BORN: 1822
BORN IN: England
DIED: 8/9/1891
AGED: 69
CAUSE OF DEATH: Dysentery
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City
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CURRENT EVENTS:- 1831 Reaper (Cyrus McCormick)
- 1836 Revolver (Samuel Colt)
- 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
- 1846 Mexican-American War
- 1849 California Gold Rush
- 1850 California became the 31st State
- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
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OBITUARY ---------------JAMES JEFFREY EDDY
Times and Gazette
August 15, 1891
The subject of this sketch deserves more than a passing notice, yet this column of a weekly paper can not amplify as worth might often claim. He came of that old British stock, the absence of which Albion’s history would have impoverished her annuals, was born in Illogan, Cornwall in 1822. Of course he was a miner, the title by which he was distinguished, “Captain” indicating preeminence in that calling. It was not far across to Spain and England’s prowess in the peninsular was opened her mines to Cornish enterprise and young Eddy at nineteen landed on Spanish soil and went into the renowned Almaden Mine. Four years afterwards, he returned and was married and, with the first English contingent arrived in the Galena County, Wisconsin. In the year 1850, he came to California from Mexico and made a fortune in the Tuolumne gold field. This he lost in stock speculations in San Francisco. In the city he was known as the “Father of the Cornish”, his home was “Headquarters" for the helpless of his countrymen who depended on him for advice and succor. In 1878, Eddy took charge of the Los Gatos hotel.
Fortune smiled upon him and nine years ago he, with his life companion retired with a competency from business care, coming to this town for which he conceived an ardent attachment. Mr. Eddy’s sickness was brief duration and his intellect was unclouded to the last. His ruling passion, “pay as you go” was strong in death and having adjusted the ledger of life he said, “The time is come: good bye all.” And was not. He was 69 years old. James J. Eddy was a member of California Lodge No 1 F and M of San Francisco having been one of the “Mystic Tie” since 1854 was buried from the lodge room of the fraternity here at 2 o’clock last Wednesday in a vault previously prepared by himself for sepulture in Union Cemetery, a large concourse of citizens participating. The surviving family are the wife, Mrs. Amelia Eddy, a son James Eddy, a daughter, Mrs. Fred Conrad, of Tuolumne, a brother Joseph Eddy of Virginia City.
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