Individual Record 41

Name}   Duhig, Stewart Morton (Duke)		Family History} Hancock
Title}	Race} White	Sex} Male
Birth:   Date} Exa   1 Jan 1905	Place} Pine Street, Napa, Napa, California
Marr.: Date} Exa 20 Sep 1929	Place} Reno, Washoe, Nevada                                         (Link)
Marr.: Date} Exa 16 Sep 1942	Place} First Methodist Church, Napa, Napa, California  (Link)
Death: Date} Exa   2 Jun 1987	Place} Queen of the Valley Hospital, Napa, Napa, California
Burial: Date} Cir    5 Jun 1987	Place} Duhig plot, Tulocay Cemetery, Napa, Napa, California
	Grave Marker} Yes	Source 1}   27 = 1910 USA cen Source 2} 302 = 1920 USA cen Source 3} 164 = Geog history Source 4} 230 = Obituary Source 5} 289 = Cookbook Source 6}   89 = Death record Source 7} 368 = Death record Source 8}   30 = Cemetery rec Source 9} 415 = Address list Source 10} 694 = Photographs Source 11} 701 = Photographs Source 12} 855 = Newspaper Source 13} 857 = Newspaper
Parents: } Isaac Morton Duhig & Isabelle Eliza Harris    Relationship No.}   62
1st Household No.}   39 = 1206 Banks Ave., Napa, California
Occupation 1} Salesman        Occupation 2} Farm hand
Religion/Church} Presbyterian
Spouses:    First} Cruse, Catherine Mabel               Second} Williams, Viola Clide (Vi)  Total Number of} 2
Notes:  The Duhig family settled in the Carneros Fly District of Napa in 1853, 42 years before Duke's birth.  Duke's mother's family settled on an Atlas Peak homestead in Napa in 1856. Duke attended the old one-room Fly District school, later called Las Amigas School, for eight years.  It was about halfway between Carneros Creek and Huichica Creek.  He graduated from the eighth grade at that school in June 1919.  By that time Duke had a job picking plums and earned enough money to buy an $18.00 Indian motorcycle.  It was a 1912 one-cylinder model with belt drive and pedals.  Duke learned to drive an automobile (a 1914 Studebaker four-door touring car with side curtains) in 1919 at age 14. Duke left Napa High School in 1923 and went to Hume (Lake) in the Kings River Canyon, where he obtained a position with the Hume Luber Company.  He worked in the Hume and Central logging camps in Sanger. In 1933 Duke joined the Gilmore Oil Company (now Mobile Oil) in Napa. Duke opened the Duhig Tire Shop on Jefferson Street in Napa in 1942 and operated it until 1962.  The photo at the right was taken in 1946.  He worked as a salesman for Barwick Motors and its predecessor, Warner Motors, from 1962 until retiring in 1984. Duke was a member the Napa Motorcycle Club.  He was a district deputy grand master and longtime member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Napa Lodge 18 (see the photo at the left). Duke was a director of the Napa County Farm Bureau Association, and a member of the board of directors of the Napa Valley Garden Club.  He was also a member of the Napa County Native Plant Society; an 18-year leader of the Vichy 4-H Club; a charter member of the Carneros 4-H Club, the first in Napa; and president of the Los Posadas Five-County Camp board of directors. Duke was a director of the Napa County Historical Society and was honored for his contributions to that organization.  He was a well-known personality on the KVON Doubletalk radio program and wrote the book Huichica.  He was also associated with the First Presbyterian Church of Napa.
Time of Birth} 8:00 A.M.	Time of Death} 6:00 P.M.	Fraternal/Social} IOOF
Baptism Date}	Place}
Confirm. Date}	Photo} Duke in 1986
Immigr'n Date} N/A	Port} N/A
Education: Grade} Eleventh grade
Military: Service} None
Health Condition}     Cause of Death} Lung cancer	Last Updated by} Dan Hancock Date Updated} 31 Oct 2006 Date Created}  19 Jun 1994
Copyright © 2006 by Daniel W. Hancock.  All Rights Reserved.

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