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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 435
stage line Mr. Asbridge owns the well conducted Kentucky Livery Stables.
Our subject is a native of the old « BlueGrass State,” born in Lyon County, May 11,
1850, where he was reared and educated. He
is the fourth of a family of eight children born
to Joseph and Martha (Harris) Asbridge, who
were also of Kertucky birth, and sprung from
one of the oldest families of the State. Joseph
K. Asbridge was a farmer by occupation, and
in this most independent of callings our subject
received a practical training. At the age of
eighteen years he began farming on his own
account, and a few years later became a contractor in the grading of the Elizabeth & Paducah Railroad. In 1874 he learned the trade of
a brick-mason, and began contracting in this
business, which he continued until 1883.
It was in this year that he emigrated to California and settled in Los Angeles County. He
was engaged in contracting and building in the
city of Los Angeles until 1887, when he took
up his residence at Ukiah, and established his
present successful business.
Mr. Asbridge was married at Los Angeles
November 25, 1887, to Mrs. Anna Dutley, a
native of the State of New York. No children
have been born of this union.
Politically Mr. Asbridge is allied with the
Democratic party. He is an honored member
of the I. O. O. F., and also belongs to the Ukiah
Fire Department.
THIIOMAS L. CAROTHERS, attorney at
ral ‘¥ law.—There is no more fitting prelude
to this biography than the words of the
Hon. M. M. Estee, in referring to the above
named gentleman. He says:,
“IT have known him since early manhood; he
is an earnest, active, honest man, and a good
lawyer; he has confined himself almost exclusively tu the duties of his profession, and
has the confidence of all who know him, and is
fully deserving of that trust. He studied law
in my oftice, and was as industrious and worthy
as a student as he has since become proficient
and honored as a practitioner. He is one of
that nuble band of young men who went forth
to fame and fortune from the old Sacramento
High School. His successes as a criminal
lawyer have frequently attracted the attention
and admiration of many of the older attorneys.
I recognized his manly character when it was
forming; I saw him sowing, although the time
of reaping was widely separated trom that
period, and I know he has a good title to his
harvested stores.
“ Ambitious, generous, enthusiastic, he was
yet a persevering student, and controlled always
by strong common sense. It was by assiduous
effort that he qualified himself for the enlarged
sphere which he has adorned many years. It
only excites gratification in the breasts of his
old-time fellows to see him now first in the
hearts of the people of his county, and leading
the local bar.”
Thomas L. Carothers was born in the State
of Illinois, at Carthage, Hancock County, September 26, 1842, and is a son of James H. and
Margaret (Barnes) Carothers, natives of Ohio
and North Carolina respectively. Both the
maternal and paternal ancestry is traced to the
Irish and Welsh. The first ten years of his life
were passed in his native county. In the spring
of 1853 he accompanied his parents acrose the
plains, via the old emigrant route, to California.
They first settled in Sonoma County, where
young Carothers had the advantage of the public schools until 1859. The family then removed to Sacramento city, where Thomas continued his studies untii 1861. In that year he
entered the law oftice of Harrison & Estee as a
student. The following year the family removed to Petaluma, and there he entered the
office of the Hon. George Pearce, who becaine
his preceptor until 1863. -In October of that
year -he was admitted to the bar by the State
Supreme Court, having attained his majority
just ten days before.
Mr. Carothers began the practice of his pro-