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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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AISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 351
kept a barber shop there. In 1872 he removed
to Truckee, and again in 1876 went back to
Rocklin, and in partnership with another opened
a business house. Dull times intervened, however, and, returning to Truckee, bought back
his old shop, where he remained until 1888,
when he was elected Sheriff of the county on
the Democratic ticket, a position to which he
was re-elected after a busy but successful term,
in 1890. Previous to that, however, he had
proved his fitness for public office by serving as
Justice of the Peace and Deputy Coroner for
three terms in Truckee. He is entirely a selfmade man, who has made his own way by the
energy and integrity of his character, being a
man of an active and untiring disposition.
His father died at Dutch Flat, in Placer
County, in 1876, and is buried at Grass Valley.
His mother seven years later married John
Farneman and removed to Atlanta, Idaho, and
died June 24, 1890. Mr. Durster was married
August 5, 1868, to Miss Alice Z. McCullough,
*a native of Illinois, who came to California in
1854. They have three sons living and two deceased. Their names are: Willie Edmund,
George Julian and John Farneman. The names
of those deceased were George Edwin, and Albert, who was still-born. Mr. Dunster is an
able and efficient Sheriff and a successful man.
lar Junction City landlord, is a native of
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, born
twelve miles west of Pittsburgh, September 28,
1837, his parents being David and Margaret
(Cubbage) Wallace. Both parents were born in
Allegheny County, within six miles of our sub.
ject’s birthplace.
J.C. Wallace, the subject of this sketch, was
reared on his father’s farm. In 1859 he came
to California, sailing from New York May 20,
on the steamer Star of the West, crossing the
Isthmus vf Panama and landing at San Francisco from the steamer Golden Gate at 10
Moers CUBBAGE WALLACE, the popno’clock a. m., June 13, 1859. He remained at
San Francisco from Tuesday to Friday, and
then went by steamer to Red Bluff, and by
stage to Weaverville. For two months he kept
the stage horses at Buckhorn Station, on the
Shasta and Weaverville road, and then went to
Yreka, where he remained one year. Tle then
came back to Trinity County, and clerked for
Joseph Spence at his store on Indian Creek for
two years, after which he went upon a ranch on .
Brown’s Creek, where he remained ten years,
and then went to Douglas City. There he was
engaged in the butcher business a year and a
half, and in going out of that business mined
for nearly nine years. After mining at Cox’s
Bar during the succeeding five years, he spent
the greater part of two years looking about the
coast for a new location, and finally bought the
Carter House at Junction City from Day &
Todd, and has conducted it since that time with
marked success, deinonstrating that he is one of
the few men who know how to keep a hotel to
the satisfaction of the public.
He was married in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, April 27, 1858, to Miss Letitia Jane
Robb, a native of the Keystone State. They
have five children, viz.: Maggie Crofina, James
Addison, John, Carrie Emma, and George
Washington. Mr. Wallace is a Republican,
and takes an active part in politics, having
served more than once as a member of the Central Committee of his party. Mr. Wallace is a
genial man, well known and popular, and withal
a good business man. He has made some investments in the prosperous cily of Seattle,
where he owns valuable property.
° Soest 9,
NDREW T. CULBERTSON, a real-estate
i dealer of Placerville, was born May 38,
1835, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
At the age of four years the parents mnoved to
Kane County, near St. Charles, Illinois, and a
few years later to Whiteside County, the same
State. His parents were Samuel and Margaret