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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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HISTORY OF NORTHERN OALIFORNIA. 381
he affiliates with the F.& A. M., Palmyra
Lodge, No. 151, and St. James Chapter, No.
14; he is also the treasurer of the Eastern
Star lodge. He has passed the chairs of the
blue lodge, having occupied the W. M. seat for
a period of three years, and is at the present
time its secretary. He is also amember of the
I. O. O. F., Morning Star Lodge, No. 20. He
has passed the chairs of this order. He is the
treasurer of Placerville Lodge, No. 70, K. of P.
He was joined in marriage, at Placerville, in
February, 1877, with Miss Carrie Ames, a native of California, and daughter of Captain Nathaniel O. Ames, who was a seafaring man, and
is now a mining man and a pioneer of the early
50s. Mr. and Mrs. Inch have two children:
Shelley O. and Perkins L.
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ILLIAM SANDERS. a farmer of Sutter County, was born December 6,
1839, in Tennessee, a son of Joseph
and Katie (Moody) Sanders. The father, a native vf North Carolina and a blacksmith by
trade, followed farming the most of his life; his .
mother was a native of Tennessee, and they both
died in Missouri. In the spring of 1840 he
wus taken by his parents in their change of residence to that State. In 1857 he caine overland
to the Golden State, working his way to pay
his board. The first month he spent in Jamison
City, and then worked in the vicinity of Robertson’s Mills, in Butte County, until the fall of
1861; then he was on Rock Creek, near Chico;
next worked on the Sacramento River a year;
then for two years he drove team at Fuller &
Bonzer’s Mill; from 1864 for four years he .
drove team from Oroville to Butte Valley, and .
during the winters of that year he worked on a
quarter section of land he had purchased in the
valley in Sutter County.
on this ranch, and he still resides there, now
Camp Bethel roads, about seven miles north. active practice in the latter year.
west of Yuba City. His residence he erected
in 1880.
He was married in Yuba City, in 1869, to
Miss Matilda A. Longcoe, a native of Illinois,
and they have five children living: George L.,
Ada A., Ida E., Sarah Catherine and William H.
or wt So gratio Boece —
AON. J. M. WALLING.—The life of Judge
9 Walling, who, at time of writing, occupies
the bench of the Superior Court of Nevada County, has been one of more than usual
variety and interest, as will be seen by a perusal of these pages. He was born in 1842, in
the State of Iowa, where he was raised and received his education. Upon the outbreak of the
Rebellion he enlisted as a private in Company
A, Eighth Iowa Infantry, joining his corps
August 12,1861. He enlisted again as a veteran volunteer at the end of his term, and served
under Sherman and Grant. At Pittsburg Landing he was taken prisoner and sent to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Later he was sent to Macon,
Georgia. At the end of six months he was
paroled and sent North, via Richmond, spending two nights in the ever memorable Libby
Prison on the way. On January 1, 1864, Judge
Walling re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer, and
was thereafter commissioned a First Lieutenant. Finally, on December 30, 1865, he was
honorably discharged in Louisiana, and returned
home.
March 1, 1866, he sailed from New York
city for California, and joined his father, L. A.
Walling, at Rongh and Ready, in Nevada
County. The father had come out in 1850, and
after mining for some time established and
kept a hotel at Rough and Ready until hisdeath
in 1875. Judge Walling remained with his
. father until 1872, when he was elected County
In 1868 he settled .
Recorder, and held the oftice for one term. At
this time he began the study of law. During
. the years 1874, 1875 and 1876, he served asa
owning 894 acres, at the crossing of Larkin & . Justice of the Peace in Nevada City, beginning
In 1884 he