Tehama County CA Archives Biographies.....Doane, Scott 1843 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 21, 2007, 11:48 pm Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891) SCOTT DOANE, Superintendent of the Sash, Door and Blind Factory of the Sierra Lumber Company at Red Bluff, is a native of Medina County, Ohio, born in 1843. His father, Jared P. Doane, was a native of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, born in October, 1813. He passed his life on a farm; politically he was a Democrat, and religiously an Episcopalian. He married Miss Mary R. Lewis, a native of Connecticut, and by her had four children, the subject of this sketch being the only survivor. The father died in 1853. His ancestors were early settlers of Massachusetts, They landed in the ship following the Mayflower. Grandfather Timothy Doane was a pioneer of Cleveland, Ohio, and helped to survey and -lay put that town; did valiant service in the war of 1812; owned a farm near Cleveland, on which he lived until his death. The family of Doanes is a large one, scattered all over the United States, and many of them are people of wealth and influence. In 1873 they held a large family reunion at Cleveland, gathered there from all parts of the Union. The Cleveland papers contained a full account of it at the time. The subject of this sketch received his education at the Shaw Academy, East Cleveland. In 1862, when the war of the great Rebellion had begun ao [sic] assume gigantic proportions, Mr. Doane was nineteen years of age. Believing that his country needed his aid, he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Ohio, and was placed on special duty, guarding railroads, lighting guerrillas and guarding prisoners. A greater portion of his time he was clerk and commissary of his company. He went through to the close of the war without receiving a scratch and was mustered out on the 8th day of June, 1865. After the war he went to Alpena, Michigan, where he was engaged in the mercantile business one year, when he sold out and turned his attention to running a planing-mill. He ran that business at Alpena for four years, and manufactured most of tbe material that built the city. He was burned out and lost heavily. He at once rebuilt on a larger scale and to his planing-mill added a grist and feed mill, and continued the business there eight years longer. At that time the health of his family caused him to seek a change of climate. He sold out and removed to Atchison, Kansas. There he built a planing-mill, sash, door and blind factory, and ran it three years. His health becoming inpaired he purchased a fruit farm of 120 acres in Atchison County, near Farmington. After remaining on it a year he sold out and engaged in the mercantile business with George P. Allen at Effingham, same county. Two years later he disposed of his business there and came to California to take charge of the factory of the Sierra Lumber Company, as manager and superintendent, which position he has held for the, past five years. Since his residence in Tehama County he has made investments in real estate, owns a home in Red Bluff and lands west of the city. Mr. Doane was married, October 29, 1866, to Miss Margaret E. Van Valkenburg, a native of Vermont. They have had six children, all of whom are living, five born in Alpena, Michigan, and one in Effingham, Kansas, viz.: Lucy M., Clara E., Frank L., Eva M., George W. and Ruth. Mr. Doane is one of the elders of the Presbyterian Church, of which his family are members. Politically he is a Republican. While in Alpena he held the office of Police Justice for one year. He is a member of J. K. Mansfield Post, No. 75, G. A. R., and a Post Commander. He is also a Mason and for years was secretary of his lodge in Michigan. The balmy breezes of California agree with Mr. Doane, and the business in which he is engaged is highly congenial to his taste. He is at home in the midst of machinery and thoroughly understands all the intricate parts of the business, in which he has had over twenty years' experience. Additional Comments: Extracted from Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California. Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of Prominent Citizens of To-day. "A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendents." – Macauley. CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1891. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/tehama/bios/doane781gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 5.1 Kb