San Joaquin County Biographies


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MARQUIS LAFAYETTE McCALL.
 
        A highly esteemed business man and rancher of San Joaquin County, 
residing on the Waterloo road, is M. L. McCall, who was born in Jefferson 
County, Mo., March 24, 1882, the son of M. L. McCall, a native of Ohio, who had 
married Annie Eliza Williams, who bore him five children: Clarence; Llewellyn, 
now deceased; Jennie, Mrs. Percy L. Bliss, of Oakland; Marquis Lafayette, of 
this review; and Lyman C. In 1890, the McCall family came to California; and 
soon after settling at Stockton, Mr. McCall built the Aurora flouring mill on 
East Weber Avenue, which he conducted until he retired in 1904. Those who 
remember him recall a wide-awake, high principled man who was ever ready to lend 
his aid to all worthy projects for the development of his adopted city and 
county. He died on May 10, 1914, at Stockton, at the age of sixty-eight years. 
Mrs. McCall passed away at the age of sixty-three years, on December 10, 1913.
        M. L. McCall, the subject of this article, attended the Jefferson school 
and the Stockton High School. He worked with his father in the mill from the age 
of thirteen, at the same time attending school. In 1904, the father turned the 
mill over to his two boys, M. L. and Clarence A., who carried on the business 
until 1910. The mill had a capacity of 150 barrels of flour per day; it usually 
was operated on a capacity basis.
        At Stockton, on November 24, 1915, Mr. McCall was united in marriage 
with Miss Ellen Victory Martin, born on the old Martin homestead; and part of 
the house in which they live was built in 1853. After their marriage the young 
couple began their married life by settling on the old Martin ranch, about ten 
miles from Stockton, which is now owned by them and consists of 180 acres of 
fine farming land. Mr. McCall is a member of Charity Lodge, No. 6, I. O. O. F., 
and politically supports the best men and measures regardless of party lines. He 
is ever alert to do what he can for the betterment of his locality and believes 
that the interests of one should be the interests of all.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p   908       
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.