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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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Page: of 713
426 , HISTORY OF NORTHERN OALIFORNIA.
of 1860, to Mrs. Caroline R. Reynolds, a native
of the State of New York. By her former
marriage she was the mother of one child, Ada
L., now Mrs. Pratt; by this second marriage
three children were born: Ella L., wife of Dr.
D. A. Hodghead, a resident of San Francisco;
Arthur W., a resident of Ukiah, and an employee of the Connty Clerk’s office, and George
M., who died in infancy.
Byron’ King, Esq., a brother of the Doctor,
was one of the early settlers of the famous city
of Chicago, having been engaged in mercantile
pursuits there as long ago as 1833.
BR AR
ewILLIAM HORACE HODGHEAD, D.
VAVBR D.S., will be given the following space
in this record of the county’s leading
He was born in Rockbridge County,
Virginia, November 6, 1861, and is a son of
Lewis A. and Mary E. (Moore) Hodghead, natives of the State of Virginia, and of ScotchIrish extraction. The father of our subject
died in 1880, but the mother still survives and
makes her home with Dr. Hodghead. William
H. spent the first eighteen years of his life in
the State in which he was born, his literary
education being confined to the common schools.
In 1880 the spirit of ambition and enterprise
would no longer be confined to the surroundings
in which he had been reared; so he bade farewell to the scenes of his youth and started out
tu seek his fortune in the far West. He came
tu California and settled at Cuspar, Mendocino
County, where he was interested in the lumber
business for thirteen months. He then severed
this connection and came to Ukiah, and began
the study of his profession. He was graduated
from the first course in the dental department
of the State University at San Francisco, and
completed his second course at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1885. During
the time between his first and second courses of
study he had practiced, in California, and after
receiving his diploma at Nashviile he returned
men.
to that State and located permanently at Ukiah.
He has built up a fine practice which is steadily
increasing. In addition to his professional
duties Dr. Hodghead finds time to devote to
frnit culture, and owns fifteen acres of orchard
near Ukiah.
Politically he affiliates with the Democratic
party, but takes no active interest in party
measures. He is a member of the Ukiah Fire
Department.
( 4 ILLIAM VOLLMERS.—Among the
NVAVA younger business men of Trinity County,
, this gentleman stands prominent. He
is a native of this county, born at Weaverville, September 8, 1858, his parents being Otto
and Catharine (Helle) Vollmers. Otto Voll
mers, the father of William, was born in Hamburg, Germany, and was reared there to the age
of fourteen years, then went to sea, and traveled
over the globe as a sailor until finaliy stopping
for a timein South America, where he had some
interesting experiences. From there he went
to New Orleans, where he was for a time in the
ice business. From there he came to California,
in 1850, going first to the middle mines of the
American River, along which he mined until
1852. Henext removed to Turner’s Bar, where
he mined a conple of years, and, being quite
successful, went back to Germany. There he
was married, and in 1858 returned to California and engaged in the hotel business at
Weaverville, buying the Miners’ Hotel, and
running it until 1866, when he bought into
the Union Hotel with P. M. Paulsen, and was
joint proprietor in it until his death, which occurred November 23, 1884. He had four sons,
only one of whom is now living besides our
subject, Henry, who resides in Sacramento.
Those deceased are Alfred and Otto. While a
conscientious Democrat politically, he was in no
sense an office-seeker. He was interested in
mines more or less during his residence in
Weaverville, being a part owner in the famous