Butte-San Joaquin-Calaveras County CA Archives Biographies.....Carnduff, Frank Ford 1845 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 30, 2006, 12:51 am Author: Fariss & Smith (1882) FRANK FORD CARNDUFF was born in West Galway, Fulton county, New York, March 25, 1845. His father was born near Glasgow, and with his grandfather moved to the United States when only nine years of age, and arrived in California in the spring of '49, via Cape Horn, and has lived in or near Stockton ever since. The subject of this sketch, with his mother, sailed for California February 6, 1852, via Nicaragua, and was wrecked on the Coast of Central America February 27, 1852. After a long stay in the woods, the wrecked passengers procured transportation to Acapulco, where Frank was sick with the fever for a number of months, and did not reach San Francisco until late in May. He lived with his parents near Stockton until December, 1853, when, accompanied by his mother, he returned to New York, that he might have the advantage of a liberal education. During the war, he served in battery A and M, of the seventh N. Y. artillery, and was discharged August 15, 1865. During said service he performed duty on the staff of Gen. Lewis O. Morris, and on detatched service in Alexander, Virginia. He was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, on the third day of June, 1864. After a partial recovery from his wound he was breveted colonel, and assigned to duty at Fairfax, Virginia, and in 1865, at the Ira Harris hospital at Albany. New York. His health failed and he came to California, the second time, in July, 1872, and traveled as manager of agencies for the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of Maine. He returned to Albany in July, 1873, but came back accompanied by his wife, in October, 1874, and located at Milton, Calaveras county. He was admitted to the bar the same year, and removed to Wheatland, Yuba county, in November, 1877, where he practiced law and published the Wheatland Recorder until March, 1880. At this time he removed the press and material to Biggs, Butte county, and established the Biggs Recorder. In 1880, he was deputy county clerk and deputy district attorney for Butte county. He is a prominent "society man," and joined the F. & A. M. when only twenty-one years of age, and has filled a number of important offices in the same and other orders. He is now the D.D.G.M.W. of Butte county, and grand representative of Biggs lodge, No. 102, A. O. U. W., for 1882. He is noble grand of Bidwell lodge, No. 47, I. O. O. F.; post commander of Canby post, No. 18, G. A. R.: grand representative to grand encampment of the department of California, and is a member of eight different orders. Mr. Carnduff is not only an able, but a very popular man in social and public life. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, IN TWO VOLUMES. I. HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1513 TO 1850. BY FRANK T. GILBERT. The Great Fur Companies and their Trapping Expeditions to California. Settlement of the Sacramento Valley. The Discovery of Gold in California. BY HARRY L. WELLS. II. HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. BY HARRY L. WELLS AND W. L. CHAMBERS. BOTH VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS AND PORTRAITS. HARRY L. WELLS, 517 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO 1882. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARRY L. WELLS, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. FRANCIS, VALENTINE & Co., Engravers & Printers 517 Clay St., San Francisco File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/butte/bios/carnduff545nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb