T.J. Caystile
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Thomas J. Caystile, known as T.J. Caystile, (1848-1884) was a Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

, printer and newspaperman
Journalist
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, who, with his partners, Jesse Yarnell
Jesse Yarnell
Thomas Jesse Yarnell, known as Jesse Yarnell, was a California newspaperman who established the Los Angeles, California, Weekly Mirror, which took over the Los Angeles Times in 1881 and later merged with it....

 and S.J. Mathes
S.J. Mathes
Samuel Jay Mathes, known as S.J. Mathes, was a pioneer printer and newspaperman in Los Angeles, California, who in 1881 and 1882 directed the editorial policies of the newly established Los Angeles Daily Times, which later became the Los Angeles Times, until General Harrison Gray Otis took over...

, founded the Los Angeles Mirror and later took over the Los Angeles Daily Times, later to be known as the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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.


Caystile was the son of immigrants, Thomas and Esther (Lea) Caystile from the Isle of Man. Caystile's father, led a wagon train across the plains to California, where the family settled in Placerville
Placerville, California
Placerville is the county seat of El Dorado County, California. The population was 10,389 at the 2010 census, up from 9,610 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

. On December 19, 1868, Caystile became the owner of the Mountain Democrat in that town, along with George Kles.

He died on May 16, 1884, and was survived by a daughter, Helen Caystile Duncan. He had a sister, Kate, who married George K. Porter, owner of the Porter Ranch in the San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley
The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of southern California, United States, defined by the dramatic mountains of the Transverse Ranges circling it...

, and another sister, Marian of Riverside, California
Riverside, California
Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...

. His widow, Helen M., was the daughter of Caleb Edwin White, a horticulturist of Pomona, California
Pomona, California
-2010:The 2010 United States Census reported that Pomona had a population of 149,058, a slight decline from the 2000 census population. The population density was 6,491.2 people per square mile...

 and Rebecca Holship neé Furguson. Seven years after Caystile's death, she married 2 Sep 1890 Reginaldo Francisco Del Valle, a Democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor of California. Their daughter Lucretia Louise del Valle married Henry Francis Grady
Henry F. Grady
Henry Francis Grady was an American diplomat. Born in San Francisco, California to John Henry and Ellen Genevieve Grady, he earned a PhD in Economics from Columbia University. On October 18, 1917 he married Lucretia Louise del Valle Henry Francis Grady (February 12, 1882 - September 14, 1957)...

, Ambassador to Greece, India, and Iran.

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