Cynde- this is not the INCH fellow you are looking for, but just posting for anyone else having interest in the INCH surname------ Best, Carolyn Memorial and Biographical History of Merced, Stanislaus, Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties- Lewis Publishing- 1892 Richard INCH, ex- County Auditor and Recorder of TUOLUMNE county, California.-- The gentleman with whose name we introduce this sketch is one of the Tuolumne county's progressive and influential men. Mr. INCH is a native of Cornwall, England, and dates his birth February 24, 1854. He was reared and received his schooling in his native country. He is the fifth in the family of six children to his parents, Richard H. and Elizabeth (RANDALL) INCH. In 1867 he landed in San Francisco, and in that city learned the machinist's trade in the Risdon Iron Works. He then came to Tuolumne county and followed engineering some four years, running in the Soulsby and Confidence mines respectively. He was appointed first Deputy County Assessor in 1880, under John MONAHAN, and served four years. In 1884 he was elected County Auditor, and served one term; was also County Recorder four years. In 1890 he took the agency for the Wells, Fargo $ CO. express business, and also assumed the management of the Western Union Telegraph line at this point, both being located in the same building. HE is also acting as Deputy County Treasurer, having been appointed under the present incumbent of that office, Edward PARSONS. Mr. INCH has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Mattie G. BURDEN, who passed away in 1887, They had on child, Carrie E. The second marriage was consummated in October, 1890, with Miss Lizzie MUNDORN, daughter of John MUNDORN, a pioneer of California, he have located here in the early '5-s. Politically Mr. INCH is a stanch Republican and takes an active interest in public affairs. Socially he is allied with the I.O.O.F., the F.& A. M. and the Chosen Friends. He has passed all the chairs in the first named order, and is an officer in the second.