Where is Lewis Metzler Clement buried?
From: "R Rowlett" 3rrowlett@cox.net
I am a cousin of LM Clement, through Lewis Cobes Clement, and have been searching for Lewis' burial place. I have read and enjoyed your article on [Lewis Metzler Clement] that is online. Do you happen to know where he and his wife, Charlotte are buried? My cousin, Lee Clement Harris, of BC, Canada, believes he might have been buried in the Niagara area, but I have been unable to find him there either. Any help you can give would be appreciated.
—Reverie Noel Clement Rowlett
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 10:17 AM
10 Comments:
From: "Bruce Cooper" BCC@CPRR.org
Re: Lewis Metzler Clement
Thank you for your note about my great great grandfather, Lewis Metzler Clement. Lewis Cobbs Clement, to whom you are related, was my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather from whom I was descended as follows:
LINEAGE CHART #8
CLEMENT [2] (bf1680)
11. [unknown]1 CLEMENT (bf1680bbf1707) m. bbf1705 [unknown][1] (bf1680abf1707)
10. Joseph2 CLEMENT (bf1707abf1760) m. bbf1744 Anna PEAKE (bf1720abf1760)
9. Lewis Cobbs3 CLEMENT[2] (bf1745abf1780) m. abf1768 [unknown] (bf1750abf1772)
8. Capt. John Putman4 CLEMENT[3] (1759-1858) m. bbf1768 Mary BALL (bf1768abf1800)
7. Col. Lewis5 CLEMENT[4] (1787-1879) m1806 Margaret CRYSLER (1790bbf1878)
6. Ralph Morden6 CLEMENT (1812-1854) m1836 Charlotte A. METZLER (1818-1883)
5. Lewis Metzler7 CLEMENT[5] (1837-1914) m1858 Charlotte CRYSLER (1835-1921)
4. Russell Montague8 CLEMENT[6] (1865-1948) m.-1890 Lizzie FREEMAN (1867-1956)
3. Lewis Mason9 CLEMENT[7] (1892-1981) m19-17 Vesta Lucia LYNDE (1894-1982)
2. Donald Treat COOPER (1913-1974) m1940 Virginia Mason10 CLEMENT (1919-1974)
1. Bruce Clement11 COOPER (1945)
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[1] "Widow" CLEMENT: m1707 to Benjamin ROBERTS who owned 76 acres in Woolwyck, Cludend Bents Island (NY?) which he willed to her sons, Joseph2 and Peter.
[2] Lewis Cobbs3 CLEMENT: A staunch United Empire Loyalist; removed from Tyson Co., NY, to Niagara, Ontario, Canada, at outbreak of the Revolution and joined the British forces as an interpreter in the Indian Department.
[3] Capt. John Putman4 CLEMENT: Leader, Northern Confederate Indians, an embodied force whose services in scouting and hunting down rebel bands and "Sons of Liberty" were a striking feature of the Revolutionary War; Known as "Ranger John", he caught and destroyed a large body of partisans under the noted rebel leader, Capt. Bull.
[4] Col. Lewis5 CLEMENT: Lt. (Artillery) in War of 1812; commanded battery guns at Queenstown, October 13, 1812; Wounded seriously three times at Battle of Chippawa where he commanded a company, July 5, 1814; Commanded volunteer company during Rebellion of 183738; Volunteered for service at time of the Trent Affair (1861) and the Fenian Raid (1866) walking seventeen miles to Fort Erie at age 79. PH
[5] Lewis Metzler7 CLEMENT: Graduate, McGill University; Engineer Montreal Water Works, Welland Canal, Central Pacific RR (Asst Chief Engineer & Chief Locating Engineer) in charge of building the CPRR line across the Sierra Nevada Mountains from Sacramento, CA, via Reno, NV, to Promontory Summit, UT, where it joined the UPRR line at the "Driving of the Golden Spike" to complete the first Transcontinental Railroad, May 10, 1869,; Southern Pacific RR (Consulting Engineer); Commissioner, U.S. Special Pacific Railroad Commission, February-May, 1869; Pacific Improvement Co. (Chief Engineer); Stanford University (Consulting Engineer); Naturalized U.S. Citizen by Hon. E.D. Wheeler, J., District Court, 19th Judicial District of the State of California, San Francisco, July 25, 1879 (CERT); PHs, BKs, LTRs.
[6] Russell Montague8 CLEMENT:Graduate, MIT. Civil Engineer; City Engineer for Oakland, CA.
[7] Lewis Mason9 CLEMENT: Built and operated his first radio station from his home in Oakland, CA, in 1905; CoFounder and Secretary, Bay Counties Wire less Telegraph Association, 1907; Made first ever broadcast of a sporting event (University of California Stanford football game), 1908;, University of California (Berkeley), 191014; B.Sc.(E.E.), 1914; Radio Engineer, Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., Kahuku, HI, & San Francisco, CA, 1914-16; Engineer, Bell Labs, Western Electric Co., New York City, 19-16-25; Developed (with fellow Western Electric Engineer R. Heising) the first aircraft wireless telephone equipment and they became the first to speak from aircraft to ground and aircraft to aircraft at Langley Field, VA, August 18, 19-17; Designed, built and installed first wireless telephone toll circuit (Cata lina IslandSan Pedro, CA), May 10, 1920 July 16, 1920; Developed first Super Hetradyne receiver for RCA, 1922 (Additional information to be added).
At the time of his death at age 77 on October 29, 1914, Lewis Metzler and Charlotte Crysler Clement were living in Hayward, CA, and while I do not know where they are buried, I have always assumed that it was in the San Francisco Bay Area as they had lived in California since 1862. ... If you are able to find where LM Clement is buried I would certainly appreciate knowing what you learn. ...
—Bruce Clement Cooper
R Rowlett wrote:
... Lewis Cobes Clement is my 5x great-grandfather, through his son, James Clement (John Putnam’s brother) who married Catherine Crysler and who fought in the War of 1812, with the British, then Adam Crysler Clement, John Colby Clement, Sr., and Jr., to my grandfather, Leroy Allen Clement, Sr. My Dad was a junior. Most of my line, from the senior John Colby, lived on the US side. My Dad’s cousin, somewhat removed etc., lives in Comox, BC, Canada. She wrote a very extensive biography of the family and the many lines. My direct cousin, Justin Clement, wrote a little tome on the burning of Philadelphia, which was well-received. I have my MA in History and plod along with various projects. ...
I loved your article on the RR and LM [Clement]. He must have been a remarkable person, as were his children, especially Maude and Russell. Did you know your grandfather? Mine died when Dad was 4, from gassing in WWI. My Dad’s youngest uncle, who was born in 1908, died a few years ago in 2009. He and I wrote occasionally and he was my main contact with the family in Niagara county.
I have searched all the cemeteries I can find in the Bay area, but think I will turn the task over to my cousin who lives in San Leandro. She needs a project! ...
If I find the burial site for LM [Clement] and Charlotte, I’ll let you know. Do you know where Maude is buried? If so, that might be a starting point.
—Reverie
From: "Bruce Cooper" BCC@CPRR.org
Thanks for the reply and additional information about the Clement family. Yes I knew my grandfather, Lewis Mason Clement, very well as I was 36 when he passed, and I also knew Lewis Metzler Clement's youngest daughter Maude when I was a teen as she lived well into her 90s. I think she is probably buried in Oakland, CA, where she lived much of her life but I am not sure. I would certainly be interested in acquiring a copy of the extensive biography of the Clement family written by your dad's cousin in BC as this family is my closest lineal relation (my mother was a Clement) and one of the ones in which I have the greatest interest. i would also certainly be very interested in anything your cousin in San Leandro might find out about Lewis and Charlotte's resting places especially if I could get a picture of their grave stones. As for the other families, you may also be interested in seeing the various lineage charts that I have done on my ancestry.
... I was contacted by a Justin Clement about fifteen of years ago when he was a student in Philadelphia who also asked me about Lewis Cobbs Clement. ... I recall he was quite interested in Philadelphia during the Revolution. ...
—BCC
From: "Rick Kelly" cv4wheeler@yahoo.com
I am writing a new history of Castro Valley. I would like to include a page on Lewis Clement, who retired to Castro Valley as a very early chicken rancher in or before 1900 (he died there in 1914). ...
Of course he lived on Strobridge Avenue, adjacent to his old co-worker and sometimes boss (PIC) James Strobridge, just down the road from where the old CPRR riding boss Michael Stanton used to farm (Stanton died in 1880). While Castro Valley was later famed for chicken ranching, Clement had a rather large chicken facility built in 1900 at the very inception of the chicken revolution, thus he deserves to be credited as a farming pioneer as well as a famed engineer. I know he lived on Strobridge Avenue, on one of the lots that Strobridge split off in 1884, I could figure out exactly which one if the County Recorder's Office were open, a project for a latter date. In those days, Castro Valley was a pretty common retirement destination well-off for men, who often ran small farming operations.
Also, if you have any information about him in his "chicken years", that might be very helpful. ...
—Rick Kelly
OBITUARY. LEWIS METZLER CLEMENT, 1837-1914.
Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
E-ISSN 1753-7843
Volume 200 Issue 1915, 1915, pp. 468-469
PART 2
LEWIS METZLER CLEMENT, born at Xiagara, Ontario, on the 12th August, 1837, died at Haywards, California, on the 29th
OBITUARY. 4i9 October, 1914. In early life he was employed on the Montreal Waterworks under the late Mr. T. C. Keefer, and also on the construction of the Welland Railway and the Port Doors and Hamilton Railway. In 1860 he was engaged on the construction of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, and from 1862 as Assistant Chief Engineer on the Central Pacific Railroad, until 1881, when he was appointed Chief Engineer. He subsequently acted as Engineer to the Pacific Improvement Company, and as Consulting Engineer to the Southern Pacific Railroad and to the Leland Stanforcl Junior University. He designed the first electric railway patrol system over the Sierra Nevada, and introduced many improvements in the design and construction of steam, cable and electric railways and rolling-stock. Mr. Metzler was elected a Member of the Institution on the 6th December, 1887.
Guide to the Clement Family Documents Relating to San Francisco Cable Cars, 1877-1958 (bulk 1880-1899)
BANC MSS 2002/2
Contains original and blueprint engineering drawings of cable car lines, electric railways, railroads, and other related drawings. Cable car drawings include drawings of the complete workings for 7 cable car lines for Market Street Cable Railway Co. Railroad drawings include drawings of bridges and profiles of sections of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad. The collection also includes L.M. Clement's reference materials and some of R.M. Clement's personal papers.
Background
Lewis Metzler Clement, known as L.M. Clement, was born in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, on August 12, 1837. Clement earned an engineering degree from Montréal's McGill University. Clement began his career with the railroads as a shipping clerk with the Central Ohio Railroad, eventually moving to St. Louis where he worked for E.R. Blanchard, General Freight Agenet of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company. In January 1863, Clement decided to leave St. Louis to seek his fortune in California. With a recommendation from Blanchard, he was able to secure a position from Theodore Dehone Judah, Chief Engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad, as Judah's assistant in the surveying and building of the first railroad eastward across the Sierra Nevada Mountains. With Judah's death, Clement was made Assistant Chief Engineer and eventually the Acting Chief Engineer.Russell Montague Clement, known as R.M. Clement, son of Lewis Metzler Clement, was born March 30, 1865 in a camp along the Central Pacific Railroad line. Russell studied civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1889. He worked for both the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Pacific Improvement Company and later served as the City Engineer for Oakland, California. R.M. Clement died in 1958.The Market Street Railroad Company, incorporated in 1857 was the first street railway system in San Francisco with tracks going down Market Street. Originally operated with steam dummy's pulling the cars, they were switched to horse drawn cars in 1867 after complaints from residents.
Extent Number of containers: 8 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 36 oversize folders, 4 v. and 2 oversize v. Linear feet: 5.5
Biography
Lewis Metzler Clement
From the guide to the Clement Family Documents Relating to San Francisco Cable Cars, 1877-1958, (bulk 1880-1899), (The Bancroft Library)
Lewis Metzler Clement, known as L.M. Clement, was born in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, on August 12, 1837. Clement earned an engineering degree from Montréal's McGill University. Clement began his career with the railroads as a shipping clerk with the Central Ohio Railroad, eventually moving to St. Louis where he worked for E.R. Blanchard, General Freight Agenet of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company. In January 1863, Clement decided to leave St. Louis to seek his fortune in California. With a recommendation from Blanchard, he was able to secure a position from Theodore Dehone Judah, Chief Engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad, as Judah's assistant in the surveying and building of the first railroad eastward across the Sierra Nevada Mountains. With Judah's death, Clement was made Assistant Chief Engineer and eventually the Acting Chief Engineer.
The eastward route from California that Clement laid out for the Central Pacific Railroad is still in use today, while the original westward route from Omaha, Nebraska built by the Union Pacific Railroad was abandoned and rebuilt elsewhere because of its poor location and inefficient operation.
In 1881 Clement was named Chief Engineer of the Pacific Improvement Company, a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad. As the Chief Engineer he was in charge of designing and building cable and electric railways, power plants and car houses. Among the cable lines he was responsible for helping to build were the Hayes Street, Castro Street and McAllister Street Cable lines of the Market Street Cable Railway Company.
L.M. Clement passed away at home in Hayward, California on October 29, 1914.
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Russell Montague Clement
Russell Montague Clement, known as R.M. Clement, son of Lewis Metzler Clement, was born March 30, 1865 in a camp along the Central Pacific Railroad line. Russell studied civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1889. He worked for both the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Pacific Improvement Company and later served as the City Engineer for Oakland, California. R.M. Clement died in 1958.
Market Street Railway Company
The Market Street Railroad Company, incorporated in 1857 was the first street railway system in San Francisco with tracks going down Market Street. Originally operated with steam dummy's pulling the cars, they were switched to horse drawn cars in 1867 after complaints from residents.
In 1882 construction began on converting the lines on Market Street to cable and completed in August 1883. From then on they were known as the Market Street Cable Railway Company. The company eventually had cable lines running down McAllister Street, Hayes Street, Haight Street, Valencia Street and Castro Street, all connecting on Market Street. Henry Root originally designed the system. This cable car line was also know as the Southern Line as it was owned by the same owners of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the "Big 4", Huntington, Hopkins, Crocker and Stanford. L.M. Clement who worked as a Chief Engineer for a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad probably oversaw the engineers in charge of designing the cable car lines.
The Market Street Cable Railway Company came up with many new innovations in cable railways including use of a single car and the single-jaw side grip. Their innovations were reported in 1884, in "The System of Cable Railways for Cities and Towns as Operated in San Francisco and Chicago." The Cable Railway Company, the owners of the original cable car patents, responded in a pamphlet entitled, "Cable Railway Company in Reply to the Pamphlet issued by the Market Street Cable company," and a lawsuit. The Cable Railway Company pursued many lawsuits against other cable car companies. Most failed.
In 1893 the Southern Pacific Company arranged a merger between the Market Street Cable Railway, the Omnibus Railroad and Cable Company, the Ferries & Cliff House Railway, and two horse car operations to become the Market Street Railway Company.
Around the turn of the century the Market Street Railway Co. petitioned to switch their cable car operations to electric railways, but San Francisco did not want electric lines going down Market Street. When the 1906 earthquake hit, the company constructed temporary electric lines on all of their routes except Castro Street. The lines have been electric ever since.
After years of financial problems, in 1944, the San Francisco Municipal Railway bought out the Market Street Railway.
Clement Junction, California
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