Merced-Fresno County CA Archives Biographies.....Hadley, Fredrick 1848 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

FREDRICK HADLEY

   When the discovery of gold in California was drawing thousands from all parts
of the world, among the hardy and adventurous argonauts who crossed the plains
in 1849 was Mark Hadley, who was born in Pottsville, England, and came here with
his wife, Jane (Woodhouse) Hadley to Wisconsin. Leaving his family there, he
came to California with a party, by the Platte River, Salt Lake and Ogden route.
After a few years spent in mining he returned to Wisconsin and took up an eighty
acre claim of government land at $1.25 an acre and remained there until his
death, in 1890, at the age of eighty. His wife was eighty-eight years old when
she died in 1905. Fredrick Hadley, son of Mark Hadley, was born in Grant County,
Wis., on July 6, 1848, and was one of thirteen children. Educated in the common
schools and reared on his father's farm, he started out to work for himself when
he was twenty-one.

   On February 20, 1869, Mr. Hadley was united in marriage with Miss Ellen
Brown, born in New York, near Binghamton, the daughter of Pulaski and Electa
(Hugaboom) Brown, both natives of New York State. The Browns subsequently moved
to Clayton, Iowa, where they farmed, later moved to Grant County, Wis., and
after a time returned to Iowa and settled in Buena Vista County, and here the
mother died, at the age of sixty-six. After her death, Mr. Brown went to
Pennsylvania and there he died, when he was eighty-four years old. Mrs. Hadley
is one of five children and the oldest living of the family and received her
education in Grant County, Wisconsin. After her marriage with Mr. Hadley they
farmed in Grant County for ten years, then moved to near Storm Lake, Buena Vista
County, Iowa, and for seventeen years farmed there. Then they decided they would
come to California, which they did, and located in Dos Palos Colony in 1895,
being among the first settlers. He bought forty-two acres over in Fresno County
and ran a dairy. About 1906 they purchased property in Dos Palos and erected
their home. Mr. Hadley owns several parcels of real estate in the town and has
property in Madera and ten acres of his Fresno County ranch. Mr. and Mrs. Hadley
have had four children. Laura E. married F. H. Grieme and had two children, Mrs.
Eva Redfern and Mrs. Opal Malm. The latter has a daughter, Betty Marie. Mrs.
Grieme died on September 22, 1923. Lucius S. lives in Fresno. He married Miss
Bessie F. Gable and they have a son, Glen M. Edith May is the wife of E. P.
Gable and resides at Long Beach and they have a daughter, Mrs. Madeline Hickok.
Lela P. married B. F. King. She met an accidental death in an automobile
accident in Modesto on March 20, 1925. Mr. Hadley served as a constable while
living in Grant County, Wis. He is a Republican and is a member of the Methodist
Church. Mrs. Hadley is a social member of the Maccabees.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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