Belcher, Isaac Sawyer,of San Francisco, Cal., the son of Samuel and Anna G. (Caldwell) Belcher, was born in Stockbridge, Feb. 27, 1825.

His father was a farmer and young Belcher worked upon the farm and attended the district schools until he was fifteen years of age. He fitted for college in the academy at Royalton and entered the University of Vermont in 1842, graduating with the class of '46. Having chosen the law as a profession he entered the office of J. W. D. Parker at Bradford and after a thorough course of legal study was admitted to practice in the county courts in 1849 and to the Supreme Court of the state three years later. He continued the practice of his profession in Windsor county until 1853, when he started for California, arriving in San Francisco on the 16th of June. He went at once to the mines in Yuba county and there practiced his profession until March, 1855, when he settled in Marysville in that county and soon acquired a lucrative practice. Mr. Justice Field of the Supreme Court of the United States and other distinguished lawyers, were then practicing at the same bars. His brother, William C. Belcher, now a leading member of the San Francisco bar, was associated with him.

He was elected to the position of district attorney of Yuba county in 1855, and held the office until 1858. He was elected judge of the tenth judicial district in 1863, and held that office until 1870. In 1872 he was appointed by the Governor to fill a vacancy in the Supreme Court of the state, and at the expiration of his term declined a nomination to succeed himself and resumed his practice at Marysville. In June, 1878, he was elected a member and served as vice-president of the Constitutional Convention which met that year. In 1880 he was elected by the Legislature a trustee of the State Library, which position he held for eight years. In 1885 he was appointed a commissioner of the Supreme Court of the state, and this position he still holds

At the founding of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University he was appointed one of its trustees and since that time has acted as such. In this connection a local paper says of him: “Judge Belcher is a man of remarkable strength of mind and soundness of judgment, and his fellow trustees will find in him a valuable coadjutor in administering the noble trust confided to their keeping.”

Mr. Belcher was united in wedlock, August 12, 1861, to Adeline M., daughter of William T. and Martha (Tappan) Johnson, of Augusta, Maine. The fruit of this union are: Martha A., Richard, William J., and Robert. He now resides in San Francisco, in the full enjoyment of the fruits of an upright, honorable life

Belcher, William C.,of San Francisco, Cal., son of Samuel and Anna G. (Caldwell) Belcher, was born at Stockbridge, Dec. 12, 1820.
p.14] He graduated at the University of Vermont in 1843; and subsequently taught several years in the Academy of Bradford. He was admitted to the bar in that county in 1855.

In 1856 young Belcher went to California and has ever since been engaged in the practice of his profession, and in some of the most important law suits on the Pacific coast. While in Marysville he was a partner of his brother Isaac S. Belcher who is now on the supreme bench, but since moving to San Francisco he has become one of the firm of Mastie, Belcher, Van Vleet & Mastie.

He has never held any political or judicial office, or been associated with any secret society except the Masons. Mr. Belcher is a life member of Pacific Coast Association Native Sons of Vermont, and is highly esteemed by his associates, and by the citizens of the commonwealth in which he resides

Death:

Jane C Belcher

Birth Date: 11 June 1910 Place of Birth: PITTSFORD, NY Death Date: 06 April 1991 Place of Death: PITTSFORD Residence: VT, PITTSFORD Father: BELCHER II Gender: FEMALE Age: 80 YEARS