SAl JOAQUIN RISTOnl PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY

SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

VOLUME X OCTOBER - DECEMBER 1974 NUMBER 4

20th Anniversary Edition

CELIA E MYERS 1973shy

AMESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

The pioneers did not build for themselves alone In settling this new land they were building for their children and their childrens children as well They could not foresee the results of their labors but they laid a firm foundation on which the succeeding generations could build

The San Joaquin County Historical Society strives to record the accomplishments of the pioneer settlers of this county It strives to preserve for future generations the artifacts and historic sites which portray the lives they led This Society wishes to pay tribute to their determination energy courage and wisdom -- for the rich legacy which they have passed on to us

As we look back over the past twenty years the members of this Society have every right to be proud of its man y accomplishments Although this group was organized by Lodi residents and received its early support from the northern part of our county it now draws strong support from all parts of the county The Society quarterly the SAN JOAQUIN HISTORIAN has grown from a two-page mimeographed publication of relatively brief historical articles to a multi-paged small-print issue which makes possible the presentation of lengthy well-researched in-depth articles It is produced in an attractively printed format enhanced by the use of photographs

The Society operates the San Joaquin County Historical Museum at Micke Grove for the County of San Joaquin Under the leadership of one of our charter members Medora Johnson now the Museum Director the Museum proiect has made significant progress since its inception Mrs Johnson has received statewide recognition for her able direction and under her management the Museum has met the rigid standards imposed by the American Association of Museums to earn accreditation by that organization

Meetings of the Society which are always open to the public are designed to be both educational and entertaining Speakers who present subects of historical significance or interest are featured at these monthly meetings and tours of historic sites outside the county are arranged from time to time

The Society membership covers all age groups from students to pioneers all walks of life professional and non-professional newcomers as well as the native-born -- all bound together by a common interest a desire to preserve their heritage To do this effectively requires an active membership and we need to continually strive to build our membership The Society depends upon its dues to meet its operating expenses and to support its proects and publications We encourage your active participation but we also welcome the financial assistance which your membership provides even if you cannot be active The larger our membership the more we can accomplish

My congratulations and thanks go out to each and every om of you who has through the years helped to create a strong and vibrant historical society here in San Joaquin County May the next twenty years be as fruitful as the first twenty

Celia E Myers President

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EARLY SAN JOAQUIN GOVERNMENT by Robert Bonta

THE IEXIC PERIOD

For all practical purposes government in the interior of California was nonexistent during the Spanish period and most of the lexican regime1 This was not so much a reflection on the ability of Mexico City to ded with its outlying territory of Alta California although it did leave much to be desired on the whole as it was a reflection of the condition of the area we now call the Great Central Valley With the exception of the two small settlements (Sutter Fort on the Sacramento River and Webers feeble settlement on a slough adjacent to the San Joaquin) the whole of the interior valley was practically devoid of European or American inhabitants before 1848

Effective Spanish exploration of the San Joaquin Vally commenced about 1805 with Gabriel Moragas expedition into the interior in what the Spanish called 11 yalle de los tulares (the vallev of the tules) He named the rivers including the San joaquin from which the valley later took its name and then in turn the comty as ell The first settlement along it whole length was on Webers grant whIch by the end of 1847 consisted of probably no more than two dozen crude huts and a small store established by Weber himself adjacent to the Stockton Channel

In addition to the Weber grant (El Campo de los franceses) of 1844 at least five other grants had been made by the Monterey governors wholly or partly within the present boundaries of San Joaquin County2 Although not legal governing entities in themselves they at least provided some form of ownership and supervision in this large and sparsely-settled area The holders of these grants were required to establish some form of permanent residence upon them some sort of headquarters for their vaqueros who cared for the cattle herds which pastured on these thousands of acres of open range lands The owner of each grant was the only real authority within his own domain which in view of the needs of the time was for all practical purposes sufficient

But two events occurring but a week apart were destined to change the way of life in all California and to create almost overnight the lieed for the development of altogether different legal and political systems These two events were the discovery of gold at Coloma (east of Sacramento) by James Marshall on January 24 1848 and the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo by the Mexicans and the Americans on February 2

At the outbreak of hostilities between llexico and the United States (Mexican-American War 1846-48) the total non-Indian population in all of Alta California was estimated at no more than 10000 persons of whom probably less than 2000 were European or American 3 California Quickly fell into the hands of the American forces and Commodore Stockton on August 17 1846 issued a proclamation stating lilat C3lifornia would be governed by officers and laws similar to those of other United States territories but that in the mterim (until such time as the United States Congress legislatet1 a government for the territory) gtV1exican law and the Ilexican politica I system would continue to be in force but undpr the supervision of a C S military governor

With the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Ca lifornia passed officially into the hands of the United Slales With the cessation of hostilities the military in California naturally assumed that the Congress would move

siftl~ to provide the new territory with civil government and reliee them of their dual military-civilian role But such was not the case and the Mexican system was per force continued 4

As word of the discovery of gold in many parts of Californias lother Lode spread around the world a growing number of fortune-seekers began appearing in California In a relatively short time many Ol the sleepy coastal settlements (particularly in the northern part of the territory) had assumed the proportions of true cities and new ones sprang to life almost overnight The hills of the Sierra evada came alive with men as did the central interior along the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and their tributaries The Gold Rush was on Some better form of government and law enforcement became imperative

The military governor General Bennett Riley had delayed taking action despite the growing pressure being exerted by the American immigrants who were literally pouring into California by land and by sea but finally on June 3 1849 for lack of Congressional action or direction he felt compelled to take matters into his own hands He therefore issued a proclamation calling for the division of California into ten military districts Each district on August 11849 would vote delegates to attend a constitutional convention to be held at Monterey for the purpose of writing a state constitution In addition each district was to elect judges alcaldes prefects and sub-prefects who were to operate under Mexican law until hopefully a new state government might be organized under a state constitution

SA JOAQll DISTRICT IS FORMED

One of these ten districts was to be called the San Joaquin District and it would encompass the whole of the present San Joaquin Valley including the minirtg region to the east in the foothills of the Sierra Jevada5 Due to the fluid state of the population the town of Stockton was unable to vote until August 16 while the remainder of the huge district went to the scattered polling places on the 1st as scheduled And while General Riley had apportioned four delegates to this district in his original proclamation the area actually voted for fifteen on the basis of the increase in population between the time the proclamation was announced and election actually occurred Due to the differences in election dates and the election of fifteen instead of four a Question arose concerning the seating of the San Joaquin District delegates at the time the convention began its deliberations on September 1 1849 The body finally voted to seat all fifteenS but only six ever made an appearance at Monterey The

local delegates were Thomas L Vermeule Benjamin S Lippincott B F Moore James M Jones O M Wozencraft and J 1cHenry Hollingsworth

In addition to the election of convention delegates the voters of the San Joaquin District elected Gallant D Dickenson as their prefect and the Stockton voters selected George G Belt as their first alcaldeB As the elected alcalde Belt was soon after appOinted by General Riley to serve as the districts Judge of the Court of First Instance He was succeeded shortly after by James Reynolds and he in turn by Benjamin Williams George Tinkham the early chronicler of Stockton and San Joaquin County history did not think much of anyone of the three noting that Belts judicial acts had a

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EARI~Y SAN JOAQUIN GOVERNlENT (cont) debasing influence on early iurisprudence in Stockton and that both Reynolds and Williams were corrupt and dishonest Court was held in different locations in the growing city at that time including several saloons Proceedings were quite informal as vel as unfair but conditions were still rather primitive -- according to our standards at least -- and any court was probably somewhat better than no courL Concurrent with George Belts appointment as Judge of the First Instance Governor Riley appointed SalisburyHaley as Belts clerk Thomas B Van Buren as district attornev and J G Marshall as sheriff

Thus was established by both election and appointment the first government for the San Joaquin area a government featuring a combination of the Vlexican and the U S systems and pre-dating our present San Joaquin County government by approximately eight months

Relying basically upon the Iowa and New York state constitutions the delegates to the Constitutional Convention which had convened at Monterey on September 1 1849 were ready to present their proposed constitution to the voters of California by the middle of October Basic questions such as the form of government to be organized (territorial or state) whether to allow slavery the location of the eastern boundary 9 the form the judicial system was to take) Othe type of pOlitical subdivisions to be formed within the state11 and the location of the state capitoJ12were all resolved within that short time

In order to implement their plan of government

assuming that the electorate would ratify the document the delegates assigned the first state senate and assembly seats to each of the ten military districts which they represented according to their proportionate share of the total population of the state13The San Joaquin District was thereby assigned four senate seats and nine assemblv seats14

Election day was set for Noverber 13 1849 and the document called upon the Executive of the existing government of California [General Riley military comshymander and acting governor] to issue a proclamation directing the prefects [G D Dickenson in the San Joaquin District I to prepare for the election in their respective districts

The proposed constitution was ra tified by a vote of 12064 to 811 The governol lieutenant governor and members of both the state senate and assembly were elected at the same time 258i votes were cast in the San Joaquin District and the following legislators were elected

Senators David F Douglass B S Lippincott T L Vermeule and Nelson Taylor15

Assemblymen B F Moore R W Heath D P Baldwin Charles 11 Creaner J S Ogier John C Morehead J F Stephens J Stewart and J W Van Benschoten6

11embers of the first California Legislature met in San Jose being sworn into office on December 17 1849 They immediately set to work to implement the newly-ratified constitution Governor Peter H Burnett and Lieutenantshy

(Continued on Page 58)

AQUICK GLANCE BACKWARDS b~ Naomi lcCallum Carey

Twenty years It hardly seems just twenty years What a flood of names events medings and conferences run through ones mind Willard Robinson Amy Boynton Rockwell Hunt Coke Wood Joe Newfield Del Rinfret William Brewer Leon Whitsell Tully Knoles Ross Barbour

So many words -shy of encouragement of enthusiasm of helpfulness of entreaty to get us started No one turned us down Ask and ye shall receive we did and we did

A column in The Lodi Times entitled Interview With The Past often said that the community should have an historical societv But who should be contacted to start such a project Amy Boynton came forward and suggested Medora Johnson So the two of them with the active support of Naomi Carev (author of the Times column mentioned above) held a series of informal meetings to explore various possibilities

Others in the Lodi area were then contacted and on vlarch 30 1954 the first meeting was held in the East Elm Street Carey home Present were Mr William F Brewer Mr Henry Glaves Jr Mr Joseph Newfield Mr Del Rinfret Mr Leland Woodson Mrs Ora Van Vlear Woodson and the hostess Naomi Carey

At this and subsequent meetings of this nucleus group many things were discussed One of the first items to come up concerned a name for the organization The possibility of forming a Lodi historical and genealogical society was explored but the majority felt that although history and genealogy are often closely interwoven it would be best not to emphasize the genealogical aspect by including the word in the title Because these participants were Lodi residents the name Lodi District Historical Society was finally settled upon We were all concerned about the loss of valuable materials upon the death of Lodi residents particularly members of the pioneer area families Too often someone remote from the area received bequests and had no real

interest in them or someone would go into the vacated premises and start burning all those old papers and pictures who would want all those old things Many of those who attended these early meetings had the same concern for their diaries newspapers artifacts and possessions While everyone realized the need for doing something positive and quickly if we were not to continue losing these precious artifacts and records of our heritage we could not seem to come up with a quick solution to the problem A museum would be the ultimate answer but in the meantime other more practical possibilities were looked into The Wilson Henry Thompson Room of the Lodi Public Library was suggested as a repository of books and papers The possibility of using the old Salem School site for a museum along with a proposed fire house was considered but the site was finally sold to the Safeway store chain ending our hopes in that direction While these early attempts proved futile the idea of promoting the preservashytion of our heritage for future generations remained utmost in our minds and our thinking turned in a new direction -shyperhaps we should explore the possibility of establishing a county museum With this in mind a museum committee was appointed with Medora Johnson as chairman

At the July (1954) meeting the group explored the possibilities of promoting historical research through some sort of SOCiety publication and the names of several dozen Lodi residents were listed as possible sources of information Discussion also centered around the preservation of historical artifacts of the several old schools in the Lodi area which were slated for demolition including the Emerson SchooL

Vith the approach of the fall season plans for a formal organization of the Society began to materialize As a first step in that direction a booth was procured at the Lodi Grape restival and National Wine Show We needed to bring the

PGE 5~ S JO(~lT IIISTORL

EARLY SAN JOAQUIN GOVERNMENT by Robert Bonta

THE IEXIC PERIOD

For all practical purposes government in the interior of California was nonexistent during the Spanish period and most of the lexican regime1 This was not so much a reflection on the ability of Mexico City to ded with its outlying territory of Alta California although it did leave much to be desired on the whole as it was a reflection of the condition of the area we now call the Great Central Valley With the exception of the two small settlements (Sutter Fort on the Sacramento River and Webers feeble settlement on a slough adjacent to the San Joaquin) the whole of the interior valley was practically devoid of European or American inhabitants before 1848

Effective Spanish exploration of the San Joaquin Vally commenced about 1805 with Gabriel Moragas expedition into the interior in what the Spanish called 11 yalle de los tulares (the vallev of the tules) He named the rivers including the San joaquin from which the valley later took its name and then in turn the comty as ell The first settlement along it whole length was on Webers grant whIch by the end of 1847 consisted of probably no more than two dozen crude huts and a small store established by Weber himself adjacent to the Stockton Channel

In addition to the Weber grant (El Campo de los franceses) of 1844 at least five other grants had been made by the Monterey governors wholly or partly within the present boundaries of San Joaquin County2 Although not legal governing entities in themselves they at least provided some form of ownership and supervision in this large and sparsely-settled area The holders of these grants were required to establish some form of permanent residence upon them some sort of headquarters for their vaqueros who cared for the cattle herds which pastured on these thousands of acres of open range lands The owner of each grant was the only real authority within his own domain which in view of the needs of the time was for all practical purposes sufficient

But two events occurring but a week apart were destined to change the way of life in all California and to create almost overnight the lieed for the development of altogether different legal and political systems These two events were the discovery of gold at Coloma (east of Sacramento) by James Marshall on January 24 1848 and the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo by the Mexicans and the Americans on February 2

At the outbreak of hostilities between llexico and the United States (Mexican-American War 1846-48) the total non-Indian population in all of Alta California was estimated at no more than 10000 persons of whom probably less than 2000 were European or American 3 California Quickly fell into the hands of the American forces and Commodore Stockton on August 17 1846 issued a proclamation stating lilat C3lifornia would be governed by officers and laws similar to those of other United States territories but that in the mterim (until such time as the United States Congress legislatet1 a government for the territory) gtV1exican law and the Ilexican politica I system would continue to be in force but undpr the supervision of a C S military governor

With the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Ca lifornia passed officially into the hands of the United Slales With the cessation of hostilities the military in California naturally assumed that the Congress would move

siftl~ to provide the new territory with civil government and reliee them of their dual military-civilian role But such was not the case and the Mexican system was per force continued 4

As word of the discovery of gold in many parts of Californias lother Lode spread around the world a growing number of fortune-seekers began appearing in California In a relatively short time many Ol the sleepy coastal settlements (particularly in the northern part of the territory) had assumed the proportions of true cities and new ones sprang to life almost overnight The hills of the Sierra evada came alive with men as did the central interior along the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and their tributaries The Gold Rush was on Some better form of government and law enforcement became imperative

The military governor General Bennett Riley had delayed taking action despite the growing pressure being exerted by the American immigrants who were literally pouring into California by land and by sea but finally on June 3 1849 for lack of Congressional action or direction he felt compelled to take matters into his own hands He therefore issued a proclamation calling for the division of California into ten military districts Each district on August 11849 would vote delegates to attend a constitutional convention to be held at Monterey for the purpose of writing a state constitution In addition each district was to elect judges alcaldes prefects and sub-prefects who were to operate under Mexican law until hopefully a new state government might be organized under a state constitution

SA JOAQll DISTRICT IS FORMED

One of these ten districts was to be called the San Joaquin District and it would encompass the whole of the present San Joaquin Valley including the minirtg region to the east in the foothills of the Sierra Jevada5 Due to the fluid state of the population the town of Stockton was unable to vote until August 16 while the remainder of the huge district went to the scattered polling places on the 1st as scheduled And while General Riley had apportioned four delegates to this district in his original proclamation the area actually voted for fifteen on the basis of the increase in population between the time the proclamation was announced and election actually occurred Due to the differences in election dates and the election of fifteen instead of four a Question arose concerning the seating of the San Joaquin District delegates at the time the convention began its deliberations on September 1 1849 The body finally voted to seat all fifteenS but only six ever made an appearance at Monterey The

local delegates were Thomas L Vermeule Benjamin S Lippincott B F Moore James M Jones O M Wozencraft and J 1cHenry Hollingsworth

In addition to the election of convention delegates the voters of the San Joaquin District elected Gallant D Dickenson as their prefect and the Stockton voters selected George G Belt as their first alcaldeB As the elected alcalde Belt was soon after appOinted by General Riley to serve as the districts Judge of the Court of First Instance He was succeeded shortly after by James Reynolds and he in turn by Benjamin Williams George Tinkham the early chronicler of Stockton and San Joaquin County history did not think much of anyone of the three noting that Belts judicial acts had a

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EARI~Y SAN JOAQUIN GOVERNlENT (cont) debasing influence on early iurisprudence in Stockton and that both Reynolds and Williams were corrupt and dishonest Court was held in different locations in the growing city at that time including several saloons Proceedings were quite informal as vel as unfair but conditions were still rather primitive -- according to our standards at least -- and any court was probably somewhat better than no courL Concurrent with George Belts appointment as Judge of the First Instance Governor Riley appointed SalisburyHaley as Belts clerk Thomas B Van Buren as district attornev and J G Marshall as sheriff

Thus was established by both election and appointment the first government for the San Joaquin area a government featuring a combination of the Vlexican and the U S systems and pre-dating our present San Joaquin County government by approximately eight months

Relying basically upon the Iowa and New York state constitutions the delegates to the Constitutional Convention which had convened at Monterey on September 1 1849 were ready to present their proposed constitution to the voters of California by the middle of October Basic questions such as the form of government to be organized (territorial or state) whether to allow slavery the location of the eastern boundary 9 the form the judicial system was to take) Othe type of pOlitical subdivisions to be formed within the state11 and the location of the state capitoJ12were all resolved within that short time

In order to implement their plan of government

assuming that the electorate would ratify the document the delegates assigned the first state senate and assembly seats to each of the ten military districts which they represented according to their proportionate share of the total population of the state13The San Joaquin District was thereby assigned four senate seats and nine assemblv seats14

Election day was set for Noverber 13 1849 and the document called upon the Executive of the existing government of California [General Riley military comshymander and acting governor] to issue a proclamation directing the prefects [G D Dickenson in the San Joaquin District I to prepare for the election in their respective districts

The proposed constitution was ra tified by a vote of 12064 to 811 The governol lieutenant governor and members of both the state senate and assembly were elected at the same time 258i votes were cast in the San Joaquin District and the following legislators were elected

Senators David F Douglass B S Lippincott T L Vermeule and Nelson Taylor15

Assemblymen B F Moore R W Heath D P Baldwin Charles 11 Creaner J S Ogier John C Morehead J F Stephens J Stewart and J W Van Benschoten6

11embers of the first California Legislature met in San Jose being sworn into office on December 17 1849 They immediately set to work to implement the newly-ratified constitution Governor Peter H Burnett and Lieutenantshy

(Continued on Page 58)

AQUICK GLANCE BACKWARDS b~ Naomi lcCallum Carey

Twenty years It hardly seems just twenty years What a flood of names events medings and conferences run through ones mind Willard Robinson Amy Boynton Rockwell Hunt Coke Wood Joe Newfield Del Rinfret William Brewer Leon Whitsell Tully Knoles Ross Barbour

So many words -shy of encouragement of enthusiasm of helpfulness of entreaty to get us started No one turned us down Ask and ye shall receive we did and we did

A column in The Lodi Times entitled Interview With The Past often said that the community should have an historical societv But who should be contacted to start such a project Amy Boynton came forward and suggested Medora Johnson So the two of them with the active support of Naomi Carev (author of the Times column mentioned above) held a series of informal meetings to explore various possibilities

Others in the Lodi area were then contacted and on vlarch 30 1954 the first meeting was held in the East Elm Street Carey home Present were Mr William F Brewer Mr Henry Glaves Jr Mr Joseph Newfield Mr Del Rinfret Mr Leland Woodson Mrs Ora Van Vlear Woodson and the hostess Naomi Carey

At this and subsequent meetings of this nucleus group many things were discussed One of the first items to come up concerned a name for the organization The possibility of forming a Lodi historical and genealogical society was explored but the majority felt that although history and genealogy are often closely interwoven it would be best not to emphasize the genealogical aspect by including the word in the title Because these participants were Lodi residents the name Lodi District Historical Society was finally settled upon We were all concerned about the loss of valuable materials upon the death of Lodi residents particularly members of the pioneer area families Too often someone remote from the area received bequests and had no real

interest in them or someone would go into the vacated premises and start burning all those old papers and pictures who would want all those old things Many of those who attended these early meetings had the same concern for their diaries newspapers artifacts and possessions While everyone realized the need for doing something positive and quickly if we were not to continue losing these precious artifacts and records of our heritage we could not seem to come up with a quick solution to the problem A museum would be the ultimate answer but in the meantime other more practical possibilities were looked into The Wilson Henry Thompson Room of the Lodi Public Library was suggested as a repository of books and papers The possibility of using the old Salem School site for a museum along with a proposed fire house was considered but the site was finally sold to the Safeway store chain ending our hopes in that direction While these early attempts proved futile the idea of promoting the preservashytion of our heritage for future generations remained utmost in our minds and our thinking turned in a new direction -shyperhaps we should explore the possibility of establishing a county museum With this in mind a museum committee was appointed with Medora Johnson as chairman

At the July (1954) meeting the group explored the possibilities of promoting historical research through some sort of SOCiety publication and the names of several dozen Lodi residents were listed as possible sources of information Discussion also centered around the preservation of historical artifacts of the several old schools in the Lodi area which were slated for demolition including the Emerson SchooL

Vith the approach of the fall season plans for a formal organization of the Society began to materialize As a first step in that direction a booth was procured at the Lodi Grape restival and National Wine Show We needed to bring the

EARI~Y SAN JOAQUIN GOVERNlENT (cont) debasing influence on early iurisprudence in Stockton and that both Reynolds and Williams were corrupt and dishonest Court was held in different locations in the growing city at that time including several saloons Proceedings were quite informal as vel as unfair but conditions were still rather primitive -- according to our standards at least -- and any court was probably somewhat better than no courL Concurrent with George Belts appointment as Judge of the First Instance Governor Riley appointed SalisburyHaley as Belts clerk Thomas B Van Buren as district attornev and J G Marshall as sheriff

Thus was established by both election and appointment the first government for the San Joaquin area a government featuring a combination of the Vlexican and the U S systems and pre-dating our present San Joaquin County government by approximately eight months

Relying basically upon the Iowa and New York state constitutions the delegates to the Constitutional Convention which had convened at Monterey on September 1 1849 were ready to present their proposed constitution to the voters of California by the middle of October Basic questions such as the form of government to be organized (territorial or state) whether to allow slavery the location of the eastern boundary 9 the form the judicial system was to take) Othe type of pOlitical subdivisions to be formed within the state11 and the location of the state capitoJ12were all resolved within that short time

In order to implement their plan of government

assuming that the electorate would ratify the document the delegates assigned the first state senate and assembly seats to each of the ten military districts which they represented according to their proportionate share of the total population of the state13The San Joaquin District was thereby assigned four senate seats and nine assemblv seats14

Election day was set for Noverber 13 1849 and the document called upon the Executive of the existing government of California [General Riley military comshymander and acting governor] to issue a proclamation directing the prefects [G D Dickenson in the San Joaquin District I to prepare for the election in their respective districts

The proposed constitution was ra tified by a vote of 12064 to 811 The governol lieutenant governor and members of both the state senate and assembly were elected at the same time 258i votes were cast in the San Joaquin District and the following legislators were elected

Senators David F Douglass B S Lippincott T L Vermeule and Nelson Taylor15

Assemblymen B F Moore R W Heath D P Baldwin Charles 11 Creaner J S Ogier John C Morehead J F Stephens J Stewart and J W Van Benschoten6

11embers of the first California Legislature met in San Jose being sworn into office on December 17 1849 They immediately set to work to implement the newly-ratified constitution Governor Peter H Burnett and Lieutenantshy

(Continued on Page 58)

AQUICK GLANCE BACKWARDS b~ Naomi lcCallum Carey

Twenty years It hardly seems just twenty years What a flood of names events medings and conferences run through ones mind Willard Robinson Amy Boynton Rockwell Hunt Coke Wood Joe Newfield Del Rinfret William Brewer Leon Whitsell Tully Knoles Ross Barbour

So many words -shy of encouragement of enthusiasm of helpfulness of entreaty to get us started No one turned us down Ask and ye shall receive we did and we did

A column in The Lodi Times entitled Interview With The Past often said that the community should have an historical societv But who should be contacted to start such a project Amy Boynton came forward and suggested Medora Johnson So the two of them with the active support of Naomi Carev (author of the Times column mentioned above) held a series of informal meetings to explore various possibilities

Others in the Lodi area were then contacted and on vlarch 30 1954 the first meeting was held in the East Elm Street Carey home Present were Mr William F Brewer Mr Henry Glaves Jr Mr Joseph Newfield Mr Del Rinfret Mr Leland Woodson Mrs Ora Van Vlear Woodson and the hostess Naomi Carey

At this and subsequent meetings of this nucleus group many things were discussed One of the first items to come up concerned a name for the organization The possibility of forming a Lodi historical and genealogical society was explored but the majority felt that although history and genealogy are often closely interwoven it would be best not to emphasize the genealogical aspect by including the word in the title Because these participants were Lodi residents the name Lodi District Historical Society was finally settled upon We were all concerned about the loss of valuable materials upon the death of Lodi residents particularly members of the pioneer area families Too often someone remote from the area received bequests and had no real

interest in them or someone would go into the vacated premises and start burning all those old papers and pictures who would want all those old things Many of those who attended these early meetings had the same concern for their diaries newspapers artifacts and possessions While everyone realized the need for doing something positive and quickly if we were not to continue losing these precious artifacts and records of our heritage we could not seem to come up with a quick solution to the problem A museum would be the ultimate answer but in the meantime other more practical possibilities were looked into The Wilson Henry Thompson Room of the Lodi Public Library was suggested as a repository of books and papers The possibility of using the old Salem School site for a museum along with a proposed fire house was considered but the site was finally sold to the Safeway store chain ending our hopes in that direction While these early attempts proved futile the idea of promoting the preservashytion of our heritage for future generations remained utmost in our minds and our thinking turned in a new direction -shyperhaps we should explore the possibility of establishing a county museum With this in mind a museum committee was appointed with Medora Johnson as chairman

At the July (1954) meeting the group explored the possibilities of promoting historical research through some sort of SOCiety publication and the names of several dozen Lodi residents were listed as possible sources of information Discussion also centered around the preservation of historical artifacts of the several old schools in the Lodi area which were slated for demolition including the Emerson SchooL

Vith the approach of the fall season plans for a formal organization of the Society began to materialize As a first step in that direction a booth was procured at the Lodi Grape restival and National Wine Show We needed to bring the

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A QUICK GLANCE BACKWARDS (cant) ) message to the entire community that there was a new Assistance was also received from the American Association organization in the area and that was the logical place to do for State and Local History it Mrs Helene Cooper Mr William F Brewer and Naomi Almost immediately it became apparent that the name of Carey manned the booth and distributed one-page inforshy the organization Lodi District Historical Society was too mation sheets announcing the acceptance of charter restrictive in scope and in March 1955 it was officially memberships changed to Northern San Joaquin County Historical

LODI DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Society (As the membership continued to increase You are cordially invited to become a Charter however and the interests of the organization expanded it

1ember of the Lodi District Historical Society became necessary once more for the Society to change its If you are interested in becoming a member please name in order to better reflect its growing county-wide

fill out and return the form below nature In the meantime also Medora Johnson was The next meeting will be held September 22nd at continuing to gather data on the financial needs of a

730 pm at the Lodi Library auditorium Under county-wide museum building So once more the membershydiscussion will be the Constitution and dues of the ship voted to change its name and in 1963 the name San organization Joaquin County Historical Society was given official

Ralph Boyd Robert Channel and John Blakely will recognition in the organizations Articles of Incorporation be present to tell us of the history of the Police Departshy certified by Californias Secretary of State) ment the jltire Department and the City of Lodi The first major project undertaken by the Society following respectively as they know it its October 1954 charter day ceremonies was the placement

Charter membership will be closed during the of an official state marker at the site of the San Joaquin October 27th meeting when only those who have paid Valley College at Woodbridge This effort was spearheaded dues will be included by Mrs Edward (Mabel Thompson) Haas of San Francisco

Cordially and this memorial to the students and teachers of one of the Committee for Organization pioneer secondary schools of this area is landmark number

A dinner meeting the signing of the charter by the 43 520 in the State Parks and Recreation Department system persons who were in attendance and the election of the The marker is located on the grounds of the Woods Grammar Societys first officers highlighted the October 27th 1954 School and the inscription reads meeting at the El Charro restaurant in Lodi Installed as Built through subscription by the residents of Woodshyofficers of the neophyte organization were Willard Robinson bridge and dedicated as Woodbridge Seminary in 1879 president Mrs Orrin (Gertrude) Kettelman Sr viceshy by the United Brethren Church this was the site of president Naomi McCallum Carey secretary Mrs Howard San Joaquin Valley College 1882-1897 It was then used (Frances) Dragoo treasurer Amy Boynton Roswell P as Woods Grammar School until 1922 when the building Barbour and Mrs L Philip (Medora) Johnson directors was dismantled The installing officer was Dr Rockwell Hunt newly Dr Tully Knoles of the College of the Pacific gave the designated Mr California by the California Legislature dedicatory address and among the audience were many bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull 1bullbullbull 1bullbullbull 11 bullbullbull 11 bullbull 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 bullbullbullbullbull

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Miss Marian Akerley Mrs Emma Pearson Gregg Mrs Ennid Woodson Sullivan Roswell P Barbour Ward M Gregg Miss Katherine Sullivan Miss Amy L Boynton Maurice Hill Mrs Dorothy Watson Tappan Mrs louise Jahant Bennett Mrs Frances Pool Hosmer Clarence Tappan Mrs Elma Huffman Blais David Philip Johnson Mrs Celia Crocker Thompson Mrs louise Smith Boone Mrs Medora Davidson Johnson Mrs Charlotte Jones Van Gelder William F Brewer Mrs Winifred Beckman Jones Mrs Dorothy Sargent Van Thiel Mrs Hilda Brier Mrs Gertrude McCuen Kettelman Franklin Haskell Watson Jr Mrs Helen Gray Bush Mrs Eunice Spenker looser Mrs Ruth Gompertz Watson Mrs Naomi McCallum Carey H E looser Ralph M Wetmore Mrs Valois Creighton Mrs Thelma Winters Minick Mrs Marian Gray Williams

2Mrs Frances Tuttle Dragoo Mrs Mabel Yank Richey Mrs Miriam Madison Woodside Clifford Gatzert Mrs Marie Holloway Robinson leland A Woodson Mrs Anne K Granlees Willard J Robinson Mrs L Ora Van Vlear Woodson

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who at that time was also serving as the first president of the family members of those who had been associated with the newly-founded Conference of California Historical Societies school at the College of the Pacific The guest speaker of the evening Another early project of the Society was the attachment of was Dr J Randolph Hutchins also from the College of the a plaque to the base of the flagstaff at the Julia Harrison Pacific and at the time the Director of the California History Micke Memorial Building at Micke Grove memorializing the Foundation Ward Gregg presented the new preSident gift of an American flag presented to the park by Mrs Ora Willard Robinson with a beautiful gavel which he had Whittaker The plaque reads carved Ruben and Mary Pixley Golden Wedding Flag -shy

The Conference of California Historical Societies had been from Hartford Relief Corps 1918 -- gift to Micke Building founded just three months earlier in July of 1954 -- and 1955 under the able direction of Dr Hunt had encouraged and Theron Pixley and his wife grandparents of the donor had assisted the nucleus group in its formation as an historical homesteaded 160 acres in 1850 including the site of Micke society Mrs Helen S Giffen secretary of the Society of Grove Ruben and Mary Pixley were Mrs Whittakers California Pioneers also lent encouragement and ideas parents

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SX JOAtRIX IIISTOHIAX

A QUICK GLANCE BACKWARDS (cant) In April 1960 the Society placed a plaque at Lodi Lake the sense of purpose and the dedication that marked the

Park marking the Salem School bell which had been moved meetings and the activities of the fledgling organization to its present location upon demolition of the old school With the perspective that comes only with the passage of building time we can now look back to those early days with a better

In reading through the Societys minutes for those first appreciation of the solid foundation upon which our present several years one cannot help but feel again the enthusiasm San Joaquin County Historical Society rests

PAST PRESIDENTS - SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

WILLARD J ROBINSON GERTRUDE KETTELMAN MEDORA JOHNSON AMY BOYNTON 1954-55 1955-57 1957-59 1959-61 (deceased)

GLADYS BOYNTON EMMETT F PERRY HAZEL PAMPEL NAOMI McCALLUM CAREY 1961-63 1963-65 1965-66 1966-68

F A [Mickeyl McMASTERS ROBERT ANGERMEIER HOWARDT LETCHER DDS EDWARD PICO 1968-69 1969-71 (deceased) 1971-72 (deceased) 1972-73

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EARLY SAN JOAQUIN GOVERNMENT (con~t) (Continued from Page 55)

Governor John McDougall were sworn into office three days later and at the same time the military commander and governor of California General Bennett Riley signed an official proclamation relieving himself of the duties of interim governor Thus ended three and a half years of a military government which through adaptation of the existing Mexican pOlitical and legal systems had sought to maintain law and order in a vast turbulent area

COtTY GOVERNMENT -- fUIERICA PERIOD

One of the first committees formed in each house of the new legislature was the Committee on Counties and County Boundaries Having chosen (at the constitutional conshyvention) to make the county the basic unit of local government in California the effective organization of the state could not go forward until the subdivision of the state had taken place On January 4 1850 Senator de la Guerra as chairman of the Senate Committee on Counties and County Boundaries presented a written report to that body suggesting the creation of eighteen counties including a San Joaquin county with an eastern boundary along the summit 01 the Sierra Nevada and encompassing those mountains between the dividing ridge of the Moquelumne and Cosumnes rivers south to a point due east from the headwaters of the Stanislaus 17After the addition of a series of amendments to the original report raising the total number of counties to twenty-seven the bill was signed by Governor Burnett on February 18 185018

San Joaquin County was thus established as one of

CALIFORNlt 1850

MAP OF CALIFORNIA showing the original twenty-seven counties established in February 1850 Note relative size of Mariposa and San Diego counties Reprinted by permission 01 the publishers Valley Publishers trom CALIFORNIA COUNTY BOUNDARIES by Owen C Coy 1973

Calilornias original counties and takes its name from the river passing through it The same act also established the town of Stockton as its seat of governmentl 9and defined its boundaries with Sacramento Calaveras Tuolumne Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties

An Assembly bill signed by Governor Burnett on March 2 11150 provided for the holding of the first county elections District prefects then still in office were made responsible for the creation of voting precincts within the counties Pursuant to these instructions the following legal notice was prepared by the local prefect and published in the newlyshyestablished newspaper the Stockton Times on March 30 1850

otice In conformity with section 1 and 3 of an act of the legislature of the State of California entitled An Act to provide for holding the first county election notice is hereby given that on the first Monday of April AD 1850 an election will be held in and for the county of San Joaquin for the following officers to wit One clerk of the Supreme Court One District Attorney for the District of San Joaquin One County Judge for the County of San Joaquin One County Clerk One county Attorney One County Surveyor One Sheriff One Treasurer And the following places are designated as precincts for holding said elections - Stockton French Camp Bonsall and Doaks Ferry St Louis City rSanJoaquin City] Heath and Emorys Ferry Wheelers Ferry Knights Ferry Reds Tent Rowes Ranch Atherton and Davis Ranch Isbels Ranch Lairds Ranch and Hicks Ranch20

[Signed] G D Dickenson Iarch 16 Prefect of San Joaquin

The following were elected and two days later (on April 3) sworn into office Benjamin Williams County Judge S A Booker District Attorney R P Ashe Sheriff A C Bradford County Clerk A A Mix County Recorder B F Whittier County Assessor H W Aldin County Treasurer Walter Herron County Surveyor E L Brooks County Administrator J B Clements County Coroner By this simple act (swearing-in ceremony) the County of San Joaquin was organized and made functional and its predecessor the San Joaquin District ceased to exist Just a few days earlier on March 30 Assemblyman Charles M Creaner had been elected by the two houses of the legislature to serve as judge of the newly-created Fifth Judicial District of California one of nine judicial districts which had been created by the legislature on February 19th and signed into law by the Governor on March 18 1850 Included in the Fifth District were the counties of San Joaquin Calaveras Tuolumne and Mariposa On May 13 1850 Judge CreaneI opened his court and with the transfer of the records of the Stockton Alcalde and of the Prefect of the now-defunct San Joaquin District these offices were abolished

On April 11 1850 Governor Burnett signed legislation authorizing the establishment of a governing body in each county to be known as the court of sessions This three-man bod~ forerunner of the present Board of Supervisors in each of the fifty-eight counties of California performed both legislative and judicial functions Benjamin Williams sening as the alcalde and Judge of the Court of First Instance at the time of his election as the County Judge automatically assumed the chairmanship of the San Joaquin County Court of Sessions The other two members were to be chosen by and from among the township judges which the legislature had authorized following the creation of the court 01 sessions This act called for the division of San Joaquin COllnt~ into four townships and the election of two justices of the peace and one constable in each one The following

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EARLY SAN JOAQUIN GOVERNMENT (con~t) (Continued from Page 55)

Governor John McDougall were sworn into office three days later and at the same time the military commander and governor of California General Bennett Riley signed an official proclamation relieving himself of the duties of interim governor Thus ended three and a half years of a military government which through adaptation of the existing Mexican pOlitical and legal systems had sought to maintain law and order in a vast turbulent area

COtTY GOVERNMENT -- fUIERICA PERIOD

One of the first committees formed in each house of the new legislature was the Committee on Counties and County Boundaries Having chosen (at the constitutional conshyvention) to make the county the basic unit of local government in California the effective organization of the state could not go forward until the subdivision of the state had taken place On January 4 1850 Senator de la Guerra as chairman of the Senate Committee on Counties and County Boundaries presented a written report to that body suggesting the creation of eighteen counties including a San Joaquin county with an eastern boundary along the summit 01 the Sierra Nevada and encompassing those mountains between the dividing ridge of the Moquelumne and Cosumnes rivers south to a point due east from the headwaters of the Stanislaus 17After the addition of a series of amendments to the original report raising the total number of counties to twenty-seven the bill was signed by Governor Burnett on February 18 185018

San Joaquin County was thus established as one of

CALIFORNlt 1850

MAP OF CALIFORNIA showing the original twenty-seven counties established in February 1850 Note relative size of Mariposa and San Diego counties Reprinted by permission 01 the publishers Valley Publishers trom CALIFORNIA COUNTY BOUNDARIES by Owen C Coy 1973

Calilornias original counties and takes its name from the river passing through it The same act also established the town of Stockton as its seat of governmentl 9and defined its boundaries with Sacramento Calaveras Tuolumne Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties

An Assembly bill signed by Governor Burnett on March 2 11150 provided for the holding of the first county elections District prefects then still in office were made responsible for the creation of voting precincts within the counties Pursuant to these instructions the following legal notice was prepared by the local prefect and published in the newlyshyestablished newspaper the Stockton Times on March 30 1850

otice In conformity with section 1 and 3 of an act of the legislature of the State of California entitled An Act to provide for holding the first county election notice is hereby given that on the first Monday of April AD 1850 an election will be held in and for the county of San Joaquin for the following officers to wit One clerk of the Supreme Court One District Attorney for the District of San Joaquin One County Judge for the County of San Joaquin One County Clerk One county Attorney One County Surveyor One Sheriff One Treasurer And the following places are designated as precincts for holding said elections - Stockton French Camp Bonsall and Doaks Ferry St Louis City rSanJoaquin City] Heath and Emorys Ferry Wheelers Ferry Knights Ferry Reds Tent Rowes Ranch Atherton and Davis Ranch Isbels Ranch Lairds Ranch and Hicks Ranch20

[Signed] G D Dickenson Iarch 16 Prefect of San Joaquin

The following were elected and two days later (on April 3) sworn into office Benjamin Williams County Judge S A Booker District Attorney R P Ashe Sheriff A C Bradford County Clerk A A Mix County Recorder B F Whittier County Assessor H W Aldin County Treasurer Walter Herron County Surveyor E L Brooks County Administrator J B Clements County Coroner By this simple act (swearing-in ceremony) the County of San Joaquin was organized and made functional and its predecessor the San Joaquin District ceased to exist Just a few days earlier on March 30 Assemblyman Charles M Creaner had been elected by the two houses of the legislature to serve as judge of the newly-created Fifth Judicial District of California one of nine judicial districts which had been created by the legislature on February 19th and signed into law by the Governor on March 18 1850 Included in the Fifth District were the counties of San Joaquin Calaveras Tuolumne and Mariposa On May 13 1850 Judge CreaneI opened his court and with the transfer of the records of the Stockton Alcalde and of the Prefect of the now-defunct San Joaquin District these offices were abolished

On April 11 1850 Governor Burnett signed legislation authorizing the establishment of a governing body in each county to be known as the court of sessions This three-man bod~ forerunner of the present Board of Supervisors in each of the fifty-eight counties of California performed both legislative and judicial functions Benjamin Williams sening as the alcalde and Judge of the Court of First Instance at the time of his election as the County Judge automatically assumed the chairmanship of the San Joaquin County Court of Sessions The other two members were to be chosen by and from among the township judges which the legislature had authorized following the creation of the court 01 sessions This act called for the division of San Joaquin COllnt~ into four townships and the election of two justices of the peace and one constable in each one The following

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EARLY SAN JOAQUIN GOVERNMENT (cont) election notice signed by Williams (in the capacity of County Judge) appeared in several editions of the Stockton Times

Election notice -- Pursuant to an act of the legislature of the state of California requiring County Judges to divide their respective counties into townships and to order elections therein for the purpose hereinafter specified notice is hereby given that an election for two Justices of the Peace and one Constable will be holden [sic] at each of the places designated in and for each of the townships hereinafter described in the county of San Joaquin on Monday the 13th day of May next

Township No1 Comprehending the territory known as Webers Grant poll to be opened at the Central Exchange Stockton

Township No 2 -- Comprehending the portion of the county west of the San Joaquin River and Bonsall and Doaks Ferry on the east election at San Joaquin City

Township NO3 Comprehending that portion of the county lying upon the Stanislaus and to the north of said river embracing the settlement on the road leading from Stockton to Knights CrOSSing not included in Township No1 election at Emorys Ferry

Township No4 -- Comprehending that portion of the county not included in the foregoing election at ONeals Ranche

COVRT OF SESSIOS -- SA JOAQtlN COUlTY

The newly-elected justices of the peace then met and elected two of their number to sit with Judge Williams as the San Joaquin County Court of Sessions Hairston Amyx and Oliver C Emory The Court was formally opened on June 3 1850 with the following entry in Minute Book A -- Court of Sessions (Civil) bull San Joaquin County

Be it remembered that on Monday the 3rd day of June it being the first Monday of said month in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and fifty a special term of the Court of Sessions of the County of San Joaquin State of California was held pursuant to law and notice legally given

Present the Hon Benjamin Williams Court Judge Hairston Amyx and O C Emory two of the

Justices-elect of the County of San Joaquin appeared and produced certificates of their election as members of the Court of Sessions21

Present R P Ashe Esquire Sheriff Abraham C Bradford Clerk County Court

Following passage of various enabling acts by the state legislature the counties through their respective Courts of Sessions began the imposition of various taxes within their jurisdictions The first tax entry in the San Joaquin County Court of Sessions Minute Book reads June 25 1850 It is ordered that there be assessed on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property for the purpose of erecting a courthouse one fourth of one per cent

This was followed by a tax of one-fourth of one percent levied on every hundred dollars worth of property to defray the expenditures of the county for the present year and an additional poll tax of five dollars per eligible person for the same purpose22

There followed in quick succession a whole series of taxes on persons doing business within the county on those who were vending goods wares and merchandise saloon licenses which ranged from $2000 for two months up to $7500 for twelve months keepers of horses mules or cattle at livery were assessed $10000 a year exchange brokers restaurant operators operators of billiard tables and

bowling alleys drayers butchers hotel operators blackshysmiths coopers tinners carpenters tailors shoemakers watchmakers -- all had to pay what the Court considered a light tax and they considered a crushing burden

Cognizant of the unregulated business being carried on by the many schooners and other types of boa ts plying the waters from San Francisco to Stockton with scarce supplies the Court ordered notices posted along the waterfront cautioning all persons against selling food wares and merchandise from boats or vessels upon the Levee [Stockton Channel] within the limits of the town of Stockton unless by a license to be procured from the Court of Sessions or from the county treasurer

This was followed by the imposition of a tax of $10000 per year upon all who were carrying on the business of storage or warehousing on board ships or vessels lying within the limits of this county

The county ferries at least most of which were undoubtedly doing a lucrative business -- were not long exempt from the long arm of the Court of Sessions On their second day in session the three gentlemen issued the following order

It is ordered that the clerk be required to notify forthwith all persons using ferries in the County of San Joaquin that immediate application must be made to the Court of Sessions of said County for licenses therefor otlierwise they will be proceeded against according to law

All twelve ferries then operating within the county were immediately assessed taxes ranging from a low of $10000 to a high of $50000 per year for the Doak and Bonsall Ferry on the San Joaquin River 23

The County Treasurers office complying with the wishes of the Court issued the following legal notice dated July 2 1850

Notice is hereby given that all persons living in the town of Stockton subject to pay license must take out the same on or before the 6th instant and persons residing out of Stockton and yet within the county subject to pay license must take out the same on or before the 15th inst Also all vessels arriving with cargo to be sold from the vessel must take out their license within twelve hours after arriving and before any articles are sold or they will be proceded against as the law directs By order of the court

H W Alden Treasurer Not everybody in the county was happy with the dispatch

shown by the three honorable judges however and a mass meeting was held in Stockton on July 18 to consider means for getting the Court of Sessions to rescind what was described as unjust license tax laws Suits against many businessshymen who had failed to obtain their licenses had already been instituted by the Court and this also angered the citizens

But the Court did have a heart and credit must be given where credit is due These three judges were real gentlemen to-wit

July 9 It is ordered that the County Attorney be and he is hereby instructed to commence no proceedings against any females who are vending or shall hereafter vend without license goods wares or merchandise or who shal exercise any useful trade or business within the limits of San Joaquin County And in the same apparent fit of compassion they ordered

that the county treasurer with the consent of the county judge be and is hereby authorised in his discretion to remit each portion of the tax upon licenses as to him shall be made to appear onerous and oppressive upon the party applying for such a license 2411 heart those fellows Present Board of Supervisors please take note

On October 9 ( 1850) new election precincts were designated

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EARLY SAN JOAQUIN GOVERNMENT (cont) in preparation for a statemiddotwide November election Stockton remained the only voting place in Township 1 and San Joaquin City in Township 2 in Township 3 Islips Ferry and Knights Ferry were added to the Emorys Ferry precinct in Township 4 new precincts were named Williams and Athertons Ranch and Weston and Staples Ranch on the Calaveras and Mokelumne rivers respectively The followshying spring in May and June of 1851 the Court of Sessions created two new townships a reflection of the growing number of families taking up land in the rural areas Township 5 was created out of all that portion of NO4 lying north of the Calaveras River including the Staples Ranch Township 6 was created in the south central part of the county below French Camp and between the San Joaquin River and a line running north-south approximately four miles east of Stockton

On August 5 1853 the Court introduced a radical change in the township pattern for San Joaquin County The six townships were reduced to three and names replaced the previous numbering system Created were ONeal (enshycompassing all of the Weber Grant and much of the island area to the west) Castoria (encompassing all of the south part of the county between the San Joaquin River and Knights Ferry lying below the Mt Diablo east-west base line) and Elkhorn (covering the remaining third of the county lying north of the base line (which runs through the French Camp area) excluding the Weber Grant25

EARLY ROADWAYS IN SA JOAQlI]i COtTY

The public highway and county road systems which today tend to radiate north east and south out of Stockton like the spokes of a wheel are visible vestiges of the original trails and later dirt roads which led out of Stockton during the Gold Rush era Stocktons unique geographical position made her the natural gateway to the southern mines of the Mother Lode region and these early routes were busy with the movement of men and supply wagons and pack animals coming from and going to the mines

On December 3 1850 the Court of Sessions began a systematic program in response to enabling legislation passed at the first session of the Legislature at San Jose to describe and declare certain well-used roadways as public right-of-ways That the citizens who used these roadways understood perfectly well the Courts description there is little doubt but as we look back at them from the perspective of one hundred and twenty-five years one cannot help but be amazed at the sheer simplicity of the entries The first eight roads described by the Board and declared to be public highways provide an interesting study of the settlement patterns in the county in 1850

1) The road as at present travelled from the junction of American and Miners streets in Stockton crossing the Calaveras river at Simpsons Ranche and the Moquelumne river at Weston and Staples Ranche to the county line of Sacramento County

2) The road as now travelled from the junction of American and Miners streets in Stockton to the Calaveras river at Williams and Athertons Ranche crossing and comprehending the ridge at said Ranche and thence by the travelled road to the countv line of Calaveras

3) The road as lain [sic 1Qut by the Court of Sessions of the County of San Joaquin commencing at the east end of Sonora street in Stockton aforesaid and running thence in a direct line and crOSSing the Mormon Slough one hundred and fifty yards east of the house now owned and occupied by James Taber thence following a spotted line to the Haerlam House so called on the road as now travelled to Knights Ferry so called thence by said road as now travelled to the Stanislaus

at Knights Ferry aforesaid -1) The road as laid out bv the Court of Sessions of San

Joaquin County commencing at the east end of Sonora Street in Stockton and running thence and in a direct line crossing the Mormon Slough at a pOint one hundred and fifty yards east of the house now owned and occupied by James D Taber -- thence in a direct line intersecting the road now travelled leading from Stockton to Emorys Ferry at the Four Mile Tent so called thence the road as now travelled to the Stanislaus at Emorys Bridge

5) The road as now travelled from the Lone Tree to Islips Ferry on the Stanislaus River

6) The road as now travelled from the south end of Hunter Street in Stockton aforesaid to the French Camp

7 The road as now travelled from the French Camp to Sirey and Clarks Ferry on the Stanislaus

8) The road as now travelled from the French Camp to the river San Joaquin at Bonsall and Scotts [Mossdale Yl Ferry thence crossing said river by the route now travelled to the County line The Court at the same time appropriated the license fee money assessed against Bonsell amp Scotts Ferry for the improvement of the roadway west of the ferry to the county line They also declared each road to be one hundred feet wide

In February 1852 the Court ordered the creation of six road districts named supervisors to oversee each one and ordered a tax of three days labor in each year to be assessed against all able-bodied men residents of the county between the ages of eighteen and fifty years each man to serve within his own district

In August of 1853 when the Court organized new townships I see above) the v also increased the road districts from the original six to thirty and increased the poll tax for road purposes to five days labor per year

SA- JOAQtI COt]iTY JAIL

The countys first jail facilities were on board a ship located on Stockton ChanneL The Susanna first rented perhaps as early as 1849 from its owner a certain Emil Junge was evidently moved while still serving as a prison ship to the south end of the town to Mormon Channel Junge evidently was unhappy with the rent or the arrangements or both for in early 1850 he was seeking to rent its space for the storage of merchandise and at the same time an article appearing in the Stockton Times of March 1 1850 definitely indicates that prisoners were no longer kept on board the Susanna

Escape of prisoners -- On Monday night last about 10 oclock while the Sheriff and Gaoler were sitting below the rooms where the prisoners are confined in a wooden building on the Peninsula they were alarmed by the noise of chains outside the building They [prisoners] forced the bars from the window walked along the veranda outside to Mr Knights store where they jumped to the ground In July the Court of Sessions ordered the purchase of the

Brig for the use of the county belonging to Dr J B Clements and lying in the Mormon Slough for the sum of five hundred dollars and under the same date (July 9) the following entry was made

Ordered that the County Judge be and is hereby authorshyized to contract with some suitable person to put in repair suitable for the safekeeping of prisoners the Brig ordered to be purchased for the use of the county and to remove the same to some convenient point near the town This would indicate that the County having found the

facilities in the building inadequate had decided to purchase

S JOAQlI mSTORIA

EARLY SAN JOAQUIN GOVERNMENT (cont) he its own brig and once more confine its prisoners to the hold he of a ship Support for this theory can be found in the June 29 its 1850 Stockton Times which reported that on the 22nd the ta sheriff of Jackson Creek had brought two prisoners to

Stockton to be lodged in our prison brig on the Mormon 2 Channel

18 How long this countymiddotowned brig may have served as a lie prison is not certain but a Court of Sessions entry dated ~ December 81851 indicates that the G D Dickenson building as was being rented for use as a courthouse jail and sheriffs y- office at that time26and furthermore on December 22 the 10 Court ordered that the vessel lying in the Mormon Slough

and belonging to the County be sold to a certain Shuball F he Wood for $5000 Then on February 22 1852 the Court again to ordered a move It is ordered that the county prisoners be is removed from the building in which they are at present 0 confined to the building fronting on Hunter Street north of in Channel Street and known as McNishs building he In 1853 the San Joaquin County Jail finally settled itself of with a degree of stability heretofor obviously unknown to this in institution with the opening of a two-story brick jail facility Ile on the north side of Market Street on the lot next to the site of he the old public library on the northeast corner of Hunter and 19 Market streets The building 30 by 40 feet and with walls two ld feet thick cost the county about $15000 and included an ld enclosing wall around the sides and back of the lot fifteen feet

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COUNTY COURTHOUSE ()n

in The second entry in the Court of Sessions Minute Book A dated June 3 1850 reads as follows

3) It is ordered that notification be given to Charles M A Weber Esquire that this Court is now in session and C prepared and ready to receive any communication from F him relative to or concerning any donation from him to the r County of San Joaquin of land for the erection of public ty buildings for the use of the County and thereupon notifishylis cation was placed in the hands of the Sheriff [for delivery in to Mr Weber] ts Captain Weber had already in laying out his young city a set aside certain blocks for public use and block 3 east of Ii Centre Street (bounded by Weber San Joaquin Main and re Hunter Streets) had been specifically marked for the ct erection of public buildings But the county had not to date ~n

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received a deed to the property and hence the peculiarlyshyworded entry in their Minute Book As things turned out procuring clear title on the part of the County proved to be more difficult than anyone had anticipated A deed subsequently was made out and given to the county but it proved to be incorrectly drawn up and so was returned to Weber for correction In the meantime the Court of Sessions levied and continued to collect its special courthouse tax while at the same time having to rent quarters wherever it found them suitable for its needs Like the county jail the county officers seemed to have gone from place to place for several years the MCNish building the Dickenson House the Giraffe Hotel

Again in December of 1851 the Court of Sessions attempted to negotiate with Weber for the conveyance of the block to the county the sheriff the county judge and a third person having been ordered by the Court to negotiate with Weber Nothing was accomplished however as Weber had in the meantime (August 1851) deeded it to the newly-incorporshyated city of Stockton in trust for the county

With the need for county space becoming more acute as the months went by and no doubt urged on considerably by a negative report of the Grand Jury in December 18512Bthe county officials began a serious study of the various alternatives open to them

At about the same time the city realized that it faced a similar problem and in early 1853 the mayor M B Kenney recommended that the city and county join together in the construction of one public building to be shared equally With the eager support of the Court of Sessions a contract for $80000 was signed in July 1853 and the building 60 by 80 feet was completed late in 1853 and dedicated on April 17 1854 The structure was built of brick with a Vallejo sandstone facing on the walls and foundation The architect was F E Corcoran and the general contractor was Theodore Winters A belfry was added in 1859 and a fire bell was installed in it

By previous agreement the county occupied the north portion of the building and the city used the south half The first floor contained twelve rooms and the second floor contained four rooms for court use plus a city meeting room The building was used until the early 1860s for a number of social and political events including dances church festivals and political conventions

In the spring of 1854 over $10000 was spent jointly for dirt

AN ARTISTS CONCEPT of the original citymiddotcounty courthouse built in 1853 on the present Courthouse Square site in downtown Stockton The fountain and the forest of trees are strictly the work of the artist

Taken from the 1879 edition of Thompson amp Wests HISTORY OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY CALIFORNIA

EARLY SAN JOAQUIN GOVERNMENT (con~t) fill to bring the square up to street level This was necessitated by the fact that Branch Slough ran along the west (Hunter Streetgt side of the block from Mormon Slough northwest to Weber and EI Dorado streets near the present Stockton Hotel site and another slough was situated along the north edge of the block Both emptied into Stockton Channel In the same year an artesian well drilled to a depth of 1000 feet was developed on the Hunter Street plaza near the southwest corner of the square and for years the fountain built around it attracted visitors and residents alike29

In 1855 the new Board of Supervisors learned with surprise (according to Tinkham) that what they and most other people were calling the county square was in fact the property of the city alone and after some joint city-county discussions the common council of Stockton deeded one half of the square to the county

On March 20 1855 the California Legislature brought an

EDITORS ~OTES

1 Mexican sovereignty over Alta California lasted from 1822 to 1848 legally and the government of the territory was organized on Spanish system which combined legislative and judicial in their town alcaldes and their district prefects and submiddotprefects provincial governor and a general legislative assembly provided overmiddotall government from the Alta CalIfornia departmental headquarters at Monterey The settled (coastal) part of this large territory was under the more direct authority of the prefects whose headquarters were at Los Angeles (for the south) and Monterey (for the north) Two more were organized in the territory at Santa Barbara and San Jose that date at least theoretically the San Joaquin area (los tulares) would have been under the jurisdiction of the prefect of San Jose

2 These frve local grants were as follows 1) Arroyo $eco granted in 1840 and located in the counties of

Sacramento Amador and San Joaquin by Andres Pico (48860 acres) and patented to him by the U S government in 1863

2) Pescadero granted in 1843 and situated in San Joaquin County north of Tracy Claimed by Antonio Pico and Henry M Naglee (35550 acres) and approved by the U S in 1865

3) Pescadero also granted in 1843 but located on the west Side of the San Joaquin River south of Mossdale Y and extending southmiddot ward below Grayson in Stanislaus County and Francis W Grimes and William A McKee claimed 34450 acres and it was approved by the U S in 1858

4) Zanjon de los Moquelumnes granted in 1844 and located in both Sacramento and San Joaquin counties The U S government patent was received on It by Angel and Maria Chabolla in 1865 35500 acres

5) Estanislao (commonly referred to Thompsons Grant) granted ID 1846 and located In San Joaquin and countles in the Oakdale area GrantedO Alpheus B Thompson in 1846 and approved by the U S 10 1858 It consIsted of approximately 35530 acres

3 Rockwell D Hunt The Genesis of Californias First Constitution (JoJn Hopkins University Studies In and Political Science) 13th series Vllt (Baltimore The John Hopkins 1895) 16 Almost all of the Americans then resident in California were living the narrow coastal belt where the missions and pueblos were located

4 This interim government Mexican in form and American in applIcation bullbull was based upon two decrees issued by the Mexican Congress (in Mexico City) in 1837 dealing with political and judicial organiZatIon of the various departments (states) of the Mexican republIC

5 The other nine districts were Diego Los Angeles Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Monterey Jose San Francisco Sonoma and Sacramento At this lime the growth was occurring appreciably only in the northern districts with the Sacramento and San Joaquin dlstrrcts mushrooming due to the mining activities In the Mother Lode region The estimated populalion of California (excluding the Indians) was 26000 in January of 1849 and 50000 by first with the increase almost exclusively m the north-central of the state

6 The other nine elected delegates who never attended any of the sessions of the constitutional convention were S Haley C L Peck M Fallon B Ogden George A Pendleton Jeremiah Ford Colonel Jackson B L Morgac and Walter Chipman

The office of the might be compared to the office of a justice of the peace today The and West History of San Joaquin County Califomia (1879) states a Mr Townsend was the first person who served as alcatde followed by Belt (p 24) This seems unlikely however ur-Iess Townsend served a few weeks as a September 20 dccvment was SIgned by Belt as of Stockton (See Tinkham A History of Stockton p 1311

end to government by the Court of Sessions replacing it in San Joaquin County with a three-man Board of Supervisors Pursuant to that legislative act on April 16 Gilbert Claiborne county clerk S A Hurbut the county assessor and J S Whiting the county surveyor divided the county into three supervisorial districts and established the necessary election precincts and voting apparatus necessary for the transition to the new system

The election took place on May 7 1855 and J A Taylor C V Bradford and S ilIiams were elected Mr Taylor was elected chairman at the first meeting held on the 21st of May With their assumption of the duties of a Board of Supervisors the pioneer Court of Sessions came to an end and with it the early and most interesting pha~e of county history truly the pioneer era in the long history of San Joaquin County

8 It lad been a fairly-well established under Mexican rule for the governor to appOint the elected first to serve as judges of the first instance as well Hence General Riley was simply following precedent in this case (See HlttelL History of Califomia Vol II p 778)

9 The delegates quickly opted tor statehood rather than territorial status as the population was growing so A Dectaration of Rights was passed unanimously Including the that slavery would never be tolerated in CalifornIa The most serious argument at the convention centered around the establishment of the states eastern boundary Some delegates favored including all the Nevada and Utah areas some supported a move to make the summit of the Sierra Nevada the eastern boundary The majonty voted to establish it baSIcally as it is today

10 The delegates voted to establish a state supreme court a number of district courts each to two or more counties county courts loca justIce of the peace Details of organization were left to the legislative body to determine

11 There appears 10 have been no convention discussion concerning the form of the politIcal subdivisions to be organized in the new state Article XI Section 4 reads The Legislature shall establish a system of county and town governments which shall be as nearly uniform as practicable throughout the state In at least four other sections of the constitution reference is made to county government This followed the pattern of local government in most of the eastern states then in the union

12 Seven communities sought the honor of serving as the capital and the de1egales of each campaigned for his home town Benicia Monterey San FranCISCO San Jose San Luis Obispo Santa Barbara and Stockton San Jose was chosen

13 State population was eslimated at 81000 on January 1 1850 76000 Amerrcans 18000 foreIgners and 13000 Californians The native IndIan populatIon was obviously excluded from the count

14 By comparison rallllIIlU District received an equal number of seats 10 both houses districts in fact were paired off and had to share senators

15 Taylor in February 1850 just two months after taking the oath of office William D Fair was elected to fill out his term in the first sessIon of the new legislature On April 10 (1850) Senator Vermeule reshySIgned In order to become city attorney for San Jose

16 The servIce record of the San Joaquin Dstrict Assemblymen was rather several like Creaner and Ogier served well) Only six of the for the opening session 0 December 17 Stephens and

on December 22 and 24 respectively Mr Van Benscholen 14 Then on March 4 Mr Stephens resigned followed by and Heath On April 2 Charles Creaner resigned to become

and Morehead resigned as of the last day of the first session 1850

17 de a Guerras report was the result of a Senate resolution passed the week ton December 271849) instructing the committee to report

the earlest pOSSible day a bill laying off the state into counties and the seats of Justice for each county (Senate Journal 27)

of the Senate Committee presented on January 18 an additIonal seven counties and suggested some name

Including Calaveras for San Joaquin Further amendments Iwo more creating a Calaveras County and re-establishing San

Joaquin as a county name

EARLY SAN JOAQUIN GOVERNMENT (con~t) fill to bring the square up to street level This was necessitated by the fact that Branch Slough ran along the west (Hunter Streetgt side of the block from Mormon Slough northwest to Weber and EI Dorado streets near the present Stockton Hotel site and another slough was situated along the north edge of the block Both emptied into Stockton Channel In the same year an artesian well drilled to a depth of 1000 feet was developed on the Hunter Street plaza near the southwest corner of the square and for years the fountain built around it attracted visitors and residents alike29

In 1855 the new Board of Supervisors learned with surprise (according to Tinkham) that what they and most other people were calling the county square was in fact the property of the city alone and after some joint city-county discussions the common council of Stockton deeded one half of the square to the county

On March 20 1855 the California Legislature brought an

EDITORS ~OTES

1 Mexican sovereignty over Alta California lasted from 1822 to 1848 legally and the government of the territory was organized on Spanish system which combined legislative and judicial in their town alcaldes and their district prefects and submiddotprefects provincial governor and a general legislative assembly provided overmiddotall government from the Alta CalIfornia departmental headquarters at Monterey The settled (coastal) part of this large territory was under the more direct authority of the prefects whose headquarters were at Los Angeles (for the south) and Monterey (for the north) Two more were organized in the territory at Santa Barbara and San Jose that date at least theoretically the San Joaquin area (los tulares) would have been under the jurisdiction of the prefect of San Jose

2 These frve local grants were as follows 1) Arroyo $eco granted in 1840 and located in the counties of

Sacramento Amador and San Joaquin by Andres Pico (48860 acres) and patented to him by the U S government in 1863

2) Pescadero granted in 1843 and situated in San Joaquin County north of Tracy Claimed by Antonio Pico and Henry M Naglee (35550 acres) and approved by the U S in 1865

3) Pescadero also granted in 1843 but located on the west Side of the San Joaquin River south of Mossdale Y and extending southmiddot ward below Grayson in Stanislaus County and Francis W Grimes and William A McKee claimed 34450 acres and it was approved by the U S in 1858

4) Zanjon de los Moquelumnes granted in 1844 and located in both Sacramento and San Joaquin counties The U S government patent was received on It by Angel and Maria Chabolla in 1865 35500 acres

5) Estanislao (commonly referred to Thompsons Grant) granted ID 1846 and located In San Joaquin and countles in the Oakdale area GrantedO Alpheus B Thompson in 1846 and approved by the U S 10 1858 It consIsted of approximately 35530 acres

3 Rockwell D Hunt The Genesis of Californias First Constitution (JoJn Hopkins University Studies In and Political Science) 13th series Vllt (Baltimore The John Hopkins 1895) 16 Almost all of the Americans then resident in California were living the narrow coastal belt where the missions and pueblos were located

4 This interim government Mexican in form and American in applIcation bullbull was based upon two decrees issued by the Mexican Congress (in Mexico City) in 1837 dealing with political and judicial organiZatIon of the various departments (states) of the Mexican republIC

5 The other nine districts were Diego Los Angeles Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Monterey Jose San Francisco Sonoma and Sacramento At this lime the growth was occurring appreciably only in the northern districts with the Sacramento and San Joaquin dlstrrcts mushrooming due to the mining activities In the Mother Lode region The estimated populalion of California (excluding the Indians) was 26000 in January of 1849 and 50000 by first with the increase almost exclusively m the north-central of the state

6 The other nine elected delegates who never attended any of the sessions of the constitutional convention were S Haley C L Peck M Fallon B Ogden George A Pendleton Jeremiah Ford Colonel Jackson B L Morgac and Walter Chipman

The office of the might be compared to the office of a justice of the peace today The and West History of San Joaquin County Califomia (1879) states a Mr Townsend was the first person who served as alcatde followed by Belt (p 24) This seems unlikely however ur-Iess Townsend served a few weeks as a September 20 dccvment was SIgned by Belt as of Stockton (See Tinkham A History of Stockton p 1311

end to government by the Court of Sessions replacing it in San Joaquin County with a three-man Board of Supervisors Pursuant to that legislative act on April 16 Gilbert Claiborne county clerk S A Hurbut the county assessor and J S Whiting the county surveyor divided the county into three supervisorial districts and established the necessary election precincts and voting apparatus necessary for the transition to the new system

The election took place on May 7 1855 and J A Taylor C V Bradford and S ilIiams were elected Mr Taylor was elected chairman at the first meeting held on the 21st of May With their assumption of the duties of a Board of Supervisors the pioneer Court of Sessions came to an end and with it the early and most interesting pha~e of county history truly the pioneer era in the long history of San Joaquin County

8 It lad been a fairly-well established under Mexican rule for the governor to appOint the elected first to serve as judges of the first instance as well Hence General Riley was simply following precedent in this case (See HlttelL History of Califomia Vol II p 778)

9 The delegates quickly opted tor statehood rather than territorial status as the population was growing so A Dectaration of Rights was passed unanimously Including the that slavery would never be tolerated in CalifornIa The most serious argument at the convention centered around the establishment of the states eastern boundary Some delegates favored including all the Nevada and Utah areas some supported a move to make the summit of the Sierra Nevada the eastern boundary The majonty voted to establish it baSIcally as it is today

10 The delegates voted to establish a state supreme court a number of district courts each to two or more counties county courts loca justIce of the peace Details of organization were left to the legislative body to determine

11 There appears 10 have been no convention discussion concerning the form of the politIcal subdivisions to be organized in the new state Article XI Section 4 reads The Legislature shall establish a system of county and town governments which shall be as nearly uniform as practicable throughout the state In at least four other sections of the constitution reference is made to county government This followed the pattern of local government in most of the eastern states then in the union

12 Seven communities sought the honor of serving as the capital and the de1egales of each campaigned for his home town Benicia Monterey San FranCISCO San Jose San Luis Obispo Santa Barbara and Stockton San Jose was chosen

13 State population was eslimated at 81000 on January 1 1850 76000 Amerrcans 18000 foreIgners and 13000 Californians The native IndIan populatIon was obviously excluded from the count

14 By comparison rallllIIlU District received an equal number of seats 10 both houses districts in fact were paired off and had to share senators

15 Taylor in February 1850 just two months after taking the oath of office William D Fair was elected to fill out his term in the first sessIon of the new legislature On April 10 (1850) Senator Vermeule reshySIgned In order to become city attorney for San Jose

16 The servIce record of the San Joaquin Dstrict Assemblymen was rather several like Creaner and Ogier served well) Only six of the for the opening session 0 December 17 Stephens and

on December 22 and 24 respectively Mr Van Benscholen 14 Then on March 4 Mr Stephens resigned followed by and Heath On April 2 Charles Creaner resigned to become

and Morehead resigned as of the last day of the first session 1850

17 de a Guerras report was the result of a Senate resolution passed the week ton December 271849) instructing the committee to report

the earlest pOSSible day a bill laying off the state into counties and the seats of Justice for each county (Senate Journal 27)

of the Senate Committee presented on January 18 an additIonal seven counties and suggested some name

Including Calaveras for San Joaquin Further amendments Iwo more creating a Calaveras County and re-establishing San

Joaquin as a county name

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19 General Vallejo at this time a state senator and the chairman of the committee to report on the derivation of county names a written report on April 16 1850 covering all twenty-seven Joaquin County he noled took its name from the river which Moraga had so named in honor of Sl Joachim the father of Mary the mother of Jesus While beside the point al this time it might be worth noting his comment on Stockton the county seat it is destined to become the city of San Joaquin notWithstanding the absolute lack of poetry In its name

20 The polling place in Stockton was the own saloon-hotel the Dickenson House on the east side of Center between Weber and Main streets A description of his establishment is given in Martins Stockton Album Through the Years p 107 Bonsall amp Doaks Ferry was at Mossdale Y on the San Joaquin Heath amp Emorys Ferry was on the Stanislaus River on the southeast corner of the county but now a part of Stanislaus County Atherton and Davis were located along the Calaveras River northeast of Stockton and Isbets Ranch was on the north Side of the same rover north of the Waterloo area St Louis City must be a misprint for San Joaquin City Knights Ferry is still an active community but now in Stanislaus County Reds Tent was probably located about one mole south of the present town of Linden Lairds Ranch was along the Mokelumne River a few miles west of the present town of Lockeford and at that time on the Stockton-Sacramento road The locations of the others remain obscure

21 Amyx did not last long as a member of the Court of Sessions He on October B following public disclosure of misconduct in The following is quoted from the December 141850 issue of the Stockton Times

Important trial --An important trial will come off today --The people of the State of California on relation of D W Perley [prosecuting attorney] V Hairston Amyx Esq The charges are -- Fraud taking illegal fees In office extortion bribery and corruption and violating his oath of office as judge of the court of sessions

Amyx was found guilty In October 1851 the presiding judge Williams ran into a similar problem but escaped being brought to trial thanks to a friendly District Attorney He resigned also Emory succeeded Williams as the presiding judge was honest but quite ircompetent and he resigned the laughing stock of all men as Tinkham pul it

22 These sources evidently proved to be insufficient as we find that by the first of April of the following year (1851) $42314 worth of scrip had been issued in order to meet the countys payroll demands Approximately $21000 01 that amount had been redeemed to date leaving a scrip debt 01 over $21000 to be met

23 On December 231851 the Court of Sessions sought to bring the privatelyshyowned ferries in the county under closer regulation through adoption of uf1llorm ferriage rates some of which were as follows

1) for loaded wagons more than four horses mules or oxen $300 maximum

2) man and horse 50c 3) Pack mule with 50c 4) foot passengers

24 And in what has 10 be one of the fastest appearances of onerous and oppreSSive taxes in the history of San Joaquin County we find in the very next entry that the ferry operators Sirey and Clark petitioned for and received a reduclion in their ferry license fee in the amount of $5000

Two years later (in June of 1852) bull and bear fighting exhibits evidently by then a rather common form of amusement were added to the list of taxable activities $2500 per exhibit being charged to the sponsors

25 Six more townships were carved out of these three early ones between 1853 and 1861 Ell iott township was formed in 1855 from the eastern haif of Elkhorn the following year the area west and south of the San Joaqun became Tulare Township Dent TownShip created in 1859 was formed out of the east half 01 Castoria and the south part of Elliott Part of thiS area was lost to Stanislaus County the following year Douglass Township was also created in 1859 bounded by Elliott on the north on the east by Stanislaus County on the south by the base line and on the west by the Weber Grant In 1861 Liberty and Union townships were carved out 01 the north portion of Elliott and the west part of Elkhorn respectively Union Township soon became a rich agricultural area being mostly composed of cverftowed lands which were reclaimed and planted to crops

26 A May 5 1851 Stockton Times news article may prOVide a partial answer to the puzzle concerning the move from the county brig to the Dickenson buldmg On that date the Times reported that two gentlemen by the name of Baker and Hickman were allowed a payment of $11500 for iron and locks furnished the county prison and a bill for $2540 turned In by a certain Chartes Brown for sheet iron for the jail was also honored

27 A photograph of this jail building can be found in Covert Martins Stockton Album Through the Years p 48

28 The Grand Jury criticized the heavy outlay of tax monies for the rent of the MacNlsh building -- $7900 a year -- and the county was already in debt ITlnkham History 01 San Joaquin County p 68) They naturally adVised the

Immediate construction of suitable county facilities

29 Desple the dlft fil and the beautiful fountain out in the plaza nothing was really done to landscape the block until 1858-1860 when a chain fence was nstalled around the perimeter and lawn shrubs and trees were panted -- the latter financed through pubhc donations

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the Formation of the State Constitution in September and October 1849 Washington John T Towers 1850 479 pp Appendix pp I-XLVI

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Cowan Robert G Ranchos 01 California A list of Spanish Concessions 1775-1822 and Mexican Grants 1822-1846 Fresno Academy Library Guild 1956 151 pp

Cry Owen C California County Boundaries A Study of the Division of the State into Counties and the Subsequent Changes in Their Boundaries With Maps ReVised edlton Fresno Valley Publishers 1973 345 pp

Gilbert Col F T History 01 San Joaquin County California With Illustrations Descriptive of lis Scenery Residences Public Buildings Fine Blocks and Manufactures Oakland Trompson and West 1879 140 pp

GOQdwln Card nat The Establishment 01 State Government in California 1846-1850 New York Macmillan Co 1914 359 pp

itell TheQcore H History of California Vol II San Francisco Pacific Press Publshlng House 1885 823 pp

Hun Rockwell D The Genesis 01 Californias First Constitution (1846-1849) IJohn Hopkins University Studies In Historical amp Political Science -- 13th Seres -- VIII) Baltimore The John Hopkins Press 1895 59 pp

Marln V Covert Stockton Album Through the Years Stockton Simard Printing Co 1959 237 pp

San JoaqUin County Minute Book A -- Court of Sessions (Civil) San Joaquin County California [1850-52] Stockton County Archives MS 267 pp

San JoaqUin County Minute Book B -- Court of Sessions -- 1852-55 Stockton County Archives MS 471 pp

Smith Wallace Garden of the Sun Fourth Edition Fresno Max Hardison -shyA-lt PInters 1960 581 pp

Tinkham Geoge H History of San Joaquin County California With Bioshy9raphieal Sketches Los Angeles Historic Record Company 1923 1640 pp

Tinkham George H A History of Stockton From Its Organization into the Present Time Including a Sketch 01 San Joaquin County San Francisco W M Hnton amp Co 1880 397 pp

-------AN Illustrated History of San Joaquin County California Chicago The Lewis Publishing Company 1890 666 pp

Stockton Times March 1850-April 1851

SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM by Medora Johnson

From the time of its organization the Historical Society received artifacts of every description large and small Unfortunately storage was restricted to the basement of the public library and the homes of members Some members of the Society as well as citizens of the community housed their own articles waiting for the SOCiety to be able to receive them Except for isolated instances there was no way that any of these objects could be displayed to be enjoyed by the entire community

Then in 1961 William G Micke an honorary member of the SOCiety passed away The County Board of Supervisors was asked to grant the museum committee of the Society the privilege of selecting those items from the Micke home that would be suitable for a museum to be built at Micke Grove Park This request was granted and everything from the dining room and parlor including light fixtures and carpets was placed in storage along with other items from the home These are still in storage awaiting construction of the main museum building

Individual items and large collections continued to be donated to the Society The public library desperately needed its room for its own use Especially the large pieces of furniture and eqUipment were suffering from lack of proper

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San Joaquin County Historical Museum (cant) storage and care Other historical objects had to be refused for lack of storage space After many meetings and consultations with leading museums in the state the Society approached the county and in 1966 an agreement between the county and the Society was signed whereby the Society was designated the authorized body to collect and care for museum pieces Of prime importance at this time was the availability of a temporary office and storage area in one of the new buildings at the south side of the park The office was first occupied Oct 2 1967 and within a short time of this move the Society turned over for storage in excess of 1000 items which had been accumulated during the preceding years (Some of the larger objects as well as all of the Micke collection continue to be housed at private dwellings or in public storage) Also at this same time a twelve acre plot north of the main entrance was designated for a museum complex The area was cleared of vines and through a Federal grant roadways drainage restrooms and water were provided

The official name by order of the County Board of Supervisors was The San Joaquin County Historical Museum In 1969 bids were let for construction of the first exhibit hall funds coming from the Micke estate It is interesting to note that the low bid for this structure was $32717 The building was officially opened on July 19 1971 in conjunction with the first annual barbecue

Articles for this first building were selected with care to give a capsule story of our county from the native inhabitants to the pioneer settlers emphasizing man and his relationship to the soil Those areas adjacent to the building were landscaped with native flora The outer portions of the complex were planted with California native flora in life zones The Garden Clubs have contributed greatly to the purchase of plant specimens and markers Individuals have grown plants and assisted with the gardens In April of 1973 the first California Spring Wild Flower Show was held at the museum In 1974 the show was enhanced with an exhibit of local art with subject matter of suitable nature

Full accreditation was granted to the San Joaquin County Historical Museum by the American Association of Museums in February of 1973 In a period of less than two years from the opening of its first building the museum met the standards of operation established by the museum professhysion This was indeed an honor and one which we must work to maintain

The museum belongs to the people of San Joaquin County and from the outset many individuals and organizations have contributed to its growth in ways other than through donations beginning with members of the Historical Society

who have served on the Museum Board Other persons have given invaluable service acted as consultants and shared their knowledge in specialized fields

A dozen women joined together to form the Docent Council and in the fall of 1973 the first training session for Docents was begun This training was put into practice during the following spring with the members of the Council doing a beautiful job of handling the many reservations for guided school tours This group has continued to be very active serving as guides doing research helping in the office and participating in special events

Young people have been involved in many ways Members of 4-H Scouting Camp Fire Girls and The Young Historians have contributed to craft and skills demonstrations as well as to actual volunteer services

Service clubs have undertaken both short and long range programs such as the restoration of a peddler wagon and raising funds to establish the Sunshine Trail The Walled Garden to be adjacent to the main museum building in an ongoing project of the Lodi Garden Club

Some special events as well as those already known as traditions have brought recognition to the museum The annual barbecue and demonstration-show attracted 500 people in 1974 The Spring Wild Flower Show drew twice that number A two-day quilt show in May of 1974 was attended by several hundred people The Soroptimist Club Chuckwagon supper and whist party was well supported Of particular interest early in 1974 was the commemorative program to celebrate the lOOth birthdav of William G Micke There was a ceremony for the planting of a Missouri Cedar tree from Mr Mickes childhood home and a narrative about him compiled by Myrtle Mays was published by the museum In attendance for the occasion were his niece and nephew as well as local dignitaries and members of the community

With the museum even now a vital part of the county we must look toward the future Increasingly residents make donations of artifacts and money Memorial Fund contrishybutions are more frequent A great forward step was taken on September 10 1974 when bids were opened for the construction of the second exhibition hall To be built from Revenue Sharing monies at a cost not to exceed $62969 this hall will be completed in time for a grand opening at the July 16 1975 Annual Barbecue The first phase of the main museum building has been cleared for a share of the Park Bond monies allocated to San Joaquin County However the disbursement of those funds has not been made at this time Certainly an appropriate celebration in 1976 for ten years of museum activity would be the opening of a proper home for at least some of the Micke collection

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SAN JOAQlIl N COUNTY HISTOR ICAl SOCI ETY 1954-1974 October 27 1954 Lodi District Historical Society charter

dinner and first installation of officers Charter membership in the California Conference of Historical Societies granted

March 23 1955 rame of the organization changed to Northshyern San Joaquin County Historical Society

May 19 1956 Dedication of the historic marker at site of San Joaquin Valley College in Woodbridge

April 28 1960 Dedication of the Salem School bell plaque at Ladi Lake Park

March 27 1961 Name of the organization changed to San Joaquin County Historical Society

Mav 22 1961 Request sent to San Joaquin County Board of - Supervisors for inventory of contents of the Micke

home for possible inclusion in a future museum

November 3 1962 Dedication of the historic marker at site of San Joaquin City below Mossdale Y crossing of the San Joaquin River

January 15 1963 First issue (Volume 1 Number 1) of the Society quarterly the Bulletin (now the San Joaquin IIistorian)

ovember 12 1963 Certification by the California Secretary of State of the Societys Articles of Incorporation

January 27 1964 Recognition as a tax-exempt non-profit organization granted by the California State Franshychise Board

June 28 1966 Agreement signed with the County of San Joaquin authorizing the Society to be the collecting agency for the County in acquiring items of historic significance for preservation Medora Johnson

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Highlights of the San Joaquin County Historical Society 1954middot1974 (cont) appointed director November 8 1969 Participation with other local historical

June 8 1967 Recognition as a tax-exempt organization by groups in dedication of historical plaque commemorshythe Internal Revenue Service under Section 501 (c) ating the completion of the Central Pacific Railroad (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 bridge across the San Joaquin River at the Mossdale

May 271968 Adoption of a recommendation of the Museum Y thereby completing the railroad link between San Committee creating the Museum Development Fund Francisco and the East Coast for receiving donations and memorials July H 1971 Completion of the first building in the proposed

July 26 1969 Participation with other local historical groups museum complex at Micke Grove opening cereshyin marking Lindsay Point in Stockton as an historical monies and first annual barbeque and Museum Show landmark

)f a n y INDEX TO VOLUME X NUMBERS 1 - 4

Ie Vol X No1 JANUARY - MARCH 1974 pp 33-40 Tales of Old San Joaquin Cityw Vol X No2 APRIL - JUNE 1974 pp41-46 Tales of Old San Joaquin Citya Vol X NO3 JULY - SEPTEMBER 1974 pp 47-52 Tales of Old San Joaquin Cityr Vol X No4 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 1974 pp 53-66 Early San Joaquin Governmentir f Airport Way (Road) 39 Coloma (Calif) 54 Gibbes C 52 Kasson Road 51

Akerley (Miss) Marian 56 Colton (Rev) Walter 34 Giffen (Mrs) 56 Kenney M B 61 Alameda amp San Joaquin RR 43 Committee on Counties amp County Hotel 61 Kettelman (Mrs) Gertrude McCuen d Alaska 41 Boundaries 58 Henry Jr 55 56 57

Y Aldin H W 58 59 Conference of California Historical Jim 51 Knights Ferry 58-60 i 63 0 Aleutians 41 Soceties 56 64 (Mrs) Anne K bull 56 Knoles (Dr) Tully 55

Amador County 62 Connecticut F ire Insurance Co 52 (Calif ) 38 39 49 62 Koster Road 34-37 i 47Ir American Association for State amp Constitutional Convention Central Valley 54 Lairds Ranch 58 63 0 Local History 56 (Monterey) 55 Greenwood Road 48 49 Lathrop (Calif) 42 44

American Association of Museums Contra Costa County 58 (Mrs) Emma Pearson 56 Latta (Dr) Samuel E 49 64 Cooper (Mrs) Helene 56 Ward M 56 Latta Samuel G bull 49 n Amyx Hairston 59 63 Corcoran F E 61 Grmes Hiram amp Francis 62 Leader (ship) 38

e Angermeier Robert 57 Corral Hollow 33 34 43 Ed 39 - Letcher (Dr) Howard T 57 Arroyo Seco (land grant) 62 Court of Sessions (San Joaquin amp Zmmerman (Stockton) 46 Liberty Township 63

a

It Ashe R P (Sheriff) 58 59 County) 58-63 H E Wright (ship) 38 Linden (Calif) 34

n Atherton amp Davis (Ranch) 58 63 Creaner Charles M 55 58 62 choto 01 38 Linne Adolph 39 s Atlanta (CaliL) 48 Creighton (Mrs) VaLois 56 Haas (Mrs) Edward 56 Linne Anna Collins 39

Bailey Charles Kimball 34 Crow W H 38 House (San Joaqun Co) Lippincott B S 54 55w Bailey amp Carpenter 34 Cunningham (Sherifl) Thomas 44 Livermores (Livermore Calif) 52d Baldwin D P 55 Curry (Capt) Jack 39 41 Haggerty (Capt) John 38 Lockeford (Calif) 63

Banner Island 39 41 42 46 de la Guerra (State 58 62 Haley Salisbury 55 62 Lodi (Calif) 55 56 Bantas (Calif) 33 43 49 Den (Captain) Hansen Anna Scheuler 39 Lodi District Hislorical Society 55

school 38 Dent Township 63 Healds Business College (San 56 64 Barbour Roswell P 55 56 Devil Elbow (San Joaquin RIVer) FranCISCo) 47 Lodi Garden Club 64 Belknap James D amp Rachel 34 52 Heath R W 55 62 Lodi Grape Festival 55 Belknap Mary E 34 Dickenson Gallant D 54 55 58 61 Heath amp Emorys Ferry 58-60 63 Lodi Soroplimist Club 64 n Belt George G (alcalde) 54 55 62 63 Hen ke Herman 37 The Lodi Times 55

n Benicia (CaliL) 62 Doak amp Bonsells Ferry 5258 5963 Henke (Theodore) Ranch 38 37 London Jack 41

e Bennett (Mrs) Louise Jahant 56 Douglass David F 55 Herron Walter 58 Lone Tree (San Joaquin River) 52 Bethany (CaliL) 33 Douglass Township 63 Hicks Ranch 58 Looser (Mrs) Eunice Spenker 56

e Blais (Mrs) Elma Huffman 56 Dragoo (Mrs) Frances Tuttle 56 Highway 33 36 Looser H E 56 it Blakely John 56 Dreyer Chares 36 3740454950 H liken Herman 39 Los Angeles (Cali) 44

Blossom (Ship) 39 Dryer Ed 39 Hllken Josie 39 Los Angeles (District) 62 o Bonta Robert 54 Dude (ship) 38 HilI MaUrice 56 Manteca Road 39 d Booker S A bull 58 Durham Ferry 38 48 51 Hills Ferry 38 39 44 Marble Mrs 43

Boone (Mrs) Louise Smith 56 Durham Ferry Road 34-36 44 Hollingsworth J McHenry 54 Marion (snag boat) 33 34 38 Boyd Ralph 56 Ebe Henry 34 Hoi t Larry 50 Mariposa County 58

s d Boynton Amy L 55-57 Ebe Jake 35 37 Hosmer (Mrs) Frances Pool 56 Marshall James 54 n Boynton Gladys 57 Ekenberg AI 37 39 45 Hospital Canyon 51 Martin V Covert 46 63

Bradford Abraham C 58 59 Ekenberg Aud tonum 36 Huck Frances 39 Martins Tent (San Joaquin Co) 52

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Bradford C W 62 EI Campo de los franceses 54 59 Hull Roy 49 Mary Garrett (sh ip) 38 Branch Slough (Slockton) 62 60 63 Hunt (Dr) Rockwell D 55 56 62 Matteson amp Williamson (Stockton)

e Brewer William Fbull 55 56 Elkhorn Inn 33 Hu nter Street plaza 62 51

middots Brewer William Hbull 34 Elkhorn Township 6e 63 Hurbut S A 62 Mays Myrtie 64 Brier (Mrs) Hilda 56 Eliott 63 Hutchins (Dr) J Randolph 56 McDougall (Lt Gov) John 58

n Brooks E L 58 Emerson (Lodi) 55 Isbell (Capt) James L 39 41 42 McGee Bertha (Dollie) 39 n6 Burnett (Gov) Peter H 55 58 Oliver C 59 63 Isbels Ranch 58 63 McKee William A 62

Bush (Mrs) Helen Gray 56 (land gran) 62 Isiand Transportation Co 38 3941 McMasters F A 57e Calaveras County 58 62 Fair William D 62 42 64 McNoble amp McNoble 44 I Calaveras River 60 63 Fallon M 62 Islander (ship) 39 42 McNish Building 61 63

California (Alta) 54 58 59 62 Fanny Ann Isieton (Ca) 41 Messer George 50 map of 58 Fnch Isiips Ferry 60 Messer Henry 50

California History Foundation 56 Finch J R McDonald (ship) 38 Mexico 54 e Carey (Mrs) Naomi 55-57

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Jackson (Colonel) bull 62 Mexico City 54 62 ) Carrell Edward 33 34 Jackson Creek (CalL) 61 Micke Grove (Cali) 53 56 64 65

Castoria Township 38 39 48 60 63 48 Japan 41 Micke William G 63 64 d Japanese (in Della) 42 Miller amp Lux Corp 38

Chabolla Angel amp Maria 62 58 60 Johnson DaVid Philip 56 MinIck (Mrs) Thelma Winters 56 Channel Robert 56 Johnson (Mrs) Medora 53 55-57 MissiSSIppi River 52

Central Pacific Railroad 42 43 65

s Chinese (as laborers) 38 63 64 Mix A A 58 s (in Delta) 42 Jones (Hon) Edward 44 Mohrs Landing 33

y Chipman Walter 62 Jones James M 54 Mokelumne Hill (Cali) 34 Claiborne Gilbert 62 Wilma 39 Jones (Mrs) Wimfred Beckman 56 Mokelumne RIVer 60 63)f Clara Crow (ship) 38 50 Junge Emil 60 Monterey (Cali) 54 62

h Kahlke John 39 Monterey (District) 62 a College 01 the Pacific (Stockton) 56

Clements J B 58 Kasson Lake 34 Moore B F 54 55

Frerichs Anna 39 Frerichs Henry 39 Frerichs John 39

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San Joaquin County Historical Museum (cant) storage and care Other historical objects had to be refused for lack of storage space After many meetings and consultations with leading museums in the state the Society approached the county and in 1966 an agreement between the county and the Society was signed whereby the Society was designated the authorized body to collect and care for museum pieces Of prime importance at this time was the availability of a temporary office and storage area in one of the new buildings at the south side of the park The office was first occupied Oct 2 1967 and within a short time of this move the Society turned over for storage in excess of 1000 items which had been accumulated during the preceding years (Some of the larger objects as well as all of the Micke collection continue to be housed at private dwellings or in public storage) Also at this same time a twelve acre plot north of the main entrance was designated for a museum complex The area was cleared of vines and through a Federal grant roadways drainage restrooms and water were provided

The official name by order of the County Board of Supervisors was The San Joaquin County Historical Museum In 1969 bids were let for construction of the first exhibit hall funds coming from the Micke estate It is interesting to note that the low bid for this structure was $32717 The building was officially opened on July 19 1971 in conjunction with the first annual barbecue

Articles for this first building were selected with care to give a capsule story of our county from the native inhabitants to the pioneer settlers emphasizing man and his relationship to the soil Those areas adjacent to the building were landscaped with native flora The outer portions of the complex were planted with California native flora in life zones The Garden Clubs have contributed greatly to the purchase of plant specimens and markers Individuals have grown plants and assisted with the gardens In April of 1973 the first California Spring Wild Flower Show was held at the museum In 1974 the show was enhanced with an exhibit of local art with subject matter of suitable nature

Full accreditation was granted to the San Joaquin County Historical Museum by the American Association of Museums in February of 1973 In a period of less than two years from the opening of its first building the museum met the standards of operation established by the museum professhysion This was indeed an honor and one which we must work to maintain

The museum belongs to the people of San Joaquin County and from the outset many individuals and organizations have contributed to its growth in ways other than through donations beginning with members of the Historical Society

who have served on the Museum Board Other persons have given invaluable service acted as consultants and shared their knowledge in specialized fields

A dozen women joined together to form the Docent Council and in the fall of 1973 the first training session for Docents was begun This training was put into practice during the following spring with the members of the Council doing a beautiful job of handling the many reservations for guided school tours This group has continued to be very active serving as guides doing research helping in the office and participating in special events

Young people have been involved in many ways Members of 4-H Scouting Camp Fire Girls and The Young Historians have contributed to craft and skills demonstrations as well as to actual volunteer services

Service clubs have undertaken both short and long range programs such as the restoration of a peddler wagon and raising funds to establish the Sunshine Trail The Walled Garden to be adjacent to the main museum building in an ongoing project of the Lodi Garden Club

Some special events as well as those already known as traditions have brought recognition to the museum The annual barbecue and demonstration-show attracted 500 people in 1974 The Spring Wild Flower Show drew twice that number A two-day quilt show in May of 1974 was attended by several hundred people The Soroptimist Club Chuckwagon supper and whist party was well supported Of particular interest early in 1974 was the commemorative program to celebrate the lOOth birthdav of William G Micke There was a ceremony for the planting of a Missouri Cedar tree from Mr Mickes childhood home and a narrative about him compiled by Myrtle Mays was published by the museum In attendance for the occasion were his niece and nephew as well as local dignitaries and members of the community

With the museum even now a vital part of the county we must look toward the future Increasingly residents make donations of artifacts and money Memorial Fund contrishybutions are more frequent A great forward step was taken on September 10 1974 when bids were opened for the construction of the second exhibition hall To be built from Revenue Sharing monies at a cost not to exceed $62969 this hall will be completed in time for a grand opening at the July 16 1975 Annual Barbecue The first phase of the main museum building has been cleared for a share of the Park Bond monies allocated to San Joaquin County However the disbursement of those funds has not been made at this time Certainly an appropriate celebration in 1976 for ten years of museum activity would be the opening of a proper home for at least some of the Micke collection

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SAN JOAQlIl N COUNTY HISTOR ICAl SOCI ETY 1954-1974 October 27 1954 Lodi District Historical Society charter

dinner and first installation of officers Charter membership in the California Conference of Historical Societies granted

March 23 1955 rame of the organization changed to Northshyern San Joaquin County Historical Society

May 19 1956 Dedication of the historic marker at site of San Joaquin Valley College in Woodbridge

April 28 1960 Dedication of the Salem School bell plaque at Ladi Lake Park

March 27 1961 Name of the organization changed to San Joaquin County Historical Society

Mav 22 1961 Request sent to San Joaquin County Board of - Supervisors for inventory of contents of the Micke

home for possible inclusion in a future museum

November 3 1962 Dedication of the historic marker at site of San Joaquin City below Mossdale Y crossing of the San Joaquin River

January 15 1963 First issue (Volume 1 Number 1) of the Society quarterly the Bulletin (now the San Joaquin IIistorian)

ovember 12 1963 Certification by the California Secretary of State of the Societys Articles of Incorporation

January 27 1964 Recognition as a tax-exempt non-profit organization granted by the California State Franshychise Board

June 28 1966 Agreement signed with the County of San Joaquin authorizing the Society to be the collecting agency for the County in acquiring items of historic significance for preservation Medora Johnson

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Highlights of the San Joaquin County Historical Society 1954middot1974 (cont) appointed director November 8 1969 Participation with other local historical

June 8 1967 Recognition as a tax-exempt organization by groups in dedication of historical plaque commemorshythe Internal Revenue Service under Section 501 (c) ating the completion of the Central Pacific Railroad (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 bridge across the San Joaquin River at the Mossdale

May 271968 Adoption of a recommendation of the Museum Y thereby completing the railroad link between San Committee creating the Museum Development Fund Francisco and the East Coast for receiving donations and memorials July H 1971 Completion of the first building in the proposed

July 26 1969 Participation with other local historical groups museum complex at Micke Grove opening cereshyin marking Lindsay Point in Stockton as an historical monies and first annual barbeque and Museum Show landmark

)f a n y INDEX TO VOLUME X NUMBERS 1 - 4

Ie Vol X No1 JANUARY - MARCH 1974 pp 33-40 Tales of Old San Joaquin Cityw Vol X No2 APRIL - JUNE 1974 pp41-46 Tales of Old San Joaquin Citya Vol X NO3 JULY - SEPTEMBER 1974 pp 47-52 Tales of Old San Joaquin Cityr Vol X No4 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 1974 pp 53-66 Early San Joaquin Governmentir f Airport Way (Road) 39 Coloma (Calif) 54 Gibbes C 52 Kasson Road 51

Akerley (Miss) Marian 56 Colton (Rev) Walter 34 Giffen (Mrs) 56 Kenney M B 61 Alameda amp San Joaquin RR 43 Committee on Counties amp County Hotel 61 Kettelman (Mrs) Gertrude McCuen d Alaska 41 Boundaries 58 Henry Jr 55 56 57

Y Aldin H W 58 59 Conference of California Historical Jim 51 Knights Ferry 58-60 i 63 0 Aleutians 41 Soceties 56 64 (Mrs) Anne K bull 56 Knoles (Dr) Tully 55

Amador County 62 Connecticut F ire Insurance Co 52 (Calif ) 38 39 49 62 Koster Road 34-37 i 47Ir American Association for State amp Constitutional Convention Central Valley 54 Lairds Ranch 58 63 0 Local History 56 (Monterey) 55 Greenwood Road 48 49 Lathrop (Calif) 42 44

American Association of Museums Contra Costa County 58 (Mrs) Emma Pearson 56 Latta (Dr) Samuel E 49 64 Cooper (Mrs) Helene 56 Ward M 56 Latta Samuel G bull 49 n Amyx Hairston 59 63 Corcoran F E 61 Grmes Hiram amp Francis 62 Leader (ship) 38

e Angermeier Robert 57 Corral Hollow 33 34 43 Ed 39 - Letcher (Dr) Howard T 57 Arroyo Seco (land grant) 62 Court of Sessions (San Joaquin amp Zmmerman (Stockton) 46 Liberty Township 63

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It Ashe R P (Sheriff) 58 59 County) 58-63 H E Wright (ship) 38 Linden (Calif) 34

n Atherton amp Davis (Ranch) 58 63 Creaner Charles M 55 58 62 choto 01 38 Linne Adolph 39 s Atlanta (CaliL) 48 Creighton (Mrs) VaLois 56 Haas (Mrs) Edward 56 Linne Anna Collins 39

Bailey Charles Kimball 34 Crow W H 38 House (San Joaqun Co) Lippincott B S 54 55w Bailey amp Carpenter 34 Cunningham (Sherifl) Thomas 44 Livermores (Livermore Calif) 52d Baldwin D P 55 Curry (Capt) Jack 39 41 Haggerty (Capt) John 38 Lockeford (Calif) 63

Banner Island 39 41 42 46 de la Guerra (State 58 62 Haley Salisbury 55 62 Lodi (Calif) 55 56 Bantas (Calif) 33 43 49 Den (Captain) Hansen Anna Scheuler 39 Lodi District Hislorical Society 55

school 38 Dent Township 63 Healds Business College (San 56 64 Barbour Roswell P 55 56 Devil Elbow (San Joaquin RIVer) FranCISCo) 47 Lodi Garden Club 64 Belknap James D amp Rachel 34 52 Heath R W 55 62 Lodi Grape Festival 55 Belknap Mary E 34 Dickenson Gallant D 54 55 58 61 Heath amp Emorys Ferry 58-60 63 Lodi Soroplimist Club 64 n Belt George G (alcalde) 54 55 62 63 Hen ke Herman 37 The Lodi Times 55

n Benicia (CaliL) 62 Doak amp Bonsells Ferry 5258 5963 Henke (Theodore) Ranch 38 37 London Jack 41

e Bennett (Mrs) Louise Jahant 56 Douglass David F 55 Herron Walter 58 Lone Tree (San Joaquin River) 52 Bethany (CaliL) 33 Douglass Township 63 Hicks Ranch 58 Looser (Mrs) Eunice Spenker 56

e Blais (Mrs) Elma Huffman 56 Dragoo (Mrs) Frances Tuttle 56 Highway 33 36 Looser H E 56 it Blakely John 56 Dreyer Chares 36 3740454950 H liken Herman 39 Los Angeles (Cali) 44

Blossom (Ship) 39 Dryer Ed 39 Hllken Josie 39 Los Angeles (District) 62 o Bonta Robert 54 Dude (ship) 38 HilI MaUrice 56 Manteca Road 39 d Booker S A bull 58 Durham Ferry 38 48 51 Hills Ferry 38 39 44 Marble Mrs 43

Boone (Mrs) Louise Smith 56 Durham Ferry Road 34-36 44 Hollingsworth J McHenry 54 Marion (snag boat) 33 34 38 Boyd Ralph 56 Ebe Henry 34 Hoi t Larry 50 Mariposa County 58

s d Boynton Amy L 55-57 Ebe Jake 35 37 Hosmer (Mrs) Frances Pool 56 Marshall James 54 n Boynton Gladys 57 Ekenberg AI 37 39 45 Hospital Canyon 51 Martin V Covert 46 63

Bradford Abraham C 58 59 Ekenberg Aud tonum 36 Huck Frances 39 Martins Tent (San Joaquin Co) 52

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Bradford C W 62 EI Campo de los franceses 54 59 Hull Roy 49 Mary Garrett (sh ip) 38 Branch Slough (Slockton) 62 60 63 Hunt (Dr) Rockwell D 55 56 62 Matteson amp Williamson (Stockton)

e Brewer William Fbull 55 56 Elkhorn Inn 33 Hu nter Street plaza 62 51

middots Brewer William Hbull 34 Elkhorn Township 6e 63 Hurbut S A 62 Mays Myrtie 64 Brier (Mrs) Hilda 56 Eliott 63 Hutchins (Dr) J Randolph 56 McDougall (Lt Gov) John 58

n Brooks E L 58 Emerson (Lodi) 55 Isbell (Capt) James L 39 41 42 McGee Bertha (Dollie) 39 n6 Burnett (Gov) Peter H 55 58 Oliver C 59 63 Isbels Ranch 58 63 McKee William A 62

Bush (Mrs) Helen Gray 56 (land gran) 62 Isiand Transportation Co 38 3941 McMasters F A 57e Calaveras County 58 62 Fair William D 62 42 64 McNoble amp McNoble 44 I Calaveras River 60 63 Fallon M 62 Islander (ship) 39 42 McNish Building 61 63

California (Alta) 54 58 59 62 Fanny Ann Isieton (Ca) 41 Messer George 50 map of 58 Fnch Isiips Ferry 60 Messer Henry 50

California History Foundation 56 Finch J R McDonald (ship) 38 Mexico 54 e Carey (Mrs) Naomi 55-57

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Jackson (Colonel) bull 62 Mexico City 54 62 ) Carrell Edward 33 34 Jackson Creek (CalL) 61 Micke Grove (Cali) 53 56 64 65

Castoria Township 38 39 48 60 63 48 Japan 41 Micke William G 63 64 d Japanese (in Della) 42 Miller amp Lux Corp 38

Chabolla Angel amp Maria 62 58 60 Johnson DaVid Philip 56 MinIck (Mrs) Thelma Winters 56 Channel Robert 56 Johnson (Mrs) Medora 53 55-57 MissiSSIppi River 52

Central Pacific Railroad 42 43 65

s Chinese (as laborers) 38 63 64 Mix A A 58 s (in Delta) 42 Jones (Hon) Edward 44 Mohrs Landing 33

y Chipman Walter 62 Jones James M 54 Mokelumne Hill (Cali) 34 Claiborne Gilbert 62 Wilma 39 Jones (Mrs) Wimfred Beckman 56 Mokelumne RIVer 60 63)f Clara Crow (ship) 38 50 Junge Emil 60 Monterey (Cali) 54 62

h Kahlke John 39 Monterey (District) 62 a College 01 the Pacific (Stockton) 56

Clements J B 58 Kasson Lake 34 Moore B F 54 55

Frerichs Anna 39 Frerichs Henry 39 Frerichs John 39

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S JOAQCI HISTORIA PMjE 65

Highlights of the San Joaquin County Historical Society 1954middot1974 (cont) appointed director November 8 1969 Participation with other local historical

June 8 1967 Recognition as a tax-exempt organization by groups in dedication of historical plaque commemorshythe Internal Revenue Service under Section 501 (c) ating the completion of the Central Pacific Railroad (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 bridge across the San Joaquin River at the Mossdale

May 271968 Adoption of a recommendation of the Museum Y thereby completing the railroad link between San Committee creating the Museum Development Fund Francisco and the East Coast for receiving donations and memorials July H 1971 Completion of the first building in the proposed

July 26 1969 Participation with other local historical groups museum complex at Micke Grove opening cereshyin marking Lindsay Point in Stockton as an historical monies and first annual barbeque and Museum Show landmark

)f a n y INDEX TO VOLUME X NUMBERS 1 - 4

Ie Vol X No1 JANUARY - MARCH 1974 pp 33-40 Tales of Old San Joaquin Cityw Vol X No2 APRIL - JUNE 1974 pp41-46 Tales of Old San Joaquin Citya Vol X NO3 JULY - SEPTEMBER 1974 pp 47-52 Tales of Old San Joaquin Cityr Vol X No4 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 1974 pp 53-66 Early San Joaquin Governmentir f Airport Way (Road) 39 Coloma (Calif) 54 Gibbes C 52 Kasson Road 51

Akerley (Miss) Marian 56 Colton (Rev) Walter 34 Giffen (Mrs) 56 Kenney M B 61 Alameda amp San Joaquin RR 43 Committee on Counties amp County Hotel 61 Kettelman (Mrs) Gertrude McCuen d Alaska 41 Boundaries 58 Henry Jr 55 56 57

Y Aldin H W 58 59 Conference of California Historical Jim 51 Knights Ferry 58-60 i 63 0 Aleutians 41 Soceties 56 64 (Mrs) Anne K bull 56 Knoles (Dr) Tully 55

Amador County 62 Connecticut F ire Insurance Co 52 (Calif ) 38 39 49 62 Koster Road 34-37 i 47Ir American Association for State amp Constitutional Convention Central Valley 54 Lairds Ranch 58 63 0 Local History 56 (Monterey) 55 Greenwood Road 48 49 Lathrop (Calif) 42 44

American Association of Museums Contra Costa County 58 (Mrs) Emma Pearson 56 Latta (Dr) Samuel E 49 64 Cooper (Mrs) Helene 56 Ward M 56 Latta Samuel G bull 49 n Amyx Hairston 59 63 Corcoran F E 61 Grmes Hiram amp Francis 62 Leader (ship) 38

e Angermeier Robert 57 Corral Hollow 33 34 43 Ed 39 - Letcher (Dr) Howard T 57 Arroyo Seco (land grant) 62 Court of Sessions (San Joaquin amp Zmmerman (Stockton) 46 Liberty Township 63

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It Ashe R P (Sheriff) 58 59 County) 58-63 H E Wright (ship) 38 Linden (Calif) 34

n Atherton amp Davis (Ranch) 58 63 Creaner Charles M 55 58 62 choto 01 38 Linne Adolph 39 s Atlanta (CaliL) 48 Creighton (Mrs) VaLois 56 Haas (Mrs) Edward 56 Linne Anna Collins 39

Bailey Charles Kimball 34 Crow W H 38 House (San Joaqun Co) Lippincott B S 54 55w Bailey amp Carpenter 34 Cunningham (Sherifl) Thomas 44 Livermores (Livermore Calif) 52d Baldwin D P 55 Curry (Capt) Jack 39 41 Haggerty (Capt) John 38 Lockeford (Calif) 63

Banner Island 39 41 42 46 de la Guerra (State 58 62 Haley Salisbury 55 62 Lodi (Calif) 55 56 Bantas (Calif) 33 43 49 Den (Captain) Hansen Anna Scheuler 39 Lodi District Hislorical Society 55

school 38 Dent Township 63 Healds Business College (San 56 64 Barbour Roswell P 55 56 Devil Elbow (San Joaquin RIVer) FranCISCo) 47 Lodi Garden Club 64 Belknap James D amp Rachel 34 52 Heath R W 55 62 Lodi Grape Festival 55 Belknap Mary E 34 Dickenson Gallant D 54 55 58 61 Heath amp Emorys Ferry 58-60 63 Lodi Soroplimist Club 64 n Belt George G (alcalde) 54 55 62 63 Hen ke Herman 37 The Lodi Times 55

n Benicia (CaliL) 62 Doak amp Bonsells Ferry 5258 5963 Henke (Theodore) Ranch 38 37 London Jack 41

e Bennett (Mrs) Louise Jahant 56 Douglass David F 55 Herron Walter 58 Lone Tree (San Joaquin River) 52 Bethany (CaliL) 33 Douglass Township 63 Hicks Ranch 58 Looser (Mrs) Eunice Spenker 56

e Blais (Mrs) Elma Huffman 56 Dragoo (Mrs) Frances Tuttle 56 Highway 33 36 Looser H E 56 it Blakely John 56 Dreyer Chares 36 3740454950 H liken Herman 39 Los Angeles (Cali) 44

Blossom (Ship) 39 Dryer Ed 39 Hllken Josie 39 Los Angeles (District) 62 o Bonta Robert 54 Dude (ship) 38 HilI MaUrice 56 Manteca Road 39 d Booker S A bull 58 Durham Ferry 38 48 51 Hills Ferry 38 39 44 Marble Mrs 43

Boone (Mrs) Louise Smith 56 Durham Ferry Road 34-36 44 Hollingsworth J McHenry 54 Marion (snag boat) 33 34 38 Boyd Ralph 56 Ebe Henry 34 Hoi t Larry 50 Mariposa County 58

s d Boynton Amy L 55-57 Ebe Jake 35 37 Hosmer (Mrs) Frances Pool 56 Marshall James 54 n Boynton Gladys 57 Ekenberg AI 37 39 45 Hospital Canyon 51 Martin V Covert 46 63

Bradford Abraham C 58 59 Ekenberg Aud tonum 36 Huck Frances 39 Martins Tent (San Joaquin Co) 52

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Bradford C W 62 EI Campo de los franceses 54 59 Hull Roy 49 Mary Garrett (sh ip) 38 Branch Slough (Slockton) 62 60 63 Hunt (Dr) Rockwell D 55 56 62 Matteson amp Williamson (Stockton)

e Brewer William Fbull 55 56 Elkhorn Inn 33 Hu nter Street plaza 62 51

middots Brewer William Hbull 34 Elkhorn Township 6e 63 Hurbut S A 62 Mays Myrtie 64 Brier (Mrs) Hilda 56 Eliott 63 Hutchins (Dr) J Randolph 56 McDougall (Lt Gov) John 58

n Brooks E L 58 Emerson (Lodi) 55 Isbell (Capt) James L 39 41 42 McGee Bertha (Dollie) 39 n6 Burnett (Gov) Peter H 55 58 Oliver C 59 63 Isbels Ranch 58 63 McKee William A 62

Bush (Mrs) Helen Gray 56 (land gran) 62 Isiand Transportation Co 38 3941 McMasters F A 57e Calaveras County 58 62 Fair William D 62 42 64 McNoble amp McNoble 44 I Calaveras River 60 63 Fallon M 62 Islander (ship) 39 42 McNish Building 61 63

California (Alta) 54 58 59 62 Fanny Ann Isieton (Ca) 41 Messer George 50 map of 58 Fnch Isiips Ferry 60 Messer Henry 50

California History Foundation 56 Finch J R McDonald (ship) 38 Mexico 54 e Carey (Mrs) Naomi 55-57

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Jackson (Colonel) bull 62 Mexico City 54 62 ) Carrell Edward 33 34 Jackson Creek (CalL) 61 Micke Grove (Cali) 53 56 64 65

Castoria Township 38 39 48 60 63 48 Japan 41 Micke William G 63 64 d Japanese (in Della) 42 Miller amp Lux Corp 38

Chabolla Angel amp Maria 62 58 60 Johnson DaVid Philip 56 MinIck (Mrs) Thelma Winters 56 Channel Robert 56 Johnson (Mrs) Medora 53 55-57 MissiSSIppi River 52

Central Pacific Railroad 42 43 65

s Chinese (as laborers) 38 63 64 Mix A A 58 s (in Delta) 42 Jones (Hon) Edward 44 Mohrs Landing 33

y Chipman Walter 62 Jones James M 54 Mokelumne Hill (Cali) 34 Claiborne Gilbert 62 Wilma 39 Jones (Mrs) Wimfred Beckman 56 Mokelumne RIVer 60 63)f Clara Crow (ship) 38 50 Junge Emil 60 Monterey (Cali) 54 62

h Kahlke John 39 Monterey (District) 62 a College 01 the Pacific (Stockton) 56

Clements J B 58 Kasson Lake 34 Moore B F 54 55

Frerichs Anna 39 Frerichs Henry 39 Frerichs John 39

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INDEX TO VOLUME X NUMBERS 1-4 (cont) Moraga Gabriel 54 63 Morana Switch (CPRR) 44 Morehead John C 55 Morgan B C 62 Mormon Slough (Stockton) 60-62 Mosquito boats 34 38 51 Mossdale Y 44 52 62 64 Mother Lode (Calif) 54 Mt Boardman (Cali) 44 Mt Diablo (Cali) 60 Murphy John 48 Murphy Tom 48 Murphys Garage (San Joaquin City)

51 Myers (Mrs) Celia E 53 Naglee Henry M 62 Nevada (State) 62 New Hope (Cali) 41 New Jerusalem School 34-39 43

45 47 49 duck hunting at ~ 37

Newfield Joseph 55 Nicholaysen Dora 39 Nicholaysen Theodore 39 Northern San Joaquin County

Historical Society 56 64 Oakdale (CaliL) 62 OBrien John 33 Ogden B 62 Ogier J S 62 Ohm Annie Ohm Henry Thomas 49 Ohm John 44 45 49 51 Ohm LIllie 49 51 Ohm Rebecca (Mrs Thomas) 49 Ohm Thomas 49 Old River (San Joaquin River) 33 ONeal Township 60 ONeals Ranche 59 Pacheco Pass 44 Pampel Hazel 57 Patterson (Cali) 48 49 Peck C L 62 Pendleton George A 62 Perley D W 63 Perry Emmett F 57 Pescadero (land grant) 62 Pica Andres 62 Pica Antonio 62 Pica Edward 57 Pioneer Tractor Co (Stockton) 51 Pixley Mary 56 Pixley Ruben 56 Pixley Theron 56 Pope Julia Huck 39 Potato Queen (ship) 42 Preston Reformatory lone (Cali) 44 Rathjen John A Jr 33 37-39 Rathjen John A Sr 37 38 Reds Tent (San Joaquin Co) 58 63 Reynolds (Mrs) Edward 35 Reynolds James 54 55 Rhodes Bertha 39 Rhodes Ranch 40 Richey (Mrs) Mable Yank 56 Riecks RanCh 36 Riecks William 47 Riecks (Sheriff) William H 36 37

39 45 47 49 Riley (General) Bennett 54 55 58

62 Rinfret Del 55 Ripon (Cali) 42 44 River Road 33 39 43 48 49 Robinson (Mrs) Marie Holloway 58 Robinson Willard J 55-57 Rowes Rimch (San Joaquin Co) 58 S H Davis (shipyard) 38 Sacramento (Cali) 41 Sacramento (County) 58 60 62 Sacramento (District) 62 Sacramento River 54 SI Joachim 63 Salem School (Lodi) 55 57 64 San Diego (County) 58 San Diego (DIstrict) 62 San Francisco Bay 33 34 41 45 San Francisco (Calif) 33 34 3644

59 62 San Francisco (DIstrict) 62 San Joaquin City 33-46 47-51

58-60 63 64 cemetery 49

San Joaquin (County) 45 47 53-55

58-60 62-64 Board of Supervisors 62-64 courthouse 61 62 courthouse photo of 61 dry farming In 37 flooding in 34 land grants 54 59 60 62 sheep drives in 34 water transportatior in 41 42

San Joaquin County Historical Museum 53 63 64 Docent Council 64

San Joaquin County Historical Society 53 56 57 63 64

San Joaquin County jail 60 61 San Joaquin (DIstrict) 54 55 58 62

Prefect of 54 55 58 62 63 San Joaquin Plains 33 San Joaquin Rver 41 42 49 52-54

59 60 62 64 65 flooding along 34 river boat traftic 33 34 38

San Joaquin School 38 San Joaquin Valley 54 San Joaquin Valley College

(Woodbridge) 56 64 San Jose (Cali) 55 60 62 San Jose (District) 62 San Luis Obispo (Cali) 62 San Luis Obispo (District) 62 San Quentin (Cali) 44-47 Santa Barbara (Cali) 62 Santa Barbara (District) 62 Santa Clara (County) 58 Schlegel George 44 45 46 Schnabel Ernest C 37 50 51 The Sea-WOlf 41

Van Thlei (Mrs) Dorothy 56 Vermeule Thomas C 54 VernalIS (Cali) 34 48 49 Vogt Nola 39 Volstead Act 47 Visalia-Lathrop (CPAR) 44 Walker Joseph R 34 Walnut Grove (Cali) 41 Walters (Capt) Benjamin 39 41 42 46 Waterloo (San Joaquin Co) 63 Watson Franklin Haskell Jr 56 Watson (Mrs) Ruth Gompertl 56 Weber Charles M 46 54 61 West RIpon Road 39 44 West Side Hotel (Bantas) 37 50 West Side Plains 41 50-52

grain growing 33 34 39 40 Weston amp Staples Ranch 60 Wetmore Ralph M 56 Wheelers Ferry 58 White Slough 38 Whiting J S 62 Whitsell Leon 55

Whittaker (Mrs) Ora 56 Whittier B F 58 Williams amp Athertons Ranch 60 Williams Benjamin 54 55 58 59

63 Williams Earle E 33 35 41 47 Williams George 35 42-47

campsite 42-46 Williams (Mrs) Marian Gray 56 Williams S 62 Winters Theodore 61 Wood (Dr) R Coke 55 Wood Shuball F 61 Woodbridge Seminary 56 Woods Grammar School

(Woodbridge) 56 Woodside (Mrs) Miriam Madison

56 Woodson Leland A 55 56 Woodson (Mrs) Ora Van Vlear 55

56 Wozencraft O M 54 Zanjon de los Moquelumnes

(land grant) 62

Persons interested in doing research on local history whether members of the Society of not are invited to submit their manuscripts for publication in the Historian The editor must however reserve the right to accept or reject andor edit all material and photographs submitted

While none of the original material printed in the quarterly is copyrighted we would appreciate acknowledgement of the source by anyone using any portion thereof

Shima George 42 Sibley (Sherifl) Walter 47 Sierra Nevada Mts 54 58 62 Simpsons Ranche (San Joaquin

Co) 60 Sirey amp Clarks Ferry 60 63 Skinner (Mrs) Evelyn Morse 58 Smith (Miss) Elsie 35 Society of California Pioneers 56 Sonoma (District) 62 Spanish-American War 50 Stanislaus (County) 33 62 63 Stanislaus River 34 58-60 63 Stanislaus River Road 33 Stephens J F 55 62 Stewart J 55 62 Stockton Alcalde of 54 55 58 62 Stockton (Calif) 33 38-43 46

49-52 54 58-60 62 63 Stockton Channel 46 59 62 Stockton Gang Plow 51 Stockton Hotel 62 Stockton (Commodore) R F 54 Stockton Times 58-61 63 Sturgeon Bend 35 42 43 45 46 Sullivan (Mrs) Ennid Woodson 56 Sullivan Katherine 56 Susanna (ship) 60 Taber James 60 Tappan Clarence 56 Tappan (Mrs) Dorothy Watson 56 Taylor J A 62 Taylor Nelson 55 Tesla (Cali) 43 Tesla Nikola 43 Thompson Alpheus 62 Thompson (Mrs) Celia Crocker 56 Tinkham George 54 62 63 Tracy (Calif) 33 37 39 49 62 Tracy (Cali)

First theater 45 100F Hall 45

Trahern Road 39 Trahern Wash 39 Treadwell Brothers 43 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo 54 Tulare Township 47 63 Tuolumne (County) 58 Tuolumne River 34 Union Township 63 United States 54 62 Utah (State) 62 ValleJO (General) Mariano 63 Van Benschoten J W 55 62 Van Buren Thomas B 55 Van Gelder (Mrs) Charlotte Jones

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SAN JOAQUIN HISTORIAN The Quarterly of the

SANJOAQUINCOUNTYHISTORICALSOCIETYINC Published Four Times Each Year

PO Box 21 Lodi California 95240 Editor Robert Bonta

The San Joaquin County Historical Society a non-profit corporation meets the fourth Monday of each month except for July and August Annual memberships are Individual- $500 Corporate - $800 and Junior - $100 and include a subscription to the San Joaquin Historian Non-members may purchase individual copies from the Societys Secretary at $100 per copy The Society also operates the San Joaquin County Historical Museum at Micke Grove Persons wishing to donate items should contact the Museum Director

Officers of the SAl JOAQUIN COUlTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

[1974-75]

-Irs Elwood L Myers President Edward Pico Vice-President Mrs Howard W Linsley Recording Secretary Mrs Margaret Ashley Corresponding Secretary Hart Wilson Treasurer

DIRECTORS Robert Bonta Miss Donez Eddlemon 11rs F Daniel Boone Mrs L Dow Wakefield

S JOQUI COUTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM Mrs L Philip (Medora) Johnson Director

Micke Grove Park 11793 N Micke Grove Road Lodi California

Phone area 209 368-9154 PO Box 21 Lodi Calif 95240