Butte County Biographies

FRANK FORD CARNDUFF

Submitted by Betty Wilson

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	FRANK FORD CARNDUFF was born in West Galway, Fulton county, New 
York, March 25, 1845.  His father was born near Glasgow, and with his 
grandfather moved to the United States when only nine years of age, and arrived 
in California in the spring of �49, via Cape Horn, and has lived in or near 
Stockton ever since.  The subject of this sketch, with his mother, sailed for 
California February 6, 1852, via Nicaragua, and was wrecked on the Coast of 
Central America February 27, 1852.  After a long stay in the woods, the wrecked 
passengers procured transportation to Acapulco, where Frank was sick with the 
fever for a number of months, and did not reach San Francisco until late in May. 
 He lived with his parents near Stockton until December, 1853, when, accompanied 
by his mother, he returned to New York, that he might have the advantage of a 
liberal education.  During the war, he served in battery A and M, of the seventh 
N.Y. artillery, and was discharged August 15, 1865.  During said service he 
performed duty on the staff of Gen. Lewis O. Morris, and on detached service in 
Alexander, Virginia.  He was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, on the third 
day of June, 1864.  After a partial recovery from his wound he was breveted 
colonel, and assigned to duty at Fairfax, Virginia, and in 1865, at the Ira 
Harris hospital at Albany, New York.  His health failed and he came to 
California, the second time, in July 1872, and traveled as manager of agencies 
for the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of Maine.  He returned to Albany in 
July, 1873, but came back accompanied by his wife, in October, 1874, and located 
at Milton, Calaveras county.  He was admitted to the bar the same year, and 
removed to Wheatland, Yuba county, in November, 1877, where he practiced law and 
published the Wheatland Recorder until March, 1880.  At this time he removed the 
press and material to Biggs, Butte county, and established the Biggs Recorder.  
In 1880, he was deputy county clerk and deputy district attorney for Butte 
county.  He is a prominent �society man,� and joined the F. & A.M. when only 
twenty-one years of age, and has filled a number of important offices in the 
same and other orders.  He is now the D.D.G.M.W. of Butte county, and grand 
representative of Biggs lodge, No. 102, A.O.U.W., for 1882.  He is a noble grand 
of Bidwell lodge, No. 47, I.O.O.F.; post commander of Canby post, No. 18, 
G.A.R.; grand representative to grand encampment of the department of 
California, and is a member of eight different orders.  Mr. Carnduff is not only 
an able, but a very popular man in social and public life.
 
History of Butte County, California: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present 
Time - Vol. II -  Harry L. Wells & W. L. Chambers - 547 Clay Street, San 
Francisco, Cal., 1882.