Sacramento County Biographies
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VOLASKI SCHULL QUIGGLE

QUIGGLE, V. S., lives three and a half miles from Galt, which is his Post Office, and four miles from Hicksville; was born in Geauga County, Ohio, in 1839, and lived there until 1858; he came to California in that year, and engaged in raising stock near Woodbridge, San Joaquin County, until 1861; he then came to this county, and kept a hotel on the Cosumnes until 1868, when he went to San Francisco, and from there to Pitt River on a stock venture; he returned to this county in 1873, but afterwards went to Stanislaus County, and farmed two years; settled on his present home in 1875. Mr. Quiggle was married in 1867 to Isabella Lewis, a native of Canada East, who has borne him five children. He owns three hundred and twenty acres, which, with improvements, are worth about $7000.

THOMAS L. QUIGGLE

THOMAS L. QUIGGLE – A leading citizen of the Herald community is Thomas L. Quiggle, who, in addition to conducting the general mercantile establishment there, is also the capable postmaster. He has the distinction of being the first boy born in Galt, his parents being Volaski Schull and Isabella (Louins) Quiggle. The father, who owned a large acreage near here, started the store in 1912 at Herald which is now conducted by his son; he passed away at the age of seventy-eight, but Mrs. Quiggle is still living and makes her home at Herald with her daughter, Mrs. Maude Warren. She is the mother of four children: Mrs. W.W. Bottimore, Thomas L., Don V. and Mrs. Maude Warren. The Quiggle estate, of about 540 acres of land, is still held as an undivided property, although about 140 acres have been sold.

After attending the Alabama district school, Thomas L. Quiggle took a course in the Atkinson Business College at Sacramento and when he was of age started out for himself. For two years he had a store at Sacramento, and after he disposed of this he farmed for two years on the old home place. Entering the employ of Whitaker & Ray at Galt, he continued with them for thirteen years, and then was with Wallace B. Sawyer for three years. In 1914 he bought out the firm of Quiggle & Warren at Herald, and since then he has conducted a general merchandise business there; he has also filled the position of postmaster since that time. The store building was erected by his father in 1912 and a year later a post office was established there. Mr. Quiggle owns thirty acres of unimproved land near Herald.

At Sacramento, September 9, 1900, Mr. Quiggle was married to Miss Alice Lillian Thomas, who was born on the Thomas ranch near the present site of Herald. Her parents were John and Emeline (Woodruff) Thomas, natives of Wales who came to California in the fifties. Mr. Thomas farmed for many years in the vicinity of Galt and died at the age of eighty, the mother passing away when seventy-eight. They were the parents of six children: Mrs. Susan Hagel; William J.; Mrs. Emma Jeffrey of Stockton; George, deceased; Henry of Petaluma; and Mrs. Quiggle. Mr. and Mrs. Quiggle have five children: Clarence, in business with his father, and Irene, Bessie, Evelyn and Thelma. Mr. Quiggle is a member of Galt Parlor, the Native Sons of the Golden West, and past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, Galt Lodge No. 283.

Transcribed by Vicky Walker, 1/26/07.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 367. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.