Tehama-Amador-Tuolumne County CA Archives Biographies.....Peden, Albert O. 1831 - ************************************************ 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 January 31, 2007, 6:23 pm Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891) ALBERT O. PEDEN, one of the successful farmers and stock-growers of Tehama County, is a native of the Blue-Grass State, born in Jefferson County, August 12, 1831, the son of Daniel L. H. Peden, a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania, who moved to Adams County, Illinois, in 1835, where he was elected justice of the peace of Columbus, filling that office many years. He afterward became a minister of the Christian Church, and preached that faith until his death, which occurred at the age of seventy-seven years. His early life was spent in teaching school and flat-boating on the rivers from Pittsburg to New Orleans. The grandfather of our subject, Joseph Peden, was a gunsmith by trade, and was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war, participating in the battle of Brandy wine, and was afterward transferred to the armory department as an expert gunsmith, remaining in that department until the close of the war. He died at the age of ninety-five years. Our subject's mother was nee Martha Curry, a native of Kentucky. Mr. Peden received his education in the public schools of Adams County, Illinois, and was raised to farm life until eighteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade in the shops of Littlefield & Boughman of Quincy, Illinois. In 1854 he came across the plains with ox teams to California, first locating at Ione, Amador County, where he engaged in mining for a time, then in Shasta County, remaining nearly two years. He then returned to Amador County, where he followed his trade; then went to Scorpion Gulch, Tuolumne County, then to Contra Costa County, where he engaged in farming four years; then to Danville, where he made a specialty of tobacco raising for two years; then to Colfax, Placer County, where he worked for the railroad company at his trade until 1871; then to Oakland, and in 1872 he made a trip to Illinois, returning to Oakland, where he remained a few months. In 1873 he settled on his present farm of 1,100 acres, situated on the Sacramento River, four and a half miles east of Corning, where he devotes his time to farming and stock-raising. Mr. Peden was joined in marriage at San Francisco, August 19, 1873, to Mrs. Malinda Decker, nee Kincheloe, who had three children by her first marriage, namely: Isaac N., Daniel B., and Samuel T. Walker, all now deceased. Mrs. Peden is a native of East Tennessee, who crossed the plains to California in 1864, and has since been a resident of Tehama County. Her ancestors on the maternal side were Quakers; her father was a slave-holder of Tennessee. Mrs. Malinda Peden, nee Kincheloe, was married three times: first in Brown County, Illinois, April 6, 1850, to William I. Walker; secondly, May 6, 1868, in Tehama County, California, to James Decker, and has lived at her present home ever since, on one of John C. Fremont's camping-grounds the first time he marched through the Sacramento Valley. Mr. Peden has found an old-fashioned bayonet lock and chamber of the few repeating guns then in use, and has left them at the Red Bluff Academy. Politically Mr. Peden is a Democrat, was a member of the county central committee from 1874 to 1878, and has been school trustee of the Moon district many years. He affiliates with the F. & A. M., Molino Lodge, No. 150, of Tehama; also is a member of the Red Bluff Chapter. 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/peden617gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb