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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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Page: of 713
384 HISTORY OF NORTHERN OALIFORNIA.
paid for railroad and teamsters’ freight bills
during six or seven months of the year. Besides this a large company of men are kept
constantly at work in their interests, and thus a
business is conducted which not only remunerates ite proprietors but furnishes employment
to many other individuals, and places in cirenlation no inconsiderable amount of tnoney.
Such an enterprise is of untold benefit to any
community. In 1887 Mr. Rowell was married
to Mrs. Susan E. Billings, an estimable lady
and a resident of Oroville, where they have a
pleasant home on Bird street. Having been
reared a Quaker, when Abolition sentiments
supported the cause of the oppressed, Mr.
Rowell became an Abolitionist, but affiliated
with the Republican party after its organization.
He is one of the solid, reliable men of Oroville,
and a genial member of society and business
circles.
Gee eke
AVID T. LOOFBOURROW, a_ pioneer
merchant of El Dorado, is a native of
the old Buckeye State, born in Washington, December 6, 1829; was educated and
reared to mercantile pursuits. His parents
were natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio. His
father was a law practitioner of that State, and
moved to the State of Ohio in 1810, where he
died in 1852, and his father was a minister of
the Baptist Church. The mother of our sub
ject, nee Nancy Swinney, died in 1848. Her
father was a Presbyterian minister, and a
descendant from the old Scoteh Covenanters.
Soon after the discovery of gold in California
our subject, like many other adventurous natures in the year 1850, prepared for a journey
across the plains to the new El Durado of the
West. The trip to Salt Lake was made in the
company of others also destined to the Golden
State. From that point, however, our subject
* played a Jone hand” and took it afoot, and in
course of rolled into Hangtown, vow
Placerville, with his blankets on his back.
time
There he dropped the blankets, tovk up the pick
and shovel, and for the period of ten years following he was actively engaged in digging for
the precious metals, and from that time to the
present he has been more or less engaged in
mining pursuits.
In 1861 he established a merchandise store
at Granite Hill, where he conducted the same
until 1863, when he removed to Grizzly Flat.
and continued in the ousinesg until] 1871. At
this time he went to Sar Francisco and remained one year; then returned to Grizzly Flat
and re-established himself in business for a
short time, and since 1879 he has been in business at El Dorado. He is a property-owner in
Tacoma, Washington, having invested heavily
in real estate in that flourishing city.
He isa man of family. On the 6th of August,
1863, he was joined in marriage, at Placerville,
with Miss Elizabeth Englestried, a native of
Illinois, who came to California in 1852. They
have ten children, viz.: Wade J., Paul, Nancy,
Charles F., Katie, Elizabeth, Margaret H.,
Emina C., Clance E. and Agnes. The deceased
members were Tommy and Davy. The former
died in 1864, and the latter in 1877. Mr.
Loofbourrow springs from a long-lived and
: prolitic race.
Politically he is allied with the Democratic
party, and takes an active part in public
affairs. He was a member of the State Legislature from 1858 to 1860.
me tfc tate
[4 EWIS E. NORTON, though numbered
among the younger business men of Oroville, is justly recognized as une of the
most enterprising, his reputation as the leading
druggist of the town having contributed toward
a well deserved prominence. Originally from
the State of Maine, he is the son of E. P. and
Hi. M. (Todd) Norton, also of that State, the
father having been engaged in the leather business. The paternal grandfather was born in
Nantucket, and during the war of 1812 served