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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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504 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. Hubbard, a native of Canada, and a daughter of Tily and Hulda (Parish) Hubbard, the former 9 native of Vermont, and the latter of New York; they left Michigan for California in 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey bave six children: Joel H., now Deputy County Clerk of Solano County; Amanda L., now the wife of T. M. Doyle, of Vallejo; May A., Inez A., Blanch L. and Maud F. The family reside in Vallejo. EX pI WAY sso JAY BUCKLES, Jndge of the eo Superior Court of Solano County, California, was born Anguat 2, 1846, in Dela. ware County, Indiana. Up to the time of the war he had received but little education. He enlisted as a private in Company E, Nineteenth Regiment Indiana Infantry, June, 1861. This regiment became a part of the “ Iron Brigade,” First Division, First Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. He was with the regiment at the ’ front in all the great campaigns of the army. except the Peninsula. At the second Bull Run battle he was shut throngh the right thigh and taken prisoner, but effected his escape soon after. Prior to the Gettysburg campaign he had been detailed, at his own request, as one of the color guard, and during the Gettysburg battle he rescued the flag of his regiment, but was soon after struck in the right shoulder with a rifle ball, which so disabled him that he could never after carry a knapsack. When sufticiently recovered, although the wound was not healed, he returned to his regiment, and was at once made the color-bearer thereof, a position he long had sought. At the battle of the Wilderness, while earrying the flag, he was shot through the body, and when carried to the rear was informed by the surgeon that he must die, as his wound was a fatal one, and for this reason, and owing to the great number of wounded who would in all probability recover, but little attention was paid to him. So certain were all that he would not recover the report went forth “ Killed in the Wilderness.” In 1886 he recovered a small Bible, carried by him in that battle and lost there, which on the fly-leaf bore the words « Killed in the Wilderness.” However, being of a strong constitution and possessed of an iron will he recovered sufficiently to return to the front, where he found his regiment sv depleted in numbers that it had been consolidated with the Twentieth Indiana, and in this regiment he was given a commission as Second Lieutenant, dated February 27, 1865. Atthe beginning of Grant’s last campaign, at Petersburg, March 25, 1865, and just fourteen days before Lee’s surrender, while leading his company in an assault againet a line of rebel picket pits, he was struck by a ball in the right leg which necessitated its amputation a few inches from the body. Returning to his home at the close of the war, and having sufficiently recovered his strength, he attended a private school for about nine months, atter which he taught several primary schools, worked at whatever he could get to do, employing all his leisure moments in reading law; and. on being admitted to the Indiana bar in 1875, he removed with his family to Solano County, California, where he soon built up a Jucrative practice. In 1879, during the new constitution campaign, he became quite prominent as a pubiic epeaker in the debates against the adoption of the constitution. At the fall election of the same year he was elected District Attorney of Solano County, and was reelected in 1882, and at the election of 1884 he was elected Judge of the Superior Court of hig county, a position he has filled with honor and distinction, and he will be re-elected this year (1890) without opposition. He is a prominent Grand Army man, being now the Department Commander of the Department of California. a member of Farragut Post, No. 4, G. A. R, Vallejo. In 1885 he was Superior Chancellor of the order C. R C., and in 1889 was Grand Chaneellor of the Jurisdiction of California K. of P. He is also a member of I. O. O. F., A. O. U. W., O. B. L. and U. A. O. D. He is the second son of Thomas N. and Rachel (Graham) Buckles. His early