Solano County Biography
The Honorable S.G. Hilborn
The Honorable S.G. Hilborn - The subject of this sketch is a native of Winot, Androscoggin county, Maine, having been born there on December 9,1834. In early life he and his brother, E. P. Hilborn, were left orphans, when the labor of working the home-farm devolved upon these two youths. In the meantime, E. P. Hilborn emigrated to California, in the midst of their agricultural pursuits, leaving his brother to attend to the farming business, and his education; which, as the following record shows, was crowned with success for both, E. P.. Hilborn being now a prominent grain merchant of Suisun. Mr. Hilborn received tile elements of that education which has brought him into such prominence in California, first at Bethel Hill, Oxford county, Maine, and afterwards at Tuft's College, where he graduated hi 1859 ; afterwards becoming principal in Oak Grove Academy, Falmouth, Maine, where he remained a year, at the end of which he entered the law office of the Hon. William Pitt Fessenden, at Portland, Maine, being admitted to the bar in 1861. In this year he emigrated to California, arriving at San Francisco, via Panama, in the month of August of the same year. Having passed a few months in the office of Whitman & Wells, a legal firm of Suisun, he removed to Vallejo, and there established himself in the practice which he now enjoys. The Hon. S. G. Hilborn is a man of mark in his county, as his public record will show, while privately he is known to be worthy of the highest esteem and respect. Since his arrival in Vallejo he has held, in order, the following places of trust and honor: City Attorney, in the year when it was incorporated; a City Trustee for two terms; Supervisor and Senator; while his last work of distinction has been in connection with the Constitutional Convention, to which he was a delegate. Mr. H. has also practiced his profession with marked ability, and has been retained in a large number of the leading and most intricate cases that have had their incipience in the county. He is President of the Vallejo Land Improvement Company, as well as a participator in other schemes of a public and private nature. He married Lou E., second daughter of Caleb and Louisa Root, a native of Madison county, N. Y., in 1863, and has one child, Grace A.
History of Solano County, California
Pages 355
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, February 2008
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