Monterey-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Towle, William J. 1834 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

CAPTAIN WILLIAM J. TOWLE, a California pioneer of 1850, who crossed the plains
from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he had been born February 22, 1834. His
father, Thomas F. Towle, was a pioneer of Pittsburg, who worked in the first
nail factory built in that city. He was born at Exeter, forty miles east of
Boston, in 1809, and came to California in 1850, but returned East the following
year. In 1860 he again made the trip and is now a resident of Sonoma,
California. Several sons of Thomas F. Towle live in California,- George W., Hugh
P., Thomas S. and Oliver C, all farmers of San Benito county. Calvin F., the
oldest of the family, is a merchant of Los Gatos.

  William J., the subject of this sketch, experienced all the vicissitudes of a
miner's life, having varied successes and failures until 1864.

  For sixteen years, until the early part of the year, 1892, he had charge of
the Pacific & Coast Steamship Company's interests and wharf at Monterey, in
which position he proved himself a most efficient official, and made hosts of
friends by his pleasant and oblging manner. Since his service in the above
office he has been engaged in the hotel business and stock-raising, and is the
owner of the Mai Paso (Spanish words meaning Bad Crossing) rancho, comprising
900 acres of stock range, about eight miles south of Monterey, on the coast.

  Capntain Towle married in 1863, Miss Amelia A. Eaton, a native lady of
Wisconsin, who came to this State when about ten years of age with her parents,
in 1855. The marriage took place in San Francisco, and Captain and Mrs. Towle
have one son, Grant, born May 22, 1864.

  Mr. Towle is a prominent Republican. He voted for Fremont in 1855, and has
voted for every Republican nominee for the presidential office since. He is
widely known throughout the county as a man of great force of character,
pronounced and outspoken in his opinions, firm and sometimes aggressive in
supporting them.


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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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