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ANDERSON, HARTFORD, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1818, where he remained till
1840, engaged in farming. For five years worked at his trade, millwright, and
then removed to Wisconsin, where he remained till 1849, engaged in
wagon-making and bridge-building. In 1850 came to California, and has followed
mining, for thirty years. In 1844 married Lurana Adkins, a native of Kentucky,
who died in 1852; was married again in 1857; the second wife died in 1874. Mr.
Anderson has held the office of Justice of the Peace for twenty-five years.
His property is worth about $1000. Post Office, Folsom.
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BURNHAM, J. H., druggist, Folsom; owns property in Folsom; born in Galveston,
Texas, in 1845; parents moved to California in 1853; lived in San Francisco
until 1856; then moved to Folsom, where the subject of this sketch has
continued to reside. He entered the drug business in 1864. Married Miss Mary
A. Clark in 1866; she is a native of Boston, Massachusetts; they have two
sons. Mr. Burnham's property is valued at about $6000.
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DONNELLY, MRS. K.; boarding house and livery stable, Folsom; owns town
property; born in Patterson, New Jersey, in 1849; came to California in 1858;
lived in San Francisco until 1860, then removed to Prairie City, Sacramento
County; in 1868 came to Folsom, where she has since resided. Married Henry
Donnelly, a native of Ireland, in 1865; he died August 14, 1877; they had two
sons and one daughter.
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HARTHAN, L.; mining, Folsom; own undivided half of one hundred and sixty acres
of mineral land known as Rhoades diggings; born in New Hampshire in 1828;
sailed in bark Regulus from Boston, in 1849, for California via Cape
Horn; was seven months making the voyage; settled at Mormon Island, this
county, and engaged in mining for about two years; was in the employ of Adams
Express Company for some three years. In 1861 enlisted in the First Battalion
California Volunteers; served three years and was honorably discharged at Las
Cruces, New Mexico; the battalion was commanded by Colonel Carleton, who
afterwards became a Major General; after his discharge he returned East, and
came back to California in the spring of 1865, and settled in Folsom, where he
has since been engaged in mining, speculating and restaurant business. Mr.
Harthan has been Constable, and also held the office of Deputy Sheriff under
A. D. Patterson. He is a member of the Sacramento Society of Pioneers.
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McEWING, S. S., farmer, lives six miles from Folsom, and sixteen miles from
Sacramento; owns five hundred acres of land; born in Canada in 1844; engaged
in farming until 1869, then came to California via the Isthmus of Panama and
settled in Sacramento County; moved to present location in the fall of 1878.
He was married to Mary Pike in 1874; she was born in Ohio; they have one son.
Post Office Routier.
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MEREDITH, J. S., druggist, Folsom; owns property in town valued at about
$5000; born in Winchester, Virginia, in 1820; in 1840 removed to Ohio, and
engaged in general merchandising until 1849; then came to this State, via Cape
Horn, and settled where Folsom now is. He has been engaged principally in the
drug business since his arrival, also, in the early days, sold miners'
supplies. Married Miss Laura Wheeler in 1861; she was born in Ohio. They have
four children two sons and two daughters. Mr. Meredith has been Supervisor for
eight years and Notary Public for six years.
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NEY,
GEORGE K.; Post Office Routier; lives about eight miles from Folsom and
seventeen miles from Sacramento; was born in Franklin County, Penn., November
15, 1812; removed to Allegheny County in 1829, and lived there until 1833; he
then moved to Virginia, and remained there about three years, and then went to
Missouri and resided until 1850; he came to California in that year, across
the plains, and settled in this county; was engaged in mining in Placer County
for thirteen years; has been engaged in farming and stock-raising in this
county since 1865; owns 4012 acres of land in Granite Township, worth with
improvements about $50,000. His brother, John, who came over the plains with
him in 1850, and has been living on his ranch since 1854, was born in 1807. A
view of this place is given on another page.
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SHIMP, F. E., mining, Folsom; owns property in Folsom, also one hundred and
sixty acres of land in El Dorado County; born in Pennsylvania in 1846; learned
the cabinet trade, and lived in Pennsylvania until 1866; then came to
California, and settled in Folsom, where he has been principally engaged in
mining; was foreman of the Diatoma Company. He was married to Miss L. Tully in
1876; she was born in Kansas.
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STROBEL, W. A., livery business, Folsom; owns property in Folsom; was born in
Germany in 1832; that year his parents emigrated to the United States, and
settled in Ohio. He remained there until 1852; then came to this State, by way
of the Isthmus, and remained in Sacramento City for a short time; has
continued to reside in the county since his arrival in the State; settled in
Folsom in 1869, where he has carried on the livery business up to this time;
was engaged in mining up till 1872 in the county. Married Miss Martha Wilson
in 1875; she was born in California; they have two children, one son and one
daughter. Mr. Strobel has held the office of Constable and Collector for the
past two years.
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VAN
DEMARK, ABRAM, blacksmith and wagonmaker, Folsom; owns house and lot in
Folsom, valued at $2000; born in Ulster County, New York, in 1827; remained
there until 1848. January 7, 1849, started for California, via Cape Horn,
arrived in San Francisco July 7, 1849; two months later went to Mormon Island,
this county, and engaged in mining for a short time; came to Folsom, and
mined; since 1850 has been engaged in blacksmithing and wagonmaking. Married
Miss Martha Ann Burrill in 1854; she is a native of Cape Ann, Massachusetts;
they have four children, one son and three daughters.