Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

JAMES D. CARROLL

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            Prominent among the most highly esteemed residents of Sutter County, 
James D. Carroll was born on the old Carroll ranch at West Butte, on May 24, 
1863.  His father, John Carroll, was a native of County Cork, Ireland, and was 
born on February 15, 1830.  He emigrated to the United States in 1846 and lived 
in New York until 1855; and then he came out to California by way of the Isthmus 
of Panama.  He first engaged in mining in Sierra County, as early as 1859; but 
during that same year he came into Sutter County, and from that date he has 
resided at West Butte.  In 1853, John Carroll was married to Miss Ellen Sheehan, 
also a native of the County Cork, who had come to the United States a young 
girl; and five children were born to them:  A girl who died in infancy; Maggie, 
Mrs. N. S. Wilson, of West Butte; Ella, Mrs. W. F. Hoke, of Sutter; John J., who 
lives at West Butte; and James D., of our review.  Mr. Carroll took up farming a 
mile south of West Butte, where he acquired in the old home place a ranch of 220 
acres.  He lived to be eighty-nine years old, passing away on December 7, 1918; 
his wife had died in 1889.
            James D. Carroll went to school in West Butte and then topped off 
his preparation for his life work with a fine commercial course at a business 
college in Oakland.  He was then associated with his father in farming, and also 
had a place of his own, comprising at first about 400 acres near West Butte, to 
which he added, from time to time, and from which he also occasionally sold a 
strip.  Now he owns about 1000 acres of valuable lands on which he raises stock 
and grain.  He is also the representative hereabouts of the Lindley Wholesale 
Grocery Company of Sacramento, and covers part of Sutter County, and also Colusa 
and Glenn Counties, in their interest, having been in their employ for fifteen 
years.
            At West Butte, on October 12, 1886, James D. Carroll was married to 
Miss Louisa M. Hoke, a native of West Butte, where she was born on August 19, 
1865, the daughter of Frederick and Louisa (Erke) Hoke.  There  were five 
children in the Hoke family:  W. F., who died in 1922; Henry, also deceased; 
August; Alice M., who married Mr. Straub, and is deceased; and Louisa M., Mrs. 
Carroll.  Louisa M. Hoke attended the West Butte Grammar School, and then went 
for a while to the Notre Dame Convent at Sacramento.  Two children were granted 
to Mr. and Mrs. Carroll:  Vera and Verne B.
            John J. Carroll, Jr., the brother of our subject, was married on 
April 17, 1893, at Colusa, to Miss Julia Hagan, a native of Colusa County, and 
the daughter of Patrick Hagan, a farmer who owned about 1000 acres of choice 
land.  Mrs. John J. Carroll, Jr., died on March 1, 1895, leaving a daughter 
June, who is a popular teacher at Oakland.
            James D. Carroll is a Democrat, and has served on the Democratic 
Central Committee of Sutter County. 
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 420-421