Tehama County
Biographies
A. P. Tarter, M.D.
A.P. Tarter, M.D., is a worthy member of the medical profession of Tehama County. He is a native of California, and dates his birth at Tehama, June 27, 1860, where he was reared and received his education, first in the public schools and then in the Conklin Academy, where he took a one-year course. His father, Nicholas Tarter, was a native of Virginia, and was also a medical practitioner, who came to California in 1849, and died in 1870; his mother, nee Mary E. Jones, was also a native of Virginia, and recently returned to her native State, where she is for the present on a visit. The ancestors on both sides were of German extraction. In 1879 our subject went to San Francisco, where he commenced his medical course of reading with Dr. W. H. Mays of that city. He took a course of lectures in the Medical College of San Francisco, after which he was admitted to the San Francisco county hospital as an intern (a competitive position), where he served six months as assistant surgeon. In 1884 he returned to his native town and began the practice of medicine. Recently he came again to San Francisco and purchased the drug store of Dr. W. P. Mathews, and added the drug business to his profession.
Dr. Tarter was joined in marriage, at San Francisco, January 10, 1883, with Miss Emma J. Mann, a native of California. Politically the Doctor affiliates with the Democratic party. He has joined no secret order, but carries on insurance with the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association of New York.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, Lewis Publishing Co., 1891 Page 480
Transcribed by Pat Houser
Albert O. Peden
Albert O. Peden, one of the successful farmers and stock-growers of Tehama County, is native of the Blue-Grass State, born in Jefferson County, August 132, 1831, the son of Daniel L. H. Peden, a native Washington County, Pennsylvania, who moved to Adams County, Illinois, in 1835, where he was elected justice of the peace of Columbus, filling that office many years. He afterward became a minister of the Christian Church, and preached that faith until his death, which occurred at the age of seventy-seven years. His early life was spent in teaching school and flat boating on the rivers from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. The grandfather of our subject, Joseph Peden, was a gunsmith by trade, and was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war, participating in the battle of Brandywine, and was afterward transfer to the armory department as an expert gunsmith, remaining in that department until the close of the war. He died at the age of ninety-five years. Our subject’s mother was nee Martha Curry, a native of Kentucky.
Mr. Peden received his education in the public schools of Adams County, Illinois, and was raised to farm life until eighteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to the carpenter’s trade in the shops of Littlefield & Boughman of Quincy, Illinois. In 1854 he came across the plains with ox teams to California, first locating at Ione, Amador County, where he engaged in mining for a time, then in Shasta County, remaining nearly two years. He then returned to Amador County, where he followed his trade; then went to Scorpion Gulch, Tuolumne County, then to Contra Costa County, where he engaged in farming four years; then to Danville, where he made a specialty of tobacco raising for two years; then to Colfax, Placer County, where he worked for the railroad company at his trade until 1871; then to Oakland, and in 1872 he made a trip to Illinois, returning to Oakland, where he remained a few months. In 1873 he settled on his present farm of 1,100 acres, situation on the Sacramento River, four and a half miles east of Corning, where he devotes his time to farming and stock-raising.
Mr. Peden was joined in marriage at San Francisco, August 19, 1873, to Mrs. Malinda Decker, nee Kincheloe, who had three children by her first marriage, namely: Isaac N., Daniel B., and Samuel T. Walker, all now deceased. Mrs. Peden is a native of East Tennessee, who crossed the plains to California in 1864, and has since been a resident of Tehama County. Her ancestors on the maternal side were Quakers; her father was a slaveholder of Tennessee. Mrs. Malinda Peden, nee Kincheloe, was married three times: first in Brown County, Illinois, April 6, 1850, to William I. Walker; secondly, May 6, 1868, in Tehama County, California, to James Decker, and has lived at her present home ever since, on one of John C. Fremont’s camping-grounds the first time he marched through the Sacramento Valley. Mr. Peden has found an old-fashioned bayonet lock and chamber of the few repeating guns then in use, and has left them at the Red Bluff Academy. Politically Mr. Peden is a Democrat, was a member of the county central committee from 1874 to 1878, and has been school trustee of the Moon district many years. He affiliates with the F. & A. M., Molino Lodge, No. 150, of Tehama; also a member of the Red Bluff Chapter.
Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Pages 480 – 481
Transcribed by Pat Houser