Chapter 29: Jessie Meek (1870 – 1963) & Herbert Sargent Martin (1869 – 1916)

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Little is known of John S. Martin. The 1870 U.S. census for Pilot Hill, El Dorado County, California, shows the following; the census taker arrived on June 8:

The significance of the relationship of these two adjacent households becomes clear in the 1880 U.S. census for Georgetown, El Dorado County California, which showed the following:

Household No. 74

Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Placed Birth
Jones Clioe A	F	32	Head of House	Maine
Jmes Lotta 0	F	11	Daughter	California
Janes Walter S.	M	7	Son
Jmes Susie	F	1	Daughter
Bodfish, Jane	F	33	Sister	Maine
Martin, I	M	11	Nephew Student	California

Jane H. Martin (our Jean) and Chloe Jones were sisters, born in Maine and now living next door to each other on California’s wild frontier, probably seeking friendship and security.

In the 10 years between 1870 and 1880 some major changes occurred in the lives of the two families: Jane Martin appears to have lost her husband, John Martin, and married a man named Bodfish, who also disappeared. In the same period, her sister, Chloe, bore two more children and apparently lost her husband, Charles. Nothing is known of the circumstances concerning the disappearance of Martin, Bodfish, or Jones.

Harmon Sornberger took Jean and her 16-year-old son, Herbert Martin, into his beautiful home in Georgetown. He raised Herbert as his own son, even though he was never formally adopted and retained his Martin surname. Harmon was a leading citizen and merchant of Georgetown, a true pioneer whose presence greatly affected the welfare of his new wife and her descendants. Jean and Herbert Martin’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren always referred to him affectionately as “Grandfather Sornberger.”

Jessie Meek and Herbert Martin: In about 1887-1888, Herbert Martin, now age 18, began his first job (as far as we know) as a school teacher in Georgetown, according to his obituary in the Georgetown Gazette.

We don’t know what he did from 1887 until 1892. It may have been during this time that he earned a diploma from a state teachers’ training school (a “normal school”)—as listed on his 1902 application to Cooper Medical College.

In 1892 he applied for admission to the Cooper Medical College in San Francisco and was admitted. On June 27 he traveled to San Francisco and matriculated (enrolled) as a first-year medical student. He signed the registration book as he was about to register for classes. “Age: 23. Place of birth: Pilot Hill, California. Residence: Georgetown. Term of study: 1st. Preceptor [his adult counselor]: W.S. Hickman, M.D.” His handwriting was clear, almost elegant. A separate record in the Cooper ledger shows that he paid $80 of the total $145 owed, leaving an unpaid bal­ance of $65. Note: These and other documents mentioned below that relate to Herbert’s medical studies are still in the archives of Cooper Medical College at Stanford University’s Lane Medical Library. Cooper was acquired by Stanford in 1908 and became the Stanford Medical School.

Herbert may have attended some classes, but for an unknown reason he failed to finish the semester or to receive any grades. What happened? Did he become seriously ill? Did he have a new girlfriend who seemed more important than medical school? Did he change his mind about wanting to become a doctor?

Perhaps so, for on 10 May 1893, just 11 months after he was about to begin his medical studies, Herbert and Jessie Meek were married in Nevada City California. She soon left Nevada City with her new husband. At that time she scarcely knew her six-year-old half brother, Roy Shurtleff.

In 1893 Herbert again applied and was admitted to Cooper Medical College. He may have written the college explaining why he did not complete his first year’s studies; the college apparently accepted his explanation.

So on 5 July 1893, only two months after his marriage, Herbert traveled again to San Francisco, enrolled, and signed the registration book. He again paid $15 in matriculation fees, but was allowed by the college to apply the $65 tuition he had paid the previous year to this year’s balance due. As before, he may have attended some classes, but again he failed to finish the semester, received no grades, and left an unpaid balance due (written in red this time in the college ledger). Did he leave for the same reason(s) as before? Could the Panic of 1893 and subsequent major economic depression have affected his decision? Where did he go and what did he do during the months after he left to support himself and his new wife?

The school had military-like discipline, and each of the teachers and staff was given a military title. Herbert was designated as “Major” Martin and Jessie was listed as supervisor of the boys’ dining room. His salary was $50 per month and hers was $25.

According to Nettie Meek’s letters to Bonnie Meyer, the couple then left Ione to settle in Marysville, 50 to 60 miles to the north and only a dozen or so miles west of Nevada City, where they had been married just two years earlier. In Marysville Herbert again took a job as a teacher, but in a conventional school.

They soon started a family. On 23 September 1896 a son, Roland Harmon Martin, was born in Nevada City, where Jessie’s mother, Charlotte, sister Nettie, and young Roy Shurtleff were still living. Then on 6 October 1898 Herbert Sargent Martin, Jr. (hereinafter referred to as Herbert, Jr.) was born in Marysville where Herbert was still teaching. In fact, the Common Council of Marysville shows H. S. Martin served on the board of education for the years 1897 through 1900. Also in 1900 he was registered to vote there.

This letter seems to be either inaccurate or deceptive. While he had been accepted to Cooper 10 years earlier, in 1892 and 1893, he certainly was not a “student” in the normal sense of that word. Was his deception intentional—or did he some­how believe what he wrote? He would know the school records would give the lie to his assertions, unless he had a file at the school containing letters in which he described to school officials the reasons he failed to complete his studies in 1892 and 1893.

In any case the college took no apparent offense at his letter, for Herbert was accepted for a third time. On 13 August 1902, now age 32, he traveled again to San Francisco and registered with 30 classmates as a “first year student” from Georgetown. School records show that he attended school for two years, 1902-03 and 1903­04. His grades were mostly excellent, yet after only two years he apparently left school without graduating or earning his medical degree. A careful search of the Cooper archival records suggests no reason for his early departure and his failure to graduate.

The San Francisco City Directory for 1903-04 shows Herbert S. Martin as a medical student living at 4053 19th (almost certainly “street” not “avenue”). The 1905 directory shows a Herbert S. Martin living at 2468 Sacramento Street and gives no further information as to family or occupation. In 1906, the year of the great San Francisco earth­quake and fire, there was no directory.

But in an interesting diary entry in 1941 from Jessie’s brother, Roy, to his son Lawton, he writes concerning the 1906 fire and earthquake: “I made my way over to San Francisco again in an effort to find my sister Jessie and her children, Roland and Herbert. [As so often happened in this family, no mention is made of Herbert, Jessie’s husband.] They lived quite far out in the Mission district and were unharmed.” Confirming this in 1982, Herbert Martin, Jr., recalled from memory that his parents, Martin, and Jessie, moved to San Francisco sometime prior to the 1906 earthquake with a very special Steinway grand piano and that, after the earthquake, had relocated (with the same piano) to Berkeley. How long after 1906 they moved to Berkeley is not clear.

In the San Francisco Directory for 1908 and 1909 Herbert (Sr.), alone, is listed at 2719 22nd Street as a “physician.” However, since Roy had found the family together in 1906, they were presumably with him in 1908 and 1909.

The Berkeley City Directories for 1909 through 1912 list Herbert S. Martin as living at 2629 Grant Street and again with his occupation as “physician.” In 1913, however, his occupation is left blank. The 1914 City Directory shows no such Martin family in Berkeley.

Harmon Sornberger died on 30 January 1908 in Georgetown, after a long illness. He was buried with his first wife, Jennie. Herbert Martin has long believed that Harmon Somberger had paid for Herbert’s medical school and tuition, had bought a lifetime annuity for Jessie, and had given Herbert and Jessie the Grant Street home as a wedding present. Obviously the home was not a wedding present in 1893, but in his will Harmon may have included a provision for Jean to purchase the property for them. Herbert, Jessie, and their children lived there until 1913. Then in 1914 they moved to the tiny town of Raymond, California, some 200 miles south of Berkeley and 150 miles south of Georgetown.

This move was described in Herbert’s 1916 obituary in the Georgetown Gazette on 25 May 1916: “Dr. Martin was a physician, but for many years had followed the profession of teaching. For the past few years he was principal of the Raymond, Madera Co., school, and for sometime was editor of the Raymond Progress.”

After only two or three years in Raymond, Herbert became ill and ultimately too ill to stay there. Once again he and his family moved back to be with his mother at the Somberger’s old home in Georgetown. Soon after arriving in Georgetown he died on 19 May 1916 at age 46 years, 11 months, and 17 days. His death certificate lists his “usual residence” as Raymond, California.

In 1891 the National Confederation of State Licensing Bonds voted to require a minimum of three years of medical training. By 1894 all students at Cooper Medical College were required to complete a four-year curriculum to obtain their diploma.

It would appear that by 1904, when he left Cooper without his degree, our Herbert Martin had not met the national, state, or college require­ments to practice medicine. Despite this apparent deficiency, from 1908 through 1912 he publicly (in city directories and the U.S. census) listed his occupation as “physician.” While we have no evi­dence that he ever solicited patients or practiced as a physician, one can imagine that he probably did—and in so doing was breaking the law and probably causing distress to his family.

For 10 years after her husband Harmon’s death in 1908, Jean Sornberger continued to maintain the family home and operate the Sornberger general store and post office in Georgetown. In 1917, shortly after her son Herbert’s death the year before, she deeded for $10 the Grant Street property, riot to Jessie, but to her grandsons, Roland and Herbert, Jr. Soon her own ill health and advancing age compelled her to sell the Somberger business, and presumably her imposing home on Main Street in Georgetown, and move to 2629 Grant Street, Berkeley, to join Jessie and her sons, Roland and Herbert, Jr., in the house she had actually owned these many years. Jean Brown lived with Jessie until her death on 18 January 1919 in Berkeley at age 72. On May 21 her ashes were interred with those of her husband, Harmon, in his plot in Georgetown. Also, in the same plot are his wife, Jean, her brother, Gilbert Brown, and Martin’s oldest son, Roland, without any marker at all.

Inside, the two-story home was chock full of furniture and cats. Lawton, Gene, and Nancy Shurtleff have always believed that their own love of the land, of animals and gardening, was inherited from Charlotte, Jessie, and Roy Shurtleff’s side of the family. Certainly Roy

Roland Harmon Martin and His Descendants.

Roland was the eldest of Herbert (Sr.) and Jessie’s two sons and was almost as enigmatic a man as his father. Herbert and Jessie’s careers at the Preston School of Industry had ended in early 1895. They must have returned to Jessie’s hometown of Nevada City where their first child, Roland (his middle name, Harmon, undoubtedly derived from his wonderfully kind “adopted” grandfather, Harmon Sornberger), was born 23 September 1895.

There is no record of how or where Roland spent his early childhood—but almost certainly it was in Marysville where his father was a school teacher. Later, in his teens, he lived with his family on Grant Street in Berkeley and probably graduated from Berkeley High School, at that time the only high school in the area. We know nothing more about his life until his marriage. In about 1918-25 he married Bertha Dell Lewis, probably in California or possibly Texas. She was born on 25 February 1891 in Junction City, Mills County, Iowa. Her parents were Ernest S. “Bert” Lewis of Iowa and Cedelia May Drayer Cedelia, was born 16 May 1867 in Momence, Kankakee, Kansas. Her parents were Nathaniel Drayer, and Hester A. Shaw, born in Vermont.

Roland’s daughter, Charlotte, remembers him as a handsome man who loved hot cars, hot motorcycles, and hot ladies. He trained as an airplane pilot in World War I but never saw service overseas. Lawton and Gene Shurtleff, as little boys, thought of Roland as a “tough guy” and imagined that if he were to tangle with their uncles, Harry or Don Lawton, Roland would surely win. (Don later became a heavyweight boxer at the University of California at Berkeley.)

Roland’s interests were always mechanical—whether cars, motorcycles, or airplanes. One of his first ventures was the Shattuck Street Garage, the largest car repair shop in Berkeley. His close friend, Mr. Greening, chief of police of the City of Berkeley, gave him all of the city’s automotive repair work. Later he and a partner founded the Pacific Automotive Company located at the fledgling Oakland Airport. At one time it was the largest facility of its kind on the West Coast, with facilities up and down the state. While Roland was energetic and ambitious, he does not appear to have been financially successful. His last occupation was a mechanic for Greenbelt Aviation Service, engaged in crop dusting in Salinas, California.

Roland never remarried and died on 24 January 1971 in Salinas, Monterey County, California. His eldest daughter, Charlotte, and her husband, Roland Adams, buried his ashes (at his request) in Harmon Sornberger’s large plot in Georgetown, California. They just dug a hole, put his ashes in, and covered them up. There is no marker, and they told no one that his ashes were there.

Bertha also never remarried. She died on 23 April 1973 in Belmont, San Mateo County, California. At her request her ashes were scattered in San Francisco Bay near the Golden Gate.

Roland and Bertha had three children:

1. Charlotte Jean Martin was born 10 Dec. 1921 in Berkeley. She married Leo Serge Pavloff on 13 June 1943 in Berkeley. He was born 16 March 1913 in Siberia, Russia, son of Serge Pavloff and Vera Bruno. They had four children. Charlotte and Leo Pavloff were later divorced. She married Roland “Ro” Norman Adams on 31 Dec. 1964 in Snohomish, Snohomish Co., Washington. Born on 22 April 1922 in Spokane, Washington, he was the son of Alek Adams and Eva Randolph. Charlotte and Roland had no children. Roland Adams died 19 Jan. 1989 in San Leandro, Alameda Co., California. He was buried at the San Francisco Presidio in California.
2. Roland Harmon Martin, Jr., was born 29 Oct. 1923 in Berkeley. He married Betty Lindberg on 29 Aug. 1949 in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., California.
3. Joyce Martin was born 25 July 1928 in Berkeley. She married Gordon Woodbury Ellis on 28 Jan. 1949 in Berkeley.

Charlotte lean Martin scarcely knew her father, who deserted her mother, Bertha, when Charlotte was only six years old. She and her two siblings were raised alone by Bertha.

When she was 22, she married Leo Serge Pavloff (whom Lawton and Gene Shurtleff had known as teenagers at Tamalpais Boys’ School in San Rafael in Marin County). Charlotte and Leo had a difficult four-or-five-year divorce in the 1960s, after which on 31 December 1964 she married Roland Norman Adams. They were happily married until “Ro’s” death in 1989. Charlotte now lives at 42943 Via Valparaiso, Fremont, California. She has been extremely helpful in the preparation of this chapter.

Charlotte and Leo Pavloff had three children:

1. Nicholas Leo Pavloff was born 30 Sept. 1947 in Oakland, California. He died July 1966 in Buckley, Pierce Co., Washington, and was buried on July 16 in Bellevue, King Co., Washington.
2. Victoria Lee Pavloff was born 10 June 1950 in Oakland. She married Thomas George Reischman on 30 Sept. 1973 in Seattle, Washington. He was born 25 April 1948 in Everett, Snohomish Co., Washington.

Victoria Lee Pavloff and Thomas George Reischman had three children:

1. Jennifer Lee Reischman born 2 Nov. 1976 in Seattle, King Co., Washington.
2. Sara Jeanne Reischman born 28 Aug. 1978 in Oakland, California.
3. Alexandra Lillian Reischman born 28 May 1984 in Hayward, Alameda Co., California.

After lunch, Roy counseled Roland, Jr., in the importance of getting a college education, and suggested that he try for admission to the University of California at Berkeley, where both Roy and Nettie had graduated, as did Roy’s sons, Lawton and Gene. Roy indicated that when Roland had his degree from Cal there would be a job waiting for him at Blyth. With such an unexpected future now promised him, Roland enrolled at Cal, probably on the G.I. Bill for Veterans of World War II, worked summers at Blyth, and at the end of four years in 1946 received his B.A. degree.

By then he had researched his potential at Blyth, and had figured out that with no money in the bank to start with he’d never be able to support himself on sales commissions alone. Further, very ingeniously and ethically, he had researched some of Blyth’s clients and found that the best compensation for hard work seemed to be in the apparel business and particularly at the Emporium, one of Blyth’s best customers. While Roy was disappointed that Roland was not to join his firm, he immediately called his old friend, Ned Lipmann, president of the Emporium, and Roland had a job. He prospered there and ultimately moved to the Sony Corporation of the U.S., where he became the highest ranking non-Japanese Sony executive in the United States. So Nettie and Roy, working as a family, radically changed the course of history for young Roland Martin, Jr.

And Roland, himself played no small part in this success. On a regular prisoner-of-war card, properly censored by the authorities, addressed to the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, Roland wrote from his confinement in Germany:

We feel extremely confident this New Year’s will find us home. Therefore we are taking the liberty of asking that you reserve a block of twelve of the best seats available for the next Rose Bowl football game.

Having heard of this letter, Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, where Roland had worked before his enlistment, wrote an editorial in its September 22, 1944 newsletter Microscope that tells it all:

Our Honor Roll contains the name Roland H. Martin. Eleven months in a German war prison has not destroyed the spirit of this youthful vanguard of American liberators. As his brother-in-arms are battling their way closer to his imprisonment, having implicit faith in their success, he is making plans to spend New Year’s Day back home.

This was the optimism, foresight and confi­dence that was to play such an important role in Roland’s career. Roland, Jr., met his future wife, Betty Lindberg, on a weekend snow party at the southern end of Lake Tahoe. His uncle Herbert had arranged the weekend. Like Roland, Betty had grown up in the Bay Area; she attended Balboa High in San Francisco. Herbert and Roland (Sr.) were surveying the land that had been willed by Jessie Martin to Roland, Jr.’s uncle Herbert and his own father Roland (Sr.). That same piece of property later became a major bone of contention between the two brothers. Herbert ended up with the Tahoe property, and no one seems to know how.

Roland, Jr. and Betty were married on 29 August 1949 in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California. She was born on 25 May 1927 in San Francisco, the daughter of Ivan Lindberg and Laina Koski, who were of Finnish decent.

Betty Lindberg was always close to her father-in-law, Roland, and often came up from Salinas to visit him. When Roland, Jr., retired from Sony, he and Betty moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea, where he enjoys his favorite sport of golf.

Roland, Jr., and Betty had two children:

1. Dale Martin was born 11 Oct. 1950 in Berkeley, California. She married a Mr. Jones, but is now living in Los Angeles, divorced and single with no children.
2. Donald Lindberg Martin was born 29 March 1952 in Berkeley. He married Teri Dailey, who was born on the island of Guam. They and had a daughter, Cori Laina Martin, born 11 July 1986 in San Diego, California.

Joyce Martin was the youngest child of Roland Harmon Martin and Bertha Lewis. She was born 25 July 1928 in Berkeley, shortly after Roland had deserted the family. She married Gordon Woodbury Ellis on 28 January 1949 in Berkeley, California. He was born 18 December 1927 in Berkeley, the son of Willard Drake Ellis and Louise Woodbury.

Gordon Ellis graduated from U.C. Berkeley and retired after teaching for about 25 years at the University of Pennsylvania. He was said to be very disappointed to be the only child in his family not to have been in the Phi Beta Kappa scholastic honor society. Ironically, Joyce and Gordon had three children, none of whom attended college:

1. Peter Martin Ellis was born 8 Feb. 1955 in Berkeley, California. He married Elizabeth Lynn on 17 Aug. 1983, in Slippery Rock, Butler Co., Pennsylvania. She was born 15 July 1955 in Long Island, New York, the daughter of Donald Lynn.
2. Charlotte Ann Ellis was born 23 May 1963 in Hanover, Grafton Co., New Hampshire. She married Carl Weitzmann on 7 Jan. 1983 in Media, Pennsylvania. He was born on 28 March 1955 in Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio, the son of Walter and Margaret Weitzmann. Charlotte and Carl have two sons: Eric Gordon Weitzmann, born 3 Feb. 1987 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Peter James Weitzmann born 20 Oct. 1992 in Bayside, Queens Co., New York.
3. Paul Gordon Ellis was born 6 Nov. 1964 also in Hanover, New Hampshire. At age 18 Paul Ellis changed his name to Ian Bustin Meggarrey. He married Patricia Cameron. They had a daughter, Elayne Cameron Meggarrey, born 6 Aug. 1986 in Loma Linda, San Bernardino Co., California. They were divorced before she was one year old. Paul then married Cheryl Kay Ledger in 1982. Paul and Cheryl raised Elayne.

Herbert Sargent Martin, Jr. and His Descendants. Jessie’s second son, Herbert, married Irene Crandall on 26 February 1927 in Martinez, Contra Costa County, California. Herbert was in some ways the exact opposite of his brother Roland. He was modest and retiring—even shy. Not only did he remain faithful to his wife, Irene, but he even brought her to live with him and his mother in her home at 2629 Grant Street in Berkeley. There they raised their two daughters, Lynette and Jenita, to adulthood. In 1956 Jessie, still with her son Herbert and his wife, Irene, left the Grant Street house and moved east to Pleasant Hill.

Gene and Lawton remember Herbert working for them at Thorsen Tool Co. in Emeryville, California, during World War II. He was a good, reliable worker, always good-humored and upbeat. He is remembered affectionately for his presence at Hazle Shurtleff’s memorial service in 1948. Partway through the service, he entered, almost unnoticed, to sit at the rear of the small private area reserved for the family. He had come directly from his job close by where he worked as a mechanic. Apparently, he couldn’t take time to change out of his work clothes, so in he came, more intent on paying his respects to Hazle than worrying about how he looked in his coveralls. A modest, unassuming, and loyal man, he worked most of his life as an automobile mechanic.

After Jessie’s death at Pleasant Hill in 1963, Roland and Herbert fell heir to roughly 88 acres of forested land only a few miles from the water at South Lake Tahoe. It was apparently homesteaded by a man named Brown. After considerable controversy and hostility between the two families, Roland apparently sold his interest to his brother Herbert. When asked about how the Grant Street property and the 88 acres at Tahoe had been settled between Roland and Herbert, Jr., his granddaughter, Lynette Dahl, replied to both situations, “sorry, too personal.”

He and Irene lived out their lives on the beautiful, wooded property, and at one time entertained Lawton, Gene, and Nancy Shurtleff Miller and their spouses, who had come down from their cabin at nearby Echo Lake. Herbert died on 2 March 1985 at South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County, California. He was buried there at Happy Homestead Cemetery. The property at Lake Tahoe was sold after Herbert’s death. Irene died on 1 March 1996 in Martinez, California, at age 93. She was buried with her husband.

Herbert and Irene had two daughters:

1. Lynette Michelle Martin was born 1 March 1928 in Oakland, California, and christened in 1945 in Berkeley. She married Dennis Andrew Dahl on 16 May 1948 in Berkeley, California. He was born 22 Dec. 1926 in Berkeley. His parents were Martin William Dahl and Gertrude Veronica Healy.
2. Jenita Michelle Martin was born 4 Oct. 1938 in Oakland. She married Michael William Barry on 1 March 1959 in Pittsburg, California. He was born 4 July 1937 in Madison, Wisconsin. His parents are Russell William Barry and Ellen Jeanette Pettersen.

Lynette Martin and her husband, Dennis Dahl, lived in South Lake Tahoe, California. She has been extremely kind in providing photographs with many helpful notations made by her father. She works at one of the large gaming casinos at the south end of Tahoe on the Nevada side where gambling is a big business. Dennis died in 2002.

Lynette and Dennis had three children:

1.     Randall Martin Dahl was born 30 April 1950 in Berkeley and christened 15 May 1950 in Berkeley. He married Eileen Marie Hogan on 9 Nov. 1968 in Carson City, Nevada. She was born 10 Dec. 1952 in Richmond, Contra Costa Co., California. Her parents were George Hogan and Marge Lucas. Randall and Eileen had two children: Eric J. Dahl was born 3 April 1970 in Concord,

3. Wayne Dennis Dahl was born 13 Aug. 1958 in Concord, California, and christened 25 Sept. in Pleasant Hill, California. He married Sonna Dee Simpson on 22 Jan. 1986 in South Lake Tahoe. She was born 25 April 1961 in Castro Valley, Alameda Co., California. Her parents were Clyde Lloyde Simpson and Penny Lou Petersen. Wayne and Sonna had one child: Maddie Nichole Dahl, born 19 March 1987 at South Lake Tahoe, California.

Jenita Martin and Michael Barry had two children:

1. Lane Michael Barry was born 5 Oct. 1959 in Concord. He married Debra Marie Anastasi on 16 May 1987 in Pomona, Los Angeles Co., California.
2. Jeffrey Martin Barry born 1 March 1961 in Concord.

Jenita and Michael were divorced on 2 July 1980. She is now living in Sacramento, California.