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Descendants of George Pegram
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| 11532 | F | i | Mary Helen Money was born on 24 Sep 1898. She died on 3 Jun 1962. |
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| 11533 | M | ii | John Marshall Money was born on 20 Jun 1900. He died on 27 Nov 1994. |
| 11534 | F | iii | Annie Belle Money was born 1, 2 26 Match 1903 in Carrollton, Carroll Co., Mississippi. She died on 10 Mar 1993 in Columbus, Muscogee Co., Georgia. In 1930 she was still single, living with her sister, Mary Hoffman, in Louisville, Kentucky. |
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| 11535 | M | iv | Percy Money 1 was born 2 on 16 Jul 1911 in Carrollton, Carroll Co., Mississippi. He died 3 on 25 Mar 1982 in Winona, Montgomery Co., Mississippi. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Carrollton, Carroll Co., Mississippi. |
5088. Caroline "Carrie" Anthony Pegram 1 (Blair , William Henry , Anne Lyle , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born 2 on 27 Aug 1860 in Surry Co., Virginia.
Caroline married Charles Walker Warren 1 son of William Allen Warren and Sarah Elizabeth Dashiell in Surry Co., Virginia. Charles was born 2 on 7 Nov 1858 in Surry Co., Virginia.
He was the son of William Allen Warren and wife Sarah Elizabeth Dashiell
They had the following children:
11536 M i Walker Pegram Warren was born 1, 2 on 24 Dec 1885 in Surry Co., Virginia. He died 3 in Jul 1972 in Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co., Virginia. Walker married Violet Norwood Lawson. Violet was born 1 in 1891 in Virginia.
5089. Mary Alricks Pegram 1 (William Meade , Edward Strange , Anne Lyle , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born on 22 Jul 1860. She died on 5 Feb 1903.
Mary married 2 John Nelson Steele 1 son of Issac Nevett Steele and Rosa Landonia Nelson on 1 Mar 1880 in probably Baltimore, Maryland. John was born 3 on 1 Apr 1853 in Hagerstown, Maryland. He died 4 in 1933 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
John Nelson Steele went to the University of Virginia, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1873. But because he was still too young to join the Maryland Bar, he attended the University of Maryland and received a Bachelor of Laws degree from there as well. He was admitted to the bar in 1875 and was associated with his father in practice until 1889, when he formed the partnership of Steele, Semmes, and Carey. (Semmes was the nephew of Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes who commanded the legendary Confederate raider, CSS Alabama.) The firm was later named Steele and Semmes.
He served as President of the Baltimore Bar Association in 1900 and the Maryland Board of Law Examiners from 1900 to 1906. He served as Baltimore Bars Commissioner from 1898 to 1900. He was a member of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore and the Maryland Club.
He was among the first American lawyers to specialize in corporate law, now, perhaps, the largest single segment of the American bar. In 1906 he moved to New York and became general counsel of American Smelting and Refining Company, which was owned by M. Guggenheim's Sons, as well as general counsel for American Securities Corporation, and the Guggenheim Exploration Company. He was also general counsel for the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad, the Kennecott Copper Corporation, and the Alaska Development and Mineral Company. He was a director of the Utah Copper Company.
He was a member of the Union Club in New York City and the Everglades Club of Palm Beach. After he retired from practice he moved to Palm Beach. He was married to Mary Alricks Pegram on Mar 1 1880, probably in Baltimore.
Essay by John Steele Gordon, Copyright (c) 1999. Used by permission
They had the following children:
11537 M i John Nelson Steele was born on 12 Jul 1882. He died on 23 Aug 1935. 11538 F ii Margaret Mary Steele 1 was born 2 in 1892 in Maryland. She died in 1974 in Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland.
In 1920 she was living with her grandparents, William Meade Pegram and wife, Margaret.
5090. Francis Edward Pegram 1, 2 (William Meade , Edward Strange , Anne Lyle , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born 3, 4, 5, 6 on 24 Jan 1866 in Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland.
He is listed in the Baltimore, Maryland city directory in 1890 as a lawyer at 2 locations, i.e., 222 St Paul and 10 E Chase.
Francis married Ida Catherine Gary daughter of James Albert Gary (Garey) and Lavenia Washington Corrie on 7 Apr 1897. Ida was born 1, 2, 3, 4 in Nov 1873 in Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland.
They had the following children:
11539 M i Francis Edward Pegram was born 1, 2, 3 in Oct 1898 in Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland.
Francis, Jr. was also an attorney. In 1930 the couple were living with his parents in Baltimore.Francis married Elizabeth Adams Foster in 1928. Elizabeth was born 1 about 1907 in Maryland.
5095. Dr. John Churchill Gordon (Mary Beall Pegram , Edward Strange , Anne Lyle , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born 1, 2, 3, 4 on 27 May 1871 in Virginia. He died on 11 Dec 1949. He was buried in Aquia Episcopal Church, Stafford Co., Virginia.
John married Cornelia R. Borst daughter of Charles M. Borst and L. J. Unknown. Cornelia was born 1, 2, 3, 4 on 17 Apr 1880 in Culpeper Co., Virginia. She died on 26 Jul 1949. She was buried in Aquia Episcopal Church, Stafford Co., Virginia.
They had the following children:
11540 M i John Churchill Gordon was born 1, 2, 3 in 1901 in Stafford Co., Virginia.
In 1930, he and his new wife were living with his parents.John married Annette R. in 1920 in Virginia. Annette was born in 1909 in Virginia. 11541 F ii Elizabeth Gordon was born 1, 2 in 1903 in Stafford Co., Virginia. 11542 F iii Louisa Maria Gordon was born 1, 2 in 1907 in Amelia Co., Virginia.
In 1930, she was single, living at home, and working as a school teacher.11543 M iv Edward S. Gordon was born 1, 2, 3 in 1909 in Stafford Co., Virginia.
The 1930 Census shows he was absent from the home, being away as a student at V.M.I.11544 F v Cornelia Gordon was born 1, 2 in 1911 in Stafford Co., Virginia. 11545 M vi William F. Gordon was born 1, 2 in 1916 in Stafford Co., Virginia.
He is listed on the 1930 census with the family but the census has a notation of (ab), indicating he is away at school.
5098. William Beall Gordon (Mary Beall Pegram , Edward Strange , Anne Lyle , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born 1, 2, 3 on 29 Apr 1878 in Charlottesville, Albemarle Co., Virginia.
In 1920, Willaim and his wife are found living with her parents. William's occupation is shown as "Merchant - grocery store".
William married Bessie Lee Hawkins daughter of William H. Hawkins and Cynthia on 5 Jun 1912 in Dublin, Pulaski Co., Virginia. Bessie was born 1 about 1888 in Virginia.
They had the following children:
11546 M i William C. Gordon was born 1 about 1915 in Pulaski Co., Virginia.
5101. Corrine Adele Pegram 1 (George Edward , Edward Strange , Anne Lyle , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born 2 in May 1870 in Marengo Co., Alabama. She died on 17 Apr 1944 in Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama.
The 1900 Census appears to have a scrivener's error since the year is given as 1880.
Corrine married (1) Thaddeus J. Partridge son of Charles Steele Partridge and Eliza Herpin on 11 Oct 1892 in Demopolis, Marengo Co., Alabama. Thaddeus was born 1 on 28 Oct 1868 in Mobile, Mobile Co., Alabama. He died on 17 Oct 1911.
The 1900 Census shows the couple have had 3 children, all living in the home. His occupation is listed as hardware merchant.
They had the following children:
11547 M i Charles Steele Partridge was born on 3 Aug 1893. 11548 F ii Mary Hermine Partridge was born on 14 Aug 1895. She died on 21 Aug 1989. 11549 M iii George Pegram Partridge was born 1 in Apr 1897 in Mobile, Mobile Co., Alabama. George married Hattie Bell.
Corrine married (2) H. E. Grubbs.
5104. Anne Ruffin Pegram 1 (George Edward , Edward Strange , Anne Lyle , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born 2, 3 in Feb 1882 in Marengo Co., Alabama.
Anne married Judge Edward Jackson Gilder on 30 Dec 1903 in Marengo Co., Alabama. Edward was born 1, 2 about 1881 in Alabama.
They had the following children:
11550 F i Laurie Gilder was born 1, 2 in 1906 in Alabama. 11551 M ii Edward J. Gilder was born 1, 2 in 1909 in Alabama. 11552 F iii Cecile Pegram Gilder was born 1, 2 in 1914 in Alabama. Cecile married Charles Anthony Cazort son of Charles Anthony Cazort and Bertie Evans on 17 Feb 1936. Charles was born on 19 May 1911 in Lamar, Johnson Co., Arkansas.
During WWII he served with the 12th AF in Africa, 15th AF in Italy. He was ischarged in 1945 as Tech. Sgt., EAME Ribbon with two battle stars.11553 M iv J. Abner (Abney) Gilder was born 1, 2 on 2 May 1917 in Demopolis, Alabama.
His obituary reads in part as follows:
J. Abney Gilder died Sunday, May 2, 2004, on his 87th birthday, in Stillwater.
Services are Thursday in Okmulgee, in the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer with burial following in Okmulgee Cemetery by McClendon Funeral Home.
He was born in Demopolis, Ala., May 2, 1917, to Anne P. and Edward J. Gilder. He graduated from Okmulgee High School in 1935. He also graduated from Okmulgee Junior College and the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at SMU.
His wife of 54 years, Laverl; infant son, Mark and son Abney Wayne predeceased him. His parents, one brother, Edward and two sisters, Laurie Gilder and Cecile Cazort also preceded him in death.
Survivors include his daughter, Laurie, and husband, Bill Beets and grandson, Tyler Joseph Beets and one sister, Ruth Temple of Richland, Wash.
He was deeply devoted to his family and church. He was a faithful member of the Episcopal Church his entire life. He was known for his work ethic, fairness and integrity. He worked in various jobs such as at a ping pong parlor at the Inca Theater, as an electrician's helper, an ordinance inspector and also served his country in the Army-Air Force during WWII. He began his banking career in 1946 and retired executive vice president of the First National Bank of Okmulgee in 1984. He also served on the board of the Okmulgee Memorial Hospital when it was being constructed.11554 F v Ruth Gilder was born 1 about 1920 in Okmulgee Co., Oklahoma. Ruth married Temple.
5119. John Pegram Russell (Mary Caroline Pegram , John Coleman , John , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born 1 on 19 Aug 1850 in Newport, Illinois.
The following is from: "Pictorial History of America, The Fulton County Edition" by Elia Peattie - published in 1896:
John P. Russell, trustee of Union township, Fulton County, Ind., was born at Newport, Ills., Aug. 19, 1850. His parents were Capt. W.A.J. and Mary C. (Pegram) Russell. The father was born near St. Louis, Mo., and was a son of John and Laura Ann (Spencer) Russell. John Russell, our subject's paternal grandfather, was a native of Vermont, and was of an old New England family of English descent. He was graduated from Middlebury college as B.A. in 1817, and is know as a man of high culture and learning. For years he was a professor and taught in some of the very best academics and colleges. When a young man he came west, and at White Water, Ind., married the woman of his choice in 1818. After teaching at St. Louis for several years he located at Bluffdale, Ill., where his death occurred. During his latter days he wrote for leading magazines and gained an enviable reputation as a writer. He was the author of "The Venomous Worm", a selection in McGuffy's school reader. The marriage of our subject's parents was consummated in Illinois. His mother was born in Petersburg, Va. She was a daughter of John Pegram, a Virginian of English descent. He was of one of the best families of Virginia. At an early date he settled in Illinois, where his death occurred. The father of our subject enlisted as a captain in company G, Tenth Missouri infantry, and was killed at the battle of Chattanooga. His widow lived many years afterward, dying at Hamilton, Ill., in 1890. John P. Russell is one of a family of six children, two sons and four daughters. He gained a common school education at Hamilton, Ill., where he was reared. He began the battle of life for himself at the age of fifteen years. Besides working on the farm, he also clerked in a store at Hamilton for six years. In 1873 he came to Indiana and located at Rockville. He accepted employment with the Vandalia railroad company, in the bridge and building department. Thus he was employed for twenty years. In 1879 he married and located at Crawfordsville, where he resided till 1884, when he removed to Kewanna, where he now resides. He wedded Miss Lucy J. Norcross, a daughter of Thomas J. and Mary Norcross, of Judson, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Russell have had four children. Their eldest, Mary Vesta, died in infancy. Their living children are Fred, Carl and Elvin. The family are members of the M.E. church. Mr. Russell began life as a poor orphan boy. Hard work has been his lot. By means of industry and frugality he has grown prosperous. He owns his own home and forty acres of land, a part of which lies within the limits of Kewanna. He has always been a republican in politics. In 1894 he was elected trustee for Union township, and is the present incumbent of that office.
The 1900 Census shows the couple have been married for 20 years. They have had 7 children with 5 living. Only Frederick, Carl and Elvin are still at home.
John married Lucy J. Norcross daughter of Thomas J. Norcross and Mary in 1879. Lucy was born 1 in Sep 1857 in Judson, Indiana.
They had the following children:
11555 F i Mary Vesta Russell.
Died as an infant.11556 M ii Frederick W. Russell was born 1 in Jan 1883 in Indiana. 11557 M iii Carl L. Russell was born 1 in Dec 1885 in Indiana. 11558 M iv Elvin J. Russell was born 1 in Jun 1888 in Indiana.
5123. George Herndon Pegram 1 (Benjamin Rush , John Coleman , John , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born 2 on 29 Dec 1855 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. He died on 23 Dec 1937 in Brooklyn, New York.
George Herndon Pegram was born in Council Bluff, Iowa 29 December 1855, and became one of the country's noted Civil Engineers, He was graduated C.E. from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri in 1877, with the highest rating that had then been attained. His first position was with the Utah and Northern Railroad in Idaho. He became assistant to the noted bridge builder, Shaler Smith. He had many positions of rank and honor, among them: Chief Engineer of Edge Moor Iron Works, at the time the largest bridge works in the world. He resigned in 1893 to travel in Europe, and subsequently opened an office in New York. He was consulting engineer to many large corporations. He was chief engineer of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad and the Interborough Transit Company. In 1899 he patented the Pegram Truss for bridges. He designed and built the Kansas City elevated railroad in 1886. He built the combined railroad and highway bridge across the Arkansas River at Fort Smith, Arkansas; railroad bridges across the Ouachita, Little and Red Rivers in Louisiana; and the train house of the Union Station in St. Louis, which displayed a new type of large roof construction. In one season he rebuilt the over one mile long bridge over the Snake River in Idaho. He designed the six-foot diameter steel pipe line of the Pioneer Electric Power Company at Ogden, Utah. He obtained patents on the special machinery to rivet it up by power in the trench. In 1907 he completed the tunnel under the East River in New York, for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. He also handled many other large engineering projects.
In 1917, he was elected President of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
In 1924, he gave his residence as South Orange, New Jersey on a passport issued 30 April 1924.
In 1931 he was appointed by the American Society of Civil Engineers to go to Russia to assemble information on opportunities for engineers in that country, for the members of the profession in the United States. He published a number of technical papers, was awarded honorary degrees, and served on, and was chairman of, many important committees and study groups.
His obituary appeared in the Dec. 24, 1937 edition of the New York Times. The following is article was found as a tribute to George H. Pegram:
Thomas E. Murray Jr., receiver of the Interborough Rapid Transit System, announced yesterday that as a mark of respect to the memory of George H. Pegram, chief engineer of the Interborough, who died on Thursday, all train service on the subway and elevated lines will halt for two minutes at 2 P. M. Sunday, the hour when funeral services for Mr. Pegram be held at the Campbell Funeral Church, Broadway and Sixty-sixth Street.
George married Jessie Merriless Crawford daughter of Dugald Crawford and Jane Forsyth on 8 Sep 1897 in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Jessie was born 1, 2 in 1868 in Missouri. She died 3, 4 on 4 Apr 1948 in South Orange, Essex Co., New Jersey.
According to the 1930 Census both her parents were born in Scotland. Her father owned a large department store in St. Louis.
The notice of her death in the April 6, 1938 issue of the New York Times reads:
PEGRAM—Jessie C. on April 4. 1948. wife of the late George H. Pegram, mother of Jean F. Pegram and Mrs. Horrace M. Huck. Service at her home, 223 Vose Ave.. South Orange N. J. on Tuesday morning. April 6. at 11 o'clock
They had the following children:
11559 F i Jean Forsyth Pegram was born 1, 2 on 30 Nov 1898 in New York City, New York. She died 3 in Sep 1975 in Short Hills, Essex Co., New Jersey.
At the time she obtained a passport in1924, she was living with her family at 223 Vose Ave. in South Orange, New Jersey. The passport further reflects she was 5' 2" tall with light brown hair and blue eyes.
Her birthdate is taken from her passport issued in 1924. According to her passport she was sailing from New York on the Camaronia on May 10, 1924 to visit France, Belgium and Holland.11560 F ii Mercy Robbins Pegram was born 1, 2 on 7 Nov 1899 in New York. She died on 27 Jun 1994 in St. Louis, St. Louis Co., Missouri.
Her obituary which appeared June 30, 1994 in The Patriot Ledger Quincy, Massachusetts, reads in part:
Mercy Robbins (Pegram) Buck, 94, of St. Louis, Mo., a summer resident of Cohasset for many years and member of The Sorosis Club of New York, died Monday in St. Louis after a brief illness. She was a homemaker. Mrs. Buck was born in New York City and graduated from Vassar College. She was the wife of the late Horace M. Buck. A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday-2 in Cohasset Central CemeteryMercy married Horace Miller Buck son of Richard S, Buck and Laura Miller on 16 Jun 1927 in South Orange, Essex Co., New Jersey. Horace was born 1 on 27 May 1898. He died in Feb 1973 in Cohasset, Massachusetts.
In 1920 he was a college student living at home.11561 M iii George Herndon Pegram was born 1 in 1904. He died 2 in 1906.
He died in infancy.
5124. Minnie Stella Pegram (Benjamin Rush , John Coleman , John , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born 1 on 22 Aug 1857 in Massachusetts. She died on 4 Dec 1942 in Utah. She was buried 2 on 7 Dec 1942 in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Utah.
Minnie married Ferdinand John Fabian son of George Conrad Fabian and Amelia Margareta Zisemann on 24 Jun 1884 in Boston, Massachusetts. Ferdinand was born 1 on 8 Aug 1857 in St. Louis, St. Louis Co., Missouri. He died in Dec 1934 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah.
The following biographical sketch is taken from Utah Since Statehood: Historical and Biographical. Volume III.
The spirit of modern business enterprise finds expression in the record of Ferd J. Fabian, who is the president of the Ferd J. Fabian Company, conducting a brokerage business in Salt Lake City, president of the Twin Peaks Canning Company and president of the Draper Canning Company. He has gained a most creditable and enviable position in business circles by reason of his undaunted energy and ready adaptability. Opportunity has ever been to him the call to action and in the conduct of his business affairs he has followed constructive measures, never making his success the cause of another's failure.
Mr. Fabian was born in St. Louis, Missouri, August 8, 1857. In his early life he attended the public and high schools of St. Louis and afterward continued his education in the Washington University of that city. On leaving school he became an employe of the St. Louis Bridge & Tunnel Company in the capacity of paymaster and cashier, remaining with that corporation until 1882, when he came west and cast in his lot with the residents of Salt Lake City. For several years he was identified with stock raising in Wyoming and then organized the Ferd J. Fabian Company for the conduct of a brokerage business. He has since been the president of this company, which has operated most successfully in the intermountain country. Mr. Fabian is also closely associated with the canning industry, having been the organizer of what is known as the Twin Peaks Canning Company and the Draper Canning Company, engaged in the canning of fruit and vegetables. Mr. Fabian is also the vice president and a director of the Improved Brick Company, located in Salt Lake City and at Bountiful, Utah. He is the secretary and treasurer of the Security Storage & Commission Company of Salt Lake City and is the vice president of the Old Scotia Mining Company and vice president of the Big Cottonwood Consolidated Mining Company.
On the 24th of June, 1884, in Boston, Massachusetts, Mr. Fabian was united in marriage to Miss Minnie S. Pegram, a daughter of Captain Rush Pegram, a well known Mississippi river steamboat captain and owner of the early days. Mr. and Mrs. Fabian have two children: Harold P., who was born in Salt Lake City in 1885; and Stella F., born in Salt Lake City in 1888.
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec 5---Tentative arrangements have been made to conduct funeral services for Ferdinand J. Fabian, 77, Friday at two-thirty p.m. at the family residence. Mr. Fabian was president of the Fabrian Brokerage company, which he founded more than fifty years ago.
Mr. Fabian, who also was president of the Rocky Mountain Packing corporation, was stricken at his home Monday night, after apparently enjoying good health. The widow, Mrs. Minnie Stella Pegram Fabrian, was with him when he died.
Final arrangements for the services await word from a son, Harold P. Fabrian, Salt Lake City attorney, and a daughter, Mrs. John Elliott Clark, a resident of Washington D.C. Mr. Fabian and Mrs. Clark are in Washington and are expected to arrive in Salt Lake City Friday for the services.
The Rocky Mountain Packing corporation, which includes Harold P. Fabian, Frank J. Gimlin and Thomas Leslie among its officials, operates several canning plants in Utah communities, including Ogden, Roy and Tremonton.
They had the following children:
11562 M i Maj. Harold Pegram Fabian was born on 1 Apr 1885. He died on 6 Dec 1975. 11563 F ii Stella F. Fabian was born 1 in 1888 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Stella married John Elliott Clark.
5138. Matilda (aka Martha) C. Brander (Matilda Carolina Pegram , Edward Lyle , John , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born in 1836 in Dinwiddie Co., Virgina. She died on 9 Mar 1867 in Caldwell, Canyon Co., Idaho. She was buried in Marysville Cemetery, Marysville, Yuba Co., California. Matilda was baptized 1 in Bristol Parish, Virginia.
Matilda married Edmond Taylor Wilkins 1, 2, 3 son of Dr. Benjamin Wilkins and Jane Taylor in May 1855. Edmond was born on 20 Oct 1824 in Montgomery Co., Tennessee.
WILKINS, EDMUND TAYLOR, M. D. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appearss in this work, was born in Mongomery County, Tennessee, at the residence of his grandfather, Colonel Edmund Taylor, October 20, 1824, and is the son of Dr. Benjamin and Jane Taylor Wilkins. At the time of his birth his parents lived in Christian County, Kentucky, but, for the sake of convenience and sociability, he was taken across the line into Tennessee, to be born. Until he reached the age of ten years, the subject of this sketch alternated between the two States named above, afterwhich he resided the States of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, and at eighteen he entered the William and Mary College, where he received his collegiate education. March, 1849, he sailed from New Orleans for California, taking passage on the schooner "St, Mary," Captain Chasteau, When off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the little craft, one hundred and fifty tons burden, was overtaken by a terrible storm, which she was so disabled, that it became necessary to seek safety by going into port replenish supplies and repair the damages of the gale. Accordingly, the captain set sail for Baltimore, where she remained six weeks ere she was again pronounced ready to pursue her voyage around the Horn; Captain Chasm having been placed in command in lieu of Captain Chasteau . After a long and perilous voyage of more than nine months, she at last safely arrived an Francisco, January 26, 1850. Among the persons on board were the late Thomas M. Logan, M. D., surgeon of the vessel; Henry Clay Duralde, grandson of Henry Clay ; Benjamin T. Davis, nephew of Jefferson Davis ; Edwin. Goodall, of the firm of Goodall, Perkins Co., and fifteen other passengers, making nineteen all. Among the other passengers were William R. Cox, J. C. Smith, Thomas Fondry , P. Carrington, J.. Valleau, M. C. Goodwin, Captain Daniel Butts, W. E. Dabney, and Dr. Ewin Shiel and wife. The others are not remembered. After a short sojourn in San Francisco, he proceeded up the Sacramento River, in a whale boat, and thence to Bidwells Bar, in Butte County, where he engaged for a short time in mining! From thence he proceeded company with Drs. Richard Pegram and Edward Workman to Trinity River, which he attempted to turn from its course by means, of a sand-bag dam; but after spending all the summer, and all of his means in this fruitless effort to force the river to give up its hidden treasures, he abandoned the mines forever. Returning to the valley the autumn, he purchased a farm on the Feather River, ten miles above Marysvile, in Yuba County, Drs. Richard Pegram, and John S. Griffin, then surgeon in the United States Army and now of Los Angeles, being co-partners. In 1853 he returned his native State, and attended his first course of medical lectures at the Memphis Medical College, from which graduated at the end of his second course in 1861. When Dr. Wilkins first came to California, he brought with him a faithful colored servant, known as Major Breeden, one of the most honest and faithful of men who stuck to his young master amidst all the all allurements and temptations of those more than tempting times. They went East together 1853, and when they returned to California in 1854, Dr. Wilkins brought the entire family, consisting of thirteen persons, who were his slaves in Louisiana, but who were given their liberty and a tract of valuable land, three hundred and twenty acre, near his own, upon which be placed them, and on which some of them still reside After receiving his medical diploma, Dr. Wilkins gave up farming, moved to Marysville in July, 1861, and from that time has paid undivided attention to the study and practice of his profession, and especially to that branch which relates to the dethronement of reason and the care and treatment of the insane. In February, 1870, the Legislature passed an Act authorizing the Governor to appoint a commissioner to visit the principal asylums for the insane in Europe and America, and it was made his duty to collect and compile all accessible and reliable information as to their management and construction, and the different modes of treatment of the insane, the results of this investigation to be reported to the Governor in time to be laid before the next session of the Legislature. The great interest that Dr. Wilkins had manifested behalf of the insane, and attention he was known to have paid to the subject, as well as his intimate and friendly relations with Governor Haight, pointed him out a proper person to fill that important mission, and the appointment was accordingly bestowed upon him. Immediately after receiving his commission, Dr. Wilkins commenced his investigations. First familiarizing himself with our own asylum, he proceeded at once to visit those in most of the States of the Union and of Canada. With the information obtained from visiting fifty asylums on this continent, and exchanging views with the most experienced, able and learned of the superintendents in his own country, he crossed the Atlantic well prepared to contrast and compare the asylums and the systems of management of these institutions this country and those beyond the Atlantic. Having spent twenty-one months in visiting one hundred asylums in Great Britain and Ireland, France, Italy, Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Bohemia, Prussia, Belgium and, Holland in addition to half as many in America and having attended meetings of superintendents in France, England and the United States, he returned to California and made an elaborate and exhaustive report to the Governor on the 2nd day of December 1871, ten thousand copies of which were ordered printed by the Legislature then convened.
Among the first and most important results of this report was the passage of an Act by the Legislature to provide additional accommodations for the insane of this State. Dr. Wilkins was appointed by Governor Booth as one of the commissioners to select a site and location for the projected asylum, Dr. George A. Shurtleff, superintendent of the Stockton Asylum, and Judge C. H. Swift, of Sacramento, being the other two members of the Commission. The location was made in Napa County, and the elegant structure known as the Napa State Asylum for the one now adorns the selected site, and is the best proof of the wisdom and taste displayed by the Commission in the choice made. Dr. Wilkins was also named in the bill, together with Dr. Shurtleff and. Governor Booth, to act as an Advisory Board to the Board of Directors in reference to the adoption of suitable plans for the asylum. Having been thus intimately connected with and interested the establishment of this noble charity, and largely instrumental, through his report, procuring the. passage of the Act authorizing its construction, the Board of Trustees appointed for its management showed a just appreciation of his worth, and a proper regard for the best interests of the institutions by electing him, on the 16th of March, 1876, as the Resident Physician. At the expiration his term of office he was re-elected for a second term of four years, and is now in charge of that institution. Its management needs no encomium from us. The perfect cleanliness of the entire establishment, the comfortable condition of the inmates, the order and general harmony that seems to exist among the officers, employees and attendants, and the good taste displayed in the improvement of the grounds, are evidences that speak for themselves, and are ever open to the inspection of the public.
Dr. Wilkins was married in Marysville, in May, 1855, to Miss Matilda Pegram Brander, a native of Virginia, and by this union there were three children: Jane Taylor, who died at the age of five years; Martha Pegram, and Benjamin Sidney. His wife died March 9, 1867. On the 24th of May, 1877, be married Miss Camilla Price, daughter of John R. Price, and niece of General Sterling Price, of Missouri, of which State she is a native.
It would doing injustice to Dr. Wilkins if we failed to state that he feels that he has been much more closely identified with the county of Yuba, where he resided for twenty-six years, than with Napa, where he has lived but six years. In Yuba he was known by everybody, was esteemed and respected by all, and in return he was greatly attached to her citizens; and if his wishes had been consulted, we doubt not but he would have preferred to have been sketched among those in that county who had long been his intimate friends and associates. But in writing a history of the prominent men of California by counties, we must take them where and when we find them. In conclusion, we will state that the maternal grandmother of Dr. Wilkins, Elizabeth Lewis, was a daughter of Lawrence Lewis, a nephew of General Washington, and Eleanor Parke Custis, the granddaughter of Martha Washington, being the only lineal descendant of Mrs. Washington with whom we have met California.
They had the following children:
11564 F i Matilda (a\k\a Martha) Wilkins was born about 1860 in Caldwell, Canyon Co., Idaho. She died on 26 Mar 1886. She was buried in Marysville Cemetery, Marysville, Yuba Co., California. 11565 M ii Benjamin Sydney Wilkins was born on 11 Mar 1863. He died on 12 Oct 1940. 11566 F iii Jane Wilkins.
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