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Subject: [CAHumboldt] Biographical sketch: Saint Leagy Goble (1853-1940)
Date: 24 Sep 2002 19:53:17 -0600

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Surnames: Goble, Miller, Harlow
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From
History of Humboldt County, California
By Leigh H. Irvine
Historic Record Company
Los Angeles, California
1915, p. 1204-05

SAINT LEAGY GOBLE - One of the early settlers in the Eel river valley is Mr. Goble, who first located in the valley in the fall of 1870. He was born in Henry county, Ill., February 11, 1853, and is the son of Ephrain Goble, also a native of Illinois, having been born on the Little Wabash, and engaged in farming in Henry County for a number of years, when, in 1866, he removed to Brown county, Kans., where he farmed until 1869. At that time, determining to better his condition by removing to Oregon, he crossed the plains with horses and mules by way of Ogden, Utah, and up through Idaho, across the Snake river, then past Mt. Hood into Oregon, where he remained for a year. Conditions there he found were not to his liking, and having a brother Abraham with him who had been in Humboldt County, Cal., they decided to come to Eureka. Coming by wagon to Crescent City, they continued their journey with pack mules by trail down the coast, finally arriving at Eureka. As there was no!
wagon road they had shipped their wagons from Crescent City and they had to be sent by boat to San Francisco and thence back to Eureka. Locating on Humboldt Hill on South Bay, Mr. Goble bought a farm there, but in January, 1872, came to Eel River Island, where for a time he rented land, and then purchased forty acres of land across the road from his present place. The property being in an unimproved state and covered with a heavy growth of brush and timber, Mr. Goble commenced the clearing of the land and the building of the new home for his family, and here he engaged in dairying and farming until the time of his death in 1884. He was a very industrious and successful man, and the many affairs of the ranch were left in the capable hands of his son, Saint Leagy Goble, who took active charge of the home place in 1891, later purchasing the present tract, consisting of thirty-seven acres of unimproved land, and on it he has built his residence and made every modern improvem!
ent possible, and has engaged successfully in farming and dairying. He owns two hundred and forty acres on Williams creek, where he runs his young stock, and also aims to make two hundred and fifty cords of wood a year, which is hauled to Ferndale, and has likewise for a number of years been in the teaming and hauling business, in which he has been very successful.

On February 21, 1891, Mr. Goble was married in Eureka to Miss Winifred M. Miller, who was born in Council Grove, Morris County, Kan., the daughter of J. W. and Mercy A. (Harlow) Miller, who were natives respectively of Indiana and Maine. Her father served in the Civil war in the Sixty-third Indiana Regiment, after which he was a farmer in Kansas until 1874, coming to California afterwards and locating near Ferndale, where he bought a ranch and engaged in farming. He is now holding a position in the Mare Island Navy Yard. The daughter, now Mrs. Goble, was reared and educated in Humboldt county, and is now the mother of four children, namely, Ray Elbert, Irma May, Ross Arden and Chester C. Mr. and Mrs. Goble are members of the Rebekahs, in which she is past Noble Grand. Mr. Goble likewise holding memberships in the Ferndale Lodge No. 220, I.O.O.F., and Encampment. For several years he was trustee of the school district, at present being a trustee of the high school. At !
one time he was interested in various creameries, but has only retained his interest in the Excelsior Creamery. A prosperous, progressive man, Mr. Goble's success is due entirely to his own painstaking efforts and unceasing labor.

(Ed. note: Mr. Goble died February 7, 1940, per the California Death Index)

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