Amador County Biographies

Trevor Weston

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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   Trevor Weston, who conducts a successful undertaking business in 
Plymouth, Amador county, and also sells insurance, is a native of this place, 
born on the 20th of August, 1880, his parents being Winfield Scott and Elizabeth 
(Wheeler) Weston.  Mr. Weston’s paternal great-grandfather fought in the war of 
the Revolution, and several of his uncles were soldiers in the Civil war.  
Grandfather Weston, who fought in the Mexican war, came to California by way of 
the isthmus of Panama in 1863, but returned east in the following year.  After 
the close of the Civil war he came back to California, settling at Oleta, Amador 
county, where he engaged in mining.  While there he witnessed an attempt by a 
posse to capture Juan Murietta, the notorious Mexican bandit.  He was a boot and 
shoemaker by trade and, after trying his luck at mining, he returned to that 
trade, which was an important one in those days, when all boots and shoes were 
made by hand.  Later he again followed mining activities and settled at 
Plymouth, where his death occurred June 16, 1912.  His wife came to California 
in 1874 and first lived at Volcano, but later moved to Oleta, where, in 1875, 
she met and became the wife of Mr. Weston.  They had five sons and a daughter, 
but two of the sons are now deceased.
   Trevor Weston received his educational training in the local public 
schools and then clerked in local stores for a while.  For about twenty years he 
was engaged in the butchering business, after which he took up contracting and 
building.  For the past twelve years he has engaged in the undertaking business 
and has a well equipped and nicely arranged establishment, and commands his full 
share of the funeral directing of this section of the county.  He is a notary 
public and represents a number of the largest and strongest insurance companies 
of the country.  He is an energetic and wide-awake business man, has won success 
and stands high in public regard.
   Mr. Weston was married to Miss Laura G. Dugan, whose father, Albert 
C. Dugan, was a member of one of the old families of Eldorado county, this 
state.  Mr. and Mrs. Weston are the parents of two children, Wilma and Elizabeth 
Marie.  Mrs. Weston is the present city clerk of Plymouth and is discharging her 
official duties in a very capable and satisfactory manner.  Mr. Weston is a 
republican in his political views, and fraternally is a thirty-second degree 
Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the Ancient Egyptian Order of Sciots, the 
Daughters of Rebekah and the Native Sons of the Golden West.  A man of sterling 
qualities and genial manner, he is greatly esteemed throughout the community 
where he has spent his life.
 
History of the Sacramento Valley, California By Mj. Jesse Walton Wooldridge 
Page 44-45.The Pioneer Historical Publishing Co., Chicago (1931)