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Title: A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Publisher: Lewis Publishing Company Published: 1891 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Source(s): Google Books # of Pages: 713 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 433 thirteen years was thrown upon his own responsibility. Fora short time he followed the sea, and then various occupations. Two years he was clerk in a hardware store, several years in the ice business, and then for a time he was engaged in lumbering in Florida in the employ of Swift Bros., of New Bedford, who were getting out live oak timber fur the United States navy. In 1875 he came to California, engaged in railroading for a year and a half and since then in his present business of lumbering, for about ten years with Pope & Talbot, of San Francisco and Vallejo, and Jater for their successors, the Port Costa Lumber Company, being for the past year in charge of their business at this point. He isa member of Solano Lodge, No. 229, F.& A. M., of Vallejo, of Pacific Lodge, No. 155, I. U. O. F., of San Francisco, and of the A. O. U. W. He was married in 1885 to Miss Mary H. Rutherford, a native of California, and they have two children: Jennie R. and Elizabeth M. — ent Qeo grit Prete. APTAIN A. W. STARR, Superintendent a of the Star Mills at South Vailejo, has been a resident of the Golden State since 1853, and has lived in Vallejo for the past nineteen years, and in charge of the mills for the past ten years. He was born in Huron County, Ohio, in 1834, his parents being Orange and —— Starr, natives of New York State, who were among the early settlers of Ohio. At tho age of fourteen years he entered business life as aclerk in a country store in Plymouth, Ohio, and continned there until he was eighteen years old; then he came to California, by way of Panama, arriving in San Francisco in February, 1853. Proceeding at unce to the mining district, he kept a store there ten months, and then was clerk in a store in Sacramento until 1861. In September, 1861, he assisted in raising a company of cavalry, was appointed Second Lieutenant, and served during the war in different portions of the State, part of the time in Northern California against the Indians. His was Company F, Second Regiment of California Volunteer Cavalry. In the spring of 1863 he was promoted to First Lieutenant and a few months afterward Captain. June 6, 1866, he was mustered out, in command of his company. In February, 1867, he entered the regular army as Second Lieutenant, attached to the Eighth United States Cavalry, and remained in service until 1871, meanwhile, in 1868, being promote. First Lieutenant, and in December, 1869, to the Captaincy, and during this period of service he was in Nevada and New Mexico. ' Becoming tired of the inactivity. of the military service, he took charge of the mills at Vallejo, and has since remained as their manager. Their capacity is 2,000 barrels per day, 250 tons of wheat, 1,300 bags of bran, 500 bags of middlings. It has two engines: one, of 600horse power, was manufactured by the “Union Iron Works in San Franciseo, and called the O’Neil engine, and the other is a 300-horsepower Corliss engine. Coal from the Pittsburg mine in Mount Diablois used. The millsare six stories high, each floor fully oceupied. The market is principally in Great Britain and Enrope, the main office in. Liverpool. This mill has been running since 1869. we fee ete M. BUFFINGTON, Jr., member of the i) Bvuard of Supervisors of Nevada County, ? of which body he is serving as Chairman, is a prominent and successful mining man of Nevada City, having been Superintentent of the Consulidated Wyoming Gold Mining Company since July 1,1877. Mr. Buffington is anative of Rhode Island, where he was born in 1849, in which year his father, J. M. Buffington, Sr., came to California, and who is one of the more distinguished and successful of the Argonauts. In 1852 the family came out to California, and. hence the gentleman whose name heads this article has grown up and received his education in this State, living successively in Stockton and