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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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Page: of 713
500 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
of the orchard and garden commanded remarkably high prices. Their grapes were brought
from Los Angeles by ship, packed in sawdust,
and their apples, which were inferior fruit, from
Chili; but afterward they obtained larger and
finer apples from Oregon, which sold rapidly at
fifty cents apiece. After thus clerking in the
sture of J. McQuinn fur about six months he
was employed by J. Gianella, one of the pioneer
crockery men of Marysville; but about a halla
year afterward he went intu the hardware business, Which he has ever since followed. In this
trade he first worked for C. A. Hawley & Co.
for four years from October, 1858; next he was
employed for four years by J. H. Wright &
Co., who were conducting at Marysville a
branch store for J. Y. Halleck & Co., of San
Francisco; then he entered the employ of Silbey
& Co., a branch of Thomas Silbey & Co.,
of San Francisco. In February, 1876, he
started in as a member of the firm of White,
Covley & Cutts.
Mr. Cutts is a Republican. In 1885-’86 he
served as Councilman, and for one and a half
terms he was School Director, being appointed
for half a term and elected fora full term. His
father being a pioneer, he himeelf is admitted
into membership of the Marysville Society of
Pioneers. He is also a member of Yuba Lodge.
No. 5, 1. O. O. F., and of the Encampment,
No. 6: he has filled the chaire of both lodges.
He is now Past Grand of Yuba Lodge, and Past
Chief Patriarch of the Encampment. He was
married April 2, 1866, tu Miss Emily T. Wilbur, a native of Holbrook, Massachusetts, and
they have two sons and a daughter.
—e-GEAR—
ASPER A. OSTRANDER, M. D., homeA opathic physician, Fairfield, Solano County,
is a native of California, born in Merced
County in 1856. His parents were H. J. and
Lydia A. (Wheeler) Ostrander, natives of New
York State and still residents of Merced County,
where the father still owns «and operates a
ranch, and is interested in the firm of Ostrander
& Sons, real-estate agents. Dr. Ostrander at an
early age was sent to the public schools at Santa
Clara, and later to: the Friends’ Academy, and
at Union Springs, Cayuga County, New York,
four years, and then one year at Ithaca Academy, and one year at Cornell University—these
schools being in New York State. Returning
then to California, he attended the State University at Berkeley one year. His health failing,
he was obliged to abandon his course of study
and returned to his father’s farm, where he remained until] 1884, engaged in agricultural pursuits, thus fully recovering his health and vigor.
In the year 1885 he entered the Hahnemann
Hospital Medical College of San Francisco,
where he attended lectures for three years, graduating in the class of 1888. He practiced in
Oakland until June, 1889, when he purchased
the practice of Dr. H. S. Bradley at Fairtield,
where he has since resided, engaged in his
chosen profession. He is a member of the
Homeopathic Medical Society, of the order of
the Knights of Pythias and of the Native Sons
of the Golden West.
The Doctor was married October 23, 1884, to
Mrs. E. S. Moberly, a native of Illinois, and they
have two children, Olive L., born August 14,
1885; and Annie M., born May 30, 1890.
es et a
AMES WARREN STITT, M. D., has been
J a resident of California for the past eight
years, and of Vacaville for seven years. He
was born near Carlisle, Kentucky, in 1854. His
parents, William J. and Mary (Bradley) Stitt,
were also natives of that State. Graduating at
the Versailles Academy, in 1872, he commenced the study of medicine under the precepturship of Dr. Daniel Drake Carter, one of the
best known physicians of Kentucky. After
studying with him until after 1878, and at
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, of New
York city, he graduated at that institution and
immediately commenced practice in company