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Hi
Am not related but based on DUE family info posted to
Rootsweb World Connect the following may be of
interest to this forum. From a quick look at DUE entries in
World Connect, I see that Esper is a fairly common
first name for this family but there are only a few
entries that I could find that show a DUE immigration
to the US. It may be that this Esper was amongst
first if not the first.
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Transcribed by Dee Sardoch; <deesar@frontiernet.net>
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Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
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>>Tuesday, 8 Aug 1871<<
ADMITTED to CITIZENSHIP -- In the District Court
yesterday:
-Esper H. DUE, a native of Denmark, on the testimony
of John GANNON and Thos. CUNNINGHAM
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Editorial comment: This Thos. CUNNINGHAM is probably
the county sheriff and per below Esper's wife's maiden
name was GANNON.
Using info from above, found this DUE and family in
the 1870 (E. H. DUE) & 1880 (Esper H. DUE) San Joaquin
county census, married to a Annie/Anna, native of
Ireland. 1900, 1910 & 1920 census indicates
Annie/Anna is widowed, in the last case living with
her son-in-law. Children of marriage appear in
various years. Source for census data Heritage Quest.
There is also a short bio for him in the 1890 version
of the History of San Joaquin County. It can be found
on page 336 of the PDF at URL:
<http://history.sloco.net/CABio/SJoaquinBio.html>
Bio reads:
HISTORY OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY. pg 336
ESPER HANSEN DUE, a rancher of Dent Township, was born
in Bornholm, Denmark, October 30, 1834, a son of Esper
and Ellen Margaret Due. The father, a farmer and
blacksmith, died at the age of eighty-four, and the
mother at eighty-two. The grandparents on both sides
were also long-lived. The subject of this sketch
learned the trade of his father and worked with him
and others as journeyman for four or five years. He
emigrated to America in 1859, arriving in New York a
few days before July 4, the celebration of which
astonished him not a little. He then came to
California, via Panama route, and on his arrival in
San Francisco set out for Sonora, where he worked at
his trade about three months. He then tried mining
that winter, with the result of losing all he had. He
then settled on the Stanislans at Burney's old ferry,
about 1861, working at his trade for three years. He
then sold out with the intention of going to Europe,
but, coming to Stockton, was there married in
September, 1864, to Miss Anna Gannon, a native of
Ireland, then at the age of twenty years, who had been
a resident of the United States since nine years of
age and of California since 1861. The father died in
Ireland at the age of fifty-five. Mr. Due moved to
Merced County, in 1864, and started a shop at Merced
Falls, where he remained until 1867, when he returned
to this county and settled near Collegeville, where he
bought 160 acres, which lie farmed. He also conducted
the Fifteen Mile House and 480 acres, farming the 640
for about four years. In 1879 he sold out and moved to
his present place, about a mile north of Atlanta,
where he purchased 320 acres, increased in 1884 to 640
acres, chiefly devoted to wheat. He has a very good
residence of ten rooms, a complete outfit of
implements necessary to successful farming and a
liberal supply of outbuildings, including a fine tank
with excellent water. Mr. and Mrs. Due have had nine
children, of whom the first two died in infancy, and
the fifth, Mary Francis, died in 1882, aged eleven.
Six are living in 1889: Emma, born June 3, 1868,
finished her education in the Sisters' Academy in San
Jose, was married July 31, 1889, to Francis Alexander
Mondon, born in this county in 1864, of French
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Mondon went to Europe for a
wedding tour, but will probably settle in this county
on their return. The other surviving children are:
Georgie Ella, born January 8, 1870; Thomas Esper, June
21, 1873; John Albert, May 9, 1877; Katie Frances,
June 1, 1882; Helena Marguerite, December 5, 1884.
I have no further info but additional newspaper
extracts may be found at URL:
<http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php>
Typically, these will be birth, death, marriage and
similar info that are transcribed from local papers of
that era.
Vern D
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