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In the Sonoma
County Marriages 1847-1902, there is a listing for an Ernest E.
TROSPER marrying a Eunice JACKSON on 30 Mar 1899 in Petaluma by W.
H. Darden recorded in Book Q Page 116.
From History of
Sonoma County California with Biographical Sketches of the leading men and
women of the County, by Tom Gregory (Historic Record Company, Los Angeles:
1911), biography of "Thomas Gilbert Woolsey Trosper," pp. 500-503: |
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ERNEST
EUGENE TROSPER
The gratifying degree
of success that has attended the persevering efforts of Mr. Trosper shows what
may be accomplished by patient industry, honorable dealings and unswerving
application to such duties as the day may bring. When he began for himself he
had no moneyed capital, but he possessed a sturdy constitution, willing hands
and true moral principles and with these as a foundation he has laid the
superstructure of personal success, while still a young man. He has already
attained a fair competency and is surrounded by comforts that enhance the
pleasure of existence, being in a position now by good management to reap still
greater success and accomplish greater results.
Ernest E. Trosper was
born five miles above Cazadero, on West Austin creek, July 15, 1868, and was
the youngest child born to Thomas G. W. and Cornelia (McGuire) Trosper,
pioneers of Sonoma county, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. He
was brought up in the stock business, learning it from the time he was a boy,
and receiving a good education in the public schools. Remaining home helping
his parents until he was twenty-one years of age, he then started for himself,
beginning at the bottom without any means. Renting land, he began raising
cattle, met with much success and later on was enabled to purchase a ranch of
six hundred and forty acres on Bear Trap creek. It is well improved with a
comfortable residence and other buildings necessary to the stock business, for
which the ranch is used. It is well wooded with redwood, pine and other native
trees, besides a family orchard, and watered by the above-named creek as well
as numerous springs and is well named, being known as the Bear Pen Creek Ranch,
devoted to the raising of high grade cattle and hogs.
In Two Rocks occurred
the marriage of Mr. Trosper and Eunice Jackson, who was born in Penn Grove, a
daughter of Lorrenzo and Eunice Jackson, who were early settlers of Sonoma
county, crossing the plains in 1852. Mrs. Trosper is a very amiable woman of
much culture and refinement and has been an able assistant to her husband's
success. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at
Guerneville and politically is a Democrat, being one of leaders of his party in
Ocean township. He has served as school trustee of the Austin district, where
his father built the first schoolhouse. For ten years he has been a deputy
sheriff and constable for Ocean township since 1889. He has gained for himself
an enviable place in his community and is much esteemed for his strong
personality, never swerving from what he considers right. Public spirited and
enterprising, he assists all worthy measures for the upbuilding of the county.
Kind and generous, many have been the recipients of his bounty.
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