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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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Page: of 713
HISTORY OF NORTHERN OALIFORNIA. 587
In 1868 Mr. Toland was married, in Marysville, to Miss Arthur Hunter, a native of Ireland.
The four children that have blessed their union .
are: William, John T., Mary and Hugh. Mr.
Toland is associated with the A. O. U. W.,
Smartville Lodge, No. 119.
A. SANBORN, proprietor of the fair
i grounds at Chico, was born March 4, .
2 1837, in Maine. In 1858 he came to
California, by way of the Isthmus, and at first
followed mining in Yuba and Sierra counties.
In 1866 he settled in Butte County, where he
has since remained. In 1886 he purchased the
Their union was blessed with five sons and five
_ daughters, of whom only three of the daughters
and the Doctor survive.
The family came to California in 1861, and
it was in this State, in a college at San Francisco, that our subject began the study of medicine. He returned East and finished his medi. cal course at the Bellevue Hospital Medical Colnoted horse track at Chico, where there are be.
ing trained about fifty head of colts belonging
to Mr. D. M. Reavis, of Chico, whose sketch
and portrait appear in this volume. He himself owns eleven of twelve head. The track is
one of the best in Northern California.
Mr. Sanborn’s parents were Henry B. and
Eliza, nee Walker, natives also of the Pine Tree .
State, where they resided until their death,
when the subject of this sketch was a small boy.
He married in Chico, Delia Skilling, a native of
Illinois, and they have one son, Alphonso H., .
born November 24, 1887. Mr. Sanborn is a
member of the I. O. O. F., being also a member .
of the Rebekah-degree Lodge, No. 113.
EX ep j2Ze L
was born in London, Laurel County, Kentucky,JOctober 21, 1840. His father, John
H. Jackson was a native of Virginia, his ancestors having come from E: gland and settled in
Virginia very early in the history of this country.
They had large plantations and were people of
wealth and prominence in political affairs. One
of the Doctor’s uncles was a Representative in
emt 8S. JACKSON, M. D., of Chico, . was born in the State of Delaware.
. Mexican war.
Congress trom Kentucky. John H. Jackson .
married Miss Anne Scales, a native of Kentucky and the descendant of Scotch ancestry.
lege in New York. He first began the practice
of his profession at Forest Hill, from which
place he went to New York, and after practicing
there three years, in 1878, returned to California. Since that time he has been a member of
the medical profession in Chico, where he has
_ established a fine practice and won the confidence and esteem of the good citizens among
whom he has cast his lot. His practice extends
for many miles in the surrounding country.
Dr. Jackson was married, in 1875, to Mrs.
Margaret Moon, a native of London, England.
They have had three children, one of whom,
. Paul K., a native of California, is living. The
Doctor affiliates with the Demveratic party, but
is liberal in his views.
So ————) aah ee SS -e
ty ILLIAM LEROY BRADLEY is another of California's pioneers who have
experienced the privations, reverses
. and hair-breadth escapes of the days of ’49.
Mr. Bradley’s ancestors were Scotch-Welsh
. people who settled in the colonies before the
Revolution. His grandfather, William Bradley,
His father,
Major J. C. Bradley, was a Tennesseean, who
rendered valiant services as an ofticer during the
When he returned from the war
the gold excitement was at its height. Years
. previous to this Major Bradley had wedded
Nancy L. Heatherington, a native of Kentucky.
Of the four sons born to them the subject of
this sketch is the only survivor. He was born
in Bedford County, Tennessee, May 5, 1827,
and received his education in his native State.
. His father was a merchant and to that business