Elisha Terry TARBOX, .3

Male 1837 - 1904  (67 years)


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  • Name Elisha Terry TARBOX 
    Suffix .3 
    Born 22 Jul 1837  Caledon East, Toronto Twp., Peel Co., Ontario. (Now Albion Twp.) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Ref: 1900 Census San Fran., Cal., Verify DOB & death date of his mother.
    Gender Male 
    Died 29 Nov 1904  San Francisco, San Mateo Co., California Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Aged. 67y 4m 7d. c
    Buried San Francisco Columbarium Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Plot 3rd Floor, Section 3, Thier 3.1.
    Person ID I560  Richard Patterson NJ & ON
    Last Modified 22 Apr 2019 

    Father George TARBOX
              b. c 1815, Palmyra, Wayne Co., New York Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Jan 1838, Quincy, Adams Co., Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 23 years) 
    Mother Jane TERRY
              b. 1797, Town of York (Toronto), York Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 14 Feb 1847, Winter Quarters, Florence, Douglas, Nebraska Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 50 years) 
    Married 1836  Fort Niagara, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • at the head of Lake Ontario.
    Family ID F380  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Julia A HANNIGAN
              b. Jan 1849, New York State Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 31 Aug 1904, San Francisco, San Mateo Co., California Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Married 13 Dec 1871  San Francisco, San Mateo Co., California Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Benjamin Laidley TARBOX
              b. 11 May 1867, San Francisco, San Mateo Co., California Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 11 May 1928, San Francisco, San Mateo Co., California Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years)
     2. Mary E TARBOX
              b. 25 Sep 1868, San Francisco, San Mateo Co., California Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. California Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. George Francis TARBOX
              b. 1864, San Francisco, San Mateo Co., California Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 25 Feb 1868, San Francisco, San Mateo Co., California Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 4 years)
    Last Modified 11 Nov 2017 
    Family ID F378  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Mary CALIGHAN
              b. 9 Sep 1844, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 4 Nov 1900, San Francisco, San Mateo Co., California Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years) 
    Last Modified 9 Aug 2020 
    Family ID F379  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Elisha is the son of Jane Terry & George Tarbox.

      . 1847 Feb 5 - John & I went to Winter Quarters to see my sister Jane. We found she had left Sister Thompson & gone to live at Brother Wooleys. …We came home February 6 & on February 15, Elisha Tarbox & I went again to Sister Holman's where Jane died of consumption (TB). … It was not long after this that John Heward & the 10 year old had a little trouble over an errand which John sent him on. John reprimanded him quite severely, this made Grandma Terry vexed & she sent for Elisha to come & live with them, which he did. He crossed the plains in their wagon in the Allen Taylor Company arriving in the Salt Lake Valley October 15, 1849.

      [His half-sister] Emma Young had got better of the canker & was going to school. She was now 7 years old. It was a great trial for such young children to be left without parents at the commencement of such a wearisome trek as the more than 1000 miles they had to travel to get to the Valley of the Mountains, but they were fortunate to have relatives to care for them. Emma Amanda, with the Hewards came in the company with Zerah Pulsipher as Captain (Terry Lund's great grandfather) which arrived in Salt Lake 25 Sep, 1848.
      The Hewards had a hard struggle to get along in this new land, of course Emma suffered along with the rest.
      . 1855 January 16, grandfather Parshall Terry came to see how they were getting along & told them he thought they could do better if they moved to Draperville where most of the Terry's were located, so they did in March of that same year. But later Elisha went to live with my father & mother. Finally, Emma Amanda went to live permanently with her grandparents & brother Elisha. I imagine her life here was a bit more happy. Elisha later went to California where he established a home & had his family.
      Ref: A Puritan Heritage, The Ancestry of Marshall & Hannah Terry, by H Vernon & Eleaner M Hall, .
      Ref: 1889 & Marshall Terry Family History, by Terry Lund, 1900.

      . 1853 Apr 23, American Fork, Utah, Military Service, Elisha T Tarbox.

      San Francisco Directory
      . 1862, 54 Jessie St, Elisha T Tarabox, Driver;
      - xx Cheer House Laundry, Elisha T. Tarbox, propt. office 121 Ldierdoff.

      San Francisco, California Voter Registration, for Elisha Terry Tarbox, born New York:
      . 1866 Jul 16, Presidio Rd., San Fran. Age 28, b. NY.
      . 1880 Aug 05, NW Corner Union & Octavia, Age 43, b 1837 NY
      . 1882 Aug 25, 105 Stockton,
      . 1888 Aug 8, 1890 Aug 9, 1892 Sep 1 & 1896 Jun 1896, 504 Washington

      Recorded for further research, further information would be much appreciated:
      XRef: Elisha Tarbox.1 & Elisha Tarbox.2 & George Tarbox:

      . 1869 Oct 27 & again 1870 May 23-31st, Letters remaining in the Wells
      Fargo Co. Express Office, San Francisco Post office: E T Tarbox.

      . 1870 Jan 8. California, San Francisco, Neld & Goss Laundry, sold out to E T Tarbox.
      . 1871 Apr 8. A large number of young men assembled at Dashaway Hall, last evening for the purpose of organizing a Young Man's Republican Club of San Francisco.
      . 1871 Jul 11, E T TARBOX, Long & favorably known in this city, will probably run on the Republicans ticket at our coming election, for Supervisor of the Twelfth Ward.
      Ref: San Francisco Bulletin Newspaper.
      . 1872 Feb 18, Sun. Notice of application … bounded from the distillery of ET Tarbox, formerly Gavotta.
      . 1872 Sep 18, Wed. Deeds Files James S Kennedy to Elisha T Tarbox, a certain track of land formerly known as Boise Mill property, but now known as the Los Angeles Distillery, for $14,000. James S Kennedy to Elisha T Tarbox, a certain piece of land, situated in the county of Lost Angeles, for $10.
      Ref: Los Angeles Daily Star.

      . 1871 Sep 7 - Twelfth Ward, S Fran. Stanyan for Supervisor. In this ward among the workers were … ET Tarbox.
      . 1872 Jul 3 & 6 - Fourth of July Celebrations: Procession assemble at Occidental Hotel, Stockton St. Aides of Grand Marshal & marchers … ET Tarbox.
      Ref: San Francisco Chronicle.

      . 1872 Oct 18 - Passengers from Los Angles, by Telegraph, the steamer Orisba sails this afternoon from San Pedro for SF, Passengers ET Tarbox, 6 chinamen.
      Ref: Weekly Alta California Newspaper, San Fran., pub. Oct 26 .
      . 1873 July 8, 12th Ward, Polls at north east corner Pos & Pacific, Supervisor, ET Tarbox. Ref: SF Bulletin.
      . 1874 Sep 23 - Los Angeles grape growers are beginning to harvest their crops now, preparatory to manufacturing them into wine & spirits. ET Tarbox will commence distilling brandy about the 5th of October. He will use 7 tons per day.
      Ref: Stockton Daily Evening Herald.

      . 1874 Oct 6 - Grape Juice - Commencement of Operations in the Distillery, An Extensive establishment, the process of Mfg. Brandy, Something for LA to be proud.
      Yesterday, through the courtesy of Mr. E. T. Tarbox, the leassee & operator of the Los Angeles Distillery, members of the city press were furnished carriages & a polite invitation to visit the extensive establishment across the river & witness the opening of the Fall vintage. The distillery has lately been refitted & supplied with all the necessary machinery & appliances for a vigorous prosecution of work during the grape season. The building itself is commodious & well arranged & everything about the establishment has been brought to the most desirable state of cleanliness & good order. Commencing with the Introduction of the grapes from a platform on the southeastern side of the building, we pass through a huge doorway which leads directly the crusher. The grapes are packed In boxes of a convenient size, holding four pounds each & are thus carried in on tramways from the receiving platform. About 10 tons were stacked up ready for use, this being only a small installment compared with the capacities of the establishment & designed, only for a short run to test the machinery. Four men were kept busy feeding the crusher & at that, could not supply the machine to its full capacity, which is placed at over 10 tons an hour. After crushing, the pulp & juice pass into a huge mash-tub beneath & the stems are carried out upon a platform to be rinsed & afterwards pitched off out of the way by a workman who stands by with pitchfork in hand.
      The mash-tub is 18 feet In diameter & has a capacity of 2,500 gallons. It is provided with a large sweep with rake teeth, which is kept constantly in motion stirring up the juice & pulp as It falls into the tub. When filled & properly stirred with its due proportion of water, the mash Is passed through pipes to the fermenting tanks on a lower floor. Of these there are 12 of a capacity of 5,000 gallons each, or an aggregate capacity of 60,000 gallons. After remaining in the tanks for 48 hours, to allow proper fermentation, the mass is allowed to pass through flumes sunk in the floor & leading from each tub to an underground cistern holding 11,000 gallons. From this it is pumped at once to the top of the building, where it passes into a still with a 6,000 gallon capacity. This still is an immense tub similar to the others, though much higher & divided into three compartments, one above the other, with appliances for steaming & refining. Here, in due course of time, the mass of fermented pulp changes to spirits, in its passage respectively through the 3 compartments & comes out through a pipe beneath & is connected into the final reservoirs. These are 3 in number &g hold each 1,613 gallons. They are kept under Government lock & key & are not accessible even to the managers of the distiller.

      Having passed through the whole process from the grape to the brandy, some general remarks concerning the; workings of the establishment may be in order. The force of operatives consists of Mr. Tarbox, the proprietor, Mr. Lucian Curlis, the Superintendent, our genial friend, T Jeff White, bookkeeper & about 30 workmen altogether, in the various departments. When in full operation, the establishment will consume about 70 tons of grapes daily, turning out for the same period 15,000 gallons of spirits. This distillery is the largest in Southern California & one of the largest in the State. It has required a vast amount of pluck & capital to set such a mammoth concern at work & it is to be hoped that Mr. Tarbox will be amply rewarded for the step which he has taken. The importance of such a distillery to this section of the State cannot be overestimated, furnishing as it does a ready market for one of the principal products & securing the wealth in our midst which would otherwise find its location in San Francisco or some of the larger cities.
      After viewing the distillery thoroughly & watching the manufacturIng process in its full operation, the company were invited into a house adjoining, where a fine collation was in waiting, presided over by the eminent colored artist George Van Buren. The viands had ample justice do to them & the health of Mr. Tarbox & the success of his enterprise was drank in many a bumper of sparkling champagne. The occasion, altogether, was a most happy one & we can only hope that the prosecution of his enterprise will be as pleasant throughout for Mr. Tarbox & his friends as the commencement proved yesterday.

      . 1875 Jan 29 Land Transfer: ET Tarbox, 18 acres city LA, NW by LA river; also Lot E San Gabriel Rd app distillery.
      Ref: Los Angeles Daily Herald.
      . 1876 Jun 6, ET Tarbox was a passenger for San Francisco by the Ancon.

      . 1878 Jan 27 - Mr. ET. Tarbox has telegraphed from San Francisco to Mr. Jeremiah Baldwin that the verdict in the Los Angeles Distillery case is in favor of the claimants. The distillery is the property of the Bank of California. As it will now, after a lapse of 3 years, pass out of government hands, it will be ready next fall to resume its mission of manufacturing grape brandy. This will be a decided boon to our vineyardists.
      . 1878 Aug 10 - ET Tarbox, proprietor of the LA distillery, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the US District.
      Court. Liability, $81,618,62 assets $71,087,10.

      . 1886 Apr 3 - LA is to have a water system of pure artisan water, obtained rom wells near the old Tarbox distillery. A Cornish engine is to be used that will throw 2 million gallons per diem up into a reservoir, where it can be sued to supply the city.
      Ref: Press & Horticulturist, Riverside, California.

      . 1895 Mar 28 - Deputy Census Marshals appointed E T Tarbox, Salary $6 a day.
      1896 Oct 21 - Election Commoners yesterday appointed the following precinct officers: ET Tarbox.
      Ref: San Francisco Call.

      . 1900 Jun 1 Census San Francisco, California. Born Jul 1837, 1857, married 26 years/ 1831, Born NY, both parents born NY. Occupation: Clerk.
      Ref: Los Angles Herald Newspapers, [all of the above.]

      Days before death:
      . 1904 Nov 26-27th. - The Corinthian Cal. & South Bay Yacht clubs brought the season to an official end last Saturday & Sunday. Members & visitors adjourning afterwards to the main hall for the jinks. Programme, …South Bay Yacht Club Soloist Violinist: Ben Tarbox.
      Ref: SF Call, Published Nov 5, 1904.

      . 1904 Nov 29, Tues. - NIGHTS OF COLUMBUS JINKS. - An entertaining high Jinks was given Tuesday night given Tuesday.
      by San Francisco Council, Knights of Columbus at Golden Gate Hall. An excellent musical programme was given & several members of the Olympic Club contributed their services to make the evening one of pleasure.The following took part in the programme: [many inc.,] Ben Tarbox.
      Ref: SF Call Newspaper, published Thurs. Dec 1, 1904.

      . 1904 Dec 2 -Death, TARBOX Elisha T.,
      beloved husband of Julia A. Tarbox & father of Benjamin L. Tarbox, a native of New York, aged 67 years 4 months & 7 days.
      Ref: San Francisco Call. -. -
    • Page Two ELISHA TERRY TARBOX

      . 1874 Nov 4 - A DISTILLERY SEIZED - Collector Sedgwick has seized, for violation of internal revenue laws, the distillery of ET Tarbox, located at Los Angles, together with some 10,000 gallons of fruit brandy therein. Ref: SF Bulletin.

      . 1875 Mar 3 - THOSE MATERIALIZED SPIRITS, The Great Seizure of Grape Brandy at Los Angles. I M Foulke, Supervisor of Internal Revenue, who with Suv. Collector Mayhew recently seized the great grape brandy distillery at LA, a arrived in this city today. It appears from a statement made by Mr. Foule that 6 pipes of brandy were shipped from the distillery to SF in December last & the stamps on these pipes were inspected & found to be correct. During the month of January the same pipes bearing the stamps already used once before, were again received in this city. The violation of the law by the use of old stamps, aroused the suspicion of the Revenue authorities here & the LA distillery was therefore under strict surveillance.
      The distillery, as stated in our special dispatch from LA, stands in the name of E T Tarbox & was under the management of Lucien Curtis. In explanation of the reason why the illicit manufacture of brandy was not discovered by the local authorities, it is stated that there was no storekeeper at the institution. The law does not provide for a storekeeper in a grape brandy distillery but tin the case of a grain distillery this order is deemed an imperative necessity. The reason given for the failure to provide storekeepers for the grape brandy distilleries, that several farmers manufacture grape brandy & it would be a great hardship on them to pay for a storekeeper.
      The distillery at LA manufactured more brandy that the united products of all the other distilleries in the State. The Revenue authorities arrive at the yield of a distillery in this way. The capacity of the institution is surveyed; a certain number of boilings is allowed; the time required for fermentation is noted; & the owner or manager is obliged to report the production each months under oath.While searching the LA distillery, the Supervisor & his deputy came across a pipe 18 inches under the ground, in a little room adjoining the receiving room of the institution. This ice lead to rubs 150 feet from the building. It is unnecessary to go not all the details. Suffice it to say that tin tubs buried under the grounded in pipes concealed in hay, about 75,000 gallons of body was discovered. The institution was seized & the work of pumping out the brandy was forthwith commenced. As fast as the brandy is removed from he tanks it is placed in fire-proof back warehouses, 2 of which have been leased by the Government.
      The only people who deserve any sympathy in this affair are the small producers to whom the distillery people are indebted. Two years ago the grape growers lost heavily by the burning of the distillery. Curtis, then the owner, being unable to pay his debts. An now by the attempt on the part of the distillery people to swindle the Government, the producers are again losers in sums caring from $200 to $2,000. Curtis is a man who held public offices in this State about 20 years & finally drifted into the distillery business a few years ago.
      Ref: SF Bulletin Newspaper.

      . 1875 Mar 16 & 25 - DISTILLERY FRAUDS at Los Angeles is given as follows in the Call of 11th The official gauge of the grape brandy seized at Turbos & Curtis' distillery, the officers having finished pumping out the underground vats, shows 61,702 proof gallons seized at L, busies which 6 pipes, 1,600 poof gallons shipped from the under reused stamps, were seized a short time before in SA, ming a total of 63,302 pored gallons seized.In addition to which was seized the valuable distillery property at LA work probably fro $30-40,000.
      Warrants were issued the the arrest of E W Tarbox, the nominal proprietor & Lucien Curtis, the superintendent. Tarbox has been arrested in this city & bound over to appear before the next US Grand Jury, in the same of $10,000 with James Laidley as security.
      Ref: LA Herald & San Diego Union Newspaper.

      . 1876 Apr 5 - CROOKED BRANDY, TRAIL OF THE LA DISTILLERY CASE
      On Nov 4, 1874, 13,000 gallons or grape brandy made were seized in the name of E T Tarbox as proprietor & Lucien Curtis as manager. Huge Hoffman allowed the party to bond the spirits & to go on & work up the material on hand & that contract for. On Feb 26 the same deputy made another seizer of 61,700 gallons which was turned over to the US Marshall. Since the time the distillery & costs have remained in charge of keepers appointed by the Marshall. The defendants wee arrest a year ago this month & in June the USGrand Jury found a true bill of indictment against them.
      Mr. Van Duzer made the opening statement against L Curtis on 13 counts … of which large quantities of distilled sports had not been paid & removing & concealing the same. He failed to keep looks as required by law & no entries were made. some months afterwards another visit was made by Revenue officers discovering a large quantity of concealed spirits. Seizure & confiscation of the property. … Large quants of sports had been surreptitiously removed from the premises was shown by the fact that a number of barrels had been traced to a chart in SF with stamps & labels on them which proved beyond all question that they had been shipped by the defendant.
      Collection HW Mayhew submitted a notice given by ET Tarbox that he was about opening a fruit distillery in LA, as required by law.

      . 1876 Apr 12 - Examination of Mr. Tarbox resumed. He testified: The first product of the sill was not gaged by me. Prior to the seizure of Nov 1874, he made about 10,000 gallons of singlings. After that seizure I made some 15,000 gallons of brandy. Tax was paid upon a part & the remainder was stored in the ware house. I had on hand at the time of the 2nd seizure, about 11-12,000 g. of brandy. It was sold to the LA Brand. Feb 25 when the 2nd seizure was made, I did not register my still as not being in use up to the time, as I intended to treat my singling.
      At that time because I had as much brandy on hand as I could impose of for some months & I had no money to pay for the necessary casks required. I went to a wholesale him in this city & asked them to write of NY & see what California brandy was worth which they did & told me it was worth form $1.50 to $2 a gallon. I then went to the Bank of California & explained matters & they gave me a letter of credit on the LA Bank. This was in February. I then bought 200 barrels & 100 pipes from J M Curits for the purpose of shipping the spirits.
      The only reason that I did not double on the singles was because I had up to the time money. He had no other interest in the establishment except his salary, $300 a month. There had been no spirits sent from the distillery about the time the sports were seized at Spadra. They could not have been sent without my knowledge. All my brandy was stored n the warehouse which I described in my application. I know nothing about the Spadra seizure except what I have heard from others. I have heart the description of the packages seized ex-Orizaba. I need had any such spirits sent from my distillery as those described by the Gov. witnesses.
      the cisterns are instructed by the advice of Mr. Curtis who recommended me to put them down in order to store the rain water, which he said was the best thing to reduce brandy with. They were underground to prevent the water from getting putrid. The pipe was used for the purpose of catching the water from the roof of the receiving & fermenting room. The pipe went 5 feet underground to prevent it interfering with the foundation.
      Mr. Tarbox testified that it would take 2 weeks to fill the underground tanks. There was no secrecy in emptying the singling into them. It was known to everybody around the distillery. The storage buildings were not locked in the daytime. Neither the distillery nor the rectifier was in operation at the time of the seizure. Had the distillery been left alone until May all the spirit stock would have been accounted for to the Gov. authorities. Witness said that upon the singling being gauged he made a tender to the Revenue Dept. of duty amount to $40,000 but the tender as refuse … If Mr Curtis had reported the 3,200 gal. instead of 2,332 gal. of singling, it would appear as if were working on juice of the original material.
      The spirits were stored in those places to keep them cool. There was no hay put over the pipes, to my knowledge. I was never absent from the distillery more than 3 hours in a day during the time ti was running. I had a rough memorandum of the number of empty packages, but not of the filled ones. No one could take any packages out of the distillery without my knowledge. I would miss he packages. I had an account of all the packages on hand a the end of October. I cannot say how much brandy I sold to Curtis who told me about using rain water. He called it the French method, to keep the rain water for a year or two & use it to reduce the brandy to proof. which would be illegal but there is now law against adding water or burnt sugar at the distillery. The rainy season at LA is very short.
      An offer was made to get the spirits released I had a copper still in the refinery. I do not know that its capacity is 900 gallon. I was authorized to produce at the refinery by redistilation are grape brandy, pure spirits & alcohol. In Jun 1875, Sam. Hubbard of San Rafael, introduced Mr. Tarbox to the firm that could ship some of 60,000 gallons of sports East.
      Ref: San Francisco Evening Post, published Apr 5, 1876, [Edited for duplication - PJA]

      . 1876 Apr 13, Thurs. J M Curtis testified, to rectify brandy & free it from fusil oil & other impurities, Witness had made distillation study, studied chemistry & graduated as an analytical chemist. It is a great object to distill grape juice as rapidly as possible into singlings to prevent the pomace being destroyed. the color of singling come from the still is white. The light sherry color in singling is attributed to the wood casks. Witness Mayhew's opinion it would take about 30 days to double 31,000 wine singling into to grape brandy. Lady is worst at present $1.50 per gallon. Mr. Coghland put a few handfuls of hay on top to keep off the sun. PJ White testified the underground cisterns were put down openly, everyone could se them in the course of construction. He was employed as weighted because I spoke Spanish.
      Ref: San Francisco Evening Post.

      . 1876 Apr 20, Thus. The defeat of Government against Curtis & Tarbox is gratifying or otherwise just. There are many circumstances connected with the Avenue law & enforcement which incline fair mined men to sympathize with those those subject to its conditions especially when they fall into the hands of officers on charges of violating those conditions. The Revenue law supposes a distiller to be a thief & its is the custom of Revenue officers to on the assumption that the law is correct.
      Ref: LA Daily Herald.

      . 1876 Apr 20 - The defeat of the Government in the case of the US against Curtis & Tarbox is gratifying or otherwise just as one regards the situation of he many Revenue laws & law enforcement in cline fair mined men to sympathize with those subjects to its conditions especially when they fall into the hands of the officers on charges of violating those conditions. It is quite probable that the business of the LA Distillery was conducted on the cranked order. But the Government couldn't prove it & we are inclined to rejoice over the result of the trail.
      Ref: Los Angeles Daily Herald.

      . 1876 May 27, Sat. - The following passengers left San Francisco yesterday at 9 AM on steamer Orizaba for Los Angles: E T Tarbox.

      . 1876 May 31 - A meeting of the creditors of Los Angeles distillery will be held today. Mr. Tarbox, one of the proprietors, has called this meeting for the purpose of conferring with those holding claims to made satisfactory to the creditors.
      Much Ado About Nothing. After a great deal of dust & feathers, expense, loss, inconvenience& the subsequence tail of one of the proprietors of the Lost Angeles distillery, growing out of the seizure of the establishment on a complaint of violation of International Revenue Law, the conclusion has been reach that no illegal act has been committed. The Judge before whom the case was tried was not in accordance with the law. A new trail will probably be granted Mr. Curtis & the result will be the total acquittal of the defendant. Mr. Tarbox, another one of the proprietors was indicted on 3 counts precisely similar on which Mr. Curtis was acquitted, it is not likely that he will be brought to trial. … for all the damage to farmers vineyardist who supplied the grapes, there is no recourse.The Government makes no restitution for losses it inflicts upon citizens.

      . 1876 Jun 1 - Yesterday the fruit growers held a meeting at the County Court room for the purpose of making a disposition of the indebtedness of E. T. Tarbox to them. About 25 creditors were present. Thirteen of these signed, an agreement to accept 60¢ on the dollar, with one year's time, in payment in full, for the purpose of following Mr. Tarbox to start a distillery & rectify during the ensuing year. The general feeling of the creditors present was in favor of giving an opportunity for the recovery of Mr. Tarbox's fortune. There was an almost unanimous feeling in favor of giving him a fair chance to renew business again & the best wishes of the majority of his creditors are with him. He is an able business man, & we join in the kind wishes of his friends.

      . 1875 Jun 16 - It is reported that Tarbox, in a suit in San Francisco, has recovered the liquors seized of the Los Angeles Distillery. This, if true, is good news to our vineyardists who are the creditors of the concern.

      . 1876 May 27, Sat. - The following passengers left San Francisco yesterday at 9 AM on steamer Orizaba for Los Angles: ET Tarbox.
      Ref: Los Angeles Daily Herald.

      . 1878 Jan 5, The North Pacific Land & Water Copay, Stockholders Meeting, quarter annual meeting will be held at the office of Wm W Morrow, President, Room 76, Navada Black, on Jan 7, 1787 at 9:30 Am. Signed, ET Tarbox, Secretary.
      Ref: San Francisco Bulletin.

      . 1878 Jan 27 - ET Tarbox has telegraphed from San Fran. to Jeremiah Baldwin that the verdict in the LA Distillery case is in favor of the claimants. The distillery is the property of the Bank of California. As it will now, after a lapse of 3 years, pass out of government hands, it will be ready next fall to resume its mission of manufacturing grape brandy. This will be a decade boon to our vineyardists.
      Ref: Los Angeles Daily Herald.
      . 1878 Feb 12 - Deputy US Marshal Dunlap returned from San Fran. yesterday The US Attorney has made a motion for a new trail in the Tarbox Distillery case. The General option is, however, that the motion will be denies & that the matter will stand ad adjudged at the last trail. Ref: LA Daily Herald.
      . 1878 Jul 23, LA Distillery US vs a certain lot of land, 28,000 gallons of distilled spirits, ET Tarbox, on appeal by US for several os the decision, rudest to grant a motion for a new trail. Ref: San Francisco Chronicle.
      . 1878 Aug 10 - ET Tarbox, proprietor of the LA distillery, hayfield a potion in bankruptcy in the US District Court. Liabilities $81,618.62., Assets, $71,087,10.

      . 1881 Jul 29 - Attempted Suicide. ET Tarbox, residing with his family at the corner of Octavia & Union streets, attempted suicide in the bathroom of his residence last evening by cutting his throat & attempting to sever the left femoral artery. Shortly before the hour mentioned he entered the house & find his wife absent, sent 2 of the children on an errand. He then entered the bathroom & removing his coat, gashed his throat twice with a razor. Death not ensuing as promptly as he desired, he made a third cut on the inside of the left thigh, which also failed to reach a vital spot. He was found a few minutes later by the children, who gave the alarm to Officers JJ Conley & Kelly, who later staunching the blood, removed him the city receiving hospital. Police Surgeon Clarke dressed the wounds pronounced the patient in no danger of decade. Mr. Tarbox was formerly quite wealthy & despondency at the loss of property is assigned, was the cause for his attempted at self-destruction.
      Ref: San Francisco Chronicle.

      . 1889 Oct 3 - J T Wallace Murder Trial, by shooting, Jury: ET Tarbox.
      1899 Jul 29, Sat. - 45 District Republican Club convened at Garibaldi Hall & elected advisory delegates: ET Tarbox.
      Ref: San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper.

      Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -