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William Henry SEAGRAVE

Male 1875 - 1929  (53 years)


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  • Name William Henry SEAGRAVE 
    Birth 11 Aug 1875  Susanville, Lassen County, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    1880 US census 1880  Susanville, Lassen County, California Find all individuals with events at this location 
    recorded as W. Harry Segraves, 4, CA, W, son of John and Isabel Segraves. 
    Education 6 Sep 1892  Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    From an article in the Nevada State Journal of 6 Sep 1892:
    "University Matters
    The Attendance Larger Than Ever.
    The registration for the first day at the University shows the following members of the graduating class of the Reno High School:...Messrs....William H. Seagraves. This makes thirteen out of sixteen graduates, an excellent showing for Reno's public school." 
    Education 23 Apr 1896  Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    From an article in the Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal of 24 Apr 1896:
    "The following University students took the train to San Francisco last evening to attend the inter-collegiate debate between the Stanford and Berkley Universities: Messrs....W. H. Seagraves,... Professor N. E. Wilson and Superintendent Brown accompanied them." 
    Education 12 Jun 1896  Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Wm H. Seagrave listed as a graduate of the University of Nevada with a degree from the School of Mines. 
    1900 US census 1900  Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    recorded as Harry Segraves, 24, born in Aug 1875 in CA, W, residing at 309 Mill St., Reno, NV, assayer, single, son of Jon H. and Isabelle Segraves. 
    Employment 12 Mar 1903  Germiston, South Africa Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    From an article in the Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal of 12 Mar 1903:
    "Going to Africa
    Jerome Higgins leaves tonight on his long trip to South Africa. On the way Mr. Higgins will spend four days in New York and a week in London. His destination is Germiston, a city about six miles from Johannesburg, where he will have a position at the Knights Deep mine....
    This particular part of South Africa has a colony of Nevada boys, among them are...Harry Seagraves..."  
    Activity 17 Jun 1903  Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    From an article in the Nevada State Journal [Reno, NV] of 17 Jun 1903"
    "Harry Seagraves, a West Point cadet, has returned to spend his vacation in Reno." 
    Employment 24 Jun 1905  Gardnersville, Douglas County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    From an article in the Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal of 24 Jun 1905:
    "WILL OPEN UP GOLDEN GATE
    Reno Company Thinks it Has a Bonanza Mine in Mono County
    W. A. Seagraves Approves Property and Will Superintend Extensive Development.
    Gardnerville, Nev...W. A. Seagraves, a mining expert from Reno, who has been employed in South Africa, has passed on the property and his recommendations have caused the company to begin development on a pretentious scale.
    Mr. Seagraves was accompanied here by L. D. Folsom, who says the mine is one of the richest in this section of the country." 
    Employment 29 Jul 1905  Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    From an article in the Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal of 29 Jul 1905:
    "SEAGRAVES IS APPOINTED
    William Henry Seagraves, a graduate of the class of civil engineering in '96 from the University of Nevada, was nominated by the president of the board of regents as assistant professor of civil engineering and the nomination was approved. Since graduating from the University Mr. Seagraves has led a very successful career in his chosen profession and this appointment was given after due consideration of his ability.
    He worked at different times at the Keswick smelters in California; the Mammoth mine, the Keystone mine as superintendent, as mine manager in 1901 and 1903 in the United Rhodesia Goldfields. And up to the present time he was chief surveyor of the Summer and Jack mine at Germanstown in the Transvaal." 
    Employment 30 Jul 1905  Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    From an article in the Daily Appeal of Carson City, NV of 30 Jul 1905:
    Seagraves in the Faculty
    "Reno, July 29- Wm. H. Seagraves, a graduate of the University of Nevada, was today elected assistant professor of civil engineering in that institution." 
    Employment 21 Apr 1906  Johannesburg, South Africa Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    From an article in the Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal of 21 Apr 1906:
    "DARK DAYS IN SOUTH AFRICA
    WHERE MANY NEVADA BOYS ARE LOCATED
    The cable dispatches from... western Nevada boys in Johannesburg, South Africa, stating that a terrible disaster had occurred but that they had escaped death or injury, have been explained...
    it was learned yesterday afternoon from a cable received at Carson that there had been an uprising of the natives at Boxberg, fourteen miles east of Johannesburg, and that hundreds of people were slaughtered. The clash is said to have taken place between Kaffirs, Zulus and Chinese and that two thousand armed whites wre trying to restore order.
    Many university boys of Reno, Carson, Virginia [City] and other western Nevada points are at Johannesburg and other mining cities in South Africa. The following is a partial list:... W. H. Seagraves...
     
    Employment 11 Jul 1909  Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    From an article in the Nevada State Journal of 11 Jul 1909:
    "MINE OWNERS SAY ELY STRIKE IS UNCHANGED
    There are no changes as yet in the strike situation at Ely.
    Supt. Seagraves came down from the mine yesterday morning and reported everything quiet. He believes the mine will remain closed for about a month.
    The mine managers say they are decidedly opposed to receiving any dictation whatsoever from the men employed." 
    1910 US census 1910  Riepetown, White Pine County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    recorded as William H. Seagrave, 34, CA, mining engineer at copper mine, father born in Indiana, mother born in Oregon, 1st marriage, married 2 years; Nellie W., wife, 3, MA, both parents born in MA, 1st marriage, married 2 years, mother of 0 children. 
    Legal actions 26 Sep 1913  Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    From a Notice of Sheriff's Sale in the Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal of 13 Oct 1913:
    " W. H. Seagraves, Plaintiff, vs. Gustav Rohr and Martha Rohr, his wife, Defendants.
    "Under and by virtue of a Judgment, Order of Sale and Decree of Foreclosure and Sale. issued out of the Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada in and for the County of Washoe...wherein W. H. Seagraves, the above named plaintiff, obtained a Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure and Sale against...the defendants for the sum of 902.03...I am commanded to sell.. described as follows, to wit:
    Lots one (1) and two (2)...in block forty-eight (48)of the Newtown Tract in East Reno, now Sparks." 
    Property Event 3 Apr 1914  Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    From the Reno Gazette-Journal [Reno NV] of 4 Apr 1914:
    "A real estate deal was closed yesterday. whereby Miss Myrtle Gordon bought the six-room house at 53 High street. This home stands on a 70-foot lot and was sold for the account of W. H. Seagrave." 
    Draft Registration 6 Sep 1918  Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    William Henry Seagrave, age 43, born 11 Aug 1875, residing at 915 Grand Ave., Seattle, King Co., WA, registered for the WW I draft as an independent mining engineer working out of the Smith Bldg., Seattle, WA. Kin: Mollie Seagrave, wife. Described as medium height, medium build, with blue eyes and light brown hair. 
    Death 5 Feb 1929  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    • From the Obituary for William H. Seagrave in the Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal of 9 Feb 1929:
      "Nevada Graduate Dies on Coast-
      William H. Seagrave, a graduate of the University of Nevada with the class of 1896, died the first of this week in Los Angeles and funeral services where [sic] held there. He was a mining engineer and following his graduation from the university went to South Africa where he spent several years.
      He returned to the states and became connected with the Guggenheim interests operating in Alaska and was very successful in this work. Later in company with his brother, Curtis Seagrave, he was engaged in ship building in San Francisco.
      He was a brother-in-law of United States Marshall Jake Fulmer and was a nephew of Mrs. Dan Wheeler of reno. He attended the reno grade schools and the high school here as well as the university. Another brother, Ralph Seagrave, survives." [14]
    Employment 30 Jul 1930  Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location  [15] 
    From a column in the Reno Gazette-Journal [Reno, NV] of 30 Jul 1930 titled, "Twenty=five years ago":
    "William Henry Seagrave, graduate of the University of Nevada in 1896, was named assistant professor of civil engineering at the university." 
    Burial Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [16] 
    Person ID I4743  Seagraves Database
    Last Modified 2 Nov 2020 

    Father John Henry SEAGRAVES,   b. Jun 1838, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Sep 1906, Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 68 years) 
    Mother Isabell RIDENOUR,   b. Jul 1855, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jul 1906, Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 51 years) 
    Marriage 19 Nov 1874  Susanville, Lassen County, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [17] 
    Family ID F2865  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Father Edward Fletcher SEAGRAVE,   b. 17 Dec 1835, Northborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 May 1914, Alameda County, California Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Sarah F. CARPENTER,   b. Jan 1844, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Sep 1917, Santa Clara County, California Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 73 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 1 Jan 1867  Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1555  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Nellie WRIGHT,   b. 1875, Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 May 1910, Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years) 
    Marriage 12 Nov 1907  Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location  [18] 
    • From the Wedding Announcement in the Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal of 13 Nov 1907:
      "William H. Seagraves and Miss Nellie Wright were married last night by Rev. Leslie M. Burwell at the residence of the bride's mother on South Center street.
      The bridegroom is one of the best-known young men in this city, having been born and raised here. He is a graduate of the university and spent several years in South Africa as chief engineer for a large mining company. At present he is superintendent of the Cumberland-Ely Copper Co.'s mines at Ely.
      The bride has resided in Reno most of her life, but was born at Wakefield, Mass.
      Mr. and Mrs. Seagraves left last night for Ely where they will reside." [18]
    • from Marriage Licenses in the Nevada State Journal [Reno, NV] of 13 Nov 1907:
      "The County Clerk issues the following marriage licenses yesterday: To...William H. Seagrave and Helen Wright, both of Reno." [19]
    • The marriage license for William and Helen Wright suggests that the name, Nellie, so frequently used in her records may have been a nickname. [19]
    Family ID F1421  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Oct 2020 

    Family 2 Mollie M. FULMER,   b. 10 Aug 1870, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Mar 1963, California Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years) 
    Marriage 16 Nov 1911  King County, Washington Find all individuals with events at this location  [20] 
    Family ID F2868  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Oct 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 11 Aug 1875 - Susanville, Lassen County, California Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google Maps1880 US census - recorded as W. Harry Segraves, 4, CA, W, son of John and Isabel Segraves. - 1880 - Susanville, Lassen County, California Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEducation - From an article in the Nevada State Journal of 6 Sep 1892: "University Matters The Attendance Larger Than Ever. The registration for the first day at the University shows the following members of the graduating class of the Reno High School:...Messrs....William H. Seagraves. This makes thirteen out of sixteen graduates, an excellent showing for Reno's public school." - 6 Sep 1892 - Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEducation - From an article in the Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal of 24 Apr 1896: "The following University students took the train to San Francisco last evening to attend the inter-collegiate debate between the Stanford and Berkley Universities: Messrs....W. H. Seagraves,... Professor N. E. Wilson and Superintendent Brown accompanied them." - 23 Apr 1896 - Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEducation - Wm H. Seagrave listed as a graduate of the University of Nevada with a degree from the School of Mines. - 12 Jun 1896 - Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google Maps1900 US census - recorded as Harry Segraves, 24, born in Aug 1875 in CA, W, residing at 309 Mill St., Reno, NV, assayer, single, son of Jon H. and Isabelle Segraves. - 1900 - Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEmployment - From an article in the Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal of 12 Mar 1903: "Going to Africa Jerome Higgins leaves tonight on his long trip to South Africa. On the way Mr. Higgins will spend four days in New York and a week in London. His destination is Germiston, a city about six miles from Johannesburg, where he will have a position at the Knights Deep mine.... This particular part of South Africa has a colony of Nevada boys, among them are...Harry Seagraves..." - 12 Mar 1903 - Germiston, South Africa Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsActivity - From an article in the Nevada State Journal [Reno, NV] of 17 Jun 1903" "Harry Seagraves, a West Point cadet, has returned to spend his vacation in Reno." - 17 Jun 1903 - Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEmployment - From an article in the Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal of 24 Jun 1905: "WILL OPEN UP GOLDEN GATE Reno Company Thinks it Has a Bonanza Mine in Mono County W. A. Seagraves Approves Property and Will Superintend Extensive Development. Gardnerville, Nev...W. A. Seagraves, a mining expert from Reno, who has been employed in South Africa, has passed on the property and his recommendations have caused the company to begin development on a pretentious scale. Mr. Seagraves was accompanied here by L. D. Folsom, who says the mine is one of the richest in this section of the country." - 24 Jun 1905 - Gardnersville, Douglas County, Nevada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEmployment - From an article in the Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal of 29 Jul 1905: "SEAGRAVES IS APPOINTED William Henry Seagraves, a graduate of the class of civil engineering in '96 from the University of Nevada, was nominated by the president of the board of regents as assistant professor of civil engineering and the nomination was approved. Since graduating from the University Mr. Seagraves has led a very successful career in his chosen profession and this appointment was given after due consideration of his ability. He worked at different times at the Keswick smelters in California; the Mammoth mine, the Keystone mine as superintendent, as mine manager in 1901 and 1903 in the United Rhodesia Goldfields. And up to the present time he was chief surveyor of the Summer and Jack mine at Germanstown in the Transvaal." - 29 Jul 1905 - Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEmployment - From an article in the Daily Appeal of Carson City, NV of 30 Jul 1905: Seagraves in the Faculty "Reno, July 29- Wm. H. Seagraves, a graduate of the University of Nevada, was today elected assistant professor of civil engineering in that institution." - 30 Jul 1905 - Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEmployment - From an article in the Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal of 21 Apr 1906: "DARK DAYS IN SOUTH AFRICA WHERE MANY NEVADA BOYS ARE LOCATED The cable dispatches from... western Nevada boys in Johannesburg, South Africa, stating that a terrible disaster had occurred but that they had escaped death or injury, have been explained... it was learned yesterday afternoon from a cable received at Carson that there had been an uprising of the natives at Boxberg, fourteen miles east of Johannesburg, and that hundreds of people were slaughtered. The clash is said to have taken place between Kaffirs, Zulus and Chinese and that two thousand armed whites wre trying to restore order. Many university boys of Reno, Carson, Virginia [City] and other western Nevada points are at Johannesburg and other mining cities in South Africa. The following is a partial list:... W. H. Seagraves... - 21 Apr 1906 - Johannesburg, South Africa Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 12 Nov 1907 - Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEmployment - From an article in the Nevada State Journal of 11 Jul 1909: "MINE OWNERS SAY ELY STRIKE IS UNCHANGED There are no changes as yet in the strike situation at Ely. Supt. Seagraves came down from the mine yesterday morning and reported everything quiet. He believes the mine will remain closed for about a month. The mine managers say they are decidedly opposed to receiving any dictation whatsoever from the men employed." - 11 Jul 1909 - Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google Maps1910 US census - recorded as William H. Seagrave, 34, CA, mining engineer at copper mine, father born in Indiana, mother born in Oregon, 1st marriage, married 2 years; Nellie W., wife, 3, MA, both parents born in MA, 1st marriage, married 2 years, mother of 0 children. - 1910 - Riepetown, White Pine County, Nevada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 16 Nov 1911 - King County, Washington Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLegal actions - From a Notice of Sheriff's Sale in the Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal of 13 Oct 1913: " W. H. Seagraves, Plaintiff, vs. Gustav Rohr and Martha Rohr, his wife, Defendants. "Under and by virtue of a Judgment, Order of Sale and Decree of Foreclosure and Sale. issued out of the Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada in and for the County of Washoe...wherein W. H. Seagraves, the above named plaintiff, obtained a Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure and Sale against...the defendants for the sum of 902.03...I am commanded to sell.. described as follows, to wit: Lots one (1) and two (2)...in block forty-eight (48)of the Newtown Tract in East Reno, now Sparks." - 26 Sep 1913 - Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty Event - From the Reno Gazette-Journal [Reno NV] of 4 Apr 1914: "A real estate deal was closed yesterday. whereby Miss Myrtle Gordon bought the six-room house at 53 High street. This home stands on a 70-foot lot and was sold for the account of W. H. Seagrave." - 3 Apr 1914 - Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDraft Registration - William Henry Seagrave, age 43, born 11 Aug 1875, residing at 915 Grand Ave., Seattle, King Co., WA, registered for the WW I draft as an independent mining engineer working out of the Smith Bldg., Seattle, WA. Kin: Mollie Seagrave, wife. Described as medium height, medium build, with blue eyes and light brown hair. - 6 Sep 1918 - Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 5 Feb 1929 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEmployment - From a column in the Reno Gazette-Journal [Reno, NV] of 30 Jul 1930 titled, "Twenty=five years ago": "William Henry Seagrave, graduate of the University of Nevada in 1896, was named assistant professor of civil engineering at the university." - 30 Jul 1930 - Reno, Washoe County, Nevada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, United States Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [s16] World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, (Ancestry.com).

    2. [S1427] From an article in the Nevada State Journal of 6 Sep 1892.

    3. [S1421] From an article in the Reno (NV) Gazette-Journal of 24 Apr 1896.

    4. [S1413] Graduation announcement in the Nevada State Journal of 13 Jun 1896.

    5. [S1422] From an article in the Reno (NV) Gazette-Journal of 12 Mar 1903.

    6. [S1420] From an article in the Nevada State Journal [Reno, NV] of 17 Jun 1903.

    7. [S1418] From an article in the Reno (NV) Gazette-Journal of 24 Jun 1905.

    8. [S1428] From an article in the Reno (NV) Gazette-Journal of 29 Jul 1905.

    9. [S1426] From an article in the Daily Appeal of Carson City, NV of 30 Jul 1905.

    10. [S1429] From an article in the Reno (NV) Gazette-Journal of 21 Apr 1906.

    11. [S1425] From an article in the Nevada State Journal of 11 Jul 1909.

    12. [S1419] From a Notice of Sheriff's Sale in the Reno (NV) Gazette-Journal of 13 Oct 1913.

    13. [S1416] From the Reno Gazette-Journal (Reno, NV) of 4 Apr 1914.

    14. [S1412] Obituary for William H. Seagrave in the Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal of 9 Feb 1929.

    15. [S1417] From a column in the Reno Gazette-Journal [Reno, NV] of 30 Jul 1930.

    16. [S1] FindAGrave.com (FAG).

    17. [S1182] California County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980, (Ancestry.com).

    18. [S1411] Wedding announcement in the Reno (NV) Gazette-Journal of 13 Nov 1907.

    19. [S1415] From Marriage Licenses in the Nevada State Journal [Reno, NV] of 13 Nov 1907.

    20. [S970] Washington County Marriages, 1855-2008, (Ancestry.com).