Monterey County CA Archives Biographies.....Whitcher, C. R. (Jr.) 1859 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

C. R. WHITCHER, Jr., is a son of C. R. Whitcher of Castroville, and is an
influential citizen, merchant and Postmaster of the town. C. R. Whitcher, Sr.,
is an Englishman by birth, having been born in the suburbs of London. He was
about nine years of age, when, with his parents, he came to America and settled
in Canada. He there grew up and learned the blacksmith's trade. In 1859, he came
to California, and worked at his trade at Degraw's mills, near Cypress point, in
Monterey county. He later opened a wagon-shop at Salinas in partnership with
Joseph Lacy. He was afterward at Monterey, Watsonville and for a time at
Virginia City, Nevada. In the fall of 1865, he settled in Castroville, where he
has since resided, and where he enjoys the universal respect of his
fellow-citizens.

  He married to Miss Ann Coy, at Lowell, Massachusetts, and of their three
living children, the subject of this sketch is the youngest. A brother, F. L.,
is a resident of Los Olivos, Santa Barbara county, and a sister, Lizzie, is the
wife of H. J. Laughlin, Esq., of Moss Landing.

  The subject of this sketch entered business as a general merchant in 1&87. On
September 22 of that year he married a daughter of William Stirling, Esq., of
Castroville, and they have one daughter, Jeane Rozella. 


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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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