California Stone Carvers, Stone Cutters, & Monument Dealers
F. Field & his son, Arthur Field
F. FIELD, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California.
F. FIELD MARBLE & GRANITE WORKS, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California
(Also see: Frederick FIELD; EXCELSIOR MARBLE CO.; EXCELSIOR MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS & the Frederick Field Chronology)
1887 - F. Field Marble & Granite Works (Advertisement), Scotch and Eastern Granite Monuments, 42-48 North Second Street, San Jose, California, Santa Clara County (San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara, San Mateo, & Santa Clara Counties, 1887-1888, Uhlhorn & McKenney, Publishers, San Francisco, California, pp. 6)
FIELD, COMBS & GREGORY, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California
(Also see: EXCELSIOR MARBLE
WORKS.)
The Brawand Cemetery Stone. This cemetery stone is located in the Seasons Cemetery, Pacheco, Contra Costa County, California. (Photographed 1998) |
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Edward, Son of, J. & M. Brawand, Born Aug. 8, 1868, April 12, 1871 Signed: Field, Combs & Gregory, San Jose |
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The Beebe Cemetery Stone. This cemetery stone is located in the Seasons Cemetery, Pacheco, Contra Costa County, California. (Photographed 1998) |
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Bennie F., Son of B. F. & F. C. Beebe, Born Apr. 27, 1870, Died May 3, 1871 Signed: Field, Combs & Gregory, San Jose |
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The Patwin (?) Cemetery Stone. This cemetery stone is located in the Seasons Cemetery, Pacheco, Contra Costa County, California. (Photographed 1998) |
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Harriett J., Wife of G. S. Patwin (?), Born June 15, 1833, Died Apr. 3, 1872 Signed: Field, Combs & Gregory, San Jose |
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FIELD, COMBS, & KENDALL, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (Marble Works)
1876 - Field, Combs & Kendall, 277 Second St. (bus.) Marble Works, Post Office: San Jose. (Historical Atlas Map of Santa Clara County, California,” compiled by Thompson & West, San Francisco, Cal. 1876)
FIELD & KENDALL, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California
(Frederick FIELD & Allen O. KENDALL) (Marble Works)
(Also see: Frederick Field section.)
1878 - Field & Kendall (F. Field & O. A. Kendall), marble yard, 277 Second, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory, 1878, Microfilm #808, California State Library, pp. 127); Field & Kendall, 277 Second, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory, 1878 - Microfilm #808, California State Library, pp. 277)
The Howe Cemetery Stone. This cemetery stone is located in the Vacaville-Elmira Cemetery, Vacaville, Solano County, California. (Photographed April 1999) |
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Roxana Howe, wife of Elon Howe, Died May 16, 1875, Aged 78 yrs. 8 mos. 18 days Signed: F. Field & Kendall, San Jose |
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The Taber Cemetery Stone. This cemetery stone is located in the Capay Cemetery, Capay Valley, Yolo County, California. (Photographed May 2010 by Dennis Dingemans, Yolo County Historical Society) |
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Lorenzo Taber, Died Feby. 10, 1878, Aged 33 Y’rs, 7 Mos., 19 d’s; Gone But Not Forgotten (cemetery stone on left) Signed: Field & Kendell (sic), San Jose |
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Arthur G. FIELD, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California
(Also see: Frederick Field, Arthur Field's father)
1881-1882 - Field, Arthur G., marble worker with F. Field, res. 3 Clinton pl., San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (Directory of the City of San Jose and Santa Clara County, 1881-1882 (L. M. McKenney & Co., Publishers, San Francisco, pp. 135)
1882-1883 - Field, A. G., salesman with F. Field, res. 5 Clinton Place, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory, 1882-1883, pp. 174)
1887-1888 - Field, Arthur, marble dealer, res. 5 Clinton pl., San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (McKenney’s San Jose City Directory, Including Santa Clara, San Mateo, and Santa Cruz County, 1887-1888, pp. 99)
1888 - The following information on Arthur G. Field, son of Frederick and Mary (Bacon) Field, is from Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Edited by H. S. Foote; The Lewis Publishing Co., 1888, pp. 668:
“Arthur G. Field, a member of the firm Wright & Field, real-estate and insurance agents, No. 15 No. First Street, San Jose, is a native of Vermont, having been born in that state in 1862. His parents removing to San Jose in 1872, he received most of his education in the city, later attending for about six years the University of the Pacific. After leaving school, Mr. Field learned the business of marble cutter, working for three years in his father’s marble yard. At the end of that time he took the road as a commercial traveler, selling marble and granite up to 1886. He then engaged in the real-estate business with Mr. Wright, with whom he is still associated.
“Mr. Field’s parents were Frederick and Mary H. (Bacon) Field. Frederick Field was also a native of Vermont, where he was born in 1820, brought up and became largely interested in the marble lands and quarries. At one time previous to the late Civil War he was considered worth 2 millions of dollars, a large fortune for that period. He owned much property, among which was Italian marble quarries in Bennington County, near Rutland, Vermont. Naturally a large operator and speculator, he lost an immense fortune in introducing this marble through the South, furnishing dealers with vessel and car-load lots and waiting until it had been cut up and sold as monuments before receiving payment for it. That would have succeeded under ordinary conditions, but the war coming on he lost almost every bill due him in that section of the country. Misfortunes never coming singly, the marble in the main quarry drifted into a thick limestone stratum, which had to be removed before satisfactory marble could again be had. Altogether he had received a succession of blows from which he could not recover. Selling out to a stock company...he removed to San Jose, California, where he established a marble yard, and untiring he built up his business so successfully that he had again acquired a satisfactory competency at the time of his death in November 1887. He was a member of the Board of Trade of San Jose during most of its existence, and interested in real-estate here.
“During his early experience in the marble business in Vermont, conceiving that Chicago would be a good distribution point, he at one time brought a cargo of marble by water, landing at that Place. Finding that he would need a building to store his marble permanently, preferring brick to wooden buildings, he tested the clay of the vicinity, found it admirable for the purpose of establishing a brick factory, and from the product of that kiln, built the first brick house erected in Chicago, having built the first brick kiln and made the first bricks in that now immense city. In every respect he was a man of large views and extensive operations. For 10 years he operated between Vermont and Chicago, as well as many other points in the country. While thus employed he met and married Miss Mary H. Bacon, daughter of Honorable Nathaniel Bacon, of Niles, Michigan, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of that state...Mrs. Field is a well-known magazine writer and authoress. They have seven children. The subject of this sketch, as was his father, an adherent of the Republican party, and a member of the Presbyterian Church.”
1889 - Field, Arthur G. (Wright & Field), res. 5 Clinton Pl., San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Monterey Counties, 1889, McKenney Directory Co., Publishers, San Francisco, CA, pp. 151)
1892 - Field, Arthur G. (Arthur G. Field & Co.), res. NW cor San Salvador & 3rd; Field, Arthur G. & Co. (Arthur G. Field), real estate, insur. & loans, 15 No. First, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties, 1892, F. M. Husted, Publisher, San Francisco, CA, pp. 177)
1893 - Field, Arthur G., & Co. (Arthur G. Field) brokers, 7 W Santa Clara, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara Directory, 1893, F. M. Husted, Publisher, San Francisco, CA, pp. 187)
1894 - Field, Arthur G. (Arthur G. Field & Co.), r 455 S 3rd, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose and Santa Clara Directory, 1894, F. M. Husted, Publisher, San Francisco, CA); Field, Arthur G. (Arthur G. Field & Co.), brokers, 7 W Santa Clara, pp. 176)
1895-1896 - Field, Arthur G. (Arthur G. Field & Co. - real estate), r 455 S 3d, & Field, Arthur G. (Arthur G. Field & Co.,) Brokers, 7 W Santa Clara, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara County: A Classified Business Directory of the County, 1896-1897, F. M. Husted, Publisher, San Francisco, CA, pp. 169)
1896-1897 - Field, Arthur G., real estate, r 523 S 6th; Field, Mary H., Mrs., r 523 S 6th, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara County, 1896-1897, F. M. Husted, Publisher, San Jose, California, pp. 192)
1897 - Field, Mary H., Mrs., r 523 S 6th, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara County, 1897, F. M. Husted, Publisher, San Jose, California, pp. 179)
1898-1899 - Field, Arthur G., r 523 s 6th, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara County, 1898-1899, F. M. Husted, Publisher, San Jose, California, pp. 181)
1899-1900 - Field, Arthur G., real estate, r 523 s 6th, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara County, 1899-1900, F. M. Husted, Publisher, San Jose, California, pp. 187)
1900 - Field, Arthur G., r 523 s 6th, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory, 1900 - title page missing, pp. 184)
1901-1902 - Field, Arthur G., r 523 s 6th, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara County, 1901-1902, F. M. Husted, Publisher, San Jose, California, pp. 185)
1902-1903 - Field, Arthur G., r 523 s 6th, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara County, 1902-1903, F. M. Husted, Publisher, San Jose, California, pp. 180)
1905-1906 - Field, A. G., Mrs. r 523 s 6th, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara County, 1905-1906, F. M. Husted, Publisher, San Jose, California, pp. 191)
1906-1907 - Field, A. G., Mrs. r 523 s 6th, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara County, 1906-1907, F. M. Husted, Publisher, San Jose, California, pp. 181)
1908-1909 - Field, Arthur G., broker, r. 523 S 6th, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (California Polk-Husted Directory Company’s San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara County, Polk-Husted Directory Co., Publishers, San Jose, California, pp. 256)
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