Josiah Roop
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Eldest brother of Isaac Roop.
Josiah Roop was born around 1815 in Maryland.[1] On November 28, 1837, he married Elizabeth Shafer in Carroll County, Maryland.
By 1840, Josiah was living in the Bloom Township of Seneca County, Ohio.[2] Josiah was a charter member of the De Molay Commandery No. 9, Knights Templar, founded August 10, 1848 in Republic, Ohio. In 1869, the Commandery moved to Tiffin, Ohio, where it remains to this day.[3]
Roop arrived in California via the overland route in the last half of 1849. September and November of that year saw him working a claim on the Yuba River with other Ohioans. The group had constructed a dam in order to mine the riverbed and had moved their equipment below the dam in preparation to work when rains caused the dam to fail, destroying their equipment, and breaking their company. Roop vowed never to mine again, and instead focused his energies on "trading in provisions and miners' tools." By May of 1850, Roop was residing in Shasta County.[4]
Josiah bought the Oak Bottom House on September 8, 1851 for $2800 from John Howell.[5]
Roop served as an associate justice on a Shasta County Court in 1852.[6]
Josiah also served as Justice of the Peace in 1852. (4/24/1852 Shasta Courier)
Josiah died on June 14, 1852 near Cuba returning to the east coast on the steamer Prometheus.[7] He was buried at sea.
Roop's estate was sold at auction on March 26, 1853. His estate included a lot and building housing the post office on the north side of Main Street, next to the Empire Hotel, and the lot and building housing the Old Dominion on the south side of Main Street. His estate was administered by Isaac. [6]
References
- ↑ 1850 Federal Census
- ↑ 1840 Federal Census.
- ↑ Lang, William. (1880.) "History of Seneca County, from the close of the revolutionary war to July 1880." Springfield: Transcript Printing Co.
- ↑ Huron Reflector. August 13, 1850.
- ↑ http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/whis/hrs/appb.htm
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Boggs, Mae Helene Bacon (1942). My Playground Was A Concord Coach: An Anthology Of Newspaper Clippings And Documents Relating To Those Who Made California History During The Years 1822-1888. Oakland: Howell-North Press.
- ↑ Moore, C. (1852). "The Masonic Review." Cincinnati: J. Ernst.
