Butte County
Biographies
MATTHEW BADER
MATTHEW BADER is a Prussian by birth, and was born July 25, 1830. He tilled the soil till 1852, when he followed the tide of emigration westward, crossing the Atlantic and coming direct to Butte county. He mined a short time at Enterprise, and also at Centerville. In 1853, he settled at Dogtown, where he has since resided. He engaged in merchandising for a number of years, and has always done a great deal of mining. For the last six years he has farmed and mined in that locality.
History of Butte County, California: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - Vol. II - Harry L. Wells & W. L. Chambers - 547 Clay Street, San Francisco, Cal., 1882.
Transcribed by: Betty Wilson
JOHN BARRETT
JOHN BARRETT was born in Lemoil county, Vt., September 19, 1825. When 19 years old he began work in a grist-mill at Worcester, Massachusetts, where he remained five years. Leaving Worcester, he followed farming in Vermont till 1854, when he came to California, and settled in Butte county. Mr. Barrett has mined almost continuously here ever since. He commenced work on the Birch and Barrett claim, now called the Magalia, in the fall of 1856. In that year he was one to start the first tunnel which was run under Table mountain. Mr. Barrett was married in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1848, to Miss Catherine Flanigan, who died in 1854, leaving one child. He was again united in marriage in 1858, at the city of San Francisco, to Miss Mary Shea, by whom he has three children.
History of Butte County, California: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - Vol. II - Harry L. Wells & W. L. Chambers - 547 Clay Street, San Francisco, Cal., 1882.
Transcribed by: Betty Wilson
FRANK FORD CARNDUFF
FRANK FORD CARNDUFF was born in West Galway, Fulton county, New York, March 25, 1845. His father was born near Glasgow, and with his grandfather moved to the United States when only nine years of age, and arrived in California in the spring of ’49, via Cape Horn, and has lived in or near Stockton ever since. The subject of this sketch, with his mother, sailed for California February 6, 1852, via Nicaragua, and was wrecked on the Coast of Central America February 27, 1852. After a long stay in the woods, the wrecked passengers procured transportation to Acapulco, where Frank was sick with the fever for a number of months, and did not reach San Francisco until late in May. He lived with his parents near Stockton until December, 1853, when, accompanied by his mother, he returned to New York, that he might have the advantage of a liberal education. During the war, he served in battery A and M, of the seventh N.Y. artillery, and was discharged August 15, 1865. During said service he performed duty on the staff of Gen. Lewis O. Morris, and on detached service in Alexander, Virginia. He was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, on the third day of June, 1864. After a partial recovery from his wound he was breveted colonel, and assigned to duty at Fairfax, Virginia, and in 1865, at the Ira Harris hospital at Albany, New York. His health failed and he came to California, the second time, in July 1872, and traveled as manager of agencies for the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of Maine. He returned to Albany in July, 1873, but came back accompanied by his wife, in October, 1874, and located at Milton, Calaveras county. He was admitted to the bar the same year, and removed to Wheatland, Yuba county, in November, 1877, where he practiced law and published the Wheatland Recorder until March, 1880. At this time he removed the press and material to Biggs, Butte county, and established the Biggs Recorder. In 1880, he was deputy county clerk and deputy district attorney for Butte county. He is a prominent “society man,” and joined the F. & A.M. when only twenty-one years of age, and has filled a number of important offices in the same and other orders. He is now the D.D.G.M.W. of Butte county, and grand representative of Biggs lodge, No. 102, A.O.U.W., for 1882. He is a noble grand of Bidwell lodge, No. 47, I.O.O.F.; post commander of Canby post, No. 18, G.A.R.; grand representative to grand encampment of the department of California, and is a member of eight different orders. Mr. Carnduff is not only an able, but a very popular man in social and public life.
History of Butte County, California: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - Vol. II - Harry L. Wells & W. L. Chambers - 547 Clay Street, San Francisco, Cal., 1882.
Transcribed by: Betty Wilson
RICHARD DeLANCIE
RICHARD DeLANCIE was born in England, May 15, 1839. In 1847, his parents came to the United States, landing at New York in June of that year. They settled near St. Louis, Missouri, where they remained till the spring of 1854, when they came to California, settling at Evansville, Butte county, which has since been his home. During his early years on the coast, Mr. DeLancie engaged in mining, but with indifferent success. He tried his hand at all kinds of work done in the mines till 1865. In that year he enlisted at Oroville in Co. A, First Cavalry volunteers, commanded by Captain E.C. Ledyard. The company was ordered to Arizona and detailed to act as escort to the commanding general, John S. Mason. He traveled over all the territory, a great deal of which at that time was wholly unknown. In 1866, the troops were discharged and he returned to his home in Butte county, where he worked on his stepfather’s farm for some years, when he began teaching school in Mohawk valley, Plumas county. He taught several schools in Butte county, and while so engaged became acquainted with and married Miss Mattie A. Sherwood, of Crum’s ranch, on the twenty-fifth of November, 1872. In the summer of 1875 he was appointed one of the teachers in the Chico public school, where he taught till March, 1878. Sheriff Sprague then appointed him under-sheriff, the duties of which office he performed till the fall of 1879, when he was nominated on the republican ticket, and elected treasurer of Butte county, an office which he still holds, with credit both to himself and his party. Mr. DeLancie is an open-hearted, genial man, beloved by a large circle of friends.
History of Butte County, California: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - Vol. II - Harry L. Wells & W. L. Chambers - 547 Clay Street, San Francisco, Cal., 1882.
Transcribed by: Betty Wilson