THE VALLEY OF HEART's DELIGHT
JOHN JACOB ORTLEY
Alviso Township
was born in New York
City September 14, 1827, and there resided until he attined the age of
eighteen years. Having acquired the trade of sailmaker he shipped
on the bark Rosina, June 26, 1845, and made a voyage to South
America, being afterwards employed on the Don Juan a brig engaged in the
slave trade. Remainin in this craft but a short time, he once
more shipped inthe Rosina where he remained three years and a half,
then made on trip in the ship Union to New Orleans as A. B., and two more as Second Mate. He then came to California in the ship Caroline Reed,
and became connected with different vessels on the coast, while he was
for many years one of the proprietors of the Union line of packets
plying between Alviso and San Francisco. Mr. Ortley is the owner
of certain warehouses in the township. While in the town he has a
comfortable dwelling-house and thirty-four lots. Has been a
School Trustee for ten years. Married, at Alviso, December 24,
1858, Aloysia Wade by whom he has ten living children, viz., Lydia A.,
Julia D., Lucy W., Mary L., John J., Aloysia L., Elmily E., Oliver J.,
Wiliam B., Hattie R.