San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 10/2/2009
BARRY M. BAINBRIDGE
An attorney of Stockton of wide influence is Barry M. Bainbridge, who was born at Paulingville, in St. Charles County. Mo., on June 30, 1865, the son of Dr. James A. and Mary Elizabeth (Herold) Bainbridge, the former a native of Wisconsin, the latter of Missouri. Both are now deceased, kindly remembered by many for the usefulness and nobility of their lives. Dr. J.A. Bainbridge was an eclectic physician, and was educated at the Cincinnati Medical College; and he practiced his profession in Wisconsin and Missouri. They arrived at Stockton on December 12, 1874, and took rooms at the old Antelope Hotel, which stood at the corner of Sacramento Street and Weber Avenue. The father bought two separate sections of land near Ripon, one of which is now known as the West Vineyard Colony, and practiced his profession in the San Joaquin Valley, in a territory extending from Sacramento to Merced, and eastward into the mountain counties. For many years, often at much inconvenience and through unwearying labors, he ministered to the sick and unfortunate, and was beloved by the wide circle to whom he was so well known. He was an active man to within a short time of his death, which occurred in May, 1914, at the age of eighty-one. He was a Master Mason.
Ten children were born to this worthy couple, five being boys and five girls, and two of the sons followed in the professional footsteps of their father. Dr. J.C. Bainbridge is a resident of Santa Barbara, while E.D. Bainbridge was the only one of the family to follow farming as a livelihood, and he now resides on his ranch, three miles northeast of Ripon. He undoubtedly derived much guidance from his mother; for while Dr. Bainbridge practiced medicine, the sons managed the home ranch, under the leadership of Mrs. Bainbridge, who had exceptional executive ability.
As a boy, therefore, Barry Bainbridge also worked upon the home farm, helping to fence one of the sections of land, the first section so to be inclosed in the district; and at that time the entire valley was a vast grain field, and houses were few and far between. He attended the public schools of Stockton, and also the Stockton Business College. At the age of eighteen he received a teacher's certificate, and for twenty years in the county taught school, both in county districts and in the City of Stockton, and in the Sacramento as well as the Stockton Business College. During this period of his pedagogical activity, he studied law, and after putting in one year at the University of California, was admitted to the Bar, on June 24, 1907. He served as justice of the peace of Castoria township, and is now an honored member of the San Joaquin County Bar Association, and of the American Bar Association.
Mr. Bainbridge has been twice married, and he had two children by his first wife. Moire L. Bainbridge is a detective in the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and a daughter is Mrs. Lima A. Dahl, of Watsonville. By his second wife he has one child, James Clark Bainbridge. Mr. Bainbridge joined the Truth Lodge of Odd Fellows, No. 55, at Stockton, and later was demitted to Farmington Lodge, No. 296. He is also a trustee and member of the Loyal Order of Moose at Stockton.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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