Sacramento County Biographies

U. M. REESE

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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	whose residence is one of the illustrations in this book, lives at 
1236 H street, Sacramento City. Mr. Reese was born in New York, in 1826. Early 
in life he learned the carpenter's trade, and has worked at it to this date. 
Since 1852 his home has been in California, most of the time at Sacramento; he 
is one of the oldest and most reliable contractors in the city. On the 3d of 
January, 1864, Mr. Reese was married to Miss Carrie E. Trimble, a native of New 
York, by whom he has had three children, only one of whom, a son, is living. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.


	Contractor and builder, Sacramento, was born in Dansville, New York, 
June 14, 1826, the third of a family of five children, four of whom were sons. 
His father, John Reese, was a native of Pennsylvania, and was reared in his 
native State. After reaching manhood he enlisted and served in the War of 1812. 
After his return he emigrated to New York State. The subject of this sketch 
received a common-school education, and learned the trade of carpenter and 
joiner with his two older brothers, and afterward worked at his trade in 
Rochester, New York, and also in the city of Buffalo. On the 24th of February, 
1852, he went to New York and embarked for California, on the ship Georgia, 
which was disabled and put back. He was transferred to the Ohio at Havana, and 
finally arrived at San Francisco on the 1st of April, 1852. He went to Stockton, 
and from there on foot to the southern mines, and returned to Sacramento in the 
same manner, and went to work at his trade for George Wallace, the builder. In 
1860 he went to Virginia City, Nevada, and was there during the Indian war, in 
which General Meredith and Major Ormsby were killed. In June 1864, Mr. Reese was 
married to Miss Carrie E. Trimble, daughter of John Trimble, of New York, and 
they have one son living, Charles E. Reese, engaged in mercantile business on J 
Street, in this city. Mr. Reese returned to Sacramento in 1868 and engaged in 
contracting, and since then for the past twenty years has been prominently 
identified with building interests in this section of the State. He has erected 
a large share of the finest buildings in the Capital City. He is a member of 
Capital Lodge, No. 87, I.O.O.F., also a member of Occidental Encampment, and a 
member of Patriarchs Militant, and served as District Deputy Grand Patriarch. 
For the past fourteen years he has resided at his present comfortable, 
attractive home on H Street.
 
An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California. By Hon. Win. J. Davis. 
Lewis Publishing Company 1890. Pages 442-443. 

Transcribed by Debbie Walke Gramlick.