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Author: Tom Gregory

PATRICK HENRY ELIOT

    A son of the east who is making good in the very best sense of the phrase in
California is Patrick Henry Eliot, a native of McDonough county, Ill., born July
28, 1855, a son of Patrick Eliot, who first saw the light of day in Otsego
county, N. Y., and prospered as a farmer and stockman in Illinois, Iowa,
Missouri and Indiana, buying, improving and selling land as opportunity offered
and handling horses and cattle to the best financial advantage. The state of his
wife's health impelled the elder Mr. Eliot to locate in California in 1859, and
he made the trip by way of the Isthmus of Panama, arriving in Sutterville,
Sacramento county, October 10, that year. After farming there about three years
he went to San Joaquin county and there bought a ranch, where he put in most of
the remaining years of his active life. His closing years were spent in well
earned retirement, and he passed away in 1891. His wife, who in the days of her
maidenhood was Miss Anna Westfall, was born in Ohio and died in this state. She
bore Mr. Eliot eleven children, of whom the immediate subject of this notice was
the last born. He accompanied his parents and brothers and sisters to California
and was educated in public schools and graduated from Clark's Institute at
Stockton.

    The first regular employment to which Mr. Eliot devoted himself after having
finished his studies was as a farmer in San Joaquin county, though he had to an
extent fitted himself for a business career by a study of bookkeeping at Heald's
Business College. Later he operated in Washington, Idaho and Montana,
principally in stock, with considerable success, for some years, until,
returning to California, he resumed farming in San Joaquin and Sacramento
counties. In 1897 he located in Woodland and for four years was janitor in
charge of the public school buildings. Then, for four years, he was connected
with the Globe Mills. The latter business he relinquished in order to assume the
management of the Woodland hotel, on Main street, of which he is yet the
proprietor. The Woodland is a large, newly furnished, well appointed,
first-class hotel and is accorded a patronage deservedly liberal. Mr. Eliot
is-popular with the traveling public and counts his friends among the leading
people of all sections of the state. Politically he is a Republican. Socially he
is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with its auxiliary
order the Rebekahs. Of the latter Mrs. Eliot also is a member. She was Miss Anna
Ehler, a native of Boone county, Mo. They have three children, Orrin Charles,
Florence and Leland Stanford. Mr. Eliot is a man of enterprise and of public
spirit, who has prospered greatly because of his disposition to help others and
advance the best interests of his city, county and state.


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HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
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
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]


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