Jesse Courtright FRUCHEY was another of the adventurous young
California pioneers who here gained a goodly measure of success
in connection with early gold mining, and he kept pace with and
assisted in the general development of the state, his ability
and sterling character having marked him for service in public
offices of trust and responsibility. He passed the closing years
of his life in San Francisco, and was nearly seventy years of
age at the time of his death, on the 1st of August, 1896. Mr.
FRUCHEY was born in Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio, on the 23rd of
August 1828, he having been the elder of two children and the
younger having been Sarah Jane. He was a son of Andrew and
Margaret (COURTRIGHT) FRUCHEY, the former of whom died September
4, 1834, a victim of an epidemic of cholera, and the latter of
whom died of same disease fifteen days later. The father was
citizen of prominence and influence in Seneca County and had
served as mayor of Tiffin. The subject of this memoir was but
six years of age when t