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From: "History of Stanislaus County" by George H. Tinkerham Published in
1921
WILLIAM L. LEEK - Prominent among the intrepid pioneers in California
whom a grateful posterity will always be delighted to honor William L.
Leek the retired rancher living northwest of Hughson, who was born in
Wheeler, Va , on January 28, 1835, the son or John and Caroline Leek His
father was a tailor by trade and when our subject was a mere lad, the
family removed to Louisville, Ky where Mr Leek opened a shop. He
remained them only a couple of years however and then he went to St Louis
where he established himself on a better foundation William attended the
excellent St. Louis schools and spent his earlier days in that bustling
city Then he started cut to make his own way by working on farms in
Warren County In 1859 during the first excitement about gold in Colorado,
he joined a train of gold seekers and on his wagon was painted 'Pike's
Peak, or Bust' They reached Colorado all right but when he returned to
Missouri the sign on the wagon read "Busted". In 1864 he started West
again, this time with an emigrant train for California there were seven
wagons, and they traveled by the Sall Lake route Each night the emigrants
would form a coral out of seven wagons, placing there stock in the center
and their horses would be tied to the wagons. One night, as they were
traveling along the River Platte, the hostile Indians bore down upon the
train, creating a commotion and scaring away the stock but after hard
work the brave pioneers succeeded in finding and recovering the stampeded
animals, after which they resumed. After six months of hard travel,
they disbanded at Salt Lake
Mr. Leek spent three years in Utah, and in 1867 he came on to California
setting in Calavaras County at the Quail Hill mine There lie stayed for a
year and a half and then, after working at odd jobs he went on to Antioch
and settled at Marsh Landing. He took up market gardening and disposed
of his produce at Antioch and at the coal mines nearby, In 1870 Mr Leek
came into Stanislaus County, and settled in the Cottonwoods district,
twelve miles South of Newman, where rented from 160 to 500 acres and
farmed the land to barley. For thirty years he remained there and during
that time he purchased a ranch of 200 acres near the Canal school and he
help build the schoolhouse in the Cottonwood district.
At Warrenton Mo in August 1861, Mr Leek was married to Miss Sarah
Rountree, a native of Warren County, and she came to California with her
husband and died about 1890. Then in the Cottonwood district in Merced
County, on St Valentines Day 1913, Mr Leek was married to Miss Emma
Brennan. He has, as a result of these two marriages, raised a family Of
four children and two are now living. Francis is now Mrs Bradley of
Fresno. Melvina died in 1900. Newton E is a court reporter in Judge
Fulkerth's and Judge Rice's court at Modesto. And Jasper is deceased.
Newman E was born in Telegraph City in Calaveras County and he married
Miss Effie Bledsoe, a native daughter, and for thirty years he has been a
resident of Modesto, active in his profession. The Bledsoes are also
early California pioneers. In 1905, Newton E. purchased a ranch of 200
acres two miles northwest of Hughson, which he developed so that forty
acres are in peaches and grapes and the balance of the 200 acres are in
alfalfa and grain. Newton E Leek's son, Elbert E., is today interested
in this tract of 200 acres and acts as foreman He was born in Berkeley on
Jury 25 1898. At Modesto, on May 1 1919 he married Miss Gladys Maritzen
a native of San Francisco and the daughter of Henry and Dolly Marintern.
When Gladys was four years old her father moved to Modesto, and so it
happened she attended the grammar and high schools there They had a
child, Patricia Ann.
_William J. MULLEN , Sr._+
_James P. MULLEN ______________|_Sarah ENDECOTT _________
_John W MULLEN _______|
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_Charles "Charley" Henry MULLEN _|
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| |_Mary Clara BEAR , #1_|
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