Sonoma County Biography
Ernest Eugene Trosper
The gratifying degree of success that has attended the persevering efforts of Mr. Trosper shows what may be accomplished by patient industry, honorable dealings and unswerving application to such duties as the day may bring. When he began for himself he had no moneyed capital, but he possessed a sturdy constitution, willing hands and true moral principles and with these as a foundation he has laid the superstructure of personal success, while still a young man. He has already attained a fair competency and is surrounded by comforts that enhance the pleasure of existence, being in a position now by good management to reap still greater success and accomplish greater results.
Ernest E. Trosper was born five miles above Cazadero, on West Austin creek, July 15, 1868, and was the youngest child born to Thomas G. W. and Cornelia (McGuire) Trosper, pioneers of Sonoma county, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. He was brought up in the stock business, learning it from the time he was a boy, and receiving a good education in the public schools. Remaining home helping his parents until he was twenty-one years of age, he then started for himself, beginning at the bottom without any means. Renting land, he began raising cattle, met with much success and later on was enabled to purchase a ranch of six hundred and forty acres on Bear Trap creek. It is well improved with a comfortable residence and other buildings necessary to the stock business, for which the ranch is used. It is well wooded with redwood, pine and other native trees, besides a family orchard, and watered by the above-named creek as well as numerous springs and is well named, being known as the Bear Pen Creek Ranch, devoted to the raising of high grade cattle and hogs.
In Two Rock occurred the marriage of Mr. Trosper and Eunice Jackson, who was born in Penn Grove, a daughter of Lorenzo and Eunice Jackson, who were early settlers of Sonoma county, crossing the plains in 1852. Mrs. Trosper is a very amiable woman of much culture and refinement and has been an able assistant to her husband’s success. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Guerneville and politically is a Democrat, being one of the leaders of his party in Ocean township. He has served as school trustee of the Austin district, where his father built the first schoolhouse. For ten years he has been a deputy sheriff and constable for Ocean township since 1889. He has gained for himself an enviable place in his community and is much esteemed for his strong personality, never swerving from what he considers right. Public spirited and enterprising, he assists all worthy measures for the upbuilding of the county. Kind and generous, many have been the recipients of his bounty.
History
of Sonoma County, California
History by Tom Gregory : Historic Record Company, 1891
Los Angeles, Ca. 1911
Transcribed by Roberta Hester Leatherwood
June 29, 2011 Pages 500-503
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