History of Santa Clara 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, Part 140

Author: Sawyer, Eugene Taylor, 1846-
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1928

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DANIEL W. STOUT .- A craftsman who can well be proud of his excellent workmanship, perfected through many years of painstaking work is Daniel W. Stout, cabinet maker, who is counted among the most expert in the city of San Jose. A native of Green County, I11, where he was born at White- hall on February 28, 1854, his parents were Dr. J. M. and Julia (Henderson) Stout, born in Ohio near Coshocton and removed to Illinois where the father was pioneer physician, riding horseback in his prac- tice and carrying medicine in his saddlebags. Both parents have passed away; they had eight children of whom Daniel is the fifth, and he attended the schools at Whitchall, Ill. At the early age of four- teen years, he began to learn the carpenter's trade and worked in that line until eighteen years of age. He went to Kansas and there drove a stage for four years out of Chanute and Independence. Returning home again, he stayed a short time, working as a carpenter, and then going West, spent a while in Colorado, and New Mexico, where he drove a stage and also worked at his trade. The year 1890 marks his coming to San Jose and for twenty-eight years he was foreman for J. D. Stuart. During that time he built many substantial structures, such as the Abbot Hotel in Salmas, a large building in Gilroy for Thomas Rae and two buildings at the Lick Ob- servatory on Mount Hamilton and has built numer- ous residences and business houses in San Jose. When J. D. Stuart passed away, Mr. Stout took over the business and now does mostly shop work and has become very successful; he also does a large amount of cabinet work, in which line he is considered an expert. Aside from his contracting business, Mr. Stout with his two sons own a 2,000-acre ranch be- yond Mt. Hamilton, which is well wooded and watered and devoted to farming and stockraising.

Mr. Stout's marriage, which occurred on Novem- ber 8, 1882, united him with Miss Sina Fair, a native of Whitehall, III., and they are the parents of four children: Percy and Carl were both enlisted in the defense of their country during the World War; Percy is now on the ranch and Carl is engaged in mining at Virginia City, Nev .; Nina and Leola. Mr. Stout and his family have made a large circle of friends during their long residence in this city and has a high standing in business circles residing with his family at 325 Gifford Avenue. He is past grand of Observatory Lodge No. 23, I. O. O. F., and past chief patriarch of the Encampment and with his wife is a member of the Rebekahs. In national politics, he is a stanch adherent of the Republican party.

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PAUL RUDOLPH .- A highly-esteemed represen- tative of the successful, influential California financier is Paul Rudolph, the popular cashier of the First Na- tional Bank of San Jose, a native son who was born in Bitter Water Valley, San Benito County, Cal., on March 31, 1881. His father, C. L. Rudolph, came to California about 1864 and settled down to farming, and here he was married to Miss Ellen Marie Schmidt, who came out to the coast shortly after his arrival. Mr. Rudolph died in March, 1911, the father of six children, among whom were four boys. Paul, who was next to the youngest, attended the public schools of his locality and then remained at home assisting his father on the ranch until eighteen years of age, when he found employment at ranching, accumulating the means by which he was able to attend the Pa- cific Coast Business College in San Jose, from which he was graduated in 1904. For a while he was with O. W. Palmer, and when he had become thoroughly conversant with the ins and outs of mercantile and financial transactions, he entered the service of the First National Bank, in November, 1904, commencing as a clerk. From the beginning, Mr. Rudolph found banking congenial to his temperament and worked himself up through various positions, and in May, 1919, he was made cashier. This responsible office lie still fills, to the satisfaction of all who know him, giving personal attention to the wants of all who deal with the bank. He has been honored with the sec- retaryship of the San Jose Clearing House, and has been made secretary of Group 3 of the California Bankers Association and in addition his fellow-citi- zens have asked him to serve as treasurer of San Jose. Interested in the cause of education, Mr. Rudolph has consented to serve as trustee of Hester school district. to which he generously gives the necessary time and attention. The family reside on Yosemite Street and he is a member of the Hester Improvement Club.

At Palo Alto on August 30, 1911, Mr. Rudolph was married to Miss Evelyn Kennedy of South Dakota, who was educated in Beloit, Wis., completing her education at Stanford University, and they have three children-Eva R., Ellen M., and Paul Rudolph, Jr. The family attend the Presbyterian Church and par- ticipate in much uplift work in the community. Mr. Rudolph was made a Mason in Fraternity Lodge No. 399, F. & A. M., of which he is past master, is a mem- ber of the Consistory, San Jose Country Club, the Elks, president of the 100 Per Cent Club and a charter member of the Commercial Club.

VALENTINE KOCH .- An interesting representa- tive of one of the most interesting, because most im- portant of modern industries is Valentine Koch, the senior member of the well-known and popular firm, V. Koch & Sons. He was born in Bavaria, Ger- many, in March, 1850, the son of Valentine Koch, whose good wife was Caroline Kline before her mar- riage. Both of these worthy parents, who did what they could to start the lad well in the world, are now deceased.

Valentine Koch, Jr., enjoyed the advantages of the common schools in Germany, until fourteen years of age, when he crossed the ocean to the New World. For three years he remained in New York, and there he took up the harness-maker's trade, learning it thoroughly and thus well-equipping himself for the future. In 1867, however, he decided to come out to California. Here he pitched his tent at San Jose

and for thirteen years worked with Mr. Stern in the harness business. Then, with a Mr. Kaiser, he took ap the making of buggies and harness, and under the firm name of Kaiser & Koch, they advanced to suc- cess and prosperity. From his seventeenth year, then, until the present, Mr. Koch has followed sad- dlery; and now he is engaged with his sons in the handling of automobiles, a line of trade founded by them seven years ago. They handle the Elgin Six and have Santa Clara County for their territory.

In 1879, at San Francisco, Mr. Koch was married to Miss Molly Leibenberg, and they have been blessed with two boys and two girls. Mr. Koch belongs to the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Shriners and the Elks, and is a Republican in his preference for national political platforms. Mr. Koch served his fellow-citizens as mayor of San Jose in 1896-97. and prior to that he served in the San Jose city council for four years. He was also a commissioner of the Agnew Asylum for four years, having been appointed by Governor Waterman. Mr. Koch helped to organize the San Jose Building and Loan Asso- ciation, and he is now its president, and the only member living that served on its first board of di- rectors. He is, in addition, a director of the First National Bank.

JOHN W. MACAULAY .- In whatever part of the world you find the Scotchman, the people of his com- munity look to him as an example of thrift and industry; a friend of education and enlightenment and standing for all that constitutes good citizenship. The citizen of whom we narrate is John W. Macau- lay, a native of the land of Burns, who has been identified with Santa Clara County for more than a half century and whose parents were among the set- tlers of 1870, coming to this city when it was nothing more than a small town.

Born on February 24, 1860, John W. was the son of John and Elizabeth (Wilson) Macaulay, who were also natives of Scotland and coming to America in 1865, made their first home in this country in Chicago and then later coming to California, located in San Jose in 1870. The father engaged in the photograph business and continued in this line until his death, which occurred in 1876, the mother surviving him until the year 1903.

John received a fair education in the public schools of San Jose and went to work in his father's estab- lishment and at his father's death, took charge of the business. For a while he was in partnership with Mr. Milton Loryea, who was also a photographer, and they worked under the firm name of Loryea and Macaulay, their studio being at 26 South First Street, and here they worked together from 1880 to 1886. Mr. Macaulay then associated himself with the T. W. Hobson Company in their clothing store for about twenty years. In 1906 he embarked in the orchard business at Visalia with J. H. Henry. Disposing of this property in 1919, he established himself in the 1ealty business as the Macaulay Farms Company, at 119 North First Street, in which he has been very successful.

Mr. Macaulay married Miss Mattie Hobson, a na- tive of San Jose, and they are the parents of a daughter, Hazel I., and a son, Thaddeus W., who is secretary and manager of the Macaulay Farms Com- pany, Inc. In 1921 Mr. Macaulay, in conjunction with his brother-in-law, W. B. Hobson, the pioneer clothier, formed the San Jose Securities Company,

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incorporated, which is now a flourishing organization, its offices being with Macaulay Farms Company, Inc., at 119 North First Street.

Mr. Macaulay has always been a very active man, taking part in all movements for the good of the city in which he lives and serving well the country of his adoption. He served for three years in the California National Guards; was a member of the city council for the four years during 1898 and 1902, when the first charter went into effect; in many ways he has shown his deep interest in work of the Chamber of Commerce and the San Jose Realty Board, being secretary of the latter. He is a popular member of the B. P. O. Elks, and in national politics he is a stanch adherent of the Republican party.

MRS. ADELA R. GUGLIERI .- An esteemed resident of Madrone, Santa Clara County, whose carly years were spent in the land of her birth, Mex- ico. is Mrs. Adela R. Guglieri, whose husband, the late Dr. August A. Guglieri, was a well-known phy- sician of San Francisco, and who, in addition to his large medical practice, was extensively interested in horticulture and viticulture, leaving a valuable es- tate at his passing away.

Mrs. Guglieri was born at Colima, Mexico, De- cember 16, 1874; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marce- lino Rodriguez, both died when she was a babe, and she was given a mother's care by Mrs. Viviana Ca- rillo, a close friend of her parents. She was reared and educated at Colima, residing there until 1893, when she accompanied Mrs. Carillo to San Fran- cisco, where they made their home until Mrs. Ca- rillo's death in 1897. In May, 1902, at San Fran- cisco, she was united in marriage with Dr. A. A. Guglieri, and the Bay section remained their home until 1907, when they removed to Madrone, where Dr. Guglieri passed away on November 29, 1919. One child, a daughter, Mary, was born to them and she is now the wife of E. Bolli of Madrone and the mother of a son, Eugene.

Dr. A. A. Guglieri was born at Genoa, Italy, De- cember 13, 1859, the son of a wealthy merchant of Genoa, who for many years operated a large fleet of merchant vessels from this port. He often took passage on these vessels on their long journeyings, and so became acquainted with the people and cus- toms of many lands and climes. When twenty-eight years old he started on a trip around the world and on arriving in Mexico, was so fascinated with this country that he took up the study of herbalist with the Indians at Colima. In 1890 he removed to San Jose and practiced his profession for eleven years, then went to San Francisco and entered Cooper Medical College, and after graduating from this well- known institution, now a part of Stanford Univer- sity, he took up the practice of medicine in San Francisco, becoming widely known and establishing a lucrative practice, in which he actively continued up to three years before his death, maintaining an office in San Jose for a few years.

Dr. Guglieri's first marriage had united him with Miss Frances Carillo, who was a native of Colima, Mexico, and four children were born of this mar- riage: Gregory Guglieri, whose sketch appears else- where in this volume; Louise, the wife of Charles Haggans of San Francisco and the mother of one daughter; Irene, Mrs. Marco Borello of Morgan Hill, has one son; Frances, Mrs. Albert Pauls of

Gooding, Idaho, has a son and a daughter. Mrs. Frances Guglieri passed away at San Francisco on the third of February, 1901.

In September, 1899, Dr. Guglieri acquired a tract of ninety acres east of Madrone, which he developed into a fine vineyard. Successful in his profession he accumulated a competency, and from time to time increased his property holdings, and at his passing away he left an estate made up of valuable realty holdings in San Francisco, Oakland, Morgan Hill, Redwood City and Madrone. A man of high stand- ing both in professional and business circles, Dr. Guglieri had a wide circle of friends, to whom his death, in November, 1919, came as a distinct loss.

ELTON R. BAILEY .- An efficient administrator whose wide experience and especial adeptness to the peculiar demands of his responsible position have had much to do with oiling the machinery of local com- mercial and financial life, is Elton R. Bailey, the superintendent of the Merchants Association Credit Bureau, with headquarters at 74 North First Street, San Jose, and a membership of 394. As might be expected, he is a native son, and first saw the light at Yreka, Cal., on May 22, 1858. His father, Caleb Bailey, born May 7, 1827, married Miss Arilla Cox, born February 20, 1827, and together they came across the plains by oxen in 1849, proceeding first to Oregon. They brought one son with them, their oldest child. One son was born in Oregon and four daughters and our subject were born in California. Four of the seven are living. From there they journeyed to California, and at Yreka Mr. Bailey en- gaged in mining. After several years of hard and fairly successful work in that field, he and his family removed to Mendocino County; and there he fol- lowed farming until his death on February 14, 1896. Mrs. Bailey, a devoted wife and mother, is also dead, having passed away on February 1, 1910.

Elton went through the local schools at Ukiah, but as a mere boy he had to go to work, and so a large part of his most helpful education was ob- tained in the great school of experience. He re- mained on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age, and then he came to San Jose and took a course in bookkeeping at the business college in this city. At the same time, he entered the serv- ice of the Southern Pacific Coast Railroad, and there he remained until he was appointed secretary to the medical superintendent of the Agnew State Hospital, a position he continued to fill with credit to him- self and satisfaction to many others for eight years. Then he engaged in real estate transactions in San Jose for a year, and at the end of that period was appointed bookkeeper at the Agnew State Hospital, where he remained for ten years. Returning to San Jose, he was made day captain of police and for five years was charged with the preservation of law and order in and about town. In July, 1913, he accepted his present responsible trust, requiring for its suc- cessful discharge a good knowledge of human nature and daily transactions in life, and much tact and far- sightedness. Naturally Mr. Bailey is a live wire in the San Jose Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Bailey has been married twice. His first union vas with Annie Foster, a native daughter by whom one child, Hazel, now Mrs. David A. Dowsett, of Honolulu, was born. His second marriage united him with Miss Laura P. La Montagne, also a native

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of California and one daughter has blessed this union: Marion J., a student in the public school. In politics, Mr. Bailey is a Republican, and is a 32° Mason, is past master of San Jose lodge No. 10, and in the San Jose chapter of the Eastern Star he is a past patron. He also belongs to the Native Sons of the Golden West, and to San Jose Pyramid No. 9 A. E. O. S. (Since this sketch was written, Mr. Bailey passed away, on June 10, 1922.)

WILLIAM B. HOWE .- A public-spirited man who left behind him a blessed memory at his passing away was William B. Howe, who located in Cali- fornia in 1882. A native of Schenectady, N. Y., he was born on February 27, 1854, a son of Erastus and Mary J. (Burton) Howe, who moved to Wisconsin ind settled in the vicinity of Sparta when their son was a child. Both parents passed their remaining years in that locality, the mother surviving until the summer of 1921, when she died at the age of eighty- seven years.

William B. Howe attended the public schools of Sparta, Wis., and at an early age took up agricul- tural pursuits, following that calling in both Wis- consin and near Minneapolis, Minn., when he came to California in 1882 on account of his health. He had married Miss Letty Lanham and they had one son, William L. Howe, now residing in San Jose and the father of two boys, Edwin W. and William B. Mrs. Howe died before he came to California. Mr. Howe settled in San Jose on account of the fine climate and he soon became a traveling sales- man, representing at different times, various houses of San Francisco, and he continued that vocation for eighteen years. For eight years he was connected with the Pacific Milling Company at Paso Robles, where he made his home. He next bought an inter- est in the Scovel Iron Store Company of San Fran- cisco and made his home at San Jose, where he had purchased a six-acre orchard in The Willows and during the time he was not on the road devoted his time to cultivating his place.

Soon after coming to this state Mr. Howe was married to Miss Clara B. Bonar on February 19. 1883, who was a native of Iowa and a daughter of the late Joseph A. Bonar and his wife, who was in maidenhood Miss Anna Forgraves, both natives of Ohio, the latter of Virginian stock. Mr. Bonar came to California in 1872 and followed the trade of a contracting plasterer for many years and was em- ployed on many of the public buildings, business blocks and residences in San Jose during his active career. He died here in 1902 and Mrs. Bonar passed away in 1906. Of their seven children three are still living: Mrs. Lydia Dalve of Richmond, Cal .; Charles W., of San Francisco, and Mrs. Howe.

In 1892 Mr. and Mrs. Howe purchased the tract of six acres known as the Pitkin orchard, located on Meridian Road in The Willows and this has since been the famliy home. Mr. Howe passed away on May 14, 1914, honored and respected by all who knew or had business dealings with him. Since his death Mrs. Howe has carried on the ranch with fair financial returns. She is a member of the Parent- Teachers Association of the Willow Glen School and of the San Jose High School. She has an adopted daughter, Eola A. Howe, now a student in the San Jose State Normal. Mr. Howe was a Thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner, holding

membership in Aahmes Temple in Oakland. He was made a Mason in 1878 at Salem, Wis., but de- mitted to the San Jose lodge after he settled here. Ile was also a member of the Woodmen of the World and in politics he was a Democrat on national issues, but for local affairs he supported the best man for public office, regardless of party affiliations. At his passing the county lost a stanch and honor- able citizen, one who was respected and honored by all who knew him.

GEORGE L. KEESLING .- Among the early set- tlers of Santa Clara County came the Keesling fam- ily from far-away Minnesota, now so worthily repre- sented by George L. Keesling, the manager of the Earl Fruit Company of California; and having lo- cated in San Jose, they have ever since performed their share in the building of the city. George Kees- ling was born in Minneapolis on October 10, 1867, a son of Thomas B. and Elizabeth ( Hasty) Keesling. both of whom are now deceased, the latter having passed away on January 25, 1913, and the former on January 11, 1918. Mr. Keesling, who came to Cali- fornia with his family in 1873, had been engaged as a farmer and a merchant in or near Minneapolis, and he became one of the pioneer orchardists of San Jose.

George attended the Willow Glen grammar school, and then pursued the courses of the high school in San Jose, and topped off his studies with a good practical commercial course in the Garden City Busi- ness College of San Jose, receiving in all a splendid training for the duties of life. He busied himself in his father's orchards until he reached his twenty- first year, and then he was for four years in the employ of the Wells Fargo Express Company. He next clerked in a grocery for three years, and in 1891 planted an orchard on Bird Avenue, to which he gave his personal attention until 1915, when he subdivided the five acres, which were in the city limits.

Since 1918, Mr. Keesling has been manager of the San Jose branch of the Earl Fruit Company of Cali- fornia, a position for which his long years of special training and broad experience have eminently quali- fied him. The San Jose branch of this famous com- pany employs, during its busy season, more than 100 people all comfortably quartered in one of the most sanitary establishments of modern equipment such as always makes work easier, and it is not sur- prising that the company is able to send out a product of only the highest quality, and easily to maintain the standard. Mr. Keesling was elected to member- ship in the city council, but he served only a portion of the term, having been compelled to resign on ac- count of the demands of his private business affairs.

Mr. Keesling's marriage on April 26, 1891, united him with Miss Lila M. Hodges, who was a native of San Jose, and now they are the parents of two children, George H. and Jeannette L., who became Mrs. Thomas P. Kennedy and passed away at the age of twenty-four. In his earlier years Mr. Keesling served for three years in the National Guard of California, and thus maintained the public-spirited, patriotie tradition of his pioneer folks. His parents reared and educated eleven children, all of whom are still living, save one,-Oliver M. Keesling, who died on October 10, 1921. The others yet honoring the good name of their ancestors are Mrs. G. W. Hanson. F. M. Keesling, L. B. Keesling, H. G. Keesling, A. C. Keesling, Mrs. Carrie E. Mitchell, George L. Kecs-

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ling, Thomas C. Keesling, and Edwin E. Keesling, and his twin-sister, Mrs. Jacob Knack. In national politics a stanch Republican, Mr. Keesling belongs to San Jose lodge No. 522, B. P. O. Elks.

MRS. EMMA HIRSCH .- Widely known as one of the best-appointed and most up-to-date of all under- taking establishments in Santa Clara County is the spacious, ornate building, elegantly and appropriate- ly furnished, belonging to Mrs. Emma Hirsch, a woman of attractive personality who so well mas- tered her profession, and so well succeeded in her business that she has not only built, but paid for, her extensive equipment; and risen to her leading position in both Santa Clara and San Jose. Her strength of character, her agreeable temperament and uplifting sentiments, her family connections which have always made and kept her active in society, where she is a favorite,-all these features have con- tributed to draw to her those in distress and need- ing, often at the very moment when most helpless themselves, guidance, comfort and helpful service. Mrs. Hirsch is entitled to the credit of building up her well-arranged and well-managed enterprise un- der the name of the Santa Clara Undertaking Com- pany, which is now located at 1098 Jackson Street. at the corner of Benton. She started business in the building of the Bank of Italy, and when the owners decided to remodel the edifice so as to devote the entire building to banking offices and stores, Mrs. Hirsch, finding no other place suitable for her needs, decided to put up a structure of her own. She is the widow of the late Emil G. Hirsch, for many years justice of the peace and for five years an un- dertaker at Santa Clara, who had died on March 31, 1913; and as she had learned embalming and the other details from her husband, she had continued to con- duct the business founded by him.

She was born in San Jose, and is a daughter of the late Fred and Emma ( Kreig) Bunemann, well-known pioneer merchant folks at San Jose. They came to San Jose in early days, and Mr. Bunemann was well and favorably known as a manufacturer and business man. He contracted erysipelas and died in less than two weeks at the age of forty-two. Mr. Bunemann was a gifted vocalist and frequently fav- ored San Jose audiences with his beautiful voice and he was much loved and esteemed by everyone. His widow now lives in San Francisco, the mother of five children, among whom our subject is the second.

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History of Santa Clara 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, Part 140

Author: Sawyer, Eugene Taylor, 1846- Publication date: 1922 Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co. Number of Pages: 1928

Author: Sawyer, Eugene Taylor, 1846-
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1928