California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


JOSEPH R. KETTLEWELL.  Son of Joseph and Nancy Ann Wallace Kettlewell, was born in Washington 
County, Pennsylvania, May 3, 1825. When he was two years of age his parents moved to St. Clairsville, 
Belmont County, Ohio, and resided there some six years. In 1833, his parents moved to Wheeling, 
West Virginia, where the subject of this sketch was educated at the common schools. His father died 
in 1837, and two years later he moved with his mother back to Belmont County, Ohio, and there was 
apprenticed to the trade of blacksmith. Remaining there four years, he again returned to Virginia and 
remained about one year. He then moved back to Ohio, locating in Cincinnati, and there followed his 
trade for four years. He then located in several places, staying only a short time in each, until June 1, 
1854. We then find him in Iowa City, Iowa, engaged in his former business, where he built a large shop 
and carried on an extensive business, until he started for this coast. Leaving Iowa City April 20, 1863, he 
crossed the plains with his family, sojourning in Austin, Nevada, for one year. He then proceeded to 
California, arriving in San Francisco July 23, 1864. He then engaged in his former business, residing 
there for eight years. July 1, 1872, he came to Napa County, locating in St. Helena, and began his 
present extensive business of keeping hardware store, blacksmith shop and manufacturing wagons 
and carriages, etc., enjoying the confidence and respect of all the citizens of the community in which 
he lives. Mr. Kettlewell was united in marriage in Cincinnati, April 15, 1847, to Miss Eliza Paul, who was 
born hi Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, August 11, 1825, and by this union they have four living children and 
two deceased: Joseph A., born February 12, 1848; George W., born December 23, 1849; James O., born 
April 12, 1852; Eliza J., born February 25, 1855, and died October 25, 1865; Benjamin F., born May 8, 
1857, and Charles P., born April 13, 1860, and died October 19, 1866.