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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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382 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
ing continuously except while on the bench.
{n 1861 while in Plumas County he was elected
District Attorney, and held the office until his
removal to Nevada. In 1872 he was chosen to
a like position in Butte County, where he served
for two years. In 1878 upon the death of
Judge Sexton, he was appointed District Judge,
with jurisdiction in Tehama and Butte counties, and when the new constitution was adopted
he was elected to the position of Judge of the
Superior Court of the county, where he creditably discharged his official duties for five years,
declining a re-nomiuation. In the fall of 1888,
at the general election held to elect a successor
to Judge Leon D. Freer, then recently deceased,
he was the choice of the Demozratic party to
fill the unexpired term, and was elected, a position which he still retains and for which he is
well titted, both by wide experience and natural
and acquired judicial wisdum. In 1859 he was
elected as a Democrat to the Legislature, where
his services were marked by an honest opposition to the Bnikhead bill. The Judge is a
strict temperance man, a Good Templar, and a
Royal Arch Mason, and has served as Grand
High Priest of his lodge. Personally he enjoys
that esteem which is justly accorded one honorable, conscientious and upright in all the walke
of life.
He was married September 2, 1855, to Miss
Kate Taintor Ruseell, who was born in Buffalo,
New York, the daughter of General H. P. Rus.
sell. Kight children have been given them, two
born in Nevada and the others in California,
viz.: Mary S., wite of Dr. J. A. Dawson; En.
gene R., Virginia, wite of T. Buswell, of Oakland; William P., Kate T., John O., Edgar A.
and Allen M. (twins).
old-time miner and one of Maryaville’s first
settlers. He was born at Cincinnati, Ohio,
May 8, 1825. the son of James and Catherine
(Spanogle) Stevenson, natives of Pennsylvania.
Tou. STEVENSON, of Marysville, is an
His father, a contractor and builder, and his
mother died in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1846,
when twenty years uf age, Mr. Stevenson ran a
line of omnibuses from Cincinnati to Fulton,
Ohio, four miles distant from Cincinnati, where
the soldiers were drilling and preparing for the
Mexican war. In 1849 he ran a daily line of
stages to Dayton, also one to Indianapolis, Indiana, carrying the United States mail. In
1852 he embarked for California, coming by
the way of Panama, and arriving at San Fran.cisco in July of the same year. He immediately began mining on the principal rivers,
meeting with fair success, and in 1856 built a
mining canal from the South Fork of the
Feather River to Mooresville, twelve miles in
length, and costing about $100,000, he being
the principal owner. From that time until the
present he has been engaged in different pursuits, at the present being engaged in farming,
owning about 2,000 acres of land. Has been a
member of the 1. O. O. F. since 1847, when he
joined Fulton Lodge, No. 112, at Cincinnati,
Vhio, and he is still a member, in good standing, of Oriental Lodge, No. 45, I. O. O. F., of
Marysville.
He married Nicomedes Botiller, in 1870.
Mr. Stevenson has done much toward popnlating the State of California. being the father
seventeen children, only four of whom are
living,—Elisa, Catalina, Charles and Hazel.
TWILOMAS WILSON SERVISS, M. D.,
Tt numbered among the talented and rising
physicians of this county, was born in the
neighborhood of Bidwell’s Bar, in December,
1856. Hecomesof English origin, his father,
Gordon Serviss, being a native of Canada, who
removed to California in 1852, where for years
he was identified with the country’s history as
inerchant, hotel-keeper and Postmaster. His
wife was also of Canadian birth, her name before marriage being Margaret Commeford.
Two children were given them, the brother of