Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Hadsall, Charles Frank 1869 - 1910
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Author: Tom Gregory

CHARLES FRANK HADSALL

    The prominent citizen of Yolo county, Cal., whose name is above is
remembered as a man and as an official of the highest character, whose record is
dear to all who knew him. Charles Frank Hadsall was born April 3, 1869, at
Wilmington, Will county, Ill., the only son of Frank and Mercy Hadsall. The
father died at Woodland, about 1900, the mother about 1890, and they lie at rest
in Woodland cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Hadsall came to Yolo county in 1879, when
their son was about ten months old, and the latter was educated in the Woodland
grammar school and in the Woodland Business College. Three months before the
completion of the course by his class in the latter institution he was offered
by W. H. Hampton a position in the Davis lumber yard. Mr. Hampton was manager of
the yard, and under his able and careful instruction—for he took a real interest
in- the young man—Mr. Hadsall acquired his initial knowledge of actual business.
Here, as he had been at school, he was an apt pupil. He was in the employ of Mr.
Hampton until 1897, when he accepted an appointment as deputy county clerk under
Lane Duncan, who was then clerk of Yolo county. Mr. Hadsall served as Mr.
Duncan's deputy during the last two years of the latter's first term, then was
nominated on the Republican ticket for county auditor and was elected and served
four years in that office. About the time of the expiration of his term as
auditor he was nominated as county clerk, to succeed Mr. Duncan, and was
elected. In 1906 he was re-elected to the same office, and would have completed
his second term about two weeks after the date of his death. He had decided to
retire from official life in order to devote his time entirely to his farm. As a
citizen he had an impelling sense of respect for every obligation, and in all
his relations with his fellow men he was just even to generosity and tolerant of
the views of others. As public official he was efficient, honest and
painstaking. There was no duty that he did not discharge with the utmost
fidelity. He was not affiliated with any church, but was an attendant upon the
services of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, of Woodland.

    There was another, and the most interesting, side to the life of Mr.
Hadsall—the domestic side. On November 24, 1892, he was married in Davis to Miss
Nettie Viola Rowe, by the Rev. E. F. Allen. As a husband and father he was
loving and devoted. He was survived by a widow and four daughters—Carrie Viola,
Mildred Rowena, Bernice Carmen and Charlotte Nettie—who ranged in age from four
to sixteen years. His sister, Mrs. Frank G. Blaisdell, lives in Los Angeles.
Another sister, Mrs. Carrie O'Connell, is buried in the Woodland cemetery. His
aunt, Mrs. Abiah Day, and his cousin, Russell T. Day, live at Berkeley. His
aunt, Mrs. Sarah Russell, and two of his cousins, Frank Russell and Mary Sweet,
have their homes in Auburn. He passed away December 14, 1910, at his residence,
No. 140 First street, Woodland.

    Besides performing his duties as county clerk and clerk of the board of
supervisors, Mr. Hadsall devoted all his spare time for some years to the
development of a farm in the Hoppin tract, near Yolo, which he bought late in
his life. He was an active member of Woodland Lodge No. Ill, I. O. O. F., and of
Court Yolo No. 1313, I. O. F. Mrs. Hadsall was born near Folsom, Sacramento
county, a daughter of Jesse G. Rowe, a native of New Jersey, who came to
California in 1867, and after freighting for a time at Sacramento farmed at
Davis, where he is still living. His wife, who was Miss Susan Armstrong of Des
Moines, Iowa, died at Davis, January 27, 1897. Mrs. Hadsall, maintaining her
residence at the family home in Woodland, superintends the conduct of her farm
of ninety acres, fifty-seven in alfalfa and the remainder devoted to grain and
dairying. An estimable woman of many splendid traits of character, liberal and
enterprising, she is a member of the Woodland Methodist Episcopal Church South
and affiliates with Woodland Parlor No. 90, N. D. G. W., and with Woodland
Lodge, L. O. T. M.


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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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