San Joaquin County
Biographies
SAMUEL C. BEANE.
An experienced, progressive railroad man who is far more than a routine operator, is Samuel C. Beane, popular district freight and passenger agent of the Southern Pacific Railroad at Stockton. A native son and proud of his association with the Golden State, he was born in Tulare County, Cal., on February 26, 1869, the son of Samuel and Diana (Davies) Beane, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of Ohio. Mr. Beane came to California by way of Panama in 1862, and he died in 1875. The mother crossed the plains to California in 1862, and she passed away in Sacramento in August, 1921.
Samuel C. Beane attended the public schools of Plymouth, in Amador County, and then he started to work in the quartz mill at the age of sixteen, having previously begun the study of telegraphy. He worked at odd jobs around the post office at Plymouth, while a boy, and at seventeen left home to go to Sacramento, where he worked for Weinstock & Lubin, receiving at first six dollars per week. Later, he was given a post with Messrs. Scott & Gilbert, the manufacturing chemists, at ten dollars per week.
Hearing that the Southern Pacific Railroad Company were paying operators sixty dollars per month, he entered the employ of that company on May 15, 1889, as night operator at Chico, and ever since that date he has been in the service of that great concern. He next became relief agent and operator at Chico, Woodland, Red Bluff, Reno, Ventura, San Jose and other cities, and for ten years he was associated with the freight department at San Jose, where he rose to the position of assistant chief clerk, and he was one year in the general offices of the company in San Francisco as rate clerk.
In August, 1902, he was transferred to Stockton as chief clerk, where he continued for a period of nine years. Then he was traveling and freight agent out of the district freight agent's office at Oakland, but made his residence in Stockton, and after four years he became commercial agent over the district between Florin and Tracy. On March 1, 1920, he was appointed district freight and passenger agent of the district from Florin on the north to Newman and Merced on the south and from Antioch on the west to the Southern Mines on the east. On May 15, 1921, he had been for thirty-two years in the continuous service of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
When on June 5th, 1894, Mr. Beane was married at Sutter Creek, he chose for his life-companion, Miss Lillie Frances Higgins, a native of Pennsylvania; and they have had two children, one of whom is married. Ruth A. has become the wife of J. E. Duffy, and they have one son, J. E., Jr.; Chester Beane is a clerk in the Commercial and Savings Bank of Stockton. Mr. Beane belongs to Charity Lodge No. 6, I. O. O. F., and to Stockton Lodge No. 218 B. P. O. E., and also to Stockton Lodge No. 319 of the Loyal Order of Moose and to Stockton Parlor No. 7, N. S. G. W. He is a charter member of the Stockton Rotary Club, and has been secretary of that influential organization since its formation in August, 1913.
History of San Joaquin County, California – Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 1923
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Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.
HARMON E. PRICE, M. D.
Among the leading physicians and surgeons of Stockton is Dr. Harmon E. Price, who won distinction during the World War for his valuable services overseas. He was born at Mount Carmel, Ill., on October 8, 1879, and began his education in the public schools of his native city; later he attended the Seminary at Friendsville, Ill.; then entered the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati, O., from which he was graduated with the Class of '05 with the degree of M. D.; he then took a post-graduate course in the Cincinnati Hospital for one year, thus putting into practice the training received in school. Removing to Maroa, Ill., he practiced for a short time, then removed to Clinton, the county seat of De Witt County, Ill., remaining there until 1916, when he removed to California and located at Tracy, San Joaquin County. Desiring a larger city in which to pursue his chosen profession, after eight months' practice in Tracy, he removed to Stockton in 1917. In the summer of 1918, he entered the service of his country; going to the Presidio at San Francisco, he took a course in surgery at the Military Surgeon's Hospital. While there he was commissioned a lieutenant in the U. S. Army, and on June 21, 1918, was stationed at Camp Lewis Base Hospital; in September he was assigned to Base Hospital No. 95, but was sent overseas with Camp Hospital No. 3, stationed at Neufchateau, France, and later advanced to section headquarters on the front lines, where he was under fire until the signing of the armistice. During January 1919, he was stationed at Perigueux, France in connection with Base Hospital No. 95, where he remained until March of that year, when he was assigned to the A. E. F. University as regimental surgeon and sanitary inspector. On July 3, 1919 he received his honorable discharge at Camp Dix, New Jersey. He now has a captain's commission in the reserve corps of the medical section, and has recently been assigned to the 262nd Regiment of the 91st Division, regimental surgeon of the reserve corps.
Dr. Price has won considerable distinction as the author of articles on surgery and medicine, read before a number of medical societies. In 1908 he read a paper before the Illinois State Medical Association during its convention in Chicago; an article on surgery, written by Dr. Price, appeared recently in the Military Surgeon, a monthly publication, published by the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, which has been widely read, and considered most timely and far-reaching by the medical fraternity.
The marriage of Dr. Price united him with Miss Dollie Marie Hurt, a native of Illinois; and they are the parents of one son, Harmon Ellsworth, Jr. Before coming to California Dr. Price was an active member of the Illinois Medical Association and also of the De Witt County Illinois Medical Society; he now is a member of the San Joaquin County and State Medical Societies. He joined the Destiny Blue Lodge of Masons No. 197 in Tacoma, Wash., but now belongs to the Morning Star Lodge of Stockton, Cal. He is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of Aahmes Temple A. A. O. N. M. S. of Oakland, the Sciots of Stockton, and the Stockton Golf and Country Club.
History of San Joaquin County, California – Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 1923
p 1264
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.