San Joaquin County Biographies


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R. R. WILCOX.
 
        Although twenty-three years have passed since the death of R. R. Wilcox, 
the memory of his long years of honorable, upright life and kindly nature is 
cherished by those who knew him, and his name is inscribed high on the roll of 
California's esteemed citizens. He was a native of Rhode Island and in that 
state was reared and educated to young manhood, when he left his native state 
for Kansas where he homesteaded a tract of land and engaged in general farming.
        Mr. Wilcox was married while residing in Kansas to Mrs. Julia (Summers) 
Titman, the widow of John Titman, a prominent and successful farmer and 
stockman, who passed away in early life survived by his widow and five 
daughters. Mrs. Wilcox was born in Indiana in 1848 and accompanied her parents 
to Iowa, where she married Mr. Titman. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox were the parents of 
two children, Mrs. Mary Thoman Agien, whose sketch also appears in this history, 
and Mrs. Annie Morgan of Stockton. In 1880, the Wilcox family came to California 
and visited at the home of their relatives, Frederick by name, at Ripon; three 
years later Mr. Wilcox located on a ranch near Taylor's Ferry on the Stanislaus 
River, where he farmed successfully until his death in 1899. He was classed 
among the enterprising, progressive and influential citizens of his locality and 
could be relied upon to support any movement for the advancement and development 
of county or state. Mrs. Wilcox survived her husband until 1914, when she passed 
away at Lathrop.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p  1511        
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.