Photo of Daniel W. Strong
Three years ago, I asked for your help in locating the death date and burial site for Daniel W. Strong – co-founder of the Central Pacific Railroad. As you can see ... your help proved fruitful. But wait – there's more – I did more digging and found a descendant of "Doc" Strong who had a photograph of him – this is a big deal – because – up to this time, no publically available image of him has been available.
Thanks to Peggy Gailbraith – Strong's photo is available ...
—Ed Hodges
Doc Strong's Dutch Flat Drugstore.
Courtesy Goldendrift.org
Daniel W. Strong, Co-Founder of the Central Pacific Railroad.
Detail Photo courtesy of Margaret Galbraith, Strong Descendent.
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 9:52 PM
12 Comments:
Does anyone know how I can contact Margaret Galbraith? I would like to get her person to use the photo in a video we are producing for the Truckee railroad museum.
jblackwill@hotmail.com
would like permission to use this photo please contact me at sfefjr@yahoo.com
"Edward Hodges" ehodges@ix.netcom.com is a bad e-mal address if anyone can help that would be great
I am also a descendent of Doc Strong - he was my great, great Grandfather and I'm now doing some research about him. Please contact me if have more information - wsumrockdoc58@gmail.com
Pacific Railway Commission, 1887, volume #9 (Search this linked index pdf for " strong" with a space in front of the name)
Strong, Daniel W., 2838-2875, 2916, 2917,. 2959-2977. ... ing ; copy assignment from D. W. Strong to O. D. Lambard, 3138 ...
The United States Pacific Railway Commission, 1887 Report volumes are linked here.
Also see the section on "DOC" DANIEL W. STRONG in THE FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD: The Builders of the Central Pacific Railroad by JOHN DEBO GALLOWAY, C. E.
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D. W. Strong is listed in "SCHEDULE A. Stockholders Central Pacific Railroad Company of California."
He's my 3rd great grandfather! If you find any info on him, I'd love to share! Here's my contact info! Mhall3093@gmail.com
Somewhere above, maybe Hodges said that Dr. Strong was not found in the 1860 US Census. I recently was researching Dr. Strong because he moved to San Diego and I live in that area. I have found Dr. Strong in the 1860 US Census but you have to base this - as I did - on the similarity of the names. Looking at the actual handwritten sheet in the census I found "Daniel W. Shay, age 38, physician (sic!) born Vermont. Real estate value $2,000 and personal property $1,000. He's on p. 13 of 50 in Township 4 of Placer County, with post office at Dutch Flat. The person above him on that page is S. S. Bailey, 28, druggist, born in Vermont. The druggist fancied himself a physician. That was commonly done during the gold rush.
The census sheets are fairly well written and neat. I suggest that the census taker scribbled the names and later recopied for the sheet he turned in. Couldn't decipher what he originally wrote and ended up with Shay.
Lee Bibb
His obit says that he came to San Diego on 23 Oct 1869. Alonzo Horton had just founded the city of San Diego where it now is. leaving the original town, now know as "Old Town" a few miles to the north. In 1880 Strong was an apiarist in El Cajon Township. His homestead application describes part of Sec 2 of Township 14 South, Range 2 East, San Bernardino Meridian. This is one of the most remote locations in the county, being in the San Diego River canyon just north of the northerly end of El Capitan Lake. I saw a reference that the family also had a house in San Diego, now I don't find the address in my notes.
One other oddity: the 4 August 1881 'Stockton Mail' reporting on the "discovery" of a new cavern at Cave City, Calaveras County, listed the names of persons found on the walls (graffiti). Among those was "D. W. Strong." Two of the other men left the dates they were there: 23 June 1850 and Nov. 1850. Perhaps that places Strong there at that time.
Thank you for the info!!! It's very helpful! I'll be following for anything additional findings!
-Maria Hall
mhall3093@gmail.com
on pp 26-27 of Time-Life Books "The Railroaders" is the photo of Strong's drug store in Dutch Flat. He married Mary Ann Cadien at Stockton on 24 November 1864 and left Dutch Flat in 1869. I think that the man sitting in a chair near the store door is Strong, but then who is the girl standing beside him? Has anyone found that he was married between 1850 and 1860?
Also, get this: S. S. Bailey, who is beside Strong as a druggist in the 1860 Census is somehow related to Strong, although I haven't found the relationship. He is Simeon Stephens Bailey and his mother is Eunice Strong. All are from Vermont. In the 1850 Census the Bailey family was in Michigan. S. S. Bailey married wife No. 2 at his father's ranch in Placer Co. By 1870 Bailey had moved to Chicago. Bailey's father was Doctor Trustrim Haines Bailey, who died in 1869.
Lee
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