as follows: Fred W., a farmer at Estrella : John, deceased : Henry, the subject of this review: Christ, deceased ; George, foreman of the tank farm for the Producers Transportation Co. at San Luis Obispo; and Casper. a machinist in San Luis Obispo.
Henry Weir came to Estrella when fifteen years of age, and was imme- diately apprenticed as a blacksmith under Henry Ludeke, in San Luis Obispo. with whom he remained for eighteen months, when Ludeke sold out. Henry then entered the employ of Tom Hennessey, at San Miguel, as a blacksmith. He worked for Mr. Hennessey for over two years, when the business became so slack that there was nothing to do and Mr. Weir decided to take up farming. Returning to Estrella, he leased the present place of three hundred twenty acres, which he has been farming steadily since 1898. On the place he built a blacksmith shop, where he does his own and other work, to accom- modate the people of the vicinity. In connection with it he has a well- equipped machine shop, with gas-engine power.
Some years after coming to California, Mr. Weir made a trip back to his old home in Missouri, and there renewed the acquaintance of an old school- mate, Miss Louise Kleinsmidt ; and this resulted in their marriage. She was born near St. Louis, and has made him an excellent wife. Both are well known and highly esteemed. Politically. Mr. Weir is a Republican ; in religion he and his wife are Lutherans.
JOHN HULTQUIST. One of the oldest settlers living in the Oakdale district, John Hultquist was born in Smalan, Sweden, May 28, 1854 His father, Isaac Anderson, was a farmer; and from him John learned the rudi- ments of farming on the home place, meanwhile receiving his education in the public schools. He remained at home, assisting his father, until 1877. when he began for himself. Going to Stockholm, he found employment for a year ; and while there he took the name of Hultquist He then spent two years on railroad construction in Hjenetland, in northern Sweden, but hearing and reading of the greater advantages and better opportunities offered in the New World, he determined to try his fortune in the United States. Landing in New York City on July 2, 1880, he came on west to Marquette Mich. where he was employed in the lumber woods, as also, afterwards, at bavette near Escanaba. In 1882, be removed to Duluth, Minn., then a city of only 3,000 population, finding employment in the St Paul and Duluth Radroad
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shops as a helper to his brother-in-law, who was a blacksmith ; and here he learned the blacksmith trade.
In December, 1887, he came to California ; and having read in the papers vi the advantages of buying land in the vicinity of Templeton, he immedi- ately came on, arriving at his destination on January 4, 1888, and purchased thirty-eight acres of his present place on the Adelaida road, seven miles west oi Templeton. It was all in timber, and he began to clear the place and improve it with a house and buildings. He bought land adjoining, and now owns one hundred eighty-three and a half acres, with over one hundred acres under cultivation. When he began clearing the land, there was no sale for wood : so he slashed the trees down and burned them. He is now making a success of raising grain, hay and stock.
Mr. Hultquist was first married, in Templeton, to Miss Mary Swenson, who was born in Sweden. She died, leaving him two children: Frank, who resides at Orcutt ; and Martin, who is assisting his father on the farm. He was married a second time in Oakdale district, September 10, 1892, to Miss Maria Quarnstrom, born in Vermland, Sweden, who came to Minneapolis, Minn., in 1884, with her mother and two brothers, Henry and John. In Feb- ruary, 1887, she came to San Francisco, and in 1892 to Templeton. The present union has been blessed with one child, Josephine.
The family are active members of the Swedish Lutheran Church in Tem- pleton, Mr. Hultquist having been a member of the board of deacons for many years. He helped to build the church, and is now one of the oldest members of the congregation. In politics he believes in the principles of the Republican party. Mr. Hultquist is of a modest and retiring disposition, frank, kind, and open-hearted, and is very liberal and hospitable. The family are very favorably known, and highly respected.
MARTIN E. E. von DOLLEN .- A very beneficent and kind-hearted gentleman, Martin E. E. von Dollen was born in Tonning, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, on February 25, 1841. His father, Marcus, and his forefathers were farmers in Schleswig. His mother was Martha Hern. Both parents passed their days in their native land. Of their seven children, two came to California, Martin, the eldest, and John, the youngest. The latter died in Keys cañon, in February, 1917.
Marcus von Dollen was reared on the farm until sixteen years of age, when, having completed the local schools, he went to sea, serving on the sealer "Geneva," on a seal-hunting voyage to Greenland. During this voyage, he and six companions were out in a small whale-boat, lost in a dense fog for two days and three nights, when they were finally discovered by another sealer, which brought them back to their own ship. Returning to Denmark after six months, he followed the coasting trade in English, French and Russian waters, afterwards sailing on the "Wilhelmina" around Cape Horn by Valparaiso, and thence to Peru and back to Denmark. Next he was on IN. "1 aur Rochelle," on a trip via Good Hope to Australia and return. In Fin he came around Cape Horn on a sailer to San Francisco; but receiving o Wiler trom his home that his father was ill, he returned to his old home in On his arrival, he found that his father had died. Next we find Mit : the ship "Wilhelmina," sailing for Singapore. India, and for llong for. . Und, as well as other interesting Chinese ports. He was second mary aff studied navigation, and was ready to take the examination for
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first mate; but instead he decided to locate in California, and came on the "New Edd" to San Francisco in the spring of 1864, where he left the vessel. After following mining for a while, he worked on a ranch in Alameda county, but soon started farming for himself in Half Moon Bay, where he afterwards clerked in a mercantile establishment there.
In 1885 he came to San Miguel, locating a homestead of one hundred sixty acres in Hog eañon, where he broke the first furrow and began grain and stock-raising. He leased other lands, operating 2,600 acres in all. Ile used four big teams, and did a successful business for many years. In 1910 he quit farming on a large scale and sold his place, purchasing his present place of one hundred sixty acres in Pleasant Valley, which he has improved with good, substantial buildings and brought to a high state of cultivation.
Mr. von Dollen was married in San Francisco. on May 25, 1873, to Annie Wartemborg, who was born near Hamburg, Germany, on December 26, 1844, the daughter of AAndrew and Meta ( Maak) Wartemborg. Mrs. von Dollen came to San Francisco in 1870. Mr. and Mrs. von Dollen have three children : Henry C., of Contra Costa county ; George A., a farmer in the Ranchita dis trict ; and Annie, Mrs. Arthur Ennis, of Contra Costa county.
Fraternally, Mr. von Dollen is a member of the Redmen in Redwood City. Ile has been road-overseer for many years, as also trustee of Ranchita school district. In national politics he is a Republican ; and in religion he is a Lutheran. Hle and his wife are much esteemed for their straightforward- ness and integrity, and it is the consensus of opinion that his word is as good as his bond.
JACOB THOMAS TULEY. A native son of San Luis Obispo County, Jacob Thomas Tuley was born in the old Mission city of San Luis Obispo on March 2, 1872. He is the son of the late pioneer, William H. Tuley, of whom an extended mention is made on another page in this history.
Jacob Tuley spent his childhood on the Tuley ranch on the Estrella plains. He completed the courses of study in the public schools, after which he took a course in Chestnutwood Business College, in Santa Cruz, where he was graduated in 1892. Returning home, he assisted his father until he reached his majority, when, in partnership with his brother Joseph, he leased land at Bradley They put in a erop; but it proved a dry year, and the crop was so disappointing that he did not even go back to see it, and lost all he had. lle then went to Bakersfield and found employment on the Poso ranch for the Kern County Land Co. at ninety cents, and later one dollar, a day. Saving his money for a year, he returned to his old home and, with his brother, leased his father's place and other lands, and devoted all of his energy to grain-growing.
In 1896, Mr. Tuley was married on the Estrella plains to Miss Jessie Crowfoot, who was born in Wisconsin, the daughter of Josiah and Minnie Crowfoot. Mr. and Mrs. Crowfoot were also early settlers on the Estrella plains, where, as children, Jessie Crowfoot and Jacob Tuley attended the same school together.
In 1900, Mr. Tuley leased his present place of three hundred twenty acres in Pleasant Valley, about eight miles east of San Miguel, also leasing other lands adjoining. As success attended his labors, in 1902 he purchased one hundred sixty acres of the lease, and later bought three hundred twenty-eight acres more ; so he owns four hundred eighty eight acres, all good farmi
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land and under the plow. He leases other lands also, farming in all about 1.000 acres, which he operates with two ten-horse teams. He raises grain, cattle, horses and mules, and is meeting with merited success.
Three children have been born to Mr. Tuley and his wife: Leona May and William Ray, who are attending the California Polytechnic School in San Luis Obispo, and Merle.
At the age of seventeen, Mr. Tuley became a church member, and is now an active member of the M. E. Church at Estrella, of which he is a trustee and a steward, as well as superintendent of the Sunday school. He is an energetic young man, and gives his support to any movement that helps to build up the community. He is a strong advocate of temperance.
MRS. CLARA SUSAN GROVE .- A native daughter of California, Mrs. Clara Susan ( Morehouse ) Grove was born at Healdsburg, Sonoma county, March 28. 1858, her parents being Charles D. and Hulda M. (Lowe) More- house, natives of Broome county, N. Y., and Rush county, Ind., respectively. They were married in Indiana, and in 1853 crossed the plains with ox-teams to California. Mr. Morehouse was a stone-mason and builder at Healdsburg. In 1868, they came to the San Luis Obispo section and were engaged in farming in what is now the Summit district until they retired to Paso Robles, where Mr. Morehouse died in 1911. and his wife in 1913. Of their eleven children, Mrs. Grove is the fifth. She came to San Luis Obispo when ten years of age. At that time there were no public schools: so her education was limited principally to study at home.
On November 22, 1871, on Jack creek, this county, she was married to Benjamin Franklin Grove, a native of Quincy, Ill., born in 1845, who came with his parents in 1853 across the plains, locating near Windsor, Sonoma county. Later, B. F. Grove came to San Luis Obispo County, where he farmed, and afterwards homesteaded the one hundred sixty acres in Summit district where Mrs. Grove now resides. This place they improved ; and here he died in 1909. having been a faithful member of the Christian Church.
Since the death of her husband, Mrs. Grove has operated the place with the help of her sons, raising hay, cattle and hogs, and running a small dairy. They lease adjoining land and farm about 1.200 acres, their brand being a double D. The place is located about twelve miles west of Paso Robles, and is well watered by springs.
Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Grove there are seven children : Walter \\ ilmer, who resides at Templeton ; Edna, Mrs. Michelsen, also of Templeton : Chester F. and Charles D., of Paso Robles ; and Orin C., Lewis E .. and Harold (., who are with their mother.
Mrs. Grove is one of the oldest settlers in these parts, and has seen the county change from a wilderness to a land of beautiful farms and homes. She is a devout and earnest member of the Christian Church.
FRED QUENZER. Fred Quenzer was born in Dainback, Baden, Ger- many. March 18. 1879, the youngest of seven children born to Henry and Catherine ( Hollenbach ) Quenzer, farmers in that country. After completing the local schools, at the age of fifteen he was apprenticed at the upholsterer's trade, but a year later, in 1895, he came to America, and followed farm work at Mt Vernon. Ind., until 1897, when he came westward to Halstead, Kans. In 1900 he came on to Santa Clara county, Cal., where he worked at horti- . ulture until 1904. He then moved to Estrella, San Luis Obispo County, and
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a year later leased the Joe Moody farm, which he ran for about six years. Having met with encouraging success, he bought the Alexandre place of three hundred twenty acres in Pleasant Valley, one mile north of Estrella, which he still owns. It is a splendid, well-improved ranch, which he devotes to the raising of wheat and barley, and to stock-raising and dairying.
On October 1, 1905, at Estrella, Mr. Quenzer was married to Anna Dyck, who was born in Kraffohlsdorf, West Prussia, Germany, May 29, 1885, the daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Woelke) Dyck. The father died in Ger- many in 1892, and his widow brought her children to Beatrice, Neb., in 1893. In 1899 they came to Adelaida, San Luis Obispo County, and three years later located in Paso Robles, where Mrs. Quenzer resided until her marriage. The mother now makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Quenzer, where she receives the love and homage due her.
Mr. Quenzer and his wife have five children, Martha, Karl, George, Albert. and Ruth, to whom the parents are giving the best education the district affords.
Mr. and Mrs. Quenzer are liberal and kind-hearted, and are highly es- teemed for their integrity of purpose and their moral worth.
OTTO EDGAR DAUTH .- A young man who, by his energy and close application, is making a success of farming and stock-raising, Otto Edgar Dauth was born in Lowe canon, Monterey county, March 23, 1887. His father, Gustav Dauth, was born in Ludvigshavn, Germany, and migrated to Newark, N. J., when he was eighteen years of age. There he afterwards married Francisca Streibinger, who was also born in Germany. In 1886 they came to California, locating in Lowe cañon, Monterey county, just north of the San Luis Obispo County line, where they homesteaded one hundred sixty acres of land. This they improved with good buildings and, making a suc cess, Mr. Dauth bought additional lands, until now he has about eight hundred acres in a body. His wife died in 1892, leaving four children, whom he reared and educated. He is still hale and hearty. The children are: Carl, of Dan- ville, Cal. ; Otto E., of this review : Adolph, in the auto truck business in San Francisco ; and Emily, who resides with her father.
Otto Edgar Dauth was brought up on the farm, learning the care of cattle as well as the raising of grain and hay. His schooling was obtained in the Vineyard canon district. In 1905 he entered the employ of Baker & Hamilton, wholesale hardware dealers in San Francisco, as shipping clerk. He continued with this firm until the great fire in 1906, when the entire plant was destroyed. He then returned to the vicinity of San Miguel, and soon found employment with John Work, on whose ranch he remained for a period of four years. For the following two years, he worked for Thos, Il. Rougeot In 1913 he leased the Bennett ranch at the foot of flog canon, which he farmed for one year, when he secured the lease of his present place, the Michael Foley ranch of sixteen hundred acres in log canon, which he devotes to growing grain and cattle. About three hundred fifty acres is sown to grain each year, and the balance is used for range. His cattle brand consists of his initials, (). D.
In Echo cañon, August 10, 1913, Mr. Danth was married to the lady of his choice, Miss Sarah May Rougeot, the eldest daughter of Thomas H. and May (Shuey) Rougeot, whose interesting biography also appears in this work ; and one child has blessed their union, a little daughter, Velma Lech
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Fraternally, Mr. Dauth is a member of San Miguel Parlor, No. 150, N. S. G. W. Politically, he is a true-blue Republican, being a strong believer in the principle of protection for Americans. Mr. Dauth is very liberal and enterprising, and has always been willing to give of his time and means, so far as he is able, to any measure that has for its aim the upbuilding of the community and the enhancing of the comfort of its citizens.
WALTER YORK .- One of the enterprising and progressive young men of Templeton is Walter York, who was born in Nodaway county, Mo., May 15, 1871. Ilis father, Andrew York, was born in Indiana and removed with his parents to Illinois, where he grew up. When about twenty years of age, Andrew York crossed the plains in an ox-team train to California, and fol- lowed mining for three years. He then farmed in Napa county for about three years, and while there was married to Elizabeth Long, who was born in Tennessee, and accompanied her parents across the plains in the early fifties. Returning east via Panama, Andrew York and his wife were on a farm near St. Joseph, Mo., for a few years, and then moved to Texas, and after- wards to Nebraska : but a year later they went to Granby. Newton county, Mo., where the wife died. In 1873 Mr. York brought his five children to Napa county ; but the same year he came to San Luis Obispo city, and a year later rented a ranch in the Pecho country for five years. He then bought a ranch on Toro creek, near Cayucos, which he sold five years later. In 1882 he located on the present place. The ranch is beautifully located on top of York Mountain. lle cleared it of brush and trees, and set out vineyards, the soil and climate being well adapted to viticulture. He built the Ascension Winery, on York Mountain, which was named for him; and here he resided until his death in December, 1913.
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