Individual 41: Stewart Morton Duhig

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.1: Date} Exa 20 Sep 1929

Place} Reno, Washoe, Nevada (Link)

Marr.2: 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 US cen
Source 2}	302 = 1920 US cen
Source 3}	376 = Marriage rec
Source 4}	1601 = Voter regist
Source 5}	1587 = 1940 US cen
Source 6}	1187 = Draft regist
Source 7}	1602 = Marriage rec
Source 8}	164 = Geog history
Source 9}	230 = Obituary
Source10}	1600 = City directry
Source11}	1586 = 1950 US cen
Source12}	1594 = Public rec
Source13}	289 = Cookbook
Source14}	1594 = Public index

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} Cruice, Mabel
Second} Williams, Viola Clide (Vi)
Total Number of} 2

Source 14}     89 =Death record
Source 15} 1605 = Obituary
Source 16}   368 = Death record
Source 17}   861 = Death record

Source 18} 1599 = S.S. record
Source 19}     30 = Cemetery rec
Source 20}   415 = Address book
Source 21}     94 = Photographs

Source 22}   701 = Photographs
Source 23}   855 = Newspaper
Source 24}   857 = Newspaper

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 1870.

Stewart Morton Duhig (Duke) was born 1 Jan 1905 in Napa, Napa, California. His parents were Isaac Morton Duhig and Isabelle Eliza Harris. In the 1910 U.S. census, Duke, 5, was living with his parents and older siblings Louis, James and Eudora, on Huichica Road in Napa, Napa, California. His father was a farmer and his mother was keeping house.

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.

In the 1920 U.S. census, Duke, 16, was living with his parents and older siblings on a farm on Henry Road, Carneros, Napa, California. He was attending school. Duke graduated from Napa High School in 1923 and went to Hume (Lake) in the Kings River Canyon, where he obtained a position with the Hume Lumber Company. He worked in the Hume and Central logging camps in Sanger.

Duke, 24, married Mabel Cruice, 21, on 20 Sep 1929 in Reno, Washoe, Nevada. At the time he was the manager of of his mother's ranch. In 1933 Duke joined the Gilmore Oil Company (now Mobile Oil) in Napa. The marriage ended in divorce in 1933. On 16 Oct 1940, Duke signed up for the draft. At that time he was still working for the Gilmore Oil Company. He had a ruddy complexion, brown hair, and hazel eyes.

In the 1940 U.S. census, Duke, 35, and his mother, Isabelle Duhig, 69, were living on her farm at 2874 Duhig Road, Napa, California. He was a truck driver for a petroleum company. Duke married Viola Clide (Vi) Williams on 16 Sep 1942 in the Methodist Church, Napa, California. He moved into her house at 244 Banks Ave.

In the 1950 U.S. census, Duke, 42, and his wife Viola C., 30, were living at 1147 Hardman Ave., Napa Their children were James M., 6, and Patricia J., 3. Duke was the proprietor of a tire shop. This house was a three-bedroom, one-bath, ranch-style, 2126 square foot house located on 7½ acres of land several miles northeast of the Napa city limits. The house was built in 1949; thus it was new when the Duhig family moved in.

Duke had 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. The book was published in 1990 after his death. He was also associated with the First Presbyterian Church of Napa.

Duke died 2 Jun 1987 at Queen of the Valley Hospital. He was 82. A memorial service was held 4 Jun 1987 at the First Presbyterian Church, Napa. The Rev. Erwin E. Bollinger officiating and Ed Barwick participating. He is buried in the Duhig family plot in the Tulocay Cemetery, Napa.