History of Santa Clara County California with biographical sketches, Part 194

Author: Sawyer, Eugene T
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1934

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On February 3, 1863, he proceeded to Nashville, reached Cairo on the 14th, three days later arrived at Fort Donelson, and reached Nashville on the 23rd. There the Eighth Kansas remained until June, 1863. when they were ordered to join the army at Mur- freesboro. On the 8th of July the Eighth was ordered to search the Cumberland Mountains for a bunch of guerillas who were harassing the people, but without success; and on the 17th of August the army marched to Stevenson, Ala., and soon moved over to Caperton's Ferry on the Tennessee River, and after taking part in an engagement on Sand Mountain, reached the top of Lookout Mountain. On Septem- ber 19 he was in the battle of Chickamauga, and seven days later General Grant arrived on the scene. On November 15, General Sherman arrived at Chat- tanooga, and on the 27th Mr. Rust and his com- patriots marched to the relief of Knoxville, a distance of 150 miles, which they reached on December 7. He had been a corporal; but on January 4, 1864, he was appointed, by Col. John A. Martin, sergeant in Company C, the promotion being for gallant serv-

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ice during the Battle of Chickamauga and for gallan- try in the Battle of Mission Ridge.

On February 9, 1864, our subject was mustered out of service as a volunteer, and immediately reenlisted and was mustered into service as a veteran volunteer, for another term of three years, or for the duration of the war, after which he enjoyed a furlough of thirty days; he did picket duty, and took part in minor skirmishes up to December 15, when he was in the Battle of Nashville. While on Montgomery Hill he was wounded so badly that his leg had to be amputated. He had been at Nashville four times in 1863 and '64, and on March 28 he left for Indiana, to visit his grandfather's home, when he found that both his grandfather and his father had taken part in the war. He was at North Vernon when Lee surrendered, and he also attended the memorial funeral services there, in honor of Lincoln, on April 19th. On April 21, 1865, he started for Kansas, and on June 14, at Fort Leavenworth, he was discharged. He went to St. Louis to see if he could be provided with an artificial leg; but this proved a failure.

Henry Rust was county clerk before the war, and resigned a short time before war was declared; and in the fall of 1865, Charles Rust, unaware even that he had been nominated, was elected by popular vote to succeed his father. He applied himself assidu- ously to his duties, studied law, and held the office for twenty-one years. He was principal and deputy county clerk, county treasurer, city assessor, and also held a commission as notary public; and he held all these offices until 1887, giving satisfaction to everybody, when he came West to California. He settled in Napa County, and for a short time en- gaged in the sale of real estate and insurance, then he went into San Francisco and there for ten years continued in the same field. In 1904, he went to Oakland, where he lived until 1911, when he retired from business activity and settled at East San Jose.

On December 26, 1867, Charles W. Rust was mar- ried at Atchison, Kan., to Miss Mary J. Biddle, a native of Columbus County, Ohio, and the daughter of Joseph Biddle. Her father had served in the same company and regiment with Henry Rust, who died from fever at Ft. Smith, Ark., in 1863. Charles had three uncles in the service. The Rusts have had a family of seven children. The eldest, Lillian B., is the wife of Everett R. Brent of East San Jose; Mabel C. has become Mrs. Frederick Wood of San Jose; Nellie died at the age of seven; Joseph is living in Napa Valley. He served with Dewey on the Olympia in the Spanish-American War; Alice had become Mrs. Lee Shaw, and she died in California; George R. died in his second year; and Eva, the seventh-born, died, aged two. Of the grandchildren, Mrs. Wood has four: Inez is Mrs. Klemm of Oakland; Marie is Mrs. Ellin- wood; Morris Wood is the famous baseball player; Frederick is in the high school at San Jose. Mrs. Shaw also has a son, Raymond Shaw, who is the head of the Union Indemnity Company, with their branch at Los Angeles. Joseph Rust, too, has four children: Joseph, Jr., and Derrick are in the U. S. Navy; while the third and fourth are Queen and Martha. Mrs. Klemm has two children: John W. and Fay Klemm; and Marie Ellinwood has a son. Thus Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rust have two great- grandsons and one great-granddaughter.

Recalling all the incidents of this career, in which Mr. Rust never failed to do his full duty as he

saw it, and the sacrifice he made on the battlefields, which condemned him to a life of partial incapacity and inconvenience, it will be seen that Sergeant Rust will forever be entitled to all the esteem and good- will which his fellow-citizens can shower upon him. and will also merit the reverence of posterity that comes after and enters into the fruits of his life and unselfish service.

STEPHEN M. SAUNDERS .- Among the pro- gressive men of San Jose who are the promoters of its business interests, is Stephen M. Saunders, who is the manager as well as one of the proprietors of the Consolidated Laundry Company, now one of the largest laundries in the county. It is located on San Fernando and Autumn streets, where it is do- ing an ever-growing business. Mr. Saunders is a native of Indiana, having been born in Shelbyville, and is the son of Isaac and Lydia (Ludlow) Saunders. The father, who is of English extraction, is now engaged there as a florist, Mrs. Saunders having passed away some time ago.

Stephen Saunders attended the grammar school of Shelbyville, Ind., and at the age of fourteen years took a position with Schnell & Company, whole- sale grocers, at Indianapolis, where he was employed for six years. Coming to California in 1906, and settling at San Francisco, he was employed at vari- ous places and in a number of businesses, until he learned the barber trade and then he followed in that line of work for a period of eight years, being in business at Twenty-fourth and Mission streets.

In 1911, Mr. Saunders came to San Jose and here, with a partner, Mr. W. A. Katen, he introduced the Towel Supply in San Jose under the firm name of the Valley Towel Supply Company and this was the first business of the kind in the valley. They con- tinued for five years, when they absorbed the St. James Laundry, and a year later they leased the U. S. Laundry, operating under the new firm name of the Consolidated Laundry Company, and still later they acquired the latter by purchase. In 1917. Eli Bariteau purchased Mr. Katen's interest and since then Mr. Saunders and Mr. Bariteau have been sole owners of this business, and have been very successful. They have in their employ over sixty people, all expert along this line. Delivery is made on twelve routes, covering the whole of Santa Clara County. The laundry is operated by the most modern machinery that is obtainable, having the very latest improvements. They have their own 280-foot well of splendid water and use in connection a water- softening process, where the water passes through a bed of zeolite mineral that removes all hardness, leaving it like rainwater. By actual tests it has been demonstrated that by using this process the life of linens are doubled. They have their own pumping plant, with a sixty horsepower engine and a one hundred horsepower boiler.

On March 25, 1913, occurred the marriage of Mr. Saunders which united him with Miss Ruth Tucker, the ceremony being solemnized in San Francisco. Mrs. Saunders is a native of Ohio, having been born at Conneaut and was the daughter of Amos and Leah Tucker, who came to the state of California during the year 1911. Her father is interested in the amuse- ment business and is now operating a skating rink in San Jose, thus providing for the young folks of this city a good, wholesome recreation. Both Mr.

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Saunders and his partner, Eli Bariteau, are very active in the work of the Chamber of Commerce, always ready to help in movements for the good of their community. Mr. Baritean also has contributed his share to the defense of his country by serving in the World War. Mr. Saunders is a member of the Independent Order of Red Men in which organiza- tion he is very popular and is a charter member of the Commercial Club. In religious faith, Mr. Saun- ders and his family are consistent members of the First Methodist Church, and in national politics he is an adherent of the Republican party.

MARION E. ELLIS .- In the death of Marion E. Ellis on May 8, 1904, Santa Clara County mourned the loss of one of her wealthiest and most honorable citizens and California one of her most prosperous dairy farmers and successful agriculturists. He was born on the Ellis home place at San Ysidro (Old Gilroy) on October 20, 1873, the son of James H. and Harriet (Zuck) Ellis, who are mentioned on another page in this history.

Marion was educated in a private school at Gilroy, and then attended Stanford University and later was graduated from Brewer's Military Academy at Palo Alto. After leaving school he engaged in business in Gilroy, and after his father's death assumed full charge of the dairy business near San Ysidro, and he served one term on the town council of Gilroy. Mr. Ellis was a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Eastern Star, the B. P. O. Elks and the Odd Fellows.

The marriage of Mr. Ellis occurred in April, 1899, and united him with Miss Annabel Swan, born in the Salinas Valley, a daughter of Hugh Swan, an early settler of California, born in Scotland and a veteran of the Mexican war. Her mother was Miss Isabella Jackson, a native of Ireland. They were married in California, lived for a time in San Francisco and eventually located in Monterey County, where they died at Salinas. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis had one daughter, Marion I. The Ellis ranch consists of 400 acres of fine rich land, on which has been conducted a dairy for fifty-six years, and is one of the profitable old- time dairies in the valley, the principal product of the dairy being fine California cheese, which is mar- keted in San Francisco. Mrs. Ellis has proven her- self a capable and efficient manager of her husband's estate. The daughter, Marion, attended Mills College and also the Junior College at San Jose. She is an ardent lover of the great outdoors and with her mother enjoys the sports and games at their beauti- ful summer home at Monterey. At the death of her grandmother Ellis, she inherited some very desir- able real estate in Gilroy, and some of the original capital stock of Salinas City Bank, and is taking an active interest in business affairs.

ADOLPH JOHN BAIOCCHI, M. D .- A success- ful physician and surgeon whose brilliant future is easily forecast by his exceptional scientific training and valuable practical experience and his keen in- tellect and its powers, is Dr. A. J. Baiocchi, a native of San Jose, where he was born on November 19, 1890, the son of Stephen Baiocchi, a native of Lucca, Italy, who came to New York on an old ship loaded with lumber and traveling so slowly that it took forty days to make the trip to New York. He reached San Jose about 1880, and soon engaged in the manufacture of confectionery, organizing the San Jose Paste Company on Market Street, now

known as the San Jose-Ravenna Paste Company, located on San Pedro Street. He owned and oper- ated this company until his death. He had married in San Jose, Miss Marie De Mattei, a native of Genoa, Italy, and when he died in 1891, he left his devoted wife with our subject, then only eleven months old. The beloved woman is still living in San Jose, the mother of four children.

A. J. attended the San Jose grammar and high schools, and then matriculated at the Santa Clara University, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree on June 10, 1914. After that he took an A. B. degree at Stanford University, in 1915, and three years later received his M. D. degree from the medical and surgical department of Stan- ford, after which he served as an interne at the San Francisco County Hospital for one year, then served as house officer of the Stanford Surgical Service at the San Francisco County Hospital until in Febru- ary, 1920, when he opened offices in San Jose for private practice as physician and surgeon, and he has been so successful in an ever-increasing practice that he intends to make San Jose the center of his activities. On September 10, 1921, Dr. Baiocchi was united in marriage at San Jose with Miss Martha B. Frain of Harrisburg, Pa.

When the World War called for experts on be- half of the government Dr. Baiocchi entered the Medical Reserve Corps and served for eighteen months in government work at the San Francisco County Hospital, which was under government direc- tion, his assignment there running from November, 1917 to May, 1919; and he had a very active part in caring for many of the 3,800 cases of influenza- pneumonia treated. He belongs to the Santa Clara County Medical Society and the State Medical Asso- ciation, and is a member of the medical fraternity. the Omega Epsilon Phi. He belongs to the Knights of Columbus and the Y. M. I., and he is naturally a member of the San Jose Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West.

HARRY E. BRANDENBURG .- An experienced, well-read and well-informed rancher, Harry E. Bran- denburg enjoys the esteem of all who know him in and around Saratoga and Santa Clara County, where he has lived since the early '60s. He was born in Muscatine, Iowa, on December 8, 1857, the son of Charles Henry and Sarah M. (Mullen) Branden- burg. Harry was only three years old when his parents came to California, crossing the plains in 1861, first going to Butte County where the father engaged in mining, and from there to Santa Clara County about four years later. The elder Branden- burg was a farmer until he died September 7, 1913, aged eighty-three, while his widow is still living. aged eighty-seven years. Of their three children, our subject is the eldest of the two living. He was educated in the public schools of Santa Clara and a private school there, and later he attended the Garden City Business College in San Jose, where he was graduated in 1878. He engaged in farming two years; then in business in Oakland and Alameda two years, and then spent almost a year mining in Ari- zona, when he returned to Santa Clara.

Mr. Brandenburg's marriage, which occurred in Santa Clara, November 2, 1886, united him with Miss Sarah J. Hartwick, born in Santa Clara, the daughter of Christian J. and Sarah (Beecher) Hart-

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wick, who were natives of New York. Christian J. Hartwick came to California in the early days, lo- cating in Santa Clara, where he was a carpenter and builder. Grandfather Charles Beecher, an own cousin of Henry Ward Beecher, spent his last days in Stockton, Cal., where his son John Beecher was a pioneer business man. Mrs. Brandenburg's father died in 1872, being survived by his widow who died in March, 1895. Four of their nine children are living, of whom Mrs. Brandenburg is the youngest. Mr. and Mrs. Brandenburg are the parents of four children: Juanita Avenel, a music teacher residing in San Jose; Elizabeth E., Mrs. William Wight of Saratoga; Charles Edgar, a graduate of the Camp- bell high school and Heald's Business College, San Jose, and served fourteen months in the Quarter- master Corps during the World War, being stationed at Jacksonville, Fla., and was mustered out Febru- ary 6, 1919. He is now with the Ainsley Packing Company at Campbell, but makes his home with his parents. Annabel is the wife of H. A. Fosgate and resides at Corning, Cal.

In 1890 Mr. and Mrs. Brandenburg located on the present ranch of ten acres which he set out to orchard, and it is now highly improved, a full-bearing orchard of prunes, apricots, peaches and cherries. This tract is a choice bit of land and he has spent much time and labor in bringing it to its splendid condition. Politically he is a Republican and with his wife is a member of the Orchard City Grange and he is a charter member of the Saratoga Lodge of Odd Fellows.

MERVYN A. DAVENPORT .- An industrious, straightforward business man, who is justly achiev- ing success in his line of work is Mervyn A. Daven- port, the genial proprietor of Austin Corners Garage. Born in San Francisco, December 26, 1890, he is the son of Withold and Hanna (Tobias) Davenport, both natives of New York State, where Withold Davenport was a merchant. Removing to California in 1886, Mr. Davenport continued to fol- low mercantile lines, and both he and his wife are living and make their home in San Francisco.

Mervyn is the oldest of three sons, and received his education in the public schrool and St. Joseph's Academy, Oakland, and then Ferrels Military School at New Orleans, La. His school days being over, he took a position as a helper in an automobile shop and was content to work from the ground up in order to become conversant with the business, and in this way he became a thorough automobile mechanic and familiar with repair work. In the fall of 1919 he located with the Sunnyvale Garage; then on October 14, 1920, came to Austin Corners and established himself in business, at first renting a small garage, and he has been very successful His business outgrew his quarters and he purchased two acres at the Corners where he erected a garage building 42 by 100 feet and has his residence adjoin- ing. His garage is equipped for repairing any kind of car, and he specializes in first aid, towing, and general repairing and has established a branch station at the summit, from which he can be reached by telephone and thus give immediate aid to stranded cars. He is also serving his community as deputy constable of Redwood Township under F. Lobdell. Mr. Davenport spent some time in New York City at

three different times, and from 1914 to 1917 he was in the rent car service at 181st Street.

Mr. Davenport's marriage united him with Miss May Keeler of New York, and they are the parents of two children, Marion and Mervyn A. Jr. On November 14, 1917, he enlisted in the Four Hundred Fifth Telegraph Battalion of the U. S. Army, sta- tioned at Camp Lewis until March, 1918, when he sailed from New York for France. Landing at Saint Nazaire, he served as dispatch rider for seven- tcen months, and nine months after the armistice was signed he came home and was mustered out at Camp Dix in November, 1919, as corporal. Locally he gives his support to progressive, constructive legis- lation, regardless of party lines, supporting the best man for public office.

FRED S. RYAN, M. D .- The profession as well as the public accords Dr. Fred S. Ryan a prominent position among the medical practitioners of San Jose. He is specializing in surgery and through constant reading and close study of the cases that come under his care, he has gained that skill which brings to his work the utmost possibility of accuracy in results. Dr. Ryan is a native of North Dakota, his birth having occurred in Pembina, three miles from the Canadian line, on October 1, 1882. His parents are G. W. and Mary E. (Short) Ryan, the former a native of Ohio, while the latter was born in Vir- ginia. The father became one of the early settlers of North Dakota and a prominent banker of that state, having previously resided near Danville, Ill. In 1900 he came to San Jose and is still a resident of this city. An uncle of Dr. Ryan enlisted for service in the Civil War and was killed at the battle of Lookout Mountain, while an uncle of his mother was a personal friend of Napoleon Bonaparte and also of the King of Spain.

In the acquirement of an education Fred S. Ryan attended the grammar and high schools of Pembina, N. D., and the University of California, from which he received the B. S. degree in 1903. Later he went to Chicago, entering the medical school of the North- western University, which conferred upon him the M. D. degree. He afterward served an internship at the Cook County Hospital and then came to San Jose, opening an office in the Garden City Bank Building. His labors have been attended with a gratifying measure of success and with the passing years his practice has steadily grown in volume and importance. He has developed expert ability as a surgeon, in which branch of the profession he is specializing, and is a member of the surgical staff of the O'Connor Sanitarium, and chief of staff of the Good Cheer Club and connected with the surgi- cal staff of Santa Clara County Hospital. He is also an advisory member of the Board of Health of San Jose, and local surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railway Company. In addition to his professional activities he has an interest in a ranch of 160 acres and in one of 44 acres in the San Joaquin Valley, both of which are irrigated by private pumping plants and devoted to the raising of peaches.

At Pembina. N. D., on February 25, 1911, Dr. Ryan was united in marriage to Miss Vida Mc- Cafferty, a native of that city and a daughter of John and Sarah (Cox) McCafferty, the former a farmer by occupation. Dr. and Mrs. Ryan have a family of four children: S. Elizabeth and V. Mar-

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garet are attending grammar school, and George M. and Fred S. In August, 1918, Dr. Ryan enlisted for service in the World War, being commissioned first lieutenant. For six weeks he was at Fort Riley, going from there to Rochester, Minn., where he had the benefit of six weeks' instruction under the cele- brated Mayo brothers. From there he was sent to Camp Knox, Ky., being attached to the Seventy- second Field Artillery, and was stationed at that point until January 8, 1919, when he was discharged, and returning to San Jose, where he has since con- tinued in practice. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, and fraternally he is a Knights Templar Mason and a Shriner, and he is also a member of the Elks Lodge and Commercial Club. His innate talent and acquired ability have brought him to a most creditable position in pro- fessional circles, and he keeps abreast with the times in the field of medical and surgical practice.

ARTHUR EARL AVERILL .- A native son of the Golden West who is energetic in his desire to aid in the upbuilding and improving of this favored region of the globe, Arthur Earl Averill was born in Santa Cruz, May 13, 1893, a son of Volney and Alice (Schul- theis) Averill. The father was a pioneer of the Santa Cruz Mountains and a veteran of the Civil War, (Iscwhere represented in this history, while the mother was a native of Santa Clara County, a daughter of John Martin Schultheis, one of the earliest pioneers of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Arthur Earl was the youngest of their seven children and received his edu- cation in the Summit school, from which he was grad- uated, after which he completed a special course in the Acme Business College in Seattle. He then returned to the home ranch, where from a boy he had assisted as best he could, thus learning the various phases of orcharding. A year later, in 1915, he leased the home ranch from his father and operated it with success. In the fall of 1920 he went to Arcata, Humboldt County, where he was employed in the cattle business with the Minors. In June, 1921, he returned to the Summit, and a year later he purchased his father's ranch of seventy-five acres, which he devotes princi- pally to the culture of prunes; he is a member of the California Prune and Apricot Association.

The marriage of Mr. Averill occurred in Oakland on February 24, 1915, being united with Sophie Larsen, a daughter of Ole and Anna (Hemmingsen) Larsen. The father is now superintendent of the Mountain View Cemetery at Piedmont. Mr. and Mrs. Averill are the parents of two children, Dorothy Catherine and Gladys Eley. Mr. Averill is a member of the board of trustees of Summit school district, where he. as well as his mother, attended school.

HARRY C. LEWIS .- One of the best known commercial artists of Santa Clara Valley is Harry C. Lewis, who is known far and wide by his work as an artist. He is a native son of California, and first saw the light of day in 1872, in the thriving city of San Jose, where he has since made his residence, and was the son of J. B. and Mary K. McKee Lewis. The father was a native of Massachusetts, while the mother was born in Connecticut; they came to San Jose in the very early days and the father was en- gaged in the drug business, being one of the pioneer druggists remaining in this line for many years.

Harry Lewis attended both the grammar and high schools of San Jose and when he became seventeen

years old, he started to make his own way, taking up the work of typesetting at the "Mercury-Herald" office, and continued in this line for twelve years with the newspaper work. He then took up color work in the year 1903 and commercialized it, es- tablishing a business of his own and now has a very large and profitable trade in commercial art, making a specialty of designing show cards and all work along this line. His place of business is now located at 130 South First street, and the volume of his business is continually increasing, due to the orig- inality of his ideas and the artistry embodied in his work. Mr. Lewis is very popular in fraternal circles, being a member of the San Jose Parlor No. 82, Na- tive Sons of the Golden West, and of San Jose Lodge No. 552, of B. P. O. Elks.

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History of Santa Clara County California with biographical sketches, Part 194

Author: Sawyer, Eugene T Publication date: 1922 Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co. Number of Pages: 1934

Author: Sawyer, Eugene T
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1934