This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rdjtaj_1 Surnames: Cressey Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6556/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Bio ---- CALVIN J. CRESSEY. - An outstanding type of the early pioneer spirit of the West was the late Calvin J. Cressey, who was born in New Hampshire, April 6, 1830. He married Miss Lydia Ann Cram, also of New Hampshire, who had been prom- inently connected with educational work. In order to satisfy the larger vision which was ever characteristic of him, he felt the urge of the call to the far West and came to California, where he acquired a large fortune; this consisted principally of extensive holdings of land and of controlling interest in two banks, of each of which he was the founder. He was president of the Modesto Bank until he organized and assumed management of the Grangers Bank of San Francisco ; this was established for the purpose of loaning capital to farmers, that they might handle their wheat, stock and fruit more advantageously. Mr. Cressey was prominently connected with the Grange organization, and by his brilliant and convincing speeches he awakened an interest in such legislation as the farmers needed. It was at first a little difficult for the people to understand how, being formerly a banker, he had any interest in the Grange. But when they realized how deeply interested he himself was in farming industries, how closely identified he had been in rescuing the wheat industry from the depression into which it had settled, ;ind how much he had done toward finding a market for wheat abroad, they readily understood why he was an enthusiastic member of the organization ; it was through such workers that the reduction of the tariff on jute and jute bagging had been largely brought about. In like manner was effected the sale of grain bags at San Quentin at largely cost price, thus rendering the growers free from the grain-bag trusts that would HISTORY OF STANISLAUS COUNTY 293 otherwise have made prices very high. Mr. Cressey, with his commanding presence and brilliant conversational and oratorical powers, was a staunch type of the early California pioneer who made history for the state. At his passing in March, 1891, he left three children: Frank A. Cressey, of Modesto, now deceased; Cora Cressey Crow, also of Modesto, and William C. Cressey, of San Francisco. ===================================================== 1921 Biography and History of Stanislaus County, California With by GEORGE H. TINKHAM -- http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofstanisl00tink/history... ===================================================== Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rdjtaj_1 Surnames: Cressey Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6555/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Bio ---- FRANK A. CRESSEY.- Not often does it happen that a man's life ebbs to its close at the age of sixty-two years and leaves behind a stainless record for almost a half century of accountability; not often does it happen that a man's business asso- ciates are among the first to declare him one of the noblest of men ; yet this is the character ascribed to Frank A. Cressey, whose death, March 10, 1918, was not only a loss to those of his name, but to the community as well. A descendant of old New England stock, Frank A. Cressey was born in Maine in September, 1856, and during the same year, his father, Calvin J. Cressey, migrated to California, settling in San Francisco, where he was prominent in the banking business, besides taking an active part in local activities; also his vast real estate holdings required much of his attention. The early education of Frank A. Cressey began in the public schools of Modesto, later supplemented with a course at the Santa Clara College. After his graduation, he entered the Grangers' Bank of San Francisco under his father, and was finally promoted to the position of assistant cashier in that institution. He later resigned to enter the manufacturing business and was thus engaged for five years. Returning to Modesto, he entered the Modesto Bank as assistant cashier and director, with which institution he was actively connected for fourteen years. In 1895, he purchased the controlling interest in the Modesto Gas Company and became the president of the 268 ' HISTORY OF STANISLAUS COUNTY company. Meanwhile, he acquired extensive real estate holdings in Merced, Stanislaus and San Luis Obispo counties, which required much effort and intelligent planning. In 1902 he, with W. R. High, I. W. Updike and several other prominent citizens of Modesto and vicinity, organized the Farmers & Merchants Bank, and Mr. Cressey became its first cashier. He was a prominent figure in the activities of Stanislaus County for thirty years. The marriage of Mr. Cressey united him with Miss Emily Collins, a native of Liverpool, England, coming to California with her parent's when eighteen years of age, her father, Joseph C. Collins, being a realtor in San Francisco; she passed away May 15, 1903, the mother of six children, five of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. Fraternally Mr. Cressey was active as a Mason and Odd Fellow. He was an official in the Episcopal Church, he and his family being active members of the local organization. His entire life was actuated by high and honorable principles and his activities have been far-reaching and resultant. During the year 1917 he journeyed to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., in search of relief from an ailment which was considered of a minor nature, but the operation performed did not restore his health and he passed away May 11, 1918. For many years he served the community in various ways, as irrigation director, school trustee, fiduciary agent, and in other responsible capacities, and his demise was a keen loss to the community. Mr. Cressey was identified with that class of men who place integrity, civic pride and public spirit above the more sordid ideas of existence. He found occasion, at various times, to lend his assistance in a practical way toward the promotion of the material welfare of the community in which he resided for so many years, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him best for his splendid traits of character and for the admirable example furnished by his industrious career. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rdjtaj_1 Surnames: Cressey Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6554/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Bio ---- ALBERT L. CRESSEY.- Distinguished and esteemed as one of the early pioneers of Central California, Albert L. Cressey, until his death on October 5, 1920, was one of the halest and heartiest of octogenarians, enjoying the unique honor of being the strongest advocate of irrigation in the San Joaquin Valley, and therefore of having given a mighty momentum to the great agricultural industries along the waiting Pacific. He was born at Conway, N. H., on January 27, 1838, the son of Curtis Rice Cressey, who was born in the vicinity of the White Mountains and grew up to be a farmer. Grandfather Cressey was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and his father before him was a preacher in the Baptist Church, who dropped dead while vigorously exhorting in the pulpit. This zealous devotion to the tenets of the Baptist faith was a characteristic of Curtis Cressey, who married as his first wife Miss Susan Littlefield, a native of Kennebunk, Maine, lived to be eighty-three years old and died at Brownfield, in that state. The progenitors of the Cresseys came from England, and some early representatives of the family in America were prominent in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Mrs. Susan Cressey died in her thirty-sixth year, the mother of six children. Brought up on a New England hillside farm, Albert L. Cressey began life as a Yankee farmer's boy amid conditions not very inviting, and for a few years he at- tended the district school for from only six to eight weeks every winter, and such education as he acquired was obtained by self-directed reading and in the broad and instructive field of human experience. He did not like to pick cobble stones out of the field, the inevitable lot of the New Hampshire farmer's boy, and having obtained permission, when sixteen, to visit a sister at Great Falls, N. H., a cotton manufacturing city on the Saco River, soon tried his hand at work in the mills, but did not like that work, and then went to Portsmouth, N. H., where he worked at shipbuilding. An elder brother was in Boston, and Albert made his way into that city and took a job driving an omnibus from Dock Square to Canton Street, before the advent of street cars in that section. He next became a brakeman on the railroad, and later a fireman on the Boston and Worcester Railway. Later on he went back to Boston and took a job with the express company. Young Cressey was ambitious to "go West," and for a while thought of migrating to Wisconsin, where he had some relatives. Just then he happened to meet a man from California, and the more that he talked with him the more he became interested. Fortunately, he had saved enough money to bring him out to the Coast, and so was not long in traveling to New York, and in sailing from New York to Aspinwall (now Colon) on the old side-wheeler steamship "George Law," on her last trip ; for on her very next trip she went down when well out from New York. Albert crossed the Isthmus on the railway, and then took passage on the old "Golden 266 HISTORY OF STANISLAUS COUNTY Gate" steamship to San Francisco on what proved to be her last successful trip, for she, too, went down when next she breasted the waters. He landed at San Fran- cisco about June 1, 1857. His money was then exhausted, but he borrowed four dollars from a friend to pay his passage up the river to Stockton, where he arrived penniless. A farmer by the name of Grattan offered him a job on his ranch, and his first work in California was binding grain after a cradler. He had been thus occupied for three days when ' D. C. Madison and his assistant came from Stockton to Mr. Grattan's place, to test out the first reaper ever built in California, a wonderful contrivance built at Stockton by Madison. Mr. Cressey drove the machine and cut Mr. Grattan's grain and that of a neighbor. This was the first reaper ever made in California, and by means of it so much more labor was accomplished in a short time that he and Mr. Grattan made enough the first season to pay for the machine. While working for Mr. Grattan, Mr. Cressey took up 160 acres of Government land on his own account, and in 1859 put in a crop ; but worms attacked the grain, and the crop was such a failure that he ran into debt $300. He put in a crop the next year, and then he experienced something of the greatest importance in its after effects He and all of his neighbors had to build levees to protect their ranches from th< high water and overflow of the San Joaquin River ; but because he was a new settler inexperienced and poor, his levees were not as high or as good as those about him, and when a great rain fell late that spring, his levees burst, the river flooded the land, and he and his fellow-ranchers thought that his wheat was ruined. On the contrary, it took a new start, so that his yield was ninety bushels per acre, while his neighbors had scarcely any wheat over eight inches high, and hardly any grain. It showed what water on wheat, that is, what irrigation would do, and was the first demonstration of the kind in the San Joaquin Valley. Mr. Cressey was a neighbor of and became a good friend of Captain Charles Weber, an extensive San Joaquin farmer and landowner and founder of Stockton, and obtained his consent to build an irrigation ditch through Weber's land, in a short time getting such results that he made money from his crops. He invested in horses and mules, and commencing with six mules to a wagon, he undertook freighting between Stockton, Sacramento, Shingle Springs and Placerville to the mining camps in the mountains, going as far as Carson City, Genoa, Gold Hill, Virginia City and Chinatown in Nevada. His business increased, and he was able to expand to two eight-horse teams, with freight wagons and trailers. He lived through all the gold excitement in Nevada, and also through the Civil War, the effects of which were not much felt in the extreme West. Horses and mules were in such demand then and brought such high prices during the war that he in time sold his sturdy animals to the Government and bought a dozen oxen instead. With these he continued freighting, working from four to eight yoke on a wagon, and meanwhile he sold grain to the Government at high prices. After a while he was able to buy a dozen mules in Stockton, and all in all he continued freighting for ten years. Once nicely on his feet, Mr. Cressey came to Stanislaus County near what is Modesto and bought four and a half sections of farm land. There was no Modesto then, and wild animals abounded. He herded his stock over the plains where there were antelope, deer and bear, even grizzlies in the mountains, and he also lived through the flood of 1862. He went shopping in Stockton in a rowboat and even rowed his boat into the stores and out again, bringing home the necessary goods. He next went to Merced County, and there purchased 15,000 acres, getting it for ninety cents an acre. Coming back to Paradise, Mr. Cressey and his brother bought a half interest in a mill operated for many years by a Mr. Perkins. He traded half an interest in the mill for half an interest in the Merced farm land, and the plant became known as the Perkins and Cressey Flour Mill at Paradise. Mr. Cressey and his brother organized and opened the Modesto Bank, the first bank in Stanislaus County, of which Calvin J. Cressey became president and so remained until he organized and assumed the management of the Grangers' Bank at San Francisco, when Albert L. Cressey became president and manager of the Modesto HISTORY OF STANISLAUS COUNTY 267 Bank. The two brothers were partners in these and various other business enterprises until the death of C. J. Cressey in 1892. Mr. Cressey also helped secure the right of way for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and in the fall of 1870 ran the first train to Modesto. And since Cressey Brothers continued to be the owners of the bonanza wheat farms, they built the first grain warehouse at Merced, and erected another warehouse at Modesto, soon after the railway came. Mr. Cressey bought several well-improved ranches near Hanford. As might be expected of one so long interested in the problem of rural transportation, Mr. Cressey was for some time road overseer in San Joaquin County, and also built the Sacramento road. Mr. Cressey was for years a hard worker, and to this fact and to his industry, together with his business acumen and his willingness to dare in order to share, must be attributed his well-deserved success. When, for example, he had harvested such a bumper wheat crop after a serious drought and a sudden rain in the Calaveras Valley, because his fields were irrigated, while his neighbors' crops were failures, he sold his wheat at his granaries at five cents per pound, and took notes from the purchaser at two and a half per cent per month ; and it was ten years, in some cases, before he received final payment. The Cressey -brothers were for a while in the sheep and wool growing business, and it was the proceeds from that enterprise that enabled them to start in the banking business. From the one-story brick building of the Modesto Bank has come the more recent structure, one of the finest buildings in the Valley, a great credit to Mr. Cressey 's spirit of enterprise. Among Mr. ! Cressey 's farm holdings must be mentioned ranches in San Luis Obispo, Kings, Merced and Stanislaus counties, and among his superior stock should be listed an imported Percheron stallion weighing 2,200 pounds with which he did much to improve the draft horses in his locality. His interest in the affairs of both the city and county was always active, and for every movement for the general benefit he gave his moral support and finan- cial aid. He was the president for years of the Stanislaus County Agricultural Association. As a business man, through and through, he conducted enterprises which, while sources of profit to himself, have been of unquestioned community benefit. In 1870 Mr. Cressey returned East to marry Miss Sylvia Swan of Maine, who came back to California with him as a bride - a woman of great nobility of character who proved a most faithful wife and mother. She died in February, 1895. Four children were born of the union. Charles died in his sixth year; Nellie S. is the wife of Claude M. Maze, a farmer of Modesto ; Alberta Sylvia now resides in New York, and George A. is vice-president of the Modesto Bank. On November 18, 1901, Mr. Cressev married his second wife, Miss Hilda Marshall, a native of Georgia, and a woman of education, culture and genius. She has been a resident of California since 1884 and of Stanislaus County since 1901. Mr. Cressey was an Odd Fellow of more than thirty years' standing. ================== 1921 Biography and History of Stanislaus County, California With by GEORGE H. TINKHAM -- http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofstanisl00tink/history... ================== Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rdjtaj_1 Surnames: Cressey Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6553/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My great-grandfather Thomas Huron Dawes was a contractor and he built this home. I have the postcard. I'm not realted to the Cressey family as far as I know, but was born and raised in Modesto. -- Teri Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rdjtaj_1 Surnames: Beard Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6552/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Bio --- WALTER F. BEARD. - An efficient executive whose experience and ability are appreciated by all who commit their interests to his care, is Walter F. Beard, the superintendent of the Modesto & Empire Traction Company, a five-mile steam railway which is devoted wholly to the hauling of freight. The Beards built it, run it and operate it, and as it puts the Santa Fe into Modesto, connecting Empire on the Santa Fe with Modesto, which is located on the Southern Pacific, and thus gives the growers a chance to ship over the two railway systems, it is a local venture of importance. Mr. Beard is the son of T. K. Beard, one of the leading financiers and citizens of Stanislaus County, and he was born in Stanislaus County on February 27, 1881, the second of ten children. When twenty-one, he started to contract in partnership with his father, and they have many large undertakings to their credit, including the Modesto canal irrigation system, the San Joaquin Irrigation District, and the enlarge-ment of the Turlock main canal, which involved the enlargement of tunnels through the mountains at La Grange; also employed by the Government for a year in con- structing the Truckee-Carson irrigation project; and built the Ocean Shore Railway at Santa Cruz, in 1906, the Modesto Reservoir, the Oakdale-San Joaquin Irrigation dam, the South San Joaquin Irrigation District main canal, of which he put up three sections, the Turlock Irrigation District or Davis reservoir, being the Foothill reser-voir in the eastern part of Stanislaus County, and the enlargement of the canals and tunnels of the Turlock Irrigation District. In addition to his responsible work of operating the railway of the Modesto & Empire Traction Company, Mr. Beard owns a valuable ranch of some 100 acres in the Laurel Lodge precinct on the Empire Road, about three miles east of Modesto, where he lives with his wife and family. He married Miss Zella Hambleton, a daughter of Mrs. Emily M. Hambleton, and they have three children, as follows: Kennan H., Walter Franklin Beard, Jr., and Emily E. Beard. Mrs. Hambleton is the widow of Elbert Ansley Hambleton, of Davis County, Iowa, who died at Venice in 1910, aged fifty-four years. She was born in Clark County. Ind., and has happily survived. =============== 1921 Biography and History of Stanislaus County, California With by GEORGE H. TINKHAM -- http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofstanisl00tink/history... =============== Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rdjtaj_1 Surnames: Beard Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6551/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Bio ----- HERBERT LEWIS BEARD.- A representative of a pioneer family who does justice to an honored name is Herbert Lewis Beard, the fourth child and second son of T. K. and Grace Adah (Lewis) Beard, of Modesto, and a member of the third generation of Beards in Stanislaus County. He bought the Eardly place of 265 acres two miles north of Waterford, in 1908, which he has since made his headquarters for his farming operations. Mr. Beard was born near Kiona, in the Yakima Valley, Wash., on April 26, 1885, and came to Stanislaus County with his parents in about 1887. At eighteen he started in business for himself; and coming to Waterford, he put in a wheat and barley crop. Now he farms 3,000 acres, leasing largely from his father, which is principally devoted to raising barley. He is an excellent farmer, unafraid of work and keenly alive to progress, so that the saying, "He who at the plow would thrive, himself must either hold or drive," well applies to him ; he is industrious, thrifty and success- ful. Naturally, he belongs to the Farm Bureau. HISTORY OF STANISLAUS COUNTY 937 In 1909, Mr. Beard was married to Miss Minerva E.Hairgrove, a native of Illinois and a daughter of Charles and Mar)' (Fulton) Hairgrove. Her father died in Illinois, and in 1908 she came out to California with her mother, who still lives in Modesto. Mr. and Mrs. Beard have one child, Dorothy L., who attends the grammar school. Both Mr. and Mrs. Beard are highly regarded for their own sakes and for what they represent. ====================== 1921 Biography and History of Stanislaus County, California With by GEORGE H. TINKHAM -- http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofstanisl00tink/history... ====================== Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rdjtaj_1 Surnames: Beard Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6550/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Bio -- GEORGE K. BEARD. - Another representative of one of the most interesting historic families is George K. Beard, the third son and seventh child of T. K. and Adele Grace (Lewis) Beard, the well-known pioneers long prominent in Stanislaus County's best circles. With his wife, Mr. Beard is very busy building up their home on their fruit ranch of 100 acres in the Dickinson precinct, five miles west of La Grange on the Waterford-La Grange Road. This property Mr. Beard purchased from his father, and he has certainly improved it greatly since he took possession. George Beard was born in Modesto on February 4, 1893. After spending three years at the Modesto high school he entered Anderson Academy at Irvington, a mili-tary school, where he was graduated in 1910. After that he spent two years at the University of Nevada, from 1912 to 1914, pursuing the mechanical engineer's course. He was next manager for two seasons on his father's large Stanislaus County ranches, and in 1917 set up for himself. He has erected a beautiful dwelling, and also a spacious barn; has sunk a well and has built a 15,000-gallon tank on a hill near his house, in order to obtain the desired supply of water for domestic purposes, and for lawn and garden. He is planting peach, apricot and other fruit trees. In Los Angeles in 1914, Mr. Beard was married to Miss Irma Keith of Denver; and they have been blessed with two children, Betty Ann and Barbara J. Mr. Beard belongs to the Odd Fellows of La Grange. In Mr. Beard is represented one of Stanislaus County's leading families, and it is pleasant to observe that he himself, totally disinclined to live upon a reputation created by others, is making a place and a name for himself, and so is contributing to the enviable record of the family. ============ 1921 Biography and History of Stanislaus County, California With by GEORGE H. TINKHAM -- http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofstanisl00tink/historyofstanisl00tink_djvu.txt ============ Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rdjtaj_1 Surnames: Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6549/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Bio ---- ELIHU B. BEARD. - Whenever the historian shall turn his attention to the story of Stanislaus County he will find the name of Beard among those far-seeing men who came from Eastern homes to carve out a place for their posterity in the new and untried West. This pioneer citizen of this county was born in Indiana and there grew up and made his home until the discovery of gold in California was her- alded throughout the whole country. In 1849 he joined a wagon train that crossed the plains to the new Eldorado and in March of 1850 he arrived at the end of his journey through a new and unsettled stretch of desert and mountains. In 1852 he came to what is now Stanislaus County and settled on land near Waterford site and in time he became a well-known and prosperous stockman and rancher and did his part to build up the locality he had selected as his home. He was the first man to try summer fallowing, as early as 1852. He acquired some several thousand acres of land and went through the trials and disappointments incident to the pioneer times when there were no markets for the products of the ranches and no means of transporting what they did have to markets except by teams. On retiring from the ranch, in 1873, Mr. Beard moved into Modesto and thereafter became closely identified with the progress of the new town. He was the first county assessor, and by virtue of his office the first county superintendent of schools, and was county surveyor in 1852. Prior to moving to town he had served eight years as county assessor, from 1854 to 1862, and he was later elected to the state assembly and served two terms, and there he gave faithful service. In 1856 Mr. Beard was married to Miss Annie Kennan, a native of Missouri and the daughter of Thomas Kennan, a Kentuckian, who settled in Boone County, Mo. He had intended coming to California but died before he could put his plans into effect. Nothing daunted, his widow, Nancy (Cave) Kennan, set out for this state in 1854 with her family of children and joined her son, Thomas Kennan, on the Tuolumne River. Into the family of Elihu and Annie Beard were born seven children, four of whom grew to maturity, and of these Thomas K. is the only one living. Mr. Beard and his wife were active members of the Christian Church. He died on May 7, 1901, and Mrs. Beard passed awav in 1912, aged eighty-three years, both leaving behind them enviable records as upbuilders of our great commonwealth. ================= 1921 Biography and History of Stanislaus County, California With by GEORGE H. TINKHAM -- http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofstanisl00tink/historyofstanisl00tink_djvu.txt ================= Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rdjtaj_1 Surnames: Beard Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6548/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Bio: ----- THOMAS K. BEARD. - Among the citizens of Stanislaus County who have helped to shape the destiny of this favored section of California, Thomas K. Beard of Modesto holds an assured place. A native son of the Golden State, he was born near the present site of Waterford on August 15, 1857, the son of Elihu B. Beard, who is mentioned on another page of this history. The only survivor of four children, Thomas K. attended the public schools of Stanislaus County and San Jose. In 1878 he was united in marriage with Miss Grace Lewis, born in Calaveras County, this state, and daughter of Alfred and Diana (Brown) Lewis, pioneers. In the 5'ears that have intervened since the ending of his school days, Thomas K. Beard has been closely identified with every progressive movement for the building up of Modesto and Stanislaus County. He has had much to do with the development of irrigation by grading and construction work ; the Modesto storage reservoir, an agency for the conservation of flood waters, completed in 1911; the Goodwin dam, which diverted the waters of the Stanislaus River into the systems of the Oakdale and South San Joaquin irrigation districts, completed in 1913; also the completion of fourteen miles of the main canal of the South San Joaquin Irrigation district, com- pleted the same year; the construction of the Foothill reservoir on the Turlock main line canal and the enlarging of tunnels, ditches, reinforced concrete flumes and gen- erally improved the canal system for the Turlock Irrigation District; the prime mover in the Waterford Irrigation District; all these agencies reclaiming thousands of acres arid land into rich and fruitful farming sections upon which are to be found hundreds of contented and prosperous ranchers with their families. He organized the Interurban railway, which connects the Santa Fe with Modesto, thereby adding to the transportation facilities of this section. Nor have his energies been confined to California alone, but in Nevada he carried out several contracts of railroad and reclamation work. Mr. Beard has been a factor in agricultural circles, has developed fruit, alfalfa and ranch lands in the county; has been closely identified with the educational advance- ment of the city of Modesto by his services on the boad education from 1898 to 1901. As a real benefactor to the city he and his coworker, Mr. Wisecarver made it possible for the city to have a splendid park - Graceada, laid out through a subdivision that is now built up with some of the best residences of the city; West Side Park and Dry Creek Park are both deeds of gift to the city from Mr. Beard. Besides these many activities he has been the means of adding to the growth of Modesto by laying out several subdivisions and by erecting business blocks and residences. He served from 1901 to 1907 as a director of the Modesto Irrigation District. While a resident of the state of Washington, from 1883 to 1887, he served a term as a super- visor of Yakima County. Interested in the cause of prohibition, he served ! on the state and national committees and was a delegate to the National Convention of that party held at Columbus, Ohio, and is a member of the State Y. M. C. A. board. It is said of Mr. Beard that he has never neglected an opportunity to advance the gen- eral welfare of the city, county and state since his advent into the world of business, and with his wife and family he holds an assured place in the esteem of the citizens of the county. =================================== 1921 Biography and History of Stanislaus County, California With by GEORGE H. TINKHAM -- http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofstanisl00tink/historyofstanisl00tink_djvu.txt Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: pcarter55 Surnames: Carter, Dowlin, White Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6546/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello, Does anyone out there know what records to use to locate this address? Is it possible? My grandfather was a diary farmer and I know they had, at one time, a farm on the west side of Turlock. He married Nora White; her family also had a farm on the "West side", although I don't think it was a dairy farm, but I am not sure. My White great grand parents lived on Park St for many years. Not sure if they farmed and lived in town or moved into town after retirement Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: pcarter55 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6545.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I not sure this directly answers your question, but I recenlyt found a comprehensive presentation about newspapers through this website: www.svcgg.org (Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group). Go to "Free Downloads" in upper left hand corner, Click on "How To's", then, listed under "Recent Meeting Handouts" click on "Newspaper Handout" Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Most of the historical California newspapers are housed on microfilm at the California Room of the California State Library in Sacramento. There is also a site that has some of the papers digitized and available online, California Digital Newspaper Collection: http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=p&p=home&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN----- ----- Original Message ----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com To: CASTANIS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 7:46 AM Subject: Re: [CASTANIS] Where are newspaper achived in CA? This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: pcarter55 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6545.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I not sure this directly answers your question, but I recenlyt found a comprehensive presentation about newspapers through this website: www.svcgg.org (Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group). Go to "Free Downloads" in upper left hand corner, Click on "How To's", then, listed under "Recent Meeting Handouts" click on "Newspaper Handout" Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CASTANIS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: pmitsh Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6545/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Does anyone know where the largest CA newspaper archive is in CA.? Where there are copies of old CA newspapers? Thank-you. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: gnushell1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/414.421.498.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I know this is likely old, but Alice and Eugene are mutual relatives. John was my gggrandfather, Caroline Groves my gggrandmother. Eugene L was my ggrandfather and Alice W his sister. Eugene named his first born Alice Burrell Silence. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: LKC11 Surnames: Elfblad Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/2437.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have a photo of August and Christina Elfblad, the great aunt and uncle of my maternal grandmother. I also have silver with the initials "CE" for Christina Elfblad. My Grandmother Rosa Marie lived in Turlock, California, USA for the majority of her life. Her mother, Ruth Richards emigrated to the USA with an aunt and uncle. I believe it may be Per August Elfblad and his wife Maria Christina Elfblad. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Gen4You Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6544.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you for your help! :) Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CadiListMom Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6544.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The CA marriage index starts in 1949 - I checked 1949-1956 and no marriage appeared for Jesse Warren during these years. This at least narrows your years needed research. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Dear Genealogists and Sister Societies, On April 8, 2013 Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society announced its participation in the Preserve the Pensions - War of 1812 Project. The Society started with a modest $300 challenge to its members - for every dollar they donated, Root Cellar would match it up to $300. Collections are being accepted through June 2013. Members responded overwhelmingly - the goal has already been met. Will Root Cellar stop there? Probably not. Stay tuned for an update to our membership challenge. In the meantime, send your check, payable to Root Cellar SGS (note that it's for the War of 1812 Project), to Root Cellar SGS, P O Box 265, Citrus Heights, CA 95611. About the Preserve the Pensions - War of 1812 Project* The Project is a multi-year, $3.7 million nationwide fundraising initiative to digitize the long-neglected War of 1812 pension records. The original documents are extremely fragile and digitization will preserve the best possible image of each page. The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) (in which Root Cellar is a member) is leading the fundraising campaign with the National Archives and Records Administration, Fold3, Ancestry.com, and the genealogical community have undertaken a monumental project to digitize the War of 1812 pension files—a fitting beginning to the bicentennial commemoration of a war which has been called our nation's "Second War of Independence." These images will be available to genealogy researchers and the public for free on the Fold3 website. Contributions to this project have already made these files available as digitization proceeds. The Numbers* •7.2M images to be captured •180K files will be saved •571K images now available (16%) •$3.7M to be raised (32% raised so far) Matching Funds by Ancestry.com Ancestry.com announced that it would match all donations received toward the digitization project. This means that Root Cellar's initial $300 in seed money plus the $300 in donations from membership will be doubled by Ancestry.com to total $1,200. At a cost of $0.45 per digitized page coupled with the Ancestry.com match, Root Cellar members have ensured that 5,400 pages will be digitized. Think about what other societies can do! The Greater Northern California Challenge Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society challenges all genealogical societies in Northern California to get involved with the Preserve the Pensions War of 1812 digitization project. Let the country know that Northern California cares and wants to support and be a part of this huge effort. Initiate a challenge to your membership. Or, support Root Cellar's effort. Inform your membership about the project and ask them to send a donation to Root Cellar's address mentioned above. All donations will be forwarded to FGS at the end of June 2013. The Northern California genealogical community has already participated in a large project - indexing the 1940 U.S. Federal Census. Now your support is needed in a different but equally vital way for the Preserve the Pensions War of 1812 digitization project. Any amount donated will help get this project closer to the finish line. *Sources: http://www.fgs.org/cstm_PreserveThePensions.php and http://www.preservethepensions.org/ Please share this information and challenge with your membership and friends. Contact me if you have any questions. Do let me know if your society will accept our Challenge. Thank you again for your support. submitted by Denise H. Richmond Publicity Chairperson Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society Website: http://www.rootcellar.org Blog: http://rootcellarramblings.blogspot.com Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/dxr4q8y Twitter: @RootCellarSGS

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: helmerbruce65 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6451.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I knew a Brian Gayle back in the early 1980s in Modesto. And I knew the family he was living with and was close to at the time of his passing. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Gen4You Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.stanislaus/6544/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Does anyone do lookups?? I'm willing to even pay if it's not too expensive. I'm mainly looking for a marriage record between Jess Herbert Warren and Mollie Mealer. Problem is I don't really know the year. Sometime between 1941-1956.. most likely 1943-1950... Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.