San Joaquin County Biographies


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ELMER E. CADY.
 
        A native son of California and the son of a pioneer of the gold days, 
Elmer E. Cady has succeeded in the cattle and sheep business to a profitable 
degree. Born on May 2, 1867, at Stone Corral, Calaveras County, Cal., Mr. Cady 
is the son of Addison and Bridget (McNamee) Cady, the father a native of 
Massachusetts who walked across the Isthmus of Panama and arrived in California 
in the spring of 1850. He first engaged in mining in Calaveras County; then 
engaged in the hotel business in Pleasant Valley, near Jenny Lind, for a few 
years, then sold out and located at Stone Corral and ran a hotel and butcher 
shop. In those days this section of the country was wild and unsettled where 
Indians and wild animals abounded in plenty. About 1875 the father moved across 
the county line into San Joaquin County and bought 300 acres of land at Bellota; 
this he improved by building a residence, barns, corrals and fences and engaged 
in farming pursuits until his death in 1907. The Cady ranch was a landmark for 
many years in that section and among the very first to be developed in the 
Bellota district Mr. and Mrs. Addison Cady were the parents of ten children, 
five of whom are living: Addison resides at Linden; Elmer E.; Frank is a farmer 
near Linden; Charles resides in Waterloo; Mrs. Julia Welch lives at Sacramento.
        Elmer E. Cady attended school in the Bellota district and at the age of 
fifteen went to work on the Prather ranch near Linden, where he spent seventeen 
years, when he established himself in the sheep business and has been engaged in 
raising sheep and cattle ever since, his present partner being Charles H. 
Harrold of Stockton. Both of the partners own ranches near Bellota, where they 
carry on their sheep industry. Mr. Cady owning 1,000 acres, a portion of the 
Gen. Douglass ranch, of which 160 acres is fine rich bottom land, which he 
farms. Mr. Cady was one of the organizers of the Central California Wool 
Growers' Association and is a member of the executive committee of the Stockton 
branch; he is also a member of the California Cattlemen's Association.
        The marriage of Mr. Cady in Stockton, October 3, 1900, united him with 
Miss Elizabeth A. McDonald, a native of Stockton and the daughter of Patrick 
McDonald, a pioneer blacksmith who married Miss Margaret Fennell. Mr. and Mrs. 
Cady are the parents of one son, Elmer E., Jr., a graduate of the Stockton high 
school with the class of 1920. Fraternally, Mr. Cady is a member of the Stockton 
Lodge No. 218, B. P. O. Elks, and the Knights of Columbus.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p  1572        
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.