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Joseph Adams Filcher

Birth	:	3 Aug 1846 Iowa, USA
Death	:	3 Apr 1925 Auburn, Placer County, California, USA
Burial	:	Saint Pauls Cemetery, Warren, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.2069016, -72.1999969
Plot	:	174
Description	:	Married: Clara Emma Tinkham Filcher 19 Jan 1873 in Sutter County, California, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Records show at least two births with the father listed: Filcher J.A. - son 1874 Auburn Filcher J.A. - son 1875 Auburn A decade of dissatisfaction and change. J.A. Filcher came to Auburn after the Depot fire of 1870 as Auburn's first public school principal. In 1873, following the death of Joseph walkup, Filcher became owner/editor of the Placer Herald. Filcher encouraged the development of orchards. This was when Newcastle became a fruit producing area. Gilberg,op.cit.,1986,P.63 Editor of the Placer Herald, noted in the 1880 U.S. Census He was also a State Senator... Read More	Married: Clara Emma Tinkham Filcher 19 Jan 1873 in Sutter County, California, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Records show at least two births with the father listed: Filcher J.A. - son 1874 Auburn Filcher J.A. - son 1875 Auburn A decade of dissatisfaction and change. J.A. Filcher came to Auburn after the Depot fire of 1870 as Auburn's first public school principal. In 1873, following the death of Joseph walkup, Filcher became owner/editor of the Placer Herald. Filcher encouraged the development of orchards. This was when Newcastle became a fruit producing area. Gilberg,op.cit.,1986,P.63 Editor of the Placer Herald, noted in the 1880 U.S. Census He was also a State Senator for Placer County; elected to Railroad Commissioner on 2 Nov 1886; elected in 1892 as a Presidential Electors of California. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ October, 1996 Auburn Journal Filcher had been a freight hauler, a school teacher in Auburn, half owner of the Herald with Lt. Governor Joseph Walkup, a member of the California State Convention and one of the framers of the of the State Constitution, a State Senator, a state prison director president of the California Press Association, manager of the California State Board of Trade and secretary to the State Agricultural Society, and a Past Great Sachem of the Order of Red Men. His contact with European nobility came when he was appointed state commissioner to the Horticultural Exposition in Hamburg, Germany, in 1897 and was a California representative to the Paris World Exposition in 1900. He also was a commissioner to the Cotton State Exposition in Atlanta Georgia, in 1895 and commissioner to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. He was nominated to run for the Senate in 1880, but was defeated. In 1882 he was nominated again and he defeated fomer Placer County District Attorney, John M. Fulweiler. He had a fantastic memory and recalled 60 years later the detailed incidents when at age 14 he traveled from his birthplace in Burlingame, Iowa across the plains with his parents. He remembered when the family wagon train met others traveling west at Council Bluffs, Iowa and he heard some of them singing "Haw gee Buck, Jake take the team, God Bless your soul dear Mary, These horned oxen that you see, are going to cross the prarie". Filcher's family settled in Yuba County in 1859. He moved to Auburn in 1870 where he was principal of the Auburn Union Grammar School. . . He wrote two years before he died about the legendary stage driver, Jim McCue who raced another stage driver from Newcastle to Grass Valley and won a $100 dollar bet. Filcher said McCue drove recklessly and without abandon, only concerned about winning the wager, "when the other driver arrived at Grass Valley, McCue was sitting on the sidewalk with his feet up against a post and smoking a cigar, With a twinkle in his eye, he asked his dejected rival "Where the devil have you been all day?" Filcher wrote about his memories called "Looking Back" and subtitled "The Recollections and Experiences of an old Placerite". He married Clara Tinkham in Sheridan in 1873. He was depicted as one of the best known men in Northern California by writers who chronicled his leadership roles. Before Filcher signed off his column with "the end" he offered some sound advice to the young people who followed him. "Boys, whatever you undertake to do, do your best. Be honest with your self and others. Tell the truth and never lie". by Bill Wilson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Came to state in 1859, to Placer County 1869 In 1877 he gave the Oration at the 4th of July in Dutch Flat. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Monday, December 10, 2012 7:10 AM Find A Grave contributor David Filcher Source: Willis, William L., History of Sacramento County, California, Pages 1014-1016. Ten years or more before the trans-continental railroad had brought the east and west into direct connection an Iowa family made the tedious journey across the plains with a "prairie schooner" drawn by ox-teams. Accompanying the expedition was a lad of about twelve years, Joseph A. Filcher, who was born in Burlington, Iowa, August 3, 1846, and to whom the trip presented less of hardship than of opportunity. With all the enthusiasm of early life he helped to drive stock the entire distance. Whether enduring the heat of the desert summer or threading a narrow pass through the mountains, he was alike hopeful with the optimism which blesses youth and energetic with the patient industry of those who have been trained to endurance of hard work. When he first saw Sacramento in 1859 the city was in the infancy of its history and presented the erudities inseparable from frontier civilization. Shortly after coming west he settled with his parents on a farm near Marysville and there he worked for some years to bring the land under cultivation and develop a productive farm. Meanwhile it had not been possible for him to secure an education and he was ambitious to advance in the world. As soon as he could be spared from the parental home he started out to earn his own way and to secure an education. Nor were his efforts in vain, for he worked his way through the State Normal and became a man of wide information. The acquisition of a thorough education qualified Mr. Filcher for the work of a school-teacher and this profession he followed during early manhood, after which for twenty years he was owner and publisher of the Placer Herald at Auburn, Placer County. It is said that this is the oldest newspaper in existence in the entire state. The press which he used was the first ever brought into the state, Samuel Brannan having brought it from New York to San Francisco on a vessel around the Horn. When its days of usefulness were ended it was placed in the Golden Gate park, where it now is on exhibition. The marriage of Mr. Filcher in 1873 united him with Miss Clara Tinkham, a native of Maine. They are the parents of three children now living. George W., who resides in San Francisco, is connected with the railway mail service. Ralph E., of Chicago, is extensively interested in the real estate business and in colonization work. Irma married Pierre Meyers and lives in Sacramento. For years Mr. Filcher has been well known among the Democrats of the state. At the time of Cleveland's second election as president he was chosen a presidential elector. When the electoral college held its meeting he was selected as a messenger to carry the returns to Washington. During 1878-79 he served as a member of the state constitutional convention. Beginning in 1883 he held the office of state senator for four years and the meantime gave to his district the most conscientious of service. A candidate in 1888 for state railroad commissioner, he was defeated by only a very small majority. Upon the election of Mr. Hendricks as secretary of state of California Mr. Filcher was selected to complete his unexpired term as state prison director and in that responsible post gave faithful service as well as universal satisfaction. For eleven years he was manager of the state board of trade. Later for five or more years he held a position as secretary of the State Agricultural Society, from which post he was promoted to his present office as manager of exhibits. Fraternally he has been very prominent in the Improved Order of Red Men and has held every state office within the power of that organization to confer, including that of representative to the national convention for two terms. Largely through his tactful efforts as a leader in the California Editorial Association, of which he served two terms as president, the national convention of 1903 was brought to San Francisco and the success of that gathering is a matter of state history. Perhaps in none of his manifold activities has Mr. Filcher been more successful than in his labors as representative of California as commissioner to national and international expositions. He was appointed sole commissioner by Governor Budd to the Cotton States Exposition held at Atlanta, Ga., in 1895, and to this he gave intelligent service in the interests of California. Two years later he represented the state at the International Horticultural Exposition held in Paris and the following year he acted in the same capacity at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y. During 1904 he gave his attention as state commissioner to the California section at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, held in St. Louis. He was president of the Commissioners Association at Portland and at Seattle and was vice-president of Commissioners Association at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. The remarkable success attending his work caused him to be chosen state commissioner to the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland in 1905 and the Alaska Yukon Exposition at Seattle in 1909. In 1911 he began to work actively in behalf of the Panama Canal Exposition to be held at San Francisco in 1915 and made a tour of the state in order to secure the participation of all the counties to the fullest extent possible. Skilled in detail, comprehensive in information, widely acquainted with business leaders of the United States and Europe, more experienced possibly than any exposition worker in the entire country, he is admirably qualified to bring such movements to a successful issue and to fill with honor any position conferred upon him in connection with their management. In April, 1912, while actively engaged in the above enterprise, he was nominated, without solicitation on his part, for candidate as city commissioner under Sacramento's new charter, being one of ten nominated from thirty-five candidates, and on May 18, 1912, he received the second highest vote of the ten, the honor bringing with it a four-year term., and subsequently he was assigned by his associates to the position of commissioner of finance. Resigning his position with the State Agricultural Society and the Panama Pacific International Exposition, he assumed the duties of his office July 1, 1912. At the age of twelve years he reached Sacramento, having ridden horseback across the plains, and barefooted he drove his father's herd of cattle. He ended his journey on the road running along side of the present plaza, in front of the city hall, September 6, 1859. Since that time he has accomplished much for his city and state, and now holds the strings of the purse of the city on which he first cast his eyes fifty-three years ago.

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Joseph Adams Filcher's memorial is located at: Saint Pauls Cemetery, Warren, Worcester County, USA.
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Joseph Adams Filcher death on 3 Apr 1925 in Auburn, Placer County, California, USA
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Latitude: 42.2069016
Longitude: -72.1999969

Family Members:

Parent

Thomas Joseph Filcher

(1812 - 1888)

Eliza Jane Adams Filcher

(1815 - 1878)

Spouse

Clara Emma Tinkham Filcher

(1848 - 1938)

Siblings

John Taylor Filcher

(1838 - 1904)

Thomas Joseph Filcher

(1851 - 1930)

William Burke Filcher

(1855 - 1921)

Children

J. O. Filcher

(unknow - unknow)

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