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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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878 HISTORY OF NORTHERN OALIFORNIA.
him. Born in Clark County, Missouri, July
29, 1849, he was the son of Lloyd Rollins, a
Kentuckian, who was one: of the oldest members of the Masonic order in the country.
Where he joined the order is not known, but
his son has a parchment diploma received from
the Grand Lodge of Kentucky bearing date
1827. He married Jane Fountain, originally
from Maryland, whose ancestors were of the
French Huguenots.
He, Edwin O. Rollins, came to California
when four years of age, and naturally feels
that this is his life-long home, as but little can
be remembered of any other place. Brought
up as a farmer, he was educated in the public
schools of Butte County until the age of
eighteen, when he became a clerk in the grocery
store of ex-Governor Perkins, with which firm
he remained during numerous changes for
seventeen years. In 1887 he was appointed
Postmaster, and has since continued in this
capacity to the satisfaction ofall. Politically he
is a Democrat. He belongs to the Masonic
o-der, and has heen both Senivr and Junior
Warden of his lodge.
In January, 1889, Mr. Rollins was married
to Miss Mary LaPage, a native of Iowa, whose
father, George LaPage, originally from England,
was a Union soldier during the civil war. Mrs.
Rollins is her husband’s deputy in the postoffice,
and is equally efficient and painstaking in its
management, acting upon the principle that it
always pays to be courteous. Their only child
is named Lloyd.
VW, Exchange Iotel at Vacaville, came across
= the plains to California with his parents
in 1864. He was born in Marshall County,
Jowa, November 13, 1854, the eldest son of
Elias J. and Mary A. (Justis) Bowles, also
natives of Iowa. The father died in Virginia
City in 1864, and the mother went with her
family to Napa County, where our subject was
HY sc C. BOWLES, proprietor of the
reared and educated. He engaged in clerking
in different stores until 1875, when he commenced fruit-raising at Napa for about five
years. In 1880 he purchased a schooner and
followed trading up and down the Sacramento
River until 1884. In 1886 he purchased the
hotel property which he now occupies and conducts, and which was then called the Grand
Central, but he afterward changed the name as
well as the appearance of the building. Mr.
Bowles has personally conducted the house
since he purchased it, and has made a success of
the venture, receiving an unusual share of
patronage. Traveling men generally make this
their headquarters, there being good sample
rooms and a free ’bus to and from all trains.
The building is a two-story structure, with
comfortable sleeping apartments. The diningroom is large and well ventilated, and the tables
are all that one conld wish. A large billiard
and bar room connect with the office. In the
fruit season this house has accommodated 100
guests ata time. Mr. Bowles thoroughly un
derstands the wants of human nature, and is
ever ready to add to the comfort of his guests.
He is a natural-born landlord, frank, goodnatured and entertaining, and has a host of
wari personal friends.
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aR was born in Berkshire County, Massachnusetts, September 22, 1834, of English and
German ancestry. His grandfather, on leaving
London for America, settled in New York State,
where (at Ancram) a son was born to him—
Calvin Benjamin—who became the father of
the subject of this sketch. The mother of
Francis, formerly Mary Ann Kline, was of
IE on WAKELEY BENJAMIN, M.D.,
Massachusetts nativity and the daughter of
Conrad Kline, also of German origin, though
for many years a resident of New York.
Young Francis, the fourth in a family of
eight children, was reared on his father’s farm,
in close attendance upon school, not only being ,