ALDACE N ASHLEY
General Merchandise
Milpitas, California
BIO- Pen Pictures
SURNAMES:
ALDACE N. ASHLEY is the proprietor of a general merchandise store in
Milpitas, and has a complete assortment of goods, such as are adapted
to the wants of the community in which he resides, having, in fact, one
of the best regulated and furnished stores in Milpitas. Mr. Ashley is a
native of California, dating his birth at Damascus, Placer County, May
13, 1864. His parents were John T. Ashley (whose
sketch is given above)
and Mary E. Ashley. His life, until the age of twelve years, was spent
in the place of his birth, receiving such schooling as was obtainable
in the schools then established. In 1876 his father moved to Auburn,
the county seat of Placer County, and there Mr.Ashley availed himself
of the opportunities afforded, and closely applied himself to attending
the excellent public schools of that town. In 1881 he ceased attending
school, and entered into an apprenticeship as a carriage, sign, and
house painter. After some months at this calling he was engaged as a
clerk in a drug store, and afterward as a clerk in general merchandise
and grocery stores. In 1882 he went to the mines, and was engaged in
the "Sunny South" mine for a year, becoming practically schooled in the
various phases of mining life.
In 1883 he accompanied his father to Santa Clara County, and located in
Milpitas, where he was engaged, and took charge of his father's
interests in the store of Dixon & Ashley. Mr. Ashley, though but
nineteen years of age, proved himself a competent and thorough
business man, and in April, 1885, he purchased Mr. Dixon's interest in
the store, and continued the business in partnership with his father,
under the firm name of Ashley & Co. October 26, 1886, his father
died, and since that time the ownership of the store has been vested in
himself.
Mr. Ashley is a member of San Jose Lodge, No. 34, I. O. O. F.; also a
member of Palo Alto Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West. He is a
stanch and consistent Republican, and takes an intelligent interest in
the political affairs of the day.
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. transcribed
by Roena Wilson , page 530
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