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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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Wes HISTORY OF NORTHERN OALIFORNIA.
for their early training in their A, B, C’s, their
addition and multiplication, their correct speaking, and the higher studies of a common-school
education, ete., and in the management of all
preliminaries to make edueation a success, it requires a person in charge of known ability and
experience, who carries with him the confidence of the parents and children, who has
moral characte as an example to follow by
those who are in training for manhood and
womanhood, who is affable, accommodating,
pleasing, and capable, if called upon, to meet the
higher wants of education with the same master
stroke. Mr. Waketield possesses all the qualitications ennmerated abuve, and besides is most
energetic and persisting in his work, for the
love of it.
Te is a native of California, dating his birth
at Garden Valley, El Dorado County, April 12,
1857, where he received his early training in
the public schools, teaching for a time previous
to entering the State Normal School at San
Jose. Completing his course at that institution, he returned to his native county and .
taught school two terms, one at Pilot Hill, the
other at Granite Hill. In 1881 he entered the
State University at Berkeley, where he took a
classical course and graduated, receiving the de.
During his term of . gre of A. B. in 1885.
studies there he was two years assistant teacher
in the Berkeley Gymnasium. Returning to El .
Morado County, he again took up teaching at .
Mud Springs. In 1886 he was elected to the
office of County Superintendent of Public
Schools, and is at this time filling that position,
to which he was re-elected in 1890.
He is the eldest of four children now living
of his father’s family. His father, Claudius
B., was a native of New York State, and a descendant of the old Puritan families, and came
to California via Panama in 1853, and died in
1869. Mr. Waketield’s mother, nee Margaret
E. Charles, is also a native of New York, Mr.
Wakefield is practically a Democrat, and takes
an interest in local matters and politics, although
not essentially a politician, He is a prominent
member of the N.S. G. W, Parlor No. 9, of
Placerville.
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PAMERSON EMMET MEEK, one of the
most prominent citizens of Yuba County.
The grandparents of Mr. Meek, Robert
and Mary, were Pret byterians, emigrated from
the North of Ireland in 1768, settling at Madison, Indiana, where they died in 1832, at an advanced age. Both died of Asiatic cholera, on
the same day, and both were buried in the
same grave. They had six children, as follows:
1. John Meek, who was at the battle of
New Orleans, and for meritorious service was
presented with a fine swoid co-ting some $700.
Atter his death it was given to some institution
in Missouri.
2. Robert Meek, the father of the subject
of this sketch, who was for many years County
Clerk at Lexington, Sectt County, Indiana, and
died in office.
3. Norval D. Meek, a carpenter by trade.
4. Alexander Meek, who was at one time a
merchant at Madison, Indiana.*
5. Martha Meek, afterward the wife of Mr.
Jook.
6. Maria Meek, who married Mr. Hicks.
Robert Meek married Lydia B. Haas, born in
Woodstock, Virginia, a lady of German descent, and they had five children, namely:
Mary, who married a man named Joel Dickey;
Dr. James A., Emerson E. (our subject), Sarah
(who died at the age of twelve years), and Orlando, who died at the age of seventeen years.
Of these the only survivors are Dr. James A.
and Emerson E.
The latter was born in Lexington, Seott
County, Indiana, September 22, 1830, and was
The family
were considerably reduced, as the father had
become security for failing debtors.
erty was sold to pay these debts.
quite young when his father died.
The propThe father
. had also carried on a general mercantile store,
but as his time was largely taken up from his