Alameda County Biographies

J. H. Paget

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler, July 2004

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            J. H. Paget, proprietor of a boiler and machine works and blacksmith 
shop at Livermore, was born at Keokuk, Iowa, October 1, 1852, and in 1854 came 
with his parents to San Francisco, where he learned the machinist�s trade in the 
Stoddard Iron Works.  Desiring to travel around and see the world, he went in 
1874 to the Black Hills of Southwestern Dakota, being among the first 
prospectors to enter that country.  He spent two years there, with but little 
fortune, however.  He became then a courier in the military service of the 
United States Government, and was in the immediate vicinity of General Custer�s 
massacre in June, 1876; thence he went to Brainerd, Minnesota, thence to 
Leadville, Colorado, and in 1880 he returned to California and settled at 
Oakland, where he followed his trade as a journeyman for about three years.  In 
1884 he went to Livermore and worked in the shops of N. B. Holmes until 1889, 
when he bought him out and has since operated the works in all departments of 
blacksmithing, boiler and machine repairing and mill work.
            He was married in Oakland, August 10, 1881, to Miss Mary E. Thomson, 
of Berkeley, who died September 5, 1889, leaving two children:  Gracie E. and 
Howard.  Mr. Paget his a member of Live Oak Lodge, No. 17, K. of P., at Oakland, 
and he takes also a prominent part  in local politics and in the general welfare 
of the community where he resides.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Company, 
1891. pg. 319.