Alameda County Biographies

BENJAMIN F. BURLAND

Transcribed by:  Betty Wilson  August 2004

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	WILLIAM H. and BENJAMIN F. BURLAND are the enterprising and hospitable proprietors of 
the well-known Rose Hotel in the flourishing town of Pleasanton, in the Amador Valley.  The 
building, which is conducted as the only first-class hotel in the place, is a large three-story 
frame structure, well ventilated and furnished, and is patronized by the health and pleasure 
seekers of San Francisco and other Bay cities.  The grounds are well shaded by handsome trees 
and shrubbery, with croquet plats, etc.
	The senior member of the firm was born at Sacramento, May 10, 1857, and was three years 
of age when his parents moved to Watsonville, where his younger brother and present partner was 
born.  Their parents were Robert and Jemima (Hudson) Burland.  The father was a native of Boston, 
Massachusetts, where he was reared and educated and learned the cabinet-making trade.  He came to 
California in 1849, by way of Panama, and was engaged in mining several years.  The mother, a 
native of Iowa, crossed the plains to California in 1850; they are both still living.  William H. 
was educated at Watsonville, and was employed as a clerk in a general store until 1877.  He then 
went to Seattle, Washington; returning to Watsonville three years later, he remained until 1889, 
being for a time in charge of one of the grain warehouses of that place.  Next he purchased the 
stock of the Watsonville Transfer Company, enlarged the business and gave employment to a number 
of men for three years, and handling also all the outside business of Wells, Fargo & Co.�s Express.  
He sold out this place to a good advantage, leased the Scott Hotel and conducted it for two years.  
Then he engaged in the buying and selling of stock in the interest of J. Lincott until 1889, when 
he moved to Pleasanton and took charge of the Rose Hotel.
	He was married at Irvington, October 15, 1880, to Miss Ida Lively, a daughter of Joseph 
Lively, M.D., who came to California in 1850.  They have one child, a daughter.  Mr. Burland 
politically is a Republican and takes an active part in local politics, and fraternally he is a 
member of Pajaro Lodge, No. 110, F. & A.M. at Watsonville.

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Lewis Publishing Co., 1891