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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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He and his father are Active Exempt Firemen, of which L. A. Simon has been secretary
for ten years. Both father and son are active
Republicans.
In March, 1890, Mr. Simon wae married to
Mrs. H. Waldstein. They occupy an attractive
home in Oroville, surrounded with every possible comfort.
€ LIAS JACKSON CARTWRIGHT, a
prominent farmer of Chico, was born in
Charleston, Coles County, Illinois, May
22, 1832, the son of Reddick Cartwright, who
was born in South Carolina about the year
1792. He removed to Kentucky, thence to Indiana, and later to Illinois, where he became a
prominent farmer. He was married three
times, there being six children by the first wife,
ten by the second, and six by the third He
lived to the age of eighty-three years, dying at
his home in I}linois in 1875. R. N. Cartwright, the grandfather of E. J., served as a
soldier in the Colonial army during the Revolutionary war; was taken prisoner at the fall of
Charleston, and was one of the patriots who
risked life and property in the cause of American independence. The Cartwrights were either
of Scotch or English ancestry, and were among
the very early settlers of this country. The
mother of our subject, nee Elizabeth Alltizer,
was a native of Indiana. She was the second
wife of her husband, and was the mother of ten
children. She died in 1851.
Elias Jackson Cartwright, the third child of
the second family, was reared on his father’s
farm in Illinois, and attended district schools
in the winter. In 1852, when twenty years of
age, his desire for gold induced him to seek his
fortune in the El Dorado of the West, and he
crossed the plains with an ox team when cholera
was prevalent, and helped bury many who had
died with that dread disease. On arriving in
this State he first engaged in mining at Nelson’s Creek, Butte County, where he was
reasonably successtul, and where he remained
HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
about one year. He then returned to his home
in the East and engaged in farming. He was
there married to Miss Sarah Cuon, and to them
were born the following children: Frances Ann,
John Adams and Reddick Jasper. In 1863
Mr. Cartwright returned with his family to
California, and took up a ranch of 160 acres
near Dayton, Butte County, but which he sold
after one year. While on this ranch his fourth
child, Edward C., was born. They again returned East, being absent about eighteen
months, and on their way back to this State, at
Wyouning, their fifth child, William David, was
born, in 1867. They returned to the same
locality in Butte County, where they purchased
320 acres of land, which they have since owned
and improved. He has bought and sold land
in this vicinity, and now owns 680 acres, which
is one of the finest farms in this section of the
country. Inasingle year Mr. Cartwright harvested 18,000 bushels of wheat, which was an
average of thirty bushels to the acre.
They have since had three children born to
them in this State, namely: Andrew Jackson,
Mary Elizabeth, and one who died in infancy.
Mrs. Cartwright died March 27, 1877, and the
family were bereaved of a most affectionate wife
and mother. The following ycar Mr. Cartwright married Mrs. Elizabeth Hinney, a native
of Michigan, but a resident of Chico, where
she owns a fine residence and where they now
reside. She had two children by her former
marriage—Sumelda and Stella.
Politically Mr. Cartwright is a Democrat,
but is a man of liberal views. He has held
the office of School Director of his district, and
alao Justice of the Peace of his township. He
is a member of the I.O. 0. F., in which he has
passed all the chairs.
yao
pR. RALZEMOND PARKER.—On Mont] gomery strect, in the city of Oroville,
= noted for its attractive homes, is located
the residence of one of the reputable and wealthy