Merced-Sonoma-Tulare County CA Archives Biographies.....Pedigo, T. W. 1864 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

T. W. PEDIGO

   The family to which T. W. Pedigo belongs is a very ancient and honorable one.
They came from the town of Pedigo in the North of Ireland and settled in
Virginia, where they were farmers. The great-grandfather of T. W. Pedigo fought
in the War of the Revolution. The father, John D. Pedigo, was living near
Bedford, Ind., when T. W. was born on July 30, 1864. The boy was brought up in
the Christian Church. Owing to the death of his father, when he was only nine
years of age, he had but three years' schooling in the district school for he
had to begin doing for himself at the age of thirteen. His mother lived until he
was eighteen. He worked at various tasks, and finally got a job as brakeman on
the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad, known as the "Monon." When he
was nineteen he settled up the affairs of his mother and came to California in
November, 1884. Young as he was, he was a zealous partisan of James G. Blaine
and he was grieved when he read of his death. At Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, he
got a job in a vineyard and worked two years; then went to Tulare County and
worked in the sawmills in the mountains above Portersville on the headquarters
of the Tule River. He was appointed postmaster of Daunt, Tulare County, and from
that built a mercantile business in connection with the postoffice. He stayed at
Daunt until 1906, then went to Berkeley, where he lived two years; two years
more were spent in Finley, Lake County, where he had a grocery store in
connection with the postoffice. From there he came to Merced County in 1910,
settling in the Hilmar Colony and kept a store at Irwin. When the Tidewater and
Southern Railroad established the Hilmar line, Mr. Pedigo sold out his store and
moved onto a ten-acre ranch near the town of Hilmar, established in 1916.

   At the general election in November, 1922, T. W. Pedigo was elected justice
of peace for Township No. 5 of Merced County, by a large majority over the
incumbent, J. W. Hall. He took office on January 8, 1923. Besides the justice
court at Livingston, he holds court in Hilmar on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
of each week, and in Livingston, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Township No. 5
comprises the following voting precints: Livingston No. 1, Livingston No. 2,
Madison, Delhi, Irwin, Fairview, Turner and San Joaquin. The Judge resides at
Hilmar in the Irwin precinct and has to drive twelve miles in his auto three
days of each week to and from his office at Livingston. He is a man of
commanding presence, six feet two inches tall, with coal black hair in which
scarcely a gray hair is to be seen. Strong in body, he is equally strong in mind
and his judgments are clear, fair and satisfactory to all who have any sense of
justice.

   T. W. Pedigo was married at Daunt, Cal., on October 2, 1898, to Miss Grace
Wells, of that town, the daughter of the late Joseph Wells. They have had two
children: Maude, who married L. L. Fleshman and has one child and resides at
Hilmar, and Minta, the wife of Morris L. Cramer, a millwright at Klamath Falls,
Ore., and the mother of one daughter. Judge Pedigo is the president of the
Hilmar Board of Trade.


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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