A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . his young manhood he married Minerva , who was born in Ohio and in childhoodaccompanied her parents to Michigan, remainingfor a time at Farmington, over the line fromOakland county in the adjoining county ofWayne. Later, however, the family removedto Grand Ledge, Eaton county, where occurredthe death of her father, J. S. Holmes, a nativeof Massachusetts and a member of an old east-ern family. In religious belief Mrs. Mi
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . his young manhood he married Minerva , who was born in Ohio and in childhoodaccompanied her parents to Michigan, remainingfor a time at Farmington, over the line fromOakland county in the adjoining county ofWayne. Later, however, the family removedto Grand Ledge, Eaton county, where occurredthe death of her father, J. S. Holmes, a nativeof Massachusetts and a member of an old east-ern family. In religious belief Mrs. MinervaEsler adheres to the doctrines of the Congrega-tional denomination and from girlhood has beenwarmly interested in missionary and charitablemovements. In the family of Benjamin T. and MinervaEsler there were three sons and two eldest of the number, Frederick John, wasborn at Grand Ledge, Mich., August 28, 1863,and attended the grammar and high schools ofhis native town, where later he assisted hisfather in the general mercantile business. Com-ing to California in 1884 he secured employmentwith the Brookside Winery Company, in which.
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