Contra Costa-Calaveras-Tuolumne County CA Archives Biographies.....Rouse, John C. 1828 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JOHN C. ROUSE.—This subject, one of the substantial citizens of Antioch and
Contra Costa, is a native of Watertown, New York, where he was born June 20,
1828, and in his native place worked on a farm and received a common school
education. January 3, 1853, being then twenty-five years of age, Mr. Rouse
started via Panama to seek his fortune in the Golden State, and arrived in San
Francisco, February 3d of the same year. His first venture was in the mines of
Calaveras county, where he sojourned a short time, and then moved to Tuolumne
county, where he was engaged in mining for eight years, with moderate success.
April, 1861, Mr. Rouse came to this county, and was employed as foreman of the
Pittsburg coal mine at Somersville for some three years; then engaged in the
hotel business at the same place as proprietor of the Pittsburg Hotel for
another three years, and again turned his attention to mining, and worked the
Central mine for five years. In 1876 Mr. Rouse, in partnership with G. W.
Hawxhurst, opened the Empire mine, located at Judsonville. This company changed
in 1877 by Messrs. Judson & Belshaw buying an interest, and the retirement of
Mr. Hawxhurst. They built and equipped a railroad from Antioch to the mine. In
1881 Mr. Rouse purchased the Central mine, and extended their railroad to the
same, and at the present time Mr. Rouse is the resident manager of the company
of Belshaw & Co., now extensively engaged in taking out coal from the Central
and Empire mines. A description of the same will be found in the body of this
work. Mr. Rouse is also the senior member of the firm of Rouse, Forman & Co., an
extensive lumber firm of Antioch. Mr. Rouse is one of Antioch's most substantial
and respected citizens. In 1872 Mr. Rouse paid a visit to his old home, and was
united in marriage, February 21st of that year, to Miss Allie Nicholas, a native
of New York State.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.

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