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Hannibal Pullan. Born in Breckenridge county, February 8, 1826, where he received his education, and resided for the first seventeen years of his life. At this time he went to St. Genevieve county, Missouri, farming there until 1849, in which ever-memorable year, he crossed the plains, with
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ox-teams, to California, where he arrived October 27, 1849. Mr. Pullan at once proceeded to try his luck at the mines, at Long's Bar, Butte county, but in the Fall of the following year, transferred his scene of action to Scott's Bar, Siskiyou county, but that same season removed to Sonoma, thence to Yountville, Napa county, where he commenced farming, and resided until 1853. In that year he came to Santa Clara county, located a piece of land, near his present farm, but after three successive years of poor crops, he moved to San Mateo county, purchased a ranch, and there resided until 1876, save a period of eight months, which he passed in Contra Costa county. In 1876, he acquired one hundred and eighty acres of land in Santa Clara township, on which he now resides. Mr. Pullan served for two years as Assessor of San Mateo county. Married, at Napa, September 17, 1853, Mary Bollinger, and has eight children living, viz .: Mary, born in Santa Clara county, September 15, 1854; Joan, born in Santa Clara county, February 27, 1856; Sarah, born in Contra Costa county, August 26, 1858; Alice, born in San Mateo county, Ju ie 10, 1861; Emma, born in Santa Clara county, March 12, 1866; Columbus, born in San Mateo county, November 18, 1868; William, born in San Mateo county, July 15, 1872; George F., born in San Mateo county, February 13, 1875.
John A. Statler. Born in Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, September 13, 1829. When twelve years of age, he went with his parents to Platte county, and resided there nearly eight years ; thence they moved to Arkansas; thence to Jackson county, which they left, in 1849, for California, by way of the plains, with ox-teams. When the Humboldt river was reached, the party was unfortunate enough to lose half of their cattle by the Indians; hence their hardships were considerable, until their arrival in this State, in October, 1819. Mr. Statler first stayed in Sacramento, where he was variously employed until May, 1850, when he transferred his residence to San Jose, Santa Clara county, but remaining only a week in that city he removed to Santa Clara township, and settled on the property now owned by Peter Doyle. Here he remained five years; then finding that the land belongel to a Grant, he sold it and proceeded to Contra Costa county, and there occupied a farm until 1858. At this date, he returned to Santa Clara, purchased a place near where now stands the Moreland school-house, and there dwelt for three years. Mr. Statler now moved to the foot-hills, in Redwood township, and lived there two years, when he sold out and again established himself on the place on which he had originally settled in 1850. He resided on it until 1865, in which year he acquired his present property, of one hundred and thirty acres, and, in 1875, bought one hundred and thirty-nine acres adjoining it on the south. Married, at Santa Clara, May 13, 1858, Mary Moreland, a native of Missouri, by whom he has three children, viz .: Martha J., born February 18, 1860; William M., born December 27, 1861; Laura M., born April 10, 1876.
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Henry H. Warburton, M. D. Whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Staffordshire, England, Muy 23, 1819, where he received his education. Having studied medicine, he practiced seven years with his father, and attended lectures and hospital practice at the London Hospital for some time. On June 1, 1844, he left for the United States, arriving in New York on the 9th July. After practicing in that city for a year, the doctor removed to New London, Connecticut, and there, in 1845, shipped as surgeon, on board the ship Corea, Captain Hamstead, and in her remained until 1847, in which year he landed in San Francisco, then known as Yerba Buena. Not long after, the subject of our sketch took up his residence at Woodside, San Mateo county, at that time situated in San Francisco county, and after prosecuting his profession there for twelve months, transferred his residence to Santa Clara, where he has since dwelt. Like every one else, Doctor Warburton took a turn in the mines during the gold fever, digging, trading and practicing, being absent altogether about seven months. He has also farmed on the Sacramento river, near Chico, Butte county, but, owing to the inconvenience of periodical floods, the doctor returned to the Santa Clara valley, where he at present owns and farms three hundred and twenty acres near the town of Santa Clara, where he was the first medical man to establish himself. In 1870, the doctor returned to his home in Betley, England, for a visit, having been absent twenty-six years. He was received with great demonstration, by relatives and friends, feeling almost as though his was The Pro ligal's return. The glowing accounts given of our Californ a, by himself, older daughter, and step- daughter, Mrs. R. C. Blackman (who accompanied him), induced a younger brother, Doctor James P. Warburton, to venture to this State, and who is establishing quite a practice in San Francisco. Married, in San Francisco, May 3, 1855, Mrs. Catherine Pennel, by whom he has five children living and two dead. The names of those surviving, are: Caroline A,; Eilen A .; John G,; Charles P .; Henry L.
Joseph Woodhams. Born in England, October 23, 1803, where he was educated and brought up on his father's farm. In the year 1827, he came to the United States, landed in the city of New York, and settled in West- chester county, in that State, where he followed milling. Mr. Woodhams then proceeded up to the North river to Newsberg, and there engaged in the same occupation. In 18+5, he started for Chile, South America, and there managed a large mill for Burden & Co. Here he remained until 1850, when he came to California, and after a short stay in San Francisco, came to Santa Clara county, and, in the Fall of 1850, erected a little dwelling, which had been originally built in New Brunswick, Canada. Mr. Woodhams now occupies it. In 1852, he put up a small flour mill, run by eight to ten horses
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and sold the flour in Santa Clara and the Redwoods. He resides on for- ty-five acres of an original squatter's claim (when located, it was supposed to be Government land), of two hundred acres, situated about two miles south-west of Santa Clara City. Married Ann Maurice. His children are: Maurice, born March 23, 1830; Alfred R., born May 30, 1832; Oscar, born August 17, 1837; Mary E .; and Lucy A.
Charles H. Worthington. Whose portrait appears in this work, was born in North Carolina, November 22, 1828. When twelve years of age, his parents moved to LaFayette county, Missouri, where his father followed farming, the subject of our sketch being there educated. April 25, 1850, he left LaFayette, for California, by way of the plains, and arrived at Hangtown, now Placerville, July 16th, of the same year. Like every one else in those days, Mr. Worthington at once commenced the search for gold. He first mined on the middle fork of the American river; then he prospected for a month in Grass Valley, Nevada county; after which he turned towards Santa Clara county, where he arrived December 20, 1850, and located at Mountain View. In the Summer of 1853, he raised a crop of wheat and potatoes, this being his first experience of farming in California, and there continued his agricultural pursuits until 1859. In that year he moved into Santa Clara township, and November 23d, purchased the farm on which he now resides, comprising sixty acres, and has since dwelt there. Married, October 18, 1855, Margaret Meador, a native of Jackson county, Missouri, by whom he has: Alice, born November 14, 1856; Lucinda Frances, born October 18, 1858; Jolm B., born April 5, 1861; Martha Ellen, born Decem - ber 1, 1862; Willet, born September 25, 1873; Clara, born February 1, 1878.
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Professor Charles H. Allen. The distinguished Principal of the State Normal School, was born in Mansfield, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, Feb- ruary 11, 1828. Having received his early education in the common schools of his native district he entered the Condersport Academy in Mckean county, whence he proceeded to Jamestown, Chantauqua county, New York, and commenced teaching. From there he went to a Nor- mal Class in the Westfield Academy, and after subsequent appoint- ments to various schools, he was elected Principal of the Smethport Academy at Smethport, Mckean county, Pennsylvania, a position he filled for three years, but resigned on account of failing health. Mr. Allen now commenced the business of surveying in MeKean county, Penn- sylvania, and thus continued for three more years, when he was chosen to fill the position of associate Principal of the Normal School at Westchester, Chester county, Pennsylvania. At the end of a year he went to Wisconsin to hold a series of teachers' institutes for the State, and after some months of that work, was appointed agent to the Regents of the State Normal Schools, in which capacity he worked for nearly two years, holding institutes and supervising Normal classes, in the educational institutions in the State. At the close of this period he opened a private Normal School in the city of Madison, Wisconsin, from the Principalship of which he was elected to a like office in the Normal department of the State University of Wisconsin, where he remained three years. During this period the learned professor raised a company of "a hundred-days' men," and as their Captain marched them to Memphis, Tennessee, but this function he abandoned on the expiration of service time, and, being honorably discharged, returned to his less warlike duties at the University. Finding his health once more giving way, Mr. Allen removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and for six months was engaged in the insurance business; but being called to the Principalship of the First Normal School of Wisconsin, he again betook himself to the halls of scholastic life. Here he remained five years, but, at the expiration of these. finding his health in a still unsatisfactory state, he resolved to try a radical change of scene and climate, he therefore made the long journey to Oregon, and as head- master opened the Bishop Scott Grammar School in the city of Portland. However, he returned to Wisconsin, and was engaged for a year there as
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Institute Agent, from which he was called to the Chair of Natural Science in the State Normal School of California, an office he filled until March, 1873, when he was elected Vice-Principal, and subsequently, in August of the same year, to the high an l onerous position of Principal. To say that Professor Allen is eminently qualified to fill the exalted station of Chief of Instructors in California State Normal School is but to state what all the country already acknowledges, for his scholarly attainments, executive abil- ity, and happy disposition make him especially the right inan in the right place, while, privately, he is a true man and a fast friend. Married, June 29, 1854, Abby A. Phelps, a native of Michigan, and has living: Jessia G., Carl, Hattie, and Dora.
Robert S. Ammen. Born in Shelby county, Tennessee, March 30, 1848. He received his early education in his native district, and completed his training in St. Louis, Missouri, after which he became a druggist, a busi- ness he has followed up to the present time. In 1870 he took up his resi- dence in the State of Arkansas, and there remained until 1878, when he came to San Jose, and purchased the drug store at No. 256 First street. His knowledge of medicine, and, after a long study, of the diseases of the lungs and throat, led him to make a lditions to an old German formula and to the manufacture of a remedy for coughs and colds, which resulted in the production of "Ammen's Cough Syrup", and in the Spring of 1880, it hav- ing performed so many remarkable cures, and proved to be a medicine of such great benefit to mankind, in luced him to put it on the market for gen- eral sale, and it may now be found for sale by all Druggists and Dealers in Medicines on the Pacific Coast. Mckesson & Robbins, New York, are the Wholesale Eastern Agents. Married, December 22, 1869, Isabella Lynch, and has: William L., born October 10, 1870; Murtry, born January 5, 1873; Robert S., Jr., born February 14, 1876; Nora, born July 22, 1878.
Philip Anderson. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, February 19, 1839. When fourteen years of age he came to New Brunswick and learned the trade of machinist. In 1833 he made the voyage to California viu Panama, and after a year's residence in San Francisco working at his trade, he re- moved to Santa Clara county and went to work in the blacksmith shop at Berreyessa. At the end of a twelvemonth he purchased a half interest in the concern which he and his partner, Thomas Beck, still conducts. Mr. Anderson has been three years a School Trustee. Married, at Sacramento, April 10, 1869, R. J. Cachile, a native of Sackville, New Brunswick, by whom he has five children, viz .: Margaret A., born March 10, 1870; William W., born July 4, 1871; Mabel V., born November 26, 1872; Leslie C., born October 28, 1877; Roscoe, born November 22, 1879.
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Robert Anderson. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1818, and was educated in Livingston county, New York, whither his par- ents had moved. The family subsequently transferred their residence to the States of Michigan and Indiana, and finally permanently located in Kenosha county, Wisconsin, where the subject of this sketch remained until 1850, when he proceeded to California, returning, however, to Wisconsin in the following year. Coming back to this State he stayed two years and once more proceeded to Wisconsin. In 1860 he settled in San Francisco, and came to San José, Santa Clara county, in August, 1861, where he has since resided. Dr. R. Anderson is an ocnlist and acquired his profession in Wis- consin, since when he has been in continuous practice. Office in Lightston Block, Santa Clara street. Married, January 27, 1849, Miss H. MeDonald, a native of Erie, Pennsylvania, and has: Karl, born in Kenosha county, Wis- consin, February 2, 1854; Maul, born in Santa Clara county, California, April 5, 1868. All residents of San Jose, Santa Clara county, California.
John L. Auzerais. The subject of this sketch was born in Benzeville (Eure) in Normandy, of Jean Auzerais and Aimée F. Beaudoin, November 30, 1822, and received his education in his native country. December 13, 1849, he sailed from Brest, France, in the ship La Durance, for Valparaiso, Chile, where he remained about one year and a half, at the end of which time he came to California in the ship Lisia, Captain Barbasan, arriving in San Francisco January 6, 1852. On the Sth he came to San Jose, joined his brother, Edward Auzerais, in business, and has since made his home in that city. Married, February 15, 1858, Miss Louise Prevost, a native of Quebec, Canada. By this union there have been born six children, two of whom are deceased. Those living are: John E., born May 13, 1860; Louis F., born February 17, 1862; Raoul A., born March 28, 1873; Louise A., born June 28 1875.
Joseph Awbrey. Born in St. Charles county, Missouri, June 3, 1829. At ten years of age he moved with his parents to Linn, and there resided on a farm, until 1850, in April of which year he started with ox-teams across the plains for California and arrived in September. His first four years were passed in the mines at Nevada City where he had fair success; he then came direct to Santa Clara county, and settled on the ranch he now occupies comprising three hundred acres. Married, at Grass Valley, April 6, 1854, Mrs. Susan Pruett, a native of Kentucky, and has two sons and one daughter, Francis M., born in California September 26, 1836; Thomas, born in California September 20, 1858; Lizzie, born in California March 3, 1860; he also has three step-sons and one step-daughter, William, born in Missouri September 23, 1845; Mary Ann, born in Missouri August 10, 1847;
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Joseph, born in Missouri June 23, 1849; and James E. Pruett, born in California November 15, 1851.
Rev. G. R. Baker (Deceased). The subject of this sketch, the father of Senator George F. Baker of Santa Clara county, was born in Westmore- land county, Pennsylvania, May 1, 1825. When of a tender age he accompanied his parents to Ohio, settled near Delaware, there received his early education, and afterwards entered the Ohio Wesleyan University in that place. After remaining there some time, he left on account of lack of means, and for some years taught school, but subsequently engaged in business in Cincin- nati, where, on November 7, 1848, he married Miss Maria C. MeCracken, a native of Pennsylvania. Here Mr. Baker continued for some years, but owing to failing health and after a twelvemonths' residence at Xenia, in Ohio, he came to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, sailing from New York January 1, 1857, and arriving at San Francisco on the 31st of the same month. Mr. Baker for the first five years of his stay in this State was a resident of Marysville, Yuba county, and for a couple of years was there engaged in teaching. While a resident of this town, about 1858, he first commenced to preach, feeling that such was his proper calling, for which his life of singular purity eminently fitted him. For several years he was agent of the California Christian Advocate, the organ of the Methodist Episcopal Church of this coast. In 1861-2 he had charge of the Marysville circuit, and while there built the famous "Bethel" at the North Buttes, in Sutter county. In the Summer of 1862 he formally joined the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was stationed at North San Juan, Nevada county, where he remained two years, during which the membership doubled and a church and parsonage were built. In the Fall of 1864 at the Conference held at San Francisco, Mr. Baker was appointed agent of the University of the Pacific, at Santa Clara, which was then in rather a declining state. With his wonted activity and fixity of purpose he put his shoulder to the wheel and soon the millstone of debt was removed from the neck of the college. With him originated the idea of acquiring the tract of land on which the institution stands, laying it out in lots, and putting them up for sale. By this means a large amount of money was raised, the incumbrances swept away, and the University of the Pacific placed on a firm financial basis. Mr. Baker remained at his post until his death on October 29, 1869. He is well and pleasantly remembered throughout the country. His family consists of George F., one of the Senators from Santa Clara county; Charles W., now a resident of Cincinnati; and Lulu K., who resides with her mother in San José.
Senator George F. Baker. The oldest son of the Rev. G. R., and Maria C. Baker, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 15, 1849. In May,
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1857, he arrived in California and proceeded to Marysville, Yuba county, where he resided until 1862, when he entered the University of the Pacific near Santa Clara, and remained there at intervals for eight years. In the year 1868 he traveled through a great portion of the Eastern States, and after his return to this State taught school and studied law. In the Summer of 1871 he was appointed Principal of the Santa Clara High School, and in June of the same year was nominated by the Republican party for the office of County Superintendent of Schools, to which he was elected in the following September. He then resigned his position of Principal, and with the duties of his new office continued his legal studies until he was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court in October, 1872. Mr. Baker held the office of County Superintendent of Schools until March, 1874, when he moved to San Francisco and commenced the practice of law in that city. In June, 1873, however, he had brought his first suit in the case of Thomas Rea of Gilroy against the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. This case was elosed up in May, 1874, and with the fee thus earned Mr. Baker purchased an interest in a mine, which he afterwards sold to good advantage. He vis- ited the Centennial Exposition in 1876, returned to the Pacific coast, arranged his affairs, and took a trip to Europe, being absent one year. In 1878 he resumed his residence in San José. In 1879 he was nominated by the Republican party for the State Senate, and in the following September was duly elected. At the first session thereafter he was unanimously chosen President pro tem., of that Body. At the Convention of the Republican party, held at Sacramento in April, 1880, he was their President, a position in which he acquitted himself with marked ability. Mr. Baker has done excel lent work for his constituents while in the Senate; some of his speeches before that august body have been marked by forcible language, clear diction and effective oratory, while it may be safely assumed that it is mainly through his efforts that the appropriations were made to effect the location of the State Normal School once more in the Garden City of California.
Samuel Alphonso Barker. Born in Kennebec county, Maine, July 26, 1833, where he received his education, and in the Spring of 1854 entered upon the study of law in the office of Judge Josiah H. Drummond, since At- torney-General of that State. Mr. Barker was admitted to practice his pro- fession before the Supreme Court of Maine, June 15, 1857, and continued such until he left for California. He arrived in San Francisco November 12, 1867, and coming direct to Santa Clara county, opened a law office in San Jose, in the building where now is situated the First National Bank, where he remained five years, then moved to his present location, rooms No. 16 and 17, Bank of San Jose Building. Mr. Barker was admitted to the Supreme Court of California, and to the United States District Court
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on production of his certificate of admission to the Bar of Maine. His resi- dence is on Clay street, East San José. He married, April 5, 1858, Sarah E. Parshiley, a native of Maine, and has three children: Charles A., (now a Deputy County Clerk) born January 16, 1859 ; Frank P., born August 17, 1860; Alfred, born July 30, 1869.
Tyler Beach. Born in Warren county, New York, September 29, 1832. When five years of age he was taken by his parents to Saratoga county, in the same State, and thence, in May, 1845, to Walworth county, Wiscon- sin; afterwards, in 1847, to Columbia county, Wisconsin, whence he started for California in November, 1853. Coming by way of Nicaragua, he landed in San Francisco in February, 1854. He proceeded to San José, Santa Clara county, where he arrived April 18, 1854, and after paying attention to farming for a short time commenced the business of an artesian well-borer, which he followed for two years. In the year 1861 he started an ice trade in San José and prosecutes that calling up to the present time, besides which he owns a wood and coal yard on St. John street. Mr. Beach was the first to branch out in that business in San José. IIe is the owner and proprietor of the St. James Hotel, a house which possesses every comfort, overlooks St. James square, and commands a fine view of the eastern hills. Married, April 3, 1861, Martha Ann Smith, a native of Iowa, and has: Sylvia E., born May 12, 1862; George H,, born January 11, 1864; William H. S., born May 9, 1867; Charles S., born January 12, 1869; James T., born September 10, 1872 ; Henry S., born March 24, 1876 ; Sarah A., born September 27, 1879.
Hon. David Belden. One of the Judges of the Superior Court of Santa Clara county, was born in Newtown, Fairfield county, Connecticut, August 14, 1832. In the year 1853 he came to this State and at once entered upon the practice of law at Nevada City, Nevada county. In the Fall of 1859 was elected County Judge of Nevada county, for a term of four years. In the year 1865 he was elected State Senator and represented Nevada county in the State Sen- ate for the two succeeding sessions. In the Fall of 1869, Judge Belden removed to the city of San José and entered upon the practice of his profession in the Court of Santa Clara county. Upon the creation of the Twentieth Judicial District, in 1871, he was appointed Judge of that Court then comprising the counties of Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Monterey, and to which was sub- sequently added the county of San Benito, and in the year 1873 was elected, without opposition, to the same position, and continued in it until the adoption of the new Constitution. Under the judicial system created by this change Judge Belden was elected one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Santa Clara county, an office which he still discharges with unswerving fidelity
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