THADDEUS W. SPRING
Bio-Pen Pictures
SURNAMES: HOUGHTON, MOORE,
Thaddeus W. Spring, of the firm of T. W. Spring & Son, clothing
merchants, corner of Santa Clara and Market Streets, San Jose, was born
in Buffalo, New York, June 17, 1829. His ancestors for many
generations were residents of Massachusetts and Vermont. While he
was an infant, his father moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he
received his education up to the age of eighteen years. He then
enlisted in Magruder’s Battery, United States Army, and after making
the voyage around Cape Horn with his battery on the ship Monterey,
landed in San Diego, California, where he remained until 1851, when he
was discharged and came immediately to San Francisco, and engaged in
the auction business, which he continued for two years. He then
made a trip to the Sandwich Islands, after which he returned to
California and commenced mining in various parts of the State and in
Nevada, with the usual success attending mining operations. He
came to San Jose in 1861 and engaged in the auction business with N.
Hayes, which he followed for four years. He then commenced
business for himself in clothing and gentlemen’s furnishing goods,
which he has carried on ever since very extensively. He was
married in 1862, to Miss Emilie Houghton, a native of Iowa, and there
have been born to them two children, viz.: Marcella, wife of Fred
W. Moore, of Santa Cruz, and Henry Mayo Newhall Spring, who is
associated in business with his father.
Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1888.
Pg. 391-392
Transcribed by
Kathy Sedler
Proofread by Betty Vickroy
Transcribed by Joseph Kral, from Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara County,California, published by Historic Record Co. , 1922. page 372RETURN TO SANTA CLARA COUNTY PIONEER BIOGRAPHIES