Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

GEORGE T. HAMPSHIRE

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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From an early age George T. Hampshire has depended upon his own resources for a 
livelihood and in his search for fortune he has followed many lines of activity. 
 He is now identified with mining operations at Hammonton.  Throughout his life 
he has been actuated by the spirit of progress, regarding no position as final, 
but rather as a point from which he can work up to higher things.  He is one of 
California�s native sons and was born in Browns Valley, March 31, 1879.  His 
parents were George and Ella Hampshire, the former a native of Pennsylvania and 
the latter of New Jersey.  In pioneer days the father came to California by the 
Isthmus route and was first employed in a foundry in Marysville.  Later he 
became connected with the Selby Company of San Francisco in the capacity of 
engineer and in that city he continued to reside until his death at the age of 
sixty-three, while the mother reached the age of forty-three before she passed 
away.  They were the parents of eight children, but Callie, the youngest, is 
deceased.  Those who survive are Kate, George T., Walter, William, Lester, Irene 
and Jack.
George T. Hampshire attended the Lincoln School on Fifth Street, and the 
Jefferson School on Tehama Street, in San Francisco, and when a lad of fifteen 
went to sea.  For about five years he followed that life, spending four seasons 
on a salmon fisher of the Alaska fishing fleet, and also becoming a seaman on 
ocean-going vessels.  On his return to California he worked for a time in the 
lumber mills in Humboldt County, and also spent a season in lumber camps of 
Oregon and Washington, after which he revisited the town of his birth, going to 
work in his grandfather�s store.  In 1917 he came to Hammonton and has since 
been connected with the Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields, filling the position of 
dredgeman.  He finds the work congenial and is thorough, reliable and efficient 
in the discharge of his duties.  Mr. Hampshire is a member of Marysville Parlor, 
N.S.G.W., and his political views are in accord with the platform and principles 
of the Republican party.  He is alert and enterprising and his personal 
qualities are those which win respect and esteem.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 1242