Santa Clara County
Biographies
ARTHUR BERRYMAN
Arthur Berryman was born in Cornwall, England, April 22, 1834, where he was reared and educated in the common schools. His mother died when he was about ten years old, and his father died there in 1857. In 1854 Arthur left England and located in Sykesville, Carroll County, Maryland. The next spring he went to Minersville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, in the coal region, and in 1855 he came to California, and located in Amador County. In 1857 he left California and went to Chili, and then, in 1862, to Bolivia. From Bolivia he went to Peru early in 1864, returned to California in August, the same year, and for a time mined at the Almaden and New Idria quicksilver mines. He remained at the New Idria mines from December, 1865, until 1876, employed in various capacities, when he went to San Francisco, where he remained for two years. In 1878 he went to British Columbia, where he remained six months, and then returned to San Francisco. In December, 1878, he went to Lower California, but returned to San Francisco in May, 1879. In a short time he went to the Guadaloupe quicksilver mines, in Santa Clara County, where he remained until May, 1882, when he came to Los Gatos, and went into the hotel business as proprietor of the Los Gatos Hotel, formerly known as the Ten Mile House, on the old stage road running from San Jose to Santa Cruz. When he assumed charge of the hotel it contained but nineteen rooms, but a year afterward it was considerably enlarged by the addition of a two-story building, twenty-eight by one hundred feet, the old hotel now forming the south wing of the building. The hotel now contains forty-one sleeping apartments, and is well furnished throughout. In September, 1887, he gave up this business, and soon after engaged in the real-estate and insurance business, under the firm name of A. Berryman & Co.
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EDWARD MACABEE
Edward Macabee, son of Andrew and Angeline Macabee, was born in Montreal, Canada, August 15, 1832. His parents were both natives of Canada, and died there. The Macabee family is an old one in Canada. Edward was seven years old when his father died, and he made his home with his brother and sister. When sixteen years old he went to Malone, Franklin County, New York, where he lived until 1864, following farming. He was married February 4, 1855, to Matilda Francis, a native of Canada. In 1864 he came to California with his family, and located in San Jose. In 1867 he returned to New York, but came back to San Jose after being there ten months, and again engaged in farming, which business he followed until 1883, when he came to Los Gatos and bought the hotel then known as the Coleman House, but now the Alpine House, and took possession of it November 15 of that year, and has run the hotel ever since. It was built in 1881 by James Coleman, is two stories high, and contains twenty-four rooms. It is situated on a five-acre tract of land in East Los Gatos, on the San Jose and Los Gatos road. They have eight children, viz.: Zephire, Carrie (wife of L. Pinard, of San Jose), Mary, Flora, Delia, Edward, Andrew, and Ernest V.
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ELIJAH PRICE
Elijah Price, of San Jose Township, is a native of Staffordshire, England, born in 1818, his parents being Isaac and Mary Price. When he was in his fifth year, the family emigrated to America, locating in Southern Illinois. There the father died, and the family removed to Cincinnati, where the subject of this sketch was principally reared. Thence they removed to Franklin County, Indiana, and from there to Shelby County, same State, and then to Hamilton, also in that State. Here Mr. Price resided until October 18, 1883, when he removed to California and located in Santa Clara County. He has a fine place of thirty acres on Stone Avenue, near San Jose, which he had purchased before moving here, February 24, 1883, from Mr. Williams, executor of the Stone estate. Previous to that date it had been devoted to agriculture alone, but in March, 1883, Mr. Price set out over 800 apricot and prune trees, and has since planted 600 more trees—apricots, prunes, and peaches. He also has an acre of table grapes. Besides this estate Mr. Price has also a residence and business property in San Francisco, which are valuable on account of being desirably situated.
In earlier life Mr. Price was for many years one of the lights of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Illinois, having been ordained in its ministry at Springfield, in 1850, by Bishop Scott; but in 1873 he associated himself with the United Brethren Church, and came to the coast with a transfer from the Lower Wabash Conference of that denomination, which he still holds, as there is no regular congregation of his church nearer than Sacramento. In his political views he is a Republican.
Mr. Price was married in Hamilton, Indiana, to Miss Barbara Daubenspeck, a native of Fayette County, that State. Their two eldest children, W. A. and Isaac N., volunteered in defense of the Union during the last year, and died in the service. There are still eleven children living, namely: John W., who resides in Wyoming Territory; James P., who is living in Douglas County, Illinois; Mary Shrader, living in Shelby County, Illinois; Sarah A. Shrader, who resides in Wichita, Kansas; W. N., L. C., and Charles E., residing in Douglas County, Illinois; Candace Nixon, in Montgomery City, Missouri; Alice Reed, in Douglas County, Illinois; and M. E. and M. C., in Santa Clara County, California.
Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1888.
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