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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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356 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
parents in Canada, and remained there until his . was married in 1873 to Mrs. Elizabeth J.
death, in 1871, at the age of seventy-four years.
He was a farmer all his life. Hannah Rogers,
born in 1803, in Chichester, New Hampshire,
a daughter of Joseph Rogers, died in the year
1830, in the township of Stanstead, Province
of Quebec. The Rogers family trace their
ancestry to Daniel Rogers, who emigrated from
England to Massachusetts in the days of the
Puritans, and he was a grandson of John
Rogers, the Martyr. Ballard Clark had two
sons by the first marriage, C. W. and Moody
C.; and by the second marriage Maria A., wife
of David A. Mansur, and living at her native
place. .
Mr. Moody C. Clark was reared to farin life,
and completed his school education in an academy. At the age of twenty-one years le went
to South Carolina and taught school there four
‘years, spent a year at home, and in October,
1854, he left for California, sailing trom New
York and coming by the Nicaragua route and
landing in San Francisco November 2. In a
few days he went by way of Sacramento to
Nevada City and engaged in mining for two
and a half years, with good success. In April,
1857, he went to Sutter County, and was employed there about five years. Then, in company
with others, he went to Mexico, where he was
president of a mining company formed here in
Sutter and Yuba counties. At the end of a
year he returned to Sutter County and tanght
school from 1865 to 1867, when he engaged
as clerk for Boyd & Wilcoxson at Yuba City.
‘In six years he became partner, but a year afterward he sold out. In 1873 he was elected
Superintendent of Schools, and he held the
oftice until 1886, with the exception of two
years. His home is a beautiful residence on
Second street, Yuba City. He is a member of
Enterprise Lodge, No. 70, F. & A. M., of Yuba
City Lodge, No 185, and of Marysville Encampment, No. 6, I. O. O. F., in which order
he has been prominent; and he is also a member of Pioneer Council, No. 1.0. GC. F. In
his political principles he is a Democrat. He
Boyd, a native of Virginia.
FEB
BURROWS.—Among the best known
ie lawyers of Nevada County may he men® tioned A. Burrows, whose home and
law office is in Grass Valley. He is of Irish
birth and English parentage. He arrived in
Calitornia from Philadelphia in 1872, and some
years later was admitted to practice before the
Supreme Court. His wife is also a member
of the bar and the “ consulting counsel of the
concern,” as she laughingly says. A family
of seven children has been born to them.
Mr. Burrows has an extensive practice in
the civil courts, and is also regarded as a very
successful single-handed criminal lawyer. He
has figured prominently in not a few recent
murder trials, as the attorney for the defendant. Among the more recent of these were the
successful defense of King, charged with the
murder of Pratt, the commercial traveler, at
Nigger Tent in 1887; the successful defense of
Keete, charged with the murder of Piazzi at
You Bet, in 1888, and the successful defense of
Rowe, charged with the murder of his partner
at Sonoma in 1889. He also tuok a prominent
part in the defense of Sheriff Lord, charged
with forging ballots in Nevada City in 1889.
He devoted his spare office moments to liter
ary work. Numerous articles from his pen
have appeared in the Overland Monthly and
law magazines from time to time. Among
these the best known are thuse’ entitled « Life
in a Modern Gold Mining Camp,” and “The
Other Side of the Divorce Question.” The
last named is a defense of our divorce laws
against clerical criticisins, and, to quote the
language of a reviewer, is “simply unanswerable from any standpoint of logic or revelation.”
Mr. Burrows is a prominent Pythian, and is the
present Chairman of the Republican Nevada
County Central Coinmittee.
Hanging in his library is an autograph let-