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LIBRARY
DISCOVERY AND
SETTLEMENT OF
WESTERN
NORTPI AMERICA
COLLECTION OF
WILLIAM
ROBERTSON COL

HISTORY OF

Orange County

CALIFORNIA

WITH

Biographical Sketches

OF

The Leading Men and Women of the County Who
have been Identified with its Growth and
Development from the Early
Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
SAMUEL ARMOR
ILLUSTRATED
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1921

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PREFACE

It was with great reluctance that we undertook the revision of the History
of Orange County, which we helped to compile ten years ago, not because we
believed in Oslerism or wished to enjoy our otium cum dignitate, but because of
the magnitude of the undertaking and of our lack of special preparation, not
having anticipated a recall to the work of writing history.
However, with the help of expert writers on special subjects, and from the
Federal crop estimator, the state board of horticulture, the county and city officers,
the secretaries of boards of trade, chambers of commerce, fruit exchanges and
vegetable unions, patriotic and relief associations, the newspapers — especially the
Santa Ana Register — and all other available sources of information, we have
collected a large array of authentic facts about the county, its people, productions
and resources. To all who have assisted in furnishing the data for this work
we return our sincere thanks.
Since a county history can have but a limited sale and the initial expense of
its preparation is just as great for a few hundred copies as for many thousand, it
stands to reason that the price per copy for a small edition must be greater than
that for a large one. This condition, coupled with the increased size of the book
and the present high cost of labor and material, is a sufficient justification for the
price charged for the second volume of the county history. To avoid loss through
unsold copies, this book, like all works of similar character, is sold by subscription
and only enough copies are printed to supply each subscriber with the number
ordered by him. As a further consideration for the purchase price, a brief biog
raphy of each subscriber, who thus patriotically supports a history of his county,
is published without extra charge. These biographical sketches are prepared by
trained canvassers and writers of long experience in this kind of work, and add
much value to the history in giving personal incidents, otherwise unavailable, and
in showing to future generations something of the character of the pioneers who
laid the foundations upon which the superstructure of this county was built.
As citizens of this favored county, we should forget our few privations and
trifling discomforts and remember our many privileges and great blessings. For
instance, when the mercury hovers round the freezing point, we should not
worry over the possibility of some small loss from light frosts that occasionally
nip the tenderest plants; but we should extend our sympathy to less favored
sections of the country, where the thermometer goes as many degrees below zero
as it stops here above in our coldest weather. Again, when the winter rains are
slow in coming, don't let us fret about a dry year, remembering that, in the
wettest winter within the last half century, the rains commenced January 28,
1884, and that since then a good rainy reason has occasionally begun even later
in the year ; also that the county passed through three dry years in succession,
from 1897 to 1900, with comparatively little loss, and it is better equipped now
with irrigating ditches and pumping plants than it was then. Furthermore, few
of the present residents of the county remember the apprehension that was felt
over thie growing scarcity of fuel twenty-five or more years ago, when most of
the available timber was stripped from the nearby mountains and coal was shipped
in from Australia and New Mexico. However, before much loss was suffered,
oil was discovered in the county about the year 1896, and from a small beginning
the production of oil, gasoline and natural gas has become the largest asset of
the county and exceeds that of the entire state of Pennsylvania at the present

time. Immediately following the discovery of oil in the county, electricity began
to be applied to furnishing light, heat and power ; and now practically all the busi
ness houses and residences, in and about the cities and towns of Orange County,
are provided with electricity, gas and oil for light, heat and power; with sewers
for carrying off the waste matter and with water for all purposes.
In short, the more familiar do we become with the vast resources and diversi
fied products of this county, with the wise enterprise and good behavior of its
citizens, the less do we find to criticise and the more to praise and rejoice over.
Let us, therefore, one and all, appropriate and apply to our goodly heritage the
advice of the Psalmist to the sons of Korah, in commending "the ornaments and
privileges of the church," as follows :
"Walk about Zion, and go round about her; tell the towers thereof. Mark
ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces ; that ye may tell it to the generation
following."
SAMUEL ARMOR.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

Formation of Orange County  33
California created out of territory ceded to United States by Mexico.
Admission of state to Union. Formation of Counties. Orange County
set apart from Los Angeles County. Location of county seat. Election
of officers. Description and Boundaries of County. Mountains and
hills adapted to grazing and bee culture. Valleys and plains represent
many soils. Original Spanish grants and their acreages. Subdivision
of many grants into small tracts. County capable of supporting
500,000 population. Nine incorporated cities.
CHAPTER II
Roster of County and District Officers  36
State Senators Thirty-ninth District. Assemblymen Seventy-sixth Dis
trict. Superior Judges. Sheriff. County Clerk. Recorder. Auditor.
Tax Collector. District Attorney. Treasurer. Assessor. School
Superintendent. Surveyor. Coroner and Public Administrator. Boards
of Supervisors. Justices and Constables of the following townships:
Anaheim, Brea, Buena Park, Fullerton, Huntington Beach, Laguna
Beach, La Habra, Los Alamitos, Newport Beach, Orange, Placentia,
San Juan, Santa Ana, Seal Beach, Stanton, Tustin, Westminster, Yorba.
Board of Education. Horticultural Commissioner. Trustees of Law
Library. Board of Forestry. County Physician. Veterinary Surgeon
and Stock Inspector. Bee Inspector. Custodian of County Park. Care
taker of Westminster Public Park. Fire and Came Warden. County
Statistician. Highway Commissioner. Purchasing Agent. Lecturer
and Publicity Agent. Superintendent of County Hospital and Farm.
Superintendent of Detention Home. Probation Officer. Sealer of
Weights and Measures. Aid Commissioner and Expert Accountant.
Superintendent of Road Maintenance. Farm Advisor.
CHAPTER III
Orange County's Water Supply and Way Utilized  48
Direct and indirect benefits from rainfall. Average annual rainfall at
Orange. Other sources of water supply. Area of catchment basin of
Santa Ana River. Anaheim Union Water Company. Santa Ana Valley
Irrigation Company. Santiago Creek. Serrano Water Company. John
T. Carpenter Water Company. Trabuco Creek. Coyote, Laguna and
Aliso Creeks. Number of Pumping Plants and Acres Irrigated.
CHAPTER IV
The City of Anaheim  53
Oldest city in Orange County. Settled by Germans. Organization of
Los Angeles Vineyard Company. Naming of town. First house built
in 1857. First hotel erected in 1865. Fire visits the town. Waning of
grape industry and rise of walnut and orange culture. First newspaper.
Anaheim Water Company. Bonds voted and sold for erection of school-
house. Southern Pacific Railroad builds branch to Anaheim. Indus
tries and assessed valuation of city. Churches of Anaheim. City
officers.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER V
The City of Brea  57
Situation at mouth of Brea Canyon. Oil industry is principal asset.
Improvements made. Manufacturing industries. City officers.
CHAPTER VI
The City of FullErton  57
Location and population. Origin of town. Advent of railroad. Be
ginning of orange and walnut industry. Name of town. Growth. of
town conservative from beginning. First substantial building erected.
Incorporated as city in 1904. Admirable location for shipping and
manufacturing. Proximity to oil fields advantageous. Warehouse
facilities. Industries other than fruit raising. Banks. Newspapers.
Churches. Public library. Schools. Fire department. Board of Trade.
Fraternal orders and clubs. City officers. Recent building operations.
CHAPTER VII
The City of Huntington Beach  60
Original name of settlement. The Huntington Beach Company. Union
Sunday School and Church organized. First church built. Others
follow. Bank organized. Various business enterprises. Organized
as city in 1909. Schools. Library. Beet sugar and other factories.
Pavements, sewers and gas systems, City officers. Chamber of
Commerce. Fraternal organizations. Municipal band.
CHAPTER VIII
The City of Newport Beach  63
Admirable location on Newport Bay. Unexcelled harbor facilities.
Bond issue voted to start harbor improvements. Yachting center of
Pacific Coast. Population and valuation. City officers.. Churches and
organizations.
CHAPTER IX
The City of Orange  64
Location. "Father" of the town. Acreage of original townsite. Orig
inally called Richland. First house in- town. Courage of early settlers.
Their struggle with pests. Introduction of spraying and fumigating.
Irrigation difficulties. Schools established. Churches organized. Musi
cal and literary societies. "Pull-together" spirit of citizens. Incorpo
ration of city. Natural advantages of soil and climate. Excellent rail
road facilities. City water system. Orange a business center. Sewer
system. Population. Schools. Churches. Fraternal organizations.
Library. City officers. Public utilities. Financial resources of Orange
district. Progress in building. City always free from saloons.
CHAPTER X
The City of Santa Ana  68
Struggles and achievements of its pioneers. "Father" of the town.
Other settlers attracted to location. First school district organized.
Postoffice secured. First hotel erected. First brick building. Southern
Pacific completes line to Santa Ana. Rivalry between Santa Ana and
Anaheim. First bank and its failure. Confidence restored. Many busi
ness blocks, residences and churches erected. Heaviest rainfall in cit3r's
history and damage it caused. Agitation for incorporation as a city.
Period of the "boom." Fire department organized. First street railway.
Prosperity visible on all sides. Santa Fe railroad built to Santa Ana.
Rise and fall of Fairview Development Company. Condition of Santa
Ana after boom was over. Newport Wharf and Lumber Company
organized. Organization of Board of Trade. Creation of Orange
County, with Santa Ana as county seat. Municipal water plant. Free
mail delivery. Erection of court house. Abolition of saloons. Erection
of city hall. Huntington trolley system enters Santa Ana. General
growth and prosperity. Banks of Santa Ana. Public library. City
officers. Commercial progress. Manufacturing establishments. Churches
and their locations. Fraternal societies. Patriotic societies. Miscel
laneous organizations. The press. Future of city.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER XI
The City of Seal Beach  ,  81
Location. Promoted as beach resort under name of Bay City. Incorpo
ration. Area and population. Sewer system being installed. Bonds
voted for municipal water plant. City officers. Beach is exceptionally
safe_for bathers. Traffic facilities. Growth retarded by lack of housing
facilities.
CHAPTER XII
The City of Stanton  .-  82
.Located in agricultural section of county. Origin of name. Incorpo
ration of city. Assessed valuation and population. Transportation
facilities. City officers.
CHAPTER XIII
Unincorporated Towns  82
Arch Beach. Benedict. Berryfield. Cypress. Balboa. Bolsa. Brook-
hurst. Buena Park. Capistrano. San Juan Capistrano Mission. Celery.
Corona. Del Mar. Delhi. El Modena. El Toro. Fairview. Garden
Grove. Greenville. Harper, Irvine. Laguna Beach.. La Habra. Los
Alamitos. Mateo. McPherson. Modjeska Mineral Springs. Olinda.
Olive. Peralta. PlaCentia. Richfield. San Juan-by-the-Sea or Serra.
San Juan Hot Springs. Smeltzer. Sunset Beach. Talbert. Tustin,
Villa Park. Westminster. Wintersburg. Yorba. Yorba Linda.
CHAPTER XIV
Orange County's Schools  88
Elementary schools. High schools. Junior colleges. Number of
graduates. Public kindergartens. Private schools. Evidence of effi
ciency. Notables among the graduates.
CHAPTER XV
Public Buildings and Sites  95
First jail. Francisco Torres confined there. Site for county buildings
selected. Difficulties encountered in erecting new jail. Bonds voted for
building court house. Campaign of villification in adopting plans.
County detention home. County hospital and farm. Income from
county farm. Cottage, artificial lake and many other improvements
for county park. Contract let for beautifying county park. Alteration
made in court house. Memorial arch at county park. Garage for
county hospital. County garage at Santa Ana. Sheriff's office.
CHAPTER XVI
Pleasure Drives and Resorts  98
Part of San Joaquin ranch given by James Irvine for County Park.
Hewes Park. Sale of Hewes ranch. Santiago Golf Club. Orange
.C-MMity Gauntry Club: Lemon -Heights., San-. Juan Hot Springs.
Westminster Park. Birch Park at Santa Ana. The Plaza at Orange.
Secure options for park at Anaheim. Fullerton's plans for parks. City
Park at Newport Beach. Camping ground in Trabuco Canyon. Mod-
jeska's Home and Inn. Camptonville in Santiago Canyon. Many
pleasure resorts along beach.
CHAPTER XVII
Orange County's Good Roads  102
Savage Act. Associated Chambers of Commerce back movement for
good roads. Members of highway commission. Bond issue for paved
highways passed. Tabulated statement of paved roads in county. Work
of highway commissioners continued by board of supervisors. Con
tracts for paving recently awarded. Bridges for state highway. U. S.
Forest Service to aid in building road in Trabuco Canyon. State High
way along coast., Miles of paved, streets in- cities. Many' miles of oiled
roads.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER XVIII
The County's Traffic Facilities  106
Branches of two transcontinental railroads, electric interurban railway,
the Pacific Ocean and thousands of motor vehicles furnish unsurpassed
facilities. Southern Pacific the first railroad to enter county. Santa Fe
Railroad builds its road through to San Diego. Tustin branch" of South
ern Pacific built. Intense rivalry between roads. Southern Pacific
builds branch from Anaheim to Los Alamitos Sugar Factory. Santa
Ana and Newport Railroad acquired by Southern Pacific. Pacific
Electric and its branches. Mileage and valuation of railway systems.
Easy access to water transportation. Traffic carried by motor vehicles.
Comparative table of motor vehicles in state and county.
CHAPTER XIX
Sundry Voluntary Organizations  110
Orange County Medical Association. Date of organization. First
meeting. Constitution and by-laws adopted. Officers elected. First
members of association. First annual meeting. Association entertains
Medical Society of Southern California. Sessions held in Carnegie
Library, Santa Ana. Medical library established. List of members.
Presidents of association. Officers and members, 1920. The Orange
County Bar Association organization. First members. Now in flourish
ing condition. Orange County Historial Society. Organization and
purpose. Orange County Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Orange County W. C. T. U.
CHAPTER XX
Orange County's Soldiers in World War  116
CHAPTER XXI
Service Men's Recognition  130
Celebration at Orange County Park to pay tribute to service men.
Lay cornerstone of Memorial Arch. Address by Governor Stephens.
Presentation of service medals. Address by Chaplain Robert Williams.
Citations and decorations won by Orange County men.
CHAPTER XXII
The County's Liberty Loans   133
Tabulated statement of apportionment and subscriptions to various
war loans.
CHAPTER XXIII
Relief Work of Associations  .-  135
Activities of Red Cross. Anaheim Chapter. Fullerton Chapter. Orange
Chapter. Santa Ana Chapter. Report of Salvation Army.
CHAPTER XXIV
A Chapter of Tragedies  139
Killing of Sheriff Barton. Capture and hanging of Juan Flores. Mur
der of William McKelvey. His slayer, Francisco Torres, taken from
Santa Ana jail and hanged. Dennis Kearney, the "Sand Lot Agitator,"
meets his Waterloo.
CHAPTER XXV
The Oil Industry  143
First development work. E. L. Doheny the pioneer of oil industry in
Orange County. Graham-Loftus Oil Company. The Columbia Oil
Company. The Union Oil Company. Olinda Fullerton Field. Oil
compared with coal for fuel. County assessments show development
of oil industry. Taxes paid by Standard Oil Company. Union Oil
Company opens Placentia-Richfield district. Chapman gusher brought
in. Chronological list of wells brought in by various companies.
Summary of report of Brea Progress-Munger Oil News Service.
Activities at Huntington Beach, Newport Mesa and Olive. Estimated
daily output and gross income from industry.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER XXVI
The Citrus Industry    147
Orange first brought to America in Sixteenth Century by Spaniards.
San Gabriel Mission grove set out in 1804. William Wolfskill set
out first commercial orchard. First orange tree in Northern California
at Sacramento. First Washington Navels at Riverside. Original trees
still living. One reset at Glenwood Inn by President Roosevelt.
Orange County the ideal section for cultivating the orange. California
orange has no equal. Soil and climatic conditions. Evolution in the
handling and packing of oranges. Most successful varieties grown.
Pioneer orange grower of the county. Development of industry.
Invention of fumigating. Shipment of first cars of oranges. Orange
County Fruit Exchange. Directors of Exchange for 1920. Amount
and value of Exchange's shipments for 1919. Estimate of total returns
of county.
CHAPTER XXVII
The Beet Sugar Industry  151
Early history of the industry. First factory at Philadelphia. Factory
at Northampton, Mass. Mormons establish factory at Salt Lake City.
First successful factory at Alvarado, Cal. Congress places duty on
sugar imports. Department of Agriculture promotes beet sugar in
dustry. Dr. Wiley conducts experiments in various states. Beets
grown on reclaimed desert land. Reach -greatest perfection on irri
gated land. Value of industry. Germany's increased cereal crop due to
introduction of sugar beet culture. Thorough fertilization and deep
plowing required. Blocking and thinning. Process of handling from
field to finished product. Los Alamitos Sugar Company. Santa Ana
Co-Operative Sugar Company. Southern California Sugar Company.
Holly Sugar Company. Anaheim Sugar Company. Value of 1918 and
1919 crops. Price for beets in 1920.
CHAPTER XXVIII
Orange County's Fruits. Grains and Vegetables  159
Nearly all fruits indigenous to Temperate and Torrid Zones may be
grown in some part of Orange County. Apples can be raised with profit
in some localities. Apricots and figs grown extensively. Grapes not
raised as extensively as formerly. , Development, of the avocado. .Grape
fruit and lemons. Olives, peaches, plums and berries. Alfalfa a valuable
product. Barley valuable for grain and hay. Oats, wheat and corn
classed among the light crops. The bean industry on the advance.
Lima beans first grown on San Joaquin ranch. Cabbage, cauliflower,
melons, peanuts, peas, peppers, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes
and onions are also grown. Orange County display at Riverside Fair,
1919.
CHAPTER XXIX
History of the Celery Industry in Orange County  165
Lands, formerly worthless, found valuable for celery. Origin and
growth of industry in Orange County. Many difficulties encountered
in the early days. Acreage reduced by planting sugar beets.
CHAPTER XXX
Orange County's Live Stock and Poultry  167
Mexicans and Spaniards paid little attention to domestic animals. Stock
men's cattle a menace to ranches. Orange County Fair Association.
Cattle development from early days to present. Great improvement in
grade of stock. Fine Holstein stock at County Farm. Sheep industry,
once important, -now annihilated. Goat raising on the increase. Very
few hogs raised for market. Poultry industry brought much money
to county. High cost of feed during war causes poultry raisers to
dispose of flocks.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER XXXI
The- Bee Industry  ..;......;....  171
Original importation of bees into California. Growth of industry.
Average yield and cash income. Main sources of nectar. Diseases
stamped out by work of inspector. Bees are boon to fruit business.
CHAPTER XXXII
Semi-Tropic Fruits in Orange County.  173
Mission olive and grape the only reminders of Spanish settlers. Other
and better varieties have succeeded them. _ Avocado, Feijoa, Guavas,
Cherimoya, Persimmon, Pomegranate, Carissa and Sapota have been
introduced. Loquat a characteristic fruit of Orange County. New
varieties of Avocado planted. Jujube is a recent introduction. Seedless
Sapota developed.
CHAPTER XXXIII
The English Walnut Industry  175
Origin of English Walnut. Its cultivation in America confined to
certain districts in California. Early planting formerly done with seed
lings. Grafted stock subsequently used. Selecting and growing seed
for budding. For seedling nursery. Amount of irrigation necessary.
Valuable hints from an old-time walnut grower. Prices and value of
recent crops. Orange County leads state in production.
CHAPTER XXXIV
Farm Bureau Report  177
Number of farm centers. Program of work. Farm Bureau Weekly.
Itinerant conference. Issues taken up by bureau. Telephone. Water
conservation. Good roads. Harbor development. Horticultural Stand
ardization. Rodent control. Agricultural clubs. Home gardens.
County fairs. Drainage districts. Irrigation districts. Fire protec
tion. Farmers' institutes. Field demonstrations. Bean seed selection.
Live stock demonstration. Poultry culling demonstrations. Bees.
Soils. Soil moisture and irrigation. Farm business. Bud selection.
Pruning demonstrations. Morning glory control. Fumigation.
Codling moth on walnut. _ Nematode. Tractor demonstration. Wheat
campaign. Water analysis. Farm loans. Summary of work done.
CHAPTER XXXV
Population and Valuations  185
Methods for estimating population. Correctness of results uncertain.
Federal Census for county, cities and townships from 1890 to 1920.
Methods of taxation. Official valuations of Orange County property.
Population and wealth widely distributed over county. Santa Ana
Chamber of Commerce estimate of 1919 crop value.
CHAPTER XXXVI
Anecdotes and Incidents  191
CHAPTER XXXVII
Soil, Climate and Water  193
Government soil survey of Anaheim district. Soil of county has
limitless depth and no hardpan. Humus must be replaced in soil.
definitions of climate and atmosphere. Equalization of temperatures.
Situation of Orange County gives it an equable climate. Rainfall for
past thirty years. Storage of flood water. Increase in number of
pumping plants.

INDEX

A
Page
Abercherli, Louis  1470
Abplanalp, William  945
Adams, Argus  1522
Adams, John  638
Adams, Reo C  1362
Adams, Reuben A., M.D  637
Ahern, Eugene 0  1388
Ahlefeld, George  1317
Ahlefeld, Otto L  1654
Ainsworth, Frank L  351
Ainsworth, Lewis  343
Ainsworth, Mitt 0  459
Akers, John Allen  705
Alberts, A. J  1645
Alexander, William B  1579
Allen, Augustus Horatio.  425
Allen, Horatio Augustus  570
Allen,. Joseph Garfield.  535
Allen, L. E  1637
Allen, Martin V  798
Allen, Milo Bailey  534
Allen, Nathan E  1 189
Allen, Prescott  ,  422
Ailing, Clyde R  1571
Alsbach, Mary E  486
Amack, Ulysses S  1614
Amerige, Edward Russell  585
Amerige, G«orge Henry  576
Anaheim Feel & Fuel Company  1035
Anderson, Christian  1208
Anderson, C. G  1386
Andres, Charles A  1 194
Andres, George Frederick  1258
Arballo, Palito  1454
Armor, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel  615
Arroues, Bernard  762
Atherton, Edward  672
B
Backs, Joseph M., Jr  653
Bacon, Robert D  425
Bagnall, Charles J  1433
Baier, Fred C  1463
Baker, Andrew  687
Baker, John G  1572
Baker, William  1148
Ball, Charles Dexter, M.D  243
Ball, Edson Joel  1458
Ball, Strother S  '  226
Bangs, Frederick E  1294
Barker, Joshua  1568
Barrows, George A  1264
Barter, Harry  1395
Bartley, George M  1567
Bastady, Frederick  1317
Bastanchury, D. J  545
. Bastanchury, Domingo and Maria  264
Baumgartner, John Pemberton  1207
Baxter, Bluford C  877

Page
Beach, Amandus W  907
Beach, Mrs. Aurel  907
Beard, Ernest A  1092
Belt, Mrs. Susan  291
Bemis, Charles A  810
Benchley, William L  374
Bennett, Bernice, D. 0  1643
Bennett, Charles C  1321
Bennett, Francis M  141 1
Bennett, Harvey F  1284
Bennett, Leroy  541
Bentjen, Fred  1405
Bergey, Gale S  806
Best, Charles E  1572
Best, Rupert  1609
Bibber, Andrew Harrington  524
Biner, Albert  1516
Bird, Richard A  1495
Bishop, Clyde  896
Bishop, Fern S  881
Blackford, Merton  1512
Blanchar, Robert L  1396
Blaylock, Wallace W  1406
Blodget, Lewis W  858
Blom, Andrew Gustav  455
Bobst, Mrs. Wilda  1065
Boon, William H  1020
Boosey, Fred  1242
Boosey, Mrs. Grace O  '  1268
Borchard, Antone  1533
Borchard, Frank P  1100
Borchard, Leo  1460
Boring, Johnty P  625
Bowman, Charles E  805
Bradford, Albert S  225
Brady, Peter D;  824
Bricke, Joseph  1357
Bridge, Marcus Arthur  566
Broadway, Thomas E  1 104
Brooks, Clifford Hugh, M.D  1314
Brooks, Lorenzo Nathan  478
Brooks, William H  251
Brown, Edwin J  1061
Brown, James E  1348
Brown, John Knowlton  1541
Brown, William Thomas  329
Brunworth, John  456
Buchanan, George W  350
Buchheim, Aaron  438
Buchheim, Frank J  1328
Buchheim, Henry William  915
Bula, Edwin  827
Bundschuh, C. S  1453
Burbank, Mrs. Phoebe Ann  1181
Burke, Hon. Joe Charles  989
Burnham, William H  600
Bush, John M., Jr  608
Bushard, William Winf red  878
Butler, Clyde D  1126
Butler, Lewis G  1088
Byram, Oren Brown  502
Byram, Wilfred Carroll  503

INDEX

C Page
Cady, Eugene C  .'  1065
Cady, Mrs. Penelope  1065
Caillaud, Albert  1190
Cailar, O. T  468
Callan, J. M  744
Callens, Adolphe  1343
Callens, G-ustave J  1343
Calleus, Joseph Albert  1343
Campbell, David F  485
Campbell, E. Earl  1649
Carden, Lincoln Joseph  1276
Carhart, J. Ralph  566
Carle, Anton C  1632
Carriker, Jacob W  912
Carrillo, Mrs. Adelina  1237
Carrillo, Juan Garibaldi  1283
Carver, Washington 1  1057
Case, William E  949
Cassou, John  571
Castillo, Cayetano, Jr  1 182
Chaffee, Albert J  751
Chaffee, Edward  1039
Chaffee, John T>., M.D  559
Chambers, William M., D.D.S  1418
Chapman, Charles C  211
Chapman, Charles Herbert  1234
Chapman, Colum C  -...  459
Chase, Manley C  1474
Chase, Mrs. Maud H  84.4
Cheney, William J  519
Cliristensen, E. Martin  1238
Cliristensen, Soren  728
Christiansen, Siegfried M   • 138,1
Cliristlieb, Alexander J  1529
Clark, John I., M.D  1354
Clarke, Stephen F  451
Cla-udina, Frank  1100
Clayton, Prof. W. M  493
Clement, William E  942
Clinard, Barney P  1275
Closson, Gardner, W., D.V.S  1549
Coate, Elwood  554
Coburn, Lewis F  916
Cochems, William  434
Cock, Andrew  1638
Cocking, George J  1246
Cole, Benjamin H  1151
Cole, D. G  416
Cole, Mrs. Ella D  472
Cole, Homer L  1292
Cole, Richard W  1659
Cole, Walter J  645
Collins, Cornelius C  433
Collman, William A  731
Colman, R. Clarkson  765
Congdon, Walter N  1583
Conkle, Samuel Q  516
Conley, James F  761
Cook, Le Roy R. . . . '.  1432
Coon, Herbert D  1663
Cooper, Mrs. -Emma Burchfield  536
Capeland, Justin M  -  256
Copeland, Mrs. Mary E  256
Corbit, Byron B  1386
Cordes, John C  1421
Cotant, Charles L  1642
Courreges, Roch  1332
Cowles, Danforth C, M.D  553
Cox, Charles S  1418
Cozad, David E  646
Craig, Isaac  571
Cranston, John A  1421
Cravath, A. K  1229

Page
Crawford, Byron Asa  1272
Crawford, Elmer L  778
Crawford, Will C  964
Crookshank, Angus James  604
Crose, Charles F  1245
Crosier, William W  1434
Crouch, Frank Warren  1324
Crowther, William Henry  ,  217
Cruiz, Julian R  1660
Crumrine, Charles L  1454
Culp, William A  1376
Culver, Joseph Warren..'  1109
Cuprien, Frank William  794
D
Daguerre, Mrs. Marie Eugenia  306
Dale, Frank Blair  1464
Dale, Hubert H  1613
Damewood, L- P  -813
Damon, Philip W  1441
Daneri, Mrs. Catherine J  1 166
Daniels, Henry W  1233
Dargatz, Otto  415
Dart, Oral V  1578
Dauser, Frank J  1546
Davies, Richard T  546
Davis, Charles Leo  1625
Davis, Evan  861
Davis, Roy R  1507
Dawes, Horatio C  963
Deamud, S. F  1641
Decker, Willet S  1028
DeLapp, Thomas C. H  1249
Denni, Job  1606
Dennis, Wallace B  903
Derksen, Mrs. Anna  718
Des Granges, Joseph P  295
1 >e Vaul, Jasper N  650
Devenney, William  1492
Dickel, Herman A  794
Dierker, Benjamin Franklin  907
Dierker, Edward Henry  1118
Dierker, George D  . 701
Dierker, Harry F  . 1165
Dierker, Henry  781
Diers, William F  1574
Dietrich, Mrs. Minnie M  1399
Ditchey, Jacob  529
Dittmer, Adolph  960
Dixon, Raymond T  1550
Dolan, William A  1375
Dolph, Miss Blanche L  882
Domann, Arthur H., M.D  625
Dominguez, Mrs. Felipa Y  1241
Donnelly, Dennis J  1625
Dorn, Fred  1040
Douglass, Leo F  1507
Doyle, Leo M'.....  1159
Doiier,. Edward M  1470
Dozier, Thomas E  611
Drake, David Clarence  286
Draper, Robert L  1382
Dresser, Bernard J  1019
Dross, Werner R...:  1580
Druce Brothers  950
Du Bois, Willard C, M.D  1373
Duckworth, William Edward  1412
Duggan, William L  1070
Duhart, Bautista  1511
Duker, Henry W  908
Dungan, H. E  1306
Dungan, Samuel M  510
Dunlap, J. T  731

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Page
Dunstan, John  365
Dunton, George  1457
Durkee, Joseph E  1396
Durnbaugh, Carl E  1366
Dutton, Earl Chester  1407
E
Eaby, George M  1177
Eadington, Thomas  1438
Eberth, Charles  1458
Edens, R. W  1636
Eden, Walter  988
Edwards, Arch M  1 182
Edwards, John H  338
Edwards, Nelson Thomas  477
Edwards, Samson  395
Edwards, William J  334
Edwardson, Lars Tobias  854
Eells, John  1556
Egan, Richard  373
Ehlen, P. W  520
Eismann, Mrs. Elizabeth  1170
Elbinger, John C  1040
Elliott, John W  529
Elliott, R. Earl  1595
Ellis, Claude Newton  530
Ellis, Clyde H  1595
Eltiste, George Paul  1138
Eltiste, Michael  925
Enderle, Herman  989
English, Robert Henry  312
Erramuspe, Domingo  630
Erreca, Miguel  1291
Errecarte, Francisco  1503
Escverri, Mrs. Dolores  599
Esmay, George  822
Espolt, William F  407
Eummelen, Monsignor Henry  341
Evans, Henry  694
Evans, Loron W  1530
Evans, Lumis A  447
Everett, Amos B  1353
Everett, Samuel B  313
Eygabroad, Charles H  539
Eyraud, Leon  1589
F
Faacks, Mrs. Maria  620
Falkenstein, William  903
Paris, Thomas L  1318
Farrar, Charles R  1593
Ferguson, Mrs. Lillian Prest  1636
Fewell, Archie Vernon  1577
Field, Fenn B  1370
Field, Louise W  1370
Finch, Alfred W  1032
Finch, Raymond C  1485
Finley, Col. S. H  777
First National Bank of Garden Grove  1351
First National Bank of Olive  934
First National Bank of Tustin  330
Fischle, Richard  1431
Fischer, William J  1619
Fisher, Palo Alto  762
Fishering, Ambrose F  1635
Fitschen, William J  1610
Flesner, G. H  530
Flippen, Mrs. Minerva J  240
Fluor, John Simon  1117
Faote,> Edwin Bailey  366
Forbes, Charles H  561
I'orbes, James Alexander  560

Page
Ford, Benjamin 1<  1005
Ford, George \V  221
Ford, Herbert A  270
Ford, Herbert Andrew, D.D.S  1534
Ford, Mrs. Laura Reed  885
Ford, Ray and Dillard E  1220
Forster, John 0  330
Foss, Benjamin J  1230
Foster, Chalmers T  1044
Foster, Sherman  1131
Franklin, G. Raymond  1411
Frantz, Raymond F  1616
Franzen, Emanuel C  853
Franzen, Emanuel C. H  1651
Fraser, Fred Ray  1600
Frazer, Richard  1664
Freeman, John William  782
Freeman, William, M.D  236
Freeman, W. R  1593
French, Charles E  405
French, Eugene Edmund  941
Frick, Rudolph M  722
Fridd, John A  1499
Froehlich, Harry Arthur  1585
Frye, Alexis Everett, A.M., LL.B  ,  641
Fuller, Ralph A  1599
Fuller, Samuel N  1136
Fulton, Harry C  1323
G
Gage, Earl D  1504
Gaines, Harvey Sylvester  1385
Gantz, Capt. Harry  565
Garber, Harvey  1253
Gardiner, John Reeder  694
Gardner, David D  1406
Gardner, Earl A  1268
Gardner, Henri F  1125
Gates, Frank S  549
Gatjens, Hans  1014
Genest, Rev. Louis Philippe  1155
Gibbs, Frank Nelson  1053
Gibbs, Henry F  1095
Gilchrist, Mrs. Mary McKee  555
Gisler, Robert  740
Glenn, Earl G  633
Gless, Juan  413
Gobar, Frank J., M.D  1 132
Goddicksen, Peter  582
Godwin, Raymond L  1623
Goodrich, Burleigh L  1374
Goodwin, Almon  849
Goodwin, Jesse  1530
Gould, Dempsey W  1287
Grafton, W. D  1035
Gray, Warren M  1391
Greenleaf, Fannie S  717
Greenleaf , Walter A  477
Greger, Theodore  1049
Gregory, D. B  1507
Gregory, Ernest S  ,  1519
Gregory, Richard Spencer  675
Gresswell, Fred K  1018
Griffith; Conway. .".  352
Grinnell, Carl J  1144
Grote, Fred A  752
Grote, Henry  793
Grussing, Thomas  823
Gulick, James Harvey  353
Gtinther, Louis D  481
GuJither, Oscar Ernst.  919
Guptill, Charles E  980
Guptill, John 0  1322

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Page
Gustlin, Abraham  997
Guthrie, John F  1402
Gutzman, Carl G  1512
H
Haan, Otto R  1310
Halderman, Barrett L  1642
Haley, Olbert Arvel  1423
Halladay, Daniel  215
Hammerschmidt, Adolph T  1160
Hampton, Lorenzo A  1147
Handy, Harry B  542
Handy, Joel Bruce  1653
Handy, Owen  374
Haniman, Albert John  1387
Hannum, Vard W  ;  1049
Hansen, Mrs. Mette  904
Hansen, Charles L  1643
Hansen, George H  1391
Hansen, Peter  289
Hansler, William J  770
Hare, Orel C...  976
Hargrave, John W  1663
Harkleroad, Henry J  1092
Harmon, Edward W  523
Harmon, Jonathan  654
Harms, John H  1006
Harms, John P  1666
Harris, EH S  383
Harris, Richard T  229
Hartman, Edward  1469
Hartman, Harvey F'.  1036
Harvey, Charles E  1185
Hatfield, Norton W  1452
Hathaway, Hiram Helm  813
Haven, A. B  843
Haven, E. M  843
Haven, L. S  843
Haven Seed Company  843
Haver, John Leslie  1203
Hawley, Alfred E  743
Hawley, Mrs. Elizabeth M  743
Hayward, Elmer  523
Hayden, John C  1254
Hax, Peter D  1141
Hazard, James Merrick  414
Hazard, Mrs. Betsey Ann  747
Hazard, Robert T?  959
Hazen, William A  933
Head, Waller Sinclair  1667
Head, Horace Caldwell  619
Head, H. W., Dr  755
Head, Mrs. Maria E  755
Heaney, Hugh J  1652
Heard, J. B  1057
Heartwell, C. D  366
Hebard, Harold C  1590
Hedstrom, Gustave  1152
Heffern, Wesley C  1044
Heim, Albert L  1073
Heim, Carl 0  1138
Heinemann, Henry G  1477
Helms, Napoleon Bonaparte  245
Helmsen, Joseph  785
Hemenway, Mrs. Lydia A  836
Hemphill, L. W  535
Henderson, Alex  1437
Hendrie, Isaac R  1596
Heneks, William  1280
Heninger, Martin R  1117
Henning, Louis  1069
Henning, Mrs. Ottilie  1050
Henry, Alexander ¦ N  429

Page
Heying, Ferdinand  1407
Hezmalhalch, Frederick Charles  1143
Hewes, David  222
Hickey, John B  1665
Hickman, Curtis Henry  959
Hile, Harvey  912
Hill, Thomas  481
Hiltscher, Joseph  1511
Hinckley, John H  1423
Hiserodt, Leon C  818
Hockemeyer, Henry  679
Hoeptner, John P  1358
Holditch, William J. S  1656
Holloway, William H  814
Holtz, Joseph'  1613
Hooker, Elmer Orval  1451
Hossler, Harvey H  1062
House, Edmund S  1357
Houser, Charles E  1310
Howard, Charles H  1121
Huff, D. Eyman  '  396
Huff, Samuel  809
Hughes, Mrs. Ida J  882
Huhn, Alfred  1392
Huhn, John  1263
Hull, Orvis U.i  984
Huntington Beach Carnegie Public Library. . 850
Huntington Beach Union High School  1347
Huntington, Glen E  953
Hutter, Fred  1589
I
Irwin, Jesse B  1122
Isaac, Hubert  290
J
Jackson, Calvin E  399
Jackson, Josiah  824
Jacobsen, Asmus Peter  701
Jacobsen, Peter  1542
Jahraus, Elmer Ellsworth.  586
Jens, Karl  797
Jentges, Harry  950
Jentges, Jack  714
Jernigan, Samuel  993
Jerome, Benjamin W  1657
Jessee, David E  967
Jessup, Harry E  1555
Jessup, Thomas  417
Jessurun, David  930
Jewell, Walter J  1491
Johnson, Abe W  676
Jdhnson, John M  735
Johnson, John T  1452
Johnson, Joseph' William  596
Johnson, Niels  1091
Johnson, O. T  1451
Johnson, Raymond N  1422
Johnson, Robert B  840
Johnson, Wayman K  1155
Johnston, Herbert A., M.D  '. 501
Johnston, John  1630
Johnston, W. Dean  443
Jones, Edward Spencer  766
Jones, George Raymond  1376
Jones, McClelland G  1347
Jones, Richard W  302
Joplin, Josiah C  246
Jorn, Carl G  638
Julian, Edwin  1594
Jumper, Stetson R  1096
Justice, .Elijah P  ¦  318

INDEX

K
l'age
Karloff, Edward  1402
Kaufman, . J. F  1369
Kays, William W  1545
Kealiher, Floyd B  1324
Kee, Joseph  596
Keefe, John C  1204
Kellogg, Benjamin Franklin  230
Kellogg, Hiram Clay  337
Kellogg, Mrs. Mary Orilla  230
Kelly, James R  278
Kelly, Robert Bayard  278
Kenyon, Chester H  1635
Kidd, Walter H...  1545
King, Dale R  1422
King, Mrs. Ida B  1288
King, Vernon H  1340
Kinsler, Charles C  739
Kirker, Frank Kyle  1496
Kirsch, John II  1647
Kistler, Stephen  370
Klaner, Deiderich  1520
Klausing, William  1257
Klentz, Frank L  607
Kloth, Gottfried  325
Kluewer, Anton  1376
Knapp,. James Allan  1017
Knapp, Robert' L  1347
Knight, Edmund E  1228
Knowlton, O. V  926
Knowlton, Mrs. Wyram L  311
Knuth, Charles A  , 798
Koch, Andrew J  1605
Koepsel, Arthur E  781
Kogler, H. J  806
Kogler, Rev. Jacob  604
Kothe, William G  1305
Kozina, Philip  1054
Kraemer, Benjamin  862
Kraemer, Daniel  229
Kraemer, Samuel  592
Krause, Fred C  1443
Krause, Howard A  1447
Krick, Philip Herman  1200
Kroeger, Henry  ;  416
Krueger, Emil  1604
L
Labat, Salvador  1424
Lacabanne, Henry  1335
Lacy, Dr. John McClellan  279
Lae, Henry  1177
Lagourgue, Frank R  1039
Lamb, Anson  448
Lamb, Earl  1664
Lamb, Mrs. Elizabeth  272
Lamb, Hugo J  1414
Lamb, Jerome T  1358
Lamb, Walter DeWitt  831
Lamb, William D  272
Lambert, Ray C  629
La Mont, Victor W  1318
Lancaster, Roy S  1603
Landell, John  998
Lang, John Henry, M.D  1230
Lantz, Albert C  1584
Larter, Robert Edwin  '. , 262
Latourette, James H  1515
Launders, Frank E  954
Launer, John G  556
Lautenbach, Joseph  1620
Lavin, John D  1088
Leander. Gustaf  1551

Page
Le Bard, John  1482
Ledford, Walter D  1027
Lee, Albert A....  1061
Lee, Chester K  .  1118
Lee, Pleasant JS  1534
Lehmberg, Edward W  1413
Lehnhardt, William  967
Leichtfuss, Alfred W  1655
Le M'arquand, Norman  1525
Lembcke, Herman .G  489
Lemke, August  1473
Lemke, Herman.  1473
Lemke, Robert  1474
Lemke, William  1567
Leonard, Nereus II   702
Lieffers, Fred  893
Lindley, Arthur W  1380
Linebarger, Dallison Smith  663
Littell, U. G., D.0  1365
Livenspire, Irvin  1249
Loescher, Otto  929
Long, Edward A  667
Lorenz, Charles  292
Lotze, Paul John  1481
Lovering, Roy 1  1 122
Lowell, Jo  1297
Luce, Walter A  , 1414
Luther, James Ervin  1212
Lyon, John T  1599
Lyon, Le Roy E  1538
M
McAulav, Angus  1128
McCarter, Eugene L  1408
McCarter, Thomas John  1047
McCarthy, Dennis J  1223
McCarty, John H  979
McConnell, James Vernon  1108
McCord, Arthur Belden  1408
McFadden, John  821
McFadden, Thomas L  900
McFadden, William M  305
McGee, Miss Mable  ,  1405
McGuire, George  , ,  1373
McKeen, Charles W  1010
McKinley, Daniel  1128
M dimes, Jack  987
McMillan, John  671
McMillan, Rufus C  1603
McNeil, George  v  1417
McPhee, Barry H  1600
McPhee, George  270
McPherson, Stephen  :..'.-  430
McWilliams, Waldo R  1615
Maag, George W  1048
Maag. Joe A  1048
Maag, John A  683
Maag, John W  1495
Maag Ranch  1048
Maag, William H  T048
Macdonald, D. R  702
Machander, Herman J  1001
Magill, Cyrus Newton  434
Magill, Dwight E  835
Magill, Peryl B., D.0  1321
Maier, John C  540
Manning, Ed  972
Mansur, Carlos F  633
Marion, Edward D  .'  103S
Maroon, John Luther, M.D  533
Marquart, Henry  1053
Marquez, Rodolfo C  1466
M'arsden, Samuel A., M.D  1362

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Page
Marsom, Arthur R  818
Martel, August L  1344
Martin, Carl W  938
Martin, E. C  756
Martin, John W  511
Maryatt, Oscar H  1107
Masters, Bernard R  1413
Matthews, Earl L  1298
Matthews, Fenelon C  1272
Matthews, Harry E  1182
Mauerhan, J. C  911
Mauerhan, William C  920
Maurer, Fred A  380
Mayer, Harry  1620
M'ayfield, Mrs. Lavinia Avery  802
Mayhew, Joseph P  1043
Medlock, Dr. J. R  408
Meff ord, Joseph H  660
Meger, Rudolph  1414
Meger, Gotlieb  1427
Meier, Henry  1309
Meiser, Henry G  1648
Melcher, Alvin 0  732
Melrose, Richard  418
Menges, Marion Albert, M.D  562
Menton, William F  1005
Merrick, Joseph A  1643
Metzgar, James Clow  1609
Meyer, Andrew  1354
Meyer, Henry D  1650
Meyer, Herman F  1402
Meyer, Theodore A  1526
Miles, E. C  1351
Millen, Frank W  1279
Miller, Augustus G  1219
Miller, Otto  1650
Miller, Perry  1036
Miller, Rudolph W  899
Miller, Samuel T  773
Miller, William N  1626
Mills, Andrew F  684
Mitchell, Charles F'  1001
Mitchell, David  1054
Mitchell, Roy Hunter  1374
Mitchell, William T  667
Mitchell, Willis F  839
Mitchell, Willis G  388
Moberly, Hanigan C  542
Modjeska, Felix Bozenta  748
Modjeska, Mme. Helena  590
Mbody, Joseph P  301
Moore Brothers Company  1113
Moore, Edgar W  1529
Moore, Waightstill A  1441
Morales, E. S  1573
Morris, James A  968
Morris, Thomas R  1048
Morrison, Ernest L  1392
Morrison, M'ack Henry  1653
Morrow, Charles W  1215
Morrow, George Clinton  504
Morrow, Sylvester W  1442
Mosbaugh, George J  344
Moulton, Lewis Fenno  239
Mueller, Jacob  789
Myers, Lee 0  1216
Myers, Vernon C  1434
N
NTebelung, Max  464
Melson, Alexander P  1313
New-land, William T  854
Xewsom, Harvey V  650

Page
Newsom, Willis J  739
Nichols, Hervey D  ¦. 1659
Nichols, Jesse . 0  494
Nichols, John B  263
Nicolas, Pierre, Jr  .'  569
Nimocks, Mrs. Martha A  468
Xisson, Mathias  452
Noe, Edward A  1087
North, Mrs. Rosie J  1662
Northcross, Robert C  561
Norton, C. L  778
Norton, P. II  1578
Nowotny, Alvin F  -  1516
Nusbaumer, Joseph  1242
Nutt, Charles R  1174
Nylen, Harry J  1412
o
Oborne, John  1147
O'Connor, Hugh T  929
O'Donnell, Joseph  1178
Oelke, William J  1485
Oelkers, Henry  263
Oertly, Conrad  1013
Oertly, Soule C  1323
Olewiler, Hester Tripp, D.0  1615
Oliveras, Joseph  1 508
Olson, Charles W  1156
Ord, John C  572
O'Rear, Rev. Arthur T  1519
Ortega, John M  1522
Ortega, Juan D  1541
Orton, Chauncey S  1499
Osborne, Arthur H. T  1433
Osterman, Bennie W  1292
Oswald, Wallace Edwin  1169
Otis, William E  869
Overshiner, Charles David  744
Oyharzabal, Estaban and Peter  1486
Oyharzabal, E  1644
P
Padias, Salvador M.  1629
Page, Steve  975
Palmer, Le Roy D  929
Palmer, Noah  207
Pannier, William  645
Pappas, Tom P  1552
Parker, John R  1136
Parker, Leonard  1549
Parker, Walter M  318
Partridge, Frank E  1020
Paterson, Arthur H  679
Patterson, Frank E  319
Patterson, John F  357
Patterson, Ira E  895
Patterson, Ralph A  319
Pattillo, William G  1 169
Patton, Murray A., D.D.S  1237
Paulus, Chris  1215
Pearson, E. A  1322
Peek, Arnold F  1512
Peelor, Mortimer Hugh  1646
Peitzke, Fred  1417
Penman, Newton J  1193
Penman, William Wright  994
Peralta, Juan Pablo  1564
Perkins, Wyllys W  311
Perry, William \Y  827
Peterkin, William D  1573
Peterson, H. M  1428
Peterson, Roy Charles  1237

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Page
Pfeiffer, Mrs. Pedrilla P  271
Phillips, William H  659
Pickering, Arthur C  ;  1658
Pierce, Newton Barris  1293
Pike, Loren D  1661
Pirie, George Hill  908
Pister, Carl A  925
Pixley, Dewitt Clinton  369
Planchon, Frank C  ,  1584
Plavan, F. D  710
Pleasants, Joseph Edward  218
Plegel, A. F  1050
Plummer, John L-, Sr  1645
Polhemus, Henry Dean  1224
Poling, Ira W  1379
Pollard, George W  713
Pollock, Joseph  1399
Pomeroy, Leason F  1616
Pope, John Wesley  498
Popplewell, William M., M.D  1 199
Porter, C. George  744
Porter, John R  1220
Potter, Noah Ulysses  752
Prescott, Julian A  1667
Pressel, G. Fred  1486
Price, J. D  388
Prinslow, Charles  1395
Pritchard, Abe  1151
Probst, Jacob P  1629
Proctor, Bertha D  849
Pryor, Albert  1586
Pugh, S. L  1482
Pulver, Cyrus B  980
Purdy, Arthur Waldo  1538
Pyle, Joshua 0  1339
Q
Oueyrel, Albert E  1382
Queyrel, Joachim  1381
Quick, Joseph G  603
R
Raikes, Joseph Walter  1380
Ralph, William A  1110
Rancho Canon de Santa Ana  891
Ramsey, Charles F  1469
Ray, Harry  748
Read, Charles C  1087
Read, Wendell P  1361
Reagan, Michael F  489
Reed, Sumner, E  1626
Reid, Taylor R  1379
Reisch', Andrew R  1083
Reusch, Charles F. W  817
Reuter, Theodore  1654
Reyburn, George R  512
Rice, James S  326
Richards, John F  1465
Richardson, William J. ."  1156
Richey, Royal B  975
Richter, Conrad, M.D  1432
Riggle, Charles W  1465
Rimpau, Frederick C  216
Rimpau, Theodore  216
Roberts, Bertram C  1002
Roberts, Theodore  1302
Robertson, James G  1555
Robertson, Thomas M  1002
Robinson, Archie M  1254
Robinson, George Eddie  575
Robinson, Phranda A  1257
Robinson, Richard  290

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Robinson, William II  1447
Rochester, James Hervey  1133
Rodger Brothers  1297
Rogers, Lucian T  1 178
Rogers, W. R  1387
Rohrs, Fred, Sr  1173
Rohrs, George  1637
Rohrs, Henry, Jr  688
Rohrs, Henry W  471
Rohrs, William It  1551
Rolfe, George W  1077
Rorden, Andrew  380
Rosenbaum, Oscar  ,  1027
Ross, George M  1031
Ross, Mrs. Hattie \V  252
Ross, James Arthur  1301
Ross, Samuel  706
Rouse, Manson  165'6
Rousselle, Alcedas B  1127
Roy, Paul Benjamin  1352
Royer, Daniel F., M.D  626
Royer, Harvey B  790
Ruddock, Charles Edward  463
Ruedy, ¦ Jacob  '1546
Ruhmann, Fritz  954
Runyan, John S  1630
Rurup, Ernest Henry  1023
Rust, Charles 0  296
Rust, Mrs. CO  296
Rutherford, Henry T  832
Rutschow, Herman F  1336
Ryan, Ebon R  1619
Ryan, George E  1078
s
Sackman, J. WiUiam  , . . 1 594
Sadler, Charles W  1385
Salter, Eugene M  1066
Sanders, Adoniram Judson  354
Sandilands, Gerald \Y  611
Sansinena, Jose  595
Sargent, Eugene S  938
Sauers, John W  1638
Saunby, William J  1246
Sawyer, Frank  1253
Sayles, Leon A  1137
Schaffert, Henry  1114
Schildmeyer, Anton  451
Schildmeyer, Mrs. Louisa  451
Schildmeyer, Oscar A  1619
Schlueter, Fred  1073
Schmidt, Fred W  810
Schmidt, Theodore E  629
Schnitger, Arthur A  1339
Schhitger, Wm. E  '  1443
Schreiner, Henry Andrew  550
Schroeder, John H  698
Schulte, Mrs. Adelheid Konig  358
Schultz, Henry  1131
Schulz, Jerome A'  1579
Schumacher, William  414
Schweiger, G. A  1427
Schweitzer, J. Frank  705
Scott, John E  822
Scott, M. Russell  1271
Segerstrom, Charles J  1331
Seidel, Henry  1009
Serrano, Miss Ninfa  509
Shaffer, David R. S  421
Shanley, Frank  418
Sharratt, David F  877
Shattuck, George B  509
Shaw, Asbury J  1301

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Page
Shaw, Linn L  314
Sheppard, James C  467
Sheridan, Leo J  1515
Shields, Martin H  1006
Shook, Lloyd E  1660
Shrosbree, Alfred  1211
Sitton, Albert H  735
Skidmore, George E  769
Skidmore, Joseph W  759
Skiles, Henry A  1250
Skiles, Lindley B  1590
Slack, Clement Lincoln  1107
Smart, William M  354
Smiley, Charles E  1365
Smiley, Donald S  1062
Smith, D. Edson  269
Smith, George S  710
Smith, Claude Edgar and Guy  718
Smith, Mrs. Juliette  392
Smith, Robert R  1605
Smith, Willard  680
Smithwick, Edward  503
Snow, J. Edmund  .'  693
Spangler, Roy F  1563
Sparkes, Cyrus G  732
Speer, William F  1495
Spencer, Clarence S  709
Spennetta, J. D  620
Sprague, Edgerton B  1024
Spurgeon, Granville  255
Spurgeon, William II  203
Staley, Arthur  709
Stanckey, Fredrick  413
Stanfield, Joab  1079
Stankey, Adolph  490
Stanley, Arthur C  1314
Stanley, Harry W  892
Stark, Edward  497
Stearns, Frank C  1428
Steele, John W  946
Stein, Felix  1491
Stein, Sam  1604
Stern, Herman  990
Steward, Olin E  565
Stewart, David Oliver  ,  840
Stewart, H. A  1141
Stewart, O. A  490
Stinson, John H  1568
Stock, Godfrey J  697
Stockton, C. Bruce  1563
Stockton, James Thomas  1160
Stockwell, Nathan C  1453
Stodart, Mrs. ' Mary  721
Stodart, Archibald  721
Stoffel, Fred A  675
Stuflcl, Peter  1208
Stohlmann, A. F  1478
Stolt, Theodore E  1369
Stoner, Christian C  285
Stork, William E  1463
Stortz, Walter Albert  870
St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Olive  1481
Stradley, William E  1648
Strauss, Fred  -  1555
Streech, Mrs. Ellen J  '  1170
Strock, Dr. Samuel  1137
Struck, G. W  1459
Stuckenbruck, John W  1477
Sutton, Walter A  1010
Swartzbaugh, John J  362
Swindler, Jacob S  1401

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Taft, Charles Parkman  244
Talbert, Samuel E  1186
Talbert, Thomas B  1560
Talmage, C. Forest  1651
Taylor, Fred G. and Elizabeth  361
Taylor, Frederick H  668
Taylor, George M  1432
Taylor, Harold R  1662
Teague, Andrew J  1 126
Tedford, Norman B  1189
Tedford, William N  208
Teel, Samuel David  919
Thelan, H. Percy  1388
Theodore Brothers.,  1556
Thomas, Francis M  1264
Thomas, Dr. John D  934
Thomas, Julian E  1442
Thompson, Andrew Wesley  426
Thompson, Irving Alfred  1520
Thompson, Orrin M  1190
Thompson, Robert J  983
Thomson, Hugh Coriger  1148
Thomson, Hugh . T  447
Thomson, Thomas H  379
Thorman, A  769
Thurber, H. Delemere  1661
Thurston, Joseph S  527
Till, Edwin  732
Timken, Fred W  1424
Timmons, James Albert  835
Tingley, S.E  1580
Todd, Stone Walker  1668
Toler, Miss Jessie Lee  1080
Toney, Mrs. Mary N  660
Tournat, George  1327
Toussau, Simon  874
Towner, H. Fred  1227
Townsend, Stephen  589
Tralle, George Markham, M.D  1624
Trapp, Alfred  1585
Trapp, Roy D  865
Trapp, William  1099
Travis, Zoraida B  320
Tremain, Lyman and Mabel Vance  1142
Treulieb, Charles  1332
Treydte, Paul  '  857
Trickey, Arthur L  1559
Trickey, Jasper N  1275
Tubbs, John W  1521
Tubbs, W. Lester  1014
Tubbs, Volney V  987
Tucker, Simeon  352
Tuff ree, Col. J. K  400
Tuffree, S. James  400
Turck, Emil R  786
Turner, James Andrew.  437
Tuthill, Robert G  1574
U
Utt, C. E  1305
Ulrich, Frank  1331
Utter, John W., M.D  1669
Utz, John  1313
V
Vail, A. V  1035
Valenti, J.  1454
Vanderburg, Clarence R  1525
Vaughan, Leonard 0  801
Vaughan, Mrs. Martha M. S.-  802
Velasco, Jose Francisco  1193

INDEX

Page
Vincent, Roy E  993
Violett, C. C, M.D  722
Volberding, Fred T  946
Yollmer, Joseph F  899
w
Wagner, Frederic Joseph  1144
Wagner, John E  1500
Wagner, Joseph E  1508
Wahlberg, Harold Edward  1306
Walker, Arthur Frank  891
Walker, Mrs. Bella J  1400
Waller, William 1  1028
Wallop, William T  1386
Walter, Scott R  1496
Walters, Henry  1623
Walton, Frank W  1058
Walton, John Franklin  1503
Ward, John M  963
Wardlow, Robert  1104
Wardwell, George W  1624
Ware, Edward G  649
Warne, John II  1287
Warne, Riley B  1375
Warren, Leroy A  1655
Wasser, Wilbur W  1550
Watson, Errol Trafford  1216
Watson, Harold Arlington  1203
Watson, Jonathan  384
Watson, Mrs. Sarah Amanda  612
Weaver, Mrs. C. Ella  1521
Wehrly, John, M.D  460
Weisel, Fred H  839
Weisel, Hans Victor  1400
Weitbrecht, Robert B  933
Welch, Thomas B  1537
Wells, George W  866
Wells, Lewis Tuttle  634
Wendt, William  277
Wersel, George N  1177
Wessler, Ferdinand H  1070
West, Arthur  774
West, Eldo R  1438
West, Henry  671
West, Hon. Z. B  333
Weston, Thomas S  1668
Wettlin, David G  697
Whedon, James T  828
Whippo, Samuel W  1437
Whitacre, Walter E. .-.  1423
Whitaker, Tames H  1448

I'.iKf
Whitney, Miss Justine.  540
Wickersheim, William J, ..... ,  482
Wickett, William II. , M.D  .' 515
Wilber, Harry Lee  1503
Wiley, Robert J  1110
Wilkins, Harold I,., V.S  1447
Williams, Albert C  664
Williams, Harry V  1448
Williams, Isaac R  244
Williams, J. C  1646
Williams, Thomas J  261
Williamson, Samuel S  1084
Wilson, Foster K., M.D  1074
Wilson, George P  1327
Wilson, Robert  1631
Wilson, Thomas Janies  1271
Wilson, William  444
Wilson, William Oscar  1095
Wine, John M  1103
Winters, Henry  873
Winters, John  971
Winters, William Franklin  1322
Witman, Henry W  1279
Witt, Henry D  1559
Wolff, Kadja V  937
Wood, Albert William  1614
Wood, Wayland  1023
Woodington, Harry  510
Woodworth, J. M  1351
Wray, Newton E  1665
Wray, Walter  1173
Wright, George L  664
Wright, Mary E., D.0  1504
Y
Yaeger, Miss Lillian E  1132
Yandeau, Frederick P  1577
Yoch, Joseph  886
Yorba, Mrs. Erolinda  280
Yorba, Vicente G  1444
York, William L  T224
Yost, William R  684
Yount, Henry  736
Yriarte, Felix  1610
Yriarte, Patricio  317
z
Zaiser, Harry E., M.D  861
Ziegler, John B  953

HISTORICAL

HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
By SAMUEL ARMOR
CHAPTER I
THE FORMATION AND DESCRIPTION OF ORANGE COUNTY
The state of California was created out of territory ceded to the United
States by Mexico in the year 1848. It was admitted into the Union as a free
state in 1850, with a population of 92,597. This population was located in a few
little cities, with a small portion in the mining camps and scattered over the graz
ing lands adjacent to the water courses. The style of government inherited from
Mexico might be characterized as feudal or patriarchal, each city or pueblo
and the adjoining territory being governed by an alcalde or other officer appointed
by the Mexican government. When the state was formed each of the principal
towns with its tributary territory was created into a county ; but, on account of
the towns being far apart and the intervening territory sparsely settled, the area
of the first counties was large and the population small. As the country settled
up and other centers of population were formed efforts were made from time
to time to form new counties by cutting off portions of the old ones ; some of
these efforts were successful and others failed.
With the growth of the communities in the southeastern part of Los Angeles
County there sprang up the desire for a smaller county with a county seat nearer
home. . This feeling grew apace until finally an appeal was made to the legislature
of 1889 for autonomy. The city of Santa Ana, which had outgrown the other
cities in the proposed new county, took the lead in the struggle for county division.
A lobby was maintained at Sacramento all winter at considerable expense, without
being able to overcome the influence of Los Angeles against the bill for the new
county. This bill was entitled "An Act to Create the County of Orange," the
name Orange being selected partly on its own merits and partly to conciliate the
city of that name, which also aspired to be county seat. Finally, late in the ses
sion, W. H. Spurgeon and James McFadden took up the matter in the legislature
with better success. They found some members who were friendly to their project
and others who were hostile to Los Angeles. There are sometimes a few members
of the legislature who are looking for "Col. Mazuma" to come to the help or
hindrance of much-desired legislation. Because the rich county of Los Angeles
would not distribute a large defense fund among such members, they turned
against that county. Then, too, San Francisco had begun to recognize in Los An
geles a possible rival, and was glad of the opportunity to deprive her of some of
her territory. These various interests and antagonisms were so skilfully handled
that the bill passed the legislature and was signed by Governor Waterman, March
11,1889. The struggle was then transferred to the territory involved. The first step
in the formation of the new county was the appointment by the governor of a
board of five commissioners to direct the work of organization. Following are
the men who were appointed on this commission : J. W. Towner, of Santa Ana ;
T. H. Kellom, of Tustin; A. Cauldwell, of Orange; W. M. McFadden, of Pla-
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centia ; and R. O. Wickham, of Garden Grove. The commission organized March
22, by electing J. W. Towner president and R. Q. Wickham secretary.
An election was called for June 4th, to ratify or reject the action of the
legislature, as provided for in the organic act. This provision was inserted in
the bill to answer the objection urged, that a majority of the people in the pro
posed new county did not want to be set off from the old county. The most of
the opposition to county division was at Anaheim, the people of that place con
tending that the line ought to have been located at the San Gabriel River instead
of at Coyote Creek. They thought that if more territory had been taken in
towards the west, Anaheim would have had a chance for the county seat; but
notwithstanding this opposition, the election was carried in favor of county divi
sion by a vote of 2,509 to 500.
A second election was held on July 11, to decide the location of the county
seat and to select the county officers, who would serve until the next regular
election. Two cities contested for the county seat, Santa Ana and Orange. Ana
heim, having no hope for herself, took little interest in the election; in fact,
scores of people went to Los Angeles or elsewhere on election day to keep out
of the way of the campaign workers. Orange, being thus deprived of some of
the help she counted on, made rather a poor showing in the contest. On the other
hand, the city of Santa Ana was not able to equal its county seat vote for six
or eight years thereafter, notwithstanding it was growing all the time. The result
of the election for county seat was 1,729 votes for Santa Ana and 775 for Orange.
There were three tickets in the field for county officers ; a non-partisan ticket
in the interest of Santa Ana for county seat, a non-partisan ticket in the interest
of Orange for county seat, and a straight Republican ticket without reference to
the county seat. All of the candidates of the Santa Ana non-partisan ticket were
elected, except the candidate for supervisor of the Fourth District, who was
defeated by a margin of four votes by the candidate on the other two tickets. The
officers thus chosen were : Superior judge, J. W. Towner ; district attorney, E. E.
Edwards; county clerk, R. Q. Wickham; recorder and auditor, George E. Foster;
sheriff and tax collecter, R. T. Harris; treasurer, W. B. Wall; assessor, Fred C.
Smythe; superintendent of schools, John P. Greeley; surveyor, S. O. Wood;
coroner and public administrator, I. D. Mills; supervisors: first district, W. H.
Spurgeon ; second district, Jacob Ross ; third district, Sheldon Littlefield, a hold
over from Los Angeles; fourth district, Samuel Armor; fifth district, A. Guy
Smith. The supervisors organized August 5, 1889, by the election of W. H. Spurgeon
as chairman of the board. Rooms for the county offices were furnished rent free
for two years in the Billings and Congdon Blocks on East Fourth Street, by the
residents in that vicinity. These rooms, with some changes, were retained by
the county at a moderate rental until the new court house was ready for occupancy.
The board of supervisors held frequent meetings during the first few months,
getting the business of the new county properly started and adjusting the differ
ences between the two counties. Los Angeles County resisted the separation in
many ways. Some of her citizens brought suit against the new county on the
ground that the organic act was unconstitutional, in that the legislature had dele
gated its powers to the people of the new county to decide whether they wanted
county division or not. The supreme court sustained the constitutionality of the
act. Meantime the two boards of supervisors appointed commissioners to adjust
the differences between the counties and to determine the basis of settlement of
claims for and against the new county. The two commissioners selected for
Orange County were James McFadden and Richard Egan. These men by their
shrewdness and tact secured a fair settlement with very little friction. The ques
tion of which county should be charged with the money spent in the new county,
by the old, between the approval of the legislative act by the governor, March 11,
and the organization of the new county, August 5,. was left to the courts to deter
mine. This money included the cost of the long bridge over the Santa Ana River
at Olive, the expense of the justice courts, the care of the indigents and possibly

HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 35
other expenditures on behalf of Orange County. The courts held that this burden
should be borne by the old county, since it voluntarily built the bridge after the
Orange County bill was approved and it was its duty to keep the local government
going until relieved by the new county.
The formative steps in the creation of Orange County having thus been nar
rated, the next thing in order is to describe the county ; giving its area, boun
daries, topography and general characteristics. As previously indicated the county
was formed in tlie year 1889 by cutting off about forty miles in length from the
southeastern portion of Los Angeles County, giving the new county about that
length of coast line. The legislative act made Coyote Creek the dividing line
between the two counties ; but the surveyors commenced at the mouth of the
creek and located the county line on the property lines, jogging over from time
to time to keep near the channel, until they reached the southeast corner of
section 13, township 3 south, range 11 west. From that point the line was run
due north three miles to the township line and thence due east to the San Ber
nardino County line. The rest of the boundary line of the new county was left
the same as that of the old county before division. The county is therefore
bounded on the west, northwest and north by Los Angeles County ; on the north
and northeast by San Bernardino County ; on the northeast and east by Riverside
County; on the southeast and south by San Diego County; and on the south,
southwest and west by the Pacific Ocean.
It is customary to speak of Orange County as one of the smallest counties
in the state ; but there are nine counties with less territory, forty-three with less
population and forty-three with a smaller assessed valuation. Its area is given
officially as 780 square miles; but the number of acres assessed (446,257) would
indicate only 697}i square miles. However, there may be sufficient government
land within the county to make up the difference. Perhaps a third of this area
is hilly and mountainous, while the remainder is comparatively level.
There is very little timber on the southern and western slopes of mountains
exposed to many months of summer sun, like those in Orange County. Most
of their surface, however, is covered with chaparral, sage brush, mesquite, man-
zanita and other hardy shrubs, which, with the cactus, provide food and shelter
for considerable game and retard the run-off from the winter rains. In some
of the ravines — especially those with a northern exposure — there are clumps of
live oak trees ; while in the canyons, near the water courses, there are groves
of live oak, sycamore and other native trees of considerable size.
When the temperature cools off in the winter months, the mountains help
to condense the moisture in the atmosphere and thereby increase the precipitation ;
they also act as a catchment-basin to collect the rainfall and drain it into the
streams for use in the summer on the plains below. A considerable portion of
the mountains and hills is adapted to grazing and bee culture. The hills on
the north produce large quantities of oil, and oil has also been found under the
hills alon°" the coast. The hills and mountains on the east abound in minerals
and precious metals. Here, too, are extensive beds of coal of a fair quality.
The valleys and plains, which make up the larger part of the county, have a
great variety of soils, among which may be mentioned the following: Adobe,
alkali, clay, gravel, loam, peat, sand and perhaps others. Some of these soils
are stronger than others, some are easier worked, some need irrigation and
others need drainage, and some will retain the heat from the sun longer than
others. When the latter kind of soil is found on the higher parts of the mesa
near the foothills, it helps to make what is called "the frostless belt" in winter.
Thus certain localities are better adapted to certain products than others are.
For instance, the upper portion of the mesa near the foothills is suited to citrus
and other semi-tropic fruits and winter vegetables ; the lower portion of the
mesa, bordering on the damp land, is adapted to deciduous fruits and walnuts ;
the damp land is favorable to the sugar beet and dairying; the peat land is
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drainage where needed, all localities and kinds of soil are well adapted to general
farming. Hence, as a whole, Orange County is well qualified to produce in mer
chantable quantities almost every kind of grain, grass, fruit, nut and vegetable
grown in the temperate zones as well as many kinds indigenous to the torrid zone.
When the United States acquired possession of California by the treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo between this government and Mexico in 1848, it was stipu
lated in said treaty that Mexicans in the territory acquired by the United States
should be allowed to retain their property in such territory or to dispose of it and
remove the proceeds at their option. Thus were the titles of the many large
ranchos, which were originally granted by Spain, confirmed to their owners,
who have since transferred them to their successors in interest. So far as
can be learned the following are the principal grants, beginning at the lowe-r end
of the county :
Mission Vie jo or La Paz, containing 46,432.65 acres; Trabuco, confirmed
to Juan Forster and containing 22,184.47 acres; Boca de La Playa ; El Sobrante ;
Niguel ; Canada de Los Alisos, confirmed to Jose Serrano and containing 10,668.81
acres ; Lomas de Santiago, which is now included in the San Joaquin ; San
Joaquin, of which 48,803.16 was confirmed to J. Sepulveda; Santiago de
Santa Ana, confirmed to B. Yorba et al. and containing 62,516.57 acres; Bolsa
Chico, confirmed to Joaquin Ruiz and containing 8,107.40 acres; Las Bolsas,
confirmed to Ramon Yorba et al. and containing 34,486.53 acres ; part of Los
Alamitos, confirmed to Abel Stearns and containing 17,789.79 acres; part of
Los Coyotes, confirmed to A. Pico et al. and containing 56,979.72 acres ; San
Juan Cajon de Santa Ana, confirmed to B. Yorba et al. and containing 13,328.53
acres ; part of- La Brea, confirmed to A. Pico et al. and containing all told
6,698.57 acres.
IMany of these ranches have been subdivided and more or less of the acreage
sold off in small tracts to different people, thereby increasing the population and
settling up the county. Thus the ranch lines become indistinguishable from
other boundary lines and even the names of the ranchos are lost sight of, except
in the deeds transferring the property. There is still considerable room for the
work of subdivision to be done before the county will have reached the limit of
its capacity. In fact, the natural resources of Orange County are such that, if
properly developed, they will support a population of 500,000 people instead of
61,375, as reported in the last federal census.
There are nine incorporated cities in the county, viz., Anaheim, Brea,
Fullerton, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Orange, Santa Ana, Seal Beach
and Stanton. In addition to these nine cities there are about forty towns with
a varied number of residences and some business houses in each. Further along
in this work a chapter will be devoted to each of the incorporated cities, while
the unincorporated towns will be grouped together in a single chapter.

CHAPTER II
ROSTER OF COUNTY AND DISTRICT OFFICERS
State Senators, Thirty-ninth District
T. E. McComas, January 1, 1889 to January 1, 1893.
E. C. Seymour, January 1, 1893 to January 1, 1897.
Thomas L. Jones, January 1, 1897 to January 1, 1901.
A. A. Caldwell, January 1, 1901 to January 1, 1905.
John N. Anderson, January 1, 1905 to January 1, 1909.
Miguel Estudillo, January 1, 1909 to January 1, 1913.
John N. Anderson, January 1, 1913 to January 1, 1917.
S. C. Evans, January 1, 1917 to —

HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
Assemblymen Seventy-sixth District
E. E. Edwards, January 1, 1889 to January* 1, 1891.
A. Guy Smith, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1893.
C. F. Bennett, January 1, 1893 to January 1, 1895.
C. S. McKelvEy, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1897.
H. W. Chynoweth, January 1, 1897 to January 1, 1901.
D. W. Hasson, January 1, 1901 to January 1, 1903.
E. R. Amerige, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1907.
Clyde Bishop, January 1, 1907 to January 1, 1909.
Richard Melrose, January 1, 1909 to January 1, 1911.
Clyde Bishop, January 1, 1911 to January 1, 1913.
Hans V. Weisel, January 1, 1913 to January 1, 1915.
Joe C. Burke, January 1, 1915 to January 1, 1919.
Walter Eden, January 1, 1919 to —
Superior Judges, Department 1
J. W. Towner. August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1897.
J. W. Ballard, January 1, 1897 to January 1, 1903.
Z. B. West, January 1, 1903 to-
Superior Judges, Department 2
W. H. Thomas, September 24, 1913 to January 1, 1919.
R. Y. Williams, January 1, 1919 to—
Sheriffs
R. T. Harris, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1891.
Theo. Lacy, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1895.
J. C. Nichols, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1899.
Theo. Lacy, January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1911.
C. E. Ruddock, January 1, 1911 to January 1, 1915.
C. E. Jackson, January 1, 1915 to —
County Clerks
R. Q. Wickham, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1893.
D. f. Brock, January 1, 1893 to January 1, 1899.
W. A. Beckett, January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1903.
C. D. LESTER, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1907.
W. B. Williams, January 1, 1907 to September 11, 1917.
N. T. Edwards, September 11, 1917 to January 1, 1919.
J. M. Backs, January 1, 1919 to— Recorders
George E. Foster, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1893.
W. H. Bowers, January 1, 1893 to January 1, 1895.
W. M. Scott, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1903.
George E. Peters, January 1, 1903 to April 6, 1914.
J. M. Backs, April 6, 1914 to January 1, 1915.
Justine Whitney, January 1,1915 to —
Auditors
George E. Foster, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1891.
J. H. Hall, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1907.
C. D. Lester, January 1, 1907 to January 1, 1915.
W. C. Jerome, January 1, 1915 to —
Tax Collectors
R. T. Harris, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1891.
J. R. Porter, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1893.

38 HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
R. L. Freeman, January 1, 1893 to January 1, 1899.
Fred M. Robinson, Janua-ry 1, 1899 to January 1, 1907.
J. C. Lamb, January 1, 1907 to—
• District -Attorneys
E. E. Edwards, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1891.
F. W. Sanborn, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1893.
J. -G. Scarborough, January 1, 1893 to January 1, 1895.
T. W. Ballard, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1897.
Z. B. West, January 1, 1897 to January 1, 1899.
R. Y. Williams, January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1903.
H. C. Head, Tanuary 1, 1903 to January 1, 1907.
S. M. Davis, January 1, 1907 to January 1, 1911.
L. A. WEST, January 1, 1911 to —
Treasurers
W. V, .Wall, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1891.
C. F. Mansur, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1895.
R. T. Harris, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1899.
T. C. Joplin, January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1903.
W G. Potter, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1907.
J. C. Joplin, January 1, 1907 to —
Assessors
F. C. SmythE, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1891.
Jacob Ross, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1895.
Frank Vegly, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1907.
AV. M. Scott, January 1, 1907 to November 27, 1910.
D. N. Kelly, December 6, 1910 to January 1, 1911.
JamES SlEEpER, January 4, 1911 to —
School Superintendents
J. P. Greeley, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1903.
J. B. Nichols, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1907.
W. R. Carpenter, Tanuary 1, 1907 to March 3, 1908.
R. P. Mitchell, March 5, 1908 to—
Surveyors
S. O. Wood, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1891.
S. H. FinlEy, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1895.
H. C. Kellogg, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1899.
S. H. FinlEy, January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1907.
C. R. Scbenck, January 1, 1907 to January 1, 1911.
J. L. McBride, January 1, 1911 to —
Coroners and Public Administrators
I. D. Mills, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1891.
Frank Ey, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1895.
George C. Clark, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1903.
George S. Smith, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1911.
T. A. WinbiglER, January 1, 1911 to January 1, 1919.
Charles D. Brown, January 1, 1919 to —
First Board of Supervisors
1st. Dist. W. H. Spurgeon, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1891.
2d. Dist. Jacob Ross, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1891.
3d. Dist. Sheldon. Littlefield, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1891.
4th. Dist. Samuel Armor, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1891.
5th. Dist. A. Guy Smith, August 1, 1889 to January 1, 1891.

HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 39
Second Board of Supervisors
Joseph Yoch, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1895.
J. AV. Hawkins, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1895.
Sheldon Littlefield, January 1, 1891 to February 9, 1891.
Louis Schorn, February 9, 1891 to January 1, 1895.
Samuel Armor, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1895.
W. N. Tedford, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1895.
Third Board of Supervisors
F. P. NickEy, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1899.
J. W. Hawkins, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1899.
AV. G. Potter, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1899.
Samuel Armor, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1899.
A. Guv Smith, January 1, 1895 to April 5, 1898.
G. AV. McCampbell, April 25, 1898 to January 1, 1899.
Fourth Board of Supervisors
F. P. Nickf.y, January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1903.
R. E. Larter, January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1903.
W. G. Potter, January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1903.
D. C. PixlEy, Tanuary 1, 1899 to Tanuary 1, 1903.
J. F. Snover, January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1903.
Fifth Board of Supervisors
H. E. Smith, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1907.
Jerome Fulsome, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1907.
D. S. Linebarger, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1907.
D. A. MacMullan, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1907.
U. C. HoldERMAN, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1907
Sixth Board of Supervisors
H. E. Smith, January 1, 1907 to January 1, 1911.
G. W. Moore, January 1, 1907 to August 4. 1909.
T. B. Talbert, August 17, 1909 to January 1, 1911.
D. S. Linebarger, January 1, 1907 to January 1, 1911.
D. A. MacMullan, January 1, 1907 to May 11, 1910.
Fred AV Struck, June 1, 1910 to January 1, 1911.
G. W. Angle, January 1, 1907 to January 1, 1911.
Seventh Board of Supervisors
1st. Dist. H. E. Smith, January 1, 1911 to January 1, 1915.
2d. Dist. T. B. Talbert, January 1, 1911 to January 1, 1915.
3d. Dist. D. S. Linebarger, January 1, 1911 to January 1, 1915.
4th. Dist. Fred AV. Struck, January 1, 1911 to January 1, 1915.
5th. Dist. Jasper Leck, January 1, 1911 to January 1, 1915.
Eighth Board of Supervisors
1st. Dist. H. E. Smith, January 1, 1915 to January 1, 1917.
2d. Dist. T. B. Talbert, January 1, 1915 to January 1, 1917.
3d. Dist. D. S. Linebarger, January 1, 1915 to January 1, 1917.
4th. Dist. Fred W. Struck, January 1, 1915 to January 1, 1917.
5th. Dist. Jasper Leck, January 1, 1915 to January 1, 1917.
Ninth Board of Supervisors
1st. Dist. S. H. FinlEy, January 1, 1917 to January 1, 1919.
2d. Dist. T. B. Talbert, January 1, 1917 to January 1, 1919.
3d. Dist. Wm. Schumacher, January 1, 1917 to January 1, 1919.
4th. Dist. Fred W. Struck, January 1, 1917 to January 1, 1919.
5th. Dist. Jasper Leck, January 1, 1917 to January 1, 1919.

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40 HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
Tenth Board of Supervisors
1st. Dist. S. H. FinlEy, January 1, 1919 to—
2d. Dist. T. B. Talbert, January 1, 1919 to—
3d. Dist. AAtm. Schumacher, January 1, 1919 to —
4th. Dist. N. T. Edwards, January 1, 1919 to—
5th. Dist. H. A. AA'assum, January 1, 1919 to—
Anaheim Township Justices
T. B. Pierce, August 5, 1889 to January 1, 1899.
A. V. Fox, August 5, 1889 to October 13, 1890.
J. W. Landell, November 10. 1890 to January 1, 1899.
Frank ShanlEy, January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1903.
J. S. Howard, January 1, 1903 to —
Anaheim Township Constables
Tohn Landell, August 6, 1889 to January 1, 1895.
E. A. Pullen, January 1, 1891 to February 15, 1892.
H. C. Gade, February 15, 1892 to January 1, 1893.
C. E. Groat, January 1, 1893 to January 1, 1899.
N. A. Bitner, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1899.
Harrison KueblER, January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1903.
S. O. Llewellyn, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1907.
M. H. Litten, January 1, 1907 to June 8, 1910.
John KallEnberger, June 8, 1910 to January 1, 1919.
A. W. AVood, January 1, 1919 to —
Brea Township Justices
Isaac Craig, March 8, 1916 to May 5, 1920.
Charles E. Smith, May 5, 1920 to July 7, 1920.
Brea Township Constables
George Bird, March 8, 1916 to January 1, 1919.
I. N. Hurst, January 1, 1919 to—
Buena Park Township Justices
E. E. AngELL, Tanuary 1, 1907 to February 12, 1907.
D. W. Hasson,* February 12, 1907 to January 1, 1915.
W. T. Callaway, January 1, 1915 to January 1, 1919.
D. AAr Hasson, January 1, 1919 to—
Buena Park Township Constables
AYallace Fulwider, March 8, 1899 to January 3, 1900.
F J. SpEidel, January 3, 1900 to January 1, 1903.
A. Nelson, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1907.
I. D. Jaynes, January 1, 1907 to November 19, 1918.
C. S. Robinson, November 19, 1918 to February 1, 1919.
H. S. Covey, February 1, 1919 to June 17, 1919.
I. D. Jaynes, June 17, 1919 to—
Fullerton Township Justices
Alex Wright, January 18, 1897 to July 22, 1897.
R. P. Marquez, January 18, 1897 to January 1, 1899.
Edgar Johnson, August 3, 1897 to January 1, 1903.
C. K. Ford, January 1, 1903 to March 2, 1910.
P. A. Schumacher, March 2, 1910 to January 1, 1911.
H. E. InskEEp, January 1, 1911 to January 1, 1919.
William French, January 1, 1919 to —
Fullerton Township Constables
J. Berlin, Jr., January 18, 1897 to January 1, 1899.

HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 41
A. A. Pendergrast, January 18, 1897 to April 16, 1900.
James Gardiner, April 16, 1900 to January 1, 1903.
Charles E. Ruddock, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1907.
L. C. Edwards, January 1, 1907 to August 7, 1907.
Charles Young, August 7, 1907 to —
Huntington Beach Township Justices
AY. D. Seely, April 18, 1905 to January 1, 1907.
J. W. Shirley, January 1, 1907 to January 1, 1915.
C. W. Warner, January 1, 1915 to —
Huntington Beach Township Constables
George Reynolds, April 18, 1905 to November 8, 1905.
R. H. Winslow, November 8, 1905 to January 1, 1907.
E. L. Vincent, January 1, 1907 to May 1, 1910.
C. F. SorrEnson, May 1, 1910 to March 24, 1914.
R. E. Linden, March 24, 1914 to January 1, 1915.
Eugene Davis, January 1, 1915 to August 21, 1917.
G. S. Bergey, August 21, 1917 to—
Laguna Beach Township Justices
Nathan Philbrook, February 2, 1916 to April 1, 1919.
D. D. Wi-htten, April 15, 1919 to—
Laguna Beach Township Constables
C. R. Clapp, February 2, 1916 to January 1, 1919.
G. W. Jubb, January 1, 1919 to—
La Habra Township Justices
Henry O. Price, April 4, 1917 to September 15, 1918.
H. E. Hart, November 7, 1918 to January 1, 1919.
Henry O. Price, January 1, 1919 to May 20, 1919.
H. E. Hart, May 20, 1919 to—
La Habra Township Constables
Frank D. McFadden, April 4, 1917 to August 8, 1917.
H. F. Ashley, February 19, 1918 to March 23, 1920.
Los Alamitos Township Justices
Charles Yost, May 9, 1898 to January 1, 1899.
J. C. Ord, January 1, 1899 to May 14, 1900.
J". C. Ord, January 1, 1903 to October 5, 1904.
Arthur Philbrick, January 1, 1905 to January 1, 1907.
J. W. Watts, January 1, 1907 to June 18, 1907.
W. R. McAllEp, July 2, 1907 to February 17, 1914.
Roy G. Parker, February 17, 1914 to January 1, 1915.
A. Philbrick, January 1, 1915 to December 8, 1915.
Hugh T. O'Connor, December 8, 1915 to January 1, 1919.
N. A. Condra, January 1, 1919 to — •
Los Alamitos Township Constables
O. S. DevoE, May 9, 1898 to January 1, 1899.
J. W. Watts, January 1, 1899 to May 14, 1900.
R. E. Powell, January 1, 1903 to November 21, 1905.
J. D. Shutt, November 21, 1905 to December 18, 1907
A. J. Beals, September 2, 1908 to September 20, 1909.
James H. Heaston, September 20, 1909 to January 1, 1911.
J. H. Fortune, January 1, 1911 to May 28, 1912.
Marshall A. Ramsey, May 28, 1912 to July 2, 1913.
Ernest Rios, July 2, 1913 to July 28, 1914.

HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
Wm. Drake, July 28, 1914 to January 1, 1915.
Charles Crump, January 1, 1915 to January 6, 1915.
J. H. Murillo, January 6, 1915 to January 3, 1917.
Edward Kennedy, January 3, 1917 to October 31, 1917.
James F. Wolf, December 18, 1917 to January 1, 1919.
j. H. Murillo, January 1, 1919 to June 12, 1919.
Newport Beach Township Justices
Leo GqEppER, December 22, 1914 to —
Newport Beach Township Constables
J. A. Porter, December 22, 1914 to —
Orange Township Justices
Ira Carter, August 5, 1889 to May 5, 1890.
M. H. Sweeten, May 5, 1890 to Tanuary 1, 1891.
W. M. Harthorn, January 1, 1891 to Tuly 3, 1893.
J. N. Lemon, July 3, 1893 to January 1, 1895.
S. M. Craddick, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1899.
W. S. AVatson, April 25, 1898 to January 1, 1899.
Charles Chandler, January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1907.
J. A. PFEiFFER, January 1, 1907 to January 1, 1911.
James Fullerton, January 1, 1911 to January 1, 1915.
Samuel Armor, January 1, 1915 to —
Orange Township Constables
K. R. Boring, August 5, 1889 to April 8, 1890.
M. P. Chubb, April 8, 1890 to January 1, 1895.
Frank L. Carr, January 1, 1893 to December 6, 1896.
E. T. Parker, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1899.
T. G. Cervantes, December 7, 1896 to January 1, 1899.
W. T. Bush, January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1903.
H. A. Miller, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1911.
G. L. Tackson, January 1, 1911 to January 1, 1919.
AV. A." Holt, January 1, 1919 to—
Placentia Township Justices
F. M. Frasier, May 8, 1912 to May 20, 1913.
A. M. Ashley, May 20, 1913 to—
Placentia Township Constables
O. H. Schumacher, May 8, 1912 to February 2, 1916.
J. N. Watters, February 2, 1916 to January 1, 1919.
A. O. Nelson, -Tanuary 1, 1919 to —
San Juan Township Justices
J. E. Bacon, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1899.
Marcos Foster, January 1, 1893 to December 16, 1895.
E. PetriE HoylE, December 16, 1895 to July 6, 1896.
G. AV. Stevens, December 7, 1896 to January 1, 1899.
John Landell, January 1, 1899 to April 8, 1914.
John Daneri, April 8, 1914 to —
San Juan Township Constables
Robert Simpson, January 1, 1891 to August 22, 1892.
E. Weber, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1895.
M. H. Foster, January 10, 1893 to January 1, 1895.
R. O. Pryor, January 1, 1895 to January. 1, 1899.
E. D. BoxlEy, January 1, 1895 to March 18, 1895.
M. Yorba, January 5, 1899 to November 5, 1901.

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A. A. LiTTEN, November 5, "1901 to April 1, 1902.
Salbador Labat, April 14, 1902 to September 3, 1902.
James Rae, January 1, 1903 to February 4, 1903.
A. L. Swarthout, February 4, 1903 to January 1, 1907.
O. B. Cook, January 1, 1907 to November 1, 1909.
M. Yorba, November 1, 1909 to December 22, 1914.
John T. Combs, December 22, 1914 to November 19, 1918.
George A. Clark, November 19, 1918 to —
Santa Ana Township Justices
C S. McKelvey, August 5, 1889 to April 14, 1890.
G. E. Freeman, May 5, 1890 to March 17, 1903.
I. G. Marks, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1893.
C. A\r Humphreys, January 1, 1893 to January 1, 1895.
George Huntington, January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1899.
John A. AA'illson, January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1903.
En. Smithwick, March 17, 1903 to Tanuary 1, 1911.
J. B. Cox, January 1, 1911 to—
Santa Ana Township Constables
AYilliam Bush, August 5, 1889 to August 12, 1889.
George T. InslEy, August 12, 1889 to January 1, 1891.
AY. O. Robinson, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1893.
C. F. Preble, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1895.
G. E. Robinson, January 1, 1893 to January 1, 1899.
Robert Graham, January 1, 1895 to November 16, 1896.
Tohn Landell, November 16, 1896 to December 8, 1898.
Ed. H. Mosbaugh, December 8, 1898 to September 5, 1900.
C. F. TrunnEll, January 5, 1899 to March 8, 1899.
William Mann, March 20, 1899 to November 8, 1899.
George AV. Young, November 8, 1899 to September 17, 1900.
T. G. Cervantes, September 17, 1900 to January 1, 1907
Sid Smithwick, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1911.
C. E. Jackson, January 1, 1907 to January 1, 1915.
E. AA' Boynton, January 1, 1911 to April 14, 1911.
Robert Squires, April 14, 1911 to December 19, 1911.
Frank AA'. Heard, December 19, 1911 to January 1, 1919.
AV. Russell Coleman, January 1, 1915 to August 20, 1918.
Jesse L. Elliott, November 19, 1918 to —
\V. N. Carter, January 1, 1919 to—
Seal Beach Township Justices
Chas. W. Bowdish, December 5, 1915 to March 18, 1919.
John H. May, April 1, 1919 to November 1, 1919.
G. H. Morrison, July 1, 1920 to—
Seal Beach Township Constables
C. L. Neuschwanger, December 5, 1915 to May 1, 1918.
Harry H. Mayer, September 27, 1918 to—
Stanton Township Justices
J. C. Alcorn, July 6, 1910 to October 4, 1911.
C. O. Winters, October 4, 1911 to November 5, 1911.
Marshall Clark, November 5, 1911 to January 1, 1920.
Stanton Township Constables
E. R. M. Pierce, July 6, 1910 to September 10, 1912.
D. L. Newlin, September 10, 1912 to January 1, 1915.
Lester C. Dale, January 1, 1915 to July 18, 1916.
T. C. AVhallEy, July 18, 1916 to March 1, 1920.

44 HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
Tustin Township Justices
D. L. McCharlEs, January 27, 1890 to January 1, 1893.
AVilliam Schkomodau, January 1, 1891 to November 2, 1891.
C. D. Ambrose, January 1, 1893 to January 1, 1895.
H. L. HemEnway, January 1, 1895 to November 4, 1895.
L. SlEEpER, January 1, 1895 to November 4, 1895,
D. L. McCharlEs, December 6, 1916 to January 1, 1919.
H. AV. Smith, January 1, 1919 to—
Tustin Township Constables
William Jerome, January 27, 1890 to January 1, 1891.
H. E. AVillard, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1893.
AV. H. BftoOKS, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1895.
C. C. Butterfield, January 1, 1895 to November 4, 1895.
T. Cummins, January 1, 1895 to November 4, 1895.
R. McCarthy, December 6, 1916 to October 3, 1917.
J. A. Coleman, October 16, 1917 to—
Westminster Township Justices
David AVebster, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1893.
T. AAr. Fawcett, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1893.
L. E. Smith, January 1, 1893 to July 17, 1893.
Josiah McCoy, January 1, 1893 to January 1, 1907.
John Lane, February 18, 1895 to February 15, 1897.
S. D. McKelvey, February 15, 1897 to January 1, 1899.
A. H. BurlingamE, January 1, 1907 to January 1, 1911.
S. E. Chaffee, January 1, 1911 to May 31, 1916.
S. AA'ooldridge, May 31, 1916 to—
Westminster Township Constables
AAr. J. Orr, September 16, 1889 to January 1, 1891.
S. D. McKelvey, January 1, 1891 to September 3, 1894.
H. Y. Stevens, January 1, 1891 to January 1, 1897.
M. R. SweETzer, October 2, 1894 to January 1, 1895.
C. C. Lloyd, January 1, 1895 to June 1, 1896.
AV. R. Ball, June 15, 1896 to January 1, 1899.
Jerome Fulsome, January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1903.
T. J. AA'Illiams, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1907.
M. Smith, January 1, 1907 to March 3, 1909.
J. M. Clark, April 7, 1909 to—
Yorba Township Justices
R. P. MarquEz, January 16, 1899 to August 6, 1906.
R. C. Marquez, August 27, 1906 to January 1, 1907.
August Lemke, January 1, 1907 to October 5, 1915.
R. C. Marquez, October 5, 1915 to January 1, 1919.
August Lemke, January 1, 1919 to —
Yorba Township Constables
J. Berlin, Jr., March 8, 1899 to February 6, 1901.
Yincente G. Yorba, February 6, 1901 to January 1, 1903.
B. G. Yorba, January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1907.
Erwin Bayha, January 1, 1907 to January 1, 1911.
M. BoissERANCE, January 1, 1911 to November 19, 1918.
H. A. Buhrman, November 19, 1918 to —
Board of Education
The county superintendent is ex-officio member of the Board of Education.
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boards since the formation of the county, with the date of the appointment and
the length of the service of each, are as follows :
M. ManlEy, August 6, 1889 to June 12, 1893.
T. N. Keran, August 6, 1889 to June 4, 1895.
G. AV. WEEKS, August 6, 1889 to June 12, 1893.
G. C. Mack, August 6, 1889 to June 8, 1891.
Katie L. AVing, Tune 8, 1891 to October 17, 1896.
F E. Perham, June 12, 1893 to July 1, 1896.
B. R. Grogan, June 12, 1893 to March 12, 1894.
AV. R. Carpenter, March 12, 1894 to July 1, 1896.
G. AV. WEEKS, June 4, 1895 to July 1, 1897.
Mrs. E. D. Buss, July 1, 1896 to July 1, 1898.
T. N. Keran, July 1, 1896 to September 20, 1897.
F. E. Perham, October 17, 1896 to July 1, 1897
AY R. Carpenter, July 1, 1897 to July 1, 1899.
AA'. B. Hill, July 1, 1897 to Tuly 1, 1899.
Lyman Gregory, September 20, 1897 to July 1, 1900.
T. T- Zielian, July 1, 1898 to Julv 1, 1906.
Miss M. C. Bray, July 1, 1899 to Tuly 1, 1901.
Louis Grubb, July 1, 1899 to July 1, 1901.
B. F. Beswick, July 1. 1900 to July 1, 1904.
F. G. AthEarn. July 1, 1901 to January 24, 1903.
T. B. Nichols, July 1, 1901 to July 1, 1903.
G. A. Harlin, January 24, 1903 to July 1, 1905.
AV. R. Carpenter. July 1, 1903 to February 12, 1907.
R. P. Mitchell, June 21, 1904 to March 15, 1908.
C O. AA'aldorf, Tuly 1, 1905 to July 1, 1907.
E. M. NeallEy, July 1, 1906 to June 5, 1912.
T. F. AA'alkER, February 12, 1907 to January 8, 1913.
L. A. Durfee, July 1, 1907 to April 2, 1913.
A. AA'. Everett, March 15, 1908 to June 5, 1912.
T. J. Zielian, Tune 5, 1912 to May 8, 1918.
Chas. C. Smith, June 5, 1912 to September 15, 1913.
T. L. AxandERvEER, January 8", 1913 to June 4, 1913.
V. B. Brown, September 15, 1913 to June 3, 1914.
AV. M. Fishback, April 2, 1913 to June 2, 1915.
Chas. E. Teach, June-2, 1915 to August 7, 1918.
AA'. P. Read, August 30, 1918 to July 1, 1919.
T. R. Parker, June 4, 1913 to—
S. R. Fitz, Tune 3, 1914 to—
B. F. Beswick, July 1, 1918 to—
Geo. C. Sherwood, July 1, 1919 to-
Horticultural Commissioners
Up to a recent date the horticultural commission has consisted of three mem
bers appointed by the board of supervisors. Following are the names of those
who have been thus appointed and the length of service of each:
S. AV. Preble, September 2, 1889 to April 21, 1891.
F. H. Keith, September 2, 1889 to May 5, 1891.
H. Hamilton, September 2, 1889 to March 5, 1902.
B. J. PERRY, May 5, 1891 to December 1, 1893.
I. N. RaffErty, May 5, 1891 to March 4, 1903.
L. Z. Huntington, December 1, 1893 to March 1, 1902.
A. D. Bishop, March 5, 1902 to May 3, 1905.
Max Nebelung, March 5, 1902 to July 3, 1907.
Fred RaffErty, March 4, 1903 to July 2, 1907.
E. AAr CamFiEld, May 3, 1905 to July 1, 1909.

46 HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
A. H. Stutsman, Julv 2, 1907 to Tuly 1, 1909.
J. J. Schneider, July 3, 1907 to July 1, 1909.
Roy K. Bishop, November 16, 1909 to January 15, 1918.
Earl Morris, January 15, 1918 to —
By legislative enactment the horticultural commission of three members was
abolished July 1, 1909, and a single certificated commissioner was substituted
therefor. Roy K. Bishop was the only applicant who succeeded in passing the
examination and he was appointed to the place November 16, 1909.
Trustees of Law Library
The legislature of 1891 passed an act authorizing the- establishment of a law
library in each county and the collection of a fee of one dollar for every ca^e
filed in the superior court, to support such library. The supervisors of Orange
County objected to thus taxing the litigants for the benefit of the lawyers, so an
amendment was introduced by Assemblyman C. S. McKelvey and passed by the
legislature of 1895, cutting out the fee. That amendment and the repeal of the
county ordinance establishing the library put a quietus on the appointment of
trustees for the next twelve years. In the legislature of 1907, Senator H. M.
Willis introduced an amendment to the original act, restoring the dollar fee on
court cases, which was adopted. Immediately the Orange County law library
was revived and trustees were appointed as before the interruption. There are
three appointive members and two ex-officio members, the latter being the superior
judge and the chairman of the board of supervisors. The appointive trustees from
the beginning and the time of service of each are as follows :
E. E. KEECH, Tune 1, 1891 to July 1, 1895.
C. C. Hamilton, June 1, 1891 to January 3, 1893.
F AA'. Sanborn, June 1, 1891 to January 3, 1893.
J. G. Scarborough, January 3, 1893 to January 7, 1895.
A^ictor Montgomery, January 3, 1893 to January 7, 1895.
J. AV. Ballard, January 7, 1895 to July 1, 1895.
Z. B. AVest, January 7, 1895 to July 1, 1895.
Richard Melrose, February 12, 1907 to —
R. Y. AVilliams, February 12, 1907 to—
H. C. Head, February 12, 1907 to—
Board of Forestry
T. E. Stephenson, April 8, 1914 to—
R. E. Larter, April 8, 1914 to—
A. S. Bradford, April 8, 1914 to—
Willard Smith, April 8, 1914 to —
A. E. Bennett, April 8, 1914 to February 3, 1920.
A. L. Cotant, February 3, 1920 to —
County Physicians and Health Officers
T. P. Boyd, May 4, 1891 to January 14, 1895.
AV. H. Hill, January 14, 1895 to January 5, 1903.
R. A. Cushman, January 5, 1903 to October 20, 1904.
C. D. Ball, October 20, 1904 to January 1, 1911.
John Wehrly, January 4, 1911 to January 6, 1915.
A. H. Domann, January 6, 1915 to —
Veterinary Surgeons and Stock Inspectors
T. H. Garner, April 7, 1890 to January 1, 1893.
AV. E. SellECk, January 1, 1893 to September 27, 1894.
R. A. Lord, September 27, 1894 to November 29, 1894.
G. E. Armstrong, December 7, 1904 to February 20, 1906.
C. E. Price, February 20, 1906 to February 12, 1907.
W. A. Boucher, February 12, 1907 to September 30, 1907.

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AA'. S. McFarlane, October 2, 1907 to March 3, 1909.
W. S. McFarlane, June 2, 1909 to January 8, 1913.
Geo. A\'. Closson, January 8, 1913 to January 3, 1917.
AA'. S. McFarlane, January 3, 1917 to October 29, 1917.
Geo. W. Closson, October 29, 1917 to—
Bee Inspector
J. E. Pleasants, December 22, 1902 to —
County Engineer
J.L. McBride, January 1, 1920 to—
Custodians of County Park
L. D. AA'EST, April 5, 1898 to March 25, 1901.
AV. AI. Boring, March 2'?. 1901 to October 18, 1904.
C. S. Mason, October 18, 1904 to February 12, 1907.
A. B. Tiffany, February 12, 1907 to May 3, 1916.
S. C. King, May 3, 1916 to January 1, 1919.
. Fred SiEFERT, fanuary 1, 1919 to February 3, 1920.
J. B. Irwin, February 24, 1920 to—
Caretaker of Westminster Public Park
Tames A. McFadden, January 8, 1919 to October 7, 1919.
A. AA' Knox, October 7, 1919 to—
Fire and Game Wardens
AY K. Robinson, May 5, 1909 to April 19, 1910.
T. L. Combs, April 19, 1910 to May 3, 1911.
AV. E. Adkinson, May 3, 1911 to January 8, 1913.
AA'. K. Robinson, January 8, 1913 to June 1, 1913.
W. E. Adkinson, June 1, 1913 to —
County Statisticians
Charles Lehmann, January 1, 1906 to January 1, 1908.
AA 'alter S. Gregg, January 1, 1908 to January 1, 1909.
Ralph A. Fuller, January 1, 1909 to January 1, 1910.
Erwin Bayha, January 1, 1910 to August 22, 1911.
HELEN AA'. CraemER, August 22, 1911 to —
Highway Commissioners
C. C. Chapman, March 2, 1910 to April 12, 1910.
AA'. H. Burnham, March 2, 1910 to December 3, 1912.
M. M. Crookshank, March 2, 1910 to March 4, 1914.
Richard Egan, April 12, 1910 to March 4, 1914.
D. C. PixlEy, December 3, 1912 to Tune 1, 1915.
S. H. FinlEy, March 4, 1914 to April 21, 1914.
R. J. McFadden, March 4, 1914 to January 3, 1917.
AV. T. Newland, April 21, 1914 to January 3, 1917.
N. T. Edwards, June 1, 1915 to January 3, 1917.
Purchasing Agents
J. S. PERRY, September 2, 1914 to January 8, 1919.
F. W. SlabauGh, January 8, 1919 to—
Lecturer and Publicity Agent
D. AV. McDannald, November 21, 1910 to—
Superintendents of County Hospital and Farm
E. A. Chaffee, January 8, 1913 to March 1, 1914.
Geo. Clement, March 1, 1914 to Dec. 22, 1914.
Harry E. ZaiseR, December 22, 1914 to —

48 HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
Superintendents of Detention Home
C. E. Haynes, June 3, 1914 to December 1, 1914.
C. R. Munson, December 1, 1914 to February 7, 1917.
Mrs. S. E. Hutchins, February 7, 1917 to —
Probation Officer
T. H. Scott, June 3, 1914 to October 1, 1920.
Paul B. AA'right, October 1, 1920 to—
Sealer of Weights and Measures
George McPhee, July 2, 1913 to—
Aid Commissioner and Expert Accountant
AAAlter S. Gregg, November 1, 1915 to —
Superintendent of Road Maintenance
Nat. H. NEFF, January 3, 1917 to —
Farm Advisors
A. R. Sprague, March 15, 1918 to September 1, 1918.
H. E. AA'ahlberg, September 1, 1918 to —

CHAPTER III
ORANGE COUNTY'S WATER SUPPLY AND WAY UTILIZED
It is generally understood that the original source of water supply for any
given territory is the rainfall precipitated upon the entire surface of such territory.
In a dry climate the rainfall is regarded as an asset that may be recorded and
proclaimed as one of the natural advantages of the locality. There is also an in
direct benefit from the rainfall that surrounding sections derive from the under
ground waters which are percolating through the gravel on their way from the
higher elevations to the sea. Such water may be brought to the surface by pump
ing, or, on the lowlands near the ocean, it may be forced to the surface by the
pressure from the higher elevations, whenever a boring is made for an artesian
well. The average annual rainfall at Orange for a third of a century has been
13.87 inches, the extremes being 5.32 inches in the winter of 1897-98 and over
three feet in the winter of 1883-84. This is probably as low an average as any
where in the county, since Orange is situated in the middle of a plain near the
center of the county and the rainfall in the hills and mountains is greater than
on the plains below. In fact, the rainfall in the San Bernardino Mountains, where
the Santa Ana River has its source, averages nearly three feet of water per year.
During the violent or long continued storms in winter, vast quantities of water
rush down the steep slopes of the hills and mountains into the canyons and valleys,
and unite, forming streams that carry the surplus to the sea. It is estimated that
fully fifty per cent of the rainfall is lost by evaporation and run-off. The other
fifty per cent sinks into the ground and percolates slowly through the porous soil,
fructifying it and replenishing the underground reservoirs formed by pockets or
strata of gravel at various depths below the surface. Gradually the excess of this
underground water oozes into the channels of the streams at lower levels, thus
continuing their flow throughout the year and even through a period of two or
three dry years, like the one from 1897 to 1900. when the rainfall was 5.32-6.64-
8.86 inches, respectively.

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The streams of Orange County, that carry more or less water to the ocean in
times of floods, are: Coyote Creek; Santa Ana River, including Santiago Creek
and its branches ; Laguna Canyon ; Aliso Creek, and its tributaries ; Trabuco
Creek, which receives the waters from a half dozen canyons northwest of Capis
trano; and a number of arroyos and lagoons which drain the plains between the
streams and the lowlands near the ocean. Coyote Creek, forming the boundary
between Orange County and Los Angeles County, draws its water from the ad
joining plains in both counties. The Santa Ana River takes its rise in the San
Bernardino Mountains, from seventy-five to one hundred miles distant, and is one
of the most important streams for irrigating purposes in Southern California. The
rest of the streams mentioned are wholly within the confines of Orange County.
The area of the catchment-basin of the Santa Ana River has been estimated
by J. B. Lippincott, former resident hydrographer of the Federal Government, as
follows : mountain section, 557 square miles ; hill section, 382 square miles ; valley
section, 525 square miles; making a total of 1,464 square miles. From records
of observers as widely scattered as possible over this area, it has been found that
the average annual rainfall for a long period of years has been 33.84 inches in
the mountains, 20 inches in the hills and 14.98 inches in the valleys. Applying
these figures to the three classes of territory involved and adding the result, we
find the average annual rainfall in the basin of the Santa Ana River amounts to
the enormous sum of 79,819,529,856 cubic feet of water. If three-quarters of the
rainfall in the mountains, two-thirds of that in the hills and half of that in the
valleys be discarded for evaporation and run-off, and if the remainder be drawn
into running water and distributed over the entire year, there would be 41,201
inches of perennial water still left within the basin of the stream. Probably not
much over a quarter of that amount is actually available in the irrigating season
and four-fifths of that quarter is appropriated before the stream reaches Orange
County. However, a considerable portion of the underflow of the river finds its
way into the county, thereby adding its quota to the underground water which the
county gets from its own rainfall.
All the water entering Orange County through the Santa Ana River is equally
divided between the two sides of the stream; that for the northwest side is distrib
uted to the users by the Anaheim Union Water Company, and that for the
southeast side by the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company.
The Anaheim Union Water Company, as its name indicates, was formed
by the union of the Anaheim Water Company, the Cajon Irrigation Company, the
North Anaheim Canal Company, and the Farmers' Ditch Company. The Anaheim
Water Company was established in 1857, its water rights having been purchased
in that year with the land on which Anaheim is located, from Juan Pacifico On-
tiveras. The Cajon Irrigation Company was formed in 1877 to irrigate the Pla
centia and Fullerton sections. The other two companies were formed, or re
organized in 1882. These four companies consolidated under the name of the
Anaheim Union AVater Company in the year 1884. The capital stock of this com
pany was fixed at $1,200,000, which was divided into 12,000 shares of a par value
of $100 each. Two-thirds of this stock has been issued and the other one-third
remains unsold in the treasury. The use of the stock is confined tp about 12,000
acres of land susceptible of irrigation by gravity from the company's ditches.
The facilities of the Anaheim Union Water Company for supplying its stock
holders with water consist of a half interest in the waters of the Santa Ana
River at the division-gate ; many miles of ditches, of which over fifty are lined
with cement concrete; five pumping plants, capable together of furnishing about
1,400 inches of water; and two reservoirs for storing night water for day use
and winter water for summer use. The Tuffr.ee reservoir will hold the entife flow
of the main canal over night, and the Yorba reservoir will store enough of the
winter floods to furnish 300 miner's inches for three months in the irrigating*
season. In addition to the foregoing facilities, the company owns a half interest

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in nearly 2,400 acres of riparian land up the river, as well as several hundred
acres in its own right. These lands strengthen and protect the company's rights
in the river and give opportunity for' further development, when needed. Oil has
been found on some of this land and money enough is being received from leases
to meet all the expenses of the company.
The Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, which distributes the waters of
the Santa Ana River to the territory southeast of said river, like the Anaheim
Union Water Company, is the outgrowth and legatee of previous efforts and or
ganizations for the irrigation of the territory which it now serves. The right to
use the waters of said river on the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana is based on
the appropriations of such waters by the early Spanish settlers as well as on the
riparian character of the land itself. Col. John J. Warner, who died in Los An
geles a number of years ago, at an advanced age, testified, in the suit of the Ana
heim Water Company vs. the Semi-Tropic Water Company, that he found Don
Bernardo Yorba with a large retinue of servants, irrigating his ranch from the
Santa Ana River in the year 1834. These water rights were handed down from
owner to owner with the land, and in 1868 they were parceled out by the court,
pro rata to the acreage, regardless of the distance of each subdivision from the
river. The court also protected the exercise of these rights by granting to the
holders of the lower allotments a right of way over the upper allotments for
ditches to convey water to their respective holdings. In order to irrigate the por
tion of the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, purchased by A. B. Chapman and
Andrew Glassell, a ditch, called the Chapman ditch, was constructed during the
winter of 1870-71, which delivered water as far down as the present site of
Orange the following July. Two years later, May 24, 1873, these same persons
incorporated the Semi-Tropic Water Company and transferred to it all the rights
and interests of the Chapman ditch. As the land was subdivided and sold, stock
in this water company was furnished to the purchasers, who thus came into pos
session and control of the company. In 1877 this company was superseded by
a larger and stronger one in the name of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Com
pany. The property and rights of the old company were purchased and trans
ferred to the new, and all the water rights on the southeast side of the river below
the intake were absorbed in exchange for equivalent rights in the new company.
The capital stock of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company was fixed at
$100,000, divided into 20,000 shares of a par value of $5 each. This stock was
made appurtenant to the land, one share to each acre, and is transferable only
with the land which is described in the certificate. All the assessments, together
with ten per cent interest, have been added to the par value of the stock until
at the present writing the market value has reached $120, which amount must be
paid for any new stock purchased for unstocked land. There are now in force
17,437 shares held by 2,231 stockholders, making an average of less than eight
shares to each stockholder in the company. Over $500,000 has been spent on the
canals, pipe lines, pumping plants and reservoirs; nearly another $100,000 has
been paid for riparian lands and water rights, making about two-thirds of a million
dollars invested in water facilities by this company, to say nothing about current
expenses, etc. These large sums have been drawn gradually from the stock
holders during the past fifty years in such low water rates and moderate assess
ments that the burden has scarcely been felt. In fact, this company has long
enjoyed the reputation of being one of the least expensive of the large water
companies of Southern California.
The facilities of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company for supplying its
stockholders with water are very similar to those of the Anaheim Union Water
Company and consist of a half interest in the waters of the Santa Ana River at
the division-gate; about 141 miles of ditches, of which 117 miles are pipe lines and
.the rest are lined with cement concrete ; eight pumping plants capable together of
furnishing about 1,520 inches of water ; and one small reservoir at Olive for regu
lating the flow of the water in the ditches. In addition to the foregoing the com-

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pany owns a half interest in nearly 2,400 acres of riparian land up the river, as
well as several hundred acres in its own right. These lands strengthen and pro
tect the company's rights in the river and give opportunity for further develop
ment, when needed.
The stream next in importance to the Santa Ana River for irrigation purposes
is the Santiago Creek, which is a tributary of said river. This creek rises in the
Trabuco National Forest Reserve in the eastern end of the county, flows in a
northwesterly direction across the San Joaquin ranch to the mouth of the canyon
and from there proceeds in a southwesterly direction to its junction with the Santa
Ana River. The creek and its branches drain about 127 square miles on the
western slope of the Santa Ana Mountains and the foothills adjacent. Assuming
that the average annual rainfall within the drainage basin of this stream is fifteen
inches, which is under rather than over the mark, the precipitation would aggre
gate 4,425,696,000 cubic feet of water per year, or one-eighteenth of the rainfall
in the great catchment-basin of the Santa Ana River. Like most of the streams
between the coast range and the sea, this creek carries off the greater part of the
rainfall shortly after it is precipitated. However, a small per cent sinks into the
soil and gradually percolates into the channel, thereby continuing the stream
throughout the year. The quantity thus saved and utilized can be greatly in
creased by storage reservoirs and by spreading part of the storm water over waste
lands to sink into the gravel beds and find its way into the stream later in the
season. Some of this work has already been done and more is being planned for
the future. The parties who are interested in the waters of the Santiago Creek are the
Irvine Company, owner of the San Joaquin ranch, and the settlers on the lands
about the mouth of the canyon, above ditch A of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation
Company, who are represented by the Serrano Water Association on the north side
of the creek and by the John T. Carpenter Water Company on the south side.
Naturally, the Irvine Company would have large riparian rights in the stream on
account of furnishing a large part of the catchment-basin and owning land on both
sides of the stream for ten or eleven miles. These rights have never been adjudi
cated, although the attempt to take water over the water shed to other parts of
the ranch was successfully resisted in the courts by the settlers. An agreement
was finally reached whereby the water of the creek will be apportioned to the
different parties in interest and an opportunity be given to increase such water
by diminishing the run-off. The stipulations of this agreement were made the
judgment of the court, thereby making them binding on all concerned.
By the terms of this agreement the two water companies, designated as the
party of the first part, get practically all the water of the creek up to 600 inches
during the five irrigating months, from June 20, to November 20, of each year ;
the Irvine Company, designated as the party of the second part, gets the next 50
, inches, and all above the 650 inches will be divided equally between the two parties.
For the rest of the year the party of the first part will have the first 60 inches and
the party of the second part the next 60 inches; and all above the 120 inches
will be equally divided. An easement to three tracts of land, aggregating about
500 acres, is granted for spreading the storm water, and also an option to build
a dam across Fremont Canyon and impound water therein, together with rights
of way for roads and ditches. The party of the first part covenant to spend not
less than $14,000 during the next five years in spreading water on the two upper
tracts, and may spend other large sums within the next ten years; the party of
the second part agrees to refund one-third of all the money thus expended each
year, up to a limit of $16,666.67 for the third, during the ten years. In return
for the liberal concession of the Irvine Company, that company is permitted to
take its share of the water over the watershed to other parts of the ranch. The
time within which a dam might be built in Fremont Canyon having expired, it
is understood that the option, with all its agreements and conditions, given by
the Irvine Company for that purpose, has lapsed. The two water companies,

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designated the party of the first part in the agreement, together own the Barham
ranch upon which they have constructed a shallow reservoir of considerable area.
Below this ranch they built a bedrock dam across the creek in 1892, at a cost of
$3,600, the deepest point being nineteen feet below the surface of the creek-bed.
The water intercepted and raised to the surface by this dam is carried off in a
28-inch cement pipe 725 feet to the division-gate, where it is divided equally
between the two companies.
The Serrano AA'ater Company was organized in 1875 by the Lotspiech
Brothers, J. AA'. Anderson, Dr. Worrell, Charles Tiebout and a few others. The
association has no capital stock, but the water is distributed among the sixty-six
owners according to the acreage of each, with the limitation that two-thirds of the
association's water belongs to the 631 acres in the Lotspiech tract and the other
one-third to the 672 acres in the Gray tract. To serve these owners the association
has laid below the division-gate 6,288 feet of 20-inch pipe and 2,679 feet of
16-inch pipe, while individual members have laid three and one-half miles of from
10 to 16-inch pipe.
The John T. Carpenter Water Company is capitalized for $16,000, divided
into 1,600 shares of $10 each. This stock is held by 115 owners, who use the
water on 900 acres of land. The company has laid about four miles of 16 and
20-inch pipe and about eight miles of 10 and 12-inch pipe.
Trabuco Creek, with its tributaries, furnishes water for quite an area of land
in the vicinity of Capistrano. The greater portion of the water from this stream
is distributed by the Trabuco Water Company, which irrigates about 500 acres.
In addition to the irrigation from the three streams just described, there are
a few farms that take out more or less water from Coyote Creek, Laguna Creek,
Aliso Creek and other sources. Then, too, there are thousands of acres irrigated
from wells, either artesian or pumped. As already described, large quantities of
water from the rainfall sink into the ground and percolate through the gravel
strata on their way from the higher elevations to the sea. This water may be
found at various depths in nearly every part of the plains forming the major
portion of the county; but it is particularly abundant about Anaheim and in the
western part of the county, where it is undoubtedly supplied by the underflow of
the Santa Ana River. According to the assessor's report there are 1,224 pumping
plants in Orange County valued at $3,060,000. These raise from 25 to 125 inches
of water each from a single well, while in a number of cases a large plant fur
nishes from 200 to 400 inches from a group of wells. The lower lands near the
ocean are either damp enough or they are irrigated from artesian wells. The
number of acres irrigated from wells, pumping or artesian, is about 12,000 ; the
total number of acres irrigated from all sources in the county is aDDroximatelv
50,000. J
If anything further were needed to prove that Orange County is well watered,
it might be found in the vast quantities of nearly every kind of grain, fruit, nut
and vegetable grown in the temperate zone, as well as many kinds indigenous
to the torrid zone, which are produced in this county and sent to market every
year, not only supporting the farmers and fruit growers, but actually enriching
them. Surely Orange County may take rank alongside of the land of Canaan as
described by Moses in the following paragraph :
"For the Lord, thy God, bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks
of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of
wheat and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates, a land of oil, olive,
and honey ; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not
lack anything in it ; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou
mayest dig brass. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the
Lord, thy God, for the good land which he hath given thee."

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CHAPTER IV
THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
Supplemented by E. B. Merritt
The city of Anaheim is the oldest city in Orange County and was founded
and settled by some Germans who had been residents of San Francisco for some
time. They were all citizens of the United States and were looking about for
cheap land that would be suitable for the growing of grapes. They traveled about
the state and especially turned their attention to the southern part, and soon
decided that the section that is the present site of Anaheim was best suited to
the growing of grapes and the making of wine.
This corporation was organized in 1857 by fifty men, among whom were the
following: George Hansen, John Fisher, John Froelich, Charles Kohler, Utmar
Caler, C. C. Kuchel, C. Biltsen, Henry Kroeger, H. Schenck, H. Bunnellman, Julius
Weiser, John P. Zeyn, Benjamin Dreyfus, Hugo Currance, and others. Their
organization was known as the Los Angeles Vineyard Company. Each man pur
chased a share, which was valued at $750. They bought about 1,200 acres of
land, being a part of the Rancho San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana, and owned by
Juan Pacifico Ontiveras, to whom they paid two dollars per acre. This tract was
laid out in twenty-acre lots, and work was at once begun upon it under the man
agement of George Hansen, who was selected for their superintendent. He began
leveling, building fences, digging -ditches, etc. Expenses were $216 per day, a
considerable amount for that period. The tract was one and one-half miles long
and one and a quarter wide, fenced in with 40,000 willow poles, six feet above the
ground and one and one-half feet apart ; these were strengthened by three hori
zontal poles. These poles eventually took root and soon the colony was sur
rounded by a living willow wall. The whole was defended by a ditch four feet
deep, six feet wide at the top, sloping to one foot at the bottom. Streets were
laid out through the tract, a gate constructed across the end of the main street
and when this was closed it made the enclosure secure from invasion. Thousands
of wild Spanish cattle and horses roamed the plains at that time and these would
have devastated the growing vines and other crops unless so protected.
These sturdy pioneers gave the name of Anaheim to their new found home,
from the German, heim — home — and the Spanish, Ana — a proper name. Home
by the Santa Ana River. A ditch was dug to .convey water for irrigation, seven
and one-half miles in length, and several miles of laterals were constructed. On
each twenty-acre tract eight acres of vines were planted the first year. At the
end of two years these vines had come into bearing. All assessments had been
paid by each shareholder, which brought the total amount to $1,200 each. At this
time each lot had a valuation placed upon it according to location and improve
ments, at from $600 to $1,400. Division was made by lot. As each man had paid
in $1,200, the ones who drew the $1,400 lots paid in $200 and those who drew
under that figure received balance in cash ; and, besides all this, each shareholder
received one lot in the town plot. During these two years the men of the com
pany had continued their residence in San Francisco, but at this date they as
sumed control of their separate properties. They began building houses, having
to haul lumber and necessities from Los Angeles, that being their nearest supply
point. Thirty miles was a long distance to bring their necessities and as soon as
possible they established a landing on the coast where boats could land supplies.
This was but twelve miles west and was known for many years as Anaheim
Landing. Their main object was to grow grapes and manufacture wine, but of the
entire number there was but one man who understood the art of wine making.
They were mostly mechanics and carpenters, besides whom there was a watch
maker, blacksmith, a gunsmith, an engraver, a brewer, teacher, bookbinder, miller,

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shoemaker, poet, merchants, musicians and a hotelkeeper. Benjamin Dreyfus
built the first house in 1857. John Fischer erected the first hotel in 1865 ; this was
destroyed by fire in 1871 and the following year Henry Kroeger built the Anaheim
hotel. In the town plot of forty acres, which occupied the center of the tract, one
lot was reserved for a school building and this was among the very first structures
erected. This was very commodious and was put up to serve as a school-
house and assembly hall. During the flood of 1861-62 the Santa Ana River over
flowed and damaged the foundations, rendering its unsafe and school was then
held in the water company's building on Center Street until 1869, when a new
building was built. It was a severe struggle against all kinds of odds for several
years, but their patient industry and perseverance won the struggle and at the
end of ten years each stockholder's property was worth from $5,000 to $10,000.
In the meantime they made their improvements and supported their families. The
company had its officers, electing Utmar Caler, president ; G. C. Kohler, vice-presi
dent; Cyrus Biltsen, treasurer, and John Fischer, secretary.
A fire occurred in the town on January 16, 1877, which destroyed Enterprise
Hall, a saloon, a Chinese wash-house and the Daily Gazette building, entailing a
loss of about $18,000, half covered by insurance. The Anaheim Hide & Leather
Company was established in 1879 and was operated less than a year, when it
quit business. A. Guy Smith & Company built a steam grist and planing mill in
1875. Hinds Brewery was established by Theodore Reiser in 1874. Vines were
set out in Anaheim and vicinity each year from 1857 until 1887. In 1884 a disease
was discovered among the vines and in 1885 it was seen that the grape industry
was doomed. Vines that had produced ten tons to the acre dwindled to nothing.
lt seemed to attack the Mission variety first and the oldest and strongest vines
were the first to die. In 1885 there were about 500,000 vines in that vicinity and
about fifty wineries, which up to that time had been making money. For twenty-
five years Anaheim and vicinity was the greatest wine producing center in Cali
fornia. After the vines began to die out walnuts and oranges took their places
and this is now one of the best sections in Orange County for these products.
The Anaheim Gazette, the pioneer newspaper, established by G. W. Barter,
was first issued October 29, 1870. Barter had bought the plant of the Wilmington
Journal, defunct. The press had been brought around the Horn in 1851 and had
been used in Los Angeles by the Star, the pioneer newspaper of Southern Cali
fornia. In 1871 Barter sold the paper to C. A. Gardner, who in turn sold to
Melrose & Knox, in 1872. Knox retired in 1876. F. W. Athearn was connected
with it in 1876-77, then Melrose became sole owner and sold it to Henry Kuchel,
the present owner, who has continued the publication for more than thirty years.
The Orange County Plain Dealer, established in Fullerton in 1898, moved to
Anaheim and was owned and edited by J. E. Val jean a number of years before
his death. The Anaheim Daily Herald was founded by Thomas Crawford in 1913
and is now owned and published by The Anaheim Herald Publishing Company.
In 1860 the Anaheim Water Company became owner of the ditches and water
rights originally belonging to the Anaheim Vineyard Company. The stock of this
company was an appurtenance of the land and could not be diverted from it. The
water company was incorporated with $20,000 capital stock and in 1879 this was
increased to $90,000, and ditches were extended to cover the Anaheim extension.
The Cajon Water Company's ditch was completed November 18, 1878, at a cost
of $50,000. It tapped the Santa Ana River at Bed-Rock Canyon and was fifteen
miles long. In 1879 the Anaheim Union Water Company bought a half interest
in this ditch. Anaheim was incorporated as a city February 10, 1870, but the
burden was too great to be carried by the people and in 1872 they petitioned the
legislature to be dis-incorporated. This was granted and it was an unincorporated
town until March, 1878, when it was incorporated and then in 1888 it was
reincorporated. In 1880 Anaheim boasted of the best school building in Los Angeles County,
outside of that city. In 1877 Prof. J. M. Guinn, who had been principal of the

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Anaheim school for eight years, the building having become inadequate for the
increased population, drafted a bill authorizing the district to issue bonds for
$10,000. He was instrumental in securing its passage by the legislature and it
became a law March 12, 1878. The bonds were sold at par and a building erected.
This was the first instance on record in the state of incorporating and bonding a
school district to secure funds to build a schoolhouse, a method now quite com
mon in the state, thus giving California the best schoolhouses of any state in
the Union. The schools of Anaheim embrace grades from the kindergarten to
the junior college and compare favorably with the best in Southern California.
For further particulars about Anaheim's schools see chapter on Orange County's
Schools. In January, 1875, the Southern Pacific Railway built a branch to Anaheim
and for two years this was their terminus. In 1887 the Santa Fe built through
to San Diego and that year a number of vineyards were divided and sold in town
lots. Anaheim has three banks, all well capitalized; a public library, several school
buildings ; eight miles of paved streets, and fifteen miles of cement sidewalks.
The city owns its own water supply, as well as its own electric lighting plant.
There are two depots of the Southern Pacific and one of the Santa Fe, and it will
soon have an outlet by the Pacific Electric, building a direct line. The country
about is fertile, growing almost anything put into the ground.
The living willow wall that surrounded the original colony disappeared long
ago and but few of the present citizens of the city remember the appearance of
the original place, called by the native Californians Campo Aleman — German
carno. Anaheim is now a city of beautiful homes, with a population of 5,526.
Early in the year of 1911 bonds were 'voted for $90,000, to construct a sewer sys
tem ; and $8,500, for additions to the electric lighting system. As showing the
progressive sentiment of the people it may be said that the former received 352
votes for, and 24 against, and the latter 303 for, and 68 against. The city has six
packing houses for oranges and lemons, one beet sugar factory, one marmalade fac
tory, one cigar factory, a large hotel and several apartment houses, besides the
usual complement of all kinds of business houses. Its area is two and three-quar
ters square miles; its .assessed valuation in 1920 was $3,017,415, and the building
permits issued the same year amounted to $92,000. This shows a healthy growth
when it is remembered that the war lid was on building operations that year.
During the year 1919, Anaheim had a building total of more than $200,000.
Included in the construction program was a thirty-apartment building, a bungalow
court, many individual residences, a large new First Methodist Church and a few
business buildings, but here, as in other towns, construction could not keep up
with the demand, and still greater activity is foreseen in the future.
The churches of Anaheim represent fourteen denominations, as follows :
Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal, Christian Science, Lutheran, Bap
tist, Evangelical, Mennonite, German Methodist, Mexican Methodist, Seventh
Day Adventist, German Lutheran, and German Baptist.
Following are the city officers as they stood after the election and appoint
ment in 1920: Board of trustees, William Stark, president; Frank N. Gibbs,
Fred A. Backs, Jr., Charles H. Mann, Howard E. Gates; clerk, Edward B. Mer
ritt ; marshal and tax collector, N. F. Steadman ; treasurer, Charles A. Boege ;
recorder, J. S. Howard; manager and street superintendent, O. E. Steward; elec
trician, V. W. Hannum ; attorney, Homer G. Ames ; rate collector, W. A. Wallace.
The soil about Anaheim is a sandy loam, easily worked, retains the heat and
moisture. This, with its proximity to the ocean and distance from the snow
capped mountains, places that section in the frostless belt of the county. Then,
lying in front of the mouth of the Santa Ana Canyon, the territory about Ana
heim gets the greatest benefit from the underflow of the river. A people with
such natural resources and with the sturdy manhood to voluntarily close their
saloons, as they did January 1, 1919, cannot help but prosper.

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Anaheim Municipal Light and Water Works
By V. W. Hannum
The first step, in the building of the present Municipal Light and Water
System, was taken in April, 1879, when the pioneers of the Mother Colony started
the municipal water plant, then located on West Cypress Street.
Making a success of this venture, and wishing to keep abreast of modern im
provements, they started the electric light plant on August 23, 1894, with a con
nected load of thirteen arc lamps, used for street lighting, and 145 incandescent and
nine arc lamps from which a revenue was derived. By 1907, there were 324 light
and 372 water consumers, which made it necessary to construct an entirely new
plant at 518 South Los Angeles Street. The equipment at that time consisted of
two 125 horsepower boilers, two steam-driven electric generators of eighty kilo
watt capacity, two twelve-inch wells with a pumping capacity of 600 gallons per
minute. In 1912 another 125-horsepower boiler and a steam-driven electric gen
erator of 150 kilowatt capacity was added. In 1913, the increasing water demand
made it necessary to drill a new sixteen-inch well, in which a pump of a capacity
of 800 gallons per minute was installed, this installation being duplicated in 1915.
By 1916 the electric load had reached such proportions that the generating
equipment was inadequate, so rather than add more generating equipment, an
agreement was made with the Southern California Edison Company whereby
the city purchases all of its electric energy wholesale, but maintains its own dis
tributing system.
In 1918 it became necessary to again increase the water supply. This was
done by replacing one of the small capacity pumps with one of a capacity of 1,200
gallons per minute. In 1920 a new sixteen-inch well was drilled and a 1,200-
gallon pump installed. The city now has three wells, each 335 feet deep, with
a pumping capacity of over 3,000 gallons per minute. A reinforced-concrete
reservoir, with a capacity of 173,000 gallons, at an elevation to give forty pounds
pressure on the mains, insures an adequate supply of good pure water at all times.
A two-stage centrifugal pump, driven by a 125-horsepower motor, is used to
increase the pressure in case of fire; this pump will deliver 1,500 gallons of water
per minute at a pressure of 125 pounds.
Until May, 1914, the rate for lighting purposes had been ten cents per kilo
watt-hour; at that time the plant had become self-sustaining, so the lighting rate
was reduced to seven cents per kilowatt-hour. This cut, while greatly reducing
the revenue for the city, was a great saving to the consumers.
While the past few years have seen prices rise by leaps and bounds on all
materials used in the light and water departments, as well as increases of wages,
and two increases on the wholesale price of electric energy, the city by conservative
methods has been able to keep its water rate at ten cents per hundred cubic feet,
and the electric lighting rate at seven cents per kilowatt-hour, thereby furnishing
hght and water at pre-war prices to its many patrons, and still maintaining a
source of revenue, of which the year ending May 1, 1920, is a good example.
At that time there were more than 3,000 services for light and water with a
revenue of nearly $70,000, leaving better than $20,000 for the general fund after
all operating expenses had been paid. Besides being a source of revenue to the
city the Municipal Light and Water Works furnish steady employment to many
of the citizens of Anaheim.

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CHAPTER V
THE CITY OF BREA
By Mable McGee
Brea is situated at the mouth of the canyon of the same name adjoining the
eastern part of Fullerton on the north. The canyon has long afforded an easy
passage for a wagon road from the interior valley to the coastal plains and was
named Brea Canyon from the brea, or mineral tar, which oozed out of the ground
in the canyon. The city is the youngest and one of the smallest in the galaxy
of Orange County cities. It was incorporated February 23, 1917, and has an
area of one and three-quarter square miles. The assessed valuation of the city
in 1920 was $718,880, with a tax rate of $1.00. The population given by the
1920 census is 1,037.
While there are some orchards and farms in the southern part of the city,
the principal support of the place is derived from the oil industry. The city is
in the heart of a rich oil district, surrounded by about twenty-three leases. In
fact, looking up and down the mesa in front of the hills, hundreds of oil derricks
may be seen in either direction. This oil industry is not only the main support of
the city of Brea, but it is a valuable asset of the whole county, as manifested
by the increase in the assessment roll each year as the territory expands and new
wells are brought in.
The city has one and a half miles of cement sidewalks and three miles of
paved streets. There are four churches, Congregational, Christian, Nazarene and
Seventh Day Adventist. (The schools may be found in the chapter on Orange
County's Schools.) The following organizations have branches in Brea: Oil
Field, Gas Well Refineries International Workers of America (this is a labor
organization of oil men and used to be called "The Oil Field Workers' Union") ;
AA^omen's Union Label League (the latter is an auxiliary of the men's organiza
tion just mentioned) ; Knights of Pythias; AAroodmen ; Maccabees; Royal Neigh
bors ; and Brea Study Club.
The Brea Boiler AArorks and Union Tool Company are home industries that
employ a great many men.
The city officers at the present time are as follows : Board of trustees, Jay
C. Sexton, president ; Isaac Craig, P. C. Huddleston, R. H. Mitchell, Frank J.
Schweitzer; clerk, Mrs. L. A. Sayles; treasurer, Leon A. Sayles; attorney, Albert
Launer ; engineer, Robt. AA'. Phelps ; marshal, street superintendent and pound
master, D. O. Stegman.
That Brea went over the top in subscribing to the five liberty loans may be
seen in the lists published elsewhere in the history.
The Union Oil Company has a beautiful building and picturesque grounds in
Brea, showing what can be done with capital and good taste, where the climate
is equable, the soil fertile and the water abundant.

CHAPTER VI
THE CITY OF FULLERTON
Supplemented by H, L. Wilber
Twenty-three miles southeast from Los Angeles lies the thriving little city
of Fullerton with its population of 4,415 souls. Until 1887 this section of the
county was largely given over to pasturage for sheep and cattle. Its richness had
not been discovered except by a few, but now it is considered by the residents of
the vicinity as the "garden spot of Orange County." The city was laid out in
1887 by Amerige Brothers and the Pacific Land and Improvement Company. The
first building was erected the same year, in which year also occurred the advent
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58 HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
making, for it is surrounded by a very productive country and its climatic condi
tions are ideal, far enough away from the snow-capped mountains and near
enough to the sea, to have a very equable temperature.
Soon after the advent of the railroad the little hamlet grew rapidly. At an
early date the planting of oranges and walnuts was begun and the results were
so gratifying that the locality soon attracted general attention as a fruit section.
Planting of various kinds of deciduous fruits followed and soon it was discovered
that soil and climatic conditions were the best to be found in Southern California.
Besides the fruit industry there sprung up a lucrative business in vegetable grow
ing. With a ready market in Los Angeles a man with a limited amount of money
could get good returns from his farming venture from the very start.
It was at the close of the "boom," in 1888, that this part of California was
the center of attraction and towns sprung up in the desert and, by the develop
ment of water for irrigation, garden spots were made to blossom out of drear
waste. The Amerige Brothers were among the men who came to Southern
California during this period and, seeing the possibilities of the section that is
now Fullerton and Placentia districts, purchased 500 acres of bare, unimproved
land, from the Miles' estate. They had inside information that the Santa Fe
Railroad would be built in this direction on its way to San Diego and entered into
negotiations with the Pacific Land and Improvement Company to have a change
made in the surveys in order to strike the proposed town site. To insure the
building of the road and location of a depot the brothers gave railroad rights to
the company. The first stake was driven on July 6, 1887, in a field of wild mus
tard. Soon the land was cleared, streets laid out and graded, business blocks and
several dwellings erected. On account of some obstruction in securing right of
way, the railroad was unable to build to the town until the following year and
thus it was greatly handicapped for lack of transportation facilities. Amerige
Brothers sold an interest in their holdings to Wilshire Brothers, and soon after
ward all interests were merged into the Fullerton Land and Trust Company, to
facilitate development.
The town was given its name in honor of G. H. Fuller, then president of
the Pacific Land and Improvement Company, which was an organization of the
directors of the Santa Fe. He was a factor in the early beginning of the town,
but soon was deposed from office. The name of the town was then changed to
La Habra, in harmony with the name of the valley adjoining. The opposition to
this change was so strong that the town was re-christened Fullerton, although the
first railroad tickets were issued to La Habra. In the fall of 1888 the first train
reached the place ; this did not increase the growth of the town as was expected,
for by that time the great boom of Southern California was over. The hamlet
has had only a conservative growth from the beginning.
The first good building to be erected in Fullerton was the St. George Hotel,
costing $50,000. This was followed by the Wilshire block, costing about $8,000.
It was in this building that the first postoffice was established and the first store
opened. The Chadbourne block, costing $22,000, was the next one of importance,
followed quickly by the Schumacher, Grimshaw and Schindler buildings. The
first church was the Presbyterian, which was erected in 1889.
The streets were all named by the founders of the town. Fullerton remained
a town until 1904, at which time, on January 22, it was incorporated as a city of
the sixth class. In 1920 the assessed valuation of property was $19,558,695. The
town has but small indebtedness and the limits of the city embrace eighteen square
miles. It is one of the best shipping points in Orange County, and is admirably
located for manufacturing industries. It is near the oil fields, which thus guar
antees a permanent and cheap fuel supply, and has an abundant supply of water.
The warehouse facilities of Fullerton are the best in the county and its pack
ing houses give employment to a large number of men and women. All the roads
leading to the city are paved. There are two well-capitalized national banks, one
savings bank and one state bank ; the professions are represented by able men in

ST. GEORGE HOTEL, FULLERTON. BUILT 1888. OAVNED BY AMERIGE
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law and medicine. There are among its industries of importance the following
besides those already mentioned : Seven orange and two vegetable packing houses,
two grist mills, three lumber yards, three hotels and a number of good boarding
houses. The city maintains a band and two newspapers, the Orange County Daily
Tribune, established in 1889, and the Fullerton News, which was established in
1902. There are six churches — the Presbyterian, organized in February, 1888 ;
the Methodist, December 2, 1888; Baptist, November 12, 1893 ; Christian, in April,
1905 ; also the Catholic and Christian Science.
The following account of the origin and development of the Fullerton Public
Library was furnished by Miss Minnie Maxwell, the librarian:
The Fullerton Public Library had its origin in a little reading room that was
established about 1903 by a little group of women led by Mrs. Anna T. Dean.
A room over the First National Bank was secured and funds for rent, heat and
light were raised by subscriptions solicited by Mrs. G. AA'. Sherwood and Miss
Anna McDermont. Magazines, newspapers and books were freely donated by
citizens, and the room soon became a popular place. Volunteer attendants cared
for the room and lent books to patrons.
In 1905, realizing the advantages to the city of such an institution, the city
trustees took up the matter of securing funds to build a public library, and applica
tion was made to Andrew Carnegie. In order to comply with the requirements,
the city purchased a lot on the corner of Wilshire and Pomona avenues, and also
appointed a committee to secure subscriptions amounting to $1,000 for the pur
chase of books. The committee appointed consisted of Miss Anna McDermont,
Mrs. G. W. Sherwood, Mrs. Otto des Granges and Mrs. \Arm. Schulte. The
money was subscribed and a gift of $10,000 was secured from the Carnegie Cor
poration. The board of library trustees, acting at the time of the construction of
the library building, was made up of J. C. Braly, president ; AA". AA'. Kerr, secre
tary ; D. R. Collings, Prof. A. L. Vincent and Meredith Conway.
Early in 1907 work was begun on the building, which was completed and
ready for use by December, 1907. Miss Minnie Maxwell was elected as the first
librarian, and began her work in September, 1907. By the time the new building
was completed about 1,000 volumes were ready to place on the shelves. From the
beginning the books added to the library have been classified and catalogued
according to the most approved methods, making the contents of the library
readily accessible to the users. The collection of books has grown steadily until
now (1919) there are about 7,000 volumes, besides valuable files of magazines,
newspapers, pamphlets, etc.
The library serves not only the people of the city of Fullerton, but gives free
service to the people of the surrounding country and the neighboring towns as
well. The present building is inadequate for the needs of the rapidly growing
city, and a new addition or an entirely new building is necessary in the near future.
The board of trustees of the library is as follows. Dr. F. J. Gobar, president;
H. W. Daniels, secretary; Mrs. G. W. Sherwood, Anna McDermont, S. J. Lillie.
November 12, 1902, a hospital association was incorporated and this has been
in operation ever since, maintaining a reputation for having a thorough equipment
and efficient service.
The city has one union high school, organized in 1893, and in 1906-07 a new
building was erected, costing about $50,000. This was totally destroyed by fire
in 1910. A new site was purchased and more and better buildings were erected,
as may be seen in the chapter on Orange County's Schools. On August 12, 1908,
Fullerton organized a fire department. It has a paid service and is modernlv
equipped. Fullerton has an active Board of Trade, which has done more than
any other agency to advertise the city and its surroundings, and to beautify them
as well. It was organized in 1901 and now has 150 members. It has a Masonic
Lodge, which was organized in October, 1900; the Independent Order of Odd
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September, 1897; Fraternal Brotherhood in August, 1£99; Fraternal Aid in 1893;
also Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America, AA^oodmen of the World,
Eastern Star, P. E. O. and Rebekahs. It has also a Woman's Club, which is affili
ated with the state federation. This organization has wielded a strong influence
in the social and civic work in the city. The Ebell Club is also a dominant factor
in the city's life.
Following are the city officers as they stood after the election and appoint
ments in 1920: Board of trustees, W. F. Coulter, president; L. F. Drake, R.
A. Marsden, R. R. Davis, Robert Strain; clerk, F. C. Hezmalhalch; treasurer,
Fred Fuller ; recorder, William French ; attorney, Albert Launer ; engineer, George
Wells ; street superintendent, A. G. Barnes ; water and sewer superintendent,
Geo. AVitty ; marshal, Vernon Myers ; health officer, Dr. J. H. Lang ; park superin
tendent, J. G. Seupelt; board of health, J. H. Lang, M. D., health officer; E. T.
Hall, M. D.. G. C. Clark, M. D., G. W. Finch, Mrs. Carrie Ford; community
nurse, May Pierce.
Fullerton nestles in the center of orange and walnut groves and is distant
but ten miles from Santa Ana, the county seat. The city is made up of com
fortable homes and is surrounded with very fine land suitable for growing almost
anything put into it. The people are generous and hospitable and anxious to pro
mote the general welfare in any way that will serve the interests of all.
During the year 1919, the city of Fullerton issued 188 building permits, whose
total value was $528,609. I. H. Dysinger, building inspector, says the actual
value of the improvements is greater than the amount indicated by the permits;
but that is the case generafly in all the cities.
Recent building operations include the Fullerton Improvement Company's
building at Spadra and Amerige, erected at a cost of $55,000, and a later one at
Spadra and Wilshire costing $62,000. This latter building houses the temporary
city hall and the Rialto theater, the latter being one of the classiest playhouses in
the state. The Masons have bought ground at Spadra and Chapman for a $60,000
temple; the Christian Scientists have built a $26,000 church, and the Ebell Club
plans to erect a $40,000 club house.

CHAPTER VII
THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
Supplemented by Charles R. Nutt
In the spring of 1904, the name of a little village known as Pacific City
ivas changed to Huntington Beach, and the townsite was acquired by the Hunting
ton Beach Company, a corporation with its principal offices at Los Angeles, from
a syndicate of Long Beach and Santa Ana men who were owners of Pacific
City. On July 4, 1904, the first electric car from Los Angeles reached Hunt
ington Beach.
In addition to purchasing the holdings of the Pacific City syndicate, the Hunt
ington Beach Company bought large acreage sites which they included in the
limits of the new city, dividing it into lots 25x1 17j4 feet, laid many miles of
cement pavement, built a water and an electric lighting system, installed a tele
phone system and made many other municipal improvements which added greatly
to the value of their holdings.
At that time there were only three houses on what is now Main Street, and
about twenty homes in the town. The grammar school building was also com
pleted in the summer of 1904.

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In the spring of the above mentioned year a meeting was held in a Main
Street building by a Union Sunday school, and in the following year a church
of the Methodist denomination was organized and services were held in the
present bank building, in the room now used as a city hall. In March, 1906,
the newly organized church secured a church building, locating it at the
corner of Seventh Street and Magnolia Avenue, where it still stands. In the
spring of the same year the present Baptist Church was erected and an organiza
tion .of the Christian Church was formed about the same time. In 1908 the last
named denomination built the church which it now uses on Eighth Street.
In 1906 the Southern California Methodist Association, which had been
holding its annual sessions at Long Beach, built in Huntington Beach the com
modious auditorium which it has ever since used for its annual camp meetings
and sessions, of the Epworth League.
Early in the year 1904 a bank was organized by business men residing chiefly
at Long Beach and called the Huntington Beach Bank. A year later its name
was changed, having been reorganized under the national banking laws and it
was called, as it still is, the First National Bank of Huntington Beach. A savings
bank was also formed in connection with it and called the Savings Bank of Hunt
ington Beach, and the present quarters of the two banks were built in 1905 and
have been occupied continuously by them ever since. The stock of both institu
tions is now owned by local men. In the year 1905 two lumber companies were
formed to do business iii the city, one the Starr and the other the San Pedro
Lumber Company ; the latter afterwards buying the former and continuing in
business to the present time.
Other business enterprises which came to Huntington Beach in the early
years of its existence were the Anthracite Peat Fuel Company in 1905, the La
Bolsa Tile factory, the Raine Tile Company, the Huntington Beach Cannery
(which put up a substantial canning plant and flourished until 1908) ; the Hunting
ton Beach Tent City Company (composed of local business men, which has
enjoyed a fairly successful career), and various mercantile establishments. The
Tent City Company each summer puts up and rents a large number of tents to
those attending the Methodist camp meetings, the Grand Army encampments and
other conventions and meetings for which Huntington Beach is fast becoming
popular. Huntington Beach was incorporated in February, 1909, as a city of the sixth
class. Its area is about 2.77 square miles. Its assessed valuation in 1920 was
$1,023,635, with a tax rate of $1.50, which includes special taxes for library,
music, promotion and sinking fund. The bonded indebtedness is $104,750.00.
The postoffice receipts in 1913 were $5,625.52, and in 1918 wen; $7,867.40, an
increase of 39.8 per cent in five years. Village . delivery was established in
September, 1917. The present population is 1,687.
The following denominations have each a church in the city: Methodist
Episcopal, Baptist, Christian, Catholic, Church of Christ, and Christian Science.
The Southern California Methodist Association maintains an auditorium here with
a seating capacity of over 2,000, where the Methodists hold their annual camp
meetings, and which is also used by other organizations, such as the Southern
California Veterans' Association, Epworth League, Church of Latter Day Saints,
etc., for their annual outings.
The elementary school district has a very modern and up-to-date school build
ing, erected in 1915 at a cost of approximately $75,000, employs thirteen teachers
and has an enrollment of 300 pupils. The Union high school employs nine teachers
and has an enrollment of 115 pupils. It has a well-equipped manual arts building
and teache.s domestic science in all its branches in addition to the regular training
for college or business. Much attention is also paid to agriculture in the course
of study.

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The public library, housed in a Carnegie building and supported by the city,
has over 6,000 bound volumes on its shelves and many of the leading magazines
and other publications on its tables. A weekly newspaper was established almost
with the birth of the city, and has been published without intermission ever since,
increasing in importance with the city's growth.
Huntington Beach has been selected as a suitable place for the location of a
number of important industries, among which may be mentioned the following:
Holly Sugar Factory with an annual output worth $2,225,000; Beach Broom
Factory, output worth $40,000; Pacific Linoleum and Oilcloth Factory, output
worth $250,000 ; Pearse Cannery, output worth $8,000 ; Huntington Beach Nur
series, output worth $4,000. The city has exported approximately 625 carloads
of sugar and 325 carloads of beans, besides other products in less than carload lots.
The total length of paved streets in the city aggregates 16.85 miles with about
fourteen miles of oiled streets. Approximately fifty-eight miles of cement side
walks have been laid. The length of the sewers, including laterals, is seven and
a half miles. The trunk lines, septic tank and outfall cost $35,000; extension to
main and construction of laterals, under district assessment, cost $29,158.
The municipality owns the gas distributing system, which includes about
twenty miles of mains and laterals. It has 500 patrons consuming about 75,000
cubic feet of gas daily ; the gas is the natural article purchased from the Southern
Counties Gas Company.
The city' has four parks of moderate size aggregating about eleven and a half
acres. It also has a pleasure pier constructed of reinforced concrete at a cost
of about $60,000.
Following are the present city officers : Board of trustees, Ed. Manning,
president : Richard Drew, C. J. Andrews, R. L. Obarr, Albert Onson ; clerk,
Chas. R. Nutt; treasurer, C. E. Layering; attorney, L. W. Blodget; recorder, C.
AAr. AA'arner; engineer, C. R. Sumner; superintendent gas and sewers, F. L.
Snyder; marshal and superintendent streets, Geo. M. Taylor.
The city has a chamber of commerce with about seventy wide-awake mem
bers. The Free and Accepted Masons have a good healthy lodge, and the Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows have a good membership and fairly good attend
ance. The Order of Eastern Star and the Rebekah lodges are reported to be very
much alive. There is but one labor organization, The American Federation of
Musicians, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. There are two
fraternal insurance lodges, the most active of which is the Modern Woodmen,
although the Woodmen of the World has some membership.
The municipality gives aid to and partially supports a brass band under the
direction of C. H. Endicott, more generally known as "Pop," who is a thorough
musician and very active in every good work for the advancement of the com
munity and the county. The Huntington Beach Municipal Band under his leader
ship has become a very creditable organization and a veritable booster for the
county. Surrounded by a rich agricultural section, supplemented by the beach as a
summer attraction, Huntington Beach will not only maintain its place in the
struggle for existence, but it will forge ahead of some of its less favored com
petitors and become one of Orange County's important cities.

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CHAPTER VIII
THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
Supplemented by George P. Wilson
When the final history of California shall have been written Newport Beach
will be counted as one of the most thriving of her coast towns. Not only is its
location beautiful from a scenic point of view, but better still it has a more abiding
attraction in its admirable location from a commercial standpoint. Located upon
the body of water from which it takes its name, Newport Bay, which is the largest
body of water between San Francisco and San Diego, it had been the habit of
vessels of other days to make port here because it was possible to cross the bar
on high tide, unload and reload the vessels in still waters, not on piers constructed
for the purpose, but upon the solid ground of the mainland. Inasmuch as the
Pacific Coast is not sufficiently equipped with ports of entry and as Newport Bay
offers unsurpassed natural advantages, it is the earnest hope of citizens of the
town located upon its borders that the Government, which needs for the carrying-
on of its own business every available port on this coast, will unite with the
citizens of Orange County in perfecting one of the most important harbors on
America's western coast. This hope is strengthened by the fact that comparatively
speaking the improvement could be accomplished at small cost. Newport Bay is
a perfectly land-locked body of water, covering eight square miles, and the union
of Nature's efforts with modern engineering could easily convert this into one of
the best ports in the world.
Appeals to the Federal Government have thus far brought no material assist
ance, although the inspecting engineers and visiting statesmen all speak favorably
of the natural advantages of the bay for harbor purposes. The Hon. Josephus
Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, in his recent trip through the county, gave strong
encouragement for Federal aid. Some time ago the people of Newport Beach
bonded their city for $100,000 to start the improvement. The good results from
that outlay were so apparent that they were encouraged to solicit aid from the
county. An election was called for June 10, 1919, to vote county bonds in the
sum of $500,000 for the development of the harbor. The result of that election
was : Bonds, yes 6,077 ; bonds, no 2,572. These bonds sold at a premium of
$11,887, which speaks well for the credit of Orange County.
Not only will Newport Harbor become the yachting center of the Pacific
Coast, it is expected, but the opening of this safe anchorage will no doubt attract
industrial establishments to this already favorable location. A fish cannery has
been built which will employ about fifty people and it is quite probable that this
will lead to the location of other fish canneries on the harbor.
The city of Newport Beach is clustered about the bay and water front so
promiscuously that it is hard to determine its area from the map with any degree
of accuracy; however, it seems to occupy from three to three and a half square
miles of territory. The census of 1910 credits Newport Beach with a population
of 445 ; the 1920 census gives the city a population of 898. The assessed valu
ation of the city for the year 1920 is $1,289,685. The city has one and a half
miles of paved streets and seven miles of oiled streets, fourteen miles of cement
sidewalks and one and one-half miles of board walk, and two pleasure piers.
The present city officers are as follows: Board of trustees, J. P. Greeley,
president; J. J. Schnitker, Art L. Heard, Dr. Conrad Richter, L. -S. Wilkinson;
clerk, Alfred Smith; treasurer, Lew H. Wallace; marshal and tax collector, J. A.
Porter ; attorney, Clyde Bishop ; street superintendent, Frank J. Knight ; gas man
ager, F. L. Rinehart; water superintendent, John McMillan; engineer, Paul E.
Kressley; recorder, Byron Hall; harbor master, A. J. Beek; clerk of harbor com
mission, Lew H. Wallace. C'V'V
The following associations maintain organizations in Newport Beach : Metho
dist Episcopal Church, Bible Institute Chapel, Newport Beach Chamberof Cdm-;
merce, Newport Harbor Yacht Club.

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CHAPTER IX
THE CITY OF ORANGE
Supplemented by D. G. Wettlin
Almost in the exact center of the county of Orange may be found the city
of Orange, thirty-one miles southeast of Los Angeles, on the Santa Fe Railroad,
at the junction of the kite-shaped track with the surf line to San Diego. It is
also centrally located on the upper half of the mesa between the foothills and the
Santa Ana River, and is surrounded by a productive, densely populated area con
taining the communities of McPherson, El 'Modena, Villa Park, Olive, West
Orange and Santa Ana, the county seat, all within a radius of four miles.
The following statement, taken from the testimony of A. B. Chapman in the
famous water suit between the two sides of the river in 1877, explains the origin
of the city:
"The townsite of Orange was laid off in 1870 or 1871 by Captain Glassell
and myself. The town of Santa Ana was laid out at the same time. At that time
I went to Santa Ana and there were two or three men there in tents, a Mr.
Spurgeon and two or three others. Santa Ana was not laid off by the same parties
who laid off Orange. I was the father of Orange and Spurgeon and Bradford
were the fathers of Santa Ana. Columbus Tustin laid off Tustin and lives there."
The original townsite of Orange contained forty acres of land which Was sub
divided into eight five-acre blocks with twenty lots in each block. Eight lots were
reserved at the center for a public plaza. The town was called Richland, but
later the name was changed to Orange, because there was already one Richland
in the state and the government would not grant a postoffice to another. Additions
have been made to the town from time to time by subdividing the acreage tracts
surrounding the original townsite and naming such additions after the owners. In
that way P. J. Shaffer, Joseph Beach, N. D. Harwood and others have left their
names to streets or additions to the city.
Building material was an important item in the early days, the lumber in the
first houses being hauled by team from Los Angeles or AVilmington. The resi
dence of Joseph Beck on Almond Avenue is said to be the oldest house in Orange,
having been built for Captain Glassell's office where the Ainsworth block now
stands. If we mistake not, the building moved to the northwest corner of the
plaza square to make way for the Campbell building, was the first store.
The early settlers were a sturdy band, collected from all parts of the world
for the sake of the cheaper land and the better opportunities afforded by a new
country. Their very hardships and privations brought them closer together,
enabling them to realize the truth of the proverb that "one touch of nature makes
the whole world kin." Previous distinctions of birth, rank and precedence were
forgotten ; individual peculiarities were either ignored or treated with good natured
banter. All met on the common plane of good will and helpfulness.
Inexperience and ignorance are serious handicaps for any individual; but
when a whole community is so afflicted, with no one qualified to suggest, advise
or instruct, it means a frightful loss of time and energy in finding out by actual
experience what the climate and soil of the new country, very different from that
of the old home, are best adapted to produce and how to bring about the best
results. For instance, Joseph Beach planted one ten-acre tract to four different
kinds of trees and vines in succession, devoting several years to each before being
convinced that it did not come up to his expectations. After millions of grape
vines had grown to maturity and a reputation for superior raisins had been estab
lished, some mysterious disease, which baffled the government experts, destroyed
all the vines. Before there were any quarantine laws, the nurserymen imported
several kinds of insect pests on their stock, which crippled fruit-growing for sev
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fumigating were perfected that keep the pests in check. The difficulties of de
veloping an irrigating system were almost insuperable, to say nothing about the
litigation over the water rights. The soil, which never had been irrigated, was
porous and the squirrels and gophers honeycombed the ditch banks, so that it was
hard to make them hold water. Many an orchard was kept alive by water hauled
in a barrel on a sled. While all these experiences were being worked out, the
people had to live somehow. Every profession, trade and vocation had its repre
sentatives in the community ; while all kinds of farming, dairying, poultry raising,
etc., were carried on with different degrees of success. Many men found employ
ment abroad and the women did the outdoor work at home.
Notwithstanding the hardships and privations of the early days, the educa
tional, religious and social wants of the community were not neglected. Schools
were established, some of the children coming as far as eight miles on their ponies.
At first religious services were held in the schoolhouse by the different denomi
nations, with a union Sunday- school. People thought nothing of mounting the
high seat of the farm wagon and riding from one to twenty miles to church ;
in fact, one old Scotch couple used to walk the latter distance from the Santiago
Canyon to the Presbyterian Church in Orange nearly every Sunday. The Musical
Union was one of the earliest musical organizations, and from that time down to
the present many other organizations, both vocal and instrumental, have furnished
the people with music of a high order. Literary societies were carried on, and
entertainments of various kinds for various purposes were frequent. One of the
best amateur baseball clubs in Southern California, if not in the state, had its
headquarters at Orange.
The esprit de corps, or spirit of local patriotism, was just as strong in the
early days as now. Nearly every exhibit, of whatever character, from Orange
in competition with others, won a prize, because the people were willing to con
tribute of their products and labor to make it a success. When the Santa Fe
wanted a right of way through the valley, the citizens of this community donated
one of their streets and $8,000 in money to get the railroad where they wanted
it. A few months later a little diplomatic work secured the junction for Orange
after it had been promised to Santa Ana. Some $1,500 was raised to improve the
plaza, the ladies raising one-third of the amount by the production of an original
play, with local coloring, and other entertainments; a few years ago about $1,000
more was added to provide cement curbs and gravel walks. Bonds were voted
from time to time to build schoolhouses as fast as they were needed, one $7,000
building being destroyed by fire. Most of the present church buildings were
erected in the early days, though some of them have since been enlarged. The
public library had grown to considerable proportions on private subscriptions, en
tertainments and membership dues before it was turned over to the city. When
the new county was being formed, in 1889, the Rochester Hotel, which cost over
$50,000, was offered free for a courthouse, and a vigorous but unsuccessful cam
paign was waged for the county seat. A little later the hotel was bought by the
people, with the assistance of Rev. J. H. Harwood, and turned into the Orange
County Collegiate Institute. After carrying on the school for three years, Mr.
Harwood mortgaged the property to get his money out, and left the city. More
examples of the early hardships might be given; but perhaps enough have been
mentioned to show something of the difficulties encountered in the settlement of
Orange and the character of the people who overcame those difficulties and made
the later successes of the community possible.
The city of Orange was incorporated April 6, 1888, as a city of the sixth
class, with an area of approximately three square miles and a population of about
600 people. Its location midway between the sea and the mountains gives it almost
an ideal climate the year round. The invigorating sea breezes temper the extreme
heat experienced farther inland, while the damp and chilling atmosphere prevailing
nearer the coast, seldom causes discomfort here. There is scarcely ever sufficient
fjjpst to do any material damage. The soil of this portion of the valley is a sandy

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loam, rich and fertile, easily cultivated and adapted to a great variety of products.
Citrus and deciduous fruits, nuts, vegetables and all kinds of farm products are
successfully grown and easily marketed over the many railroads or by ocean
transportation. The railroad facilities of this section are unsurpassed. The Santa Fe has
stations at Orange and Olive, and the Southern Pacific at West Orange,
Villa Park, McPherson and El Modena. The Pacific Electric has recently built
through Orange on its way from Santa Ana to connect with its line from Los
Angeles to Placentia. Its fine new depot is located on the northwest corner of
Chapman Avenue and Lemon Street. On account of the convenient location of
the Santa Fe depot in Orange and the excellent service of that road, it has received
the greater part of the business of this community thus far.
Wrater for domestic purposes, for lawns and flower gardens and for street
sprinkling, is supplied by the city water system. The city owns its water system,
which consists of three deep wells, two 50,000 gallon tanks on sixty-foot steel
towers and a large reservoir, steam engines, air compressors, pumps, etc., with
mains and pipes adequate to supply the growing needs of the city. The water is
abundant and wholesome. Ample fire protection has been provided, including a
fine motor truck, hose and hose carts and hook and ladder equipment, in charge
of a well organized volunteer fire department. AA'ater for irrigation is supplied
from the Santa Ana River by the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, which
is described elsewhere. The charges for water in both systems are very moderate
— much below the average.
Notwithstanding its close connection with larger places, Orange is itself a
business center, and has enough stores, shops and offices to supply all the ordinary
wants of the people. These establishments represent almost every business, pro
fession and trade found anywhere; many of the lines have more than one repre
sentative in the city. The stores, shops and offices are generally housed in sub
stantial buildings and modern business blocks, some of which are equal to anything
of the kind in the county. Surrounding this business center are hundreds of
beautiful residences, furnished with all the conveniences and luxuries of the
modern home. The cement sidewalks and well kept streets give easy access to all
parts of the city for pedestrians and every kind of vehicle. There are twelve
miles of streets with cement sidewalk and curb on each side, which improvement
was made at a cost of about $75,000. Two and three-quarter miles of streets in
the business section have been paved with the regular cement asphalt pavement.
Twenty miles in the residence portions have been graded, oiled, wet down, graveled
and rolled, making a smooth, firm roadway, free from dust, at a cost of about
$750 per mile. The city trustees on March 8, 1920, let the following contracts for
street paving according to specifications including five-inch thickness : To B. R.
Ford, on Collins Avenue, .78 miles or 4,145.97 feet long by 8 feet wide at 2\y2
cents per square foot, amounting to $7,131.06; to H. E. Cox, on Tustin Street, .98
miles or 5,197 feet long by 16 feet wide at 21 cents per square foot plus $618 for
culverts, $18,079.92; to H. E. Cox, on N. Glassell Street, .12 miles or 630.26 feet
long by 44 feet wide and .37 miles or 1,982 feet long by 20 feet wide at 21 cents
per square foot, $14,148. Total 2.25 miles at a cost of $39,358.98. This leaves
only one mile of unsurfaced dirt road in the city. About nine years ago a good
sewer system was installed, consisting of septic tanks, two. and a half miles of
outfall and several miles of laterals reaching all the thickly settled portions of
the city. A contract was awarded to Joseph A. Lieb on November 21, 1919, to erect
117 concrete electric light posts with single lamps complete in the business center
and principal streets of Orange for the sum of $18,000. Bonds were voted on
February 24, 1920, to the amount of $80,000 for a city hall ; also to the amount
of $12,000 for an additional city well.
According to the United States census the population of the city of Orange
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was 1,216; and in 1910 it was 2,920, having more than doubled in that decade.
The 1920 census gives a population of 4,884. Besides this good number in the
city itself, the territory surrounding Orange, and tributary to it, is thickly settled,
adding strength and support to the schools, churches and other institutions of
the city. The elementary schools, which take the children through the eighth grade,
-hereby fitting them to enter the high school, are housed in two substantial eight-
room buildings and one larger intermediate building, with all the necessary con
veniences, which with the grounds are worth over $100,000. The Orange Union
high school district includes the elementary school districts of Orange, El Modena,
Villa Park and Olive. The four high school buildings, which are located in
Orange, are among the most commodious and tasteful buildings in the state, con
sidering their cost, which was over $100,000, including the furnishings and six
acres of grounds. The St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church supports a large
parochial school at Orange, to teach the children the tenets of the church and
to give them correct instruction in the use of their mother tongue, the German
language. The school occupies two buildings valued at over $9,000.
There are nine religious denominations that are maintaining regular services
in Orange, each having its own house of worship. These church edifices range
in value from $1,000 to $50,000, including the furnishings and grounds. Lodges —
or other titles — of nearly every known organization, benevolent, educational, fra
ternal, industrial, patriotic and social, have been instituted here and are well
supported. The Orange Public Library, containing several thousand well-selected
books, besides current papers and periodicals, is housed in a $10,000 Carnegie
building, the .grounds and furnishings for which cost about $2,500 additional.
Miss Charlotte Field is the competent librarian and is assisted by her mother, Mrs.
Anna C. Field, who had charge of the library for many years.
The officers of the city at the present time are as follows : Board of trustees,
Elmer D. £f ayward, president ; F. E. Hallman, W. T. AA'altori, O. E. Gunther, L.
W. Hemphill ; clerk and assessor, D. G. Wettlin ; treasurer, Bessie Wilkins ; attor
ney, L. F. Coburn ; recorder, H. L. Dearing ; water rate collector, Florence Reavis ;
marshal and tax collector, H. S. Warner ; night marshal, C. W. Pulley ; water
superintendent, AAr. J. Richardson ; health officer, Dr. F. L. Chapline ; gardener,
C. F. Saner; fire chief, A. L. Tomblin; fire truck drivers, AA'm. Vickers and D. C.
Squires; street superintendent and general inspector, G. AAr Buchanan; board of
health, Dr. F. L. Chapline, G. AA'. Whitsell. Perry V. Grout, F. A. Grote, C. C.
Bonebrake. The Edison Electric Company supplies electricity for light and power ; the
principal streets, all of the business houses and most of the private residences are
thus lighted, while practically all the manufacturing and repair shops use electric
power. The Southern Counties' Gas Company furnishes gas for light and fuel.
The city is provided with excellent mail, express, telegraph and telephone service.
Orange made commendable progress in 1919 with quite a number of new
residences, a few new business buildings, and several fruit packing houses, the
building cost totaling more than $100,000. The headquarters of the Orange
County Fruit Exchange are in Orange, as well as several independent buyers.
Following are some of the more expensive buildings recently erected in the city,
as shown by the building permits : The Santiago Orange Growers' Association
packing house, $52,290; Orange Union High School garage and machine shop,
$7,000; A. H. Pease, packing house, $6,000; A. H. Pease, another packing house,
$6,000; N. T. Edwards, addition to offices, $2,000; Santa Ana Valley Irrigation
Company, garage, $2,200; George H. Pirie, remodeling building, $3,200; A. H.
Pease, addition to packing house, $4,000 ; F. H. Kredel, business block, $7,000 ;
H W. Duker, dwelling and barn, $6,500; J. Mclnnes, packing house, $7,000.
One of the first acts of the first board of trustees was to forbid the sale of
intoxicating liquors as a beverage in the city, and this opposition to saloons has
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Thus the city of Orange, with much that is good and little that is evil in its make
up, attracts and retains the best class of people for citizens.
Financial Resources of Orange District
There are two strong national banks and two savings banks in the city of
Orange, and to these may be added the Orange Building & Loan Association and
the First National Bank of Olive in estimating the financial resources of the
district. All of these institutions by their liberal assistance, carefully administered,
have done much toward the advancement of the best interests of the community.
The large amount of deposits in each, in proportion to the size of the community,
shows the confidence the people have in their stability.
The deposits in the National Bank of Orange, June 30, 1920, were $1,545,-
343.27, and in the Orange Savings Bank, affiliated with it, $863,572.06, making
a total in these two banks of $2,408,915.33. The deposits in the First National
Bank of Orange on the same date were $840,514.37, and in the Security Savings
Bank, affiliated with it, $736,982.43, making a total in these two banks of $1,577,-
496.80. The Orange Building & Loan Association has deposits of $745,358.84
and the First National Bank of Olive, $169,436.51, making a total of $4,897,207.48
for the Orange district, a comfortable balance for the community after having
invested considerably over a million dollars in the five Liberty Bond issues, to
say nothing of AVar Savings Stamps and all the contributions to the various
relief funds.

CHAPTER X

THE CITY OF SANTA ANA
By Linn L. Shaw
A history of Santa Ana, the county seat and principal city of Orange County,
would be incomplete and lacking in real historic value, did it not embody the tales
of the struggles and achievements of its pioneers — the men who, backing their
foresight with their limited capital, their energy and toil, selected its site in the
wilderness of mustard and cactus and made its future development possible. As
this volume contains interesting biographical sketches of nearly all these men,
wherein much is related concerning the early history of Santa Ana, the attention
of the reader is directed to them in conjunction with this article, particularly to
the life stories of AV. H. Spurgeon, James McFadden, Samuel Ross, Granville
Spurgeon, Noah Palmer and D. Halladay. And we would also refer to the sepa
rate article on the public library, which contains much of interest of the early
days of our municipality.
Santa Ana was founded as a settlement in October, 1869, by Hon. William
H. Spurgeon, who from that incident and from the fact that during all the years
of his activity he was a leading factor in its development, is fairly entitled
io the distinctive title of the "father of the town," which he has always
borne. The original townsite as platted by Mr. Spurgeon, and. surveyed by
George Wright, was recorded December 13, 1870, and consisted of but twenty-
four blocks ; bounded on the north by Seventh Street, on the south by First Street
on the east by Spurgeon and on the west by West Street, or what is now officially
named Broadway. Prior to this date, however, Mr. Spurgeon built his plain red
wood store, at the corner of Fourth and West streets, and the English home had
been erected on the east side of Sycamore Street, between Second -and Third,
where it still remains and is being used as a blacksmith shop. December 18, 187o'
is an important date in the town's history, for upon that day the first child was
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That others than Mr. Spurgeon were attracted by news of the rich, cheap
lands of this section is attested by the record that in December in 1869 a sufficient
number of settlers had arrived to organize a school district, known as Spring.
And as usual the little American schoolhouse blazed the way for patriotic citizen
ship — only in this instance the schoolhouse was not "red," but a rough board
affair without desks or blackboards, and provided only with long, hard benches.
Miss Annie Cozad was the first teacher and deserves a place in the history with
our local pioneers.
At this time Santa Ana was three miles off the main traveled stage road
between Los Angeles and San Diego, which crossed the Santa Ana River north of
where the city of Orange now stands, at a ford designated the "Rodriguez Cross
ing," and continued southeasterly through Tustin, where a settlement already
existed. With characteristic energy Mr. Spurgeon induced the stage company to
change its route to Santa Ana, and thereby secured a postoffice for the new town
in 1870. He was appointed postmaster at the munificent salary of $1 a month.
The first postoffice consisted of a wooden shoe box, with partitions to separate the
mail of the settlers. He also cut a road through the mustard connecting the new
town with the Anaheim road, with the view to making it as accessible as possible
to settlers and homeseeke*rs. Town lots were placed on the market at ridiculously
low prices and in many instances donated outright where immediate improvements
were agreed upon. The little hamlet thus struggled on for several years, slowly
adding to its population and advantages, and receiving the benefit of a general
development of the rich, damp lands to the south and west, to which had already
been applied the facetious title of the "Gospel Swamp," a term which has almost
been forgotten in the rapid march of progress. Good, pure water was easily
obtainable, and in June, 1873, Mr. Spurgeon established a plentiful supply with
an eleven-inch well, sunk to a depth of 340 feet, with a large elevated tank for
a reservoir. The Wells-Fargo Express Company opened an office at Santa Ana in July,
1874, and the following year marked a new era of activity for the town. Just
preceding this period D. M. Dorman built the Santa Ana Hotel, a really fine
structure for those days, at the corner of Fourth and Main streets, on the present
site of the First National Bank. This old building is now located at the corner
of Fruit and G streets. From 1875 the growth of the town gained momentum.
The Masonic brethren of the community organized Santa Ana Lodge, No. 241.
F. & A. M., which was instituted on October 1 of that year, the Odd Fellows
immediately following with Santa Lodge, No. 236, on the thirtieth of the same
month. The year 1877 marked the erection of the first brick building of Santa
Ana, which was built by Mr. Dodge, near the corner of Fourth and Bush streets.
Early in the spring of 1877 the Southern Pacific completed its line to Santa
Ana, from Anaheim, which for two years had been its terminus, placing its depot
at Fruit Street. The fare to Los Angeles was two dollars, and twice that amount
for the round trip, which restricted the journeys of our people and caused a good
deal of dissatisfaction. Complaint was not confined to the exorbitant fare, but the
character of the service was also bitterly condemned, as it was furnished entirely
with mixed trains and three hours was the usual running time each way. While
these complaints were apparently justified, yet the great advantage of the railroad
was at once manifested.
With the advent of the railroad a rival townsite, called Santa Ana East, was
platted and was expected by its promoters to attract all the business houses of the
town. The streets of this new townsite ran diagonally, parallel, and at right
angles with the railroad track, which entered the town on an angle almost due
southeast. The lots were all twenty-five foot fronts, designed for business pur
poses, and the site extended from the railroad to French Street, including D, E,
F, G and H streets, with the cross thoroughfares from Wellington Avenue to
Fruit Street. The venture was a total failure so far as any effect on the business
center was concerned, which has always remained practically as outlined by the

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founder of the city, never varying more than a block or two in the swing of the
commercial pendulum.
A strong temperance sentiment in the village was indicated by the organ
ization of a large lodge of Good Templars January 19, 1878. The last of what
might be termed the pioneer lodges was that of the A. O. U. W., which came into
legal existence February 27, 1879. During the month of March of this same year
Dr. J. G. Bailey began the erection of a brick block, at the corner of Third and
AA'est streets, where it still stands. Many new dwellings now marked the site
where ten years before an absolute waste prevailed ; several business houses sup
plied the commercial wants of the people, and with its railroad, postoffice, news
paper, express office and hotel, the inhabitants of the young city were justified
in anticipating a prosperous future. Already a bitter rivalry had developed be
tween this lusty new aspirant for municipal distinction and the older town of Ana
heim, which, established as it was in 1857, had held undisputed supremacy of the
valley in this regard for twenty years.
The census of 1880 was anxiously awaited by both towns, and when the
figures were finally received, showed the following population for the two
localities :
Anaheim township  1,469 Anaheim town  833
Santa Ana township  3,024 Santa Ana town  711
Such a condition could have but one result. Santa Ana, having the advantage
of by far the most populous contiguous territory, soon forged ahead of its rival
and as early as 1882 became the chief town of the valley, a position which it has
always maintained. Just at this time, however, occurred the most discouraging
calamity of its career. The people of Santa Ana had for several years been dis
cussing the need of a bank and in December, 1881, B. F. Seibert, a prominent
citizen of Anaheim, opened a general banking house in the new Gildmacher block,
which had just been completed at the corner of Fourth and West streets. His
venture was met with enthusiasm and the entire confidence of the community.
which was eloquently illustrated by the fact that his first day's deposits amounted
to $28,000. Mr. Seibert immediately became the moving financial spirit of the
town. He negotiated for business property, residences and ranch lands, inaugu
rated a movement for a fine new hotel building and exhibited a most inspiring
and inexhaustible spirit of enterprise generally. His bank steadily grew in popu
larity and importance until, on the fateful day of August 16, 1.882, the citizens
were almost paralyzed by the news that it had failed to open its doors, behind
which $130,000 of their good money was supposed to have been safely entrenched.
Practically all the ready money of the town had passed into the hungry maw of
this unscrupulous swindler, and, as the truth of the appalling situation became
understood, the temporary apathy of despair overcame the hitherto bustling little
city. Business was generally suspended and the bank failure and its probable
outcome monopolized the conversation of anxious throngs everywhere. Seibert
had discreetly vanished, and in this precaution he evinced his old-time shrewdness,
for had the outraged populace been able to lay their hands upon him at this hour
the most drastic measures would, no doubt, have been resorted to.
The general impression was that Seibert's affairs were a complete, failure,
but Messrs. C. F. Mansur and Charles Wilcox, who were appointed receivers of
the defunct bank, held the securities which came into their possession until ad
vantageous sales were made and were finally able, after a period of many months
of trying circumstances, to clear up the affair with a total payment of seventy
cents on the dollar.
A few weeks prior to Seibert's failure a new bank, called the Commercial,-
was opened on Fourth Street, near Main, being financed chiefly by Noah Palmer
and Daniel Halladay. This institution being perfectly sound and conducted on
absolutely safe and conservative lines, assisted materially in restoring the financial
conditions of the town to a normal basis, though naturally suffering temporarily
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of the retarding influence of that overwhelming loss, the tales of the wonderful
fertility of this new region served to bring new settlers and new money into the
town and its surrounding country, and improvements followed each other with
such rapidity that a genuine boom was soon in full progress.
Sycamore hall, which for some time had been used for dances and general
public gatherings, was arranged for a primitive theater in May, 1881, and two
rival but enterprising citizens put on the first street sprinkling wagons the same
month. The Stafford block had been built the year previous and the year 1882
was made notable by the erection of the pretentious Spurgeon block, a large
two-story brick at the corner of Fourth and Sycamore streets ; the Commercial
Bank building, at Fourth and Main streets; the Dibble, Titchenal, Layman and
Vanderlip blocks, all two stories, and the tlollingsworth block, a one-story brick
structure. No less than forty good residences were erected during the year. At
this period there were eighty business houses in the town, and the religious element
was represented by five churches ; the South Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist,
North Methodist and the German Evangelical. The citizens were proud of their
"large new two-story school house," which by the way was later condemned and
sold by the school board, moved further north on Sycamore Street and remodeled
for a lodging house.
Many wooden structures of more or less importance now housed commercial
enterprises of various' sorts all along Fourth Street, the principal thoroughfare:
real estate agents were eagerly showing and selling ranch lands and town property
and the Griffith Lumber Company was taxed to its utmost to supply the demands
of the busy contractors. In 1883 Mr. Spurgeon's water system had a storage
capacity of 20,000 gallons of pure artesian water, pumped from two deep wells,
and the taxable wealth of the town had reached the very respectable sum of
$597,785. The first fire-fighting apparatus, a chemical engine, was purchased in
December of that year, the money being raised by popular subscription.
During the summer of 1884 a handsome new hotel, the Taylor House, a large
two-story wooden building, was erected at the corner of Fourth and French
streets; and the west end of town received another important building in the D.
Gildmacher block, on the north side of Fourth Street, between West and Birch.
The winter and spring preceding marked the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in
the history of the city, the total precipitation for 1883-84 reaching over thirty-six
inches. Early in February, prior to which time the rainfall had been rather less
than the average, a season of flood began. All streams were transformed into
raging torrents, and as there were no wagon bridges, soon became impassable.
Railroad traffic was suspended altogether February 16, when the bridges over
both the Santa Ana River and Santiago Creek were practically destroyed and
several miles of track beyond washed out. Away to the west and south for miles
the country resembled an inland sea, and a rowboat, launched by some courageous
citizens at the western edge of town, voyaged into the Newport district, where
it was reported that human lives were in danger. These men did take several
parties out of the flooded district, but found no one in imminent peril. Much
property was destroyed by this flood, a few families being rendered almost desti
tute, but such instances were readily cared for by the warm-hearted people of
the valley. Train service to Santa Ana was not resumed until March 26, and was inter
rupted several times after that by freshets. Mail, provisions, etc., had been brought
in with great hardship intermittently during the period of isolation, and while
supplies were often at a low ebb, there was never any suffering. As late as June,
1884, the Santa Ana River was described as being one-third of a mile wide and
even in August a sudden rise of two feet in the turbulent stream, caused by the
melting snows in the mountains, washed out the dam of the irrigation company
at the headworks of their system. Wells of all depths were flowing that summer
and water was the cheapest thing in use. Authentic history of the valley records
only one similar season to this — that of 1861-62, when it rained almost contin-

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uously from December 24 to April 9, and the precipitation must have been
measured in feet, if at all.
During all these years Santa Ana had existed merely as a village, under
control of the county of Los Angeles. Sentiment for incorporation as "a city of
the sixth class" had been growing steadily and on June 1, 1886, at which time
the population of Santa Ana was about 2,000, an election was held to determine
whether the town should assume the responsibility of separate municipal govern
ment. The advocates for corporation carried the day by forty-four majority and
the following gentlemen were elected as the first officers of the city: Trustees,
AV. H. Spurgeon, J. R. Porter, T. J. Harlin, John Avas and A. Snyder; clerk,
Samuel Wilson ; treasurer, G. J. Mosbaugh ; marshal, Charles H. Peters. The new
board of trustees met June 21 and organized by electing Mr. Spurgeon as its
chairman. A few weeks later J. W. Turner was appointed town attorney ; C. W.
Humphreys town recorder, and Adam Foster chief of the fire department.
At this period the "boom" was rapidly approaching, the zenith of its spec
tacular existence. People were pouring into Southern California from all parts
of the country and the abnormal and unfounded demand for real property of all
descriptions had developed into a mania. Matters of location and price were not
considered and town lots several miles from a railroad, with absolutely nothing
to recommend them for such a purpose, sold readily at really enormous prices.
The unbridled frenzy of speculation was rampant all over Southern California, and
the young city of Santa Ana was soon enveloped within its dazzling folds.
This fact, coupled with the natural desire to improve the town as rapidly as
possible, placed upon its newly organized government a heavy load of business
and responsibility. On August 11, 1886, the trustees granted to M. G. Elmore
a franchise to lay gas mains through the streets and alleys of the town, and a
week later decided to purchase twelve street lamps from Mr. Elmore to be used
on Fourth Street on alternate corners from Mortimer to Olive. On this same
date steps were taken for the organization and maintenance of a fire department,
the southeast room in the Spurgeon block was rented for a city hall and the
Herald was designated as the first official paper. A communication was also
received from C. W. Humphreys asking for a franchise to build and operate the
Santa Ana, Orange and Tustin Street Railway, which was later granted. This was
the first street railway in the town and was operated for several years with horses,
finally being discontinued after heavy financial losses. The line to Tustin was
removed entirely, but the one to Orange was continued through subsidies on the
part of the merchants for several years, when it was sold to the Pacific Electric
Company and still remains a part of that system.
The First National Bank was organized in May, 1886, and in September the
Pacific Weekly Blade, a Republican paper, was started by A. J. Waterhouse and
AA'alter F. X. Parker. Business blocks and residences were in process of con
struction everywhere and any man who could run a saw or swing a hammer found
ready employment as a carpenter. Acreage adjoining the city was snapped up
by speculators and subdivided into town lots which were sold with a rush, either
through the usual office methods or by auctions. "South Santa Ana," where
enterprising farmers are now raising sugar beets, threatened for a time, at this
period, to become a world-famed metropolis.
If anything further was needed to complete the utter speculative abandon
with which the people were now possessed it was supplied in the advent of the
great Santa Fe system, which built into Santa Ana in 1887 and on to San Diego.
Being now furnished with two great competing railroads, both of which were
daily bringing new people by the score into the new city, all doubts as to the
future were dispelled. Realty values climbed higher with each setting sun and
dreams of opulence became the nightly portions of dozens of men who, with a
little property, deemed themselves poor a couple of years before.
Perhaps the most notable of all the boom-time operators were the men com
posing the "Fairview Development Company," who purchased several hundred

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acres on the mesa eight miles southwest of Santa Ana and proceeded to build a
city of their own. They constructed a railroad from Santa Ana to this town of
Fairview, sold lots by the hundred, erected quite a number of good buildings
there, started a newspaper, established a hotel and bath house, which was made
locally famous on account of the warm sulphur water which they had procured
from a deep artesian well, and it is said, held an option on every piece of property
between the two places.
Everywhere the same spirit manifested by this company prevailed, and in
many instances their methods were imitated so far as resources and ability per
mitted — the resources often consisting very largely of credit acquired through
matchless nerve and'balmy influence. Conservatism was roughly jostled aside or
trampled under foot, and day by day the boom ascended the smooth pathway of
plausible hope and apparently tangible prosperity until, reaching the summit of
human credulity, it began to weaken ; slowly at first, but with ever-increasing
impetus until in 1889 the whole structure collapsed, leaving the fair face of
Southern California strewn with pitiful wrecks of erstwhile handsome fortunes.
It was almost impossible to place a fair value on any piece of realty, par
ticularly town property, in the general slump which followed and Santa Ana
suffered heavily in the reverses. However, in spite of the undeniable ruin meted
out to veritable armies of investors during this spectacular period of California
history, the fact remains that much permanent good resulted to Santa Ana after
all, for during these years it had been transformed from a village to a modern
young city of importance. The Brunswick Hotel, First National Bank building,
Opera House block and Richelieu Hotel — all three-story structures — besides a
large number of good two-story brick buildings, were erected during the boom,
as well as hundreds of residences, all of which, of course, remained and formed
a solid nucleus upon which to resume the building up of the city later on.
Once more, the boundless resources of the fertile valley were appreciated,
perhaps as never before ; and while the collapse of the boom struck hard at the
financial strength of all Southern California cities, Santa Ana, by reason of its
splendid agricultural backing, was able to weather the reverses with but little
harm as far as its municipal standing was concerned.
About this time (in the year 1888) an important commercial enterprise known
as the Newport Wharf & Lumber Company was organized, being the outgrowth
of the transportation business which had been conducted by James and Robert
McFadden since 1874, through a vessel operated between Newport Bay. and San
Francisco. The new company erected a wharf at Newport Bay extending about
1,500 feet into the ocean, in conjunction with the Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany, and established a wholesale lumber business at Santa Ana which soon de
veloped into the largest and most important commercial enterprise the city has
ever known. In the year 1891 the McFadden brothers, with others of the com
pany, organized the Santa Ana & Newport Railway and built a steam road con
necting the city with the new wharf, eleven miles distant, and thus provided cheao
and quick transportation of their immense cargoes of lumber to the general yard
at Santa Ana. This business rapidly increased in volume, its transactions reaching
half a million dollars yearly and its payroll carrying one hundred men who never
failed, during all its existence, to receive their wages regularly every week. This
enterprise assisted very materially in the prosperity of Santa Ana during the dull
period following the boom and continuing on through the national panic of
1893-96. The lumber business was finally discontinued in 1902 on account of
transportation difficulties and the railroad was sold to Senator Clark, of Montana,
who almost immediately disposed of it to the Southern Pacific, which company
still operates it.
The year 1888 was also a notable one in the city's history on account of the
organization of its original board of trade, now known as the Santa Ana Cham
ber of Commerce, which has always been a potent factor in the development of
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county of Orange on March 11, 1889, and the selection of Santa Ana as its county
seat July 11, of the same year.
The census of 1890 gave the city a population of 3,628. Company F, its
first military organization, was mustered in in June of that year with sixty-one men,
Capt. C. S. McKelvey commanding, H. T. Matthews being first lieutenant and
N. A. Ulm second lieutenant.
Up to this time Mr. Spurgeon's water system had supplied the town, but on
December 1, 1890, the city voted $60,000 for a municipal plant, which was at
once installed. The supply was secured from a number of deep artesian wells,
forced to all parts of the city by the Holly system. On November 21, 1904, addi
tional bonds of $100,000 were voted for a general enlargement of the plant.
The city's history during the '90s was marked by few important events and
its growth was exceedingly slow for the greater part of that decade. A bond
issue of $60,000 was voted March 7, 1898, for a complete sewer system, to which
about $7,000 has since been added, represented by a total of about twenty-five
miles of mains.
Free mail delivery was established in Santa Ana in March, 1899, with letter
carriers, the receipts of the postoffice having passed $10,000 a year. The postal
receipts of this office for the year 1911 exceeded $30,000 and seven city carriers,
seven rural carriers and eight clerks were employed.
The census of 1900 showed a population of 4,933. During this year a hand
some court house, costing $100,000 with furnishings, was erected by the county
on the old plaza owned by Mr. Spurgeon, which had always been reserved by him
for that purpose. This building with its imposing architecture and spacious, well-
kept grounds, is the most conspicuous structure in the city.
One of the notable achievements during the city's history was the abolition
of saloons, which was accomplished at the regular election in April, 1903, the
proposition being submitted directly to the people and carried by nearly two-thirds
majority. For a number of years preceding this crisis the anti-saloon forces had
been agitating prohibition, and the action of the city trustees in granting an extra
saloon license in 1902, increasing the number from six to seven, brought the issue
to a head. All saloon licenses expired June 30, 1903, and Santa Ana has remained
"dry"' ever since. That a strong high-license sentiment still existed, however, was
demonstrated by the fact that the next year the trustees were compelled by a
popular petition to again submit the question, the majority still being in favor of
prohibition, but greatly reduced. An important coincidence was here manifested,
for while the city's growth had been exceedingly slow since 1890, and the retard
ing effect of banishing the saloons had been one of the chief arguments of the
high-license people, a marked era of improvement was soon inaugurated and has
continued without interruption to the present time.
A handsome new city hall, costing $20,000, was formally dedicated in Novem
ber, 1904, at the corner of Third and Main streets. In the fall of 1906 the great
Huntington trolley system entered Santa Ana from Los Angeles, giving our
citizens the best passenger service possible and affording a new and popular me'ans
of transit for tourists and homeseekers to reach this section. This important
event was celebrated in December by a novel innovation, called the "Parade of
Products," in which the varied resources of the county were marshaled into an
attractive pageant of floats, which was such an unparalleled success that the
following year it was extended to three days, with a different street display each
day and a large tent exhibit. The name was changed to the "Carnival of Prod
ucts," under which more comprehensive title it was for several years an annual
event. '*l^--.si
It would be impossible to attempt to enumerate the great list of improvements
which have been made in Santa Ana in recent years. Handsome new residences,
in which the world-famed California bungalow style predominates, have been
erected by the score in all parts of the city ; several new imposing church edifices
which would be a credit to any city, mark a prosperous condition in religious

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circles; the school facilities have been greatly improved by the addition of modern
structures and including a commodious separate building for a commercial high
school ; and miles upon miles of cement sidewalks and curbs have been put in.
Banks of Santa Ana
Following were the deposits in the banks of Santa Ana as reported to the
Government on June 30, 1920, in comparison with those reported on June 30,
1919: Banks— 1920 1919 Increase
First National  $ 6,390,621.03 $ 4,790,945.05 $ 1,599,675.98
Farmers & Merchants Sav.. 2,260,395.95 1,554,442.92 705,953.03
Orange Co. Trust & Savings. 1,763,271.69 1,286,136.60 477,135.09
California National  1,296,526.53 888,977.72 397,548.81
Totals  $11,700,815.20 $ 8,520,502.29 $ 3,180,312.91
While the date of these reports may not be regarded as the most favorable
time of the year for the best showing of deposits, on account of so much money
being tied up in the growing crops, yet it is just as good as any for making com
parisons either with the deposits of past years or with those of banks in other
cities, since the same date would be used on both sides of every comparison.
However, $11,700,815.20 is a lot of money to have in the banks of a city
the size of Santa Ana. It is $2,623,865.20 more than all the property, real and
personal, is assessed at in the county seat for the purpose of taxation. If the
amount were divided equally among the citizens of Santa Ana, every man, woman
and child would have a bank account, for a brief period of $755.62 in addition
to any other property that he might possess. But these bank deposits do not all
belong to the citizens of Santa Ana; quite a portion of them came in from the
surrounding country. In any case, they are not community property or subject
to any kind of distribution without an equivalent in exchange. What is true of
these deposits is true of other deposits elsewhere and of all kinds of property
throughout the world. Private ownership and use of property is almost invariably
the reward of industry and frugality and should not be shared with the idle
and dissolute. Wealth honestly acquired and rightly used is a great blessing not
only to its possessors, but also to the whole community in which it is held or
expended. Present Status of the Banks
The Commercial Bank of Santa Ana began negotiating the sale of its assets
to the Farmers & Merchants National Bank of Santa Ana in May, 1910. It took
several months to complete the transaction on account of the legal questions
involved. The Commercial Bank ceased to exist on the first day of August, 1910.
The Citizens' Commercial & Savings Bank was organized and opened in
November,' 1914. On January 1, 1917, it merged with the California National
Bank under the name of the latter, which had been doing business since February,
1911.' The First National Bank and the Farmers & Merchants Bank merged Febru
ary 21, 1919, taking the name of First National Bank.
The Santa Ana Savings Bank, affiliated with the First National Bank, and
the Home Savings Bank, affiliated with the Farmers & Merchants National Bank,
merged July 1, 1919, under the name of Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank.
The Orange County Trust & Savings Bank was remodeled in 1911. Addi
tional real estate with leases on same cost $18,245, building cost $39,612.33, and
vaults and safety deposit boxes cost $11,000.

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Public Library of Santa Ana
The spring of 1878 was one of great rejoicing for Santa Ana, as it marked
the completion of the Southern Pacific Railway to the town. The round- trip
from Los Angeles was $4 and the trip was a luxury which was enjoyed only on
state occasions, but it gave the citizens a new feeling of responsibility, a desire
for greater opportunities for self culture and mutual improvement. It was at
this time that the need of a circulating library was suggested. The Santa Ana
Weekly Times of April 11, 1878, has a communication as follows: "Editor of
The Times: Several times I have through the medium of your paper called atten
tion to the fact that Santa Ana ought to have a circulating library. The project
has met with universal appreciation. I have now much pleasure in informing the
public the Santa Ana Public Library Association has been organized, to be gov
erned by the following constitution and by-laws. Further particulars can be
obtained by applying to Mrs. H. C. Berry, Mrs. H. W. Lake, Mrs. O. B. Hall or to
Yours respectfully, J. G. BAILEY, M.D."
Then followed the constitution and by-laws in full, one part of which was "the
by-laws of the association can be altered or amended at any semi-annual meeting,
providing two-thirds of the charter members present agree to the same, and not
otherwise." A few persons became intensely interested in the enterprise and assumed the
task of soliciting names for membership. The following officers were elected, viz. :
Mrs. O. B. Hall, president; Rev. H. S. McHenry, vice-president; Dr. J. G. Bailey,
secretary; Mrs. N. O. Stafford (now Mrs. R. J. Blee), treasurer, and Mrs. C. E.
French, librarian. Santa Ana had a library association organized — on paper —
with about $20 to purchase and equip the institution. Persons having books that
were of interest kindly donated them ; thus a nucleus was formed. C. E. French
contributed a wardrobe into which shelves were fitted and he offered the society a
portion of the office be occupied at the corner of Fourth and Main streets. Books
were added from time to time from the membership fees. In the fall of 1878
the library was opened to the members and their families. The struggle to main
tain it was then begun. To keep it supplied with new matter socials, musicals and
literary entertainments were given and collections taken to ¦ increase the funds.
Among some of the workers besides those already mentioned were Rev. H. . I.
Parker and wife, Mrs. Walter Kent, Mrs. S. H. Hersam, Miss May Kent, Miss
L. Berry, Miss M. D. Hotell, Miss Claribel Nichols,' Dr. J. N. Burtnett, Pearl
Kent and Col. XV. F. Heathman. In April, 1879, the latter succeeded in giving
an entertainment which was very successful and brought over $100 to the fund,
and this increased the interest in the organization. The location of the library
was changed several times owing to changes in business firms, it being placed
wherever the best place was offered without cost to the association.
In 1886 an organization of the W. C. T. U. was perfected in Santa Ana. The
following year they decided to establish a library and free reading room. They
gave a book social and over 100 volumes were donated. They leased a place
over Rowe's book store and fitted up the front room as a reading room. The
library of the old association numbered then about 400 volumes. After due con
sideration the members voted to turn the library over to the new organization,
which was done in 1887 and in January following the AAr C. T. U. gave a formal
opening. The problem of meeting the necessary expenses was a grave one and the
organization deserves great credit for the manner in which they solved it. One
"flower festival" they gave netted them $700. A merchants' carnival for the
same purpose was a great success.
The next important step was the transfer of the library by the W. C. T. U.
to the city of Santa Ana, September 1, 1891. This included the 960 volumes with
all fixtures and equipment and the lease of the hall at 112 West Fourth Street.
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be thrown open to the city as a free library and reading room "to all proper
residents and taxpayers therein." The first funds received from this source was
October 5, 1891. The first board of trustees were E. E. Keech, C. E. French,
Dr. J. A. Crane, Rev. Mr. Booth, and D. M. Baker. Helen A. Kernodle was ap
pointed librarian. A report of the board of library trustees of July 3, 1893, shows
the library to have had about fifty patrons and the highest number of books given
out in one day, twenty. The report for the year was 950 patrons and the maxi
mum number of books passed out in one day, 135.
October 1, 1892, the library was transferred to the Hervey building, 121 East
Fourth Street, where it remained until it was •removed to its present home, made
possible by Andrew Carnegie, who donated $15,000 to the city for the building.
AV. H. Spurgeon gave the lot and the Native Sons built the walks and the retain
ing wall. The furnishings were provided by private subscription and the trustees
of the city gave $1,000. AVhen it was first used only the main floor was occupied
and there was then ample room. As the years have passed shelving has been
added for the books and the quarters gradually became crowded. A document
room has been added in the basement. The circulation from July 1, 1909, to June
30, 1910, was 47,588. The present building was started in August, 1902, and the
library moved in July, 1903. The board of library trustees are, viz. : Dr. C. D. Ball,
Mrs. AV. B. Tedford, Mrs. P. L Topje, Chas. Robinson and J. S. Smart. The
present librarian, Miss Jeannette E. McFadden, became associated with the library
in 1897 and in June, 1901, was appointed to her present position, which she fills
with satisfaction to all. -Commercial Progress
The commercial progress of the city of Santa Ana has been even greater in re
cent years than its growth in population, as may be seen in the fact that there are
$2,623,865.20 more deposits in the city's banks than its entire assessed valuation.
AVhile the assessment is undoubtedly low, that will not account for such a discrep
ancy. The fact is that a considerable part of those deposits belong to the rural
population for miles around Santa Ana. The county seat is the center of trade and
distribution for practically all of the middle and lower parts of the county and to
some extent for the upper parts as well. With trade and distribution come produc
tion and manufacturers. In 1909 the Southern California Sugar Company com
menced operating a factory with a daily capacity of 600 tons of sugar beets. Two
or three years later the Santa Ana Sugar' Company entered practically the same
field, each of these companies employing about 300 men during the campaign, be
sides providing a market for the farmers' beets. Two large lumber yards with well-
equipped planing mills have been kept busy supplying the increasing demand for
building materials. Several large packing houses for fruits, nuts and vegetables
• make this city an important shipping point. A number of autos are constantly
employed collecting and returning clothes for the steam laundries of the city.
Among other industries that made noteworthy progress during the year 1919 may
be mentioned the C. H. Kaufmann & Sons' plant, which manufactured and shipped
nearly 100,000 automobile spotlights during the year, and employing about fifty
people. The Haven Seed Company produced, cleaned, packed and shipped nearly
five billion tomato seeds during the season of 1919, with an annual payroll of
$100,000. The J. E. Taylor Canning Company packed thousands of jars of mar
malade, jellies, preserves and canned fruits, and the California Packing Corpo
ration's plant packed approximately 7,000,000 cans of chili, pimentos and apricots.
A horse-collar factory, a rug factory, an iron and brass foundry, artificial stone
works, several machine shops, numerous garages and bicycle shops and oil stations,
an ice plant and many other industries have added their quota to the general
volume of business.
Two important industries have been reserved from the foregoing brief sum
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to chronicle in the history. They are the "Mission AAroolen Manufacturing Com
pany" at Washington Avenue and Santiago Street, and the "California Crate
Company." The woolen mill has been running since August, 1917. Up to January 1,
1919, it made 70,000 army blankets and 60,000 yards of melton for overcoats for
the Government. It is now making blankets, cassimeres and lap robes. Some of
the blankets are exported to Siberia and China. The company is employing
seventy-five men and women, and has a weekly payroll of $1,600; at one time,
while on Government work, it had $90,000 worth of wool in the warehouse. The
officers are : A. E. Bennett, president ; C. A. Robinson, vice-president ; P. A. Robin
son, treasurer. According to a newspaper report the mill is planning to put on a
night shift of weavers to keep pace with the demand.
The California Crate Company dates the first step that led to its organiza
tion back about four years. Fred P. Jayne of Santa Ana established a small
factory in August, 1916, for manufacture of folding or collapsible crates of his
own invention: In February, 1917, M. A. Carter, formerly of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa,
joined him under the firm name of Jayne & Carter. In October of the same year
the California Crate Company was incorporated with F. P. Jayne as president,
A. M. Jayne as vice-president and M. A. Carter as secretary and treasurer. The
principal product of the company has been the manufacture of the standard
"Cummer Type" folding onion crate and during the last year this company has
furnished the largest part of these crates used in Imperial and Coachella Valleys.
This year the company has spread out and in addition is now making two sizes of
a fruit crate invented by F. P. Jayne and known as the "Midget Crate," which
is meeting with large success. It has also begun the manufacture of a new toy
aeroplane and is fairly launched in the toy business having recently purchased
two new buildings for use of the toy department. Mr. Jayne and Mr. Carter are
both actively engaged in establishing and enlarging the business, the former as
president and manager .and the latter as superintendent. There are about twenty
men and women employed in the factory at present and the number will be largely
increased during the busy season beginning in December and running until June.
The factory buildings consist of large, light and roomy machinery house, as
sembling rooms and storage warehouse, all well located on the tracks of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in Santa Ana.
The Chamber of Commerce maintains a substantial fund to aid in securing
industrial enterprises. Churches
The Methodist Episcopal Church South holds the distinction of being the
first religious organization in Santa Ana, which was effected at the home of
AA^. H. Titchenal in December, 1869. Services were held for a time in a private •
residence, later on in the schoolhouse and finally in its own building erected in
1876, which is now supplanted by a commodious and well-arranged edifice. The
Baptist Church was organized in 1871, the Methodist Episcopal North in 1874,
and the United Presbyterian in 1876. After these pioneer churches various other
denominations have been established here, until at the present time the list includes
the following churches with their locations :
Christian Holiness Mission  Spurgeon bet. Second and Third
Church of Christ  S. E. cor. Walnut and Broadwav
Church of the Messiah  S. AV. cor. Bush and Seventh
Church of the Nazarene, Pentecostal  N. E. cor. Fifth and Parton
First Baptist  N. AV. cor. Main and Church
First Christian  N. W. cor. Broadway and Sixth
First Church of Christ, Scientist,  S. E. cor. Sycamore and Sixth
First Church of the Brethren  ^N. E. cor. First and Lacy
First Congregational  S.E. cor. Main and Seventh

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First Methodist Episcopal  N.E. cor. Sixth and Spurgeon
First Presbyterian  N.E. cor. Sixth and Sycamore
First Reformed Presbyterian  N. AV. cor. First and Spurgeon
First Spiritualist Church  306% East Fourth
Free Methodist  311 Fruit
Friends  S. AA'. cor. Sixth and Garfield
Holiness  S. AV. cor. First and Flower
Immanuel Baptist  S. AA'. cor. Sixth and French
International Bible Students' Association  311 N. Birch
Japanese Church  602 E. Fifth
Mexican Methodist Episcopal  N. AV. cor. First and Garfield
Pentecostal Gospel Mission  405 N. Birch
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 
 S.E. cor. Fifth and Flower
Richland Avenue Methodist Episcopal  S. E. cor. Parton and Richland
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic  S. E. cor. Lacy and Stafford
St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran  N. E. cor. Sixth and Van Ness Avenue
Salvation Army  '  303% N. Sycamore
Seventh Day Adventists  S. E. cor. Fifth and Ross
Spurgeon Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South 
 N.E. cor. Church and Broadway
Trinity German Evangelical Lutheran  Sixth bet. Lacy and Garfield
Unitarian  S.E. cor. Eighth and Bush
United Brethren  N. AA". cor. Third and Shelton
United Presbyterian  N. AA'. cor. Sixth and Bush
Zion's Church Evangelical Association (German) . . . . N. E. cor. Tenth and Main
Fraternal Societies
F. & A. M., Santa Ana Lodge, No. 241. R. A. M., Orange Chapter, No. 73.
O. E. S., Hermosa Chapter, No. 105. I. O. O. F, Santa Ana Lodge, No. 236.
R. & S. M., Santa Ana Council, No. 14. Canton S. A. No. 18, Patriarchs Mili-
I. O. O. F. Laurel Encampment, No. 81. tant U. R.
Sycamore Rebekah Lodge No. 140. Ladies of Canton, Santa Ana.
Torosa Rebekah Lodge. Areteran Odd Fellows Association.
Veteran Rebekah Association No. 50. B. P O. E., Santa Ana Lodge, No. 794.
Fraternal Aid Union. Fraternal Brotherhood, S. A. Lodge,
I. O. of R., Osage Tribe, No. 166. No. 2.
Knights and Ladies of Security. Independent Order of Foresters.
Knights of the Maccabees. Knights of Columbus.
Ladies of the Maccabees Review No. 7. K. of P., Santa Ana Lodge, No. 149.
R. N. A., Magnolia Camp, No. 4133. Modern Woodmen of America.
K. T., Santa Ana Commandery, No. 36. Women of AVoodcraft, S. A. Circle, 295.
Woodmen of the World, Santa Ana Camp, No. 355.
Patriotic Societies
G. A. R., Sedgwick Post, No. 17. L. of G. A. R., Shiloh Circle, No. 21.
Sedgwick, W. R. C, No. 17. D. of V., Sarah A. Rounds Tent, No. 10.
Miscellaneous Organizations
Altar Society, St. Joseph's Church. Associated Charities of Santa Ana.
Automobile Club of Orange County. Automobile Club of Southern Calif.
Catholic Homeseekers' Bureau. City Parent-Teachers' Association. s
Ebell Society of S. A. Valley. Monday Club.
Orange Co. Bldg. Industries. Orange Co. Medical Association.

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Orange Co. Bar Association. Orange Co. Trades Association.
Orange Co. Society P. C. A. Santa Ana Music Association.
Santa Ana Domino Club. S. A. Typographical Union No. 579.
Santa Ana Rifle Club. United Daughters of Confederacy.
Sunset Club. AAroman's Club of Santa Ana.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Young Ladies' Sodality.
The Press
Nap Donovan, pioneer printer, published the first number of the Santa Ana
Ne-n's, on May 15, 1876. This paper died young from inanition. In October of
the following year, he started the Santa Ana Herald, which, after passing through
many hands, was absorbed by the Blade in 1903.
Some time in the eighties the Stamps Brothers started the Santa Ana Times,
which they afterwards sold to D. M. Baker. He changed its name to the Santa
Ana Standard and continued its publication through the formative period of
Orange County's history. He then sold the paper and traveled through the North
western States in search of a better field. After passing through a number of
hands and suffering a change of name, the paper gave up the ghost.
The Evening Blade was founded in 1887 by A. J. AA'aterhouse and W. F. X.
Parker; but it was soon turned over to other owners. While it suffered many
vicissitudes it continued to be the only daily paper in the county for several years,
except for a brief period in the early nineties when the Free Press was making a
vain struggle for existence. The Blade was purchased by Horace McPhee in 1895,
who with his brother George carried it on for nearly a score of years. It was then
sold to a Mr. Clarkson, who in turn sold it to the Register Publishing Company,
and thus ended its existence.
The Register was founded in 1905 by the Register Publishing Company with
Fred Unholz and Frank Ormer as managers. The following year J. P. Baum-
gartner bought a controlling interest of the stock, and has been editor and manager
ever since.
D. M. Baker, failing to find a more promising field for newspaper work,
returned to Santa Ana, and with W. J. Rouse established the Bulletin in 1899,
which he continued to publish until his death. The paper is now owned and pub
lished by C. D. Overshiner and M. A. Yarnell.
The following are the present city officers : Trustees and committee assign
ments, J. G. Mitchell, president ; H. H. Dale, city and fire departments ; Walter
A. Greenleaf, street committee ; C. H. Chapman, water, sewers ; and John W.
Tubbs, police ; city clerk, E. L. Vegely ; city marshal, Sam Jernigan ; city attorney,
Geo. H. Scott ; city treasurer, Olive Lopez ; city recorder, W. F. Heathman ; super
intendent water and sewers, Walter Wray ; street superintendent and city engi
neer, W. W. Hoy; city health officer, Dr. J. I. Clark; fire chief, John Luxem-
bourger ; building inspector, Thomas Ash ; city electrician, Wm. McCulloch ; sani
tary inspector, W. W. Chandler.
Area of the city is nine square miles. It was first incorporated as a city
of the sixth class June 1, 1886; then later its boundaries were extended to corre
spond with the boundaries of the school district and it was incorporated April
9, 1888, as a city of the fifth class. The assessed valuation of the city in 1920
was $9,076,950, with a tax rate of $1.45 for city purposes. Building permits for
last year amounted to $215,344.48. The postoffice receipts for the last fiscal
year were $64,648.61. Thirty miles of the streets are paved and as a rule cement
sidewalks and curbs always border paved streets.

October 10, 1919, was the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the city
of Santa Ana. On his fortieth birthday, October 10, 1869, W. H. Spurgeon rode
through mustard higher than his head on horseback to the sycamore tree, still
standing, a few yards south of Fifth Street between Sycamore and Broadway.

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Dismounting he climbed the tree and viewed the landscape o'er. Pleased with
the prospect he bought seventy-four and one-quarter acres of this land from Ana
M. Chaves, widow of Vicente Martinez, for $594. This was the allotment of
Zenobia Yorba de Rowland in the division of the Santiago de Santa Ana grant,
effected in 1867 in the Los Angeles Superior Court as the result of the suit of
A. Stearns vs. L. Cota. The place was called Santa Ana from the name of the
grant, Mr. Spurgeon being unwilling to call it by his own name. He lived to
see his fondest hopes realized in the marvelous development of the city he founded
and the county he helped to organize.
What the future holds in store for this favored municipality no man can
foresee. With a population of 15,485, according to the government census of
1920, and the development of the magnificent territory hereabouts, yet practically
in its infancy, an increase to 25,000 in the next ten years would not appear an
over sanguine expectation. As yet no effort has been made to attract tourist
support to the city, although the mountains and coast line afford more varied
attractions than most tourist centers have to offer. It is not at all visionary to
predict that when the Santa Ana Valley awakens to the possibilities which it has
neglected in this respect for all these years, its chief city will become as famous
as a mecca for pleasure seekers as it has for its purely stable characteristics. At
the present time there is not a first class hotel or restaurant in the city, nor
accommodations of any sort which travelers of means desire. Located as it is on
the El Camino Real, or "King's Highway," the main thoroughfare for automo
biles between Los Angeles and San Diego, as well as on two steam lines and
one electric, in the midst of the most celebrated playground for tourists in the
world, it does not seem possible that such a condition can long continue.

CHAPTER XI
THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH
By Sadie C. Sweeney
The city of Seal Beach is located in the extreme southwest corner of Orange
County, bordering on the Pacific Ocean southeast of the mouth of the San Gabriel
.1 River, into which Coyote Creek empties some distance from the coast. Accord
ing to tradition, the place was selected and promoted as a beach resort by Los
Angeles capitalists under the name of Bay City, which name the school district
still bears. Although the city continues to receive the patronage of many Los
Angeles people, its main support comes from its own residents who are citizens
of Orange County.
The city was incorporated under its present name on October 25, 1911. Its
area, as nearly as can be determined from the map, is about one and five-eighths
square miles. Its assessed valuation for the year 1920, exclusive of operative
property, is $638,755. Its present population is 669, according to the Federal
census of 1920. There are two miles of paved streets, eight miles of oiled streets
and about twenty miles of concrete sidewalk.
A complete sewer system is being constructed now, and the city has voted
bonds to install a municipal water plant. Following are the present city officers,
and officers of other organizations : Board of trustees : John J. Doyle, presi
dent; Albert J. Morris, Walter A. Storts, A. J. Spinner, J. Burkhart; clerk,
B. B. Brown; marshal, Harry Mayer; city attorney, Joe C. -Burke; treasurer,
Mrs. Sadie C. Bailey ; recorder, John H. May ; health officer, J. P. Dougall ; plumb
ing and electric inspector, Harry Mayer ; board of health : Dr. J. Park Dougall,
Sadie C. Sweeney, A. W. Armstrong, James Graham, Mrs. Millie Ernie ; chamber
of commerce : James A. Graham, president ; J. H. May, vice-president ; A. W.
Armstrong, secretary ; Sadie C. Sweeney, treasurer ; Gustav Mann, Wm. Temple-
man, W. A. Storts, J. H. May, Raymond Aldrich ; school board : Miss Amy Dyson,
president; I. E. Patterson, clerk; Mrs. C. L. Flack.

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The number of teachers employed in the public schools, the number of
pupils enrolled, the value of the school property and the cost of the schools for
the year 1918-1919, may be found in the chapter on Orange County's Schools
under the title "Bay City," which is the name of the school district belonging to
Seal Beach.
The only church to report in the city is the Bungalow Methodist Church.
Bathing is enjoyed the year 'round ; it is absolutely safe for the children.
There has never been a drowning in the surf at Seal Beach; there is no under
tow. The climatic conditions, too, are the best that can be found in Southern
California; it is cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter than at most
other places.
The Pacific Electric Railway passes through Seal Beach on its way from
Long Beach to Balboa. There is a paved road from Seal Beach to Long Beach
and provision is made in the $40,000,000 state bonds, recently voted, to extend
the state highway from Oxnard to Capistrano along the coast.
The growth of Seal Beach is retarded at present by the lack of housing facili
ties, and it might pay the holders of vacant lots to build on them; but it would
be better for the community, as well as the home-seekers, if they would buy and
build in Seal Beach for the sake of the many natural advantages it has to offer.

CHAPTER XII
THE CITY OF STANTON
The city of Stanton is located centrally in the agricultural section in the
western part of Orange County, southwest of Anaheim and northwest of Garden
Grove. It was named after Hon. Phil. A. Stanton of Los Angeles, who has
large holdings of land in that vicinity. The city was incorporated on March 29,
1911 ; the principal purpose of the incorporation was to prevent Anaheim's sewer
farm being located in that community. The area of the territory first included
was afterwards reduced until now it is about six and one-half square miles. The
assessed valuation of the city for the year 1920 is $629,335 ; and the tax rate for
city purposes is $1.00. The population, according to the 1920 census, is 695.
No one ever heard of Stanton parading itself as a railroad center ; yet so it is, as
may be seen on the map. The branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad, running
from Anaheim to Los Alamitos, intersects the main line of the Pacific Electric
Railway, running from Los Angeles to Santa Ana, in the very heart of the city
of Stanton. Following are the city officers as they stood after the election and appoint
ments in 1920 : Board of trustees, John F. Roe, president ; E. B. Hosking, True
AA'. Clark, James F. Robison, Frank G. Redmond; clerk, F. C. Beecher ; treas
urer, F. D. Turner ; recorder, E. N. \Villarcl.

CHAPTER XIII
UNINCORPORATED TOWNS
Besides the nine incorporated cities in Orange County, which have been de
scribed elsewhere, there are about forty unincorporated towns, ranging in size
from^ a few families to nearly sufficient population to incorporate as a city of
the sixth class. Each of these towns serves as a business and social center for
the surrounding territory, the postoffice in many cases having been superseded
by the rural delivery from the larger cities. These towns may be briefly described
in alphabetical order, as follows :

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Arch Beach is a small seaside resort one mile east of Laguna Beach. The
shore line in front of this town is the most attractive on the coast, with its
picturesque bluffs, jutting rocks and cunning coves. The name, Arch Beach,
comes from a natural arch formed by the action of the breakers cutting a passage
through a large projecting rock.
Balboa is the name given to the eastern end of Newport Beach, to an island
in the bay, and to the palisades near Corona del Mar.
Berryfield, Benedict and Cypress are way stations on the Pacific Electric
Railway northwest of Garden Grove in the order named going toward Los An
geles. Besides accommodating the local travel they form shipping points for
the products of the surrounding farms, gardens and poultry yards.
Bolsa is located four miles west of Santa Ana in the grain, vegetable and
stock-raising lands. It. consists of a store, church, schoolhouse, and a few resi
dences which are badly scattered.
Brookhurst is the first station on the Southern Pacific Railway northwest
of West Anaheim. Although it is located near the dividing line between the
fruit lands and the dairy section, there are some fine orchards near the station.
Buena Park is the last station on the Southern Pacific Railway before cross
ing into Los Angeles County. It is surrounded by alfalfa, beet and general farm
ing lands. Here is located the large condensed milk factory of the Pacific Cream
ery Company. Capistrano, the "Old Mission Town," is situated near the junction of San
Juan Creek and Trabuco Creek, on the Santa Fe Railway, about twenty-five
miles southeast of Santa Ana and three miles from the coast. The locality seems
to be well adapted to fruits, grains and grazing, but the principal distinction is
being the home of the San Juan Capistrano Mission.
The first attempt to found the Mission of San Juan Capistrano was made
October 30, 1775. A cross was erected and a mass said in a hut constructed
for the purpose. The revok of the Indians at San Diego on the night of
November 5th, and the massacre of Father Jaume and others, news of which
reached San Juan on the 7th, called away the soldiers. The bells which had
been hung on the branch of a tree were taken down and buried and the soldiers
and padres hastened to San Diego. November 1, 1776, President Serra and
' Fathers Mugartegui and Amurro, with an escort of soldiers, reestablished the
mission. The bells were dug up and hung upon a tree, and their ringing assem
bled a number of the natives. An enramada of boughs was constructed and
mass was said.
The first location of the mission was several miles northeast of the present
site, and at the foot of the mountain. The former location is still known as La
Mission Viejo. Whether the change of location was made at the time of the
reesrablishment or later is not known. The erection of a stone church was begu i
in February, 1797, and completed in 1806. A master builder had been brought
from Mexico, and under his superintendence the neophytes did the mechanical
labor. It was the largest and handsomest church in California and was the pride
of mission architecture. The year 1812 was known in California as el ano dc
los tcmblores — the year of earthquakes. For months the seismic disturbance
was almost continuous. On Sunday, December 8, 1812, a severe shock threw
down the lofty church tower, which crashed through the vaulted roof on the
congregation below. The padre who was celebrating mass escaped through the
sacristy. Of the fifty persons present only five or six escaped. The church was
never rebuilt. "There is not much doubt," says Bancroft, "that the disaster was
due rather to faulty construction than to the violence of the temblor. The edifice
was of the usual cruciform shape, about 90x180 feet on the ground, with very
thick walls and arched, dome-like roof all constructed of stones imbedded in
mortar or cement. The stones were not hewn, but of irregular size and shape, a
kind of structure evidently requiring great skill to insure solidity." The mission

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reached its maximum in 1819; from that on until its secularization there was a
rapid decline in the number of its livestock and of its neophytes.
This was one of the missions in which Governor Figueroa tried his experi
ment of forming Indian pueblos of the neophytes. For a time the experiment
was a partial success, but eventually it went the way of all the other missions. Its
lands were granted to private individuals and the neophytes scattered. It was
restored by the Landmarks Club of Los Angeles, and its picturesque ruins are a
great attraction to tourists.
Celery is one of the stations and shipping points on the branch of the South
ern Pacific Railroad running from Newport Beach to Smeltzer.
Corona del Mar is a small hamlet on the mesa east of the mouth of New
port Bay.
Delhi is a community center about two miles south oi Santa Ana.
El Modena is snuggled up against the foothills on a sightly mesa three miles
east of Orange. The town proper was started in the boom, about 1886, by
immigrants from the East, chiefly of the Quaker or Friends' denomination. The
boomers went out with the boom and those who were left set to work to develop
the country. As a result there are many fine orange and lemon orchards in this
section and many other fruits and farm products are grown here. About half a
mile south of the schoolhouse -is the famous Hewes ranch, containing several
hundred acres of diversified fruits and a large packing house on the Tustin branch
of the Southern Pacific Railway. El Modena has a good water system, a Friends'
Church, a graded school, a general merchandise store and other conveniences per
taining to a prosperous community.
El Toro, twelve miles southeast of Santa Ana on the Santa Fe Railway,
is the trading point of an extensive grain and grazing district. It is also the
nearest railroad point to certain mining camps and bee ranches in the hills on
the north and to Laguna Beach and Arch Beach on the south.
Fairview, seven miles southwest of Santa Ana, is located on the northwest
part of the broad mesa lying between the ocean afid the damp lands southwest
of the county seat. A carline was projected in boom days to connect the town
with Santa Ana, but there was not sufficient travel to justify its continuance.
Circumscribed by the San Joaquin ranch on the east and south and by the damp
lands on the west and north, the place has made but little growth.
Garden Grove, five miles northwest of Santa Ana on the Pacific Electric
Railway, is the center of a large area of land adapted to general farming, dairy
ing and poultry raising. The shipping records show that Garden Grove has
become the greatest egg producing district in Southern California. Ample
water can be obtained for pumping at a maximum depth of 125 feet, which rises
to within a few feet of the surface; in fact, many of the wells flowed in the early
days. This abundance of water has induced the installation of many pumping
plants, thereby increasing the productiveness of the section. The town itself is
making rapid strides toward a city, with brick blocks, cement sidewalks and nearly
every kind of business house. A lighting district has been established under a
state law, and a brass band is being maintained by the people.
Garden Grove people must have considerable satisfaction — not to say pride —
in helping to produce the following eggs-traordinary results, as set forth in The
Youth's Companion:
"The value of the eggs and poultry produced every year in the United States
is now three-quarters of a billion dollars, or more than that of all the gold, silver
and diamonds produced in a year in the whole world. There are about three hens
to a person, and each hen lays on an average eighty eggs a year. The best layers
produce as many as 240 a year. Farmers' flocks consist on the average of only
about forty birds, but even at that they contribute notably to good living on the
farm. "Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these : T have no hen.' "

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As proof that Garden Grove's productions are not confined to eggs alone,
note the following products shipped from there in 1919: Beans, 45 cars, 1,350
tons ; beets, 130 cars, 4,662 tons ; cabbages, 37 cars, 439 tons ; eggs, 3,283 cases,
98,490 dozen; oranges and lemons, 126 cars, 1,755 tons; peppers, green chili, 132
cars, 1,990 tons ; peppers, dried chili, 121 cars, 1,455 tons; pimentos, 75 -cars,
1,125 tons; potatoes, Irish, 11 cars, 157 tons; potatoes, sweet, 26 cars, 404 tons;
tomatoes, 33 cars, 328 tons ; walnuts, 40 cars, 483 tons ; approximate value,
$2,000,000.00. Greenville is the new name for what used to be the Newport school district,
or Old Newport to distinguish it from the beach city of the same' name. Whether
the new name will supersede the latter name for the town remains to be seen.
The place is a small cluster of houses about three miles southwest of Santa Ana
in what was formerly known as the "Gospel Swamp" region.
Harper is a station on the Santa Ana and Newport branch of the Southern
Pacific Railroad near the north boundary of the latter city.
Irvine is a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway about seven
miles southeast of Santa Ana. It is the principal shipping point for the products
of the great San Joaquin ranch.
Laguna Beach, at the mouth of the Laguna Canyon and almost due south
of El Toro, has been retarded in its growth by its difficulty of access. It has
many natural advantages, the shore line here being nearly as picturesque as at
Arch Beach, but most people prefer to go where there is railroad communication.
Nevertheless, with regular automobile connection with Santa Ana and private con
veyances, the town continues to grow and the resort to keep many loyal patrons.
A few years ago Pomona College, recognizing the advantages of Laguna
Beach for the study of marine life, established a summer school there and gath
ered quite a collection of specimens in aquariums and cabinets to illustrate the
instruction. For the same reason, and also for its coast scenery and atmospheric
effects, Laguna Beach has become a veritable Mecca for worshipers at the shrine
of the fine arts. "Nature Calls mightily here and answers the craving of every
being who appreciates her wonders and delights in her beauty." The many artists
thus drawn thither have formed the Laguna Beach Art Association and maintain
an art display in the auditorium. Funds are being raised for an art gallery, library
and music room in a new building. The present officers of the association are :
Edgar A. Payne, president; Anna A. Hills, vice-president; Mrs. Thaddeus Lowe,
2nd vice-president; Nevada Lindsay, secretary; Mrs. E. E. Jahraus, treasurer.
The following appreciation, clipped from the Santa Ana Register, though
not localized by the author, Thomas A'Vright of Tustin, will apply to Laguna Beach
as well as to other places along the coast :
"Orange County, fringed on its western boundary by scenic grandeur — the
blue of the Pacific that ebbs and flows on its golden shores — the waves that beat
against the scarred and rugged rocks that defiant stand, as they have done for
ages, as the breakers hurl their restless forces against the barriers placed in their
path by Him who holds the seas in the hollow of His hand !
"In this wonder spot of scenic grandeur, the wave-washed rocks reflect the
glory of the sun and the blue of the sky, with their countless thousands of beau
tiful stone formations in all the colors and shades and delicate tints of the rain
bow's glorious glow.
"As a lover of the beautiful, I stand among the rocks, in the misty spray,
unable' to comprehend the true wonders of creation; the unfathomable mysteries
of the deep ; the wonders in stones, shells and sea life washed in by the tides. I
hear the happy laughter of children who play among the rocks and in the sand. I
see lovers of the beautiful who come for recreation close to Nature's breast,
some to meditate, others to study the wonders in curious shells, stones and sea
life washed in upon the shore. I think of the Master who gave to us Christian
ity, who preached to the whole world by the Sea of Galilee, teaching the unfath
omable Love of God, and the simple lessons of faith and trust — as 'the lily that

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toils not, neither does it spin, yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like
one of these.' I think of the sermons in stones, in flowers, in every living thin" ¦
in purple dawn, in sunset's radiant glow ; in life, in love, in joy and tears — the
inexpressible grandeur of it all !
"Then I remember what the Good Book says — that it was the fool who said
in his heart, 'There is no God.' "
La Habra is the name of a rancho and settlement near the extreme northwest
corner of Orange County. The town is one of the stations of the Pacific Electric
Railway from Los Angeles to Riverside through the La Habra Valley and the
Santa Ana Canyon. This valley contains some excellent land and, with its close
connection with the Los Angeles markets, has a bright future before it.
Los Alamitos, named after a rancho of that name, is situated on Coyote Creek
at the western boundary of the county nearly due west of Anaheim. It owes its
existence to the large beet sugar factory established about 1896 by Ex-Senator
AAr. A. Clark and his brother, J. Ross Clark. This factory worked up 80,000 tons
of beets in 1909 and 90,000 tons in 1910. An auxiliary company to the Los Ala
mitos Sugar Company is the Montana Land Company holding 8,000 acres of land
in the Los Cerritos rancho, which is in Los Angeles County, near the factory.
Mateo is the last station of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in
Orange County, about four miles on this side of the San Diego County line.
McPherson, two miles east of Orange on the Tustin branch of the Southern
Pacific Railroad, took its name from the McPherson brothers who were most
active in establishing the town. In the heyday of the raisin industry McPherson
was a busy place, but, with the passing of the grapes and the competition of El
Modena on the east and Orange on the west, the town has not made much progress.
However, the place is surrounded by fine orchards and maintains an excellent
packing house, extensive nurseries, a blacksmith shop and other conveniences for
a rural community.
Modjeska Mineral Springs is a mountain health resort opened up in the San
tiago Canyon.
Olinda is a bustling town in the oil district eight miles northeast of Fuller-
ton. The wells qf the Santa Fe Railway, from which the company procures its
chief supply of fuel, are located here.
Olive is situated at Burruel Point on the Santa Fe Railway, four miles north
of Orange. Evidences of au earlier occupancy of this locality were visible forty
years ago in adobe ruins and abandoned ditches, and the present name of the town
is said to come from a group of olive trees found growing at the west end of the
point. The whole territory about Olive is one vast orchard and garden with many
individual owners. In the language of a resident, "whatever soil, water and sun
shine will germinate, sustain and fructify in any part of California, can be grown
in the vicinity of Olive." Here are located the large flour mills of the Central Mill
ing Company, which are operated by water power from the canal of the Santa
Ana Irrigation Company, supplemented by steam power. The capacity of the
mills is about 100 barrels of flour per day. In 1919, 335 cars of Valencia oranges,
and fifteen cars of Navels and lemons were shipped out. Wheat, barley and milo
maize are shipped in for the Central Milling Company, of which John M. Gar
diner is president. The First National Bank of Olive has deposits of $169,436.51.
Peralta, or Upper Santa Ana, is a Spanish settlement on the southeast side of
the Santa Ana River about four miles above Olive.
Placentia is the name given to the territory east of Fullerton and northeast
of Anaheim. The nucleus of a town by that name was started in the year 1910
on the Santa Fe cut-off between Fullerton and Richfield. Trains on this cut-off
pass through orange groves, some of whose fruit might almost be plucked from
the car window. Here are the famous Chapman orchards, whose "Old Mission"
brand of fruit brings the highest price of any similar fruit in the world. The
Placentia Library District was formed September 2, 1919, the vote in favor being
unanimous.

FIRST FLOUR MILL, OLIVE

FIRST BEE RANCH, SANTIAGO CANYON

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Richfield, a couple of miles north of Olive on the Santa Fe Railway, has been
nothing but the shipping point for the oil from the Olinda district for several
years. Now, however, that it has been made the eastern terminus of the cut-off,
it has commenced to grow and several substantial buildings have been erected.
San Juan-By-The-Sea, or Serra, is a small fishing hamlet at the mouth of the
San Juan Creek. Here the surf line of the Santa Fe Railway, on its way to
San Diego, first strikes the beach.
San Juan Hot Springs, fourteen miles northeast of Capistrano in the San
Juan Canyon, has long been a noted resort for rest and recreation. Flere many
people find relief from various diseases in the hot baths and enjoy the rest and
relaxation which the mountain seclusion affords.
Smeltzer is situated in the heart of the celery district south of Westminster.
The town was named after the late D. E. Smeltzer of Kansas City, who discov
ered the adaptability of the peat lands, when drained, to the growth of celery.
Smeltzer and AVintersburg, one mile further south, are busy places in the shipping
season. These towns are on the Southern Pacific Railway from Newport Beach
to Los Alamitos.
Sunset Beach is an ambitious resort between Huntington Beach and Seal
Beach. The coast line of the Pacific Electric Railway from Long Beach to New
port Beach passes through these beach resorts, giving easy access to the pleasure
seekers from Los Angeles and the interior cities.
Talbert is the business center of the Fountain Valley region southeast of
AA'intersburg and was named after some of the leading citizens of that locality.
It is surrounded by productive farming lands similar to those generally found
west of the Santa Ana River.
Tustin, founded in the early '70s by Columbus Tustin, is about three miles
southeast of Santa Ana. It is the terminus of the Tustin branch of the Southern
Pacific Railway, and has a station on the Santa Fe Railway, southwest of the
town, called Aliso station. At one time there was a horse car line from Tustin
through Santa Ana and Orange to El Modena, but the owners, finding it did not-
pay, took up the track between Tustin and Santa Ana, and also between El Mo
dena and Orange. Although Tustin is near the upper border of the damp lands,
it is still on the mesa and is surrounded by many fine orchards of oranges, lemons.
walnuts and deciduous fruits. The residents of Tustin have always taken great
pride in their well-kept streets lined with stately trees ; in order to light the same,
they have established a lighting district, similar to the one established at Garden
Grove. Villa Park was originally named Mountain View on account of its sightly
location near the mouth of the Santiago Canyon overlooking the rest of the
valley, but the postoffice department objected to the name because there was an
other Mountain View in the state. Although the objection has since been removed
by the abandonment of the postoffice, it was sufficient at the time to secure the
adoption of the name Villa Park. The soil around Villa Park has considerable
gravel in its composition, making it good material for roads, and also enabling
it to absorb the heat of the sun during the day and retain it through the night
better than a clay soil. For this_ reason the Villa Park section is specially adapted
to the growth of semi-tropic fruits and winter vegetables. The Serrano Water
Association, a cooperative concern, furnishes abundance of water for irrigation
from the Santiago Creek and from wells.
Westminster was promoted as a Presbyterian colony by Rev. Weber of Pat-
erson, N. J., and John Y. Anderson was the first purchaser of land in the settle
ment. In 1870 he bought eighty acres, which later he reduced to thirty-two
acres and kept till his death, which occurred at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Mary Tilton, at East Los Angeles, May 18, 1920. James D. Ott, of Santa Ana,
helped him build his house in 1871, the same house in which his son, Harrv
Anderson, lives today. Mr. Anderson was eighty-two years old when he died,
having lived in what is now Orange County practically fifty years.

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Westminster is rated as one of the older settlements of the county, perhaps
next to Anaheim. It early became known in the political conventions at Los
Angeles as a foe to intemperance. More than one tippling candidate went down
to defeat before the combined delegations from Westminster, Orange, Pasadena
and other temperance communities. Located seven miles west of Santa Ana,
in the midst of a broad plain of rich, damp lands, Westminster began with a dairy
industry, the first products of its herds being hauled to Los Angeles to market.
A creamery company was organized in 1895, which invested $5,000 in a building.
These improved facilities increased the profits ; still with the drainage of the peat
lands to the south and the introduction of cultivated crops the land became too
valuable for a mere cattle range. At the present time all kinds of stock and
poultry raising is carried on to a certain extent, and nearly every product of the
farm and garden is grown in great profusion.
Wintersburg is a shipping station on the Newport Beach and Smeltzer branch
of the Southern Pacific Railroad one mile south of Smeltzer.
Yorba takes its name from some of the Spanish families in its vicinity. It
is a station on the Santa Fe Railway to Riverside, east of Richfield. Its sur
roundings are adapted to fruits, grain, vegetables and stock and poultry raising.
Yorba Linda is a comparatively new town north of the Santa Ana River and
east of Yorba on the Riverside branch of the Santa Fe Railway. It has made
a fine start and, with so many thriving young orchards, it will continue to grow.

CHAPTER XIV
ORANGE COUNTY'S SCHOOLS
Perhaps the best index of the character of any people may be found in the
provision such people make for the education of their offspring. In order to make
a fair showing of the school facilities of Orange County in the briefest space
possible, it is thought best to present in tabular form the same kind of data about
every school in the county. The following four descriptive items have been
selected out of more than a dozen given in Superintendent Mitchell's report for
1920, as most typical of the size and quality of the county's schools, viz., Number
of teachers, number of pupils, value of property and year's expenses.
Elementary Schools
Number Number Value Expenses
of of of of
Names of Districts Teachers Pupils Property 1919-1920
1. Alamitos  2 49 $ 1,850 $ 3,053.31
2. Anaheim  29 852 168,050 103,768.77
3. Bay City  3 75 12,325 4,307.10
4- Bolsa  2 57 18,350 16,106.36
5- Brea  12 295 68,850 21,841.67
6. Buena Park  4 83 8,060 6,886.47
7. Centralia  2 47 5,550 2,599.14
8. Commonwealth  1 30 4,100 1,054.90
9. Cypress  2 45 3,140 2,627.60
!0- Delhi  4 100 13,000 4,701.65
11. Diamond  1 34 3,300 1,518.02
12. El Modena  7 150 36,900 9 222.37
13. El Toro  2 47 7,000 2,008.66
14. Fountain Valley  2 57 5,600 2,771.46
15. Fullerton  24 594 92,500 49,648.41
16. Garden Grove  11 272 21,500 14,774.96

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17. Greenville  1 24 15,300 13,973.11
18. Harper-Fairview  3 80 10,675 5,558,21
19. Huntington Beach  11 257 96,550 20,575.00
20. Katella  3 55 6,750 4,252.64
21. Laguna  2 30 5,750 3,051.33
22. La Habra  11 228 50,000 22,004.45
23. Laurel  4 79 6,600 4,705.18
24. Loara ....:  4 111 12,200 5,493.80
25. Lowell Joint  2 26 20,000 2,847.00
26. Magnolia  2 53 3,100 2,326.95
27. Newhope  2 42 1,600 1,930.06
28. Newport Beach  4 101 33,975 6,329.70
29. Ocean View  4 82 11,790 5,423.58
30. Olinda  6 188 14,700 11,057.92
31. Olive  3 80 16,800 19,854.76
32. Orange  25 645 113,000 38,631.84
33. Orangethorpe  3 102 15,500 5,167.36
34. Paularino  1 30 975 942.35
35. Peralta  1 24 2,550 938.17
36. Placentia-Richfield  16 361 53,750 47,560.01
37. San Joaquin  3 96 7,100 3,850.74
38. San Juan  3 93 10,800 4,727.18
39. Santa Ana  73 1,930 281,950 112,826.51
40. Savanna  2 32 2,250 2,131.36
41. Serra  1 9 90 874.56
42. Silverado  1 14 450 902.95
43. Springdale  2 22 4,950 2,522.11
44. Trabuco  1 12 650 1,117.87
45. Tustin  12 260 61,000 20,399.45
46. Villa Park  2 64 2,200 24,606.89
47 Westminster  3 84 17,800 3,773.39
48. Yorba  2 51 3,700 2,524.69
49. Yorba Linda  5 142 10,700 17,159.16

Totals  324 8,194 $1,365,280 $666,931.93
High Schools
The legislature of 1891 passed two high school laws, one allowing the people
in an entire county to authorize the establishment and maintenance of one or more
high schools at the expense of the county, and the other permitting two or more
contiguous school districts to unite and form a union high school district. The
county board of education advocated the establishment of a high school under
the former law. After more or less agitation of the subject, petitions were circu
lated, signed and presented to the board of supervisors asking that an election be
called to vote on the question. With one exception, the supervisors were in favor
of -the county measure, and called the election for August 29, 1891. The super
visor from the Fourth District, having failed to even delay the calling of the
election, started in to defeat the measure at the polls. He furnished the county
papers each week with articles against a county high school and carried on a dis
cussion in the Evening Blade with Gen. H. A. Pierce, a Santa Ana attorney, over
the legal points involved. A resident of Tustin reported that the papers con
taining these articles were passed from voter to voter until they were literally
worn out. The result of the election was 749 votes in favor of a county high
school and 1,026 against. This defeat prepared the way for union high schools
in different parts of the county, instead of one large institution at the county
seat. There are now (1920) six of these schools in the county, each doing good

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work and in flourishing condition, allowing the pupils to board at home while
pursuing their advanced studies in the high school.
The following statistics, along the same lines as those presented on the ele
mentary schools, show that these high schools are appreciated and are liberally
supported and patronized by the communities in which they are located.
Number Number Value Expenses
of of of of
Names of Schools Teachers Pupils Property' 1919-1920
1. Anaheim  22 330 $ 172,500 $61,463.93
2. Capistrano (new)  ...  
3. Fullerton . .'  39 537 491,000 201,655.67
4. Huntington Beach  12 173 108,800 33,172.96
5. Orange  23 395 137,200 61,404.12
6. Santa Ana  51 981 391,000 126,422.52
Totals  147 2,416 $1,300,500 $484,119.20
Junior Colleges
There are two junior colleges in the county at the present time (1920). They
are carried on in connection with their respective high schools and are dependent
on them for teachers, grounds, buildings and other accommodations, leaving
nothing but the number of pupils to be reported in this paragraph, as follows :
1. Fullerton Junior College  79 Pupils
2. Santa Ana Junior College  51 Pupils
Total number in Colleges  130 Pupils
Number of Graduates
The number of graduates from the schools of the county in the class of 1920
was as follows :
Names of Schools Boys Girls Totals
Elementary Schools  322 306 628
Anaheim Union High  46 65 111
Fullerton Union High  29 59 88
Huntington Beach Union High  5 15 20
Orange Union High  32 29 61
Santa Ana Union High  46 65 111
Total, Union High Schools  158 233 391
Fullerton Junior College  6 8 14
Santa Ana Junior College  5 5
Totals from Junior College  6 13 19
Public Kindergartens
Nine of the school districts maintain kindergartens in connection with .the
other grades of their elementary schools. Most of these, like the junior colleges,
are somewhat dependent on another department for grounds, buildings and other
accommodations ; still they are so far separate that the same lines of data can be
given on them as on the other departments, as follows :
Number Number YTalue Expenses
of of of of
Names of Kindergartens Teachers Pupils Property 1919-1920
1. Anaheim  2 97 $1,700 $2,177 73
2- Brea  2 40 2,315 1,900.00
3. Fullerton  2 62 4,300 4,267.20

41

1,312

2,318.46

47

4,500

1,932.16

34

1,106

1,435.27

88

5,025

3,327.01

311

9,250

7,408.16

26

3,006

1,875.00

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4. Huntington Beach  2
5. La Habra  1
6. Olinda  1
7. Orange  4
8. Santa Ana  9
9. Tustin  2
Totals  25 746 $32,514 $24,765.99
Private Schools
There are at least seven private schools in the county, supported by religious
denominations, or by tuition charged the pupils, instead of by taxation as are
the public schools. Although not quite so easy to trace and separate the items
as with public schools, yet some of the lines of data can be given on the private
schools, as follows : Number Number Value Expenses
of of of of
Names of Schools Teachers Pupils Property * 1919-1920
1. Seventh Day Adventists, Garden
Grove  1 18  $ 545.00
2. St. John's Parochial, Orange ... . 4 160  5,445.00
3. Lutheran Trinity, Olive  2 31  1,700.00
4. St. Joseph's Academy, Anaheim. . 7 193  
5. St. Catharine's, Anaheim  5 147  
6. St. Joseph's Grammar, Santa Ana 5 100  
7. Orange Co. Bus. College, Santa
Ana  *.  4 200 $ 25,000 

Totals  28 849 $ 25,000 $ 7,690.00

Grand Totals for County.... 524 12,335 $2,723,294 $1,183,507.12
As an indication of the growth of the schools of Orange County and of the
way the taxpayers respond to the call for more school accommodations, County
School Superintendent Mitchell gave out figures on March 16, 1920, showing that
a number of districts in the county had voted an aggregate of $870,000 worth of
bonds since March, 1919, to be used in the erection of new buildings, while other
districts are planning to vote bonds within the next six months that will bring the
total up to $1,100,000. Inasmuch as a few districts, which need more school
room, failed to get the necessary two-thirds, vote for their bonds, we may be per
mitted to state here some of the underlying principles that should govern the
voting of bonds.
A public corporation, such as a state, county or district, issuing bonds upon
all the taxable property within its jurisdiction, as security for the repayment of
borrowed money with interest, is like an individual's placing a mortgage on his
property for the same purpose. In either case the borrower must meet his obliga
tion or have his property seized and sold, in the one case for delinquent taxes and
in the other under foreclosure of the mortgage, to repay the lender. It behooves
every citizen, therefore, to weigh carefully the needs for the public improvement
called for at any time, as well as the ability of the average taxpayer to meet his
pro rata, of the obligation he is thus helping to incur, before he votes for bonds.
The officers in charge of any department, or portion of the government,
having concluded that more room, or other accommodations, is absolutely neces
sary for the successful handling of the increasing business of such department,
should carefully consider the ways and means for procuring the needed improve
ment. If the amount wanted is small, it may be obtained by a single assessment
or tax ; but, if large, it will require several assessments or taxes in succession, or

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a bond issue, to raise the requisite amount of money. A succession of assess
ments or tax levies can only be applied when the improvement can be made a
piece at a time, like road building. This method of raising money is much more
economical than issuing bonds, and also gives opportunity to correct mistakes in
construction, that may be discovered by use, before much money is misspent.
For instance, after the proceeds of the good road bond issue were practically
exhausted, the county highway commission decided that the concrete base would
be stronger and better with one part less of sand in the mixture. Still later the
supervisors concluded that the paving should be five inches thick instead of four to
withstand the strain of the heavy traffic. If this paving had been done under the
continued contract system, a portion each year, instead of all at once under a
big bond issue, the improved methods just described could have been applied to
the unpaved portions of the highways to be improved, and thus have made a
better job on the greater part of the work.
Another case in point is the improvement of the ditches of the Santa Ana
Valley Irrigation Company. From three to seven miles of these ditches were
lined or piped with cement concrete each year until now practically the whole
system is thus -improved. Funds for this work were obtained by levying about
three ten-per-cent assessments per annum on the capital stock of the company,
every dollar of which went directly into the work.- This vast improvement, cost
ing thousands of dollars, but worth millions to the central part of the county,
was accomplished without much hardship on the stockholders and without a dollar
of indebtedness to the company. Had bonds been issued to finance the im
provement, more than double the par value of the bonds would have been spent
before the last bond was paid off, to say nothing about the money that would
have been wasted in mistakes, if the work had all been done at once thirty
years ago. •
However, there are some kinds of public improvements requiring large sums
of money, like school buildings, which must be completed at the time of their
construction in order to get the immediate use of the entire structures. Such
improvements must be financed by the issue of bonds; there is no other practical
way. Since good schools are essential to the future welfare of the community,
state and nation, and since they cannot be carried on successfully without adequate
support, it becomes the patriotic duty of loyal citizens to economize on other
enterprises, that can either be dispensed with altogether or be procured by "the
continued contract system," and give their hearty support to their schools by
voting bonds for needed improvements, provided that such improvements are
wisely planned without any extravagant superfluities.
Evidence of Efficiency
The foregoing, record of the establishment and maintenance of Orange
County's schools, wonderful as it is, would be incomplete without some evidence
of the efficiency of such schools.
The high schools of this county are accredited by the University of California,
showing that their scholarship is rated as high as, that of other schools. They
have repeatedly joined in friendly rivalry in forensic and athletic contests with
the high schools of other counties, to quicken the pupils' interest in elocution
and keep their equilibrium, in accordance with the Latin formula, Mens sana in
corpore sano. In all such contests Orange County's representatives have proved
to be the peers of their competitors.
AYhile every person receives more or less benefit from his attendance at
school, according to his ability and application, and hundreds ot Orange County
high school graduates are filling positions of importance and trust in the trades
and professions, yet lack of space will permit only a few, from such of the schools
as have furnished the data, to be mentioned as examples of pupils who have re
ceived at least a part of their preparation in these schools and who are making

UNION HIGH SCHOOL, FULLERTON

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good in every walk of life, with honor to themselves and credit to their alma
mater, as follows:
Louis E. Plummer, Principal of the Fullerton Union High School, kindly
furnished the following data about that institution :
The Fullerton Union high school was organized in 1893. Mr. W. R. Car
penter was elected principal, serving until 1906, at which time he became County
Superintendent of Schools and was succeeded in Fullerton by Mr. Delbert Brun-
ton. Mr. Brunton served as principal until 1916, at which time he was superseded
by Mr. E. AV. Hauck, -who in turn was followed by Mr. Louis E. Plummer, the
present principal. During the time of Mr. Carpenter's service the school grew
until the enrollment reached 65. The period of greatest growth came during the
ten years of Mr. Brunton's service as principal. At the time he left the school in
1916 the total attendance reached 400. In 1913 a junior college was established,
in connection with the high school. The college has flourished. The enrollment
for 1920-21 totals nearly 100, while our high school for the same year totals 650.
So many of the persons who spent their school days in the Fullerton Union
high school have achieved more or less prominence that it becomes a difficult task
to select those deserving of special mention. A few, however, will be mentioned
with the full knowledge that many more as worthy will remain unnamed so far
as this article is concerned.
The first graduating class, that of 1896, numbered only two, both of whom
have made their mark in their chosen work. Mr. Arthur Staley continued his
education in Stanford University, graduating in 1900. Since that time he has
held positions of influence in his own community. He is an auditor of high
ability, a splendid packing house foreman, and very successful rancher. Mr.
Thomas McFadden, also a graduate of Stanford University, is now a very suc
cessful and prominent attorney of Orange County, with residence and extensive
citrus holdings at Placentia.
Dewitt Montgomery of the class of 1897 has proven unusually successful in
the teaching profession. Following his graduation from Stanford University his
marked ability won for him position as county superintendent of schools in Santa
Rosa County. He was later elected city superintendent of schools of Visalia,
which position henow holds.
A student and athlete in his school days in the Fullerton Union high school
later won for himself undying fame in the pitcher's box in big league company.
This person is none other than the world-famous pitcher, AValter Johnson, of the
Washington Nationals.
A young attorney, growing in prominence, and likely some time to be heard
of in state affairs, is Mr. Albert Launer, now city attorney for Fullerton. Mr.
Launer graduated with the class of 1909, and after completing his law course,
returned to northern Orange County to win his first laurels.
Mr. Arthur Schultz, a graduate of the class of 1902, is steadily climbing
upward in the ministerial field. Mr. Schultz is now located at San Diego.
Mr. Barrett Case, a classmate of Mr. Schultz, entered the University of Cali
fornia to take engineering work. He later returned to the oil fields of northern
Orange County, where he remained in the employ of the Columbia Oil Company
for a number of years. He now holds a position of importance with the State
Mining Bureau in the Oil Production Department.
A more recent graduate of the high school, Mr. Max Henderson, of the
class of 1908, is one of Orange County's most successful dentists. He is now
located at Anaheim, and has one of the largest practices in the county.
Miss Sue Dauser, a graduate of the class of 1907, later took training in the
California Hospital and followed the profession of nursing. During the recent
war she was, in charge of the relief work at Camp Kearney. She has served her
country and fellowmen with such rare skill that she became known to many
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Captain Delbert Brunton, late principal of the Orange Union high school,
with the assistance of Professors Mason M. Fishback and Alfred Higgins, fur
nished the following list of a few of the graduates of this school who have made
good and what they are doing :
Fred Kelley, AArorld Champion High Hurdler, Lieutenant of Aviation, U.
S. A. Nina Harbour, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Vassar College for AA omen.
Carey Billingsley, M.D. Died in service of his fellowmen during the influ
enza epidemic.
Clyde Shoemaker, J.D., Prominent Attorney, Los Angeles, Calif.
Revoe Briggs, Civil Engineer in the Government Service. Prominent in
affairs in Alaska.
May Bathgate, State Sanitation work. State Board of Health.
Jesse Crawshaw, Lieutenant Infantry, U. S. A.
Ruby Campbell, Social Worker, Hamburger Dept. Store, Los Angeles, Calif.
Arline Davis, Librarian, Riverside, Calif.
Aileen Everett, Phi Beta Kappa, graduate Stanford. Y. W. C. A. work.
U. S. Fitzpatrick, Attorney; Consul, Central America.
AA'illiam Hinrichs, Baseball Pitcher on Washington American team. AA'ent
direct from High School to the big league. Retired on account of injury.
AValter Kogler, Banker, 1st National Bank, Orange, Calif.
AVilliam Kroener, Lieutenant Infantry, U. S. A.; Y. M. C. A. Secretary;
Medical Student, University Chicago.
Edward Lucy, Instructor in Radio, Harvard University Radio School, during
the World War.
Leighton Bascom, Ensign in U. S. N. during the AA'orld War. Banker in
Santa Ana.
Frank Aldrich, Assistant Paymaster, U. S. N., during the AA'orld AArar.
Norman Luke, Lieutenant Aviation, U. S. A.
A^erl Murray, noted track athlete. On Olympic Team, 1920.
Maurice Perry, Lieutenant Infantry, U. S. A.
Clyde Slater, Lieutenant Infantry, U. S. A. Now a student at the University
of California. Paul Schooley, Athlete. State Agricultural College, N. C.
Maurice Forney, Instructor, University of California.
Ralph AVoods, M.D., Los Angeles Hospital.
Lew Wallace, Instructor in Farm Mechanics, University of Nebraska.
Besides the laurels of individual students, like Fred Kelley and others, won
in athletic contests, the school has become distinguished by the phenomenal success
of its baseball, basketball and track teams on many a hard-fought field in the
southern part of the state. In fact, the men's basketball team holds the champion
ship of the California and Nevada high schools at the present time. In 1918
the school won five first prizes in forensic contests, one by each class, and one by
the school; an unusual occurrence in a single contest.

The Santa Ana High School was established in 1889 in the building on
Church Street, now known as the AA'ashington School. In 1897 it was moved
to larger quarters at Tenth and Alain streets, where it remained until the present
modern Polytechnic plant was completed for it in the fall of 1913. Since its
establishment, diplomas have been granted to 1,535 graduates, the class of 1920
numbering 112.
Space will not permit the mentioning of the names of the many graduates
of the high school who have been successful in their chosen life work. Found
near and far will be ministers, teachers, farmers, lawyers, doctors and business
men along various lines who have been successful.
Charles Martin, an authority on Oriental Relations, is now a Professor of
International Law at the University of California.

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Willsie Martin is pastor of the First Methodist Church of Hollywood ; also
a lecturer. John Nourse is Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeals.
James Nourse is a Washington and New York correspondent.
Glenn Martin, while not a graduate, is a Santa Ana boy and his success as
an inventor, manufacturer and operator in aviation is well known.

CHAPTER XV
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND SITES
Shortly after the organization of Orange County, temporary provision was
made for housing the prisoners in a little brick jail which cost the county, without
the cells, about $4,000. With the kindest of motives the jailer was in the habit
of leaving the cell doors open so the prisoners could have the range of the entire
jail for air and exercise. Some vagrants took advantage of this liberty and picked
a hole through the brick wall with a case knife, thereby making their escape. At
the request of the sheriff, the superior judge issued an order requiring him to
place a guard over the jail. This was the jail, thus guarded, from which Fran
cisco Torres was taken and hanged, as narrated in the Chapter of Tragedies.
The building and lot were sold to the city as soon as the present county jail
was ready for occupancy.
Early in the nineties the board of supervisors called for sealed proposals
for a site for the county buildings. A half dozen persons responded with offers
of sites ranging in price from one dollar for a block in the Harlin tract on East
Fourth Street up to $16,500 for a block on Birch Street by John Avas. None
of the supervisors favored the Harlin site, notwithstanding its cheapness, because
it was distant from the center of the city and was on comparatively low ground.
Two, Yoch and Hawkins, favored the old Layman property, offered by Joseph
Yoch for $6,000; two, Tedford and Schorn, favored the present site, offered by
W. H. Spurgeon for $9,500 and afterwards reduced to $8,000 ; and one, Armor,
favored the block immediately south of the present intermediate school site on
North Main Street, offered by James Buckley on behalf of the Fruit heirs for
$5,000. When attention was called to the impropriety of the chairman's support
ing his own offer, the advocates of the Layman site joined the supporters of the
Spurgeon site ; and, when the advocate of the Fruit site failed to get any support
for his choice, he also joined the supporters of the Spurgeon site and made the
vote unanimous. Thus was the present site of the courthouse and jail selected
and purchased from W. H. Spurgeon for the sum of $8,000.
Not long after the purchase of the site for the county buildings, the board of
supervisors took steps for the erection of a commodious and substantial county
jail. Provision was made in the tax levy to raise the funds by a direct tax; the
plans of Dennis and Farwell of Los Angeles were adopted ; and the contract
for the erection of the building was awarded to Hulteen & Bergstrom of Los
Angeles, who were the lowest bidders. This firm was hampered throughout
the work by the lack of capital, certifying bills to the supervisors for payment in
advance of the sums due on the building, which created friction with the board.
It also quarreled with Hall's Safe and Lock Company and protested against the
full payment of that company's bills for steel and iron work. The board, there
fore, quit the payment of all bills and instructed the district attorney to bring
suit compelling the claimants to interplead and settle their accounts through the
court. This was done and only such bills as were approved by the court were
allowed by the supervisors. The contractors then stopped work and locked un
the building, hoping to compel the board to make terms with them. Instead
of doing so, however, the supervisors took forcible possession of the building
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cost to the contractors. Thus were the public interests protected and the unfor
tunate complications cleared away with as little loss as possible to all concerned.
The entire cost of the jail to the county was about $23,000.
Because of the cramped quarters for the county offices, the exposed condition
of the county records and the clause in the deed to the site requiring a court house
to be built thereon within ten years after its purchase, a movement was started
early in 1899 to raise funds and commence the erection of the building. An
election was called for September 5, 1899, to vote on the question of issuing
$100,000 court house bonds. At this election the bonds carried by a vote of
1,414 in favor to 283 against. On the submission of competitive plans for the
building by different architects, there followed a campaign of villification and
vituperation by certain newspapers and mechanics to secure the adoption of the
plan each was championing rather than any one of the others. To all appear
ances, some of the non-resident architects had enlisted these local influences against
their competitors to help land the prize for themselves. Charges of corruption
were made and denied ; the board of supervisors investigated some of the accusa
tions against its own members and seriously considered bringing suit against the
worst offenders. Finally the two supervisors who were supporting the plans of
C. B. Bradshaw, fearing the other three might unite on the worst plans, changed
over to the plans o£ C. L. Strange, which were thus adopted December 20, 1899.
The contract for the erection of the building was let to Chris. McNeal of Santa
Ana, who carried it through to completion in a creditable and workmanlike man
ner. The cost of the court house, including a few expensive changes, was about
$117,000. On June 8, 1912, the Grand Avenue schoolhouse in Santa Ana was leased
by the county for a Detention Home. Two months and a half later the super
visors bought the building and grounds from the Santa Ana Board of Education
for $2,750. The purchase of this property enabled the county to make improve
ments in the buildings and grounds for the convenience of the management and
the comfort of the inmates that otherwise could not have been made.
A bond election for two purposes was held on July 20, 1912, viz., to vote
on the issue of $60,000 bonds for a county hospital, almshouse and poor farm
combined, and on the issue of $100,000 for county bridges. The returns on the
hospital bonds were, Yes, 1,983 and No, 361 ; and those on the bridge bonds were
Yes, 1,829 and No, 479. Notice of intention to buy seventy-two acres of land for
$24,250 from the Dawn Land Company, as a site for the county hospital and
poor farm, was given by the board of supervisors on October 22, 1912, and the.
purchase was completed November 19, following. This site is in West Orange
and is a part of the U. L. Shaffer estate, west of the Southern Pacific Railway at
the end of Chapman Avenue. A contract for the erection of foreman's bungalow
and four cottages was awarded to Anderson & Bolyard, on December 26, 1912,
for $5,996 ; also one to Horton & Eaton Company to furnish a 6,000-gallon tank
on a thirty-foot octagonal tower with three-horsepower motor and Bulldozer head
pump, for $700. Chris McNeal was given the contract to erect the main hospital
building for $45,441, on September 16, 1913, and Munger & Munger were awarded
the contract for the lighting and heating plant for $5,115. November 18, 1913,
A. H. Anderson secured the contract to erect three cottages, a laundry and club
house for $8,450. February 17, 1914, Robertson & Packard were employed to put
electrical fixtures into the county hospital for $412; and March 10 the Johns-
Manville Company to put in refrigerator and ice box for $494.40. On April 14,
the bid of the Western Laundry Machinery Company was accepted to put in
laundry appliances for $2,232 ; and Fairbanks-Morse Company's bid of $65.50 for
a motor was also accepted. A month later Chris McNeal was given the contract
to provide sewers and sewer connections for the hospital buildings for $5,545.
November 17, 1914, Fred Siefert secured a contract for buildings at the county
farm amounting to $10,925. August 8, 1917, contracts were given to G. A. Bar
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farm for $7,652, to the Anglo Range & Refrigerator Company for kitchen equip
ment for $2,357 and to the Automatic Refrigerator Company for refrigerator
equipment and cold storage boxes for $3,707.
The following clipping from the Santa Ana Register is of interest :
"With the sale, announced by F. W. Slabaugh, county purchasing agent, of
5,240 pounds of lima beans, grown on the Orange County Farm property, at the
end of West Chapman Avenue, it became known today that $641.90 has been
added to the account of the institution, and that the farm's income from all
sources this year will total slightly more than $10,000.
"The lima beans were, sold to the C. C. Collins Company, buyers of this city,
at twelve and one-quarter cents per pound.
"The County Farm property consists of approximately seventy-two acres.
There are 1,000 six-year-old Valencia orange trees on the property, as well as 1,600
one-year-old Valencias. The income from these trees during the present year was
$3,131, Slabaugh announced.
"It is estimated that the returns from the oranges next year will be at least
$7,000. There is a bumper crop on the trees, and Slabaugh has recently purchased
2,000 props for use in preventing branches from breaking as a result of the great
weight of fruit.
"In addition to the oranges that are sold, an ample supply is always available
for use of the 80 persons who live at the farm.
"While the Orange County Farm is not a self-sustaining institution, still the
cost of operation is cut down considerably by sales of fruit. There are two acres
of deciduous fruit on the property. In addition, the farm raises its own vege
tables. Four cows supply milk for the institution."
Shortly after the county came into possession of the grounds now forming
the county park, a cottage was erected for the use of the custodian ; a well was
dug, a tank and engine were provided and the water was piped into the house and
to different parts of the grounds where needed. A few years later, a neat and
commodious pavilion was built for dancing and the use of assemblies. Furnaces
were built for outdoor cooking; long tables and benches were stationed under
the trees for large picnic parties to spread their lunches ; swings, teeters and other
devices for the amusement of the children were supplied. On October 21, 1913,
E. G. Stinson contracted to excavate a basin of considerable proportions for a
lake in the county park for the modest sum of $3,960. Boats and a boathouse
soon were added to the accommodations of the park and now aquatic sports are
available for those who enjoy such pastimes. On the same date, C. M. Jordan
agreed to refit and furnish the old office of the sheriff in the court house, to
accommodate the new department of the superior court, for the sum of $1,529.50.
On December 23, 1919, the board of supervisors accepted a proposition sub
mitted by Florence Yoch, landscape architect of Los Angeles and daughter of
Joseph Yoch of this city, with reference to beautifying Orange County Park.
Included in the services which are to be rendered are the drawing up of a
picture plan of the park ; working drawings and an engineering plan for system
of walks and roads, indicating the proposed planting areas and locating buildings,
recreational features and park utilities ; a sketch of the proposed treatment of the
entrance ; detailed planting plans for the entrance ; a report and recommendation
concerning methods, time and amounts of development; personal supervision of
the laying out of roads and principal walks and personal supervision of such
planting as may be done at this time.
On July 10, 1919, C. McNeill was awarded the contract to make changes
in the court house, to provide better accommodations for Department 2 of the
Superior Court, for the sum of $10,558. A memorial arch is being built at Orange
County Park and other improvements are under consideration.

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On September 16, 1919, G. A. Barrows was awarded the contract for build
ing a garage at the County Hospital for the sum of $2,935.
December 2, 1919, a contract was let to E. W. Smith to build a cowshed at
the county farm for the sum of $1,099.65.
On March 4, 1920, the supervisors awarded a contract for building a county
garage at the southeast corner of Church and Sycamore streets to R. C. McMillan
for $27,000, which was the lowest of seven bids. They also awarded the contract
for erecting a sheriff's office, at the southeast corner of Seventh and Sycamore
streets, to the same bidder for the sum of $4,600.
While the foregoing list of disbursements does not include money spent for
changes, repairs and small furnishings, it does include practically all the large
constructive expenditures for sites and buildings for the county offices and public
institutions. An examination of these accommodations and of the methods by
which they were procured will convince any fair-minded citizen that the public
funds have been judiciously expended and that the county has got value received
for the money paid out.

CHAPTER XVI
PLEASURE DRIVES AND RESORTS
The title to most of the land in Orange County came down through Spanish
grants. The largest of these grants is the San Joaquin ranch, which extends en
tirely across the county from northeast to southwest and contains 108,000 acres.
The greater part of this vast estate still belongs to one person, James Irvine, who
leases parts of the hill land for grazing and parts of the valley land for agricul
ture and occupies other parts with enterprises of his own. In the basin of San
tiago Creek, which flows across the ranch, are some fine groves of large sycamore
and live oak trees. One of the finest of these groves had been used as a picnic
ground by the people long before the property came into the possession of the
present owner. In considering how to make the best use of his heritage Mr.
Irvine conceived the idea of donating that grove to the county for a pleasure resort
for the people. He accordingly conferred with the supervisors as to the best
method of protecting the gift and making it effective in accomplishing the benefi
cent purposes intended by the donation. The conditions proposed by Mr. Irvine
and agreed to by the board of supervisors were that the tract should be enclosed
and put in charge of a keeper, thereby protecting the majestic trees from destruc
tion, and that the sale of intoxicating liquors should not be permitted anywhere on
the property. All the preliminaries having been satisfactorily arranged, Orange
County, through the generosity of James Irvine, came into possession, on October
11, 1897, of 160 acres of the finest wood land in the southern part of the state,
as a perpetual playground for its inhabitants.
Some time during the seventies Rev. H. H. Messenger, a retired Episcopal
clergyman, bought a tract of land on the mesa south of the present location of the
town of El Modena and settled a small colony of members of that denomination
on it. These people, having no water system provided and being without means
with which to develop one, soon starved out and scattered to parts unknown. A
few years later David Hewes came down from San Francisco, bought this land
and set to work to improve it. One of the oracles in that vicinity warned him
that nothing could be done with such land. Mr. Hewes answered that he could
cover the tract with twenty dollar gold pieces, if he wanted to. "You'll have to
do so, to make it worth anything," was the retort. Nevertheless, the Hewes
orchards, consisting of about 525 acres, are now worth a million dollars and the
Hewes Park is one of the show places of the county.
In January, 1920, the David Hewes Realty Company, representing the heirs
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County people for $1,000,000, which is an average of about $1,487 per acre for
the 672.54 acres of highly improved, water-stocked land. The improvements con
sist of 425 acres of lemons, 212 acres of Valencia oranges, fifteen acres in the
park, two large packing houses, pumping plant and pipe lines, ranch houses, etc.
The principal reason for such valuable property selling below the market price is
that its magnitude prevented competition among buyers. The market price for
good bearing orchards ranges from $3,000 to $5,000 per acre. In a few instances
offers of $6,000 per acre have been refused.
About a quarter of a century ago a nine-hole golf course was laid out in the
valley southeast of the El Modena grade. Among those interested in the sport,
the following names have been recalled : James Irvine, Dr. J. P. Boyd, W. H.
Burnham, R. H. Sanborn, James Fullerton and Henri F. Gardner. Golfing
parties would be made up in the different communities from time to time as in
clination prompted and the cares of business permitted until the inclination was
overborne by the cares and the sport languished. Then in 1910 the club revived
and increased its membership to about 100, drawing in such members as F. B.
Browning, J. R. Porter, A. J. Klunk, Kellar AVatson, C. F. Newton, H. T. Ruther
ford, C. G. and A, C. Twist, J. F. Parsons, J. W. Tubbs, and George B. Shat-
tuck. In 1913 Messrs. Browning, .Porter and Shattuck looked up the present
grounds, containing about 160 acres adjoining the city of Newport Beach west
of the bay, which the club leased for ten years with the privilege of renewal for
another like period. The name "The Santiago Golf Club," was dropped and
June 4, 1914, the organization was incorporated as The Orange County Country
Club. An eighteen-hole course was laid out and a club house built. A tennis
court and croquet grounds were also provided. A professional is employed to give
instruction and look after the grounds, which are kept open the year round for the
use of members. The membership has increased to 278 and the present officers
are: Charles G. Twist, president; F B. Browning, vice-president; George B.
Shattuck. secretary; Harry L. Hanson, treasurer; and board of directors as fol
lows: C. G. Twist, F. B. Browning, C. S. Gilbert, Lew Wallace, W. A. Huff,
Fdward McAA'illiams, C. D. Holmes, Hugh G. Smith and George B. Shattuck.
Witli automobiles and good roads, groups of players come to the grounds from
anv distance for an afternoon's sport in the open air; besides special features are
nrovided at intervals in the club house for the entertainment of the members.
Tn 1910 C. E. Utt and Sherman Stevens bought about 600 acres of hill land
northeast of Tustin and the following year commenced to set out orchards and
build roads and drives. The eminence was christened "Lemon Heights" and early
attracted the attention of Vir. Marcy, one of J. Ogden Armour's lieutenants. He
bought the original purchase of Messrs. Utt and Stevens, and later added to his
holdings over a thousand acres, purchased from others. Much of this land is
unfit for cultivation ; but with water it is susceptible of improvement as a park,
like Smiley Heights at Redlands. However, Mr. Marcy is already developing
about three hundred acres, building scenic roads, setting out orchards and con
veying water to the tract. The water is supplied from three wells near Tustin,
and is forced to the heights through two twelve-inch steel pipes, by electric power,
which convey 240 inches into a large reservoir on the very top of the heights,
from where such water can be delivered through pipes by gravity to all parts of
the tract. He also has a well on his own land which yields thirty inches of water.
Air. Stevens disposed of all his interests in the enterprise some time ago, but
Mr. Utt still retains about 200 acres of the land and a large share in, if not com
plete control of, the main water supply. Other former Chicagoans who are
financially interested, are Robert M. Simons, who has over ninety acres set to
oranges and lemons, and Doctor and Mrs. Bartholomew, who have about sixtv-five
acres. Of local people besides Mr. Utt there are Arthur Lyon, who recently
refused $108,000 for his thirty-eight acre orange and lemon .orchard ; Doctor
Waffle, who has about thirty acres of lemons, and a number of others with smaller
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ern portions of the county, may be had from these heights; and doubtless many
palatial residences will be erected there in the near future, whose occupants may
thus perennially enjoy the beauties of nature enhanced by the arts of civilization.
From time immemorial San Juan Hot Springs in the canyon of that name,
has had quite a reputation as a health resort. Water may be obtained there at any
temperature desired, without artificial heat ; but whether it has mineral ingredients
that give it medicinal value we are not advised. It is well attested, however, that
hot baths at these springs have relieved patients afflicted with different diseases,
and that the tepid mud baths have been very helpful in the treatment of rheu
matism. Hence, if any one wishes to get rid of his rheumatics while enjoying
a pleasant outing, let him camp at these hot springs for a few weeks, taking a
regular course of warm baths and spending the rest of the time in exhilarating
exercise and refreshing sleep.
A number of the cities and towns in the county have a plaza or public park,
a breathing place, as such places are called in the large cities. The land for this
purpose is sometimes donated to the public by the person or company that lays
out the town, and in other cases it is donated by some public-spirited citizen or
association of such citizens. In the former case the land often lies neglected for
several years, a sort of "No Man's Land," while in the latter case the improve
ment generally follows immediately after the donation. The plaza at Westminster
is an example of the former class, and is specifically mentioned because it has
come under the care of the board of supervisors. The Stearns Land Company
donated about four acres to the community for a plaza and two acres each to
the Presbyterian Church and the public school for building sites in the year 1871.
No improvement was made on the plaza grounds for forty years. Then the com
munity had to chip in and buy the property back, for through its own inattention
it had allowed it to be illegally assessed and sold for taxes past redemption.
Nearly $400 was raised for this purpose and for sinking a well. This well flowed
for a while ; but, with the capping and the light rainfall, it has ceased to flow,
in common with all the wells in that vicinity. In 1914 the care of the park was
committed to the board of supervisors and in 1916 trees were furnished by the
forestry commission. January 8, 1919, the supervisors appointed James A. Mc
Fadden caretaker of this park and he has bought an engine and pump ; so the
prospects for better care are brightening. This example illustrates the difficulty
of a community in having any public improvements without a local government
to take care of such improvements. It also shows that the community has the
right spirit at heart in recovering its plaza and taking steps to improve the same.
Doubtless this spirit will push the improvement until the Westminster Plaza will
rank with similar "beauty spots" in other cities. Santa Ana's Birch Park is almost
as popular as the County Park in attracting small groups of people for an outdoor
lunch and a quiet social time. The Plaza at Orange forms a picture in the minds
of the beholders that never can be forgotten, to say nothing about the pleasure it
affords citizens with leisure to enjoy its comfortable seats and grateful shade
while discussing the questions of the day. Anaheim was willing to pay six per
cent interest per annum on a .twenty-acre orange orchard, valued at $60,000,
during the life of the owner, to acquire the property at his death for park pur
poses ; but the governor vetoed the legislative act designed to legalize such a deal.
Since the blocking of that deal the board of trade has secured options from every
property owner in the library block, to purchase that property at an estimated
cost of $75,000 for a public park. Fullerton has a five-acre park now ; but the
board of trade and the city trustees are advocating the purchase of the twenty
acres known as Reservoir Hill for park purposes. They are also proposing to
lay out a skyline drive, one and one-eighth miles long, on the nearby hills, which
will give a fine view of the entire coastal plain.
At a meeting of the city trustees of Newport Beach on or about April 19,
1920, J. P. Greely, president of the board, and Lew H. Wallace, city treasurer,

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were made a committee to negotiate with the owners of a tract of land for a city
park. A tract has been offered the city for $4,000 on an easy payment plan,
which is suitable for that purpose ; it lies between Bay and Central avenues, fac
ing Island Avenue, directly across the street from the East Newport Garage. The
tract has several big trees on the grounds and has long been used by visitors to
the beach for a camping ground.
Reference is made in the chapter on Orange County's Good Roads to the con
struction of a road in Trabuco Canyon from the schoolhouse up to the forks by
the United States Bureau of Roads, Orange County bearing half the expense.
Trabuco Canyon is said to be one of the most beautiful in Southern California,
and to have a very fine camping ground near the Forks. The Forest Service pro
poses to lay out this ground and lease the lots to campers, for whom it will furnish
tables and other equipment, including public toilets. Several applications have
already been made for lots on which to erect cabins. This will add another
pleasure drive and resort to the many within the county.
"Modjeska's Home and Inn" is the business name of the idyllic retreat in the
Santiago Canyon which belonged to Madame Modjeska for a number of years
and to which she would return for relaxation and rest after finishing a season's
engagements on the stage. The place was selected in the early days by J. E.
Pleasants, when all the sites were unoccupied. He built a commodious house
with wide porches, developed a water system and added such other improvements
as would help to make a comfortable and tasteful home for himself and family.
After Madame Modjeska bought the property, we visited the place over thirty
years ago and were shown all about the premises by the housekeeper, in the
absence of the owner. The house was elegantly furnished with antique furniture
made of mahogany and other rare and costly woods; the floors were covered
with rugs of intricate patterns and skins of wild beasts; and every nook and
cranny was filled with expensive articles of vertu, curios, ornaments and various
kinds of relics. On the walls and easels were paintings of noted actors and
actresses, among which were some of Madame Modjeska in different poses in
stage attire. About the grounds were some good-sized trees that suggested to the
actress the "Forest of Arden," one of the scenes of Shakespeare's play, "As You
Like It," as a romantic name for her sylvan retreat. The flowers, shrubbery and
decorations were so placed as to add to the artistic effect of the landscape. Now,
however, the large tract originally held under one ownership is being rapidly sold
off in lots and acreage tracts which, of course, means more homes and more com
munity interests, without impairing or lessening the grandeur of the mountain
scenery. "And this our life exempt from public haunt
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones and good in everything."
— Act 2, Scene 1 — "As You Like It."
Besides Modjeska's Home and Inn, there are numerous houses and camping
grounds in the different canyons throughout the mountains. Some of the houses
are occupied all the time by families that live in the mountains for various reasons,
and others are occupied only in vacation or when their owners wish to take an
outing. The camping grounds are generally occupied by a few families or con
genial friends in vacation time only, like Camptonville in the Santiago Canyon
above Orange County Park.
Most of the cities and towns along the coast appreciate the ocean as a valu
able asset, not only for fishing and transportation, but also as an attraction for
pleasure seekers who spend more or less money in their midst. They accordingly
o-ave the deciding vote for the big bond issue for good roads to draw travel their
way ; they also built bath houses, pavilions, pleasure piers and other conveniences
for the accommodation of their visitors. Residents of the interior generally go
to the beach for their annual bath in summer time when "the water is fine ;" but
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climate as "summer all the year" and, therefore, frequent the beaches without
regard to season.
Thus with over 300 miles of paved roads, including city streets, tree-lined
avenues between evergreen orchards, and scenic drives entering canyons or climb
ing foothills that overlook the coastal plain and ocean beyond and with a great
variety of resorts and camp grounds to choose from in the mountains or at the
beach, Orange County is a veritable paradise for pleasure seekers.

CHAPTER XVII
ORANGE COUNTY'S GOOD ROADS
Just prior to the meeting of the legislature of 1907, some representative auto
mobile men came together at Los Angeles and drafted a road law which was intro
duced in the legislature by Senator Savage of San Pedro. This "Savage Act"
authorized any county in the state to vote bonds for the improvement of its main
highways connecting the cities and towns, exclusive of the streets in the incorpo
rated cities, such improvement being confined to a width of sixteen feet along
the middle of said highways, which width was later increased to at least twenty
feet, as may be seen in the following tables.
Shortly after the passage of this act an agitation was commenced to make
it applicable to Orange County ; but, some opposition being encountered, the mat
ter was dropped for a time. Two years later the subject was taken up by the
Associated Chambers of Commerce. Petitions were circulated for signatures and
presented to the board of supervisors, asking that the question of issuing bonds
of the county for highway purposes be submitted to the electors. The super
visors granted the petitions on March 2, 1910, and appointed C. C. Chapman, W.
H. Burnham and AT. M. Crookshank as a highway commission to prepare the
preliminary work and have charge of the improvement of the highways. C. C.
Chapman served but little more than a month, resigning on account of too many
other interests that needed his time and attention, and Richard Egan was ap
pointed to take his place. The commission employed R. T. Harris as secretary,
Daniel S. Halladay as engineer and S. H. Finley as assistant engineer. Several
months were spent in surveying and mapping the roads and in obtaining data
from all available sources ; but, when the commission was about ready to report,
the approval by the people of the state's issuing $18,000,000 road bonds, caused
some doubt and hesitation.
However, after the state engineers had located the state highway through
Orange County and the county highway commission had amended its report two
or three times, said report was finally filed with the board of supervisors Septem
ber 19, 1912, recommending a bond issue of $1,270,000. The supervisors promptly
approved the report and called the election for November 4, the day before the
regular election. The result was: Bonds, yes 5,290 and Bonds, no 2,236. The
opposition was to bonding and not to the improvement of the roads. It was
argued that, if a sum equal to the interest on bonds were put into the improve
ment of a piece of road each year, the roads would all be improved in a few
years and the county would have no debt, or double burden, to carry meanwhile.
But over two-thirds of the voters declared in favor of the bonds in order to get
the immediate benefit of the improvement ; so the taxpayers have no just cause
for complaint of the burden which they voluntarily assumed.
In addition to the resignation of C. C. Chapman, which has already been
mentioned, the following changes in the personnel of the commission, during the
progress of the work, have been noticed in the records : On December 3, 1912,
D. C. Pixley succeeded W. H. Burnham who had resigned. On March 4, 1914,
S. H. Finley and Ralph J. M'cFadden were joined with D. C. Pixley to constitute
the commission, but on April 21, following, Mr. Finley resigned and W. T.. New-
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with AV. W. Hoy as division engineer. June 1, 1915, N. T. Edwards succeeded
D. C. Pixley, who had resigned from the commission.
While the "Savage Act" did not go into particulars about the kind of mate
rials and methods to be used in improving the roads, it did require the materials
to be durable and the work to be permanent. Imbued with this spirit the highway
commission sought information from all available sources and gleaned wisdom
from the experience of others. It was decided that, after each road was properly
graded and the soil compacted, its surface should be paved with a cement con
crete base overlaid with an oil and grit finish. In carrying out this decision the
concrete was composed of 1 part best Portland cement, 2y2 parts clean sand and
5 parts crushed rock. In some of the work the proportions were 1-2-4, respec
tively. These ingredients were thoroughly mixed, moistened and tamped or
rolled into place to a uniform thickness of four inches. When sufficiently dry,
the surface was treated to a thin coating of heavy oil and sprinkled with finely
crushed rock. This work was all done under the vigilant eye of a competent,
trustworthy inspector employed by the county.
On March 3, 1915, the highway commission reported the original 108 miles
of road, estimated to be built by the bond issue of $1,270,000, as completed, with
a balance of about $240,000 left over, and recommended that such surplus be
spent in paving certain other specified roads. The board of supervisors approved
the report and authorized the expenditure of this surplus as recommended. The
final report of the commission was received and approved by the supervisors on
January 3, 1917 ; thus the Orange County Highway Commission, having completed
its task, was discharged with the commendation and thanks of the board of
supervisors. Following is a tabulated statement of the improved roads in the county, fur
nished by the county surveyor, in which the different widths of the paved portions
are separately grouped, as well as the sections paved by bonds and by the county
road funds ; the length of each section is given in miles :
Paved Roads of Orange County

SIXTEEN FOOT

Sections of Roads —
Fairview 
Dyer 
Smeltzer 
Wintersburg 
El Toro 
First Street 
Main Street, Tustin 
Newport Avenue 
AA'estminster'-Garden Grove 
Laguna 
Irvine Boulevard 
Myford 
Placentia- Yorba 
Riverside No. 3 
Santa Ana Canyon No. 1 
Santa Ana Canyon No. 2 
Santa Ana Canyon No. 3 
San Juan Hot Springs 
Santiago Boulevard 
Yorba Linda 
Seventeenth Street 
Road Improvement District No. 4.

Paved by Bond
1.51 .95
.62
1.01.11 .45
1.311.83
3.81
10.47 .93

Paved by County

5.68
2.40

.75
5.18
5.25 1.771.74
2.90 .56

1.22
1.45

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County Park 
Road District Improvement No. 5.

3.83 5.19

32.07

30.82

Sections of Roads —
Anaheim-Olinda 
Chapman Avenue 
Anaheim-Olive 
Anaheim-Stanton-Cypress Bay City 
Brea Canyon 
Brea-Olinda 
Brea Park 
Commonwealth 
Garden Grove Boulevard..

Eighteen foot Paved by Bond
 7.70

Paved by County

Huntington Beach No. 2.

La Mirada 
Los Alamitos 
Newport Avenue 
Newport Beach Boulevard 
Orangethorpe 
Talbert Road  ' 
Chapman Avenue 
Bradford Avenue 
La Palma 
Garden Grove Avenue 
Edinger Street 
AA^alker Street 
Road District Improvement No. 3.
Olinda Road 

.93
3.584.018.974.143.63 1.50
5.95
4.32 4.14 4.14
6.85
3.24 7.70

2.97

1.00

.98
1.18 .43
1.13 1.00 .51
2.63 .85

70.80
TWENTY FOOT
Sections of Roads — Paved by Bond
Huntington Beach No. 1  5.14
Newport Beach  2.68
Riverside No. 1  .32
Riverside No. 2  2.58
Orange-Tustin  3.98

12.68

Paved by County

14.70
TWENTY-TWO FOOT
Sections of Roads — Paved by Bond
Lemon Street  ....
Santa Fe Street  ....
West Broadway  ....

Paved by County
.32 .10.50

.92
SPECIAL
Twenty-two foot Asphalt, Central Avenue, miles  4.7
Eighteen-foot Asphalt, Garden Grove, miles  9
Fifteen- foot Cement, State Highway, miles  29.6
Eighteen -foot Cement, State Highway, miles  13.8
Eight-foot Cement, Collins Avenue, miles  83

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Dirt Road, estimated miles  510
County Paved, estimated miles  168.42
State Highway, estimated miles  43.40
Total Miles  721.82
As shown in the foregoing tables, the county highway commission not only
constructed more good roads with the big bond issue than the estimated amount,
but it also built many miles with county funds provided by the board of super
visors. Since the discharge of the commission, the supervisors have continued the
road improvement policy with whatever funds they were able to command, as
may be seen from the following items of business transacted by the board:
November 5, 1919, a contract for paving East Fourth Street, Mabury Street
and Tustin Avenue Was awarded to AA'ells & Bressler for $10,009.87 ; also, on the
same date, the bid of the same contractors to regrade the road to the County
Park for $29,238.90, was accepted.
December 30, 1919, the board of supervisors let the contract for the improve
ment of the Buena Park-Commonwealth Road to AA'ells & Bressler for $14,322.64.
March 30, 1920, the bid of B. R. Ford for paving .83 of a mile of Collins
Avenue, 8 feet wide, the county to furnish some materials, for eleven and three-
quarter cents per square foot, was accepted, provided the bidder secured the
paving of the city's half of the street, which he did. This contract amounted to
$4,119.46, for the county's half and to $7,362.43 for the city's half.
On March 2, 1920, the board of supervisors awarded the contract to Wells
& Bressler for paving 1.64 miles of county roads in the Fairhaven district for
$13,080, which was the lowest of three bids. This strip of road includes portions
of South Glassell Street, Fairhaven Avenue and Grand Street, and connects the
paved street of Orange with the paved road from Santa Ana to the cemetery,'
thereby making the second all-paved highway between the two cities, and giving
to each a paved road to the cemetery.
August 10, 1920, the contract for the improvement of the Fairview Road in
Fifth Road District was awarded to AA'ells & Bressler for $24,861.24, as the
lowest responsible bidders.
In building the state highway, the engineering department required the county
to build the bridges over all the streams. To meet this expense and build bridges
on the county highways, bonds were voted to the amount of $100,000, as men
tioned in the chapter on Public Buildings and Sites. The bridges built with this
fund are span bridges, constructed of reinforced cement concrete, and are artistic
and substantial. Since the foregoing figures were furnished, the supervisors let a contract to
Steele Finley to pave three and three-quarter miles of road at Sulphur Slide in
Santa Ana Canyon for $36,211.93. The width is to be sixteen feet with eighteen
feet on the turns.
Early in August the supervisors accepted the proposal of the United States
Forest Service to go fifty-fifty in the construction of a good mountain road up
the Trabuco Canyon from the schoolhouse to the Forks. The board appropriated
$3,500 for this purpose on the promise of a federal appropriation of a like
amount. The road will not be paved, but will be a good substantial road for
automobile travel. The work will be done by the United States Bureau of Roads.
On September 11, 1919, County Surveyor J. L. McBride announced that the
State Highway Commission had let a contract to a Los Angeles firm for the
improvement of the Irvine-Galivan road for the sum of $86,000. The improve
ment consists in adding two and a half feet shoulders to each side of the paving-,
increasing its width from fifteen to twenty feet between Irvine and Galivan. The
contract also requires the surfacing of the highway south from Irvine for a dis-=
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Orange County's vote July 1, 1919, on the $40,000,000 state highway bonds
was : Yes, 3,529 ; No, 344. The part of the improvement affecting Orange County
is the piece from Oxnard to Capistrano, which would enter the county at Seal
Beach and follow the coast most of the way, thereby adding nearly twenty-five
miles to the county's paved highways, exclusive of the paved streets in the cities
through which the road will pass.
Besides the number of miles of paved country roads described above, each
incorporated city has more or less paved streets which have been reported as
follows : City Miles City Miles
Anaheim  8.00 Brought forward  49.35
Brea  3.00 Orange  5.00
Fullerton, estimated  20.00 Santa Ana  30.00
Huntington Beach  16.85 Seal Beach  2.00
Newport Beach  1.50 Stanton, estimated  1.00

Carried forward  49.35 Total  87.35
The total number of miles of paved roads in the county, including those under
construction and provided for and those in the cities, is as follows :
Reported by County Surveyor  201.82
Under Construction  28.75
Paved Streets in Cities  87.35

Total Paved Roads  317.92
Many miles of the unpaved roads in the cities and county have been brought
to a proper grade, wet down and rolled, and then treated with a thin coating of
heavy oil, evenly distributed while hot, and covered with a sprinkling of sand or
crushed rock — preferably the latter. The asphalt in the oil cements the top gravel
or soil of the roadbed together, thereby forming a hard, smooth surface almost
equal to paving. Such roads are practically free from mud in the rainy season and
from dust in the dry season.
Hence, in view of the foregoing facts and figures, Orange County may fairly
be awarded the palm for good roads.

CHAPTER XVIII
THE COUNTY'S TRAFFIC FACILITIES
The traffic facilities of Orange County are unsurpassed, clue partly to its
own need of such facilities and partly to its lying in the path of traffic to other
sections of the state. These facilities consist of branches of two transcontinental
railroads, an electric interurban railway, littoral contact with the Pacific Ocean
and thousands of motor vehicles to carry on the traffic over the hundreds of miles
of good roads.
The first railroad to enter the territory now comprising Orange County was
the Southern Pacific. The spirit of enterprise and achievement, that inspired the
building of the Central Pacific Railroad, still burned in the breasts of the heroic
band who accomplished that feat, or of their successors, when the increasing
immigration to the southern part of the state in the early seventies attracted their
attention. They immediately formed another company, naming it the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, bought the Los Angeles and Wilmington Railroad,
which had been built by local enterprise, and commenced building out of Los
Angeles in three directions : North toward San Francisco, east through San
Gorgonio Pass and south toward San Diego. The latter-branch reached Anaheim
January 1, 1875, where it stopped over two years. The management, however,
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tended the railroad across the river to East Santa Ana, where the terminus of
that branch remains to this day.
Shortly after the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad came into the county
and went on through to San Diego, the Southern Pacific Railroad thought it would
pick up its terminus at Santa Ana and transfer it to San Diego, so as to continue
the competition in that county that it had been waging with the new road in this
county, but even the most determined people cannot always have their own way.
That company could not get its terminus out of Santa Ana because the property
owners between the county seat and Tustin refused to allow the road to cross
their property. In sheer desperation it started another branch road south of
Anaheim, thence east to Villa Park and south to McPherson, thence southeast
through the Hewes ranch past Tustin to a point on the San Joaquin ranch where
that terminus would be safe from sequestration. This Tustin branch of the
Southern Pacific has become a feeder of the main line in the fruit shipping season.
When the Los Alamitos sugar factory was built near the western boundary
of the county in 1896, the Southern Pacific Company built a road from Anaheim
across to that place to handle the traffic of the factory. About the year 1902,
when the McFadden Brothers were curtailing their activities, they sold the Santa
Ana and Newport Railroad to ex-Senator W. A. Clark, who immediately turned it
over to the Southern Pacific Company. Shortly after this purchase the company
built a line from Newport to Smeltzer, eleven miles, to handle the celery, sugar
beets and other products of that section.
These various branches make a total of nearly sixty miles of railroad, dis
tributed throughout the county so as to be accessible to the majority of the people,
and owned and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
The following account of the building of the Santa Fe lines in Orange County
was furnished by the chief engineer of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Company :
"From the northeastern boundary line of the county in Santa Ana Canyon
near Gypsum to near the north boundary of the city of Santa Ana, via Olive, and
from the city of Orange, via Anaheim and Fullerton, to the northwestern line of
the county near Northam, was constructed in the years 1887 and 1888 bv the
Riverside, Santa Ana & Los Angeles Railway Company.
"From near the north boundary of the city of Santa Ana, via Rancho San
Joaquin and San Juan Capistrano, to the southernmost corner of the county at San
Alateo Point near San Mateo station, was constructed by the San Bernardino &
San Diego Railway Company in 1887 and 1888.
"The branch line from Richfield to Olinda oil fields was constructed by the
Southern California Railway Company in 1889, and
"The main line between Richfield and Fullerton was constructed by the Ful
lerton & Richfield Railway Company in 1910.
"The mileage of the above is 71.79 miles. The mileage of side tracks in the
county is 37 miles."
As soon as the Santa Fe was ready to do business it found the Southern
Pacific determined to beat it to the business and, if possible, maintain its monopoly
of the field. This resulted in several months of fierce rate-cutting, so that a
first class ticket could be bought to Alissouri River points for a dollar and freights
from the Middle States were almost nothing. Finally rates were restored at less
than the old monopolistic prices and the service was greatly improved by the
competition. When Henry E. Huntington decided to put his ideals of good railroad build
ing into practice and make use of electricity as the motive power, he saw no more
inviting field than Southern California for the investment of his millions. He
announced that his company would ask no right of way nor bonus of any kind,
but it would buy and pay for whatever it needed. He soon found that he didn't
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any left with which to build and equip a railroad thereon afterward, so he changed
his policy and'fequired the communities desiring the road to furnish the right of
way. During the year 1905 the people of Santa Ana and vicinity acquired the
right of way for the Pacific Electric railway in a straight line from Watts to
Santa Ana for about $22,000. The following year the road was built and its
arrival was celebrated in Santa Ana by a "Parade of Products" in December,
1906. Without regard to the chronological order, the following additional lines
have been built in the county within the past fifteen years : A line from Los An
geles via Whittier enters Orange County near the northwest corner, passes through
La Habra, Brea and Yorba Linda and heads for the Santa Ana Canyon, but stops
for the present at a little station east of Richfield called Stern. It is the intention
to extend this line up the canyon to connect with the Corona and Riverside line
and thereby make a through line from the interior to Los Angeles. The company
has already acquired portions of the right of way through the canyon. A third
line branches off from the Los Angeles and Long Beach line at Signal Hill, enters
Orange County at Seal Beach and, skirting the beach cities and towns, terminates
at Balboa near the entrance to Newport Harbor. A fourth line connects the first
line at Santa Ana with the third line at Huntington Beach, passing the Southern
California Sugar Factory on its way to the coast. A fifth line leaves the first
line at the intersection of Fourth and Main streets in Santa Ana, goes north on
Main Street out of the city and then swings east to Lemon Street in Orange.
terminating for the present at its depot in the latter city.
AA'hile the negotiations for the fifth line were pending, Mr. Huntington traded
all his interurban red car lines for all the street yellow car lines in Los Angeles,
which up to that time belonged to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. This
deal gave the latter company possession of the Pacific Electric Railway Company :
but it was decided to keep the two companies separate. However, it is understood
that the companies will mutually assist each other, and rumors have been rife
about the Southern Pacific's intention to electrify the Tustin and Newport
branches. It is probable that the Tustin branch will be thus changed and be used
as an extension of the fifth line north from Orange to connect with the company's
line into Los Angeles. In fact, the roadbed has already been graded north from
Orange ; but work was stopped by the late war. The total length of the various
lines of the Pacific Electric Railway Company in the county of Orange is 66.268
miles. The following figures show the mileage and valuation of these railway sys
tems, as fixed by the State Board of Equalization :
Assessment of Railroads, 1918
Names of Roads No. of Miles Price per Mile Total Valuation
S. P. R. R. Co  59.682 $28,137.18 $1,679,402.54
Pullman Co  62.42 1,034.61 64,580.36
A., T. & S. F. R. R. Co  71.97 22,432.19 1,614,444.71
P. E. Railway Co  66.268 21,402.77 1,418,318.76
It will be understood from the foregoing description, or it may be seen on
the map, that these railroads are about as widely distributed over the settled por
tions of the county as possible ; hence the greatest number of people are reached
by their service and the only duplication is in the through service between the
large cities.
A county bordering on the great Pacific Ocean for its entire length, as
Orange County does, would naturally have a fresh, invigorating climate ; it would
also have easy access to water transportation, which is the cheapest transportation
in the world. With such a traffic facility in reserve, no exorbitant transportation
charges would long be endured by the people, especially as population increases
and means for business ventures become abundant.

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The last of the county's traffic facilities to be mentioned is the thousands of
motor vehicles that are used on the hundreds of miles of good roads. The motive
power for the vast majority of these motor vehicles is gas, generated from gasoline
which is a product of petroleum ; hence these motor vehicles get their fuel at first
hand, from the oil producers of Orange County. The first gasoline engine ever
seen in this county was exhibited to a crowd on one of the vacant lots in Santa
Ana about thirty years ago. The demonstrator predicted then that the gas engine
would largely displace the steam engine, which prediction has come true so far
as small, portable engines are concerned.
To get an idea of the amount of traffic carried on by motor vehicles a person
should ride over some of the principal roads and note the number of vehicles
he meets. Then he should go into the marts of trade and packing houses- and see
the number of huge motor trucks, with one or two trailers each, piled high with
the products of the orchards and farms. But perhaps the best evidence of the
large number of motor vehicles in actual use would be a report of the registrations
for Orange County in the State Motor Vehicle Department at Sacramento. While
Orange County is in the fourteenth class according to population based on the
1910 census, it ranks ninth in the 1919 motor vehicle registration. The counties
having the highest and the lowest registrations are given along with Orange
County by way of comparison, and also the totals for the state, as follows :
Counties 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
Alpine  9 11 15 18 17 16
Los Angeles  43,099 55,217 74,709 93,654 107,232 109,435
Orange  3,761 4,913' 6,440 8,132 9,430 9,794
Totals for State  123,516 163,795 232,440 306,916 364,800 376,768
The foregoing registrations do not include farm tractors, of which there

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were 750 in 1919, as reported by the dealers selling them in the county.
The report of the department for 1920, containing five separate items about
each county, is given a separate table, as follows : Motor-
Commercial Auto cycle
Counties Automobiles Trucks Alotorcycles Dealers Dealers
Alpine  14 2 
Los Angeles  132,145 10,083 6,231 678 25
Orange  14,240 397 548 85 10
Totals for State  450,155 31,195 17,750 3,199 219
The semi-annual statement of apportionment of motor vehicle fees to coun
ties for the period from January 1, 1920, to July 31, 1920, was as follows:
State and County
Counties Net Receipts Apportionment
Alpine  $ 169.62 $ 84.81
Los Angeles  1,384,435.50 692,217.75
Orange  114,045.48 57,022.74
Totals for State  $4,646,529.23 $2,323,264.61
It is noticeable in the foregoing tables that Orange County's automobiles
increased 4,446 in 1920 over those in 1919, making this county fifth from the top
in the graduated list of automobiles in the state. The county will probably move
up from the fourteenth class to the tenth in population under the new census.
While noticing that the great county of Los Angeles owns nearly a third of
the registered motor vehicles of the entire state, and has nearly twelve times as
many as this county, don't overlook the fact that the little county of Orange is
fifth in the ownership of cars ; that is, there are only four counties in the state
with more cars than Orange and fifty-three with less.
The interruption of the mails and other traffic in Orange County for three
days during the last week in August, 1919, by a strike of the employees on the
steam railroads, points to the following conclusions: (1) No matter how good
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real benefit to the people. (2) Government ownership .per se will not cure labor
troubles, for these steam roads were absolutely controlled by the Government, yet
such control did not prevent the strike. (3) Government regulation zfill cure
labor troubles, as was seen in the cessation of the strike when the Government
issued its mandate without itself owning the roads. However, such regulation
should be fairly and squarely administered on behalf of employers, employees and
the general public whose patronage pays the bills.

CHAPTER XIX
SUNDRY VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS
Orange County Medical Association
By Dr. John L. Dryer
The Orange County Medical Association was organized June 13, 1889, just
nine days after the election for county division which separated Orange from the
mother county of Los Angeles.
The first meeting. of physicians was held on that day at two p. m. in the office
of Judge Humphreys, a small frame building located where the Sunset Club
now stands. Those present were: Dr. AA'. B. Wall, Dr. T- Al. Lacy, Dr. J. A.
Crane, Dr. J. P. Boyd, Dr. C. D. Ball, Dr. S. B. Davis and Dr. John L. Dryer,
all of Santa Ana.
Dr. J. A. Crane called to order and' stated the objects of the meeting.
Dr. AA' B. AA'all was chosen temporary president, and Dr. J. P. Boyd tem
porary secretary.
The following agreement was drawn up and signed by all present: "A\'c,
the undersigned physicians of Orange County, agree to form ourselves into an
organization to be known as the Orange County Medical Association, and to be
governed by such rules as may be hereafter determined upon."
On motion the secretary was instructed to receive the signatures of Dr. J.-
R. Medlock of Santa Ana, and Dr. L. H. Fuller of Tustin, each of whom had
signified his intention to be present but was unable to do so.
The following resolution was adopted :
"Resolved, That any regular physician of Orange County against whom no
objection is raised at a subsequent meeting, be allowed to participate in the organ
ization of this Association."
Under the foregoing resolution Dr. J. H. Bullard of Anaheim and Dr. AA'.
B. AA'ood of Orange were received and added to the list of charter members —
eleven in all.
The next meeting was held on June 25, following, at which time a Constitu
tion and By-Laws were adopted, and under the permanent organization the fol
lowing officers were elected and installed to serve until the first annual meeting
in 1890: President, Dr. AA'. B. AA'all; Vice-President, Dr. J. M. Lacy; Secretary, Dr.
J. P. Boyd ; Treasurer, Dr. W. B. AYood.
The first members elected under the Constitution were Dr. 1. D. Mills (if
Santa Ana, and Dr. D. W. Hunt of Anaheim, both in September. On November
5th Dr. J. A. Blake of Fullerton was also elected to membership, but never at
tended any session of the Association.
The year 1889 closed with fourteen members as named on the roll, and no
others were added until 1894, while during this period the records show a net
loss of three, on account of removal from the county. These were Doctor Blake,
above mentioned, Doctor Fuller and Doctor Davis, the last two being charter
members.

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The first annual meeting was a public one held in Spurgeon's Hall and ad
dressed by Dr. Walter Lindley of Los Angeles, then president of the State Med
ical Society, and Professor (now Judge) Conrey, also of Los Angeles.
In June, 1891, the Association entertained the Medical Society of Southern
California, the meeting and banquet being held in what was then Odd Fellows'
Hall, in the First National Bank Building. The sessions were well attended. An
excursion about and through the valley was greatly appreciated by the visiting
doctors, although there was a marked absence of automobiles. Twice since then
the Association has entertained the Southern Society, once in 1897, again with
out automobiles, and in 1908, when machines were abundant.
From its very beginning to the present time good work, in the preparation
of papers, and the presentation of cases for clinical study, has been the rule. The
meetings have been regular and well attended, and even when its membership was
small the attendance was proportional to that of later times, although long drives
had to be made with horses from distant towns, to attend the monthly sessions,
which have always occurred on the first Tuesday evening of each month.
Until the completion of the Carnegie Library in Santa Ana, the sessions of
the Association were usually held in the office of the doctor who was to read the
paper or lead in the discussion of a selected topic. For the most part these were
in the county seat, though many interesting gatherings were held in surrounding
towns. Since the completion of the Library the sessions when in Santa Ana have been
held in the executive committee room of that building, adjoining which, in a
convenient alcove, a growing medical library, consisting of several hundred vol
umes, has been established.
Though from the first organization until 1894 the membership declined in
numbers, it never fell below the original number — eleven, and from said date the
list steadily increased with the growth of the county and enlargement of its towns.
From, and including the first enrollment in 1889, there have been during
the thirty and one-half years, ending December 31st, 1910, a total of ninety-one
members received, while the present number is forty-four.
A number of physicians have come into the county, affiliated for a time, and
then removed to other fields. Since under the rules of the Association such
removal terminates membership, it is impossible to give exact duration of one so
ended. Death has dealt kindly with the Association during the period mentioned, and
although a large per cent of the original founders were men well advanced in
years, but nine active members have been so taken. Of these Dr. J. A. Crane, Dr.
AA' IS. AA'all, Dr. J. AI. Lacy, and Dr. J. R. Medlock were charter members, and
with Dr. Ida B. Parker were ex-presidents. One member was, by a unanimous
vote, expelled from the Association for unethical conduct. Of the original charter
members there remain on the roll. Dr. C. D. Ball, Dr. J. V. I.oycl and Dr. John
L. Dryer. Beginning with the new influx of members in 1894, the list of those received
since then is as follows :
]804 — T- G. Berneike, L. N. AYheeler, C. AA'. Rairdon.
1895  A. F. Bradshaw, G. J. Rubleman, L. W. Allingham, F. E. AA'ilson.
1807 — J- B. Cook. W A' Marshburn.
1808— G. S. Eddy, D. F. Royer.
1899 — Wm. Freeman, H. S. Gordon, F. AI. Burner.
1900— A. Bennie. J. A. Tyler.
1901 — E. AI. Freeman, John AA'ehrly.
1902 — R. A. Cushman, G. H. Dobson.
1903  H. A. Tohnston, Ida B. Parker, J. G. McCleod, J. W. Jones.
1904— J. I. Clark, J. M. Burlew, G. A. Shank.
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1906— C. C. Violett, J. S. Gowan, C. L. Rich.
1907— F. J. Gobar, H. E. AV. Barnes, W. H. Syer.
1908— S. G. Huff.
1909— H. M_ Robertson, AA". S. Davis, F. L. Chapline, H. H. Forline, W. H.
AA'ickett. 1911 — Geo. L. Prentice, J. AA'. Shaul, R. A. Cushman (re-elected after ab
sence from the county), J. H. Lang, Geo. C. Clark, John Janus, Jos. F. Doyle.
1912— A. H. Domann, C. H. Brooks, Geo. C. Bryan, J. W. Utter.
1913— John AV. Truxaw.
1914__Albert Osborne, AV. W. Davis, Harry- E. Zaiser, F. E. Winter, E. F.
Jones, Dorothy Harbaugh, J. E. McKillop, A. M. Tweedie.
1915 — J. C. Osher, C. AA'. Harvey, J. M. Bartholomew, W. C. DuBois, F.
E. AVilson (re-elected after absence from county), John F. McCauley, W. H.
AA-'ickett (re-elected after retirement).
1916— H. P. Hendricks, G. M. Tralle.
1917— Mrs. B. Raiche, O. O. Young, E. C. Day, J. Luther Maroon, C. C.
Crawford, J. A. Jackson.
1918— D. C. Cowles, M. C. Myers, J. P Brastad.
1919— S. A. Marsden, H. D. Newkirk.
There have been twenty-eight presidents, Dr. AAr. B. Wall having served four
years, each of the others a single year — as follows :
1889— W. B. Wall. 1905— Dr. T- W. Jones.
1890— Dr. J. R. Medlock. 1906— Dr. G. H. Dobson.
1891— Dr. J. M. Lacy. 1907— Dr. F. M. Bruner.
1892— Dr. John L. Dryer. 1908— Dr. John Wehrly.
1893— Dr. C. D. Ball. 1909— Dr. J. M. Beebe.
1894— Dr. AV. B. Wall. 1910— Dr. C. C. Violett.
1895— Dr. AV. B. Wall. 1911— Dr. J. M. Burlew.
1896— Dr. W. B. AA'all. 1912— Dr. Ida B. Parker.
1897— Dr. J. A. Crane. 1913— Dr. H. A. Johnson.
1898— Dr. L. W. Allingham. 1914— Dr. D. W. Hasson.
1899— Dr. J. G. Berneike. 1915— Dr. J. I. Clark.
1900— Dr. W. B. Wood. 1916— Dr. R. A. Cushman.
1901— Dr. H. S. Gordon. 1917— Dr. G. A. Shank.
1902— Dr. J. P. Boyd. 1918— Dr. Harry Zaiser.
1903— Dr. AA'm. Freeman. 1919— Dr. G. AT. Tralle.
1904— Dr. F E. AA'ilson. 1920— Dr. AA'. C. DuBois.
The Secretaries, and times of service, are as follows :
Dr. J. P Boyd, three years. Dr. C. D. Ball, two and one-half years. Dr.
L. H. Fuller, one-half year. Dr. John L. Dryer, six and one-half years. Dr. J.
G. Berneike, one and one-half years. Dr. J. B. Cook, one-half year. Dr. H. S.
Gordon, four years. Dr. J. I. Clark, one-half year. Dr. J. M. Burlew, one and
one-half years. Dr. Ida B. Parker, two years. Dr. John AA'ehrly, three years.
Dr. R. A. Cushman, one year. Dr. AA\ C. DuBois, four years.
The Orange County Medical Association, loyal to its country, furnished more
than its normal quota of doctors for service in the late war. The following, who
were active members at the time of enlistment, served for varying periods, and
each attained to the rank opposite his name :
Burlew, Jesse M., Captain, Santa Ana.
Chapline, F. L., Captain, Orange.
Davis, AA alter AA'., Lieutenant, Brea.
Marsden, Samuel A., Lieutenant, Orange.
McAuley, John, Lieutenant, Santa Ana.
McKillop, J. E., Major, Huntington Beach.
Winter, Frank E., Major, Santa Ana.
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Young, Oscar O., Captain, Garden Grove.
Wickett, AVilliam H., Captain, Fullerton.
Officers of Association in 1920
Dr. AV. C. DuBois, President. Dr. J. H. Lang, Vice-President.
Dr. J. C. Crawford, Secretary. Dr. R. A. Cushman, Treasurer.
Members of Association in 1920
Ball, Dr. C. D. Crawford, Dr. J. C.
Barnes, Dr. H. E. \Ar. Cushman, Dr. R. A.
Beebe, Dr. J. L. Davis, Dr. W. W.
Boyd, Dr. J. P. Dobson, Dr. G. H.
Burlew, Dr. J. M. Domann, Dr. A. H.
Brooks, Dr. C. H. Dryer, Dr. J. L.
Brastad, Dr. J. P DuBois, Dr. W. C.
Chapline, Dr. F. L. Day, Dr. Emery C.
Clark, Dr. J. I. Freeman, Dr. W.
Clark, Dr. Geo. Gobar, Dr. F. J.
Cowles, Dr. D. C. Gordon, Dr. H. S.
Hasson, Dr. D. AV. Robertson, Dr. H. M.
Johnston, Dr. H. A. - Royer, Dr. D. F.
Jackson, Dr. J. A. Shank, Dr. G. A.
Lang, Dr. J. H. Truxaw, Dr. J. AV.
Maroon, Dr. J. L. Utter, Dr. J. W.
Marsden, Dr. S. A. Violett, Dr. C. C.
McAuley, Dr. John. Wehrly, Dr. John.
McKillop, Dr. J. E. Wickett, Dr. W. H.
Myers, Dr. M. C. Wilson, Dr. F. E.
Osher, Dr. J. C. Winter, Dr. F. E.
Raiche, Dr. B. F. Zaiser, Dr. H. E.
The Orange County Bar Association
By Samuel M. Davis
On October 31, 1901, members of the Bar of Orange County signed a call
for a meeting to organize the Orange County Bar Association, to be held on
November 22, 1901. The following attorneys signed the call for the meeting:
Victor Montgomery, W. F. Heathman, J. W. Towner, Ray Billingsley, Richard
Melrose, Z. B. West, E. E. Keech, F. O. Daniel, R. Y. Williams, A. Y. Wright,
S. A. Bowes, H. C. Head, Horatio J. Forgy, John N. Anderson, E. T. Langley,
W. E. Parker, AV. B. Williams, Homer G. Ames, Samuel M. Davis, J. Howard
Bell, J. C. Scott, H. S. Peabody.
On November 22, 1901, the following members of the Bar, met in the Court
Room of the Superior Court, in the Court House, at Santa Ana, and organized
the Orange County Bar Association: Z. B. West, E. E. Keech, F. O. Daniel,
R. Y. Williams, Horatio J. Forgy, W. E. Parker, Homer G. Ames, Samuel M.
Davis, J. Howard Bell, J. C. Scott.
The first officers of the Association were as follows : President, Victor Mont
gomery ; vice-president, Richard Melrose ; treasurer, R. Y. Williams ; secretary,
Horatio J. Forgy. A constitution and by-laws were adopted. F. O. Daniel was
duly elected as second president of the Association, and following him in order
as presidents were Eugene E. Keech and R. Y. Williams. H. C. Head is now the
president of the Bar Association.
Following the secretaryship of H. J. Forgy, J. C. Burke was elected secre
tary, and is now acting secretary of the Association.
The Association has been very active in keeping up the standard of the pro
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other attorneys practicing in the county, who had violated certain sections of
the Codes, relating to the practice of the law, and had been accused of unethical
methods of practice. It has continuously and consistently attempted to raise the
standard of the profession, especially in regard to the honorable practice of
the law. This Bar Association was active in having one of the attorneys practicing in
the county disbarred for reprehensible conduct after he had been admitted to
practice by the Appellate Court of the Third District. It was shown afterwards
that he had practiced fraudulent and surreptitious methods of gaining admission.
The disbarment of this attorney caused the entire membership of the Bar Asso
ciation to be joined as defendants in the United States District Court of the
Southern District of California. The case was tried before Hon. Oscar Trippett,
of the United States District Court. When the plaintiff rested his case, the case
was dismissed on a motion for a nonsuit made by the attorneys representing the
Orange County Bar Association.
In the prosecution of this litigation, the Bar Association of this county did
not prosecute any of the parties with a vindictive spirit, but solely to raise the
moral and ethical standard of the profession. In this endeavor, the Bar Associa
tion, and its officers and members, have been sustained, both by the Supreme and
Federal Courts of this state. These facts are mentioned as noteworthy, because
laymen generally think that the ordinary lawyer is liable to be unethical in prac
tice, and will take no steps to rid the profession of undesirable members.
The Association is now in a flourishing condition, and has had considerable
work in forming public opinion in legislative matters that have come before the
Association. Several members of the Association have had high honors con
ferred on them.
The first judge of the Superior Court, after the formation of the county in
1889, was Hon. J. AA7. Towner. He was followed by Hon. J. W. Ballard and
Hon. Z. B. West.
In 1913 the legislature passed an act increasing the number of judges in
the Superior Court from one to two, and this act took effect on August 10, 1913.
Gov. Hiram AA'. Johnson, on September 13, 1913, appointed Hon. William H.
Thomas to be Judge of the Superior Court, thus established, which became known
as Department Two of the Superior Court of Orange County.
Subsequently, Gov. W. D. Stephens, in December, 1918, appointed William
H. Thomas, Associate Justice of the newly established Court of Appeals, Sec
ond District, Division Number Two, sitting in Los Angeles, Cal., to take effect
January 1. 1919.
Gov. AAr. D. Stephens, in December, 1918, appointed to Hon. R. Y. AA'illiams
as Judge of Department Two of the Superior Court of Orange County, to take
the place made vacant in that Court by the appointment of Judge Thomas to the
Appellate Court. Judge AVilliams took office January 1, 1919.
The Hon. Z. B. West was elected Judge of the Superior Court in Novem
ber, 1902, and has succeeded himself for two consecutive terms, and is now Judge
of Department One of the Superior Court of Orange County.
The following members of the Orange County Bar Association have filled
the office of District Attorney : J. W. Ballard, Z. B. West, R Y Williams H
C. Head, S. M. Davis, L. A. West.
The Orange County Bar Association is an aggressive and active force in the
legal history and activities of Orange County, and is doing its part to keep the
standard of the profession high and honorable.
Orange County Historical Society
Attorney S. M. Davis of Santa Ana, in May, 1919, invited a number of citizens
from different parts of the county to meet in the Santa Ana library to consider
the question of forming a historical society to collect and preserve a record of the
events of historical interest to the county together with any souvenirs, trophies

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or other articles connected therewith. At that meeting the proposition was
unanimously approved and the following persons were selected to act' as the first
board of directors in forming the organization and securing the incorporation of
the society, viz. : Dr. John L. Dryer, S. M. Davis, Mrs. AA'. B. Tedford, C. C.
Chapman, Samuel Armor, Id. Clay Kellogg and George AV. Moore. Doctor
Dryer was elected president and S. M. Davis secretary. Articles of incorporation
were adopted and the secretary was instructed to file copies of the same with the
board of supervisors and the secretary of state. In due time the secretary received
the certificate of incorporation and called a meeting of the society to convene
on June 26, 1919, to perfect the organization. At that meeting the resignation
of George XV. Moore as director was accepted and Dr. C. D. Ball was elected
to fill the vacancy. AA'ith this change the temporary board of directors was made
permanent. Doctor Dryer declining to continue in the chair, Doctor Ball was
elected president ; Samuel Armor, vice-president ; S. AI. Davis, secretary and
treasurer ; and Miss Jeannette E. McFadden, curator. Thus was the Orange
County Historical Society organized on June 26, 1919.
Orange County Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company
One of the cooperative organizations of Orange County that reflects great
credit on the judgment and forethought of its organizers is the Orange County
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Organized June 30, 1898, with about
twenty or thirty present, the company now has about 4,500 members. During
the ensuing years it has paid losses amounting to $51,681.51, and has the enviable
record of never having had a claim contested in court.
At the time of the organization of the company the farmers of the county
were paying from thirty cents to $1.08 per year on a $100 valuation. For insur
ance that gives additional safeguards to its policyholders, the company has a rate
of about fifteen cents per year on $100. It has now in force insurance to the
amount of about $7,500,000 in valuation.
The first official board consisted of the following : AV. A. Beckett, Garden
Grove, president; N. H. Leonard, Bolsa, vice-president; F. D. Reed, Garden
Grove, secretary ; E, W. Crowell, Orange ; Thomas Nicholson, El Modena ; Albert
Barrows, Fullerton; H. Larter, Westminster. Of the first board of directors
only two are now living, N. H. Leonard and H. Larter, the former being the only
one who was actively engaged in all the details of the company's organization.
Mr. Leonard, who is now living in Santa Ana, personally wrote the first appli
cations that were filed with the secretary, F. D. Reed, and served as the vice-
president of the company for four or five years.
Orange County W. C. T. U.
By Elizabeth K. Mills
In writing the history of Orange County, all who read its history should know
that the organized forces of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union — organ
ized immediately after the organization of the County in 1889 — though numer
ically small, have been a potent factor in the moral, spiritual and political uplift
of the county. The education given by this organization has been progressive
along all lines that tend to the betterment of the human race. It has spared
neither sacrifice nor service to this end, and today not a county in our beloved
state can show a better record. Splendid men have stood behind the brave women
who have dared to blaze the way through indifference, criticism and intolerance
that ever marks the path to victory. These kept the faith and waged the war
fare that made it possible for Orange County, with its present eleven Unions
and over five hundred members, to be an effective part in placing in our National
Constitution the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments. All honor to the W.
C. T. U. women, and their helpers, of this County for their part in making the
nation's present and future sober. Christian citizenship.

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CHAPTER XX

A.

ORANGE COUNTY'S SOLDIERS B.

Abbott, William F.
Abshier, Clifford
Adams, A. A.
Adams, Anthony
Adams, Arley
Adams, Colvin E.
Adams, Edgar A.
Adams, Harry P.
Adams, W. H.
Adair, Clarence M.
Adkinson, Edmund R.
Adkinson, Raymond
Adkinson, Russel
Ahlf, L. L.
Aldrich, Frank
Alexander, John C.
Allander, Sydney AY.
Allec, Eugene A.
Alleman, Roscoe C.
Allen, Joe
Ailing, Earl W.
Amos, George E.
Anderson, Beverly
Anderson, Frank M.
Anderson, Mike
Anderson, Norbert L.
Anderson, Sydney W.
Andrada, Arthur B.
Andrus, Lynn T.
Angle, Arthur W.
Annon, Valevian
Appel, Henry
Appel, Theo. G.
Aragno, Matteo
Arguello, Joseph M.
Armfield, Lee
Armin, Frank C.
Arnerich, James V.
Aseves, Eliseo B.
Ashman, Leslie B.
Ashman, Raymond
Ashman, Theodore
Atkinson, Farrell G.
Atwell, Frank
Atwood, Chas. P.
Atwood, Percy
Aubuchon, L. A.
Avrit, Burnie
Axelson, Carl
Ayers, Lorin D.
Ayers, Maxie H.

Badgley, Chester E.
Baggerly, Jesse
Bagwell, Samuel
Bagwell, William I,.
Baier, John L.
Baker, Arnie E.
Baker, Carl
Baker, Clark E.
Baker, Y'erne A.
Baldwin, Fred W.
Baldwin, Lester G.
Ball, Dexter
Ball, John D.
Ball, Milton AV.
Bangs, Edward C.
Barber, Bronson
Barker, Christopher R.
Barnes, Charles
Barnes, R.
Bartlett, Will
Bascom, John L.
Batterman, Herbert A\'.
Bauer, Louis L.
Beach, Archer C.
Beal, Darold L.
Beals, Ralph A.
Beecher, Walter
Beem, Raymond E.
Beisel, Emerson A.
Belden, Lawrence E.
Beltz, Carl L.
Beltz, Ralph E.
Belvin, Charles C.
Bemis, Arthur C.
Benchley, Frank E.
Benchley, William L .
Benedict, Newton R.
Bennett, Edward L.
Benson, Albert R.
Bentjen, Fred C.
Berry, Fred M.
Bertman, John E.
Besser, Frank L.
Best, Ralph C.
Best, Willard
Bibber, Ray
Biggs, Frank E.
Biggs, Martin
Bird, Harold
Birenbaum, Benjamin H.
Bishop, Edwin A.

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Bittner, Alfred E.
Bittner, Walter
Black Bruce
Black, John P.
Black, Robert L.
Blackmore, Bayard C.
Blaeholder, Charles C.
Blake, Frank
Blakemore, Paul E.
Blandin, Clarence W.
Blandin, Harold C.
Blank, Leon
Blee, Harry H.
Blee, James B.
Block, John A.
Bly, Edwin P.
Bockrath, Leo A.
Bohannon, James E.
Boisseranc, Henry
Bolinger, Dowley
Booms, William F.
Boose, Herbert A.
Borchard, Ted
Bowen, Arthur U.
Bowen, Earl P.
Bowen, Franklin L.
Bowen, Frederick J.
Bowers, Noble
Boyer, George R.
Brace, Harry H.
Braddock, Fred W.
Bradford, Chester A.
Bradley, John I.
Brady, Arthur J.
Brandt, L. K.
Brashear, AValter F.
Bressler, C. E.
Brewer, Harley P.
Brewster, William B.
Briggs, Frank E.
Briggs, Lewis
Briggs, Otis E.
Briney, Perry
Britton, John J.
Brock, V. D.
Brooks, Henry Al.
Brooks, Ray
Brothers, Howard N.
Brown, Charles A.
Brown, Donald
Brown, George W.
Brown, Harold R.
Brown, Hector
Brown, Howard E.
Brown, J. Burdett
Brown, Joe
Brown, Lee I.
Brown, Ollie

Brown, Raymond
Brown, William R.
Brubaker, Omer E.
Brubaker, AA'alter S.
Bruce, Robert A.
Bruer, Jesse
Bruer, Samuel B.
Brundson, Harold D.
Bruns, C. W.
Bruns, J. E.
Brunton, Delbert
Bryant, Whitney
Buchanan, Stacy M.
Buchheim, Daniel G.
Buckner, Clyde AA'.
Burdick, Earl K.
Burge, William M.
Burke, Sam W.
Burlew, J. M.
Burns, Edward M.
Burr, Charles AV.
Burr, Clifford
Burruel, John
Burruels, Victor
Burry, Delbert E.
Buss, Harold J.
Butchers, AVilliam
Butler, Eldon
Buzord, Claude
Byran, AA'ilfred C.
C.
Cadwallader, Forrest
Calder, James A.
Calderwood, AA'illis C.
Calkins, Harry C.
Campbell, Chester
Campbell, Denver D.
Campbell, Elgie
Campbell, Howard D.
Card, George M.
Carey, George W.
Carillo, Raymond L.
Carisoza, Frank P.
Carisoza, Joe
Carlson, Nels A.
Carmichael, David B.
Carnahan, Aaron E.
Carothers, Oscar A.
Carpenter, Thaddeus E.
Carriker, Floyd E.
Carroll, Charles T.
Carron, Henry
Carver, Roy
Cathcart, AA'illiam H.
Catherman, Ray E.
Catland, Alfred

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Certly, George
Cervantez, Joe
Chandler, Ernest L.
Chandler, Roy
Chandler, Roy AAr.
Chaffee, Elmo N.
Chapline, Frank L.
Chapman, Charles Stanley
Chappell, Ralph K.
Chase, Ralph
Chisum, O. H.
Chittenden, Burton L.
Christ, Earl AA".
Cliristensen, Jennings B.
Christenson, Albert R.
Christenson, Earl D.
Christy, Samuel AA'.
Clabby, Jack
Claes, Tonie
Clark^ Daniel B.
Clark, Harry R.
Clark, Luther
Clarke, Alartin F.
Claypool, Hugh
Clayton, Herbert J.
Clayton, O. H.
Clemens, Ruben AA'.
Clever, Oscar R.
Clifton, Floren G.
Cline, Carl Otto
Cochran, Ross
Coenen, John J.
Coffin, John R.
Coffin, Owen T.
Cole, Amen
Cole, Glendon
Cole, Ralph W.
Coleman, Harry E.
Coleman, James O.
Collar, Jess. B.
Collette, Frank A.
Codings, Joseph B.
Collins, Joseph L.
Collins, Homer V.
Collins, Loyd R.
Collins, Robert AV
Collis, Ronald B.
Comstock, J. Roy
Cone, Arthur L.
Conley, Alfred A.
Conley, Joseph J.
Conner, Caswell L.
Cook, Earl T.
Cook, Thomas D.
Cookson, Raymond D.
Cooley, Archie D.
Cooley, Glenn H.
Coons, Arthur G.

Corcoran, Robert E.
Cordes, Alfred A.
Corliss, Roy Carleton
Cornelison, Enoch
Corrigan, Hugh
Corser, Lloyd C.
Covington, Daniel L.
Cox, Ralph L.
Coyle, Harold H.
Coyle, William A.
Cozad, Paul N.
Cramer, George W.
Crawford, Percy O.
Crawford, Robert M.
Crawford, Ross
Crawshaw, Jesse A.
Crespin, Emil
Crespin, Jim AI.
Critton, Lloyd V.
Crouch, John Edgar
Crow, Grover C.
Crowell, Claude S.
Culley, Herbert B.
Cummings, Albert L.
Cunningham, Richard
Curry, Robert A.
Curti, Lorenzo
Curtis, John H.
Cutler, AVilliam E.
D.
Dahl, Walter A.
Dahn, Frank
Dale, Loring J.
Dale, Milton B.
Daman, Ross
Daniel, F. Orin
Daniel, William H.
Daniels, Aurelio
Daniels, Thomas D.
Daniel son, Carl
Danker, Benjamin J.
Danker, Ernest L.
Dankers, Martin L.
Dankers, William J.
Dauser, Sue
Davidson, Irving D.
Davis, Elmo H.
Davis, Keith
Davis, P. R.
Dean, Arthur C.
Dean, Calvin J.
Dean, Floyd B.
Dean, Floyd M.
Deaver, Barrett
Deaver, Charles L.
Deaver, Victor

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Degryse, Adolph
De Guesippi, Antonio M.
Deitrick, Leo
Delaney, Rubin E.
Dellinger, Charles P.
De Long, Keith
Dennison, John
De Petter, Gusto f
Dewitt, Theodore H.
Dickenson, Eugene
Dickenson, Raymond R.
Dickenson, R. R.
Dickey, Leon A.
Dickson, James H.
Dickson, Oma V
Dillingham, Henry
Dismukes, Joseph AAr.
Dismukes, J. Walton
Ditchey, John D.
Doty, Charles V.
Douglas, Eugene A.
Dowling, Francis M.
Dowling, William H.
Doyle, Ralph M.
Drake, A. L.
Draper, James F.
Duarte, Perfect
Dufau, Remi L.
Duhart, Peter
Duker, Otto H.
Duncan, Elora
Duncan, Elbert
Duncan, Harry
"Dunkle, William AV.
Dunlap, Stafford
Dunlap, Stewart
Dunn, Ray E.
Dunning, Marshall F.
Durham, Benjamn B.
Durler, Ralph E.
Durrett, Henry N.
Dyckman, Albert XV.
Dyckman, Walter G.
Dyer, Charles Y.
Dyer, George H.
Dyer, Raymond S.
Dysinger, Glen H.
E.
Eaby, Roy L.
Easley, Roy B.
Eastham, E. S.
Echols, Marion H.
Eckhart, Lee F.
Eckley, Lee R.
Eden, John R.
Edgar, Carl R.

Edgar, Nelson
Edwards, Walter E.
Eells, Arthur Lewis
Eells, Ralph H.
Ehlen, Henry
Eichler, Chauncy H.
Eimers, Victor A.
Elam, Joe C.
Elliott, Delbert
Elliott, Floyd T.
Elliott, Frank
Elliott, Leon C.
Elliott, Stamey
Ellis, Archie
Ellis, L. R.
Emmonds, Sheppard
Enderle, Alaurice F.
Engelhardt, Clarence II.
Ensigne, Elmer C.
Esau, Carl
Escarsega, Juan
Estes, Troy L.
Estrada, Joe M.
Etchandy, Joe
Evans, James
Everett, Harold
Eyman, Leroy F.
Faheyn, Edward T.
Fallert, Joseph A.
Fargher, Arthur
Faul, John L.
Faulkner, AVilliam C.
Felix, Andres C.
Felts, A. AV.
Ferguson, John W.
Ferguson, Samuel A.
Fickle, Glen
Fickle, Alarvin D.
Fields, Albert M.
Fife, Edward J.
Finch, Leonard B.
Finley, Edmund J.
Finster, Frank E.
Fipps, Remus F.
Fisher, H. G.
Fisher, Jacob AI.
Fixsen, Ivan D.
Fletcher, Warren
Fleusouras, George G.
Flies, Ellery K.
Flowers, Dwight A.
Fluor, Fred
Fluor, P. E.
Forbes, Herbert
Ford, Arthur K.

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Ford, Clifford M.
Ford, Guy
Ford, Maurice E.
Fordham, George H.
Fordham, Roy D.
Foster, Henry H.
Foster, Jesse L.
Fowler, Herbert J.
Fox, Elwin
Fox, Melville W.
Frampton, Fred F.
Franklin, Norman T.
Franzen, George H.
Fraze, Major C.
Frazier, Earl
Freeman, Don
Freeman, F. G.
Freeman, Frank E.
Freeman, James A.
Freeman, John W.
Frenger, Eugene A.
Frevert, Ervin C.
Frevert, W. G.
Frice, Arthur
Frice, Harvey
Friend, Bruce H.
Fries, Fred
Frink-, William S.
Frostefer, Hugo L.
Frye, Herschel G.
Frye, Joseph L.
Frye, Lawrence H.
Frye, Valiant J.
Fuller, E. I.
Fuller, Fred
Fuller, Lloyd L.
G.
Gage, Loren M.
Gale, Guy H.
Gallienne, Peter F.
Galloway, Ellis Lee
Ganther, C.
Garcia, Vito W.
Gardner, Vera P.
Garner, Robert W.
Garner, Thomas C.
Garr, Charles H.
Garrett, Hubert J.
Georts, Henry
Geretson, Rudolph G.
Gerken, Fred
Gerken, Walter
Getty, Wilbur K.
Geyer, Charles
Geyer, Floyd L.
Gianoulas, Demeterios

Gibbon, Jamie
Gibson, Rex G.
Giese, William
Gilbert, Earl C.
Giles, Clarence F.
Gill, Oliver
Gillaspy, Ivan R.
Gillison, Robert D.
Gilmore, James T.
Girton, William H.
Gisler, Julius P.
Gisler, Thomas P.
Gittins, Lyman S.
Glenn, William F.
Glidden, Harrison
Glidden, R. H.
Gobar, F H.
Goddard, Gerald J.
Goetz, Edward A.
Going, Charles F.
Good, Junius M.
Goodale, Ralph H.
Goodell, Philip H.
Goodnight, Maloy
Gordon, G. M.
Gorton, Alonzo M.
Gothard, Joseph R.
Gow, James
Graham, Robert P.
Graham, Wilbert G.
Granger, Earl C.
Graw, J. J.
Greathouse, Alarshall
Greder, George B.
Greeley, Ross
Green, Robert AY.
Greenleaf, Erol F.
Griffen, James AAr
Grissette, Victor
Grouard, Franklin L.
Grover, Herbert H.
Grumm, Ewald
Guenther, Otto D. N.
Guglielmana, Riccardo
Gulley, Fred
Gunther, Emma O.
Guntz, Beaver G.
H.
Haapa, Eino
Habener, William
Hacklander, Atwill H.
Haegele, Frank J.
Halderman, Clarence
Halderman, Leonard P.
Halderman, Myron E.
Hale, Harold E.

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Hale, Iiarry L.
Hale, Walter B.
Halloway, Bert J.
Hamann, Richard J.
Hambleton, Walter N.
Hammerle, Raymond J.
Handley, William C.
Hankey, Carl H.
Hankey, Howard
Hankins, Garland
Hansbarger, Frank
Hansen, Magnus
Hansen, Walter
Hansfield, Gordon E.
Hantsbarger, Frank A.
Harding, William W.
Hardy, Ashael
Hardy, Daniel
Hargett, Coleman A.
Hargrave, Edgar J.
Harms, Fred J.
Harnock, Charles J.
Harper, Harry E.
Harper, Harry O.
Harper, Wilbur B.
Harris, George F.
Harris, George Franklin
Harris, Leon
Harrison, T. H.
Hart, Charles H.
Hart, William O.
Hartman, Carl A.
Hartman, Claude E.
Hartung, Edgar J.
Hartwick, Delette
Hartwick, Martin
Haskell, M. D.
Hassler, Bert R.
Hassler, Ferdinand O.
Haster, Richard
Hatch, Ashley
Hatch, Jesse D.
Hatch, Melton
Hatfield, George H.
Hauk, Edward W.
Hawkins, Elmer
Hawkins, William G.
Hays, Mart V.
Healton, Orval P.
Hebson, John W.
Heil, Vernon C.
Heine, Dale M.
Heinecke, Albert
Hemmerling, Walter
Henderson, Walter
Heninger, Willia-m P.
Henry, Archie
Henry, Ernest M.

Henselman, Linn
Herbst, Valentine F.
Herron, Daniel W.
Hess, Albert F.
Heying, Edward
Heying, Oscar W.
Hickman, Carl
Hildebrand, George W.
Hilend, James E.
• Hill, Frank R.
Hill, Fred
Hill, H. H.
Hill, Florace R.
Hill, Robert
Hill, Roger F.
Hillebrecht, George A.
Hillyard, Warren K.
Hilton, Jules V.
Hinds, Thomas H.
Hinricher, Joseph A.
Hinrichs, John F.
Hoben, Hugh J.
Hodson, Burt B.
Hodson, Roscoe N.
Hoffman, Ralph
Hohn, Vernon F.
Holder, Dee
Holderman, Nelson M.
Holditch, George E.
Holditch, John P.
Holditch, Joseph B.
Hollis, A. D.
Hollowa, Bert J.
Holm, Albert C.
Holmes, Max C.
Holston, Thomas E.
Holt, Harvey K.
Holt, John H.
Holve, Albert A.
Holzgrafe, Harold T.
Holzgrafe, Homer C.
Honey, Lyle C.
Hooker, Ray E.
Hooser, Clarence H.
Hopkins, Clyde H.
Hopkins, Donald
Horine, George L.
Horton, Earl
Horton, Kenneth E.
Hoskins, Glenn G.
Hoskins, William C.
Hossler, Harry
Houston, Raymond S.
Howard, Carl V.
Howard, Horace J.
Howard, Kyle
Howell, William E.
Howland, George H.

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Howland, AAr.
Hubbard, George R.
Hudson, C. D.
Hudson, Gerald S.
Hudson, Percy W.
Huff, Ralph E.
Huffman, Alvan W.
Huffman, Ralph
Hugh, H.
Humbard, AA'illiam A.
Hunt, Elmer R.
Hunton, Gwendoline M.
Huntzinger, Amos
Huntzinger, Oscar
Hupp, Victor
Hutchinson, Samuel A.
Hyline, Stephen I.
Ilxes, Steven B.
Iman, Homer F
Imes, Clinton
I mus, Carl O.
Indergand, Alex.
Inman, Elmer
Innes, AA'ells AA'
Irvine, James R.
Irvine, Joseph B.
Irwin, Cecil C.
Irwin, George AA'
Isinor, Albert P.
J-
Jabs, Harry
Jackman, Carl H.
Jackman, Harry H.
Jacobs, John, Jr.
Jacobs, Otto A.
Jacobsen, AA'alter L.
Jacques, Jules F.
Jacques, Placido
Jaeger, Fred C.
Jamar, T. R.
Jamison, A. J.
Jansen, Johannes
Janss, Elmer R.
Janssen, Frank A.
Jayne, Maxwell
Jayne, Ralph
Jefferies, Lester A.
Jenks, Stillman N.
Jensen, Norman R.
Jessee, AA'illiam D.
Jessup, John H.
Jessup, Robert
Jiles, Clarence F.

Jiles, John A.
Johnson, Arthur A.
Johnson, Arthur W.
Johnson, Carl
Johnson, Claude E.
Johnson, Elmer L.
Johnson, Ernest
Johnson, Jack Stacy
Johnson, John A.
J-ohnson, John C.
Johnson, John H.
Johnson, Raymond N.
Johnson, Roy
Tohnson, Samuel C.
Jolly, Hubert T.
Jones, Arch
Jones, Charles C.
Jones, Christopher F.
Jones, David M.
Jones, Gordon
Jones, Lawrence
Jones, Alable
Juden, Floyd
Junge, AVilliam F.

K.
Kadau, Carl J.
Kadelbach, Albert
Kamp, Ralph B.
Kaufman, Louis H.
Keech, Dana E.
Keech, Cara
Keefe, John Edward
Keefe, Thomas A.
Keencey, Leo
Keim, Otto A.
Keiser, Delbert A.
Kellingworth, Hallie E.
Kellog, Ernest L.
Kellogg, George E.
Kelly, Arthur J.
Kelly, Daniel E.
Kelly, Joseph
Kelly, Leo AV.
Kelly, Ralph A.
Kelly, AVilliam E.
Kemper, Arthur A.
Kemper, John F.
Kendall, A. Gordon
Kendall, Harry L.
Kendall, Herbert R.
Kennedy, Shirley A.
Kennedy, AA'illiam F.
Kennon, Stanley W.
Kenyon, Lee F.
Keseman, AA'illiam

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Kestenholtz, Emil
Kettler, AA'illiam
Killingsworth, Hallie E.
Kimball, True W.
Kimbrough, Edwin W.
Kindle, Daniel C.
King, Earl R.
King, John S.
King, Ralph E.
Kingston, AVilliam
Kirk, Dean W.
Kirkpatrick, Harry G.
Kitchen, Harvey F.
Klaustermeyer, Henry F.
Kneen, AA'illiam E.
Knick, Thomas O.
Knight, Roscoe W.
Knowlton, Hollis H.
Koech, Hugh
Koenig, Albert F.
Kogler. Edwin
Kohlenberger, Charles F. AA'.
Kohlenberger, H. H.
Kolkhorst, Emil W.
Kozina, Albert
Kozina, Alvin
Kraemer, Samuel P.
Kraft, Louis
Krause, H. A.
Krebs, Otto
Kroener, Rudolph
Kroener, AA'illiam F.
Krueger, Herbert
Kubitz, AA'alter
Kuechel, Edwin P.
Kurtz, Alilton H.
Kurtz, Neale C.
Kusch, William H.
Kutzner, Herman J.
Kutzner, Otto J.
L.
Lacy, Alex H.
Lae, John
Lae, Louis
Lae, Phillip
Lamb, John AV.
Lambert, Emery B.
Lambert, George W.
Lambert, Munroe M.
Lambert, Wilson W.
Lambracopoulos, Theophanes
Lamhoffer, Eric
Lamme, Halsey
Lantz, Royce
La Porte, Peter
Larios, Thomas A.

Larter, Donald
Launders, Clarence B.
Lauterback, Fred C.
Lay, James F.
Lay, Verna Clyde
Leatherwood, Clyde E.
Leavitt, Frank S.
LeBard, Aubrey C.
LeBard, Thomas J.
Le Beu, Paul M.
Lee, George M.
Lee, Harold K.
Lee, Roscoe
Lehner, Alerritt G.
Leimer, Charles J.
Leinberger. William S.
LeLande, Joseph A.
Lemar, Dwight H.
Lentz, Donald E.
Lentz, Wilber S.
Lenz, Otto
Levine, Sam
Liafe, William A.
Lichermann, Benedict A.
Lieberman, Anna L.
Lindley, Charles
Little, Walter B.
Litton, B. E.
Livesy, James E., Jr.
Lockett, Henry J.
Loerch, Albert L.
Loescher, William G.
Logan, Charles F. D.
Loney, Earl
Long, Beaugh
Lopez, Alonzo
Lopez, Felix
Lopez, Franklin
Lopez, Paul
Loptien, Henry, Jr.
Love, Henry
Love, Leonard
Lovelandy, Thomas A.
Lovell, J. C.
Lovett, Daniel C.
Lowen, Clifton E.
Luchau, Henry O.
Luck, Benjamin F.
Ludy, Howard E.
Lugo, Paul
Luhring, Rolla
Lujan, Sam
Luke, Norman
Lumsden, John C.
Lutten, P. H.
Lutz, William A.
Lykke, Andrew P.
Lyon, Franklin J.

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M.
Alaas, George B.
McAuley, John
McBride, Frank
McCabe, Thomas
ATcCain, A. Lawrence
McCarthy, Robert
McClelland, George E.
AlcClain, Charles R.
McClintock, Clarence AI.
AlcClintock, David
McCollum, Robert E.
McCollum, Thomas C.
McComber, George D.
McCounal, Arthur A.
McCoy, Alvan C.
McCracken, Lolie
AlcCune, John P.
McDonald, Donald H.
AIcDowell, Alonzo G.
McElnogg, Clarence H.
AIcFadden, Edwin T.
AfcFarland, James P.
AlcGaffey, Edgar W.
McGill, Robert E.
AIcGraw, Harold S.
Maclntire, Carlyle F.
McKaughan, Dick O.
AIcKean, Jacob E.
McKean, Ross
McKelvy, Robert S.
AIcKinley, Robert
AIcKinney, Elmer
AIcAIillan, Delbert L.
ATcPherson, S. Brown
AlcRae, Charles M.
Maddux, Clement R.
Maddux, James W.
Alaganety, John L.
Afagg, George AV.
Alagill, James AA'.
Mahoney, Fred O.
Maigre, Henry A.
Alajel, Juan
Alakokst, Frank
Mang, Henry A.
Mang, AA'illiam E.
Alangham, Elwood B.
ATarks, Benjamin H.
Alarks, Emerson J.
Marks, Harry
ATarlborough, Numa A.
Alarple, R. S., Jr.
Marsden, Samuel A.
Alarshburn, Clinton
Alartin, Arthur T.
Martin, Charles

Martin, Perle M.
Martinet, Morris W.
Martinez, John B.
Martinez, Joseph P.
Marzo, Fernando C.
Mathis, Marion W.
Matter, Henry J.
Matthews, Curtis F.
Matthews, Julian D.
Mattocks, Douglas C.
Mattocks, Edward S.
Mattocks, George E.
Mauerhan, Conrad J.
Mauerhan, Frank E.
Mauerhan, James A.
Mauerhan, Ralph W.
Mayer, Lawrence H.
Meadows, Arthur C.
Meadows, Donald C.
Meehan, Henry C.
Melchior, Jacob J.
Melton, Turner L.
Mensenkamp, Albert F.
Merkerm, F. G.
Meserve, Eugene
Messerall, Raymond E.
Metz, William R.
Meyer, Edward G.
Meyer, Fred C.
Aleyer, Victor C.
Meyers, AValter W.
Michaeli, Elmer F.
Miles, Martin R.
Miller, Irene
Miller, Stewart S.
Milosevich, Dusan
Minnix, Henry C.
Mitchell, Floyd H.
Mitchell, L. C.
Mitchell, Ralph J.
Mitchell, W. E.
Mitchell, Willis
Mitchell, Willis F.
Mock, John M.
Mohr, Vernon F.
Moist, M. S.
Mollica, Lawrence J.
Montana, Joseph
Montenegro, Albert
Moody, John K.
Moon, Cecil K.
Mooney, Charles H.
Moore, Arlo F.
Moore, Charles H.
Moore, Glenn A.
Moore, James Francis
Moren, Robert H.
Morgan, Earl

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125

Morris, William E.
Morris, Frank E.
Morris, Virgil
Morrison, John L.
Morrison, Loftus B.
Mosely, Lemuel H.
Moss, Willard
Muckenthaler, William M.
Mueller, Emil C.
Munger, Horace
Munger, Robert
Murdy, John A.
Alurphy, Earl R.
Murillo, Alonzo
Muzzall, Clyde E.
Myer, Theodore J.
N.
Nankerville, William J.
Nash, Arthur Forest
Nearing, Alfred E.
Nelson, Benjamin F.
Nelson, Charles A.
Nelson, H. W.
Nelson, Orion L.
Nelson, Richard G.
Nesbit, Harry
Newkirk, Harry
Newland, John D.
Newland, Clinton C.
Newman, Horace T.
Newton, James B.
Newton, John L.
Nichols, Albert Q.
Nichols, Homer L.
Nichols, William I.
Nickles, Earl T.
Nicolas, John P.
Niece, Roland E.
Niland, Edwin R.
Nisyros, Anastasio
Noose, Herbert A.
Nordeen, Ansel G.
Nordeen, Orval J.
Noriego, Ygnacio
Noulis, John
Nuffer, Bernard
Nunn, Robert N.
O.
Oberlander, William J.
Oertly, George
Olds, Leon B. W.
Orosco, George
Ortiz, Fred
Ortiz, Joe

Osborn, Hugh
Osborn, John H.
Osborn, Roy N.
Osborne, Dennis O.
Osborne, Harry C.
Outland, John R.
Owenby, Ira J.
P.
Packard, Otto B.
Padgham, Henry I.
Page, George AV.
Pangilla, Manuel G.
Pappageorgopoulos, Nicholos
Park, Eugene L.
Parker, Bernard D.
Parker, Clarence
Parslow, Edward C.
Paschall, Arthur
Patterson, Edward M.
Patterson, Lyford M.
Paulus, Walter L.
Pearson, Arthur
Pearson, Charles A.
Pease, Arthur W.
Pease, AValter J.
Peck, Robert G.
Pederson, James M.
Peel, Alvin
Pefley, Clarence R.
Pellegrin, A. E.
Pendleton, John A.
Penhall, Leslie W.
Penn, Ivan
Perkins, Byron
Perkins, Dixie
Perkins, Frederick, Jr.
Perkins, Harry R.
Perkins, Leo L.
Perry, Robert B.
Peterkin, George W.
Peterman, AVilliam H.
Peters, Josiah
Peters, Rudolph O.
Peterson, Edward M.
Pettz, Hellie H.
Phelps, Allen G.
Phillips, Merrill N.
Pickett, Jesse H.
Pierson, Oliver C.
Pittman, Earl
Planchon, Elman N.
Planchon, William
Piatt, George H.
Plavan, Clyde A.
Pogue, John H.
Pohndorf, Henry G. J.

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Poland, Oscar J.
Polillo, Antonio
Pollard, George A.
Pollard, William M.
Porter, Arthur
Porter, Charles L.
Porter, Joseph
Porter, Lloyd M.
Potter, Claude E.
Potter, Lee Roy
Potter, Raymond
Potts, Clifford C.
Prather, Floyd
Preble, Boyd
Preble, Dallas E.
Preston, Harold, R.
Price, Henry O.
Price, Jake
Priebe, AA'illiam E.
Prince, Elmer L.
Pritchett, Clyde
Proud, Lucien E.
Puchert, Otto
Pnrviance, Glenn P.
Pye, B. C.
Pygman, Paul B.
Q.
Ouintana, Anselmo
Ouarton, Thomas I.
R.
Ragan, James R.
Rails, Roy F.
Rains, George L.
Ralph, A. S.
Ramsey, Ethel C.
Rand, Henry C.
Randall, Guy B.
Ranker, Frank J.
Rathke, Jacob C.
Raymond, Carl L.
Read, Noah
Reed, Harry
Reed, Leroy
Reed, Ruel L.
Rees, Albert E.
Reese, Emory W.
Reeves, Richard L.
Regan, Richard R.
Rehor, Victor
Reid, Harry A.
Reid, Leland E.
Reid, Taylor R.
Reihl, Grover C.
Reihl, Lewis A.

Reinecke, Joe R.
Reinhaus, Stanley M.
Renshaw, Clarence B.
Reusch, AA'illiam
Reuter, Ernest A.
Reuter, Herman A.
Rhodes, Marvin D.
Rhodes, Marion
Rice, George B.
Rice, Oliver AV.
Richards, Perey
Richardson, Hugh G.
Richardson, John W.
Richardson, Lee
Richman, B. E.
Riess, John J.
Riffle, Russell S.
Rigdon, Walter B.
Riggle, Harvey P.
Rilea, Dwight S.
Riley, William J.
Rios, Antonio
Rios, Frank
Rios, Jesus
Ritner, William W.
Roberts, Harry F.
Roberts, Ray
Roberts, Walter J.
Robertson, John AL
Robertson, Robert M.
Robinson, Ernest F.
Robinson, Frederick D.
Robinson, John H.
Robinson, L. Homer
Robinson, Michael
Rochester, Nathaniel N.
Rodriguez, AVilliam
Roehm, Cornish J.
Roepke, Roy S.
Rogers, Floyd
Rogers, F. AV.
Rogers, Aleade Al.
Rogers, Newton
Rogers, Willie
Rohrs, Albert F.
Rohrs, Henry
Romero, Jose
Romero, Stanley
Rose, Chester A.
Rose, Jesse G.
Ross, Elmer
Ross, Garland C.
Ross, Hugo J.
Ross, Raymond R.
Rossiter, Harry A.
Rossiter, Henry M.
Rouse, Luther G.
Rowley, Burton H.

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127

Royer, Merrill C.
Ruble, George F.
Ruiz, Bidal
Rush, George P.
Ryan, Joseph H.

Sala, Myers
Salven, Fred M.
Salveson, Salve M.
Sampson, Herbert C.
Sanders, Ward
Sargent, James K.
Saunders, Ray
Sawyer, Guy
Schacht, Frank H.
Schalten, Roy F.
Schelling, Otto W.
Schey, Charles
Schiffer, Philip F.
Schildmeyer, Oscar A.
Schilling, Walter A.
Schindler, Henry
Schlueter, Henry H.
Schmidt, John H.
Schrott, Frank J.
Schultze, William C. R.
Schulz, Charles AL
Schumacher, David H.
Schumacher, Roy F.
Schumacher, Walter
Scott, Greba
Scott, Hubert G.
Scovel, George K.
Scudder, Thomas XV
Schwartzbach, Rudolph R.
Seale, Joshua E.
Sears, Rippley B.
Seeley, Esley
Segerstrom, Anton H.
Segerstrom, Fred A.
Shadel, Paul
Shaffer, Charles B.
Shampang, M. R.
Shanchez, Adolfo
Sharp, Selvin T.
Sharp, Selwyn J. '
Shaw, Charles H.
Shaw, Robert
Shepherd, James C.
Sherwood, Arthur H.
Sherwood, Lyman
Shields, Cecil R.
Shipkey, Arthur H.
Shirley, Knox A.
Shoemaker, George G.
Shoneka, Selim

Shugg, Cecil AL
Sielitz, Richard J.
Siems, Fred J.
Siems, Harry W.
Siewert, Leonard W
Simmons, Clark
Simmons, Fritz M.
Simmons, Jerome N.
Simmons, John G.
Simmons, Tom J.
Sinclair, William
Slater, Clyde
Slater, F. Clyde
Sleeper, Claude L.
Slodt, Harry C.
Smart, M. Carson
Smart, William A.
Smiley, Kenneth E.
Smith, Carson M.
Smith, Earl E.
Smith, George AA'.
Smith, Harrison E.
Smith, James J.
Smith, Joe
Smith, Lewis AI. H.
Smith, Loren W.
Smith, Louis D.
Smith, Myer
Smith, Nicholas E.
Smith, Ralph
Smith, Robert E.
Smith, Stewart S.
Snodgrass, Archie C.
Snodgrass, Oran L.
Snodgrass, Sam
Snow, Horace E.
Snyder, Paul M.
Snyder, AVilliam L.
Solonon, Morris S.
Sonduck, Samuel
Sorenson, Samuel
Spohr, Elizabeth
Spotts, Harry F.
Sprotte, Charles W.
Sproull, Henry F.
Spurgeon, Robert
Spurling, Kingsley
Squires, C. E.
Squires, Elwell
Squires, Robert
Stalker, John B.
Stambaugh, Warren A.
Stamey, Elliott
Standring, Samuel P.
Stanfield, Frank
Stanley, Eugene B.
Stansbury, Harold I.
Stark, Ernest A.

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HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY

Starkey, Preston F.
Steadman, Earl J.
Stearns, Charles A.
Stearns, Marco M.
Steenberg, John
Sterrett, Wyman J.
Stevens, Arthur E.
Stevenson, Donald
Stevenson, Joseph
Stevenson, Samuel L.
Stevenson, Wendell M.
Stever, Fred P.
Steves, Fred
Stewart, Joseph P.
Stewart, Martin V.
Stewart, Wayne C.
Stillman, M. J.
Stillwell, Edwin G.
Stillwell, John W.
Stillwell, Richard C.
Stockton, Everett A.
Stoffel, Barney A.
Stoffel, Peter F.
Stogsdill, Earl W.
Stokes, Arthur J.
Stoll, Frederick
Stone, William T.
Stortz, Parker H.
Stratton, Fred D.
Streetch, Wilhelm
Streed, Henry G.
Strieker, Edward E.
Strieker, Marshall L.
Strong, Clarence D.
Strong, Leo S.
Stroschein, Frank G.
Studebaker, Harvey S.
Stull, Bertram L.
Stull, Glenn B..
Summons, Tom J.
Sutton, William
Swain, W. B.
Swanner, Charles D.
Swanner, John L.
Swarthout, Willard L.
Sweger, George L.
Swoap, Howard F.

Tait, Magnus W.
Talbott, Dale E.
Tanner, George F.
Tate, John N.
Taulbee, Bennie L.
Taylor, George M.
Taylor, Hugh F.
Taylor, Otis G.

Tedford, Edgar
Tedford, Jack
Tedford, Alalcom E.
Tervooren, John G.
Thierfelder, Leonard G.
Thomas, Thomas B.
Thomas, W. Perry
Thompson, Allison W.
Thompson, Benjamin F.
Thompson, Gerald R.
Thompson, Lloyd
Thompson, Morris J.
Thompson, Pharis L.
Thompson, Roland
Thompson, Somerville
Thompson, Stanfield
Thrall, Leman D.
Tidball, Charles T.
Tidball, David G.
Tillinghast, Charles D.
Tillotson, Clayton B.
Timmons, Herbert J.
Timmons, Howard C.
Titchenal, William H.
Titus, Gilbert I.
Todd, Merritt L.
Toppins, John N.
Townsend, Arthur F.
Townsend, Joe
Tracy, Charles O.
Trago, Eugene
Treadwell, Frank A.
Trapp, Donald
Trapp, James B.
Tripp, Martin O.
Trotter, Clarence W.
Trude, Peter A.
Trudeau, Adolph M.
Trudeau, Peter A.
Tryk, Peter N.
Tubbs, Will L.
Tucker, Paul W.
Turner, Charles N.
Turner, J. Howard
Tweedie, A. M.
Twist, Arthur C.
Twist, Charles G.
Twombly, Gerald R.
Twombly, Harold S.
Twons, Arnold P.

U.
Unger, Edward G.
Upton, George

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129

V.
Van Bibber, Ray
Vanderburg, Elton D.
Van Buren, Cornelius
A^andermast, Murry C.
Vandfuff, Wayne
A^ance, George L.
\^an Wyck, Charles D.
Varian, Arthur J.
Varner, John P.
Varner, Milton
Vaughn, Lee AV.
Veale, Hugh F.
Vega, William
Vermulen, Fred AA'.
Vidal, Samuel
Visel, Nelson S.
Vlasschaert, Leonard
Vollhardt, Carl F.
Voltz, Frank F.
Von Allmen, Ernest
Vuchevich, Peter G.
W.
AVagner, Clarence
Waidler, Earl G.
Waldow, Fred F.
AValker, James E.
Walker, James L.
AA'alker, Parker E.
AValker, Robert E.
AValker, Thomas B.
Walkinshaw, James H.
Wall, Charles A.
Wallace, Charles
Wallace, H. Lew
AVallace, Lyon B.
Wallace, Woodson AA".
Walrath, Weston W.
Walters, George S.
AValters, Grover L.
Ward, Samuel J.
AVard, Welcome M.
AVarner, Ben C.
Warner, Harry E.
Warner, Leonard A.
AVarner, Ross A.
Warren, Roy E.
AA'arren, William H.
Washburn, Walter
Wasserman, Henry J.
Waterman, Carl I.
Waterman, Sidney A.
Waters, John
Watkins, Cecil F.

AVatkins, Robert T.
Watson, Hallie
Watson, Harold
Watson, Noble E.
Watson, Robert AV
Watters, Theo. H.
AVatts, John V
Weaver, Raymond E.
Webb, William P., Jr.
Wehrly, John
Weilenmann, Marvin J.
Wei in, Emmett D.
West, Clyde
West, Frank G.
West, Oscar C.
West, Theo.
West, Z. Bertrand
Wester, Lou J.
Weston, R. T.
Wetzel, Rudolph
AVhaley, Fleming AA'.
Whalen, AVilliam J.
Wheately, Charles L.
AVheeler, C. Paul D.
White, Robert O.
Whitney, Bryant
Whitney, Clyde C.
Whitson, Robert A.
Whitted, Edward E.
Wickersheim, Earnest J.
Wickersheim, Lyle AA'.
Wickett, AVilliam H.
AA^ilcox, John AA".
Wilcut, AVilliam L.
Wiley, Lytle R.
Wiley, Ross E.
Wilke, Frank A.
Wilkins, Rolla C.
Wilkinson, Roland C.
Willey, Albert M.
Willetts, Thomas K.
AVilliam, Ross E.
Williams, Arthur
Williams, Ballard
Williams, Guwilyn E.
Williams, Leslie A.
Willis, Roy B.
Willits, Coit F.
Willits, Louis G.
Willits, Thomas H.
Wilson, Alston J.
Wilson, Guy A.
Wilson, Mark C.
Wilson, Samuel E.
Wimer, George J.
Winbigler, Ernest N.
Winkleman, Rafael L.

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AVinney, William A. Wyneken, Alfred G.
Winslow, Burt
Winter, Frank E. Y.
Winters, Albert C. .-.__,,
Wisser, Lucien N. Yoern, Fred
Wollaston, William N. v^fj 1 1 w
Woodington, George ?oun/charles H
Woodruff, Virgil *ounS' S£arfs f •
Woods, John A. Young, Chester L.
Woods, Ralph A. ^oung, Clair E.
Woods, Wilbur J. ^oung, Edward C.
Woodward, Carl Young, Edward
Woodward, E. C. Young, Fred I,.
Woodward, Edwin Young, Glenn A.
Woodward, Noel L. Young, Jasper G.
Worden, F. L. Young, Leo A
Worthy, Elmer T. Young, Ralph W.
Wright, Fay L. Young, Sidney A.
Wright, James H. „
Wuesthoff, Herbert C. L'
Wylie, John L. Zimmer, Joseph P.

CHAPTER XXI
SERVICE MEN'S RECOGNITION
A monster celebration was held at Orange County Park September 9, 1919,
to pay tribute to the service men and to lay the cornerstone of a memorial arch.
The attendance was estimated at 30,000 people, with 5,000 automobiles. Three
bands were present and discoursed appropriate music, adding much to the enter
tainment. R. L. Bisby, chairman of the Orange County AA'ar Service Recognition
Association, acted as master of ceremonies for the occasion.
Following was the order of exercises for the celebration :
10 to 11 a. m. — Band concert by Huntington Beach band.
11 a. m. to 12 m. — Exercises of laying cornerstone.
Star Spangled Banner.
Invocation by Rev. Robert AA'illiams.
Reading of list of deposits in cornerstone.
Presentation of gold trowel to Hon. Wm. D. Stephens, governor of California,
by T. B. Talbert, chairman of the board of supervisors, for the Orange County
AA'ar Service Recognition Association.
Laying of cornerstone and remarks by Governor Stephens.
12 m. to 1 p. m. — Luncheon. Band concert by Anaheim band.
1:30 to 2:15 p. m. — Massed band concert, Santa Ana, Anaheim and Hunt
ington Beach bands.
2 :30 to 4 p. m. — Medal presentation exercises.
Invocation, Rev. Robert AA'illiams.
America, by audience, led by Professor Gustlin.
AA'orld AA'ar, by Rev. Robert AVilliams.
General Pershing March, by band.
Introduction of Governor Stephens by R. L. Bisby.
Presentation of service medal to Clyde Slater by Governor Stephens. Other
service men received medals at booth.
Acceptance of same by service men.
California, by audience, led by Professor Gustlin.
4 to 6 p. m. — Band concert.
4 to 10 p. m. — Dancing and social time.

HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 131
Among the remarks by Governor Stephens, while laying the cornerstone
of the memorial arch, were the following:
"We would be remiss in our duty as citizens of America were we to forget,
even for a brief instant, the memory of those who lie on the hillsides of France,
beneath the poppies. The service men of this country performed achievements
worthy of the greatest honor that the world can give them. The people who did
not go to France, as well as those who came back, can honor the dead by living
a life of service to their fellowmen and country, and thus win in a measure a
small part of the glory which was theirs."
In contrast with this helpful, patriotic attitude, the governor condemned
Bolshevism as destructive of all government, and said : "Those who brook
Bolshevistic utterances in this country are themselves traitors to their flag. There
is now on the statute books of this state a law which the man who now stands
before you succeeded in having passed — a law, which, if enforced by the officers
of California, would stamp out every trace of Bolshevism."
It is needless to add that such sentiments were vociferously applauded by
the large audience gathered together to express its appreciation of the patriotic
services of its returning citizen-soldiers.
In introducing Governor Stephens to present the recognition medals to the
service men, Chairman Bisby declared that Orange County was very proud of
the fact that the Governor had given up all other calls for the day, and had joined
with the people of Orange County in their recognition exercises. He then turned
over one of the medals to the Governor who, expressing his thankfulness for the
return of so many of the men, and glorifying the memory of those who rest in
fields of poppies overseas, presented the medal to Lieut. Clyde Slater, who had
accompanied him to the platform.
In reply, Lieutenant Slater of Orange, who had been selected by the service
men to represent them in receiving the typical medal, declared that the returned
soldiers and sailors deeply appreciated the demonstration in their honor and the
medals presented to them. He said the medals would be cherished, and kept
always by the men as souvenirs of the day, expressing to them the fact that in their
service they were backed up by the people at home.
"We are here today," said Governor Stephens in his afternoon address, "to
do honor to those men who have returned from war service, and never shall we
forget those services, rendered in a splendid spirit and in a splendid way; I only
wish that they could have had the opportunity to lick hell out of Germany. That
is my only regret in the ending of the war. I am here today to salute the veterans
of the G. A. R., the veterans of the Spanish AA'ar, and the veterans of the war that
has just passed into history.
"California celebrates today the sixty-ninth anniversary of her admission to
statehood. With even- commonwealth, entrance into the Union must have been
'he occasion of profound rejoicing, for there was instinct in the pioneers who
founded new states, a love of self-government which was incompatible with an
inferior territorial status and which chafed under federal jurisdiction over local
affairs. Such conditions were felt in an extraordinary degree in California, situ
ated on the western rim of the continent, peopled by bold and adventurous spirits
and separated from the older states by desert wastes and formidable mountain
ranges, across which as yet no railroad had found its way. . .
"As in courage and wisdom the pioneers discharged the problems of their
day, so in equal patriotism and purpose, we must give the best that is in us to
the right solution of the problems, that in our turn we are called upon to face,
dealing with them loftily, not as partisans, but as Americans. California cannot
escape this responsibility if it would, and I would not have it make such escape
if it could.
"We cannot better celebrate the birthday of our beloved state, we cannot
better honor the memory of the gallant men and -women who were the builders
of the commonwealth, we cannot better honor the achievements, the patriotism and

132 HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
the loyalty of the men of California who are just returning from their noble
service in their country's defense, nor can we better honor the proud memory of
our heroic sons who gave their lives for their country's flag than by a united
and whole-hearted support of whatever rightly makes for the lasting security of
the republic, the establishment of enduring peace amongst the nations of the
earth, and the creation of a new era in which all mankind shall know the happi
ness of a warless world."
Rev. Robert AA'illiams, who offered the invocation at the beginning of the
exercises and delivered an address on the AA'orld War in the afternoon, spent
several years of his childhood with his father's family in Orange, Orange County,
Cal., the family afterwards returning to AA'ilkesbarre, Pa. Reverend AVilliams
went into the army first as an enlisted soldier, and afterwards served as a
chaplain. In his address Chaplain AA'illiams told how the American operations in France
and Belgium grew little by little until the time came soon after Chateau Thierry
when men and munitions were sufficient in numbers to enable Field Marshal Foch
to take the offensive and keep going until the Germans were forced to sue for
peace. After he had gone over the battles on such fronts as St. Mihiel and the
Argonne, leading up to the victorious march of the Allied armies on to German
soil, the speaker said :
"To my mind the greatest victory of all was indicated to me as the Entente
armies were marching into Coblenz. There the Stars and Stripes were seen
waving over the double eagle of the flag of Prussia. That American flag, floating
there, seemed to say that when the time came when the Prussian flag could be
replaced by the flag of a German republic, guaranteeing that Prussian militarism
was forever crushed, when that time came, then the American flag in Germany
would come down, for we did not come into Germany as conquerors. We did
not come with any idea of subjugating the people of the country. AVe came solely
as an army representing a people whose unshakable conviction is that right must
prevail over might in the world."
The chaplain's address was spiced with anecdotes of the war, incidents
humorous and pathetic that came under his observation, and in some of which
he was a participant. He closed amid tremendous applause after making an
earnest plea in behalf of the League of Nations. He said, in effect, that if the
peace of the world were not made secure in the future, then the men who fought
in France would have been betrayed.
The records of the War History Department of the Doe Library, Berkeley,
show this county's service men to have gained only seventeen citations and
decorations, as follows: 1, Diedrich V. Burdorf, Fullerton, cited by America;
2, Carl F. Burns, Santa Ana, Croix de Guerre ; 3, Pvt. Paul Cozad, Santa Ana,
commended for bravery, cited by America ; 4, Major W. T. Crook, Anaheim,
Croix de Guerre, Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Order
(England) ; 5, Corp. Ora J. Easton, Santa Ana, Distinguished Service Cross,
decorated for bravery; 6, Jacob AL Fisher, Santa Ana, Aledaille Alilitaire, Dis
tinguished Service Cross ; 7, Floyd L. Geyer, Santa Ana, cited by America ; 8,
Ivan R. Gillaspy, Santa Ana, cited by America; 9, Sgt. John Guess, Jr., Elmond,
Distinguished Service Cross awarded posthumously ; 10, Harold J. Henry, Balboa,
Croix de Guerre; 11, Capt. Nelson Miles Holderman, Santa Ana, Distinguished
Service Cross, Congressional Aledal of Honor ; 12, Lieut. Perry Schurr, Santa
Ana, Distinguished Service Cross ; 13, Jay B. Taylor, Santa Ana, Croix de Guerre ;
14, Jose Frank Velasco, Yorba, cited by America; 15, Allen C. AVallace, Anaheim,
cited by America; 16, Pvt. Curtis AVare, Tustin, Belgian Croix de Guerre; 17,
Joseph P. Zimmer, Placentia, cited by America.
Genevieve Ambrose, secretary of the department, explained her difficulties
in getting information, admitted that there were undoubtedly omissions and
errors in the list, and asked persons discovering either to transmit the informa
tion and corrections to the department. The Santa Ana Register pointed out

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that there is no such post office in the county as "Elmond," given in No. 9, and
called attention to the following omissions :
"Capt. Holderman, in addition to his American awards, received two Croix de
Guerre decorations, one for bravery before the stand of the Lost Battalion and
one for a part he played in that desperate historic fight.
"The Distinguished Service Cross awarded Lieut. Elmer T. Worthy of
Huntington Beach is not on the list. Neither is the citation given Sergt. Russell
Coleman of this city listed among the seventeen."
A cursory examination of a book entitled "With the 364th Infantry in Amer
ica, France and Belgium," a copy, of which is in the Santa Ana library, disclosed
the fact that there were at least nine Orange County men of that hard-fighting
regiment who were "cited for exceptional bravery and meritorious conduct under
fire," and are not in that list, as follows:
Peter Laport, Fullerton; Charley Lindley, Anaheim; Alilton AL Bolton, El
Modena ; Clifton E. Lowen, La Habra ; James H. Dickson, Placentia ; Frank J.
Schrott, Anaheim ; John P. Holditch, Orange ; George L. Vance, Fullerton ; Ralph
Huffman, Orange.
Those who know of the esteem in which the work of Orange County's service
men was held by the authorities believe that enough citations and decorations
have been bestowed, if all were reported, to raise the county's rank to fifth or
sixth instead of tenth, as the seventeen, which were reported, now make it.

CHAPTER XXII
THE COUNTY'S LIBERTY LOANS
The five loans, called for by the government to finance the war, were appor
tioned among the people according to the bank deposits in the respective communi
ties. R. L. Bisby kindly furnished lists of the apportionments to the communities
of Orange County and of the liberal response made by each, as follows:
First and Second Liberty Loans
Subscriptions 2d Loan
Town 1st Loan 2d Loan Subscribers
Anaheim  $49,450 $ 408,750 1,515
Brea  14,800 4,000 47
Fullerton  62,000 357,050 978
Garden Grove  1,600 22,550 149
Huntington Beach  700 33,150 140
La Habra  7,050 7,250 62
Newport Beach  4,000 14,300 101
Olive  1,400 8,100 37
Orange  36,200 196,800 808
Placentia  24,200 50,250 165
Santa Ana  208,450 726,250 2,917
Tustin  5,250 27,450 145
Yorba Linda  8,000 42
Orange County  $415,100 $1,863,900 7,106
Third Liberty Loan Over-
Town Quota Subscribed Subscribed
Anaheim  $ 188,000 $ 250,600 $62,600
Brea  10,000 50,100 40,100
Buena Park  3,000 13,550 10,550
El Toro  12,500 25,100 12,600

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Fullerton  137,850
Garden Grove  19,500
Huntington Beach  27,100
Laguna Beach  5,000
La Habra  14,100
Los Alamitos  17,000
Newport Beach  8,250
Olive  8,750
Orange  181,100
Placentia  29,000
San Juan Capistrano  20,000
Santa Ana District  755,000
Stanton  4,000
Tustin  31,600
Yorba Linda  6,750
Orange County  $1,478,500

240,900

103,050

33,500

14,000

70,000

42,900

10,100

5,100

42,300

28,200

41,250

24,250

18,300

10,050

16,400

7,650

237,650

56,550

38,500

9,500

23,750

3,750

901,150

146,150

6,750

2,750

37,700

6,100

15,100

8,350

$2,172,700

$594,200

Fourth Liberty Loan Over-
Town Quota Subscribed Subscribed
Anaheim  $ 394,150 $ 495,800 $101,650
Brea  19,900 81,900 61,650
Fullerton  272,550 416,300 143,750
Garden Grove  34,650 55,850 21,200
Huntington Beach  51,450 68,000 16,550
La Habra  34,750 54,350 19,600
Newport- Beach  15,700 36,300 20,600
Olive  19,300 23,200 3,900
Orange  363,250 418,600 55,350
Placentia  57,250 75,550 18,300
Santa Ana  1,472,250 1,806,800 334,550
Tustin  57,700 70,200 12,500
Yorba Linda  14,250 28,500 14,250
Orange County  $2,807,150
Fifth Liberty Loan
Town Quota
Anaheim  $ 282,100
Brea  16,000
Buena Park  8,550
Fullerton  214,400
Garden Grove  30,350
Huntington Beach  37,600
La Habra  25,900
Newport Beach  12,400
Olive  15,100
Orange  271,800
Placentia  43,900
Santa Ana  1,072,050
Tustin  40,500
Yorba Linda  11,950
Orange County  $2,082,600 $2,189,950 7,833

$3,631,000

$823,850

Subscribed

Subscribers

$ 285,950

1,325

34,400

220

22,900

139

233,150

658

33,500

200

39,450

291

32,350

158

17,300

198

16,850

103

279,250

1,395

49,600

81

1,083,250

2,680

45,000

225

17,000

160

HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 135
CHAPTER XXIII
RELIEF WORK OF ASSOCIATIONS
There were four chapters of the Red Cross in active operation in the county
during the recent World War, one in each of the following cities : Anaheim, Ful
lerton, Orange and Santa Ana. Each of these chapters, by its drives for member
ship, included a large part of the community', in which it was located, as members.
The real work of the chapter, however, was done by a few score of people, mostly
women, some of whom devoted almost their entire time to the work.
In answer to a request for information, the secretary of each of the chapters
furnished a copy of the last report, giving a detailed history of the work of the
chapter from its inception down to its close. These reports are highly creditable
and deserve to be reproduced in the history without abridgement ; but the most
that can be done is to give the results without recounting the processes by which
those results were obtained. Anaheim Chapter of Red Cross
The Anaheim chapter of the American Red Cross was organized in April,
1917, by the committee on organization. The officers then chosen served until
the following October when some changes were made, as was also done at subse
quent elections. However, the treasurer, Mr. A. B. McCord, and the secretary,
Airs. Eva H. Boyd, served in their respective offices from the beginning until the
end of the work.
At the risk of overlooking some of the results in Christmas packages, canteen
work, etc., we skip over to the financial statement, which covers the period from
April 20, 1917, to May 1, 1919 and is as follows:
RECEIPTS
Membership  $3,342.00
Sale of Insignia and Materials  300.31
Miscellaneous Income  •. 434.45
Donations and Entertainments  4,379.83
Monthly Pledges  1,670.65
Stanton Branch  411,84
Salvage  180,43
First Aid  15.00
Home Service (loan returned)  45.00
War Fund Drives  6,520.36
 ¦ $17,299.87
DISBURSEMENTS
Membership National Headquarters  $1,684.75
Salary, Collecting 1917 AVar Fund and Office  , . 345.00
Insignia Purchases  51.50
Military Relief, Material Purchased  7,037.02
Home Service  155.44
General Expenses, Comfort Kits, Telephone, etc  973.09
Canteen Service  381.41
Salvage, Junior Red Cross  40.00
First Aid, National Headquarters  2.50
Stanton Branch, 25 per cent War Fund, 1918  333.56
Stanton Branch, Local  337.16
 $11,341.43
Balance on hand, May 1, 1919  $ 5,958.44
The work room report, July 1, 1917 to May 20, 1919, shows the following
articles sent to the Pacific Division : Hospital garments, 3,240 ; refugee garments,

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267; knitted articles, 2,696; surgical dressings, 31,396; miscellaneous articles,
1,083. Junior Red Cross Report
The Juniors of Anaheim Chapter made and sent to the Pacific Division head
quarters 389 knitted articles and 524 miscellaneous articles.
" One thousand two hundred twenty-five garments were collected and made
over into refugee garments. Since March 1, 1919, 150 refugee garments have
been sent in and girls were working on 15 men's pajamas, 15 girl's petticoats, about
20 knitted garments, to be finished before June 1st.
Air. J. A. Clayes, treasurer of the Juniors, reports the following financial
condition :
Afemberships, Salvage and Entertainments and Balance on
hand, July 1, 1918  $ 335.38
Receipts since July 1, 1918  101.40
 $ 436.78
Expenditures, Materials  193.48
On hand, Alay 1, 1919  $ 243.30
There are twelve schools represented : ten public, two parochial.
Report of Grammar School Juniors
About 1,500 garments were sent to French and Belgian refugees. ATany of
these were in good condition, others were mended or made over by pupils.
About 250 pounds of castor beans and 100 pounds of fruit pits were col
lected. Tinfoil, rags, rubber, etc., were collected and sold for about $300. Three
hundred sixty-five glasses of jam and jellies were shipped to Camp Kearny Alay
19, 1919. Fullerton Chapter of Red Cross
Following is a synopsis of the secretary's report of the Fullerton Chapter of
the American Red Cross: This chapter was organized February 19, 1917, and
included all of the territory in Orange County north of Anaheim, classified as one
branch at La Habra and seven auxiliaries located at Brea, Buena Park, Pla
centia, AA'est Orangethorpe, East Orangethorpe, Olinda and Yorba Linda.
The officers of the chapter from the beginning were as follows: Chairman,
J. R. Carbart, from February 19, 1917, to October 24, 1917; vice-chairman,
AA'aldo O'Kelly from October 24, 1917, to October 25, 1918; G. W. Finch from
October 25, 1918, until next election; secretary, Mrs. E. I. Fuller from February
19, 1917, until April 1, 1918; Airs. Ruth Talmadge from April 1, 1918, until
October 1, 1918; M'rs. Helen Carhart from October 1, 1918, until next election;
treasurer, E. K. Benchley from February 19, 1917. to October 25, 1918; T. Ead-
ington from October 25, 1918, until next election.
There is also a board of directors and an executive committee of such board ;
otherwise the chapter is conducted along lines laid down in the charts sent out
by the National Headquarters, with committees appointed for the departments
specified in the charts.
A record of the work done is kept in the rooms of the Red Cross in the shape
of production sheets and shipping receipts. The surgical dressing department
made 82,043 surgical dressings. The garment department shipped 2.781 gar
ments and 4,000 knitted articles. The chapter doubled its quota in the first drive
for second-hand clothing; but in the second drive it was not so fortunate. In
the first war-fund drive the chapter's quota of $10,000 was oversubscribed $2,000
and in the second drive its quota of $15,000 was oversubscribed more than $5,000.
The two membership drives ran the membership up to over. 3,000. A canteen
service was organized in Fullerton with Mrs. J. B. Reeve as captain from August,

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1918, until January 1, 1919, when Mrs. C. W. Crandall took charge and continued
during demobilization. This department served about 500 meals each month
during its organization to the returning soldiers.
For nearly a year the chapter was able to get quarters rent free ; after Janu
ary 31, 1918, it had to pay $25 a month for quarters in the Schumacher Build
ing. The services of all officers have been donated, except about nine months of
Mrs. Fuller's time as secretary, for which $75 per month was paid. All other
work was donated, so that practically all the funds raised went for relief purposes.
The civilian relief work was under the supervision of Rev. Clark H. Alarsh
until May, 1918, when he was called overseas to Y. M. C. A. work, since which
time Miss Dean has been in charge of that important committee. :
Orange Chapter of Red Cross
The Orange Chapter of the Red Cross was organized as a branch of the Los
Angeles Chapter in April, 1917. It closed May 26, 1919, with 2,217 members.
In the meantime it accomplished the following amount of work: Hospital gar
ments, 2,955; miscellaneous articles, 1,307; refugee garments, 8,600; surgical
dressings, 102,038; pairs of knitted socks, 5,564; other articles, 2,284.
Treasurer's Report
receipts
Donations and Entertainments  $ 3,599.33
Pledge Cards  3,707.50
Gift Table Sales  542.70
Dues and Other Receipts  9,341.55 -.-

Total Receipts  $17,191.08
DISBURSEMENTS ' •
Running Expenses, 25 months, at $19.38  $ 484.50
Alaterials and Other Disbursements  14,702.24

Total Disbursements  $15,186.74

Balance with the L. A. Chapter.  $ 2,004.34
The following garments were made by different communities, clubs, etc:
Lutheran League of Olive, 148 ; Wednesday Embroidery Club, 203 ; Woman's
Club, 261: Airs. Bathgate, Villa Park, 396; Mrs. Lord, Villa Park, 1,145; Lu
theran League, 1,049; Olive Entre Nous Club, 86; P. E. O. Society, 102;
Woman's Republic, 174; El Modena Needlecraft, 745; Alethodist Bible Class,
20; Intermediate School, 67 ; Baptist Aid Society, 54; Orange Union High School,
81 ; Birthday Club, 8 ; AlcPherson Thimble Club, 278. Total garments by auxil
iaries, 4,817. Balance by central society, 8,045. Total garments by chapter,
12,862. A long list of persons followed to whom certificates were awarded by fhe
Los Angeles Chapter of the Red Cross for faithful work.
The report closed with the acknowledgment of the many favors extended tp
the chapter and the return of thanks for the same.
Outside of and in addition to the work of the Orange Chapter of the Red
Cross, the Orange Union high school. raised about $1,600 for a hospital ambu
lance. The original plan was to send an American-made ambulance over fo
France, but, on account of the difficulty of transportation, the money was sent
instead and was invested in an ambulance of French manufacture.
Any record of the Orange Red Cross would be incomplete which did not
make honorable and reverent mention of its president, Mrs. Carolyn M. Porter,
wife of T- R- Porter, who by patriotic devotion to the duties of her office short
ened the" term of her life, death occurring June 6, 1919.

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Santa Ana Chapter of Red Cross
The Santa Ana Chapter of the American Red Cross contributed the follow
ing amounts of relief during the war :
Contributions Quota Collected
Eirst War Fund  $15,000 $25,143
Second War Fund  22,500 35,378
Total War Funds  $37,500 $60,521
_ Pounds of Clothing for Quota Collected
Belgian Relief  1,500 8,230
Drive in 1919  4,000 5,500
Total Amount of Clothing  5,500 13,730
Garments made, 16.950; garments knitted, 16,799; surgical dressings made,
166,239.
, Aside from war funds, the chapter raised about $25,000. Red Cross dining
room and shop made $5,700.
The chapter carried on numerous activities, such as aid for the helpless
during the influenza epidemic, home service work in which a separate office and
department were maintained.
The Junior Red Cross of Santa Ana Chapter was recognized by Red Cross
Division headquarters as without a superior on the Pacific Coast. Through its
thirty-three schools, the Juniors invested $146,090.04 in war securities, raised
$3,679 for Belgian and French orphans, $4,690.50 for Junior Red Cross work,
$820.31 for- Armenian relief, $3,127.50 for the United War Work fund, making
total donations of $12,955.75 ; collected 2,272 new garments for foreign and home
relief work and got together 27,435 used garments for foreign work and 3,776 for
home relief, over 600 quilts, 41 afghans, made 1,680 new garments and 325 knitted
garments, made 32 layettes, provided 180 sheets, 343 bath towels, 426 hand towels
and 201 napkins, 717 handkerchiefs, 518 wash cloths, 37 treasure bags, 295 prop
erty bags, and various other articles, totaling about 1,000.
The officers of the Santa Ana Chapter of the American Red Cross are as
¦follows : T. E. Stephenson, chairman ; Mrs. A. J. Crookshank, vice-chairman ;
Fred Rafferty, secretary ; Harry L. Hanson, treasurer.
The board of directors consists of twenty-two members and the work was
apportioned among nine departments or committees.
Salvation Army's Report
The relief work of the Salvation Army in Orange County was as follows :
In May, 1918, $628.82 was raised for a war service ambulance. In August, 1918,
$10,000 was collected in the county for Salvation Army war work.
In the United AVar Campaignthe national allotment to the Salvation Army
was $3,500,000; but how much should be credited to Orange County is not known.
In March, 1919, $8,100 was raised in the county for the Salvation Army's home
service work.-

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CHAPTER XXIV
A CHAPTER OF TRAGEDIES
The Killing of Sheriff Barton and the Capture of His Slayers
By J. E. Pleasants
In the year 1855 a team of horses was stolen from the Hardy brothers in
Los Angeles, and the thief, Juan Flores, was captured, tried and sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary.
The Hardy brothers, who were living on a part of the William Wolf skill
place, were owners of several good draft as well as riding horses. They were
doing considerable freighting, the business requiring good stock, and this class
of animals was of great value. Their riding horses were of the native stock,
but were selected for their speed and endurance, as they were often used to run
races. In the above-named year, one Juan Flores and a companion stole one of
these freighting teams and probably intended to make for the Mexican border
and sell the horses. Both Flores and his companion were captured and, after a
trial, each was sentenced to ten years in prison.
Two years after the event of the stealing took place one of the Hardys had
a load of freight to haul from Los Angeles to San Juan Capistrano. He made
the trip without mishap and, arriving at his destination during the forenoon, deliv
ered his goods, and put his horses in a corral and fed them ; this done, he started
out to see the town. A few hours later, as he returned to look after his animals
in the corral, he noticed several men looking at them ; the nearer he approached
he thought he recognized Juan Flores among the number ; this did not seem pos
sible, for he remembered it had been but two years since the episode of his having
his horses stolen by him and he had received a ten-year sentence. Observing the
approach of Hardy the men went away and the matter was forgotten by Hardy
for the time.
It so happened that there was a Alexican woman in an adobe building
adjoining the corral who had overheard the conversation of the men who were
looking at the horses, and recognized Flores among them by his remarks, which
were to the effect that the horses in question were the same that he had stolen
and received his ten-year sentence for, and it was now a chance for him to get
even by waylaying Hardy the next day when he was on his way home, kill him,
and take the team to Mexico. His companions, looking upon him as the leader,
consented to the plan. This talk frightened the woman and she did not know
what to do, for if it were known that she had overheard the conversation her
own life would be in danger, and at the same time she did not want to have
Hardy murdered. Finally she went to Don Juan Forster, who was a medium
through which many of the natives settled their differences, and related the con
versation as she had overheard it. It did not take Don Forster long to decide
upon a plan of action. He found Hardy, told him the circumstances, but told
him to keep quiet about it and that he would send a runner out that night to
notify the sheriff in Los Angeles to come out and capture the bandit. The runner
was sent to inform Sheriff Barton, who immediately made arrangements to frus
trate the plans of Flores and capture all of the bandits if possible.
The sheriff notified Hardy's two brothers, one of whom selected his best
saddle horse and, after arming himself, joined the sheriff and his three deputies,
all starting for Capistrano. Sheriff Barton was a typical frontiersman and had
seen many desperadoes, and knew how to handle them. However, he took the
precaution to make liis will before he started out. Each man was armed with
a double barreled shot gun and revolvers. They reached Carpenter's ranch and
stopped there for dinner. That night they camped by the Santa Ana River, but
the next morning were on the road very early and the ranch of Don Jose Sepul-

140 HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
veda was reached for breakfast. On the road the party came up with a French
man riding a mule; he stated he was on his waj»to San Diego and no objection
was made to his joining their party. When the men went into the house for their
breakfast they stacked their guns on the porch, and these were viewed with
some curiosity by the hangers-on about the ranch. Breakfast over, the sheriff
and his men came out, took up their guns without examining them, mounted
their horses and resumed their journey towards San Juan Capistrano. At a
point about midway from the Sepulveda ranch and San Juan some men, twelve
or fifteen in number, were seen by the sheriff, who was riding in advance of
his deputies, they being strung out along the road, with Hardy and the French
man on his mule, quite a distance in the rear. As soon as the men saw the
sheriff they called to him not to fire upon them as they were friends. They came
up ranidly and as they were near enough, fired, and with deadly effect, for the
sheriff and his three deputies, after emptying their guns with no apparent effect,
fell dead in their tracks. As soon as Hardy heard the firing he rode rapidly
to the scene ; as he approached he saw the sheriff and his men lying in a heap
together, dead. He thought he could do nothing alone, and, wheeling his horse,
rode swiftly back towards Los Angeles. His fleet horse soon took him away
from the bandits, who overtook the Frenchman, but did not molest him in any
way, as they were after Hardy. It was fortunate that he had chosen their fastest
horse, for the bandits soon gave up the chase.
Reaching Los Angeles, he told the news of the killing of the sheriff and his
men, and soon a party was being organized to go in search of the murderers.
In Los Angeles excitement ran high, and it was some time before a party could
be organized. In the American settlement at El M'onte, not far from Los Angeles,
were several settlers who were used to the hard life of the frontier and were
none too law-abiding ; they wanted blood and were ever ready for a fight. These
joined the posse from Los Angeles and soon, under the wise guidance of General
Pico, a brother of Governor Pico, who was very cool in the face of danger, had
an understanding that Pico's orders would be obeyed by all. The general decided
to catch the men who had committed this wanton murder and he counseled caution
among the men.
After killing the sheriff and his men the bandits headed for San Juan Capis
trano, raided the store for supplies, as they were headed for the Alexican border,
and possibly looking for Hardy and his team, who had in the meantime gone into
the mountains and taken a roundabout way back to Los Angeles, which he reached
a week 'later. When the pursuing party reached the town they found the bandits
had fled, and then began one of the notable man-hunts in Southern California.
The bandits made for the mountains by way of Santiago Canyon, were
followed by Pico and his men, who tracked them to the top of a ridge where
they could not get away, as it was found to be too steep. They had let down
one of their horses with ropes, but it was killed in falling, and they then gave
up all hope of escape. Flores abandoned his horse and, with two others, took to
the brush on foot and made good their escape. One young man who was known
by Pico, was called upon to give himself up and for the information he would
give, was told he would not be prosecuted. He followed this advice, and after
some parley the rest of the band were taken prisoners, bound hand and foot
and turned over to the Americans in the party, who took them to a settlement
on the present site of Olive. They were placed in an adobe house and kept
securely bound 'and placed under guard. Pico went after Flores and the two
others, and by his knowledge of the country, and being an expert trailer, soon
captured the former, who was sent back to be kept under guard with the others.
He, too, was securely bound and placed on the floor with the rest, and, as usual,
the guard was posted over them. During the night Flores rolled- over to one
of the other prisoners, and with his teeth loosed the thongs that bound him and.
this clone, his own were taken off, and soon all of the men were free and made

HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 141
a break to escape ; they were all captured, with the exception of Flores, who made
good his escape and headed for the mountains.
A runner was sent to inform Pico of the escape and he was met coming
in with the other two men, whom he had captured alone. Upon hearing the news
he was angry, for he had thought the Americans would surely be watchful and
not let the prisoners get away. He was determined that these last two prisoners
should not escape and, taking them to a large sycamore tree in the canyon, hung
them. To show that he had done his duty and partly avenged the death of the
sheriff, he cut off the ears of the bandits and sent them to Los Angeles, and then
took up the trail of the chief conspirator. These bodies were left hanging, and
it was some time the next year that the bones were buried. The writer buried
some of them himself. The tree from which these men were hung is still stand
ing on what is known as the Modjeska ranch.
Pico followed the trail of Flores for some days, seeming to know about
where he would eventually be found. The news had spread to Los Angeles of
the bandit's escape, and the citizens were thoroughly aroused, for Barton had
been very popular. Flores thought to steal a horse at Los Nietos, knowing that
Air. Carpenter kept many good animals. He approached the place at night, and
the dogs alarmed the owner, who was asleep on a stack of hay; as he arose with
a gun in his hands Flores could see by the bright moonlight that it would be
useless to try to secure a horse there and so passed on. Arriving in Los Angeles
he tried to obtain food and shelter, but such was the feeling that had it become
known such aid bad been given him the persons so doing would have been lynched.
He then skirted the town and made for the Cahuenga Alountains. Pico followed
him, and at a point about the present site of Hollywood, came upon his man
almost exhausted, made him prisoner and brought him to Los Angeles and turned
him over to the people, who erected two poles with a bar across, at the present
site of the county court house, and hung him. The other bandits were taken to
Los Angeles and shared the same fate. The last one of the band was captured
in San Jose two years later and was returned for trial. After a year in the courts
with the lawyers wrangling over the case, his attorneys had the case transferred
to Santa Barbara County.
The good citizens of Los Angeles had patiently stood the delay and thought
that justice would be done by the court, but when the case was ordered trans
ferred, took the law in their own hands and, taking him from the officers, made
another "example" of him. There was no doubt of his identity, for when he
was captured he was wearing the silver mounted belt that had belonged to the
sheriff he had helped to kill. There are comparatively few men now living who
can recall the incidents noted here. The writer, who is one of the oldest living
American settlers of Orange County, was an eyewitness of the hanging of
Flores. A Breach of the Law
By Linn L. Shaw
The only case of mob violence in Santa Ana history occurred August 20,
1892, when Francisco Torres was hanged to a telephone pole at the northeast
corner of Fourth and Sycamore streets. William AlcKelvey, foreman of Madame
ATodjeska's famous ranch home in Santiago Canyon, was brutally murdered July
31, 1892, by this Mexican, who was employed as a laborer under him. Torres
fled, was captured at Alesa Grande a couple of weeks after the crime and brought
to this city, where he, was held for the murder, without bail, and was con
fined in the old jail on Sycamore Street, between Second and Third. McKelvey
had many friends in this city and the officers, fearing trouble, placed Robert Cog-
burn on guard at the jail. About one o'clock on the morning of August 20 there
was an alarm at the jail door and a muffled demand to open it, which order Mr.
Cogburn refused to obey. Immediately the door was battered in with a sledge
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keys to the cell they forcibly took them from the guard, secured Torres and de
parted. Mr. Cogburn attempted to follow them, but, upon being invited to return
to the jail at the point of what appeared to him a "horizontal telegraph pole,"
returned to his duties without any further desire to associate with his determined
and systematic visitors. There was evidently no time wasted with the captive,
and he was strung up to the pole, where the body remained as a gruesome sur
prise to early risers the next morning. An attempt was made to locate the per
petrators of the lynching through the grand jury, but no indictments were issued
and the affair was quietly dropped in official circles.
A Political Episode
Perhaps the most notable political event in Santa Ana's history was the
physical undoing of Dennis Kearney, iu the fall of 1879. This man was cam
paigning the state in the interest of the workingman's party and the anti-Chinese
movement, which at that time was a formidable issue in California politics. He
was popularly known as the "sand lot agitator," and, starting from his home in
San Francisco, he deluged the state with a ceaseless flow of vituperation and plat
form blackguardism. Up to the time of his arrival in Santa Ana he had been
allowed to pursue his bullying style of oratory without molestation, as his own
personality and the many followers who flocked to his support all over the state
presented an aspect of brute force which no one seemed disposed to investigate.
In his speech here, in addition to the usual program of abuse, he also in
cluded a number of false accusations against the McFadden brothers, who had
operated a steamer from Newport to San Francisco, but had been compelled
to sell it at a considerable loss to their stronger competitors, the Old Line Steam
ship Company, and it was this transaction to which Kearney devoted his slander
ous tongue. Among the employes of the McFaddens was "Tom" Rule, a man of large
stature, supreme courage and prodigious strength. The morning following the
speech, as Kearney was about to take the stage for San Diego at the old Layman
Hotel, he was confronted by Mr. Rule who demanded the name of the man who
nad given him the lying information concerning his employers. Kearney recog
nized the nature of the trouble in store for him at once, and immediately lost
the nerve which had been so proudly exploited by his followers. He timidly
explained that he "would not give away his friends," and upon a second and
more imperious demand for the name, commenced backing away from his unwel
come opponent, at the same time endeavoring to draw his revolver. Rule, who
was unarmed, hesitated no longer, but struck the pride of the sand lots a heavy
blow which landed him against the side of the hotel, from whence the once
feared Kearney ran with great vigor and utter lack of dignity to the barroom,
out through the dining room and across the street into a drug store, where he
was overtaken by the now thoroughly aroused Rule, who pinned him to the floor
and pummeled him quite severely. By a strange coincidence Kearney was rescued
from his very mortifying position by one of the McFadden brothers, neither of
whom had known of Mr. Rule's contemplated raid on their slanderer. None of
his adherents had offered him the slightest assistance, and his departure was in
marked contrast to his triumphant entry' into the town the day before. In his
speeches he had advocated hemp and mob law for the hated plutocrats and
capitalists, but certainly did not relish an application of his own medicine. He
had announced on his home sand lot platform, before departing on this campaign :
"I hope I will be assassinated, for the success of this movement depends on
that" ; but the sacrifice palled upon his appetite when the opportunity for which
he had so eagerly petitioned presented itself in apparent good working order.
This incident, which was at once heralded over the state, had the effect of imme
diately diminishing Kearney's power and influence to an alarming extent, and he
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Air. Rule, who was the regular pilot at Newport Bay, was drowned a few
years later while attempting to cross the bar at the entrance of the bay in a rows
boat, which capsized in the breakers. The hero of the Kearney episode was
struck upon the head by the boat as it overturned and his body immediately sank,
being recovered several days afterward just inside the bar. ;

CHAPTER XXV
THE OIL INDUSTRY '
By William Loftus
Some development work had been done in this county previous to 1896, and
in the Dan AlcFarland well, located in the N. W. % of section 8 twp. 3 S. Range
9 W. S. B. B. M., about ten barrels of oil per day was struck at a depth of less
than a thousand feet. But the formations were so difficult and expensive to'
drill with the machinery then employed that the well was abandoned, and the1
field temporarily condemned.
In 1896, E. L. Doheny — a name that will ever be prominent in the history
of the development of the California oil fields as well as those of Mexico — was1
favorably impressed with the indications of oil. He obtained a lease with an
option to purchase the lands now owned and operated by the Petroleum Develop
ment Company, which company is now owned by the Santa Fe Railroad Com
pany. Mr. Doheny entered into a contract with the Santa Fe Company to operate
the territory in partnership: He moved onto the property in Eebruary, 1897,
and the first well, which was drilled to a depth of about 700 feet, was completed'
and put on the pump in a few months. It was started off with a production of
about fifty barrels per day. This agreeably surprised Air. Doheny as he', when
making the contract with the Santa Fe, only predicted wells of a capacity of
from ten to twenty-five barrels per day at such a shallow depth, but it was his;
opinion that the quantity would increase with depth and that the formations
would carry oil very deep. Up to October, 1898, the Santa Fe and Mr. Doheny,
had drilled ten wells, all less than 900 feet deep, which was about as deep as
could be drilled in this formation with the methods then employed. Their best
well produced about 100 barrels per day.
The Graham-Loftus Oil Company commenced operations in this field' in
October, 1898. They drilled the first well 650 feet deep, and could get no further.
The well started off with a production of forty barrels per day. They encoun
tered the same difficulties in No. 2. Four strings of casings were struck within.
the first 450 feet. The hole was then filled with water and drilled to 1,465 feet,
with two strings of casings. This was the first well drilled full of water for the
purpose of holding up the walls, as far as I have been able to ascertain, though;
it may have been used before. The idea was not mine, but suggested to me by
Frank Garbut in 1894, at which time I turned it down as impracticable. It is.
now used generally throughout the state of California, and I consider it the
greatest of the three chief factors that have made the large production of petro
leum oil in California possible. The other two are the double under-reamer and
the steel drilling cable.
The Graham-Loftus well No. 2 started with a production of 700 barrels per
day and blazed the way for deeper and more productive wells. The depth has
gradually been increased to over 4,000 feet, and the initial production to approxi
mately 20,000 barrels per day for a few days.
In the fall of 1898 the Columbia Oil Company was organized and started
operations on a lease from the Olinda Ranch in Section 9, upon which they
developed oil of about 32 gravity Baume. The oil appears to be the same as
that in the old Puente wells about five miles northwest, and it is the opinion of

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well-informed oil men that the light oil belt is continuous between these two
points. There has been very little development made in this strike, but wherever
wells have been drilled they have proven productive.
In 1899, Charles V. Hall, George Owens, Martin Barbour and James Lynch
leased fifty-eight acres of land from the Olinda Ranch in section 8. After
drilling a hole about 400 feet deep, Owens, Barbour and Lynch, who were experi
enced oil men, sold out their interests to C. V. Hall, whose experience consisted
of a few shallow wells drilled in the city of Los Angeles, and who was conse
quently "not supposed to know a bad thing when he saw it." At about 1,500 feet
he had a flowing well, and opened up what has proven to be the richest portion
of the field. One well on this lease is credited with a production of about
20,000 barrels per day for a few days.
In January,- 1894, the Union Oil Company of California purchased about
1,200 acres from the Stearns Ranch Company in sections 5, 6, 7 and 8, Twp.
3, S. range 9 W. sections 1 and 12 twp. 3 S. range 10, W., 100 acres of the east
end of which they leased to the Columbia Oil Producing Company. This lease
has proven very prolific producing property. To compromise a legal claim on
the 1,200 acres, the Union Oil Company gave 200 acres from the west end, which
has proven very productive also. It was purchased by the Brea Caiion Oil Com
pany. E. L. Doheny was the promoter of this company, which proved very
successful. • The value of the oil deposit is not determined, however, by the product of
a few large wells, but is estimated by men familiar with the business by the
amount of oil sand and the per cent of saturation, which means the amount of
oil per acre. In this respect the Olinda-Fullerton field is considered the best
in the state, which means the best in the United States.
The proven area of this field is about 2,000 acres. Judging from my own
experience and the information I have obtained from others, I estimate the
average thickness of the oil and sand at two hundred feet. Geologists estimate
the saturation at ten per cent, which would give about 155,000 barrels per acre,
or an aggregate of 310,353,000 barrels. Divide this by two for safety, and
we will have the very considerable sum of 155.176,500 barrels. Throw off the
odd figures and in round numbers say 155,000,000 barrels.
AA'hen we take into consideration the fact that the probable oil area is double
the proven, and the possible very much greater, we begin to appreciate the value
of the oil deposits in Orange County. To date (1910) there has been produced
approximately 20,431,481 barrels. The average price has been about sixty-five
cents per barrel, aggregating $12,550,922. The equivalent in coal, at six dollars
per ton, would cost $33,102,665, a saving to the consumer of $20,551,743.
In 1910, the writer of the foregoing article said : "The evolution of the oil
business has been very rapid, and in my judgment, will so continue. Machinery
and facilities for drilling deeper will be employed and quantities of oil will be
produced from greater depths than is now generally considered practicable."
This prediction has been literally fulfilled in the intervening years since it was
made, as can be shown by the increase in the assessed valuation of the county
and by mentioning some of the important developments of the industry.
Following are the county assessments for the past six years ; it will be noted
that the greatest gains are in the years when there was the largest development
in the oil industry.
1914-1915  $54,546,951
1915-1916  55,266,628
1916-1917  57,532,662
1917-1918  69,680,472
1918-1919  73,910,565
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The county assessor, in listing the oil wells for taxation, follows the law
where it says, "All property in the state, . . . shall be taxed in proportion to its
value." Some of the large producers have protested against his valuations ; but
the courts have sustained the assessor. The Standard Oil Company paid taxes
on the production of its wells for the year 1919-1920, to the county assessor,
$443,670.36, and to the county tax collector, $15,050.84, making a total of
$458,721.20. For further proof of the development of the oil industry and
of its great value to the county, note the following reports gleaned from the
Santa Ana Register:
The Union Oil Company opened up the Placentia-Richfield district in
March, 1919, by bringing in an 8,000 barrel gusher on the Chapman property,
which has been a regular producer ever since.
March 21, 1919. Oil wells located in Orange County are producing 1,475,000
barrels of oil a month. That, at the present price, means a value of $1,843,750
a month, and $22,125,000 a year, which is $1,625,000 more than the estimate
of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce.
April 14, 1919. The Union Oil Company's Chapman well is now regarded
as the finest well in the state and the pride of the southern field. This great
well has been throttled down to 2,500 barrels, the product coming through a %
dip nipple. The oil is testing 23 gravity and the cut is less than .6 of one per
cent. The gas pressure continues and is now up to 300 pounds. The well is
making close to a million feet of gas daily. Gas from the well is furnished
Anaheim. August 18, 1919. A later account. At Richfield the Union's Chapman
gusher has become the wonder of all Southern California. This great producer
continues to increase daily until now the output has reached 5,200 barrels.
Accompanying this tremendous volume of oil that is coming easily and quietly
from a depth of 3,000 feet, is some 3,000,000 feet of gas. The oil is coming
through a \% inch opening, and if opened up the well would produce 10,000
barrels as easily as it is now producing 5,200.
August 14, 1919. Barney Hartfielcl of Anaheim, one of the owners of the
Heffern well, said oil and gas at 2,385 feet indicated a good well then, but it
was cemented up and bigger stakes are being sought. The Heffern Company
has over 500 acres under lease. It has refused $100,000 for the release of a 70-
acre tract.
September 10, 1919. Throwing oil and sand a distance of seventy-five feet
above the derrick Kraemer well No. 1, of the Standard Oil Company, came in,
adding a new gusher to the Fullerton field. It is estimated that this well is pro
ducing 5,000 barrels of oil daily.
September 22, 1919. An experienced Pennsylvania oil man, reported to be
very wealthy and with strong eastern connections, has leased for oil the prop
erties of M'ary J. Bond, M. J. Monette, AV, K. Mead, H. D. Lyman and others,
comprising more than 1,000 acres. These lands are located just east of El Mo
dena, four miles east of Orange and six miles southeast of the Richfield district.
October 3, 1919. The Standard's Kraemer 2-1 well blew a charge of gas
and oil out of the hole and covered about twenty acres of C. C. Chapman's'
choicest orange trees with oil. It also discharged large quantities of sand.
October 13, 1919. The Chapman gusher is again referred to as the best pro
ducer in the state, having poured forth a million and a half barrels of 27 gravity
oil since it came in the latter part of March.
October 15, 1919. What promised to be another gusher was brought in on
the O. M. Thompson property, one-quarter of a mile east and one mile south of
the Chapman well. The oil forced its way up through the sand and mud to the
top of the pipe ; but the men clamped on a cap and prevented its flowing for the
time being.
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October 20, 1919. The Standard Oil Company and others have leased con
siderable acreage on the Huntington Beach mesa, though no derricks have been
erected as yet. Some of the leases carry a cash bonus and a monthly rental as
well as a share in the oil developed. Joe Simas of Seal Beach, in boring for
water, opened up a small gas well, which he utilizes for light and fuel supply
for his house and barn.
October 24, 1919. A 3,50*0-barrel oil well was brought in by the Standard
Oil Company on the Murphy lease on Monday. The well, No. 66, completed at
2,833 feet, is the second largest well brought in during the yeai, and maintains
the supremacy of the Murphy property as the greatest oil producing lease in
the state. October 30, 1919. The well, reported fifteen days ago on the O. M. Thomp
son place as having been capped without letting it display itself, proves to be a
5,000-barrel gusher, rivaling the famous Chapman well.
November 18, 1919. The Heffern Oil Company, which heretofore has been
an association, decided to incorporate with a capital stock of $5,000,000. The
cost of the test well to date is $214,000, including $30,000 value of the Heffern
leases. There are three drilling crews at work in the vicinity of Newport Bay.
The Liberty Oil Company is cleaning out its well No. 1 at the head of the bay.
Some oil was found at a depth of 2,100 feet when work was stopped. Now the
company will go several hundred feet deeper.
As proof that Orange County's oil production has not reached its limits, but
is on the increase, note the following recent developments :
The Petroleum Oil Company brought in Thompson well No. 2 on March 12,
1920, with a reported flow of 3000 barrels and increasing. The company was
expecting a gusher and prepared to care for the oil so that none of it would be
wasted. Thompson well No. 3 came in June 1, 1920, with a flow of 650' barrels,
which many believe too low an estimate.
The Kraemer well No. 2-5, which was brought in recently, is producing
150 barrels of 26 gravity oil. The Thompson-Goodwin well of the Union Oil
Company came in with a roar June 14, spouting oil over the top of the derrick
and then sanded up. However, it started flowing again, a steady stream which
experts estimate at'1,800 barrels per day of 27 gravity oil.
Spouting over the tops of the derricks, two wells on the Standard Oil Com
pany's Sam Kraemer lease, in the Placentia-Richfield district, came in with a
roar June 23, 1920. They are numbered 6 and 7. The yield of No. 6 has been
estimated all the way from 1,000 to 3,000 barrels per day. No estimate was
reported on the yield of No. 7, although it was said to be equally violent with
No. 6. Early in August, 1920, Huntington Beach well No. 1 on. the mesa was
brought in with a small intermittent flow, which later became constant and in
creased to nearly 150 barrels of 24 to 26 gravity oil per day. This established
the character of that section as proven oil territory. Immediately all land, not
already under contract, was leased by some of the operating companies. The
Newport mesa well and the well at Olive are about ready for testing early in
September, although the drillers think they may have to go deeper. A new well
is being started near Orange County Park, and others are being planned or
drilled in different parts of the county, especially in or near proven territory. It
is not always wise in argument to reason from a few particulars to a general
conclusion ; but, producing oil wells are becoming so numerous and widely
scattered, it is almost safe to conclude that the whole of Orange County is under
laid with oil sand, though it may be at different depths in different localities.
Other wells might be mentioned, but space forbids. However, the Brea
Progress-Munger Oil News Service gave quite an extensive survey of the oil fields
of Orange County and adjoining territory on June 26, 1920, prepared by Elwood
J. Munger. A summary of this report shows 170 wells drilling, 930 producing,
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and in price from $1.43 per barrel for the lowest gravity oil to $1.93 for the
highest. While a large majority of the wells mentioned in the report are in
Orange County, yet the inclusion of wells at Santa Fe Springs, AVhittier, Monte-
bello and other outside fields would prevent this county claiming all the credit
for the fine showing in this report. If only half of the daily output reported, or
38,000 barrels, be credited to this county, and if the average price received be
$1.68 per barrel, which is the average between $1.43 and $1.93, then Orange
County would receive a gross income of $23,301,000 from its oil industry each
year. If, however, two-thirds of the daily output reported, or 50,666 barrels,
be credited to this county, and if the average price received be $1.68 per barrel,
then Orange County would receive a gross income of $31,068,391 from its oil
industry each year. The latter sum tallies pretty closely with the estimate of the
Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce.
But, however estimated, the oil industry is clearly the largest asset of Orange
County, and makes this county safe from light, heat and power troubles.

CHAPTER XXVI
THE CITRUS INDUSTRY
By G. W. Sandilands
The orange was born in India : when, history does not say. Thence it found
its way into Arabia and Syria, arid in the eleventh century was growing in Italy,
Sicily and Spain, Europe's greatest citrus fruit regions. The sixteenth centnry
brought the orange to America. Across the Atlantic the Spaniards brought it
in their conquest of the new world.
California saw the orange in 1769, or within the next few years after, for
it was then that the Franciscans started north out of Lower California. In
1792 oranges are known, by mission records, to have been growing at the San
Buena Ventura Mission. San Gabriel Mission, near Los Angeles, had the
most extensive grove. This was set out in 1804. In 1818 there were 211 fruit
trees, oranges and others, at San Gabriel. Two small groves were planted in
Los Angeles in 1834, the first outside of the Mission gardens. William Wolfskill
set out two acres in 1841, the first intended for commercial use. In 1857, L.
Van Luven, .pioneer fruit man in the region now holding the great orchards of
San Bernardino Valley, planted forty-five seedling trees. In 1865, 200 trees were
set out at Crafton, near Redlands.
Sacramento saw the first orange tree in the northern section in 1855. By
1862 there were 25,000 citrus fruit trees in California. In 1870, the first seeds
were planted at Riverside. However, the real era of the citrus fruit industry
was started in 1873. It was in that year that L. C. Tibbetts, of Riverside, planted
two trees from the Department of Agriculture, which secured a small shipment
of trees from Bahia, Brazil. The superiority of the fruit of these trees was
quickly recognized. The trees were named the Washington Navel, and in the
next decade several thousand acres of Washington Navels were planted in Cali
fornia. The original trees are still living and are objects of interest to the
people and visitors of Riverside. Some years ago one of these trees was removed
from its original home to the grounds of the Glenwood Inn, and reset with great
pomp and ceremony on the occasion of a visit of President Roosevelt, the
distinguished visitor taking part in the work of transplanting.
By Charles C. Chapman
Orange County, as fhe name implies, gives splendid evidence of being the
ideal section for the culture of the orange. It is as highly developed here as in
any other part of the world. Indeed, I do not hesitate to say that the orange
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oranges from this county have brought the highest prices, in the most discriminat
ing market of the country, of any oranges grown in the world.
The soil and climate of Orange County are splendidly adapted to the culture
of the orange. Indeed, the Divine hand has been lavish in bestowing upon all
Southern California, and upon Orange County in particular, rare natural advan
tages, perhaps greater than those enjoyed by any other section over which the
flag floats. The magnificent mountain ranges not only form picturesque scenery
and giant bulwarks to guard the fertile valleys, but are our great natural reser
voirs. Our coast is washed by the boundless Pacific. Our climate is faultless.
In fact, it is not too much to say that as to the fertility of soil, the charming
climate and the scenery with its grandeur and beauty, it is not surpassed the
world around.
Not only are the climate and soil of this county adapted to the culture
of the orange, but irrigating water is in abundance and rain is as plentiful as
in any other section in Southern California. The temperature does not go as
high in summer or as low in winter here as in the more inland sections. The
extremes are not experienced, and, therefore, oranges are frequently held here
upon the trees for many months after they are fully matured and without serious
detriment to their texture, color or flavor.
The splendid equipment for packing oranges now found in our packing
houses is the result of a very considerable evolution in the orange industry.
Ingenious men have invented machinery, as well as discovered new and improved
methods of doing work in every department, from clipping the fruit from the
tree to putting it on the market.
The methods of handling oranges were very crude and simple at first.
There was no uniformity of pack, or any method in general adopted by the early
growers and packers. The only thought seemingly in the mind of the shipper
was to get the fruit in some sort of package in order to ship to the consumer.
During these early days Chinamen were generally employed to do the packing.
The fruit was cut from the trees and piled up on the ground or in sheds, and
the Chinamen sat upon the ground or floor and made selection as to size from
the pile and put them in the box, sometimes wrapping them with the ordinary
coarse brown paper, such as was usually found in the grocery stores of that day.
Soon, however, enterprising shippers began to realize that if the fruit was
uniformly sized it would pack more evenly and be more attractive. Some very
simple and inexpensive machinery for doing this was invented. Perhaps the
first machine for sizing of any pretensions was the one known as the California
grader. This was a simple rope grader about ten feet long and worked by foot
power. From time to time this was lengthened until some were made from
twenty to thirty feet long, delivering fruit to bins arranged on either side and
extending five to ten feet longer.
Other sizers more complicated and with greater capacity and accuracy have
been invented. There are two or three quite extensive factories in Southern
California which make packing-house equipment for doing practically all work
in the handling of the orange. There are now on the market washers, driers,
polishers, graders, sizers, separators and wrapping machines of several designs
and at various prices.
Progress has been made along all lines of the business. Uniform packages
have been adopted for both the orange and the lemon. These are embellished
with lettering and designs printed in colors on slats and ends. Shippers have
individual brands, and most shippers use elaborate and beautifully colored litho
graphic labels of these on the ends of the boxes. The orange wrappers have
also been changed from the coarse brown paper to fine silk tissue, upon which
richly colored designs or monograms are printed. Some of the most enterprising
shippers use two-color prints on their wrappers, and some who cater to the
best Eastern trade use beautifully laced and printed side curtains for the boxes.
Thus we have now going from all our packing houses uniform and attractive

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packages. One shipper in Orange County even tags every orange of a certain
brand with a little green and gold tag, a specially prepared machine being used
for the purpose. In some packing houses the equipment is very elaborate and
expensive, costing many thousands of dollars, and with a capacity of ten cars
per clay. The first orange trees put out in Orange County, as in Los Angeles and
Riverside counties, were seedlings, the present popular varieties being unknown
here. Much time was required for these to come into bearing, as the seedling
is slower in this regard than the budded varieties. However, the time came
when there were a few oranges ready for the market.
The modern packing houses with their splendid equipment were, of course,
unknown in that early day; nevertheless the fruit was, after a fashion, packed
and shipped. It found a ready market and at such splendid prices that the
culture of the orange became an attractive and established industry in several
sections of the country.
Very naturally an occupation which is so attractive as citrus culture soon
interested many enterprising men. Some realized that other varieties than the
seedling might prove more profitable. Immediately steps were taken to secure
varieties adapted to the climate. The result in a few years was the introduction
of a number of varieties which have proven productive and profitable and well
adapted to our soil and climate.
Among the standard varieties of oranges grown in this county, besides
the Washington. Navel, are the Mediterranean Sweets, St. Michael, Malta and
Ruby Blood, Satsuma and the. Valencia Lates. From 1886 to 1890 quite a run
was made by the Mediterranean Sweets and many thousand trees were put
out. It was thought that this variety would supply the late spring demand, after
the season of the Washington Navel had passed. It has proven a tender orange
and not altogether satisfactory. One reason for this variety not being in more
favor (though of late years it has very generally proven profitable), was the
introduction of an orange that more completely filled the requirements of a late
orange. This is the Valencia Late, which in many respects, as it has been
developed here, is the best orange grown in the world. For more than twenty
years it has made the record for prices received for California oranges. It
has many excellent qualities which make it a most desirable and profitable
orange for grower, handler and consumer. It is the best keeper on or off the
tree, and therefore a splendid shipping orange for the autumn. It has been
the most popular orange with growers for many years, and especially in Orange
County, which seems to be able to produce this splendid variety more perfectly
than any other section of the state.
The writer has been informed by A. D. Bishop, an old and honored orange
grower living near Orange, that the first orchard planted in that section, if not
in the county, was by Patterson Bowers. He put out about two acres in 1873
on the south side of what is now AValnut Avenue, a street running east from
the city of Orange and where the street descends into the bed of Santiago
Creek. In 1874 B. River planted five acres of seedling trees. These trees were
purchased from T. A. Garey, of Los Angeles, and hauled down in a wagon.
The following year the remainder of the ten-acre ranch was set out with trees
grown in the nurseries of D. C. Hayward and Joseph Beach at Orange. This
orchard was on land platted by Chapman and Glassed and known as the Rich
land farm, and now a part of the city of Orange. This was soon followed by
an orchard planted by a Mr. Dimmock and Joseph Fisher. This was located
northwest of Orange. In 1876 Dr. W B. AVall put out an orchard at Tustin.
This was soon followed by orchards set out in that district by Samuel Preble,
Mr. Tustin, Mr. Wilcox, Mr. Snow and Mr. Adams, old-time residents.
In 1878 M. A. Peters and John Gregg planted orchards about one mile south
of Orange from trees grown by themselves budded from trees purchased from the
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The Gregg place is the one now owned by A. D. Bishop. Trees in good
bearing condition are here which were budded in the nursery in 1876, now
forty-three years ago. Some of the trees planted by Mr. Peters in 1878 are
producing fruit equal to if not identical with the Valencias coming from
Florida at a later date.
The first orchard set out in the Placentia district was by R. H. Gilman. He
put out forty acres in 1875 on what is still known as the Gilman ranch on
Placentia Avenue. William M. M(cFadden, about 1880, put out twenty acres
further up the same avenue. The following year Dr. Tombs, whose property
lay between Gilman's and McFadden's, put out several acres. These men
planted seedlings and Australian Navels, as it was before the stock of the
Washington Navels was on the market.
Closely following the setting of the above orchards came Theodore Staley,
Peter Hansen and Mr. McDowell into the neighborhood. These men set out
small orchards, the two former on Placentia Avenue and the latter the orchard
now owned by Mr. Klokke. For a few years thereafter there was considerable
activity in planting orchards in this district.
Even before any of the above orchards were put out there were scattered
about in the yards of the residents of Anaheim a few orange trees. These were
seedlings, but they demonstrated that what is now the northern part of Orange
County was adapted to orange culture. Among the first, if not the very first, to
put out orchards of any considerable size about Anaheim was a Mr. Knappe and
Henry Brimmerman.
It is thought that the black scale was brought in on trees from Los Angeles.
A\'e are to suppose, therefore, that growers from the very beginning of the indus
try were troubled with this pest.
The red scale, which has at times done great damage to orchards, did not
make its presence felt until 1884 and 1885. T. A. Garey, above mentioned, is
supposed to claim the honor for having introduced it into California. Some, how
ever, say it was brought in by Mr. Hayward on Australian Navel stock which he
brought from Australia. The fact, however, that this scale appeared in the San
Gabriel orchards some time before it did at Orange would seem to disprove the
latter statement.
These scale pests soon became a real menace to the orange business and
very early efforts for their destruction were made. About 1882, spraying with
caustic washes, using fish oil as a base for carrying the alkali was pretty generally
adopted. Little benefit, if any, was had from this spray, it not proving effective,
and often doing damage to the fruit and tree. In 1885 Mr. Bishop invented what
is known as the raisin wash. This was quite generally used until the invention of
fumigating in 1889.
Fumigating with gas made from cyanide of potassium and sulphuric acid
has proven the most effective method of destroying scale pests yet discovered, and
is used in all orange sections infected with scale. A. D. Bishop must have the
credit for giving to the growers this splendid discovery. It has really been the
salvation of the orange industry in Southern California. The division of ento
mology of the Department of Agriculture at Washington sent special agents here
from time to time to discover some method, if possible, to destroy the scale pests
which were becoming a serious menace. For several years experiments were
made chiefly with sprays. These have proven unsatisfactory, in fact, practically
worthless as an insecticide.
There was trouble at first in fumigating because of the gas burning the trees
and fruit. Then it was noticed that the injury was less on cloudy days ; so the
tents were painted black. In their experiments Drs. W. B. Wall and M. S. Jones
discovered that fumigating at night was even better than with painted tents, be
cause of the lower temperature at night. They accordingly associated themselves
with A. D. Bishop and took out a patent on night fumigation, which soon was
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Southern California for $10,000; but they lacked one vote on the board of super
visors of Orange County to consummate the sale to the counties. The courts
afterward annulled the patent on the ground that darkness, or the absence of
light, was not patentable.
The first cars of oranges were shipped in 1883 by M. A. Peters and A. D.
Bishop. These gentlemen sent two cars to Des Moines, Iowa. A few other cars
were sent out from the county that year. The shipment for 1910 was 840,960
boxes of oranges and 43,392 boxes of lemons; that for 1920 was estimated
2,000,000 boxes of oranges and about 300,000 boxes of lemons.
Many hundreds of acres only recently set out will soon be in bearing, so that
we may confidently expect to ship out of Orange County before many years from
five to six thousand cars of the finest citrus fruit grown in the world.
Crop estimators have used the returns of the Orange County Fruit Exchange
for 1919 as a basis for estimating the value of the county's citrus crop for that
year. This exchange, with headquarters at Orange, is the selling agent for eleven
citrus associations, all located southeast of the Santa Ana River, except the one
at Garden Grove, and handles at least seventy per cent of the crop in that territory.
It is claimed that the territory northwest of the river produces fully as much fruit
as that southeast of the stream.
At the annual meeting of the exchange, February 9, 1920, the following direc
tors were elected for the ensuing year : D. C. Drake, AVillard Smith, R. W. Jones,
AVade Flippen, George B. Shattuck, Ed Utt, E. B. Collier, E. D. AVhite, J. O.
Arkley, D. E. Huff, A. E. Bennett. The board organized with D. C. Drake as
president ; Willard Smith, vice-president ; L. D. Palmer, secretary, and A. E. Ben
nett, exchange representative.
From the secretary's annual report it is learned that the exchange shipped
2,622 carloads of oranges, of 462 boxes to the car, and 584 carloads of lemons.
The shipments, divided according to varieties, were as follows : Valencias,
1,152,145 boxes; lemons, 239,609 boxes; Navels, 42,073 boxes; sweets, 12,858
boxes ; miscellaneous, 3,022 boxes ; total, 1,450,707 boxes. The returns from these
shipments were $5,495,444.49, which is $1,261,525.42 more than for any previous
season. The large acreage of oranges set out during the last five years will soon
increase the orange crop for the county to five and six million boxes annually.
In no other section in Southern California have so many orange trees been put
out in recent years as in Orange County.

CHAPTER XXVII
. BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY
The following description of the beet sugar industry has been largely gleaned
from an article on that subject prepared by Truman G. Palmer, secretary of the
United States Beet Sugar Industry, in 1913, three years subsequent to the publi
cation of the first volume of this history, and one year prior to the beginning of
the recent World AA'ar.
The earliest attempt to produce sugar from beets in the United States was
made in Philadelphia in 1830 by two Germans named Vaughan and Ronaldson,
but their efforts were unsuccessful. Eight years later David Lee Child erected a
small factory at Northampton, Mass., and succeeded in producing a small quantity
of sugar, for which he was awarded a silver medal which bore the following
inscription : "The Massachusetts Charitable ATechanic Association. Award to
David Lee Child, for the first beet sugar made in America. Exhibition of 1839."
Due to lack of technical knowledge in both field and factory, the Northampton
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In 1852 Bishop Tyler, of the Mormon Church, purchased in France the ma
chinery for a factory, shipped it by water to Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and hauled
it by ox team from there to Salt Lake City. This effort was also a failure. Dur
ing the next few years, attempts were made to produce beet sugar in the United
States as follows : Illinois, 1863-71 ; Wisconsin, 1868-71 ; New Jersey, 1870-76 ;
Maine, 1876 ; but all these efforts ended in failure, which absorbed some $2,250,000,
and ruined most of the men who attempted to establish the industry in America.
The first American to wrest success from failure was E. H. Dyer, who erected
a small plant at Alvarado, Cal., in 1879. Although a failure for many years,
much of which time the plant was idle, it finally became a success. Several times
it has been rebuilt and re-equipped with machinery and while running today, it
never will pay interest on more than a fraction of the money invested in it.
In 1883 the Federal Treasury needed money and Congress had become en
thusiastic about the possibility of producing our sugar supply at home, so our
national legislature enacted a tariff bill which carried a duty of three and one-
half cents a pound on refined sugar and two and one-half cents on raw. But no
one knew what soil or climate were required for producing high grade beets, nor
how to grow them, nor how to operate a factory, and the string of dismal failures
reaching from ocean to ocean made capitalists cautious. Even when our Federal
Treasury was overflowing in 1890 and sugar was placed on the free list, the bounty
of two cents per pound, which was placed on domestic production, failed to attract
capital, as did also the AVilson forty per cent ad valorem bill of 1894.
However, when the Dingley bill of 1897 was passed and AA'illiam AIcKinley
made James AVilson secretary of agriculture, a new order of affairs was estab
lished. Although the duty fixed on sugar imports was but fifty-two per cent of
what it had been under the bill of 1883 and but six factories were in existence,
the Department of Agriculture set to work to determine where favorable natural
conditions existed, to learn and to teach the farmers cultural methods and to ex
ploit the industry generally. It was deemed wise that a great industry, destined
to supply a large portion of the $400,000,000 worth of sugar which we annually
consume, should be scattered as widely over the states as possible. To this end
the Department issued a wall map, on which was traced the theoretical beet sugar
area of the United States. This map was changed from time to time to corre
spond with increased knowledge of the adaptability of the country to this industry.
The last statement of the Department concerning this subject shows that we have
in the United States 274,000,000 acres, the soil and climate of which are adapted
to sugar beet culture. If but a fraction of one per cent of this area were planted
to sugar beets, it would furnish all the sugar we consume.
Doctor Wiley and the Bureau of Chemistry and Doctor Galloway and the
Bureau of Plant Industry were set to work; a field agent was placed on the road
to investigate conditions throughout the country and experiments were conducted
in various states. As a result of the information and the inviting conditions set
forth in the numerous bulletins and reports of the Department, in fourteen years,
$84,000,000 has been coaxed into the industry, the number of factories has in
creased from six in two states to seventy-six in sixteen states, and the annual
output has grown from 40,000 to 700,000 tons, or one-fifth of the total sugar con
sumption of the United States, enough to supply all the people living west of the
Mississippi River. As a result of the Newlands bill, great areas of desert land
have been reclaimed where sugar beets can be raised more profitably than can any
other crop, and upon the expansion of this industry largely depends the success or
failure of the great irrigating works which the Federal Government has con
structed at an expense of $80,000,000.
James AA'ilson knew that the long haul freight charges ate up the profits
of the far western farmers on low-priced cereal products when shipped to the East.
They cannot successfully compete in the East with the farmers of the great
Alississippi A'alley who have a much shorter haul to market. But with alfalfa
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stock, on which the freight charges are small in proportion to the value of the
product. Sugar beets reach their greatest perfection when grown under irriga
tion and our farmers, especially in the irrigated West, have found the crop to be
one of the most profitable, if also the most difficult, which they can grow. Due
to rotating other crops with sugar beets one year in four, thousands of farms are
producing greater yields of such other crops than ever before.
This industry now distributes $63,000,000 annually to American farmers, to
laborers in the sugar factories and to laborers in coal mines and other American
industries which furnish it with supplies, all of which money would be Sent to
foreign countres in payment for imported sugar, but for the establishment of this
domestic industry.
Since the industry was established up to 1913, it has distributed $400,000,000
to American toilers, and when fully developed it will distribute $200,000,000
annually to American industry.
During the fourteen years in which the domestic beet sugar industry grew
from 40,000 to 700,000 tons, the average wholesale price of sugar declined from
$4.97 per 100 pounds to $4.12 per 100 in 1913, or seventeen per cent, despite the
fact that during the same period the price of practically all other food commodities
has increased from thirty-three and one-third to 100 per cent. When fully
developed, this industry will still further reduce not only the price of sugar, but of
all other food products through increasing the yield per acre.
The German increase in yield per acre of wheat, rye, barley and oats has been
eighty per cent during the past thirty years, as compared with an increase of but
six and six-tenths per cent in the United States. German economists are a unit
in attributing Germany's increase in yield to the introduction of sugar beet cul
ture which taught their farmers to grow a root crop one year in four in rotation
with cereals, and thus out of $986,000,000 worth of these crops which Germany
annually produces, $438,000,000 worth is due to the introduction of sugar beet
culture. Even greater results than those obtained in Germany have been secured
wherever sugar beet culture has been introduced in this country, and should the
further expansion of the industry result in duplicating Germany's experience
throughout the United States, our yield of these four crops, at present farm prices,
would be worth $2,000,000,000 instead of $1,124,000,000, as at present (1913).
In the language of Knauer, one of the foremost agriculturists of Germany : "It
is our firm belief that increased beet culture is the greatest blessing for every
land." To secure a heavy tonnage, fields to be planted to sugar beets should be thor
oughly fertilized. Barnyard manure is the best fertilizer, but in Europe it is sup
plemented with large quantities of commercial fertilizers. The beets exhaust only
a portion of the fertilizer, leaving the balance, with a mass of fibrous roots, to
enrich the soil for the three succeeding crops which should be grown before re
planting the field to beets. To teach the farmers the art of rotation and how best
to grow beets and all other crops, each factory employs a scientific agriculturist
and a corps of assistants who spend their time with the surrounding farmers. In
1912 the actual cost to the factories for this educational work amounted to thirty-
eight cents for each ton of beets sliced, or a total of nearly $2,000,000. So benefi
cial have been the results of this work, that Secretary of Agriculture Wilson de
clared that a beet sugar factory is as valuable to the farmers of a community as is
a government agricultural experiment station, which costs the public thousands of
dollars to maintain.
Sugar beets require deep plowing, ten to fourteen inches, or twice the usual
depth. When using horses, farmers are inclined not to plow deeply enough to
secure maximum results, and some of the factories have put in power plows
which turn six furrows and harrow the land at the same time. They plow and
harrow the land for $2.50 per acre, which is about one-half of what it costs the
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hauling train wagon loads of beets to the factory. In some localities farmers are
banding together and purchasing engines for plowing and hauling beets.
Beets are drilled in rows, usually eighteen inches apart, eighteen to twenty-
five pounds of seed to each acre. Practically all the beet seed used in America is
grown in Europe, but it has been demonstrated that superior seed can be produced
in the United States. Sugar beet seed growing requires five years of the utmost
skill, care and patience, from the planting of the original seed to the maturing
of the commercial crop which is sold to the trade. The factories contract for
their seed for three to five years in advance, sell it to farmers at cost price and
deduct the amount from the payment for beets.
AA 'hen the beets are up and show the third leaf they should be thinned. Unless
thinned at the proper time, the pulling up of the superfluous beetlets injures the
roots of the remaining ones. Scientific experiments in Germany, where all other
conditions were identical, showed that one acre, thinned at the proper time, yielded
fifteen tons ; the next acre, thinned a week later, yielded thirteen and one-half tons ;
the third acre, thinned still a week later, yielded ten and one-half tons; and the
fourth acre, thinned three weeks after the first, yielded seven and one-half tons.
The rows are blocked with the hoe, leaving a bunch of beets every eight inches.
These bunches are thinned by pulling up the superfluous beetlets, leaving one in
a place eight inches apart. The ideal factory beet weighs about two pounds and
a perfect stand of such beets, one every eight inches, in rows eighteen inches
apart, would yield forty-three and one-third tons per acre. The present average
yield in the United States is about ten tons per acre, while the hitherto "worn-out
soils" of Germany yield fourteen tons per acre, or forty per cent more than is
secured from our "virgin soils."
While the beets are growing it is necessary to keep them free from weeds, so
that they will get the full benefit of the sun andthe strength of the soil. Where
the cultivation is clone with horse power instead of with the hoe, the rows are
generally placed farther apart. After the beets have reached their maturity, they
are plowed out and are then topped by hand, which consists in cutting off the top
and that portion of the beet that projected above the ground, which was found to
contain very little sugar. The tops are fed .to stock, for which purpose they are
worth three dollars per acre.
In the United States, eight miles is the usual limit for. hauling beets to the
factory by wagon, while the supply of beets may be drawn from an area with a
radius of fifty miles or more. To reduce the labor of unloading, the factories erect
receiving stations on the railroads in the beet growing area and pay the same
price for beets delivered at these stations as for those delivered at the factory.
Tim Carrol of Anaheim invented the method of dumping the beets from the
wagon into a chute that conveys them into the car ; a similar method is employed
for dumping the beets from the cars into the bins at the factory. In 1912 the
freight on the railroads averaged forty-five cents per ton of beets, and the receiv
ing stations with their clumping apparatus cost the factories about $2,000 each,
many of them having from $40,000 to $50,000 invested in such stations.
As the beets arrive at the factory, they are first weighed and then dumped
into bins for storage or floated directly to the beet washers. While being dumped,
a fair sample both of the beets and of the loose dirt which the car or wagon con
tains is caught in a basket. These samples, properly tagged, are conveyed to the
beet laboratory where they are trimmed, if not properly topped, and the differ
ence in the weight of the samples as received and their weight when trimmed and
washed is called the "tare." Whatever percentage this amounts to, is applied to and
deducted from the weight of the car or wagon load. A sample of these beets
then is tested by the polariscope for its sugar content and its purity ; farmers often
are paid a stipulated price per ton for beets of a given sugar content and twenty-
five to thirty-three and one-third cents per ton additional for each extra degree
of sugar which they contain. The tareteooms and the beet testing laboratories

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are open to any one, and in some localities the farmers' associations employ ex
perts to tare and analyze each sample of beets.
The bins are V-shaped, about three feet wide at the bottom, twenty to thirty
feet at the top and twenty to thirty feet high. As beets are needed, beginning at
one end of the bin, the loose three-foot planks at the bottom are removed one at
a time and, with hooks attached to long poles, the beets are rolled into the flume
or cement channel below, in which they are floated into the factory. This is not
only to save labor, but to loosen up the dirt which attaches to the beets, thus
partially washing them. The water which is used in the flume is warm water
pumped to the upper end from the factory.
After being floated in from the bins or sheds, the beets are elevated from the
flume to a washer, where they are given an additional washing before being sliced.
From the washer they are elevated and dropped into an automatic scale of a capac
ity of 700 to 1,500 pounds. From the scale they pass to the slicers, where, with
triangular knives, they are cut into long, slender slices which look something like
' "shoestring" potatoes. These slices drop through an upright chute and are packed
tightly into cylindrical vessels holding from two to six tons each ; the battery con
sists of eight to twelve vessels arranged either in a straight line or in circular
form. AA'arm water is run into these slices, and coaxes out the sugar as it passes
from each vessel to the succeeding one. After passing through the entire series
of vessels, the water has become rich in sugar, of which it contains from twelve
to fifteen per cent, depending upon the richness of the beets. It then is drawn
off and is called diffusion juice or raw juice. This is carefully measured into
tanks and recorded. As this juice is drawn off, the vessel over which the water
started is emptied of the slices from the bottom, the leached slices containing
from one-quarter to one-third per cent of sugar. These slices are called pulp, and
by conveyors are carried out from the factory and deposited in bins, from which
they are fed to stock as wet pulp or are conveyed to dryers where the water is
evaporated and the dry pulp is sacked and shipped for stock feed.
Warm, raw juice is drawn into the carbonatation tanks and treated with
about ten per cent milk of lime — about like ordinary white-wash. This lime
throws out impurities, sterilizes the juice and removes coloring matter. Carbonic
acid gas from the lime kiln is forced through the lime juice in the tank, throwing
out the excess of lime, converting it into a carbonate of lime or chalk. Tests
are taken here by the station operator to show when the process is finished.
From the carbonatation tanks the juice is pumped or forced through filter
presses consisting of iron frames so covered with cloth that the juice passes
through the cloth as a clear liquid, leaving the lime, and impurities precipitated by
it, in the frame, in the form of a cake. This cake, after washing, is dropped from
the presses and conveyed out of the factory. It contains from one to two per
cent of its weight in sugar, which constitutes one of the large losses of the process.
It also contains organic matter, phosphate and potash, besides the carbonate of
lime, which makes it an excellent fertilizer, all of which is used in Europe on the
farm, but so far is little used in America. The. juice passes through the Danek
filters by gravity after having been treated with carbonic acid gas a second time.
After a second, and sometimes a third, carbonatation and filtration, the juice
is carried to the evaporators, commonly called the "effects," usually four large
air-tight vessels furnished with heating tubes running from 2,000 to 7,000 square
feet, in each vessel. A partial vacuum is maintained in these evaporators which
makes the juice boil out at a low temperature, thus preventing discoloration, and
to a large degree the destruction of sugar, which would be caused by high tem
perature. There always is, however, some unavoidable loss of sugar in this
apparatus. The juice passes along copper pipes from the first vessel to the last,
becoming thicker as it does so. It comes into the first vessel at ten per cent to
twelve per cent sugar and is pumped out of the last one so thick that it contains
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After a careful filtration, the juice that comes from the evaporators and is
called thick juice, is pumped to large tanks high up in the building and from there
is drawn into vacuum pans. These are large cylindrical vessels from ten to
fifteen feet in diameter and from fifteen to twenty-five feet high with conical top
and bottom, built air-tight. Around the inner circumference they are furnished
with four to six-inch copper coils which have a heating surface of 800 to 2,000
square feet. Exhaust steam is used in the evaporators and live steam in the pans,
the juice in both being boiled in a vacuum to prevent discoloration and reduce
losses. As the syrup continues to thicken by this evaporation, minute crystals
begin to form. When sufficient of these have formed, fresh juice is drawn in
and the crystals grow, the operator governing the size of the crystals to suit the
trade. If small crystals be desired, a large quantity of juice is admitted at the
outset, while if large crystals are desired, a small quantity of juice first is admitted,
and, as it boils to crystals, fresh juice gradually is added to the pan and the
crystals are built up to the desired size. The operator of this pan, known as the
"sugar boiler" is one of the most important men in the factory. The water fur
nished the condensers of these vacuum pans and the evaporator goes to the beet
sheds and is used for floating in the beets. It amounts to from 3,000,000 to
8,000,000 gallons every twenty-four hours, according to the size of the factory,
and must be very pure.
The mass of crystals with syrup around them and containing about eight per
cent to ten per cent of water is let out of the vacuum pan into a large open vessel
called a mixer, beneath which are the centrifugal machines. These are vertically
suspended brass drums perforated with holes and lined with a fine screen. They
are made to revolve about 1,000 times a minute, and the crystal mass of sugar
rises up the side like water in a whirling bucket. The centrifugals force the syrun
out through the screen holes leaving the white crystals of sugar in a thick layer
on the inner surface. These are washed with a spray of pure warm water and
then are ready for the dryer.
The damp white crystals from the centrifugal machine are conveyed to hori
zontal revolving drums about twenty-five feet long by five to six feet in diameter.
These drums are furnished with paddles on the inside circumference, the paddles
picking the sugar up and dropping it in showers as the drum revolves. Warm dry
air is drawn through and takes the moisture out of the sugar, which now is
ready to be put in bags or barrels for the market.
After the moisture has been thoroughly removed in the granulators or dryers,
the sugar drops directly to the sacking room through a chute, at the lower end of
which the top of the double bag is attached. The sugar flows directly into the
sack, the flow being cut off automatically with each 100 pounds, when an endless
belt conveyor passes the upright sack past the sewing machine at the proper speed
and the product is sealed ready for storage or shipment.
Five of the seventy-six beet sugar factories, reported by Truman G. Palmer
as being in existence in the United States in 1913, are located in Orange County,
Cal., and are described by him as follows:
Los Alamitos Sugar Company
Los Alamitos, Cal.
Erected 1897 Daily Capacity, 800 Tons of Beets
EQUIPPED WITH AMERICAN MACHINERY
Size of main building, 93 feet 9 inches by 261 feet; length of all buildings,
2,144 feet; area of beets grown by independent farmers in 1912, 10,432 acres;
grown by the factory, 401 acres.
APPROXIMATE DISBURSEMENT SINCE ERECTION OE FACTORY
Beets  $4,321,443.87
Wages and all overhead expense  1,208,100.99

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Fuel and all other supplies  1,314,930.61
Experiments, insurance and other items  290,613.48
$7,235,088.95
Santa Ana Co-operative Sugar Company
Dyer, Cal.
Erected 1912 Daily Capacity, 1,200 Tons of Beets
EQUIPPED WITH AMERICAN MACHINERY
Size of main building, 66 feet by 266 feet ; length of all buildings, 971 feet ;
area of beets grown by 226 independent farmers in 1912, 9,061 acres ; grown by
the factory, none.
No disbursements up to time of this report.
Southern California Sugar Company
Santa Ana, Cal.
Erected 1909 Daily Capacity, 600 Tons of Beets
EQUIPPED WITH AMERICAN MACHINERY
Size of main building, 67 feet by 265 feet; length of all buildings, 1,184 feet;
area of beets grown by independent farmers in 1912, 10,000 acres; grown by the
factory, none. PARTIAL DISBURSEMENT SINCE ERECTION OE FACTORY
Beets  $1,224,996.35
Wages and all overhead expense  307,000.00
Freight on beets, sugar and supplies  309,900.00
Fuel and all other supplies  337,369.51
$2,179,265.86
Holly Sugar Company
Huntington Beach, Cal.
Erected 1911 Daily Capacity, 1,000 Tons of Beets
EQUIPPED WITH AMERICAN MACHINERY
Size of main building, 65 feet by 260 feet; length of all buildings, 1,100 feet;
area of beets grown by 300 independent farmers in 1912, 11,000 acres; grown by
the factory, none. PARTIAL DISBURSEMENT SINCE ERECTION OE FACTORY
Beets  $1,100,000.00
Wages and all overhead expense  225,000.00
Freight on beets, sugar and supplies  300,000.00
Fuel and all other supplies  230,000.00
$1,855,000.00
Anaheim Sugar Company
Anaheim, Cal.
Erected 1910-11 Daily Capacity, 500 Tons of Beets
EQUIPPED WITH AMERICAN MACHINERY
Size of main building, 58 feet by 275 feet; length of all buildings, 1,155 feet;
area of beets grown by independent farmers in 1912, 10,069 acres ; grown by the
factory, none.

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APPROXIMATE DISBURSEMENT SINCE ERECTION OF FACTORY
Beets  $ 653,575.09
Wages and all overhead expense-  201,579.70
Freight on beets, sugar and supplies  173,600.00
Fuel and all other supplies  194,200.00
Experiments, insurance and other items  86,130.00
$1,309,084.79
Only two of the five sugar factories in the county answered any of the ques
tions addressed to them by mail ; and even they neglected to mention the amount
and value of their annual production of sugar. Following is a summary of the
information received.
The Los Alamitos Sugar Company was organized in 1896. It is a corporation
of which the following persons are the officers: W. A. Clark, president; J. Ross
Clark, vice-president ; Henry C. Lee, second vice-president ; E. C. Hamilton, man
ager. Number of employees during sugar campaign 300; daily capacity of factory,
800 tons of beets ; land produces ten tons of beets per acre ; water is supplied by
artesian wells and pumping plants; percentage of sugar in beets is high compared
With that in other sections.
The Santa Ana Cooperative Sugar Company was organized in 1911 and began
active operations in 1912. The officers are James Irvine of San Francisco, presi
dent ; C. A. Johnson of Huntington Beach, vice-president ; Remsen McGinnis of
Denver, secretary; S. W. Sinsheimer of Denver, general manager; E. M. Smiley
of Santa Ana, manager. The daily capacity of the factory is 1,200 tons of beets.
The average quantity of beets worked up annually is 100.000 tons. The sugar
content in the beets is nineteen per cent. Water is supplied by artesian wells
located on the company's own ground at the plant.
Having thus failed to get the actual amount and value of the sugar produced
in the county from the factories, the transportation companies, or any other local
source, the writer applied to E. E. Kaufman, field agent of State Commission of
Horticulture, and received a bulletin containing statistics on "California Crop Dis
tribution and Estimates for 1918." This bulletin shows that Orange County excels
all other counties in the state in the production of sugar beets. It is credited with
216,000 tons and Monterey County, its nearest competitor, with only 156,800
tons. The bulletin gives no values — only quantities; but, by using the foregoing
data and assuming that the factories received as much as the sugar equalization
board recently fixed as the maximum price, we can approximate pretty closely
the value of the sugar produced in Orange County in 1918. If the beets in this
county average nineteen per cent sugar, as the Santa Ana Cooperative Sugar Com
pany alleges they do, then the 216,000 tons of beets, grown in the county, would
produce 41,040 tons, or 82,080,000 pounds of sugar; and if the factories received
"ten cents cash, less two per cent aboard basis," as the sugar equalization board
recently fixed the maximum price, or nine and eight-tenths cents per pound, then
they received $8,043,840 for Orange County's sugar crop in 1918. The estimated
value of the 1919 crop was $10,500,000.
Late in June it was announced that the sugar company contracts for the season
of 1920, would start with twelve dollars per ton as the basic price for beets
testing fifteen per cent sugar with the price of sugar at nine dollars per hundred
pounds, and for each additional per cent of sugar in the beets, fifteen per cent of
the price of sugar would be added to the basic price for beets. To illustrate by
a suppositional example, let us use the sugar content of the beets, given by the
Santa Ana Sugar Company, of nineteen per cent, or four more than the basic per
cent, and the price of sugar, as fixed by the sugar equalization board of $9.80
per hundred pounds, the equation would be $12,00 4-4 (.15 X $9.80) =$17.88,
the price per ton of beets to the growers under such conditions. With sixteen
inches of rainfall, in gentle showers that all went into the ground, to supply
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prices for sugar, the outlook for a bumper crop of beets and a prosperous sugar
campaign could hardly be brighter than on July 1, 1920.
The sugar beet is said to be the most scientifically bred plant in the world.
Beginning with a small, tough, woody root, found near the salt water in Southern
Europe, which contained little more than a trace of sugar, it has been bred by a
century's most scientific and painstaking investigation to yield a heavy tonnage of
pure sugar equal to one-sixth of its weight in Germany and one-seventh in the
United States. Notwithstanding this intensive cultivation and high development,
the sugar beet still retains its partiality for soils located near salt water, which
doubtless accounts for the domesticated plants yielding good returns on the alkali
soils near the sea coast in Southern California. There is also an indirect benefit
from planting such lands to beets, in fertilizing, aerating and enriching the soil for
other crops, that is said to be even more valuable than the direct benefit. But, to
gain these advantages and produce our own sugar instead of buying it abroad, large
investments of capital are necessary, some of which have been made, and must
be maintained perpetually. Therefore, in justice to such investments and for the.
good of Orange County and the country generally, it becomes the patriotic duty
of every loyal citizen to protect the beet sugar industry from hostile legislation,
and to encourage its legitimate development, to the full extent of his ability,

CHAPTER XXVIII
ORANGE COUNTY'S FRUITS, GRAINS AND VEGETABLES
Fruits
Orange County has such an infinite variety and wealth of products that it
would be impossible to give a detailed account of each within the limits of this
work. Fairly complete descriptions of the orange, walnut and celery industries
have been presented ; but only a brief reference can be made to some of the other
more lucrative productions without undertaking to give an exhaustive list.
Nearly every kind of fruit known to the temperate zones and many kinds
from the torrid zone have been tried here with more or less success. Some seem
to be well suited to the soil and climate ; but they are seriously handicapped with
insect pests, which experts are learning how to eradicate. Some do better on one
kind of soil than on another; some prefer higher elevations than others; and some
thrive best inland and others near the coast. Practically all kinds of conditions can
be found within the confines of Orange County ; and enterprising growers are
constantly experimenting to find out just what conditions and localities are best
suited to each kind of fruit.
Although Orange County is not rated as an apple-growing section, yet con
siderable of this fruit is grown in some parts of the county. Apples do very well
on the damp lands near the coast, provided the roots do not reach standing water.
They also thrive as well in certain choice localities in the mountains, as they do in
the famous apple regions farther up the coast. The statistician's report for 1910
gives 12,795 bearing and 1,540 non-bearing trees, producing 511,800 pounds of
fruit, worth $5,118. The Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce's estimate for 1919
was $50,000.
The apricot seems to be well adapted to the conditions that prevail in this
county, with one exception. Occasionally the spring rains injure the blossoms and
cause a light crop. Possibly this defect in the conditions may be overcome, or at
least minimized, by continually selecting the most hardy and latest blooming trees
for planting ; but, even as it is, the apricot is one of the moderately profitable fruits
of the county. A good crop of apricots, at the prices which have prevailed for
several years past, will net the grower about $250 per acre. The number of trees
credited to Orange County is 167,240 bearing and 23,370 non-bearing. The
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pounds, worth $170,000; but he took no account of the fresh apricots that were
marketed and consumed before the drying commenced. The pits amounted to
105 tons, worth $12,600. The estimate for 1919 was $200,000.
The avocado was discussed in the April, 1919, Bulletin of the State Com
mission of Horticulture in part as follows :
"In Volume VI, No. 1 of the Monthly Bulletin, Mr. I. J. Condit of the Uni
versity of California, listed fifty-four varieties of the avocado that originated in
California, and eighty-six of foreign origin, or a total of 140 named varieties.
With this large number to select from, a real problem exists to determine the
varieties that are best for California conditions. Already considerable experi
mental work has been done, and it is now known that there are places that are
not subject to frost where certain varieties of avocado will do well. Commercially
the industry is of little importance at present. Fruit sells in the larger cities of
the state for exorbitant prices and seventy-five cents for a single fruit is a price
that is frequently paid by the consumer. Prices have been so high that the fruit
has not yet become generally known in this country, and there is no way of judging
of its popularity, although most people who have tried it sound its praises."
In the chapter on "Semi-Tropic Fruits in Orange County," C. P. Taft gives
a complete account of experiments with the avocado and results obtained. He
mentions one variety wdiose fruits weigh from two to four pounds or more each,
which would be considerable fruit even though the price is high. As to produc
tiveness he cites one tree, the "Taft," which produced over $500 worth of fruits
in 1917 and over $600 worth in 1919. He says the "Sharpless" tree, owned by
B. H. Sharpless of Tustin, has done equally well. Both are among the oldest
trees in the county.
In answer to an inquiry about the correctness of the report that his tree had
produced $5,000 worth of fruits and buds, Mr. Sharpless supplied the following
information : The Sharpless avocado was planted in 1901 and bore its first fruits
in 1912, when it bore 2 fruits; in 1913, 20 fruits; in 1914, 75 fruits; in 1915, 250
fruits; in 1916, 700 fruits. He says, "Now you will notice the crop has not been
so heavy since 1916; but when I tell you that there have been 10,000 buds a year
cut from the tree — and buds cut this year take off next year's fruit wood — it is a
wonder there is any fruit at all. And $5,000 is the 'value of fruit and buds up
to this year. It looks as though there were 800 fruits on the tree for next year,
as the tree has the habit of the Valencia orange, which blossoms in April and
May and the fruit does not mature until the following year." One dollar apiece
or ten dollars a dozen is the price for the Sharpless avocado fruit.
Bearing fig trees to the number of 2,500 were reported in 1910; but nothing
was said about the quantity and value of the fruit produced.
In the early '80s, the grape was one of the leading fruits in the territory now
included in Orange County — especially in the northern part. The first vineyards
were of the Mission variety, either planted by the padres or with cuttings from
vineyards of their planting. These grapes were used principally for making wine.
Later, Malaga, Afuscatel and other varieties were introduced, some of which were
used almost exclusively for making raisins. This locality acquired quite a reputa
tion abroad both for its wines and its raisins ; besides, a great many carloads of
table grapes were shipped every season to the middle western states. In the latter
part of the '80s some kind of a disease appeared in the vineyard at Anaheim and
gradually spread over the vineyards of Southern California. It was most de
structive of the finer varieties, and completely wiped out the raisin industry of this
section. The tonnages of grapes for 1910 was 490, worth $3,600.
Grape fruit is highly prized by many people as an appetizer at breakfast and
is therefore grown to a limited extent. The crop for 1910 was valued at $3,840.
The lemon industry has not proved so attractive to growers as the orange
industry, partly on account of the necessity for curing the fruit before marketing
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Eastern market. Relief was afforded on the latter point by Congress raising the
tariff on lemons from one to one and a half cents a pound ; now more lemons are
being planted than heretofore. The crop of 1010 amounted to 43,392 boxes,
valued at $151,872. The value of the 1919 crop was $3,500,000.
In comparison with the lemon crop, the size and value of the orange crop for
1910 may be given here, although that industry is described elsewhere, as follows:
oranges, 840,960 boxes, valued at $1,261,440. That of 1919 was valued at
$12,000,000. Very few people in the county have paid any attention to the growing of
olives; nevertheless there were 520 tons raised in 1910, worth $26,000. The 1919
crop value, including olive oil, was $125,000.
Peaches seem to require about the same conditions that apples and pears do
and therefore thrive best in the same localities. The peach crop for 1910 was
reported to be 575,250 pounds, valued at $5,752 ; the pear crop was 108,500 pounds,
valued at $1,085.
There are 1,270 bearing plum trees in the county, producing 38,100 pounds of
fruit in 1910, valued at $762. The county is also credited with 17,320 bearing
prune trees.
A few scattered growers raised 8,000 crates of raspberries, in 1910, worth
$8,000 ; there was also grown 19,000 crates of strawberries, worth $20,900. Berries
of all kinds were estimated in 1919 at $125,000.
Grains ,
Grouping alfalfa under this head, because it is a forage plant and no sub
division has been made for grasses, we will take up that product first. Alfalfa
is the main reliance of the farmers for green feed ; and it will grow anywhere in
the county that other vegetation will grow. It is a deep-rooted, perennial plant
and will not thrive with standing water near the surface ; on the other hand it
will not continue to grow vigorously on the mesa without frequent irrigations in
the summer season. It cannot be pastured a great deal, because the tramping
injures the crown of the plant ; but irrigate it once a month during the summer
season and eight or nine crops of hay can be cut from it each year. Many of the
fruit-growers have small patches of alfalfa near their barns ; but the large-sized
fields can only be found in the dairy, or general farming section. The acreage and
vield fo*r 1910 were reported as follows : alfalfa, 4,000 acres, 20,000 tons, value
$200,000. Barley is grown both for the grain and the hay. In the former case it is
allowed to thoroughly ripen and is then headed, threshed and sacked ready for
the market. In the latter case it is cut while the grain is in the dough and the
leaves are still green, and is then raked and cocked. As there is no fear of rain
in the summer season, the farmer takes his own time for baling or stacking the
hay, as the unthreshed straw and grain together are called. More often the hay
is baled out of the cock ; but even when stacked it is generally baled later. The
statistician gives the following figures on the acreage and yield of the barley har
vested for grain in the county in 1910: barley, 34,120 acres, 27,296 tons, value
$545,920. For 1918, 660,000 bushels or 15,840 tons.
A third of a century or more ago there was considerable corn raised in the
cultivated portions of the present territory of Orange County. They used to tell
fabulous stories about the immense yields in the Gospel Swamp region southwest
of Santa Ana. In fact, good crops of corn could be grown almost anywhere in
the county, if irrigated on the upland, and can yet. In the article on livestock it
is stated that the number of hogs had decreased in the county because the land
could be used more profitably for other purposes than in raising feed for hogs.
Well, here is corn, one of the best of hog feeds, that is not raised very extensively
in a county which is adapted to its growth because the land can be used more profit
ably for other products. The statistician's figures for the 1910 crop are: corn,
2,690 acres, 1,345 tons, value $40,350. For 1918, 36,900 bushels or 1,033.2 tons.
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Oats are preferred by some people for horse feed ; but they are not so exten
sively grown as barley, because they are more liable to rust. However, the statis
tical report for 1910 gives the following figures: oats, 4,375 acres, 1,750 tons,
value $52,500.
Wheat is also one of the light crops of Orange County for the same reasons
that corn and oats are light crops ; nevertheless there is quite a little, of the hill
land devoted to wheat as shown by the figures on the 1910 crop, as follows :
wheat, 5,000 acres, 2,500 tons, value $87,500. For 1918, 5,600 bushels or 168 tons.
Grain hay is given in the report without indicating the kind — barley, oats or
wheat — or how much of each kind is included. These three grains must, there
fore, be credited collectively in 1910 with the following additional yield : grain hay,
25,350 acres, 16,742 tons, value $200,904. The 1919 crop value was $1,000,000.
Vegetables
This subdivision includes a great variety of products, some of which are
grown for the wholesale market and others for the retail trade. The Chinese and
Japanese gardeners and vegetable peddlers may be grouped in the latter class.
It is doubtful whether the statistician got much of the data on the products
peddled out by the growers, or even on that retailed through the local grocery
stores. However, the same criticism may be applied to the other subdivisions,
though to a less extent; the report of products consumed at home or sold or
bartered to neighbors must necessarily be incomplete.
The county is credited in the statistical report with producing 38,000 pounds
of asparagus in 1910, worth $1,900.
The bean industry is becoming one of the important industries of this county.
As an introduction to the subject, a paragraph is quoted from an exhaustive
article by George W. Ogden, as follows:
"The lima beans of commerce do not grow to maturity back east. Those
you buy dry in the stores at all seasons are ripe beans and not green beans dried.
They grow in only two places on the globe, Southern California and the island of
Madagascar. The lima beans of commerce do not grow on poles, but run along
the ground like sweet potato vines. Five counties in Southern California supply
the United States and Canada with lima beans. England uses the Madagscar
crop, so there is no competition anywhere for the growers of California. The
California lima bean crop of 1910 amounted to 1,175,000 bags, a bag averaging a
little over 80 pounds, and the gross returns to the growers was $5,000,000. Santa
Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego are the five lima bean
producing counties of California, and within their confines is embraced all the
land in the entire United States upon which this peculiar plant will bring its fruit
to maturity." Thus is Orange County found to be in very select and exclusive company in
this industry. The real beginning of the lima bean growing on a large scale dates
back to 1886, when James Irvine, owner of the San Joaquin rancho, planted 120
acres as an experiment. Although the industry was successful from the start, the
farmers were slow in following Mr. Irvine's advice and example. In 1909 he
had 17,000 acres of his ranch in beans, which is said to be the largest bean field
in the world belonging to a single individual. Besides the San Joaquin ranch, the
mesa about Huntington Beach and Smeltzer and the La Habra valley produce
large quantities of beans. There were 28,000 acres planted to beans in the county
in 1910 producing 210,000 sacks, worth $672,000. The bean straw makes very
good feed, of which there was 550 tons, valued at $2,200. The lima bean crop in
1918 amounted to 473,000 bushels or 354,750 sacks; all kinds, 696,000 bushels or
522,000 sacks. The value of the 1919 bean crop (ninety per cent limas) was
$3,000,000. Large fields of cabbage are grown in the winter season about Anaheim, Ful
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markets of that section are bare of fresh vegetables. The 1910 crop is reported
at 5,900,000 pounds, worth $54,100. In 1918, 300 cars, worth $120,000.
The celery industry, which is more particularly described elsewhere, yielded
in 1910 1,212 cars, worth $275,720. In 1919 the crop value was $100,000.
The cauliflower crop amounted to 11,970 crates in 1910, valued at $5,985.
Melons of every kind are grown in the county, of large size and fine flavor,
and in sufficient quantities to supply the local demand.
Peanuts do well in this county and are grown to a considerable extent between
the tree rows of young orchards ; but, on account of the Japanese competition, they
are not so profitable as some other kinds of crops. The crop of 1910 amounted
to 60,000 pounds, worth $2,400.
Peas are among the winter vegetables that are grown on the mesa near the
foothills, where there is comparatively little frost. The quantity and value of the
1910 crop were reported to be 160,000 pounds, worth $4,000.
The most of the chili peppers are grown about Anaheim, which has acquired
quite a reputation with this product. They are grown in rows like potatoes, requir
ing frequent irrigation, and are artificially cured in dry houses. The crop of 1910
was reported as follows : chile peppers, green, 40 tons, worth $8,000 ; chili peppers,
dry, 100 tons, worth $20,000. The Federal Bureau of Crop Estimates says that
practically all of the chili peppers grown in the state are grown in Orange County.
The estimate for 1919 is $1,125,000. First prize for chili peppers at the recent
Riverside County Fair was won by John B. Joplin of the San Joaquin Ranch. He
won second prize for chili peppers at the Huntington Beach Fair.
The soil and climate of Orange County are well adapted to the growing of
potatoes — Irish potatoes, as they are called to distinguish them from sweet pota
toes. The potatoes grown in this county, particularly on the upland, are of me
dium size, with a smooth, clean surface, and cook evenly throughout, producing
a mealy pulp not unlike crumbly cake or well-cooked rice. Two crops are raised
each year, one from the early spring planting and the other from the late summer
or early fall planting. The yield reported for 1910 was 250,000 sacks, worth
$250,000 ; the 1919 crop had a value of $750,000.
Credit is claimed on behalf of the late Thomas Nicholson of El Modena for
introducing the sweet potato into the state. He shipped more or less of his
product to San Francisco and from there the seed potatoes were conveyed to other
parts of the state. He secured a silver medal for his product at the Columbian
Exposition in Chicago. The crop for 1910 is given at 30,000 sacks for the county,
worth $37,500. That for 1919 is valued at $200,000. "The sweet potato now
ranks second in value among all the vegetables of the United States, having in
creased in this respect more than eighty per cent in the last ten years. The crop
of 1917 was worth $90,000,000 and the crop of 1918 is estimated to be worth
almost $117,000,000. In a recent conference at Birmingham, Ala., representatives
of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and horticulturists and pathologists from
the Southern States discussed every phase of planting, cultivating, storing and
marketing the sweet potato. The time when it was allowed to decay in primitive
dirt beds in the open fields has long since passed." — The Youth's Companion.
Pumpkins make valuable food for stock — especially milk cows — and are
grown everywhere the farmers wish. The average size is about that of a half
bushel measure; but some of them grow so large that it takes two men to load
one of them into a wagon. Photographs of fields literally covered with them and
labeled "Some Pumpkins" may be seen in almost any collection of picture cards
in this part of the state. The pumpkins are generally sold by the wagon load
for a lump sum to those who keep a family cow or two, but haven't sufficient land
upon which to raise their own stock feed. They are not shipped any distance;
hence there is no record of the quantity grown in the county.
Thousands of acres of land in the western and southwestern part of Orange
County are well adapted to the growing of sugar beets. Besides suitable land
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land. The first factory was established about 1896 at Los Alamitos by Senator
AV. A. Clark of Alontana. As soon as the factory was provided the beets were
grown and they proved to be the equal of any grown elsewhere. It was also dis
covered that one factory was entirely inadequate to work up all the beets that
could be furnished. Another factory was therefore built south of Santa Ana about
1908; and during the next three years three more sprang into being, one near
Anaheim, another near Huntington Beach, and still another near Tustin. With
the five factories in operation in 1918, they worked up 216,000 tons of beets
grown in Orange County and a considerable tonnage grown in Los _\ngeles County.
Orange County is credited in some of the published statistics with producing
$10,500,000 worth of sugar in 1919, but probably $8,000,000 is nearer the mark.
When once started, tomatoes will propagate themselves like weeds in this
county; but, like other plants, the better the selection and care the better the
product. So far as natural conditions are concerned, there is practically no limit
to the quantity that might be produced ; the limit is in the profitable disposal of
the product after it is grown. The crop of 1910 was reported as follows : fresh
tomatoes, 2,568,000 pounds, worth $25,680 ; canned tomatoes, 20,000 cases, worth
$30,000. The crop of 1919, including tomato seed, is valued at $350,000.
The production of tomato seed for the marts of the world is being carried
on successfully by the Haven Seed Company, now located south of Santa Ana.
This company was established in 1875 at Bloomingdale, Mich., by the late E. M.
Haven. The seeds of this company soon attained a world-wide reputation for
purity and reliability which they still maintain to this clay. A good name is a
valuable asset in any business, so the company grew and prospered in its first
location for many years ; but, notwithstanding its euphemistic title of Blooming-
dale, the place was badly handicapped for growing plants by its rigorous winter
climate. Accordingly the Haven family moved to California in 1904, and made their
first planting in 1910 near Tustin. Different tracts were leased year after year,
but always of increased acreage, until finally a tract containing 100 acres was pur
chased on Edinger Street, just outside Santa Ana's southern boundary, and a
half mile west of Alain Street. On this tract, shortly after its purchase, 'an
office building and a warehouse were erected and the headquarters of the company
were established there. In 1918 a fine, large, three-story warehouse was built
of hollow tile, strengthened with reinforced concrete pillars. This building will
give ample room for cleaning, sacking and storing the seed ready for shipping,
and will have a fairly even temperature throughout on account of its hollow tile
construction. The building is equipped with modern machinery driven by elec
tricity. Three years ago, that is in 1917, the elder Haven died and left the business
to his sons whom he had trained until they knew every detail of the work. The
company was reorganized with A. B. Haven, the elder son, as president and gen
eral manager, and L. S. Haven, the younger son, as secretary. The company was
capitalized at $100,000.
In 1918 the company produced 75,000 pounds of tomato seed and about
15,000 pounds of pepper, melon and miscellaneous varieties of seed. More than
$50,000 was paid out in wages. In 1919 the company is harvesting 400 acres
of tomato seed and 200 acres of lima beans, egg-plant, peppers, cucumbers, etc.
It expects to harvest about 100,000 pounds of tomato seed and other kinds in
proportion from the above acreage. That is, it expects to harvest 12,000 tons
of tomatoes from which it will extract approximately 100,000 pounds of seed,
or eight pounds of seed from each ton of tomatoes.
As the price of everything has advanced within the last three or four years
and still is unsettled, it is difficult to give what might be regarded as a fair average
of the annual productions of the company. However, the round figures on sales
for 1918 were approximately $200,000 for all kinds of seeds produced by the com
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is not yet completed at the date of this writing, or even more from the increased
acreage, noted above.
As a further indication of the advantageous conditions of Orange County
and the superior merits of its productions, the fact may be cited that this county, in
competition with the whole world at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, received
twelve gold medals and four silver medals as testimonials of the superiority of its
¦products exhibited there. Orange County took second prize of $250 for fine
display of products at Riverside in October, 1919. The judges credited San Ber
nardino County with 92.8 points and Orange County with 90.8 points. Concerning
the exhibit of this county, the Riverside Enterprise says: "The Orange County
display is in a class by itself, both as to the products shown and the manner of
their showing. It is a finished picture in a superb and worthy frame, a magnificent
study in still life almost over-elaborated but saved from that criticism by an auster
ity of arrangement that suggests sureness of touch and certainty of selection. It
suggests the studio rather than the farmstead, the salon rather than the show
tent; but this is said in no spirit of detraction. When such a display, so arranged,
can be brought to the Southern California fair from the neighboring county, there
is no longer any argument to be made against the claim that this is a sectional
rather than a county fair. The artist who arranged the exhibit, for he has shown
himself an artist — is D. AA'. AIcDannald. The setting of the display is sumptuous
— redwood, heavy brown burlap, deep green velour hangings, brass fixtures and
jardinieres holding ferns and admirable lighting effects. For the display itselt,
it contains picked specimens of the fruits, grains and vegetables, as well as the
mineral products for which Orange County is famous. There are also novelties
like the Feijoa, a new fruit from Uruguay and the Chinese varnish nuts from
which the so-called tong oil is extracted."
Now, as promised at the beginning of this chapter, the foregoing is by no
means an exhaustive list of the fruits, grains and vegetables grown in Orange
County; for instance, there are onion fields near Anaheim, whose rows stretch
away in the distance almost as far as the eye can distinguish the plants from other
vegetation, and there are many other products worthy of mention. Then, too,
many plants, that in the East are grown in small beds in the garden or in the hot
house, are here grown in large fields and in the open air. Enough, however, has
been mentioned to substantiate the claim that Orange County can produce nearly
everything grown in the temperate zones and many things indigenous to the torrid
zone, and that, too, in almost limitless quantities.

CHAPTER XXIX
HISTORY OF THE CELERY INDUSTRY
By George W. Moore
Less than fifty years ago, the now famous peat lands of the AA'estminster and
Bolsa country, known as cienegas, were regarded as worthless. These cienegas
were tracts of swampy lands containing usually ponds of water in the middle,
skirted around with a rank growth of willows, tules and nettles. During the rainy
season the entire area of the cienega was overflowed. In the fall and winter
these marshy lands were the resorts of millions of wild geese ; they were also the
haunts of wild ducks and other water fowl, and were the favorite hunting grounds
of sportsmen of that day. The early settlers counted the cienegas as so much
waste land, or rather as worse than waste, for the drier portions' of these swamps
were the lurking places of wild cats, coyotes, coons and other prowlers, which
preyed upon the settlers' pigs and poultry.
Early in the history of the county the supervisors were petitioned to construct
a ditch in this territory under the "Drainage Act of 1881," which authorized the
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benefits derived therefrom. This work was undertaken in 1890 and was contested
before the board of supervisors and in the courts for about three years by those
for and against the improvement. Finally the Bolsa ditch was completed; and
that, with other drainage systems since established, has turned thousands of acres
of comparatively worthless land into some of the most productive soil in the county
and opened the way for the establishment of the celery industry in Orange County.
This industry has become famous throughout the world and, according to a local
writer, raised the value of the land from $15 to $500 per acre; but without drain
age no celery could be grown on these lands and they would still be comparatively
worthless. The following sketch of the origin and growth of the celery industry of
Orange County is compiled from the Santa Ana Blade's Celery edition of February
7, 1901 : "The first experiment in celery culture on the peat lands was made in
1891, on a tract of land south of Westminster, known locally as the Snow and
Adams place, on which several thousand dollars was expended, but without satis
factory results. E. A. Curtis, D. E. Smeltzer and others were the prime movers in
making the experiment, the outcome of which was such a flat failure that all but
Mr. Curtis gave up the idea. Mr. Curtis' pet scheme came to fruition sooner than
was anticipated, for about this time he entered the employ of the Earl Fruit Com
pany, and with the consent of the firm resolved again to give celery culture a trial.
"The proposition had many drawbacks, not least of which was the scarcity of
help to cultivate the crop and the entire lack oi experience in the laborers avail
able. In this extremity Mr. Curtis bethought himself of the Los Angeles Chinese
market gardeners and their knowledge of celery growing, and at once entered into
negotiations with a leading Chinaman to undertake the work of growing eighty
acres of celery on contract, the Earl Fruit Company to furnish everything, includ
ing implements needed in the cultivation of the crop, also money advanced for
rental of the land and the supplying of water where needed by digging wells ; so
that $5,000 was advanced before a stock of celery was ready for shipment. The re
sult was fairly successful, notwithstanding the untoward experience of the Chinese
laborers at the hands of white men, who worried and harassed the Celestials, both
in season and out of season, carrying their unreasonable resentment to the extent
of burning the buildings erected by the Earl Fruit Company, carrying off the im
plements used in the cultivation, and terrorizing the Chinamen employed to the
imminent risk of driving them away entirely and thus sacrificing the crop for want
of help to attend it.
"All this risk and expense fell directly on the Earl Fruit Company, for returns
for their investment could only come when the crop was ready for market, and it
may easily be imagined that E. A. Curtis, as a prime mover in the venture, occu
pied a most unenviable position. But Mr. Curtis kept right on, and overcame every
obstacle that presented itself, and to him is due the credit for demonstrating the
superior advantages of Orange County for the successful growing of celery and
the introduction and establishment of an industry that has permanently added
hundreds of thousands of dollars to the resources of the county.
"The crop from the land thus experimented with was shipped to New York
and Kansas City and consisted of about fifty cars, a considerable shipment at that
time, as prior to then a carload of California celery was an unheard of quantity.
There was, of course, not much profit made for that season after everything was
paid, for the items of expense were many and included all the loss and damage
suffered while the crop was maturing and a bill of $1,100 paid an officer of the
law for protection afforded the Chinese laborers while at work during the season.
But it paid a margin of profit and proved beyond dispute that under favorable
conditions celery culture might be undertaken with prospects of success, and this
fact once established, the rest was easy."
Celery growing developed into one of the leading industries of Orange Coun
ty. The area of celery culture exceeded 275,000 acres and. extended from the
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tract of land lying between the old and the new beds of the Santa Ana River,
the scene of the squatter contest of over thirty-five years ago.
Quoting from the April (1919) Bulletin of the State Commission of Horticul
ture-: "The total movement of celery from California for the season of 1917-18
was 2,775 cars. Florida had the second heaviest shipments with 2,458 cars. New
York ranked third with 1,739 cars. * * * The falling off of shipments from
October to the first of January was due primarily to a short acreage. Discour
aged by slow transportation, unsatisfactory returns, and high labor costs, growers
cut their acreage in two for the season 1918-19. Very heavy rains in September
injured many fields in the Delta district of central California, which resulted in
about twenty per cent damage. Stock in Southern California made slow growth
and much of it was shipped while still small." Orange County's acreage was
reduced by planting sugar beets or other crops instead of celery. The Santa Ana
Chamber of Commerce estimated the value of this county's celery crop for 1919
at $100,000; but the California Vegetable Union gave 100 cars at $800 per car,
or a total of $80,000, as its estimate.

CHAPTER XXX
ORANGE COUNTY'S LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY
Horses
The aborigines and their successors, the Mexicans and Spaniards, paid little
attention to domestic animals. Their nomadic mode of life was not conducive
to the acquisition of flocks and herds. There was, however, one exception and that
was the horse. This animal was such a help in traveling and hunting and so little
expense to keep that nearly every person provided himself with a pony. In fact,
in many places the cost of keeping was nothing, the animals running wild, getting
their own living and propagating their kind. Whenever one or more was needed,
the natives would round up a band of wild horses and lasso the requisite number.
It is not strange that animals thus reared and treated should be hard to tame and
never become entirely trustworthy.
In later years the Mexicans, Spaniards and Americans, who succeeded the
Indians, established an ownership over the different bands of horses, which owner
ship they maintained by branding and herding the animals. More or less friction
arose between the owners of the different bands and also between them and the
other settlers who were growing crops instead of raising stock. Various stories are
told of the clashes between the farmers and the stockmen, which at this late day
sound rather apocryphal. It is said that in one instance a Mr. Sepulveda, who
owned hundreds of horses and cattle, came to take them away ; but he was
afraid to go near them, because some settler was picking them off with his rifle
from a hiding place. In order to save their crops the settlers banded together and
ran three hundred animals over a high bluff near Newport, killing them all, and
chased a thousand head into Mexico.
With the incoming of better breeds these Mexican ponies were largely dis
placed or were improved by crossing with the other strains of horses. Of course
there are still some Mexican horses in the county, handed down from generation
to generation with little or no improvement; but such animals are the exception to
the rule that Orange County is well supplied now with good horses. The improve
ment, which would have come about gradually through the immigrants bringing in
better horses, was greatly accelerated by the importation of thoroughbreds for
breeding purposes. The late Don Marco Forster of Capistrano is credited with
being the first, in the territory now included in this county, to attempt to improve
his stock by the introduction of blooded stallions. He kept thousands of horses
and sold them for all purposes wherever he could find a market. A number of
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the most prominent were E. AA'. Squires, George B. Bixby, AA'alter K. Robinson,
Jacob Willitts, R. J. Blee, J. H. Garner and George W. Ford.
The Orange County Fair Association was organized in 1890 with a race track
located southwest of Santa Ana. This track was considered one of the best in
the West. Some of the records reported as being made on it were Silkwood,
2 :07 ; Klamath, 2 :07j-2 ; Ethel Downs, fastest five-heat race ever trotted on the
Coast. These records, and others not readily obtained now, gave the track and the
county great praise abroad and stimulated the raising of blooded stock at home.
As a result of this increased interest, some of the finest strains of thoroughbreds
and fastest race horses have been produced in this county. Horses for other pur
poses have been improved in like proportion until Orange County can justly take
pride in all its horses.
The county statistician in his report for 1910 gave the following figures on
the horses of the county and other kindred animals, viz. : Horses, thoroughbreds,
39, value $7,800; common, 7,649, value $780,000; colts, 1,257, value $63,850;
jacks and jennies, 2, value $1,000; mules, 2,035, value $407,000. The county
assessor in his report for 1919 gives all kinds of horses, 6,787, value $848,500;
mules, 2,440, value $549,000.
Although the work and activities of the people in the county, demanding
horse power, have greatly increased since 1910, the number of horses in the
county is now about 1,000 less than at that time. The reason is not far to seek.
The gasoline engine has displaced the horse as a motive power. With 9,794
registered motor vehicles and over 750 tractors in the county, each motor vehicle
being propelled by an engine rated at from eighteen horsepower to sixty horse
power and each tractor by an engine rated at from ten horsepower to forty-five
horsepower, it is easy to see why horses have decreased in the county instead of
increasing in proportion to the increase of the work. Then, horses are too slow
for this fast age ; even the best of them make a poor show at "keeping up with
Lizzie." Cattle
The cattle of Orange County passed through a very similar process of devel
opment to that described of the horses of said county. In the early days, when
hunting for a living was being displaced by .the pastoral life, some cattle were
brought into this region from other states or countries. These animals may have
been of poor quality or their offspring may have degenerated through a long period
of abuse and neglect. At all events they were better fitted for perpetuating their
existence under adverse conditions than they were for dairy purposes. Ownership
of cattle was maintained in the same way as that of the horses, by branding and
herding. The flocks and herds of the Spanish dons roamed over the hills and
valleys which are now dotted with orchards and farms. Dependent almost wholly
upon the variable rainfall and native grasses, the cattle industry of early times
was subject to great fluctuations between affluence and poverty. It is related that,
in periods of bountiful rains, the children of the cattle barons cut a swell in the
educational institutions of New York and Paris ; but that, in periods of extreme
drouth, hundreds of animals were driven into the sea to prevent their carcasses
from breeding pestilence on the land.
With the American occupation of the country came diversified farming and
some precautions against the capriciousness of Nature. The diversified farming
necessitated smaller holdings of land and permitted a denser population. Such a
change, however, might not decrease the number of live stock, for, while the size
of the herds would be decreased, the number of owners would be increased and the
subsistence of the animals would be more certain.
The Fletchers near Olive were credited with having made the first importation
of blooded stock in the territory now included in Orange County. Later Henry
West of McPherson shipped in a number of registered Jerseys, as did G. Y. Courts
of Orange still later, and there were doubtless other importers in different parts

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of the county. Whenever animals of high grade were brought into one part of
the county, stockraisers in the other parts would breed from them and thereby
improve their own herds; thus has the stock of the entire county been brought
to a high standard of excellence. As corroborative proof of this claim, the stock
sale of the Santa Ana Jersey Farm in December, 1909, may be mentioned. In
order to reduce stock the owner, J. T. Raitt, sold 122 fine cows at prices ranging
from $30 to $150 apiece, the average being $74 apiece. The total amount of the
sales was $9,028; nevertheless the owner had a sufficient number of cows left to
continue to supply his customers, over a large range of territory, with'milk.
The 1910 county statistics on this subject are as follows : Cattle, beef, 347,
value $13,880; stock, 850, value $25,500; dairy cows, 5,141, value $257,050;
heifers, 189, value $3,780; calves, 1,565, value $9,390. The assessment for 1919
gives all kinds of cattle, 17,676, value $1,237,320.
Cattle for beef and dairy purposes have no gasoline competitor ; hence they
have more nearly kept pace with the increase of population in the county. The
number of all kinds in 1910 was 8,092 ; that of all kinds in 1919 is 17,676, or an
increase in number of more than 118 per cent. The value of all kinds in 1910 was
$309,600; that of all kinds in 1919 is $1,237,320, or an increase in value of more
than 299 per cent. Instead of the promiscuous herds of early years that continued
to propagate their kind without let or hindrance, the cattle of late years are widely
distributed in dairies and among families ; hence they are better bred and better
cared for, thereby increasing their quality and value, as noted by the assessor in
the foregoing statistics. In order to encourage the dairymen of the county to
still further improve their stock, the supervisors bought five head of fine Holstein
stock at a sale in Phoenix, Ariz., in February, 1919. These animals consist of a
bull, three cows and a calf, all registered in the records of the Holstein-Friesian
Association of America, giving the pedigree and achievements of their ancestors
and their own names and stock numbers. They are kept at the county farm in
AVest Orange. • Sheep
About thirty-five or forty years ago the sheep industry was one of the
important industries of this section. Large flocks were located at different points
of what is now Orange County and were herded over the intervening territory
during the day and returned to the camp at night. Jonathan AA'atson, in the
Santa Ana Canyon above Olive, had 25,000 head of sheep along about 1876 and
there were other flocks nearly as large within the present confines of the county at
that time. The industry declined, however, as the range was occupied for other
purposes. The statistician's report for 1910 gives the following figures upon the sheep
industry : Sheep, 18,030, value $63,105 ; lambs, 7,330, value $18,325 ; wool, 216,360
pounds, value $25,963. The assessment roll for 1919 gives only 739 sheep worth
$7,390. The sheep industry of this county has been annihilated. It is true there
were 739 assessed in 1919 ; but this small band was temporarily in the county
when it was listed by the assessor for taxation. The reason for the decline of the
industry given in 1910, viz. : "The range was occupied for other purposes," did
not tell the whole story, for, at the time that reason was given, there were 18,030
sheep and 7,330 lambs being pastured in the hills of the county. Now those sheep
have all disappeared and that range is not being occupied for other purposes.
The other part of the story is that the low tariff gave the death blow to the sheep
industry in this country. One of the elder Eyraud brothers, who pastured sheep
in the hills east of El Modena for many years, told the writer that they lost
$30,000 under the low Wilson tariff act during President Cleveland's last term,
and one of the sons told him in 1913 that, if the new administration adopted
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when the Underwood tariff act was adopted. Others did the same until there
are no sheep left in Orange County.
Thirty-five or forty years ago there were a few goats raised in some of the
small canyons tributary to the Santiago Creek ; but with the removal of the regular
residents from the canyons, the raising of goats in the mountains ceased. Within
the past five years goat raising has taken a fresh start in Orange County, but this
time the industry has broken out in spots over the valley section of the county.
Recently the Department of Agriculture issued a bulletin urging the American
people to turn their attention to goat farming as a means of reducing the high
cost of living. One of the results of the awakened interest in the industry has
been the increase in the price of goats. Where formerly goats sold from two
dollars to five dollars now they bring from $50 to $200 a piece, because the demand
has outrun the supply. The Huntington Beach News mentioned the following
persons as being interested in goat raising in that community: L. T. Young, F.
L. Snyder, George W. Wardwell, H. H. Campbell, Al. Clark and others. A. B.
Collins of Villa Park is raising goats as a side line in connection with fruit grow
ing. Fie has a flock of thirteen goats -of different ages, one of the bucks regis
tered and the other animals of good grade. Hogs
Very few people, if any, in Orange County raise hogs for the market. Most
of the stockmen and general farmers raise a small number each year for home con
sumption, and may occasionally market a few when they have a surplus. These
few animals can be raised on the waste of the farm; but the fruit growers can
utilize their ground more profitably than in raising feed for hogs.
The statistical report of the number and value of the hogs in the county in
1910 was as follows: Swine, 1,037, value $12,444. The 1919 assessment roll
shows 1,356, worth $27,120.
Evidently the citizens of Orange County would rather buy their ham and
bacon already grown and cured, than to buy high-priced feed for hogs or produce
it on high-priced land, for the 1,356 hogs in the county in 191*9 would make but a
small part of the pork consumed annually in the county, to say nothing of the
stock animals carried over from year to year. Only enough hogs are being raised
to consume the waste from the canneries, the kitchens and the packing houses.
Poultry
In the early days this state abounded in nearly every kind of wild game.
The swamps and lagoons near the coast afforded food and shelter to myriads of
wild ducks and geese. These birds, in passing from one place to another, would
frequently alight in the grain fields and destroy more or less of the growing crops.
In order to protect such crops and to provide meat for the table, a systematic
war was made on these birds for many years. In some parts of the state pot
hunters were hired by the farmers to slaughter the wild game that was devastating
their fields. Now this game is protected by game laws, which require a license
for hunting, regulate the open seasons and fix the bag-limit for the various kinds,
in order to prevent such game from becoming extinct. Hence what could be
obtained for the table by a few hours' hunting in the early days must now be pro
vided through the rearing of domestic fowls.
From quite an early date chicken raising, as it is commonly called, has been
followed in the territory now included in Orange County. It offered the quickest
returns on the investment and the most ready support for families that could not
wait for fruit trees to come into bearing or even for annual crops to mature. In
fact, eggs were legal tender through the seventies, and helped to tide many a
family over the dry spell of 1875 to 1877, before the irrigation facilities were well
developed. Followed as a separate enterprise, poultry raising has proved profit
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those engaged in the business. It is a business, however, that can be sandwiched
in with fruit growing, general farming and stock-raising without material loss or
inconvenience to those industries. The fowls do better when they have consider
able freedom, including the range of the barnyards and alfalfa fields. Thus they
pick up much of their living from the waste of the farm. The mild climate and
green feed the year round are conducive to making hens lay more here than in
the East, and to distribute their eggs more evenly throughout the year. This
helps to equalize the price, and the large cities near by with their tourist popula
tion keep up the demand. As to the profits of producing hens' eggs for the
market, one example must suffice. A careful record of all receipts and expenses
of thirty-four hens, confined in a yard 22x150 feet and fed entirely on purchased
food, showed a net profit per hen of $2.60 per year. Allowing more time and
space for the care of the fowls, the profits on a greater number ought to increase
in proportion to the number.
AVith the improved facilities of incubators and brooders, the raising of
broilers for the market is a paying part of the business. It can be carried on
all times of the year in this mild climate, and the demand is great. With so
many people to feed in the cities, it is almost impossible to glut the market. This
demand, too, is at our doors ; there is no long haul of freights to consume the
profits. The Jubilee incubator was manufactured at Orange for a number of
years and the Santa Ana incubator was manufactured at Santa Ana. Other styles
of incubators were shipped in as needed.
In 1907 a poultry association was formed at Fullerton. Later in the same
year the Orange County Poultry Association was formed, by a union of all the
poultry men, and held an exhibition at the county-seat. Various exhibits have
been held since that time, which have done much to improve the fowls of the
county. The county statistician gives the following figures on the poultry and eggs
of Orange County in the year 1910: Chickens, 16,500 dozen, value $115,500;
ducks, 2,200 dozen, value $17,600; geese, 150 dozen, value $3,520; turkeys, 225
dozen, value $4,500; eggs, 236,750 dozen, value $71,025. Total value of poultry
and eggs $212,145. The Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce report for 1919 gives
$1,500,000 as the value of poultry and eggs.
Poultry raisers complained during the World War that chicken feed was so
high and the price of poultry products was so low they couldn't make any money
in the business; so they sold out or ate up their flocks without replacing them,
until after the war it was found next to impossible to collect enough broilers in
a day's ride to furnish a chicken supper for a church social. And eggs, follow
ing the law of supply and demand like other commodities, mounted higher and
higher until a single egg sold for more than a whole dozen did in the same terri
tory thirty-five years ago, and a single egg sold for 100 per cent more in New
York City than Henry Ford's character was rated at by a jury of his peers.

CHAPTER XXXI
THE BEE INDUSTRY
By J. E. Pleasants
The history of beekeeping in California is the history of beekeeping on the
Pacific Coast, as the first bees to be brought west of the Rockies were those
brought to California in 1857 by John S. Harbison. This shipment was brought
by water from Pennsylvania to California via the Isthmus. Samuel Shrewsbury
was the first man to bring bees into what is now Orange County. This was. in 1869.
He first kept them on the Montgomery ranch at Villa Park. In 1871 he moved
them into the Santiago Canyon. Beekeeping as an industry has grown gradually
until there are now about 10,000 colonies kept in Orange County. There are from

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75 to 100 practical beekeepers who make it their chief business. The average
yield of honey during a good year is about 200 tons. This year (1920) there will
be over 300 tons. The cash income from honey and wax, at the present prices, is
something over $100,000 annually. The main sources of nectar supply are from
the native mountain plants, such as the sages, sumac, wild alfalfa, wild buckwheat,
etc., the sages being the best nectar yielders both for quantity and quality. There
is undoubtedly no better or more delicately flavored honey in the world than that
produced from the sages of Southern California. There is also a large amount
of honey produced from the orange and bean blossoms of the valleys. The
orange honey is white, and has the spicy flavor of the orange blossoms. The great
economic value in honey production lies in the fact that such a delicate and whole
some food is produced from a source which requires no manipulation from the
hand of man save the care of the bees. The vast quantities of nectar, commercially
speaking, would go to waste were it not for the bees, and their presence in the
orchards are a positive value in the production of fruit owing to cross-pollination.
Orange County appointed its first inspector in 1902. At that time the "foul
brood" had spread to over fifteen hundred stands, and these were scattered all
over the county. The inspector, with the cooperation of the keepers, had, up to
1910, about stamped out the disease and at that time it affected only about fifty
stands. This means those stands that are hahdled, for there may be some in out
of the way places that are not known to the inspector. However, the disease is
now under control. This disease is known as the American foul brood, and it is
known to have existed for more than eight hundred years, though it was not called
the American until importations were made from Italy to this country.
In 1905 a disease known and called the European foul brood was discovered
in New York, and was so severe that it was certain death to the bees infected.
It spread with such rapidity that it reached California in 1908, and was found
in the San Joaquin Valley, north of the Tehachepi, and exterminated the bees
in nearly every section of the Valley. Mr. Pleasants was sent from Orange County
to that region to make a study of it in order to be able to recognize it if it made
its appearance in this section. He found it was very disastrous and that it men
aced the industry in the state should it get beyond control. It has not made its
appearance in this county up to the time of this report.
J. E. Pleasants was in charge of the California honey exhibit at New Orleans
in the winter of 1884-85, and it was there that he met with some of the most
prominent men engaged in this business in the United States. He was appointed
the first inspector for Orange County and has been continued in that position
to the present time. He has made a study of the bee for the benefit of those
engaged in the business, and has always had their hearty cooperation, the men
working in harmony with him on every occasion. The men interested in the bee
business in Orange County are in it for commercial purposes only, not from a
scientific point of view. The county now has a "clean slate," but holds a quaran
tine on bees from any infected district. The duties of the inspector necessitate
a thorough knowledge of bees, and he is expected to look into each stand in every
apiary if possible. Even though the keepers know the signs of the disease ,they
insist upon the inspector doing the work.
It is a well known fact that bees save for the keepers, injure nothing, and
for those engaged in the fruit business are a boon, as they carry the pollen from
flower to flower and tree to tree. The valleys and canyons were the richest and
best producing places in the early days, the best flowers were to be found there,
especially the kind most needed, but when the settlers began to come in they
wanted the ground to raise hay and other farm products, and this drove the bee
men from their haunts, as the shrubs that were so abundant were grubbed out.
This condition has been changing back to the old order again* the more fertile
land in the valley has been sought out by the ranchers, and the places once occupied
by the bees are fast returning to the original condition.

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CHAPTER XXXII
SEMI-TROPIC FRUITS IN ORANGE COUNTY
By C. P. Taft
The history of the semi-tropic fruits, other than citrus, in Orange County,
is quite similar in most particulars to that of the other counties of Southern
California. The first Spanish settlers introduced little that is still of especial
value, except the Mission olive and grape, and there are yet some trees and vines
in existence once planted by the padres. Other and better varieties have prac
tically superseded them, and there are numerous vineyards and olive orchards
which are profitable, but not to an extent to induce very extensive further planting.
Of more recent introduction, if not yet of equal value, and quite successfully
grown, are the avocado, or alligator pear, feijoa, many kinds of guavas, the
loquat, cherimoya, persimmon, pomegranate and sapota. AVhen Orange County
was first organized the persimmon, pomegranate and cherimoya were known
to a slight extent, planted by a few of the more enterprising citizens, and there
are today in Anaheim, Orange, Santa Ana, Tustin and vicinity some specimens
of each which are approximately thirty years old. The avocado, carissa, feijoa
and sapota, in the county, are in a few cases over twelve years of age.
AA'hile other semi-tropical trees and plants have been tried, it is the very
rare exception that any have consented to live even a year, and only those men
tioned above have been sufficiently enduring and prolific to result in or to justify
extensive propagation. For instance, the banana, pineapple, eugenia, mango,
papaya, etc., have been repeatedly tried, but as yet without satisfactory results,
though it is not impossible that among the multitude of varieties of these fruits,
there may yet be found some which will prove themselves adapted to this region.
In fact, the avocado, which is now so full of promise, was long regarded as of
very dubious value. The first trees grew well indeed, but bearing only in the
rarest instances.
It is not necessary to enter upon a detailed description of each of these fruits,
such as may be found in almost all first-class nursery catalogues, but mention may
be made in a general way of their special development.
The loquat is in a way the most characteristic fruit of Orange County, for
it is here that it has been most highly developed, and so far as yet ascertained,
has reached a perfection unknown elsewhere, not only in California, but in the
world. At any rate, as a result of new varieties originated here, Orange County
has the largest and best loquat orchards. Approximately from one hundred to
one hundred fifty tons are marketed annually. Relatively this is not a large
.amount, to be sure, but it is the most and best of any.
Of more recent introduction, the avocado or alligator pear, is by all odds
the most desirable fruit on the list. Attention has been especially called to prove
that this superb and fascinating fruit can be grown in many portions of Orange
County with great success. It is not unlikely that there will soon be extensive
development of this industry, rivalling the orange it may be, in value and acreage.
Excellent and prolific varieties have been established and orchards of budded
trees are making their appearance. There is every reason for believing, that by
proper selection of varieties, the avocado may be made to mature fruit every
month of the year and be a constant source of income and gratification. If it is
so desired, the grower may confine his attention to varieties ripening at such a
time as he may regard the most profitable and market his entire crop in a few
months. Persimmons, especially the Hachiya, a Japanese variety, here attain a perfec
tion unsurpassed anywhere. While the market does not as yet absorb a very
large quantity, the demand is increasing and from ten to twenty tons are mar
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pomegranates also find a ready market, principally as a very interesting novelty
to tourists, though they are not without an intrinsic value.
The feijoa sellowiana is the most recent introduction on the list and has
not yet been tested on the market, nearly all of the fruit going to furnish seeds
to nurserymen who wish to increase their stock. It has a most delightful flavor
and perfume, as well as unusually excellent keeping qualities. It ripens in Novem
ber and December, at a time when fruit begins to be scarce. There is no doubt
that it will prove very profitable and should be largely planted.
Guavas of all kinds have their representative varieties, which find a con
genial home in many portions of the county and ripen according to variety, at
all times in the year. They are mostly used to eat out of hand, but the largest
and handsomest are principally used for jellies and preserves, for which purpose
they are unsurpassed.
The carissa is a thorny bush, bearing an abundance of fragrant blossoms,
more or less bright red, and very handsome fruits, which can be used for sauces
much like the cranberry. The sapota is a large handsome tree, bearing somewhat
fitfully, a considerable quantity of yellowish-green fruit about the size of a peach.
Occasionally one finds a desirable variety, but most of the trees bear relatively
poor fruit. The time for ripening is October, when other fruits are plentiful, and
this puts it at a disadvantage. Thus it is not likely that even the best varieties
will ever be much grown. The carissa, however, may develop into something more
than a successful curiosity.

During the nine years since the foregoing description of "semi-tropic fruits"
was written, the status of the less grown fruits in Orange County has changed
relatively little. The avocado continues to take the lead and considerable planting
has been done in spite of some drawbacks from frost, which injured some trees
and nursery stock in the more exposed situations. New varieties from Guate
mala, by Air. E. E. Knight of Yorba Linda, have proved quite adaptable and
prolific, one, the "Linda," having fruits weighing from two to four pounds or
more each. Other new kinds furnished by the department of agriculture, also
from Guatemala, are being tested. Individual trees of the older planting have
established new and remarkable records for productiveness, notably the "Taft,"
which produced over five hundred dollars' worth of fruits in 1917 and over six
hundred dollars' worth in 1919. The "Sharpless" tree, owned by B. H. Sharpless
of Tustin, has done equally well. Both are among the oldest trees in the county,
and they give some idea of what to expect when trees of later planting attain
bearing age.
The persimmon has advanced considerably in the estimation of the public,
which now takes all that are offered it at very good prices. There has been and
is a good demand for trees, more than exhausting the entire available supply of
nursery stock, of which there bids fair to be a shortage for several years. In
Orange County the Hachiya, which is the best commercial variety, has rarely
been known to fail after the trees have reached the full-bearing age, which is
about eight years from planting. On the oldest trees the production amounts to
400 pounds or more annually.
Among the feijoas new varieties have been developed, which are not only
larger, but extend the season so that it now lasts from September to December
inclusive, and the fruit is in increasing demand, not only for immediate con
sumption, but for preserves.
The jujube, a recent introduction by the department of agriculture, is proving
very well suited to this section, being both a vigorous grower and very prolific.
It is likely in due time to take place' among the standard fruits of Orange
County. Originating in this county, a seedless sapota is the latest novelty to attract
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surprising characteristics, and it may be heard from again. The original tree
has only lately reached the bearing stage; it is very prolific.
As one object of this article is to show what semi-tropical fruits can be
grown with confidence and profit, and what are at best only experiments, we
will recapitulate : The avocado, loquat and feijoa are very desirable and may be
grown extensively with good results financially. The persimmon and pomegranate
also are reasonably desirable. The carissa and sapota should only meet with indi
vidual favor and a few specimens be grown in every collection.

CHAPTER XXXIII
THE ENGLISH WALNUT INDUSTRY
What is generally called the English walnut in this country should more
properly be called the Persian walnut. Its scientific name is Juglans Regia. Be
cause of its thin shell and rich flavor it has been grown in the old world for
many centuries. In America, however, it has not been very successfully grown
except in parts of California. Not every kind of soil and climate, even in Cali-.
fornia, is suitable for securing the best results. The walnut requires a deep,
rich loam, or even adobe soil, free from hardpan or standing water within reach
of the roots. It also requires a mild and equable climate, such as is found in the
southern part of the state near the coast.
More than a third of a century's experiments seem to have demonstrated:
that the best conditions for the successful growing of walnuts are found in Orange,
Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. The tree does not do well
farther up the coast, while in the hot valleys of the interior it grows to an
enormous size, but produces few nuts and those of an inferior quality.
All the early planting of walnuts, both in Europe and the United States,
was done with seedlings, and even now many such trees are planted, either
to save the expense or because grafted trees are not always available. Many
prefer the seedlings, for the results secured are as satisfactory, when they have
been bred up to a high standard, as those obtained from the grafted stock.
However, many growers prefer the grafted stock. According to some authorities,
the Mayette type is not profitable and is only suited for high altitudes. Experi
ments show that these foreign walnuts do not grow as vigorously when grafted
upon roots of their own species as they do on some of the American species.
Professor Van Deman, in an article in the Rural New Yorker, says there
are four species of native walnuts, Juglans nigra, Juglans cinerea, Juglans
rupestris and Juglans Californica, upon all of which he has experimented, and
he prefers the latter two, which are very much alike. Prof. AV. J. Clarke, in
the California Fruit Grower, says : "The native black walnuts, strong, vigorous
growers and self-adapted to the different climatic and soil conditions of the state,
should be used as stocks upon which to graft or bud the less vigorous European
varieties and their seedling progeny."
The seed nuts are carefully selected from trees bearing the largest nuts
of the desired variety and planted in layering beds, the soil of which is composed-
of equal portions of sand and loam well mixed. The nuts are spread evenly
over the beds and covered to a depth of two inches with the same kind of soil.
This layering is done in the latter part of the winter and the beds kept moist
until the nuts germinate. As soon as the nuts crack open and the caulicle or
root-stem appears, the nuts are transplanted to the nursery row, care being taken
not to injure the caulicle. They are replanted two inches deeper than before
to allow for settling of the dirt, and about four or five feet apart in rows at
least thirty inches from each other, the soil having been prepared for their
reception. Constant attention with the judicious use of water and the necessary
cultivation bring forward the little plants until large enough to bud or graft to
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If, however, an orchard of seedlings is wanted, the right variety of nuts
is selected for planting and the budding or grafting dispensed with. One suc
cessful grower, George W. Ford, of Santa Ana, took his selected nuts, when
the time came, in April, for planting, put them in barrels and covered with
water, letting them soak for forty-eight hours. The water was drained off and
the nuts spread evenly over a surface and covered with wet sacks for another
forty-eight hours, during which time they crack open and sprouts show, then
they were set out in prepared beds, five feet apart, and were kept well irrigated.
The nursery stock is usually one, two or three years old when transplanted
to the orchard. The prevailing price for seedlings in 1910 was from ten to
thirty cents apiece, while the grafted trees usually cost from fifty cents to $1.25
each, or at the rate of ten cents per foot in height. On rich, heavy soil the
trees are planted forty-five or fifty feet apart; but on lighter soil they are fre
quently planted forty feet apart.
The quantity of water used in irrigating the trees, the number of times
and the best season of the year to make the application, are questions that
every grower determines for himself by observation and experience. There is
more or less variation in the seasons and different kinds of soil require different
kinds of treatment. As a general rule no more water is applied than is neces
sary to keep the trees in a thrifty condition. Alore than enough increases the
expense and injures the trees and soil. On good walnut land, in seasons of
average rainfall, one irrigation each year is all that is generally given.
Air. Ford stated that he had not plowed his walnut orchard for fifteen years.
His production from 283 trees in 1909. was 28,040 pounds, for which he received
twelve and a half cents, orchard run. Some ofdiis tree's yielded 300 pounds
each. They weighed sixty-eight pounds to the sack. In 1910 the crop weighed
fifty-eight pounds to the sack and he received fourteen cents orchard run for the
crop. By careful experiment he had found that a "plow-hardpan" is formed by
cultivating, and also that it breaks off the small shoots sent up by the roots to
draw the necessary nourishment from the air. This retards the development
of the tree to some extent, besides the nut is not as perfect. He had planted his
trees the ordinary distance apart, but by cutting out every other tree, found his
yield much greater.
The California Walnut Growers' Association quoted the following prices in
1918: No. 1 soft shell  28 cents
No. 2 soft shell  25 cents
Fancy budded  3\y2 cents
Standard budded  29 cents
Jumbos  3iy2 cents
The value of the 1919 crop for Orange County was estimated at $5,750,000.
The monthly bulletin of the State Commission of Horticulture for April,
1919, says : "Alore walnuts are raised in California than in any other state or
country in the world." Table XI in the same bulletin gives the acreage and
production of walnuts by counties in 1909 and 1918. The figures for the latter
year only are quoted and for those counties only that produce a million or more
pounds of nuts, as follows : Acres in Average Pounds Production
County Bearing per Acre in Pounds
Los Angeles  15,572 757 11,794,000
Orange  12,350 1,283 15,849,000
Santa Barbara  4,500 789 3,551,000
Ventura  11,334 678 7,688,700
The State  48,520 829 40,230,680
Let the people of Orange County rejoice and be glad that California pro
duces more walnuts than any other state or country in the world, and that Orange
County produces sixty-two per cent more of nuts per acre than Santa Barbara

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County, its nearest competitor, and thirty-four per cent larger crop than Los
Angeles County, its nearest competitor in quantity, notwithstanding its twenty-six
per cent less acres in bearing.

CHAPTER XXXIV
FARM BUREAU REPORT
By Harold E. Wahlberg
The Orange County Farm Bureau is just now closing its second year, which
has been one of numerous activities and county-wide interest. Although located
in a county of intensive agricultural industry, a county well supplied with numer
ous other organizations, marketing, political, social and others, this infant organ
ization has made noteworthy strides notwithstanding. At the time of the last
annual report the membership of the County Farm Bureau of Orange County
numbered 704. During the past year several have fallen out, and still more
have been added, making a total at this writing of 827. This membership is dis
tributed throughout the county among thirteen Farm Centers, as follows :
Anaheim  73 La Habra ....:¦  . . . 83
Buena Park  76 San Juan Capistrano  23
El Modena  30 Tustin  65
Fullerton  108 Villa Park  61
Garden Grove  73 AA'est Orange  39
Harper  66 Wintersburg  51
Yorba Linda  79
During the early part of the present year a systematic membership cam
paign was conducted under the leadership of the Farm Advisor, assisted by
membership committees in each of the Centers. It is planned to have another
membership drive in the early part of- next year, with the end in view of doubling
the present membership.
Owing to the fact that the Farm Bureau has been a new organization in
the county, and owing to the large number of other organizations and attrac
tions which exist in this highly developed community, the Farm Bureau found
existence in its early history rather doubtful but, with the cooperation of a
strong Board of Directors, who have encouraged the Farm Advisor from the
very beginning, the institution has made great strides during the past year,
and has established for itself a permanent home in the hearts and needs of the
farmers of the county. There has been a continuous and untiring campaigm
of education to bring the farmer of this highly developed county to the appre
ciation of his need of such an organization as represented by the Farm Bureau,
but now that it has established a firm foothold, there is no doubt in the minds
of the officers of the organization that the Farm Bureau will become stronger
year by year, and become the organization through which the farmers of the
county will obtain their due representation and voice their sentiments as they
have never been able to do before. Especially, with the organization of a
State Farm Bureau Federation, do the Farm Bureau members feel that their
organization in this county, as well as throughout the state, is going to help solve
the large problems and issues facing agricultural interests, and it is this one
step in the experience and development of the Farm Bureau work that we feel
will insure the permanency of the organization. Its mission as far as Orange
County is concerned will be to take up the larger issues of legislation and repre
sentation among the other great classes of the state and nation. It is on this
strong argument, as well as the projection of local county projects, that the next
campaign for membership will be based.
The average farmer of this county is a man of education and business ability,
especially among the citrus growers, where we find a large percentage of doctors,
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educators" and professional men, and necessarily the Farm Bureau has been
called upon to present highly specialized subjects in its monthly meetings, and
for this reason it is most urgent that the University, the Experiment Station and
the U. S. Department of Agriculture be called upon to meet this specialized.
demand. It is not possible for the County Agent to become so specialized in all
the industries of the county, which include orange growing, lemon growing, sugar
beet, bean and truck crop growing, besides the many other highly specialized
minor industries which have developed in the county. In order to do justice to the
work, therefore, the Farm Advisor deems it necessary to meet these special
demands by calling upon experts of the various state and government depart
ments, which is a condition that has to be met by most of the southern counties
of this state where the crops grown are so highly specialized.
Agriculturally speaking, Orange County may be divided into two main
sections ; the northern third specializes almost entirely on citrus fruits and
walnuts, while the southern two-thirds is devoted to growing beans, ;sugar
beets, grains, as well as dairying. As far as the Farm Bureau is concerned
with relation of these two. divisions, the interests and demands on the Farm
Advisor of these respective parts are widely different, and it has been his aim
to meet them accordingly.
The high values of farming lands of this county, ranging from $200 to $5,000
per acre, make intensive farming necessary. Double cropping is the general rule
on most of the lands devoted to annual crops. The citrus sections present many
highly specialized problems, including soil fertilizers, control of tree diseases,
including gummosis, scaly bark, oak rot fungus ; control of orchard insects and
pests, irrigation, drainage, cover cropping, pruning, rejuvenation of old trees,
bud selection and numerous other phases. The Farm Bureau is endeavoring to
meet these problems every day by educational meetings, field demonstrations and
personal visits to the farm.
In the southern farming section a wide range of conditions and problems
confronts the farmer, the most important of which are alkali reclamation, drain
age, irrigation, moisture conservation, soil and crop tests, seed selection and weed
eradication. Like other counties in this portion of the state, Orange County
presents agricultural problems of more or less local character. Projects which
are proposed for general California conditions are not in main applicable to
our local conditions. For example, our climatic and moisture conditions do
not favor the growing of wheat ; stock raising is carried on in a very limited
way ; sheep and hogs have not found much favor because of the scarcity of
feed, as well as higher returns brought by other crops. On the other hand,
any project relating to the increase of citrus yields, bean or beet crops, have
received the heartiest reception.
The Farm Bureau and the Farm Advisor are endeavoring to cooperate
with all the farm industries of the county, bringing to their attention the latest
information on the various projects involved. This is being done by means of
practical field demonstrations, showing the application of methods, or results
brought about by scientific application. Excursions have been a popular means
of bringing the Orange CoUnty farmer in touch with the best agricultural prac
tices. The Farm Bureau has conducted several excursions' to the Citrus Experi
ment Station at Riverside, as well as local county excursions pointing out the
best practices of practical farmers.
Another educational feature of the Farm Bureau work is the publication of
a Farm Bureau Weekly, which is incorporated in the largest paper in the county.
During the first year, the Farm Bureau issued a standard sized Farm Bureau
Alonthly, which reached only the membership of the Farm Bureau. In order
to bring the purpose of this organization before a larger number of readers,
the Board of Directors proposed a plan of supplying agricultural news items,
Farm Bureau write-ups and other material of special interest to the farmers of
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circulation of the' county, approximately 6,000 subscribers. By incorporating
the Farm Bureau news in this paper each Wednesday of the week, the Directors
of the Farm Bureau feel that the Farm Bureau will get a much larger publicity
for information which it can disseminate, which will be of greater influence
throughout the county, resulting from the increased circulation.
From time to time the County Itinerants are called together by the Farm
Advisor for the purpose of discussing the correlation of the various depart
ments. These conferences include the County Horticultural Commissioner,
County Librarian, County School Superintendent, Forest Supervisor, County
Sealer of Weights and the Farm Advisor. The County Horticultural Commis
sioner and the County Farm Advisor have cooperated very closely with the
extension of their work throughout the county, inasmuch as a large portion of
the work of the Farm Advisor is with the horticultural interests of the county.
When the Pacific Telephone Company raised its rates in March and Alay,
1919, and also discontinued the free toll service between nearby towns, the Farm
Bureau initiated a movement to organize a county-wide mutual telephone associa
tion, through which they hoped to lower the rates, get more satisfactory service,
and give a county-wide free toll exchange. After considerable agitation through
the Farm Centers of the county, committees were appointed representing each
district to work out a plan of organization. They soon got the business men of
the county interested in this movement and, together with the Associated Cham
bers of Commerce, the Farm Bureau has appointed an Executive Committee and
retained attorneys, who have obtained a state charter and county franchise for
the organization of a county mutual telephone association. The name of this
organization is known as the "Farmers and Merchants Association." The com
mittee has had to surmount many obstacles during the year in order to meet the
opposition created by the telephone monopolists and the Railroad Commission,
but it feels now that it has progressed far enough along to start actual construc
tion and operation. According to present plans the first unit of the exchange will
be constructed at Garden Grove. The Farm Center of Garden Grove is raising
funds for the construction of this unit. It is expected that this will be extended
over the entire county. The committees have worked out a feasible plan of
finance, which may be paid out in monthly installments by the telephone users.
When the organization and construction have been completed there will be
approximately 10,000 phones in the system.
As was reported in the last annual report of the Farm Advisor, considerable
effort had been made by the Farm Bureau in proposing legislation for the con
servation of large quantities of water which are being annually wasted through
the artesian belts of Orange County and other artesian sections of the state. The
legislative committee of the Farm Bureau compiled a bill, with the assistance of
its attorneys, which was presented by the assemblyman of this district, referred
to the conservation committee of both the House and the Senate, and brought
on the legislative floors several times during the session of the last legislature.
The Farm Bureau sent delegations to Sacramento to work in the interests of
this conservation law, Assembly Bill No. 6, but were met with a strong lobby
from the opposing elements, backed by the wealthy gun clubs of the state. The
bill met with a defeat of forty-two to twenty-five. This defeat, however, has
only increased the determination of the Farm Bureau members of this county
to see the same law through at the next legislature, and experience during the
past year will give them better preparation for a continued fight. It is expected
that this will be one of the issues taken up by the legislative committee of the
State Federation of Farm Bureaus, as it is one of paramount importance in the
arid regions of this state where water is of such high value and importance.
A movement is on foot at the present time by agricultural interests of
the southern counties for the conservation of winter precipitation and the protec
tion of the watersheds from which the irrigation water from our rivers and the
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cial assistance with the other organizations of "the county in" bringing about a
practical plan of conserving and storing the winter waters by means of retaining
dams and reforestation. This is one of the vital issues before the county at the
present time.
Realizing the need of better transportation facilities, and the great demand
that the future will make on eastern shipments, the farmers of the county, includ
ing the membership of the Farm Bureau, have assisted materially in passing the
recent County Bond Issue for the purpose of developing Newport Harbor, the
water shipping point of Orange County. Citrus associations and other marketing
associations of the county are planning an immense development in eastern ship
ments of fruits, walnuts^ beans and other products. With the development of the
local harbor, direct steamer shipments can be made from this county to eastern
points through the Panama Canal.
Considerable educational work through the Farm Centers of the fruit sections
has been given for the purpose of acquainting the producer with the require
ments of the new standardization fruit law which specifies the quality of all fruits
as to color, ripeness, blemishes, size, etc. This law was created for the purpose
of putting a better quality of fruit on the market, and protecting the consumer.
The grower is given a standard to go by, and in most cases he will get a better
price for his product, although there will be more waste than under the old
system. However, this waste may be utilized for by-products.
During the year a systematic Rodent Control campaign was carried on by
the Horticultural Commissioner, cooperating with the Farm Centers located in
the general farming and grain sections. Considerable publicity work was carried
on by the Farm Bureau, and quantities of poison sold through this office. As a
result the squirrel pest has been greatly decreased. The campaign has been very
efficient and many thousands of dollars' worth of crops saved as a result.
There are now about ten boys' clubs in the county under the direct supervision
of Smith-Lever Agricultural teachers of the high schools. Several more clubs
are contemplated for the coming year. These clubs are located at Huntington
Beach and Fullerton. During the past year the Huntington Beach club boys have
been raising pure-bred hogs very successfully. In some instances they have
taken the lead in hog raising in the neighborhood. The Fullerton clubs have
just been organized, and it is expected that they will take up pure-bred hog raising
and home gardens. Two boys were sent to the State Conference of Agricultural
Clubs at Davis in October. We have found that parents have become interested
in Farm Bureau work through the boys who participated in agricultural club
work. By extension of agricultural club work in the cottntv it is hoped to influ
ence a larger Farm Bureau membership. The club boys, during the year, have
participated in a number of agricultural exhibits, showing the products of their
work. The future for the club work in Orange County looks very bright.
The Farm Advisor has assisted seventy-two boys in growing home gardens.
A Home Garden Campaign was started through the schools in the county in the
early part of this year. The agricultural teachers in charge have asked the direct
cooperation of the Farm Advisor. Seventy-two gardens were carried through
the year. In some cases the boys or girls keeping these gardens realized fair
profits, which have encouraged the work more than any other feature in its
connection. Another Home Garden Campaign is being outlined by the Farm
Advisor and the agricultural teachers in the county for the ensuing year.
During the year the Farm Bureau has participated in two fairs, the Orange
County Fair at Huntington Beach and the Southern California Fair at River
side. At both of these fairs, booths were maintained by the Farm Bureau, giving
information concerning the agricultural extension work in the county and offering
information to the many farmers calling at the booth. This feature has proven
to be not only of educational value to the farmer, but also has meant consider
able publicity for the Farm Bureau. The Directors have approved of making
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A large area of the agricultural lands of the southern and western part of
the county is subject to the rise of alkaline salts and high water table. The
Farm Bureau has pointed out the best methods of meeting this situation through
the installation of drainage systems. Numerous Center meetings have been de
voted to the discussion of drainage, special meetings have been called, commit
tees appointed, and as a result four districts are in process of organization,
namely: Buena Park, Cypress, Buaro and Garden Grove. The Farm Advisor
has called upon the Division of Soil Technology of the University for informa
tion and assistance in the organization of these districts, to which this department
very nicely responded. The acreages involved in the above districts are as
follows: Buena Park, 8,000 acres; Cypress, 4,000 acres; Buaro, 1,000 acres;
Garden Grove, 4,000 acres.
Orange County is one of the pioneers in the state for drainage work, there
being already six or seven drainage districts in operation. With the intensive
use of irrigation waters over the large areas in this county, the need of drainage
would become more and more imperative. Investigational data taken in several
districts of the county show that the surface water table is gradually rising, and as
a consequence the alkaline salts are accumulating in great quantities year by
year. In order to establish a permanent form of agriculture in the irrigated dis
tricts, the Farm Bureau is endeavoring to emphasize the use of drains for the
carrying off of excessive waters and carrying away the alkaline salts in solution.
Drainage has been one of the strong projects of the Farm Bureau, which is justi
fying its existence and showing the farmer the benefits which might be derived
from such an organization. It is the accomplishment of practical projects of
this kind that will bring the Farm Bureau closer to the practical farmer.
With the rising values of land in the Huntington Beach Alesa District, the
farmers and property owners there have come to see the need of more intensive
farming operations, but in order to bring this about they see the necessity of a
better irrigation system and more water. At their request the Farm Bureau
has called several meetings for the purpose of getting the sentiments of the people
on the formation of an Irrigation District. A splendid source of water has been
located in the near vicinity, the water rights of which have been filed on by a
Farm Bureau Committee. The district is in the process of organization. There
has been considerable opposition to the expense involved in the construction of
an efficient distributing system, but it will be only a matter of time, after a
number of educational meetings, when the farmer of this district will come to
realize that a nominal expenditure per acre for the development of water on his
land will pay interest in large returns, which he is not now enjoying. This
district comprises approximately 3,000 acres. There is a supply of 500 miner's
inches that can be used for distributing over this system. The approximate cost
of construction will be about $100 per acre.
Although the grain industry is small in Orange County, there is some
hazard from fire during the dry season. There are about 20,000 acres of barley
and wheat, not to mention the thousands of acres of grazing land, that need fire
protection. The Farm Bureau is trying to emphasize the importance of diminish
ing this hazard by providing efficient rural fire fighting apparatus and establishing
them at strategic points.
Besides the regular monthly Center meetings held at each Center, other
special courses of meetings are planned for the edification of certain special sub
jects. In February, 1919, the Earm Bureau cooperated with the State Depart
ment of Education in staging a tractor school which operated three weeks. The
first two weeks were devoted to class and shop instruction, the last week to field
operations. An attendance of 250 enrolled. A citrus and walnut growers' insti
tute was arranged for December, to occupy a week, and was held at the Fullerton
Union high school.
The Farm Advisor calls upon experts from the various government and state
institutions to meet the demands of the growers of these specialized crops. Dur-

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ing the year 213 meetings and demonstrations were held, at which 11,573 persons
attended. Men from the College of Agriculture and Department of Agriculture
assisted in seventy-three of these meetings.
Seeing is believing. Never was this truer than in its application to Farm
Bureau work. The success of agricultural extension is in proportion to the
number of practical field demonstrations which carry the message home to the
farmer. With this in view the Farm Advisor planned and conducted eighty-nine
field demonstrations during the past year. Five thousand seven hundred sixty-
four farmers came to these field meetings. As the work progresses these meetings
are becoming more popular, as is shown by the larger average attendance at dem
onstrations this year than last. Among the subjects taken up during the year
were :
Eight cover crop demonstration plots were located in the citrus belt, covering
275 acres. Five meetings were held with an attendance of 129. These plots show
Ihe effect of cover crops on the physical condition of the soil, the relation of
time of seeding, amount of seed and amount of water used, to the yield.
The Bureau of Plant Industry has given assistance in diseases of the potato
and tomato. Demonstrations, showing the nature of various diseases, especially
the Alosaic, Rhizactonia and other fungus diseases in both crops have been held.
The potato industry is very small in the county, but tomato growing for seed
is reaching large proportions.
Fusarium in peppers has been shown to be a soil disease requiring rotation
of crops. This disease is becoming more serious each year. The pepper acreage
is growing — about 6,000 acres this year.
Bean seed selection is one of our most important projects. Growers in the
past have given too little attention to the quality and pedigree of the seed from
which they expect large returns. The attention of the farmer is being brought
to the need of better seed, and selection from vigorous, prolific plants.
A cow testing department of the Bureau has been organized. There are
fourteen members with 502 cows. The cow tester visits and tests each herd once
a month. The County Agent is planning a series of dairymen's meetings to
bring about a closer relationship between the dairies of the county and encourage
the industry as much as possible. The expansion of the dairy industry is one
of the solutions of the fertilizer problems in the citrus belt. The time is coming
when the farmer will consider the stock farm a necessary adjunct to fruit
growing more than he appreciates now.
Five commercial poultry plants have been located for demonstration pur
poses in the county to cooperate with the Poultry Department of the University
in keeping data as to egg production, feeds, etc. During the year there have
been thirteen culling demonstrations. There are 11,000 birds included in the
five demonstration plants. The poultry industry in the county is growing and is
deserving of considerable attention in the way of flock improvement. The farmers
are showing considerable interest in these culling demonstrations, and as a result
we expect to improve the average flock considerably. Three poultry disease
demonstrations were held at which an expert from the Pathological Department
of the State College of Agriculture demonstrated the treatment for chicken pox.
As has been explained in a former paragraph, drainage is one of the most
important projects before the Farm Bureau. Eight drainage demonstrations
have been held and four special meetings. The area in the four drainage dis
tricts under way of organization is 18.000 acres. The Farm Advisor has con
tinually emphasized the necessity and advantage of drainage in reclaiming alkaline
salts, the only practical means of properly carrying away the salts from the land.
About one-fourth of the farm visits made by the Farm Advisor have been in
relation to the problem of reclaiming alkaline soils.
The economical use of water and obtaining the maximum duty of irrigation
water is receiving considerable attention from the farmer in Orange County.
AA'ater is the limiting factor in the production of crops here. It is largely pumped

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and brought in through the expensive canal system, and therefore it behooves
the farmers to arrange it so as to obtain its maximum duty, because of the high
value of this water. In many cases the Farm Advisor has tested soils for
moisture and found that either too much or too little had been used, owing to the
wrong method of irrigation, or the time allowed for irrigation. The use of a
soil auger has been advised in every orchard visited, to determine the depth of
moisture, penetration, and the length of time for each application. Four soil
moisture demonstrations were held during the year, at which the use of the soil
auger, various methods of water application, and the time used in running the
water in furrows or checks were exemplified.
With the aid of the Farm Account Expert from the University, 102 books
have been started by the Farm Accountant or the Farm Advisor personally. It
was found that most of the farmers of the county are employing one method or
another of keeping books, but in most cases their systems are more complicated
than the one suggested by the University. Eight Farm Account Demonstra
tion meetings were held during the year, at which the farmer was instructed in
the value of bookkeeping and the simplicity of the method recommended by
the University. The Farm Advisor expects to place at least fifty books more
in the county during the next two months.
It is becoming a fact now that bud selection in trees is as important as
cow testing in a dairy. The trees have to be bred up as well as stock, in order
to obtain the best returns. The Farm Bureau has been alert to this necessity
and has been guiding the orchardist along that line. Three orchards have been
located by the Farm Advisor for the purpose of showing the value of bud selec
tion, marking trees, and tree performance records. The citrus men of the
county, especially, are much concerned in this project. In going over the county,
we can pick out one orchard after another in which the trees are not bringing
the desired returns. Although every care has been given them in orchard man
agement they do not respond. Such trees in most cases have been developed-
from buds taken from non-bearing stock. The Farm Bureau expects to cooperate
with the Plant Physiologist of the Department of Agriculture through the
coming year and bring before the farmers of the county all records and data
that may be furnished by the plots conducted by the Department.
Among the most popular demonstrations that have been conducted by the
Farm Advisor during the year are the pruning demonstrations, inasmuch as a
large portion of the county is devoted to horticultural interests. Six citrus
pruning demonstrations, nine deciduous pruning demonstrations, and one walnut
demonstration were held during the year. At some of these demonstrations mem
bers of the Pomological Department and the Citrus Experiment Station assisted.
In the deciduous work the long system of pruning has been advocated over the
old system of heading back. Demonstration trees have been located in four
orchards of the county, where the comparison between the two systems may
be observed. Two demonstrations were held showing the effect of arsenical poisoning in
the control of the morning glory. These demonstrations have not given satis
factory results. The application of liquid arsenical poisoning has not proven
to give any better results than a very deep cultivation. However, we have been
able to show the farmer that he may use the poisoning as a substitute for culti
vation nnder our conditions here, but that he must not allow the growing plant
to develop above the surface of the ground. If he would substitute spraying
for cultivation, he must do the same with absolute regularity so as to finally
choke the life out of the weed in question.
The new liquid gas method of fumigation is revolutionizing the fumigation
methods of the county. The Farm Bureau has been instrumental in disseminat
ing the latest information, both chemical and field methods, to the citrus growers
of the county. The members of the Experiment Station Staff and United
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fully with the Farm Bureau during the year in promoting this new system. Two
special fumigation meetings were held at which the new method of applying the
gas was shown.
The walnut growers of the county are facing a very serious pest in the codling
moth, inasmuch as fifty per cent of the fruit of some groves has been infested.
The Experiment Station has been working on a dust spray for the purpose of
controlling the walnut worm. Six demonstrations were held during the year,
showing the method of mixing and applying the arsenical dust spray for this
purpose. A very destructive pest infesting the beet and garden truck fields of the
county is the soil nematode. The Farm Bureau is conducting a demonstration
plot in the sugar beet section in which substitute crops are being planted for
the purpose of demonstrating their resistance to the nematode, and also their
adaptability to the soil and climatic conditions of the county. With the coopera
tion of the Bureau of Plant -Industry, it is hoped to work out a satisfactory
system of rotation by which the nematode infestation may be overcome.
A very satisfactory tractor demonstration was held in connection with the
annual meeting of the Farm Bureau. Ten tractors were on the ground, showing
many desirable features, and also demonstrating their class of work. Two thou
sand two hundred people visited this tractor show. The Farm Advisor is also
arranging three special meetings at which repairing and the upkeep of the farm
tractor will be discussed by University experts.
During the last days of the war, last fall and winter, the Farm Bureau
appealed to the barley growers of the county to plant a larger acreage to wheat.
The farmers responded nobly. Instead of the average planting of 700 acres in
the county as usual, they came forth with 4,400 acres, an increase of 600 per
cent. The use of Defiance wheat has been urged, as it is quite rust resistant.
The valley in which our wheat is raised is very subject to rust disease. The yield
per acre in Orange County was very encouraging this year, in spite of the dry
' season generally experienced.
The Citrus Experiment Station has made a survey of irrigation waters in
Orange County for the purpose of determining the prevalence and degree of
alkalinity both in well waters and rivers from which waters are taken. The
Farm Advisor gave considerable time to collecting samples and getting the
farmers and water companies in general to take advantage of this survey. Some
injurious water was located through this analysis, and farmers warned not to use
same in large quantities for irrigation purposes.
The high values of land in the county make it practically impossible for
the farmer to borrow to the extent that he may need help. He is limited to a
$10,000 loan on a valuation not to exceed $400 per acre. This amount should
be greatly increased, at least on citrus and walnut property. The Farm Advisor
has assisted in placing six loans with the Farm Loan Bank during the year.
The following is a numerical recapitulation of the Farm Advisor's activities
during 1919: Aliles traveled by auto, 13,380; miles traveled by railroad, 1,495;
office calls on agent, 1,362; letters written, 1,230; circulars and notices, 12,649;
farm visits, 1,101; meetings and demonstrations, 213; total attendance, 11,573;
telephone calls, 1,195.
The Directors of the Orange County Farm Bureau have been the stanch
support of the County Agent in his work. AVhatever success has been accom
plished by the Farm Bureau has been due to their unqualified cooperation and
determined efforts. Credit is also due the splendid cooperation of the Extension
and Station Staff of the College of Agriculture, and also the Department of
Agriculture.

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CHAPTER XXXV
POPULATION AND VALUATIONS
The question about the growth of a community is always an interesting one
for th,e inhabitants thereof. Hence various methods have been devised, and are
in vogue in all communities, for estimating population at other times than when
a federal census is pending. Such estimates are based on the school census,
on the registration of voters, or on the names in a directory. Provision also
has been made in the state law for a special census to be taken at intervals
under control of the board of supervisors. To show the unreliability of such
estimates, and even of a special census, let us give a few recent examples, as
follows :
Just prior to the harbor bond election, June 10, 1919, the county clerk pub
lished the number of voters registered in each precinct in the county. Applying-
the usual rule for estimating population from the registration, of two and a half
people to each voter, the number of inhabitants in each incorporated city in the
county would appear to be as follows :
Population of Cities
Names of Cities Registration Population
Anaheim . . . •  ;  1,998 4,995
Brea  432 1,080
Fullerton  1,602 4,005
Huntington Beach  : 745 1,863
Newport Beach  557 1,393
Orange  2,310 5,775
Santa Ana  7,224 18.060
Seal -Beach  •  286 715
Stanton  161 403
If the total number of voters in the county, as registered by party affiliations,
were multiplied by two and a half, the product would make the population of
the county appear to be as follows :
Population of County
Names of Parties 1919 1918
Republican  12,169 11,715
Progressive  144 141
Democratic  5,679 5,477
Prohibition  1,702 1,680
Socialist  511 500
Decline to state  2,861 2,565
Total Registration  23,066 22,078
Population of County  57,665 55,195
The opportunity to compare an estimate of population with an actual count
of the same is quite rare, for when the people have the count they do not need
the estimate. There are, however, two instances in which an indirect comparison
may be made, without any intention to flatter or disparage either place. In 1916
a special census of the township of Santa Ana, which is of immense area, dis
closed only 16,602 people in the whole township ; now three years later the esti
mate based on registration gives the city itself a population of 18,060. In the
same year, 1916, a special census of the city of Anaheim showed a population
of 5,163; now three years later the estimate based on registration gives the city
covering the same territory,. a population of only 4,995. While the city of Santa

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Ana has undoubtedly made a good growth in the past three years, it is hard to
believe that she made the giant strides indicated by the foregoing figures at a
time when the whole country was hampered by the restrictions of war. On the
other hand it is absolutely impossible to believe that the city of Anaheim, without
disaster of any kind and with all the evidences of prosperity, has actually lost
168 in population during the same three years. These two examples, similar in
length of time between the count and the estimate and in the method of making
the estimate, will suffice to illustrate, by the opposite results obtained, the uncer
tainty of estimates of population.
Since the foregoing discussion of estimates of population was written, a
census of Anaheim township has been taken, under the authority of the board
of supervisors, which credits that township with a population of 9,241. Then,
as if to disparage Anaheim's special census and the estimates of both cities,
along came the federal census about August 12, 1920, with a population of 6,936
for Anaheim township, instead of 9,241 reported in the special census, and 5,526
for the city of Anaheim, instead of 4,995 given in the estimate on registration,
and with a population of 15,485 for the city of Santa Ana, instead of 18,060 given
in the estimate on registration.
Alost people have heard the old chestnut about the farmer who could count
all his pigs except a little black one that wouldn't stand still long enough to be
counted. It seems as though the counting of the people living in a given territory
would be a comparatively easy task ; so it would be, if the censustaker could
always find everybody at home when he calls. There are certain data about
each person, required in the enumeration, that he alone can give with any degree
of accuracy ; hence the censustaker must often make a second or third visit
before he can secure a personal interview with some of the people. The work
of census taking is not so pleasant and profitable as to attract many applicants,
for the Government had difficulty in getting enough to fill the positions. How
ever, the field work has been completed and, while the results are not up to the
expectations of most people, yet they show a consistent growth all along the
line in Orange County.
The population of the county, and of each of the nine incorporated cities,
.as given by each federal census back to the organization of the county, or at least
as far back as each city's record goes, is as follows :
County and Cities 1920 1910 1900 1890
Orange Countv  61,375 34,436 19,696 13,589
Anaheim  5,526 2,628 1,456 1,273
Brea  1,037 
Fullerton  4,415 1,725 
Huntington Beach  1,687 815 
Newport Beach  898 445 
Orange  4,884 2,920 1,216 866
Santa Ana . .  15,485 8,429 4,933 3,628
Seal Beach  669 
Stanton  •  695 ....  
The population of each of the eighteen townships, as given by each federal
census back to the organization of the county, or at least as far back as each
township's record goes, is as follows :
Townships 1920
Anaheim  6,936
Brea  2,515
Buena Park  947
Fullerton  5,037
Huntington Beach  3,363
Laguna Beach  363
La Habra  1,911
Los Alamitos  620

1910 4,051

1900 2,261

1890 2,917

1,441
4,984 1,058

995
1,719

499

2 S3

5,430

3,293

2,721

967
11,501

905
6,680

801
4,220

4,023 477

3,300 290

1,854

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Newport Beach  1,300
Orange  8,134
Placentia  3,619
San Juan  1 ,064
Santa Ana  17,777
Seal Beach  669
Stanton  695
Tustin  1,681
Westminster  4,181
Yorba  563
Such are the plain figures of the federal census of Orange County and its
subdivisions, without comparisons, percentages or qualifications of any kind. Each
person can make his own comparisons or percentages, according to the point he
wishes to make ; but they should not be made in any invidious spirit, for, as
Admiral Schley said of the naval victory at Santiago de Cuba, "There's glory
enough in it for us all."
"Comparisons are odious," because they are too often made with improper
motives, to crow over or sneer at a competitor, without taking into account the
real reason for his getting ahead or falling behind in the race. There is, however,
a legitimate use of comparison in argument, "to point a moral or adorn a tale."
For instance, the comparison of the growth of Anaheim with that of Orange,
while they were typical "wet" and "dry" cities respectively, with practically the
same area and other similar conditions, was a fair argument against the influence
of the saloon upon the growth of a city. Orange, starting behind the "Mother
Colony," caught up with and passed her in 1910, and would doubtless have con
tinued in the lead, had the conditions remained the same; but Anaheim, discard
ing her saloons and securing a sugar factory, together with the development of
the oil industry in her vicinity, outstripped Orange in the 1920 census. In like
manner the growth of Orange County might be compared with that of River
side County, its nearest competitor ; but the conditions of the two counties are
not the same, and the comparison would serve no good purpose.
Perhaps the best way to exhibit the material resources of the county and
to show how they have been developed by the people, is to present the valuations
of the property in the county and in its principal subdivisions, as fixed by the
county assessor for the purpose of taxation.
The present constitution of California, adopted in 1879, started out with
the plan of requiring all property, with very few exceptions, to pay taxes for
the support of the government. To this end, and to equalize the burden of state
taxation pro rata among the counties, it was required that "all taxable property
must be assessed at its full cash value." Biennially the legislature adopted one
-or more amendments to the constitution exempting large blocks of property from
taxation. The county assessors throughout the state, in spite of efforts of the
state board of equalization to hold assessments up to the constitutional require
ment, gradually lowered them to protect their constituents against paying an
undue proportion of the state taxes.
An amendment to the state constitution, authorizing the separation of state
and local taxation, was adopted by the legislature of 1909, having been under
consideration since 1905. This measure does away with the necessity for the
same valuations among the counties on account of state taxes, since such taxes
have been shifted thereby from taxpayers generally to public service and other
corporations. On the other hand, it is immaterial whether assessments are high
or low within a single county or district for local taxation, since, if they are
hio-h, the tax rate will be low, or vice versa, to raise the necessary amount of
money ; but, of course, individual holdings within the county or district must
be similarly assessed according to the quantity, quality and other conditions of
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Each county assessor, at least each conscientious, faithful one, being thus
practically released from the obligation to assess property at its full cash value,
tries to find a happy medium that will produce the necessary amount of taxes
without too high a rate and that will appear to all reasonable taxpayers to be
fair and just. Hence independent action among the counties must produce vari
able results, as to per cent, even if all could agree on the basis of "full cash
value" ; but it is safe to say that property is generally assessed away below its
market value in all the counties of the state. For instance, the Los Angeles
papers, in announcing the amount of the 1920 assessment of their county,
claimed that said amount was only forty-two per cent of the real value of the
property thus assessed.
Following are the official valuations of the property of Orange County and
its principal subdivisions, exclusive of operative property, which consists of
public service and other corporations and is reserved for state taxation. What
per cent of the full cash value of the property these valuations represent, depo
nent saith not ' but they answer very well as a basis for local taxation.
Valuation of County
Names of Items 1920 1919 Increase
Operative Property  $ 5,498,275 $4,548,930 $ 949,345
Non-Operative Property  ;. 103,579,645 87,129,900 16,449,745
Valuation of County  $109,077,920 " $91,678,830 $17,399,090
Valuation of Cities
Names of Cities 1920 1919 Increase
Anaheim  $ 3,017,415 $ 2,130,020 $ 887,395
Brea  ..-  718,880 594,550 124,330
Fullerton  19,558,695 20,015,805 *457,110
Huntington Beach  1,023,635 999,650 23,985
Newport Beach  1,289,685 1,117,445 172,240
Orange  3,034,980 2,311,580 723.400
Santa Ana  9,076,950 7,474,535 1,602,415
Seal Beach  ;  638,755 630,270 8,485
Stanton  629,335 472,640 156,695
Valuation of Cities  $ 38,988,330 .$35,746,495 $ 3,241,835
Valuation of High Schools
Names of High Schools 1920 1919 Increase
Anaheim Union  $ 7,742,035 $ 5,384,590 $ 2,357,445
Capistrano Union  1,723,215  1,723,215
Fullerton Union  46,985,505 40,934,920 6,050,585
Huntington Beach Union  5,677,400 5,154,980 522,420
Orange Union  10,296,620 7,006,525 3,290,095
Santa Ana High  9,076,950 7,474,535 1,602,415
Total Valuations  $ 81,501,725 $65,955,550 $15,546,175
Valuation of School Districts
Names of School Districts 1920 1919 Increase
Alamitos  $ 525,850 $ 425,710 $ 100,140
Anaheim  4,885,070 3,500,980 1,384,090
Bay City  1,009,555 959,145 50,410
Brea  6,478,200 5,669,210 808,990
Bolsa  423,425 319,255 104,170

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Buena Park  1,958,710 1,789,370 169,340
Centraha  627,025 459,490 167,535
Commonwealth  639,470 406,155 233,315
cYPress  430,100 335,715 94,385
Delhl  1,131,970 1,242,120 *1 10,150
Diamond  321,455 249,345 72,110
El Modena  1,873,150 1,241,330 631,820
El Toro  .v  523,980 458,490 65,490
Fairview  554,290 431,150 123,140
Fountain Valley  597,030 491,610 105,420
Fullerton  20,105,755 10,081,605 10,024,150
Garden Grove  1,452,385 1,060,555 39i,830
Greenville  462,740 360,985 101,755
Harper  500,235 387^320 112,915
Huntington Beach  2,137,895 2,164,640 *26,745
Katella  1,150,355 772,905 377,450
Laguna  738,975 601,190 137,785
La Habra  3,505,540 5,897,930 -2,392,390
Laurel  705,200 867,015 *161,815
Loara  1,049,625 646,460 403,165
Lowell Joint  692,660 584,125 108,535
Magnolia  656,985 464,245 192,740
Newhope  177,900 167,580 10,320
Newport Beach  1,368,425 1,177,730 190,695
Ocean View  838,030 595,535 242,495
Olinda  3,856,445 3,632,345 224,100
Olive  1,758,415 1,110,200 648,215
Orange  5,304,105 3,803,645 1,500,460
Orangethorpe  1,231,970 7,996,515 *6,764,545
Paularino  '  349,550 266,940 82,610
Peralta  335,505 206,825 129,680
Placentia  " 7,536.820 6,787,660 749,160
Richfield  721,575 199,390 522,185
San Joaquin  4,738,720 3,598.880 1,139,840
San Juan  1,479,570 1,200,230 279,340
Santa Ana  9,076,950 7,474,535 1,602,415
Savanna  196,390 151,055 45,335
Serra  243,645 207,970 35,675
Silverado  164,440 146,025 18,415
Springdale  430,600 377,520 53,080
Trabuco  186,095 160,895 25,200
Tustin  4,496,455 3,092,500 1,403,955
Villa Park  1,360,950 851,350 509,600
Westminster  664,290 566,530 97,760
Yorba  974,150 819,730 154,420
Yorba Linda  951,020 670,265 280,755

Totals of School Districts  $103,579,645 $87,129,900 $16,449,745

^Decrease by forming new districts or other causes.
The foregoing tables of population and valuations tell a wonderful story of
Orange County's growth and development in the past thirty years. Only where
many and varied natural resources abound and where the people are industrious
and enterprising could such progress be made. The tables also show that the
population and wealth are widely distributed over the county, thereby maintaining
the ideal state of a maximum of producers and a minimum of parasites, which
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as a rule, believe in the eternal verities and practice the old-fashioned virtues that
make them dependable and good citizens in every way. They, almost without
exception, own their homes and other property free of encumbrance, and figura
tively fulfill the prophecy of Alicah, when he foretold the glory, peace and victory
of the church, as follows:
"But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and
none shall make them afraid ; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it."
Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce's Estimated Value of Important
Products for 1919
Apricots  $ 200,000
Apples  50,000
Avocados  '.  15,000
Beans (90 per cent Limas)  3,000,000
Bees and Honey  75,000
Berries (all kinds)  125,000
Celery  100,000
Dairy Products  350,000
Fish (salt water)  100,000
Fruits (miscellaneous)  500,000
Grain (barley, corn, wheat, etc.)  1,000,000
Hay (alfalfa, barley, oat, bean, etc.)  2,000,000
Lemons  3,500,000
Livestock  1,500,000
Loquats  37,500
Nursery Stock  500,000
Oil, Gasoline and Natural Gas  31,275,000
Olives and Olive Oil  125,000
Oranges  12,000,000
Peppers  ;  1,125,000
Persimmons  .*  25,000
Poultry and Eggs  1,500,000
Potatoes — Irish and Sweet  950,000
Sugar and By-products  10,500,000
Tomatoes and Tomato Seed  350,000
A'egetables (miscellaneous )  500,000
Walnuts (California)  5,750,000
Total  $77,152,500
1913 Grand Total Production  $32,769,000
1914 Grand Total Production  31,800,000
1915 Grand Total Production. :  35,711,500
1916 Grand Total Production  40,746,323
1917 Grand Total Production  55, 746,823
1918 Grand Total Production  63,410,500

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CHAPTER XXXVI
ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS
About the year 1894, while the supervisors were discussing the burden of the
law library upon the litigants, one of the members got the title twisted into "the
lie lawbray" ; and so it clung to him to the end of the discussion, in spite of his
efforts to correct the lapsus linguae. In like manner, on another occasion, an old
gentleman appeared before the board and offered to sell the county a piece of
land in which it could bury its "indignant dead." "You mean indigent dead,"
suggested a supervisor. "No, I mean indignant dead," was the reply; so no
further attempt was made at correcting the mispronunciation.
When the Orange County fruit growers had become very much alarmed at
the havoc the red scale (a new parasite at that time) was making in the San
Gabriel orchards, and questions of quarantine and other methods of protection
were under discussion, an aspirant for the position of horticultural commissioner
met a member of the board on the street with the peremptory prediction, "Mr.
Supervisor, them bugs must go." Suffice it to say that "them bugs" have largely
gone, not because of the pronunciamento against them, but because of the intelli
gent, persistent fight against them by the fruit growers — they have been "gassed."
As the supervisors, composing the third board, were making up their lists
"of trial jurors, in compliance with the orders of the judge of the Superior Court,
the member from the Fifth District quietly remarked that it would not do to
include any Populists among those selected. "AA'hy not?" asked the member
from the Second District, who, though a Democrat, was populistically inclined.
"Because," the Fifth member replied, "the law requires persons selected for jury
duty to have ordinary intelligence." It is needless to add that this sally provoked
a hearty laugh, in which the Second member joined.
Early in the history of Orange County the Bolsa drainage ditch was con
structed under the control of the supervisors, as described in the chapter on the
celery industry. The two principal objectors to the work were F. R. Hazard and
J. L. Holly. They fought the improvement at every step and took their case to
the Supreme Court, but all in vain. A few years ago the former supervisor
from the Fourth District was introduced to Mrs. Holly at a meeting of the Orange
County A^eterans' Association and received a rather equivocal greeting. "Armor !"
she exclaimed, "I used to think you were the very devil." He replied : "Doubt
less you have heard that the devil is not so black as he has been painted. Besides,
the development of that section of the county has more than justified the con
struction of the Bolsa ditch." "Oh, well !" she said, "It's all over now and we'll
not quarrel further about it ; but it was pretty tough at the time."
Tim Carroll, the inventor of the beet dump and pioneer nurseryman of
Anaheim, went before the board of supervisors, sitting as a board of equaliza
tion, to get the assessment, which Jake Ross had put upon his nursery stock, re
duced. He said his stock consisted of old stubs of palm, pampas grass and left
over trees that were not worth the cost of clearing the ground. The assessor
pointed out that there were enough salable trees in the nursery to justify the
assessment without taking account of the worthless stock; so the board refused to
make any reduction. In taking his leave, the redoubtable Tim expressed his
opinion of the personnel of the board by remarking, "The whole foive of ye
haven't sinse enough to make one dacent supervisor."
When the supervisors were considering a certain date to which they might
adjourn, one of the members objected because that was the date set for President
Harrison's visit to Orange -County . "AA'hat interest can you, a Democrat, have
in a Republican president's visit?" a bystander asked. "He's my president," was
the dignified answer. The rebuke in those three words silenced all levity and
imparted a lesson in good citizenship without preachment. In a republican of
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acquiesced in by the minority, in order to avoid factional strife. On the other
hand the officer, thus chosen, should sedulously represent the whole people within
his jurisdiction. The president, for instance, should so conduct his administration
that every citizen, without regard to party affiliation, would instinctively regard
him as "my president," and not clannishly as the head of a political party.
In a conversation with the writer over another subject, James McFadden
casually mentioned the following incident as a reason why he thought he might"
have some influence with the editor of the Los Angeles Times in shaping the
attitude of the paper toward that subject. Shortly after the Times was started in
Los Angeles and had taken its stand against the closed shop, Air. McFadden met
Colonel Otis, its founder and editor, at the seashore and noticed that he seemed
quite despondent. On being asked for the reason, Colonel Otis said that the
Typographical Union had prejudiced and intimidated the money market against
his undertaking so that he could not borrow a dollar and he must have money
to keep going until the patronage would meet the expenses. Mr. McFadden
immediately offered to loan him the money and the offer was gladly accepted.
Thus did a citizen of what is now Orange County help to establish the Los
Angeles Times and foster it until able to go alone. Long since has the paper
justified the wisdom of its founder, not only in its own marvelous growth, but
also in the stupendous growth of its home city, which it has sturdily defended
for nearly forty years against the blighting influence of die closed shop. Because
of the city's open shop policy, millions of dollars have come to Los Angeles from
the East for investment and other millions have left San Francisco and moved
thither. Where large amounts of capital are invested in the industries, there
thousands of workmen find employment and thus increase the population of the
community as well as utilize the capital invested therein. If "he who causes two
blades of grass to grow where one grew before is a public benefactor," much
more is he who helps to establish institutions and maintain policies that oppose
the domination of one class over another but encourage cooperation and helpful
ness among all classes, "and on earth peace, good will toward men."
During the term of the second board of supervisors, the people of Anaheim
got up a Fourth of July celebration and invited the board of supervisors to par
ticipate in the parade, which at that early date would consist entirely of carriages
and other vehicles drawn by horses. When the marshal, who was superintending
the loading of vehicles and getting them into line, looked for the barouche that
was designed for the supervisors, he found that it had been appropriated by some
other dignitaries, so he bundled the supervisors into the first conveyance that came
to hand. After the parade had taken up its line of march, an urchin called out
from the sidewalk, "Oh, look at that bunch of stiffs in the undertaker's runabout!"
Immediately Supervisor Schorn had the driver stop the team, and the whole line
of march, while he scrambled to the ground and disappeared among the pedestrians.
A county free library was established by the board of supervisors on Decem
ber 9, 1919.
For about fifteen years the Pacific States (formerly the Sunset) Telephone
Company fought the Home Telephone Company to prevent it from entering
Orange County, or from increasing its business after it had entered. Finally,
with the consent of the Railroad Commission, it succeeded in merging the two
companies, that is, in absorbing the Home Company. The Railroad Commission
also permitted the Pacific Company to raise its rates and to cut out the free switch
ing between exchanges. When, however, the Federal Government took over the
wires and granted the same privileges to the telephone company, the state com
mission withdrew its consent and tried to maintain its control; but the courts
ruled against it. While these questions were pendiag, the telephone company
added twenty-five cents to each phone rate, making it $1.75 per month for a resi
dence phone and $2.75 for a business phone. This increase probably netted the
company not less than $1,800 per month, or $21,600 per year, in this county alone,
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for residence and $2.50 for business phones. Such an increase of rates and sub
scribers ought to have satisfied the company ; but no sooner was the Federal Gov
ernment's control of the wires established than the company added another quarter
to the residence rate and a whole dollar to the business rate, making them re
spectively $2.00 and $3.75, under the plea that such were the Government's orders
and the company could not do otherwise. Many individuals ordered their phones
out and others exercised their constitutional right "to freely assemble together to
consult for the common good." After much consultation they decided to form
a mutual telephone company, to be operated without profit, and applied to the
secretary of state for a charter. Meanwhile lists were circulated and signed by
more than half the company's subscribers ordering their phones out, some un
conditionally and others when the new company was ready to give them service.
The charter was refused under the advice of the attorney-general, on the ground
that the new company is not a stock company, as he understands the law requires
such a company to be. A state charter was finally secured, however, and the first
unit of the exchange is to be constructed at Garden Grove.
The forming of districts for various purposes enables communities to secure
some of the benefits of city government without taking over the whole responsi
bility. For instance, in going over the supervisors' minutes, the number of dis
tricts, other than school districts, was found to be approximately as follows, viz. :
Five drainage districts, one sanitary district, seven lighting districts, one irrigation
district, three library districts and seven protection districts. Where considerable
money is needed to carry out the purpose for which a district was organized it is
generally obtained by bonding the district. Take the irrigation district in the
foregoing list as an example. The Newport Mesa Irrigation District contains
nearly 700 acres of land on the Newport mesa between the boulevard and the
bluffs overlooking the. Santa Ana River. This tract was dependent on a neighbor
ing water system for irrigating water up to the season of 1919. Being unable to
get water any longer from that source, the land owners were in a quandary as
to how to save their trees and grow their crops, when Stephen Townsend of Long
Beach came to their relief. He advised them to form a district and while they
were doing so he put in a complete water system for them, consisting of a well,
engine and pump near the river and steel pipelines to deliver the water all over
the tract. When the district was formed, the people voted to issue $50,000 bonds
with which to reimburse Mr. Townsend and thereby become owners of their
water system. These bonds sold under competitive bids at a premium of $1,578
to the Lumberman's Trust Company of San Francisco.
A small district was formed November 4, 1919, called the Fullerton Irriga
tion District, and a full set of officers elected.

CHAPTER XXXVII
SOIL, CLIMATE AND WATER
Following is the summary of the soil survey of the Anaheim Area of Cali
fornia, made by government engineers in 1916, but just published in 1919 by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture:
The soil survey of the Anaheim area covers the most important agricultural
part of Orange County, California, with smaller parts of adjoining counties. The
area lies southeast of Los Angeles and fronts on the Pacific Ocean. It is bounded
on the north and east by hilly sections that are largely too rough and broken for
agricultural use. It is joined on the north by the Pasadena area and on the west
by the Los Angeles area, which are covered by other soil surveys.
The Anaheim area embraces three physiographic divisions — the inclosing
broken hills on the north and east, remnants of somewhat elevated old valley
surfaces or marine terraces, which lie along the base of the hills or border the

194 HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
ocean front and, as the most extensive division, broad, rather smooth and gently
sloping alluvial fans.
Elevations range from sea level in some coastal sections to a maximum of
1,600 feet in the hill portions. A large part of the area lies below 100 feet and
most of it below 200 feet in elevation.
The Santa Ana River crosses the main part of the area, and. the San Gabriel
River crosses the western section. These streams directly drain only a small part
of the area, owing to their built-up position, which makes the entrance of lateral
streams difficult. Santiago Creek drains a part of the survey and flows into the
Santa Ana River, but the greater part of the run-off from the surrounding hills
and main valley slopes is carried largely by minor independent streams.
The area is thickly populated, and agriculture is by far the most important
industry. According to the census reports the area in 1910 had a population of
something less than 40,000, but the population has greatly increased in recent
years. About sixty per cent of the population reside in the cities or towns, less
than one-half living under strictly rural conditions. Santa Ana, with a population
of 8,429 in 1910, is the largest city. There are a number of other cities and towns
in the area ranging from several hundred to about 3,000 inhabitants.
Transportation facilities are good.
The area is well supplied with schools, telephones, and other modern con
veniences. The climate is very pleasant and favorable to the production of a wide range
of agricultural products. The average annual rainfall ranges from ten to fifteen
inches in different parts of the survey, while the mean annual temperature aver
ages about 64 degrees Fahrenheit. Danger from frost influences the distribution
of citrus and other fruits, the higher land being least susceptible to damage. A
growing season of about ten months is available for sensitive crops, while the
hardy crops can be grown throughout the year.
The rainfall is confined to the winter months, and this has an important
bearing on agricultural practices and renders irrigation necessary for many fruits
and field crops which make their greatest growth during the summer season.
The agriculture of the area is highly developed. Most of the products are
highly specialized and are grown for export rather than for local consumption.
Chief among the products are oranges, lemons, and walnuts, with some deciduous
fruits. Beans are an important field crop, and large quantities of sugar beets are
utilized by local factories. Grain and grain hay cover large acreages. Subsidiary
crops and industries, such as truck crops, dairying, and poultry raising, are locally
important. The region is one of high average land prices.
The soils of the Anaheim area fall mainly in three general groups — residual
soils, old valley filling or coastal plain soils, and recent alluvial soils.
The first group includes those soils derived in place by the weathering and
disintegration of consolidated rocks, and usually occupies rolling or mountainous
areas. Tillable areas are used largely for grain and hay production. The residual
soils are inextensive. They are classed with the Altamont and the Diablo series.
The soils derived from old valley filling or coastal plain deposits are relatively
extensive. They are grouped in the Ramona, Montezuma, and Antioch series.
These series are intermediate in elevation between the recent alluvial soils and the
residual soils. The Montezuma and Antioch soils are not important agriculturally.
They are irrigated to only a small extent, being used principally for dry- farm
crops, mainly beans and grain. The Ramona soils are irrigated in many places,
and large plantings of citrus fruits have been made. Most of the orchards are
still young. The recent-alluvial soils are the most important, both in extent and agricul
tural use. These soils are in places subject to overflow or accumulation of alkali,
but, on the whole, are very valuable farming types, having a smooth surface, a
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for irrigation are good. These soils are grouped in the Hanford, Yolo, Dublin,
and Chino series.
Several groups of miscellaneous material also are mapped, one of which,
muck and peat, consisting of cumulose deposits, is productive when drained. The
other miscellaneous types, tidal marsh, coastal beach and dunesand, riverwash,
and rough, broken and stony land are practically all nonagricultural.
Irrigation is an important factor in the agriculture of the area, as most of
the fruits and many other crops require it. In 1910 there were 2,215 irrigated
farms, or about seventy per cent of the total number in Orange County. The
recent alluvial soils are most extensively irrigated, although important parts of
the old valley filling and coastal plain soils also are watered.
Parts of this survey are affected by a high water table and consequent injurious
accumulations of alkali. Most of the alkali land is tilled and used mainly for the
production of sugar beets. Considerable effort has been made to reclaim the
alkali lands and make them more productive.

While the technical classification of the soils of Orange County, as given
in the foregoing survey, may not be of much practical benefit to the tillers of said
soils, the general information furnished therewith about them and other
characteristics of the county is worth while to all who have not observed the facts
and undergone the experiences for themselves. The soils of the county, composed
of particles of air-and-water-slaked rocks washed down from the mountains, are
of infinite variety and limitless depth without any hardpan intervening. The
writer has removed pepper roots from a well twenty feet distant from the tree
whose roots penetrated the brick curb thirty feet below the surface. He also
has traced alfalfa roots to a depth of twenty-one feet. Forty-five years ago
"Prophet Potts" declared such soils were absolutely inexhaustible ; but now we
know better. The soils, when first precipitated on the mesas and lowlands as
disintegrated rocks, had no humus, or vegetable mold in them ; but the growth
and decay of vegetation, once started and continued for ages, has supplied this
ingredient to the top soil for a depth of several feet. Now, as this humus is being
exhausted, the farmers and orchardists find it necessary to supply cover crops,
straws and other vegetable matter to be turned into humus. Thus, with a good
foundation to build on, the soil of Orange County can be kept inexhaustible by
supplying it with the proper plant food when needed.
Climate is "the temperature and meteorological conditions of a country."
Temperature is "the state of a body with respect to sensible heat." Meteorology-
is "the science of the atmosphere and its various phenomena." The atmosphere is
"the aeriform fluid surrounding the earth." Hence, for all practical purposes,
climate is the temperature of the air of a country. As an illustration of the
volatile equalization of temperature, it has been stated that the entrance of a
person into a room would immediately raise the temperature of every object in
the room. Along the same line and assisting in the equalization of temperature,
is the principle of the diffusion of gases, whereby different portions of air from
various sources quietly combine and form a compound of mean or average tem
perature and of less harmful character than either of them might be, if laden
with some foul gas from which the other is free. The writer has frequently
ridden, after sundown, through a strip of air warmer than the rest of the air
through which he was traveling. This air was being warmed by heat radiating
from a strip of warmer soil and had not yet mingled with the surrounding air.
When this radiating heat is great and from a large area of territory, the heated
air above such territory rises and the cooler air rushes in, thereby creating wind,
which hastens the equalization of the temperature and the purification of the
atmosphere. The latitude of Orange County under a southern sky, its distance
from the mountains, snow-capped in winter, and its proximity to the mild Pacific
Ocean, the character of its soil for absorbing and radiating the heat of the sun, the
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extremes of temperature and give to this county an equable climate. Doctor Coyle,
moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly at Los Angeles several years
ago, turned a neat compliment upon Southern California when he said it was "the
land where three hundred and sixty-five days of each year were sunshiny and the
rest were unusual."
The chapter on Orange County's Water Supply gives the rainfall of the
entire basin of the Santa Ana River for thirty years up to 1900. Following is a
table of the rainfall of Orange County from July 1, 1900 to July 1, 1920.

Seasons

1900190119011902 190219031903 1904190419051905 1906 1906
1907190719081908 19091909191019101911 1911
1912/1912'19131913191419141915/1915)
1916191619171917
19181918
19191919
1920/

July

.07

.02

.03

Aug.

.02 .13.12

.07

.03 .09

Sept.

.08

.24 .06

12

1.45 .04

.62

.52
.01.67
1.63

Oct.

.15
1.46 .21
.25 .32.14

1.43 .43 .09
1.27 .19.63.02
1.13

1.51

.18 .84

Nov.

4.00 .49
1.26

5.39 1.52 .03 .87
1.20 .17

.55
2.092.31 .86.22.43
2.39 .48

Dec.

2.76 .01
1.45 .18
4.96 .87.80
8.24 .25.84.04
1.42
4.42 2.903.43

.76
2.43

Jan.

3.49 1.47 1.70 .22
1.16
2.605.734.79 6.14 1.24
4.68 .19
1.347.03
5.54
12.23 2.26 1.20 .80.72

Feb.

3.243.08 1.52 1.72
5.52 1.77
3.002.783.43 .08
3.53 .18
5.22 3.815.31 1.55
3.13 3.66 1.46
3.82

Mar.

.48
3.417.41
3.60
4.576.383.28 .23
4.26 2.062.65
4.00 .55 .88
.40
1.20 .28
5.15 1.60
4.67

April

.57
.19
1.56 .93
.10 .50.27

.34.49
1.92 .32
1.18 .96.07.47 .06
.53 .66

May

.85.07

.14
1.07
1.55

.11

.95 .25.27.74.17.21 .36
-.37 .80

June

.04.07

.06
.30

.10

.03 .03
.20 .11

.01

.02

Total

12.90
10.2416.44 7.24
14.44
18.5719.1810.7217.5513.2913.07 8.929.10
16.81
20.83 18.98 12.0310.91 8.88
16.07

Average annual rainfall for twenty years from 1900 to 1920, 13.81 inches.
Average annual rainfall for fifty years from 1870 to 1920, 13.84 inches.
In the former period, prior to 1900, the average annual rainfall at Orange
was 13.87 inches, or six. hundredths of an inch more than that of the latter
period, since 1900 ; but it is remarkable that the two averages should come so near
together. It shows that, whatever variation there may be in the rainfall from
year to year, it averages up like the manna did for the children of Israel : "He
that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack."
However, much better use has been made of the rainfall in the latter period than
in the former. Large quantities of flood waters have been diverted from the
streams near their source each winter and run on debris cones and waste land to
fill the underground gravel strata and drain later into the streams lower down,
or be pumped from the gravel basins for summer irrigation. The number of
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all probability the capacity of the individual pumping plants has increased as
well as the number, for the county assessor valued the 1,285 plants at $3,855,000,
an average of $3,000 apiece. The effect of this increase in pumping plants is seen
in the increase of irrigated land in the county. According to a preliminary report
by the Bureau of the Census, there are 86,060 acres of land in Orange County
under irrigation. In 1910 the number of irrigated acres was 55,060, which sub
tracted from the present acreage shows a gain of 31,000 acres, or fifty-six per
cent, in the ten years. But in 1910 the number of pumping plants was 509, which
subtracted from the present number shows a gain of 776 plants, or 152 per cent,
in the same ten years. That is, there has been a greater per cent of gain in pump
ing plants than in irrigated land ; which would prove that the increase in pumping
plants was a sufficient cause for the increase in irrigated land.
A number of citizens of San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange counties,
realizing that more can be done towards conserving the winter flood waters of
the Santa Ana River and preventing damage therefrom to riparian lands near
the coast, undertook to form a conservancy district of the entire basin of the
stream; but the "Conservancy Act of California" was found to be of doubtful
constitutionality and otherwise objectionable. The committee, which had been
appointed to devise a plan for the formation of the district, accordingly submitted
the question of the sufficiency of the act to Loyal C. Kelley, T. AV. Duckworth
and L. A. AVest, district attorneys, respectively, of San Bernardino, Riverside and
Orange counties. The opinion of these officials was to the effect that the boards
of supervisors have no authority, either singly or collectively, to appropriate and
expend money outside of their respective counties for flood control, and that the
Conservancy Act of 1919 is unconstitutional, "because of the suffrage qualifi
cations therein contained and because of the basis of assessment therein set
forth." Whether these objections will be overcome by future legislation remains
to be seen. Meantime the good work of the Tri-Counties Reforestation Com
mittee, with federal and state aid supplemented by the water companies, can con
tinue to protect the watershed of the stream from destructive fires and to store
its flood waters in the debris cones and gravel beds for summer irrigation. And
the wells and pumping plants, which have multiplied more than two and a half
times in the last decade, will continue to increase in number and usefulness.
Thus with the three great requisites for success in agriculture and horti
culture, viz. : Fertile soil, equable climate and abundant water, Orange County is
forging ahead with giant strides, as note the increase in annual productions from
$12,294,694, reported by the county statistician in 1910, to $77,152,500, reported
by the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce in 1919.

BIOGRAPHICAL

BIOGRAPHICAL

WILLIAM H. SPURGEON.— The family represented by William H. Spurgeon,,
the founder of Santa Ana, is of English extraction, and has been identified witli
America for several generations. His father, Granville Spurgeon, a native of Bourbon
County, Ky., engaged in agricultural pursuits in Henry County, that state, for some
years and from there removed to Bartholomew County, Ind., in 1830, and became a
pioneer farmer of the Hoosier state. Ten years later he took his family to Clark
County, Mo., and there, too, undertook the development of a farm from raw prairie.
Admirably qualified by nature for the task of pioneering, he led a busy life in the
midst of frontier surroundings that would have daunted a less adventurous spirit. In
1864, he decided to come to California, and accompanied by his family, he crossed the
plains in a prairie schooner drawn by mules. After a long, tedious journey they
reached Solano County, and near what is now Cordelia, settled and remained until his
death, which occurred in 1867, a short time after the death of his wife,.. Lavinia (Sibley)
Spurgeon, a native of Prince Edward County, Va., and of Scotch lineage.
It was during the residence of the family in Henry County, Ky., that their son,
William H., was born on October 10, 1829. When a babe in arms, he was taken, to
Indiana, and thence in 1840 accompanied his family -to. Missouri, where, he was rqared
and received a practical common school education. At the age. of sixteen he became...
a clerk in a country store at Alexandria, where he was employed for several years.
Shortly after the discovery of gold in California he determined to seek- his .'fortune
here, coming by way of New Orleans and the Isthmus of Panama. - He spent four
years in California, working in the gold mines, and met with financial success;, healso
served in the Rogue River Indian War. In 1856 he returned, by way of Panama to
New York City, and thence to Missouri, becoming- connected with 'a mercantile busi
ness at Athens, where he remained for some time. - . ,-«,
The second journey made by Mr. Spurgeon to California was in company with
his father and other members of his family across the plains in 1864. In 1867 he' went
to Los Angeles, and during his brief stay there his wife, Martha (Moreland) Spurgeon,
a native of Kentucky, died. Soon afterward he returned again to Clark County, Mo.,
and from there, in 1869, came to .what is now Santa Ana. Upon his arrival he pur
chased seyentv-six acres of the Santiago de Santa Ana grant, which originally con
tained 62,000 acres. Immediately after buying this property he proceeded to lay out
the present town of Santa Ana, employing for this purpose Mr. Wright, a welt-
known surveyor and civil engineer. The name the town bears was given it by Mr.
Spurgeon in honor of the old Spanish grant. When he located here there we're but
few trees in the entire valley and the country, was covered with wild mustard so high
that he could not look over it from horseback, and in order to view the valley that
contained his purchase he climbed one of the sycamore trees.' The town of Tustin
had just been started and the Los Angeles and San Diego stage road lay through the
town and about three miles from Mr. Spurgeon's land. In order to get the stage to
come through his purchase and to get a post office established he cut a road through
the mustard at his own expense. He then built a small building of redwood on. what
is now the southwest corner of .Fourth and Broadway, and in this conducted a gen
eral store, the first in Santa Ana, and it is said that all the goods contained therein
at the opening could have been hauled away in a wheel barrow. As the population
grew and the needs. of the community became greater he added to- his stock until he
carried a large variety, of . general merchandise, and for eighteen years conducted a
successful business, during which time he became widely known throughout this sec
tion as a reliable merchant and progressive citizen.
Mr. Spurgeon put down the first artesian well in this section,- which yielded an
ample supply of water at 300 feet and supplied the town for some time, thus estab
lishing the first water works here. In order to induce settlers to locate at first he
would give one lot to anyone buying one, .and in that way sold, a lot at the corner
of Fourth and' Main streets for fifteen dollars, and- to Jnduce -the -man to accept the
bargain, he threw in another one of equal size ¦ adjoining. To show the wonderful
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growth of Santa Ana, this property has increased in value until it is now held at
approximately $85,000.
During his life as a merchant Mr. Spurgeon acted as agent at Santa Ana for the
Wells Fargo Express Company, and also filled the office of postmaster. After the
organization of Santa Ana as a city he was chosen a member of the first board of
trustees and served as president of same. Scarcely an enterprise was organized for
the benefit of Santa Ana with which his name was not identified, either directly or
indirectly. For twenty-five years he held the lot where the Courthouse stands for
its present use, refusing many offers for it for other purposes. He donated the lot
for the Spurgeon Memorial Methodist Church South. It was his privilege to see the
city, started by his foresight and built up by the energy of such men as he, take its
place among the representative cities of Southern California. How much of the
credit due for this result is due to his wise judgment would be difficult to state, but it
is a recognized fact that Santa Ana owes -to no citizen more than it does to Mr. Spur
geon. He was always an advocate of good schools and every movement for the
social and moral betterment of the community met with his cooperation.
Realizing the necessity for the town to possess favorable banking facilities, Mr.
Spurgeon turned his attention to the establishment of a bank and, with others, incor
porated the First National Bank of Santa Ana, of which institution he was chosen
president, and during the term of his service the bank secured the solid financial
basis upon which its subsequent prosperity has been built. He promoted the Santa
Ana Gas Company, which he served as president, was a stockholder and director of
the Santa Ana Gas and Electric Company, which succeeded to the business of the
former company, and he was financially interested in the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation
Company for five years, and for three years served as its president, and also as a
members of the board of directors. As a home place he owned twenty acres of land
at the east end of Fourth Street, part of which he sold to the Southern Pacific and
to the Santa Fe for depot and yard purposes. Realizing the value of transportation
facilities he used all his influence to get the roads to extend their lines to Santa
Ana. He later owned a tract of thirty, and also one of ten acres which he, himself,
planted to walnuts.
Mr. Spurgeon was always a staunch Democrat, and was chosen by his party to
various positions of trust and honor. He served as a member of the state assembly,
representing his district of Los Angeles County, this being before Orange County
was organized. He served one term as supervisor before the partition of Orange
County, and after the organization of the county was again elected supervisor, serv
ing as chairman of the board. He was an active member of the Merchants and Manu
facturers Association, and also of the Chamber of Commerce of Santa Ana.
Mr. Spurgeon's farsightedness and keen perception is seen when supervisor of
Los Angeles County. In the early days he was not slow to see that this end of the
county was neglected and did not get the aid nor public improvement it was entitled
to, so it was then the idea came to him that the proper way to get what was due
in this end of the county was county division and a separate county, and in that
case he saw that Santa Ana would no doubt be the county seat, and so strong was
his desire in that direction and so certain was he of it, he kept the block now occu
pied by the court house for that very purpose, and would not consent to sell it to
any one, although he had some splendid offers for it. His ambition was finally realized
— Santa Ana as the county seat and his choice of block selected as the court house
site was no longer a dream but became a reality, thus fulfilling his ambition.
Mr. Spurgeon's second marriage occurred in Santa Ana on April 14, 1872, uniting
him and Miss lennie English, a native of New Madrid County, Mo., who came to
this part of California from Santa Cruz County in 1869 with her parents. Her father.
Robert English, first crossed the plains in 1850 from Missouri, and after some tinie
spent in California, returned to his home. From there he subsequently moved with
his family to Texas, from which place, in 1861, they crossed the plains from Red River
to California by ox team, settling at El Monte. While on their tedious journey they
were joined from time to time by different immigrants until their train numbered
sixty wagons. They had several skirmishes with the Indians, but suffered no losses.
Both Mr. and Mrs. English died in Santa Ana. Mr. and Mrs. Spurgeon became the
parents of five children: Grace, the wife of R. L. Bisby of Santa Ana; Lottie and
Mary deceased; William H., Jr., is prominent in the furniture business in Santa Ana,
and Robert Granville resides at Long Beach, having served in the U. S. Navy in the
World War.
On February 24, 1909, Mr. Spurgeon incorporated his property under the title
of the W. H. Spurgeon Realty Company, the members of his family being associ
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his death on June 20, 1915. During the last years of his life the company built the
W. H. Spurgeon Block on the corner of Fourth and Sycamore streets, the largest
and most pretentious building in the city, a fitting monument to its founder. Mrs.
Spurgeon survives her husband and continues to make her home in the city she has
seen built up from a stubble field and in the development of which she has taken a
woman's part, aiding and encouraging her husband in his ambition to see it a beau
tiful city with modern public improvements, with its paved streets, as well as being
one of the principals in making it the seat of government of the county, a desire that
was very keen and dear to them both. Her children are looking after the large
affairs left by her husband, and by their love and devotion do all they can to shield
her from worry and care.
The life of Mr. Spurgeon illustrates the possibilities which Southern California
offers men of energy and judgment, where the opportunities for wise investments
and large returns are even greater than they were in the early days. The record of
Santa Ana's founder, who started with less than $1,000, is an example that is worthy
of emulation and one that will encourage many another young man in his struggle
toward success. In October, 1909, during the carnival of the Parade of Products
held in Santa Ana, Mr. Spurgeon was presented with a memorial — a beautiful piece
of art work dtine in colors with a pen, setting forth his identification with the county's
interests. By a happy coincidence it was the eightieth year of Mr. Spurgeon's birth,
the fortieth year of the founding of Santa Ana and the twentieth year of the organiza
tion of Orange County.
NOAH PALMER. — The passing away in January, 1916, of Noah Palmer, at the
age of ninety-six, closed a career whose value and service to the community, indeed
to the whole of Orange County, would be difficult to measure. Intimately associated
with practically every enterprise that concerned the early development of Santa Ana,
it is perhaps in his especial ability as a financier that he was most closely identified
with the great progress made in this section of Orange County. Possessed in an
unusual measure of keenness and discernment of mind, he was always quick to grasp
advantages, albeit he was of a conservative temperament, so that, although his judg
ment was quick and decisive, he was never led into developments of a speculative
character. A pioneer of '49, it was his privilege to witness such a transformation
throughout the commonwealth of California as can never again take place within the
confines of the United States, so marvelous has been the change that has been wrought
in those years.
The Empire State was Mr. Palmer's native home, his birth having occurred Sep
tember 3, 1820, at Lowville, Lewis County, N/ Y. His parents were Ephraim and
Hannah (Phelps) Palmer, natives of New' York, and there they spent all their' days.
Ephraim Palmer came of a long and honored line of English ancestry, his forbears
being of the Quaker faith, and he lived a well-rounded out life, reaching the age of
eighty-eight years; the mother passed away in early womanhood, when Noah was
but seven years of age. An older sister lived in- Jefferson County, N. Y.,-and there
Noah went to live after his mother's death. He remained there until he was' eighteen
years old, receiving a good education in the local schools of the vicinity. He then
began life on his own account as a school teacher," continuing in this profession
for ten years, first in New York, until 1840, when he went to Indiana. In 1849, when
the news of the discovery of gold in California went like wildfire over the country,
even to the backwoods hamlets, Noah Palmer, like thousands of other young men,
was fired with an ambition to seek his fortune in this new Eldorado. Joining the
Isaac Owen missionary train he set out on the long journey, and for six, long, weary
months they slowly wended their way acress the plains and -desert, a journey that
was fraught not alone with hardship but with many dangers. The hard work of
mining, at Hangtown, now Placerville, however, proved too much for Mr. Palmer,
so he went to San Jose and began farming, later removing to Santa Clara, where
he continued ranching for many years. In 1852 he returned East and with his
wife and little daughter started back to California by way of: the Isthmus of Panama,
making the rough trip across the Isthmus on mule back, there being no railroad
in those early days. The family established their home in Santa Clara County, and
for a number of years Mr. Palmer was quite active in political life, being a leader in
Republican circles. For four years he served as tax collector of Santa Clara County,
and represented his district in the state legislature for one term.
In August, 1873, Mr. Palmer came to Santa Ana, then only a small hamlet.
There was little to attract one at that time, as there had been but little improvement
of the surrounding country, and this offered but scant promise of the possibilities
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characteristic, Mr. Palmer felt that success awaited the pioneer here who had patience
and perseverance, coupled with energy. He returned to Santa Clara, and on Decem
ber 1, of that same year, he closed a deal for 1765 acres, comprising a part of the
old Santiago de Santa Ana grant, originally a tract of 62,000 acres. On his return
to this locality he was accompanied by a number of his friends in Santa Clara,
and to them he disposed of 1065 acres, giving them their choice of location. He re
tained 700 acres, and this he put under cultivation and produced some of the best
crops ever seen in this section. This land was all within the corporate limits of
Santa Ana, now all subdivided into town lots except forty-five acres. His friends
built on their various properties, and also farmed with success for years.
In 1882 Mr. Palmer began his active interest in the banking field, for which
his abilities especially fitted him. With W. S. Bartlett, Daniel Halladay and others
he organized the Commercial Bank of Santa Ana, with Mr. Halladay the first presi
dent. After a very few years Mr. Palmer succeeded to that office, and held it until .
April 23, 1910, when he retired. He was one of the organizers of the Bank of Orange
and served as its president until the bank was sold. He was also a director of the
Bank of Tustin and of the Orange County Savings Bank — now the Orange County
Trust and Savings Bank. He was active in the promotion of the Santa Ana, Orange
and Tustin Railway and was the first president of the company. In" each of these
developments he was enabled to further the material progress of the county by
stabilizing the financial foundation of the locality through his wise oversight, and
by aiding those who were in need of capital to carry on the agricultural and horti
cultural development that has brought undreamed-of wealth to the county.
While a school teacher in Franklin County, Ind., Mr. Palmer was married in
March, 1843, to Miss Susan Evans, born January 28, 1824, in that county. She
passed away on October 28, 1903, after a wedded life of over sixty years, in which
there had been more than the usual share of eventful interest. Five children were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, two of whom are living: Emma Palmer, Mrs. George
T. Mosbaugh, who is the mother of a son by a former marriage — H. Percy Thelan
of Santa Ana; and Miss Lottie E. Palmer. Mrs. Almira A. Hewitt, the eldest daugh
ter, died in March, 1912, leaving three children, Fred P., William L., and a daughter,
Mrs. Susy Deuel. Mrs. Mosbaugh and Miss Lottie E. Palmer are residents of Santa
Ana, and through their loving ministrations the latter years of Mr. Palmer's well-
spent life were surrounded with every care and comfort.
WILLIAM N. TEDFORD.— Coming to Newport Valley, then in Los Angeles
County, in 1868, William N. Tedford was the first settler of the Valley, as he and
his family were the only Americans here at that time. Following him were Isaac
Williams, Jacob Ross, Thomas Smith and Thomas. Cozad, all of whose names were
associated with the pioneer days of this section.
Of Scotch-Irish extraction, the first representative of the Tedford family in
this country was an early settler of Virginia, members of the family subsequently
settling in Tennessee. This state was the birthplace of John Tedford, the father of
our subject, and he continued the westward march of the family, removing to Ran
dolph County, Mo. While a resident of Tennessee he had married Miss Catherine
Hannah, and there William N. Tedford was born on August 16, 1826. At the age of
five, he accompanied his parents to Randolph County, Mo., where he grew to man
hood. Here he was married, May 19, 1852, choosing for his companion Miss Nancy
Jane Baker, the daughter of Isaac and Jane (McCullough) Baker, natives, respectively,
of Kentucky and Tennessee.
In 1864, twelve years after their marriage, and after five of their children were
born, emulating the pioneer spirit of his forbears, Mr. Tedford, with his wife and
family, started on the long journey across the plains with ox teams, reaching Solano
County, Cal., in September of that year. Remaining there for two years, they re
moved to Monterey County, where they engaged in farming for another two years. In
1868 they came to what is now Orange County, settling on sixty acres of raw land
in Newport Valley which Mr. Tedford had purchased. Although the country was
wild and barren, they set to work to improve the land and make a home, and it
was their privilege to see the surrounding territory transformed from its uninhabited,
desolate state to prosperous ranches and orchards. It is safe to say that none of the
old settlers of Orange County rejoiced in its development more sincerely than did
Mr. Tedford, who had been so closely associated with its earliest days, and who did
his share in helping to make it the garden spot of the country.
The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Tedford: Walter B.; Ed
ward; Mrs. Emma J. Maxwell, now deceased; Thomas F.; Mrs. Katie M. Felton;
Mrs. Maggie L. Young; Charles L.; Mattie Susan, wife of Rev. C. R. Gray; George

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I., anrl Harry A., now deceased. The five eldest were born in Missouri, the younger
children all being native sons and daughters of California. In 1899 Mr. Tedford sold
his ranch to his son-in-law, E. W. Felton, and purchased a residence at Spurgeon and
Third streets, Santa Ana, and here, he made his home until his death, on November 9,
1905, Mrs. . Tedford surviving him until 1919. Always a Democrat in his political
sympathies, Mr. Tedford took an active part in the affairs ofhis party, and among
other offices of trust he served as supervisor of Orange County for four years.
CHARLES C. CHAPMAN.— Genealogical records give the year 1650 as the date
of the founding of the Chapman family in America by the arrival in the new world of
three brothers from England, who became the progenitors of a numerous race that,
taking root in Massachusetts, spread its branches throughout the growing colonies of
the Central West. No representative of this family was more worthy than Sidney Smith
Chapman, who was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, in 1827. He followed the west
ward tide of emigration at an early age, settling in Illinois when he was a youth of
eighteen and embarking in the building business. While he never achieved wealth he
was singularly fortunate in gaining that which is far more enduring — the sincere regard
of friends and the affectionate admiration of business associates. Into the building of
houses he put the same integrity and the same patient industry that he put into the
building of his fine personal character and his deep Christian faith.
After a long period of labor as a builder in Macomb, 111., Sidney S. Chapman
removed to Vermont, same state, in 1868 and later followed his trade in Chicago,
where he and his first wife were charter members of the West Side Christian Church.
During the World's Fair his health failed and in October of 1893 he passed from earth.
His life, as it was ordered, contained not only" happiness, but also sorrow and dis
appointment. Whatever came to him he bore with simple dignity and quiet courage,
seldom giving utterance to any words save those of hope. As a workman he was not
content with the mere completion of a task, but strove to finish each contract with
greater skill than he had displayed in previous efforts. He was a firm supporter of
prohibition, and politically a Republican. To his descendants he left the heritage of
a life that was a model of uprightness and simple devotion to duty.
In 1848 S. S. Chapman married Rebecca Jane Clarke, eldest daughter of David
and Eliza (Russell) Clarke, both natives of Kentucky, where the daughter also was
born. The family of Mr. Chapman by this marriage numbered ten children, seven of
whom attained years of maturity and five are now living, viz.: Charles C, whose
name introduces this narrative; Christopher C, an orange grower near Yorba Linda;
Samuel James, who is engaged in the real estate business in Los Angeles; Doha, Mrs.
W. C. Harris, whose husband is a well known builder and successful architect of Los
Angeles; and Lbuella, Mrs. J. Charles Thamer, of Placentia. Cal. The. eldest son, Col.
Frank M., died in Covina; this state in 1909. Emma E., Mrs. L. W. B. Johnson, died
in Illinois in 1888, leaving a son and daughter. The wife and. mother passed away at,
the family home in Chicago January 2, 1874, and later her youngest sister became the
wife of S. S. Chapman, their union resulting in the birth of three children, Ira, Earl
and Nina. After the death of her husband the widow remained in Chicago for several;
years, but subsequently removed to Los Angeles, where she died.
During the residence of the family in Macomb, 111., Charles C. Chapman was
born July 2, 1853, and in that city his education was secured, but he owes more to
self-culture than to text-books, more to determination and will-power than to youthful
opportunities. His first employment was that of messenger boy and he recalls carry
ing the message that announced the assassination of of President Lincoln. Later he
clerked in a store and in 1869 joined his father at Vermont, 111., where he learned the
trade of bricklayer. On the 19th of December, 1871, he went to Chicago and imme
diately secured employment, first working as a bricklayer and in 1873' superintending
the erection of several buildings, after which he engaged in the mercantile business.
During' 1876-77 he engaged in canvassing in the interests of a local historical work in
his native county and during 1878 he embarked in a similar enterprise for himself al
Gales-burg, 111., whence the office in 1880 was moved to Chicago. The business was
first conducted under his own name and after his brother, Frank M., became a partner,
the firm name was changed to Chapman Brothers and later to the Chapman Pub
lishing Company.
As the business of the firm increased the plant was enlarged until it had em
braced extensive quarters and a large equipment. In addition to the management of a
printing and publishing business the firm erected numerous buildings, including busi
ness structures, apartments, hotels and more than twenty substantial residences. Dur-
• in°' the World's Fair they conducted the Vendome Hotel for the accommodation of
many of the leading capitalists and business men of the country. The financial panic
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At Austin, Tex., October 23, 1884, Mr. Chapman married Miss Lizzie Pearson,
who was born near Galesburg, 111., September 13, 1861, being a daughter of Dr. C.
S. and Nancy (Wallace) Pearson. Two children blessed the union, namely: Ethel
Marguerite, born June 10, 1886, now the wife of Dr. William Harold Wickett of Ful
lerton, and Charles Stanley, January 7, 1889. During January of 1894 Mr. Chapman
went to Texas, hoping -that the southern climate might benefit his wife, who was ill
v'.li pulmonary trouble. Later in the same year he came to Californi? with the
same hope, but here, as elsewhere, he was doomed to disappointment. While the
family were occupying their beautiful home on the corner of Adams and Figueroa
streets, Los Angeles, Mrs. Chapman passed away September 19, 1894. Noble traits
of heart and mind made Mrs. Chapman preeminent in family and church circles,
while her accomplishments fitted her to grace the most aristocratic social functions.
Her charming personal appearance, lovable nature and graceful manner won the
affectionate regard of a host of friends. Earth held so much of joy in an ideal home
happiness that she could not covet the boon death proffered, yet she accepted it
with the fortitude that characterized her sweet Christian resignation to intense suf
fering through a long illness.
The present wife of Mr. Chapman was Miss Clara Irvin, daughter of S. M. and
Lucy A. Irvin, and a native of Iowa, but from childhood a resident of Los Angeles
until her marriage September 3, 1898. They have one child, Irvin Clarke. Mr. and
Mrs. Chapman have traveled extensively, both in this country and abroad. Both
are members of the Christian Church, with which Mr. Chapman united at the age
of sixteen, and in which he has held all the important official positions. For years
he was a member of the Cook County Sunday-school board, a member of the general
board, Y. M. C. A. of Chicago, also an organizer of the board of city missions of the
Christian churches of Chicago. His identification with these various activities was
severed upon his removal from Chicago, but he has been equally active in the West.
He has been for nearly a score of years president of the Christian Missionary Society
of Southern California, and has taken part in the dedication of forty churches, being
the speaker and making the appeal for money, and in a special, as well as a general,
way assisted many churches. He is a director of the Christian Board of Publication
of St. Louis. The largest of his philanthropic enterprises are the building of a hos
pital at Nantungchow, China, and his contribution to the California School of Chris
tianity of Los Angeles. For years he has served as a member of the state executive
committee of the Y. M. C. A., in 1914 was president of the state convention, and in
April, 1915, was elected chairman of the state executive committee. He has been
reelected annually since. He has served as president of the State Sunday School
Association, and in 1911 was elected to represent Southern California on the Inter
national Executive Committee, and was vice-chairman of the Committee. In 1914
he was reelected to both positions, and continues to serve on the Committee. In 1903
he was appointed by Governor Pardee a trustee of the State Normal School at San
Diego, was reappointed by him, and later by Governor Gillett, and still later by Gov
ernor Johnson, resigning after a service of ten years. In 1907 he was elected a trustee
of Pomona College, serving until 1915. Upon the organization of the California School
of Christianity, he was chosen a trustee and president of the board.
Since coming to California Mr. Chapman has devoted much attention to building
up the Santa Ysabel rancho near Fullerton, which, under his supervision, has been
developed into one of the most valuable orange properties in the state. The Old
Mission brand, under which name the fruit is packed, has a reputation second to none
in the best markets of the country, and prices commanded have been the record prices
for California oranges since 1897. He also has other valuable orange ranches in
the neighborhood of Fullerton.
In politics Mr. Chapman is a Republican. He has served as a member of the
state central committee, and in 1912 made an unsuccessful race for nomination for
state senator. He was elected one of the first trustees of Fullerton, served as chair
man of the board, and was reelected for a second term. He is a director of the Com
mercial National Bank of Los Angeles and of the Farmers and Merchants National
Bank of Fullerton. He is interested in mining and in the oil business, and has large
realty holdings in Los Angeles and elsewhere. The most important of these is the
Charles C. Chapman Building, a thirteen-story office building, in Los Angeles.
Mr. Chapman has been closely identified with the irrigation interests that lie at
the foundation of success in fruit culture. He served as director and president of the
Anaheim Union Water Company for several years. He has made the fruit industry a
success, has encouraged others to greater efforts in the same business, and has proved
a power for good in the development of horticulture in Southern California. He has
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his chosen occupation of grower and shipper of fruit. Activities so far-reaching, aspira
tions so broad and influences so philanthropic have given his name prominence, while
he has become endeared to thousands of citizens through his humanitarian views,
his progressive tendencies, his gentle courtesy and his unceasing interest in important
moral, educational, religious and political questions.
DANIEL HALLADAY. — Among the honored pioneers of Southern California
who have contributed largely to the growth and advancement of this section of the
state through their excellent business judgment and public-spirited service, the name
of Daniel Halladay ranks high. Coming to Santa Ana in 1880, Mr. Halladay at
once actively identified himself with the development of the locality, interesting him
self to some extent in agriculture, but it was in the world of finance that his greatest
accomplishments were achieved.
The lineage of the Halladay family dates back for several generations in the
history of New England, and its representatives were always in the forefront of the
progressive life of their communities. A native of Vermont, Daniel Halladay was
born in Marlboro, November 24, 1826. His parents were David and Nancy (Car
penter) Halladay, both natives of the same state. Daniel Halladay's early days were
spent at his birthplace, but when he was twelve years of age his parents removed
to Springfield, Mass., later settling at Ware, in that state, and in these places Daniel
received his education in the public schools. Always of a mechanical bent, at the
age of nineteen years he apprenticed himself to learn the machinist's trade, continuing
as an apprentice and journeyman for six years. During the latter half of this period
he was foreman in the American Machine Works at Springfield, Mass., and the ma
chine works of Seth Adams & Company, in South Boston, Mass. After closing his
work with the last-named firm he returned to his former position with the American
Machine Works at Springfield, and while there he had charge of the construction of
the caloric engine invented by John Ericsson, well known to history as the designer
of the famous Monitor. During the World's Fair in London in 1851, it was a part
of the American exhibit in the Crystal Palace, Mr. Halladay superintending its erec
tion and exhibition there.
Returning to the United States, Mr. Halladay became a partner in a machine
manufacturing concern at Ellington, Conn., but the connection lasted but a short time,
Mr. Halladay then going to South Coventry, Conn., where he engaged in the manu
facture of machinery under the firm name of the Halladay Wind Mill Company,
the greater part of the machines turned out being of his own invention. The com
pany's plant was removed to Batavia, 111., in 1863, and here the business of the plant
grew to a large volume, so that when Mr. Halladay decided to retire from it in order
to come to California, he was able to dispose of it at a handsome figure.
Locating at Santa Ana in 1880, Mr. Halladay entered at once into the upbuilding
of the county, his clear vision making plain to him its great possibilities. Two years
later, in 1882, when the Commercial Bank of Santa Ana was established, he was made
its president, and this was the beginning of many years of service in the banking
field, in which his wisdom, integrity and wide grasp had a large part in putting it
on its present sound, progressive, yet conservative basis. After serving as the bank's
president for a number of years he was made vice-president, always keeping a guid
ing hand on the affairs of the institution. He was also one of the incorporators of
the Bank of Orange, serving on its directorate until it changed hands; at one time
he was a director of the Orange County Savings Bank. All of these institutions
benefited greatly by Mr. Halladay's wise counsel, as was evidenced by their con
stant growth, both in number of depositors and amounts of deposits, and his sound
judgment has left its impress on their policies to the present day. Interested in
every project that made for the material progress of the community, Mr. Halladay
entered enthusiastically into the plans for furnishing Santa Ana with illuminating
gas, being one of the incorporators and directors of the Santa Ana Gas Company.
He was also instrumental in the promotion of the Santa Ana, Orange & Tustin
Street Railway, and was one of its directors throughout the existence of the company.
Mr. Halladay's marriage, which occurred in Ludlow, Mass., May 3, 1849, united
him with Miss Susan M. Spooner, born at Belchertown, Mass., and, like her husband,
a descendant of an old New England family. She passed away on December 26,
1908, at Santa Ana. One child was born to them, a son who died in infancy. Mrs.
Halladay was a charter member of the Presbyterian Church at Santa Ana and very
active in its circles. Mr. Halladay spent the last few years of his life in retirement
from active duties, although he always maintained a wide interest in the affairs of
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of which he was ever a stanch advocate. His death occurred on March 1, 1916, at
his home on East First Street, being survived by his adopted daughter, Mrs. Susie M.
Rutherford. THEODORE RIMPAU, FREDERICK C. RIMPAU.— The wealth of pioneer
achievement and tradition featuring the glowing chapters of California history one
is reminded of in the life-story of Theodore Rimpau, long the oldest citizen in point of
years of residence in Orange County. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, on Septem
ber 28, 1826, the son of Johanas and Matilda (Henneburg) Rimpau, natives of Germany.
He enjoyed, on account of his parents' social and financial circumstances, the advan
tages of a superior education, and unlike many who were destined for such a career
as he later followed, he studied French, German and Latin, and later pursued a prac
tical business' course. After putting in several years with a wholesale business concern
at Hamburg, he decided to seek his fortune in the New World, and came to the
United States in 1848.
Leaving the Fatherland about the time of the great political upheaval striving for
some of the very objects recently attained in Germany, Mr. Rimpau landed in New
York, and was soon employed by a leading wholesale house; and it was while he was
there, getting accustomed to the freer ways of the young Republic, that the news of
the discovery of gold in California was heralded throughout the country. He took
passage for San Francisco, via Panama, and from the Isthmus came on the first
steamship that sailed for what was then called Yerba Buena. Immediately upon his
arrival, he joined the hurrying throngs seeking the "ye_.ow metal," and for a short
time was fairly successful, but like many another who catered to the wants of the
hazarding miner, he found the best way to riches through the avenue of trade.
Mr. Rimpau soon formed a partnership for general merchandising in San Fran
cisco; and as he prospered, he branched out to the South. He opened another store
in Los Angeles, in 1850, to which he gave all of his attention when he had been
burned out twice in the Bay City; his partners, Schwerin and Garbe, returned to South
America, where they had formerly lived. In December, 1850, Mr. Rimpau was mar
ried to Miss Francisca Avila, the daughter of Francisco and Encarnacion (Sepulveda)
Avila, and a native of the City of the Angels. She died at Anaheim in 1903, the
mother of seventeen children, seven still living: Frederick, of this review; Sophie and
Marie L., all of Anaheim; Frank T., of Alhambra; James A., Benjamin A. and John L..
of Los Angeles.
In 1851, Mr. Rimpau closed his well-known Los Angeles store and started in
the stock business on a tract of 800 acres of land owned by his wife, and originally
a Spanish grant that had been in the Avila family for nearly 100 years, and part of
which is still owned by the family; and there, on what is now within the corporate
limits of Los Angeles, Mr. Rimpau followed stock raising until in the early '60's,
when he moved to the San Joaquin ranch. For two years there were awful droughts
throughout the state, and after his cattle died, he continued in the sheep business until
1876, when another drought came, and his son, Adolph, to save the herds, drove them
to Salt Lake City.
Coming to Anaheim in 1865, Mr. Rimpau rented property for two years, after
which he bought and planted twenty acres of land, where he later resided. He sel
out grapes, and manufactured wine; and this business he continued with success until
1886, when disease destroyed all the vines. Then he planted orchards and walnuts.
He foresaw that the wine trade, for various reasons, was doomed, and as early as
1878 he established the dry-goods store which, as a flourishing concern, he turned
over to his sons, Adolph and Frederick, ten years later. He sold half of his 800 acre.
of ranch and became a stockholder in the water company at Anaheim.
Few men in this colony of intelligent and industrious Germans were more re
spected in their time than Theodore Rimpau; and the local chronicler dwells with
peculiar pleasure on some of the personal incidents in his private life. His marriage
ceremony, for example, was performed by Father Sanchez, one of the pioneer padres
who traveled El Camino Real, or the King's Highway, from San Francisco to San
Diego on foot. Mr. Rimpau lived so long and so happily with his good native wife
that his friends could boast he was the first foreigner hereabouts to marry a California
maiden and to celebrate with her a golden wedding. At one time he had three vessels
engaged in coast trade, plying between San Francisco and San Pedro, but they were
all destroyed by fire within a year. He died at Anaheim on October 3, 1913, aged
eighty-seven years.
FREDERICK RIMPAU was born in Los Angeles on March 13, 1855, the house
being still owned by the Rimpau family, and growing up in Anaheim, to which town
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until his forty-second year he clerked in stores in Los Angeles and Arizona, and for
fifteen years he was a partner with his brother Adolph in the dry-goods store at Ana
heim. Selling out, he went into the real estate and insurance field, and today gives
his attention especially to the latter. He is a director of the Anaheim National Bank.
On November 4, 1885, Mr. Rimpau married Miss Nellie Smythe of Anaheim, a
native daughter, whose parents are John S. and Josefa (Yorba) Smythe. They attend
the Catholic Church.
Mr. Rimpau belongs to the Fraternal Brotherhood, and years ago, for three years
he was a member of the California National Guard, from which he was honorably dis
charged. He is an active participator in all civic movements, and deeply interested in
Orange County and its smiling future.
WILLIAM HENRY CROWTHER.— Throughout a long and useful life that
left its impress upon various lines of activity, William H. Crowther won and main
tained the confidence of a large circle of associates, through his progressiveness and
sterling traits of character. Coming of a long line of English, antecedents, Mr.
Crowther was himself a native of England, where he was born on October 4, 1837, in
Yorkshire. His parents, John and Tamar (Bartel) Crowther, both natives of that
part of England, passed their entire lives there.
The country schools of Yorkshire furnished William Crowther his early educa
tion, and this he supplemented with a course at the mechanical schools at Leeds. In
1857, at the age of twenty years, he immigrated to America, settling in Massachusetts,
and here he followed the trade of blacksmithing and wagonmaking for several years,
becoming a very proficient workman. Seeking another field for his activities, Mr.
Crowther started on the long journey to the Pacific Coast by the way of the Isthmus
of Panama, reaching San Francisco in January, 1864. Spending six months at Sacra
mento at his trade, he then located at Santa Clara, and there he engaged in business
for himself for a number of years, manufacturing wagons, plows and a large line of
agricultural implements.
Coming to Los Angeles County in 1872, Mr. Crowther located at Anaheim, and
there engaged in blacksmithing for some time, but seeing the great possibilities in the
development of the agricultural and horticultural interests of this part of the country,
he. purchased 136 acres of land at Placentia in 1875. It was a raw, unpromising piece
of land, used as a sheep range, and Mr. Crowther realized thoroughly the hard work
that would be required before he could hope for even fair returns. Particularly did
he see the necessity of irrigation, if settlers were to be attracted to this locality.
He therefore entered actively into the development of waterways, and was one of the
originators of the means of irrigation provided by the Anaheim Union Water Com
pany. For many years one of its directors, and for several terms president of the
company, he was of invaluable assistance in the conduct of its affairs; also did black
smithing for the company during the first year and a half of its existence.
In the meantime Mr. Crowther was also busily engaged in .the development of
his own ranch. Eighty acres were planted to English walnuts and about fifty acres to
oranges and deciduous fruits, and through his unremitting care and intelligent culti
vation it became one of the best-known ranches of the district, its abundant yield
bringing in a handsome income. Since so many years of his life had been spent in a line
of work far removed from horticulture, more than ever was credit due to Mr. Crow
ther for the outstanding success he made in this new field. In his passing away on
December 16, 1916, the community lost one of its stanchest citizens, and one who could
always be counted upon to give of his time and influence to every good work. The
ranch property is now equally divided between his sons, Walter H. Crowther, of 202
Wilshire Avenue, Fullerton; Edward W. Crowther of Placentia, and his daughter
Ruby, now Mrs. Albert Hitchen, of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.
Mr. Crowther's marriage united him with Miss Margaret Sproul, a native of
Scotland, and they became the parents of four children: Sarah, who died aged forty
years; Walter H., Edward W. and Ruby. Prominent in the ranks of the Masons, Mr.
Crowther belonged to the Blue Lodge at Anaheim and to the Chapter and Com-
_ mandery at Santa Ana, and the Shrine of Los Angeles. A loyal Republican, he took
a deep interest in the affairs of his party, taking an active part in county and state
affairs, and holding local offices of importance. He also gave his services generously
toward securing improved educational facilities, being clerk of the Placentia school
district, of which he was one of the organizers.

218 HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
JOSEPH EDWARD PLEASANTS.— Comparatively few of the men now iden
tified with Orange County preceded Joseph Edward Pleasants in establishing asso
ciations with this locality, as he took up his residence here in 1861. He is one of the
few remaining 'forty-niners in California. Among the first to bring stands of bees to
this part of the country, for many years noted for its fine sage and orange honey, Mr.
Pleasants has long occupied an authoritative place in that industry, being the first bee
inspector of the county, a post that he has held continuously since 1902, and at the
present time he is president of the California State Bee Keepers' Association.
Missouri was Mr. Pleasants' native state, and there he was born in St. Charles
County, March 30, 1839. His parents were James M. and Lydia (Mason) Pleasants,
natives of Kentucky and Virginia, and both were of English ancestry. The mother
passed away in 1848, and the following year the father, with his two eldest sons,
joined an ox-team train consisting of thirty-two wagons for the long journey across
the plains. There were about 120 people in the party, Mr. Pleasants being the young
est child in the company. The trip was a long, trying one, about twenty of the trav
elers succumbing to the cholera en route, and six weary months passed by before
they reached their destination on the Feather River. The father engaged in mining
for about a year and a half, later going to the Sacramento Valley, where he engaged
in farming in what is now Solano County, Pleasants Valley, where he located, being
named for him.
In 1856 J. E. Pleasants came to Southern California, where he made his home
with the Wolfskill family, studying under H. D. Barrows, whom Mr. Wolfskill had
employed as a teacher for his family, the children of the neighborhood sharing in his
instruction, according to the generous custom of the times. Mr. Barrows, who was
a New Englander, and well trained in the pedagogical world of his native place,
was prominently identified with the educational affairs of Los Angeles for many years,
serving on the school board for a number of terms'! Coming to what is now Orange
County in 1861 to look after some interests of Mr. Wolfskill here, Mr. Pleasants
later purchased land, and he has since "made this his home, a period of practically
sixty years. While engaging in general farming, he was especially interested in raising
fine cattle and horses, and he raised many thoroughbred shorthorns, selling them to
the Irvine Company. Among the first to become interested in the bee industry, he
owned at one time over 400 stands, and this brought him a handsome income.
One year he took thirty tons of honey from his apiary. He gave much time to the
study of bees and particularly of the diseases that affect them in this climate, and it
is safe to say that there is no one in Southern California who has done as much to
advance this profitable industry. He was chosen to take charge of the California
bee exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in New Orleans, 1884. When the
office of bee inspector was created in 1902, Mr. Pleasants was unanimously made
its first incumbent and he continues to serve up to the present time. In 1888 Madame
Modjeska bought his ranch of 200 acres and he then bought 400 acres of land, his
present place, which he devoted to the raising of thoroughbred stock.
Mr. Pleasants' first marriage united him with Miss M. Refugio Carpenter, her
mother being a native Californian. She passed away in 1888, and two years later
Mr. Pleasants married Miss Adalina Brown, likewise a native of this state, born at
Petaluma, Sonoma County, but grew up and received her education in Los Angeles;
she is a daughter of Milton and Clarissa (Wing) Brown, natives of Kentucky and
Illinois, respectively. They crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852 and two years later
came down the coast to Sonoma County, and soon afterwards came to Los Angeles
where they were pioneer ranchers. After his wife died Milton Brown made his home
with Mr. and Mrs. Pleasants until a few days before his death at the hospital in
Santa Ana in 1917, aged ninety-five years, six months. Mrs. Pleasants after reaching
womanhood taught school for several years. She is intensely interested in early
California history of which she has been a student and reader and is well informed
and an interesting conversationalist.
A member of the Bee Keepers' Club of Orange County and an active member
of the State and National Bee Keepers' Associations, at the annual meeting in Los
Angeles, February, 1920, Mr. Pleasants was elected president of the California State
Bee Keepers' Association, a fitting honor to his years of study and research in
bee culture. Mr. Pleasants has always taken a prominent part in the activities of
these organizations, promoting in every possible way the furtherance of this industry.
He has been a valued contributor to the various journals published in its interest in
the United States and furnished the data for the chapter devoted to the subject
appearing in this history. Now one of the oldest settlers in this county, he is living
in comparative retirement at his home in Silverado precinct, and blessed with an
exceptional memory, he can recall many interesting reminiscenses of the early days
of Orange County. Occupying a high place in the esteem of his fellow citizens, Mr.
Pleasants can look back upon a long, influential and well-spent life.

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GEORGE W. FORD.— Coming to Orange County in 1876, George W. Ford is
known throughout Southern California as an authority in walnut growing, having made
a special study of this industry and securing results not equalled by any other grower in
the county. A native of Illinois, he was born in the neighborhood of Centralia on
October 21, 1848, a son of John and Louisa (Youngblood) Ford, both descendants of
old Southern families, who had settled in Illinois when it was a territory. In 1897
they came to California and resided here during the remainder of their lives. They
were the parents of ten children, nine of whom grew to maturity.
The oldest child of the family, George W. Ford, was reared on a farm and was
educated in the common schools of that time, attending about two months during the
winter, and the remainder of the time after he was old enough to work, was spent
in helping on his father's farm. From the time he was a lad of fifteen, Mr. Ford
was filled with a desire to see California, having read an article in a paper, written from
Anaheim Landing, and he made up his mind then to visit this section some time in
the future. When he was a little older he worked for a time in a country store, also
helping on the farms in the vicinity of his home, and one season while working in the
harvest field he was overcome, by the heat. His health began to fail and in March, 1875,
he decided to come to California, on the advice of a friend, who had been in this
state and knew the conditions to be found here by one seeking health. Arriving in
San Francisco with less than ten dollars, this small sum had dwindled almost to the
vanishing point before he secured employment, but he was fortunate in completely
regaining his health.
In February, 1876, Mr. Ford came to Los Angeles County, first working on a
ranch and then securing employment in a nursery, where he obtained his first experi
ence in that line. Having saved up a little money he decided to invest it in real estate,
and secured five acres of land at Santa Ana, and upon this small tract he started the
nursery business that was destined to become one of the largest in the state. From
time to time he added to his holdings, in 1884 buying a tract of twenty-three and a
quarter acres. At the time of the purchase it was but little better than a sheep pasture,
but the extension of the city limits made it a valuable property. As the county set
tled up, his business increased in proportion and at one time he employed twenty
men and did a business of over $30,000 a year. He made many of his own importations
and sold in carload lots, shipping walnut trees all over California and to Australia, as
well as many other fruit and ornamental trees, plants and shrubs. He was one of the
first to bring the soft-shelled walnut to this part of the state, and in 1885 he originated
the Ford improved soft-shell walnut and continued year after year to improve the
grade. In the cultivation of walnut groves he also made valuable contribution through
his many and extensive experiments. He was one of the first growers to learn that the
best results were obtained by allowing the orchards to remain unplowed, as he found
that a "plow hardpan" is formed by cultivating, and also that it breaks off the small
shoots sent up by the roots to draw nourishment from the air. He also found that
his yield was much increased by planting the trees much farther apart than was the
custom, thinning them out until they were at least sixty feet apart.
Mr. Ford continued his nursery business until 1898, when he disposed of it at a
good profit. In 1892 he erected his present home and spent much time in beautifying
the grounds, having the greatest variety of ornamental trees and shrubs of any home
in the county, among them being some extremely fine camphor trees. A stockholder
in the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, Mr. Ford worked in 1877 on the first
ditch started by that company.
Always a lover of fine horses, Mr. Ford was for a number of years engaged in
raising some fine racing stock, breeding some of the fastest horses ever sent out of
the state. His horses were raced all over the Pacific circuit, and in the early days
he did his own driving and won many races. In 1900 he bought the Orange County
Fair Association race track, and for several years maintained it as a training and race
course. It was considered one of the fastest mile tracks in California, and it was here
'that Silkwood, one of the best trotting horses of his day, made his record of 2:07.
Coming here when Santa Ana was but a small, struggling village, Mr. Ford has
seen it grow to be one of the most prosperous towns in Southern California, and in
this development he has had no small part. Mr. Ford's marriage occurred in Los
Angeles, when he was united with Miss Mary Teague, who was born on a farm adjoin
ing the Ford homestead in Illinois, and came to California in 1878. They continue to
reside on their old home place, once a pasture, but now in the heart of the residence
district of Santa Ana.

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DAVID HEWES. — In the annals of Southern California none of its citizens
occupy a more distinctive place than the late David Hewes, whose name is indelibly
associated with the great, progressive movements of the state, over a period dating
from 1850 to his demise in July, 1915. A man of affairs, a successful financier and a
Christian gentleman, his life was ever a power for good and an influence toward the
highest ideals of manhood. His long and useful life of ninety-three years was replete
with varied experiences that would furnish a volume of material for the biographer,
rich in interest, but only the outstanding points of his career can be touched upon here.
Born in Lynnfield, Essex County, Mass., May 16, 1822, David Hewes was the
representative of one of the old families of that state, tracing his ancestry back seven
generations to the patriot, David Hewes. The death of his father when he was but
five years old, with the rather rigid discipline of the New England home, early gave
him a sense of responsibility, and the habits of industry that formed the foundation of
his success in life. From the age of fourteen he supported himself and earned enough
to secure his early education in West Reading Academy and Phillips Academy, and
later he was enabled to enter Yale College. Meanwhile he had added his savings to
the small inheritance left him from his father's estate and during his' second year at
Yale he invested his capital in galvanized iron houses which he shipped to California.
Leaving his studies he started on the long trip to the Pacific Coast, via the Isthmus
of Panama, arriving at San Francisco in February, 1850. While he had not expected
to remain in the West, the wonderful possibilities opening up at this period made him
decide to cast his lot with this new and untried land. Going to Sacramento .he opened
up a general merchandise store and from the first was successful, but in 1852, at the
height of his prosperity, the city was practically wiped out by a conflagration, followed
in January of the next year by a disastrous flood, so that Mr. Hewes left there prac
tically empty-handed.
Realizing the possibilities of San Francisco as the future metropolis of the Pacific
Coast, Mr. Hewes decided to locate there. At that time the beginning of the city's
growth made necessary the leveling of the hills and the grading and filling of the
streets and here he saw an immediate opportunity, though his limited capital made it
necessary for him to begin operations on a very limited scale. It was not long, how
ever, until he increased his business and he was soon engaged in the prodigious task
of reclaiming the harbor, filling in blocks that are now in the heart of the city's
commercial center. To the present generation it is almost inconceivable that the shore
line once extended to Montgomery Street, all this section being made land. It was
most fitting that Mr. Hewes was called the "maker of San Francisco" since it was
through his initiative and energy that the task was undertaken and accomplished.
While not actively connected with the building of the first transcontinental rail
road, Mr. Hewes was one of the most enthusiastic supporters of the project and it
was he who furnished the golden spike that marked the completion of the road. It
was also he who planned the connection of the railroad company's wires with that of
the Western Union, by which the taps of the silver hammer driving the golden spike
were transmitted to San Francisco, thus signalling the accomplishment of this long-
waited event. Many other activities occupied Mr. Hewes' attention in the following-
years, before his removal to Southern California, where he entered upon one of his
greatest achievements — the development of the famous Hewes ranch near El Modena,
in Orange County, which he gave the name of Anapama, "a place of rest." Originally
a sheep ranch, and comprising over 800 acres, Mr. Hewes spared neither time nor ex
penditure in its development. A large part of its acreage was converted into a vine
yard, but when Orange County was -visited by the blight, it went the way of all the
other vineyards. Nothing daunted, Mr. Hewes at once set about to restore the ranch
by planting citrus fruit and it became one of California's noted orange groves, remain
ing a part of the Hewes estate after Mr. Hewes' death, until January, 1920, when it
was sold for $1,000,000. The famous Hewes Park, one of the beauty spots of the
Southland, was Mr. Hewes especial pride, involving an expenditure of many thousands
of dollars. Formerly a barren hill top, this knoll is now a beautiful flower garden.
through which are many walks and drives, its lovely terraces ornamented with rare
trees and shrubs. From its summit may be seen Catalina Island, the Sierra Madre and
Santa Ana Mountains, with the snow-covered summit of "Old Baldy" in the distance.
Business alone, however, did not occupy all of Mr. Hewes' time and thought,
despite the great enterprises in which he was always concerned. A lover of art, he
spent much time during his European trips at the art centers, and his magnificent col
lection of pictures, statuary and frescoes was ultimately presented to the Leland Stan
ford University. A trustee of Mills College for many years, he gave generously to
that institution, one of his gifts being the chime of ten bells that hangs in the belfry,
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< holdings in San Francisco, when the earthquake and fire of 1906 destroyed his building
at Sixth and Market streets, although he was at that time in his eighty-fourth year, he
at once made plans for rebuilding, the fifteen-story structure erected on the old site
costing half a million dollars, and it is considered one of the best constructed buildings
in that city.
Mr. Hewes' first marriage, which occurred in 1875, united him with Mrs. Matilda
C. Gray,, and following this they spent two and a half years in Europe. It was on
their return to America that Mrs. Hewes' delicate health made it advisable to seek the
more balmy climate of Southern California, and they established their residence at
Tustin, Mrs. Hewes passing away there in 1887. Mr. Hewes was again married in
1889 to Miss Anna Lathrop, a sister of Mrs. Leland Stanford, the next eighteen months
being spent in Europe, Egypt, Palestine and other parts of the Orient. Mr. Hewes
was again bereaved of his companion in 1892, Mrs. Hewes' death occurring in August
of that year.
A man of remarkable energy, until he was past ninety Mr. Hewes continued to
drive his own horses and went about the crowded streets of Los Angeles arid San
Francisco unattended, looking after his many interests. With a rich heritage. of the
best New England stock, he reflected in his character the unpretentious honesty and
unswerving integrity of his- forbears. His is a career that will never' pass from the
memory of those who have known, him, for its influence will live for all time in the
lives of those who have felt the impress of his upright manhood.
ALBERT S. BRADFORD. — No one who has recently visited the attractive and
instructive orange shows held at San Bernardino will fail to have been greatly im
pressed by the Orange County exhibits, arranged by Albert S. Bradford,- president of
the Placentia National Bank, each under his scientific and artistic touch for the past ten
years of differing and striking arrangement. He was born at Shapleigh, York County,
Maine, on August 18, 1860, the son of William Bradford, a namesake and descendant of
the famous William Bradford, who came out on the Mayflower and later was governor
of Massachusetts. A. S. Bradford's father married Miss Lucy Thompson, also a member "
of a Revolutionary family who stood by Washington and his laudable -aspirations
through the thick and thin of the war, or until independence had been attained.
Albert S. Bradford was reared on a district farm where he, had plenty to do every
summer, although he enjoyed the usual school advantages of the rural districts in
Maine during the winter; but, concluding that such a life would afford him'little oppor
tunity for the future, he ran away from home at the age of fourteen and started to
paddle his own canoe in the larger, if stranger world. Arriving in Boston, he secured
employment in a market garden where garden truck was raised under glass, for whic"h,
larborhe received six dollars a month and his board. He remained there for a number
of years; but he did something more than earn a living; he kept his eyes and ears open,.
he studied hot-bed culture and horticulture, and by conscientious application laid 'a
broad and deep foundation of knowledge and practical experience of great value tb him
in later years. In 1881, he even started a business of his own in the outskirts of Boston.
A venture of another kind, that of managing a summer resort, at Colchester on Lake
Champlain, Vt., merely proved beyond question what he was best fitted for. Whefi,
therefore, he established himself at Stoneham, Mass., and began to cultivate garden.
produce, he was able to give it his undivided attention and effort.
' About the time of the great boom in California, that is, in 1887, Mr. Bradford
came to the Coast, stopping for a while at San Diego and then coming to Santa Ana,
at that time in Los Angeles County, just in time to take a prominent part in the:-forma-
tion of Orange County in 1889. At first, he was foreman of the Daniel Halladay ranch;
but in 1890 he located in what is now the Placentia district and acquired twenty acres of
land on Palm Avenue — the Tesoro ranch — to which he added later, so that now her- owns
some- fifty-five, acres, all set out to Valencia and Navel oranges, under his expert direc
tion brought to a high state of cultivation. Besides this, Mr! Bradford has other citrus
land holdings, including oil-producing property.
He helped to organize the Southern California Fruit Exchange, and was a- director
in the same, although for a number of years he was an independent fruit packer arid
owned his own packing house. Later he sold this to R. T. Davies, and- he now packs
through him. For fifteen years he was a director of the Anaheim" Union Water Com
pany, and chairman of- the ditch committee, and he helped to organize' the First '-National
Bank and the American Savings Batik of Anaheim, and is still a diree-tor in both ;
Mr. Bradford's 'place in California history is; pleasantly assured -through his dis
tinction as the founder. of the town*of Placentia. He bought sixty acres pf-land for .the
townsite from Richard Melrose of Anaheim in 1910, laid out the town and secured the
right-of-way for the Santa Fe Railroad to build its line; and Placentia is now a busy,
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in the heart of the richest orange and oil section of Orange County. It has a modern,
up-to-date grammar school and its own private water system for domestic service. The
Placentia Domestic Water Works has one well 150 feet deep, and another 187 feet, with
a modern pumping plant. Two large iron tanks hold 52,000 gallons, and a small tank
contains 1,800 gallons, for the use of the packing houses. The largest street main is a
six-inch pipe, and there are now 228 water meters installed. There are eight fire
hydrants, and the town has a twenty-horsepower electric motor. It will be seen, there
fore, that with clear, pure water, the water system of Placentia compares favorably
with that of any other place in the county.
The Placentia National Bank of which Mr. Bradford is president was organized
by him in 1911, and occupies a modern brick building of its own — some evidence of its
almost phenomenal success from the start. He was organizer of Placentia Savings Bank
and president of it and is also a director in the Standard Bond and Mortgage Company
of Los Angeles, president of the Republican Petroleum Corporation, and director in
the Orange County Automobile Association. He is chairman of the County Board of
Foresters, and vice-president and director in the Southern Counties Gas Company, all
of them representative business associations. Since 1909 he has had charge, as has
been said, of the Orange County exhibit at the annual orange show held in San Ber
nardino each February, and for ten season has made a new and novel design.
Mr. Bradford has been married three times. The first Mrs. Bradford was Miss
Fannie R. Mead before her marriage, and she was a native of Winchester, Mass., and
the daughter of Captain H. Mead. The latter commanded the U. S. Gunboat Monadnock
during the siege of Fort Fisher, in the Civil War, and continuing to follow the high
seas, he met a tragic death in the burning of his steamer off Cape Hatteras. Four
children blessed the union: Elsie G, the only daughter, grew up to graduate from the
Fullerton high school, and died on March 17, 1908. Hartwell A. and Percy L. became
mainstays to their parents; but the mother, who passed away on January 9, 1910, did
not see the patriotic service of the younger child, Warren M. Bradford, who served in
France in the World War, as first lieutenant of the Twenty-third U. S. Engineers.
His was the strenuous life of the able-bodied, idealistic and enthusiastic soldier, who
never was willing to do the minimum possible, and it is not surprising that he was in
several of the most important and famous drives. The blow to Mr. Bradford in the
death of his devoted companion threatened to unnerve and incapacitate him; but
through the endeavor to overcome the ill effects, he accomplished the great work of
providing for the Santa Fe cut-off from Richfield to Fullerton, through Placentia, and
also for the founding of the latter town. Hartwell A. Bradford graduated from the
Colorado School of Mines, and has made a name for himself as a mining expert in
both the United States and Mexico. Percival Loring Bradford was graduated from
the Armour Institute of Chicago, as an electrical engineer; while Warren is a musician
with proficiency on the piano and cornet. The second Mrs. Bradford was Ellen R.
Mead who died November 23, 1918. The present Mrs. Bradford was Mrs. Winifred
Wade Bryan, born in Missouri, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Wade.
Mr. Bradford is one of the most prominent Masons in California, having been
made a Mason in Anaheim Lodge No. 207, F. & A. M., of which he was master three
years. He was exalted to the Royal Arch degree in Santa Ana Chapter and was an
organizer of Fullerton Chapter No. 90, R. A, M., and for three years was its high
priest, although he did the work for five years. He is a member of the Grand Chapter
of California and was deputy grand lecturer of the Nineteenth district. He is also a
member of Santa Ana Council No. 14, R. & S. M. Mr. Bradford was knighted in
Santa Ana Commandery No. 36, Knights Templar, and afterwards became a charter
member of Fullerton Commandery. He is a member of Los Angeles Consistory, S. R.,
and also a life member of Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O N. M. S., Los Angeles. Always
a believer in protection and nationalism for Americans he is decidedly a Republican
and has always been active and prominent in matters of political moment to the
county and state.
STROTHER S. BALL — During his forty years of continuous residence in
Orange County, Strother S- Ball has witnessed the marvelous development of agri
culture and citrus culture in the county, as well as the growth of villages into up-to-
date cities. He was born January 29, 1848, in Gentry County, Mo., the son of Hezekiah
R. and Ellen (Stephens) Ball, the former a native of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Hezekiah
Ball were the parents of eight children, five of whom are living.
In 1865, after the Civil War, the family migrated, by the ox-team route, to Arizona.
The indomitable spirit of the pioneer possessed this hardy family to such a degree
that they determined to migrate still farther westward until the Golden State was
reached. In 1866 the family arrived in San Bernardino, where they remained until
1880, when they located in what is now Orange County.

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. In 1881 Hezekiah Ball .purchased 200 acres of land at the small price of fifteen
dollars an acre. Here he f.ollpw.ed general farming until his passing away in 1909. The
. land was subsequently divided, and disposed of, Strother Ball receiving his share of the
estate; Mr. Ball occupies an .established' place, in the community- where he has so long
hgen a resident, and stands high in, the estimation of a large, circle of friends.
RICHARD T. HARRIS. — A' public official .who made an. enviable record that
( will long speak for both. his high sense of integrity and his sagacity was the late
. Richard T, Harri?, the firgt sheriff and. tax collector, and the third treasurer, of Orange
County. He was born in Richmond, Va., on February 15, 1859, the son of John
and Grace Harris, now deceased, who were both natives of Cornwall, England, where
they" were also. married. They located, on first coming to America, in Richmond, Va.,
f.:"hut, attracted by the exciting news of. the discovery of gold in California, came out to
•California in 1860 and located in Grass Valley, Nevada County. ,For a while Mr.
Harris followed mining there, and then he came to Healdsbutg,. Sonoma County,
,a'nd from there to Santa Clara County. In the Centennial year of 1876, Mr. Harris
'. settled in the Garden Grove district, which was then in Los Angeles County, and
.. there followed farming.
',. >-¦ On reaching young manhood, Richard T. Harris entered the mercantile field,
.conducting a general merchandise store . at Westminster. When Orange. County
was formed, he was one of those distinguished by his foresight and his helpful par
ticipation in the hard work of the project, and naturally he was elected — by. a majority
of 1,700 — the first sheriff and tax collector. Later he was elected county treasurer.
, In each of these offices he served a term and became one of the best-known men
"in the county. He was also interested in ranching and devoted considerable of his
.time to growing walnuts, oranges and celery. Politically he was a stanch Republican.
'">" On July 3, 1888, at Westrninster, "Mr. Harris! was married to Miss Maria- S-
Larter, a native of Ontario, Canada, the farnily. home being only six miles from
'Niagara Falls. She" was the' daughter of Robert and Mary J;- (Hansler) Larter, born
in Norwich, England, and Canada, respectively. Mrs. Harris accompanied her par-*.
ents to Westminster in 1876, her father being one bf the pioneer farmers there, and
.thjs, was his home until his death. His. widow survives, making her home at West-
. minster. " Mr. and Mrs. Harris were the parents of one daughter, Geraldine May,
who Dassed away at the age o'f nine years; Mrs. Harris is a cultured arid refined
woman, well-read and well-traveled, and this, coupled with a retentive memory,
..makes her a very interesting conversationalist. She is also endowed with much
business acumen, which stands her in good stead in the management - of the large
.affairs left her by her husband, a stewardship of which she is giving a good account.
Mr." Harris was a director in the Santa Ana Cooperative Sugar" Company, and
took a live interest in the establishment of this plant which has done so much tp build
up' the county. He also served for a time as assistant postmaster at Westminster,
and also started the_ telephone company there. During the early history of the oil
industry in ScjutKern California, he was one of the prime movers in the organization
of the Fidelity Oil Cbmpany,'~and operated in the -Whittier field. His ventures were
successful and he retired from that line with a considerable fortune. On his demise,
on November 28, 1911, the local newspaper said of him:- "A man of business affairs,"
he was progressive, and had been active in the promotion of several enterprises that
have benefited this cjty and county. That he was highly esteemed and enjoyed" the
confidence of the public is evidenced by the fact that he held county office at two
different times."
DANIEL KRAEMER. — Among the fam.dus pathfinders bringing civilization and
progress to this promising corner of. the Golden State, and the first white' settler fo
pitch a tent in the Placentia district in Orange County, and the first white family to
settle outside of the willow fence, inclosing the Anaheim settlement, Daniel Kraemer,
who passed to his eternal reward in 1882, deserves the lasting recognition of a reveren
tial posterity. Born at St. John, one of the' most picturesquely-situated mountain re
sorts iii: the Swabian Alps, Bavaria, not far from the renowned castle of Lichtenstein,
on November 17, 1816, he came to America at the age of twenty-six, and located near
Belleville, in St. Clair -County, 111., where he took up farming. He klso married there,
andiin that prosperous section of the Middle West his nine children were' born.
Two tedious trips were made between his Illinois home and Southern California
before he' made' this section hfs permanent home; for he first- came Wejt in 1865,
bopght his land, and ' returned to Illinois. The following year he came here again,
but once more found it necessary to return- East. On his third trip, in 1867, he brought
his famUy with him.'. To make^the journey atthaf time meant to take the railway from
St Louis to New York, thence by boat, to the Isthrriu's of.Panama, after that by steamer
to San Francisco, and next by boat to San Pedro, from which port' the tourists took
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When he first came here, in 1865, Mr. Kraemer purchased a portion of the
original Mexican grant known as the San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana Rancho, his par
ticular part being designated the Peor Es Nada Rancho, named from a Mexican
village then near by, and meaning in Spanish, "Worse than nothing." Its English
name, however, was "The Cajon Ranch." This strip of land comprised 3,900 acres, and
its original boundaries were what is now Placentia Avenue on the west, the J. K.
Tuffree Ranch on the north, the Richfield territory on the east, and the Santa Ana
River on the south. Cattle and horses at first roamed freely there, but later the sheep
herds crowded them out, so that really the latter made way for the farmer and the
horticulturist. This great ranch remained intact until the death of its owner in 1882, and since
that time most of its acreage has been sold, so that the once princely domain consti
tutes a large portion of the present Placentia district. On his first trip here, Mr.
Kraemer found a ditch, the Ontiveros, which ran eastward from the house he bought
through what is now the district of Richfield, and then through Yorba, the intake being
close to the old Trinidad Yorba house; and returning from the East in 1867, he dis
covered that the flow from this ditch, his only irrigation supply, was being seriously^
interfered with. He then built a ditch of his own to the Santa Ana River, which
intersected the Ontiveros ditch, one and a half miles east of his home, and this
was the first individual canal to be built in this section. He was also one of the
projectors of the Cajon Canal, built in 1875, which carries water through all of the
Placentia district, through Fullerton and Orangethorpe, and much of Anaheim.
Mr. Kraemer showed his appreciation of popular education in helping to organize
the Cajon School district, in 1874, the first district in this section, and donated an
acre of ground for school purposes. Five years later, this district was renamed the
Placentia. He brought both the first mowing and the first sewing machine here, and
before he laid aside his earthly labors, on February 6, 1882, he had splendidly im
proved between 400 and 500 acres of his vast estate.
When Daniel Kraemer married, he took for his wife Miss Magdalena E. Schrag,
a native of Battenberg, Germany, and of Swiss parentage; a most valuable helpmate,
who died on January 3, 1889. One of their daughters, Elizabeth, died on November
18, 1875. The other children are: Henry Kraemer of Placentia; Mrs. Barbara Parker
of Anaheim; D. J. Kraemer of Brownsville, Texas; Samuel Kraemer, also of Pla
centia; Mrs. Emma M. Grimshaw of Anaheim; she has a daughter, M. Alice Grim
shaw, a teacher in the Anaheim public schools; Edward M. Kraemer of Olive; Mrs.
Mary K. Miller of Anaheim, and Benjamin, living on the original Kraemer home place
at Placentia. A son of Mrs. Miller, Edward L. Miller, is a graduate from Occidental
College, and when the World War called for his services, he enlisted. He served
twenty-two months with the now historic One Hundred Seventeenth Engineer Corps,
was in six important drives, and six times went "over the top."
MRS. MARY ORILLA KELLOGG.— It seems eminently fitting that the names
of the early pioneers of California should be perpetuated in such a manner that their
labors, in the days of trials and hardships, may remain an inspiration and encourage
ment to the toilers of today. Great honor is due the names of those courageous men
and women who braved the perils of the overland trail in their untiring efforts to
blaze a path and establish a civilization for the generations to come. In California
and Orange County, the names of Benjamin Franklin and Mary Orilla Kellogg stand
out prominently. By those who knew him during his active life, Mr. Kellogg is recalled as a
man who contributed not a little to the permanent growth of the localities in which
he elected to reside. No one knew better than he the terrors of the overland
trail or more dearly won his right to be numbered among the most courageous of
the western pioneers. He was born in Morgan County, 111., April 31, 1822, and was
the youngest of six children. A descendant of a prominent New England family,
his father, Elisha, was born in Massachusetts, and settled in Genesee County, N. Y.,
where he was judge and sheriff. Upon removing to Morgan County, 111., he built
the first house in the county and did farming and stock raising on a large scale. Later
he moved to Jo Daviess County, and there he died in 1844. He married Elizabeth
•Derrick, who was born in Connecticut, and died in Jo Daviess County, 111.
In his youth, B. F. Kellogg received but a limited education and was brought up
to farm labor pf the severest kind. In 1844 himself and brother Erwin went to the
Rocky Mountains in search of a silver mine, but, failing in their quest, secured a Gov
ernment contract and built Fort Laramie. They met with many uncanny and danger
ous adventures, which, however, did not diminish their enthusiasm for the West. Two
years later found them en route to the Pacific Coast as members of the Donner party,
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party at Donner Lake, and proceeded with others upon what proved to be a terrible
and hauntingly gruesome journey. At one time, while searching for the silver mine
near Fort Laramie, they were attacked by Pawnee Indians, stripped of their clothes
and robbed of all they had with them. So reduced were they that they had to eat
walnuts and raw frogs. The brothers were at one time separated from each other,
and during this time, B. F. Kellogg, in lieu of any kind of food, and on the verge
of starvation, scratched the hair from his buffalo coat and ate the hide. In time
he was found by his brother, who had gone in search of help, in an almost dying
condition, and was succored by some friendly Indians whom they chanced to meet.
Arriving in Napa Valley, Mr. Kellogg enlisted in General Fremont's army and
served six months, and was honorably discharged in April, 1847. He was also a
veteran of the Mexican War. He engaged in mining with varying success, then
turned his attention to farming in Napa Valley, and later in the vicinity of St. Helena.
On September 5, 1864, at White Sulphur Springs, he married Mary Orilla Lillie,
who was born in Fulton County, 111., on July 15, 1832, a daughter of Luther and
Orilla (Morgan) Lillie, natives of Connecticut. Her paternal grandfather, David
Lilhe, was also born -in Connecticut, and settled first in New York, then in Ohio, and
later in Indiana. In 1831 he located in Fulton County, 111., of which he was a pioneer,
and where he died at the age of eighty-two years. He served as a soldier in the Revo
lutionary War and the Black Hawk War. Luther Lillie was a farmer in New York,
Ohio and Illinois, and was also a millwright and machinist, and had shops in the dif
ferent places in which he lived. He settled in Illinois in 1831 at a time when the
Indians were numerous and troublesome. He died in 1837 and his wife passed away
in 1833, the mother of fourteen children. One son, Leonard G., came to California
in 1850 and died in Napa Valley, and two daughters, Mrs. Rosana Evey and Mrs.
Emeline Butler, came West in 1854 and 1855, respectively.
Mrs. Kellogg was reared in Illinois and attended school in a little log school-
house with slab benches, and later in a frame building. When she was twenty months
of age her mother died, and when she was seven her father passed away, and she
went to live with a family named Breed. From the first she was obliged to work
hard between the rising and the setting of the sun, so that school was a luxury and
leisure an unheard-of commodity. In 1853 she undertook to accompany her brother,
Leonard G., his wife and their five children, and her sister, Mrs. Butler, to California.
The experiences while crossing the plains are vividly recalled by Mrs. Kellogg at
this day, and contained much of interest and adventure. The ox-teams were out
fitted at Farmington, 111., and they crossed the Mississippi at Burlington on May 3,
1853, thence took the Platte route and the Green River route to Humboldt and the
Southern pass route to Sacramento and Napa Valley. In the Napa Valley the brother
built and operated a grist mill, and here Mrs. Kellogg lived until her marriage" in 1854.
On May 21, 1869, Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg brought their family of eight children
to Anaheim, in the vicinity of which Mr. Kellogg bought 640 acres of land from the
Stearns Rancho Company. This land was improved from the rough, built up with
residences and barns, and fitted with wells and fences, and rendered generally habit
able. While these improvements were being made the family lived in a tent. There
were no houses between their place and Los Angeles, nor were there any towns to
the south of them. Disaster followed in the wake of all this industry, for the grass
hoppers and wild horses played havoc with the crops for three succeeding years.
In time Mr. Kellogg became prosperous, and a prominent factor in the general growth
of this locality. He gave each of his sons a tract of forty acres of land which they
improved. Politically he was a Republican, and while in Napa County served as
coroner and as school trustee. In Orange County, then Los Angeles County, he
donated three acres of land for a schoolhouse and was one of the trustees for many
years. The death of Mr. Kellogg, December 16, 1890, witnessed the passing of a
thoroughly good man, and one who knew the value of opportunity and how to use it.
After her husband's death, Mrs. Kellogg, with the aid of her sons, kept alive the
interests of the home, and she. now retains but eighteen acres of the original home
stead, and this is planted to walnuts and oranges. She has divided the portion of
land left to her equally among her daughters. She is a Republican in politics, and
in earlier years was a member of the W. R.' C. and W. C. T. U., and is a member
of the Christian Church. In that' calm and splendid way known only to the pioneer
women who have suffered much and endured patiently, she has reared to years of
usefulness nine children, to any one of whom their mother is the embodiment of all
that is true, gracious and approachable in women. H. Clay is a graduate of Wilson
College and is a surveyor and civil engineer at Santa Ana; Mary E. became the wife
of Byron O. Clark and lives at Paradise, Butte County; Erwin F. is deceased; Louisa
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J. is Mrs. L. A. Evans of Orange County; Leonard G. is in Guatemala; Edward L-
is ranching at Van Nuys; Lillie M. married William Dunlap and is deceased; Clara
E. became Mrs. Carl F. Raab and is deceased, and Carrie A. married Richard N.
Bird of Los Angeles.
A splendid type of pioneer woman, Mrs. Kellogg met the trials and hardships of
the early years with patience and fortitude, and now in her eighty-ninth year, still
retains a remarkable degree of vitality for one of her years, and is still greatly inter
ested in the development of the county where she has lived for over half a century.
She has living thirty-three grandchildren and twenty-five great-grandchildren to call
her blessed. DR. WILLIAM FREEMAN. — Among the distinguished representatives of the
medical profession in Orange County whose influence for scientific progress is still felt
although, as the result of years of unremitting application to his work he has been
retired for nearly six years, is William Freeman, M. D., a native of Medina County,
Ohio, where he was born on January 6, 1841. He attended the public schools of his
home district, but when seventeen removed to DeKalb County, Ind., and continued his
studies in the Auburn Academy. Having been commissioned by the school authorities
to teach, he took charge of a school the next year; but in 1861, at the second call by
the Federal Government for soldiers he enlisted on September 5, and joined Company
H, Thirtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He campaigned in Kentucky and Tennessee,
as a part of the Army of the Cumberland, and saw stirring action in more than one
important battle or engagement. These included the battle of Shiloh, Stone River, in
which he received a gunshot wound through the right hand, and the battle of Chica-
mauga, where he was permanently disabled by a shot through the body. He was laid
up for a while in a Chattanooga hospital, from which he was transferred to Murfrees-
boro, where he was compelled to stay for several months. At lengfh he was taken home
by his father on a stretcher, and on his recovering to a degree, he was made sergeant
of sanitary police at Totten Field Hospital in Louisville. At the expiration of his term
of enlistment, he was returned to Indianapolis and honorably discharged. To such
men as Dr. Freeman, the Union owes its preservation today.
Before he enlisted, our subject had commenced the study of medicine, and on
once more regaining his civic freedom, he went back to Auburn, Ind., and again took
up the subject under Dr. A. H. Larimore, a noted practitioner. When he was ready for
a course of lectures, he went to the Cincinnati College of Medicine, and after the usual
severe tests, he joined the graduating class of '67. Then he opened an office at Vevay,
Ind., and later practiced at Madison, in the same state. Ambitious to still further
perfect himself, he pursued post-graduate work at Indianapolis, and once more resumed
practice, first at Vevay and then at Madison.
Still suffering from the wounds he had received in the service of his country,
and broken in health from overwork, Dr. Freeman left the Middle West in 1894 and
sought relief in less frigid California. For two years he rested at San Diego, and when
he had practically restored his health, he came to Orange County. He was attracted
to Fullerton in particular, and there for eighteen years he enjoyed a highly remunerative
practice. A man of foresight, anticipating the needs of the community, Dr. Free
man was one of the early promoters of the Fullerton Hospital, which became also an
excellent training school for nurses. He invested in city property, and so showed his
confidence in the future of Fullerton, and built a cosy residence, at the same time that
he improved seven acres to oranges on Orangethorpe Avenue. Dr. Freeman removed
to near Anaheim and bought eleven and a half acres on Santa Ana Street, where he
set out oranges, there being some walnut trees on the place, and soon demonstrated
his ability to succeed as a rancher. He remained there eighteen months then returned
to Fullerton and bought twenty and a half acres adjoining his original seven; this
he also set to oranges and kept it until 1918 when he sold it. In Fullerton, where he
is a pioneer, Dr. Freeman had been health officer, administering his responsibility so
well that no contagious disease was ever allowed to spread during the four years he
served as first city health officer. He was one of the organizers of the Chamber of
Commerce. In Anaheim he lent his experience and counsel in the direction of im
proved sanitation and greater assurance for public health. When in Indiana, he served
his fellow-citizens for a couple of terms in the state legislature, and was also one of the
directors of the Indiana State Reform School, and these experiences enabled him to
be the more serviceable when he assumed citizenship in California. He was also for
seven years on the Indiana Board of Pension Examiners.
By his first marriage, Dr. Freeman became the father of four children — A. W.
Freeman, an oil man of Oklahoma; J. A. Freeman, a produce dealer of Santa Barbara;
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Mrs. Fred Shaw of El Centre -At Whittier, he married his second wife, Miss Belle
McFadden, a native of Illinois, who was reared in Mercer County in that state. Both
Doctor and Mrs. Freeman are members of the Eastern Star, and the Doctor belongs
to Fullerton Lodge, No.339, F. & A. M. He is also a member of Malvern Hill Post,
G. A. R., and was chief mustering officer under Colonel Merrill, when he* was depart
ment commander. He is hale and hearty, and looks back with pleasure to the arduous
days in Indiana, when for twenty-five years he attended' to his practice while riding
horseback, often on wide circuits. Dr. Freeman belongs to the Christian Church.
LEWIS FENNO MOULTON.— The steady increase in population and the tend
ency toward intensive cultivation of the land have had much to do with the dividing
up of the great ranches of the early Spanish grants into small tracts. Noteworthy
among the few large tracts that still remain intact is the great Moulton ranch of 22,000
acres which lies southwest or El Toro. Lewis Fenno Moulton, its original proprietor
and owner, still directs its affairs with the ability and energy that have always char
acterized his undertakings.
Prominent in the early colonialaffairs of New England, the Moulton family has
contributed many representatives who occupied important posts in the stirring political
and military affairs of that day. One of the bravest of these was Gen. Jeremiah Moul
ton, who served with distinction in the Revolutionary War, and was one of the most
zealous of the colonies' defenders, Sharing in this patriotic spirit were other members
of the family, Samuel Farrar, who participated in the Battle of Concord, and Samuel
Fenno, whose name is associated with the events that led up to the Boston tea party.
In the second war with the Mother Country, Jotham Moulton, the son of Gen. Jere
miah Moulton, displayed the same spirit as his forbears, taking an active part in the
conflict. Jotham Moulton, a physician by profession, married Lucy Farrar, and for
many years they made their home in Bucksport, Maine. Among their children was
J. Tilden Moulton, the father of Lewis F., who was born in Maine in 1808. After
graduating from Bowdoin College and Harvard Law School, and practicing his pro
fession in Cherryfield, "Maine, for several years, he removed to Chicago, 111., where
for many years he occupied a place of distinction in its legal circles. In addition to
his large practice he served as a master in chancery of the United States Court at
Chicago, and was as well known in its journalistic circles, being one of the first'
editors of the Chicago Tribune. His high professional standing brought him into
contact with all the great men of that day and locality, and among the friendships he
prized most was that of Abraham Lincoln, who was one of his classmates in law
college. During his residence in the East he had been united in marriage with Miss
Charlotte Harding Fenno, a native of Massachusetts, but who was reared and edu
cated in Connecticut.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Tilden Moulton were the parents of two children: Irving F., for
many years vice-president and cashier of the Bank of California, but now retired, resid
ing at San Francisco, and Lewis Fenno, the subject of this sketch. He was born at
Chicago on January 17, 1854, and spent the first years of his life in the parental home
there, one of his early and cherished memories being of Abraham Lincoln, who fre
quently came to the Moulton home. Unlike his father, his inclination did not lie in the
way of training for a professional career, and as soon as he had completed the grammar
school course he set about to earn his own living, the father's death when Lewis was
but a young lad also making it expedient for him to learn to make his way in the
world His first work was packing shingles on Chicago wharfs, and later, after the
death of the father, the family removed to Boston, Mass., and here he was employed
by a storekeeper to run errands, earning a dollar and a half per week. At the age
of fifteen he began working on the did Daniel Webster farm near Marshfield, Mass.,
remaining there for three years. w w n. _ _ j
Feelino- that the Far West offered greater opportunities Mr. Moulton started on
the long trip to California in 1874, making the journey by way of the Isthmus of
Panama Locating at once at Santa Ana, then Los Angeles County, but now Orange
County he began work on the San Joaquin ranch near Santa Ana, and subsequently
went into the sheep raising business with C. E. French, continuing in this for several
vears Going to San Francisco he established a wholesale slaughter house there, but
this did not prove a financial success, so he returned after a short time to Orange
County He soon was able to start afresh, and it was buSa short time until he was
on the road to prosperity. His first purchase, about 1895, 'was a tract" bf 19,500 acre's
adjoining the San Joaquin ranch and extending to the ocean, and this has been in
creased by subsequent purchase until the ranch now comprises 22,000 acres. Mr.
Moulton is extensively engaged in raising beef cattle for the market, mostly high-
srrade Durham Shorthorn cattle; so he is very naturally a member of the California
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raising barley, wheat, beans and hay, Mr. Moulton leasing it to tenants for this
purpose, from ten to fifteen farmers usually being engaged on the place.
Every department of the business is systematically organized and conducted,
the greater part of it under the personal supervision of Mr. Moulton, whose ability.
as a business head and executive has been one of the chief factors in the eminent
success that he has made. A well-appointed office is maintained on the ranch, and
there are two commodious residences, one of which is occupied by Mr. Moulton,
while the other is the home of Mrs. M. E. Daguerre, who owns a third interest in
the ranch, her husband, Jean Pierre Daguerre, having been Mr. Moulton's partner
before his decease. Excellent barns and outbuildings, well-kept lawns and drives
add to the attractiveness of the ranch, which is always kept up to the highest state
of cultivation. While the responsibility entailed by the details of this extensive busi
ness absorbs the greater part of Mr. Moulton's time, he has always been active in his
support of the Republican party, and is known throughout the county as one of its
most generous and large-hearted citizens in his many benefactions.
MRS. MINERVA J. FLIPPEN.— A liberal-minded, interesting native daughter,
especially proud of the fact that her father was a forty-niner, is Mrs. Minerva J.
Flippen, the widow of a well-known Californian, esteemed by all his associates. She
is the daughter of Nathan Stanley Danner, who was born on the Catawba River, in
North Carolina, in 1822, and the granddaughter of John Danner, who moved from North
Carolina to Missouri, and settled as a farmer near Springfield. There his wife died;
and in 1857 he crossed the great plains in an ox team train, and died in 1871 in Merced
County in his eighty-fourth year. The Danners are of German extraction, the pro
genitor of the name in America, John Danner, coming to North Carolina before the
Revolutionary War. Nathan S. Danner came across the plains from Missouri to Cali
fornia in 1849 as a gold-seeker, and mined in Marysville and the Sierra Mountains,
down into Mariposa County, where he also had a store; and he was so successful that
in 1852 he returned East by way of Panama, to Missouri. There he was married that
year to Miss Minerva Pearce, who was born in Tennessee in 1835, the daughter of
Edmund Pearce, of English descent, and in the year 1857 he again came to California,
once more traveling by way of Panama, and located on the Tuolumne River, in Stan-
• islaus County, where he engaged in farming and the raising of cattle. The flood of
1862 washed away his house, cattle and farm implements, and even the farm became
lost in the bed of the Tuolumne River; whereupon he moved to the Merced River, in
1863. He first settled on an island, but the flood of 1867 covered it, and again he lost
his crops; but he took his family away in a boat, and moved to Hopeton, six miles
from Snelling. Here he farmed until October, 1872, when he and his family removed
to Kern County, near Linns Valley, forty miles northeast of Bakersfield, where he
followed stock raising; he improved a farm near Woody, and at Blue Mountain he
opened the mine that is still being exploited. He set out big trees and otherwise
improved the place, and went in for stock raising, although, since there were bear,
deer and antelope in profusion, they had plenty of profitable hunting. Later he moved
north into Tulare County, and owned a place on White River, where he resided until he
died, in 1892. Mrs. Danner spent her last days with Mrs. Flippen, and died in 1911,
aged seventy-four years. She had four children; John resides in Porterville; Minerva
J., Mrs. Flippen, is the subject of our interesting sketch; Jefferson lives at Willows, Cal.,
and Lee J. Danner is also a resident of Orange. Of these, John Danner was born in
Missouri, and the others are natives of California.
Minerva J. Danner was educated in the public schools of Merced County, par
ticularly in the district of Woody; and there she was married on May 10, 1876, to
Thomas M. Flippen, a native of Virginia, who came to California when seventeen,
accompanying his father, Archer Flippen. The latter had had a tobacco factory and
three plantations in Virginia, all of which were destroyed by the Civil War; but h*
recuperated somewhat in taking up stock raising in California, near Woody. Mi.
Flippen also engaged in the sheep raising business in Fresno County, then began
raising stock in Linns Valley after his marriage; but in February, 1891, he traded his
ranch for land in Orange County. The first ranch that he owned here was located
near Olive, and there he went in for general farming. He set out walnuts, apricots
and peaches, and three years later made a trade for the present Flippen place of-
twenty acres on East Chapman Avenue. He improved it in many ways, taking out
the old trees and setting out Valencia oranges; and as he developed the valuable prop
erty, he became an active member of the Santiago Orange Growers Association, in
which he also became a director. His lamented death, on May 19, 1913, at the age
of sixty-two years, cut short a very useful career, of benefit to himself as well .as to
others. He, w_js a director in the First National Bank of Orange, and a stockholder
in the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Santa Ana. He was also a director in the

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Orange County Mutual Farmers Insurance Company. He was made a Mason in the
Bakersfield Lodge during the eighties.
Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Flippen. Marion S. is an orange grower
of this vicinity, as are also Wade H. and Lucian, while Jeffie is in the California Art
Craft School at Berkeley, and Virginia, the youngest, is a student at Stanford. Florence,
next to the youngest, is a graduate of Occidental College, and the wife of Donald
Smiley of El Modena. Since Mr. Flippen's death, Mrs. Flippen has continued to run
the ranch and to look after the business, assisted by her children. She is a member
of the Presbyterian Church and participates actively in the work of the several ladies'
societies affiliated with that excellent congregational organization.
CHARLES DEXTER BALL, M.D.— Closely identified with Santa Ana and
Orange County since 1887, Charles Dexter Ball, M.D., is recognized as one of its suc
cessful physicians as well as one of the stanch upbuilders of Santa Ana. He comes
from English forbears, and his lineage is traced back to Wiltshire, England, and it
was from that place that six Ball brothers came to America in 1635 on the ship Planter.
Benjamin Ball, a grandson of one of these brothers, settled in Framingham, Mass., in
1703. His grandson, Dr. Silas Ball, was a surgeon in the American Army during the
Revolutionary War.
Dr. C. D. Ball's father was Seth F. Ball, grandson of the Revolutionary surgeon,
and he was born in Leverett, Mass., in 1822, and died in Santa Ana in 1900. He was
twice married, his first wife being Arvilla Field, who died in 1884, and he was later
married to Mary E. Rogers, who survives him. Two children were born of his first
marriage, Charles Dexter Ball of this review, and a daughter who died in infancy.
The mother was a descendant of Zachariah Field, one of the grantees of the state
of Connecticut, and of Benjamin Waite, preacher, guide and Indian fighter, who was
killed in the Deerfield massacre in 1704. The French and Indian wars of New England
presented no more daring and picturesque character than Benjamin Waite. Seth F.
Ball came to California in 1854 and remained for four years, after which he removed
to Canada. He resided there until 1894, and then returned to California and. settled
in Santa Ana, where his last years were spent.
Charles Dexter Ball was born in Stanstead, Quebec, October 5, 1859. He re
ceived his literary education at Stanstead Academy and the Wesleyan College of Stan-
ctead; lat&i" he studied medicine at Bishops College in Montreal, completing his course
and receiving his degree of M.D. in 1884. He began the practice of his profession in
his native city, but it became necessary for him to seek a milder climate, and he accord
ingly came to Southern California and settled in Santa Ana in September, 1887. This
was before Orange County had been formed, and the territory was a part of Los
Angeles County, and ever since that date he has been actively engaged in the practice
of his profession here, and is now the second .oldest practitioner in point of residence
in Santa Ana. In 1912 Dr. Ball received the ad eundem degree from McGill Univer
sity, Canada. He has been closely identified with the movements that have made
Orange County one of the best-known counties in the State, if not in the United States.
Dr. Ball assisted in organizing the Orange County Medical Association in 1889, and
later served as its president; he was also a charter member of the Southern California
Medical Society, organized in 1888, and has filled the office of president; he also holds
membership in the American Medical Association. He has seen Santa Ana grow from
a small village into one of the leading small cities of the state, and has been owner
of valuable realty holdings from time to time.
In 1883 Dr. Ball married Lizzie S. Bates, and she died in August, 1888. On
October 24 of the following year, in San Leandro, Cal., he married Emma L. Rankin,-
born in Richmond, Canada, on June 3, 1861, a daughter of Zera Rankin, of Scotch
descent, and a prominent business man of Richmond. Mrs. Ball's mother died when
she was a babe of two months. In 1886 she came to California, and in 1888 she was
graduated from the Oakland high school. Of this happy marriage four children have
been born: Charles F. Ball, now first assistant chief engineer of the Holt Manufac
turing Company at Peoria, 111. He married on April 26, 1917, Miss Margaret G.
Weeks, and they have a daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, born October 2, 1918: Dexter
R. Ball is interning at the University Hospital in San Francisco; John D. Ball is a
senior in the medical department of the University of California at San Francisco. He
married Isabel Jayne on. June 28, 1919; and Emma Arvilla Ball makes her home with
her oarents in Santa Ana. All of the children are graduates of the University of
California, at Berkeley.
Dr. Ball has always been a Republican and has taken an interesting part in
i'olitical affairs of the state and nation, being elected a delegate to the Republican
National Convention in Chicago in 1920 by a large majority. He has been president
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First National Bank of Santa Ana; president of the Santa Ana library board since
1895; president of the Orange County Historical Society; a member of the Sons
of the American Revolution, California Chapter; prominent in the Odd Fellows
and Masons, holding membership in the various bodies of the latter in Santa Ana,
and the Shrine in Los Angeles. He served in Los Angeles throughout the entire
war as the medical member and referee of the Southern California District Exemp
tion Board No. 1, giving of his best efforts to help win the war. He and his family
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Public spirited and progressive, Dr. Ball has always been a leader in all enter
prises for the upbuilding of Santa Ana and has done all that was possible to advance
the social and moral welfare of its citizens. He has built up an extensive practice and
is well known in the medical circles of the entire state as an able and high-minded
practitioner and citizen.
CHARLES PARKMAN TAFT.— The ninth generation of the Taft family in
America is represented by Charles Parkman Taft, of Orange County, Cal., and he
was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, July 11, 1856. His father, Henry Cheney Taft,
was a native of Uxbridge, Mass., and of Scotch descent, who married Hannah Sophia
Parkman of Westboro, Mass. She represented the fifth generation of the Parkman
family in America and was of English extraction. The various members of the Taft
and Parkman families in this country have been prominently identified with the
making of American history as statesmen, scientists and scholars, many of them
attaining to places of prominence in the various localities in which they have lived
and labored. Charles P. Taft is a thorough American, is a graduate from Racine College,
Racine, Wis., class of '77, and after leaving college he taught school for two and one-
half years, then ca-me to California and spent a year looking about the "state for a
desirable place of residence. He then settled in Los Angeles County with his parents,
on the ranch where he now lives, and has participated in the wonderful development
of what is now Orange County. Here he has twenty-three acres of land that he has
developed from its primitive condition, and is carrying on experimental work in the
propagation of semi-tropical fruits, meeting with very good results in his labors as thus
far developed. He has done some valuable work in originating new varieties of
loquats, avocados and feijoas, demonstrating that these varieties can be grown suc
cessfully as a commercial proposition. He considers his experiments are still in
their infancy and is still deeply engrossed in his experimental work. The leader in
his list is the well-known variety of the "Taft Avocado," which has proven to be a
commercial success, and is being widely planted throughout Southern California.
The numerous varieties of the loquat that he has perfected are listed under
the names of the Premier, the Early Red, which is ready for market in February
and continues until the middle of June; the Champagne, the best of all; the Advance,
and the Tanaka, of Japanese origin, are the strains he has improved.
Mr. Taft was united in marriage on July 17, 1888, with Miss Jennie McMullan,
of Oakland, and she has shared with her husband the esteem of all those who have
the pleasure of knowing them. Of an unassuming nature, Mr. Taft has carried on
his experimental work quietly at his ranch. Though engrossed with his labors he
has never failed to assist all worthy movements for the building up of his adopted
county by giving of his time and means to those ends.
ISAAC R. WILLIAMS. — As one who contributed generously to the development
of Orange County, Isaac R. Williams was well-known and universally honored as
one of its pioneer settlers, and his passing away, after a brief and sudden illness, on
March 23, 1906, removed from the community one of its stanchest citizens, and one
who had furthered every good cause during his long years of residence here.
Pennsylvania was Mr. Williams' native state, and there he was born on June
20, 1854, in Schuylkill County. His parents were Daniel and Jane (Rosser) Williams,
both natives of Wales, who came to this country with their families at an early date
and settled in Pennsylvania. Daniel Williams made the long journey to California
in 1856, coming via the Isthmus of Panama, and after spending some time in San
Francisco he engaged in gold mining in Nevada County. In 1858 his family joined
him, and in 1869 they removed to what is now Orange County, where he settled on
a ranch, and there made his home until his death in 1889, Mrs. Williams passing away
the following year.
As he was but four years old when the family came to California, and but fifteen
when they came to Orange County, Isaac R. Williams had but little recollection of
any other state. At the time he came here the county was but sparsely settled and
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the wonderful development of the ensuing years, but to take an important part in
bringing these changes about. He early acquired a thorough knowledge of farming,
and also was interested in stock raising. His first purchase was a tract of twenty
acres at Buena Park, and for some time he was successfully engaged in dairying
there. He increased his holdings from time to time in this district, and in after years
devoted quite a large acreage to raising sugar beets, also raising cabbage and hay in
large quantities, and he continued actively on his ranch until a short time before his
demise. While Mr. Williams was a leading worker in the Republican party, he was
in no sense a seeker for political preferment, but as a recognition of his capability
he was four times appointed road overseer of his district, an office that he filled with
much credit to himself and to the satisfaction of all.
In 1874 Mr. Williams was united in marriage with Miss Catherine Hunter, whose
parents were John and Mary (Downing) Hunter, and they were for a number of
years residents of Canada. Mr. Hunter was the postmaster and the proprietor of
a general merchandise store at Bobcaygeon, and was also interested in the milling
business there. Mrs. Williams' family were of Scotch and Irish descent, and many
of her near relatives were prominent in the professions of law and medicine, her
own father being a highly educated men. Mrs. Williams, who was the eldest of a
family of four children, came to Orange County in 1871, where her father was engaged
in ranching near Fullerton until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Williams were the
parents of three children: Annie Jane is the widow of William Goldie, and they
were the parents of two children — Mrs. Clark of Fullerton, and Margaret of Buena
Park; John Walter married Miss Viola West of Fullerton and they have two children —
George and Velma. He acts as manager for his mother's ranch and resides in a com
fortable home on the property. He is popular in the ranks of the Fraternal Brother
hood and is one of the enterprising farmers of the Buena Park district, as is his
brother, Daniel R., who assists him in the management of the place. The latter mar
ried Miss Grace Lucas, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lucas, and they are the
parents of a son, Daniel R., Jr. They are planting a considerable acreage of the
estate to citrus fruit, adding largely to its future value in this way, and besides the
ninety-two acres of the home place they rent land in the vicinity, and thus carry on
their ranching operations on a large scale.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE HELMS.— An old resident of Orange County
whose life has been fraught with interesting events is Napoleon Bonaparte Helms,
who was born in Missouri on Apri! 15, 1844, the son of Huston and Nancy Helms,
natives respectively of Indiana and Missouri. A pair of twins was granted these worthy
parents, and our subject was one, his brother, Lafayette, who died in May, 1919, being
the other. While yet a young man, Napoleon was to be found in Texas following the enter
prise, in which so many young men of that day engaged, of stock raising. The Far
West, however, soon proved more alluring to him; and when the opportunity was offered
him to join a company of some fifty persons then being organized in Texas, each with
the same ambition, namely, to reach California and the Land of Gold, he did so, and
started on the venturesome trip. They trusted in the courage of their hearts and
Ihe strength of their arms, and believed that they would reach the desired-for haven,
and perhaps that was why little out of the ordinary occurred on their journey of four
months by ox-team, until they reached San Bernardino in November, 1859- There
Mr. Helms made his home, working at various pursuits, and taking up farming by way
of preference when he could-
In 1867 Mr. Helms returned to Texas and with two uncles bought a herd of
1,800 steers to drive to California on speculation. Cattle at that time cost about five
to eight dollars a head, and it was predicted that the Medlin Train, so-called because
of the name of the leader, would realize a handsome profit on the deal. Everything
went well until they got about 120 miles from El Paso, in the Guadalupe Mountains,
when they were attacked by the Indians; and while they were overpowered to some
extent, they lost only their cattle and all their horses. There were only sixteen men
against eighty Indians, and they fought them two days. The ox-teams and their lives
were saved by hard fighting, and in October, 1868, they reached California.
At San Bernardino, in 1869, Mr. Helms married Miss Elizabeth Long, one of the
attractive ladies then in this western country, and three children were born to them:
William L., Isabelle T., wife of William Prichard, of Laguna, and Rosie Jane, wife of
Joseph Glines, of Oakdale. Six years later, in 1875, Mr. Helms came to Los Angeles,
now Orange County, and located at Santa Ana, at that time a very small town with
only one store for the accommodation of the few pioneers; and here, for twenty-nine
years, he followed well drilling. Mrs. Helms passed away in October, 1914, at the age
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Now Mr. Helms owns a trim little ranch of five acres, highly cultivated and
maintained in a manner such as would do anyone credit, upon which he conducts
general farming and where he is visited by his many friends; and there, too, he discusses
national politics, with the enthusiastic bias of a Jeffersonian Democrat, but also as an
American citizen who will always put the welfare of his community ahead of party
triumphs, and who, therefore, never permits partisanship to affect him in his attitude
toward strictly local measures and movements.
JOSIAH C. JOPLIN. — Among the men who have built up a reputation that is
worthy of emulation and who have had the best interests of Orange County at heart
is Josiah C. Joplin. He was born near Liberty, what is now Bedford City, Bedford
County, Va., a son of James W: and Emily (Booth) Joplin, both natives of that state.
The father, who was of Scotch extraction and a farmer by occupation, was born Novem
ber 14, 1807, and died in Kentucky in 1900 at the venerable age of ninety-three. The
years between these dates were filled with hard toil and the endurance of trials that
are incident to life in a frontier country. The family was first represented in the United
States by Rafe Jopling who, with two brothers, James and Thomas Jopling, emigrated
from Scotland in the eighteenth century and settled in Virginia. Rafe Jopling espoused
the cause of his adopted country and sacrificed his life in the Revolutionary War.
James Jopling, the paternal grandfather of Josiah C, was a nephew of this soldier and
a planter in Virginia. The family originally spelled their name with the final g, one
of the family, Dr. Josiah, for whom the subject of this review was named, being the
first to use the present spelling, dropping the g. James W. Joplin was united in
marriage in Virginia with Emily Booth, who was born there on June 4, 1816, and died
in the same state August 2, 1869. Nine children were born to them: Thomas M.,
James Benjamin, Jesse, William, Josiah C, Ferdinand, Mrs. Betty Martin, Otho and
Charles. The latter was accidentally drowned at Memphis, Tenn.
Born in Bedford County, in the Old Dominion State, September 15, 1844, Josiah
C. Joplin was reared on a farm and received the training accorded to children in the
pioneer days. However, he had some educational advantages, though limited, in the
private schools of that vicinity. He always improved such opportunities as were pre
sented to him and by careful and extensive reading became a well informed man. Six
of the Joplin brothers served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, Josiah C.
enlisting in March, 1862, in Company A, Second Virginia Cavalry. They were first in
Colonel Ashby's command, in Stonewall Jackson's Valley campaign, until Colonel
Ashby was killed at Port Republic. After arriving at Richmond, his regiment became
a part of the First Brigade, under Gen. J. E. B. Stewart, and was in the engagement
at Meadow Bridge, Va., when General Stewart was killed. He served under Generals
Beauregard and Robert E. Lee, participating in the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg,
Richmond, and the Wilderness and others of equal importance. During his service he
was slightly wounded in three different battles.
After the war was over Mr. Joplin returned to Franklin County, Va., where the
family had moved during hostilities. He remained there but a short time and then
went to Mississippi and Arkansas, spending three years in these states. He eventually
returned to Virginia, and spent three years there in agricultural pursuits. While there
he was united in marriage with Rebecca C. Boyd, a native of Virginia, born June
18, 1845, a daughter of Andrew Boyd. Her uncle, Hon. W. W. Boyd, was a member of
Congress when Virginia seceded and he withdrew and joined the Confederacy and be
came a member of the Confederate Senate. The following children were born to Mr.
and Mrs. Joplin: Andrew Boyd, John Booth, James A., William P., Joe and Otho, de
ceased. Four of the boys are located in this county, and James A. is at Parker, Arizona.
In 1876 Mr. Joplin decided to remove his family to California and it was here
that he found the land of "golden opportunity," for he found health and an opportunity
to rear his children under a wider scope than he had found in the eastern country. He
came direct to the present limits of Orange County, but then Los Angeles County,
and has made this his home ever since. At the time of his arrival it was but sparsely
populated and the thriving cities and towns of the present were but in their infancy.
He located a 160-acre homestead in Belle Canyon, residing there seventeen years as
a possessory claim before it was surveyed so he could file his homestead claim. He
also purchased 320 acres from two settlers adjoining him and 286 acres from the South
ern Pacific Railroad, and this he put under cultivation, engaging principally in stock
raising and bee culture.
It can be truthfully said that no man has been more interested in the development
of the county than Mr. Joplin, and through participation in every progressive move
ment he became well acquainted with every well-known citizen within its boundaries.
He has willingly given of his time and means to promote the welfare of the entire
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well every trust reposed in him. One of the most important projects fostered by Mr.
Joplin and which did much to advance the interests of the county was his connection
with the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893. He personally collected an exhibit of the
products of this county and his management of the exhibit there won for him much
praise. So successful was he in this undertaking that he was chosen to superintend
the exhibit of the county at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, Mo.
Mr. Wiggins, who was the superintendent of exhibits from the seven southern counties
of California, gives him credit for being the first to make a success of chemically
processing fruits for exhibits. Mrs. Joplin prepared a special exhibit of domestic canned
fruit, for which she received a medal and diploma at the World's Columbian Exposition
at Chicago. Politically, Mr. Joplin has always adhered to the principles of the Democratic
party, and although Orange County usually has been strongly Republican, he has
served several consecutive terms as county treasurer. He was first elected in 1898,
from January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1903, then he was again elected county treasurer
in 1906 and has been reelected every four years, or in 1910, 1914 and 1918. The last two
times he was elected at the primaries. When requests were made through the legis
lators to the State Legislature for an increase in salary, Mr. Joplin refused to ask for an
increase, saying that the county was paying him enough. No wonder that he stands
high with all parties.
Mrs. Joplin by her many charitable deeds, kindness and modesty greatly endeared
herself to the people of Santa Ana and Orange County, because she always stood for
truth, uprightness and a high standard of morals, and never failed to give substantial
encouragement to all movements in that direction; thus she was universally mourned
by everyone when she passed away on March 20, 1911. She was a faithful wife and
mother, having always been the greatest help and encouragement to her husband in
his ambitions and naturally very proud of his success and the political honors he had
received. With the same high standard and principles in view she trained and reared
her children to be God-fearing, law-abiding and useful citizens, and her great regret
at passing was that she could no longer see to the ministering of comforts to them,
and before her death she wrote and left a letter addressed to her children, admon
ishing them to live right and useful lives and follow the example of their father,
who had gained such a high place in the estimation of the public. She had been ill
for several years and knew that the end was coming, so in her loving and thoughtful
way she made a distribution of her keepsakes and household furniture and dishes,
giving each one the things she knew they liked and that she wished them to have.
Always active in the interests of education, Mr. Joplin was instrumental in the
organization of the Trabuco and Olive school districts. He took an active part in the
founding of Orange County and his Trabuco precinct obtained the banner, because all
votes were for county division and the organization of Orange County, and not one
vote against it. One of the organizers of the Humane Society of Orange County in
about 1900, Mr. Joplin has been its president ever since and very active in its work.
He was one of the organizers and president of the first Fish and Game Protective
Association of Orange County, and was one of the promoters of the Santa Ana Cham
ber of Commerce, serving as director for several years. He is prominent in the ranks
of the Odd Fellows and was one of four organizers of the Orange County Veteran
Odd Fellows Association, serving as its first president, and takes an active interest
in the Orange County Historical Society. Some years ago Mr. Joplin sold his large
ranch and since then has bought two small ranches, comprising a little over 300 acres
of land in Belle Canyon, and these he devotes to stock raising and horticulture.
WILLIAM H. BROOKS — A very interesting pioneer who has the distinction
of being the first white man to live at Laguna Beach, also of now being the very oldest
living resident of this place, his first habitation being a cabin located back of where
the present postoffice now stands, is William H. Brooks, rancher and mail carrier.
He was born in Ellis County, Texas, on September 9, 1855, the youngest son and child
of Spencer Brooks, who was born in New York in 1823, went to Illinois a young man
and there married Miss Sylvia Heminsway, a native of Vermont, where she was born
in 1828, and who had gone out to Illinois in her youth. The family went to Texas and
remained there two years, and not liking the country returned to Illinois and Winne
bago County, where Mr. Brooks was a stockman and farmer- There he died in 1857,
but his widow came west to California and died at Laguna at the age of eighty-four
years. One of the sons, Oliver S. Brooks, enlisted for service in the Civil War when
he was sixteen, served three years, and he died at Laguna in 1897.
William H. Brooks spent his boyhood and youth on the open plains of Kansas
and Colorado, became an expert with the rifle, and knew Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill and
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and arrived in Los Angeles when the now flourishing city was but a Mexican adobe
village with nothing to presage its future greatness. The family had moved out to
western Kansas in 1861, and they operated a stage station on the overland stage route
to California. Those were the days when the country was infested with Indians and
many a time this young lad stood guard with the men of the station to protect the
people from the red men, and he also experienced many narrow escapes with his life.
After these early experiences it was but natural that he should want to come to the Far
West in search of a permanent location.
Arriving in Los Angeles County, Mr. Brooks went to Downey, at that time one
of the most flourishing and wide-open towns in the Southland, and here he engaged in
ranching. It was that same year that he wandered down to Laguna Beach on a
hunting trip, and seeing the advantageous location for ranching he took up a gov
ernment claim of what is now the town site of Laguna Beach, and was joined some few
months later by his brother, the late "Nate" Brooks. Some time later Mr. Brooks
sold his holdings here to an uncle by marriage, Henry Goff, for the paltry sum of
fifty dollars cash. At the time of the boom in the Southland Mr. Goff sold off much
of the land in lots and small .acreage. As Mr. Brooks took notice of the rapid trend
of affairs towards the development of the place he began to buy back property as he
could until he became owner of considerable town property. As the beach city grew
apace he has sold off much of his holdings at very advantageous prices and invested
in alfalfa land in Antelope Valley.
In 1882 Mr. Brooks had finished his apprenticeship as a blacksmith under Hank
Stow, of Anaheim, and established a shop of his own in Los Angeles, and for years
he was the smith employed by the I. W. Hellman Street Railway Company when
horses were used to draw the cars. His next shop was in Santa Ana, then at Laguna
Beach, later at Calabasas and then Bakersfield. Mr. Brooks built the hotel and store
at Laguna, but this was burned down in 1895, and it was then he went to Bakersfield.
He served as constable of Laguna for twelve years, was deputy sheriff for two years,
and postmaster for three years, and during his time he witnessed many interesting
incidents that relieved the monotony of life at the little village. After being away
for some years he returned in 1912 and took up his residence at Laguna, and since
1914 he has been mail carrier there. Since 1919 he has been interested in ranching in
Antelope Valley, where he and his sons own valuable land.
On July 4, 1878, at Downey, W. H. Brooks was married to Miss Annie Clapp,
born at San Jose, a daughter of Frank Clapp, a planter of Kentucky, where he was
born. Her mother was Ruth Condit before her marriage. The family located in
Alameda County, Cal., in 1856; Mr. Clapp died in Santa Ana in 1897,: and the widow
died there in 1907. An uncle, Frank Hartley, was one of the officers who captured
the bandit, Vasquez. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Brooks: Josephine
is the wife of Maston Smith, of Corona, by whom she has two children, William
and George. By her first union with Harry Kelly she had seven children, six now
living, and three of these daughters are living and married and have five children. The
next younger than Josephine is Robert F., who is married, but has no children; Walter
R. married Miss Stevens, but they have no children; Clarence H. married Miss Throll
and they have two children, Eleanor and William; Roy, the youngest son, is not mar
ried. All of the sons live and farm in Antelope Valley. Mrs. Brooks is known to her
intimates as "Aunt Annie," and she has the honor of giving the name to Arch
Beach, the attractive strand to the south of Laguna. Both Mr. and Mrs*. Brooks are
highly esteemed by all who know them in Orange County.
MRS. HATTIE W. ROSS. — A highly-honored representative of a pioneer family
of Santa Ana is Mrs. Hattie W. Ross, the rancher and landowner, whose home at
1429 North Baker Street is always the center of warm-hearted hospitality. She was
born at New Madrid, Mo., the daughter of Frederick W. and Virginia Maulsby, who
were cotton planters, owning between 7,000 and 8,000 acres of choice Missouri land.
Mr. Maulsby received his early education in the Southern Missouri Academy, and
later was clerk of New Madrid County, Missouri.
Miss Maulsby came to Santa Ana with a sister, Mrs. Kate Doyle, now of El
Monte, arriving at Santa Ana in September, 1885. She thus saw both Orange and
Santa Ana develop from their infancy. When the plaza in Orange was laid out she
assisted in the entertainment. On August 18, 1886, at the old Doyle home near Santa
Ana, she was married to U. J. Ross, oldest child of Josiah and Sarah Ross, who grew
up in Santa Ana, but was born in Watsonville. He is now foreman for the Hammond
Lumber Company in Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs Josiah Ross came across the plains
in an ox-team train in 1865 and settled in the Salinas Valley for a short time, coming
down to Los Angeles County and settling in what is now Orange County a year
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considerable trouble was had with the natives. The early settlers' grain would be
endangered by the Mexican ponies, which were allowed to graze at random, and it
was necessary to kill many of these ponies before the Spanish element took any meas
ures to keep their animals off the land they had sold to the early settlers. Josiah
Ross came across the country in prairie schooners, and if anyone "had a story to
tell," he certainly did. The wild mustard grew so tall that even when one stood on
the driving board of the prairie schooner it was impossible to see over the fields.
When dried, the mustard was used by the Ross family in place of firewood. Mrs.
Eva Sweetster, sister-in-law of Mrs. Ross, was the first girl born in Santa Ana.
Josiah Ross purchased 275 acres of land at one dollar an acre, and a part of this
tract is now the home place of Mrs. Hattie Ross. The rest of the land is still owned
by Josiah Ross' descendants. Mrs. Ross is the owner of an eight-acre grove interset
with walnuts and apricots. Her house was built on this ranch in 1907.
Four sons honor Mrs. Ross: Ernest F. is at home; Raymond married Miss Cora
Huntington of Santa Ana; Melvin is married to Miss Cora Hazelwood, a Nebraska
girl, and they live at Pasadena; and Carroll B. lives at home, a graduate of the Santa
Ana high school and an employe of the Hammond Lumber Company of Santa Ana.
Ernest Ross hauled the first and last loads of gravel to build the beet sugar factory at
Delhi, and he was given a gold locket by the company. Raymond Ross was in the
United States Navy during the late war, and did valiant service as a gunner on the
U. S. S. "Dakota."
GRANVILLE SPURGEON.— Prominent among the names worthy to be per
petuated in the annals of Orange County, and particularly in the development of the
city of Santa Ana, is that of the late Granville Spurgeon, whose sterling life and
character will ever leave its impress on the community in whose upbuilding he was
so loyally interested for many years.
The Spurgeon family traces its lineage back to England, the early representatives
of the family settling in Virginia. The grandfather of our subject removed from the
Old Dominion State to Bourbon County, Ky., during the days of Daniel Boone and
other early pioneers, and here Granville Spurgeon, Sr., was born and reared. When
he reached young manhood he was married to Lovina Sibley, who was born in Prince
Edward County, Va., and who was directly descended from an influential English
family. Removing to Columbus, Ind., in 1830, Mr. Spurgeon engaged in farming
near there, for about ten years, when the family located in Clark County, Mo. After
several years spent in agricultural pursuits there they removed to Alexandria, Mo.,
where Mr. Spurgeon engaged in the mercantile business and took a prominent part in
the affairs of the community. It was during this period that Granville Spurgeon, Jr.,
the subject of this sketch, was born, on August 19, 1843, at Louisville, Ky., the family
being on a visit there at the time.
Granville Spurgeon was educated in the private and public schools of Missouri,
and also had the advantage of a course in a business college in that state. In 1849
his father had made the trip overland to California, and. engaged in mining for
eighteen months. As the years went by he again felt the call of the West, and in
1864 he again set out on the long journey, this time accompanied by his family, five
months being spent in crossing the plains. They settled in Solano County, Cal.,
and here both parents passed away. Granville Spurgeon remained in Solano County
for two years, then with his brother Benjamin and a sister he went to Watsonville,
Santa Cruz County. In November, 1867, these two brothers joined their older brother,
William H. Spurgeon, in Los Angeles County, taking up land between Compton
and Los Angeles. William H. left them the following year, purchasing a tract of
seventy-six acres belonging to the old Santiago de Santa Ana Grant, and here he
laid out the town of Santa Ana. On the death of Benjamin Spurgeon in 1870, Gran
ville Spurgeon joined his brother William H., entering into partnership with him,
and from that date until his death, which occurred August 7, 1901, he was continu
ously identified with the development of Santa Ana, taking a prominent part in
every undertaking and enterprise that gave this community its well-grounded, sub
stantial start and enabled it to fake its place as one of the representative cities of
Southern California, so that the name of Spurgeon will ever be indissolubly associ
ated with its history.
With his brother, W. H., Granville Spurgeon conducted the first mercantile estab
lishment in Santa Ana, and for many years this was the leading establishment of the
town. Later he established a thriving fire insurance business, continuing in this for a
number of years, finally disposing of it at a good profit on account of his health. In
later years he purchased a tract of 100 acres of peat land, devoting this to the produc
tion of celery. This was at the period when celery growing was at its height in
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celery ever grown here. During his early years here he acted as agent for the Wells
Fargo Express Company, and later was appointed postmaster of Santa Ana, an office
he filled for a number of years with the utmost satisfaction to the community. In
fraternal circles Mr. Spurgeon was prominent in the ranks of the Odd Fellows, the
Encampment and the Rebekahs, serving for sixteen years as treasurer of the subordi
nate lodge. While a believer in the principles of the Democratic party, he was essen
tially too broadminded to be swayed by mere partisanship, especially in local politics.
At the time of his death, in 1901, he was one of the oldest residents of Santa Ana,
and in his passing this city lost one of her stanch upbuilders and one who occupied
a distinctive place in her development. Commencing life without means, Mr. Spur
geon's habits of thrift and industry, coupled with good business judgment, enabled
him to amass a competency, and his life presents a record well worthy of emulation.
Mrs. Spurgeon, who before her marriage was Miss Frederica Reinhold, is a
native of Milwaukee, Wis., where she received an excellent education. Coming to Cali
fornia in 1875 on a pleasure trip she met Mr. Spurgeon, at that time a leading mer
chant of Santa Ana, this acquaintance leading to their marriage the following year.
They took up their residence in the house at Sixth and Main streets that Mr. Spur
geon had erected for his bride, and this remained the family home during his lifetime.
After his death Mrs. Spurgeon disposed of the property and purchased her present
home on North Broadway. Now among the oldest settlers of Santa Ana, Mrs. Spur
geon well remembers the early days of this now prosperous city, when what is now
the finest residential section was a wilderness of wild mustard, and bearing little prom
ise of the beautiful shady streets, attractive homes and well-kept lawns of today. A
continuous resident of this city for forty-five years, with the exception of a year spent
at Manitou, Colo., for Mr. Spurgeon's health, Mrs. Spurgeon has always taken the
deepest interest in the welfare of the community, and, like her late husband, has
shown a public spiritedness that has meant much to the advancement of the social
and moral good of the whole neighborhood.
Of the two adopted daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Spurgeon, May S. is the wife
of R. H. Ballard, president and general manager of the Southern California Edison
Company, and they reside in Los Angeles. They have one daughter, Harriet, who is
attending Vassar College. Helen S. is training for a professional nurse at the Good
Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles.
JUSTIN M. COPELAND. — Among the well-known educators who deserve the
gratitude of posterity may well be mentioned, and in foremost place, the late Justin
M. Copeland, a native of New Hampshire, where he was born on St. Patrick's Day, 1835,
His father, the Rev. David Copeland, was a Methodist minister and became a pioneer
clergyman in Southern Wisconsin. Justin M. began his education at Kent's Hill Semi
nary, Maine, later attended the Middletown College, in Middlesex County, Conn., and
finished at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., to which town his parents had moved
in 1857. When fifteen years of age he commenced his teaching in Maine, where he
taught a term of school in Winthrop; then he taught in Connecticut, later in Wis
consin and then moved to Odell, 111., where he taught for two years. On his return
to Wisconsin he served for several years as an instructor at Fond Du Lac, next going
to Kansas, where he purchased a farm near Derby which he worked in summer, while
he taught in winter. In 1876 he went south to Key West, Fla., and there conducted
a school for two years, when he returned to his ranch near Derby, Kans.
In May, 1881, he came west to California and settled in Old Newport, now Green
ville, and for two years he taught the district school. He also taught in other places
in Orange County, among them Villa Park, Trabuco, Aliso Canyon, New Hope and
Newport, and only when his eyesight failed him, and he could no longer do justice to
the work, did Mr. Copeland give up a work very dear to his heart and in which he
had been so signally successful — a wonderful career, having taught over forty years.
On September 7, 1860, in Chicago, at the home of the bride's brother, Henry
French, Mr. Copeland was married to Miss Mary E. French, a native of South Chester-
ville, Franklin County, Maine, who was born March 20, 1836, the daughter of Isaac
and Eliza (Brown) French, worthy Yankee farmer folk of good old Maine. Four
brothers of the French family came from England to Massachusetts in 1620, in a ship
of the Mayflower party, and later some of the brothers went to New Hampshire and
then to Maine. Mrs. Copeland's Great-grandfather French came from New Hampshire
to Maine, and her grandfather, Joseph A., and two brothers were among the founders
of South Chesterville, Maine. Mrs. Copeland had two brothers in the Civil War.
Captain Henry French, and Joseph French, who was in a Maine regiment of cavalry
and who now lives on the old Joseph French place. She attended Kent's Hill Semi
nary, and when a young lady came west to Chicago, where she resided with a sister
and a brother. She had made the acquaintance of Justin M. Copeland while the Rev.

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David Copeland was on that circuit and the acquaintance continued and resulted in
their marriage.
On retiring from the pedagogical field, Mr. Copeland purchased 100 acres of land
in Orange County, which he disposed of to advantage during the early days of the
great boom; and later he purchased twenty acres handsomely set out as an orange
grove at Riverside, which has since proven very valuable ranch property. This- ranch
is now in charge of their only child, Joseph Eugene, who is a graduate of the Univer
sity of Southern California, and married Miss Carrie Wilson, daughter of J. A. Wilson
of Santa Ana. Mrs. Copeland is also the owner of a walnut grove on Grand Avenue,
Santa Ana. In March, 1915, at the ripe old age of eighty, Mr. Copeland passed to his
eternal reward, rich in the esteem and affection of those who best knew him. Mr. and
Mrs. Copeland were firm believers in cooperation, hence they were members of both
the local Citrus Association and the Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association, since
their organization.
Mrs. Copeland belongs, as did her exemplary husband, to the First Presbyterian
Church of Santa Ana, in whose religious and social work she participates as best she
can for one of her age. Public-spirited to a remarkable degree, she also took a very
active part in the work of the Red Cross during the recent war, and at the age of
eighty-two knit not less than 150 pairs of socks for the soldiers.
THOMAS J. WILLIAMS.— A native of Wales, Thomas J. Williams, one of
Orange County's honored pioneer ranchers, brought with him to this country the
sturdy characteristics of his Welsh forbears, the Williams family being men of power
ful physique and long-lived, some of them living past the century mark. Mr. Williams
was born at Carmorden, Glamorganshire, Wales, April 23, 1852, the son of John
and Martha (Binon) Williams; the father was a farmer as was the paternal grand
father, John Williams, who lived to be 104 years old. Mrs. Martha Williams' father,
Thomas Binon, was a carpenter of Glamorganshire, Wales, and also lived to be 104
years old. There were two sons and six daughters in the Williams family, Thomas
J. being the sixth in order of birth, and. the only one in America. He had only fair
educational advantages, as there were no public schools in their locality, and every
family had to pay tuition for each of their children, so in the case of large families,
schooling was something of a luxury, and, too, his schoolhouse was seven miles away.
In early youth, Thomas J. Williams was apprenticed for four years to learn the
blacksmith's trade, receiving as payment his board and clothes. His training in this
work was very thorough, and included plow work and horseshoeing. During the haying
and harvesting season he worked on the farms of the neighborhood, one year swinging
the scythe and cradle for sixty-seven days straight. In those days their agricultural
implements were very primitive, and the first threshing machine Mr. Williams ever saw
he owned and operated — a flail — and the first mowing machine he was familiar with
was wielded in the sweat, of his brow in the form of a Welsh scythe.
On December 25, 1870, Mr. Williams was united in marriage with Elizabeth
Williams, who was no kin, although of the same name. She was born in the same
shire as her husband and educated in the subscription schools. Her parents were
lames and Mary (John) Williams and she was an only child. The father was a farmer
in Wales and passed away in her early childhood. Her mother married a second
time to David James and they came to San Bernardino in 1853, where they farmed
for a number of years; Mr. James passed away at San Bernardino, and the mother
spent her last years at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas J. Williams, passing
away at the age of ninety years.
In 1872, T. J. Williams decided to try his fortune in America, and accompanied
by his wife and infant son, James, landed at Castle Garden, May 3, of that year. They
went directly to Newark, Lincoln County, Ohio, and lived there for about five years,
Mr. Williams working in the rolling mills there, making iron railroad rails. While
in Newark, he became a naturalized citizen of the -United States, and cast his first vote
for Rutherford B. Hayes as president. In 1876, they came on to California, reaching
San Bernardino December 26, remaining there until the following April, when they
located in the New Hope district, now Orange County, then Los Angeles County, rent
ing land belonging to the Rancho Los Bolsas. For six years he farmed on rented
land, then purchased twenty acres of land, later investing in two more twenty-acre
tracts, which comprises his present well-kept ranch of sixty acres. For four years he
raised corn and hogs, but had to sell his meat as low as two and a half cents a pound.
Later he engaged in dairying and general farming, growing alfalfa, barley, corn, beets,
potatoes and chili peppers, and has set out an apple orchard of three and a half acres,
besides a family orchard. He has put down two wells, one ten-inch and one seven-
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sufficient to furnish ample irrigation for all his land. He also has a well, windmill and
tank for domestic purposes.
Mr. and Mrs. Williams have had eight children: James, born in Wales, died in
Newark, Ohio; John J., born in Newark, Ohio, died at San Pedro at the age of forty-
two, leaving a widow; Mary Ann, now Mrs. Swindler of Anaheim, is the mother of
four children; Thomas died at the age of nine years; Martha is the wife of Will De-
venney, a rancher of Orange County; Elizabeth is the wife of Fred Mersel, an orange
grower and rancher of Santa Ana; they have one child; George is in the U. S. Navy,
having served in Asiatic waters and now in the Philippines; he married Miss Irene
Lee of Santa Ana and they have one child living; Margaret married Henry Devenney,
a rancher at Wasco, Kern County and they have one child.
In the early days, Mr. Williams was well acquainted with the McFadden brothers,
John, Robert and James, those pioneers whose names will always be associated with
the early development of Orange County. He was connected with the construction of
their railroad, the Santa Ana & Newport, and also worked at loading and unloading
their boats which ran between San Francisco and Newport. Always public spirited
and progressive, Mr. Williams helped organize Orange County and has always been
keenly interested in its development, and is now a promoter of the Santa Ana River
Protection District. While a supporter of the Republican party, he is inclined to be
liberal in local affairs, voting for the best men and measures. He served four years as
constable of Westminster township. Mrs. Williams is a member of the Church of
Latter Day Saints. Mr. Williams still looks after twenty acres of his land, which is
devoted to apples and alfalfa, and rents out forty acres. He and his family stand
high in the whole community, a tribute to their more than forty years of useful
citizenship. ROBERT EDWIN LARTER.— Numbered among the leading citizens of the
Westminster district, Robert Edwin Larter has occupied a place of prominence for
many years in the agricultural, commercial and financial interests of Orange County.
A native of Canada, he was born in the Province of Ontario, ten miles west of Niagara
Falls, September 7, 1861. His parents were Robert and Mary J. (Hansler) Larter, the
latter a native of Canada; the father was born at Norwich, England, and came to
Canada with his mother when a boy of fifteen. He was a millwright and cabinet
maker, and later became interested in farming. He became prominent in the politics
of his locality, being a man of excellent judgment, and served on the township and
county councils of his Canadian home. In 1875 he made a trip to California, and while
here he bought 160 acres of land; returning to Canada he remained there until the
fall of 1876, when he came with his family to make California his permanent home.
This was just after the completion of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and his land lay
in what was then Los Angeles County, this being some years before the organization
of Orange County. It was peat land, and was then a morass of willows, tules and
blackberries, and it took much hard work to put it under cultivation, but it eventually
became very productive. Robert Larter passed away in 1904; his widow survives
him and resides at Westminster, having reached the age of eighty-four.
The first fifteen years of Ed. Larter's life were spent in Welland County, Ontario,
his birthplace, and there he received his early education, attending the schools at
Westminster after the family removed here. He early began to work, however, help
ing his father reclaim the swamp lands of their farm and breaking the virgin soil,
and this practical experience he found to be of great value later in life when he took
up farming on his own account. He purchased 120 acres of land and devoted it to
general farming and dairying, in which he was very successful, also engaging in the
celery industry when that business was at its height. Business acumen and wise
investments have added to his capital and he now enjoys an affluence, the reward of
industry and intelligence. Always public spirited, Mr. Larter has for years been
prominent in the affairs of the community. A stanch Republican, he was chosen some
years ago to represent that party on the board of supervisors, an office which he filled
with great satisfaction to his constituency. He is now a member of the County
Republican Central Committee, and prominent in all the councils of the party. He
has always been interested in the cause of education and has given of his time to help
raise the standard and equipment of the schools here, having served on the Hunting
ton Beach Union High School Board. He was on the building committee of the
Orange County Court House when that structure was under way and was prominent
in the establishment of the Talbert Drainage District and the reestablishment of the
Bolsa Drainage District. An authority on financial affairs in the locality, he is a
director of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Santa Ana. In fraternal circles he
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Mr. Larter's marriage, in April, 1889, united him with Miss Pearl Kiefhaber,
who was born in Indiana, but who came to Westminster with her parents when
but a child. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Larter, two of whom passed
away in infancy. Those living are Marie L-, the wife of Orel C. Hare of Westminster,
whose review appears elsewhere in this work; and Lutie, who is Mrs. Will McClin
tock, her husband being a rancher at Garden Grove.
HENRY OELKERS — In naming the pioneers of Orange County any list would
be incomplete without special mention of Henry Oelkers, who for nearly forty years
was identified with the wine industry of Anaheim. He was born near Hamburg, Ger
many, February 17, 1856, and received his education in that country.
In 1882 Henry Oelkers immigrated to America and settled at Anaheim, where
he obtained employment with his uncle, William Konig, now deceased, who came to
Anaheim from Germany in 1859- Mr. Konig purchased twenty acres on South Los
Angeles Street, where the Southern Pacific Railway depot is located. Here he planted
a vineyard, erected a winery and continued to manufacture wine for many years. The
land has greatly increased in value and is now built up with residences and business
blocks. William Konig was very public-spirited and always willing to support every
worthy movement that had as its ultimate aim the upbuilding of the best interests
of Anaheim. One of his most noted acts — one that expressed in a very substantial
way his keen interest and pride in the civic affairs of Anaheim — was the donation of
the site of the public library. Being an able and successful business man, possessed
of sound judgment and executive ability, William Konig was recognized by his fellow
citizens and duly elected to the important office of trustee of Anaheim, which he filled
with great satisfaction to his townsmen and credit to himself. He passed away in
1911, mourned by a host of friends.
Henry Oelkers was associated with his uncle from 1882 to 1911, where he learned
the business of winemaking and grape culture, eventually becoming the superintendent
of his plant. In recent years he has been engaged in pruning and grafting and other
wise caring for orange and lemon groves, and is recognized as an expert in his line
of work. During his nearly forty years of residence in Orange County he has wit
nessed marvelous changes — the development of the citrus industry, the growth of
small villages into up-to-date and prosperous citTes and the wonderful development of
the oil fields.
In October, 1914, Henry Oelkers was united in marriage with Lisette Pohl, a
native of Germany, but for a number of years a resident of Chicago. She had a son
by a former marriage, who is now known as George Oelkers, now attending the Poly
technic High School in Los Angeles.
Fraternally, Henry Oelkers is a member of Anaheim Lodge No. 199, I. O. O. F. ;
Concordia Singing Society; charter member of Lincoln Hospital of Los Angeles, and
religiously belongs to the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church.
JOHN B. NICHOLS — Well known in Santa Ana as an attorney-at-law, John
B. Nichols is a native of Fond du Lac County, Wis., and is the son of Thomas and
Clarissa (Brown) Nichols, both deceased. Thomas Nichols was born in the State of
New York and his wife was a native of Maine, their marriage being solemnized at
Albion, Edwards County, 111. The parents died when John B. was a small boy, and
as a consequence he went to live with an uncle in Edwards County, 111., for a few
years, but ever since he was twelve years old he has made his own way in the
world. He returned to his native state and worked out on farms near Fond du Lac
and lived with an uncle there until he was about fifteen years old, then returned to
Illinois. His elementary education was received in the rural school of his district
during the winter time, as he was obliged to work on the farm during the other
seasons of the year. He finished his high school course at the Albion high school, after
which he attended the Southern Illinois State Normal University at Carbondale.
from which he was graduated- Later he entered the University of Illinois at Cham
paign, working his way through this institution by teaching school, and after grad
uating he engaged in educational work in that state.
In 1897 Mr. Nichols came to Santa Ana, where he was principal of what is now
the Roosevelt school three years, afterward becoming principal of the schools at
Orange. From 1903 to 1907 he filled the post of superintendent of schools for Orange
County, elected on the Republican ticket, and then moved to Oxnard, Ventura County,
where he was principal of the Oxnard schools. Later Mr. Nichols went to Los
Angeles County, where he accepted the position of principal of the Union high school
at Compton, where he remained two years.
In the meantime Mr. Nichols had been improving his spare moments by reading
law, having always cherished a desire to enter the legal profession. While living at
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and was admitted to the bar in 1915, first practicing his profession in Los Angeles.
On February 1, 1919, Mr. Nichols returned to Santa Ana. where he opened his
office and has since prosecuted his profession in this city.
Mr. Nichols has been twice married; his first marriage was solemnized at Albion,
111., when he was united with Miss Jane Marriott of that city. She passed away in
1903 at Santa Ana, leaving five children: Claude W. ; Nora, Mrs. D. D. Dawson; Edna,
Mrs. Lucien Wisser; Ruth, Mrs. C. O. Harbell, and William H. The second marriage
of Mr. Nichols, in Orange, in 1908, united him with Miss Mary S. Schofield. In his
religious associations Mr. Nichols is a Methodist. In politics he is a Republican,
and fraternally is a Knights Templar Mason, affiliated with the Santa Ana lodges.
DOMINGO AND MARIA BASTANCHURY.— Among the pioneer settlers of
what is now Orange County, the names of Domingo and Maria Bastanchury will never
be forgotten, for they were liberal supporters of all movements that had for their aim
the betterment of local conditions and the upbuilding and development of the new
county. Of foreign birth, Domingo Bastanchury first saw the light of day at Aldudes,
Basses-Pyrenees, France, in 1839, the son of Gracian Bastanchury. Domingo never had
the opportunity to obtain an education, as he had to work hard from a very early age,
but what he lacked in book knowledge he made up in business sagacity, arid from an
humble sheep herder he rose to a position of prominence and wealth in his chosen home
place. When a young man of twenty-one he left home and friends and came to
America, for he knew that brighter opportunities awaited the man of energy and judg
ment than were to be found in his own home locality in the Pyrenees. His objective
point was California and he left on a sailing vessel that took six months to make the
journey from his local port around Cape Horn to California. The ship encountered
many storms and the passengers suffered many hardships, but they bore them all with
fortitude and eventually landed in the land of their hopes — California.
Arriving here in 1860, Mr. Bastanchury worked as a sheep herder for wages and
after several years in that capacity he gradually acquired a band of his own and as these
increased he became independent; at one time he was the largest sheep owner in Los
Angeles County, having from 15,000 Jo 20,000 head that were grazed all over the south
ern part of the state. During the dry years when feed was scarce he would take his
flocks into the mountains and try to save them from starvation. At other times the
sale of wool was so slow on account of the tariff conditions that after it. had .been
kept for two years it had to be sold for two cents per pound. What that meant to the
sheep men, no one but themselves knew. As the ranges were diminished in size by
ranchers who began to grow various kinds. of crops the sheep men gradually went out
of business and Mr. Bastanchury acquired large land holdings in what is now Orange
County. He had 1,200 acres south of Fullerton and later had 6,000 acres northwest from
that city. There still remains of the original acreage 3,300 acres. The family together
have 3,000 acres planted to citrus fruits, the largest individual citrus grove in the world.
All the development of the large tract has been accomplished within the past ten
years, as prior to 1910 it was grazing land or barley fields. This work was done by
the Bastanchury brothers, Gaston A., Joseph F., and John B., who comprise the Bastan
chury Ranch Company, now owners of most of the property.
Domingo Bastanchury was united in marriage in Los Angeles, on July 16, 1874,
with Miss Maria Oxarart, who was born in 1848, in the same place as her husband and
who came to California in 1873. Her parents were John and Martha Oxarart, farmers
in Basses-Pyrenees, who raised grain, cattle and goats. The daughter obtained a limited
education in her native home, but after coming to America she attended school a year
to perfect her English. Mrs. Bastanchury shared with her husband all the trials and
hardships incident to pioneer life on the plains of Southern California and while he
was in the mountains with his sheep she was alone with her little family, her nearest
neighbors being several miles away. She well remembers the country when there was
no sign of the present town of Fullerton; all trading was done in Los Angeles or Ana
heim. The whole country was devoted to grain raising and to the raising of stock,
with the exception of the grape industry that was being developed about Anaheim.
Then came the making of wine, one of the industries of note in the state at one time
There were only two houses between her home place and Los Angeles, and where
now hundreds of autos travel the main road between Los Angeles and Fullerton, in
the early days there would not be more than one team a week.
Mr. and Mrs. Bastanchury became the parents of four sons: Dominic J., who
owns and lives on his 400 acres near La Habra which is planted to walnuts and citrus
fruits; Gaston A., manager of the Bastanchury Ranch Company; Joseph F., and John
B., all of whom reside on the ranch and assist in its care. It is. marvelous to realize
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still intact and under the highest state of development, all accomplished by the young
men who have grown up in Orange County. On July 21, 1909, Domingo Bastanchury
passed away at his ranch home, the house having been erected by himself and his
good wife in 1906, and was counted one of the show places of this section of Orange
County. Mrs. Bastanchury makes her home on her 200 acres and is in the enjoyment
of the best of health and enters heartily into all movements that mean progress and
better living conditions in the county. Much of the prosperity now enjoyed by the
family is due to the capable management and foresight of this pioneer woman who has
been a witness of the wonderful transformation of the county and Southern California
since she first settled here, a young girl. She believes in living and letting live and
when she can aid any worthy enterprise for bettering local conditions she is ready and
willing to do so. Now in the evening of her days she can look back upon a life well
spent and forward without fear, for she has done her part to make the pathways of her
descendants smoother than the paths she once trod and to prepare them for the
tasks that lead to success.
D. EDSON SMITH. — A well-known pioneer, highly esteemed for his scholarship
and long years of fruitful labors, is D. Edson Smith, of West Seventeenth Street,
Santa Ana, whose accomplished wife is almost as favorably known for her art studies
and work, particularly in experiments with architecture. He was born in Dorset,
Bennington County, Vt., on January 11, 1839, and came westward with his parents
when he was only a year old, residing successively in ten different states. He was a
member of the first class to be graduated from the University of Iowa in 1858, and
for a while taught school in Missouri, and next served as a teacher eighteen miles
southwest of Syracuse, N. Y. He also taught in Pennsylvania, and at the close of
the Civil War he was engaged by the Freedman's Bureau to instruct some of the
freed slaves in Virginia and North Carolina.
In 1867 he settled in the Oneida Community in New York State, where the colony
made iron and steel devices, and also silverware, and there he remained until 1881,
when he came to California and purchased a home. He went back to New York
for a year, but in 1883 he returned to the Coast and the Golden State.
For ten years he was secretary of the Pomological Society of Southern Cali
fornia, and he became well-known throughout the Southland as the editor of "Re
pute." He also edited work for the month department of the Rural Californian for
three years, and then he published an article entitled, "Ten Acres Enough," in which
he set forth the argument that in California ten acres handled properly was sufficient
for any man to take good care of, and quite as sufficient for his prosperity. This
article was widely copied, and gave Mr. Smith national fame. In 1901, Mr. Smith was
sent to the Buffalo Exposition to represent the Rural Californian. A son of Mr.
Smith having become manager of the Oneida Community silverware factory, with
his headquarters at Niagara Falls, Mr. Smith spent some time with him during the
Exposition visit.
The purchase made by Mr. Smith in 1881 included ten acres, which he developed
so cleverly that it became known as the Model Ranch. Then he sold his land, and
moved into town. The removal involved their building a new home, and Mrs. Smith,
who had made a special study of architecture, particularly the antique, designed
their dwelling and created a structure that was so notable as to attract wide attention.
The first Mrs. Smith was Miss Sarah Frances King before her marriage, and a mem
ber of a long-honored family in the Empire State, and their one living son is Eugene
Deming Smith, who is at present in San Francisco as manager of the office there for
the Oneida Community. The present Mrs. Smith, to whom he was married in May,
1888, was Ellen Frances (Hutchins) Reid, the mother of Ransom Reid, who was for
twenty years superintendent of the water works of Santa Ana.
The Smiths, of which our subject is such a worthy representative, date back to
the Pilgrim Fathers and the famous Preserved Smith, who came from England and
brought so much that was desirable to the New World. What enviable blood they-
transmitted to Mr. Smith, with all of noble and ennobling sentiment such as emanates
from a sound body and a sound mind, may be -judged when it is stated that now, in
his eighty-second year, Mr. Smith is far more supple than the average man of thirty.
He can stand on the edge of a brook, for example — and the writer of these lines has
witnessed him in the operation — and so lower his head to sip the purling water that
he has no need of flattening out his body to get a drink, and having thoroughly studied
the laws of nature, he affirms that any man can be young at eighty who eats and other
wise lives correctly.
Mr. Smith was a resident of this section when it was a part of Los Angeles
County. He served as president of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company for a
number of years, and was one of the organizers of the Southern California Apricot
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GEORGE McPHEE — Orange County is to be congratulated upon having, as
its sealer of weights and measures, George McPhee, a man of true worth and un
questioned probity of character, one who has filled this important post for six years
with credit to himself and to his constituency in the county. Mr. McPhee was born
October 19, 1856, in Kent County, New Brunswick, the son of George and Roxana
McPhee. The father was a millwright and George assisted him in the work until
1881, when he migrated farther westward in the great Dominion of Canada, stopping
at Winnipeg, Manitoba, but subsequently locating at Birtle, where he conducted a
hotel for six years.
In 1892 he arrived in California, locating at Elsinore, Riverside County, where
his brother conducted a newspaper. Here he remained until 1896, when he came to
Santa Ana and purchased an interest in the Santa Ana' Blade, serving as the city
editor of this progressive publication for sixteen years. His wise, conservative and
patriotic editorials and the high ideals of citizenship advocated by the Blade wielded
such a potent influence in moulding public sentiment in the county that to his efforts
can be attributed the effectual solution of many of the county's difficult problems.
In 1911 Mr. McPhee was nominated by acclamation for city councilman; he made
no campaign, but was elected by a splendid majority, and at his second election he
led the field in number of votes received. During his two terms of four years each,
as councilman, Mr. McPhee was a member of the committee on public buildings and
city affairs. He was always greatly interested in every worthy movement that had
as its aim then upbuilding and betterment of civic conditions in Santa Ana; during
the years that he served as councilman many public buildings were erected, miles of
street pavements constructed, an ornamental lighting system installed and the city
grew by leaps and bounds.
In 1914 Mr. McPhee received the appointment of county sealer of weights
and measures, and so efficiently has the work of this department been conducted that
Orange County was recently complimented, by the state sealer of weights and
measures, as being the banner county of the state in this line of work. The packing
houses and factories of the county co-operate with Mr- McPhee in the prosecution
of the work, which greatly aids him in the operation of his department. He believes
in educating the public to the importance of this work and in conducting a campaign
along this line.
In 1888 Mr. McPhee was united in marriage with Miss Martha Anderson, a
native of Ontario, Canada, and three children have been born to them: Barry H.,
who is connected with the Edison Company of Santa Ana, married Miss Helen Neff;
C. Ross is a prominent musician of Santa Ana and his marriage united him with
Miss Grachen Denman, of Los Angeles; Muriel is married and resides in Seattle,
Wash. Fraternally Mr. McPhee is a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O.
Elks; also of the Modern Woodman of America.
HERBERT A. FORD — A prominent citizen of Orange County, and one who
had been a factor in both the mercantile life of Fullerton since its inception as a small
settlement, and who also developed a tract of land to oranges and walnuts which has
since become one of the finest residence districts in the city, Herbert A. Ford was a
native of Michigan, born in Wright, that state, on May 12, 1859. His parents were
David A. and Jane Ford, both born in New York State, the father, now ninety-two,
living in Garvanza.
In 1884 Mr. Ford came from Dakota to what is now Orange County, first settling
in Placentia, where he followed horticultural pursuits and worked as a ranch manager.
When the town of Fullerton was started, in 1887, he located there and started the first
store, with Mr. Howell as a partner for one year, under the firm name of Howell &
Ford. Later he bought his partner out and continued the business alone. During this
time he had purchased twenty acres of land on West Commonwealth Avenue, from the
Pacific Land and Improvement Company, and also set out several orange and walnut
groves in the Fullerton district on shares for this company.
The marriage of Mr. Ford in 1889 united him with Carrie E. McFadden, daughter
of that honored pioneer, William M. 'McFadden, who is mentioned elsewhere in the
history. Three sons blessed their union: Alvin L., dairy inspector of Kern County, is
married and has a son, Herbert Alvin; Maurice E.,- who saw service in France for
eight and one-half months in the late war in the Three Hundred Sixteenth Division, is
at home; and Herbert A., a dentist of Fullerton; he was first lieutenant in the Dental
Review Corps, U. S. A., stationed at a camp in Georgia.
Mrs. Ford is an active member of the First Methodist Church of Fullerton, and
of the W. C- T. U-; she is past matron of the Eastern Star, and a member of the
Ebell Club and the Placentia Round Table, as well as prominent in Red Cross work
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has subdivided the original ranch of twenty acres, known as the Orchard Subdivision,
and the property has all been sold off under her personal management and is now the
choice residence district of Fullerton, many fine homes adorning the tract. Mrs. Ford
completed a beautiful bungalow on a portion of the land which she retained, and
there she makes her home, taking an active part in the social, church and club life of
the community which she has seen grow from such small beginnings to its present rank
as one of the most beautiful towns of Southern California.
MRS. PEDRILLA P. PFEIFFER. — For nearly half a century a resident of
Orange County, Mrs. Pedrilla P. Pfeiffer, widow of the late John A. Pfeiffer, one of
the county's most honored citizens, now makes her home at 127 North Grand Street,
Orange, where, now in her seventy-ninth year, she maintains an active interest in the
progress of the community.
Born February 13, 1842, at Shelbyville, 111., Mrs. Pfeiffer was the daughter of
Robert and Hannah (Way) Parrish, natives, respectively, of Virginia and Indiana. The
father was a wagonmaker by trade, and for many years conducted a shop at Shelbyville,
where he was a well-known citizen. He passed away when Mrs. Pfeiffer was but
six years old. Of a family of six children, Mrs. Pfeiffer is the only one now living
and the only one to take up residence in California, She grew up at Shelbyville,
attended the public schools there, and at the age of twenty, on April 15, 1862, she
was united in marriage with John A. Pfeiffer.
A native of Germany, Mr. Pfeiffer was born at Muehlhausen on January 25,
1837. His parents were farmers in moderate circumstances, but gave their son all the
educational advantages possible, and he early developed ambitious tendencies, feeling
that America offered greater opportunities. In 1850, at the age of eighteen, he took
passage on a sailing vessel from Bremen, and after sixty-six days reached New York.
Going on to St. Louis, Mo., he secured employment in a store, improving his spare
moments by attending a business college, realizing how this additional training would
help him to advance in business. Securing a position with the mercantile establishment
of Gen. W. F. Thornton at Shelbyville in 1855, at the modest sum of $200 a year, his
worth was soon recognized, and he was rapidly advanced to a position in the banking
house of General Thornton, and was steadily advanced to a salary of $200 per month
and the post of cashier, an office he filled with unqualified success for twenty-eight
years. As a mark of the confidence reposed in him by his employer, upon the death
of General Thornton, Mr. Pfeiffer was made administrator of his estate, without bond,
and he settled up all the complicated details of this large business in a most satisfactory
manner. At the breaking out of the Civil War he was running a mercantile business of
his own, but he sold out and offered his services to his country. On account of partial
disability he was placed as a sutler.
His health somewhat impaired by the heavy responsibilities of so many years.
Mr. Pfeiffer and his family went to San Antonio, Te_^as; there he outfitted and trav
eled over the frontier for a time. Returning again to Illinois he resumed his position,
but in September, 1881, brought his family to California. Settling in Villa Park pre
cinct, then called Mountain View, he purchased thirty-two acres. At that early day
both agriculture and horticulture were in their experimental stages, and it was not
yet fully determined to what products the soil was best adapted. Many vineyards
were being set out, however, and Mr. Pfeiffer set fourteen acres of his ranch with
grapes. Like everyone, his vineyard suffered from blight, and he rented the ranch,
moved to Highland and for two years ran a grocery store, during the building of the
hospital. Returning to the ranch he planted vines a second time, but was unable to
root out the disease, and gave up his efforts.
After this discouraging circumstance Mr. Pfeiffer disposed of his land and
removed to Orange, where he erected two bungalows on North Grand Street, in one
of which Mrs. Pfeiffer still resides. He was prominent in the ranks of the Odd Fel
lows, having been a charter member of the lodge at Orange and treasurer of it from
the date of its organization for many years. He was also a member of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen. In 1916 Mr. Pfeiffer suffered an attack of paralysis from
which he never recovered, his death occurring on August 23 of that year. An upright,
energetic citizen, Mr. Pfeiffer was loyal to every trust reposed in him and his memory
will ever be cherished by the many friends who appreciated his sterling character.
Mr. and Mrs. Pfeiffer were the parents of six children; two passed away in
infancy during their residence in Illinois; Henry O. died in San Diego at the age of
twenty, and August died at Highland at the age of nineteen; Mollie Mable is the wife
of Arthur S. Barker, a real estate dealer at Los Angeles; they have one son, Russell
A. Barker, who served in the World War, seeing active duty in France; Mrs. Ada
Meine is a bookkeeper for a Los Angeles firm. During their residence at Villa Park,
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coming to Orange Mrs. Pfeiffer has affiliated with the Christian Church at that place,
having been reared in that faith. A Rebekah, she has been a faithful member of its
ranks for many years in Orange.
MRS. ELIZABETH LAMB. — An extensive land owner, well endowed with this
world's goods, and highly respected and loved for her many beautiful and sterling
traits of character is Mrs. Elizabeth Lamb, widow of the late William D. Lamb, promi
nent pioneer citizen of Southern California. Her life has indeed been rich in varied
experiences in that sort of interest and adventure that was the accompaniment of pio
neer days, nor has it been unmixed with hardships, some of them being almost unbe
lievable. Mrs. Lamb is a native of England, her birthplace being at Billings, Lancashire,
June 24, 1850. Her parents were John R. and Sarah (Jolley) Holt, also of English
birth. The father was a wheelwright and joiner and he followed this line of work
for a number of years in his native land. They were the parents of nine children,
and when Elizabeth was thirteen years of age she came to America with two sisters
and a brother. They sailed from Liverpool in May, 1863, and even then Elizabeth's
adventurous experiences began. After seven weeks of storm and calm they finally
landed at Castle Garden, New York, coming across on the old condemned sailer
"Antarctic" which was sunk on the return voyage. Their destination was Utah, and
they made their way across the country as far as Omaha by train, thence to Salt
Lake City by ox team, arriving there six months after their departure from Liverpool.
Here they located, and later Elizabeth made the acquaintance of William D. Lamb,
to whom she was married on October 12, 1868. Mr. Lamb was then only nineteen
years of age, but his life had been filled with arduous experience, even at that time.
Born in Onondaga County, N. Y., he was left motherless at the age of four, and
lived for a time with an uncle near Grand Rapids, Mich. When he was eleven years
old he set out to make his way alone, working his way through to Omaha on railroad
grading work. When he was about fourteen years old his father came up from the
South and the two crossed the plains in a Mormon freight train. At that time he had
not even learned to read, for his life had been so full of toil that there had been no
time for schooling, but after reaching Salt Lake City he managed, even in the midst
of many duties, to learn the alphabet and acquire the rudiments of an education.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Lamb remained in Salt Lake City for a time,
and there their eldest daughter, Mary, now Mrs. E. J. Levengood, was born. Then
they decided to locate in California, and when they arrived here Mr. Lamb earned a
living by chopping and hauling wood on what was later the Lucky Baldwin ranch,
Mrs. Lamb and her little one making their home in their covered wagon. They then
moved on to El Monte and tried farming there, but there was a long season of drought
and all their corn and other produce was dried up. Their next move was to Azusa,
where they lived in the canyon, afterwards named Lamb's Canyon for Mr. Lamb.
Here two of their children were born, but they lost both of them and they were
buried there. Mr. Lamb next bought a squatter's claim of 160 acres four miles
from Huntington Beach, but in 1879, after they had lived there four years, litigation
arose and he and other claimants to adjoining tracts were dispossessed, the Los Bolsas
Company winning the suit. His next purchase was forty acres of the Stearns ranch
at Newhope; here they settled, made many improvements and prospered. They sub
sequently added to their acreage, and Mrs. Lamb still owns the old home of 120
acres there. The next purchase was 220 acres at Garden Grove and, in 1892, he
closed the deal for 720 acres of the Los Bolsas ranch at a very reasonable price,
and here Mrs. Lamb now makes her home. At first they only ran cattle on these
lands, but they have now been brought up to a high state of cultivation. They were
always among the most progressive farmers of the community, as their place was
always equipped with the latest inventions in farm machinery that could be obtained,
and the example of their enterprise meant much for the progress and welfare of their
neighborhood. For several years Mr. Lamb was the resident manager of the Los Bolsas Land
Company and other large ranches, and through his work much improvement was
made on the tracts under his charge. He early saw the necessity for drainage and
irrigation, and with several associates purchased a dredger, the first of its kind in
this territory, and thus completely revolutionized the early methods of carrying
on this work. In no instance, perhaps, is his perseverance and progressive spirit
more plainly shown than in the fact that after he had embarked in business for him
self he employed a man to keep his books, and paid him an extra salary for his per
sonal instruction in reading, arithmetic and the general principles of business, this
arrangement continuing for three years; after that he was able to superintend every
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Lamb passed away in March, 1911, and is buried at Santa Ana. Like her husband,
Mrs. Lamb had only the most limited opportunities to secure an education, but this
was fully made up through the practical business experience and "hard knocks" of
pioneer days. She has always been a woman of great business and executive ability,
and ever shared with her husband the burdens and responsibilities of their great under
takings, and much of his success was due to her splendid judgment and management.
Mr. and Mrs. Lamb were the parents of nine children, five of whom are living:
Mary, now Mrs. Edward J. Levengood of Pomona, was first married to William
Hamner, by whom she had two children, Jessie M. and Anson; Wm. Anson and Vina
died in childhood; Arthur, now deceased, married Mary Stephens and had one son,
Leo Ford Lamb, who resides in Los Angeles; Walter D., a rancher near Santa Ana,
married Gertrude DuBois, a daughter of Valentine DuBois of Santa Ana, and they
have two children, Mrs. Velda May Squires and Kenneth; Laura is the wife of Gregory
Harper, and they have two children, Ivan H. and Harold L.; Hugo J., a rancher near
Huntington Beach, married Effie Stockton, and two children have been born to them,
Lois and Alice; Earl A. is also engaged in ranching near Huntington Beach; he mar
ried Etta Bradley, and they are the parents of three children, Rachel E., Wm. G. and
Alvan; Robert died at the age of four months.
Mrs. Lamb makes her home on her 720-acre ranch southeast of Huntington
Beach, her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Harper, living with her,
and she is active and interested in the management of her properties and extensive
business interests. A woman of great force of character, withal kindly and consider
ate, she is greatly beloved by her family and a large circle of friends. A true type of
the pioneer woman, her life is a record of accomplishment and good deeds that will
leave their beneficent influence on the generations to come.
WILLIAM WENDT. — A distinguished American artist who has added lustre to
the rapid development of art in California is William Wendt, who was born in a little
village in the north of Germany on February 20, 1865, and came to America at the
age of fifteen, when he took up his residence in Chicago. He attended the public
schools, and became interested in commercial art, spending a number of years in the
shops, together with Gardner Symons.
In 1893, Mr. Wendt contributed to the Chicago Society of Artists Exhibition,
and was awarded his first recognition in the granting of the Yerkes prize. He main
tained a studio at Chicago, and spent the following year sketching near San Jose, in
California. Later, he made another trip to California, this time to Los Angeles, after
which he returned to Chicago and planned with Mr. Symons a tour of Europe. With
the exception of two terms of study in the evening classes of the Chicago Art Insti
tute, Mr. Wendt is a self-taught artist.
Proceeding to Europe, Mr. Wendt spent fifteen months in the galleries of London
and other English centers, and in painting scenes of rural life in England; making his
headquarters at St. Ives, Cornwall. Leaving his companion still luxuriating in British
art environment, Mr. Wendt returned to America, and with his foreign subjects made
an unusual exhibition at the galleries of the Art Institute in Chicago. A second trip
to Europe was extended to a survey of the galleries and art fields of Hamburg, Berlin,
Munich and Amsterdam and Paris, returning to America in 1904 to devote himself to
American landscape painting. Mr. Wendt contributed to the St. Louis Exposition in
1904, and received the silver medal; and the same year he was awarded the Kahn prize
at Chicago. In 1897 he had been given the Young Fortnightly Prize, and in 1901 the
bronze medal of the Buffalo Exposition. The next year he was given honorable men
tion at the exhibition of the Chicago Society of Artists.
In 1906, Mr. Wendt moved to Los Angeles, and for seven or eight years was
president of the California Art Club. He exhibited at the Museum in Exposition
Park, which museum later purchased his picture, "The Land of Heart's Desire."
For many years, Mr. Wendt has been associated with the art development at
Laguna Beach, having painted in that locality for the last seventeen years, and in
1918 he erected a well-planned studio at Arch Beach about a mile south of Laguna
Beach, on the Coast. The studio is more than a working place, it is a retreat from
the humdrum of everyday activities, for Mr. Wendt feels he has found at Laguna
the opportunity for seclusion sought for during many years, and he expects here to
complete many of his dreamed-of pictures, and to accomplish the height of his ambition.
Besides having been made an associate of the National Academy of Design, in 1913,
Mr. Wendt is a member of the National Art Club of New York City, the Chicago
Society of Artists, the California Art Club, and the Laguna Beach Art Association
and Federation of Arts, Washington. In addition to the honors already referred to, Mr.
Wendt received the fine arts prize of the Society of Western Artists in 1912, the silver
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1910, and the grand prize of the San Diego Exposition of the same year, the Kirch-
berger prize, American Artists Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, 1913, and the
Clarence A. Black prize of the California Art Club in 1916. He is represented in perma
nent collections of the Chicago Art Institute, the Friends of American Art, the Cliff
Dwellers, the Union League of Chicago, the Athletic Club of Los Angeles, the- Cin
cinnati Museum, the Art Association of Indianapolis, the National Arts Club, New
York, and other museums and clubs.
In June, 1906, the same year in which Mr. Wendt became a resident of Los
Angeles, he was married to the noted sculptor of Chicago, Julia M. Bracken; their home
is at 2814 North Sichel Street, Los Angeles.
According to a writer in the Chicago Tribune, under date of May 16, 1920, the
four favorite pictures in the Chicago Art Institute are, first, "The Song of the Lark," by
Jules Breton; second, "The Silence of Night," by William Wendt; third, "The Flower
Girl in Holland," by George Hitchcock; and fourth, "The Home of the Heron," by
George Inness — usually rated the greatest of American landscape artists. "The Silence
of the Night," which may perhaps rank as Wendt's masterpiece, was presented to the
Chicago Art Institute by a number of the friends of that museum and school; another
canvas by Mr. Wendt also hangs in this noted gallery, a landscape entitled "When All
the World is Young," painted at Topango Canyon, California.
JAMES R. KELLY.— In the passing away of James R. Kelly on April 17, 1908,
Orange County lost one of its stanch citizens whose labors for the development of this
locality in striving to enhance its progress and develop its resources entitle him to a
prominent rank among its early residents.
The lineage of the Kelly family is traced back to three brothers and a sister who
were born in Ulster, in the north of Ireland, and who came to America between the
years of 1720 and 1730, so that they have an honored history of nearly two centuries on
this side of the Atlantic. One of the brothers, Col. John Kelly, was accompanied by
his wife, who before her marriage was Margaret Armour, also a native of the Emerald
Isle. The young couple became pioneers of Pennsylvania, settling in Bucks County
as early as 1760, and there they remained all their lives. An ardent lover of liberty,
John Kelly was ever devoted to the land of his adoption, and when the Revolutionary
War broke out he at once offered his services and joined in the conflict. It is needless
to say that he suffered many dangers and privations during that long siege, but he
never wavered in his loyalty to the cause he had espoused and through his courage
and patriotism he rose to the rank of colonel in the Continental Army.
Colonel and Mrs. John Kelly had a family of nine children, and one of their
sons, John, who was for many years a resident of Juanita County, Pa., married Miss
Rebecca Clarke, a native of Scotland, and their son, Moses Kelly, married Miss Eliza
beth Patterson and reared a family of ten children in Juniata County, Pa. The seventh
of their children was James R. Kelly, of this review, who was born near Mifflintown,
Pa., June 28, 1835.
Educated in the public schools of Juniata County and trained to a practical knowl
edge of agriculture, James R. Kelly became one of the intelligent and prosperous
farmers of his native county, where for years he devoted himself to his chosen occu
pation, save for the period of his service in the Civil War. Upon retiring from
general farming he removed to Kansas and established a home at Lawrence, Douglas
County. Three years later, in 1888, he came to Southern California and purchased
a lot and built a home at 528 Walnut Street, Santa Ana, where he resided until his
death. Immediately after his arrival he identified himself with the fruit-growing busi
ness and soon became familiar with every department of the leading industry of the
locality. On his ranch he raised apricots, oranges and walnuts. It was his aim to
grow only fruits of the choicest varieties, so that the products of his grove might
command the highest prices in the Eastern markets.
Mr. Kelly's marriage on March 18, 1869, united him with Miss Jane Robinson,
a native of Juniata County, Pa., and a daughter of George and Priscilla (Laird) Robin
son, both of Scotch-Irish ancestry, but born and reared in Juniata County. Mr. and
Mrs. Kelly were the parents of three sons: Frederick M., who was educated at the
University of Michigan, is an assayer and chemist; he is one of the leading citizens of
Needles, Cal., where he has been postmaster for many years. He married Miss Pearl
Glenn of Springville, Iowa, a granddaughter of the first white child born in Chicago,
and they are the parents of two sons, Robert Glenn and Fred; George Patterson Kelly,
who was also educated at the University of Michigan, practiced law for a number of
years in Chicago and while there married Miss Agnes K. Gavney of Aurora, 111. George
P. Kelly passed away in 1915 at Santa Ana and his wife died in 1919, leaving one son,
James T.; R. Bayard, born at Juanita, Pa., March 13, 1880, attended the public schools
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years, then returned to Santa Ana and was a successful walnut grower of the Tustin
district until selling in 1919. He was married in 1915 to Miss Magdalena Lauterbach,
who was born at Buffalo, N. Y., but who has been a resident of California since 1904.
They are the parents of one son, Robert. Mrs. James R. Kelly passed away at her
home in Santa Ana, April 6, 1919, at the age of about eighty-three.
Like his forbear of Revolutionary days, James R. Kelly was intensely patriotic and
any mention of his life work would be incomplete without recording his war service,
which put to a severe test the qualities of* courage, patience and endurance possessed
by him to a remarkable degree. Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War Mr. Kelly
offered his services to the Union and on July 25, 1861, he was accepted as a member
of Company A, First Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry, enlisting from Juniata County.
This regiment was ordered to the front at once and became one of the most famous
fighting units of the Federal Army. In the charge at Cedar Mountain Companies A,
B, C and D went into action with 264 men and came out with only seventy-two able
to report for duty. Mr. Kelly held the rank of first lieutenant in Company A and
owing to the frequent absence of the captain was often called upon to command the
company. In the battle of Shepherdstown, July 17, 1863, an exploding shell struck him,
cutting an artery in his leg and leaving a painful wound. On another occasion he
was slightly injured in battle. While in a cavalry skirmish at Samaria Church, Va.,
June 24, 1864, he was taken prisoner and confined in the famous Libby prison. Later
he was transferred successively to Columbia, S. C, Macon, Ga., Belle Isle, Savannah,
Ga., and Charleston, S. C, remaining in these prisons until the close of the war with
the exception of two brief periods when escape had been rendered possible by the
ingenuity of the prisoners. However, in both instances he was recaptured. It was
characteristic of the man that he never complained in the midst of hardships that would
have daunted any but the bravest of spirits. On the other hand, he was quick to note
any humorous incidents that occurred and his cheerful disposition was a ray of sun
shine to others in hours of trouble. When he was mustered out, April 25, 1865, he
returned to his Pennsylvania home with the esteem of his superior officers and the
friendship of his comrades. After the organization of the Grand Army of the Republic
he identified himself with that work and never ceased to cherish affection for the
"boys in blue." Politically he voted with the Republican party and during his resi
dence in Pennsylvania he filled local offices. Early in life he had become a member
of the Presbyterian denomination, and after coming to Santa Ana he officiated as an
elder in the First Church, to whose philanthropies and missionary enterprises he was
a generous contributor.
DR. JOHN McCLELLAN LACY.— Whenever the historian shall essay to tell the
story of Santa Ana, he will find it a pleasureable duty to narrate again the career of
Dr. John McClellan Lacy, the pioneer physician, who did so much in many ways for
the welfare and advancement of the town. He was born at Huntsville, Ala., on Wash
ington's Birthday, 1837, the son of Thomas H. and Mary E. Lacy, Southern planter
folks who moved from Alabama to Arkansas, when John was eighteen years of age.
And there, in 1861, Thomas Lacy died, the father of three boys and eight girls, worthy
descendants of a family tracing its ancestry back to France. At that time, the name
was de Lacy; but when the Huguenots came to America on account of religious
persecution in France, this branch of the family, coming with them, changed the name
to simple Lacy. Mrs. Lacy was a McClellan, and her mother's maiden name was
Wallace; and she was able to trace her ancestry to Sir William Wallace of Scotland.
John McClellan Lacy attended the grammar school in Huntsville, Ala., and when
old enough to do so, read medicine with Dr. William B. Welch in Arkansas. He later
was graduated from the St. Louis Medical College, and still later took post-graduate
work at the University of Nashville, Tenn.
When the Civil War broke out, Dr. Lacy volunteered for service in the Con
federate Army as surgeon to an Arkansas regiment, and from 1861, he marched and
fought for four long, hard years. He had farmed and shipped cotton, while reading
medicine, and so was able to hold his own in the arduous campaigning.
After the war, Dr. Lacy practiced medicine in Arkansas and the Indian Territory,
(later Oklahoma) and in 1879 came to California across the great plains. He made the
journey in wagons, and was eight months on the road; and he and his party had many
interesting experiences with the Indians, and other adventures by the way.
At Cane Hill, Ark., on April 3, 1861, Dr. Lacy married Miss Eliza P. Bean, daughter
of Mark Bean, and his wife, Nancy J. He was a wealthy cotton planter and factory
owner, and was honored by his fellow-citizens with election to the state legislature
as a representative from Washington County. Several children blessed the fortunate
union. Margaret M. is the eldest daughter; and the other children are Mary L-, Mrs.
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L., Mrs. J. W. Murray; and Mark B., who married Genevieve Waffle. Dr. Lacy's
youngest brother was sheriff of Orange County for sixteen years.
A Democrat in matters of national politics, Dr. Lacy was a member of the city
council. He belonged to the State and County Medical Societies, and served for a while
as city health officer of Santa Ana. He belonged to the First Presbyterian Church, and
was a Mason, having joined that order in 1860, and a member of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen. When he died, on February 2, 1913, at Santa Ana, he was almost
seventy-six years of age.
Old-time friends of the deceased bore the casket, and the Rev. J. A. Stevenson
paid the departed such a tribute as he deserved. He said, in part: "The working
days of the physician are restless days. He knows no hours that are his own. He
is the servant of suffering humanity, morning, noon and night. No man knows the
weary hours that are contributed by the men that are tired almost to death. But
when the restless days and nights of Dr. Lacy's working time were gone he knew a
harder restlessness in the times of his own sickness. The days were long, and the
nights were longer, and pain and suffering were there. Then out of the restlessness
of life, God called him to the rest of a blessed eternity. Dr. McLaren has made im
mortal the 'Doctor of the Old School.' But thank God we do not have to hasten
to the distant fields of Scotland nor into the pages of literature to find the splendid
hero. The cultured, kindly, unassuming, uncomplaining, self-forgetful Christian gen
tleman, Dr. Lacy, was an honor to the Church of Christ, a benediction to this com
munity, and an adornment to the medical profession."
MRS. EROLINDA YORBA. — A distinguished, highly esteemed representative of
one of the oldest and most historic families in California is Mrs. Erolinda Yorba, the
well-to-do widow of Vicente Yorba, whose family settled along the Coast at a very
early period. His parents were Bernardo and Felipa (Dominguez) Yorba, born in San
Diego and Los Angeles, respectively. Bernardo Yorba was the holder of grants aggre
gating over 165,000 acres, given him by the King of Spain. These grants were La Sierra,
in Riverside County, and Rancho San Antonio Cajon de Santa Ana, in Orange County;
and just how historical the character of the founder of this family was, may be gath
ered from the reference to him by his contemporary, Harris Newmark, the Los Angeles
pioneer, who says in his personal reminiscences, "Sixty Years in Southern California."
"Bernardo Yorba was another great landowner; and I am sure that, in the day of
his glory, he might have traveled fifty to sixty miles in a straight line, touching none
but his own possessions. His ranches, on one of which Pio Pico hid from Santiago
Afguello, were delightfully located, where now stand such places as Anaheim, Orange,
Santa Ana, Westminster, Garden Grove and other towns in Orange County — then a
part of Los Angeles County." In McGroarty's Mission Play, one of the leading char
acters is Josefa Yorba, the grandmother of Vicente Yorba, who was selected because
of her beautiful character and many deeds of kindness.
As early as 1835 Bernardo Yorba settled and built his home — a ninety-room
adobe — at what is now the town of Yorba, and a part of the old building is still stand
ing. In it was a crude jewelry shop, harness shop, saddlery, blacksmith shop and a
general merchandise store; in other words, it was a miniature city, known all over
Southern California. It was a more or less dreary section then, and these worthy
pioneers improved the land and the surroundings at the cost of their own lives and
health. For a long time the we-ll-known Yorba adobe sheltered the growing family,
but the. enterprising father never lived to see all the transformations he and others
associated with and guided by him brought about. Bernardo Yorba died on November
20, 1858, and thus followed to the grave his devoted wife and companion, who had
passed away seven years before.
Vicente Yorba, one of the youngest of the family, was born at Yorba on February
3, 1844; and being early thrown upon his own resources, he in time amassed consider
able property. He owned, for example, a fine ranch of forty-four acres on the north
side of the Santa Ana River, and another ranch of 343 acres at Yorba. The old home
ranch upon which Mr. Yorba passed away came to be noted for its walnuts, its vineyard
and its alfalfa, and was especially famous for its productivity. The other property,
on the south side of the river, was given up to general farming and the raising of
walnuts. Upon Mr. Yorba's death, the family moved to this last-mentioned ranch, and
there erected a large and modern residence, in which they have since resided. Although
Mr. Yorba was very optimistic in his belief of a great future for Orange County, yet in
his most optimistic moments he could not have dreamed of the wealth so soon to be
brought from the depths under these lands; and on his original home place the Union
Oil Company is now sinking wells for oil, and have been rewarded with an excellent
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On October 25, 1876, Vicente Yorba was married to Miss Erolinda Cota, a native
of Los Angeles and the daughter of Francisco Cota, another well-known native, whose
family owned the Spanish grant, Rancho de Bellona, what is now the site of Venice.
Her mother was Martina Machado, and her grandmother a Sepulveda. She was edu
cated in the parish schools of Los Angeles, and there received such an excellent train
ing that, while prepared to manage her own business affairs, she was also enabled to
maintain the refinement characteristic of the highest social breeding, and to preserve
a striking and natural beauty of feature, form and demeanor, scarcely altered since Mr.
Yorba died, on February 24, 1913, on the ranch to the north of the Santa Ana River, in
his fifty-ninth year. Mrs. Yorba is a member of the Catholic Church at Yorba, and is
the center of an admiring and devoted circle. To Mr. Yorba's public-spiritedness is
largely due the establishing of the well-equipped school at Yorba, on which he was a
trustee for many years until his death.
Six children blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Yorba: Hortense M. is the
wife of Porfirio Palomares, an extensive landowner of Pomona, now residing at Oxnard;
Mantina L. is the wife of Lorenzo Pelanconi, and resides at Hollywood; Mary L. is the
wife of Ignacio Vejar of Pomona; Ubenia Juanita married George Wents and lives with
her mother; she has one child, Erolinda Dolores; Bernardo was in the Fortieth Heavy
Coast Artillery, where he was assistant observer, and was in New York, on his way to
France, when the armistice was signed, when he returned home and is now assisting
his mother; he is married to Miss Edna Leep of Nebraska; Vicente Francisco married
Lidella Walters of Placentia; they have one son, Vicente Samuel, and also reside on the
Yorba ranch.
Since the death of Mr. Yorba, the family continue to reside on the ranch which
is owned by Mr. Yorba and which they have greatly improved with an irrigation system
and with Valencia orange orchards. Here they dwell together in harmony, each
assisting and cooperating to the mutual advantage of all. With the mother at the head
of affairs — an honor her children lovingly accord her — she is ably assisted by them
and they in turn appreciate her confidence and shower on her their love and devotion,
thus relieving her from much unnecessary worry and care.
JUDGE CHRISTIAN C. STONER.— An efficient, popular public official with
a very interesting war record is Judge Christian C. Stoner, a native of Blair County,
Pa., where he was born on December 27, 1844. He is the son of Jacob E. Stoner, a
native of Lancaster County, Pa., who in 1849 removed to Noble County, Ind., where
he was a pioneer farmer. In 1873 he pitched his tent in Cloud County, Kans., and
there he continued to farm until he died, honored of all men. He had married Polly
Cowen, a native of Blair County, and s'he also died in Kansas. They had six children,
and the subject of our sketch was the fourth in the order of birth.
Reared in Noble County, Ind., on a farm, C. G. Stoner went to a log-cabin school
house and sat on slab benches; later, he enjoyed more comfortable quarters in a frame
school building, but left school to volunteer for service in the Civil War. In 1863 he
entered Company B of the Eighty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered
in at Kendallville, and sent to join Sherman's Army at Chattanooga. As a part of the
Fourteenth Army Corps, he was with Sherman until the close of the war, and partici
pated in the battles of Resac, Dallas, Dalton, Snake Creek Gap, Buzzard's Roost, Kene-
saw Mountain, Peach Tree (where General McPherson fell), Jonesboro, Goldsboro,
Bentonville and other notable places. He never received a scratch or wound, nor was
he ever in a hospital; but of five relatives who enlisted when he did, he was the only
one to return. A brother, David, was in the same regiment and was killed at the Battle
of Bentonville, N. C. With his comrades he marched to Richmond and then on to
Washington, D. C. ; and there he took part in the Grand Review. At Louisville, Ky.,
in July, 1865, he was mustered out, and returned home.
After the war, Mr. Stoner went to the home school for a couple of years, and
when there was a vacancy, he taught there. He remained for two years, and "brought
order out of chaos"; then went to Wolf Lake high school, and after that taught for
another two years. In 1873, he removed to Kansas, near Concordia, Cloud County, and
took a homestead of 160 acres, where he engaged in farming.
Seven years later, the citizens of that district selected him to teach school, and
for three years he trained the young idea how to shoot; was justice of the peace of
Nelson township for fifteen years, and was probate judge of Cloud County for two
terms, being elected in 1890 and reelected in 1892, and served until January, 1895.
In 1896, he was elected a member of the Assembly of the Kansas State Legislature, and
served there during 1896 and 1897. His legal knowledge enabled him to be particularly
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decided were appealed, and in each of these instances the higher court sustained his
decision. About 1904 Judge Stoner removed to Lincoln County, Kans., and for five years
owned and edited the Lincoln Sentinel. In 1909 he located in Orange County, Cal.,
and bought an orange grove near El Modena, which he managed for two years, then
disposed of the property, and retired. He was a city trustee for six years, and during
that period was chairman of the board, or acting mayor, for four years. The night
his term was up, the Judge was appointed city recorder, in April, 1918, and he has held
that responsible office ever since.
While in Indiana, in August, 1867, Judge Stoner was married to Miss Rachel A.
Winebrenner, a native of that state, and by her he has had three children. Barbara Ellen
is Mrs. Secrist of Long Beach; George, a graduate of Lincoln College, Kansas, took
a course at the University of California and is now a teacher in the Orange high school;
and Peter is a graduate of the State University at Berkeley and is a teacher in the high
school at Pasadena. Judge Stoner is a member of Gordon Granger Post No. 138, and
is at present the commander of the post. He was aide-de-camp on National Com
mander Somer's staff, in 1918. He belongs to the Christian Church, where he has been
an elder for many years.
DAVID CLARENCE DRAKE.— An authority on citrus culture in California, and
a prominent factor in the development of the industry in Orange County, is David
Clarence Drake, whose advice, as that of a sensible man of original ideas, is often
sought by growers. He comes of an interesting family, long associated with the
history of Long Island, and has identified himself in an enviable way with the history
of the Golden State.
He was born at Southampton, Suffolk County, N. Y., in 1864, the son of David
R. Drake, who was born at Roxbury, Morris County, N. J., and reared on Long
Island becoming a sea-captain, thereby maintaining an interesting tradition from the
time of the English renowned explorer. For more than thirty years the master of a
whaler, he sailed out of Sag Harbor, L. I., and also New Bedford, Mass., into the
various oceans of the globe, touched at many foreign ports, and thus grew familiar
with important places all over the world, and was indeed a well-traveled man. About
fifty years ago, he quit the sea and retired to his home at Southampton. He had
married Harriet Fithian, a native of that place and a member of an old Long Island
family of Welsh descent, and three children had blessed their union. Two are still
living, and our subject is the only one in California.
Brought up in quaint old Southampton, L. I., David C. Drake was educated at
the grammar schools of that neighborhood, and also at the Southampton Academy,
after which, for a couple of years, he attended the Franklin Literary Institute in Dela
ware County; then entered Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., from
which he was graduated in 1882; the pleasure of his studies leading him to move west
to the Pacific Coast, and to study for two years in the Van der Nailen School of
Engineering at San Francisco, where he took a course in railroad engineering and
surveying, and was duly graduated with honors.
On his return East and to Southampton, Mr. Drake married Miss Harriet Ford
ham, who had also been born in that town, of an old and prominent family; and he
then engaged in the raising of fruit for the New York City market, and also for the
summer trade at Little Newport, L. I. This essay in horticulture he continued until
1896, when he sold out, came west to California, and pitched his tent at Pomona. It
was in truth but a temporary camp that he established, for he then traveled all over
the state, and up and down the Coast, even into British Columbia, getting first-hand
impressions of the great West; at the end of which varied enviable experience, he de
cided that Orange was most to his liking, and ever since he has been closely asso
ciated with the fortunes of the fast-developing place.
He purchased his three acres on East Chapman Avenue, Orange, and made all
the necessary improvements, set it out to oranges, and built his handsome, comfortable
residence, and made of the whole a beauty spot. He also bought thirty acres of raw
land at the corner of Seventeenth Street and Holt Avenue, where he set out twenty
acres of Valencia oranges and ten acres of lemons.
For many years Mr. Drake was a director in the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation
Company, and assisted in bringing that popular concern to its present state of high
efficiency. In 1897 he joined the local organization of citrus ranchers, the Santiago
Orange Growers Association, and in 1898 they built their first packing house in
Orange — the parent association from which have sprung eleven different citrus asso
ciations in this vicinity, and resulted in the final formation of the Orange County
Fruit Exchange. Mr. Drake, after having been a director in the Santiago Orange
Growers Association, is now its president; and he is also president of the Orange

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County Fruit Exchange, which handled over five million dollars' worth of business
in 1919. For six years Mr. Drake was trustee of the city of Orange, and all that period
he was president of the board, or mayor of the town. He started, with his associates,
the building of sewers, and bought the present sewer farm, and they were starting
the improvement of streets and sidewalks when he resigned. In national politics, he
is a stanch Republican. A member of the First Presbyterian Church at Orange, Mr.
Drake has been an elder there for the past twenty years. He was made a Mason in
Orange Grove Lodge, No. 293, F. & A. M., and belongs to the Fraternal Aid Union.
PETER HANSEN. — Horticultural enterprises have engaged the attention of
Peter Hansen for a long period of successful activity, and by means of his skill in
this field as well as his perseverance and industry, he has added another name to the
list of prosperous fruit growers of the county and has furnished additional evidence as
to the adaptability of the soil to such pursuits. He is now the only surviving member
of the pioneers who settled in the Placentia district as early as 1867, a worthy repre
sentative of those hardy and intrepid settlers.
A native of Denmark, Mr. Hansen was born at Varde, Jylland, on Christmas. Day,
1838. His parents were farmers, so from a lad he made himself useful about the farm,
in the meantime receiving a good education in the excellent schools of Denmark. Being
the next to the youngest of a family of five children, he remained at home and assisted
his parents until he entered the Danish army and served the required two years' time,
when he again followed farming until the breaking out of the Slesvig-Holstein War.
He was called to the colors, and immediately responding, he became a member of a
cavalry regiment of the Danish army and served as a corporal until the close of the
war. Immediately after his discharge, Mr. Hansen resolved to emigrate to the United
States, so in the fall of 1865 we find him making the long journey via the Isthmus of
Panama to San Francisco, where he was employed for two years. Having heard favor
able reports from Anaheim and vicinity, he came by boat to San Pedro and on to Los
Angeles. The present metropolis of the Pacific Coast was then a small hamlet built
around the plaza, with only a few houses and one hotel. He came on to Anaheim,
where he was employed by Tim Boege at teaming, hauling freight to Los Angeles and
Anaheim Landing, the latter now being known as Seal Beach. In the meantime he
invested his savings in 106 acres of raw land at Placentia, then Los Angeles County;
it was virgin land in what was then a wilderness, for which he paid the small sum of
fourteen dollars per acre. He cleared the land of brush and wild mustard and planted
rye, wheat and barley. In those days game of all kinds was abundant, and the wild
horses and cattle that roamed the plains caused Mr. Hansen much trouble, invading his
ranch and destroying his crops. He purchased one of the first threshing machines used
in his district, a stationary machine run by horsepower, drawn by eighteen horses, and
the first year his crop yielded enough to pay for the machine, which he used all over
the country threshing for others. He next set out his ranch to grapes and built one
of the first wineries in the county, a brick structure 40 by 100 feet in size. After
making wine for many years and selling it in casks to people who came from miles
around to purchase it, he took out the vines and planted seedling and Washington Navel
orange trees; later he budded his trees to Valencia oranges, his present orchard. To
his brother Charles, who came from the East and worked for him on the ranch, Mr.
Hansen gave fifty-three acres of the property. The brother died in 1903. In later
years Mr. Hansen deeded a large part of his holdings to his children, retaining enough
property to give him a competency for his retired years.
Mr. Hansen's wife, who before her marriage was Christine Jensen, was a native
of Abenrade, Slesvig, their marriage being solemnized at Orangethorpe in 1874. An
able helpmate and a loving wife and mother, her death on March 14, 1900, made an
irreparable breach in the family circle. She left five children, as follows: Mattie is the
wife of Arthur Edwards of Placentia, and the mother of two children, Gladys and
Hugh; Anna married Horace Head of Santa Ana and they have two children, Melville
and Iris; George, who lives at Placentia, is married and has four children, Christine,
Ernest, Robert and George; Charles L. also lives at Placentia; Christine is the wife of
Walter C. McFarland of Placentia and they are the parents of one child, Forest
Walter. Mr. and Mrs. McFarland own and reside in the old Hansen home, over which
Mrs. McFarland presides gracefully, showing her loving care and devotion to her
aged father, who appreciates her ministrations to his comfort and happiness. Mr.
McFarland served in the World War' in the Three- Hundred Sixty-third Infantry at
Camp Lewis until he volunteered in the Signal Corps, Aviation Section, being stationed
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armistice, when he was honorably discharged, returning to the peaceful pursuit of
farming. In early days Mr. Hansen was a school trustee at Placentia and was one of
the twelve men who founded Balboa Beach, in which he has always been deeply
interested, and where he owns a fine residence, to which his fondness for the ocean
causes him to make frequent visits. He was also one of the founders of the Anaheim
Union Water Company. Fraternally he was a member of the Anaheim Lodge of Odd
Fellows. Accompanied by his daughter Christine, in 1902 he made a trip back to his
native land, from whence he came a poor boy, but richly endowed with the natural
characteristics that Dame Nature is pleased to reward — indomitable energy and a spirit
undaunted by the difficulties encountered on the road to life that leads to success.
HUBERT ISAAC. — A most interesting pioneer, partly on account of his early
history as a railway man and a miner before he came to California, is Hubert Isaac,
distinguished to all who know him for his foresight and his strict integrity. He was
born at Milwaukee, Wis., on February 26, 1856, the son of Francis Joseph and Anna
(Schreiner) Isaac, natives of Aix-la-Chapelle; and grew up to do farm work. Going
to Hancock, Mich., however, he joined a train crew, first as one of the operatives on
a freight train, then as a baggageman, and then on a passenger train, on the Mineral
Range Railway. For the next four and three-quarter years, he was employed in the
Black Hills, weighing ore in the mining country, when he pushed on the California, via
Cheyenne, Wyo., in 1879. He stopped at Los Angeles, but ran out to see El Modena,
with friends, on a hunting trip.
He chanced to meet there David Hewes, the well known pioneer who has left
behind him such a record for doing things, and as he needed some one to do carpenter
work, he entered his employ. His first job was to build a corral enclosing a space of
half an acre; and when this was satisfactorily finished, friendly relations were estab
lished and he continued to work for Mr. Hewes steadily for a year and a half. He
was then under the direction of Henry Young, the first foreman of the great Hewes
Ranch, on which ranch Mr. Isaac was also foreman twice. Later, he returned to Mr.
Hewes' service, and was with him for twenty-seven years and nine months, so that it
may safely be said that he was one of Mr. Hewes' most trusted employees.
Mr. Isaac bought eleven lots in El Modena before the "boom," and there he
built thirteen houses, which he rents to others. Altogether, he owns forty-two lots.
and is the largest taxpayer in El Modena. Personally, Mr. Isaac is known for his sym
pathetic nature, his keen insight into daily life, his sense of justice, and his desire
to do right and to see that righteousness is done. In many respects, while ultra-
conservative perhaps, he represents the dependable type of safe citizenship and financial
endeavor, and enjoys, as he well merits, the esteem and confidence of his fellow-men.
RICHARD ROBINSON.— One of Orange County's oldest pioneers, Richard Rob
inson is living retired at Garden Grove, after a well-rounded life filled with many
adventurous experiences, having reached the age of ninety-three years. Born in the
township of Edwardsburg, Grenville County, Ontario, Canada, September 9, 1827, Mr.
Robinson was the son of Isaac and Margaret (Moses) Robinson, both natives of
Ireland, who soon after their marriage there in County Tyrone, came to Canada, and
here all their nine children were born. Isaac Robinson was a shoemaker by trade, but
followed farming to a great extent, owning a farm of 260 acres. He was killed by a
horse when Richard was only sixteen years of age; the mother lived to be ninety-two
years old. Richard early learned the shoemaking business and from the time he was
sixteen years old he took his place in the world as a breadwinner for the family. He
ran a shop on the home farm, often working in the fields all day and then at shoemaking
until late at night. Necessarily his schooling was limited, both from his lack of time
and from the scarcity of educational opportunities, as in those days they had only
subscription schools, maintained by the people of the community, the teachers boarding
'round among the families.
When he reached the age of twenty-four, Mr. Robinson made up his mind to try
his fortune in California, and accordingly sailed from New York on the "Fannie Major,"
which was bound for San Francisco around the Horn. While off the coast of Brazil
they encountered a severe storm in which the top main mast of their vessel was
broken off and they had to put in to San Salvador for repairs. While there Mr. Robin
son saw slavery in its worst form and has yet vivid memories of some of the horrible
conditions that accompanied it in that country. Proceeding on their journey they
doubled Cape Horn and again encountered a terrific gale which lasted for several days
and nights during which every sail was torn to shreds. Although it was the latter
part of June, zero weather prevailed and every hour it seemed as if they would surely
be swallowed up by the angry waves. After miraculously escaping from being dashed
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where they procured an entire new set of sails and then continued the journey to San
Francisco, reaching there in September, 1852, after a voyage of five and one-half months.
From San Francisco Mr. Robinson went up to the mines on the Yuba River, later
going on to Placerville, where he mined with considerable success, clearing up some
money. Here he was married in March, 1854, to Miss Letty Bolton, the daughter of
Richard and Lucretia (Redmond) Bolton, natives, respectively, of Ireland and Canada.
She was also born in Canada, only about twelve miles from Mr. Robinson's birthplace,
although they had never known each other until they met at Placerville. She had come
across the plains in 1851 with the family of her brother-in-law, John Johnson. Later
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson went up into British Columbia, where he mined for a time on
the Fraser River, but did not meet with much success. In 1859, with his wife and
child he went back to Canada to visit his old home, returning in 1862 to California,
making the trip, both going and coming, by way of Panama. On reaching here he
settled in Sonoma County with his wife and three children, twins having been born to
them during their stay in Canada. Here Mr. Robinson purchased a farm of 230 acres
five miles from Petaluma, and improved it, building a dairy barn that was at that time
the finest in the county. Here, he contracted tubercular trouble and, not being able
to stand the heavy fogs, he sold out and bought a 200-acre farm in Colusa County,
farming it for three years and completely recovering his health.
In 1884, Mr. Robinson removed to Garden Grove where he has since made his
home. He purchased seventy-five acres of land here and farmed it for a number of
years, but he disposed of all of it except five acres where the home stood many
years; he has a remarkably good memory and keen mind for a man of his years and
enjoys recalling the interesting events of his past life. Mrs. Robinson died on August
23, 1920, aged almost eighty-nine. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson had nine children, eight of
whom grew to maturity: Isaac resides in Stockton and is deputy county treasurer and
tax collector; Chester Allington lives at Ascot Park, Los Angeles, and has five sons,
one of whom, Capt. Ralph Redmond Robinson, was with the Marines throughout the
whole campaign in the late war. He was with the detachment of Marines that was a
part of the famous Second Division and was in action at th© Argonne, St. Mihiel and
Champagne, where he saw terrific fighting. He is still serving with the Marines and
is now stationed at Port au Prince, Hayti; Forest Wellington died at the age of
thirty-three years, leaving one son, Chalmers, who is an oil man engaged in the Fullerton
field; Mina Anna is the wife of Harvey V. Newsom, a rancher at Garden Grove, whose
sketch appears elsewhere in this work; Frank Bolton resides in Los Angeles; his son,
Ray Albert Robinson, who is a crack shot, became a captain in the war, training troops
at Quantico, Va. He was aide-de-camp to General Butler and while stationed at Brest
on General Butler's staff, he lived in Napoleon's old house there. He is still in the
service at Quantico, Va.; Addie May is the wife of Capt. Joseph Newell, who is captain
of the largest supply ship in the U. S. Navy; they reside at West Newbury, Mass.;
Richard Byron has a ranch of forty acres near Gait; Porter died at the age of four
years at Colusa; Alice Bertha, the youngest of the family, resides with her father.
A few years ago Mr. Robinson came near losing his life in a railway accident, and
was laid up for a year. The accident happened while he was crossing the railroad
tracks at Santa Ana, and by a curious coincidence he had just been on a jury in a case
brought to recover damages for death and injury sustained to a family who had met
with the accident at the same railway crossing in Santa Ana. For many years Mr.
Robinson was a stanch Republican, casting his last vote on that ticket for James A.
Garfield as President, but since that time he has been a consistent Prohibitionist. He
was converted at the age of nineteen and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Garden Grove. Always on the side of that which made for the uplifting
and improvement of the community, Mr. Robinson has ever stood high in the esteem
and respect of a large circle of friends.
MRS. SUSAN BELT. — Of Southern lineage, but of uncompromising Union
allegiance, Mrs. Susan Belt, an Orange County pioneer and widow of James H. Belt,
is a woman possessed of great strength of character and executive force. Her husband,
who came of a fine family, was born in Johnson County, Ark., in 1840. His grandfather,
Middleton Belt, the founder of the American branch of the family, was a native of
England who settled in Maryland and afterwards removed to Tennessee, where he
settled and reared his family. The father of James H. Belt, Dotson Belt, was probably
born in central Tennessee, and his mother, Miss Penelope Laster before her marriage,
also was born there. The parents were planters, and James H. followed in the footsteps
of his father and became a successful cotton grower. At the outbreak of the Civil War
his sentiments were strongly with the Union, and perceiving that he would be con
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handkerchief tied to the ramrod of his gun approached the picket line. He enlisted in
Company L of the Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry and served until the close of the war.
In the meantime the home folks, because of their Union sentiments, suffered terribly.
Mrs. Belt recalls some very exciting incidents that she underwent also during those
trying times. She and her seventy-five-year-old father were making garden in the
spring of 1863 when a band of bushwackers rode up and began shooting at them.
Eight shots were fired at her father and little brother, and the father was killed by the
bullets of the guerillas. Mrs. Belt's maiden name was Susan Brown, the daughter of
Reuben and Martha (Hines) Brown, the father a native of Maine and mother born
in Tennessee. Her parents settled in Missouri after their marriage and the father
became a farmer and stockman. Mrs. Belt was born in Missouri, September) 10, 1844,
the youngest girl and the eighth child in order of birth in a family of ten children, and
was three years old when her parents moved to Sebastian County, Ark. She received
her education in the subscription schools of Arkansas, and July 31, 1863, was united
in marriage with Mr. Belt. It was thought that the war was about over, but her
husband had to go back to the lines and was in several battles after that. He was in
the Western army and was honorably discharged after the close of the war. Mr. and
Mrs. Belt moved on to eighty acres of land in Sebastian County, Ark., given them by
Mr. Belt's father. He prospered while there, but suffering from the after effects of
the measles, which he contracted in the army, and which as a result of taking cold
settled in his eyes and on his lungs, came to California for his health during the seven
ties, accompanied by his family. They settled at Bakersfield where they were taken
with chills and fever, and from there went into the mountains near Tehachapi and
remained a year and a half. Recovering their health they came to Los Angeles County,
and later settled in the vicinity of Santa Ana, where Mr. Belt bought twenty acres of
raw land on the river. Mr. and Mrs. Belt became the parents of four sons, William,
Joseph, Henry and Jasper, and four daughters, Emma, Cora, Bertha and Maude; of the
eight children, five are living. She has one granddaughter, Fay L. Sutton.
Mrs. Belt is an interesting conversationalist; her reminiscences of early days, with
their halo of romance and adventure, is an ever interesting topic of conversation. She
has a large circle of friends by whom she is highly esteemed, and her comfortable home
is noted for its good cheer and hospitality. In her political sentiments she is a stanch
Republican, and a member of the Woman's Relief Corps, while Mr. Belt was a member
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
CHARLES LORENZ. — In the early period of Anaheim's history, Charles Lorenz,
now deceased, located in this now up-to-date city of Orange County, his advent being
on October 22, 1859, soon after the town site was first laid out. He was born in 1814,
in Crossen, Germany, but removed to Berlin while quite young. He learned the trade
of a machinist, and so thoroughly did he master the intricacies of that line of work
that he became an expert, and to him belongs the honor of having constructed the first
locomotive in that section of Germany.
In 1845 Mr. Lorenz was united in marriage with Louisa Schidler, the ceremony
being solemnized in Berlin. During the year 1850 he left Germany, intending to come
to California, but after being on the sailing vessel about six months decided to land in
South America, where he spent two and a half years in Valparaiso, Chile, and five and
a half years in Concepcion. While there they learned to speak Spanish and this helped
them after coming to California. His youngest daughter, now Mrs. Louisa E. Boege,
was born in Valparaiso in 1852; the eldest daughter, Mrs. Elmina C. Dorr, was born in
Berlin, Germany, in 1848. During the early part of 1859, Mr. Lorenz, accompanied by
his wife and two daughters, sailed from Chile for California, landing at San Francisco,
where they remained but a few months and, later stopped a short time at San Luis
Obispo. In October of the same year he arrived in Anaheim, coming from San Pedro
with a twelve-mule team, and he soon opened the first blacksmith shop in the new
town. In March, 1860, he purchased twenty acres on South Lemon Street, where he
planted a vineyard and made and sold wine. He helped organize the German Meth
odist Church and was an Odd Fellow. Later on Mr. Lorenz sold all but one acre of
his land, and here his two daughters now reside. He lived to the advanced age of
eighty-five, his death occurring in 1902, his wife having passed away in 1885.
His daughters, Mrs. Louis Dorr and Mrs. Henry A. Boege, are among the pioneer
citizens of Anaheim, having come here over sixty years ago. At that time the country
between Anaheim and San Juan Capistrano was a wilderness, as was the territory
between here and Los Angeles.
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young man to reside in 'England and afterwards went to Australia. In 1862 he arrived
in Anaheim, where he was engaged as a bookkeeper; he also owned a vineyard and
made wine. Mr. and Mrs. Dorr were the parents of seven children, five of whom are
living: Louis, the oldest member of the family, is a forest ranger and resides near
Palmdale; Charles is a miner at Tonopah, Nev.; Agnes and Dorothy are living at Los
Angeles, where they conduct a cafeteria; and Arthur is a mining man and is in Mexico.
Mr. Dorr passed away in 1895. Mrs. Dorr lived iri San Francisco and in Los
Angeles for about fifteen years, then came back to Anaheim and has lived here ever
since and has been a witness of the wonderful growth and development of the county.
HENRY A. BOEGE was united in marriage in 1871 with Louisa Emilie Lorenz,
the youngest daughter of Charles Lorenz, the ceremony being performed at the
Lutheran Church, Anaheim. He was a native of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and
came to Anaheim when nineteen years of age. He opened a butcher shop and also did
teaming and freighting. At one time he owned a vineyard west of Anaheim. Later on
he superintended the ranch of his father-in-law and at one time was engaged tin street
work for the city of Anaheim. His death occurred in 1893. He was a member of
the Odd Fellows Lodge.
JOSEPH P. desGRANGES. — Numbered among the oldest settlers of what is now
Orange County and one of the few remaining pioneers of Fullerton, who has become
a leader in horticultural circles and is regarded as an authority on the early history
of Orange County, is Joseph P. des Granges, the rancher of East Chapman Avenue,
Fullerton, whose philanthropic sympathies and patriotic sentiments have made him
popular among all know him. He was born at St. Louis, Mo., on June 8, 1858, and
with a brother came to Anaheim on May 1, 1873. Los Angeles was very primitive at
that time, the United States Hotel being one of the very few brick buildings in the city.
The des Granges family are of old French-Huguenot stock. Early members of the
family who, as the name indicates, were landowners of France, were obliged to flee for
their lives from their native land at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
They first found refuge in Switzerland, but later settled in Prussia, where the family
thrived in their new surroundings? Otto des Granges, the father of our subject, was
a university man and a civil engineer by profession. Locating at St. Louis, Mo., he
became extensively interested in manufacturing, establishing an iron manufacturing
plant. His wife was in maidenhood Miss Josephine Harff.
As early-as 1871 Otto des Granges came to San Francisco, soon afterwards coming
down to what is now Fullerton, then in Los Angeles County. Here he purchased eighty
acres of raw land, and with the help of his son improved it and brougtit it to a high
state of cultivation, and here the parents resided until their demise, the father at the
age of ninety, the mother surviving until 1914, when she passed" away at the age of
eighty-six. Of their family of four children, Joseph was the third in order of birth, and
he was fortunate in receiving a good schooling during the residence of the , family in
St. Louis, Mo., before their migration to California.
Joseph was only fourteen years of age when he began to assist his father in the
development of their California ranch, and very naturally he learned a good deal for a
boy of his age. The land was in its primitive state, covered with sunflowers and
mustard of an unusual height, and they truly found here in the West a wild, open
country, with plenty of elbow room. They raised barley and other grains, and later
established a system of irrigation. That the best obtainable in irrigating facilities were
eventually theirs may be inferred when it is known that Joseph des Granges was
instrumental in having Anaheim equipped with the modern electric light system when
Los Angeles was the only other city in this locality so favored. The first light plant
which he constructed was a great success, and this was followed by others. Mr. des
Granges also built and established a grist mill at Anaheim, in fact, he conducted a feed
mill and store there for about ten years, and thus early played an important part in the
mercantile world.
Having continued his ranching ventures, Mr. des Granges owns at present twenty
acres of the original tract, set out to Valencia oranges and walnuts, and he markets
his oranges through the Placentia Orange Growers Association. This year he also
picked some four and a half tons of the finest Japanese persimmons in the county
from young trees just coming into bearing, He exhibited them at the University of
California Fruit Exhibition and received the second prize!
On March 23, 1904, Mr." des Granges was married "to Miss Genevra Estabrooks,
the daughter of George Melvin and Eliza B. (Paige) Estabrooks, born in New Bruns
wick and Maine, respectively. The father was an expert millwright in the construction
of water-power mills, and he removed to Stillwater, Minn., where he followed his trade;
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was the youngest; after her graduation from the Stillwater high school she engaged in
teaching in the public schools, as well as teaching music. In 1900 she came to Fullerton,
where she has since made her home. A cultured and refined woman, she presides grace
fully over her husband's home, where they entertain their many friends and dispense
a true, old-time California hospitality. One child has blessed this union, Josephine,
who attends the Fullerton high school. By a former marriage, Mr. des Granges has a
son, Harry E., who has a battery and ignition works at Los Gatos.
Mr. des Granges has seen many changes since coming to this region in 1873. In
fact the most optimistic resident of those days could not have conceived the wonderful
transformation that has taken place, with the increase in land values from fifteen and
twenty dollars an acre to $5,000 to $6,000. It is to men like Mr. des Granges, who
were not afraid to venture and work, that Orange County owes much of its present
development and greatness, so in this section he is indeed a pioneer of pioneers.
CHARLES O. RUST. — A "captain of industry" who contributed something
definite and important to the development of the commercial interests of Southern
California, is the late Charles O. Rust, who was vice-president of the Wickersheim Im
plement Company of Fullerton, who resided on his ranch at 619 North Palm Street,
Anaheim. He was born at Crescent City, then in Mendocino, now in Del Norte County,
Cal., on November 26, 1858, the son of Carl F. Rust, who had married Miss Sophia
Horn, like himself a native of Germany. His father came to California in pioneer days
and located in that part of Mendocino County, where he busied himself transporting on
the backs of burros those supplies so much needed by miners, and which had to be
brought from Crescent City. Later he was in the general merchandise business in
that town, and only in 1861 succeeded in getting south to locate in Anaheim. He was
one of the original colonists and purchased forty acres of land on North Palm Street,
where he had a vineyard set out and as soon as they began bearing he located on his
ranch in 1861, and began the making of wine from his vineyard, but he was not allowed
to long enjoy the fruits of his labors for in 1868 he passed to his eternal reward. He
was a tanner by trade, and had the repute of having established the first tannery in
Los Angeles, now Orange County, setting it up on his home ranch. He bought the
hides from the Spanish, had ten vats sunk into the ground, and from the neighboring
mountains brought the oak bark for tanning. Two children were born to this worthy
couple — one being Chas. O., our subject, and the other a daughter, now Mrs. A. S.
Browning, of Los Angeles, who was born on the old ranch at Anaheim.
Educated in the schools at Anaheim, the first teacher Charles had was Professor
Kuelp, although afterward he went to a school in Anaheim taught by the late J. M.
Guinn, the historian. He finished his studies in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and
in 1878 returned to the ranch at Anaheim. During his forty years' residence there he
made much of the best wine and brandy for which Orange County was noted. After
the grape disease killed the vines he set the ranch out to oranges and walnuts. The
greater part of the twenty acres is now in full-bearing Valencia oranges and walnuts,
all of which trees were planted by him. The mammoth sycamore trees on the place,
however, were set out by his father, and are today a beautiful memorial of the old
pioneer. Mr. Rust owned other valuable real estate in the county, including a fine
orange grove of twenty acres one mile west of Fullerton and he also owned valuable
property in Los Angeles. He helped to organize the Anaheim Citrus Fruit Associa
tion, and served on its board of directors. He was also a director in the Orange
Growers Exchange of Orange County and as stated above was vice-president of the
Wickersheim Implement Company.
When Mr. Rust married, he chose for his wife, Miss Kate Snedaker, a native of
Iowa, born near Guthrie Center. Her father was Samuel Blair Snedaker, who was born
near Great Bend, Pa., in 1811, descended from old Knickerbocker stock, the ancestors
having immigrated from Holland to New York in 1632, locating in what is now Flat-
bush, Brooklyn. Some of the ancestors on the Snedaker side were in the Colonial and
Revolutionary wars, while Samuel B. Snedaker's mother was a native of England. He
was reared on farms at Clyde and Lyons, N. Y. After his first wife died he removed
to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he became captain of a packet boat running on the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. In New Orleans he was married a second time,
being, united with Miss Ann Neary, who was born in the north of Ireland. He pros
pered and became a man of large affairs; among other property he owned a tobacco
plantation. Selling this and his other interests before the Civil War he moved to Iowa
and, became a pioneer farmer at Guthrie Center. Desirous to migrate still further west
in. 1862, he brought his family across the plains in a train of seven wagons. In spite of
the Indian troubles they reached California safely and he was for a time engaged in the
hotel business at San Andreas, Calaveras County. In 1865 his wife died, leaving four
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business until he retired, coming to Anaheim in 1881, where he spent his last days in
tne home of his daughter, Mrs. Rust, passing away in 1897. Mrs. Rust was the young
est child and received her education in San Francisco. After graduating from the
Rincon school she was engaged in teaching in Calaveras County for two years, until
1881, when she came to Anaheim with her father and sister and here she met and
married Mr. Rust. Their union was blessed with two children. Percy was educated
at Belmont Military Academy and is married to Ruth J. Hauser; they have two
children, Ruth Jacquelin and Chas. Warren. Elsa is a graduate of Marlborough School,
Los Angeles, and Columbia University, New York, receiving the degree of Bachelor of
Science degree from the latter institution.
The family are members of the Episcopal Church. For twenty years Mr. Rust
was a trustee of the town of Anaheim, and for most of the time served as mayor, or
chairman of the board and during his service marked the beginning of public improve
ment in Anaheim, which has resulted in making it the beautiful and modern city it is
today. He also served for many years on the school board; was a director of the
Anaheim Union Water Company; a member of the Board of Trade of Anaheim, and
also of the Mother Colony Club. He was a charter member of Anaheim Lodge No.
1345, B. P. O. Elks.. Politically he was a stanch Republican. He passed away in Oak
land, where he and Mrs. Rust had gone for the cool climate of summer, on October 7,
1920, mourned by his family and friends. In his death Orange County and Anaheim
lost one of its best citizens and upbuilders. Since his death Mrs. Rust resides at the
old home and aided by her children looks after the affairs left by her husband.
JOSEPH P. MOODY. — The ranch and residence of Joseph P. Moody are situated
one mile west and north of Cypress, in Orange County, Cal. Mr. Moody is one of the
well-known and highly respected stock and poultry men in his section, and has been
engaged in the poultry business since 1914. His thirty-one acre ranch is well tilled and
highly productive, and his poultry stock consists of about 700 single-comb White
Leghorns of the best laying strain. His poultry house, 118x20 feet, has a cement
floor and is up to date in every way; he pumps his water and grinds his feed by
electricity. Twenty-three acres of his ranch are in alfalfa and a good family orchard.
He has resided in Orange County and on his present ranch since 1896, and has been an
active and progressive rancher from the first, buying his land when it was in almost a
wholly unimproved state and bringing it up to its present state of productiveness.
Mr. Moody was born in Carthage, Ohio, November 20, 1848, and is the son ot
Henry and Nancy Moody, natives of Kentucky and Ohio, respectively. The father
crossed the' plains with ethers in the memoraftlfr yi_ar of '49, miking the journey over
land without serious mishap in about five months. In 1850 he returned to his family in
Ohio, and in 1852 made his second trip to California, this time by water via the Isthmus,
and accompanied by his wife and two children. When within one day of landing at
San Francisco his wife died and was buried at sea, June 5, 1852. He again engaged
in the occupation of mining, as he had done upon his previous visit to the state, and
continued the occupation several years. In course of time he married Mrs. Murphy,
by whom he had two children; Stephen H. and Mary, who is now Mrs. Brewster. He
died in 1894.
Joseph P. Moody was three and a half years old when his mother died at sea, and
he was reared by Mrs. Catherine Alderman of Grass Valley, Nevada County, Cal., a
most worthy woman. Because of surrounding conditions Joseph's early education was
somewhat neglected, nevertheless he acquired a practical training for business purposes,
and is a self-made man both from a business and educational standpoint. While his
younger life was spent in agricultural pursuits he did little manual labor, always taking
up some pursuit in which he had the oversight and direction of/ others. He engaged
extensively in the sheep-raising industry, having as many as 2,500 sheep in one flock,
and in ranching near Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County.
His marriage in Elmira, N. Y., in 1872, united his destiny with that of Miss Martha
McClary of that city, and of their union ten children were born, namely: Charles E.,
William H., Lottie J., Mary E., Arthur J., Joseph E., Grace J., Earl J., Harriet N. and
Clara M. Joseph E. is a minister in the Christian Church, and has been a successful
missionary in India for five years. Mrs. Moody died, aged forty-four in September, 1892,
and Mr. Moody again entered the state of matrimony in August 30, 1893, being united
with Miss Elizabeth Alderman. A daughter, Catherine G. by name, was born of this
union. Mrs. Moody is a native of Grass Valley, Cal. She was born on May 23, 1852,
and is the daughter of Samuel and Catherine Alderman, early California pioneers who
came to the state about the time that Mr. Moody came, and ran a dairy ranch in
Nevada County. Of the nine children in the Alderman paternal home, seven are
living. In their church associations Mr. Moody and his family are members of the
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RICHARD W. JONES. — Closely connected with the commercial, political, horti
cultural and humanitarian undertakings of Orange County for the past thirty-six years,
Richard W. Jones is one of the "old-timers" who has seen the wonderful transformation
of Southern California from a sparsely settled section to a district that is not equalled
by any in the entire state. A native of Wales, he was born at Carnavonshire, on October
30, 1854, the son of John and Mary Jones, both natives of that country and where the
last days of their lives were spent. Orphaned early in life, his mother dying when he
was but one year old and his father four years later, the lad was reared by his grand
parents until he was eleven, when he was thrown upon his own resources. He worked
upon farms in his native land until he was seventeen years of age, when he went to
Liverpool, and then, in 1878, decided to try his fortune in America. Arriving here he
went to Columbia County, Wis., and there followed farming for six years, coming to
California and to what is now Orange County in 1884. One year later he became a
foreman on the David Hewes ranch at El Modena and after he had demonstrated his
ability to look after such a large property and bring it to a high state of development,
he was made manager, remaining on the place for twenty years and having a great
deal to do with its early improvement and development as the years passed. He had the
entire confidence of Mr. Hewes, who approved his methods of planting, harvesting and
marketing the products of the great ranch. This ranch was once a sheep range of 800
acres, which Mr. Hewes bought in 1880 for from $20 to $30 per acre, and then set
about to make it one of the beauty spots of the state by spending thousands of dollars
on Hewes Park and in carrying on the most up-to-date methods of ranching. It is
conceded by those who know that Mr. Jones was the genius who perfected the plans
and superintended the work and gave the impetus to its popularity.
While employed by Mr. Hewes, Mr. Jones had bought a ranch of thirty acres in
El Modena precinct and begun its development; this land he added to until he now owns,
forty-six acres, thirty of which is fully improved and brings in handsome returns. On
his ranch he erected an attractive house, the green foliage of the foothills forming a
picturesque background for its white exterior, making a beautiful setting for the
residence. The land lies in a sheltered cove, in what is known as the "frostless belt,"
making it one of the best locations for a citrus grove in this section of the county.
Here, with the aid of his son, Marion E., he is carrying on horticultural pursuits that
bring in handsome yearly returns and enables him to enjoy life to its full.
On June 20, 1895, at McPherson, R. W. Jones was united in marriage with Miss
Clara J. McPherson, a member of a Scotch family tracing their lineage in America
back to the sixteenth century. Her father, William Gregg McPherson, migrated from
Illinois to California in 1859, crossing the plains with ox teams, and after his arrival
he engaged in mining near Downieville, meeting with more than ordinary success. He
then returned to Chicago and married his first wife, Miss Harriet Crowell, and four
children were born of that union: Edwin H., William Gregg, Clara J., Mrs. Jones, and
Frederick; Mrs. Jones now being the only survivor.
Returning to California Mr. McPherson lived at San Jose, and there his daughter
was born, and while there he found the- most profitable employment he could find was
teaching school. From San Jose he moved to Westminster in 1871, in order that his
growing family might have the advantages of school and church in the new Presby
terian colony. In 1873 he bought forty acres at McPherson, named in honor of the
colony of McPherson relatives, of whom there were over fifty at one time, and while
he was developing his property he employed his talents as a teacher and thus endeared
himself to many of the young men and women of the locality who received instruction
from him. During his residence at McPherson he was the magnet that drew many
emigrants from the East to California, and not a few settled here in Orange County.
He was a man of much public spirit, desirous of doing good in order that good might
be accomplished. He passed to his reward in 1908, deeply mourned by all who had
known him. Mrs. Jones' mother died in 1876.
A native daughter of the Golden State, Mrs. Jones is deeply interested in all move
ments for its upbuilding, is a woman of unusual attainments, and has been a true help
mate to her husband in the highest sense. She is one of the foremost women of the
county, has given freely of her time and talents to uplift work and humanitarian move
ments, and her influence and kindly deeds have been known far beyond the confines of
her home environment. She was a leader in club circles, and in church and charitable
enterprises is known throughout Orange County, and in fact the entire state of
California. She is president of Orange County Sunday School Association, and one of
the officers of the Los Angeles Presbyterial, and has been a delegate to the national
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Mr. and Mrs. Jones have been active in the many cooperative enterprises that have
had such a direct bearing on the rapid growth of this district, and have ever lent a
helping hand to every project designed to assist and enhance the public welfare. They
became the parents of two children, only one of whom, Marion^ E., reached maturity.
He is married to Elva May, and they reside upon the home ranch and assist in its
management. For thirteen years Mr. Jones served as a trustee of the Orange Union
High School; for twelve years he was a director in the John T. Carpenter Water
Company; and he is a director in the Orange County Mutual Insurance Company, the
National Bank of Orange, the McPherson Heights Citrus Association and the Orange
County Fruit Exchange. In political matters he is a Republican and believes in pro
gressive movements for the salvation of the country, for ours is an age of advancement
along every line of endeavor.
WILLIAM M. McFADDEN.— The name of William M. McFadden is worthy of
enrollment among the very early settlers of Orange County who foresaw its great
possibilities and put their shoulder to the wheel to develop the opportunities by which
they were surrounded. A pioneer of California who came hither by way of Panama,
and for twenty years an educator in its schools, he was one of that sturdy band of men
who pushed westward to aid in the development of our wonderful state and at the
same time to find greater opportunities for themselves than were to be had in the
more populous East; and in enduring the privations to be found in a newer civilization,
and each doing his bit to build up whatever portion of the state they cast their lot with,
these men have builded even better than they knew, and California today stands ready
with all praise for their unselfish strivings.
William M. McFadden was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., on February 19, 1842, and
was a graduate of the West Pittsburgh high school and the Curry Normal Institute,
as well as the Beaver Academy, at Beaver, Pa., and later, the commercial department
of Wellborn College at Louisville, Ky. During much of this time, he paid his own
tuition, with money which he had earned through teaching school, and this circum
stance alone affords a key to at least one side, and a very important one at that, of
his mental and moral make-up as a prospective pioneer and pathmaker.
In 1863, the young school teacher came to California, and for four and a half
years he taught in the Alameda County district schools. Then, in 1868, he came to
Southern California, and continued teaching in Los Angeles County, living for eleven
years at what was then called North Anaheim, now Placentia, while he kept school at
what was known as Upper Santa Ana. During a portion of that time he served as
superintendent of schools of Los Angeles County, where he was also a member of the
board of education for two years, the second year serving as president of the board;
and later he was president of the high school board of Fullerton, and superintendent
of construction of the first high school building in the county, erected in Fullerton.
In January, 1869, Mr. McFadden became interested in horticulture, and purchased
ninety-two acres from the Stearns Rancho Company, which he set out to oranges and
walnuts; later, as the trees began to bear, shipping yearly about twenty-three carloads
of oranges and two carloads of walnuts. He was one of the first to raise oranges and
walnuts here after the development of water, and was rather naturally one of the origi
nators of the Fullerton Walnut Growers Association, which in turn levied upon him
for its president for years. He was the second man to grow oranges in the Placentia
district, and one of five shippers who organized the Southern California Orange Ex
change. When he started his orange culture in the Placentia district, Mr. McFadden
secured oranges from Mexico, and the seeds of these were planted in seed beds and
watered from well water; the plants were then budded to Australian Navels and later
to Washington Navels.
Among other important development projects, Mr. McFadden was one of the
original promoters of the Anaheim Union Water Company, the other man associated
with him being R. H. Gilman, J. W. Shanklin, Wm. Crowthers, J. B. Pierce, P. Hansen,
and Henry Hetebrink. The building of this ditch was an important event in Mr. Mc-
Fadden's life-work, and has been a decided factor in the further development of the
county, for these pioneer irrigation projects laid the foundation for the present intensive
cultivation everywhere to be seen throughout the county. In this company Mr. Mc
Fadden served as president, and was also for years a director; and he was one of the
organizers, secretary and director of the Cajon Irrigation Company, later merged into
the Anaheim Union Water Company. He was intensely interested in every project that
had for its aim the development of the county; and as an enthusiastic advocate of
popular education, he built with his own money the first school house at Placentia, in
what was then called the El Cajon district, and served on the school board for years.
Mr. McFadden was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Kansas
City when Bryan was nominated, and he was also a member of the notification com-

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mittee — a reasonable honor, considering that he was one of the prime movers in organ
izing Orange County, as he became among its most philanthropic citizens.
At Alameda, in 1866, Mr. McFadden was married to Miss Sarah Jane Earl, who
had come to California via Panama when she was eighteen, and had already taught
school for two years. She had eight children, all but one of whom were born in the
Placentia district in Los Angeles County. Those still living are Carrie E., now Mrs.
Herbert A. Ford, Clarence, Thomas, Ralph and Robert. Will E. died in 1912, aged
thirty-nine, leaving a wife and a daughter. The others, a boy and a girl, died in 1875.
This relation of the birth of the children to Placentia district is of more interest when
it is recalled that it was Mrs. McFadden who gave it the name of Placentia, in which
district she came to be a charter member of the Placentia Round Table, the woman's
club. This organization erected the first woman's club house in all Orange County.
She was very active in all forward movements, and participated eagerly in whatever
contributed to the upbuilding of society as well as the building up of the nearby places;
and she lived to witness much of the wonderful development of Southern California.
She died on August 18, 1908, at Fullerton, six years after Mr. McFadden, on July 21 and
in the same town, had passed away, honored in particular by the Masons, whose
ancient fraternity he had joined. as a member of the San Francisco lodge, later demitting
to Anaheim Lodge; he instituted and was the first master of Fullerton Lodge. He
was also a member of the Chapter and Commandery in Santa Ana. Mrs. McFadden
was the first matron of the Eastern Star Chapter at Fullerton.
MRS. MARIE EUGENIA DAGUERRE.— The beautiful family life of France
perhaps find its fullest expression in that picturesque mountain district, known as the
Basses-Pyrenees, and in this wonderful, healthful climate the children are reared with
exceptional care, and especially is the highest standard of morals established, and thus
the honor of the family altar is kept sacred. Here in this corner of Sunny France, not
far from the border of Spain, was the birthplace of Mrs. Marie Eugenia Daguerre^ the
owner of a third interest in the great Moulton ranch at El Toro. Born at St. Pierre
de Yrube, near the famous old fortified city of Bayonne, Mrs. Daguerre before her
marriage was Maria Eugenia Duguet, her parents being Baptista and Elizabeth (Uris-
buru) Duguet, who were farmers for many years in that part of France. The fourth
of a family of six children, Mrs. Daguerre is the only one living and the only one to
come to America. She was educated in the convent at St. Pierre de Yrube, and in 1874
sailed from Havre with the Amestoy family, landing at New York. They continued on
to San Francisco and then to San Pedro by boat, reaching Los Angeles, June 24, 1874,
and located on a large ranch at Rosecranz, now Gardena. Here Mrs. Daguerre con
tinued to make her home with the Amestoys until her marriage, at the Amestoy resi
dence, to Jean Pierre Daguerre on October 7, 1886.
Mr. Daguerre was also a native of Basses-Pyrenees, Hasparren having been his
birthplace, and he came over on the same boat as Mrs. Daguerre, being eighteen years
of age at the time. Here he was employed with the Amestoys in the care of their
stock, so became thoroughly experienced in this work, continuing with them- for eight
years, when he resigned to begin stock raising on his own account. Making his way
to San Juan Capistrano he formed a partnership with Don Marco Forster as sheep
growers. After his marriage Mr. Daguerre and his wife went to El Toro, where he
continued actively in the sheep business for several years. After dissolving partnership
with Don Marco Forster, Mr. Daguerre formed a partnership with Mr. Lewis F.
Moulton on his extensive ranch of 22,000 acres, the business being conducted under the
name of Lewis- F. Moulton and Company. The partners met with phenomenal success,
and after the death of Mr. Daguerre on May 5, 1911, Mrs. Daguerre, who had been a
true helpmate in sharing the business responsibilities of her husband, continued in the
partnership, and still owns a. third interest in the ranch. The Moulton ranch is one
of the largest and most profitable in Southern California, and upwards of fifteen tenants
are engaged in raising beans, grain and hay on its extensive acreage. In addition the
Moulton Company is engaged in raising beef cattle on an immense scale, their herd of
high-grade Durhams being one of the finest in the county.
Mr. and Mrs. Daguerre were blessed with six children, the two younger of whom
passed away in infancy. Domingo Joseph, who after the death of his father assisted
Mr. Moulton and took an active part in the affairs of the company, was a well liked
and popular young man displaying splendid traits of character and much ability, when
his promising career was cut short by influenza, January 11, 1919, at the age of thirty-
one; the three daughters are Juanita, Grace and Josephine.
Mrs. Daguerre resides in her comfortable residence on the Moulton ranch with
her three loving daughters, who shower on her their affectionate care and devotion, and
assist her in the management of the large interests left by her husband, thus doing all
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land, Mrs. Daguerre has .never had cause to regret her choice in establishing a home in
this beautiful Southland, whose resources rival that of any other country. The family
take an active part in civic matters and are strong protectionists and Republicans.
They are liberal and enterprising and give their aid to all matters that have for their
aim the upbuilding of the county and the enhancing of the comfort and happiness of
its citizens. MRS. WYRAM L. KNOWLTON.— More than one romantic chapter in the his
tory of California is recalled by the records of Mrs. Wyram L. Knowlton and her
interesting family. She was born in Yorba, Los Angeles County, in 1859, the daughter
of Ramon H. and Concepcion (Bustamente) Aguilar, and was named Nicanora. Her
father was a native of Spain, born in 1801, and the son of Jose M. and Dolores (Villa-
viciencio) Aguilar, who left his native land when Ramon was a baby and settled on a
grant of land in Lower California. The father of Jose M. was tailor to the King of
Spain and he was given a large grant of land in Lower California for his fidelity, and
this was in turn handed down to his children at his death, Jose M. being given the
Guadalupe grant as his portion. The ancestors of the family were among those who
assisted the padres in founding the early missions and they later returned to Spain, but
eventually settled in Lower California, from which place members of the family mi
grated to California and helped to lay the foundation for our present commonwealth.
Jose M. Aguilar was a man of wealth, as it was counted in those days, and he spent
liberally of his means to uplift the native Indians, an ambition that was always upper
most in his soul. He died when Ramon H. was a small child.
Ramon Aguilar lived in Lower California until 1827, when he migrated to Cali
fornia and here he was married to a native daughter of the West, and by her had fifteen
children, all born in California, and nine of them grew to years of maturity. Those
still living are Mrs. Nicanora Knowlton, Mrs. T. A. Darling, Mrs. Edward Crowe,
R. F. Aguilar and Mrs. Herman Fesenfeldt.
Nicanora Aguilar was united in marriage in 1896, in Orange County, with Wyram
L. Knowlton, a native of Wisconsin, born at Castle Rock on December 4, 1853. He was
educated in Wisconsin and lived in Iowa for some years and migrated to California in
1889. He became the owner of considerable land in Orange County, which he sold off
from time to time, having improved it in the modern manner of the period, only retain
ing ten acres, the home place of the widow today. This couple had one daughter,
Laura, a graduate of the Anaheim high school and now the wife of Paul V. Domen-
guez. Mrs. Knowlton busies herself with the care and improvement of the ten acres
she owns, assisted in the operation of the place by her daughter. Mr. Knowlton was a
member of the Fraternal Brotherhood and was a liberal supporter of all movements
for the upbuilding of his adopted county, and was held in high esteem by all who had
the pleasure of knowing him. His widow and daughter are equally liberal and have a
wide circle of friends.
WYLLYS W. PERKINS. — An able, efficient man of business, who was never
known to be afraid of hard work, is Wyllys W. Perkins, the retired rancher, residing at
806 Spurgeon Avenue, Santa Ana, whose financial success began the day when he
formed a partnership with his brother, Charles H. Perkins, formerly a wholesaler in
New York state. He was born in Oconomowoc, Waukesha County, Wis., on May 23,
1860, the son of Charles H. Perkins, a native of Windsor, Conn., where he married Miss
Elizabeth Hinsdale. They came out to Wisconsin in the early forties, and while Mr.
Perkins farmed, he and his good wife also kept a general merchandise store at
Oconomowoc. Wyllys is the youngest of seven children in the family, and when five
years old was brought by his parents to the vicinity of Grand Rapids, Kent County,
Mich., where his folks went in for farming and the raising of fruit. He attended the
common schools of Kent County, and under the wholesome conditions even then
prevalent in Michigan, received an excellent preparation for the battle of life.
When fifteen years of age, Mr. Perkins left Michigan to join an older brother,
Clarence, at Burlington, Kan., and for two years he was with him on a stock farm at
Strawn. He worked on the ranch during the summers, and in winter time went to
school nearby. After two years of outdoor life, however, he returned to his home in
Michigan and entered the Commercial College at Grand Rapids, where he took a two
years' business course. On coming west again to Kansas, he went to work for a short
time for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad Company, when he again shifted, this
time to La Junta, Colo., at which place he was given a responsible post with the
Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. He had charge of coal bins until he found it
possible to make still another move — to California — when he fired a locomotive at
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At the end of a year he went to San Luis Obispo and was with the narrow-gauge
San Luis Obispo and Port Harford Railway, where he fired for six or eight months; and
then he went to Mojave and secured a position with the P. I. Railway, now a part of
the Santa Fe system. He was next promoted to be an engineer on a switch engine in
the Southern Pacific yards in Los Angeles, and switched for that company for eight
months. Later he became a locomotive engineer for the Los Angeles & Pacific Rail
way, and for a couple of years ran a passenger train from Los Angeles to Santa Monica.
After that he went to the Santa Fe Railroad and for seven years ran both passenger and
freight engines, mostly between Winslow and Williams, in Arizona, but also as far as
Albuquerque, N. M.
During this time, at Grand Rapids, in 1884, Mr. Perkins was married to Miss Clara
Lee of that city, and for a while he made his home at Winslow, although he started
housekeeping at Mojave. He first became fireman at the roundhouse, and ran a
general merchandise store in connection with his railroad work at Mojave. He fol
lowed railroading until 1894, when the great A. R. U. strike occurred, and he was
discharged for refusing to run the engine of a striker.
He then came to Orange County and spent six or seven months looking around, so
that he made no mistake when he finally settled at El Modena, where in 1895 he
purchased ten acres of unimproved land. His brother, Charles H. Perkins, now eighty
years old, and residing at 911 Spurgeon Avenue, Santa Ana, was then extensively
engaged as a dealer in wholesale fruits in New York, and bought California fruit and
honey; and while visiting California on business he came to El Modena to see his
brother and the ten-acre ranch, and there proposed a partnership to be known as the
Perkins Bros. They bought more land, and soon had 160 well-improved acres, in the
El Modena precinct. They also acquired a ranch at McFarland, in Kern County; but
they traded it for more land in Orange County.
For several years, also, Mr. Perkins was in the seed and nursery business, growing
rose bushes on a commercial scale; and later Perkins Bros, specialized first in flower
seeds, and then exclusively in rose bushes. They produced and shipped as high as
five or six car loads a year, and this enterprise proved decidedly profitable. In 1917
the firm dissolved, and since then Mr. Perkins has sold so much of what he once had
that he has left only two ranches, both in the El Modena district, the one of, thirty-one,
the other of ten acres, and has retired to live in Santa Ana. Mr. Perkins helped
organize, and is still a stockholder in the Villa Park Orchards Association.
Eight children blessed the union of Mr. Perkins and his wife. Elizabeth, the
eldest, lives at home; Frank died in Arizona when he was five years old; Winnifred
and Wyllys, W. Jr., are twins — Winifred is the wife of William Thomas, a mechanical
engineer, residing at Los Angeles, and Wyllys is married and lives, as a rancher and an
orange-grower, at McPherson. Dixie, a trained nurse with an enviable record for
service in France during the late war, keeps house for her father. Arthur and Archie
are also twins; the former is in the Agricultural College at Corvallis, Ore., and Archie
attends the high school at Santa Ana. And Clara is in the grammar school of the
same city. Mrs. Perkins died March 19, 1906, and he married a second wife, Miss
Fannie Parker, of Grinnell, Iowa, who also died — on December 10, 1919.
Mr. and Mrs. Perkins were active in building up the Community Church established
at Villa Park under the auspices of the Congregational denomination, and since his
removal to Santa Ana, he and his household have supported and attended the Congre
gational Church at Santa Ana. He is prominent in the Orange Lodge of Odd Fellows,
where he is a past grand, and with a frank, sincere, winning disposition, is influential
in many ways, and often in times of emergency, for good among his fellow-men.
ROBERT HENRY ENGLISH.— A native of Ireland, the years of whose young
manhood were spent in Canada, but whose residence in the United States covered a
period of more than forty-five years, is Robert Henry English, one of Orange County's
stanch pioneer citizens, who had a large part in the early development of this locality,
coming here, as he did, when the country was practically a wilderness. He was born
in County Carlow, Ireland, about twenty miles from Dublin, in 1850, the son of
Thomas and Esther (Agar) English. The father, who was a farmer, was born in the
same county, but was of English ancestry, the mother also being a native of Ireland.
In 1860 the family came to Canada, settling near Woodstock, Ontario, and there Thomas
English engaged in farming.
Robert H. English grew up on his father's farm, learning to help with the farm
work while he attended the public schools of the vicinity. Whem he reached the age
of sixteen he entered the employ of the firm of Oswald & Patterson, machinists and
foundrymen, at Woodstock. Being apt at mechanics he soon became an efficient
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the stationary engine in the plant of Oswald & Patterson the last year or two he was in
their employ. He remained a trusted employee of this firm for nearly eight years,
during which time he was united in marriage with Miss Matilda Meadows.
In 1873 Mr. English moved with his family to Platte County, Nebr., and was there
during the terrible "grasshopper years" of 1873-4-5, when these pests were so numerous
that they actually darkened the sun. Mr. English's crops were entirely eaten up and
it was then that his knowledge of machinery stood him to good advantage. He
purchased a steam thresher and began operating it, and was thus able to earn a living,
even in the face of the severe financial loss the failure of his crops had caused. He
was determined to seek a better country, however, so with his family he came to
California, reaching Los Angeles February 23, 1875. They soon came down to what
is now Orange County and Mr. English purchased land and began at once to make
improvements. Always with a decided penchant for doing things on a big scale, he
continued to buy land and at one time owned five different ranches, aggregating 388
acres. For several years he farmed 2,500 acres of land on the Bolsa Chico and the
mesa at Huntington Beach to barley- On much of the land purchased by Mr. English
reclamation work was necessary, and he spent much time and labor in bringing his
holdings up to a high state of cultivation.
While Mr. English's interests were largely in the field of agriculture, he also
engaged in other lines of work that have contributed to the development of the material
progress of Orange County. In 1886 he engaged with Grant Brothers as a sub
contractor and helped on the grading of the Santa Fe Railway as far south as the San
Joaquin Ranch, now the property of James Irvine. He also continued to operate steam
threshing outfits in Orange County from the time of his arrival here until 1912. In
that year he went to Santa Ana and for four years was street superintendent there;
during his incumbency the city of Santa Ana put in seventeen and a half miles of gravel
and oil streets and eleven and a half miles of macadamized streets.
Mr. and Mrs. English became the parents of five children: William H. resides in
Santa Ana; Susan M. is the widow of the late Frank J. Johnson and lives at Los
Angeles; Ida May is the wife of Duncan E. Sova of Los Angeles; Fred J. and John T.
are twins. The former is a prosperous ranchman in Bolsa precinct; he married Miss
Ida May Hickey of Perris, Cal., and they have one son — Frederick Gerald. John T.
married Miss May Jacobsen of Orange and they are the parents of two children —
Harold R. and Ella Marie. Mrs. Robert H. English passed away December 27, 1916,
and Mr. English survived her until October 6, 1920, when he died at the residence of his
son Fred. Mrs. English was a member of the Episcopal Church, as were the parents
of Mr. English, but he embraced the doctrine of the Baptists. In political matters he
was an independent, preferring always to consider the qualifications of the candidate
and the principles at stake, rather than adhering to strict party lines. Fraternally he
was a member of the Maccabees and the Fraternal Aid Association.
SAMUEL B. EVERETT.— For nearly half a century Samuel B. Everett has been
identified with the agricultural interests of Orange County, in the vicinity of West
minster, having located there December 1, 1875. He is a worthy descendant of an
honored New England family and is justly proud of being a grandson of Eleazer
Everett, the young patriot who served his country during the Revolutionary War.
Eleazer Everett was stationed at Boston Harbor, afterwards at Providence, R. I., and
when he received his honorable discharge from Captain Heath's company on April 8,
1778, after three distinct enlistments, he was but nineteen years of age- He was among
those that witnessed the death of the noted British spy, Major Andre, in 1780.
Samuel B. Everett was born in Francistown, N. H., November 10, 1840, the son
of Williard and Frances S. (Dodge) Everett. The family moved to what is now
Metamora, 111., in 1843, becoming pioneers of Woodford County, and there carved out
their future from the virgin soil. Both Mr. and Mrs. Everett were school teachers and
took such pride and pains in the careful and thorough instruction of their young son.
that he received a more liberal and extensive education than most young men of his
day. During the dark days of the Civil War, when the disruption of the Union, for
which his grandfather, Eleazer Everett, had fought, was threatened, the patriotic young
grandson determined that the Union must be preserved at all costs, and proved that
he was a worthy descendant of his illustrious grandfather by joining Company G,
Fourth Illinois Cavalry, serving for two years and ten months in the Western depart
ment of the army, during which time he was in many engagements with the enemy,
but escaping without a scratch.
On September 3, 1867, in Oberlin, Ohio, Samuel B. Everett was united in marriage
with Miss Clara Spees, a native of Ohio, and a teacher in Natchez, Miss., where they
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for twenty-two years; he married and became the father of three daughters and two
..ons, his death occurring in 1916 through an accident; Clara E. and Clarence B., twins.
both died in infancy. Mr. Everett lived in Livingston County, 111., about eighteen
months after his marriage, then removed to Fremont County, Iowa, and thence to Ida
County in that state, where Mrs. Everett passed away. In 1874 Mr. Everett returned
to Woodford County, 111., and there on September 13, his second marriage occurred,
when he was united with Miss Sarah Lamson. She was a native of New Hampshire,
born there on May 1, 1841, and in 1854 came to Metamora, 111., with her parents,
William and Sarah (Starrett) Lamson. The father, who was a glass worker in New
Hampshire, engaged in the brokerage business after coming to Illinois and there ac
cumulated a competency. He removed to California in 1877, and both he and his wife
passed away here.
Two children were born of Mr. Everett's second marriage, William and Justin, both
now deceased, named after their mother's brothers who served throughout the Civil
War. They resided in Iowa for a year after their marriage, coming to California in
1875, William Bradford Lamson, Mrs. Everett's brother, a four-year veteran of the
Civil War, having come to this state in 1873. They first located at Westminster, but in
1876 they went to live on a forty-acre ranch, where they followed general farming for
a number of years, during which time Mr. Everett was interested in the dairy business,
having at one time twenty-five head of dairy stock. After disposing of his ranch Mr.
Everett moved to his present place in 1884, an inheritance from his wife's father of
fifty acres, where he has continued general farming. They have sold off from time
to time until they have the original home place of five acres.
Mr. Everett is an honored member of Sedgwick Post, No. 17, G. A. R., while his
wife is a member of the Women's Relief Corps. In religious matters Mr. Everett is a
member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church and was the first elder of the church
at Garden Grove; Mrs. Everett is a Presbyterian.
LINN L. SHAW — The steady growth and the increased prosperity of Orange
County is directly the result of the early settlers in this locality, who have spent the
better part of their lives in developing its latent resources and in building up a com
munity which socially and economically ranks with any in the state and has during
the years attracted the better class of citizenry to help in the further advancement
of this ideal home community. Prominent among these pioneer citizens is Linn
L. Shaw, of the realty firm of Shaw & Russell, who for nearly thirty-five years has
been identified with the progress of Santa Ana.
Descending from sturdy New England stock, Linn L. Shaw was born at Mar-
shalltown, Iowa, July 29, 1866, his parents being Chancy and Mary (Morrison) Shaw,
both of whom were natives of Maine. Attending the grammar and high schools of
Marshalltown until the age of fourteen, Mr. Shaw left the schoolroom to learn the
printer's trade, apprenticing himself to a local paper in his home city- Continuing
there until he had become proficient in his chosen work, in 1883 he went to Plank-
ington, S- D., and later was at Mitchell and Sioux Falls, in that state, spending in
all about three years there. Returning to his Iowa home in 1886, he found quite a
number of its residents preparing to go to California, as that was the beginning
of the great boom periods of the Golden State. An opportunity offered to secure
free transportation to the coast by accompanying a shipment pf. fine horses of
several prominent citizens of Marshalltown who were removing here, and Mr. Shaw
at once availed himself of this chance.- Arriving at Los Angeles he worked for a
few weeks on the Los Angeles papers, but hearing of the new town of Santa Ana
he decided to try his fortune there, and locating there in December, 1886, he has
since made it his home. Clerking for a time in the music store of A. L. Pellegrin,
he was soon offered a position on the Pacific Weekly Blade. The next year, when the
Daily Blade was started by A. J. Waterhouse, who had been one of the founders of the
Weekly Blade, Mr. Shaw was made city editor of the daily paper, a position he held until
the dissolution of this journal in 1889.
Mr. Shaw's next connection with the printing business was as proprietor of a
printing plant, which he afterward disposed of, retaining the position of foreman
until 1893, when he purchased a half interest in the Orange County Herald, conducting
this as a daily and weekly until 1903, with E. S. Wallace as a partner. In the mean
time, in August, 1902, Mr. Shaw was appointed postmaster of Santa Ana, and the
increasing duties of this office was one of the prime reasons for the disposal of the
Herald, which was absorbed by the Blade. Conscientious and efficient in the discharge
of this important office, Mr. Shaw served as postmaster until 1913, directing the postal
affairs of the district with judicious economy, yet keeping the service up to a high
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In 1917 Mr. Shaw formed a partnership with Roy Russell in the real estate
business, and this firm has taken a prominent place among the realty dealers of. this
vicinity, dealing in high-grade properties and handling a large volume of business.
Mr. Shaw's long residence here and his consequent familiarity and thorough under
standing of soils and land values of Orange County, combined with his enviable
reputation for square dealing, give him a deserved prestige in the realty world.
On February 5, 1889, Mr. Shaw was married to Miss Hope E. Grouard, the
daughter of Benjamin F. and Dr. Louisa (Hardy) Grouard, pioneer residents of Santa
Ana, whose decease occurred many years ago. Four children were born to Mr. and
Mrs. Shaw: Faith, Ted, Marjorie and Carol.
A stanch Republican, Mr. Shaw has always been deeply interested in politics,
and a familiar figure, not only in local affairs, but political councils of the state, at
one time holding the office of vice-president of the State League of Republican Clubs.
A leader in fraternal circles, Mr. Shaw has twice been master of the Santa Ana
Lodge of Masons, a charter member of the Elks, the first council commander of the
Woodmen of the World and a member of the Maccabees.
PATRICIO YRIARTE. — For many years one of the largest sheep raisers in
Orange County, Patricio Yriarte, spent the later years of his life on his large ranch in
the vicinity of Brea. Born in Spain, in the Pyrenees region, on March 17, 1861, he
received- his education in the schools of his home neighborhood, remaining in his
native land until young manhood, when he decided to seek his fortune in America.
Reaching New Orleans April 2, 1885, Mr. Yriarte came across country to Los Angetes
later the same year.
Settling in what is now Orange County he became a sheep raiser and for a number
of years he ran large bands, grazing them on the land that is now Yorba, Yorba Linda
and the San Joaquin ranch. As the country began to be more thickly settled and the
grazing area reduced, Mr. Yriarte decided to give up this business in 1897. He then
leased land in the neighborhood of the present home and farmed it to hay and grain.
In 1905 he purchased his ranch of 160 acres southeast of Brea; here he conducted exten
sive ranching operations, raising corn, grain, hay and domestic- stock. Besides his own
holdings he also rented large acreages, at one time, ha-v'e" 1,200 acres under cultivation.
He took up his permanent residence on his Brea ranch in 1905: and here he resided
for the remainder of his life.
On May 6, 1883, Mr. Yriarte was married to Miss Pascuala Arrese, who like
himself was a native of Spain, born May 19, 1861, and reared in the. same locality, arid
receiving her education there before her migration to America. Mr. and Mrs. Yriarte
were the parents of five children: Felix, who is with the Union Oil Company at
Brea, married Cele'stina Lorea, who was also born in Spain and who came' to America
and made her home on the Yriarte ranch until her marriage; they are the parents of
four children — Mary, Jose, Pauline and Margaret; Agustin is the manager of the
Yriarte estate and makes his home on the ranch; his wife is Lorenza Lorea, who made
the trip alone from her native Spain, arriving here December 18, 1909, and making her
home on the Yriarte ranch until her marriage to Agustin on October 4, 1916; three
children have come to bless their home: Julian, who is with the Standard Oil' Company
at Whittier, married Miss Inez Dolly, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dolly of Whit
tier; Ysabel resides on the home ranch with her brother Agustin; Mary makes her home
with her brother Felix at Brea. Agustin and Julian Yriarte are members of the B. P.
O. Elks, the former at Anaheim and the latter at Whittier and of the Knights of
Pythias at Brea.
In 1904 Mr. and Mrs. Patricio Yriarte, with four of their children, made an .ex
tended trip abroad, visiting their old home in the Pyrenees of Spain and spending ten
months on the trip. On returning home they took up their residence, on their ranch
and here Mrs. Yriarte passed away on March 17, 1915, on her husband's fifty-fourth
birthday, the death of Mr. Yriarte occurring but a few weeks later, on April 19, 1915.
In 1910 Mr. Yriarte erected the Yriarte Building in Anaheim, on Center Street, next
to the Valencia Hotel. On November 24, 1905, Mr. Yriarte became-an American citizen,
having received his final papers that year. .During his many years of residence in
Orange County he was loyal to all movements that had for their aim the betterment of
conditions in general and-the advancement of moral and social conditions.
After the death of Mr. Yriarte the 160-acre ranch was apportioned equally among
the children, but it is still known as the Yriarte ranch, being left in one body of land.
Sixty acres of the ranch, owned by the sons, is now devoted to citrus fruit, having been
set out by Julian and Agustin Yriarte. The whole acreage is kept up to a high state
of productivity and is one of the valuable properties of the Brea district.

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WALTER M. PARKER. — Prominent among those whose memory will long be
kept green, both by those who knew him personally, and could themselves appreciate
his rare worth, and also by those who are always ready to honor the pioneer and path
breaker to whom posterity is necessarily indebted for many blessings, was the late
Walter M. Parker, a native of Stockton, N. Y., where he was born on May 7, 1844,
His father, Leonard Parker, also now deceased, was a native of Hamburg, Erie County,
N. Y., where he first saw the light on March 1, 1818. He married Catherine Kennedy,
who was born in Montgomery County, N. Y., on October 22, 1820. Leonard Parker
passed away on April 3, 1902, and his wife died twelve years before, on the fifteenth of
October. They were married at Stockton, N. Y., on September 16, 1838, and came
with their family to Anaheim in 1871, Mr. Parker taking up the work of a vineyardist.
Still later he cultivated oranges, owning a sixty-acre ranch; whereas they had raised
cattle and sheep in earlier days. They had ten children.
Walter Parker went to the public schools, and when he was old enough, became
a veterinary surgeon. After coming to Orange County, he set up a regular practice,
and in that scientifically interesting and humane field continued for many years,
accomplishing no end of good in the relief of the dumb animal, and getting to be
very well known beyond the confines even of the county. He also owned a fruit
ranch of forty acres, made raisins, and built the first raisin drier in Orange County.
He was best known, however, as a veterinary surgeon. Later he located at Iowa
Park, Tex., where he engaged in the rasing of cattle; and there he died on May
14, 1908. He had been in the Civil War as a member of the Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry,
and at Richland, now Orange, then in Los Angeles County, on June 28, 1873, he
was married to Miss Barbara Kraemer, a native of St. Claire County, 111., and the
daughter of Daniel Kraemer. She has always been the center of a circle of devoted,
admiring friends, and is as popular today with her stories of experience with the
Indians, who were friendly, in the early days of Anaheim. One daughter, Miss
Elenora A. Parker, is a teacher in the Anaheim public schools.
ELIJAH P. JUSTICE.— A pioneer not alone of Orange County, but of the state
of California, Elijah P. Justice, one of the county's most honored old settlers, is
now living retired with his excellent wife, who has proved such a capable and courage
ous helpmate, on the Justice ranch near Westminster. Despite the fact that he has
reached his eighty-second birthday, Mr. Justice possesses a truly remrakable memory
and can recall names, dates and incidents, and describe with graphic detail the perilous
happenings of his journey across the plains. A native of the Hoosier State, Mr.
Justice was born in Pulaski County, Ind., November 10, 1838, and there he spent
the days of his early boyhood. In 1853, when a lad of fifteen, he went to Texas with
his father, remaining there for four years, then starting across the plains with ox
teams for California. At that time there were many warring bands of Indians scat
tered over the plains, and time and again they were set upon by these marauders.
They lost practically all of their cattle and barely escaped with their lives. In addi
tion they encountered innumerable other hardships, and it was with a great sense ot
thankfulness that they finally reached the settlement at San Bernardino. Later Mr.
Justice became a freighter, and for these rough and hardy plainsmen even the Redskins
had respect, for the freighters feared nothing and took no chances in being surprised
by the Indians. Mr. Justice recalls vividly how at a certain place in Arizona a
number of freighters encountered a band of hostile Redskins, and the battle that
followed was a victory for the freighters, who counted seventy-two braves killed by
their bullets.
A native daughter of California, Mrs. Justice, too, has passed through many
of the strenuous experiences that were typical of the pioneer days of the state. She
was before her marriage to Mr. Justice Miss Martha Adeline Cotman, and she was
born November 24, 1853, in San Diego County, near the San Luis Rey Mission. Her
parents were John and Mary (Bohna) Cotman, natives, respectively, of Louisiana
and Arkansas. Mr. Cotman came to the state in 1852, later meeting an accidental
death. Mrs. Justice was the eldest of the Cotman children, and her mother's second
marriage, which did not prove a happy one, made her childhood full of hardship,
and she had very few opportunities for education or other advantages. She made
the acquaintance of Mr. Justice at Azusa and was married to him on September 26,
1869, when she was not yet sixteen years old. Throughout all the years of their early
struggles, when there were many hardships and days of toil, she has ever been ready
to aid and encourage, and much of the prosperity that they have attained is due.
to her wise habits of thrift and conservation. Generous and hospitable, she has
rounded out more than a half century of wedded life, and is much beloved by a large
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Mrs Justice: Clara is the wife of P. L. Glines of Covina, and is the mother of four
children; Martha is the wife of George Yost, a raisin grower near Fresno, and has
three boys; Laura is the wife of Roy Richards, an employee of the Salt Lake Rail
road; they have two children and reside at Long Beach; Oliver P. married Miss
Lulu Fisher and is a freighter and farmer at Merced; they lost their only child
through an accident; Leona died at the age of eighteen months; Wiley Wells is
employed on the Irvine ranch; Jesse A. was killed in an automobile accident Janu
ary 1, 1918; Roy C. is employed on the Emery ranch as an engineer and machinist;
Rhoda V. is the wife of George Taylor, a machinist; they have four children, and
reside at Huntington Beach; the youngest is Benjamin Franklin. Mr. and Mrs.
Justice have one great-grandchild.
After reaching San Bernardino at the end of his journey across the plains,
Mr. Justice remained there for about two years, locating in the vicinity of Azusa
in the fall of 1859. The outlook there was far from encouraging, as the plain was
covered with cactus and sage brush, but Mr. Justice obtained title to a tract of land
there and started in to cultivate it, but his water rights were illegally cut off. Being
unable to get the matter adjusted satisfactorily, he deemed it best to dispose of the
land, and he removed to El Monte, renting land there which he devoted to stock
raising and general farming for four years. In 1882 he disposed of everything but
his cattle, which he drove to what is now Orange County, locating in the vicinity
of Westminster, and here he has since made his home. There were very few settlers
here at that early day, the place being almost a wilderness, but with true wisdom
and foresight Mr. Justice perceived that the soil could be made to yield abundantly if
given the proper cultivation. His first purchase was a tract of forty acres, at that
time covered with tules and willows, for which he paid only twenty dollars an acre,
the same land now being valued at more than $500 an acre. At the time he bought
the land it was so wet that he lost many of his cattle, the ground being too soft to
bear the weight of the animals. It took much hard labor to drain this land and bring
it under cultivation, but Mr. Justice's judgment has been amply rewarded in the years
of abundant returns he has received. It is to men and women of the stamp of Mr.
and Mrs. Justice that Orange County owes a great debt for the transformation that
has come about through their faith in its possibilities and the willingness to work
to bring about these results.
RALPH A. PATTERSON, FRANK E. PATTERSON.— For the past forty years
partners in the ranching business, and later as house movers, Ralph A. and Frank
E. Patterson have for fifteen years lived on their well-kept ranch of thirty-five acres
one mile east of Bolsa, and four miles west of Santa Ana. Of sturdy Eastern lineage
on both sides, their parents were William A. Patterson, a native of Newark, N. J.,
and Sarah Jane Crowell, whose forbears were among the old families of New Hamp
shire. The town of Paterson, N. J., was named for William A. Patterson's grand
father, who was a silk manufacturer there, there being a slight change in the spelling
of the family name. William A. Patterson came to Ogle County, 111., when a young
man,, and engaged in farming, and there he met and married Miss Sarah Jane Crowell,
whose parents had moved there from New Hampshire. During the Civil War, he
enlisted in the Thirty-ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry and served with distinction in
the Union Army. At the Battle of Gettysburg the great siege gun, "Monitor," exploded,
and a piece of the gun struck him in the left leg and he was crippled for life.
After the war was over, Mr. Patterson and his family moved to Nodaway County,
Mo., and there carried on farming, specializing in the raising of broom corn and
the manufacture of brooms, in which they made a good success. As is well known,
certain localities in Missouri continued even for several years after the war to be
divided in sentiment and allegiance to the Union. The Patterson boys were often
singled out as the subjects for derision and revenge, and the Copperheads would seek
to plague them by calling them "Yanks," which the Patterson boys usually ignored,
but when the term began to be prefaced by opprobrious epithets, they decided that it
was time for a battle royal, and it is related that the Patterson boys never came out
second best in one of these encounters, and, incidentally, the whole locality began
to have a wholesome respect for "Yankee" principles, as inculcated by the massive
fists of the Patterson boys. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. William A.
Patterson in Ogle County, 111., and two in Nodaway County, Mo.: Charles, a light
house keeper in Oregon, died July 18, 1919, at the age of sixty-three, leaving four
children; Frank E., born March 21, 1859, is a partner of R. A. Patterson; Ralph Aus
tin, of this review, born September 1, 1861. Watts Turner died at Bolsa, where he
was a rancher, leaving a widow and two stepchildren; William H. M. died at Santa
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The Patterson family came to California from Nodaway County, Mo., in 1881,
and settled at Westminster. Ralph A. soon began ranching' on his own account, locat
ing at Carlsbad, in San Diego County, where he was extensively engaged in grain
farming for twenty years. He then sold his holdings there, consisting of 480 acres,
and came back to Bolsa precinct and bought his present place of thirty-five acres,
which he and his brother Frank have farmed ever since. They have put down a
ten-inch well, 214 feet deep, and have installed a pumping plant with an eight-
horsepower engine, which furnishes fifty inches of water for irrigation and domestic
purposes, also another four-inch well, pumped by a windmill. A comfortable resi
dence and barns have been erected, and a house moving shop, this having been a
side line with them for a number of years, doing business in Orange County on the
west side of the river. The farm is largely devoted to garden truck, specializing in
sweet potatoes, melons and carrots. For twenty years he was employed at threshing
in Riverside, Orange, San Bernardino and San Diego counties, and gained a wide
acquaintance thereby.
Ralph A. Patterson was married first in 1888 to Miss Lydia Dumphy, who passed
away in 1890, her infant son, her mother and herself all dying within a few hours of
the grippe. Mr. Patterson's second marriage united him with Miss Mamie Payne of
San Diego; she died in 1901, at the birth of her second child, the infant also living
but a few hours. Her eldest child, George A., is a student at the Santa Ana high
school. Mr. Patterson's present wife, before her marriage was Miss Hallie M. Fill
more, and she is the daughter of William and Eliza Fillmore; she is the mother of
five children: Charles T., William E., Hattie Jane, Hazel, deceased, and Lloyd Fillmore.
Frank Patterson has never married, but makes his home with his brother, with whom
he has been associated in business for forty years. Both brothers are steadfast and
consistent Republicans.
MRS. ZORAIDA B. TRAVIS. — An estimable and exceedingly worthy represent
ative of one of Orange County's most distinguished families, herself a descendant of
aristocratic Catalonian Spanish ancestors, is Mrs. Zoraida B. Travis, a daughter of
Prudencio Yorba and a granddaughter of Bernardo Yorba. His father was Antonio
Yorba, a soldier under Commander Fages who landed at Monterey, lived for a while at
the Monterey Mission, visited Yerba Buena, and finally came south to the Santiago
Creek, and in time obtained title to the rich grant, "El Canon de San Antonia de Santa
Wa de los Yorbas."
Bernardo Yorba received a grant from the King of Spain embracing about 180,000
acres, extending from nearly the present site of Riverside west to the ocean. As early
as 1835 he located his home on the north side of the Santa Ana River in Santa Ana
Canyon, and there built his commodious residence, famous in those days for its liberal
hospitality. It was a very large adobe building, containing ninety rooms, and many
were the activities carried on beneath its widespread roof. The various members of
the Yorba family were highly intelligent and highly esteemed; the most celebrated for
her many charities and kindness was the great-grandmother, Josefa Yorba, a much-
loved woman, who in McGroarty's Mission Play was selected as one of the leading
characters. In 1887, the period when so much attention was directed to California and
its realty, the Supreme Court of the United States confirmed title to the Yorba lands,
Bernardo Yorba having passed away in 1858, while his devoted wife had passed to the
Great Beyond seven years before.
Prudencio Yorba was a son of Bernardo Yorba by his marriage to Felipa Domin-
guez. He was born at the old adobe homestead, June 11, 1832, where he grew up, and
from a boy learned how to farm and raise stock successfully. His schooling was
obtained at the school at San Pedro. He was married August 4, 1851, to Dolores
Ontiveros, who was born on the Coyote ranch in the La Habra Valley, August 4, 1833.
Her father, Juan P. Ontiveros, was a native son, born in what is now Orange County,
and he married Martina Ozuna, born in San Diego, who also came of a very old and
prominent family. They farmed here for many years until they removed to Santa
Maria, Santa Barbara County, where Mr. Ontiveros purchased the Tepesquet ranch and
there engaged in ranching until his death. An extensive and successful sheep raiser,
Prudencio Yorba became the owner of a large ranch in the vicinity of Yorba, where
he resided until his death on July 3, 1885, his widow surviving him until November 24,
1894, having devoted her life to her family.
Of the twelve children born to this worthy couple, eight are still living, among
whom Mrs. Zoraida Travis is one of the youngest. She was born on her father's farm
near Yorba and as a girl received an excellent education, attending St. Catherine's
Convent at San Bernardino, where she completed her studies. On October 20, 1898, she
was married to J. Coleman Travis, the ceremony occurring at her old home. Mr. Travis
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Mobile. Impelled to leave the South on account of the disastrous effects of the Civil
War, the Travis family came to California via the Isthmus of Panama, arriving in Los
Angeles on Washington's Birthday, 1869. His parents, Amos and Eliza Ann (Cole
man) Travis, were natives of Georgia and Alabama, respectively, and came of prominent
Southern families. For a time they resided in Los Angeles and engaged in orange
culture on Eighth Street, between San Pedro and Alameda streets. In 1871, however,
the family moved to Santa Ana, and a short distance north of the present site of Orange,
Amos Travis laid out the famous tract of about 800 acres.
For a number of years, J. Coleman Travis was superintendent of the plant of the
Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and in this capacity he played an important part
in the building up of the plant and in the construction of its canals and ditches. Mr.
Travis also became the owner of a ranch of sixty acres on Tustin Street, near Orange,
which they developed and set to oranges, going through the discouraging days when
the fruit was ruined by pests, before the experts were able to control them. While
living there their five children were born, four of whom are living, J. Coleman, Jr.,
Kate, Zoraida and Amos. Later Mr. Travis sold the greater part of this ranch and pur
chased the Esperanza ranch of 249 acres, a part of the old Prudencio Yorba place.
Mrs. Travis' father having named the ranch Esperanza for a daughter who had passed
away just before he moved onto this ranch from his old home. Then they located
at Santa Monica, where they resided until 1917, coming then to the Esperanza ranch.
Mr. Travis began developing this property, but was not permitted to carry out his
plans, for this estimable man died on June 19, 1919, his body being interred at Fair
haven Cemetery, Orange. He was a man of pleasing manner and very affable and
was endeared to every one, and particularly to his family, to whom he was a devoted
husband and a loving father. He was fond of outdoor sports and insisted on his family
enjoying many outings, and also on his children learning to swim and to be proficient
in other athletic sports. He was especially fond of hunting and fishing and was a
member of the Orange County Fox Hunting Club, excelling as a rider and marksman.
Mr. Travis was always very interested in the building up of Orange County. He was
a deputy assessor of this district when it was still Los Angeles County, and he took a
prominent part in the county division and the organization of Orange County in 1889.
It is to men of J. Coleman Travis' type that much of Orange County's present greatness
and development is due, because with other early settlers he gave generously of his
time and means to all objects that had for their aim the improvement of the county
and enhancing the comfort of the people; and thus those early pioneers paved the way
for the opportunities and pleasures of the present-day citizen.
Mrs. Travis continues to reside on the Esperanza ranch, looking after her affairs
and the training and education of her children. She has an abundance to do and her
time is well taken up, for she still owns the 344-acre ranch that she originally inherited
from her father's estate, a part of the old Bernardo Yorba ranch. So it is indeed for
tunate for herself and her family that she was endowed by nature with good judgment,
enabling her to manage and develop her property and enjoy her inheritance. A cul-
ture'd woman, with a taste and appreciation for the beautiful which finds expression
in her home, Mrs. Travis, in her graceful, charming manner, dispenses an old-time
California hospitality, and her ranch home continues to be a center for social gatherings
and family reunions.
GOTTFRIED KLOTH. — Among the many naturalized German-American citi
zens at Orange, Gottfried Kloth is worthy of special mention. He is a retired rancher
and cement worker who, in 1920, sold his interests to his son-in-law, Benjamin
F. Dierker, to retire from the more active duties of life. Mr. Kloth was born in
Stettin, Germany, December 15, 1850, a son of Christian Kloth, who owned a farm
of 300 acres in that country, and there married Fraulein Mana Dreyer, and they
were the parents of four children who grew to maturity. Christian Kloth was married
three times, and was the father of twenty-three children.
Gottfried Kloth is the oldest child by the second wife, and has one own brother
and two own sisters. He grew to maturity in his native land, received a good
education, and was confirmed in the German church. His marriage occurred in his
native land in 1873, and united him with Huldah Trettin, also born in Germany. He
was the owner of an eleven-acre farm, which he disposed of before coming to America
with his wife and four children. They sailed from Bremen on the Steamship "Sillare"
of the Hamburg American line, and landed at New York, in May, 1880, going at once
to Young America, Minn., the place of their destination. Here Mr. Kloth purchased
an eighty-acre farm, reaped two crops off of it, and came to California in 1882. Fred
Struck and the Borchards, of Orange, relatives of his wife, caused them to consider
Orange as a future home. Mr. Kloth worked at the cement business at Orange
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Modena Water Company, manufacturing cement pipe and cement ditches. He pur
chased a ten-acre ranch near Olive, operated it several years, then disposed of it, and
in 1910 bought the ten-acre place he sold in 1920. The oldest trees on the last place
are sixteen years old, and the youngest ones are seven years old. He planted all
the trees on the place except three acres, which were six years old when he bought
the place. Mr. and Mrs. Kloth's four children were all born in Germany: Emma became
the wife of Joe Derson, and they were ranchers at La Habra. She died in 1908 and
left a child, Leona, whom Mr. and Mrs. Kloth reared, and legally adopted, April 2,
1920. She was two years and two months old when her mother died, and is now
fourteen years of age. Lena is the wife of Henry Franzen of Riverside, a hardware
merchant, and they have three children; Rosella married Benjamin F. Dierker, a
rancher at Orange, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work; they have four
children, two boys and two girls; Herman is single and farmed the home place for
his father. .
Gottfried Kloth has helped build three Lutheran church edifices at Orange, the
last one erected at a cost of more than $42,000, and he advocates the cause of tem
perance and is a consistent Christian. He and his good wife have been hard
workers and deserve a rest after such arduous and useful lives. Much credit is due
Mr. Kloth for the success which he has won by a life of industry and integrity.
JAMES S. RICE. — Back to an enviable ancestral record, James S. Rice of Tustin.
one of Orange County's early citizens, can trace his lineage. Of English descent, the
first representative of the family settled in Massachusetts, and here Harvey Rice, the
father of James S., was born at Conway, on June 11, 1800. After his graduation from
Williams College, well-known as the alma mater of President Garfield, when a young
man of twenty-four, he decided to try his fortune at Cleveland, Ohio, then a little
frontier town of only 400 inhabitants. Reaching there without funds or friends, he
began his career there as a teacher, being one of the pioneers of that profession in that
vicinity. With true foresight he invested his first earnings in real estate, and when,
in later years, this land increased in value it made him a wealthy man. He took
up the practice of law and became one of the leading lights of his profession during
his long career. He was a leader among the public-spirited citizens of his day, and
several of Cleveland's most noted monuments were promoted through his influence,
among them the Perry monument and that of Geo. Moses Cleveland, the founder of
the city. His early work as a teacher always gave him an added interest in educa
tional matters, and he was ever at the forefront in every movement that made for
progress in those lines. He was the author of the original common-school law of
Ohio, a law that has been copied in many states. As a recognition of this service
and his many years of disinterested work on boards of education and boards of
charity, a life-size bronze statue of him was erected in Wade Park at Cleveland,
largely paid for by pennies from the school children of the state. In the early fifties
he represented his district in the state senate and made for himself a high place
among the legislators of that period. Educator, legislator, historian, he passed away
at the age of ninety-one years, full of honors. Mrs. Rice, who was Maria Fitch, a
daughter of Col. James Fitch of Putney, Vt., died in Cleveland, aged seventy-seven.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Rice were the parents of five children, and of these, James
S., the subject of this review, was next to the youngest. He was born at Cleveland,
Ohio, October 31, 1846, and was educated in the schools of Cleveland and at the
Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio. He completed the classical course and,
in accordance with his father's wishes, was looking forward to a legal career, but
decided to enter business instead. In company with an elder brother, already estab
lished in the house furnishing business, he remained a partner for eleven years, until
in 1874, in search of health and a warmer climate, he made a trip to California to
visit his brother-in-law, James Irvine, the original owner of the San Joaquin Rancho
in Orange County. He remained here for three months, and then returned to Cleve
land. He was so well pleased with what he saw of the Golden State, however, that
he decided to return, reaching here on January 18, 1877. He went into the stock busi
ness with James Irvine, raising cattle and hogs on the San Joaquin Rancho, but that
year was extremely dry and they had no feed for their stock, the sheep dying by the
thousand. He was then living at the old San Joaquin ranch house at the head of
Newport Bay, the first plastered house in Los Angeles County, remaining there six
months. He next purchased some land of Peter Potts at Tustin, and started an
orange grove, and later he bought a tract of fifty acres north of Tustin, part of
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grapes, from which he averaged $200 an acre for several years. During the boom of
1886-1887 in this vicinity, he sold quite a portion of his land, some of it at the rate
of $4,000- an acre. Land values, of course, receded after this abnormal inflation, and
Mr. Rice was compelled to take back some of it. He erected a fine three-story resi
dence on his property, and now has a twelve-acre orange grove that has been brought
up to the highest state of cultivation and productivity.
Mr. Rice's marriage, which occurred in Cleveland, Ohio, united him with Miss
Coralinn Barlow, the daughter of Gen. Merrill Barlow, an eminent lawyer of that
place, who was quartermaster general of Ohio during the Civil War period. A brother
of Mrs. Rice is Hon. Charles A. Barlow, of Bakersfield, who has been one of the
most prominent figures in the oil development of Kern County. Mrs. Rice was an
exceptionally talented woman, a singer of note, having had an excellent musical edu
cation, and her gracious hospitality made their home the social center of a large
coterie of friends, among them Madame Modjeska. She occupied an individual place
in the community, to which her death, in November, 1919, came as a distinct loss.
Mr. and Mrs. Rice were the parents of four children: James Willis, a rancher at Tus
tin, married Miss Rubel Martin, and they have two children; Merrill and Harvey are
both deceased; the youngest son, Percy F., is an inventor.
In politics Mr. Rice has always been a stanch adherent of the Democratic party
and prominent in the local affairs of the organization. He is now chairman of the
Democratic County Central Committee.
WILLIAM THOMAS BROWN.— An early pioneer in the commercial world of
Orange County, enjoying the distinction of having been the first president of the
Fullerton Chamber of Commerce, and a pioneer advocate of the most enthusiastic
sort of good roads, able to boast with pride that he actively participated in giving
Fullerton her fine thoroughfares, renowned as among the best in all the state, William
Thomas Brown, a native of Georgia, represents very ably the handsome contribution
made from time to time by the South toward the development of the Southland in
California. As president, and general manager of the Brown and Dauser Company, Mr.
Brown is not only a force in the lumber field, but influential at all times, and in the
right way and "most needed places.
He was born at Macon, Ga., on September 18, 1852, the son of Dr. William A.
Brown, a physician and surgeon who practiced for years in Georgia and first came to
California ten years after the arrival of our subject here. Dr. Brown married Miss
Salina J. Jenkins, a native, of North Carolina and she became the ' mother, of seven
children, among whom Wihiam Thoinas was the fourth oldest child. He was educated
in private schools in- Winchester,- Texas,- and for three years was in a drug store in that
state. Coming to California in 1873, Mr. Brown spent the first ten year's as agent and
operator for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and then for a 'year he wag
secretary of. the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company at Orarfge, In 1881 he pur
chased a ranch of twenty-one and a half acres on North Main Street, half-way between
Orange and Santa Ana, where lie spent a couple of years farming, and then he entered
the lufnber field, 'becoming interested in the Anaheim yard of the J. M. Griffith Lumber
Company. - He assumed' the managerrient, a position he filled with success for a period
of sixteen- years, and it is self-evident that he not only mastered the business there,
but also had inuch to do with" giving the development of the lumber business in general
in Orange County the right turn and- the needed impetus.
In 1899 Mr. Brown incorporated the Brown and Dauser Company and purchased
the T. S. Grimshaw' lumber yard in Fullerton, arid here he has since been in business.
In about 1904 he' purchased Mr. Dauser's interest and devotes all of his time to the
management ofthe business', being president and manager of the company. Tt is the
oldest yard 'in' Fullerton- and has a fine planirig mill; and it demands the services of
fifteen men. Besides the Fullerton yard, the Brown "and Dauser Company have two
other lumber yards— one "at La Habra, the other at Brea. As a live member of the
Fullerton Board of Trade', Mr. Brown inay: look" back upon the community in which
he has become a commanding figure with mingled feelings. When he was the first
agent for the Southern Pacific at Santa Ana, the station .was in an old caboose. The
next spring the new depot was completed and he was agent at Santa Ana from Decem
ber, 1877, until March, 1881.
When Fullerton began the agitation for good roads it required much effort asd
time to persuade many of the taxpayers that better and the best roads were the greatest
of assets and after the bonds were voted Mr. Brown was appointed a member of the
commission that had' charge of the construction, and that finally gave Fullerton pave
ments such as many larger municipalities do not boast of. He has always been a
Democrat in national political affairs, but a Democrat who willingly threw aside his
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in horticulture, for he not only owns his original ranch on North Main Street, but owns
two other ranches devoted to citrus culture.
On April 17, 1878, Mr. Brown was married at Wilmington, Cal., to Miss Isabella
Campbell, a daughter of William and Katherine Campbell. She was born at London,
Canada, where she was reared and educated, coming to California in 1875. She passed
away in 1893, leaving six children: Lottie M. is the wife of Dr. H. C. Stinchfield of
Los Angeles; Catherine B. is Mrs. C. L. McGill of La Habra; Mabel G. is Mrs. Butler,
also of La Habra; the second, fifth and sixth of the children are Albert W., W. Grant
and Helen Brown, the latter living at home. Mr. Brown was married a second time,
the ceremony taking place at Anaheim, on October 9, 1895, uniting him with Alice
Beaizley, a native of Australia, born at Sidney of English parents. Her mother died
when she was a little girl and she came to California in 1870 with her father, Rev.
Theophilus Beaizley, a minister in the Presbyterian Church.
Fraternally Mr. Brown was made a Mason in Wilmington Lodge, F. & A. M., in
1875, but is now a member of Fullerton Lodge No. 339, F. & A. M., and with his
wife is a member of the Order of Eastern Star. He is also a member of the Knights
of the Maccabees in Anaheim. Intensely interested in the growth and development
of Orange County, he has always been a member of. the local civic bodies and for
six years was the representative from Fullerton in the Associated Chambers of Com
merce of Orange County.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK, TUSTIN.— The history of the finance and the finan
cial institutions of a community are an index to its growth and development as a
whole, and the First National Bank of Tustin, Cal., has been conspicuously successful
since its establishment, February 5, 1912. Organized with a capital of $25,000, its
volume of business grew from its inception to a marked degree, and judicious man
agement increased its capital to $50,000, with deposits amounting to $286,887.96. W. C.
Crawford was the first president of the institution and C. J. Cranston its first cashier.
Its present officers are: C. E. Utt, president; John Dunstan, vice-president; C. A.
Vance, cashier; W. S. Leinberger, assistant cashier; directors: C. E. Utt, John Dunstan,
Sherman Stevens, V. V. Tubbs, I. L. Marchant, C. A. Miller and C. A. Vance.
C. A. Vance, cashier of the bank, has displayed his perfect knowledge of the
banking business in the creditable manner in which he has filled his important position.
He is a native of Kansas, and in 1912, having disposed of a bank in his native state,
removed to Chula Vista, Cal., where he organized the Chula Vista State Bank. He
sold this bank in August, 1916, and lanuary 1, 1917, located at Tustin.
William S. Leinberger, assistant cashier of the bank, is a native of Nebraska, and
was born in 1883. He is the son of L. F. and Kate Leinberger, natives of Pennsylvania
and Ohio, respectively. He was reared and educated in the public schools of his native
state, and in 1910, at the age of seventeen, migrated to California, first locating at
Alhambra, Cal., graduating from the business college there, later teaching bookkeeping
there for a year. He then was with the Alhambra Savings Bank until he took his
present position as assistant cashier in the Tustin First National Bank.
JOHN O. FORSTER. — Prominent among the ranchers, business man and polit
ical leaders of San Juan Capistrano must be mentioned John O. Forster, who was
born at Los Flores, San Diego County, on August 14, 1873, the son of Don Marco
Forster, who married Guadalupe Abila, a daughter of Don Juan Abila, once the owner
of the San Miguel Ranch. Don Marco's father was the famous John Forster, or Don
Juan, who was born in England, migrated to California during the Spanish regime,
and married Ysidora Pico, a sister of Pio Pico, the last governor of California under
:he Spanish regime. Don Marco was born in Los Angeles in 1839, and became one of
ihe largest landholders in Orange County, owning 15,000 acres of very choice hill, pas
ture and grain land. Before the Eastern settlers came, father and son carried on a very
extensive business in the raising of cattle, sheep and horses, allowed to roam over their
vast estate, and they had as many as 5,000 head of horses and five times that number of
head of cattle. Fences were then unknown, and cattle and horses ran wild. .Santa
Margarita Ranch, as the property was designated, included many thousands of acres
of rich land, and was one of the choicest and most productive of the old-time estates.
Pio Pico also owned a large estate near Capistrano, some of which, joined to a part
of the Forster property, made more than a handsome holding.
Don Marco Forster died in 1904, the father of six children, among whom John
O. was the third in the order of birth. The others were Marco H., Frank A.— a part
ner in various enterprises with our subject— George H., Ysidora, the wife of Cornelio
Echenique, and Lucana, later Mrs. Thomas McFadden of Fullerton. When Don Marco
passed away, John O. Forster was made an executor.
Romantic was the career of the founder of this virile family, Don Juan Forster,
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long-established and wealthy Spanish family, and so later came to control one of the
most noted principalities of pre-pioneer days; and equally romantic has been the history
of Don Juan's renowned ranch. The ranch really included three old Spanish grants,
the Santa Margarita, the Mission Viejo, at San Juan Capistrano, and the Trabuco, each
with its own romantic history. The two first-mentioned originally belonged to the
Picos; but in the forties John Forster, having captured the heart of Don Pico's sister,
secured the ranchos also. John Forster became esteemed and powerful as Don Juan;
and on his death left such a heritage that it would have required in the days of no
irrigation a small fortune to manage, and manage successfully. As it was, his heirs
assumed indebtedness to keep the property; and when much of it was heavily mort
gaged, it passed into the hands first of Charles Crocker, then of James Flood, and
finally of Richard O'Neill.
John O. Forster attended the public schools at San Juan Capistrano, and later
studied at St. Vincent and Santa Clara colleges. Then he went to work on his father's
ranch, caring for his cattle, and after that, for four years was proprietor of a general
merchandise store and was postmaster at San Juan Capistrano. In that old historic
town, too, he was married in 1900 to Miss Mae Marshall, a native of Virginia City,
then residing at Reno, Nev., a lady who has proven the most helpful of life-mates.
Mr. Forster has become the prime mover in the San Juan Capistrano Walnut Associa
tion, and he is also interested in the Capistrano Water Company. He belongs to the
Mission Church, and for eighteen years has been a member of the board of trustees
having charge of the grammar school. In 1901 he erected his comfortable home, amid
some seventy acres of walnuts.
Frank A. Forster, John's brother, who was born at Los Flores on December 7,
1871, is in partnership with John and other members of the family, the children of the
long-honored pioneers thus preserving a pleasant tradition of early days. With com
mon interests and generous sympathies, these thoroughly representative Californians
are able to accomplish enough to give new force to the old adage, "In union there is
strength," and to renew the assurance that property and wealth need not and ought
not to be a bone of contention, but rather a source of felicitation among near of kin.
HON. Z. B. WEST. — Orange County has never failed to appreciate the worthiest
of its judiciary, and distinguished among these who have deserved the highest esteem
and confidence may be mentioned Hon. Zephanian B. West, the efficient and popular
judge of Department One of the Superior Court, at Santa Ana. He was born in Wayne
County, 111., on March 1, 1852, and first came to the Golden State in the great "boom"
year for Southern California, in 1887. His father was Samuel West and he married
Miss Margaret A. Hoover. To this union there were born nine children, five boys and
four girls. They settled and did yeoman work in pioneering in Southern Illinois,
encountering every hardship incident to making a farm and a home in a new and
unsubdued wilderness country, such as that was at that time. They were very poor
and upon the subject of our sketch — he being the eldest of the children — the burden
of assisting in supporting the family fell very heavily, but ever mindful of his duty as
a faithful son, he manfully remained with his parents and shared their burdens and
hardships until he was twenty-one years of age; then launched out in pursuit of an
education for which he had longed and thirsted; and without aid from any one, even
to the extent of one cent, he pressed on and by self-denial, with indomitable energy,
optimistic courage and the greatest sacrifice, completed the education he so much
desired and began his professional career which has moved onward to higher and
more worthy attainments and to his present important and influential position.
Mr. West graduated in 1876 from the National Normal University of Lebanon,
Ohio, upon the completion of the full teacher's course prescribed by that splendid
institution with the degree of B.S., and three years later from the Central Normal
College of Danville, Indiana, with the degree of A.B. He then read law in Illinois
and was admitted to the bar, upon examination before the Supreme Court of that
state, in 1885. He was thus well grounded in legal subjects before he left his native
state to push out into the world.
Coming to California, he settled at Santa Ana and here opened a law office for
general practice; was city attorney for seven years, and conducted the legal proceed
ings by which the Santa Ana Water Works were installed — Santa Ana being the
second city to take such action under the municipal law as it then stood. He was
chairman of the Board of Education of Santa Ana for four years, and served five
years on the State Normal School Board, and was acting in that capacity when the
Normal School at San Diego was erected. He was also appointed by the Board of
Supervisors district attorney of Orange County, to fill a vacancy for two years, and
at the general election in 1902, when he had well established a wide reputation for
clear thinking and honest, fearless dealing, he was elected judge of the Superior Court
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for six years, and has since succeeded himself each consecutive six years; so when he
finishes his present term he will have served in that high office twenty-four years. In
addition to his undergraduate work, the real foundation laid for much of this public
service was Judge West's experience as an Eastern pedagogue. He was superintendent
of schools of the city of Fairfield, 111., for two years, and county school superintendent
of Wayne County, 111., for five years, and was engaged in school work altogether for
about fourteen years — a part of this time before he had graduated from college.
At Fairfield, 111., on May 20, 1885, Mr. West, who is of English and Scotch-Irish
descent, married Miss Elizabeth E. Wright, a daughter of Stephen and Emma Wright,
of English ancestry; and their fortunate union has been further blessed by the birth of
five children: Lulu A. West married R. Victor Langford, and Z. Bertrand West, Jr.,
married Miss Linna Yarnell. The other children are Marguerite E., Frank Gordon and
Edmund C. West. Judge West is a member of the First Baptist Church of Santa Ana,
and was superintendent of the Sunday school for almost twenty-eight years. He is
still a valued and influential member and also of the Men's Club of that Church.
The Judge is a stanch, broad-minded Republican, and has unbounded confidence
in the principles of that great party. He has been initiated into three branches of
Masonry, knows the mysteries of two branches of the Odd Fellowship, is a Maccabee
and a member of the Fraternal Brotherhood. This interesting career, so typical of
American progressive manhood, is of double appeal, for it reveals the many-sidedness
of the Judge and easily explains his broad sympathies and his ability — so widely appre
ciated by both the legal fraternity and the public in general — to enter into almost every
phase of social, business and political life, and so render justice far more surely than
would have been possible had he not run the gamut.
WILLIAM J. EDWARDS. — A resident of Orange County for more than forty-
six years, William J. Edwards has contributed a large share to the development of
the Westminster district, where he continues to make his home. Born in Derinda
Township, Jo Daviess County, 111., April 22, 1858, Mr. Edwards grew up there on
his father's 150-acre farm, attending the schools of the neighborhood. His parents
were Samson and Diana (Rogers) Edwards, of whom mention is made on another
page in this history.
Coming to California in 1874, John H. and William J. Edwards rented a tract
of 320 acres of land in the Westminster district, which they farmed in partnership,
going in on a large scale in raising grain, potatoes and live stock. After five years
the partnership was dissolved, William J. carrying on the ranching alone and meet
ing with great success, later renting 160 acres from his father, which he farmed for
sixteen years, then bought it. He had purchased his present place of forty acres in
1881, and gave it to his three older children, but in 1914 and 1915 bought it back. He
is also the owner of the original Edwards homestead of forty acres, which he purchased
in 1916. He also has owned and improved three other ranches in the Westminster
and Wintersburg precincts, and had 1,280 acres of land in Arizona, near Casa Grande,
also property at Seal Beach. In 1914 he erected his attractive bungalow on the Santa
Ana^Huntington Beach Boulevard, which he has named "The Tortoise Shell."
In 1878, William J. Edwards was married to Miss Ella Johnson of Garden
Grove, born in Solano County, the daughter of Irvin and Elizabeth Johnson, who
came there from Missouri. She passed away in 1891, leaving five children: Ernest
William, a rancher near Bishop, Inyo County, is married and has five children; Eliza
beth Lillian is the wife of Glenn L. Baker, a rancher in Tulare County, and she is the
mother of six children; Harry James resides in Hemet, and has two children; Frances
Henrietta is the wife of J. W. Stufflebeem, a rancher at Visalia, and they have one
child; Bessie Ellen is the wife of George Harris of Lemon Cove, and she has one
child by her first marriage with James Harvey. Mr. Edwards' second marriage,
which occurred in 1892, united him with Miss Nettie Kelley, born in Nebraska, the
daughter of John and Mary J. Kelley, both now deceased. Six children have been
born to them: Eugene J. is a rancher near Wintersburg and has one child; Cecil
Violet is the wife of Benjamin Craig of Phoenix, Ariz., and has two children; Sylvia
Juanita is the wife of Albert G. Kettler, a rancher of Buena Park; Ben Samson, Rufus
Henry and Nettie Adelaide are at home.
Of late years, Mr. Edwards has been interested in the citrus and walnut industry
and he now has twenty acres devoted to orchard, his Valencia grove now being four
years old. Although always a very busy man, with many business interests, he has
never allowed himself to become so absorbed in business cares as to forget that a
reasonable amount of recreation is a necessity in everyone's life. A number of years
ago he had a wagon fitted up especially for camping trips, with sleeping and cooking
facilities ingeniously arranged. With his family he has taken many camping trips in
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wards has had the wagon mounted on a Ford chassis so that it is now more of service
than ever, especially for long trips, and during the early part of the year 1920 he
drove it on a long camping trip in the mountains. Mr. Edwards is a member of
the Westminster Drainage District and of the Lima Bean Growers' Association of
Smeltzer. An independent, both in religious and political matters, he has lived a
consistent, upright life, following his own creed of justice and honesty in all his
dealings with his fellowmen. He helped to make the division of Orange from Los
Angeles County, and has lived here all those years.
HIRAM CLAY KELLOGG. — Perhaps no one does more to help in the develop
ment of a new country and particularly to benefit future generations than the efficient
civil engineer, and for this reason the name of H. Clay Kellogg of Santa Ana, is
indelibly associated with Orange County. His works will live as monuments after
he has passed hence. From the earliest days of the county up to the present time, and
not alone in this section is his work known, but throughout the state and beyond its
confines he has long been recognized as one of the most able men in his profession.
The favorite saying of the famous educator, Horace Mann, "We should be ashamed to
die until we have done something to help the world," is one of the favorite maxims
of H. Clay Kellogg. A native son of California, he was born near St. Helena, Napa
County, on Admission Day, September 9, 1855, the eldest son and child of Benjamin
Franklin and Mary Orilla (Lillie) Kellogg, both descendants of old New England
families who were among the pioneer settlers of Illinois. A sketch of the family is
given on another page of this history.
Even in his early years Mr. Kellogg manifested a decided inclination towards
the profession of civil engineer, and he was fortunate in being privileged to obtain the
necessary education and training to perfect himself in his chosen calling. In 1879 he
was graduated from Wilson College (now extinct) at Wilmington, Cal. During the
time he attended this institution, through the friendship of Captain Smith, the engineer
in charge of this section of the Coast Survey, Mr. Kellogg was fortunate in being
employed to work out the triangulations of the survey of the Wilmington and San
Pedro harbors and was furnished the necessary instruments for that purpose. After
completing his course in the college he did not -engage in his profession for about
four years as he had taken contracts to set out vineyards at Anaheim, Placentia and
Pasadena, this being the period when the grape industry was at its height in Southern
California. Mr. Kellogg's first important contract was the laying out of the town of Elsinore,
in Riverside County, in 1883. The following year he was made chief engineer of the
Anaheim Union Water Company, just organized, and ever since that date he has been
employed as engineer or consulting engineer for the company. He held a like position
with the Anaheim Irrigation system until the district was declared invalid. In 1885 he
was chosen to fill the office of deputy county surveyor of Los Angeles County. In
1888 he surveyed and built the railroad running from the center of San Bernardino,
through Colton to Riverside and operated it for eight months. This is now a part of
the Southern Pacific system. In 1886-87 he laid out South Riverside, now Corona,
remaining as engineer of its water system until 1900. In 1894 he was selected for the
important post of constructing engineer of the dam at Gila Bend, Ariz., where he
remained until the completion of the work.
Upon his return to Orange County, which section of the state has been his home
since the year 1869, he was elected county surveyor, serving until January, 1899, when
he was elected city engineer of Santa Ana. The work before him was the development
of the sewer system of the city, a task that he was most competent to undertake and
which he completed to the satisfaction of everyone. In 1900 he went to Honolulu,
where he was engaged as chief engineer by the Wahiawa Water Company, and built
two immense reservoirs by damming up both forks of the Kaukonahua River, running
each side of the Wahiawa Colony; he also constructed a canal from the mountains to
irrigate the colony and as an adjunct to the reservoirs, one of these having a capacity
of 2,500,000,000 gallons. The waters of these reservoirs irrigate the lands of the
Wahiawa Agricultural Company, being carried by a canal seven miles in length. In
1905 he was employed as consulting engineer to make a report on, and revise the plans.
of the Naunna dam above Honolulu and this dam has been constructed on his plans.
Upon the organization of the holding company for the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation
Company and the Anaheim Union Water Company, known as the Santa Ana River
Development Company, to look after the water supply and protect the water rights,
Mr. Kellogg was employed as engineer, and still holds that important post. His duties
are to measure the water each year from the source to the intake of the canals near
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which occur in the protection of their rights, and in this field he is recognized as an
authority and always called upon for expert testimony. In 1906, when the Newbert Pro
tection District was organized to control the water of the Santa Ana River from Santa
Ana to the ocean, a distance of ten and one-half miles, he was appointed engineer and
still holds that position. In 1910, after a period of twenty years, he returned to Corona,
arranged for and built the storm drains and sewer system for the city, two previous
attempts having failed.
Mr. Kellogg has constructed many miles of paving and built bridges in various
cities and counties in Southern California, and has built up a clientele second to none
of any other engineer in the state. With a decided talent for architecture, he designed
the attractive residence at 122 Orange Street, Santa Ana, which has been his home
for a number of years. During the year 1918-19 he constructed a beautiful mausoleum,
100x200, of concrete, marble and bronze, at Oakland, Cal., a credit to Mr. Kellogg as a
builder, and had he not chosen the profession of engineering, he doubtless could have
won fame and success in the architectural field.
Mr. Kellogg has been twice married; his first union was with Miss Victoria Schulz,
a native of Iowa. She passed away in 1891, leaving a daughter, Victoria Sibyl, who was
graduated from the Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles. She is the wife of
Ralph R. Michelsen, born in Los Angeles, a mechanic who works in steel, but with a
strong penchant for raising poultry. They have two bright children, Ralph Copeland
and Charlotte Augusta. Mr. and Mrs. Michelsen reside in Orange County. In 1895,
at Portland, Ore., Mr. Kellogg was married to Miss Helen V. Kellogg, a native of
Wisconsin, who spent her early life in North Dakota, and is a graduate of the high
and normal schools and of the State University of North Dakota, a talented lady
who presides over the family home and is an invaluable helpmate to her gifted husband.
This union has been blessed with four children — Helen, Hiram Clay, Jr., Leonard
Franklin and Oahu Rose.
In fraternal circles Mr. Kellogg is a Mason, having been made a member of
Santa Ana Lodge, No. 241, F. & A. M.; and he belongs to the Chapter; the Council,
where he has been illustrious master; the Commandery, in which he is a past eminent
commander, and is a member of the Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S-, in Los
Angeles. For years he was prominent in the Native Sons of the Golden West, serving
as president of the Invincible Parlor, and also held the office of deputy district grand
president for fourteen years, and is now among the oldest of the Native Sons of Cali
fornia. He has always been prominent in the affairs of the Technical Society of Civil
Engineers of the Pacific Coast. Notwithstanding the busy life he has led, H. Clay
Kellogg has never neglected his duties as a citizen of the county, but has given of his
time and means to further those projects that have had as their aim the betterment of
social and civic conditions and in all such work he has had the active cooperation of his
wife and they have a wide circle of friends wherever known.
JOHN H. EDWARDS.— Now living retired at Santa Ana, John H. Edwards
occupies a distinct place among the honored pioneer ranchers of Orange County, as
for close to half a century he has been identified with its progress, and through
his aggressiveness and energy liberally contributing to every enterprise, not only of
his own neighborhood, but of the whole country round about.
While the greater part of his life has been passed in California, Mr. Edwards
is a native of Wisconsin, and there he was born near Hazel Green on October 16,
1855. His parents were Samson and Diana (Rogers) Edwards, honored residents of
Orange County for many years, a sketch of their lives being found elsewhere in
this history. During the early boyhood of Mr. Edwards, his parents removed to Jo
Daviess County, 111., and there he remained until early manhood. Then, in 1874, he
came to California with his father, Samson Edwards, and located near Westminster
in Orange County, and there they rented a ranch, which they cultivated together until
John H. was twenty-one years of age. He then entered into a partnership with his
brother, William J. Edwards, and for a number of years they were engaged in ranch
ing, leasing land which they devoted to corn, barley, potatoes and live stock. They
also maintained a dairy and conducted a meat business, running wagons over a wide
scope of territory, and as they were energetic and progressive, they soon became
leaders in the agricultural development of the Westminster section.
In 1882 Mr. Edwards purchased a ranch of his own near Westminster, and
here he made his home until his removal to Santa Ana. His original purchase was a
tract of forty acres, and this he added to until he owned 270 acres of valuable land.
In connection with his ranching Mr. Edwards conducted a thriving butcher business
for a number of years. In 1907 he rented the land to his two eldest sons, who have
since given the ranch their careful attention, keeping it up to the same high state of
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Mr. Edwards was always keenly alive to the need for betterment of conditions in
his community, and to any measure that was of present or future value to the' county.
As one of the directors of the Smeltzer branch of the Home Telephone Company,
he was instrumental in fhe establishment of the telephone system connecting his
neighborhood with the larger centers of the country. He was also a director of the
Bolsa Tile Factory, whose products were a much-needed factor in the development
and improvement of large tracts of land in Orange County.
Mr. Edwards' marriage, which was solemnized at Los Angeles, united him with
Miss Julia A. Penhall, a native daughter" of California, whose father, Uriah Penhall,
was a pioneer of the Golden State, coming here in the early, days arid engaging in
mining. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Edwards: Reuben W., Lloyd
E., Daisy M., wife of O. J. Day of Westminster, Mildred N.«,and Glen W.
MONSIGNOR HENRY EUMMELEN.— If California the Golden, famed to the
wide, wide world; is noted for anything besides its matchless climate and all the advan
tages to health and human happiness arising from that priceless blessing, it is that
the great commonwealth is an empire .of favored homes, a place where one may find
peace and contentment, in an environment of uplift and hope, if one is disposed to be
contented, happy and prosperous anywhere. For this second blessing — an advanced
and assured state of society — Californians are indebted to various agencies long and
. strenuously at work; chief among which have been the untiring ministrations of the
scholarly and faithful clergy, working unselfishly year in and year out to make the
worjd a better place to live in, and California, perhaps, the choicest corner of all.
Eminent among these leaders of church work who have thus dedicated themselves
and all that they control or direct to the public good, and often to the good of a public
not always exactly in accord with them, may well be mentioned the Very' Reverend
Monsignor Henry Eummelen, distinguished, years ago as the youngest Morisignor
in the United States or Canada, and now a natural leader among the prelates of Santa
Aha, who was born in the city of Lutterade, province of Limburg, Holland, on De
cember" 8, 1862 — a day doubtless serenely quiet in staid old Netherlands, but a date
memorable for the beginning of General Grant's operations against Vicksburg, which
riveted anew the attention of the* "Old World ,on America. His father was John
Mathias Eummelen, who had married Miss Maria Elizabeth Demacker; and' being
God-fearing folk, and having noted the early aspiration of their first-born to conse
crate himself to the service of the Almighty, .they afforded him every opportunity to
prepare for the priesthood. "". For a .while he attended the Jesuit" College at Sittaerf,
Holland, but after four years, when he was just sixteen, he came -to this country with
his parents. At Teutopolis, 111., he resumed his studies, and remained for another four years
at the Franciscan College, and then, for a year, -he taught school. When he matricu
lated again, it was at the seminary at Mount Angel, Marion County, Ore., but since
the Benedictines were not prepared' to take secular students, he went to Vancouver,
Wash., on the application of -Bishop Junger, and taught .at the college there for two
semesters. He then went to New Westfninster, B. C, where he joined Bishop Durieju
in missionary work among the nine different tribes of Indians.
Impelled by the desire to resume his studies and reach his, goal, Mr. Eummelen
went for a while to the Ottawa University; and, as his parents had removed from
Nebraska to California, he came to Bishop Mora, the first Bishop of Monterey and
Los Angeles, who sent him to Santa Barbara^to finish, his theology under the famous
Very Reverend Father Bergmeyer. When the latter gave up teaching, Mr. Eurnmelen
came south, to Los Angeles and taught languages at St. Vincent's, at the same time
that he pursued his theological- studies; and on the removal of his: parents to. Kansas,
he accompanied them, to look after their affairs. Bishop Fink, of Leavenworth, was
only too glad to welcome him to his diocese, and asked him to become a priest under
his jurisdiction. Our subject was thus ordained to the priesthood in Leavenworth on. February 28,
1890, by. Bishop L. M. Fink, and said his first- mass in the Sacred Heart Church at
Newbury, Kans., on the second of March following, in. the presence of his parents
and other relatives, and his first charge was that of assistant at the Cathedral. Sub
sequently he had to attend different missions in eastern Kansas, as a result of which
the arduous pioneer work of. those early days proved altogether too much for his,
or the average man's, strength. - His health broke down, and he was advised by- his
.physicians tp. move, west again to-the Pacific Coast-.-
Knowing Bishop Durieu of Vancouver .personally, he went to him and there,
as the only secular p_piest in the diocese, Ke_Jabored for nine years, and during that
time. he -made it possible to enlarge trie Chufch of the Holy Rosary, which has since

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become the Pro-Cathedral, and he erected the parochial school and St. Paul's Hos
pital. Not being able, however, to live any longer in that climate, he came to Southern
California and took up his abode in San Diego, where he spent three years in the
drearisome effort to recuperate his health; and, again feeling stronger, he volunteered
his services to Bishop Conaty of Los Angeles. The Bishop sent him to the Imperial
Valley, and there, during three years of hardships in a pioneer country, he built no
less than four churches. He was then sent to National City, and there erected a
church; and he also caused one to be built at Otay. As far back as 1896, at the
time of the patronal feast of the Church of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Bishop
Durieu, on October 3, had Pope Leo XIII, in recognition of Father Eummelen's
worth, ability and eminent services, appoint him a Monsignor, and the year previous
he had been made an Honorary Canon of the Holy House of Loretto; and with all
the years of added experience, accomplishment, prestige and influence, the Monsignor
was given his present charge, in 1913 — the important parish of St. Joseph's Church
at Santa Ana.
On March 2, 1915, occurred the silver jubilee of Monsignor, or plain Father
Eummelen, as he prefers to be called, and never, perhaps, has Orange County so
honored itself in a similar way as in the proper celebration of the event — a celebration
that took on more significance on account of the history of the flourishing parish.
The first Catholic Church of Santa Ana was built and dedicated in 1887, and it was
then called the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary. It was ministered to at first by
priests from Anaheim, but later it had its own pastors — notably the Rev. Fathers
Byrne, Grogan and Remhardt. In 1896 the little Church was completely destroyed
by fire. The congregation rebuilt at once, and the new church was dedicated the
same year. After the burning of the first church, the congregation was again attended
from Anaheim, until July, 1903.
After successive pastorates by the Rev. Father Joseph O'Reilly, the Rev. Father
John Reynolds and the Rev. Fathers F. X. Becker and P. Stoeters (under whom the
old debt hanging over the church was paid off), Monsignor Eummelen took charge
in April, 1913, of St. Joseph's congregation, and he not only enlarged the church,
but also the parochial residence. Now, after its enlargement and restoration, the
church's interior presents a fine appearance. The furniture, though not ostentatious,
is very pleasing, and contributes to the devotional spirit characterizing the place,
and among the useful adornments are beautiful "Stations of the Cross" of very large
proportions, painted in oil on canvas, and real works of art. This artistic work was
done in the church building itself by the young Belgian artist, M. Ravenstein, who
received his education in the art schools of Germany and France.
He also built the schoolhouse and established the parochial school. He is now
completing a large addition to the school, which will give an additional seating capacity
for seventy-five pupils. The school and high school are under the supervision of the
Sisters of St. Joseph of Eureka, Cal. Preparing for future growth he has purchased
a block of five acres of land one block north of the present site, on which he plans
to build a new church at a cost of $100,000, then the present church and school build
ings will be devoted exclusively to the use of the Mexican population of the parish.
During the eight years Monsignor Eummelen has been in charge, eight girls
from the parish have joined the Sisterhood and two of the young men have become
ecclesiastics, and the Knights of Columbus and kindred church societies are in a very
flourishing condition. The school has been brought to a high standard and is not alone
patronized by members of the congregation but by children from families of other
denominations, who appreciate its high moral standard. It is visited by the county
superintendent of schools, who gives it the highest commendations. He has been
very'active in the building up of churches and congregations in California, and in this
diocese he has built eight different churches. Monsignor Eummelen also takes an
active part in civic affairs as well as in the growth and development of the county.
Every worthy movement that has for its aim the improvement or upbuilding of the
county receives his hearty cooperation and support. During the late war- he took
part in the different drives for Liberty Bonds and other war funds, and was one of
the four-minute speakers. He also organized the Catholic Homeseekers Information
Bureau of the United States, with headquarters in Los Angeles. Fraternally, he is a
member of the Knights of Columbus and the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks.
On the occasion of the Jubilee referred to, a poem, by Clarice C. Keefe, entitled
"Pastor Fidehs," was dedicated to the jubilarian, and there were religious ceremonies
at St. Joseph's Church, which began at 10 o'clock in the morning with solemn high
mass. The procession proceeded from the rectory, led by the acolytes with their
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a white velvet cushion, upon which reposed a silver wreath of the symbolic wheat and
grapes, and the Monsignor entered the church of which he had been the beloved pastor
for two years, attended by the Right Reverend Bishop Conaty and the other clergy.
The wreath was the gift of Father Eummelen's sister, Sister Mary Elizabeth of the
Franciscan Convent in Chicago, who with his niece, Sister Mary Stanislaus of Tucson,
were privileged to be present at the Mass. The two small nieces of Father Eumme
len, Gertrude Wiedenhoff and Marie Rudolph, and little Catherine Mallen had the
honor of carrying the wreath. When the three little maidens presented the wreath
they made a pretty poetical address.
Immediately upon entering the sanctuary, the Bishop began the ceremony of
blessing the church, whose present beauty bears witness to the energy and generosity
of its rector. Following the blessing, solemn high mass was sung by Father Eumme
len, assisted by the Rev. C. M. Raile as deacon, and the Rev. Father Golden as sub-
deacon. Rev. Frank Conaty was master of ceremonies. The Right Reverend Bishop
was attended by the Rev. Father Burelbach and the Rev. Father Hummert as deacons
of honor. Father Theophilus, O. F. M., of St. Joseph's Church, Los Angeles, a boy
hood friend and schoolmate of the jubilarian, preached the sermon, which so eloquently
portrayed Father Eummelen's career during the past twenty-five years. The Rt.
Rev. Thomas J. Conaty, Bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles, followed with another
sermon, and then the litany of the saints was chanted by the clergy, the music being
under the direction of Father Fahey. Before the congregation left the Church, a
committee of men of St. Joseph's Society, consisting of J. M. Maag, J. W. Hageman
and Henry Cochems, stepped to the railing and presented the Monsignor with a well-
filled purse as a slight token of appreciation from the parish. A banquet followed,
with toasts by L. M. Doyle, Mayor Ey, Father Fahey, Father Burelbach, Father Theo
philus, Father Dubbel, Dr. Jos. Sarsfield Glass, then pastor of St. Vincent's, Los An
geles, and now Bishop of Salt Lake, Father Neusius, Bishop Conaty, Judge Thomas of
the superior court, Father Campbell, and the guest of honor, Monsignor Eummelen
himself. The receipt of many telegrams added to the pleasure of the event.
LEWIS AINSWORTH. — A prominent business man of Orange, whose healthy
influence was felt far beyond the confines of both county and state, was the late
Lewis Ainsworth, who passed away on March 22, 1914, in the eighty-fifth year of his
age. He was born at Woodbury, Vt., in 1829, and came to Jones County, Iowa, with
his parents when he was sixteen years of age. They made the trip by way of the
rivers and lakes to Illinois, and then continued to Iowa with the aid of teams. In
the Hawkeye State they entered Government land; and with from four to six yoke
<- f oxen hitched to a plow broke the prairie and improved their farm. Under this
Iowan environment the lad Lewis grew up.
In the stirring year of 1849 Lewis Ainsworth crossed the great plains, with other
Argonauts, in an ox-team train, and having arrived safely in California, mined for a
couple of years. Then, in 1852, he returned East by way of Panama, and on April
24, 1852, was ' married to Miss Persis Bartholomew, a native of La Moyle, Vt. She
came with her parents to Illinois when she was seven years of age, and located at
Buffalo Grove, now Paola, and two years later the family moved to the neighborhood
of Monticello, Jones County, Iowa. She was the daughter of Daniel Bartholomew,
who died in Iowa, and Augusta (Simmons) Bartholomew, who passed away in Napa
Valley, Cal. Mrs. Ainsworth received a good education in the schools of Vermont,
Illinois and Iowa, and so was a real helpmate to her husband.
The same day of their marriage, Lewis Ainsworth and his bride started across
the plains with a horse team and wagon, on a trip which had been recommended for
her health; and although she left home an invalid, she could walk and was quite well
before the end of the journey. They remained at Jacksonville, Ore., for two years,
and then, in 1856, returned to Iowa by way of Panama. They took the steamer John
L. Stevens from San Francisco to the Isthmus, and the George Law from the Isthmus
to New York; this ship sank on her next trip, with a loss of 365 persons.
Mr. Ainsworth remained on his Iowa farm of 640 acres until 1859, when he again
came to California and brought his wife and two children, traveling via Panama. He
spent ten years at Weaverville, in Trinity, County, where he was engaged in mining
and in the wood and timber business, and in 1869 returned to Iowa by the newly-
established railway lines. Once more he took up agriculture on his Iowa farm, but in
1877 he sold the farm, and moved to Glasco, in Cloud County, Kans., and there bought
several sections of land for the growing of corn and raising of cattle and hogs, which
he shipped to the Kansas City markets. In 1888 he removed to Salem, Ore., where he
remained until 1889, when they returned to Kansas; and there, with his sons, he started

344 HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
the Ainsworth Bank and ran it until 1900, while he continued to reside there and to
prosecute other business interests.
Mr. Ainsworth had been coming in winter time to Southern California, and in
1900 he moved to Orange, and bought a town home and a block of ground. Soon after
that, with the aid of his children, he started the Ainsworth Lumber Company, and
with the first planing mill there, they made a quick and lasting success. He built the
Ainsworth building, was also a stockholder in the First National Bank of Orange, and
in the Orange Savings Bank, and was both a builder up and an upbuilder of the city
and county. Although never a church member, he was a true Christian, and for over
forty years had been an Odd Fellow.
Mrs. Ainsworth, now eighty-four years of age, has survived her husband, and
is widely esteemed by all who know her. She is a member of the Christian Church
and the Gordon Granger Post, W. R. C, and she continues to reside at the old home
on East Chapman Avenue, where her devoted children lighten her labors and shield
her from care. Mr. Ainsworth had made thirteen and a half round trips between
California and Iowa, and Mrs. Ainsworth made eight and a half trips. For many
years she has had the commendable hobby of clipping items of particular interest
from the newspapers and pasting them into scrap books, and in this way she made
two large books of the Spanish-American War. She has also made fourteen of the
World War, besides nine volumes of soldier-boy letters; she began her scrap-book
making in 1877, making one every year, excepting years of war, and has made over
sixty, books in all, and it is probable has never had a rival in California. The three
children of Mr. and Mrs. Ainsworth are: Frank L-, Mitt O. and Mrs. Ina Butler, all
residing in Orange.
GEORGE J. MOSBAUGH. — Among the most interesting personalities of Orange
County must be mentioned that of George J. Mosbaugh, for some time secretary of
the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and later president of the Commercial
Bank of Santa Ana. He was born in a log house on a farm near Cicero, Hamilton
County, Ind., on May 17, 1840, and was reared on his father's farm. His father was
Conrad Mosbaugh, born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, where he grew up and
learned the weaver's trade. He was also married there, on September 1, 1836, to
Anna Maria Brehm, and together, the following year, they started for America. They
were accompanied by Grandfather Joseph Mosbaugh, or Mosbach, and his entire
family. In 1837 they bought land and settled in Hamilton County, Indiana, where
they made a clearing and built a log house, with its mud and stick chimney, from
the native hardwood timber, affording them a rude but hospitable home. Joseph Mos
bach was born at Offstein, Hesse-Darmstadt, in 1775, and was a farmer by occupa
tion. He married Justina Rasph, who was born in 1781, and they had seven children,
and all came to America in 1837. The name was originally written Mosbach, but about
1848 an uncle named Franz began to write it Mosbaugh, on account of the various
mispronunciations given the name by English-speaking people. Thereafter, the rest
of the kin followed his example. Excepting said uncle, Franz, who was a shoe
maker, all the Mosbaughs followed farming.
George Mosbaugh attended the district schools in the pioneer days of Indiana,
became a teacher, later a soldier in the Civil War, and after the close of the war
resumed his studies at Boyd's Business College at Louisville, Ky., and later studied
at the State University of Indiana. After graduating there, he became the proprietor
of a commercial college at Terre Haute, Ind., known as the Terre Haute Business
College, and still later became proprietor of the Bloomington, 111., Business College.
But, before entering upon his career as professor in business colleges, his first experi
ence was as a teacher in the district schools in Hamilton County, Ind. He was
thus engaged in 1862 when he enlisted in the Fifty-first Indiana Volunteer Regiment
under Colonel Streight, but did not enter the service for the reason that the recruiting
failed to raise the necessary quota of men, and the recruiting officer and himself
enlisted as privates in another Indiana regiment. Mr. Mosbaugh then went back to
his public school and finished his term of teaching, and after that became a student
at Bryant's Business College in Indianapolis, Ind. He was engaged in a mercantile
establishment in Indianapolis when in May,. 1864, he enlisted in Company D, One
Hundred and Thirty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and he assisted in guarding
the bridge across the Tennessee River, on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railway, and
in doing picket duty at Bridgeport, Ala. He was honorably discharged by reason of
the expiration of the term of his enlistment on September 5, 1864. After that he took
up business college work and conducted the schools already mentioned.
While he was managing the business college at Bloomington, Mr. Mosbaugh
went to Indianapolis, and on November 25, 1868, was married to Miss Melissa J. Har-
\*ey, a native of Indiana. She died at Santa Ana on October 9, 1896, leaving three

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children. Edwin H., who was for many years chief of the Redlands Fire Depart
ment, is now assistant chief of the department at Riverside; Maude M. is the wife
of Dr. J. F. Galloway, the dentist, at San Pedro; and Marie is bookkeeper for a San
Diego automobile and tire company.
Mr. Mosbaugh was married a second time, on May 16, 1900, when Mrs. Emma
(Palmer) Thelan, the widow of the late Charles C. Thelan, became his wife. Mr.
Thelan was a pioneer harness maker of Santa Ana, and they had one child, H. Percy
Thelan, of Santa Ana. She was the daughter of Noah and Susan (Evans) Palmer,
and was born in Santa Clara County, Cal. Mr. Palmer was a native of Lowville,
N. Y., while Mrs. Palmer came from Indiana; and they were married at Laurel,
Franklin County, Ind. Mr. Palmer came overland to California in 1849, leaving his
wife in Indiana, and in 1852 he went back after her. For a while he mined gold at
Placerville, and later he took up a government claim four miles out of Santa Clara,
and became one of Santa Clara's early horticulturists. There were three children
in Mr. and Mrs. Palmer's family: Almira, Mrs. R. E. Hewitt, came to Santa Ana
in 1874, and she and her husband are both now deceased; Emma is the wife of Mr.
Mosbaugh, and Lottie E. resides in Santa Ana. Mr. Palmer was very prominent in
Santa Ana, where he died on January 10, 1916, preceded some years by his devoted
wife, who had passed away on October 28, 1903. They were very highly honored
people at Santa Ana, Santa Clara and everywhere else where they had lived, and Mr.
Mr. Palmer was an excellent farmer, banker and street railroad builder, and was influ
ential in political circles, being a stanch Republican.
Mr. Mosbaugh was engaged as bookkeeper for Lockhart and Company at Pitts
burgh, Pa., for nine years, and became a partner in their business in 1873. Two years
later he came out to California and settled at Orange, May, 1875, where he lived the
first eight and a half years. During this time he developed one of the early orange
orchards at Orange. In order to replenish his purse during the waiting time, he
accepted the secretaryship of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and at the
time of the establishing of the Commercial Bank at Santa Ana, in 1882, he became
its first bookkeeper, so that he is able to say, with a smile of satisfaction, "I began
as janitor and bookkeeper, and came out as president." Since 1904, Mr. and Mrs.
Mosbaugh have resided at their commodious residence at 636 North Broadway.
Mr. and Mrs. Mosbaugh attend the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Mosbaugh
is an active member of Sedgwick Post No. 17, G. A. R., in Santa Ana, and has been
adjutant and quartermaster for a number of years. He is also a member of Santa
Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M.
A few years ago Mr. Mosbaugh prepared a family genealogy, of which he
distributed gratuitously one hundred copies among near-of-kin and intimate friends,
and in that work he placed the following preface:
"Aside from our duty and the gratitude we owe to our Creator, to whom do we
owe our existence? Is it not to our ancestors, through whom God in His infinite
wisdom has given us birth and life? It is wrong for us to say that we do not care for
our ancestors. Besides giving us being, they have given us good government, churches,
schools and colleges, and laid the foundation for the many blessings we are now
enjoying. Let us then keep our family record with pride and reverence. This book
let is intended as a starting point. It is the hope of the writer that each person
who receives one will continue to keep an accurate record of his or her family, and
will pass it on to coming generations. Read the first seventeen verses of the first
chapter of Matthew, and you will readily see that our forefathers in an early day
kept a better family record than we are now keeping. Lastly, I desire hereby to
express my earnest gratitude to all those who assisted me by furnishing names, dates
or information for the completion of this booklet."
Mr. Mosbaugh has always been punctilious, prompt, and most conscientious in
all his business affairs, and this in part explains his success in life; he has also been
fond of poetry and other idealistic things, and this reflects his inner character. The
following are" among his favorite selections of poems:
"If with pleasure you are viewing any work a man is doing,
If you like him or you love him, tell him now;
Don't withold your approbation 'till the parson makes oration,
And he lies with snowy lilies o'er his brow.
No matter how you shout about it, he won't really care about it;
He won't know how many tear-drops you have shed.
If you think some praise is due him, now's the time to slip it to him,
For he cannot read his tombstone when he's dead.

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"More than fame, and more than money,
Is the comment, kind and sunny,
And the hearty, warm approval of a friend.
For it gives to life a savor, and it makes you stronger, braver,
And it gives you heart and spirit to the end;
If he craves your praise — bestow it; if you like him, let him know it-
Let the words of true encouragement be said.
Do not wait till life is over, and he's underneath the clover,
For he cannot read his tombstone when he's dead."

"I take it as I go along
That life must have its gloom,
That now and then the sound of song
Must fade from every room;
That every heart must know its woe,
Each door death's sable sign,
Care falls to everyone, and so
I strive to bear with mine.
"Misfortune is a part of life;
No one who journeys here
Can dodge the bitterness of strife
Or pass without a tear.
Love paves the way for us to mourn,
Our pleasures breed regret.
One day a sparkling joy is born,
The next — our eyes are wet.
"Each life is tinctured with a pain
Of sorrow and of care,
And now and then come clouds and rain.
Come hours of despair.
And yet the sunshine bursts anew,
And those who weep shall smile,
For joy is always breaking through
In just a little while."
GEORGE W. BUCHANAN. — A man who has really had much to do with
the building up of the town of Orange is George W. Buchanan, since the spring of
1914 superintendent of city strets. He was born in Lafayette township, Medina
County, Ohio, on February 13, 1863, the grandson of Samuel and Nancy (Wilson)
Buchanan, natives, respectively, of Washington County, Pa., and Brooke County, Va.,
and representatives of fine old Southern stock. They had a son, George C. Buchanan,
the father of our subject, who was born in Wellsburg, Va., and became a carpenter
and builder, and also owned a farm in Lafayette township. On October 12, 1854, he
war married to Miss Lydia Carlton, a native of Ohio, where she was born in 1835, the
daughter of John and Catherine (Amon) Carlton. In 1864 he enlisted in the Civil
War and served as a member of Company D, One Hundred Sixty-sixth Regiment,
Ohio National Guard. In the fall of 1910 they came to California and spent over a year
in Orange, the father dying in June, 1914, and the mother in July, 1914. The other
child of their union is now Mrs. Ida F. Moody of Long Beach.
George W. Buchanan, the younger child, was educated in the grammar schools
of his district, and at the Medina high school in Ohio. He then learned the car
penter trade under Henry Prouty, and followed that and farming until his marriage
on May 24, 1885. This occurred at Lafayette Township, and his bride was Miss
Susan E. Chamberlain, a native of that district, and the daughter of John Chamber
lain, who was born in Greenfield, N. H., on June 25, 1829. His father was Abraham
Chamberlain, a native of Vermont, where he was born in 1792, who had married
Mary Clark, born in 1791, with whom, and their family, he migrated in an ox-cart
from Greenfield to Westfield Township, Medina County, Ohio. As there were seven
children in the fold, it was quite an undertaking. At Westfield Abraham Chamberlain
purchased land in the solid timber and hewed out a farm. In 1856 John Chamberlain
was married to Mary Devereaux, who was born in 1830 in Oswego County, N. Y., the
daughter of John and Mehitable (Craw) Devereaux. John Chamberlain and his wife
were very successful farmers, and owned a farm of 280 acres in Lafayette Township,
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Of the three children in the Chamberlain family, Susan E. is the only one living
who completed her education in the Medina high school. She is not only a cultured
woman, but she has been favored with much business acumen, so that she has proven
a valuable helpmate to her husband. They farmed together on the old John Chamber
lain place, improving the farm and meeting with such success that they had it
almost entirely tilled when they sold it in 1904. The last three years of their life in
Ohio they resided in their comfortable residence at the county seat, Medina.
In 1904 Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan came to sunnier California, and for ten months
resided at Redlands. During this time they looked around carefully, and finally, after
due deliberation, selected Orange as the best of all places for a home. Mr. Buchanan
purchased lots and built his beautiful residence at 192 North Shaffer Street.
For a time Mr. Buchanan followed building, and was superintendent of the work
of erecting the Carnegie Library at Orange; he was also the inspector in charge of
the building of the first big reservoir for the Orange City Waterworks. In 1909 he
was appointed a trustee of the city of Orange to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna
tion of R. C. Dalton, and for fifteen months served his fellow-citizens with singular
ability and fidelity. He was chairman of the street committee at the time when the
street improvements began in Orange, and later he provided the necessary data for
the construction of a sewer three miles long, and watched over the building of this
extensive work until it was all completed.
In May, 1914, Mr. Buchanan was appointed superintendent of streets, for which
responsibility he was abundantly equipped, and since then he has had charge of all
street building and improvement. He is also plumbing inspector, and inspector of
electric wiring and sewer connections.
Two children came to add happiness to Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan, and to do honor
to a long-honored family name. Stacy M., assistant teller in the First National Bank
in Los Angeles, served his country in Company E, One Hundred Forty-third Field
Artillery, Forty-third Division, which went overseas. Mildred became Mrs. Osman
Pixley, and resides at Orange. The family attend the First Methodist Episcopal
Church of Orange, where Mr. Buchanan is a member of the board of trustees. In
national politics Mr. Buchanan is a standpat Republican. Fraternally, he is a member
of the K O. T. M., and Mrs. Buchanan is a member of the L. O. T. M.
FRANK L. AINSWORTH — A successful man of business and finance, whose
positive moral influence is felt in notable movements for the betterment of the city
or county, is Frank L. Ainsworth, former president of the board of trustees, or mayor,
of Orange. He was born in Monticello, Jones County, Iowa, in 1858, the son of Lewis
Ainsworth, who had married Miss Persis Bartholomew. When he was one year old,
Frank L. was brought by his parents to California, by way of the Isthmus of Panama,
and reared at Weaverville until he was eleven years old; but in 1869 the family returned
to Iowa, this time traveling in one of the first transcontinental trains- He thus attended
school in California and Iowa, and was for a while a student at the, Monticello High
School. In 1878 the Ainsworth family moved to Cloud County, Kans., and Mr. Ains
worth engaged in farming and stock raising near Glasco. Ten years later they all
moved to Salem, Ore., and there, for two years, Frank was employed as teller in the
Ladd & Bush Bank. In 1890 he resigned and returned to Kansas with the rest of the
family; and with his father, brother and sister he started the Ainsworth Bank of Glasco,
taking the position of cashier. When the bank was incorporated as the Glasco State
Bank he continued as its cashier, until 1900.
In that year, at the dawn of the new century, Mr. Ainsworth followed the lure
of California and located at Orange; and, wishing out-door work, in connection with
his father and brother-in-law, F. W. Butler, he established a lumber business. They
opened up in 1902, constructed the first planing mill, started the first lumber yard
at Orange, and soon did a very flourishing business. The firm name was the Ainsworth
& Butler Lumber Company, which later became the Ainsworth Lumber and Milling
Company, and it stood for reliability in every particular. In 1903 M. O. Ainsworth, a
brother, bought out Butler's interests in the business. In 1914 the Ainsworths sold
out their lumber interests, and since then Frank L. has been engaged in ranching.
He is the owner of an orange and a walnut orchard near Santa Ana, and is a
stockholder in and vice-president and director of the National Bank of Orange; is also
a stockholder in the Orange Savings Bank and in the First National Bank of
Santa Ana.
While in Kansas Mr. Ainsworth was married to Miss Emma Hostetler, a native
of Pennsylvania, whose parents were early settlers of the Garden of the West. They
have three children living. Allie is now Mrs. Gearhart, of Los Angeles; Mae has
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Mr. and Mrs. Ainsworth and family have a fine residence on East Chapman
Avenue. They attend the First Christian Church of Orange, in which for years Mr.
Ainsworth has been prominent as an elder; was superintendent of the Sunday school
for fifteen years, and has been a member of the Southern California Missionary Board.
He joined the Odd Fellows lodge at Glasco, Kans., and is still a member there. Mr.
Ainsworth is a Republican in matters of national politics, and a member of the Re
publican Central Committee of Orange County; he was a trustee of the city of Orange
for four years, the last two years being president of the board of trustees. He is
intensely interested in every enterprise for the improvement and growth of Orange
County, and Orange and Orange County may well be congratulated upon such citizens
as Frank L. Ainsworth, public-spirited to the core.
CONWAY GRIFFITH.— A much-loved and admired artist of the present gifted
colony at Laguna Beach is the pioneer, Conway Griffith, who is fond of God's great
outdoors, and while on the range in New Mexico in his early days, got to know the
West as it really is. He was born in Clark County, at Springfield, Ohio, the son of C.
W. Griffith, who was a manufacturer in that city. He had married Miss Catherine
Conway, a native daughter of Virginia, who maintained the tradition of her family
by living to the ripe old age of seventy-four.
As a boy, Conway was devoted to art, and in time he was an instructor for years
in the School of Design at Cincinnati, teaching a special method of painting on china.
He had the first establishment in America where the china ware was baked in a spe
cially-built kiln. His health was poor, however, so he decided to strike out for the
West. With a chum he spent a number of years in Mexico and Colorado, and became
heavily interested in ranches and cattle. He accomplished something more than to ride
the range, however, for he profited by the opportunity there, and at Denver, to study
landscape painting. He was also in old Mexico for eighteen months, and there invested
in stock. When he sold out, it was to celebrate the regaining of his health.
In 1898 he made a short visit to California, stopping at Riverside and Colton, but
did not stay, however, until 1904, when he came to Los Angeles from New Mexico.
He had always been fond of marine painting, hence he soon set up his studio at Cata-
lina, where he remained for four years, off and on, returning frequently to the main
land, and sketching to his heart's content. Since the spring of 1906, however, Mr.
Griffith has been established at Laguna Beach, finding, as others have, that this
locality has charms and advantages nowhere else hereabouts to be enjoyed. On
account of his long residence here, Mr. Griffith is recognized as the pioneer artist of
Laguna Beach; but he also makes annual trips to the mountains and desert for the
purpose of sketching.
Mr. Griffith's brother, A. H. Griffith — at whose home the mother made her home
until her death — is a noted art critic of Detroit, so that our subject seems to have
come to his own talents very naturally. As a self-taught artist, he has an individual
interpretation which is much appreciated by the admirers of his work. He is a regular
contributor to the art exhibits at Los Angeles and San Francisco, and is a member
of the California Art Association, and a charter member of the Laguna Beach Art
Association. He also belongs to the Laguna Beach Chamber of Commerce, and in
national political affairs is a Republican.
SIMEON TUCKER. — One of the substantial citizens of the community whose
increasing interests in Mexican lands has by no means diminished his enthusiasm for
Orange County and its future prospects, is Simeon Tucker, who was born in Stockton,
Jo Daviess County, 111., on June 1, 1847. His father was F. L. Tucker, a native of
Green Mountain, N. Y., who settled in Illinois about 1835, and was a pioneer merchant
at Stockton, when he had the post office on his farm, and he had to haul things to and
from Galena. In 1859 or 1860 the elder Tucker set out across the plains for California;
and arriving in Tuolumne County, he tried his fortune at mining. And there he died,
in March, 1884, esteemed by those who knew him in his rugged Americanism. He
had married Miss Marcia Hunt, a native of the Nutmeg State, but she died in Illinois.
She was the mother of six children, among whom Simeon, the youngest, is now the
only one living.
Brought up at Stockton, Simeon attended the Illinois district school, and for some
years assisted his father on the farm and in the store. In January, 1874, having come
out to California, he worked on a fruit ranch at Shaw's Flat, at thirty dollars a month,
after which he peddled fruit. In 1875 he came to Westminster, then in Los Angeles,'
now in Orange County, and buying a ranch he engaged in general farming, raising
hogs and hominy.
When he sold out, at the end of five years, Mr. Tucker came to Anaheim, and in
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two years later it died. Then he set out St. Michael and Mediterranean sweet oranges,
and otherwise considerably improved the place. Later he traded it for a ranch in the
Newhall Mountains in Los Angeles County. He went into the hotel business at San
Francisquito Canyon, and the large stone building he then acquired is still standing.
In the meantime, having thirty-four acres in East Anaheim, he bought forty acres
more, all raw land, with cactus and other brushwood covering the surface. He
cleared the land, leveled it, drove out the rabbits and gophers, and in many ways
agreeably improved it; and then he raised orange trees from seed, and budded them
to superior Valencias. He sunk wells, installed an engine and had a fine pumping plant.
He devoted forty acres to oranges, and he was the first to set out oranges in this
district. In 1914 he also set out twenty-five acres of lemons. He raised much alfalfa,
and now he not only has an electrical pumping plant for himself, but he supplies water
to seventy-five acres belonging to other ranchers.
In addition to his valuable California holdings, Mr. Tucker owns two sections of
land in Sonora, Mexico, and he has a stock ranch of 18,000 acres at Hermosillo in
the same state.
In 1881 Mr. Tucker was married at Anaheim to Mrs. Lizette (Parker) Beckington,
a native of Marengo, McHenry County, 111., and the daughter of Leonard Parker. She
came to California in 1871 and settled with a brother at Anaheim, and later her parents
bought land in the East Anaheim district, near Madame Modjeska's home. In 1908
Mr. Tucker built a new, handsome residence. One son, Earl Robert, who was born on
the first ranch they had, has blessed this fortunate union; he married Miss Laura
Lensing, a native of Missouri, and assists his father. Mrs. Tucker has a daughter by
her former marriage, Mrs. Lottie Bush.
Mr. Tucker has always, both as a genuine American and as a Socialist, been
interested, not merely in building up a community, but in the more difficult, more
important work of upbuilding as well; and when he lived near Newhall he served with
satisfaction to all as a school trustee.
JAMES HARVEY GULICK.— A most interesting illustration of keeping one's
family tree record so that it may become a contribution to history, is afforded by
James Harvey Gulick, who can trace his ancestry back to good old pre-Revolutionary
stock. Henry Gulick was a captain of the Second Regiment of Hunterdon County,
N. J., in the Revolutionary War. He married Mary Williamson of that county, and
of their several children one, a son, Nicholas Gulick, of New Jersey and New York,
served a part of his time with his father's command. He married Elizabeth Gano, also
of those two states. She was of Huguenot stock, and one of their children was William
Gano Gulick, of Clark County, Ind., and Cincinnati, Ohio. He married Sarah Adams,
and their son was named Martin Nicholas Gulick. He married Eleanor Welch in
Clark County, Ind., 1841, and the same year moved to Macoupin County, 111. After
living on his farm at Plainview for more than fifty years he came to Tustin, Orange
County, Cal., and died in 1900.
Their son, James Harvey Gulick, was born at Plainview, 111., June 18, 1844, and
there he attended the district school and lived with his parents on the home farm.
After the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred Twenty-second
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served in the West, as some called it at that time,
and the last half of his service under that intrepid leader, Andrew Jackson Smith,
commanding the Sixteenth Corps. He was in spirited engagements in Tennessee,
Alabama, and Mississippi; was in action at Parkers' Cross Roads, Tenn., and Tupelo,
Miss., and present at Nashville, Tenn., and Fort Blakely, Ala. He received his dis
charge July 15, 1865.
After returning to the Illinois home, Mr. Gulick attended the best business college
in St. Louis, and then taught school in several counties in western Missouri. On
December 6, 1868, he was married in Appleton, Bourbon County, Kans., to Miss Laura
Jane Palmer, the daughter of William and Mary Palmer, of Greenbush, Warren County,
111. A forbear of Mrs. Palmer, Walter Palmer, came from England in 1629, and her
father from New York, and her mother from Ohio. They lived in Chickasaw County,
Iowa, during the Civil War, and in 1865 moved to Bourbon County, Kans. Mr. Gulick
went to Wilson County, Kans., in 1869, and took up 160 acres of government land,
to which he added 240 more, which he devoted to grain and stock.
On removing further west to California in the "boom" year 1887, Mr. Gulick came
directly to what is now Orange County and for a while he and his family lived in the
Greenville district. Then they removed to Villa Park; in 1893 he sold that farm and
moved to the Richfield section, where he purchased 107 acres. Seventy of these he
set out to walnuts and the rest in various crops. After nineteen years there, however,
he disposed of that holding and came to Santa Ana. Here he purchased a home at
1702 Spurgeon Street, where he has resided ever since. Ten children, eleven grand-

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children and four great-grandchildren have called this worthy couple blessed. William
Nicholas married Mrs. Julia Scovil and is living in Tustin; Mary Eleanor died in in
fancy; Phillip Frederick passed away at the age of nineteen; Fanny Ethel married
William Wagner of Long Beach; Lena May married William L. Hewitt of Santa
Ana; Arthur Quinn married Jessie M. Lough and is living at Fullerton; Winnie Hope
also died in infancy; Laura Helen married William Huntley of Tustin; James Mark
married May Wiley and they reside at Hemet; George Asbury married Maggie Forbes
and they live at Tustin. Mr. Gulick belongs to the Sons of the Revolution at Los
Angeles, and those that are interested in Gulick genealogy are invited to inspect a
fifty-page manuscript on file in the library of that order in Los Angeles.
WILLIAM M. SMART. — Highly esteemed as a member of a distinguished family
of Santa Ana, the late William M. Smart, was interesting as a gentleman long foremost
in movements for the educational and intellectual advancement of the community. He
was born at Xenia, Ohio, September 29, 1848, a son of Rev. James P. and Elizabeth
(McClellan) Smart. Reverend Smart served as a pastor of the United Presbyterian
Church near Xenia for twenty-two years, or until his death. W. M. Smart was given
a good public school education and afterwards attended the Xenia Seminary, after*
which he was for years engaged in the coal business at Xenia with his brother John,
until he sold out to him to come to California.
In 1887 he arrived in Santa Ana and for a time served as secretary of the Mc
Fadden Lumber Company, later he was for two years secretary of the Santa Ana Valley
Irrigation Company, and from 1901 until 1914, up to the time of his death, he served as
secretary and manager of the Santiago Fruit Growers Association. Mr. Smart had
been a member of the Santa Ana board of education and of the library board, giving
freely of his services when the present building was erected. In politics, he was a
Republican in national affairs, but most nonpartisan when it came to putting his
shoulder to the wheel and working for the best candidates making for local improve
ments. He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church and lived an exemplary
Christian life.
The marriage of W. M. Smart, on October 31, 1882, at Xenia, Ohio, united him
with Miss Lydia C. the daughter of William and Mary (Collins) Anderson, substantial
farmer folk of the Buckeye State. She was educated in the public schools of Xenia
and in Ohio Central College at Iberia, an institution now of national repute on account
of President-elect Harding having been a student there. To Mr. and Mrs. Smart six
children were born: Mary A., is recognized as a professional photographer and is
proprietor of the Mary Smart Studio, Santa Ana; Janet, is the wife of Henry L. Thomp
son of Moline, 111., and the mother of a son, Carson F. ; Fannie M., is a teacher in the
public schools of Bisbee, Ariz.; James P., who married Miss Loraine Scott, is a rancher
in Oregon, and he was formerly in Y. M. C. A. work in Los Angeles for years; he has
two children — Margaret and James P., Jr.; William A., is connected with the Oregon
State Agricultural College at Corvallis; and Carson M., is a surveyor and civil engineer
in the employ of the city of Los Angeles. William A., and Carson M. were in the
United States service during the World War, the former as a second lieutenant of
heavy artillery and in line for promotion when the armistice was declared. Carson M.
reached France, but did not see -active service. Mrs. Smart had the honor of serving
on the Santa Ana Board of Education at the time when the Polytechnic was built, and
she also is a member of the United Presbyterian Church. William M. Smart passed
away on October 11, 1914, mourned by a large circle of friends in Orange County.
ADONIRAM JUDSON SANDERS.— The memory of a worthy, self-sacrificing and
attaining pioneer such as the late Adoniram Judson Sanders,- known by all his friends
as plain Judson, is not likely soon to be forgotten, especially when his esteemed widow,
herself one of the oldest settlers in these parts is following in his steps. He was born
in Yarmouth, N. S., and came of English and Scotch descent; and there he was reared
and received his education in the local schools. In his youth he showed a natural
aptitude as a mechanic and he, therefore, followed the machinist's trade. Later, he
came out to Minnesota, locating at Le Sueur, where he followed his trade, and it was
there in December, 1865, he was married to Miss Elizabeth McPherson, who was born
in Chaumont, Jefferson County, N. Y., the daughter of Hugh McPherson, born in
New Hampshire, but of Scotch descent. The McPherson family were among the first
settlers in the Granite State, and Grandfather William McPherson served in the Revo
lutionary War. Hugh McPherson was a captain in the New Hampshire State Militia,
and was also a farmer; and he followed agriculture when he removed to Chaumont Bay,
N. Y. He married Betsy Butterfield, a native of New Hampshire, and the grand
daughter of Peter Butterfield, who was of English descent and also served in the
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home farm at Chaumont, N. Y. They had thirteen children, and Mrs. Sanders was the
youngest and is the only one now living. She completed her education at Watertown
Academy, and looks back to those girlhood, days, in northern New York, as among the
happiest of her long career.
After his marriage, Mr. Sanders followed his trade in Minnesota, and in 1873, they
came out to California and purchased a ranch two miles east of Orange, where they
resided for thirty-six years. The land was a raw cactus and brush patch when they
first took hold; but they cleared it and brought it under cultivation, although for the
first five years they had very little water. They set out a vineyard of muscat grapes,
and soon enjoyed the credit of making among the finest raisins in the vicinity. Indeed,
a Los Angeles grocer selected some of their raisins as the best obtainable hereabouts
and sent them on to President and Mrs. Cleveland.
Then came the grape disease and killed the vines, after which, they put in a second
vineyard, but this also died after the first crop. They then gave up the vineyard, and
began setting out oranges and walnuts, and in time they had groves bearing splendidly.
After operating the ranch for thirty-six years, they sold out and moved into Orange.
Here they purchased the residence in which Mrs. Sanders now resides, and where,
in November, 1914, he died, aged about seventy-eight years, an exemplary man in all
his habits and a consistent Christian. While living on this ranch at McPherson, they
purchased 1,000 acres of land near Murietta, which they devoted to stock raising and
grain farming; but this ranch was also sold after Mr. Sanders' death.
Two children testify to the ideal marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Sanders: Will Hugh
Sanders is a well-known operator in the Los Angeles realty world, and Frank A.
Sanders is ranching at Paso Robles. Mrs. Sanders has four grandchildren and one
great-grandchild. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Orange. For years
she was a member of the Ebell Club; and, as was her patriotic husband, Mrs. Sanders
is a stanch Republican.
JOHN F. PATTERSON. — Among the esteemed citizens of Westminster, Orange
County, Cal., is John F. Patterson, the successful pioneer merchant and oldest business
man in continuous business life at Westminster.
A native of Brook County, Va., he was born a few miles north of Wheeling, W. Va.,
April 14, 1851, and when two years old had the misfortune to. lose his mother. When
he was nine years of age his father, W. J. Patterson, came to California and located on
the Feather River in Butte County, twenty miles above Marysville, where John F.
grew to maturity. The father engaged in the freighting business and ran an eight-mule
team, hauling freight to the mines in Plumas County, Virginia City, Nev., Black Rock,
Idaho, and other places. The only child by his father's first marriage, John F. was
educated in the schools of Butte County near Biggs. He later attended Heald's Busi
ness College at San Francisco, where he pursued a general commercial course. While a
mere boy he worked several years for Maj. Marion Biggs, in Butte County, Cal., the
large stockman and owner of an 800-acre ranch. Afterwards he joined his father in
the sheep business and they owned a flock of 2,000 sheep. Then with his father and
three half-brothers he went to Abilene, Texas, to engage in the sheep business. He
was taken ill and returned to California, going to Los Angeles. The father died at
Los Angeles at the age of ninety. John F. engaged with Roth, Blum and Company,
provision dealers of San Francisco, as traveling salesman for the territory of Southern
California, and remained with the firm five years. Afterward he came to Westminster
and opened a grocery store in 1889, buying a new stock of groceries from Hellman,
Haas & Company, of Los Angeles. Since then he has been the proprietor of several
stores, and ran a general merchandise store, dealing in flour, hay, grain, etc. He was
manager of the flour and feed business for awhile, but has mainly functioned as
proprietor. At present he is proprietor of a flour, hay, grain, mill feed and fuel store.
Mr. Patterson's marriage was solemnized at Westminster, and united him with Miss
Virginia Carlyle of Westminster, daughter of H. W. Carlyle, pioneer rancher, who
came to California from Independence, Mo. Mr. Patterson owns the two acres upon
which he built his residence, and has been active in the civic life of Westminster,
donating the right-of-way for the Southern Pacific Railway through Westminster.
Ex-Governor George C. Perkins was a warm personal friend of both Mr. Patterson
and his father, and Mr. Patterson cast his first vote in California for governor for Mr.
Perkins, Politically Mr. Patterson is a Democrat, and fraternally he is a member and
past grand of the I. O. O. F., and recalls attending grand lodge once when Reuben D.
Lloyd was grand master. Manly, honorable and public spirited, matters that concern
the welfare of his home town receive his interested support, and his disinterested efforts
for the community's betterment have won for him many warm personal friends and the
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MRS. ADELHEID KONIG-SCHULTE.— To know Mrs. Adelheid Konig-Schulte,
is to fully appreciate her talents and worth. As one of the pioneer women of Orange
County she has been identified with its development for over fifty years, during which
time she made Anaheim her home. A native of Hungary, she came to the United
States during her girlhood, with her father and stepmother and three brothers. After
the death of her mother she was reared in the home of an aunt in Vienna.
Mrs. Schulte is a lady of culture and has many varied accomplishments; the walls
of her home are decorated with oil paintings of her own handiwork and as a vocalist
of more than local renown she appeared in public before audiences in Los Angeles
many times, also has been on the program for vocal solos at the entertainments given
by the Calumet Club in their hall in that city at one time appearing before an audience
of 600 and singing in three languages, as well as appearing at other prominent gather
ings on many occasions. Besides these varied accomplishments she is par-excellence in
domestic science, serving one year studying and demonstrating, and excels in both
plain and fancy baking. One cake baked by her and donated to the Catholic fair at
Anaheim sold for thirty-six dollars.
As stated, Mrs. Schulte came to the New World with her father, Henry Eichler,
and his second wife in 1866, first locating at Cairo, 111., where they joined her uncle.
From there Mrs. Schulte came to California, in the following year with her aunt,
locating in San Francisco, where these two ladies embarked in business, dealing in
dry goods and millinery. They carried on a very profitable business until the earth
quake of 1868, which destroyed their building. From San Francisco she came to Los
Angeles in 1869, and it was here that she met, and that same year was united in mar
riage with William Konig. He was born in Hanover in 1832 and was there reared and
educated and also learned the art of wine making, serving an apprenticeship of seven
years, after which he was employed at the trade for several years in Hamburg. He
later came from that city by way of Cape Horn to San Francisco and from there to Los
Angeles, where he found employment at his trade.
Immediately after their marriage in 1869 Mr. and Mrs. Konig came to Anaheim
and made a permanent location. Here Mr. Konig purchased twenty acres of land- de
voted to a vineyard, erected a winery and carried on a very profitable and growing
business, having one of the largest wineries in this section, which was then Los Angeles
County. They shipped wine in carload lots to various places in the United States and
even to Europe. Much of their product was kept and sold to be used for medicinal
purposes. Mrs. Konig was a true helpmate and worked with him picking grapes iri the
field with the Indians and also assisted him with the manufacture of the wine. They
both labored hard to accumulate a competency and as a result became owners of some
very valuable property. Mrs. Konig erected a bath house in Anaheim at a 'cost of
$6,000 which she leased, and where steam electric and mineral baths were given. She
presented the bell that marks the old El Camino Real, which was dedicated with
appropriate ceremonies February 5, 1911, and to commemorate the donor her name is
inscribed on a brass plate in front of the column supporting the bell; by virtue of this
gift she holds a life membership in the El Camino Real Association, which has done
so much to perpetuate historical features and for the betterment of the roadways in
the state. When the public library was secured for Anaheim, this public-spirited woman
donated one of the two lots for its site, and was a liberal contributor towards the
building of every church in that city. She was one of the organizers and a large stock
holder in the German-American Bank, now the Guaranty Trust and Savings Bank, in
Los Angeles. Both Mr. and Mrs. Konig were reared in the Lutheran Church.
Mr. Konig was an invalid for many years and his wife proved herself an excellent
manager, for she was the means of adding to their holdings of property as well as
improving them, thus adding to their value. They were both very generous and recog
nized as being among the most liberal citizens of Orange County. Mr. Konig died on
April 1, 1911, at the age of seventy-nine years. On February 22, 1917, Mrs. Konig
became the wife of Anton Schulte and they lived in Anaheim one year, then on account
of the ill health of Mrs. Schulte, they moved to South Pasadena where they have a
fine home on Diamond Avenue and dispense a generous hospitality. Mr. Schulte is an
Iowa pioneer, having lived in that state for forty-eight years and where he achieved
prominence as an official and public-spirited man, always striving to do what he con
sidered his duty. He came to California in 1914 and ever since then has booked a
permanent residence for himself in Southern California. He is a member of the
Knights of Pythias and of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks. With Mrs.
Schulte, he enjovs a wide circle of friends.

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FRED G. AND ELIZABETH TAYLOR.— A distinguished American couple of
Santa Ana, highly esteemed by all who know them, and especially admired for their
many sterling qualities, are Fred G. and Elizabeth Taylor, who established the nucleus
of "Taylor's," now so noted throughout Orange County, in Santa Ana many years ago.
Mr. Taylor was born in Chicago, 111., in 1847, the son of John Otis Taylor, a native of
New York, who came west to Chicago and as early as 1852 located in Freeport,
Stephenson County, 111., where he was successful as a pioneer business man. He died
about 1900, survived by his widow, whose maiden name had been Harriet Eames, and
who also died at Freeport. They were the parents of five children: J. B. Taylor, a
prominent business man and manufacturer in Freeport and founder and. owner of
Taylor's Driving Park at Freeport, died in that city; Hobart H. was a very prominent
business man in various lines; he belonged to the Freeport firm of Taylor and Wise,
grain operators, and as one of the founders of the Elgin Watch Company, had a part of
that watch's mechanism, the H. H. Taylor Movement, named for him. He was also
interested in Aultman, Taylor and Company, of Mansfield, Ohio, manufacturers of
threshing machines, and in the Nichols and Shepherd Company at Battle Creek, Mich.,
which manufactures the "Vibrator" thresher; he was a banker and a philanthropist, and
a Republican inflential and prominent in northern Illinois; and he died at Chicago, aged
only forty-two years, already rated a millionaire. Charles A. Taylor, another inventor,
was a trunk manufacturer of that city and died there. Louise H. makes her home at
Freeport, and there is Fred G. Taylor, the subject of our sketch.
He was educated in the public schools of Freeport and at the military school at
Fulton, 111., and for thirty-four years made his home in Freeport, where he was asso
ciated with his brother, J. B. Taylor, in the management of Taylor's Driving Park. As
a boy he saw the stirring events leading up to the Civil War, and it is interesting tc
hear him relate the incidents connected with the day of the great Lincoln-Douglas
debate in Freeport in 1856 — how the people came for a hundred miles by teams, in
wagons and on horseback to witness the literary duel that has gone down in history; and
as a boy he had the good fortune to be near the speaker's platform, and to see and hear
the great emancipator at close range. During the war he was too young for service,
but tried four different times to enlist, each time being rejected on account of his age
and small stature.
In Illinois Mr. Taylor married Miss Elizabeth Sharp, a native of Yorkshire,
England, and the daughter of William and Martha (Jackson) Sharp. Her mother died
in Yorkshire and her father brought his three children, two sons and the little daughter,
to Rockford, 111., but also passed on soon afterwards. Mrs. Taylor was reared partly
in the East, where she had the advantage of splendid educational institutions, until her
marriage to Mr. Taylor, a union that has proven very fortunate and happy. Her two
brothers reside in Santa Ana, and one of them, Harwood, served in the Twenty-sixth
Illinois Volunteer Infantry from 1861 until the close of the Civil War, participating in
numerous severe battles, and took part in all the engagements of his regiment during
the Georgia campaign — from Atlanta to the sea.
Desiring to remove to California, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor came out to the Coast in
1885 and located on a ranch at Orange, where they resided until, at the end of six
months, they located on one near Santa Ana. There they raised deciduous fruits.
Northern Illinois is noted among other things for the skill of its housewives in domestic
service, and Mrs. Taylor had no superior among them all. Her home always abounded
in hospitality, and the excellence of her cooking was often commented upon, and she
received especial praise for her fine preserves and canned fruits. After coming to
California, and wishing to establish her two sons in business, she conceived the idea
of putting up California fruit for sale in the East, and it was her aim to send out only
fruit of the finest quality.
The beginning of the business was quite modest, the plant consisting of the cook-
stove in the family kitchen, and during the first year, 1892, she shipped three hundred
pounds of fruit to Freeport, 111., where it found ready sale. The second year the "plant"
was increased by the addition of a gasoline stove, and the business was doubled, the
entire shipment also going to Freeport. Soon they began to get calls for the delicious
products from other cities, and the third year they put up and shipped a carload of
fruit. About this time, their son, J. E. Taylor, went East in the interest of the business.
and the shipments increased year by year, until they reached 100 tons in 1901, and that
increase has been getting greater with each season. Sales are made all over the United
States and Canada, from coast to coast, and the fruit is shipped direct to the residences
of those so ordering. Indeed, before the war, shipments were also made to Europe and
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The first cannery was built in 1894, a very small building, and many additions
were made, and also a new building erected, as necessity required'; and now there is a
large, fireproof, concrete building for the main plant, with every appointment most
modern and convenient. Visitors to the cannery always find much to attract their
attention and hold their interest, and they are especially impressed with the cleanliness
in every department. The washing and paring and cooking departments are kept just
as clean as are the scalded jars into which the preserves are poured. They used gasoline
stoves until they had thi'rfy-seven four-burner stoves, and then they changed to elec
tricity, using 120 electric stoves, and now they use gas burners for making pickles and
steam for cooking the fruit.
The fruit is boiled in porcelain graniteware, after it has gone through a systematic
process of washing, paring and rewashing; jams and marmalades of all kinds are
manufactured, and also pe.ach mangoes, rig, peach, apricot and pear pickles, brandied
peaches, pears, grapes, fig and English walnut pickles. All fruit is put up in heavy
sugar syrup; and of late years, owing- to the heavy increase in their business, they have
been obliged to have fruit shipped in from the north, as the local market is not sufficient
for their needs. They employ about 150 hands. They also have a large ice and cold
storage plant, one of the finest in the state, and manufacture ice for even the wholesale
trade. Up till a couple of years ago the firm was J. E. Taylor and Company, with J. E.
and Fred H. at the head of the management, when J. E. Taylor sold his interest to the
rest of the family, at the same time removing to San Luis Obispo County, and the
owners then incorporated the business under the firm name, "Taylors," with Fred H.
Taylor as president and manager, and this firm has become celebrated in fruit circles
all over the country.
Indeed, those who are experts in judging fruit assert that the products of the
cannery have no superior in any part of the United States, and that they have reached a
point where improvement is practically impossible. All these years Mrs. Taylor has
personally superintended the manufacture of the products, giving them her personal
attention, and insisting on the same care and cleanliness as in the old days of the
cookstove, and she has every reason to be proud of the commercial results, as well as
of her husband and the two sons and daughter, who stood by her so bravely through
all the various evolutions of the important industry. It is an interesting fact that the
business has grown to its present large proportions without the company ever having
resorted to advertising, and thus it' is the quality of the product that makes the constant
growing demand without newspaper or magazine solicitation.
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor reside on East Fourth Street, in a comfortable, well-furnished
bungalow, where they entertain their many friends with an old-time hospitality. They
are strong Republicans, Mr. Taylor having espoused the platforms of that party ever
since its formation in the fifties at Jackson, Mich. Their three children are John E.
Taylor, an extensive rancher in San Luis Obispo County; Fred H. Taylor, the president
and manager of Taylors; and a daughter, Eleanor, wife of A. E. Marker, of Downey.
JOHN J. SWARTZBAUGH.— Thrift and frugality, coupled with a judicious man
agement of one's financial affairs, are characteristics that usually bring success to the
man who practices them in whatever line of business he may be engaged in. To these
characteristics in the life of John J. Swartzbaugh, the extensive and successful walnut
grower of West Orange precinct, are due his substantial prosperity. He is justly
proud to be called a self-made man, because of the splendid success he has made by
his own unaided efforts.
The descendant of an old Maryland family, Mr. Swartzbaugh was born in Balti
more, Md., September 25, 1858, the son of John H. and. Mary (Green), Swartzbaugh,
both natives of Baltimore. Grandfather John Swartzbaugh was also born in Maryland.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Swartzbaugh were the parents of five children, John J., the
subject of this sketch, being the second child. When ten years of age he migrated
with his parents to Springfield, Ohio, where the father rented land. For two years
John J. lived with his great uncle, Samuel Swartzbaugh, where he helped with the farm
work; subsequently he was hired by farmers who paid him only four dollars per month
for the arduous work done and the long hours of service. The only financial assistance
he ever received was thirty dollars he inherited from his sister Susan.
At Springfield, Ohio, Mr. Swartzbaugh was united in marriage with Miss Lola
Knott, a native of the Buckeye State, and daughter of Charles Knott, a farmer and a
veteran of the Union Army. After his marriage Mr. Swartzbaugh removed with his
family to Texas, where he remained for eleven months and then decided to move
farther westward, with the Golden State as his ultimate goal. He arrived in Sant?
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precinct. Mr. Swartzbaugh improved his place and has from time to time made
additional purchases until today he is the possessor of 110 acres of valuable land,
ninety of which are devoted to walnuts, ranging from three to nineteen years of age.
He has made a specialty of walnut culture for twenty years, the beneficient results of
which are apparent in the high quality of walnuts and bountiful yields of his orchards.
He is regarded as one of the most successful walnut growers in the West Orange
section of the county.
Mr. and Mrs. Swartzbaugh are the parents of nine children. Arvilla married
Welley Wheeler, an electrician for the Standard Oil Company, and they reside at El
Segundo; Florence is the wife of Clarence Brittain, a carpenter residing at El Segundo,
and they have three children; Olyn, a grading contractor at Harbor City, married Mrs.
McClure who had three children by her former marriage; Ina married Paul Morse of
HarbOF-City and they are the parents of two children; Ruth is the wife of J. H. Hutch-
ings of Santa Cruz; Ada lives at El Segundo; Lola married Howard Gillette of Santa
Ana; Carl and Mary are at home. In politics Mr. Swartzbaugh is a Democrat. He
belongs to the Garden Grove Walnut Association.
JOHN DUNSTAN. — A conservative, trustworthy business man, self-made and
successful and a good "booster" for Orange County, because of his confidence in the
future of this part of the great state of California, is John Dunstan, the able and
genial vice-president of the First National Bank of Tustin. He was born on December
5, 1866, near Redruth, Cornwall, England, the son of James Dunstan, also a native of that
country, who had married Elizabeth Berryman, a descendant of an old family in that
part of England. James Dunstan came to America in 1867, and being a farmer, did
not tarry in New York City, where he landed, but immediately came on West, first to
Fayette County, Iowa, and then to Pioche, Lincoln County, Nev., making his journey
from the end of the railroad to their destination by stage. Finally in 1875 he landed
at Tustin. John Dunstan is the only child of these worthy parents and came with
them to Orange County and, then a boy of nine, he heard stories of the pioneer days
he has never forgotten.
He attended the common schools of that time and locality and worked at home
for his parents, helping to improve the twenty acres which his father had bought on
East Seventeenth Street, set out in part to grapes, oranges and apricots. He himself
in time bought twenty-five acres of vacant land east of Tustin, which he improved
with walnuts and apricots and in 1903 he also bought ten acres more, which he planted
to oranges and lemons. After a while he sold both of these acreages and bought
instead some twelve acres, also on East Seventeenth Street, which he set out to
Valencia oranges, and it has grown to be a valuable bearing orchard. He began to
market through the Santiago Orange Growers' Association of which he is still a
member. Recognizing his ability the stockholders of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation
Company elected Mr. Dunstan a director and he later served as president of the board
for two years', during which time he was very active in the improving, enlarging
and building up the system. At the end of the period he resigned, not being able to
devote the time he felt he should because his personal business affairs required all
of his attention. Since its organization, too, he has been vice-president of the First
National Bank of Tustin.
In early days he made a specialty of apricots and was rated as one of the largest
growers of that delicious fruit in Orange County. His hobby now is Valencia oranges,
which from his experience he considers best adapted to this soil and climate, and aside
from his grove of sixteen acres he manages his mother's Valencia orchard of the
same amount of acreage. On April 16, 1902, Mr. Dunstan was married to Miss Myrtle
H. Hall, a daughter of William H. and Susan Frances Hall of Hiawatha, Brown
County, Kans. They came to Orange County in 1891 and the father died in 1914, while
Mrs. Hall continued to make her home in Santa Ana. The union of Mr. and Mrs.
Dunstan has been blessed with three children as follows: Gilbert Hall and Mary
Elizabeth are attending Santa Ana high school, while the youngest, Frances Emily,
is attending Tustin grammar school. In 1914 Mr. Dunstan erected on his ranch a
beautiful residence of nine rooms and furnished the same completely; and nearby on
the adjoining orchard is his mother's comfortable home and thus he is able to look
after her wants and give her every devotion and care.
Greatly interested in civic and educational lines he can always be counted on
to give his time and means to all worthy objects which are for the betterment of
conditions and morals of the community. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dunstan were active
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C. D. HEARTWELL.— One of the natives of the Empire State who eventually
reached California to swell the number who have done so much for the development
of the state is C. D. Heartwell, the pioneer real-estate dealer of Huntington Beach,
who was born in Seneca County, N. Y., on August 12, 1847. His father, Oscar F.
Heartwell, known to Huntington Beach residents for years as Grandpa Heartwell, was
born at Oaks Corners, N. Y., in 1818, and he married Julia Ann Subrina Webster, also
a native of New York and a relative of Daniel Webster. Oscar Heartwell passed the
last years of his life at the home of his son, C. D. Heartwell, passing away there at the
age of ninety-five years. Grandfather Benjamin Heartwell was born in Vermont and
when a young man walked all the way from there to western New York and bought a
farm where the city of Rochester now stands. Finding that they had chills and fever
in that locality, he threw up his contract and went to Waterloo, N. Y., and bought a
farm. He afterwards went to Oaks Corners and engaged in carpenter work as well as
farming. Oscar Heartwell was also a carpenter, but spent some years in teaching
school, afterward becoming interested in farming.
Of the seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar F. Heartwell all; were born in New
York and six of them are living. C. D. Heartwell, the third in order of birth, passed
his early years in the locality in which he was born. He attended^ the public schools
and later took a commercial course at a business college at Auburn, N. Y. Hel then
took up railroad work, entering the service as a passenger conductor on the Northern
Central branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, afterwards being identified with the
railway mail service on the Syracuse, Geneva and Corning Railroad. In 1882, while
engaged in this work, he was severely injured in a collision, so that for a time his life
was despaired of, and for five years he was an invalid. In 1887, Mr. Heartwell went to
Hastings, Neb., and with his brother, J. B. Heartwell, organized the Nebraska Loan
and Trust Company.
In 1904 Mr. Heartwell came to Huntington Beach and started on his work of
development that has done much for the town. At that time the Pacific Electric Rail
way had not begun its service there. With his brothers, J. B. Heartwell and J. F.
Heartwell, and J. M. Edgar, he organized the Union Investment Company and built
for their office the frame building where the U. S. Restaurant now stands; he was
president of the company and Mr. Edgar was its secretary. Soon thereafter J. B.
Heartwell organized the First National Bank of Huntington Beach and they leased the
Union Investment Company's building on Main Street, the company then building a
smaller office south of Main Street on Ocean Avenue, and here Mr. Heartwell has
been located ever since, being the oldest realty dealer or business man, in point of
continuous business, in Huntington Beach. The lands belonging to the Union Invest
ment Company have all been disposed of and the affairs of the company wound up, but
Mr. Heartwell still continues a thriving real estate, loan and fire insurance business.
Mr. Heartwell's first marriage, which was solemnized in Buffalo, N. Y., united
him with Miss Emma Schermerhorn, who died a few years later at Geneva, N. Y.,
leaving two children; Julia M., the widow of E. L. Payne, resides with her father
and is secretary to the superintendent of the Huntington Beach High School; Emmeline
S. is the wife of E. A. Neilson of Huntington Beach. Mr. Heartwell's second marriage
took place in Nebraska, where he was married to Miss Georgiana Dennison.
EDWIN BAILEY FOOTE.— With few or no exceptions, the Footes in America
descended from either Nathaniel Foote, of Colchester, England, who came to Water-
town, Mass., about 1630, or Pasco Foote, who settled in Salem, Mass., soon after,
or Richard Foote, of Cornwall, England, and later of Stafford County, Va. That
the first two were nearly related, if not brothers, there can be little doubt. According
to one tradition, the far-away ancestors of these migrating worthies lived near the
base or foot of a mountain in England, at the time when surnames were adopted, and
they called themselves Foote, Fotte or Foot. However that may be, our subject's
family tree throws its branches back to Nathaniel Foote, the settler of Colchester,
Conn., doubtless related to William Henry Foote, the clergyman, who was born at
Colchester in 1794. Other early and distinguished Footes are Arthur William Foote,
the musician, of Salem; Elial Todd Fo'ote, the physician, of Gil, Mass.; Elisha Foote!
the commissioner of patents, of Lee, Mass.; Samuel Augustus Foote, the senator,
born in Cheshire, Conn.; Andrew Hull Foote, his son, the naval officer, who was
born at New Haven, Conn.; Henry Wilder Foote, the clergyman, also born at Salem,
and Henry Stuart Foote, the senator, born in Virginia. There are no less than
eleven branches of the Foote family in America at the present time, and Edwin Bailey
Foote is the grandson of William Foote, a farmer of Stanford, N. Y., and the son of
Henry B. Foote, himself the second son, in a family of eight children. He had mar
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steady-going farmer folk, and the ceremony took place on January 30, 1856. They
took up their home at Stanford, and there reared their family.
The eldest son, and one of three still surviving, Edwin Bailey Foote was born
on February 6, 1857, and grew up on his father's' farm of 126 acres. He attended the
district school, and helped to care for the milk and the butter which were marketed
in New York City. When he was twenty-five years of age, he started westward, and
for a year farmed in Michigan, then for a year in Ohio, and finally worked for a year
on a farm at Manhattan, Kans.
An uncle, Horace Eels, had come west to Garden Grove, Cal., on November 18,
1887, and liked what he saw; and the same year Mr. Foote followed to the Golden
State. He took up carpentering, and for five years worked at that trade. In 1890 Mr.
Foote married Sarah Elizabeth Ross, and as Mrs. Foote was a member of the highly-
honored pioneer family of Josiah Ross, the first to settle at Santa Ana, he found
no difficulty in making valuable connections, and in getting all the work he could do.
In 1892 he took up ranching for the first time, although he had helped on a
farm in Orange County three years before. Three years later he became a pioneer
of Laguna Beach. He has acquired city property, and shown his interest in public
affairs by serving as a trustee on the Laguna school board. He also owns various
ranch properties in Garden Grove and El Toro. He is not a politician, but a liberal-
minded, patriotic citizen, proud, to begin with, of his own family of three children —
Hugh, and the twins, Harry and Hazel; the first-born died Nov. 23, 1917. He tries to
live a simple, Christian life, and is never ashamed of the fact that he is a hard worker.
DE WITT CLINTON PIXLEY.— A prominent financier of California, whose
deep interest in the welfare and sound and permanent development of Orange County
would naturally entitle him to the good will of those who undeniably admire his meth
ods leading to success, is De Witt Clinton Pixley, who came to Orange County in
the early eighties. He was born in Ingraham, Clay County, 111., in 1857, the son of
Osman Pixley, the merchant and banker, who was a native of Edwards County, 111., and
a member of a family traceable to Liverpool, England. They migrated to Boston,
Mass., and in time came to be early settlers of Illinois, in which state they established
themselves when there were block houses near old Fort Vincennes, and Illinois was a
territory. Osman Pixley, as seems to have been the Pixley habit, made a real success of
all he undertook in business at Ingraham, as well as in banking at Flora, 111., where
he was president of the First National Bank of Flora for twenty-seven years. He
continued actively in business until his death, at an advanced age. His good wife
was Frances Wood before her marriage, aind she was a native of Illinois, and spent
her last days in Clay County. They had three children who grew up: De Witt Clinton,
the subject of our sketch; Harvey F., now president of the First National Bank in
Flora, 111., and Arthur H., a member of the Chicago Board of Trade.
De Witt Clinton was educated at the public schools of his district and at Eureka
College in Illinois, from which he graduated in 1878, with the Bachelor of Arts degree,
after which he engaged in the mercantile business for a couple of years in Southern
Illinois. But, desiring a milder climate, he came west to California in 1881 and located
on a ranch at Orange.
In the spring of 1882 he bought the general merchandise store of R. L. Crowder in
Orange, who was one of the pioneer merchants in town. It was where the Campbell
Block now stands, at the corner of the Plaza and Glassell Street, and was in a small
frame building. Three years later, Mr. Pixley purchased a lot on North Glassell Street,
built a brick block, and engaged in general merchandising in what was for that time,
at that place, the largest concern of the kind. Later, he sold the grocery and the dry-
goods departments, and continued in the hardware and implement, and also the furni
ture business, which in time also grew into large proportions. About 1909 he sold the
furniture business to his son, W. C. Pixley, who now runs it as the Pixley Furniture
Company, and the hardware trade to the Kogler Hardware Company.
Mr. Pixley had early become interested in various enterprises of vital importance
to the building up of the town, and was, for example, an original stockholder and a
director in the National Bank of Orange; and he has been president of that bank for
the past seven years. He was also president, and is still a director of the Orange
Savings Bank, which has grown to have nearly $800,000 assets. He was prominent in
the reorganization of the Orange Building and Loan Association, and was its presi
dent for twenty-two years, or until he resigned in 1919. He saw this institution grow
from assets of less than $20,000 to over $800,000. He was the most prominent factor
in building up the Olive Milling Company, and his management and financing was
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dend. He served as its president for ten years, until it was sold, in the fall of 1919,
to the Central Milling Company of Los Angeles.
Mr. Pixley has for many years been a director and vice-president of the Abstract
& Title Guarantee Company of Santa Ana, having been interested in the company from
its organization as a stock company, and he is also a director of the Fidelity Savings
and Loan Association of Los Angeles. He built and owns the Pixley Furniture Store
block on North Glassell Street, as well as other valuable property here, and property
of worth in Los Angeles and San Diego, and owns a stock ranch in the Santiago
Canyon, as well as one in the Laguna hills.
About sixteen years ago, Mr. Pixley was supervisor of Orange County from the
Fourth district for a term, and then, although pressed by friends to continue in the
public service, declined further honors in that line. Yet he has never failed to take a
leading part in good roads movements, and was chairman of the highway commission
of the county, and had a very honorable share in providing, at a generous expenditure
of $1,270,000, the excellent Orange County highways, permanent in their construction
and well serving the detailed districts of the locality, enjoyed by the public today.
At Ingraham, 111., Mr. Pixley was married to Miss Florence M. Boring, a native
of Illinois, and a sister of J. P. Boring, the well-known pioneer of Orange. Five
children have blessed the union. Walter C. is at the head of the Pixley Furniture
Company; Osman is secretary of the Orange Building and Loan Association; Frances,
the wife of J. R. Fletcher, a prominent citrus grower of El Modena; Florence is the
wife of J. G. Marks, a merchant in Los Angeles; Alma is the wife of Argus Dean, a
horticulturist at Nuevo, Riverside County. Mr. and Mrs. Pixley are charter members
of the Christian Church in Orange, where for many years he was a deacon, and was
also active in Sunday School work.
Mr. Pixley was made a Mason in Orange Grove Lodge, No. 293, F. & A. M., and
was exalted in Santa Ana Chapter, R. A. M., but is now a charter member of Orange
Grove Chapter, No. 99, R. A. M. He was knighted in Santa Ana Commandery of the
Knights Templar, and he is a member of Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of
Los Angeles. In 1916 Mr. Pixley took an ocean voyage to Australia, including the
South Sea Islands, and four years later he repeated the delightful maritime adventure.
STEPHEN KISTLER. — An example of well-directed industry conducing to suc-
:ess, is found in the business career of Stephen Kistler, the wealthy retired baker and
iandowner of Anaheim. He was born June 25, 1863, in Strassburg, Alsace-Lorraine,
under the French Flag. After the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, this historic and pic
turesque territory, by the Treaty of Versailles, became a part of the German Empire.
Stephen Kistler was, therefore, educated in the German schools of his native land.
When school days were over, Stephen learned the trade of a baker, serving an
apprenticeship of three years, after which he followed the business of a baker for
several years in Strassburg. Possessed of a desire to see more of the world and to
seek his fortune in America, he emigrated to the United States in 1888, with his cousin,
landing at New Orleans. During the same year he journeyed still farther westward
until he reached Los Angeles, Cal., where he secured employment in Louis Ebinger's
bakery, at the corner of Spring and Third streets, as a candy maker, remaining there
three years. During one summer season Mr. Kistler was engaged as the baker for the
Redondo Hotel, Redondo Beach; this was during the opening season of the new and
popular hotel of that day.
In 1891 Mr. Kistler came to Anaheim, where he purchased the Anaheim bakery
on North Los Angeles Street and continued to operate it until 1896, when he built a
bakery of his own on the corner of East Central and Claudina streets. For three years,
in connection with his bakery, he conducted a restaurant which was known far and
wide as the best place in Anaheim and it attracted patrons from many sections of the
county miles away and traveling salesmen from the East always stopped there. He
also conducted an ice cream parlor and installed the first soda fountain in Anaheim.
As an example of his progressive business spirit mention is made of the fact that Mr.
Kistler installed the first electric light, for business purposes, in Anaheim, having them
in use in his old bakery on North Los Angeles Street; and also was the first baker here
to use an oil burner. Thrift and frugality are strong characteristics of Stephen Kistler,
whose early practice of them has brought him abundant financial success. As his busi
ness prospered he saved his money and wisely invested in land. In 1910 he purchased
five and_ three-quarters acres of land one mile south of Anaheim at $150 an acre;
planted it to oranges and after developing the place, sold it at the end of nine years
for $4,000 an acre.
In 1913 he disposed of his bakery business on East Center Street, but still owns
the building. In 1917 he erected a modern two-story brick building adjoining his
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Hall. At 110 North Claudina Street he built a substantial residence, then in 1919, he
bought five acres of oranges and a house on East Center Street, one mile from the
center of town, where he now lives retired from active business cares, as the result of
thrift and industry, coupled with judicious management and keen business judgment.
Mr. Kistler is a public-spirited citizen and has always freely given his aid and support
to those movements which had as their aim the benefit of the best interests of Anaheim
and Orange County.
In Los Angeles, August 1, 1891, Mr. Kistler was united in marriage with Caroline
Kaiser, a native of Basle, Switzerland, a daughter of Ignacio Kaiser, the pioneer land
scape gardener and expert grafter and pruner who was active in vineyard work in the
early days of Anaheim and Orange. Mary Kaiser, a sister of Mrs. Kistler, has made
her home with them since they came to Anaheim. Mr. Kistler is a member of the
Knights of Columbus, the Turnverein Society and the Catholic Church.
RICHARD EGAN. — A truly distinguished citizen of San Juan Capistrano is
Richard Egan, popular as "Judge Dick," who was born in County Waterford, Ireland,
in 1842, and who came to the United States when he was about ten years of age and
lived with an uncle on Long Island. He attended the public schools, caught the
spirit of the New World, and when about twenty-three years of age, sailed around
Cape Horn to San Francisco. He remained there for a year and a half, and then
returned East; and in 1866 went to Europe and took in the Exposition at Paris.
On his return to California, he again met a gentleman whom he had come to
know in Paris, a Mr. McCowen, who proposed to take up some land, from the Govern
ment if possible, to which young Egan assented. Mr. McCowen agreed to sail alone
to San Diego, buy a horse, travel in the saddle toward the north or until he found
what seemed most attractive, and then return to San Francisco, to report to Mr.
Egan, when the two were to go South together, look over the prospective purchase,
and make their final decision. In time, they arrived at Wilmington Harbor, from ¦
which place they traveled by stage to Los Angeles, and then to San Juan Capistrano,
whose location had seemed to McCowen quite ideal. A square league of this public
land was then open to settlement, at $1.25 per acre; and they lost no time in acquiring
title to some of the land promising soon to flow with milk and honey. At the Mission
they found a settlement of about 2,200 Mexicans and Indians, only three of whom
could speak English.
Now Judge Egan owns 600 of the acres he originally acquired, and lives in a
well-built brick house on Central Avenue, a part of the State Highway running
through San Juan Capistrano. He himself set out several walnut groves; he rents
out his land, and the tenants give him one-fourth of the produce and one-half of the
walnuts. He has the finest row of Lombardy poplar trees in Southern California,
some of which at the bottom are seven feet in diameter. He also has a number of
giant eucalyptus trees set out by his own hands, and his well-kept lawns show that
he has an eye for the artistic, and that he especially appreciates shrubs, flowers and
canes of Japanese propagation.
Both a public-spirited man and a leader of wide and valuable business experi
ence, Mr. Egan served for four years as supervisor of Los Angeles County prior to
1889. He never sought the office, but the office sought and found him. Indeed, he
has been repeatedly called upon to assume public trust, and never has he been found
wanting. With James McFadden, for example, and a Los Angeles man he served on
the commission appointed to adjust disputed questions between the counties of Los
Angeles and Orange at the time of county division and he has always been ready to
serve his own community. He held the office of justice of the peace for many years.
during which time he rejected all fees for his services and devoted the fines imposed
to the alleviation of the poor in that locality. He himself paid out money for the
same cause, and in that way prevented any burden to the taxpayers. He did valiant
work for the Santa Fe Railway in securing rights of way that they might build
their road, which was the first great boost for Orange County as well as all Southern
California. He was one of the commissioners along with D. C. Pixley and M. M.
Crookshank appointed by the supervisors to look after the construction of the present
svstem of Orange County public highways, in which he took an active part in the
disbursement of the $1,270,000 bond issue that had been voted for that purpose.
The splendid highways and good roads of Orange County, the pride of the citizens,
as well as thousands of tourists, reflect great credit to the hard work and integrity
of the commission. He also worked hard for good and still better highways.
A courteous, genial and well-read gentleman, Judge Egan has a well-stored mind
and a fund of interesting things he is ever ready to dispense to others when they
evince any wish to hear what he has learned and experienced. He is a member of
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many relics; but in 1898 his house was burned and nearly all his collections were
destroyed — a great loss to the would-be historian of the section. Since then he has
gathered together other relics, largely from and before the period of the Mexican
War; and among other things of curious interest is a baptismal font hewn by Indians
out of a solid block of granite, and a massive, beautiful chair, made in Spain and
used by the Archbishop of Mexico.
OWEN HANDY. — A pioneer in California whose years of prosperity, crowning
years of hard work, have made him public-spirited and confident, is Owen Handy,
who was born in Boone County, 111., on February 24, 1841, the son of John Handy, a
farmer who helped develop early Wisconsin and died in 1850, honored by all who knew
him. His wife was Celinda Shattuck before her marriage, and she was a native of
the Empire State. She enjoyed the esteem of a large circle of appreciative friends, and
bade goodbye to this world while a resident of Illinois, in 1864. Our subject is the
only one of this family to survive.
The ordinary country schools in his district furnished his early education, and
in time he became manager for his mother of her forty acres near Belvidere, 111. In
1866 he left Illinois bound for Oil Creek, Venango County, Pa., and there, as engineer,
he became an employee of the Noble Well Company. From March, 1866, to August,
1874, he was a driller and a dresser of tools for a brother-in-law, who was a contracting
driller; but in 1874 he removed to Nevada, Story County, Iowa, and there he purchased
160 acres of land, on which he raised corn, wheat, rye and stock. In Iowa he remained
until 1881, and by that time no part of the earth appealed to him so strongly as did
the great commonwealth along the milder Pacific.
As early as October, 1870, Mr. Handy had made a visit to Anaheim, Cal., and
hoping that times and conditions were better than when he then found them here, he
brought his wife and family here in the early eighties, arriving again at Anaheim on
March 25, 1881. He then secured a position as manager for Messrs. Hellman and Good
man, who owned some eighty acres of oranges and lemons and limes, and wished to
bring it to a high state of development. These gentlemen believed that they found in
Mr. Handy, a man out of the ordinary, and he must have "made good," for he was
with them for twelve or thirteen years.
In 1882, Mr. Handy bought for himself some thirty acres in Villa Park, and in
1898, ten acres on what is now Handy Street, later named in his honor, and he spent
a great deal of time, labor and thought in developing these properties. He came to
understand thoroughly the conditions peculiar to Orange County, and was accus
tomed to trim his sails to the local winds.
On July 2, 1865, Mr. Handy was married to Miss Mary A. Parker, born in Buffalo,
N. Y., but living near Marengo, 111., and they have had the blessing of four children:
Celinda J., born May 12, 1866, wife of J. L. Conley of Yorba Linda; Harry B., born
September 1, 1878, both of whom were born in the Middle West; and Joell B., born
December 5, 1881, and Robert Ray, on April 13, 1884, native sons of California. There
are seven grandchildren in the Handy families. While in Orange, Mr. Handy served
for a year on the board of aldermen. He retired to Long Beach in January, 1913, and
in August moved to San Pedro, and there built for himself a handsome residence at
1016 Santa Cruz Street. He makes weekly trips to Villa Park, and so keeps in touch
with both his relatives and those business investments in which he so long had an
interest. Both Mr. and Mrs. Handy are members of the Maccabees, where he has
gone through all the chairs.
In national politics Mr. Handy is a Republican, and under the banners of that
long-established party, he seeks to elevate the standards of citizenship and to increase
the highest and purest types of American patriotism. But he knows no partisanship
when it comes to "boosting" local movements worthy of support, and is intensely
loyal to both Villa Park and San Pedro, the later town of his adoption.
WM. L. BENCHLEY. — As president and owner of the Benchley Fruit Company,
W. L. Benchley has taken his place as one of Fullerton's progressive business men and
is identified with every movement for the betterment of its civic and commercial inter
ests. A native son of California, Mr. Benchley's entire life has been spent within its
borders and so he has been familiar from his earliest childhood with all the details of the
citrus industry to which he has devoted his time and efforts for a number of years.
W. L. Benchley was born at Ventura, Cal., on December 16, 1880, his parents being
Edward K. and Emma (Wagner) Benchley. The early years of his life were spent at
Los Angeles, the family removing to Fullerton in 1893, and here W. L. Benchley re
ceived his education in the grammar and high schools, supplemented with a two years'
course of private study. He then became associated in the Benchley Fruit Company as
a partner with his father and in 1911 he bought out his father's interests, since that
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efficient management the affairs of the company have prospered and the volume of
business has increased each year.
During the war Mr. Benchley was one of Fullerton's most patriotic citizens and
he showed his loyalty by enlisting in the U. S. Army on May 12, 1918; spending some
time in the officers' training camp at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga. He was honored
by recommendation for a commission shortly before the armistice ended hostilities.
Mr. Benchley's marriage, on June 26, 1906, united him with Miss Belle Jennings
of San Diego, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jennings. An active member of
the Board of Trade of Fullerton, Mr. Benchley is also prominent in fraternal circles,
where he is a member of the Lodge, Chapter, Commandery and Shrine, of the Masons,
and also of the Elks. He is a also a member of the Hacienda Country Club, the Fuller-
ton Club and the American Legion. Especially fond of out-door sports, he takes his
recreation in hunting, fishing and on the tennis courts. Possessing the business ability
that has brought him success in his own undertakings, Mr. Benchley can always be
counted upon to give his time and energy to all public-spirited undertakings.
THOMAS H. THOMSON.— One of the upbuilders of the Garden Grove district,
Thomas H. Thomson, a wealthy pioneer rancher, is now retired from active business,
living in comfort on the competence accumulated since coming to the West. Of Scotch
ancestry, the qualities of thrift and sagacity which have always characterized this race,
have unquestionably had no small part in the success he has made in all his under
takings. A native of Bovina, Delaware County, N. Y., Mr. Thomson was born there
August 28, 1837, the son of William and Jeanette (Hamilton) Thomson. The father
came from Ayrshire, Scotland in 1825, and settled in New York, and there he was
married, his wife being a native of Delaware County. He became interested in dairying,
owning a farm of 256 acres. Delaware County was at that time the banner county of
New York for Jersey cows, milk and butter, and was the chief source of supply of
New York City for dairy products. Here in this beautiful and healthful locality the
parents reared a family of six sturdy children as is evidenced by the fact that there
was never a doctor called into the house to attend a case of sickness until all were
grown up and married.
Thomas H. grew up on the home place, attending the district schools and early
taking a hand in the farm work, driving a team, plowing and harrowing when he was
but thirteen years old, acquiring in this way that practical knowledge of agriculture
which proved such a benefit to him in his later years. The Thomson home was only
nine miles from the birthplace of Jay Gould and Mr. Thomson remembers him very
well. Notwithstanding the eminence to which the great financier rose in after life, his
boyhood days were spent in milking the cows and such homely chores, like the other
boys of the neighborhood. When a young man, Jay Gould published the Historical
Atlas of Delaware County, and Mr. Thomson well recalls when he was surveying
and canvassing for this work. Until he was twenty-six years of age, Mr. Thomson
remained on his father's farm, helping run their extensive dairy business. He then
began farming for himself, investing the $3,000 which his father had given him in pay
ment for his services, in a tract of 120 acres near Meredith, N. Y. He continued there
in the dairy business until November 30, 1870, when he sold out, and went to Clarinda,
Page County, Iowa, in 1871, farming there until 1874, when he returned to Delaware
County, N. Y. Later he bought a farm of 170 acres near Walton, N. Y., and started
in the dairy business again.
In the meantime Mr. Thomson had become interested in California through his
brother-in-law, the late James McFadden, who for fifty years occupied a place of such
prominence not alone in Orange County, but throughout Southern California, among
his many activities being the promotion and building of the Santa Ana and Newport
Railway. Mr. McFadden had come to Salinas in 1864 and in 1868 he came to Santa
Ana and bought 3,900 acres in what was then called Gospel Swamp, paying $1.75 an
acre for it. He returned to Delaware County, N. Y., and in 1874, came back to Cali
fornia with his family and entered upon his long career of useful service here. Nat
urally, Mr. Thomson heard much of the opportunities offered in the great Southwest
through Mr. McFadden, so in 1888 he disposed of his dairy farm in New York and
came to California, bringing his family with him. For a time they lived on Pine
Street in Santa Ana, and then came up to Garden Grove, where in October, 1890, they
purchased sixty acres of land, and later on bought five acres more. Here Mr. Thomson
and Mr. Jackson, now Sheriff Jackson of Orange County, built the Thomson home on
Ocean Avenue, one mile east of Garden Grove, and which has been the center of many
happy social functions since. This was before the days of the electric road at Garden
Grove and forty acres of Mr. Thomson's land had never been touched by the plow.
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In 1897, with his son William, Mr. Thomson entered upon a ranching enterprise on
the peat lands in the Huntington Beach neighborhood. Taking 200 acres of rough
land covered with tules, willows and underbrush, they at once began grubbing and
draining. Corn and sugar beets were raised and on the latter as high as twenty-
seven tons to the acre were produced. The place was brought up to a high state of
cultivation and in 1905 Mr. Thomson retired, his son, William S., maintaining the ranch.
Mr. Thomson's first marriage occurred January 4, 1864, when he was united with
Miss Elizabeth Elliott, who was born at Middletown, Delaware County, N. Y., and
who passed away at the birth of her first child. Later he was married to Miss Lucy A.
Smith, the daughter of Richard and Maria (Saunders) Smith, both natives of England,
where they spent their early days, and where Mrs. Smith recalled distinctly seeing
Queen Victoria driving through the streets of London. Mr. and Mrs. Thomson have
three living children: Luella is the wife of F. E. Farnsworth of Santa Ana, a wealthy
and influential banker there, and a large landowner and walnut grower; they are the
parents of two children, namely, Evlyn M. and Edward G. Mary I. resides at the
home place; William S. continues to own and successfully operate the large ranch at
Huntington Beach, in which his father was formerly interested. He married Miss
Zella Irwin of Huntington Beach. Mr. Thomson was reared a Scotch covenanter and
he and his wife are now members of the United Presbyterian Church at Santa Ana. It
is to citizens of the type of Mr. and Mrs. Thomson that Orange County is indebted
to for the wonderful progress that has been made in the past years, and they occupy a
high place in the esteem of a large circle of friends.
ANDREW RORDEN. — An interesting, instructive story is that of the life and
work of Andrew Rorden, the rancher of 415 East Chapman Avenue, Fullerton, who came
to America in the early seventies to add to that valuable class of intelligent and indus
trious citizens contributed for half a century or more to the United States by Europe.
He was born on the Island of Fohr, one of the largest of the Fresian Islands, in the
North Sea, in the former duchy of Schleswig-Holstein, now a part of Germany, and
duly confirmed in the Lutheran Church. In 1872 he joined his brother, Christ Rorden,
who had settled in Los Angeles County four years before, and for three years was em
ployed by William McFadden. At the end of that period, he started at Anaheim to learn
the wagonmaker's trade; but the confinement did not agree with his health, and having
given it up, he took up any kind of work he could find until the dry year of 1879. The
hard times incidental to this reverse led him to make a trip back back to Germany; and
after a year there with his friends, he once more found himself in California.
At first, he went to Arizona for three years and worked in the quartz mills, where
he earned enough money to make an initial payment on the ranch of thirty acres he
now owns on East Chapman Avenue, at Fullerton, then in the Anaheim district. He
set out a vineyard, but the blight killed it; and then, in 1886, he began to set out
walnuts — an experiment at that time here. Now he has fourteen acres, and they make
as handsome a walnut orchard as one would wish to find. He also set out, in 1891,
the first oranges — luckily, Valencias, and now he has eight and one-half acres. While
his trees were maturing, he raised peanuts, cabbage and potatoes, in order to cover
expenses; and by 1892, he was enabled to erect a good home. He endured many hard
ships in these trying-out years, before he 'was even on the road to that success which
he now enjoys and which he so richly deserves; for farming was an experiment in
those early days, particularly until the problem of transportation had been solved and
markets were established. Now, one of the charter members of the Fullerton-Placentia
Walnut Growers Association, and a member of the Placentia Orange Growers Associa
tion, and also a shareholder in the Anaheim Union Water Company, he has the esteem
of all who know him as an honest man, and the good will of all who have followed his
patriotic course during the trying days of the World War.. He came to California to
establish here a permanent home, and he has been loyal to the country, state and county,
and has heartily supported all those measures which have meant the greatest good to
the greatest number in the community.
Mr. Rorden has been twice married. His first wife was Rebecca Knudtsen — a
good companion, who died at Los Angeles in 1912. For his second wife, he married
Mrs. Marie (Togel) Klement of Anaheim, the widow of a butcher of that place, and
the mother of one daughter, Miss Pauline Klement, who makes her home with Mr.
and Mrs. Rorden. In 1894, Mr. Rorden returned home to Europe for the second time,
and in 1907, while Mrs. Rorden was still living, he made a third trip, taking her. His
fourth and last visit to Germany was in 1913.
FRED A. MAURER. — After an eventful life, in which he traveled thousands oi
miles over the entire West, with many adventurous experiences, which he recalls and
narrates in an interesting way, Fred A. Maurer is now living retired at his comfortable
home in Anaheim. A native of Lorraine. Mr. Maurer was born there March 12, 1849,
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tants undisturbed by the hand of the conqueror.. He was the son of Jacob and Mary
(Seigel) Maurer, his father being the owner of a vineyard in that country.
While still a babe he was brought to America by his parents, the trip being made
on a sailing vessel and eighty days were spent in crossing the Atlantic. The family
settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where Jacob Maurer engaged in business, and here Fred
A. grew up, attending the schools of that thriving city and learned the trade of cooper.
The spirit of adventure was strong within him, however, and in 1878 he made up his
mind to see something of this great country. Starting west, he went first to Green
River, Wyo., and then to the Ontario silver mines in that state, remaining six months.
Going to Salt Lake City, Mr. Maurer, with two companions, equipped themselves
for a trip across the desert, and traveled the whole length of Utah to Washington, in
the southwestern part of the state. Going down into Arizona they crossed the Colo
rado River at Lees Ferry, making their way from there to Bingham City, a distance of
100 miles. Their supplies gave out on this trip and they had only two flapjacks apiece
on the whole journey so they were almost famished when they reached Bingham City.
There they obtained a sack of flour for twenty dollars which they divided with another
party and going over Simpson Pass continued on to Prescott, where they remained to
prospect for gold for some months. From there they went on to Globe, Ariz., working
in the Stonewall Jackson silver mine and later Mr. Maurer went on to the Silver King
mine, spending five years there. In these days Mr. Maurer spent much time among
the Indians and he can recall many interesting reminiscences of the different tribes,
among whom he always fared well, as he understood their ways and knew how to
treat them.
Coming to Anaheim in 1884, when this country was covered with vineyards, Mr.
Maurer remained here for some months, and during his stay helped to make tanks
and barrels for the Boege Winery. The lure of gold, however, drew him to the north
part of the state and here he prospected for about a year, returning to Anaheim, where
he has since made his home. Soon after coming back to this part of the country Mr.
Maurer began shipping lemons from here, being the first shipper from the county out
of the state and into Arizona; he purchased fruit from the groves around Orange,
Placentia and Anaheim, packing them in a cooper shop near the Southern Pacific depot.
In October, 1893, Mr. Maurer was married to Mrs. Mary (Gade) Wilkins, a
native of Milwaukee, who came here in 1880 with her brother, Harry Gade, who ran an
express business in Anaheim. Mrs. Maurer was the owner of a tract of six and a half
acres in Anaheim, its boundaries being Broadway, West, Center and Walnut streets,
and for some years they made their home there, selling it in 1909 and building a resi
dence in Resh Street; this they also disposed of after living there a year, purchasing
a home on North Citron Avenue. On August 15, 1920, Mrs. Maurer died, aged sixty-
three years. In 1894 Mr. Maurer purchased ten acres of land, renting it out until 1910,
when he disposed of it. Mr. Maurer was also the owner of a forty-acre ranch thirty
miles from Bakersfield on the Santa Fe Railroad, on which he raised hay, buying this
in 1910 and selling it two years later.
Coming here in the early days, Mr. Maurer has not only viewed the wonderful
transformation that has taken place in this vicinity but has contributed his share in
this great work of development. Kindly disposed and generous in his attitude toward
his fellow beings, he has a large circle of warm friends. In politics he has always been
a believer in the principles of the Deiriocratic party and marches under their banner
when he casts his vote.
ELI S. HARRIS. — During the long period of his residence in California, dating
from 1857, when, a child of two years old, he accompanied his parents to the Pacific
Coast, Eli S. Harris has been an eyewitness of the wonderful changes that time has
wrought since early pioneer days. He was born near Denton, Texas, on February
20, 1855, and is the son of Andrew S. and Lou Ann (Major) Harris.
Andrew S. was born in North Carolina in 1816, and attained the age of seventy-
seven, dying in 1893. His wife, who was born in 1829, died in 1918, and was buried
on her eighty-ninth birthday. Mr. Harris removed from his native state to Missouri,
and was with the militia who were called out in 1836 to meet the encroachments of
the Mormons, who in those days became very bold. He finally moved to Texas, in
1847, where he had a novel experience with the Indians, who were intent on stealing
all the horses they could lay hands on, so that he was obliged to chain his horses
to his log house to preserve them from the thieving Indians. Of his family of
thirteen children, three of whom accompanied him to the Pacific Coast in the seven-
months' journey overland by ox-team in 1857, five are living, and are residents of
Orange County. The family stopped in San Bernardino County one year, then
moved to El Monte and bought grant land, but lost it. In 1867 he moved with horse-
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fornia, sold his horses and in 1869 purchased forty acres of unimproved land in Los
Angeles County, after arriving in his new home, and took up the vocation of farming.
Eli S. Harris moved to Orange County in 1873, where he remained six years,
locating south on the Bolsa, and was one of the first men to build in Garden Grove
in 1876. Milton Teal has the honor of being the first man to build in that place.
Mr. Harris owned a ranch of forty acres and followed general farming. Like most
pioneers, he bought and sold several parcels of land before finally settling down. He
was absent from Orange County from 1881 until 1914, with the exception of two
years, and in the meantime followed ranching. He resided in San Diego County
twelve years, and for seven years was "in the saddle" as a. stockman, a business he
enjoyed and made profitable.
His marriage, in Azusa, occurred in 1894, and united him with Miss Susan
Danks, a native of Kentucky, who had been a resident of California since 1869, having
crossed the plains with ox-teams. Her father, a major in the Mexican War, and
Mr. Harris' father were Texas pioneers together. Eight children were born of their
union, six of whom are living, viz.: Albert Andrew, of Orange; William W. makes
his home with his parents; Simeon W., of Santa Ana; Charles D., of Santa Ana;
George F. is in Orange; Dora B., wife of Leroy Brittingham of Los Angeles.
George F. and William W. were in the U. S. service in the late World War;
George F., who saw active service in France, was wounded at the Battle of Argonne.
He was promoted to the rank of corporal, and belonged to the Three Hundred Sixty-
fourth Infantry,, Ninety-first Division. His brother, William W., who was in the
heavy artillery, did not see active service, getting no farther than San Diego.
Eli S. Harris's five-acre ranch on the Garden Grove Road, which he purchased
in 1916, is devoted to the culture of Valencia oranges. Mr. Harris is a worthy citizen
of industrious habits, and enjoys the esteem of his fellow-citizens. In politics he
affiliates with the Democratic party in national affairs, but in local matters supports
the best men and measures.
JONATHAN WATSON.— One of the few remaining '49ers in California is
Jonathan Watson, and his life stands out as one of the hardy pioneers who, with his
great strength, courage and determination, was utterly fearless in facing the many
hardships that they encountered in those early days. His memory of his pioneer
experiences is splendid, and it is most interesting to hear him recount the story of
his boyhood escapades and his hunting experiences up on the San Joaquin, when
they made corrals from elkhorns picked up on the plains. He has seen herds of
elk numbering 500 in a bunch, 20,000 antelope, and in the Santa Cruz Mountains of
San Benito County as many as 300 bears in one of the mountain valleys. At one
time since living in Santa Ana Canyon, he hunted game for the market, and has
killed as many as twenty-five deer in a day in Santiago Canyon.
Jonathan Watson was born near Independence, Jackson County, Mo., on July
24, 1844, the son of Henry Watson, a native of Virginia, where he was born in the
historic year of 1812. He married Matilda Cox, also a native of the Old Dominion,
the ceremony taking place in Virginia, and the young couple a few years later
settled in Missouri. They began to rear their family on a farm in Jackson County,
and he followed freighting to Santa Fe with ox teams, over the old Santa Fe Trail.
The story of the discovery of gold in California made him restless, however, and he
joined the thousands hurrying westward, in the hope of bettering his condition and
that of those dependent upon him. Owing to his having been an experienced frontiers
man, with considerable knowledge of the language and characteristics of the Indians,
many neighbors and friends applied to join his company, and so Henry Watson's
train came to have 500 wagons and over 1,000 men, and turned away many others
who applied. As captain of the train he scouted ahead, picked the camping places
and killed the game — buffalo and antelope — for their food. The Indians massacred the
train before them but, thanks to Henry Watson's vigilance and diplomacy, they
came through all right.
Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Watson in Virginia: Mrs.
Jane Barham, who passed away some years ago, and Mrs. Sarah Ann Bush, who
died at the old Bush home above Olive, March 26, 1920. Two children were born to
them in Missouri: Jonathan Watson, of this review, and David, who died at Olive
a few years ago. Two children were also born to them after they came to California.
Jacob, a native of Santa Clara, is a rancher in San Diego County, near the old San
Luis Rey Mission. Charles, who was born in Monterey, or what is now San Benito
County, is an engineer and is employed at the city water works at Orange.
Henry Watson came to California to make his home, arid so brought with him
eight ox wagons loaded with merchandise. One wagon was full of clothing, and an
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wagons contained something substantial, such as hardware, tools and the like. He
left Jackson County, Mo., in 1849, and after a journey of three months, pulled up
at Sacramento. He went to Bear Creek, and soon after to Dry Creek, built a hotel
and engaged in freighting to Nevada and the adjoining mining towns. He received
$100 a day for a team, wagon and driver, and for three yoke of cxen, a wagon and
driver he received $300 a day, but flour was then a dollar a pound, mining boots
fifty dollars a pair, and other essentials proportionately high.
As a mere boy, Jonathan Watson drove teams; in fact, he drove the first load
of freight that ever came into Nevada City, Cal. He passed through Hangtown,
and there saw three desperadoes dangling by the neck, the work of Vigilantes.
His education was very limited, for from a boy he assisted his father in the sheep
business. Henry Watson and his family first lived in the Santa Clara Valley, moving
from there to Monterey County; later he owned stock ranches in Fresno and Tulare
counties, near Visalia. Then he operated in the Kings River country, in what is
now Kings County. He worked hard and prospered, became a large landowner
and held title to land for twenty-five miles up and down the San Joaquin River.
This land he afterward sold to Miller & Lux. Henry Watson died at Olive at
the age of eighty-seven, the mother having passed away when she was sixty years old.
Jonathan Watson started in business for himself as a stockman and sheepman
when he was eighteen years old, on the San Joaquin River, and his flocks increased so
that he soon had a drove of 15,000 sheep. He brought them down to the neighborhood
of Olive in 1868, coming there with his father; then he went back to the San Joaquin
Valley and disposed of his interests there. With J. M. Bush as a partner, in 1869 he
bought 12,000 acres of land stretching from the Santa Ana River at Olive south and
east to Tustin; and for twenty-five years he was in the sheep business, during which
time, for twenty years he never slept in a house. When Messrs. Watson and Bush
bought this land they also purchased the priority water right and used it for raising
alfalfa. When irrigation was started in the valley below, he and his father looked the
water right over and decided that it was not right for them to keep it all, but that
others should have the use of it, too, so they not only gave up their right to the Santa
Ana Valley Irrigation Company, but helped build the canal, and later on Mr. Watson
served for a number of years as a director of this company. From time to time Mr.
Watson sold off parcels from his holding, retaining 105 acres under the canal, which
he set out years ago to walnuts, lemons and Valencia oranges, now full bearing and
yielding a handsome income.
A giant in strength, Mr. Watson is still a powerful man; he enjoyed the reputation
of being a better shot than even Buffalo Bill, and has killed more grizzlies than any
other man in California. When he lined up with Colonel Cody and worsted him, he
used a Hawkins rifle; the contest with Buffalo Bill was on the banks of the San
Joaquin River, and on account of his marksmanship he was offered $500 a week by an
Englishman to go buffalo hunting with him on the great plains, but he turned the offer
down. He also excelled in running and jumping and his prowess in athletics was
wonderful. His training had not been in the gymnasium as nowadays, but in the great
outdoors, by exercise on the plains and in the fields. In those early days he won many
contests at both running and jumping; thus it was that when he was a boy of seventeen
at Watsonville the manager of Lee's Circus offered him $500 a week to travel with the
circus as an athlete, but he also turned that offer down, for he would not leave his
mother. One shooting contest he had with John Mason, a quarter-breed Cherokee
Indian who thought himself invincible, came near proving a tragedy. Mr. Watson
easily proved his superiority as a marksman, when Mason drew a shotgun on him,
but with lightning quickness Mr. Watson threw the barrel of the gun up with his
revolver and the charge went through his hat; then he covered the would-be murderer,
who cringingly wilted and dropped his gun, The remembrance of his mother and her
teachings came before him and kept him from shooting, and he was ever afterwards
glad, because he did not want the blood of any man on his conscience, even though it
was in self-defense.
Mr. Watson was married the first time in Watsonville, when he made Miss Eliza
Hildreth his wife. They had several children, but only one lived to maturity — Mrs.
Winifred Stoner, who resides near Hemet in Riverside County. Mr. Watson's second
marriage, which occurred at Santa Ana, April 16, 1891, united him with Miss Lenna
May Barger, the daughter of Josiah and Mary F. (Robinson) Barger, born in Virginia
and Ohio, respectively. They came from Nebraska to California September 17, 1884,
settling first at Olive, but later were orange growers at McPherson until they moved
to Hemet, where the mother died September 25, 1919, while Mr. Barger is still engaged
in horticulture. Lenna was the eldest of their six living children and was born near
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Floyd, of the firm of Thompson & Watson, auto electricians of Orange, resides there
with his wife, who was Effie E. Whitcomb, they have a daughter, Georgia E.; Errol
Trafford is a rancher who married Beatrice Durkee, they have two children, June L. and
Maxine, and live on a part of his father's ranch; Florence M. is the wife of Herbert
J. Beckler, a merchant at Deshler, Thayer County, Nebr., and they have one child
Virginia; Harold A. is also a rancher, living on a part of his father's ranch, he married
Bernice Wilbur, a stepdaughter of Dr. Royer of Orange.
Mr. and Mrs. Watson are members of the Christian Church at Santa Ana, and
for many years Mr. Watson has been a school trustee in the Olive district. A Democrat
in politics, he has always been active in civic affairs and took a prominent part in the
formation of Orange County. Kindly, pleasant, straightforward and honest, he is still
hale, hearty and athletic at the age of seventy-six, and can look back on a life well
spent and filled to the full with interesting experiences. Taking it all in all he is one
of Orange County's genuine upbuilders, a true type of the hardy pioneer who has
made possible the wonderful development of today.
WILLIS G. MITCHELL. — The efficient manager of the Irvine Company's ranch
at Tustin, Orange County, Cal., is Willis G. Mitchell, a native of London, Canada,
where he was born on November 20, 1867. He is the son of Ralph M. and Johanna
(Allen) Mitchell, also natives of that country. Ralph M. Mitchell was a successful
farmer near London until the family moved to California in 1889, locating in Orange
County, where he engaged in ranching near Tustin, becoming owner of the farm, where
he and his good wife spent their last days. Of their three children Willis G. is the
youngest of the family, growing up on the Eastern farm, receiving a good education
in the excellent schools of that region. As was the custom in that country he made
himself generally useful, thus learning the rudiments of farming from the time he
was a boy.
Since 1889 Mr. Mitchell has been a continuous resident of Orange County, Cal.,
coming direct to this country from his Canadian home when a young man of twenty-
one. In due time he became a citizen of his adopted country and for the past thirty-
one years has been connected with the citrus industry. He is also well versed in
general agriculture. Since 1890 he has been associated with the Irvine Company, and
for a number of years was assistant manager of the Irvine ranch. Since 1915 he has
occupied the important position of manager of the ranch and his knowledge of general
ranching in California makes him a valuable man for the position. The ranch embraces
about 100,000 acres of land, upon which all varieties of grains, vegetables and fruits
raised in Southern California are grown. This vast acreage has been apportioned into
smaller ranches comprising several hundred acres in area, which are leased to about
130 tenants. The Irvine Company operates a part of the ranch, thus giving employment
to a large number of men. Mr. Mitchell has the entire oversight of these vast holdings
with its many cares and responsibilities, including looking after the leases.
Being very optimistic over the future greatness of Orange County land, and
particularly of orange and walnut groves, Mr. Mitchell many years ago purchased
lands which he developed and set out to oranges and walnuts and he has seen to it that
they have had such excellent care that they are among the most attractive properties
of their kind in the district.
Mr. Mitchell established domestic ties by his marriage in Los Angeles in 1893
with Miss Sarah Emily Green, born in Middleton, Wis., a daughter of John W. Green
of that state. Of their happy union three children have been born: Ralph, Willis and
Florence by name. Mr. Mitchell is a director in the First National Bank of Santa
Ana, Cal., and has the confidence not only of his employers and employees, but of the
citizens of the county, among whom he is well and favorably known and highly
esteemed. In his fraternal associations he is a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows.
J. D. PRICE. — Influential in many departments of local activity on account of his
enviable status as the largest individual realty owner in Garden Grove, J. D. Price,
the well-known pioneer, has been able to contribute much toward the rapid and sure
development of Orange County interests, and has thus been privileged, while making
progress for himself, to give his neighbors and fellow-citizens, his friends and his com
petitors, a helpful lift along the way. He was born in the parish of Jefferson, adjoining
that of New Orleans, on March 1, 1845, the son of David Price, a machinist who came
from England, settled in Missouri, and there married Miss Eliza Williams, a native of
that state. He made a specialty of installing sugar machinery, and equipped many
Louisiana sugar cane mills. When only thirty years of age he died in Louisiana, leav
ing three children, all boys; among whom our subject was the second in the order of
birth, and is the only one now living. Three years later, the devoted widowed mother
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One of the sons was sent to relatives in Indiana, and two were taken by nearby
kin in Louisiana; with the result that when the Civil War broke out, the latter enlisted
from Louisiana as Confederate soldiers, while the former, the youngest of the trio,
joined the Twenty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and fought as a Union soldier.
J. D. Price's education was very limited, and he was obliged to abandon his
school books after the age of fifteen. In 1862 he entered Company I of the Eleventh
Louisiana Infantry, and stayed in the service until the end of the war. He was in
Bragg's Army in Tennessee, and fought at Shiloh, Farmington and Perryville; and
upon his being honorably discharged, he reenlisted as a member of Company A,
Ogden's Battalion, Louisiana Cavalry. He was wounded and captured at Perryville,
and exchanged at Vicksburg, and was taken prisoner for a second time near Morganza,
La., and exchanged at Richmond, a month prior to Lee's surrender. At the conclusion
of the great struggle, he was paroled at Baton Rouge, La., on May 18, 1865, and
returned home.
After the war, he went to farming at East Baton Rouge, where he remained until
1866; and then he removed to Arkansas, where he continued farming. In 1868, he
crossed the plains from Arkansas, in a train of mule and ox wagons, coming by way
of El Paso and Tucson; and he farmed at Prescott, Ariz., from 1868 to 1874, when he
came on in wagons to California. He crossed the Colorado River at Ahrenburg, and
arrived at Los Angeles in June, 1874. This was not his first visit to the Golden State,
for he had already made several freighting and trading trips to California while resid
ing in Arizona.
Mr. Price was married at Azusa in May, 1871, to Miss Nannie Dougherty, a native
of Virginia and the daughter of Charles and Rosamond (Hale) Dougherty. She was
only three years old when her parents came from Virginia to Texas, and in the Lone
Star State she grew up, until she came to California with her parents in 1868. She
thus crossed the great plains about the same period as had Mr. Price, although it was
her first trip over the continent. The Comanches and Apaches were hostile, and the
immigrants formed large trains for their protection. After their marriage, Mrs. Price
accompanied her husband back to Prescott, and there he settled up his business pre
paratory to coming here in 1874. In that year he took up his residence upon an eighty-
acre farm one mile east of what is now the town of Garden Grove, and there erected
the first house in this district, also bored the second artesian well.
Mr. Price owned several ranches which he farmed up to about 1910, and he made
his first investment in Garden Grove real estate in 1907. Since then his action in buying
•and erecting business structures and residences speaks louder than words of a supreme
faith in Garden Grove. He owns a farm of forty acres devoted to peppers and potatoes
two miles south of the town, which he rents out; he built the postoffice building, and
the two-story brick building east of it, and he owns the hotel building; and he also
owns the garage building east of the two-story brick. He has completed two six-room
bungalows on- Walnut Street, and he intends to continue 'his investments and ventures
as fast as the growth of the town will justify.
Seven children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Price. Stella, now Mrs. R. B.
Vaile, is a graduate of the University of California and a teacher at Katella, she has a
son, R. B., Jr.; Sterling is an extensive rancher in Bolsa precinct, he married Florence
Heiland and they have five children — Maurice D., Thelma, Gerald, Wilma and
the baby; Charles, formerly county veterinary officer, is a veterinary surgeon at Santa
Ana; he married Eva Bridgeford, and they have two sons, Kenneth and Ray; Gertrude
resides at San Diego with her husband, R. S. Reed, secretary of an abstract company;
Lida is the wife of A. D. Kinne, assistant manager of R. G. Dun and Company, Los
Angeles; Rae became the wife of Dr. I. F. Baldwin of Los Angeles; she died on October
9, 1918, leaving two children, Irving and Eleanor; Dr. Baldwin died in 1919; Mattie
Lou died at the age of four years.
The Golden Rule has been the chief guide for both Mr. and Mrs. Price in their
dealings with others. He is a Democrat in national political matters, and yet always
for the best men and the best measures, and' served' for about eighteen years as a
school trustee. With his good wife, he answered every call of the Red Cross during
the late war, and associated himself with various war activities. He has served on both
grand and petit juries. Fraternally, he is a Mason. Mrs. Price, as a lady of exceptional
culture, enjoys the esteem of a very wide circle of friends.
Not long ago Mrs. Price contributed a very interesting story to the Garden Grove
News, giving her "Reminiscences of Pioneer Days," in which she says:
"We settled in El Monte, where my father bought a lease and the improvements
on ten acres of land, for which he paid $50 and a mule, and gave one-tenth of the crop
each year to the owner, Mr. Temple, who owned several-thousand acres of an old Span
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Temple Bank in Los Angeles. It was the second bank there at that time. The building-
still stands, and is known today as the Temple Block. Through Temple's generosity
and his confidence in the people, he lost everything he and Mr. Workman had. Mr.
Workman committed suicide, and Temple died in a miserable sheep camp, deserted by
his family, and all alone. All this Spanish grant was taken over by their creditors, and
sold off for homes.
"I can never forget the first- time that I saw Los Angeles. It was nothing but a
straggling Spanish pueblo. Saloons were far more in evidence than any other business;
every little grocery store sold wines and liquors. There was not a street car nor steam
railway in the place. In the year 1868 a railroad was built from Los Angeles to Wil
mington, which created great excitement. The first train that went over it afforded
a free excursion, and what a jubilee everybody had.
"In 1874, we came to Orange, which was called Richland at that time. We only
stopped there long enough to look about us and select a location, and finally purchased
eighty acres one mile east of where we now live. Orange consisted of one mixed
store, a blacksmith shop, one small schoolhouse, and a few straggling houses. Santa
Ana had one general merchandise store, which was Spurgeon's, one blacksmith shop
and one saloon. A little later, we had the privilege of helping to build the first church,
which was the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
"Mr. Price hauled the lumber for our house from Anaheim Landing, which was
the shipping point for all this country. There was only one settler between here and
Anaheim, it being all sheep pasture. In a short time we could see little shacks going
up here and there, until a school was talked about. The Bolsa school district took in
all the territory from Huntington Beach to two miles north of here, except West
minster Colony, they having formed a school district of their own. Finally, we formed
our district, and Mr. A. G. Cook named it Garden Grove. Some objected, thought it
' was not appropriate, as there was nothing that could be called a tree in the whole
district, but Mr. Cook said: 'We'll make it appropriate by planting trees and making
it beautiful.' " In this interesting manner Mrs. Price tells of the early sales of land, the
first orange groves here, and the gradual discovery of the rich soil and its capabilities.
MRS. JULIETTE SMITH.— A distinguished resident of Santa Ana, who, despite
advanced years, was privileged to take an active part in relief work during the late
war, is Mrs. Juliette Smith of 122 East Eleventh Street. She was born in Little York,
Warren County, 111, the daughter of W. C. Maley, one of the delegates to the National
Republican Convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency, and
an enthusiast who stumped the state for and with him, and as a souvenir of that*
exciting campaign, handed down to her from her father, she treasures a piece of rail
split by Lincoln at Decatur, 111. She was educated at the academy in Little York and
received there the best advantages of the period. Her father had come to Illinois in
1830, at the age of twenty-one, riding horseback from Harrisville, W. Va. Her uncle
on the paternal side was Maj.-Gen. T. M. Harris, for whose family Harrisville, W.
Va., is named, and he was a physician before he served in the Civil War. Her grand
father, Wm. Maley, did not believe in slavery, and came to Illinois with his family in
1831. Juliette Maley's mother was Margaret Giles, a native of Abbyville District,
South Carolina, who came to Illinois with her parents, who were also opposed to
slavery. Her father, uncle, and her father's brother-in-law, in 1869 removed to Cedar
County, Iowa, and purchased 1,200 acres along the Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road and started the town of Stanwood, Iowa, which was named after the vice-
president of the Northwestern Road. It was prairie land, but it soon came to have
a more inviting appearance, thanks especially to the enterprise of the projectors.
A year later, on April 7, 1870, Miss Maley was married to John Neal Smith,
the ceremony taking place at Stanwood. He was a native of Illinois, where he was
born on January 5, 1835, the son of Hugh Smith, who came from Ireland, and who
married Esther Selfrage, a native of New York of Scotch descent. He moved to
Mount Vernon, Iowa, and there in Linn County in 1854 took up Governmment land.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. John Neal Smith lived on the old homestead for
eighteen months, when they sold the property and went back to Stanwood.
For' the next year and a half Mr. Smith ran an agricultural implement store there,
and when he disposed of that, he purchased a farm near Stanwood, embracing 110
acres, which were devoted to general farming, although he specialized in stock, buying
and selling cattle. He also had a general store at Stanwood and handled general
merchandise, grain and provisions. In August, 1881, he sold out and came west to
Santa Ana, Cal. Here for five years he was engaged in the meat business with James
McFadden, and then he sold that pioneer his interest. For a year he engaged in the
grocery trade, but sold that also. When the "boom" came he went into the real
estate business with Judge Humphrey and George Minter, but the "boom" burst. At

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the end of eleven years of residence here he went back to Iowa, having sold all that
he owned in Santa Ana, and he farmed in Lyons County for nine months. The lure
of California, however, brought him back here again in 1892, and he settled on a ranch
of twenty-one acres on Fruit east of Grand Avenue, and there he devoted his time and
energies to the culture of walnuts and oranges until September, 1913, when he died,
mourned by all who knew him. Mrs. Smith now resides at 122 East Eleventh Street,
Santa Ana, but still owns the ranch, which now comprises twenty-nine acres devoted
to oranges and walnuts.
Seven children, five boys and two girls, make up the family of this estimable
lady: William M., Margaret E., Martha A., Hugh G., J. Herbert, Archie H. and
James Merle. Mrs. Smith, therefore, is happy, being surrounded by . her children,
who assist her in looking after her properties, thus relieving her of all unnecessary
worry and care.
Mrs. Smith is a liberal and helpful woman, and gives her aid to all enterprises
that have for their aim the development of the county in which she has so much
faith. She loyally shared in the burdensome program of the ever-diligent war drives,
particularly in the Red Cross. Mrs. Smith belongs to the United Presbyterian Church
and is a member of the Woman's Relief Corps and the Women's Christian Temper
ance Union.
SAMSON EDWARDS. — Among the pioneers of Orange County none were bet
ter known or more active in its upbuilding than Samson Edwards, who for nearly
fifty years was identified with its development. He was a native of Berg Parish,
Cornwall County, England, where he was born on February 26, 1830, into the family
of William and Elizabeth (Pierce) Edwards. As a boy aged six he began working
in local mines, but in 1846, when so many of Europe sought an asylum in the New
World, he migrated with his parents to the United States, but the parents died soon
after reaching this country and they were buried in Pennsylvania. There were left a
son, John Samson, and his wife, and some smaller children to battle the world for
existence in the new country. They all endured many privations and lived in cramped
quarters until a start could be made and the younger children reared to such ages
as they could be self-supporting. They had migrated to Pittsburgh, Pa., where
Samson worked for sixty-two and a half cents per day in a steam brick mill and later,
after locating in Wisconsin he worked for a dollar and a quarter a day at some of
the hardest work of his life in the lead mines.
He met and married, at Hazel Green, Grant County, on November 1, 1851, a
native of England, who was destined to share with him the joys and sorrows of a
long and strenuous life, and also to go with him, almost at the same moment, through
the shadowy portal of death. She was Miss Diana Rogers, a daughter of John and
Jane (Curtis) Rogers and she was born in England on March 9, 1833.
Thus having set up his domestic establishment, Mr. Edwards took up farming
across the state line in Jo Daviess County, 111., and after four years moved somewhat
east, where he bought and developed a good farm until 1874. Then, having read much
about California and its advantages to men of thrift and energy, he sold out his hold
ings and crossed the continent with his family to San Francisco, thence by boat to
Wilmington, where they were met by a nephew, W. H. Edwards, and located at
Westminster. There were five children in the Samson Edwards family when they
came to California: John H., now living in Santa Ana; William J., of Westminster;
Mary Isabella, the wife of F. J. Rogers of Santa Ana; Hester Ann, who married C. E.
Bowlsby and is deceased; and Nelson T., of Orange. Mr. Edwards formed a partner
ship with two brothers, John and Thomas Edwards, but at the end of two years
they divided their interests equally. In the meantifne they had started dairying with
good cattle, but they had to haul their products to Los Angeles by team. They paid
$18.50 an acre for their land, but to erect the necessary fences and buildings they had
to order 250,000 feet of lumber shipped from the North. They raised some of the
first corn ever planted in the peat lands, which yielded over 100 bushels to the acre.
His experience in those days afforded Samson Edwards the theme for many
a good story. Often he had to drag cattle out of the bog holes with his team and he
rode horseback over all that section of country before there were any roads and
these he helped to build. He became owner of 160 acres of land, which he developed
into a valuable farm with the aid of his sons John H. and William J. He leased
the Smeltzer pasturage for some years, and for several years was engaged in the meat
business, running the wagons all over what is now Orange County, and through some
parts of Los Angeles County, for the country abounded with wild Spanish cattle,
hogs and horses. Robert McFadden sold him his first seventy head of wild cattle;
he caught and broke wild horses, paying from $22 to $40 a head. All teaming was
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lassoed wild hogs which were then very plentiful in the tules. On account of the
dearth of trees thereabouts, Mr. Edwards sent to San Francisco for eucalyptus seed,
planted them in beds and then transplanted them to their more permanent places.
President of the Westminster Farmers' Club, Mr. Edwards, assisted by his good
wife, gave liberally of his time and means for years to advance in every way the
best interests of the ranchers. He was a member of the Methodist Church for thirty
years, and was instrumental in the building and support of the First Methodist
Church in Westminster.
Some years ago, a previous edition of the History of Orange County, in very
appropriately noting the life-work of these esteemed, influential pioneers, said among
other things: "Mr. Edwards and his wife endured the hardships of pioneer life and,
assisted by their children, made rapid strides toward success. They helped their
children to get a start in the world, thus repaying them for the assistance they gave
him in the early struggle in the county. He and his wife have been residents oi
Santa Ana for the past ten years,. and it was here, November 1, 1901, that they cele
brated their fiftieth wedding anniversary and were greeted by hundreds of friends
from all parts of the county. They are enjoying the fruits of their early labors, and
can look back into the past upon lives well spent and to the future for the final call
without fear." In the light of the foregoing, it is sad indeed to relate that on March
26, 1912, both Mr. and Mrs. Edwards were killed at Santa Ana when their automobile
in crossing the tracks was struck by a Pacific Electric car.
D. EYMAN HUFF.— One of the best informed men in all Southern California
regarding the marketing and the growing of citrus fruits is D. Eyman Huff, of Orange
County, manager of the David Hewes Realty Corporation, which controls 675 acres
of land at El Modena. With twenty-two years of constructive service in behalf of
the citrus industry of the state, Mr. Huff looks back upon the development of an
industry that has taken years to perfect, and a part in which he has had a strong
influence in bringing about.
D. Eyman Huff was born at Osawatomie, Kans., September 17, 1880, the son of
Samuel and Olive (Smith) Huff, natives of Indiana and Illinois, respectively. Besides
D. Eyman there were five children who came to California when the family left
their Kansas home in 1887 and emigrated to the Golden State: Lewis N., William
F. and E. Gertrude all live in Long Beach; Ralph E. still makes his home with his
parents in Orange County; Ivy is deceased. The family first settled near Fallbrook,
but in September of 1890 they located in Orange County, where the parents still live.
In 1890 D. Eyman Huff first located in this county, but divided his time between
Los Angeles and here until 1910, since which time he has been a permanent resident
of this favored section. He was educated in the public schools of Orange County,
then went to Los Angeles to take a course in the Normal School there, but soon
entered the store kept by his brother, as a clerk, in the meantime carrying a morning
paper route in the business district, which took him into the offices of the Southern
California Fruit Exchange, where Joseph L. Merrill was chief accountant. Mr. Merrill
ha'd picked some likely young lads from amongst the newsboys when a vacancy was
to be filled, and his notice was drawn to young Huff, to whom he offered a position
as office boy with a salary of fifteen dollars per month, and he began his duties on
December 13, 1898. Two months later he got his first promotion and a salary of
twenty-five dollars per month, and from this beginning he gradually worked his way
through the various positions in the office until he was assistant sales manager and
the most capable man to hold that position. Then the Covina Fruit Exchange wanted
a manager, and he was recommended for the place and served for two years, the
second year there, representing that exchange on the board of directors of the Central
Exchange. During these eleven years he had gained an intimate knowledge of all
branches of the citrus industry, and was conceded to be one of the best-posted men in
Southern California.
In 1909 he became manager of the Orange County Fruit Exchange with only two
members, the Santiago Association and the David Hewes Ranch Company. It was
shown that only about thirty per cent of the product grown was marketed through
the Exchange, and the new manager at once started to awaken an interest among the
growers, so that by 1915 he had organized, or helped to organize, seven additional
associations through which practically seventy-five per cent of the crop was marketed.
These included Tustin Hills, Tustin Lemon Association, Villa Park Orchards, Central
Lemon, Olive Heights Citrus, McPherson Heights Citrus and Garden Grove Citrus
associations. In July, 1915, David Hewes passed away, a few months after he had
organized the David Hewes Realty Corporation, and the property passed to the heirs.
The directors of the company cast about for the right man to manage the business,
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his duties and at once began to put in operation his advanced ideas, and has continued
to serve the company with satisfaction to all concerned ever since, all the time making
the ranch more productive and bringing about a steady and strong market, as well as
a demand for a highly standardized grade and pack.
Mr. Huff is also a grower himself, owning one or more groves, and bringing
them to a higher state of productivity before selling them. He has always been a
hard worker, has a keen, analytical mind, ever alert in the interest of the cause he
espouses, a winning personality and the ability to convince others, all of which have
been a great help to his achievement. He sees a great future for the citrus growers
and knows many problems will arise with the development of new groves that will
call for the cooperation of all the growers to solve. He is always willing to give
advice as to latest methods of care for groves, best bud selection, and picking and
packing of the fruit. Mr. Huff was manager of the Orange County Fruit Exchange,
during which time he was its member on the central board of directors; since 1915 he
has been a director of the Orange County Exchange; is a director and one of the
incorporators of the Exchange Byproducts Company, operating the Corona Lemon
Products plant; was president of the Orange County Associated Chambers of Com
merce, arid believes in forwarding all projects for the upbuilding of Southern Cali
fornia, and plans greater projects for the development of the great Hewes ranch.
The marriage of D. Eyman Huff with Miss Blanche L. Waite was celebrated
on April 20, 1901, and united him with a popular lady who grew up in California from
a small child. Her parents, Earl and Inez (Robb) Waite, were natives of New York
and Ohio, respectively, who came to California about 1884 with their family of four
children. The parents are now residents of Long Beach. Mrs. Huff was educated in
the schools of Los Angeles and has lived in this vicinity for many years. They have
a son, Chauncey Earl Huff, born 1902, and graduated from the Orange high school.
He is an amateur wireless operator, and is now taking a course at the Southwestern
University in Los Angeles in commercial and business law. Mrs. Huff has ever been
an inspiration to her accomplished husband, and shares with him the esteem of a host
of friends in Southern California. Mr. Huff is a thirty-second degree Mason and a
Shriner, and in politics is a stanch Republican in national affairs, although he does
not draw the party line when it comes to local issues, supporting the men and meas
ures he considers best suited for the office and people.
CALVIN E. JACKSON. — Law and order could not fail to be among the first
appeals in favor of residence in Orange County, so long as that office is filled by such
a man as Calvin E. Jackson, who is one of the most popular of California sheriffs, as
he always has been the most respected. A man who holds the respect of all who know
him, even the criminals whom he causes to be arrested, for they know that at his hands
they will be dealt with in justice to the crime committed. His reputation of always
giving a square deal in every instance is widely known.
A native of Alabama, Mr. Jackson was born at La Grange, on May 24, 1868, a
son of James M. and Ellen (Ferguson) Jackson, the latter dying when her son was but
two years of age, so that he has no recollection of his mother or of a mother's love
and tender care. James M. Jackson was a mechanic of exceptional ability, who in
1876, when Calvin E. was a lad of eight, removed from Alabama to Texas and is still
a resident of that state, living in Stephensville at the advanced age of eighty-three years.
Calvin attended the public schools of Alabama and Texas in pursuit of his education,
but the school of "hard knocks" supplied him with the greater part of his experience.
As he grew to young manhood in Texas he rode the range and in that way learned to
know men and conditions. Being a natural leader he decided to come to California
in hopes that he would be able to find a broader scope for his talents and in that he
has not been disappointed. In 1887 he landed in San Bernardino and worked at the
carpenter's trade for two years, learning the business, after which, in 1889, he came
to what is now Orange County, and here cast his first vote for the new county then
being formed. He worked as a journeyman carpenter for several years in various
sections of the county and then for eighteen years was a contractor and builder, em
ploying several men in his operations. He has to his credit the erection of many of
the old-time residences throughout the county and these homes stand today as evidence
of his skill and thorough understanding of his trade.
Mr. Jackson has always had an interest in politics and was more or less promi
nent in the circles of the Democratic party. In 1906 he was elected to the responsible
office of constable and served in that very difficult office for eight years. During tlte
time he became very well informed as to the habits of criminals and successfully
trailed thetn to their haunts. His successful discharge of all the duties of his office led
to his election, in 1914, to the office of sheriff of the county and after four years'
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inaugurated many reforms in the conduct of his office, systematized the handling of
prisoners and their capture, his duties of constable having been invaluable to him in
this larger field. His first word is efficiency, and he never sends any' of his deputies
into places of danger that he won't go himself, in fact he nearly always takes the lead
when danger threatens in the capture or apprehension of a criminal. Even with the
increasing of the population in the county, crime is really decreasing in proportion.
It has often been said of Sheriff Jackson that "when he goes after a man he usually gets
him," and no finer compliment can be paid a public official.
The marriage of C. E. Jackson and Miss Ida Cox, a native daughter, born at
Downey, Cal., the daughter of George W. Cox, a pioneer who crossed the plains from
Texas in 1869, was celebrated on March 27, 1889, and they have become the parents of
two daughters — Lela, a teacher in the schools of Los Angeles; and Elaine, is the wife
of W. M. Wilson of Long Beach and the mother of a daughter, Loraine. Mrs. Jackson
shares with her husband the esteem of their many friends. The home of the family
has been in Santa Ana for many years, in fact Mr. Jackson has lived here ever since
the county was organized and is therefore well and favorably known in every part of
it. He is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and of Santa Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks. Both Mr. and Mrs. Jackso-
are deeply interested in the upbuilding of the county, are supporters of all movements
that have for their aim the betterment of civic and social conditions and of making
Orange County a better place in which to live.
COL. J. K. TUFFREE.— Coming to Anaheim in 1872, Col. J. K. Tuffree will ever
be remembered as one of Orange County's stanch pioneers. While St. Louis, Mo., was
his birthplace, he was descended from an old Baltimore, Md., family who traced their
ancestry back to France, the family name being originally spelled Trefrey, of the
French Huguenots. He was reared in St. Louis, where he received a splendid educa
tion. On the breaking out of the Civil War, he united his fortunes with the cause of
the Confederacy and served throughout the conflict, and it was no doubt owing to
this service that his old friends and the old settlers of Orange County and Southern
California called him Colonel Tuffree.
Immediately after the close of the war, Colonel Tuffree came to California and
for a time he was with the Union Pacific as a dispatcher, being the first dispatcher
located at Truckee. Afterwards he came to San Francisco, being stationed at the
terminal, and while there he made the acquaintance of C. B. Polhemus, as well as his
daughter, Carolina. The acquaintance with the daughter ripened into love and resulted
in their marriage. She was born in Paita, Peru, but was reared and educated in San
Jose, Cal., and was a cultured and refined woman, and their union proved to be a very
happy one. C. B. Polhemus was an Eastener of a prominent and highly esteemed
family, and a man of an excellent education. He came from Mt. Holly, N. Y., and was
a son of Captain Polhemus, who served in the Revolutionary War. Possessing a love
for travel and adventure he made the trip to Paita, Peru, via Cape Horn, where he was
engaged in the banking and mercantile business and also served as U. S. Consul. In
1852 he came to San Francisco. He made a number of trips to Peru, remaining for
long periods in that country and while there met and married Miss Garay, the beautiful
daughter of Governor Garay, then governor of Peru. On the death of his wife he
returned with his daughter to California and they made their home in San Jose. He
owned a ranch at Gilroy and later also bought Commodore Stockton's ranch, and in
order to obtain shipping facilities he built a railroad known as Alsip and Company,
of which he was president until it was sold to C. P. Huntington and associates. Aside
from his large mercantile interests, Mr. Polhemus was a large landowner and one of
the six original owners of the Don Abel Stearns Rancho Company, comprising five
large ranchos of 200 square miles.
After Colonel Tuffree's marriage, he made a trip East with his bride, remaining
about one year in New Jersey and Delaware. On his return to California, he located
in Anaheim, becoming manager of Don Abel Stearns Rancho Company, later on locating
in Placentia on their ranch, comprising parts of sections nineteen and thirty of the old
Rancho San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana, naming it "De Buena Vista." It included 662
acres and had been given them as a wedding present. Colonel Tuffree began farming
his ranch and was also manager of the Stearns Rancho Company until his own affairs
having grown to such large proportions that they required all of his time, he resigned
his position and devoted all of his time to ranching and horticulture. He took a
leading and active part in irrigating matters and was one of the original directors of
the Anaheim Union Water Company and was active in the development which brought
water for irrigating purposes over this section of the county. To do away with the
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it could be used next day. The reservoir was built on his ranch and still goes by the
name of Tuffree reservoir. He was also the owner of lands in San Diego County.
Colonel Tuffree was one of the organizers of Orange County and took a prominent
part in the affairs of the new county, and his interest in its development continued until
his death, in 1903. He was a Mason and always a strong Democrat. After his death
Mrs. Tuffree continued to reside at the old Tuffree home, surrounded by her children,
who relieved her as far as possible from all worry and care. She passed away in
June, 1915, aged" sixty-two.
Colonel and Mrs. Tuffree were the parents of nine children, as follows: Frederick
B. resides on a part of the old Tuffree ranch; Juanita C. is the wife of Alonzo E. Yorba
and also lives on a part of the ranch; Charles P. died at the age of thirty-two, in 1908;
George R. died in infancy; Nellie A. is the wife of John A. Lloyd of San Francisco;
John C. and Henry D. are ranchers at Placentia; Mariquita R. is Mrs. O'Brien of
Honolulu; S. James, of Placentia, who is manager of Tuffree Heirs' rancho. Orange
County owes much of its present greatness to men and women of Colonel and Mrs.
Tuffree's type, for much of it is due to their optimism, constant application and
ceaseless energy, coupled with sacrifice and self-denial, in those early days when they
aided so materially in changing this region overgrown with brush, cactus, and wild
mustard into the beautiful citrus orchards of today considered a' garden spot of the
world, to be enjoyed and bring comfort and happiness to coming generations.
CHARLES E. FRENCH. — Preeminent among the successful esteemed and influ
ential Californians of the past whose exemplary, industrious lives and sound judgment
and good works have paved the way safely and nobly for all who come after, thereby
giving to posterity an inheritance of inestimable value, must be mentioned Charles E.
French, who was born in Athens, Somerset County, Maine, on June 3, 1841, and was
educated at the public schools and seminaries of that state. When about sixteen years
of age, he entered a business house in Boston, where he rapidly advanced in positions
of trust; and on the breaking out of the Civil War, stirred by patriotic desire to do
something in defense of his native country, he enlisted in the Ninth Regiment, Maine
Volunteers, and was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, being subsequently trans
ferred to Commodore Samuel Francis Du Pont's naval expedition which on November
7, 1861, bombarded and captured the fortifications defending Port Royal harbor, S. C,
an engagement justly regarded as one of the most brilliant achievements of naval tactics
and requiring for its success not only able planning on the part of officers, but the
skilful execution by each man under command. Continuing in the service until the
failure of his health necessitated his retirement from the army, Mr. French came to
California via the Panama route in 1864 and located at Yreka, in Siskiyou County,
where he engaged in mining and general merchandising, and after spending a few
years on this coast, he returned to his old home in the East.
In November, 1868,- Mr. French was married to Miss Emma L. Waugh, a native
of Boston, and the daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Sawyer) Waugh, who had been born
in Townsend and Lowell, Mass., respectively. She was reared in "the city of culture,"
and was graduated from Brighton Seminary; and for two years, or until her marriage,
she applied herself to teaching. She was splendidly equipped, therefore, to be the
intellectual stimulating companion of a man of ever-increasing weighty affairs. Resum
ing business in Maine, Mr. French became a member of a boot and shoe manufacturing
firm, and was also appointed Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue by President
Grant. Finding it impossible to endure the rigors of Eastern winters, he resigned his
office, sold out his business in 1870, and returned to San Francisco, where he expected
to permanently reside; but being advised by his physicians to seek a more genial
climate, he came to Southern California in April, 1871, and assumed the general man
agement of the extensive land and stock business of Irvine, Flint and Company, whose
holdings then comprised the ranchos San Joaquin and Lomas de Santiago, and part
of the "Santiago de Santa Ana, upon which latter ranch the city of Santa Ana is now
located, in all about 108,000 acres. At that time, there were very few white inhabitants
residing in the country southwest of Anaheim, between the Santa Ana River and San
Diego and the entire country from the foothills to the sea was one vast cattle and
sheep range. Mr. French had over 100,000 acres of land under his control, and at times
during his administration there were over 50,000 head of sheep grazing upon the broad
sweep of the San Joaquin, where today is heard the busy hum and puffing of tractors
and modern machinery.
In 1876, Mr. French removed the ranch headquarters to a location east of Tustin
and erected a commodious ranch house for James Irvine and his family. In 1878 he
relinquished the management of the company's business and removed to Santa Ana,
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of land, and at once took an active interest in the development and building up of the
town. In 1886 he erected the brick block adjoining the Bristol and Rowley block on
the east, and in 1899 he built the Grand Opera House block, one of the largest in the
city, which is still a monument to its founder. He served as postmaster at Santa
Ana, holding office under Presidents Hayes, Garfield, Arthur and also Cleveland; and
he took an active part in securing the main line of the Santa Fe Railroad through Santa
Ana, to which undertaking he freely devoted much time and means, and was twice
elected a director of the California lines system, which has been such an important
factor in the marvelous growth and prosperity of Southern California.
Whenever, too, public improvements were proposed, Mr. French was always found
ready to encourage and aid them, to the fullest extent of his resources, and in this way
he advanced not only the building up of the city, but the upbuilding of the popular
home community as well. In the founding of the Santa Ana Free Library he took a
very live interest, and for several years he served as president of the board of trustees.
Having business and property interests in Los Angeles, he also maintained a branch
office there for years, and in various ways was the better able to help the younger
Santa Ana by means of Los Angeles connections. He always regarded Santa Ana
as his home, however, and constantly maintained an elegant residence surrounded by
extensive lawns and well-kept grounds, making it one of the most attractive homes in
all Southern California. Two children blessed the home life of Mr. and Mrs. French,
and have in time proven valuable members of society; Gertrude has become Mrs. Elmer
B. Burns of Santa Ana, and Miss Ethel resides with her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Burns
have two children, Gladys and Carl. The latter went with Company L from Santa
Ana and served overseas until after the armistice, and received the Croix de Guerre for
bravery, having been both gassed and wounded. Returning with Company L, he
received his honorable discharge in April, 1919.
Mrs. French came to California in the fall of 1872 and joined her husband in
what was then a remote region, almost out of the pale of civilization, and for a time
their nearest neighbor lived seven miles away, unless the half-civilized natives of that
period are considered. Nothing daunted, Mrs. French continued to reside there until
their removal to Santa Ana, aiding her husband and helping to make his name and
influence known and recognized in the financial circles of Southern California. He
was an able financier, with a conservative view of investment, and combined calm judg
ment and keenness of foresight. It was not his disposition to rush blindly into things.
but with a critical insight he weighed and measured principles, and with unbiased mind
gave his influence toward those measures whose value could not be questioned. It is
possible that many persons seeking the reason for Mr. French's success may account
for it as a combination of "Eastern brains with Western enterprise;" he descended from
a family long and honorably associated with the history of New England, some of
whose representatives served as officers in the Revolutionary War, his maternal ances
tors, the Palmers, having come from England to this country during the Colonial
period, and he inherited qualities of the greatest value to one destined to leadership
in the several fields mentioned. It must not go unsaid, also, that Mr. French gave his
devoted wife much of the credit for his business success, saying that he had learned in
the early part of their life together that her judgment in property and business matters
was so reliable that when he followed their joint conclusions, he had always made
a success. Mr. French was prominent in banking and real estate circles. He was president
of the Orange County Savings Bank, and a director of the First National Bank of
Santa Ana. When the first street railway for Santa Ana was projected, Mr. French took
an active part in establishing it, and was its secretary for several years. The road is
now a part of the Interurban Railway system. He was also one of the promoters and
incorporators of the Los Angeles and Ocean Railway Company, and held the office
of the vice-president of the same until the road merged into the Los Angeles Terminal,
now the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. Fraternally, Mr. French
was a Mason, and a member of Sedgwick Post No. 17, G. A. R., from its organization.
He was also a member of the Pioneer Society of Los Angeles County. Though the
Civil War left him in poor health, his magnificent spirit of pluck and determination
enabled him to continue courageously for years at his duties, and in that way, when
many would have sought their selfish ends and rested, he was active in his useful career
until, on November 2, 1914, he passed away, to his eternal reward. Rev. A. L. Petty
a former pastor of the Baptist Church in Santa Ana came over from Los Angeles and
assisted Rev. Otto Russell, the local pastor, in a demonstration of esteem and regret
seldom witnessed in Santa Ana, and to give voice to feelings of deepest sorrow expe
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After Mr. French's death, his widow was appointed administratrix of the estate,
and although she had probably never written half a dozen checks in her life, she accepted
the trust and with her native ability and imbibed business acumen, with which, as it
proved, she had been liberally endowed, she not only settled the estate satisfactorily,
but since then she has managed the large affairs entrusted to her with signal ability and
pronounced success, enlarging her real estate holdings and improving those already
held. She is the owner of valuable business and residence property and different
ranches at Stanton and property in other places in the county, and she attends to all
the transactions required herself.
She continues to make her home at the beautiful large family residence at the
corner of Ninth and Spurgeon streets, a splendidly furnished estate where she dispenses
an old-time California hospitality; she is a member of the First Baptist Church and
also of the Ebell Club, and other social organizations; and she finds great pleasure in
informing herself about and supporting- all movements likely to benefit the community.
In 1910, with her husband and daughter, she made an extended tour of Europe and
brought home many fine specimens of art; and her memory being excellent she is ever
interesting and a source of inspiration to all who are so fortunate as to be counted
among her friends.
WM. F. ESPOLT.— A resident of California since 1894, William F. Espolt's birth
place was at Dennison, Iowa, where he first saw the light of day on February 7, 1885,
his parents being William and Louise (Homeier) Espolt. The father was a well
known farmer in the neighborhood of Dennison for a number of years, but in 1894 he
disposed of his holdings there and came to California, settling at Whittier, where he
purchased ranch and town property, and here he still makes his home.
William F. Espolt grew up in Whittier, attending the grammar and high schools
there, and assisted his father in the development of his ranch property. His first pur
chase of property in Orange County, with his father as a partner, was a tract of thirty
acres on Palm Avenue, raw land at the time of purchase, and William F. threw himself
energetically into the improvement and development of the place, setting it out .to
oranges and lemons. When he had disposed of the property he bought ten acres in
East Whittier, only partly developed and he continued the work and sold that in 1919.
In the meantime he had bought fifteen acres north of the upper boulevard, which has
been improved into a fine bearing citrus grove. In 1919 he became the owner of twenty
acres on Walnut Avenue, near La Habra, which is devoted to Valencia oranges and
lemons. The water for irrigating his properties is furnished by the La Habra Water
Company and he markets his fruit through the La Habra Citrus Association. Mr.
Espolt is a stockholder in the First National Bank of La Habra and in the Citizens
Commercial and Savings Bank of La Habra.
He was one of the organizers of the La Habra Midway Oil Company, in which he
is also a director. This company is composed of local men and has 116 acres of land
under lease, both of Mr. Espolt's ranches being included in the same. The terms of
the lease, which runs for twenty-five years, call for the drilling of wells for oil, and
their first well is located north of the upper boulevard, less than a mile from La Habra.
From all surface indications and reports of competent geologists and oil well locators,
the prospects are bright for a successful culmination of the plans of the originators of
the enterprise. That Mr. Espolt is a man of diversified interests will be seen by his activities since
branching out for himself. While he lived in East Whittier he designed and manu
factured three types of ladders for picking fruit. These were the peg top, flat top and
straight ladders, and he found a ready sale for his product during the several years he
was in the business. He is deeply interested in the welfare of Orange County and
liberally cooperates with all movements for advancing the commercial prestige of the
section of the state he has selected for his home.
On Easter Sunday, April 23, 1905, Mr. Espolt was married to Miss Hazael Ruth
Cline. A native of Arkansas, she came to California with her parents, Linn and
Clementine Cline in 1893, and was educated in the grammar schools of Fullerton and
the high school at Whittier. Her mother passed away when she was a small child,
and her father, who has spent the greater part of his life in the mercantile business,
is now the proprietor of an establishment at Ramona Acres, near Los Angeles. Mr.
and Mrs. Espolt are the parents of two children: Ayetrell is a student at the Fuller-
ton high school and Clementine attends the grammar school at La Habra.
Although the care of his property consumes much of Mr. Espolt's time he has
never been too absorbed with his own interests to forget or neglect his duties as a
citizen, asd he voices his political opinion through the candidates of the Republican
party. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Elks and Odd Fellows of Whittier.

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JAMES RANDOLPH MEDLOCK, M.D.— Only a few persons appreciate the
patience, self-denying application, weight of care and anxiety and the enormous respon
sibility which attend the life of the conscientious family physician. During the thirty-
six years that Dr. James Randolph Medlock pursued the practice of medicine in South
ern California he was known not only for his skill and assiduity as a physician, but for
his enthusiastic interest in the development and fostering of all worthy enterprises
that had as their aim the upbuilding of the commercial and agricultural interests of
Orange County.
James Randolph Medlock was born in Lawrence District, S. C, January 24, 1837.
Though not richly endowed with material wealth, his parents gave him the priceless
heritage of a noble Scotch ancestry. His early education was received in the local
schools, but he was ever alert to reach out beyond their limited curriculum into all
branches of study. When still a lad in his teens — his parents both having died — he
moved to Bentonville, Benton County, Ark., where at the age of eighteen he entered
the office of Dr. John Gray as a student of medicine. He remained in this office for
three years and the latter year was, as Dr. Gray testifies, "riding with me in the
practice of medicine."
In 1859 he graduated from the Cincinnati Medical College and returned to Ben
tonville, where he resumed the practice of medicine independently. Here he remained
until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the Confederate Army and was
in active service until near the close of the war. When the conditions of the country
permitted he began practicing at Huntsville, Ark. Practice in this locality was ex
ceedingly difficult owing to the mountainous nature of the region and the severe
weather. The only way in which Dr. Medlock could climb the steep hills and ford the
swollen streams was on horseback with his medicines and instruments packed in saddle
bags. Such strenuous practice, in addition to owning and operating a drug store, began
to wear on him, and after taking a post-graduate course at the St. Louis Medical
College he decided to come to California. Arriving here in 1876, he located at Orange,
which was then in Los Angeles County. He purchased forty acres, which he set to
oranges, and later developed a twenty-acre walnut grove. Two years of his long
residence in the Golden State were spent in Northern California, near Sacramento, but
the delightful climate of the Southland and its great opportunities for development in
agriculture and citrus culture appealed so strongly to him that he returned to Santa
Ana, where he continued to practice until his demise on November 10, 1913.
Dr. Medlock merited his recognition as a family physician by his knowledge and
true skill, genial and sympathetic manner, never seeking notoriety by questionable
methods. He was closely identified with the city of Santa Ana and was very public
spirited. He was one of the organizers and served as a director of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank of Santa Ana and at the time of organization was urged to take the
presidency, but declined on account of the large practice he could not neglect. He was
interested in the development of the water and gas companies and the first street car
line in Santa Ana. He also added to the material development of the city by pur
chasing a 300-foot frontage on North Main Street, in the 800 block, the property
extending through to Sycamore Street, and here he erected his home. He also built
and owned business blocks on Fourth, near Main, and the Medlock Block at the corner
of Fifth and Main Streets.
At Ozark, Ark., in 1869, Dr. Medlock was united in marriage with Miss Martha
McFerrin Adams, a native of Arkansas, and to them were born two children, one of
whom grew up — a daughter Velda, who married C. A. Gustlin of Santa Ana. Mrs.
Medlock's father, Abner Adams, born in Kentucky, was a merchant in Arkansas, but
died many years ago. Her mother, Mary S. (Berry) Adams, a native of Tennessee,
came to California in 1876 and spent her last years with Dr. and Mrs. Medlock at
Santa Ana. Mrs. Medlock is very active in civic affairs and is a charter member of
the Ebell Club, which was organized at her home, and is also a charter member and
past matron of the Eastern Star. She was one of the organizers of the First Presby
terian Church of Santa Ana, and has always been active in Church and missionary work.
Reared in an environment of culture and refinement, she is a woman of rare attain
ments and pleasing personality, radiating pleasure on her many frieirds who enjoy
her for hospitality and kindness.
Dr. Medlock was no ordinary man or physician. He was a man of deeds more
than words. He was a man of action, alert, resourceful, always ready; a man of judicial
mind, he saw both sides on all questions. Hundreds of mothers could testify to his
skill as an obstetrician. It was in the maternity chamber at the hour of midnight that
Dr. Medlock was the dominant figure, "a shadow of a great rock in a weary land."
He always met promptly and successfully every emergency and did it quietly and with
out ostentation. A "doctor of the old school," he rode a horse and carried saddle

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bags to the remote homes in an Arkansas wilderness, and it was there that he became
self-reliant .and resourceful before coming to California. No night was too dark or
storm too severe for him to answer the call of suffering.
Fortunate in being well born, Dr. Medlock had in his makeup the Scotch ancestry
of oak. He inherited from his forbears a contempt for the hypocrite or deceitful
quack; he was the soul of honor and always signed his letters, "Sincerely yours." He
himself was sincere, genuine, honest, unaffected, candid, cordial and true. Dr. Medlock
was an honored member of the American Medical Association and of the state and
county societies, and fraternally was a prominent Mason of the Knights Templar
degree,- as well as a Shriner.
JUAN GLESS. — A native of far-away Spain, Juan Gless is one of El Toro's
pioneer settlers, having come there thirty-five years ago, when all of this section of
Orange County was given over to sheep raising, thousands of them grazing over the
land that has in later years been transformed into highly cultivated ranches and
orchards. Navarro, Spain, was Mr. Gless' birthplace, and there he first saw the light
on April 25, 1861, his parents being Bernard and Juana Gless, farmer folk near Aldudes,
who spent their lives in that section, both having passed away some years ago at
the old home.
There were six children in the Gless family: Pedro and Gracian reside in France;
Pierre resides with our subject; Mrs. Juana Bidart of El Toro; Mrs. Ysabel Yauregue
of Ventura, and Juan of this review. The home place of the Gless family was on
the line between France and Spain, and here Juan was reared, learning when but a
lad to take care of sheep and cattle, that being the principal industry of the region.
Having heard good reports from some of their countrymen who had migrated to
California, telling of the success awaiting young men of brain and muscle who were
willing to work, Mr. Gless left the old home for the New World, reaching California
in October, 1885. Finding employment with S. Chavorie and LeFur at Newport, he
continued with them for three years, when he purchased a band of sheep and started
out on his own account, ranging them on the plains and in the mountains, and incresa-
ing his herds until he had 6,000 head. He made his headquarters at El Toro, but in
the old days he ranged his sheep as far north as Los Angeles up to what is now
Seventh Street, that locality then bearing no indication that in the years to come it
would be the business center of the metropolis of the Pacific Coast.
In Los Angeles, November 14, 1904, occurred the marriage of Mr. Gless, when
he was united with Miss Antoinette Carle, who was born in Alsace-Lorraine, France,
the daughter of Antoine and Clementine (Derzoft) Carle, Alsatian farmers. The
mother passed away in 1899, and the following year Antoinette came to Los Angeles
with her father and his family. In the Carle family were four children: A. C, a
rancher in El Toro; Julia, now J^Irs. Falkenberg, of Los Angeles; Estelle, wife of
Geo. N. Vusich, resides in Los Angeles, and Antoinette, the youngest, made her home
in Los Angeles until her marriage to Mr. Gless. Her father afterward resided at
El Toro, making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Gless until his death in 1915. After
their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Gless continued to reside at El Toro until they bought
their present place in 1907. It is a splendid ranch of 135 acres, thirty acres being a
bearing orchard of apricots. They also engage in general farming and stock raising,
in whch they are very successful. Mrs. Gless has been an able helpmate to her
husband, encouraging him in his ambition and assisting him in every way possible,
and he attributes much of his success to her assistance and advice.
Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gless: John P. and Madeline
Estelle. The family are members of the Roman Catholic Church at El Toro, and Mr.
Gless shows his belief in cooperation by membership in the California Prune and Apri
cot Growers Association.
FREDRICK STANCKEY.— Thirty-four years ago Fredrick Stanckey became
identified with the Anaheim section of Orange County, and for thirty years has
owned his well-kept and productive ranch on the County Highway, located half a
mile west of Anaheim. This honored pioneer is justly proud to be recognized as
a self-made man, for he has, in the face of seeming insurmountable difficulties, won
commendable 'success. When one realizes that Mr. Stanckey arrived in Anaheim with-
but two dollars in cash — a stranger in a new country, unfamiliar with the language
and surroundings, with a family to support — and today is the owner of a profitable
orange grove, and has in the meantime supported and educated his family and accumu
lated a generous bank account, they can truthfully say he has more than made good,
and his record may well be envied and admired by the succeeding generation.
Fredrick Stanckey was born in Poland in 1845, a son of Michael and Anna
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sisted of seven children, three of whom emigrated to the United States, Fredrick being
the only member of the family now living. From Poland the family migrated to
Russia, and in that country Fredrick was united in marriage with Miss Gustena Lauf-
man, a native of Poland, born in 1843. Mr. and Mrs. Stanckey lived in Russia for
eighteen years, where they reared a large family of children. Two children passed
away in Russia and one in Orange County. The eight living are: Augusta, Mrs.
George Simms; Adolph, Amelia, Mrs. George Lenz; Robert, John, Frederick, Bertha,
Mrs. Ed Sterling, and Julius, the latter being born in Anaheim. The sons are ranchers
and are doing well. Mr. and Mrs. Stanckey are members of the Baptist Church at
Anaheim, and are highly esteemed in the community for their high ideals of citizenship
and unquestioned integrity of character.
WILLIAM SCHUMACHER.— The name of William Schumacher, supervisor of
Orange County, stands for progress, efficiency, and the highest' ideals in business
methods in the conduct of the county's affairs. This probity of character and sterling
worth as a citizen of Orange County, are duly recognized by the public and strongly
attested by his long and faithful service as a supervisor, being elected in 1912.
Mr. Schumacher is not only a native son of the Golden State, but of Los An
geles County, where he was born in 1881, the son of Joseph and Mary Schumacher.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schumacher were the parents of three children, William being
the eldest child in order of birth. Joseph Schumacher passed away in 1887.
In 1903 William Schumacher purchased his present ranch of 100 acres, located
south of Buena Park on Almond Street. Forty acres of his ranch are devoted to citrus
fruit, the remainder to general farming. When he purchased the place it was a dairy
farm, but he soon began extensive improvements; set out orange trees, which are
now in their sixth year, prolific bearers; constructed modern buildings, and in every
way made of his ranch an up-to-date place. Mr. Schumacher is emphatically a man
of energy'and action, giving substantial encouragement to every plan for the promo
tion of the county's welfare, especially for the section he has the honor to represent.
For three years he served with great success as president of the Chamber of
Commerce of Buena Park; is president of the Citrus Orchards Association, and fra
ternally is a Mason and member of Buena Park Lodge No. 357, F. & A. M., Fullerton
Chapter, R. A. M., Santa Ana Commandery, Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks.
In June, 1918, William Schumacher was united in marriage with Miss Lulu
Crum, daughter of D. M. and Lydia Crum. Mr. and Mrs. Schumacher have a large
circle of warm personal friends in the county and are most highly esteemed in their
community. JAMES MERRICK HAZARD.— A grandson of a '49er, and a member of a very
prominent California family who has seen much development in the great Golden
State, is John Merrick Hazard, who first came to Los Angeles in the early seventies.
He was born in Ionia, Mich., on October 5, 1857, the son of Charles Hazard, a native
of that state, who followed carpentering and building. He served in the Civil War,
and was married to Miss Amelia Chrysler, also a native of Michigan. In 1870 he
came out to Los Angeles, and a year later the family joined him. Grandfather Mer
rick Hazard had crossed the plains to California in 1849, and had ventured into
mining; and after three years he returned East for his family, crossed the plains
again, and settled in Los Angeles. He bought various pieces of land in and around
the city, and died here, a member of the Society of California Pioneers. His son,
Henry T. Hazard, came the second trip later, and in 1889 he was elected to the high
office of mayor of Los Angeles. Charles Hazard owned a ranch on Slauson Avenue,
and died in Los Angeles in 1902. His widow is still living, past eighty-six years of
age, and resides in Orange County. Four children were born to this worthy couple.
Amelia is Mrs. Farris, and lives in the Commonwealth district; James Merrick is the
subject of our review; William Herman is in Santa Barbara, and Nellie M. is Mrs.
Donaldson, of Templeton, California.
James Merrick went to school in Michigan, and in 1871 "came to Los Angeles,
at one of the most interesting periods in the city's history. According to Mr. Hazard's
recollection" there was no cross street south of First until one came to Ninth, and
that was called Squaw Lane. He attended school in the Green Meadow district,
and early learned the routine work of a farm, so that he ran the ranch of eighty
acres, and raised grain and stock. He continued at home until he was eighteen years
of age, when he learned the trade of the carpenter. Later he engaged in contract
building, and erected the first house in Ontario for his residence, and also worked
on the building of the hotel for Chaffee Brothers.
In 1886 Mr. Hazard removed to Templeton, in San Luis Obispo County, where
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however, with squirrels, which destroyed his crops. After a couple of years he went
to Stanford University and assisted, for nine months, in the building of that new
institution. Then he removed to San Francisco, and worked at the building of coal
bunkers, and when they were completed, and James Kinsman was superintending their
operation, Mr. Hazard remained also and acted as foreman, with a hundred men under
him. In 1899 he served as construction engineer in the Quartermaster's Department,
U. S. A., in the Philippines, returning to San Francisco in 1900.
While residing in San Francisco, however, Mr. Hazard suffered much from
sciatica, and this led him to quit the place and to go to Pittsburg Landing, Cal.
There, with the same James Kinsman, he built a factory for briquettes; and, when
he had recovered his health, he returned to San Francisco. Three months later, the
sciatica again attacked him, and then he came down into the Southland; and as Mrs.
Hazard liked the change, he decided to remain. He was for a year at Long Beach, and
then in 1906 he bought forty acres of land in Orange County, on North Street and
Anaheim Road, raw and covered with cactus and brush; but he cleared and leveled
it, and set out the entire tract to Valencia oranges, and raised and budded the trees.
He also cleared for himself some twenty acres on Anaheim Road in the Common
wealth district. Of his former holdings, he has sold all but thirty acres, and on
these, an honored "old settler," he resides in comfort.
At San Jose, Mr. Hazard married Miss Ella V. Mayo, a native of San Jose,
and the daughter of James Mayo, who was superintendent of the New Almaden Quick
silver Mine. She was a most estimable lady, and her demise on February 5, 1919,
was widely mourned. A son, James Mayo Hazard, is the well-known rancher and
horticulturist, who takes care of the Hazard ranch.
In national political affairs, Mr. Hazard lets his Republican colors fly to the
breeze; but he is too much of a pioneer to be willing to permit partisanship to bias
or hinder him in the support of any worthy local measure, and nowhere is there a
better "booster" for state, county and town. The family attend the Episcopal Church
OTTO DARGATZ. — A successful orange-grower, fortunate in his wife as a prac
tical, industrious helpmate, is Otto Dargatz, who entered upon a tract of sagebrush
and cactus and, by intelligent, hard labor, transformed the wild land in the most
creditable manner into a fine orange grove, situated on Olive Street, in Anaheim, to
which city he came in 1894. He was born in Coeslin, Pomerania, on June 10, 1869,
reared on a farm and sent to the North German schools. His father was Carl Dar
gatz, who removed with his family to Russia, where they spent eleven years; and there
he passed away.
Called upon to do the usual military service expected of a young man of his age,
Otto returned to Germany, was released from service, and then went back to Russia,
where he helped improve the home place. However, he could not get a deed to the
property, on which account he sold out and returned to Germany with his mother.
A brother, Albert, had come out to California and had done well; and, influenced
by his example and letters, Otto, after a year and a half at home, concluded to follow.
He arrived in Anaheim in 1894, and eighteen months thereafter his mother and sister
joined him. She later passed away in Canada, while with our subject. At first he
went to work on farms in and around Anaheim, and then he bought ten acres in West
Anaheim, which he sold to his brother.
In 1899 he went to Alberta, Canada, and homesteaded 160 acres of land, which
he improved by grubbing out and clearing, and by planting grain. When he had man
aged this successfully for four years, he sold it and returned to California and Ana
heim. He bought back the old ten acres, and three months later sold them again.
Then he purchased his present nineteen acres on Olive Street — at that time a stretch
of cactus and brush, calling for much hard work to clear and level; he sunk a well,
and in copartnership with others, put in a pumping plant. He raised his own nursery
stock of orange trees; he budded them as Valencias, and he set out his entire acreage
to that variety of citrus fruit tree. He also bought a place in Wasco, Kern County,
which he improved to alfalfa and then sold, and in December, 1919, he purchased twenty
acres in West Anaheim, which he has set out to Valencia oranges.
At Anaheim, Mr. Dargatz was married to Miss Emelia Peters, a native of
Poland, who came to California as a young lady. Four of their children are still living.
Leo is ranching in West Anaheim; Herman, Martha and Await are at home; Arthur
died June 17, 1920, at sixteen years of age. The family belong to the German Baptist
Church of Anaheim, where Mr. Dargatz is a trustee. He is a Republican in national
politics, and a nonpartisan "booster" of anything worth while likely to help Anaheim
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HENRY KROEGER. — A resident of Anaheim enjoying the enviable distinction
of being the oldest living settler in the town is Henry Kroeger, who was born in
Bramstadt, Holstein, then a part of Denmark, on November 24, 1830, where he was
reared on a farm. He learned the cooper's trade, responded for military service, and
when the Revolution of 1848 broke out on the twenty-third of March, in both Germany
and Holstein, he fought with the forces of Denmark as lieutenant in the heavy artillery.
during 1848 and 1849, and was an aide-de-camp on the staff of General Von Wissel.
Breaking away from the associations of home and fatherland in 1854, Mr. Kroeger
came to America and to far-away San Francisco, and there started a cooper-shop. Two
years later, he joined the Vigilantes and helped preserve law and order in the Bay City
by meting out a little law to those who had never really known the desired-for blessing.
In 1858, he bought a share in the Los Angeles Vineyard Society from Colonel John
Froehling, and another share from Mr. Leutkens, six or eight months after the society's
organization, and in 1860 he made his first visit to Anaheim.
In 1862, he settled here with his family, and began, with the rest of them, to raise
vines. He opened a winery and set up a distillery, and contributed his share to the
development of this industry until the middle eighties, when disease struck the grape
vines, and disaster spread over the Southland. Convinced that it was "all up" with the
vineyards, Mr. Kroeger set out Valencia and Navel orange trees, transforming his
twenty acres on East Center Street, and his hundred acres, besides, in Fullerton. North
of Anaheim, he came to have twenty acres in walnuts, and to the southwest of the same
town, another twenty acres of the same nuts. With Messrs. Rimpau and Melrose, he
owned a two-fifths interest in 130 acres in Placentia.
He built for himself a fine residence on East Center Street, where he still dwells,
and he erected the old Commercial Hotel, on the present site of the Valencia Hotel. He
also built Kroeger's Hall, and he put up another building adjoining the hall, and still
another to the west — all in the early, bustling days of Anaheim, when the good burghers,
enjoying life rather according to the Old World standards, were fond of "doing
things" and needed roofs under which to give way to their activities. He owned a good
deal of other valuable property in the county, and in 1888 built the Hotel del Campo, in
association with others. This enterprise was not a financial success; and much of the
loss, unfortunately, fell upon him.
In 1857, at San Francisco, Mr. Kroeger was married to Sophia Husman, a native of
Hanover, Germany, who died on July 30, 1903. They were granted fourteen children,
and just seven of the number are living today. Henrietta is Mrs. Schindler of Anaheim;
William is at Fullerton, and so is his next youngest sister, Sophia, Mrs. Matter. Henry
J. is a horticulturist of Fullerton, Louis is active at Anaheim, and Pauline, who owns the
old home on East Center Street, is the wife of John Brunworth of Anaheim. Amelia,
the youngest of those surviving, is the wife of L. D. Bradley of Riverside. Mr. Kroeger
was the second mayor of Anaheim in 1868. He was prominent in church circles and
helped build up the first churches in town.
When the war broke out between the United States and Spain, Henry Kroeger,
patriotic American and still a doughty soldier in his martial spirit, offered his services
to General Nelson A. Miles, for the coast defense in California. Dewey, however, made
such short work of the Spanish navy in Pacific waters that this generous offer was not
accepted; and the veteran pioneer was permitted to continue in his peaceful daily walks,
amid an environment recalling days of happiness and comfortable prosperity certainly
not eclipsed in many ways by those of more modern times.
D. G. COLE. — A member of the real estate firm of Cole & Hardy of Santa Ana,
D. G. Cole has been identified with the realty business of Orange County since first
coming here in 1897. Mr. Cole was born on September 2, 1854, in Rock Run Township,
Stephenson County, 111., a son of Wilson and Charlotte (Deighton) Cole, the father a
native of New York State, while Mrs. Cole was born in England. Wilson Cole was
one of the pioneer settlers of Stephenson County, having come there with his family
in the early forties. He was a prominent farmer there until his death, which occurred
in 1866 when D. G. Cole was but twelve years old, the mother having passed away four
years previous. There were eight children in the Cole family, all hoys, and seven of
them grew up to maturity.
Naturally, the loss of both parents made Mr. Cole's early life much more difficult,
but the energy and determination to succeed were strong within him, and especially
was he desirous of securing as good an education as possible. He began working out
on farms by the month when but a lad, improving the meager educational opportunities
that his circumstances afforded. When he was seventeen years of age, he went to
Nebraska with his older brother, Adelbert Cole, now a well-known physician of Britt,
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because of his minority. He then returned to Stephenson County, and attended school
at Freeport, 111. He then attended the college at Dixon, 111., later taking the teacher's
examination and teaching school for one term in Stephenson County, 111.
Returning to Nebraska, Mr. Cole purchased the farm of his brother, Adelbert Cole,
in Hamilton County, and here he became interested in agriculture, continuing there until
1897, when he came to California and located in Orange County. Shortly after coming
here he began dealing in real estate, and since that time he has been actively engaged
in the purchase and sale of both city and ranch property the greater part of the time.
Mr. Cole is perhaps even better known in Orange County as a walnut grower, as
he has for many years been interested financially in this industry and is a member of
the Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association. He is the owner of three fine walnut
ranches, one of forty acres at Garden Grove, a twenty-acre grove at Santa Ana, and
one of twelve acres at Tustin, on Williams Street, where he lives. Through years of
practical experience he has gained a thorough knowledge of walnut production, and
in his community he is considered an authority on the subject, and his holdings show
the care of an experienced grower.
In 1881, Mr. Cole was united in marriage with Miss Johanna McCarthy, the
ceremony being solemnized at Harrison, Winnebago County, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Cole
are the parents of four children. The three eldest were born in Nebraska: George,
married Miss Maude Williams and lives near Garden Grove; Fred L., married Miss
Leo Yost, of a pioneer Santa Ana family, and they are the parents of two children;
Myrtle, is now the wife of Ernest Wakeham, a rancher at Stockton, Cal., and they have
four children; Ralph was born in Orange County, and resides at the home place.
Beginning life under disadvantages, owing to the death of both his parents when
he was quite young, Mr. Cole is indeed deserving of the splendid success he has made,
and he is now numbered among Orange County's most substantial citizens. A man of
strict integrity, he has always been enthusiastic in the promotion of every project
advanced whose tendency is to benefit the entire community. Mr. and Mrs. Cole are
members of the Congregational Church at Santa Ana, and in political matters Mr. Cole
is a Republican. Fraternally he is a member of the Santa Ana Lodge of Masons.
THOMAS JESSUP. — Among Southern California's big industries, that of horti
culture has attracted men of intelligence, many of whom have gained a competency in
this vocation, and the county's rapid growth and consequent increasing prosperity is
largely due to their good judgment and efforts.
Thomas Jessup, an extensive and successful rancher, is the owner of a well-kept
and remunerative forty-eight-acre ranch three-quarters of a mile southeast of Garden
Grove, forty acres of which is in walnuts and the remainder planted to Valencia
oranges. He raises lima beans on his property, interplanting the walnut trees with
the legumes, and also owns a ten-acre Valencia orange grove at Fifth and English,
Santa Ana. Additionally, he rents 600 acres of the James Irvine ranch, on which he
raises lima beans. He has been one of the tenants of the estate since 1900.
Mr. Jessup was born near Fairbury, in Livingston County, 111., December 30, 1859,
and is the son of Richard Jessup, a native of Queens County, Ireland, and Ellen (Dunne)
Jessup, a native of Pennsylvania. His parents were married in Pennsylvania and
removed to Livingston County, 111., to become prosperous farmers. They reared a
family of eight children, four of whom survive, and Thomas is the only one of the
family living in California. He grew up on his father's farm and was educated in
the common schools. His marriage occurred in Livingston County, and united him
with Miss Effie M. Johnson, 'a native of that county, and the only daughter of W. H.
and Mattie C. (Tyler) Johnson. After his marriage he continued the occupation of
tilling the soil in Illinois until February, 1888, when he removed to Garden Grove, Cal.,
which at that time was a part of Los Angeles County. Grain farming abounded there
at that time, and there was little else. Mr. and Mrs. Jessup are the parents of eight
children: Harry, a rancher on the San Joaquin, married Miss Lillian Beswick, and they
have two children; Bertha is the wife of A. L. Trickey, a rancher on the San Joaquin,
and she is the mother of two children; Vera is single and is a telegraph operator in Los
Angeles; Stella is the wife of Harry Reel, an orange grower at Orange. George died
at the age of three and a half; Gladys graduated from the Anaheim high school and is
now a student in the State Normal; Thomas is in the Anaheim high school; and Effie
is a student in the Santa Ana high school.
In the machinery he uses Mr. Jessup is up to date. He has a forty-five-horse
power Holt tractor and a full complement of horses, mules and machinery for properly
carrying on his extensive agricultural and horticultural enterprises. He sunk a well
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and progressive, his success is due to close application and excellent management. He
is recognized as one of the broad-minded, public-spirited citizens of the community, and
is justly popular among his many friends and neighbors. He lives contentedly and
happily with his family in his commodious country residence, which is perhaps the
largest residence in Buaro Precinct. Politically he casts his vote with the Republicans.
RICHARD MELROSE.— The bar of Orange County has been distinguished by
the high character of its personnel, as may be illustrated in the life, character and
accomplishment of the well-known attorney, Richard Melrose, who was born at
Glasgow, a member of one of the most honored families of Scotland, pleasantly
associated with Scotch history and tradition. The date of his birth was February 4,
1850, and his parents both died when he was a child. There were seven children in the
family, and he was the youngest child. The first fourteen years of his life were spent
in Scotland, and the first instruction he received was given him by his mother.
Having come to the United States in 1864, Mr. Melrose for seventeen years
engaged in newspaper work, a part of the time on the Pacific Coast; for he arrived in
California as early as 1864, and settled in Los Angeles in 1865. He removed to
Anaheim in 1870, studied law privately, and was admitted to the California bar at Los
Angeles in 1887. Mr. Melrose is thus the oldest attorney in Los Angeles County, and
of especial interest as a counsellor who has practiced law alone during most of the
time. Always active as a Republican in national and state politics, Mr. Melrose was
appointed postmaster by President Chester A. Arthur in 1884; was presidential elector
in 1904, on the Roosevelt ticket, and he served in the state legislature in 1909. For
fourteen years he was a trustee of the State Normal School at Los Angeles, and he
was chairman of the board for eight years. During the recent war he was a member
of the exemption board for Orange County.
At Anaheim, in 1874, Mr. Melrose was married to Miss Mary Kuchel, a native of
Indiana, and three children were born to them: Jessie, now Mrs. F. A. Backs, Jr.,
Winifred and Allan. There are two grandchildren, Florence Backs and Richard A.
Melrose, both worthy descendants of a worthy progenitor. Mr. Melrose belongs to
both the Knights of Pythias and the Elks; and he and his devoted wife live in com
fortable retirement, buoyed up with the memories of useful and pleasant years.
FRANK SHANLEY. — Orange County has never failed to honor those distin
guished pioneer citizens who helped to lay broad and deep the foundations for the
great commonwealth of California, and among those whom posterity ever will honor
for both his character and life, and their influence upon his own and succeeding gen
erations, is the late Frank Shanley, whom the green isle of Erin claimed with pride
as the land of his birth. When he was two years of age, his family removed to Edin
burgh, Scotland, and there in that beautiful and romantic city of the north he was
reared and educated.
He learned the trade of the shoemaker, and specialized in the making and fitting
of "uppers," starting in at his ninth year, giving seven years to the apprenticeship,
and becoming a journeyman at the early age of sixteen. For a while he followed his
trade in England; but convinced that the New World would offer greater advantages,
he crossed the ocean to America, arriving in New York in the month of August.
He located first at Pittsburgh, and there opened a little workshop; and as it was
the period when the high-legged boots were going out of style, and the modern shoes
coming in, he was swamped with orders which, notwithstanding the help given him
by his wife, he could hardly fill. Later, he entered the employ of the McCarten Shoe
Company, and his work proving more than satisfactory, he was taken into -the firm.
The name of the establishment was then changed to that of McCarten & Shanley, and
on the death of the former, Mr. Shanley purchased his share in the firm and continued
the business alone.
In 1896_he sold out, came west to California, and located at Anaheim; and in
April of the same year he bought fifteen acres of walnut and fruit orchard on South
Lemon Street, which he greatly improved. He built a fine, two-story home, and
otherwise added to his property. Prior to this, and during the boom in Salt Lake City,
he bought property there and erected a very creditable business block, an ornament
as well as an addition to the city, which is now the property of his wisely-managing
widow. As a genuine path-breaker in movements of much significance for the future, Mr.
Shanley was one of the founders of the First National Bank of Anaheim, and as its
vice-president, took an active part in its management. He was very proud of the
growth and success of the bank, and actively participated in its affairs until the time
of his death. He was elected president of the American Savings Bank of Anaheim

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upon its organization May 22, 1905, serving until January 11, 1916. Soon after his
arrival here he was elected to the office of justice of the peace, and as Judge Shanley he
discharged this serious and delicate responsibility to his fellow citizens for four years.
He was public-spirited to a large degree, and was always ready to put his shoulder
to the wheel and advance in any legitimate way the best interests of Anaheim.
In the good old Quaker town of Darlington, England, on the Skerne, over which
is a picturesque bridge of several arches, and not far from the famous cathedral city
of Durham, on May 17, 1864, Mr. Shanley was married to Miss Marie C. McCabe, a
native of England, but a popular lass of Irish parentage, who now resides in a fine
modern bungalow at 201 South Palm Street, Anaheim, the center of a large circle of
admiring friends. Mr. Shanley was always fond of children, and they liked him, and
his devoted wife shared his pleasure in giving to charity. In his will he bequeathed
a third of his estate to the St. Catherine Orphanage of Anaheim; he had been a good
host, and only after his death, on July 10, 1918, was the old homestead sold. Cali
fornia has reason to be thankful for many blessings, and among them for such lives
as that of Mr. Shanley, who worked hard and, having once established himself and
his household on a firm, self-respecting and independent basis, began to do good, when
ever and wherever he could, and with means he had a perfect right to dispose of as
the generous impulses of his kindly heart and the sound conclusions of his trained
mind dictated.
DAVID R. S. SHAFFER.— Hale and hearty at the age of eighty-three," with a
truly remarkable memory for names and dates, and with the lucid and logical mentality
and physical vigor of men many years his junior, David R. S. Shaffer is living retired
on his twenty-acre ranch near Westminster. A Southerner by birth, Mr. Shaffer was
born in Page County, Va., in the Shenandoah Valley, eighty miles south of Harpers
Ferry, October 23, 1837. His parents were Isaac and Mary (Rothgeb) Shaffer, both
natives of the Shenandoah Valley, as was his paternal grandfather, Samuel Shaffer.
Isaac Shaffer passed away during the 'Civil War, his widow surviving him until 1881.
There were five children in the Shaffer family, David being the only son; one sister is
still living, Mrs. Mary C. Gander, eighty-four years of age, who lives in Butler
County, Missouri.
David Shaffer was educated in the common schools in the vicinity of his home
and also in a seminary at Luray, Va., and as soon as he was old enough he helped in
the work about the farm. He continued on the home place with his father, assuming
more and more of the responsibility, until he was twenty-three years old. In the
meantime he had taught several terms in the village school near his home, and he
became ambitious for better opportunities than his home surroundings afforded, so in
1860 he set out for what then seemed the Far West, settling in Cooper County, Mo.,
teaching school there and in Moniteau and Morgan counties. When the Civil War
broke out he was working in the mill of his cousin, John Rothgeb, in Cooper County.
Although we was of Southern birth, he was always opposed to slavery, and was an
ardent Whig. He refused to join the "Bushwhackers," as the marauding bands of
Rebel sympathizers were known, and was threatened with hanging. He then returned
to Ohio, locating in Cheshire, in Gallia County, engaging at the carpenter's trade in
summer seasons and teaching during the winter months; but before long he enlisted in
the Ohio National Guard; he had in the meantime belonged to the famous "Squirrel
Hunters." For two years he did guard duty on the Ohio River, and when Lincoln's
last call for troops came, on May 4, 1864, the national guard regiment of which he was
a member enlisted as a whole, being mustered in as the One Hundred Forty-first Ohio
Volunteer Infantry. Mr. Shaffer continued his work of guard duty, being stationed on
the road to Charlestown, W. Va., to guard supply trains. He received his honorable
discharge in September, 1864, being mustered out at Gallipolis, Ohio.
Mr. Shaffer took up the carpenter's trade again after the war was over, locating
at Addison, Ohio, and here later he established himself in the mercantile business in
this town on the banks of the Ohio River. For nineteen years he continued in business
there with uninterrupted success, but in 1884 there was a big flood in the river, in which
he lost much of his stock and also suffered damage to his buildings, the whole amounting
to over $6,000. He then started a broom factory in Addison, but after a short while
he decided to remove to California. He first located in Santa Barbara County, in
September, 1890, where he engaged in ranching until the fall of 1891, when he went
to Los Angeles County and took up -a homestead claim in the Antelope Valley, and
for seven years made this his home, following dairying, stock and poultry raising. In
1899 he left his property and came to Orange County, purchasing the twenty-acre
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homestead in the Valley. For thirteen years he continued in its active management
and developed it into a very profitable property through general farming, dairying and
poultry raising.
Mr. Shaffer's first marriage occurred in June, 1865, when he was united with
Miss Louisa Roush. She passed away in 1881, leaving three children: Joseph V. is
now in California and has two children in Riverside; Vesta D. is the wife of Ambrose
Chapell of Columbus, Ohio, and has one daughter; David Howard came to California
with his father, and passed away at Santa Barbara in 1910, leaving a widow and one
child. In 1884 Mr. Shaffer was married to Miss Alice Hill, a native of Mason
County, Va.
Early in life Mr. Shaffer espoused the cause of Prohibition when it was far from
being popular, and canvassed Gallia County, Ohio, in the interests of that party in
1881. He became an orator of note in the Prohibition ranks, and his strong personality,
clear ideas and native eloquence made him a mighty power against the liquor traffic; he
rejoices to have lived to see the enforcement of the laws for which he labored so
earnestly for so many years. For the last twenty-six years he has worked with the
Socialist party and is proud of its advancement thus far. A true humanitarian, he has
always been a liberal in his ideas, and is a great admirer of the works of the late
Robert W. Ingersoll. He is a member of Sedgwick Post No. 17, G. A. R., at Santa
Ana. Living retired now in his comfortable home, he can look back upon a clean,
consistent, industrious, studious and well-spent life.
PRESCOTT ALLEN. — A successful rancher of the kind that has always re
flected the highest honor upon Orange County is Prescott Allen, whose experience as
a progressive walnut grower might well point the way to and encourage others in the
same field. He owns a beautiful home ranch of thirty acres at 614 South McClay
Street, Santa Ana, where so late as 1910 he built his fine modern residence.
He was born in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada, near the town of Ingersoll and
eighteen miles from Woodstock, the county seat, on June 18, 1836, the son of Nathan
Prescott Allen, who came to Canada from New York State soon after the War of
1812. He was born in Mohawk County, New York, and on March 7, 1822, was married
to Miss Armena Mott, a native of Albany County, New York, where she was born
on September 10, 1804. They had ten children, of whom Prescott is the sixth in
order of birth; and of this large family, besides our subject only a sister, Mrs. Sarah
Louisa (Allen) Dawes, is now living. She was born on July 27, 1838, and is now a
widow, residing on French Street, Santa Ana.
Mr. Allen was educated in the common schools of Canada, and helped his father
clear up a farm of 278 acres. He had to grub, to clear away stumps and stones, and
to swing the cradle, axe and scythe; for at that time the great reapers were not in
vented. In February, 1862, he came to California by way of the Isthmus, and on the
twenty-eighth of that month he landed at San Francisco.
For a while, he went into Nevada at the time of the Comstock excitement, and
there he tried the hard labor of the logging camps, but had to give it up on account of
the mountain fever. He went back to Sacramento and worked at various pursuits, and
in 1863 he ran a ranch and went broke in the attempt to raise tobacco. Then he
started anew and worked at various places.
After three years of life in California, Mr. Allen returned to his home in Canada,
and when he had been there a couple of years, he was married, on November 21, 1867,
to Miss Lydia J. Talbot, who was born on November 15, 1836, and died near Silver
City, N. M., March 30, 1892. Four children blessed the union. Minnie died Novem
ber 20, 1869, aged five months; May is the wife of J. W. Carter, the cashier of the
First National Bank of Silver City, N. M.; Edith is the widow of Joe E. Sheridan, mine
inspector for the state of New Mexico. He was an editor, a postmaster and a very
prominent citizen there, and his demise, on July 17, 1920, was widely regretted, leav
ing his wife and daughter Margaret, Mrs. Fay, who was also bereaved of her husband,
and they in turn had a little daughter named Margaret Louise. Mrs. Sheridan ' and
Mrs. Fay now make their home on Lyon Street, Santa Ana. Margaret, the fourth
child, presides gracefully over her father's house and gladdens the -lives of all privi
leged to know her.
The progenitor of this branch of the Allen family was James Allen, a relative
of Rev. John Allen, who was a powerful Puritan preacher driven from England and
led to join the Puritans who migrated to the New World. He helped to establish
the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and in 1637 was the first settled minister at Dedham,
Mass. This family has always espoused the cause of education and the ideals of the
higher life, and, according to authentic records, sixty-five persons of the name of Allen
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number seventeen were ministers of the Gospel. General Ethan Allen was of the
same family; so was General Israel Putnam, and some of the leading advocates of
temperance have sprung from the Allen stock. Nathan Prescott Allen, the father of
our subject, for example, helped to organize the first temperance society in Canada —
a sturdy millwright and farmer, who let his light shine' in the neighborhood in which
he dwelt. He died in the summer of 1865, and Prescott and an older brother, Horatio A.
Allen, took over the father's estate and paid off the balance of the heirs. He worked
on the old home farm for two years, or during 1865-66, and then sold out; and a few
days after his marriage he came West to look for more promising fields. He farmed
for a while in Afton, Union County, Iowa, and bought out a store sixty miles west
of Chariton, in that state, at that time the western terminus of the Burlington Rail
way. He continued as a storekeeper at Afton for twelve years, and still later for
three years he had a store at Shenandoah, in Iowa. He then went to Silver City,
N. M., and for three years engaged in mercantile pursuits, and next he took up ranch
ing, setting out twenty-five acres of fruit trees and raising some 2,500 goats.
From Silver City, Mr. Allen moved to California, and in 1897 settled on his pres
ent place. Only eight acres were then planted to walnuts; but he afterwards bought
fifteen additional acres of six-year-old trees, and since then he has set out about twelve
more acres, so that he now has, all in all, about thirty acres of excellent walnuts.
A Republican in matters of national political import, but a citizen who believes
in nonpartisanship in the administration of local affairs, Mr. Allen is a member of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Santa Ana and, with his family, always ready for
the upbuilding as well as the building up of town and county.
AUGUSTUS HORATIO ALLEN.— A progressive, exceptionally active and able
young man who is successfully operating two ranches, one of twenty and one of thirty
acres, a part of the estate of the late Horatio A. Allen, doing much of the work himself
with the most up-to-date machinery and according to the most approved methods, is
Augustus Horatio Allen. A native son of California, Mr. Allen was born at Tustin
April 8, 1893, his parents being Horatio Augustus and Emma (German) Allen, both
born in Ontario, Canada, a review of their lives appearing on another page of this
history. The father, who was for many years a prominent banker in Canada, located
at Tustin in 1886, and at once began the development of a tract of eight acres which
he had purchased. As the years went by he met with prosperity and added to his
holdings until they comprised eighty acres, in five ranches, the larger part of the
acreage being devoted to walnuts, the remainder a thriving grove of Valencia oranges.
Reared on the home place, Augustus Horatio Allen received his early education
in the local school, attending the Orange Union high school for two years, later
entering the Los Angeles Military Academy, where he graduated with honors in 1911.
Two years later, on June 6, he was married to Miss Georgia Liggett, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Liggett, now of Fresno. Two children have blessed their
union, Barbara and Jean.
As has been said, Mr. Allen takes hold of the work himself, not content merely
to direct the labor of others, and frequently runs the Cletrac tractor, which is only
one of the many of the up-to-date machines and implements making up an enviable
complement for his farm work. He looks far ahead, and heeds both the last word of
science and the practical experience of the veteran agriculturist whose schooling has
generally been confined to the ranch itself; and so his groves and orchards yield well.
Two brothers of Mr. Allen also bid fair to attain their measure of success, if,
indeed, they have not come to enjoy the same already. Lucius is a rancher at Tustin,
and Gerald N., who, with his mother, lives in Los Angeles, and is a freshman at
Occidental College. In national politics Mr. Allen is a Republican; but he knows no
partisanship in his attitude toward problems of local import, and heartily supports the
home district.
ROBERT D. BACON.— To be recognized as a "self-made'' mai) is the honor
accorded to Robert D. Bacon, a pioneer of Buena Park, Orange County, and one of
the most successful and progressive ranchers of that section.
He is a native of Illinois, born May 13, 1865, in Macoupin County, son of Thomas
and Mary (Hoover) Bacon, the former an Englishman by birth, while the mother was
a native of Indiana. At the age of twelve years, Robert was deprived of the love and
care of his mother, she having passed away in 1877; his father survived until 1898. It
was in his native state that Robert D. Bacon was reared and educated, and where he
remained until 1884, when he moved to southwestern Kansas, where he resided four
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In 1888 he migrated to the Golden State, locating in Buena Park, Los Angeles
County, where he had a friend with whom he made his stopping place until he could
establish himself. He worked at any honest employment that came his way and helped
to build up Buena Park as it is today. Actuated by that worthy and commendable
desire that should possess every man's life — the owning of a home — Mr. Bacon
purchased two acres of land, which he disposed of later and secured ten acres as the
nucleus of his future ranch. To this ten were added, in due time, and after years of
hard work and successful operation of his ranch he was financially able to purchase
twenty more, giving him a splendid ranch of forty acres. His ranch is improved with
modern buildings, and after many years of continuous development of the land from its
primitive condition, Mr. Bacon has lived to see his original experimental walnut grove
a financial success- His ranch is devoted to diversified farming and to the dairy business.
He bought land in early days for fifty-four dollars an acre, a marked contrast in land
values of today. In early days Mr. Bacon worked out by the day and improved his
own land at odd times, as circumstances would permit, but in course of time he discon
tinued this, when he had succeeded in developing his land to the point where it yielded
enough to support his family.
Thrift and frugality are strong characteristics of Mr. Bacon, and to these, coupled
with hard work and a definite aim, are due his present prosperity. On Christmas Day,
1905, Mr. Bacon was united in marriage with Miss Agatha Van Loenen, a native of
Iowa, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Van Loenen, natives of Holland. This happy
union has been blessed with three children: Mildred, James E. and Robert W., all
attending Orange County public schools.
Mr. Bacon is deeply interested in the educational affairs of the county, and for
five years served as an efficient trustee of Centralia school district, and is an honored
member of the Farm Bureau of Buena Park. In politics he is a stanch Republican, and
has served as a delegate to many conventions. In every way that he could, Mr. Bacon
has supported all movements for the upbuilding of the county- Especially has he
worked to form a storm district for the control of the Santa Ana River. As a pioneer
of the Buena Park district he has seen the development of the land from sheep pastures
into small tracts and settled upon by contented families.
ANDREW WESLEY THOMPSON.— Strong and active at the age of seventy-
six, Andrew W. Thompson has the unusual record of never having had a day's illness
in his life. One of Orange County's pioneer citizens, he has always been a leader in
the neighborhood affairs of El Toro and his counsels are eagerly sought on political
matters, and he has for the past fifteen years occupied the office of deputy county clerk
at that place.
Through his maternal ancestors Mr. Thompson traces his ancestry back to
Holland, the progenitor of the Commer family in America having come from that
country in 1632, settling in the Mohawk Valley in New York. Grandfather Commer
served under General Washington in the Revolutionary War, and nine cousins
including the subject of this biography, fought in the Civil War. Andrew W. Thompson
was born December 16, 1844, his parents being Andrew and Maria (Dayton) Thompson,
the latter the daughter of Alexander Dayton. Mr. Dayton ran a ferry across the Pike
River in Canada, and also ran a hotel there, and it was while Mrs. Thompson was
staying there that Andrew W. was born; but, although he was born in Canada, the
family were residents of New York. There were seven children in the Thompson
family, and Andrew W., who was the second in order of birth, is now the only one
living. He came to Henderson, Sibley County, Minn., in 1854, with his parents, and
here grew to manhood. The country was in its primitive state at that time and there
were practically no opportunities for an education, so that Andrew had no schooling
until after he was married, when, realizing the handicap he was under, he went to
studying and became a well-informed man. He worked hard in those early days,
helping break the virgin soil of Minnesota and raising some of the first hard wheat
grown in that locality.
In December, 1862, Mr. Thompson ran away from home to enlist in Company M,
Second Minnesota Cavalry, and for two years fought the Indians on the frontier, having
many thrilling experiences, among others being called to the relief of the white settlers
during the massacre at New Ulm, Minn. He then served for four years with the
Union Army during the Civil War, after which he returned to Minnesota. In 1870 he
began farming there, and also kept a trading post at Big Stone Lake, trading with' the
Sioux Indians. With a cousin he hunted buffalo for the Government to feed the troops
stationed in this territory. In 1875, with his wife and two children, Mr. Thompson
made the long journey to California, settling in Ventura County, where they remained
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of what is now Laguna Beach, this place being known as the Spring Ranch, paying
$1,500 for the place. He also took up 160 acres of Government land, so that he had a
ranch of more than a half section, where he farmed and raised stock. He also worked
on the San Joaquin ranch for a time, helping care for the stock.
In 1870 Mr. Thompson was married at Glencoe to Miss Esther Tickner, a native
of Illinois. Her father, Ezra Tickner, hunted ducks in the early days where Chicago
now stands, later becoming a pioneer farmer in Minnesota. Seven children were born
of this union: Senath died at the age of sixteen; Ivy, Mrs. Charles Thompson, resides
at Watts; Irving is a retired rancher of Madera; Joseph is employed by Orange
County on road construction and resides in Santa Ana; Maria is the wife of Levi
Gockley, who owns the old Rosenbaum ranch north of Capistrano; Rebecca was the
wife of Orin Boyenton, who died on their ranch at Escalon, Cal., in 1920. She still
resides there; Andrew Wesley, Jr., is a rancher, and lives with his father. Mrs.
Thompson passed away at Laguna Beach July 23, 1886- Mr. Thompson's present wife,
to whom he was married in Santa Ana in 1908, was Mrs. Sarah M. Bonnell, the widow
of William Bonnell, who died in the East, leaving her with one son, Robert L. Bonnell,
a photographer in New York City. Mrs. Thompson in maidenhood was Miss Sarah
M. Clarke, the daughter of Timothy and Rachel Clarke of Passaic, N. J. She was
born in Passaic, N. J., where she was educated. She was gifted with a beautiful soprano
voice and sang in Henry Ward Beecher's choir of vocalists, in reserve for his famous
church choir.
Mr. Thompson removed to El Toro in 1890 and he has since made his home
there. He is a member of Sedgwick Post No. 17, G. A. R., at Santa Ana. In religious
matters he is a member of the Reorganized Church of Latter-Day Saints of Santa Ana
and a preacher and elder in that denomination, and has traveled and preached all over
the state. Politically he is a Republican and has always taken a prominent part in the
local affairs of his party.
ALEXANDER N. HENRY.— It is given to few men to look back over a life
so crowded with eventful memories as that of Alexander N. Henry, one of Anaheim's
best-known retired pioneer citizens. A native of Scotland, he was born at the seaport
town of Leith, February 15, 1837, the third child in the family of Innes and Jacobina
(Nicholson) Henry, natives of Lerwick, the chief town of the Shetland Islands. His
grandfather was named Innes, as was his great-grandfather, who was chief of the
clan and lord of the islands. The Henry clan coat of arms was a mailed arm pointing
upward, the hand grasping a scimiter, the inscription being "Semper Pa'ratus" (always
ready). The maternal grandfather, William Nicholson, was also of an old family of
the Shetland Islands, and took part in the Battle of Waterloo. There were eight
sons and four daughters in the Henry family.
When only ten years old, Alexander N. was apprenticed to his brother, who
owned a fleet of vessels and it was while he was at his work that he met with an
accident which rendered him unfit to continue and his indenture was cancelled and
he was sent home. Two years later, in 1852, he joined a British man-of-war and for
eight years was in the service of his government. During this period he went through
all of the Crimean War, being wounded -six times in battle. He took part in the
storming of Sebastopol, the famous charge of Balaklava, and the battles of Alma and
Inkermann. After the war his ship, the Agamemnon, was sent to the Baltic, later to
the Black Sea, under Admiral Lyons. When he left the navy he apprenticed himself
to the ship builder's trade at Leith, later sailing the seas as a ship carpenter. During
his service in the navy and the merchant marine Mr. Henry sailed in every sea and
visited almost every important seaport in the world. The broad knowledge he ac
quired during his travels make him an interesting and instructive companion. Nat
urally one of his most thrilling recollections is of the charge at Balaklava, immortal
ized by Tennyson in his "Charge of the Light Brigade" and he well remembers how
with set faces and hearts that knew no faltering, "into the Valley of Death rode the
six hundred" on that October day in 1854. Other stirring memories cluster about
Mexico, which he visited during the reign and downfall of Emperor Maximilian.
Sailing from Glasgow on a vessel bound for California around the Horn, Mr.
Henry landed in San Francisco after a journey of six. months. For a time he con
tinued as a ship carpenter, later followed mining in different places in the state. In
1867, ten years after the San Francisco Company had made its initial efforts towards
founding a colony at Anaheim, he came to this town, which was then an undeveloped
settlement, and he purchased 220 acres of land at West Anaheim and began farming
and raising fruit, principally wine grapes, and for eight years he maintained a winery.
When the blight struck the vines in this section he turned his attention to growing
oranges and walnuts, being among the pioneers who experimented with these products
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a center for nuts and fruit. After disposing of all but fifty acres of his original
purchase, Mr. Henry developed his homestead, Caledonia Grove, thus linking it with
the ancient name of his native country. Here he developed one of the finest and
most productive ranches in the county, raising oranges, walnuts and some grapes,
and erected a residence costing $10,000, also beautifying the grounds with ornamental
trees and a cypress arbor, that was one of the finest in the entire state, and made
of his ranch a show place of the Southland. Mr. Henry had a number of discouraging
experiences, chief among these being a heavy loss through four fires, in three of
which he had no insurance, and in the fourth only one eighth, when he lost more
than $30,000 worth of property. In 1910 he sold his ranch and retired to a home
in Anaheim which he erected. While a rancher, at a cost of $8,000, he constructed
a water plant on his property that produced 156 miner's inches from two wells of
600 and 320 feet.
While still in his native town of Leith in 1862, Mr. Henry was married to
Catherine Mason, who was born and reared there. Three sons have been born to
them, all now living retired after active and successful lives as ranchers. They are
Innes, John and Archibald. Mr. Henry was a member of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen for thirty years. He is a charter member of the Knights of Pythias
and of the B. P. O. Elks, both of Anaheim, and he is most enthusiastic in his support
of these orders. He still retains his membership in the Masonic lodge at Leith.
Mr. Henry is intensely patriotic and when the Boer War was in progress, being
an enthusiastic supporter of the cause of England, volunteered his services and agreed
to pay his own expenses to the field if he would be allowed to enlist. This he was
not allowed to do unless he would relinquish his American citizenship, which he felt
that he could not do. After the death of King Edward and when George V was to
be crowned Emperor of India, all the veterans of the Crimean and Indian wars were
irivited to witness the coronation in India as guests of the English government.
On account of illness in his family Mr. Henry was unable to attend, though he was
prevailed upon to be present.
It was but natural after participating in such stirring events as did Mr. Henry
in his young days that his interest and enthusiasm should be aroused during the
World War. After the sinking of the Lusitania he went to Los Angeles to see the
British Consul, who wrote to the British Minister in Washington, D C, that Mr.
Henry had offered his services in any capacity and on any condition to the British
government and would pay his own expenses to Canada if he could only be guaranteed
the privilege of joining either the army or navy. At that time the minister wrote that
he had no authority to enlist American subjects. After the United States entered
the war he went to Los Angeles three different times and tried to enter the service
of his country in any capacity they chose to put him but the members of the military
boards replied, "We can see the fighting devil in your eye, but we are very sorry to
state that you are too young to be accepted," so he had to return home and to be
content to work for those who were at the front. He was active in all the allied
drives and organized efforts that had such an important part in backing up the men
at the battle front, giving freely of his time and means. He had a muzzle-loader
salute gun cast and mounted at Los Angeles and this arrived in Anaheim a few days
before the armistice was signed; it was used to fire the salute of victory. He now
uses it on all occasions where salutes are fired. Robert and George Henry, nephews
of our subject and subjects of Great Britain, lost their lives when their ship was
sunk in the battle of the North Sea. A grandson, Archibald Henry, of Anaheim,
trained for service but was. taken ill and honorably discharged and died five weeks
after he reached his home. Mr. Henry helped organize Orange County and has
contributed generously to its prosperity during his residence of fifty years.
STEPHEN McPHERSON.— One of the earliest settlers of the Orange section
of Orange County was Stephen McPherson. He was born in Chaumont, Jefferson
County, N. Y., on March 5, 1839, the son of William and Jane (Forsythe) McPherson.
His father, a native of Deering, N. H., moved to northern New York in the early part
of the nineteenth century, and there became a successful farmer. Stephen McPherson
began his education in the public schools of his native county. He then attended the
Belleville Academy and the Jefferson County Institute at Watertown, N. Y. Before he
reached manhood he was teaching schools near his own home. He then attended and
was graduated from the Bryant and Stratton Commercial College at Buffalo, N. Y.
Following this, he taught school two years in Ohio.
In 1862 he came to California by way of Panama, where a brother and sister had
already preceded him. He settled first in Santa Clara County and followed his
profession as a school teacher. In 1872 he came to Los Angeles and settled in the
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Santiago Creek, of Chapman and Glassell. This land was cleared of brush and cactus
and the first raisin vineyard in Southern California planted. A partnership was formed
under the name of McPherson Brothers, and the raisin business grew to large
proportions. In the eighties it was the biggest of its kind in California, until the raisin
business was wiped out by the Anaheim grape disease in 1887-88. In addition to
viticulture, Stephen McPherson was one of the pioneer school teachers of Los Angeles
County. In 1872 he taught the first term of the Orange public school. ¦ At that time
the Orange district was known as Richland, and included what is now several school
districts. During the following decade he taught various schools in what is now Los
Angeles and Orange counties, known as Newport, San Gabriel, El Monte, Santa Monica
and Los Angeles City. After the dying of the vineyards, Mr. McPherson gave his
attention to other lines of farming, and was particularly interested in orange growing.
He saw cactus and brush covered land that he bought at ten and fifteen dollars an acre
in pioneer days grow to high values.
Mr. McPherson was an earnest Presbyterian and a charter member of the church
in Orange. In politics he was a Republican. In 1882 he married Miss Jennie E. Vincent,
who was born in Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, N. Y., and survives him. Three
children are also living: S. V., who works for the Southern Pacific railroad at Colton,
Cal.; William, now living with his mother, and farming; and Lulu, wife of Walter
L. Vieregg of Hollywood, Cal. Stephen McPherson died August 21, 1917. He was a
pioneer and upbuilder of Orange County and lived long enough to see the fruition of
his efforts. CORNELIUS C. COLLINS. — A decidedly progressive and successful man in
the world of business, who is at the same time quite as pronounced a "home man,"
and therefore very much interested in all that means the development, building up
and upbuilding of the community, into which he has cast his lot, is Cornelius C.
Collins, of the widely-known firm of C. C. Collins Company, the fruit packers and
shippers of Santa Ana. He was born in Greene County, Ohio, November 20, 1852, the
son of Joseph Collins, a farmer, who was also a pioneer in Ohio enviably identified
with the forming of the Buckeye State. He married Miss Isabella Morrow, and they
had eight children, the youngest being the subject of this sketch.
Cornelius C. attended the rural schools of his neighborhood, and later was a
student in the Ohio Central and Antioch colleges. After finishing his studies he
remained in charge of his father's farm for several years; but in the year of 1887,
when California was harvesting largely from its great "boom," Mr. Collins disposed
of his interests and came west to Santa Ana. For a year he was busy with real
estate ventures, but in 1890 he entered the packing field, and formed a partnership
with W. M. Smart, the firm being known as Smart & Collins. This continued for
two years, when the concern became the Collins Fruit Company, and later C. C.
Collins; finally, when Mr. Collins' son, W. C. Collins, had completed his education
he became a member of the firm, which has since been known as the C. C. Collins
Company. In its consecutive history under these various names, the establishment
is the oldest business house of its kind in the county and has won a high standing
for square dealing among the growers of fruit and nuts wherever the company has
had business with the producers. The statement has often been made that Mr.
Collins' word is always as good as his written agreement. He belongs to and
supports the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants & Manufacturers' Associa
tion, as well as other public movements for the betterment of conditions in general
throughout the county and state.
At Clifton, Ohio, on December 5, 1878, Mr. Collins was united in marriage to
Miss Emma Elizabeth Anderson. The union was an exceptionally happy one and has
been blessed by the birth of six children and three grandchildren. A daughter is
Ina Isabella, the wife of F. W. Stanley of Fresno; Walter C. is in partnership with
his father; Wilford A., is a bean thresher and fruit dryer; Robert W., is engaged
in the shoe business; Mary F. is the wife of Ernest C. Fortier of Turlock, Cal., and
Joseph S., an automotive mechanic. The family are all members of the United Pres
byterian Church, in which Mr. Collins has always been an active worker; for many
years he has been identified with mission work in Orange County, part of the time
among the Spanish people and later with the Christian Endeavor in the County
Hospital, always having in mind the moral uplift of the people in general.
The C. C. Collins Company pack and ship dried fruit, beans and walnuts, send
ing their products to all sections of the country; and they employ from fifty to 150
persons in all branches of their industry during the busy seasons. They have one
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grove, near Puente, Los Angeles County, both being equipped with modern methods
of handling their output.
As a pioneer business man of Santa Ana, Mr. Collins has always been much
interested in the advancement of the city as a commercial center and in all move
ments for its upbuilding has ever been found among the leaders. During the World
War he gave of his time and means to make Orange County go "over the top" in all
the allied drives for loans and funds. He has seen the city grow from a straggling
village to one of the best cities in the Southland. Public spirited to a high degree no
one is prouder of the city and county of his adoption than C. C. Collins.
CYRUS NEWTON MAGILL.— A very successful rancher with a record of thirty
years or more as a pioneer, is Cyrus Newton Magill, whose twenty acres constitute
one of the "show-places" of the West Orange voting precinct. He was born in Clinton
County, Ind., on August 12, 1836, the son of Cyrus D. Magill, a native of Kentucky
who farmed for a while in Indiana and later in Wisconsin. While in the Hoosier State
he was married to Sarah Miller, and it was in the historic year of 1849 that he moved
to Wisconsin. He attended the public schools in Indiana, and also at Richmond, later
Orion, in Richland County, Wis., and grew up on his father's farm, two fniles from
the Wisconsin River. Thus he saw that section of the country in its undeveloped
state, before there was any railroad there.
In 1863, Mr. Magill enlisted in Battery C of the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery,
and was stationed for a while at Fort Wood, near Missionary Ridge. There, in 1864,
he was taken ill, and at Madison. Wis., he was honorably discharged, being mustered
out at Nashville, Tenn., on September 21, 1865.
Twenty years later, in Kansas, he was married to Miss Matilda Brady, a daughter
of the late Peter Brady, who died at Garden Grove on February 11, 1920. In 1869, Mr.
Magill and his father and family moved from Wisconsin to Kansas, and settled in
Wilson County, where he pre-empted a tract of 160 acres and bought forty acres
of school land. Two children were born in Kansas — Dwight E. Magill, whose sketch
appears elsewhere in this work, and Dr. Peryl B. Magill, who lives at home.
Cyrus Newton Magill came with his wife and their two children from Kansas to
California in March, 1889, and for the first year lived at Santa Ana. Then he bought
his present twenty acres, and there reared his family. Two more children have been
born here. James Magill first saw the light on August 24, 1892, and after attending
the public schools at Garden Grove, grew up on his father's ranch. On March 8, 1918,
he enlisted in the aviation school at San Diego and trained at Rockwell Field, with! a
Curtis plane, showing such proficiency that he was favored with three promotions.
He was never in an accident, and was honorably discharged on November 30, 1919.
Now he is a charter member of the Santa Ana Post of the American Legion. Julia M-,
the fourth child, is at home. Mrs. Magill, lamented by all who knew her, died on
September 7, 1901. In 1907 Mr. Magill erected a fine cement-block dwelling house on
his ranch property.
The family attend the Presbyterian Church, and are active in good works for the
benefit of the community. As a patriotic Civil War veteran Mr. Magill is a member of
Sedgwick Post No. 17, G. A. R., at Santa Ana, and he has done civic duty by serving
on juries. WILLIAM COCHEMS. — A hard-working, successful business man of Santa Ana,
who thoroughly understands the problems of his field, and who feels that he also so
well understands Santa Ana and Orange County, and their problems and prospects,
that he is in perfect harmony with his environment, is William Cochems, the
wide-awake owner and director of the popular Vienna Bakery and Confectionery
establishment at 210 East Fourth Street, Santa Ana, and residing at 640 French Street,
where his revered mother presides over his household. For twenty years he has
devoted on an average not less than eighteen hours a day to his business interests; and
it has been this careful attention to details, ever anticipating the wants of his ever-
increasing patrons, that has enabled him to "win out" despite high-cost times.
He was born at Chicago on June 22, 1879, the son of Joseph and Gertrude (Stoltz)
Cochems, with whom he came to California and Los Angeles in the late eighties. In,
1905 his father settled at Orange and there started, with W. W. Ward, what is still
known as Ward's Bakery, although it was then called Cochems & Ward's Bakery. His
father had come to Los Angeles in 1886; and his mother — who is still living with our
subject— followed, bringing her three sons and daughters. Joseph Cochems had
learned his trade in Germany, and so had no difficulty in giving satisfaction to the
public when he opened a bakery in Chicago. On coming to California he opened a
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Having learned the art of baking from his father, William Cochems started out
as a journeyman baker, and worked in San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Sacramento,
as well as San Diego; and held positions as baker at the celebrated Hotel del Coronado
and also at the Raymond at Pasadena. Only when he was satisfied that he had
mastered the ins and outs of the trade did he set up for himself.
As a starter, he bought out H. L. Smith, in 1901, and took charge of his bakery
at 309 North Main Street, in Santa Ana. Three years later he removed to 210 East
Fourth Street, and here he has been ever since. He has a full, sanitary equipment for
his bakery, and produces nothing but the purest of pure food, from the best of wheat
flour, eggs, sugar, milk and spices. He uses no substitutes — dried eggs or evaporated
milk. Indeed, in 1913 he expended $10,000 in refitting, remodeling and refurnishing his
place, and among other things then installed was his elaborate soda fountain. He also
has one of the best-arranged, cosy and elegant lunch rooms, ice-cream parlors and
confectioneries. He bakes the Butter Top — the best of wheat breads — French, Graham,
whole wheat and rye bread, and also a complete line of cakes. He manufactures his
own ice cream, from pure cream, his watchword being, "Not how cheap, but how
good." He employs five people, and they, as well as himself, are always busy. His
ice cream being of the high quality described, he makes it only for the retail trade.
No wonder, then, that everybody goes to the "Vienna," and that everybody comes
away satisfied.
Having started in Santa Ana in business for himself with just one week's wages
as his capital, and worked hard and practiced the Golden Rule, Mr. Cochems finds
himself today the proprietor of one of the best business establishments in Orange
County, and a small stockholder in the First National Bank, as well as in the new
Santa Ana Hotel. He also has a life membership in the Elks.
JAMES ANDREW TURNER.— Associated for nearly a third of a century with
the business interests of Santa Ana, a man of widest influence, the sudden demise of
James A. Turner on October 8, 1919, came as a great shock to his family and wide
circle of friends. Born in Audrain County, Mo., October 27, 1848, Mr. Turner was
the son of Andrew and Mary (Harris) Turner, both natives of Kentucky, and as a
young married couple they settled in Missouri. His early education was received in
the rural schools, of the locality, but, when the Civil War broke out, like other boys
of his age he had to go to work on the farm to help fill the place of the men who
were away fighting for their country. At the age of eighteen he was married to
Sarah Riggs, and two sons were born to them, Benjamin E., who died in May, 1919,
in Santa Ana; and Henry Ola, who died in infancy, Mrs. Turner passing away in 1873.
Locating in Sturgeon, Mo., Mr. Turner engaged in the dry goods business with
Maj. John F. Rucker, and later with his nephew, P. Henry Turner, in the hardware
business. .In June, 1887, he came to California with his family and in January, 1888,
settled in Santa Ana, being associated in the shoe business with P. H. Turner who
came to California about the same time, continuing in that line until he became
cashier of the First National Bank of Santa Ana, holding that office for nine years.
In December, 1905, he organized the Farmers and Merchants National Bank, acting
as its cashier. The bank prospered greatly under his management and a few years
later absorbed the Commercial Bank of Santa Ana. In February, 1919, the Farmers
and Merchants Bank merged with the First National Bank and after that time Mr.
Turner gave his time to the interests of the Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank,
the savings department of the First National Bank. On the first of October, 1919,
only eight days before his death, he severed active connection with this institution,
for the purpose of devoting himself to his ranch interests, owning seventy-two acres
in oranges and lemons near Olive, and to get relief from the strain of business life.
On February 12, 1874, Mr. Turner's second marriage occurred when he was united
with Miss Alice Rucker, a sister of Maj. John F. Rucker. Of their children, Ellis B.
died at the age of twenty; Nannie H. passed away at the age of seventeen months;
and Elizabeth is the wife of Thomas L. Inch of Los Angeles; she has one child,
Thomas Turner Inch.
In politics Mr. Turner was active in the ranks of the Democratic party. He
was a Mason and an Elk and attended the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. A
man of fine character and high ideals, he was always a leader in the affairs of the com
munity; his interests in its various enterprises were wide, but it perhaps was as a
banker that he was best known. He knew Orange County like a book, he knew
lands, he knew men, and in his knowledge of men came his greatest realm of useful
ness as a banker; and there are today in the vicinity of Santa Ana many men whose
present financial prosperity Is due to the encouragement and advice and backing
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AARON BUCHHEIM. — A remarkably successful rancher whose attainments and
prosperity are all the more striking because he began life under the necessity for con
stant work from the time he was a boy of seven years, is Aaron Buchheim, who owns
the site of Serra, formerly called San Juan-by-the-Sea, an ideal mountain town on the
Pacific Ocean, situated where the State Highway strikes the coast between Los
Angeles and San Diego. He was born at Sauk Center, Stearns County, Minn., on April
50, 1870, the son of Frank S. Buchheim, who had married Caroline Zymon. When
eleven years old, he came with his parents to California, arriving here on October 11,
1881, and in 1904 his father died at Santa Ana, the mother also passing away here on
January 20, 1915.
Aaron Buchheim began life doing farm work, and the hardest kind of farm work,
at that; he helped take care of the straw at the tail end of the old-time grain threshing
machine as early as 1878, and did his part faithfully, little dreaming that one day he
would undertake the most extensive threshing operations of any person in Orange
County. When he came to California and lost his father, he resolved to be a help to
his mother, his family and his friends; he began as a farm hand on a ranch and he has
thus come to sympathize with the laboring man, and to feel a pride in caring for all
who labor for him.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Buchheim were the parents of twelve children: The eldest,
Lydia, now Mrs. Hemenway, resides at El Toro, where she operates one of the O'Neill
ranches in partnership with her brother Aaron; Aaron was the second in order of birth;
John is a beet grower near Garden Grove; Jacob is a rancher at Downey; Henry Wil
liam, the fifth in the order of birth, is ranching both in the San Juan Capistrano district
and in Ventura County; Emma is deceased; Josie is Mrs. Van Whisler, the wife of a
rancher at El Toro; Paul assists his brother Aaron and also is interested in orange
and walnut growing with him in Ventura County; Frank is married and resides at the
old Buchheim place on East Seventeenth Street, Santa Ana; Fred passed away at the
age of thirty, in Santa Ana, leaving a son, Carl, and a widow, the present Mrs. Aaron
Buchheim; Emil, who also works for his brother Aaron, has an honorable discharge
from the army, having served in the light artillery, Sunset Division, and served over
seas as first gunner on a French "75." Minnie, who married Henry Hoeffner, resides
in Nebraska. Mr. Buchheim's cozy home is ably presided over by his wife, who was Miss Alice
Hasenyager before her marriage, a lady of many accomplishments, who was reared in
an atmosphere of culture and refinement. Born at Fall City, Richardson County, Nebr.,
her father was John Hasenyager, a native of Tecumseh, Pawnee County, Nebr., whose
parents were among the first settlers of eastern Nebraska and pioneer farmers of that
section. Her mother, Anna Dietrich in maidenhood, was born near Fall City, Nebr.,
and Grandfather Dietrich was a prominent farmer in Richardson County, Nebr., until
1906, when he and his wife located on an orange ranch on Grand Avenue, Santa Ana.
He passed away in April, 1918, and his widow still makes her home there. John
Hasenyager brought his family to Santa Ana in 1909, and he has ever since been
engaged in walnut growing on Grand Avenue.
Operating some 2,500 acres besides his own land, Mr. Buchheim employs the latest
machinery and methods in scientific farming, using two gigantic threshing machines
drawn by a mighty seventy-five horsepower Holt caterpillar tractor, which also pro
vides the motive power. One is a grain thresher and the other a bean thresher and
both were built by himself, showing his remarkable genius and adaptability as an
inventor. The bean thresher — without doubt the largest in Southern California — was
constructed on his home place in 1916, from plans of his own and is a model of effi
ciency. When operating at full capacity it turns out six sacks of lima beans a minute,
requiring three sack sowers, and has attracted widespread attention for its success,
having been commented on so favorably that representatives from large threshing-
machine manufacturers have called to see it at work and get new ideas. It is necessary
for him to have a very large threshing outfit since he handles the beans from the fields
and thus has to haul them to the machine, which requires twenty teams and wagons
and a complement of sixty hands to do the work. His own years of experience and
hard work have made him insistent on giving the workmen the best food obtainable
and he says "the best is none too good for them." Consequently the whole crew,
almost to a man, remain with him the entire threshing season, which takes about three
months. This excellency of service requires convenience, so he has designed and con
structed a dining wagon, 11 by 24 feet, with a large steel range in the kitchen, with
the necessary equipment of cooking utensils and pantry facilities, as well as separate
cooling compartments for meats and vegetables, and the room arranged with adjustable
tables having a seating capacity for thirty-six men. Mrs. Buchheim takes an equal

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interest in providing for the farm employees and much of her husband's success is
undoubtedly due to her.
For many years Mr. Buchheim was the crop reporter for the Capistrano district
for the Department of Agriculture at Washington, and each month would send in a
report to the department as to the amount of acreage, condition and estimate of crops.
This he did with the strictest regularity until his own business affairs took so much of
his time that he could not do other than resign. He was one of the original stock
holders, with James Turner and others, in the formation of the Farmers and Merchants
Bank of Orange, which recently was consolidated and is now the First National Bank,
in which he is a stockholder. He was also an original stockholder of the Citizens Bank
until it was consolidated and is now the California National Bank, in which he is one
of the stockholders.
Mr. Buchheim has always been interested in sports and particularly in shooting,
in which he excels, and has attained an enviable record as a marksman. For many
years he was a member of the Santa Ana Rifle Club of the National Rifle Association.
At one of the tournaments, shooting a Springfield rifle he won the sharpshooter's medal
making nine hits out of ten shells, all shot inside of twenty minutes, and it was the
best score made at the tournament.
A leader among farmers and working men, Mr. Buchheim has such clear ideas
regarding industry and economics that it is to be hoped that his voice may some day
be heard in legislative halls. In looking back over his life Mr. Buchheim sees that
while he had hard work when a boy, yet the system, industry and application taught
him by his father established with him habits of accuracy and efficiency which he deems
the secret of his success, for he finds that no business can thrive and be successful
without accuracy and efficiency at the bottom, as its fundamental principle. Mrs.
Buchheim is a member of St. Peter's Lutheran Church at Santa Ana and fraternally
Mr. Buchheim is popular as a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 236, I. O. O. F., as well
as the Encampment and Canton of the Odd Fellows, and is a life member of the Santa
Ana Lodge of Elks. The Buchheim home is on the land owned by the family and is
attractively located, surrounded by flower and vegetable gardens. Music, art and liter
ature find a welcome here, and so does discussion of the latest problems of the day.
W. DEAN JOHNSTON.— The president of the Orange County Farm Bureau
and an influential and progressive landowner is W. Dean Johnston of Santa Ana, who
has for many years occupied a place of prominence in the agricultural development of
the county, where he has resided since he was sixteen years old. Mr. Johnston was
born June 13, 1871, at Tipton, Iowa, the son of John and Laura (Safley) Johnston,
pioneer farmers of Iowa. John Johnston was a native of Campbellsford, Ontario,
Canada, and settled in Iowa in 1865, at the age of seventeen. The mother was a native
daughter of Iowa, belonging to the first generation of Iowa girls, her father, John
Safley, having emigrated from Scotland and settled there in 1836, when Iowa was on
the extreme frontier beyond the limits of civilization. Mr. Safley is still remembered
by the people of Santa Ana, having resided on Ross Street for about four years before
his death. Mr. and Mrs. John Johnston and their family left their home at Tipton,
Iowa, in 1886, coming directly to Santa Ana, and there Mr. Johnston still lives, retired
from active business, his wife having passed away in 1914, at the age of sixty-eight
years. There were four children in the Johnston family: Mrs. G. W. Tighe, wife of
a citrus grower and banker at Fillmore, Cal.; William Dean, of this review; Mrs.
J. E- Snow, wife of a real estate broker of Santa Ana; and John Clifford, an electrician
for the Ventura Refining Company at Fillmore, Cal.
W. Dean Johnston received his first schooling at the country schools of their
neighborhood in Iowa, and attended the Santa Ana high school for one year after the
family removed here. Always energetic, he made up his mind to start in to ranching
on his own account, and went to Riverside County, where he followed grain and alfalfa
farming for five years, becoming the owner of 100 acres of land, but leased 500 or 600
acres in addition, devoting it largely to the production of barley. In 1906 he returned
to Orange County and became interested in ranching in the vicinity of Westminster.
He is now the owner of two ranches of eighty acres each, which are devoted to sugar
beets; besides this, he rents three other ranches, aggregating 242 acres of land, which
includes his father's place of twelve acres immediately north of Santa Ana. Mr.
Johnston has grown up in the industry of farming in Southern California, and so is
thoroughly conversant with its best and most progressive methods. He still continues to
conduct his own farming operations, notwithstanding his many other interests, and is
equally at home with an eight-horse team or a caterpillar, tractor.
While ranching in Riverside County, Mr. Johnston was married at Elsinore to
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(Brown) Yates, born, respectively, in Alabama and Kentucky, their marriage occurring
in Arkansas. The family located at Elsinore in 1886, and Mr. Yates still makes his
home there, being well known, especially in Odd Fellow and Knights of Pythias circles.
Before coming to Elsinore he resided in Cajon Valley, San Diego County.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnston are the parents of three children: Adelle, a senior in the
Santa Ana high school, Fred and John. After residing for a number of years on their
ranch near Westminster, the family moved to Santa Ana in March, 1919, and have
established their residence on North Main Street-
Mr. Johnston was prominent in the establishment and organization of the
Westminster Drainage District, and for four years served as its president. While
living at Westminster he served for a number of years on the board of trustees of the
Westminster school district and was president of that board when more land was
purchased for school purposes and the excellent two-story brick building was erected.
He helped organize the Orange County Farm Bureau and was elected on its first
board of directors, serving several terms, and was elected to the presidency in 1919,
an office for which he is admirably fitted. He is also vice-president and a member of
the board of directors of the Orange County Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Fraternally, Mr. Johnston is very prominent in Masonic circles, being a member of the
Blue Lodge at Huntington Beach, and of the Chapter and Commandery at Santa Ana
and the Shriners of Los Angeles. In politics he favors the principles of the Republican
party, but is essentially broad-minded and liberal in his views, especially in local issues.
WILLIAM WILSON. — A well-posted, experienced rancher who, through his own
worth and exertions, has steadily come to the fore, so that now, the owner of a valuable
ranch at Smeltzer, his word is as good as his bond, is William Wilson, a pioneer and
prosperous lima bean grower. He has been twenty-three years on the James Irvine, or
San Joaquin Ranch, and besides the ranch he owns, he leases and operates 232 acres.
He was born near Tipton, Moniteau County, Mo., on April 1, 1864, and was reared on a
farm in Polk County of the same state.
Mr. Wilson's father was Bartlett Elmore Wilson, a farmer who is still living at
the age of seventy-seven in Douglas County, Mo., where he is popularly known as Uncle
Dudd Wilson. He was born in Tennessee, and was of Scotch-English blood. He
had married, in Missouri, Miss Emaline Morris, of Dutch-Irish origin, who was also a
native of Tennessee, and she died when our subject was only four and a half months
old, whereupon his father married again. He had eight children by his second wife, six
boys and two girls, all of whom are living; and among them is a half-brother of William
Wilson, George B. Wilson, the district attorney of Douglas County, Mo. Another half-
brother is the Hon. J. B. Wilson, a member of the Arkansas legislature, while still an
other half-brother is Thomas Wilson, living at Holly, Colo. Two half-brothers, Francis,
a wheat rancher, and David, a school teacher — live in Montana.
In 1889 William Wilson went to Caldwell, Kans., and was in the rush for Okla
homa; but he did not stay there. Instead, he came out to the more promising common
wealth, California, arriving in the Golden State in the spring of 1890. He had been
married in Missouri, in 1885, to Miss Emma Shepard, a native of Michigan, and he thus
had the good fortune to start with the companionship of a wife who has been a
genuine helpmate. He lived at Ventura for seven years, during three of which he
followed agriculture, while at other times he worked at various other pursuits, and
incidentally learned all about growing lima beans.
In October, 1897, Mr. Wilson came south to Orange County; but the following
three years proved so dry and disastrous, that he ran behind and got into debt. He
did not despair, however, but persevered and finally prospered. Now he owns eighty
acres at Smeltzer, irrigated from artesian wells, which his son-in-law rents and farms to
lima beans; and he also raises lima beans where James Irvine once thought he could
raise nothing but barley, and in a thousand ways demonstrated that he is not afraid of
hard work, and plenty of it.
On April 10, 1908, Mrs. Wilson died, the highly-esteemed and lamented mother of
four children: Beryl is a farmer at Chatsworth and the husband of Miss Mamie Jef
frey of Irvine; Maude is the wife of Earl Lentz, the rancher at Smeltzer, and the mother
of two children; William Oscar Wilson married Miss Leonore Benott, of Irvine, a pros
perous rancher, and they have two children; Leo B. is the husband of Miss Gladys
Geyer, of Santa Monica, by whom he has had one child. Fraternally Mr. Wilson is a
member of all branches of the Odd Fellows.
Mr. Wilson has for years advocated the principles of the Democratic party, but
he has never allowed party politics to influence his action in matters purely local, where
the needs of a small, mixed community must be considered. He is a wide reader, a deep
thinker, and a good conversationalist; and his influence must necessarily work for the
upbuilding of town and county.

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LUMIS A. EVANS. — A pioneer of two cities — Pasadena and Anaheim — who
started in the good, old-fashioned way as a farm hand contributing his mite toward
the development of American agriculture, Lumis A. Evans, the path-breaking dealer in
Anaheim real estate is one of the very interesting citizens of Orange County. He was
born on a farm in St. Joseph County, Mich., at Centerville, the county seat, on Novem
ber 8, 1854, and attended the country schools of that section and period. When eight
een years of age, he removed to New York state, to work on a farm, and later he
secured employment on an Erie Canal boat plying between Buffalo and New York,
an adventure affording him one of the most pleasing experiences of his life. After
two years in New York, he returned to his Michigan home for a brief stay.
In the spring of the Centennial year of 1876, he arrived in California and came
on to the Anaheim district, then in Los Angeles County, after a run through the north
ern part of the state; and for a couple of years he worked out by the month on
neighboring ranches. In 1878 he was married to Miss Louise Jane Kellogg, a native
of Napa, Cal., and a member of a pioneer family; and after marriage, he started to
farm in the West Anaheim section on the Garden Grove Road. He had ten acres of
his own, and in addition he leased land.
At the end of four years, Mr. Evans located at Pasadena, becoming a pioneer in
the truest sense of the word, for when he arrived there in 1881, the place was so small
that farming was the chief occupation. He lived there for seven years, and farmed
600 acres to grain in what is now the heart of the city. He was there, in fact, through
the big "boom," and also dealt extensively in real estate.
Returning to Anaheim in 1892, he raised sugar beets for the Los Alamitos
Sugar Factory; but since 1900 he has followed realty exclusively, dealing extensively
in orange groves. He has made a special study of soils and relative land conditions,
and has become an authority on that subject; and as the oldest dealer in real estate
in Anaheim, in the matter of years of service, he enjoys an esteem and influence such
as anyone might covet.
Mr. Evans is also a member of a syndicate which has large land interests in
Guatemala, Central America, known as the Guatemala Agricola Central Company,
acting as one of its directors, and they hold a large tract of land which is devoted
especially to cocoanuts, pineapples, and also to sugar cane, grain and stock raising.
In addition, he has extensive mining interests in Sonora, Mexico, which is being oper
ated as the Esperanza Mining Company.
Ten children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Evans. Alice is the wife of H.
M. Barker of Iowa. Francis is a lumberman in Siskiyou County. Leonard A. is a grad
uate of the University of Southern California, holding the diploma through the law
school, and is a well-known practicing attorney at Anaheim, with offices in the First
National Bank Building. Russell is chief engineer of the pumping station of the Gen
eral Petroleum Oil Company at Nenach. Bayard H. is a member of the fire depart
ment in Los Angeles. Lawrence J. is with the ship yards at Mare Island Navy Yard.
Orilla May is a graduate of the Los Angeles College of Osteopathy and practicing at
Redlands. Carrie is at home. Benjamin is an engineer at Nenach. Jennie is a grad
uate of the Anaheim high school and now at home.
Mr. Evans helped to organize the First Christian Church in Pasadena, in 1881,
and the First Christian Church in Anaheim, in 1890; and he has been an active member
ever since. HUGH T. THOMSON — A very interesting family, immediate and in its many
worth-while connections, is that of Hugh T. Thomson, the manager of the Jotham
Bixby Company's large ranch, as he is also manager of the Peralta Tract, in Villa
Park Precinct. He was born in Chicago on August 23, 1871, and growing up there,
came to California in 1892, when he was twenty-one years old. He had been married
in Chicago, and on arriving here, purchased a ranch of ten acres in the Villa Park
Precinct. He was at that time wholly unfamiliar with ranch work, and had had no
experience in ranching or orcharding. He was apt, however, and learned rapidly.
Having settled in this vicinity and become acquainted with the late Jotham Bixby,
he became an employe on his ranch, and arose to be foreman and superintendent, and
was continued in the employment of the Bixby's for a period of twenty-three years.
After coming to the Jotham Bixby ranch, Hugh Thomson studied civil engineering
and became a-practical civil engineer. When the Jotham Bixby Company was organ
ized, and this ranch was taken over by the new corporation, Mr. Thomson remained
with the new company; he also had to do with the Bixby Development Company, a
subsidiary concern engaged in improving and selling off the Peralta Hills Tract of
400 acres. He set out orchards on this place about fifteen years ago, and now they are
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Of all the hard work he has done, however, none gives him more satisfaction
than his recent war work. He became enthused about this at Los Angeles when he
heard an address by Will H. Hays, Chairman of the Republican National Committee;
and he accepted the local secretaryship of the campaigns for the second, third, fourth
and fifth loans, and successfully put his constituency over the top every drive in
record-breaking time. He was also in charge of two Red Cross drives. In the year
1918 alone he put in five months' time on war work.
He was born, as has been stated, in the early seventies, the son of Somerville
Thomson, a wholesale baker in Chicago, who was burned out and ruined during the
great Chicago fire. He was a Scotchman by birth, and came to the United States when
a young man. He married Elizabeth Boyd, who died at Ontario, Cal., in 1917.
When he married, Mr. Thomson chose for his wife Miss Emma Conger, a cousin
of Edwin H. Conger, the American Minister to China at the time of the "Boxer" siege
of Pekin; and four children have blessed this fortunate union: Hugh Conger Thomson,
who was foreman of fhe Bixby Company, owns- a ranch in Villa Park; Somerville
Thomson, having returned from war service in France, is at present foreman, in place
of his brother Hugh; and there are Margery and Lois, schoolgirls. The family attend
the Congregational Church at Villa Park, where Mr. Thomson is a prominent member.
He has also done good civic service as a trustee of the Villa Park grammar school, and
was on the building committee when the new school, thoroughly up-to-date, was
erected. In every way he is interested in the development and permanent, healthy
growth of Orange County, and never fails to help along any good movement likely to
benefit any of its rising communities.
ANSON LAMB. — The history of the Lamb family in America dates back to the
early colonial days. The founder of the family in this country was Terry Lamb, who
came from Ireland in the early days of New England and fought in the War of the
Revolution under George Washington. During the period of his service he was cap
tured by a band of Oneida Indians, but later a force of cavalry came to his rescue and
saved his life. After the Revolutionary War was over the Government took upon
itself the task of educating the Indians in the constructive arts of peace, and Mr.
Lamb was appointed a teacher to instruct the Oneida tribe and in the course of his
work he taught them the trades of blacksmithing and carpentering, as well as the
science of farming. Afterwards he settled in Onondaga County, New York, where he
established the family home, and here he lived, an honored and respected citizen, until
his death in 1824. He and his wife, who was a native of New England, were the
parents of five children: Terry, Timothy, William, John and Nancy. Of these children,
John became one of the pioneers of Grand Rapids, Mich., and here he lived to the ripe
old age of eighty-four years, prominent in the political affairs of his locality and a
staunch adherent of the old school of democracy. During his early manhood he had
farmed in New York state, and while there married Mary Chase, a native of that state,
who passed away at their Michigan home at the age of ninety-six.
Mr. and Mrs. John Lamb were the parents of eight daughters and three sons,
and one of the latter was Anson Lamb, the subject of this review. At the time of his
birth, August 25, 1818, his parents were still living in New York, and his early years
were spent on the old homestead there. He began farming when but a youth, having
been brought up to a knowledge of agricultural pursuits, but later he became second
mate on a boat plying on the Ohio River. During the Civil War he was in the Govern
ment service and after the close of hostilities he located at Nevada, Iowa, where he
worked at blacksmithing and also operated a threshing machine. During his residence
here, his wife, Caroline (Bartholomew) Lamb, whom he had married in New York,
passed away in Dubuque, when their son, William D. Lamb, Orange County's well-
known pioneer citizen, was only four years old. Ten years later father and son started
across the plains in a Mormon freight train, locating at Salt Lake City. There they
embarked in the lumber and sawmill business in Mill Creek Canyon, about nineteen
miles from Salt Lake City. Here they developed a remarkably successful business,
which they continued in for several years. In the meantime, William D. Lamb had
been married to Miss Elizabeth Holt, and shortly after that, about the year 1869, he
came to California, settling in what is now Orange County, and becoming one of its
best-known settlers and a large ranch owner. Anson Lamb was associated with his
son in many of his extensive undertakings and he became the owner of 800 acres of land,
149 acres belonging to the Stearns Rancho, of which William D. Lamb was for many
years manager. The remainder of the acreage was formerly a part of the Laguna
Rancho. He did much pioneer work in the development of this region and contributed
valuably to its agricultural upbuilding. This property descended to the grandchildren.
His death occurred at the ranch in August, 1906, at the age of eighty-eight years.

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STEPHEN F. CLARKE. — Many years of various business experiences have gone
to make up the thorough knowledge and understanding of human nature which has
contributed so largely to the success accompanying the efforts of Stephen F. Clarke,
of Orange, who is known throughout Orange County as one of its sterling and
progressive citizens. A descendant of good old New England stock, Mr. Clarke was
born at Boston, Mass., in 1859, his parents being Isaac P. and Caroline (Frothingham)
Clarke, both natives of the Bay State, where they passed their entire lives, the father
attaining the age of eighty-four, while Mrs. Clarke passed away when seventy-three
years of age. There were five sons and one daughter in the Clarke family, as follows:
Eben B. of Pittsburgh, Pa.; George F. of Boston, Mass.; Isaac Wells, also a resident
of Pittsburgh; Charles McClellan of Buffalo, N.Y.; Edith R. of Pittsburgh; and
Stephen F. of this review.
Fortunate in a family environment where a thorough education was considered of
prime importance, Stephen F. Clarke was given exceptional advantages and unlike many
youths of his age he appreciated these opportunities. Being naturally of a studious
disposition he made good use of his time and when his school days were over he was
well grounded in all the subjects that are the basis of true education. Taking a
special course in drawing, he subsequently made use of the technical knowledge thus
acquired when he served as draftsman with the board of park commissioners of Boston.
Notwithstanding his pleasant environment and splendid prospects for a successful
future amid the cultured surroundings of his birthplace, Mr. Clarke was imbued with
the spirit of the early pioneers and chose rather to carve out his future in a new and
undeveloped region.
Leaving the parental home in 1883 he chose California for his future home and
not long after arriving here he purchased a twenty-acre tract near Orange, ten acres
of which had already been planted to oranges, the remainder being uncultivated land.
At that time there was much activity in the grape industry in this district, hundreds
of acres being planted to vineyard and a number of wineries being established, Mr.
Clarke set out ten acres of grapes, but with the gradual dying out of this industry,
due to several causes, he later experimented with other crops, among them figs and
barley, but while he attained a reasonable success he came to the conclusion some
years ago that citrus fruits were the best all-around paying crops. His acreage is now
divided 'between Navels and Valencias and the grove is one of the heaviest producers
in this locality, bringing in a handsome income. Mr. Clarke has given his property the
most intelligent care and he is rewarded in seeing the value of it increase from $3,500,
which he paid for the entire acreage, to what it is today with adjoining land selling
for $6,000 an acre besides a sanguine possibility for oil.
In 1908 Mr. Clarke returned to his native state, the occasion being the solemniza
tion of his marriage to Miss Katherine Keith Alger, which occurred on July 20, 1908,
at the family home of the Algers at Yarmouth Port, Mass. Mrs. Clarke is the
daughter of Francis and Izette (Matthews) Alger, both descendants of old and re
spected families of the Bay State. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke are the parents of one
daughter, Izette Caroline.
In addition to his horticultural holdings Mr. Clarke has also given considerable
time to other developments, spending three years at Copperopolis, where he was asso
ciated with Fred Ames of the Union Copper Mines. Of recent years he has given
much time to the study of the mineral resources of Orange County and it is his belief
that this county will be the largest producer of oil in the state of California. An in
dependent in his political views, Mr. Clarke is vitally interested in every movement
that concerns the welfare of the nation as well as the purely local issues and during
the war he. not only gave generously of his time and endeavor in all the drives, but
also served as a private in Company Seventy-six, California Military Reserve of Orange.
ANTON SCHILDMEYER and MRS. LOUISA SCHILDMEYER.— When, on
December 20, 1919, Anton Schildmeyer passed to his eternal reward, Orange County
lost one of the most conscientious of her experienced and industrious ranchers, and
one who had long operated on such broad lines as to entitle him to the credit of
having been a true empire-builder. He was a studious, widely-read rancher, and his
well-planned orchards, symmetrical yards, drying-houses, poultry houses, garages and
machine sheds, show the manner of man' that he was. He had reached his sixty-
fourth year, so that his life may be said to have been fairly well rounded out.
Mrs. Schildmeyer was born near Louisville, Cass County, Nebr., and became a
social favorite as Louisa Brunkow, a daughter of Frederick and Ann C. (Panskey)
Brunkow. She was educated at the ordinary public schools, and was married in 1882
to Mr. Schildmeyer. Three miles east of Greenwood they bought a farm of 200 acres,
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in August of the same year they commenced to build their two-story, eight-room
frame house. He owned two ranches at the time of his death — the home ranch of
thirty-three acres, and the ranch where his son, Oscar A. Schildmeyer, resides, three
miles northeast of Orange, a fine tract of fifty-five acres. He also owned other valu
able personal property, and he became a stockholder in the Farmers and Merchants
Bank of Santa Ana.
Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Schildmeyer — three girls, who first saw
the light in Cass County, Nebr., and two boys of Orange County birth. Marie A. is
the wife of John Gobbruegge, a rancher of Riverside, and the mother of two children.
Emma C. married Arthur Hoeffer, a rancher of Owensmouth, Los Angeles County.
Martha S., who is at home, is a graduate of the Orange high school and a graduate
registered nurse. Oscar A., the rancher living north of Orange, married Merl Brown,
and has one child, a boy baby, named Robert. Frederick William operates Mrs.
Schildmeyer's place. The family are members of the Evangelical Association of
Santa Ana, to whose building committee Mr. Schildmeyer belonged. Mrs. Schildmeyer
is a member of the Ladies' Aid and Women's Foreign Missionary Society of said
church. This estimable lady continues to reside at the Schildmeyer ranch of thirty-
three acres, four acres of which are devoted to the culture of Valencia oranges, two
to the growth of Navels, six to apricots, soon to be superseded by Valencias, and
the balance to walnuts. The property has long been exceptionally productive, and
under the skillful management of the enterprising son, bids fair to become even more
so as the years go by.
MATHIAS NISSON. — A prosperous rancher, prominent for years as one of the
most successful horticulturists of Orange County, is Mathias Nisson, who was born on
March 31, 1847, in Tondern, North Schleswig, near the boundary line of Denmark and
Germany, the son of Nis and Esther Nisson, a member of a long line of .educators, his
grandfather and uncle both being renowned as instructors. Very naturally, therefore,
he enjoyed the best of educational advantages in the superior schools of his native land.
In 1873, when twenty-six years of age, he bade farewell to home, friends and the scenes
long so familiar and dear to him, not because he loved his Fatherland less, but because
he believed that the New World would offer greater opportunities.
Passing through New York City, he stayed for a short time in Chicago, and then
went to the vicinity of Paxton, Ford- County, 111., where he worked on various farms
for three years, and at the same time he attended the district school for a winter's term
at Paxton. When 1876 rolled 'round, California began to be more talked about, inci
dental to the Centennial at Philadelphia, and after a while Mr. Nisson concluded to
leave Illinois and make for the Pacific Coast.
That same year, therefore, he reached Orange County and on the fourth of
November arrived at Santa Ana, where for four years he worked on various farms.
Then in 1880 he purchased twenty-one acres, his present place at 2500 North Main
Street, and in his efforts to do something with the land, he went through the hardships
of the early grape industry. After the vines had been grubbed out, he planted his own
nursery stock, which he next set out. He had five acres in prunes and five acres in
apricots. Later still, he grubbed out both the prunes and the apricots and gradually set
the whole out to walnuts and oranges. Now he has eleven acres of walnuts, nine acres
of Valencia oranges and one acre of Navels and as his ranch is under the service of
the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, he has an abundance of good water.
For fifteen years Mr. Nisson was a director in the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation
Company, serving as president of the board for several years. He also has a joint
ownership with John Maier and Henry Rohrs in a pumping plant that, throws sixty
inches of water. This well is used during the dry season. Mr. Nisson has also im
proved his ranch with a handsome and commodious residence. He was an organizer
and is a director in the California National Bank of Santa. Ana, a director in the Santa
Ana Steam Laundry, and also a stockholder in the Santa Ana Commercial Company,
of which he has been a director. Believing in cooperation, he was one of the organizers
and thus a charter member of the Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association, serving as a
director for several years. He was also a charter member and a director of the Santiago
Orange Growers Association at Orange.
In San Francisco, on July 12, 1888, Mr. Nisson was married to Miss Charlotte
Laederich, a native daughter, born in San Francisco. Her parents, Jean Jacques and
Louise (Weiss) Laederich, were natives of France, who came to New York City in
1848. In 1849 Mr. Laederich took the gold fever and started for the new Eldorado, com
ing in a sailing vessel around Cape Horn to San Francisco, so was an Argonaut in the
true sense of the word. His wife joined him in 1852, coming by way of Panama, cross
ing the Isthmus on muleback with Indian guides. Mr. Laederich was prominent in

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the business and social life of San Francisco in those early days and was a member of
the first vigilance committee.
At an early age Mrs. Nisson removed with her parents to Santa Clara, where she
received her education and grew proud of California and its institutions. Two children
blessed their family life: Clarence A. married Vera Montgomery, and they are living
on a citrus grove in Tustin with their two sons — Clarence A., Jr., and Richard Mont
gomery; Estelle G. graduated at Stanford University with the degree of A. B., after
which she did graduate work at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa., taking a war
course in employment management and industrial supervision, then spending some time
in New York City in the personnel division of. the Retail Research Association.
The family take an active part in the work of the First Presbyterian Church of
Santa Ana; they did their part in the bond drives during the late war and they are
alert to contribute in any way to the elevation of civic standards and the election of
the best men or women, irrespective of party politics. Mr. Nisson belongs to the Santa
Ana Lodge of Odd Fellows and with his wife is a member of the Rebekahs.
ANDREW GUSTAV BLOM.— Probably one of the best known and most expert
steel rolling mill men on the Pacific Coast is Andrew Gustav Blom, who is now
living on his eighty-acre ranch, beautifully situated in Villa Park. It is one of the
finest properties in the vicinity, seventeen acres being set out to oranges and lemons,
fifteen acres of hay land and the balance foothill land, in the neighborhood of the
oil-producing section of Orange County. When Mr. Blom purchased this place, in
October, 1919, it was already improved with a beautiful, commodious mansion, located
on a hill commanding a wonderful view of the Santiago Valley, and with its winding
roads, beautiful trees and flowers, it is indeed one of the beauty spots of this section.
The house is furnished with every convenience enjoyed by the city dweller and sleeping
porches and sun parlors add to its attractiveness.
A native of Vermland, Sweden, Mr. Blom was born there on January 8, 1861,
and was the fourth eldest of a family of nine children, seven of whom are still living.
His parents were Olaf and Annie Blom, both of whom were born, married and died
in Sweden, the mother passing away when Andrew was but eleven years of age, leaving
the following children: Britta, the wife of Nils Person, a carpenter and builder of
Chicago, 111.; Charles John, in the automobile business at Ishpeming, Mich.; Mary, the
widow of Olen Urban, resides on her farm at Washburn, Wis-; Andrew Gustav, of this
review; Olaf August, the largest wholesale iron and steel merchant in Stockholm,
Sweden; Mina resides in Stockholm; Emma is the wife of A. W. Stark, who is in the
hotel business at Milwaukee, Wis.
Olaf Blom, the father, was an iron and steel worker, and Andrew started to work
in the steel mills when but a small lad, running the big water-power hammer for his
father when he was only nine years old. After his mother's death the home was
practically broken up and Andrew went to Toosby, another steel town, where he ran a
power hammer for a year. After a short visit at his old home he then went to
Soderhamn, in the eastern part of Sweden, where he was engaged in railway con
struction work; later he located in the large rolling mill town of Munkfors Brook,
making railroad iron for construction work. During these twelve years Mr. Blom
gained a wonderful training in all the many and varied processes of the steel industry,
but, possessed of an unusual amount of energy and ambition, he felt that the New
World offered greater opportunities for advancement. Accordingly, he sailed from
Gothenburg, Sweden, in April, 1882, expecting to locate at Worcester, Mass., where a
sister was living. He worked his way over on a vessel that landed at Philadelphia, Pa.,
and soon his money gave out and he had to barter a feather pillow for a night's
lodging — the last of his possessions, with the exception of his clothing. Reaching
Worcester, Mass., he went to work in the wire mills of Washburn, Moen & Co..
remaining there for about six months.
Mr. Blom's next move was to St. Louis, Mo., where he obtained work in
Helmbacher Forge and Rolling Mill, now well known as the American Car and
Foundry Company. Before he had been there three years he was made head roller, a
position which he was well qualified to fill through his many years of thorough
training. For twenty-four years he remained with this company, gaining a well-
deserved reputation for being one of the most expert rolling-mill men in the country,
and establishing himself in an authoritative position in this great industry. During his
years of residence in St. Louis Mr. Blom was also actively interested in the realty
business, building, buying and selling many residences and apartment houses there.
On July 7, 1905, Mr. Blom came to Los Angeles to take the responsible position
of head roller with the Southern California Iron and Steel Company, located at
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strike occurred. Mr. Blom went out at that time because of his convictions on the
principles involved, and he has never gone back, but now gives all his time to the
care of his extensive ranch. This is not Mr. Blom's first venture in the citrus industry,
as he was formerly the owner of a' grove of fifteen acres between Garden Grove and
Anaheim. For many years while Mr. Blom was engaged in work in Los Angeles
Mrs. Blom had charge of the orange grove and so successfully did she superintend
its development that when it was sold it brought $50,000 net, nearly tripling its
purchase price of $17,000. This ranch was one of the show places of Orange County
and her flowers took prizes and received honorable mention at the Orange Flower
Shows. Mrs. Blom has also shown her talent as a writer of poetry.
Mr. Blom's first marriage, which occurred in St. Louis, united him with Miss
Mary Spenley, who passed away there, leaving five children, as follows: Josephine is
the wife of R. T. Mitchell, a rolling mill worker in Los Angeles; Stella married Fred
Conrad, Jr., employed in the lumber business in Los Angeles; Ollie W., formerly a
steel worker, is now a producer of feldspar and silica at Ethanac, Cal., where he is the
owner of a mine; Florence, who became the wife of Earl Ladd of Garden Grove, passed
away in 1917, leaving two children — Vivian and Oliver; Helen died at the age of eleven
in Los Angeles. Mr. Blom was married on March 8, 1905, to Mrs. Elise Floyd, the
widow of George G. Floyd, the ceremony being solemnized in St. Louis. She is the
daughter of Charles L. and Mary Josephine (Lahay) Pelot, the father being a native
of Canton Berne, Switzerland, and the mother of French-Canadian extraction, and
was one of a family of seven children, four of whom are now living, all residents of
California. Mrs. Blom was born in Farmington, Mo., her father being a well-known
business man of that place, but the family later removed to St. Louis, and there her
girlhood was spent. Mr. Pelot built up a substantial business there, dealing in coal,
lime and cement, having large yards in that city. He passed away there in 1907, at
the age of fifty-one years; the mother is still living and makes her home with the
Bloms on their beautiful ranch.
Entirely through his own efforts Mr. Blom has, by his untiring industry, reached
a high degree of success, and he is now enjoying the fruits of his labor. He is devoted
to the country of his adoption and is a firm believer in the permanent prosperity of
this section of the country.
JOHN BRUNWORTH.— A liberal-minded, kind-hearted gentleman, who has im
proved acreage and who never fails to entertain with his interesting and instructive
stories of early-settler days, is John Brunworth, of East Center Street, Anaheim. He
was born at Edwardsville, Madison County, 111., on New Year's Day, 1861, the son of
Henry Brunworth, who came to St. Louis when that city was a small French town. He
soon removed to Madison County and rented land, farming until he got a start; and
finally he bought a tract on the rich prairies, and improved it, and added to that by
other purchases, so that now, still living at the age of ninety-six, past, he owns 180
acres of very choice farm land. He had married Miss Sophia Buettemeier, who died
at the old home. They had ten children, six of whom are at present living; and
among those John was the second in the order of birth.
He was brought up in Illinois, where he attended the public schools, and he early
went to work at grain growing and stock raising. He also ran a steam thresher for
seven years, and did general farming until 1887, when he came to Los Angeles, Cal.
The town was then a small place, with not a foot of paving, and he went to work
for a liveryman as floor manager. After that, for four years, he was a truck driver
for Hellman, Haas and Company, and it was not until 1893 that he located at Anaheim.
He bought ten acres on Sycamore Street, planted to walnuts and figs; but he
soon dug the figs out, and, instead, set out oranges. In 1910, he bought another ten
acres which he improved, again setting out walnuts and oranges; so that he had twenty
acres, which he managed with success until 1917, when he disposed of his holdings.
He still owns residence property in Anaheim.
In Los Angeles Mr. Brunworth was married to Miss Ernestine Frederick, a native
of Germany who died at Anaheim, the mother of two children. Albert was in the
Sixth U. S. Marines, Second Division, and served overseas, on the Argonne front,
without getting a scratch; Eleanor Brunworth became Mrs. Dyer of Hollywood. Mr.
Brunworth married a second time, at Anaheim, choosing for his bride Miss Pauline
Kroeger, a native of Anaheim and the daughter of Henry Kroeger, one of the pioneers
of the town. A Democrat in national politics, Mr. Brunworth is a nonpartisan "booster"
in every local movement giving promise of contributing • toward the building up and
the elevating of the community and county in which he lives, works and prospers. He
attends the Lutheran Church of Anaheim.

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COLUM C. CHAPMAN.— Prominent among the level-headed, far-seeing men of
invaluable experience and unimpeachable integrity, to whom not only Orange County
but Southern California will ever be agreeably indebted for public-spirited interest and
years of unselfish service in both the development of the state's, resources and the
upbuilding -as well as the building up of the communities with which he has had to do,
must be mentioned Colum C. Chapman, of the well-known Eastern family which has
come to play such an enviable role, in one way or other, in the Golden State. He was
born at Macomb, McDonough County, 111., on August -23, 1858, the son of Sidney S. and
Rebecca Jane (Clark) Chapman, who removed with him, when he was ten years of age,
to the village of Vermont, Fulton County, 111. In 1872 Mr. Chapman and his family
moved again, this time to Chicago; and in that fast-expanding city Colum grew up
and remained until the middle nineties.
During his residence in Chicago, Colum Chapman was connected with various
enterprises, and they were all of such a character as to reflect with credit his inclina
tions and his ability. For some years, for example, he was head of the lithographing
department in the publishing house of Chapman Bros., and as such had much to do
with the extension of education in the Middle West, the proper preservation for
future, accessible reference of historical data and memorials, and with the formation of
popular taste in art. At Chicago, also, on November 9, 1887, Mr. Chapman was married
to Miss Anna J. Cloiigh, of Chicago, «_ gifted lady with the capacity for making friend
ships. Her father was a native of England, doubtless related to Arthur Hugh Clough,
the poet of that country so popular with our New England bards, and her mother
came of good old Puritan stock in Providence, R. I.
In March, 1894, Mr. Chapman made his first trip to California, to look over the
lay of the land and decide upon a future site for location, after which he returned to
Chicago; and in December of the following year he came out to Los Angeles, bringing
with him his family. He then removed to Fullerton, and for four years he was on
Charles C. Chapman's ranch, after which he went back to Los Angeles for another
three years. He then went to Monrovia, where he had an orange grove of twenty
acres, which he sold at the end of three years? Again he took up his residence in
Los Angeles, where he remained until he came to Yorba Linda, in November, 1917.
Since taking up his, residence and responsibilities here, Mr. Chapman has been
active in various lines such as spell prosperity for others as well as himself, and augur
well for a section of the great commonwealth with unrivalled resources awaiting
appreciation and development. He has improved forty acres by the setting out of
oranges, and leased part of his ranch to the Ridge Oil Company, in which he is a
large Stockholder. While in Los Angeles, he was. engaged in the handling of important
real estate and in building high-class residences, and he also superintended certain
interest of hisbrother, and still looks after those interests.
Two sons bless the fortunate union of Mr. and Mrs. Chapman. Llewellyn Sidney
was born in Chicago on May 22, 1891, and married Miss Ruth Reid, who is a graduate
of the University of Southern California preparatory school and took a course at the
University of Southern California; they live on the home ranch and are the parents of
one daughter, Marilyn; Colum Clough Chapman was born at Fullerton, on February
11, 1899, graduated from the Hollywood high school, and is now pursuing a' course in
agriculture at the Davis branch of the State University. True" to the traditions of the
Chapman family, Mr. Chapman is a member and active supporter of the Christian
Church, and being a man who favors training the body as well as the mind and the
soul, he belongs to the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
MITT O. AINSWORTH. — A public-spirited citizen of Orange, whose position as
vice-president and director in the Orange Savings Bank, and as a stockholder in the
National Bank of Orange, makes him naturally a leader of wide, helpful influence, is
Mitt O. Ainsworth, a native son who was born near Weaverville, Trinity County, Cal.,
on April 1, 1860. His father was Lewis Ainsworth, whose sketch is given on another
page in this work. Mitt O. was reared in that locality until he was eight years old,
when he removed with his parents to Iowa. There, in Monticello, Jones County, he
remained until he was eighteen; he went to the public schools, and in 1878 moved on
to Glasco, Kans., where he engaged in farming. In 1888, he pushed out to the great
Northwest, with his family, and at Salem, Ore., he followed farming. In 1890 he came
back to Glasco; and when a bank was started there, he entered its service, and con
tinued banking for four years. Then he resumed farming and also took up stock
raising; he cultivated wheat and corn, and fed cattle and hogs.
In 1903 Mr. Ainsworth came out to California, and at Orange embarked in the
lumber trade, having his father and brother as partners; he became a member of the
Ainsworth Lumber and Milling Company, andbecame its vice-president and a director.
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He took an active part in it until he sold out; they built a planing mill which was
burned to the ground, and then they rebuilt it on modern lines, had a large lumber
yard and enjoyed a fast-growing trade. Since he sold out, in May, 1914, Mr. Ainsworth
has engaged in ranching, growing oranges, lemons and walnuts. He has bought,
improved and sold ranches, and he now owns a ten-acre ranch of oranges and lemons,
and another ranch of ten acres on Tustin Avenue, where seven and a half acres are
given up to oranges and two and a half acres to lemons. Naturally enough, Mr. Ains
worth is a member of the Villa- Park Orchards Association, and the Central Lemon
Growers Association.
During his residence at Glasco, Kans., Mr. Ainsworth was married to Miss Nellie
Sutton, a native of Iowa, the ceremony taking place in 1883. Four children have
blessed the fortunate union. Rose has become Mrs. B. J. Fletcher of Orange; Ina is
Mrs. Carl Schmidt of San Fernando; Jesse is a rancher in Orange; and Nellie is Mrs.
Earl Johnson of Nuevo. Mr. and Mrs. Ainsworth are members of the Christian Church
of Orange; and Mr. Ainsworth is a trustee and also a deacon in the church.
JOHN WEHRLY, M. D. — A physician who, following exceptional and technical
preparation for his work, and years of illuminating practice, has come to take front
rank among the best representatives of medicine and surgery in Santa Ana, is Dr. John
Wehrly, the fifth oldest practitioner in point of service in the city. A native of Canton
Aaru, Switzerland, John Wehrly was born April 1, 1868, the son of Samuel and Marie
(Simons) Wehrly, both born in the same canton, and living only about five miles from
the original Hapsburg Castle. They had four children, two of whom died in infancy,
and the others were Samuel Wehrly, Jr., a farmer near Kane, Greene County, 111., and
John Wehrly, of this review. The mother died in Greene County in 1913, aged
seventy-seven years, and the father, now past eighty-five, makes his home with his
son in Santa Ana. He was the owner of a 200-acre farm in Greene County for many
years, selling it at a recent date at a very satisfactory advance in price.
John was but a lad of four years of age when his parents came to America, and
he grew up on the Greene County farm, attending both the grammar and the high
schools of Carrollton, in that county. Having a natural aptitude and a leaning for the
medical profession, he began his studies under Dr. C. A. Armstrong of Carrollton, and
a year later matriculated, in September, 1887, at the Missouri Medical College, and was
graduated therefrom on March 4, 1890, with his degree of M. D. The young physician
began his practice in Jacksonville, 111., and one year later removed to Highland,
Madison County, that state, where he continued for three years as a general practitioner.
In 1894 we find Dr. Wehrly in St. Louis, specializing in diseases of the stomach
and electro-therapeutics and winning a deserved popularity. Desiring a change of
environment, he decided to come to California, and in 1901 — an eventful year in his
eventful career — located in the city of Santa Ana and opened an office in the Henry
Finley Block, continuing there for eight years. As his practice grew he moved into
the Farmers and Merchants Bank Building and remained there until able to move into
his own building at 607 North Main Street. This was built in 1912, expressly for his
growing clientele, and is equipped with all modern conveniences. Soon after locating
in Santa Ana, Dr. Wehrly went east to Chicago and pursued a post-graduate course in
electro-therapeutics and diseases of the stomach, intestines and bladder, and there
learned the latest word of science and was enabled to take the lead in his specialties
after resuming his practice here.
Besides having a large general practice, Dr. Wehrly served as county physician
from 1911 to 1915. At the beginning the hospital was located at the corner of Fifth
and Spurgeon streets, in the city of Santa Ana, but in 1913 Dr. Wehrly encouraged the
board of supervisors to purchase seventy-three acres of land in the West Orange
Precinct for a county farm, and also assisted in planning the new county hospital
building. This investment by the board has been a wise one, for the market value of
the land has increased many times since it was made, and has shown the far-sightedness
of Dr. Wehrly. The Doctor is a member of the American Medical Association, the
State Medical Society, the Southern California Medical Society, the Orange County
Medical Society and the Pacific Coast Roentgen Ray Society, and was vice-president
of the Santa Ana Hospital.
While a resident of Highland, Madison County, 111., Dr. Wehrly and Miss
Augusta Wehrle were united in marriage on November 17, 1892. She is a native of
Highland and the 'daughter of Andrew and Katherine (Raber) Wehrle. Mr. Wehrle
was a well-known business man of that city and there the daughter was reared and
educated. Two children blessed their union: John L., graduated from the Santa Ana
high school in 1916 and became a student at the U. C. Dental College in Los Angeles-
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honorable discharge at the signing of the armistice, resumed his studies, being a
member of the class of '21; Waldo S., .graduated from the Santa Ana high school in
1918 and was in the students' training corps as a student at Throop College at Pasadena.
After his honorable discharge he resumed his college work and is now taking a
medical course in the medical department of the University of California at Berkeley,
Cal. The family attend and belong to the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Santa
Ana, where Dr. Wehrly is a member of the board of stewards.
Dr. Wehrly was chief examiner for Exemption Board No. 1 of Santa Ana, during
the World War, until enlisting in the service in August, 1918, being commissioned
captain of the base hospital at Camp Kearney, and was given charge of the gastro
intestinal ward until transferred to Fort Snelling, Minn., and while stationed there
base hospital No. 108 was organized. From Fort Snelling. he was ordered to France,
and sailed from Hoboken, N. J., October 31, 1918, on the George Washington, one of
the captured German liners. The vessel arrived at Brest on November 9, 1918, and two
days later the armistice was signed. His services were still needed, however, and he
assisted at the base hospital at Meves, near Nevers, France; was promoted to major on
May 2, 1919, and on May 3 was transferred to the Thirty-sixth Division, made up from
Texas and Oklahoma. He left Brest in May and landed at Hoboken June 2, and was
honorably discharged at Camp Dix, N. J., June 8, and arrived home in Santa Ana
June 13, 1919. Dr. Wehrly is a major in the Medical Reserve; a member of the
Association of Military Surgeons of the United States; president of Santa Ana Post
No. 131, American Legion; chairman of the Santa Ana Chapter of the American Red
Cross; and chairman of the Santa Ana Board of Health. In matters fraternal he
belongs to Santa Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks, and is a Knights Templar Mason
and belongs to the Eastern Star Chapter, in which he is past patron. In national
politics always a Republican, Dr. Wehrly never lets partisan affiliation interfere when
it comes to local offices, and supports men and measures he deems best suited for the
greatest good to the greatest number of people, and for the upbuilding of the city and
county of his adoption, where he is held in the highest esteem by all who know him.
CHARLES EDWARD RUDDOCK.— One of the most esteemed and helpful resi
dents of Fullerton was the late Charles E. Ruddock, and his death, which occurred
on February 2, 1917, in the prime of his manhood, was a distinct loss to the com
munity, where he had won a high position in the regard of his fellowtownsmen; and
he left behind him a record of quiet, honest and earnest integrity which has placed
his name on the roll of honored citizens of that city. Like hundreds of California's
citizens who have aided in bringing it to its present wonderful development, Mr. Rud
dock was an Easterner by birth. He first saw the light of day on March 8, 1864, in
Chenango County, N. Y., his parents being Chester S. and Sarah J. (Chandler) Ruddock,
natives, respectively, of Massachusetts and New York.
When he was but three years of age, Mr. Ruddock's parents decided to try their
fortunes in the Middle West, and they traveled out as far as Wisconsin, settling in
Winnebago County, where the father engaged in agricultural pursuits. Here Charles
was reared, receiving his education in the country schools, and like the other lads of
his day, learned the rudiments of farming by assisting his father on the home place.
He grew to manhood in this state, near Berlin, Green Lake County, and on November
27, 1884, was united in marriage with Miss Lila L. Ruddock, a native of Wisconsin,
the daughter of Asahel Dwight and Julia Amelia (De Forris) Ruddock.
On November 1, 1896, Mr. and Mrs. Ruddock came to Fullerton, Cal., and entered
at once into the life of the community. Mr. Ruddock puurchased twelve acres on
West Wilshire Street; this was planted to young Navel oranges and walnut trees,
and later he set out late Valencias, and other varieties. He also bought twelve
acres of raw land, three-fourths of a mile west of Fullerton, which was planted to
lemons, and which he later disposed of. He built a substantial home on Common
wealth Avenue, and here he made his home for fifteen years, then bought a place on
North Birch Street, Santa Ana, and lived there five years, then moving into the home
on West Wilshire, where he died. -Always interested in promoting every worthy
project for the good of the community, and a firm believer in cooperation, he was a
member and stockholder in the Placentia Orange Growers Association, the Fullerton
Walnut Growers Association and the Anaheim Water Company.
A stanch Republican, Mr. Ruddock was always prominent in the councils of
his party and in the political life of the county. In 1910 he was honored by being
elected to the office of sheriff of Orange County, serving a four-year term. Prior to
this he was city marshal of Fullerton for eight years. For years he was very active
in fraternal life, being a Scottish Rite Mason, past master of the Fullerton Lodge, a
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lodges of Santa Ana. In his religious affiliations, Mr. Ruddock was an adherent of
the Presbyterian Church and was a prominent member and trustee of the Fullerton
organization. A natural musician, he was an excellent performer on both the violin
and cornet, and in Winnebago County, Wis., organized and led the band at Koro for
seven years. He organized the Fullerton band and was its president.
Mr. and Mrs. Ruddock were the parents of two children. Ray, the only son, is
deceased; the daughter, Pearl L., is the wife of W. E. Oswald of Fullerton, and she is
the mother of two children — Una Claire and Wanda Mae. Mrs. Ruddock has also
always been prominent in fraternal circles, being past worthy matron of the Eastern
Star Chapter at Fullerton, and past noble grand of Sycamore Lodge of Rebekahs
at Santa Ana; during the war she was very active in Red Cross work. When she
came to Fullerton with her husband it had a population of only 750 people, and from
this small hamlet she has witnessed its growth to its present thriving proportions.
While Mr. Ruddock was in the East, she erected a beautiful new bungalow at 211 West
Wilshire Street, Fullerton, and here she makes her home. She has also subdivided
the remainder of the twelve acres on West Wilshire Street which they first purchased.
This is known as the Ramona subdivision and is one of the finest residential sections
of Fullerton, many beautiful residences being erected there.
MAX NEBELUNG. — In a roster of the pioneers of Orange County, no name is
more deserving of prominence than that of Max Nebelung, for not alone was he one
of the earliest settlers in this section, but he was a pioneer in industry as well, for it
was through his unaided efforts that two of Orange County's greatest sources of wealth
received their start — that of walnut growing and the raising of sugar beets, for through
their development millions of dollars are added each year to the wealth of the county.
So marvelous have been the improvements and changes which the past few years have
brought that it is difficult to picture, even in the imagination, the barren, undeveloped
state of this locality when Max Nebelung arrived in 1868, alone and practically penniless.
Born in Germany, at Ellrich in the Province of Saxony, on November 25, 1844,
Mr. Nebelung received a good education in the schools of his native land. On com
pleting his education he followed the occupation of clerk in retail stores, but when
he had reached the age of twenty-three years, he felt that there were greater oppor
tunities in store for him in America. Accordingly he left his native shores in 1867,
arriving in New York in July of that year. Going to Utica, N. Y., he secured work
in the woolen mills located near there. In 1868, however, he decided to come to Cali
fornia; he made his journey by way of the Isthmus of Panama, coming to San Fran
cisco by steamer. He had as a companion a boyhood friend who had come from Ger
many with him; not finding employment in San Francisco the two boys, in company
with two others, came south to San Pedro, where they found a small wharf about
twelve feet long, one house and a small lumber yard. They proceeded to Los Angeles,
bought a wagon and mules, and started overland to Arizona, intending to try mining.
Near Searchlight, Nev., they worked for a time in a silver mine, but as the prospect
of wealth seemed so uncertain they disposed of their outfit and proceeded to Fort
Mojave, where a troop of U. S. cavalry were stationed. Here they experienced some of
the thrills of the early day, before they found an opportunity to join a man who was
coming to California and came to San Bernardino and on to Los Angeles, remaining
there a few weeks; then hearing of the colony which had settled at Anaheim, Mr.
Nebelung made his way there, arriving in December, 1868, and liked the looks of the
place. He first found employment in a winery, where he remained a year and a half,
afterwards clerking in a general store and becapie acquainted with the people and con
ditions. In those days Anaheim Landing was the port of entry for steamers, and Mr.
Nebelung secured the position of freight clerk for the Anaheim Lighter Company,
working there two years, assisting in loading, unloading and checking freight that
came and went by steamer. He then went back to clerking, taking a position in the
general store of August Langenberger, who was the first storekeeper in Anaheim.
He remained there for eight years, the last five as manager of the store.
Mr. Nebelung then bought twenty acres of land on West Orangethorpe Avenue,
which he planted to vineyard, but later lost all by blight. He then planted ten acres to
walnuts and figs and on the other ten he planted Pampas grass, which in those days
was very popular for decorative purposes. After being cured he packed it and shipped
it in carload lots to England and Germany, Mr. Nebelung receiving $2,000 a year for
the crop. After Pampas grass went out of fashion he planted the acreage to walnuts
and oranges. During this time he followed the real estate and insurance business in
Anaheim. In the meantime, Mr. Nebelung had bought nineteen acres of land on East
Sycamore Street, which he planted to budded walnuts and Valencia oranges, selling

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his Orangethorpe Avenue ranch. He personally did all the work of planting on his
new place, rebuilt the old house, made many improvements, and here he has made his
home for many years. A successful orange grower, he was the first manager of the
first orange growers' association in Anaheim. He was the first man to start the de
velopment and shipping of walnuts in Southern California. He urged the ranchers to
plant more walnuts, and then became a buyer, shipper and packer, selling them in the
Los Angeles market; for the first lot he paid nine cents a pound. For fifteen years
he carried on this business, one year shipping twenty-two cars from the district, buy
ing all over Orange County, the largest buyer in his day. He was also the originator
of sugar beet growing in Southern California, importing the seed from Germany. It
was tried out with success and he urged the farmers to plant on a commercial scale,
and from this small start has grown the large sugar beet industry, so he can justly
be called the father of the sugar beet industry in Orange County.
Progressive and public spirited, Mr. Nebelung has held many official positions in
the civic and commercial organizations of the community. He served as a director of
the Anaheim Union Water Company, and for ten years was a member of the audit
board; for fourteen years consecutively he was city clerk of Anaheim, being elected
seven times and defeated the last time by only one vote; he was chairman of the board
of trustees of Anaheim from 1910 to 1914, and one term on the board of education; for
seventeen years he has been secretary of the Anaheim Cemetery Association. For
three years he was proprietor of the old Anaheim Hotel, which stood where the beau
tiful new Valencia Hotel now stands. He is the owner of a modern apartment house
which he recently built on the corner of Chartres and Lemon streets. With three
associates Mr. Nebelung owns a small ranch at Richfield which is leased for oil to
the Midway Petroleum Company.
In 1883, Mr. Nebelung was married to Josephine Finck, born in Missouri, daugh
ter of Henry Finck, a pioneer of Oregon, who later moved to Anaheim where he was
a music teacher. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Nebelung: Dolores
died when four years old; Mrs. Elsie P. Skinner of Anaheim, the mother of three
children living: Violet, Mrs. Thomas F. Cantwell of Los Angeles, who has one child;
and Raymond E., who is a graduate of University of California and is farm adviser of
Riverside County.
JAMES C. SHEPPARD. — An esteemed rancher who, after a busy apprenticeship
of many years in the science of agriculture, has become a successful orange and walnut
grower, is James C. Sheppard, who was born near Eldorado, Union County, Ark., on
August 31, 1856. His father, who was killed when our subject was only one and a
half years old, was Abner Sheppard, and he married Miss Lucinda Carrol, now de
ceased. Of their three sons, James was the second in order of birth and is the only
one living. Having been educated in the public schools of Arkansas, Mr. Sheppard came to
California in 1875, and wishing to acquire a higher education, he attended the Southern
California College at Downey for two years and then entered the law department of the
University of California, but before graduation was advised by a specialist that he
must give up studying or lose his eyesight; so he was obliged to give up his ambition
of a legal career and turn his attention to other lines. In 1880 he began working as
a railroad contractor and helped to build the Santa Fe from San Diego to Colton.
Mr. Sheppard then took up farming on the Alamitos ranch at Long Beach, and
for four years he was a partner of John W. Bixby & Company, in the raising of stock.
Selling out his interests there, he came to Fullerton in 1890 and bought his present
place of fifty-six acres, and in the following January he came here to live. He has
been very successful in the development of this place, which is devoted to oranges and
walnuts, and it is now bringing in splendid returns. Mr. Sheppard has not given all his
time to agriculture, however, as he has been very active in a number of irrigation
projects. A good illustration of his capability is found in the building up of the Ana
heim Union Water Company, which he superintended; it was badly run down, but for
more than eight years he clung to it and reconstructed it, restoring it to its old pros
perity. After resigning as superintendent of this company he engaged in general con
tracting; he built the Arroyo Ditch Company's system at Downey, the Los Nietos
Irrigation Company's project, the Cate Water System at Riviera and the San Juan
Capistrano Irrigation System, all splendid water systems. Next he built five and a half
miles of the Salt Lake Railroad through Senator Currier's ranch and in each direction
from his place in Pomona Valley. Next he constructed the water system for Canal
No. 6 in the Imperial Valley through Lower California, about thirty miles in length.
In his work he used 250 head of stock and a full complement of men. Mr. Sheppard
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fine standard-bred stock. He is particularly fond of horseback riding and now has a
beautiful black saddle horse which he admires and enjoys very much.
At Spadra, January 16, 1884, Mr. Sheppard was married to Miss Dixie C. Fryer,
the accomplished and charming daughter of Rev. R. C. and Caroline (Veazey) Fryer,
natives of Alabama, who were pioneers of El Monte where she was born. Reverend
Fryer with his family crossed the plains in 1852. In 1869 they located at Spadra, where
they engaged in agricultural pursuits. Reverend Fryer was one of the pioneer Baptist
ministers in Southern California. He founded numerous congregations in Southern
California, among them Santa Ana, Pomona and many others. He also served as a
member of the state legislature. He passed to the great beyond in 1890, his wife
having preceded him eleven years. Mrs. Sheppard was engaged in educational work
and taught school in Pomona, in 1883, until her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard
have four children: Edna May is the wife of W. K. Tuller of Los Angeles; Carrie
assists her mother in presiding over the home; Sue Lucinda is the wife of C. C. Mc
Bride of Hermosa Beach; James C, Jr., left Occidental College to enter an officers'
training camp and was stationed in Texas when the armistice was signed. He is again
at Occidental College and is president of the student body.
Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard are prominent members of the Baptist Church, having
been among the twelve original members that organized the church at Fullerton,
Mrs. Sheppard serving as the secretary for many years. A firm believer in protection
Mr. Sheppard is a decided Republican, but he has never solicited nor accepted public
office. He has for many years been affiliated with the Odd Fellows, is active in
the circles of the Fullerton Board of Trade, and for several years served on the board
of directors of the Anaheim Union Water Company. Fullerton may be congratulated
on such a citizen as James C. Sheppard — an idealist ever desiring the best that is avail
able for his town and its environs.
O. T. CAILOR. — To such learned, experienced and common sense members of
the California Bar as O. T. Cailor, the well-known attorney and junior member of the
firm of Tipton and Cailor, Orange County owes much of her rapid progress in certain
fields, on which account all who enjoy an acquaintance with this gentleman will con
gratulate him for his steady and increasing success. He is a Hoosier by birth, and was
born in Clay County, Ind., on June 19, 1865. His father was Tobias Cailor, a general
mechanic and wagon maker, who married Miss Alma Moody, by whom he had five
children. He passed away years ago, and Mrs. Cailor died in 1912 at the home of our
subject. The second eldest in the family, O. T. was sent to the rural schools in Clay
County, and later attended the State Normal School, after which he taught for twelve
years, then entered the University of Indiana, from the Law School of which, after
a stiff course of two years, he was graduated in 1894, and for a while practiced in Clay
County, and there he tried himself out.
In 1902, Mr. Cailor came west to California and settled at Anaheim; and almost
at once he began to practice. The readiness with which he impressed those who came
in contact with him of his knowledge of the law, and the force of his strong, but
pleasing personality, combined to bring him more and imore patronage; and for years
he has been numbered among the leading lawyers of Orange County. He belongs
to both the State and the County Bar Associations; while as a Republican, he has
taken an active part in national political affairs and in the elevation of citizenship and
a stimulated, healthy civic interest. He is especally active in the Board of Trade.
On December 15, 1898, Mr. Cailor was married to Miss Essie Glick, also a native
of Indiana, and they are the parents of four children. Ray and Fay are twins; while
the other children are Clarence and Alma. All are able to boast of California birth,
and thus to belong to the enviable army of "native sons and daughters." Mr. Cailor
is both an Odd Fellow and a Mason — having passed all chairs in the former.
MRS. MARTHA A. NIMOCKS.— One of the beautiful country homes in western
Orange County is owned by Mrs. Martha, or "Mattie" A. Nimocks, and lies one-half
mile east of Talbert. Mrs. Nimocks resides in her beautiful country residence, but
leases the 184 acres of her ranch to tenants for raising lima beans and sugar beets.
A native of Wisconsin, she was born in Milwaukee, the daughter of Plummer
Brownell, a manufacturer there of the Brownell plows and other agricultural imple
ments, who moved to Omro, Wis., after the death of his wife, which occurred when
Martha was four years old. Mrs. Nimocks is a grand-niece of Stonewall Jackson on
her mother's side, who was in maidenhood Ann Jackson. Her father married again,
and Martha was adopted into the family of Bonaparte Blackmef, storekeeper at
Omro, Wis., in whose family she grew to young womanhood and was educated in the
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near Milwaukee, Wis. She has an own sister Elsie, Mrs. Williams Brooks, living at
Argyle, LaFayette County, Wis.
For over thirty years Mrs. Nimocks has owned the ranch near Talbert, and has
lived on the place since 1904. Previous to 1904 she owned the celebrated Hawkins
Ranch at Santa Fe Springs, which she operated successfully as an orange grove and
fruit ranch, its 140 acres being set to oranges, pears and alfalfa under her direction.
Magnificently built up for those days, this property was for many years one of the
show places of Los Angeles County, Mrs. Nimocks' rare sense of the beautiful and
artistic nature serving in good stead in the plans carried out on the ranch. Needing
pasture for her increasing herd of cattle and band of horses she purchased the 184
acres near Talbert from the Stearns Rancho Company about thirty years ago, when the
county was yet undeveloped. This place was a part of what was known as "Gospel
Swamp," and was grown up to willows and tules. She cleared the land and made it one
of the most valuable ranches in the Talbert district. When she purchased the place a
cow corral was located near the site of her present residence. She had bought fine
blooded, registered Jersey cattle and for many years successfully ran a large dairy
business. She formerly owned the Argyle Hotel at Second and Olive streets in Los
Angeles. Mrs. Nimocks was in early life a member of the Good Templar Lodge, and
has been a consistent worker for prohibition, suffrage, and the good of the common
weal. She has been interested in all movements for the advancement of Southern
California and gifted with unusual tact, business ability and executive force, she is
one of the few women of her generation who have really been successful in business
operations, and is a well-known business woman with a wide acquaintance in Cali
fornia. Attractive, accomplished and interesting, her admirable traits of character in
addition to her natural ability, have won many friends who esteem her for her intrinsic
worth, and her name will be chronicled in the annals of Orange County among its
citizens who have contributed to the highest development and progress of that portion
of Southern California.
HENRY W. ROHRS. — Among the enterprising and successful of Orange County
ranchers is Henry W. Rohrs, the well-known pioneer horticulturist and capitalist, who
attributes much of his prosperity to his devoted and equally far-seeing and industrious
wife. He was born in Hiddingen, in the kingdom of Hanover, Germany, on June 12,
1851, the son of Henry Rohrs, an experienced farmer of that section, who had married
Annie Vos. The lad attended the grade schools of Hanover until he was -fifteen years
of age, and then began to paddle his own canoe, working on farms in the vicinity of
his old home for seven years.
In 1873 he left home for America, sailing from Bremerhaven in a steamer that took
nine days in crossing the Atlantic. He stopped for a while in Ohio, and helped raise
grapes, peaches and other fruit. He also assisted in making wine, for which, as well as
the choice fruit, there was a good market in Chicago, Detroit and Toledo.
On December 1, 1880, Mr. Rohrs arrived in Wilmington, Cal., in which city, none
too attractive then, he remained for a couple of weeks. Then he came into what is now
Orange County; and at Santa Ana purchased his present place of fourteen acres at the
corner of Lincoln and Santa Clara avenues. Then the best of land sold for seventy-five
dollars an acre; and the price, as well as the promise of the new acquisition, appealed
to one who had seen the more worked-out East.
When he migrated to America, he entered the port of Baltimore, and having taken
a train west, located at Napoleon, Ohio. Soon after, however, he went to Kelley's
Island, in Erie County, and there, for three years, he rented land. At the latter place,
on April 30, 1878, Mr. Rohrs was married to Miss Anna Cordes, also a native of Han
over, Germany, who came to America with her parents while she was quite young.
Five children survive from this fortunate union. William H. lives at Orange; Marie C.
resides at Dixon and is the wife of William Wittman, a rancher; the next in order
of birth were twins — Albert F., who is at Orange, and Nellie K., who resides at home:
while the youngest living is Otto C, who also resides at Orange. Mrs. H. W. Rohrs
passed away on February 27, 1914, and was buried at Fairhaven; she was a woman
highly esteemed for her many virtues and was mourned by her family and friends.
Mr. Rohrs owns some of the best land between Santa Ana and Orange, where at
first he set out half of the acreage to vineyard, reserving the balance for Australian
Navel and Mediterranean Sweet oranges, and later he put in Valencia oranges and wal
nuts instead. In 1883, he purchased ten acres across the Santa Fe tracks, and there he
is growing oranges and walnuts. The Santa Fe laid a track through his land in the
"boom" year of 1887, from Santa Ana to Orange.
Mr. Rohrs is the owner of some very desirable ranch property at Olive, and is
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horses on his farms. In 1881 he built a beautiful, symmetrical residence on his ranch,
or home-place. A believer in cooperation, he is a member of Santiago Orange Growers
Association and also in the McPherson Heights and the Olive Heights Associations,
and he also belongs to the Central Lemon Growers Association at Villa Park, and the
Santa Ana Valley Walnut Growers Association, and he is a stockholder in the Santa
Ana Valley Irrigation Company.
In national political affairs — a subject always of absorbing interest to Mr. Rohrs —
he is a Republican, although he never allows partisanship to affect him in his support
of local measures and men likely to benefit the localities in which he lives and operates,
and where he endeavors to see that others besides himself have a winning chance. He
has always favored Prohibition, and in church membership belongs to the Evangelical
Association, having been one of the organizers of the church at Santa Ana, and served
on the board of trustees as well as the building committee. In 1910; he made an ex
tended trip to his old home in Germany, when he was accompanied by his daughter,
Marie. They visited the relatives at his former home, and then traveled through France,
Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and Italy, remaining away from home for about seven
months, and during their trip they had the pleasure of visiting Oberammergau, when
they witnessed the Passion Play. In Italy they visited the Coliseum and Catacombs
of Rome as well as Vesuvius and ancient Pompeii.
Albert F. Rohrs enlisted on May 21, 1917, in the naval reserve band, at San Pedro,
and traveled with that organization to many cities on the Coast, playing at concerts in
behalf of the loan drives, the Red Cross campaigns, and in support of other war activi
ties. And on December 21, 1918, he received his honorable discharge at San Francisco.
MRS. ELLA D. COLE. — The owner of one of Orange County's most-profitable
ranches is Mrs. Ella D. Cole, whose husband was the late Myrtle Cecillian Cole. The
history of the Cole family in America dates back to the earliest colonial days, the first
representatives of the family coming over from England in 1629 and settling at Ply
mouth. They were prominently identified with all the early development of those
pioneer days and when the days of the Revolutionary War came the Cole family fur
nished more than 1,000 soldiers to help in the defense of the principles of American
liberty. In religious affiliation the Coles were of the Baptist persuasion and they
played an important part in the early days of that denomination as well as in the
succeeding generations. A family of education, character and progressiveness, they
have always been leaders in every community in which they have settled.
Mrs. Cole, who before her marriage was Miss Ella Delavan, was born at Canaan,
Columbia County, N. Y., in 1855, the Delavan family being of French Huguenot ances
try. Her parents were Albert H. and Mary A. (Sperry) Delavan, the Sperrys being
one of Connecticut's prominent families who settled in central New York in the
early days, Mrs. Delavan having the advantage of an education in the select schools
of the latter state. At the time of Mrs. Cole's birth, her father, Albert H. Delavan,
was engaged in farming in eastern New York, but when a young man he had been in
the railroad business, having had charge of the freight house at Canaan, N. Y. He
was also superintendent of construction of the street railway at Albany, N. Y., and
of the Albany and Binghampton Railway.
In Duanesburgh, N. Y., on January 31, 1878, occurred Mrs. Cole's marriaie, when
she was united with Myrtle Cecillian Cole, who was also a native of New York. He
was born at Deansboro, in Oneida County, September 18, 1854, and received his first
schooling in that neighborhood, afterward attending a school at Delhi, N. Y., so that
he was fortunate in receiving a good education. He also studied law and was admitted
to the bar in the Empire State; for some time he practiced law at Deansboro and kept
books for his Tather, Menzo White Cole, who was extensively engaged in growing
hops in central New York. Mrytle C. Cole afterwards became interested in agriculture
and operated a large market garden at Oneida, Madison County, N. Y. In 1898, with
his wife and children he came to California, first settling at Glendora, where he re
mained for one year, coming then to Santa Ana, where he took up agriculture and
horticulture, farming twenty acres at Wintersburg which was formerly the property
of his father, M. W. Cole, who had passed away at Glendora in 1896; his widow
survived him until 1917. Myrtle C. Cole became possessor of the twenty-acre Win
tersburg ranch, improved this place and afterward sold it, and then purchased the sixty-
acre Ross ranch near Wintersburg, which Mrs. Cole still owns. Mr. Cole was a
scientific and progressive farmer and he effectually drained and irrigated this farm
and brought it to a high state of productivity. His death occurred at Santa Ana
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Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cole: Homer L. is a well-known con
tractor and builder in Santa Ana; he married Jessie M. Hoffman and they have one
child, Clifford Delavan. Ernest Delavan, the second child, is a graduate of Stanford
University with the degree of civil engineer and is now located in Gainesville, Texas,
where he is engaged in building a large oil reservoir; he has spent considerable time in
South America in connection with the oil industry. Philip Chester, a graduate as an
architect of the International Correspondence School at Scranton, Pa., married Irma
B. Hale and practices his profession at Chico, Cal.; Edith Blanche, a graduate nurse, is
now the wife of Oscar Blake and they reside on the Cole ranch near Wintersburg and
have a daughter, Ellen Dee.
Since her husband's death Mrs. Cole continues to reside in Santa Ana, where she
has built a comfortable bungalow on East Pine Street, looking after the interests left
by Mr. Cole, in which she is ably assisted by her devoted children.
Considerate and generous, Mrs. Cole is a woman of rare attainments and she has
ever taken a genuine and active interest in all movements that aimed at the better
ment of the community. In her girlhood she was a student at the state normal school
at Cortland, N. Y., and taught school in that state for five terms before her marriage.
A consistent Christian, she is a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Santa
Ana, in whose benevolences she takes an active and liberal part.
WALTER A. GREENLEAF.— A California agriculturist whose highly intelligent
and aggressive work in walnut and citrus fruit culture has been productive of a decided
advance in those important fields, is Walter A. Greenleaf of Santa Ana, who was born
at Carson City, Nev., on September 25, 1865. His father was Edward F. Greenleaf, a
pioneer who braved all the hardships necessary to cross the great plains to California
in 1865; and his mother, who was Miss Lucy Sweet before her marriage, shared those
trying experiences with her husband. In his time, Mr. Greenleaf was one of the leading
men here. Both parents are now among the great silent majority. They had ten
children, and Walter was the sixth in the order of birth.
Walter A. started to learn the lessons of life in the public schools, and continued
in the vast school of human experience. In this way he progressed to what is popu
larly termed a self-made man. Little by little, he prepared for increasing responsibility;
and when he undertook to farm some fifty acres at Olive and Santa Ana he made a
marked success of it.
Busy as he has always been, Mr. Greenleaf has still found time to do for others,
and especially to serve the state. He was a member of the National Guard, and for
six months served in the Spanish-American War as first lieutenant of Company L of
the Seventh California Volunteers. Later, imbued with a desire to help build up the
town in which he lived, Mr. Greenleaf accepted election to the office of city trustee.
He is a Democrat in national politics, but knows no partisan distinctions in campaign
ing for the best local measures and the best local men.
Inheriting from his father, who was one of the early pioneers and who also took
an active part in public affairs, a deep interest in Santa Ana and its unrivalled valley,
Mr. Greenleaf is keenly alive to all future possibilities in the region, while as observant
of what has happened in the past, and the lessons we ought to learn from the set-backs
and the strides forward of persisting man. He is a popular member of the Elks.
NELSON THOMAS EDWARDS.— A representative Californian, although a
native of Illinois, having been born near Galena, Derinda Township, Jo Daviess Coun
ty, on September 19, 1872, Nelson Thomas Edwards, supervisor of the Fourth District
in Orange County, has been privileged, beyond the good fortune of the average citizen
to participate in public, commercial, financial and social affairs, and so to help guide
the destiny of Southern California. His parents were Samson and Diana (Rogers)
Edwards, highly esteemed pioneers of Orange County and residents of Westminster
and Santa Ana for close to a half century, a sketch of their lives being given elsewhere
in this work.
The youngest son of the Edwards family, Nelson Thomas, through whose business
integrity the community of Orange has profited since his advent in the middle nineties,
was graduated from the grammar school at Westminster in 1887 and from the Orange
Business College in 1890. His first experience in business was as an employee of his
brother John, who had succeeded Samson Edwards and was proprietor of a meat
market in Westminster and", as a driver of one of his brother's wagons, he got his
first insight into a field into which in time he ventured on his own account. He then
built up a fine wagon trade in and around Santa Ana, which he continued until he
came to Orange in 1894. For a time thereafter he was employed by the Santa Ana
Meat Company, but subsequently he bought out the stock and good will of the pro
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this continuing for six years, and during this time they made the Plaza market the
finest establishment of the kind in Orange or vicinity. The meat market, however, is
not all that has come to command the attention of Mr. Edwards. Besides owning
several orange groves in Orange County, an interest in business blocks at Orange,
the townsite of Gadsden, Ariz., acreage at Yuma and stock in the Olive Milling Com
pany of Olive and the National Bank of Orange, Mr. Edwards is a director in the
Olive Milling Company and also in the National Bank of Orange and the Santa Ana
Canyon Oil Company of Santa Ana.
A Republican in matters of national political moment, he has served his fellow
citizens as city trustee of Orange, postmaster at Orange, from June 11, 1906, to April,
1915, a member of the Orange County Highway Commission, from September, 1917, to
January, 1919, was appointed county clerk to fill a vacancy and served a little over a
year, and he is now one of the Orange County supervisors. He helongs to the Orange
Commercial Club at Orange and the Yuma County Commercial Club at Yuma, Ariz.
At Olive, on December 31, 1896, Mr. Edwards was married to Miss May Tetzlaff,
a native of Bloomington, 111., where she was born on Christmas Day, 1877, and the
daughter of Mrs. Susie Tetzlaff, of Olive. Two children have blessed this union, a
son, Roy Edwards, and a daughter, Maybelle. Mr. Edwards is a member of Orange
Grove Lodge No. 293, F. & A. M., of which he is past master. He also belongs to
Orange Chapter No. 73, R. A. M., the Santa Ana Commandery No. 36, K. T., and Al
Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S-, of Los Angeles, and he belongs to and is a past
grand of Orange Lodge No. 225, Independent Order Odd Fellows.
LORENZO NATHAN BROOKS.— Whatever the future historian of Laguna
Beach may find desirable to say concerning those pioneer men and women whose
far-sightedness, courage, industry, frugality, enterprise and self-sacrifice made possible
the founding and development of this unrivalled coast resort, he will not fail to give
a prominent part of his narrative to Lorenzo Nathan Brooks, better known to all
his friends and acquaintances as "Nate" Brooks, who was born in Rockford, 111., on
January 6, 1852, and came first to this locality on horseback in 1876, arriving in the
month of December, having been preceded by his brother, W. H. Brooks, who arrived
in June of that same year. That was at a time when these two men were the only
whites in the place, the balance of the inhabitants being Indians who tried to steal
what these white men had brought with them — their ponies.
"Nate" Brooks at once homesteaded a claim which took in what is now known
as Arch Beach and part of Laguna Heights, and purchased the balance lying between
the former and Laguna from George Rogers, who had preempted it from the Govern
ment, paying $1.25 per acre for it. The holdings of Mr. Brooks totaled 600 acres.
This spot was to "Nate" Brooks the very choicest spot on earth and he held on to
what he had during many years when others became discouraged and "let go" their
holdings. He was made of sterner stuff and the hardships and deprivations he en
dured to hold on to his land were remarkable. His promptness is meeting every
obligation was characteristic of the man. Money was not to be earned nearer than
Los Angeles, and then only by working in the grain fields for one dollar a day from
sun up till sun down; and later on as he saw the development of his dreams he was
ever ready to even mortgage his holdings to promote the best interests of Laguna
Beach. In 1883 he platted Arch Beach and installed a small water system from a 500-
foot tunnel in the hills. In 1912 he subdivided Laguna Heights, developing water for
that tract after thirty years of patient search and experimental digging and pumping.
He could be depended upon to help in any enterprise that was beneficial to all, and
he lived to see many of his dreams come to pass.
After living a life of single blessedness for nearly fifty years he was united in mar
riage on December 14, 1899, with Mrs. Catherine A. Skidmore, widow of the late George
E. Skidmore, well-known pioneer merchant of Los Angeles and a native of Texas.
A mention of his life will be found in the sketch of J. W. Skidmore on another page
of this history. Mrs. Brooks was in maidenhood Catherine A. Brenizer, daughter of
Josiah K. and Antoinette (Roberts) Brenizer, the former a native of Ohio, where he
was born on a farm and while pursuing the even tenor of his way the Cival War broke
out and he enlisted in the Forty-sixth Illinois Regiment and served his country from
1861 to 1865. He came West in the early seventies and settled on a ranch near
Compton, later retired to Long Beach and died, in 1905, in Los Angeles where he
was then living. His wife was born in Pennsylvania but was reared near Rockford,
III., her father being one of the founders of that city. Mrs. Catherine A. Brooks, who
is one of the pioneers of California and had many interesting and dangerous expe
riences in the early days, was an able helpmate to her husband and when he died,
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by purchasing the interests of the other heirs — of Laguna Heights, and this property
is now being looked after by her son, Joseph W. Skidmore.
At the passing of this worthy pioneer of Orange County, not only the county
and Laguna Beach, but the state lost one of its upbuilders. "Nate" Brooks always
backed his "boosting" of his favored section with cash, and he could always raise
that. No one ever went to him for help that he did not put his hand in his pocket
and give the aid asked for.
Other settlers came to Laguna Beach in those hard years, saw, but failed to
"stick." Making the utmost record compatible with opportunity, without duality of
allegiance to his self-set task, with a complete hold on the realities of life, with a
towering self-confidence, erected on a solid foundation, "Nate" Brooks must be re
garded as "The Father" of Laguna Beach. It is easy, and cheap, to be wise after
the event. Well did he know that his vision's realization could not be an act of
startling immediacy, and this has been borne out by subsequent events. Communities
often express their feeling toward the "father" of their town in monumental masonry.
Santa Ana, for instance, has the Spurgeon building, dedicated to the memory of the
father of the county seat. The memory of the father of Laguna Beach, Lorenzo
Nathan Brooks, is perpetuated in the work he started. Most beginnings are difficult,
and this case was not an exception. May those who happen to have been accorded
the privilege of continuing the good work, so bravely started by this valiant pioneer,
prove themselves worthy of their predecessor.
THOMAS HILL. — One of the most highly esteemed citizens of Stanton, Orange
County, is Thomas Hill, who has been a resident of that section of the county for*
thirty years. Mr. Hill is a native of Ireland, born in 1858, the son of William and
Margaret Hill, whose family consisted of seven sons and one daughter, five of whom
emigrated to the United States.
Thomas Hill came to Orange County in 1883 and since that time has witnessed
many marvelous changes and developments. He is the owner of sixty acres of fine
land which he devotes to general farming. This land was in its primitive state when
Mr. Hill purchased it, but after years of hard work and close attention to its special
needs he has brought it up to a high state of development, and has installed many
modern improvements for the operation of his ranch as well as for the comfort and
convenience of his cozy home. He is regarded as one of the most progressive ranchers
of his community, a man of strict integrity and probity of character, well known for
his patriotism. It is a recognized fact that many of the natives of the Emerald Isle are
counted amongst the best and most loyal citizens of the United States, being friends
of education and enlightenment.
In 1888 Mr. Hill was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Tait, also a native of
Ireland, and the daughter of George and Matilda Tait. Of this union three children
were born: Matilda, who is a graduate of the State Normal School; William and
Margaret E. The family are members of the Episcopal Church and Mr. Hill is a
Mason, a member of the Buena Park Lodge No. 537, F. & A. M. For six years he
has held the office of trustee of the city of Stanton and has been an efficient member
of the school board for eight years.
LOUIS D. GUNTHER. — A highly esteemed citizen whose influence in many di
rections is due to his successful business career during a long and exemplary life, is
Louis D. Gunther, who located in California in the early part of the present century.
He was born in Maywood, Cook County, 111., in 1858, the son of Justus Gunther, who
was a mason and a builder, and a first-class one at that. He made a trip to Fort
Dodge, Iowa, but returned to Cook County, where he married Miss Wilhelmina Weiss;
and in 1859 he moved his family to Fort Dodge and became there a pioneer contractor
in mason work. Through a sad accident, he died at Fort Dodge on February 19, 1879.
' Twenty-seven years later, Mrs. Gunther, after a comfortable life in which she had
surrounded herself with a large circle of friends, passed away in Iowa. Six children
had blessed their union: Louis, the eldest and subject of this sketch; Ernestine, now
Mrs. Craemer of Orange; Annie, Mrs. Trost of Fort Dodge; Laura, who became Mrs.
Grum'm and Louise, who is Mrs. Adolph Dittmer, both of Orange; and Mrs. Clara
Loescher of Richfield.
Brought up at Fort Dodge, Louis attended the grammar schools, and while yet a
boy began to learn the mason trade under the guidance of his father. Then, when old
enough, he, too, took up contracting and building, and for years followed that line
of activity in Fort Dodge and vicinity. In 1901 he made a trip to California, and was
more than pleased with what he saw here.
He was so well pleased, in fact, that two years later he decided to return to the
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handsome brick residence at the corner of Almond and South Olive streets. He then
engaged again in contracting and building, which engrossed him until, in 1915, he re
tired. In the meantime, he had built three residences for himself, and one by one sold
each of them. He also built a store, and when he had a good offer, disposed of that.
A second store was built and sold in the same way — -each deal evidencing the shrewd,
but straightforward and honest business sense of the man. He has also owned and
operated both orange and walnut ranches. In 1920 he erected a very artistic and
attractive residence on South Olive Street which is one of the show places in Orange.
Mr. Gunther was married in Forest Park, 111., April 3, 1884, to Miss Adolphine
Aneling, also a native of Maywood, Cook County, 111., a daughter of Gotfried and
Lauretta (Gunther) Aneling, who were prosperous farmers at Maywood. The union
of Mr. and Mrs. Gunther has been blessed with two daughters and three sons: Clara,
the oldest, is Mrs. Bandick of Orange; Emma, a graduate of the Clara Barton Hos
pital, Los Angeles, is at the Letterman Hospital in the United States service; Louis
G, a contractor, who enlisted for the great war, but was not called to the colors on
account of the armistice, is now ranching at Orange; Oscar, who is also ranching near
Orange, was in the harness business, while he served the city as a trustee, until he
enlisted in the United States service as a leather inspector; and Elmer is attending
the Concordia College at Oakland. Mr. and Mrs. Gunther are members of the St.
John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, at Orange, and he is chairman of the board of
trustees. He has been a member of this board for many years, and was on the building
committee when the church was erected. He is also a member of the Lutheran
.Men's Club.
During his residence in Iowa, Mr. Gunther was for two terms a trustee of the
city of Fort Dodge; and in 1918, on the resignation of his son Oscar, as a trustee of
Orange, he was appointed to fill the vacancy thus created, and is chairman of the
finance committee, and a member of the light and power committee. He is interested
in various enterprises, of more or less local business significance, and is a stockholder
and director in the First National Bank of Orange.
WILLIAM J. WICKERSHEIM. — An establishment which has grown to occupy
a commanding place in Orange County, Cal., is that of the Wickersheim Implement
Company of Fullerton. Its founder, William J. Wickersheim, was born in Lake County.
111., May 6, 1866, the son of Jacob and Louise (Meyer) Wickersheim, both born in
Alsace, the former in July, 1836, and the latter in 1839. Jacob Wickersheim emigrated
with his parents to America in 1845, settling in Lake County, 111., where his father died
in 1865. His mother passed away in Cook County, that state, in 1868. Louise Meyer
was brought to America by her parents when she was a child of three, and she was
reared in Illinois, and in Lake County married Mr. Wickersheim at Long Grove, in
1858. They had five, children, all of whom are living: Charles Jacob is a resident of
Orange; Louise Mary lives in Hollywood, Cal., with her mother; William J. is the
subject of this review. These three were born in Lake County, 111. Edward F. is a
resident of Santa Ana, and he was born in Wheeling, 111., whither the family had
moved. Emma is the wife of George Heil, and they live in Santa Ana. She was
born in Roberts Lake, Minn., where the family, in the fall of 1869, had settled
on a farm five miles from Faribault. In 1878 they all moved to Lincoln County,
Minn., and continued to farm and improve a homestead and timber claim. In 1898
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wickersheim and two of their children came to Santa Ana and
settled, and there the parents celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in April,
1908, and it was here, too, that the father passed to his reward on July 23, 1910, aged
seventy-three years. His widow, eighty-three years of age, makes her home in Holly
wood, as does her daughter, Louise M. Wickersheim. Jacob Wickersheim always took
an active interest in all movements in the localities where he lived to make them a
better place morally, and he was a loyal American citizen and often held offices of.
various kinds where he lived. Grandfather Wickersheim had the distinction of having
served under Napoleon.
William J. Wickersheim received a liberal education, attended the high school at
Faribault for two years, then took a four years' advanced course in the second- State
Normal at Mankato, after which he taught school for nine years in Minnesota, and
served four years as county superintendent of schools of Lincoln County. In 1894
he came to California, whither his two sisters had preceded him but a few months.
He taught school one year at Fallbrook, then a like period at Menefee, Riverside
County, and three years in Old Newport, Orange County, selling school supplies during
vacations. He next moved to Orange, where he had bought two orange groves, and
there spent three years in cultivating them. Hoping to broaden his field of business
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starting on a small scale, and as the locality expanded he increased his business to
keep pace with the times and enjoyed an increasing prosperity. It was on January
1, 1913, that he secured the agency for the Ford automobile for the Fullerton terri
tory. The business was incorporated in May, 1907, as the Wickersheim Implement
Company, and it now employs twenty-five men in its various departments. Their
sales volume for the year 1920 will total a half million dollars, due in a great measure
to the guiding hand of the founder of the business, who has won and held the confi
dence of a very wide circle of friends, which is ever increasing as the population
increases. The courteous treatment and square deals accorded each and every cus
tomer at this establishment is the best advertisement they issue.
W. J. Wickersheim has been twice married. His first wife, whom he married
on June 25, 1893, was Miss May Ladenburg, of Marshall, Minn., who was a teacher
in Lyon County, that state. Two children blessed this marriage: Lyle is a graduate of
the Fullerton High School, and the University of Southern California, where he took
the course of electrical engineering. Since his graduation he has been in the employ
of the Western Electric Company of New York and Chicago, and by the end of the
first year he had been promoted to the research department, where he has specialized
on the multiple telephone and telegraph. He served one year in the army in the
signal corps and as instructor in radio. He and his wife are wintering (1920-21) in
Key West and Havana, where he is in charge of the technical and scientific part of
the laying of the multiple telephone and telegraph between Key West and Havana.
Mildred is a graduate from the Fullerton high school, and also graduated in music
at the State Normal in Los Angeles. She then taught school for one and one-half
years in the Hawaiian Islands, then returned and entered the Southern California Uni
versity, and graduated with the class in December, 1920. The wife and mother,
mourned by all who knew her, died at Old Newport on July 1, 1898. On March 5,
1902, Mr. Wickersheim was married to Miss Emma Oswald, and they have a son,
Theodore J., a talented pianist, and a student in the Fullerton school.
Mr. Wickersheim is a Methodist in his religious belief, and politically he sup
ports Republican principles, and has served as a delegate to state and county con
ventions for years. He is a member of the California Auto Trade Association and a
charter member of the Fullerton Board of Trade. He is a man of fine character, public
spirited, and a supporter of every movement that has for its aim the building up of
state or county; particularly is he interested in all projects that put Fullerton to the
fore. His financial success has been deservedly won and he enjoys the confidence and
esteem of his fellow-citizens, with whom his word is as good as his bond.
DAVID F. CAMPBELL. — An excellent citizen whose reputation as an unselfish
"booster" of the town and county of Orange has given him an enviable influence in
many fields of activity, is David F. Campbell, who came here during the great boom
of 1887. He was born at Alta, Peoria County, 111., on December 12, 1854, the son of
Robert Campbell, a native of Pennsylvania, in which state he was also married. His
bride was Catherine Fasnacht before her marriage, and she was a native of the Keystone
State. They moved to Peoria County, 111., and here this worthy couple were success
ful farmers; and when they came to California in 1884, they brought with them a
valuable experience. The father died in Los Angeles, and the mother passed away at
Orange. They had two girls and five boys, all of whom grew up; and two of the sons
were in the Civil War. Walker W., who enlisted at Peoria in an Illinois regiment,
returned alive; John, however, who was in the Seventy-seventh Illinois Regiment, was
killed in the battle of Vicksburg.
Next to the youngest in the order of birth, David Was brought up on the farm at
Alta, and there he started out to farm for himself. In 1878, he removed to Corning,
Holt County, Mo., and engaged in the drug business with his brother-in-law, H. F.
Ferris; but at the end of three years he sold out his interest and returned home to
Illinois, to resume his farming.
When the boom was at its height in California, he again sold his holdings and
came west to Orange; and immediately he located on his present place of twenty acres
on South Cambridge Street. Here he began horticulture with the raising of oranges —
seedlings in those days; but after a while he changed to Valencias. It happened that
some of the original trees were of that stock, and now he has some Valencias over
fifty years of age, the oldest of the kind in the state. This is a strange fact for which
there is no accounting; and as he has about one hundred of these aged Valencias, the
circumstance is all the more profitable and interesting.
Mr. Campbell also owns eighteen and a half acres of Valencia oranges on Tustin
Avenue, and he is one of the original stockholders in the Santiago Orange Growers
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of the association. He is a member of the Central Lemon Association at Villa Park,
and a stockholder in the Orange County Fumigating Company. He owns valuable
tesidence property in Orange, has been a director of the First National Bank from
the time of its organization, and is the vice-president of that institution. He is a
stockholder in the Security Savings Bank of Orange, and is one of the directors. He
is also a stockholder in the Orange Building and Loan Association, in which capacity
he has served for over twenty-six years, was formerly vice-president and is now presi
dent. This association he has seen grow from assets of $20,000 to about $700,000.
While in Peoria County, 111., Mr. Campbell was married to Miss Julia F. Shaw,
a native of Illinois, where she was born near Alta. Ten children have blessed their
union. Earl E. is a rancher on twenty acres adjoining the farm of his father; Henry
S. is a rancher near Orange; Roy, a graduate of the University of California, is
assistant entomologist in the Department of Agriculture, and is stationed at Alham
bra; Elma is Mrs. Wood of Corona; Ruby is a graduate of the University of California
and won a Carnegie scholarship at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa.; she is now
with Hamburger Bros, in Los Angeles; Ensley is also a graduate of the University of
California and is assistant farm adviser in Monterey County; Robert is attending the
University of California; Margaret is in the Orange union high school; and Hazel and
Julia are in the grammar school. Mr. Campbell, who is a Republican in national
politics, was a nonpartisan trustee for the Orange school district for many years. Mrs.
Campbell is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
MRS. MARY E. ALSBACH. — A devoted, motherly woman who enjoys the quiet
of California canyon life, is Mrs. Mary E. Alsbach, the widow of Montgomery
Alsbach, who passed to his eternal reward in the summer of 1918. She was born in
Carthage, Hancock County, 111., the daughter of Isaac and Louisa Lucas, prosperous
larmers, who raised corn and small grain on a large Illinois farm. In 1881 they re
moved to La Plata, Mo., where Mr. Lucas purchased 90 acres.
Montgomery Alsbach was the son of Michael and Sarah Alsbach — the former a
German Evangelical minister, who traveled through the country creating new interest
in the church. When twelve years of age, Montgomery accompanied his parents to
Indiana, where he lived through the Civil War. At the conclusion of that terrible
struggle, Rev. Alsbach moved to Chicago, where he made his home, while he continued
to travel through Illinois on his mission work. After thirty-four years, they moved
from Chicago to Missouri, and there he spent the rest of his days on a farm which he
purchased. For a while Montgomery had worked on a farm near Chicago, but in 1872 he
left Missouri and went to Minneapolis, where he was employed by the Shockby
Milling Company, and later by the Pillsbury Milling Company. At Minneapolis, on
March 8, 1887, he was married to Miss Mary E. Lucas; and, after living in Minne
apolis for five months, they came west to Los Angeles. For a year and a half Mr.
Alsbach engaged in carpentering, and then moved to a ranch at Downey. In 1892
he moved to Silverado Canyon and homesteaded 160 acres of land, and here they built
a residence and made improvements. There were forty acres of tillable ground, and
at present thirty-five acres are in barley and five in wheat, while the rest is good
pasture land. The sycamore, live oak and water alder grow bountifully in the canyon
ranch, and as there is plenty of stock for domestic use, the rancher is almost rendered
independent of the outside world. A well-educated man, who had had a good grammar
and high school education, and three years of study at Northwestern University,
Mr. Alsbach was greatly mourned when he died, on August 16, 1918.
Four children owe much to their mother, Mrs. Alsbach. The eldest is Mrs. Naomi
Schulz of Williams Canyon. The second is Mrs. Ruth C. McKinzie of Santa Ana.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Shaw of Laguna Beach is the third in the order of birth. The
fourth is Mrs. Ruby Lola Shaw of El Toro.
In 1920 Mrs. Alsbach sold eighty acres of the ranch and retired from farming, and
will make her home at Laguna, where she is building a new residence in Arch Beach
Heights of that seaside resort.
A brother of Mrs. Alsbach is Scott Lucas, a gentleman blessed with the family
affability. The youngest in a family of seven children, he was born on November 28.
1873, and he lived with his parents on the home farm in Missouri. He not only had a
grammar school education, but the last year of his schooling he assisted the teacher.
He helped his father until he was twenty-two years of age, and then he came out to
California and to Santa Ana. He became an expert brick burner and maker of cement,
and had a part in much building of note in Los Angeles and in and about Santa Ana.
In November, 1918, soon after Mr. Alsbach's death, Mr. Lucas came to Silverado Can
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HERMAN G. LEMBCKE. — A leading contractor and builder, whose valuable
experience, far-seeing capacity and exceptional enterprise, enabling him to operate on
broad, generous lines, and with a sensible view of the future as well as the immediate
present, have been of the greatest benefit to both the city and county of Orange, is
Herman G. Lembcke, who was born at Ulzen, Hanover, Germany, on May 3, 1861, the
son of John Lembcke, a brick manufacturer. He came with his wife, who was Mary
Pagel before her marriage, and his family, to Wisconsin in 1885, and there for a time
resided, although he spent his last days in Nebraska, where Mrs. Lembcke also died.
Four of their six children are still living, and Herman is the youngest of all, save one.
The lad received the best of educational instruction in the local schools and a
private academy, where he majored in drawing, after which he assisted his father in
the making of brick, as well as in farming. In 1885 the family moved to Cedarburg,
Wis., and for a time Herman attended the Addison Academy at Addison, 111., follow
ing which he undertook contracting and building at Cedarburg. Having a brother,
however, at Canastota, McCook County, S. D., he removed there in 1887, and then,
for four years, was engaged in contracting and building at Sioux Falls, and later also
at Canastota. In both Dakota and in Minnesota, Mr. Lembcke erected many of the
leading edifices of that time.
In 1907 he made his first trip to California, and he was so pleased with what he
saw here that on his return he at once shaped his plans for removal to the more
favored Pacific country. In 1909 he effected that important step, and came here, family,
bag and baggage. He looked the state over carefully and finally selected Orange
as the most desirable, and soon engaged in contracting and building; and ever since
he has been augmenting an enviable reputation as one of the ablest and most
reliable men in his important field. He frequently makes even his own designs, and
_uch has been his acknowledged success that he has been called to Los Angeles and
other towns beyond the confines of the county for important building enterprises. He
belongs to the National Contractors' Association, and is ever ready to lend his counsel
for the best development and the building up of Orange and its environs.
While in South Dakota, Mr. Lembcke was married to Miss Elizabeth Muehl, a
native of Erie County, Pa., by whom he has had six children. Walter is a carpenter,
assisting his father; Herbert, also a carpenter, is yardman for the Griffith Lumber
Company; Hugo is attending Stanford University, taking an engineering course;
Edgar is a student at the Orange Union high school, and there are Hilda and Althea.
The family attend the Lutheran Church, and Mr. Lembcke is a member of the Lutheran
Men's Club. At Canastota, S. D., he was for thirteen years secretary of the board of
trustees of the Lutheran Church. He is a Republican in national politics, and yet is
decidedly nonpartisan in all cooperation for local improvement and uplift. Some years
ago Mr. Lembcke built for himself and family a large, very comfortable residence at
320 North Lemon Street, and there they now dispense an old-time hospitality.
MICHAEL F. REAGAN. — America has been blessed with adopted sons and
daughters from every corner of the globe, many of whom have done much to make
possible the rapid development of this country, and among those who have proved
their worth are natives of Ireland, and those of Irish descent, whose American birth
and training have added to their characteristic resourcefulness. Typical of the latter
is Michael F. Reagan, who was born in Norfolk Township, St. Lawrence County, New
York, in 1862, the son of Jeremiah and Mary (Donovan) Reagan, both natives of the
Emerald Isle. To them were born nine children, five of whom are still living, Michael
being the only one in California. He was reared in New York, and there he received
his education; early in life he learned the carpenter's trade, .which he followed for
many years.
Mr. Reagan came to California in 1889, settling in Anaheim, where he followed
his trade, and so has been a resident of the county for over thirty years. In 1896 he
came to Los Alamitos, being one of the early settlers to locate there, and he has since
made this his home, being the oldest settler, in point of residence, in the locality. In
the fall of 1904 Mr. Reagan saw the necessity of supplying the residents of Los Ala
mitos with water; the artesian well was going dry on account of many wells being
sunk for irrigation purposes, and also on account of the drouth. He sunk four wells
with a six-inch bore from 300 to 400 feet deep, to supply the growing town of Los
Alamitos with water for domestic purposes; they are operated by electricity and fur
nish water for 140 families. The original wells were the property of the Bixby Land
Company until he purchased their interest. This supplies Mr. Reagan with enough
business to keep him moving around in the midst of his patrons, and at the same
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In 1909 Mr. Reagan was united in marriage with Miss Annie Hedgepeth, and to
them one child, who died in infancy, was born. Mrs. Reagan's death, in 1912, deprived
him of a loyal and helpful companion. Mr. Reagan has seen many remarkable changes
in the county, the development of oil, the sugar beet industry, and the building up of
towns throughout the entire county, until today when this county stands foremost in
the counties of the state. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Columbus.
ADOLPH STANKEY. — During his thirty years' residence in Orange County
Adolph Stankey has seen many changes wrought and has had an active part in the
development which has taken place with such rapidity during that span of time. His
birth occurred in Germany, August 29, 1870, and he was reared in Walline, Russia, a
son of Frank and Ernstine (Laffman) Stankey, the former a native of Germany and
the latter of Russia. The family came to Anaheim in 1888, and here the father located
and is now living on his ranch two miles west of town, on the county road.
Young Adolph did not have very good school advantages in Russia, and is what
may be called self-educated, picking up knowledge and experience as he went along
in life, the most thorough of all teachers. On arriving in Anaheim, in 1888, he worked
for a time at ranching with his father, and later leased 400 acres of land near Placentia
and cultivated it to grain. Land in that section could then be bought for seventy-five
dollars per acre, and the same land he farmed in early days is now finely developed
into large orange groves and worth in the thousands per acre. The first year Mr.
Stankey was quite successful in grain raising, and cleared $5,000. The next three
were dry years and he lost all he had put in the venture.
Later, he lived on a twenty-acre ranch of his own west of town and near his
father's place, where he raised barley, corn and sugar beets. Selling this out, in 1905,
Mr. Starikey moved to Anaheim and bought his present home, at 136 North Lemon
Street, and started his work in cement; he was in the employ of Chas. Scindler, and
also of Conliffe Bros., cement contractors. After gaining a thorough knowledge of
the business, he started in contracting for himself, and since that date, 1910, he has
constructed many miles of cement sidewalks and curbs in Anaheim, besides porch and
house foundations. He has done- much work for the city of Anaheim, and also ceme
tery work, and has made a reputation for the class and quality of his work, which is
known throughout the county as first-class in quality and lasting — in fact, always
satisfactory. The marriage of Mr. Stankey united him with Ernestine Pressel, a native of
Poland, and three children have been born to them: Harry, an electrician, in the
employ of J. Leep; Nettlie and Hattie. An active worker for the further advancement
of his home community, Mr. Stankey has never doubted the future in store for this
section of the state since his first location here, and has done his share to make it
one of the most progressive cities in Southern California.
O. A. STEWART. — Another walnut grower whose progressive foresightedness,
thorough familiarity with the problems before him, and untiring industry have helped
him to attain success far beyond the ordinary rancher in his field, is O. A. Stewart
of South McClay Street, Santa Ana, who has ten acres of twelve-year-old trees, inter-
planted to lima beans. He was born in Hartford, Blackford County, Ind., on April 7,
1849, and when only ten years of age crossed the great plains with his parents and the
other five children in the family, in 1859, traveling in a prairie schooner drawn by
oxen. They were part of a large train that started from the Hoosier state and tried
to reach Pike's Peak in 1859 during the Pike's Peak excitement, but while still on the
Platte River, before turning off of the trail for Denver, they were disappointed with
what they heard of returning Pike's Peakers who were discouraged, and so continued
on to Nevada, locating in Carson City. There Wellington Stewart, our subject's
father, opened a law office and began the practice of law, which he continued until 1866,
when he removed to Helena, Mont., where he maintained a law office for another six
years. He was a member of the legislature in Nevada, and also Montana, and in the
latter state he was the speaker of the house. He was a well-posted lawyer and had a
large clientele. Then he moved back to Carson City, and later on went to San Diego,
where he opened a law office and practiced there until he went to Washington and
settled at Seattle, and there he died at the age of eighty. He was born at Painted
Post, Steuben County, N. Y., and was married in Indiana to Miss Sarah Barnhart,
a native of Pennsylvania, who died in Carson City, Nev., at the age of sixty-nine
years. They had six children, O. A. Stewart being the third in the order of birth,
five of whom are still living.
O. A. Stewart attended the public schools in Carson City, Nev., where he
grew up, fortunate in being in that town when the great Comstock Lode was discovered.
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law in his father's office, he was admitted to the bar in San Diego County. He
never practiced law there, however, but for a number of years taught school in that
county, at Encinitas, San Luis Rey, Julian and Temecula. While at Encinitas he
met Miss Florence Ada Foss, the acquaintance being continued while teaching at San
Luis Rey, ripened into love and resulted in their marriage at San Diego on Febru
ary 3, 1874. She was a native of Jackson, Maine, but came to California with her
parents, David R. and Rebecca A. (Libby) Foss in 1861 via the Isthmus of Panama,
first engaging in dairying in Marin County, and later he was in business in San
Francisco. In 1869 they came to San Diego County where he farmed, residing there
until his death in 1886 at the age of fifty-three. The mother is now living at Manteca,
Cal., eighty-five years of age. Mrs. Stewart is the oldest of three cildren, the others
being Mrs. J. J. Rawleigh of Manteca and Albert J. Foss, an apiarist at Corona, Cal.
The one child of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart is an adopted daughter, Mattie, who lives at
home. Mr. Stewart continued teaching until 1879, and then engaged in ranching at
De Luz, San Diego County, where he homesteaded 160 acres, improved it, put the
first plow in the raw land and engaged in viticulture, general farming and bee culture,
having two apiaries. In 1906, after having brought the place to a high state of cultiva
tion, he sold it and located in Santa Ana and bought a ten-acre alfalfa field, which he
set to budded walnuts, now full bearing. He is a member of the Santa Ana Walnut
Growers Association. In 1912 they erected their elegant residence where alfalfa grew
when Mr. Stewart first came here.
Being an admirer of Horace Greeley, his first vote was cast for a Democrat
candidate, and he continued with that party until he became a strong nationalist and
protectionist, and since then is a Republican.
PROFESSOR W. M. CLAYTON.— A man of high scholarly attainments, whose
thirty-five years of service in the cause of education has given him an authoritative
place in that profession, is Prof. W. M. Clayton, who during his residence of eighteen
years in Santa Ana has contributed generously, not alone to school affairs but to the
life of the whole community. A native of the Buckeye State, he was born at Van
Buren, Hancock County, Ohio, October 20, 1861. He obtained his early schooling in
the public schools of his home district and being ambitious beyond the average lad,
he determined to secure a college education, even though it meant hard work and
sacrifice on his part. He matriculated at Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware,
Ohio, working his own way through, and graduating there in 1891 ; during the school
year of 1889-1890 he was principal of the Allen Township high school at Van Buren,
Ohio, this being one of the first township high schools to be organized in the state.
After his graduation, Mr. Clayton was superintendent of schools at Piketon and
Waverly, Ohio, serving for four years in each place. While he was teaching at Piketon
he organized the Teachers' Summer Normal School at Piketon and during the session
had about 175 teachers in attendance from southern Ohio. For six years he'was
county examiner of teachers in southern Ohio.
In 1899 Professor Clayton came to the Pacific Coast and for one year occupied the
chair of mathematics and was vice-president of the Southern Oregon State Normal
School at Ashland, Ore., and for the following two years was president in the same
institution. In 1902 he came to California, and located at Santa Ana, for the next eight
years occupying the post of principal of the Roosevelt grammar school. Following
this he went to the Santa Ana high school as a teacher of mathematics. Four years
after the new Polytechnic high was organized, in 1917, he was made vice-principal and
head of the mathematics department. Professor Clayton is an expert mathematician
and occupies an authoritative position as an instructor in this branch of study. It is
worthy of note that in thirty-five years of teaching he has lost but three days on
account of illness, a record that few can equal.
Prominent in fraternal circles, Professor Clayton is a Knights Templar Mason,
and is a past commander of Santa Ana Commandery No. 36, and a Shriner, member
of Al Malaikah Temple of Los Angeles. While at Piketon he was made a member of
the Knights of Pythias, and is past chancellor of Lodge No. 521, at that place; he is
also past commander of Santa Ana Tent No. 8, of the Maccabees, member of' Santa
Ana Lodge No. 236, I. O. O. F.; Society of Sons of the Revolution; Phi Beta Kappa,
Faculty University of California Smith-Hughes Teachers Training Division, and
while a student at the university was a member of Beta Theta Pi. During the World
War he gave much time and assistance to the local patriotic activities, and was one of
the four-minute men.
By Mr. Clayton's marriage in Van Buren, Ohio, he is the father of two children:
Allen D., of Pasadena, and a daughter, Georgiana, who died at the age of nine years.
Professor Clayton is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Ana
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JESSE O. NICHOLS. — Among the most successful orange and walnut growers of
the Buaro and West Orange precincts of Orange County, especial mention is made of
Jesse O. Nichols, now living in Huntington Beach. He was born August 9, 1864, at
Avon, Fulton County, 111., a son of Albert Kimball Nichols, a native of Vermont, who
married Miss Harriett Rose, of Avon, 111., where her father was the owner of a grist
mill. Albert Nichols was a ship carpenter and worked at his trade in Chicago, after the
great fire. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Nichols came to California in 1896 and made their
home with their son. Mrs. Nichols died in 1898, and he in 1907.
When Jesse O. was eight years of age, his parents moved to Waukegan, Lake
County, 111., and here he remained until he was eighteen; during this period he learned
the trade of a machinist. In 1882 he migrated westward, locating for six months at
Denver, Colo., where he followed his trade. In the fall of that year, he arrived in the
Golden State, stopping at Los Angeles, subsequently taking up school land at Cuca-
monga, which, after two years, he sold and then located at El Monte, going from there
to San Diego County. In partnership with M. F. Quinn, his father-in-law, he rented
3,000 acres of the Warner ranch, a tract of 50,000 acres, where they raised stock and
farmed to grain and hay.
On August 4, 1889, Mr. Nichols was united in marriage with Miss Susie Quinn,
daughter of Michael Fay and Ruth Jane (Glenn) Quinn. Mrs. Nichols was born at
El Monte, and when seven years of age her mother passed away. She crossed the
plains from Texas when a girl and they had some exacting times with Indians. Mrs.
Nichols' father, Michael Fay Quinn, born in New York City was of stanch old Irish
stock, his parents having been born in the Emerald Esle. His grandfather was born
in 1761 and died in Wisconsin in 1857. John Quinn, the father of Michael F., was born
in Limerick in 1808, and married Mary Fay in 1832, coming with his family to America
in 1836. Two years later he died in Wisconsin, and subsequently his widow became
the wife of Richard Hartwell of Ohio; she passed away six days after her marriage.
Michael Fay Quinn was born in New York City, February 14, 1836, and at the
tender age of four years he was orphaned. His stepfather cared for him until he
reached the age of twelve years. In the spring of 1850, he went to Fort Snelling,
Minn., where he obtained a position as clerk in a sutler store, owned by a Mr. Steele.
Through the influence of Colonel Lee, the commanding officer at Fort Snellng, and an
old schoolmate of his stepfather, Richard Hartwell, the young man secured a position
in the quartermaster's department, and in 1854, when but eighteen years old, he was
appointed government wagon master and started from Fort Leavenworth with an
expedition against the Sioux Indians. On September 26, 1854, they surprised a camp of
about 5,000 Indians at Ash Hollow, on the Platte River. Several Indians were killed
and nearly the entire camp captured. The expedition proceeded to Fort Laramie,
where some of the troops were left, the rest going on to Fort Pierre, on the Missouri
Rive'r, where the great treaty with the Sioux was made by General Harney, on New
Year's Day, 1855. Immediately after his arrival in Fort Pierre, Mr. Quinn was sent
out with twenty-eight six-mule teams and wagons loaded with supplies for the troops
at Fort Randall. The trip was safely made in ten days, and two days later the return
trip was started, with empty wagons and provisions for ten days. A severe snow
storm set in, continuing with slight abatement for twenty-two days, burying their
camp in deep drifts of snow. On the twenty-fourth day, after great labor, the party
cut its way out and continued the journey. Cottonwood trees were used for the mules'
provender, while the men lived on corn and mule meat. They arrived at Fort Pierre
at the end of thirty-six days, with only forty-eight of their 180 mules left. After many
interesting adventures Mr. Quinn succeeded in reaching St. Louis, Mo., by steamboat
and on November 2, 1855, he matriculated in the Illinois State University, where he
remained until April 11, 1858, Robert T. Lincoln, son of the illustrious President, being
one of. his classmates. Mr. Quinn joined General Harney's expedition against the
Mormons and was appointed wagon master under Captain Winfield Scott Hancock,
later so well known as General Hancock. Mr. Quinn became Government purchasing
agent in charge of purchasing materials used in constructing Camp Floyd, Utah.
On February 12, 1859, Mr. Quinn joined a company of seventy-two men bound
for California and March 5 found him in Los Angeles. Twenty days later he went to
the San Gabriel Canyon gold mine, where his quest of the precious metal was un
successful. Returning to Los Angeles, he secured work as a carpenter and time
keeper on the old court house, where the Bullard Block now stands.
In 1859 Mr. Quinn located at El Monte, where he engaged in contracting and
building, and also operated a lumber yard. Subsequently he commenced farming and
was engaged in agricultural pursuits for many years. He was always intensely inter
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the Los Angeles County Pioneers Society and after a busy and more than interesting
career passed away in 1911.
Mrs. Nichols attended the El Monte public school, afterward attending the Los
Angeles State Normal School, where she was a student for one and a half years. In
January, 1891, Mr. Nichols located in Orange County, where he purchased twenty acres
of land which had been used as a sheep pasture and was devoid of any improve
ments. They set out every tree and helped make the roads, established the markets,
etc. Seven acres were planted to walnuts the first year and the balance as they. could,
farming in the meanwhile, raising chickens, melons and garden truck. He subse-
' :quently purchased twenty acres for his son and at one time possessed in all ninety-five
acres of land, of which he still retains forty-five acres. In 1916 Mr. Nichols built a
'beautiful, cozy bungalow on his property. He has the distinction, of installing the
"first pumping plant in his vicinity, which was in 1898; it was run by horse power.
He was the first in his locality to install a gasoline engine for pumping purposes in
irrigating, and again took the lead by being the first to install an electrically driven
pump. He and his neighbor, W. H. Hending, owned the pumping plant under the
name of Nichols and Hending and sold water to some of their neighbors, or until they
put in their own wells.
Mr. and Mrs. Nichols are the parents of one son, Albert Quinn, who owns
-twenty acres near his father; he was married to Miss Rose Anna Haase on October
•30, 1920. -Mr. and Mrs. Nichols are highly respected in their community, where they
have a large circle of warm friends.
EDWARD STARK. — Concentration of his energies to any particular enterprise
which he has on hand doubtless is one of the paramount secrets of the success that has
attended the business undertakings of Edward Stark and he has ably demonstrated his
-adaptability and power to carry affairs to a prosperous outcome. Identified for twenty
years with the beet-sugar industry and a pioneer in this field in his native state,
Wisconsin, Mr. Stark is especially well qualified for. the important post he now occu
pies — that of field superintendent of .the Anaheim Sugar Company— and not a little of
the wonderful commercial importance that this industry now commands in Orange
County is due to his tireless, constructive work.
Edward Stark was born in the prosperous farming district near Richfield, Wash
ington County, Wis., on May 12,. 1872. He remained on the home farm until he was
sixteen years of age, meanwhile securing his education in the public schools of. the
neighborhood. An older brother was engaged in the gene.ral merchandise business at
-Menominee Falls, Wis., and Edward was associated with him there in this line for a
number of years. During his residence in that city he served for two years as city
clerk. In 1900 Mr. Stark entered the employ of the Wisconsin Sugar Company at
Menominee Falls, having charge of the agricultural department. The sugar-beet indus
try was then in its infancy, this being the first sugar factory erected in the state. Up
to this time the sugar factories had considered the pulp as a waste product and refuse
and the company was facing a problem in disposing of it, so as not to be a nuisance to
the neighborhood. Mr. Stark thought it contained" enough food value so that stockmen,
if they knew, would gladly purchase it, so the same season Mr. Stark purchased the
pulp from the company and sold it to stockmen for feed" and so as farasthe records -
show he was the first to demonstrate the food value of this -;p'roduct and to promote
its sale for feed.. This added resource was not only an aid in putting the infant indus
try on its feet, but protected the company from legal litigation arismg for- dariiages r/n
account of the odor of the refuse to adjoining resident districts. Through his travels
about the country in this work he became very familiar with' crop conditions and larid
valuations and "this knowledge made him especially valuable as field superintendent
- for the factory. When Mr. Stark took up his . wof k. for fhe factory, only from 14,000
to 18,000 tons of beets were being sliced yearly, and this amount he increased to 50,000
tons per year. He started a campaign of education among-' the "growers, addressing the
farm centers all over the state. It was a' new enterprise and the farmers "were doubtful
about its "success and, consequently, very conservative, in the- acreage they would devote
to it, as is shown by the fact thatthe 5;000 acres of land given over to the cultivation
of sugar beets represented 1,900 growers, thus averaging- about- two and'a half acres
to each grower. Through Mr. Stark's endeavors many more farmers were induced to
plant, and those who had already become interested in the production of beets increased
their acreage. Machinery for cultivating the crop was bought by- the factory and
rented to the farmers and later sold to them.
Having for some time had a desire to locate on the Pacific Coast, and particularly
were his eyes turned toward -Southern California, Mr. Stark resigned his position with
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opening in the sugar industry should present itself, he engaged in the mercantile
business there, in time having two stores in the metropolis of the Coast. Mr. Stark,
being a personal friend of Fred Heinze, former superintendent of the Wisconsin Sugar
Company at Menominee Falls, Wis., kept up a correspondence concerning the future
possibilities of the sugar industry in this part of Southern California. Mr. Heinze
came out to California in 1907 and they spent some time investigating in Los Angeles
and Orange counties, with the result that the Southern California Sugar Company was
organized and the plant at Santa Ana started. Mr. Stark sold his business in Los
Angeles and became foreman of construction, remaining with them until the end of
the first season, when he resigned to accept the position offered him by the Anaheim
Sugar Company, just incorporated, as field superintendent from its inception, so he was
the first man connected with the work of starting the new plant. He went into the
field, and with his years of ripe experience interested the ranchers and signed up suf
ficient acreage, after which the plant was immediately started and duly completed. He
has continued actively with the company ever since.
Originally the plant of the Anaheim Sugar Company had a capacity of 500 tons
per day, which has since been increased to 1,200 tons. At first 5,000 acres of beets were
required to supply the factory, but since enlarging its capacity 12,000 acres are neces
sary, thus supplying approximately 100,000 tons of beets a year. The company owns
over 2,500 acres of land in the vicinity and this they rent to beet growers. Mr. Stark
is also interested in the company as a stockholder and gives it his undivided attention.
He has been very successful in organizing his branch of the work and has brought it up
to a high state of efficiency.
Mr. Stark's marriage, which occurred at Menominee Falls, Wis., on October 22,
1898, united him with Miss Anna Schlageter, a native of Washington County, Wis.,
and they are the parents of three children: Willard G., a student in the dental depart
ment of the University of Southern California; Berdilla and Melvin. Since 1907, Mr.
Stark has resided in his comfortable home at 202 East Chestnut Street, Santa Ana,
where he and his family have hosts of friends. Mr. Stark gives no small credit for his
success to his devoted wife, who has ever been a willing helpmate, encouraging him in
his every ambition and doing her utmost to help him in his life work. She is a cultured
and refined woman with much native ability and artistic tastes, which find an outlet in
beautifying the home, and thus in their liberal way they dispense a true western hos
pitality much enjoyed by their friends.
It is to men of Mr. Stark's caliber and ability that Orange County owes much of
its prestige and greatness, for he brought many years of valuable experience and much
acquired knowledge in the sugar business and particularly regarding the growers' end,
or production of the raw material, and was able to interest the people in that branch,
without which the factory could not have been made a success. He has truly become
one of the men of affairs in Orange County and a valuable addition to the personnel
of the community. A splendid type of man, his pleasing personality, coupled with a
liberal and kindly disposition, has brought him a large circle of friends who appreciate
him for his honesty of purpose, integrity and worth.
JOHN WESLEY POPE.— Radiating the sunshine of an exemplary life filled with
good deeds and generous benefactions, the memory of John W. Pope and his devoted
wife will be forever cherished by all whose lives were blessed by their friendship, and
the deep influence of the beautiful Christian example that characterized their every act
will live far beyond the span of their earthly existence. Born in Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
August 12, 1832, Mr. Pope was the son of Burwell and Jane Pope, and at an early age
was taken by his parents to Macon County, Miss., and there he passed the next fifteen
years, then going to Holmes County, in that state. It was here that he united with
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at the age of twenty, and from that time he
was loyal to the church of his choice, a consistent, useful member throughout the re
mainder of his life.
On January 13, 1859, he was united in the bonds of wedlock with Miss Martha
Douglass, and for close to half a century their lives were lived together in peace and
harmony. In 1861 they removed to Nueces County, Texas, where they remained
for a year, spending the same length of time in Goliad County, before settling in Na
varro County, where Mr. Pope became actively engaged in farming and stock raising.
A man of industry and fine business ability, he soon occupied a prominent place among
the ranchers of that district. Failing health, occasioned by repeated attacks of la
grippe, so depleted his constitution that it became necessary for him to seek a milder
climate, and in January, 1902, with his wife, in company of the family of E. C. Martin,
a sketch of whose life is found elsewhere in this work, he came to Santa Ana, Cal.
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Pope, and given their loving care, and in their later years this was repaid in the loving
ministrations and devotion she gave them.
With characteristic optimism, Mr. Pope became at once identified with the inter
ests of his adopted home, purchasing some fine walnut groves, but again another
move was deemed necessary on account of the damp sea air at Santa Ana, so in 1903
Mr. and Mrs. Pope removed to Redlands. Here he made a gallant fight for life, but
pneumonia developed from a cold contracted while on a visit at the Martins, and the
earthly life of John W. Pope closed on December 9, 1905. It was his wish to be buried
at his old Texas home, and now his companion of forty-six years rests beside him,
Mrs. Pope having survived him until October 14, 1914, reaching the age of seventy-five
years. After her bereavement she made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Martin, who
surrounded her with every loving care during the closing days of her life.
A true Christian gentleman, Mr. Pope expressed in his life those qualities of mind
and heart that endeared him to family, friends and business associates, but it was per
haps in his spirit of liberality that he excelled. He not _only gave generous support to
his church, but to the poor, wherever he found them, and to every worthy Christian
cause that was brought to his attention. One of his last benefactions was a gift of
$1,000 toward the erection of a parsonage at Redlands. While devoted to the church
founded by John Wesley, for whom he was named, he was never a bigot, but a lover
of his church's doctrines and loyal to her teachings. Mrs. Pope, if possible, even
excelled her husband in her generous benefactions, three gifts during her later years
alone totaling $4,000, besides numberless smaller donations. Lives such as these
will ever leave their impress on all who were privileged to come within their hallowed
influence. HERBERT A. JOHNSTON, M. D.— Surgical science has no disciple more loyal
to the profession or more eager to keep pace with its development than Dr. Herbert
A. Johnston of Anaheim, who. was born at Minesing, near Barrie, Ontario, on October
8, 1873, the son of James B. Johnston, also a native of Barrie. His grandfather, James
Johnston, was born in the north of Ireland, and having married Mary Graham, they
migrated to Ontario, where he was a successful contractor and builder in Kingston,
Toronto and Barrie. James B. Johnston, on the other hand, was a merchant for many
years until he sold out and came to Anaheim about a decade ago; but he was per
mitted to enjoy the delightful climate of California only for a short time, and died soon
after arriving here. He had married'Jeanette Livingston, a native of Montreal, Canada,
and the daughter of Donald and Mary (Brown) Livingston, natives of Paisley, Scot
land, who migrated to Canada, where they followed agriculture. The Livingstons come
from the same family forever famous through David Livingston, the explorer. Mrs.
Johnston is still living, and now resides at Anaheim, the mother of three .children. The
eldest is the subject of this review; the next in order of birth is Mrs. Marion Ross,
who lives at Anaheim; while the youngest was Robert, who will long be honored in
Orange County as the editor of the Anaheim Herald. When his health failed, he sold
the paper, hoping through freedofn from the responsibilities and cares of business to
recuperate, but he lingered only until June, 1920, and passed away at Monrovia.
Herbert A. Johnston attended the public schools in Minesing, after which he
entered the Barrie Collegiate Institute, from which he graduated in 1894. Then he
entered the medical department of the University of Toronto and there pursued his
studies until the beginning of the senior year, when he was forced to discontinue, owing
to ill health. He came direct to California in 1897, and soon after his arrival entered
the medical department of the University of Southern California, which graduated him
in 1898 with the degree of M.D. He immediately located at Anaheim, and on June
22 of the same year opened an office and began the practice of medicine and surgery,
in which field he has been notably successful.
When Dr. William H. Wickett graduated in medicine, he became associated with
Dr. Johnston as a partner, and ever since they have practiced together with particularly
satisfactory results. As early as 1903, Dr. Johnston opened the first hospital in Ana
heim, in the old Fowler residence, which became the nucleus of the present Anaheim
Hospital, incorporated and built about 1910 — an institution of considerable importance
to Southern California for it has become a center for surgical work. Drs. Johnston and
Wickett also started the Johnston-Wickett Clinic, which has grown to its present large
proportions. Originally there were only two persons on the staff, but one by one
physicians and surgeons were added and the departments opened, until there are now
ten physicians and surgeons on the staff, as well as a pharmacist and other employes,
and the establishment is the largest and best equipped clinic on the Pacific Coast. Each
department has for its head a specialist, and the clinic has recently acquired the Fuller-
ton Hospital, a new modern, concrete fireproof structure located very pleasantly and
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of the finest hospitals in California. The appreciation of the clinic is not confined to
residents of this locality, but its reputation has reached the outside world, with the
result that about eighty per cent of its patients come from distant points. Indeed the
work has developed to such an extent that the members of the staff are unable to take
care of any private practice, but give all their time to the clinic and the two hospitals.
Dr. Johnston is a member of, and was formerly president of the Orange County Medical
Association, and is a member of the State Medical Society, the Southern California
Medical Association and the American Medical Association.
At Toronto, Canada, on October 2, 1900, Dr. Johnston was married to Miss Annie
Marwood Wickett, the only daughter of William Marwood and Lillis (Balfour) Wickett,
now residents of Anaheim, and a sister of Dr. Wickett, his partner. Their household
has been brightened by the birth of three children — Lillis, Agnes and Jessie. The
family are members of the Presbyterian Church at Anaheim.
OREN BROWN BYRAM.— More than one interesting, historic family, notable
for its relation to famous men and events of the past, is recalled by the life-stories of
Mr. and Mrs. Oren Brown Byram, prominent in Presbyterian circles at Westminster,
and leaders in progressive movements in Orange County. Mr. Byram is a rancher, who
lives about a mile south of Westminster, and owns ten acres of the best land to be
found anywhere.
He was born on September 24, 1861, on his father's farm, about three miles east
of Janesville, in Bremer County, Iowa, the son of Aaron Milton and Harriet Newell
Byram, the former a representative of an old and distinguished family, whose very
quaint records go back to the eleventh and twelfth centuries, when they were noblemen
in Normandy, France. Having shown great loyalty to William the Conqueror, they
went to England with his cohorts and settled in Kent. They bore the name of De
Beaureaume in Normandy, but in time, when they became weavers of cloth in Kent,
their name was changed to Byram. The progenitor of the family in America was
Nicholas Byram, who left England and came to the North American Continent under
peculiar circumstances. He was the heir to a considerable estate; but his guardians
sent him to the West Indies, in order to divert the property to themselves, and from
there, in 1632, he came to Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Ebenezer, the grand
father of our subject, was born in Morristown, N. J., in 1808, while Aaron Milton first
saw the light of day at Basking Ridge, N. J., grew up in Ohio where he taught school
and at seventeen was bound out to learn the trade of tanner and furrier.
After a while, the Byram family removed to Darke County, Ohio, and in 1853
pushed on to Iowa. There Aaron Byram became a farmer. In the Centennial Year
of 1876, when attention was directed anew to California, the family removed to the
Golden State, and Oren Byram began his identification with the Westminster district
in 1876, when the family settled in this section of Los Angeles County. In 1883,
Aaron Byram located near Lamanda Park; he died when in his sixty-seventh year in
Pasadena. He was twice married, his first wife having been in maidenhood Miss Harriet
Newell Brown, a native of Cattaraugus County, N. Y. They were married in Iowa
on January 1, 1861; and after twenty-nine years of happy married life, she passed away
in Pasadena. She left three children — Oren Brown Byram, the eldest; Walter Brooks,
the second-born, and Annie Bertha, now the wife of J. W. Sedwick, a civil engineer
in Los Angeles. When he married again, Mrs. Josephine Emerick, nee Wilkins, be
came his wife, bringing with her two daughters. This second union was blessed with
the birth of a daughter, Gladys, now Mrs. Pickering of Pomona.
After having attended the University of Southern California for five years, where
he pursued a general scientific course, Oren Byram was married on November 11,
1891, to Miss Stella F. Mack, a native of Solano County, Cal., and the daughter of
George C. Mack, a Vermonter, who had married Miss Susan A. Fisher, a native of the
Granite State. With a first-grade certificate for teaching, he conducted the academy
at Hillsboro, 111., assisted by seven teachers. In 1863 Professor Mack crossed the
great plains, later being joined by his family who came via the Isthmus, Mrs. Byram
then being the youngest of four children; later, she enjoyed such educational develop
ment that for some time she has been the able correspondent from Westminster for the
Santa Ana Register.
Mr. and Mrs. Byram have had six children. Roy M., the eldest, is married and
with his wife is a graduate in medicine from the Medical Department of the University
of Texas; his wife was Miss Bertha Stanley of Huntington Park. Wilfred Carroll,
who graduated from Occidental College and became a corporal in Company E of the
Hundred Seventeenth Engineer Corps, lies buried in France. Marjorie Fay is a student
at Occidental, and expects to become a nurse. Glenn Alden, so named in honor of a
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Longfellow, and is attending Junior College in Santa Ana. Wilbur F. Byram attends
the high school at Huntington Beach, and Dorothy Fern is a senior at the Huntington
Beach high school. Mr. and Mrs. Byram and family are members of the Presbyterian
Church at Westminster, where they are enthusiastic Endeavorers, and in national
politics work for the Prohibition cause, Mr. Byram having long been a Prohibitionist
and cast his vote for John P. St. John, in the campaign of 1884.
WILFRED CARROLL BYRAM.— If one must die, and die young, as Wilfred
Carroll Byram, for whom all of Westminster, Orange County, recently joined in touch
ing memorial services, it is some consolation to give one's life for his country, and a
matter almost enviable to have caused the first gold star to be placed in the community
service banner. A native son very proud of his Golden State, Wilfred was born at
Westminster on November 18, 1894, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oren Brown Byram, and
attended the grammar school of his birthplace, where he finished his studies in 1908.
He then entered the Huntington Beach Union high school, from which he was grad
uated with the class 'of '12.
A year later, he matriculated at Occidental College, and went in for the regular,
four-year course, graduating at the age of twenty-two — a performance the more credit
able, because he had, like so many sturdy American youths, worked his way, while
studying. Such was his daily performance of duty as an undergraduate, that after his
death, one of his instructors, Prof. E. E. Chandler, wrote his bereaved, but proud
parents: "Carroll made a fine record at Occidental, and endeared himself to all of us
by his manly character and genial disposition. I recall him as if it were but yesterday,
doing his work in the laboratory, cheerfully and faithfully, just as he did in the larger
service to which he was called."
During his last year in college, in 1916, Carroll enlisted in Company B, California
Engineers, and mustered for training in Los Angeles. In July, 1917, the company was
called to the colors, and sent to Camp Lewis, where they were reorganized into
Company E, One Hundred Seventeenth U. S. Engineers, becoming a part of the Forty-
second, or Rainbow Division. The company left Camp Lewis for Long Island on
September 1, of that year, and with the Rainbow Division left for France on October
15, 1917. The accident which caused young Mr. Byram's death on July 25, 1918, occurred
when he was struck by a low bridge while on the train transferring his company. His
skull was fractured in two places, and he was left unconscious at a French base hos
pital. For some time, all that the afflicted relatives of the brave fellow knew was con
veyed in a brief, unsatisfactory telegram of official announcement.
A single sentiment or two from one of Carroll's letters to his home may suffice
to show his high conception of unselfish duty. "Men don't join the army to become
rich or famous," he said, "but to do their part and serve their country. If everybody
would give up all personal ambition and work for the good of the cause, it would be
the ideal condition."
EDWARD SMITHWICK. — Among the interesting and highly-esteemed pioneers
of Santa Ana must be numbered Edward Smithwick, a native of Austin, Texas., where
he was born on September 2, 1840, with the distinction of being a Texan before the
Lone Star State became one of the United States. His father was Noah Smithwick,
a pioneer of Texas pioneers, having come there from Tennessee in 1828; and he had
married Miss Thurza Blakey, a native of Hopkinsville, Ky., whose family migrated to
Texas in the thirties.
Edward was educated in the district schools of his locality, and came to California
with his father and mother, who started from Texas in a prairie schooner drawn by
oxen, the day upon which Fort Sumter was fired upon. There were five families, num
bering thirty-five persons, in the train, and they arrived in San Diego County in the
fall of 1861, and remained there for the winter, for the season was so wet that it was
deemed best not to attempt travel. In the spring — 1862 — Mr. and Mrs. Smithwick
moved north with their, family to what was then Tulare County, and there they lived
until 1881. In the meantime, Kern County was formed out of a part of Tulare and
a part of Los Angeles counties, and the Smithwicks became residents of Kern County.
Edward Smithwick pastured sheep on what is now the rich Kern River oil fields,
and at Linns Valley, on November 15, 1871, he was married to Miss Rebecca Reid, a
native of Bell, Texas, who was brought to California by her parents in 1853, when she
was only three months old. Her father was John C. Reid, and he had married a Miss
Glen. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Smithwick engaged in general farming, and
for eleven years lived in Linns Valley. When they sold their ranch of 150 acres, they
went to Bakersfield, and came to Santa Ana in the spring of 1881, and here they have
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Until 1895 Mr. Smithwick engaged, in the livery business, and then he was judge
in the justice's court, having been appointed in 1903 to fill the balance of Judge Free
man's term after his death. He was re-elected and served a second term, which expired
in January, 1911.
In 1909 Mr. Smithwick purchased a half-acre home place on North Broadway,
and then, while still holding his Santa Ana property, he lived near Harper on a five-
acre ranch devoted to the raising of apples. When he sold out, he came back to
Santa Ana.
Eight children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Smithwick, and six are
living: Sidney married Miss Elizabeth Sidell, of Santa Ana; Effie is Mrs. Benjamin
Jerome, and lives on the San Joaquin ranch; Mattie is Mrs. William Brodhag, of Los
Angeles; Charles married Miss Ruby Spencer, and lives at Randsburg, Cal.; Bertha
is Mrs. Olaf Warling, of Santa Ana; Laura lives at home. Eddie passed away at the
age of six, in Kern County, and May, who had become Mrs. Kribbs, was a victim of the
influenza while living in Los Angeles in 1919.
In national political affairs a straight Republican, Mr. Smithwick has always been
too good an American citizen to allow partisanship to obscure the issues of a local
campaign, or to interfere with his duty in supporting the best men and the best
measures for the community's good.
GEORGE CLINTON MORROW.— To come into a new country and successfully
grow with it, is a record of which any one might be proud, and George Clinton Morrow
can claim such, being one of the real pioneers, having first come to California in 1863.
He was born in Richland County, Ohio, May 31, 1835, the son of William and Maria
(Potter) Morrow. William Morrow was born in the north of Ireland in the year of
American Independence, and came to America when a young man, settling in Ohio,
where he died in 1855. His marriage had united him with Maria T. Potter, a native
of New York State, who came to California to reside some time after the death of
her husband and passed away at San Antonio, San Bernardino County in 1871. On
attaining his majority, George Morrow determined to seek his fortune in the West, so
left his Ohio home, going first to Cass County, Iowa, where he remained for six years.
Continuing his westward journey across the plains with horses and wagons, he arrived
at Cache Creek, Yolo County, Cal., in 1863, where a year passed. In 1864 he came on
to Los Angeles, then but a small settlement bearing no indication of its present
metropolitan proportions, and he could have purchased then the present site of the Los
Angeles County Court House for $1.25 per acre. He and his brother drove a freight
team from Los Angeles to San Pedro. The next year he set out with a ten-mule
freight team for Helena, Mont., and when they reached Salt Lake City his employer
grew short of funds and sold his outfit to a party of Mormons with whom Mr. Morrow
continued to Helena. From there he and his twin brother, Thos. Benton, took the
stage. The driver had bronchos and could not manage them, so George C. and his
brother being good horsemen, drove them through to Ft. Benton on the Missouri River,
taking a steamer from there to Council Bluffs, Iowa.
For the next four years Mr. Morrow remained in Iowa, coming back to Los
Angeles over the new line of the U. P. and C. P., which had recently been completed,
being accompanied by his wife. They resided at Downey and he drove the stage for
Wright and Seeley between Anaheim and Los Angeles. After a year and a half, he and
his wife again returned to Iowa, where he owned a farm with his brother, and farmed
from 1872 till 1879. After these varied migrations, when he returned to California in
1879, it was with the intention of making it his permanent home and he has never
regretted his decision, for he had traveled extensively over all the western part of the
country, and in none of his travels had he found anything that could compare with it.
His faith in its possibilities is shown by the fact that he purchased a tract of seventeen
acres, five miles northeast of Orange for twenty-five dollars per acre. It was virgin
soil, completely covered with cactus, and he at once set to work to develop it, first
planting grapes and when they died, he planted it to oranges, peaches and apricots and
also raised barley and beans. The splendid income he enjoyed from it in after years,
substantiated his firm belief in its productivity. They have refused $4,000 an acre for
the tract. In 1869, at Indianola, Warren County, Iowa, George C. Morrow was married to
Sarah Jane Hutchins, who was born in Noble County, Ohio, her parents, Hezekiah
and Sarah (Wheeler) Hutchins, being natives of Maine. After an eventful life of
more than fifty years together they are both still living, Mr. Morrow now being in his
eighty-fifth year, while Mrs. Morrow is seventy-six. Eight children were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Morrow: Thomas Benton married Miss Mabel Bostwick, who died in
July, 1910; George Clinton, Jr., is now a resident of Huntington Beach; Maggie May,

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Mrs. William Boden, died here in 1913; Lovena Madge married C. B. Christenson and
they live at Orange; Nellie B., who married Harry Fenton, died in Nebraska at the
age of twenty-one; Anna T., Mrs. Frank Wheeler of Orange; Sylvester W., mentioned
elsewhere in this work; Charles William married Miss Mable Stutheit. Rich in
reminiscences, of the early days, Mr. Morrow has frequently written for publication
concerning his many and varied experiences while freighting and stage driving, and
there are indeed few of the county's residents who have been privileg'ed to take such
an active part in the various stages of its transformation.
GEORGE B. SHATTUCK.— The lines in the life of George B. Shattuck were
cast in pleasant places when his lot in life broug'ht him to the beautiful and fertile
section of Orange County in which Tustin is located. He is among its foremost citi
zens, and occupies the important position of secretary and general manager of the
Golden West Citrus Association. Born at Hillsdale, Mich., July 26, 1868, he is the only
son of L. B. and Julia B. (Reed) Shattuck. His father was a captain of Company F,
Thirty-fifth New York Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War. His parents
came to California in 1906 and both are now deceased.
George B. Shattuck was educated in the public and high schools of the city of
Chicago, 111., and afterward entered the University of Michigan, from which he gradu
ated, receiving the degree of LL.B. in 1890, and the degree of LL-M. in 1891. From
1890 to 1906 he. practiced the legal profession in Chicago, and in the latter year came
to California, where he purchased the Tustin Packing Company, which he successfully
operated until the fall of 1917. He was instrumental in organizing the Golden West
Citrus Association, and assumed the position of secretary and general manager of the
association, his present position. Under his competent management the company has
been successful, and occupies modern, up-to-date buildings built in March, 1918. He
also has charge of the 1,400-acre Marcy ranch, about 400 acres of which is devoted to
the culture of citrus fruit. Always interested in the upbuilding of Santa Ana, he was
one of the promoters and is a trustee of the new Santa Ana Tourist Hotel; is president
of the Santa Ana industrial fund, which is to be used to induce manufactories and
industries to locate here.
Mr. Shattuck's marriage, on June 2, 1898, united him with Miss Jennie Otis, of
Chicago, whom he had the misfortune to lose when death's portals closed her earthly
career in 1900. He was at one time president of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce
and a member of its board of directors, and was one of the founders of the Orange
County Country Club, of which he is secretary and director. In politics he sustains
the principles advocated in the Republican platform, and fraternally is a member of
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the military order
of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and is also a member of the Sigma Chi.
MISS NINFA SERRANO.— The name of Serrano is one well known in Southern
California, where the family was identified with its early history and among its largest
land owners. The youngest of the family, Miss Ninfa Serrano is the daughter of
Joaquin and Encarnacion (Olivas) Serrano, the father having been born at Los An
geles and the mother at San Diego. Grandfather Jose Serrano owned the original
Rancho Canada de los Alisos, afterwards Rancho del El Toro, a great tract of 11,000
acres which was situated on Aliso Creek. For many years the family lived on this
extensive estate, maintaining the old Spanish mode of life and dispensing the liberal
hospitality of those days of abundance, but the old rancho has in past years been sub
divided and sold and is now the property of others.
Joaquin Serrano, a capable, industrious rancher, bought the land comprising the
present Serrano ranch, a tract of 393 acres lying about seven miles east of El Toro
and here his children cooperate in the cultivation of this estate, which has grown to
be a valuable property. Joaquin and Encarnacion Serrano were the parents of the
following children: Frank J. married Juana Olivares; Joaquin F.; Cornelius; Leandro;
Jose; Alphonso married Aqueda Pacheco; Ninfa, the subject of this sketch; and Juan
Pablo. The ranch is devoted to stock raising and to general farming, a variety of
farm products being raised. Reared in Southern California from her birth, Miss Ser
rano has been familiar with agricultural life from her earliest childhood and takes an
active interest in the management of the family estate. Recently the Serranos have
given an oil lease on their land and a test well is now being put down near the Orange
County Park, her brother Joaquin Serrano being engaged in the drilling. The present
prospects are very encouraging and should the well be the equal of a number of others
in the district it will be a continual source of wealth to the whole family.
Like their forbears of the past generations, the family are members of the Roman
Catholic Church, and are communicants of the Mission Church at Capistrano. Politically
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SAMUEL M. DUNGAN. — A successful rancher who was once a professional
baseball player, adding no end of luster to the laurels in athletics already won by the
Golden State, is Samuel M. Dungan, who was born, a native son, on the "Island" near
Eureka, in Humboldt County, on July 29, 1.866, the son of Robert M. and Joanna
(Jenkins) Dungan, the former who first came across the Isthmus of Panama in 1857.
He was by trade a builder of boats and ferries, and himself built the first ferry boat,
and established the first ferry on Eel River. He also helped to build the Piedmont
Ferry now run by the Southern Pacific between San Francisco and Oakland while living
in the latter city. He and his wife moved to Los Angeles County in 1877, settling in
what was known as Gospel Swamp, now in Orange County, and soon after he estab
lished himself as a contractor and builder in Santa Ana, at the same time carrying on
his ranch work. Both parents died in Santa Ana, the father in April, 1915, and the
mother in February, 1920.
Samuel Dungan was educated at the grammar school at Newport, now Greenville,
walking two and a half miles to school. From 1886 to 1888 he attended the State
Normal School at Ypsilanti, Mich., and in the latter year he returned to California.
Two years later, he began to play professional baseball, from 1890 to 1891 being
right fielder under T. P. Robinson at Oakland, where he had the best batting average
of any individual in the league, and was given a gold medal therefor. During 1891
he was with the Milwaukee club in the Western League under Manager Chas. Cushman.
From 1892 to 1893, and during half of 1894, Mr. Dungan was with Captain Anson's
"White Sox" of Chicago, and from 1894 to 1900, he played at Detroit, Mich., in the
Western League, and in 1900 with Kansas City, the first year of the American League,
which he led in batting.
In 1901, the first year when the American League expanded under Ban Johnson,
he was with the players of Washington, D. C, and during 1902 and half of 1903, with
the Milwaukee Western League. From the middle of 1903 to the end of 1905, he
played at Memphis, Tenn., with the Southern League, and in those seasons he held
every position save that of pitcher and catcher, in the infield. In 1905, he quit playing
baseball altogether.
In 1893 Mr. Dungan had purchased twenty acres of open land at Talbert, which
he leased out for potatoes and celery and later beets and beans; and when he came
back to Orange County he built a home on Fourth Street, later bought a lot and built
a home at Laguna Beach, where he lived for twelve years while he was doing car
pentering. During this time, in 1912, he bought ten acres at Lemon Heights, most of
which is in the Red Hill Water district, the remainder being under the service of the
Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. In 1917, Mr. Dungan built his home at 221
South Broadway, Santa Ana, and retired.
On November 14, 1900, Mr. Dungan was married to Miss Laura B. Lippy, a
native of Mansfield, Ohio, the ceremony taking place in Chicago. Her parents were
Harry and Mary (Long) Lippy, and her father was a cigar maker in Galion, Ohio.
There she commenced her studies, which were finished in Santa Ana, Cal., for her
family came out to the Coast in 1887. After their deaths, which occurred here in 1889
and 1891, respectively,- the daughter returned East and stayed with a grandmother at
Galion, in Crawford County, Ohio, and having studied stenography, typewriting and
bookkeeping, she entered the service of a large jewelry firm in Chicago. Two children,
who belong to the Baptist Church in Santa Ana, have blessed this fortunate union, and
their names are Myron Robert and Dorothy Eleanor both attending the public schools.
Mr. Dungan is a Knights Templar Mason, belonging to the bodies of Santa Ana.
HARRY WOODINGTON.— A resident of Orange County for forty years, Harry
Woodington is justly entitled to be called one of its pioneers, for aside from his many
years of residence here he has indeed been a pioneer in the agricultural and business
development of the Wintersburg section of the county. A native of Illinois, he wets
born at Elizabeth, Jo Daviess County, in that state, April 11, 1875, the son of George
and Alice (Neal) Woodington. The father had been a farmer in that state for many
years, but after a visit to California in 1870, he cherished a desire to return to this
land of sunshine and make it his home. Ten years later in 1880, he carried out that
wish, removing with his family to Orange County, in the vicinity of Westminster,
where he resided. His death occurred on the San Joaquin Ranch in 1905. He had
been engaged in farming the greater part of his life and during the fourteen years of
his residence in California he carried on agricultural pursuits quite extensively on the
Bixby ranch and later raised grain on the San Joaquin ranch.
A lad of only five years when the family came West, Harry Woodington received
his education in the schools of Westminster, but when a boy he always manifested a
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the neighborhood of his home when school was not in session. When a young man
he became closely acquainted with D. E. Smeltzer, who introduced and built up the
celery business in this part of the country. Mr. Smeltzer was known as the "Celery
King," and the town of Smeltzer was named for him. Mr. Woodington entered his
employ and was later made foreman of his ranch. After Mr. Smeltzer's death, the
Golden West Celery and Produce Company was incorporated, taking over the holdings
of Mr. Smeltzer. Mr. Woodington continued with them and in 1903 was made super
intendent, a position his knowledge and experience made him most competent to fill,
and through his untiring efforts the ranch was brought up to the highest state of pro
ductiveness. The celery business, however, reached the height of its prosperity about
1910-1912, and after that date its returns began to decrease, owing to blight and other
pests; the large returns from lima beans and sugar beets also was a factor that led
to its decreasing acreage. Mr. Woodington remained its superintendent until the com
pany sold out to the Anaheim Sugar Company in 1919.
Meanwhile, in 1918, Mr. Woodington had purchased his present home place of
forty acres, formerly known as the A. J. Crane place, and this acreage he devotes to
raising lima beans. He also rents sixty acres and planted the entire hundred acres
in lima beans in 1920. Always in the habit of doing things on a big scale, Mr. Wood
ington has been extensively engaged in the bean threshing business. He operates a
threshing rig drawn by a thirty-six horsepower traction engine with a 36x60 separator.
He has done much threshing in the vicinity of Smeltzer and on the San Joaquin ranch,
putting in forty days on the former and thirty days on the ranch, cleaning up $7,000
by that work. He threshed 2,448 sacks of beans on the San Joaquin ranch as a record
day's run.
Mr. Woodington was united in marriage on July 7, 1898, to Miss Rella Clemens,
a native of Michigan. She was reared in Rapid City, S. D., coming to Winters
burg when she was eleven years' of age. Two children have been born to Mr. and
Mrs. Woodington: Russell and Donald, the elder son, Russell passing away in 1913.
The family attend the Wintersburg Methodist Church, which Mr. Woodington helped
to build and which he generously supports. He is a member of the California Lima
Bean Growers Association and of the Elks Lodge at Santa Ana, and politically adheres
to the principles of the Republican party. A man of great force of character and
executive ability, one of his greatest assets is in his ability to handle men, and in this
regard, especially, he is one of the most successful men in Orange County.
JOHN W. MARTIN. — A worthy example of a man who has risen to a place in
the community through his own unaided efforts and in the face of many early obstacles
is furnished in the career of John W. Martin, now a prosperous rancher of the Talbert
precinct, where he owns 130 acres of choice land. Mr. Martin was born in Freeport,
111., October 27, 1867, a son of John and Katherine (Claus) Martin, his father being
engaged in the butcher business there. The family moved from Freeport to St.
Louis, Mo., and there the mother died when John W. was a lad of but nine years,
and from that time on he has made his own way in the world. He saw some rough
and hard times in his boyhood, but being filled with ambition and determination he
managed to secure the elements of an education by working out during the summers
and attending the public schools for a short term in the winters. He returned to the
northern part of Illinois and there worked out on farms near Rock City, in Stephenson
County, and at Pecatonica and Winnebago, in Winnebago County, of that state.
When in his twentieth year, Mr. Martin came to California, locating at Los
Angeles, and still with the desire to have a better education he got such schooling as
he was able during the winters, finally entering the academic department of the Uni
versity of Southern California, but unfortunately was taken with typhoid fever and
was unable to complete the course. He then worked at various pursuits, farming for
a time and then becoming interested in the oil business. The latter did not prove
successful, however, so that he had to begin life practically anew at the age of thirty-
five. He went to San Jacinto in 1898, and went into dairy farming on a rented farm,
remaining there for about four years. In 1902 he came to Orange County, settling in
the Talbert precinct, where he bought thirty acres for a starter, and since then he has
made two subsequent purchases, so that he now has a well-kept and profitable ranch
of 130 acres. Mr. Martin has gone into sugar beet raising quite extensively, and has
also had splendid success in raising celery and chili peppers and has planted a number
of apple trees on his place. In 1916 he suffered a severe financial loss by the floods
of that year, losing a crop of fifteen acres of celery and an alfalfa field. He has put in
3,000 feet of twelve-inch, and 1,500 of ten-inch cement tile for irrigation and has a
pumping plant with two wells and has a half interest with his brother, George E.
Martin, in another pumping plant with two wells. He has also remodeled his residence
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On September 29, 1897, Mr. Martin was married to Miss Georgia Smith, a daughter
of Jackson and Maggie (Mellon) Smith. Her father was for a number of years in
the furniture business in St. Louis, Mo., but after coming to California engaged in
ranching near Newhall. Mr. and Mrs. Martin are the parents of five children: John
W., Jr., enlisted in the Coast Artillery during the war, but the armistice came before
he saw active service; Catherine Marie is a graduate of the Santa Ana high school, in
the class of 1919; Edward J.; Floyd Raymond; and Margaret Luella. Remembering
his own struggles to obtain an education, Mr. Martin has naturally felt a keen interest
in furthering in every way possible the school facilities for the present and coming
generation, and has given faithful service for a number of terms as trustee of the New
Hope school district, and was clerk for many years. He is also a director of the New-
bert protection district and was one of its organizers. While Mr. Martin inclines
toward the principles of the Democratic party he is liberal minded in local political
matters and believes in putting the best man and the best principles above mere par
tisanship. The Martin home abounds with hospitality and good cheer, and the whole
family are justly popular in the community.
GEORGE R. REYBURN.— One of the livest of all Orange County wires, both in
times of peace and during the recent World War, is George R. Reyburn, the genial,
accomplished and accommodating secretary of the chamber of commerce of Garden
Grove, where he has given abundant evidence of his faith in the future of the town by
investing in the best realty to be found there. A native son who never loses an oppor
tunity to boost the Golden State, he was born at Petaluma on May 19, 1860. His
mother died there when he was only four years of age, and his father two years later.
When he was sixteen, George came to Santa Ana and for a while went to school.
Then he worked at sprinkling the streets, and next went to Texas for ten or more
years. In 1894 he returned to Santa Ana, and for two years was in business there;
and since 1896, he has been a leading resident here. The town has used him well, as
has the county; and in turn George gives every stranger the glad hand, and so encour
ages every good project.
At Santa Ana in 1895 Mr. Reyburn was married to Miss Katie McGee, a native of
Pennsylvania, who moved to Iowa and thence to California. They are members of
the M'ethodist Episcopal Church at Garden Grove, and Mr. Reyburn is president of
the board of trustees, having been a member of the church for twenty-five years.
Mr. Reyburn owns three of the best store buildings in Garden Grove, and also
his residence, and besides dealing in realty, an enterprise he abandoned during the
war, he is the veteran fire insurance agent in Garden Grove, and represents the Phoenix
of Hartford. He bought five acres, planted and farmed the land and subsequently
subdivided and sold it in town lots, known as the Reyburn Subdivision of Garden Grove;
but for four years he was engaged in general merchandising at Garden Grove. In
national political affairs a Democrat, he knows no party lines when it comes to putting
his shoulder to the wheel and working for the best interests, now and in the future,
of Garden Grove and Orange County, both of which, he is sure, are growing better
every day.
For some time Mr. Reyburn has been the popular secretary of the chamber of
commerce, boasting seventy-five members; and with an inside view of the real resources
of this section, says that prospects were never better than in this year, 1920. Probably
because of this valuable experience, Mr. Reyburn was called upon to do much important
war work. He had charge of the registration for this district, planned the drives, and
was an all-around, confidential man. He worked hard for the four Liberty Loans, and
also for the Victory Loan, and gave a willing and most helpful hand for the Red
Cross drives.
How valuable has been this work of Mr. Reyburn for the building up of Garden
Grove and neighboring sections of Orange County may be judged by certain news
paper acknowledgments, and from statistics found in chamber of commerce publications.
Garden Grove now has, thanks in part to these strenuous exertions of our subject,
a population of 800 souls, and is in the center of a population of 2,000. It has a
strong bank, a first-class weekly newspaper and printing plant, four well-housed
churches, a strong Young Men's Christian Association, with a good building of its
own, a woman's club which holds weekly meetings; and a public school system, in
good headquarters and manned by ten teachers. The town enjoys a good telephone
system, electric light and gas for domestic use, streets lighted by electricity, good
streets for the most part substantially paved, and an abundant artesian water supply.
It has good passenger and freight facilities furnished by the Pacific Electric Railway,
and stores equal to those of any town of the size in the state. The irrigation system
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water is found. The Garden Grove section produces the most chili peppers, for the
area, to be found in all America. A thousand acres of walnut groves are close to
Garden Grove. The neighborhood is rapidly coming to the front as a Valencia orange
section and there are thousands of acres planted. There are 2000 acres of beans. Sugar
beets cover about 2000 acres and over 300 acres are planted to potatoes. Great quanti
ties of garden truck in excess of local wants are shipped away; apricots and other
fruits here grow to perfection and prove a fine investment for the planter; and there
is a record of 200 per cent on the investment in poultry and eggs.
Speaking of the war work in which Mr. Reyburn took such an active part, the
Garden Grove News of April 11, 1919, had this to say:
"In all of the Liberty Loan drives, as in the case of the present Victory
drive, Mr. George Reyburn has been the moving spirit, and has had charge of
all the local business by direct appointment from the Treasury Department at
Washington. And well and patriotically has he performed his duty. At all times
Garden Grove has gone over the top with more than its quota, and that the place
has sustained this record for liberality and generosity is largely due to Reyburn's
indefatigable devotion to public duty without thought of compensation other than
the abiding esteem of his fellow-townsmen and co-workers."
The Garden Grove News of May 16, also contained the following:
"Garden Grove's Honor Flag was received by George Reyburn, local chair
man of the Victory Loan Committee this week. The quota assigned this district
was $30,375, the major part of which was raised the opening day of the campaign.
At the close of the drive, Garden Grove had subscribed $33,500, or $3,125 above
our apportionment. There were two hundred sixty-two subscribers to the last
Liberty Loan in this locality."
WILLIAM H. WICKETT, M. D.— Since coming to Anaheim in 1907, Dr. William
Harold Wickett has won and maintained a high reputation for skill in medicine and
surgery. Through his association, with Dr. H. A. Johnston, of the Johnston-Wickett
Clinic, he has made a valuable contribution to the medical profession of the Pacific
Coast. The doctor has kept abreast of the most advanced medical thought and practice
of the day, not merely because of the allurements which beckon the student on to that
which is purely experimental, but largely from the standpoint of the humanitarian, who
is actuated by the desire to alleviate human suffering.
Toronto, Canada, was the birthplace of Dr. Wickett, April 5, 1884, marking the
date of his birth. His father, William Marwood Wickett, was born in -England, and
came with his father, William Wickett, to Brooklyn, Ontario, where he followed farm
ing during the days of his early manhood. He then engaged in the business of a
tanner and currier at Brooklyn, later removing to Toronto, where he was extensively
interested in the manufacture of leather, being a partner in the firm of Wickett and
Craig. Here he continued until 1906, when he disposed of his business interests in
Toronto and came to California, locating at Anaheim, where he has since devoted his
time to citrus culture. Mrs. Wickett, who was Lillis Balfour before her marriage, was
born in Fifeshire, Scotland, and crossed the Atlantic on a sailing vessel with her parents
in the days when the journey was a matter of weeks instead of days. The family
settled in Canada and here she met and married Mr. Wickett. Since taking up their
residence in Anaheim, Mr. and Mrs. Wickett have been active in the work of the Pres
byterian Church of that city, Mr. Wickett being an elder of that body. Two children
were born to them: Annie Marwood, who is the wife of Dr. H. A. Johnston, and Wil
liam H. Wickett, of this review.
Dr. Wickett was reared in Toronto, and his early education was obtained in the
Lord Dufferin school. Even from a youth he had always had a strong desire to enter
the medical profession, and when he had graduated from the Lord Dufferin school, he
continued his studies at the University of Toronto to prepare for his medical course.
In 1903 he came to California and entered the College of Medicine of the University
of Southern California, and was graduated in 1907, with the degree of M.D. Coming to
Anaheim, he formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Dr. Herbert A. Johnston,
which culminated in the formation of the Johnston-Wickett Clinic; and so successful
has been this work that the members of the staff have been compelled to give up their
general practice and devote all their time to the clinic. Year by year the staff has been
increased and new departments added, until it has become one of the largest clinics on
the Coast, ten physicians and surgeons, each at the head of his special department,
being in constant attendance. Drs. Johnston and Wickett have for some years been
large stockholders in the Anaheim hospital and have recently acquired the Fullerton
Hospital, a modern, fireproof building that is considered the most complete hospital
of its size in the state.
In January, 1918, Dr. Wickett was commissioned a captain in the Medical Corps
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remained for two months. He was then appointed on the surgical staff at Camp Sheri
dan, Montgomery, Ala., later becoming attached to Evacuation Hospital No. 11, detailed
for overseas service. Arriving in France, he was placed in charge of an operating team
and sent to the Toul sector, serving throughout the St. Mihiel drive. At the close of
activities in that sector he was sent to the Argonne Forest, where he was in active
service until January, 1919, when he joined his old command at Le Mans. Here he
remained on duty until he requested a transfer to the United States, returning as
medical officer on the S. S. Roma, landing in April, 1919; then serving as medical officer
in charge of a troop train to Camp Kearny, Cal. He received his honorable discharge
from the U. S. Army April 18, 1919, and returned to Orange County to resume his
practice. In 1920 he spent some time in Chicago, where he took a post-graduate course
at the Bremmerman Urological Hospital.
On June 2, 1910, Dr. Wickett was united in marriage with Miss Ethel Pearson
Chapman, the daughter of Charles C. Chapman of Fullerton. Mrs. Wickett was born
in Chicago, but from early girlhood has been a resident of California and Orange
County. After their marriage Dr. and Mrs. Wickett spent four months in Europe,
visiting the Royal College of Surgeons in London, and many places of interest on the
Continent. Two sons have been born to them, Charles Marwood and William Harold,
Jr. Some years ago Dr. Wickett erected the Marwood Apartments in Fullerton, later
disposing of this property; he is at present interested in horticulture, in addition to his
busy life as a surgeon, and is the owner of several ranches devoted to Valencia oranges.
Prominent in the ranks of the Masons, Dr. Wickett is a member of the Lodge.
Chapter and Commandery at Fullerton, the Consistory at Bloomsburg, Pa., and Rajah
Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S-, at Reading, Pa. He also belongs to Fullerton Post of the
American Legion, and in his professional affiliations is an active member of the Orange
County Medical Association, the Southern California Medical Society, the California
State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. With Mrs. Wickett, he
holds membership in the Christian Church at Fullerton, and is a deacon in that body.
SAMUEL Q. CONKLE.— The Conkle family trace their origin in this country to
their Dutch ancestors who settled in Pennsylvania in early days, and S. Q. Conkle of
Garden Grove is the representative of the California branch of his family. Mr. Conkle
was born September 8, 1846, near East Liverpool, Columbiana County, Ohio. His
father, Daniel, was a native of Columbiana County and his mother, who was Barbara
Poor in maidenhood, was born in Westmoreland County and came to Ohio, where
she was reared. His parents were married in Ohio, where the father, a stockman and
farmer, owned a large farm and bought sheep for the Pittsburgh markets, in early
days driving his droves and herds through on foot to that city. He also drove sheep
into Missouri in the early fifties. The father, at the age of sixty-five, sold his farm and
moved to Minerva, near Canton, Stark County, Ohio, where he lived retired until the
time of his death in 1887, at the age of seventy-five. The mother died at the age of
seventy. In the parental family of eight children, three girls and five boys, Samuel Q.
Conkle is the youngest child, and the only one of the family now living. None of his
brothers died under the age of seventy-five. His oldest brother was a civil engineer
in Stark County, Ohio; some of the brothers were farmers, and Noah F. was a mer
chant at Topeka, Kans., for twenty years. Three of his brothers served in the Union
Army during the Civil War.
Samuel Q. was educated in the district schools of his native state and at Mount
Union Academy, and began life as a clerk in the produce business at Minerva, Ohio,
in which he was employed three years, from twenty-one until twenty-four years of
age. He then bought out his employer and continued to conduct a wholesale business
as a shipper of butter, eggs, and poultry, shipping to the Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
New York City, and Baltimore markets for ten years, and doing a profitable business.
Having contracted asthma, he sold his interests in the East and came to Orange County,
Cal., then a part of Los Angeles County, first settling at Santa Ana in 1885. After
two years he moved to his ranch of twenty-two acres in the Bolsa district between
Santa Ana and Bolsa, being a part of the Stearns' Rancho, where he engaged in farm
ing. He also owned eighty acres in the Black Star Canyon where he accumulated some
225 colonies of bees. He had learned the bee business in Ohio, but owing to climatic
conditions found it was much different in California, and had to practically learn the
Business over again. He succeeded and became one of Orange County's most suc
cessful apiarists.
His marriage, which occurred in Sandyville, Ohio, January 24, 1872, united him
with Miss Normanda McFarland, a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and daughter
of John McFarland, a hotel keeper at Sandyville. Six children were' born of "their
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wife of Frank Mills, a prosperous rancher at Garden Grove; Hazel is the wife of
Samuel McKee, of Los Angeles; Lemon L. runs an auto truck in Los Angeles, is
married and lives in that city; Mellie is the wife of John Bedabach, a dealer in stock,
and their home is at Pasadena. Roscoe lives in Los Angeles, and is single. Owing to
his wife's failing health Mr. Conkle disposed of his home ranch and. they made their
home with Mrs. Mills, where Mrs. Conkle died. in 1910. Mr. Conkle then came to
Garden Grove and built a comfortable bungalow on Pine Street, where he now
resides. Mrs. Conkle was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Conkle
still owns ten acres south of Garden Grove which is leased. In 1918 he suffered
a stroke of paralysis, and lay unconscious for three weeks, but his great vitality
enabled, him to make a good recovery. He was well acquainted with the late. ex-
President McKinley, who was his legal adviser while he lived in.. Ohio. One of Garden
Grove's most highly respected citizens he has the satisfaction of knowing that his long
and useful life has been well spent, and his children, who were born with .a -good in
heritance, are living useful, active lives, honored and esteemed by their friends and
acquaintances. In his political views Mr. Conkle is a Republican. He never was sued
nor ever sued any person, nor did he ever serve on a jury or hold office of any kind.
WM. J. CHENEY. — A successful rancher operating extensively and enjoying a
popularity shared by his estimable wife and children, is Wm. J. Cheney, who was born
near what is now Downey, and is one of three sons, all the living children qf Tilford
D. Cheney, a native of Arkansas, who married Emma Ryle, a belle of Kentucky. Til-
ford Cheney came with his parents from Arkansas to California in 1856, driving a mule-
team, and proceeding along the northern route, by way of the Black Hills; and while
they were passing through that country,' a most unusual accident took place. A bolt of
lightning struck the lad, while He was walking along the side of the wagon train, and
he fell unconscious to the ground, where he was picked up byhis. mother, and although
a heavy rain was falling, her mother-love would not permit her to give him up, and for
three days she worked over him, until she brought him back to consciousness and
eventually restored him to health.
The family settled at first in Napa County, where the subject's grandfather, Wm.
W. Cheney, was engaged for several years in ranching, and then they lived' in Salinas,
Monterey County, and in San Luis Obispo'County, before they came to Los Angeles
County in 1865. Thus the Cheneys were pioneers in those sections. The mother died in
Los Angeles County twenty-one years ago, at the age of fifty-one; the father still
lives in Tulare, having passed his eighty-first birthday. Two younger brothers, H. C.
and C. D. Cheney, are ranchers in Tulare County.
Wm. J. Cheney is the only one 'of the family living in Southern California, and
here he atterided the .public schools,' topping off with a- course at Woodbury Business
College in Los Angeles, from which he was graduated in 1896. Ever since- he finished
his schooling, he has .been engaged in agricultural pursuits, at first farming 300 acres
of his father's at Calabasas, in Los Angeles County, at which he continued for three
years. There he became acquainted with James Irvine, from whom he rented 960. acres;
now he operates 600 acres of the Irvine ranch, where he has farmed for seventeen years.
Five years ago Mr. Cheney bought ten acres on Prospect Avenue, Tustin, the
beginning of his home, place, and two years ago he bought the twenty acres across the
street. He has set out 815 Valencia orange trees on the ten^acre field, and 1600 Valencias
on the twenty acres west of Prospect Avenue. This land was formerly planted to
Navels and walnuts, but the trees being old and neglected, he grubbed them all out, and
now has two of the finest young orange groves in the country. In partnership with
lames Utt he is operating the. nursery which is devoted to the raising of Valencia orange
trees, of which they now have 12,000. This nursery comprises two acres he owns at
Tustin. On some of the Irvine ranch leased by Mr. Cheney, he has planted 359 acres to
lima beans, 150 acres to black-eyes, while .the balance of the a.creage.is set out to barley
and hay. He is the secretary of the San Joaquin Lima Bean Growers Association, and
was one of its organizers in 1916, as well as the first secretary. Before its organization,
farmers got only three and a quarter to four and a half cents per pound, while the
price in 1919 was fourteen and one-half cents. As a successful business man, Mr.
Cheney is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Santa Ana. He is also a member
of the Tustin Hills Citrus Association, which owns a packing house on the Southern
Pacific Railway.- With Santa Ana and Orange associates he was one of the organizers
of the Wyana Oil Company, of which he is president. The company is now drilling
for oil on their own holdings in the Lost Soldier oil field in Wyoming.
On December 11, 1907, Mr. Cheney was married to Miss Eva F. Fraser, a native of
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to California when about nine years of age. Her father died in Santa Ana on May 30,
1919, and his widow is still living on East Second Street, in Santa Ana. Two children
have blessed the union of Mr. 'and Mrs. Cheney, William J. Cheney, Jr., and Edra
Evelyn. Mr. Cheney will soon erect a pressed-brick residence at a cost of twenty
thousand dollars. He is a life member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks.
Mr. Cheney also owns and operates 300 acres four miles south of Tulare, in Tulare
County, on the State Highway, which he farms to wheat and corn and where he raises
mules. He uses mules of his own raising in both Tulare and Orange counties, keep
ing twenty-four head of Percheron brood mares. He raises about sixteen mules every
year, and in partnership with Leo Borchard and Guy W. Wilmot, he owns the imported
jack, "Burr Oak," bred at New Boston, Mo., and valued at $3,000, without doubt the
finest jack in the county.
P. W. EHLEN. — A successful, prominent business man of Orange, a town in
whose progress he takes an enthusiastic pride, is P. W. Ehlen, also one of the pillars
of the Lutheran Church in this city. He came to Orange as far back as the booming
middle eighties, and since that time his advancement and that of the community have
been common in objective and character. He was born in Hanover, Germany, on
October 11, 1863, the child of devoted parents who spent their last days with him in
Orange and died here. He was educated at the public schools of his native district,
and went through the gymnasium where he prepared for teaching; and for two and
a half years he presided over classes, until he. decided to leave the Old World for the
New. In 1882 he crossed the ocean to New Jersey, and spent three years at Bayonne,
where he clerked in a grocery. In 1885 he pushed on to the West and California, and
located at Orange, then a small town. He was employed by McPherson Brothers
at McPherson, one and a half miles east of Orange, and while there he packed oranges
and raisins in their packing house.
In 1887, at the crest of the "boom," Mr. Ehlen started the general merchandise
business at McPherson, known under the firm name of P. W. Ehlen, and two years
later he removed his store to Orange, where he located on the site of what is now
the Schaffert Building on South Glassell Street. He rented a building for the pur
pose, and the same year Henry Grote became interested with him in the business,
and the firm became known as Ehlen and Grote.
The partners removed their store, in 1901, to the corner of South Glassell and
the Plaza, where the Mission Pharmacy now stands, and in 1906 Mr. Ehlen incorpo
rated the Ehlen and Grote Company, with himself as president and manager. In
1908 he built his present large business block known as the Ehlen and Grote block
across the street from his former location. For 140 feet the lot fronts on South
Glassell Street, and for fifty feet on the Plaza. Here he has built up a very large
business with the different departments of groceries, hardware, shoes and gents fur
nishings, and no one who knows his ability as a merchant, and his fidelity in endeavor
ing to serve his numerous patrons, will envy him his exceptional success. Having
started with a capital of $350 he built up the sales, prior to selling out, to over $1,000
in value a day. The strain proved too great for him, however, and finding that his
health was being impaired, he disposed of his interests in 1910, and retired from the
strenuous life.
Since then Mr. Ehlen has been interested in lands and their development. He
incorporated the Ehlen Land Company, which has extensive holdings in the Imperial
Valley, which they lease, devoted in part to the raising of cotton. They also own
valuable lands in the Sacramento Valley, on Grizzly Island, Solano County, where
they have constructed six miles of good canal, thereby reclaiming a large tract of
land. Mr. Ehlen is a stockholder in and director of the National Bank of Orange,
and he is president and director of the Orange Savings Bank.
Since he took up his residence at Orange, Mr. Ehlen was married to Miss Marit
Eggers, a native of Illinois, who was reared in Oregon. They have had four children.
His two sons, Henry and Edward are both graduates of Concordia College, Oakland,
Cal. Henry, after finishing at the Lutheran Normal School at Seward, Neb., taught
school in Detroit, Mich. During the World War he enlisted and served fifteen
months in the navy. Edward is now an automobile mechanic; and Adele and Sophia
are students in the Orange Union high school.
Mr. Ehlen is a prominent and influential member of St. Johns Lutheran Church
of Orange having served as elder and trustee for over twenty-five years and most of
the time as secretary of the congregation. He is president of the Lutheran Layman's
League for the California and Nevada District and is also the financial secretary of
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EDWARD W. HARMON. — A very successful farmer who has made a specialty
of dairying, following the last word in science and sanitation and getting far superior
results both in his products and in the economy of operation, is Edward W. Har
mon, son of Jonathan Harmon, the well-known pioneer, who came to Santa Ana and
vicinity in the late eighties, bought sixty acres of land and added to that until he had
140 acres, and whose sketch appears on another page in this work.
Edward W. Harmon was born at Petaluma, in Sonoma County, on January 12,
1871, and came to Santa Ana when he was nine years old and attended the local public
schools. He was married to Miss Martha May McGuire, a native of Petaluma, and
a woman of accomplishment and charm, who has become the mother of their four
children, Ralph L, Gale W., Lawrence Norton and William Warren McGuire Harmon.
He was engaged in dairying with his father on the home ranch for twenty-one
years until the elder Harmon wished to retire, when they sold out. For two years
Edward raised sugar beets, but found it did not pay as well as the dairy business, so
he purchased cows and has now built up a splendid herd of sixty head; the milk is
all sold to the' Sanitary Dairy in Santa Ana. The Harmon ranch is equipped with
pumping plant yielding 110 inches of water, and also has a complete cement pipe
line system for irrigating.
In national politics a Republican, in local affairs a nonpartisan worker for what
ever seems best for the community, Mr. Harmon is always an American, and therefore
one of the best "boosters" imaginable for California and Orange County.
ELMER HAYWARD. — It is not given to many men to attain in their own home
district the success enjoyed by Elmer Hayward, a resident of Orange for more than
forty-four years, who is prominent as a school trustee in the same district where he
went to school as a boy, and is the president of the board of trustees of the city of
Orange, which has grown up since he came here as a boy. He is now one of the best-
posted citrus growers in the county, and, because of his valuable experience and
success, his advice is much sought by- those desiring to emulate his example. Affable
and popular, and thoroughly wide-awake, he is pronounced in favor of the perpetuation
of historical records which may show what was done in the building up of the great
California commonwealth, and who did the hard work of construction.
He was born near what is now Dysart, Tama County, Iowa, on February 25, 1865,
the youngest of twelve children, the son of Joel Hayward, a native of New Hampshire.
He had married Mary Barrett, who was born at Salem, N. Y., and whom he met in
Michigan, where they were married. After setting up their household, they engaged in
farming in Lenawee County, Mich., cleared a farm of the timber, and after twenty
years became early settlers in Tama County, Iowa, where they remained another twenty
years. A son, DeWitt C. Hayward, came to California in 1872 and settled in Orange
County; and three years later Joel Hayward and his family followed, and soon after
ward located in Orange and bought a ranch, and engaged in horticulture. On their
arrival in California, they stopped for a short while at Sacramento, and from there
journeyed by boat to San Francisco, after which they took the steamer to San Pedro,
and came ashore on a lighter bound for Wilmington.
Nine of the twelve children referred to above grew to maturity, and eight came to
California. Charles served in the Civil War as a member of an Iowa regiment, and
eventually died in that state. DeWitt C, who came to California in 1872, died at San
Jose. Alonzo, who pushed west soon after DeWitt, also died here. Jennie E. came to
California about 1873 and married Millard Parker, a pioneer, and now resides on East
Palmyra Street, Orange. Julia is Mrs. A. M. Hayward, and lives at Escondido;
Minerva resides in Monrovia; Norman is living at Van Nuys; Mary, or Mrs. Taylor,
lives near Minerva; and Elmer is the subject of our review. Joel Hayward died here,
aged seventy-one; and Mrs. Hayward also passed -away in Orange.
Elmer was ten years old when he came here and began to attend the local schools;
and his first teacher was Mrs. Samuel Armor. When old enough to do so, he assisted
his father to improve the place they had bought in 1880, and where the original house
was built in 1881 — a comfortable structure that has long since given way to the present
fine home place; and when he was twenty-one, he took charge of the homestead. In
acquiring his present valuable knowledge of horticulture, he went through all the early
trying experience necessary to learn just what was best to do with the land. For a
while they had a vineyard; then they cultivated apricots, peaches and apples; but finally
they decided to raise oranges and walnuts, and therein attained the best results. Mr.
Hayward has now set out all the land to Valencia oranges, to which he finds the land
best adapted. Eight acres were cleared of the sage brush when they came; and the
balance they have cleared since. Joel Hayward paid forty dollars an acre for the
land, and $6.10 for water stock, and since his death one of the finest orange groves in
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the state has been developed on this land. There are sixteen acres in all in the ranch,
which is at 420 Cambridge street, and the orange trees, bordered with walnuts, are
said to constitute one of the finest ranches of the kind in the district. Mr. Hayward
is a member and has been a director of the Santiago Orange Growers Association, and
was a director when they built the new packing house. He helped start the Orange
County Fumigation Company, which has grown to large proportions, and he is at
present one of the stockholders.
At Orange Mr. Hayward was married to Miss Callie M. Graves, a native of Green
Bay, Wis., and a graduate of the Oshkosh Normal School. She was a teacher, and
came to Orange a young lady. They have three children — Dorothy, who is in the
Orange Union High School, Mary Louise and Lucile. Mrs. Hayward is a Presbyterian.
Mr. Hayward is a Republican in national politics, but independent in local affairs;
he is a trustee of the grammar schools of Orange, and is president of the board. There
are now three schools, instead of one, in the district — a real progress since the days
when he went to school there. He is also a member of the board of city trustees of
Orange, having been elected in 1918 for four years. He was chairman of the police
committee and a member of the street committe until 1920, when he was chosen
president of the board, a position he is filling with zeal and to the satisfaction of his
fellow-citizens. CAPTAIN ANDREW HARRINGTON BIBBER.— A very interesting represen
tative of fine old Revolutionary stock is Captain Andrew Harrington Bibber, renowned
in the late Civil War, and doubly honored today as the husband of a lady whose
singular talents and exceptional personality have enabled her also to attain social
eminence such as always affords influence for good.
Mrs. Annie L. Bibber was born at St. John, N. B., the daughter of John Annesley,
also a native of that place, and the granddaughter of Daniel Annesley, who crossed
the Atlantic from Devonshire, and settled at St. John, where he became a shipping
merchant operating so extensively that he owned his vessels, and made sixty or more
ocean trips. John Annesley was a mill owner, but he gave up milling on account of
ill-health, after which he took a government position under Queen Victoria; and that
responsible post he held until his death. Mrs. Annesley was Lucy Hayden before her
marriage, and she was born at Beacon Hill, Boston; Grandfather Aaron Hayden was a
native of Massachusetts, and was born in the neighborhood of what became Hayden-
ville. He was a merchant in Boston, and married Ruth Alden Jones, of that city, who
proudly traced her New England lineage back to the famous John Alden. Lucy
Hayden, in fact, was the sixth lineal descendant of the illustrious patriot, and resided at
St. John until she joined Mrs. Bibber at Orange, and here she breathed her last. Of
the six children in the family, three grew to maturity and are still living; the other
two, besides Mrs. Bibber, being Mrs. Frances Paine, of Berkeley, and Mrs. Lucy C.
Coulson of the same town.
The youngest of all, Mrs. Bibber was educated at St. John's Young Ladies' Academy
and at Vassar College. At Eastport, Maine, on Sept. 27, 1876, she was married to
Captain Andrew Harrington Bibber, a native of Lubec, Maine, and the son of Charles
Bibber, a native and merchant of the same state. His mother was Adeline Harrington,
and she was born at Eastport, Maine. Grandfather Andrew Harrington was a business
man whose family belonged to some of the original settlers of Concord, Mass. There
were eleven of the Harrington brothers in the Revolutionary War, and all fought in the
battle of Lexington, and one, Jacob Harrington, was the first man killed in that battle,
so that the Harrington home at Concord, Mass., is now maintained as a relic of
Revolutionary headquarters.
Captain Bibber served as captain of the First Maine Cavalry throughout the Civil
War, or for four years and seven months, and was present at Appomattox at the
surrender of Lee. His regiment was in two hundred engagements from Bull Run to
Appomattox. After marrying, he brought his wife to Eastport, Maine, engaging in
the dry goods business. His spare moments he gave to painting, for he was an
artist of ability, and noted as a marine painter. He exhibited his work in an art
gallery in Philadelphia, and at Williams & Evarts well-known art rooms at Boston, and
at each exhibition received his quota of praise.
In 1890 Captain and Mrs. Bibber came out to California and located at Orange,
where they purchased twenty acres between Schaffer and Cambridge streets, tc Culver
and Palmyra; and this acreage they set out to oranges. They also built a fine residence.
From 1895 until 1901 Captain Bibber was again active as a dry goods merchant this
time at Orange, but in the latter year he sold his mercantile business and on October 7
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Bibber possesses some fine specimens of his art. The Bibbers laid out ten acres of the
land in lots, and this was soon sold and built up. In 1919 Mrs. Bibber sold her larger
residence and her ten-acre orange grove, and since then has had built for herself a
comfortable bungalow at the corner- of Van Bibber and Harwood streets.
One child blessed this marriage of Captain Bibber and Miss Annesley— Alice Alden,
a graduate of the Girls' Collegiate School of Los Angeles, where she was a member
of the Class of '03, and she is now the wife of Ray O. Van Bibber, who is engaged in
the oil business.
Captain Bibber's first wife was Miss Sarah Houghton of Eastport, Maine, a
daughter of the Hon. Partman Houghton, who was a member of the state legislature
in Maine. She died in Boston, leaving a daughter, Edith Prince Bibber, who also
makes her home with Mrs. Bibber. She was educated at Vassar College, and teaches
music in the El Modena schools, and she has built herself a studio adjoining their
home, where she teaches private pupils.
Captain Bibber was a Unitarian, while Mrs. Bibber is a member of the Baptist
Church of Santa Ana. She is also one of the early members, and one of the executive
committee of the Ebell Club of Santa Ana. Both Captain and Mrs. Bibber have, been
Republicans; and he was a member of the Southern California Commandery, Military
Order of the Loyal Legion, and also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic,
being thrice commander of Granger Post.
JOSEPH S. THURSTON.— A resident of California for half a century, Joseph S.
Thurston has slight remembrance of any other locality, having been brought here by
his parents when a babe of two years. A successful, self-made man, he has acquired
large realty holdings entirely through his own industrious efforts and has been for a
long time the leading rancher, fruit and vegetable grower at Laguna Beach. Born
November 26, 1868, in Cash Valley, Utah, Joseph S. Thurston was the seventh in
order of birth of a family of fifteen children. His father was George W. Thurston,
born in Huron County, Ohio, while his grandfather was Thomas J. Thurston. His
mother, Sarah Lucina Snow before her marriage, was born at Chester, Pa., while her
parents were en route from Vermont to Illinois. Grandfather Erastus Snow was a
native of Vermont and there he married Artimesia Berman, and they were early
settlers of Hancock County, 111.
Mr. Snow and Thomas J. Thurston and others were members of the pioneer train
to Salt Lake City. Mr. Snow and a comrade, Orson Pratt, went ahead of the train,
and as Mr. Snow had a splendid, swift riding horse, he blazed the way for the train,
picking the trail and camp sites, as well as furnishing provender by hunting. After
arriving at Salt Lake he helped lay out the town. He was very prominent in the early
days of Salt Lake City and became one of the head men in the Mormon Church, being
one of the first group of twelve apostles. He was sent to and founded St. George City,
Utah, and there he died. Thomas J. Thurston became a bishop in the Mormon Church
aand passed away in Utah. George W. Thurston and his wife engaged in ranching near
Salt Lake City for a time and then removed to Weber County, where he engaged in
freighting and made sufficient money to purchase machinery for a grist mill, building
the first mill in Cash Valley. While living there a little son died of diphtheria and
then a still harder blow fell on the family when one of their little daughters was stolen
by the Indians. While residing in Utah, George W. Thurston and his wife withdrew
from the Mormon Church.
In 1870, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Thurston, with their children, came to San Francisco,
but remained there only a few weeks, going by boat to San Diego. Here they acquired
land and began raising stock and grain, but being warned of trouble brewing among
the stockmen, they sold out and came to Tustin in 1871. Camping at the old artesian
well east of Tustin for about six weeks, they then took up the original homestead of
152 acres at Aliso Beach and in the canyon. The Thurston ranch is the most scenic
and picturesque of any on the coast of Orange County, and has a frontage on the ocean
of a quarter of a mile, extending back three-fourths of a mile inland.
Joseph Thurston began making himself useful at a very early age. When about
five years old he herded ducks along Aliso Creek to see that coyotes did not prowl up
and o-et them, and at other times- by watching that the ground squirrels did not make too
much havoc with the patch of young corn; in each case he would be gone from the old
farm house practically the entire day. When eight years old he was told to watch the
cattle off the wheat patch in the canyon. He started up the canyon with his lunch
zealously keeping his eye out for the patch of wheat. At that season of the year the
country was all green and all looked alike, but he finally located the wheat and faith
fully o-uarded it. This he kept up for seventy-two days without interruption, marking
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but had some experience with squirrels eating his lunch and also with wild cats, but
was not afraid of them, except once when he had to go into the dense brush to drive
the cattle out where he had previously seen a cat. He always carried a tough stick
about thirty inches long which he kept in readiness, determined that if the cat should
jump out at him he would hit him once, at the least. This stick he carried with him
for years, and afterwards when his dog cornered a large cat, he killed it with the same
stick. Most of his time for seven years was spent herding cattle on the hills and many
times was where he could look down into Laguna Canyon. During these years he
was taught to read and spell, the lessons being usually taught him at home by some
of the children and he was also taught to write, being given a little time each day until
he had filled out two primary copy books, while his mathematics consisted of some of
the neighbor's children showing him how to subtract, multiply and divide; that is all
the assistance he ever had in obtaining what is commonly known as an education
until he was thirty-six years old, when he hired a man and his wife to take care of the
ranch as best they could and went to Los Angeles, where he attended Woodbury's
Business College "for a period of three months, a most enjoyable experience, as he
had excellent surroundings, staying at the home of Judge and Mrs. W. A. Cheney.
While herding cattle he had always carried his books, but had to carry the same ones
for years not having any new ones, Ray's primary and second arithmetic being among
the number, but he says he could always find something new in them.
At the age of fifteen his older brother left home and Joseph then had to devote
his entire time to the farm work and when he was nineteen, his father left home and
the entire responsibility of the farm rested on his shoulders. However, he took hold of
the work and as usual mastered the situation, so that in 1891 they managed to build a
new house and it was not until then that he had ever slept in the house where the rest
of the family were since he was a small boy. In 1893, at the age of twenty-five, feeling
that a change was absolutely necessary and hoping that some of the other boys would
take care of the ranch he left home, and it was during very trying times, being the time
of Coxey's army and work was about as scarce as money. He worked on threshing
machines at $1.50 a day; he helped put in some of the first paving in Santa Ana at
$1.75 and boarded himself, and he worked for Will Halesworth on the desert, 144 days
at one dollar a day.
When he came back to the ranch in the fall of 1895, his mother had moved to
Santa Ana and the other children had gone out to work and he found things in a state
of chaos. So he and his sister and her husband, W. H. Walles, came down to work
the place, but they stayed only about one year and then he was left to work the ranch
alone, doing the work previously accomplished by the whole family, and this with his
nearest neighbor four miles distant. For seven years he was confronted by that situ
ation; they were seven long years of toil and privation, for five of them were the
dryest the country had known and one of the others was only half a crop. A volume
could be written about his experiences and hardships of those years of constant work
and worry. In speaking of it he says, "he felt like one who was trying to sweep the
water back from an island that was gradually being submerged."
There were times when he felt like deserting, but then would come the thought
that his mother depended on him, and the ranch and all the efforts they had put forth
would go for naught if he failed to hold the fort, and that would never do. It was
a lonely situation but he kept going. With the small market in Laguna limited to
about ten yeeks a year and with the expense of twelve months, together with all the
pests that naturally would come to the only place (his being the only place for many
miles where fruit and vegetables were raised) where they could find what they wanted
to eat, the situation was intense. There were birds- by the thousands, mice, rabbits and
gophers and the surrounding country harbored thousands of squirrels; then there were
skunks, coons, coyotes and wild cats, as well as numerous kinds of bugs, all bent on
getting all they could of his produce, so at times he found it almost impossible to
raise anything. So between these pests and the regular work, to say nothing of the
housework and keeping up the machinery and numerous other things that had to be
regulated, including trying to make financial ends meet there was plenty to keep him
in a fighting mood; so much so that when some well-meaning individual who really
wanted to be pleasant would say, "What a beautiful place, pray what do you find to
do down here?" he would really find it difficult to keep his temper. During all this
time he has cared for his mother, who now resides at Santa Ana at the age of eighty
years. A remarkable fact in the family is that of the fifteen children, thirteen grew up
to maturity and all are living, there having been no death in the family since nearly
sixty years ago, when they were living in Utah. The little girl, Rosetta, who was
stolen by the Indians when she was three years old, was never heard from in spite of
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After a number of years Mr. Thurston purchased the home ranch and later added
to it 161 acres, so that the Thurston ranch now comprises 313 acres. In 1919 he
acquired the 528-acre tract at Laguna known as the Rogers place, which brings his
holdings up to over 800 acres. His principal products are early vegetables, melons,
corn and fine apples, and he has made a reputation for growing string beans, being
the first to ship to the San Francisco and Los Angeles markets and bringing as much
as thirty cents a pound. For irrigation he has a pumping plant, while domestic water
is piped to his residence from mountain springs. Mr. Thurston has recently leased his
ranches for oil, and the Rogers place is now being exploited for oil, with splendid
prospects. One of Orange County's enthusiastic citizens, Mr. Thurston can always be counted
upon to aid in any progressive movement for its betterment, and this is but natural
when one considers the wonderful success that he has made here entirely through his
own unaided efforts. He was in this region five years before any one settled at
Laguna, so he is the oldest settler in this locality, having located here two years after
Santa Ana was founded. Very affable and of a pleasing personality, upright, honest
and enterprising, he is a man any community may justly be proud of. While a liberal
in politics, he inclines toward the principles of the Republican party and is a firm
advocate of prohibition.
JOHN W. ELLIOTT. — A hard working man whose beautiful home very pleas
antly testifies to his success, is John W. Elliott, the retired carpenter, so well and
favorably known, with his kind-hearted, devoted wife, for a lively interest in the homes
and the welfare of other folks in the community. He was born at Schleisingerville,
Washington County, Wis., on November 4, 1847, the son of Thomas and Jane Elliott.
His father was a farmer; and while John worked on the farm to help his parents, he
attended first the district school of his home town, and later the Cedar Valley Seminary.
In the spring of 1865, Thomas Elliott removed with his family to Floyd County,
Iowa, and settled near the town of Rudd; and in 1869 John Elliott became the first
clerk of Rudd Township. The father and five of his sons owned jointly a section of
land, which they devoted to the raising of corn and hogs; and in 1874 John purchased
a quarter-section near the old homestead. In 1886, he sold the Rudd farm and removed
to Osage, Mitchell County, Iowa; and near there he ran a market-garden farm of
ten acres. This he held onto until 1901, when he came out to California.
At Santa Ana Mr. Elliott took up building and helped to erect the Public Library,
the City Hall, the Intermediate school on Sycamore Street, and many of the best
business establishments and private homes in Santa Ana, thereby helping materially to
build the town and to guide the public taste.
On June 13, 1880, Mr. Elliott had been married near Rudd to Miss Emily Neville,
a native of Fond du Lac, Wis., and the daughter of Dr. and Mary (Lancaster) Gallup.
One child, Elsie E., who is living at home, has blessed this happy marriage. Mr.
Elliott is a staunch Republican in matters of national political import; but his strong-
love for the community in which he resides, and his deep interest in community
progress, never permits him to mix partisanship with a vigorous support of every good
measure and candidate proposed.
JACOB DITCHEY. — An enterprising and progressive resident of Orange, whose
equally industrious wife shares with him the good will and esteem of a large circle of
friends, is Jacob Ditchey, who for many years of his life was engaged in farming in
Indiana and Colorado, and later in the Golden State. The success he has made is all
the more praiseworthy, since it was in the face of obstacles that would have daunted
one of a less courageous spirit. A native of Ohio, where he was born at New Wash
ington, Crawford County, in 1855, Mr. Ditchey was orphaned at an early age, a circum
stance whose sadness was increased by the unkind treatment he received by the family
to whom he was bound out. Unworthy of their trust, they put him to work instead
of sending him to school and thus deprived him of the opportunity to secure anything
beyond the rudiments of an education.
Even these hard circumstances did not quench his ambition, however, and as soon
as he reached his majority he started out for himself, and at fourteen years of age began
working out on farms in Ohio. In 1873 he removed to Clinton County, Ind. He
established family ties in 1882 by his marriage to Miss Flora A. Misner, born at
Rossville, Clinton County, Ind., and the young couple engaged in farming there until
1905, when he removed with his family to Colorado, where he continued agricultural
pursuits at Longmont. For a long time he had been attracted to the balmy climate
of the Pacific Coast, hoping some time to make his home there, so in October, 1910, he
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followed horticulture and met with deserving success. In 1913 he completed his modern
bungalow at 421 South Orange Street, where he resides with his family. He now gives
his time to his duties as janitor of the Grammar School at Orange, as well as being
janitor of the City Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Ditchey were the parents of six children, four of whom are living:
Ward C. is an employe in the Santa Ana Post Office; Ross is a graduate of the Orange
County Business College and now resides in Los Angeles; Dayton D. served his country
during the World War, being stationed at Camp Lewis and later in North Carolina;
Stella M. is a graduate of the Orange Union high school and is now with the Orange
County Trust and Savings Bank. Realizing the handicap that he experienced through
his inability to procure a good education, Mr. Ditchey has been especially zealous in
giving his children every opportunity within his means. Liberal and kind hearted, he
has always been ready to make sacrifices and practice self denial in order to help others,
and this generous spirit, combined with his tireless habits of industry, makes him one
of the community's dependable citizens.
G. H. FLESNER. — A liberal-minded, progressive citizen of Anaheim whose pros
perity has very naturally made him love California; the Golden, is G. H. Flesner, who
has the added blessing of a good housewife, an excellent helpmate, a true companion.
Nearly ten years ago he located at Anaheim, and both he and his friends have good
reason to regret that he did not come here years before.
He was born near Champaign, in Champaign County, 111., on February 16, 1887,
fhe son of Henry Flesner, an early settler, who broke the raw prairie of Champaign
County, improved his first holdings, and bought more and more land, until in all he
had four hundred of the best acres. And there he died, in 1908, his sterling merits
known to all the community. He had married Miss Folke Classen, a worthy woman
of her day and generation, who now resides in California, sharing the comfortable
home of her son, our subject, who is the only child of the family still living.
He was brought up on a farm, and attended the usual. public schools of his locality,
after which, for two and a half years, he went to the Watertown, Wis., high school.
From his boyhood he assisted his folks upon the home ranch and after his father died
he ran the farm, which included not less than 240 acres in operation. In 1911 he
came to California, and the following year he disposed of the Eastern home.
On coming here he bought a ranch west of Anaheim, but after a year sold it
again. Then he purchased the place on East Santa Ana Street, consisting of twenty
acres, thirteen of which are in Valencia oranges and seven set out to walnuts. He
also owns four and a half acres on Broad Street, planted to Valencias of the choicest
variety. He owns an electrical pumping plant, and he has a fine residence on the
property. While yet in Illinois, on October 9, 1904, Mr. Flesner was married to Miss Gertie
Duitsman, a native of Pawnee Rock, Rush County, Kans., but who was reared in
Illinois. Her father was Henry Duitsman, and he had married Miss Ricken Debuhr,
who is now dead. They were farmer folk, and her father still resides on the old
homestead. Five children blessed the fortunate union of Mr. and Mrs. Flesner —
Frieda, Rosie, Henry, Bertha and Carl, all of whom are at home. The family attend
the Lutheran Church, of which Mr. Flesner is a trustee; and in national political
affairs he works for the advancement of the Republican standards.
CLAUDE NEWTON ELLIS. — An industrious, straightforward business man who
is naturally again and again rewarded, in his various enterprises, with an enviable
success, is Claude Newton Ellis, for nearly two decades a Californian by adoption, and
second to none in his loyalty to the Golden State. He was born in Silex, Lincoln
County, Mo., May 3, 1879, the son of Clark Ellis, who was also a native of Missouri and
became one of the extensive farmers and stockmen in Lincoln County, and later
removed to Montgomery County. Isaac Ellis, the grandfather, was a Kentuckian
equally well and favorably known as a raiser of fine stock in his day, and made a good
record as a soldier in the Civil War. Clark Ellis married Miss Jennie McDowell, a
native also of Missouri; but she died at the age of twenty-three, three years after
Claude was born. She had three children, and our subject was the second in the order
of birth. Clark Ellis died in his native state.
Claude N. Ellis was brought up on the stock farm in Lincoln, and then in Mont
gomery county, Mo., and studied for a while at Pike County, in Bowling Green anc
then at Watson Seminary, in Ashley, Pike County. When, however, his father became
ill, he returned home to take charge of the farm; and having formed a partnership with
his father, took up farming and stock raising in earnest, and continued at the same
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He located in Orange; and here, in March, 1904, he married Miss Lillian Northrop,
who was born in Hopedale, near Boston, Mass., and came to California in August, 1898.
She accompanied her father, James H. Northrop, the inventor of the Northrop loom,
manufactured in Hopedale and used in putting out seventy-five per cent of all the cotton
goods manufactured. He retired and chose California as a home place for his latter
days; and coming here undertook ranching, and in time invented a date-pitting machine.
He is living and resides in Santa Ana. After their marriage, Mr. Ellis had charge of
the Northrop ranch, and next he bought an orange ranch in El Modena; later he sold
this and removed to Coachella Valley, where he bought a homestead and a deserted
claim and proved up on it — that is, he and Mr. Northrop had 320 acres, where they
were among the pioneers in raising the date palm, and also figs for commercial purposes.
He had two large pumping plants, and laid 28,000 feet of cement piping.
During this time Mr. Ellis went to St. Louis, Mo., and spent nine months at the
St. Louis College of Embalming, from which he was graduated in 1912, after which he
returned to his California ranch. He became a funeral director in Indio, and was also
a merchant there; at the same time that he maintained on his farm the finest teams of
horses and mules, as well as the latest types of tractors. In October, 1918, he sold out;
and the following March he bought out Blank & Mead, the undertakers at Orange, and
established his present business. He has a chapel, an operating room and a morgue,
and Mrs. Ellis is also an embalmer — the only licensed woman embalmer in Orange
County. Mr. Ellis belongs to the Southern California Funeral Directors' Association.
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis have one child, J. H. Northrop Ellis; they belong to the order
of the Rebekahs. Mr. Ellis is a member of Orange Lodge No. 225, I. O. O. F., and
Mrs. Ellis of Sceptic Chapter, No. 163, O. E. S. Mrs. Ellis belongs to the W. R. C. and
he to the Modern Woodmen of America. Both husband and wife are members of the
First Presbyterian Church of Orange.
JOHN LUTHER MAROON, M. D.— No greater evidence could be had of the
success in every way of Dr. John Luther Maroon as a physician and surgeon since
his advent in Santa Ana in 1917 than in the exceptional confidence reposed in him as
one of the most representative medical men of the state by a large number of Santa
Ana's best citizens. They find in him a good neighbor and a model citizen, who is
devoted to his high professional work, and who goes about doing good with a sympathy
and assurance which begets confidence and optimism, and in itself works miracles in
the healing art. Dr. Maroon was born in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tenn., in Novem
ber, 1873, the son of Samuel W. Maroon, a member of one of the fine old families of
Tennessee and a merchant who was a leader in the commercial world of his part of the
state. He married Miss Sarah Elizabeth Henderson, a representative of another
family equally held in high esteem in the South, a charming lady of accomplishment
and beauty. They are now both dead; but their six children — among whom our subject
was the fourth in the order of birth — attested to their nobility of character, and the
good influence they bequeathed to others.
John Luther Maroon attended the grammar schools of his locality, and later en
joyed the advantages of the Chattanooga high school. Then he matriculated first at
Grant University at Chattanooga, Tenn., and then at Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tenn., where he was graduated in 1912 with the M.D. degree. Having well equipped
himself for the practice of medicine by close application under the direction of some
of the most learned medical instructors of the day, Dr. Maroon spent a year at Chat
tanooga Hospital in his native state, and for three years joined the medical fraternity
at Portland, Maine, where his agreeable personality soon made for him a host of friends.
In 1916, however, he let the pendulum swing far to the westward and came to Cali
fornia, long noted for its pick of surgeons and physicians; and for a year, he was
house surgeon at Loma Linda Hospital in Loma Linda.
He has now been a resident of Santa Ana for three years, having established him
self here in 1917 in the practice of medicine and surgery, and it hardly needs to be said
that he is doing very well. He is highly esteemed as a Fellow of the American Medical
Association, and stands equally high as a member of the California State Medical
Society and of the Orange County Medical Association. His scientific bent, his soundly-
trained mind, and his helpful ideals have enabled him to grasp the latest word or cue,
and to suggest where and how others may follow in his lead. As a skillful surgeon he
has been able to dare and effect what not every practitioner of surgery would attempt,
while as a consulting or visiting physician he has brought light and hope to the sick
room, and easily induced those inclined to despondency to hope, look up, go forward,
save themselves. Dr. Maroon is very conscientious in his examinations, having always
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too hard or difficult for him to do. It is noted that his patients are very loyal and have
explicit confidence in him, counting his friendship an acquisition to the family.
Two children, bearing the names of Catherine and Dorothy, add to the attraction
of the doctor's hospitable home, which is pleasantly situated in a suburban walnut
grove at 407 West Seventeenth Street— a large modern bungalow, tastefully furnished.
A Republican in national politics, Dr. Maroon is decidedly nonpartisan in all matters
affecting local Hfe and development, and has both caught and disseminated the Orange
spirit which leads to helpful loyalty to Orange County and her promising towns. As
has already been intimated, it has been the boast of California since her entrance amid
the sisterhood of States that her medical men and women have been and are, both in
respect to ability, experience and character, second to none in the world; and not
only may Orange County therefore congratulate itself that Dr. Maroon pitched his
tent at Santa Ana, but it is a subject of interest to the old state when such an aggres
sively progressive man of science comes here instead of going to some other corner
of the waiting world.
MILO BAILEY ALLEN. — A rancher whose present prosperity is the result of
his industrious, untiring work of development, is Milo B. Allen, senior member of
Allen Brothers, whose ranch of seventy-seven acres lies on Euclid Avenue, north of
Garden Grove. Born at Spring Valley, Fillmore County, Minn., January 9, 1880, he is
the son of Lucian Waite and Rhoda Ann (Conklin) Allen. The father was born in Erie
County, Ohio, and came to Minnesota in the early days, being one of the pioneer wheat
growers of that region, and there he lived for more than fifty years. Mrs. Allen was
a native of Pennsylvania, and came out to Minnesota when a young girl, and there
she met and married Mr. Allen. This branch of the Allen family are lineal descendants
of Robert Allen, a brother of Ethan Allen of Revolutionary fame, and the traditions of
this old colonial family were well sustained by Lucian Waite Allen, who had an excellent
record in the Civil War. He served for four years in the Union Army with the Third
Minnesota Volunteers as principal musician in his regiment, being a fifer. He was
considered the best fifer in Minnesota, and after his removal to Southern California
he was often asked to play in military bands on patriotic occasions. His death occurred
in 1914, at the age of seventy-seven years.
Milo B. Allen spent his early years on the home place at Spring Valley, Minn.
Here he attended the local schools, the Spring Valley high school, the Spring Valley
Normal, and later taking a three years' course at the Minnesota Agricultural School at
Minneapolis, where he graduated in 1901. Thus he was unusually well equipped for
the undertaking in which he has made such splendid success. In 1905 Lucian W. Allen
came to California, locating in the Garden Grove district, where he bought twenty acres
of land. A few months later Milo B. Allen and his brother, Joseph Garfield, whose
sketch also appears in this work, also bought a tract of twenty acres. It was a
stubblefield, and they at once began to improve it, leveling and irrigating it, putting in
several miles of cement tile. They have made subsequent purchases in small amounts,
and under the name of Allen Brothers they now jointly own and operate a ranch of
seventy-seven acres. Of this, fifty acres have been set to Valencia oranges, that are
from three to ten years old; twenty-five acres are in Eureka lemons, and two acres in a
family orchard of deciduous fruits. They have developed an inexhaustible supply of
water, having a well 195 feet deep. They irrigate by means of an electric pumping
plant with a forty-five foot lift. Besides irrigating their own ranch they furnish water
to others, having a sufficient supply for 140 acres. During the years of development
the brothers did a tremendous amount of work in bringing their holdings up to their
present high state of cultivation, for some time raising lima beans and peppers between
the trees to help pay expenses. Now the trees are in full bearing and the income
received by them reaches a handsome figure.
In 1902 M. B. Allen was united in marriage with Miss Hattie Crosby, a native
of Fillmore County, Minn., where their marriage occurred. She is a sister of C. G.
and C. B. Crosby, both prominent citrus growers of Garden Grove. Mr. and Mrs.
Allen are the parents of seven children: Lucile, who was born in Minnesota, Ruth,
Lawrence, Burton, Dorothy, Gertrude and Marjorie. In February, 1919, Mr. Allen
was elected president of the Garden Grove Orange Growers Association, and he is
filling this responsible position with the greatest success and satisfaction to all con
cerned. This association, which was organized in 1916, met a long-felt want on the
part of the citrus growers of this district. Its first president was John D. Arkley, who
served for two years, followed by James Henry, who occupied the office for one year.
up to the time Mr. Allen was elected. E. L. Dozier has ably filled the position of sec
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The other directors are: J. O. Arkley, Fred Andres, A. E. Snitiger, Anson Mott, F. G.
Rosselott, James Henry and Mr. Allen. Mr. Allen, with his family, is a member of
the Baptist Church at Garden Grove, and he is a member of the board of trustees.
The family are very prominent in the social life of the community, and Mr. Allen's
affability and generous spirit have made him justly popular among a large circle of
friends; his rise to affluence is indeed well deserved, as it is the result of intelligent,
well-directed industry on his part.
JOSEPH GARFIELD ALLEN.— Dating back to the earliest colonial days, the
Allen family has reason for pride in its history. Patriots ever, and always in the fore
front at any time of their country's need, one of the outstanding members of this
notable family is familiar to everyone — Ethan Allen of Revolutionary fame, the hero
of Ticonderoga. It was a brother of this famous soldier, Robert Allen, who is the
progenitor of two of Garden Grove'sfmost influential citizens, Joseph Garfield Allen
and Milo B. Allen, who as partners in'the firm of Allen Brothers, are among the most
prosperous citrus growers in this section, their grove of seventy-seven acres being
situated on Euclid Avenue, north of Garden Grove.
Joseph Garfield Allen was born at Spring Valley, Minn., January 12, 1882. He was
the son of Lucian Waite and Rhoda Ann (Conklin) Allen, natives of Ohio and Penn
sylvania, respectively, who were both among the early settlers of Fillmore County,
Minn., where they met and married. There were nine children and four are now
living, all residents of California: Mrs. Charles Maas of Santa Barbara; Mrs. Amy
Graves, of Garden Grove; Milo B. and Joseph Garfield, of this review. Mrs. Lucian W.
Allen passed away at their Minnesota home in 1896, and in 1905 the father came to
California. Joseph G. was reared on the home farm in Fillmore County until he was
about fifteen years old, and received a good education in the schools of the district
and in the high school at Spring Valley. Later he completed his education with a
course at Western College at Toledo, Iowa, now known as Leander Clark College,
and upon locating in Orange County he and his brother have worked together in
harmony to develop their citrus groves, as is shown in the sketch of Milo B. Allen.
J. G. Allen was married in 1909 to Miss Bertha Oertly, a daughter of Conrad
Oertly; she is a talented and accomplished woman and an excellent helpmeet. They
have three children, LeRoy Richard, Archie Eugene and Junior Garfield. The family
belong to the Baptist Church at Garden Grove and Mr. Allen is the choirmaster, as
both he and his brother have inherited much of the musical talent of their father.
He is a member of the Garden Grove Orange Association, the Garden Grove Farm
Center and the Central Lemon Association of Villa Park. An advocate of prohibition,
he is always to be found on the constructive side of all the questions of the day. A
hard and industrious worker, agreeable and gentlemanly, he and his family have, a
large circle of warm friends.
L. W. HEMPHILL. — An enterprising, public-spirited man who stands high in the
estimation of the people of Orange, who have chosen him to be one of their city
trustees, is L. W. Hemphill, who was born at Millford, Dane County, Wis., on August
14, 1874, the son of S. K. Hemphill, a native of New York, who settled in Wisconsin
and married Miss Alice Brelsford. They were farmer folk of the finer American type,
and in 1875- brought their family to California and settled a mile south of Orange.
Later, they bought the ranch, setting it out with grapes, which failed on account of
the blight; after that he ordered orange trees, of the St. Michael, Mediterranean and
seedling types, which in time he budded to Navels. He also ran a citrus nursery.
Finding that Valencias did better he budded some and set the balance to this species.
Mr. Hemphill followed orange culture here until 1905, when he sold out and
located at Long Beach, where he engaged in the sale of real estate, and this he
followed until he retired, to make his home in that city. His good wife had passed
away in 1884. They had three boys and a girl, and all are living save one of the sons.
Alice has become Mrs. Ellsworth, of Yakima, Wash.; Earl is in Placentia; and Lawrence
W. is the subject of our sketch.
At first the lad went to school to Mrs. Alice Armor, and then he continued to
attend the public grammar school. From a boy he learned orange culture and the
work in a nursery, under his father on the home ranch, and during boyhood, also, he
worked for three or four years in a packing house. Then he clerked in Canfield's
Grocery, and after that was in the service of D. C. Pixley's Hardware Store. With
Clifton Hamilton he then started a shoe and novelty store at the corner of North
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siege of illness. After that he had charge of the boot and shoe department of the
Ehlen & Grote Company, and he gave that up only when he decided to take up real
estate. He not only sold, but bought and improved several ranches, and did something
for Orange in opening subdivisions. He put on the market the Hemphill & Paxton
subdivision, on East Culver Avenue, consisting of ten acres, now handsomely built up;
also the Thermalita tract on North Glassell and Walnut streets— this last enterprise
in partnership with D. C. Pixley and Charles Ehrman There were ten acres in this
tract, and all are also now sold and built up. With his brother-in-law he bought and
improved twenty acres, setting them out to oranges.
He himself bought fifteen acres at Olive, on the Santiago Boulevard, which he
improved with oranges, building a residence and making there his home for some
years; and then, with Mr. Spencer, he bought forty acres of sage brush and cactus
on Anaheim Boulevard, which he cleared and leveled. He put in a pumping plant and
set out Valencia oranges, and now it is one of the finest groves in the county. Finally
he sold this at a handsome profit. All this time he was located on his ranch in Villa
Park; but in March, 1919, he sold this also, and settled in Orange. He built a residence
on South Orange Street, which he later sold; and now he is located at the corner of
Palm and Olive, having built two residences here.
At Orange he was married to Miss Flossie P. Spencer, a native of Iowa, who came
here as a child and attended the local public schools. Both husband and wife are
members of the Methodist Church, and Mr. Hemphill belongs to the official board.
In the spring of 1920 he was elected a trustee of the city of Orange, and he is now
chairman of the committee on streets, and also a member of the police commission.
He gives promise of being just the man for these peculiar responsibilities, and Orange
is to be congratulated on the choice of such a public servant.
MRS. EMMA BURCHFIELD COOPER.— An admirable example of California
womanhood, a worthy representative of other worthy Americans, long influential in
.he communities in which they lived and amid the civilization they helped to guide and
develop, is Mrs. Emma Burchfield Cooper, who has long been successfully interested
in horticulture in Orange County and is now the owner of a fine ten-acre ranch at
Hemet, devoted to apricots and walnuts. Pennsylvania was Mrs. Cooper's native state,
her birthplace being near Meadville, in Crawford County. She came of an old family
of that vicinity, her parents, David and Elsie (Scowden) Burchfield, both having been
born there. Grandfather Burchfield was a native of Ireland, but came to Crawford
County, Pa., in the early days and engaged in agriculture there, residing there until his
death. Mrs. Cooper's maternal grandfather, David Scowden, was also of an old
Pennsylvania family and spent his whole life there.
After farming in Pennsylvania for a number of years. David Burchfield brought
his family to Illinois, settling in De Kalb County, and was there engaged in agriculture
until a short time before he passed away, his death occurring at his old home in
Pennsylvania, whither he had gone on a visit. Mrs. Burchfield survived her husband
for some years, spending her last days in Iowa in the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Cooper. The youngest of a family of ten children, only two of whom are now living,
Mrs. Emma Burchfield Cooper came to Illinois with her parents at the age of nine
years and was reared on the home farm in DeKalb County, receiving a good education
in the public schools there. On reaching young womanhood she was united in marriage
with Oliver Cooper, who was born near Belfast, Ireland, his father being a minister
of the Presbyterian faith. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Cooper decided to locate
in Iowa, and they became pioneer settlers of Story County; here they homesteaded
160 acres of raw land, putting the first plow in the virgin prairie soil, and improved
and built up a nice home. Like the pioneers of every age and country, their task was
far from being an easy one, but with youth, strength and ambition on their side, they
were happy and successful in their undertaking.
After some years, however, Mr. Cooper's health failed and they decided to seek,
a milder climate; as a result they came to California, settling in Orange County.
Pleased with the prospect of spending the coming years in this balmy climate, with
its beautiful surroundings, they purchased a ranch at Villa Park, disposing of their
holdings in Iowa. There was twenty acres in their Villa Park place, and through
their care and cultivation it became one of the finest orange groves in that locality.
The responsibility of its care became too heavy, however, on account of Mr. Cooper's
continued ill health, so they sold it and removed to East Palm Avenue, Orange. Mr.
Cooper then carried out a long-cherished desire to visit his old home in Ireland, and
three months after he arrived there he passed away and was laid to rest beside his
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After her husband's death, Mrs. Cooper continued to be actively interested in
horticulture, purchasing a ten-acre ranch at Olive, which she later traded for a ranch
at Hemet, which is devoted to apricots arid walnuts. This she still owns and super
intends most capably, as her many years of experience have given her a thorough
knowledge of the varied branches df horticulture.
Mrs. Cooper is the mother of six children: William, who was born in Illinois,
died in Iowa at the age of six years; James is a farmer near Des Moines, Iowa; Ralph
is also engaged in farming at Springville, Iowa; Lettie is Mrs. Williams of Orange;
Bertha, Mrs. Ferguson, resides with her mother; and Maude, now deceased, was the
wife of Warren Fletcher. Mrs. Cooper still makes her home at 641 East Palm Avenue,
Orange, and takes an active interest in all that concerns the welfare of the community.
A firim believer in the future greatness of Orange County, she has, herself, done her
full share toward its horticultural development. She has reared and educated her
family, giving them every advantage possible, and has lived a useful and self-sacrificing
life, and her influence has ever been on the side of good. A member of the Mennonite
Church at Orange, Mrs. Cooper is active in its work; politically she is a stanch Repub
lican and a firm believer in the principles of that party.
CHARLES H. EYGABROAD.— Emphatically in accord with the true western
spirit, especially in the development of Orange County along broad and enduring lines,
and one whose confidence in its future grows with his own ever-increasing success,
Charles H. Eygabroad had prior to his coming here held a distinguished place in the
financial and public life of South Dakota, where he had a prominent part in helping
to shape, the destinies of that commonwealth in the early days of its statehood.
Iowa was Mr. Eygabroad's native state and there he was born at Fredricksburg,
Chickasaw: County, on October 25, 1863, the son of John J. and Catherine (Worth)
Eygabroad, natives of Utica, N. Y., and Germany, respectively. The Eygabroad family
were' of old Knickerbocker stock who came from Holland and settled in New Nether
lands, now New York, in about 1765. Great-grandfather Eygabroad, who was born in
Holland, was but a child when he accompanied his parents to the New World, and
at the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, although he was only thirteen years
old, he enlisted as a drummer boy, and after three years he carried a musket, serving
throughout the whole seven years of the war, and was at memorable Valley Forge with
General Washington. Grandfather Charles Eygabroad was a blacksmith at Utica, N. Y.,
and here John J. Eygabroad, the father of our subject, was born. He came to Free-
port, 111., where he followed his trade, and in 1849, with three companions he crossed
the plains with ox teams to California, mining there for three years, when the gold
excitement was at its height. Returning by way of the Isthmus of Panama in 1852, he
walked across to the Atlantic side, finally reaching his old home at Freeport, where
he was married. Here he engaged in farming uritil he removed to Chickasaw County,
Iowa, where he bought Government land for $1.25 an acre. This he improved and
he became one of the prosperous, successful farmers of that district, where he and his
wife resided until they passed away.
The fifth in order of birth of a family of eleven children, Charles H. Eygabroad
received his fundamental education in the rural schools of his native state and this was
supplemented by the broader education acquired in the best and most practical of
schools — the school of experience. He remained in the paternal home until he reached
his majority, then sought his fortune in Dakota Territory in 1884, where with a capital
of $1.50 he homesteaded land in Brown County, near the present town of Hecla, S. D.
With the undaunted spirit of the pioneer he taught school in the winter, farmed in the
summer months, and turned his hand to blacksmithing and anything else he could' find
to do. He was justice of the peace, performed marriage ceremonies and practiced
law; and, when, during this time, South Dakota was admitted to the Union. ~ Mr.
Eygabroad was elected a member of the state legislature in 1894. He was a member
of the educational committee of the House, acting as its chairman, was chairman of
the Federal relations committee and a member of other important committees.
After the expiration of his services in the legislature Mr. Eygabroad was elected
auditor of Brown County for two terms of two years each, afterwards occupying the
office of county commissioner for three years.- Duririg all of this time he was active
in the realty business, buying and selling farm lands in South Dakota. For three years
he was president of the First State Bank of Hecla, S. D., disposing of his interest in
that institution when he came to California December 26, 1908, on account of his
health. Locating at Anaheim, he bought an orange grove at the corner of Center and
Walnut Streets, to which he gave his care, and in this salubrious climate and the
enjoyment of his work he regained his health. Since then he has dealt extensively
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In 1913, in connection with F. C. Krause, he organized the Anaheim National Bank, of
which he was president until he disposed of his interest to Mr. Krause. He has since
been active in real estate circles, subdividing and putting on the market the Johnston-
Houck tract, an addition to Anaheim, and later he laid out the Vista del Rio Rancho
tract, and has already disposed of most of it. Besides his realty transactions, Mr.
Eygabroad is president of the Orange County Mutual Telephone Company. In 1918
he became interested in the First National Bank of Anaheim and is a director of that
institution, was an organizer of the Anaheim Citrus Association, having been a director
since its beginning, and is a member of the Northern Orange County Exchange. He
still owns valuable farm lands in South Dakota, preferring to keep some interests
where he was successful in his early years. In 1916 he drove his own car through to
South Dakota, from there to New York, and back to California, taking in Yellowstone
Park and making the whole trip in less than three months. Part of his trip was made
over the old California emigrant trail over which his father had journeyed with ox
teams, fifty-seven years before, some of the scenes being familiar to him from his
father's description of his early trip.
Mr. Eygabroad's marriage which was solemnized March 1, 1887, at Kilbourn, Wis.,
united him with Miss Nettie Stearns, and two children were born to them, a daughter,
Lilly, who is now the wife of Lynn Birdsall and the mother of two children; and Lonnie
who died at six years of age. In his religious convictions Mr. Eygabroad is a Metho
dist, and ever since he was twenty-one years old he has Been active in church work and
has taught a Bible class. In his political views he is a Republican, and while living in
South Dakota was elected chairman of the Republican County Central Committee in
1900. He is now a member of the Orange County Republican Central Committee and
is chairman of the finance committee of Anaheim district. Prominent in the ranks
of the Masons, he was made a Mason in Frederick Lodge, S. D., and later was a mem
ber of the lodge at Hecla, in that state and he is now affiliated with Anaheim Lodge
No. 207, F. & A. M., serving as master of this lodge during the building of the Masonic
Temple. He is a member of the Chapter at Aberdeen, S. D., and in that city was
exalted to the Knights Templar degree, Aberdeen Commandery, but now a charter
member of Fullerton Commandery, K. T. He belongs to Yelduz Temple, No. 38, A. A.
O. N. M. S., at Aberdeen, S. D., and is a member of the Southern California Association
of Past Masters at Los Arigeles, and with his wife is a member of the O. E. S. He
also holds membership with the Odd Fellows and Elks at Anaheim.
As one of the progressive business men of Anaheim, Mr. Eygabroad is naturally
prominent in the Chamber of Commerce, and he has always been a leader in furthering
the many projects which have been promulgated for the upbuilding and prosperity of
this section, and not alone has he accumulated a comfortable fortune for himself, but
he has contributed generously to the growth and wealth of the community, where he
enjoys the sincere esteem of his fellow-citizens.
JOHN C. MAIER. — A retired merchant whose success was undoubtedly due, in
part, to his wise conservatism, is John C. Maier, now active as a rancher, whose
straightforward Christian life has contributed to make him a representative citizen of
Orange County. He was born in Cass County, Iowa, on August 20, 1858, the son of
Sebastian Maier, a millwright by trade, who had married Miss Sophia Hazelmeyer in
Germany, his native country, and came to the United States in 1850, when he had
been married only a few years. Columbus, Ohio, was their destination, and there Mr.
Maier followed his trade for a couple of years. After a while they removed to West-
point, Iowa, and in the spring of 1853 took up there some 320 acres of raw government
land, and secured title.
John attended the common schools of Westpoint, and when sixteen years of age
commenced a three-year apprenticeship in a tinshop at Atlantic, Iowa. Later he found
steady employment as plumber and tinsmith for six years. On the death of his father
in 1879 he took charge of the home farm and ran it till he disposed of it to come to
California. In 1882 he brought with him to California his already aged mother, to
whom was accorded an additional ten years of life in more balmy Southern California,
and who died in 1893.
In 1883 Mr. Maier entered the employ of the McFadden Hardware Company, at
first working for only three months; but later becoming financially interested in that
well-established concern, he remained with them for twenty-three years, continuing
to build up an extensive hardware and plumbing trade. He did the plumbing and tin
work in such notable structures as the First National Bank, the Medlock Building,
and the Lacy and Chandler buildings, the Brunswick, now New Santa Ana Hotel, and
many others. For the past twelve years he has been retired from active business life,
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on Santiago Street, which he afterward sold at a good profit. In 1899 he purchased
his present home site with twenty acres of walnuts and oranges at the northeast corner
of C and Seventeenth streets. He also has other real estate, including thirty acres of
walnuts and oranges one and a half miles northeast of Garden Grove, with a fine well
and pumping plant. He has also owned and improved various other ranches. He
is a stockholder in the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Co., and in the Santa Ana Walnut
Growers Association. To provide surplus water for irrigation during the summer he
became associated with Mathias Nisson and Henry Rohrs, Jr., and they sunk a well
and installed an electric pumping plant, giving them over fifty inches of water. The
pumping plant on his Garden Grove ranch has a capacity of 100 inches, sufficient for
the ranch as well as supplying some of the neighbors.
In 1887 Mr. Maier was married to Miss Louisa Bartling, a schoolmate, the daughter
of Henry Bartling; she was a native of Iowa. Four children have blessed their union:
Gertrude died at the age of seventeen; Henry J. married Mabel Laux of Garden Grove,
and they live on the Maier ranch; Edwin G, a r-ancher, resides at home; while Ethel is
in Sonoma County. All of Mr. Maier's children have gone through the Santa Ana
schools, proud of their association with Orange County as native sons and a native
daughter, and Edwin, the second son, enlisted in "the service of his country on May 21,
1918. He was sent to the Naval Reserve at San Diego, and was on the Eastern Coast
until 1919. He had extensive trips to the island possessions of the United States, and
made three trips to Nova Scotia, having enlisted as a fireman and been promoted as
an engineer, and he was finally honorably discharged at San Francisco. Mr. Maier
was bereaved of his first wife in 1911, and in 1916 he was married a second time to Miss
Minnie Schuler of Pasadena, the daughter of George Schuler of Galena, 111., where she
was born, the youngest in a family of eleven surviving children.
A Republican in matters of national politics, and a strong advocate of the building
up of home, rather than club life, Mr. Maier contributes something to steady local
finances in the wise investments he has made in California National Bank stock and in
the management of his excellent ranch holdings. In more respects than one, therefore,
Mr. Maier may be spoken of as a pioneer and an exemplary citizen.
LEROY BENNETT. — A good man who, after years of unremitting labor, has
succeeded in acquiring a comfortable competency, is Leroy Bennett, whose years are
brightened with the recollection of creditable service in the Civil War. He was born
in Athens County, Ohio, on December 22, 1845, the son of Clinton Bennett, a native of
that section and a farmer; he was in the Civil War as a Union soldier in 1861, but
was crippled and discharged, and in 1864 he enlisted in the One Hundred Fifty-first
Ohio National Guard, and was with his son, our subject, in Washington, until he was
mustered out. He came to Humansville, Polk County, Mo., in 1865, and after farming
industriously for years, died there. Mrs. Bennett was Johanna Wells before her
marriage; she was a native of Ohio and died in Missouri, the mother of seven children,
the oldest of whom was Leroy. A younger brother, Samuel J., who enlisted in the
Sixty-third Ohio Regiment in the Civil War, died in Orange.
Leroy Bennett was reared on a farm, attended the local public schools, and left
the plow to enlist for service in the cause against slavery and for the preservation of
tfie Union, in April, 1864, joining the One Hundred Fifty-first Ohio National Guard,
Company K., and was stationed at Washington, until mustered out at Camp Chase,
Ohio, in August, 1864. The following year he removed to Missouri and helped on the
home farm; and in that state he remained until his marriage, in 1867, to Miss Susan
Minerva Wrentfrow, a native of Missouri and the daughter of James Wrentfrow, who
came from Tennessee to Missouri. She had two brothers, James and A. F. Wrentfrow,
in the Union Army, and both acquitted themselves as men.
After his marriage, Mr. Bennett engaged in farming in Missouri until 1894, and
on New Year's Day started for California, first stopping at Burbank, in Los Angeles
County, for a year; but in February, 1895, removed with his family to Orange County
and located at Orange. He then bought his present place, a promising tract of an
acre, which he improved by the setting out of oranges and the building of a residence;
but Mrs. Bennett, esteemed and mourned by all who knew her, died on July 31, 1912,
leaving a void in both the home where she had so well presided, and the heart of her
devoted husband. With her he has always attended the Methodist Church and served
on its official board for several years.
Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bennett: Hester A., now Mrs. W. E.
Jones, presides over Mr. Bennett's household; Carrie N. is Mrs. Wm. F. Black of
San Jacinto; Sarah Olive is Mrs. J. Z. Smith of Long Beach; and Harriet Eddith,
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Mr. Bennett is a Republican in matters of national political import, but knows no
partisanship when work or support is demanded for local uplift or progress, and seeks
to help along the best men and the best measures. He never forgets the ideals of the
nation for which he fought, and renews his patriotic youth in the circles of Gordon
Granger Post, No. 138, G. A. R., of which he is a member.
HARRY B. HANDY. — A railway section foreman for a decade and a half who
has carefully studied present-day devices in the constructing of railroads, is Harry B.
Handy, popular with all who know him, on account of his modest, unassuming person
ality. He was born at Nevada, Story County, Iowa, on September 1, 1879, the son of
Owen Handy, who came to that county from Illinois and who had married Miss Mary
A. Parker, who came from Buffalo, N. Y., a sketch of their lives appearing elsewhere
in this volume. They had four children, and Harry was the eldest son.
Harry Handy went to school at Villa Park, in what was then in the Mountain
View school district, and grew up with ranch surroundings. His father was superin
tendent of some eighty acres of vineyard, owned by I. W. Hellman and Morris L.
Goodman, of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, and in this way our subject has come
to be identified with the later agricultural interests of this locality.
November 17, 1897, witnessed the'marriage of Harry Handy and Miss Mary Aline
Horton of Orange and formerly of Iowa, and from this fortunate union have come
two children — Orval B., born in June 19, 1898, and Robert Le Roy, born November 14,
1899. These sons are at present on the United States Revenue cutter Unalga, and on
the Alaska coast; the eldest was in the United States service two years and the youngest
has served one year.
H. B. Handy has been in the employment of the Southern Pacific Railroad for
the past fifteen years as section foreman on the Los Angeles division, Tustin branch;
and for six years he was zanjero and foreman on the ditch of the Santa Ana Valley
Irrigation Company. He belongs to the Central Lemon Growers Association and to the
Villa Park Orchards Association. The family live on a ranch at Center Drive and Villa
Park Road where the tractor, representing the modern way of doing things, is used
throughout for farm work. Mr. Handy finds part of his social recreation in the circles
of the Odd Fellows at Orange, honored there as one of the past grands. He also works
under the national banner of the Republican party for better citizenship, and has been
active as a supporter of the movements for the local schools and the community church.
HANIGAN C. MOBERLY.— A veteran of the Spanish-American War with an
interesting record for manly service in the Philippines, who has seen great improve
ments effected in and around Orange, is Hanigan C. Moberly, who was born in
Loogootee, Martin County, Ind., on August 7, 1874, the son of Irvin Moberly, a native
of Kentucky and a member of a well-known Southern family. He settled in Indiana,
and there led a prosperous farmer's life, and there he died. Mrs. Moberly was Sarah
Calvin before her marriage, and she also was a native of Kentucky. There were two
girls and three boys in the family, and of these Hanigan was next to the youngest.
When only five or six years old he, was left an orphan, and until he- was old
enough to hustle for himself he lived with relatives and did a boy's chores about the
farm. He first came to Hamilton County, Nebr, in 1891, and there, until January, 1892,
he continued working at farm labor. Then he came to California and stopped at
Los Banos, Merced County, where he worked on the canal survey for four months.
In May, 1892, Mr. Moberly removed to Orange, and for four years was employed
on a fruit farm. Then he engaged in the confectionery business, and later was with
Ben Davis & Company in the bicycle trade. When the Spanish-American War broke
out, however, he could not refrain from offering his services to his country; and on
August 14, 1899, he enlisted. He joined Company D of the Thirty-fifth U. S. Vounteer
Infantry, which was mobilized at Vancouver, Wash., and sent to Manila, P. I., and he
served throughout the Philippine insurrection, or until May 2, 1901, 'when ' he was
mustered out at San Francisco. He was in the following engagement?: a skirmish at
Arayat, P. I., on Nov. 10-11, 1899, and another at San Miguel de Mayumo on December
11, 1899; a battle at Balubid, P. I., on June 11, 1900; a skirmish at Sibul, P. I., on June
12, 1900, and one at Santa Lucia, P. I., on October 29, 1900. He was commissioned
corporal on March 25, 1901, or shortly before his return to Orange.
Having retained his interest in the bicycle concern, Mr. Moberly and his partner
started at Orange the first auto repair shop, in 1904, at the same time taking the agency
of the Tourist automobile; and there, on North Glassell Street, near the Plaza° Ben
Davis & Company continued until the spring of 1908, when the firm was dissolved
This move afforded Mr. Moberly an opportunity for foreign travel, and he made the
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Then he crossed the ocean to London, and after an extended trip of eighteen months,
during which he saw and learned more on account of what he had seen and experienced
in his previous travel to and from the Philippines, he returned to America and
California. Coming west he stopped for a while at Indiana, and in due time, glad to
be home again, he arrived in the Golden State.
Taking. 'up work' again," "Mr. "Moberly "gtarfed in the laundry business with the
Orange branch for the Santa Ana Steam Laundry, and since the fall of 1910 he has
been established at the corner of Lerhon^arid La Veta. streets. He began with a horse .
and wagon; but "it was not long before the business grew to such dimensions -that he
required an auto delivery, and he still serves customers .obtained in the beginning.
The Orange plant is at the address, already mentioned, and there he has his office.
Personal attention, promptness and an earnest effort to give every patron the maximum
of good service for the least cost have wrought .the usual wonders popularly termed
"prosperity." .... . .
Since coming to Orange Mr. Moberly was married to -Miss Elizabeth Williams, a
native daughter born at Riverside; and with his good wife he resides at 536 East
Palmyra Street. He also owns an orange grove of seven and one-third acres, half a
mile north of El Ivjodena. .In national politics a "black Republican," Mr. Moberly is a
very "white" -nonpartisan when it comes to- supporting local issues likely to make for
the de-velopment of Orange and Orange County, in which ^great civic _work he is
second to none in both good will and practical activity.
D. Jl BASTANCHURY. — A progressive' young man willing to" help through his
time, labors or other means all worthy projects, who h_is become an' influential leader
among the men of Orange County doing worth-while things', is D. Ji.'Basta'nchury, who
has demonstrated his resourcefulness by improving one of the finest ranches in the
state, now a famous show place along the' State Highway between Fullert.o'n and La
Habra.. A native son proud of his birthright,' and 'of whom California may. well be
proud, Mr. , Bastanchury was born at Anaheim on August .24, 1881, the eldest of four
children born to Domingo arid Maria Bastanchury, native's' of France, who were pioneer
settlers in, what is now Orange County: Domingo Bastanchury engaged in sheep
raising, and prospered in spite of dry years. He enlarged his flocks, and With deep
foresight purchased land from time to time, in order to provide range fof'his sheep,
until he became owner of from 8,000 to 10,000 acres iri the La Habra Valley, extending
to the. built-up., portions of Fullerton. He was eventually, a very wealthy man, and
before' his death was rated" a. millionaire — the most tangible.- evidence of his rare busi
ness acumen. Survived by his widow, his monument is administered by firs- sons; who
have developed the largest citrus .orchard in the "world. _ Mrs. Bastanchury-has. retained
her mental .gifts to a rare degree, and can relate, -many interesting-incidents, as:one of
the oldest living se-ttlers-in die county, of ..the ever-interesting- early, days. :
D. J- Bastanchury, as the first-born. in. the f ataily ,,' w,as familiar with stock raising
as a lad, and after completing the work -of . the . local . schools, attended St. Vincent's
College in Los Angeles, from. the. commercial .department of which he was .graduated
in 1899. He continued with his father for. a while, and then he entered;the offices of
the Capitol Milling Company in- Los Angeles, a,nd'la,ter wag also in the employ- of the
Globe .Mills. . After. that he purchased the- Whittier. Milling .Company, ,and' engaged in
buying and, selling grain for hifnself. He extended .the milling .and .grain business to
Fullerton, and. had the satisfaction of "seeing a. large trade built" up when he. sold out, in
1910, to take up" the development pf his large, janch. This consisted of 400 acres on
the State Highway, between Fullerton arid La Habra, and was then.'. only a. stubble
field. He. sunk several wells and developed- water, .and next" installed electric pumping
plants. These have afforded some 300 inches'-of- water; and by means of his extensive
cement pipe lines,, he -has an ample supply, of water for the Irrigating of all his. holdings.
He set out- Valencia oranges, lemons "and walnuts,- and now the whole .place 'is an
orchard, presenting" an up-to-date, well-kept appearance indicative _of. the most scientific
procedure highly credital?le tQ- Orange County, and California. . . ¦ ; ,
Mr. Bastanchury is 'also interested in fine stock and is making a specialty of
breeding pure-bred Berkshire hogs of the finest blood obtainable. His stockyards are
located on the extreme west of his ranch and covet about fifteen acres; the whole is
divided into suitable pens with running water in'ea'ch pen 'and cement platforms for
feeding, the whole being thoroughly sanitary. .The buildings 'are large and roomy and
are painted white or covered with Whitewash, presenting; a splendid appearance. The
heads of his herd, both male and female, were obtained frofn selected stock from
Gentry in Sedalia, Mo.; Baker of Thornton, Ind.; Lovejoy of Roscoe, 111.; Sid Williams
in Kentucky, and also some from the famous stock farm of Mr. Humphreys near
Stockton, Cal. His exhibit at the State Fair at Sacramento received highest awards, as
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and Riverside; and no wonder, for he spares neither money nor labor to secure and
further develop the best blood for the head of the herd.
At the old Mission town of Los Angeles, Mr. Bastanchury was married to Miss
Elizabeth Depweg, a native of Ohio and a lady of culture and refinement, who is a
splendid helpmate to her husband, encouraging and aiding him in all his ambitions.
They have completed an attractive modern residence, where in true Californian style
they dispense a large-hearted hospitality; a home that is delightfully brightened by their
four children — Domingo, Catherine, Elizabeth and Frederick. He is a. member of the
La Habra Citrus Association and fraternally is a member of the Santa Ana Lodge of
Elks. He is a stockholder in the Union Bank and Trust Company of Los Angeles,
and also an original stockholder and director in the Citizens Commercial and Savings
Bank of La Habra, where his counsel as well as his optimistic influence is -of the
greatest benefit. A man of pleasing personality, as well as of the aggressively progress
ive action, Mr. Bastanchury never fails to encourage anything which makes for the
upbuilding, as well as the building up, of the county in which he lives and prospers, and
toward the speedy development of which he and his family have contributed so much.
MISS JUSTINE WHITNEY.— Prominent among the officials of Orange County
whose personality as well as their efficient public service have entitled them to the
highest esteem and confidence and rendered them justly popular is the experienced and
accommodating county recorder, Miss Justine Whitney, who has filled that office of
peculiar responsibility for several years past and bids fair to be in requisition for years
to come. She is a daughter of Nathaniel Bradish Whitney, who married Miss Rhuby H.
Houghton, both New Yorkers of English descent, and was born in Lewis County, in
that state, near the home of Franklin B. Hough, one of the greatest American historical
students and scientists, who was the author of the pioneer county history published in
the United States. She attended the local country school and later matriculated at the
Dekin Business College, in Syracuse, from which she was graduated in 1898, well
equipped for the ordinary commercial affairs of life. She was also prepared to instruct
others, and for some years taught school in New York, after which, like other East
erners who have made a success, she came West and followed newspaper work in
California. She was employed in the office of the Daily Californian at Bakersfield, and
next came to the Daily Evening Blade at Santa Ana.
On March 1, 1903, Miss Whitney was made deputy recorder of Orange County,
and served with untiring fidelity in that office until April, 1914: She was then elected
to be county recorder, and assumed the duties of that office in January, 1915. Four
years later, when the public had ample time to judge of both her ability and her faithful
performance of duty, and also of her acquired, invaluable experience, she was re-elected
and is now serving a second term. Although a Republican in matters of national political
moment, Miss Whitney endeavors to define her attitude toward local issues in a
strictly nonpartisan manner, and to support the best men and the best measures, and
in every way to upbuild, as well as build up, the city and county in which she lives and
is primarily interested.
Miss Whitney belongs to the Sycamore Lodge of the Rebekahs, where she passed
through the chairs, and in 1896 was appointed district deputy president of District
No. 50, comprising the Rebekah lodges of Orange County, and served for a year. She
is a communicant of the Episcopal Church, but is broad-mindedly interested in religious
and social endeavor generally, and takes pleasure in helping, in a modest way, to make
the world a better place in which to live.
RICHARD T. DAVIES. — A well-known figure in Orange County and popular
with all who know him, R. T. Davies, of Fullerton, has been a factor in the develop
ment of the city in which he has been a resident for years. A native of South Wales,
he was born at Carmarthen, March 31, .1867, the son of Lewis T. and Mary (Evans)
Davies, who had three children, of which number R. T. was the oldest. Both parents
have long since answered the final roll call.
Richard T. attended the excellent schools of his native shire and later farmed in
that- fertile country, so that he knows what hard work means and appreciates the
opportunities offered to men who are willing to work to earn a place for themselves
in this great commonwealth of California. When he was twenty-five years of age he
came to America and for four years he was engaged in farming near Hiawatha, Kans.,
learning the ways of this country so that he could better advance in any line of
endeavor he chose to enter. In the fall of 1896 Mr. Davies came to Orange County
and in Orange — then a small village — he found employment in a packing house to
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the various departments during the ensuing seven years. In 1903 he removed to Fuller-
ton and for several years he packed fruit for a Los Angeles concern, each succeeding
year becoming more closely connected with the citizenry of this section of the county.
In 1912, he decided he would embark in business for himself and accordingly he estab
lished a packing house at Placentia and in time employed fifty or more people and
used the most modern of machinery and methods. He continued this business until
¦the fall of 1920, when he sold out the business and equipment and leased the building
— which he owns — to give his time and attention to his growing interests.
Mr. Davies owns orange groves aggregating forty-six acres, and these he is bring
ing to a high state of production, as they were originally run-down groves when he
purchased them. His thorough knowledge of the orange and lemon industry makes
him an authority on the subject, and all this he has brought to bear in the develop
ment of his groves.
At Orange, Cal., in 1902, R. T. Davies was united in marriage with Miss Gertrude
Charlotte Kennedy, daughter of William R. and Gertrude Kennedy, both living in
Anaheim. Mr. and Mrs. Davies have been granted four children, John Wesley, Harold,
William and Gertrude, all natives of the Golden State, and being educated in the best
of schools here. Mr. Davies is a stand-pat Republican and has always taken a very
active interest in local and in state politics and has served in the councils of the party
for years, but never can be induced to accept any office. He is an active member of
the Board of Trade and the Fullerton Club, and participates with vigor in all civic
movements likely to improve, uplift and advance the community. He is a life mem
ber of the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks, and belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the
Odd Fellows in Fullerton. R. T. Davies is one of the real "boosters" of Orange County
and is a leader in advocating all improvements that build permanently. With several
associates he is interested in oil development of the county, which industry he has
witnessed from its infancy until it has grown to be of such proportions that it
is astonishing the world.
FRANK S. GATES. — A representative business man of Orange County, now re
tired, whose various operations have always stimulated the commercial life of the
Southland, is Frank S. Gates, a contractor in brick and stonemason work, who was
born in Chicago, 111., on November 9, 1862. His father was Francis A. Gates, a native
of Massachusetts, who had married Miss Sarah Fitch, a belle of the Bay State. They
came out to Cheyenne, Wyo., in the late sixties, with their family, and for a couple of
years conducted there a restaurant which was one of the best establishments of its
kind in the town. In 1870 they arrived in the Anaheim district of Los Angeles County,
now Orange County, and for seven years Mr. Gates raised grapes on his ranch half a
half a mile to the south of Anaheim. He next bought forty acres of land five miles
southwest of Anaheim, where he lived many years and raised corn. He had one of the
early artesian wells on his property, with a seven-inch pipe and giving three inches of
water, which was used for irrigation purposes. He was a pioneer in experimenting with
the date, which he planted from the seed, and was one of the first in America to culti
vate that fruit. He sent his product to the World's Fair in Chicago, and such was their
quality that they readily took the first prize. Mr. and Mrs. Gates are now both de
ceased, but three children represent them worthily. The subject of this sketch lives at
Anaheim; a daughter is Mrs. William Huff of Long Beach; and there is another son,
James L., at Anaheim.
For a while Frank S. Gates worked on the home ranch with his father, and then
he learned the brick and stonemason's trade at Anaheim. His first employment was
with the Santa Fe Railroad Company, when he helped to build the road then being
constructed from San Bernardino to San Diego. He had two teams and looked after
the grading; and while working near Perris, he had an interesting experience. The
men were camping out in tents when a heavy snowstorm came on, the temperature
dropped to ten degrees below zero, and snow piled up in drifts eighteen inches over the
tops of the tents, frozen so hard he could walk over them. Often, too, the Santa Ana
River was full of water, and fording was difficult and dangerous. The country between
Anaheim and Santa Ana was a thick tangle of willows, many feet high. When he first
came to Anaheim, there were two stores, ten saloons and a few houses.
Mr. Gates followed brick and stonemason contracting for thirty years, and many
of the old landmarks he built are still standing. These include the Rossmore Hotel in
Santa Ana and the Hotel Rochester and the Dobner Block in Orange. He also built
the old Spurgeon Block where the first postoffice was located, and the Lacey Block
on Main Street, Santa Ana. He built and owns the modern brick block on North
Lemon Street, Anaheim, occupied by the Romaine Garage. His son Irving was asso
ciated with him for eight years and now carries on the business and makes and installs
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artificial cement blocks. He specializes in porch and mantel construction in fine cottages
and bungalows, and a very able workman he has proven to be.
When Mr. Gates married, he took for his wife Miss Cornelia R. Ryder, a native
of Boston, who died in Anaheim, on September 8, 1918, leaving behind her a very
enviable record for usefulness to society. She established the Floral Nursery at 119
South Illinois Street, now being carried on by her son, Howard E. Gates— the only
nursery in Anaheim, and known throughout the county for its large variety of flowers.
Four children blessed this fortunate union of Mr. and Mrs. Gates. Howard E., is mar
ried and has one child, Morgan Gates. Adalaid is the wife of Merle G. Anlauf of Santa
Paula and has three children: Helen, Glenn and Virginia. Irving, the successor of
his fa'ther's business; and Inez, the wife of Roy Ivins, of Santa Ana, and the mother
of one daughter, Blanche. Frank S. Gates served for six years as a trustee of the City
of Anaheim- he is an Odd Fellow, belonging to Anaheim Lodge No. 199, and to the
Encampment, the Canton and the Rebekahs, Lodge No. 268; and he is a member of
Company No. 10236, Modern Woodmen of America. For three years he served in the
National Guard of California, Company E and in Company G four years as quarter
master sergeant. He was a member of the volunteer fire department in Santa Ana
three years" and lived in that city for six years. Mr. Gates has lived many years in
Orange County, has been successful and is now practically retired from active business.
James L. Gates, already referred to as the brother of our subject, was born on
his father's ranch, near Anaheim, on March 5, 1875, attended the Alamitos school, and
the Central school at Anaheim, after which he took a thorough course at the Los
Angeles Business College. In the spring of 1898 he went to Alaska, and for seven
years he remained there in the Dawson district, mining and hunting. When he returned
to Anaheim, he took a course in assaying, and then he went to Clark County, Nev..
where he spent two years. His next removal was to Acton, Cal., where he mined for
two and a half years. About seven years ago Mr. Gates returned to Anaheim, and
since then he has been engaged in selling new and second-hand furniture. He married
Miss Bessie Stewart, of Nevada, and has one son, Stuart. He belongs to the Odd
Fellows and attends the Catholic Church.
HENRY ANDREW SCHREINER. — The late manager of the Globe Grain &
Milling Company, Henry Andrew Schreiner, brought to his present business operations,
the most desirable wealth and power for any ambitious man — a rare combination of ex
perience, character and ideals, which contributed to the increasing success of all that he
undertook. He was a native of Wisconsin, although almost a native son, and so added
another esteemed name to the long list of those hailing from the Badger State. He
was born at Milwaukee on January 18, 1885, the son of Andrew and Annie (Risch)
Schreiner, natives of Bavaria and Wisconsin, and came to Los Angeles, Cal., in
1889, where they engaged in the grocery business on West Washington street, near
Figueroa. Andrew Schreiner passed away in Los Angeles and his widow still makes
her home in the Southern metropolis. Henry A. was the only child of the union and
attended both public and private schools, and later St. Vincent's College, from which
he was graduated in the commercial course. During these years of study, Mr. Schreiner
laid broad and deep those foundations easily discernible by all who analyze his make
up. He first entered the employ of the Whittier Milling Company, which was sold
after a year and a half to the Globe enterprise; and when the latter opened their place
at Fullerton in about 1909 he became the Globe's manager. For two years he- was
president of the Fullerton Club, and was a charter member of the Board of Trade. On
April 9, 1913, Mr. Schreiner was married in Fullerton to Miss Emma Salveson, of Fuller-
ton, whose parents were Hans and Tonnette (Tollofsen) Salveson natives of Sog-
gendal, Norway, where Mr. Salveson followed mining and farming until 1878, when he
came to St. Joseph, Mo., where he was married; after this they farmed at Maysville,
Mo. In 1888 they came to Fullerton, California from Brown County, Kans., and thus
they are among the oldest settlers here, the town just having started at that time.
Later they purchased twenty acres of raw land on North street in East Anaheim,
which they improved from cactus and brush to a splendid Valencia orange grove.
However, most all of these years they have made their home in Fullerton. This worthy
pioneer couple have ten children: Sophia, Mrs. Simpson of Alhambra; Ida, Mrs.
Shaw of Oakley; Sigwald of Fullerton; Emma, Mrs. Schreiner; Theodore resides in
Brea; Herbert makes his home under the parental roof; Selma, Mrs. Callan of West
Orangethorpe; Melvin served overseas in the U. S. Army, and was in the battles of
Argonne and St. Mihiel and since his return, with his brother Herbert, he operates
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Brea; Louise, Mrs. Swink, resides at Brawley. Mrs. Schreiner was born at Horton,
Brown County, Kans., but reared in Fullerton, where she received her education in
the public and high schools.
Mr. Schreiner was a stockholder in the Globe Grain and Milling Company,
and as manager of the Fullerton mills for the company had an enviable record as a
business man. He improved a small orange grove at 638 West Commonwealth Avenue,
where he built his residence and made his home until his death, February 3, 1920,
a sad loss to his family and friends. Popular and fond of social life, Mr. Schreiner
belonged to Anaheim Lodge No. 1345 of the Elks. He was public-spirited and second
to none in advocating and working for civic improvement. The same high- standards
demanded by Mr. Schreiner for business efficiency and attainment he applied without
reservation to the conducting of affairs in official life and the performance of duty, in
political matters, by the ordinary and average citizen.
DANFORTH C. COWLES, M.D.— A member of the medical profession of
Orange County of superior training, whose skill and conscientious attention and care
to every patient has enabled him to rise to well-deserved prominence in his chosen
field, is Dr. Danforth C. Cowles, who stands high in the profession, not only in Cali
fornia, but in the East, where he was very prominent as a surgeon, having a splendid
record in Minneapolis, Minn., so that he was not long in establishing a successful prac
tice after locating here. Of Southern lineage, Dr. Cowles was born at Richmond, Va.,
February 22, 1875. His father was Dr. Ransom F. Cowles, a native of Virginia, who
after obtaining his bachelor's degree at the University of Virginia, went abroad, grad
uating from the University of Heidelberg as an M.D. He practiced in Richmond, Va.,
until the Civil War started, when he served as a surgeon in the Confederate army. He
was married to Miss Dulcinea Rowe, also a native of the Old Dominion. After the
close of the war he continued to practice in Richmond, and there both he andhis wife
passed away. They were the parents of two children of whom Danforth C. was the
younger. The older son, Frank, chose a military career, and was killed during military
activities in Brazil.
Danforth C. Cowles early experienced, the cares that are reserved for more
mature years. He received the foundation of his education in the public schools, and
at the age of fourteen, an orphan, was thrown upon his own resources for a livelihood.
He earned a living by driving a mule in the coal mines, and with indomitable pluck
and perseverance worked his way through the Virginia Military College, graduating
with the class of 1892 as a civil engineer. He was engaged in this capacity for a few
years with some of the big mining companies in the West, then entered the University
of Minnesota as a student, graduating from the iriedical department in 1-901, with the
degree of M.D. The mantle of the 'father descended upon the shoulders, of the son, and
he spent two years at Bellevue Hospital, New York, acquiring an invaluable experience,
and then going abroad, where he spent three years doing post-graduate work in Edin
burgh, Vienna and Paris. Returning to Minneapolis, Minii., he established a. lucrative
practice, remaining there for eighteen years. In 1918 he removed to' Fullerton, Cal.,
and his professional skill rapidly became well known, so that he has acquired a large
clientele, his patients having implicit 'confidence in his ability.
In Minneapolis, June, 1900, Dr. Cowles was unite_d in marriage with Miss Ragnhild
Sorensen, a native of La Crosse, Wis., whose father was a well-known editor of La
Crosse, and later of Minneapolis, Minn. She passed away in 1914, leaving him one
child, Danforth C, Jr., now a bright, sturdy lad of eight years. In June, 1918, Dr.
Cowles' second marriage occurred, when he was united with Miss Anna Hicks, a
graduate nurse and a very cultured, refined woman, who is a great aid and encourage
ment to Dr. Cowles In his profession.
Politically Dr. Cowles is a Republican, and in his religious associations is a
member of the Christian Church, in which he is an elder. Fraternally he is a Scottish
Rite Mason and a Shriner, being a member of Zorah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S;, at
Minneapolis. His Blue Lodge membership is now in Fullerton Lodge No. 339, F. & A.
M. His fraternal relations are further extended by affiliation with the Knights of
Pythias, and of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks. He is a member of the
American Medical Association, the State Medical Society and the" Orange County
Medical Association; and also of the Fullerton Club and the Hacienda Country Club.
An enthusiastic booster, Dr. Cowles is active in the circles of the Fullerton Board of
Trade, and he is as well known for his public spirit and tireless activity in the interests
of his adopted city, Fullerton, as he is for his skill as a surgeon and medical prac
titioner. Dr. Cowles has traveled extensively in many parts of the world, and during
his residence in Minneapolis he made trips to Europe each year, and there visited the
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ELWOOD COATE. — A man of exceptionally high character and agreeable per
sonality is Elwood Coate, who was born at Pleasant Hill, Miami County, Ohio, on
December 12, 1843. His father was the Rev. Samuel T. Coate, a native of Miami
County, and also a merchant, who in 1853 removed with his family to Marengo, Iowa,
and after five years settled in the neighborhood of Le Grand, Marshall County, where
he was a successful farmer, and where his wife died. In 1882 he removed to Cloud
County, Kans., and there resided until his death, when he closed an enviable record of
forty years service in the Christian Church ministry. Mrs. Coate was Harriet Anthony
before her marriage; she was a native of Ohio, and was educated at Earlham Academy
in Indiana. She was a cultured, refined woman, esteemed for her liberal education.
and as a minister in the Christian Church, to which she, too, had been ordained, she
was a gifted public speaker. She died in Iowa in 1881.
The Coates are of English extraction, and may proudly trace their family tree back
to Marmaduke Coate, who came from Cumberland, England, to South Carolina, and
joined the Society of Friends. He had a son, William, and he in turn had a son also
named Marmaduke — the great-grandfather of the subject of our sketch. He removed
from North Carolina to Pennsylvania, and there with a Mr. Coppock, bought 5,000
acres of land from the Indians, some of which now lies in the rich oil belt of western
Pennsylvania. In 1806 he came to Miami County, Ohio, and bought land at twenty-
five cents per acre near Pleasant Hill; and the old home place he erected is still stand
ing. Grandfather James Coate was born in Ohio. On his mother's side Mr. Coate is
descended from John Furnas, also a native of Cumberland, England, whose father was
a lord and large landowner. John Furnas has four sons born in England — William,
John, Thomas and Jonathan. John Furnas had married Mary Wilkinson, the ceremony
occurring in the meeting house of the Friends. They came to North Carolina, arriving
in Charleston on February 18, 1763; and while they were in the harbor, another son,
Joseph, was born, who, when he grew up, married a Miss Teague. The name was
originally Furness, and was changed to Furnas in South Carolina. The father was an
early pioneer in Iowa, when government land went begging at $1.25 per acre, although
later the land was rapidly gobbled up.
There were ten children in the Coate family, six of whom are still living: Susan
W. Conway, in her eightieth year, the widow of a Civil War veteran, lives at Bloomfield,
Iowa; Elwood; Esther C. Rose lives at Tucson, Ariz., the widow of Captain Rose, of
the Civil War; D. A., of Parsons, Kans.; Cynthia Ann Stallings, of Oswego, Kans.;
Olive Hart, of Macksburg, Iowa. Elwood Coate was reared in Ohio until 1853, when
he removed to Iowa with his parents. There he was educated in the public school.
and fully caught the spirit animating all Americans as more and more the great struggle
between the North and the South came to a focus; and on March 26, 1864, when he
was twenty years of age, he enlisted as a volunteer in Company I, Second Iowa
Volunteer Cavalry, and was mustered in at Davenport on April 9, 1864. He served in
Missouri, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, and was in the
battles or skirmishes of Tupelo, Cormory's Cross Roads, near Harrison, Littlehatchee
River, Old Town Creek, Shoals Creek, Campbellsville, Lynville, Columbia, Spring Hill,
West Harpeth, Franklin and Nashville, and then on Hood's retreat, at the Battle of
Spring Hill, Lawrenceburg, Richland's Creek, Tuscambia, and various other places
After the war Mr. Coate served in the South during the Reconstruction period, and the
regiment was honorably discharged at Selma, Ala., on September 19, 1865. He returned
home October 6, 1865.
After the war Mr. Coate established himself in the harness business at Le Grand,
Iowa, but owing to ill health he sold out and learned the cabinetmaker's and the
carpenter's trades, which he followed for eighteen years, engaging in contracting and
building. During that period he was also township clerk and school director. In 1885
he removed to Oakland Township, Cloud County, Kans., and having previously
purchased 160 acres of land, he added more until he had 480 acres. He engaged in
raising grain and stock and also in horticulture, raising peaches and apples. He was
elected township clerk and was re-elected to the office, serving two terms of two
years each. After three years as county treasurer, Mr. Coate returned to his farm
and remained two years, when his wife's health became impaired and he sold out and
came west to California. This was in 1905, and he at once located at Orange, and
for some time owned and managed an orange ranch, which he later sold. With his son,
he still owns seventeen acres of Valencia oranges and lemons.
Mr. Coate's first marriage occurred in Iowa, on February 1, 1866, when he was
joined to Susan Elleman, a native of Ohio, who died two years later, leaving one
child, Orin M. who resides at Orange. He was married a second time, 1869, to Sarah
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living. Herman E. is an orange grower, living near Orange, with his wife and four
children; and Samuel Rush was a banker, but is now an orange grower near Anaheim.
Mr. and Mrs. Coate also reared a motherless girl, Bessie Wilkins, who is now
living on Grand Street, Orange.
Mrs. Coate lived for ten years after coming here, and then she passed away. Two
years later, at Santa Ana, on June 12, 1918, Mr. Coate married again, taking for his
bride Mrs. Myra E. Morse Holderman, a native of Johnson County, Iowa. Her
father was Nathaniel J. Morse, a native of Ohio and a pioneer farmer in Iowa, where
he died, closing his useful life when only twenty-five years of age. Her mother was
Emily Parks in maidenhood; she was born in Indiana and died in Tustin, Cal. The
town of Morse, Iowa, on the B. C. R. & N. Ry., was named for an uncle, Edwin K.
Morse. An only brother, Charles N. Morse, is now a resident of Tustin, Cal. Myra
E. Morse was married the first time in 1867 to Upton Holderman, a native of Iowa,
who also served in the Civil War, a member of Company A of the Twenty-second
Iowa Volunteer Infantry. After the war he was a farmer in Iowa, and then moved
to the vicinity of Hastings, in Adams County, Nebr., where he farmed for twenty years.
Then he came to Tustin, in Orange County, in February, 1893, and bought an orange
grove of twenty acres, served four years on the board of supervisors from the Fifth
District, and there died in 1913. They had seven children, six of whom grew up and
are living: Uppie Ethel is Mrs. Walter E. Parker, of Omaha, Nebr.; Emma is the
wife of J. C. Lamb, tax collector of Orange County; Myron is a contractor and builder
of Bakersfield; Lyda is Mrs. Eugene Marsh of San Pedro; Nelson Miles grew up in
Tustin, and was familiarly called "Neb," was a bugler in the National Guard, and then
educated at Occidental College. He served with troops at the San Francisco fire and
earthquake, April and May, 1906, and was very efficient as a bugler. He was a natural
tactician and deeply interested in military affairs and served as captain on the Mexican
border, then as captain in the World War, and was overseas in the Second Division.
He was in the famous Lost Battalion, when six hundred of our brave men were
surrounded by Germans. They had only two days' rations, yet they held the Germans
off for six days until, through the agency of a carrier pigeon, they were discovered and
relieved by troops who reached them just in time to save the balance of about one
hundred. Captain Holderman was wounded ten times during these six days, but he
recovered and served in the Army of Occupation, and returned home in the fall of
1919. He is now commander of the National Veteran's Home, at Yountville, Cal.,
with the commission of colonel. He is married and has two children. The youngest
child of Mr. and Mrs. Holderman is Upton Grant, now a rancher, living near Tustin.
Mr. Coate is a member of Gordon Granger Post No. 138, G. A. R., and is a past
commander; he has been adjutant, and is now officer of the day. Mrs. Coate belongs
to Gordon Granger Post, No. 54, W. R. C. Both husband and wife are Methodists
and also equally loyal Republicans.
MRS. MARY McKEE GILCHRIST.— A woman who is very enthusiastic over the
exceptional advantages of Southern California, and particularly Orange County, is Mrs.
Mary McKee Gilchrist, the widow of the late Duncan Gilchrist, who passed away on
January 21, 1908, lamented by many. She was born at Addison, Vt., and made her
first trip to California in January, 1906. The following March she returned East, and
in November of the same year was back again in California, and has located at Orange
— such was, to her as with so many thousands of others, the lure of the Golden State.
Her father, John McKee, of Scotch Irish descent, was married in New York
State to Miss Sarah J. Bingham, and the wedding took place on May 13, 1848. She also
came of Scotch ancestry, and proved the right kind of a helpmate for a man forging
ahead in that early period of the country. As farmers, Mr. and Mrs. .McKee moved to
Addison, Vt., but after four years they returned to Moriah, Essex County, N. Y., where
Mr. McKee farmed along the shores of Lake Champlain. And there he died, on No
vember 7, 1901. Mrs. McKee spent her declining years with Mrs. Gilchrist and
passed away at her home in Orange on January 18, 1914. She was the mother of two
children, one of whom, Samuel Bingham McKee, was a civil engineer and prominent in
railroad building, and died in Los Angeles on November 29, 1910.
Mary McKee, the younger of the children, was brought up in New York and there
attended the Sherman Collegiate Institute, after which she engaged in teaching in her
home county. In time she became the principal of a school, and so continued in educa
tional work until her marriage in 1895. Her husband, Duncan Gilchrist, was born in the
Isle of Islay, Scotland, and when fifteen years of age crossed the ocean to Ontario
with his parents. He was a mechanical engineer — and none better worked near him;
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mines at Marquette, and then at Ishpeming, for seventeen years, and later at Duluth,
going from there to Mineville, N. Y., where he was over twelve years with the Witherbee
and Sherman Company, when he resigned to come to California. As an exceptionally
qualified mechanic, he was always both well known and well liked, and was frequently
consulted on account of his expert knowledge. He had desired always to return to
Scotland for a visit, and once with Mrs. Gilchrist went on to New York, but he was
called back to Mineville on business before he could sail, and putting it off, he died Jan.
21, 1908, so he never was able to make the cherished visit. Mr. Gilchrist was a mem
ber of the Masonic order. Since his death, his estimable widow has resided at Orange,
treasuring the memory of the last years with him, and has built for herself a fine
home at 237 North Orange. She is a devoted Presbyterian, and belongs to the same
denomination in which Mr. Gilchrist was for many years an elder. Mrs. Gilchrist is a
Republican, and belongs to the Gordon Granger Post, W. R. C, where, as well as in the
church, the cultured and refined influence of her pleasing personality is especially felt.
JOHN G. LAUNER. — Among the public-spirited citizens of Orange County,
John G. Launer, pioneer resident of La Habra, is deserving of special mention in. the
annals of the county. A native of Switzerland, he was born at Berne on January 16,
1863, the son of John and Anna (Stambauch) Launer, both of whom came from sturdy
French and Swiss families. In order to find more congenial surroundings than were
to be found in their own country, Mr. and Mrs. Launer left Switzerland in 1866, when
their son John was three years old, and sailed for America, their destination being
Highland, a suburb of East St. Louis, 111. Two years after landing there Mr. Launer
started to raise grain and stock on an eighty-acre farm he had purchased, and this was
later increased to 160 acres. They lived to a ripe old age and died mourned by a wide
circle of friends.
John G. attended the grammar school and at the age of fourteen had to leave
his books to help with the farm work. When he was eighteen he worked at the thresh
ing business during the season and in wintef took up the sawing of wood and when
that was dull he butchered for two winters, thus showing he was willing to do any
honest labor in order to make a living. On October 16, 1888, he was united in marriage
with Miss Rosa Niggli, the daughter of Chris Niggli, a well-established farmer of East
St. Louis. Three children were born of this union: Albert, a graduate of the Uni
versity of Southern California and now city attorney of Fullerton; he is married and
the father of two children — Catherine and Leland; Nelson M., is a rancher at La Habra
and secretary of the La Habra Water Company; he attended both the University of
Southern California and the University of California; his children are Eunice and Ruth
Launer; Erwin, is cashier in the Commercial National Bank in Los Angeles, he has one
son, Malcolm Launer. In 1893 the wife and mother passed to her reward and on
March 2, 1894, Mr. Launer married Miss Anna Niggli, a sister of his first wife, and two
children have come to bless their home: Richard E., secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce of Manhattan Beach and an employe of the Standard Oil Company of El
Segundo. He has a son, Raymond. The youngest child, Glenn Launer, is at home
with his parents.
It was in the early part of 1898 that John G. Launer first came to California as
a tourist and so well pleased was he with conditions and future prospects here that
he purchased thirty acres of land in the La Habra Valley, paying seventy-five dollars
per acre. Twenty acres of the land was devoted to barley and the balance had de
ciduous trees on it. This land was situated in what is now the limits of La Habra
town and after he had returned East and disposed of his holdings in Illinois he brought
his family here in the fall of 1898, dry farmed for several years with more or less
success, and marketed his products in Fullerton, Anaheim and Whittier. Mr. Launer
is never idle and is a hard worker, though always ready to do his part as a citizen who
has the interests of his community at heart. As the town grew he sold off all but ten
acres of his original purchase in acreage and town lots, the tract lying east of Hiatt
Street and extending to Cypress Street, north of Central Avenue. The ten acres left
is set to oranges. He also has four acres in walnuts, the balance of ten acres south
of the Pacific Electric Railroad. He also owned twenty acres west of Hiatt Street,
where the main business section of the town now is situated. This property he sold
to the Pacific Electric Railway Company, after he had dry farmed it for four years.
He paid $150 per acre for this tract at time of purchase. He erected a fine home on
his original ranch and in 1919 he built a $9,000 garage building at the corner of Main
Street and Central Avenue that is a credit to the town.
Mr. Launer was instrumental in building up the La Habra Domestic Water Com
pany, which obtains its water from the La Habra Water Company. This company was
a mutual affair at first but is now a public utility and under the control of the State

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Railroad Commission, but Mr. Launer is the president of the company. He helped
to lay out the system, install the pipe lines and put it on a sound basis. The source
of supply of the La Habra Water Company is the San Gabriel River and the water
is carried in lateral ditches to the consumers. It has often been said that the good the
consumers have derived from this company far exceeds the cost of the service.
For six years Mr. Launer served as a member of the board of trustees of the
La Habra grammar school; for two terms he was a member of the Union high school
board of Fullerton, and while he was serving there the property was purchased and
the school buildings were being constructed. For five years he was deputy assessor
for his district, and four years was deputy under Sheriff C. E. Ruddock. He was one
of the organizers of the La Habra Citrus Association and the La Habra Walnut Asso
ciation. During the World War he and his wife were active in the work of the Red
Cross and other allied drives and supported liberally the various loan drives. Politically
Mr. Launer is a Republican and at one time served as a member of the County Cen
tral Committee. He was a member of the right-of-way committee that brought the
Pacific Electric through La Habra and the first depot out of Los Angeles on the line
was built at La Habra. A self-made and self-educated man, Mr. Launer has the best
interests of the county at heart and is highly respected by all who know him for his
public spirit and integrity. It is to such citizens that Orange County owes its great
progress in recent years.
JOHN D. CHAFFEE, M.D.— A pioneer of Garden Grove, whose homestead,
The Pines, was one of the most valuable properties of that district, Dr. John D.
Chaffee was a member of an old English family that settled in Vermont. His father,
Eber C, was born near Bellows Falls, that state, and the son of Rufus Chaffee,
a farmer. When a youth he learned the trades of tanner and currier, but after re
moving, in 1839, to Kane County, 111., he turned his attention to agriculture, and
improved a farm of 400 acres in Campton township. He married Anna Davis, who
was born in Rutland County, Vt., of Welsh and English descent. Both died on their
homestead in Illinois. Of their twelve children all but two attained mature years.
They were as follows: Sereno S., who died in Los Angeles, Cal.; Fernando H., Mrs.
Marcia Ryder; Edmond, who died in Texas during the Civil War; Alonzo, Dorr B.,
who served in an Illinois regiment during the rebellion; John D., Simon E., also a
veteran of the Civil War and Albert J.
Near Elgin, Kane County, 111., Dr. Chaffee was "born November 5, 1843. On
completing the studies of the district schools he attended Mount Morris (111.) Semi
nary. From boyhood it was his ambition to enter the medical profession and, in
spite of obstacles, which would have daunted one less determined, he persevered,
making every occupation in which he engaged a means to the end desired. While
still living in Illinois he conducted a large dairy and furnished milk for a condensing
factory, building up a business that was profitable and important. On account of ill
health brought on by the strenuous life he led while building up and conducting his
dairy business, Mr. Chaffee came west to California in 1875, stopping for three months
in Los Angeles, then going to Westminster. He found that the climate of this part
of Los Angeles County agreed with him and decided to remain here and in February,
1876, he located in the vicinity of Garden Grove where he purchased thirty acres of
land. He soon sold off twenty acres and thereafter gave his attention to the develop
ment of the ten he retained by setting out various kinds of fruit trees. He acquired
another tract of ten acres and set out eucalyptus trees and from the small grove
he had in five years' time he cut and sold eighty cords of wood. When Dr. Chaffee
bought his land he paid for it in currency and in exchanging for the "coin" of Cali
fornia he lost eleven cents on each dollar as greenbacks were not legal tender in
this state. Years ago, with only one text-book to assist him, Dr. Chaffee began the study
of medicine, and his rudimentary knowledge of the science was acquired without the
aid of an instructor. Other books were afterward added to his medical library and
the contents of each absorbed by his receptive mind. In 1884, the year following its
organization, he entered Hahnemann Hospital Medical College in San Francisco,
from which he was graduated in 1887. However, he had practiced prior to his gradu
ation, and he was, in point of years of professional activity, one of the oldest physi
cians in Orange County, and was beloved by many who appreciated him for his true
worth and nobility of character.
The marriage of Dr. Chaffee took place in Elgin, 111., September 29, 1868, and
united him with Miss Ellen M. Bradley, who was born at Dundee, Kane County, 111.
She is eligible to membership in the Daughters of the Revolution, some of her paternal
ancestors having participated in the first war with England. Her grandfather, Anson
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also a native of that state, born in Fairfield, but in 1838 settled at Dundee, IU.,
becoming a pioneer farmer near that town. In 1881 he removed to California, where
he remained retired from active cares until his death, at seventy-six years. He traced
his ancestry to English and Scotch progenitors. In religion he was connected with
the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Lucia
Keiser, was born in New Hampshire and died at Garden Grove, Cal. Their family
consisted of four daughters, namely: Jane C, Mrs. Wanzer, a resident of Chicago
but who died in Wisconsin; Mary E., Mrs. Hill; Ellen M., Mrs. Chaffee, and Lois E.,
Mrs. Hitchcock. After completing her education in Elgin Academy, Mrs. Chaffee
became a teacher in Kane County, continuing in that profession until her marriage.
Dr. and Mrs. Chaffee were charter members of the Methodist Episcopal Church
of Garden Grove and he was always one of its leaders and an important factor in
its progress, both as a member and through his service as chairman of the board of
trustees and in other official positions. In his political adherence he was a staunch
Republican and active in the local work of the party, but at no time in his life an
aspirant for official honors. In 1901 the family moved to Long Beach and where Dr.
Chaffee built up an extensive practice, and there he passed away on May 2, 1907, in
the fine home he had erected on Cedar Street.
JAMES ALEXANDER FORBES.— A full and eventful life has been the portion
of James Alexander Forbes, scholar, historian and musician, who at the age of eighty-
two is now living at San Juan Capistrano, hale and hearty, and, gifted as he is with a
remarkable memory, he can relate many of the interesting happenings of the early
days of California. A native son, born March 17, 1838, at Santa Clara, Mr. Forbes has
spent practically all his life in the state of his birth, except for some years in Mexico
in the consular service, and later spending some time there in superintending his
mining interests.
His father, James Alexander Forbes, Sr., one of California's earliest pioneers, was
born at Inverness, Scotland, and highly educated there, being a professor of languages
and music in a college at Inverness. Entering the service of Spain in the warfare
against the Moors, he later came to California on a Spanish man-of-war, landing at
Yerba Buena, now San Francisco, in 1829. Returning to Scotland, he came a second
time to America, making a prospecting tour to Vancouver, and coming to California in
1833 with a party of the Hudson Bay Company, camping on the San Joaquin River
where the city of Stockton 'now stands. During this time he wrote a history of
California for the English Government, which was later published in London, and
which is the first history of this part of the country written in the English language.
Appointed consul by England, Mr. Forbes removed to the Mission in Santa Clara
County, and was stationed there when California became a part of the United States.
He soon took a prominent part in the development of the country under the new
rule, and built a beautiful residence in Santa Clara, with many modern conveniences,
such as dumb waiters, speaking tubes, etc., and bringing from England the first cook-
stove to be brought into California. He also brought the machinery for a flour mill
from Rochester, establishing the mill at Los Gatos. He was the owner of the rich
New Almaden mines, and took out of them enormous sums of money, but later he
lost much of this fortune through litigation. Mr. Forbes married a native daughter of
California, Anita Maria Galindo, the daughter of Juan Crissotomo Galindo, and spent
his last years in Oakland, leaving a name that will always be associated with California's
early development.
The second son of a family of twelve children, all of whom were talented,
inheriting the literary ability of their father, James Alexander Forbes was given a
thorough education at Santa Clara College, and after his graduation he began teaching
school at Santa Barbara in 1865, having charge of the public schools there until he
went to San Francisco, where he was an instructor in St. Joseph's College. Later he
was appointed translator of the California state statutes, and from 1867 to 1870 he
pursued this work at Sacramento, and after completing this important work he was
called to San Francisco, where he became court interpreter in all the Courts of Record,
including the United States Federal Court. Appointed keeper of the Spanish and
Mexican archives by the Secretary of the Interior in 1877, he served as official trans
lator for the Government under the following surveyor-generals: Theodore Wagner,
William H. Brown, Richard P. Hammond, O. C. Pratt and William Green, holding that
position until 1892. Under President Harrison he received appointment as consul to
Guaymas, Mexico, in 1892, serving throughout his administration. Coming back to
California, he remained here for a time, but returned to Mexico in 1906, becoming
extensively interested in silver, copper and quicksilver mines in Jalisco, which would
have undoubtedly brought him great wealth, but everything was lost in the revolution
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came to San Juan Capistrano in 1919 to make his home. His wife, who before her
marriage was Carmen Vasquez, passed away in 1916. She was born in Sonora, Mexico,
but was reared and educated in San Francisco. The only surviving member of Mr.
Forbes' family is his brother, James Alonzo Forbes, of Monterey, Cal., a former judge
of Monterey County.
Mr. Forbes has been deeply engaged in his literary labors of late years and has
finished for his publishers the manuscript of a comprehensive historical work entitled,
"Forbes' Chronology of the World from the Date of Its Creation 4004 B. C. to the
Present Time." "The Golden West," just off the press, is one of the most reliable,
clear, brief but interesting histories of California ever published for popular use in
pamphlet form, and is beautifully illustrated. He has also published "Gramatica del
Metodo," for teaching the English language phonetically to Spanish-speaking people,
and a like work for English-speaking people who wish to learn the Spanish language.
Among the various other works that he has published may be mentioned "The Rights
of Indians and Neophytes of the Missions," which was used by the Land Court in
Santa Fe, N. M., and so valuable was the material contained in it that Mr. Forbes was
presented a substantial check by the Secretary of the Interior in recognition of his
research work along these lines. In politics he has always been a stanch advocate of
Republican principles, and he has always brought to bear in his daily life those high
principles of honor, honesty and uprightness which were part of his inheritance from
his noble Scotch ancestry.
CHARLES H. FORBES.— A native son of the Golden West dating back to days
prior to the Mexican War was the late Charles H. Forbes, born in Santa Clara, 1835,
a brother of J. Alexander Forbes, whose interesting history, as well as that of the
Forbes family in California, is on another page in this history. He received a splendid
education and became agent and bookkeeper for Don Abel Stearns, and after his death,
for Mrs. Arcadia Stearns Baker, continuing for her until his death in 1900. His
headquarters were in the Arcadia Block, Los Angeles. His care of Don Abel Stearns'
estate and Mrs. Baker's interests made her property worth millions.
In early days he was agent for the following ranches: Los Coyotes, La Habra,
San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana, Los Bolsas, Los Alamitos, Los Paredes, Bolsa Chica
and La Sierra Jurupa.
Charles Forbes became a prominent and well-known figure in Southern California
and a man most highly respected and esteemed. His wife, Louisa Olvera, was born in
Los Angeles and was descended from an old Spanish family, a daughter of Don Agustin
Olvera, who was secretary of the Departmental Assembly of California during the
Mexican regime, and she preceded her husband to the Great Beyond, leaving him
twelve children. The passing of Charles H. Forbes took away one of the old interest
ing and reliable men of affairs in the early history of Los Angeles and Southern
California. ROBERT C. NORTHCROSS.— A native of Tennessee, Robert C. Northcross,
popularly known as Bob, was born at Trenton, on March 10, 1877, the son of Marshall
Northcross who had married Miss Rebecca Caldwell. They were also natives of Ten
nessee, and were reared and educated in that state. The grandfather on the paternal
side was Nelms Northcross of Virginia, who had married Margery Marshall of Ken
tucky. He was a planter in the "Volunteer State," and in 1868 came to California by
way of the Panama route, and made a tour of the state, going as far north as Lake
County and visiting Orange County, after which he returned to Tennessee. He came
back to California with his family in the seventies, and settled in the town of Orange
and there, in 1881, he died.
The death of Nelfns Northcross brought to California, for the settlement of the
estate, his son, Marshall, the father of our subject, who was accompanied by his wife,
his daughter, Margery, and young Robert. They settled on a ranch near Orange. It
consisted of eighteen acres, at the corner of Main and Chapman streets, and was a part
of the grandfather's estate. At first, Mr. Northcross cultivated grapes and seedling
oranges, which he in time took out and put in Mediterranean sweets. These he also took
out, and then planted Navel oranges only to substitute for these Valencias. On this
acreage the family lived for thirty-five years. All the children of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall
Northcross were sent to the old public school at Orange, and in time Robert was
graduated from the high school at Santa Ana, with the class of 1897. At the outbreak
of the Spanish-American War, he enlisted for service as a member of Company L of
the Seventh Regiment, California Volunteers, and served throughout the war. In 1899,
also, he enlisted as one of the Thirty-fifth U. S. Volunteer Infantry, Company D, and
served during the Phillipine Insurrection. He was made a sergeant, and was in the
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In 1901, Mr. Northcross engaged with a wholesale electric supply concern in
Denver, where he remained until December, 1903, when he returned to California and
went back on the ranch. In 1905 he entered Occidental College, and in 1906, went with
Company L, Seventh Infantry, National Guards of California to San Francisco and
took part in the relief work so imperatively demanded at the time of the earthquake
and the fire. The same year, he went to Mexico and for a year worked with the engi
neers of construction on the Yaqui River Railroad. In 1909, Mr. Northcross went on a
walnut ranch of ten acres, on Chapman Avenue, west of Orange, and there he remained
until 1914. From 1914 until 1915 he lived in Los Angeles, and in January, 1915, he went
to work for the Orange County Forestry Commission, to propagate trees for, and
plant them on the county highways. At first he was in charge of the county nursery,
and now he has full charge of the highway forestry work.
On December 30, 1909, Mr. Northcross was married to Miss Eleanor S. Hammack,
a daughter of Judge Daniel M. Hammack, of Los Angeles, whose wife, before her
marriage, was Miss Belle Stewart, daughter of Judge James Stewart of Monmouth, 111.
She had attended the public schools of San Diego, had then matriculated at Occidental
College Academy, and was graduated from the University of California with the class
of 1900. One son, Robert Hammack Northcross, has been born to them. Mr. North-
cross has generally stood by the political doctrines of the Democratic party in national
political affairs, but he has been willing to waive and forget the claims of partisanship
in all local matters, and has always found great pleasure, as has his wife, in supporting
whatever seemed likely to make for the best conditions, and to assure the upbuilding
of the community.
DR. MARION ALBERT MENGES.— A man of forceful character and fine pro
fessional attainments who through his many years of identification with the best in
terests of Orange County made a substantial contribution to its development in more
than one line, is Dr.. Marion Albert Menges, whose passing away in 1912 removed from
the community one of its most public-spirited citizens. Dr. Menges was born in Elk
hart County, Ind., in 1859, the son of George W. Menges, a well-known farmer in
Elkhart County. Marion A. Menges attended the local schools and then entered the
Northern Indiana State Normal at Valparaiso, where he was graduated. He then began
teaching, first in his native county of Elkhart and then in Green County, Ind., and while
so engaged he determined to take up the study of dentistry and accordingly entered the
dental college at Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from there in March, 1888, with the
degree of D.D.S.
Four years previous to his graduation, in 1884, Dr. Menges had been married to
Miss Stella Butcher, who was born at Bloomfield, Green County, Ind.; she was the
daughter of David and Wilhelmina (Hopkins) Butcher, natives, respectively, of Mis
souri and Ireland, the father being a prominent farmer and business man of Green
County, where he resided until his death. Mrs. Butcher, who now makes her home at
Santa Ana, is the mother of three children, two of whom are living: Mrs. Menges and
Mrs. Cora B. Cavins, both of Santa Ana. Immediately after his graduation, with his
wife and their two children, Dr. Menges came to California, locating at Santa Ana,
where for some time he engaged in the practice of dentistry. He was quick to see the
great possibilities of Orange County, both for horticulture and the development of oil,
and after a time he gave up his dental practice and, in connection with the late Ralph
Smith, began the development of oil on a twenty-acre tract in Brea Canyon. In start
ing in this field he showed commendable judgment and enterprise, as it was on this
lease, after he sold his interest to Otis Birch, that a gusher well came in. This was the
first great gusher in this section and although Dr. Menges was compelled to let go of
his holding before its final development, it made a millionaire of Mr. Birch, who is now
a resident of Pasadena. As it was, Dr. Menges used the capital obtained by the sale of
his oil properties for the acquiring of horticultural lands, and for a number of years he
was very active in the realty field in Orange County. At the time of his demise he was
the owner of considerable valuable property in this section, and was one of Orange
County's well-to-do and influential citizens. He was a Knights Templar Mason and
past master of Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M.
Five children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Menges: Mina is the wife of Ed King,
a rancher at Tustin, and they are the parents of three children: Dr. Mark Menges, who
is a practicing dentist at Fullerton, married Miss Gladys Harrison and they are the
parents of one daughter; George married Miss Bernice Roper of Santa Ana and man
ages the home ranch; John is also engaged in the practice of dentistry and is in part-
nershio with his brother Mark at Fullerton; Helen is a student at the Santa Ana high
school. The two older children were born at their eastern home, the three youngest
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Since the death of Dr. Menges, Mrs. Stella Menges has continued to maintain
their beautiful ranch home at 1602 East First Street, Santa Ana. The commodious
residence, set in the midst of attractive and well-kept grounds and surrounded by a
thirteen-acre walnut and orange grove, shows the painstaking care that has been be
stowed upon it. It has been brought up to a high state of cultivation through the
efficient and careful husbandry of Mrs. Menges' son, George, who, with his accom
plished wife, resides on the ranch. The Menges ranch is one of the show places of the
locality, with its many ornamental trees and particularly its row of stately palms — one
of the finest in Orange County.
The Menges family has throughout its residence in Orange County been promi
nent in its social and civic life, and Mrs. Stella Menges has aided in many of the
movements for the upbuilding and betterment of the community. She is a member of
the Christian Church and takes much pleasure in her affiliation with the Eastern Star
and the Ebell Club of Santa Ana.
CAPTAIN HARRY GANTZ.— A South Dakotan who has added his mite to the
development of Orange County and California, and like all Dakotans has written for
himself an enviable record of practical accomplishment not likely soon to be effaced,
is Capt. Harry Gantz, the rancher from the historic Deadwood, where he was born
on September 4, 1888. His father was Fred M. Gantz, a professional man of that state,
who married Miss Molly Christie, a native of Virginia, still enjoying, with her hus
band, the blessings of life and health. Harry was an only child, and it is safe to
say was not neglected in his education.
He not only attended the grammar school, but also went to high school and a
first-class military school, where he remained for five years. This school was the
Kemper Military School, of Booneville, Mo., from which he was graduated with the
class of '07. Then he went to the Philippines, as second lieutenant in the Philippine
Constabulary. After three years he came home in 1911, and joined the regular U. S.
Army as second lieutenant of infantry. In 1914 he was made first lieutenant in aviation,
and in 1916 was promoted to be captain in the same arduous and dangerous field. In
the fall of that year, he resigned and went to live on his California ranch. Now he
has 140 acres, in Orange County, and employs eight men to maintain them in their
high-water condition of development.
At Santa Barbara, on September 1, 1915, Captain Gantz was married to Miss
Beatrice Wooster Miller, a native daughter and the only child of Charles Wooster
Miller, now deceased, and Gertrude Benchley Miller. They were large landowners at
Fullerton. Captain Gantz, who is fond of polo, horses and dogs, has completed with
his gifted wife, a beautiful home of pure Spanish design which is, like his ranch, one
of the real show places of the county. In national political affairs, he is a Republican,
but he works untiringly for the best interests of the locality in an unpartisan manner
affording a stimulating example to all young men ambitious of serving society and their
country. He is an Elk, a life member of Deadwood Lodge No. -508, a member of the
Fullerton Club, the Board of Trade, the Santa Barbara Country Club, and the Army
and Navy Club, in each of which established organizations he is known for a strong
personality and positive influence.
OLIN E. STEWARD.— Although a native of Michigan, Olin E. Steward, the
recently appointed city manager of Anaheim, is associated through his family with the
pioneer days of California. His father, Newton B. Steward, came to the California
gold fields by way of the Isthmus of Panama in 1853, and for fifteen years followed
mining. The mother, who was Lorana Gilbert before her marriage, crossed the plains
at the age of sixteen years, in 1852, and some years later met and married Newton
B. Steward. After these years of arduous struggle in the mining camps, for there were
hardships a-plenty in those pioneer days, Mr. Steward's health failed and he returned
East, settling in Michigan. There he remained until 1889, when he came back to Cali
fornia and engaged in ranching at Santa Ana for a number of years until his demise
in 1896. The mother still resides there at the age of eighty-four years.
Of the five children of Mr. and Mrs. Steward, all of whom are living, Olin E. is
the fourth in order of birth. He was born in Wayne County, Mich., on July 4, 1868.
His early education was obtained in the rural schools in his home district, and he then
attended Albion College, graduating fom there with the degree of Bachelor of Arts
in 1898. He then pursued a further course of study at Northwestern University in
Chicago, and there, in 1901, he received the degree of Bachelor of Sacred Theology.
On completing the work there he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. After devoting four years of his life to this work, his health failed and he was
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It was then that he took up engineering work, and he has since been successfully
engaged in this line of endeavor.
For two years he was with the assessor's office at Santa Ana, and in 1909 he
became city engineer of Anaheim, and through his efficient administration great strides
have been made in the development of the city, as all the paving, sewer work and side
walk laying have been done since he took office. In addition to his work as city engi
neer, he was also superintendent of streets. In November, 1919, Mr. Steward was
made city manager of Anaheim, a position he is exceptionally well qualified to fill,
because of his intimate connection with the city's material development of the past
3'ears, giving him a broad grasp of its future needs and possibilities. In addition to
the duties of his office, Mr. Steward is also a member of the Anaheim board of health,
is gas and sewer inspector, so that his civic interests radiate in many directions.
Mr. Steward's marriage, which occurred on September 14, 1898, united him with
Miss Edna M. Simmons, a native of Michigan. Two children have been born to them,
Katherine and Wendell. Deeply interested in the future development of his chosen
state, and particularly in Orange County, Mr. Steward ranks high among its public-
spirited citizens, as he is always ready to give of his time and energy to every worthy
project that has for its motive the upbuilding of the community. He has served for
three years in the ranks of the California National Guard. Mr. Steward still manifests
an intense interest in the Methodist Church, being president of the board of trustees of
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Anaheim.
HON. J. RALPH CARHART.— The Empire State was never better represented,
among those who have attained fame as public officials in California, than in the
phenomenally successful career of the Hon. J. Ralph Carhart, the popular mayor of
Fullerton, whose influence has been so potent in favor of a broad and substantial
development of the municipality under his control. He was born in New York City
on January 12, of the Centennial year of 1876, and his father was Thomas F. Carhart,
the clothing manufacturer so well known to New Yorkers of that day, and founder of
the firm of Carhart, Witford and Company. He married Miss Marie Louise Casteria,
a native of New Orleans, the daughter of Louis Casteria, a prominent attorney of that
city, and they were the parents of seven children, but only, two sons and two daughters
are now living. Mr. Carhart died in 1882; his widow survives and makes her home with
her son, J. Ralph Carhart, giving him an opportunity to minister to her comfort and
happiness, while she receives the homage of the whole family.
The second youngest of the family, Ralph attended the Columbia grammar school
in his native city; but having removed to California with his mother in 1891, he con
tinued his studies at Throop Polytechnic at Pasadena. His mother had acquired ranch
property of value in the San Fernando Valley, and this estate he managed for her for
five years. After that he came to Fullerton, and since then he has been successfully
engaged in ranching. He has devoted himself in particular to the breeding of Jersey
cattle and Poland-China hogs, and his exhibits at fairs have won the first prize.
At Fullerton, oh September 28, 1898, Mr. Carhart was married to Miss Helen
Anna Benchley, daughter of Edward K. Benchley, president of the Farmers and Mer
chants Bank of Fullerton. Their daughter, Helen Louise, is now Mrs. Stewart S.
Miller; and there are two sons, Ralph Benchley and Thomas Fair Carhart. The family
attend St. Michael's Episcopal Church at Anaheim and Mr. Carhart is a Royal Arch
Mason, a member of Santa Ana Council No. 14, R. & S. M., Anaheim Lodge No. 1345,
B. P. O. Elks, the Fullerton Club, the Hacienda Country Club at La Habra and the
California Club of Los Angeles. In politics Mr. Carhart is a Republican, and on
April 20, 1916, he was elected mayor of Fullerton for a four-year term. His adminis
tration has proved just what anyone would expect who knows the man and his peculiar
fitness for such a high office of trust.
MARCUS ARTHUR BRIDGE.— A native son of California and the son of a
pioneer of the gold days, Arthur Bridge has successfully combined his work as a
masonry contractor with citrus ranching, his ten-acre citrus grove at Yorba Linda
bearing the marks of intelligent care. Born on March 6, 1879, at Compton, Cal.,
Mr. Bridge is the son of Marcus L. and Amy (Millard) Bridge. The father crossed
the plains in 1850, when but nineteen years of age, settling in Northern California, and
remaining there until the Civil War broke out, when he returned East and enlisted in
an Illinois regiment, serving throughout the conflict. As soon as the war was over
he returned to California, locating in Los Angeles, at that time a small settlement, and
he and Mrs. Bridge still make their home there.
Of a family of five children, Arthur Bridge is the third eldest, and with the other
children was educated in the public schools of Los Angeles. Early in boyhood he
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in this line for many years. Leaving home at fifteen, he started out in life for himself,
and soon was successfully contracting big jobs, among them the extensive building
operations of the Janss Investment Company. During this period he worked on some
of the largest buildings ever erected in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and made a
reputation for himself for this thorough, high-grade work. In 1910 Mr. Bridge came
to Yorba Linda and purchased ten acres of bare land and immediately set out his
nursery stock, from which his present grove of lemons was planted. In these days
there was no water company at Yorba Linda and Mr. Bridge was compelled to haul
water in wagons both for irrigation and household purposes, until the present pipe line
was installed. All of Mr. Bridge's brothers and sisters are interested in land at Yorba
Linda, but at present none of them are permanent residents.
In addition to the development of his citrus ranch Mr. Bridge has also continued
his work as a masonry contractor, and since permanently locating here he has had
charge of practically every job of plastering and bricklaying both in Yorba Linda and
the surrounding country.
On December 6, 1906, Mr. Bridge was married to Miss Myrle Reese, who, like
himself, is a native of California. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Reese, were
pioneers of California who settled at Santa Barbara in the early days. Mr. Reese died
in Arizona and Mrs. Reese is now a resident of San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
are the parents of two children, Dorothy Myrle and Donald Arthur, both attending
school at Yorba Linda. Mrs. Bridge is a charter member of the Women's Club of
Yorba Linda and takes an active part in all the progressive movements of the com
munity. Mr. Bridge is prominent in all the cooperative organizations of Yorba Linda,
being a member of the Yorba Linda Chamber of. Commerce, the Associated Chambers
of Commerce and a charter member of the Foothill Groves Association, of which he
was formerly a director, being one of its organizers. In fraternal circles Mr. Bridge is
affiliated with the Yorba Linda Lodge of Masons. Politically he gives his support to
the Republican party.
PIERRE NICOLAS, Jr.— Whenever the historian of Fullerton shall attempt the
agreeable task of narrating the story of this favored spot in Southern California, the
knoll overlooking the entire valley whereon is the magnificently-situated home erected
by the late Pierre Nicolas, will be a certain reminder, of the life and successful labors
of one of: the most prominent and widely esteemed citizens of that city. He was born
in Los Angeles on October 21, 1881, the son of Pierre and Hippolyte (Vincent) Nicolas.
The father .had originally .settled at Whittier and there their son attended for a time
the grammar school, later going to the Sisters School at Anaheim and laying a firm
foundation for a course at the Orange County Business College of Santa Ana and the
finishing' course at St. Vincent College of Los Angeles. All these years Pierre lived
on his father's, ranch and when not in school or otherwise employed, assisted with the
ranch work. .
On October 21, 1914; Pierre Nicolas was united in marriage with Miss Kathryn
Backs, a native daughter of Orange County, born in Anaheim into the home of Joe
and Catherine (Hyefmann) Backs. Joe Backs came from Germany to America when
a child and made his way directly; to' California; Mrs. Backs came to California when
a girl of seven and her life has been passed in this locality ever since. Kathryn
received her first schooling in Anaheim andhas'been reared in Orange County.
The elder Nicolas owned a tract of land north of Orangethorpe Avenue on the
avenue now known as Nicolas Avenue which was named in his honor. The property
east of Nicolas Avenue that finally came into the possession of his son, Pierre, was
owned by his father for six months before he died. Pierre added a tract of twelve
acres, making forty-five acres in the home place, all of which he improved with pipe
lines and pumping plant and set to oranges, lemons and "walnuts, also terraced the prop
erty at a big expense of time and money and made. of it the show place of Fullerton.
He later bought sixty, acres on Orangethorpe . Avenue and this he set to Valencia
oranges and installed, a cement pipe line throughout- .the entire ranch, which is under
the Anaheim Union Water Company. Pier-re, or "Pete," as he was familiarly known
to his friends, was a man of action and was never idle. When he was twenty he was
engaged in the livery business in Fullerton, in partnership with O. R. Fuller, and when
he embarked in ranching he operated on a large scale, leasing some 2,300 acres which
he put into grain. He used the most modern machinery and implements and employed
many men to perform the duties on his ranches. His greatest ambition was to make
of his home place a desirable place of residence and that he succeeded no one need
doubt who has ever visited the spot. Here he and his wife entertained in true Cali
fornian style.
Mr. Nicolas was a man of striking personality, six feet in height and weighing
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death, which occurred on February 10, 1920, after an illness of but a few days from the
flu. Mrs. Nicolas, after the settlement of the estate became the owner of the ranch
of sixty acres on Orangethorpe, which she is wisely conducting, with the assistance of
her brother, Edward Backs. She is widely known for her attractive personality and
her deep interest in all that pertains to the advancement of the community. Mr. and
Mrs. Nicolas both belonged to the Catholic Church in Fullerton. Mr. Nicolas was
originally a member in the highest standing in Santa Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks,
and but a short time before his death transferred to Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, and his
death was deeply mourned by his brother Elks and by all who ever knew or had
business relations with him. He was generous to a fault, was a man of the strictest
integrity and a stanch supporter of all progressive movements for the upbuilding of
Orange County and Southern California.
HORATIO AUGUSTUS ALLEN.— A much-loved and highly esteemed resident
and builder up of Orange County, Horatio Augustus Allen, who passed away in 1916,
left the heritage of a well-spent life, filled with kindly deeds whose memory will ever
be cherished by those near to him. A native of Canada, Mr. Allen was born on a farm
in Oxford County, twenty-five miles northeast of London, Ontario, April 27, 1833.
His father, Nathan Prescott Allen, was born in New York state, where he married Miss
Armenia Mott, also of that state, and later they removed to Oxford County, Ontario,
where they became successful farmers. The Allen family come of old New England
stock, tracing their ancestry back to the days of the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock.
Nathan P. Allen had twin brothers who became prominent attorneys in New York City,
but he was the only one of his immediate family to settle in Canada.
Horatio Augustus Allen was educated in the excellent schools of Ontario and at
the business college in Buffalo, N. Y. Returning to his old home, he engaged in
farming and in business until he made his first trip to California in 1863, coming by
way of the Isthmus of Panama to San Fraricisco at a period when the Golden State
was still but sparsely settled and bearing but little evidence of the wonderful growth
arid prosperity that have marked its later years. Remaining in San Francisco for
nearly two years, he returned to his Canadian home, going by way of the Nicaraguan
route, which at that time shared honors with Panama as a passageway from ocean
to ocean, arriving home in April, 1865. He was aboard the train from New York to
London, Ontario, when the wire came telling of the assassination of President Lincoln.
Upon his return to his native country Mr. Allen engaged in farming, managing
his father's farm until 1874, and then began his career in the banking business. In 1877
he opened a private banking house at Port Elgin, in which he was eminently successful,
and he became a prominent man of affairs with a very high standing in financial circles,
establishing a record for veracity, integrity and honesty- of purpose that was never
questioned. After being identified with the banking interests of Port Elgin, on Lake
Huron, he decided to make his home in the land of sunshine and flowers. His second
trip to California was in 1884, when he brought his family to Tustin, where his nephew,
ex-Senator Prescott Cogswell, then resided; Mr. Cogswell is now one of the super
visors of Los Angeles County. Mr. Allen returned to Port Elgin in the spring of 1885,
but in the fall of 188.5 his health became impaired, so in January, 1886, he brought his
family out with the intention of establishing his home in California. His first purchase
was a ranch of eight acres at Main and Glenn streets, Tustin, the nucleus of the large
acreage he later acquired and left to his family on his passing away. He added to his
holdings until he became the owner of eighty acres in five different ranches near Tustin,
all set to walnuts with the exception of fifteen acres, which were in Valencia and Navel
oranges — a well-improved and valuable estate.
Mr. Allen's marriage, which occurred at Mt. Pleasant, Ontario, May 9, 1877,
united him with Miss Emma German, also a native of that country, born at Wilton,
Ontario, and a daughter of Rev. J. W. and Sarah (Purdy) German. Her father was
of English and Scotch-Irish descent and a minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church,
a very able and conscientious preacher, who filled the pulpit for more than forty years,
until he retired. Mrs. Allen's maternal ancestors trace back to England through
Massachusetts, and her great-grandfather Purdy, being a United Empire Loyalist,
moved from New York state to Ontario about the time of the Revolutionary War.
She is the second eldest of six children living, and has a brother, Edgar German, who
resides in Los Angeles. Emma German received a good education in the schools of
Ontario, and after completing the high school course, attended Hamilton College. The
union of Mr. and Mrs. Allen was blessed with three children: Lucius of Tustin. and
Augustus Horatio of Santa Ana; both assist their mother in caring for her ranches,
giving it all of their time and attention. Gerald is a sophomore at Occidental College.
Mr. Allen's death, which occurred April 8, 1916, removed from the roster of early
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development of the county, and who enjoyed the highest esteem of all who knew him.
His example is well worthy of emulation.
Since her husband's death, Mrs. Allen, with the aid of her sons, continues to
manage and operate the different ranches, and tries as far as possible to carry out the
plans and ambitions of her husband; and, like her husband, she is very optimistic over
the future greatness of this favored section of California. She is a member of the
Presbyterian Church and of the ladies' aid and missionary societies of that denomina
tion.- Cultured, refined, well-read and a pleasing conversationalist, it is indeed a
pleasure to know and enjoy her hospitality.
ISAAC CRAIG. — A contracting carpenter who has not only been active in help
ing to build up Orange County in the material sense, but who, as an influential City
Father has contributed to stimulating and guiding its growth along broad and perma
nent lines, is Isaac Craig, a Canadian by birth, having first seen the light in Ontario
on March 19, 1862. His father was John, and his mother Ann J. (McCollough) Craig;
they lived busy, useful lives and are now both dead. They had thirteen children, among
whom Isaac was the youngest child.
He attended the excellent common schools in Canada, and later learned the car
penter's trade, at which he worked until coming into the States in 1880. He came west
to North Dakota and remained there six months, after wliich he moved on to Manitoba
and British Columbia. In 1887, he returned to the States and for six months was
employed at Helena, Mont. During the height of the great "boom" in 1887, Mr. Craig
came to California and for awhile located at Los Angeles. Then he went north to
San Francisco. At the beginning of the century, he came first to Orange County,
locating at Olinda and in 1912 came to Brea, where he was one of the first residents;
and since then he has built the Brea Hotel and many of the finest residences and busi
ness buildings hereabouts. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, in which organ
ization he is always ready to shoulder his share of any movement making for the
progress of the locality. Mr. Craig was easily elected city trustee in 1918, and was
one of the first trustees of Brea, with a four-year term. He was also appointed, and
then elected justice of the peace.
In Los Angeles on June 27, 1888, Mr. Craig was married to Miss Mary C. Reardon,
a native of Charleston, S. C, and their fortunate union has been blessed through the
birth of five boys and two girls. John M., in Sumatra; Mary Jane, wife of C. C. Hos-
mer, of Alhambra; Sarah E., Mrs. L. B. Depweg, of Honolulu; Edward, James C,
William and Thomas, all at home. James C. and Edward were in the World War;
the former was in France over a year, serving in the supply department; Edward was
in training in the aviation department in England. In club life, Mr. Craig is active
and popular in the Grand Fraternity.
JOHN CASSOU. — A highly-esteemed citizen noted for his great faith in the
future of Orange County, a faith no doubt quickened because of his own work as a
builder up of communities, is John Cassou, of Anaheim, whose good wife is a daughter
of an intrepid '49er. He is now one of the oldest settlers of Anaheim living, although
he first saw the light in the vicinity of Pau, in the Basses-Pyrenees, France. He was
born there on October 18, 1856, and was descended from an old and well-known family.
His parents were liberal-minded folks, and he received the best education that the public
schools could afford. So well was he equipped for the ordinary station in life that at
sixteen he migrated from home, sailed for America and eventually came to San Fran
cisco. He had a brother in Anaheim, and that circumstance led him to proceed to the
mother colony, where for two years he was employed in stock raising. Then, having
saved some money, he decided to engage in the sheep business, and to establish some
thing for himself.
He was only eighteen years of age, therefore, when he went to San Diego County
and bought a small flock of sheep; and from 1875 until 1886 he ranged them on the
plains and the mountains, after which he branched out into other lines. In partnership
with his brother, Peter, he ran the butcher shop in Escondido, providing the town with
the first meat market; and as the property at present of a nephew it is still running.
In 1894, he sold out his various interests, save the ranches, which he still owns, to his
brother, and came back to Anaheim. On his return, he embarked in the hotel and
liquor trade, and in that line he continued for twenty years, or until he felt that his
other affairs demanded all of his attention. He owns a business building, as well as a
residence on West Center and Clementine, and also the Cassou Block, which he built
in 1916. It is 97x155 feet on West Center, a very central location, and the edifice
makes a fine business block. He is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Ana
heim, of which he has been a director, and also a stockholder in the Anaheim Savings
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other valuable property in Los Angeles, which they recently erected and which adds
to the artistic standards for which that city is noted. Naturally, Mr. Cassou belongs
to the Chamber of Commerce in Anaheim, where he is highly esteemed for his progres
sive views. The marriage of Mr. Cassou to Mrs. Marie (Sarrail) Blanchard, a native of San
Francisco, occurred at Anaheim in 1896, and will long be remembered pleasantly by
those who participated in the social event. The bride's father was Rock Sarrail, who
in 1849 came to San Francisco by way of the Horn, landing after a six months' trip.
He followed mining for a while, and then later took up stock raising, coming south to
Los Angeles to range his herds. In the beginning, he let his flocks roam in what is
now the business center of Los Angeles, but which was then merely open fields; and
his herders moved along what is now Hill Street, between Sixth and Seventh. Mr.
Sarrail is still living, at the ripe old age of eighty-one years; and he is enviably honored
by all who know him as one of the genuine old-timers. Marie is the oldest child of
the family, and was reared and educated in Southern California; and as far back as
1869 she came to Anaheim. She first married Victor Blanchard, a native of the Hautes
Alps, France, who was engaged in sheep raising in Orange County, and was a promi
nent stockman and landowner, operating extensively, when he died in 1891. They had
three children, but only one is living, Mrs. Rose Hessel, of Anaheim. One child, Ruby,
a graduate of the Anaheim high school and also of a Los Angeles business college, has
blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Cassou. Mr. Cassou is a member of both the Ana
heim Lodge of the Elks and Eagles.
JOHN C. ORD. — Orange County is widely known for its recognition of old-time
residents who have had to do with the founding and developing of this favored part of
the Golden State, and it is not likely to forget such a worthy pioneer as John C. Ord,
the father of Seal Beach, who was born in Orleans County, Vt., on July 28, 1842. As
a boy, he worked in the woods getting out lumber, and also in a saw-mill, and at the
outbreak of the Civil War enlisted as a volunteer in the cause of the Union, and served
for three years. He belonged to Company E, Ninth Vermont Infantry, and was in the
Twenty-fourth Army Corps under his cousin, Gen. E. O. C. Ord. He took part in the
surrender of General Lee, and recalls that historic occasion as one of the most inter
esting events of his entire life. He was in the battle of Winchester and Harpers'
Ferry, and was captured at the latter place and sent to Chicago, where he was ex
changed. He also took part in the siege of Norfolk and" the battle at Newport, N. C.
In the last year of the war, he was attached to the Sharpshooter Brigade, and par
ticipated in the battle of Petersburg. He was also in the grand review at the close of
the war in Richmond. As one result of this meritorious and active service, he helped
to organize Baxter Post, G. A. R., at Newport, Vt.
In 1866, Mr. Ord crossed the Isthmus to California, and landed in San Francisco
with only $300. This he soon spent and was obliged to find work. The experiment
was not without difficulties, and he was forced to tramp through the country in search
of employment and begged for something to eat. His first engagement was on a ranch
in Contra Costa County, owned by Charles Howard. After that he worked on thresh
ing machines in harvest fields, and then he went to the neighborhood of Monterey in
the Salinas Valley, where he chopped wood and again harvested.
In 1869 Mr. Ord returned to his old home in Vermont, on one of the first railroad
trains to cross the Continent after the driving of the famous golden spike; but like so
many who have found it impossible to say goodbye to California, he came back to the
Coast and located at Grass Valley, in Nevada County, where he mined, and built two
houses which he sold. He then went to Los Alamitos, Orange County, and erected a
two-story store building, in which he kept a general store and also served as justice
of the peace.
On February 29, 1904, Mr. Ord hauled his store building to what is now Seal
Beach and located it on Main Street, where it is still standing and doing good service.
It is owned by John P. May, who conducts there a general store and the local post-
office. This was the first building in Seal Beach, and Mr. Ord lived alone in it for
three months. Later, he leased out the store and took a six months' trip to New
Zealand. On his return, Mr. Ord started in to build up Seal Beach. He bought lots in
the area of the proposed town, some of which he still owns; was appointed first post
master of the place, began to sell his own property, advertising "Bargains in Second
hand Houses and Lots," and cleaned up a handsome profit through his sales, and he
also, attracted visitors through a fine collection of skunks, squirrels and coyotes, which
served as an attraction to beach visitors. He had thirteen skunks, quite as tame as
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Besides faithfully fulfilling his duties as postmaster of Seal Beach, Mr. Ord also
served as agent for the Wells Fargo Express Company on their entering the town, and
this enabled him to help still more effectively in building up the place. He planted
the first tree in Seal Beach, a blooming acacia, as well as other needed trees, and
when the acacia was cut down, a gavel was made from some of the wood and presented
to Mr. Ord by his friends; and this gavel he used in presiding over the deliberations
of the board of town trustees. When Seal Beach was incorporated, on October 19,
1915, he was elected chairman or mayor, and was reelected to that office, retiring
from office in April, 1920, to the regret of all who knew him.
Mr. Ord married Miss Mary White, a Vermont lady, now deceased, who became
the mother of a son, Ernest W, Ord, a graduate of the Grass Valley high school.
He is now foreman of a large lumber company in Cambridge, Mass. In Irasburg,
Orleans County, Vt., M,'r. Ord joined Central Lodge of Masons, No. 62, A. F. & A. M.,
and at Newport, Vt., he was raised to the Royal Arch degree and entered the fellow
ship of the Commandery, when he became a Knight Templar. Later, he demitted to
the Norwalk, Cal., lodge of Masons.
GEORGE EDDIE ROBINSON.— A substantial citizen of Santa Ana long and
highly honored not only among all old-timers, but particularly among the Masons of
Orange County is George Eddie Robinson, one of the oldest stockholders in the Orange
County Trust and Savings Bank. He was born at Winterset, in Madison County, Iowa,
on August 16, 1857, a member of the family of H. J. Robinson, a native of New York,
who was reared in Ohio. In his young days he was a boatman on the Wabash Canal.
With his devoted wife, who was Julia Carpenter before her marriage, a native of Ohio,
he came to Winterset, Iowa, in 1854. In 1858 he located at Fremont, Nebr., the
seventh family to locate in that district, there being a village of 1,500 Indians across
the Platte River from them. He engaged in building saw mills and flour mills, made the
cottonwood lumber for the early settlers, and later made flour. On account of his
health he came to California in June, 1875, and for years was engaged in farming here.
For twelve years prior to his death he lived retired in Santa Ana. During these latter
years his association with Masonry gave him much diversion and comfort. Mrs.
Robinson, who was the mother of two children, is also deceased.
The younger of the offspring, George E. Robinson went to the local public schools
and remained in the Middle West throughout his youth so that he was a young man
of seventeen when he came to California in 1875. He was engaged in farming in Santa
Barbara County with his father until 1883, when he came to El Modena, Orange
County, and for three years gave his time to the cultivation and care of a twenty-acre
tract of vineyard and oranges. On selling this he bought ten acres, now the southwest
corner of Fourth and Baker streets; this he subdivided as the Robinson tract and it
was soon sold. For fifteen years Mr. Robinson also followed teaming, so that he not
only has seen much of the development of Santa Ana and vicinity, but has actively
participated in the work of bringing about the miraculous changes. He was a stock
holder in the Balboa Company and helped to lay out the town of Balboa, early took
stock in the Orange County Savings Bank, now the Orange County Trust and Savings
Bank, and thus attracted to it other capital, and erected three houses worthy of the
vicinity. In many ways, therefore, Mr. Robinson has been very much, as he still is,
interested in the development of the town and the county.
On September 3, 1890, Mr. Robinson and Miss Fannie Swift were married, but
the following year his estimable companion passed away. She left a daughter, Eva F.,
who is now Mrs. James S. Elliott, through whom Mr. Robinson has one grandchild,
James S. Elliott, Jr.
In every good movement for the benefit of the neighborhood, socially and morally
an untiring leader working without partisanship, Mr. Robinson is a Republican in
matters of national politics, and there endeavors to use his influence for the best nomi
nees. Mr. Robinson is a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M., Chapter
No. 73, R. A. M., Santa Ana Council No. 4, R. & S. M„ and Santa Ana Commandery No.
36, Knights Templar. He is also a member of Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.,
at Los Angeles, and of Hermosa Chapter No. 105, O. E. S. He has been tyler of all
the Masonic bodies in Santa Ana for over fifteen years. Mr. Robinson was a member
of the California National Guards under Hal Finley, and later under Walter Greenleaf.
He was also constable of Santa Ana Township for six years and for eighteen years
deputy county clerk, giving his attention to the registration of voters, which position
he has held satisfactorily under four different county clerks. As a Republican he has
been a delegate to many county and state conventions and has always taken an active
part in county politics.
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GEORGE HENRY AMERIGE. — Not many men living can point with pride to
such a city as Fullerton and claim, as may the brothers, George H. and Edward R.
Amerige, that the splendid reality is the child of what was once a mere dream, and
one at which some people even smiled; but such is the occasional step in the evolution
of the great Pacific commonwealth, itself the veriest reality crowning the fancies and
vision of those who dared to look far ahead. These founders of one of the most
attractive and promising, of all the municipalities in Southern California were born in
Maiden, Mass., one of the suburbs of Boston, descendants of an old Colonial family,
one of their number being George H. Amerige, an uncle of our subject, who came
out to the Coast as a genuine '49er, traveling by way of Panama, and later founded the
well-known newspaper, Alta California, in San Francisco. The Amerige family dates
back to one of the oldest Protestant families of Italy, who were driven out of their
native land at the time of the persecution of the Protestants. They fled to Germany and
later to England, and there Maurice Amerige was born and reared. He and two
of his brothers came to Boston, Mass., where he became a prominent business man.
He married a Miss Brown, the daughter of Solomon Brown one of the early shoe
manufacturers of Lynn.
The father of our subject, Hon. Henry Amerige, was born in Boston, and like
many New England lads, went to sea for awhile; later becoming well known as a
manufacturer and outfitter of sailing vessels, his place of business being at No. 1
Commercial Wharf, Boston. He was one of the first mayors of Maiden, which he
helped to lay out, and he gave this attractive suburb the land necessary for a park,
now known as Amerige Park. He was a representative in the Massachusetts Legis
lature, a member of the board of assessors of Maiden, was state commissioner and
superintendent of highways for many years, and always occupied a position of promi
nence in the locality, where he was held in the highest respect. The mother, who
was Harriette Elizabeth Giles Russell, was born in the old Benjamin Franklin home in
Boston; her father, Benjamin Russell, was born in Salem, Mass., and married Miss
Giles, whose father, Benjamin Giles, served in the Revolutionary War; he had married
Miss Endicott, a cousin of Governor Endicott of Massachusetts. They were all of
English descent and of old Puritan stock. Mr. Amerige's great-grandfather, Benjamin
Giles, gave the sounding board to the old South Church in Boston. Benjamin Russell
owned several vessels and was engaged in the merchant marine trade. He brought
the first two colored boys from Africa to Salem and educated them until they were
able to make their own way, and also brought the first rubber from South America to
Massachusetts. All in all the Amerige ancestors were among the prominent and
interesting old families of New England.
There were five children in the family of Henry and Elizabeth (Russell) Amerige,
of whom George H. was the second eldest. The other members of the family were
Edward H. Amerige, late of Fullerton, who died on May 3, 1915; Hattie A. is the wife
of Albert B. Morgan, a prominent druggist of Maiden, Mass.; Miss Ella Amerige also
of Maiden; and Alfred B., who makes his home at Everett, Mass. Mrs. Morgan is the
only member of the family of five children to have issue and has been blessed with
three children: Henry A., who enlisted and served in the U. S. Navy during the World
War, is now associated in the drug business; Russell B. also enlisted for service in the
World War, serving in the U. S. Army overseas for eighteen months and since his
discharge is also associated with his father; Alva B., the youngest is attending the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. George H. Amerige, as stated before, was a
native of Maiden, Mass., born March 22, 1855, and the lad who was destined to play
such an interesting role in California history, grew up under exceptionally advantageous
circumstances in Maiden, where he attended the local schools and was closely asso
ciated with the business life of the suburban cities of the Hub. As a young man he
engaged in the wholesale and retail handling of hay and grain at Boston, in partnership
with his brother, Edward R., and although they started in a small way, they were
soon able to ship in carload lots; they had four different stores in Massachusetts and
built and owned warehouses. Hearing of the turn given to land and other affairs in
what is generally spoken of as the "boom" period in California, they disposed of their
Massachusetts interests and arrived here in May, 1886; here they continued together in
business, cooperating in harmony and joy in each other's association until the passing
away of Edward R. Amerige in 1915, a loss to town, county and state.
George H. Amerige has told in an admirable historical document, just what they
did when once they had cast their lot here, and much of his story is well worth repeat
ing. After a thorough and careful inspection of all the country round about what is now
the Fullerton district, these two young men formulated a plan to start a town, thinking
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municipality. Its close proximity to the then only well-developed portion of this region,
the beautiful and productive Placentia district, was a potent factor in the decision.
The original purchase was made in the spring of 1887, and comprised 430 acres
of land, a rich and fertile tract formerly belonging to the Miles estate. Having
obtained the information that the Santa Fe Railroad Company would soon build a line
from Los Angeles to San Diego, passing through Orange County, then a part of Los
Angeles County, and nearthe Amerige land, the brothers negotiated with the company
and induced them, by giving them an interest in the townsite, to change their route so
as to run through the new tract. Frank Olmstead of Los Angeles was engaged to
survey and plot the townsite; and the first stake was driven in his survey at what is
now the corner of Spadra Street and East Commonwealth Avenue, then a field of wild
mustard, by Edward Amerige on July 5, 1887. Visionary as this scheme of a town
in a mustard field might have then seemed to many, the land was soon cleared,
streets laid out and various buildings erected.
The first of these was the one built by the Amerige Brothers and used by them as
an office, and ever since for business purposes. At this time the great boom in South
ern California was rapidly subsiding, and the town was seriously handicapped by lack
of transportation facilities to and from Los Angeles, the Santa Fe having failed, for a
year, to complete its line, as agreed upon, to Fullerton. Wilshire Bros., hearing of
the remarkable prospects of the new town, desired to purchase an interest in the
venture, and prevailed upon the Ameriges to accommodate them; and later all interests
were merged into the Pacific Land and Improvement Company, to better facilitate the
new town's growth. , When it was proposed to name the place after the founders, they
modestly expressed their appreciation of the compliment, but did not wish to have it
done; whereupon it was named in honor of George H. Fuller, then president of the
Pacific Land and Improvement Company, which was really a branch of the Santa Fe
Railroad Company, organized to promote the Santa Fe's interests, and to arrange for
rights of way and railroad land. Later the Wilshire Bros, and C. C. Carpenter pur
chased the Pacific Land and Improvement Company's interest, and the Fullerton Land
and Trust Company came into existence. The Wilshires failing to fulfill their contract
with the Pacific Land and Improvement Company, their holdings were taken over
by the land company. Then the interests of Amerige Brothers and the Pacific Land
and Improvement Company were segregated, and the Fullerton Land and Trust Com
pany dissolved, and Amerige Brothers stayed with the town.
Fullerton did not receive any natural benefits from the boom, for before the
advent of the railroad, it was all over. The first train to reach the town was in the
fall of 1888, and the first building of any importance to be erected was the St. George
Hotel, named for George Amerige, costing over $50,000, which was wrecked in 1918 to
make room for a modern business block, erected by Geo. H. Amerige. The Wilshire
Block at the corner of Spadra and Commonwealth avenue was also built in 1888, and it
is still standing. The first bank to be established was the First National Bank and
Fullerton Savings Bank, affiliated, which came into existence largely through the
efforts of Amerige Brothers.
Most of the streets of the town were named by the Amerige brothers, after the
streets in or near their native Massachusetts town. Commonwealth Avenue, one of the
finest, derived its name from the famous thoroughfare of Boston. Maiden Street and
Highland Avenue were named for the city and street where the founders formerly lived,
and Amerige Avenue perpetuates the name of the town.'s founders. Other streets were
named after officials of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company and of the Santa
Fe Railroad Company.
The Amerige Brothers also planted and developed a sixty-acre walnut orchard,
since sold by them, and sent their walnuts in carload lots to the East. They erected
a number of buildings in the city and George H. Amerige has recently completed two
new modern business blocks on his property on East Commonwealth Avenue, a block
having 350 feet frontage on Commonwealth and 175 feet on Spadra Street. He also
owns two buildings on Spadra Street of fifty and seventy-five feet front and is now
building a concrete business block on Amerige Avenue, having a frontage of 100 feet.
He still has business interests in Massachusetts and owns valuable property in his
native city, Maiden. Deeply interested in Fullerton from its inception he had to do
with every enterprise and movement started, most of which have had a bearing on
making it the splendid residence place of today. He put in the first waterworks that the
first citizens to locate might enjoy the convenience and abundance of the necessity of
life and with his own hands planted the first trees along the avenues in Fullerton,
starting the beautifying of the city that is now so much enjoyed.
Mr. Amerige's marriage was solemnized in Boston, September 12, 1894, when he
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reared in Boston. She also comes of a very old and prominent New England family,
whose ancestors served in the Colonial and Revolutionary wars. She is the daughter
of Joseph Jackson, a native of Maine who was a shipbuilder in Searsport and later in
Boston, where he continued shipbuilding until he retired, he and his wife spending their
last days there. Her mother, Eliza Thorndyke Sawyer, was born in Thorndyke, Maine,
a daughter of Rev. John Sawyer and Elizabeth (Gilman) Sawyer. Grandfather Sawyer
was a well-known Baptist minister in his day. They are closely related to ex-Governor
Sawyer of New Hampshire and the Chadborns and Hamlins of Maine. The Gilman
family also dates back to England; when Mrs. Amerige's great-great-grandfather Gil
man, with three brothers, came from England in their own ship to Beverly, Mass., they
were given a grant of land in New Hampshire and proceeded to colonize it. Thus
Gilmanton, N. H., was named for her ancestors. Annetta Jackson was the youngest
of a family of six children, and was reared and educated in Boston, residing there
until she came as a bride to Fullerton. A woman of culture and refinement, Mrs.
Amerige is much loved and highly esteemed by her many friends, who appreciate her
for her kindness, amiability and worth. She has always been intensely interested in
her husband's affairs and has encouraged him in his ambitions, and both have always
bent every effort to aid in the civic and moral uplift of Fullerton. She is a member
of the order of the Eastern Star and the P. E. O.
Mr. Amerige was one of the five founders of the Fullerton Lodge of Odd Fellows
and is a member of the Fullerton Club and the Board of Trade. He is a strong Pro
tectionist and Republican and has been prominent in the councils of the party. Almost
every year with his wife he makes a trip back to his old home in Massachusetts, visit
ing their many friends and relatives. Particularly do they maintain a live interest in
the growth and development of Fullerton and freely give of their time and means to
all enterprises that have for their aim the beautifying of the city and enhancing the
comfort and happiness of its citizens. Mr. Amerige can safely be said to be not only
Fullerton's oldest but also its foremost citizen.
PETER GODDICKSEN. — Prominent among the steady, industrious citizens of
Orange whose character and foresight enabled them to succeed themselves and to be
able and willing to point the way to success for others, is Peter Goddicksen, a native
of Flensburg, Germany, where he was born on December 10, 1853. His father was
Claus Goddicksen, a farmer, who had married Elise Clare Carlsen. They are now de
ceased, but they left behind to honor their worthy name five children, two of whom
are in the United States; Nicholas Goddicksen is still living in South Dakota.
Peter, the eldest, was brought up on the home farm, emigrating in 1875, to the
United States and located in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, where he was employed on
a farm, in Avoca township, for a couple of years. He then homesteaded 160 acres,
and preempted another 160, and besides secured a timber claim of 160 acres, in 1882,
all in Douglas County, S. D.; and while pioneering there, converted this raw land
into an improved farm. He broke the prairie, raised hogs and cattle and thus got a
fairly good start. He was both a trustee and the treasurer of the school committee,
and all in all was honored by those who knew him.
Later he sold out and removed to Hornick, Woodbury County, Iowa, where he was
a farmer for six years; and in 1901 he made his first trip to Southern California, when
he visited Orange. Two years later, in January, he returned to California, and located
at Orange, where he bought a ranch on East Chapman Street; and there, on one
place, ,he resided for seventeen years. There were eighteen and a half acres, and
nearly all the tract he set out to orange trees, particularly Valencias, and to lemons,
and after awhile had there an unusually well-developed orchard. He joined the Santiago
Orange Growers Association, and was one of the first members of the McPherson
Heights Citrus Association, and was on its first board of directors, and was also a
member and a trustee of the Lemon Growers Association. He had an orange nursery,
and was one of the first to set out avocados. He had nine acres of land set out to
oranges, olives and lemons, and this he sold, disposing also of some six and a half
acres set out to oranges, north of Whittier Heights. In 1919, Mr. Goddicksen sold
his ranch and located in Orange, where he now resides at 306 North Center Street,
still retaining a twenty-acre orchard of apricots at Nuevo, in Riverside County; he also
owns ten acres of unimproved land there, and twenty acre's of oranges half way between
Orange and Anaheim.
During his residence in Dakota, Mr. Goddicksen was married to Miss Emelie
Ertinger, a native of Wuertemberg, Germany, and the daughter of Albert and Katherine
(Kik) Ertinger. As far back as 1874, Mrs. Goddicksen came with her parents to Clay
County, S. D., and settled near Yankton, the family later removing to Douglas County.
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plimentary attention, and the full appreciation of his worth as an American citizen.
After his death, his widow was married a second time to Fred Seiser, and they now
reside on East Chapman Street, Orange. Five children of Mr. and Mrs. Goddicksen
are still living; Elise E. educated at the Los Angeles high school and at the Orange
County Business College, was city stenographer of Santa Ana, and is now a public
stenographer and notary; she is very musical and is a pianist, vocalist and whistler. She
is a member of the Presbyterian Church; William resides in San Francisco, and with
him is his brother, A. Lenz, an instructor and consulting man for the Cleveland tractor.
William was a member of the Three Hundred Sixty-fourth Regiment and saw service
overseas for two years; A. Lenz was in the service and did limited duty; Elsie K. is
in the Orange high school, and the youngest is Grant C. Goddicksen.
Mr. and Mrs. Goddicksen are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at"
Santa Ana, and they are both strong Republicans. Mr. Goddicksen is a member of the
Ancient Order United Workers, and of Orange Lodge No. 225, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows; and his wife, and daughter Elise, are members, with him, of the Rebekahs.
EDWARD RUSSELL AMERIGE.— In the annals of Fullerton a name that will
ever stand out distinctly in its history is that of Edward Russell Amerige, one of
Orange County's foremost citizens, who with his brother, George H. Amerige, founded
this thriving town, now one of the prosperous municipalities of the Southland, and
gave all his energy and effort to its upbuilding. In civic life he was also a leader
from the formation of Fullerton; he was prominent in the county and represented his
district in the Legislature, where his aggressive enterprise and influence made them
selves felt. Liberal and progressive in his ideas, at his passing away on May 3, 1915.
Orange County lost one of its best men.
Edward Russell Amerige was born in Maiden, Mass., August 1, 1857, the son of
Henry and Elizabeth Giles (Russell) Amerige, prominent citizens of Maiden, a history
of the Amerige family and their forbears being recounted in the biography of George
H. Amerige, on another page of this work. Mr. Amerige grew to manhood in his
native town arid after completing his education there he entered into partnership with
his brother, George H., in the wholesale and retail hay and grain business, and with
their characteristic energy built up a very large and successful business. They had
become intensely interested in the Pacific Coast region and after much thought and
investigation concluded to cast in their lot in the Golden State. Disposing of their
business interests in Massachusetts, they arrived in California in May, 1886, coming
first to Pasadena, the vicinity of which was then mostly grain fields. They immediately
purchased a ranch and here they made their headquarters for a few weeks, during which
time they traveled over various parts of the county.
They became much interested in the Anaheim section, as they saw great possi
bilities for the locality between that place and the Placentia district, so in 1887 they
purchased 430 acres of wild, uncultivated land, the present site of Fullerton. It was
covered with wild mustard and brush, but with their natural optimism and New
England foresight, they saw the possibilities of locating a town, since the Santa Fe
Railroad Company was planning to build its road to Santa Ana and on to San Diego.
They made their plans and had the town laid out, the first stake in the survey being
driven by Edward R. Amerige on July 5, 1887, at the corner of Spadra Street and
Commonwealth Avenue. They had interested the Santa Fe Railroad Company by giving
them an interest in the town site, so the railroad was located through the new town.
Other partners were taken in and changes made in the joint ownership. The sub
siding of the boom caused a cessation of progress for the time being, but through all
these years the Amerige brothers never lost their optimism and faith that it would
some time be a large town.
When the railroad was surveyed through, the naming of the town had to be
decided on. Mr. Fuller, president of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company, a
subsidiary of the Santa Fe Railroad Company, as well as others, wished to name the
town Amerige, but the brothers modestly requested that some other name be given,
their only wfsh being to make it a good, substantial, growing town, and they suggested
that it be named Fullerton, after the aforesaid official, which was done. However,
the old-time citizens know how hard George and Edward Amerige worked to build
up the town, never losing faith in the place during all the hard times, and think it an
injustice that the town should not have borne the name of its founders. Subsequent
events show how Edward Amerige and his brother did all they could to build up the
city, takin°- a prominent part in its civic life and in the establishment of its financial
institutions. Edward R. Amerige was the- first mayor of Fullerton and served two terms on
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1905) in the Assembly of the State Legislature. He was prominent in matters pertain
ing to irrigation and was for a time president of the Anaheim Union Water Company.
A Knights Templar Mason, he was a well-beloved member of that organization and
was one of the founders of the Fullerton Lodge, F. & A. M., and it was largely
through his efforts that the first Masonic Temple was built in Fullerton, and at his
passing the funeral service here was conducted by the Knights Templar, while accord
ing to his request his body was taken back to Massachusetts and buried in the old
family lot in Forest Dale Cemetery, at Maiden.
ELMER ELLSWORTH JAHRAUS.— Of French and German descent, E. E.
Jahraus of Laguna Beach is the son of Andrew Jahraus, who was one of the leaders
in the revolution against German militarism in those stirring days from 1832 to 1846.
With Carl Schurz, who was later so prominent in the public life of America, and a
member of President Grant's cabinet, Andrew Jahraus fled from Germany to America
in 1847, after a reward had been offered for their capture, dead or alive, by the
militarists. Mr. Jahraus located in Hamilton County, Ohio, near Cincinnati, and
there established himself as a decorator and building contractor. His marriage, which
occurred there, united him with Miss Christine Gruber, a native of Alsace-Lorraine,
who was brought to America by her parents when but a babe. Of a famliy of hve
sons and three daughters, E. E. Jahraus, the subject of this sketch, is the youngest
son. He was born January 27, 1866, at the family home in Hamilton County, Ohio,
and when he reached school age he attended the public schools at Urbana and
Dayton, Ohio.
Leaving home at the age of eleven to make his own way in the world, Mr.
Jahraus found his first employment in a cigar factory at Urbana, Ohio, and also
worked for two years in a woolen mill. When he was fourteen years old he entered
the employ of one of the largest broom manufacturing concerns in the East, thor
oughly learning the trade and remaining with them for seven years. Leaving Ohio
in 1886, Mr. Jahraus went to Au Sable, Mich., on Lake Huron, where he became an
expert in the cigar manufacturing business. After becoming a foreman he determined
to carry out his long-cherished ambition to become a traveling salesman, so he started
on the road for his brother, who was a cigar manufacturer of Au Sable, and continued
his work as a salesman for some time, and recalls many interesting experiences he
had during his travels. Later he went to Alpena, Mich. ,and for many years was
superintendent of a large cigar factory. A brother-in-law of Mr. Jahraus having
located in Oregon, he planned to remove to the Northwest, but finally came to Los
Angeles instead.
Coming to Santa Ana in 1900, he remained there for a year and a half, where
he was in the employ of Leo Goepper. In 1902 he moved to Laguna Beach and
opened a cigar factory and curio shop in the Beach Hotel, shipping souvenir boxes
of cigars to all parts of the United States. While in this business he became inter
ested in the future of this beach city, and this interest has grown with the years, so
that a large measure of the development work carried on there in late years is
due to his enthusiasm and energy. Starting in a small way in the real estate business
as the Laguna Beach Realty Company, Mr. Jahraus is now the largest realtor in
that district. At the time of the organization of this company there were only about
ten permanent families there, and the tourists were depended upon to make up the
life of the town. The only connection with the rest of the state was by stage from
El Toro, so that it was practically inaccessible to the average traveler. Under the
efficient leadership of Mr. Jahraus, in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce
and the public, the community has begun to show marked improvement, with good
schools and good roads, and it is on the coast line of the proposed State Highway.
The Sanitary District was also established largely through Mr. Jahraus' efforts and
he is a member of its board.
Among Mr. Jahraus' many other activities he is president of the Chamber of
Commerce, vice-president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Orange County,
one of the members of the board of control of the Laguna Beach Art Associa
tion, which is making this beach a mecca for artists from far and wide, and he was
for many years a member of the school board. During the war he was chairman of
the Liberty Loan Committee of Laguna Beach, and as one of its four-minute speakers
did much to further their drives. During his youthful days he served for four years
in the Ohio State Militia, and was detailed for service at Cincinnati during the riot
that caused such disturbances there in 1884. Politically Mr. Jahraus has not actively
aligned himself with any party, preferring to give his support to the best men and
measures, regardless of party affiliations.
Mr. Jahraus' marriage united him with Miss Henrietta Beadle, the daughter of
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engaged in the hotel and mercantile business in Canada. Mr, and Mrs. Jahraus are
the parents of two children, Joseph R. and Pauline C, the latter graduating from
the State Normal School at Los Angeles in 1920.
Joseph R. Jahraus enlisted on April 1, 1918, in the Thirty-third Engineers Corps,
U. S. A. Stationed at Fort Douglas, Utah, for one month, he was then sent to Camp
Devens, Mass., thence overseas, landing at Brest, France, July 12, 1918. He was on
one of sixteen troop ships, sailing under a convoy of two battleships and six de
stroyers, and when they reached the submarine zone they were met by a fleet of
twenty-four destroyers, and as they neared the coast of France they were under the
protection of three dirigibles and many small craft. Mr. Jahraus was detailed at
once to active service as a wagoner in the Engineer Corps, and was overseas ten
months. Arriving in America May 1, 1919, he was given his honorable discharge at
the Presidio at San Francisco, June 2, 1919.
In October, 1914, Joseph R. Jahraus organized the Laguna Beach Lumber Com
pany, being president of the same, and except for the period of his overseas service
he has served continuously as manager of the business. Their shipping station is at
Irvine, on the Santa Fe Railroad, and all lumber is hauled by truck to Laguna Beach.
The company is enjoying the heaviest business in its history, and this bids fair to
increase greatly with the continued growth of Laguna Beach.
The Jahraus family all stand high in the regard of the residents' of Laguna
Beach and enjoy a well-deserved popularity there, for they are everywhere recognized
as among the most enthusiastic and dependable workers for the best interests of
this attractive beach town. They are members of the Episcopal Church at Santa
Ana and prominent in its circles.
STEPHEN TOWNSEND.— Among the representative citizens of Southern Cali
fornia, and held in the highest esteem by all who knew hini, Stephen Townsend came
to the Golden State as early as 1876. He first located in Pasadena, where he proved
an important factor in the development and upbuilding of its best interests, securing
its first franchise and building its first railway; and later the Altadena and other street
car lines;' establishing the Pasadena Warehouse and Milling Company and conducting
the same successfully; and as a member of the city board of trustees advancing- plans
which were acceptable to both the conservative elements and were acted upon to the
entire satisfaction of the people. In 1895 he became associated with the interests of
Long Beach, in which' city he foresaw a wonderful future.
Mr. Townsend was a descendant of English ancestry, the first members of both
paternal and maternal families having located in this country during, its colonial period.
Descendants drifted into the Middle" West, and in the state of Ohio, David, the father
of Stephen Townsend, was born and reared to manhood as a farmer's son. He married
Sidney Maudlin, also a native of Ohio, and until. 1855 they remained residents of that
state and of Indiana. In the last-named year they emigrated to Iowa and in Cedar
County, near Iowa City, engaged in general farming and stock raising.- He continued
in that location until 1876, when he brought his family to California and became a
member of the Indiana Colony, now Pasadena, where he engaged in horticulture up to
the time of his death. He was survived twenty years by his wife, who passed away
in 1903, at the age of eighty-three years.
Stephen Townsend, the eldest son and sixth child of their thirteen children, was
born in Hamilton County, Ind., October 19, 1848. He was but seven years old when
the family located in Iowa, where he received his education in the public schools and
later the Iowa State University. Upon leaving the university he began to farm on
his own responsibitly upon land purchased in Franklin County, where he made his
home for three years. Following this he was similarly employed in Cedar County
for two years, when in 1876, he accompanied the family to California. The West ap
pealed to him, with its broader opportunities and responsibilities, and he readily became
one of the most prominent men of Pasadena, developing his latent powers of manage
ment and executive ability.
Prior to Mr. Townsend's location at Long Beach he purchased twenty acres of
land on the Anaheim Road, adjoining the city limits and one mile from the beach.
The year after his location at Long Beach he engaged in the real estate business, laying
out various divisions there and also helping in the development of Huntington Beach.
He was a partner in several real estate firms, among them Bailey and Townsend, Town-
send and Campbell, the Townsend-Robinson Investment Company, later the Townsend-
Van de Water Company. He also contributed extensively to the development of
Orange County, being one of the organizers and directors of the Orange County Im
provement Association of Newport, of which he acted as president, serving in the same
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Company. In addition to the foregoing Mr. Townsend was vice-president of the First
National Bank of Long Beach and president of the First National Bank of Huntington
Beach. He organized and was president of the Land and Navigation Company which
owned 800 acres where the Long Beach harbor was dredged; in fact he took an active
interest in all movements tending to promote the welfare of this section of California.
The real estate firm which he organized was one of the most substantial in this part
of the state, and carried on an extensive business, the high character of ability enlisted
in the work making it one of the most successful enterprises of Long Beach. In addi
tion to his engrossing .real .estate interests he was active in the municipal life of Long
Beach, in 1903 being elected president of the board of trustees, which office lie filled
with efficiency.
In Iowa, near Iowa City, in Johnson County, on October 19, 1869, Mr. Townsend
was united in marriage with Miss Anna M. Carroll, who was born near LaPorte, Ind.,
and who came to Iowa with her parents when she was seven years of age. While a stu
dent at the University of Iowa she met Mr. Townsend, the acquaintance resulting in
their marriage. They became the parents of five children, two of whom died in early
childhood, and Frances Maye passed away in 1901, aged twenty-eight years; she had
graduated from the College of Music of the University of Southern California in 1894;
Esther Belle, who is a graduate of the Los Angeles State Normal School, is the wife
of Dr. A. T. Covert of Long Beach; Vinton Ray graduated from the University of
California at Berkeley and from the medical department of the University of Southern
California, as an M.D., married Miss Ada Campbell, the daughter of W. L. Campbell,
and they reside at Los Cerritos.
Mr. Townsend was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and prominent
in all its good works, officiating as a member of the board of trustees and superintend
ent of the Sunday school, and was a member of the building committee when the new
church was erected at Long Beach. He was also a director of the Young Men's Chris
tian Association and served as president of the Long Beach Hospital Association, of
which he was one of the organizers. It can truly be said of Mr. Townsend that he
was representative of the best in American citizenship, living up to a high standard in
public and private life, and in his passing away on July 22, 1920, the community lost
one of its most valued citizens, whose influence had ever been exerted for its moral
uplift and betterment. Like her distinguished husband, Mrs. Townsend has always
been prominent in the life of the city, particularly in the circles of the Methodist Epis
copal Church and of the Ebell Club, and aiding in all other movements for the
community's good.
MME. HELENA MODJESKA.— No complete and satisfactory history of Orange
County ever can be written that does not record the life and labors of Mme. Helena
Modjeska, the famous tragedienne, and her happy and fortunate relation to the Cali
fornia Southland, in which she passed so many dreamy and eventful days, and where
at length, scarcely more than a decade ago, she closed her eyes forever to the scenes
of an admiring world. She was born at Cracow, Poland, on October 12, 1840, the
daughter of Michael Opid, a noted musical instructor there, whose home was the
rendezvous for artists and musicians in the old capital, and very naturally aspired
toward the stage; but it was only after she had married Gustav Modrzejewska —
abbreviated later to Modjeska — that she was able, in 1861, to overcome family opposition
and appear in an amateur performance in Austrian Poland. So great was her success
that her husband organized a company to support her on a tour of Galicia, and within
two or three years she had become, on her return to her birthplace, the leading lady
at the local theater. All Poland soon sounded her praises; her fame extended to
Germany, France and England; and even the younger Dumas paid her the high compli
ment to invite her to Paris to take the part of Marguerite Gautier in his famous
"Dame aux Camelias," best known to the world through the acting of Sarah Bernhardt.
She remained loyal to Poland and the Polish stage, however, and only ventured abroad
after her first husband's death.
In September, 1868, she married a second time, choosing for her new companion
Karol Bozenta Chlapowski, a gifted fellow-countryman, and a year later settled in the
more brilliant Warsaw, where she appeared in the principal female parts of Shakespeare,
Goethe, Schiller and Moliere, as well as plays by Polish authors. Failing health, worry
over the harassing, absurd Russian censorship, and other difficulties, induced her to
leave the stage, and with her husband she came to the United States and California,
hoping to found there a colony for Polish political refugees or other congenial spirits.
The coming Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, engrossing in particular the
curiosity of her son, then an embryo engineer and full of interest for science, was
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she tells so charmingly in her always readable "Memories," and the person who piled
on torch after torch to the burning fagots was none other than her friend, Sienkiewicz,
the author later of "Quo Vadis." Despite the reports of rattlesnakes, bears and the
California jaguar, it was agreed by the company of enthusiasts who met evening after
evening to look over maps, books and pictures, that one need not starve in the Golden
State, for rabbits, hares and partridges were to be had for the mere shooting, and gold
was to be dug almost anywhere; and in her intense longing for a change that would
mean rest to tired nerves, Pani, or Mrs. Helena, as her friends called her, pictured
herself under the blue skies of California, riding on horseback with a gun over her
shoulder, or cooking out in the open, in the land of freedom, or bleaching linen at the
brook like the maidens of Homer!
After a delightful visit in New York, when they saw and met some of the stage
celebrities of the time, the party traveled south to Panama, and there crossed the
Isthmus, "a two hours' enchantment," and then came north to San Francisco; and the
very next day after their arrival at the Golden Gate they witnessed Edwin Booth act in
a series of performances, including the roles of Shylock and Marc Antony. Once
in the Southland, they made for Anaheim, then inhabited mostly by German colonists
and Spaniards, and were welcomed by Sienkiewicz and others of the Polish company
who had gone ahead to Anaheim Landing. After a life spent in the fine old ancestral
homes and mansions of Poland, Mme. Modjeska tells us that the little house at Anaheim
which had been rented for her seemed painfully small — a dining room, a so-called
parlor, with a square piano and a sofa, two bedrooms, a front yard, which "looked like
a poorly-kept small graveyard"; but there was one redeeming point, at least, and that
was the magnificent view of the Sier're Madre Mountains to the north, and of the Santa
Ana range to the east.
Space will not suffice to tell in detail the many novel, exhilarating and also dis
couraging experiences of this charming idealist and her dreamy, impractical, if also
delightful associates, who so identified themselves with first one canyon or beach or
other corner of Orange County that forever these places will be hallowed to all who
are privileged to trace out and follow in their footprints. The reader may need only
to be reminded again how, when it was evident that the voyageurs from over the seas
could no longer live on sunshine and cigarettes, something had to be done, not merely
to supply a supportable income in a raw and undeveloped country, but to satisfy the
longings of the higher self, Mme. Modjeska, in the spring of 1877, went back to San
Francisco on a visit, encouraged by overtures from theatrical managers whose interest
she had long before enlisted, but had never made use of, and after scarcely less than
four months' study of English, made her first appearance in the historic California
Theater as Adrienne Lecouvreur. Her success was instant, and from the first evening
of her performance she scored an acknowledged triumph as one of the leading Ameri
can actresses. Thereafter she made numerous tours of the United States, and played
in London and the other leading cities of the British provinces, and even returned to
the stage in Poland, distinguishing herself in no less than twenty-five or thirty classical
parts acknowledged to be sufficiently difficult to test her claims to have been a truly
great actress.
Besides her home in Santiago Canyon, maintained for a while under conditions
in strange contrast to what she had left behind in the Old World, and satisfying only
to those in such search for the romantic that they drew largely upon their imagination
and were blind to commonplace, everyday facts, Mme. Modjeska made her home at
various places in Southern California, generally not far from where she first had settled,
and in each place not only shared her comforts (as well as, no doubt, a few of the
discomforts!) with some of the most gifted and even brilliant, as well as noble hearted
of her compatriots, but entertained at various times many of the most famous men
and women, particularly in the dramatic or musical world, who happened the way of the
Pacific, or journeyed long distances to enjoy her company or partake of her unbounded
hospitality, dispensed with rare humor and a full appreciation of the droll or the
ridiculous. She counted the greatest minds and the largest hearted of Americans among
her friends, and when such of these, as the poet Longfellow, could not visit her, their
friendly, devoted or affectionate missives found their way over sea and land and into
the forest or canyon recesses to where she, in periods of rest, loved to come again and
again. The residence she finally erected was at Forest of Arden, in Santiago Canyon,
Orange County, which she named for the scene in the celebrated Shakespearean play,
As You Like It. It has long since been a Mecca for tourists to California who know
of her only by name. It was roomy, dignified, elaborate and luxurious, both as to its
ornate exterior and its well-appointed, richly furnished interior, especially its large and
rich library; and there are still living those who may recall the breakfast parties
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son, Ralph Modjeski, the eminent civil engineer of Chicago, and his interesting family.
The last home of Mme. Modjeska was on Bay, now called Modjeska Island, in East
Newport, to which she had removed a few months prior to her death, on April 8, 1909 —
a cosy, worthy seaside residence which she bequeathed to her grandson, Felix Bozenta
Modjeska, who now occupies it with his family, and maintains it as nearly as possible
as it was when she so gracefully moved about on the verandas and enjoyed the refresh
ing breeze. SAMUEL KRAEMER. — Wonder/ J have been the changes witnessed by Samuel
Kraemer since his boyish eyes first beheld the vast unsettled tracts of Southern Cali
fornia. It was in 1867, when he was ten years of age, that he arrived here with other
members of the family, at the expiration of a long and tedious voyage from the East.
Vast tracts were then untrodden by the foot of man, but were given over to countless
herds of wild cattle and horses. Travel was almost wholly on horseback through
pathless fields in which the wild mustard at times hid the animal and rider from view.
Now his swift automobiles convey him over perfect roads and through a country
densely populated with a contented, prosperous people. Then he aided in the cultiva
tion of the ground with such rude implements as could be obtained; now his land is
cultivated by workmen having the most modern machinery that money can buy. In
those days he gazed aloft with no prophetic vision of the time, when under his super
vision an aeroplane would be constructed, not only as a demonstration of the possi
bilities of science, but also for future usefulness and enjoyment. Financial institutions
were not in vogue in those days, for currency was too scarce to render banks a necessity;
nor could his vision point ahead to his present service as a director in the First
National Bank of Anaheim and the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Fullerton, in which
latter institution he also officiated as president for one and one-half years. He was
also an organizer and is a director in the Placentia National Bank, is a director in the
Placentia Mutual Orange Distributors Association and president of the Anaheim Walnut
Growers Association.
Born in St. Clair County, 111., July 9, 1857, Samuel Kraemer was a son of Daniel
and Elenora (Schrag) Kraemer, natives, respectively, of St. Johannes, Germany, and
Landauch, on the Rhine. They emigrated to the United States in early years and
passed away in California at advanced ages. The family became pioneers of California
in 1867. The journey was commenced at St. Louis, Mo., whence they traveled to New
York, arriving in that city at the end of four days. A steamer was there boarded for
Panama and after a tedious voyage of sixteen days they landed at the Isthmus. Three
days were spent in unloading on the eastern side, crossing the Isthmus and loading
up on the Pacific side, after which they sailed on a steamer bound for San Francisco.
The voyage consumed fifteen days and the only stops made by the steamer were at
Acapulco and Manzanillo, Mexico. The fact that the ship did not anchor at any port
in Southern California caused extra expense and delay to the Kraemer family, who
were forced to wait for twenty-one days in San Francisco before any vessel started
for the southern part of the state. Eventually they landed at San Pedro, Los Angeles
County, after a voyage of five days from San Francisco, and from San Pedro, pro
ceeded to Anaheim. At that time Los Angeles County embraced all of what is now
Orange County. The environment was uninviting, for Americans had not settled in
sufficient numbers to embark in any improvements and wild stock roamed the ranges.
Immediately after his arrival, the elder Kraemer bought thirty-nine hundred acres
of land (which was the smallest land tract that could be bought) in what is now
known as the Placentia district. The land was originally owned by A. D. Ontiveras,
a Castilian gentleman, a native of Spain, who received his grant from the Mexican
government. In time Mr. Kraemer had fenced eighty acres of the tract, besides
making other improvements. The entire country was open with the exception of
twelve hundred acres at Anaheim, which was fenced, admission being through four
gates on the four sides of the tract, and by means of this solid fence all wild cattle
were excluded. Eight years later the fence law kept out cattle and brought settlers.
From the first Samuel aided his father in the many difficult tasks connected with
improving the wild tract and it was not possible for him to attend school regularly,
but he was a pupil in the Yorba school for a time, and since then by reading and
observation he has become a well informed man. Five hundred acres of the original
estate is now owned by him, the larger part of the land being in grain, but in addition
he has sixty-five acres in oranges and 130 acres in walnuts. Stock is raised for the
needs of the ranch, but not for the general markets.
On September 30, 1886, Mr. Kraemer married Miss Angelina Yorba, a native of
California and the daughter of Castilian parents now deceased, representing early
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born of the union, of whom five sons and three daughters survive: Adela is Mrs.
Walter Muckenthaler of Fullerton; Samuel P. married Miss Edna Wentz of Ohio,
served in the U. S. Army in the World War and is an orange grower in Placentia;
Elena Mauri of Oakland, is an orange grower at Placentia; Gilbert U. married Esther
Arnold R., who served in the U. S. Naval Reserve, stationed in New Jersey, and married
Munger of Santa Ana, and is a rancher on Kraemer Avenue; Angeline is the wife of
Edward Backs and resides in Placentia; Laurance P. is attending Occidental College;
Geraldine and Louis are attending the Union high school.
Caring little for politics or secret orders, Mr. Kraemer nevertheless finds much
to occupy his time. The supervision of his large estate, the discharge of duties as bank
director, the enjoyment of domestic and social pleasure, the recreation through travel
and the development of irrigation and fruit interests keep him fully occupied. While
serving as a director of the Anaheim Union Water Company he also for a time filled
the office of vice-president. Even more than many horticulturists, he has realized the
importance of a successful solution of the water problem and at all times he has been an
active factor in the development of irrigation interests. The fact that the water
supply is so abundant and so satisfactory is due not a little to his influence and timely
actions. Other important local measures have had the benefit of his aid and cooperation
and very justly he occupies a leading position among, the pioneer citizens and horticul
turists of the county. In company with William Crowther, A. S. Bradford, H. H. Hale
and C. C. Chapman, Mr. Kraemer became one of the promoters of the new town of
Placentia. They gave the right-of-way to the Santa Fe Railroad and Mr. Kraemer
donated besides ten acres of land on which the depot and side tracks are situated.
Work was begun in August, 1910, and four packing houses have in the meantime been
erected, one of which Mr. Kraemer erected at his own expense. He is a shareholder
and director in the Placentia Mutual Orange Association. They. have just completed a
large modern packing house at a cost of $150,000, one of the finest in California. His
influence in Orange County is felt far and wide and his name is mentioned with honor
and respect because of a well-regulated and well-spent life, contributing in no small
manner to the well being and upbuilding of the county.
JOSE SANSINENA.— An early settler of the La Habra Valley in what is now the
northern part of Orange County, who came to California in 1872 and from a humble
beginning by perseverance and close application became one of the largest and most
successful stockmen and landowners, is the late Jose Sansinena, who was born at
Aldudes, Basses Pyrenees, France, in 1854, where he was reared and obtained his edu
cation in the local school. His parents were farmers and stock raisers, so from a lad
Jose assisted on the farm and became adept in the care of stock.
From his countrymen who had returned from California he learned of the many
opportunities that awaited young men of brain and brawn who were willing to work.
So his desire was whetted until he started for. the land of gold and sunshine on the
Pacific Coast, arriving in 1872 a young man full of ambition and hope to make a fortune
in the new world. Soon after his arrival he entered the employ of Mr. Bastanchury and
his steady habits and watchful care of his employer's interest attracted Mr. Bastanchury,
so that when the young man had saved enough money and showed a desire to engage
in business Mr. Bastanchury took him into partnership and they continued together,
meeting with success and became owners of large flocks. In those early days there
was no market to speak of in Los Angeles so each year they drove bands of sheep to
San Francisco where they were sold in the market, the price per head ranging from
$1.50 to $2.00 with the wool. These trips usually consumed two and a half to three
months' time.
The marriage of Mr. Sansinena and Miss Dolores Ordoqui was celebrated at the
historical old Plaza Church, Los Angeles, in 1889, the ceremony being performed by
Father Liebana. The bride was a native of Navarra, Spain, but reared in Los Angeles.
She came with her parents, when a girl in 1872, 'and was educated in the Sisters Con
vent, Los Angeles. Soon after their marriage the partnership with Mr. Bastanchury
was dissolved and Mr. Sansinena continued in the stock business and purchased 5,000
acres of the Stearns Rancho in the La Habra Valley and they took up their residence
on the ranch, making the necessary improvements for their comfort and convenience,
and here they made a specialty of raising sheep, ranging them on the, broad acres of
their ranch which was well adapted for the purpose, being well watered by numerous
springs. His flocks increased until he had from 10,000 to 15,000 head, and when the
railroad was completed from San Francisco to Los Angeles, as well as the Santa Fe
into Southern California, he shipped both to the Northern as well as the Eastern mar
kets. His keen perception and business ability was felt and he rose rapidly to a position
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himself and family. However, he was not permitted to enjoy the fruits of his labors
for he was called to the Great Beyond, May 1, 1895, mourned by his family and friends.
He was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles. He left a widow and four children
as follows: Antoinette; Joseph, who served in the U. S. Navy in the World War and
now ably assists his mother in the care of their large ranch; Magdalena and Marian.
They all reside with their mother and having been reared in an atmosphere of culture
and refinement the daughters ably assist her in gracefully presiding over the home.
Mrs. Sansinena afterwards became Mrs. Ysidoro Eseverri and all make their residence
at the old home.
Mr. Sansinena was a modest and unassuming man but of strict integrity and
honesty of purpose which greatly endeared him to all with whom he came in contact.
He was industrious and energetic and was never afraid of work nor to venture
in this new country, where in his prime he entered the wilderness and claimed the
virgin soil as his heritage. Thus it is to pioneers of his type that Orange County today
owes much of its present development and greatness, for without their spirit of energy
and optimism the present generation would not now be enjoying the well improved
country with its paved roads and other public conveniences and essentials to give them
the present day comforts and pleasures. Liberal and kind-hearted to a fault, Mr. San-
sinena's example is well worthy of emulation.
JOSEPH WILLIAM JOHNSON. — Among the best-known ranchers and business
men of both Yorba Linda and Placentia may well be listed J. W. Johnson, a leader in
legitimate "boosting" for the locality, who lives on the Richfield Road near the Yorba
Linda Boulevard. He was born in County Durham, England, near the famous cathedral
and the old, historic town of that name, on June 22, 1863, the son of Manuel Johnson, a
farmer and a landowner, whose chief crops were hay and grain. He had married Miss
Annie Walker, a daughter of an old and well-established family that had sent, in her
brothers, several representatives to Parliament.
From a boy, our subject had yearned for travel; and when only fourteen he
crossed the ocean to New York City, and then came on to the coal regions, where he
found employment. .Since then he has crossed and recrossed the Atlantic seven times.
Having enjoyed the benefits of a good common school education in England, the lad
readily made his way in America, being apt at learning; and having become a mining
expert, he was busy for a while in New Mexico, serving even as deputy sheriff at
Albuquerque. In 1891, however, he decide to abandon mining, and coming on to Cali
fornia, he stopped for a while at Los Angeles, and then came on to Santa Ana, which
was then but a small village.
After serving as game warden at the Bolsa Gun Club, he leased land on the Irvine
Ranch, and has been pursuing agriculture there or elsewhere ever since. In 1899 he
removed to Placentia and purchased five acres on the flats east of Richfield; and this
land he improved and developed, making of it a very profitable grove of oranges.
Meanwhile, he contracted for the making and grading of roads and the care of the
water reservoirs for Yorba Linda, and altogether he spent fifteen years in the service
of the Santa Fe Railroad, grading and making crossings, and also graded the streets
for the town of Placentia when it was laid out. Of late years he has had full charge
as superintendent of some ninety acres in Yorba Linda, and has set out much of this
to lemons, using nursery stock developed on his own ranch. Having recently sold his
five-acre ranch, he intends to locate on more open land and to improve a still larger
area. This has not weakened Mr. Johnson's interest in Placentia and Yorba Linda in
any respect, for he still has the utmost confidence in a brilliant future for both; and as
both an American citizen of the one hundred per cent type, and a stanch Republican, he
supported vigorously all the varied work of the recent war, and also all movements
for the building up of the community. Mr. Johnson has one, daughter, Mrs. Laura
Speck, of Santa Barbara, and she is the mother of a daughter, Ethel Speck.
JOSEPH KEE. — For twenty years Joseph Kee of Buena Park has been identi
fied with the general farming interests of Orange County, having located on his present
ranch in 1900. At that time the land was in its primitive state and he, as well as
many other ranchers, was obliged to put up with many inconveniences, and suffered
the setbacks common in those days among the early settlers in a new territory. By
hard work and sound business management Mr. Kee has overcome his earlier obstacles
and today is counted as one of the successful and substantial ranchers in his section
of the county.
Joseph Kee was born in McHenry County, 111, on March 10, 1850, a son of
James and Rachel (Morton) Kee. His father was a native of the Emerald Isle,
while his mother was born in either New York or Illinois of Irish parents. The family
of Mr., and Mrs. James Kee consisted of twelve children, six of whom are living.

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In April, 1877, Joseph Kee moved to McPherson County, Kans., where he re
mained until 1887, when he migrated to Los Angeles County, Cal. He lived near
San Gabriel for thirteen years, then settled on his present ranch of twenty acres,
situated on Almond Street, Buena Park.
In March, 1878, Joseph Kee was united in marriage with Miss Jennie B. Mitchell,
who was reared on the adjoining farm in Illinois where Mr. Kee vfas born, and of
this happy union four children were born: Clarence, Elenora, wife of Robert Brown
of Santa Ana; Ormiston, and Charlotte, wife of Willis Cornwell of Stanislaus County.
Mrs. Kee is a native of Illinois and is of Scotch ancestry.
In addition to his general farming operations, Mr. Kee devotes considerable
time to raising poultry, his flock of fowls numbering about 250. In politics he has
supported the Republican candidates since he has voted, and he is highly esteemed in his
community for his integrity of character and good citizenship. He was reared in
the Episcopal Church.
MRS. DOLORES ESEVERRI.— A woman who has nobly done her part to build
up and improve the northern part of Orange County and who has displayed wonderful
native business acumen and optimism in her effort of transforming the raw land into
beautiful orchards loaded with golden fruit, such a woman is Mrs. Dolores Eseverri,
who is a native of far away Spain, born at Pamplona, Navarra, a country noted for the
modesty and high moral character of its people and where the honor of the home is
very sacred and guarded with the most zealous care.
Her parents were Juan and Antonia Ordoqui, also natives of Pamplona, where her
father was a carpenter of known ability. When the news of the discovery of gold in
California reached Navarra he immediately joined the rush to the new Eldorado and
was one of the Argonauts, coming via the Isthmus of Panama to San Francisco in 1849.
After several years he returned to his home in Spain; however, he was so well im
pressed with the opportunities in the land of sunshine and flowers on the Pacific Coast
and the call of the West became so strong that he finally concluded to make it his
home. So responding to the allurement, he brought his wife and two children, Manuel
and Dolores, settling in Los Angeles County in 1872, where he became a well-to-do
sheep raiser, and during his lifetime became the owner of large herds as well as a
ranch now the present site of Palms, near Los Angeles. Later he purchased a residence
in Los Angeles where he made his home until his death in 1909, his widow surviving
him until 1911. The son Manuel is now a business man in Los Angeles.
Thus in this beautiful environment of sunny Southern California Dolores Ordoqui
grew to womanhood receiving a liberal education in the Sisters Convent in Los Angeles.
She was first married in her early womanhood, the ceremony being performed at the
old Plaza Church at Los Angeles, when she was united with Jose Sansinena, who was
a native of Aldudes, France, and had come to Los Angeles County in 1872 and had
become a successful stockman. After their marriage they gradually enlarged their
operations until their flocks became very large and they acquired by purchase 5,000
acres of the Stearns rancho, which at the time was all grazing land and being well
watered by springs was well adapted to sheep raising, in which they specialized. Mr.
Sansinena was most successful in his business, increasing his herds year by year until
their flocks numbered about 15,000 head. He passed away in 1895 leaving his widow
and four children, Antoinette, Joseph, Magdelena and Marian.
On March 25, 1901, Mrs. Sansinena was married a second time when Ysidoro
Eseverri became her husband. He was likewise born in Navarra, Spain, the son of
Pablo and Josefa Eseverri, the father being a prominent merchant in that locality. He
received his education in his native land and when still a youth he came alone to
California, where he engaged in sheep raising. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs.
Eseverri continued ranching, gradually selling off their sheep and engaging in farming
and horticulture. Mr. and Mrs. Eseverri are the parents of one daughter, Josephine.
They have disposed of a considerable portion of the Sansinena ranch, which at one
time was one of the largest in this part of the county. The whole acreage formerly lay
in Los Angeles County, but when Orange County was organized its northern boundary
line passed directly through the Sansinena ranch. The family have planted large
orchards to Valencia and Navel oranges, lemons, walnuts and avocados now in bearing,
while the balance of the ranch is devoted to raising hay. The place is under an excellent
system of irrigation for, besides service from the La Habra Water Company, they have
installed their own pumping plant, thus giving ample water for irrigating their orchard
and crops. In 1917 a large and beautiful new residence of colonial style of architec
ture was erected, where Mrs. Eseverri resides with her husband and children, who
are devoted to her and shower on her their affection and loving care, and in their liberal
and unostentatious way they are all pleased to welcome their many friends and take
great delight in dispensing the old-time Californian hospitality.

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WILLIAM H. BURNHAM. — An experienced business man of the East who has
distinguished himself as a good financier and has therefore been able, as a resident of
California, to exert an important and helpful influence in controlling and directing
movements in the development of the Golden State, is William H. Burnham, who was
born at Ellington, Conn., in 1851. Both his father, John Burnham, and his grandfather,
of the same name, were natives of Brattleboro, Vt., the family having been founded in.
Hartford, Conn.', in 1636, by Thomas Burnham "who came from England. • John Burn
ham, the father of our subject, settled in Ellington and later was associated with
Daniel Halladay, the windmill manufacturer at Coventry; and in 1856 he came to
Chicago as sales agent for the Halladay Company. Under his able initiative, their
western business rapidly increased, and they established a factory at Batavia, Kane
County, 111., on which account Daniel Halladay came out to Chicago, and had the
concern incorporated. The enterprise was known as the U. S. Wind Engine and Pump
Company, and Messrs. Halladay and Burnham were the principal owners. The Daniel
Halladay referred to afterwards located in Santa Ana, where he was prominently con
nected with that city's growth and development. In time, John Burnham became
president of the company, and he held that office for many years; and when he retired,
to spend his last days at Orange, where he eventually died, he was succeeded as presi
dent by his son, our subject. Mrs. Burnham was Miss Delia A. Damon before her
marriage, and she was a native of Lunenburg, Worcester County, Mass., and the
daughter of the Rev. David Damon, a prominent Unitarian minister of English descent,
who for many years preached at West Cambridge, now Arlington. She also died at
Orange, the mother of two children, of whom William H. alone grew to maturity.
He attended the public schools of Batavia, 111., and later studied at Lombard
University, reluctantly abandoning his courses in the sophomore year when, on account
of failing health, he had to hie away to Florida. On his return, in the spring of 1872,
he entered the employ of the United States Wind Engine Company, beginning at the
bottom in the paint shop and advancing as draftsman, shipping clerk, and traveling
salesman. In the latter capacity he visited almost every section of the United States,
Canada and even Mexico; and having served the company with signal ability as general
sales agent, he became superintendent and finally president, a position of honor and
responsibility he filled for several years.
Undoubtedly Mr. Burnham inherited much ability for executive management, for
especially during his presidency the business of the company was greatly increased,.
and they came to enjoy a large and ever-expanding trade with both the United States
and foreign countries, a volume of work and prosperity of direct personal interest for
father and son held a controlling interest in the concern. Finally, the close application
and strain again told too much upon him, and, desiring to conserve his health, he con
cluded to give up the management. The Burnha'ms, therefore, in 1892 sold their
controlling interest, but retained a tenth of the stock and the business of making
windmills, pump fixtures, tanks, railroad water stations, steel towers for tanks, water
cranes and standpipes goes on under the old firm name. They made the steel towers
used by the Edison Company of Southern California, and they turned out three differing
patterns of mills — the United States, the Gem and the Halladay Standard.
In the spring of 1893, Messrs. John and William H. Burnham came west to
California; and taking a fancy to Orange, they purchased property there and that
summer built a residence. In October, they moved to the Golden State "for good,"
and at once began to improve the place, grubbing out the old trees and setting out
oranges and lemons. About seventeen other families also came here from Batavia,
111., and accordingly they named the street Batavia, as a result of which the property
of the Burnhams was situated on the corner of Batavia and La Veta.
From the time when he was once well established here, Mr. Burnham has taken a
prominent part in local affairs. He became interested in the old Commercial Bank in
Santa Ana, and was a director, and later he was also interested in the Bank of Orange,
when it was principally owned by the Commercial Bank of Santa Ana, and was a.
director there as early as 1898. When the Bank of Orange was taken over by Orange
people, he continued to be a director, and later he was made president. He continued
in that enviable office when it was made the National Bank of Orange; and after many
years of service as a president and a director, he resigned first from one office and
then from the other, but he is still intrested in the bank as a stockholder. He was
also one of the organizers of the Orange Savings Bank, in which he is still interested.
Mr. Burnham was also one of the organizers of and a director in the Santiago Orange
Growers Association, withdrawing after many years when he sold his ranch in 1916
and moved to Los Angeles, where he and his family now reside at 401 South Kingsley
Drive. He was one of the organizers and director of the H. R. Boynton Company,
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Boynton as president, a position he filled for some time, until he resigned to accept
the vice-presidency, as it required less of his time. For the past ten years he has been
a director of the Title Insurance and Trust Company of Los Angeles.
At Geneva, 111., on December 9, 1880, Mr. Burnham was married to Miss Katharine
P. French, a native of St. Charles, Kane County, 111., and the daughter of Rolla and
Mary C. (Cook) French, born, respectively, in Vermont and Erie County, N. Y. ; they
were joined in matrimony at St. Charles, after which Mr. French became a stock
broker in Chicago. When he died, he was an officer of the Miner Bank of St. Charles.
Mrs. Burnham's maternal grandfather, Franklin Cook, emigrated with his family, includ
ing herself and her mother, to Denver in 1861, crossing the great plains with ox-teams,
and in 1862 he died at Guy House, Colo. Mrs. French with her daughter, Katharine,
returned to Illinois in 1868 and located in Chicago on account of the educational
advantages offered there for her daughter, making the trip from Denver to Cheyenne
by the Overland stage, and then by rail to the city on the lakes; and in Chicago, Mrs.
Burnham enjoyed the best educational advantages in the West. The fortunate union
of Mr. and Mrs. Burnham has been blessed by three children, all of whom have
reflected the highest credit upon the family name. Ralph F., the eldest, and William H.,
Jr., the youngest, are both graduates of the Throop Polytechnic Institute at Pasadena,
and together they have developed a citrus ranch of 140 acres three miles east of River
side, which they have named La Colina. Mary, the Only daughter, a graduate of the
Marlborough School in Los Angeles, married Henry Fay Grant, who died at Franklin,
Pa., and now she assists her mother to preside over the Burnham home.
Mr. Burnham was one of the original trustees of the Orange Union high school,
having been prominent in the energetic work required to bring it into existence; and
he was also one of the original members of the Orange County Highway Commission
and did yeoman service with Charles C. Chapman and M. M. Crookshank. In national
political, affairs Mr. Burnham is a Republican; but he is too broad-minded to permit
narrow partisanship to interfere with his hearty support of every good candidate and
every excellent measure likely to help upbuild the community in which he lives and
prospers. JOSEPH G. QUICK. — A successful real estate broker, who has done much to
bring about sound and stable conditions in California realty, is Joseph G. Quick, a
native of Canton, Fulton County, 111., where he was born on April 1, 1856. His father
was Andrew Jackson Quick, a farmer and wheelwright, who married Elizabeth Gardi
ner. Andrew J. Quick was born in Penn Yan, N. Y., in 1831, of an old family of that
state. He came to Illinois in about 1852, where he ran a carriage and wagon factory
and also engaged in .farming. Joseph G. Quick's maternal grandfather, Joseph H.
Gardiner, came from Penn Yan, N. Y., to Fulton County, 111., about 1836, when his
daughter Elizabeth was a little girl. The parents both passed away in Illinois. They
had nine children, among whom Joseph was the eldest.
Joseph attended the grammar and high school of his district, and later took a
course at the business college in Jacksonville, 111., then for a while he farmed and later
manufactured brick and tile at Cuba, 111. In both of these fields he succeeded, until
his health broke down and he was advised to seek a milder climate. In June, 1887,
he came to California and Santa Ana and in the latter place established himself in
the real estate business and is today the oldest dealer in town. He was successful from
the first, and having acquired local experience and extended widely his circle of friends,
he did a general brokerage business. He made a specialty of handling estates, having
served as state appraiser of Orange County for many years and is well qualified to
advise people who come here and wish to invest in property or otherwise set their
affairs in order. He was one of the organizers and secretary of the Santa Ana and
Fresno Land Company; this company owns nine sections of land about fifteen miles
southwest of Fresno, which is devoted to general farming. Mr. Quick has seen Santa
Aija develop from a small village to a city of its present size, and he has been privileged
to help shape the destiny of the town. He has served as a city trustee, and it was during
his incumbency that the city hall was built. As a man of business affairs Mr. Quick's
worth was recognized in his election to be a director of the California National Bank,
in the organization of which he was a charter member. Influential in the councils
of the Republican party, Mr. Quick has always attended to his local duties in the
most nonpartisan manner.
At Cuba, Fulton County, 111., on March 6, 1879, Mr. Quick was married to Martha
Grigsby, daughter of William and Dorcas (Collins) Grigsby, well-known residents of
the Prairie State. William Grigsby served in the Union Army during the Civil War
and was killed at the battle of Missionary Ridge. Mrs. Quick was educated in Fulton
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home district about six years. Both Mr. and Mrs. Quick are home-folks and take pride
in their beautiful residence at 1608 East Fourth Street. They are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of Santa Ana and have actively participated in its up
building and benevolences. Mr. Quick was a member of its board of trustees for many
years and is now president of the board, and during the building of the church and
later during its remodeling he was member and treasurer of the building committee.
Both are musical and Mr. Quick was leader of the Methodist choir for twenty years
until about ten years ago when he resigned from the position. Always intensely
interested in raising the standard of education as well as society and its morals, they
have made their influence felt and are much loved and highly esteemed for the part they
have taken in the community's welfare.
REV. JACOB KOGLER.— A man of God who has had much to do with the
development of education in Orange County on a broad and lasting- basis is the Rev.
Jacob Kogler, now enjoying a well-earned retirement. He came to Orange in the early
eighties, and has been connected with important town and county interests ever since.
He was born near Stuttgart, Wuertemberg, Germany, on January 6, 1847, the son of
Michael Kogler, a worthy carpenter and builder, and Caroline Kogler, his devoted wife.
They were conscientious Lutherans, and they both died where they had lived.
The lad received the customary elementary training given to the German youth,
and then entered the high school at Ludwigsburg, and later on a preparatory institute
at Steenden, Nassau, where he was prepared for the ministry. As early as 1870, he
crossed the ocean to America and entered the Concordia Seminary at St. Louis, from
which he was graduated in 1874. He was ordained at Minneapolis as a minister of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church, and soon afterward accepted a call as pastor of St. John's
Lutheran Church, whose congregation he served for four years. Then he removed to
Belle Plaine, Minn., where he was pastor until 1881.
In that year he came to Orange, Cal., where he organized St. John's Lutheran
Church, which was started with a membership of six families; also started St. John's
parochial school, for which a lot on the corner of South Olive and Almond streets was
purchased. To that site an old building was moved, and in 1882 the nucleus of the
congregation was formed. Both that and the school grew, and the building was
enlarged, so that it had an area of 24x48 feet, used for both school and worship
purposes. The Rev. Kogler was pastor from the start, and he also taught the school
until a teacher could be supported; and now the school maintains four teachers. In 1893
the church edifice at the corner of Almond and South Olive streets was built, and in 1913
the congregation built the imposing new stone structure at a cost of $50,000, including
the pipe organ.
The Rev. Kogler continued active as pastor until 1917, when he resigned and retired.
He had helped found and was an active member of the California and Nevada Synod,
of which he is an ex-president, and he organized the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Anaheim, and was pastor there when the church was built. After a while, the church
became strong enough to call and support its own pastor. He also started the Trinity
Lutheran Congregation in Santa Ana.
Rev. Mr. Kogler was married at Minneapolis to Miss Dora Schultz, a native of that
city, and a charming woman most suitable as his life companion and real helpmate.
Eleven children blessed their marriage, nine of whom are still living. They are Paul,
Henry, William, Edwin, Walter, Dora, Alma, Lydia, Clara, and they all reside in
Orange County; there are also twelve grandchildren. Patriotic and devoted to the
institutions of the country in which they have lived, labored and prospered, the Rev.
and Mrs. Kogler may look back upon fields of religious and civic endeavor well tilled,
and upon harvests of which no one need be ashamed. They have always been deeply
interested in all that pertains to the permanent welfare of Orange and Orange County,
and have lived long enough to see veritable miracles wrought in this most favored
section of the Golden State.
ANGUS JAMES CROOKSHANK.— In every community that has shown a grad
ual growth and development of its varied industrial, agricultural and horticultural
interests, the most active factor in that growth is the financial backing behind every
movement which has as its aim the permanent building up and the stabilizing of
commerce. The bank is the institution to look to for capital, and the banker has to
be an extra human being with broad ideas to so safeguard the finances in his care
that a minimum of loss will be a result. In Santa Ana the financial institutions are
of the soundest and those men at the helm have shown their true worth in so looking
after the loans and investments of their banks as to bring the greatest good to the
greatest number of people. The First National Bank was established in 1886 by
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Iowa, and it was his guiding hand through a long term of years that firmly estab
lished the institution in the community. He had the co-operation of his sons, C. S.
and A. J., and today, Angus James Crookshank, as president of the bank, has succeeded
to the position long held by his sire.
Angus J. Crookshank was born in Central City, Iowa, on June 1, 1865, the son
of Miles M. and Margaret A. (McLeod) Crookshank, both born in Nova Scotia, of
sturdy Scotch ancestry. After his school days were over A. J. began his active career
in his father's bank at Gladbrook, Iowa, and in that institution he remained until the
family came to California in July, 1886, and settled in Santa Ana. After the First
National Bank was organized he has held a position in the bank, with but a short
time that he was out of it on account of his health, up to the present time. His father
died on January 15, 1916, at which time A. J. succeeded to that mOst important posi
tion. Besides he is a director in the Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank, the depart
ment organized as a savings bank from the original institution, and with these varied
cares he is recognized as among the leading financiers in Orange County. Other busi
ness interests claim some of his attention, but it is as a banker that he is best known.
In fact, there have been but few progressive movements put forward in this county
that have not had his assistance and advice. He is loyal to the county of his adoption
and has won friends in every part of Orange County.
Mr. Crookshank was united in marriage at San Jose, Cal., on January 5, 1898,
with Miss Josephine M. White, a native daughter, born in Nevada County, the daughter
of James M. White, an early settler of the state and for years an official in Nevada
County. This union has been blessed by the birth of the following children: Miles
J., Constance V., Josephine N., and Marion F., all natives of the Golden State. Mr.
Crookshank is an active member of the Congregational Church of Santa Ana, having
been for years an officer in the church. He is a stanch Republican in national affairs,
but in local matters he places the man or measure before party. He has never failed
to do his part as a public-spirited citizen and many are the projects that he has fos
tered that have helped to make Orange County one of the best-known localities in
California. FRANK L. KLENTZ. — Among, the ablest of all the sugar manufacturers of the
United States, F. L. Klentz, superintendent of the Santa Ana Sugar Company's plant
at Dyer, is also one of the best known men in his line. He is also known to his many
friends and admirers as a benevolent man with generous impulses and broad, liberal
ideas. Born at Norfolk, Nebr., February 6, 1875, Frank L. attended the common
schools of his locality and when sixteen years old entered the employ of the Oxnard
Sugar Company at Norfolk, and remained with that concern for eight years, mastering
the technical details of the business. In 1898 he went to Kalamazoo, Mich., and for two
years was with the Kalamazoo Sugar Company, and for the two years following was in
the employ of the sugar company located in Rochester, that state. A couple of years
were spent with the Detroit Sugar Company, then for one year he was with the
Menominee River Sugar Company, at Menominee; and still later spent three years
identified with the Chippewa Sugar Company at Chippewa Falls, Wis. At Charlevoix,
Mich., he superintended the erection of a large sugar mill for the West Michigan
Sugar Company, and operated it for three years. In 1909 Mr. Klentz came to Cali
fornia and was with the Southern California Sugar Company, at Santa Ana two years.
The eventful period in his eventful career came to him in 1911, when the Santa
Ana Cooperative Sugar Company was organized with Mr. Klentz as superintendent, to
procure for the company one of the most up-to-date sugar mills that could be brought
into being here in Orange County. This was accomplished by Mr. Klentz writing his
own specifications for the mill and letting the contract to the Dyer Company of Cleve
land, Ohio, to erect the mill as specified. This mill has proven to be the most eco
nomical mill in the United States from the point of cost of production. Not only did
he superintend the building of the large plant but he has superintended the manufacture
of the sugar there ever since.
The Santa Ana Sugar Company was started as a cooperative concern by the
Crookshanks, Mr. Irvine and other Santa Ana capitalists, who financed it until it was
purchased by the Holly Company, and it has done much to firmly establish one of the
most important industries in the county. The factory at Dyer is 66x266 feet in di
mension, is stiuated two miles southeast of Santa Ana, and is said to be the most
sanitary, the best equipped and most productive of high grade sugar from the bee.,
made in the most economical way of any of the great factories in California. During
the busy season as many as 425 men are employed and the factory easily handles 1,000
fons daily, or 1,200 tons if pushed to extra exertion; 80 to 100 tons of lime rock is used
daily for refining the sugar, and this is produced by burning the rock in its own kilns
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costing $300,000 was erected and equipped with the most modern of machinery known
to science for the manufacture of beet sugar. The manager is E. W. Smiley; the mast«-r
mechanic is F. J. Wagner; the field superintendent is William Gearhart and the super
intendent is Mr. Klentz.
The Holly Sugar Corporation of Denver is a gigantic concern and besides owning
the Southern California Sugar Company at Delhi, the Holly Sugar Company, at Hunt
ington Beach; and the Santa Ana Sugar Company at Dyer, owns and controls many
olher factories- in other counties in this state as well as other parts of the United
States. The first mill of this company was started in Colorado. C. A. Johnson is the
western manager, and has his headquarters at Huntington Beach, as has G. J. Daley,
the general superintendent.
As a rough estimate it is safe to say that Orange County will produce $15,000,000
of sugar beets and $22,000,000 of manufactured sugar in 1920, considering the present
inflated prices; this is interesting as compared with the output of the Santa Ana (Co
operative) Sugar Company's plant in 1912, when 226 independent ranchers grew 9,061
acres of beets, and there was an output of 600 tons daily capacity of the plant.
Frank L. Klentz was married in Chicago to Miss Lucy C. Breunig, of Humphrey,
Nebr., and one son has blessed their union, Lawrence B. He is in the aviation service
of the United States and is stationed at Riverside, Cal. The family home is at 806
South Birch Street, and is the center of a genuine, unostentatious hospitality.
JOHN M. BUSH, JR. — A thoroughly enterprising and successful rancher worthily
representing a very thorough-going. pioneer who stood for great things in early days,
is John M. Bush, Jr., the youngest of ten children of John M. Bush, who was born in
Kentucky, April 10, 1829, and who removed with his parents to Clay County, Mo.,
when he was twelve years of age. At the outbreak of the excitement concerning the
discovery of gold in California, young Bush, on the day he was of age, set out across
the wide continent, crossing the plain in an ox-team train, and in his new venture he
succeeded well enough to prefer to remain where he was, rather than to return East.
In 1851 he was married in Northern California to Sarah A. Watson, of Independence,
Mo., where she was born in 1836. In about 1869 he came to what is now Orange County
and bought land in Peralta district with his partner, Jonathan Watson, accumulating a
large tract of land, part of it now known as the Bixby ranch. He sold off most of it but
retained 150 acres which he highly improved and is now divided between his children.
He was for a while a walnut rancher on the Santa Ana Canyon Boulevard, about two
and a half miles northeast of Olive. He died on February 8, 1913. Mrs. Bush, his
faithful companion for so many years, passed away on the home place, March 26, 1920,
in the eighty-fourth year of her age. At her demise, the Santa Ana Register pub
lished the following obituary:
"Mrs. Sarah Ann Bush, pioneer, died at her home at Olive, where she had
lived since 1869. In going, this remarkable woman leaves 105 descendants — ten
children, fifty-five grandchildren, forty great-grandchildren. Her husband, John
M. Bush, died seven years ago. Of their fourteen children, ten are living and
nine were present at the bedside of their mother when death came. One, Taylor
Bush, for many years zanjero for the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company alone
was absent, being in the East on a visit. Everyone of Mrs. Bush's ten children
are married. Each has a family, but none of them has equalled in numbers the
family of their dear mother. One has nine, another eight, two have seven each,
one has six, another five, two have four each, another three, while Taylor has
two. Some of Mrs. Bush's children have grandchildren. Mrs. Bush came across
the plains with her parents when she was a girl of twelve. Her father ran a
hotel and did a freighting business at Dry Creek, near Marysville, during gold
excitement days. It was in 1869 that she and her husband, John M. Bush, moved
to Olive with her brother, Jonathan Watson, the well known pioneer sheepman,
now an orchardist at Olive. The ten children left by Mrs. Bush are: Mrs. P. J.
Ralls, Charles T. and Jonathan Bush, Mrs. L. J. Stone and Mrs. Lillie Hollowav,
all of Kern County; Mrs. Elizabeth Borden, of San Bernardino; J. M. and J.
Taylor Bush, and Mrs. Phoebe Burbank, all of Olive; and Mrs. S. C. Howard,
of Long Beach."
John M. Bush, Jr., was born, a native son — of which fact he is naturally proud—
on the home ranch above Olive, on December 18, 1880, and was educated in the public
schools of Olive, in which community he also grew up. In 1903 he was married to
Miss Amelia Lemke, the daughter of the late Chris and Julia Lemke of Olive, originally
of German descent. She first came to America in 1890, and was fortunate in settling
in the beginning in Orange County. They are the parents of three children: Victor
M., Terry N. arid Mildred. Both as an agriculturist and a horticulturist, Mr. Bush has
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walnuts and Valencia oranges, which he set out himself, might well be the pride of
anyone ambitious of developing a ranch to a high state of productivity. He still cares
for the old home ranch which is devoted to walnuts and has the oldest walnut trees
in the county. He is a member and director of Mutual Orange Distributors Association
at Olive, and for several years served as a trustee of Olive school district. Always a
public-spirited citizen, Mr. Bush and his good wife respond in particular to any move
ment like.ly to advance permanently the best interests of the town and the county in
which they live and prosper.
GERALD W. SANDILANDS.— A well-trained American of Scotch parentage
who has joined in helping to develop the resources of the state, and who, as manager
and secretary of a live organization has aided in particular in advancing the citrus
interests of Orange County, is Gerald W. Sandilands, a native of London, where he
was born on April 28, 1874. He is the son of George M. Sandilands, who was in the
government- service at Singapore, India, and there served as a member of the local
legislature; he had married Miss Jane F. C. Gordon, by whom he had nine children.
Five of these are living; and among the family, Gerald was the second youngest.
Having been prepared at both public and private schools in England, Mr. Sandi
lands then attended the famous College of London, after which, at the age of eighteen,
he came out to the United States. He had a brother at Anaheim, and this circum
stance led to his coming here and to buying a ranch at Placentia. For four years he
raised oranges, and then he embarked in buying oranges at Riverside, and soon came
to operate the largest packing house in that city. His brother handled the Riverside
end of the business, and Mr. Sandilands for three years respresented the enterprise
in New York.
Next Mr. Sandilands went to Porto Rico and Jamaica, and handled oranges there
for three years, becoming thoroughly familiar with that market. After that he came
back to California, while his brother went to Montreal, and for five years he managed
the independent shippers. In 1909 he took the management of the Anaheim Citrus
Fruit Association, which he so well organized that he built it up to be the largest
association, in membership and acreage, in California. The original organization be
came so large that it was necessary to organize another association, which was done
in July, 1918, when the Orange and Lemon Association came into being in order to-
properly handle and market the fruit. The membership of the new association is over
150 and the acreage represented is more than 2,400. During the season it takes 20!)
persons to handle the output, which averages each year 1,000 carloads of fruit. Besides
his connection with the marketing of citrus fruits, Mr. Sandilands is actively engaged
in growing oranges, having developed one grove himself. He has thirty-five acres of
oranges in his two groves and is the second largest producer in the association. H:s
success has been made possible because he is -familiar with every branch of the busi
ness he has followed for the past twenty-eight years, from preparing the soil to selling
the product, a recognized authority on all subjects connected with each department.
On November 2, 1898, Mr. Sandilands was married to Miss Rose B. Robison, and
their fortunate union has been blessed with the birth of one son, Donald W. Mr.
Sandilands is a Mason, but so full of the fraternal spirit that he is capable at all times
of demonstrating his public-spiritedness, and his willingness to cooperate with others
for the highest standard of good citizenship.
THOMAS E. DOZIER. — Two highly-esteemed pioneers of Orange County, who
represent, distinguished families of North Carolina, among the flower of Southern
chivalry and worth, are Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Dozier, who reside in their elegant
and hospitable home at 532 East Chapman Avenue, Orange. Mr. Dozier was born
in Booneville, Yadkin County, on December 9, 1849, and lived in North Carolina during
the Civil War. When he was nineteen, however, he struck out into the world, leaving
the ancestral home for Missouri, where he already had a brother, who was doing well.
The head of the family was Dr. Nathan Bright Dozier, who for thirty-five years prac
ticed medicine at Booneville; he had been married in Yadkin County, the same state,
to Miss Olive C. Vestal, so that both father and mother were born, married and died
in North Carolina. They had fourteen children, and among them Thomas was the
fifth in the order of birth. Grandfather Dozier, who became a substantial planter,
migrated from Old England, and in doing so brought with him, for his posterity, some
of the best blood inheritable.
Our subject arrived in Missouri in the fall of 1870 and at once hired out to work on
a farm in Piatt County. After a year, he went on to Boone County, Ark., and thence
went up to Hardin County, Iowa, where he was married to Miss Nancy C. Reese, on
February 12, 1873. She had been born in the same county in North Carolina, on July
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the same school where Mr. Dozier studied. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Dozier
farmed in Hardin County, Iowa, for thirteen years, and thence they moved to Sumner
County, Kans., where they remained for a couple of years. And from Kansas they
came to California during the great boom in 1887.
Settling in Whittier with his wife, Mr. Dozier broke the first ground for the first
five-acre orchard ever planted in Whittier. It was owned by Strowbridge and Wiggins
— Frank Wiggins, who was then, as now, a leading spirit, and is now the secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles. After a year and a half, the Doziers
moved over to the Villa Park District, then Los Angeles County and there bought
twelve acres of land; and for a generation, or twenty-one years, they continued to
reside in and work for the development of Villa Park. For the past eleven years they
have lived in the city of Orange. They helped start the McPherson Heights Orange
Growers Association, and worked hard for good roads and prohibition, as well as city
sewers and other needed and not always easily-obtained improvements. They joined
the Friends Church at El Modena, and also the Orange County Farmers Mutual Insur
ance Company. He was-much interested in the formation of the new county of Orange,
and was on the election board when it was voted.
Four children have been granted this worthy couple who have always endeavored,
as in matters of popular education, to advance the interests of childhood generally.
The eldest, Melvin Bright, died in Iowa when he was eighteen months old; Ray Syl
vester is a walnut grower at Walnut Center, near Puente; Martin Edward is manager
of the Orange packing house at Garden Grove; and Ernest Leland is an orange grower
and resides on South Tustin Street, Orange. Orange County has prospered through
. just such pioneers as Mr. and Mrs. Dozier, who may well be regarded as having helped
to lay the cornerstone of the new republic along the Pacific. At present Mr. Dozier
is devoting himself to real estate, with an office at his residence; and his known expe
rience, good judgment and honesty easily make him a desirable agent for those who
wish to invest securely and for the future.
MRS. SARAH AMANDA WATSON.— The romantically successful career of a
long-honored California pioneer is recalled in the interesting family history of Mrs.
Sarah Amanda Watson, widow of the late David Watson, an early sheepman and citrus
grower, and for years one of the leading merchants of Olive. He was born in Mis
souri on November 29, 1846, a son of Henry and Tilda Watson, who were married in
Missouri and came to California with their family in 1849, when David was only three
years old. Of English, historic ancestry, Henry Watson was born in Virginia in 1812,
and in his younger years had settled in Missouri with his wife, whose family name
was Cox. The call of California, however, due to the discovery of gold, so affected
them that they abandoned their comfortable Jackson County home and in company
with thousands of other emigrants, hurried across the great plains. They tarried for
a while where they first landed, in Sacramento, and then went to Dry Creek, near
Marysville, where Mr. Watson had a hotel, at the same time that he engaged exten
sively in freighting. After a while, he sold out his interests there, and lived suc
cessively at San Jose, Watsonville, and Visalia, and he was also interested in the sheep
business, in the San Joaquin Valley. For a while, too, he ran a grist mill. In 1869
he came to what is now Olive and became the largest landowner here, buying a part of
the Rancho Santa Ana de Santiago, the property of the Peraltas.
David Watson also became a large landowner. His first marriage made him the
devoted husband of Mary Ann Field, who died in 1874, leaving him three children:
Louis, who is at home with Mrs. Watson; Nealy, the rancher, who is married and lives
near Olive; and his twin sister, Minnie, now the wife of Chris Loptien, who resides at
Delano. Mr. Watson was married a second time in Santa Ana, in 1875, to Miss Sarah
Amanda Stewart, a native of Chattanooga, Tenn., who was taken by her parents to
Arkansas when she was two years old, and there lived until her fourteenth year. Then
she went to Texas, and there grew to young womanhood, being nineteen years old when
she came to what is now Olive, then called the Bull Well Point. There was then
nothing at Orange, and nothing worth while at Santa Ana. After their marriage, Mr.
and Mrs. Watson settled on their ranch at Olive, and Mrs. Watson brought up her
three stepchildren.
As has been said, in early days, David Watson was a sheepman; and keeping thou
sands of sheep, he had a full complement of herders, cooks and other employes. When
he disposed of his sheep, he bought a grocery store, which he managed for twenty
years. He also became the owner of a grain farm of 300 acres. When he died, he
owned the twenty-four-acre ranch at Olive, and also 160 acres near Newhall, Los
Angeles County. On this ranch of twenty-four acres, Mr. Watson died on October 17,
1919, after an illness of about four years. He was a member of the Christian Church
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Mrs. Watson, who also owns a ranch of eight acres near Olive, is a daughter of
John and Eliza (Wood) Stewart, both of whom were natives of and married in Georgia.
Her father was a school teacher, and died when she was a baby, followed to the grave
soon after by her mother. They left four children. She was brought up by her grand
mother, Agnes Wood of Georgia, who passed away when our subject was twelve years
of age. Sarah Stewart then went to live with her oldest sister, who was married and
resided in Texas; and from the Lone Star State, she came with her brother, Robert
Stewart, now the rancher at Stockton, to Southern California, in June, 1869. Mrs.
Watson, like her husband, is also a member of the Christian Church. In many ways,
her lines have since fallen in pleasant places; and today Mrs. Watson enjoys the
esteem and good will of a large number of admiring friends.
MR. AND MRS. SAMUEL ARMOR.— A native of the state of New York, Samuel
Armor was born near Moriah, Essex County, March 20, 1843. He remained with his
father's family until he was eighteen, working on the farm in summer and going to
school in the winter, wherever the family might be. In the fall of 1854 the family
moved to Le Claire, Iowa, where they remained about eighteen months. From there
the Armors went to Sheffield, 111., to stay another eighteen months. They then went
to Lucas County, Iowa, where they remained until the family gradually broke up during
the early years of the Civil War.
The subject of this sketch left home about the year 1861 and went to Illinois, where
he found farm work south of Galva in the summer, going to school each winter. In
1863 he went with half a dozen young men to St. Louis to join the army; but the other
young men backed out, so all returned home. He then entered the C class of the
Kewanee (111.) high school and continued with that class until the spring of 1865, when
he enlisted with classmates and others in the Ninth Illinois Cavalry to fill in the ranks
that were decimated at the battle of Nashville. In September of that year he was
discharged from the service by reason of the close of the war.
After teaching a small school a year, to partially recover his health, Mr. Armor
took up his studies again, this time in Knox Academy and College at Galesburg, 111.,
with the class of 1871. In the middle of the Freshman year he changed over to Oberlin
College in Ohio, where he continued through the classical course and graduated with
his class. All these years of study he paid his way by working at whatever he could
find to do, teaching one term of school in the winter each year.
About two months after graduation Mr. Armor married Miss Alice L. Taylor, of
Claridon, Ohio, a classmate at Oberlin. Having obtained employment of the United
States Government as principal and matron of the manual labor boarding school on the
Indian reservation at White Earth, Minn., the young couple left for their new field a
few weeks after their marriage. They organized and conducted this school with
marked success for two years, until the Indian agent was changed, when they resigned
their positions and went into a similar school on the Sisseton and Wahpeton reserva
tion in Dakota. Here they remained only one year, because of the failure of Mr.
Armor's health, which necessitated their coming to California.
The first winter in this state they spent in Los Angeles compiling a directory of
that city; but, Mrs. Armor having obtained a position in the Orange schools, the couple
moved to West Orange April 25, 1875. Previous to leaving Los Angeles, Mr. Armor
had taken up carpenter work, with which he was familiar, for the sake of the exercise
in the open air; this he continued to follow for several years in Los Angeles and
Riverside counties. Meantime, he improved a thirteen-acre ranch on North Main
street; but, having to hire so much of the work done, he sold the place and moved into
Orange in the year 1881. About the same time he quit carpenter work and went to
teaching again. After three years and a half in the Orange schools he resigned his
place, on account of the nervous strain, and finished the year clerking for W. B.
Forsythe. About August, 1885, Mr. Armor started a book and stationery store on
the corner where the Ainsworth block now stands, and later a stock of shoes was put
in on the other side of the room. Probably no store in Orange ever did as much
business on so small a capital as this store did during the first five years of its existence.
From early morning till late at night two persons, and sometimes three, were busy
waiting on customers. The next ten years, from 1890 to 1900, the business gradually
fell off to practically nothing, for reasons that will appear in the succeeding paragraphs.
When the county of Orange was formed in 1889, Mr. Armor was persuaded to ac
cept the office of supervisor in his district; this office he held for nearly ten years, being
elected three times. In 1892 he was appointed to fill the vacancy on the board of
directors of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, caused by the resignation of
William Blasdale. He continued in this position nearly thirteen years, ten of which he
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of trustees of the city of Orange, which position he held for eight years, being president
of the board for two years. In each and every one of these offices he was an active
worker, personally examining everything that came before the board and standing firmly
against whatever was prejudicial to the interests of the whole people.
As already intimated, the business of the store commenced to dwindle almost as
soon as Mr. Armor began to hold office. This was not due to any neglect of the store,
for he always kept the best of clerks and gave much of his own time to managing the
business; but it was due to antagonisms created by his sturdy defense of the public
interests while he was in office. It is not necessary to give examples of such antago
nisms or to explain the deterioration and depletion of the stock; suffice it to say that
the store was voluntarily closed in 1900 by its owner with no loss to any one,
except himself.
But even this loss had is compensations, for, with the sacrifice of his business,
Mr. Armor had more time to assist his wife with her newspaper, and thereby use it in
defense of his public work, the success of which was more important to him than any
personal gain would be. Hence, he wasted no time in vain regrets and would not have
changed any of his acts in the past, if he could. In fact, the logic of events since has
vindicated the wisdom and value of his pioneer work for the county, the city, the water
company, the schools, the churches, and good government generally.
At the present time Mr. Armor is serving his second term as justice of the peace
of Orange township. Since the community is orderly and the merchants, doing business
on a cash basis, have few collections to make, the justice is not overburdened with
official business; nevertheless, any one seeking his aid or counsel generally finds him
at the office in office hours. None of his decisions have been reversed by the higher
courts, and the only reflection on his judicial work — if such it can be called — is found in
the fact that, in criminal cases, the "rich malefactor" hires a lawyer who invariably calls
for a jury trial and wins his case, while the poor devil, overtaken in a fault, pleads guilty
and gets "justice" dealt out to him by the court. Perhaps the jury thinks the payment
¦of a lawyer's fee is punishment enough for the offender to undergo!
Alice L. Taylor was born August 20, 1848, at Stockholm, St. Lawrence County,
N. Y. Her father, Rev. E. D. Taylor, was one of six brothers, who were all Congre
gational ministers. Her mother was Mary Ann Lewis of Lenox, Madison County, N. Y.
When Alice was about three years of age, the family removed to Chagrin Falls, Ohio,
and four years later to Claridon, Geauga County, Ohio. Mr. Taylor was pastor of
the Congregational Church at Claridon until the death of his wife in 1872, and in that
place his children spent the years of their childhood and early youth. As the schools
of that period were primitive in character, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor taught select schools at
different times and in these and the district schools their children received their earlier
education, later attending private schools and academies in other places, the two girls
being students for a time at Lake Erie Female Seminary at Painesville, Ohio. The only
son, E. D. Taylor, Jr., served for three years in the Federal Army during the Civil War.
In the fall of 1865 Alice Taylor went to Algona, Iowa, with an uncle, Rev. Chaun-
-cey Taylor, a pioneer home missionary of that state. She remained in Iowa a year,
teaching two terms in country schools. Returning home in the fall of 1866, she went in
November to Lexington, Ky., in the employ of the American Missionary Association,
and taught in the colored schools of that city until June of the following year. In the
fall of 1867, she entered Oberlin College, beginning the first year of the literary course.
During the four years of her college course, she taught school several terms and also
taught classes in the preparatory department of the college. Shortly after graduation,
August 9, 1871, she was married to Samuel Armor and with him took up school work
among the Indians for the Government. After three years of this work, the Armors
came to California in the fall of 1874 and to Orange in the following spring.
Mrs. Armor got a first grade certificate at the teachers' examination for the
county of Los Angeles and on the same papers she was granted a first grade state
certificate and life diploma. She taught many years at Orange, Garden Grove and Tus
tin and was considered a first class teacher. Superintendent Hinton urged her to apply
for a place in the Los Angeles schools; but she told him that, if his rating of her work
as first class was correct, they needed first class teachers in the country as well as in
the city and she would stay where she was. All this time she was doing her own
housework, caring for the animals when 'Mr. Armor was working away from home,
singing in the choir and at all kinds of meetings and entertainments and teaching a
class in Sunday school. Members of that class of about thirty-five years ago, learning
recently of Mrs. Armor's illness, sent her valuable presents and letters expressing their
appreciation of her worth as a teacher and gratitude for the help and inspiration her
teaching had been to them.

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About 1890 Mrs. Armor quit teaching and began work on The Orange Post as
proofreader, city editor, bookkeeper and general factotum. As the proprietor was
contemplating giving up the struggle, Mrs. Armor put in her account for work with
some additional money and bought the paper in January, 1892. She inherited literary
tastes and was a graceful writer; her articles in college entertainments, teachers' insti
tutes and literary periodicals were well received and won her praise. However, news
paper work for her, without sufficient capital to hire help for the routine work, was
like harnessing Pegasus to the plow — too much drudgery to keep the poetic afflatus
active and aglow. Nevertheless, it is her proud record that she got out the paper on
time each week for twenty-three years without missing a single issue. During the set
tling up of the country and the formative period of its institutions, The Orange Post
had considerable influence in getting things started right and was liberally quoted by
its exchanges. After the sale of her paper early in 1915, Mrs. Armor found ample scope for her
usefulness in the King's Daughters, the Woman's Relief Corps, as a deaconness of the
Presbyterian Church, in visiting the sick and shut-ins, and in writing letters of cheer and
comfort to those at a distance. In these ministrations of helpfulness, she herself has
often been cheered and comforted by the calm fortitude and abiding faith of these un
fortunates, "of whom the world was not worthy."
HORACE CALDWELL HEAD. — Prominent among the distinguished members
of the California Bar, and as favorably as he is well-known, must be mentioned Horace
Caldwell Head, who has been a resident of California since his sixth year, when he
accompanied his parents on their removal, in the famous Centennial Year of 1876, from
their home state, Tennessee and located near Santa Ana, then Los Angeles, but now
Orange County.- He was born at Troy, in Obion County, Tenn., on August 22, 1870, a
son of Dr. H. W. Head, a prominent physician and surgeon in great demand in that
county, who had married Miss Maria E. Caldwell, a lady of accomplishments. In
1876, Dr. Head came to California with the intention of retiring from the practice of
medicine, and engaged in horticulture; but the scarcity of physicians forced him, out
of regard to society, into practice again, and he spent several years alleviating pain and
doing good. He was also much interested in and became prominent in civic affairs —
so much so, that the- citizens of his district elected him in 1882 a member of the
Assembly of the State Legislature; and he served in that responsible capacity for the
sessions of 1883 and the special session of 1884, and later took a leading part in the
formation and organization of Orange County. He became, in fact, a well-known
pioneer, who was a prominent, familiar figure throughout the county; but in later life
he lived retired, and died on December 5, 1919, survived by a widow and seven children.
The eldest of these, Horace Caldwell Head, received the nucleus of his education
in the public schools of Garden Grove, completing it in the University of California at
Berkeley, from which he was graduated in 1891 with the degree of Ph.B. After that,
for a couple of years, he turned his attention to teaching, and he then entered the
Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, the law department of the University of
California, from which he received the degree of LL.B. in 1896. In May of that year,
he was admitted to practice at the California Bar, and in the fall of 1896 he located at
Fullerton, and began to practice his profession.
From the beginning, he met with such merited success that he was elected district
attorney in 1902, and took office the following January, for a term of four years, which
necessitated his removal to Santa Ana, a change to which he was evidently not per
sonally opposed, for he has since made that delightful city his home. At the close of
his term of office, he engaged in the practice of law in Santa Ana, and later he formed
a partnership with A. W. Rutan, under the firm name of Head and Rutan, and opened
offices in the Farmers and Merchants Bank Building.
At Fullerton, in 1900, occurred the marriage of Horace C. Head and Miss Anna G.
Hansen, whose parents had settled at Placentia in 1874. Her father, Peter Hansen,
is still living, honored by all who know his sterling worth. Two children have blessed
this fortunate marriage, and they are named Melville and Iris Head.
Since his term as district attorney, when he attained a very enviable reputation for
his common sense, but fearless administration, his prosecution of criminals, defense
of the best interests of the county, and his influence in favor of a better and higher
civic sense, Mr. Head has devoted himself to private practice, enjoying more and more
a large and highly creditable client le. His standing is attested by the interesting fact
that he is president of the Orange County Bar Association, and an influential director
in the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce. During the late war, he was active in all the
bond and war drives, and was one of the most acceptable "four minute" speakers. He
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and the hope of the nation, and is an unselfish, untiring worker in the various depart
ments of the Y. M. C. A.
Politically a Democrat, but decidely nonpartisian in his support of local move
ments, measures and men, Mr. Head is a Knights Templar Mason, and also a member
of the Odd Fellows, and is a past exalted ruler of the Elks.
MRS. MARIA FAACKS. — The well-kept and productive ten-acre orange ranch
of Mrs. Maria Faacks, widow of the late Herman Faacks, is located on Santa Clara
Avenue, Orange. Both Mr. and Mrs. Faacks were born near Berlin, Germany, the
former in 1840, the latter in 1844. She was a daughter of Wm. and Johanna (Hen
ning) Schulz, farmer folk, who brought their family to St. Paul, Minn., in 1865.
Maria Schulz was the second oldest of their eight children, all of whom are living, but
she is the only one in California. She was first married in St. Paul in 1866 to Julius
Schmidt, a native of Saxony, Germany, who had come to Minnesota in the fifties,
and served as an officer in a Minnesota regiment in the Civil War, after which he
engaged in business in St. Paul until his death, which occurred in 1871. She after
wards married Herman Faacks, who had come to St. Paul in 1867 from his native
place, Brandenburg, and by trade was a painter and decorator, a business he followed
until, on account of his health, they came to Orange, Cal., in 1884, where they pur
chased ten acres on Santa Clara Avenue. It was a vineyard, which they grubbed out,
and when they got it in shape set to Valencia oranges.
They had six children: Dora, Mrs. Logan, resides near San Francisco; Rudolph
lives in Los Angeles, and has three children; Herman is in charge of operating the
home farm; Edward died in Los Angeles; Oscar and Henry are in Lankershim, and
the latter has one child.
Change of climate did not restore his health, and an impaired constitution soon
brought Mr. Faacks to the end of his earthly journey while still in the prime of life.
He died January 20, 1890, and was buried in the old cemetery adjacent to his ranch,
and his widow and children were left to mourn his untimely decease. A worthy citi
zen, loyal to his adopted country, a devoted husband and a loving father, his memory
is cherished in the hearts of loved ones who remember his sincerity of purpose and
many noble qualities of character. In her religious convictions, Mrs. Faacks is a
Lutheran, and politically is a strong Republican.
J. D. SPENNETTA. — A fruit buyer and shipper who well understands the ins and
outs of that intricate business is J. D. Spennetta, proprietor of the Red Fox Orchards,
who has made that brand widely and favorably known and has built up a good trade
such as anyone might be proud of. He first came to Southern California in 1904, and
since that time has witnessed many changes in the rapid advance to which he has been
such a large contributor. He was born near St. Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., in 1886,
the son of H. J. Spennetta, a farmer now residing at Orange, and attended the local
grammar and high schools. Four years after the dawn of this eventful century he
located at Cucamonga, Cal., and became the bookkeeper for the Cucamonga Citrus Fruit
Growers Association there, working under Manager Stanton; and after the latter's
death he left that concern and entered the employ of the Mutual Orange Distributors.
At the end of a year, he was transferred to the main office at Redlands, where he
became cashier; and in that position of considerable responsibility he remained until
1913, when he resigned and removed to Orange.
Here he bought a ranch, now famous as the Red Fox Orchards and in 1913 he
set up a packing house in Orange and began as a fruit buyer. Since then, by fore
sight, study and hard work, he has built up a large patronage. The first year he shipped
seventy-five cars, and now he despatches 650 cars. He has a line of trucks, and
engages in a general trucking trade. Mr. Spennetta also handles fertilizer of the
very highest grades and in quantity about 10,000 tons per year. He enjoys the repu
tation of being also the largest dealer of barley and bean straw in Orange County,
handling approximately 7,500 tons. He is one of the original stockholders, directors and
a vice-president of the First National Bank of Olive; in national politics he is a
Republican, but he allows no partisanship to deter him from lending a hand when and
wherever he can to boost both city and county of Orange.
While in Dakota, Mr. Spennetta was married to Miss Edna Cheuning, a native of
Missouri, by whom he has had three children — Elizabeth, Paul and Mary. He was
made a Mason in Orange Grove Lodge No. 293, and belongs to Orange Grove Chapter
No. 99 of the Royal Arch Masons and Santa Ana Commandery No. 36, Knights
Templar. He also has risen to the thirty-second degree in the Los Angeles Consistory
of the Scottish Rite Masons, and he belongs to the Al Malaikah Temple of the A. A.
O. N. M. S. of Los Angeles, and the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks.

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ARTHUR H. DOMANN, M.D. — A distinguished representative of the medical
fraternity of California, and one whose influence particularly in the Southland has been
felt in favor of the most scientific conservation of the public welfare, is Dr. Arthur H.
Domann, for the past five years County Health Officer and County Physician. He
was born at Milwaukee, Wis., in 1879, where his father, Gustave Domann, still resides,
with an honorable record as a first-class printer. His devoted mother, a splendid
woman popular in maidenhood as Wilhelmina Stark, is also living there. Their union
was blessed with three children — the subject of our review, the first born; William
Domann a practicing physician at Menomonee Falls, Wis.; and a daughter, now Mrs.
Arthur Murray of Milwaukee.
Commencing with the grammar schools of Milwaukee, Arthur was later graduated
with honors from the excellent high school of that city, and when eighteen began to
study pharmacy, under John A. Martens in Milwaukee. He remained in that field
until 1902 when he moved to the Pacific Coast, settled for a while in Montana, and
was later for several years in the state of Washington. Returning to Milwaukee, he
entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons there, one of the best medical schools
west of the original institution of that name in New York City, and for two years
studied medicine. Coming once again to the Coast, and to California, in 1909, he
continued his medical studies at the University of Southern California, where he was
graduated with the degree of M.D.
Since settling at Orange, Dr. Domann has rapidly advanced to the position of
confidence in the public esteem which he now enjoys, being widely known as a suc
cessful physician and surgeon. His appointment as county physician and county health
officer gave general satisfaction. Naturally, he belongs to the Orange County Medical
Society, the State Medical Society and to the American Medical Association. In
addition to his scientific research and practice, Dr. Domann is interested in citrus
culture, and owns an orange and lemon orchard of thirty acres in the Peralta Hills,
which he himself set out and improved from the start.
At Spokane, Wash., Dr. Domann was married to Miss Birdie Carter, a native of
Kentucky, who is a member with him of the Scepter Chapter No. 163 of the Order
Eastern Star of Orange. Dr. Domann was made a Mason in Fort Benton Lodge, F.
& A. M., Montana, when he was twenty-one years of age, and he is now a member
of Orange Grove Lodge No. 293, F. & A. M. He is also a member of Orange Grove
Chapter No. 99, R. A. M. He belongs to Santa Ana Commandery No. 36, Knights
Templar, and to the Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and he is an Elk, belong
ing to the Santa Ana Lodge, and a member of the Orange Lodge of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.
JOHNTY P. BORING. — One of the decidedly interesting early settlers of Orange,
who has done his part faithfully for both the building up and the upbuilding of the
town and county, is Johnty P. Boring, who came here in the summer of 1882. He was
born at Palestine, Crawford County, 111., on January 7, 1860, the son of Washington
M-. Boring, who was born in Marion County, Ind., member of an old Kentucky family,
who were early settlers of the Hoosier State. Washington Boring came to Illinois
with his parents, and was a wheelwright in Bridgeport and, later, at Ingraham. He
passed his last days peacefully at Orange. Mrs. Boring was Matilda Robbins before
her marriage, and she was a native of Vincennes, Ind., of French descent. She also died
at Orange, the mother of three boys and a girl, one of the sons being now deceased.
The daughter Florence is Mrs. D. C. Pixley of Orange; and the other son living is
Knox R. Boring of Oakland.
Johnty P. was educated in the public schools of Ingraham, and when eighteen,
began clerking in a general store there. In August, 1882, he came to California, and
pitched his tent at Orange, then such a small place that it had no sidewalks or any
other public improvements. He began clerking for D. C. Pixley, with whom he con
tinued for five years, and he was then in the hardware business under the firm name of
Pixley and Boring for two years. After that he was with C. S. Spencer in the grocery
business, and later still was for eight years with Samuel Armor in his shoe and
stationery store.
About 1900 Mr. Boring built a frame structure on his lots on South Glassell
Street, and there opened a bicycle, gun and sporting goods store. Four years later,
when he had no insurance, he was burned out, with a loss of $4,000. Nothing daunted,
he began again at the bottom and built up a new business on the same site, and so
well succeeded that he now has a new building on South Glassell Street, having a
frontage of 120 feet, and occupied by six different stores. He continued in business
until July, 1918, when he sold out his stock and has since rented his buildings. Since
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modern and up-to-date, which yields a splendid income. Mr. Boring is a director in
the Orange Building and Loan Association, having been connected with it for about
a quarter of a century, and he is a member of the security committee of the association.
He is also interested in citrus growing, and owns an orange and lemon orchard at
Villa Park. He is a member of the Villa Park Orchard Association, and the Central
Lemon Association.
On January 20, 1887, Mr. Boring was married, at Orange, to Miss Belle D. Hall, a
native of Richland County, 111. Two children have blessed this union; one is living
Ronald A. Boring, who is attending the Orange Union high school. Mr. Boring was
school trustee of Orange for many years, and also clerk of the board. He was, besides,
city trustee for four years, and chairman of the finance committee; he was a member of
the board when the sewers were being built, and when the paving of streets was first
undertaken. A true-blue Republican, Mr. Boring was more than once a delegate to
conventions in the days before the primaries.
Mr. Boring was made a Mason in Orange Grove Lodge No. 293, F. & A. M., and
was exalted to the royal arch degree in Orange Grove Chapter No. 99, R. A. M., and
he was knighted in Santa Ana Commandery No. 36, Knights Templar. He is a member
of Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., in Los Angeles, and he is a member of
the Odd Fellows Lodge in Orange and with his wife he is a member of Scepter Chap
ter No. 163, Order Eastern Star, and Mrs. Boring is also a member of the Woman's
Club of Orange. They are charter members of the Christian Church, in which Mr.
Boring was a trustee for many years. In addition to being active in all the business
associations in Orange, Mr. Boring has long participated in civic endeavors and in
every good movement for the welfare of the community.
DANIEL F. ROYER, M. D. — An eminent physician more than distinguished for
both his scientific and technical ability and his uprightness of character, is Dr. Daniel
F. Royer, now one of the leading and most popular citizens of Orange. He was born
at Waynesboro in the Cumberland Valley, Pa., and after sound schooling, was graduated
from Carlisle College in Pennsylvania, after which he entered the State Normal School
and completed the full course. Then he matriculated in the Jefferson Medical College
of Philadelphia, one of the foremost schools of medicine in the world, and having grad
uated from this institution with high honors, he entered with a fine scientific foundation
upon a year of practical work in a large city hospital. This experience, so many-sided
in its nature, proved invaluable to him, and when he was ready to attempt private prac
tice, he did so as a skillful surgeon and a highly-trained professional man.
Dr. Royer located for a while in Alpena, S. D., and soon attained an exceptionally
prominent position in the field of medicine, while filling with honor and credit important
public offices. He was for some time U. S. pension agent there, and for many years
represented the Government in a similar capacity here. He was U. S. Indian agent at
Pine Ridge during the stirring days when Sitting Bull had the populace of that entire
section so alarmed, and during the fatal conflict with the two Indian chiefs, Dr. Royer
fulfilled every duty in just such a manner as those personally acquainted with him
might expect. He was also city treasurer of Alpena for six years, and served on the
board of education for nine years. He was a member of the Dakota legislature during
the two terms previous to the division of the Dakotas, and was a leader on the floor,
and was speaker pro tem for several weeks during the absence of the speaker. As a
registered pharmacist, he was one of the state board of pharmacy examiners and a
member of various medical associations.
Dr. Royer came to Southern California on Christmas Day, 1896, and intended. to
establish himself in Los Angeles. In looking over some property he owned west of
Orange, however, he carefully inspected the entire locality and decided to cast his lot
here. The prospects for growth and development were very apparent, and he decided
to riiake Orange his future home. He has been identified with the advancement of the
city from the outset, and has participated in many of the movements which led the
community to establish municipal undertakings of great necessity and importance. He
was a member of the board of trustees of Orange for six years, and was mayor for one-
of the terms. There, as at other times and places, he exerted his best efforts for the
good of the community, and in spite of his extensive medical practice, he devoted
considerable time to the duties of his public offices.
Dr. Royer has met with pronounced success in Orange in the practice of his pro
fession, and his strong personality, intensive application to everything he undertakes,
and careful, conscientious regard for all things pertaining to the responsibilities of his
calling, have called forth a responsive note in the public mind, and he is held in the
highest esteem both by his fellow citizens and his fellow practitioners— a circumstance
amply demonstrated in innumerable ways. Dr. Royer is a member of the County

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Medical Association, the State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the
Southern California Medical Association, and the Pacific Coast Railway Surgeons'
Association, and is the local surgeon for the Santa Fe, the Southern Pacific and the
Pacific Electric railroads.
During the World War, Dr. Royer was a member of the local exemption board
for District No. 1, of Orange County, which examined nearly 6,000 men, and gave freely
of his time and services. He is a Knights Templar Mason and Shriner, as well as
an Elk and an Odd Fellow, and enjoys in the circle of each of these well-known
fraternities an enviable and deserved popularity.
THEODORE E. SCHMIDT.— A singularly appropriate analogy between the past
and present is suggested by the fact that Theodore E. Schmidt spent his well-earned
retirement in Anaheim, for in the very early days of the city's immaturity he was a
prophet of wise foresight, and even suggested the name of the city. As his name im
plies Mr. Schmidt was of German ancestry, and in his native town of Bielefeldt he was
educated in the public schools, and at a comparatively early age embarked in the dry
goods business. This business experience was supplemented by extensive travel in
different parts of Europe, principally in France and Spain, after which he enlisted in
the German army as a private in the Fifteenth Infantry of Fusileers and for meritorious
service was advanced .to the rank of lieutenant. After an honorable discharge he came
to America in 1848, and in the latter part of the same year he started out to cross
Texas and Mexico, and at Mazatlan boarded a French sailing vessel which eventually
anchored at San Francisco, the entire journey having consumed about seven months.
As a means of livelihood he went to work in a brickyard, and afterwards became the
proprietor of a bakery establishment which he conducted for two years. Later he
engaged in the dry goods business. Meantime he became one of the chief promoters
of the Los Angeles Vineyard Company, of which he was the first president and leading
director. The company bought the tract of land upon which Anaheim is built, and
as before stated, the name of the embryo town was the suggestion of Mr. Schmidt.
In 1860 he located here and engaged in horticulture upon forty acres of land, and con
tinued with fair success until 1871. A desire to visit the land of his birth was the
natural outgrowth of his success, and he therefore spent about a year in Westphalia,
and upon returning to New York was accompanied by his brother. In New York City
he started a wholesale wine business, his chief object being the marketing of the Ana
heim wines, but his stock also included other brands. From a comparatively modest
beginning at the foot of Broadway, on Bowling Green, he was obliged with the increase
of trade to remove to more commodious quarters on Warren Street, where, under the
firm name of James M. Bell & Company, he managed a thoroughly successful venture
for many years.
In 1893 Mr. Schmidt disposed of his New York wine interests and removed to
Vineland, N. J., where he purchased fifty-two acres of land and engaged in horticulture.
This property he retained and owned until his death, but in 1899 he returned to Anaheim,
Cal., and here he lived retired until his demise in 1911. He was married in San Fran
cisco in 1859 to Clementine Zimmerman born in New Orleans, La., who came to Cali
fornia with her parents in pioneer days; she died while on a visit to San Francisco
on October 8, 1913. They had five children, two boys and three girls, and two are
living: Mrs. Clementine Turck of Anaheim and Mrs. J. H. Bullard of Los Angeles.
It is an interesting fact that the south twenty acres of his original purchase is built up
for business houses and residences, while the north twenty acres has been kept intact
by the family until now the city has voted bonds to take it over for a city park, and a
most beautiful location it is.
RAY C. LAMBERT. — A young man who has well fulfilled the Latin motto, "Seize
the day," and has so improved his opportunities that he has succeeded beyond his most
sanguine expectations, making good as a citrus grower who thoroughly understands
the attractive industry and renders it still more attractive by his scientific methods of
operation, is Ray C. Lambert who leases and cultivates a valuable part of the Irvine
ranch. He is a son of Charles C. Lambert, the pioneer of Tustin still living and
retired, a native of Iowa who came to California as a young man and set himself up
in business as a grading contractor. Among the extensive contracts undertaken by
him was the grading for. the Salt Lake and Santa Fe railroads in Los Angeles. Later,
he joined the" Fourth Street 'Meat Market in Santa Ana and helped build up its trade.
He married Miss Amelia Hadley, who died in 1904, leaving four children: Everett
Clayton, who patriotically served his' country on board the Oregon, passed away in
1904, in Japan, a victim of pleuro-pneumonia — a favorite with his sailor-fellows and with
all the officers, as well; Ray C. Lambert is the subject of our review, and he is assisted
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Ray attended the public schools at Tustin and put in a couple of years at the
Santa Ana high school. Then he engaged in the nursery business at Tustin until he
came to his present place on the Irvine ranch, in 1913, having secured an optional lease
on 160 acres and immediately began the work of developing water, which he found he
could have in abundance by sinking two wells 300 feet deep. He began with one
well, and now both are pumped by two engines of twenty-five horsepower each, giving
him over 100 inches of water which is more than ample to irrigate his entire holding.
Mr. Lambert made an agreement with Mr. Irvine by which, after a number of
years of successful operation, he becomes the owner of half of the ranch he is now
tenanting, and in the spring of 1914 began to plant Valencia orange trees. This work
he continued through 1915 and 1916, and in the latter year he also set out lemon trees.
He also installed a cement pipe line system, all the pipe being made on the place. The
orchard has been interplanted with lima beans; and as he has been able to carry out
his contract with Mr. Irvine to the letter the orchards having the required elevation,
thus placing them in a thermal belt where it is practically frostless, and with the
deep loam sediment soil he is, especially as a young man, very comfortably situated.
On August 10, 1915, Mr. Lambert was married at Santa Ana to Miss Clara Wells,
a daughter of George W. and Clara (Stearns) Wells. He was a native of Illinois, and
she a native of New York state, and they were married in Kansas and came to Cali
fornia in 1901. They settled at Santa Ana and are now living in the Yorba Linda
district. Miss Wells attended the public schools at Santa Ana, and later was a student
in the exclusive school for young ladies, Huntington Hall in Los Angeles. One child
has blessed this union, Barbara Amelia. Mr. and Mrs. Lambert are prominent members
of the First Presbyterian Church at Santa Ana, and Mr. Lambert is valued as a stand
patter in the Republican ranks. In 1916, Mr. Lambert built a handsome residence, at
a cost of $15,000 dollars, on an elevation, among the foothills at the east of the Irvine
ranch, and from his home, on a clear day, one can obtain an inspiring view of San
Pedro and the blue Pacific twenty-five miles away, as well as an enchanting vista of
the wide-spreading, picturesque Irvine ranch. Having thus succeeded to such an ex
ceptional degree during these few early years of his activity, Mr. Lambert gives promise
of far greater things in the immediate future; and it is this capital in men and women of
capacity for accomplishment which makes California truly a "Golden State."
DOMINGO ERRAMUSPE.— A native son of the Golden West, whose rise amid
the inspiring and favoring conditions of agricultural life in Southern California has
given him a level business head, is Domingo Erramuspe, one of the bonanza farmers
operating a trim ranch of his own fortunately situated between the Moulton and
the Irvine or San Joaquin ranches, and believed to be valuable oil land. He was born
in Los Angeles on September 3, 1877, the son of John Erramuspe, one of the early
landowners south of Santa Ana, who came from the Basses-Pyrenees country in
France, and brought with him a devoted wife, who was Miss Grace Etcheverria, a
native of Navarra, Spain. After they were married in the old country, they migrated
to South America, where Mr. Erramuspe had two brothers, and for five or six years
they remained south of the Equator, speculating and trying various ventures, before
they came northward to California in 1870. Here, on the old O'Neill Ranch, east of
Capistrano, he ran 20,000 sheep for Louis Lartiga. Two children were born to these
parents, who have been dead now for the last ten years; the elder, Domingo, the
subject of our instructive sketch, and Bernardo, who resides at San Jacinto and is en
gaged in ranching.
Domingo grew up around Santa Ana, and there, in 1911, he was married to Miss
Marie Etcheverria, a native of Navarra, Spain, a woman with just those accomplish
ments needed for the happy domestic life of a well-equipped ranch, and one who has
entered heartily into all of her husband's ambitious plans. Two children came to
cheer them further, Grace and Dominique. In 1915, Mr. Erramuspe had his comfort
able home built, a pretty two-story dwelling, with all modern improvements. In
national political affairs preferring the platform of the Republicans, Mr. Erramuspe
is a good mixer, a good booster, and supports well-endorsed local projects without
any political or religious bias whatever.
At present Mr. Erramuspe is cultivating 168 acres absolutely in his own right,
while he also leases and farms 700 acres of the Moulton Ranch, and 500 of the Whit
ney, and 350 acres of the O'Neill ranches, or nearly 1,700 acres in all. Fourteen
hundred acres of this are under the plow. Drilling for oil will soon begin on his
home place, and there are indications that the flow of the precious liquid will be ample
when once the source has been struck. He uses four eight-mule teams and has a
sixty horsepower Holt Caterpillar tractor for motor power, and farms strictly accord
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EARL G. GLENN. — A pioneer resident of Santa Ana who has been privileged
to see much of the town develop, and a popular social favorite who has been closely
identified with fraternal lodge life and the activities of the local fire department, is
Earl G. Glenn, the efficient U. S. mail carrier, who was born in Springville, Iowa, on
May 21, 1870. His father, Frank Glenn, moved to St. Paul, Minn., in 1878, and lived
in that city for six years as the auditor of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba
Railroad. He had married Katherine Wynans, and in 1884 they removed to Iowa,
going back to Springville. Three years later, in the great "boom" year, they came out
to California, but it was not until 1888 that Earl Glenn, who wished to complete his
schooling, followed them to the Golden State and the "promised land." His success,
with a foundation of education acquired in the St. Paul high school and the junior
college at Springville, a high standard of character, and a genial, winning person
ality, has made him feel that the promises California then held forth she has since
quite made good.
In 1888, then, Mr. Glenn came to Santa Ana, and for a year, under Rev. A. T.
McDill he worked as a printer on the Santa Ana Herald, putting in the next year on
the same paper with Messrs. Shaw and Wallace. When he left them, he was employed
on the Morning Blade; and when that was made an evening paper, he became fore
man of the job printing department. In 1895 he quit printing altogether, and then
he became an employe of J. A. Hankey in the bicycle trade. He was a racing rider,
and in 1897 established the record that still stands as the best local effort in Orange
County today: he rode twelve and a half miles on a dirt course in thirty minutes and
thirty-one seconds.
Mr. Glenn was a charter member of the Santa Ana National Guards in 1890, and
reenlisted in 1899, and spent two years in the Philippines, where he saw spirited action
in eleven engagements. In 1901 he was honorably discharged. On his return he spent
another year with Mr. Hankey in the bicycle business. The next year, however, Uncle
Sam laid hold of Mr. Glenn as the most desirable candidate for mail carrier service in
Santa Ana, and he has been serving the public in that capacity ever since, to the joy
of the public and the satisfaction of his colleagues.
On April 8, 1903, Mr. Glenn was married to Miss Nina Mansur, a daughter of
Carlos F. and Columbia L. Mansur, and a native daughter proud of her association
with California, where she was born at Camptonville, in Yuba County, in December,
1870. Carlos F. Mansur was a pioneer of Santa Ana, coming here first in 1876, and
locating here permanently in 1881. He was born in Barnston, Canada, July 8, 1840,
where he was reared until he was seventeen, when -he migrated to Randolph Center,
Wis. He was married there on September 8, 1861, to Columbia L. Gale, born in
Goshen, Vt., October 16, 1843. The day after his marriage Mr. Mansur enlisted in
the Eighth Wisconsin Regiment, serving until the close of the Civil War. After the
close of the war he returned to Canada, but in 1867 came to California, via the Isthmus
of Panama, locating at Camptonville, where he engaged in the dry goods business
and was postmaster. In 1876 he made his first trip to Santa Ana, coming here to
make his home in 1881. For a time he was manager of an orange packing house.
He was one of the organizers of the Orange County Savings Bank and was its
cashier for many years, until he resigned about 1902 and retired from active life,
making his home in Santa Ana until his death in 1915, Mrs. Mansur having passed
away in 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Mansur were the parents of six children: Ozro is
the secretary of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company; Fred is secretary of
the Orange County Title Company; Nina is the wife of Earl Glenn of this review;
Albert lives in Los Angeles; Lelia is Mrs. Talbott of Brooklyn, Iowa; Carl makes home
in Los Angeles. Active in the formation of Orange County, Mr. Mansur was the
first county treasurer, serving two terms. A stanch Republican, he was prominent
in the ranks of the G. A. R., and was commander of Sedgwick Post, Santa Ana.
In fraternal circles he was affiliated with the Masons, being a member of the Blue
Lodge and past high priest of the Chapter. He was also a member of the Elks.
Mrs. Glenn was sent to the Santa Ana public schools, and was graduated with
honors from the high school of this city. She belongs to the Baptist Church. Two
children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn: Margaret is the older, and
then there is Frederick, and they are both pupils of the grade schools.
Mr. Glenn has been active as past master in Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. &
A. M., and past chancellor in the Knights of Pythias; and he is also a member of
the Elks and the Redmen of Santa Ana. He has belonged to the Santa Ana Band,
and has the longest continuous service in the Santa Ana Volunteer Fire Department,
haying been identified with that organization for the past twenty-four and a half
years, or through the period when it ceased to be a volunteer department and was
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During the recent war, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn supported vigorously the cam
paign of the Government in the various drives, and they both participated in practically
all of the war activities. In 1905 Mr. Glenn purchased their home place at 1803
North Broadway, where he has lived with his family for the past fifteen years, and
he also came to own four lots closer in on Broadway. So early did they pitch their
tent on North Broadway that they camped there, so to speak, when there were only
a few other houses that far' out.
LEWIS TUTTLE WELLS. — A splendid example of what a man may do who
intelligently, honorably and persistently battles against adversity, is afforded by Lewis
Tuttle Wells, the well-known and influential rancher in the Talbert district of Orange
County. He was born in Lincklaen, Chenango County, N. Y., on October 20, 1852,
the son of John R. Wells, a New York State farmer who was a native of Rhode Island.
He had married Cordelia E. Sanders, who was born in New York and was a near
relation of Professor Sanders, once so well known as the author of Sanders Union
Series of text-books. Elisha Wells, our subject's grandfather, was born in England
and settled in Rhode Island, and there, too, he was married.
Lewis Wells grew up in New York State, but as his parents were poor, he had a
hard time acquiring an education. Until he was eighteen, he enjoyed but three months
a year of schooling; and during the two years, from his eighteenth to his twentieth
year, when he stayed at home, he went to the De Ruyter Institute, when harvesting was
over, and there made such progress that he was able to pass the required examinations
and secure a second-grade teachers' certificate. He taught in Chenango County the
next winter, and the 'rie'x-t'year was able to go to the State Normal at Cortland, "N. Y.
He then took an examination successfully for the first-grade teachers' certificate, taught
again, and went to school, besides; and while again engaged in teaching, took the
next important step of his life.
When he was twenty-four, at Brookfield, Madison County, N. Y., he was married
to Miss Jane E. Silliman, of that place; after which he taught for another year. Then
he removed to Rooks County, Kans., where he farmed for eighteen years. The results
were, all in all, very satisfactory until the fifth year when a disastrous hail storm and
cyclone destroyed all the crops; and he had to return to teaching, to keep from
starving. He taught for four years, and in the meantime his wife died, leaving him
with four children. Two of these went to his own school and were taught by him
in Kansas. In 1891-92 he had a large wheat crop but only received thirty-five cents
a bushel for it.
Mr. Wells sold out in 1897 and came to California, stopping for a while at Los
Angeles, where he worked at whatever he could best find to do. Then he came to
Artesia and rented a ranch of ten acres. About that time he heard of -the peat-land
district at Smeltzer, in Orange County, and going there, he bought and sold fruit and
vegetables for a couple of seasons. After that, he came to Talbert.
Getting acquainted with W. T. Newland, he rented sixty acres from him for three
years. He cleared the land, but during the first two years made nothing; the third
year he had the land in such shape that he put twenty acres into sugar beets and the
balance in corn and cabbage, and cleared about $1,000 above expenses. He then
bought forty acres, his present place — a fortunate purchase — and two years ago, bought
another forty acres, so that he now owns two ranches of forty acres each, excellent
land, both in the Talbert district. He resides upon one of these, and one of his sons
lives upon the other, the last purchased, which is at Talbert Station. He also owns
five houses in Huntington Beach, and also six lots there. He raises two crops a year
on his land— a crop of barley and a crop of corn. His ranch is very productive and
raised pumpkins of monster size, in fact, so large a man alone could not lift one; also
raised a sweet potato weighing eighteen and three-quarter pounds, and it, with the
monster pumpkin, was sent to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis and
placed with the Orange County exhibit. For many years he raised celery and was very
successful; in one year his two-thirds shares from nine acres realized him $1,860; how
ever, of late he raises sugar beets and lima beans. Many years ago he also set out an
orchard of apples, peaches, pears and plums which he finds very profitable, and his
hard, intelligent labor has brought him success. He donates two and a half acres of
his ranch for a government experiment station. Since oil was struck at Huntington
Beach, he has leased for oil.
Mr. Wells was married a second time, in 1910 in Orange County, to Mrs. Maude
(Shankhn) Perry, a native of Kentucky, who had married Harvey Perry. She had two
children by him— Lorina, who married Berry Stice, the butcher at Santa Ana, and
Eugene, who is in the U. S. Navy on the battleship New Mexico; and her union with
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Mr. Wells' children by his first wife are: Lena, who is the wife of George Gilbert,
a rancher in Kansas, is the mother of two children; Arthur, another rancher in
Kansas, who is married and has five children, and owns 320 acres of land; Seabury,
who married Helen Huffman of Kansas, and resides with her and his two children on
one of Mr. Wells' ranches; and Gertrude, the wife of Clyde Gilbert, the rancher at
Talbert, who has five children. Mr. Wells is a member of the Knights of Pythias at
Huntington Beach, and also of the Odd Fellows there.
REUBEN A. ADAMS, M. D. — The passing of a physician of such high rank in
the history of American medicine as the late Dr. Reuben A. Adams, and an influential
leader in the Grand Army of the Republic, deserves more than ordinary mention; for
such men, in more senses than one, have become both pillars and founders of the
Union. He came of a noted New England family, and was born at Marion, N. Y., on
April 3, 1841, where he spent his boyhood, attended the local public schools and
graduated from the Marion Collegiate Institute. From boyhood he was intensely
patriotic; and when the Civil War threatened to destroy the Federal Government, he
enlisted, in August, 1862, in Company D, One Hundred Sixtieth Regiment New York
Volunteers, and went to New Orleans with General Banks' expedition, serving under
him throughout the Louisiana campaign. He was present at the siege of Port Hudson,
and later fought under General Sheridan in his engagements in the Shenandoah Valley,
participating actively, all in all, in fourteen battles. He was twice wounded — the first
time, at Fort Bisland, in Louisiana, and the second time at Cedar Creek, Va., and
carried the scars the remainder of his life. When he was mustered out of service at
the close of the war, Dr. Adams received the exceptional honor of a letter of com
mendation signed by every surviving officer of his regiment. This he prized even
far more than the rare and costly presents and thanks from the imperial household
of Japan, for service to a prince and officer of the Japanese army and navy, whom he
came to know when the foreigner was in distress.
On returning from his arduous service in the Civil War, Mr. Adams took up his
studies at the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, and was graduated from
the Hahnemann College of Philadelphia on March 4, 1868. In July of that year he lost
uo time to establish himself at Churchville, N. Y., where he successfully practiced
medicine until May, 1873. Then, ambitious for a field with greater possibilities, he
removed to Rochester, N. Y., where he soon took rank with the most prominent physi
cians of the day. His ability as both a physician and a surgeon was recognized in his
appointment, in 1874, as the city medical officer, and in assuming that responsibility he
became one of the first homeopathic physicians to occupy that position.
Dr. Adams also served as president of the Monroe County Homeopathic Medical
Society, vice-president of the Rochester Hahnemann Society, and also vice-president
of the New York State Homeopathic Medical Society. He was a member of the New
York Homeopathic Medical Society, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy,
and was consulting physician on the staff of the Rochester Homeopathic Hospital from
its incorporation in 1887.
His voluntary and strenuous participation in the War for the Union naturally led
Dr. Adams to cherish fondly all the associations of that awful conflict, and as a member
of the George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., he was proud to have taken part in the
original presentation of a United States flag to each of the thirty-five schools of
Rochester, thus starting a patriotic movement that has extended pretty generally
throughout the United States. He was fond of fraternal life, was a thirty-second
degree Mason and a Shriner.
Besides working long, aggressively and conscientiously for the advancement of
homeopathy, Dr. Adams was twice unanimously elected medical director of the De
partment of New York, of the Grand Army of the Republic, and at the forty-ninth
annual encampment, held in Washington, in September, 1915, he was unanimously
elected surgeon general of the Grand Army. He also found time to direct the general
management of a large grain farm in North Dakota, and orange groves and English
walnut orchards in Southern California. He first came to Orange in the late eighties,
at the height of the great realty "boom''; and while others could not see beyond their
face and therefore failed, he looked deeper and further into the future, and invested in
both country and city property, even developing the same at an initiatory loss. He
left two sons, John Adams, of Orange, Cal., and Sidney I. Adams of Rochester, N. Y.;
two brothers, Dr. Myron H. Adams and Seth Adams; and two sisters, Mrs. Louise
Snyder and Mrs. Helen Gilbert of Marion, and a grand-daughter, Elizabeth Fiske
Adams, of Rochester. When he died, in his seventy-seventh year, he breathed his last
at his Rochester home, at No. 3 Upton Park, on December 9, 1918.

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JOHN ADAMS. — An enterprising, successful and influential citizen of Orange
County, who is greatly interested in the development of this favored section of
Southern California and has, therefore, become one of the effective "boosters" of the
region, is John Adams, a native of Rochester, N. Y., and the son of Dr. Reuben A.
Adams, who is mentioned on a preceding page of this work. John was educated in the
grammar and high schools of Rochester, and later commenced the study of medicine
at the medical college; but other matters having absorbed his main attention, he did
not graduate. In 1908, on the contrary, he located at Orange to take active charge
of the management of his father's- property, and since then he has continued the im
portant work of developing the holdings.
The home ranch and also his residence is located on Batavia Street, where he
grows Valencia oranges; while the large ranch is at the corner of North Main Street
and the Santa Fe track, and there he has fifty acres of Valencias and fifty acres of
walnuts. Besides teams he uses two tractors in the operation of the farm; and in all
the departments he applies the most modern methods and the most up-to-date ma
chinery. He is a member of the Santiago Orange Growers Association, and also a
member, vice-president and director of the Richland Walnut Association.
While at Rochester, Mr. Adams married Miss Dora A. Hooker, a native of New
York, and an accomplished lady who has shared his ambition, his toil and his rewards.
In the same city he was made a Mason, in Genesee Falls Lodge No. 507.
Orange bid high, from the beginning of her history as a county, for just such
go-ahead settlers as John Adams, the worthy bearer of a long-honored name; nor did
either the city or the county of Orange bid in vain. The result has been a degree of
prosperity, reflecting the high intelligence of their citizens, highly creditable to the
state called Golden.
CARL G. JORN. — A young man who has been in close touch with the city of
Orange since he first came to California at the age of fifteen and who has materially
aided as well as shared in the prosperity of the fast-developing town, is Carl G. Jorn,
the well-known insurance man. He was born at Chicago, 111., in 1880, the son of
Charles Jorn, who had a real estate, insurance and loan business at the corner of
Twenty-sixth and Wells streets and spent several winters in the Golden State. He
died in Chicago in 1913. He had married Marie Moehlenbrink, who died when Carl
Jorn was four and a half years old. Of this union he is now the only child living.
However, he has a half-brother, John F. Jorn, who is continuing his father's business
in Chicago under the old firm name, Charles Jorn & Company, and his half-sister,
Mrs. Lydia Jaeger, who also resides in Chicago.
Having attended the local parochial school, Carl Jorn was sent to Concordia
College in Milwaukee for a couple of years, but on account of failing health he came
west to California in 1895, and for fourteen months remained at Orange, where he
attended the Orange County Business College at Santa Ana, the proprietor then being
R. L. Bisby. Then he returned to Chicago and entered the employ of the J. K. Armsby
Company, having a good position in their main office. That fall his health failed again
and he came West once more, settling again in Orange, and resumed his studies at
the business college, and during this time was secretary to R. L. Bisby of that college.
On the completion of the course he spent three months as a stenographer in Los
Angeles, when he again returned East with his father and for six years was with him
in business in his office until again the lure of California drew him to the West.
In the spring of 1906, Mr. Jorn journeyed back to Orange, where he started an
insurance business. He also became the agent of the Oliver Typewriter Company, and
such was his success and years of service that he became the dean of agents in Southern
California. In 1913 he returned to the East for the summer on account of the illness
of his father, which terminated in his death, but he did not give up his association with
the Pacific commonwealth, in whose bright future he has such unbounded faith. As
early as 1909 Mr. Jorn bought the northwest corner of Chapman Avenue and the Plaza,
and with his father erected the original Jorn Building, which he has since materially
enlarged. He carries on an important real estate and insurance business and was once
secretary of the Orange Chamber of Commerce, in which he is still a member. It is
but natural for one so optimistic for the future of the citrus industry and land values
that Mr. Jorn is also interested in horticulture and owns an orange and lemon grove
in the Peralta Hills above Olive. He was also the first secretary of the Associated
Chambers of Commerce of Orange County. He belongs to the Merchants and Manu
facturers Association, in which he is untiring in his efforts to develop the commercial
interests of the town and county, and as a Republican he is no less tireless in helping
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At Orange, on July 13, 1909, Mr. Jorn was married to Miss Bertha Loescher, a
native of Iowa; she came to California with her father, who located at Orange, and is
now making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Jorn. One child has blessed this union, a
daughter, Mary Louise. Mr. and Mrs. Jorn are active members of the Lutheran Church
of Orange, in which they are both very influential. Mr. Jorn is the leader of Circuit B,
District Three, California and Nevada District of the Lutheran Laymen's League, and
in that capacity is in close touch with the different congregations of the circuit from
Santa Barbara to San Diego and from the Coast to the Colorado River. He also be
longs to the Lutheran's Men's Club and the Orange Men's Club. Both husband and
wife are intensely interested in the various movements for sociological uplift for the
community and Mr. Jorn is rendering- valuable service as a member and clerk of the
library board of the Orange Public Library; in fact, there is no movement for the
building up of Orange and the enhancing of its commercial importance that does not
receive his hearty support.
ALEXIS EVERETT FRYE, A.M., LL.B.— Among the regular summer visitors
at Newport Bay is Alexis Everett Frye, author of the most widely-used text-books in
the world. His winter home is the beautiful "Villa Cuba," at Redlands, on the pic
turesque ridge joining Prospect Park with Smiley Heights. His summer home is the
stately villa known as "Miramar," meaning "Seaview," fronting on the smiling bay at
Newport. As .one of his own poems expresses it:
"And for his home the cunning hand
That chisels peak and headland bold,
With chips of sand forms arm of land
'Twixf smiling bay and ocean cold.
"Then bloom of snow-white foam he brings,
To beautify the sculptured rim,
Like brazen sea the Scripture sings,
With flowers of lilies round the brim."
Enthusiastic about our bay, he has personally made the largest collection of
shells ever taken from its waters, and has found several not known to exist here. He
now has ready for the press a little volume of poems, from which the above lines
are taken, revealing the hidden beauty of the sea birds, the dune plants, the sea shells,
the sunsets, the great stone face over the tidal river, and the water sprites, and, of
course, the "mermaids" — — "the teeming mermaids fair,
That dip and dive, or ride the sea,
With shapely form and streaming hair,
Like Nereids in motion free."
Another proof of his abiding interest in the bay is his purchase of the commodious
Engstrom house, the most beautiful on the bay. It is a center of summer life and
activity, especially for children.
' Mr. Frye was born at North Haven, Maine, on November 2, 1859, the son of
Captain E. S. Frye, forty-four years a mariner, who sailed from Boston and other
Atlantic ports. Captain Frye is now eighty-eight years old, strong and vigorous, a type
of the hardy men who "go down to the sea in ships." He is one of the oldest stock
of "Fryes of Maine," his forebears having lived there continuously since 1661, when
Adrian Frye settled in Kittery. He is a giant in strength. When going aboard ship
one day, he saw two of his sailors sweating over an anchor they were trying to lift
and carry from the wharf to the deck. One end would go up, and the other down,
then vice versa. Telling one sailor to sit on the crown and the other on the stock,
Captain Frye picked up the outfit, anchor and men, and carried all aboard, placing them
on the deck as lightly as a basket of eggs. He is a lineal descendant of Edward Doten,
who came over in the Mayflower in 1620.
Captain Frye married Jane King, a descendant of six of the Mayflower passengers,
including the famous Brewster and Hopkins. Edward Doten came as an "apprentice"
to the same Stephen Hopkins. He is the Doten who fought the first duel in the
Plymouth colony; and he and his rival, Edward Lester, had to pass a day in the
"stocks," to be jeered at by the shocked Pilgrims. Jane King Frye died in Highlands,
in this state, April 2, 1912, aged seventy-eight years. Four sons and one daughter
were born to the family. One son died in infancy, but the others are living.
While still a boy, Alexis E. Frye removed with his parents to Quincy, Mass., and
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a large part of 1875 he was at sea "before the mast" with his father. In 1878 he grad
uated from the English high school of Boston, receiving one of the medals given for
scholarship from the fund of Benjamin Franklin. Mr. Frye was the first young man
to graduate from the Training School of the famous educator, Francis W. Parker, at
Quincy, Mass. He became greatly attached to Colonel Parker, taught with him in
Quincy, worked with him when supervisor of the schools of Boston, and went with
him to reorganize the Cook County Normal School, now the Chicago Normal School.
He was pleased ,to_be known as Colonel Parker's faithful "Man Frye-day." Mr. Frye
was principal of the model school, and teacher of methods in the normal school. In
recognition of his work he was made an honorary graduate of the western school.
Here he worked from 1883 to 1886.
Returning East Mr. Frye took the law course at Harvard University, adding to his
honors the degree of LL.B., and was admitted to the practice of law in Boston, but he
never availed himself of the privilege, preferring to remain in the educational field
and become a lecturer before teachers' institutes and conventions. He has delivered
upwards of 2,000 lectures upon methods of teaching. This work led to extensive travel
and gave wide acquaintance with the needs of schools in this country. He also found
time to roam widely in Europe, Asia and Africa. Both the lecturing and the travel
proved a natural introduction to his next great undertaking — the writing of the well
known series of geographies which bears his name. It is probably true that his text
books have outsold every other book in the world, save the Bible. The word "millions"
means little, but if one end of the paper used in printing his, books could be tacked
to the Capitol in Washington, and then unroll with a width of the common book page,
the strip would go down to the equator, round the earth, off to the moon (243,000
miles), round the moon, back to earth, again round the equator, and back to the Capitol,
with a remnant of sufficient length to wind round the state of California many times.
For more than a quarter of a century Mr. Frye has written all the text-books on
geography issued by the great firm of Ginn and Company. His first book was on meth
ods of teaching geography by sand modeling and was called "Child and Nature." This
was in 1888. Three years later came "Brooks and Brook Basins." In 1892 he issued a
work on psychology, which was well received. In 1894 was printed his Primary Geog
raphy, which proved a record breaker. Then came his large complete geography,
which set a new pace. Mr. Frye's plan was to embody as much of his ideal as the
schools would take, and then write another book as soon as the schools were ready
to move forward with him. This plan gave him the field.
Now came a long series of books. In 1898 the Elements of Geography, and a
Home and School Atlas. The next year the Spanish Geografia Elemental, adopted for
the federal schools of Mexico, as well as Cuba and Porto Rico. In 1902 one of his
text-books was translated into Chinese, and is largely used in mission schools of the
"Flowery Kingdom," now a republic. One of his books was adapted by authority for
use in the schools of Canada. Another was adapted for use in England, by an Oxford
professor. Still another was used as the basis for a book for Norway. There is not
a nation of the civilized globe that has not been influenced in its school work by the
text-books of Mr. Frye. Among the more active of his books at the present time are
the Grammar School Geography, a New Geography (1917), and a Home Geography
Mr. Frye also wrote the first text-book of geography widely used in the Philippines.
In 1899 President McKinley, through Mr. Root, his secretary of war, sent Mr.
Frye to organize and equip the new public school system of Cuba. He wrote the
national school law and the course of study for the island. In 1900 he brought about
1,300 Cuban teachers to Harvard University for study, and then led them on a tour of
the East, landing all safely at home. Mr. Root placed him in charge of five steamships
for the expedition. For this work, and for other work done for the little nation.
Mr. Frye received the Medal of the Legion of Honor of Cuba, and in 1904 and 1906
was made president of the National Teachers' Association of Cuba, perhaps the only
instance of a foreigner being made president of such an association. Besides the
Franklin medal, and the medal of honor mentioned, Mr. Frye was awarded a silver
medal, upon recommendation of William Howard Taft, for his text-book for the Philip
pines. He also holds the silver cup for the wrestling championship of Harvard Uni
versity, a gold medal from the teachers of the Province of Santiago, Cuba, and others.
In connection with the work in Cuba it is of interest to note that Secretary Root.
writing to President Eliot of Harvard, said of the voyage of the Cuban teachers:
"This body of teachers going back to every municipality of Cuba will carry back more
of saving grace for Cuba than the whole power of the (American) government could
accomplish in any other way." And it did.
In 1897 Mr. Frye earned the degree of A.M. from time-honored Harvard Univer
sity. During the Spanish War he helped to organize, and at one time was in com-

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mand of, the battalion at Harvard, and captained the graduates' company. In 1898-99 he
was lieutenant of Battery K, the "Boston Tigers," of the First Heavy Artillery, thus
keeping up his connection with military affairs. He has been captain of five
companies, including Company E, California National Guard. As head of the school
department in Cuba, Mr. Frye was associated with Generals John R. Brooke, Leonard
Wood, Adna R. Chaffee, Hugh L. Scott, Tasker Bliss, and the late Surgeon-General
Gorgaa,. all of whom are among the world's great men.
Mr. Frye has been elected a life member of various societies, including the
American Geographical Society, National Geographic Society, the Harvard Union, the
Society of Mayflower Descendants, and the New England Historic Genealogical
Society. It is needless to say that he is an enthusiastic member of the Newport Yacht
Club. In the early nineties Mr. Frye became a resident of California. He has im
proved and owned upwards of 300 acres of orange groves, but has sold his groves to
be free to continue his literary work.
WALTER J. COLE. — A rancher who owns a prosperous forty-acre ranch on
Park Avenue between Hansen and the county road, Walter J. Cole is one of the first
settlers in this section of the county. He located here when the ranch was a part of
a 40,000-acre sheep range, with only a very few settlers anywhere near him. The
Spanish heirs claimed to own an interest in the land, which interfered with a clear
title, and consequently stopped the sale of the land for several years. In the course
of time, however, clear titles were given, and the property was bought and sold. Mr-
Cole, as. stated above, bought his present acreage in the early days, and began at once
to develop- it as he was able. He has from the first conducted a general farming and
dairy ranch, which he has continued up to the present time, but he is now contem
plating a change to the production of citrus fruit.
Mr. Cole was born in Batavia, New York, in 1859, his parents being Walter and
Sophronia (Blanchard) Cole. Here he spent his youthful days, receiving an educa
tion in the public schools of his vicinity. When he had reached the age of twenty-
five, he decided to try his fortune in the West, so in 1884 he came to California with
Capt. Arthur J. Hutchinson, who was then a partner of "Lucky" Baldwin, and who
shipped a herd of Devons to this state, paying $600 per car for shipment. Mr. Cole
was with Captain Hutchinson for three years, and through this experience became
well versed in judging and handling cattle on the great Baldwin ranch in Los Angeles
County, which consisted of several thousand acres.
Immediately after settling on his own land, in 1887, Mr. Cole took up the dairy
business, which he has since followed. He was the owner of a fine herd of registered
Jerseys, some of which he occasionally sold for a fancy price. He is a firm believer
in the necessity of raising pure bred stock, and has always been a strong advocate
of that belief. Mr. Cole's parents came to California in 1885, one year after their
son's arrival, and settled on the Baldwin ranch, where they lived for three years, when
they purchased a thirty-acre ranch near what is now Hansen Station on the Pacific
Electric Railroad. The father entered the dairy business here, and made this home
until his death, in February, 1899. Mrs. Cole still resides there, in her ninety-fifth year.
Walter J. Cole was married on October 1, 1891, to Miss Emma Schneider, the
daughter of Jacob Schneider of Anaheim, who was one of the original members of
San Francisco Company. They have become the parents of six children: Delos is
married and has one daughter, Dorothy; Ethel; Bernice, Mrs. Frank Schacht; Vera,
Mrs. Albert Sparks, has two children, Bernice and Maxine; Margaret, the wife of
John Sullivan; and Donald. When this locality began to settle up and the necessity
of a local school was seen, Mr. Cole donated an acre of land and helped locate and
establish the Savanna School district, and has served for many years as a trustee.
He was one of those who worked hard to establish Orange as a separate county. As
one of the pioneers of this section, Mr. Cole is held in high esteem in the community
which has been his home for so many years. Comfortably endowed with worldly
goods, the result of honest and diligent labor, he can now enjoy the fruits of his toil.
WILLIAM PANNIER. — A far-seeing, enterprising, effectual builder of Anaheim,
whose success in his own affairs has been due, primarily, to his tenacity of purpose
which led him to stick to his guns when so many settlers, easily discouraged, were
glad to sell out and move away, is William Pannier, who has seen the fellow-rancher
come and go, and, in many cases, bitterly repent when it was too late, the going.
He was born in Prussia in September, 1859, and when six years of age came to Illinois
and settled with his folks, sturdy farmer folk, near Belleville, in June, 1866. There were
four girls and two boys in the family and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Pannier; and the third
in the order of birth, he is the only one now living, as he was the only one who came
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He was reared on a farm in the Whiteside Township of St. Clair County, 111., and
attended public school there, while he assisted in the farm work and was initiated
into an industry he followed thereafter. On January 12, 1887, in the midst of the great
"boom," he came to California and Santa Ana, and for a few months was employed
by Mr. Yoch. The next spring he went to Oregon and sought employment in a
logging camp in Clatsop County, after which he worked at harvesting until the rains.
These proved too much for his liking and he came south again to Santa Ana.
For four years he teamed for Mr. Smiley, and when the boom burst he bought
two teams and some implements, and for a year farmed to grain on the San Joaquin
ranch. He next sold his outfit and for a year worked in a lumber yard. After that he
bought forty acres of raw land in the East Anaheim precinct, where he located, built a
home and began improvements, clearing away the cactus and the brush, and at that
time he was the only settler there outside of the city limits. He sank a well and got
good water.
At Anaheim Mr. Pannier was married to Miss Sarah Hasheider, who in 1883 had
come to California with her parents, early settlers of Anaheim, and then he built a new
home and made still more extensive improvements. He continued to buy land until
he had seventy-six acres, all of which he cleared and leveled. He set out nine acres of
walnuts, forty-five feet apart, from which the owner, in 1919, received $8,400. He also
cleared away twenty acres for the Bissells, and forty acres for the Boeges; and having
sold some, he now owns thirty-five acres in a. body on Southeast Street.
For six years Mr. Pannier did general farming, and then he began to set out
oranges. Now he has sixteen acres of Valencia oranges, twelve acres of budded
walnuts, and five acres in lemons. At first he had a gasoline pumping plant; now he
pumps by electrical power. He belongs to the Mutual Orange Distributors Association
of Anaheim, and to the California Walnut Growers Association of Orange.
Six children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Pannier: Milton, who assisted his
father as only a wide-awake, interested son can, was in the World War and served
overseas for seven months; Alice and Ruth are at home, and Howard, Donald and
Charles are in the Anaheim High School, about to graduate. Alice also attended the
University of Southern California and during the World War volunteered her services
in one of the departments in Washington until the armistice, and Ruth took a thorough
course at a leading business college. Mr. Pannier belongs to the Fraternal Union and
the Evangelical Association of Anaheim, where he has been a trustee for fifteen years,
and long a chairman of important committees. In national politics he is a Republican.
DAVID E. COZAD. — A man who has met with a large measure of success in
life, David E. Cozad now enjoys the reward attending sagacious and painstaking effort,
and the adversities he has encountered in toiling along life's pathway have but
served to develop the qualities of frugality, thrift and industry that are inherent traits
received from a long line of American ancestors who have played no unimportant
part in making the nation what it is today.
David E. Cozad was born at Roseville, Warren County, 111., April 27, 1857. His
father, Henry, was a native of New Jersey, and his mother, Mary (Tuttle) Cozad, was
born in Pennsylvania, in which state his parents were married. From Pennsylvania
they journeyed overland in a wagon to Illinois, where the father farmed in Warren
County and worked at carpentering and as a painter. They removed to Iowa when
David was between eight and nine years of age, in 1866, and their life was spent on
the frontier, keeping in advance of the railway building west through Iowa and
Missouri to Nebraska. They lived in many different places and moved often, and
when they located at Long Island, Kans., they were thirty miles in advance of the
railway. David E. is the fourth child in order of birth in the family of nine children,
consisting of one girl and eight boys. The daughter, Elizabeth Hillyard, is a widow and
resides at Santa Ana. Stevenson, of Lincoln, Nebr; James is a rancher in Buaro
Precinct; William J. is a storekeeper at Westminster; Charles C. is a carpenter and
builder at Santa Ana; Simeon I. clerks in a store at Westminster; Harry W. resides at
Santa Ana, and Arthur, the youngest, is a rancher at Hemet.
Mr. Cozad's educational advantages were limited, owing to their frontier life. His
marriage occurred in 1880, near Seward, Nebr., and united him with Miss Nancy J.
Howard, a native of Lincoln, Nebr, who was educated in the common schools. Her
father, Amos M. Howard, was born in Indiana, and her mother, who was Zerelda Ray
in maidenhood, was born in Missouri, where her parents were married. She and her
brother Titus were the children of her father's first marriage, and they were made
half orphans when Mrs. Cozad was seventeen months old, by the death of her mother
Five children resulted from her father's second marriage, four of whom are living
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lican of the Forty-ninth District, and still retains his seat in the Nebraska Legislature
to which he was elected. Her father was among the early California gold seekers
and made his first trip to California in 1849.
Mr. and Mrs. Cozad are the parents of seven children, all of whom were born at
Long Island, Kans., except Henry A., the eldest, who was born at Seward, Nebr. He
is one of the employees of the Fresno Building Association and married Miss Montana
Gibson of Los Angeles, and they have two children. Mary Z. is the wife of Fred
Hoffmann of Redondo, an employe of the Standard Oil Company at El Segundo, and
they have one child. Charles T. died in Kansas City at the age of seven. David J. was
accidentally killed in 1905, when nineteen years old, by an electric shock while working
as a lineman at Redondo. Leslie E. died when five days old. Florence is the wife of
Richard Criddle, a rancher at Gridley, Cal., and they have two children. Arthur W.
is a rancher and owns ten acres in Buaro Precinct; he married Ola Oliphant of Kansas,
and they are the parents of one child.
After his marriage Mr. Cozad followed the trade of house painter and decorator
for one year at Seward, Nebr., and in 1882 moved to Kansas, where he homesteaded 160
acres at Long Island, proved up on it, sold it, and purchased 160 acres of school land
at Long Island. He was principally engaged in farming and raising cattle and swine
before he came to California in the spring of 1901. He lived at Redondo in 1902-3,
where he was employed as a car builder, and came to Buaro Precinct in 1903, where
he purchased forty acres of land, planted twenty acres of it to walnuts and Valencia
oranges and gave twenty acres of it to four of his children. Mr. Cozad has the
American knack of being able to handle tools of almost every kind, and can do
cement work as well as house painting. He and his excellent wife are kindly and
hospitable, and Mrs. Cozad is a woman of rare good sense and motherly qualities, a
humanitarian in her views and wide-awake to all that is of benefit to the community.
Fraternally Mr. Cozad is a member of the Santa Ana lodge of I. O. O. F., and in his
political views is a consistent Republican, and both he and his wife are members of the
Rebekahs. EDWARD G. WARE. — A pioneer who deserves the esteem of posterity as well
as his contemporaries was the late Edward G. Ware, the planter and grower of the
first Valencia oranges in the Garden Grove section. He was born at South Deerfield,
Mass., in 1846, the son of Samuel and Mary (Chandler) Ware. The former came to
Illinois with his parents when he was twelve years old, and in that state grew to
maturity. Mrs. Samuel Ware was born at South Hadley, Mass., and graduated from
Mt. Holyoke Seminary. She died at Garden Grove in 1908, aged eighty-seven years.
When Mr. Ware came to Garden Grove, it was a grain field. He tried different
kinds of farming, and became much interested in advancing the farming interests here.
He took an active interest in farmers' institutes, and was accurate and well posted, and
often gave talks and prepared dissertations for his fellows. Later, he took up horti
culture, and devoted his attention to both Navel and Valencia oranges, and walnuts.
On the ranch at Garden Grove now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Stanley there
still stands the original "Eureka" walnut tree from which all the "Eureka" nut trees in
Southern California have originated; also the "Prolific" nut, and the Earhart. All
three were propagated and budded here by the late D. C. Dusher, who conducted a
nursery and experimental work that later have proved of so much value to the walnut
growers of the state. The last named was called after Mr. Earhart because of the
fact that he developed the nut that has been such a success for withstanding disease.
Such were Mr. Ware's powers of observation and deduction, that the professor of
horticulture at the State University called him the best authority on walnuts in
the state of California.
As a grower of Valencia oranges Mr. Ware was the pioneer in the Garden Grove
section, and enjoyed an enviable local fame. He had prophetic vision, and once said to
the pioneer, Albert J. Chaffee, "My daughter will yet live to see the choicest of Valencia
oranges in the United States grown here at Garden Grove." In his later years he be
came interested in poultry, raised white Minorcas, and took the prize at the San Fran
cisco poultry exhibit at the Pacific Panama Exposition.
He married October 14, 1875, at Batavia, 111., Mary Johnson, and she passed away
in 1914. She had been interested particularly in temperance work, and served, with
the exception of one year, as secretary of the Garden Grove W. C. T. U. from its
organization until she died. They had one child, Lillian Agnes, now Mrs. Arthur C.
Stanley, a native of Garden Grove and a graduate of the Santa Ana high school, Class
of '97, and Los Angeles Normal School, Class of 1900. She formerly belonged to the
M. E. Church, and is now a member of the Friends' Church, in the Alamitos School
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Samuel Ware, the great-grandfather, was a minister in the Congregational Church
and was born at Norwich, Mass., on September 5, 1781. He died on August 29, 1866,
in Massachusetts. Henry Ward Beecher boarded with him at Amherst while he was a
theological student. The progenitor of this family was Robert Ware, who was born
in England and came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony some time before the autumn
of 1642. When Edward Ware came to Garden Grove in 1876, from San Francisco where
he had lived for several years, he purchased his place of forty acres; and at his home,
one mile north of Garden Grove, he died on December 17, 1917, and was buried at
Santa Ana. He had a wide circle of friends, who appreciated him at his real value
and who honored him in death, as they had in. life.
HARVEY V. NEWSOM.— A resident of Garden Grove since 1890, Harvey V.
Newsom has by his industrious and diligent efforts developed a well-kept citrus
grove of ten acres northeast of Garden Grove, and is also the owner of a ten-acre
grove of young lemons east of his home place. Mr. Newsom was born near Azalia,
Bartholomew County, Ind., October 18, 1866, and is the son of Alfred J. Newsom,
who died on August 9, 1920, at Garden Grove, being in his seventy-eighth year; the
mother passed away here in 1904. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Newsom were the parents
of ten children, eight of whom are living, all residents of California: Harvey V., the
subject of this sketch; Benjamin W. is connected with the shipyards at Long Beach;
Luther R. is a rancher near Stanton; Joseph A. is at home; Maggie is the wife of
Orson Moody, a dairyman at Bishop; William C. is a rancher at Rivera; Annis is
the wife of Henry West, an oil man at Fullerton; Willis is a teacher and a rancher, and
resides on his ranch near Garden Grove.
The parents moved from Indiana to Iowa in 1869, remaining there for three
years, and returning to Indiana; from there they went to Kansas, where they resided
for twelve years, coming to California in 1887. They settled at El Modena, and also
lived at Pasadena and Burbank before coming to Garden Grove in 1890, and here
tbe family home has since been established.
In 1898 Harvey V. Newsom bought his ranch, then consisting of twenty acres,
and began its development, selling ten acres of it in 1906. In 1900 he was united
in marriage with Miss Mina A. Robinson, daughter of the pioneer, Richard Robinson,
whose biography appears elsewhere in this volume. They are the parents of one
daughter, Vesta Marie, a graduate of the Anaheim high school, and now attending
Junior College at Santa Ana, and a son, Stanley O., who died in February, 1911. Mr.
Newsom located on his place before the building of the Pacific Electric Railway. By
dint of hard, painstaking work he has made of his acreage a valuable property and
has erected a fine, new bungalow. He is a member of the Orange Growers Associa
tion and the Lima Bean Growers Association of Garden Grove, and the Garden
Grove Farm Center. A stanch believer in temperance, he has been an adherent of
the Prohibition party for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Newsom are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Garden Grove, and are highly respected citizens of
the community. JASPER N. DE VAUL. — A pioneer couple representing, in their historic Ameri
can ancestry, some of the best of American brain and brawn, are Mr. and Mrs. Jasper
N. De Vaul, who live three-quarters of a mile northeast of Garden Grove. He was
born in Grundy County, near Trenton, Mo., on January 31, 1845, the son of James
R. De Vaul, and the grandson of Daniel P. De Vaul, a veteran of the War of 1812.
The De Vauls were among the first whites to settle at Trenton, having come over
land from Kentucky to Missouri, and James De Vaul served as a soldier in the
Black Hawk War. Daniel De Vaul joined the Argonauts of '49 and came to Cali
fornia, where he mined at Placerville; and shifting to San Benito County, then Mon
terey County, he died there, aged seventy-six. James De Vaul continued in Missouri
and married Miss Sarah Howel; and in 1880 he moved to Oregon, and settled at
Myrtle Point. After lives, respectively, of ninety-three and seventy-eight years, Mr.
and Mrs. De Vaul passed away in their northern home. They had twelve children,
eight boys and four girls, among whom Jasper N. was the fourth in the order of birth.
He attended the little log schoolhouse of his native district, and in 1863, during
the Civil War, served for five months in .the state militia. In 1864 he crossed the
plains with an ox-team train, driving a four-mule team, and taking five months for
the lourney. He stopped at Woodbridge, eighteen miles north of Stockton, and there
worked on a ranch. He was married in San Tose to Miss Mary Meadows, and by
her had three children— Nettie, Emma and William. He was married a second time,
- in 1880, to Miss Marv Holt, a native of Nova Scotia, and the daughter of J W and
Nancy (Peel) Holt, Nova Scotians of English blood. The father went to sea until
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to California with their family, and making the neighborhood of Hollister their head
quarters; they moved around considerably. The father died, at the age of eighty-eight.
Mr. and Mrs. De Vaul lived for eight years at Lompoc, and their next move
was to Garden Grove, coming there in 1890. They have had five children: Eugene is
field manager for the Anaheim Sugar Company, and married Miss Jessie Hickman of
Bolsa; they have one son, and reside at Santa Ana; Ira is a rancher near Garden
Grove; he married Lulu Chase of Alhambra, and they have one daughter; Oscar died
at Lompoc,- seven months old; Eva is the wife of W. F. Winters of Garden Grove,
and they have two children, and lola married Earl Crane, an apiarist, and has one
daughter. Mr. Crane was in England during the war, and had his right arm badly
wounded, and is now a student in the Agricultural College at Davis, Cal. Both Mr.
and Mrs. De Vaul are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Garden Grove,
and are Republicans, and in every loyal way participated in war activities.
Having become the owner of some sixty acres, Mr. De Vaul has farmed the same;
while Mrs. De Vaul, having inherited twenty-five acres, retains fifteen for farming.
Ten acres are set out to walnuts and two to oranges. They maintain a home that is
a model for comfort and attractiveness, and they dispense, in modest but sincere
fashion, an old-time, warming hospitality.
JOSEPH M. BACKS, JR. — Orange County points with pride to the rank and
file of its public servants, nor need one be surprised in view of the record of such
men as Joseph M. Backs, Jr., the efficient and popular county clerk. A native son,
fortunate in starting life in intimate touch with the great commonwealth whose des
tinies he has been called upon to shape, he was born at Anaheim on April 17, 1876.
His parents were Joseph and Catherine (Heyermann) Backs, the father being one
of Anaheim's pioneers and prominent in the mercantile life of that city for many
years; the birthplace of the mother was in Mexico, and she later removed to San
Francisco with her father, Dr. A. F. Heyermann, who was at one time connected with
the German Hospital, and also for many years engaged in the drug business in that city.
Coming to Los Angeles in December, 1869, then a straggling village, bearing little
resemblance to its present metropolitan proportions, Joseph Backs, Sr., for a time
Worked at his trade of carpenter and cabinetmaker, and then, with his brother Ferdi
nand, embarked in the furniture business, conducting the same for a year, when it
was sold. In 1871 the brothers came to Anaheim, where they assisted in furnishing
and equipping the two hotels there, after which they started a business of their own,
under the firm name of F. & J. Backs, this partnership continuing until 1890, when
the business was divided, Joseph Backs continuing in business for himself. He was
a pioneer furniture dealer and the first undertaker and embalmer in Anaheim, and in
this capacity, as well as in a general business way, he was widely known, not only in
Orange County, but in neighboring environs. He continued actively in business until
1914, when he sold out, and now he is living retired at his Anaheim home, his beloved
wife having departed this world in 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Backs were the parents of
seven children: Joseph M., Sophia, Katie M., Frieda, Adolph, Clementina and Edward.
All are living and are residents of Orange County.
The eldest of the family, Joseph M. Backs, Jr., attended the public schools, and
also the Woodbury Business College in Los Angeles, where he received an excellent
preparation for some of the work he has since been, called upon to do. From boyhood
he assisted his father in the business mornings and evenings and during his vacations,
later working for two and a half years for H. A. Dickel in the general merchandise
business. Another profitable year of good training was spent in the main post office
at Los Angeles, when it was located at Eighth and Spring streets. Returning to
Anaheim he entered the employ of the Union Telephone and Telegraph Company,
first as manager for the northern half of Orange County, becoming district manager in
1909, having under his supervision all of Orange County, and maintaining his head
quarters at Santa Ana. Continuing in this position until 1912, he resigned to become
deputy county clerk under W. B. Williams. At the August Primary in 1918 he was
elected to the office of county clerk for a four-year term, hence, there was no opposing
candidate at the November election, and this office he is now occupying to the greatest
satisfaction of all his constituents.
At Anaheim, April 15, 1903, occurred the marriage of Joseph M. Backs, Jr., when
he was united with Miss Ella Warner, a native of Minnesota, who came with her
parents to Anaheim in her girlhood, and there it was she received her education and
was one of the popular belles of the place. One child has blessed this union, a
daughter named Edna Inez. Fraternally, Mr. Backs is a member of the Elks, and in
national politics is a Republican. About the time he reached his majority Joseph
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Guard, and being fortunate in the inheritance of a strong interest in and love for Cali
fornia and Orange County transmitted from parents, who are among the most
highly esteemed pioneers of the section, it is little wonder that he loyally responded
and served acceptably as a member of the registration board during the recent war
and was active in all the bond and war drives, and as such sought to do his civic
duty in the highest degree possible.
A splendid type of man, Mr. Backs is faithfully serving the citizens of the
county, and through his affable manner and his readiness to assist anyone deserving
information regarding the office or their affairs in connection with the county, as well
as other investigations they may be making, has so endeared him to the people
that he has become one of the most popular officials. His mind and heart have been
engrossed in the well being of the county, and such has been his success in the solution
of problems that his fellow-citizens more and more have reposed confidence in him.
Liberal and kind hearted, his pleasing personality has attracted hosts of friends, who
appreciate and esteem him for his nobleness of mind and heart. Thus, still in the
prime of life, with apparently many years of usefulness before him, Mr. Backs already
enjoys a prestige and confidence accorded to but few.
JONATHAN HARMON. — Honored among the interesting pioneers of California,
and destined long to be held in grateful remembrance for his part in developing the
Golden State, is Jonathan Harmon, who crossed the great plains with his father's
family in 1852, a well-to-do rancher and prominent old settler of the vicinity of
Santa Ana. They traveled with mule teams, and spent five years as placer miners in
the gold regions of Sierra and Plumas counties. In 1857 the family moved to Peta
luma, in Sonoma County, and so it happened that they saw California in her forma
tive days.
Mr. Harmon was born at Olean, N. Y., on October 8, 1841, the son of Luther N.
Harmon, who was born in Suffield, Conn., a member of the same family as the Hon.
Judson Harmon, ex-Governor of Ohio. Two Harmon brothers came from England
to America in 1645, and John was the progenitor of this family. While in Erie County,
New York, Luther Harmon married Miss Martha Hall; and he being a hatter, and she a
tailoress, they were able somewhat to work together in times that were hard. It is
no wonder that with a state of affairs when there was little or no money, the effect
of the discovery of gold in California was such as to induce the elder Harmon to
migrate to the Pacific Coast and to try his fortune here. He set out from "Grand
Rapids, Mich., in 1850, mined for gold successfully, and had the good fortune to be
here early enough to vote upon the admission of the state. But he did not reach
that goal without adventures that might have cost him more than they did. On his
first trip across the plains in 1850, the Indians stole his horses, and he had to travel
300. miles afoot. Later, however, he went back to Michigan, and in 1852 brought his
family here.
Jonathan Harmon grew up in Petaluma. and early worked in the mines in the
northern part of the state, and at Petaluma, in 1870, he was married to Miss Martha
E. Warren, a native of Lorain County, Ohio, who came to California with her parents
in 1864. In Sonoma County Mr. Harmon cleared a farm of the stumps and improved
the place, and little by little set out orchards until he had one of the show places in
Sonoma County, with a large, beautiful residence and farm buildings. He had a variety
of fruit trees, and at the Sonoma County fair took the sweepstake premium for the
finest exhibit of fruit from one farm. However, wishing to locate in Southern Cali
fornia, he came south to Santa Ana, in what was then Los Angeles County, in 1888.
at the height of the boom, and bought sixty acres of land; and to this he has added
from time to time by subsequent purchases, so that he is now owner of 140 acres of the
most desirable land. He has sunk wells and equipped a pumping plant not only suffi
cient to irrigate his own ranch, but furnishes water for irrigation to several of his
neighbors. His ranch is equipped with cement pipe lines, this complete irrigating sys
tem making it one of the most valuable ranches in the district.
He is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Santa Ana, as was
Mrs. Harmon, who died in 1918, at the fine old age of seventy-two years. Two children
blessed their fortunate union: Edward W., a successful dairyman on a part of the
Harmon ranch, and John W., an orchardist at Nuevo, in Riverside County.
As a Republican, Mr. Harmon voted for Abraham Lincoln— the first vote he ever
cast— an incident of which not so very many men living can boast; but he is really
nonpartisan, especially in his attitude toward local men and measures, and always
endeavors to satisfy his conscience, and to base his action on principle. In recent
years he has favored Prohibition.

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VARD W. HANNUM. — A well-trained and thoroughly efficient public official
is Vard W. Hannum, the city electrician and superintendent of the Municipal Power
House at Anaheim. He was born in Hart, Oceana County, Mich., on June 28, 1883, and
reared and educated there, duly graduating from the local high school. Then he went
to New York City and took the excellent courses at the New York Electrical School,
and from 1910 he was employed in the electrical department of the Union Carbide
Company at Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., after which he was a year wth the Algoma
Steel Company on the Canadian side.
In the fall of 1911 Mr. Hannum came to California and entered the service of the
Pacific Electric Railroad Company, Los Angeles, giving them a year in their electrical
department, in installation work at the substation. On August 12, 1912, he came to
Anaheim and commenced to work for the municipality. He began in a somewhat
subordinate capacity, as one of the engineers, then as foreman, and gradually and
properly worked his way up to his present responsible post, to which he was appointed
m February, 1917.
Mr. Hannum has charge of the operation of the power plant, and is also re
sponsible for electrical inspection of the city, so that, with the necessity of keeping
thoroughly apace with the last word of science and mechanics, and the actual labor
of installing, repairing and renewing parts of the system, it will be seen that he is a
very busy man. Fortunately for the city of Anaheim, he had years of most valuable
experience before he came, to which his day and night labors are constantly adding,
and he is fond of hard work, and both mentally and physically able to bear the strain.
In December, 1912, Mr. Hannum was married to Miss Bessie L. Palmiter of
Hart, Mich., a charming lady, capable at all times of creating for herself a desirable
circle of devoted friends, and herself devoted to others, and ready for any good work.
Mr. Hannum belongs to the Wigton Lodge No. 251, F. & A. M., at Hart, Mich, and
to Anaheim Lodge No. 1345 of the Elks.
WILLIAM H. PHILLIPS. — A veteran citrus grower who may well take pride
in his accomplishment, including the rebudding on an entire grove with his own
hands, is William H. Phillips, a splendid old man of nearly eighty years, living on
Fairhaven Avenue near Prospect in Orange. He was born near Munfordville, Ky.,
on June 7, 1842, the son of William Newton and Mary (Moss) Phillips, old settlers
of that state. He grew up on his father's farm of 400 acres located on the Green
River, and enjoyed a good grammar school education and the comforts of a good
home. At twenty-one he left home to seek his own fortune. He purchased seventy-
five acres across the Green River from his old home, and started to farm. He also
married, in October, 1871, Miss Emma Hodges, who was born in the vicinity of
Munfordville, and received a good education at Georgetown College. She made
her home with her parents until she was married, and for seven years after they took
up their residence on the farm she enjoyed life there, when she passed away.
In 1878 Mr. Phillips sold out his holdings, and with four motherless children
started for California, arriving in Santa Ana on March 17, 1878. Porter, the eldest
of the family, died in California at the age of twenty. William Albert is living at
Orange, and is in the real estate business. Cora Hanson is married to Edward Gray,
and is living with Mr. Phillips in Fairhaven. Mary K. is married to L. Hutchins
of Alhambra. In 1880 Mr. Phillips was married to Mary Ella Crozier, a widowed
mother of two children — Payne and Nancy, and this union was blessed with two
children — Robert Ethel and Ernest C. Robert Ethel, is a graduate of the Cumnock
School of Expression, and is now teaching at that institution, and Ernest C. Phillips,
also a graduate of the above school, traveled a season with Madame Modjeska and her
company, and is now teaching expression in the Santa Ana high school.
After arriving in California, Mr. Phillips purchased twenty acres on Tustin and
Fairhaven thoroughfares, land now owned by Henry Rohrs, which was devoted to
general farming. He raised two crops of potatoes each year for nineteen consecutive
years, and also raised some corn, broom corn and popcorn. He lived there for eleven
years, and there the children grew up. In 1889 he removed to Tustin, to his wife's
ranch, where the next nineteen years were spent.
In 1908 Mr. Phillips purchased his present home site of ten acres on Fairhaven
Avenue. It is devoted tp budded Valencias, and he has one of the finest orchards in
all Orange County. The grove is under the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company.
Here he built for himself a beautiful home and large garage, and made many other
improvements. He is a live citizen, and aims to support the right candidate, rather
than any party. He is a member of the McPherson Heights Citrus Association and
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He is now one among the
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JOSEPH H. MEFFORD. — Among the ablest drillers of water wells in Orange
County — an industry, by the way, of greatest importance to the ranchers of this section,
and one requiring, more and more, men of highest expert training — is J. H. Mefford,
who has resided in Santa Ana for twelve years, and in Orange County ever since its
organization. He was here, in fact, "before the creation," for he was born in San
Diego County, on February 17, 1869, and as a boy roamed over the picturesque area
now dotted with towns and thousands of homes. He came to the Westminster country
in Los Angeles, now Orange, County when a lad, and grew up on a farm there. He
also attended the public schools; and if they were not of the best or their sessions of
the longest, he got out of the instruction imparted what he could.
When old enough to do so, Mr. Mefford began to work in the water fields. He
sought and secured a position with Joe Caldwell of Westminster, than whom, perhaps,
no better master mechanic could be found engaged in that occupation; with the result,
that when he had finished his apprenticeship, he and Joe were about evenly mated,
the one scoring some points of advantage over the other.
In October, 1917, at Riverside, Mr. Mefford was married to Mrs. J. H. Roberts,
whose maiden name was Laura J. Clatworthy, a native of England who came to
and settled in America, and finally very wisely chose California for her home, where
she has lived for twenty-five years. With her domestic experience, she was able to
accord home comforts to our subject, and thus to help lighten the arduous work in
which he was daily engaged, and by which he was to build up that enviable reputation
of having drilled good wells all over the county.
Mr. Mefford started in business for himself at Santa Ana twenty years ago, and
since then he has contributed much to the great work of developing water in Southern
California. He understands the difficult technical processes involved, and he also
has special gifts in divining the sources of good water. His years of hard labor
have enabled him to boast of hundreds of satisfied customers, and among other places
of note owing half of their success, in the matter of natural resources, to his skill
in commanding an adequate water supply, may be mentioned the famous Irvine Ranch.
Mr. and Mrs. Mefford live at 1004 West Fourth Street, Santa Ana, where they dispense
a whole-hearted hospitality to their friends.
Mr. Mefford enlisted for service in the Spanish-American War in Company L,
Seventh Regiment, United States Volunteers, and was encamped in San Francisco.
For twenty years he was a member of the Orange County baseball nines, and in that
wholesome sport he is favorably known by many.
MRS. MARY N. TONEY.— A well-traveled resident of Santa Ana, who has
chosen Southern California for her home, and has come to be favorably known as
one of the successful orange growers contributing to the wealth of the Golden State,
is Mrs. Mary E. Toney, widow of the late S. Toliver Toney, of 826 North Baker
Street. She was born near Little Rock, Ark., on March 30, 1854, the daughter of
Benjamin and Sobrina (Stover) Large. Her father was a blacksmith by trade, and
he also became a landowner in Arkansas. When three years old, she was brought
by her parents to California and given a home in Shasta County, where Mr. Large
followed his trade at the mining centers. After a while he purchased some Shasta
County acreage and engaged in cattle raising.
In 1859 Mr. Large sold out and removed to Hydesville, Humboldt County,
where he followed his usual occupation, and from there he went to Trinity County,
where he had a shop and ran a hotel at Hayfork, near Weaverville, for a short time.
Then he went up into Shasta County on the old overland stage trail between Red
Bluff and Yreka, and opened the Loomis House, which he conducted for several
years, becoming well-known to all the early travelers. He returned to Hay Fork,
bought a hotel, and ran it till he moved to Mendocino County. He made several
moves, and finally passed away at Hayfork. The old hotel is owned by his daughter
and conducted as the Kellogg Hotel by his grandson. Mr. Large was a Democrat in
politics and a Mason.
It was in Mendocino County that Miss Mary Large met and married, at Willits,
on November 8, 1870, S. Toliver Toney, a native of Fayette County, Texas, where
he was born on November 17, 1846. His parents were Seth and Mary Adaline (Cox)
Toney, natives of Mississippi and Georgia, respectively. When S. Toliver was eight
years of age the family came overland to California from Texas, during which time
the Indians were very troublesome, but the wagon train, of which Seth Toney was
captain, managed to get through all right, due, perhaps, to the fact that the captain
understood Indians, having fought as a volunteer from Texas in the Mexican War.
Arriving in California, the Toney family stopped for a time at El Monte, then moved
on to Mendocino County and built up a fine home place near Willits. The reason of
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John Toliver Cox, and family had preceded them, having come by the Isthmus of
Panama in the early 50's, settling first at San Bernardino. Reverend Cox was a
Methodist preacher, and was well known all over the state of California. He finally
settled near Santa 'Rosa, and when he died, about 1866, he had accomplished much
for humanity during his span of life. He is buried at Mark West in Sonoma County.
He was a member of the Masonic fraternity.
S. Toliver Toney was extensively engaged in the raising of sheep in Mendocino
County, and Mrs. Toney lived for eleven years near Willitts. Then Mr. Toney sold
out, and the industrious couple, feeling the need of rest, spent some time in travel.
Finally, in 1884, he settled in New Mexico, where Mr. Toney purchased land near
Lordsburg and Silver City and again engaged in cattle raising. In 1909, however,
he removed to Douglas, Ariz., where he met with his best success in the cattle industry.
In 1914 Mr. Toney settled up his affairs in Arizona, came to Santa Ana, and
purchased a half acre of oranges and a home on East Seventeenth Street, and there,
on July 20, 1916, he passed away and was buried at Redlands. He had a wide circle
of admiring friends. Mrs. Toney lived at the Seventeenth Street home until February
18, 1920, when the place was sold, and a week later her present home at 826 North
Baker Street was purchased. This is a three-acre grove, one-third of which is set
out to oranges, and two-thirds to walnuts and apricots.
Mrs. Toney is a member of the Spurgeon Memorial Methodist Church of Santa
Ana, and continues to take a live interest in public affairs, as did her lamented hus
band, who was a school director in both Arizona and New Mexico. She has had
six children, and three are still granted her. Mrs. Sarah C. Harper is the widow of
the late Francis M. Harper of Deming, New Mexico. William Toliver is a cattleman
of Superior, Ariz. Mrs. Maude E. Cox is the widow of Thomas M. Cox, and lives at
home with her mother. She was born in Alhambra, N. M., attended the district
schools of Silver City, in that state, and on March 7, 1906, was married to Thomas
M. Cox. Mrs. Toney has fifteen grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren living.
DALLISON SMITH LINEBARGER.— Prominent both in civic affairs and in
the horticultural development of Orange County, Dallison Smith Linebarger is a native
of Oregon, born near Albany, August 1, 1862. When he was a- small child the family
moved to California, and he was reared in Ventura County, where he later followed
stock raising and ranching. As early as 1899 he located in Fullerton, and bought the
livery stable of Thomas Jennings, and with two partners established the business under
the firm name of Davis, Drown and Linebarger. They also owned a branch stable at
Olinda and besides doing a large livery business they did teaming to the oil fields,
hauling derricks and machinery. Mr. Linebarger was general manager of the concern,
which was conducted on an unusually large scale, using fifty head of horses, a large bus,
and all the necessary equipment for the success of such an establishment.
During this time Mr. Linebarger followed ranching as a side issue, raising stock
and grain in Los Angeles and Orange counties, also owning an orange grove near
Yorba, which he later sold. In 1910, he sold out his interest in the livery business and
that year he began the development of some land which later was increased to about
seventy acres, lying between Fullerton and Brea, and this he has devloped into one of
the finest orange and lemon orchards in the county; forty-two acres are in lemons,
and the balance in Navel and Valencia oranges. It has taken large sums of money
and hard work to bring the property into its present state of cultivation, but the right
man was at the helm, and it is now in full bearing, with three wells and pumping plants
installed and cement pipe lines for irrigating purposes; one of the show places of
Orange County.
As further evidence of his devotion to the advancement of his section, Mr. Line
barger has served ten years as supervisor of Orange County, being elected to the
office three times on the Democratic ticket in a strong Republican district, the Third.
During his term of office the good roads movement was started, and many of the
beautiful boulevards which have made Orange County famous were begun by the sale
of bonds. The marriage of Mr. Linebarger, which occurred in Ventura County in 1882,
united him with Ellen Stone, and six children were born to them, five of whom are
living: Cephas A., William L., Archie A., Mrs. Clara McWilliams, and Clema D. The
sons are all ranching for themselves and meeting with the success warranted by the
sons of such a father. It is to such men as Dallison Smith Linebarger that Orange
County owes its rapid rise to prosperity, and they and their families make up the
representative citizenry of this wonderful county, which stands apart even in a state
full of wonders. Mr. Linebarger is a member of the Fullerton Lodge of Odd Fellows.

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GEORGE L. WRIGHT. — A wide-awake caterer to the public, who has come to
establish one of the most prosperous enterprises in Santa Ana, is George L. Wright,
proprietor of Wright's Transfer, now an indispensable organization in local life. He
was born near Osage, in Mitchell County, Iowa, on July 23, 1860, the son of John A.
Wright, a farmer. His mother before her marriage was Miss Mary Fay. The family
came West and the father died in California four years later, or in 1913. The good
mother also passed away. There were seven children in the family, and George was
the third child.
He attended the schools of Iowa as a boy, and then helped his father at farm
work. Then he wandered to South Dakota for a couple of years, and on December 19,
1885, arrived in Santa Ana. For a year he busied himself with real estate, and then
he worked as a carpenter until he went into the transfer business. On July 3, 1887,
he started his venture with one horse, and now, as the oldest transfer proprietor in
the city, and the one operating most extensively, he has three auto trucks, and cares
for most of the Santa Ana transfer trade.
But Mr. Wright has not only made a success in private business enterprises, he
has also participated, as a man full of civic pride, in public life. His national political
bias makes him a Republican, and his known fitness for the responsibility of a city
father led to his being elected councilman for four years. He held office during the
term when the city hall was erected, and he was also charged with the duty of
providing an addition to the waterworks and of extending the city's paving. One of
the pioneers of Santa Ana, he has seen the city grow from a mere village.
Mr. Wright has resided here long enough to recount the building-up of the entire
city of Santa Ana, and in fact the development of Orange County, for he 'tells of
when there were but few business blocks — and they were of pioneer construction —
and the streets were unpaved. Nor were there any oranges or walnuts growing here
abouts; the principal industry was the growing of grapes for raisins but the soil was
not adapted for their successful culture and the business was later abandoned. He
remembers the time when but ten carloads of oranges were shipped from the state
and when 110 cars of raisins were sent out from Orange alone. The old pioneers are
passing away and to hear such men as Mr. Wright tell again the story of the local
conditions is an interesting circumstance. He has always put his shoulder to the wheel
and given every project the necessary "boost" to bring Orange County before the eyes
of the world at large.
In 1887 Mr. Wright married Emma Moore, and their union was blessed with the
birth of four children. Fay Linton has been both a private soldier and instructor in the
United States Aviation service and he married Miss Avis Winkle, born in Orange
County the daughter of a pioneer family; while Mary has become Mrs. E. T. Brennan.
Burton is at Berkeley, attending the State University. Vera died when she was ten and
a half years of age. The family are Unitarians and Mr. Wright belongs to the Odd
Fellows, the Woodmen of the World, and the Fraternal Brotherhood.
ALBERT C. WILLIAMS. — A financier and a vigorous promoter of everything
calculated to steady the financial resources of both Tustin and Orange County, Albert
C. Williams is a native son of California, born near Healdsburg, Sonoma County,
October 15, 1858, the only son of Washington Williams, who was born in Missouri
and came to California, across the plains, in 1853. Here he had married Elizabeth
Martin, a native of Tennessee, and a member of a 'family well-known in Georgia,
whence they originated. They came to California in 1856 by the overland route, in
an ox-team train, and located in Sonoma County, and so they also became pioneers
of the Golden State. Mrs. Williams failed to enjoy the best of health in the North,
and she and her husband came south to Tustin in 1874, arriving here on September
23, after twenty-two days of hardship, crossing the mountains with teams. Washington
Williams died in 1911, and his devoted wife followed him three years later.
After completing this arduous journey with all their supplies. Mr. Williams and
his family located on twenty acres on what is now known as Williams Street— a
thoroughfare bearing their name— and McFadden Street, in Tustin, arid Albert C.
Williams, in 1874, helped his father to erect the temporary dwelling that two years
later was supplanted by a better home. The son also worked upon the farm, while
he attended the grammar school at Tustin. His father acquired twenty-four acres
at Delhi, which was also farmed to grain and stock. He was an agriculturist and an
horticulturist, and he owned several threshing outfits. Associated with his father,
A. C. Williams withstood the disastrous effects of the several dry years, and by
"sticking it out" reaped the benefits. In 1880 he took a trip north to Oregon, driving
four horses hitched to a big covered wagon, going via Siskiyou and Jacksonville,
returning to Crescent City, Cal., and there he remained for a winter, coming back
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at Villa Park, raising grapes, apricots and apples. He set the land later to walnuts,
receiving as his share sixteen acres of the thirty-six acres. At the present time he
owns nine acres — four and a half on each side of Williams Street — and his last crop
of walnuts was nine tons. He markets through the Santa Ana Walnut Association,
and is a member of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. In 1888 he went north
to Fresno County, purchased eighty acres there, and set the same out as a vineyard.
He also has financial interests in oil and mining stocks.
On November 6, 1889, Mr. Williams was married to Caroline Fatima England,
a native of Calaveras County, Cal., and three children have made still happier their
union: Ralph E. married Miss Lorina Burd of Santa Ana, and they have one son,
Howard E. When Ralph was sixteen years old he entered the Glenn Martin Auto
Machine Shop, and later, when Martin began to make aeroplanes, he helped him with
the first plane ever constructed in Santa Ana. Martin went East after a few years, and
became famous. Then Ralph entered the employ of the William F. Lutz Company,
and he also worked for the Santa Ana Commercial Company, and it was while there
that he started his own shop, in 1915. A. C. and Ralph E. Williams, father and son.
became interested in the manufacture of "Silver Beam" spotlights, and they enlarged
their factory; soon, however, removing to Los Angeles, where they were afforded
greater facilities. Ralph is now secretary and manager, and A. C. is vice-president,
and the company is known as the Williams Manufacturing Company, and is incor
porated under the laws of California. Ernest R., the second son in the order of birth,
is foreman of the machine shop in the Williams Manufacturing Company, and is an
expert tool maker. He married Miss Marguerite Ruth Brown, of Princeton, N. J.
He enlisted in the recent war, and served his country from January 1 to December 3,
1918. Albert G. is a graduate from the Tustin grammer school, class of 1920.
Mrs. Williams was active in Red Cross work during the World War, and the
whole family generously supported the various loan drives. Mr. and Mrs. Williams
are both members of the Fraternal Aid Union, in which Mr. Williams has gone
through the various chairs. They also belong to the Methodist Church. Mr. Wil
liams is a Democrat, but not an office seeker, and believes in both trying to make
the world better, and in enjoying the world as it is.
WILLIAM T. MITCHELL. — An aggressive and successful real estate operator
who has attained both influence and affluence despite the handicaps of early life, is
William T. Mitchell, a native of Cedar County, Mo., where he was born on a farm
on August 9, 1866. His father was James C. Mitchell, a farmer, and he married Miss
Jane Fleeman, who shared the hard work of an agricultural life.
¦Because of the conditions at home, William enjoyed but very limited educational
advantages, and when the opportunity presented itself, he learned and followed the
carpenter's trade. In 1903 he came to Santa Ana, and for a while he worked as a
carpenter for A. C. Black. Then, with C. G. Ramsey he engaged in contracting, and
finally he undertook contracting and building for himself. He has erected many of
the better class residences in the city.
In 1918, on account of war conditions, Mr. Mitchell entered the real estate field,
and therein he has been very successful. His practical experience as a builder, and his
wide knowledge of realty and other matters in California, together with his good
judgment and high sense of honor, have enabled him to be of much service to others
in advising them reliably as to purchase, sales, or investments.
On Christmas Day, 1889, Mr. Mitchell was married to Sarah Elizabeth Savage,
and three children have blessed their union. Cammie B. is Mrs. L. S. Haven; and
there are Philip T. and John B. The family attend the Christian Church, and Mr. and
Mrs. Mitchell have long been active workers in the cause of prohibition.
EDWARD A. LONG. — A worthy descendant of an honored pioneer family of
Orange County, Edward A. Long, the successful truck farmer, residing southeast of
Stanton, was born at Santa Ana on October 15, 1878, the son of Thomas Y. and
Melissa' A. (DeWitt) Long. In 1859 Thomas Y. Long crossed the plains from Texas
to California in an emigrant train of oxen and wagons. Without the fearless and
courageous pioneers who endured the hardships and dangers and the discomforts of
pioneer life and modes of traveling, the great commonwealth of California would
still be a wilderness with barren plains. Those who have more recently come to
California to enjoy the highly improved conditions existing today do not always
realize what a great debt of gratitude they owe to these early settlers, who laid the
foundations of a greater civilization and permanent prosperity.
Thomas Y. Long was born in Tennessee, and was eighteen years old when
members of the Long family, consisting of his father and mother and his brothers
and sisters, as well as some of their friends, making up a train of some twenty-three
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their money in cattle, buying them for five dollars per head, and accumulating about
3,000 head which they planned to drive across the plains and mountains into the
Golden State of which they had heard so much, and where they anticipated disposing
of the entire band at a good profit. In crossing the Indian infested plains in Arizona
the company were many times attacked by the Apache Indians, who finally over
powered them and succeeded in stampeding and capturing the entire herd of cattle,
leaving' only the wagons arid" oxen. After a long, tiresome-and hazardous journey of
five months the train reached California.
Arriving in this state the Long family located in San Bernardino County, where
Thomas Y. engaged in teaming to and from Anaheim Landing and onto the desert to
the mines and he also mined for a time. He was married in San Bernardino to Miss
Melissa A. De Witt, a native of Iowa but who had been brought across the plains
by her parents when she was a small child. She was reared and educated in San
Bernardino and they lived there for two years after their marriage and then Mr. Long
bought twenty acres of land south from Santa Ana, paying thirty-five dollars an
acre for it. That land is now, with improvements, easily worth thousands of dollars
per acre. He improved the ranch and lived there with his family until the fall
of 1888, then sold out and moved to the vicinity of Garden Grove and in that locality
members of the family have since lived and prospered. It was on their home place
there that both Mr. and Mrs. Long passed their last days. He died in 1905 at the
age of sixty-one, his widow surviving until April, 1919, when she passed away at the
age of sixty-nine. They became the parents of six children: Thomas is deceased;
Edward A. of this review; Lena became the wife of E. E. Miles; Jesse is a rancher
near Stanton; Ray is also living nearby; Nellie became the wife of Arthur Lindley
a rancher in this county.
Edward A. Long, the subject of this review, born at Santa Ana, was reared and
educated in Orange County. With the exception of fifteen years spent in the well-
drilling business, he has followed farming and now owns a twenty-acre ranch southeast
of Stanton, where he carries on truck farming.
In 1905 Mr. Long was united in marriage with Miss Winifred McKee, daughter
of Joseph and Mattie (Funk) McKee. Three children have been born to them, only
one of whom, Helen, is living. Mr. Long is held in high esteem in the community and
is rated as one of its substantial and progressive citizens.
FREDERICK H. TAYLOR.— The trite saying, "Tall oaks from little acorns
grow," in illustrating the magnitude that may be attained from very small beginnings,
has an exemplification in the growth and importance that Taylor's factory, at Santa
Ana, Cal., for preserving California fruits, has attained. Fred H. Taylor, president
of the company, was born at Freeport, 111., July 8, 1877, and is the son of Fred G.
and Elizabeth (Sharp) Taylor, who came to California from their Eastern home in
1886 and located at Santa Ana. The mother of the family, in common with other
good housekeepers, looked after the interests of her family table by preserving fruit
for family use. Then, wishing her Eastern friends to taste of the toothsome dainties
that California produced, she sent some of it to old friends in the East. They were
so pleased that their appetites were whetted for more, and from a few pounds of pre
serves prepared on the kitchen stove the birth of a new industry was heralded. Tons
of fruit are annually prepared and shipped to various places all over the United States.
The large plant occupies a commodious concrete building equipped with all necessary-
modern machinery to facilitate the preparation of the fruit for consumption. One
hundred and fifty people are employed in preparing it, and the pay roll amounts to
$50,000 per annum, while business amounting to over $300,000 annually is transacted.
Fred H. was a lad of seven years of age when he came with his parents to Cali
fornia, and his education was acquired in the public schools, and in the larger school
of experience. When the business began to expand, he with his brother J. E., took
over the management of the business, the mother retaining her interest in the same..
In January, 1918, Fred H. took over the interest of his brother, and in March, 1918, he
incorporated the business as Taylor's, a close corporation, of which he is president
and manager; he has enlarged the plant, the new buildings all being constructed of
concrete and are fireproof. Th,e large warehouse on East Fourth Street has sidings
from both the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads.
A very interesting feature of the business is the marketing of the product, for
all of the goods are sold directly to the consumer, with a trade now reaching intc
nearly every state in the Union. After twenty-seven years the business has grown tc
such proportions that it is now the largest of its kind in the county, and the goods
are still prepared practically the same as when they started on the cook stove, only
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tate the manufacture, which has increased from 100 cans to 20,000 cans, and each
can has the same care as when they started. The company built and own their twenty-
ton ice plant, as well as a commercial storage plant with a capacity of twelve cars.
Mr. Taylor's marriage occurred in Sacramento January 1, 1905, uniting his destiny
with Miss Rena Collins, a native of Iowa, whose father, the late W. H. Collins, one
of the early business men of Santa Ana, located here as early as 1887. Two children
have been born of this union: Phillip and Marguerite. Politically Mr. Taylor is a
strong Republican, and fraternally is a member of the Elks.
Active in civic and business circles, Mr. Taylor is energetic and progressive,
giving his support to all measures that contribute to the general welfare, and taking
a deep interest in the growth and development of Orange County.
JOHN McMILLAN. — Prominent among the public officials in California of whom
the United States Government may well be proud is John McMillan, the experienced
and attentive postmaster at Newport. He was born at Campbelltown, Argyleshire,
Scotland, on February 5, 1862, and grew up in the land of Scott and Burns until he
was eighteen years of age. He learned the sailmaker's trade, and as a sailmaker
went to sea for ten years, making the journey from London to Australia and return
several times. In January, 1881, he came to the Pacific Coast, and sailed north from
San Francisco to Eureka, and south to San Diego.
He visited Santa Ana, and after his marriage there, on December 13, 1884, to
Miss Annie Mills of that city, he traveled on the tow boats from San Pedro to and
from Catalina, meanwhile, until 1893, residing at San Pedro. In that year, he located
at Newport, which he had first visited in 1881. He is therefore the oldest actual,
continuous resident of Newport, and well merits the position of responsibility in the
service of the municipality, being in charge of the water department. The water for
Newport is obtained from artesian wells about four miles northwest of the town, one
of the wells being 242 feet, and the other two each 264 feet deep, and is pumped into
a reservoir located on the Newport Heights, and thence by gravity it goes over to
Corona del Mar, Balboa and Newport. The system and supply are all that could
be desired, proving one of the important attractions to would-be settlers here.
On January 28, 1908, Mr. McMillan was appointed postmaster of the town, and
that dignified office he has held ever since. He has two deputy postmasters, or post
mistresses — Mrs. A. E. Jasper of Newport Beach, and Mrs. Ida Durkee of the same
place, who share his popularity with the discriminating folk of the community.
Five children have blessed the fortunate union of Mr. and Mrs. McMillan: Hugh
is the well-known real estate dealer at Newport Beach; Neil is employed near by;
John is a student at the Santa Ana high school; Sadie is the wife of W. A. Irwin,
the realty dealer of Newport Beach, and Agnes married Don Kelly, the rancher, of
Burbank. Mr. McMillan has an interest in the Newport Syndicate. He is also inter
ested, but in another manner, in the Knights of Pythias of Santa Ana, being one of its
most popular members.
HENRY WEST. — A sturdy old pioneer whose devotion to home duties, to
gether with an intensely patriotic interest in the world-events of recent, exciting years
have undoubtedly contributed to keep him hale and hearty when nearly eighty years
of age, is Henry West, who was born on March 11, 1843, in the beautiful Wiltshire
country of England. His parents were Stephen and Eliza West, and his father was
a mechanic. The lad enjoyed a good common school education, and then learned the
carpenter's trade, at which he worked for ten years in London.
In the world's metropolis, too, on December 23, 1871, he was married to Miss
Sabina H. Austing, a native of London, where she was born on March 16, 1850. Her
parents were James and Sarah Austing, and her father was a brass worker. She was
educated in a private school in London. On May 1, 1872, Mr. and Mrs. West
migrated to America, and soon after they came west to the Pacific Coast, arriving in
San Francisco on May 13.
For a while Mr. West worked in a planing mill near the water front, but in
November, 1874, he came to Southern California, and traveling over San. Gabriel.
El Monte and east as far as San Bernardino, returned to Los Angeles when he heard
of the land at Orange with the water, so he came down and bought twenty acres, and
then returned to San Francisco and made preparations to move. So, in June, 1875, he
brought his family here. Later he sold ten acres to his brother Arthur. He had three
acres of grapes, three of oranges, and three of olives; but the grapes having been
killed by blight, they were grubbed out, and so were the oranges, which had red scale.
He plowed up the entire ranch, in fact, and established the well-known Santiago
Jersey Farm. He had nine head of choice dairy, pedigreed cows, and he not only
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the tremendous amount of care, however, Mr. West began to sell off his stock in
January, 1902. Two years before that he had embarked in the orange industry, as
he found his place ideal for a nursery, and he therefore raised nursery stock between
the trees of his grove, supplying the vicinity with fine young orange trees. This
nursery he sold out in 1905.
In 1905 it was deemed necessary to make a change for the benefit of Mr. West's
health, and Mr. and Mrs. West removed to Los Angeles. He bought a home on Benton
Way, north of Temple Street, where he lived until February, 1917, by which time he
had regained his health. In 1917 -Clarence H.' West, the son, purchased the Benton
Way home, and Mrs. and Mrs. West came to Orange. They leased a home, where they
stayed for a year in 1918, and he bought a home on North Lemon Street, where they
at present reside.
Six children were granted this worthy couple. Amy W., the eldest, is married to
Henry Meier of McPherson; Walter L. married Pearl Stone, since deceased, and is
living on Prospect Avenue, Orange; he is the father of two children — Leo and Arietta;
Percy G. is the husband of Ethel Traynor; they live at Sacramento, and have one child,
Robert; Spencer A. is married to Bertha Hawthorne, and is the father oi a daughter,
Carmelita; Clarence H. married Gertrude McCullah, and lives at the old home on
Benton Way, in Los Angeles; A. Roy West is employed at the Merchants National
Bank of Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. West are members of the New Jerusalem
Church of Los Angeles; they are Republicans in national politics.
Two sons have enviable war records, both having volunteered for the United
States service. Both were with the One Hundred Forty-fourth Field Artillery, and both
were made corporals. A. Roy West enlisted in August, 1917, and Clarence in Novem
ber of the same year. Clarence served in the capacity of a clerk, and Roy was in
charge of a squad. They went with the Grizzlies to France, leaving Camp Kearny
on August 2, 1918, and sailed direct for Brest. From August, 1918, until January,
1919, they saw foreign service. Finally, at the Presidio, in San Francisco, they were
honorably discharged.
EDWARD ATHERTON. — Exceptionally interesting among the annals of pioneer
literature is the life story of Edward Atherton, the rancher and owner of the Fullerton
Ostrich Farm, who was born at Capetown, South Africa, on May 29, 1860, the son of
John Atherton, a native of Manchester, England, who became a pioneer at the Cape.
He was not only a merchant,' but he owned 500 acres used for grain, stock and vine
yards; and on his farm he had two factories — one for scouring wool, the other for
distilling liquor. Edward's mother died when he was an infant; but in common with
the other five children, he enjoyed the best educational advantages that the local
municipal schools afforded, and until he was twenty-six, he assisted his father on the
farm, and helped develop the natural resources of the place.
In 1886 Mr. Atherton came to the United States, being accompanied by a Mr.
Conning, with whom he associated himself to sell ostrich plumes. They came to Cali
fornia, bringing with them a large stock of feathers but did not find the ready sale they
expected and soon abandoned their efforts. Mr. Conning remained in San Francisco
and later engaged in the banking business but Mr. Atherton decided to stay with the
ostrich business and in December, 1886, came to Anaheim and. arranged to take charge
of the ostriches that had been shipped to California in 1881, which originally numbered
twenty-one birds, but which had increased to forty-six. The first shipment was on
exhibition in San Francisco and was shipped to Anaheim in 1882, and was owned
by a corporation known as the California Ostrich Farming Company, of which R. J.
Northam was the manager. In 1887 the birds were moved to the ranch now owned by
Mr. Atherton and situated two and one-half miles northeast from Fullerton. In 1891
the company sold out to Northam and Atherton, and in 1899, after an auction had been
held to dispose of as many birds as possible, Mr. Atherton bought out Northam's
interest and became the owner of forty birds. In 1902 he bought sixty-eight acres of
land where he now lives, for ostrich farming and this he improved and eventually sold
off all but thirty-one acres. He now owns eight ostriches. The land has been set to
Valencia oranges and walnuts which are in fine bearing condition. He is a member of
the Placentia Mutual Orange Growers Association and a man of much public spirit.
In 1897, Mr. Atherton was married to Miss Carolina J. Sellinger, daughter of
John Sellinger, a pioneer vincyardist of Fullerton and Anaheim; and three children
have blessed their union. Malcolm is the eldest; then comes Miranda; while the young
est is named Dalton. Mr. Atherton belongs to the Independent Order of Foresters.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Atherton enjoy the friendship of a wide circle, and the fruits of
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RICHARD SPENCER GREGORY.— A careful student of real estate in all its
phases, and of land and realty development, Richard Spencer Gregory, a native of the
fine old commonwealth of Virginia, has become well and favorably known in the insur
ance and real estate fields of California, and has for some time been privileged to
influence the trend of events making for a safer and sounder future, with more flourish
ing conditions, for Orange County. He was born in Chesterfield County on March
30 of the. eventful .Centennial Year of 187$, .the son of E. S. Gregory, a farmer and
merchant, who remained faithful to the Confederacy, fought with the Confederate
Army, and finally died with an honorable record of forty years as justice of the peace.
He married Miss Rosa H. Franklin, a charming Virginian, who is also dead. They
had ten children, eight of whom are still living.
Trained for the most part in the public schools of the locality, Richard Gregory
reached California at the age of seventeen, in 1893, and at the beginning located in
Placentia, Orange County, coming to Fullerton as early as 1896. For four years
he followed ranching, and then for another four years he engaged in the transfer
business. When he sold out, he began his present business of realtor. With Messrs.
Balcom, Fuller and Welton he purchased 100 acres just north of Chapman and east
of Spadra, and subdivided a part as the Central subdivision of Fullerton, afterwards
another addition, known as "Hill Crest," and the whole is now practically built up
with beautiful homes. The new high school, which occupies twenty acres of the
tract, is the pride of the people of northern Orange County. His residence on Hill
Crest is one of the most attractive homes in the city. Mr. Gregory also laid out the
following . subdivisibns to Fullerton: "Hermosa," "Jacaranda," "Ramona," "Orange
Grove," "Wilshire," "Gregory," "Glenwood Square," as well as subdividing several
ranches into smaller tracts. He has always engaged in citriculture, having improved
several orange groves, and still owns a splendid orchard in the culture of which he
takes much pleasure and pride. He has been very successful in all that he has under
taken, despite, or perhaps because, he was "self-made."
At Fullerton, on August 2, 1899, Mr. Gregory married Miss Mabel B. Schulte,
a native daughter, born in Orangethorpe, and the daughter of Wm. and Mary
Schulte, pioneers of Orange County. She is now the mother of two children — Erma
and Merrill. The family are members of the Baptist Church of Fullerton, of which
Mr. Gregory is a trustee.
An Independent Democrat, Mr. Gregory was a member of the City Council for
six years, the last two of which he gave to the duties of mayor. During his service
as trustee and mayor was the era of the beginning of public improvements in Fuller-
ton. The streets were paved, the city sewer plant constructed, the city water plant
built, the fire apparatus bought and the fire department started. Not wishing to serve
longer, he was not a candidate for reelection, and -retired from the board at the close
of his second term. During the late war he was a member of the Home Guards.
He is a director of the Home Mutual Building & Loan Association of Santa Ana,
and a director of the Farmers & Merchants National Bank of Fullerton. Public-
spirited and active in all the bond and war "drives," he is still a director of Orange
County Y. M. C. A. work. He belongs to the Fullerton Club and Newport Yacht
Club, and fraternally he was made a Mason in Fullerton Lodge No. 339, F. & A. M.
FRED A. STOFFEL. — One of the most successful business men that ever
"struck" San Juan Capistrano is Fred A. Stoffel, who built up the Mission Inn Cafe and
is now erecting, at a cost of about $75,000, a new two-story hotel and store building.
His education, experience and industry have contributed to enable him to overcome keen
competition, while his genial, sympathetic personality, his disposition to please and
to accommodate, have made him so popular that everybody in San Juan Capistrano
is his friend, and thousands of the traveling public look back with satisfaction to hours
spent in his hostelry and restaurant. Indeed, from a patch of weeds and rubbish to
the picturesque, attractive San Juan Cafe, in the short space of five years, is the
transformation wrought by the energy of Mr. Stoffel, who first came to San Juan
Capistrano in 1915.
Fred was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, on January 1, 1885, the
son of John Stoffel, still living, who was a decorator of window glass, a fine art in
the industry of glass painting. He had married Miss Caroline Reuscher, who died
in 1919. They had six children, and Fred, who first saw the light on New Year's
Day, 1885, was the fourth in the order of birth.
He was given unusually good educational advantages, and besides being in
structed in his native German, was taught English, French and Spanish, and allowed
to travel widely. When he married, he chose for his wife one of the most attractive
women of Bavaria, Miss Louisa Steinmuller, who has made an excellent helpmate;
and one son, Fred A., Jr., blessed their fortunate union.
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In 1906 Mr. Stoffel came to America, and after spending some time in Canada,
Dakota, Milwaukee, Galveston, Houston, and a trip to South America, was in the
service of George Borgfeldt and Company, the most important importers of toys
and many other lines of high-grade wares in America, doing business on Sixth Street
and Irving Place, New York. Coming to California, Mr. Stoffel pitched his tent at
San Juan Capistrano in January, 1916, and began business here right after the disaster
to the Otay Dam at San Diego, which was carried away by a freshet. Then the Santa
Ana River overflowed its banks, and the waters of the Trabuco and the San Juan
flooded the streets of San Juan Capistrano, and buried the Santa Fe tracks, so that
traffic was crippled for three months. It was discouraging enough to the young man
who had just invested so much opposite the Mission, but nothing daunted, he bought
more land, until now he owns about two acres in the heart of the town, the choicest
lots in town, and is located on the south side of Central Avenue, over to the Santa
Fe right of way. It is the site of the old San Juan Inn, which burned down in 1918;
and there Mr. Stoffel has built the New Hotel Capistrano.
This is a very fine structure of two stories, in the mission style of architecture,
made of brick, 125 front by 85 deep in size, on a site 127x120 feet square, and it has three
fronts. It contains four stores, forty rooms and six apartments, a social hall and a
lobby, and those who are familiar with Mr. Stoffel's way of doing things may rest
assured that in all its appointments, and the manner in which it will be managed, it
will meet the demands and preferences of the most fastidious and exacting taste.
the surroundings will be restful; there will be ample ground for parking the motors
of tourists, and the establishment is certain to become the resort both of the tran
sient guest and the student and artist more and more coming this way.
California, from the time of her proud entrance into the Union, has been fortu
nate in the character and experience of a large number of those who have undertaken
to cater to the cafe and hotel wants of the public; and Orange County may well
congratulate itself on the coming of this thoroughly-trained gentleman, by tempera
ment as well as by personal knowledge of the ins and outs of his enterprise so
capable of success in his difficult field, and so likely, in his success, to do a fine thing
for San Juan Capistrano, Southern California, as well as for himself.
ABE W. JOHNSON. — A representative of fine old Yankee stock, whose father
was a captain in the Union Army, Abe W. Johnson, a Missouri boy, is making good
in California, ranching as a wideawake tenant on the San Joaquin, with a full com
plement of mules, horses, a Fordson tractor and all the other necessary, up-to-date
Implements. He was born in the interesting old town of Kirksville, in Adair County,
on June 13, 1872, and there grew up in an environment which has been helpful to
some of the finest types of American manhood. His father, John Johnson, was born
at Albany, N. Y., migrated to Missouri, and there, when less than eighteen years of
age, enlisted as a bugler — owing to his lack of years — in Company E, Seventh Mis
souri Volunteer Infantry. He campaigned for four long years, and by merit alone
rose to be captain, his sword, one of the precious heirlooms of our subject, speak
ing eloquently for his devotion to a righteous cause. He had the respect, admiration
and confidence of every man in the company, and was a prominent G. A. R. man. But
whatever glory he acquired was dearly purchased, for he was severely injured, so
that he suffered much from its results. When the war was over, he married, at Kirks
ville, Miss Mary A. Waddill, then resident there, who was a native of Coles County,
111., and buying a farm of 160 acres four and a half miles northeast of Kirksville,
he pursued agriculture, and gradually recovered from his injuries, which were due to
a horse falling upon and crushing him in the chest. When he died, our subject was
only twelve years of age, and he then became one of the mainstays of the mother,
who is still living at Kirksville, in her eighty-second year. They had four children,
and one died in infancy; the others, still living, being Alice M. Grassle, wife of
George Grassle, a retired banker and capitalist, at Kirksville; Abe W. Johnson, our
subject, and Dr. -John K. Johnson, of Jefferson, Green County, Iowa.
Abe grew up on a farm in the country until he was eight years of age, and then
his folks moved into Kirksville, where he attended the grammar school, and after
ward studied at the Kirksville State Normal, which graduated both General Pershing,
and Captain Arthur L. Willard of the Flagship New Mexico, U. S. Navy. For three
years he was apprenticed to the cigar-maker's trade at Kirksville, and when twenty-
one assumed the management, with his brother, of his mother's farm. At Kirksville,
too, he married Miss Jennie Wayman, who was born in Illinois, and after his marriage
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Arriving in California, he farmed for a year at Garden Grove, and then he went
to the Fred W. Bixby Ranch at Long Beach, where for three years he farmed 700
acres to barley. In 1904 he came to the San Joaquin Ranch, and he has been here
ever since. For several years he farmed grain, planting as much as 1,200 acres
to barley and wheat. The second year that he was on the Irvine Ranch he raised a
crop of sixty acres of lima beans. Since then he has been successful, and he is one of
the pioneer lima bean growers on the San Joaquin. Now he is a member of the
Southern California Lima Bean Growers Association.
Four children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson: Leonore is the wife
of Oscar Wilson, a rancher on the San Joaquin, one mile south of Irvine; Mary E-
married Walter Stromeson of the U. S. Army, who is stationed at the fort at San
Pedro, and Wayman K., husband of Miss Jessie Huff, of Santa Ana, is a rancher on
the San Joaquin. Mr. Johnson is a Republican in national political affairs, and a
nonpartisan, broad-minded advocate of everything- worth while for the community.
He has always been public-spirited, believing- that only in proportion to what a citizen
puts into the development of his town or county is he likely to get out, and for
several years he served as road overseer of the district.
HENRY HOCKEMEYER. — Among the worthy pioneers of later date whose use
ful lives are pleasantly recalled by all who were fortunate to know and profit from
them, was the late Henry Hockemeyer, for several years superintendent of the Santa
Ana Valley Irrigation Company. He was born in Adams County, Ind., on February
4, 1852, was reared and educated in his native state, and for years confined himself
to his chosen occupation, that of a tiller of the soil. He was the son of Anton Hocke
meyer, a farmer in Indiana.
In 1883 Mr. Hockemeyer migrated to California, and located in Orange County,
where he purchased his ranch of eleven and a half acres. At that time only a few
acres were set out to vines, as viticulture here was only an experiment; and on account
of the unprofitableness of vineculture, due to a disease on the vine, he soon turned
his attention to apricots and walnuts. Eventually he found, with others, that the soil
was better adapted to citrus fruit culture, and now the ranch is in a high state of
cultivation, producing- Valencias, Mediterranean Sweets and Navels.
In Orange, in 1886, Mr. Hockemeyer was united in marriage to Miss Minnie C.
Peck, who was born near Milwaukee, Wis., a daughter of Adolph and Louise (Witte)
Peck. Minnie Peck spent her early life and received a good education in Rochester,
Minn., residing there until 1884, when she came to Orange, her parents joining her a
year later. Her father has passed away but her mother is still living, making her
home in Orange. Mr. and Mrs. Hockemeyer have three daughters: Alma, now Mrs.
Schnutzen; Dora, the wife of Fred Newcomb and Mrs. Minnie Heinecke and all reside
in the vicinity of the home.
After a useful, well-spent life, Mr. Hockemeyer passed away in August, 1905, leav
ing many friends to mourn his loss. He bequeathed to his widow a most comfortable
and elegant home in which to spend the balance of her days. The family are members
of and liberally support the Lutheran Church in Orange. Mrs. Hockemeyer is a mem
ber of both the Santiago Orange Growers Association and the Santa Ana Walnut
Growers Association.
ARTHUR H. PATERSON.— Identified for a number of years with the oil indus
try, Arthur H. Paterson has for the past four years, been the special agent for the
Union Oil Company at Santa Ana, and through his efficient handling of the work the
business has each year steadily increased. A native of Canada, Mr. Paterson was
born at St. Mary's, New Brunswick, on December 18, 1880, his parents being Dr.
Edward M. and Maud (Appleton) Paterson. Dr. Paterson, who was a well-known
physician and surgeon, brought his family to Oakland, Cal., and there engaged in the
practice of his profession, and there he remained until his death, which occurred in
July, 1917, Mrs. Paterson having passed away several years previously.
Coming to California at the age of five years, Arthur H. Paterson received his
early education in the schools of Oakland and after finishing his studies there he went
to Marburg, Germany, and took up a course in medicine, thinking to follow in the
footsteps of his father. He did not finish his course there, however, and returned to
California, where he decided to engage in commercial pursuits. He started in this
line of work as a salesman in 1901 for the Imperial Home Bakery and also as their
routing manager, continuing with them until 1906 when he was interested in contract
ing and building for eighteen months. The next two years were spent with the well
known firm of H. Jevne, in Los Angeles, where he gained a well-rounded experience
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In 1910 he entered the oil business and since that time he has given his exclusive
attention to that field. He was first with the Union Oil Company, spending two
years at their refinery at Oleum, then taking the position of special agent with the
Union Oil Company at Redwood City, which he held for three years' Four years
ago he came to Santa Ana as the special agent of the Union -Oil Company, and he is
still occupying that position, having made an unqualified success. The business has
constantly increased during that time and Mr. Paterson now has five stations under
his supervision. He also has an independent interest in the oil business, being presi
dent and manager of the Tepathol Oil Company; also secretary-treasurer of the
Nuevo Oil Company.
In politics Mr. Paterson adheres to the principles of the Republican party, and is
an active member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants and Manufac
turers Association. He is prominent in fraternal circles, being a member of the local
lodge of Elks and of the Masons, holding membership in the Chapter, the Consistory,
the Commandery and Shrine, and is Worthy Patron of the Eastern Star. Mr. Pater-
son's first marriage occurred on May 9, 1906. At San Rafael, on November 27, 1912,
he was united in marriage with Miss Blanche E. McCarter, and they are the parents of
two daughters, Margaret Alice and Melba Anita. During his residence in Santa Ana
he has entered enthusiastically into the civic life of the community and is ever ready
to put his shoulder to the wheel to help its progress.
WILLARD SMITH. — A native son of whom the Southland may well be proud
is Willard Smith, the able and popular president of the Villa. Park Orchards Associa
tion, and one of the best known citizens of Villa Park precinct. He is the only child
of James M. and Sophronia (Abbott) Smith, natives of the state of New York, and
was born on the home ranch he now operates in conjunction with his two half-brothers,
O. K. and A. B. Clark, under the firm name of Smith and Clark. His maternal ances
tors were of English origin and were among the Pilgrims who accompanied Miles
Standish to the New World on the Mayflower and settled Plymouth. The family
were prominent members of and took an active interest in the early doings of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony and did valiant service in the Colonial and Revolutionary
wars, so Mr. Smith is entitled to membership in the order of the Sons of the American
Revolution. Mr. Smith's father was born in Orange County, New York, and died in Orange
County, Cal., at the advanced age of eighty-five. He was a tailor by trade and occupa
tion and made his start in life with the needle. He came west, and lived in various
places in the Middle West. A general breakdown of his health caused him to come
to California in 1878 to rest and recuperate. He spent his first winter at Santa Barbara,
and despite the doctors' prediction that he would not survive many months he recov
ered his health in the genial California climate. After coming to California he mar
ried Mrs. Sophronia Clark, the widow of Dana Clark, an early Californian who orig
inated the citrus industry in Southern California, and who planted the first orange
orchard in Santa Paula. She crossed the Isthmus in 1866, and after her marriage to
Mr. Clark lived at Santa Barbara, where Mr. Clark died and where the widow met
Mr. Smith after her husband's death. They were married in Orange County, in 1880,
which was then a part of Los Angeles County. The mother passed away at the age
of sixty-five, five weeks before her husband's demise.
When a young man, Willard Smith served an apprenticeship in the photo
engraver's trade at San Diego, Cal. He became proficient in this trade, which he
followed for a period of five years, most of the time in Los Angeles. Quitting the
engraver's trade he came back to the home ranch, which he has operated ever since.
The ranch consists of sixty-two acres, forty acres of which are planted to Valencia
oranges, and sixteen acres to Eureka lemons. Mr. Smith helped organize the Villa
Park Orchards Association in 1913, a very important Orange County business institu
tion. This association has recently built a large orange packing house on a spur of
the Southern Pacific Railway at Villa Park, and the magnitude of its business may be
judged from its 1919 shipments of oranges, which amounted to $750,000 worth of fruit,
which sum was disbursed to orange growers at Villa Park and vicinity. Mr. Smith
is also a director in the Bixby Development Company, and with Hugh T. Thomson
laid out, irrigated and planted 300 acres of the 400-acre tract known as the Peralta
Hills Tract. The directors of the Bixby Development Company are: Willard Smith,
Hugh T. Thomson, George H. Bixby, Jotham W. Bixby of Long Beach, and Attorney
O'Melveny of Los Angeles. Mr. Smith, who is interested in many other enterprises
and projects in Orange County, is well informed and a man of ripe experience and
excellent judgment. His counsels are eagerly sought in- matters of commercial and
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Miss Edna Lee, daughter of Albert A. Lee, and they have two sons, George Abbott
and Willard Irving. Mr. Smith is also president of the Serrano Water Company and
is a member of the Republican Central Committee of Orange County. He was made
a Mason in Orange Grove Lodge No. 293, of which he is past master; a member of
Orange Chapter No. 99, R. A. M.; knighted in Santa Ana Commandery No. 36, K. T.;
Los Angeles Consistory 32nd degree; is a life member of Al Malaikah Temple,
A. A. O. N. M. S., Los Angeles, and with his wife is a member of the Order of Eastern
Star, Orange; he is also a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks.
JOHN A. MAAG. — The owner of two fine ranches which comprise his thirty-one-
acre home place on Fairhaven Avenue, immediately south of the city of Orange, and
sixteen and a half acres at Olive, John A. Maag is a phenomenally successful citrus
grower. His success is due to industry, close attention to every detail of the business,
and unusual executive ability.
He is of German lineage and birth, having been born in Westphalia, Germany,
October 31, 1851, where his father, Frank Maag, was a tenant farmer, and who died
when John A. was a child two and a half years of age. The mother, Elizabeth
(Schmeltzer) Maag, courageously assumed the responsibility of bringing up her two
sons, John A. and Frank P., kept the family together, and through many vicissitudes and
hardships successfully accomplished the task.
John A. lived in his native country until he was a lad of fourteen. He acquired his
education in the local public schools and in the summer time worked for the neighboring
farmers herding cattle. In 1865 the mother and her two sons sailed from Bremen for
the shores of the New World, and landed at old Castle Garden, New York. City, going
thence to their destination at Eagle River, in the Northern Peninsula of Michigan. They
lived in Michigan five years, then went to Columbus, Platte County, Nebr., in 1871,
where the mother took up a homestead. She was the first white woman settler in Union
Township, in Platte County, Nebr. The family lived through the discouragements inci
dental to the grasshopper scourge, blizzards, and other vicissitudes and hardships, and
young John helped break the virgin sod of Nebraska with oxen. His brother Frank
became a Nebraska farmer and died in that state in 1917, leaving a widow and three
children. On reaching his majority, John A. homesteaded 160 acres, which he improved
and brought under cultivation. This was his first real estate holding and he continued
to farm in Nebraska from 1871 until 1891. He was married in Platte County, Nebr., in
1884, to Miss Catherine Steffes, a native of Michigan, who came to Nebraska as a girl.
Their union was blessed by the birth of twelve children, ten of whom are living. Two
children died in Nebraska, and the youngest six children were born at Orange, Cal.
The ten living children are: Frank P., a rancher near Olive, married Virgil Meats of
Olive. They are the parents of two children; John W., also engaged in ranching; Mary
lives at home; Joseph A., a rancher in the Santa Ana Canyon; Henry, a rancher at
Covina, married Florence Amons; William H., who married Catherine Kermer, and is
now ranching in Santa Ana Canyon; George W., who is also ranching in the Santa Ana
Canyon, served six months in France in the Thirty-sixth Balloon Company and was
honorably discharged; Charles E., at home; Elizabeth Mary, a student at Ramona
Convent at Shorb, and Clarence Edwin, who is fourteen years of age.
In 1889 Mr. Maag made an extended trip to the Pacific Coast, and was so favorably
impressed with the land of sunshine that he made a second trip in 1891 and visited
Los Angeles and Orange County. He liked Southern California so well that he de
cided to move his family to the state. When they first came they stopped at Los
Angeles and remained five months, purchasing a horse and wagon with which they
drove all over Southern California. Finally, after looking over the country they bought
their nresent home place in the fall of 1891.
Mr. Maag has taken an active part in the community since he first settled in
Orange County. He helped organize the Santiago Orange Growers Association and was
the second man who subscribed to its stock. He was president of the association two
years and has been a director in it for twenty years. He is a member of the Central
Lemon Growers Association at Villa Park, which he also helped organize, is a stock
holder, has served as director ever since the association started, and is still on the
board. He is a charter member of the Olive Heights Orange Growers Association and
has been a director in it since its inception, and is still on the board. He is also a
member and director of the Richland Walnut Growers Association, as well as the
Orange County Fumigating Association. He helped organize the Citizens Commercial
and Savings Bank at Santa Ana, which was afterwards consolidated ?nd is now the Cali
fornia National Bank, being a stockholder in the institution. In 1899 Mr. Maag built a
fine two-story frame residence which would cost $10,000 to build at the present time.
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was reared in the Catholic faith, and he and his wife and family are communicants ot
St. Joseph's Catholic Church at Santa Ana. Mr. Maag gives due credit to his excellent
helpmate for much of the success he has attained in life. She, like himself, has worked
and striven, early and late, and their large and highly respected family of children are
following in the footsteps of their parents. Upright in character and enterprising in
disposition, Mr. Maag is a man of whom Orange County may well be proud.
ANDREW F. MILLS. — Among the native Californians residing in Orange
County is Andrew F. Mills, more familiarly known as Frank Mills, who occupies a
prominent position among the substantial agriculturists that have acquired a compe
tency in their calling. His one hundred sixty acres lies half a mile south of Garden
Grove, and is the eastern quarter section of the old Mills family home owned by his
father, who settled in the neighborhood in 1875, fourteen years before Orange County
was organized and before the town of Garden Grove was in existence.
Andrew F. was born at Princeton, Colusa County, Cal., August 18, 1865, and is
the son of Andrew Mills, senior, a California pioneer who came to the coast with a
drove of cattle from Missouri in 1851. The elder Mills, a native of Massachusetts, was
born near Great Barrington in 1814, and as a young man went West, locating in
Missouri, where he married Miss Ruth Ann Ripper, and became a prominent stockman.
After coming to California he settled in Colusa County, where he became one of
California's early and prosperous stockmen and horsemen, at one time owning 2,000
head of cattle. Of the six children in the parental family Julia is the wife ot George
McCrindle, and resides at Long Beach, Cal.; Maria is deceased; Abe died at the age
of twelve; Jane is the wife of James Young, a rancher at Lemoore, Kings County, Cal.,
and Andrew F. and his brother George H. are ranchers at Garden Grove, where
George owns the west quarter section of the old homestead adjoining his brother's
quarter section. Andrew, or "Frank," was ten years old when he accompanied his
parents and their family to Los Angeles County in 1875. Anaheim was their post
office and trading town and there was only one store at Santa Ana in those days.
Frank grew up on his father's ranch and in 1899 was united in marriage with Miss
Ura B. Conkle, daughter of Samuel Q. Conkle. They are the parents of three bright
and interesting children: Andrew R., Ruth M., a student in the Santa Ana high
school, and Floyd H., a pupil in the Garden Grove grammar school. Mr. Mills owns
some of the best soil in the vicinity of Garden Grove and rents his acreage to tenants
for growing chili peppers. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Church.
WILLIAM R. YOST. — A sturdy, active man and a very interesting personality,
representing as he does the good old pioneer days of the blacksmith and wagon maker
who knew his trades, and now classed among the properous farmers of the Southland,
is, William R. Yost, of Talbert, who was born near Troy, Davis County, Iowa, near the
Missouri boundary line, on January 27, 1863. His father was Isaac Yost, a native of
Indiana, who married Miss Nettie Hix, a native of Iowa. In 1873, they removed to
Santa Ana, Cal., and pitched their tent for a time in what was then called the Gospel
Swamp. In a short time, however, they removed to Santa Ana. In coming west, the
Yosts traveled by way of the Central Pacific, and the Union Pacific, over what was
known as the Ogden Route, to San Francisco, after which they journeyed south on the
steamship "Orizaba," to Wilmington Harbor, and then to Gospel Swamp by wagons.
The elder Yost was a blacksmith by trade, and soon set up his forge at the
corner of Main and Fifth streets, Santa Ana. A year later he sold and the family
moved to Klamath Falls, Ore. Being a good millwright he built a saw mill on Lost
Run Creek, run by water power. Selling out eight months later he returned to Santa
Ana and built a blacksmith shop on Fifth and Broadway, and came to have a very
interesting association with the early development of the town. He died in Santa
Ana in 1882.
The maiden name of Mrs. Yost was indicative of her Scotch-Irish blood, although
she came of the best Revoluntionary stock, and her father, one of the early settlers
of Iowa, fought in the Black Hawk War. She died on December 24, 1919, eighty-three
years old, the mother of ten children. Charles is a vineyardist at Coachella; Clara is the
wife of John Miller, a merchant at Phoenix, Ariz.; William R., now a farmer, is oper
ating the McQuiston ranch of 120 acres at Talbert; John was accidentally killed at El
Toro; James resides in Santa Ana; Mary is the wife of William McLaughlin and resides
in Ventura County; George, also a rancher, resides in Fresno County; Malin works
in the shipyard at San Pedro; Myron is in the auto business at Los Angeles; and Leo
is the wife of Fred Cole, of West Fourth Street, who owns a walnut ranch of twenty
acres in Santa Ana.
William R. attended the common schools in Santa Ana, learned the blacksmith's
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a machine shop and a foundry, and made all kinds of vehicles and implements such as
would be demanded thereabouts, and he did all the blacksmithing work for James
McFadden, who was the chief spirit in building the Santa Ana and Newport Railway
as well as for the Fairview Railroad, now a thing of the past. His shop was located
at the corner of Fifth Street and Broadway, and there, among other exceptional things
not turned out by everyone, he made all the switch plates for the Newport road.
After a while, Mr. Yost quit smithying and became a cattle buyer and a drover,
raising, buying, selling and shipping cattle in Riverside, Orange, Los Angeles and San
Diego counties. About 1906 he began farming on the O'Neill ranch near El Toro,
and then he went to San Juan Capistrano, leased a ranch where he raised grain and
beans, then back on the San Joaquin ranch where he farmed about five years. In
1920 he leased the. McQuiston place of 120 acres near Talbert, where he raises beets
and alfalfa. On April 30, 1889, Mr. Yost was married to Miss Ida Keil, a native of Sacramento,
and a daughter of William and Sallie (Sharp) Keil, early Californians. Her father later
settled at Pomona, and there she was married. They have had nine children. Lucy is
Mrs. James Leonard and resides at Los Angeles. Edith is the wife of H. P. Thelan
of Santa Ana. Wilmath is in the telephone office at Santa Ana. Ida is Mrs. Jack
Melchard, and lives in Santa Ana. Wilfred is an engineer at Sacramento. John is
with his father on a farm, and so is Robert; and Ruth and Angela are at home.
Mr. Yost is prominent as an Odd Fellow in Santa Ana, and has been very active in
many ways in furthering the development of Orange County; and he is well known
among and highly esteemed by the pioneers of both Santa Ana and Orange counties.
ANDREW BAKER. — An enterprising and successful rancher who has devoted
over a quarter of a century of his life towards the development of Orange County is
Andrew Baker, a resident of Stanton.' He was born in Perquimans County, N. C, on
December 25, 1848, the son of James A. and Lucretia (Blanchard) Baker, who moved
to Indiana before the Civil War. It was some years later that Andrew Baker migrated
further westward, stopping in Jasper County, Mo., where he followed farming until
1879, then disposed of his holdings and located in Morris County, Kans. Thirteen
years later he decided on a new move that would take him to California, and he arrived
in Orange County on March 22, 1892, purchasing his present property the following-
year. This forty acres was situated on what was called the alkali flat, and was a part
of the great Stearns Rancho. The land was in its primitive condition, covered with
cacti and infested with jack rabbits. Possessed with the indomitable spirit of the pio
neer settler, Mr. Baker at once began to clear the land and make necessary improve
ments so he could begin ranching, and even had to help to build the roads in this
section, which had only been staked off. He hauled off from his property over fifty
wagon loads of cactus, and has made of his place one of the best and most productive
ranches in this part of Orange County. At first his water for irrigation came from
an artesian well, but this source of supply soon gave out, and he sunk a new well to
the depth of 159 feet, which gives him an abundance of water for irrigation and
domestic purposes. For seven years he pumped the water by horse power, then in
stalled a thirteen horsepower gas engine. He grows a diversified lot of products, and
is well satisfied that he has cast his lines in such pleasant quarters as Orange County.
Mr. Baker has always been interested in every movement that had as its aim the
upbuilding and development of the best interests of his community, and took an active
part in the incorporation of the town of Stanton, and in the educational affairs of his
district. He was the prime mover in having the Magnolia School district organized in
1895, and gave the name to the school, and he was a member of the first board of
trustees. His ranch is near the school on Magnolia Avenue, and therefore he was
more deeply interested in the maintaining of a good school, which now has an enroll
ment of almost 100 scholars.
On January 1, 1878, Andrew Baker was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth
A., daughter of John P. and Martha (Hayworth) Mills. Mrs. Baker was born in
Keokuk County, Iowa, on March 8, 1853, lived there until she was fifteen, and then
accompanied the family to Jasper County, Mo., where she was united in marriage with
Mr. Baker, at the city of Carthage. This happy union has been blessed with six chil
dren: Arthur G., a graduate of the Hastings Law School in San Francisco, is a well-
known attorney in Los Angeles. He is married and lives in Pasadena. Fannie M. is
the wife of J. T. Lyon, a realty dealer of Anaheim; Dora M. became the wife of G.
N. Miller, and had two children, Viola and Alice. She died June 24, 1919. Oliver G.
was in charge of the Pacific Electric station at Stanton for over eight years. He owns
eight highly improved acres of oranges on Stanton Avenue, where he and his wife re
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years, but is now a member of the realty firm of Lyon and Baker in Anaheim. He is
the father of three children, Marjorie, Warren and Gerald. Paul Noble received a high
school education and was an electrical engineer in the employ of the city of Los
Angeles, and when the first call came for soldiers and sailors for the great World War,
he enlisted as a common sailor in the U. S. Navy, and through his exceptional ability
and efficient service rose to the rank of ensign. He is still in the Navy.
Mr. Baker is a firm believer in Christianity and supports all movements that come
to* his notice for the elevation of the standard of morals and the social betterment of
his community. He and his familjr are very highly esteemed by all who know them
for their genuineness of character and high ideals of citizenship.
HENRY ROHRS, JR.— A resident of Orange County since his fifth year, Henry
Rohrs, Jr., is developing a flourishing and productive orange and walnut orchard on
West Fairhaven Avenue in the vicinity of Orange. Ohio was Mr. Rohrs' native state,
his birth occurring at Defiance, Henry County, in that state August 3, 1876. His
parents, Fred and Anna (Grobrugge) Rohrs, were both natives of Germany, coming
here in the days of their youth. The father located at Defiance, Ohio, and after pur
chasing eighty acres of land, which he cleared, of timber, and stumps, there engaged
in raising stock and grain.
There were five children in the Rohrs' family; Henry, the subject of this review;
Fred, John, George and Minnie. When Henry Rohrs was five years of age the family
removed to Santa Ana, Cal., arriving on March 12, 1881, where the parents still make
their home. He attended the public school in Santa Ana and at the same time worked
on the home ranch, his father being engaged in ranching after coming to California.
Until he was twenty-four years of age Henry remained at home, working hard in help
ing his father with all the duties of the home place. He was always thrifty and indus
trious, so that in 1900 he was able to purchase eleven acres on West Fairhaven Avenue
to the development of which he diligently applied himself. In 1916 he became the owner
of nine acres at Tustin and Fairhaven avenues, which was planted to Navels and
Sweets, but he has since reset the whole tract to Valencias, which bids fair to be one
of the best producing groves in this locality.
At the home of the bride's parents in the Orange district on March 21, 1901, Mr.
Rohrs was united in marriage with Miss Minnie A. Franzen, the ceremony being per
formed by Reverend J. Kraeber. Mrs. Rohrs is a daughter of Asmus and Dorothea
(Schmidt) Franzen, who were born near Flensburg, Denmark. The father served jn
the Danish army in the Slesvig-Holstein War, 1864 to 1866, and afterwards also served
in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71. He resided near Flensburg until 1879, when
he came to America, and later brought his family to Columbus Junction, Iowa, where
he pioneered, cleared the raw land from brush and broke the soil for growing crops.
In March, 1889, he located in Orange County and soon afterwards bought twenty-seven
and a half acres on Fairhaven Avenue at the corner of Yorba Avenue, where he built
a residence and made his home until 1908, when he sold it and moved to Santa Ana,
where his wife died at the age of seventy-three. He then made his home with Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Rohrs, Jr., until his death on February 4, 1916, at the age of seventy-
seven. Mr. Franzen for his services in the Slesvig-Holstein War received a medal
of honor from King Christian of Denmark. The last three years of his life he received
a pension from the Danish government. Mrs. Rohrs is the youngest of four children,
three of whom are living. She came here in her youth and received her education
in Orange County.
Air. and Mrs. Rohrs are the parents of four children, to whom they are giving the
best educational advantages within their means: Frances A. who is in the Orange ¦
Union high school class of 1921; Alvin H.; and the twins, Clarence and Kenneth. They
are active members of Zion's Evangelical Church at Santa Ana.
In partnership with Mathias Nisson and John Maier, Mr. Rohrs sunk a well 400
feet deep on his place and installed a Pomona deep well pump run by a twenty-horse
power motor. This was completed June 12, 1912, and with its flow of forty inches of
water has since then been of exceptional value to the three ranches although they all
get service from the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company.
Mr. Rohrs is a member of the Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association and is
deeply interested in public affairs, gives intelligent consideration to all the vital ques
tions of the day, although he personally does not care to hold public office. While a
supporter of Republican principles he casts his vote for the best man in local affairs,
regardless of party. Both Mr. and Mrs. Rohrs' highest ambition is to rear their
family according to the loftiest ideals of American citizenship.

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J. EDMUND SNOW. — The inspiring annals of pioneer life are certainly recalled
in the family history of J. Edmund Snow. His father, H. K. Snow, was born in White
side, N. H., in 1834, being directly descended from the three Snow brothers of Snow
Hill, London, who arrived in this country four years after the Mayflower landed.
When only eighteen years of age he came to California around the Horn on the "Witch
of the Wave," the voyage lasting 116 days. Arriving in California, he went at once to
the mines of Calaveras and Mariposa counties, where he remained four years. He
crossed the Isthmus of Panama four times.
Later he was engaged in business at Osage, Iowa, and while there married Miss
Cynthia Downs. In 1859 they moved to Bandera County, Texas, where they engaged
in the cattle business. When the Civil War broke out, they moved to California; being
Union sympathizers they could not pass through El Paso, so, driving an ox team, they
made a detour through Chihuahua, arriving in San Francisco late in 1861. For seven
teen years Mr. Snow engaged in business in Vallejo and while there served for two
years as county recorder.
In 1877 he removed his family to Tustin, buying a home place of fifty acres in
orchard, and later bought and sold other properties. He devoted all. his time to the
improvement of these lands and to the extension of the irrigation system, being one
of the originators of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation system. Mr. Snow made his
name familiar to every horticulturist in the state while in Tustin. When the California
Legislature recommended a tariff of twenty cents a cubic foot on citrus fruits he
believed the amount too small and determined to give his efforts toward securing a
higher rate. He originated the idea of the tariff of one cent a pound on citrus fruits.
Accompanied by M. J. Daniels he was sent to Washington by the Los Angeles Cham
ber of Commerce. Securing the support of Senator Perkins and Senator Jones of
Nevada, and of Senator White, a Democrat, his efforts were successful, after spending
five months in Washington.
Not alone were his efforts devoted to citrus fruits, for he was one of the enter
prising parties to establish the peat drainage district at Smeltzer. In 1903 the Tustin
home was sold to Ray Osmun, who erected a beautiful home of Mexican type upon it.
Here the world-famed Madame Modjeska resided for a time, and later it was purchased
by A. J. Crookshank, president of the First National Bank of Santa Ana, who now
makes it his home.
Mr. Snow moved to Ventura County, building a new home on his walnut ranch.
Here he lived the remaining days of his life, passing away in 1913. He was a life-long
Republican and was a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging to the Chapter and Con
sistory. His second wife, Elva Downs, a sister of his first wife, still resides at the
Ventura County home.
James Edmund Snow, the third son of Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Snow, was born in
Vallejo and was but two years of age when the family moved to Tustin. Here the
lad attended the public school and later attended the Santa Ana high school. In
1899 he went to Cibola, Ariz., and proved up on a half section of land lying along the
Colorado River. At this time he also purchased from his father what was known as
the Allen ranch, lying between Talbert and Costa Mesa. This place was adapted to
the raising of grain and celery and for dairying. It was sold in 1906 to Goldschmidt
Bros., and it is of interest- to note that it was on this ranch that gas was first noticed
in Orange County. Some fifteen years before this, Mr. Allen, the original owner,
tound gas coming from an artesian well. This he collected in a tank placed over his
well, pipes carrying it to his home and it was used successfully for fuel.
In 1903 Mr. Snow was married in Santa Ana to Miss Edith Johnston, daughter
of John and Laura (Safley) Johnston, who moved to this state from Tipton, Iowa, when
Edith was nine years of age. The Johnstons purchased a home on North Main Street,
Santa Ana, and here Mr. Johnston still lives, Mrs. Johnston having passed away in
1914. Mrs. Snow was educated at the Santa Ana high school and at the Los Angeles
State Normal School.
In 1908 Mr. Snow moved from Santa Ana to the Imperial Valley, where he pur
chased government land relinquishments near Brawley, until he had 800 acres under
development with the service of the Imperial Water Company, No. 5, from the Colo
rado River. In 1912 this ranch was traded for seventy acres of oranges at Riverside.
Here the family resided until the death of Mrs. Johnston, when they returned to Santa
Ana and for the next three years kept the home on North Main Street for Mr. Johnston.
In February, 1918, the present home at 335 West Eighteenth Street was pur
chased, and here Mr. and Mrs. Snow now live with their interesting family of three
sons — Jack W., James Edmund, Jr., and Paul Johnston, who are pupils in the public
schools. Mr. Snow is engaged in the real estate business. He is is a Mason and in
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HENRY EVANS. — The handsomely built city of Norwich, Norfolk County, Eng
land, with its world-wide reputation as a center for the manufacture of textile fabrics,
was the birthplace of Henry Evans, the owner of a fine ranch located a mile southwest
of Garden Grove.
Mr. Evans was born May 6, 1848, a son of William and Mary (Pierce) Evans,
both natives of England who married, lived and died in their native country. The
father, who was a stockman, died at the age of seventy-six, and the mother at forty-
eight, when Henry was twelve years old. In a family of four children Henry is the
youngest child and the only member of the family now living. His sister Sarah, and
brother William, both unmarried, lived with him on his Garden Grove ranch and died
there. Another sister lived and died in England. Henry grew up on his father's 100-
acre stock farm in England, and was educated in the common schools and in boarding
schools of his native country. Coming to America in 1881 he located in Texas, and
after a year and a half drifted to the San Fernando Valley, Cal., where he spent eight
years before he came to Garden Grove in 1891. He has lived on his present ranch
thirty years, and now, at the age of seventy-two, has retired from the more active
duties of life, and rents the property to tenants who raise chili peppers on it.
Mr. Evans has seen much of the development of this section of the state and
Orange County and is a man of forceful personality, gifted with a high order of in
telligence, and his mental and moral characteristics are such as have won for him the
esteem and confidence of all who know him. In his religious convictions he is an
Episcopalian. JOHN REEDER GARDINER.— A progressive upbuilder and a native son of
Orange County, J. R. Gardiner of Fullerton has demonstrated his public spirit in many
ways as a supporter of every movement that has had for its aim the betterment of
conditions in general for Fullerton and its environs. He was born near what is now
the town of Fullerton, on December 21, 1873, a son of the late Alexander Gardiner, a
native of Scotland who came to the United States when he was eighteen years old and
settled in Rockford, Tenn. He became the superintendent of a cotton mill there and
demonstrated his ability as a machinist and an engineer on many occasions. He was
married in Rockford to Miss Susan Reeder, a native daughter of Tennessee and they
migrated to California in 1868, traveling by train to San Francisco and thence by boat
to Los Angeles County, settling on a ranch in what is now known as the Orange
thorpe school district. There he developed a ranch and lived until he answered the
final roll call in August, 1916, at the age of seventy-eight. His good wife survived
him until June, 1920, when she passed away at the age of eighty-three years, the mother
of seven children, six of them now living.
John R. Gardiner received his schooling in the Orangethorpe school district, and
remained on the home ranch until he was eighteen years of age, when he went to
Duarte to learn the trade of blacksmith and horseshoer in a shop owned by his brother-
in-law. After mastering the trade he returned to Fullerton in 1896, the flourishing city
being then little more than a village, and started in business. The venture did not
prove profitable and he left it to work in the oil fields in Bear Canyon for a year. In
1900 he took charge of his brother's livery business and carried it on for three years,
then went to Los Angeles and engaged in selling real estate. It was in 1907 that he
again felt the lure of his native town calling him and he returned and began to work
at the forge until 1910, when he purchased his employer's business and here he has
been ever since. The business grew from a small beginning until it assumed the pro
portion of the largest blacksmith shop of its kind in this section of the county, Mr.
Gardiner, by his genial manners and efforts to please, retaining his patrons, who came
from far and near to secure his services. In 1920 he added to his establishment a
complete line of agricultural implements, trucks and tractors, the whole representing
many thousands of dollars invested and here he requires the services of from five to
ten men to handle his work. The most modern of equipment is found in operation and
his quality of work is considered his best advertisement.
On February 19, 1902, Mr. Gardiner and Miss Louise Dean were united in marriage
at Fullerton. She is a native of Wisconsin and a daughter of James W. and Susan
(Brown) Dean, both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner have had three children:
Carroll D., Kenneth R. and Donald William. Mrs. Gardiner shares with her husband
the good will and esteem of their many friends.
In politics Mr. Gardiner is a Democrat on national issues, but in local matters
he is strictly nonpartisan and works for every local improvement. He was one of the
first trustees of Fullerton after the incorporation of the city and he was reelected,
serving for three terms, during which time many substantial and lasting improvements
were installed. For eight years he served as city treasurer. He is a charter member

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of the Fullerton Club and when the World War was in progress he joined the local
Home Gua'rds and otherwise assisted in war work. Mr. Gardiner is a Mason, holding
membership in Fullerton Lodge No. 339, F. & A. M., of which he is a past master;
he is a member of Fullerton Chapter No. 90, R. A. M.; Santa Ana Council No. 14, R.
& S. M.; Fullerton Commandery No. 55, Knights Templar and Fullerton Chapter, No.
191, Order of Eastern Star, in which he is a past patron. Mrs. Gardiner is past
matron of the Eastern Star.
DAVID G. WETTLIN. — A gentleman unusually well qualified as a public official
is David G. Wettlin, city clerk and ex-officio city assessor of Orange, formerly an
experienced practicing attorney, who came to California about a decade ago. He
was born at Woodville, Miss., on May 20, 1886, the son of G. A. Wettlin, a native of
Germany, who settled as a merchant in Mississippi, where he lived until he retired.
He now resides at Alhambra, Cal. He had married Maggie Lindenmeyer, a native of
Mississippi, who died there when David was in his second year. They had three
children, and our subject was the youngest in the family.
He was brought up at Woodville, where he was educated in the preparatory
school, and at Sewanee, Tenn., in the Episcopal military academy, and after having
finished their courses entered the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., where
he continued for two years. Then he matriculated in the law school of the University
of Mississippi at Oxford, from which well-known institution he was duly graduated,
in 1907, with the degree of LL.B. He was admitted to the bar of Mississippi and
practiced at Woodville for two years.
In 1910 Mr. Wettlin came to California and located at Los Angeles, where he
engaged in real estate transacting, and at the end of two years removed to Hunting
ton Beach, for the practice of law. His knowledge of legal procedure was soon
appreciated, and he was elected city attorney of that place, and when he gave up that
responsible office, it was to leave there an enviable record for both ability and fidelity.
In 1913 Mr. Wettlin located at Orange, where he practiced law with success, and
in April, 1918, he was elected city clerk of Orange, and in the middle of that month
took up the duties of that office. In April, 1920, he was reelected city clerk without
opposition, and has entered upon his second term. He was also made, by virtue of
his office, city assessor. He belongs to the Orange County Bar Association, and as a
Democrat is a member of the Democratic Central Committee from Orange County.
He is a member of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, and is secretary
and treasurer of the Men's Club of Orange.
While at Huntington Beach, Mr. Wettlin was married to Miss Vera Pryor, a
native of Arkansas, by whom he has had two children — Emma June and David G., Jr.
He belongs to the Episcopal Church, and was superintendent of the Sunday School
there last year. Mrs. Wettlin belongs to the Christian Church of Orange.
Mr. Wettlin was made a Mason in Woodville Lodge, Miss., and was exalted in
Woodville, Miss., Chapter, R. A. M., and was knighted in the Malta Commandery at
Woodville. He is also a member of the Eastern Star at that place, and is now affili
ated with Orange Grove Lodge No. 293, F. & A. M., and Orange Grove Chapter
No. 99, R. A. M., and the Santa Ana Commandery, Knights Templar. With Mrs.
Wettlin, he is a member of the Scepter Chapter No. 163, O. E. S., of Orange; he
belongs to the Orange Lodge of Odd Fellows, and he and Mrs. Wettlin are members
of the Rebekahs.
GODFREY J. STOCK. — Prominent among the successful, influential citizens of
Anaheim must be mentioned Godfrey J. Stock, an American doubly interesting be
cause of his career as a "self-made" man. He was born in Lenawee County, Mich.,
on September 29, 1868, was reared on a farm, and attended the country schools of the
neighborhood. Just twenty years later he arrived at Anaheim, Cal., where he had
two sisters living; and although he came here sixty dollars in debt, he is now com
fortably prosperous, having long ago repaid all that he owed.
His first work was for H. C. Gade, who conducted a trucking and transfer busi
ness; and in time he bought him out, and carried on the business himself. The firm is
now known as the Anaheim Truck and Transfer Company, and it is one of the pioneer
institutions of the city. After selling out, Mr. Stock bought nineteen acres of the John
Adams ranch on South Walnut Street, then partly set out to fruit, and this property
he has greatly improved with orange and walnut trees. He erected two houses there,
and has made of it one of the best-developed ranches in the county. He also has put
up two modern garage buildings on South Los Angeles Street, on lots he bought
seventeen years ago. For a number of years he has been engaged in real estate trans
actions, buying, selling and subdividing property, having put several subdivisions to
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Mr. Stock served for a number of years as trustee of the city of Anaheim, and
during that. period many- important improvements .were undertaken. Streets were
paved and sewers were built, and other steps forward made, of which Mr. Stock had
long been a foremost advocate. He is a stockholder, and was formerly a director, in
the Anaheim Citrus Fruit Association and the Walnut Growers Association, and he
has contributed toward their growth, as he has profited by their activities.
On Christmas Day, 1892, Mr. Stock was married to Miss Mary Boege, a native
of Anaheim, and the daughter of T. J. F. Boege, the pioneer. Three children have
blessed the union. R. F. Stock graduated from the Polytechnic high school in Los
Angeles, and was employed by the General Electric Company when the war broke out,
at which time he resigned and enlisted for service of the U. S. Government in the
electrical engineering and anti-aircraft division. He entered the officers' training
school, successfully passed the examination, and was commissioned a first lieutenant.
When he arrived in France he was placed with the Searchlight Division, and his
command was at the front when the armistice was signed. He returned to the
United States, and received his honorable discharge, and resumed his former position
with the General Electric Company. He married, in Chicago, Miss Bernardine Price,
formerly of Anaheim, and they have a daughter, Bertha. Oswald Stock is at home.
Arthur, the youngest son, enlisted in the U. S. Marines in 1919 and is still in service.
Both the younger sons graduated from the Anaheim high school. G. J; Stock has
attained to all the chairs in Odd' Fellowship and the Encampment, and he is a member
of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks, and of the Knights of Pythias.
JOHN H. SCHROEDER. — A hard-working rancher, whose intelligent foresight,
industry and thrift have been crowned with success, is John H. Schroeder, of 2203
Lincoln Street, Santa Ana. He was born at Visselhovede, in Hanover, Germany, on
November 20, 1857, the son of Frederick and Mary Schroeder, highly-esteemed residents
of that country, and was educated in the excellent schools of Visselhovede. -He lived
at home until he was twenty-two years of age, and then he migrated to America.
Landing at Castle Garden, New York, in 1879, he came almost directly to Napoleon,
Henry County, Ohio, where he spent a few months trying to get his bearings. Then
he went to Kelly's Island, Erie County, Ohio, to work on farms, but soon returned to
Henry County.
In November, 1880, Mr. Schroeder came out to California and soon found employ
ment as a farm hand in the vicinity of Santa Ana. He also early purchased ten acres
lying between Santa Ana and Tustin, but within a year, sold it. In 1882, he purchased
the homesite on which he is now living. This tract contained fifteen acres, one acre
being planted to a variety of fruit trees. In 1890, he sold two acres, and the remaining
thirteen are now devoted as follows: five acres to walnuts, five to oranges, and three
to apricots. The whole tract is served by the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company.
Some years after the date of these transactions, Mr. Schroeder purchased a
seventeen-acre tract in West Orange, half of which is devoted to walnuts and apricots
interset, and seven acres to oranges. On this tract he built a home which is now
occupied by his son, Albert F. Schroeder. Little by little Mr. Schroeder added improve
ment after improvement, planting the trees with his own hands, so that he can feel
more than the mere pride of ownership in what he has title to. He is a member of the
Orange, the Apricot and Prune and the Walnut Associations and has always been favor
able to them as the sure way to market his crops at living prices. He has added, in
the truest sense, to the wealth of the county, as he has, in the education, and upbringing
of his family, added to the honor and dignity of the state.
On April 20, 1893, Mr. Schroeder was married to Miss Sophie Haase, daughter
of Frederick and Sophie Haase, and a native, like himself, of Visselhovede. She came
alone to New York in 1885, her parents following seven years later; and reached Cali
fornia first in 1893. Five children blessed this auspicious union. The eldest was the
late H. William Schroeder, one of the genuine heroes of the late war; while the second
in order of birth was Albert F. Schroeder, who lives on the seventeen-acre ranch in
West Orange. Freda is taking a course in the Normal School at Los Angeles; Carl
is at home working on his father's ranch; and Emma is a pupil in the Santa Ana
grammar school.
Henry William Schroeder, whose sacrifice for his country will be spoken of with
pride so long as the annals of Orange County tell to future generations the devotion
and suffering of Santa Ana youth, entered the United States service in September, 1917,
and trained at Camp Lewis in Company D of the Three-hundred sixty-fourth Infantry.
In March he was sent to Camp Green, N. C, where he was transferred to Company M
of the Forty-seventh Infantry. At Camp Green he trained for two months, when he
went East to Camp Mills, N. J., and set sail for France. He served in the great

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Chateau Thierry drive, St. Mihiel, and on September 30, 1918, died in the field hospital,
after notably brave action and initiative, and where he had so conducted himself that
he reflected honor on himself and all those closely related to him, breathing his last
from wounds received in the fierce Meuse-Argonne offensive. In such a death as this
of one of the most promising of Orange County's young men, may it not be said
that John H. Schroeder, the pioneer, has generously paid whatever debt he once owed
to the land of his adoption.
ASMUS PETER JACOBSEN  A man whose untiring industry and exemplary
management have made him comfortably well-to-do, so that now he owns a fine estate
of twenty acres, with a cosy, well-furnished residence, is Asmus Peter Jacobsen, who
first came to California in the "boom" period of the late eighties. He was born in
Flensburg, province of Schleswig, on September 9, 1862, the son of a farmer, on which
account he was reared on a farm and educated in the local schools. In 1878 the Jacob-
sens emigrated to the United States and located at Sycamore, in De Kalb County, 111.,
and there Asmus continued his schooling, while he also assisted his father. He worked
for his father until he was twenty-five years of age, and during that period of faithful
apprenticeship he helped to clear the home place of debt.
In 1887, Mr. Jacobsen pushed out for himself, west to California, and settling at
Orange began to work on a citrus ranch and in a vineyard. His employer was Mr.
Leslie, and the latter soon appreciated both the ability and the willingness of the young
man. Once well established here he married Miss Marie Ehlen, a native of Hanover,
Germany; and with her help as new capital of the most desirable kind he rented the
farm of twenty acres he at present owns. In 1902 he was able to buy the ranch, and
he at once set to work to make improvements thereon. He set out the choicest
Valencia oranges and lemons, and added to the number of buildings, and in due time
had a ranch of the kind prized by the most experienced, enabling him with confidence
to share the activities of the Santiago Orange Growers Association, the Central Lemon
Association, and the Richland Walnut Growers Association.
Mr. Jacobsen has a family of four children — Walter, Sirene, Esther and Ernst —
all of whom are at home in the fine residence erected by their father. The family
attend the Lutheran Church, and Mr. Jacobsen serves on the board of trustees. Orange
County has always extended the most cordial welcome to such pioneer settlers as the
Jacobsens, and it must be said that the welcome has not been offered to the thousands
of desirables flocking here in vain.
GEORGE D. DIERKER. — A dependable American citizen of much executive
ability and pleasing personality, who is both an experienced citrus grower and horti
culturist and a successful business man, is George D. Dierker, who resides with his
family in his beautiful country bungalow on his ranch of twenty-five acres, two and a
half miles northeast of Orange, on Tustin Street. He was born in the fine old county
of St. Charles, in Missouri, on December 9, 1869, and is the oldest son and third child
of Henry Dierker, long one of the most honored citizens of Orange, Cal. When two
years old he was taken to Cuming County, Nebr., where his father was to farm, and
there attended first the common' district schools and then the high school at West Point.
In 1892, with the rest of the Dierker family, he came out to California, and settled
at Orange. At first he bought ten acres on an extension of North Main Street, in
the West Orange precinct, and planted the same to Navel oranges, lemons and apricots.
He stayed there ten years, in the meanwhile improving his acreage, and in 1904 sold
it at a good advance in price. Two years before, Mr.. Dierker bought his present place,
twelve acres of which he has planted to Valencias, five acres to Navels, and six to
lemons. The balance of the twenty-five acres is given up to yards surrounding his
fine dwelling, which he had erected in 1911-12. He is an active member of the Villa
Park 'Orchards Association, which has a packing house at Villa Park as its main ship
ping point. He is also a director in the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, which
irrigates 17,000 acres. He has served continuously as director for the past fifteen
years, and was president of the company from 1909 to 1915.
In 1894 Mr. Dierker was married to Miss Lena Bandick, a native of Kansas, who
came to California a little girl in the early eighties, accompanying her parents. Now
they have four children. Agnes W. is the wife of the Rev. W. L. Westerman of
Kansas City. Esther H. is the wife of John Eltiste, of Fullerton. Alma M. is a grad
uate of the Orange high school. Urban G. is the youngest of the family. Mr. and
Mrs. Dierker are members of the Lutheran Church at Orange, and he served on the
building committee at the time of the erection of the large, new Lutheran Church
edifice in Orange, put up in 1914 at a cost of over $52,000. He has endeavored to lead
a clean, industrious, exemplary life, and votes for the best men and the best measures,
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NEREUS H. LEONARD. — A well-known rancher whose exceptional prosperity,
enabling him in later years to live comfortably retired, could not fail to make him
satisfied with Orange County and devoted to the great Golden State, is Nereus H.
Leonard, who long ago campaigned for prohibition, when that ideal, now a glorious
reality, seemed far away as a goal. He was born at Greensboro, N. C., on January 21,
1852, the son of Elisha and Laura (Reynolds) Leonard, who were in sympathy with the
North and opposed to slavery, and so found it advisable, when sectional troubles came,
to remove to a more peaceful zone. In 1857, therefore, they sold their farm of 100
acres in North Carolina and migrated to Danville, Ind.; and there they stayed until
1860, when they again disposed of their property and removed to Spring Valley, Minn.
And in the latter place they acquired 200 acres of land.
Nereus Leonard left home in December, 1873, to seek his fortune, and almost
directly came to San Bernardino, Cal., where he worked on a ranch and also for W. S.
La Praix in the lumber business. Three years later, he returned to Spring Valley and
purchased a large tract of cheap land; and then, for twenty-one years, he engaged in
the raising of stock on an extensive scale.
On August 22, 1878, Mr. Leonard married Lucy A. Bradley, at Spring Valley, the
daughter of Philo and Mary Ann (King) Bradley. The Kings early took Government
land in Sumner township and later near Fairmount, Minn., and after great hardships
due to the grasshoppers, they returned to Spring Valley. In 1897, Mr. Leonard came
to California with his family and seventeen years later sold his Spring Valley holdings.
Choosing Orange County, the Leonards built their home near the old Ocean View
schoolhouse on a ranch of forty acres devoted to celery, corn and potatoes. At the
end of two years, they sold this property, and moved to a ten-acre ranch on Santa
Clara and Grand avenues. There they lived until 1905, when Mr. Leonard purchased
forty-six acres at West Orange, later selling nineteen acres to his son-in-law, C. S.
Minter. Mr. Leonard afterward purchased forty acres known as the Mayberry Tract; and
this, together with his previous acquisition, gives him sixty fine acres, thirty-two of
which are under the service of the Santa Ana Valley Irriga-tion Company. He. lived
on his ranch until 1907, when he built a house at 2227 North Broadway, Santa Ana,
and moved into it. On the first of January, 1920, he removed to 601 West Fifth Street,
where he at present resides.
Despite his busy life, Mr. Leonard has always been a leader in the promotion of
progressive movements for the community's good, and on no one thing can he look
back with more satisfaction perhaps, than in the active part he took in the organization
of the Orange County Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, a sketch of this
company being given elsewhere in this work. A member of its first board of directors,
Mr. Leonard served as its vice-president for several years, and personally wrote the
first four or five applications filed with the secretary of the company.
Four children have honored these worthy parents. The eldest is Mrs. Eleanor
Minter, who lives on a ranch at the north end of Bristol Street and the mother of four
children — Ivo, Neal Dow, Glenn and Claudine. Doxander P. resides on a ranch in West
Orange. He married Edna M. Ward and they have four children — Dorothy, Dorcas,
Rodney and Hazel. Edith has become Mrs. E. F. Minter, of Sanger, F'resno County;
while the fourth in the order of birth is Frances, who is a student nurse at the Santa
Ana Hospital.
D. R. MACDONALD. — Emphatically a man of energy and enterprise, who is
aiding in a most substantial way the higher development of the citrus industry of
Orange County is D. R. Macdonald, the popular and successful dealer in fertilizers.
He was born in Ontario, Canada, May 25, 1873, and when he reached young manhood
migrated to the United States, locating in Montana, where he entered the employ of
Nelson Story, on his 4,000-acre ranch near Bozeman. At first he rode the range as a
cowboy; later on he was advanced to the responsible position of foreman of the Story
ranch, where both cattle and grain were raised.
During the year 1901, Mr. Macdonald located in Seattle, Wash., where he engaged
in the contracting business, making a specialty of street grading, and did a large and
important work in cutting down the hills and leveling the land in that city. In 1910,
Mr. Macdonald came to California and located at San Diego, where he was engaged
as superintendent of construction work under State Highway Engineer A. B. Fletcher,
and helped in constructing the splendid state highway in San Diego County; he also
built the roadway on the Poway grade and helped in the construction of other roads
in the county.
In May, 1916, Mr. Macdonald came to Orange County, locating at Garden Grove,
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an opportunity for the development of a great field in the handling and selling of
fertilizers, for in these days of scientific farming a broad knowledge of fertilizers and
modern methods of their application to certain soils is absolutely essential to success,
and this is particularly true in citrus culture. With his characteristic progressive spirit
he entered into the new venture and opened an office at Anaheim at 171 West Center
Street, and has built up a large and lucrative business. Not only does he furnish
fertilizer to the orchardists, but makes contracts for spreading it. One of the largest
contracts received by him was one for 139 carloads of fertilizer for the Sam Kraemer
ranch at Placentia.
In June, 1901, Mr. Macdonald was united in marriage with May Pickering, a native
of Utah. Fraternally he is a member of the Woodmen of the World, and in religious
matters he is a member of the Catholic Church. One of Anaheim's sterling and
dependable citizens, he can always be found enthusiastically supporting every move
ment for the advancement of the best interests of Orange County.
J. FRANK SCHWEITZER.— California has been fortunate in the large number
of expert workmen of one kind or another who have been attracted to her promising-
domain, and who have therefore made no small contribution toward her development
on broad, progressive lines, and among such efficient workers must be mentioned J.
Frank Schweitzer, the popular foreman of the Brea and Pacific gasoline plant. He is an
Ohioan by birth, and so comes rather naturally by a liking for, and a knowledge of an
industry early developed in parts of the East and now so important in California.
Born at Toledo on February 3, 1877, Frank is the son of William and Mary
(Luty) Schweitzer, both of whom are now living, retired from their long and active
labors. They were worthy folk, and devoted to their three children; and none the less
helpful to our subject, the second child, who was sent to the grammar schools and then
given two years of study at the high school.
As soon as a good opportunity presented itself, Frank learned the trade of a
machinist, and this he worked at previous to coming to California in 1905. At first he
located at Olinda, in Orange County, and since then, his experience and ability being
more and more recognized, he has had charge of various shops.
In 1914 Mr. Schweitzer took the position which he holds at the present time and
which he fills so well to the satisfaction of all concerned. He has became an active
member of the Chamber of Commerce, and although recognized as a Republican in
matters of national politics he supports the best men and measures in local affairs;
he was once appointed to fill a vacancy in the city trustees, and since then he has been
elected for a four-year term beginning with 1918.
On July 24, 1906, Mr. Schweitzer was married to Miss Julia E. Meissner, by whom
he has had two children, Dorothy and J. Frank, Jr. The family attend the Christian
Church, and cooperate in all movements for social uplift, as they also show their
public-spiritedness in endeavoring to raise civic standards.
JOHN ALLEN AKERS.— A native son of the great Golden State, who, by hard,
intelligent work has won a place for himself in the agricultural world, is John Allen
Akers, residing with his family in the La Habra district of Orange County. He was
born at Santa Paula, Ventura County, November 23, 1872, the second eldest son of
John Akers, born at Salem, Ind., November 26, 1835, but was a farmer in Iowa, whither
he went as a young man and there married, March 25, 1858, Miss Sarah Harbord, who
was born in Missouri on December 7, 1841. With three small children the family
crossed the plains with ox-teams in an early day and settled near Salt Lake City, where
Mr. Akers operated a sawmill for two years. There another child was born. The
family came to California in November, 1866, and for a while lived at El Monte,
later moving to the vicinity of Santa Paula, where they stopped a short time and then
settled on a ranch of 200 acres on the Sespe River, near the town of Fillmore, improved
the place and raised grain and stock. Mr. Akers met an accidental death on May 6,
1885. This ranch is still in the possession of the family. Of their eight children, seven
are alive. Mrs. Akers is living at Santa Paula and is in the enjoyment of all her
faculties and the best of health. Her father, Robert Harbord, was a soldier in the
Black Hawk War, and a brother, James Harbord, died from exposure while a soldier
in the Northern Army during the Civil War.
John A. Akers attended the common schools of his district until he was thirteen,
when the circumstances of his father's death threw the responsibility of the care of
his mother and two younger children upon his shoulders, and he was thus able to
minister to and relieve his devoted mother of much hard work. When,. the season's
work on the ranch was finished he went to work in the oil fields north of their ranch
and at the age of twenty-five was an expert driller. In 1900, he removed to Orange
County and entered the employ of a contractor in drilling oil wells for the Brea Oil
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land, where he now makes his home and upon which he set out a walnut grove in 1905.
Such were the conditions of the soil at that time that he was ridiculed for his pur
chase and attempt to raise walnuts without irrigation. While the grove was matur
ing the family lived in Los Angeles, whither they had moved after the oil industry had
taken a slump and where he found employment until 1910, when they settled on their
ranch. In spite of all discouragements Mr. Akers continued his experimental work,
and in 1919- he- harvested- sixteen- tons- of nuts from his acreage, ninety < per cent of
which were classed as Al. This fine crop he marketed independently. He has also
developed a fine family orchard of pears and other fruits.
At Los Angeles on December 20, 1900, Mr. Akers was married to Miss Eva May
Chase, the daughter of Fred G. Chase, a pioneer merchant of Los Angeles. He was
born at Lowell, Mass., July 18, 1851, came to California in 1872, and settled on a bee
ranch near Pomona. He married Margaret L. Cunningham on October 25, 1877. She
was born at El Monte on January 24, 1858, and became the mother of five children.
Through her father, Mrs. Akers traces her ancestry back to Aquila Chase, who came
from Cornwall, England, in 1670. The Chase family married into the Leland family,
members of which came from England to America in 1652, Mrs. Akers representing
the ninth generation in a direct line from the progenitor of the family in America. She
is a native daughter, and a graduate from the Los Angeles Normal class of '99, and
was a public school teacher a few months in Ventura. She has served as president of
the Parent-Teachers' Association of La Habra, and treasurer of the Woman's Club.
Three children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Akers: Dorothy May, born in
Brea Canyon, March" 18, 19'OZ, arid died May 25, 1913; John Fred Akers, born February
6, 1906, in Los Angeles, attends the Fullerton high school, and Elizabeth Lois, born
November 17, 1909, in Los Angeles, goes to the grammar school of La Habra. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Akers have supported the work of both the Red Cross and the Salvation
Army, and Mr. Akers, as a Democrat, has sought to elevate civic life standards.
SAMUEL ROSS. — The good old days of the pioneer and his picturesque prairie
schooner, of the bravery and the sacrifices of the men and women who founded the
great commonwealth of California, are recalled by the life story of Samuel Ross, the
early settler long honored throughout Orange County, and especially so at Santa
Ana where he made his home. He crossed the plains in 1865 with his bride, Catherine
Leonard before her marriage, to whom he was joined in matrimony in Ross Town
ship (now Rossville), Vermilion County, 111., a place named after his father, Jacob
Ross, who also came in the same wagon train. This train was made up largely of
farming people in Vermilion County, 111., and Hoosiers, from across the Illinois line
in Indiana, and was augmented with two wagons falling into line in Nebraska. There
were 87 wagons in all, and they were drawn by horses, oxen and mules. In the com
pany were'Jacob Ross and his wife — whose maiden name was Elizabeth Thompson —
and four sons and a daughter: William Ross, Samuel Ross and his wife, Josiah Ross
and his wife, and Jacob Ross, at that time single. Ross Street in Santa Ana was
named after this brother, Jacob, who was later tax-collector and assessor for Orange
County. In the party, also, was Christie A. Ross, now Mrs. S. T. McNeal, of 1004 Baker
Street, Santa Ana.
The Rosses settled first in Monterey County, where they rented land for two
years, and then they came to Orange County, in 1868, then a part of Los Angeles
County, and bought land where Santa Ana now stands. The elder Jacob Ross bought
all the land from Broadway to Ross Street, and later he sold it to William H. Spur
geon. Samuel Ross took up agriculture, and established as comfortable a home as
any of the company; but in 1890 his devoted wife died, leaving seven children — three
having already passed away. Of these seven, Lambert Ross died, unmarried, at the
very promising age of twenty. The six living are: Frank Ross, who works for a
lumber yard in Los Angeles, and married Annie Hansen, by whom he has had one
child, Harvey. Ida B. is Mrs. King, a widow, who farms on the Irvine ranch. James
Arthur is popularly known as Ott Ross; he married Mrs. Jennie Kight, nee Smith, a
daughter of William Smith, who had married Carrie Reed, pioneers of Georgia.
They have four children — Catherine, Lulu, Christie A. and Leonard. Myrtle is the
wife of John Froehlich, and resides in Los Angeles, where he is a carpenter for the
Fox Film Studios, and also their foreman. Alda Lawrence is a farmer at Holtville,
in the Imperial Valley, and has five sons; and Jessie May is the wife of Glenn W.
Wells. They have three children and reside at Yorba Linda.
Mr. Ross still owns a house and seven lots in Santa Ana, and 320 acres in Arizona,
where he lived for three years. The Rosses are among the interesting families in
America reaching back to the Old World. Samuel Ross's great-great-grandfather
was John Ross, who came from Scotland to Ohio; and the Rosses were prominent
in the United Brethren Church. Most of them have also been life-long, stand-pat
Democrats.

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ARTHUR STALEY. — A resident of Orange County since early boyhood, and
taking an active part in its growth and development since reaching maturity, Arthur
Staley is a native son of the state, born near Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, April 28,
1870, a son of Theodore and Drusilla (Teague) Staley, the former a native of Missouri,
and the latter of Indiana. Both parents were pioneers of California, Theodore Staley
having crossed the plains with ox-teams in 1856, and Drusilla Teague was brought on
the long overland journey by her parents in 1865, the wagons being drawn by horses,
and some trouble with Indians was encountered by the young pioneers.
Theodore Staley farmed in Sonoma County until 1881,- when he located at Orange,
remaining there one year, and then located in Placentia, where he followed grape,
orange and walnut growing. He was an active member of the Christian Church, and
a charter member of the Anaheim Church of that body. He was a man of broad inter
ests and active in politics in the county, affiliating with the Democratic party and serv
ing on the County Central Committee in early days; and as school trustee, he did his
share in the educational upbuilding in the county. Three children were born to this
pioneer couple — Arthur, Mrs. Myrtle Lillie and Walter, all residing in Placentia. The
father passed to his reward in 1903, and the mother still resides on the home ranch in
Placentia. Arthur Staley attended the Orange and Placentia public schools, and graduated
from the Fullerton high school, finishing his education at Stanford University, from
which he graduated with the class of 1900. Since that time he has been very active in
the development of the orange and walnut industry in Orange County. For five years
he was secretary of the Fullerton Walnut Growers Association, and the Placentia
Orange Growers Association; and for two years he was cashier of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank of Fullerton. He is at present secretary of the Fullerton-Placentia
Walnut Association, and a director in the following concerns — the Yorba Linda Water
Company, the Placentia National Bank, and the Fullerton Masonic Temple Association.
A man of foresight, and a firm believer in the future prosperity of Orange County, Mr.
Staley has been an important factor in bringing his home section of the state to its
present state of productiveness and development, and takes a just pride in being one of
the farsighted men who have accomplished its upbuilding in all the ways which go to
make Orange County an ideal home community, and with business interests which
reach to the far corners of the world.
The marriage of Mr. Staley united him with Bessie Pendleton, a native of Pla
centia and daughter of Alexis T. and Sarah J. (McFadden) Pendleton, both pioneers
of the state. In addition to his other business interests Mr. Staley owns a finely
developed orange grove of twenty-five acres at Yorba Linda, now in full bearing, which
he planted from nursery stock in 1910.
Active in Masonic circles, Mr. Staley is a past master of Fullerton Lodge, No.
339, F. & A. M.; a member of Fullerton Chapter, No. 90, R. A. M.; master of Santa
Ana Council, No. 14, R. & S. M.; past commander of Santa Ana Commandery, No. 36,
Knights Templar; now commander of Fullerton Commandery, No. 55, Knights Tem
plar, and a member of Al M.alaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Los Angeles.
CLARENCE S. SPENCER.— A leader in Republican county politics, and the
owner of an exceptionally fruitful and attractive grove of oranges, Clarence S. Spencer
is not only influential in citrus fruit circles, but he is also one of the path-breakers in
the fast-developing oil industry. He comes from a family of representative Californians,
and is himself one of the best representatives of the ideal Californian of the future.
He was born in Chariton, Lucas County, Iowa, on September 23, 1881, and is the
son of Thomas and Mary A. Spencer — the former from Newcastle, England, and the
latter from Iowa. The father was both a physician and a druggist, and in 1849 crossed
the plains in a prairie schooner drawn by an ox-team. He settled in Santa Rosa, Cal.,
opened a drug store and resumed the practice of medicine. There the first Mrs. Spencer
died, and Dr. Spencer returned to Iowa, where he married a second time. His bride
was then Miss Mary A. Rogers, and she became the mother of our subject.
In 1888, Doctor and Mrs. Spencer came. to Orangethorpe and purchased twenty
acres of apricots and a few walnuts. Dr. Spencer took out both the apricots and the
walnuts, and set out seedling oranges and lemons, and some young walnut trees. He
devoted fourteen acres to the walnuts, and six acres to the oranges and lemons. Then,
on June 1, 1891, he passed to his eternal reward, kindly remembered by all who knew
him as a man who had contributed his best influence, wherever he had dwelt, for the
building up and the upbuilding of the community. After his death, the widow, with
the assistance of our subject and his two brothers, handled the estate.
On August 3, 1916, Mr. Spencer was married to Miss Annie Irene Thomas, a
native of Cold Springs, Texas, and the daughter of James S. and N. V. (Dobson)
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her parents moved to Shepherd, Texas, and there she was reared and educated. Later
she attended the Normal School at Huntsville, Texas, but having finished her studies,
she took up nursing near Shepherd. One child has blessed this fortunate union — a
daughter, Gladys Bernice.
To the original Spencer estate now in the name of the widow of Dr. Spencer,
twenty acres were added in 1906, making forty acres in all, and five of these forty
Clarence S. Spencer purchased for himself. He built a beautiful home there in 1917, and
by other improvement's has made a neat "show place" such as one is willing to journey
a few miles to see. Since the time of the purchase of the twenty additional acres, Mrs.
Spencer has bought forty acres half a mile to the north, and one mile west of Fullerton.
These forty acres are open land, as yet unimproved.
Mr. Spencer was a delegate to the Republican County Convention in 1912; and
he is a stockholder in the Fullerton Citrus Orchards, and also in the Fullerton Leasing
Company, handling oil leases. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Anaheim,
and is among the most popular of its devoted members.
GEORGE S. SMITH. — If there is anyone in Orange County who has demon
strated a proper appreciation of both the responsibility and the delicacy of the task
committed to the undertaker, then surely that man is George S. Smith, who came
here to California during the great "boom" in Southland realty, and has seen Orange
County and her sister districts gradually develop and take to themselves the best that
modern social and business life, in all their complexities, can afford. He was born
on a farm near Albany, 111., on July 25, 1871, the son of S. W. Smith, who came here
in 1886 and later established the undertaking business which in 1891 became Smith
and Son. He retired from active work in 1914, and on March 24, 1916, himself passed
way. Mrs. Smith, too, who was Elizabeth Myers in maidenhood, is also dead.
George received his early training at the grammar and high schools of Santa
Ana, and finished his course at the Los Angeles Business College. Then he learned
the difficult work of undertaking with a first-class firm in Los Angeles, and after that
became associated with his father in the partnership referred to. When S. W. Smith
withdrew, the firm was named after our subject. In 1915 it became Smith and Tuthill,
a name now widely and well known. For eight years, Mr. Smith was coroner and
public administrator. As a leading business man, he belongs to both the Santa Ana
Chamber of Commerce and Merchants and Manufacturers Association, serving as
treasurer for several terms, and was at one time a director of the Merchants and
Manufacturers organization and the Chamber of Commerce. As an orchardist, Mr.
Smith has developed four ranches.
On May 1, 1894, Mr. Smith was married to Miss Carrie R. Jones, who attends
with him the Presbyterian Church. A daughter is Mrs. Georgia Atsatt of Berkeley.
Mr. Smith is a Republican in national politics, and for two years was secretary
of the Orange County Republican Central Committee. He is a Mason, a Knight
Templar, an Odd Fellow and an Elk; and belongs to the Orange County Golf Club.
F. D. PLAVAN. — A well-educated, genial gentleman, who easily evidences his
descent from the best of Roman ancestry, is F. D. Plavan, the successful ranch owner
residing at 506 South Birch Street, Santa Ana. He was born on December 21, 1867, in
the Waldensian Valley in the Duchy of Savoy — that picturesque and romantic country,
once a part of the Sardinian Kingdom, but ceded to France in 1860. His father was
David Plavan, a horticulturist and agriculturist, a native of that country, who had
married Elizabeth Balmas, also of Savoy; they passed on to their eternal reward, the
father at the age of eighty-four, the mother four years older. The grandparents of
our subject were also hardy and long-lived, attaining each an age above ninety.
Having enjoyed the best of educational advantages in the schools of his native
district, in which he was taught both French and Italian, while he learned the patois
of the Waldenses. Mr. Plavan bade good-bye to home and parents when fifteen years
of age, and followed an older brother, David, now deceased, who had migrated to
America and settled in Missouri. Sailing from Havre, he landed in New York on
July 28, 1883. At Plymouth, Mo., he joined his brother and remained for a month,
then the two brothers came west to California. F. D. secured employment in Santa
Clara County, working on fruit ranches and in almond orchards and vineyards in the
Santa Clara Valley for four years.
In 1887 Mr. Plavan went back to Missouri and engaged in farming, and there he
was married in 1889 at Monette to Miss Katie Planchon, born in South America of
Waldensian parentage. After two years of farming he rented out his land and went
to work in the railway shops at Monette for the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway,
and he continued in the employ of this company for eighteen years, being for nine and
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In 1905 Mr. Plavan returned to California, and settled near Huntington Beach.
He bought and improved a ranch of ten acres, then sold it and moved east to Talbert,
where he improved a 200-acre ranch. At one time he farmed from 300 to 500 acres,
usually putting 300 acres into sugar beets. Before that time he grew celery very
extensively and successfully, and served as a director in the Orange County Celery
Growers' Association. In 1920 he had 140 acres in sugar beets, 120 acres in lima beans,
barley and alfalfa.' He and his" wife also own a fine dairy ranch of 400 acres. near
Talbert. With his oldest son, Urban H., of Huntington Beach, he owns some 440
acres of land at Lake View, Riverside County. Mr. Plavan helped organize the
Greenville Bean Growers' Association, and with others was instrumental in building
the large fireproof warehouse at that place.
Mr. and Mrs. Plavan have eight children, who have belonged to the First Presby
terian Church at Santa Ana, and in this organization Mr. Plavan was an elder for
three years: Urban H. resides at Huntington Beach; Alma is the wife of Loren Mead, a
Santa Ana boy, a graduate of Cornell University and an employee of the Standard Oil
Company; Ernest farms at Lake View, and Paul is also ranching there; Clyde assists
his father on the ranch; Leland and Edith are graduates of the Santa Ana high school,
and Wilma is a student there. Paul and Clyde rendered good service to their govern
ment during the late war, and were honorably discharged.
Orange County may well be proud of the invaluable contribution made to its
permanent growth and real progress by such citizens as Mr. and Mrs. Plavan and
their family.
GEORGE W. POLLARD. — A man who by hard and honest toil has become one
of the best known ranchers of his district and has come to enjoy a large place in the.
confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens, is George W. Pollard of Tustin, who from
a very small beginning has accumulated a large acreage now yielding, under his wise
management, a bountiful harvest. His homestead comprises ten acres, which are de
voted to the production of oranges and English walnuts. In addition, he owns sixty
acres in Delhi, in two ranches of forty and twenty acres, where he raises sugar beets.
If we look for a self-made man, then surely Mr. Pollard will fill the bill.
He was born in Erie County, N. Y., on December 1, 1859, the son of Hopkins.
and Sarah (Grannis) Pollard of New England stock, and was reared and educated until
his twelfth year, in Darien, Genesee County, N. Y. In 1872 he removed with a sister
to Kansas, near Chanute, and in that state he remained until 1884, when he came to
California. He first settled in Santa Ana, where he was employed on ranches for
one year and then purchased the street sprinkling outfit from William Bush and con
tinued to sprinkle the streets of Santa Ana, until the city was incorporated. He
pumped the water from a well at the corner of Spurgeon and Second streets with the
old-fashioned horsepower method, using one horse, and the streets were served by
a sprinkler drawn by a team. He also had a tank wagon to furnish water to contrac
tors in making foundations. When Santa Ana was incorporated he sold them
the sprinkler and followed teaming for some years. He had the contract to haul the
steel and granite for the new court house, and when it was completed, he moved on
to the Ritchey ranch and ran it for four years and then bought twenty acres, his
present place, but has since sold ten acres of it, retaining ten acres on Walnut Street,
south of Red Hill Street in Tustin. This he has set to Valencia oranges and walnuts,
and he has an electric pumping plant with thirty-inch capacity. As early as 1887 Mr.
Pollard purchased land at Delhi and he now owns two ranches there, each having an
electric pumping plant and devoted to sugar-beet culture. He was among the first
in this vicinity to raise beets for the sugar factory, at times having out several hundred
acres, at which he continued until he turned it over to his sons. Mr. Pollard helped
to build the street car line to Tustin and also helped to build the railroad to Newport.
He hauled the material for many of the early buildings in Santa Ana, as well as
freight from Newport Beach to Santa Ana. Since that time he has turned his waste
land into its present productive condition, and not only evidenced his own farsighted
ness, efficiency in general and special adaptability to just such problems, but he has
demonstrated beyond question what California, and in particular what Orange County
and Tustin can do for the ambitious settler.
. At Santa Ana in 1889 Mr. Pollard was joined in marriage to Miss Catherine Wood-
house and they are the parents of seven children: Walter J., who resides in Tustin, is
a rancher at Delhi; Albert is farming at Delhi; Clarence is a student at the University
of California at Berkeley; William is farming with Walter; Jennie is a student nurse
at the Methodist Hospital, Los Angeles; Helen and Ronald are at home. Albert, a
member of the American Expeditionary Forces in the World War, saw service in
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ence was at Camp Lewis; and William served in the army at Camp Kearny, where
he was stationed when the armistice was signed.
Mrs. Pollard is a native daughter, born at Bolsa, five miles west of Santa Ana,
and the daughter of John and Mary J. (Cook) Woodhouse, born in Scotland and
Missouri, respectively. Her father was a sailor for fifteen years and came around Cape
Horn to San Francisco at the time of the discovery of gold and in 1849 quit the sea and
went to the mines, following gold mining for fifteen years with its ups and downs,
during which- time he met Miss Cook, who, when a child, had crossed the plains with
her parents to Sonoma County; after their marriage they came to Bolsa and were
farmers until their demise. Mrs. Pollard, who was educated in the public schools of
this county, is a woman of rare attainments, good judgment and much business acumen
and has always encouraged her husband in his ambition and thus assisted and helped
him in every way. Cultured and refined, they are both highly esteemed and appre
ciated by all who know them.
Republicans in matters of national political import and nonpartisan supporters of
every good movement for the uplifting of the community, Mr. and Mrs. Pollard are
Presbyterians, but give their support with equal heartiness to any rational program for
religious growth.
JACK JENTGES. — Up-to-date and progressive in every feature of its life and
development, Garden Grove attracts energetic, progressive men who are on the lookout
for a place where wealth is poured into the lap of the worker who will use the
intelligence with which he has been endowed. Among the men of this order residing
at Garden Grove, Jack Jentges is worthy of special mention. He was born December
12, 1873, at Korich, Canton of Kapellen, in the independent grand duchy of Luxemburg.
His father, Peter Jentges, a farmer in Luxemburg, and his mother, Mary Ann (Engels)
Jentges, were the parents of eight children, six of whom, four boys and two girls, grew
to maturity. Five of the children are living: Jack and his brother Harry, residents of
Garden Grove; Michael, a farmer at Heron Lake, Minn.; and a sister and brother in
their native country of Luxemburg.
Jack Jentges was educated in the public schools of his native land and speaks
and writes French and German fluently. He was eighteen years old when he left home
and sailed from Antwerp for America's shores, and landing at New York, he proceeded
to Iowa, where he worked by the month as a farm hand for two years, and attended
the public school for two months one winter. His knowledge of English was acquired
after coming to America. From Iowa he came to California in December, 1894, with
a depleted pocketbook, and learning that employment was to be had at Westminster,
he went there and secured work with John H. Edwards at fifteen dollars per month
on the Edwards ranch. He continued to work for Mr. Edwards as a ranch hand for
several years, and afterward engaged with Lawsing and Larter, for whom he worked
four or five years.
The marriage of Mr. Jentges united him with Miss Dorothy E. Watkins, a native
of Goldendale, Klickitat County, Wash., daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Kurtz)
Watkins. Her father, a native of Milwaukee, Wis., and her mother, a native of Indiana,
were both descended from good old Pennsylvania stock. Her father is living at Santa
Ana. Mrs. Jentges was two years old when her parents removed from Washington to
Shasta County, Cal., and was nine years old when her mother died. After her mother's
death her Grandmother Watkins reared her and an older and a younger sister. She
was twelve years old when she accompanied her father and the family to Santa Barbara,
Cal., and at fifteen she removed with the family to Orange County and lived at
Westminster and also at Wintersburg, where she was her father's housekeeper. She
moved to Santa Ana with her father and his family, and was married at Santa Ana
December 1, 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Jentges are the parents of two children, Gertrude
May and Thomas William.
After his marriage Mr. Jentges worked for the Golden West Celery and Produce
Company at Westminster and Smeltzer, being engaged in the business when it was at
its zenith. Later he rented land, became an independent celery grower and was among
the unfortunate growers who suffered the loss of all they had when the celery blight
came and celery growing failed. With eighty dollars in his pocket he moved to Santa
Ana and went to work, making pipe for irrigation; January, 1911, he embarked in the
business for himself at Garden Grove, was very successful in the six years that he was
engaged in the occupation, built up a fine business and acquired a reputation as an
irrigation contractor. He laid 80,000 feet of pipe in Orange and Los Angeles counties,
and received $20,000 for one contract alone. In 1914, with Mr. Rogers, he added the
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he purchased Mr. Rogers' interest, then sold the feed business to Dungan and Dungan,
continuing the cement business one year. He then purchased back the feed businss
and continued both lines of business from 1917 until December 12, 1919. In 1919
Mr. Jentges purchased a house on Fourth Street at Garden Grove, where he lives with
his family. He also owns property upon which in 1920 he erected an up-to-date,
reinforced concrete building, 50x120 feet in dimensions, for a first-class garage. The
building is strictly modern, with machine shop, rest rooms, display rooms, etc. Polit
ically he .makes a study of questions relating to government and votes his honest
convictions, regardless of party affiliations. Fraternally he is a member of the I. O. O. F.
at Westminster, and the Canton at Santa Ana. Mrs. Jentges is a member of the
Rebekahs at Westminster. Thoroughly reliable and enthusiastically enterprising, Mr.
Jentges is now engaged in the trucking business. He is a live wire in the development
and upbuilding of Orange County, and his sterling qualities of mind and heart make
him a man well liked and respected by all who know him.
MRS. FANNIE S. GREENLEAF.— Among the highly-esteemed landowners of
Orange County who have shown the most commendable foresight and the most ad
mirable public-spiritedness in the handling of their properties, must be mentioned Mrs.
F"annie S. Greenleaf of Santa Ana. She is a native daughter of the Golden State and
was born near Sacramento in 1855, the daughter of Robert and Lucilla (Sproule) Moore,
who crossed the great plains in 1853, and stopped for a short time at the mining town
of Gold Hill and later made settlement on the American River near Sacramento. When
their daughter was four years of age the family removed to Sonoma, and there, while
they managed a small fruit orchard, she attended the Sonoma Academy. She lived in
Sonoma for eleven years and then went with her parents to Hollister, where she lived
with her sister, Mrs. Lucilla A. Snyder, while her father carried on a sheep ranch
eighteen miles from that town. After that the family moved onto a sheep ranch in the
Panoche Valley.
At Hollister, on June 19, 1877, Miss Moore was married to Dr. Edward F. Green
leaf, a native of Mississippi, born in Yazoo County, on November 22, 1841, the son of
Dr. Eli F. and Mary C. (Mclntyre) Greenleaf, who removed to Clark County, Mo.,
when Edward F. was a lad. There he received his schooling and then took up the
study of medicine and was graduated from Lind University — now the Northwestern
University — of Illinois. After his graduation in 1864 the young physician began his
practice at Leland, LaSalle County, 111. In 1867 he came to California and his first
location was at Millerton, in Fresno County, after which he located in San Benito
County, where he taught school at the New Idria mines and at the same time practiced
his profession. The Greenleafs lived there until 1882, when they moved into Los
Angeles County and settled at Santa Ana, which was the scene of the doctor's opera
tions until his death on October 22, 1906. Here he improved a fine ranch and pros
pered, having the esteem of all with whom he came in contact. The original home
site of thirty-five acres on what is now Greenleaf Street was purchased in 1881, but
the family lived in the town until their ranch could be improved for a home. In 1883
they moved onto the tract and have since resided there, in the house that was erected
by the doctor. Dr. Eli Greenleaf had settled here as early as 1871 and had acquired
some good land and part of this is still owned by the Greenleaf family.
Three children blessed the union of Dr. and Mrs. Greenleaf: Walter Frank, born
at the New Idria quicksilver mines, on March 12, 1878, graduated from the Santa Ana
high school and on December 25, 1907, married Miss Nellie C. Coke, a native daughter,
whose parents were old settlers. They were J. H. and Alice E. Coke, the former still
a resident of Downey. Frank is manager of his mother's ranch and one of the rising-
young men of Santa Ana. The second son was Elvin J. and he was born in Santa Ana
on October 7, 1882, was educated in the public schools of his native citv and in May,
1909, was united in marriage with Miss Mary Agnes Finn, a native of Ireland. They
had one son, Charles Frank, the only grandchild of Mrs. Fannie Greenleaf. Elvin J.
d'"ed in 1915 and his widow makes her home with Mrs. Greenleaf on Greenleaf Street.
The third son and youngest child is Clifford A., and he was born on March 31, 1891,
educated in the Santa Ana schools and married Nola R. Kennedy and they reside in Los
Angeles, where he is employed as a traveling salesman.
Mrs. Fannie S. Greenleaf is an interesting conversationalist and is a firm believer
in the preservation of California history. She is of an artistic temperament and many
products of her brush are to be seen in her home. Of a quiet disposition, she enjoys
the companionship of her children and grandchild and has always done her part to make
Orange County, and Santa Ana in particular, a better place in which to live. She
belongs to the Eastern Star Chapter in Santa Ana and is beloved by a wide circle of
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MRS. ANNA DERKSEN. — A resident of Anaheim and vicinity since 1889, Mrs.
Anna Derksen is so well posted on various local conditions, of recent years and the
immediate present, that she is among the most sanguine in her hopefulness for the
future of all Southern California, and especially in the matter of the development of
oil interests in this section. She was born in Westphalia, Germany, the daughter of
Christian Schlueter, a native of that country and a shoemaker, who died there, as did
also her mother, whose maiden name was Maria Deiter. They had seven children, and
Anna was the fourth in the order of birth.
She grew up in 'Westphalia, and in 1868 was married there to Henry Derksen, a
native of the picturesque Black Forest village of Muehlingen, on the Rhine. He was a
coal miner, and in 1881 they migrated to America and Pope County, Ark., where they
bought a farm of eighty acres and followed agricultural pursuits. Seven years later,
Mr. Derksen died there. It had been their dream to come to California; hence, the
following year Mrs. Derksen removed to the Golden State.
She settled in Anaheim, then a very small place, and rented a ranch; she bought
cows, and poultry, and made butter and also sold eggs. She raised what feed was
needed on the ranch, and little by little so progressed that she was able to rent, and
then to buy the forty-eight acres she at present manages, and which she has since
improved. When she first took hold of the land, there was not a tree upon the place;
and she herself has set out everything. Now she has a walnut orchard of ten acres, ;
and sixteen acres of Valencia oranges; the whole, irrigated by the Anaheim Union
Water Company, forming one of the most desirable places of its size for miles around.
Mrs. Derksen, who has a son, Henry, in the service of the Santa Fe Railroad
Company at San Bernardino, is a devout member of the Catholic Church at Anaheim,
?nd finds pleasure in participating in any good work, religious, social or political, likely
to benefit the community. She is a good student of California affairs, and is especially
well-posted on oil conditions; her knowledge and her optimism leading her fellow
ranchers to fortify their faith in the glorious future in store for Anaheim and the
environing country.
CLAUDE EDGAR AND GUY SMITH.— The sons of one of La Habra's
esteemed pioneer settlers, and one whose early development work meant much to this
vicinity, Claude Edgar and Guy Smith, sons of Stephen M. Smith, are following in the
footsteps of their father and continuing the splendid work which he began. A native
of Kentucky, Stephen M. Smith was born in the vicinity of Lexington on August 6,
1859, and was a son of Thomas and Lottie (Cordell) Smith, who were also natives of
that state, the father a stock raiser in that famous Blue Grass region. When but
fifteen years of age he left the home of his boyhood days and started out to earn his
living in Texas. There he spent a number of years, and was active in the cattle
business in different parts of the state when that industry was at its height there. Com
ing to California in 1884, Mr. Smith engaged in general farming before locating at
Rivera, Los Angeles County. Here he at once entered into the active development of
the town, becoming its first general merchant and it was not long until his business
assumed large proportions. He remained at Rivera for eleven years and during all
that time he occupied the position of postmaster there, to the entire satisfaction of the
Government and the citizens whom he so faithfully served.
In 1897 Mr. Smith came to La Habra Valley and purchased a tract of 104^ acres
at the corner of Central and La Mirada avenues. The prospect was far from being an
attractive one as the land was in its raw state and covered with wild mustard, but Mr.
Smith at once applied himself energetically to the task of its cultivation and was
unusually successful in carrying out his plans. Practically all of the acreage was set
out to walnuts, from nursery stock which he himself raised. In later years Mr. Smith
disposed of some of the acreage and the Pacific Electric and Salt Lake Railroads both
came through the ranch, each taking off considerable portions of it, so that it now
consists of sixty-five acres.
While located at Rivera, Stephen M. Smith was united in marriage with Miss
Emma Montgomery, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Montgomery of that place.
Three children were born to them— Claude Edgar, Guy and Matilda. Claude Edgar
Smith was born at Rivera, January 16, 1887, and there his early school days were
spent. Later, when the family had taken up their residence on the La Habra
ranch, he attended the high school at Fullerton, supplementing this with a course
at Whittier College. Accepting a position on the sales force of the Studebaker
Automobile Company of Whittier, he remained with them for five years, during
which time he became sales manager for the Whittier district. He then was with
the Hudson Automobile Company at Whittier for the next four years, after which
he spent a year driving racing cars. Leaving this hazardous field, Mr. Smith took
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California south of Santa Barbara. On April 21, 1906, Mr. Smith was married
to Miss Lillian M. Kellam, a native of Illinois, who came to Rivera with her par
ents in "1889. They are the parents of a son, Stephen E., who attends school at
La Habra. Mr. Smith is prominent in the ranks of the Elks, having been made a
member of the Whittier lodge. Guy Smith was born at Rivera on March 14, 1890, and
so was but seven years old when his parents moved to La Habra. Here he grew up,
attending the public school at La Habra, and later the high school at Fullerton. He
then became interested in the garage and auto repair business and had two shops, one
at La Habra and one at Whittier. On May 30, 1916, at Bellingham, Wash., he was
married to Miss Ellen Alice Smith, the daughter of Albert G. and Ellen Alice Smith.
She was a native of California, having been born near Los Angeles; her father, who is
a railroad engineer, removed to Bellingham, Wash., with his family in 1906. Mr. and
Mrs. Guy Smith are the parents of one child, Lorraine.
Owing to the ill-health of their father, the Smith brothers took over the manage
ment of the ranch at La Habra in 1917, and have since given their entire time to its
operation. The entire acreage is set out to walnuts, five acres being budded trees. For
many years one of the finest properties in the La Habra district, it is continuing to
thrive under the expert care given it. One of the best pumping plants in the vicinity
is on the ranch, producing 100 inches of water. Fortunately the father is rapidly
recovering his health and hopes to be able to take an active part in the ranch manage
ment soon. A valued pioneer, he stands high in the esteem of the whole community.
MRS. MARY STODART.— With the courage and fortitude so characteristic of
woman, when new and untried responsibilities devolve upon her, Mrs. Mary Stodart,
ot the Buena Park district in Orange County, has shown her business acumen in
directing the management of her ranch affairs for many years. She has had the
cooperation of her sons in making the ranch what it is today and is deserving of the
highest praise for her work of development.
Mrs. Stodart was born in Washington Territory, on January 5, 1863, while the
great Civil War was in progress. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. John Condra, and
were born in Tennessee but removed to Washington Territory and became pioneers
of that part of the Northwest. Mr. Condra was a farmer and met with fair success
in his operations. He was a well-educated man and was a writer of some note on
political questions, as well as civic matters. After the death of his wife in Wash
ington, who left two children, Mary and a son John, Jr., the father sold out his
interests there and removed to California, coming via steamer to San Francisco and
thence on a prospecting trip down to the southern part of the state and finally
located in Los Angeles County in 1868, settling at Los Nietos, near where the city
of Whittier now is located. Here he improved a ranch and followed diversified
farming up to the time of his death, when he was sixty-three years old. His son
died at the age of twenty-one and is buried by the side of his father at Whittier.
Mary Stodart was educated in the public and private schools and for a time after
their removal here attended the school at Los Nietos. Her first husband was the
father of her first-born, a son, Frank W. Davison, who is an electrician by trade and
resides at San Diego. He married Alice Clark of Los Angeles and they have a son,
Delbert Davison. On October 1, 1891, she married Archibald Stodart, a native of
Scotland, born there in 1846. He came to California in 1887, and settled near the
Condra homestead. By this marriage four children have been born; Mrs. Grace
Davis, who lives near the ranch operated by her mother. She has two children, Viola
and Donald; John Archibald, born February 2, 1895, is superintending the affairs of
the ranch and with his two brothers operates two trucks and does heavy hauling
in any part of Orange County and vicinity; Charles Edward, comes next and then
George Adam. All three sons live at home and are interested in the conduct of the
ranch of twenty acres located southwest of Buena Park. This property is an inherit
ance from her father and she has owned it for more than thirty years and all the
improvements on it have been made by herself and her sons. The children are all
natives of Orange County and have contributed towards the development of their
home county and are highly respected by all who have the pleasure of knowing them.
For three years the family conducted a dairy ranch in the Cypress district and when
that place was sold they moved back to the old homestead. Mr. Stodart died in 1913,
at the age of sixty-seven years. He had been an invalid for seven years before his
death and the management of the ranch devolved upon his wife, who showed her
ability in directing the affairs of the ranch and at the same time rearing her family
to lives of usefulness.
Mrs. Stodart has in her possession a family tree of the Stodart family which
traces the name back to 1565 in Scotland, bringing the names down to the present
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and recounts the condition of Los Angeles as she remembers it at the time of their
removal here, when her father camped on Aliso Street, at a time when it was covered
with wild oats and mustard. She is a pioneer of Orange County and has watched
with interest the development of the ranches, towns and cities, also to see the wonder
ful increase in property valuations all over the Southland. She takes great pride in
the success her sons are making in their operations and enjoys the esteem of a wide
circle of friends. She is public spirited and gives her aid to all measures for the
betterment of her county, particularly the district where she has made her home for
so many years.
RUDOLPH M. FRICK. — A very progressive rancher, much ahead of his time in
agricultural pursuits, is Rudolph M. Frick, who resides on the corner of Tustin and
Fairhaven avenues, in Orange, where he has lived for the past eighteen years. .He was
born in Austria on April 8, 1863, and is the son of John and Katherine (Zimmerman)
Frick, who died in their native land. They had eight children, two of whom emigrated
to the United States, one being the subject of our interesting review, and the other is
Joseph Frick, a farmer now in Canada.
Rudolph was reared and educated in Austria, and when twenty years of age left
for the United States in 1883, and located at St. Paul, Minn., where he worked for four
years. He removed to Glasston, Pembina County, N. D., in 1887, and there for four
teen years grew steadily prosperous. He engaged in general farming and stock raising
and came to hold 480 acres devoted to raising grain. In November, 1898, Mr. Frick,
impressed with the greater resources of California, came West, and early pitched his
tent in Orange County, and from the beginning of his life here he easily established
himself in the good graces of his neighbors and friends, assisted by his excellent wife,
Miss Armilde Raedel before her marriage, to whom he was joined in wedlock in
Glasston on February 17, 1892. She was born at Denbig-, Addington County, Ontario,
the daughter of Gotthard and Caroline (Pacholke) Raedel, natives of Germany, who
came when young folks to Ontario, Canada, where they met and were married, and
where they followed agricultural pursuits until they removed to Manitoba; six years
later they removed to and were among the early settlers of Glasston, Pembina
County, N. D., and as pioneer homesteaders improved a farm. Mrs. Frick was the
youngest of their four children, and received a good education in the schools of
North Dakota. Their marriage has resulted in the birth of thirteen children, twelve
of whom are living. Louise C. is the wife of Clarence Boone of Long Beach; Armilde
P. is Mrs. George Leichtfuss of Helendale; Martha A. is Mrs. Herman Upahl of
Tustin; Rudolph A., Reinhard F., Eda C, Walter R., Cora M., Alfred R., Dorothea
E., Hilda W. M. and Lorenz W. R.
Mr. Frick's home ranch consists of fifteen acres devoted to oranges, lemons and
walnuts. It was raw land when he purchased it, and he first set out apricots, which
he found did not yield satisfactory returns, so he set out Valencia oranges, and
added a comfortable residence and modern improvements, all of which have made
the property more valuable. In addition he owns seven acres across the road from
his home place, as well as twelve acres, two miles northwest of Orange and ten
acres at McPherson, making his holdings total forty-four acres, principally in Valencia
oranges, thus yielding a splendid income.
The family are members of the Lutheran Church at Orange, and while in North
Dakota Mr. Frick was a trustee of the congregation, as well as the school district.
He is a member of the McPherson Heights Citrus Association, as well as the Foot
Hill Orange Growers Association. A most patriotic American, Mr. Frick and his
family take pride and pleasure in fulfilling every civic duty, and thus hastening the
healthy development of the nation, the state and the county of his adoption and choice.
C. C. VIOLETT, M. D.— Prominent among the first citizens of Garden Grove,
Dr. C. C. Violett, the physician and surgeon, enjoys the distinction of exerting a
powerful and beneficent influence in favor of everything making for the healthy develop
ment and permanent growth of the young town. He was born in Gallatin County. Ky.,
on December 7, 1863, the son of Dr. C. F. and Susan (Dean) Violett, both born and
reared ,n the Blue Grass State. The elder Violett was a well-known physician and
extensive landowner, who had 300 acres of improved farm land devoted to hay, grain,
corn and stock. They had eleven children-five boys and six girls-and among them
C. <_.. Violett was the youngest son and next to the youngest child
... xrV!til°Ug^ b°r" am,id the roar and din of the great conflict proceeding between
the North and the South, Dr. Violett has no recollection of the Civil War.' He does
recall an incident however, and one none too pleasant, of the Reconstruction period.
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and ordered his mother to prepare a dinner for them. This she could not do, as she
was destitute of groceries and other food, and they were compelled to retire unsatisfied;
but their overbearing demeanor left an impression of horror indelibly stamped on the
child's mind. He attended the public school in his home district, and the high school
at Williamstown, Ky., and soon chose medicine as his future field of endeavor. This
choice was undoubtedly due to the exceptional association of his family with the
development of that science in Kentucky, two of his brothers, J. W. and J. D. Violett,
also being physicians. He commenced his studies with his father and continued with
his brothers, and J. D. Violett became in particular his preceptor, and was also the
organizer of the first medical society in northern Kentucky.
After graduating from the medical department of the University of Louisville,
with the class of '92, where he was offered an interneship by D. P. Yandell, the
professor of surgery, he hung out his shingle in his home town, Napoleon, where his
father and mother lived, old and feeble. In 1899 he went to Texas, and on April 26,
married there Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton, a widow, who had been a schoolmate with
him at the Williamstown high school. She was in maidenhood Miss Elizabeth Bailey,
a native of Sussex County, Va., where she was born and reared. As schoolmates they
were very fond of each other, but the young man did not feel prepared financially to
assume the responsibilities of the married state, and the twain who were destined for
each other, parted for different paths. Miss Bailey married M. F. Wharton, a brother
of the Baptist evangelist, H. Marvin Wharton of Virginia, but her husband died in
1895 in Texas, to which state he had gone for his health. After his death, Mrs.
Wharton, who had enjoyed superior educational advantages, having taught four years
in her Alma Mater at Taylorville, Ky., and also near Louisville and in Virginia, had
returned to her vocation and was teaching in the high school at Uvalde. Mrs. Wharton
had one child by her first marriage, Malcolm F. Wharton, Jr., who has been brought
up in the Violett home. While attending the State Agricultural College in Oregon,
young Wharton, showing- the patriotic spirit of his ancestors, enlisted in the U. S.
Navy, and after two years and eight months he came out a first class pharmacist's
mate from the naval hospital in Washington, D. C. He belongs to the Sons of the
American Revolution, through his great-grandfather, Malcolm Wharton, who lost both
hands while carrying messages for General Washington. After his discharge, Malcolm
F. Wharton returned to Corvallis, Ore., to complete his collegiate course. One child
has blessed the union of Dr. and Mrs. Violett — a daughter, Ruth, who graduated from
the Santa Ana high school and is now attending Redlands University, where she is
pursuing a course in music and is majoring in the piano.
Returning to Kentucky with his bride, Dr. Violett continued his practice at
Napoleon until February, 1901, when he removed to Kansas, and for a year and a half
practiced at Lindsborg. The persistent call of California, however, at length drew
him here and to Orange County, and with his family he settled at Westminster, where
he took up his practice again. In 1906 he removed to Garden Grove, coming here early
enough to see the advent of the Pacific Electric Railway in the town. He welcomed
it, as he welcomed everything else of benefit to the community, for he is by nature a
good booster. The same year he built a bungalow residence, and now he owns a home
with an orange grove of five acres, which he set out himself. He has added a ten-acre
orchard of.walnut trees, six years old, a mile northeast of Garden Grove, which he also
looks after in person.
In 1911 Dr. Violett established the modest but very efficient cottage hospital of
four beds and an operating room at Garden Grove, which has served the community
admirably, proving a very necessary adjunct to this growing section. His family
practice is constantly increasing and he has more than he can do. He is a member of
the American Medical Association, the State Medical Society, treasurer of the Orange
County Medical Association, and, last but not least, a member of the Volunteer Medical
Service Corps.
Dr. Violett helped organize the Chamber of Commerce, which was first known
as the Business Men's Association, and when, in June, 1919, it became the Chamber of
Commerce, he was made its president. In national politics a Democrat, he is a member
of the Democratic Central Committee of Orange County. For ten years past Dr.
Violett has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the First Baptist Church at
Garden Grove and is now the treasurer. He is a well-known Mason and is a member
of Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M., Orange Chapter No. 73, R. A. M., Santa Ana
Commandery No. 36, K. T., and he belongs to Al Malaikah Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., of
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is a past master of the lodge at Napoleon, Ky., where he was made a Mason, and was
master there for four years, in different terms.
During the war Garden Grove made an excellent record, going over the top in
all the drives, the Liberty and Victory loans, and in all the other activities, but in the
work of the Red Cross, especially, a great service was accomplished, and for this much
credit is due to the ability and initiative of Mrs. Violett and her associates, for through
her efficient organization as chairman of the Garden Grove auxiliary the work was
speeded up and there was a most generous response from the whole community in
garments, money, time and labor. Out of this spirit of patriotism and activity has
grown the establishment of the Red Cross Community nurse of Orange County, who
is now operating in the public schools of Garden Grove. This was brought to the
notice of the public by the establishment and operation of a rest room and first aid
station at the Orange County Fair. Mrs. Violett has served her community in many
other ways, the most lasting, perhaps, being the "establishment of Orange County's
Parent-Teachers' Association.
SOREN CHRISTENSEN. — A most highly respected pioneer of the Garden
Grove section of Orange County is found in the person of Soren Cliristensen, a resi
dent there since August, 1890, when he settled on his present ranch two miles north
east from the town. An interesting personality, he has a fund of reminiscences of
the early days of Southern California, particularly of Los Angeles in 1869, the year
of his arrival there in the old Mexican adobe town. Broadway was then known as
Fort Street, barley fields abutted the town where Sixth Street now is, there was not
a house on the hill, no street cars, and Government land was to be had below what is
now Exposition Park. Like thousands of others Mr. Christensen could not foresee
the present condition, and of course let "slip" many chances to become wealthy. His
stories are replete with character sketches of many of the men who later became
prominent in varied circles there.
A native of Denmark, Soren Christensen was born on September 16, 1843, the
son of N. C. and Catherine M. Christensen, who had ten children in their family, six
of whom grew to years of maturity, and two of the sons, the oldest and youngest of
the family, live in Southern California. Our subject was reared in his native country
until he reached young manhood, attended the schools of his district and was con
firmed in the Lutheran Church, which, by the way, he has a picture of and is among
his treasures. Leaving home he followed the sea as a common sailor and he landed
in San Francisco on May 1, 1865, sailing through the Golden Gate on a ship he
boarded, after running away from the one he had shipped on, at Mazatlan. He was
barefooted, had worked his passage on the William Richardson, landed without a
dollar except the one a kindly sailor gave him to buy some shoes. Thus he had to
begin at the very bottom of the ladder and he followed the sea in vessels plying
up and down the coast until he tried his luck in mining in Inyo County, where he
worked in the smelter at Swansey, when its first run was made. That life did not
appeal to him and he left it to seek other fields of endeavor.
In 1869 he arrived in Los Angeles and soon entered the service of the Griffith
Lumber Company, with whom he remained for fifteen years. It was in their interests
that he first came to Santa Ana to establish a branch yard, the same year that the
Southern Pacific was finished to that town from Anaheim. Crocker Bowers was the
local agent. This was when the town boasted of a store, and but a few scattered
houses to mark the place that has since taken the lead in this part of the* state.
In 1890 Mr. Christensen made a deal for sixty acres near what is now Garden
Grove, trading his property in Los Angeles for the ranch, upon which the former
owner had erected a brick house, but which has since been razed; there was also a
well 176 feet deep on the place. The ranch "was practically raw land, but with char
acteristic energy the new owner began to improve it and found that two crops could
be raised instead of one if irrigation could be secured and he put down another' well
of the same depth, and now has plenty of water for all purposes. He set the land
to oranges, installed a modern pumping plant operated by electric power, and
altogether has been very successful. He still retains thirty-eight acres of his original
purchase, having sold off the balance to his children as they grew up.
Mr. Christensen was united in marriage in 1876, in Los Angeles, with Miss
Johanna C. Johnson, a native of Sweden, but who had come to the United States
in 1869, and to Los Angeles in 1875. She has been a good helpmate and -together
this pioneer couple look back upon a life well spent and to the future without fear,
for they have lived by the Golden Rule and won a wide circle of good friends. Their
marriage has been blessed by the birth of eight children, six of them living: Clara M.,
is the wife of Bruce S. Boyer and lives at Indio: Carl J., is at home; Serena, is teach
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and has two bright children, Leroy and Leslie (the only grandchildren in the Chris
tensen family); E. Martin, is a rancher in Orange County; Agnes, married S. W.
Gibson and died January 13, 1920; and Albert R., is also living at home. All the
children are graduates of the high school, and Carl served in the Spanish-American
War, and Albert in the World War, and because of efficient service was made a
sergeant and detailed as a mustering officer.
Mr. Christensen is a self-made man, proud of the success he has attained through
honest effort and believes in progress, doing all he can to help build up the county
of his adoption as a member of the Garden Grove Walnut Growers' and Orange
Growers' Associations. His good wife shares in the esteem in which he is held by
all their friends.
J. T. DUNLAP. — A well-cultivated ranch of some of the best Orange County soil
is that of J. T. Dunlap, who resides on Brookhurst Street, near Anaheim, and grows
citrus fruit, according to the most approved methods of science and personal experience.
He has sixteen acres, sufficient to afford anyone ground for modest pride; and if that
should prove insufficient, then Mr. Dunlap can fall back on the fact that his is a native
state which has- produced more presidents and more representatives of the Union in
high station than any other. For he was born in Ohio in 1854, the son of William
Dunlap, who was twice married and had ten children. Mrs. Elizabeth (Fonts) Dunlap
was the mother of our subject and five other children besides.
J. T. Dunlap was reared and educated in Missouri, to which state his father moved
while he was yet of tender years. Through the occupations of boyhood, the young
man settled down to agricultural pursuits as the most likely always to guarantee him a
living, and an honest one at that; and this keeping close to Mother Earth brought
various blessings in its train.
In the Centennial Year of the Republic, when California was beginning to be
talked about in the East, Mr. Dunlap came to the Golden State and settled in San
Benito County, where he remained up to 1884, when he removed to Oregon; but in
1903 he returned to Colusa County, Cal., and in 1911 he came to Orange County.
The following year he purchased his present ranch, then raw land, and began to
set out the trees which are today the objects of real interest to those engaged in citrus
culture, and which amply pay for themselves. He belongs to the Garden Grove Orange
Association and delights in participating in both such work and discussion as will tend
to advance California horticulture.
In 1882, Mr. Dunlap was married to Miss Melissa DeVaul, a native of Missouri,
and three children have blessed their union. One is Mrs. Ethel Schroeder; another,
Alice, is a trained nurse; and a third is Mrs. Hazel Suggett. In politics Mr. and Mrs.
Dunlap are independent, but they work hard for the best men and the best measures,
and are very loyal to local community interests.
WILLIAM A. COLLMAN. — A modest, hard-working rancher, who has done
something to advance horticulture in California while attain'ng success for himself, is
William Collman, who lives three miles to the southwest of Fullerton, on the Brook
hurst Road. His own life has been varied with interesting experiences, and he represents
those of an earlier generation, who were prosperous and influential in their sphere.
He was born in Freeport, 111., on November 10, 1872, the son of Albertus Collman,
a man of many lines of business and associated in particular with a brother, C. O.
Collman, who was the head of the German Insurance Company of Freeport. William
attended the Freeport common schools, and later the Nagle Business College, and he
spent his early days at home. After his father's death, on July 3, 1880, he went to
Nebraska and embarked in business with his brothers.
In 1896 Mr. Collman came to Fullerton, and purchased, at first, four acres on the
Garden Grove Road. After a short time, however, he sold the same, and then he
bought twenty acres on the Brookhurst Road. Ten acres of this was already set out,
and the other ten he himself set out to Valencia oranges. He has an interest in the
Brookhurst Water Company, which owns a pumping plant with a capacity of about
seventy-five inches of water, thus guaranteeing him an excellent irrigation supply. He
markets his oranges through the Anaheim Orange and Lemon Association, and is
again well served. He cultivates the grove with a tractor, and in other respects follows
the last word of science and uses only the most approved methods and apparatus.
At Los Angeles, on January 18, 1912, Mr. Collman was married to Miss Ella
Hetrick, a native of Nebraska and the daughter of a worthy Nebraska farmer; and two
children have come to brighten their home: Albertus and Wilma. In 1913 he built his
cosy country home. He is a member of the B. P. O. Elks of Anaheim, and believes
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CYRUS G. SPARKES. — The poultry industry is fast taking a leading place in the
commercial life of Orange County and the enterprise conducted by Cyrus G. Sparkes
and his partner, Alvin O. Melcher, is the only one of its particular kind in the state.
The place of business is located on Fairview Avenue, Anaheim, where their unique
plant was erected in 1918, and still in its infancy, bids easily to outdistance others in
the state as an up-to-date hatchery for commercial purposes. The building, erected of
hollow tile, and circular in form, is a two-story structure, sixty feet in diameter, built
in the most modern manner and equipped with a heating plant of three units so piped
as to distribute heat to the various compartments where eggs are placed for hatching
and maintain a temperature of 101° to 103° on all levels in the building without the
aid of a fan; the humidity is maintained at 56 per cent without the aid of artificial
moisture. The entire building is well ventilated and can hatch 1,000,000 eggs as easily
as 100. These eggs are arranged on trays and exposed to an equal degree of heat in
all parts and the necessity of having to turn each egg daily is done away with. Heat
ing, ventilating and moistening is done at the same time by the installation of the
Pemberton System, installed after careful study by Mr. Sparkes and his partner. The
demand for chicks is becoming so great that this institution bids fair to become one of
the most remunerative hatcheries in the state and does away with the old incubator
system so long in vogue all over the country.
Mr. Sparkes owns the ranch on which the hatchery is located and the land is
given over to walnuts, oranges and lemons, and is in a high state of cultivation and
very productive. All the improvements on the place have been the result of careful
study by Mr. Sparkes, who has been a resident of the county since 1893. He is proud
of being a native son of California, for he was born in San Bernardino on June 2,
1859", the son of George W. and Luanna (Roberts) Sparkes, who came across the plains
with ox teams in 1852 and settled at Diamond Springs. This pioneer couple had eight
children, five of whom are still living, viz: E. A. Sparkes, Mrs. Hattie Carter, Mrs.
Sadie Keller; Cyrus G, and R. J. Sparkes, and three of these live in Orange County.
Cyrus G. received his education in the public schools of this state and followed
agricultural pursuits nearly all his life and has been a pioneer in many activities. He
was married in 1890 to Miss Mary E. Davis, a native daughter of this state, whose
father, D. S. Davis, came as a pioneer in the days of gold and here he married Miss
Clara Brown, a native of Missouri, in 1849. One son has blessed this union, James G.
Sparkes. Mr. Sparkes is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America of Anaheim
and is a real booster for" Orange County.
A resident of Orange County since 1911, Alvin O. Melcher has entered into the
spirit of this western commonwealth and has become a typical Orange County booster.
He was born in Sheboygan County, Wis., on January 31, 1893, the son of M. F. and
Bertha Melcher, and is the seventh child in a family of ten children. Of this family,
three of the children and their mother reside in Orange County. For forty years the
father was town clerk of Sherman, Wis., and is now deceased.
A. O. Melcher was united in marriage in 1915, with Miss Vivian Fox, a fair native
daughter, born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Eox, pioneers of Anaheim, and two daughters
have been born to this couple, Olive and Thelma. Mr. Melcher was formerly occupied
as a builder of houses. He is a member of the B. P. O. Elks of Anaheim.
EDWIN TILL. — A progressive, prosperous rancher who was formerly a successful
Philadelphia merchant, is Edwin Till, now well and favorably known, in addition, as a
contractor, making a specialty of finishing new homes. He is never without plenty of
work, his patrons living at Fullerton, La Habra, Long Beach, Yorba Linda, and from
the latter place to the beaches. He was born in London on October 9, 1856, the son
of Edwin and Eliza Till, and grew up in the world's greatest city, under the guidance
of his father, who was a contractor, operating on a large scale. He attended the London
schools, and was thoroughly prepared for a career at home or beyond the seas. At
tractive as England was and always is, Mr. Till elected to leave his native land and to
come to America.
He settled in Philadelphia, and there as an enterprising leader in the mercantile
world built up a moderately large business. From Philadelphia he went to Chicago,
and from Chicago to New York; and in each of these places he conducted a dry goods
store for a year. When he returned to Philadelphia it was to resume the selling of
dry goods, and in that city and field he continued until 1894, when he sold out and came
to California. Locating at Latin, near Los Angeles, he lived there for six years,
when he came to Orangethorpe, and in 1900 purchased a ranch of ten acres. The
land was bare, but by hard work and close attention to the problem in hand, Mr. Till
developed the land in an admirable manner, setting it out to Valencia and Navel oranges.
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discontinued the poultry enterprise, and confined himself to citrus fruit. His land is
under the Anaheim Union Water Company, and that is equivalent to saying that it is
well-watered. At London, on March 6, 1884, Mr. Till was married to Miss Adelaide Wyatt, a
native of London and the daughter of James and Adelaide (Barton) Wyatt, the latter be
ing a descendant of Lady Sarah Barton. Her father was a stone contractor and helped
build' the farhous Spurgeon Tabernacle in London. Two sons have resulted from this
fortunate marriage. Fredric James is living in Los Angeles and is in the garage
business, and James Fullerton is an electrician with the Union Oil Company of Brea.
He married Ruby McNeil and is the father of a girl, Edna, and a son, Wyatt James;
while Fredric James became the husband of Miss Mary E. Hart. In 1892 Mrs. Till
returned to England to witness the coronation of King Edward — a wonderful sight, as
one might have expected of one of the greatest spectacles in modern history; and she
was also fortunate in being an eye-witness to the Queen Victoria Jubilee in 1887,
celebrating the" fifty years of that beloved sovereign's reign. As if, perhaps, to remind
the observing world of Britain's great naval strength, there were seven miles of ships
lined up in close formation at the grand review at Portsmouth. Mrs. Till was one of
the organizers of the Parent-Teachers' Association of the Orangethorpe school district,
and with her husband has always been a liberal supporter to all movements that have
had the betterment of general conditions and the upbuilding of Orange County.
ALBERT H. SITTON.— The development of the automobile industry has led to
the creation of various related enterprises, among them being that of the modern garage;
and these enterprises have called for the brains, experience and aggressive initiative of
thousands known in other fields as successful men of affairs. One such man is Albert
H. Sitton, proprietor of Sitton's Garage, a native son born at Downey on June 18, 1878.
His father was Brice M. Sitton, a farmer who married Miss Nannie B. Harris
whose folks had crossed the great plains by ox-teams in early days. Mr. Sitton arrived
in Nevada in 1869, and three years later reached California. Years afterwards, Mr.
Sitton was killed, and Albert had to assist in the support of his mother and his sister.
The family had settled in Los Angeles County near Orange in 1880, where the mother
still makes her home.
The younger of two children, Albert attended the public schools of Orange County
and then engaged in the bicycle trade in Santa Ana. On January 1, 1900, he went to
Fullerton and for a couple of years continued to repair cycles; and next he embarked
in business for himslf. It was only a step, and a very natural one, to work into auto
mobile repairs and sales; and now, with northern Orange County as his field, he is
the wide-awake agent for the Overland and Willys-Knight. Self-made in more respects
than one, with his own hand at the helm, Mr. Sitton has been so successful that he
needs to employ ten men.
On August 27, 1902, Mr. Sitton and Miss Rose B. Rogers were married at Fuller-
ton, the bride being the daughter of Joseph Rogers, a rancher. Mrs. Sitton was born
in Iowa. One son, Arthur, has blessed the union, and with his parents attends the
Baptist Church at Fullerton. When recreation time comes, Mr. Sitton likes to hunt
and fish. He is a Republican in party politics, but an American first and last, as seen by
his record of service with Company L of the Seventh California Regiment in the Span
ish-American War. For twelve years, Mr. Sitton has been a school trustee; and while
a member of the school board the present grammar school building was erected. He
served one four-year term as a city trustee.
JOHN M. JOHNSON. — A rancher whose several tours of inspection and careful
quest in search of the best soil and conditions for walnut growing were well rewarded
is John M. Johnson, the owner of fifteen acres on La Mirada Avenue, constituting one
of the finest groves in the northwestern section of Orange County. He was born in
Smaland, Sweden, on June 14, 1863, the son of John P. Johnson, who is still living
there, an alert and able-bodied farmer at the golden age of eighty-six years. He had
married Miss Louisa Anderson, and as a good mother she sent John to the excellent
•common schools in his native land.
In 1882, our subject came to America and settled in Duluth, Minn.; and there
he followed the occupation of a cook, preparing the repasts first for camps and then
for various well-known hotels. For five years continuously, for example, he was with
the Willard Hotel of Duluth, and previous to his work there he cooked for one of the
largest lumber camps near Duluth. He spent the winter in the camp with the loggers,
and then cooked for the "gang" during the spring drives when the timber was cut
loose and was floated to the mills.
In 1905, Mr. Johnson came to the Pacific Coast and made a tour of inspection
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Exposition in Portland, after which he returned to the Southland and purchased his
fifteen acres west of La Habra. The land was practically bare; but he soon set out
thirteen acres to walnuts and two to Valencia oranges, and he soon had a ranch which
many came miles to look over. It is under the service of the La Habra Irrigation
Water Company, and Mr. Johnson markets his chief product through the California
Walnut Growers Association.
An American citizen full of the American spirit of elevation with 'expansion, Mr.
Johnson is an Episcopalian, and as such is ever ready to cooperate in good works. He
is a member of the Knights of Pythias of Whittier, and there are few if any members
there both enjoying and so deserving of popularity..
HENRY YOUNT. — More than interesting and instructive, from several stand
points, is the story of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Yount, pioneer settlers of California, who,
after a life of hard labor and self-sacrifice, are enjoying the reward of having found
the Golden State a veritable paradise. Mr. Yount was long a faithful and popular
public official, privileged to be identified with the first movements toward the forma
tion of the county of Orange, and, as a result he is never at a loss, wherever he goes,
for admirers and friends.
He was born near Platte City, Platte County, Mo., on December 11, 1845, the
son of Henry Yount, a native of Pennsylvania and a pioneer farmer in Missouri. He
married Deborah Daugherty, who was born in Indiana, and soon after he died, in
1845, she married, .. taking for her second husband Abraham Van Vranken. Henry
Yount got what schooling he could in Missouri during the disturbed condition of Civil
War days, and for a while worked on the farm of his stepfather. The latter died in
Missouri in 1860, and three years later Mr. Yount, with his mother and three sisters,
crossed the great plains to California with an ox team in a train of fifty wagons.
During the journey his eldest sister, Mrs. Sarah J. Dinsmore, died, and was buried
on the Humboldt River, but aside from this sad incident good luck attended the ven
ture of these sturdy emigrants, who had no trouble with the Indians, lost only two
head of oxen on the way — poisoned by alkali — and arrived at their goal with ten head
of horses, whereupon they settled in the San Jose Valley, remaining in Santa Clara.
County for the year 1863-64. Then they went to San Joaquin County and farmed for
four years, purchasing 320 acres of land there and raising wheat by dry farming.
In 1868 Mr. Yount went to Stanislaus County, and near what is now Modesto
purchased 240 acres on which, for another four years, he raised wheat. His next move
was to Visalia, where he purchased a half-section of range for sheep, besides which
he rented some land; and for a couple of years he raised sheep there. In 1875 he
sold out and came south to Compton, Los Angeles County, where he purchased and
farmed forty acres.
When he had disposed of this land, in 1880, Mr. Yount came to Santa Ana, and
on Lyon Street in Tustin he bought twenty acres. It was raw land, but he set it out
to grapevines; the vines died, and then he set walnuts. The acreage is now under the
Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and is therefore well watered. Mr. Yount lived
on the ranch at Tustin and thus was enabled to give his personal attention to the
improvements which afterward made the sale of the property, at a neat profit, easy.
He then purchased an alfalfa ranch of twenty acres on McFadden Street, and when
he had sold that, bought a ten-acre ranch on Santa Clara Avenue, which he had for a
year. His next purchase was a ten-acre grove of Valencia oranges on Collins Avenue,
northeast of Orange, which he retained until 1919, when he sold it.
At Compton, on March 12, 1880, Mr. Yount was married to Miss Alice A. Twombly,
who was born near Lansing, Leavenworth County, Kans., the daughter of Benjamin
H. and Augusta A. Twombly, educators known for their idealistic, efficient work both
in Kansas and California. Her father, a graduate of Dartmouth College, a fine scholar
and linguist, and an able speaker, was an attorney and a member of the Kansas legis
lature, and was a member of the committee that located the state penitentiary at
Lansing, Kans. He was the first tax collector of Howard County, Mo., and he rode
horseback with saddlebags over the county fulfilling the duties of his office. Coming
to California for his health in 1873, he was followed two years later by his wife, his.
daughter Alice, now Mrs. Yount, and his son Benjamin. Four children— two boys
and two girls— blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Yount: John H. is with the Southern
Pacific Railroad in Los Angeles; Augusta is Mrs. George H. Merrill of Los Angeles;
Charles is with the American Express Company at the same place, and Harriett, who
graduated from the Los Angeles State Normal and the State Manual Arts School,
Santa Barbara, is now in Hollywood, teaching at the Manual Arts School. In 1908
Mr. Yount purchased the residence at 844 Van Ness Avenue, Santa Ana, and here has
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Mr. Yount has several times held offices of considerable public trust, and well he
deserves to have done so, for in 1888 he circulated the first petition to form the county
of Orange. For two years, from 1887 to 1889, he was deputy assessor of Los Angeles
County, and from 1889 to 1897 was deputy assessor of Orange County. He thus
served under C. C. Mason, Fred Smythe and Frank Vegley, and if he found them
inspiring chiefs, it is certain they found in him one of the rare dependables.
Mrs. Yount has always been prominent in the civic and social life of Santa Ana;
for more than twenty-eight years, she has been a member of the Sedgwick Corps, No.
17, W. R. C, of Santa Ana, and occupied the office of president three different times.
In 1907, at the Department Convention, held at Santa Barbara, she had the honor of
being elected department president of California and Nevada, presiding at the depart
ment convention held at Santa Ana in May, 1908, and the same year she attended the
national G. A. R. Encampment, held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., thus being honored
for her splendid work as department president. Mr. and Mrs. Yount have been
active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Santa Ana for over thirty-six
years, Mrs. Yount being president of the ladies' aid society for thirteen years, and
they are among the oldest and most prominent members of that church. They
are both staunch Republicans and prominent in the councils of the party. Mr. Yount
was for years a member of the county central committee, and is now active in the
work of the local Republican club.
WILLIS J. NEWSOM. — An interesting representative of a fine old pioneer
family of California, and a man of such progressive tendencies that, as a natural leader
he has been able to point the way onward and upward to others, is Willis J. Newsom,
the well-known teacher of Los Angeles and the president of and prime mover in the
Farmers' Loan Association of Orange County. He was born at Glen Elder, Mitchell
County, Kans., on April 20, 1882, the son of Alfred J. and Christina (White) Newsom,
who came to" El Modena in 1887. The father bought some land there, but sold it and
went to Pasadena, thence to Lankershim, and from Lankershim to Whittier; moving
to Garden Grove in the fall of 1891.
Willis attended the schools at Garden Grove, and for a year went to the Santa
Ana high school, still later studying at the Los Angeles Normal School, from which
he was graduated in 1903. He began to teach at West Anaheim, and is now teaching
at the Santa Fe special school for incorrigibles at Los Angeles. Besides taking charge
of this responsible work, going back and forth every day, he directs the farming of
forty acres of land near Garden Grove.
He owns twenty-five acres, has planted ten acres to Valencias, and fifteen acres
to budded walnuts. He has improved the ranch with a fine house, the best of facilities
for a water supply, and a mile of cement pipe for irrigation. All this he has in a high
state of cultivation. He is a member of the Farm Bureau.
In 1917, the Federal Farm Loan Association of Orange County was organized,
and Mr. Newsom became its president. How well he has pushed its interests and
directed its expansion may be shown from the fact that today it has outstanding loans
aggregating a quarter of a million dollars, and is growing faster than ever.
Mr. Newsom was married in 1907 to Miss Grace Parish of Berkeley, who died in
1913, leaving one child, Christine Elizabeth. He was married a second time in 1915
to Miss Glee Woolley of Alva, Okla., then a teacher at Covina; and one child has
blessed this second union — Willis Robert. Mr. Newsom is a Republican, and belongs
to the Southern California Teachers' Association.
CHARLES C. KINSLER. — A pioneer of Brea and one of the first men who
settled there, Charles C. Kinsler is well known as a prominent citizen who always takes
an active lead in the advancement of the interests of his home town.
He is a native of the Empire State, and was born January 4, 1878, at Otto, N. Y.,
but was, reared at Bradford, Pa., where his education was acquired in the public schools
of that place, and as a boy he was in the employ of the J. T. Jones Oil Company of
Bradford. He is a veteran of the Spanish War, having enlisted as a regular in the
Thirteenth United States Infantry when the trouble with Spain arose. One of the
heroes of San Juan Hill, Cuba, he served alongside the late Theodore Roosevelt and
was wounded in the leg during service. After his discharge from the army he came to
Olinda, Orange County, Cal., December, 1899, where he worked for the Olind:-. Oil
and Land Company for one year. He then located at Whittier, and was in the employ
of the Home Oil Company at that place. Afterward he became major and drill master
at the Whittier State Reform School, retaining the position three years. He then went
to the Puente oil district, where he was engaged with the Birch Oil Company. In 1912
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one of the first homes on the townsite. He held the office of city clerk of Brea and
was the first secretary of the Chamber of Commerce after its inauguration, resigning
the position in 1920. At present he is engaged in the real estate and insurance business
and is also secretary of the Brea Oil Workers' Union.
Mr. Kinsler's marriage united him with Miss Lena Morse, a native of Vermont,
and they are the parents of three daughters: Thelma, Arlene, and Mildred. Fraternally
Mr. Kinsler is very prominent in Masonic circles. He is a member of the Blue Lodge
and Chapter at Fullerton, the Whittier Commandery, and the Shrine at Los Angeles.
He is further affiliated with the Knights of Pythias at Brea, the D. O. O. K. at Los
Angeles, the B. P. O. Elks at Anaheim, and is a Modern Woodman. He takes a keen
interest in the welfare of Brea, is a dominant factor in its business life, ever on the
alert to advance its best interests, and justly enjoys the comforts worthily earned by
his labors, and the esteem and respect of his fellow-citizens.
ROBERT GISLER.— An Orange County rancher who has contributed much
toward the substantial and permanent development of a part of his adopted country,
while advancing in prosperity for himself, is Robert Gisler, a native of Switzerland,
where he was born in the Canton Uri, on February 28, 1861. His father was Joseph
Gisler, a farmer and a dairyman, who had married Elizabeth Troxel,; they were born,
married and died in the canton so famous in Swiss history. They had nine children, two
of whom died young; Robert was the fifth in the order of birth, and is the only one in
California. Besides himself, the only other surviving member of the family is. a sister,
Mrs. Rosa Scroggin, who dwells on the old Gisler homestead. Robert grew up a Swiss
peasant boy, attended the Roman Catholic Church, and learned the German language.
His mother died when he was fifteen; and perhaps it was his early dependence that
made him desire all the more to see America.
At seventeen, then, he bade good-bye to father, brothers and sisters, and took the
railway to Havre, France, from which port he was to sail across the Atlantic. He
embarked on May 1, 1878, and eleven days later arrived on a French liner at Castle
Garden. Without delay he pushed on to Sacramento, Cal., together with some young
folks from Switzerland who had relatives at Ventura; and from Sacramento they took
the river boat to San Francisco. Even the strange metropolis of the Coast did not
detain them, and as soon as possible they continued their journey by steamship to
Ventura, where they arrived on June 4, 1878. Mr. Gisler had only enough money to
take him to Ventura, and on arriving there he immediately went to work on a farm.
He labored fourteen months for one employer at that place, and then went back
to San Francisco and worked at various kinds of employment, mostly dairying, for a
couple of years. He put in another two years at dairying in Napa, when he returned
to Ventura County and began to farm for himself. He became acquainted with Casper
Borchard, Sr., and from him rented a grain ranch of 2,400 acres, in the management
of which he continued for four or five years. He toiled and struggled, but prices were
very low, and the laborer at times could scarcely depend upon a reward worth talking
about. He then bought 300 acres of grain ranch, well situated in Ventura County, but
after farming there for five years he sold it.
In 1903 Mr. Gisler came down to what was known as Gospel Swamp and bought
some eighty acres as a starter, bringing with him his wife, whom he had married in
Ventura County. Her maiden name was Anna Pflanzer, and she was a native of
Switzerland, having come to America with her sister, now Mrs. Samuel Gisler of
Huntington Beach, when a young woman. The happy and resolute couple set about
to improve the Swamp property; they cleared away the willows and drained and plowed
and cultivated. After a while Mr. Gisler purchased sixty acres more, and then another
sixty acres, and after that twenty acres; so that he finally had about 220 acres a mile
south and a mile east of Talbert. In partnership, also, with his two sons, Walter and
Tom, Mr. Gisler bought from F. D. Plavan, in 1919, a handsome block of ninety-nine
acres, for which they paid $50,000. He has since built a large farmhouse, and has sunk
three ten-inch wells and four seven-inch wells, installed a pumping plant and built a
tank house, thus adding greatly to the improvements on the home place— improvements
in which he can take the more pride since they are the fruit of his own toil.
At first Mr. Gisler kept cows and went in for dairying, but as soon as he got his
land clear he continued the raising of sugar beets, a knowledge of which he had acquired
in Ventura County. There was then no sugar factory, except the one at Los Alamitos,
and his first four crops were shipped up to Oxnard. He has seen the several beet sugar
factories built at Huntington Beach and Santa Ana, and he now sells to both the Holly
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at Santa Ana. In 1919 he had forty-five acres of sugar beets, while he now grows
mostly lima beans. In 1920, for example, he and his sons planted about 200 acres to
iima beans and eighty acres to sugar beets, and the balance to alfalfa.
Mr. and Mrs. Gisler belong to the Roman Catholic. Church at Huntington Beach,
and Mr. Gisler is a member of the Knights of Columbus at Anaheim. In national
politics he is a Republican, but he never draws the party line when it is a question of
giving a whole-hearted support to a worthy local movement. They have seven children:
Walter, who married Marie Collins of Talbert, is a rancher; Emma is the wife of
Bernard Stouffer, another rancher, and lives at Anaheim; Thomas is also a rancher;
Della has graduated from the Huntington Beach High School, and is now living at
home; and there are Agnes, Harold and Lucile.
Thomas Paul Gisler, the third in the order of birth, was called into service for
the great World War through the first draft, and trained at Camp Lewis. Then he
joined Company E of the Three Hundred and Sixty-fourth Infantry. On July 12, 1918,
he sailed from New York for Southampton, and then proceeded to Havre — the same
port from which his father had embarked for America — and for a month continued
training at Longchamps. From there he was assigned to the reserves at St. Mihiel,
France, and in the great Argonne drive was wounded in the left arm by a piece of
shrapnel. His severe injuries confined him to a hospital in France for eight and a half
months, and on account of disability he was discharged at the Letterman Hospital in
San Francisco on June 9, 1919.
ALFRED E. HAWLEY, MRS. ELIZABETH M. HAWLEY.— Distinguished as
the oldest living pioneers at Newport Beach, in point of actual continuous residence,
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hawley enjoy an enviable position at one of the most attractive
and most promising of all beach resorts along the Californian Coast. Their faith in
Newport Beach, it is not surprising to learn, has always been firm, and it is getting
stronger year by year. They have invested wisely here and now own a number of
choice residential lots and about eight houses, which they have built and which they
keep rented out. They have been in Orange County for thirty-three years, and if
anyone is likely to make a success of the business in realty so ably handled by Mrs.
Hawley, they are the old-timers of experience.
Mr. Hawley manages a large sporting-goods store at 305 N. Sycamore Street,
Santa Ana, and is the head of the firm of A. E. & E. M. Hawley, and is therefore
one of Santa Ana's piorieer business men; a gentleman of strict integrity, deep knowl
edge of human nature, and a reputation for urbanity and a desire to please, who
naturally has both a wide acquaintance throughout the county, and also a very profit
able and growing trade.
He was born in Cambridge, Vt., and when his mother died in Vermont he came
to Madison County, N. Y., with his father, Julius Hawley. He attended school near
Oneida, and it was there he met the lady who afterwards became his wife, Elizabeth
(Mallery) Hawley. She, however, was born near Lansing, Mich., but reared in Vir
ginia. She was the daughter of Gibson and Sarah M. (Chadwick) Mallery, both natives
of England. After his marriage Alfred E. Hawley engaged in manufacturing, becoming super
intendent of the Wescot Chuck Company at Oneida. They were manufacturers of
lathes and drill chucks. However, they had a longing to live on the Pacific Coast, so
came to Santa Ana in 1887. He purchased the small stock of sporting goods from
J. P. Hutchins, which business he enlarged from time to time until it is the largest
of the kind in the county, and he now has thirty-three years of honorable and suc
cessful business experience to his credit.
Mr. and Mrs. Hawley first came to Newport Beach in the boom year of 1888,
and the summer month of August, and it is natural that they should feel the deepest
interest in the building up of what today owes so much to them. They have three
children: O. J. and Ralph E. are associated with Mr. Hawley in the store, while Arline
married Terrel Jasper, and he is assistant postmaster at Newport Beach, and shares
in the popularity of the family. Mr. Hawley's enterprise leads him into being an
active member of the Chamber of Commerce, as well as the Merchants and Manufac
turers Association. Fraternally, they are members of the Maccabees, while Mr. Hawley
is a popular member of the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks, where he is much appreciated
for his native good humor and pleasantness.
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C. GEORGE PORTER. — A representative of one of the most historic American
families in Orange County, C. George Porter is well known as both the owner of a
very fine orange grove and also as a leading and helpful spirit in the local fraternal
world. He was born, a native son, in Orangethorpe, Los Angeles County, now Orange
County, on March 7, 1875, the son of Benjamin F. and Mary H. (Meade) Porter, who
have been identified with Orangethorpe and its district since the early seventies. The
father, who was born and educated in Tennessee, came to San Diego County in 1869,
journeying hither from Texas. He was a plantation holder in that commonwealth, and
was therefore always a man of influence. On coming to what is now Orange County,
he bought forty acres on the north side of Orangethorpe Avenue, and this his wise
and progressive management soon made known as the Porter Estate. There our
subject lived until he was married, on July 29, 1898, to Miss Jane Orell Jennings, a
native of Kansas, who grew up in San Diego; she passed away on September 11, 1917,
leaving one child, Charles G., Jr., and the memory of a charming woman.
In 1898 George Porter purchased fifteen acres on the south side of Orangethorpe
Avenue, and he now has a valuable grove devoted to Valencia oranges, which he markets
through the Specialty Fruit Company of Fullerton. Well-grounded in his education at
the Orangethorpe graded school, and later at the Los Angeles Business College, Mr.
Porter has operated successfully in both oil and real estate in the county.
On December 22, 1919, Mr. Porter was married for the second time, his bride
being Mrs. Alta Rose Rhodes, a native of Iowa, in which state she was educated; and
they reside in the fine Porter home built by our subject in 1898. A member of the
Masonic Lodge of Fullerton the last twenty years, Mr. Porter has been active there,
and he is a past master of the Blue Lodge; also belongs to Fullerton Chapter and
Santa Ana Council and the Hacienda Country Club. He also belongs to the Eastern
Star. In national political affairs he prefers to work with the Democrats, but he is
too broad-minded to allow partisanship to interfere with his support of any movement
properly indorsed and likely to benefit the community in which he lives and prospers.
CHARLES DAVID OVERSHINER.— Among the Federal representatives in Cali
fornia whose administration of office has proved satisfactory, is Charles David Over-
shiner, the popular postmaster of Santa Ana, who hails from Kentucky, where he was
born at Hopkinsville, Christian County, on December 29, 1863. His father was the mer
chant, John G. Overshiner, who married Miss Margaret Nichols, the daughter of David
and Mary Nichols, and by her had nine children, of whom five are living. Both parents
are now dead.
Mr. Overshiner enjoyed the usual public school advantages of those days, and
supplemented them in the field where so many men have acquired a rare education —
that of printing. Having learned the printer's trade, he came to California in June,
1883, locating at Santa Ana, and identified himself with the Santa Ana Standard, later
with the Blade, and still later with the Santa Ana Bulletin, in which he still retains
a half interest.
As a Democrat, Mr. Overshiner was active in support of his party, and on January
12, 1915, was appointed to the responsible position he now holds. His only child,
William H., is a graduate of the Santa Ana high school and the University of California,
and is a civil engineer, connected with the U. S. Geodetic Survey, stationed in the
Philippines. Mr. Overshiner is a Mason, Odd Fellow and an Elk, and has attained to
various chairs, his popularity in official circles even being eclipsed by that showered
upon him in fraternal life.
J. M. CALLAN. — An enterprising, progressive citizen, whose burning desire for
years at last drove him "back to the soil," is J. M. Callan, now handsomely rewarded
for the struggles of the past in the possession of one of the best-developed groves in
Orange County. A native son, proud of his association with this great state, he was
born in El Monte, on July 4, 1867, the son of J. M. and Ruth J. (Glenn) Callan. The
father came to California in 1850, and the mother reached here in the hardly less
stirring days of a decade later. J. M. Callan, Sr., settled at first in Northern California,
and when he came south, he pitched his tent at El Monte.
Our subject thus went to school at El Monte, and finished his education at the
Woodbury Business College. His father having died when he was an infant, his mother
married a second time, then becoming the wife of M. F. Quinn. The lad helped his
stepfather until he was seventeen years old, and then he began to work for an uncle
who had a ranch of 2,400 acres, and raised stock. This uncle was A. T. Currier, senator
from the thirty-eighth district.
On November 5, 1891, Mr. Callan was married to Miss Lenore Bronson, a native
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of California. She was educated at Walnut and Spadra, and was particularly fortunate
in having superior opportunities, from which she profited, for the study of music.
While a boy, it. may be mentioned, J. M. Callan served as page during three
sessions of the state legislature, and thus had the best chance to see and hear notable
men, and to be present on historic occasions. He came to know, in particular, Hiram
Johnson, and has always cherished the friendship, then formed. He was also a carrier
of telegrams between Los Angeles and San Dimas, and went the whole distance on
horseback. After his marriage, Mr. Callan farmed for four years, and then, in 1896, he
went to Arizona, trying his luck at silver and lead mining, south of Casa Grande, in
the Vekol district. After two years in that state, he returned to California and worked
in the railway mail service. He traveled on various lines, but chiefly on the Southern
Pacific, and ran especially between Los Angeles and El Paso, and Los Angeles and
San Francisco. His main interest, however, has always been ranching, and in 1912 he purchased
ten acres in oranges and eight acres in walnuts, grubbed up the latter and set out
Valencias. In 1916 he purchased an additional twenty-five acres, also devoted to
oranges, and like the other ranch, well watered by the Anaheim Union Water Company.
Now he is a director in the Anaheim Orange and Lemon Growers Exchange; and his
son Forrest is living upon a part of the homestead, and also forwarding by his work
the progress of California horticulture.
Two sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Callan. Glenn M. is the elder, and is
engaged in business in Fullerton; and the other is Forrest B. Callan, who married Miss
Selma Salveson, and they have one child, Lenore. Mrs. Callan died on November 30,
1918, and on July 1, 1920, Mr. Callan married Mrs. Bertie Bronson, born in Kentucky,
but a resident of California for several years.
Mr. Callan is a Democrat in national politics, although nonpartisan enough in his
support of local measures likely to help the town and county, and he is a member of the
Masonic Lodge, holding membership in Fullerton Lodge No. 339, F. & A. M., and in
Fullerton Chapter, R. A. M.
MRS. BETSY ANN HAZARD.— The ancestry of Mrs. Betsy Ann Hazard dates
back to the early days of the Pilgrim Fathers, when two White brothers came over in
the Mayflower, and from one of these Mrs. Hazard is directly descended. The White
family figured prominently in the Revolutionary War and in the early history of Massa
chusetts and of New York, Mrs. Hazard herself being a pioneer of Iowa; she was born
at Erieville, Madison County, N. Y., her parents being Elijah and Betsy (Cook) White.
Elijah White was a blacksmith at Erieville for many years, having come there from
his native state of Massachusetts, Mrs. White also having been born at Williamstown,
in that state. They were the parents of four children: Charles, William, Austin, who
died at Fallbrook in 1916, and Betsy Ann, of this review, and the only one living.
She was reared and educated at Erieville and on February 14, 1858, at Leeville, N. Y.,
was married to Robert Samuel Hazard, who was also born at Erieville, N. Y., in 1833,
only half a mile from the birthplace of Mrs. Hazard; he was the son of Ira and Clarissa
(Brown) Hazard, both of whom were born in New York and lived there until their
death, the father being a well-to-do farmer and dairyman, and was the first child born
in that village.
Mr. and Mrs. Hazard remained in New York for a year or so after their marriage,
when they removed to what was then considered the far west, settling in Blackhawk
County, Iowa, in 1860. Here thev bought a partially improved farm of eighty acres,
which they cultivated until 1877. They then drove their cattle out to Redwillow County,
Nebr., and later to Hitchcock County, in that state, moving into a deserted dug-out
that had been occupied by settlers who had been eaten out by grasshoppers and aban
doned the place. In 1881, Mr. and Mrs. Hazard, with their children, came to California,
settling in the Westminster district in August of that year. They purchased fortv acres
northwest of Bolsa, paying $700 for the tract, and moved on it February 6, 1882, and
there engaged in ranching until Mr. Hazard's death, which occurred very suddenly
from heart failure on November 23, 1895, while he was at work in the field. Mrs.
Hazard resides on the home place and rents the land to her grandson, Robert F. Hazard.
There were five children, two now living, born to Mr. and Mrs. Hazard, all natives
of Iowa except the third child, who was born in New York: Bertha resides on the home
farm with her mother; Frank became a prosperous rancher in the Westminster precinct,
the owner of 120 acres of land there; he passed away on January 22, 1916, at the a_re of
forty-five years. He was married to Alice Marden of Westminster, who died in 1900,
leaving three children — Harry is a rancher at Lancaster, Cal., is married and has two
living children, Eugene and Alice; Robert F. is a rancher in the Westminster district,
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Roland, Clyde and Kenneth; Luella, who married Gifford Giles and lives at Santa Ana;
she was reared by her grandmother, Mrs. Betsy Ann Hazard, her mother having passed
away when she was but two weeks old; the youngest of the Hazard children, Grace, is
the wife of Harry Bush, a shipbuilder at Harbor City, Cal., and they have one daughter,
Ethelwyn, now Mrs. Harry Griswold of Exeter, Cal.
Coming from a long line of patriotic forbears, it is but natural that Mrs. Hazard
should feel an intense loyalty to her country and this she expressed in a practical way
during the stirring time of the late war, being especially active in the work of the Red
Cross° While she has never allied herself with any particular church, she has always
lived an exemplary Christian life, governed by the principles of the Golden Rule. She
has never found any religion higher than the truth and she considers it her privilege
to discover truth anywhere and everywhere, adhering to the highest concept of life as
it is unfolded. A firm advocate of temperance, she has been a member of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, the Good Templars and other prohibition organizations.
HARRY RAY. — A pioneer business man of Brea, Orange County, Harry Ray has
been closely identified with the commercial interests of this fast-growing city since
1911, during which time he has been classed among the upbuilders of this district in
all progressive movements. A native of Ohio, he was born at Cincinnati on March
25, 1878, a son of Samuel and Louise (Hoffman) Ray, the latter still living and the
mother of seven children.
The third eldest of the family, Harry Ray received his education in the excellent
schools of his native city, also fortunate in having been able to pursue a course in the
hio-h school as well. When his school days were over he entered the mercantile
business there and thoroughly equipped himself for his career in life. When twenty-
three years of age he decided to come West, feeling that the best opportunities were
to be found here rather than in the crowded marts of the East. On his arrival he secured
employment with the Stern-Goodman Company at Fullerton, and for ten years was
in their store in that city. In 1911 he was sent to the new town of Brea to open a
branch store for his company, and was made manager of it, having demonstrated his
ability and integrity during his ten years' service with them in Fullerton. He later
bought their interest and for three years carried on a flourishing business for himself
and expanded the business to large proportions during that time. He then sold out to
Joseph Weiss, and was made manager for him, continuing in that position until he
resigned to embark in the general gents' furnishing business for himself, where he is
to be found catering to the best element of the prosperous oil-producing center.
Public-spirited and active in all forward movements of the locality, Mr. Ray was
the prime mover in organizing the Chamber of Commerce and was honored with the
first presidency of that organization, and later served another term, and as a booster
for the community he exerted a strong influence for the good of the entire section.
He is a Republican in politics and fraternally is a member of the Knights of Pythias,
the Foresters and the B. P. O. Elks of Anaheim.
FELIX BOZENTA MODJESKA.— Among the most popular favorites at Balboa
BGach, indeed throughout all Orange County where the memory of Madame Modjeska,
as both a genius and a noble woman, is held so dear, none enjoys a more enviable
position than the grandson of the famous Polish-American actress, Felix Bozenta
Modjeska, and his talented wife, residing on Modjeska or Bay Island, where the divine
interpreter died on April 9, 1909, and which she willed to her two grandchildren, the
aforesaid. He was born at Omaha, Nebr., on August 6, 1887, when his father Ralph
Modjeski, the noted civil engineer of Chicago, was engaged on the Union Pacific bridge
then being stretched across the Missouri River at Omaha. Ralph Modjeski was born
at Cracow, Poland, in 1861, and came to the United States with his mother in the
year of our national Centennial, 1876. Later, he graduated from the Coll. des Ponts
et Chaussees, at Paris, at the head of his class, with honors, and in 1911 was made a
Doctor of Engineering, by the University of Illinois. On December 28, 1885, he mar
ried Felicie Benda, of Cracow, a niece of Mme. Modjeska, by her beloved brother Felix,
by whom he had two sons and a daughter — Felix Bozenta, the subject of our review;
Marylka Stewart, wife of Sydney Pattison, professor of English in the University of
Arizona at Tucson, and Charles E. J., who is at present a student at Cornell Uni
versity. Ralph Modjeski, who is now a member of the eminent firm of Modjeski and
Angier, also independent as Ralph Modjeski, has been a consulting engineer at Chicago
since 1892, and for years has maintained an office in New York City, and he has been
identified with the designing and completing of many of the great engineering works
in the land, among them the Thebes Bridge across the Mississippi and the Quebec
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member of several of the leading clubs of Chicago and New York. He resides on Hyde
Park Boulevard, Chicago, and has an office on Michigan Avenue.
The early life, therefore, of Felix Bozenta Modjeska was mainly spent at Chicago,
where he attended the public schools and De La Salle Institute and the University high
school. He also studied electrical engineering at Armour Institute, and enjoyed the
instruction of men noted the world over for their mastery of modern electrical science,
and so became himself a recognized electrical expert. He was married at Davenport,
Iowa, to Miss Dorothy Hill, of Western Springs, 111.; and in 1910, following his
revered grandmother's death, he and his wife came West to inherit their enviable
property. They have two children, Felix G. and Ralph.
Some time ago, Mr. Modjeska formed a partnership with R. M. Simberg for the
establishing and conducting of an electrical engineering and supply business at Balboa
and Newport Beach; and Mr. Simberg takes charge of the store at the latter place,
while Mr. Modjeska manages the business at Balboa. As might be expected of those
who began with a reputation for exceptional ability and who have since added to their
laurels and by strict attention to the wants of their patrons, increased their number
of appreciative friends, these gentlemen have done well from the start; and they bid
fair to "grow up with the country," and to come in on the crest of the waves, at the
high tide of the beaches' prosperity.
ALBERT J. CHAFFEE.— Residents of Garden Grove for nearly forty years, Mr.
and Mrs. Albert J. Chaffee occupy an honored place in the community for the contri
bution they made to the upbuilding of this section of Orange County. A native of
Illinois, Mr. Chaffee was a son of Eber C. and Anna (Davis) Chaffee, his birth occurring
April 27, 1848, in Kane County, near Elgin, in that state. Eber C. Chaffee was born
at Bellows Falls, Vt, and when a youth learned the trades of tanner and currier, but
after removing to Kane County, 111., in 1839, he became interested in agriculture, im
proving a farm of 400 acres there. Mrs. Chaffee was also a native of Vermont, born
at Rutland, of Welsh and English descent; both parents died at the Illinois homestead.
Albert J. Chaffee spent his early life on the home farm in Kane County, 111.,
attending the public schools there and later the Seminary at Aurora, the Academy at
Elgin and the Rock River Seminary at Mt. Morris, 111. For a while he took up the
profession of a school teacher, teaching two years in Iowa and one in Illinois. Later
he became interested in dairying, running an extensive dairy near Elgin for many years.
He was one of the early promoters of that industry in that section, which has since
become famous throughout the country as a butter-producing market. He continued
there until 1881, when he decided to remove to California, settling at Garden Grove
directly on his arrival here. For a number of years he engaged in the dairy business
on the peat lands in the Westminster and Bolsa districts, but later gave over his time
to general farming, in which he achieved splendid success. Through different purchases
he at one time owned 140 acres of land, but disposed of most of it, retaining a small
acreage where he erected his commodious farmhouse, the trees which he planted now
having grown to a great size. Here his family make their home.
Of the twelve children of the Chaffee family, only two are now living: Alonzo D.
resides at Wasco, 111., and is eighty years of age; and Dorr B., who is seventy-eight
years old, makes his home in Los Angeles, where he is well known. Of the brothers
who are deceased may be mentioned Dr. John D. Chaffee, who came to Garden Grove
in 1875 and was widely known there and at Long Beach, where he had an extensive
practice until his death in 1907; Simon E. Chaffee was justice of the peace and notary
public at Garden Grove for many years and died there in 1916, at the age of sixty-nine
years; the oldest brother, Sereno S. Chaffee, was a man of means and figured in the
business and political circles of Los Angeles, becoming a strong Prohibitionist before
his death in 1894, at the age of sixty-eight; another brother, Fernando H. Chaffee, was
a prominent resident of Long Beach, living to be eighty years old, and dying in 1908.
Of Mr. Chaffee's three sisters, Mrs. Sarah M. Johnson was a resident of Garden Grove
before her death in 1899; Addie F. died in Illinois at the age of ten years; Mrs. Marcia
A. Ryder died in 1916 in Long Beach, aged eighty-six years, her son, Dr. Burns Ryder,
being a well-known physician there.
Mr. Chaffee's marriage, which occurred in 1873, united him with Miss Susan E.
Ambrose, the daughter of Rev. Samuel Ambrose, a well-known minister of the Rock
River Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in. Illinois. Mrs. Chaffee was born
in Maine, but was reared in Illinois from the age of six. Six children have been born
to Mr. and Mrs. Chaffee: Mettie E. is in the Deaconess work in Los Angeles; Edward
A. is a large rancher and apricot grower at Garden Grove; Dr. Burns S. Chaffee, a
physician at Long Beach, is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where he spe
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France, and was commissioned a captain; Ralph A. is a resident of Garden Grove;
Leila B. graduated from the Santa Ana high school and later from the Los Angeles
Normal, and is now taking a dQmestic science course at Santa Barbara; she taught five
years in the Garden Grove grammar school; an infant daughter died at the age of ten
days in Garden Grove.
Mr. Chaffee was a member and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Gar
den Grove; always a hard worker, he lived a clean, industrious and useful life, and was
found furthering every good work, especially the cause of temperance and national
prohibition. He died June 4, 1920, aged over seventy-two. Mrs. Chaffee, who is also a
faithful member of the Methodist Church, ably seconded her husband in all his good
works and is beloved by the entire community.
NOAH ULYSSES POTTER. — A highly esteemed family of Orange with an
unusually interesting association with the great World War, is that of Noah Ulysses
Potter, whose sturdy sons vie with him in popularity. He was born in Madison County,
Iowa, in 1869, the son of Ephraim Potter, a native of Michigan who settled in Icwa,
and there farmed. He also married there, taking for his wife Miss Mary Blosser; and
there he died. He had two brothers in the Civil War, one of whom was killed. All
of their five children are still living; but only the youngest — the subject of our sketch
— is in California. Mrs. Potter, the beloved mother, survived to give joy to all who
knew her, until March, 1920, when she died.
Reared on a farm, Noah attended the local public schools, and after a while
learned the carpenter's trade, in time marrying Miss Minnie O'Brien, a native of Illinois.
He worked at his trade in Madison County until 1902, when he located in California.
Four years before he had come to the Golden State for the first time, and had remained
here nearly a year, mostly at Santa Cruz; and then he returned to Iowa. The spell of
California, however, had seized him as it has so many others, and when he came he
chose Orange as the most attractive place, promising the most for the future. For
the first two years after coming here he worked at his trade as a carpenter, and since
then he has been in business for himself.
Mr. Potter has been exceptionally successful and has erected many buildings
of note. Among these are the Jorn Block, the Ainsworth Block, the Smith and Grote
Block, the Pixley and Edwards Block, the Eltiste Garage, the Struck Garage, the Boring
Buildings, the Christian Church, as well as many of the finest private residences in
the city. He built his own residence on East Palmyra Street.
A Republican in national political affairs, Mr. Potter was appointed on the non-
war construction committee for Orange County during the period of the war. His
son, Claud, who is a carpenter and assists him, joined the aviation section of the U. S.
Army and was stationed at Rockwell Field in this state until he was honorably dis
charged in March, 1919, when he resumed work with his father. Another son, Ray
mond, who is also a carpenter and assists his father, was in the war as a member of
Battery B, of the Anti-Aircraft, serving overseas, and was in active service in France
for six months. After the armistice had been signed he returned home and was hon
orably discharged. A third son was in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force, and in the
returned to tell the tale, he is with the Griffith Lumber Company at Orange. All
three of these worthy sons are members of Orange Post No. 132 of the American
three of these worthy sons are members of the Orange Post No. 132 of the American
Legion. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Potter was made a Mason in Orange Grove Lodge No. 293, F. & A. M., and
belongs to Orange Grove Chapter No. 99, R. A. M. Mrs. Potter belongs to the Her-
mosa Chapter, O. E. S., and is justly popular in the circles in which she is active and
best known. FRED A. GROTE. — An enterprising and liberal-minded young man who, by his
own unfailing energy and close application to the duties of the day, has risen to a
prominent place in the business circles of his native city, is Fred A. Grote, who was
born at Orange on March 22, 1886. His parents were Henry and Wilhelmina Grote,
the well-known pioneers, and in the order of birth he was the fourth of six children.
He was sent to the local schools for his early education, and in Santa Ana he
continued his studies at the Orange Business College. When his student days were
over, he entered the store of the Ehlen and Grote Company, of which his father was a
large owner, and beginning at the bottom, advanced through various departments
until he became assistant manager. Since then he has become one of the largest
stockholders, and as a controlling factor, is director and secretary of the company.
He belongs to the Commercial Club and also to the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association of Orange, in which organizations his counsel is often sought, and in un
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Mr. Grote is also interested in citrus culture, and owns a ranch of twenty acres
east of Orange, which he has set out and improved with Valencia oranges and lemons.
He is a member of the Santiago Orange Growers Association and the Central Lemon
Association at Villa Park, and loses no opportunity to advocate the introduction of
the most approved, up-to-date methods and appliances.
While at St. Louis, Mo., Mr. Grote was married to Miss Mathilde Schuessler,
a native of that city and a graduate of Strassberger's Conservatory of Music at St.
Louis; and their union has been blessed with the birth of one child, a daughter, Elinor.
Mr. Grote is a member of St. John's Lutheran Church.
A Republican in matters of national political import, and a most loyal American
citizen, always solicitous for a high standard of civic honor, Mr. Grote knows no
political partisanship when it comes to boosting Orange, town and county, nor does
he allow party preferences to stand in the way of endorsing the best men and measures.
In this respect, he sets the best example for civic reform and growth.
MRS. MARIA E. HEAD. — Preeminent among the most interesting factors in
the history of romantic California must be rated the lives of such genuine and worthy
pioneers as the late Dr. H. W. Head, who passed to his eternal reward on December
5, 1919, and his estimable companion who so admirably sustains his standards in her
charming home life at 520 East Sixth Street, Santa Ana. He was born in Obion
County, Tenn., on January 1, 1840, and as a decidedly pioneer physician settled at
Garden Grove in the far-away Centennial year of 1876. At Rives, then Troy Station.
Obion County, Tenn., on August 18, 1869, he was married to Miss Maria E. Caldwell,
a daughter of Waller H. Caldwell, a well-known farmer of Obion County, Tenn.,
where he was also a pioneer. He was born, in Henry County, Tenn., lived to hunt
not merely wild turkeys but grizzly bears in Obion County, when he first essayed to
set up his home there, and died there in 1891, almost eighty years of age. He was
married in Obion County to Elizabeth Morgan, who died when Mrs. Head was only
eleven years old. She left five children — three girls and two boys, of whom there are
only two living: our subject and a brother, Waller J. Caldwell, a farmer in Obion
County. In May, 1917, Dr. and Mrs. Head took an extended trip East, to visit their
old Tennessee home, and on the journey they stopped at Washington, D. C, and
shook hands with President Wilson.
Dr. Head studied medicine under his father, Dr. Horace Head, perhaps the
leading physician of Obion County; attended the Academy at Troy, Tenn., and later
matriculated at the Nashville Medical College, graduating in the spring of 1869. Prior
to his beginning the study of medicine he enlisted in the Civil War as a Confederate
soldier and participated in the following battles: Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro,
Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge (both battles), Cut Creek, Rocky Ford Ridge, Resaca,
Adairsville, . New Hope Church, Pine Mountain, Dead Angle, Beech Tree Creek,
Atlanta, Jonesboro, Franklin, Nashville and Sugar Creek. At the battle of Franklin
he came out with such torn clothes and so bedraggled and powder-stained that his
own uncle did not know him. The company in which he served throughout the war
was the one in which he had enlisted — the "Avalanche"; it was made up at Troy,
Tenn., and he became its captain. After his marriage. Dr. Head went to live at Troy
and there he practiced until he came to California. The first captain, by the way,
who organized the "Avalanche," was John W. Buford; and when he was promoted to
the office of colonel, Dr. Head was made captain. Dr. Head was a valiant soldier,
remained prominent in Confederate circles, and numbered his friends by the thousands,
as was evidenced by the attendance and demonstrations at his funeral, which was
attended by admirers and mourners from far and near. He had been commissioned
lieut.-colonel and judge-advocate on the staff of Maj. -Gen. S. Lerchfield, on January
1, 1905, and at their twenty-ninth reunion at Atlanta, Ga., in 1919, he was made
surgeon-general of the Pacific Division of the United Confederate Veterans. Always
an earnest advocate of education, he was for twenty-eight years a trustee of the Garden
Grove school.
Nine children blessed the fortunate union of this distinguished couple. Horace C.
Head is the well-known attorney. Percie, is assisting her mother in presiding over
the home. Lucy died in Tennessee, in infancy, as did also Ocie. Flora is the wife of
Marvin Johnson, of Los Angeles. Maggie Belle became Mrs. Newton H. Cox, the
wife of a rancher living near Blythe, Palo Verde Valley, Riverside County, Cal. W.
Clair Head is a rancher at Garden Grove, and Bessie, living near, is the wife of Anson
Mott, while Mary is Mrs. James Pumphrey and resides in Los Angeles. Dr. and Mrs.
Head were members of the First Christian Church at Santa Ana. Mrs. Head and her
daughter' Percie are charter members of the Emma Sansom Chapter of the United
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Head, like her lamented husband, is a consistent Democrat, and the Head family cast
fifteen votes for President Wilson.
Dr. and Mrs. Head moved to Santa Ana in 1905, and in 1919, they celebrated
their golden wedding very fittingly at the County Park. The local newspaper in
chronicling the event said: "The long table was decorated with golden flowers, and
conspicuous among the good things was an enormous wedding cake, made by a daugh
ter-in-law, Mrs. Clare Head, with the two dates, 1869-1919. At the extreme end of the
table, where the bride and groom of fifty years ago sat, was a clever poster made by
Hugh Johnson, a gifted grandson. At the close of the beautiful repast, H. C. Head, the
eldest son. arose, and after a felicitous speech, presented on behalf of the sons and
daughters, a handsome gold watch, suitably engraved, to his father and a beautiful gold
chain and lavalliere to his mother. Dr. and Mrs. Head have seven children and fourteen
grandchildren living, all of whom were present yesterday to rejoice with them. They
have lived in this vicinity ever since 1876, and for many years Dr. Head practiced his
profession. Often in an early day when there was destitution or sharp need, the patient
was taken to his own home and cared for by himself and his wife. Many of the old
settlers here have reason to remember these good people with gratitude. They and
their newer friends join with the family in wishing them continued health and
happiness." It was not long, however, before the same newspaper announced the sad news of
Dr. Head's death in the headlines: "Dr. Head, Well-known Citizen, Passes Away:
Active in Public Affairs — Served in the Legislature in 1884-85." It reviewed his ener
getic and fruitful life, and added this comment:
"Throughout his life in this section, Dr. Head was deeply interested in public
affairs. He was long a recognized leader in the Democratic party, first in Los Angeles
County and later in Orange County. In 1883 he was elected as assemblyman for a
district that at that time comprised the eastern part of Los Angeles County, including
what is now Orange County and the Pomona Valley. When residents of what is now
Orange County made a fight in 1887 at Sacramento for a bill for the creation of
Orange County, Dr. Head was one of those selected to go to Sacramento and work for
the passage of the bill. Throughout the active period of his life in this section, Dr.
Head was a power in various public activities. He was a man of genial personality and
forceful character. While unable to take part in public affairs in recent years, he never
lost his keen interest in them. He was a man of wide acquaintance, one who had
hosts of friends all over the county."
E. C. MARTIN. — Born shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War, and left
fatherless during the terrible days of that great conflict, the early life of E. C. Martin
was one of extreme hardship. Undismayed by the obstacles confronting him, however,
he has steadily risen through his own untiring efforts and now occupies a gratifying
position as one of the substantial and influential men of his community.
Alabama was Mr. Martin's native state and here he was born on January 20, 1860.
near Guntersville, in Marshall County. His parents were Asbury and Martha (Pogue)
Martin, and shortly after their marriage, which took place in Georgia, they removed
to northern Alabama. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Martin, all of whom are
living: Sophrona is the widow of George King and resides in Tulare County; James H.
is raising cotton in Arizona; William Theodore resides at Santa Ana, where he is in
the employ of the city; E. C, the subject of this biography, and Josephine, the wife of
William H. Barker, a fruit grower of Tulare County. Mrs. Martin removed to Colo
rado, remaining there for some time, then came to California, where she resided until
her. death in June, 1915, near Visalia.
Directly after the beginning of the Civil War, Asbury Martin enlisted in the
Confederate Army and was soon engaged in active service. During the desperate fight
ing in the battle of Chickamauga in 1863 he was wounded three times, and died on the
way to the hospital; like many others who perished in this fierce conflict, he lies in an
unknown grave. His wife was a noble woman and although her family had been
financially ruined by the war, she succeeded in keeping her little family together, but
only at the cost of the hardest struggle for a livelihood. When E. C. was five years old
the mother took her children to Bedford County, Tenn., and here she rented land and
farmed. Here he attended school for a few years, but his educational advantages were
meager, for as soon as he was old enough he had to. render what assistance he could
toward the support of the family. He began working out on neighboring farms, remain
ing in Tennessee until he was twenty-one years of age, and being ambitious for a better
education he attended Palmetto Academy, Palmetto, Tenn. He then went to Navarro
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tained almost entirely through his own individual efforts, and here he taught school for
several terms.
He then engaged in farming in Texas and through his tireless industry he became
the owner of a farm of 220 acres near Corsicana. This he devoted largely to growing
grain and cotton and to stock raising and in this he was very successful, becoming one
of the prosperous farmers of that vicinity. After a residence of twenty years in Texas,
during which time he had brought his place up to a high state of cultivation, he disposed
of it at a good profit in the fall of 1901, and came to California with his family in
January, 1902. They settled at Santa Ana and within a month after his arrival here he
bought the eight-acre farm at 1176 East Chestnut Avenue, and here he still makes his
home in the beautiful mansion erected by the late Mr. Crookshank for his own resi
dence. From time to time Mr. Martin increased his holdings until he had twenty-eight
acres, and this he steadily improved, continually increasing its value. Recently Mr.
Martin disposed of half of his acreage, retaining fourteen acres, which is planted to
walnuts, now in full bearing and bringing in a handsome income. He is active in the
Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association, and served as a director of that organization
for three years. About the year 1908 he bought a 428-acre ranch near Tulare, on which
he raised alfalfa for four years, selling the ranch at a profit; he now owns a sixty-acre
alfalfa ranch eight miles west of Tulare.
Mr. Martin's marriage, which occurred at Bazette, Texas, October 25, 1885, united
him with Miss Roxie Moon, a native of that state. Mrs. Martin was orphaned in her
early childhood and she was reared by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Pope, who accompanied
Mr. and Mrs. Martin when they came to California and spent their last years with them.
Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Martin: Martha Agnes is the wife of
J. Roy Adams of Imperial, who is in the real estate business there and a member of the
board of supervisors of Imperial County; John A. married Miss Rosalie Lyon and is a
rancher at Tulare; Charles E. is a graduate of the University of California and also of"
Columbia University, New York, where he received his Ph.D. degree; he is now assist
ant professor of international law at the University of California; Eva is a graduate of
the University of California, class of '18, and she has just recently taken her master's
degree; Edith Grace is a student at the Santa Ana high school.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and
Mr. Martin has been a local preacher in that denomination for thirty-six years, having
been licensed to preach when twenty-four years of age. They are very active in the
work of the church and for eight years Mr. Martin was superintendent of the Sunday
school and is now the teacher of the men's Bible class. A consistent Christian, his noble
Christian manhood has been a source of strength to the community. A Democrat in
national politics, he always puts principle above party in local measures.
JAMES F. CONLEY. — How much a young man may accomplish of what is worth
while if only he directs his energies and expends his time in the proper way, is admirably
illustrated in the case of James F. Conley, the rancher of Yorba Linda. He was born
in Clay County, 111., on January 8, 1871, and attended the common schools of Hoosier
Prairie. His father was a pioneer farmer in Clay County, and as the eldest of a family
of three sons, James hired out for farm work, at the early age of thirteen years, at only
eight dollars per month wages. Then, for some years, he worked equally hard as a
farm hand at thirteen dollars a month, and he labored in the broom-corn fields at one
dollar a day, to earn money to come to California.
While a mere youth, James Conley had looked toward the Far West with eager
interest, and in 1887, the boom period, two years before Orange County was formed,
Mr. Conley came out to Orange with W. H. Isom and was employed with Mr. Har-
grave in planting out vineyards around Orange and Santa Ana. He also worked
around as a ranch hand for Mr. Craig, and later he was employed by Owen Handy, the
pioneer rancher of Villa Park. The following year, on January 5, 1891, Mr. Conley
was married to Miss Nettie Handy, the only daughter of Owen Handy, now the mother
of their one child, Mary Gladys, who has become the wife of E. A. Taylor, the rancher
and expert mechanic of Yorba Linda.
In 1911, Mr. Conley came to Yorba Linda, the pioneer of the valley and the first
to erect a fine residence at Yorba Linda. He purchased ten acres of the best soil that
he could locate, and today he has a profitable grove of ten acres of Valencia oranges.
He is a member of both the Anaheim Union and the Yorba Linda Water companies,
and is well supplied with water for irrigation. The recent oil boom has induced many
of the ranchers to lease to oil companies, but thus far Mr. Conley has held aloof and
refused such offers. Prior to his advent at Yorba Linda, Mr. Conley farmed for six
years in the Irvine district, and during that time he was located close to the Orange
County Park, and before that, he enlarged his experience in agriculture by leasing land
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Linda, Mr. Conley lends a hand in every way possible for the advancement of the best
interests of the community in which he lives and prospers.
Mr. Conley was instrumental in securing the right-of-way and deeds to the prop
erty required for the Yorba Linda Boulevard, to be held by Orange County, and for
a number of years served as overseer of road work in the third Fullerton district. He
had charge of grading roads and developing new thoroughfares in the section around
Yorba Linda, and no road work in Orange County shows to greater advantage than
that vouched for by Mr. Conley. This ability to execute what is regarded as among
the most important of public works is recognized in such recent engagements as that
for Mr. Conley from the La Habra Heights Developing Company, where he acted as
foreman and completed grading and reservoir work laid out by the chief engineer. He
has also completed three miles of road work for the National Exploration Company,
in the Olinda district. Mr. Conley has participated in practically every important
movement for the betterment of Yorba Linda and vicinity, and it is not surprising that
he is among the most esteemed residents of the district.
BERNARD ARROUES. — Among the well-known families of Orange County is
noted that of Bernard Arroues, of the Brea district, where he has lived with his inter
esting family since 1912, and where he is welcomed as a progressive citizen and a
prosperous citrus grower, and general rancher.
France was Mr. Arroues' native land, and his birthplace was in Basses-Pyrenees,
where he first saw the light of day October 10, 1873. His parents were Jean and
Marie Arroues, farmer folk of that section of France, and here Bernard Arroues spent
his boyhood days, attending school and assisting his father on the farm, sheep raising
being the main industry in that locality. Coming to America at the age of eighteen,
Mr. Arroues located in Orange County in 1892, going into the sheep business. His
first three years here were spent on the Irvine ranch, and he then grazed sheep on the
old Bolsa Chico and Bolsa Grande ranches, the present site of Huntington Beach, for
seven years. Subsequent to this he formed a partnership with the Toussau Brothers,
and together they ran from 6,000 to 8,000 head of sheep. As this land was gradually
sold off and divided into small ranches, sheep raising was no longer so profitable,
so Mr. Arroues disposed of his herds, and in 1904 purchased a tract of 100 acres
southwest of Brea. Here he engaged in general farming, raising hay, beans and
corn on land that had never before been under cultivation. In 1907 Mr. Arroues
erected his comfortable home on the ranch, and two years later he set out twenty-
five acres of it to lemons and Valencia oranges, now in full bearing and bringing
him a handsome income. Recently he has added seven acres more to his orchard,
this tract being set to walnuts, oranges and lemons. He has installed a splendid
pumping plant of his own which has a capacity of fifteen inches, so that he is thor
oughly prepared to take care of his crops, no matter how dry the season may be.
At Fullerton, on August 20, 1903, Mr. Arroues was united in marriage with
Miss Marcelina Yturi, who was born in Spain, in the district just south of the
Pyrenees. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Arroues: Jean Jose, is a
student at the Fullerton high school, and Katherine, Josephine and Marcelina attend
the public school at Brea. The family are members of the Roman Catholic Church
at Fullerton. Mr. Arroues became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1900,
and ever since that time has been loyal to all movements that have' helped to build
up the place he selected for his home. One of the early settlers of this part of Orange
County, Mr. Arroues can indeed feel that his success is due entirely to his steady
hard work and the thrift and industry that are characteristic of his French fore
bears, as coming here with practically no means he has accumulated a generous
portion of this world's goods.
PALO ALTO FISHER. — A conservative, but very successful contractor active in
hard work for nearly forty years is P. A. Fisher, of Laguna Beach,, popularly known
by all who are acquainted with and esteem him as "OI' Dad Fisher," who was
able, some years ago, to retire to his equally well-known and appropriately named
ranch, Sweet Home." He was born in the Shenandoah Valley, Va., on May 19 1848,
the son of Abraham Fisher, also a Virginian, and an expert mechanic and blacksmith.
His ancestors on the Fisher side came from the British Isles, while his maternal ances
tors migrated from Holland. Abraham Fisher had married Miss Lucy Shepard and she
was a native of Pennsylvania. They both attended the Methodist Church, and Abra
ham Fisher stood so well m the community that he was the justice of the peace
Our subject attended the log cabin school, but only for about fourteen months,
and most of the education he acquired was after the Abraham Lincoln fashion— reached
after and seized by himself. An older brother, Benjamin, enlisted as a lad of only
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and after that awful conflict, the family found itself wrecked, with everything lost
save the resolution to work and retrieve.
P. A. Fisher remained in Virginia until 1872, and for a number of years worked
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Then he set out for Illinois, and on October
27, 1872, located in Woodford County, where he helped to survey and lay out the
town of Roanoke. He himself bought town property, and being on the high road to
prosperity, decided to take the next great step and set up his own domestic estab
lishment. Establishing himself as a contractor in painting, he also became police
magistrate in Roanoke, an office he held for twelve years; during the coal strike in
1873, he was appointed deputy sheriff, and rendered valuable service. He was also for
several years a member of the Democratic County Central Committee.
In 1909, Mr. Fisher came out to California and Laguna Beach, where he continued
to take contracts for work. Two years later, he purchased a ranch, in partnership with
his son-in-law, Frank B. Champion, located in the canyon three miles north of Laguna,
and containing thirty-one acres. In 1914, he built a fine residence there, and named the
farm, the "Sweet Home Ranch." In various ways he improved the property, and
brought it to such a high state of cultivation that he has been able to grow success
fully walnuts, pears, berries, apples and some melons and vegetables. At the present
time, Mr. Fisher is the sole owner of this very productive ranch, for in 1918 he pur
chased his son-in-law's share. On his ranch he has developed a valuable source of
water, known by the appreciative neighbors as the Joseph Spring.
In September, 1873, Mr. Fisher was married to Clara S. Robinson of Roanoke,
111., of Virginian parents, and two children blessed this fortunate union. Virginia is
now the wife of Frank B. Champion, of Laguna Beach, and the mother of one son,
Frank B., Jr. And Orpha has become Mrs. Raymond L. Jones, of Oakland, and the
mother of three children, Dorothy Estella, Orpha Clara and Raymond L-, Jr. Mrs.
Jones is a university graduate of Normal, 111., In 1884 Mrs. Fisher died, and on
April 18, 1886, at Roanoke, 111., Mr. Fisher was married again, this time to Miss Anna
Elizabeth Coverly, of Apple River, 111., who proved a kind and devoted stepmother
to the half-orphaned children; besides these children Mr. and Mrs. Fisher have reared
two girls, Mattie, Mrs. W. T. Summers of Long Beach and the mother of four children,
Frances, William, Beatrice and Martha; and Nellie M. who died at the age of eighteen.
Mr. Fisher is a Mason, and in politics he seeks to act with a liberal mind.
R. CLARKSON COLMAN. — Prominent among the successful young artists of
California may be mentioned R. Clarkson Colman of Laguna Beach, .who has made
that place in Orange County his permanent abode, regardless of future tours of the
world in search of life and local color. He was born in Elgin, 111., on January 27,
1884, the younger of two sons of Sumner M. Colman, a descendant from the well-known
family of Colman, that have lived for generations at Colman Station, named for them,
on the Illinois Central Railroad. His mother was Miss Charlotte Clarkson, also a
native of Illinois, the daughter of George Clarkson, who was a pioneer mining engineer
of Leadville, and a member of a family hailing originally from England where they had
been seafaring men for generations.
From his earliest memory of things, R. Clarkson Colman had a strong desire to
draw and paint. When very young he was influenced by the paintings of Henry A.
Elkins and A. W. Kenney who were artist friends of his family, and well-known land-
scapists of a decade ago. At the age of sixteen he studied with L. H. Yarwood, of
Chicago, and sketched independently through Illinois, and Southern Wisconsin, along
the Fox River being his most favored sketching grounds. Mr. Colman in 1903 joined
his parents, who had moved to Dallas, Tex., and established a studio there, making
numerous sketching trips to the Gulf of Mexico. He received a commission to paint
the old Indian forts of West Texas; commencing with Fort Concho at San Angelo,
at the extreme spur of the Santa Fe Railroad, continuing to Fort Pecos on the Pecos
River. This arduous but delightful task kept him busy for two years. He spent
some time in San Antonio, later moving to Waco. He exhibited at the principal
exhibitions in the state; taking first prize at the Texas Cotton Exposition, in 1920.
On the fourteenth of July, 1909, Mr. Colman was married to Miss Frances M.
Fannin, a graduate of the Mulholland School at San Antonio, Tex. Mrs. Colman is a
member of a prominent Texas family, closely connected with the making of the early
history of Texas — the heroes, Colonel Fannin and James Bowie, being of the same
family. She was the only child of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Fannin of San Antonio.
In 1911, accompanied by his wife, R. Clarkson Colman went to Europe, touring
Germany, and Belgium, and settled at Paris; where he studied under Jean Paul Laurens,
Academie Julien, and later at the Grande Chaumerie. He studied, sketched, and painted
in Italy and southern France; and visited Switzerland and England, in each advancing
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New World. Mr. and Mrs. Colman returned to America in 1913. After spending sev
eral months in New York and Chicago, they came to California, spending the first
winter in Pasadena, later having a studio in Los Angeles. The year 1916 was spent at
La Jolla where he painted and taught. In 1917 he was director of the Santa Ana Art
Academy. Laguna Beach, having been a favorite sketching grounds for some time, he
decided he had found there the "soul of his dreams," so, bought several fine ocean
front lots on which he has his studio and home. This cosmopolitan artist is a great
addition to the growing colony at Laguna. He is a member of the San Diego Art
Guild, the California Art Club, and the Laguna Beach Art Association of which he is
a charter member. The Popular Prize at the 1920 Annual August Exhibition of the
Laguna Beach Art Association was awarded Mr. Colman's canvas, "Summer Radiance."
Mr. Colman is one of our most successful and best-known marine painters, exhibiting
annually at Riverside, Pasadena, and Los Angeles, and in cities in other states. His
pictures have been shown in many women's clubs. The Santa Monica Bay Women's
Club recently purchased one of his paintings for their collection. He is represented
in the public library of Waco, Tex., and Ajo, Ariz., and many private collections.
Mr. Colman is an enthusiastic motorist, and the automobile is now the magic
carpet of the artist carrying him quickly to his desired sketching grounds. Since
coming to California he has painted the Coast from San Diego to San Francisco; and
declares the scenic beauty equal to the Riviera.
Good fortune seems to have attended this artist all his life, for he luckily
escaped death twice. When a boy, he was accidentally shot by a playmate, who sent
bullets flying wildly into his knee joint, and through his right arm; later he fell eighty-
four feet from a cliff, and escaped without injury. He is a Republican in national
political affairs, and an enthusiastic American. Both he and his wife have many
admirers in a large circle of friends.
EDWARD SPENCER JONES.— Another illustration of the lure of California for
those who have once lived here and wandered away is afforded in the experience of
Edward Spencer Jones, a worthy rancher, who by hard work and the application of the
best that he had to offer, has done his share and liberally, too, toward making Orange
County what it is today. He first settled in this country in 1874, but from 1880 to 1885
he was absent from the state and only returned in the middle eighties to remain here
"for good." He is a native of Illinois and was born in Huey, Clinton County, in the
Prairie State on July 7, 1857. There he received his education and early training in
the great task of earning a living and in 1874 he came directly from Illinois to what
is now Orange County. His father was John M. Jones, who married Miss Mary J.
Phillips, born in Kentucky and Indiana, respectively. The father was a farmer and
died when thirty-two years of age, his wife having preceded him several years. Three
uncles of Edward Jones served in the Civil War, Michael, Charles and James Jones,
the former and latter holding commissions as officers. Three children were born of
the union of John M. and Mary (Phillips) Jones, but the subject of this sketch is the
only one of them now living.
Left an orphan when fourteen years old, Edward S. Jones since then has paddled
his own canoe, working on farms in Illinois for a livelihood for a time. In 1874 he
arrived in Santa Ana, Cal., and found employment on the O'Neill ranch, where he rode
the range for two years; next he drove the stage between Santa Ana and San Diego,
being engaged in this hazardous work for a period of two years; then we find him
riding the range in Oregon and later in Washington and British Columbia. After
spending four years in -the northern country he returned to Santa Ana, which by
comparison he decided was the best region he had ever seen and here he settled down
to make his home and improve his ranch.
In 1885 occurred Mr. Jones' marriage to Maud Turner, the ceremony being per
formed at Santa Ana, arid their union has been blessed with four children: Edward M.,
Annie L., Jane and Frances, and all make their home under the parental roof. Mrs.
Jones is a native of Purdy, Tenn., where she was born on June 7, 1870, and presents
in a charming and unpretentious manner the culture of the South. All in all Mr.
Jones has had a valuable, if at times a discouraging experience along agricultural
lines. When he purchased his ranch he set it out to grapes, and these having proven
a failure, he set out walnuts. When he found that the soil was not adapted to their
growth, he put in apricots, and after testing the foregoing fruits, he planted oranges,
succeeding at last with his latest venture. Mr. Jones has been a member of the Santiago
Orange Growers Association since its organization. He has always enjoyed popularity
and nowhere more so than in the circles of the Odd Fellows, to which famous order
he belongs.

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JOSEPH W. SKIDMORE.— A native son of the Golden State, Joseph W. Skid
more of Laguna Beach, was born in Los Angeles on September 9, 1891, a son of
George E. and Catherine A. (Brenizer) Skidmore. George E. Skidmore was born in
Lamar County, Texas, on November 10, 1846, was a prospector and an explorer and
was one of the first to blaze a trail through Death Valley and, like others bent on
scientifically studying the unknown parts of the earth and in time paying a fearful
price for their intrusion upon untamed Nature, Mr. Skidmore's life was shortened
through exposure. He was married in 1882 and the family lived in Newhall, then
Riverside, and finally moved to Santa Fe Springs in the hope of benefiting his health,
but he died there on March 26, 1899. Mr. and Mrs. Skidmore had four children: Lee
Ethel, the wife of Oscar Farman, of Los Angeles; Joseph W., of this review; Guy,
who was born on the same day and month five years later than our subject and on
Admission Day at that; and Anita Maria, Mrs. Maurice D. McElree, of Orange. After
the death of Mr. Skidmore his widow married the well known pioneer, "Nate" Brooks,
of Laguna Beach.
"Joe" Skidmore, as he is known by his friends, attended the schools of Laguna
Canyon, and in 1908 was graduated from the Orange County Business College. His
first employment was by W. P. Fuller and Company of Los Angeles, and on Saturdays
and Sundays he worked as a life guard at Redondo, being an expert swimmer and
water-polo player. In the declining days of his stepfather, "Nate" Brooks, he assisted
in the management of his business interests and upon his death he assumed heavy
liabilities and became manager of his mother's estate; also for the C. A. Brooks estate.
Mr. Skidmore has made numberless improvements for the interests of the citizens
of the beach city, including the water system for Laguna Heights, which serves a six-
mile frontage. He bought water-producing land at high prices to insure against a
water shortage, and now there is a large reservoir in the canyon and three four-and-
one-half inch pipe lines leading into Laguna — one line being 25,000 feet long. There
are three reservoirs with capacities of 250,000, 40,000 and 100,000 gallons respectively,
the system costing about $100,000. Grading, leveling and subdividing is continually
being done, all to please those who live at or visit Laguna and Arch Beaches. There
is abundant evidence that the labor and money thus spent in bettering conditions,
and in advertising, have not been spent in vain.
Mr. Skidmore helped organize the Laguna Beach Chamber of Commerce, of
which he is serving as treasurer; is a member and the secretary of the Laguna Beach
Sanitary District board; has served as clerk of the school board and cast his influence
in favor of the most modern equipment for the school rooms; and also as one of three
members of the board of control of the Laguna Art Association. In fact there has
been no movement for the bettering of conditions at the beach city that has not had
his support and encouragement. With his brother, Guy Skidmore, he is owner of the
Coast Royal and Tract No. 99, and other lots and business property there; and he
and his wife own the famous Laguna Terrace and numerous lots in the district.
On September 18, 1912, Mr. Skidmore was united in marriage at Los Angeles
with Flora Bel Geier, a native of California and a daughter of Samuel C. and Nancy
Geier of Los Angeles, now residing in Laguna Beach, and they have two promising
sons Donald and Orville. Mr. aud Mrs. Skidmore and their family enjoy a deserved
popularity in Orange County, where he is known as a loyal "booster."
A. THORMAN. — An esteemed citizen of Tustin who has found here the comforts
and pleasures of home life, so that he has very naturally become a "booster" for
Orange County, wishing others to know the truth and to come here to reside, is A.
Thorman. the well known rancher of East Sixth Street. He was born in Fayette
County, Iowa, on December 10, 1863, the son of two sturdy pioneers, William and
Augusta (Schmidt) Thorman who came out from Germany to Fayette County, Iowa,
in about 1840, so early that they were sixteen weeks on their journey from Bremen.
There his father located on sixty acres and raised grain and stock. Of this union, our
subject is the only son and survivor.
He attended the school in the district in which he was born, while he worked on
the farm of his father, and remained at home until he was twenty-three years of age.
Then, for five years, he rented his father's farm, and after that he purchased land
and settled down to farming.
In 1899 Mr. Thorman's first wife died and having always had a desire to see
California with its balmy climate and tropical fruit, in comparison to the bleak cold
winters of Iowa he concluded to come hither, so he brought his children to Southern
California in 1900 locating at Pomona and there purchased a nine-acre orange grove.
While living at Pomona Mr. Thorman was married to Miss Maude Freeman of
Pomona, who was a native of Chicago, 111. In 1906 he sold his Pomona holding and
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acres, set to Valencia oranges and walnuts. He also owned 115 acres known as the
Rogers property, near Santa Ana, which he farmed for several years, when he disposed
of it and purchased thirty-eight acres at El Modena, which he has set to oranges and
lemons. He is a member of the Tustin Hill Citrus Association and the Santa Ana
Walnut Growers Association. The four older children of his family are: Clara, who
is training at the Angelus Hospital, Los Angeles; Otto has the distinction of having
served as a soldier overseas; and is now a rancher at El Modena; Emma, a graduate in
pharmacy of the University of Southern California, is now practicing at the City Hos
pital in San Francisco; Albert F. attends the California Institute of Technology at
Pasadena; the youngest are named Ida and Charles and are attending school at Tustin.
Mr. Thorman is a Republican, and he and his family are members of the Presbyterian
Church of Tustin.
WILLIAM J. HANSLER. — Few, if any, of the present generation of citizens
of Orange County fully appreciate the debt of gratitude they owe to the early pioneers,
those fearless and courageous men and women who experienced great hardships in
blazing the path for future civilization and laying the foundation for the present pros
perous conditions of the wonderful "big-little" county of Orange. Great honor is due
to these men and women and their names should be perpetuated in the history of the
county. Numbered among such are the names of Henry and Mary A. (Phillips) Hans-
ler, parents of the subject of this review. They were born in the Dominion of Canada
and New York, respectively, and migrated to California in 1876, locating near West
minister, in November of the Centennial Year, where they purchased the ranch now
owned and occupied by their son, William J.
Whether the early pioneers came to the Golden State by ox teams, across the
plains, sailed around the Horn, or were among the more fortunate ones who later came
by rail, they were all greeted by an uninviting, sandy desert in the section now known
as Orange County, formerly a part of Los Angeles County. It has taken many years
of arduous endeavor, great patience and endurance on the part of these hardy pioneers,
to make the desert waste blossom as the rose.
The Hansler family are descendants of an old Pennsylvania Dutch family that
moved from the Keystone State to the Province of Ontario, Canada, locating at Pelham.
William Hansler's grandfather, Andrew Hansler, lived for many years in Pelham Town
ship, where he followed farming and it was in this same township that he married
and continued to reside until he passed away. He could read and write the Dutch
language fluently. Great-grandfather Hansler was one of the first settlers in Pelham
Township. William J. Hansler's mother, before her marriage to Henry Hansler was Mary
Ann Phillips, a native of Cattaraugus County, N. Y. Their family consisted of ten
children: Asa, a farmer in Pelham Township, Canada; Sarah Ann, who died in child
hood; John Andrew, passed away when two and a half years old; Truman resides in
Fresno County; Elizabeth Esther is now Mrs. Edwin Wiggin of Colusa County;
Margaret Ellen married J. E. Miller, a rancher in Orange County; William J., the
subject of this review; Rosanna is the wife of Luther R. Newsom, a rancher of Stanton;
Julia Ann is the wife of Ernest Carner, who resides at Winkleman, Ariz.; Robert
Oscar, the youngest member of the family,' is a rancher at Seeley, Imperial Valley,
Cal. The Hansler family is a very large and influential one and every year a family
reunion is held. A newspaper of Welland, Canada, in speaking of the family says:
"The Pelham Hanslers have a record rarely exceeded. The homestead of Andrew
Hansler has been that of the family for the past four generations, 120 years. During
that time the property has never been mortgaged." The great-grandfather, as well as
the grandfather of William J. Hansler, were ministers of the Dunkard Church.
William J. Hansler was born in Pelham, Canada, on November 13, 1869. His
father having died before becoming a naturalized citizen, William J. was obliged to
take^ out his naturalization papers, which he gladly did, and is a most loyal and
patriotic citizen. Mr. Hansler became a member of the Friends Church, known as the
Quaker faith, uniting with the Alamitos Friends Church. His first wife, Miss Mary E.
Hirst, who passed away in 1899, was a member of that church. The second marriage
of Mr. Hansler occurred in 1915, when he was united with Miss Cora Alice Stith,
daughter of William Fletcher and Hettie (Hubbard) Stith, her father being a black
smith at Long Beach, employed by the Long Beach Water Company. Mr. and Mrs.
Stith are the parents of three boys and four girls; the boys have all passed away, two
dying in infancy, and the third being accidentally electrocuted while engaged as an
electrician at Stockton, Cal. The daughters are: Cora Alice, Mrs. Hansler; Nellie,
Mrs. Simmons of Picher, Okla.; Ita, Mrs. Riddick of Long Beach; and Bertha, Mrs.
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Mrs. William J. Hansler's grandfather, Rev. Jeremiah Hubbard, a minister of the
Friends Church, was sent by the missionary board as a missionary, with the sanction of
the President of the United States, to Indian Territory, to seek to pacify, civilize and
Christianize the fierce Indians of the Territory and of the Southwest. He labored
with telling effect for over forty years; He wrote several books telling of his experi
ences there, among them, "A Teacher's Ups and Downs from 1858 to 1879," and "Forty
Years Among the Indians." He also wrote several books on the histories of the various
Indian tribes. He was greatly beloved by the entire community, and when he died the
business houses of Miami, Okla., closed their stores during his funeral.
SAMUEL T. MILLER. — A highly esteemed citizen of Santa Ana who never
tires of sounding the praises of Orange County, is Samuel T. Miller, the retired
apiarist, who is also well-known as a wide traveler who has experienced no end of
profitable adventure. He was born in North Carolina on December 1, 1837, the son
of Nicholas Miller, a descendant of an early and prominent Carolina family, who came
to be extensive planters. His wife, the mother of our subject, was Nancy Smith before
her marriage, and she also descended from a fine, old-time family.
When Samuel was six years of age, his father removed with the rest of the
family to Rockport, Ark., and there took up a tract of raw land, commencing new
chapters in an arduous existence terminated only when, in Arkansas, he died at the
ripe age of eighty. Having attained the age of seventeen, the young man pushed out
into the world to support himself. At first he went to El Paso, then of importance as a
station on the way to Mexico, and as the headquarters of stage companies having
routes throughout the Southwest, and for a couple of years he was employed as a
stage driver. The route through the wild country constantly exposed him to great
perils. He was also exposed to both sun and storm, so that he was glad to say goodbye
to such savagery and engage in merchandising in Juarez, Mex., in which line he did
very well until the outbreak of the Civil War.
Then he furnished horses to the Confederate Army, and also other war supplies,
and when the Confederates had to retreat, he went with them, hoping to get money due
him which was never paid. Another six months of hard work as a storekeeper led
to his venturing into Mexico and starting a stage line from Monterey south to San Luis
Potosi. He kept at his hazardous task for eighteen months, when everything was taken
frpm him by the Mexican Army. Thereupon he returned to the United States and ran
a stage route from San Antonio to El Paso, Texas, but this was soon cleaned out by
the Indians. Then he was engaged as a guide by General Wesley Merritt who was
building up the old forts on the Mexican border, destroyed during the war, for which
services he received five dollars a day and his board.
Bidding San Antonio farewell, Mr. Miller took the New Orleans steamer to
Omaha, about 1867, and from there crossed the great plains into California and the
Sacramento Valley. He had really sailed up both the Mississippi and Missouri rivers,
and had tarried at Omaha for a while to work at the construction of the Union Pacific
Railroad. After arriving in California, he spent several years in farm work. Deciding
to return east to New York, Mr. Miller sailed for Buenos Aires, traveling on a sailing
vessel that took sixty-two days to make the voyage; and having seen something of
the country, he set sail again for Southampton and Liverpool. Then he steamed
across the Atlantic again to Philadelphia, and in 1870 once more arrived in California
at Sacramento. In 1873 he came south to Santa Ana, to which place his attention had been directed
through an acquaintance formed with a teacher at San Diego. He located on 160 acres
in Belle Canyon, built himself a log cabin, still to be seen, and lived there for fifteen
years before he got his title. He went in for bee culture and the gathering of honey,
and made a record as an apiarist with a harvest of forty tons of honey in a single year,
and had twenty tons left from the year before, so had sixty tons on hand at one time.
One of the results of these later years of hard, successful work is Mr. Miller's ownership
today of considerable choice residence property in Santa Ana.
Mr. Miller was married in Los Angeles by Reverend Bovard, in 1878, to Mrs. Amy
(Taylor) Inman, and they are the parents of one son, Cyrus G. Miller, a rancher at
Imperial. Mrs. Miller was born near Quincy, Adams County, 111., a daughter of Thomas
and Hester Ann (Rundell) Taylor, born in Tennessee and New York, respectively, who
were farmers in Illinois. Her father served in an Illinois regiment in the Civil War.
Afterwards he removed to Oregon where he resided until he died. He was a prominent
G. A. R. man. His widow spent her last days with Mr. and Mrs. Miller, and died at the
age of eighty-nine years. Mrs. Miller was educated in the public schools of Illinois
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who followed farming there until he removed to Nevada and later came overland to
California, locating at San Juan Capistrano about 1877. Her husband passed away at
that place. Later she made the acquaintance of Mr. Miller and they were married.
By her first marriage she had two daughters: Emma Viola, now the wife of W. A.
Webster, resides in Sacramento; Lorena is the wife of W. D. Anderson of Santa Ana.
Mrs. Miller is a member of the Congregational Church of Santa Ana. In national
politics a Democrat, Mr. Miller is second to none as an American citizen.
ARTHUR WEST. — An early settler of Orange, who for years has given freely
of both his time and means to advance the growth and prosperity of both city and
county, is Arthur West, whose pleasing personality has naturally drawn around him a
large circle of devoted friends. He was born in Wiltshire, England, in 1852, the son
of Stephen and Eliza (McCluen) West, the seventh in a family of nine children; and
while being reared on a farm, received the best educational advantages afforded by
the excellent country schools. When he had put aside his books, at the age of
sixteen, he was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade in Bristol, and having become
a master carpenter at the age of twenty, he worked for three months in London and
then came out to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, landing from the
steamer Mohongo in 1873 at San Francisco. There he worked at his trade until 1875,
when he came south to Orange.
At McPherson he bought ten acres of land; but as it was a very dry year, he
had no crop, and it became necessary for him to return to San Francisco to make
sufficient money to meet the periodical payments and interest on his ranch. On return
ing to Orange he assisted his brother Henry in contracting and building, erecting,
among other structures, the first two schoolhouses put up in town. Success followed
all of their subsequent efforts, and for the next twenty-five years they completed
many of the finest homes in Orange.
During this time Mr. West improved his ten acres, on which he also made his
home, and set out Navel oranges which grew into a splendid orchard, so that he was
able to ship thirty boxes of the citrus fruit to the World's Fair in Chicago, one box
of which was selected for presentation to Carter Harrison, at that time mayor of
Chicago. Just as he was hailed with the prospect of success, however, the red scale
appeared to alarm the citrus world; and as there was then no means known by
which to destroy the pest, the orchard was ruined, and he had to grub out the trees,
and burn them up. He then set out walnuts and cultivated them until they were ten
years old.
By that time science had found a means to combat the scale, and the section
in which Mr. West lived was found to be favorable to Valencia oranges, so he took
out the walnut trees and set out Valencias, and in time sold his land for $2,000 an
acre, a splendid price for those days; in fact, one of the highest anywhere recorded,
and that, too, for land for which he had paid only forty-five dollars an acre. This
sale helped to give a decided impetus to the local citrus industry, and Orange moved
to the front as a Valencia orange-growing section.
With Paul Kogler, Mr. West then purchased ten acres near Placentia Avenue,
not far from Anaheim, a tract with two-year-old Valencia and Navel orange trees,
for which they paid $650 an acre. This orchard he is now caring for, and as it is
already in bearing, it is very valuable property and a source of much - satisfaction.
About 1882, also, he purchased a block of five acres on what is now on Palm, between
Lemon and Glassell streets, where for some years he raised apricots and walnuts.
When, however, the town had grown and the time was ripe, Mr. West laid the tract
out in city lots as the Arthur West Addition to Orange, and he has already sold off
all but two lots, on which he resides. This investment has also proven very profitable,
as he paid only $500 for the five acres. Naturally, Mr. West is a member of the
Santiago Orange Growers Association, and gives- that wide-awake organization his
best support. As a lover of out-door sports— so natural to one born an Englishman— Mr. West
has been particularly fond of hunting and shooting. In the latter he has long excelled,
and his record at the contests of the California Inanimate Target Association, at
Stockton on May 30, 1896, won for him the diamond medal. He has also won many
honors in live-bird and clay pigeon shooting, and this has made him so well known
among the hunters of the state that nothing pleases him so much as when he can have
the time to spend m the wilds. He has also very naturally for years been a member
of the Los Angeles Gun Club. In national political affairs a Democrat, Mr. West is a
broad-minded, nonpartisan supporter of the best obtainable for local welfare, both
in respect to measures and men.

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COL. S. H. FINLEY. — It is not given to many men, as in the distinguished career
of Col. Solomon Henderson Finley, the civil engineer and county supervisor, to serve
their fellowmen in such a varied manner, and to serve them so acceptably, for he has
been a member of the Santa Ana Board of Education for two years, county surveyor
for twelve years, city engineer of Santa Ana for six years, chief engineer of Orange
County Highway Commission for two years, and for four years a member of the board
of trustees of Santa Ana, half of which time he was chairman of the board. In 1916,
also, he was elected supervisor for a four-year term. At various times he has served
as city engineer of Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and Seal Beach.
The Finley family in the United States harks back to good old Colonial days
and the generations that lived and died especially in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsyl
vania and Tennessee. Among them were Senator Jesse Johnson Finley, John Finley,
the poet, Robert, Robert Smith, Robert W., and James Bradley Finley, clergymen,
John P., the educator, Samuel, the soldier, Clement Alexander, the surgeon, and Martha,
the author so well known for her prolific output under the nom de plume, Martha
Farquharson, the Gaelic translation of her surname. James Finley was born and reared
within the confines of old Virginia so dear to his ancestors, but as the years went by,
he threw aside old traditions and removed to newer Kentucky, and finally as far as
Lincoln County, Mo., where he engaged in farming. He also did considerable surveying
in both Virginia and Kentucky — thus carrying on some of the good work begun by
no less a personage than George Washington.
While in Kentucky, a son was born, named Andrew R. Finley, who inherited his
ability as a surveyor, and for several terms served as county surveyor of Lincoln
County, Mo., including the period when he was judge there for a term. He was indeed
a versatile man, for he also maintained a woolen manufactory and superintended the
farm that he owned near Auburn, Mo. The year 1870 found him in California, first in
Salinas, Monterey County, and after a year on a ranch near Antelope, in Sacramento
County. In 1878 he came to Orange County and bought 200 acres of land near Santa
Ana. The land was so arid at first as to be of little or no value for crops; but two
huge artesian wells were bored, and thereafter irrigation made of the area a blossom
ing garden. In 1887 he sold the land to a subdividing company, which laid out the
town of Fairview; and then he removed to Santa Ana, lived here retired, and died in
1897, in his seventy-ninth year. He was a stanch member of the United Presbyterian
Church, which repeatedly honored him as their ruling elder. Mrs. Finley was Miss
Caroline Gibson before her marriage, and she was born in Lincoln County, Mo. Her
father, George Gibson, was a farmer of Scotch-Irish descent. She died in Santa Ana
on April 5, 1901, aged seventy-one, the mother of a large and devoted family. While
the family home was in Lincoln County, Mo., Solomon Henderson Finley was born on
October 10, 1863, so that he was about seven years old when the Finleys removed to
California. Besides the typical public schools of his locality and period, he attended
Monmouth (111.) College, from which he was graduated with the class of '86. Three
years later, he was honored by receiving the degree of A.M. from the same institution.
Returning to California at the close of his college days, Mr. Finley located in
Santa Ana and went into his profession, that of surveying and civil engineering. His
ability was soon recognized in his election, in 1891, as surveyor of Orange County, and
in 1899 he was reelected. During these years he laid out many additions to Santa Ana
and other cities, and was chief engineer in constructing the reservoir on the Modjeska
ranch, which has a concrete dam with a capacity of three million cubic feet.
As might be inferred from his enviable title, . Colonel Finley has had a military
career important as a chapter in the annals of California. On January 6, 1890, he
entered the ranks as a private, enlisting in Company F, Ninth Infantry, National
Guard of California, and gradually rose until, in January, 1895, he was commissioned
as captain. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, his company was mustered
in on May 5, 1898, being accepted as Company L, Seventh California U. S. Volunteers,
and Governor Budd tendered Mr. Finley his commission as captain. The regiment
was stationed at San Francisco, and was mustered out of service in Los Angeles on
December 2 of the same year. Subsequently he continued as captain of Company L of
the National Guard, and in April, 1902, he received promotion to the rank of major of
the Seventh Regiment. In 1904 he was commissioned colonel, and in 1908, at the
expiration of his term of service, he was retired with the rank of colonel.
Not less interesting nor important has been Colonel. Finley's part in the develop
ment of railroading in Orange County. Natural bent as well as first class technical
preparation eminently fitted him to become chief engineer and superintendent of con
struction of the Santa Ana and Newport Railway, which was later extended to Smeltzer.
In 1891 he was made chief engineer for the Bolsa drainage district, and constructed
its system of drain ditches. He likewise had charge of the planning and construction
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of the ditches for the Talbert drainage district, a work that extended from 1904 to
1909, and the Delhi district in 1910, and several other drainage districts of the county
at other times. He built, as has been said, the concrete dam for Madam Modjeska at
her ranch in the Santiago Canyon in 1900; and the following year, he purchased with
the Hon. P. A. Stanton of Los Angeles and the Hon. J. N. Anderson of Santa Ana, the
site of what is now Huntington Beach, and incorporated the West Coast Land and
Water Company, serving as one of the company's directors. They laid out Huntington
Beach, which was at first called Pacific City, and as engineer, Colonel Finley had the
responsibility of laying out the site.
On January 8, 1890, in Santa Ana, Colonel Finley was united in marriage with Miss
Ida Hedges, a native of New York, and the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Telford)
Hedges; they have had five children — Gailene, Malcolm H., Knox H., Wendell W.
and Rhodes A. Finley. The family attend the United Presbyterian Church, and the
Colonel belongs to both the Sunset Club and Radio Club of Santa Ana and the Demo
cratic party. Upon the organization of the city of Santa Ana in 1888, he was made a
member of the first board of education, and it was when he was secretary that the
Central school house was constructed. He was one of the charter members of the
Chamber of Commerce and served as one of its directors.
ELMER L. CRAWFORD. — An Orange County banker whose conservative
aggressiveness typifies the twentieth century spirit animating and directing- the financial
interests of the Golden State is Elmer L. Crawford, the popular cashier of the Cali
fornia National Bank. He was born at Danville, Iowa, on September 17, 1881, the son
of Franklin P. Crawford, and his good wife, Mary J. Six children blessed this union,
and Elmer was the third in the order of birth. Both parents are still living, and they
make their home at Tustin.
Having finished the usual courses at the excellent grammar and high schools of
Iowa, Elmer continued his studies at Howes Academy, at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, taking
a two-year teacher's training course, after which one year was spent as a teacher in the
public schools of Iowa. Not contented with this life, however, Elmer next enrolled as
a student with the Gem City Business College of Quincy, 111., from which he was
graduated with a master of accounts degree. When twenty-two years of age, he left
home and the Hawkeye State and came west to California. He found much to enlist
his attention and to appeal to his imagination for the future; but Santa Ana looked' best
of all, and in Santa Ana he pitched his tent.
In Santa Ana, also, he first engaged in banking, taking service for a year with
the old Commercial Bank. Then, for four years, he was assistant postmaster, and in
1910, at the time of the organization of the California National Bank, he joined its
staff. In the beginning, he acted as teller and bookkeeper, later becoming assistant
cashier and for the past two years has occupied the cashier's desk. He is also a
director in the bank.
At Tustin, in May, 1907, Mr. Crawford was married to Miss Maud Leck, a charm
ing lady with a wide circle of friends. He is fond of out-of-door life, especially moun
tain climbing, hunting, fishing and camping in the open, and together Mr. and Mrs.
Crawford enjoy pleasures unknown to those devoting so much of their time to the less
profitable attractions of society. In matters of national politics Mr. Crawford is a
Republican, but he is one of the first to volunteer for work in any local movement
eschewing partisanship and having for its goal the development of the community on
broad and permanent grounds, and the uplift of social conditions.
C. L. NORTON. — A successful, popular man of affairs, who always finds some
time to "lend a hand," and generally a very helpful one, to advance every worthy
movement in local affairs, is C. L. Norton, who was born on December 7, 1878, the
son of H. J. and Clara (Turner) Norton, pioneers who helped to settle the great
plains of Republic County, Kans. His mother died when he. the oldest child, was only
three years old, and so he was reared by his aunt, Rebecca Woodard. He attended the
little red schoolhouse of the district, and there got that fine general training which has
proven so useful to thousands and thousands of American young men.
In 1894, Mr. Norton's stepmother came west to California and Tustin, and at the
station of Aliso, on the line of the Santa Fe just to the south, was made agent. The
following year, the sad death by accident of his only brother occurred, and Mr. Norton
came to California from Republic County to attend the funeral. What he saw of Cali
fornia industries and California prospects interested and encouraged him so much that
he remained here. A stepbrother, E. B. Collier, also in time established himself in
California, and is the secretary and manager of the Central Lemon Growers Association.
Mr. Norton became especially interested in the handling of Navel oranges, and
soon became an expert packer. He worked in the packing houses at La Verne, River-

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side, Fontana and Rialto, and learned all that they could teach him. For a couple of
years he was connected with the E. E. Wilson Fruit Company, packers and shippers,
and is now with the Golden West Citrus Association as field man.
On May 26, 1909, Mr. Norton was married to Miss Lela Holford, the daughter of
J. D. Holford, a rancher of Tustin, who passed away in 1918. She was born at Tustin,
and attended the Tustin schools. She has grown up a talented artist, and still studies
with Miss Minnie C. Childs, of Chicago, who has established her well-known studio
at Tustin. Two children, Helen L. and Claude James, have blessed this marriage. Mr.
Norton is a Republican in national political movements, but nonpartisan when it seems
best to support local affairs without regard to party lines and for the real and lasting
good of the community.
HENRY DIERKER. — A progressive, broad-minded and liberal-hearted Ameri
can citizen who is such a distinguished resident of Orange that he has been pro
nounced "the finest old gentleman that ever lived," is Henry Dierker, a native of
Hanover, Germany, and just eighteen months old when his parents concluded to
remove to the United States. His birth occurred on April 5, 1840, and his father
and mother were Victor and Clara (Koenig) Dierker. They pushed on west into
St. Charles County, Mo., and at St. Charles became farmers. They cleared a farm
of timber and later sold it, and in 1858, moved to Wentsville, in the same county,
and there died. They had seven children — three boys and four girls, and of these
Henry and his younger brother George are the only ones now living, George residing
at Wentsville. Henry, next to the youngest in age, was reared on a farm, while he received only
a private school education, there being then no public school there. His oldest as
well as his youngest brother went through the Civil War, and during the raids of
the notorious Bill Anderson, Henry served in the Missouri State Militia for three
months. On Washington's Birthday, 1866, he was married to Miss Marie Gruer, a
native of that state, who died in Orange on November 7, 1913. They had ten chil
dren. Annie is "Mrs. Henry Benne, of Stanton, Nebr., and she is the mother of six
children. Ella is Mrs. Holstein, of Dodge, Nebr., and she has four children. George
is married and is a rancher here, and the father of four children. Tillie presides grace
fully over her father's home. Fred is a rancher in Orange, is married and has one
child. Ed is married, and lives at Orange with his wife and three children. Ben also
is married, lives here, and is the father of four children. Albert is a horticulturist
in Yakima, Wash. Harry is married and ranches at Anaheim, and Mamie .is Mrs. Will
Kogler of Orange. There are twenty-two grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Henry Dierker and his brother built a hotel at Wentsville, which he conducted
as the Wentsville Hotel until 1870, when he sold out his interest to his brother and
then removed to West Point, Cuming County, Nebr. The previous year he had bought
400 acres of land at $3.75 per acre, and he now began to improve it. He raised corn
and stock, and fed cattle, hogs and sheep, driving them to market; and he met with
such. success that he bought more land until he had 1,140 acres, paying for this highest-
priced ten dollars an acre. In 1891 he sold 700 acres at thirty-five dollars an acre, and
three years later he disposed of the balance at fifty-five dollars an acre.
In 1891 Mr. Dierker brought his famliy to Orange; and from T. J. Lockhart he
bought a forty-acre ranch near the town. It was set out to- walnuts, but he improved
it with oranges and bought first one, and then another ranch, until he had 115 acres
in all. When his children came of age, he divided the property up and gave each
his share. Then, about 1902, he bought his residence on South Glassell Street. He
has belonged to the Lutheran Church all his life, and has done yeoman civic service
as a Republican. Mr. Dierker has always been public-spirited, and while in Nebraska
he had the local school for two years in his house, and he also acted as school trustee,
and gave the two acres on which the school eventually was built.
ARTHUR E. KOEPSEL. — Prominent among the leading attorneys, who have
steadfastly sought to maintain a high standard of ethics for the Orange County Bar,
Arthur E. Koepsel, of the well-known firm of Eden and Koepsel, enjoys that esteem.
both indicative of the confidence of his fellow-citizens in the past and desirable and
enviable as a guarantee of profitable patronage for the future. A native of the
splendid commonwealth of Kansas, he was born at Yates Center on July 30, 1883, the
son of Herman Koepsel, a faithful and highly-honored clergyman of the Methodist
Church, who had married Miss Augustine Burchardt. After retiring from a rather
strenuous life, the Reverend Koepsel came to Santa Ana, Cal., in 1907 and in 1913 he
passed away, his devoted wife surviving him until November 20, 1919. Besides serving,
his congregation with the true conscientiousness of a shepherd caring for the sheep,
Mr. Koepsel served his country, when the Civil War broke out and the Federal Govern-

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ment had need, enlisting and fighting in Company C of the Seventeenth Wisconsin
Infantry Regiment.
Educated in the public schools of Kansas, Mr. Koepsel was graduated from the
Kansas City high school and for some seven years was engaged in railroad work.
During this time he stud.ed law privately and on coming to California in 1907, he
entered the law department of the University of Southern California, and on July
22, 1908, he was admitted to the bar and until January, 1911, he practiced in Los
Angeles. Then he joined the staff of the district attorney of Orange County and
remained there until the beginning of 1919. On January 1 of that year he associated
himself with Walter Eden, in the partnership already referred to, in the general
practice of law.
A Republican in matters of national politics, Mr. Koepsel has shown his will
ingness to do civic service by acting as a member of the board of health. He has
been an active member and is chairman of the Republican County Central Committee,
and is president of the local Republican club. He had previously belonged to the
State Militia, Company B, Third Missouri Infantry, from 1901 to 1903, and since
August, 1917, has been captain of Company F, Infantry, California National Guards.
At Santa Ana on September 1, 1914, Mr. Koepsel was married to Miss Alfreda
Holzgrafe of that city, a lady proud of her status as a native daughter and a member
of the family of Ferdinand and Helen Holzgrafe. One child, Vernon, has blessed the
union. The family attend the Evangelical Church and Mr. Koepsel is a Knights Tem
plar Mason and Shriner, being a member of Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S-,
Los Angeles, and also a member of the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks as well as the
Orange County Bar Association. As captain of the local company of National Guards
during the recent war, Mr. Koepsel gave much time and was active in recruiting men
in his company, where he gave them preliminary training, and of the 150 or more
enlistments in the army from his company all but three were made noncommissioned
officers,. JOHN WILLIAM FREEMAN. — An energetic, successful rancher interesting as
not only one of the first to grow alfalfa in the vicinity of Santa Ana, but the first to
cut and cure it in the green state, is J. W. Freeman, who has the distinction of having
had four sons in the service of his country in the great war. He had a very valuable
mercantile experience in Alabama in early years, and later conducted arduous and
costly experiments with garden products. Being a man of high principles, industry,
varied experience and definite accomplishment, he is everywhere esteemed by those
who know him.
Mr. Freeman was born near Montgomery, Ala., in September, 1860, the son of
J. Wesley and Carrie (Sistrunk) Freeman, of English and Holland descent and were
planters who owned 500 acres of good land there and raised cotton of a superior
quality. During the Civil War the devoted father died, and later J. W. Freeman left
home to go to Waco, Texas. He attended Burleson College, now Baylor University,
in 1878, and for nine years made his home near Waco, raising, with his brother, corn,
cotton and stock. While living in Texas, Mr. Freeman was married in Caddo, Indian
Territory, in 1886, to Miss Laura W. White, born in Missouri, also of an old Southern
family, who was reared and educated in Missouri and Texas.
During the height of the great agitation about realty here, known as the "boom,"
on September 14, 1887, Mr. Freeman came to California and settled in San Diego, where
he was employed in helping to build the old Coronado Hotel. At the end of six
months, he went to San Bernardino and was employed in the material department of
the Santa Fe Railroad, and only after a year and a half there, was he able to reach
Santa Ana and Orange County. He farmed on leased land, and then moved near
Norman, Okla., where he purchased 160 acres which he devoted to general farming for
about two years.
On his return to California, Mr. Freeman commenced farming again and went in
for the raising of alfalfa. He cut and cured it in the green state, and soon had the
largest trade, both in the city and the county, for the commodity. He also purchased
and sold various groves, at one time having two of ten, and then one of twenty acres.
He has recently disposed of all the land that he had in Orange County, and has invested
in land near Hemet, Riverside County. He has forty-two and a half acres, interset, of
walnuts and apricots at Hemet, and has a private electric pumping plant and well
with a capacity of ninety inches— one of the finest plants in Riverside County. He is
a member of the California Prune and Apricot Corporation. He is a stockholder in the
Cooperative Cannery of Hemet, and also owns stock in the Federal Grocery Com
pany, which has a chain of stores having headquarters in Los Angeles.
Fourteen children make up a very remarkable family bearing and honoring Mr.
Freeman's name: Henry A., of Los Angeles, is an expert interior marble decorator,

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whose skill is known at Santa Ana on account of his work in the Orange County
Bank; Claude W. is in the financial department of the Los Angeles Y. M. .C. A., a
position he has filled for seven years; James is farming in Fresno County with his
brother; Charles L. was formerly cashier for the Southern Pacific Railroad at Oxnard
and is now farming on his father's ranch at Hemet; Frank is also at home working
on the ranch; Carrie, having graduated from the commercial course of the Santa Ana
high school, is also at home; Minnie K. took the same course and was duly graduated
with honors; John W., Jr., is working at home on the farm; Clarence B. is on the farm
in Hemet with his brother; Ruth M. is a grammar school student; Laura A. is in the
intermediate school; Willie B. died when he was two years old; Mabel E. is in the
grammar school at Santa Ana; and Luella, the baby, is at home. The family attend
the First Baptist Church.
Mr. Freeman is especially proud of the record of his four boys for service during
the great World War struggle. Claude W. trained in Camp Lewis, then served in the
Ninety-first Division of the Three Hundred Sixty-fourth Infantry, where he was per
sonnel sergeant. He was in the Argonne offensive, and also in Belgium, and was dis
charged in May, 1919, at Camp Kearny, Cal. James A. entered the service in September,
1917, and trained at Camp Lewis. He served in the postal service in the Three Hun
dred Sixty-second Infantry, was wounded in Belgium, and was then returned to America
arid held in the hospital in the Presidio, to regain his strength and health. In February,
1919, he was discharged. Frank served in the Navy. He was fireman on the S. S.
San Diego, which cruised the Pacific and the Atlantic Coasts. He was discharged
from the navy on account of impaired health, but reenlisted in the army, and served
in the infantry at Camp Lewis until November, 1918, when he was discharged. John
W. served in the One Hundred Fortieth Regiment, Thirty-fifth Division of U. S. Army,
went overseas to France, was in the St. Mihiel offensive and Argonne drive; then
transferred to the Two Hundred Forty-second Military Police Company, having charge
of troops sent from France to England for trial.. He received his honorable discharge
from service at the Presidio, at San Francisco, September, 1919.
JOSEPH HELMSEN. — A self-made man whose many sterling friends were,
from the start, among his most valuable assets, and who, despite the handicap of
physical disability, amassed a snug fortune accumulated from small and unpretentious
beginnings, was the late Joseph Helmsen, who died on September 11, 1917. He
was born at Leavenworth, Kans., on January 23, 1861, the son of Jeseph Helmsen,
who had married Miss Elizabeth Hesse, parents who were well-to-do and disposed
to favor him in every way; but when a child of tender years, he became afflicted
with hip disease, and specialists were called from distant cities to minister to and
cure him,- if they could. Among the incidents of those troubled days to which he
later referred was the gift from his father and mother of a profusion of toys, pro
cured from far and near, when he was a bed-ridden sufferer, and then children came to
play with him, stimulated by his unwonted cheerfulness, all his life a characteristic
of him.- When his ailment was finally found to be such that no medical aid could
come to his rescue, he was nursed into such convalescence as was possible, and after
years of painful illness, he was able to get about on crutches.
In the days following the Civil War, the fortunes of his parents failed, and tc
add to his miseries, his father, after whom he was named, fell dead of sunstroke as
the lad was succeeding in making his way about the old home. This was a great blow
to the prosperity and hopes of the family; and after enduring the privations of a
scanty income for years, he and his mother set out in 1874 for California. Their
farm at Leavenworth had already been practically abandoned; for years it had yielded
no revenue, and in 1873 a plague of grasshoppers took from them what little there
remained of a once ample fortune. They reached San Francisco in 1874, and young
Helmsen assisted his mother by gathering kindling from the Palace Hotel, which was
then in course of erection. He filled a gunny sack with this material, and many
were the encounters he experienced with city boys before -reaching his humble abode
with the fuel.
In April, 1875, young Helmsen and his mother took passage on the steamship
Ventura bound for Anaheim, and on the eighteenth of the month, off the coast of Mon
terey, the vessel was wrecked and the passengers had to make for the shore in life
boats. Being a cripple, Helmsen was put aboard one of the first boats that got away
from the ill-fated ship; and, seeirig that his mother was still aboard the sinking vessel,
he sought to leap into the sea and return to her. In. this he was prevented; but, as
the boat neared the beach, he sprang into the waters and tried to get back to the
ship. He was picked up by John Bush, of Olive, uncle of the gentleman of that name
now of Anaheim, who was also on the boat, and who thus saved him from drown-

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ing. He spent the night on the shore with other passengers who had been rescued,
and not until the next morning did he find his mother — after hours of indescribable
strain and mental agony. All of their scant belongings, together with their savings,
which were in a trunk, went down with the ship; but they were able to continue
south to Anaheim, where they arrived some days after the disaster.
Here his mother found employment, and young Helmsen was not slow in obtain
ing odd jobs about town to assist in keeping the wolf from the door. He soon
secured a position in the Gazette office and learned to set type, at which he became an
adept, and after some years of close application he and his mother saved enough
money to establish a fruit and candy store in West Center Street, near where the
post office now stands. Here they remained for years, saving their money and prac
ticing the most rigid economy. During this time the wonderful climate of the South
land restored his health, and he discarded his crutches and gained flesh; he was six feet
in stature and weighed about 215 pounds, and was a man of pleasing personality.
In 1885, the farm in Kansas having appreciated in value, under an honest admin
istrator, Mr. Helmsen returned to Leavenworth and sold his holding for $10,000, a
sum which he brought back to California and invested advantageously. He purchased
forty acres of land at Placentia, when land on Placentia avenue was selling for fifty
dollars an acre, paying for the same just $2,000, which he improved, and later sold the
tract for $17,000. He made other investments here, and established himself in busi
ness in the building now owned by John Cassou on West Center Street, and later
purchased the property adjoining this building on the east, and up to his retirement
from business in 1913 conducted his stationery and notion establishment at that place.
For this property he paid about $6,000, and it is now worth at least $50,000. He also
purchased property on East Center, South Claudina and Olive streets, and was one
of the organizers of the German-American Bank, becoming one of the heaviest stock
holders and its vice-president, which office he held until his death.
Mr. Helmsen was also interested in land in the Imperial Valley, where he
acquired 640 acres of school land; he sold a quarter section of it, and the balance is
still owned by Mrs. Helmsen.
In 1911 Mr. Helmsen was married to Mrs. Jane D. (Cross) Green, born at Chau
mont, Jefferson County, N. Y., the daughter of Geo. W. and Harriet Canfield (McPher
son) Cross. The father died at Cape Vincent, and his widow, with her four chil
dren, came to Orange County in 1885, where her two brothers, Stephen and Robt.
McPherson, were large ranchers. She now makes her home with Mrs. Helmsen, at
the age of seventy-six years. Mrs. Helmsen came to Anaheim about twenty-seven
years ago as manager for the Western Union Telegraph Company, and later for eight
years was assistant postmaster of Anaheim. She still owns the Helmsen Block on
West Center Street. Mr. Helmsen gave to the town half of the lot on which the
City Hall now stands, and he was a trustee of Anaheim for eight years, half of that
time serving as mayor or chairman of the board. He was a prominent Mason, belong
ing to the Anaheim Lodge, of which he was secretary for nineteen years. He was also
known as "the boys' friend," and started many of them on the road to success and
fortune. He taught them to save, to keep out of pool rooms and loafing places, and to
lead clean and honest lives; and it is impossible, therefore, to state how far-reaching
was his example and influence for good, and his life is certainly worthy of emulation.
EMIL R. TURCK. — To learn one thing thoroughly, and then to spend the active
years of life in the industry for which both study and natural inclination have fitted one,
is to carry on the world's work to the best of any maris ability, and it is such work
that is building up our civilization of today. Such a man is Emil R. Turck, one of the
prominent citizens of Orange County. Born August 6, 1857, in Brandenburg, Germany,
he received his education in the public schools of that country, and in the engineering
school, later taking a course in sugar chemistry in a German college. He has followed
the sugar industry all his life since finishing his studies, and in Germany was chemist
in the leading sugar factories.
Coming to the United States, in 1890, Mr. Turck was chief chemist for the sugar
beet company at Grand Island, Nebr. When the American Sugar Factory was being
built, at Chino, Cal., in 1891-92, he came there and was chief chemist at that factory
for fourteen years, up to 1906, when he located at Anaheim, and for a time gave up
his life work to engage in horticulture. He bought seven acres of land on South
Lemon Street, and planted an orange grove, which he brought to a high state of culti
vation. In 1913, Mr. Turck became chief chemist for the Anaheim Sugar Company, and
continued in that position until 1917, when he retired and spends his time looking after
a twenty-acre orange grove, the property of his wife and her sister, situated on North
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development of the comparatively new industry in the state, and as such takes rank
with other able men who have helped, each individual to the best of his ability in his
chosen line, in making California the richest state in the union. It is to such that
the praise of posterity is due.
The marriage of Mr. Turck united him with Clementine E. Schmidt, daughter of
Theodore Schmidt, one of the original fifteen settlers of Anaheim, who came from
Germany in 1857 and bought 1,200 acres at the purchase price of two dollars per acre,
and founded the town of Anaheim; Mr. Schmidt himself selected the name of 'the
town. Water was brought from the river, vineyards planted and the town started.
A more extensive biography of Mr. Schmidt will be found elsewhere in the work, and
of the body of men who made this garden spot of the state possible.
One son has blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Turck; Arthur W., a graduate
of the University of California with the class of 1919, and who served as ensign in the
U. S. Navy during the World War, doing his share to preserve the rights of his
country, though he did not see foreign service. He is now with a bond and banking
house in Oakland. Fraternally, Mr. Turck is a member of the Mother Colony Club
of Anaheim, and of the Odd Fellows. All movements that mean the upbuilding and
development of the county have received his substantial assistance, and his unqualified
approval for the advancement of his community.
JACOB MUELLER. — A very successful citrus grower who, with the aid of his
good wife and excellent family, has amassed, after the hard work and residence of a
third of a century in Orange, a comfortable competency, is Jacob Mueller, a native of
Schawallingen, Saxe-Meiningen, in the heart of Germany, where he was born in 1860.
There he attended school, and early received such a substantial grounding in the things
worth while knowing, that later, in more leisure hours, he has been able by self-culture
to add materially to his knowledge and capability. He was also so well drilled in the
practical affairs of life that when he pushed out and was far away from home in the New
World, he was better able than many other pioneers to grapple with raw and difficult
conditions. When just twenty years of age, Mr. Mueller crossed the Atlantic to the United
States at a time when the tide of emigration from Germany was still at its height, and
tarrying but -a short time in the great metropolis of New York, he made his way west
to Allen County, Kans., and at Humboldt he followed for seven years his trade, which
was that of a stonemason. While in Humboldt he was married to Miss Johanna
Hoffman, a native of Wallbach, Saxe-Meiningen, Germany, and the daughter of Valen
tine and Caroline (Goldschmidt) Hogman. Her father was also a stonemason, and
brought her out to Allen County, Kans., when she was fourteen years old, and in that
state both he and his wife passed to their eternal reward. A sister of Mrs. Mueller
remained in Germany and died there. A brother came to Kansas, and during the Span
ish-American War enlisted in the United States Navy. He served on the "Mariette"
and accompanied the "Oregon" around Cape Horn. It is thought that he went to
South Africa during the Boer War, but he has not been heard from for many years, and
is probably dead. Mrs. Mueller, therefore, is probably the only member of the Hoffman
family now living.
From Humboldt, Kans., on June 25, 1887 — the year of the great "boom" in Cali
fornia — Mr. Mueller and his bride came to Orange County and settled at Orange, and
for about a year he worked out by the day. The next year, he leased the Gallagher
place, now the Fairhaven Cemetery. He bought his first place, consisting of eleven
acres, at the corner of Fairhaven and Grand avenues, on October 30, 1895. It was set
out to walnuts at that time, and he and his devoted wife had to work very hard to care
for it and make it pay. Since then he has replanted the acreage, so that it is now in
anricots, Valencia oranges and lemons, and has built a substantial and ornate cement-
block dwelling house, and made many other improvements.
His next purchase was the plot of land now his home-place on Fairhaven Avenue,
at the south end of Glassell Street, consisting of 11.59 acres, which he bought on July
12, 1897. He made his third and last purchase on January 7, 1901, when he bought 7.17
acres on Grand Avenue, adjoining the eleven acres he first acquired. All three of these
places are situated in the southern part of the city of Orange, in a section giving every
promise of a bright future. Besides that, Mr. Mueller owns some residence property in
Anaheim, and also some residence property at Huntington Beach . He is a member of
the Santiago Orange Growers Association, the Villa Park Lemon Growers Association
and the Orange Walnut Growers Association.
During these years of strenuous activity, Mr. and Mrs. Mueller have reared an
attractive family of six children. The eldest, Gustav Herman, studied at St. John's
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Sweet Springs, Mo. He became a rancher at Orange, and died on March 1, 1920,
lamented by a wide circle of friends, and leaving a widow and one child, Alvira. Emil
Carl, the second in the order of birth, was in the United States Army, serving overseas
in France and after the armistice was with the Army of Occupation stationed at
Coblenz, Germany, until he returned to the United States, when he was mustered out
in August, 1920, and is now at home. Ernest F. Mueller is a graduate of Oakland Col
lege and afterwards from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and ordained a minister in
the Lutheran Church, is now pastor at San Luis Obispo. He married Miss Emily F.
Thommen of Oakland. Lillie Marie and Lydia Louise Mueller, twins, are graduates
of the German Lutheran School at Orange, of which the youngest child, Annie R.
Mueller, is also a graduate. The family are members of St. John's Lutheran Church
at Orange. Mr. Mueller is a naturalized American citizen, and no one is more patriotic
or public-spirited. In 1905, he erected his substantial two-story house of twelve rooms,
up-to-date in all its appointments, and having a beautiful porch facing the southern end
of Glassell Avenue and commanding a clear view of the American flag on the liberty
pole at the Plaza in Orange. Of a sunny, philosophical, optimistic, common-sense tem
perament, Mr. Mueller is a good neighbor and a good friend, and is always appreciated
by those who know his character and his conversational powers as "good company."
HARVEY B. ROYER. — An expert machinist who has proven himself to be a
successful rancher is Harvey B. Royer, one of the dependable employes of the Santa
Fe Railroad since 1909 and now also farming along the Romneya Drive, to the south
west of Fullerton. He was born at Lockhaven, Clinton County, Pa., on August 23, 1871,
a member of a family dating back to the early days of the Keystone State. His father
was Franklin V. Royer, a lumber man who purchased whole groves of forest, cut them
down and ran the timber through his own mills; and so extensive was his business
that it developed in several counties, including Center, Clinton, Union, Lycoming and
Cambria. He died in Pennsylvania in 1900. His widow was Susan (Brungard) Royer,
born in Pennsylvania and now makes her home with her son Harvey.
Harvey B. Royer attended the public schools of Clinton County, Pa., and remained
with his father until he was twenty-five years old, at which time his father's mills
burned down. Then he began to rebuild them, and took complete charge of the busi
ness. In 1900, he sold out and went to Johnstown, Pa.; and there he worked as a
machinist in the employ of the Cambria Steel Company. Whatever he did, he so
thoroughly carried out as to insure those for whom he was working of his intelligent,
honest and expert service. In 1909 Mr. Royer came to California and settled in Los
Angeles, and from 1909 to the present time has been a machinist with the Santa Fe
Railroad Company, working on locomotives and giving genuine satisfaction to that
well-equipped organization for difficult problems and delicate work. In 1912, he bought
twelve acres in Orangethorpe on Romneya Drive, and in 1913 he moved his family
to the ranch. When he bought the land, it was a barley field, and he himself set out
the ten acres to Valencia oranges. He has his own private pumping plant and so
supplies what water he needs for irrigation. His products in fruit he markets through
the Stewart Fruit Company of Anaheim.
Mr. Royer's mother, Miss Susan Brungard before her marriage, was a woman of
such superiority that it is not surprising that when our subject married, on June 25,
1895, he should choose, in Miss Rosie Schwenk, a helpmate worthy in every respect and
promising from the first to be just the companion that he needed. She was born in the
locality of his birthplace, and educated in the grade schools of Clinton County. Her
father, Benjamin Schwenk, was a lumberman who engaged in business in the same
way that the Royers had followed. He passed away in 1912, while his wife, Emma
(Barges) Schwenk, died in 1916. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Royer;
and the two sons have both distinguished themselves in the service of their country.
Miss Ruth is the daughter, and her brothers are Merril C. and Le Roy H. Royer. Mrs.
Royer belongs to the Presbyterian Church of Anaheim, and Mr. Royer is a member
of the Knights of Pythias and also the Odd Fellows of the same city.
Merrill C. Royer enlisted on August 31, 1918, as a military engineer and was sent
to the Berkeley Training School; and on October 30, he left for Fort Myers, Va., and
later he was sent to Camp Leach, Washington, D. C. He was serving in Company K
of the Twenty-ninth Engineering Corps when he was shot during target practice, the
bullet penetrating his spine; and it is said to have been miraculous that he recovered
from such a wound. This delayed his progress so that he was not ready to sail for
France until the armistice had been signed. On December 21, 1919, he was discharged
at Camp Kearny, after which he returned to civilian life. He married Miss Rose
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LeRoy H. Royer enlisted on March 27, 1918, in the quartermaster's corps, and
spent three weeks at Fort McDowell, after which he was sent to Camp Johnson at
Jacksonville, Fla. He sailed from Hoboken, N. J., for France, after spending a few days
at Camp Upton, N. Y., and bade good-bye to America on September 13, in a convoy
of fifteen ships, landing at Glasgow, Scotland. He stayed in Camp Romsey near Liver
pool, and then went through Southhampton to Havre, France. He served in the motor
transport service, and was stationed at such places as Tours, La Rouchelle, Nantes
and St. Nazaire. On May 26, 1919, Mr. Royer returned to the United States, and on
June 5 at Camp Mills, N. J., he was honorably discharged. Four days later he returned
to California and is now attending Fullerton high and also assisting his father in caring
for the ranch.
HENRY GROTE. — One of the earliest settlers and prominent residents of Orange
was the late Henry Grote, who was privileged to contribute much toward the building
up of both the city and nearby country districts. In his good work he was ably assisted
by his wife, an excellent woman of business ability, so that both Mr. and Mrs. Grote
enjoyed a wide circle of worth-while friends.
Mr. Grote was born in Rehburg, Hanover, Germany, on August 23, 1842, the son
of Henry and Mary (Meyer) Grote, both of whom came to America and spent their
last days in comfort at Bremen, Kans. They had four children — two boys and two
girls — and among these, Henry was the oldest.
He was brought up at the old homestead, and educated in the public schools;
and in time he learned the trade of a harness maker and saddler. In 1866 he came to
the United States and located in Chicago; and for a while he was employed at farm
labor. In 1868 or '69 he removed to Bremen, Marshall County, Kans.; and having
undertaken to homestead 160 acres of raw land, he turned the first furrows in the soil.
He planted corn and wheat, and raised stock; and for nine years continued as one of
the progressive and successful farmers of that region.
In 1882, however, stirred by the reports of better things in California to be had
for the coming, Mr. Grote sold out his Kansas property and moved to the Pacific
Coast, and in the town of Orange he bought fifteen acres lying between North Shaffer
and Pine streets, and running from Chapman to Maple. The land had been set out as a
vineyard, but the vines died, and then he set out walnuts and apricots. Later, when
the town grew, he laid out the Henry Grote addition to Orange, in 1888, and sold lots
at fancy prices, and now it is nearly built up as a residence district.
In time, Mr. Grote joined P. W. Ehlen under the firm name of Ehlen and Grote,
and conducted a general mercantile business, and such was their success in expanding
their trade that they incorporated the concern as the Ehlen and Grote Company, and
they built the Ehlen and Grote block, which they still own. Mr. Grote has also owned
and improved and several ranches, and with Mr. Ehlen he was interested in the National
Bank of Orange and the Orange Savings Bank. Both Mr. and Mrs. Grote were heavily
interested in the Ehlen and Grote Investment Company, in which they were directors;
Mr. Grote was vice-president, and Mrs. Grote is secretary of the organization.
At Bremen, Kans., on October 16, 1873, Mr. Grote was married to Miss Wilhelnrne
Dusin, a native of Pomerania, Germany, and the daughter of Henry and Louisa (Kartt)
Dusin. With her brother, August, the only other child, she came to Bremen, Kans., in
the spring of 1873, and there met Mr. Grote. Six children have blessed their fortunate
union: Emma has become Mrs. Heim of Olive; Sophia is the wife of Alfred Huhn, the
manager of the Ehlen and Grote Company of Orange; Mary died at the age of thirty-
five; Fred A. is assistant manager of the Ehlen and Grote Company; Lena assists her
mother to preside over their home, although she is a graduate of the Orange County
Business College at Santa Ana, and was bookkeeper until lately for the Ehlen and Gro'e
Company; and Minnie, who is also a graduate of the Orange Business College, \vs
also for a time with the Ehlen and Grote Company, in which Mr. Grote maintained !te
financial interest until his death, which occurred May 10, 1920, when Orange lost one
of her best men and upbuilders and his passing was mourned by his family and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Grote identified themselves with the Lutheran Church here from its
start; he was a trustee and treasurer, and was chairman of the committee having charge
of the building of the old church and the school. He also presided over the responsitte
undertaking of a new church, erected at a cost of $50,000. Besides belonging to Jte
church, Mr. Grote was also a member of the Lutheran Men's Club, while Mrs. C-'^'-r.
was always active in and an ex-president of the Ladies' Aid Society. Sin^e her '¦"--
band's death, Mrs. Grote continues to reside at the old home surrounded bv her r'nl-
dren, who shower on her their loving affection and devotion and assist her ;n looking
after the large interests left by her husband, thus relieving her as much as possible from
all unnecessary worry and care.

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HERMAN A. DICKEL. — The enviable career of a worthy citizen of Anaheim is
recalled in the family history of Mr. and Mrs. Herman A. Dickel, long honored resi
dents of this place. A native of Germany, Herman A. Dickel was born on April 22,
1860, the son of George Dickel, also a native of that country. He had married
Charlotte Zumwinkel, and they had eleven children. Among these, Herman was
the youngest, on which account, perhaps, he enjoyed even more and better school
advantages than ordinarily, attending the grade schools of his home district. Both
parents, industrious and esteemed by those who knew them, are now dead.
As early as 1882 Mr. Dickel came to the United States, and having clerked for
three years in Germany, and finished his apprenticeship in the proper manner, he had
no trouble in securing employment in New York, where he also spent three years,
and rapidly acquired a knowledge of- American ways. In 1885, however, just when
California was beginning to feel the impetus of the "boom," Mr. Dickel left the
Atlantic metropolis and came to the Pacific Coast. Not only that, but he came
straight to Anaheim, where for ten years he worked in Mr. .Langenberger's store. In
1895 he leased the establishment, and for twenty-two years conducted it for himself
as a general merchandise center.
On June 8, 1887, Mr. Dickel married Miss Rosie Schmidt, a native of Anaheim
and a member of a family rather distinguished as Californians of the pioneer sort.
Traveling most of the way wearily and at great danger on foot, her father crossed
the great plains and settled in this vicinity about 1851; so that when, in 1857, a group
of optimists founded Anaheim, he was here and ready to join in the movement.
Three sons blessed this union: Theodore E., a mining and civil engineer, now in
Tejamen, Durango, Mexico; Arnold C, of the same profession, in Pittsburg, Cal., and
Percival A. Dickel, an artist, is at home. Arnold saw service in the great war. Three
grandchildren have been born to attest the sturdiness of the stock.
Mrs. Dickel was a cultured and refined woman, with a love for the beautiful, and
was an artist of ability, having spent four years in the art centers of Germany, study
ing painting. The Dickel home is replete with paintings on china and canvas of her
own production. Kind, generous and charitable, she was a woman of beautiful char
acter, and her passing, December 8, 1919, was indeed a severe blow to her husband
and children, as well as her host of friends, for she was endeared to all who knew her.
A Republican in national politics, Mr. Dickel has served as city trustee of Ana
heim for four years, and has been treasurer of the Anaheim Building and Loan Asso
ciation for thirty-two years. He is an Odd Fellow, and also an Elk, and belongs to
the Mother Colony Club. In many ways, Mr. Dickel has proven his value as a whole
hearted citizen, always having the future of Anaheim and Orange County before him,
and ever ready to hasten the hour when the Golden State, among the late-comers
into the Union, shall "come into its own."
FRANK WILLIAM CUPRIEN.— An American artist who has attained distinc
tion in foreign lands as well as in his own is Frank William Cuprien, of the Viking
Studio, at Laguna Beach, the Mecca of many, frequently those favored in foreign
travel, who have discovered his whereabouts and his art, and who appreciate him at his
true worth. He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on August 23, 1871, and attended the
excellent schools of that home city. He grew up so near to the ocean that it is only
natural he should have loved the sea while yet a mere youth; and he early became
a marine painter. In the beginning, however, he received but scant encouragement
when he most needed sympathetic help, his first efforts dating back to school days and
his coloring picture books with the aid of a Murillo paint box given him — a keepsake
he prizes today. His father was Charles Cuprien, a native of Brooklyn, the son of a
tapestry and cloth merchant of that city who emigrated from Lyons. Charles Cuprien
had married Miss Phillipin Millar, a native of Brooklyn, and the descendant of a
well-known and long-established family originally from Manchester, England.
Frank William Cuprien pushed into New York City as early as he could, and in
the evenings attended the art and drawing classes of the Cooper Institute, one of the
oldest and best established and conducted schools of its kind in America; and when
he had the leisure, he spent his free time profitably in the galleries. Up to his eight
eenth year he had really been interested more in drawing than in painting, and his first
course in painting at the Art League in New York was taken under the direction of
the renowned artist, William T. Richards, of Brooklyn. When he was a mere boy,
his ambition was to study under this master; and this dream was realized, on the
attaining of his eighteenth year.
Soon afterwards, he left America to study in Europe; and in Paris he gave his
attention to the voice and the piano, becoming proficient as a singer and a pianist, and
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at Munich and Leipsic for three years, and in 1905 was graduated from the Royal
Conservatory. Then he toured Italy, and spent much time in Florence.
About that time, he began to study marine art, and to perfect himself, he traveled
up and down the Mediterranean, even to Athens, and spent eleven years in Europe
studying and painting. During this time, in order to familiarize himself with the local
color of the North Sea, he spent six months on fishing smacks out from Hamburg
serving as a common seaman, just as Dana and others have done, but taking along
his sketch-book in order to profit by moments of leisure; and liking the experience so
well, he put in four months on a steam trawler, as a friend of the captain, through
which association he had the best of opportunities to study from nature and sketch.
He visited Helgoland before the fortifications were erected and the great guns mounted,
and that was an experience in itself.
Upon returning to America, Mr. Cuprien concluded that California must offer
much to the artist, and in 1912 he came to Los Angeles, intending to settle at Catalina,
and since then he has spent weeks at a time roaming over and and sketching the
scenery of the island. In 1913, however, Mr. Cuprien began his association with La
guna; and in 1914, he erected there his studio to which, on account of his adventures
in the North Sea of Europe, he has given the name of "The Viking." It is one mile
south of the Laguna Beach Hotel, and overlooks the peaceful, beautiful Pacific; and
as his own original creation, it attracts the attention of passersby*
Mr. Cuprien's style of painting as seen in his marines is intensely individualistic,
and one may get some idea of his ideals by his definition of the true artist: "What a
man paints is what is in his mind — the expression of the inner man put upon canvas
by himself." Mr. Cuprien received the gold medal at the Berliner Ausstellung; first
prize at the Cotton Carnival, Galveston, Tex., 1913; silver medals at San Diego in
both 1915 and 1916; honorable mention at the State Fair at Phoenix, 1916; and a bronze
medal at the State Fair at Sacramento, in 1919. He is a Republican in matters of
national political import, and humanitarian and philanthropic in his attitude toward
society and the problems of the day.
Mr. Cuprien is a member of the American Federation of Arts, the Leipsic Art
Association, the Fort Worth Art Association, the California Art Club, and the Laguna
Beach Art Association, being a charter member there, and one of the board of trustees.
KARL JENS. — A noted American painter who has contributed his efficient in
fluence for the advancement of art in California and for the building up of an artistic
atmosphere at Laguna Beach, is Mr. Jens, better known as Karl Yens, who was born
in Altona, on the Elbe, in nothern Germany, not far from Hamburg, on January 11,
1868, and grew up in a beautiful environment of gardens and villas, and with all the
educational advantages that the Old World could offer. He pursued high school and
college studies there, and took up and followed art in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich,
and later in England and Scotland. When nineteen years of age, he studied at the
Museum of Arts and Crafts at Berlin, under Professors Koch and Ewald, the latter the
director of the institute, and these studies he continued at the Academie Julien in
Paris, where he was under the guidance of the renowned Benjamin Constant and E.
Paul Laurens. There he entered into sharp competition for honors, and was one of
the few declared to have made much progress and been successful in 1900.
When Mr. Yens first came to America he traveled through the country as an
artist, desirous of seeing the best there was and for six years made his headquarters
in Cambridge, Mass. He exhibited in Boston and in Philadelphia, then moved tem
porarily to Washington, D. C, where he made a specialty of mural decoration; in-
New York, he later executed some mural work in theaters and private residences.
Mr. Yens had married in Germany, before coming to America, Miss Helene Grote
of Cambridge, Mass., who was on her first trip to that country. Mrs. Yens died at
their home in Cambridge while her husband was in Germany on a visit to his mother
and left three children, Anna, Otto and Elizabeth, all of whom are in the East com
pleting their educations. In 1909, in New York, Mr. Yens was married a second time,
taking for his wife Miss Katherine Petry, a trained nurse who had been reared and
educated there, and with him she enjoys a wide popularity.
In 1910, Mr. Yens removed from the East to California and settled at Pasadena,
and soon after he had established a studio at South Pasadena, he became, in 1911, a
professor in the University of Southern California, and for nearly three years had
charge of their College of Fine Arts. From 1916 to 1918 Mr. Yens was an art instruc
tor at the Los Angeles Polytechnic school.
While in the East, Mr. Yens made a specialty of portraiture, and is an expert in
all mediums; being an etcher he owns his own etching press. He is particularly fond
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South Pasadena, just beyond the Mineral Park, the Arroyo Verde Studio, and the name
and the design and furnishing of the studio well bespeaks the man. Fond of roaming
here and there, Mr. Yens has often limned the beauties of Southern California, depict
ing every feature with rare fidelity, and giving to all his work spontaneity and vitality.
Mr. Yens' aim to do the big and important things has been richly rewarded, for
he has exhibited at all the leading exhibitions in Los Angeles and his paintings are a
source of delight to the local art world. His larger works are shown in the leading
exhibits in the East — The National Academy of Design and the Architectural League
Club in New York; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia; the Archi
tectural League in Washington, D. C, and other places, for he keeps up a live con
nection with the East. He took the silver and bronze medals at both the State Fairs
in California in 1915-1916; was also awarded the Clarence A. Black prize for excellence
in landscape painting as a result of his participation in the exhibits at Exposition
Park, Los Angeles. He is a member of the California Art Club and of the Laguna
Beach Art Association, and was secretary of the Los Angeles Modern Art Society.
Despite his pleasant associations with other art communities, Mr. Yens removed
to Laguna Beach on November 19, 1919; and here he has. been an especially distin
guished citizen ever since. An enthusiastic American, with rare confidence in our insti
tutions for the future, Mr. Yens has been able, as few others are privileged to do, to
contribute much to advance the appreciation for art among a folk heretofore too busy
with founding a great commonwealth always to give time and attention to the finer
attractions in life. When, therefore, Laguna Beach will come to its own in the matter
of high art, the influence of this progressive exponent will be sure to be recognized and
acknowledged. CHARLES A. KNUTH. — A conservative, yet decidedly enterprising leader in
business affairs, who has sought to lead a Christian life through the application of the
Golden Rule, is Charles A. Knuth, of the Villa Park section of Orange County. He
was born in Germany on January 11, 1873, and came to America with his mother. His
foster father is William Knuth, who adopted the lad and he was reared as his son.
The family moved to Milwaukee, and it was there Charles A. Knuth attended school
for eight years, during which time he worked at his trades, continuing until 1887, when
he decided the Pacific Coast country held better inducements.
On March 17, 1887, the "boom" year, William Knuth brought his family to Cali
fornia, and at Villa Park, in Orange County, he bought ten acres of land, gradually
increasing his holdings, with the aid of his children, until he owned sixty-eight acres.
Charles helped set out the trees and otherwise improve their holdings and in time the
father gave to each of his children ten acres, retaining five acres upon which he and
his good wife now live. While Charles was working on the ranch he found time to
attend the Orange Business College, where he took a general commercial course.
From 1908 to 1915 he traveled over part of the state representing, at various times,
some of the best-known commission houses of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Since its organization in 1913, excepting one year, Mr. Knuth has been foreman
of the field work for the Villa Park Orchards Association, which serves over 150
growers and handles the product of more than 2,000 acres. This position has brought
him in close touch with the citrus industry of the state and occupies his time so that
he hires the work done on his ten-acre ranch.
On June 7, 1905, Charles A. Knuth and Marie Steffens were united in marriage
and they have two daughters, Norma Marie and Marie Charlotte, both now attending
school. The family belongs to the Lutheran Church at Orange. Mr. Knuth is a
Republican, has served on the election boards and is a member of the Farm Center.
During the war he served as a committeeman on the loan drives. He is one of the
best-known and well-liked men of his section of country.
MARTIN V. ALLEN.— A well-read, reflecting, self-made man, whose hard work
and honest methods have made him a sharer in all the good things of life, is Martin
u' ini'c,^^6 °f Bloomlngton> McLean County, 111., where he was born on Novem
ber 10, 1874. His father was Patrick Allen, a stonemason employed for most of his
IV "J a ' wh° died in 1918' at the riPe aSe of seventy-four. He had married
Miss Margaret Allen, and she passed to her eternal reward when our subject was a
mere youth. A sister of Martin died when he was twenty-four, and he is now the only
survivor of his once happy family.
Having always had to work hard for a living, Martin Allen enjoyed but a few
years of schooling, and so came to acquire that wide knowledge of agriculture for
which he is locally famed, when he was a boy. The rudiments of the three R's were
obtained at the Church Street school in Galesburg, 111., and so thorough was that ele
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others who were rapidly developing Orange County, he was better equipped than many
to wrestle with work-a-day problems. He started to grow barley, potatoes and corn
on a ranch in Santiago Canyon, and securing his first crop of "spuds" in 1897, when
prices were very low, he sold them to wholesale houses in Los Angeles and realized
all that the market would allow. For eight years he followed cement contracting in
Orange County and since 1908 he has been the able superintendent of the thirty-eight
acres belonging to the Adolphus Busch estate in the Villa Park precinct. At one time
he knew nearly every family in Orange County, but now so many settlers have come in
he scarcely knows his nearest neighbors.
On July 31, 1901, Mr. Allen was married to Miss Anita Martin, a native daughter
of Orange County, whose parents came to California from Texas in an ox-team train.
Mrs. Martin, the mother, is still living at Villa Park, aged eighty-four. Two children
have blessed their union: Ernest L. and Carl L., both attending school in Villa Park.
Mr. Allen belongs to the Odd Fellows of Orange and served one term as noble
grand. Both Mr. and Mrs. Allen are members of the Rebekahs. He is a Democrat
in national politics, but holds himself free to vote for whom he chooses. And in busi
ness, desiring to see California go forward by leaps and bounds, and to stabilize all
her development, he is- an independent shipper of produce and fruit. Mr. Allen was a
member of Company L, Seventh Regiment U. S. Volunteers for service in the Spanish-
American War.
LEONARD O. VAUGHAN.— A resident of California since 1892, Leonard O.
Vaughan of Orange County has been an eyewitness to the many marvelous changes
that have taken place in Southern California since that time. He is the representative
of a Virginian family and was born at Upper Alton, 111., on June 21, 1856, a son of
Cornelius B. Vaughan, born in Culpepper, Va., but a pioneer of the state of Illinois
where he became a farmer at Alton. He was a member of one of the brave bands of
pioneers who crossed the plains from the East to California with ox teams in 1849
to mine for gold and he met with the success of the ordinary miner. He remained
here for five years and then returned to Illinois to claim his bride. When he went back
he took with him several gold nuggets as souvenirs and one of these is now in the
possession of Leonard O., who had it mounted as a scarf pin. The mother of Leonard
O., was in maidenhood Frances M. Smith, a native of Alton, and a daughter of George
Smith, who is honored as the founder of Alton, where he erected the first cabin and ran
a store and established the town site on Pisaw Creek. That was at a time when
Indians were very numerous in that state, but he was on friendly terms with most of
them. He taught school, read law and specialized in land law, and served in the
state legislature with Abraham Lincoln. Later Mr. Smith, and Dr. Benjamin Shurtleff
of Boston, Mass., endowed the Baptist College at Alton, so that it became known as
Shurtleff College. Cornelius B. Vaughan died in Idaho in 1904, his widow surviving
him until 1918, when she died at Long Beach, Cal.
In 1858, when Leonard O. was a child of two years the family removed to Car
rollton, Mo., but at the outbreak of the Civil War, being a strong Union man, Mr.
Vaughan returned to Alton with his family and from there enlisted for service in an
Illinois regiment and served from 1861 to 1864, when he was honorably discharged from
service. He was prominent in Grand Army circles after its organization and his G.
A. R. button is one of the prized keepsakes of his son, Leonard O. After the war was
over the family moved back to their farm near Carrollton, Mo., and it was here that
the son attended the graded schools, after which he returned to Alton, entered Shurt
leff College and was graduated therefrom in 1876, then joined his folks in Missouri.
In 1878, at Marshall, Mo., Mr. Vaughan was united in marriage with Miss Lenora
Herndon, a native of Saline County, that state, and in time they were blessed with
seven children, two of whom, L. O. Jr., and Cornelius B. are now deceased. Charles
H. is an automobile dealer in Los Angeles and has two sons; Gertrude is Mrs. C. E.
Wagner of West Orange and the mother of one son; Edna became Mrs. Ned Cutting
and resides in Los Angeles; Russell T., is an oil-well driller in Granger, Texas, and he
has a son and a daughter; Howard S. conducts an oil station at Sixth and Main, and one
at the Central Auto Park in Santa Ana. He' is the father bf a daughter. The wife
and mother died in Los Angeles on August 14, 1913.
In 1886 Mr. Vaughan moved to Greeley County, Kans., and there preempted land
which he farmed. A natural merchanic, in 1887 he was induced to enter the service of
the Santa Fe railroad at Coolidge, Kans., as a repairer of locomotives, coming to Los
Angeles in 1892 in the service of that company. In 1895 he was in the employ of the
Southern Pacific at Dunsmuir as an engineer, and in 1905 he came to Long Beach and
was employed as engineer at the power plant of the water department of that city.
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devoted to walnuts, and it is one of the best groves in the locality, rapidly being recog
nized as a show place. It was in 1914, in Los Angeles, that the second marriage of
Mr. Vaughan took place when he married Mrs. Martha Shaffer. She died in December,
1917. Mr. Vaughan also owns a half block in Santa Ana upon which is located the
Temple Theatre, a half block where the Central Auto Park is situated and numerous
parcels of land in this county and in Los Angeles, so that he gives a great deal of his
time to looking after his varied interests. He is a believer in the future of Southern
California, Orange County in particular; is a supporter of all movements that tend to
build up and promote the welfare of the people and is highly esteemed as a successful
business man. In politics he is a Republican in national affairs, locally he votes for
the best men and measures and he finds recreation as a member of the Elks lodge.
MRS. MARTHA M. SHAFFER VAUGHAN.— A pioneer of Orange County be
loved by all who knew her was Martha M. Shaffer Vaughan, who for many years lived
on a ranch on North Main Street between Santa Ana and Orange. A native of Rock
Island County, 111., she was born and christened Martha M. Cowles and was reared
amidst the pioneer environments of that state when it was known as the "far west." '
Her marriage to Uriah Shaffer was solemnized in Decatur County, Iowa, in 1877. Mr.
Shaffer was a Virginian by birth who descended from German stock and he was reared
on a plantation in Hampshire County, Va. His birth occurred there on June 16, 1820,
and he attended the subscription schools in his native locality until he was twelve,
when he accompanied his parents to Lee County, Iowa, and there he became a pioneer
farmer on the frontier, continuing farming in Lee County for himself from 1838 until
he left that vocation to come to California in 1850 to mine for gold. He was among
that hardy band of Argonauts that crossed the great plains with oxen and prairie
schooners and arrived in Nevada County, Cal., September 7, 1850. He was not suc
cessful in his search for the shining metal and he took up land in Plumas County and
engaged in ranching. After experimenting for several years he returned to Iowa and
farmed in Decatur County, and while so occupied he became the husband of Martha
M. Cowles. That same year, 1877, they came to California and to Santa Ana, on the first
railroad train that ran into that town. Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer became very prominent
factors in the civic and commercial life of Los Angeles County, as Orange County had
not been partitioned off at that period. When the new county was formed they con
tinued to ranch and increase their interest in the new county and did their part to make
it one of the best known and richest sections of this great state. They improved a ranch
of twenty-five acres of walnuts, besides- doing general farming on other land they
owned. Both were stanch Republicans. Mr. Shaffer died May 20, 1902, after which
Mrs. Shaffer erected a large twenty-six room house on her property, after her own
plans. She also operated her walnut ranch and the 300-acre ranch besides, where she
raised fine cattle and alfalfa, and had sixty acres of it set to walnuts. She was a good
business woman and was highly esteemed by all who knew her for her integrity and
public spirit.
Mrs. Shaffer became the wife of L. O. Vaughan on January 1, 1914, who took from
her shoulders the cares of business and administered the property with fine success.
She passed away on December 27, 1917, mourned by all who had known her for her
unselfish spirit and great helpfulness as a pioneer woman of Orange County. She was
a strong believer in Spiritualism and contributed much money towards that belief.
MRS. LAVINIA AVERY MAYFIELD.— A generous-hearted, hospitable woman,
esteemed and liked by all who know her, and known as a conservative and cautious
operator in business, is Mrs. Lavinia A. Mayfield, who was born an Avery and christened
Lavinia, the place of her birth being Rusk County, Texas. On her father's side her
ancestors came to America from Scotland and were among the early Southern families
to settle on the Atlantic Coast. Her grandmother, Rachel (McDonald) Avery, was born
on the Atlantic Ocean. On her maternal side her grandparents came from France.
Her mother, Sarah Dumas (Halton) Avery, married a second time, choosing as her
husband William Henry Talley, a lineal descendant of Patrick Henry. Mr. Talley was
a successful orchardist who proved a kind and helpful stepfather. Her father, Rhoderic
McDonald Avery, was a pioneer in Rusk County, Texas, and died when she was a mere
babe. Lavina received her education in the common schools of the locality in which
she was brought up and also studied at Kidd-Key College at Sherman, Texas, after
which she taught school for two years. In 1889 Mr. Talley, her stepfather, removed
to California with his family, and at Covina he purchased forty acres, which he in time
set out to oranges.
On March 3, 1889, Miss Avery became the wife of Dr. M. S. Jones, the eye, ear, nose
and throat specialist of Santa Ana. Dr. Jones was born in Clinton County, «I_i., his

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parents being natives of Virginia. He was educated at McKendree College, at Lebanon,
111., completing his medical education at St. Louis, there having the privilege of special
courses under the celebrated specialist, Dr. William Niehaus, in opthalmology and aural
surgery, and with Dr. D. B. St. John Roosa of New York. Receiving his diploma in
1869 he entered into practice with Dr. Niehaus, but after a year his health failed and
he went to Shreveport, La. Here he practiced for two years, and his health being
improved he returned to his old practice at St. Louis, remaining there until January 26,
1874, when he came to California. After practicing for a year in Los Angeles he
located m Santa Ana, where he soon had a large general practice. Becoming an en
thusiast over the possibilities of citrus culture in this locality, he purchased a tract of
sixty acres on East Seventeenth Street and Tustin Avenue, forty acres of which was
devoted to oranges, and while he continued his, medical practice Mrs. Jones looked after
their horticultural interests, thus pioneering in an industry that has reached such vast
proportions in Orange County. Dr. Jones was also very active in farming and was
very successful in his undertakings in that line. Always enjoying a large and lucrative
practice, he stood high in the professional circles of Orange County. He was a Demo
crat and took an active part in county politics, always working for the upbuilding of
the neighborhood, on which account his death, which occurred at Santa Ana in 1908,
was generally deplored. Mrs. Jones had also lost her mother, who passed away at
Santa Ana the year before. Inasmuch as Mr. Talley had passed away in 1895, Mrs.
Talley had disposed of the ranch property at Covina and bought residence property
in Santa Ana instead. Mrs. Jones kept the orange ranch and home on East Seventeenth
Street for some time after Dr. Jones' death, later disposing of it. By a former marriage
Dr. Jones had two children whom Mrs. Jones reared and educated: Essie L., the wife
of J. W. Jones of Boston, and George R., a rancher in Arizona. A sister, Mrs. M. R.
Hall, who had removed from Colorado to Tustin, died on May 8, 1898, leaving five
^children in Mrs. Jones' care. The children are: Lavinia and Jennie Hall, now deceased;
Bess is the wife of Sam Hill, a prominent merchant of Santa Ana; Avery Hall lives at
San Pedro, and Lulu Hall is the wife of Charles F. Johnson, a postal employe of Santa
Ana. Three years after Dr. Jones' death Mrs. Jones married Dr. W. S. Mayfield.
Mrs. Mayfield is a me'mber of the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Ana, in whose
various activities she takes a prominent part. She also participated in various kinds of
war work, and in whatever way she can, she endeavors to live up to and practice the
Golden Rule. She is an enthusiastic supporter of every worthy project for the develop
ment of Southern California and is particularly loyal to Orange County.
CHARLES E. BOWMAN. — A practical and scientific rancher, who draws upon
his own valuable experience, and who has the confidence of his associates, because of
his conservatively progressive methods, is Charles E. Bowman, who good-naturedly
boasts that he has been a booster for Tustin and Orange County since he was ten years
of age. He was born-near Savannah, Andrew County, Mo., on April 28, 1871, a son of
W. D. and Ella (Galloway) Bowman, also natives of that great commonwealth. They
had six children and among them Charles was the second in the order of birth. In 1881
Mr. and Mrs. Bowman came west to California and settled at Tustin, where Mr. Bow
man became a fruit grower.
Charles E. Bowman attended the common schools at Tustin and later took a
course at the Orange County Business College, being a member of the class of '88.
As a young man he became identified with fruit packing at Tustin; the season lasting
there only four months, the balance of the year he was in the employ of A. E. Bennett
of Tustin, engaged in fumigating, and during this time became interested and made
an exhausting study of citrus enemies and the best methods of getting rid of the pests,
for when he was not packing he carried on experiments in this line. In time he was
made foreman, first of the Fay Fruit Company at Whittier for two years and then for
Gowen and Willard of Santa Ana, which position he held for four and a half years.
Early in 1907 Mr. Bowman became a partner in a company styled Bowman and
Ritchey, whose business was fumigating; later the firm was changed to Bowman and
Wiley and in this partnership he continued until they owned eight different outfits,
employing as many as fifty-five men. In the spring of 1916 Mr. Bowman became sole
owner of the fumigating company and continued the business until 1918, when he sold
it to engage in ranching. Since then, three consecutive times, he has bought, improved
and sold properties in Tustin, and he has also become interested in oil production in
Orange County to the extent of desirable holdings in the Richfield district. In October,
1919, he purchased a walnut and Valencia orange grove of ten acres on Laguna Boule
vard in Tustin and became a member of the Tustin Hills Orange Growers Association,
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On April 30, 1902, Mr. Bowman was married to Miss Anna L. Schillinger, a native
of Easton, "Pa., and the daughter of William Schillinger of that city. Both her paternal
and maternal grandparents were pioneers of that same place, and she thus comes from
a well-established family, whose folks have always been heavily interested in manu
facturing and similar enterprises on the Delaware. A son and daughter blessed this
union: Charles Clarence, who attends the Santa Ana high school and Frances Schuler
is a pupil of the Tustin grammar school. The family attend the Presbyterian Church
in Tustin, and Mrs. Bowman is a member of the Parent-Teachers Association at Tustin.
A Republican in national politics, Mr. Bowman is a loyal American citizen,
especially and naturally proud of his record as a veteran of the Spanish-American war,
in which he served as a member of Company L, Seventh Regiment, California Infantry,
under Capt. S. H. Finley. He is also a member of the Tustin Lodge of Knights of
Pythias, Whittier Lodge of Odd Fellows and Santa Ana Lodge No. 784, B. P. O. E.,
and a member of the Spanish-American war veterans.
H. J. KOGLER. — A highly-respected citizen- of Orange County who owe's his
phenomenal success in part to his' advocacy and practice of cooperative or team work,
in part to his own Christian character and the application of Christian principles to
everyday transactions, and quite as much, no doubt, to the intelligent, unselfish and
faithful help rendered- him by his capable wife, is H. J. Kogler, who was born, with
his twin-brother, William J. Kogler, at Orange, on August 24, 1884, the son of Jacob
and Dora (Shulz) Kogler, the well-known pioneers. He attended the public grammar
and also the parochial school of the town, there being at that time no high school
for the district; and later he was graduated from the Orange County Business College,
where he was given an excellent practical training of just the kind that he soon needed.
At the age of eighteen, Mr. Kogler entered the employ of the Pixley Hardware
Company of Orange, and from that time until 1906, he spent most of his time as a
hardware clerk. In the latter year, with his older brother Paul, and his twin-brother,
William J., Mr. Kogler formed a copartnership, buying out the Pixley interest in the
hardware department of the Pixley Hardware and Furniture Company; and in 1914, the
Kogler Company erected a modern store building on the property bought, and are
at the present time carrying on the largest hardware business, with the most complete
line, of any house in the county. Indeed, their business has grown to such proportions
that they require two large floors and the entire basement, for among other commodi
ties of real service, they handle bee-keeper's supplies, a kind of wares first provided
for in a department installed about five years ago. Such has been the response of the
agricultural public to this effort to meet the wants of a growing and prosperous class,
that the Koglers now have the only complete stock of bee-keeper's supplies in Southern
California outside of Los Angeles or San Diego.
At Orange, Mr. Kogler was married to Miss Eva Geiger, born at Kankakee, 111.;
daughter of Peter Geiger, whose good wife died while Eva was an infant. She was
reared in and attended school at Orange, and naturally supported, with her husband,
all the Red Cross and other war work. She has a brother Edwin who for two years'
served as a mechanic at Rockwell Field, and now has his honorable discharge. Five
children have been granted Mr. and Mrs. Kogler, and all promise to be as popular
as their parents. The oldest two, Inez and Elmer, attend school in Orange; and the
younger ones are Ildha, Evelyn and Carolyn.
GALE S. BERGEY.— A wide-awake business man who has had much to with the
development of commercial affairs at Huntington Beach, is Gale S. Bergey one of the
enterprising firm of T. B. Talbert and Company, dealers in real estate and authorized
agents for the Ford Automobile Company, covering the territory in particular of Hunt
ington Beach. He was born at Los Angeles on June 26, 1888, and was educated in the
public schools of Long Beach and at the Fountain Valley school. He followed farming
in the Talbert district, in Orange County, and so naturally came to work for and be
associated with T. B. Talbert. After he had tried farming for himself for a couple ot
years he went into partnership with Henry Talbert in the San Luis Rey district' in
ban Diego County engaging m farming two years.
In 1913, he entered the employ of the T. B. Talbert Real Estate Company and
later he was made a member of the firm. He gives most of his time to exploiting the
Ford motor interests, and there are few men in all Orange County who know the
local automobile trade better than does Mr. Bergey. He also knows the Ford auto
mobile, and that is saying a good deal, despite the popular impression that the machine
is so simple one need not trouble to get acquainted with it. In 1917 Mr Bergev was
appointed constable of Huntington Beach, in the fall of 1918 was elected to the office
f°tu IT*' VT' ^w1' -S S^-t0 ^i that "° °"e has ever Siven neater satisfaction
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and common sense, two qualities of inestimable service in the administration of any
such public office.
When Mr. Bergey was married, he took for his wife Adele H. Crockett of Los
Angeles, but a native of Iowa, and their fortunate union has been blessed with two
children, Frances Adele and Gale Le Roy. Huntington Beach may well congratulate
itself on numbering among its expanding firms this one represented by Mr. Bergey, and
on being able, at the same time, to get such an honest and satisfactory public officer.
SAMUEL HUFF. — The experiences of the early settlers in any new country are
not appreciated by the younger generation for they know nothing of the dangers en
countered nor the hardships endured by those who have blazed the way for our present
day civilization. When Samuel Huff, now a prosperous and highly respected citizen of
the Anaheim district of Orange County came to California in the closing year of the
great boom, 1887, he first located in San Diego, where he remained for three years
getting on his feet in order to branch out in agricultural pursuits and establish himself
permanently. This he accomplished in 1901, when he purchased his present ranch of
twenty acres, to which he added as he prospered until he now owns thirty-three acres
of as fine ranch land as there is to be found in the county. This land was a barley
field and was bare of improvements, but by unceasing hard work and good manage
ment he has seen the dawn of a better day and has prospered beyond his expectations,
considering the difficulties he overcame in putting his land in condition to yield satis
factory returns. He now has ten acres of walnuts and eight acres of citrus fruits; all
his trees he set out himself and they are now producing increasingly large crops
year by year.
Samuel Huff was born in Kosciusko County, Ind., March 5, 1849, the year of the
great rush to the gold fields of California. His father was Frederick Huff, a California
gold seeker in the famed year of '49, when he left his home and family and crossed the
Isthmus to seek the golden lure. He was more successful than the ordinary miner
and after he had "made his pile" he returned to wife and babes in Indiana. He married
Eva Angel, by whom he had eight children. By two subsequent marriages he became
the parent of nine more. Of the first family, two are still living and residents of Cali
fornia, Samuel of this review and his brother, Eli Huff, of the Sacramento Valley.
Samuel received a common school education and was inured to hard work from an
early age. When he left home he migrated to Kansas and there he owned a farm of
170 acres, which he devoted to stock raising and general farming. At the outbreak
of the Civil War he tried to enlist in the service of his country but was denied the
privilege on account of his youth. He bided his time, however, and later found a
friend in an officer who was able to vouch for his age and he, became a member of the
Sixteenth Kansas Cavalry and for the ensuing eighteen months he was on duty and
participated in many skirmishes and was on scouting duty until his honorable dis
charge at the close of the war. Samuel Huff comes from fighting stock, for his great
grandfather served in the War of the Revolution, thereby entitling our subject to mem
bership in the Sons of the Revolution; his grandfather saw service in the War of
1812; his uncle, Peter Huff, was in the Mexican War; and himself and brother, Eli, were
in the Civil War. Nor does this patriotic spirit stop here, for the son of Samuel
Huff, Lewis Huff, served six months in the Spanish-American War, and the youngest
son, Ralph E. Huff served for twenty months in the late World War, when he was
through the campaign in France with the Ninety-first Division of the Three Hundred
Sixty-fourth Infantry. This direct line of fighting stock is a rare occurrence in the
families of today and one in which any family may take a just pride.
In 1868 Samuel Huff was united in marriage with Miss Olive D. Smith, a native
of Illinois, and six children resulted from this union: Lewis N., now of Long Beach;
Ivy D., is deceased; William F., is also a resident of Long Beach; Effie G., is the widow
of William S. Lang and lives in Reedley, Cal.; D. Eyman, is a well-known authority
on citrus culture and is a resident of Orange County, as is Ralph E-, who is living
at home and assisting his father with the cares of the ranch. Mr. and Mrs. Huff have
given their children the best advantages within their reach and they are proud of the
success that all have attained, due in large measure to their home training.
Mr. Huff is a member of Buena Park Lodge of Masons; a member of Fullerton
Post, G. A. R., of which he has served as commander; and he is a member of the
Garden Grove Walnut Association. His ability and integrity are recognized by his
friends and neighbors and he is beloved for his true worth to his family and the county.
He has always been found ready to aid by giving advice and in a more substantial
manner, those less fortunate than himself, and there are many who owe their success
in life to his wise counsel and patient assistance. In all his trials and joys his good
wife has ever been his companion and shares with him the esteem of all who have th.
pleasure of knowing them.
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CHARLES A. BEMIS.— A wide-awake, helpful citizen of Yorba Linda who had
a valuable experience in responsible public office in Iowa before coming to California,
is Charles A. Bemis, the rancher of Ohio Street in Yorba Lane. He is a member of
the Friends Church, and has been a Republican all his life, and was a hundred per
cent supporter of the Red Cross and war loan drives during the recent World War.
Born in Vermont on January 20, 1854, the son of Benjamin S. Bemis, Charles grew
up on his father's farm, the eldest in a family of three children. His mother was Miss
Mary Whitney before her marriage, a descendant of New Englanders who settled in
America as early as 1635. He attended the public school of the district and a private
academy, and when he was twenty-one years of age, he began to teach school and so
instruct others.
On June 15, 1881, Mr. Bemis was married to Miss Ellen L. Perrin, a daughter of
Louis L. Perrin, a native of Mansfield, Mass., and an expert machinist. He was justice
of the peace and a member of the city council while he lived in Lowell, Mass., and
in 1853 came out to California, remaining two years. Miss Perrin was born at Lowell
on March 27, 1862, and in that city she attended public and high schools. She has a
twin brother, George B. Perrin, who is living in Howard, Kans. Her maternal grand
parents were born on Cape Cod, Mass., and England, respectively.
Mr. Bemis took up machine shop work, and stuck at it for ten years. He lived
in Rhode Island for ten years; and in 1892, he moved west to Hawkeye, Fayette County,
Iowa. He clerked in a store, and later farmed there, raising grain and stock. In 1906,
he sold out and came to California. At first, he started ranching for himself; but
later on, he became foreman of the Murphy ranch of 400 acres, having charge especially
of the orchardist department, and was with them for five and a half years.
In 1911 Mr. Bemis with his son-in-law, O. W. Holland, purchased twenty acres,
barley fields and open country in Yorba Linda, which has been developed into a citrus
orchard. Mr. Bemis' land is now leased for oil. He is a member of the Yorba Linda
Citrus Association, and also of the Water Company. Three children blessed the mar
riage of Mr. and Mrs. Bemis, two of whom are living. Mary E. is Mrs. George E.
Le Fever, and lives at La Habra; and Clara L. is Mrs. O. W. Holland of Santa Monica.
Mr. Bemis is a member of the Odd Fellows and with his wife is a member of the
American Yeomen.
FRED W. SCHMIDT. — A well-posted, enterprising business man who has done
much to advance agriculture in Southern California along scientific lines is Fred W.
Schmidt, the wide-awake and accommodating distributor for Orange County of the
Reo and Dort automobiles and the Fageol walking tractor. He is a native of Austria,
where he was born near Vienna on July 8, 1890, and with his parents, Moritz and
Marie Schmidt, he came to the United States when he was eleven years of age, locating
for a while in North Adams, Mass. He attended the Berkshire schools, and later
entered the employ of the Hallet and Davis Piano Company of Boston, learning in
their factory all the branches of piano-making. From Boston, he removed to New York
City, and there he was one of the reliable men of the Aeolian Piano Company. After
mastering all the branches of the piano business, Mr. Schmidt came a step or two West,
to Youngstown, Ohio, and was for two years in the employ of a retail piano house.
In January, 1914, Mr. Schmidt reached California and Anaheim and formed a part
nership with C. T. Webber for the handling of all kinds of musical instruments; and,
later he bought out his partner and formed the Schmidt Music Company, which is so
well known to the residents of North Orange County. He carried on this business
alone until March, 1919, when he sold out and entered the automobile and tractor field.
He has been so successful with the celebrated Reo and Dort automobiles and the Fageol
tractors that he has recently erected a new garage at 234 South Los Angeles Street to
accommodate his rapidly growing business. He belongs to the Board of Trade, and
never misses an opportunity to advance all other commercial interests, for the welfare
of the community generally.
The Fageol walking tractor utilizes a distinct and radically different, yet practical
and efficient method of traction. Its grousers, or "legs," mate with the ground — acting
as a gear or cog — and give positive traction in every soil, and that, too, without surplus
weight, loss of power through slippage, and without packing the soil. These are
strong features of economy, and mean both less consumption of fuel and oil, and less
wear and tear on the tractor. The action of the tractor wheels— walking in and out of
the ground— allows the grousers to go just deep enough to reach ground solid enough
for positive traction. The Fageol tractor weighs less than three horses, is only half
as high as one, and does the work of six or eight. It has a short turning radius of
seven feet, made possible by the use of a separate clutch for each traction wheel— and
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orchard, where it walks in and out among the low-hanging trees, and it is also suited
to grain cultivation. Farmers, therefore, are using this light, economical-running trac
tor for practically any work done with horses. Mr. Schmidt handles Reo motor cars
and speed wagons and Dort motor cars and has complete garage and service equip
ment for the care of autos and tractors. In January, 1920, he associated G. P. Siemann
with him in business and formed a copartnership as the Anaheim Motor Company, so
now the two are giving all their time to the business.
When Mr. Schmidt married, he chose for his wife a most accomplished woman,
Miss Beatrice Reeks of Los Angeles, and now they have one daughter, Marjorie L.
Schmidt. He owned a five-acre orange grove of six-year-old trees, two miles west of
Anaheim on West Broadway, and there he erected a new home. This he recently sold
and purchased a ten-acre Valencia orange grove seven years old, on Placentia Avenue
and there he makes his home. He is musically inclined, and an accomplished performer
on the violin, and while in the music trade often played the violin for church concert
work, and he also established the Schmidt orchestra. He belongs to Anaheim Lodge
No. 1345, Elks, and was made a Mason in Anaheim Lodge, F. & A. M., and with his
wife is a member of Chispa Chapter, O. E. S-, and both enjoy an enviable popularity.
HIRAM HELM HATHAWAY.— The prominent rancher and successful lima bean
grower at Wintersburg, Hiram Helm Hathaway, comes of good old Southern lineage.
He was born at El Monte, Cal., January 26, 1863, and has resided in Los Angeles, San
Bernardino and Orange counties all his life. His father, Jefferson M. Hathaway, a
native of Missouri, came to California from the northeastern part of Texas in 1853,
working his way by driving an ox team. When he arrived at his destination he had
only his blankets and one dollar and seventy-five cents in his pocket. In January,
1860, he was married at San Bernardino to Miss Martha Marzee Russell, a native of
Texas. They were farmers and became the parents of nine children, six boys and three
girls. The father, who was popularly called "Uncle Miner" Hathaway, held the office
of justice of the peace in San Bernardino County several years, being reelected several
times. He and his wife were members of the Baptist Church.
Hiram Helm, the second child in order of birth in the parental family, recalls the
time when the townsite of Santa Ana was first platted and the wiseacres predicted it
would never make a town. He was reared on the farm, educated in the common
grammar schools, and has followed the occupation of farming all his life. His marriage
occurred at Azusa, Cal., on December 17, 1885, and united him with Miss Ann Eliza
beth Meredith, a native of Gainesville, Sumter County, Ala., daughter of R. A. Meredith,
a lawyer of Gainesville, and Ann Elizabeth (Harwood) Meredith, both natives of
Virginia who were married in Alabama. There were ten children in Mrs. Hathaway's
parental family, five boys and five girls. Three of her brothers served in the Civil
War. The oldest, Reuben A., was in the Confederate army, and came to California
. after the war, in 1868. He died at Covina on September 27, 1920. Another brother,
Samuel H., a sister, Mary K, and Mrs. Hathaway came from Alabama to California
in 1884 to join their brother Reuben A. Mr. and Mrs. Hathaway lived two years at
Azusa, removing thence to Pomona, where they lived eighteen years. In 1906 they
came to Wintersburg and built a home which they moved into January 1, 1907. Mr.
Hathaway had purchased ten acres of land in October, 1906, which he improved and
sold, afterward purchasing another twenty acres at $500 per acre, which he still owns
and farms. In their religious convictions Mr. and Mrs. Hathaway are members of the Baptist
Church at Huntington Beach. Politically Mr. Hathaway is a Democrat. He is an
ardent admirer of President Wilson and favors the League of Nations. He is a capable
business man and a hard and efficient worker, and their two-acre home place in Win
tersburg is set to fruit trees, grapes, vegetable garden, etc. He and his good wife are
genial and hospitable, and highly respected among their friends and neighbors.
L. P. DAMEWOOD.— An enterprising business man of Orange whose "hustling"
qualities alone would place him in the front rank of progressives, and whose strong
and pleasing personality makes him popular among a large circle of friends, is L. P.
Damewood, of the well-known firm of Damewood and Garroway, dealers in tires and
automobile supplies, and agents for the Mack truck. They are among the leading
dealers in both Goodyear and Goodrich tires, and in their various enterprises have done
much to forward the best interests of the motorists. Born at Kingman, Kans., Mr.
Damewood is the son of Powell Damewood, who moved from Iowa to McPherson,
Kans., in 1865, and there homesteaded 160 acres of land, coming in time to Kingman.
There he lived and worked as a farmer, and there he died. He had married Miss
Millie A. Brownell, and she still resides in Kansas. Their union was blessed with the
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Brought up at Kingman until he was nine years of age, Mr. Damewood then
removed to Aspen, Colo., where he attended the public school, continuing his school
work at Canon City, in which town he graduated from the high school. When old
enough to get into business, he opened shop in Denver, and as the representative of
the Goodyear Rubber Company, sold tires on Sixteenth Street. After that he removed
to Fort Collins, Colo., and for a year was a tire agent at that place. In 1914 Mr. Dame
wood came west to California and locating at Orange, entered the employ of Mr. Lush,
who had a garage and tire business. Soon afterwards, he bought of Mr. Lush an
interest in the business, and a year later bought out Mr. Lush altogether. When he
had managed the affair for a while alone, he took into partnership E. M. Chapman, and
the firm became Damewood and Chapman; and they soon started a branch at Fullerton,
and since then opened another branch at Santa Ana. Last year A. J. Garroway bought
out Mr. Chapman's share, and of late the firm has been styled Damewood and Garroway.
The headquarters of this enterprising firm are at the corner of North Glassell
and Maple streets, Orange, but in each establishment they carry a large supply of
tires and trucks. They have also installed a hydraulic press for mounting truck tires,
and in that particular enterprise were the pioneers in the county. Expensive as this
outfit has been, they have installed one at each of the branch stores, and are thus able
quickly and conveniently to put on tires for all kinds of trucks, the nearest other station
for the same service being at Los Angeles. The Mack truck, which they represent,
may be had through them, in varying sizes from one to fifteen tons. Mr. Damewood
organized the Orange Merchants and Manufacturers Association, of which he is now
president, and he is the Orange representative of the Associated Chambers of Com
merce of the county. He was also one of the originators of the Orange County Auto
mobile Trades Association, and is today its vice-president.
At Canon City, Colo., Mr. Damewood was married to Mis Bertha R. Smith, a
native of that state; and by her he has had one daughter, Edith A. Damewood. He
belongs to the Woodmen of the World, and finds pleasure, with his good wife, in
responding to worthy appeals of all fraternal and other organizations seeking to better
the community and the county in which he lives and prospers.
WILLIAM H. HOLLOWAY. — Prominent among the thoroughly trained scien
tists in the field of California horticulture who have made the most important con
tributions to the development of that new and delicious fruit, the more than popular
avocado, should be mentioned William H. Holloway, whose fame has extended far
beyond the vicinity of his handsome ranch at Yorba Linda. He was born near Severy,
Greenwood County, Kans., on May 31, 1873, and when nine years of age came to the
Northwest with his parents and settled in Washington. In 1891, he moved on further
and came south to California and Whittier, where he attended the public schools and
finished his studies at the Whittier Academy. These institutions have deserved their
reputation as the best places in which to train inquiring youth; and when his school
days were over our subject was ready to fill more than one position of responsibility.
His first venture was to buy a fourth interest in the Whittier Hardware Company,
and while he was active in that line, he learned the plumber's trade. In two years he
disposed of his hardware interest and started a business of his own, known as the
Whittier Variety Store. In 1907, however, he located in Long Beach, and there em
barked in plumbing for himself. He made a specialty of installations of a superior
quality in fine houses and first-class apartments, and within six years handled over
$60,000 worth of business. In 1913, when Yorba Linda was just starting, he located
here, bought a lot and erected a store building, two stories high. It had apartments on
the second floor, and was an ornament and a convenience to the place. He conducted
a general merchandise business, and disposed of that only three years ago. He had
just completed another apartment house having four apartments, and on the adjoining
lot, he had also erected a modern bungalow .
On coming to Yorba Linda, Mr. Holloway had purchased a ten-acre tract on which
he planted lemons and avocados. He grew three varieties of the latter — Ganter, Har
mon and Dickenson — and these are now in full bearing. The Ganter is green in' color,
has a thin skin, and weighs from eight to twelve ounces each, and is altogether the
best bearer. It seems to give the most satisfaction to many and has become very
popular; and it is also cheaper than the thick-skin variety, selling from fifteen to
twenty-five cents each in the market. The Harmon also has a thin skin, while that of
the Dickenson is thicker and sells for seven dollars a dozen. The Ganters are especially
nice in salads, and they have been introduced more widely through the work of demon
strators in grocery stores, who show patrons the different ways of preparing them, and
convince even the skeptical of the advantages in their regular use as food. One-half
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remainder is handled by the E. A. White Fruit Company, of Santa Ana, who send the
avocados to various cities in the county, and ship some to Arizona and even as far east
as Kansas City. Mr. Holloway has his own packing house on his ranch where the
selected avocados are packed in excelsior for shipment and each box labeled with his
purple and gold brand on a tri-colored lithograph with photo of two avocados In
1920 he purchased eight acres in La Habra Heights tract at La Habra which he is
arranging to set to avocados. He has a nursery where he raises stock for his own use,
as well as for sale. He is a member of the California Avocado Association.
In Whittier Mr. Holloway married Miss Donna J. Carter of Iowa, and they are
now the parents of four children— Louise, Helen, Paul and William. The family attend
the Friends Church at Yorba Linda, and Mr. and Mrs. Holloway, as honored, influential
pioneers of the town, never lose an opportunity to advance its material growth and
its development on lines needed for tomorrow.
CHARLES F. W. REUSCH. — An old-time rancher early resident in Orange
County who has many interesting and highly instructive stories to tell, is Charles
F. W. Reusch, whose well laid out and equally well-managed ranch is entered from
Placentia Avenue, south of Ball Road in Anaheim. He was born near Sterling, in
Whiteside County, 111., April 10, 1877, the son of Henry and Antone Reusch, Illinois
farmer folks, who removed to Sander's County, Nebr., when our subject was two years
old. There the worthy parents purchased 120 acres of land, which they devoted to
general farming, and there also Charles attended the public school.
In 1889 the parents came out to California and purchased a ten-acre grove on
Collins Avenue, northwest of Orange; and Charles helped to set out the vacant land
to walnuts and oranges. He attended first the grammar school at Orange and then
the high school; and at sixteen years of age left home to care for himself. For a
couple of years he worked on the Adams ranch northwest of Orange, and then he
learned the miller's trade at Olive, and was with the Olive Milling Company for
eleven years, the last four years serving as head miller. While there, he pursued a
course of study with the International Correspondence School in steam engineering,
and when he had finished he went to work for the Santa Fe Railroad, and was with
them as engineer for four years.
In 1912 he purchased thirty-five acres on Placentia Avenue, southeast of Anaheim,
paying only thirty-five dollars an acre; it was considered waste land and was covered
with cactus and brush, but he had the same cleared; after which he ventured into
mining near Mojave, Cal., for a time. On his return he located on his farm and
engaged in ranching. His mother owns twenty acres of the original thirty-five, and
he has twelve; and his portion he has divided up so that he devotes two acres to
walnuts and ten to oranges, irrigated by their own private pumping plant. He belongs
to the Anaheim Cooperative Orange Association, and not only profits by their service,
but energetically supports their excellent work. When his people came to Orange,
there was only one house between Collins Avenue and Olive Road, and only one
house on the avenue now called Taft, and so Mr. Reusch is able to compare the past
with the present. He picked the first oranges gathered on the Fletcher Place, and
received in payment one and one-half cents per box for his labor; and it cost him
twenty-five dollars an acre to have his thirty-five acres cleared and leveled. There
was considerable game on the land at that time, and he remembers to have killed
there two mountain lions, several wildcats and one brown bear.
On May 16, 1904, Mr. Reusch was married to Miss Anna Timken, daughter of
Jacob and Martha (Tinken) Timken, who was born in Kansas, and they have four
children: Paul, Ernest, Henry and Bertha, all of whom are at home and students
at the Anaheim schools. M,rs. Reusch came to California with her parents in 1891,
and for a while lived at Acton, Cal. Then the family moved to Paso Robles, and
in 1904 came to Southern California. On April 19, 1911, to the sorrow of all who
knew her, she passed away. On June 16, 1916, Mr. Reusch married a second time,
choosing Miss Wally Neuhoff for his companion, a native of Saxony, Germany. She
was the daughter of Arthur and Minnie Neuhoff, and came to the United States in
1909; and ten years later, on July 20, 1919, she, too, passed to the Beyond.
On September 7, 1920, Mr. Reusch was again married, the ceremony taking-
place in Anaheim, when he was united with Mrs. Frieda S. (Kopfer) Swanson, a
daughter of Adolph and Theodora (Stahl) Kopfer, farmers in DeKalb County, 111.,
until they passed away. Frieda Kopfer received a good education in the excellent
schools of northern Illinois, and there she, too, was married to Theodore Swanson,
a farmer in DeKalb County until his death, in January, 1919, leaving his wife and
four children: Catherine, Dorris, Edgar and Theodore. Having two sisters living
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it came that she met Mr. Reusch, the acquaintance resulting in their marriage, a union
that is proving very happy and congenial to both. Mr. Reusch appreciates his wife's
encouragement and assistance in his ambition as an horticulturist and pronounces
her a most excellent helpmate. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, and marches
under the banners of the Republican party. From 1916 to 1918 he served as deputy
sheriff of Orange County, and no one who knows his geniality, his fearlessness and his
desire to do justice to all needs to be told that Charles Reusch was a very efficient
and impartial officer.
LEON C. HISERODT. — A rancher who has not only prospered in the Golden
West but who has the satisfaction of knowing that his long-honored parents contributed
their share to the development of this corner of the great American commonwealth, is
Leon C. Hiserodt of 423 North Claudina Street, Anaheim. He was born in Whiteside
County, 111., on June 25, 1869, the son of Edward D. Hiserodt, a farmer, who married
Miss Elizabeth Chatfield. He purchased 320 acres of land in Howard County, Nebr.,
and while his good wife and our subject, for the sake of the boy's schooling, removed
to Fulton, 111., Mr. Hiserodt took up his residence on the farm, and there lived alone
until, in 1884, his family joined him. Then St. Paul was the nearest railroad town;
but later the B. and M. came through that part of Nebraska, and the town of Cushing
was founded. As early as 1853, Edward Hiserodt crossed the great plains with an
ox-team, and when he returned East, he traveled by the Isthmian route. He died in
1910, at the age of eighty-six. His widow is still living in Fullerton, hale and
hearty at the still more advanced age of eighty-eight. A sister of Leon Hiserodt
in 1886 married L- C. Vanderburg, a Nebraskan farmer, and eight years later, Leon
traded his farm with him, the Vanderburg place having many improvements, while
there was only a sod house on the Hiserodt farm, and Mr. Vanderburg wished to come
out to California. In 1897, Mr. Hiserodt sold the Nebraska farm, and came out to
eastern Oregon, where he lived for a couple of years.
On October 2, 1890, Mr. Hiserodt married Miss. Hattie M. Dickenson, a native of
Dakota, whose parents came to Iowa, so that she received her education in that state.
Mr. Hiserodt, by the way, studied first at the Northern Illinois College at Fulton, and
later at Northern Nebraska College at Central City. Two sons have blessed this for
tunate union: Elmer Guy is on a ranch in Orangethorpe; and Earl Orlo is on a ranch
in the Magnolia school district. While in Oregon Mr. Hiserodt had some interesting
experiences, hauling lumber and logging in lumber camps. At Burns, he was in Harney
Valley, which is thirty miles wide, sixty miles long and 5,000 feet in elevation; and he
drove a four-horse team out of the Valley in 1899. When he came South to settle,
he purchased ten acres on West Orangethorpe, and set the same out to oranges; and
in 1905 he purchased another ten acres adjoining on the east, where he also planted
Valencias. This land is under the excellent service of the irrigating system of the
Anaheim Union Water Company, and the soil is very productive. The Hiserodt ranch
is, in fact, one of the best twenty-acre groves for miles around. In national politics
a Republican, in his support of local movements nonpartisan and generous, Mr.
Hiserodt is, in fraternal affairs, popular as a Woodman of the World.
ARTHUR R. MARSOM. — Prominent among the names of the successful men of
affairs of Orange County is that of Arthur R. Marsom, a resident of Fullerton since
1910, and one of the most progressive of the citizens of the growing city. A native of
Michigan, he was born at Detroit on July 14, 1871, the son of Henry and Susie (Mays)
Marsom. Of their family of five children Arthur R. is the third in order of birth and
he received a substantial education in the public schools of his native city. At an
early age he learned the trades of carriage painter and decorator and followed the former
in his home city until 1898.
In the above-named year Mr. Marsom came to California hoping to find a broader
field for his operations and in this he was not disappointed. He began contracting to
build houses in Los Angeles, taking them from basement and walls to a home com
plete and ready to move into. As he succeeded he opened a store in 1903, wherein he
carried everything to be found in a well-ordered, establishment carrying paint, artist
materials, draperies, tapestries, pottery, etc. His trade of decorator was of great assist
ance to him in finishing houses ready for occupancy by furnishing hangings, rugs,
tapestries to make complete and cosy the homes he constructed. These homes 'varied
in prices from $2,200 to $35,000, and he did much to build up the western section of
Los Angeles with its fine homes. Besides doing a general contracting business, for
which purpose he kept from forty-five to seventy-five men on the payroll, Mr Marsom
bought property and subdivided it into building lots and erected homes and sold at a
satisfactory advance in price. In the meantime he opened a branch at Long Beach
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more than ordinary success in his business ventures and in 1910 disposed of his inter
ests in Los Angeles and came to Fullerton and cast in his lot with the embryo city.
That his coming to this place has meant much to the city is demonstrated by his
erecting the first apartment house "The Marwood," in the town and some of the first
bungalows. He invested his money in lots and buildings and entered into the life of
the community with his characteristic energy and in a very short time he was con
sidered the leader in expansion and development. His investments today represent
over $200,000 in Fullerton, while he also owns a business block in Anaheim. Mr. Mar
som is an extensive dealer in real estate and is a fine judge of values. His home, which
he built, at 441 East Commonwealth Avenue, is one of the finest to be found in northern
Orange County.
The marriage of Arthur R. Marsom with Miss Marie Warrington was celebrated
in 1893, in Detroit, Mich., where she was born. Of this union there have been born
three children — Earl John, Ivy F. and Blanche Marie, who with their parents have
an ever-widening circle of friends. Mr. Marsom is a stanch Republican in national
affairs but in local matters he is nonpartisan, believing it best for the greatest number
that the man and not the party be recognized. The family are members of the Catholic
Church and Mr. Marsom is a member of the Knights of Columbus, having taken the
third degree. He is a member of the Fullerton Board of Trade and is a hard worker
for all progressive measures for civic improvement and uplift of Fullerton. It is to
such men as Mr. Marsom that California owes a debt of gratitude for they have entered
heartily into all movements for the upbuilding of the greatest state of the union, know
ing that when others profit they will garner their own share, and at the same time pave
the way for posterity to enjoy the fruits of their labors and thereby build a monument
that will last for all time.
JOHN McFADDEN. — Among the most prominent old-time merchants to whose
well-merited prosperity Santa Ana owes much of its steady progress must be mentioned
John McFadden, who died on June 23, 1915, leaving for his heirs and posterity a record
of honesty and industry such as is always of the highest credit to individuals or to
nations. He was born at Scotch Mountain, near Delhi, in Delaware County, N. Y., in
1843, the son of John McFadden, a native of Perthshire, Scotland, who migrated to
America and settled in New York. He was a farmer, and as an agriculturist, made his
mark in Delaware County. His wife was Effie Lamont before her marriage and she
was a native of the Isle of Wight. Of their eleven children, four sons and a daughter
came out to California: Mary (Mrs. Alvin Palmer) died at Redlands; James closed
his life at Altadena, to which place he had removed on account of Mrs. McFadden's
health; Archibald passed away in Santa Ana, and so did John McFadden, our subject;
while Robert McFadden, the only one surviving, still resides at Santa Ana.
John McFadden was educated in the public schools of Delaware County, N. Y.,
and later the academy at Delhi, N. Y., where he prepared for college, then entered
Union College at Schenectady, N. Y., from which he was graduated in 1867 with the
degree of B.A. In his senior year he was elected to the honorary scholarship society,
Phi Beta Kappa. Soon after that he came to California and engaged in teaching at
Vallejo, Solano County, and later in a military school at Oakland. Next he moved to
Santa Ana, then a small place, and with his brothers, James and Robert, embarked in
the lumber business at Newport. This satisfied him for only a few years, however, and
then he sold out and, in. 1879 started in business in Santa Ana. He began on West
Fourth Street with M. ]'. Bundy and when their partnership was dissolved he moved
to 111 East Fourth Street, where he erected the John McFadden building. Later, for
six or seven years, he was located at 112 East Fifth Street, and then moved back to
113 East Fourth Street, in the John McFadden building. He established the oldest
and largest general hardware establishment in Orange County. At his death the estate
was incorporated as the John McFadden Company, and since that time the family have
carried on the business. Edwin McFadden is president; Clyde Walker, vice-president;
Lamont McFadden, treasurer; and Miss Mabel McFadden, secretary. Mr. McFadden
was one of the stockholders of the First National Bank of Santa Ana until his death,
and also for years a director of that institution.
At Santa Ana, on April 9, 1883, Mr. McFadden was married to Miss Elizabeth
Walker, a native of Oakdale, Washington County, 111., and the daughter of Thomas and
Sarah (McClurken) Walker, natives, respectively, of South Carolina and Illinois. The
father was a. farmer in Illinois and early settled in Orange County. Soon after his
marriage Mr. McFadden erected the large, comfortable residence at 906 North Main
Street, where the family still make their home. Mr. and Mrs. McFadden were blessed
with five children: Mabel, Edwin and Lamont are giving their time to the success of
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Claremont high school; and Flora is a student at Pomona College, from which insti
tution Mabel, Ada, Edwin and Lamont in turn graduated.
Mr. McFadden was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, one of the
earliest and most prominent of churches here, and for thirty-five years he served as
clerk of the congregation, and for many years of that time was also its treasurer. He
believed in aiding people in the most practical manner, in the great work of assisting
them to help themselves, and so was one of the founders, and for many years president
of the Home Mutual Building and Loan Association, which has made it possible for
many people to acquire property for themselves, and to get into the self-respecting
habit of saving. Intensely interested in civic matters, he was a prominent member of
the city council of Santa Ana, serving as its president for a number of years; he was
also active in the Chamber of Commerce and in the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, serving as president of those bodies for several years. In connection with
the separation of Orange County from Los Angeles County, he took a prominent part.
He was fond of fishing and hunting and with his boon companions Messrs. M. M.
Crookshank, A. J. Crookshank, Clarence Crookshank, Z. B. West, Cubbon and Visel,
often went to the mountains for that recreation and sport found in the great wilds of
the Sierras. Mrs. McFadden, like her husband, was much interested in the growth and
development of her adopted city and has always favored and aided all movements that
have for their aim the building up of the city and county and enhancing the comfort
and happiness of its people. She is an active member of the Ebell Club as well as the
Ladies' Aid and Missionary societies of the United Presbyterian Church of Santa Ana,
of which she has been a member since 1878.
JOHN E. SCOTT. — There is no better proof of a town's business prosperity and
progress than the kind of business men it attracts. The cashier of the Placentia
National Bank and the Placentia Savings Bank, John E. Scott, is a man who has had
much experience in banking business. He is possessed of keen business ability, and
talent fitting him especially for the position he occupies. A Canadian by birth, Mr.
Scott was born in Dunnville, Ontario, January 20, 1885. He is the son of John E. and
Sophia (Galbraith) Scott. The father, who is deceased, was government overseer in
Canada, and in the paternal family of five children John E. is the youngest child. He
was educated in the public schools of his native country, attended high school two
years, and supplemented this with a three years' course at Saint Andrews College,
Toronto. He afterwards worked for the Bank of Hamilton, at Dunnville from 1903 to
1908, as chief teller. In 1908 he came to California, and in 1909 located on an orange
grove at Upland. In 1914 he disposed of his holdings and came to Placentia temporarily
to assist in the bank, but was induced to remain permanently, and on September 1,
1919, he was made cashier. He is also a director in both banks and is president of the
local Chamber of Commerce, is vice-president of Orange County Bankers Association.
Mr. Scott's marriage occurred December 2, 1908, uniting him with Miss Lillian
May Krick, also of Dunnville, and they are the parents of three children: John E.,
3rd, William Winston and Lawrence Lauchlin. Mr. Scott is a member of the Epis
copal Church and in his political views is a Republican, and lost no time after his
location in the land of the Stars and Stripes to become a citizen. Fraternally he was
made a Mason in Fullerton Lodge, No. 339, F. & A. M., and is a member of Fullerton
Chapter, R. A. M. Like most of his countrymen he is fond of outdoor sports, fishing
being one of the means of relaxation he enjoys from the cares of business life. As a
live wire in the interests of Orange County he is a decided acquisition to the com
munity, and is held in high esteem by his large circle of friends and acquaintances,
among whom he is a favorite socially.
GEORGE ESMAY. — The life of George Esmay, the efficient and popular assistant
cashier of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Fullerton is related in a very
interesting manner to those who could boast of pioneer experience's and pioneer deeds,
and reminds one how much of the progress of today is due to all that has gone before.
His great-grandfather, John Esmay, and his grandfather, Thomas Esmay, both moved
from Marathon, Cortland County, N. Y., westward by team, and passed through Chi
cago, 111., near Fort Dearborn, where they had to ford the river because there were
no bridges. They settled in Iowa on the western bank of the Mississippi River and
were pioneers of the eastern part of the Hawkeye State. At Sabula, Jackson County,
Iowa, George Esmay was born on April 30, 1859, the son of Francis Esmay, who
married Miss Nancy Seeber, both of Cortland County, N. Y.
Growing up in Sabula, George attended the country school of that period and
locality, learned the carpenter's trade and worked until 1879 in his father's sash, door
and blind factory. Then he became a railroad operator, and was cashier and ticket
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1907 Resigning, he came to California in 1907 and became cashier of the Atchison
InThe^ff Stn£ K Rallr°ad fjullu t0"' '-ving in April, 1913? to accept a pos ion
on the staff of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Fullerton
At Marshalltown, in Marshall County, Iowa, on March 28, 1883, Mr. Esmay was
married to Miss Ettie May Garlick, the daughter of James Piatt and Henrietta E.
(Dodge) Garlick. Mr. Garlick was born in Tintwisle, England, on March 7 1825 and
at the age of ten sailed from Liverpool on the "Ambassador," on what proved to 'be a
long and dangerous voyage across the Atlantic. Delayed by three weeks of fog off the
Irish Coast, the voyagers met stormy weather and once saw their ship afire- but after
being out from land for seven weeks and five days, they landed at New Orleans on
November 11 1835. Mr. Garlick was one of the many who came across the plains to
California in 1849. Before the Civil War he was active in organizing the "'underground
railroad. He ran the first "train" from Missouri to Canada, and was once in a house
where a posse was searching for him, and heard his pursuers offering a reward of $500
for him, dead or alive. Mr. Garlick died at Fullerton on December 2, 1916, and Mrs.
Garlick passed away at the home of her daughter on July 14, 1918. Mr. and Mrs.
Esmay have had five children: Vora Lorena Esmay is Mrs. James Earl McCulley;
Anna Leona Esmay; George Leffingwell Esmay married Miss Esther E. Kropp; Mary
Lilah Esmay is Mrs. Alvin L. Ford; and Ruby LaGrille Esmay is Mrs. Frank A.
Treadwell. The family attend the Baptist Church, and Mr. Esmay is a member of the
Modern Woodmen of America, and the banker of the lodge here from 1917 to date.
He belonged to Pioneer Camp No. 1, Modern Woodmen of America, at Lyons, Iowa,
and was a charter member there, and paid every assessment up to date; and in 1909
he was transferred to Camp No. 8260 at Fullerton, Cal.
A Republican in national politics, Mr. Esmay looks back to active participation in
civic duties. He was bugler of Company L of the First Regiment, Iowa National
Guards of Lyons, Iowa, from 1892 to 1894, and was also a bugler of the Home Guards
at Fullerton from 1916 to 1919. With his family he is intensely interested in Orange
County and naturally has a preference for everything pertaining to the development and
future of Fullerton.
THOMAS GRUSSING.— A very successful horticulturist under Southern Cali
fornia conditions who has set an excellent example in "boosting" for Orange County
and thus wishing to share with others the superior advantages he has found here, is
Thomas Grussing, who was born near Champaign, 111., on January 31, 1875, the son
of John Grussing, a pioneer of that state. He bought eighty acres of raw land at nine
dollars an acre, resolutely broke the prairie, and harvested such excellent results that
he continued to buy more until he had about 700 acres in a body. He improved it in
every desirable way and raised grain and stock, and eventually divided what he had
among his children. After he retired he resided in Gifford, 111., until his death, July
1, 1920, at nearly eighty years of age. A leader in local Republican ^councils, an ex-
member of the board of supervisors of Champaign County, he was for years a pillar
in the Lutheran Church of his neighborhood. When he married, he took for his wife
Miss Trentje Esterman, who proved an indispensable helpmate, and she is still living
to enjoy the affection and esteem of those who know her. Nine children were granted
this worthy couple; and seven are now living.
The fourth eldest in the family, Thomas from a boy learned to farm, while he
attended the local public schools, held chiefly in winter. He remained home to assist
his father until he was married to Miss Anne Flesner, a popular belle of that vicinity.
After that he bought, operated and then sold a farm of eighty acres; then he purchased
160 acres nearby, and later increased his holdings until he owned in all 320 acres, which
he devoted to raising stock and grain, chiefly corn and oats; and with this first-rate
agricultural plant he continued until 1912. While living there he responded to the urgent
invitation of his neighbors to act as school trustee.
In 1912 he was persuaded that he would do best by removing to California;
and having sold a part of the ranch, he came West and located at Anaheim. He
bought thirteen acres at the corner of East and Santa Ana streets, and he improved
the land by the addition of a new and handsome residence. In 1919, he sold the balance
of his eastern property and bought ten acres adjoining his first purchase, most of
which were in Valencia, and two acres in Navel oranges. He joined the Mutual
Orange Distributors Association, and as a Republican, he did what he could to elevate
civic affairs, but in local movements he always gave a generous, nonpartisan support.
On February 15, 1920, to the sorrow of a large circle of friends, Mrs. Grussing
passed to her eternal reward. She was the mother of four children — Tinie, Henry,
Hannah and Herman. With his family Mr. Grussing is a member of Anaheim Lutheran
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PETER D. BRADY. — A successful orange and walnut grower who is enjoying
prosperity as the reward of industry and the maintenance of right principles in the
conduct of his business, is Peter D. Brady, the owner of a forty-acre ranch, devoted to
oranges and walnuts, situated two and a half miles east of Garden Grove. Mr. Brady
was born in Marshall County, 111., January 28, 1866, a son of Peter and Julia (Welch)
Brady, natives of Vermont and Kentucky, respectively. Peter Brady was born July 6,
1832, and was united in marriage with Miss Julia Welch on December 1, 1859, the cere
mony being solemnized at Peoria, 111. He was a railroad man of marked ability and
filled the responsible post of division superintendent of the Rock Island Railway Com
pany in Illinois; while living in Kansas he was connected with the Santa Fe Railroad.
He became the owner of 160 acres of land in Rush County, Kans., also a quarter-section
in Greenwood County, that state.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brady were the parents of nine children, three of whom are
living: P. D. Brady, the subject of this sketch; E. W. Brady, a rancher living near his
brother; and Mrs. Essie Lighthall, who resides at Lindsay, Cal., where she is in the
orange business. In 1890 the family moved to California and in 1912 the mother passed
away at the age of seventy-three years; Peter Brady survived until February 11, 1920,
having passed the advanced age of eighty-seven.
P. D. Brady was four years old when his parents moved to Kansas. He received
his education in the public schools of Great Bend, graduating from the high school in
1885. He followed farming in Kansas, working on his father's farm in Rush County.
In 1891 he migrated to California, locating in Buaro precinct, Orange County, after
wards settling in Garden Grove precinct, where he purchased ten acres of rough land.
This he cleared and leveled and has made subsequent purchases, one of ten, the other of
twenty acres, making his total holdings forty acres, half being in walnuts and the
balance in Valencia oranges; three acres of the oranges are now nine years old and ten
acres of the walnuts are ten years old. He has a 200-foot well with a pumping capacity
of eighty inches. Mr. Brady is an indefatigable worker and his enterprising efforts
have been richly rewarded. His career furnishes a striking example of what energy
and resourcefulness can accomplish, when one has set his mind on a definite goal and
judiciously manages his financial affairs. From a humble beginning in ranching he has
successfully attained his goal — the ownership of a well-improved and profitable ranch
and a beautiful, modern bungalow residence. For about twenty years Mr. Brady ran a
hay-baling press in Southern California.
In 1917 Mr. Brady was united in marriage with Miss Alice Shoemaker, a native of
Ogle County, 111., and the daughter of Jasper and Lydia (Purcell) Shoemaker. Jasper
Shoemaker passed away in Ogle County, 111. ,at the age of sixty-seven years; Mrs. Shoe
maker is living at San Pedro. They were the parents of thirteen children, eleven of
whom are living.
Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Brady are the parents of one child, Barbara Jean. Mr. Brady
is a member of the Orange Growers Association, also of the Walnut Growers Associa
tion at Garden Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Brady are very popular in their locality, where
they -have a large circle of friends.
JOSIAH JACKSON. — A hard-working rancher whose flourishing grove of choice
fruit shows the desired-for results of proper, scientific attention, is Josiah Jackson,
who has been wrestling with the world and the problems of life since he was nineteen
years of age. He was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 25, 1866, the son of John
W. Jackson, a stock raiser whose land was devoted to general farming. He had married
Miss Martha Dickenson, one of a pioneer family, like his own, of the early days when
it was necessary to settle among the Indians in order to open up the paths to civiliza
tion. Josiah attended the Westboro district school and left home when he was nine
teen years of age, to work on farms in Iowa. He went to Washington County and
stayed for two years, and then he removed to northern Minnesota and North Dakota,
where he spent a few months. In 1885 he returned to Ohio; and when his father died,
the following spring, he took charge of the home farm for a year, after which he went
to Garden City, Kans., and spent a year and a half. Then he went to Colorado and
was three months at Fort Florsend, a station on the early Colorado and Midland
Railroad, now abandoned.
In 1888, at the height of the famous realty boom, Mr. Jackson came to California
and settled in San Diego, where he accepted work in the large stone quarry between
Murnetta and Fallbrook; but he was only three months there when he came on to
Whittier, where he lived with his sister until he was married on May 26, 1898, to Miss
Emma L. Healton, who was born near Kokomo in the Hoosier State. Her father was
Nathan Healton, and her mother, before her marriage, Miss Huldah J. McCoy and they
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developing and building up the neighborhood. When she was twelve years of age, in
1886, Mrs. Jackson came to California with her father and attended the El Modena
school; and later she was a student at Whittier College. In 1903, Mr. Jackson pur
chased ten acres of the Beach subdivision of the Toler tract, and first set the land out
to walnuts. Then he grubbed out the walnut trees and set out four acres of the land
to Valencia oranges and six acres to lemons, and this has proven a more satisfactory
investment. The land is irrigated by the La Habra Water Company, and the La
Habra Citrus Association disposes of all of our subject's products.
Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jackson: Thomas M., died aged
two years and seven months; then comes D. Howard Jackson, a junior in the Whittier
high school; and Dorothy A. is a sophomore there. In national politics preferring to
march with the Republicans, Mr. Jackson is as nonpartisan and as broadminded as any
in local movements, and always is willing to put the best interests of the community
in which he lives above party principles. He is also ready to do his ordinary duty as
a citizen, and has served on the jury.
WILLIAM W. PERRY. — A conservative business man whose whole-hearted
nature makes him love the great outdoors, such a feature of the ideal in California
life, is William W. Perry, a native of North Carolina, where he was born near Burling
ton, on May 25, 1867, the son of Peter Perry. He was born in North Carolina in 1843,
and was a landowner and farmer who later moved with his family to Indiana, and
four years later, in 1877, to Nebraska, where he was a farmer. He once came to Cali
fornia, for a winter visit, and died in Nebraska in 1910. Mrs. Perry was Catherine
Glenn before her marriage and was highly honored as a descendant or early English
settlers on the Virginia Coast. Eleven children, all now married and doing well for
themselves, were born to this worthy pioneer couple; and among these William Perry
is the oldest son.
He attended the grammar schools in the country districts of Nebraska, and later
took a year at the Normal School in that state. His spare time he devoted to working
on a farm, and a large part of his earnings he put aside for the future. Having married,
he came out to California with his family in 1903, and spent fourteen months in the
Golden State; and in 1907 he sold his farm in Nebraska and came back to live.
He bought twenty acres on East Collins Avenue, two and a quarter miles north
east of Orange, and in April, 1907, moved onto the same. He improved the balance
of the place, making of the ranch a fine grove of oranges and lemons; and in 1913 he
built a fine modern residence of nine rooms with an up-to-date garage. He joined
the Villa Park Orchards Association, at one time serving as a director, and became a
member of the Central Lemon Growers Association of Villa Park, also holding stock
in the same. In 1909, he sunk a well on his ranch, and uses the water from it for
irrigation as well as for domestic purposes, although he gets the service of the Santa
Ana Valley Irrigation Company. He has a Sampson tractor, farms scientifically, and
is not the least sorry that he cast his lot in Orange County.
On May 12, 1892, Mr. Perry was married to Miss Harriet Smith of Weeping
Water, Nebr., a native daughter of that state, from parents who were sturdy farmer
folk. Two children were born to them: Gertrude P., who is the wife of L. F. Douglass
of Orange, and the mother of three children, Herbert P., Theodore R., and Robert A.,
who died at the age of six months. Maurice A., who is a rancher at Hemet, married
Leila Culter in August, 1920. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Orange, and were active as committee members in the various war loan drives; and
Mr. Perry belongs to the Odd Fellows of Orange, in which he is a past officer. In
national politics he is a Republican.
EDWIN BULA. — A successful rancher who has become a substantial financier
and, as a deep student, is interested in the bringing about of the best legislation for
the greatest good to the greatest number of people, is Edwin Bula, a director of the
Central Lemon Growers Association, of Villa Park, who was born in London, England,
on November 3, 1866, the son of Samuel Bula, a native of the British Isles. The father
was a contractor and builder, and as such became of note even in the great city of
London. He had married Miss Elizabeth Farren, who was also a native of Great
Britain, and who proved to be a wonderful wife and mother. They had three sons,
and Edwin was the second in the order of birth.
In 1881, Mr. and Mrs. Bula came with their family to the United States and settled
at Boston, where Mr. Bula continued to ply his trade of a builder; and Edwin, having
already received good common school educational advantages in England, went out to
work, at various kinds of labor. He was wide-awake and observant, and so caught not
only the real spirit of American institutions, but posted himself as to the trend of the
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In 1888, Mr. Bula was married to Miss Madelina Gondy, a native of Switzerland
who had come to New York and soon afterward with his wife he migrated west and
never halted until he had reached Los Angeles, arriving here in 1905, and later embarked
in the laundry business in Santa Ana, continuing four years.
In 1909 they bought eighteen acres of raw land, fourteen acres of which is in the
corporate limits of Orange and located two miles northeast from the city. Mr. Bula
began making improvements on the place by building a barn, in part of which they
lived while they were .planting orange and lemon trees on their ranch. In 1916 he had
so prospered that he erected a modern and comfortable house in which they live.
Their location is one of the favored ones of the county, being situated in the frostless
belt where soil and climate, and extra good care have made of the Bula ranch one of
the show places in this section of the county. Mr. Bula is a member, and since 1915
has been a director of the Central Lemon Growers Association .of Villa Park; is also a
member of the Villa Park Orchards Association, and of the Rural F"arm Bureau. He
is also a director of the California Citrus By-Products Company of Corona.
A stand-pat Republican, Mr. Bula maintains his live interest in civic affairs, and is
always ready, without partisanship, to support the best man and the best measures
making for the building up and also the upbuilding of the community and the county
in which he lives and thrives.
JAMES T. WHEDON. — A railroad man of many years' experience, James T.
Whedon can recall with interest the fact that he had charge of the first train to enter
Los Angeles in 1876, and it has been his privilege to witness the marvelous changes
that have come to this metropolis of the Pacific Coast since that date. A native of
Indiana, Mr. Whedon was born at Madison, in that state in 1846. The country round
about his birthplace was still in a comparatively primitive state at that time and the
educational opportunities were limited, so that whe'n a mere youth of ten years, Mr.
Whedon started out to earn his way, working as a water boy on the Madison and
Indianapolis Railway for only fifty cents a day, although that was not considered a low
wage for a boy at that time, as brakemen were paid but a dollar per day,
Although but fifteen years of age when the Civil War broke out, Mr. Whedon
enlisted in Company E, Third Indiana Cavalry and saw three years of hard service in
the great conflict. After the close of the war he returned to his home and went to work
as a brakeman on the J. M. and I. Railroad, and continued in this line of work until
1868, when he went to Wyoming, where he served in the capacity of baggage master
for the Union Pacific Railroad at Laramie, which was the end of the line at that time.
When the East and West road was connected at Promontory Point, 1869, Mr. Whedon
went to San Francisco and was employed as a conductor on the Old Central Pacific,
Western Pacific division, between Sacramento and Oakland, for ten years. It was during
this period that the Southern Pacific line was extended to Los Angeles and in 1876, when
the road was completed Mr. Whedon had charge of the first train that came over the
road, an event that was the beginning of the wonderful growth that has taken Los
Angeles past the half-million mark.
In 1880 he accepted the position as general yardmaster for the Texas Pacific
and also the St. Louis and Iron Mountain at Texarkana, and in 1882 was appointed
trainmaster for the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad at the same point. In 1884
he was made superintendent for the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad, at Little
Rock, and had charge of the road from Texarkana to Poplar Bluff. In 1886 during the
first big railroad strike he demonstrated his ability to cope with the strikers and
received the following telegram of which he is very proud: "St. Louis, March 17, 1886.
J. T. Whedon, Supt., Little Rock.
I congratulate you upon being the first superintendent that has run a freight
train successfully since the commencement of this causeless strike. Continue in your
good efforts. You are on the white list for all time to come:
(Signed) H. M. HOXIE, General Manager."
Coming back to California in 1887, Mr. Whedon was associated with the opening
of the Mt. Lowe Railroad and for the first four years of its operation he had charge
Of the road during Prof. Thaddeus Lowe's ownership. The following clipping from the
Pasadena Star shows the appreciation in which his services were held:
"Mr. Whedon has tendered his resignation as suoerintendent of the Mt. Lowe
Kailway, to take effect April 30. The tourist season being over Mr. C. W. Brown,
m addition to his duties as receiver and general manager, will also look after the
suoerintendent s duties. Professor Lowe showed his good judgment when he
selec-ted Mr. Whedon for the responsible position of superintendent in charge of
operating, as the results have shown. During the three years and ten months

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the road has been in operation, and which time Mr. Whedon has had charge, not
a single accident of any kind has taken place whereby a passenger has been in
jured or the company lost one dollar. This speaks very highly for the Mt. Lowe
Railway and its management.
"Apropos of the above we take pleasure in republishing an article which
appeared in the Little Rock Gazette, at the time of Mr. Whedon's resignation of
the position of division superintendent of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern Railroad, some years ago, and which was headed 'A Faithful and
Efficient Officer' 'In the resignation of Mr. J. T. Whedon, division superintendent
of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, the state of Arkansas,
and the city of Little Rock especially, lose a good citizen, and one of the best and
most efficient of its railroad corps. He is a man of few words, but quick to act,
and with good judgment. His personal bravery is something remarkable, while
his impartiality among deserving employees is as strict as his regard is warm for
true friends. During- the great railroad strike he was here, there and everywhere,
guarding with the greatest faithfulness the interests of the corporation he repre
sented. It is to his efforts, assisted as he was by Sheriff Worthen, that so little
damage resulted to persons and property. It is believed he will continue in the
service of the Missouri Pacific system, but it is' known to his friends that for
months past he has had a strong desire to locate in California, and possibly he
may go there. No official stands higher with the management, and the Gazette
hopes to see him promoted to a better position. However that may be, the people
of Little Rock (and the Gazette voices them) wish him great success, wherever he
may be stationed.' "
Mr. Whedon finished his long and successful railroad career in 1902, under the
employ of ex-Senator Clark of Montana, and for the next few years was interested in
mining in Arizona. Coming back to Los Angeles in 1909, he resided in Los Angeles.
He first purchased five acres of land at South Santa Anita, but in 1913 deciding to grow
avocados he sold this and purchased his present acreage at Yorba Linda, a tract of five
acres on a hillside which is practically frostless. In March, 1914, Mr. Whedon set out
350 avocado trees, the Fuerte variety predominating, and since that time he has given
practically all his time to the care and development of his orchard and has made it a
most profitable enterprise. The demand for his fruit is greater than he can supply and
the larger part of it is used by the Alexandria Hotel at Los Angeles. A member of the
California Avocado Association, Mr. Whedon is very prominent in its circles and he
is nationally known as the "Fuerte avocado man" as the first fruit of this variety ever
exhibited was displayed by him in 1916 at the San Diego meeting of the association.
Mr. Whedon's marriage, which occurred in Oakland, Cal., in 1872, united him
with Miss Henrietta T. Tappan, and four children were born to them: Their two
eldest children died in infancy and those living are Amy Frances, wife of Lieut.-Col.
A. W. Bradbury, U. S. A., at Camp Lewis, Wash., and Maude Tappan, wife of Albert
Wilson of Monrovia. Mr. Whedon is a member of Bartlett-Logan Post, G. A. R.,
Los Angeles, and is a Mason of Royal Arch degree. An estimable citizen, whose busy
life has been filled with interesting experiences, Mr. Whedon stands high in the
estimation of the citizens of his community.
WALTER De WITT LAMB. — The descendant of two generations of California
pioneers, Walter D. Lamb can well take pride in the achievements of his progenitors,
for it is to their unbounded faith in the future of this part of the country and their
many years of arduous labor, not unmixed with hardship, that much of the present
prosperity of this generation is due. Mr. Lamb's grandfather, Anson D. Lamb, and
his father, William D. Lamb, came to California in 1869 and a record of their lives will
be- found elsewhere in this volume.
Walter D. Lamb was born November 28, 1878, on his father's ranch in Fountain
Valley and grew up there, attending school in the Newhope school district and later
at Santa Ana. From his early youth he was gifted with unusual mechanical ability,
and has always been especially successful in operating farm machinery of all kinds, a
decided asset in these days when more and more of the farm work is being performed
mechanically. Under his father's supervision he early acquired a thorough knowledge
of agricultural processes and when quite young went into celery raising, operating on
an extensive scale when that industry was at its height. As his father always kept a
great many cattle, horses, mules and hogs on his large ranches, Walter Lamb became
accustomed to their care in his boyhood and thus became familiar with every detail of
the live stock business, especially in feeding and fattening steers on sugar beet tops.
He makes a practice of feeding a large drove of cattle for the market each fall and in
this he is expert and has few equals in judging beef cattle in Southern California.
In 1917 Mr. Lamb purchased his extensive stock ranch comprising 1,000 acres, 160
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here he has a herd of high grade Whiteface cattle, headed with thoroughbred stock.
His first holdings consisted of a tract of twenty acres in Fountain Valley, near one of
his father's ranches, and this he farms to alfalfa. He also cultivates a ranch of 144 acres
in this locality; this is still the property of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Lamb, but she
has given each of her children this amount of land for their use. On this ranch Mr.
Lamb raises large quantities of sugar beets, lima beans and barley, and in the produc
tion of all of these crops he has had signal success.
On March 14, 1900, Mr. Lamb was married to Miss Gertrude DuBois, the daughter
of Valentine DuBois, one of Orange County's well-known and influential citizens. Mrs.
Lamb, who is a native of Indiana, came here in 1897, graduating later from the Santa
Ana high school. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lamb; Velda May"
graduated from the Santa Ana high school in the class of 1919; Inez Loretta died at
the age of two years and five months; and Walter Kenneth. For a number of years
Mr. and Mrs. Lamb resided on their twenty-acre ranch in Fountain Valley, but since
October, 1916, they have made. their home in Santa Ana, in the attractive residence
which Mr. Lamb purchased at 415 West Walnut Street.
HENRY T. RUTHERFORD,— Prominent in banking circles of Orange County for
a number of years, at the time of his decease Henry T. Rutherford was cashier of the
Orange County Trust and Savings Bank at Santa Ana, having been connected with
banking circles for a number of years. His parents were Shelby T. and Mary J. (Bridg-
man) Rutherford, pioneer residents of Orange County. The father was born in Ken
tucky in 1847, and when he was but a babe he was taken to Missouri by his father,
his mother having died in his infancy. Shelby was early thrown upon his own resources
and consequently had practically no opportunity to acquire an education. At the age of
twelve he went to work on a farm, near Fort Smith, Ark., continuing in that locality
for a number of years. He finally was able to purchase a tract of land for himself,
which he cleared and put in crops. He was fifty miles from a railroad, however, and
there were many other hardships in this new and undeveloped country, so, having
heard of California's better opportunities, he decided to locate here. He first went to
Westminster, but later located on the San Joaquin ranch, leasing land there on which
he farmed for many years, at one time operating 1,000 acres; on retiring from active
ranching life he moved to Santa Ana and there he still makes his home.
Shelby T. Rutherford was for many years keenly interested in the organization
of school districts, realizing his own lack of educational opportunities, and determined
that his children should not be handicapped in this way. For nineteen years he served
on the board of trustees of his home district in Washington County, Ark. On coming
to California, during the first years of the family's residence on the San Joaquin ranch,
the children had to go six miles to attend the Tustin school; Mr. Rutherford was
instrumental in the organization of a district in that locality, serving as a member of
the board as long as he resided on the ranch. Mr. Rutherford's marriage in Arkansas
had united him with Miss Mary J. Bridgman, a native of that state, and four children
were born to them: Henry T., the subject of this sketch; Myrtle, Harriet and Lillian.
Henry T. Rutherford was born at Fort Smith, Ark., August 28, 1877, spending his
boyhood days in that locality. In December, 1887, he came with his parents to Orange
County, and grew up on the San Joaquin ranch. He was educated in the public schools
and graduated from the Santa Ana Business College. He started out quite early in life
to make his own way in the world, his first employment being with the Santa Ana
Produce Company. Later he was with the W. F. Lutz Implement Company for some
time. At the time of the organization of the Farmers and Merchants Bank he started in
with this institution as teller, later advancing to assistant cashier. He was the prime
mover in the consolidation of this bank with the Commercial Bank, and he remained
there as assistant cashier until January, 1915, when he became connected with the
Orange County Trust and Savings Bank, becoming cashier of the latter, which posi
tion he held at the time of his death, which occurred January 13, 1917.
Industrious and devoted to his business, Mr. Rutherford, although a comparatively
young man at the time of his passing away, had made a marked success and occupied
a Place of high esteem m his large circle of friends. He was one of the organizers
and a director of the Chamber of Commerce; president of the Orange County Bankers*
Association; a member and director of the Orange County Country Club, and when
the Jilks Hall was erected he was a member of the building committee. Prominent
in fraternal circles, he was a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M.; Santa
Ana Lodge No 794, B. P. O. Elks, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Rutherford s marriage, on June 20, 1907, united him with Miss Susie M. Halla
day, an adopted daughter of the late Daniel Halladay, a sketch of whose life is given
elsewhere in this work Mrs. Rutherford is a member of the First Presbyterian Church
and is prominent m club circles, being secretary of the Ebell Club

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DWIGHT E. MAGILL. — The owner of one of the trimmest ranches in all the
Buaro precinct — Section 34, a tract of ten acres, which he bought in 1911 — is Dwight
E. Magill, a native of Kansas, where he was born on August 9, 1886. He was four
years old when his father, Cyrus Newton Magill, and his mother, who had been
Matilda Brady before her marriage, settled in what is now the Buaro precinct, near
Garden Grove. Thus Dwight grew up in the Garden Grove district, where he attended
the grammar school. He put in a year also in the Orange high school, and then worked
on his father's farm until he was twenty-one. After that Mr. Magill worked for the
Brady Bros, on their hay press, and after learning the business, ran a hay press of
his own for six years. He gave general satisfaction in baling hay, and was successful
beyond that of the ordinary man.
When he was twenty-three years of age, on July 14, 1910, Mr. Magill was married
to Miss Edna Davis, of Los Angeles, the daughter of Frank M. Davis, the well-known
real estate operator of that city. Mrs. Davis, who was in maidenhood Augusta Hagg,
died in the fall of 1919, and since then her husband has lived in Ukiah, Cal., where he
formerly lived when he crossed the great plains in early, romantic days. Besides Mrs.
Magill there is a son, F. Clifford. By a former marriage there is a daughter, Mrs.
R. N. Lake of Los Angeles. In 1911 Mr. Magill bought his ten acres, and for three
years he farmed the land to beans. At the same time he raised hay on 400 acres of
land at Yorba Linda. Three successively dry years, however, made that industry
unprofitable, and since then he has set his ten acres out to walnuts, of late interplanted
with oranges and lemons. He has a deep well and a first-class pumping plant, and
abundant water for irrigation, as the result of which his farm is one of the most
promising of all the acreages roundabout.
Three children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Magill — Marjorie, Dwight E.
and George. Unhappy to relate, the second in the order of birth, on February 27 last,
was severely burned through the explosion of a can of gasoline ignited from a near-by
bonfire. At the time of the accident, the mother and the other two children were at
the home of Cyrus Newton Magill; but the response and subsequent devotion of Dr.
C. C. Violett saved the lad and alleviated much suffering. In days of prosperity, no
family has enjoyed a larger measure of hearty esteem; and in this trying hour, the
sympathy of the community could not fail to flow to the afflicted.
JAMES ALBERT TIMMONS.— A busy man of affairs, whose public services, on
account of both their immediate good and their far-reaching benefits to posterity, de
serves the grateful remembrance of generations to come, is James Albert Timmons,
a native of Oakland, Coles County, 111., where he was born on June 22, 1864. His
parents were A. Jackson and Lydia Timmons, and they came as farmer-folk from
Indiana to Illinois in early days'. Our subject was sent to the common schools of the
district, while he helped on the farm, and then continued his studies at the Gem City
Business College, Quincy, 111. When his father embarked in the hardware business at
Oakland, he also helped in the new field. In 1888 he went to Kansas and in Winfield,
Cowley County, engaged for several years in the clothing trade. When he sold out, at
the beginning of the century, he moved from Kansas to California and came to Santa
Ana. He purchased a ranch of thirty acres southwest of the town, six acres of which
had a variety of fruit trees, and went in for general farming. In 1906, he disposed of
this property and moved into town.
Since 1906, Mr. Timmons has engaged in buying and selling ranch and town prop
erty, and doubtless this experience led to his bringing about one of the greatest of all
local advancements. After repeated efforts had been made to organize for protection
to the land holders along the Santa Ana River in the Newport and Talbert districts,
Mr. Timmons took hold of the project and formed what was known as the Newbert
Protection District — a name derived from the "New" in Newport and the second
syllable in Talbert — called, in 1905, the First Street Land and Improvement Company.
Mr. Timmons was president, and W. T. Newland of Huntington Beach was vice-presi
dent. This company threw up levees on both sides of the Santa Ana River for a dis
tance of one and a half miles south from First Street, Santa Ana. On February 23,
1907, they succeeded in passing a bill in the California Legislature, permitting com
munities to organize for the purpose of protecting land along rivers, washes and can
yons, from the overflow of streams. At that time E. E. Keech was attorney for the
protection district, Clyde Bishop the assemblyman, and John W. Anderson, state senator
for the district. The old First Street Land and Improvement Company was disorgan
ized, and the Newbert Protection District came into existence. On August 24, 1907, a
board of directors of the Newbert Protection District issued bonds to the extent of
$185,000, to aid in the district's development, and Mr. Timmons served as the head of
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secretary; and only when it was thoroughly organized, did he resign. This organization
threw up levees for nine miles on both sides of the Santa Ana River, including the first
mile and a half of development of the First Street Land and Improvement Company,
which protects the ranches along the river, saving the crops against the flood waters.
On January 12, 1892, Mr. Timmons was married to Miss Lulu R. Cash, a native
of Oakland, 111., and the daughter of L. S. and Rowena (Sargent) Cash. She attended
the graded schools of Oakland and later attended the Wesleyan University at Bloom
ington, 111.; her father was a Virginian, while her mother came from Ohio. Two sons
blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Timmons: Howard C. is a teller in the First Na
tional Bank of Santa Ana; and J. Herbert is associated with his father in the real estate
business. Both of these promising young men have military records of which they
may well be proud, having served in the same company during the late war. Mrs.
Timmons is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Santa Ana, while Mr.
Timmons is a well known figure among the Elks. In national politics he is a Repub
lican and has been a director in the Chamber of Commerce, and always worked to
secure enterprises that would aid the building up of Santa Ana. Mr. Timmons' enter
prise is not only directed to the development of Orange County, but extends into
other portions of California. Thus we find him an organizer of the Oak Ridge Orchards
Company, of which he is president. This company acquired nearly 1,000 acres adjoin
ing Templeton, San Luis Obispo County, on the southwest, which they are improving
and developing to orchards of pears, prunes, apples and almonds.
MRS. LYDIA A. HEMENWAY. — A thoroughgoing business woman who is
making a splendid success in her ranching activities is Mrs. Lydia A. Hemenway,
who maintains a partnership with her brother, Aaron Buchheim, on the Santa Mar
garita ranch, southeast of El Toro. Mrs. Hemenway was born near Mlelrose, Minn.,
the daughter of Frank S. and Carolina (Zymon) Buchheim. Her father was a native
of Germany, having come to the United States when he was but eleven years old. He
settled in Minnesota prior to the Civil War and had enlisted in the Union Army and
was ready to serve, when the war closed. The mother was born in the same part of
Germany as her husband, and came to America when she was seventeen years of age,
their marriage taking place in Minnesota.
The eldest of twelve children, seven of whom were born in Minnesota, Mrs.
Hemenway came to California with her parents when she was nine years old. The
family settled near Santa Ana, having purchased a twenty-acre ranch on Seventeenth
Street, which is still a part of the Buchheim estate. Frank S. Buchheim died in
1904, at the age of sixty-one, the mother passing away eleven years later, being seventy-
one at the time of her decease. Mrs. Hemenway spent her girlhood days on the home
ranch, and received her education in the Santa Ana schools. Her first marriage
occurred in 1890, when she was united to John Rumbould, a native of England, three
children being born to them: Mabel is the wife of Hiram Whisler, a rancher on the
Irvine ranch, and they are the parents of two children — Irene and Elmer; Ralph Rum
bould, a rancher near Westminster, married Alice Skinner of Santa Ana, and they
have one son, Robert; Roy Rumbould married Adelle McDonald, and two children,
Margaret and Barbara, were born to them. The second marriage of our subject united
her with Rupert Hemenway, and one child was born to them, a daughter, Ruth.
In 1908 Mrs. Hemenway formed a partnership with her brother, Aaron Buch
heim, and they now operate 1,300 acres of the Santa Margarita ranch. Together they
own their buildings, implements and work stock and equipment. In 1919 they had
250 acres in wheat and 800 acres in barley, 300 acres of which was cut for hay, the
remaining 500 acres being harvested for grain, and the year 1920 they harvested 13,465
sacks of grain. They have also been extensively engaged in raising beans. They find
the best results are obtained by summer fallowing, thus letting the ground rest a year
and materially increasing the yield. The motive power for operating the ranch is
furnished by five eight-horse and mule teams.
A woman of unusual energy and business acumen,' with the faculty of getting
on harmoniously with all her employees, Mrs. Hemenway is highly regarded in the
whole community, and her generous, kindly spirit leads her to take a public-spirited
interest in all the neighborhood affairs. She is endowed by nature with a strong intui
tion and is a very accurate judge of human nature; thus she is able to select help that
she can depend on, and with the success that comes to her she is more and more enjoy
ing the increasing business, and apparently does not mind the cares that big business
brings, but, on the other hand, she is not content unless she is actively at the helm
guiding and directing the operations. She is well read and well posted and is an
interesting conversationalist. Would we had many more women like Lydia Buch
heim Hemenway!

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WILLIS F. MITCHELL.-A hard working, highly intelligent, successful young
ranchman whose honors have been increased through a meretorious naval record in the
service of his country, is Willis F. Mitchell, son of Superintendent W G Mitchell
in charge of the great Irvine or San Joaquin ranch. He is really best known by the
familiar name 'Bud" Mitchell, and as such is about as welcome a native son where-
ever he goes as anyone m Orange County. He was born at Tustin, on August 11
1896, one of three children, and enjoyed the most favorable home advantages under the
loving care of his mother, who was Emily Sarah Green before her marriage His older
bu0tTT roWAS Ralph J°hn Mitchell> who served in the World War as a sergeant in the
the U. S. Army, m time honorably discharged; a sister, Florence Margaret, who is now
in the Orange high school, is the youngest of the family.
Willis Frederick, the second in order of birth, grew up on the San Joaquin
ranch, and helped his father farm when he was yet a youth, at the same time that he
attended the local public schools. In June-, 1917, he was graduated from the Orange
high school, and in the following September he enlisted in the U. S. Navy at San
Pedro, and served as a seaman gunner on the Cruiser U. S. S. "Seattle," convoying
troops overseas and later on the oil tanker "Wico," crossing the Atlantic six times.
On their last trip over, they accompanied the Italian ship, "Silvia," and he was an eye
witness to her being torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, and beheld the Silvia,
which had a cargo of a million dollars worth of steel, plunge down to her watery
grave. He himself had the pleasure of firing six of the fifteen shots sent at the sub
marine, 100 miles from the Straits of Gibraltar; and whether through expert handling
of their own vessel, or merely good luck, the United States steamer delivered its cargo
of gasoline safely at the various Mediterranean ports. He was seven months in actual
service, and finally landed at Philadelphia on November 10, 1918, and was honorably
discharged at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on January 23, 1919. Arriving home, he lost
no time in doffing his naval uniform, cherished though that was, for the ranchman's
garb. Now he is an active member of the American Legion, at Orange. He has always
been interested in athletics, particularly baseball; was a member of the Orange high
school team that won the Southern California championship in 1914. He is now captain
of the Orange baseball team.
Mr. Mitchell is farming 180 acres in lima beans, and on seventy-five acres he is
raising barley hay, so that he is cultivating 255 acres in all. He operates as far as
possible according to the last word in science, and profits by careful observation and
comparison with previous experiences. It is likely to be only a question of time for
him to be among the leading ranchmen of his district.
FRED H. WEISEL. — A horticulturist of Anaheim who very worthily represents,
as the son of the late Peter Weisel, another citizen of prominence, one of the broad-
minded builders of the community, is Fred H. Weisel, who came to Orange County in
the early nineties, when he was one year old, and who has therefore been identified
with Southern California all his life. He was born at Milwaukee, Wis., in 1890, the
son of Peter Weisel, a native of Germany who came to Milwaukee when he was seven
teen years old and there learned the machinist's trade. He followed the building of
steam engines until 1892, when he came out to California, bringing with him his family,
and soon after bought the old cannery. This he enlarged, and he was one of the first
here to make a success of canning fruits, managing it for several years.
When he came here, Peter Weisel bought twenty acres on Ball Road, now the
Royer ranch, which he improved with walnut trees, and where he made a home place;
later he bought more land and, after bringing that to a high state of development, sold
all that he had and in 1903 located in Anaheim. After a while, he took a trip back
to his old home in Germany; and there, in 1906, having fulfilled his mission as an
industrious mortal who had been permitted to enjoy some of the good things in life,
he passed away, in his seventieth year. His body was sent on to Anaheim for inter
ment, and he was buried in the local cemetery. Mrs. Weisel, who long resided at Ana
heim, died here in 1919, at the age of seventy-two.
Nine children blessed the mating of this worthy couple. Delia is Mrs. Larsen
of Hollywood; Josephine is Mrs. Krastle of Anaheim; P. J. Weisel lives at Santa Fe
Springs; Flora is the wife of Joseph Hiltschen of Anaheim; Elsa is Mrs. Schellens of
Olive; Hettie is the wife of Dr. Houck of Anaheim; Hans V. is the well known attorney
of the same city; Gretchen is the wife of Dr. Syer of Los Angeles; and Fred H. of this
review. Reared and educated in Anaheim, he was duly graduated from the Anaheim
high school, in 1909, and began ranching with eleven acres of his own at the corner of
Olive and Sunkist, which he set out to Valencia oranges; with others he sunk a well
and formed a water company, and in 1919 he sold what he had and bought twenty acres
on South Sunkist Avenue, already set out to Valencia oranges. He built his residence,
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sunk a well and then joined the Anaheim Orange and Lemon Association, in which he
has always been especially interested.
On August 15, 1912, and at Anaheim, Mr. Weisel was married to Miss Margaret
Tedrick who was born near Hutchinson, Reno County, Kans., the daughter of George
and Belle (Duckworth) Tedrick, natives respectively of Ohio and Iowa. Her father
was engaged in educational work, teaching in Kansas, and in 1908 came with his family
to California, where he followed ranching. He then entered the civil service, and has
been so engaged ever since. The eldest of their three children, Mrs. Weisel was grad
uated from the Anaheim Union high school in 1911. She belongs to the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
ROBERT B. JOHNSON. — A substantial citizen of Orange County who enjoys
good reading, is interested in local annals and takes pride in family ancestry, is Robert
B. Johnson, who was born in Stark County, 111., on a farm northwest of Peoria, on
July 12, 1870. His father was Andrew Jackson Johnson, a native of Illinois, who had
married Miss Margaret Campbell, a native of Pennsylvania. As a farmer, he had 240
acres of rich corn land, which he sold in 1888, when he went to Nebraska. Eight of
their children survived, and Robert is the youngest son.
He enjoyed a thorough, common school education in Illinois, and later graduated
from the Norfolk, Nebr., high school. In 1896, he entered the Rush Medical College,
from which he was graduated with honors as a member of the class of 1900. He spent
his vacation at home, and the same year, 1900, began practicing medicine at New
Salem, 111.
After a couple of years, however, Mr. Johnson decided that he preferred mer
cantile life, and he became a partner in a dry goods business at Norfolk, Nebr. On
September 23, 1903, he was married to Miss Nelle F. Ingalsbe, a native of Illinois, who
was a teacher. One child, born in Nebraska on September 27, 1907, and christened
William B. Johnson, was born of this happy union.
In 1908 Mr. Johnson came to California and in the summer of the same year
bought eight and a half acres of oranges and apricots near Orange. Soon afterward,
he purchased eleven acres in the far-famed frostless belt at Villa Park. He erected
buildings there, and made other improvements. Now, with the help of a nephew,
Harlan S. Johnson, who lives with him, Mr. Johnson is operating forty-four acres.
He belongs to the Villa Park Orchards and the Central Lemon associations, contributes
what he can by a live, intelligent interest, in the advancement of the citrus and walnut
industries, and under the banners of the Republican party works hard for higher civic
standards — better citizenship.
DAVID OLIVER STEWART.— Among the native-born sons of California who
for years has occupied a place of prominence, particularly in the Huntington Beach
district, is David Oliver Stewart, who possesses in a large measure those qualities that
make for success in the upbuilding of a country, enterprise and determination, which
he no doubt inherited from his father. The latter, Oliver C. Stewart, a native of Utah,
came to the state as a pioneer in the early days, and farmed for many years in San
Bernardino County. In 1869 the family removed to Ft. Worth, Texas, where they
remained until 1879 when they returned to San Bernardino and in 1880 came to Orange
County and settling in the famous peat lands near Westminster, being among the first
settlers in that locality. Oliver C. Stewart died at the age of sixty-six, his wife, Martha
(Brush) Stewart, born in Illinois, also being deceased.
Of their four children, David Oliver was the eldest. He was born in San Ber
nardino County on July 31, 1867, and when a babe of two years removed with his
parents to Ft. Worth, Texas, where they remained till 1879 and in 1880 they came to
Westminster, now Orange County, where he received his education in the public
schools. He began to learn the rudiments of farming at an early age, helping his
father on the home place. Until he was twenty years of age he continued to assist
his father, who was at that time extensively engaged in general farming. On the
land which the father had purchased was a tule swamp which was practically worthless.
They inaugurated a system of drainage, however, that was very successful and proved
to be the beginning of reclamation work in that district. The rich land thus made
available was found especially adapted to the raising of celery and they were very
successful in its production.
In 1888 David Oliver Stewart began farming for himself and on a tract of land
that he purchased he began raising potatoes, corn and barley. He was unusually suc
cessful and never had a crop failure in the long term of years that he continued in this
held. For a time he gave up his active farming interests, going to Huntington Beach
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sixty acres at the low price of thirty dollars an acre, afterwards disposing of forty
acres of it for $300 an acre. For about ten years Mr. Stewart has been vice-president
of the First National Bank of Huntington Beach and he appraises practically all the
loans on lands made by that bank. His ability and many years of experience as a
rancher and his long and intimate knowledge of men and acres in Orange County make
his judgment authoritative in these matters, and there is perhaps no man in this region
so well informed on land values as he. Mr. Stewart is also again actively engaged in
ranching, raising sugar beets and lima beans. Notwithstanding his responsible duties
in connection with his banking interests he is not afraid to roll up his sleeves and work
and he does practically all the cultivating and planting on his twenty-seven-acre ranch
in the Del Mar district, adjoining Huntington Beach.
In 1887 Mr. Stewart was married to Miss Alice Nixon, the ceremony being per
formed at Westminster. She is a native of Cedar Vale, Kans., and came to California
with her parents when only two years old. She is the daughter of Andrew and Hannah
(Conklin) Nixon, natives of Kansas and Ohio, respectively. The father was drowned
on the coast where Huntington Beach now is, being probably the first victim. He
came here and took up land on the present site of Huntington Beach, but was dis
possessed by the Stearns Rancho Company, the family being ousted soon after the
father's accidental drowning. There were three daughters in the Nixon family: Alice,
Mrs. David Oliver Stewart; Ella, Mrs. John Graham of Bolsa; and Lilly, the wife of
John Slayback of Hemet, Cal. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are the parents of four children:
Earl, who married Miss Gladys Abbott, died November 27, 1919; Sylvia is the wife of
Daye Compton of Monroe, Mich.; Maud is Mrs. Clarence Shermer of Pasadena; Rena
is the wife of Harry Lindsay of Ogden, Utah. Mr. Stewart has always been very
active in the municipal affairs of Huntington Beach, having helped to incorporate the
city; he was a member of its first board of trustees and has since served two addi
tional terms. His opinion is always highly regarded for it is to such progressive and
far-seeing men as he that the city is indebted for its growth and development.
A. B. and L. S. HAVEN. — Prominent among the industries of California that have
proven of the greatest benefit to Santa Ana, and so have added greatly to the wealth,
prosperity and progress of Orange County, must be rated that of the Haven Seed
Company, which expends over $100,000 annually in the town for labor and supplies.
The business was organized and founded by E. M. Haven, an Ohioan and a member
of a family of English origin. The progenitor of the family in America was Richard
Haven, who came from the west of England and settled in Lynn, Mass., in 1644. He
sought neither the wealth of the Incas, nor did he hope to find mines of gold, nor did
he pant for the conquest of a new world, but as an humble artisan, a carpenter by trade,
he hoped to find here an opportunity to pursue his calling in the freedom of a sincere
Christian heart. The great-great-grandfather of A. B. Haven, Elisha Haven, married
at Warwick, Mass., in 1792, into the Goodell family, of French descent, members of
whom sailed from a port on the west coast of England to America on the ship "Eliza
beth" in 1634. John Haven, great-grandfather, was a native of New Hampshire, but
had resided in Vermont, Eastern New York and Ohio. He married, in "1820, at Shalers-
ville, Ohio, into the noted English family of Sanford. Grandfather, G. W. Haven, was
born in Shalersville, Ohio, September 18, 1831; and at North Eaton, that state, in 1854,
married into the Wilmot family, also of English descent. He was a pioneer farmer in
the Buckeye State. The Haven ancestors were numbered among those pioneers who
made farm homes by clearing forests and doing the hardest kinds of labor to accomplish
their objects. E. M. Haven grew up in Michigan, to which state his parents removed
in 1863, when he was a lad of eight years. There he married, on February 27, 1878,
Miss Ludema PeLong, a lady of French extraction, born on March 14, 1859, in South
Lyons, Oakland County, Mich. .At Bloomingdale, Van Buren County, Mich., E. M.
Haven started the Haven Seed Company, in 1875.
The business grew and expanded, and in 1891 Mr. Haven moved to South Haven,
Mich., and there built up a wholesale trade, making a specialty of tomato, radish, beans,
cucumber, sweet corn and other vegetable seeds, the farmers growing them under con
tract and Mr. Haven selling to seed dealers. In the autumn of 1903, the Haven family
moved out to California, and for a season settled in San Luis Obispo County. From
1905 to 1909, they operated in San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties, and in 1910 put
in their first year in Orange County at Tustin, where they conducted a seed farm.
In September, 1917, E. M. Haven died, mourned by all who knew him, esteemed his
-inning personality and admired his extraordinary ability. Since then, Mrs. Haven
has ^sjded ;n Santa Ana.
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1881. He bought forty acres, in 1917, adjoining the city limits of Santa Ana — a fine tract
since then increased to 100 acres — and there had built a large warehouse of hollow tile,
55 x 72 feet in size, three stories high. Together with another warehouse, the company
has some 13,000 feet of floor space; they also have finely-equipped offices, and have
laid no less than thirty miles of tiling for drainage purposes, the exact value of which
is being slowly tested and demonstrated. The water from their wells is lifted by
pumps operated by electric power, furnishing an abundant and ample supply for irri
gation. In 1918, also, a fine barn, 52 x 120 feet in size, was erected, to care for the
twenty-four head of horses and mules, with additional buildings for the Holt caterpillar
tractor, and other high-grade farming paraphernalia. This barn, erected after A. B.
Haven's own plans, with many novel features all ingeniously arranged, is said to be
the most up-to-date in all the county. In 1914, the Haven Seed Company was incorpo
rated under the laws of the state of California.
Mr. Haven and his brother, L. S. Haven, who was born in South Haven, Mich.,
on July 8, 1895, and is secretary of the Haven Seed Company — with C. E. Utt of Tustin,
as treasurer — have spent their entire lives in the seed business, and are decidedly
practical men. They make a specialty of tomato seeds, and grow upwards of eighty
varieties, being in that respect the largest growers of tomato seeds in the world.
Two-thirds of their 600 acres are given up to tomatoes, and their seeds go to every
civilized country on the globe. Part of their success is undoubtedly due to the orig
inality, of their improved methods, one of which is the most approved means of sepa
rating the seed — an invention that is the outgrowth of original ideas of members of
the corporation and perfected by A. B. Haven. Besides the eighty varieties of tomatoes
grown, the Haven Seed Company also produce several varieties each of eggplant,
pepper, cucumber and special crops of other vegetable seeds including lima beans.
Great care is taken that only the best seed is distributed to anyone.
A. B. Haven was married August 23, 1911, at Tustin, Cal., to Miss Lizzie H.
Brown, by whom he has had five children — Mary, Archibald B., Jr., Annie, Elizabeth
and Hilda L. In 1918 he built for himself and family a bungalow residence on the seed
farm. L. S. Haven was married at Santa Ana, his bride being Miss Cammie B. Mitchell,
with whom he now resides on Broadway, in Santa Ana. Two children have blessed their
union, Ralph L. and Earl M. The Havens attend .the Christian Church at Santa Ana.
MRS. MAUDE H. CHASE. — A highly cultured lady whose interest in art, espec
ially painting — in which she herself, blessed with exceptional talent, is very proficient — ¦
has enabled her to contribute much for the edification and happiness of others, is Mrs.
Maude H. Chase, the widow of the esteemed Charles H. Chase, living at 1701 North
Bush Street, Santa Ana. She was born in West Side, Iowa, the daughter of LeRoy
and Lottie L. (Rowland) Hall, who took her, when she was a mere baby, to Crawford,
Nebr. There her father, a banker by profession, had the Commercial State Bank of
Crawford, and he lived there for thirty-five years.
Maude Hall attended the public schools of Crawford, matriculating in time at the
Nebraska State University; and after a course of study in that thorough institution, she
later studied at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago. From time to time,
she also studied painting in water colors and on china, and attained to a pleasing fame
among her friends. In Chicago, Miss Hall was married to Charles H. Chase, a native
of Akron, Ohio, where he was born on June 21, 1871, the son of a physician,- Dr. Byron
Chase, who had married Miss Henrietta Sabin. He attended the schools of Akron,
and later graduated from the law school of the Western Reserve College.
After their happy marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Chase removed to Denver, Colo., where
Mr. Chase was associated for a year with the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. Then
they removed to Crawford, Nebr, and there Mr. Chase was in the mercantile trade.
He was also elected and reelected the first mayor of Crawford, holding that responsible
office for two consecutive terms. He was also affiliated with the Commercial State
Bank of Crawford, and while in the bank was a member of the state legislature,
representing the sixth district. His business was wholesale fruit and produce; and he
was busy in that line, as one of the commercial leaders of the city, when he passed on,
June 21, 1914, a member of the Congregational Church.
Mr. Chase was a member of the Akron Lodge of B. P. O. Elks, and had just
taken his first steps in Masonry. Mrs. Chase is an active member of the Eastern Star,
and also a prominent member of the local Ebell Club, the Santa Ana Chapter, P. E. O.,
and the Laguna Art Association. . As a Christian Scientist, she belongs to the Mother
Church of that organization at Boston, Mass; and she takes an active part in public
welfare work, and was an active participant in all war work expected of women. Fou~
children have given joy to Mr. and Mrs. Chase: Henrietta H. is a student i- 'the
Santa Ana high school; Charlotte E. attends the Intermediate school, as <^s aIs0
Charles H.; and Bryon L. is in the second grade.

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ALMON GOODWIN.-A successful rancher who never fails to interest as an
experienced old settler the traveler looking for early California stories, is Almon
Goodwin, whose uncle, Maj C. M. Goodwin, was on the expedition with General Fre"
mont when he was putting down the Indian uprisings and clearing the country for the
S^e'coumv fd? °ld"timer' , h, , had mUCh t0 d° With the development o
Orange County, and few are assured of longer or more delightful remembrance by an
appreciative posterity A native son naturally proud of his association with this Pacific
commonwealth Mr. Goodwin was born near Stockton, in San Joaquin County, on Jun
24 1854, the son of Almon D Goodwin, a native of St. Lawrence County, N Y. who
had married a daughter of Vermont, Miss Martha Brosee. As far back as 1852 his
ES Ca7/° ^ V0^" County, and Almon was sent to the San Joaqu n d strk
schools and to the Stockton high school. One of his fellow students in those early
rawer days was James H. Budd, popularly known as "Jim," who afterward went to
Congress and then became governor of California.
Almon Goodwin spent the early days with his father on a wheat ranch of 1,080
acres m the San Joaquin Valley, and in 1875 he and his brother George bought his
fathers ranch, where he remained until the fall of 1880. He then sold his holdings,
C,Ta/0U™ *niset!led™ Tus*in; and there he purchased ten and one-quarter acres of
old Mr Moorehead, which he set out to oranges. At the same time, he bought 552
acres in the Los Bolsa district, and also ninety-seven acres near Fairview, which he
leased out for a while and then managed for himself. He planted 200 acres to alfalfa
the first year he came South, and started a dairy farm, becoming in time sole owner,
and also raised horses, mules and hogs. He built the first cheese factory hereabouts,
five miles from Santa Ana, west of where the Bolsa store now stands on section No.
18; and he had his young stock on his farm at Fairview, all this time making his home
on his seven-acre grove on First Street, in Tustin. In January, 1886, he sold out his
seven-acre grove and moved into Santa Ana; and, while residing here, he ran the two
ranches at the same time. During the boom in 1JW8, however, he sold his holdings in
Bolsa and Fairview.
While living in Santa Ana, Mr. Goodwin started orange grove development in
Orangthorpe, and in 1890 set out fifteen acres of oranges on Commonwealth Avenue
in Fullerton. In 1891 he planted fifteen acres of walnuts and five acres of oranges in
West Orangethorpe; moving up to Orangethorpe in 1898. He sold the fifteen acres at
Fullerton the second year after he set out the grove, and in 1907 disposed of the twenty
acres in West Orangethorpe. He lived in Fullerton, and in 1910 built a home on his
ranch on East Orangethorpe Avenue. At the present time he has eighteen acres in his
ranch, and this is devoted to the culture of oranges. He has a well of sixty-two inches
of water with a private pumping plant, where he installed a Lane and Boiler pump.
On February 14, 1874, Mr. Goodwin was married to Miss Katherine Vilinger, a
native of the same district in San Joaquin County in which he first saw the light of
day. She attended the San Joaquin County schools, and became the mother of four
children: Jesse is on the ranch adjoining his father at Orangethorpe; Pearl is Mrs.
Parker and lives on a ranch on East Orangethorpe Avenue; William A. is in Fullerton;
and Florence E. has become Mrs. Howard and resides in Shasta County. Mr. Goodwin
is a public-spirited man, as might be inferred from such a career affecting the destinies
of others beside himself; and he has served three terms on the city council of Santa
Ana — two terms for two years, and one for four. He is a member of Lodge No. 236,
I. O. O. F. of Santa Ana, and Mrs. Goodwin is a member of the Methodist Church in
Fullerton as well as of the Rebekahs.
MISS BERTHA D. PROCTOR.— Not everyone, perhaps, who enjoys the high
degree of popularity with which Miss Bertha D. Proctor, the very efficient librarian of
Huntington Beach, is favored, so well deserves the honor and good will of their fellows,
for she is both a young woman of exceptionable ability, and an indefatigable worker,
ever having the best and most permanent interests of the community at heart. She was
born at Janesville, Wis., the daughter of Joel Proctor, who had married Miss Della
Scott; and with them she resides at 242 Fourteenth Street, Huntington Beach. A
younger and only brother has the responsibility of the Saltville salt works near Rands
burg, Cal.
Having graduated from the Janesville high school, and removed to the Pacific
Coast, Miss Proctor attended the Los Angeles Normal School and secured a certificate
to teach. For two years she was assistant principal, and for two years principal of the
Riverside grammar school; but believing that in still another field lay her true mission
in life, she went to Long Beach and there took the librarian's course under Miss Mun
son, the cataloguer, of the State Library. On finishing this course, she came to Hunt
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The library, one of the youngest but among the most promising in Orange County,
has been erected on six lots, at the corner of Eighth and Walnut streets, valued at
$2,350. It was established through the library association which was formed on
February 9, 1909, and which became a public library association on June 14, 1919. The
library is well patronized, as may be seen from the fact that in ninety days the. circu
lation was 9,360 volumes, taken out by 1,062 cardholders. Besides the collection of
books, the library has over 800 very attractive stereopticon views.
The basement of the library structure is used by the Chamber of Commerce, of
which Miss Proctor is the assistant secretary; and there a superb exhibit of the many
varieties of Huntington Beach products of the soil is maintained. At the last Orange
County Fair, Miss Proctor was in charge of the County Library exhibit, and a recent
issue of The Golden West describes what was seen there as follows:
"A large and artistically arranged booth, decorated with flowers and plants,
housed the exhibits of Santa Ana, Orange, Fullerton and Huntington Beach, each
of which was both creditable and interesting. Books, magazines, papers and pic
tures told of the attractions and benefits of the various libraries, and Miss Bertha
Proctor explained to all questioners the system and many avenues of library work.
Miss Proctor is the librarian of Huntington Beach Carnegie Library, which is
strictly up-to-date as to equipment and furnishings, while the circulation is excep
tionally good for the size of the city. Gardens of flowers, walks, a fountain, a
flagpole and ornamental lights surround the building, and adjacent lots have been
converted into croquet courts and quoit grounds, while Nature has provided the
sea beach only a block away for an outdoor reading room. The library is one of
the most valuable assets of Huntington Beach, and is the pride of the little city."
Miss Proctor has a well developed artistic sense very useful to her in her public
work; and this is shown in her displays as an amateur kodaker, and also a painter and
a decorator — a field in which she has taken rank among the best of local amateurs. Her
own popularity has contributed much to make the library a more popular and a more
serviceable institution — a good example of the value, in sociological work especially, of
character and the trained intellect.
HUNTINGTON BEACH CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY.— Among the live
liest agencies long and most effectively working for the upbuilding of Huntington Beach
must be rated the Carnegie Public Library, since 1911 in charge of Miss Bertha D.
Proctor, librarian. In 1909, R. M. Blodget and Mrs. R. H. Lindgren aroused the
interest of both the Board of Trade and the Woman's Club, and a library organization
was formed by Mrs. Lindgren, Mrs. Blodget, Mrs. Mary Manske, Mrs. C. D. Heart-
well, Mrs. Minnie Nutt and Mr. Blodget. One dollar was fixed as the membership
fee, a "drive" brought in many new supporters, and an entertainment by the Woman's
Club netted fifty dollars. Mr. Reed guaranteed fifty dollars for the purchase of an
old building that was being moved from the present site of the Collins Block to the
southwest corner of Walnut and Main streets; carpenters and painters donated services
to assist in making the affair, a mere shell, habitable; secondhand furniture was painted
up and varnished; Mr. H. Gibbs furnished the fuel for the first winter, and the Hunt
ington Beach Company the electricity and water until the library moved to its present
building. In 1909, the city agreed to provide for the library, and the first board of trustees
was chosen with the appointment of A. W. Everett, Mrs. Lindgren, Mrs. S. L. Blodget,
Mrs. Manske and Mrs. Ida Vincent, all of whom served the community with rare
fidelity. So did the first librarian, Miss Edith Brown, whose highly-intelligent work
lives after her. In 1910, Miss Maude D. Andrus succeeded Miss Brown, who was
.deceased, and then the library building was removed to the southwest corner of Third
and Walnut streets, and enlarged.
In February, 1911, Miss Proctor took charge of the library, which had now come
to be in greater demand, owing to the establishing here of the Holly Sugar Factory.
Soon after, four lots on the corner of Eighth and Walnuts steets were bought as a
site for future library purposes, and on February 13, 1913— a red-letter day in the
history of Huntington Beach— the glad tidings was received from New York that the
Carnegie Corporation had given the city of Huntington Beach $10,000 for the erection
of a public library building. In November of the same year, fitting ceremonies
attended the laying of the cornerstone, and on May 7, 1914, the library was moved to
'ts. "ew. .home' a dig"ified structure faced with red tapestry brick, trimmed with a
brick of light gray, and having a mission tile roof. It is 35 x 61 feet in size, and has a
basement ten feet deep. It contains a large lecture room, a reference room, a work
room and a furnace room, while on the first floor is the general reading room, the
children s room and the librarian's room. The furnishings are steel, and battleship
lino eum carpets the floors. A tall grandfather's clock stands at the entrance, the gift
of the high school graduates in 1914.

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Largely because of the broad and liberal spirit of the city fathers toward this
meritorious institution, much has been done to beautify the library grounds, from time
to time, and the library itself has been steadily augmented. When Miss Proctor took
charge, there were only 300 volumes, but now she and her assistant, Mrs. E. J. Harlow,
are responsible for over 6,500 well selected works in all fields of knowledge. Popular
magazines and the leading newspapers are also to be found here. The present board
of trustees consists of the president, H. T. Dunning; secretary, J. H.Eader, and A. M.
O'Brien, Mrs. Ed Manning and Mrs. S. A. Moore,
EMANUEL C. FRANZEN. — There is always something inspiring to the historian
in writing of a man who has made his own way in a successful battle with the world,
despite, too, the moments when the issues depended altogether on the pluck and tenacity
of the contestant. Emanuel C. Franzen, who owns a beautiful ranch and home site
at the corner of Fairhaven and Yorba avenues, is one of those whose intelligence and
hardihood have carried him through to the goal, and one with whom it is ever a pleas
ure to come into close contact.
He was born near Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, November 13, 1867, and is the
son of Asmus Franzen, also born there of an old Danish family, who married one of
his countrywomen, Miss Dorothea Schmidt. In 1879 the family came to Sycamore,
DeKalb County, 111., and in 1880 to Columbus Junction, Louisa County, Iowa, where
he followed farming until 1889, when they came to Orange, Cal., and was engaged
in horticulture until he retired. He had served in the Schleswig-Holstein War in
1864-66, and also in the Franco-Prussian War. The mother died in March, 1913, while
the father died in 1916. They had four children, among whom our subject is the only
son. Besides Emanuel C. Franzen, who is the eldest, two are living: Mrs. Christine
Cox of Santa Ana, and Mrs. Minnie Rohrs of Orange.
Emanuel C. Franzen was twelve years of age when he came to the United
States, and he attended the public schools in Illinois and Iowa, and during spare
time worked on his father's farm. In 1887 he came to Orange, arriving on November
7 of that year. He began work in orchards, so has been associated with citrus growing
since 1887. As was the custom, his wages went to his father until he was twenty-one
years of age, when he engaged in farming for himself. He worked on a farm nine
months, was employed for two years on a ranch in Villa Park, when he went to Los
Angeles and worked for Phil Hirschfeld and Company (now Zellerbach). While
there he attended the Los Angeles Business College at night after work was over..
After being employed for two years at Hirschfeld & Company he returned to Orange.
In 1890 he bought his present ten acres of land on Fairhaven and Yorba avenues.
He grubbed out the deciduous and eucalyptus tres and raised farm produce. In 1894 he
set five acres of apricots, but when they began bearing the price of apricots was so
low it did not pay, so he took them out and set out Valencia oranges, and now he
has a splendid bearing orange grove of ten acres under the Santa Ana Valley Irriga
tion Company. He has built a large modern residence, as well as improved it with
other suitable farm buildings.
At Orange on July 11, 1895, Mr. Franzen was united in marriage with Miss
Emilie Engelbert, a daughter of Rev. William P. and Catherine (Deitz) Engelbert.
William P. Engelbert was a graduate of Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind., and
was a minister in the German Lutheran Church, preaching in one congregation in Ohio
for eight years, then was called to Racine, Wis., where he founded St. John's Lutheran
Church, and under his guidance it became a power for good, and he continued as
their much loved pastor for seventeen years, until his death December 30, 1878. His
widow spent her last days in Los Angeles, and died September 26, 1890. They had
ten children, eight of whom grew up and three are still living. Besides Mrs. Franzen
there is a sister, Mrs. Pauline Eifler of Los Angeles, and a brother, Rev. Ferdinand
Engelbert, pastor of the Lutheran Church at Braddock, Pa. Mrs. Franzen was born
in Racine, Wis., and there received a good education, coming to Orange County, Cal.,
with her mother in 1887, and it was here she met Mr. Franzen, their acquaintance
resulting in their marriage, and of their union three children have been born, Lillian,
Alma and Herman.
Mr. Franzen has been a member of the McPherson Heights Citrus Association
from its organization, and being interested in the cause of education, has served as
a trustee of the El Modena school district for eight ye'ars. The family are members
of St. Peter's Lutheran Church at Santa Ana, Mr. Franzen being a member of its
board of trustees, while Mrs. Franzen is an active member and ex-secretary of the
Ladies' Aid Society and an active Sunday School worker, and their daughter, Mrs.
Alma Reusch, is the organist.

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WILLIAM T. NEWLAND. — A pioneer settler of Orange County who has watched
and aided its growth from a primitive condition to its present state of perfection, is
William T. Newland, since 1882 a resident of California. A native of Adams County,
111., Mr. Newland was born at Camp Point, a short distance from Quincy. He is
descended from Revolutionary stock and his father, John Newland, a native of Penn
sylvania, served in the Third Missouri Cavalry in the Civil War, and died during his
service. John Newland had married Mary Wortick, also a native of Pennsylvania, and
of the six children born to them, William T., the subject of this sketch, was the eldest.
He was only eleven years old when his father left home to enlist and his death a little
more than two years later left him the practical head of the little family and it became
necessary to assist his mother in caring for the younger children; but this seeming
handicap only developed his self-reliance and gave him the determination to succeed.
When Mr. Newland was seventeen years old he went to Morgan County, 111., and
began working on the farm of John M. DeLapp for thirteen dollars and a half a month,
sending this money home to his widowed mother until her death two years later.
When Mr. Newland was twenty-five years of age he was married to Mary Juanita
DeLapp, the daughter of his employer.
After Mr. Newland's marriage he continued to farm in Morgan County until 1882,
when he sold out his holdings there and removed to California. The first eight months
were spent at Half Moon Bay, and then he came to Los Angeles and bought an eighty-
acre farm one mile west of Compton. In 1886 he came to what is now Orange County
and leased land from James Irvine, where Mr. Newland cleared and broke the land
and put in the first large crop of barley raised on it. Afterwards he came up to his
present location near what is now Huntington Beach and bought a tract of 520 acres;
mostly tule land, and for the most part considered valueless. But with the native
perspicacity and foresight which has always insured his success, Mr. Newland saw its
possibilities and with his neighbors cut a ditch sytem, cleared and improved the land,
and for some time made a very profitable venture in the raising of celery. Later he
engaged extensively in the raising of sugar beets, in one year netting $35,000 from this
crop, and of late years he has devoted quite an acreage to raising lima beans.
Mr. Newland was at one time president of the First National Bank of Huntington
Beach. Always appreciating the necessity and importance of good roads, he has served
on the county highway commission, and it was during his tenure of office that the
county bond issue went through, appropriating the sum of $2,500,000 for 146 miles of
road in Orange County. He is a trustee of the Huntington Beach high school. At
present he is a director and one of the largest stockholders of the Huntington Beach
Linoleum Company. In July, 1916, accompanied by Mrs. Newland, he made a trip to
Astanchia Valley, N. M., and there bought a tract of 2,500 acres of land-
Mr. and Mrs. Newland are the parents of ten children: Clara is the wife of P. A.
Isenor, a rancher at Talbert; Wilmuth is the wife of Irving Thompon, who lives at El
Toro; Mary Frances resides with her parents; Idelpha is the wife of Colson McConahy,
a broker at Seattle, who served his country in the late war; John D. was in the U. S.
Army and served in Siberia until his discharge; Jessie is the wife of John W. Corbin,
and they reside on Mr. Newland's ranch at Astanchia, N. M.; William T., Jr., married
Miss Hazel Fox and rents a part of the home ranch; Clinton C. married Miss Annie
will and also rents a part of the home ranch, he also served during the war in the
signa Corps; Helen H. and Bernice M. are attending the Huntington Beach high
school. Mr. Newland is prominent in I. O. O. F. circles, having been a member of
that fraternity for many years. •
to deve1?nSt|rOBI,AS,EDWARDSON-A worth^ couP>e ™h° have done their share
and Mrs LT "fh /eSOUr«s of the Placentia section of Orange County are Mr.
comfortable home T^T' r °, ^V,™ r£tired fr°m aCtive business cares at their
or the r enteronse uL n U T"^ Y*]en™ °range grove, highly esteemed
iui ineir enterprise, liberality and kindness nf Vio.rt T-i,_, „¦ * f
1-,+e,- ™ a„ -i 1 ,.n ^euruary 14, 1841, Mr. Edwardson was born, and six vears
later on April 1, 1847, was recorded the natal day of Mrs Edwardson 010- m
hood was Miss Anne Tolena Jacobsdatter. They were both beared ' a! 7 T, ""
Ihe neighborhood of their birth and on March 6, P868 were^n ted in marr age ' "
land untd 188°S ^T ^ ^rsuitS> MAr' Edwardson followed farming in hfs native
land until 1885, when they came to America. They stODoed for uJ native
La Crosse Wis., and in the fall' of that year came west to California In 7"" *
farm m what is now Orange County. Two years later they cameo Placentl^nl
purchased two and a half acres, which they improved and set out to oran« later
they purchased twenty acres north of Placentia and this is set to wa nutTnow 'bHng

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ing in a splendid income. This place has been leased for oil and one well has already
been sunk on the property. They also own a home at East Newport, where they
frequently go for recreation. Always deeply interested in the progress of the com
munity, Mr. Edwardson is a member of the Placentia Orange Growers Association
and the Fullerton Walnut Growers Association.
Six living children complete the happy family circle of Mr. and Mrs. Edwardson,
who have journeyed together along life's pathway for more than fifty years. Anna
P>ergitte is the wife of John Lemke of Placentia; Carrie is Mrs. John Hetebrink of
Fullerton; Ludvig is a rancher at Placentia; Hanna is Mrs. William Kennedy qf
Anaheim; Mary is Mrs. Frost of Boston, Mass.; Jacob is engaged in ranching at
Placentia. The two sons look after the ranches, giving them the best of attention,
and thus relieve their parents of all unnecessary responsibility and care, so that
they can enjoy the reward of their well-spent years. They spend many pleasant days
at their Newport Beach home, where Mr. Edwardson especially enjoys the fishing.
In the spring of 1920 they made an extended tour of three months, traveling east as
far as Boston, where they visited their daughter, Mrs. Frost, returning by way of
Wisconsin, where they visited old friends, and thence through British Columbia,
down to Seattle and home, taking in many points of interest all along the way.
Residents of Orange County for thirty-five years, Mr. and Mrs. Edwardson
can well take pride in the accomplishments of the past years and in the fact that
they have done their part in bringing them about. They have prospered because of
their industry and good management and are. today well-to-do and in comfortable
circumstances, which they well deserve. They, in turn, are always ready to aid those
who have been less fortunate and show their hospitality in many ways. Reared in
the Lutheran faith of their forbears, they are still active in its good works; in political
matters they are firm believers in the principles of the Republican party.
PAUL TREYDTE. — Coming to America to seek success, feeling that the oppor
tunities here were greater than in his native land, Paul Treydte was indeed successful
in reaching his goal, despite the short span of his earthly existence. He was born in
Eisleben, Germany, on August 22, 1879. His boyhood days were spent in the neighbor
hood of his birthplace and he received his education in the public schools of that
locality where he learned the baker's trade. As the years went by he became desirous
for wider fields than the land of his birth seemed to afford so he accordingly set sail for
America, reaching New York June 26, 1904. For" the succeeding two years Mr. Treydte
worked at his trade in and around New York City and at various places along the
Jersey Coast, and it was during that period that he took out his naturalization papers.
Feeling that the Pacific Coast presented a broader scope for his activities, Mr. Treydte
set sail in 1906 with San Francisco as his destination, coming by way of the Isthmus
of Panama, reaching" there shortly after the disastrous earthquake of that year. He
first established himself in the baking "business in St. Helena, continuing there about
eighteen months, and then going to Roseville, in Placer County. There he established
and operated a bakery with good success for two years and he is still the owner
of the buildings occupied by the bakery and drug store in that city. Seeing the benefits
of a good English education, Mr. Treydte spent much time studying at night and the
diligent effort put forth by him has since been of great service.
After leaving Roseville he engaged in the bakery business in San Francisco, at
141-147 Eddy Street, and from there removed to Whittier, in Los Angeles County and
ran the Whittier bakery for three years, making his manufactured product popular in
Los Angeles and Orange counties. In 1916 Mr. Treydte became the owner of sixteen
and a half acres of citrus land at Yorba Linda and later acquired an additional tract of
nine and a half acres, making twenty-six acres in all, ten acres of the property being in
oranges and sixteen acres in lemons." After oil was struck in the vicinity he leased the
places to the General Petroleum Oil Company, who- are now sinking a well on his
place, making the ranch more valuable than ever. Besides his ranch property in Yorba
Linda, Mr. Treydte owned real estate in Riverbank, Stanislaus County, and at Lynwood,
Los Angeles County.
At St. Helena, Napa County, Mr. Treydte was married on December 24, 1907, to
Miss Emma Kueffer, a daughter of G. and Margaret (Roming) Kueffer, who migrated
from Falls County, Texas, to Napa County, Cal., in 1895, and located at Calistoga,
where they were engaged in horticulture and viticulture. The father died in 1905, being
survived by his widow, who resided on the old home place until 1919, when she dis
posed of it and now makes her home at Yorba Linda. Of their three children, Mrs.
Treydte is the youngest and was born in Falls County, Texas; coming to California,
she received a good education in the Calistoga schools. Five children were born to
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Paul, Jr., Ella M., George S., Myrtle D., and Raymond. They all attend the school
at Yorba Linda.
A loyal citizen to the land of his adoption, Mr. Treydte was an enthusiastic sup
porter of all progressive movements in Orange County. He was a member of the
Yorba Linda Citrus Association and the Yorba Linda Water Company. With his family
he was a member of the Lutheran Church in Whittier. A self-made man, he made a
genuine success of all his undertakings after his arrival in this country and in all of
this he gave due credit to his wife, who was a real helpmate to him in all his enter
prises. ' Mr. Treydte passed away December 2, 1920, deeply mourned by his family and
friends, who appreciated him for his many virtues.
LEWIS W. BLODGET. — Prominent among the rising young attorneys of the
state, is Lewis W. Blodget of the law firm of Blodget and Blodget of Los Angeles
and Huntington Beach. The family of Blodget is one of the old and honored Puritan
families of Massachusetts and has figured prominently in the history and development
of Massachusetts and America. The first representative of the Blodget family in
America was Thomas Blodget, who with his .wife and two sons, came to Massachusetts
Bay Colony in 1635. He was born in England in 1605 and left Suffolk, England, with
his family, sailing from Plymouth on the ship "Increase" in 1635. He died in Cam
bridge, Mass., in 1641. The great grandfather of Lewis W., was Arba Blodget, who
was born in Massachusetts in 1789. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and in the
Indian Wars, and died in 1837. His father was Solomon Blodget, a soldier in the
Revolutionary War, who was born in 1756 and died in 1844. Solomon Blodget's grand
father, Joseph Blodget, fought in the Indian and Colonial War in 1725. On his
father's side, Lewis W. represents the tenth generation in America and on his mother's
side the eleventh generation.
As progeny of the first Blodget, there are now 60,000 Blodgets in the United
States, according to the genealogy of the family from their personal investigation.
William Oren Blodget, the grandfather of Lewis W. was a first lieutenant in the One
Hundred Fifty-first Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, and fought
at Gettysburg, where he was severely wounded. His whole company was ambushed on
the first day of that battle and seventy-five per cent were annihilated within fifteen
minutes. He lived and died in Sugar Grove, Pa. The father of Lewis W., Spencer
Langdon Blodget, was for thirteen years an honored citizen of Huntington Beach,
where he came to take a position as cashier of the First National Bank in 1906, and
he later became associated with the Holly Sugar factory. He moved to Los Angeles in
September, 1919, and is now office manager of the Los Angeles office of the Motor
Vehicle Department of the State of California. His first wife, whose maiden name was
Carra M. Belnap, was born in Warren, Pa., and was a descendant of a pioneer Pilgrim
family that also came to America in 1635. She died in 1893, the mother of eight chil
dren, six of whom are living: Claude Raymond, in the real estate and insurance busi
ness in Bakersfield, Cal.; Percy Langdon, a mining engineer in Darwin, Cal.; Rush Max
well, now the city attorney of Venice, was the first city attorney of Huntington Beach;
Marian Bernice, wife of Cash C. Ramsey, oil man at Bakersfield; Ward Belnap, chief
geologist for the Santa Fe Railway; and Lewis William. The four brothers of Lewis
William are all graduates of Leland Stanford University. Spencer L. Blodget was
married a second time, to Miss Florence Langdon of Chautauqua County, N. Y.
Lewis William Blodget was born in Bakersfield November 27, 1893, and lived there
until he was twelve years of age, when he came to Huntington Beach. He was grad
uated from the Huntington Beach union high school in 1911, and entered the College
of Law of the University of Southern California from which he was graduated in 1915
with the degree of LL.B. He opened a law office in Huntington Beach and when his
brother, Rush M., who was in Arizona at the time, returned to California, the two
brothers opened their law offices in Los Angeles and Huntington Beach. He enlisted
in the Reserve Officers' Training Camp at San Francisco in August, 1917. He was com
missioned a second lieutenant on November 27, 1917, and first lieutenant August 1,
1918. He served thirteen months with the Thirteenth Infantry Regulars, and was under
overseas orders and ready to sail from Hoboken, N. J., when the armistice was signed.
Later he was assigned to special duty in Washington, D. C, and was honorably dis
charged January 9, 1919, at Washington. He was elected city attorney while yet in
service and was notified by wire of his election, on the strength of'whicfi he secured
his discharge. He lost no time in getting back into practice.
Mr. Blodget was married September 3, 1919, to Miss May M. Ball of Morristown,
N. J. He is a member of the Delta Chi (legal) Fraternity of the University of South
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warden of Huntington Beach Lodge No. 380, F. & A. M.; and is commander of the
Joseph Rodman Post, American Legion, at Huntington Beach. He is a member of the
Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Orange County Bar Association and the
City Attorneys' Association of Southern California. He is a member of the Republican
Central Committee of Orange County. Both Mr. and Mrs. Blodget are popular with
a wide circle of friends and take an active part in social affairs.
HARRY E. ZAISER, M. D. — Orange County takes pride in its County Hospital,
and looks with confidence and satisfaction upon the daily responsible and trying
work of the well-trained officials in charge. A leader among these is naturally Dr.
Harry E. Zaiser, the physician selected to superintend the institution, upon whose
experience, foresight and common sense judgment, as well as sympathy and tact, so
much depends. A Hawkeye by birth, he first saw the light at Burlington in December
16, 1880, the son of John and Margaret Zaiser, the former since deceased, while the
mother is living at the fine old age of eighty. There were nine children in the family,
and Harry was the youngest of them all.
Having attended the grammar school, he was graduated in 1897 from the Bur
lington high school, and then began a clerkship of two years in the iron mill in that
city. After that he took a business college course, and was employed as clerk in a
wholesale office until 1898, when he went to St. Louis to study medicine. He matricu
lated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, studied there for four years, and
was graduated in 1902. At the conclusion of his strenuous work in Missouri, he
went abroad for post-graduate work, and then practiced in Burlington until 1909.
Removing to California, Dr. Zaiser settled in Orange County and established
a practice at Santa Ana, which he continued until he was appointed to his present
position in 1914. His record as county physician in Burlington, Iowa, doubtless had
much to do with his being selected for one of the important posts of its kind in
California. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Orange County
Medical Association and of the Southern California Medical Society. In national
politics a Republican, Dr. Zaiser adheres to party politics in local affairs only when
they promote and do not hinder nor defeat the important goal to be attained.
Dr. Zaiser was married at Burlington, in 1909, to Miss Ida Thompson, a native
of that city and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Ihrer. They attend the First
Methodist Church. Since he has taken charge of the work, Dr. Zaiser has done
much to 'bring the County Hospital to the front, and while regarding his own part
in a very modest light, he is naturally proud of the good that has been accomplished
there. Not only are the sick cared for to the best of human ability and with every
scientific aid, but the poor proven indigent are also received, and enjoy equal
care. Thus the good name of Orange County, that has poured out so lavishly to
those in distress, is protected and enhanced by these faithful public servants, Dr.
Zaiser and his excellent staff.
EVAN DAVIS. — An admirable man who left behind him both a blessed memory
and an equally admirable woman, for years his devoted wife, was Evan Davis, who
first came to Orange towards the middle nineties. He was born at Edgerton, Wis., on
January 24, 1858, the son of Percival Ferdinand Davis, a native of Western New York,
who settled in Wisconsin in early days, and was a merchant at Edgerton. Evan was
reared in Edgerton, where he attended the public schools. He completed his studies
at Milton College 'and then engaged in manufacturing at Milton, Wis., making a punch
and die machine. After a while he engaged in real estate and fire insurance at the
same place, and at Emerald Grove, on December 12, 1883, married Miss Ida E. Ransom,
a native of that place and the daughter of Asa G. Ransom, who was born in Middle-
field, N. Y. He came to Wisconsin and as a pioneer farmer broke the prairie. Mrs.
Ransom was Martha Hubbell before her marriage, and she was born in New York
state. She became the mother of five children, among whom Ida was next to the
youngest, and is now the only one living in California. She also was educated at
Milton College and there she met Mr. Davis.
In 1894, Mr. and Mrs. Davis located at Orange, Cal., and here, on South Glassell
Street, he opened an office for the transaction of a real estate and insurance business.
Soon after this he became an oil broker in Los Angeles, and with an office at 104 Stim-
son Building, he bought and sold crude oil. He sold oil to gas plants as well as other
manufacturing establishments, and being an expert machinist and engineer built up
a good trade. At the same time he made his home in Orange; and inasmuch as he
was musical and had been leader of the Wisconsin band at Milton, he was naturally
made the leader of the Orange Band and Orchestra, and he also sang in the Presby
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past grand, and was a member of the Encampment and Couton in Santa Ana, being
a past chief patriarch in the Encampment, and is a member of the Rebekahs, the
Modern Woodmen of America, the Royal Neighbors, and the Fraternal Aid Union,
and was also an elder in the Presbyterian Church at the time of his death, on July 16,
1917. After his death his son, Percy R. Davis, conducted the business, and then, when
he was called to the war, Mrs. Davis discontinued the business.
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Davis, Leon died at the age. of twenty-
seven; Percy R. served in the Three Hundred and Sixteenth Engineer Corps, Ninety-
first Division, overseas, and on his return here took up his residence in Orange; and
Arline, who graduated from the Orange Union high school and also the Library School
in Riverside, before going to Pomona College, where she was assistant librarian, was
graduated from Pomona with the Bachelor of Arts degree, and is now librarian of
the Girls' School at Riverside.
Mrs. Davis is a member of the Presbyterian Church and the Ladies' Aid Society,
and is active in the missionary work of that organization. She is a member of the
Rebekahs, and is a past noble grand and is an ex-representative of the same order,
and a past district deputy president. She is also a member of the Veteran Rebekahs,
where she is a p'ast president; and she belongs to the Royal Neighbors, and has passed
all the chairs.
•BENJAMIN KRAEMER.— One of the oldest settlers of the Placentia district,
having come here with his parents in 1867, is Benjamin Kraemer, who was born in
Belleville, 111., in the year 1867. His father, Daniel Kraemer, was born in Bavaria;
he came to the United States in 1842, arriving in New Orleans, then came up the
Mississippi River to St. Louis and walked out to Belleville, the county seat of St. Clair
County, 111., where he obtained employment on the farm of Mr. Schrag and became
acquainted with his daughter Eleanora Schrag, resulting in their marriage. They
became owners of a farm there and resided there until nine children were born to
them. As early as the fall of 1864 Daniel Kraemer made his first trip to California,
visiting Southern California and purchased 3,900 acres of land a part of the Rancho
San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana; the land was then a wilderness of mustard, brush and
cactus. In 1866 he made a second trip to his California possessions and in 1867 he
brought his family out and located on his ranch. Each trip he had come via New York
and Panama to San Francisco and thence by boat to San Pedro, from which, place he
came overland to Anaheim. His was the first white family in the Placentia district and
our subject was the first white baby in what was then the Cajon school district. A few
years later Daniel Kraemer's friend, Mr. Kossert, came out to Santa Ana and was
associated with Messrs. Spurgeon and McFadden in Santa Ana real estate; when he sold
out he went to Mesilla, N. M., and was never again heard from by them.
Daniel Kraemer was active in irrigation matters and was one of the builders of
the Cajon ditch, when it was first attempted, but it proved a failure at that time and
he lost what he had put into it. Later, however, the Cajon ditch was carried through
under the Bush Act and was later merged wtih the Anaheim Water Company, now
the Anaheim Union Water Company. Daniel Kraemer was, however, the first individual
to irrigate in Qrange County from a ditch taken out of the Santa Ana River. He
received twenty shares of stock in lieu of his old water right of fifty inches from the
Anaheim Union Water Company, which is non-assessable stock. This stock is now
owned by our subject. Daniel Kraemer engaged in ranching and set. out vineyards and
the_ first walnut orchard here; he was very optimistic for the future greatness of this
region and said that this part of California would be the garden spot of the United
States and also from the Brea deposits he predicted it would some day develop into
An°n rt di-,d/n 1882',a?ed si*ty-five years; his wife surviving him until 1889.
All of their nine children are living but one.
Coming to Placentia in his first year, Benjamin Kraemer's earliest recollections
are of the place he still owns and has resided on since 1867. Here he learned ranchin-
from the time he was a lad and attended the local public school. Desiring to obtai"
a higher education he worked his way through St. Vincent's College in Los Angles
as well as Woodbury's Business College, graduating from the latter in 1886 when
nineteen years of age and then returned to the old home ranch, where he todk uo h£
n::dr:sTdencehhil919h°hSeehaUithby ^ '"?¦"¦ ^ W he lived Mt3 ^ trnptt^d n.
nev, residence in 1919, he has the unique distinction of living longer in one house than
any other one person in Orange County-over fifty-two years. His ranch comprises
ixty-seven acres of which thirty acres is devoted to raising oranges and twenty acre
to walnuts, having set out every tree in his orchards. He was one of the organizer
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eight years until he resigned; he is also a member of the Fullerton-Placentia Walnut
Growers Association.
Mr. Kraemer was married in Anaheim, where he was united with Miss Mary Allec,
who was born in France, and they have been blessed with twelve children: Mary, Mrs.
Victor Reis of Whittier; Emma; Elizabeth, deceased; Gladys; Jennie, deceased; Lucy;
Benjamin, Jr.; Louisa; Annie; Jonathan, deceased; William and Rosa Belle. Mr.
Kraemer is a great reader, is well posted on early history and is a very interesting
conversationalist; he has been a life-long student and is a linguist, speaking several
languages fluently, and he has frequently been selected as interpreter in different
capacities. ROY D. TRAPP. — A native son of the Golden West, born at the old home place
at Ninth and Lemon streets, Los Angeles, October 28, 1882, the late Roy D. Trapp was
a very successful rancher and business man, accomplishing more in a few short years
than many men do in a long lifetime. By his energy and optimism he accumulated a
competency as well as contributing very materially to the building up and improving
of Orange County, thus contributing his share towards making this one of the most
important agricultural and horticultural counties on the Pacific Coast. His father,
Frank M. Trapp, was a native of Missouri who crossed the plains with his parents
in an ox-team train over the old Oregon Trail in 1849. Grandfather John M. Trapp was
a rancher in Oregon until about the year 1860, when the family came to Los Angeles
and located at the corner of Ninth and Lemon streets, where Frank M. Trapp and his
father farmed together, raising oranges, limes and lemons as well as grapes and small
fruits with success, so much so that at the Centennial Fair held in Los Angeles Frank
M. Trapp received the first award for his exhibit. He was married in Los Angeles on
November 4, 1869, to Elizabeth Pierce, also born in Missouri, a daughter of James
Pierce who brought his family across the plains to San Bernardino, Cal., in 1849.
After he left the old home at Ninth and Lemon streets, Los Angeles, Frank M.
Trapp engaged in farming at Artesia, then for a few years engaged in raising cattle on
the Toler ranch near Whittier, after which he spent five years at Compton. He then
returned to Los Angeles and there his wife died in 1901, while he survived her until
December 23, 1905. They were the parents of nine children: Wm. C. is a business man
in Los Angeles; Chas. E. was a successful farmer in Florence until his death; Ida E.
is Mrs. Levreau, residing at Florence; John M. died at Huntington Park; Geo. O. a
farmer at Buena Park; Lillian C. is the wife of Edward E. Chapella of Hollywood;
Roy D., our subject; Frank M. resides at Florence; and James B. who served in the
U. S. Army overseas in the World War is now a farmer at Norwalk.
Roy D. Trapp was reared on his father's farm, so from a youth became familiar
with farming operations as well as the marketing of the produce. During these years
his education was not neglected for, after completing the public schools, he took a
course and graduated at the Woodbury Business College in Los Angeles, accumulating
a knowledge that was of so much assistance to him during his business career as a
rancher. His marriage took place in Los Angeles, March 10, 1906, when he was united
with Miss Elfrieda Warnke who was born in Berlin, Germany, and came to Chicago,
111., with her parents, Fred and Minnie Warnke, when she was a very small child. In
that city she received a good education; when she was sixteen years of age her father
passed away and soon afterward the family came to Los Angeles and it was here that
she met Mr. Trapp, the acquaintance resulting in their marriage, and was a union that
proved exceedingly happy to them both. With youth, health, energy and ambition
they started out to gain a competence; Mr. Trapp by this time had saved enough to
own a team of horses, a plow and cultivator, so full of hope he started out and leased
twenty-seven acres, which he devoted to raising wax beans and watermelons, the begin
ning of his success as a vegetable grower, gradually increasing the number of acres he
farmed each year. In 1912 his home at Eightieth and South Park avenue, Los Angeles,
was destroyed by fire and the next year they removed to San Jacinto for a year, and
then located in Orange County, purchasing ten acres on Brookhurst Avenue, which he
improved to Valencia oranges and which he afterward sold at a good profit. At the
same time he leased ninety acres of the Bastanchury ranch, raising cabbage and beans
and cleaning up $90,000, as prices were then at their highest level. He then leased
350 acres of the Irvine ranch near Tustin, where he engaged in intensive farming, raising
hay and vegetables, specializing in cabbage and cauliflower, which he was able to market
at a large profit, so that he was able to purchase forty acres on West Common
wealth Avenue in the west end of Fullerton, which he proceeded to improve, grub
bing out a few acres of walnuts and setting the whole place to Valencia oranges. He
also purchased a citrus grove of about two acres on an elevation overlooking the city
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enjoying life to the fullest, when on July 14, 1920, the horrible tragedy occurred which
resulted in his death, an incident that is very fresh in the minds of the people of
Southern California. This same year he was also farming the Norwalk ranch of 275
acres. Such had been his success, his optimism was strengthened so that his plan was
another five years of close application on the large scale he was undertaking and he
would quit and arrange his affairs so he and his devoted wife could travel abroad and
enjoy the scenes of other countries. In all his plans he always included his wife, who
had ever entered heartily into his business operations, assisting him in every way
she could and encouraging him in his ambition so that he always gave her much of the
credit for his success, but he was not permitted to enjoy the fruits of his labors for
he was cut down by an assassin while still in the prime of life.
He was a splendid type of man, of a pleasing and attractive personality that drew
men to him, so he counted his warm friends by the thousands who esteemed him for
his good fellowship, kindness and honesty of purpose and appreciated him for his
integrity and worth. Since his taking away Mrs. Trapp is caring for the property they
accumulated in the way they had talked and planned and thus she is carrying out, as
far as she is able, his plans and ambitions for the place. Mr. Trapp was a great home
man, was a member of but one lodge, Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks.
GEORGE W. WELLS. — Well known in Orange County for years as the proprietor
of the Santa Ana Soda Works and the pioneer in that industry in the county, George
W. Wells is now the owner of a fine citrus ranch at Yorba Linda, having developed it
from the very beginning. Born in Kirkwood, Warren County, 111., August 27, 1861,
Mr. Wells is the son of W. J. and Doratha (Berican) Wells, and his forbears were
well-established tradesmen of Pittsburgh, Pa. W. J. Wells, who was born in 1820,
at Pittsburgh, Pa., was a veteran of the Civil War, having been a member of the
Eighty-third Illinois Infantry, and for a number of years he farmed in Illinois. The
mother, who was born in Germany, came to the United States in 1856, her marriage to
W. J. Wells being solemnized at Quincy, 111. The district schools of Warren County
furnished George W. Wells his early education and when still a lad he accompanied
his parents, with their family of five children to Wellington, Kans. These were the
early pioneer days in that state and the country was sparsely settled, and Mr. Wells
keenly remembers the hardships of that period, many times the only available food
being buffalo meat and cornbread.
Until he was nineteen years of age Mr. Wells worked on his father's Kansas
farm, then taking up an apprenticeship in harness and saddle making, to which he gave
three years, later becoming the manager of a branch house in this line of trade, buying
out the interest and establishing the business under his own name. During his resi
dence in Kansas Mr. Wells also became heavily interested in the stock business, but
during the extreme cold in the winter of 1900 he was frozen out and suffered a dis
couraging loss. The next year he came to California with his family and located at
Santa Ana, where he began the manufacture of soft drinks. He began on a very
modest scale, doing all his own work, but year by year his business grew until it
reached such large proportions that he was employing six men and buying his bottles
by the car load, his products being sold all over Southern California. Mr. Wells made
a scientific study of his enterprise and was the originator of Wells' Orange Phosphate
and other fruit punches.
In 1912 Mr. Wells purchased a tract of ten acres at Yorba Linda, which he soon
began to improve. His nursery stock came from orange seeds which he planted himself,
later budding them and setting out his own orchard, which he developed into a very
attractive ranch This ranch is in the center of the famous Richfield oil fields and is
leased to the Union Oi Company, which is now operating on it. In 1917 Mr. Wells
sold the Santa Ana Soda Works to Albert Biner and with his family removed to the
Yorba Linda ranch, where they have since made their home. In addition to the home
place. Mr. Wells is also managing forty-four acres of citrus groves
Since coming to Yorba Linda Mr. Wells has taken an active interest in all the
affairs of the community and has served two terms as director of both the Yorba Linda
Citrus Association and the Yorba Linda Water Company, and is also a promoter of the
good work being accomplished by the Farm Center. During the war he wTs prominent
in all the drives and war loans, giving both of his time and means to further Tl the
Government programs. In fraternal circles Mr. Wells is affiliated with the Mode™
Woodmen of America, and politically he espouses the platform of the RepubHcan party
Mr. Wells' marriage, which occurred in 1885 at Caldwell Kans nmt.H u 0.
Miss Clara L. Stearns, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William WS^r Her "? T
who was a successful farmer in that part of Kansas for a number of years wah'
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to Miss Mary Sharp, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1841. Four children were born
to them, Mrs. Wells being the only daughter. She was born in 1865 at Canisteo, N. Y.,
her childhood being spent near Traverse City, Mich., where Mr. Stearns was in the
lumber business. When she was fifteen years of age the family moved to Wellington,
Kans., and it was here that she met Mr. Wells. For some' time previous to their
marriage she was engaged in teaching school in Kansas. Four children were born
to Mr. and Mrs. Wells: Glenn W. married Miss Jessie Ross of Santa Ana, and they
are the parents of three children; they now reside in Richfield, Cal., where they are
interested in the oil business; Leta is the wife of Dr. Edward Abbott of Los Angeles,
and is the mother of two children; Clara is Mrs. Ray Lambert of Lemon Cove, near
Santa Ana, and they have one child; George C. is in the confectionery business at
Fullerton and is also interested in the oil industry.
WILLIAM E. OTIS. — A banker distinguished for his high sense of honor and his
straightforward, intelligent methods of transacting- business is William E. Otis, presi
dent of the Orange County Trust and Savings Bank of Santa Ana, whose keen intuition,
enabling him to accurately and justly judge men, coupled with a pleasing personality,
has well fitted him for years to be the head of a large financial institution. He was
born in Framingham, Mass., on March 29, 1852, the son of John M. Otis, a native of
Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pa., where he first saw the light in 1822, a descendant
of an old Pennsylvania family. In 1835, he removed with his parents to Chicago, and
thence to Elgin, 111.; and. on attaining his majority, he engaged in mercantile business
in Lancaster, Wis. He married Sarah Georgiana Eaton, a native of Framingham, Mass.,
whose grandfather, Eben Eaton, was born on the same farm in 1789. He was of the
third generation on the old Eaton estate at Framingham, and was a deacon in the Con
gregational Church for over fifty years. The ancestors on the Eaton side came from
England to Massachusetts in 1635; and his father, Ebenezer Eaton, was an officer in
the Revolutionary War and in command, with others, at the Battle of Lexington. He
also followed the British on their retreat to Boston, and took part in the battle of
Bunker Hill; and when General Warren fell, Mr. Eaton was one of those detailed to
carry him from the field. He. fought both bravely and with daring persistency to the
close of the war, after which he returned to his farm at Framingham, and resumed the
pursuits of peace.
In 1852, John M. Otis concluded to come out to the California gold fields and
returned East to Framingham, Mass., where he left his wife and children while he
made his way via Panama to California; and soon after' their return to Massachusetts,
William E. Otis was born. For five years, Mr. Otis engaged in mining at Michigan
Bluff, on the American River, and then, in 1857, he returned to Massachusetts by way of
Panama. The family then migrated to Illinois; but after a short stay there, they
continued on westward to' Bentbnsport, Iowa, where John Otis embarked in the. grain
and forwarding business and established himself as a dealer in agricultural implements.
Finally, when the Des Moines Valley Road, now the C. R. I. R. R., reached that city,
in 1866, he located there and engaged in the grain business, dealing as well in agricul
tural implements; and at Des Moines this worthy couple passed away.
The second eldest of six children, William E. Otis attended both the grammar and
the high schools of that locality, and having "completed his studies in June, 1867, he
entered the First National Bank at Des Moines as collection clerk and was soon
advanced to the more responsible position of teller. In March, 1871, he removed to
Kansas, arid there at Thayer became cashier of a bank called the Southwest Loan and
Land Company. In November, 1871, he removed to Independence, Kans., where he
was appointed cashier of J. O. Page's private bank; and he remained in that position
until the fall of 1873, when Mr. Page sold his banking institution to William F. Turner
and William E. Otis, whereupon Mr. Otis conducted the bank under the firm name of
Turner and Otis until October, 1879, when he purchased Mr. Turner's interest and the
name of the firm was changed to William E. Otis and Company. In September, 1883,
he organized the First National Bank of Independence, retaining nearly the entire
stock; but in April, 1886, he disposed of his holdings and removed to Kansas City, where
he embarked in the land business, purchasing considerable real estate.
In October, 1891, he bought the controlling interest in the Winfield National Bank
of Winfield, Kans., and served as cashier until about- 1903, when he was elected president
of the bank and his son, E. G. Otis, was elected assistant cashier. In 1901 he organized
the Dexter State Bank at Dexter, Kans., and owning the control for several years, was
also president. In January, 1902, he acquired control of the Farmers State Bank of
Arkansas City, Kans., and became its president. In 1907 he sold his interest there, and
the following year purchased a third interest in the National Bank of Commerce of
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holder, in fact, in the bank. In 1909, he bought the Bank of Commerce at Udall, Kans.,
became its president and his son-in-law, C. A. Vance, was made cashier. In 1911 he
sold his interest in the Winfield National Bank, having decided, after several visits to
California, to locate on the Pacific Coast.
In 1911, therefore, Mr. Otis came west to San Diego, and in December of that
year he purchased a large interest in the University Avenue Bank of that city, and was
elected vice-president; and in June, 1912, E. G. Otis severed his connection with the
Winfield National Bank and joined his father 'in San Diego, as cashier. In 1913, Mr.
Otis was elected a director in the Bank of Commerce and Trust Company of San
Diego. In January, 1917, he disposed of a part of his interest in the University Avenue
Bank and removed to Santa Ana; and here he purchased a large interest in the Farmers
and Merchants National Bank and the Home Savings Bank of Santa Ana, and was
elected vice-president of both banks. At the same time, in connection with his son-in-
law, C. A. Vance, he bought a large interest in the First National Bank of Tustin, where
Mr. Vance was made cashier. In the fall of 1917, he sold the balance of his interests in
the San Diego Bank and in the fall of 1918 sold his interest in the Farmers and Mer
chants National Bank, and the Home Savings Bank of Santa Ana, and on January 1,
1919, retired from the vice-presidency, at the time of its consolidation with the First
National Bank. On February 1, 1919, he purchased' a large interest in the Orange
County Trust and Savings Bank, and was elected president of that well-established
institution. During all the years of his residence in Kansas, Mr. Otis had been interested in
agriculture, and in the development of Western lands, and at one time he owned
thirteen farms in Kansas and engaged extensively in the stock business at Winfield,
even carrying it on for several years after coming to California. In the seventies,
he also had an agricultural implement store in Independence. It is natural, therefore,
that since coming to California, Mr. Otis should have the same spirit and faith in lands,
hesitating neither to advise others to invest nor to invest himself. He owns two citrus
orchards, totaling sixty acres, in San Diego County, and 110 acres adjoining Santa
Ana on the south, where on exceptionally rich soil he is raising alfalfa, but will soon
set the place out to walnuts.
Mr. Otis has been twice married. At Cairo, 111., in September, 1880, he became
the husband of Miss Daisy H. Robbins, who was born in Chicago in 1857, a daughter of
Chandler Robbins and a member of an old Boston family. Her grandfather, the Rev.
Chandler Robbins, was a pastor of one of the Congregational Churches in Boston for
many years, and she was a graduate of Ferry Hall Seminary, Chicago. She passed away,
a sweet memory "to all who knew her only to love and esteem her, in Kansas City, in
April, 1891, leaving five children: Lillian is the wife of C. A. Vance of Tustin; William
E. Otis, Jr., lives at Fort Worth, Texas; E. G. Otis is assistant cashier of the California
Bank of Los Angeles; Clara has become the wife of A. S. Cosgrove of the Southern
Trust and Commerce Bank of San Diego; Mildred, who passed away in 1918, appre
ciated by a circle of admiring friends, was the wife of Eugene Ferry Smith, an attorney
of distinction in San Diego. On the occasion of Mr. Otis's second marriage, at East
Orange, N. J., in September, 1916, he was joined to Mrs. Emma (Gould) Whipple, a
native of Andover, Mass., and a representative of another old New England family who
have been prominent in American history, being a descendant of Capt. Joseph Gould,
who served as a captain in the Revolutionary War, raising a company of twenty men
at Topsfield, Mass., and marching them to Boston where they fought with the Con
tinental forces. He was one of Paul Revere's men who rode out and gave the alarm.
On her maternal side Mrs. Otis is descended from the Cogswells of Westbury, Eng
land, who came to Massachusetts in about 1635 and settled at Andover, and she now
owns the old Cogswell homestead, a quaint old New England home. She is an active
member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, having served as regent of the
Santa Ana Chapter. Mr. and Mrs. Otis are members of the First Congregational
Church of Santa Ana, where Mr. Otis is chairman of the board of trustees, an office
of honor and responsibility which he also most creditably filled for years during his
residence in Kansas.
WALTER ALBERT STORTZ.-One of the most loyal residents of Seal Beach
who is always pleased to extoll the advantages of its climate and beach attractions, is
Walter Albert Stortz, a native of Ohio, born at Newark, April 24 1883 the son of
John C. and Elizabeth (Hershman) Stortz, also born in Ohio. His father was a
moulder until cement construction came into general vogue when he followed cement
contracting until he came to California, his wife passing away in Los Angeles, and
he now lives retired in Seal Beach.
•n N^T wi!* thZ- SCTd ,0l,deSt °f thdr f°Ur Children' beinS reared and educated
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apprenticed at the plumbing and steam heating trade; completing the trade he continued
as a journeyman for several years. Wishing to come to the Pacific Coast, he came
out to Los Angeles in 1909, later on going to San Francisco and afterwards on to
Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, working at his trade in the different cities for about
three years. On account of the damp climate his health became very poor and he
came to Los Angeles and laid off for two years. He could get no relief, the physician
finally telling him he could not live very long, so in his desperation he determined to
come to the beach and enjoy the few days he had remaining. Coming to Seal Beach,
then Bay City, he went in bathing, rested on the sand, basked in the sun, and ate shell
fish; he started to pick up and in less than one year he went to work. There was no
local plumber here and he was soon in great demand and opened a shop, since which
time he has engaged as contracting plumber. He has done the principal plumbing and
steam heating jobs in Seal Beach and vicinity. Mr. Stortz owns eighty acres of govern
ment land near Victorville in Luzerne Valley.
The marriage of Mr. Stortz and Inez Devenney occurred in Seal Beach. She was
born in Anaheim, being a daughter of John and Elizabeth Devenney, old time settlers
in Orange County. Their union has been blessed with one child, Tenney. Mr. Stortz
is serving his second term as a member of the board of trustees of Seal Beach, being
chairman of both police and street committee. He is also an active member and
director of the local Chamber of Commerce. In national politics Mr. Stortz is a
Republican of the progressive type. He is a member of the State Master Plumbers'
Association. HENRY WINTERS. — A pioneer of Orange County whose enterprise is con
nected particularly with Wintersburg, the town that bears his name, Henry Winters
is a conspicuous example of a successful agriculturist, and notably associated with the
advancement of the country during the past thirty years of his residence in California.
Born in Trumbull County, Ohio, July 12, 1855, he was reared in his native county, where
he attended the public schools and learned the carpenter's trade, at which he served
a three years' apprenticeship. Mr. Winters is of German lineage. His father, Frederick,
who came from near Hamburg, Germany, was a miller by trade, in the old country,
and owned one of the quaint, picturesque old mills run by wind-mill power on the River
Elbe. He married after coming to the United States, in Ohio, and worked five years
for Governor Todd in the coal fields. In 1879 he removed from Ohio and settled in
Saline County, Kans., where he became the owner of an eighty-acre farm, and lived
practically retired until he died in Kansas at the age of seventy-two. His wife, in
maidenhood Margaret Hardman, emigrated from Germany with her parents' family
in 1830, and belonged to the first generation of boys and girls of Girard, Trumbull
County, Ohio. Her father had seen active service in the French army as a soldier
under Napoleon. She was the mother of eight children, six of whom were by a former
marriage with John Krosinger, a tanner by trade. She attained the advanced age of
eighty-nine and died in Kansas.
Henry Winters married Miss Ella Eckenrode, in Ohio, and with his wife and
family lived at different places in Ohio, Kansas, Washington and Oregon. His wife
died on their first visit to California, in 1883, survived by one child, a daughter named
Blanche, who is now the wife of Peter Lauer of Sharon, Pa. For thirteen years Mr.
Winters followed his trade in Ohio and Kansas, and did a great deal of construction
work in the latter state. He made four overland trips, moving back and forth to
various places, and finally settled in Orange County thirty years ago. In 1895 he
again entered the state of matrimony, being united with Miss Cordelia Wilson, daugh
ter of John Benjamin and Sarah (Ivy) Wilson of Pasadena, who came to Orange
County and engaged in farming and dairying. Later they moved to Modesto, where
the father died in 1916. The mother is living at Modesto. Mrs. Winters is the oldest
child in a family of eight children, six of whom are living. She was educated at La-
manda Park, Cal., and was nineteen years old when the family moved to the Winters
burg section of Orange County. Mr. and Mrs. Winters are the parents of six children:
Bonnie H., a stenographer with the Western Union Oil Company at Los Angeles;
Josephine, the wife of Dale Elliott, residing at Santa Ana; Walter and Wallace, twins,
and sophomores in the Huntington Beach high school; Hazel M.; and Homer A.
After coming to California Mr. Winters turned his attention to agriculture, and his
profound faith in practical development of the soil has not only convinced scores of his
undisputed good judgment, but has been the means of their taking advantage of the
conditions which he has turned to good advantage. In the earlier years of the county's
history, Mr. Winters purchased twenty acres of land in Ocean View where his home
is situated in what is now the great celery district, and turned his attention to raising
corn and potatoes. To this he added in 1917, another twenty adjoining, giving him
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forty acres of the best land in the district, for which he refused $50,000 in September,.
1920. His land yielded 137 bushels of shelled corn and 100 sacks of marketable potatoes
to the acre the first year, and these were grown in close proximity to tons of pumpkins,,
which naturally absorbed much of the richness of the soil. Samples of this remark
able showing were placed on exhibition at the World's Columbian Exposition at.
Chicago, in 1893, and created a great sensation. Probably this exhibit, more than
any other display from California, had a tendency to place the resources of Orange
County in the proper light before the world in general. It was said by J. C. Joplin,.
who had charge of the exhibit, that the fact of this exhibit having been grown in con
junction on the land the same year created the interest. Mr. Winter's name appeared
on the exhibit and resulted in a large correspondence from incredulous and inquiring
observers, which he personally answered. The next year his acreage exceeded the
former production. Another of his exhibits created wonderment at the Chamber of
Commerce at Los Angeles, and he has made a number of creditable exhibits at the
county fairs. He was the first man in Orange County to bring knowledge of the won
derful peat lands at Wintersburg to the world's attention. He cut a piece of peat two
by twelve by fifteen inches in dimension, and encased it in a glass container, so that the
wonderful composition could be carefully viewed and examined. Not content with
past success, Mr. Winters began to branch out in agriculture on a larger scale. He
purchased twenty acres where Wintersburg now stands and followed the purchase by
another twenty acres in the Fountain Valley district, four miles southeast of his
present home, which he sold.
He was among the earliest celery raisers in Orange County, and for several
years grew and marketed, on an average, twenty acres of celery per annum. About the
same time he became the owner of 1,280 acres of land in Nye County, Nev., and has
bought and sold land at various times since that, in most instances to good profit.
Owing to his knowledge of the culture of celery, he was chosen president of the Cali
fornia Celery Company in 1898. He served in this capacity two years, and placed
Orange County celery on the New York and other Eastern markets. In 1897, when
the railway was built through what is now Wintersburg, by James McFadden, he
cooperated with Mr. McFadden and donated the right of way for station and yardage.
He also donated ground for other town site purposes. In recognition of his valued
services his fellow-townsmen, headed by James Kane, circulated a petition that the
town be named Wintersburg, in his honor, and it was so named. Mr. Winters has.
recently built a beautiful and commodious bungalow residence in the suburbs of Win
tersburg, where he and his family reside and keep up the old-time hospitality for
which California of olden days was renowned. Their guests are treated to the best
there is in the culinary line, and Mr. Winters, who keeps up the old Ohio idea of a
family orchard and vegetable garden, takes pride in the fact that the major portion
of the meats, fruits and vegetables served in his dining room are the product of his
orchard and vegetable garden, in which he grows fifty varieties of fruits. Mrs. Winters.
is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Westminster. Mr. Winter's energy, keen
judgment and effieiency, in combination with his versatility and thoroughly disinterested
progressive spirit, entitle him to the high esteem which his friends and fellow-towns
men accord him, and the wealth and success he has wrested from crude but promising
materials commend itself to the consideration of the younger generation who may be
imbued with ambition and possess the adequate energy and continuity of purpose to
surmount the obstacles that lie in the pathway of success.
SIMON TOUSSAU.— A pioneer who has seen much of California grow from a
wilderness and who is, therefore, a natural lover of the Golden State, is Simon Toussau,
t"*.1'- of Jrance, where he was born at Oloron, in the Basses-Pyrenees, on November
12, 1877. His father, John Pierre, was a farmer who died in October, 1919- and his.
mother, Marie Sarthou, m her maidenhood, passed away the same month They had
seven children, six of whom are now living, and four are in California. John is a
cement worker in Anaheim; Rose is Mrs. Sesima, of the same place, and conducts the
French Laundry there; Pierre is a grain farmer, residing near Fullerton; and the
youngest is the subject of our review.
He was brought up as a farmer's boy, and in 1898 performed the military service
expected of him as a member, for a year, of the Eighteenth Infantry. On getting his
honorable discharge, and thus securing himself as a patriotic citizen in good standing
for the future, he came to America, and in April, 1901, arrived in Californfa b^namg
He located in Fullerton where he was employed by August Toussau'a sheepman
for three years, and he ranged his sheep where now acres of improved, fruitful ranches
may be found. For four years he was m the employ of the Southern California
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again, in 1920. He was two years with the Anaheim Lumber Company, and when he
quit their yard he bought this ranch of ten acres on the Ball road, now handsomely
set out to Valencia oranges in full bearing. He also cares for forty acres or more of
other orchards. In 1920 he completed a large two-story modern residence, where he
lives with his wife and two children, Madeline H. V. and Albert.
At Anaheim, on February 11, 1904, Mr. Toussau was married to Miss Marie
Poyet, a native of Los Angeles, of French parentage. Her father, Jean B., was born
in Lyons, France, became a marble cutter, and did superb work on cathedrals in
France, and in 1871 came out to Los Angeles, where he engaged in ranching in the
Verdugo. Then he moved to Fullerton, where he bought land, and there he died. His.
wife was Victorine Amet, a native of Paris, and she died at Santa Ana. They had
three girls and one boy, and the son and two of the daughters are still living. Believing
that growers must organize and unite to market their product, Mr. Toussau is a member
of the Anaheim Orange Growers Association.
DAVID F. SHARRATT. — Among the most interesting pioneers of Orange County
must be mentioned D. F. Sharratt, a retired citizen of Wintersburg, who was born at
Waterford, Maine, on April 18, 1838, the son of Frederick Sharratt, a native of England.
As a sailor he came to New England, and in Maine married Elizabeth Whitcomb, a native
of that state. He became one of the under-officers of a trading sailing-vessel, which
ran into a tropical gale; the vessel foundered, and Mr. Sharratt was drowned. Besides
a widow, he left two sons, the subject of our review and an older brother, William
Frederick, who has resided in the Hawaiian Islands since 1855.
Mrs. Sharratt later became the wife of George W. Cummings, and with them
Mr. Sharratt moved from the state of Maine to Wisconsin, in 1850, and settled at Oasis,
Waushara County. He squatted on Government lands on the Menominee Indian
Reservation, and from his fourteenth to his twenty-seventh year worked at lumbering.
In 1865 he was married to Miss Mary Dwyer, a native of Ireland, who was brought to
America in her mother's arms.
Mr. Sharratt left Wisconsin in 1870 and went to Kansas, where he settled at
Blue Rapids, Marshall County, and bought railway lands. He improved his holding
and then sold out at a profit, and after that worked in a flour mill at Blue Rapids
for three years. In 1881 he came with a covered wagon and his wife and children to>
Montana, and went into the Bitter Root Valley.
In the fall of 1895 Mr. Sharratt said goodbye to Montana and pushed westward
to California, and in the spring of 1896 he arrived at Big Rock Creek, in the Antelope
Valley. Later, he came down to Wintersburg and bought twenty acres of land; and
noticing wild celery growing here, he became the pioneer celery grower in the Smeltzer
district, and was one of the most successful celery growers in this section, where, at
one time, over 6,000 acres were devoted to celery culture. This incident alone in the
life of this observing and aggressive pioneer will furnish a cue as to his real character
and the spirit of advancement which has long actuated him.
Mr. and Mrs. Sharratt have four children still living. Emory F. is in the Bitter
Root Valley, Mont.; Edith E. is the wife of S. H. Atkins, a rancher in the Imperial
Valley; Wallace F. now works on the Sharratt home ranch, although he also has
lands at Watsonville; and W. H. Sharratt lives at the latter place . A twin-brother
to Wallace died in Kansas when he was two years old.
Mr. and Mrs. Sharratt attend the Baptist Church at Huntington Beach and par
ticipate in such good works for social uplift and the general improvement of the com
munity as they can devote time and labor to. He is a Progressive Republican, and is
never weary in contributing to raise the standard of civic ideals.
BLUFORD C. BAXTER. — An interesting example of one man's struggle toward
success in this, his native state, and his unaided achievement of that end after many
discouragements and ups and downs may be found in the life story of Bluford C.
Baxter. Born February 25, 1866, in Mendocino County, Cal., he is a son of John
and Mary (Taylor) Baxter, the former a native of Tennessee, and the latter of Mis
souri, both now deceased. The father crossed the plains to California in 1849,
coming from Missouri, and cut timber in Mendocino County, later ranching in Los
Angeles County in the early seventies, near Compton. He also took up Government
land two and one-half miles south of Anaheim, and still later located at Wilmington,
before the city of Long Beach was started.
Bluford C. Baxter attended the country schools in Mendocino, and then at Little
Lake, near Whittier, Los Angeles County, and also at Los Nietos. As a young man
he worked for wages on ranches in Kern County. Locating in Los Angeles he ran
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district for further endeavors, and rented land for ranching activities, and was the
second man to plant and raise sweet potatoes on a large scale, cultivating as high as
150 acres of that edible and producing from 100 to 250 sacks to the acre. He was
called the Sweet Potato King and had a special brand, of first quality, which sold
readily at advanced prices, being shipped in carload lots to the mining district of
Arizona. In 1906 Mr. Baxter bought twenty acres of raw land on East Orangethrope
Avenue and raised sweet potatoes at first, then, in 1910, he planted his acreage to
Valencia oranges and now has a finely producing grove, improved with cement pipes
and laterals for irrigating. He owns his own home in Placentia and is a stockholder in
the Placentia Mutual Orange Association. Among his interesting reminiscences of
earlier days in the county is the fact that he helped haul the first load of lumber for
the first oil derrick erected in Orange County; this was located at Olinda, and
Doheny, the present oil king, was the man who drilled for oil, in the interests of the
Santa Fe Railway. The present scope of the oil industry in this district was beyond
the wildest dreams of those days and is but an instance of the wealth still to be
unearthed in this wonderful county.
The marriage of Mr. Baxter, which occurred November 25, 1914, united him
with Margaret Hurless, a native of Iowa, and one daughter, Phyllis, has been born
to them; they also cherish an adopted daughter, Claudine. As a self-made man who
has succeeded against obstacles, Mr. Baxter is a fine example of an American and
Californian, and with characteristic loyalty he adheres to the theory that the man
who grasps his opportunities can hardly help but succeed in this truly Golden State.
Mr. Baxter is at present residing in Beaumont, Cal.
WILLIAM WINFRED BUSHARD. — How the ever-interesting traditions of an
estimable family are perpetuated in the successful career of the younger generation is
pleasantly illustrated in the life story of William Winfred Bushard, one of the four
children — three sons and a daughter — of John B. and Mary V. Bushard, well-known
residents of Orange County. John B. Bushard belonged to an ancient family of French
origin, established in Canada by John Bushard, who was the first to emigrate to
America. He developed a farm near Rosser Point, and in the homestead that he himself
built, he passed away at the ripe age of three score and ten. One of his most virile
children, born at La Kedze, Canada, near La Prairie, was James Bushard, who grew
up in his native land, but later removed to the States and became an extensive farmer
in Clinton County, N. Y. He married Miss Amelia Trombley, granddaughter of John
Trombley, such a pioneer settler there that his name was given to an indentation called
Trombley's Bay. The old man used to tell of his long, tramps through dense timber
to Saranac or Plattsburg, with a sack of corn on his back, to the nearest mill, and
then the tramp back again with the bag of flour. John B. Bushard was one of a large
family of nine — four sons and five daughters — born of this union, his advent into the
circle occurring at the old homestead in Clinton County, N. Y., on March 20, 1843.
John B. grew up to follow agricultural pursuits and as a young man pushing
westward to Minnesota, he may have anticipated Horace Greeley in his advice to youth.
He tarried for a while in St. Paul, and then went to Brown County, where his parents
had bought a quarter section of land for himself and brothers. He had hardly com
menced to cultivate his share of the investment when the awful contest between the.
North and the South broke out in all its fury; and in 1861, he enlisted for two years.
The war not having yet come to an end, Mr. Bushard reenlisted, joining Company A
of the Minnesota Cavalry, and becoming quartermaster of Major Hatchie's battalion,
he was stationed, first at Fort Snelling, and then at Fort Abercrombie, and served until
1866, when he received his discharge at the former place. He participated in several
battles, among them Mail Springs, Somerset, Ky., when the Union Army won one of
its first victories; and later he was at other battles, including that of Gettysburg.
When the Civil War was ended, John B. Bushard came out to California, and
some time afterward, five sisters and two of his brothers followed him He arrived in
the period prior to the railroads, when teaming and hauling being prime necessities,
were well paid enterprises, and he engaged in transportation from Cerro Gordo to
Bakersfield and Los Angeles, and also between the latter city and Prescott Ariz There
was plenty of money for the risks involved, but the wild depredations of Indians, and
the often unrestrained lawlessness of some of the miners contributed to rob the venture
of its permanent attraction. When he gave up teaming, Mr. Bushard went back East
for a year, and on his return to Los Angeles, entered the real estate field there, and
acquired some valuable property m East Los Angeles and elsewhere. He came down
to the Gospel Swamp district in what is now western Orange County and bought a
squatter's claim of 1,800 acres; but the Stearns Rancho contested This it'l and he* was
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which he improved and sold at such a profit that he was able to return to the "Swamp"
and purchase the land, once lost to him, from the Stearns Rancho.
On June 11, 1876, John B. Bushard was married at Los Angeles to Miss Mary
Virginia Page, a native of Michigan and the daughter of Louis E. Page, for many
years well-known as a resident of Los Angeles, where he died on September 25, 1906.
He was born at Rochester, N. Y., in 1831, and forty years later came to Los Angeles,
where he was a carriage manufacturer and the senior member of the firm of Page and
Gravel. John B. Bushard's death was the result of a runaway team accident, and
occurred on January 1, 1905, in his sixty-first year. He was buried in Santa Ana Ceme
tery. Four children were born to the honored couple — a daughter, Marie Junette,
residing at 1340 West Twenty-third Street, Los Angeles, with her mother; and the
sons, George H., William W. and Louis J.
These three brothers live on their respective ranches two and a half miles east
of Huntington Beach, each owning sixty acres of the original John B. Bushard estate.
The land, which is in a very fertile district near the ocean, is devoted to the growing,
principally, of lima beans and sugar beets, and also celery. Once it was covered with
willows and tules, and was very marshy; but the elder Bushard, with the aid of his
sons and good neighbors, W. D. Lamb, W. T. Newland and Casper Borchard, all early
settlers, drained the morass, transformed the "Swamp" into one of the most productive
and attractive parts of the county, and laid out the Talbert Road.
William W. Bushard resides on the old John B. Bushard home place, which he
has brought to a high state of cultivation, assisted by his devoted wife, who was Miss
Addie J. McGowan before her marriage. She was a native of Texas, and a daughter
of the John McGowan so well known in that state, where he was a doughty county
sheriff. Mr. and Mrs. Bushard have one child, William Winfred, Jr.
FERN S. BISHOP. — Noteworthy among the prominent contractors and builders
of Orange County is the name of Fern S. Bishop, who has the distinction of erecting
and equipping more walnut packing plants than any man in the state. Although a
native of Story County, Iowa, where he was born January 5, 1876, he has been a resi
dent of Orange County since the age of five years. His parents were Amos D. and
Anna (Knight) Bishop, natives of Michigan and Vermont, respectively. His father is
still living, his mother having passed away in 1905. The family migrated from Iowa
to Santa Ana in 1881.
Fern S. Bishop received his early education in the public schools of Orange and
while quite young started to assist his father on the home ranch. Later he learned the
trade of a carpenter with C. McNeil of Santa Ana, with whom he remained for five
years. Mr. Bishop is a natural mechanic, and his ingenuity has led to many clever
inventions now used in the walnut packing industry, among which is a labor-saving
device used in packing walnuts; he also invented and patented a vacuum culling machine
which eliminates the light weight nuts, or culls, through a blower system under high
pressure of air; also he has invented an all concrete walnut bleacher or washer. His
aim has been to invent such machines to be used in walnut packing houses that will
increase the capacity of a plant and lessen the expense. Another machine inveated and
patented by Mr. Bishop is known as the cleaning machine for mouldy walnut meats and
all of his machines have been demonstrated a marked success. Mr. Bishop is con
sidered an expert on matters pertaining to the packing of walnuts and is frequently
called into consultation when important questions are to be considered. While in the
employ of Mr. McNeil he was foreman of construction on the packing plant of the
Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association.
' In September, 1914, Mr. Bishop entered the building and contracting business for
himself and has erected and equipped the fallowing packing houses: the Guggenhime
packing house and the Gowen and Willard packing house of Santa Ana; the Anaheim
Walnut Growers Association packing house; the Fullerton Walnut packing house; the
Golden Belt house of Fullerton (now the Benchley Packing Company); the Walnut
packing house at Walnut. In Ventura County Mr. Bishop built and equipped the
Saticoy packing house and reequipped the Santa Paula plant. At Whittier, Los Angeles
County, he built and equipped the Whittier Walnut Growers Association house. It
has a daily capacity of sixty tons. He also has to his credit the erecting and equipping
of the packing houses at Irvine, at San Juan Capistrano, the Cudahy plant at Hunting
ton Park and the Chino Walnut house. In 1920 he completed the packing house for
the La Puente Valley Walnut Growers Association, the largest house of the kind in
the world, with a capacity of 150 tons in ten hours, and it is the consensus of opinion
that it is the most modern house for packing walnuts now in use, being fully equipped
with machinery and appliances invented and patented by Mr. Bishop. He is now build
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coal from walnut shells. In addition to these buildings, Mr. Bishop has erected many
fine residences in Orange County, among which. we mention those of John W. Hete-
brink, Fullerton; E. A. Bastian, Placentia; Mrs. C. W. Curry and Ray Bishop, in
Santa Ana.
In Santa Ana, on December 12, 1894, Mr. Bishop married Miss Nellie Deck, who
was born at Upper Alton, 111., a daughter of J. H. and Lavina (Short) Deck, who were
natives of that state. Her father served in the Civil War as a member of an Illinois
regiment. The Deck family came to California in 1882, locating at San Pedro, but soon
afterward moved to Santa Ana, where they improved a ranch and where Mr. Deck
still resides. His wife died here in March, 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop are the parents
of two children: Clara, who is the wife of H. C. Hibbard of Santa Ana and the mother
of one son: Harold Bishop married Miss Lela West, and they are the parents of one
daughter. Harold Bishop is associated with his father in business, being his foreman
of construction. The successful career of Fern S. Bishop is a striking example of
what energy and resourcefulness, wisely directed, and centered on a definite goal, can
accomplish. MRS. IDA J. HUGHES. — A most estimable woman of high ideals, pleasing per
sonality and an interesting conversationalist is Mrs. Ida J. Hughes, the widow of the
late M. F. Hughes, a progressive rancher who passed away in September, 1918. Mrs.
Hughes was born in 1856 in what was then the Territory of Kansas. She is the daughter
of Jehu and Sarah H. Wilson, natives of Ohio and North Carolina, respectively. Mrs.
Hughes was reared and educated in Kansas and attended the University of Kansas,
after which she conducted a millinery business for three years in Lawrence, Kansas.
On January 4, 1882, she was united in marriage with M. F. Hughes, a native of
Missouri, born in 1854, where he was reared and educated. He followed farming
throughout his life, and although always a busy farmer he never neglected his duties to
the state and nation, but always manifested the deepest interest in political matters,
in which he was an ardent supporter of the Republican party.
On December 1, 1911, Mr. and Mrs. Hughes located on their ranch in Orange
County, Cal. At that time the land was in a poor and unproductive condition and
the buildings were small, but with his usual enterprising spirit Mr. Hughes began to
improve and develop the place. He installed a splendid water system by sinking a
well to the depth of 315 feet, securing thereby sufficient water to irrigate 100 acres;
he also built a modern seven-room residence. Today the ranch is in a high state of
cultivation and is chiefly devoted to raising oranges, although some walnuts and lemons
are produced. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes were the parents of three sons: Elmer J., the superin
tendent of a large ranch near Seal Beach, married Miss Delia Mulvihill, and they have
a son, Paul V.; Charles F., also a rancher, married Miss Melba K. Allen; Everett V.
married Miss Catherine Reynen, and they are the parents of two children, Joseph E.
and Elizabeth A. Mrs. Hughes is affiliated with the Friends Church and the entire
family are greatly esteemed in the community.
MISS BLANCHE L. DOLPH.— A talented, public-spirited and generous lady,
who feels a fond interest for California, for here she regained her health, is Miss
Blanche L. Dolph, whose musical tastes and gifts have contributed toward the happi
ness of others and whose fortunate investments since she came here have enabled
her to assist others in their difficulties or distress. Miss Dolph was born at Scranton,
Pa., the daughter of Edward Dolph, one of an early French-American family, whose
name was originally De Wolf, later contracted to Dolph. His father was Alexander
Dolph, a farmer near Scranton. Becoming a coal operator at Scranton, Edward Dolph
became well posted on coal formation and thus discovered the outcropping on his
fathers farm which proved to be a rich vein of coal, which has been and is a source
of wealth to the family. In time, therefore, Mr. Dolph became a large and influential
coal operator in Scranton, and there, too, in earlier days he had married Miss Elizabeth
Wadhams descended from an old English family. They had five children, two sons
^ Scrarntona T S'rnd *' T^ff' Edward S" is manaSer °f the D°Ws interests
at bcranton. Lewis Cass was the oldest son and third child of the family, and he died
a" 2^21 O^aVvi eeAyearS ° T ^ ^ b°m iS MisS Florence Dolph, who resides
at 2021 Ocean View Avenue, Los Angeles. Another sister, Mrs. Josette N. Robertson,
Scranton Tnato nT^^n ^"^ her hUsba"d eight ^ears and <"ed in 1898 a
bcranton. Senator Dolph of Oregon is a relative
Miss Dolph attended the common schools of Scranton and later the University
at Lewisburg. Having a natural talent and love for music she studied the vTolin
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-which she was always glad to help, and she also frequently favored communities of
other cities in that region. Thirty-four years ago, on her first visit to California, in
1886, she first saw the neighborhood of San Juan-by-the-Sea, where she now resides.
She had traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe as well as the
Orient, and her experienced eye enabled her to pick the site of her home on account
•of its beautiful view and natural beauty, commanding as it does a view of the broad
Pacific as well as the beautiful San Juan Valley, while in the background are the Tem-
escal Mountains in their grandeur. She still held, until two years ago, the old home
at Scranton, but six years ago she built her beautiful mansion near Serra or old San
Juan-by-the-Sea, one of the most picturesque mountain homes by the ocean in all
-California. Then she wisely invested in ranch land near San Juan Capistrano, and
while she gives it the proper oversight, her main interests in life are humanitarian and
•charitable. Miss Dolph is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and she participated
in Red Cross and other war activities. She has crossed the Continent sixty times, and
on her trips in 1902 and 1908 crossed via the Isthmus of Panama. Her friend and
¦companion, Miss Lucella McGaughey, who was pastor's assistant at the Second Pres
byterian Church at Scranton for eighteen years, a well-posted Bible student, has joined
her in some of these transcontinental trips, and in 1917 they motored the entire dis
tance from New York City to their home at San Juan-by-the-Sea. She has had other
places constructed for her, and among them a pretty residence at Arch Beach, nine
miles north from San Juan Capistrano, along the coast.
Aside from her musical ability Miss Dolph also displays much talent as an artist
and has a large circle of friends among the colony of artists who make their home
part of the time in Southern California. Thus her rooms are replete with beautiful
paintings from the hands of some of the best-known modern painters. Of a pleasing
personality and hospitable nature it is indeed a pleasure to know and share Miss Dolph's
friendship. MRS. LAURA REED FORD.— A distinguished resident of East Villa Park is
Mrs. Laura Reed Ford, the widow of John Critenton Ford, whose handsome residence is
•one of the attractions of Park Road. She is a native daughter, born near Downey, Cal.,
the daughter of Robb R. and Antonia (Troll) Reed. Her father came from Pennsyl
vania to California in pioneer days, while her mother crossed the plains in an ox-team
train with her father in 1849 to San Francisco. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Reed
came to San Luis Obispo, then to Downey and later still tc Julian, San Diego County,
where they were engaged in merchandising until their death. Mrs. Ford is the second
oldest of three children born of this union. John Critenton Ford was born at Benton,
Franklin County, 111., on November 7, 1861, the son of John P. and Louise (Young)
Fford, old settlers of Illinois. Jno. P. Ford, who came to California in 1885, was a pros
perous farmer, with a splendid tract of 160 acres in Illinois, and very expert in the
raising of corn, cattle and hogs. John Critenton attended both the grammar and the
high schools at Benton, 111., and lived on his father's farm until 1881, when he and his
brother Theodore pushed west to California and settled at Santa Ana. John Critenton
joined another brother, George W. Ford, and went into the nursery business. After a
while, John Critenton moved to the Julian Mountains in San Diego County and went
into the nursery and apple industry for himself.
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Reed moved to Julian when Laura Reed was a child, and there
she attended the grammar school. There, also, she met Mr. Ford, and they were mar
ried on May 11, 1892. Thereafter for eight years they lived in Julian, at which place
Mr. Ford continued to develop his well-known nursery.
In 1900, however, Mr. Ford sold out and removed to a place northeast of Garden
Grove, where he spent a year in raising beets. Then he moved onto a dairy farm on
Fifth Street, in Santa Ana, and two years were spent in dairying on a ranch of fifteen
acres. In 1903, another change was made, and the family moved to Edinger Street, south
•of Santa Ana, where Mr. Ford rented a ranch of 125 acres. He put in grain, and had a
•dairy. In the four years that he was there, he kept twenty-four head of cattle and
seven head of horses.
In 1907 he sold out and bought the present Ford homesite on Park Road, in East
Villa Park. It comprises about eight and a half acres, one-third of which is set out to
Valencias and two-thirds to lemons. It is watered by the John T. Carpenter Water Com
pany, in which the Fords have twenty-three shares. Under Mr. Ford's skillful hand, this
place was being nicely developed, when, on October 8, 1914, he was called upon to lay
aside the cares and responsibilities of earthly life. Mr. Ford took an active part in the
work of the Villa Park Congregational Church; and in this commendable work the
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Two sons and two daughters are a comfort and pride to Mrs. Ford. Homer F. is
living on the old homesite, and is married to Ruby L. Kreschal. George C. Ford is an
electrician and machinist, who lives at Orange and is married to Alma Ziesnig of Illinois.
Annie L. is a graduate of the Orange high school; and Myrtle May is also a student
there. Both daughters are interested in the study of the piano, playing well, and Myrtle
also plays the cornet in the high school band, an organization of sixty pieces. Both
sons belong to the Orange Lodge of Redmen. Mrs. Ford is a member of the Central
Lemon Association of Villa Park and the Villa Park Orange Association.
Since Mr. Ford's death Mrs. Ford, with the aid of her children, has continued to
care for and develop the ranch according to the plans which they had laid out, and it is
now a full-bearing orchard. On March 23, 1918, she met a severe loss, her home being
destroyed by fire. She immediately rebuilt, erecting a modern bungalow, as stated
above, the pride of the community, and attracting the attention of the passers-by. Mr.
Ford always insisted on giving much of the credit of bringing their ranch to such a high
state of development to Mrs. Ford, for by her assistance and help, not only in the home,
encouraging him in his ambitions, but also in the starting of the orchard she worked by
his side in the care of the trees, whether in cultivating, irrigating or pruning of the
same. The citizens of Orange County can be proud to have a native daughter of Mrs.
Ford's capability, energy and progressive ideas as one of its citizens and boosters.
JOSEPH YOCH. — Recognized as one of the leaders in all forward movements
of the organization and early upbuilding of Orange County, Joseph Yoch is living
practically retired from active business cares. He was born May 17, 1844, near Berlin,
Germany, from which country his parents set sail to America in 1847. His father was
?.. stonemason by trade and a contractor after landing in the United States. He was
also engaged in agricultural pursuits which soon occupied all of the time of father
and sons. The mother was Katharine Glorius before her marriage, and she became the
mother of John, Joseph and Bernard. When the family left Germany, they brought
with them all of their household belongings as well as their wagon and farming imple
ments and seeds. They landed at New Orleans and from there took a river boat up
the Mississippi River to St. Louis, Mo. For ten years the family farmed and then the
father sold out and engaged in coal mining, and so successful was he that he established
one of the largest individually owned fields in the coal region. His wife died in 1863,
and he lived until 1885, dying at Belleville, 111.
From the age of nineteen, Joseph Yoch controlled the business, allowing his
father to retire. Under the firm name of Joseph Yoch and Brothers the three sons
worked and were prosperous. While Joseph was the chief executive of the company,
be ascribes its great success to the invention by his brother Bernard of the road engine,
known as the B. Yoch engine, which is self-propelling. Joseph Yoch handled over
three and one-half million bushels of coal annually. On the line of the Indianapolis and
St. Louis Railway, near Litchfield, he had a coal field of 400 acres. The firm also had
coal mines on the Louisville and Nashville Railway, on the Southern Illinois, and in the
various counties and employed 300 to 400 men in the operation of their fifteen mines.
One of the many interests built up by this company was the building of a transfer boat
for the purpose of transporting coal from the east to the west side of the Mississippi
River. This ferry attracted the notice of the Jay Gould interests that in 1886 bought
out the company of Joseph Yoch and Bros., together with the Consolidated Coal
Company, in which Joseph Yoch was prominent, and which controlled the output of
coal in the zone for fifty miles about St. Louis. After the Jay Gould syndicate pur
chased these coal properties, they offered Joseph Yoch a position, but he remained
only one month to help the new managers to become acquainted with this field.
In 1886, after disposing of his interests in the Illinois coal business, Mr. Yoch
made a trip to California, returning with his family in 1887 to Santa Ana, where he
purchased the present home place at 1012 North Main Street. He had become finan
cially interested in the Black Star Coal Mine of Santiago Canyon in 1887. Later he
invested in other mining property in the Santiago, and for a number of years worked
these two mines. The Black Star, however, has been inactive for more than twenty
years. In 1889, Mr. Yoch established a brick yard in Santa Ana. In 1895 he became
interested in ranching at El Monte, Los Angeles County, and sunk the first successful
irrigating well m that vicinity; this property was disposed of some time ago and it
is now owned by J. S. Killian.
The Laguna Beach territory claimed Mr. Yoch's attention in 1895, when he bought
the hotel and store. Soon after he was appointed postmaster, which office he held
tor ten years. Besides a large amount of real estate in the town of Laguna Beach,
which is under lease, Mr. Yoch also owns a fine ranch of 1,000 acres in Laguna Canyon,
some of which is now leased for oil. It is due to his enterprise that this section had its

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early water supply and its first telephone line, which Mr. James Irvine generously
allowed Mr. Yoch to construct over ten miles of the Irvine ranch.
On May 14, 1878, Mr. Yoch was united in marriage with Catharine Isch, whose
parents were natives of Lorraine, France. Her mother's family the Pfeiffers, came to
America from France in 1825, and were pioneers of Illinois. John Nicholas Isch, her
father, was a soldier of France in 1836, and on coming to Ameria, in 1840, located in
St. Clair County, 111. There were then a number of Indians in the vicinity and he
established friendly relations with them, which always continued. Mrs. Yoch received
her education in the public schools of that neighborhood, with a two years' course at
the State Normal School at Normal, 111., afterwards teaching at the school at Center-
ville, which she had attended in her girlhood. Mr. and Mrs. Yoch are the parents of
six children: Josephine is a teacher of languages in the Los Angeles high school;
Bertha is the wife of Thomas Doyle, a stockraiser at Phoenix, Ariz., and they have six
children; Elizabeth is the wife of Captain Theodore Lewton, chief engineer of the Coast
Guard, U. S. N., and they have two children; Caroline is the wife of Redmond Barnett
of New York, and they have three children; Agnes is the wife of Eliot West, the owner
of a large confectionery manufacturing company at Norfolk, Va.; Florence, a graduate
of the University of Illinois, resides in Los Angeles, and is a landscape architect of
national fame.
Joseph Yoch was twice on the Santa Ana Board of Trustees, and was a supervisor
for one term, during which term was built the first bridge across the river on Fifth
Street, and the term when the present court house was located, serving as chairman
during the entire period. In politics he has always been a Democrat both "in and out
of season," but in local affairs adopts the wise- measure of supporting the best men
regardless of party lines. Mr. Yoch was a director of the First National Bank of
Santa Ana for twenty years, and also its vice-president. In his character he is kind
and has always scorned to speak ill of any person he knew. He is one who has devoted
himself generously in public service to the land of his adoption.
RANCHO CANON DE SANTA ANA.— One among the few remaining large
ranches in Orange County, is Rancho Canon de Santa Ana, well watered by the Santa
Ana River flowing through, and it is equally well served by the Santa Fe Railway, on its
route from San Bernardino to San Diego. There is a switch and signal station on the
ranch known as Gypsum from which the products of the farm are despatched, and
where the home imports arrive. There is also a station named Horseshoe Bend. The
farm is at the extreme eastern end of the Yorba precinct, in the northeastern part of
Orange County. Its manager is Mrs. S. B. Bryant, of Los Angeles — whose maiden
name was Bixby, explaining that the place was formerly known as one of the Bixby
ranches, the property of John Bixby, now deceased, at present owned by his two chil
dren, Mrs. S. B. Bryant and Fred Bixby. It still comprises 6,000 acres, beautifully
located in the canon of the Santa Ana River, and running clear up to the mountains,
forming the boundary line between Orange and Riverside counties.
The principal product of the rancho is citrus fruit, of which there are 140 acres
in all, sixty-three acres being given up to Valencia oranges, thirty acres to Navels,
and forty-seven acres to lemons. The trees are, for the most part, seven years old,
and are just coming into profitable bearing. There are, besides, forty-five acres in
pears. During the season of 1919 a carload of Bartletts.was shipped from this ranch,
bringing eighty-five dollars a ton. The ranch has also sixty acres of budded walnuts.
There are twenty acres of alfalfa, partly for ranch use and partly for sale; and 200
acres of barley for hay, and sixty acres of black-eye beans. There is a great deal of
pasture land. Forty-five head of horses and four mules are used for the work of the
farm, and a Sampson sieve-grip tractor is employed for plowing and cultivating. From
fifteen to twenty men are also employed on an average, and since January, 1916, Ernest
R. Johnson, superintendent, has had charge of these interests.
ARTHUR FRANK WALKER. — As an example of what may be accomplished
by persistent energy, the life of A. F. Walker, known to a host of friends as Frank
Walker, presents lessons of encouragement to young men starting out for themselves
without the aid of means or influence, for starting without money, he is now the owner
of 160 acres of choice land in the Bolsa district. Born in Santa Barbara County,
November 18, 1881, Frank Walker is the son of Albert F. and Lottie (Stice) Walker,
the father passing away when Frank was about six years old. There were two other
children in the Walker family: Gillis A., a stock raiser at Red Bluff, and Edna, the
wife of W. L. Ross, a rancher in the Bolsa precinct. Mrs. Walker later married J. A.
Ross, a rancher, and they reside in the Bolsa precinct. Three children have been born
of this marriage: Ralph, who resides at Red Bluff; Amelia, the wife of Cecil Combs,
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Mr. Walker attended school in Santa Barbara County and at Bolsa, the Ross
family moving here in 1893. Even while he was living in Santa Barbara County, then
but a mere lad, he started to work out, saving his money year by year, and instead
of buying a horse and buggy, as many of the other boys of his age did, he invested his
savings in work stock, renting land for a number of years. As a boy he worked in
the first celery field in Orange County. In 1904 he bought his first piece of land, a
tract of fifteen acres, which he improved and sold, and he has at various times bought,
improved and sold farming land in the Winterburg, Westminster and Bolsa precincts.
He was one of the first in this locality to go into the raising of sugar beets on an
extensive scale, and was the first to introduce the system of fall dry plowing of the
land to be planted to sugar beets the next season, and this method has brought very
successful and satisfactory results. He began raising sugar beets for the Los Alamitos
Sugar Company and later for the Co-operative Sugar Company at Santa Ana. Mr.
Walker still farms eighty acres of his land, devoting the acreage to lima beans, and
the other eighty he rents out to Earl Gardner.
In 1905, Mr. Walker was married to Miss Lelah Kirk, a native of Iowa and the
daughter of Charles Kirk, now a rancher in the Bolsa district. One daughter, Velda
Marie, has been born to them. Mrs. Walker is a member of the Adventist Church
and shares with her husband a just popularity in the community. Of strong physique,
full of energy, determination and force of character, Mr. Walker has early in life
achieved through his own unaided efforts a success in every way deserved.
HARRY W. STANLEY. — A tireless worker and an unusually aggressive man,
fortunate in the possession of ability, energy and enterprise, is Harry W. Stanley, one
of the upbuilders of Anaheim, who is now engaged in the building of bungalows on
his own property. Born near Bowling Green, Pike County, Mo., Mr. Stanley is the
son of Samuel and Sarah Stanley. The father was a native of Virginia, and during the
Civil War he served four years in the Confederate Army, being wounded five times in
different engagements. After the close of the war he came to Pike County, Mo., where
he was married to Miss Sarah Martin, a native of that state. When Harry W. Stanley
was but four years old the mother passed away and the responsibility of rearing the
family rested on the father. He continued farming, making a good success of growing
tobacco and raising stock, and he still continues to reside on his Missouri farm in the
enjoyment of comfortable circumstances.
From a little boy, Harry was taught to work and was never allowed to be idle;
he has always been an inveterate worker and this has proven the secret of his success
in later years. At the age of sixteen he struck out for himself, and going to St. Louis,
Mo., he attended a trade automobile school for two years, where he made a thorough
study of auto and tractor mechanism. The first eighteen months of that time he worked
on an estate in his spare, time, taking care of the lawn and doing odd jobs for his room
and board. From St. Louis he went to Devil's Lake, N. D., and for five years worked
at his trade in garages, remaining there until 1906, when he came to California. For the
first five years he was employed on the Stanford University farm at Vina, Tehama
County, where as master mechanic he had charge of all the repair work in their garages,
repairing autos, tractors and farm implements, and all steam plumbing and boiler
work. He next located at Wasco, Kern County, and here he built and opened a
garage, which he conducted 'for a short time, later going to Downey, Los Angeles
County, where he engaged in the garage business, and here he was very successful,
selling the business for three times what he paidfor it. About this time he was taken
ill and confined in a hospital at Anaheim for three months, and all the money he had
saved was consumed in this experience. When he recovered he had only a capital of
$42.50, but he started in business again, this time in Anaheim, purchasing a small
garage and shop called the Central Garage, located on South Los Angeles Street, giving
his note for $1,000 to close the deal. In three months he had paid off all indebtedness
and disposed of the business for $2,500. He was again taken ill, this time with influenza,
and again his money vanished for expenses. On regaining his health he opened up a
small repair shop at 133 North Lemon Street; this was called Stanley's Buick Repair
Station and here he made an unprecedented success. An addition was built on to the
building in the rear and he bought out a tenant who occupied the other half of the
building. He built up the business from a room 10 by 20 until he used a space 55 by 175
and had the largest repair business in Anaheim, and with his well-equipped machine
shop was ready to take care of anything in the line of automobile repairing, ignition and
battery work, as well as brazing and welding. In addition he carried extra parts for
the Dodge and Buick cars, and was agent for the Philadelphia battery. On March
4, 1920, Mr. Stanley disposed of this business at a lucrative figure, and then bought a
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business there and in six months sold it at a big profit. He then moved back to Ana
heim, where he owns a number of lots, and is now engaged in building and selling
bungalows. He has just finished a colonial bungalow at 112 North Olive Street, fur
nished complete with all modern conveniences, including electrical appliances for the
household. The rooms are elegantly furnished with mahogany; as elaborate a home
as can be found in the county.
Mr. Stanley's marriage, which occurred at San Bernardino, August 24, 1920, united
him with Miss Lulu B. Putnam, the daughter of Edward and Estella Putnam, who came
to California in 1908. Mrs. Stanley was born in Homer, Mich., and is a graduate of the
Grand Rapids, Mich., Business College. Mr. Stanley has had his ups and downs, and
has made and lost more than one fortune, but nothing daunted, he works all the
harder and fortunately he has regained his fortune and now has a competency. He
has indeed been fortunate in his helpmate, for his wife is well educated, cultured and
refined and an encouragement to his ambition, as well as assisting him in business, for
she is endowed by nature with excellent judgment and much business ability.
IRA E. PATTERSON.— A resident of California who has been active in the
building business is Ira E. Patterson, who was born near Annawan, Henry County, 111.,
March 30, 1865, where he was reared and received a good education in the excellent
public schools of that locality. When eighteen years of age he began learning the
carpenter's trade, continuing in this line in Illinois until 1885, when he removed to
lola, Kans. He followed his trade a short time and then began in the mercantile
business. He was first engaged in the grocery trade but later he had a hardware store
and lumber yard and he also ran a plumbing and sheet metal works at lola for seven
years when he discontinued and for one year was superintendent of the city water and
light plant.
In 1905 Mr. Patterson came to South Pasadena and became bookkeeper and cashier
for the Live Hardware Company of that place. In 1908 he resigned this position
to engage in contracting and building in South Pasadena and Pasadena, and was busily
engaged in building residences in both places. In 1910 he began spending his summers
at Anaheim Landing, where he followed contracting. In the summer of 1915, after hav
ing completed a large addition to the residence of A. C. Billicke, he came to Seal Beach
for a month's vacation, but he liked it so well he remained here, engaging in contracting
and building. In his contracting business he draws his own plans and superintends
the construction. Mr. Patterson was married in lola, Kans., November 18, 1888, being united with
Miss Susie B. Waters, born in Lawrence, Kans. When ten years of age her parents
moved to lola, Kans. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Patterson:
Arthur E. is in business in Los Angeles; Lyford M. served in U. S. Army overseas in
the World War and now resides in Portland; Helen Ruth is Mrs. Thomas of South
Pasadena. Mr. Patterson is greatly interested in civic matters having served two
years as city treasurer of Seal Beach. He is now a member and clerk of the board
of school trustees in the Bay City district. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson are members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in Seal Beach, Mr. Patterson having been a member
for thirty-five years. They were among the original organizers of the Methodist Epis
copal Church at Seal Beach. He had charge of the constructing of the church, is one
of its most liberal and enthusiastic members, being a member of the board of trustees
from its organization and is also superintendent of the Sunday school: he is now one
of the oldest settlers of the town. Mr. Patterson is a leading member of the Chamber
of Commerce and in politics is a Republican.
FRED LIEFFERS. — An enterprising rancher who has been able to make such
improvements on his valuable property that he is now both successful and influential,
is Fred Lieffers, who first came to Orange in the early eighties. He was born in Han
over, Germany, on February 2, 1861, the son of the Rev. William Lieffers, a minister
of the Lutheran Church, and was brought up in the kingdom of Hanover, and educated
at the public schools and the Hildesheim Gymnasium, or high school. When only
fifteen years of age, he came out to the United States and in 1876 located at Omaha,
where he continued his studies for a year at a private institute. Then, for eighteen
months, he became a clerk in a grocery store, and later in Goodman's drug store; and
there he studied pharmacy, serving the most practical apprenticeship to that important
line for five years.
About that time, in 1883, Mr. Lieffers came west to Orange, accompanied by his
mother from Omaha, and they bought a ranch half way between Orange and Tustin,
and he went to work to improve it. He planted it to Muscat raisins, but they died out;
again he set out the same kind of vines, but once more they withered away. He then
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At Orange, too, in 1892, Mr. Lieffers was married to Miss Amelia Gatzke, a native
of Posen, Germany, who came here with her parents in 1883. He then leased a ranch
in Olive and ran it for four years, after which he bought the thirty-three and a half
acres, set out to walnuts, and added some apricots. These he later grubbed out and
set out oranges instead, and is now raising high-grade Valencia oranges. In the spring
of 1919, he turned the management of the ranch over to his son and bought a home
in the town of Orange, where he resides with his wife. Two children have blessed this
fortunate union of Mr. and Mrs. Lieffers. Walter conducts the home ranch; and
Gertrude has become Mrs. Boehner of Olive.
Mr. Lieffers and family have attended several churches, according to circum
stances. Beginning with the second year of its organization, Mr. Lieffers belonged to
the St. John's Lutheran Church at Orange. When he moved to the neighborhood of
Olive, he was a charter member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in that place, and
for many years he was a trustee and the secretary of the church board. When he
moved back to Orange, he again became a member' of St. John's Lutheran Church.
In national politics, a Republican, Mr. Lieffers takes a live interest in nonpartisan
endeavor for the advancement, development and uplift of the community in which he
lives, and he is at all times first, and last, an American for America.
HON. CLYDE BISHOP. — An eminent representative of the legal profession in
California who has twice served a satisfied constituency as a member of the state
legislature, is the Hon. Clyde Bishop, who first came to California in the early eighties.
He was born in Chicago, 111., on May 23, 1875, the son of A. D. Bishop, a native of
Ohio, who came to Chicago with his father, Umphry Hine Bishop and there built the
first ice house on South Water Street erected in that city. Later, they lost everything
by the great conflagration of 1871, after which they assisted in rebuilding the city.
A. D. Bishop removed to Story County, Iowa, where he was a pioneer settler, engaging
in contract painting at Nevada, but in 1881 he brought his family to California and
located a mile south of Orange, where he now lives. Mrs. A. D. Bishop was Miss
Annie Sabin Knight before her marriage. She was born on North Hero Island, Lake
Champlain, Vt., a member of an old New England family, and died in California on the
home ranch. These worthy parents had four children, all boys. Roy Knight is an
orange rancher near Orange; Clyde is the' subject of this -review; Fern Sabin is a
contractor at Santa Ana; and Umphry Holmes is also an orange grower at Orange.
He graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music at Boston, but prefers
the life of an orange grower.
Clyde Bishop was brought up at Santa Ana and was educated at the public schools
of Orange. He assisted his father on the farm until he was twenty and then, as an
actor, he joined a company and traveled through both the West and East and as far
south as Mississippi. He served several years in the National Guard and when the
Spanish-American War broke out he enlisted as a volunteer and was mustered in at
San Francisco as a member of Company L, Seventh California Volunteer Infantry. He
was stationed at the Presidio and was honorably discharged as a corporal After the
war he continued in the National Guard and at the close of fourteen years of honorable
service had risen to the rank of first lieutenant. In May, 1899, Mr. Bishop began the
study of law in the offices of C. S. McKelvey and Victor Montgomery at Santa Ana
and on April 15, 1902, he was admitted to the California Bar. Four years later, on
November 26, he was admitted to all the United States courts. In 1902 he opened the
same office he has today, with the same desk, and is now the second oldest practicing
attorney in Orange County with one of the largest and most lucrative practices in the
county, and an ever-increasing clientele.
In 1906 Mr. Bishop was elected on the Republican ticket to the assembly of the
California legislature and served during the winter of 1907 and he wrote, among other
measures, the Newbert Protection District Bill, designed especially for the safe-guard
ing of Santa Ana. Having been elected again to the assembly in 1910, he was chairman
of the committee on counties and county boundaries and a member of the judiciary
committee and the committees on constitutional amendments and municipal corpo
rations. In 1915 he wrote the act under which county bonds were voted for the
improvement of the harbor at Newport Beach and spent his time and influence at the
capital to see that it was passed. For two and a half years Mr. Bishop was city
attorney of Orange and conducted the first bond issue, by which Orange bought the
present city water works. He was also attorney for Newport Beach and conducted the

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prominent Republican, but too broad-minded to be ultrapartisan in local affairs, Mr.
Bishop is an honored member of the Orange County Bar Association and he' also
belongs to the Spanish-War Veterans' Association.
At Santa Ana he was married to Miss Ana Young, a native of New Jersey who
was reared in Orange County. He is a Knights Templar and thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Mason and is also a member of Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.,
in Los Angeles, the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias,'
in which he is a past officer. Mr. Bishop is truly a self-made man, having risen through
his own efforts to the high place he holds among the California Bar. He is very
thorough and painstaking and is not satisfied until he gets to the bottom of the case
in hand. He is an indefatigable worker and is never idle. With his pleasing personality
and affable manner together with his integrity and honesty of purpose it is not to be
wondered at that he has attained a standing of such eminence.
JOSEPH F. VOLLMER. — A successful contracting painter is Joseph F. Vollmer,
the principal sign writer of Orange, pleasantly identified with the town for almost a
decade. He was born in Mascoutah, St. Clair County, 111., in 1879, the son of Wendel
Vollmer, born in Germany, who came as a young man to Illinois and St. Clair County,
and was married at Mascoutah to Miss Anna Goodwein, a native of that place. He
was a farmer there, and later removed to East St. Louis, where he was in business
until he died. He had nine children, seven of whom grew, to maturity, and six of them
are still living.
The eldest of these, Joseph attended the public schools in East St. Louis,' and
having obtained a place in Van Houten's paint shop, in East St. Louis, was appren
ticed to learned the painter's trade. At the end of four years, he left there, and from
1907 for the next three years he was in the service of George A. Watts at St. Louis.
Returning to East St. Louis, he worked at his trade under Mr. McNitt; but in 1912
broke away from the East, came to California and located at Orange.
Here he formed a partnership with Frank Pister, under the firm name of Pister
& Vollmer, and together they understook contract work in painting. In 1914, how
ever, he sold out to Mr. Pister and took a trip East. Returning, he started in business
for himself, and soon was in great demand as a sign writer. He did the painting of
the El Modena School, the Center Street School and the Lemon Street School; the
Methodist Episcopal Church, the Newport Harbor Yacht Club House, the N. T. Ed
wards residence, the house of the Foothill Valencia Growers Association, and all four
of the Acme stores in the county, and numerous residences, including many bunga
lows. He belongs to the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, and is always glad
to do- what he can to advance the best interests of both city and county. A Republican
in matters of party politics, Mr. Vollmer stands shoulder to shoulder with his fellow-
citizens, without regard to party affiliations, in the support of every good measure
likely to benefit the community. He is the father of three children — Jack, Otto and
Roch Vollmer.
RUDOLPH W. MILLER.— One of the ablest contractors and builders in Orange
whose success is doubtless in part due to the fact that, in addition to a valuable tech
nical training, he has been favored with a well-developed sense of the artistic, is
Rudolph W. Miller, familiarly known by his many friends as "Doc" Miller, a native
of Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa, where he was born on May 24, 1874. His
father, C. G. Miller, came to Iowa in the late fifties, while still a youth in his teens,
accompanying an uncle; and although he was only eighteen on the breaking out of the
Civil War, he immediately enlisted and throughout the great struggle served in the
Thirty-second Iowa Volunteer Infantry. After the war, he learned the cabinetmaker's
trade in Fort Dodge, and later started a furniture factory; and still later, he was
engaged in contracting and building. He had married in Iowa, Pauline Loescher; and
in that state he continued business until 1880, when he removed to Norfolk, Madison
County, Nebr., and continued as a contractor, and thus helped to build up that town.
Rudolph Miller having come to Orange in 1905, the parents followed two years
later; and here, in comfort and peace, they ended their days. In 1911 Mr. Miller died,
and six years later, Mrs. Miller breathed her last. She was the mother of eight chil
dren, of whom Rudolph was the third eldest. He received all the educational advan
tages afforded by the Norfolk public schools, and then learned the carpenter trade
under the guidance of his father. As soon as possible, too, he studied architecture
during his spare moments, and so became skilled as a draftsman as well as a carpen
ter. In 1905 he located at Orange and here entered the employ of the Ainsworth
Lumber and Milling Company, working in their cabinet department, and continuing
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Mr. Miller then took up contracting and building for himself. His first contract
was entered upon with two partners, H. W. Duker and Emil Loescher, with whom he
erected the St. John's Lutheran Church in 1913, the largest structure in Orange, and
after that he formed a partnership with Emil Loescher and Fred T. Volberding, and
engaged in contracting and building. A year later, these enterprising gentlemen put
up a planing mill on North Lemon Street, and they also engaged in manufacturing.
In January, 1919, Mr. Volberding and Mr. Miller bought out Mr. Loescher, and since
then they have carried on the business together, styling themselves the Orange Con
tracting and Milling Company.
Having equipped their establishment with electric power and the latest and most
modern machinery for doing mill and cabinet work, they have laid in a large stock
of hardwoods, cedar, white pine and finishing lumber, and for those clients who desire
them, they make plans, designing bungalows and more pretentious residences. They
have thus acquired a reputation for the highest class of work, and a sample of what
they can do may be found in Mr. Miller's own residence on East Palmyra Street, one
of the finest finished homes in the county. Mr. Miller is naturally a member of the
American Contractors Association.
At Orange, on July 4, 1916, Mr. Miller was married to Mrs. Fay (Casner) Meehan,
a native of Ventura County, Cal., and the daughter of Thos. J. Casner, who was born
in Texas and crossed the plains to California, in his twenty-first year, with his parents.
They settled in San Diego County, where her father married Texanna Lester, also a
native of Texas, and moved to Ventura County. There they farmed, later removing
to Santa Paula, in which place Mrs. Casner died. The father now resides in Selma.
There were eight children in the family, and Fay, as the second eldest, was educated
at Santa Paula. She was first married at Orange, in 1897, to Jack E. Meehan, a native
of York, Nebr., who came to Orange and was proprietor of the Plaza Market for many
years, in partnership with N. T. Edwards; when they dissolved, Mr. Meehan went in
for wholesaling meat, and in that line of trade he was engaged when he died, in
August, 1912.
THOMAS L. McFADDEN. — It is interesting to chronicle the life of a native
son who has had the ambition to acquire a wide and comprehensive knowledge of fhe
law and, combined with high ideals, bring it into practice and make a success of his
profession, commanding the confidence and respect of the people in the community
where he was born and reared. Such is the case with Thomas L. McFadden, the son
of pioneer parents, William M. and Sarah J. (Earl) McFadden, prominent in the
development and building up of the Placentia section. Of their six children that reached
maturity, five of whom are living, Thomas L. is the fourth eldest. A native son of
Orange County, he was born at Placentia April 24, 1878. He was reared on the farm
and early acquired habits of industry, laying the foundation of his physical strength,
that is of such great assistance to him in everyday life.
He received his preliminary education in the Placentia schools and the Fullerton
Union high school, where he was graduated in 1896, when he entered Stanford Uni
versity, graduating in the class of 1900, with the degree of A.B. During his university
course he was for two years a member of the varsity football team, playing left end.
He then studied two years at Stanford Law School, and taking the examination at
San Francisco, was admitted to the bar in 1903. After practicing law in San Francisco
for a year, he located in Bellingham, Wash., engaging in the practice of law. He
served as city attorney of Bellingham, from 1908 to 1912. On account of the death of
his brother in that year, he returned to Placentia, where he opened a law office and
practiced until 1920, when he formed a partnership with H. G. Ames, as Ames and
McFadden, with offices in the Odd Fellows building at Anaheim. Aside from his
practice, he is interested in his father's estate, incorporated as the Pioneer Ranch
Company, of which he is secretary.
Mr. McFadden established domestic ties by his marriage June 19, 1912, to Miss
Lucana Forster of San Juan Capistrano, a daughter of Marco Forster, the pioneer of
that place, and they are the parents of one daughter, Ysidora. Mr. McFadden achieved
considerable success as a member of the varsity football team at Stanford, becoming a
well-known coach, so that while at Stanford, he spent two season as coach for the
Pacific University team at Forest Grove, Ore., then of the Oregon Agricultural College
at Corvallis a season, and then his first year at Bellingham he spent a season as coach
for the football team of De Pauw University at Greencastle, Ind. Fraternally Mr.
McFadden is a member of Fullerton Lodge No. 339, F. & A. M., and Fullerton Chapter,
R. A. M., and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias as well as past exalted ruler
of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks. He is a popular member of the Fullerton
Club, the Hacienda Country Club of La Habra, the Newport Harbor Yacht Club arid
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WILLIAM FALKENSTEIN.-A merchant who has attained an enviable success
through having built on a foundation of unremitting industry, broad experience and
the highest integrity, is William Falkenstein, proprietor and director of Falkenstein's
Department Store. He was born in Germany, of an historic German family on
March 16, 1866, the son of Selmar and Anna (Furstenheim) Falkenstein, both of whom
are dead. Five children were born to them, and five grew up to do them honor; and
fourth in the order of birth was William, the subject of our interesting review.
He enjoyed the best of educational advantages in his native land and not only
attended the grammar grades, but also studied at the high school. He worked for
several years in Germany, and at the age of twenty-six came to the United States.
For awhile he stayed in New York City, but in 1893 he decided to push on to the
great West.
Coming to California, he located at Fullerton, where for three years he was in
the service of Messrs. Stern and Goodman. He went to Phoenix for a couple of years,
but came back to Fullerton again; and in 1899 removed to Anaheim where, with a
partner, he helped form the firm of Harris & Falkenstein. After several years he
bought out his partner, and since then has conducted alone a very successful trade.
He has, very naturally, become an important factor in the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association and in the Board of Trade.
On September 16, 1900, Mr. Falkenstein was married to Miss Regina Harris, of
Santa Ana, and they have had two children — Stanley M., who is attending the Uni
versity of California, and Edith Ruth. He belongs to the Mother Colony Club, and
is a past master Mason in Lodge No. 207 of Anaheim. Having served for a year in
the German army, 'and thus done his full duty in that respect by his native country,
Mr. Falkenstein has been the more ready and experienced in performing his civic duties
here, and as a Republican has taken an active interest in national politics, and has
always worked hard for civic improvements. He has prospered in his adopted country,
and has ever striven to give back from that which he has thus bountifully received.
WALLACE B. DENNIS.— A highly esteemed citizen of Orange who was for four
years president of the school board and has long been a leader in his vicinity, is
Wallace B. Dennis, a native of Iowa, where he was born near Iowa City on August
16, 1866. His father, Milton Dennis, was a native of Ohio, a member of an old Eastern
family, and he became a pioneer of Iowa, when he came there with his parents and
settled in Johnson County. The youngest son, he followed farming there and raised
grain; and also went in for lumbering, operating on the Iowa River. He had a steam
sawmill and made up lumber of ash, oak and hickory; and he became prominent in the
lumber trade, being a sawyer and understanding the manufacture of just what was
wanted. In 1875 he removed to Shelby County and became a farmer there; and after
four years moved again to Villisca, Iowa. Then he went to Scribner, Nebr., still active
in agricultural pursuits; and having retired, he died there, at the age of eighty-two. He
had married Miss Eliza Crawford, a native of Ohio or Illinois; and she died in Ne
braska on the same day as did her husband, under pathetic circumstances. She was
in her seventy-ninth year in 1907, and had been ill for some time; and when the old
gentleman was told that his companion of so many years could not live, he fell dead.
They were the beloved parents of eleven children, eight of whom are still living.
The youngest child of all, and the only one living in California, W. B. Dennis
was brought up on a farm in Iowa and there attended the public schools. Then he
went to Atlantic, Iowa, and completed his schooling, after which he commenced to
work, with his brother, on his father's farm. At the end of a year, he went to Scribner,
Dodge County, Nebr., and continued farm work, and at the age of twenty-one, began
to farm for himself.
In Nebraska, on January 23, 1895, Mr. Dennis was married to Miss Mae Evelyn
Neff, a native of Fremont, Dodge County, Nebr, and the daughter of Lewis H. and
Lydia A. (Marshall) Neff, born respectively in Ohio and Iowa. When fifteen years
old her father ran away and enlisted in the Civil War; and as a member of an Illinois
regiment, he served throughout the great conflict. He then went to a business college
in Davenport, and after that came out to Dodge County, Nebr., and was married at
Fremont to Lydia Marshall. Then he engaged in the harness and saddlery business
until 1912, when he sold out and, coming to California, located at Santa Ana, where
tKey now reside. Mrs. Dennis is the eldest of the four children. The Dennis boys
and -their father had formed a partnership, but they dissolved the same in 1896, and
W. B. Dennis leased a farm and engaged in raising cattle and hogs. He finally removed
to Plainville, Rooks County, Kans., and bought a farm of 160 acres. He also leased
land and raised wheat and corn. He was the first one to grow corn at Plainville, and
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Two years later, he sold his farm and moved to Cody, Wyo., where he bought
a ranch and also engaged in contracting to do teaming during the building of the great
Shoshone dam, hauling all the coal for the engineers, and handling the same as a
broker. This work required sixteen four-horse teams. Two years later, when the work
had advanced that far, he took the contract to haul all the cement, and then used fifty
four-horse teams, hauling all the cement and the coal. This had to be hauled over
a mountain, and it took five years to complete the dam. On the completion of his
contracts, Mr. Dennis sold his stock and in 1910 came west to sunnier California.
Locating at Orange, he soon afterwards bought his present ranch of thirteen
acres on East Chapman Avenue along Santiago Creek. It was partly set out to orange
trees, and the remaining three and a half acres he himself set out, mostly in Valencias
and the balance in Navels, and this he cares for himself. He is one of the original
members of the McPherson Heights Citrus Association, and is also a director in the
same and he belongs to the Commercial Club.
Two children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis. Marie June is a
graduate of the University of Southern California and now doing post-graduate work,
and Jean is a graduate of the Orange Union high school and a freshman in the Univer
sity of California. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Dennis
was a school trustee of the Craig district for four years, and during this time they
built the Intermediate school on North Glassell Street, and he was president of the
board the entire four years. He was a Mason in Cody, Wyo., and is now a member of
fhe Orange Grove Lodge No. 293, at Orange. With Mrs. Dennis, he is also a member
of Scepter Chapter No. 163, O. E. S., where Mrs. Dennis is a past matron.
MRS. METTE HANSEN. — One of Orange County's capable, progressive women,
who deserves much credit for her devotion and ability as a mother and'business woman,
is Mrs. Mette Hansen, widow of the later Charles Hansen. A hard-working, self-made
man, conservative in his business relations and yet progressive to a high degree, he
struggled long as a pioneer, and started the ranching that has since his death been
made a success, thanks to his devoted wife. One of two sons of Hans Hansen, he was
born near Varde, Denmark. He came to the United States and spent a short time in
the East and then came to California, where he had a brother, Peter Hansen, living
in the Placentia district, Orange County; there he purchased some land to the northwest
of that town. After a while, he went back to Denmark for a visit; but the lure of Cali
fornia made his stay there short, and the same year he again trod the soil of the Golden
State. He did not come alone, however, for he brought with him Miss Mette Nielsen,.
the daughter of Niels Andreasen, a farmer of Varde, Denmark, whom he married, on
their arrival at Placentia in 1877, and they began housekeeping on his ranch of fifty-
three acres.
The countryside was open and wild in those days, only a few scattered dwellings
and settlers marking the growth of the territory from the time when the Indians pre
dominated; and many hardships were experienced and had to be borne as best one
could. Water was wanting; and Mr. Hansen was one who helped to construct the
Cajon ditch, later known as the Anaheim Union Water Company, the cost of which
was shouldered by the few ranch owners then in that area. So far had Mr. Hansen
progressed in establishing something worth while for himself and his family that he
had set out his land to vineyards,-and had harvested two crops when on June 5, 1886,
at Fullerton, he passed away, lamented by all who really knew him.
After Mr. Hansen's death, his widow pushed on bravely alone with the great
additional responsibility of rearing the four children which had blessed the happy union;
and how well she got along may be judged from the fact that she had occasion to
consult an attorney only once or twice. Now her holdings include sixteen acres of
the original tract which she has set to Valencia and Navel oranges, which is managed
by her son-in-law, Lee O. Myers, who himself owns another twenty acres. In addition,
Mrs Hansen owns a fine cotton and alfalfa ranch of sixty acres in the Palo Verde
Valley, and this is made profitable by the wise management and personal attention of
Mrs. Hansen's oldest son.
The four children referred to are Mettinos, Lena, Mette and Emma; and all but
the latter are still living: Mettinos is a rancher at Palo Verde and has six children;
Lena is the wife of John E. Wagner; and Mette is Mrs. Lee O. Myers. Each child
has some particular accomplishment of which any parent might well be proud, and
each has profited by the Christian example of their lamented father, whose walk in' life
was simple, unassuming and just. In religion Mrs. Hansen is a Lutheran and believes
in the golden rule of doing to others as you would be done by. She is now one of the
few remaining pioneers of the Placentia section and has very materially helped to build
up the county.

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DIERKER.— Few orange orchards in all California
can show a higher state of improvement, for the time devoted to it, or a more promis
ing development, than the tract of ten acres, brought to its present level through the
experience, insight and industry of its owner, Benjamin Franklin Dierker, who came to
Orange for the first time in the early nineties. He was born in Monterey, Cuming
County, Nebr, in October, 1877, the son of the esteemed pioneer, Henry Dierker, and
the seventh oldest of the family. He attended the public schools there until he was
fifteen, and then came fo Orange, Cal., where he continued his school work. After
that he pursued a commercial course at the Orange County Business College, at the
conclusion of which he worked with his father.
He bought forty acres at Olive, at $100 per acre, and set out oranges and walnuts;
and at the end of four years he sold it for $14,000. Then he spent a year in the employ
of the Pixley Hardware Company, but selling his residence, he returned to Nebraska,
where he bought a farm of 280 acres, on which for three years he raised corn and
stock. Disgusted, however, with the cold winters, and longing for the balmier climate
of California, he again disposed of what he had and returned to Orange.
In 1909 Mr. Dierker bought his present place, some ten acres on West Palmyra
Street, at that time mere vacant ground; and he set out Valencias now doing well. He
laid cement pipe lines, built a two-story, ten-room house, and made it one of the show
places of the county. He also joined the Santiago Orange Growers Association, and
helped along the excellent work of that live organization.
During this later residence at Orange, Mr. Dierker married Miss Rozella Kloth,
who had moved with her parents from Minnesota to Orange. They attend the
Lutheran Church, as do also their children, Nelson, Alfred, Thelma and Marie, and
undertake their share of both church and civic work.
AMANDUS W. BEACH and MRS. AUREL BEACH.— A member of the Chris
tian Science faith and practice whose influence in these days of rapid modern advance
ment has been effectual and helpful to many, is Mrs. Aurel Beach of Orange. Her
husband, who passed on in 1913, was widely known as a good and farseeing man; and
when he was called to lay aside the toil and responsibilities of this world, his faithful
helpmate continued the good work he had begun.
He was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, on August 5, 1838, and moved to Ne
braska in 1857, where he located at Weeping Water, in Cass County. He resided there
until the fall of 1862 when he enlisted in Company H of the Second Nebraska Cavalry
and was mustered in for nine months' service against the Indians. He really served
thirteen months, and in November, 1863, was honorably discharged. Then he started
back to Ohio, and on December 24, 1863, arrived at Painesville, in Lake County. The
next day — Christmas — he was married there to Miss Aurel Paine, who was born near
Painesville, Ohio, in LeRoy Township, on January 26, 1839. Her great-grandfather,
Eleazar Paine had served in the Revolutionary War, and in 1802 moved with his family
to Connecticut Western Reserve in Ohio, and there in what was then Geauga, and later,
Lake County, he founded Painesville. At that time, the grandfather, Hendrick E. Paine,
a native of Connecticut, was fourteen years old, and he served in the War of 1812.
About 1855, Hendrick Paine removed from Painesville to Monmouth, 111., and there
he died. Henry Paine was Mrs. Beach's father, and he was a native of Ohio, where
he was born in 1810. He was a forge man and manufactured Paine's Plows and later
was a farmer in LeRoy Township, and also a justice of the peace and a commissioner
of Lake County. His wife was Harriet N. Tuttle, a native of Austinburg, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, and her parents came from Connecticut in 1811. Great-grandfathers
Tuttle and Mills were Revolutionary soldiers. The grandfather, Ira Tuttle, was a
farmer and a brick manufacturer. The parents, -who died in LeRoy, were blessed
with ten children; eight of these are still living, and six are over seventy years of age.
Mrs. Beach was educated at the public schools and at Madison Seminary, and
from her seventeenth year taught school in Lake and Geauga counties. She then went
to Monmouth, 111., to rest, but again taught for eighteen months, after which she
returned to Ohio, in which state she was married.
In the spring of 1864, Mr. Beach returned to Nebraska with his bride and located
at Weeping Water. There were only three log houses in the little burg at that time,
and a grist mill, and the Beach dwelling was a log house. For a while he did teaming
for the mill, hauling flour to Nebraska City and bringing back lumber, and there, in her
own house, Mrs. Beach taught school for a few weeks. In the meantime, while they
improved their homestead, they began farming. In November, 1865, Mr. Smith, their
brother-in-law came out and bought eighty acres of Mr. Beach; and a year later
Mr. Beach's brother bought the balance of the property. For about eight years Mr.
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was severely injured through the overturning of their buggy. They then went back
to Ohio for her health but remained for six years, and then returned to Wieeping
Water, where he was a clerk for several years. They also bought a farm near Weeping
Water, which they conducted from 1880 until 1900, when they sold out. In the mean
time, the Missouri Pacific Railway built in, and Mr. Beach sold the company twenty-
three acres; and then, when the branch was built to Lincoln, he sold more of the
land. They continued to reside in Weeping Water until 1910, when they came to
Orange and located on South Center Street.
Mr. Beach died on July 3, 1913, and Mrs. Beach sold the house and lot and took a
trip back to Weeping Water, where Mr. Beach was buried. He was a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and was past commander of the post at Weeping Water,
also past commander of Gordon Granger Post, at Orange. Two children passed away
in Nebraska, Henry Paine, who died when he was twenty months old, and Harry
Paine, who lived to be four and a half years old. In November, 1913, Mrs. Beach
returned to Orange, and she has made her home here ever since. Mr. Beach was a
Republican, and both husband and wife were ardent Christian Scientists.
This interest in Science work arose and developed largely because of personal
experience. Mrs. Beach was in very poor health from an accident, having been injured
in the overturning of their buggy, and she was given up by the local physician. She
went to Omaha, where she was healed by a Christian Science practitioner, in 1886.
Mr. Beach had consumption, and was also healed in the same year. That same year
they took instruction and began to practice. In 1888, while in Ohio on a visit, she
found her oldest sister thought to be passing away with heart failure. The sister
requested Mrs. Beach to treat her, and she recovered and lived for fifteen years. The
healing brought so many cases that Mr. and Mrs. Beach remained there for several
months. Mr. Beach was successful in particular to a wonderful degree as a practitioner,
but they had to return to Nebraska to look after business affairs. In 1902 they made
another trip back to Leroy, Ohio, and traveled throughout the East, and after another
sojourn in Nebraska, they came to Southern California.
GEORGE HILL PIRIE. — An enterprising, progressive citizen who understands
the many problems of citrus-growing, is well informed on earlier days, and very en
thusiastic for the building up of Orange County, is George Hill Pirie, a native of New
York City, where he was born in 1857. His father was George Pirie, a native of Scot
land, who came to New York as a stonecutter, became an American citizen, and mar
ried Christina Hill, also a native of Scotland. Moving to Cedar County, Iowa, he
engaged in agricultural pursuits, and there both he and his good wife died. Of the
four boys and two girls in the family, three sons and one daughter are still living
and of these, George and a brother Alexander are the only ones in California.
Brought up on a farm in Iowa, George Pirie was educated at the public schools,
and in 1882 came .to California, where he located in Orange County. For a while he
worked at ranching, and for a time he owned a ranch; then he was foreman for Dr. I.
Adams ranch, and directed the extensive operations there in the growing of walnuts,
oranges and other fruit, continuing there for eighteen years. When his health was
impaired, he resigned and then purchased a ranch which he still owns.
Mr. Pirie has been very successful each time that he made a "buy," and one of
his fortunate purchases is the corner of Olive and Chapman streets, where he has re
constructed the buildings, and has built up other properties in town. He laid out ten
acres on North Lemon Street, and sold the same as the Pirie Home Tract, disposing
of it in lots; and he also sold at an advantage some ten acres he once owned on
North Glassell Street.
A Republican in national political affairs, Mr. Pirie takes a live interest in civic
life, and strives to do what he can, under Republican auspices, to elevate politics; but
in local matters he recognizes no such political bonds or partisanship differences, and
always tries to support the best men and the best measures.
HENRY W. DUKER.— An enterprising contractor who has abundantly demon
strated that he can both successfully build houses and cultivate citrus fruit, and who
has thus shown his desire to build up the town and community to the highest standard
possible, is Henry W. Duker, who first came to California in the latter part of 1904,
and who has been more and more identifying himself with the Golden State ever since.
He was born at River Park, Chicago, 111., on October 27, 1868, the son of Henry
Duker, who was for a while a contractor and then a farmer at River Park. He was
a native of Hanover, Germany, and there married Miss Caroline Ude In 1886 they
removed from Chicago to Iowa; and in that more western home-land they died. They
had eight children, among whom Henry was the second eldest, and is now the only
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He was reared on a farm, and at the same time attended the local public schools;
and removing with his folks to Fort Dodge, Iowa, he continued to assist his father
on the farm until he was twenty-three years of age. Then, on October 27, 1892, at
Fort Dodge he was married to Miss Elizabeth Bartsch, a native of Chicago and the
daughter of William and Rose (Straus)) Bartsch — the former, a carpenter and builder
who died there, the latter a gifted domestic woman, who had come to settle in Iowa,
and there was educated. For a while Mr. Duker continued farming, owning a nice
farm four miles north from Fort Dodge; but in 1904 he sold out and located at
Orange, Cal.
For the first three years he lived at the corner of Washington Avenue and
Shaffer Street, and then he built his extensive house on East Palmyra and Shaffer
streets on a lot he had bought when he first came here. Since 1904 he has been engaged
in contracting and masonry, and he has done the masonry work on many notable
structures including the Jorn Building, the Ehlen and Grote Building, the Barker Build
ing, and various machine shops and garages. He was associated with R. W. Miller
in the erection of the Lutheran Church here, and he has also carried through much
good contracting in other parts of Orange County. In 1919, he completed his own new
cement residence, on Batavia Street, a fine location with an orange grove of three and
a half acres. This type of building is the latest word in home-structure and the
most durable of any kind. He is interested also in horticulture, and has an orange
grove of seven acres elsewhere, a miniature "show place" in itself. His interest in
citrus culture has made him, naturally, a member of the Santiago Orange Growers
Association. Nine children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Duker. Amelia lives at
Santa Ana; Emma is at home; Otto is in the San Fernando Valley; Walter assists
his father; Ada is also at home; and there are Edna, Reinhold, Martin and Ernst. Mr.
Duker belongs to the Lutheran Church, where he has served as a trustee.
J. C. MAUERHAN. — An old settler in Orange County who may point with pride,
as the result of long years of hard labor, to his having improved what is now some
of the most valuable acreages of the district, is J. C. Mauerhan, who was born in
Wuertemberg, Germany, in 1861, the son of J. C. Mauerhan, Sr., who was a general
farmer and a viticulturist and brought his family in 1872, following the death of his
wife in 1871, out to America and Holton, Kans. He had four children, and cared for
them tenderly; and not satisfied with the Middle West, he came on with them to
California in 1875. For a while he was a florist at San Francisco; in 1882 he came
south to Anaheim and there he cultivated a farm of twenty acres on the Ball Road
until his death, on January 6, 1910, aged seventy-one.
J. C. Mauerhan was brought up in Kansas from his eleventh until his fourteenth
year, when he came to California and worked at various things. In 1883 he came to
Los Angeles and in 1885 to Anaheim, and then went to Santa Ana in 1886, and was
in the employ of the Santa Ana Soda Works. He continued in the manufacture of soda
water for seventeen years, and while thus occupied built a residence on Sixteenth and
Spurgeon streets. He also owned half a block lying between Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets on Spurgeon which he improved. In addition, he had title to three acres on C
Street, set out in trees.
During these years, Mr. Mauerhan was engaged in general farming on the May-
berry tract near Tustin, and on February 12, 1904, confident of the future of the Ana
heim agricultural lands, he bought his present ranch of fifty-five acres, clearing away
the brush and the wild cactus, leveling and otherwise improving the property. He
sunk a well and installed a gas engine. He set out walnuts and some oranges, and
later bought another twenty acres of raw land, making seventy-five acres which he
has improved from the wild state. Now he has forty-five acres in walnuts, and thirty
in oranges and lemons.
At Los Angeles January 2, 1884, Mr. Mauerhan was married to Miss Esther Schulz,
a native of Milwaukee, Wis., who came to California with her parents when she was
sixteen years of age, in 1880. Her parents, J. C. and Mary A. (Martin) Schulz were
farmers in Wisconsin and later in Blackhawk County, Iowa, and in 1880 they came
to San Francisco. In 1882 they located at Anaheim and were farmers on the Ball
Road where the father died; their mother still lives in the old home, eighty-four years
old. Mr. and Mrs. Mauerhan have six children as a blessing to their fortunate union.
Charles is a contractor and builder in Los Angeles, and is married and has three chil
dren. Frank, who is also married, is a neighboring rancher, living next to our subject.
Conrad, married and the father of two children, assists his father. Gertrude is Mrs.
Nelson of Placentia; she is the mother of five children. James and Ralph are employed
in the oil fields; all the sons but Charles, who was employed in Government ship yards,
were soldiers in the World War, and one of them, Frank, served over seas.

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HARVEY HILE. — A far-seeing, enterprising young man whose energy, tenacity
and hard work have enabled him to convert a wild stretch of raw land into a fine,
productive property, is Harvey Hile, who has been identified with Orange County for
the past decade. He was born in Logansport, Ind., in 1878, the son of Daniel Hile, a
native of Germany, who came to Indiana when a young man of eighteen or twenty,
became a farmer at Logansport, where he retired, and died near Goodland, Ind. He
had married Miss Dora Kiese, and she, too, passed away in the Hoosier State. They
had four girls and five boys, all of whom, save one of the sons, are now living; and of
the boys, two are in California, one in Mackay, Idaho, and one in Florida.
The second youngest, Harvey Hile was brought up on a farm at Logansport, and
remained at home until he was sixteen, when he began to paddle his own canoe. He
worked on a farm for four years, and then he was in the car shop of the "Big Four"
Railway at Indianapolis. During three years of apprenticeship he learned the car-
builder's trade, and then, for six months, he was a blacksmith in the Atlas Engine
Works in that same city. In 1903, he went to Boise City, Idaho, and for two years was
with the Graves Transfer Company, when he took up concrete work and became a
finisher of sidewalks, curbs and foundations. After that, he was one. of the workmen
at the Big Giant Gold Mine, and he was next in the employ of the Government as
foreman of concrete work in the building of the New York Canal in Idaho.
Induced by the accounts of a sister-in-law, who had been here and liked California,
to try his fortune in the Golden State, Mr. Hile came here in 1910, settled at Anaheim,
and with his brother, John H., who has a ranch adjoining his own, rented land and
raised sweet potatoes. For a couple of years he did well, but too much competition
ruined the market. In 1910 he bought his present ranch, raised sweet potatoes for a
couple of years, and in 1914 set the acreage out to Valencia oranges, and planted
potatoes and beans. He now has some twenty-two acres set out. He belongs to the
Anaheim Citrus Association, and takes a very live interest in all the problems per
taining to horticulture in Southern California.
At Boise City, Mr. Hile was married to Miss Lucy Dove, a native of Indiana, a
charming lady of accomplishments, who came to enjoy a circle of devoted friends;
and she died on June 12, 1917, mourned by all who knew her worth. In politics a
Socialist, Mr. Hile belongs to the Woodmen of the World at Anaheim.
JACOB W. CARRIKER. — A fine old gentleman with an enviable war record is
Jacob W. Carriker, 'one of the very successful orange culturists of Orange, to which
enterprising town he came in 1902. He was born at Statesville, in Cabarrus County,
N. C, April 13, 1842, the son of Daniel Carriker, who was also born there. In 1850,
he brought his family to Hillsboro, Montgomery County, 111., where he broke up a
stretch of prairie he had purchased and made of it a first-class farm. He continued
there in agricultural pursuits until 1874, when he removed to Nebraska; and at Harvard,
in that state, he died. Mrs. Carriker, who was Miss Sophia Sides before her marriage,
was a native also of Cabarrus County, N. C, and died in Illinois in 1866. She was the
mother of seven children, four of whom are living; and among them, Jacob was the
youngest. Reared in Illinois from his eighth year, Jacob Carriker attended school held in a
log house with puncheon floor and having slab benches and desk; at first a private,
and then a public school. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company D of the Hundred
Twenty-six Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into service at Alton, 111.,
on September 4, 1862. He went on to Columbus, Ky., slept between corn rows,' and
had the measles; then to La Grange, where he again had the measles and a relapse,
and where he almost died. Recovering, he fought with his company at the Siege of
Vicksburg, at the taking of Little Rock, Ark., and at Duvall's Bluff, Clarendon and
continued his service in Arkansas until the close of the war. At Pine Bluff, Ark., on
July 12, 1865, he was mustered out of service.
Returning to Illinois, Mr. Carriker bought and improved land, and built for him
self a house, hewing the logs he needed in the construction; and at Jacksonville, 111.,
he was married to Miss Mary J. Taylor, a native of that state, after which he followed
hnTT a A lin ' S ,d O-O ,and l0Cated in Hamilt°n County, Nebr., where he
homesteaded 160 acres and laid claim to 160 acres of timber, all of which he improved.
nK.ZL ,E P1°"T " ,^"1 '" the raishlg of Srain and stock, but with such
rather uphHl. PP6rS' g * Md hail St°rmS' he found the going at times
In the fall of 1902 Mr. Carriker came to California and located at Oran-e and
here bought the eight corner lots at Center and Maple streets, then a g ahi fiefd He
built his residence at the corner, and then sold the balance of the lots Later he
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He also bought an orange ranch of nine and a half acres at McPherson, took four
crops from it, and then sold it for $12,000 more than he paid for it.
Mr. Carriker's first wife died in Nebraska in 1882 and left him with six children.
Elmer resides at Orange; Nora, Mrs. James Benson, at Hastings, Nebr.; Cordelia,
Mrs. Soward, and Cornelia, Mrs. Howard Benson, are in Giltner, Nebr.; Frank lives at
Burwell, Nebr.; Mattie, became Mrs. Frost and lives at Santa Ana.
When he married a second time, Mr. Carriker chose Miss Maggie Risk, a native
of Point Pleasant, W. Va., as his wife; she was the daughter of William Risk, who had
married Elizabeth Kennedy, and the ceremony was performed at Hastings, Nebr., in
1889. Both of her parents died in West Virginia. One son, Howard Judson, resulted
from this second union, and he now has a motorcycle store in Orange, and another
at Santa Ana.
Mr. Carriker is a Republican in national politics, though nonpartisan in his support
of all local issues and movements of a worthy nature, and belongs to the Orange post
of the Grand Army of the Republic. Both Mr. and Mrs. Carriker are members of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church, and there Mr. Carriker was a steward, as he has
been for years a class leader. He was also a class leader in Nebraska, and in Orange
he has served on the building committee and in other ways has advanced the growth
of the congregation,, its property and its work.
HENRY WILLIAM BUCHHEIM.— A member of one of Orange County's
worthy pioneer families whose members have contributed so largely to the agricultural
development of the county, particularly in the San Juan Capistrano district, Henry W.
Buchheim is carrying on the good work of his family, being extensively engaged in
ranching at Serra or San Juan-by-the-Sea.
The fifth of a family of twelve children, Henry Buchheim's parents were Frank
S. and Caroline (Zymon) Buchheim, hard-working and industrious farmer folk who
made their home in Minnesota before coming to California. The following are the
other children born to these worthy parents: Lydia, the eldest of the family, now
Mrs. Hemenway, is engaged in ranching on the Santa Margarita ranch, where she is
in partnership with her brother, Aaron, who is the second in order of birth, and whose
sketch appears elsewhere in this work. John is engaged in growing sugar beets near
Garden Grove; Jacob is a rancher at Downey; Emma is deceased; Josie is Mrs. Van
Whisler, the wife of a rancher at El Toro; Paul assists his brother Aaron in his ranch
ing operations and is also interested in the orange and walnut industry in Ventura
County; Frank is married and resides in Santa Ana; Fred passed away at the age
of twenty, leaving a son, Carl, and a widow; Emil has also been engaged on Aaron
Buchheim's ranch since receiving his honorable discharge from the army. During the
World War he made an enviable record serving as first gunner on a French "75" during
his period of service in France with the light artillery of the Sunset Division; Minnie,
who is the wife of Henry Hoeffner, resides in Nebraska. Frank S. Buchheim passed
away in Santa Ana in 1904, at the old home place on East Seventeenth Street, where
Frank Buchheim now lives, the mother surviving him until January 20, 1915.
Henry W. Buchheim was born at Sauk Center, Minn., October 13, 1875, and so
was a lad of barely six years when his parents arrived here on October 11, 1881. His
early years were spent at Santa Ana, where the family had settled, and there he
attended the public schools. As is frequently the case in a large family, however, it was
necessary for the children to start in when quite young to share the responsibilities
of the family, and so Henry Buchheim's school days were not of long duration. Going
to work on the home farm, he early learned those habits of industry and thoroughness
that made for the success he has enjoyed in the years of his maturity. When his older
brother, Aaron Buchheim, began his ranching operations, he joined forces with him
and they continued together for a number of years. Later he began farming on his
own account, and his interests in that field have grown from year to year, until he now
leases four tracts of land near Serra, comprising 1,000 acres, and this he is cultivating
with splendid success. The land lies, for the most part, on the Santa Fe Railroad,
along the coast road to Laguna, and is devoted to grain and beans. Mr. Buchheim is
also the owner of a fine tract of twenty acres in Ventura County, part of this being a
thriving walnut orchard.
Mr. Buchheim's marriage, which occurred December 6, 1910, at Santa Ana, united
him with Miss Maude Reeder, a native daughter, born at Moreno, Riverside County.
She is the daughter of William and Bertha (Johnston) Reeder, born in San Bernardino
and Riverside counties, respectively. The Reeder family came from Illinois to Cali
fornia in early days, and the Johnstons came from Indiana to California across the
plains at an equally early period. William Reeder was for some years engaged in
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fishing from Point Concepion to San Diego. He died in August, 1916, his wife having
preceded him twenty-two years, her death occurring in 1894. They had four children:
Thomas is engaged in fishing at San Juan-by-the-Sea; Rose, Mrs. Arthur Buchheim,
resides at Santa Susanna; Maude is the wife of Henry Buchheim, our subject; Bertha
passed away in childhood. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Buchheim have three children to
brighten their home, Floyd, Henrietta and Florence, but the family circle was saddened
by the death of the oldest child when he was but eleven months old.
Industrious and capable, Mr. Buchheim is one of Orange County's dependable
citizens, and he may well look back with satisfaction upon the results of his work, for
it is to men of his type that Southern California owes the marvelous transformation
that the past few decades have brought.
LEWIS F. COBURN. — A man peculiarly well-fitted for the important office of
city attorney of Orange is Lewis F. Coburn, who is an enthusiastic "booster" of both
town and county, and believes both to be the best sections in which he has ever lived
and worked. He came to California in the late seventies, and so has had the best
opportunity for observing and judging the gradual development of neighboring counties
and most of the Golden State.
He was born at Newberry, Vt., on May 21, 1854, the son of Calvin P. Coburn, a
native of New Hampshire hailing from the same home' district as Salmon Portland
Chase, the statesman. He was a farmer in Vermont and in 1858 removed to Bruns
wick, Maine, where he died in 1910, at the age of eighty-six. His ancestors were lineal
descendants of Edward Cockburn, who came from England to Massachusetts in 1635,
and built the first house north of the Merrimac River, in Massachusetts — an historic
structure still standing. The spelling of the name was then changed to the way in
which is was pronounced, with a silent c. Major Silas Coburn, the great-great-grand
father, and Captain Asa Coburn, the great-grandfather of our subject, were both sol
diers in a New Hampshire regiment in the Revolution. Asa Coburn removed from
Massachusetts to New Hampshire, and was a farmer there. The mother of Lewis
Coburn was Rachel R. Ferrin before her marriage; she was born at Bath, Maine, and
died in that state in 1915. Grandfather Lazarus Ferrin was a sea captain who made
four voyages around Cape Horn to San Francisco. Lewis F. was the elder of two
children, and his brother, Edward Everett, is still living at the old home.
Educated at the local public schools, Lewis F. continued his studies at the Uni
versity of Maine, at Orono, from which he was graduated in 1875 with the degree of
civil engineer. He taught school for a while, and then began the study of law under
Judge Kemston of Boothbay Harbor.
In 1877 Mr. Coburn came to California and was for a while in the employ of
Hobbs, Wall and Company, at Crescent City, helping them to build a railway and
bridges across the Smith River, a distance of fifteen miles. All the time while so
employed, however, Mr. Coburn was still studying law, and in 1880 was admitted to
the bar in California. He practiced law in Del Norte County, and in 1884 was elected
district attorney for a term of two years, and was then reelected for a second term;
he was also assistant United States attorney for the northern district of California— a
position which he filled with credit for four years.
Having had several law cases at Yreka, an opportunity presented itself to prac-
ce law there and he removed to that city, and was active as an attorney in that sec
tion from 1891 until 1918. He was city attorney for Yreka for nine years, and was
KpJ 01 ^ttorney. for Etna and for Sisson, filling for each a term of three years.
, " It '" ' glv,n* ,e.,mPetus to various public improvements through which these
towns attained some desirable reputation for progress
came to Orean^IClta,Q?an 0f, Attornev W- R- Garrett, an old-time friend, Mr. Coburn
retired in/Jnr^8 if Tt"* int0 PartnershiP' The following Jul^, Mr. Garrett
S attorney of O ^^ haS PraCti«d law alone' He is now serving as
pohtics ZnL gli Vu satisfacti°« °f the entire community. In national
loca i y in whFcn T' ' f°^m kn°WS "° Par^anship in matters affecting the
locality in which he lives and thrives
of SmIinthDRiverDandCrn7' T ^0* W&S married to Miss Ella C' Anthony, a native
of US Senator Antho,^^" °f l0^h °' Anth°"y' a pioneer farmer and a cousin
wife of MaTor L H T I ,h,ldren' have blessed their union- Lew Ella is the
and%esid*es°at Ora'ng^7 °nd Sr/n ho """^ Y' O^-^ °f E' ^ Ada™'
Irvine ranch anrf JO ,anc\mrbert Anthony is an electrician in the employ of the
overseas f°r tW° years in the World War, and for nineteen months
1809 Mr,Coburn was made a Ma*°n in Howard Lodge No. 96, F. & A. M Yreka in
1892, and ,s a past master, and now belongs to Orange Grove Lodge, No. 293 F &

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A. M.; is past high priest of Cyrus Chapter, No. 15, R. A. M., Yreka, and is now a
member of Orange Grove Chapter, No. 73; belonged to Mt. Shasta Commandery No.
32, Knights Templar, where he was commander in 1889 and 1890, and was captain-
general and drill master for seventeen years; now he belongs to the Santa Ana Com
mandery, and is a member of the Santa Ana Council, R. & S. M. He also belongs
to the Islam 'Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., in San Francisco, and with Mrs. Coburn is a
member of the Eastern Star at Orange, and was a member of this order at Yreka.
SAMUEL DAVID TEEL.— Among the native sons of Orange County, S. D. Teel
has the distinction of being the son of Garden Grove's first permanent settler. He
follows the occupation of ranching, and specializes in raising sweet potatoes, having
purchased ten acres which he devotes to that purpose. He also owns ten acres in the
Bolsa Precinct which is planted to Valencia oranges, and now has an exceptionally
fine grove just coming into bearing.
He was born in Orange County, December 23, 1875, in what is now Buaro pre
cinct, one mile north of his present home, this section in those early days being a part
of Los Angeles County. His parents, George Milton and Catherine (Harris) Teel,
were born in Tennessee and Kentucky, respectively, and were married in Texas, whither
both had gone when young people. They came to California in 1870, settling in what
is now Garden Grove. When Mr. Teel first arrived in California, coming from Texas
with an ox team, he took up his residence on what is known as the Dr. Head ranch,
where he planted potatoes, and from one sack of seed he harvested 120 sacks — equal to
six tons. He hauled lumber from Anaheim Landing to build his house and hauled
lumber to Anaheim as a teamster. The elder Teel, besides being the first settler in
Garden Grove was the first man to develop artesian water in this district. He struck
an artesian flow in 1871, and was one of the early orange growers and fruit men
demonstrating that the best of fruit could be grown here. His death occurred at
Garden Grove in 1903 at the age of seventy-six. He was a Mason, retaining his mem
bership in Texas. His widow survived him until March 31, 1920, when she passed
away aged eighty-three. Mr. and Mrs. Teel were the parents of eight children:
Georgia is Mrs. John Davis of Garden Grove; Charles lives at Ukiah; Harris is a resi
dent of Coalinga; Edward, at Wintersburg; Samuel D., of this sketch; Alice is Mrs.
W. E. Wells and lives on the San Joaquin ranch; Ida is Mrs. Claude Blakesley of
Garden Grove; George M., Jr., the next to the youngest of the family, died on Novem
ber 5, 1918, during the influenza epidemic.
S. D. Teel is the fifth child in the parental family of eight children, and was
reared on his father's ranch. He attended the common schools and after attaining
his majority went to San Francisco and became an employe of the California Electric
Company, working for them at their power house in San Francisco for three years.
He afterwards returned home and turned his attention to ranching. His marriage,
which occurred in 1908, united him with Miss Josephine Kemble, a native of Colorado.
The four children resulting from this union are Joseph Kemble, Audrey V., Samuel
David, Jr., and Genevieve M.
Mr. Teel has built a very cozy, modest home, to which he is constantly adding
conveniences, and the substantial improvements he is ever on the alert to make on
the ranch adds to its attractions materially. He is a self-reliant, industrious, intelli
gent man, and makes his influence felt for the common good. He was interested in
getting the Buaro Drainage District organized, and deservedly ranks among the enter
prising and resourceful citizens of his community. Fraternally he is a member of
Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M., and politically is a staunch adherent of the
principles advocated in the platform of the Democratic party.
OSCAR ERNST GUNTHER.— A prominent young man of Orange who in more
fields than one has made a good record, distinguishing himself in particular through
his broad-mindedness and patriotic aggression, as a conscientious city trustee, is Oscar
Ernst Gunther, who was born at Fort Dodge in Webster County, Iowa, on January 4,
1889. His father is L. D. Gunther, the well known contractor and builder of Orange,
who had a good home at Fort Dodge, from which Oscar was sent to both the grammar
and the high school. During vacations, he began to learn the harness maker's and
saddler's trade, making more progress by putting in his Saturdays also at the bench,
and when he came to California and Orange with his parents in 1904, he continued at
the trade in Santa Ana, in the service of Bryden Brothers.
In 1908, he set up a harness business for himself at 60 Plaza Square, Orange,
and continued there very successfully until August, 1918, when he sold out and accepted
an appointment as inspector of leather equipment in the ordnance department of the
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While in business for himself, Mr. Gunther had been appointed city trustee of
Orange in April, 1914; and two years later he was elected for a four-year term, and
was chairman of the finance committee and a member of the fire and water committee.
When he accepted appointment in the U. S- Army, he resigned as trustee, in August,
1918, to the regret of many who had come to appreciate the qualities he had shown in
his public acts. After the armistice was signed, he tendered his resignation in order
that he might return to civil life; and he was honorably discharged with the proper
recognition from his military superiors.
Now Mr. Gunther is engaged in ranching, and owns a fine ten-acre grove of
Valencia oranges at the corner of Yorba and Fairhaven avenues, and one on North
Batavia Street; and inasmuch as he is satisfied with nothing short of the best methods,
measures, implements and results, the new venture occupies all of his time. In 1911,
at Orange he was married to Miss Dora Struck, a native of Orange and the daughter
of Fred Struck, once supervisor of Orange County; and two children have blessed the
union — Dolores and Walter. The family attend the Lutheran Church of Orange. As
a most complimentary testimonial, Mr. Gunther's fellow-citizens in 1920 again elected
him a city trustee of Orange, for a four-year term; and he is again chairman of the
finance committee, and a member of the street committee.
WILLIAM C. MAUERHAN. — Not many ranches in Orange County are more
presentable through their well and systematically cultivated soil and modern buildings
than that of William C. Mauerhan, residing on the Katella Road in the vicinity of the
Katella schoolhouse, near Anaheim. This particular ranch has been his home since
1912, and here he set out Valencia oranges and walnut trees that are among the best of
producers in this part of the county. His forty acres are growing to be one of the
"show places" of the Anaheim district and he has refused flattering offers for the ranch
by persons seeking a well-developed home place.
Mr. Mauerhan is a native son of the Golden State and was born in San Francisco,
on September 4, 1875, the son of John C. and Sophia Mauerhan, pioneers everywhere
esteemed for their progressivness, integrity and industry. They were natives of Ger
many and emigrated from their native land in 1872, bringing with them those virtues
of German domestic and industrial life which have contributed so much to the forma
tion of some of the most desirable features of American daily life. They came from
San Francisco and settled near Anaheim on a ranch of nineteen acres in 1882, in the
immediate vicinity of the present home of the son, William C. Here the elder Mauerhan
carried on farming until his health became so poor that the care of the place was
turned over to his son. He died in 1909 and Mrs. Mauerhan passed away in January,
1918, the mother of eight children, five of whom are still living and all residents of
California. The old home ranch was first set to vines but the blight that killed all the other
vineyards in the Anaheim district, also killed this vineyard and the vines were dug out
and walnuts set out in their place. About five years before the death of the elder
Mauerhan, William C. took over the management of the place which he later pur
chased, and he pulled out the walnut trees and planted chili peppers, being among
the first in this district to venture in that field; he was also the pioneer in the drying
of peppers, and also had the first mill in the state for grinding chili for commercial
purposes. Another movement in which he took the lead was in the development of
water for irrigation. At present he has on his place two wells, with ten-inch bore, one
108 arid the other 130 feet deep operated by a thirty-horsepower electric motor and
capable of producing water enough for 100 acres. Every improvement seen on the
ranch today was placed there by Mr. Mauerhan himself.
On June 21, 1906, W. C. Mauerhan and Miss Anna Schroeder, a native daughter of
banta Ana, were united in marriage. She was born on July 30, 1884, the daughter of
treaenck and Verena Schroeder, pioneer settlers of what is now Orange County. This
M-TAnTOm°n 0, b£en bleSesd by the birth of six children, four of whom are living-
Mildred Verena, Clarence William, Grace Lillian and Anna Clare. The two that died
InnW TV ,t ", ' Wn by a" the friends and relatives as "Fritzie," and Marian
h»n i, k famllyrar,e members of the Evangelical Church at Anaheim. Mr. Mauer-
intenden nfVb % *,! 'cf", f°r SeveraI years and for twenty y«™ he was super-
ha Wn I m , Sunda\ Scb001. a mark of distinguished recognition in itself. He
Jrectinl one of1?^ ** *?"* °I tfUSteeS °f the Katella sch°o1 ^nct, which is
Mrs M, 1 h6 m°t m°de™.°f schoolhouses in the county, since 1915. Mr. and
Mrs. Mauerhan have shown their public spirit in every way and have given their
upbuudin^ of IT8"6, that,h\Ve ^ PrCSented t0 them that had - hfir a"m the
neool Th?v? Y and -^ betterment °f s°«al and moral conditions of the
theh ChrSian h^ T ever;wld e" mg circle of friends who esteem them highly for
their Christian character and good citizenship.

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HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 925
CARL A. PISTER. — A business man whose steady stream of success has given
great satisfaction to his many friends is Carl A. Pister, popular through the Pister
Transfer and Oil Company. He was born at Abingdon, Knox County, 111., in 1891, the
son of Charles Pister, who was a manufacturer at that place of brick and tile. He
did a large business in central Illinois and eastern Iowa, and made for himself, by
his enterprising methods and fair dealing, an enviable reputation which followed him
to California, when he came here in 1909. He is now engaged in the raising of oranges
at Orange. Carl was educated in the public schools, and was graduated from the high school
at Abingdon in 1909. During his high school course, he worked, in summer time, at the
butcher trade, learning from his uncle, F. Ehrenhart at Lewistown, and when he came
to Orange, about ten years ago, he was employed for a while in Sweet's Market. Then
he went to the Morrison Market, and when the Ehlen and Grote Company opened
a market in their store he was employed by them. His engagement there lasted
eighteen months; and after that he joined his brother, who was a contract painter,
and worked at the painter's trade.
In 1918, with Paul Clark as a partner, Mr. Pister started in the truck business;
and in August of the same year he bought the service station at the corner of Chap
man and Olive streets from Mr. Bay, and continued the business under the firm name
of the Pister Transfer and Oil Company. In 1919 Mr. Chaffee bought a third interest
with Mr. Pister and the company was continued under the' same firm name. Since
then, they have erected a new building and installed a complete equipment; and they
enjoy the best location in Orange, and one of the best trades in Orange County. They
also handle tires and automobile sundries. They have four large trucks for heavy haul
ing; and the operation of the trucks, as well as the service station, is looked after by
Mr. Pister himself. As might be expected, he is a live wire not only in the field
covered by these operations, but in the cooperative work of the Merchants and Manu
facturers Association.
At Orange, Mr. Pister was married to Miss Agnes Ensign, a native of Michigan;
and they- attend the First Presbyterian Church, and reside at the corner of Sycamore
and Grand streets, where they dispense a liberal hospitality to those fortunate in
admission to the home circle.
MICHAEL ELTISTE. — A successful business man and horticulturist of Orange
is Michael Eltiste, a native of Bavaria, Germany, who was born there November 21,
1865. Mr. Eltiste received a splendid education as <_ foundation for his future endeavors,
and finished with a course in an industrial college in Germany. In 1883, at the age
of eighteen, eager for new fields and greater opportunities, he came to the United
States, and located in Connecticut. Later, he started westward by degrees, and after
visiting Iowa and Nebraska, for twenty-three years he followed stock raising near
Phillipsburg, Phillips County, Kans., operating on a large scale and meeting with the
success assured by his thorough training and the business principles which he applied
to his farming operations. During these years of residence in Kansas he also inter
ested himself in the advancement of his district, and served as township trustee and
also on the school board.
In 1908 Mr. Eltiste decided to come further west, and that year located at Orange,
Cal., where he bought land and developed a sixty-acre orange and lemon grove. From
time to time he bought and developed other ranches, and at present is the owner of
a young orchard of thirty acres, twenty-five acres of which is planted to Valencia
oranges and five acres to lemons, in the city limits of Orange.
About one year after taking up his residence here, with customary energy and
business acumen, Mr. Eltiste opened up a business establishment in Orange and
engaged in- selling farm implements, and the success of < the undertaking may be
imagined from the fact that within ten years his business was doubled six times, not
withstanding that during this time six competitors in his line entered the field in
Orange and have all gone out of business. His early experience with ranching and
the practical knowledge gained while on his Kansas farm have been utilized in his
business career, and he laid the foundation for his success in square dealing and satisfied
customers, which is the real foundation for all success in business, be it large or small.
As agent for the International Harvester Company's motor trucks and tractors, and
also carrying a full line of farming implements, his output has increased at a marvelous
speed and to facilitate the business he has opened a second store, this one located
at Fullerton, and with his son, August Eltiste, as manager of the Orange establishment,
and W. C. Egly in charge of the Fullerton house, the concern has developed into
one of the leading business establishments in Orange County and an example of the
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benefit of their experience and their public-spirited work for the upbuilding of this
section. The business throughout the county has become so large it was necessary to
have a third branch store, and they have secured a suitable location on East Fourth
Street Santa Ana, where they will carry a line of implements, trucks and tractors, at
each place doing business under the firm name of M. Eltiste and Son.
The marriage of Mr. Eltiste united him with Kuni Beyerleim, and six children
were born to them: George, an orange grower in Orange; August, in partnership with
his father; John who saw service in the U. S. Army in France as a member of the
replacement division, and is now interested in the business with his father; Anna also
a member of the firm is their bookkeeper; Emma and Karl. The family are members
of St. John's Lutheran Church at Orange and for seven years Mr. Eltiste was president
of the board of trustees and helped build the new church.
Deeply interested in all progressive movements here, Mr. Eltiste served one term
as trustee of Orange, and he was one of the founders of the new sewer and water
system, and active in street improvements in the city, helping carry these important
projects through to completion, in spite of opposition. He is a director in the First
National Bank of Orange.
O. V. KNOWLTON. — A highly-esteemed citizen of Fullerton who has the dis
tinction of having been commander of the Southern California Veterans Association,
is O. V. Knowlton, also, widely known on account of his connection with the State
Mortuary Office. He was born in McKean County, Pa., on February 26, 1848, the son
of Charles and Cornelia (Potter) Knowlton of old New England stock. On the
maternal side his ancestry is traced back to Roger Williams. When he was a babe
of three weeks his father was murdered. So in 1851 his mother took him, he being the
only child, to Marengo, McHenry County, 111., where she had a brother living. She
passed away in 1854 and O. V. was left alone at six years of age. He continued residing
on the farm with his uncle and attended the public schools until 1863, when he enlisted
in Company B, Seventeenth Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, serving in the Army of the
West in the Civil War, taking part in the battles with Price's army in Missouri.
In the spring of 1865, they were sent on the plains on a campaign against the Indians
and helped build the first line of stockades across the plains so Butterfield's stages could
go through the badly infested Indian country. On December 15, 1865, he was mus
tered out and honorably discharged in Leavenworth, Kans. During the war he was
badly wounded in the thigh and also received four other gunshot wounds. After the
war he returned to Illinois, remaining until March, 1866, when he went to the oil fields
of Pennsylvania, and for seven years helped to advance what has since become such a
gigantic industry.
He next returned to Illinois and located in the vicinity of his old home, and there,
engaged in contracting and building. When he removed from that section, he went
to Jewell County, Kans., and stayed for a year; and after that, he went to Thayer
County, Nebr., where he again followed the building business.
In 1886 Mr. Knowlton left the Middle West for the Pacific Coast; and arriving in
California, proceeded to Anaheim and for a time followed contracting. In course of
time, he acquired five acres in Fullerton which he set out to Valencia oranges, and this
trim little ranch of richest soil, thanks to the care and hard work of its industrious
and progressive owner, is now in a highly productive state.
Mr. Knowlton's love of country, justice and right naturally led to his assuming
public office in order to assist in effecting certain reforms or results, and to do his
share of the world's work such as somebody must worry about, and during his resi
dence here he served as commander of the Southern California Veterans Association,
and also as state mortuary officer for Orange County for eighteen years and as such has
done much good in the county and is serving without pay.
When he married, Mr. Knowlton took for his wife Miss Julia A. Huntington, a
graduate of the University of Illinois, and a teacher at the time of her marriage; and
five children blessed their fortunate union: Charles is a rancher at Fullerton; Avis
presides gracefully over her father's home; Kent was a sergeant in Company A, Three
Hundred Nineteenth Engineers, and saw service overseas; he is now horticultural
commissioner of Orange County; Hollis was gunnery sergeant and expert instructor
in the U. S. Marines and also served overseas; Ruth, who graduated from Los Angeles
State Normal, is now engaged in teaching.
In 1901 Mr. Knowlton was bereaved of his wife, who was mourned by her family
and friends. He is a member of Malvern Hill Post No. 131, G. A. R., at Fullerton, of
which he is past commander and of which he has been adjutant for eighteen years
past. He has served as aide-de-camp on both the department and national commander's
staff, with the rank of colonel. Intensely interested in civic matters, he is a strong
Republican and has much influence in local matters.

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OTTO LOESCHER.— An enterprising, public-spirited and successful man who
likes the superb climate of California and the superior folks of Orange County and
who in turn is equally esteemed, is Otto Loescher, a native of Koenitz, West Prussia
Germany, where he was born in 1859. He was brought up in the village where his
father was a miller, and sent to the public schools and when fourteen he was appren
ticed to a miller and began to learn his trade. At the end of three years, when he was
pronounced a journeyman, he worked at his trade; and in 1885 he crossed the ocean
and came to the United States.
Settling for a while at Goshen, Ind., he worked as a miller; but feeling the lure
of the Pacific West, he came out to California, in the "boom" year of 1887, and went
to Selma, Fresno County. He was made foreman of the Selma Mills, and for many
years continued there in that capacity. While there, he bought twenty acres of land,
raw and unsightly; and that he improved by setting it out to Muscat grapes, and
fnaking of it a first-class vineyard.
Later, Mr. Loescher was miller at the Reedley Mills, and there he bought an
other twenty acres of land, which he set out to Muscat and Thompson seedless grapes,
having forty acres of vineyard in all. These vineyards he managed until April, 1917,
when he came to Orange and retired. Here he makes his home in a beautiful residence
which he built on Palmyra Street, devoting his time to looking after his property.
Mrs. Loescher was Miss Lena Miller, a native of Fort Dodge, Iowa, who came
to Norfolk, Nebr., with her parents when a child, and was there reared. Some years
ago she came to Orange, and here she and Mr. Loescher met and were married. Both
are members of the Lutheran Church. In national politics Mr. Loescher is a Republi
can; but when it comes to lending a helping hand in local political affairs, his patriotism
knows no partisanship.
HUGH T. O'CONNOR. — A representative citizen of the Los Alamitos section of
Orange County who won recognition for his locality during the various drives for
loans and other allied needs, is Hugh T. O'Connor, who served as chairman of the
committee that brought their section "over the top" in every drive in record time,
thereby winning for Los Alamitos the medals and banners offered for efficiency.
Mr. O'Connor is a successful merchant in Los Alamitos, and has served as the
postmaster since 1914, and since 1916 under civil service rules. He was born in New
Orleans, in 1865, a son of Daniel and Eliza (Sheffield) O'Connor, the former born in
Ireland and the latter in New Orleans. Hugh T. was the third in order of birth in
a family of five and is the only one living in California. He received a good schooling
and launched out in his business career when a young man and by strict attention
to business has gradually worked his way to a position of trust and responsibility.
Mr. O'Connor has been a resident of Los Alamitos for a number of years, spend
ing six years as bookkeeper and cashier for the Felts Company, at the same time serv
ing as postmaster. In 1918 he opened up in the grocery business for himself in a
structure he erected on the boulevard, in dimension 66x50 feet, and well stocked with
an assorted line of goods suitable for the needs of the community. Mr. O'Connor
served as a justice of the peace, being appointed to fill a vacancy.
In 1905 occurred the marriage of Hugh T. O'Connor and Miss Florence Shattuck.
After two years of happily wedded life Mrs. O'Connor passed away. Mr. O'Connor is
a genial, courteous gentleman and has won the esteem of a large circle of friends in
the county. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Benevo
lent and Protective Order Of Elks.
LE ROY D. PALMER. — A man unusually posted in all that pertains to his field
of activity is Le Roy D. Palmer, whose natural endowments together with a pleasing
personality make him very acceptable, as manager of the Orange County Fruit Ex
change, to a large circle of busy and progressive folk. He was born in Sedalia, Pettis
County, Mo., on September 13, 1880, the son of L. D. Palmer, a native of Ohio, who
settled at Sedalia and was in the employ of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
as engineer. He married Marietta C. Emery who now lives at Los Angeles. Mr.
Palmer died in 1900 at Sedalia leaving his widow and four children.
After finishing with the grammar and high schools of Sedalia, Le Roy went into
a railroad office at St. Louis, that of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, and
afterward entered the employ of the Government in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Ter
ritory, now Oklahoma. It was a land office, where lands were allotted to the Indians;
and he was the enrollment clerk.
In 1909 he resigned and came to Los Angeles, and for five years he was employed
by the California Fruit Growers Exchange. He arose from a clerkship in the claim
department to be assistant sales manager, and then he resigned. He was in charge
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ing continued experience of a valuable nature; and it is no wonder that when D. Eyman
Huff resigned as manager of the Orange County Fruit Exchange in 1915, Mr. Palmer
was tendered the position. Just what this compliment means may be estimated from
the fact that this exchange is made up of eleven different local associations, and in
1919 alone it shipped 3,200 cars of fruit. It is, therefore, one of the largest fruit
exchanges in Southern California.
At Tahlequah, Okla., in 1904, Mr. Palmer was married to Miss Georgia Trent, a
native of that section but the representative of an old Eastern family, and a daughter
of Dr. Trent, a well-known surgeon of the U. S. Army, located at old Fort Gibson.
Two children were born of this marriage — Madalyn and Marjory. Mr. Palmer is a
popular member of Santa Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks and Orange Lodge No. 293, F.
& A. M. Orange may well be proud of such public-spirited citizens as Mr. Palmer, and
the Orange County Fruit Exchange, in particular, is to be congratulated on the captain
at its helm.
DAVID JESSURUN. — A man whose scientific knowledge and thorough experi
ence in the sugar industry has proven especially valuable to Orange County, and whose
successful career should inspire the youth of this and other countries, is David
Jessurun, superintendent of the Anaheim Sugar Company. Born in Paramaribo,
Dutch Guiana, a Holland colony, October 11, 1867, he was reared in the city of Haar
lem, Holland, receiving his education in the public and high schools there. After
graduating from the high school he entered the Mechanical Engineering school at
Amsterdam, Holland, where he was graduated in 1887; he then entered the School of
Technology at Brunswick, Germany, and in due time graduated from there as a
chemist. Then he did post-graduate work in the sugar school in the same city, per
fecting himself in this line, thus laying a firm foundation for his future work in the
world. His first experience in the sugar industry was in a sugar factory at Amster
dam, as a sugar chemist. Then to Germany, where for one year he was chief
chemist in the sugar factory at Linden, and superintendent of the same factory for
the next year.
Arriving in the United States in 1892, Mr. Jessurun was superintendent of the
Sinclaire Central Sugar Factory at West Baton Rouge, La.; next he was chief
chemist of the Henderson Sugar Refinery of New Orleans. Then for three years
he was superintendent of the Magnolia Sugar and Railroad Company of Lawrence,
La., going from there to Minneapolis, Minn., where he became operating superin
tendent and built the plant of the Minneapolis Sugar Company. Alma, Mich., was
his next location, and there he was operating superintendent and built the plant of
the Alma Sugar Company, and his next move was to Wallaceburg, Canada, where he
was in a like capacity with the Wallaeeburg Sugar Company of that place. He
next rebuilt the factory for the National Sugar Manufacturing Company of Sugar
City, Colo.
In 1913, Mr. Jessurun was called to Anaheim to take charge of the Anaheim
Sugar Company's factory, and in 1917 he remodelled the plant, increasing the capacity
from 600 to 1,200 tons of beets daily. The plant is now a model sugar refinery,
modern and up-to-date. Mr. Jessurun has invented and installed a number of labor-
saving devices, which were first used in the Sugar City, Colo., plant, and have since
come into general use in factories throughout the United States. The Anaheim
Sugar Company owns four large ranches, comprising approximately 2,900 acres,
which are leased to tenants for raising sugar beets. Aside from this the company
^TnnOSeS the product of an°ther 10,000 acres, and they manufacture annually about
10,000 tons of refined sugar; they also manufacture, as a by-product, dried molasses
beet pulp for cattle feed. The company also operates the California Fruit Products
Company, manufacturers of orange marmalade and jelly.
Mr. Jessurun is also interested in horticulture, and has set out and improved
an orange grove on North Street, and has built a residence on North Lemon Street,
where he resides with his family. He has also greatly improved the grounds of the
sugar tactory, planting an orange grove of twenty-two acres, which is in a thriving
condition. The marriage of Mr Jessurun united him with Mrs. Johanna Van Eek, a native
of Haarlem Holland, and four children have blessed their union: Elizabeth, William,
Johanna and Jeanette. William was sergeant in the Quartermaster's Department,
Motor Truck Corps, stationed at Jacksonville, Fla., during the World War. Mr.
J 0UrT.PWrS apP°mtLd bJ the Seneral headquarters at Washington, D. C, as chief
fntr Pd'sfr; P°Unty ln tbe American Protective League. He organized Orange County
of eiieen diT /a q ^T f !..Center' and aPP°mted his assistant chiefs in each
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appointment until December 31, 1918, when the League was disbanded, he did not
spend one evening with his family. This was all done because of his loyalty to the
country of his adoption and without remuneration. But the satisfaction of having
done his duty when the country had need of his services, and the fact that Congress
afterwards passed an act commending the different chiefs and extending to them a
vote of thanks, and that each be mailed a copy of the resolution, made him feel fully
repaid for his time and efforts. He served acceptably and impartially as chief of
Orange County until the close of the war. Mr. Jessurun was on the board of directors
of all the bond drives, as well as all kindred war drives in Orange County.
Believing that protection is the fundamental principle in American politics,
Mr. Jessurun has always been a Republican, and has taken an active part in the
affairs of that party in the various states in which he has been a resident, though
he has never aspired to or wished for public office, his time being entirely taken up
with his profession. The family are members of the First Presbyterian Church, and
fraternally Mr. Jessurun is a Knights Templar and Scottish Rite Mason, and is also
a member of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks. Mr. Jessurun also takes much
pleasure and pride in his membership in the American Society of Mechanical Engi
neers, as well as the Association of French Chemists. He is a director in the Ana
heim National Bank, and his broad vision and keen business experience have proven
him a man of worth in the community, and one whose "footprints on the sands of
time" are worth emulating.
WILLIAM A. HAZEN. — A young man of estimable qualities, who has not always
toiled in the sunshine of life, but whose native ability notwithstanding, or perhaps
because of, the shadowy places, has been able to assert itself, is William A. Hazen,
now residing on Glen Avenue, Tustin, near where he has an eight-acre ranch on
Ritchey Street, devoted to budded walnuts. He has owned the property since 1916, and
since that recent date has worked wonders with the comfortable holding.
A native of Des Moines, Iowa, where he was born in October, 1895, Mr. Hazen's
father was accidentally killed in a coal mine at Des Moines in 1897. His mother, now
Mrs. Frank Long, resides at Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Hazen was reared in the family of
Hugh McQueen, a farmer at Quinter, Kans., but he was not received into their hearts
and treated like a son and when a mere youth of sixteen was thrust out upon a cold
world to shift for himself. His opportunities, therefore, were very limited, but he
made the most of every favoring wind and has been able to attain both comfortable
affluence and position with influence as a reward for his steady, honest efforts.
In a life devoted thus far for the most part to agricultural pursuits, Mr. Hazen
migrated to California in 1908, and located at Tustin, and there with Mr. and Mrs. Will
C. Crawford he enjoyed the comforts of a good home. In addition to the Ritchey
Street ranch he also owns five acres planted to Valencias on McFadden Street, adjacent
to the Crawford ranch. He is an active member of the First Baptist Church of Santa
Ana and seeks to lead an exemplary life and has been treasurer of the Men's Club
and Sunday School.
ROBERT B. WEITBRECHT. — A well-educated, well-prepared "hustler," whom
no one envies the fruits of his wide-awake labors, is Robert B. Weitbrecht, who took
up his residence in Orange in the early nineties. He was born at St. Paul, Minn., on
August 27, 1885, the son of George F. Weitbrecht, a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a
graduate of Yellow Springs College, Ohio. He did graduate work at Harvard for a
couple of years, and then came to St. Paul, where he founded and was principal of the
Mechanic Arts High School, one of the first high schools in the United States to have
a department of manual training and mechanical drawing. He came to California on
his vacations, for the first time about 1890; and in 1893 he established his family in
Orange County, and he himself intended to locate permanently here. However, the
school he had founded was so dear to him that each year he would return to it, saying
that that year would be the last of his active service; and being prevailed upon to
remain as the principal — while he was developing it so remarkably that even Europeans
came to inspect and study the results — he finally died in the harness, in February, 1916.
Mrs. Weitbrecht, who was Miss Mary Beals, a native of Providence, R. I., before
her marriage, continued to manage the property on Walnut Avenue where Mr. Weit
brecht had started improvements, and in this difficult but highly interesting work, she
was assisted by her childen, of whom there were three. Susan resides now in San
Diego; Robert is the subject of our review; and George is in Santa Ana. Robert B.
was reared in St. Paul until 1893, and it was on account of his frail health that the
family moved out to California in that year. His health luckily improved at once,
and he became strong and hearty, and fit for any kind of work. Mrs. Weitbrecht died
on the Orange ranch on April 6, 1918.

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From the home ranch, beginning with 1893, Robert went to the local public
schools, but at the end of six years, the family returned East to St. Paul. There he
studied at the Mechanic Arts high school, and was graduated in 1904 as a civil engi
neer. He then entered the University of Minnesota and remained until the close of his
junior year, when he quit the lecture room to go to Idaho and enter the service of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad in their engineering corps. This was when
that railroad company was building its Idaho division, and so he helped to construct
the road from South Dakota to Seattle.
At the end of three hard and very fruitful years, Mr. Weitbrecht resigned from
his railroad post, and came back to Orange for a visit; but on looking over the old
home ranch, he concluded to take up its management, and he has remained here ever
since conducting that property. He is engaged in raising Valencia oranges, and since
his ranch is under irrigation from the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and also
the Aid Water Company, the twenty-six acres at the corner of Handy Street and Wal
nut Avenue are most productive. He is, naturally, a member of the McPherson
Heights Citrus Association. The ranch, by the way, is owned co-jointly with his
sister, Susan, already referred to. Mr. Weitbrecht is also interested, with his brother-
in-law, John Haig, in heavy trucking, owning a five-and-a-half-ton Mack truck, capable
of carrying fifteen tons, with the aid of a trailer.
In the pleasant town of Alhambra, Mr. Weitbrecht was married to Miss Winifred
Haig, a native of England, having been born at Liverpool of Scotch parentage. Mr.
and Mrs. Weitbrecht attend the Episcopal Church, and Mr. Weitbrecht is a Mason,
affiliated with Orange Lodge No. 293, F. & A. M.
DR. JOHN D. THOMAS. — An aggressive, successful organizer, whose fortunate
handling of enterprises has made him exceedingly popular, is Dr. John D. Thomas,
the president of the First National Bank of Olive, a native of Philadelphia, where he
was born on February 8, 1850. He was the son of Richard W. Thomas, a Methodist
Episcopal divine who filled various responsible charges at Philadelphia and elsewhere
in the East. He died in the harness of his Christian ministry, being stricken with
paralysis while he was delivering his sermon on a Sunday morning in the Fifth Street
Methodist Episcopal Church at Philadelphia. He was forty-seven years old, and the
father of six children; he was a native of Philadelphia, and the paternal grandfather,
David Thomas, was born in Wales, and migrated to Philadelphia, where he became a
shoe manufacturer, employing from thirty to forty men. Richard W. Thomas married
Elizabeth H. Rouse, a native of New Jersey, who lived to be eighty-three years of
age. Our subject, the youngest of his family, is now the only one to survive.-
He was seven years old when his father died, and then he went to Allentown,
Monmouth County, N. J., to attend the common schools. From his tenth to his fif
teenth year, he lived on a farm. His first marriage made him the husband of Mary
T. Middleton, of the Society of Friends. Later, he married Mrs. Elsie L. P. Hamuck,
nee Passmore, daughter of William Passmore, owner of the excellent and celebrated
Passmore ranch. She died in February, 1918.
After attending the Philadelphia Dental College, from which he was duly gradu
ated with honor, Dr. Thomas practiced dentistry in Philadelphia for forty-five years,
during which time he filled the position of lecturer upon Nitrous Oxide Anesthesia and
Oral Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. Upon his advent in California, he
retired from the dental profession. He resides at the Passmore ranch on the Santa
Ana Canyon Boulevard immediately above Olive, and is now president of the Olive
Heights Citrus Association, and is president of the Olive Improvement Association.
He is the best kind of a "booster," for his invaluable experience and common-sense
views, together with his breadth of vision and contagious sympathies, enable him
to make all that he sets in motion roll on to the desired-for goal. In other words,
the Doctor "makes it stick."
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF OLIVE.— California may well be proud
of the large number of financial institutions of exceptional strength and prosperity
contributing vastly to her monumental wealth, but she is equally to be congratulated
upon the smaller, yet eminently sound and vigorously progressive banks such as the
First National of Olive, which has done so much, and is still doing, to stabilize and
develop the commercial life of that part of the great commonwealth in which it is its
destiny in particular to operate. With one hundred or more visitors from Orange,
Santa Ana, Los Angeles and Anaheim as especial guests, this bank was opened on
Saturday afternoon, October 21, 1916, with a formal and fashionable reception, long
to be pleasantly remembered by all who had the good fortune to attend.
With its shining mahogany and marble, the new bank presented an attractive and
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to boast. The visitors, therefore, some of whom were naturally, by long experience,
more or less critical, were greatly impressed with the inviting air of the quarters, the
convenience and liberality of which promised success.
Not only was the interest of the bank, as was readily to be seen, designed to
satisfy an advanced architectural taste, but the convenience of both the operatives and
the public was studied in the application of practical and common sense devices; so
that in addition to the handsome mahogany and the marble bases, there was a thor
oughly up-to-date, spacious vault, containing the manganese steel time-lock safe.
At noon the Bank entertained the stockholders and their wives at a luncheon at
the Olive Hall, when some, fifty guests were present. A delicious chicken dinner was
served by the ladies of the Olive Sewing Circle, amid the most tasteful dcorations
that could be devised. President J. D. Thomas made the opening address of welcome
and discussed community development, while he urged the broadest and utmost
cooperation for the advancement in every way of Olive. Cashier K. V. Wolff also
spoke with the same cordiality and fervor, emphasizing business cooperation in particu
lar, and by easily understood illustrations, pointed out the various ways in which the
business interests of the community are related.
In every respect, the reception and the dinner constituted an unqualified success,
and reflected the highest credit upon the management of the new Olive institution,
at the same time inspiring confidence in the bank's future. How well that confidence
was placed, to what an extent the rapidly-developing First National has realized every
anticipation and hope of its backers and friends, may be seen from the attested report
of its condition made at the close of business four years later, on February 28, 1920.
According to that sworn statement made by Cashier K. V. Wolff and attested by the
directors, J. D. Thomas, A. M. Lorenzen and J. D. Spennetta, the bank had, as part of
its resources, loans and discounts, including rediscounts, to the amount of $122,793.85;
over $23,000 of notes and bills; some $15,000 worth of U. S. Government securities;
$2,250 pledged as collateral; over $14,000 in still other bonds and securities; $22,026.63
cash in vault and net amounts due from other national banks, and over $1,100 of earned
but uncollected interest, making a total resources of $170,682.72. Among its liabilities
are $25,000 of capital stock paid in; $15,000 in outstanding circulating notes; $74,447.11
of individual deposits subject to check; some $12,000 in state, county or other municipal
deposits secured by pledge of the bank's own assets; over $9,000 in other certificates of
deposits, and $24,371.61 in other time deposits, and $2,000 in bills payable with the
Federal Reserve Bank.
The high standing of each of the officers of the First National Bank of Olive,
their known personal character, their experience and their ability, and the reasonable
conservatism thus far demonstrated in the progressive programs of the institution, give
a double assurance to patrons and public alike as to the present healthy state of the
bank, and its inevitable promising future — a matter of such moment to progressive and
would-be healthy Olive itself, with all its commendable ambitions requiring cash and
financial credit. It will be seen, therefore, to what an extent such a sound and sanely
developed institution plays in the history of a young town, and what enviable oppor
tunities for good are at the disposal of the men at the guns. Olive is proud of the
First National Bank; and the bank looks proudly toward the city of Olive of tomorrow.
KADJA V. WOLFF. — It must be a source of peculiar satisfaction to Kadja V.
Wolff, the efficient and popular cashier of the First National Bank of Olive, to look
back upon his uninterrupted association with that well developed and substantial
institution of finance; for he has served in his present official capacity since the bank
first threw open its doors for business. He helped, in fact, to organize the First
National Bank, in 1916, when its home was temporarily in the Olive Mercantile build
ing, directly across the street from its present-day location; the first bow was made to
the public on the sixteenth day of August of that year; and ever since the public, with
encouraging approbation, has been bowing genially in return.
Mr. Wolff was born at Morris, Minn., on September 30, 1884, the only child of
Henry G. Wolff, an honored and prosperous merchant in that town, and who still lives.
there with his devoted wife, who was Miss Inez M. Little before her marriage. From
Morris, when Kadja was sixteen years old, the parents moved over to Lead, S. D.„
and there he finished the course of study in the Lead high school, from which he was
graduated with the class of '01. He then entered the employ of the Harrison Tele
phone Company, starting with the construction gang, and arose to be emergency man;
and he was with that company from 1901 to 1903. He next went south to Vosburg,
Miss., where he busied himself for a year as hotel clerk, bookkeeper and cashier, but
in 1904 he "saw the light" and made straight for California. He pitched his tent for
a while in the City of the Angels, and for five years was employed as cashier in the
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938 HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
On account of failing eyesight, however, he left that employment and came to
Orange, where he clerked for a year in a clothing store. There, on October 5, 1910,
he was married to Miss Helen A. McCarty of St. Louis, who was sojourning in Southern
California with her cousin, Mrs. K. Watson, of Orange. Soon after, he bought a ranch
of eio-ht acres, three quarters of a mile west of Olive, and planted the same to Valencias.
He continued to ranch for two or three years, when he joined the National Bank of
Orange, in 1913, and as teller served that wide-awake establishment until he came up
to Olive and organized the First National Bank. He resides, for the time being, on
one of his ranches, being also the fortunate owner of a beautifully located farm of
twelve or more acres, now coming into bearing, half a mile up the Santa Ana Canyon.
Mr. and Mrs. Wolff have two attractive children — Elizabeth or "Bettie," and Eileen.
He belongs to the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks, and there is no more popular member.
The building of the First National Bank of Olive was erected by its owner, H. C.
Myers of that city, who is also a stockholder in the bank. It is of pressed brick, two
stories high and 25x50 feet in size. It has a modern, reinforced concrete vault, which
houses the Ely Norris fire and burglar proof safe; and the bank is fully protected by
insurance of the Royal Indemnity Company. It has a capital of $25,000, with $5,000
surplus; and in three years has grown from nothing to be a strapping youngster with
$225,000 in its pockets. The first officers in the history of this institution were: Presi
dent, Dr. J. D. Thomas, Olive; vice-president, J. D. Spennetta, Orange; and cashier,
K. V. Wolff. Its present officers include the directors: Dr. J. D. Thomas, J. D. Spen
netta, D. P. Crawford, H. T. Moennich and A. M. Lorenzen.
As a conservative, yet very progressive manager of finance, and as a public-
spirited citizen very successful as chairman of all the Liberty Loan drives, Mr. Wolff
has always shown his most marked characteristics: efficiency, with high standards of
character; deep insight into economics, of which he is a careful student; philanthropic
tendencies, with an especial leaning toward the idealism of "home-making" — all of
which have easily made him one of those naturally popular business men who could
not fail of success if they would.
CARL W. MARTIN.— The United States, and California in particular, offers men
of foreign birth many opportunities they were unable to enjoy in their native land.
The Golden State has received her share of these thrifty and enterprising men, who
have adapted themselves to their new surroundings and aided in the upbuilding of
the horticultural and agricultural interests of the state.
Carl W. Martin, the successful rancher of Garden Grove Boulevard, was born on
March 16, 1878, in Rhine Province, Germany, a son of Ludwig and Catherine Martin.
At an early age he developed a strong desire to live in the United States that he might
embrace the splendid opportunities offered here to ambitious young men. In 1890, he
immigrated to America, locating in Orange County the following year. His parents,
with their five living children, left Germany for "the land of the free and the home of
the brave" in 1893 and settled in Los Angeles County. In 1896 the family settled in
Orange County, where both parents died and now the children are all in Los Angeles
County except Carl W. Of the twelve children born in Germany, only five are living.
In 1912, Mr. Martin purchased ten acres of unimproved land, his present home,
and by hard labor and close attention to details he has succeeded in bringing the land
up to a high state of cultivation and it now produces an abundant crop of the best
variety of oranges and walnuts. In addition to these crops he has been successfully
engaged in raising and selling young orange trees.
Mr. Martin's marriage in 1908 united him with Miss Clara M. Rust, a native of
San Francisco, whose parents, Gustaf and Clara Rust, settled in Anaheim in 1866.
Fraternally, Mr. Martin is a Mason, being a member of Los Angeles Lodge, No. 42,
if. & A. M.; he belongs to Fullerton Chapter, R. A. M, and the Santa Ana Council.
EUGENE S. SARGENT.— A public-spirited man who believes it to be both the
duty and the privilege of the citizen to contribute in every way possible to both the
building up and the upbuilding of the community, is Eugene S. Sargent, a native of
Watertown Jefferson County, N. Y., where he was born on Washington's Birthday,
18S0. His father, Richard Sargent, was also born there, and his parents, William and
Mary Sargent, were English folk who settled in Jefferson County. Richard Sargent
7n! aPHarHagf Ma 0 n^ rat EaFargeville, N. Y., who moved west to Iowa in 1868
rfr-Z 10a- Mont*e"°- /onues County- Thcre he engaged in blacksmithing and
carriage building until his death, in 1869. Mrs. Sargent was Phoebe Sage before her
\Z s nHe fn f 0 SP6nt ,"" laSt days in Iowa" They had two children: Eugene,
ne S of % °C TTtmg f etch- and his sister' E^rence E. Sargent, who became
on and since 19^7 \ U*' * ^^0 They Hved toSether in ^wa, until he passed
on, and since 1907 she has resided in Orange.

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HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 941
Eugene S. Sargent was educated in the public grammar schools and at a private
academy in La Fargeville, N. Y., and in 1868 removed to Iowa, where he learned the
trade of the wheelwright under his father. In 1869 he began work as a carpenter, and
later clerked for a while in a store. In 1876 he removed to Galena, Cherokee County,
Kans., where he set up as a contracting builder; and1 he also went in for prospecting
and mining for lead. He opened several new mines and sold them, and later removed
to Carbondale, Osage County, Kans., where as a contractor he did general building.
Then he pitched his tent at Onaga, Pottawatomie County, Kans., and continued to
build extensively. He resided there from 1879 until 1904, and was instrumental in
influencing building laws and customs of the state.
In 1904 he came to California and located at Anaheim, where he bought a ranch
devoted to the cultivation of oranges and walnuts. Three years later he sold out and
located at Orange, where he purchased a twelve-acre ranch at the corner of Tustin and
Walnut streets, and set it out to oranges. He also came to have a ranch of two and
a half acres on North Shaffer Avenue; and with his sister, Mrs. Renken, he owned an
other ranch of five acres at the junction of Cambridge and Palm avenues, which they
had set out to oranges and walnuts. All these desirable properties have recently been
disposed of.
Mr. Sargent now makes his home with his sister, Mrs. Renken, at 280 North
Shaffer Street; and in his leisure hours devotes some attention to politics, marching
under the banners of the Republican party. Mrs. Renken is a member of the Presby
terian Church, and also of the P. E. O. chapter in Orange; and she belongs to the
Orange Woman's Club.
EUGENE EDMUND FRENCH.— Closely identified with Huntington Beach,
Orange County, since 1906, Eugene E. French was one of the most active of its settlers
in its upbuilding until in March, 1920, when he removed to Santa Ana, having been
appointed under-sheriff of Orange County. A native of Illinois, where he was born
July 9, 1863, at Tuscola, Douglas County, a son of Wm. T. and Julia (Edmunds)
French, natives of Steuben County, N. Y., and Ireland, respectively, Eugene French
was reared in New York. His mother died when he was but an infant, and he was
brought up by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Sluman T. French, who resided near
Corning, Steuben County, in that state. Here he was educated in the public schools,
learning the trade of a carpenter when quite young. He decided to take up railroad
ing, however, and followed this line of work for sixteen years, starting in as a brake-
man and working up to the position of conductor. During these years he was with
the Chicago and Northwestern, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul and the Burling
ton, Cedar Rapids and Northern railroads.
Becoming the owner of a ranch in Carroll County, Ark., Mr. French located
there in about 1900, and followed farming for some time, later going to Wagner,
then in the Indian Territory, where he took up his early trade of carpentering. In
1906 he decided to try his fortune in California, and on his arrival here located at
Huntington Beach. This was shortly after'the town was started, and Mr. French thus
became one of its pioneer residents. He formed a partnership with H. B. Crozier,
under the name of Crozier and French, and they became actively engaged in contract
ing and building. This partnership continued for seven years, Mr. French after
wards continuing in the contracting business alone. He has always been very success
ful in his business, making a specialty of fine residences, and many of the beautiful
homes at Huntington Beach stand as examples of his superior workmanship. He has,
indeed, been a big factor in the upbuilding of the city.
Mr. French's interest in his chosen place of residence was not limited to its mate
rial advancement, for despite his busy life as a contractor, he has always been keenly
interested in all the civic affairs of the city, and has taken an active part in them.
For six years he served as a member of the board of trustees of Huntington Beach,
and for two. years was chairman of the board, this office corresponding to that of
mayor. During his term of office many important improvements were made; the
beautiful concrete pier was built, a sewer system installed, and many of the streets
were paved. Mr. French thus witnessed a marked change in the appearance of the
city during his residence there, as when he arrived there was not even a paved street
there. He was also enthusiastic in the work of the Huntington Beach Chamber of
Commerce, being one of its organizers and serving as its president for four years,
until his removal to Santa Ana. In 1919, Mr. French resigned his office as chairman
of the board of trustees to become city marshal of Huntington Beach, holding this
position until March 12, 1920, when he was appointed under-sheriff of Orange County
by Sheriff Calvin E. Jackson. This appointment was a fitting recognition of Mr.
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French's capabilities, as there were a number of applicants for the office, and he was
selected as the man best fitted for the post.
Mr. French's marriage united him with Miss Estelle D. Bradley, who was a
native of Edgar County, 111., and they are the parents of five children: Homer
E. is engaged in concrete highway construction in Northern California; Gladys is the
wife of Roy Labodie of Huntington Beach; John B. is associated with his brother
in highway construction work; he enlisted for service during the World War, serv
ing for fourteen months in the quartermaster's department in France; he was top
sergeant of his company, and at the time the armistice was signed was attending an
officers' training school in France; Julia and Margaret are under the paternal roof.
Politically, Mr. French has always been a stanch adherent of Democratic- prin
ciples and active in the councils of that party. In fraternal affairs he is prominent in
the circles of the Odd Fellows, being a member of the Huntington Beach Lodge, No.
183, of which he is a past grand; he has also served as District Deputy Grand Master
of District No. 69, California, and he is also a prominent member of the Encamp
ment and Canton at Santa Ana. He was made a Mason in Huntington Beach Lodge
No. 380, F. & A. M. Besides, he is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
Since coming to Santa Ana he continues to show his deep interest in civic and busi
ness affairs with the same energy he showed at Huntington Beach, and is now a
member of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce.
WILLIAM E. CLEMENT. — A successful business man who is also an experienced
horticulturist, and who in both undertakings has displayed unmistakable talent as a
systematic manager operating according to the latest and most approved methods, is
William E. Clement, one of the best city officers Orange has ever had. For fourteen
years he has been manager of the Griffith Lumber Company, for ten years he was chief
of the fire department, and for eight years he was responsible for the town finances.
A native son very proud of his association from the beginning with the Golden
State, Mr. Clement was born in Garden Grove, Orange County on December 5, 1876,
the son of Johnson Clement, a native of Missouri, who came with his parents to Cali
fornia, crossing the great plains as a boy, and finally locating in Orange County. He
married Miss Cassie Morrell, a native of Texas who also came to California with her
parents, and settled at Bolsa, where the Morrells were farmers. The grandfather,
Lafayette Morrell, was one of the pioneer founders of that settlement. Johnson Clem
ent was married in what is now Orange County, and with his devoted wife com
menced to farm at Garden Grove. Later, they removed to Santa Ana, where Mr.
Clement engaged in real estate; and today he is a very successful realty operator at
Orange. Mrs. Clement, it is sad to relate, died at Los Angeles in 1914. They had
three children — two girls and a boy; and of these William was the oldest.
Brought up in Orange County, William attended the public grammar school and
also the Santa Ana high school, and then took a stiff course at the Orange County
Business College in Santa Ana, from which he was graduated with hono'rs in 1894.
Then for three years he was with the Newport Lumber Company at Riverside, when
he returned to Santa Ana, and was employed in the Exchange Bank as a bookkeeper,
until it was consolidated with the First National Bank, when he continued in the same
responsible capacity.
Having resigned, Mr. Clement accepted his present position, on March 15, 1906,
as manager for the Griffith Lumber Company, at Orange, and he opened their yard
here, and has been in charge there ever since. The yard is located on North Cypress
Street, and there the company carry lumber, mill-work, doors, windows, cement, roof
ing and wall-board. They also maintain a planing mill, and this alone has proven of
great service to the community.
Mr. Clement, while never an office seeker, has responded to the calls of his fellow
citizens and has done his full duty as an office holder. In 1910, he was elected the
second chief of the fire department of Orange, reelected each year and served until he
resigned, on January 1, 1920. During that period, with the loyal cooperation of others,
he built up the department so that from the condition with only a hose cart, the city
now has a Seagreave combination motor truck with its full equipment. In 1912, he
was elected the city treasurer of Orange, and he has been reelected ever since, for
terms of two years. In respect to party preferences, Mr. Clement is a Republican; but
this party affiliation never operates to prevent him from entering heartily into whatever
seems best for the development and prosperity of the community.
Mr. Clement has been twice married. On the first occasion, the ceremony took
place at Riverside, and Miss Mabel Russell, a native of California, became his bride.
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two children, Margaret and Virginia, both of whom are in the Orange Union high
school. The second Mrs. Clement, whom he married at Orange, was Miss Nora Miller
in maidenhood; she was a native of Kansas, and has become the mother of three
children: Lois, Melvin and Clarence. Mr. Clement owns a fine residence in town,
and a fine ranch west of the town, which he devotes to the raising of Valencia oranges,
on which account he is a member of the Santiago Orange Growers Association. He
belongs to the Orange Lodge of the Odd Fellows, and the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks.
WILLIAM ABPLANALP. — In making mention of those men who have made a
success of ranching in Southern California and who, at the same time, have cooperated
in all movements that have had for their aim the building up of the state, and Orange
County in particular, William Abplanalp of the Anaheim district is to be found
worthy in every way. For twenty years he has made his home on the ranch on Lincoln
Avenue, west from Anaheim, improved the property from a barley field, and has set
out walnut, peach and apricot trees that are now in full bearing, and with the develop
ment of water in 1913, and the installation of an irrigating system, bids fair to make
of this eighty-acre ranch a veritable show place in the near future. For thirteen years
he carried on dry farming, and even iri that line of agriculture demonstrated that a
success' could be made by the man of enterprise and thrift. It is said by many who
know that Mr. Abplanalp has gained a financial reward through his own efforts
and hard work, assisted in all that he has undertaken by his wife and helpmate, who
shares with him the esteem of all who know them.
Mr. Abplanalp was born at Sunman, Ripley County, Ind., August 27, 1864, the
son of Jacob and Annie (Stahley) Abplanalp, the former a native of Switzerland and
the latter of Indiana. Mrs. Abplanalp had two children, William and Emma, now
Mrs. August Michael, both of whom are residents of Orange County, this state. When
William was four years old his mother died and his father married again, and by his
second marriage was the parent of three children. The father made five trips to Cali
fornia from his Indiana home — the farm, by the way, on which he is still living was
improved by his father in 1852, was operated by himself until he turned it over to his
son, who still conducts it, and with whom he makes his home when in Indiana. He
spent about six years in California at various times and was highly respected by all
who came to know him for his kindly manner and charitable deeds.
William was educated in the public schools of his native county, and followed
farm work there until 1886. When the "boom" struck California he came West, and
ever since that time has been closely identified with Orange County, though it was
a part of Los Angeles County when he first located at Orange and worked at any
honest employment until he could make a stake, which he did, and then invested in
ranch land, believing that such investment was the surest way to wealth, and so it
has proven to him.
On May 25, 1895, in Orange County, William Abplanalp and Miss Ruth Goodrich
were united in marriage. She was the adopted daughter of Brainerd and Susan
(Williamson) Goodrich, and was born in Taylorville, 111., in 1870. Her mother died
when she was a babe and she was taken by Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich and reared in
their home as a daughter. Her girlhood was spent at Hartford, Conn., where she
attended the public school until she was fourteen, then accompanied her parents to
Orange County, Cal., and settled with them at Orange, where Mr. Goodrich was for
thirteen years connected with the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company as its secre
tary, and was widely known throughout the entire county. He died in 1910, leaving
two daughters: Mrs. Ruth Abplanalp and Mrs. Alice Sproule. Mrs. Sproule taught
school in Orange County for about eighteen years, and is now teaching at Hemet,
Riverside County, her home since her marriage. Two children have come to bless the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Abplanalp, Wjilton B. and Lucy A. The family are members
of the Fullerton Baptist Church, and both Mr. and Mrs. Abplanalp belong to the Fra
ternal Aid Union.
During the World War the family assisted in every way to aid the Allied cause,
Mr. Abplanalp spent much of his time in working for the various Liberty Loan drives,
the Red Cross and the Salvation Army drives, and bought to the limit of bonds him
self, even refraining from making needed improvements on his ranch in order to invest
in securities of the government. Mrs. Abplanalp and her daughter worked in the Red
Cross and the Junior Red Cross. For more than seven years Mr. Abplanalp has shown
his interest in matters of education by serving as a school trustee, and in national
politics he is a staunch Republican. Both he and his wife were residents here before
there Was any Orange County, and they have watched the development of this won
derful county with great interest and have done their share to assist in making it the
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FRED T. VOLBERDING. — A self-made young man who has long ago proven to
his fellow-citizens his qualities as a loyal American and an enterprising man of busi
ness intent both on building up his private interests and also in contributing what he
can for the general building up of Orange County, is Fred T. Volberding, partner in
the Orange Contracting and Milling Company. He was born near Reinbeck, Grundy
County, Iowa, on April 5, 1882, and reared on a farm, while he attended the public
schools; and when seventeen years old, he commenced to learn the carpenter trade,
also working on his father's farm. At twenty-one, he began working out at his trade,
and at that time his parents moved into Reinbeck.
In December, 1908, Mr. Volberding came west to California and located in Orange
County where he was employed by the Ainsworth Planing Mill, and later he was with
the Griffith Planing Mill at Santa Ana. At the same "time, he followed contracting and
building, returning to the mill when he had completed his job. He built bungalows
and other structures, and helped to finish the interior of the St. John's Lutheran
Church. In December, 1914, Mr. Volberding became associated with Messrs. Miller and
Loescher, and they built a planing mill, and entered actively into contracting and
building; and four years after this triple alliance was formed, Mr. Volberding and
Mr. Miller bought out Mr. Loescher, and since then they alone have owned the Orange
Contracting and Milling Company. They employ ten men, do all their own mill work
and custom work, make their own designs, and cater only to the highest class trade.
At Orange, Mr. Volberding was married to Miss Martha Anschutz, a native of
Saginaw, Mich., by whom he has had one child, Helen. The family belong to St. John's
Lutheran Church, and Mr. Volberding is a member of the Lutheran Men's Club, and
interested in all that makes for moral uplift in the community — an interest actively
shared by Mrs. Volberding. Orange congratulates itself on such good and highly
progressive citizens.
JOHN W. STEELE. — Garden Grove is indeed fortunate to number among its
residents so capable a man as John W. Steele, the principal contractor and builder
(here. A man of ability, force of character and strict integrity, he learned his trade
very thoroughly in his native England. As a master workman in his line, that of
interior finisher, in point of fineness of work he has few equals in Southern California.
Mr. Steele was born on December 21, 1866, at the little town of Hyde, near Man
chester, England, the son of Jabez and Rebecca Esther (Carrington) Steele. The
father, who was a master plumber and contractor, died when John W. was only three
years of age. He was the ninth child in a family of ten children and the youngest of
six brothers. The death of the father made it necessary for the children to become
the breadwinners of the family, so when John was but eight years old he went to work
in a cotton mill in Hyde, his small wages going to support his mother, and he continued
to work in the mills until he was fifteen years old. In the meantime he had secured a
common school education and he now began to learn the cabinet maker's trade, serv
ing an apprenticeship of five years. In England at that time the trade of cabinet
making included interior finishing and Mr. Steele became an expert in that line,
working on the interior woodwork of several of the fine churches and residences at
Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire.
In the meantime Mr. Steele's oldest brother, William Steele, had immigrated
to America and was foreman for a large plumbing firm in New York City. On a
visit to his family in the old home place in England he related such glowing tales of
the opportunities to be found in America that Mr. Steele was enthused with the idea
of seeking his fortune here. Accordingly on June 27, 1887, he sailed from Liverpool
on the S. S. Brittanica, landing at Castle Garden nine days later. His brother, mean
while, had removed to Cleveland, Ohio, so Mr. Steele was thrown upon his own re
sources. He went to work at West Rutherford, N. J., as a carpenter and builder, also
helping do the finishing work on one of the large churches of Passaic, N. J. In the
fall of that year he went to Cleveland, Ohio, and remained there for more than a
year. Later he went to Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio, and worked at organ build
ing and interior finishing for a period of about nine months, when he returned to
Cleveland, remaining there until 1895, working at his trade.
In 1889 Mr. Steele was married in Cleveland, Ohio, to Miss Annie Askin of that
place. She was born and reared in Sheffield, England, and came to Cleveland as a
young lady m 1885. In April, 1895, Mr. and Mrs. Steele, with their two children, re
moved to California, and after remaining a few weeks at Los Angeles, they came out
.?r-n- o Prf mC,t '" °ranSe County and there bought ten acres of land. His brother,
William Steele, also purchased a ten-acre tract, but went back to New York, where he
passed away four years later. Mr. Steele improved his land, planting it to walnuts
and building a residence on it, where he made his home for several years. He still

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continued, liowever, in his occupation of contractor and builder, and during this period
he became connected with D. M. Donald and Son, leading contractors at Redlands.
He removed there with his family and bought three lots on which he erected a cozy
residence and made this his home for five years. During this time he had charge of
all the interior finish work for all the fine residences in Redlands and vicinity made
in the planing mill of Donald and Son.
In 1910 Mr. Steele moved to Garden Grove and built his commodious residence
there which has since been the family home. During the ten years he has thoroughly
established himself as the foremost contractor and builder of this district, and besides
building most of the handsome homes in Garden Grove and the surrounding locality,
he has built the two-story brick business block of J. D. Price on Ocean Avenue, the
Hardware Store block, owned by A. E. Emerson, the warehouse for the Garden Grove
Walnut Growers Association, the Vegetable Unions' warehouse and the Lima Bean
Growers warehouse.
Mr. and Mrs. Steele are the parents of six children: Edith is the wife of William
Abbott, a rancher living near Garden Grove; Reba is Mrs. Elmer Launders and lives
at Garden Grove; Clara is engaged with the Pacific Telephone Company at Santa Ana;
Grace E. is now Mrs. Wesley Hien and resides on an orange ranch at Olive; Ruth is
also employed by the Pacific Telephone Company at Santa Ana; John is a student at
the Santa Ana high school. Mrs. Steele is a member of the Methodist Church at
Garden Grove. Miss Sarah A. Steele, Mr. Steele's only sister and relative in America,
is a resident of Los Angeles, and follows the profession of .nursing.
WILLIAM E. CASE. — The proud owner of a fine twenty-acre walnut grove on
Euclid Avenue, between Garden Grove and Anaheim, William E. Case is one of the
early settlers in this locality, and he devotes his entire time to producing the best
of nuts from his grove, having set out the trees with his own hands, as well as having
made all the improvements seen on the ranch.
Mr. Case was born at Oaks Corners, Ontario County, New York, on April 10,
1844, and was a lad of twelve years when his parents moved to Defiance County, Ohio,
consequently he was privileged to attend school in both states. At the outbreak of the
Civil War, then a young man of eighteen, he demonstrated his patriotism by enlist
ing in the service of his country, in 1862, for a short term, in the Eighty-seventh Ohio
Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner at Harpers Ferry, -but was soon paroled,
and as soon as his parole expired he again enlisted, this time with the Ninth Ohio
Cavalry, Company ' I, for "three years or for the duration of the war." He par
ticipated in many skirmishes and some sharp engagements, was with Sherman on his
famous March to the Sea, and at the close of hostilities was honorably discharged at
Lexington, N. C, in 1865.
After his discharge he returned to Ohio, where he spent the winter, then went to
Chicago, where he was engaged in various lines of activity until 1880, when he removed
to Boone County, Nebr., and followed farming until 1890, when he first came to
California and spent a year. So pleased was he with conditions as he found them
here that he returned to his home in Nebraska, raised two crops from his farm, which
he had. broken from the original prairie sod, made arrangements to sell out, and in
the spring of 1894 again landed in California and settled in Orange County. The
ranch he bought was a barley field, and at that time property hereabouts was selling
at the high price of from $100 to $150 per acre. At considerable expense he has
improved his holdings until he has one of the best walnut groves in his locality, with
a fine well which he uses for domestic purposes.
In Chicago, 111., on November 2, 1870, occurred the marriage of William E.
Case with Miss Catherine Spellacy, a native of Ireland. They have had five children,
four now living: Mrs. Alice Reynoldson, of Albion, Nebr.; Mrs. Louisa Irene Clark,
of Puente, Cal.; John B., deputy state oil inspector, with headquarters at Taft, Cal.,
and Mrs. Loretta Farris, of Baldwin Park, Cal.
As a man, citizen and friend, no one stands higher in the esteem of all who know
him than does Mr. Case. For many years he was a prominent member of the Masonic
fraternity, but is now demitted; he is an esteemed member of Sedgwick Post, No. 17,
G. A. R., at Santa Ana, and in political views votes with the Republicans. He makes
friends wherever he goes and retains them as well, and though over seventy-six years
of age, his years rest lightly upon him, and he is to be found in active management of
his productive ranch and wide-awake to anything that tends to benefit his community.
In all his operations he has had the active cooperation of his good wife, who has
shared his joys and his sorrows for half a century. Now in the evening of a life well-
spent they can look back upon the years that have passed with but few regrets, for
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DRUCE BROTHERS.— The poultry ranch of Druce Brothers at Stanton is
widely known for its production of the finest White Leghorn fowls in Southern Cali
fornia. Their strain of chickens is produced from the best laying hens and finest male
birds, which have been carefully selected from a large assortment of White Leghorns.
Their selected hens have a record of 280 eggs per season, this being far in excess of
the general average and is evident proof of the splendid care that Druce Brothers give
to their flock of 2,000 to 3,000 fowls.
The firm of Druce Brothers consists of Sidney H. and Campbell H. Druce, natives
of England. Sidney H. Druce, the older brother, was born in London, England, on
August 6, 1872, the son of Herbert and Louise (Reeve) Druce. He emigrated to the
United States in 1889 and settled in California. For four years he operated a nursery
of five acres at Fullerton and for eight years filled the important position of dairy
inspector for Los Angeles. He was united in marriage with Miss Gertrude Fitz Henry,
who passed away in 1912.
Campbell H. Druce was born in London, England, on March 20, 1878, and left
his native land in 1903 for America, coming directly to Orange County, where he has
continued to reside ever since. In 1915 he was married to Miss Emma Waters, a
native of Illinois, and they have been blessed with one daughter, Mary L.
Druce Brothers are members of the Southern California Poultry Producers Asso
ciation and the Garden Grove Farm Bureau, Sidney Druce having been a director of
the former. They have facilities for hatching 5,000 baby chicks and brooders to accom
modate 3,500. Their plant consists of four houses with cement floors; one is 120 by
20; another 110 by 20; a smaller one, is 50 by 18 and another 20 by 40 feet. These
furnish shelter for 3,000 chickens. The brothers do their own grinding and also raise
their green feed. Their ranch is situated in the city of Stanton, where it has been
located since 1908 and it is one of the most important enterprises of the community.
HARRY JENTGES. — The enterprising proprietor of the cement pipe works at
Garden Grove, Harry Jentges, is a man whose force of character and determination
has overcome many obstacles in reaping the success in life that is deservedly his. Born
in the grand duchy of Luxemburg, he learned to speak, read and write the French and
German languages in addition to the vernacular of his native country. His father,
Peter Jentges was a farmer in the old country, owned a twenty-acre farm, a large
amount of land for one person to own in Luxemburg. His mother was Mary Ann
Engels before her marriage and both parents were born, married, lived and died in
Luxemburg. Harry grew up on his father's farm, on which he worked until he was twenty-
five years old; then his mother, who had been a widow eight years, died, and thinking
to better his condition by coming to America, where his brother Jack had preceded him,
he sailed from Antwerp via England, crossed that country and embarked on the White
Star line for the new world, landing at New York City May 25, 1907. He brought
$900 with him from the old country, $700 of which was his inheritance from his parents'
estate. After stopping at Le Mars, Iowa, for two years, where he was employed as
a farm hand, he came to Orange County, Cal., in 1909, and joined his brother Jack at
Westminster. He worked for his brother three months, and when the celery season
came on loaded celery into box cars for the Celery Growers Association. He worked
out eighteen months, then rented the old Trevoli place of sixty acres at Wintersburg,
in partnership with C. C. Johnson. They planted eight acres to celery, twenty acres to
sugar beets, twenty acres to lima beans, and put the remainder in hay. After the first
year their landlord raised the rent, and they moved to Los Alamitos and rented and
farmed ninety acres there for three years, putting the entire acreage into sugar beets.
Mr. Jentges came to Garden Grove in 1916, and purchased the old Paulson place, two
miles north and one mile west of Garden Grove. Here he encountered his first reverse;
his well gave out, water for irrigation failed, and he spent $2,000 to deepen the well and
get water. Going into debt, he was forced to trade the place for 160 acres at Barstow.
u? "V" ough this misfortune he figures that he lost $10,000. He then began to work
tor his brother Jack in the cement business, and in 1918 bought the business from his
brother. In time Mr. Jentges paid the last of his debts, paying one hundred cents on
tne dollar. He does a large business, is prospering, and employs from twelve to twenty
men, keeping seven steadily the year around. He takes contracts from the farmers to
put m irrigation pipe lines, the cement tiles of which are his own make. In 1918 he
laid about four and * half miles of pipe; in 1919 he laid seven miles of pipe and the
prospect for 1920 looks as if this year would be the banner year. He is also a general
contractor, and builds cement walks, foundations, porches, etc. He has a cement
mixer, power for which ,s provided by a Fairbanks-Morse gasoline engine, moulds and
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owns a G. M. C. two-ton auto truck for hauling the pipes. The trenches are dug by
hand labor and his excellent work satisfies his many customers, one job always bringing
another. Despite reverses Mr. Jentges has made a success of the chances offered him
on the coast, and it is to men of his intelligence, indomitable courage and perseverance
that our country is largely indebted for its prosperous condition. Fraternally he is a
member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Westminster. A naturalized citizen, he takes
an active interest in the welfare of the country and the community in which he lives.
JOHN B. ZIEGLER.— In the passing -of John B. Ziegler on July 17, 1919, Ana
heim suffered the loss of one of her most valued citizens — one who was^ever ready
to give of his time and talents in any worthy undertaking that would aid in the upbuild
ing of the community. His death brought to a close a life of usefulness, which reflected
credit not only upon himself, but one which had done much for the betterment of his
fellow-citizens. Born on May 1, 1863, in Alsace-Lorraine, when the tricolor of France
still waved over that little country, his boyhood days were spent there. After the
Franco-Prussian War, when this territory had unwillingly passed into the hands of the
Germans, Mr. Ziegler received his education in the German schools established there.
However, when he had reached the age of seventeen he decided to seek his fortune in
the New World, and the year 1880 found him in New York. Here he entered the
restaurant business in Maiden Lane, a thoroughfare famed throughout the country for
its association with the jewelry trade. Later Mr. Ziegler established himself in the
same line of business at Paterson, N. J., the family making their home at Jersey City
Heights, where they lived for a number of years.
In 1905 Mr. Ziegler came to Anaheim, hoping to improve the health of his son
John, but this was, unfortunately, unavailing, for the son later died. Soon after locat
ing in Anaheim he purchased the southeast corner of West Center and Lemon streets,
on which the Commercial Hotel stood. After conducting it for a number of years, he
tore down the building in 1915 and on the same site erected the beautiful new Valencia
Hotel, the finest hotel in the county, which opened its doors to the public on April
1, 1916. This hotel, which has for its slogan, "The only first-class hotel between Los
Angeles and San Diego," was erected at a cost of $75,000. It is a modern four-story
brick structure, which would be a credit to any city, and has been a great factor in
the rapid growth of Anaheim in the past few years, and was the impetus that started
the town a rolling, and since then others have built and patterned after it. Mr. Ziegler
was also the first to build a residence in the Deutch tract, and now it is already well
built up. He was a prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce, and was popular
in the lodge of the Eagles, while politically he was an ardent Republican.
Always far-sighted and progressive, Mr. Ziegler was the first man to build when
Center Street was widened, and then others followed his lead. Keenly alive to the
importance of improving and beautifying the city, especially in the business district,
he was the leader in every civic movement that had this for its aim; he was the first
man to advocate the use of the cluster light system on the east side of Center. Street, in
the business district. The beautiful hotel he erected will always stand as a monument
to his memory.
While living in New York City, Mr. Ziegler was married to Mary Murer, who
was born in Paris, France, where she was reared and educated, and they became the
parents of four children: Lucy, now the wife of Frank M. Anderson of Placentia;
John, who is deceased; Elsie and Mabel.
GLEN E. HUNTINGTON. — A mile and an eighth east of Garden Grove is
located the orange ranch owned by Glen E. Huntington, an energetic young man of
superior business qualifications. Although a native of Owosso, Mich., born February
19, 1890, his life has been spent in California whither his parents, Frank and Cora
(Faylor) Huntington, brought him at the age of nine months, settling at Redlands.
His parents who were natives of Illinois, were married in Michigan. When Glen E.
was seven years old his mother was called to the Great Beyond, and the father, who
still resides at Redlands, married again and Glen's boyhood days were clouded by the
unduly harsh treatment of a stepmother.
Relief from oppression came in the friendship of Lewis Dezendorf, now deceased,
who befriended the lad and saw that he had the advantages of schooling. He attended
the Redlands schools in his boyhood days and later Mr. Dezendorf paid his way to
Woodbury's Business College at Los Angeles, afterwards helping him secure a posi
tion, and as a bank clerk he held important positions with the Citizens National Bank
and the American Trust and Savings Bank at Los Angeles, and also with the Hollywood
National Bank at Hollywood. The warm friendship of Lewis Dezendorf for Mr. Hunt
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of land, the ranch upon which Mr. Huntington settled when he came to Garden Grove
in 1912.' He is a member of the Garden Grove Chamber of Commerce and the Farm
Center, and was appointed deputy constable under Constable Clark of Garden Grove.
He keeps in touch with all movements for the betterment of Garden Grove and Orange
County in general and is one of the leading and progressive citizens among the younger
men. He is planting and making substantial improvements upon his property and
will soon have a valuable Valencia orange grove.
Mr. Huntington's marriage occurred at Los Angeles in 1911, and united him with
Miss Louise Nusser, who was born at Lankershim, and two years of whose school days
were spent* in Garden Grove. They are the parents of two children, Glen E. Jr., and
Lewis Sydney. His wife is a social favorite and shares his popularity and success.
FRITZ RUHMANN. — In the passing away of Fritz Ruhmann, on September 3,
1917, Anaheim lost one of her earliest settlers, as he had been associated with this
district since 1875. The youth of Mr. Ruhmann was spent in his native town of Etzehoe,
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where he was born February 5, 1838, his father, Henry,
a gardener by occupation, being a native of the same place. His mother was Louise
Noritz before her marriage. In Germany the family name was spelled Ruehmann, but
the "e" was omitted by Mr. Ruhmann on coming to America.
When scarcely twenty years old, Mr. Ruhmann left his home and went to sea on
a sailing vessel which plied between English and German ports. In 1860 he again
shipped on a sailing vessel, the Lorenzo, bound for San Francisco by way of Cape
Horn,- and at the expiration of this journey set sail, this time on an American craft
which rounded the Horn and finally reached New York City.' After that he became
interested in the coasting trade along the West Indies and was in Galveston, Texas,
from 1866 to 1868. Shortly after this he returned to Germany for a visit with his
relatives, remaining there for more than a year. On his return to America he came to
Hoboken, N. J., and while there he was shanghaied aboard a sailing vessel bound
for San Francisco. For a time he was employed in Los Angeles, and during the latter
part of the year 1875 he located at Anaheim, and with Max Nebelung was associated
with the Anaheim Lighter Company as a freight clerk, helping to load and unload
steamers that came to Anaheim Landing on the river. Following that Mr. Ruhmann
worked on a bee ranch for some time and in 1877 he opened up a liquor store on North
Los Angeles Street and called it "Germania Halle," and operated it until 1906, when
he sold out to J. D. Heitshusen, and retired from active business.
Mr. Ruhmann was very active in the upbuilding of Anaheim. He owned the
block on North Los Angeles Street from Chartres to Cypress Street and on this
property he built a row of stores which Mrs. Ruhmann still owns. He also built three
brick store buildings on North Los Angeles Street between Center and Chartres, but
these were afterwards sold. Generous and charitable, he gave freely to the Lutheran
and Catholic Churches, and gave much help to the poor and needy.
In 1897, Mr. Ruhmann was married to Mrs. Helena Boege, a native of Brooklyn,
N. Y., whose maiden name was Krein. Mrs. Ruhmann is a daughter of Peter and
Elizabeth (Messer) Krein, who passed away in New York. Helena Krein had an
uncle living in Los Angeles, so she came to California in October, 1874, and there
she married Henry Boege and they located in Anaheim in 1876. Mr. Boege was a
painter by trade and did the painting on the homes and business blocks in the early
days and was a prominent man until his death in 1888. Mrs. Ruhmann, who is an
active member of the Catholic Church and of the Altar Society, relates many interesting
incidents of the pioneer days of Anaheim, when the streets were lighted with lamps and
there were no pavements nor sidewalks. Since her husband's death she continues to
reside. at the old home surrounded by her many friends, and is looking after the affairs
left her by her husband, and being a good manager she is giving a good account of her
stewardship. FRANK E. LAUNDERS.— As pioneers of the Southland, Frank E. Launders and
his wife have lived at Garden Grove since 1893. Their ten-acre ranch lies a quarter
of a mile south of Garden Grove, and its well-kept acreage, devoted for the most
part to the culture of lima beans, grown between the rows of their orange trees, be
speaks the ability and energy of its owner.
Mr Launders was born at Fond du Lac, Wis., April IS, 1864, and is the son of
bamuel Launders, a carpenter and builder by trade, and Maria (Cobb) Launders, a
niece of bilas Cobb, the Chicago pioneer and millionaire street railway man. Mr-
Launders grandfather Cobb, was a pioneer of Wisconsin, and the courageous spirit
that is the heritage of the sturdy pioneer is manifest in Mr. Launders. As a child he
accompanied his parents when they removed to Sauk County, Wis., and thence to
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common schools, grew to young manhood, and from Mitchell County went to Des-
plaines, Cook County, 111.
On December 6, 1885, he was married at Norwood, 111., to Miss Lena Blass of
Niles, 111., where they lived until coming to Garden Grove in 1893. In 1892, her father
had purchased twenty acres on which they lived until they sold the west ten acres in
1909. Mrs. Launders acquired the property from her father upon his death. Mr. and
Mrs. Launders are the parents of nine children who are living. Two of their children
died in infancy. Raymond is married and has four daughters and follows the former
trade of his father, a lather, and lives on a five-acre ranch south of Garden Grove;
Clarence is single, lives at home and is a lather by trade; Elmer, a carpenter and
builder, is married and lives at Garden Grove; Myrtle is the wife of George Hobbs,
a carpenter and builder who resides af Santa Maria, they have two children; Mildred
married Robert McDonald, a machinist, and they live at Garden Grove, they have
one son; Maimie is the wife of Chris Kortner, and they live at Santa Maria, Cal., and
have one daughter; Mabel is at home and is attending the Orange County Business
College, at Santa Ana. Mina and Marjorie, students in the grammar school, are at
home. In 1915 Mr. Launders built an attractive bungalow on his ranch, and there the
family have since made their home. Politically he is an adherent of the principles
advocated in the platform of the Republican party. He is a member of the Modern
Woodmen of America at Santa Ana, and he and his wife are members of the Fraternal
Aid Union. The family are highly respected in the community in which they live.
ROBERT F. HAZARD.— A native son both of California and Orange County,
Robert F. Hazard of Westminster precinct belongs to the third generation of the
Hazard family in this locality, his grandparents, Robert S. and Betsy Ann Hazard,
having been pioneer settlers of Westminster, a sketch of the latter, who still resides on
on the old home place, being given elsewhere in this work. Both born in Erieville,
N. Y., the grandparents became pioneer settlers of Blackhawk County, Iowa, going
there in 1860, remaining there until 1881, when they removed to Westminster, Cal.
Robert F. Hazard is the son of the late Frank Hazard, a prominent farmer who
owned 120 acres of land near Westminster, and who was born in Blackhawk County,
Iowa, coming here with his parents in 1881. He was married to Miss Alice Marden
of Westminster precinct, who passed away in 1900, leaving three children: Harry is
a rancher and resides near Lancaster; Robert F, the subject of this review, who was
born September 30, 1885; and Luella, who married Gifford Giles and resides at Santa
Ana; she was reared by her grandmother, Mrs. Betsy Ann Hazard, her mother having
passed away when she was but two weeks old. Frank Hazard died January 22, 1916,
at the age of fifty-seven years.
Beginning ranching on his own account when but a young man, Mr. Hazard has
prospered in everything he has undertaken. Ten years ago he purchased the first forty
acres of his ranch, which is attractively located on the Santa Ana-Huntington Beach
Boulevard west of Bolsa. He has added to his original holdings until he now has
112 acres of choice land, which he devotes to sugar beets and alfalfa. Recently he has
built a commodious bungalow and a large barn, with well, pumping plant and tank
house, the improvements in all costing nearly $10,000. In addition to his own holdings
he farms the forty-acre home place of his grandmother, Mrs. Betsy Ann Hazard.
Mr. Hazard's marriage, which occurred in 1904, united him with Miss Mabel
Deakins of Westminster, and they are the parents of three interesting children, all
boys: Roland, Clyde and Kenneth. A hard and efficient worker, Mr. Hazard is a very
energetic young man, never doing things by halves. A capable manager, he has unusual
executive ability, and his generous, liberal disposition has won for him a host of
friends. Mrs. Hazard is in every way an excellent helpmeet and shares her husband's
popularity. Politically, Mr. Hazard is an adherent of the principles of the Republican
party, and gives it his loyal support.
CURTIS HENRY HICKMAN.— That specialization in any line will bring success,
when accompanied by intelligence and persistence, is clearly shown in the experience
of C. H. Hickman, who has for the past seven years devoted his ranch in the Bolsa
district, to the production of sweet potatoes, and has achieved splendid results. Mr.
Hickman was born in Orange County, December 19, 1885, on the farm adjoining his
own. His parents were James H. and Georgia Ann (Caraway) Hickman, the father
being a native of Virginia, where he was born in 1845, while Mrs. Hickman was born
in Linn County, Iowa, March 14, 1854. Her parents, Joseph and Delila (Scott) Cara
way, born in Ohio and Indiana, respectively, were among the early settlers of Linn
County, Iowa. James H. Hickman passed away in 1903 at the age of fifty-eight years
and Mrs. Hickman still resides on the old Hickman place, which adjoins the farm of
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James H. Hickman was an early settler of O'Brien County, Iowa, where he took
up a homestead and farmed it for some time after his marriage, which occurred in
1871. About 1878, the family crossed the plains to California, and settled in the Bolsa
district and Mrs. Hickman is now one of the oldest settlers of that locality. Mr. and
Mrs. James H. Hickman were the parents of six children: Robert died at the age of
nineteen months; Irene Belle is the wife of Frank B. Ireland, a rancher at Murrietta;
Carrie May is the wife of John Newell, a rancher at Stockton; Jessie is the wife of
Eugene De Vaul, a field boss for the Anaheim Sugar Co.; Curtis Henry, of this review;
and Stella, wife of Archie Morgan, a rancher at Wildomar. Henry Hickman, as he is
popularly known, grew up on the home farm, attending the schools of the neighbor
hood, at the same time learning the practical side of agriculture. In February, 1919, he
purchased his present home ranch of ten acres, lying three miles west of Santa Ana on
the Santa Ana-Huntin'gton Beach Boulevard, and here he has developed a profitable
and well-kept property. In addition to his own land he farms his mother's place of
ten acres, the land adjoining his, and both tracts he devotes to the production of
sweet potatoes, and which yield him attractive returns.
In 1909, Mr. Hickman was married to Miss Alice Galbraith, the daughter of Nelson
L. and Helena (Yeakel) Galbraith. One of a family of seven children, Mrs. Hickman
came to Santa Ana with her parents from Louisburg, Kans., when but a year old.
Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith reside in Santa Ana, where he is a carpenter and builder. Mr.
and Mrs. Hickman have three children: Helene Marguerite, Georgia Blossom and
Walter Henry.
ADOLPH DITTMER. — A very successful business man whose valuable experi
ence, coupled with broad views, enabled him as chairman of the board of trustees of
Orange to cast a weighty influence in favor of improvements, and so to help the grow
ing town to make young giant strides in the direction of permanent progress, is Adolph
Dittmer, the popular proprietor of Dittmer's Mission Pharmacy. He came to Orange
a decade and a half ago, an advent equally lucky for himself and the community.
He was born in Chicago in 1872, and three years later removed to Fort Dodge,
Iowa, where he was educated in the grammar schools. When school was over, he
entered the office of the Fort Dodge Messenger and, beginning as printer's devil,
worked up as a printer in the job department.
Arrived at the decisive age of seventeen, he began as an apprentice in a drug
store in Fort Dodge and later completed the study in the drug store owned and con
ducted by Senator Oleson. In due time he became a registered pharmacist. It was
in 1905 that he came west to California and landed at Orange. Here he started Ditt
mer's Mission Pharmacy, in a building especially erected for him at 131 South Glassell
Street; and when the opportunity was afforded, in 1909, to secure the corner of South
Glassell and Plaza Square, he immediately made the move to the better location.
Since that time he has conducted a general drug business there.
He makes a specialty of putting up prescriptions, in which responsible work he
is assisted by his son, who is a graduate in pharmacy as well as a licentiate pharmacist;
and their conscientious application to what is more and more regarded as of extreme
importance, particularly with the advance of science and the introduction of new and
powerful drugs, is fully appreciated by the patronizing public. He is a member of the
State Pharmaceutical Association, and also of the Los Angeles Retail Druggists'
Association. While at Fort Dodge, Mr. Dittmer was married to Miss Louise Gunther, a native
of that place, by whom he has had four sons, three of whom are still living. Adolph
is a graduate of the pharmaceutical department of the University of Southern California,
and Arthur and Harold are both attending school. Mr. Dittmer is a member of
St. John's Lutheran Church, and is president of the Lutheran Men's Club of Orange.
For six years he served the city of Orange as a trustee, and for four years was
chairman of the board, presiding during the period when the town put in paved streets
and curbs, and the sewer was started, the sewer farm was purchased, and new water
mains were added to the public works. This was a crucial time for the city, and
only those who passed through the days and months of responsibility, when much
opposition had to be overcome, and a good deal of unpleasant responsibility assumed
by individual citizens for the public, know how valuable was the service to contem
poraries and to posterity rendered by the doughty city fathers. Intensely interested
in civic and business affairs he is a charter member and ex-secretary of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association of Orange.
t .M/'. Dhtmer has always advocated investments in local realty, and as an evidence
>brl\ u '" hlm> has come to own a fine orange and lemon orchard situated
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HORATIO C. DAWES. — One of Santa Ana's best known citizens, now living
retired after an active business life of many years, is Horatio C. Dawes, who has
been a resident of that city since 1891. Mr. Dawes is a Canadian by birth, having
been born near London, Ontario, on August 27, 1863, the son of Thomas and Sarah
Louise (Allen) Dawes. Thomas Dawes was a physician, prominent in his profession,
and he passed away in 1884. Mrs. Dawes, who is still enjoying life at the age of
eighty-two, lives at Santa Ana; she is a sister of H. A. Allen of Tustin and Prescott
Allen of Santa Ana.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dawes had a family of six children — three boys and three
girls, and Horatio was next to the eldest of the family. Enjoying an excellent education
in the schools of his native place, he began in early manhood to make a place for
himself in the world. He became interested in the general merchandise business,
learning it in all its details, and for thirteen years he was engaged in this line of work,
part of the time in London and later in Montreal, being associated with the well
known firm of W. E. Sanford, clothing manufacturers, in the retail branches of their
business. For some time having had a desire to come to California he left his
native home in 1891, made the long trip across the continent and located in Santa
Ana, where he at once entered into the commercial life of the city. For six years he
was with the Huff Dry Goods Company and later with Huff Brothers Clothing Store
for a period of two years. With a partner he then engaged in the clothing business
for himself under the firm name of Dawes and Huffman, and after five years he bought
out his partner's interest and continued as sole proprietor until 1909, when he closed
out his business. During this time he was also interested in the Stewart-Dawes Shoe
Company of Los Angeles.
In 1910 Mr. Dawes, accompanied by his family made an extended tour of Europe,
visiting the principal capitals of the old world and the noted places of interest, a trip
that was filled with many interesting and pleasurable recollections. During his years
of business Mr. Dawes was very successful, and while now not actively engaged in
commercial pursuits his time is largely occupied in looking after his interests prin
cipally in Southern California. For a number of years he has been a director of the
First National Bank of Santa Ana. He also gives generously of his time to civic
affairs, now serving on the Board of Education.
Mr. Dawes' marriage which occurred on June 6, 1899, united him with Miss
Florence A. Donahue, a native of Afton, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Dawes are the parents
of three children: Roberta attends Pomona College at Claremont; Truman is a
student in the Santa Ana high school; and Charles. The family attend the First Pres
byterian Church of Santa Ana. In politics Mr. Dawes is an adherent of the Republican
party, and in his fraternal affiliations he is a member of the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks
and the Independent Order of Foresters.
JOHN M. WARD. — The twenty-acre ranch owned by John M. Ward located south
west of Garden Grove, is the fourth ranch he has owned and improved in Orange
County. Mr. Ward was born February 14, 1880, at Glen Elder, Mitchell County, Kans.
His parents, Elanson and Cordelia Ward, now deceased, were natives of New York
and Iowa, respectively; they located in Kansas in 1870, and the father became the
owner of two farms, one comprising 160 acres and the other 120 acres. John M. is
the youngest child in a family of seven children and his experiences in early life were
such as commonly fall to the lot of lads reared on a farm. He was educated in the
common schools and graduated from the high school at Glen Elder, Kans., with the
class of 1897.
His marriage, which occurred in his native state in 1900, united him with Miss
Winnifred Weethee, a native of Ohio but reared in Kansas, and they are the parents
of four children. Neva and Wilma were born in Kansas, and Elmer and Ruth are
natives of the Golden State. Mr. Ward owned an eighty-acre Kansas farm, and town
property at lola and Logan, Kans., and also 160 acres in Red Willow County, Nebr.
He was taken ill and came to California for his health, with the intention of remain
ing one year, but his health improving, California's charms were sufficient to cause him
to settle at Orange, where he became the owner of a two and a half-acre place, which
he improved and lived upon eighteen months, when he came to Garden Grove in 1912.
In addition to ranching Mr. Ward follows the occupation of spraying, being a duly
licensed sprayer, in which he is the pioneer at Garden Grove. He has a portable spray
ing outfit, driven by a gasoline engine, and gives the business his personal attention,
employing two men besides himself, and covering a territory within a radius of six
miles from Garden Grove. He has sprayed as high as 2,000 acres in a single year. He
owns an acre of land in Garden Grove just north of the grammar school on which he
raises nursery stock. He has 1,000 Valencia orange trees and 1,500 walnut trees;
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He has set his home place to Valencia oranges and further improved the ranch
with a good dwelling house and suitable outbuildings for his needs and hopes to con
vert it into one of the finest places west of Garden Grove. He is a member of the
Garden Grove Orange Growers Association, and he and his wife are active members
of the Mennonite Church, and consistent and earnest Prohibitionists. A man of good
physique, strong and muscular, he is not afraid of hard work, and is possessed of
excellent judgment and business acumen, successfully accomplishing all tasks he under
takes. His efforts are ever toward the advancement of all movements calculated to
enhance the general welfare of Garden Grove, and his fellow-townsmen esteem him
highly for his many excellent qualities.
WILL C. CRAWFORD. — One of the foremost men of his day in the business
life of Orange County was the late Will C. Crawford, who established the first
wholesale grocery store in Santa Ana, and started the First National Bank in Tustin,
as well as improving lands to citrus orchards. He was very liberal and enterprising,
and few have accomplished more in the short space of time than he did. He was
born near Burlington, Iowa, in 1862, the son and eighth child of W. D. and Margaret
(Chapman) Crawford, who were born in Iowa and England, respectively, although
the father was of Scotch descent.
Will C. Crawford received a good education in the public schools of Iowa. He
was married at Middletown, Iowa, in 1884, to Miss Effie Lindley, born in Green
County, Pa., a daughter of Alvah and Rachael (Van Syoc) Lindley, natives of that
state. They removed from the Keystone State to Iowa in 1865, locating near Middle-
town, where they followed husbandry until their death. After his marriage Will C.
Crawford followed farming in Iowa, until he came to California in 1898, selecting
Orange County as his permanent home, and here he purchased the ranch on Glen
Avenue, which was improved fo a walnut and orange grove, where his widow still
resides. He purchased land near Olive and there improved a fifty-acre orchard to
Valencia oranges. He also purchased forty acres on the Newport Road and Santa
Fe Railroad at the foot of Glen Avenue, which was devoted to general farming. How
ever, this was not the limit of Mr. Crawford's capabilities, for he was a live business
man and saw a great future for Santa Ana and Orange County, so he conceived the
idea of starting the first wholesale grocery store in Santa Ana, and incorporated the
Santa Ana Wholesale Grocery Company, of which he was president and manager.
He selected the site on East First Street and the Santa Fe Railroad and built a large
two-story brick building with basement, the largest store building in Santa Ana. He
continued actively as president and manager until his death. He also organized and
was the president of the First National Bank of Tustin, a position he filled acceptably,
having the entire confidence of the people, putting it on a paying basis, a task more
easily accomplished by him, for he was a man of tact and rare business acumen and
wide influence.
While attending the Baptist Association, held at Hemet, as a delegate, he died
November 18, 1912, having been sick only three days, mourned by all who knew him.
In his death Santa Ana lost one of her most enterprising and public-spirited citizens,
whose place never can be filled. Mr. Crawford was intensely interested in mission
work, and particularly in home missions. In his will he left a bequest of $25,000 to
build and equip a chapel car for use on railroads, so constructed that a minister or
evangelist and his wife could live in the car, the other part being equipped as a chapel
with seating capacity for 125, and so could be moved by rail from state to state. Mrs.
Crawford, following in the footsteps of her husband's desires, carried out his ambi
tion, and has endowed the chapel car with a fund, the interest of which is sufficient
to pay the salary of the minister or evangelist, as well as his expenses. She has
also endowed a chair of Ethical, Biblical and Missionary Instruction at the University
of Redlands. It is known as the Will C. and Effie Crawford chair of Ethical, Biblical
and Missionary Instruction.
Mrs. Crawford continues to reside at the family home on Glen Avenue, but has
sold the other ranches and made the endowments stated above. She still holds her
interest in the First National Bank of Tustin, as well as in the wholesale grocery
business, its corporation name having been changed to Smart and Final Company.
Cultured and refined, she is a very liberal and benevolent woman, and is a devout and
active member of the First Baptist Church, as well as its missionary and women's
societies. Mr. Crawford was a worthy and ardent member of the First Baptist Church
of Santa Ana, the president of its board of trustees and a most valued member, being
very active at the time of his death in the movement for raising the funds to pay
tor the building of the new church, so he was naturally mourned by a large circle
when, in the prime of life, he passed to the beyond.

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DAVID E. JESSEE. — An industrious, prosperous rancher and a citizen of high
ideals, who has been blessed with a worthy helpmate and a family of capable children,
is David Jessee, who owned two ranches, one place of twenty-nine and a half acres'
being near the New Hope schoolhouse, while the other ranch, which consists of seven
teen and a half acres lies east of Talbert where they now live. A native of Virginia,
Mr. Jessee was born in Scott County, October 23, 1857. His parents were Archibald
and Mary Ann (Purcell) Jessee, the father having been a farmer all his life, and
although both were native Virginians, they remained loyal to the Union during the
Civil War. One of a family of nine children, David Jessee's earliest recollections are
of the Rebel soldiers foraging and skirmishing near his home, taking their corn, hay
and horses for their troops. He attended subscription schools in the neighborhood and
while still a lad went to live with his grandfather, David Jessee, for two years, running
a grist mill and helping his grandfather on the farm.
In 1877, he went to Kansas, settling in the northwest part of the state, in Smith
County. He remained there for five years, farming and raising stock, and then went
back to Virginia to visit his old home. He came back to Kansas the next year, and
the year following, the young lady who was to become his wife, whom he had met
during his visit at home, Miss Maggie E. Godsey, came out to Smith County and their
marriage occurred there on October 27, 1884. Mrs. Jessee was also a native of Virginia,
as were her parents, Samuel and Sarah E. (Morgan) Godsey. She was born and reared
in the same neighborhood as Mr. Jessee and received her education in the public
schools there.
Mr. Jessee continued to farm in Smith County, Kans., for eleven years after
his marriage, selling out there in 1895 and coming to California, locating in Orange
County. His father, Archibald Jessee, had come out to California the year before
and settled in the Bolsa precinct, where he lived until 1912, passing away at the age of
eighty-two years. In 1900 they purchased a place in the New Hope district which was
then a salt grass pasture. At first they put down a small two-inch well, later a seven-
inch well and a pumping plant with a ten-horsepower engine, which furnished from
forty to seventy inches of water, an abundance for the ranch. Mr. Jessee has also put
in 1200 feet of cement pipe for irrigation, built a residence, barns and made many
other improvements. This ranch was sold on June 17, 1920. On their other ranch,
which he also improved in the Talbert district, there is a seven-inch flowing well, and
Mr. Jessee has also installed a pumping plant there for use in exceedingly dry seasons.
He raises grain, alfalfa, sugar beets and pimentos on his holdings, and has been
very successful in growing the latter. They also own property at Manhattan Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. Jessee are the parents of four children: Charles Palmer resides
in Santa Ana and is in the transfer business there; Lizzie Ellen is the wife of W. O.
Ater, a cotton and alfalfa grower at Blythe, she is the mother of three sons living
and a daughter deceased; William is a plumber at Santa Ana; Earl Randolph is a
sophomore at the Santa Ana high school. Mrs. Jessee's mother, now the widow of
Thomas Fowler, makes her home with them and is now past seventy-six years of
age and blind. Public spirited and progressive, Mr. Jessee has for years taken an
active interest in advancing the educational and material interests of his district, and
in this he has been ably seconded by his wife, a woman of great force of character who
has proved herself in every way a faithful helpmate.
WILLIAM LEHNHARDT. — Although newcomers to Bolsa precinct, the family
of William Lehnhardt have already made for themselves a very definite place in the
community, for they are indeed an acquisition to the moral, intellectual and industrial
life of the neighborhood. A native of Michigan, Mr. Lehnhardt was born at Montague,
Muskegon County, August 21, 1873. His parents were William and Mary (Hendricks)
Lehnhardt, both born and married in Germany, coming to America about 1865, and set
tling in Michigan. The father died in Muskegon, and when William was twelve years of
age he came with his mother and the rest of the family to Chicago. He received his edu
cation in the public schools of Muskegon and Chicago and then learned the trade of
cornice maker and sheet metal worker. During the stringent times succeeding the
World's Fair at Chicago in 1893, he found it very difficult to get steady work there, so
in 1897 he went to South Dakota and began working in a hardware store at Tyndall,
Bon Homme County, and while working there he also learned the tinsmith's trade.
for many years he ran the hardware business of John Weisser, his father-in-law, after
wards becoming the proprietor of a store of his own, which he conducted successfully
for a number of years.
In 1907 he sold out his hardware business at Tyndall and came to California,
settling at Long Beach, where he remained until 1908, when he bought twenty acres
of land in the Bolsa district and here now owns forty-five acres of well improved land,
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ting in a well and pumping plant. He has gone in quite extensively for truck gardening
and has been very successful in growing pimento and chili peppers, cabbage, sweet
and Irish potatoes. He also rents ten acres in addition, which he farms.
On April 25, 1900, Mr. Lehnhardt was married to Miss Elizabeth Weisser of
Tyndall, S. D., a daughter of John and Eva Weisser, the father being born in Odessa,
Russia. Mrs. Lehnhardt, received an excellent education, being a graduate of the
Tyndall high school and after that a student for two years at the University of South
Dakota, at Vermillion. Mr. and Mrs. John Weisser came to California in 1907, later
settling in the Bolsa district, Mr. Weisser passing away in May, 1916, at the age of
seventy-one years. Mrs. Eva Weisser is the owner of a ten-acre ranch just across the
road from the Lehnhardt home, and here she resides, having recently erected a fine
bungalow on the place. Mr, and Mrs. Lehnhardt are the parents of nine children:
Robert, a graduate of the Santa Ana high school and now attends the University of
Redlands; Walter and Laura attend the Santa Ana high school; Emma, Elizabeth
and Margaret are in the New Hope grammar school; and John W., Carl Edward and
Ruth Anna are at home. Keenly alive to the importance of giving the best possible
educational advantages to the coming generation, Mr. Lehnhardt is serving as school
trustee of the New Hope district. Politically he inclines to the principles of the
Republican party. The family are members of the Baptist Church at Garden Grove.
Intelligent, industrious and progressive, the whole family are indeed a welcome addi
tion to the community. The excellent education received by Mrs. Lehnhardt is made
manifest in all the details of their home life, and she is a model wife and mother. Of
a jovial disposition, Mr. Lehnhardt makes friends wherever he goes and he is always
ready to give of his time and energy to any good cause.
JAMES A. MORRIS. — A late-comer to California and to Huntington Beach who.
has amply demonstrated his experience and ability as both an agriculturist in general
and a horticulturist, and also as a successful business man, is James A. Morris, the
resident and managing superintendent of the great Huntington Beach Company ranch
of 1,500 acres, one and a half miles north of the beach city. His father was Thomas
J. Morris, a native of Northumberland County, Pa., and a descendant of Robert Morris,
one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and also Superintendent of
Finance for the Colonies during the Revolutionary War. He came to Ohio in 1854, and
was sheriff of Athens County. He was also an extensive coal operator, and owner
of valuable coal lands. He married Elizabeth Hooper, a native of Ohio, and a near
relation to the late Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, the distinguished naval com
mander. She is still living at New Madison, Darke County, Ohio, well and hearty at
the age of seventy-eight. Thomas J. Morris died in 1891, at the age of sixty-seven, the
father of seven children, five of whom are now living.
James A. Morris, the second child, was born at Athens, Ohio, on September 29,
1869, and in that city completed the course of the Athens high school. Later he was
graduated from the Agricultural Department of the Ohio State University, as a
member of the Class of '92, having previously completed the law course in 1889— a
choice of study undertaken, perhaps, because his maternal grandfather was the well-
known Judge Hooper of Athens County, Ohio. He was admitted, as a matter of
fact, to the Bar when he was nineteen years of age, and was the youngest member of
his class that graduated. He still owns his grandfather's law library, which is large
and valuable, and although well qualified and equipped as a lawyer, yet the practice
of law did not appeal to him.
At the age of twenty-one, therefore, he took the management of his father's farm
of 1,800 acres, in Hocking County, Ohio, and successfully conducted it as long as his
father continued to own it, or until about 1888. His father was a man of the most
progressive type, by the way, and installed the first electric drills and machinery
for mining coal ever used in fhe state of Ohio— as a result of which the miners struck.
Ihe elder Morris owned and operated the Morris Coal Company, serving as its presi-
taI-u ,feneraI manager, and as a coal operator often was in conference with John
J' ioqq 1- at ^ J™6 President of the miners' union. He died in 1891, but as early
as 1888 disposed of his farming lands, and when he sold his coal-mining interests,
they were taken over by the Morgan Syndicate. He was always a stanch Republican
and active in Ohio politics, and counted as his personal friends President Wm. McKin
ley, Governor J. B. Foraker, Mark Hanna and other natives of the Buckeye State who
were also of national repute.
James A. Morris came west to California in 1910, and settled at Los Angeles,
where he soon established himself so successfully that he now owns two ranches in
£n fL rnvi, -y' tUd , 6 in the San Joa^in Valley- One of those in the
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$80,000, consisting of some 200 acres of the finest fruit land in the state. Mr. Morris
also owns a ranch of forty acres, which is situated not far from Sunset Beach, between
that place and Huntington Beach. In September, 1917, he had the great misfortune to
be accidentally poisoned from arsenic of lead, and for a whole year he was sick in
consequence. In 1919 Mr. Morris became managing superintendent of the Huntington Beach
Company's ranch, being a practical as well as a professional and theoretical agri
culturist; and it is hardly necessary to say that he is making good. This ranch con
tains 1,500 acres, planted mainly to lima beans and barley. Some 250 pigs and hogs are
raised here annually. The farm is really one of the show-places of Orange County,
and of Huntington Beach in particular; there are beautiful drives, lined with Mon
terey cypress trees, and the yards are ample and symmetrically laid out.
Mr. Morris has twice been married. At Athens, Ohio, he was joined in wedlock
to Miss Ida M. Whitmore, who died suddenly from appendicitis, leaving a son, Herrold
Morris, now twenty-one years of age, assisting his father on the Huntington Beach
Company's ranch. In July, 1909, Mr. Morris was married a second time, his bride
being Miss Margaret Starr of Lexington, Ky. Two children have blessed this union —
Helen and James.
JOHN WINTERS. — A veteran nurseryman, John Winters is thoroughly con
versant with the conditions under which citrus trees thrive to best advantage, and has
raised all the trees on his ten-acre orange orchard from seed and budded the trees to
Valencias, the first plantings of which, made eight years ago, are now coming nicely
into bearing. He has lived on his ranch near Garden Grove for seventeen years.
A native of England, Mr. Winters was born twelve miles east of the city of
York, famed for its historic cathedral. His father, Charles, and his mother, Sarah
(Buttle) Winters, lived and died in England, the father dying when John was nineteen
years old. The mother died in 1917 at the age of ninety-two. They were the parents
of eleven children, of whom John is the third child in order of birth, and the only
member of the family in California. He has one sister living in Massachusetts, and two
in England. Reared in his native county, the cream of England's farming section, he
learned to read, write and figure before he reached the age of ten, after which his
opportunities for schooling ceased. At the age of eleven he began working out for
his board and twenty-five dollars the first year, buying his clothing out of this meagre
wage. Notwithstanding the lack of his early schooling Mr. Winters is one of Garden
Grove's well-informed men, his education having been acquired in the school of experi
ence and actual business life, supplemented by reading and studying the best standard
books, journals, magazines and other publications, and a daily reading of the Bible,
the greatest of all books. He lived in England until he was twenty-one years of age,
then bade farewell to old associations and friends and sailed for America from Liver
pool on the Cunard liner, Cuba, April 13, 1872. After a pleasant voyage of ten and a
half days, he landed at old Castle Garden, New York City, April 23, 1872, his destination
being Malvern, Iowa, where he arrived the last week in April. The first season in his
new home he worked on the farm of his uncle, John Buttle.
Mr. Winters was married in Iowa on February 21, 1880, to Miss Alice Newman,
a native of Page County, Iowa, and daughter of Nelson and Malinda J. (Frady) New
man, natives of Ohio and Indiana, respectively. Mr. Newman died in Iowa in 1892; his
wife is living, and makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Winters. By a singular coin
cidence Mr. and Mrs. Winters were married just twenty years to a day after Mr. and
Mrs. Newman were married, and the same minister officiated at both weddings. After
their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Winters' farmed one year in Iowa, then went to Nebraska,
where they purchased a sixty-eight-acre farm in Saunders County, upon which they lived
two years, then bought another place nearby and stayed there three years. Disposing
of the Nebraska property they went to Phillips County, Kans., and purchased a home
stead of 160 acres six miles southeast of Long Island, in that state. Of their eight
children three were born in Nebraska and five were born in Kansas. They are:
Charles N., a machinist and rancher residing at Golita, Santa Barbara County; Jennie,
the wife of Purl Talbott, a rancher near Modesto, Stanislaus County; Nellie, the wife
of A. L. Griffin, a carpenter and builder and auto salesman residing at Garden Grove;
John Stanley, a machinist on the Conway ranch in Glenn County; Fred B., of Lowell,
Ariz., resigned a position with a jeweler and optician in Los Angeles and enlisted in the
Coast Artillery, then took the radio course, went to France and was there but a few
weeks before the armistice was signed. He reached home, after an honorable discharge,
in April, 1919, resumed his former position and later went to Lowell, Ariz., where he
had worked some years earlier as a jeweler and optician; Mattie, the wife of Fred M.
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and lemon grower at Garden Grove; and Carrie, who died in California, aged five.
There are thirteen grandchildren.
Mr. Winters farmed in Kansas from 1886 to 1900, then Dr. A. Bennie, of Long
Island, Kans., who had come to California, induced him to come to Santa Ana in 1900,
where he worked at various occupations, finally removing in 1902 to Garden Grove. At
that time there was only one store, the postoffice building, about a dozen houses, and
three churches in the place. In 1903 Mr. Winters purchased his present ten acres,
which was planted to grain, and a grove of eucalyptus trees. He was engaged in the
nursery business at Garden Grove, and grew and budded Valencia oranges, lemons, etc.,
disposing of his nursery in 1919. Mr. Winters helped organize the Garden Grove
Citrus Association, the officers of which are: Milo B. Allen, president; E. M. Dozier,
secretary, treasurer and manager; J. O. Arkley, vice-president; Fred Andres, James
Henry, Claude Crosby and John Winters, directors. Mr. Winters' early experience
developed the qualities of independence and self-reliance, and his career has been
marked by energy, thrift, frugality and economy. His ranch is well equipped with
the appurtenances necessary to operate it successfully, and he has a comfortable
house, and necessary outbuildings, a well for domestic and irrigation purposes, pumped
by means of a centrifugal pump and a five-horsepower gasoline engine. His home is
presided over by his estimable helpmate, who is an ideal housewife, hospitable, motherly
and'kind, a noble-minded woman who makes all who come within her domain welcome.
Always a booster for Orange County, Mr. Winters' interest in Garden Grove is demon
strated in no unmistakable manner. No worthy project for its betterment is ever
presented that does not receive his sanction and assistance. His citizenship papers
were taken out while he lived in Kansas, and politically he is a Socialist.
ED. MANNING. — A live, far-seeing and, therefore, an experienced and suc
cessful business man, who is also president of the board of trustees of Huntington
Beach is Ed. Manning, an Illinois boy who is now the oldest business man in the town.
He was born near Lanark, Carroll County, of the Prairie State, the son of Albert Man
ning, also a native of Illinois, who was a Carroll County farmer. He died when the
lad was five years old. Mrs. Manning was Miss Huldah C. Lindsley before her mar
riage; she was born in Ohio, and is now living at Azusa, Cal. Grandfather Ashley
Manning was a Carroll County pioneer, widely esteemed for those sterling qualities
characteristic of the typical American. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Manning had five boys
and two girls, and all the family, with the exception of the father and a son, Baden
Manning, a plasterer at Milledgeville, Carroll County, 111., are now in California.
The fourth in the order of birth, Ed. Manning first saw the light of day on March
20, 1872, and grew up on a farm until he was eighteen years of age. Then he made a
trip to Minnesota and Dakota, and returned to Illinois. On attaining his twentieth
year, he came farther west to California, in the spring of 1892, and for a year worked
at farming at Azusa, Los Angeles County.
When of age, Mr. Manning went to Los Angeles and for three years served as
an apprentice to the plumber's trade. Returning to Azusa, he worked at his trade in
the San Gabriel Valley, especially at Azusa and Covina and vicinities, for eight years.
In 1904 Mr. Manning went to Huntington Beach, a year ahead of the "boom,"
and having the foresight to invest, he now owns some very good beach property.
In his business, which has become of much importance to the growing community,
he employs from three to nine men, according to the season.
While in the San Gabriel Valley, Mr. Manning was married to Miss Carrie V.
Preston, with whom he lives in a neat bungalow residence at the corner of Geneva
and Delaware avenues. The happy couple have three children— Pauline and Mildred,
who are in the high school, and Nona, who is in the grammar school.
An active Republican and an honored member of the Republican County Cen
tral Committee from Huntington Beach, Mr. Manning has participated considerably in
public affairs, serving his community as a good patriot in the most nonpartisan fashion.
He was elected a member of the first board of trustees of Huntington Beach, in 1909,
and served for three years, and lately he has been appointed to fill a vacancy in that
hody. During his early service, he was president of the board for two years, a position
to which he has again been selected. He stands for good and better roads, and has
always been in favor of the various state and county bond issues for improving high
ways. He helped secure the municipal pier at a cost of $70,000, and favors a municipal
pavilion and bath house. He voted for the issue of $500,000 worth of Newport Harbor
bonds, and in many other ways has sought to express on all occasions his public-
spintedness. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow and is past grand in Huntington Beach
Lodge No. 183, and is a member of the California Master Plumbers' Association.

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STEVE PAGE. — Three and one-half miles west and north from Garden Grove
is situated the twenty-five-acre dairy ranch of Steve Page, well known in and about
the thriving little town. He was born in Dalmatia, Jugo-Slavia, on February 26, 1879,
the son of the late Louis Page, who was born in 1844, iri the same section of country,
and who came first to the land of sunshine and gold in the year 1860, a lad of only
sixteen. Upon his arrival in San Francisco he went to work in a fruit store, then as
he became more familiar with the English language and the ways of the country,
became a prospector and miner. He remained in America about twelve years, during
which time he became a naturalized citizen, then returned to Dalmatia to marry the
girl of his choice, Miss Annie Andriyasevich. He was then twenty-eight years old.
After their marriage they settled down and were in Dalmatia several years, and there
their first four children were born. Mr. Page left his family at their home and once
more came to California and mined for three years in Amador County and was pre
paring to have his family join him when he had provided a home. He was taken with
yellow fever and returned to Dalmatia in 1884. After he had recovered he became
manager of copper mines at Zagrab in Croatia, and he died there in 1916, at the age
of seventy-three. He was a fine linguist, and had command of six languages. His
widow survives and is living in her native country at the age of seventy-one. They
had thirteen children, nine still living.
Steve Page is the fourth child of those living, and besides himself, there are four
brothers living in Southern California. He attended the schools of his native land and
in 1905 left home and arrived in Butte, Mont., where he was employed in the copper
mines, having obtained some knowledge of that business under his father. Eleven
months later he arrived in Los Angeles and worked as a car repairer for the Southern
Pacific Railway until 1911.
In 1909, in Los Angeles, Mr. Page was united in marriage with Miss Vice Kurtela,
daughter of Nick and Katie Kurtela, old neighbors of the Page family in Dalmatia,
where she was born. She came to America with her brother, Martin Kurtela, now
of San Francisco, and three days after her arrival in Los Angeles was married. Of
this union there are five children: Louis, Nicholas, Mike, Steve, Jr., and Katrina. In
1911 Mr. and Mrs. Page moved to Gardena, where they ran a dairy for three years.
In 1914, Mr. Page bought his present place, which he has greatly improved by putting
in over 2,000 feet of cement irrigating pipe, built two silos and stocked the ranch with
cattle for his dairy. He had to level the ground before he could put in alfalfa and
corn and other crops, but he has kept busily at work and the fine condition of the
place is seen today by the crops produced. In all his work he has had the cooperation
of his wife and they have won a large circle of friends in their new home. They are
members of the Catholic Church. Mr. Page is a believer in progressive methods and
works for all good movements that will build up Orange County. He has had his "ups
and downs" but is optimistic and knows every cloud has its silver lining. To such
men and women of foreign birth the State of California owes a debt of gratitude for
they show their loyalty in the good work they do towards making it a better place in
which to live.
ROYAL B. RICHEY. — One of Garden Grove's most energetic business men is
Royal B. Richey, who conducts a prosperous transfer business there, using two good
auto trucks, and who also is very busy as. field agent for the Curtiss Corporation of
Long Beach, organizing the planting- and delivering of pimentos in this district for
that company. A native of Nebraska, Mr. Richey was born at McCook, Red Willow
County, that state, on March 21, 1879, and is the son of David N. and Sarah J. (Camp
bell) Richey. The father, who was born at Marshalltown, Iowa, died when Royal
was nineteen years of age, and Mrs. Richey is now a resident of Hollywood. There
were seven children in the Richey family and five are living: Mrs. Ed Davis of Holly
wood; Royal B. of this review; Mrs. J. R. Hook resides at Los Angeles; Ross C. lives
at Los Angeles; and Mrs. Jack Hall of Hollywood.
Mr. Richey spent his early years at Wymore, Nebr., receiving his education
in the public schools there, and when quite young he began railroad work. He worked
as switchman, brakeman and engine foreman for the B. & M. Railroad, living at
Wymore, Nebr., later becoming yardmaster at Beatrice for the same system. In 1904
he came to California, and settled at San Bernardino, working for the Santa Fe as
switchman and yard foreman. He was soon transferred to Winslow, Ariz., where he
held a like position. In 1907 he was returned to San Bernardino and he continued there
with the Santa Fe until 1910, when he moved onto a walnut ranch of ten acres in the
Anaheim district, remaining there for three years. In 1913 he came to Garden Grove
and started in the transfer business. He built a residence in Garden Grove where he
and his family lived until he sold it, and then purchased five acres south of the Pacific
Electric depot. He paid $1,100 an acre for the raw land in 1914, and after setting it
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out to Valencia oranges the next year and improving it with buildings costing $3,500,
he disposed of it in December, 1919, for $13,500, showing the rise in land values in
this vicinity. He now owns thirteen acres a quarter of a mile north of Garden Grove,
where the family make their home, and here he set out ten acres to Valencia oranges.
He has spent considerable money improving this place, especially for irrigation. He
has laid much cement pipe and has installed a K. T. valve for each tree row, thus
reducing the hard labor connected with the irrigation process to a minimum.
As field agent of the Curtiss Corporation, Mr. Richey makes contracts with the
farmers for the growing of pimento peppers, and for the season of 1920 he has 650
acres under contract in the vicnity of Garden Grove and Westminster, this having
proved a very profitable industry for the farmers. These peppers are canned by the
Curtiss Company and a large part of their product is taken over by the big 'cheese
makers for flavoring pimento cheese. It is during the canning season that Mr. Richey
is particularly busy and his two trucks then run night and day, with three shifts of
men to each truck. He has established the following central or receiving stations —
two in the Bolsa district; one at Garden Grove; one at Stanton; one at Artesia; one at
Norwalk; one at Westminster and one east of Artesia. From these stations he rushes
the peppers to the large canning factory of the Curtis Corporation at Long Beach.
hauling from ten to fifteen tons at each load. His auto trucks are also used for general
hauling and transfer business after the press of the canning season is over. In his
many years as a railroad man, Mr. Richey learned the value of accuracy and strict
business methods and this he makes use of to good advantage in his growing transfer
business. Mr. Richey's marriage occurred at Winslow, Ariz., January 2, 1906, when he was
united with Miss Isa May Rice, a native of Blue Springs, Nebr., the daughter of J. W.
and Phoebe Katherine (Pike) Rice, who are now residents of Los Angeles; one
brother, Charles Rice, is also a resident of Los Angeles, being engaged in the hay and
grain business there. J. W. Rice was the first hardware merchant at Blue Springs,
Nebr., and there Mrs. Richey received her early education in the grammar schools,
later attending the high school at Wymore, Nebr. She came to California in 1901 to
attend an art school at San Francisco and was a student there for a year. Her step-
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Godfrey were among the early settlers of Tustin.
Mr. and Mrs. Richey are the parents of two children — Benjamin and Katheryn.
Garden Grove has no more optimistic and untiring booster than Mr. Richey. He
was the moving spirit in reorganizing the Business Men's Association and changing it to
the present Chamber of Commerce and he is now second vice-president of that organ
ization. He has also served as a trustee on the Board of Education since 1917. Fra
ternally, he is a member of the Independent Order of Foresters and the local treasurer
of that lodge.
OREL C. HARE. — One of Westminster's rising young business men who has by
his enterprise and force of character made a leading place for himself in the commercial
life of the community is Orel C. Hare, proprietor of the up-to-date garage and machine
shop there. A native of Kansas, Mr. Hare was born at LaCygne, Linn County, in that
state on June 30, 1886. He is the only child of Euphrates A. and Amy (Copeland)
Hare, the father being the popular blacksmith at Westminster and the joint owner
with O. C. Hare of a whole block in the center of the town, the father's blacksmith
shop occupying the east part of the block, while the machine shop, garage and office
occupies the remaining two-thirds of the block.
Euphrates A. Hare was born in Ross County, Ohio, March 22, 1851, his parents
being Pleasant G. and Susanna (Moomaw) Hare; her father came from Europe (prob
ably from Holland) and settled in Pennsylvania in the early days, later moving to
Ohio, where he followed the trade of a tanner. While yet a young man Euphrates A.
Hare moved to Linn County, Kans., right near the Missouri-Kansas state line, and at
Mulberry, Mo., he served an apprenticeship in the blacksmith's trade, working there
for nearly five years. After his marriage in 1883 to Miss Amy Copeland he continued
in the blacksmith business, and at the same time became the owner and proprietor of
several saw mills, operating three different mills at various times. In 1891 he removed
to Blame, Wash., and conducted a bicycle shop and also a shop where he manufactured
tools and implements for the fish canning industry. In 1905 he moved with his family
to California, remaining at Los Angeles until 1908, when he came to Westminster
where he has operated his large, well equipped blacksmith shop ever since, and where
he may be found every day actively and busily engaged at his trade, and although he
has nearly reached his three score years and ten he is efficient, strong and capable and
enjoys perfect health. Mr Hare is a Mason, belonging to the lodge at Huntington
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lodge at Blaine, Wash., where he formerly resided. In political matters he has always
been a consistent Democrat.
From his father Orel C. Hare learned the blacksmith trade when he was but a
young man. His early boyhood days were spent at Blaine, Wash., and he re
ceived a good, public school education. When the family came to Westminster
he soon began to branch out for himself in the automobile business. He has the Ford
service station for this vicinity and has a thoroughly equipped machine shop, where he
is prepared to repair all makes of cars, having in his employ several capable machinists
besides himself, at all times. He also does repair and mechanical work for tractors,
trucks, pumps and engines, all of which requires the equipment and expertness found
only in first-class machine shops.
Mr. Hare's marriage on August 6, 1912, united him with Miss Marie Larter, a
native daughter of California, whose father is R. E. Larter, a prominent financier and
capitalist of Westminster, a review of whose life is given elsewhere in this work. Mr.
and Mrs. Hare are the parents of two promising children: Orel Edwin and Mary
Louise. Like his father, Orel C. Hare is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Hunting
ton Beach and also votes the Democratic ticket.
JOHN H. McCARTY.— How much of the satisfaction felt by the San Juan Capis
trano public with the splendid service of the Santa Fe Railroad is due to the ability and
affability of the company's agent at this point, only those who have had personal and
continued dealings with the courteous and reliable John H. McCarty, the representa
tive of an excellent old Scottish-American family, will fully realize. He is unusually
well-posted, a hard worker, and a most faithful employee, and is very naturally highl}
respected at San Juan, where he has lived and served as station agent for the pas
twenty years. He owns both a ranch and some living-house property, and has, there
fore, some reward for his years of strenuous, prosy application to daily duty.
He was born at Dexter, Meigs County, Ohio, on August 29, 1856, not far fron
old Fort Meigs, on the Western Reserve, the son of Jonas and Sarah (Jordan) McCarty
Jonas McCarty was mechanically inclined, and was a worker in wood, iron, brass and
steel. The McCarty family hailed originally from Scotland, and Grandfather George
McCarty was born in Greenbrier County, Va. As a planter, he left his farm to become
a soldier in the War of 1812; and having been honorably discharged, he was duly pen
sioned. Later, he moved from Virginia to the vicinity of old Fort Meigs on "the Trail,"
before there were any regularly traveled roadways from the Old Dominion to the
Buckeye State, and he took shelter under the eaves of Fort Meigs. He was thus a
pioneer in all verity, and contributed at real personal sacrifice something for the wel
fare of posterity to come after him. Settling on land near Fort Meigs, he became
prominent both as a progressive agriculturist and as a politician with statesmanlike
ideas and ideals. Mr. and Mrs. Jonas McCarty reared a family of ten children — four
boys and six girls, and among these John was the seventh in the order of birth. John
H. McCarty has only one living brother, Miles I. McCarty, who conducts a drug store
at Fallbrook, California; he has a sister in Nebraska, one in Wisconsin, one in West
Virginia, and two in Ohio. Growing up in Meigs County on his father's farm, he so
busied himself in his father's workshop and sawmill that he became a sawyer, and for
eight years ran a portable sawmill for his father. He worked alternately in the mill,
the shop and on the farm, saying, laughingly, that when he did so he was only keep
ing up a habit he had formed when he was three years old!
After attending the common schools of his district, he went to the Wilkesville
Academy, four miles from his home, to supplement his rudimentary studies, and soon
thereafter was married, on June 12, 1881, at Salem, Ohio, to Miss Addie F. Edmund-
son of that state. Then he learned telegraphy at the Valentin School of Telegraphy at
Janesville, Wis., and he began his railway career by working for the Santa Fe Railway
as station agent at Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kans. At the end of a year, in 1882,
he was taken ill with the typhoid fever and nearly died, as a result of which he went
back to his old home in Ohio to recuperate. On his recovery, he went to work for the
Ohio Central Railroad, and for a year- held the position of station agent at Carpenter,
Ohio; and then, for twelve years, he had the same responsibility at Albany, Ohio.
Owing to Mrs. McCarty's impaired health, Mr. McCarty came out to California
in 1895, and was first located at National City, San Diego County, as agent for the
Santa Fe Railroad, and at the dawn of the present century he was transferred to San
Juan Capistrano, to his own satisfaction and that of those who could foresee in him
just the kind of a person of experience and temperament needed at this historic and
much-visited town. And, having made more than good, he has been here ever since.
He is, of course, a member of the Order of Railway Telegraphers.
Four children have been granted Mr. and Mrs. McCarty. The eldest of the family
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Dale is in the automobile business, and is traveling agent for a firm in Texas. Fay
has become the wife of LeRoy R. Cook, and Marie A., the youngest of the three children
born in Ohio, is the wife-of Dr. Charles Swanson, the veterinary and rancher living in
the Coachella Valley.
Mr. McCarty is a Mason, belonging to a lodge at Athens, Ohio, and is also a
member of the Odd Fellows' Lodge at Albany in that state, where he was its first
noble grand. He is also a member of Capistrano Camp, W. O. W. Mr. and Mrs.
McCarty are members of and very active in the Community Presbyterian Church at
San Juan Capistrano, for which the congregation will soon have a fine edifice. He is
a Democrat in matters of national politics, but otherwise votes for the best man and the
most appealing principles.
CHARLES E. GUPTILL. — One of Garden Grove's highly respected citizens is
Charles E. Guptill, who came to this locality in 1912, bringing with him his family
.and considerable means from South Dakota. Mr. Guptill is a native of Rockton,
Winnebago County, 111., born September 22, 1852, of good old New England lineage.
His father, John B. Guptill, was a native of Maine, and his grandfather, Amos Guptill
married Miss Hannah Bickford in the old Pine Tree State, and migrated to Winnebago
County, 111., in pioneer days before the building of the railway. John B. was a young
man when the family came to Illinois from Maine, and he married Miss Emily Warren
at Rockton, 111., who was born and reared in Ogle County, in that state.
Charles E. Guptill was six years old when his father moved to Shirland, Winne
bago County, 111., and is the eldest of a family of two boys and two girls. Velona is
the wife of Benjamin D. Goldy, and resides in Florida; Seymour is a rancher at Palo
Verde, Cal., and Lilly died at the age of sixteen; the father attained the age of sixty
before his demise. Charles E. grew up on his father's farm at Shirland, and acquired
his education in the district school. At Newark, Rock County, Wis., he was united
in marriage with Miss Aurila Jane Hoyt, a native of Rock County, the daughter of Otto
Hoyt, one of that county's pioneer farmers. After his marriage Mr. Guptill continued
farming on the Hoyt farm in Rock County, Wis., until 1888, when he went to South
Dakota, then a territory, and settled at Canton, Lincoln County, where he improved
a 120-acre farm, and continued to reside there until 1901. He then removed to Spring
field, Bon Homme County, S. D., and purchased 480 acres of land, which he improved
and became a prosperous and successful stockman. In 1913 he came to California
and purchased sixty acres of land in the Garden Grove precinct; this he has since
divided up among some of his children, retaining the home place of ten acres.
Mr. and Mrs. Guptill are the parents of six children: Pearl, the wife of Thomas
J. Kane, a rancher at Alamitos; John O.; Charles H., a rancher in the Palo Verde
Valley; Mary, who is single and at home; and- Benjamin A., who operates ten acres
three miles west and a half a mile north of Garden Grove, which was given him by his
father in 1918. He was born in Canton, S. D., July 28, 1900, and reared in Springfield,
that state. Coming to California with the family in 1912, he became a student at the
Alamitos school, and still resides at home with his father. The youngest son, Thomas,
died at the age of ten. Mr. Guptill has built a comfortable country home of the
bungalow type, with several attractive features and thoroughly modern. He is regarded
as one of the substantial, and upright men who are maintaining the stability and dignity
of Orange County, where he and his estimable family are highly regarded. Mrs.
Guptill is hospitable and charitable to a fault, a Christian woman who has many
friends in the community in which their lot is cast. In politics Mr. Guptill is inde
pendent in his views.
CYRUS B. PULVER.— One of the substantial men of his district who in his day
worked untiringly for the betterment of conditions in Orange County, and who as the
result of his foresight, integrity and industry, builded far better than he knew was the
late Cyrus B Pulver, a native of Pine Plains, Dutchess County, N. Y., where he was
born April 18, 1835, the son of Nicholas and Margaret (Righter) Pulver, both descended
from old York State stock.
When twenty-one years of age, Cyrus B. Pulver moved to Champaign County,
111., and there improved a farm from the prairie. In 1869 he went to Tuscumbia. Ala.,
where he remained until 1872 and then located in Coffey County, Kans.; in 1876 he
moved to Wichita, Sedgwick County, the same state, and there on April 13, 1881, he
was married to Miss Isabel S. Hatch, who was born in Jacksonville, Fla., the daughter
?n S°Ce5 *0 EUZ1 (Hun?Bton) Hatch- The father was born in Craftsburyr Vt.,
Florid in "l«W- ? r" ? Greensboro' Vt'> m 1808. Chauncey Hatch removed to
iVnd nJr M ^ I ° e"gage '" °range culture' and Purchased seventy acres of
War hrnl, , J.* gM Settl"g °Ut °rangeS' But when the Seminole Indian
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fled to Jacksonville, where Mrs. Hatch taught school and kept a hotel; later the
family moved to Key West and there the parents passed away. Mrs. Pulver, the
youngest of their five children, aud the only one now living, received her education in
the private schools of Key West. After spending several years in the North and
then awhile in St. Louis she came to Wichita, Kans., in 1878, on a visit, and it was
there she met Mr. Pulver, the acquaintance resulting in their marriage, and soon
afterward they came to California.
Mr. Pulver located first at Newport, where he remained for a time, but in 1884
he removed to the property upon which his widow now resides. This is a ranch of
nine acres which was brought to a high state of cultivation during Mr. Pulver's
life time, and is now a valuable estate. Mr. Pulver for many years devoted himself to
citrus culture, and was looked upon as an authority upon many disputed points.
He passed away in January, 1919, mourned by his family and friends; he had
been for many years a faithful and highly honored member of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, and was also a worthy member of the First Presbyterian Church of
Santa Ana. Mrs. Pulver worthily represents her pioneer ancestry, and the good old
town of Santa Ana which, in its time, has welcomed so many pioneers. Like her
husband, she is a member of the First Presbyterian Church and is also a stanch
Republican and member of Santiago Orange Growers Association and the Santa Ana
\Valnut Growers Association.
ROBERT J. THOMPSON.— A highly-progressive rancher of the type that
always profits from experience, and so enjoys today according to the labor of yes
terday, and while building for tomorrow, is Robert J. Thompson of Orange Avenue,
Santa Ana, favorably known through his successful land dealings, in which he has
always operated in the fairest manner. He was born at Romney, Hampshire County,
Va. (now West Virginia), on the south branch of the Potomac River, on March 2, 1847,
the son of Robert Thompson, a farmer, who married Zulemma Taylor, and was sent
to the private schools of that locality, as there were then no public schools there.
In 1865, when he was eighteen years old, he moved near Pawpaw, Lee County, 111.,
where the elder Thompson had already purchased Government land, but did not join
his son until 1868. He finished his schooling in the Prairie State, and when he put
aside his books, he engaged in farming at Pawpaw.
In Lee County, on March 15, 1870, Mr. Thompson was married to Miss Evelyn
L. Flagg, a native of Vermont and a daughter of Lucius and Elmyra (Chittenden)
Flagg, and the great-granddaughter of Thomas Chittenden, the first governor of
Vermont, and a grandniece of Martin Chittenden, who was governor of Vermont in
1813 and 1814, and had attained the rank of major-general of militia at only the age
of thirty-three. Her parents moved to Pawpaw, Lee County, 111., when she was three
years old, and she was educated there, finishing her schooling at Pawpaw Academy.
She taught school for six years in Lee County, prior to her marriage, and was thus
able to assist in directing the course of education in that part of the fast-developing
Middle West.
Having added by purchase to some land that he inherited, Mr. Thompson ran
a farm of 310 acres, until he sold some eighty acres, after which he still continued to
be an extensive stock feeder. He came out to California in 1900, at the very beginning
of this century, and once at Santa Ana, and familiar with the superior advantages of
the country, he disposed of his Illinois farm for good. Seven days later he purchased
a home at Santa Ana, at 303 Orange Avenue, but he sold that in the fall of 1901 and
the next spring erected the home at 402 Orange Avenue, in which he has since resided.
Mr. Thompson has a half-interest in 515 acres in Kings County which is leased for
grazing. In 1912 with three others he purchased 308 acres west of Orange and the
Dawn Land Company was incorporated with Mr. Thompson as president and Harry W.
Lewis as secretary. Here they sunk two wells and installed pumping plants, sold
seventy-two acres for the site of the present Orange County Farm and Hospital, and
forty acres to others. The balance they divided between themselves and disincorpo
rated the company. Mr. Thompson had forty-seven acres, and of this he set twenty
acres to oranges and twenty to walnuts and has since sold his orange grove and now
owns twenty-seven acres of budded walnuts. Thus he has taken an important part
in the development of the county. He belongs to the Santa Ana Walnut Growers
Association and his land is irrigated by a private pumping plant owned by a concern
incorporated as the Dawn Water Company. It has two wells, one with a capacity of
150 inches and the other of sixty inches, while a third, designed as a check emergency
well, has been recently finished, but not yet tested.
Mrs. Thompson, who passed away on March 3, 1904, was the mother of five
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still later a graduate of the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. degree, was professor
of English literature in the University of Maine for the last eighteen years and now
professor of English literature at Occidental College; George P., is a builder at Ana
heim; Nor.a B., married Seth F. Van Patten of Los Angeles; Blanche E., is the wife
of Walter Vandermast, the clothier, of Santa Ana; Edward H., the fourth in the order
of birth died in infancy.
On March 27, 1907, Mr. Thompson married Miss Ida May Garrett, a native of
Iowa, who came to California in 1903. She was born at Brighton, Washington County,
and was the daughter of James W. and Mary C. Garrett, who brought her to the
Pacific Coast. Her father lives retired in Santa Ana, but the mother passed to her
eternal reward on September 1, 1918. Mrs. Thompson had received a high school
training at Victor, Iowa, and is a bright, companionable lady. Mr. Thompson is well
read and this, coupled with a rententive memory and an intellectual alertness, makes
him an interesting conversationalist. A Democrat in matters of national political
import, he served on the board of city trustees of Santa Ana from 1907 to 1911. He
is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, having served for many years as a
trustee, and is a member of .the Modern Woodmen of America. He was one of the
freeholders that framed the charter for Santa Ana, but at the election it was not ratified
by the people.
ORVIS U. HULL. — A representative and successful citizen of Orange County-
who has become one of the most enthusiastic "boosters" of this section of the state,
is Orvis U. Hull, dealer in real estate, with offices in Orange, and a citrus grower in
the immediate vicinity. Mr. Hull was born in Boonesboro, Boone County, Iowa, in
1855, a son of Philip and Sophronia (Holcomb) Hull, natives of Ohio and Illinois,
respectively, who became residents in Boone County, Iowa, as early as 1850, before
any railroads had been projected into that state. This worthy couple had nine chil
dren, eight of whom are still living and all residents of California, as is Mrs. Hull,
now in her eighty-sixth year, hale and hearty and in the possession of all her faculties.
Mr. Hull died in Iowa, having lived to see Boone County grow into a modern farming
community. Orvis U. Hull is the only member of the family living in Orange County, whither
he came in 1909, having disposed of most of his holdings at that time to locate here.
His boyhood and young manhood were spent in Iowa, attending the common schools
ot his locality and growing up on the farm of his father at Boonesboro. In 1885 he
went'to Lincoln County, Kans., entered upon a career of a stockman and farmer when
that was a sparsely settled and wild country. As the years passed he became closely
identified with the development of the region, saw Lincoln Center grow from a strag
gling village to a city of fair proportions and was elected its mayor, serving one term.
He also took great interest in every forward movement of that section and became
well and favorably known, in time acquiring some 2,000 acres of land which he
farmed and used as a stock range. He went through some thrilling experiences with
others of that part of Kansas — drouth and high winds that destroyed his crops and
necessitated his mortgaging his property to "hang on" and try to win out. He became
a well driller and operated in Nebraska, where people had money to-pay for such work,
for several months with success, enabling him to return and once more take up his work
in Lincoln County. While living there he served for years as a school director, work
ing hard to maintain a high standard of education.
His mother had come to California in 1905 to visit some of her children who had
preceded her, and once in the Golden State she decided to remain, so in order to see
her again it was necessary for Orvis to come out here. He came, and like thousands
of others, was so thrilled by what he saw that he decided he would dispose of his
holdings and locate here permanently. This he did, and he has never entertained one
regret of that determination. Here in Orange County he decided to pitch his tent and
he bought his first ranch in 1912; this consisted of nineteen and one-half acres of raw
and and he at once set to work to make it productive, by setting out oranges and
emons, and made of it a fine income property. In 1918 he bought another ranch,
located on Fairhaven Avenue, and this bears fruit in abundance. Besides looking after
his ranch interests Mr. Hull has been dealing in real estate and has been the means
of many settlers locating within the borders of Orange County. In all his transactions
he believes in a square deal backing up his sales with all he possesses and thereby
maintaining the confidence of his clients, who advertise his methods to their friends.
Mr. Hull was married in 1881, in Iowa, to Miss Clara R. Mitchell, a native of that
state and daughter of Daniel R. and Sarah (Miller) Mitchell, born in Ohio and
Indiana, respectively, but who became residents of Polk County, Iowa, in 1865 Of
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and the father of two children; Flora M. has become Mrs. Walter Taylor and is living
in Orange at the present writing; she has two children: Grace G., is the wife of Dr.
R. C. Thompson of Chicago; Daniel R., was in the government service for nineteen
months during the World War, is 'now superintendent of the Western Division of
U. S. National Parks, a position that calls for ability and tact. He is the father of one
child. Clara R. is Mrs. Harold Girton, and they reside near Orange; Evangeline is the
wife of William F. Kroener, former secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Orange, but now
living in Chicago. They also have one child. These children have been given every
educational advantage in the reach of their parents and all have won recognition for
themselves. A business man of progressive ideas, Mr. Hull holds membership in the
Central Lemon Growers, the Villa Park Orchards, and the Santiago Orange associa
tions. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he and his good wife
participate in all civic enterprises for the good of the county, and have an ever-widen
ing circle of friends throughout Orange County who appreciate them for their worth
as builders-up of the community.
Mr. Hull has, for many years, taken a firm stand for national prohibition, as was
shown in 1918, when the liquor interests held their convention in Fresno, at which
time the convention took such action that every voter in the state would be compelled
to support a liquor measure or lose their right of franchise. Mr. Hull, seeing the
viciousness of this action, at once started a movement to give to the people of Cali
fornia an opportunity to exercise their rights and privileges. Because of his efforts
there was a measure called the "Bone Dry" law placed on the ballots for the people
to vote on. No petition had ever been presented to the people for signature that
was so eagerly signed as was this "Bone Dry" petition. It was not carried, but it did
defeat the most vicious measure ever presented to a people. This was largely due to
the indefatigable efforts of Mr. Hull.
JACK McINNES. — An enterprising citizen of Orange, whose great success in
buying and selling citrus fruit is undoubtedly due to his apprenticeship to mercantile
trade in old, but thorough Scotland, is Jack Mclnnes, who began at the bottom of the
ladder, long ago, and through years of unremitting industry, worked himself up. He
was born at Glasgow on September 5, 1865, the son of Hugh Mclnnes, a native of
Scotland, who was a wholesale merchant in Glasgow. Jack was educated in the schools
of that city, and under his father was indentured to learn the wholesale drygoods
business. Then he went to the great city of London and was a salesman in the whole
sale drygoods establishment of George Brettle & Son.
In 1893, Mr. Mclnnes, attracted to America especially on account of the Columbian
Exposition at Chicago, came out to "the States," and after visiting the World's Fair,
went on to Edgerton, Rock County, Wis., where for a couple of years he was in
business with his brother. He found the climate too cold, however, and in 1895 came
to California. He was fortunate in having his attention directed at once to Orange
County, and in pitching his tent at Santa Ana, where he started in the fruit business
with the Ruddick-Trench Fruit Company, beginning there at the bottom, and master
ing every detail. In time he became a foreman, then an estimator, then a buyer, and
later he was in the employ of other fruit companies. Finally he became manager
for the Altleand Fruit Company at Orange, and that position he held for several
years, or until he resigned to engage in business for himself.
Since then Mr. Mclnnes has been actively engaged in buying and shipping
fruit, and has built up his present large trade. He has an extensive packing house
along the Santa Fe tracks, and conducts business as J. Mclnnes, of which he is the
sole owner. The packing house is 78 x 282 feet in size, and there are sorted, graded
and packed from 500 to 600 car loads of oranges and lemons, which he buys, and sells
for cash F. O. B. Mr. Mclnnes has the distinction of being one of the oldest fruit
men in Orange County, and has witnessed the transformation of the county in all
its various lines of. endeavor.
At Los Angeles — where Mr. Mclnnes now resides — he married Mrs. Minnie A.
Lyon, a native of Kansas, who has readily adopted the Golden State as her own,
and is now, both in loyalty and good works, almost a native daughter.
VOLNEY V. TUBBS. — Among sturdy Californians who have added to the great
wealth of the Golden State by completing the improvements on more or less raw land
is Volney V. Tubbs, the rancher, who resides at Tustin and First streets, in the Tustin
district, where he owns and operates a fine farm containing twenty acres devoted chiefly
to oranges. This ranch he purchased in 1889, at which time it was only partially
improved; so that the present high state of his acreage is largely due to his experience
with and knowledge of Coast husbandry, and an untiring industry through which he
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excellent plant, a modern water system, with a well 220 feet deep, lifting thirty-five
inches of water per minute and removing all possibility of danger from a scarcity
of water. Mr. Tubbs was born in Iowa in 1868, the son of Judge L. W. Tubbs, who had
married Sibyl J. Wheeler, a native of Michigan. Hailing originally from Connecticut,
Judge Tubbs migrated to California in 1849, and for the next three years tried his
luck at mining. His health giving way, he went to Hawaii to recuperate; and during
that time, his partner cleaned out the claim and absconded with the funds. He then
returned to Iowa, where he owned 3,600 acres, and became a large producer of stock
and grain. He held the office of judge in Mills County, Iowa, for several years, and
reared a family worthy of his name. The eldest son, William L. Tubbs, is now
deceased; the other children are Mary D., Hattie M., Volney V., Bertha M., and Ray B.
Tubbs, a physician. The only one of the family who resides in Orange County, Volney
V., was reared and educated in his native state, and followed agricultural pursuits all
his life. He moved to California after a while, settled in Orange County, and in 1888
located on his present place. He was united in wedlock to Miss Lillian M., daughter
of George H. Dixson, in 1890, and of this union four children were born. Eileen is
now Mrs. C. L. Cotant; and there are Mabel L., Margery and Dixson, who served in
the World War and was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Field Artillery.
Mrs. Tubbs, who is a native of Illinois, and an accomplished lady, attends with her
husband the Presbyterian Church of Tustin. Mr. Tubbs is a charter member of Santa
Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks.
Always prominent in civic endeavor, Mr. Tubbs served as chairman of the board
of exemption during the late war, and for fourteen years was on the board of directors
of the Santiago Orange Association. In many ways, therefore, Mr. Tubbs has done
much to advance the best interests of California, and to assist in developing, as fast
as possible and on fhe most permanent lines, California's most favored section, Orange
County. HON. WALTER EDEN.— The dignity and integrity of the California Bar have
been maintained by such scholarly practitioners as the Hon. Walter Eden, senior
member of the law firm of Eden and Koepsel, who maintain their offices at 411^2
North Main Street in Santa Ana. Mr. Eden was born at Sullivan, Moultrie County,
111., on July 14, 1862, a son of John R. and Roxana (Meeker) Eden. The Hon. John R.
Eden was a well-known attorney in Illinois who served for ten years in Congress and
ably represented his constituents. He is now deceased, as is his good wife, by whom
he had eight children, four of whom are living — three daughters and one son, the
subject of this review, who was the fourth in order of birth. One of his sisters is now
a resident of Riverside, Cal.
A product of the public schools, Mr. Eden carried his studies further at the
Georgetown' University at Washington, D. C, after which he studied law in his father's
office. In 1889 he was admitted to the Illinois Bar and for ten years, with the excep
tion of three years spent in California, he practiced his profession in his native city.
While there he was prominent in politics, served as treasurer of Moultrie County for
a term, and for two terms was mayor of Sullivan. It would seem that any man who
could become mayor of his own town, where he was born and reared, must be capable
of almost any attainment among strangers later. He also belonged to the National
Guard of Illinois. The next ten years were spent in Springfield, where he made a
speciality of the title business, owning the only abstract of title books in that city, and
making a success of that line of business. From the year 1896, having given up
public life and until coming to California, Mr. Eden devoted himself to hard work,
and thereby laid the foundation of his financial success.
About thirty years ago Mr. Eden first came to California with his family and
located in Fresno, where he had a cousin living, and when that place was but a city
in embryo, and he was interested in the Fresno County Abstract Company for the
next three years, when he sold out and returned East. In February, 1909, he once again
came West and stopped in Fresno for a year, then spent two vears in Los Angeles,
and in December, 1912, he removed to Santa Ana, where the scenes of his activities
have since been laid.
As a Republican in politics he was elected in November, 1919, to the State Assem
bly and one of his important positions was that of chairman of the Committee on
Kules. Among the excellent measures proposed by him was the law giving tide lands
to Newport Beach, and those outside the corporation to Orange County; he also helped
ratify the Prohibition amendment and the Woman's Suffrage amendment. As a resi
dent of Orange Couty he is always to be found in the van when movements for the
public good are in question and to favor the projects that mean the greatest good for
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At Tacoma, Wash., in June, 1910, Mr. Eden was married to Miss Margaret Fitz
gerald, a native of Texas, but reared in California from girlhood. She shares with her
esteemed husband the good will of all who know them. By a former marriage Mr.
Eden is the father of three children. The oldest is Mrs. Martha Odiorne; the second
is John R., a newspaper man who became a major of infantry and saw service in
France in the World War and who is now in the publicity department of the Firestone
Tire Company of Akron, Ohio; and Walter, former city editor of the Springfield, 111.,
State Register, but now with the publicity department of the Firestone Tire Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Eden attend the First Methodist Episcopal Church and Mr. Eden is a
member of the Lodge, Chapter and Commandery of Masonry in Santa Ana, and the
Shrine in Los Angeles, and to the B. P. O. Elks in Santa Ana, in which he is the
Esteemed Leading Knight.
HERMAN ENDERLE. — When one considers the important part played by
irrigation in the development of Southern California, the enviable status of Herman
Enderle will be apparent, for he is one of the well-known citizens of 'his district,
honored especially for his mechanical skill and its fruits in the development of water
for irrigation. He himself owns a fine, productive ranch of twenty acres devoted
to oranges and English walnuts, which he purchased in 1904, and he has been the means
of many another rancher making the most possible of his land holdings.
A native of Burlington, Iowa, Mr. Enderle was born on April 25, 1864, the son of
William Enderle, a native of Germany, who married Miss Barbara Scharr, also a
native of that country. Attracted by the far greater opportunities in the young Amer
ican Republic, Mr. and Mrs. Enderle came to the United States in 1846, settled in Iowa
and bought a farm, where they reared a family of ten children. Nine of them are
living, and six are living in California— Clara, Katherine, Frank, Mrs. Rose Shaner
of Los Angeles, Matilda and Herman, the subject of this sketch.
Herman was reared and educated in his native state and there learned the
machinist's trade, which he followed until a few years ago, while he carried on his
ranching through the services of others. He came west to Orange County, Cal., in
1892 in the employ of the Santa Fe, and located in Santa Ana, where he operated, for
about six years, a foundry and machine shop. He began the business in a building
opposite where the City Hall now stands as Enderle & Tracy, continuing as stated
above. He built a residence at the corner of Washington and West streets.
Having purchased his present place in 1904 he set to work to improve it and
bring it to its present productive condition. How well he has succeeded is evidenced
by the ranch itself, the buildings and premises generally. A truly patriotic citizen,
Mr. Enderle is a member of the Fraternal Aid Union, a worthy organization that has
accomplished great good.
At Burlington, in 1889, Mr. Enderle was united in marriage to Miss Emma Ben
ham, the daughter of George W. Benham, who was born in Burlington, Vt., and
passed away at Tacoma, in February, 1918, while visiting their son, Maurice F. Enderle,
when he was in the training camp there. A graduate of Stanford University, he was
admitted to the California bar in 1913, and is now practicing law in Los Angeles.
When the war broke out he volunteered his services to his country and was sent to
the officers' training camp. There he was commissioned first lieutenant and was as
signed to Company E, Three Hundred Sixty-second Infantry, and as such served in
France in the Ninety-first Division. For four successive days in taking the Argonne
Forest he fought with his fellows and was wounded four times, but he still lives to
tell the story and to carry the scars as marks of his courage and valor on the field. As
a proper recognition, he was promoted to the rank of captain, and as Captain Enderle
is known both for his manliness and his modesty.
HON. JOE CHARLES BURKE. — From the very beginning of Orange County,
when the sagacity, intelligence, common-sense and courage of its political leaders and
the rank and file of its citizenry were in immediate and perpetual demand, the Orange
County Bar has played an important role in the destinies of a people proud of the
state as a whole, but especially enthusiastic about that portion of the great common
wealth more closely associated with the concept of home; in this regard the career of
Joe Charles Burke is all the more interesting, for his fame as a level-headed, scholarly
attorney was established some years ago; and since then he has come to enjoy more
and more of the confidence and patronage of his fellow-citizens.
Joe C. Burke was born at Downey, July 3, 1876, the son of Samuel W. and Lizzie
A. (Davies) Burke, natives of Tennessee and Ohio respectively. They came to Cali
fornia in 1875 and in time four children — one son and three daughters — made up the
family. The father died in November, 1912, but the mother is still living at Rivera,
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and then Woodbury Business College. Having decided to enter the legal profession,
he studied law privately in the county clerk's office, and on September 27, 1911, was
admitted to the California Bar. From 1907 to 1912, Mr. Burke was deputy county
clerk- but from 1912 to 1914, he was city clerk of Santa Ana. On November 3, 1914, he
was elected a member of the California State Assembly from the Seventy-sixth Dis
trict and such was his record that he was re-elected in 1916. During these sessions
he served on the committees of Irrigation, Oil Production, Municipal Corporations,
County Government and Fish and Game, and in many ways he participated in sessions
that have come to be historic. A Republican in national politics, he has always been
above blind partisanship when the question was the best man and the best measure.
Mr. Burke has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Ida Wierbach, a
native of Illinois, who bore him two sons — Russell A., a graduate of the Whittier
high school and now a teller in the First National Bank of Whittier; and Marshall,
who attended the Santa Ana high school and is now employed by the Standard Oil
Company in their refinery at El Segundo. Mrs. Burke died in April, 1900. On
August 1, 1914, he was united in marriage with Miss Amber P. Brackney, a native of
Pennsylvania and the daughter of Frank P. and Emma A. Brackney, residents of
Santa Ana.
Mr. Burke is a member of the Santa Ana lodge of Masons; the Santa Ana lodge
of Odd Fellows and the Encampment at Anaheim; is Past Exalted Ruler of Santa
Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks, and District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler of
California South of the Elks and was a delegate to the Grand Lodge of Elks at Chicago
in 1920. In all the war drives he was an active participant, served as a four-minute
man and a member of the County Council of Defense of Orange County. In all
projects for the upbuilding of the county he has always been a supporter and worker
and is one of the solid "boosters" of this great state.
HERMAN STERN.— A foremost citizen of Orange County, Herman Stern of
Anaheim, occupies a distinct position among his fellow-citizens as a progressive,
public-spirited and philanthropic man. He was born in Coburg, Germany, June 17,
1870, the son of Marcus and Rosetta (Goodman) Stern, who became the parents of
nine children, of whom Herman is the seventh in order of birth. He received the
benefit of a high school and college education and lived in his native country until
he was twenty-three years of age, when, in 1893, he left to join his brother, Jacob
Stern, in the United States, he having settled in Fullerton in 1888. After spending
one year in that town, in 1894, they opened a store in Anaheim, conducting business
under the name of Stern Brothers until 1908. In that year Herman purchased the
interests of his brother, discontinued the various departments with the exception oi
that devoted to agricultural implements, and this he expanded by judicious adver
tising in unique manner. To meet the demands of the ranchers in the county he
formed the Pacific Farm Implement Company in 1909, and has been very successful
in his particular line of business.
To Jacob and Herman Stern must be given the credit for the development of
hundreds of acres of arid desert land east of Anaheim, and to his real estate enter
prise, more than to his commercial business, perhaps is due his greatest success. The
brothers secured land that was practically worthless, extending from Placentia Street
east to the foothills, and this they wanted developed, as they could see the future of
the little city depended upon making a fertile region out of bare land, thereby drawing
to this district those energetic men and women who were the real home-makers.
They sold this land on contract to any who would agree to develop it, the initial price
being from $25 to $50 per acre, according to location. A very small amount was asked
to be paid down upon the signing of the contract, and the balance when the land
would produce the necessary products to enable the person to pay up, Mr. Stern even
advancing the funds, in many cases, to clear and develop it, also supplying the family
with groceries and provisions. In this way were developed hundreds of acres that are
now valued at from $3,000 to $5,000 each, and tracts that are the homes of responsible
people, all of whom are independent, made so by the increased prices of their land
and the wonderful orange groves that now cover the arid region and have drawn a
host of home-loving citizens to this part of Orange County.
Herman Stern, being young and vigorous, threw his whole heart into the enterprise
with his customary enthusiasm, and has lived to see his dream come true, and the
friendships that have resulted from his generosity are of the most lasting kind. Many
of the original purchasers are still living on their properties, and accord to Mr. Stern
the credit for their success. He has been one of the most public-spirited men of this
locality, and has spent his money with a liberal hand to make Anaheim and Orange
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and others owning the tract. He started many enterprises that would employ labor
and thereby establish a payroll for the energetic. Among these was the Anaheim
Cooperative Canning Company, of which he was the first president. He was also one
of the organizers of the Chamber of Commerce and its first president; also helped to
organize the Mother Colony Club, and was the first president there; was instrumental
in starting the home for Odd Fellows, also for the B. P. O. Elks, serving as president
of the board of the latter. These and many other civic movements have felt the
guiding hand of this experienced, though modest, man. Mr. Stern served as a mem
ber of the National Guard of California, and was captain of Company E, from 1902
until 1908. During the World War he spent his time in drilling the recruits from
this district prior to their being sent to their various training camps. He worked in
all the Liberty Loan drives, and as captain of his committee, was the means of
taking Anaheim "over the top" in them all; he also served as chairman of the Red
Cross and the Salvation Army drives for funds for war purposes, in fact, no citizen
was more patriotic than he to assist those at the fighting front.
Herman Stern was married on June 11, 1906, to Miss Marie -Nicolas, of Fuller-
ton, and for twelve years she shared with her distinguished husband the esteem and
good will of his friends. She passed away on August 17, 1918, mourned by a wide
circle of friends. Mr. Stern is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Masons in
Anaheim. In politics he is a stanch Republican. At all times he is ready and willing
to support all measures for the advancement of the interests of the people of the
county, and numbers among his warmest friends the best element of the county.
SAMUEL JERNIGAN. — Orange County has many popular public officials, but
none perhaps enjoys a larger share of the combined esteem and good-will of her
experienced and appreciative citizens, than Samuel Jernigan, the able and doughty
City Marshal of Santa Ana. A native of Wayne County, Kentucky, he was born at
Monticello on November 3, 1876 — a fall period memorable in the annals of our country,
as it marked the close of the first century of American progress and the Centennial
Exhibition at Philadelphia, at which Kentucky, among others, had done herself proud.
Mr. Jernigan's father was James Jernigan, a native of Illinois, but a stockman
of Monticello who had married Miss Betty Bertram, a native of Kentucky, and the
daughter of Rev. Jacob Bertram, a Baptist minister. Samuel was the second child in
a family of six. He attended the ordinary public schools of his neighborhood, and
after that completed his education in the great school of experience. From boyhood
he was active, a live wire that made itself felt and kept others alive; and until his
nineteenth year he remained with his father and helped care for the stock.
Leaving home, Mr. Jernigan went to Hill County, Texas, and soon after took to
police work, and in that field he continued to advance until he came to California in
1902. He located at Orange and there served as city marshal until 1911. Then he
resigned, to become under sheriff.
A Republican in national politics, but especially broad gauged on all local issues,
Mr. Jernigan was appointed City Marshal of Santa Ana in 1912 to fill the unexpired
term of George Wilson; in 1915 he was elected for a four-year term; and in 1919 he
was re-elected for another four years, receiving a large majority over two opponents.
Mr. Jernigan not only enjoys the respect and confidence of the people at large, but
he is well liked by those working under him, perhaps the surest testimonial to his
real worth. While in Texas in 1899, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Pritchett, by
whom he has had one daughter — Maydell. He is a Mason, a member of the York Rite
and a Shriner; and he belongs to Santa Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks.
ROY E. VINCENT. — A progressive young business man, who now has the satis
faction of seeing the products of his factory sold all over Southern California, is Roy
Everett Vincent, proprietor and manager of the Vincent Manufacturing Company.
He was born at Clay Center, Kans., on August 3, 1891, and his father was Emerson E.
Vincent, born at Topeka, Kans., president of the California National Bank of Santa
Ana. His mother's maiden name was Julia- Smith and was a native of London, Eng
land, coming to Kansas with her parents at the age of three. Emerson E. Vincent
was a hardware merchant in Clay Center, Kans., and in 1908 he brought his family
to Santa Ana, engaging in the hardware business until he turned his attention to
banking. He was one of the organizers of the Citizens Commercial and Savings Bank,
which later consolidated with the California National Bank and he was made president
of this organization.
Roy E. Vincent, the only child in the family, was educated at the grammar schools,
partly at the Clay County Union high school and then at St. Johns Military Academy
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store at Santa Ana for a number of years, and managed it well. Later he bought a
half interest in Dale & Company, manufacturers of well casing, which was soon
incorporated as the Dale-Vincent Manufacturing Company; then they bought out the
well-casing factory of the Crescent Hardware Company and combined it with his
present business, and in 1916 he bought out his partner, H. H. Dale. He disincor
porated the company and continued the enterprise as the Vincent Manufacturing
Company. The firm specializes in the manufacture of water-well casing in sizes from
four inches to thirty-six inches. The product enjoys such a reputation for excellency
that it reaches all first-class markets everywhere along the southern Coast country
and the San Joaquin Valley as well. The factory is located on East First Street and
the Santa Fe spur. It is equipped with power shears, punches and rolls. Each joint
has to be fitted, as all riveting is done by hand to accomplish perfection. So extensive
is his trade that he employs not less than ten men regularly. Republican party ideals
appeal to Mr. Vincent most, but no one can outdistance him in nonpartisan co
operation. In Santa Ana on February 5, 1912, Mr. Vincent was married to Miss Ethel
Campbell, daughter of G. D. and Margaret Campbell, a native of Nebraska, and their
happy union has been crowned with the birth of one son, Ronald Emerson. Hunting
and fishing are among the pleasures of which Mr. Vincent is most fond, and when he is
not in the great outdoors, he spends some of his leisure time with the Elks, belonging
to Santa Ana Lodge No. 794. He supports vigorously the Chamber of Commerce
and is a member of the Episcopal Church.
WILLIAM WRIGHT PENMAN.— A splendid example of the typically genuine
American, who, despite various ups and downs, has finally triumphed over all obsta
cles, is afforded by William Wright Penman, senior member of the widely known firm
of William W. Penman and Sons, Orange County's largest individual sugar-beet
growers, who will this year harvest a crop worth, very probably, $120,000. Their farm
lies three miles to the southeast of Tustin, off the State Highway, and is a part of the
famous great Irvine ranch.
Mr. Penman was born in Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pa., on January 2, 1849,
the son of John Penman, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland. He came to Pennsylvania,
and at Bloomsburg was married to Miss Mary Ann Wright. They had nine children,
six boys and three girls, and William was the oldest. His father was a teacher, and
gave instructions in manual training in the night schools. Later, he became an in
spector of distilleries, and during the Civil War he served, first in the Pennsylvania
State Militia and then in a Pennsylvania regiment of the Union Army, campaigning
at Roanoke. He rose to be a corporal and was honorably discharged. He was a man
of splendid character — although an inspector of liquors, he was a teetotaler — and was
a thirty-second degree Mason. Two brothers of John Penman had migrated to Cali
fornia in 1862 and were mining in Placer County, so he joined them in 1868.
In 1869 William W. Penman came out to California to join his father, who was
then a partner in the Morning Star Gold Mine at Last Chance, at the head of the
American River in Placer County. He had been apprenticed to a blacksmith and
carriage maker by the name of Andrew Crossley at Bloomsburg, Pa., but when
the latter failed in business it seemed best for the lad to come West and start again.
He arrived in Auburn, Placer County, November 4, 1869, and was, therefore, one of
the first passengers to make use of the new transcontinental service of the Central &
Union Pacific Railroad.
He went into the mines and worked with his father at gold-mining, and finally
became the owner of a third interest in the said "Morning Star" mine, and at Last
Chance, in 1873, he was married to Miss Effie Ann Jansen, a native daugher, born
at El Dorado Canyon, in Placer County, and therefore a member of California's first
generation of native white girls. Her father and mother were pioneers of 1852. In
1880 Mr. Penman sold his interest in the mine, but in the meantime he owned and oper
ated various hotel properties. He had a half interest in the Gold Run Hotel at Gold
Run and a quarter interest in the Independence Hotel on the borders of Independence
Lake in Nevada County.
In the fall of 1882 Mr. Penman came to San Luis Obispo County and bought a
preemption claim of 160 acres on the Huero, five miles east of Paso Robles, engaging
in farming and stock raising. He added to his holdings until he had 360 acres in this
place, and also owned a stock ranch of about 500 acres in Keyes Canyon, north of the
Estrella River. This ranch is still known as the Penman Ranch. After farming in
San Luis Obispo County for thirty years, with varying success, he removed to Orange
County in the autumn of 1912 and settled on the Irvine Ranch— the wisest move he
ever made, although it did not at first seem so. He was $6,000 in debt when he came

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here, but he had thirty head of horses and a full equipment, valued at $12,000, for the
cultivation of sugar beets. The very first year proved disastrous, and he lost $6,000
more, but since then they have been more and more successful each year. Now the
firm has 625 acres planted to sugar beets and 200 acres to barley and hay; the acreage
was mostly all tule land only six years ago, which they cleared and broke up and
brought to a high state of cultivation, and they have the largest beet crop in for the
Santa Ana Sugar Company. In the operation of the ranch they use the latest improved
machinery and methods, using a Holt sixty-five horsepower tractor, as well as a Ford-
son tractor and a three and a half ton truck, besides twenty head of horses. A switch
has been built through the district from the Santa Fe with a beet dump adjoining their
place, which saves much time in delivering the beets to the Santa Ana Sugar Factory.
It is to men of Mr. Penman's type that California owes much of its present devel
opment and greatness, for with his energy and optimism he has always pressed forward,
and, being a man who is never idle, is never satisfied unless he is helping to increase
the yield of the soil, thus aiding materially in the progress of the commonwealth. Mr.
Penman takes a keep interest in politics, especially in such measures as have their
bearing on the development and maintenance of important business interests, and as
might be expected, he is a Republican and a protectionist.
Mr. and Mrs. Penman have had nine children and, with four of them, reside on
their ranch. Newton, the eldest, who is a partner with his father, married Mrs. L.
Wallenberg, nee Hubbert; Gertrude died three years ago in Nevada County, Cal.;
Robert is also a partner with his father; Minnie is a teacher at Orange; Marian has
become Mrs. Paulson, and lives in the San Fernando Valley; Lalla became the wife
of Julian Gray, a rancher at Lemoore, Kings County, Cal., and passed away; Viola, the
seventh in the order of birth, is at home; Lawrence died when he was twenty-six
years old; and Leland is at home. The family are members of the Episcopal Church.
ABRAHAM GUSTLIN. — A hard-working, highly intelligent man whose desire
to escape the frigid East fortunately led to his making for the Pacific Slope and
landing in the Golden West, is Abraham Gustlin, now retired and living on the
Edgewood Road in Santa Ana. He was born in Batavia, 111., on April 5, 1855, the son
of Abraham and Katherine Gustlin, and his father was a railroad man who served
his country in the Civil War. When his father returned from the battlefields, he
decided that, inasmuch as he was away a good deal of the time railroading, Batavia
was not a good place in which to rear a boy, and so Abraham, Jr., was sent to Tipton,
Iowa, to grow up on the farm of Mr. Gustlin's sister. Two years thereafter, the
father brought his family out to Webster County, Iowa, and began to farm for him
self; and when, still later, he removed to Boone County, in that state, our subject
joined him and remained at home helping until he was eighteen years of age.
It was then that Abraham left home to work for various railroad companies in
the capacity of a boiler maker, serving the Chicago & Northwestern for twenty years,
then the Iowa Central at Marshalltown, Iowa, next the Illinois Central and also the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul at Dubuque, Iowa, during which time five years were
given to the last three companies. In the fall of 1898, Mr. Gustlin made a flying trip
to California, but returned East rather disgusted, instead of charmed, with what he
saw here. Luckily for him, as well as for California, in the autumn of 1900 he and his son
made a second trip to the Coast, and this time he spent the winter working at his
trade in San Bernardino. The next year he brought the rest of the family to Cali
fornia to enjoy the good things he had discovered, and they took up their residence
at Santa Ana. In 1902, Mr. Gustlin returned East and settled his business affairs by
selling his estate, preparatory to locating permanently in the Far West.
At first the family lived at the corner of Sixteenth and Main streets in Santa Ana,
but Mr. Gustlin sold his holding there, and lived for a while on Lyon Street. Then
he removed again to his ranch on Greenleaf Street, where he lived until 1900, when he
turned the ranch over to his son, Walter F., and purchased a beautiful home on
Edgewood Road. Besides the site of his home, he has an acre of land devoted to
walnuts, and there are no better, of the kind, for miles around.
On April 19, 1883, Mr. Gustlin was married to Miss Lovina Feathers, a native
of Prairie City, Jasper County, Iowa, the daughter of Otis and Belinda (Record)
Feathers, New York farmer folk, born and reared not far from Saratoga, N. Y. They
had five sons and ten daughters — six daughters living, five in California. Two children
crowned the blessings of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Gustlin. Clarence A., the
elder, is a musician highly esteemed in Santa Ana, who studied both in Berlin, and
Florence, Italy. Naturally, he profited greatly from the advantages which so long
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and he became especially fond of the quieter, more ancient city of Florence, with its
innumerable traditions and an atmosphere certain to draw out of one any spark of
genius. Mr. Gustlin returned to America and Orange County one of the accomplished
musicians of the day. Walter F. Gustlin, the second son, is an experienced, enter
prising business man and is now living at the old homestead on Greenleaf Street.
He keeps abreast of the times in all that pertains to agriculture, and contributes his
share toward the development of the promising Southland. He is the father of a son,
Paul Raymond Gustlin.
JOHN LANDELL. — A former trusted and efficient public officer, who is making
good as a rancher and expert walnut grower, is John Landell, the pioneer, who also is
proprietor of the oil and auto-service station near Serra, two and a half miles south
of San Juan Capistrano, on the State Highway. This station is just seventy-one
miles north of San Diego and sixty-four miles south of Los Angeles, and is so situated
that it cannot fail to be more and more in requisition.
He was born at Philadelphia, Pa., the son of James Landell, also of that Quaker
city, a manufacturer of engines and boilers. His grandfather was John Landell, a
Philadelphian, who was a dealer in lumber there; while his great-grandfather was
Captain Landell, sailing master, a seafaring man who was born in England and finally
settled in Philadelphia. The maternal ancestors are to be traced back to sturdy emi
grants who ventured into wild America with William Penn. Mrs. Landell's maiden
name was Sally Moore, and she was born in Philadelphia. Originally, the Landells
were French Huguenots, and their name was spelled Landelle.
The oldest in a family of six children, four of whom are living, John Landell
was born at Philadelphia on April 2, 1866, and the year before the opening of the
Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia came west to California with his parents in
the fall of 1875. After a very short stay in Los Angeles they located in Anaheim the
same fall, while it was still a part of Los Angeles County. John's Grandmother Moore
had married a second time, becoming Mrs. Hughes, and resided in Los Angeles, so
for some time he lived with her and went to' school at Second and Spring streets.
After his school days were over he returned to the home ranch and took up farming.
His father, after a time, sold his ranch in Anaheim and purchased one in Buena Park,
where he resided until his death, after which his widow made her home with her
mother, Mrs. Hughes, in Los Angeles until her death. Mrs. Hughes was a very
prominent woman in Philadelphia, as well as in Los Angeles. In the former city
she was a member of a committee in connection with the Centennial Exposition, and
our subject now has a certificate for one share of its stock which she gave him. He had
an uncle, John Landell, who was a first sergeant in Company A, One Hundred
Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, in the First Brigade, First Division, Fifth Army
Corps, and was a dispatch rider under General Chamberlain. He came to Los Angeles,
where he served many years in the fire department, and was also deputy county assessor
under Smythe.
For a while he was city marshal of Anaheim, and then, for years he was deputy
sheriff of Los Angeles County under Martin Aguirre. When he had been Anaheim's
marshal for five years, he went into the sheriff's office at Santa Ana under Sheriff
J. C. Nichols, and he was there for four years.
In San Juan-by-the-Sea, now Serra, April 6, 1898, Mr. Landell was married to
Miss Soledad Pryor, a daughter of Pablo Pryor, a large landowner at San Juan Capis
trano, and three children blessed their happy union. Charles T. is a graduate of the
Santa Ana high school, and now helps his father in business; and there are Gladys J.
and John P. Landell.
Mrs. Landell is a daughter of Pablo and Rosa (Avila) Pryor, and was born in
Los Angeles. Her grandfather, Nathaniel Pryor, was an eastern gentleman who came
out to California in 1828 and became one of the prominent men in the pioneer days
of Los Angeles, where he "was known as Don Miguel, and owned a ranch inside the
limits of the Pueblo. Pablo, or Paul, Pryor owned the Rancho Boca de La Playa
(Mouth of the Beach or San Juan-by-the-Sea), an area of 7,000 acres; most of it was sold
after his death, but a very small portion of this ranch is still the proud possession of
some of his children, and on it are a few pear trees still bearing that are over 100 years
old, having been set out by the natives in very early days. Pablo Pryor was also
interested in the Palo Verdes Rancho at San Pedro, as well as the old Don Miguel place
in Los Angeles. Mrs. Landell is a sister of Albert Pryor, who is also represented in
this work A year after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Landell came to their forty-acre
ranch at ban Juan-by-the-Sea, where they are engaged in raising walnuts. Mr. Landell
is a popular member of the Elks of Santa Ana.
At the auto service station Mr. Landell sells canned goods suitable for lunches,
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oils, and the Union Oil Company's gasoline. He also has a large assortment of tires
and automobilists' sundries.
Jack Landell, as he is familiarly known by his friends all over Orange County,
was justice of the peace in San Juan Capistrano for twelve years, and is a trustee of
the school district, and also of the San Juan Capistrano Union high school, in
which they have succeeded in voting $65,000 for a new high school building, to be
started immediately. He is greatly interested in the cause of education, and as a
director he is giving it much of his time and efforts. Mr. and Mrs. Landell thoroughly
enjoy their beautiful ranch at San Juan-by-the-Sea.
CHARLES F. MITCHELL. — There is something always very interesting in the
success of both father and son in practically the same field, and that, perhaps, is what
makes Charles F. Mitchell, the dealer in wall paper and paint, a subject of more than
passing moment, for his father, John Wesley Mitchell, was long a well-known Santa
Ana contractor in wall paper and painting. He was born in Waverly, Ohio, on Novem
ber 25, 1857, the son of John Morrison and Sarah (Howard) Mitchell, the father passing
away in Kansas and the mother in Illinois. To the latter state the family came from
Ohio in 1863, and there John Wesley attended school until he was eighteen years of
age, when he decided to go in for farming on his own account. Later, for two years
he worked a claim he had bought in Kansas, and for four years he was engaged as a
clerk in a store. In 1888 he opened at Santa Ana a painting and paper hanging
business, and soon afterward began as a contractor; and still later he opened a store
of his own, being the pioneer in that line in Santa Ana. In 1885 he married Miss Sarah
Ella Holly, who was born in 1866, the ceremony taking place at Red Cloud, Nebr.,
and three 'children were granted the worthy couple, of whom Charles F. was the
eldest. John Wesley Mitchell was a firm believer in Orange County, and in many
ways demonstrated his faith in its future.
Charles Franklin was born at Salem, in JeWell County, Kans., on November 16,
1886, and came to Santa Ana in January, 1888, the year following the advent here of
his father. When his schooling was finished, he engaged in the paint business with
his father, and from a modest start he has developed the largest business of its kind
in the county. He does contracting and employs from fifteen to thirty men. Full of
public spirit, and deeply interested in Orange County, he is a member of the board of
health and thus seeks to serve his fellow-men. In national politics he is a Republican.
For three years he served in Company L of the Seventh Regiment, National Guard of
California, the first two years as bugler and the last year as corporal.
At Santa Ana on December 24, 1906, Mr. Mitchell was married to Miss Irene
Robinson, by whom he has had two children — Veda Irene and Geneva Eleanor. He is a
Knights Templar Mason and Shriner, belongs to both branches of the Odd Fellows,
and is an Elk. Santa Ana is to be congratulated on such a finely stocked establish
ment, under such experienced and liberal-minded management.
HERMAN J. MACHANDER. — Among the many successful ranchers who have
found it necessary to abandon one field of industry in order to enter upon the one most
profitable and for which they seem destined, is Herman J. Machander, a resident of
Santa Clara Avenue, where his flourishing ranch of twelve acres is devoted to citrus
fruit. He purchased the land in 1886, when it was set out to vines, but after the
discovery that the soil of the vicinity was not well adapted for vineyard purposes,
Mr. Machander and all the neighboring ranchers rooted out their vines and set out
citrus orchards of Navels and Mediterranean Sweets and apricots instead. After they
were bearing he found that more money could be made in Valencias, so reset the
whole acreage and now it is a full-bearing Valencia grove. Mr. Machander has found
by experience and investigation that Orange County's climatic and soil conditions are
the most suitable for Valencias of any citrus section of California. The Machander
acreage, now presents one of the finest orange groves in California, its yield, in quality
and quantity, coming up to his expectations.
It was in 1889, just after the great Southern California "boom" that he took up
his residence on the ranch. A believer in cooperation he was one of the organizers
of the Santiago Orange Growers Association at Orange. Mr. Machander was born in
Frankfort-on-the-Odef, Prussia, on November 15, 1862, the son of Ludwig Machander,
a native of Prussia of Scotch parents. At the time of the War of the Revolution Mr.
Machander's grandfather, a native of Dundee, Scotland, whose name was Mackander,
was serving in the English Navy, but did not believe in war on the Colonies, so left the
English Navy at Danzig and located in Prussia, where he became a citizen and spelled
his name with an h instead of a k. Mr. Machander's grandfather, as well as his father,
was a farmer. He was also a trusted government employee for several years, and a
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riage to Emily Simon, who survives her husband and is now eighty-eight years of age.
They are the parents of eight children, five of whom have come to live in the United
States, the other three remaining in Germany and are still in the Government service.
Herman J. Machander was reared and educated in his native country and enjoyed
many advantages not vouchsafed his neighbors. He emigrated to the United States
in 1882 and first located in Morris, Stevens County, Minn., where he resided on a
farm for two and a half years. In 1884 he abandoned farming,. came to San Francisco,
was employed as ship contractor, worked on the Cruiser Charleston, and then took up
mitring in Amador County, Cal., later cinnabar mining in Lake County and then went
to Arizona, where he mined for several years until his health failed. In 1886 he had
purchased raw land on Santa Clara Avenue, Santa Ana, and in 1889 located there.
In Santa Ana in 1890 Mr. Machander was married to Miss Edna R. Moyer, who
was born in New York and came to California with her parents in 1887. Two children
have blessed the union, Ernest R. and Nelda R. Mr. Machander is a loyal citizen to
his adopted country, but is not afraid to tell what he believes to be the truth, and as a
deep thinker, fluent speaker and one well versed in ancient European and American
history, he is at all times entertaining and instructive. In 1914 he fulfilled a long-felt
•desire to visit his home, so he left New York in April for Europe, where he found his
mother alive and spent about two months there visiting relatives, returning to New
York only two days before the assassination of the Austrian Crown Prince. He
descended from a long line of Protestants, and he favors the Baptist Church, and
under its banners seeks to supplement good civic work and to make this old world
the better for having lived in it.
THOMAS M. ROBERTSON. — One of the early ranchers of California who
owns a fine grove of interset walnut and apricot trees is Thomas M. Robertson, who
was born near Pella, Marion County, Iowa, on November 1, 1853, the son of T. W.
and Clarenda Robertson. The latter passed away in Iowa, after which the father,
with his three children, in 1856, came west to California.
For a while he farmed in Tulare County, and then in 1869 he came to Gallatin,
near the present location of Downey, and there engaged in farming. In 1871 he
removed to Delhi and pitched his tent where there is now the beet sugar factory.
He bought thirty-five acres there, and raised corn. In 1888, he, too, died.
Thomas had lived with his father at Delhi, aiding him in the farm enterprise,
and in 1897 he removed to Texas, where at Midland, in the Panhandle, he engaged
for a couple of years in the cattle business. He returned to California, however, as
thousands of other folks have done, in 1899, and purchased forty acres near Winters
burg, and there he raised potatoes and celery. For four years he lived at Wintersburg,
and when he sold his property there he resided for three years at Santa Ana, where he
engaged in the harness business. This, also, was disposed of in time, and then he
purchased the ten-acre estate of the late Paul B. Matthews, on North Flower Street.
Mr. Robertson was twice married, his present wife having been Miss Blanche
M. Matthews before her marriage, which took place on September 19, 1900. Her
parents were Paul B. and Annie M. (Thompson) Matthews, and they were early
settlers of Salina, Saline County, Kans. Mrs. Matthews died in 1892, and in 1894 the
family moved to Santa Ana, and Mrs. Robertson's father came to acquire the choice
property on which they are now living. One daughter and three sons have blessed
this union of Mr. and Mrs. Robertson. Goldie Florence, James S. and Gordon
Marion are students at the Santa Ana High School, and Boyd Lawrence is a pupil
in the grammar school. The family attend the United Presbyterian Church of Santa
Ana, and Mr. Robertson prosecutes his national political work under the banners of
the Republicans. He is also a member of the Santa Ana Odd Fellows.
BERTRAM C. ROBERTS. — A modest, energetic business man who seeks both
to create and to hold his patronage by according to all customers the "squarest" of
treatment, is Bertram C. Roberts, whose first-class millinery establishment at 417 North
Main Street, Santa Ana, is the Mecca of a large clientele. He was born in Eureka,
Humboldt County, on December 1, 1870, the son of Melvin P. and Chastina Roberts,
and grew up in an environment of the cattle business, in which field, in Humboldt
County, his father was engaged. He was married in Los Angeles on October 28,
1911, to Tena, the daughter of William and Louisa Homan, a popular belle born at
Mitchell, Iowa, in March, 1871. Her parents were well-to-do Iowa farm people, who
moved to Denver in 1885, where they are now living retired. Miss Homan received
her early education in Denver, and there she attended both the graded and the arts
schools. Bertram Roberts left home when he was fourteen to "dig" for himself, equipped
with only a district school training, and for several years clerked for the Wells Fargo

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Express Company. With his wife he came to Santa Ana in August, 1914, and they
then and there established a millinery business that has since developed into the finest
concern of the kind in Orange County. The store is up to date in every respect. Not
only is it not possible in this or other neighboring cities to find a more complete line
of fine, approved creations, but the latest word of Paris or New York promptly finds
expression here. Much of their success is due to the fact that Mrs. Roberts was an
expert milliner with twenty-six years of experience before coming to Santa Ana.
She first acquired reputation in Denver, and since then she has had various stores
throughout the Middle West and California.
Mr. Roberts is a Republican in national political affairs, but a good community
man, devoid of partisanship, when something worth while needs to be done. In such
work, as in the various activities of the recent war campaigns at home, Mrs. Roberts
gives invaluable assistance.
WILLIAM F. MENTON. — In his twelve years of residence at Santa Ana,
William F. Menton has taken a distinctive place in the legal circles of this vicinity,
and now occupies the position of deputy district attorney, a position he is ably qualified
to fill. Mr. Menton is a native of Iowa, a state that has sent so many of her sons to
take part in the upbuilding of California. He was born at Boone on September 13,
1874, being the son of John and Johanna (O'Leary) Menton, both of whom are now
deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Menton were the parents of nine children and William was
next to the youngest of the family.
William Menton's early education was gained in the public schools of Boone, and
after he had completed his courses there, he engaged in newspaper work for several
years, working on the Boone County Democrat until he became one of the proprietors
as well as its editor.
In 1907 Mr. Menton decided to take up his residence in California and on Septem
ber' 8 of that year he arrived in Santa Ana, finding employment on the Santa Ana
Register. Although he had a natural aptitude for journalistic work, his leanings were
always toward the legal profession, so he began the study of law, gaining a wide, com
prehensive understanding of the subject by reading and studying in private offices. On
July 22, 1915, he was admitted to the California Bar, and began the practice of his pro
fession in Santa Ana, and through the steady integrity of his work and his wisdom as a
counselor, he has won for himself an honored standing, as is evidenced by his appoint
ment to the office of deputy district attorney on April 1, 1917, a position whose duties
he has fulfilled to the satisfaction.of everyone.
On October 15, 1918, Mr. Menton was united in marriage with Miss Helena F.
Browning, a native of Tonawanda, N. Y. Mr. Menton is a member of the County Bar
Association and also of the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks, and in politics he adheres to the
platform of the Republican party. Fond of outdoor life, he takes a good part of his
recreation in playing golf. While the greater portion of his time and energy is occupied
by his legal work, he is always deeply interested in all public-spirited movements that
make for the betterment of the community.
BENJAMIN R. FORD. — An enterprising, likeable business man of Santa Ana
who has readily demonstrated his capacity for success in commercial circles of another
city, is Benjamin R. Ford, the cement contractor and road builder of 417 West Seven
teenth Street, Santa Ana. He has one of the best equipments for cement road con
struction obtainable, and takes orders for, or gives estimates upon all kinds of work.
He was born at Asheville, N. C, on April 21, 1856, and spent his boyhood there
amid the -privations of the Civil War period. His father was James M. Ford, captain
of Company D, Sixtieth North Carolina Regiment, an old-line Whig who was im
pressed into the Confederate Army as a lieutenant and was promoted to be a captain;
but' he forced his way through to the Federal lines (taking his men with him — no small
compliment to both them and him;) and joining the Northern forces, fought through
to the close of the war for the cause of the Union. When the war was over, his
father entered the Government revenue service, and after twenty-five years, under
the Federal Governmnt, died at his home in North Carolina. Mrs. Ford was Sarah
Ward before her marriage, a granddaughter of General Ballew of North Carolina
and Revolutionary fame; and she died in North Carolina, the mother of eight children,
among whom our subject was the eldest.
With his wife and children, Benjamin R. Ford migrated west to Washington
Territory in 1885, buying and selling wool; and coming to Pasadena in 1906, he re
mained there and engaged in the hardware business on North Lake Avenue. In 1875
he had been married at Greenville to Miss Ella Norton of South Carolina, and they
became parents of five children. Etta is married and resides in Oregon; Vernon
died in infancy; and E. H., M. M. and C. M. Ford are in Oregon. Mrs. Ford died at
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Redondo in 1916. Mr. Ford married a second time, choosing for his wife Mrs.
Matilda C. Boebinger, nee Stewart, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
It is only recently that Mr. Ford has taken up cement-work contracting and the
building of roads, but he is doing very well in the new field. He has just completed
the Magnolia Avenue Road at Buena Park, in Orange County, and also one and three-
quarters miles of road for the county at Los Alamitos, both stretches being concrete;
and he has recently built one and seven-tenths miles of road at Garden Grove Avenue,
Bixby Hill and Ross Street in Santa Ana, county contracts. Besides these he has
completed four other contracts for county and city roads. One is on Seventeenth
Street, Santa Ana; another on Collins Avenue, Orange; a third, the highway or county
road at Olinda; and the fourth at Orangethorpe, from the highway on, west to
Placentia Avenue, on the east. These 2.7 miles cost $65,000, and the county furnishes
the materials; from which the reader may see what Orange County is at present
doing to contribute her share of that unsurpassed chain of public highways which long
ago made California a world-paradise for the tourist.
What makes Mr. Ford as a successful man of business and industrial enterprise
of especial interest is his academic preparation and professional career. He was
educated in North Carolina at the Peabody School and the State School at Chapel
Hill, from which he was graduated with the class of 76, and later pursued both law
and medical courses, and was duly graduated. He also practiced medicine successfully
in both Kansas and Colorado. It is not surprising, therefore, that he should have
been intimately associated with many persons of note, including his particular friend,
Z. B. Vance, once governor of and senator from North Carolina.
JOHN H. HARMS. — A young apothecary who has succeeded so well that he
has one of the finest-equipped drug stores in Orange County, is John H. Harms, who
was born near Lynn, Kans., on January 18, 1889. His parents are John P. and Rosina
Harms, and they are now honored residents of Orange.
He commenced to receive his education in the grammar schools of Orange, after
which he was graduated from the Orange County Business College; and having decided
to study pharmacy, he took a night-school course and also served as an apprentice
under K. E. Watson of Orange. He also remained in that well-known pharmacy until
November, 1917, when he purchased the business and good will of the Orange Drug
Company, now known as the Harms Drug Company, at present doing one of the
largest volumes of trade of any similar house in the county. He uses only the most
scientific, up-to-date methods and apparatus, and carries only the purest and freshest
stock in all departments.
On March 7, 1918, Mr. Harms was married to Miss Nettie E. Pogue, a daughter of
the late Mrs. Viola Pogue of Glendale, a charming and gifted young lady who came
to Los Angeles in 1908 with her widowed mother. She received her early education
in the usual graded schools, and took up the study of music under the instruction of
Professor Andres of Santa Ana, becoming an artist on the piano. On account of her
natural gifts and her willingness to use her talent for the benefit of worthy causes,
she became widely known, and as a musician is today one of the local favorites. Mr.
Harms belongs to the German Lutheran Church, while Mrs. Harms is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a standpat Republican, an ardent American,
and took an active part in all of the Liberty Loan drives.
MARTIN H. SHIELDS.— A resident of Santa Ana who had attained prosperity,
both as a farmer and as a business man, and who has, besides, the satisfaction of
having reared a large family, is Martin H. Shields, who was born near Sedalia, Pettis
County, Mo., on January 3, 1864, the son of Edward and Sarah Shields. The father,
a native Ohian, was brought up a farmer and moved to Missouri in 1860. Five years
later he moved back to Ohio and there, in Susquehanna County, he again farmed.
He stayed a couple of years and then moved on to Benton County, Mo. He died
when Martin was two and a half years old, whereupon his mother married John
Wesley Dick, and our subject was reared by his stepfather.
He attended a grade school in Benton County, and afterward went to the State
Normal School at Warrensburg, Mo., where he studied for a couple of years. For
the next two years he was employed as a clerk in the large establishment of Blair
Brothers, dealers in clothing at Sedalia, and for the first time came to California in
1884, settling in Mono County. He purchased an alfalfa ranch of 240 acres, situated at
an elevation of 5,000 feet above the level of the sea, and raised cattle, hogs and horses.
It was a cold country in winter, and he had two cuttings a year from the alfalfa
grown there. The ranch was located in Antelope Valley and at first his trading
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On April 11, 1887, Mr. Shields was married to Miss Florence Warfield Crapster,
who was born near Florence, Md., the daughter of William and Ellen A. Crapster.
Her father was a graduate of Yale, Harvard, and a theological college at Gettysburg,
and he taught for a while in Yale College. Afterward he established a school of his
own at Lisbon, Md., at which place he died in later years. Mr. and Mrs. Shields
had a dairy of more than thirty milch cows of the Holstein strain on their Mono
County ranch, and they bred and raised their own stock.
In 1911 Mr. Shields sold out and removed to Santa Ana, and here he purchased
twerity acres of open land on Irvine Boulevard, which he sold in the short period of a
year. In 1919 he bought what was known as the William F. Lutz home, and this
is only one of many pieces of land and property which he has owned since coming to
California. He has a full-bearing orchard of twenty acres of oranges in Villa Park
to which he gives part of his attention.
Five boys and four girls have blessed this fortunate marriage of Mr. and Mrs.
Shields: Raymond C. is at home, working on the ranch; Lela F. is also at home;
Cecil R. is serving in the Navy at Guam; Hazel V. is deputy auditor for Orange
County; Sylvia S. is employed by the Southern California Edison Company; Gladys C.
is at Woolworth's in Santa Ana; Ivory T. is a high school student in the same town;
Dallasy — whose name was made up from the last letter of the first name of each of
the older brothers and sisters — is a pupil in the intermediate schools; and Martin, Jr.,
is in the grammar school.
Cecil R. Shields volunteered for service at Santa Ana, and was enlisted at Los
Angeles on June 5, 1917. He trained at Goat and Mare Islands, and entered as ship-
yeoman, but was transferred as an electrician to the S. S. "Illinois," at Norfolk, Va.
Again he was transferred to Philadelphia, and from there he sailed for Brest, France.
He did convoy duty in the English Channel and returned to the United States on
December 30, 1918, landing at Hampton Roads. He was then sent to the submarine
base at New London, was transferred to Newport News, and still later sent to the
Island of Guam, where he is at present.
Mr. Shields is a Mason and also an Elk, in affiliation with the lodges at Santa
Ana; he is a Republican in matters of national politics, and his family are active partici
pators in the work of the United Presbyterian Church of Santa Ana.
HENRY SEIDEL. — -An example of the perseverance and determination to succeed
which overcomes every difficulty is found in the life of Henry Seidel of Santa Ana, who,
by his own unaided efforts, has made a success in his line of business. He was born in
New York City on March 1, 1884, the son of Frank and Anna (Tine) Seidel, the fathei
being a shoemaker in the early days. In 1893, when Henry was nine years of age, the
family came to California, locating at Monrovia, and in 1894 coming to Santa Ana.
Here the father died, leaving a family of six small children. Henry attended the public
school of Santa Ana, but his education was cut short by his father's death, as being
the eldest of the family, when he was only twelve years of age he had to go to work,
and with the help of one of his brothers he supported the family. In fact, he had
already begun to look out for himself when he was a small lad in New York, having
sold papers on the streets of that city.
From this time up until the year 1898 Mr. Seidel was engaged in various occupa
tions, si-ending some time in ranching, working two years on a celery farm and for
some time laying sewer pipe. At this time, because of an unusually rainy season, mak
ing outdoor work difficult, he entered the butcher business, working under Theodore
Kling. For the first six months he received $3.50 a week and after that $4.00 a week
for a few months and then gradually more wages, and here he continued for five years,
learning all the details of the business at first hand. It was in 1905 that he then deter
mined to go into business for himself, and with but little except indomitable pluck and
the determination to succeed he made the venture, starting in a little ten-foot room
with a capital of only $7.20. His integrity and strict attention to business have won for
him a well-deserved and unqualified success, and he has just completed one of the
finest and most modern markets in Orange County. He employs eight people and has
the largest business in this line in the city. In addition Mr. Seidel owns a market, just
as well appointed, in Balboa, where he has the largest business in that seaside resort.
He can well claim the title of the pioneer butcher, for there is no other in his line of
business here now that was here when he started his shop.
Politically'Mr. Seidel is a Republican and in his fraternal relations he is a member
of the Elks and Odd Fellows. He. has also been a member of the National Guard of
California. Especially fond of outdoor life, Mr. Seidel finds his most enjoyable recrea
tion in hunting, fishing, and particularly in trapshooting . He is an enthusiastic believer
in the future of Orange County and is ever ready to aid in any movement that makes
for its progress.

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W.AL.TER ^- SUTTON. — A progressive, practical and scientifically disposed
rancher sure to attain to such results as will mark some real progress in local agricul
ture, is Walter A. Sutton, of North Flower Street, West Orange, who was born there,
a native son proud of his association with the Golden State, in the old Sutton home
on what was called the County Road, on September 19, 1886. His father was James V.
Sutton, a native of Adair County, Mo., where he was born on March 18, 1848. When
he was nineteen years old he moved to Nebraska with his parents, and for two years
lived in Plattsmouth, Cass County, after which they migrated to Collins County,
Texas, where they farmed. In May, 1869, he was married at Anna, Collins Couiity,
in that same state, to Miss Elizabeth C. Talkington, a Kansas girl, and three years
later, or in 1872, he came west to California and at Orange built the fourth house
in the town east of the Santa Ana River. In 1875 he returned to Texas and there
farmed for the following seven years, when he returned to Orange and purchased a
sixteen-acre ranch, setting out the entire acreage to walnuts. This ranch, of excep
tionally rich soil, is under the service of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company.
Some years ago he leased the farm to his son Walter, and now lives in Orange. Five
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Sutton. Alice C, the eldest, is Mrs. Walton of
Orange; Victor is a telegrapher near Sacramento; Herbert is employed in the pipe-
organ factory at Van Nuys; Walter is the subject of our sketch; and Sadie, Mrs.
Ritter, lives at the home of her parents.
Walter Sutton was educated in the Orange schools and then served his appren
ticeship in mechanics under Ben Davis at Orange, after which he Worked for Messrs.
Kolberg and Gardner in the Orange Buick works. On the last day of the year in
1912 he was married to Miss Maude Belt, the ceremony taking place at Garden Grove.
She was a native daughter, also, having first seen the light at Westminster, and her
parents, who came to California fifty years ago, were James and Susan (Brown) Belt.
She attended the common schools of Garden Grove, and later graduated from the
Santa Ana high school. After their marriage, Mr. Sutton lived at Santa Ana for five
years, when he was with Kolberg and Kenyon, and then he spent a year with
Charles Davis in his garage.
The next five years were given to the Studebaker Garage, under Mr. Lutz, and
it was in 1918, while he was unloading a car of autos, that he had his back broken,
the result of an auto falling and pinning him down. Everything possible was naturally
done for him after the accident, and he was nursed back to health through sciprtific
and loving care at the home of Mrs. Belt, in Garden Grove.
Since his miraculous recovery Mr. Sutton, who had been such a skilled mechanic
from 1904 to 1918, has lived on the old Sutton ranch, where he has built for himself
a home. Ten acres are in his father's title; three and a half in his own; while another
two and a half belong to his brother, Victor W. Sutton, but Walter has the care of
the entire ranch. He has there a pumping plant with a capacity of forty inches; and
with the exception of three and a half acres, which are set out to Valencias, all the
ranch is in walnuts. He is a member of the Orange Walnut Growers Association,
and takes a keen interest in its problems.
Two children were granted Mr. and Mrs. Sutton, but one, Susan Aileen, passed
to the spirit land when she was seventeen months old. The other, Fae Lanaire, is
now a promising youngster in her second year. Mr. Sutton gives some attention to
the great game of politics, but believes in nonpartisan support of the best men and
the best measures.
CHARLES W. McKEEN. — A modest, unassuming, but talented gentleman, now
a successful walnut grower at San Juan Capistrano, whose family history is associated
with interesting chapters in American annals, and who was himself connected with the
development of other parts of the Golden State, is Charles W. McKeen, who lives about
two miles east of the town on the Hot Springs Road. He was born at Litchfield,
Meeker County, Minn., on June 16, 1867, the son of John W. McKeen, a native of
Portland, Maine. His grandfather, John V. McKeen, was a ship carpenter in that
famous port, and as John W. grew up, he learned ship carpentering. Mrs. Hannah
E. McKeen, the mother of our subject, is still living, on Birch Street in Santa Ana,
aged seventy-four years. A brother of Charles, Roy A. McKeen, is agent for Orange
County for the Savage Automobile Tire Company with headquarters in Anaheim.
Charles W. grew to maturity at Litchfield, and when fourteen, went with his
father to Dayton, Ohio, where the latter worked as a millwright. The young man
stayed with his father and learned the trade thoroughly. He made Dayton, Ohio and
Indianapolis his headquarters for several years during which time he helped build
numerous flour mills, from Texas to Canada. Clever at drafting, he drew up plans
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stood when it is known that Mr. McKeen, as one of the foremost mill builders in
America, constructed the "A," "B" and "C" mills for the Washburn-Crosby Company
at Minneapolis, the Pillsbury "A" Mill at Minneapolis, and the "Palisade," the "Cas
cade" and "Cataract" at the same place. He also put up the mills for the American
Mill Company at Nashville, Tenn., the George C. Urban Mill Company at Buffalo,
the Dallas Milling Company at Dallas, Texas, and the Imperial Mill at Duluth.
In 1894, Mr. McKeen came to California and settled at Bolsa, and there he em
barked in the celery business, owning \27y2 acres of peat lands. About 1908, he went
to Garden Grove, and there he bought forty acres of walnut orchard. His next move
was to San Juan Capistrano, where he expects to remain — for some time to come.
At Santa Ana Mr. McKeen was married to Mrs. Annie A. Davis, and so became
stepfather to her one son, Paul O. Davis, a well-known architect of Los Angeles. Mr.
and Mrs. McKeen take a live interest in all that bids fair to develop Orange County
permanently and along the best lines; and they are ever ready to "lend a hand" when
hard work needs to be done or funds subscribed.
CONRAD OERTLY. — Among the many good citizens of foreign birth Conrad
Oertly, who resides on Euclid Avenue, Garden Grove, is worthy of note. A native of
the canton of Appenzell, Switzerland, he was born November 25, 1858, the son of
Conrad Oertly, a dealer in lumber, who was born, lived, married and died in his native
country, Switzerland. Mr. Oertly's mother was also a native of Switzerland, and
before her marriage was Miss Anna Encler.
Conrad Oertly's life was spent in his native country until the age of twenty-two,
and there he learned the trade of carpenter, afterwards traveling as a journeyman car
penter. He was a resident of Paris, France, one year, then, in 1882, came to America,
locating in the Mohawk Valley, at Little Falls, New York, where he remained three
years working at his trade. He also worked in Utica and Buffalo, going thence to
Covington, Ky., where he was united in marriage with Miss Elisa Wiedmer, whom
he first met in Little Falls, New York. She also is a native of Switzerland, and was
born in the canton of Berne, at Dientigen, the daughter of Jacob Wiedmer, a stock
man, and her mother was in maidenhood Magdalena Werren. When twenty years
old, in 1882, just three months' later, and upon the same ship, the "La France," in
which Mr. Oertly crossed the ocean, she joined an older sister in New York. After
their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Oertly removed to Lexington, Ky., where he worked at
carpentering four years, and there two of their children were born.
In 1889 Mr. Oertly took his family on a trip to their old home in Switzerland,
remaining two and a half years, although they did not intend to make so long a visit.
While there Mrs. Oertly was injured in an accident, which prolonged their stay. Re
turning to America, they came at once to California and settled in Los Angeles in
March, 1892, and there Mr. Oertly was employed at his trade for two years; afterwards
he worked in the dairy business for two years, then engaged in the dairy business
on his own account for three years. Having been successful in this business, he
purchased nine acres of land at the corner of Figueroa and Forty-eighth streets,
Los Angeles, and remained in that city until 1906, when he removed to Garden Grove
and purchased a twenty-acre piece of property which he improved into an orange and
lemon grove, and afterward sold to his son.
Mr. and Mrs. Oertly are the parents of four children, Soule C, who is mentioned
on another page in this work; Bertha, the wife of J. G. Allen; Bernhard, who died
at Nobleford, Alberta, of the influenza, when it raged so relentlessly throughout the
country in 1918, and George M., who is in the fuel and feed business at Long Beach,
Cal., and who was also at Nobleford, Alberta, from which place he entered the U. S.
service and trained at Camp Lewis, then went to the aero squadron at Kelly Field,
San Antonio, Texas. From there he went to Pittsburgh, Pa., where he attended the
Carnegie school for quick repairing of aeroplanes; returning thence to Kelly Field
he entered the chemical department, and in time was promoted to the head of the
department. It was his duty to analyze the lubricating oils and gasoline and O. K.
all the purchases of oils; he stood in line for promotion to a lieutenancy when the
armistice was signed. He is a well-known football star.
Mr. Oertly has a clear brain, is an interesting talker and a loyal American. Of
friendly disposition, warm hearted and genial, he has led an active, moral and useful
life, and given his children excellent educational advantages. Gifted and successful,
they stand among the most prominent people in the county, and they, as well as their
parents, take an active interest in the betterment of the community in every possiblt
way. In their religious convictions Mr. and Mrs. Oertly are members of the Baptist
Church at Garden Grove, where Mrs. Oertly is active in Sunday School work.

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HANS GATJENS. — The popular proprietor of the Orange County Soda Works
at Anaheim, Hans Gatjens, is a native of Schleswig-Holstein, where he first saw the
light of day July 21, 1872. At the early age of sixteen he migrated to America and
located first in Iowa, working on farms in Scott and Benton counties for five years.
In 1893, attracted by the greater opportunities on the Pacific Coast, he came to Cali
fornia, where he chose Orange County as the scene of his future operations. At first
he found employment on a sugar-beet ranch. Being very thrifty and industrious, he
saved his money and by 1904 he was able to lease 120 acres of land, upon which he
raised sugar beets and successfully continued in this business up to 1912.
In 1913 Mr. Gatjens returned to the scenes of his boyhood days in Germany and
after a pleasant visit he returned to Orange County, where he entered the employ of
the Orange County Soda Works, which was then located at Anaheim. Being a man
of enterprise and initiative he soon gained a thorough knowledge of the soda business
and in 1918 purchased the works and later erected a plant at 400 South Claudina Street.
He has installed new machinery and otherwise improved the plant so that it is up to
date in every way and capable of handling his large and increasing business, which
now extends all over the county. At present he makes twenty different kinds of soft
drinks, his orange flavor being especially popular. He uses two auto trucks in his
business. During his first trip to his native land, in 1902, Mr. Gatjens was united in
marriage with Johanna Gatjens, a native of the same district in Germany where Hans
was born, although not a relative. Mr. and Mrs. Gatjens are the parents of three
children, all born in California, Hattie, Effie and Harry. Hans Gatjens is recog
nized as a self-made man, of which honor he is justly proud. He is a member of the
Concordia Society of Anaheim.
W. LESTER TUBBS. — An interesting representative of one of the worthiest
pioneer families of California, members of which have frequently been identified with
the really stirring and epoch-making events in the annals of the Golden State, is W.
Lester Tubbs, who was born at Emerson, Iowa, on July 10, 1894, the son of William
L. Tubbs, a native of Flowerfield, Mich. His father was Judge Lewis W. Tubbs,
who came to California with an ox-team in 1849, leaving Iowa on March 1 as captain
of a train which took six months to get across the desert and mountains. He was a
native of New York, where he was born in 1829, and brought with him from the
Empire State some of that natural spirit of leadership which led his fellow-citizens to
send him as a delegate to the first California legislature after California's admission
to the Union. Later he made many trips back and forth between the Coast and the
Middle West. He married a daughter of William Wheeler, of Michigan, who became
colonel of a regiment of volunteers that served the cause of the North in the Civil
War. William L. Tubbs married Miss Alice N. Tomblin, and coming to California
in 1901, they lived on a small ranch in Tustin for the first seven months, after which
they moved into Santa Ana, and Mr. Tubbs became one of the most active organizers
of the Santa Ana community. He was the first to be exalted in Lodge No. 794 of
the Santa Ana Elks, and was a Mason and a Shriner. When he passed away, on July
11, 1911, his going- was mourned by a large circle of devoted friends.
W. Lester Tubbs attended the grade schools of Santa Ana, and afterward went
*°the Shattuck Military Sch°o1 at Faribault, Minn., from which he was graduated in
1912. He had attained the captaincy of Company C, and was presented with a beautiful
silver loving cup by his fellows in the company.
His first venture in business was with the Security Trust and Savings Bank of
Los Angeles, where he remained for three and a half years, traveling back and forth
each day between Santa Ana and Los Angeles. He was in the loan department of that
hne institution and there demonstrated his capability in caring for the insurance.
On February 15, 1917, he became teller in the Orange County Trust and Savings Bank
of banta Ana.
When the recent war broke out, Mr. Tubbs went to San Francisco and took
the officer s examination, and on April 9, 1917, was recommended for a commission;
but he was later held back on account of being under weight. On November 2, 1917,
he was finally admitted to the service, and served at Camp Lewis in the Ninety-first
Div sion in the enlisted men's ranks. In August, 1915, he was commissioned second
December ""IcYs^ ^instructor in the Thirteenth Division at Camp Lewis. On
December 3 1918, he was honorably discharged. He is treasurer of Santa Ana Post,
2'i wlhrtT grn- °Vlis retUm t0 civilian life> Mr' Tubb* resumed
his position with the Orange County Trust and Savings Bank. On June 1 1919 he
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On July 5, 1919, Mr. Tubbs was married to Miss Dorothy L. Hendrie, daughter
of I. R. and Alice (Dakan) Hendrie of Santa Ana. She began her education in the
public schools of Long Beach and continued her studies at the Santa Ana high school,
and received private instruction in music and the drama. During the recent war, Mrs.
Tubbs served as a nurse in the Good Samaritan Hospital at Los Angeles, disengaging
herself therefrom when hostilities ceased on November 11, 1918. Mr. Tubbs is a mem
ber of the Chamber of Commerce and a life member of the Elks, and few if any enjoy
a more deserved popularity.
JAMES ALLAN KNAPP.— A Californian of more than ordinary interest, both
on account of his personality and his varied life story, is J. A. Knapp, one of the fore
most citizens of Garden Grove, and popularly spoken of as the "Chili King." His
face and figure have become familiar to many non-residents who have attended the
afternoon lectures by D. W. McDaniel, the capable representative of Orange County
at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Knapp was born seventy miles north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and ten
miles northwest of Barrie, the county seat of Simcoe County, on his father's farm
of 100 acres, on December 23, 1879, the third child and the second son of Peter B.
Knapp, who had married Christina M. Livingston. Peter Knapp was of Scotch origin,
and belonged to the loyal Tory stock in Pennsylvania, who returned to British soil,
that is, removed to Canada, at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. He was
reared at Kingston, Ont., and became a farmer, and he died on January 6, 1903, aged
fifty-two years, in California, to which milder region he had come for his health in
1898, with his eldest son, George Knapp. He had stopped first at Weiser, Idaho, from
June until September, 1898, and from there he came to Anaheim, where he remained
until March, 1899, when he went back to Canada, leaving his son here. He straight
ened out his affairs and returned to Anaheim, and there bought land, and made many
friends; so that today he is favorably remembered in the neighborhood of his demise.
Seven children blessed the union of Peter and Christina Knapp. George was the
eldest and died at the age of twenty-six, at Anaheim; May is the wife of George W.
Dorr, the chief clerk of the U. S. Railway Mail Service running out of Los Angeles
to El Paso, Texas, and resides at 235 East Adams Street, Eagle Rock; James Allan
is the subject of this review; Annie died at the age of twenty; Rachel J. is the wife
of E. M. Christensen, a farmer and cement contractor, living two miles northeast of
Garden Grove, and Elmer C. and Robert L. are both single and live with their mother
on the original Knapp farm of fifty acres, purchased in February, 1900, and now
planted to oranges.
James A. was twenty years old when he came to Garden Grove. He had attended
the public schools at Minesing, Canada, and the Collegiate Institute at Barrie, and
so was well equipped for a successful tussle with the world. On his arrival in
California, he lost no time in going to work as a farm hand on an orange ranch at
eighteen dollars a month. At the end of the month, however, he quit to try his hand
at walnut culture, and for three-quarters of a year he was on a walnut ranch. Then
he went to work on the home ranch, where he remained until he was thirty years of
age. While working at the walnut grove, he watched his neighbor grow a two and a
half acre patch of Chili peppers, for canning, and since these were the first of that
edible he had ever seen, the process interested him not a little. His father had thirty
acres of idle land, and Mr. Knapp soon conceived the idea of utilizing it for pepper'
growing. The following year, therefore, he and his father put in eight acres, with
good results, netting them about $200 an acre, and the second year they planted fifteen
acres, and each year planted more and more, until now Mr. Knapp has 1,000 acres of
peppers, leased land, all of which he supervises himself. The peppers are grown on
contract, and he uses Mexican, Jap and white labor. In busy harvest seasons he em
ploys about 500 people. He owns the largest chili warehouse in Garden Grove, and
Garden Grove is the largest and most important initial Chili pepper market in the
United States, if not in the world.
The varieties of peppers grown from seeds of Mr. Knapp's own raising are as
follows: The Mexican type, Chili pod (parent stock being imported from Old Mexico),
this type being first grown by Mr. Knapp in 1907, and his first crop was sold at St.
Louis in the same year; the California long red pod Chili, which is native; the Pi-
miento, or sweet peppers, the seeds of which were imported from Spain in 1910, and
brought over by various canning companies.
Mr. Knapp and his father built at Anaheim, in 1901, the first evaporator in Orange
County used for drying peppers artificially, and now he has a number of drying houses,
one plant containing eight separate buildings, or units. He has devised a type of
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The pepper contains at least ninety per cent of water, which is more than that generally
found in vegetables, and this renders it necessary to have a special form of dryer. In
1915 natural gas fuel for generating the necessary heat for the evaporators was adopted
in place of oil, and this was an important step forward.
Mr. Knapp's chili warehouse is a large frame structure, 40x100 feet, situated on
the right of way of the Pacific Electric Railway, and was built by him in 1917. He
works up his own markets for chili peppers, and has done so from the start. He does
his own selling, and ships direct to his many customers in car load lots. The Latin
races of California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas were the first to use chili pep
pers, but his trade now includes the Mississippi Valley, and is traveling rapidly both
East and North. In 1919 he even invaded New York City with a car load of that year's
crop, and this shows how, under such splendid leadership as that of this captain of
industry, the pepper market has been expanded.
In 1910 Mr. Knapp became interested in some other business affairs in Garden
Grove. The previous year he had helped to organize the Garden Grove State Bank,
when he became its first vice-president, and later its president, and this solid institu
tion has now become the First National Bank. In 1916 he was elected president of
the Garden Grove State Bank, and he is still a stockholder.
Seventy acres of land belonging to Mr. Knapp are given up to Valencia oranges,
and he also grows beans. He helped to organize the Garden Grove Bean Growers
Association in 1915, and has served as the president ever since. In 1914 he helped to
organize the Garden Grove City Water Company, a private enterprise, of which he
is both president and manager.
On December 19, 1911, Mr. Knapp was married to Miss Nina Frances Richard
son, of Sibley, Iowa, where she was born and reared, the daughter of Robert and
Catherine (Bremmer) Richardson, both of whom are still living in that place, where
the father is a meat packer. She was educated at the Sibley high school and the State
Teachers College, at Cedar Falls, Iowa, and coming to California, taught in the Gar
den Grove schools. They have one child, Dorothy Mae, and have lived at Garden
Grove since their marriage. They belong to the Baptist Church of Garden Grove, and
Mr. Knapp was on the committee which had charge of the erection of the fine edifice,
which seats 300 people, and was remodeled in 1914. He is now chairman of the
church board of trustees, and was also superintendent of the Sunday school for
several years, resigning in 1917. Mrs. Knapp is a teacher in the Sunday school, and
is an officer in the missionary society. Mr. Knapp is a Republican in national politics,
and both he and Mrs. Knapp were participants in all the various war activities. He
was made a Mason in the Anaheim Lodge, F. & A. M., in 1907, and is still a member
there, being a past master.
FRED K. GRESSWELL. — The leader in his line of work, that of sign painting,
window lettering, and the making of glass and metal signs, Fred K. Gresswell of
Anaheim is noted for the excellency of his work and its artistic qualities. A native
of England, Mr. Gresswell was born at Grimsby on October 9, 1855, but for many
years he has been a loyal citizen of the United States, having taken out his final papers
on November 4, 1898. He received his education in private schools and the Methodist
College of his native land. In England, in those days, the training of the trades was
very thorough, and Mr. Gresswell served as an apprentice at the painter's trade for
seven years, and for one year as an "improver" which is slightly higher than an appren
tice, and with advanced wages. In those days the colors for paints were ground with
a muller and stone^and the oil was taken from the cake mill and boiled. This work
was done in the winter, preparatory for the summer season, and Mr. Gresswell did a
great deal of this primitive paint making and this thorough grounding in all the details
of his work has added greatly to his proficiency.
In 1879 Mr. Gresswell came to the United States, locating in Chicago, where he
followed his trade for some time. He went back to England, but returned to Chicago,
later coming west. He arrived in California in 1903, engaging in his line of work at Los
Angeles and Long Beach until 1907, when he came to Anaheim. Here he established
himself as a painting contractor, continuing in this until he took up his present work
of sign painting, window lettering and glass and metal sign making, and in this work
he has been most successful. He makes a specialty of gold lettering on glass and has
done all the work of this kind on the First National Bank Building, the Anaheim Na
tional Bank Building and the Golden State Bank Building, and part of the work on
the First National Bank Building .of Fullerton and the First National Building of
Victorville. He also does all the lettering for the city of Anaheim. For a number of
years he has had the decorating contract for the Orange Show held in San Bernardino
each season. One of the most enthusiastic boosters Anaheim has ever had, even during
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the number of miles from Anaheim, which has proved very convenient and helpful,
especially to strangers driving through this part of the country. In addition to his
own line of work, Mr. Gresswell has also been interested in a number of real estate
operations. He sold the land on which the Anaheim Sugar Factory is located for the
owner, W. F. Patt of Los Angeles. He owned twenty-four lots next to the site, on
which he established a Mexican colony, thus segregating them from the city proper,
and at one time there were 300 Mexicans living there. He has also dealt in other
Anaheim property and erected two houses.
During the war Mr. Gresswell was very active in the Liberty Loan drives, helping
Anaheim go over the top. He designed the Statue of Liberty used in the Third Liberty
Loan and painted the signs for the Fourth Loan which were placed in the public
square. Both the above were fine and artistic in their concept and attracted much
attention. For his work in the Victory Loan he received a medal from the United
States Government. He has always been prominent in the work of the Chamber of
Commerce, being a director and chairman of the advertising committee and of the
exhibits. He designed the exhibit now being used in the Board of Trade rooms.
In his early days in England, Mr. Gresswell was much interested in natural
history, being a member of the Naturalist Society of Grimsby, and the curator for
five years of the Marine Fisheries of England. In 1882 the latter was taken over
by the English government. Fraternally, he is a member of the Anaheim Lodge, No.
1345, B. P. O. Elks.
While still living in England, Mr. Gresswell was married to Rebecca Reed, a
native of that country, who passed away in Los Angeles. She was the mother of four
children: Herbert, a bookkeeper in the Los Angeles postoffice is married and has two
children; Ada is Mrs. David Pryor of Huntington Park, and she is the mother of
four children; Clara married Gage Owen of Pasadena and has one child; and Ella, who
is Mrs. William Schmitt of Los Angeles, has two children. Mr. Gresswell was married
a second time to Mrs. Eliza Bowles, born in England, who passed away in Long
Beach. In Anaheim, in March, 1920, Mr. Gresswell was married a third time to Mrs.
Emma G. White, also a native of England, and they reside at 317 Clementine Street.
In national-politics Mr. Gresswell is decidedly Republican.
BERNARD J. DRESSER.— It is peculiar to Orange County, and particularly to
Anaheim, that the men engaged in business there are men who have had years of
experience in their special lines, and have brought to this section the benefit of their
knowledge, as shown in the many fine business establishments in the county, equal
to those in any of the larger cities of the state, and with the most modern methods
used in carrying on their various lines. Among these may be mentioned that of Bern
ard J. Dresser, proprietor of the White Lily Bakery, at 307 West Center Street,
Anaheim. Mr." Dresser is a native of Missouri, born in Osage County, June 22, 1860. The
family moved to Portland, Ore., in 1874, when he was a lad of fourteen, and there he
finished his education. In 1884 he and his father came to Anaheim, where they re
mained until 1893, and Bernard J. assisted his father in developing his twenty-acre
orange ranch, and also clerked in grocery stores in the city. In 1893 they returned to
Portland, and Mr. Dresser became a member of the grocery firm of F. Dresser and
Company, remaining in the firm for over twenty years, during which time he became
very active in affairs pertaining to the grocery business in Portland; for three years
he was president of the Retail Grocers Association of that city, and in 1908 attended
the National Convention of Retail Grocers as a delegate, held in Boston, Mass. He
was also one of the founders of the Portland Grocers and Merchants Magazine, and
helped to put it on a sound financial basis; the periodical is still published and is now
one of the influential and popular publications of the northern city.
Anaheim and its beckoning opportunities had never faded from his mind, however,
and in 1915 Mr. Dresser came there to reside, and purchased the White Lily Bakery,
since which time he has built up an actually phenomenal business in a short space of
time, and made many improvements. When he took over the business one baker and
one helper were employed; fifteen people are now employed and a large wholesale and
retail trade supplied, three delivery trucks deliver bread to all the surrounding towns
in the valley, and new agencies are constantly being added. His retail trade is growing
rapidly, as the fame of White Lily bread has spread from household to household,
and it is a case of "the proof of the pudding is in the eating." A full line of cakes
and fancy pastry is also made, and this bakery is the only one in the county with two
ovens, the combined capacity of which is 8,000 loaves daily, with a daily output at
present of 3,600 loaves. All the new and modern machinery is used; after the dough is
put into the moulds, they are put on racks and wheeled into the steam room, after
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ceilings in white enamel paint, with the entire plant as clean and sanitary as a good
housekeeper could keep her kitchen.
The marriage of Mr. Dresser, in Portland, Ore., 1895, united him with Elizabeth
C. Heitkemper, a native of Iowa, and two children have blessed their union: Bernard
H., and Catherine. A true helpmate in every sense of the word, Mrs. Dresser has been
of great assistance in carrying on the business, and like most women of today, keeps
in touch with current events and with the business and civic, as well as the social
life of the community. The family attend the Catholic Church, and Mr. Dresser is a
member of the Anaheim Council No. 1154, Knights of Columbus. He is also a member
of the Anaheim Lodge of B. P. O. Elks No. 1345, and of the Woodmen of the World.
Prominent in business circles in the county, he stands ready at all times to aid in every
way the best interests of his community, and as a member of the Anaheim Board of
Trade, and the Merchants Association, he does his share in all movements for the fur
ther advancement of Orange County.
FRANK E. PARTRIDGE. — Among the bright, far-sighted and promising young
men of his district, to whom Orange County naturally looks for much of its future
development and prosperity, must be noted Frank E. Partridge, the progressive rancher
who cultivates a productive orchard of oranges located on Fairhaven, between Yorba
and Prospect avenues, which he has brought to a high state of perfection. He has
owned his acreage only since 1906, and in the intervening years he has made all of
the improvements which mark the property as a choice estate.
Of an old Eastern family, Frank E. Partridge was born in Philadelphia, Pa.,
September 12, 1889, his parents being Joseph A. and Mary H. (Freeman) Partridge, both
natives of Brooklyn, N. Y. Joseph A. Partridge was well known in the mercantile
circles of New York City, having established the firm of Partridge and Wilcox, whole
sale dealers in notions and dry goods, the business still being conducted under this
name although he passed away over twenty years ago.
The youngest of a family of five children, three of whom are living, Frank E.
Partridge was educated in the public schools, later attending the Vermont Military
Academy at Saxton's River, Vt., for two years. In 1903 the Partridge family came to
California, spending a year at San Diego. Coming back in 1905, they went to Pasadena
to look over property with a view to buying, but returned to their Eastern home with
out purchasing. In the spring of 1907 Frank E. Partridge came to Ocean Park and
then to Santa Ana, and in the fall of that year, with his mother he purchased a tract
of ten acres on Fairhaven Avenue, near. Orange. To this ranch he has given intelligent
and careful attention, increasing the planting from 210 to 640 Valencia orange trees,
and the orchard is now in a thriving condition and is an excellent producer.
On October 11, 1919, Mr. Partridge was married to Mrs. Josie (Stearns) Jamar,
the daughter of William and Lillie (Richie) Stearns; her parents were ranchers at
Orange, but now reside in Arizona. Since his first residence here Mr. Partridge has
shown himself to be public spirited and progressive and he stands high in the regard
of the community for his willingness to cooperate in advancing the welfare of this
section in all lines. He is a member of the McPherson Heights Citrus' Association
and the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and in political matter is a staunch
adherent of Republicanism. While devoted to business, Mr. Partridge still finds time
to enjoy outdoor sports, of which he is fond, and which the climate of California
makes so attractive the year round.
WILLIAM H. BOON. — To be recognized as a self-made man is the honor
accorded to William H. Boon, the popular agent for the Harley-Davidson motorcycles
at Anaheim. His career presents a striking example of what industry and resourceful
ness, coupled with thrift and an indomitable will to succeed, can accomplish even in
the face of seemingly insurmountable difficulties.
William H. Boon was born in Parsons, Kans., August 22, 1888. In 1904 his
parents migrated to California, locating at Randsburg, Kern County, where William
finished his school days and afterwards for a short time was employed in a book
store. His next employment was with the Yellow Aster Mining Company where he
remained seven years during which time he rendered faithful and efficient service in
various capacities until he worked his way up to the important position of fireman in
the large mill.
After leaving the Yellow Aster Mining Company Mr. Boon was at Colton, Cal.,
for a short time where he was connected with the Pacific Fruit Express Ice Company;
afterwards, for three months, he was employed by the Fontana Company at Fontana,
Cal. During this time he formed the acquaintance of J. W. Smith, who had the con
tract for sinking wells for the Fontana Company in Lytle Creek, and entered his employ
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who had contracted to sink wells for the Anaheim Union Water Company at Anaheim.
While engaged in this work in Orange County, he was so greatly impressed with
Anaheim as a business center that he determined to make it his home and as soon as
practicable he entered into partnership with John Kemper and operated a bicycle shop
under the name of Boon and Kemper at 205 South Los Angeles Street. Soon after
wards Mr. Kemper sold his interest to Charles Griffith, who later sold out to Fred
Minyard. He remained but a short time when Mr. Boon bought his interest and
became the sole owner of the business.
By his judicious management, Mr. Boon has greatly increased the business and
now occupies new and modern quarters at 147 South Los Angeles Street. He has
the agency for northern Orange County for the well known Harley-Davidson motor
cycles, his sales averaging twenty-five new machines annually. He also carries in stock
a line of American bicycles, does repair work, has a complete welding outfit with
which he does the welding for the automobile comj^anies of Anaheim.
The marriage of Mr. Boon united him with Launa Whittaker, a native of Colo
rado, and of this happy union three children were born: Iona Ray and lola May,
twins; and Robert Harry. Mr. Boon is a member of the Anaheim Board of Trade and
the Merchants Association. Ever since he was twenty years of age he has made his
way in the world and although coming to California originally for his health's sake,
he is now strong and vigorous and one of Anaheim's successful business men.
ERNEST HENRY RURUP.— A successful rancher who has so well prospered
in California that he is naturally very devoted to the Golden State, is Ernest Henry
Rurup, of North Flower Street, Santa Ana, the fancier of and authority on Percheron
horses. He was born in Onhausen, Prussia, Germany, on June 28, 1849, and came to
America in January, 1866. For four years he worked in Cottage Grove, Dane County,
Wis., and then leased a farm in the same vicinity and engaged in general farming for
seventeen years. In 1889 he removed to Nebraska, where he farmed from 300 to 400
acres near Aurora, in Hamilton County. He soon purchased half a section of land
in the same locality, and this he used for general farming until 1903. While there, he
made a specialty of raising short-horn cattle and Percheron horses.
In that year, having made up his mind to remove to California, he came direct
to Santa Ana and bought twenty acres on North Flower Street. This is now devoted
to choice walnuts, and is under the service of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Com
pany. The land has always been rich, and since Mr. Rurup has brought it to a very
high state of cultivation, it makes one of the choicest ranches in all Orange County.
On September 22, 1871, Mr. Rurup married Miss Johanna Grote, a native of the
Duchy of Braunschweig, or Brunswick, Germany, who came to America with her
parents in 1871, and settled in Wisconsin. Nine children blessed their happy union.
Charles L. is in the implement business in Judica, Nebr.; William is on a farm in
Hamilton County, in the same state; Clara married Louis Holland and lives at
Orange; Henry is living in Arizona; Minnie resides at El Centro; Walter works in the
oil field at Newport Beach; Emma is now Mrs. Miles Hill and lives at home; Flieda
is Mrs. C. Irwin of Brea; and Ernest George lives at Phoenix, Ariz.
Mr. Rurup takes a live interest in civic affairs, losing no opportunity to set forth
the advantages of always choosing the man best fitted for office, rather than standing
by party candidates. California and Orange County, therefore, have always profited
through such high-principled citizens as Mr. and Mrs. Rurup, and no greater wealth
has come to the great commonwealth than in such worthy families as theirs.
WAYLAND WOOD. — An aggressive, whole-hearted and thoroughly public-
spirited citizen, who made a reputation in Montana as a pioneer before he came to
California and led the way in successful subdivision of some of the choicest Santa Ana
property, is Wayland Wood, the scientific and progressive walnut grower of 1524
North Broadway. He was born in Atchison County, Mo., on January -16, 1869, the
son of William Henry and Isabel E. Wood. The elder Wood was a pioneer Baptist
minister, having a wide circuit in western Missouri; but this did not prevent him
from giving our subject a high school education in Maryville, Nodaway County, Mo.
For twelve or thirteen years Wayland Wood was busy as a contractor and builder
in Maryville, but in 1900 he went to Custer County, Mont., whither came also Miss
Delia J. Baker, who was born near Maryville on March 25, 1870, and went to the same
school, at the same time, in that town. And at Terry, Mont., on March 25, 1900,
they were married. She had taught school in the vicinity of Maryville for a number
of years, and became an agreeable companion and a most helpful mate. As a happily
married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Wood lived together in Montana until November, 1914,
when they came west to California. They have four children — Carrie E. and Charles
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pupils in the grade schools. Mrs. Wood died in 1915 at Santa Ana. The family attend
the First Baptist Church at Santa Ana.
Mr. Wood was the pioneer grain grower of the country between Powder River
and Fallon Creek, in Montana, and now he has fifteen acres of walnuts in two
groves near Santa Ana, under the service of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Com
pany. When he purchased the Barton Tract on North Broadway in 1915, he had the
foresight to subdivide and develop the tract, and he rapidly sold city lots there and
even built several houses, adding greatly to the value and the attractiveness of North
Broadway property.
A Democrat in matters of national political import, although nonpartisan in
his attitude toward local candidates and measures, Mr. Wood also belongs to the
Masons and Knights of Pythias, and among the most popular of live-wire fraternity
men in their circles.
EDGERTON B. SPRAGUE. — An influential citizen of Santa Ana who has
worked his way up by intelligent, hard and honest effort and so has become prominent
in financial circles, is Edgerton B. Sprague, the popular cashier of the Orange County
Trust and Savings Bank of Santa Ana. He was born near the Connecticut River, at
Windsor, in Windsor County, Vt., on November 25, 1880, one of the ninth generation
of Spragues descended from Edward Sprague whose two sons, Ralph and William,
came from England to Boston in 1630 and helped to establish here those American
branches which later included such celebrities as Daniel Chamberlain Sprague, the mis
sionary to the Sandwich Islands; Alfred White Sprague, the scientist and author;
Charles Sprague, the poet; John Titcomb Sprague and John Wilson Sprague, the sol
diers; Peleg Sprague, the jurist; William Sprague, Sr., and William Sprague, Jr.,
governors of Rhode Island; and William Buel Sprague, the clergyman widely known
in Europe as well as in the United States, who collected over 100,000 autographs of
note and published many interesting volumes of travel and essays. Great-great grand
father Jonathan Sprague drifted to Hanover from Massachusetts, and erected there the
first school building, out of which later grew Dartmouth College.
The father of our subject was Clarence M. Sprague, the shoe manufacturer at
Windsor, Vt., and Kennebunk, Maine, who later removed to Grundy Center Iowa, and
became a farmer and a stock raiser. He is still a resident of that place, but lives
retired. He had married Miss Abbie E. Weston, a native of Plymouth, Vt., and a
member of another old Massachusetts family proudly tracing its ancestry back to'
Plymouth. She died in Iowa. Grandfather Weston was a farmer in Vermont, while
Grandfather Edgerton Sprague was a farmer in Vermont and also owned a fine tract
of land in Iowa. Clarence M. Sprague had three children; two of whom are in Iowa,
and one in California.
The second eldest, Edgerton Sprague was brought up at Windsor and at Kenne
bunk, and when a boy of four came to Iowa. He went to school at Grundy Center;
assisted his father on the farm, and then entered Cornell College, at Mt. Vernon,' Iowa,.
from which he was graduated in 1903 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He next
entered the law department of the University of Michigan, where he remained until his
senior year when, in 1905, he made a trip to California and the Coast, and what he saw
here, he liked so well that he concluded to remain.
On November 5, 1906, Mr. Sprague entered the service of the Orange County
Title Company of Santa Ana, having previously been employed in surveying at Laguna
Beach, where he became acquainted with Mr. Mansur, who persuaded him to enter the
employ of the Title Company; and he resigned from the escrow work of that concern
only because of an offer from the California National Bank, whose assistant cashier
he became on March 1, 1915. On the first of October, two years later, he was made
cashier of the Orange County Trust and Savings Bank to the satisfaction of all the
patrons. He. is a stockholder and a director in the bank, and a stockholder, director
and vice-president of the Home Mutual Building and Loan Association of Santa Ana.
In 1910, at Santa Ana, Mr. Sprague was married to Miss Agnes McBride, a native
daughter born in Sacramento; and their fortunate union has been further blessed-
through the birth of their two children— Clarence Edward and Weston Finley. The
family attend the Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Sprague is a trustee. He is a
Mason, associated with Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, Santa Ana Chapter No 73, Santa
Ana Council No 4, and San.ta Ana Commandery No. 36, K. T.; and he also belongs
to the Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Los Angeles.
In addition to his banking responsibilities Mr. Sprague is interested in horticulture,
and he has business property interests in Santa Ana. He has owned various pieces
of property at different times, and has never failed to identify himself in the most
helpful manner with the growing city and county.

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OSCAR ROSENBAUM. — A highly intelligent, well-educated rancher who, despite
various handicaps inherited through financial reverses of his father, has succeeded in
attaining for himself and his family a considerable degree of affluence and comfort, is
Oscar Rosenbaum, the progressive owner of the fine acreage on the State Highway
about two and a half miles north of San Juan Capistrano. He was born in the San
Juan precinct on May 24, 1869, the second oldest child of Henry George Rosenbaum, a
pioneer cattleman at San Juan Capistrano, contemporary with Don Marco Forster and
Judge Richard Egan, who came to California in 1850 around Cape Horn. He married
Susan Bolton, a native of England, who was reared in Australia and came to California
in 1861. He came to San Juan Capistrano about 1868 and had a rich pioneer experience.
He was extensively engaged in the raising of cattle, but met with reverses, leaving
little or no property for his children, of whom there were nine. Broken down, he
retired to Los Angeles, where he died; and in that city, also, Mrs. Rosenbaum, a
devoted mother and wife, passed away, neither of this worthy couple having been
granted the pleasure of knowing how well their children would succeed in their struggle
with the world.
Oscar grew up on his father's ranch in what is now San Juan precinct, near
San Juan Capistrano, and attended the grammar schools in that old town; and when
sixteen years old, he left home and finally drifted to Colorado. He worked at anything
that his hands could find to do — ranch work at first, but later in the mines; and
after a while had succeeded so well that he could take the next important step in life.
He was married at San Bernardino, Cal., to Miss Ella May Brumbly; and their
union, the happiness of which was assured through the bride's genial and winning
personality and her industrious habits, has been further blessed in the birth of eight
een children, fourteen of whom are living and honored as active American citizens.
Three of their sons were in the war: Clarence Homer who was in the Mobile Ordnance
department, is now operating the Imperial Valley ranch; Frank Oscar, who served
overseas in the Three Hundred Sixty-fourth Infantry, is now attending- the Davis Agri
cultural College; Fred George served in the Second Engineers until the armistice and
is now in charge of his father's upper ranch.
As a result of their hard work and frugality, Mr. and Mrs. Rosenbaum are now
the owners of two excellent ranches, one two miles, and the other four miles north of
San Juan Capistrano, including a combined area of 1,000 acres besides acreage in Santa
Ana and Imperial Valley. This last-mentioned ranch, further to the north, is managed
by one of Mr. Rosenbaum's sons, Fred George. Mr. Rosenbaum himself is both an
experienced farmer and an able business manager; and while for the most part follow
ing stock-raising or mixed farming, he has planted much of his land to walnuts and
oranges, and is now developing an excellent orange grove on the ranch two miles
north of San Juan Capistrano. At the same time, he finds it possible to enlarge his
culture and keep up his reading and general studies so that as a conversationalist he is
always able to attract and hold his own.
WALTER D. LEDFORD. — Six of the eight years that Walter D. Ledford has
owned his seven-acre ranch, which he purchased in 1912, has been devoted to the busi
ness of poultry raising, and he is one of the promising and progressive poultrymen
of his section of Orange County. The ranch is situated on the Santa Ana branch of
the Pacific Electric Railway, north and west of Cypress. Mr. Ledford was born in
Cherokee County, Kans., on June 16, 1873, a son of Calvin T., born in Indiana, and
Welmet (Hobson) Ledford. The mother was born in Iowa and is a cousin of Rich
mond P. Hobson. There were six children in the Ledford family, four living and all
residents of California, and two, Walter and Charles, live in Orange County. The
father died in Indiana, in 1877, and when Mrs. Ledford married again she chose
for her husband Calvin Luther Newlin, by whom she had a daughter, Stella G., now
the wife of Espy Hawthorn of Fresno County.
Mr. Newlin and family started from the Kansas homestead en route for California
via Texas, but stopped two years in Colorado, from which place, in 1891, they landed
in the Golden State. Walter resided in Redlands, after his arrival here on May 5,
1891 and for seventeen years he worked at the trade of carpenter. He had learned
the trade earlier in life and was capable to do any and all kinds of work in his line
and helped to build up the city of Redlands as well as the surrounding country. In
1908 he came to Orange County and bought his present ranch and upon this he has
placed all the improvements. He began in the poultry business in a small way and
gradually increased his production of eggs and his broods, now having some 2,000
laying hens of the single-comb White Leghorn breed. He raises chicks for commercial
purposes as well. His housing pen is 200x20 feet, and that and other buildings neces
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his knowledge of carpenter work has stood him in good stead. He has gradually built
up a profitable- business and become an authority on raising chickens.
Mr. Ledford was united in marriage in Parker County, Texas, May 15, 1896, with
Miss Martha E., a daughter of Thomas B. and Martha A. (Martin) Callison, the latter
a cousin of Congressman John D. Alderson of Virginia. Mrs. Ledford was born in
West Virginia and came to California after her marriage and this has since been her
home. Mr. and Mrs. Ledford have had eleven children, nine of whom are living:
Calvin T., served in the World War in the heavy artillery and was in training at Camp
Lewis when the armistice was signed. He is married and has two children, Margaret
and Elizabeth A., and the family live at Buena Park. The others are Muriel A., George
L., Walter D., Carl H., Gladys M., Dora I., Grace A. L., and Robert C. Politically
Mr. Ledford is independent of party and casts his vote for the men and measures that
he deems most important for the good of the county and people. He is a member of
the Masonic order, Buena Park Lodge, No. 357, F. & A. M., and is held in high esteem
by the members of that order.
WILLET S. DECKER. — One of the most successful and, therefore, one of the
best-known contractors and builders in Orange County, who has also demonstrated his
ability to manage and maintain a fine lemon grove, is WMet S. Decker, who was born
at Newton Center, near Scranton, Pa., on May 21, 1862, the son of Amzi and Sophia
(Shoemaker) Decker. His grandfather, on his father's side, was a pioneer of Luzerne,
later Lackawanna County, Pa., and had much to do with the history of Newton
Center, being one of its leading citizens.
Willet S. Decker learned the art of building in Pennsylvania, and as foreman
for C. F. Ward, Taylor and Company, and also Conrad Schrader, broadened his ex
perience into contracting. On June 22, 1897, he landed in California, and started to
work for George E. Preble at Santa Ana, and in sixty days he was made foreman, with
such satisfactory results all around that he remained for thirteen years with Mr.
Preble. He had the building of the Masonic Temple, the First Presbyterian Church
and the Congregational Church, and in May, 1910, he was appointed deputy state
engineer and placed in charge of the construction of the additional buildings at the
Whittier State School, as well as the repair of the buildings of that institution. In
August, 1912, he was appointed building inspector for the board of education of Santa
Ana, and superintended the erection of the new Polytechnic high school, and also the
Spurgeon school, both of which were completed in the fall of 1913.
The next four seasons, from 1913 ..to 1917, Mr. Decker was house foreman for
the Santa Ana Valley Walnut Growers packing and shipping establishment, and spent
from September to December in the packing house, while he did contracting and
building for the rest of the year. Since 1917 he has busied himself mostly with gen
eral contracting. Mr. Decker also has another absorbing interest, a beautiful lemon
grove of ten acres, at Yorba Linda, lying in the new gusher oil district, which he
purchased in January, 1912.. All the trees are about nine years old and in excellent
bearing, the grove having a record of being one of the best producers for its age of
any in the district.
On September 23, 1897, Mr. Decker was married to Miss Jettie M. Winslow, the
daughter of J. B. and Hannah Winslow, who are at present residing amid a circle
of devoted friends at 1119 North Main Street, Santa Ana. While Mr. Decker was
superintending the construction of the new additions to the Whittier State School,
Mrs. Decker was the school's popular assistant matron. The family attend the Con
gregational Church at Santa Ana, and Mr. Decker is an enthusiastic Mason, having
been made a Mason in Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M. He is also a member
of Santa Ana Chapter No. 73, R. A. M., Santa Ana Council No. 14, R. & S. M., Santa
Mna,nC°IT:T"dcry N°' 36' K" T" and with his wife is a member of Hermosa Chapter
JNo 1U5, O. h. S. He is also a life member of Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O N. M. S.,
at Los Angeles. One son, James, blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Decker. In
national politics Mr. Decker is a Republican, but in local affairs he is properly non
partisan in his views.
WILLIAM I. WALLER._Probably the largest individual rancher in Orange
County, and also one of its most successful, is William I. Waller, who is operating
M wn S St PrlSent' Practical,y th« whole acreage being devoted to grain farming.
Mr. Waller was born at Conway, Ark., August 18, 1876, and the following year the
family moved to California, settling near Santa Ana. His parents were Samuel R.
and Emma (Holderfield) Waller, both natives of Arkansas. Samuel R. Waller crossed
wl™ J° Cahf0rnla Wlth, his Parents m 1849, afterwards returning to Arkansas.
J OOtT1"! -ywS ^ he enhSted in the Confederate Army, serving in the Civil
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After the war he was married and engaged in farming. His wife died in 1882 and in
1885 he brought his children to California and he is still living and makes his home
with the subject of this review, who is the only one living of a family of two girls
and two boys.
William I. Waller started out at an early age to make his own way in the world,
his first employment being on the San Joaquin ranch, where his wages were twenty
dollars a month. The years that followed were filled with long hours and hard work,
but he finally accumulated sufficient to start to ranching for himself. He leased 320
acres of the San Joaquin ranch and here he went through three dry years in succession,
an experience that would have daunted one less courageous, but Mr. Waller stayed
right by his project, even being compelled to go into debt for his seed. He then
removed to the Whiting ranch, farming there three years, and in August, 1911, he
leased the present place, a part of the Santa Margarita ranch. As the years went on,
however, he began to prosper and gradually added to his acreage until he now cultivates
3,500 acres, 2,000 acres being in wheat this year. A large part of this acreage is
Trabuco Mesa ranch of Jerome O'Neill, ten miles above El Toro. Each year Mr.
Waller summer fallows 500 acres, keeping 3,000 acres in grain crops, and thus the
land lies fallow one year in every seven, in this way keeping the soil fertile and capable
of producing a full crop.
Mr. Waller has his places splendidly equipped with the latest machinery, and he
has at least $40,000 invested in horses, mules, tractors, headers, mowers, threshers,
etc., and he has a well-equipped blacksmith shop that is ample to handle all his work.
He resides in Trabuco Canyon on the Mesa ranch and here he uses a seventy-five
horsepower Holt tractor and a Holt combined harvester and thresher, besides about
sixty horses and mules, in taking care of his immense grain crops. The other ranch,
which is known as the Governor Adour ranch, and which is also a part of Santa Mar
garita ranch, consists of 1,200 acres. Here Mr. Waller uses two headers and for his
threshing a Rumely separator.
Mrs. Waller was in maidenhood Miss Pearl Johnson, a native daughter of Cali
fornia, who was born in Santa Ana, whose parents were pioneers of Santa Ana, and
she presides over their ranch home with grace and dignity. Two children have been
born of this union: Vivian and William. By his first marriage Mr. Waller has one
child, Eula.
Starting in life with no financial assistance, Mr. Waller put in many years of hard
work in order to get the capital which would enable him to begin his own ranching
operations, but he has made a splendid success and now ranks high among the pros
perous agriculturists of Orange County. In politics, Mr. Waller has always been con
sistent in his allegiance to the Democratic party.
GEORGE M. ROSS. — The real estate business presents opportunities for the exer
cise of the best efforts and energies of representative men of the community and George
M. Ross, secretary of the Orange County Realty Company and secretary and manager
of the Anaheim Walnut Growers Association has gained a position of prominence in
this line of enterprise. He was born on a farm near Moran, Allen County, Kans., on
June 29, 1879, and is the son of William A. and Ella (Southard) Ross, natives of Ohio,
the father being reared in Missouri and Wisconsin and in the latter state he was
married in La Crosse where his father and his grandfather, James H. Ross, were
engaged in lumbering and logging until they located in Allen County, Kans., and in
that country went through the days of the drought and grasshoppers. Grandfather
Ross died in 1910 at Pasadena, Cal. He had served in a Missouri regiment in the Civil
War and from there they moved to Wisconsin. Of Southern lineage the Ross family
trace their ancestry back through the early settlers of New England to England and
Scotland. William A. Ross now resides in Anaheim and is president of the Orange
County Realty Company. In 1903 the family came to California and located at
Anaheim. The oldest child in a family of three boys, George M., attended the rural and
high schools in his native state and graduated from business college at Ottawa, Kans.
After this he was employed in the bridge and building department of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad one year and then came to California in 1903, where he was with a
fruit company at Los Angeles for six months. Following this he went to Anaheim
and engaged in the dairy business for a year and a half. Disposing of his interest in
the dairy he helped organize the Anaheim Gas Company, of which he was secretary
and manager for three years. He then sold his interest to the Southern Counties Gas
Company and engaged in his present line of work, selling realty. After seven years
in business in 1915 with his father, William A., and brother, Walter J., he incorporated
the Orange County Realty Company to carry on the business on a larger scale, and
of which he is secretary and an active partner. The firm are dealers in real estate and

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build residences in Anaheim which are sold to homeseekers and they have met with
increasing success. He is secretary, director and manager of the Anaheim Walnut
Growers Association and a great part of his time is claimed by his duties in this capac
ity. He is also a director of the California Walnut Growers Association and takes an
active part in its deliberations.
In establishing domestic ties he chose Miss Marion Johnston of Ontario, Canada,
as his life companion, to whom he was united in marriage June 12, 1912, the fruit of
their union being a son named Donald Livingston. In his religious associations he is
a member of the Presbyterian Church of Anaheim and was superintendent of the Sun
day school for eight years. He is also active in the Y. M. C. A. work and was treas
urer of the first county Y. M. C. A. organization west of the Rockies. Politically he
casts his vote with the Republican party and in his fraternal relations is identified with
the Woodmen of the World. He is a member of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce,
having served as a director and is an enterprising, progressive, public-spirited citizen
who takes a warm interest in Orange County's welfare and is active in the civic
improvement of his home town, where his sterling integrity has won the esteem of
many friends.
ALFRED W. FINCH. — A highly-esteemed member of the Maccabees of Santa
Ana, and a successful rancher, is Alfred W. Finch, who was born in Bedford, Ohio,
on June 7, 1884, the son of Charles and Elizabeth I. (Robinson) Finch, born in
Cambridgeshire, England, and Cleveland, Ohio, respectively. The mother was the
daughter of Alfred and Nelga (Bruce) Robinson, who trace their ancestry back to
Robert Bruce of Scotland. Great-great-grandfather Robinson made the trip with ox-
teams and wagons from Connecticut, coming to the site of Cleveland, Ohio, and camp
ing in the heart of what is now that large and beautifully built-up city. Alfred Rob
inson became a navigator on the Great Lakes, and for many years sailed as a cap
tain on lake vessels. Charles Finch, a brother of the late John A. Finch, of Spokane,
Wash., who became a millionaire miner in the Coeur d'Alene district, was a grocery-
man in Bedford, and when he removed to Cleveland in 1886, entered the employ of
the American Wire and Steel Rolling Mill Company. At the end of seven years,
however, he moved onto a farm near Elyria, Ohio, and there Alfred attended school.
The young man had other tastes than those of agriculture, and so went in for
interior decorating, evidencing his talent in the execution of commissions in his home
vicinity. He commenced to work for himself, in fact, when he was fifteen years old,
and he remained an interior decorator in Ohio until he came to California, in 1904.
Then, in partnership with his father, who had also come here, he established a grocery
and meat market at the corner of Sixteenth and Arlington streets, Los Angeles. When
his father died, on March 7, 1908, Mr. Finch continued the business alone until the
following February.
With his mother and his family, he came to Santa Ana in 1909, and purchased a
ranch of ten acres, seven of which were set out to oranges and three to walnuts
and apricots, interset. They installed a pumping plant with a Layne-Boller pump
and a Westinghouse motor having a capacity of seventy-five inches, for irrigating
their orchard, selling the surplus to adjoining orchardists.
On February 24, 1913, Mr. Finch was married to Miss Frances Rawson, a native
of Wabasha, Minn., and the daughter of George and Nellie Rawson. Mr. Rawson
was a conductor on the first train to pass over the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railroad from Wabasha to Faribault, and he helped to develop that valuable system.
After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Finch moved onto a walnut grove of five acres on
San Juan Street, Tustin; but a year later he removed to Los Angeles and entered the
employ of Albert Cohn on West Washington Street, still later working at their down
town store. In 1914, he moved back to Santa Ana, where he was employed by the
Santa Ana Sugar Company.
While busied there, on October 22, 1918, Mrs. Finch, who had become the center
of a large circle of appreciative friends, passed away, and on the eighteenth of the
following month Mr. Finch's mother died, having succumbed to influenza. One child,
Harold W Finch, died in infancy. Not long after these sudden afflictions, Mr. Finch
visited his wifes people in Minnesota, and then went to Utah to sell a ranch of 240
ac"s',>;ce ._tnen' he, "as made his home on the North Main Street ranch, living
with his brothers and sisters, and assists in managing the old homestead. Besides
himself Raymond C. Finch is operating the home ranch; John A. is with the Western
Union Telegraph Company in Santa Ana; Leonard B. is with the Beach Manufacturing
Company, Los Angeles and Jennie I., Mrs. Marion Hopkins of Santa Ana. Leonard
served m the United States Army auto school in Los Angeles during the late war.
Fraternally. Mr. Finch is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees.

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HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1035
EDWARD D. MARION. — For over thirty years the ranch property now known
as the E. D. Marion orange grove, on the Garden Grove-Anaheim Boulevard, has been
in the possession of the Marion family. It was purchased in 1887 by E. D. Marion, Sr.,
upon the arrival of the family here from Denver, Colo. He had but limited means and
this he invested in six acres of unimproved land located near the Fairview schoolhouse,
to which their children were sent until that district was discontinued and a better and
larger building erected at West Anaheim. Improvements were immediately started to
make a comfortable home by the erection of a house, which at that time was the only
one between Anaheim and Garden Grove, and they kept cows and chickens and did
farming on a small scale, at the same time adding- improvements from time to time,
for Mr. Marion believed it the best policy to "pay as you go," which he always did.
He was a native of New York state, but in early life went to Colorado where he was
united in marriage, in Denver, with Miss Mary Davis, a native of England, who had
come to Colorado early in her life. In Denver Mr. Marion conducted a nursery and
greenhouse for many years. They became the parents of four children, all born in
Denver: Mary, was married to James Johnson in May, 1901, in Los Angeles; they went
to Needles, where he died on February 23, 1916, and there his widow still lives; Anna,
died on March 31, 1894; George "K., was born on February 21, 1881, and died May 30,
1890; and Edward D., of this review, who was born on May 14, 1880. The father died
on April 1, 1906, and the mother lived about a year, passing away in 1907, both highly
esteemed by all who knew them.
After the death of the father, E. D., Jr., began to make further improvements
on the property by setting out Valencia oranges, having to go to San Dimas for his
stock because there was none nearer. His were the first trees to be set out on the
Garden Grove highway; soon others followed and today this section has become the
center of the Valencia orange district of the county. He is a member of the Orange
Growers Association at Anaheim. This grove has proven to be one of the best of
producers and his ranch is recognized as one of the show places in this locality. He
replaced the original house with a modern structure in 1919 and now enjoys all the
conveniences of city life.
Having spent nearly all his life in Orange County, where he attended the grammar
and high schools of Anaheim, it is but natural that he should take a just pride in the
advancement of the locality where he has lived for so many years and he has given his
support to all movements for the betterment of social and moral conditions that have
been brought to his notice. On December 4, 1914, in Anaheim, he was united in mar
riage with Miss Pauline Domke, a native of Iowa and the daughter of August Domke.
Their union has been blessed by the birth of a daughter, Anita. Mr. Marion is a
member of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks, also of the Masons and the
KnigTits of Pythias. In politics he is a Republican and the family belong to the Pres
byterian Church.
ANAHEIM FEED AND FUEL COMPANY.— Among the old established busi
ness firms at Anaheim is that of the Anaheim Feed and Fuel Company, located at
242 West Center Street. The business was established by R. W. McClellan, and
was conducted under his name until 1917, when W. D. Grafton became interested in the
business and the firm name was changed to The Anaheim Feed and Fuel Company.
September 29, 1919, A. V. Vail bought Mr. McClellan's interest in the business and
became a partner of Mr. Grafton. The business, established a number of years ago,
has gradually grown to its present dimensions, and is the largest in its line in Orange
County. The new home of the firm fronts on Center and Oak streets, and they have
the only public weighing scales in the town. They do a large business in orchard
supplies, are agents for the Pacific Guano Fertilizer Company, and also deal extensively
in seeds and poultry supplies. Both members of the firm have been successful orange
growers and are widely known, and have been actively connected with the growth of
Orange County for many years.
William D. Grafton, the son of Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Grafton of Cambridge, Iowa,
was born in Story County, Iowa, July 6, 1875. He completed his education at the
Cambridge, Iowa, high school, and took a course in business college -at Des Moines,
Iowa. He was afterward assistant department manager for the Harris Emery Com
pany, the largest department store in Des Moines. He was with the Anaconda Copper
Mining Company, at Anaconda and Bonner, Mont., for sixteen years, and from there
came to Los Angeles, Cal., and engaged in the hay and grain business. Later he came
to Orange County and became an orange grower in the Orange district, and in 1919
became a partner in the Anaheim Feed and Fuel Company. His marriage with Miss
Lois Newport has been blessed by the birth of three children, namely, William W.,
Helen and Nelly Kathryn. Fraternally he affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows anrl is a mpmhrr of thp enrp.rrmment.

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The junior member of the firm, Albert V. Vail, is a native of Muscatine, Iowa,
where he was born April 30, 1882. His father, now deceased, was a native of New
York state. His mother, who survives her husband, was in maidenhood Bertha Mouche.
She is of French parentage and was born in Austria. The father came to California
first in 1886, then he returned to the East and in 1888 brought his family to California
with him, arriving at Anaheim, March 3, of that year. For many years he was engaged
in ranching, raising grain and vegetables in the Fullerton district. In politics he was
a Democrat, and was active and very prominent in the politics of his party. He was
a member of the Orange County Democratic Central Committee.
Albert V. attended the public schools of Fullerton, and supplemented this with a
course at the Santa Ana Business College. He followed the occupation of farming
and was engaged in the transfer business at Fullerton, and was also an orange grower
in the Fullerton district. He now owns two orange and lemon groves on which oil
is being developed. He was the founder of the El Camino Water Company, one of the
best irrigation systems in the county, and September 29, 1919, became a member of the
firm of The Anaheim Feed and Fuel Company. His marriage with Miss Freda Backs,
a native of Anaheim, resulted in the birth of two children, Frederick and Albertha. Mr.
Vail was -formerly a member of the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks, and when the Anaheim-
Fullerton lodge of the order was instituted he became a charter member of it, and
was the first tyler of the lodge.
PERRY MILLER. — To develop a productive and profitable ranch from desert
land, construct commodious and substantial buildings and in every way to equip the
place for successful general farming — to accomplish all this in a few years bespeaks an
enterprising and experienced rancher. This is an epitome of Perry Miller's thirteen
years of ranching in Orange County. He was born on February 5, 1857, in Sandusky
County, Ohio, a son of Jacob and Mary Miller, who were both natives of Pennsylvania.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller were the parents of five children, Perry being the only one
residing in California. When he was one year old his parents moved to Michigan and
in that state he received his early education, and there his parents died before he was
nine years of age.
In 1889 Mr. Miller migrated to Fremont County, Iowa, where he followed general
farming until 1906, when he came to Southern California and in 1907, located in Orange
County, Cal. A year previous he had purchased fifty-six acres of unimproved land
located on what is now West Orangethorpe Avenue, at the Los Angeles County line.
With his characteristic energy and progressive spirit he at once began to improve and
develop the land until today he possesses a splendid homestead as the fruit of his
industry and enterprise.
In Branch County, Mich., in 1883, Mr. Miller was united in marriage with Miss
Belle Baker, a native of Michigan, and the daughter of John and Parthenia (Dutcher)
Baker, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively. One son, C. L., was born to
them; he is married to Lucy Ball of Downey, Cal., and two children have blessed their
union— Dorothy and Perry. In religious matters Mr. Miller is a Spiritualist and in
politics he is an Independent, giving his voice and vote to the men and measures
he conscientiously believes the best for the welfare of the community and nation.
HARVEY F. HARTMAN.— One of the best posted men in his special line of
endeavor, and a recognized authority on the cultivation and propagation of chili peppers
is Harvey F. Hartman, of Buena Park district, Orange County. He devotes one-half
of his thirty-acre ranch to raising the popular Mexican, Anaheim and Pimento chili
peppers, so much used, in both their green and ripe state, in canning, pickles and
cookery. Mr. Hartman was born in Toledo, Ohio; on December 3, 1881, a son of
Frederick C. and Anna Hartman; the father being a native of Germany, the mother of
the Buckeye State. Mrs. Hartman passed away in 1882, when Harvey was but nine
months old. F. C. Hartman brought his family to California in 1894; he followed the
trade of a cabinet maker but in later years took up horticulture. He passed to his
eternal reward in 1911, in Pasadena.
Harvey F. Hartman received his early education in the public schools of Ohio
and after removing to California attended the splendid schools of Pasadena Later
his education was supplemented by a special course in a correspondence school, after
which he pursued a special study of the science of horticulture and seed selection, in
which he has attained signal success and made for himself a prominent place in the
horticultural and agricultural circles of his community. In addition to his specializing
in ch.li peppers Mr. Hartman devotes half of his ranch to general farming; he thor
oughly understands the cultivation and peculiarities of the soil in this vicinity and
is ar, authority on the most suitable crops to be propagated. He has resided on his
ranch near Buena Park since 1909 and has greatly improved the place

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On May 1, 1906, Harvey F. Hartman was united in marriage with Miss Rose
Bastady, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Imanuel Bastady and this happy union has been
blessed with four children: Rosalie Marie, Helen Esther, Ida Mae and Frank Christian.
Mrs. Hartman is a native of Basel, Switzerland. The family are members of the Con
gregational Church of Buena Park. During his residence in Orange County, Mr.
Hartman has contributed his share to the substantial development of agriculture and
horticulture in the county and is an honored member of the Farm Bureau of Buena
Park. Having been interested in floriculture while living in Pasadena, he still retains
his love for the beautiful by his membership in the Floricultural Society of that city.
Believing there is a great future for the dahlia, he is beginning the cultivation of special
varieties on a small scale on his ranch.
FRANK R. LAGOURGUE. — A successful rancher and an influential member of
the Anaheim Citrus Union, Frank R. Lagourgue has more than one interesting story
to tell of the past as it affected either himself or his forebears. He was born in Sac City,
Sac County, Iowa, the son of William V. and Elizabeth (Austin) Lagourgue. His
father was born in Jamaica, West Indies, where the grandfather William Lagourgue,
who was a native of France, was a large sugar planter. In time he disposed of his
holdings in Jamaica and located in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was a lumberman until
his death. William V. Lagourgue as a young man sailed on the Great Lakes, then
located in Iowa and was one of the first one-half dozen settlers of Sac County. Here
Frank received his early schooling at Sac City, and when sixteen years old moved to
Gage County, Nebr. His father purchased school land near Beatrice and also some
land from the Otoe Indians, and he had a large farm where he raised wheat and corn.
Frank continued his studies for a while after coming to Nebraska, and more and
more caught the spirit of the West which was to lead him on to his greater accom
plishment on the shore of the Pacific.
On November 30, 1882, Frank R. Lagourgue was married to Miss Mary Latta, a
native of Minnesota, and a member of a family that moved to Indiana and then to
Nebraska, in 1880. Her parents Robt. S. and Mary Latta, natives of Illinois and Ohio,
respectively, came of splendid old Eastern stock, her father being a minister in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, very highly esteemed for his earnestness and devotion to
his calling. After his marriage Mr. Lagourgue engaged in the drug business in Odell,
Nebr., and later in Imperial, Chase County, Nebr. In the fall of 1901 he drove overland
with a team and wagon to Stillwater, Okla., and there lived for a winter. On April 1,
1902, he came to California and settled at Anaheim, and here purchased a home on
East Center Street, in which he lived for a few years. In 1908, he bought ten acres
on Placentia Avenue, cleared the land, developed water and set out Valencia oranges.
In 1914, however, he sold out and purchased a ranch on Liberty Lane, north of Ana
heim, and since then he has made that farm his home ranch, dispensing there to all
who come an acceptable hospitality. All these years he has engaged in contracting and
painting in Anaheim and vicinity, his work being most excellent and highly appre
ciated. Five children were granted Mr. and Mrs. Lagourgue: Carl R. lives in Wasco,
Cal.; Alta is a bank clerk of Glendale, Ariz.; Robert V. resides in Pomona; Bernice
has become Mrs. E. L. Hartwell of Long Beach; while Frank died at the age of nine
years. Mrs. Lagourgue is a member of the Free Methodist Church in Garden Grove.
Mr. Lagourgue is vice-president of the Northeast Water Company, from which he
irrigates his ranch. A member of the Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with Anaheim
Lodge, F. & A. M.
Mr. Lagourgue's father recalls with interest the fact that in early days the very
Indians that massacred the settlers of New Ulm, Minn., used his farm in Iowa as their
camping ground. He treated the Redmen kindly, and they in turn never molested him
or his family. And when one of his horses followed the Indians' horses as they took
their leave, an Indian, discovering the wandering beast, brought it back and tied it in
his father's yard.
EDWARD CHAFFEE. — The son of honored pioneers of Orange County, Edward
Chaffee, of Garden Grove, is a Californian in all but birth, having been a resident of
the state since he was five years old. He was born on the Chaffee farm near Elgin,
111., March 16, 1876, the son of Albert J. and Susan (Ambrose) Chaffee, who are men
tioned elsewhere in this volume. In 1881 the family removed to California, settling
at Garden Grove, then Los Angeles County. Here the lad grew up, attending the public
schools at Garden Grove, and later taking a two years' course at the State Normal
School at Los Angeles. In the meantime he was brought up to do hard work on his
father's grain and dairy farm, learning thoroughly how to master all the problems that
go with making a success in agriculture. When he reached manhood he began farm
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-es half a mile northeast of Garden Grove. In addition he farms eighty-five acres
of 'rented land in the vicinity. Always progressive in his ideas, Mr. Chaffee has kept
e with the changes brought about by the successive steps in the progress of the
Pountrv At one time he was interested in the production of celery, but when other
croos became more profitable he at once turned his attention to them and has made
a marked success in raising sugar beets, lima beans and alfalfa. He has erected a
comfortable country residence on his ranch, and also improved the place with barns
and other buildings. Some time ago he set out four acres of apricots and they are
now bearing profitably. For the past six seasons he has operated a bean thresher in
partnership with R. A. Oldfield.
Mr Chaffee's marriage, which occurred on July 10, 1902, united him with Miss
Carrie S Pullen who was reared at Areola, 111., and came to California in 1896. Six
children all boy's, have been born to them: Clare S., Harold E., Milton A., Robert A.,
Walter B and lohn D. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church
at Garden Grove. Mr. Chaffee takes an active interest in the development of Garden
Grove particularly in furthering the interests of the Garden Grove Lima Bean Grow
ers \ssociation which he helped organize, and of which he is the secretary. He is also
a member of the Garden Grove Farm Bureau and Chamber of Commerce, and for six
years was secretary for the Orange County Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Mrs. Chaffee justly shares her husband's popularity in the community and the whole
family is highly esteemed.
FRED DORN.— A liberal-minded, kind-hearted, sterling fellow, who has proven
both a builder up and an upbuilder of Anaheim, is Fred Dorn, who was born in Alsace-
Lorraine, on March 31, 1867, the son of George Dorn, a native of that country and a
stonemason, and also a member of an old family. He married Caroline Smith, a model
woman of her land and generation, and one who influenced most helpfully the subject
of our sketch. Both parents are now deceased.
Fred, the only one in the United States, to which country he came when he was
fifteen, in 1882, attended the public schools of his locality, where he received a good
grounding in the essentials of education. When he reached Ford County, 111., he
began to work on a farm, and continued his schooling in the winter time. Two
years later, he removed to Adams County, Nebr., where he continued to work as a
farm hand. He there rented land, raised grain and stock, got more and more familiar
w'ith American conditions, and both in his successes and failures prepared himself for
the next great step in his career, his removal to the Pacific Coast.
This was effected in 1890, when he removed to California and settled for a while
at Fillmore, in Ventura County where he secured ten acres and went in for general
farming. At the end of seven years, however, he sold out and moved south to Los
Angeles, where he was in the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad Company. He next
engaged as a contractor in cement construction, and for another seven years followed
that line of activity.
In 1907 he bought his present place of eighteen acres at Anaheim — raw land,
where he had to grub out the eucalyptus and the apricot trees from three or more
acres. He set out a vineyard, raised stock, had orange trees which he budded to
excellent Valencias, so that with the exception of an acre and a half of lemons, he has
devoted much of his land to oranges of that type. He belongs to the Mutual Orange
Distributors Association, where his experience carries weight.
JOHN C. ELBINGER. — A progressive rancher, who owns twenty well-improved
acres, devoted to oranges and walnuts, in the West Anaheim district of Orange County,
is John C. Elbinger, a native of Germany, where he first saw the light of day on
August 24, 1849. His parents, George and Mary Elbinger, were also natives of Germany
and their family consisted of two children, John C. and Elizabeth.
When twenty-six years of age, John C. Elbinger immigrated to the United States
so he could enjoy a greater degree of liberty in the pursuit of life and happiness and
where so many great opportunities were offered to enterprising and ambitious young
men— opportunities such as they could never hope to enjoy in their native land. After
his arrival in this country Mr. Elbinger resided for a short time in Kankakee County,
111., but in March, 1877, migrated to Nebraska, farmed there four years in Saunders
County and in 1881 he went to South Dakota where he took up 320 acres of land and
engaged in general farming and stockraising. The land was located in territory for
merly occupied by Indians. He improved the land, developed the place into a good
paying farm and remained in South Dakota for twenty years. Mr. Elbinger's superior
business ability and expert knowledge of land values were recognized by his fellow-
citizens in his election to the important position of county assessor of Douglas County,
a post he filled with credit to himself and great satisfaction to the tax-paying public
for the period of fifteen years.

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During the year 1901, John C. Elbinger moved to the Pacific Coast, coming
directly to Riverside County, Cal., where he purchased ten acres, slightly improved,
and devoted the ranch exclusively to oranges. Ten acres soon became too small for
such an ambitious and progressive man as Mr. Elbinger, he sold it and removed to
Orange County where he purchased his present ranch in 1908. The land was partly
improved when he took possession, but he began more extensive improvements, setting
out walnut and orange trees and in due time developed his place into a most profitable
ranch where he has a comfortable house and most pleasant surroundings. His career
it but another illustration of what thrift, frugality and well-directed effort, coupled with
the judicious management of one's financial affairs, can accomplish.
In 1877 Mr. Elbinger was united in marriage with Miss Marguerite England, this
happy union being blessed with a son, George Elbinger, who married Miss Catherine
Haas, and they are the parents of twin girls, Elizabeth and Agnes. In 1910 Mr.
Elbinger was bereft of his loving and faithful helpmate. During his residence in
Orange County he has filled minor offices of trust and responsibility and always mani
fested a deep concern in the development of the best interests of Orange County.
JOSEPH P. MAYHEW.— A self-made, very successful man whose public-spirit-
edness has actuated him to share with others- some of his successful opportunities
and, more than once, to point the way so that his fellow-citizens might attain to the
same sort of prosperity his foresight enabled him to divine, is Joseph P. Mayhew,
who returned to Anaheim and the Orange County country, notwithstanding his good
luck further east, because he had received such a favorable impression of Southern
California when he first came here to look around. He was born at Calumet, N. Y.,
on December 13, 1852, the son of Mark A. Mayhew, who was born and reared in
England, followed a seafaring life for sixteen years, and before he left Great Britain,
married Miss Sarah Young, also English by birth. After their eldest son, William A.
Mayhew, later a resident of Danville, 111., had been born, Mr. and Mrs. Mayhew
migrated from England, and in 1850 located at Calumet, N. Y., Mr. Mayhew turning
his hand to anything which would enable him to support himself and family. Three
years later, he moved west to Illinois and settled near Sheldon, in Iroquois County,
and there bought forty acres of raw land upon which he put up a log cabin. He
steadily improved his farm and also added to it, until he had 120 acres; prospering
to a happy degree, save in the death of his devoted wife, in 1866. Just forty years
later, on April 21, he closed, his own career in death.
These worthy British-Americans had six sons and one daughter, and Joseph
was the second in the order of birth. He was reared near Sheldon, attended the
primitive schools of that locality and period, and assisted his .father at home until his
twenty-first year. Three days before Christmas, in 1873, at Clifton, 111., he married
Miss Nancy A. Karnes, a native of Momence, 111., who was reared in Illinois, receiv
ing most of her education in Kankakee County, 111. Her father was John Karnes,
while the maiden name of her mother was Mary Reynolds. After marrying, they
rented land for three years in Iroquois County, and then purchased and developed
eighty acres of prairie land which Mr. Mayhew in two short years made highly
productive. Having rented his farm, Mr. Mayhew in February, 1879 joined the Rinehart family,
his wife's adopted parents, and removed to Nebraska, where they located in Seward
County, and there for a while again rented land. Then he purchased eighty acres,
which he improved and lived upon until the late eighties. About that time, he came
out to California and to Anaheim, and what he saw here so favorably impressed him
that, he decided to remove to the Coast as soon as he could afford to do so. He
returned, however, to Nebraska, devoting his time to buying and shipping live stock
to South Omaha and Chicago; his headquarters were at Beaver Crossing, Nebr.; here
he continued with success until 1907, when he came out to Anaheim for good.
While on a second trip to California in 1893, Mr. Mayhew had purchased forty
acres of unimproved land, and on his return he bought a number of town lots and a
ranch of fifteen acres east of Anaheim, now rich with full-bearing Valencia oranges.
When he started in Nebraska as a young man, Mr. Mayhew had less than ten dollars
in his pocket; but by hard, honest work and care to look ahead, he built up a large
trade shipping stock and poultry, averaging as much as $13,000 worth a month. Since
his advent in Orange County, Mr. Mayhew has speculated a good deal in real estate,
and has always been phenomenally successful. Mr. and Mrs. Mayhew are members
of the First Christian Church at Anaheim, and he is a Mason, retaining his member
ship in Prudence Lodge No. 179, A. F. & A. M. at Beaver Crossing, Nebr. A brother
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WESLEY C. HEFFERN. — A far-seeing, well-posted oil man, whose good judg
ment is appreciated by all who have to do with him, is Wesley C. Heffern, who was
born near Oil City, Venango County, Pa., on October 6, 1875. His father, George
Heffern, of Scotch-Irish descent, was born near Meadville, Crawford County, Pa., and
was for some years a farmer and stock raiser engaged in the wholesale cattle business.
Then he became an oil man — an oil producer and a contractor in the oil fields, and still
later, he took up the wholesaling of cattle again, and made his headquarters at Oil City
until he died. Sad to relate, he met his death in a tragic manner, gored by an in
furiated bull. Wesley's mother, Rebecca Bishop before her marriage, was a native of
Pennsylvania, having been born near Pittsburgh; and she now resides in Oil City, the
mother of fourteen children, thirteen of whom grew up, while eleven are still living.
Wesley was the seventh eldest, and was sent to the public schools of Oil City.
From a lad, however, he learned the oil trade, and when only twelve years of age
entered the office of the Standard Oil Company, in the beginning running an elevator
in their first building in Oil City, and then acting as office boy in the company's offices.
Then he went out to work on their lease, beginning with the wells from the bottom up.
In 1902, the company sent Mr. Heffern to Bakersfield, Cal., and for six years he
worked for them in this state. He operated, by contract, the pipe lines, stations and
reservoirs and tanks between Bakersfield and Coalinga, and also between Bakersfield
and Point Richmond for the Standard Oil Company.
In 1908 he left the Standard's service, and struck out into the Lost Hills and
other places, where he made several locations which later were demonstrated to be good
gas and oil territory. Among others, he located the land that eventually came in as
the Lake View Gusher, and tried to interest Bakersfield capital; but they laughed at
him and turned him down, and he had to let it go back — could not hold it. He finally
succeeded in selling some of his locations, and settled in San Diego, where he bought
a residence. He also purchased a ranch in the Imperial Valley, and one near San
Diego, devoted to fruit and vegetables.
In 1914, Mr. Heffern went to Texas and leased 110,000 acres of land for oil pros
pecting; but he could not get capital interested in them, and again he had to let the
opportunity and fortune go, for wells are now as thick as peas in that same great
field. As early as 1912, he had come to Orange County to look over some oil property
for certain San Diego parties; and, becoming especially interested, he made several
trips here, and from personal observation and investigation, chose the territory east
of Placentia as best of all for oil prospects.
In 1916, Mr. Heffern removed from San Diego to Orange County, and now resides
on his orange grove ranch southeast of Placentia. It was Mr. Heffern who first selected
the location, and interested the Union Oil Company in the Chapman well area. He
obtained leases here, and in 1919 formed the Heffern Oil Company, which is now drill
ing for and developing oil on his own property. Having thus run the course of this
thirteen years of very valuable experience, Mr. Heffern has become one of the best-
posted oil men in the state, and one in whom the small and the large investor may
well have confidence.
At San Diego, Mr. Heffern was married to Miss Pauline Schnepp, a native of that
city, and a lady of accomplishment; and they have had three children, Marie, Dick and
Margerie. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Heffern in
national political campaigns marches under the banners of the Republican party.
CHALMERS T. FOSTER.— One of the attractive ranches for its size in Orange
County, which until 1910 was a mere beet field, is that owned by Chalmers T. Foster,
who resides on South Brookhurst near Anaheim, where he cultivates sixteen acres
devoted to citrus fruits. The first thing that he did, on acquiring the land, was to
set out orange trees of the choicest and most promising variety he could find; and
today, in the large yield of the most luscious products, he is reaping the reward of his
foresight, confidence and intelligent labor.
Fn0t^6 It- a na!,'Ve °I *ndiana- where he was born in 1856, a son of William L.
ndtn, \ A -^on6/ d WAen he WaS an infant He was reared and educated in
Palouse en f T "T^ fr°m the H°°sier State to Washington, and there in the
has alwavs bP 7 ™8\g0 Vn nu™he business. Aside from that venture, Mr. Foster
During J* • « ? Wlth ff mmg' °r S°me feature of the ^"cultural industries.
make! and his 'n .^hrngton, for example, he also shipped veal and poultry to the
market and this added considerably to his experience
are wilWtn™ ^^ t0 thatc suPerior. although unpretentious class of farmers who
thL take nHde fn I'0™6 Sa"lfice,to establis" themselves on the best basis, and who
unk to the den h ciTTm f ^ P i!"* *" aPPle"pie °rder' He has an ad^ well.
water an J a first Hns '' ™ , * te":inch bore' ^ding seventy-five inches of
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complement of machinery and implements, and aims to keep everything in the best of
order. He is a member of the Garden Grove Orange Association, the Orange County
Produce Association, and vigorously supports any movement for the development of
California husbandry, especially within his particular fields.
The marriage of Mr. Foster occurred in 1881, when he was united with Miss
Catherine McClurkin, a native of Indiana, and three children have blessed their fortu
nate union. They are W. Vern, who assists his father; Rachel, a graduate from the Indi
ana State University and living at home; and Homer Foster, the latter a teacher in the
Anaheim high school. He is a graduate of the Washington State College. As a
citizen of standards and attainments, Mr. Foster is also a model to others in good
citizenship. THOMAS JOHN McCARTER.— The cultivation of English walnuts and Valencia
oranges, now among the important industries of Southern California, giving much
promise of further advancement, has been greatly promoted by just such experienced,
aggressive and progressive agriculturists as Thomas J. McCarter, who owns and oper
ates two ranches near Santa Ana, one of fifteen and the other sixteen acres, devoted
to the growing of the above products. The exclusion of other products is due to Mr.
McCarter's conviction that the heavy rich soil of the locality is better adapted to the
growing of walnuts and citrus fruits than the general run of deciduous varieties.
Thomas McCarter was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, on July 10, 1850, a son of
Joseph McCarter, a native of Scotland, who came to the United States and in this
country married Eleanor Jane Reed, who was born on board a vessel on the Atlantic
Ocean of Scotch-Irish parents. They had three children, and of these three, our subject
and a sister, .Mary Jane, ...survive. Mr. McCarter, the only one of the family residing
in California, was reared and educated in Branch County, Mich., having removed there
with his parents when quite young. In 1866 the family removed to Monroe County,
Iowa, and later to Dade County, Mo., and finally to Cloud County, Kans., in 1872.
Here Thomas McCarter homesteaded 160 acres of land and turned the first furrow,
but the first crop was destroyed by grasshoppers. Nothing daunted, he persevered and
succeeded in improving the place so that at the end of ten years he sold it to advantage.
He then purchased eighty acres near Clay Center, Clay County, where he farmed until
1894, when he sold it and returned to Cloud County and bought a 200-acre farm adjoin
ing his old homestead, where he continued general faTming.
Mr. McCarter and his wife had always had a desire to make their home in Cali
fornia, so in February, 1903, they arrived in Orange County and were so delighted with
the country that they sold their Kansas farm the next month. Having $4,000 to start
with, he made a payment on thirty acres of raw stubble land on Ritchey Street, south
east of Santa Ana. By hard work, close application and economy, and aided by his
wife and children, he has become a substantial and well-to-do man. He sold half of
the acreage, so has fifteen acres left, which he has improved and beautified and now he
has a comfortable home, which with its surroundings is just such a homestead as has
always been a show place for those wishing to see what California can do for the
settler. He also owns sixteen acres on McFadden and William streets, both places
being devoted to raising walnuts and oranges. Aside from his present places Mr. Mc
Carter bought and improved forty acres on the Newport Road, also twelve and a half
acres on East McFadden Street, as well as improving half of his first ranch, which
were sold at a good profit. In addition to the above, Mr. McCarter owned and im
proved about 100 acres located ten miles northwest of Fresno, where he resided with
his family for about two and one-half years, setting it to figs and erecting a comfortable
residence as well as other necessary buildings. However, having a decided preference
for the climate in Orange County he sold the fig garden at a good profit and retired
to his homestead in 1919.
In Dade County, Mo., in 1872, Mr. McCarter was married to Miss Mary Ellen
Dunn, born in Iowa, the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Tedford) Dunn, natives of
Pennsylvania and Tennessee, respectively, who spent their last days in comfort with
Mr. and Mrs. McCarter in their California home. The father died in October, 1919,
at the age of ninety-two and a half years, the mother preceding him, having passed
away in 1916, at the age of eighty-six. Thirteen children blessed the haDpy union of
Mr. and Mrs. McCarter as follows: James Ira, who is residing in Fresno County; Etta
Dell, deceased; Thomas R. of Whittier; John G., deceased; twins, who died in infancy;
Ida May is Mrs. Binkley of Fresno; Frank of Santa Ana; Eugene L. of Tustin; Eliza
beth M. is Mrs. Hatch, who lives near Tustin; Mary, who assists her mother in pre
siding over the home; Irving of Fresno; while Albert, the youngest, is manfully assist
ing his father to care for and enhance the value of their ranch property.
Mr. .and Mrs. McCarter never regret having selected Orange County for their
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their efforts with success, but has enabled them to secure for their children the educa
tion their ambitions had planned and desired. Mr. McCarter and his family have
always endeavored to stand for the highest and best in social and civic life and are
among those whose influence for good in any community is of the most desirable, for
it affects not only the generation in which they live and' move, but also posterity
coming after and inheriting the good or the evil sown by those who have gone before.
A Covenanter — that is, a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Mr. McCarter
has also been a prohibitionist of the most pronounced type and has never swerved when
called upon to do his duty in the councils of the church and state. Santa Ana could
not felicitate itself, therefore, with more assurance and satisfaction than in the coming
to Orange County of this fearless and broadly progressive pioneer.
THOMAS R. MORRIS. — Ten years' experience in the business of poultry raising
has given Thomas R. Morris, of Cypress district, a thorough knowledge of this voca
tion, yet, withal, experience has taught him that there is always something to learn in
the business. His ranch, situated about one mile west of Cypress, comprises ten acres, and he
owns in addition eight acres in another place. His hens, single-comb White Leg
horns, are first-class layers, and number 1,800, with sixty males. He buys his feed by
the carload, does his own grinding and raises his green feed, as well as some corn.
His houses cover an area of 5,000 square feet. He sells eggs and does hatching for
commercial purposes.
Mr. Morris, who is a native Kentuckian, was born on February 23, 1883, and is
the only child of Allen G. and Henrietta Morris. He acquired his education in his
native state, and has since been engaged principally in agricultural pursuits. He came
to Orange County, Cal., in 1904, and in 1910 was happily united in marriage with Miss
Juliett Hobbs, a native of Texas. Two children, Virginia and Marion by name, have
blessed this union. Mr. Morris's love for the work in which he is engaged has played
an important part in bringing the success which he has deservedly won. He is among
the progressive poultrymen of his district and enjoys the full confidence and esteem of
his fellow-citizens. MAAG RANCH. — Whoever is looking for a "show place" in Orange County
will find himself well rewarded -by a visit to the famous Maag Ranch, jointly and
equally owned by the three brothers, William H., Joe A. and George W. Maag,
widely known as belonging to the most progressive and most representative of South
ern Californians. It lies four miles north of Olive, on the Santa Ana Canyon Boule
vard, and includes 124 acres in the Santa Ana Canyon.
Joe A. Maag, the eldest of the three enterprising young men, was born a native
son, proud of his association with the Golden State, and of whom California may well
be proud, at Orange, on June 20, 1890, attended the usual schools in Orange, and
completed a course at the Orange County Business College. He spent his boyhood
days at home, and contributed his full share to the "life" of the community in which
he grew up. He could not fail to attain social popularity, and he is a popular member
of the Santa Ana lodge of Elks.
V^'11iom1 H" h'S brother' was also born at Orange, his birthday falling on Feb
ruary 6, 894, and having attended the grade schools of Orange, he also went to
and completed a course at the Orange County Business College, having in the mean
while snatched at and secured fame in athletic sports. He ranched with his father
unti 19k,, and on July 11, 1917, was married to Miss Katherine Kramer, a native
i-i r:.,W ,S %'i ?n.e musician- This fortunate union has been blessed with one
St8 '"'e g'r'' ^dwma Mary- Mrs- Maag's parents are residents of Santa Ana,
and her father M. Kramer, is a builder and carpenter of acknowledged ability.
advantolT I T k^ W&S b°rn at °range' and eni°yed the samc educational
vear of a, P AU 70 hro?"?a- ""0 He a'S° hdped at home «ntil h<= was twenty-one
of Coining inlan^Ant ^ g°°d fe',0WS" "e M ^mh^ °f the K^
trees ^hilelnrt ' ™ ^^ ,°f *, Maag Ranch have ^'"bearing Valencia orange
who bd, ve in the nlH "' ^"'f t0 .^-bearing lemons. The wide-awake brothers,
7h v understand morW, T ' ^ T^ there is stre«gth," have succeeded because
ink thefr experience J h l^T8 T^*' Share the burden of a11 responsibility, and
hrouo-h the Olive He f^t r , a SuccessM disposition of their crops is obtained
acre of their beauHfuTf/ Association at Olive. The remaining thirty-four
farming An interest tl fenT '* °n, ^ Sa"ta Ana River' and is used ^ general
mating water Th ,t It,? T? 1 ^ p,rofitabIe one, is the source of their irri-
a^rt and 'sunk n a the river T V. " WeI1S> ^"^ ab°Ut fiftee" t0 eighteen feet
P t, „ear the river, which gives a never-failing supply lifted in a steady

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stream of seventy-five miner's inches, by a Gould suction pump, an indispensable
part of the farm plant that is kept in action throughout the summer months. Then
the concrete pipe line running throughout the citrus groves evenly distributes the
water. Besides two head of horses and two mules, the Maag Brothers use a couple
of up-to-date tractors.
William H. Maag lives in a beautiful modern bungalow, nicely located on the
north side of the Santa Ana Boulevard, with a yard that is laid out symmetrically, and
is an ornament to the place. A well there supplies the best of water for domestic use.
Orange County is fortunate in such progressive, aggressive young citizens as the
Maag Brothers, with their ambition to attain only the highest results in their field,
and to contribute something worth while to the development of the state in which
they live and thrive.
VARD W. HANNUM.— A well-trained and thoroughly efficient public official is
Vard W. Hannum, the city electrician and superintendent of the Municipal Power House
at Anaheim. He was born in Hart, Oceana County, Mich., on June 28, 1883, and reared
and educated there, duly graduating from the local high school. Then he went to
New York City and took the excellent courses at the New York Electrical School; and
from 1910 he was employed in the electrical department of the Union Carbide Company
at Sault Saint Marie, Mich., after which he was a year with the Algoma Steel Company
on the Canadian side.
In the fall of 1911, Mr. Hannum came to California and entered the service of the
Pacific Electric Railroad Company, Los Angeles, giving them a year in their electrical
department, in installation work at the substation. On August 12, 1912, he came to
Anaheim and commenced to work for the municipality. He began in a somewhat sub
ordinate capacity, as one of the engineers, then as foreman, and gradually and properly
worked- his way up to his present responsible post, to which he was appointed in
February, 1917.
Mr. Hannum has charge of the operation of the power plant, and is also respon
sible for electrical inspection of the city so that, with the necessity of keeping
thoroughly apace with the last word of science and mechanics, and the actual labor of
installing, repairing and renewing parts of the system, it will be seen that he is a very
busy man. Fortunately for the city of Anaheim, he had years of most valuable experi
ence before he came, to which his day and night labors are constantly adding, and he
is fond' of hard work, and both mentally and physically able to bear the strain.
In December, 1912, Mr. Hannum was married to Miss Bessie L. Palmiter of Hart,
Mich., a charming lady capable at all times of creating for herself a desirable circle of
devoted friends, and herself devoted to others, and ready for any good work. Mr.
Hannum belongs to the Wigton Lodge No. 251, F. & A. M., at Hart, Mich., and to
Anaheim Lodge No. 1345 of the Elks.
THEODORE GREGER.— A valued employe of the Pacific Electric Railway for
many years who, by improving a grove of Valencia orange frrees until it is now one of
the finest for its size in the county, has proven himself a successful man in another
field, is Theodore Greger, who was born in West Prussia, Germany, on May 13;
1870, and, after the death of his parents,, came to America at the age of nine,
accompanied by his little sister, then only seven years of age. His father, Arthur
Greger, had followed farming, and was killed in a distressing accident when a load of
hay toppled and the tine of a fork entered his body, so that he died a year later, in
1879, from the wound. The very next year after this disaster befell Mr. Greger, his
wife died from a fall. These worthy people had five children; and as Theodore and
Bertha were the youngest, they were sent to an uncle, the other three coming later.
They arrived in Baltimore in January, 1881, and then traveled on to Milwaukee,
and there they were received by their uncle, August Greger, who lived at Ripon, Wis.
They found a good home there, helped what they could by day, and went to school
at night. At the end of six years, when Theodore was in the middle of his teens, he
came on to Washington and found work in a sawmill. Then he clerked in a grocery
store at Tacoma, and after that went back east to Augusta, Wis., and worked for a
year as a clerk.
His next- move was to Milwaukee, where he became a motorman on the Milwaukee
Street Railway; and for twelve years and a half he gave them his best service, and
was lucky in not having a single accident. In 1907, he swung away from his Wiscon
sin moorings, and reached Los Angeles, where he found no difficulty in obtaining a
post as motorman on the Pacific Electric Railway. After six years, he was made
assistant depot master at the Main Street station; and that additional responsibility
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On May 1, 1917, Mr. Greger resigned, to give all his attention to the ranch of
eight acres he had bought in 1909, and had since handsomely improved. It was located
at the corner of Olive and Sunkist avenues in East Anaheim, and was raw land when
he first took it. He had it leveled and set out Valencia orange trees, put in a cement
pipe line and otherwise improved it, and during his busy railroad life, he never lost a
tree. He built a residence, and was soon envied by his friends on account of his
trim little estate. He also owned a residence at the corner of West Forty-eighth
Street and Second Avenue, in Los Angeles. In addition,, he owns another five acres
near his place, which he also set out to Valencia oranges, and ten acres on North
Street with Valencia orange trees six years old.
At Cooperstown, Wis., Mr. Greger was married to Miss Hulda Voeltz, a native
of that city, and their fortunate union was blessed with the gift of four sons. Henry
is ranching on his father's place; Arthur is a conductor on the Los Angeles Street
Railway; William is office man for Richards' Express, in Los Angeles; and Elmer also
assists his father.
Mr. Greger is a Lutheran in his preference for congregational worship, a Repub
lican in matters of national politics, and a member of the Independent Foresters of
America in Milwaukee; and first, last and all the time, he is an American, who finds
his highest pleasure as a citizen in standing for American institutions, and in boosting
Orange County and California.
MRS. OTTILIE HENNING. — A very interesting woman of exceptional business
ability who has unlimited faith in the future of Orange County is Mrs. Ottilie Henning,
a daughter of Rev. Adolph and Juliana (Dinkier) Weinknecht. Her father was for
nineteen years a minister in the German Lutheran Church. Although, a comparatively
young man, he had attained some reputation for unusual ability, and his death, when
our subject was about three years of age, was widely deplored. Three of his children
grew to maturity, and among them Ottilie was next to the youngest. She was' reared
at Hertzfelde near Berlin, Germany, and early had the best of public school educational
advantages, and in 1899 came to California and Anaheim, where she met and married
Louis Henning. Seven children resulted from their union, and each has won a place
in the hearts of those knowing them. Walter assists his mother in the problems and
work of ranching. Of the twins, Henry is in the Anaheim high school and Martha
assists her mother to preside over the household; Otto is also a student at the Anaheim
high school; and there are Arthur, Annie and Richard. Mrs. Henning belongs to the
Anaheim Lutheran Church, and is active in the Ladies' Society of that congregation,
and she is also a Republican with strong Protectionist views.
Since her marriage, Mrs. Henning has been deeply interested in agriculture and
especially in horticulture, and she now owns three fine ranches devoted to the culture
of Valencia and Navel oranges, lemons and walnuts — property as fine as any highly-
cultivated ranchland in Southern California. On the home place, located on Olive
Boulevard, she has just completed a large, beautiful modern residence of mission style
of architecture built of concrete, making it one of the most beautiful country homes
in the county. In this age of the new woman, the scientific and commercial accom
plishments of Mrs. Henning are of such exceptional interest that Anaheim cannot
fail to be proud of her as one of the representative citizens of town and county.
A. F. PLEGEL. — A prominent and influential orange grower, whose success in
contributing definitely toward the development of Orange County is undoubtedly due
to the investment of his foresight and hard labor in clearing the land of cactus and
sagebrush, and thereby producing some very valuable acreage for orange groves, is A.
F. Plegel, who came to Orange County in the early nineties. He was born in Ger
many in 1887, the son of a worthy burgher of that country, who died there. Later,
his widow, the mother of our subject, brought her only child to America, and arrived
in California in 1892. At Orange, Mrs. Plegel married a second time, taking Emil
Krueger for her husband; and they improved a ranch and followed farming, in East
Orange. This first place of theirs, where they now reside, consists of twenty acres;
and when they ha'd made a success of that, they improved several other places.
A. F. Plegel was reared in Orange, attended the local public schools, and from
a lad learned horticulture and nurserying, and for four or five years he was employed
by George B. Warner in Santa Ana, in the work of grafting and budding. By 1907
he had sufficiently advanced that he was able to buy his place of twenty acres on
Commonwealth Avenue, near North; like so many other places hereabouts at that
time, it was merely cactus and sagebrush, but he settled there, built a dwelling,
cleared and leveled the land, and sunk a well which is now pumped out by electrical
power, irrigating his own place and 140 acres more. His plant has a stream of 100
inches, and he has been able to raise from 2,000 to 3,000 sacks of potatoes a year.

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Mr. Plegel has a thorough knowledge of horticulture and the nursery business,
from its first stages up, and at first commenced his nursery solely for himself. His
output, however, was in excess of his needs, and the reputation he acquired for skill
traveled abroad, until others insisted on his giving them the benefit of his experi
ence. He belongs to the Mutual Orange Distributors Exchange, and is often a leader
in its activities.
At Orange, Mr. Plegel was married to Miss Paula Simon, a native of Germany,
and three children have blessed the choice. They are Carl, Arnold aud Emil, and
with their parents they attend the Anaheim Lutheran Church. In national politics
a Republican, Mr. Plegel allows no partisanship to interfere at any time with his
"boosting" of local projects meeting the approval of the intelligent portion of the
community. FRANK NELSON GIBBS.— The development of Anaheim and, indeed, neigh
boring towns as residential and business centers is due in part to the excellent facilities
for building afforded by such concerns as the Gibbs Lumber Yard, of which Frank
Nelson Gibbs, the city trustee, is proprietor. He was born in Evanston, 111., on
March 9, 1880, and his father was Oscar L. Gibbs, well known in the business world,
and chairman of the Evanston Board of Trade. He had married Miss Lillian N.
Goodenow, a lady of attractive personality, who survives him. There were five chil
dren in the family, and Frank is the oldest now living.
His schooling began in Arizona, but when his father died and the family moved
to California, he attended the schools of Los Angeles. In 1893 he began work in
a planing mill, and then, still in that city, he went into the dry goods business.
Afterward, he took up the handling of lumber, and in 1911 came to Anaheim, where
he built his lumber yard. Soon afterward, he opened a yard at Fullerton and one
at Placentia. He employs five men, and they are kept busy serving an ever-increasing
number of patrons. The fact that Mr. Gibbs is, on the one hand, so well posted
in the lumber trade, and that, on the other, he is intensely interested in the growth
and expansion of Orange County, and has abundant faith in its future, and is always
willing to cooperate in the advancement of the region, operate to his rendering
the greatest service possible to his townsmen and business establishments and
movements making for progress here. His election, in 1918, to the city council for
a term of four years is a testimonial evidencing the confidence of those living near
and dealing with him. In national politics a Republican, he is at all times ab'ove
petty partisanship.
On September 4, 1906, at Los Angeles, Cal., Mr. Gibbs married Miss Elsie
L. Goodhue, a native of Vermont, and the daughter of W. T. and Ellen E. Goodhue,
and they have had three children — Oscar L., Ellen E. and Caroline A. The family
attend the Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Gibbs is an elder, and where as superin
tendent of the Bible School, he is deeply interested in Sunday school work. He be
longs to the Masons, Lodge, Chapter and Council, and the Mother Colony Club.
HENRY MARQUART. — Among the Wisconsin boys who are coming rapidly to
the front in Orange County, Cal., is numbered Henry Marquart, a successful citrus
grower and the owner of twenty-five acres in two places in Olive precinct. He was
born at Lomira, Dodge County, Wis., of German and French lineage. His grand
father, Peter, was a tailor in the old country and continued the occupation after
coming to America. The father, Ferdinand Marquart, was born in Westphalia, Ger
many, and was seven years old when he accompanied his parents to the New World,
where they located in Dodge County, Wis. Ferdinand grew to manhood, was a
farmer, and married Miss Mary Schultz, and they became the parents of eight chil
dren, five of whom grew to maturity — three boys and two girls.
Henry is the oldest son in the Marquart family, and was reared on a southern
Wisconsin farm. He passed the teacher's examination and taught school in his
home county in Wisconsin, putting in his time between terms working on his father's
farm, until coming to California in May, 1906. For nine months he worked in vari
ous places, familiarizing himself with orchard work, all the while looking for a good
place to locate and buy a ranch. He saw the fifteen-acre ranch that he now owns
and resolved to buy it. Five acres of the ranch were planted to Navel oranges, which
he has budded over to Valencias. The other trees were at that time affected with
the San Jose scale, and it took some time to get them back into bearing. The five
acres of Valencias are in good bearing, and the remainder of the place is planted
to lemons, walnuts and Valencia oranges. In 1919 Mr. Marquart bought a ten-acre
Valencia grove about half a mile from his fifteen-acre home place. It is now five
years old and is just coming into bearing. His place is in first-class shape, well
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His marriage occurred in 1917 and united him with Miss Lillie Schroeder, daugh
ter of Fred Schroeder of Santa Ana, and they have a son named Wesley Martin.
Mr. Marquart is a young man of excellent educational attainments, and is giving his
best efforts to the citrus and walnut industries. He is not afraid of work and
knows how to work to the best advantage. He has built a beautiful and commodious
country residence upon his fifteen-acre ranch, where he resides with his wife and
child. The residence is located on the north side of Taft Avenue, west of Tustin
Street, in the very heart of the citrus belt of Orange County. Mr. Marquart is an
indefatigable worker and possesses a streak of dry humor. He is well liked, and
his quickness of perception enables him to see and to grasp an opportunity at the
opportune moment. He is a member of the Santiago Orange' Association and of
the Evangelical Church of Santa Ana. In national politics he is a Republican.
PHILIP KOZINA. — A worthy representative of the foreign-born American who
is thoroughly Americanized, assimilates American ideas and associates with American
citizens is Philip Kozina. His fine twenty-acre ranch on Santiago Boulevard in Villa
Park Precinct is planted to sixteen acres of Valencias, three acres of Navel orange
trees and one acre of lemon trees. He has lived on the property for the past seven
teen years, has prospered, and is satisfied with his environment amidst the orange
trees and roses.
A Czecho-Slovak, Mr. Kozina was born in Pilsen, Bohemia, February 15, 1855,
the son of John and Annie (Suckop) Kozina, who were married in Bohemia and
were the parents of four sons. By a singular coincidence, Philip Kozina is also the
father of four children, all boys. Mr. Kozina received a good education in the local
schools, after which he learned the wagonmaker's trade. From the age of twenty
to twenty-three he served in the Austrian army as a corporal in the Fourth Heavy
Artillery, after which he followed the carpenter's trade until he came to America in
1883, and settled at Portage City, Wis., where his uncle and aunt were residing at
that time, and here he embraced the first opportunity to become a naturalized Ameri
can citizen. He worked at the carpenter's trade five years in Portage City, then went
to Green Bay, Kewanee County, Wis., where he met and married Miss Katie Kulhanek,
also born in Bohemia, who came when two years old with her parents to Wisconsin.
The four sons resulting from their union are: Jacob, a stock raiser at Philipsburg,
Mont.; Henry, a rancher in Olive precinct, who married Mrs. Antonia Blazac, and
is the father of two children; Joe, who is on the Orpheum and Pantages vaudeville
circuits, entertaining as a song and banjo artist, and traveling all over the Union, and
Albert, who is at home, and who was in the aviation service from which he was
honorably discharged.
After his marriage Mr. Kozina continued the vocation of carpentering at Ash
land, Wis., and afterwards went to Stanleysville, Kewanee County, Wis., and took
charge of the farm of his father-in-law, who was getting along in years. He operated
the farm for fifteen years, then sold out and came to California in 1904, first locating
at Tustin. Becoming acquainted at Villa Park, he purchased and located on his
twenty-acre ranch, which he has improved. His father-in-law, Mr. Matthis Kulhanek,
who has attained the advanced age of eighty-four, makes his home with Mr. Kozina.
On July 4, 1920, Mr. Kozina was bereaved of his faithful wife, who was mourned by
the family and friends. Mr. Kozina is a member of the Central Lemon Growers
Association, and in politics affiliates with the Democratic party. Though reared in the
Catholic faith, the family attend the Community Congregational Church at Villa Park.
They are gifted musically and the children are favorities in social circles.
DAVID MITCHELL.— Of Scotch birth and lineage, David Mitchell was born in
County of Fyfe, Scotland on January 4, 1860, the son of David and Elizabeth Mitchell,
natives of that country, who lived and died in the land of their nativity. Of their
family of five children David is the only one living in California. He resides south of
Buena Park on his forty-acre ranch, which is devoted to general farming, including the
raising of chili peppers and tomatoes and has the best of facilities for realizing the
greatest returns from a minimum amount of labor. There are two wells for irrigation
upon the place, one with a depth of 500 feet, and the other 250 feet.
When he was twenty-five years of age, Mr. Mitchell left his native land and
went to Canada where he worked in the stone quarries for about four years, then he
made a visit back to his home and spent the winter. He then came to the "States"
and located in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was in the employ of the Cleveland Stone
Company for two years. Leaving there he next went to Iowa and worked for a St.
Louis firm as a quarryman until he migrated to Flagstaff, Ariz., to accept the position
oi superintendent of the Arizona Sand Stone Company's quarries. This company was
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mendation from his former company in Cleveland. This company employed as many
as eighty men in their quarries and they got out the stone that was used in the con
struction of the Orange County court house, the Los Angeles County court house and
Ihe city hall of that city. The last big job that Mr. Mitchell filled was the stone for
the present postoffice building in Los Angeles. The stone for the Spreckels mansion
in San Francisco also came from this company, in fact they shipped stone all over the
country where high class material was required.
Mr. Mitchell became interested in Orange Country ranch land through his visits
to the members of the company by whom he was employed and he bought forty acres,
in 1893, south of Buena Park and located his family on it and began developing the
tract. He made frequent visits to his family and in 1910 left the employ of the company
and located permanently on his ranch and began development on a sound basis and
has made of his place a valuable ranch and a good producer. He has also taken a live
interest in the affairs of the county and can be counted on to help with all movements
for the betterment of conditions in general and has made a host of friends who appre
ciate his true worth.
His marriage with Miss Mary Vangendern in 1890, daughter of John Vangendern,
resulted in the birth of nine children: David, Ira, John, William, Elizabeth, Jennie,
Cornelius, Edna and George, all single and educated in the schools of Orange County.
David and Ira were in the U. S. service during the recent World War. David was
in constructive work continually during his two years' service with the Twentieth
Corps of Engineers in France. Ira served in the Engineers' Corps of the spruce squad
ron at Washington.
J. B. HEARD. — An experienced, competent man in the truck-hauling business,
who is kept busy transporting merchandise to and from the oil fields, is J. B. Heard,
who was born in Ava, Douglas County, Mo., in 1870, the son of John Heard, a native
of Tennessee. He was reared in that state, and when twenty-one, removed to Missouri.
He campaigned with the Union Army through the Civil War, as a member of a Mis
souri regiment, and later followed farming until his death. Mrs. Heard was Rachel
Mcintosh before her marriage, and she, too, was a native of Douglas County. There
were eight children in the family, and our subject was the fourth eldest in the order
of birth. Brought up on a Missouri farm, he attended the public schools of Doug
las County, after which he learned the carpenter's and the blacksmith's trade. Then he
followed farming on his own account in Douglas County, learning a good deal that
was worth while from the methods of the Eastern agriculturist. Not until 1915 did he
come to California; and then he settled for a while at Taft.
He did some blacksmith work for the Associated Oil Company, and then he en
tered the employ of the Head Drilling Company as tool dresser, continuing with them
for thirteen months. Returning- to Missouri, he brought out his family to stay; and then
he reentered the employ of the Head Drilling Company. After that he was with the
St. Helen Oil Company at Taft.
On February 14, 1919, Mr. Heard located at Orange and bought three acres of
land. He remained a tool dresser on the Richfield-Yorba lease until May 10, and then
he entered upon his latest enterprise, that of hauling for the oil companies. He belongs
to the Oil Workers' Union, and is already well-posted on conditions in the oil fields.
While in Missouri, Mr. Heard was married to Miss Artie Goforth, a native of that
state, and a member of the Baptist Church, an accomplished woman capable of assisting
her husband in many ways. They have had eight children. Virgil and Clay, are in the
oil fields; Gracie is Mrs. Rhodes of Placentia; Jewel is also an oil developer; and
there are Ira, Lester, Floyd and Burrell. Mr. and Mrs. Heard are Republicans.
WASHINGTON I. CARVER.— Spending the retired years of a profitable life
amidst the pleasant surroundings of his orange grove, Washington I. Carver, despite
his more than four score years, is alert, progressive and up-to-date in his political
views, keeping abreast with the times and holding marked views on all the questions
of the day.
His parents, Donald and Amanda (Skidmore) Carver, were pioneer settlers of
Auburn, Cayuga County, N. Y., coming there when this was . considered by New
Englanders as an outpost of civilization, the father engaging in the grocery and meat
business there. Washington I. Carver was born here on January 18, 1839, the youngest
of a family of five children, and when he was four years old the family removed to
Wisconsin, settling at Delavan, where they remained until 1850. Going to Reeds-
burg, in Sauk County, Wis., the father purchased a prairie and timberland farm, and
this was the family home until 1885.
When the Civil War broke out Washington I. Carver offered his services in the
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Infantry, and was mustered in for three years, taking part in the campaigns of Gen
erals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade and Grant, and passing through many
hard experiences in those crucial days. He was mustered out July 28, 1864, as ser
geant. In October, 1864, he was married to Miss Emily Frances Medbery, the
daughter of Hiram and Nancy Medbery, the father being prominent in the public
life "of Mrs. Carver's native state, New York. After his marriage Mr. Carver farmed
in Sauk County until 1884, when he removed to Dakota territory, took up a quarter
section of land near Gettysburg, Potter County, and later took up an additional tract
of 160 acres under the timber claim act. He remained on this land until he had
proved up on both claims, and then disposed of them and migrated to California.
Coming to Anaheim in 1897, Mr. Carver established a photographic business
there, his wife being engaged in the millinery business, continuing in this line until
1905, when he purchased a tract of twenty-two and a half acres at North and West
streets, Anaheim, paying only $1,000 for the whole tract, and this has since been the
family home. Some time ago he divided his property, deeding one-third to his son-
in-law, W. P. Quarton, of Anaheim, and one-third to L. C. Blake of Anaheim,
another son-in-law, retaining a third of the acreage for himself. Since this division
Mr. Carver has sold another five acres, so that he now has, two and a half acres in
the home site. This is set out to Valencia oranges and is a valuable piece of property
Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. - Carver, three of whom, Irving,
Caroline and Emery, are deceased. Those living are: Marian C, who is the wife
of L. C. Blake of Anaheim; they are the parents of a daughter, now Mrs. Walter
J. Jewell, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work, and she is the mother
of two children — Richard and Mary; another daughter, Mrs. Helen Perry has one son,
Raymond; Walter resides in Minnesota; Katherine is the wife of W. P. Quarton of
Anaheim and is the mother of three children — Dale, Irving and Dorothy Fern; Marvin
resides at home; Mrs. Alice Booth has one son, Eugene, and assists her mother in
presiding over the home.
Always a great thinker and a man of progressive ideas, Mr. Carver's prime
interest has ever been for the masses rather than the classes, and he has for some
years been a Socialist, as he was an early abolitionist. A man of highest integrity, he
can look back on a busy life that has been well spent, and filled with many deeds of
kindness for his fellowmen.
FRANK W. WALTON. — A pioneer citizen of the Los Alamitos section of Orange
County and a man who is devoting his time and talents to the study of Nature's proc
esses in propagating, experimenting with buds and grafts and in cross pollenization
to bring out new varieties of fruits, is Frank W- Walton, whose results have been
phenomenal in the field of his chosen endeavor.
A native of Hancock County, 111., Frank W. was born on May 22, 1869, the son
of John and Mary (Southwick) Walton, natives of Kentucky and Massachusetts, re
spectively, but long residents of Illinois. In 1884 the family removed to Kansas and
there improved a farm, but not feeling satisfied with the conditions found in that
state the parents returned to Illinois in 1892. There the father passed to his reward
in 1917, at the age of eighty-five, and Mrs. Walton died there in 1919, having attained
to the age of seventy-five. They were the parents of seven children, six of them still
living, and two of these are in California. Frank W. is a distant relative to the late
Abraham Lincoln, as his grandmother Walton was a second cousin to the father of
the martyred president and she came from Kentucky to Sangamon County, 111., at the
same time Mr. Lincoln settled there.
Frank W. Walton attended school in Illinois and Kansas and in his youth became
a woodworker, doing fine cabinet work and also made musical instruments, such as
violins, guitars and banjos. After his parents went back to Illinois he remained in
Kansas, operating a fruit farm that belonged to his mother. During this time he made
several trips to California, the first one in 1888, just after the big boom. He spent
some time at Santa Rosa, then returned to Kansas and continued farming until 1893.
when he moved to Portland, Ore. Three years later he came down to Los Alamitos,
Orange County and secured employment with the Los Alamitos Sugar Company as ?
pattern maker, continuing with them for twenty years. During all the years that he
was engaged in other lines of work he kept closely in touch with Nature, for even as a
mere youth he was much interested in plant and tree life. He began making experi
ments in cross pollenization and he now sees the results of his many years of study,
and some of those who know his work best consider that he has even surpassed the
world-renowned wizard. Luther Burbank, in some of the varieties he has propagated.
He has developed a quince, a cross between an apple and a quince, which can be eaten,
cooked or treated as an ordinary apple; his varieties of pears have been so develorte
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storage; he has several species of grapes, propagated by himself, that surpass the
standard varieties in point of excellence of flavor and they can be grown without fumiga
tion or spraying; the "Gold Dollar" apple, his specialty, will be put on the market in
1921; numerous varieties of peaches, pomegranates, figs and persimmons are all of
superior quality. Mr. Walton is enthusiastic over the climate and soil conditions of this
section and declares that nowhere in the state is better to be found raising pears.
His home place at Los Alamitos is systematically and artistically arranged with
fruit of his own propagation, and is the show place of the section, where the visitor is
well repaid for the time spent with the proprietor, who is deeply in love with his work.
Not having room enough on his home place to expand his work, Mr. Walton has his
nursery on the ranch owned by C. D. Clarke, near Santa Fe Springs, in Los Angeles
County, where visitors are always made sure of a warm welcome.
By Mr. Walton's marriage in 1891, with Miss Josephine Watson, daughter of
John and Martha Watson, two children were born, a son and daughter, the latter dying
in childhood. The son, Vern H. Walton, is a mechanic in the employ of the Lord
Motor Company in Los Angeles. He married Miss Dorris Terril, a native of Arkansas,
while living in the state of Washington. Frank W. Walton is deeply interested in the
welfare of the people of Orange County and is ever ready and willing to support all
movements for the public good. Devoted to- his work, yet he never shirks the civic
duties of a loyal American citizen.
ALBERT A. LEE. — Among the men who have proved citizens of worth and
public spirit and have rendered valuable service to Villa Park Precinct is Albert A.
Lee, who traces his lineage to old Virginia, and whose family were prominent in that
state among the F. F. V.'s. Mr. Lee was born near Des Moines, Iowa, October 24,
1862. He is the son of David L. Lee, and his grandfather, David R. Lee, was a second
cousin of the famous General Robert E. Lee.
Albert A. Lee was seven years old when he accompanied his parents in their
removal from Iowa to Kansas, the family arriving at Baxter Springs, Kans., in
1870. He was educated in the common schools of Kansas, and taught three terms of
school, after which he followed carpentering and bridge building. Coming to Orange
County November 9, 1887, Mr. Lee first engaged in the restaurant business at Santa
Ana. Afterwards he rented land for years, then purchased four acres, which he dis
posed of to advantage, and bought his present place of ten acres at Villa Park.
Mr. Lee's marriage, which occurred in 1884, united him with Miss Birdee M.
Martin, a native of Missouri, whose parents migrated to Missouri from Kentucky.
Two children were born to them: Edna, who is now the wife of Willard Smith, a
prominent rancher of Villa Park, and George M., who served with the Fourth ammuni
tion train in France in 1918 until his discharge in August, 1919.
In educational matters Mr. Lee has rendered most valuable service. In 1900 le
was elected a member of the board of trustees of the Villa Park school district,
serving as clerk of the board for eighteen years, and was also a member of the board
of trustees of the Orange Union high school for thirteen years. Mr. Lee is a high-
minded and useful citizen, who is highly respected by his friends and neighbors.
EDWIN J. BROWN. — The beautifully located fifteen-acre ranch at the corner
of Santiago Boulevard and Tustin Avenue in Olive Precinct, four miles northeast
of the city of Orange, is owned by Edwin J. Brown. Lying up against the foothills
of the Santa Ana mountains, its sunny situation abundantly justifies the appropriate
ness of its name, "Rancho Cuesta Alegra," the euphonious appellation given it by
Mr. Brown's daughter, Clara L. ,,-,,.,
Mr Brown was born near Lansing, Ingham County, Mich., and is the son of
Albert and Josephine (Lowe) Brown, of Orange, Cal. Both parents come from
well-known pioneer families of Ingham County. Michigan, where they were for
many years engaged in farming, became well-to-do and were rated among that larg»
class of prosperous people who till the soil of Southern Michigan. The paternal
grandfather, Jabez Brown, a native of England, w"ho became a seafaring man, came
To America as a young man, stopped in New York City for a while, and satisfied his
taste for adventure by sailing up the Great Lakes, finally becoming a pioneer settler
in Ingham County, Mich. He was married in Michigan to Miss Jane Burgess, a native
of the Empire State. On "trie maternal side the family were also pioneers of Ingham
County. The maternal grandfather, Richard R. Lowe, was born in New York state.
He came to Michigan as a young man and was elected to be the first sheriff of Ingham
County He and his brother took up government land in Stock-bridge Township,
Ingham County, and were among the leading citizens of that neighborhood. Lake
Lowe of that place, was named after them and still bears their name. The maternal
Grandmother's maiden name was Mahala Newkirk, and she was a native of Ohio.

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Edwin J. Brown acquired his education in the district schools of his native
county, and later supplemented this with a business college course at Ypsilanti,
Mich. ' His marriage, which occurred in Michigan, October 27, 1892, united him with
Miss Phoebe A. Proctor, born in Stockbridge Township, Ingham County, Mich., a
"daughter of Asa J. and Alvira (Pierce) Proctor, farmers in Michigan, now living
retired in Pasadena. Their union has been blessed with three children: Clara L.,
a student at Pomona College; Donald A. and La Verne W. both attend the Orange
Union high school. Mr. and Mrs. Brown came to California in January, 1897, and
lived in the Chula Vista district, San Diego County, and in 1902 they located in
Orange. Mr. Brown has built up and improved several residence properties in the
city of Orange, and planted and improved two ranches before coming to his present
home place, which he purchased in 1911. He has brought Rancho Cuesta Alegra
to a very high state of cultivation. Mr. Brown is a member of the Villa Park
Orchards Association and the Lemon Growers Association at Villa Park. He and
his family are members of the First Methodist Church at Orange, and Mrs. Brown
is a pillar of strength to the ladies' aid society and other Christian projects.
HARVEY H. HOSSLER. — A prosperous Californian who is thoroughly able to
appreciate the success with which his efforts have been crowned since he came to the
Golden State is Harvey H. Hossler, who looks back upon years of hard, poorly-
requited labor in Nebraska in the days when it was mighty hard to make a farm there
pay. He came from Iowa, where he was born in Springville, on February 14, 1857,
the son of Michael and Katherine (Bowers) Hossler, and his father was by trade a
carpenter. He was sent to the common schools at Springville, and for a while worked
at carpentering with his father. When he was eighteen, however, he hired out as a
farm hand, and at twenty he embarked in farming for himself.
He secured a quarter-section of school land in Hall County, Nebr., and lived
there for thirteen years. On September 23, 1880, at Aurora, Nebr., he was married
to Miss Beatrice E. Wheeler, the daughter of John Thomas and Electa (Palmer)
Wheeler, also farmer folk of that state, although the bride was born in Wisconsin.
When he sold his school land, in November, 1890, Mr. and Mrs. Hossler came to
California, and he secured employment on the Santa Ana and Newport Railroad, serving
for a time as fireman, and later advancing to be an engineer. He remained with the
railroad company for eight years, and then he resumed carpentering, at which he
worked until 1917, and during the years he followed his trade he worked on buildings
all over Orange County, and for a period of three years followed contracting himself.
In that year Mr. Hossler entered the employ of the Orange County Ignition Works,
one of the most important establishments of its kind in Southern California, and
having been tendered a good post there by E. P. Matthews, and so well satisfied has
he been with the concern, and so satisfied apparently has the company been with him,
that he has remained there ever since.
Five children have blessed the union of this couple. Thomas L., the eldest, died
in 1902; Hutoqua is Mrs. J. C. Gaylord of South Pasadena; Kate has become Mrs.
Walter Runkel of Los Angeles, and has two children — Evelyn and Melvin; Geneva
who is Mrs. Wilson, lives at home with her father and mother, and is the mother of
one child, a daughter, Ellamay, and Harry is in the state of Washington. The family
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Santa Ana, and both Mr. and Mrs.
Hossler are Maccabees of the same town. In national politics, Mr. Hossler marches
under the banners of the Republican party, but in local affairs he never favors parti
sanship, believing that it is detrimental to movements for the best men and the best
measures for a small community.
DONALD S. SMILEY. — Throwing the energy of youth and a resolute spirit
into the work of growing citrus fruit successfully, Donald S. Smiley refutes the old
saying that you cannot put old heads on young shoulders. His choice and well-cared
for ten acres of Valencia oranges, located on Alameda Street in El Modena Precinct,
was purchased in February, 1919.
Mr. Smiley is one of the native sons of Santa Ana that she has reason to be
proud of, having been born in that city November 12, 1892. He is the son of E. M.
and Hattie L. (Scott) Smiley, and was reared in Santa Ana, graduating with the
class of 1911 from the Santa Ana high school. He afterward continued his studies
at Occidental College, where he pursued an economic course, graduating from that
institution m 1915 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Two years later he established
family ties by his marriage with Miss Flippen, daughter of T. M. and M. J Flippen.
A son has been born of their union, named Donald E. Mr. Smiley is a member of
he McPherson Heights Citrus Association, and he and his wife are a distinct addi
tion to the refining influences of the neighborhood, and with others of like taste and
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EUGENE C. CADY. — Among the pioneers of Buena Park, Orange County, the
names of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene C. Cady have long been recognized as prominently iden
tified with every movement for the benefit of the community. Mr. Cady was a native
of Ohio, born near Warren on February 17, 1847, the son of Edmond D. and Marie
(Besley) Cady, who were born in New York and Connecticut, respectively, and descend
ants of pioneer Eastern families. Of the five children born to this worthy couple, but
two are living: Freman Cady of Los Angeles and an employe of that city for the past
forty years; and another brother of Marion, Ohio. Eugene C. was reared and educated
in Ohio; early in life he learned the trade of bricklayer, which he followed intermittently
for fifty years, in conjunction with farming. He even did some brick work after coming
to Orange County. He spent six years in Virginia and nine years in Pittsburgh, Pa.,
following his trade. In 1893 he went to Chicago, took in the Columbian Exposition
and for eleven years made that city his home, coming to California in 1904. He bought
forty acres near Buena Park, developed the property and farmed it, in connection with
the forty acres that was the property of his wife. He conducted a dairy for five years,
selling out on March 9, 1920, to take a much-needed rest after many years of activity.
He and his wife had reached Los Angeles and there he was taken ill with pneumonia
and passed away on March 22. He was a Mason, having joined the order at the age
of twenty-one in Warren, Ohio, where he served as -Worshipful master of New Erie
Lodge. He had demitted to Buena Park Lodge No. 357, F. & A. M., after locating
there, and he was a past patron of Buena Park Chapter No. 240 O. E. S. Mrs. Cady
served as worthy matron of the chapter during 1911-12.
Eugene C. Cady was twice married. His first marriage, which occurred in 1868,
united him with Miss Adelaide Forbes, of Warren, Ohio. They had seven children, all
living: Mary A., wife of T. W. Williams of Los Angeles; Florence M.; Edmond D.
of Delta, Utah; Jennie C, widow of William Noble and a resident of Warren, Ohio;
Grace, a nurse in Hollywood; Helen, wife of Dr. Frank Cunningham, of Hollywood;
and Eugene W., of Los Angeles. The latter was in the Government service during the
World War as instructor in the motor department and stationed in Los Angeles. Mrs.
Adelaide Cady died in Los Angeles in 1904. On February 8, 1905, Mr. Cady was united
in marriage with Mrs. Penelope L. Calder, born in Nova Scotia, the descendant of
Scotch parents named Cameron, representatives of the Cameron clan of Scotland. At
the age of twelve Miss Cameron was taken to Boston, Mass., and there was reared
and educated, and there her first marriage occurred on April 23, 1893, when she was
united with Jacob L. Calder, and they had a son Alexander James Calder, born in
Los Angeles, after their removal to this state. This young, man, known by his intimates
as James Calder, served a year in the Coast Artillery at Fort Scott, during the World
War. He is now living with his mother and ranching on her property, and with his
wife, enters heartily into the social life of their section of the county.
In April, 1894, Mr. and Mrs. Calder moved to Orange County and bought forty
acres of bare land near Buena Park, developed it and carried on general farming until
Mr. Calder died in 1898. They planted alfalfa, put down three three-inch wells which
furnished an artesian flow sufficient to irrigate their property, but when more wells
were put down in the neighborhood it became necessary to install a pumping plant to
lift the water to the ditches. This forty acres adjoined the forty that»Mr. Cady later
purchased, and after Mr. Cady and Mrs. Calder were married, Mr. Cady farmed both
tracts and, with the aid of his wife, met with gratifying success.
Mr. and Mrs. Cady were well known in the northern part of Orange County and
enjoyed the esteem of an ever-widening circle of friends. She is very active in all
forward movements and is a member of the Buena Park Ladies' Club. As a pioneer of
this section she is deeply interested in elevating the social and moral plane of the
citizens and can be counted upon to do her part in charitable work. After the death of
Mr. Cady she made an extended visit through the East, visiting Boston and other
interesting parts of the country, but was well satisfied to return to California.
MRS, WILDA BOBST. — One of Orange County's public-spirited women, the
owner of a splendid grove of Valencia oranges, is Mrs. Wilda Bobst, the widow of the
late Daniel Bobst. Mrs. Bobst, who before her marriage was Wilda Van Hise, was
born near Pontiac, Livingston County, 111., her parents being William H. and Margaret
(Cox) Van Hise. Her father, who was a well-to-do farmer of Livingston County,
was one of the early settlers there. When Mrs. Bobst was fourteen years of age she
accompanied her parents to Thayer County, settling near Hebron, Nebr., and there
she finished her schooling, and it was during her residence there that her marriage
occurred, when she was united with Daniel Bobst on January 27, 1878.
Daniel Bobst was a native of Pennsylvania, his birth taking place near Logans-
ville, in Clinton County, October 28, 1842. He was the son of David and Elizabeth
Bobst, the father being engaged in the lumber business in this neighborhood, and
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here his boyhood days were spent. When a young man of twenty, Daniel Bobst left
his Pennsylvania home and came west to Stephenson County, 111, taking up farm
work near Freeport, in that county, and here his parents joined him a few years
later. Attracted by the possibilities of the large tracts of government land that
could then be obtained in Nebraska, Mr. Bobst removed to Thayer County, in that
state, and took up a homestead there. Here his marriage occurred, and shortly after
that happy event the young couple moved to Frontier County, Nebr., and took up a
preemption claim of 160 acres, which they proved up on, engaging in general farming
there until 1897, when they disposed of their claim and came to California.
Settling in Orange County, Mr. and Mrs. Bobst rented a small ranch southwest
of Anaheim, where they farmed for the next three years. In 1900 they purchased
seventeen acres of land on Burton Avenue, which was at that time a barley field.
They began at once to improve this ranch, and the entire acreage is now devoted to
Valencia oranges, seven and a half acres being thirteen-year-old trees in full bearing,
while the remainder is in young trees. The place is all under irrigation and is equipped
with an excellent private pumping plant. The whole ranch is in the finest condition
and is producing splendid crops, the fruit being marketed independently.
Mr. and Mrs. Bobst had eight children. Irvin was employed in the Brea oil
fields and lost his life on December 13, 1918, while fighting fire in the canyon;
Delbert is married and is a driller in the Brea oil fields; Albert, a twin of Delbert,
lives at home, he owns an orange ranch of ten acres on Broad Street, Anaheim!
Raymond was working at home when the United States entered the war and he en
listed in the Navy and was stationed at the sub-bases at San Pedro and San Diego
until he was honorably discharged at the signing of the armistice; he is now em
ployed as a mechanic in Los Angeles but lives with his mother; Vernon is on the
home place assisting his mother; Iva is the wife of Harry Allen of Los Angeles;
Cassie married Don Green of Anaheim, and Arline is now employed at Los Angeles.
The family attend the Christian Church at Anaheim. The family circle was saddened
by the passing on of the husband and father on January 4, 1919, his death occurring
at the home place; since his decease there Mrs. Bobst has taken up the responsibility
of the ranch, and with the aid of her sons is carrying on the work with encouraging
and increasing success. Loyal to the state of her adoption and deeply interested in
its development, particularly of her home neighborhood, despite her busy life she
takes an active interest in all measures for the local advancement. Both Mrs. Bobst
and her husband were strong advocates of Prohibition.
EUGENE M. SALTER.— A placer-miner pioneer of the Golden West who
became one of the early-timers of the Gospel Swamp district and so, despite the hard
times of those path-breaking days here, saw much of the "good old days," also, is
Eugene M. Salter, who was born in Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, on October
21, 1850. His father was Horace Salter, and he had married Miss Sarah Pangbern,
of a well-known pioneer family of Iowa. They moved to Shakopee, Minn., in 1858,
and there our subject attended the common school of the district, while he grew
up with Indian boys, and could count in the Sioux language as easily as he could in
English. In Minnesota his father took up a quarter section of Government land, but
in the spring of 1862 he sold his relinquishment.
Eugene and his father then crossed the great plains with a company of white
men, in a train of 100 wagons; the lad being then only twelve years old and the
youngest of the party. No women were allowed to join the train, on account of the
hostility at that time of the Indians along the way. The 130 men in the party broke
a new trail from Fort Abercrombie, Dakota territory, to Fort Benton, which at
that time was the head of navigation of the Missouri River. They took the Mullen
Road across the mountains through Deer Lodge Valley and Bitter Root Valley to
\\ alia Walla, Washington, and arrived in Sacramento in the fall of 1862. Eugene
stayed with his father until 1864, engaging with him in placer mining..
In the latter year, when Horace Salter went to Helena Mont, to meet his wife,
who had come across the mountains and plains with another son and a daughter,
Eugene was left in Boise Basin, Idaho. The father thereafter took up land in Gallatin
Valley, Mont., and Eugene joined his parents there in 1866. Before he took up land,
Horace baiter tried placer mining in the vicinity of Virginia City, but in 1865 he dis
posed of his mme.
Some of the experiences of the Salters are instructive as affording a glimpse at
he real conditions then prevalent in the "great West," and what the sturdy pioneer
had to contend with. Horace Salter sent two men to the Bitter Root Valley
from Gallatin A a ley in 1866 to purchase seed wheat; but they could buy only one
and a half bushels_ of wheat, and paid fifty dollars a bushel for what they got, so
that the cost of this trip was $300. Eugene's father also paid $500 for a brood sow

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and the following year he sold the litter of ten pigs at seventy-five dollars per head
as soon as they were old enough to be taken away. . He paid $100 for a sack of white
flour, and when he ran a dairy farm, in 1867-68, he sold butter at $1.25 per pound.
He paid $6,000 for an eight-horse threshing machine, and charged twenty-five cents
a bushel to thresh grain grown in 1868. He sold barley for brewing at twenty-nine
dollars a hundred weight.
In 1869 Eugene Salter came to San Juan Capistrano and rented a ranch; and
three years later, his father having taken up a quarter-section of land, he also took up
a quarter-section in the Gospel Swamp district, but eventually they were beaten out
of it. In 1879 Eugene Salter went to Colorado, where he stayed until 1888, farming
a homestead in the Dolores River district. In 1888 he returned to Santa Ana, and
for the next seven years rented a ranch at El Toro. He has a good record ' as a
hunter. On one occasion he went out from Capistrano with nine cartridges and a
44 Winchester rifle, returning the next afternoon with a deer and a grizzly bear and
seven cartridges.
In 1895 he went to Benson, Ariz., and was there married to Miss Mamie Higgins,
who was born and educated in Cumberland, Md. She had come on a visit to Arizona!
and was residing- with her cousins when the happy event took place. His wife's
health gave way, however, and in 1901-02 they spent a year in travel, hoping to benefit
her. Despite all the efforts made, she passed away on a farm twenty miles north of
Palestine, Texas, on November 5, 1902.
Mr. Salter returned to Santa Ana in 1904, and bought three lots at 1221 Fair-
view Avenue, where he has lived ever since. He raises a little domestic stock, and
has about 400 chickens. Part of his spare time is devoted to the study and dissemina
tion of Socialist doctrine, in which, from study and wide observation, he has come to
have most faith. Six children were born to honor Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Salter: Roba
is now Mrs. Armfield of Los Angeles, and is the mother of three children; Kathleen
also lives in Los Angeles; Jason, Margaret and Jennie are at home, and Rose is living
at Casa Grande, Arizona.
LOUIS HENNING. — A hustling, enterprising and successful rancher and business
man, whose far-sightedness has been of service to others as well as himself in noting
the trend of modern affairs, and making the most of conditions as they are, is Louis
Henning, who came to Anaheim in 1899, having formerly resided in Chicago. He
engaged in farm work at Placentia for some years, and then purchased a ranch where
he was lucky in producing large crops of potatoes. In 1904 he bought forty-five acres
on Olive Road and immediately improved the land there.
Since then, with the enterprise for which he is now so favorably known, he bought
twenty acres in the Kraemer tract in 1906 and a year later eighty acres in the Golden
State tract, which he soon cleared of cactus and brush. He also leveled the same, sunk
wells and put in a first-class pumping plant, driven by electrical power, and now he ha-.
a capacity of 125 inches of water. He raised orange nursery stock from -seeds ate
budded them to Valencia oranges and lemons, sufficient to set out 135 acres and in all
those operations demonstrated special gifts for this kind of scientific work, and expert
knowledge of the field of science of today. He owned the entire 135 acres which he
had brought to a full-bearing orchard in 1918, when he divided it, giving one-half of it
to his wife, retaining sixty-four acres, fifty-four acres of it being in Valencias and ten
acres in lemons. He has given it excellent care, so that it is considered one of the
finest full-bearing groves in Orange County. He uses the latest and most modern
equipment, including tractors, in operating his ranch.
With the Wagner Bros., Mr. Henning was the first to begin to improve land in
East Anaheim, to sink wells and obtain the water needed for irrigation; they cleared
the land and had such success with their crops that they gathered from 100 to 150.
sacks of potatoes to the acre. Others saw what they were accomplishing and also
began to buy and improve land in that section, and the land values were soon con
siderably raised.
Mr. Henning was one of the first in his vicinity to set out oranges, and wa°
ridiculed for what seemed to be a fatal error in judgment; but despite the wiseacres of
his time, he has now in that acreage one of the finest Valencia groves in the state.
Mr. Henning is very optimistic for the future success of the oil industry in this section
as he was in the early days regarding orange growing, when he first set out his grove.
Thus he is again not afraid to back his judgment and we find him a large stockholder
in the Placentia-Richfield Central Oil Company and in two large oil companies in
Texas: he also carries a big oil lease in San Juan County, N. M. His own ranch haviiv*
splendid indications for oil, he expects later on to form an oil company to drill a well
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At Anaheim Mr. Henning was married to Miss Ottilia Weinknecht, a lady of
accomplishments who had come to Anaheim in 1899. Mr. Henning is a believer in pro
tection and nationalism so is naturally a stanch Republican in politics, and an Amer
ican in his nonpartisan support of everything likely to build up the community in which
he lives, and a member of the Anaheim Lutheran Church.
It is to men of Louis Henning's type that Orange County owes much of its
present development and greatness, for without their optimism and energy the trans
formation that has come about in the past few years could not have taken place. He
was never afraid to spend his time and money to improve and develop the land once
considered almost worthless, but which is now one of the finest citrus sections in the
world. Mr. Henning has always been a very hard worker and has applied himself
very closely to the task of improving the land and he is now enjoying the reward
of his years of labor in the fortunate ownership of one of the finest citrus properties
in the county, or for that matter, in the whole state.
WILLIAM L. DUGGAN. — A busy, successful commercial man, who has never
theless found time to gratify his public-spirited desires and to serve his fellow-citizens
efficiently in the handling of a public trust, is William L. Duggan, the well-known
and popular insurance agent of 222 South Sycamore Street. He was born near
Macon, Ga., on April 13, 1862, the son of J. B. and Nancy Duggan. His father was
both a doctor of medicine and a farmer; so that, while William enjoyed the comforts
of a well-stocked country home, he also had the advantage of growing up in a cul
tured circle.
He was graduated from Mercier University, at Macon, with the Bachelor of
Arts degree, and there engaged in teaching until, in 1893, he came out to California.
For three years, in the northern part of the state, he worked for the long-established
New York Life Insurance Company, and in 1896 came south to Santa Ana. Since
then he has made his home here, residing at 222 South Sycamore Street, where
he had built for himself a home as early as 1905.
He continued with the New York Life Insurance Company, and his work
has made that favorite concern even more popular with would-be policyholders.
He has contributed in particular something to stabilize insurance conditions in the
county, and to render that form of commercial activity a far greater sociological
service than it ever originally was dreamed likely to become. In insurance circles
he is a Senior Nylic and a member of the $200,000 Club.
On April 12, 1899, Mr. Duggan was married in Santa Ana to Miss Clara Clyde,
a native of Utah, who was educated in that state, and came to visit relatives in Santa
Ana. She soon grew to be a favorite, so that when she met Mr. Duggan she was
already a popular local belle. Two daughters have brightened the Duggan home
and assisted in extending its widely-appreciated hospitality. One is now Mrs. Roscoe
G. Hewitt of Santa Ana, and the other is Miss Dorothy Duggan, a high school
student of Santa Ana. Mr. Duggan belongs to the Masons, and is certainly not the
least popular in that representative circle.
A Democrat in matters of national politics, but never partisan when it comes
to acting upon strictly local measures or men, Mr. Duggan was president of the
board of education of Santa Ana in the very formative period from 1911 to 1915,
and looks back with pride to the work of the trustees associated with him, who
then built the well-constructed and well-equipped Polytechnic high school there.
FERDINAND H. WESSLER.— A resident of the United States for close to a
half century, Ferdinand H. Wessler has taken a public-spirited interest in every com
munity in which he has lived, and he has ever been glad of the decision that led him
to make this his adopted land. Born at Bresen, West Prussia, January 7, 1848, he is
the son of Henry and Paulina Wessler, who were farmers in that vicinity. Educated
in the schools of his native country and serving his allotted term of enlistment in the
army, Mr. Wessler determined to seek a land that offered more freedom and greater
opportunity, so the year 1873 saw him on his way to the United States.
For five years after his arrival he worked in a machine shop at Philadelphia,
Pa., having started to learn the trade in Bresen, then removed to Lincoln County,
Kans., where he purchased 160 acres of railroad land, later buying another tract of
160 acres of school land near Wilson, Kans. Mr. Wessler raised cattle and grain
on his Kansas farms and became well-known in the agricultural life of that community,
where he continued until 1897. Coming to California that year he spent two years in
Pasadena, locating at Anaheim in 1899.
Purchasing twelve acres on the Garden Grove road west of Anaheim, Mr.
Wessler set to work to improve it, and it now is a thriving citrus orchard. Six
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three years old. Mr. Wessler has been unusually successful in developing his prop
erty, and he still does practically all the work of caring for it, having now eleven
acres. In 1919 he erected a beautiful residence on his ranch and here with his family
he resides in comfort.
In May, 1879, at Wilson, Kans., Mr. Wessler was married to Miss Amy Babcock,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Babcock. She was a native of Missouri, where
her. father was extensively engaged in the cattle business, the family later living in
Illinois and Nebraska before their removal to Kansas. Four children were born
to Mr. and Mrs. Wessler: Mabel is Mrs. H. D. Meyer and resides at Pasadena; she
has five children; Grace; Verne; Erse is Mrs. Albert C. Meyer, and makes her home
in San Gabriel. Mrs. Wessler passed away in 1893 at their Kansas home. Five
years later, on July 2, 1898, while living at Pasadena, Mr. Wessler was there united
in marriage with Mrs. Lena Blach, a native of Kansas, who had been a resident of
California some time before her marriage. One son, Lloyd, has been born to them;
he is a graduate of the Anaheim high school and resides with his parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Wessler are members of the Fullerton Baptist Church.
Always taking a lively interest in civic affairs wherever he has lived, Mr. Wessler
was constable of Highland Township during his residence in Kansas, and later was
treasurer of the same township. A Republican in politics, he has always given his
loyal support to the candidates of that party. A member of the Cooperative Fruit
Association, he takes an active part in every movement that will help in the progress
of the neighborhood and county, and his sterling character and fine traits of citizen
ship have made for him an assured place in the community.
FRED SCHLUETER. — A prosperous farmer of the West Orange precinct, who
has two groves of such high standard and value that he very naturally feels he has
done well in America, is Fred Schlueter, who was born in North Hanover, near
Bremen, on November 28, 1858. His parents were William and Sophie Schlueter,
steady-going and highly-esteemed farmer folk, who sent the lad to the best schools
in their district so that, while he helped his father on the home farm, he also received
the foundation of a good education.
In 1881 he decided to leave his native land and cross the ocean to America, and
in March he landed at Castle Garden. Pushing on west to Toledo, Ohio, he worked
for a year and a half on a farm not far from that city, and there first became Ameri
canized. In the fall of 1882, however, he came still further west, to California, and
here worked as a farmhand on various ranches.
After a while, he purchased two ranches in West Orange, one made up of twenty
acres and the other having fourteen acres, for which he supplied a pumping plant with
a capacity of forty inches. In the former, there were twelve acres of walnuts, five
acres of apricots and three of oranges; while the latter was devoted to walnuts alone.
On July 3, 1893, Mr. Schlueter married Miss Maria Burfind, who was born in
Hanover, near Hamburg, and came to America in 1888 to stay with her brother in
Los Angeles. She had been well educated in the schools of Hanover, and so was able
from the start to be of the greatest help to her husband. Seven children were born
to this happy couple. William F. is a Lutheran minister in Texas; Sophie and Henry
H. are at home; Carl is an agent for the Ford automobiles in Los Angeles, in which
city Eddie S. is also employed; Clara is a high school student at Orange, and Arthur
goes to the parochial school in the same city. The family attend the Lutheran Church.
Mr. Schlueter is a patriotic American, with preferences for the Republican party,
and this -spirit of patriotism has also been shown by -his family during the resent
war, and notably by his son, Henry H. Schlueter, who enlisted in the U. S. Navy in
July, 1918, and helped to guard the great battleships.
ALBERT L. HEIM. — A highly intelligent, energetic and progressive young man
of a very representative family, who has proven himself both a good worker and a good
manager, is Albert Heim, a native son whose capital has been partly in his gifted
and equally enterprising wife, also representing one of the best of Orange County
families. She is more than an excellent housekeeper — she has always been an invalu
able helpmate; so that their prosperity, a source of satisfaction to their many friends,
is the result of their own common, united efforts.
Mr. Heim was born at Orange when his parents were living at the southern end
of South Glassell Street, where they rented land. His father was Herman F. Heim, a
native of Germany, who had married there Miss Hanna Mueller, a sister of Jacob
Mueller, also well known in California; and when they first came to the United States,
they <settled in the Middle West. Later,, they -went lo Kansas, where they farmed; and
then, in 1885 they came on to California. For a while they rented at Orange; then,
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by his son. Five children were born to the worthy couple. Mary has become the
wife of Herman Struck, the citrus grower living near Orange; Emma is the wife of
Andrew Meyers, the citrus and walnut grower residing on Collins Avenue not far
from Mr. and Mrs. Struck; Carl O. is a rancher living along the Anaheim Boulevard,
near Olive, where he has an orange ranch of seventeen acres; Annie is the wife of
Fred Bandick, the rancher, on North Main Street, and Albert L. is the subject of
our review. He was born on February 11, 1886, and attended the parochial school at Orange.
He helped his father until he was married, on April 23, 1908, to Miss Annie Borchard,
also a native of Orange, a daughter of John and Augusta (Trettin) Borchard, who
migrated to California from Minnesota, and followed ranching here until they retired.
Her father died in Orange and her mother now makes her home with Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Heim. Their eight children were as follows: Charles, a rancher at Orange;
Herman died when thirty years of age; Ida died in Orange at sixteen years; Robert
resides in Orange; Julius is a real estate dealer in Orange; Fred lives in Anaheim;
Anna, Mrs. A. L. Heim, and Martha were twins; the latter died when nine months
old. Mrs. Heim also attended the parochial school, she grew up a popular belle; so
that their wedding became one of the pleasant social events of the year.
After his marriage, Mr. Heim started for himself in the orange industry, at the
end of a year, in association with his father, buying ten acres of vacant land owned
by Gottfried Kloth. It was northwest of Orange, on the easterly side of North
Batavia Street, and when he had skilfully planted it to Valencias, he sold it in 1915.
For a couple of years thereafter he rented land; and finally, in 1917, he bought his
present place. His parents, both happily still living, reside at Orange, retired from
active ranching.
Mr. Heim has installed all the necessary cement 'pipe for irrigation and gets
his supply of water from the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. He has also
spent several thousand dollars on remodeling his residence and making various im
provements. He has five and a half acres in walnuts and the balance, nearly eight
acres, in Valencia oranges. He is a member of the Farm Center, and is also a stock
holder in the Mutual Orange Distributors., which wide-awake organization has its
own packing house at Olive.
Mr. and Mrs. Heim have three children. Velma is the eldest, then comes Clara,
and the youngest is Edna. The family are members of the Lutheran Church at Olive.
Mr. Heim is a Republican, but does not allow partisanship to interfere with his
duties, either as a loyal American citizen or as a vigorous, unbiased supporter of all
that is best for Orange County and its various attractive and growing communities.
FOSTER E. WILSON, M. D. — Noteworthy among the esteemed and influential
citizens of Huntington Beach is Dr. Foster E. Wilson, who is the pioneer physician
of Huntington Beach and is still prominent among the practicing physicians of that
city. The youngest of a family of ten children, Dr. Wilson was born in Davis County,
Iowa, March 23, 1853. His parents were born and married in Delaware, came west
to Fayette County, Ind., and in the early forties went to Davis County, Iowa. His
father, Ebenezer Wilson, familiarly called "Ebby," a courageous, God-fearing man,
met an untimely death at the hand of a man with whom he had a dispute over forty
acres of land. With his last breath he prayed for the man who assassinated him.
This occurred on January 17, 1853, before F. E. Wilson was born. Dr. Wilson's
mother, whose maiden name was Ann Mitten, remarried when he was six years old,
to J. P. Willis, and the family continued to live on the Wilson farm.
When he was fifteen years of age Foster E. Wilson started Jife for himself,
but being determined to get an education he went to school during the winters and
worked out during summers at anything he could find to do, however distasteful
it might be. So ambitious and studious was he that at the age of eighteen he began
teaching school. The ambition of his life was to be in a position to alleviate the
sufferings of humanity, and with this end in view he entered the office of Dr. W. H.
Shelton of Pulaski, Iowa. Dr. Shelton, who has now retired from practice and is
living at Long Beach, Cal., became interested in this worthy young man and loaned
him $500, thus enabling him to enter the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery
in 1875, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D., in 1877, at the age
of twenty-four. Returning to Pulaski, Iowa, he entered into a partnership with his
former preceptor under the firm name of Shelton and Wilson, continuing there
until 1882.
v tj" 1878_Dr' Wilson was married to Miss Mary E. Richey, who was born in
Van Buren County, Iowa, near Birmingham, being a daughter of James Richey, a
prosperous Iowa farmer. In 1887 Dr. Wilson removed to Pratt County, Kans., prac
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practice. They are the parents of three children, one of whom died in infancy. The
other two are Chester A. and Alma Wilson. Chester A., who is a successful oil man
of Austin, Texas, married Miss Adele Hostetter of that city, and they are the parents
of two children, Mary S. and Joe F. Miss Alma Wilson is well known through her
connection with the Los Angeles Play Ground Commission.
In December, 1904, Dr. Wilson moved from Westminster to Huntington Beach,
just when that city was getting its start, and with the exception of a few years
spent at Monrovia between 1909 and 1914, he has been a well-known resident
physician of that city. In fact, as stated above, he was the first practicing physician
of Huntington Beach. He maintains offices in the Olson Building, 137 Main Street.
Besides building other houses Dr. Wilson is completing a beautiful residence at 312
Fifteenth Street.
Thoroughly absorbed in his chosen profession, Dr. Wilson never lost an oppor
tunity to increase his knowledge along this line, and in 1900 he took a post-graduate
course at the San Francisco Polyclinic, and another at the Chicago Polyclinic in
1902. He is a member of the American Medical Association, and also of the State
and County Medical associations, being an ex-president of the latter. Much loved
by all who know him for his kindly ministrations and upright character, Dr. Wilson
richly deserves the prominent place he has attained in the city of his adoption.
GEORGE W. ROLFE. — Prominent among Garden Grove's most honored citizens
are the exceptionally interesting pioneers, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Rolfe, for years
active participants at the various departmental and national encampments of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and widely and pleasantly known in war-veteran circles. Mr.
Rolfe was born in Calhoun County, Mich., on September 18, 1848, the son of Orlando
H. Rolfe, civil engineer, surveyor and justice of the peace. He was a native of New
York state, and came to Michigan with his father, Moses Rolfe, and the rest of their
family. The progenitor of the family in America was John Rolfe, who came from Eng
land, and of his descendants, George W. is the eighth generation in America. Orlando
Rolfe was married in Michigan to Miss Esther De Pew, and lived on the Rolfe place
in the township of LeRoy, and he died about 1875 in the same house where he and his
wife first began their housekeeping. Mrs. Rolfe considerably outlived her husband,
dying about 1900. They had eight children, and among them George W. was the second
and the oldest son.
George W. attended the common schools of that period in his birthplace, and
when only sixteen enlisted — somebody writing down his age as eighteen — in Company C
of the Twentieth Michigan Infantry, for service in the Civil War. He was in the orig
inal Grand Review that marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, and fifty
years thereafter, when attending the National G. A. R. Encampment, as one of the
youngest survivors of the Civil War, again marched along the same broad avenue. He
was honorably discharged at Detroit, Mich., in July, 1865. He was stationed with the
Union forces near Washington at the time of Lee's surrender and Lincoln's assassina
tion, and vividly recollects the eventful hours.
After the war, until he was twenty-one, Mr. Rolfe remained at home on his
father's farm; he ran a threshing machine for fourteen years, in Calhoun and Kala
mazoo counties, and in 1873 he was married to Miss Priscilla J. Hopkins, a native of
New York, who was reared in Calhoun County. They had no children, and adopted a
daughter, Georgina, who is now Mrs. Tony Nelson of Los Angeles. Mrs. Rolfe died in
Michigan, and in 1876 Mr. Rolfe made his first trip to California; he took up his resi
dence in Compton in the winter of 1883, and began farming on the San Joaquin ranch
in 1884. On September 17, 1905, Mr. Rolfe was married to Mrs. Amy R. Ford, nee Stevens,
the ceremony being performed by Bishop Mclntyre; she was a playmate of his boyhood,
who was born near Tiffin, Ohio, and came to Calhoun County with her parents, Edward
and Mary (Rose) Stevens, both New Yorkers. The former died at Eagle Rock, aged
- ninety-two, the latter in Marengo, Iowa. Mrs. Rolfe has a brother over ninety years,
living at Eagle Rock, and another brother, aged over seventy-six, residing at Pasadena;
a sister, Mrs. Affa Wickerd, at Glendale, and another sister, Mrs. Julia Garrison, a
widow, of Santa Ana, all members of a family of nine children. A brother, John
Stevens, left their home in 1853 and came to California; after that other members of
the family migrated to the West, and in 1904, at Compton, Cal., a noted gathering of
seven members of the family held a reunion, the only time they had all been together
after fifty years of separation. Mrs. Rolfe had three children by her marriage with
Mr. Ford: Charles Edward, Effie M. and Julia G.
Mr. Rolfe came to the vicinity of Garden Grove about 1900, and came to own
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living, eight times, but his ninth trip across the continent was directed toward the
sunny climate of California. With his good wife he has been a live member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Garden Grove, and he has been on the official board of
that congregation. In national politics a Republican, Mr. Rolfe's local patriotism has
forbidden narrow, partisan support, and he has worked hard for the best men and the
best measures. About 1897, Mr. Rolfe joined Sedgwick Post, No. 17, G. A. R., and Mrs. Rolfe is a
member of the Woman's Relief Corps of Santa Ana, where she was installed senior vice-
president of some three hundred members. Together they have attended every depart
ment encampment of the G. A. R. held in California during the past twenty years, while
Mr. Rolfe has participated in four national encampments — one held at Los Angeles, an
other at San Francisco, a third at Cincinnati, and the fourth at Washington. Of late
he has sold all his land save his half-acre on Acacia Street, at Garden Grove, where he
has his residence.
The Garden Grove News of January 23, 1920, contains an interesting account of the
local G. A. R. activities of that time. Under the leading caption, "Two of Garden
Grove's Citizens Are Honored," it says:
"At the installation of officers of Sedgwick Post, G. A. R., and the Woman's
Relief Corps, an auxiliary organization, which was held in G. A. R. Hall, Santa Ana,
January 14th, one of Garden Grove's most respected citizens — Mr. George W. Rolfe —
was installed as commander of Sedgwick Post. This position of honor and trust con
veys with it distinction in the G. A. R., Department of California and Nevada.
"Mr. Rolfe was not alone in being honored by his comrades, as his wife, Mrs. Amy
Rolfe, was also chosen by her sisters of the Woman's Relief Corps to fill the position of
senior vice-president of that organization. At the conclusion of the ceremonies, Com
mander Rolfe was presented with a beautiful gold G. A. R. badge, a gift from his
daughter, Mrs. Georgia Nelson of Los Angeles. The presentation was made by Judge
E. T. Langley of Santa Ana.
"Mrs. Rolfe was presented by Mrs. Della Bishop with a large bunch of beautiful
white carnations, also the gift of Mrs. Nelson, who, with her husband, Mr. Tony Nelson,
motored down from Los Angeles to attend the installation ceremonies.
"Mr. and Mrs. Rolfe have both been faithful workers in these patriotic orders for
many years, and their home has been the scene of many social gatherings of post and
corps, where the generous hospitality of host and hostess has been greatly enjoyed."
GEORGE E. RYAN. — Although George E. Ryan is among the later comers in
Orange County, he is a conspicuous example of a successful citrus fruit grower. He
came to California from York County, Nebr., in 1911, and in January, 1912, purchased
the splendid ten-acre orange grove on Tustin Avenue where he resided with his
family until he moved into his new bungalow in Orange. Two acres of his ranch are
planted to Navel orange trees and eight acres are in Valencias.
Mr. Ryan was born near Montezuma, Poweshiek County, Iowa, May 11, 1863.
His father, W. L. Ryan, who is hale and hearty at the advanced age of ninety-one,
lives at Sioux City, Iowa. His mother was before her marriage Miss Athalia Black,
a native of Virginia. The father was also born in Virginia, and the parents were
married in that state, migrating to Iowa shortly afterward. Of the fourteen children
born to them, ten grew to maturity. George E., the fourth son in the family, was
reared on his father's farm, experienced the lot that falls to a lad brought up on a
farm,. a«d-at the age of twelve, drove horses and plowed, attending the district school
in the meantime. He remained at home with his father until he attained his majority,
then went to York County, Nebr, and rented a ninety-acre farm. He raised a bumper
crop of corn, but only got eight cents per bushel after hauling it twelve miles to
Shelby, Nebr. He continued his agricultural pursuits the following year and harvested
another good crop, but the prices were below the cost of production. He then went
with a threshing gang, got two dollars per day for the work of his team and him
self, and in that way paid for the team and wagon that he bought that spring His
next venture was in the livery business at Gresham, York County, Nebr After
two years he sold the livery business and went into the hardware, pump and windmill
business at Gresham. The firm was known as Fuller, Anderson and Company, and
tor fifteen years did a successful business.
Mr. Ryan was married at the age of twenty-six, in 1889, while in business at
Gresham, to Miss Emma Clem, a native of Illinois, who came to Nebraska from her
native state the same month and year that Mr. Ryan came to the state. Mrs. Ryan's
father was also born in Virginia, and her mother was a native of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs.
Ryan have one child, Clarence, who married Miss Merle Bond. He is cashier of
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Frank Arlyn and Lillian Ann. Mrs. Ryan, who is an accomplished pianist, has been
greatly benefited by the genial climate of California, as it was largely on account of
her failing health that the family removed here. Mr. Ryan has recently completed a
beautiful bungalow residence at the corner of Palmyra Avenue and Grand Street in
the city of Orange, at a cost of $6,500, and is now prepared to retire from life's active
duties. Mr. and Mrs. Ryan are members of the Presbyterian Church at Orange.
Fraternally Mr. Ryan is affiliated with the I. O. O. F. lodge at Gresham, Nebr., and
is also a member of the Woodmen of the World. Politically he is a Democrat -in prin
ciple, but is not so hidebound that he will not vote for a man because he is not on
the Democratic ticket, if he thinks he is better suited for the office than the Demo
cratic nominee. Mr. Ryan is deeply interested in all that pertains to the public wel
fare, and is a whole-heared, whole-souled, companionable man, endowed with the
qualities that make and keep friends. He is deservedly popular among his many
acquaintances and associates.
JOAB STANFIELD. — An alert and fine old gentleman, whose many years of
arduous service, always of benefit to others as well as himself, have brought him
many friends, is Joab Stanfield, who was born in Indiana on June 14, 1847, the son
of William W. Stanfield, a native of eastern Tennessee. He removed to Indiana
and -there married Miss Jemima Wright, and in time he was thrice married. He had
fifteen children in all, and Joab was the third child by his second wife. The Stan-
fields descend from an interesting English ancestry, and some of them were among
the early Pilgrims who came to Plymouth and settled in the Massachusetts Bay
Colony. Joab migrated with his parents from the Hoosier State in 1851, and for twenty-
three years lived in Guthrie County, Iowa, sixty miles west of Des Moines, and there
he attended the common schools. In 1874 he came out to the Pacific Northwest and
spent the following four years in Northern California, in Humboldt, Trinity and
Siskiyou counties. He mined, trapped, worked on farms, and proved up on a home
stead of 160 acres in Humboldt County. These years spent in Northern California
were among the happiest in our subject's life; for, having inherited his love for
the great out-of-doors from his father, who had been an intrepid pioneer of Indiana,
Iowa and Kansas, he lived on the frontier, quite unafraid of the Indian, and enjoyed
to the fullest both the hunt and the chase. He worked on the ranch of William
Olmstead of Humboldt County, and handled about 1,800 sheep for him. He finally
got his patent for the 160-acre tract, and then, with a natural desire to see the old
home once more, he went back to Iowa in 1878.
In the fall of the same year he journeyed to Kansas, and in Osborne County
bought 160 acres of school land. In Kansas he prospered, as usual; but in the summer
of 1883 he was tempted to move into Benton County, Ark., and to try his luck there.
He found the locality malarial, however, and thereupon moved back to Kansas. With
this exception, Mr. Stanfield lived in Kansas from the day when he left Iowa until he
decided to take the greater step and locate in the Golden State.
While in Kansas, Mr. Stanfield was married to Miss Gulielma Macy, a native of
Hamilton County, Ind., and the daughter of Stephen Macy, who had married Miss
Mary Charles. Mr. Macy was born in Ohio, became a farmer, and was also a mechanic.
Her grandfather was also named Stephen Macy, and was a well-known homeopathic
doctor. The Macys were of English origin, and settled upon Nantucket Island, where
they followed whaling. Josiah Macy, sea-captain, who died at Rye, N. Y., in the
early seventies, was probably the most distinguished of this branch who went in
for the seafaring life. He had made a name for himself among Nantucket sea-
captains when merely a young man, and in 1812 enjoyed the distinction of bringing to
New York in the "Prudence," of which he was one of the owners, the first news of
the declaration of war between the United States and Great Britain. Later he became
a very prominent commission merchant in New York City. Those of the Macys
who removed to the Central and Middle West became farmers, and they were also
consistent members of the Friends' Church. Her maternal grandfather, John Charles,
was a farmer at Richmond, Ind. He was a strong Whig and Abolitionist, and played
an active part in the conduct of the "underground railway."
Six children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Stanfield: Bertha married Clinton
Bales, a farmer of Osborne County, Kans., and has two children; Stanley is the
husband of Miss Annie Shipman, and is a farmer at Ramah, Colo., and the father
of six children; a daughter, who was the third child, died when she was three months
old; Oscar, an Orange County rancher, married Miss Olive Hoc'kett and has six
children; Jesse" is a minister in the Friends' Church, having been graduated from
Penn College, Iowa, and also Whittier College, later taking a four years' theological
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now a pastor at Glens Falls, N. Y. The youngest of the family is Alvin Stanfield,
also a neighboring rancher, who married Miss Rose Fans, by whom he has had two
children It will be seen, therefore, how well these offspring of a worthy and highly-
esteemed couple have added honor to the family name.
Eleven years ago Mr. Stanfield came to California from Kansas, to spend the
balance of his days, and- now he resides in the Olive precinct, Orange County, on
the west side of Cambridge Street and north of Collins Avenue. He had traded his
highly-cultivated farm of. 1,000 acres in Kansas for a splendid citrus tract of forty acres
here twenty acres of which were planted as follows: eleven acres to lemons, six
acres to Valencia oranges, two acres to Navel oranges, and the remaining acre to
walnuts and a yard, while twenty acres were left vacant; ten of these vacant acres he
sold, and what was left, namely ten acres, he disposed of to his sons, which were
planted to Valencias. He still has twenty acres in full bearing, and he has put in a
pumping plant and a never-failing well, although he is also under the Santa Ana
Valley Irrigation Company's ditch, and so is certain to be supplied with water. He has
remodeled his residence, and maintains his yards in fine, symmetrical shape.
On this model citrus and walnut ranch, therefore, Mr. Stanfield lives with his
devoted wife, the calm influence of their peaceful religion giving them a serene tem
perament and a happy, hopeful disposition. At the age of seventy-three, Mr. Stan
field is in excellent health, and were it not for. a runaway accident of several years
ago, when he was nearly killed and was in bed for seven weeks, with a leg and foot
permanently crippled, he would be an active man yet. Mrs. Stanfield, an excellent
Christian lady, also enjoys the esteem and thorough good will of a very large circle
of friends, and is ever of interest, as our story shows, as a member of an old-time
American family. Mr. Stanfield has for years been a consistent temperance man, and
is happy to have lived to see the national prohibition amendment adopted.
California, which has attracted to its borders an army of the most talented
pioneers in the world, may well be congratulated on claiming as residents such enter
prising, highly intelligent settlers as these; while Mr. and Mrs. Stanfield may almost
be envied their lot and share in the wonderful development of the great Pacific com
monwealth. MISS JESSIE LEE TOLER.— A remarkably successful woman, noted for her
keen senses and her rational judgment, and distinguished as a representative of one of
1he best known pioneer families that had so much to do with the development of Cali
fornia, is Miss Jessie Lee Toler, who resides on a real landmark — the oldest ranch in
the northern section of the county. She was born in Madrid Bend, Tenn., and is the
daughter of William Henry Toler, a native of Goldsboro, N. C, who married Miss
Sallie (Hickman) Edwards, born in Madrid Bend, Tenn. Grandfather W. C. Edwards,
was of Scotch ancestry and was a wealthy landowner and proprietor of Island No. 10,
in the Mississippi River, acquiring thousands of acres of land along the river front,
opposite the island. He married .Miss Susan Marr, the original owner of Island No. 10,
so it was inherited by Mr. and Mrs. Edwards on Capt. W. C. Edwards' death in 1856.
Sallie Edwards was educated at the celebrated academy in Cape Girardeau, Mo., and
married William H. Toler in Madrid Bend, Tenn. He came of an old and prominent
Southern family and served as a major in the Confederate army in the Civil War.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Toler became owners of a part of the Edwards plantation
whe.re they raised cotton, corn and stock, which were shipped to the New Orleans and
St. Louis markets. Mrs. Toler died in Memphis, Tenn., "in 1874. In 1875 Mr. Toler
brought the family to Orange, Cal., and purchased land in the Chapman-Glassell tract,
and here he brought his household goods, among them a piano, the first brought to
Orange, which is still in the possession of Miss Toler and is a square grand with pearl
keys, which was made for and presented to her mother when she was a young lady.
In 1878, W. H. Toler traded 1,700 acres of Tennessee land for 640 acres at that time in
Los Angeles County, but part of which is today within the county limits of Orange.
This ranch land belongs to William Worsham, a Kentucky gentleman who came to
California in the earlv sixties, and there still stands on the ranch, close to the dwelling
and neighboring buildings, a large fig tree planted by Mr. Worsham, of unusual size
and bearing large, splendid figs. The 1,700 acres of Tennessee land traded was cov
ered with timber, whereas on the 640 California acres there were 10,000 head of sheep,
which were included in the sale. An old negro sheepherder, named Jim North was also
attached to the ranch, by long residence, and as he refused to leave, he was allowed
to live on the ranch until he died.
William Henry Toler spent many of his early years in California in promoting
excursions to the Golden State, and as an active worker in the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce, he was instrumental in bringine settlers to California, and especially
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January 13, 1892, widely respected for his high sense of honor, his enterprise and his
general capability, the 640 acres were divided among his family of five children, Susan,
Jessie Lee, Wm. H., B. E. and Annie H.; 150 acres fell to the subject of our sketch, Miss
Jessie Lee Toler, who had studied at the Los Angeles high school and from 1892 to
1900 had enjoyed the advantages of wide travel. In 1900 she began to make her perma
nent home on her ranch, and eight years later the first house in the northwestern part
of Orange County and standing on the Toler ranch, was burned to the ground. This
was two years after she had sold off fifty acres of the northern portion.
When Miss Toler began, in her characteristically progressive manner, the energetic
development of the Toler ranch, she was told that it was in a dry spot of the county,
and that water could not be found there. Despite these predictions, she engaged C. E.
Tower, an expert driller, and a well was started in 1915, and although the process proved
slow and discouraging, the work was continued, largely through Miss Toler's fortunate
persistence, and at a depth of 506 feet water was struck, and when the sand had been
pumped out of the well, the test pump showed sixty inches of the desired-for liquid.
After that, the flow increased to 100 inches; and when the well was finished, people
came from all parts of the county to see the attainment of the well-nigh impossible.
The well is equipped with a Lane and Bowler pump, with thirty horsepower electric
motor, and Miss Toller operates the plant herself. She has worked out a very flexible
irrigation system, covering her entire ranch; the orchards laid with ten-inch cement
pipe and all the hundred acres are equally watered according to their needs.
In 1916, Miss Toller set out 1,800 Valencia orange trees on twenty-five acres of the
northern portion of her ranch, and now this grove is coming into bearing and promises
rich returns. Three years later, she set out the adjoining twenty-five acres to the same
popular citrus fruit, leaving the balance of her land open for the raising of grain and
hay. Owing to her remarkable business ability, quite equalling that of many successful
men, Miss Toler has always secured results, and results of the most satisfactory nature.
She takes great pride and satisfaction in the development of her ranch and making of it
a beautiful orange orchard in this favored section, pronounced the finest citrus section
in the world. This she is doing to the memory of her father who had such faith and
optimism in the future greatness of La Habra, and was one of the greatest boosters
Southern California ever had. When the Pacific Electric Railway was built through
La Habra they located a station on her ranch which was named Toler station.
Miss Toler has been particularly rewarded in the excellent prospects for oil on
her land, where it is perceptible in the well water. Years ago, the Standard Oil Com
pany had a lease there and sank a well 4,500 feet, until it struck oil; but for some
unknown reason, they never continued the development. The ranch has been proven to
be oil land, however, and consequently Miss Toler's holdings are not only valuable, but
bound to increase in value as the years roll by. This fact alone will give her more and
more a desirable position of leadership and influence, a fortunate circumstance, for
Miss Toler's influence for good in the community is always of the best.
ANDREW R. REISCH. — In a natural beauty spot against the foothills in El
Modena precinct lies the attractive ranch of Andrew R. Reisch, who through his care
ful management and industry .has brought his acreage up to a very high state of
cultivation, so that he is now enjoying handsome financial returns from his years
¦ of labor. His birthplace was in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, that little coun
try which is so intimately and interestingly associated with many of the events of the
late war. He was born on May 5, 1872, the son of Frank and Katherine (Webber)
Reisch. The father was a shoe merchant at Heiderscheid and he still lives there, hav
ing retired from active business. The mother passed away in 1906, leaving five chil
dren to mourn her loss.
Andrew Reisch grew up in Luxemburg and attended the village schools of his
native town; acquiring French, the -court language of that country, German and the
various dialects of the district. At the early age of thirteen he started to make his
own way in the world, and since that time he has been entirely dependent on his own
efforts. He began by working on the farms in the neighborhood of his village home,
continuing at agricultural pursuits until he was twenty-one, when he decided to seek
his fortune in America, where the opportunities were greater. He left Antwerp on
the SS. Slavonia, expecting to land in New York, but smallpox broke out on board
ship, so that they were not allowed to make landing there, but were taken on to Hali
fax, Nova Scotia, where they disembarked in March, 1893. Chicago was Mr. Reisch's
destination, and he pushed on there as rapidly as possible, reaching there the first
week in April.
Mr. Reisch was not only without funds when he reached Chicago, but was in
debt, as he had borrowed his passage money from his father. Nothing daunted, how
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The firm was composed of Peter and George R. Reinberg, whose parents were natives
of Luxemburg; indeed the cut flower business of Chicago and the Middle West was
controlled by* Luxemburgers. At the time Mr. Reisch went to work for Reinberg
Brothers they had forty acres under glass at Summerdale, a suburb of Chicago. He
o-rew much interested in the florists' business and remained with this firm for nine
years, learning the business thoroughly.
In 1902 Mr. Reisch came to California and located at Los Angeles, soon going
to work for the Bartlett Nursery at Hollywood. In Chicago he had made a specialty
of carnations, and he continued in this line for the next eight years, when the encroach
ment of an alien race into this industry made him decide to become an orchardist, his
years of training eminently fitting him for this line of work. He purchased a tract
of five acres of land on Santiago Boulevard and Bond Street, there being two acres
of oranges, one and a half acres of lemons and one and a half acres of loquats. He
erected an attractive residence of the bungalow type on his property, and here he
has since made his home.
On August 13, 1910, Mr. Reisch was married to Miss Edith May Killifer, the
daughter of Joseph and Matilda (Shoemaker) Killifer, for many years well-known
residents of Orange County, where they both passed away, the father at Orange and
the mother at Garden Grove. They were the parents of six children: Park resides in
Los Angeles; Scott, at Corcoran; Bert, at Pasadena; Edgar in the state of Washington;
Edith May, the wife of Andrew R. Reisch of this review, and Miss Lydia D. Killifer,
who is principal of the Lemon Street School, having taught in that school for twenty-
five years. Mrs. Reisch was born in Illinois, near East St. Louis, but has been a resi
dent of California since she was eleven years old. Mr. and Mrs. Reisch are the parents
of one daughter, Lucile L.
In 1919 Mr. Reisch invested in a second ranch comprising ten acres of Valencia
oranges near Olive, Miss Lydia D. Killifer being half owner with him in this project.
A loyal and enthusiastic supporter of his adopted country, Mr. Reisch was made a
citizen in 1902, while a resident of Chicago. Politically he is a believer in the prin
ciples of the Republican party, and in fraternal circles he is a member of the local lodge
of American Yeomen.
SAMUEL S. WILLIAMSON. — A representative Orange County man who has
been a leader in developing the fine acreage along West Commonwealth Avenue is
Samuel S. Williamson, to whose own far-seeing efforts are due so many desirable im
provements both upon and outside of his own ranch. In 1907 he built there a beautiful
home which is a credit to the neighborhood and is just such an addition to realty as
is certain to help raise property values. He was born at Phillipsburg near Dayton,
Montgomery County, Ohio, on February 4, 1853, in a region to which his grandfather,
John C. Williamson, came from Kentucky and his grandmother Mary Croumbach, from
Pennsylvania in pioneer days. His father was Peter Williamson, a farmer, who died
when our subject was less than three years old; and he married Miss Abigail Thomas,
born in Montgomery County, Ohio, a daughter of Wm. and Mary (Farmer) Thomas,
natives of North Carolina, who were members of the Society of Friends. Samuel S.
Williamson's father died in Ohio in December, 1855, and his mother lived for many
years in Kansas and died there in Wyandotte County in April, 1913, aged eighty years.
The only child of this union, Samuel S. Williamson, removed to Howard County,
Ind., with his mother, where he received a good education in the public schools, making
his own livelihood from the age of twelve years; his mother having married a' second
time caused Samuel to start out for himself at such an early age. At first he hired
out on various farms in his neighborhood, and in 1879, four years after the death of his
stepfather, he accompanied his mother to Wyandotte County, Kans., and settled at
Piper near Kansas City. He next became an officer at the state prison at Lansing, and
continued in that responsible office for three and a half years. The following year he
was foreman of the brick works connected with the penitentiary. He then engaged in
farming near Lawrence for three years and then removed to Kansas City, where he was
in the employ of the Metropolitan Street Railway for another period of three years,
when he resumed farming on their old farm in Wyandotte County.
After three years here he decided to locate on the Pacific Coast, so in the fall of
1903 he moved to Everett, Wash., and there passed the following winter and in June,
1904, came to Pasadena, Cal., where he superintended a ranch for three years. During
this time he investigated soil and climate in Southern California and decided on Orange
County as the most suitable location for his purpose. In 1907 he removed to Orange
County and purchased thirty-three acres of vacant land on West Commonwealth Ave
nue with one-half mile frontage, at that time overgrown with volunteer hav and mus
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oranges. He has a pumping plant of forty inches capacity, and is a member of the
Placentia Orange Growers Association.
On. March 29, 1883, Mr. Williamson was married to Miss Luella Watson, a native
of Leavenworth, Kans., and the daughter of Thomas J. and Barbara (Coulter) Watson.
Her father was a Southern gentleman, born, reared and educated in Georgia, and he
came to Kansas in 1855. He was a member of the Kansas State Militia when the slave
trouble came up, and although raised in the South he decided that slavery was a
great moral wrong and became a prominent Free State man and gave all the assistance
he could to the Union and did his duty according to his conscience. Mrs. Williamson
attended the public schools of Wyandotte County, Kans., and there began to acquire
that excellent training so valuable to her when she had children of her own. Mary
Grace, the eldest of the four children, is the wife of Maj. J. M. Hobson, of the U. S.
Army at present an attache of the American Legation in Cuba, and is a brother of Capt.
Richmond P. Hobson; Jessie A. is Mrs. C. L. Wood of Pasadena; Elsie F. is Mrs.
Glen E. Biles of the same city; and Harold F. a graduate of the Fullerton Union High
school is at present attending the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
EDWARD A. NOE. — Numbered among the successful and enterprising contract
ing builders of Orange County, one who has gained an enviable reputation for de
pendable workmanship, is Edward A. Noe, a "Buckeye" by birth, having been born
July 30, 1873, at Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. He is a son of Lewis and Eliza
(Welking) Noe, natives of Germany. Edward received his early education in the
public school at Whipple, Ohio, and when nineteen years old began working for
Andrew Hart, a contractor of Whipple, with whom he learned the trade of a car
penter. Later he moved to Marietta, Ohio, where he entered into partnership with
William Lauer, under the firm name of Lauer & Noe, and they conducted a building
business for three years, constructing many residences in Marietta. This partnership
was dissolved, after which Mr. Noe removed to Akron, where he became foreman
for Charles Deneke, a prominent builder of that busy city, remaining in his employ for
seven years. While with him Mr. Noe superintended the construction of some of
the finest buildings in that part of Ohio, among which were a splendid high school
building at Nottingham, East Cleveland, a large church at Oroville, also several large
residences in Akron. Afterwards he returned to the home farm at Marietta, where
he remained for three years.
In 1913 Mr. Noe came to California, locating- at Santa Ana. After building
three houses for himself in Santa Ana, he engaged in contracting work, and has
erected over fifty residences in the county. Among those of which he is justly
proud are the fine residence of C. P. Boyer at Tustin; three residences for A. J.
Lasby, Santa Ana; an apartment house for Mrs. Lowman on North Bush Street;
also a business block for Carden & Seamen. Mr. Noe has also constructed a num
ber of homes at Long Beach.
On December 29, 1896, Mr. Noe was united in marriage with Miss Fannie Lank-
ford of Marietta, Ohio, and they are the parents of a son, James E. Noe. Fraternally
Mr. Noe is an Odd Fellow and holds membership in Santa Lodge No. 236, I. O. O. F.
On April 30, 1920, Mr. Noe and family left Santa Ana for a visit back East and visited
many places and while there purchased an auto in Detroit and returned overland to
Santa Ana arriving on July 24. well satisfied that this is the garden spot of the country.
CHARLES C. READ. — An esteemed, retired citizen of Santa Ana who saw much
of the great Northwest, through business trips he made there, before he came to Cali
fornia, is C. C. Read of South Birch Street, one of the first settlers in that part of
the city. He was born in Compton, Kane County, 111., on November 22, 1844, the
son of Ephalet Read, who had married Malinda Myers and had migrated with her
from their native home in New Brunswick to Illinois in 1838. Our subject was edu
cated in Kane County, at the common district schools, and helped his father, who
was a grain and stock farmer there, having developed his farm from the raw prairie.
On December 17, 1874, C. C. Read was married at Fulton, in Whiteside County,
111., to Miss Margaret Ellen Wilson, a native of Whiteside County, and the daughter
of Thomas and Margaret (Laughlin) Wilson, well-situated farmers She attended the
schools of her home district, and so was prepared for the responsibilities of life.
After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Read purchased a farm of 265 acres, and there,
in Kane County, they lived for fourteen years, while they carried on general farm
ing and stock raising.
When they had advantageously rented this farm, Mr. and Mrs. Read moved to
Sycamore, 111., where they lived for twelve years, and there he bought and sold stock.
He made trips to Iowa and Minnesota, in order to buy stock, which he again sold;
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the home farm again. He disposed of it finally, when he had decided to move to the
Pacific Coast, in 1908. He arrived in Santa Ana in the spring, and a year later built
his home at 402 South Birch Street. At the time when Mr. Read built his home
there the tract between Birch and Ross streets was a barley field, and his was the
first home that far south on the west side of the street.
In 1912 his son, Walter Wilson Read, purchased from Dr. Samuel Strock a
walnut and orange grove of thirteen acres on the Santa Ana Canyon Boulevard
north of Olive, which he still owns. Walter W. Read was born in Kane County,
111., in 1881, and was a student at Wheaton College, at Wheaton, 111. He married
Miss Mabel E. Chaffee, who was born in Kane County, and also educated there. Three
children blessed their union: Charles C, a high school student of Santa Ana; and
Morris Wilson and Mary Emily, pupils of the grammar school.
C. C. Read adopted two children in 1879: William C. Katten, nine years of
age, and Emily Manning, a year younger. She lives at present in Chicago. William
C. Read was born in 1870, and was educated in the common schools of Kane County,
111. He spent his boyhood and youth on his adopted father's farm, and was married
on September 22, 1894, to Miss Maude E. Anderson, a native of De Kalb, 111., where
she was educated in the local schools. He took up painting and worked at that
trade until he came to California in 1909. Three children have been born to them.
Genevieve C. is now Mrs. A. McConnell of Santa Ana; Rheta E. is a student of the
Santa Ana Business College, and Claude C. is a pupil in the grammar school. Wil
liam C. Read is a member of the Modern Woodmen, and believes in the fitness of man
for office regardless of party.
JOHN D. LAVIN. — A highly-esteemed citizen of Orange County, now retired,
who has merely continued to operate in California according to the same high stand
ards and approved methods as characterized him in former years, having always been
a man of affairs wherever he has lived, is John D. Lavin, who was born in Ireland,
came to America with his parents while a babe in arms, lived at Windsor, Ont., until
he was thirteen years of age, and ever since then has resided in the United States.
He lived for a while in Michigan, and finished his education at Bryant & Stratton's
Business College in Chicago.
As a young man he started railroading, in the service of the Chicago & Grand
Trunk Railway, and after a while became agent for that company at Flint, Mich. In
March, 1880, he removed to South Dakota, and at Columbia, then 120 miles from a
railroad, established the first mercantile business in Brown County, which he continued
for fifteen years. He was mayor of Columbia, and he also served as one of the com
missioners of Brown County, part of the time acting as chairman of the board. He
and his two sisters owned 1,600 acres of fine farm land in South Dakota, which they
leased out to tenants on shares.
For twenty years Mr. Lavin was grand recorder for the state of South Dakota'
of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, with headquarters at Aberdeen; he was
appointed by Governor Herried as a member of the state board of charities and cor
rection, having in charge all the state charitable and penal institutions. He resigned'
his position with the Workmen in 1909 to come to California on account of his sisters'
health. Since locating in Anaheim, he has been active in civic affairs, as he was in
South Dakota, although retired from business, merely overseeing the general man
agement of his fine ten-acre ranch in South Los Angeles Street, which he set out to
Valencia oranges in July, 1919. For a number of years he was a director in the
German-American, now the Golden State National, Bank of Anaheim, and he is
now a member of the Anaheim Public Library Board, and was formerly chairman of
the same. He is a member of the Catholic Church, belongs to the Knights of Colum
bus, and also to Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks.
LEWIS G. BUTLER.— A very interesting "old-timer'' who, as a pioneer farmer,
nurseryman and grower of citrus fruit, has made a definite contribution to the growth
and development of Southern California, is Lewis G. Butler, of 1211 Van Ness Avenue,
Santa Ana, who enjoys, with his good wife, the high esteem of many friends. He was
born at Pra.rie du Chien, Wis., on February 28. 1851, the son of George H and Eliza
beth (Schoolcraft) Butler, natives of New York State who came west to Wisconsin.
His father followed agricultural pursuits, and when our subject was a babe, his parents
moved to Iowa, where they settled on a farm, and there the father died when Lewis was
only three years old.
After the father's death, Mrs. Butler removed, first, to Belvidere, and then to
Sycamore, 111. taking the four children, among whom Lewis G. was the third in
the order of birth. When ten years old, he went to live with an uncle, Peter Lawyer,
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eighteen. Then he removed to Iowa and there worked for two years for another
uncle, also named Lawyer. Another change brought him to Lincoln, Nebr., where he
labored at farm work for a couple of years.
In the fall of 1874, he made still another change, and one calculated to bring him
still greater prosperity and happiness. He came out to California and settled at
Orange. The year previous he had been married in . Nebraska to Miss Martha E.
Selby, a native of Ohio and a daughter of George Selby, and Mrs. Butler came along
to the Golden State to assist him to win his fortune and to make a comfortable home.
He worked for a while for Lockwood on East Chapman Street, cultivated his
orange orchard and put out nursery stock for him. He then entered the employ of
Dr. Beach, who also had an orange orchard and raised nursery stock, besides prac
ticing medicine. Thus Mr. Butler rapidly extended a valuable experience, and he cam.
to enjoy the reputation of being the boss budder in the county.
He budded, for example, the first Washington Navels in the district of Orange,
getting his buds from Tom Covert of Riverside, who had one of the old original tree_,
sent out from Washington. And about this time he started in the nursery business in
Orange, first as a partner of Dr_ Beach; he planted fifteen acres to oranges and five
acres to apricots, and the results attracted wide attention. He also owned twenty
acres on East Walnut Street in Orange.
Always, too, a fancier of good horses, a chance acquaintance with the late
John Bushard in the Wintersburg district, resulted in his turning his attention to
that field, so that he became a partner of Mr. Bushard and bought a. ranch of 400
and eighty acres south and west of where Wintersburg is now located. At the end of
three years this partnership was "dissolved, and then Mr. Butler went up into the
San Jacinto Valley, improved a ranch and fruit land, and came to own 160 acres there,
and there he prospered for the ensuing thirty years. In March, 1918, he let go his
holdings there, and the following November he removed to Santa Ana.
Mr. and Mrs. Butler have had one child, Chester G, who died in September,
1917, at the age of thirty-five, leaving a large circle of steadfast friends. Mrs. Butler
belongs to the Christian Church, and both husband and wife find pleasure in sup
porting movements calculated to make California, and especially Orange County, a
better place in which to live.
NIELS JOHNSON. — An honest, kind-hearted and highly esteemed citizen of Pla
centia, who, while seeking to live a retired life, free from the cares of labor or invest
ment, finds it hard to keep his hands off the plow entirely, and who therefore may
often be seen superintending the work of the harvest, is Niels Johnson of East Chap
man Avenue, a native of Southern Denmark, where he was born near Kolding, Novem
ber 5, 1847. His father was a grain farmer, and as the eldest of a family of seven
children, Niels had to go to work early in life. He attended the ordinary grammar
schools, and when he grew up, served in the Danish army for the required term, until
he had obtained his honorable discharge. After that Mr. Johnson went across the
border into Slesvig to work at harvesting, as he received better wages there than at lis
old home in Southern Denmark. He remained there and in due time, met a young lady,
the acquaintance ripening into a more lasting tie and she became his wife. She was
Miss Metta R. Paulson, born in Apenrade, Slesvig, a woman of attractive personality,
and their union was indeed a happy one.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Johnson engaged in farming, but Mr. Johnson s
longing for the New World was so strong that they decided to migrate to the land of
the°Stars and Stripes. When he had saved sufficient funds to defray the expenses of
'the trip, he sailed with his family from Hamburg, with New York as their destination.
Ships traveled more slowly in those days, and it took fifteen days to cross the Atlantic,
and fifteen days more before they reached San Francisco. A brother-in-law had
already come to California and located in Watsonville, and here the travelers came.
For three" and a half years Mr. Tohnson worked at Watsonville m the lumber yards;
then tlirough Peter Hansen, whose wife was a cousin of Mrs. Johnson, and who rested
at F-illerfon Mr Johnson learned about Orange County, and the story of its wonderful
possibilities led him to bring his family there. On their arrival, Mr. Johnson purchased
four acres ne.r Placentia, and in the following years, as he worked for the Anahe m
Union Water Company, he purchased more land and brought the same to a trgh state
of cultivation About-the ve-ar -1890, he bought twenty acres from the Stearns Land
Company in the Placentia district and later bought eight acres on East Chapman
Street which is now devoted to oranges. The twenty-acre ranch has been leased and
successfully exploited for oil, and be now derives a good income from it; he has a so
leased his home place for oil recently. The balance of his land has been given to lvs
ri Iren " In 1920 Mr. Johnson built a modern bungalow on his East Chapman Street
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home in a charming manner and shows her devotion by looking after his comfort and
entertaining his many friends. The other living children are: George, a rancher at
Placentia; Dora, the wife of Frank Trendle of Orangethorpe Avenue; and Raymond,
a rancher at Placentia, who served in an artillery regiment overseas during the World
War. Mr. Johnson is a stockholder in the Anaheim Union Water Company, and he is
a charter member of the Placentia Orange Growers Association.
A sorrow never to be effaced came into the life of this happy home circle in the
death on November 14, 1918, of Mrs. Johnson, who passed away after a short illness
due to a fall, in her sixty-fifth year. She was operated on at the Fullerton Hospital,
and was believed to be progressing toward complete recovery, when she passed away
very suddenly. She meant much not merely to her near of kin, but to the community
as a whole, and it is not' surprising that Mr. Johnson attributes much of his success in
life to the inspiration of her noble character and her fidelity as a loving and ever
devoted helpmate.
ERNEST A. BEARD. — When we are temporarily deprived of the use of the tele
phone we begin to realize what an important part that invention plays in our modern
business and social life. The telephone system of Anaheim and Fullerton is under the
competent management of Ernest A. Beard, a native of Ohio, who was born in Richland
County in that state November 16, 1877. He is the son of Charles W. and Charity
(Baker) Beard. While living in the East the father was an insurance agent and was
also engaged in the implement business. The family came to Santa Ana, Cal., in 1881,
where the father engaged- in business and for a number of years was one of the city
officials of Santa Ana. His demise occurred in 1910.
Ernest A., the youngest child in a family of four children, was four years of age
when he accompanied his parents to California. He received a competent education
in the schools of Santa Ana, and later attended the Los Angeles Business School, from
which he graduated. After taking up the responsibilities of life he was engaged as a
telegraph operator, and for four years was in charge of the Santa Ana postal office.
He afterwards went north and learned the harness trade, which he followed for six
years. After this he was on an eastern farm for two years, and upon returning to Cali
fornia followed the occupation of farming. Following this he engaged in selling trac
tors and in the automobile business for the next ten years, and in 1918 became inter
ested with the Anaheim telephone company, which is also in charge of the Fullerton
system, with headquarters at Anaheim. Since assuming the management of the tele
phone company Mr. Beard has demonstrated his ability to fill that important position.
He still maintains his Valencia orange grove, which is located on East Santa Ana
Street about one-half mile east of town. He is a member of Anaheim Lodge, No. 1345,
B. P. O. Elks.
His marriage occurred March 8, 1906, uniting him with Miss Anna Morthland, and
they are the parents of a daughter named Loma. Mr. Beard, who is musically inclined,
finds diversion from the arduous cares of business life in the art of music and is man
ager of the Anaheim band. He is also fond of the sports of hunting and fishing, but
dearer than all else to his heart is his interest in the successful growth and development
of the county in which his lot in life is cast. Although a Republican in principles, he
does not allow party prejudice to influence his vote, ever seeking to lend his influence
for the man best fitted for the office, regardless of party affiliations.
HENRY J. HARKLEROAD. — An important overseer on the Irvine ranch, who
has also become a successful tenant and a prosperous landowner, is Henry J. Harkle-
road, foreman of the Harkleroad Camp, or that portion of the San Joaquin ranch con
taining some 815 acres planted to walnut, lemon, orange and avocado trees, and irri
gated by means of wells and pumping plants. He is also an individual tenant on the
same San Joaquin ranch, leasing 200 acres of bean and barley land individually and in
partnerships operating another lease of 600 acres devoted to the same products.
A native son, as one might suspect from his aggressive progressiveness, Mr. Hark
leroad was born at Hollister on February 26, 1877, the son of Henry J. Harkleroad, a
native of Tennessee, who came to California and here married Miss Caroline Welborn,
of Maryland. He was a rancher at Hollister, where he owned 160 acres of land. He
died in 1884, when our subject was only seven years old; and Mrs. Harkleroad passed
away in 1917. They had four children: Lucy resides at San Jose; Henry J. is the
subject of this review; Samuel W. is the manager of the Andrew Mattei Commercial
Company of Fresno; and George A. is principal of the high school at Fall Brook, San
Diego County. ,
Henry attended the public schools at Hollister, but being the oldest son, he had
a great deal of responsibility thrust upon him through the early death of his father.
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when a young man he went to San Francisco and enlarged his experience as a foreman
for three years in the Union Iron Works. There he learned to handle men— now
unquestionably his forte. He was foreman in the chipping department of the cast steel
foundry, many of their castings being used in the construction of vessels, among them
the battleships Wisconsin and Ohio and the cruiser California, as well as some of the
first submarines turned out for the government. Next he was in the real estate and
insurance business at Hollister and San Jose, through which activity and experience he
became a still better judge of human nature. After that he was for several years in
charge of his mother's ranch, helping her to successfully handle her estate.
On December 1, 1908, Mr. Harkleroad came to Orange County and for the first
two years was employed on the home ranch for the Irvine Company as foreman and
since 1910 he has been in charge of the Harkleroad Camp as stated above. He also
owns 320 acres in Arizona, eighty acres in Los Angeles County, five acres in Orange
County and ten acres in Madera County.
On June 30, 1906, Mr. Harkleroad was married at Hollister to Miss Mae Fowler
of Mulberry, San Benito County, a native of Portland, Ore. He is a Republican in
national politics and fraternally is a Knights Templar Mason and a Shriner, as well
as a member of the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks. Mr. Harkleroad has become a very
enthusiastic booster for Orange County and the Southland from observation and experi
ence, and his two boys, Henry J., Jr., and William F. Harkleroad, bid fair to display
the same virtues.
WM. OSCAR WILSON. — A native son who has become one of the most success
ful bean ranchers is Wm. Oscar Wilson, who was born in the city of Ventura on May
19, 1892, the second son of William Wilson, the pioneer lima bean grower on the
Irvine ranch. Oscar, as all of his friends call him, was only five years old when, on an
October day, he came to Irvine, where he grew up on his father's ranch, and had as
good time as any boy in the county. He attended the local public schools at Irvine and
Tustin, and applied himself to his studies sufficiently to make it worth the while, later,
to take a course in the excellent Orange County Business College at Santa Ana, where
he was graduated in 1909.
His father had allowed him a workman's wages since his seventeenth year, and
with his studies ended, he went in for some of this world's goods. He had felt very
deeply the loss in his fifteenth year of his mother (who was Miss Emma Shepard, of
Missouri, before her marriage), but fortunately he was already enthused with certain
ideals, and resolved to make his way forward and upward, and to enjoy success. His
decision to remain at home with his father until he himself set up a domestic establish
ment was favorable to the quiet formation of a sturdy character such as those who
know him highly esteem. When he was nineteen, at Santa Ana, June 10, 1911, he was
joined in wedlock to Miss Lenore Brenot, a stepdaughter of Abe W. Johnson of Irvine.
She is a native daughter, born at Irvine.
Mr. Wilson spent some time at Capistrano on his father's lease, and then he
worked for three years in Santa Ana. He began farming operations for himself three
years ago, and now he has under lease from the Irvine ranch, and planted, about 250
acres. One hundred forty of these are given to lima beans; sixty to blackeye beans;
and fifty acres to barley hay. Twelve head of mules furnish for him the motor power
for which the mule is famous.
Two children have blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wilson, adding
happiness to their happy home, a daughter and a son, Elizabeth Adell and William
Wesley. Fraternally Mr. Wilson is a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 236, I. O. O. F.
and of the Encampment, and with his wife is a member of the Rebekahs.
HENRY F. GIBBS. — An enterprising, thoroughly capable ranchman of Hunting
ton Beach, is Henry F. Gibbs, who resides at his ranch two and a half miles northeast
of the town, where he devotes thirty acres to the cultivation of sugar beets and berries.
He was born on January 9, 1880, in Nodaway County, Mo., the son of Henry Gibbs,
now the proprietor of the grocery business at the corner of Walnut and Main streets,
which was established by the son. Henry Gibbs was born on November 22, 1850, at
Tunbridge in Kent, some thirty miles from London, and his father was James Gibbs,
a native of England and. a farmer who came to America and settled in Wisconsin.
He came out here in 1857, two years before the rest of his family, and in Wisconsin was
joined by his wife and a daughter and five sons. Henry Gibbs' mother was employed
by Queen Victoria as a housemaid, and in the performance of her duties about the castle,
often conversed with the Queen. Mrs. Henry Gibbs was Lucy Latter, a native also
of England. When James Gibbs came to Wisconsin, he farmed at Waukesha, and
owing to the primitive conditions of that region, Henry's schooling was very limited.
Grandfather Gibbs died when Henry was nineteen years old, and three of the ten
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children of the family having died when they were in England, Henry F. was the
next to the youngest. Henry Gibbs worked out on farms at twelve cents a day in
harvest time, carrying water to the cradlers and binders — a jug of water in one hand,
and a jug of whiskey in the other; harvesting was then done by cradling, and binding
was performed by hand.
In Wisconsin Henry Gibbs met and married Jeanette or Nettie Cross, a native
of Macomb County, Mich., where she was born on March 24, 1855. She was reared in
that state until her twelfth year, and then she came with her parents to southeast
Wisconsin. Her father, Leonard Cross, a New Yorker, was kicked by a horse and he
died from the injury, passing away a day after Nettie was fifteen years old. Her mother
was Elizabeth Woodard, a daughter of Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gibbs were
married in 1873, and a year after they removed to Nodaway County, Mo., where they
farmed for twelve years.
In 1886, they came to California, and settled in Los Angeles, and there engaged
in the sale of staple and fancy groceries. In 1896 Mr. Gibbs bought a ranch of twenty
acres at Smeltzer, Cal., and in 1902, he went to Santa Ana, where for two and a half
years he busied himself with real estate deals and the management of a restaurant.
As a business man at present in Huntington Beach, he is one of the oldest merchants
in the city, and he is still ably assisted in his business by his wife.
Henry F. Gibbs was six and a half years old when he came to California with his
parents, and his early education was obtained in the grammar schools of Los Angeles,
and a year in the Los Angeles high school, after which he took a commercial course at
the Santa Ana Business College under Prof. R. L. Bisby. In 1901 he married Miss
Viola M. Stewart, the only daughter of O. C. Stewart, a member of a family of early
settlers in what is now Orange County, and a sister of D. O. Stewart of Huntington
Beach. They have two children — Stewart and Beatrice Nettie.
Few farmers have succeeded better than Henry F. Gibbs in demonstrating the
qualities of the soil and environment of Huntington Beach for agriculture of a scientific
and aggressive sort; and besides the success thus attained, he and his family enjoy the
esteem of all who know them.
STETSON R. JUMPER.— An exceedingly able, first-class official, and a public-
spirited citizen in every respect is Stetson R. Jumper, the accommodating postmaster
at Balboa, who was born in Maine on July 23, 1859, and lived in that fine old Yankee
State until he was twenty-five. In 1884, he came to California and settled at Riverside,
and there he kept a cigar and news stand, and was agent for the Los Angeles Times,
serving that journal for eight years. He was really a carpenter by trade, and came
to East Newport in 1906 to build for the East Newport Town Company, which made
him their construction boss. He assumed much responsibility, overseeing, among other
works, the erection of the East Newport Pavilion, now used for the Newport Harbor
Yacht Club.
After a while, Mr. Jumper established himself in business as an independent con
tractor and builder, and succeeding beyond his expectations, he became the head of the
firm of Jumper and Goodcell, building contractors at Balboa and East Newport, and
remained in that relation until Mr. Goodcell, dropped out, and Mr. Jumper continued
alone as a contractor. He built the dwelling in which he now resides, and also another
residence that he still owns.
This mechanical ability was doubtless inherited, for his father, Royal D. Jumper,
who died when our subject was only two years old, and was a native of Maine, was
a machinist of the genuine American type. He married Miss Mary Myrick, also a
native of the Lumber State, and together they represented descent from English, Irish
and Scotch blood. The Jumpers had been residents of Maine for three generations,
and on the mother's side they went back to the Bradford family made famous by their
trip to New England in the Mayflower. Mrs. Jumper died when Stetson was eighteen
years old, so that he has helped himself through the world from early years He
attended the common schools of his home district, and also studied for two years at
Kent's Hill Academy, in Maine.
In April, 1914, Mr. Jumper was elected to the council of the town of Balboa and
two years later, he was made chairman or mayor. In 1917, however he resigned in
order to accept the appointment of postmaster of Balboa, receiving his' commission on
March 16. He was chairman of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce,
and it is not surprising that he has almost doubled the volume of business of the
Balboa postoffice since he took hold— a fact that speaks well for both Balboa and its
postmaster. _ In 1881, Mr Jumper was married to Miss Ellen Fabb, a native of England, who
is still living-, and they have become the parents of five children. Fred T is an oil
man at Ojai. Eva A. is the wife of H. J. Henry, and resides at Balboa. Royal F - is a

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rancher at Shafter, Kern County, Cal. Harry is assistant city engineer and resides at
Balboa. And Albert P. is an automobile mechanic employed by Rodger Bros., and
was in France during the war in the One Hundred Forty-fourth Artillery. Harry was
also in the naval aviation service, while H. J. Henry was in the machine gun service in
the Ninety-first Division, and received the French decoration of the Croix de Guerre.
Reared a Baptist, Mr. Jumper has been a member of the Odd Fellows since he
was twenty-one, and has filled all the offices, so that he is past grand of Riverside Lodge
No. 282; and he belongs to the Star Encampment of Riverside, No. 73, where he is
past chief patriarch. Wherever he is, or whatever he does, but especially when he is
busy at beautiful Balboa, he is an optimist of the most practical and helpful kind; and
his faith in the fortunately-situated harbor town is rock-ribbed. "This is a good old
world," he says, "and I am going to stay in it as long as I can."
WILLIAM TRAPP. — For several years a sailor on the high seas, William Trapp
visited many of the principal ports of the world, braving the perils of the deep and
encountering many thrilling experiences, and now, in the quiet of his Anaheim home, he
can relate many interesting happenings in recalling his seafaring days. One of
Anaheim's early settlers, he has seen this locality change from a barren, cactus-covered
plain to one of Southern California's beauty spots, with groves of lemon, orange and
walnut stretching as far as the eye can reach.
A native of Germany, William Trapp was born on February 13. 1868, at Dortmund
in Westphalia, his father, Joseph Trapp, being employed in the mines of the locality
at that time. Of the five children of the Trapp family, William was the third oldest
and the only one to immigrate to the United States. He received a good education in
the public schools of Germany, but when he grew to young manhood he determined
to leave his native land, where the military regulations were becoming more and more
oppressive. He landed in New York in 1888, and made his way to Memphis, Tenn.,
where he was employed for the next three years. Attracted to the sea by its life of
adventure, he shipped from New York as a sailor on the Timandria, sailing around the
Cape of Good Hope to the East Indies, visiting Calcutta, Madras, Ceylon and St. Helena,
returning to New York after a voyage of thirteen months. His next berth was on the
Sterling, bound for Hong Kong, China, and it was indeed filled with perils and dangers.
Mr. Trapp had become steersman of the vessel, and while off the coast of China they
were caught in one of the typhoons which have dealt such deadly destruction to
hundreds of ships. In the midst of the gale they lost their rudder and were compelled
to put back to Hong Kong, where the damage was repaired, returning to San Francisco
after a year at sea. For a time Mr. Trapp worked as a longshoreman at San Pedro.
returning to the sea again in the coasting service between San Francisco and British
Columbia; he was on the first vessel landing at the Long Wharf at Santa Monica.
In 1894 Mr. Trapp met with an accident that resulted in quite a severe injury, and
he then determined to quit the sea. Coming to Anaheim, he purchased a small place
on North Street, where he raised apricots and vegetables, remaining here until 1900,
when he sold the ranch, intending to go to Oregon, but was induced to remain here.
He then purchased twenty acres on Sunkist Avenue for the low price of thirty-five
dollars an acre, the land then being covered with cactus and sage brush and giving but
little promise of its future prosperity. Mr. Trapp at once began to clear and level the
land, setting it out to Valencia oranges. He sunk wells, installed a pumping plant for
irrigation, improved it with a substantial residence and other buildings, and soon made
it one of .the most attractive places of the locality. He continued to reside here until
Tanuary, 1919, when he sold the orchard for $3500 an acre, at that time the highest
price that an orange grove had brought in this vicinity. After disposing of his property
Mr. Trapp traveled north, with the expectation of investing in land in some other
locality, but he found nothing that compared with the attractive and productive lands
of Orange County, so he returned to Anaheim and purchased the twenty acres where
he now resides. It is set out to Navels and Valencias, and he intends making it one
of the show places of the county. He has already erected a handsome residence and
made many improvements, and with his long experience as a horticulturist it is only
a question of time when it will be one of the most valuable citrus ranches in this district.
Mr. Trapp's first marriage occurred in Anaheim, uniting him with Augusta
Schreiber, a native of Bohemia. She died, leaving him four children, two of whom
are living: William A. is a cement pipe contractor, and resides at East Anaheim;
Henry died at the.age of fifteen; Walter assists his father on the home place; Frank
died in his first year. Mr. Trapp was married a second time, the ceremony occurring
in San Bernardino, Cal., February 13, 1914, when he was united with Frieda Schneider,
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Karlsruhe she came to Chicago on a visit to her brother, after which she came to
Orange County, where she met Mr. Trapp, and the acquaintance resulted in their
marriage, a union that is proving very happy to them both. Fulfilling a long-cherished
desire to visit the old world, and particularly his old home in Westphalia, Mr. Trapp
left for France in July, 1920. After visiting Paris as well as other important cities, and
the battlefields, they made their way through Lorraine to Germany, where he visited
the old home and traveled all over the country, visiting the different points of interest,
returning through Holland and sailing from Rotterdam to New York City, being en
route on the ship Ryndam fourteen days to New York, and thence came immediately to
his home, delighted to get back — Orange County looked better than ever after seeing
war-torn Europe, and was glad that destiny had led him when a young man to the land
of the Stars and Stripes and the state of sunshine and flowers. In fraternal relations
Mr. Trapp has been identified with the Elks for a number of years, being a charter
member of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345. Politically he is an adherent of the principles of
the Republican party. A man of the highest principles and unquestioned integrity,
he and his family are held in the highest regard in the community that has been their
home for so many years.
FRANK CLAUDINA. — Decidedly a "live wire," and no wonder, for he is widely
acknowledged to be one of the best livestock buyers in Orange County, F. Claudina,
the capitalist at Newport Beach was long and favorably known at Fullerton, where
for many years he had a well-appointed livery stable and a fully stocked feed yard.
He is, in fact, a most capable judge of mules and horses, and as far back as his seven
teenth year bought cattle on the O'Neill ranch for his uncle, Frank Claudina, and then
drove them all the way to Los Angeles where they were shipped to San Luis Obispo.
He was born in East Somerville, near Boston, Mass., on May 15, 1874, the son of
Joseph Claudina, a native of France, who came to Massachusetts and served in the Civil
War and was a farmer in the Bay State. Our subject, therefore, grew up in the city of
baked beans and culture, and came to California with an uncle, Frank Claudina, when
he was eight years old, in 1882, and settled in and grew up in Tuolumne County. Then
he removed to Fullerton, Orange County, in 1899. He had married in San Francisco,
in 1894, Miss Mary Martin, a native of Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, whose
parents were pioneers of Walnut Creek. Since coming to California, he has made nine
different trips back to Boston, where his mother, who was Catherine Alameda before
her marriage, resided until her death, in 1918, in her seventy-third year. He has also
traveled through the United States and in Canada from Montreal to Vancouver. He
was very successful as a stock buyer, drover and dealer at Fullerton. During the
panicky times of Grover Cleveland, Mr. Claudina lost heavily; but it is eminently to
his credit that he paid all of his debts, one hundred cents on the dollar. He owns a
quarter of a block on Spadra Street, Fullerton, where he has erected a garage which
he rents, and, besides, he owns three residences in the same block.
After such an active life, full of hard work, of benefit to others as well as himself,
it is gratifying to Mr. and Mrs. Claudina's many friends that they are to take a well-
earned rest in beautiful Newport Beach where they have an attractive home surrounded
by flowers and is said to be the finest in town. Mr. Claudina's extended and successful
connection with Orange County interests of various sorts leads one to wish that now
that he has become a resident of Newport Beach, he may further identify himself with
the development of the beach towns.
FRANK P. BORCHARD. — How unremitting, intelligent industry inevitably
brings its own reward is well illustrated in the careers of the Borchard family; founded
by Casper Borchard, of which Frank P., the subject of this review, is one of the most
successful members. His father came from Germany, and applied the lesson of hard
labor acquired there to the problems confronting him in the almost primeval country
to which he came; and, although a large landowner in several counties he is today best
known in Ventura County, where he is still living at Conejo. The good mother,
Iheresa Moring was not permitted to survive and witness the success of the eight
children each of whom reflected credit upon the family name. Rosa is now the wife
of Silas Kelley, the rancher of Conejo; Mary, single, keeps house for her father at the
old Ventura home ranch; Leo's story is given elsewhere in this work; Casper is a
rancher in Ventura County and lives near Conejo; Anton is a rancher at Greenville,
Fafrvf n ! r V "^ L resident °f Santa Ana= Charles ;s a rancher at
Fa.rv.ew in Orange County; and Theresa is the wife of Ed. Borchard, the rancher,
and resides at Conejo.
... B°r.n at C°neJ? °n August 28, 1886, Frank was twelve years old when his mother
died. When only^ eight or nine years old, he began to ride the range; and he drove
horses at farm work when he was only thirteen. He saw the beet sugar factory

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erected at Oxnard, and is proud of the fact that his father early raised beets for the
factory, and as a large stockman and cattle raiser for years, was one of the first in
California to feed beet tops to cattle in order to fatten them.
When nineteen years of age, Mr. Borchard started grain farming in partnership
with his brother Anton, renting 3,000 acres of land on which they raised wheat, barley
and oats. He worked seventy-five head of horses, and eight eight-horse teams at
plowing, and thirty-two head of horses on a Holt harvester, and he soon took rank
among the large grain growers of Ventura County. In 1909 Casper Borchard turned
his property into the corporation organized by him and known as the Borchard Land
Company, and the Borchard holdings were farmed by that corporation for about ten
years; then the company was dissolved, and a division of the land was made among
the sons- and daughters. At one time his father had as many as 900 head of cattle
on the range, and when he came down to Orange County, he displayed equally good
foresight and executive ability in buying heavily of "Gospel Swamp" lands. He believed
that the district could be drained and made very valuable, and the great task he accom
plished, assisted by his sons. Inasmuch as the Borchards understood sugar beet grow
ing, they raised large quantities; and more recently the land has been found very
valuable for the production of lima beans, so that it is now worth from $500 to $750
per acre. In 1912, Mr. Borchard was married to Miss Myrtle Heaston, the wedding taking
place in the summer month of August. She was a native of San Diego, but grew up in
Los Angeles and Orange counties, and her parents still reside at Huntington Beach.
Three children blessed their union — Alice and Alfred, twins, and Barbara. The ranch
house at Huntington Beach, where the Borchards formerly lived, having burned down
in April, 1919, the family came to Santa Ana, and there Mr. Borchard bought a residence
at 415 East Fifth Street, where they now live. They attend the Catholic Church, and
Mr. Borchard belongs to the Knights of Columbus and the Elks. Mr. Borchard has
worked very hard in his lifetime, but he and his estimable wife are at last able to enjoy
the fruits of both labor and sacrifice.
JOHN M. WINE. — In point of continuous service, John M. Wine, of the firm of
Wine and Fewell, irrigation contractors and cement pipe manufacturers, is the veteran
in his line in Orange County, having been engaged in this work since 1906. A native
of Tennessee, Mr. Wine was born near Bristol, in that state, September 25, 1874, his
parents being John and Ann Wine. The years of his boyhood were spent at the home
place in Tennessee, where he had the advantages of the public schools of the locality.
When he reached young manhood he decided to start out for himself, and migrated
to northwest Illinois, locating in the neighborhood of Milledgeville, Carroll County,
where he worked around on farms from 1894 to 1899.
The Pacific Coast had a strong attraction for Mr. Wine, however, so he made
up his mind to try his fortune in California. He arrived here in December, 1899,
settling first at El Toro, where he continued to do farm work, later working at Buena
Park, Orange and El Modena. In 1906 he came to Santa Ana and became actively
engaged in the cement pipe business, to which he has ever since given his time. In
1915 he formed a partnership with Archie Vernon Fewell, under the firm name of
Wine and Fewell, and they maintain a cement pipe manufacturing establishment at
1029 East First Street, Santa Ana. Here they do an extensive business, having laid
about 200 miles of cement pipe for irrigation in Orange County. They haye done
much work for such discriminating patrons as Judge Williams, James Irvine and
scores of leading agriculturists and horticulturists of the county. The firm is known
far and wide as thoroughly efficient and square in all their dealings. They manu
facture and carry a large stock" of cement pipes of all sizes, from four to thirty-six
inches, and valves, gates and other irrigation necessities, so that they are able to
handle any contract satisfactorily and expeditiously. They have handled large con
tracts at Tustin, San Juan Capistrano, Delhi, Harper, Newport, Greenville, Laguna
Beach and Santa Ana, and have also done a great deal of road and county work for
Orange County.
In 1909 Mr. Wine was married to Miss Lanna M. Jordan, also a native of Ten
nessee, and the daughter of Thomas and Christene Jordan. They are the parents of
one child, Vivian. Mr. Wine is the owner of an excellent ten-acre walnut ranch on
Ritchie Street, near Santa Ana, which he planted and improved, and here the family
make their home. He purchased this property in 1917 and set out the whole acreage
to budded walnuts, so that every year increases the value of the place. The family
are members of the Brethren Church at Santa Ana and hold a high place in the regard
of their many friends. A self-made man, Mr. Wine has a tremendous capacity for
mental and physical work, and he never tires in contributing to the progress of the
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THOMAS E. BROADWAY. — An American genius who has both natural apti
tude and long, invaluable experience for his difficult and important art, that of up-to-
date shipbuilding, is Thomas E. Broadway, the naval architect of Newport Beach, who
has recently organized the Broadway Boat and Equipment Corporation, a corporation
capitalized at $15,000. No better location could possibly be found in all California than
picturesque, popular Newport Beach, with its well-protected bay; and he is undoubtedly
the right man in the right place at a decisive hour in the history of this expanding
portion of Orange County.
Mr. Broadway was born in New York City on the thirteenth of November, 1876,
just when the ambitious American nation was reviewing the wonders of its exposition
at Philadelphia and taking stock of what it had accomplished, in Science and invention,
in the course of the first century. His father was Joseph Broadway, a native of New
Jersey, who married Miss Mary Creer, also a native of the metropolis, now living at
the age of seventy, in excellent health, in West Hoboken; and he worked at his ship
building trade in the yards around New York Bay. They had seven children, six of
whom — two boys and four girls — have grown up.
Thomas, the oldest of these, attended the public schools of Hoboken, to which
city he was taken when he was three years of age, and was graduated from the high
school of Hoboken, after which he also went to work in the shipyards. He began with
ordinary boat and ship work, and in the evenings he studied naval architecture in
the night schools in New York. He was employed by Messrs Teigen and Lang, at
their Hoboken shipyards, and by William Wall, a ship-joiner and yacht-builder at
Hoboken and in New York; and he also worked at the William Rowland shipyards, in
New York, the John English Shipbuilding Company, the Tobo Yacht Construction Com
pany in New York, and for the Robinson's Dry Dock Company, and while thus engaged,
put in eight months as one of the workmen building the library and stateroom of J.
Pierpont Morgan's palatial yacht, "Corsair," costing over a million dollars to construct.
After that, Mr. Broadway traveled as a journeyman yacht and shipbuilder all over
the United States, studying various methods and models of construction as practiced
or preferred in different sections of the country, and he worked so hard that his health
broke down. As a consequence, he came to California and Newport Beach, in 1916, to
recuperate; and being a professional yachtsman, familiar with the building and handling
of boats and yachts, he soon became an enthusiastic member of the Newport Harbor
Yacht Club, and has helped to organize and is a member of the Southland Sailing
Club of Balboa. He knows all about the manning of yachts, and has helped the boys
to win the coveted cups and other prizes.
Mr. Broadway has incorporated his new and very promising enterprise under the
name of the Broadway Boat and Equipment Corporation, with himself as president and
treasurer; George Palmer, the mechanical engineer and machinist, as vice-president,
and Joshua Mader, secretary; and the company's scope will be to build, repair and
equip sea-going craft up to 300 feet in length, turning out yachts, sail boats, power
boats, and row-boats to be used in Newport Bay and on the- near-by ocean. He has
just rebuilt a forty-foot yacht for L. N. Merritt of Pasadena, at a cost of $8,000, and
is completing a fifty-foot yacht for W. Starbuck Fenton, of Ontario, at a cost of $15,000;
and he was compelled to turn away $40,000 worth of work in 1920.
At West Hoboken, N. J., Mr. Broadway was married to Miss Louisa Oltar, a
native of that state, by whom he has had two children, Robert E. and Mary. The
family attend the Episcopal Church, and Mr. Broadway joins the Republican party in
its campaigning for better citizenship and better government.
ROBERT WARDLOW.— An able business man, good neighbor and friend, who
is rapidly coming to the fore as one of the most successful farmers and influential
citizens in the Talbert precinct, is Robert Wardlow, a native son born at Downey, Cal.,
on July 7 1879. His father was R. B. Wardlow, a native of Iowa, who came to Cali
fornia in 1875 as a young man. At Los Angeles he married Miss Martha E. Draper.
Both parents esteemed by all who know them, are still living at Santa Ana.
K. a. Wardlow was always a farmer, and for a while lived in the vicinity of Long
Beach on the Jotham Bixby ranch. In 1896, he removed to Fountain Valley, in the
Gospel Swamp as Talbert was then called. Now he owns 220 acres of choice land
grain' farm *"" * ' Whkh 'S °Perated b^ his youngest son as a stock and
schook°beHeWar<!l0TfrfeW "Puin L°S Angdes County' and there attended the public
and after ^J T . 0m Y " Tth grade of the grammar school at Clearwater,
and after that, wishing to perfect himself for success in the business world took a
COmmHeCwasCOUrSete * , P°rnge 9rnty BUSin6SS C0ll^e a' Santrina in 18%
a ranker in ZT^f;, ' 0 ^ '° MisS Ud* Swift' a daUghter of A. F. Swift,
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well-to-do and widely respected. Five children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs.
Wardlow: Clare, the eldest, now seventeen years old, is in the high school at Santa
Ana; and the others in order of their birth are Vance and Gladys, also in the high
school, and Muriel and Donald.
Mr. Wardlow farms some 140 acres, of which 110 are planted to sugar beets, and
thirty to alfalfa; and he is one of the most successful sugar beet growers and dairymen
in the Talbert precinct. He is a member of the California Dairymen's Association and
the Orange County Farm Bureau. He has thus been able to contribute a valuable and
highly intelligent influence toward the rapid development of California's agricultural
interests, and in particular to favor the expansion of the county in which, like so many
others, he has had his success.
CLEMENT LINCOLN SLACK.— Interesting as one of the really few men who
had an active part in the building of early Santa Ana, Clement Lincoln Slack, the
retired contract teamster, is sure to be remembered, and in the pleasantest manner,
by those who for many years come after him. He was born in Rushville, Schuyler
County, 111., on May 9, 1863, the son of Nathaniel and Eliza (Berry) Slack, the former
a graduate of Galesburg Medical College, who practiced as a physician, and was con
sidered the best doctor of his time in Schuyler County. Faithful in the defence of his
country, in an Illinois regiment, he was wounded during the Civil War, and upon
his recovery was assigned to hospital work. This strenuous service on behalf of the
unfortunate soldiers made him an experienced surgeon as well.
When twenty years of age, in 1883, Clement Slack came to Santa Ana, Cali
fornia, and stayed with his aunt, Mrs. George Minter, for a year, working in the
vineyards near Santa Ana. Then for a year he was with Mr. Halesworth. Suffering
from somewhat impaired health, he had come to California, and here he found vigor
and happiness again. At . Santa Ana, too, on April 6, 1886, he married Miss Mary
Durant, the daughter of John Durant, a lady born in England, from which country
her parents brought her to the United States. For a while they lived in New York
state, and later near Waukesha, in Wisconsin.
After marrying, Mr. Slack went in for farming, renting a ranch of twenty acres
on East First Street. It was planted to grapes, but the vines died, and then he
sowed barley there. Still later it was set out to apricots and walnuts. In 1893 he
purchased his home on North Broadway, and there he has resided ever since. He
also purchased twenty acres on North Main Street, on both sides of the Santiago
Creek, his object being to get gravel for construction work; and after that he began
teaming, and for twenty years supplied much of the gravel and sand used here in
early building. He hauled gravel over the greater part of Orange County, and con
tracted to supply gravel and sand for the present Court House and for the Spurgeon
Building, and brick for the Pixley Building in Orange. From time to time, he sold
portions of these twenty acres, and at present he owns only one acre between Main
Street and the Southern Pacific bridge, near the Santa Ana Creek. His first wife
died, and some years later he married M'iss Ida Seeley, a schoolmate from his old
home town, of whom he was bereaved four years later.
Public-spirited and willing at all times to do his full duty as a citizen, Mr. Slack
has several times served on election boards; and during the recent war he partici
pated in all the activities.
OSCAR H. MARYATT. — A citizen of Santa Ana who has found that his late
coming has been no barrier to attaining popularity throughout the county, is Oscar
H. Maryatt, a patriotic veteran of the Civil War, who is serving for the second time as
commander of Sedgwick Post No. 17, G. A. R. He was born in Alleghany County,
New York, on September 24, 1841, the son of George W. Maryatt, a tanner of leather
at Ceres, in Ceres County, Penn., a pioneer who lived to be ninety-nine years and seven
months of age. He was a native of Rhode Island, and married Polly W. Maxon, also
a Rhode Islander, who attained her eighty-fifth year. The four uncles and two aunts
of the Maryatt family stood high in professional life as doctors, lawyers or novelists,
and all made names worth conjuring with.
Oscar Maryatt moved to Albion, Dane County, Wis., and there attended the gram
mar schools. He was graduated from Albion Academy, when only fifteen years old;
and from his thirteenth year, and while yet a student, taught penmanship and Latin
at Albion Academy, and in that way paid his way through college. He taught school
at Woodstock, 111., and at Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he was for two years, and then
he went to Farley in the same state, and became principal of the schools there.
On December 7, 1864, Mr. Maryatt enlisted for service in the Civil War, on the
Union side, and was made chief clerk of the district headquarters; and he had served
in that capacity for six months before Lee's surrender. Now he is widely known in

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G. A. R. circles. While in Colorado he presided twice as commander of Del Norte
Post, G. A. R., and in Santa Ana the veterans have been glad to place him on the
firing line.
While teaching school, M-r. Maryatt had put in his spare time in reading law,
under E. W. Lewis, the attorney at Farley, and in time he was examined for admission
to the bar on motion of the late Hon. David Henderson of Iowa, and was examined in
Henderson's office, when he passed the bar examinations successfully. In 1867 he was
admitted to practice, and he then opened up a law office at New Albion, Iowa, where
he became the attorney for the C. D. & M. Railway, continuing in that capacity for
sixteen years, while residing at New Albion.
In 1883, Mr. Maryatt moved to Nebraska, practiced law and became a landowner
in Harlan County, but ten years later he removed to Del Norte, Colo., where he engaged
in gold and silver mining. He was very successful, and remained at Del Norte until
November, 1909, when he came to Santa Ana. During six years of his residence in
Rio Grande County, Mr. Maryatt was judge of the county court. Since coming to
Santa Ana, he has served as city trustee for four years. He served, during 1920, as
commander of the Southern California Veteran Association.
The first time Mr. Maryatt was married was before the Civil War, when he and
Miss Josephine C. Ervin of Woodstock, 111., were united in that place. They had two
children: Leonore, now the wife of J. A. Bowles, who resides at Hastings, Nebr., and
the mother of twelve children, and George A., who married in Nebraska and died at
Del Norte, leaving one child, Oscar H., Jr. Mrs. Maryatt died at Farley. Mr. Maryatt's
second marriage took place at Lansing, Iowa, when the bride was Mrs. Hannah H.
Lindberg, nee Hall, a native of Vermont.
JAMES VERNON McCONNELL.— An interesting man of affairs, is J. V. Mc-
Connell, vice-president and general manager of the Martin-McConnell Poultry Farms
at Garden Grove, the world's leading breeders of the celebrated Black Minorcas. A
good conversationalist, he is never at a loss, as a well-trained man of scientific train
ing, practical ideas and progressive programs, both to entertain and to instruct; and
part of his enviable capital is a wide circle of friends.
He was born at Chatham Center, Medina County, Ohio, on August 28, 1878, the
son of S. H. McConnell, who was a dealer in lumber and grain, and operated ware
houses, elevators and lumber yards in Ohio and Kansas. He was married at Chatham
Center to Miss Mary F. Whitney. The McConnells had come to Ohio from Penn
sylvania, where they settled in Colonial times; they were of Scotch ancestry, and
McConnellsville, Ohio, a town now of 1500 people, was named after members of this
branch of the family, who settled there after the Revolutionary War. Three of S. H.
McConnell's uncles were killed during the Revolution, and two of his brothers were
killed in the Civil War. From this virile, progressive stock have come many merchants
and lawyers. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. McConnell had two children, the elder being a
daughter, Bessie, now the wife of James Schilling, of Long Beach.
James Vernon McConnell was sent to the public schools in Ohio and Kansas,
coming to the latter state when he was a lad of fourteen. His father settled at White
City, Morris County, and engaged in buying grain and selling lumber; and in time
James attended the University of Kansas at Manhattan, where he was graduated from
the commercial course. He was the first of the McConnell family to come to Cali
fornia, in 1907, and soon after arriving here, he settled at Long Beach, and in time
bought a ranch of ten acres at Westminster. He bought his present place in August,
1912; and having taken a fancy to chicken raising when a boy, and maintained his
interest therein, he embarked in the poultry business under the name of J. V. McCon
nell. As a matter of fact, he had already operated a poultry ranch with a couple of
thousand chickens in Kansas, and he therefore brought to his enterprise at Garden
Grove a ripe and valuable experience. While at Salt Lake City in 1910, Mr. McConnell
was married to Miss Lucinda C. Evans, daughter of a mining man of that city. One
son, Charles Harvey, has blessed their happy union.
Mr. McConnell first became prominent as a breeder of Brown Leghorns and Barred
Plymouth Rocks, and with his youthful exhibits, scored many successes, some of his
ribbons, representing the awards, dating back to 1889. Perceiving the growing demand
for the new breed, the Black Minorca, he turned his attention, while yet in Kansas, to
the problems of their breeding, and for the past twenty-two years he has been studying
the Minorca, so that he is now the world's foremost breeder of that strain. These are
widely known as the McConnell Strain of Minorcas, of which there are two— the Prolific
Egg Strain, and the McConnell Premier Strain of Exhibition Minorcas. The poultry
press, reporting poultry shows, has given his showbirds the latter name, and he has
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Selling his ten-acre ranch at Westminster, Mr. McConnell bought a walnut grove
of ten acres near Garden Grove, and grubbed out the walnuts for the purpose of de
voting it to poultry. He has built a bungalow residence there, and has a full comple
ment of incubator, brooder, stock and work houses, and pens and chicken houses. To
him falls the responsibility of buying all the feed; he buys grain by the carload,
and spent quite twenty thousand dollars for feed in 1920. He feeds mainly milo-maize,
wheat, barley and oats, the highest grade of meat scraps, and some fish meal, and to
this, as to the other details, gives the most conscientious attention; so that his sales
for the average exhibition showbirds in males run over seventy-five dollars, and
females forty dollars each for birds six to eight months old, and during 1919 he sold
one hundred birds at from $100 to $250 each. He has even sold some cockerels for
$500 each.
The prize-winning qualities of Mr. McConnell's birds are acknowledged through
out the world, and it is no wonder that he sells with a guarantee to win first place.
For instance, he will sell a cockerel to Chicago for $300, guaranteed to win the prize
at the Chicago Poultry Show; and if the bird fails to take first prize, and wins only
the second, he will refund twenty per cent of the purchase price; thirty per cent, if
the bird takes third prize; and forty per cent, if it receives only the fourth prize. If it
takes fifth prize or lower, he will refund the entire purchase price and and still allow
the purchaser to keep the fowl. With these inducements, he finds it not difficult to sell
all he can raise of Minorca cockerels a year. He has shown at hundreds of fairs and
poultry shows all over the United States and England, from the Crystal Palace to the
Orange County Fair, and has taken more first prizes for Minorcas than any other
man in the world. His stock goes to England, South Africa, Argentine Confederation,
Chili, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and to every state in the Union; and he is a
well-known contributor to leading poultry journals, so that he is justly regarded as
an authority on Minorcas.
By the- organization effected under the laws of California on November 20, 1919,
whereby Mrs. E. B. Martin of Downey, the well-known prize winner on White Leg
horns, joined Mr. McConnell in business, a corporation with a capital of $125,000, has
resulted. The White Leghorns will be bred at the Garden Grove ranch, owned by Mr.
McConnell, in addition to his Minorcas, and he will assume the management of the new
corporation, of which Mrs. E. B. Martin is the president, and he the vice-president.
Mrs. Martin has developed this strain of White Leghorns which, like Mr. McConnell's
birds, are in a class by themselves. They are large and vigorous, superb in egg-pro
ducing qualities, while Mr. McConnell's strain of Minorcas will average two and a
half pounds heavier than the common strains of the same kind of fowl. He has grown
cockerels that weigh from twelve and a half to fourteen pounds.
The year 1920 will see a great expansion in this business. The entire ten acres
will be built up with poultry pens and poultry houses. His place is well drained by
means of cement pipe tiles emptying into cesspools, and everything there is scientifically
laid out. He has invented many features in the self-feeding apparatus and drinking
fountains, and these have everywhere been installed. There are two water plants on
the place; one furnishes a supply for domestic purposes and for the chickens, yielding
4,000 gallons a day, under eighty pounds pressure, according to the Fairbanks system,
and the other plant which has a twenty-five-horsepower gas engine, supplies the water
for irrigation. Mr. McConnell employs the best American experts, for all his stock is line-bred
and trap-nested. Records are carefully kept; and birds falling below the high standard
required are eliminated. He pays one expert $500 a month; $4,000 a year goes to his
office force; and six men are kept steadily busy at outside work. He is working under
the American Poultry Association rule; is a life member of the International Single-
Comb Black Minorca Club, and National Single-Comb White Leghorn Club, and life
member of the American Poultry Association.
JOSEPH WARREN CULVER.— As an agriculturist Joseph Warren Culver has
attained a position of prominence in his chosen vocation. He is an extensive and suc
cessful tenant farmer, and operates 120 acres of the Mrs. Mattie A. Nimock ranch,
one-half mile east of Talbert. _
Of southern lineage, Mr. Culver was born in Georgia, August 7, 1868. His father.
Augustus a native of Georgia, and his mother, Mary (Ensley) Culver, who was born
in South Carolina, were married in Georgia just after the Civil War, and Joseph was
an infant three months old when they removed to Arkansas. From Arkansas the family
went to Texas and later, in 1888, removed to California. Joseph received his education
in the public schools of Arkansas and Texas, and of the thirty-two years that he has
resided in California, thirty-one years 'of that time has been spent in Orange County.
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where for fifteen years he raised celery successfully. After renting many years he
came to Talbert, November, 1919, and rented the Nimock ranch, which he planted to
sugar beets and beans. An excellent farmer, he* is well equipped with horses and
machinery to farm the 120 acres with success.
He was twenty-four years of age when his marriage with Miss Bessie Buck, a
native of Kansas, was solemnized, and the five children born of their union are named
Myrtle, Loraine, Evelyn, Joseph Warren, Jr., and Dorothy.
In politics Mr. Culver is nonpartisan, being governed by principle rather than
party, and casting his vote for the man he deems best fitted to perform the public
duties. Of brave Revolutionary stock, his relationship to the Culver family who came
to America prior to the Revolutionary War, entitles him to membership in the Sons
of the Revolution. A stanch adherent for fairness in all of life's transactions, Mr.
Culver believes in the rule "live and let live," and his generosity and the sterling qual
ities of character he displays in all business and social transactions have won the con
fidence and highest esteem of a large circle of warm and admiring friends, among
whom he sustains the reputation of the South for hospitality by the entertainment
afforded in his home.
WILLIAM A. RALPH. — A man of pronounced native ability, whose years of
ripe experience have made him of exceptional value to the interests entrusted to him,
is William A. Ralph, the superintendent of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company.
He was born in Humansville, Mo., in 1864, the son of William Ralph, a native of Ten
nessee, who came to Missouri as a young man, and there became a farmer. He married
Miss Elizabeth Yost, also a native of Missouri, and during the Civil War served in
the Union Army as a volunteer in a Missouri regiment. Nine children were born to
this worthy couple, and William was the third oldest in the family. The parents both
died in Missouri, and our subject and his brother, Charles F. Ralph, of Porterville,
are the only two of the family in California.
William was brought up on a farm and educated at the public schools of his
locality. When eighteen years old, he started out into the world for himself, and in
1882 came to Nevada. He mined during the winter, and then rode the range, first on
a small, and then on a large cattle ranch. He was there, in the employ of Mr. Har-
desty, for six years, and became foreman. In 1888, he returned to Missouri, and for
another six years pursued agricultural work, and while there he married Miss Clara
Emmett, a native of Rogersville, Tenn. She came to Humansville, Mo., when a child,
with her parents, Albert and Elizabeth (Winnegar) Emmett, who were also natives of
Tennessee, both representatives of old families of that state.
In 1898, Mr. Ralph came west again to California, and settling at Orange, entered
the employ of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, with which corporation
he has continued ever since. He began at the lower round of the ladder, and so
steadily worked up that in three years he became foreman. He filled that position with
his characteristic conscientiousness, and at the end of eleven years was made super
intendent of the company.
Mr. Ralph gives his whole time and energy to the problems presented, works
out his own plans, and surveys his own grades, thereby saving the company hundreds
of dollars yearly. He also superintends the work of the yard where the concrete pipe
is manufactured. In this way, he makes certain of only the best product— a matter of
the greatest import to both company and patron.
Four children have blessed the fortunate marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph. Meta
is Mrs. E. A. Kuechel of Orange; Neva has become Mrs. Geo. Bandick, and also
resides here; Jewel, a graduate of the Orange Union high school, is bookkeeper for
the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and Esther is still in the high school.
The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Mr. Ralph belongs to
the Orange Lodge of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Woodmen of the World,
and he and his devoted wife are also numbered among the popular Rebekahs.
ROBERT J. WILEY.— A native son of California whose parents were among the
pioneer residents of the state is Robert J. Wiley, who for the past fifteen years has
been identified with the progressive development of Orange County. The son of
William and Elizabeth (Simmons) Wiley, Robert J, was born at Downey, Cal.,
j ¦ r.o.:o ' u , father' who was a native of °hio> came to California in 1854
and in 1858 purchased the place at Downey where Robert was born. He was a suc
cessful farmer and continued to live on the home place until his death in 1898, at the
age of sixty-six years. Mrs. Elizabeth Wiley was born in Louisiana, but was reared
m lexas, where her parents and grandparents had settled in the early days. In 1862
she came with her parents to California and was married to Mr. Wiley when she was
but nineteen years old. She is still living and resides on the old homestead at Downey.

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The eldest of a family of seven children, all of whom are living, Robert J. Wiley
grew up at Downey and attended the public school there. At the age of fourteen,
however, he started out to make his own way in the world, doing farm work on the
neighboring ranches, continuing in this employment until 1905, when he engaged in
the fumigating business, becoming a partner in the firm of .Bowman and Wiley. Mr.
Wiley is one of the veteran fumigators of Orange County and is one of the few who
lived through the experimental stages of the business. He has handled tons and tons
of cyanide of potassium without ever having suffered from its deleterious effects, and
made a financial success of this business, in which he continued until 1918, when he
began farming on the great San Joaquin ranch.
Mr. Wiley is now raising his second crop on the ranch, and has 175 acres planted
to lima beans and seventy-five acres of hill land on which he raises barley hay, rotating
this with a crop of blackeye beans which serves the double purpose of a paying crop
and summer fallow for the land, thus keeping up the fertility of the soil. He also
leases an additional sixty acres from Isadore Oliveras, which he devotes to grain and
blackeye beans. All of the tenants on the San Joaquin ranch own their own buildings
and machinery and Mr. Wiley invested $10,000 in work stock, farm implements and
buildings. In 1918 he erected his own residence, a commodious, up-to-date bungalow,
and is continually adding to the attractiveness of the surroundings. He also owns a
third interest in a pumping plant which supplies water for domestic and stock use for
himself and two neighbors.
On June 7, 1896, Mr. Wiley was married to Miss Pilar Ruiz, the daughter of one
of Southern California's old Spanish families and they have become the parents of nine
children: Elisa is the wife of Frank Monroy, a tractor engineer; they reside at Tustin
and are the parents of two children — Sadie and Lawrence; Hazel, Robert, Ida, Sinyda
died when seventeen months old; Bertha, Edith died at the age of six months; Glenn,
Bernice. Mr. Wiley is prominent in the ranks of the Knights of Pythias having been
chancellor commander, his membership being in the Tustin lodge. He ranks in the
community as a man of broad intelligence and with a fund of solid information whose
success has come through his industry and thrift. Politically he is always found allied
with the Republican element of the community and takes a public-spirited interest in
all the movements for the general betterment of the county.
MOORE BROS. COMPANY.— Prominent among the enthusiastic "boosters" for
Orange County, and among those most ready and also most able to hasten the day
when Southern California shall come to its own, are the energetic gentlemen making
up the well-known firm of Moore Bros. Company, manufacturers of and contractors for
cement pipe, who have had so much to do with the installation of irrigating systems
of the latest, scientific patterns, and with the execution of substantial and ornate
cement work of various kinds — the last word in one of the highly developed industries
of the West. This wide-awake company is composed of John A. Moore and his brother,
James F. Moore, two of a family of seven children of William P. and Martha (Skaggs)
Moore, and it is quite likely that it is their general reputation for character and
experience, backing all that they claim to be able to accomplish, as well as the labor
and materials they offer, which has spelled for them their phenomenal success.
John A. Moore was born in Barton County, Mo., on April 5, 1884, three years
earlier than the birth of James, on February 2; but the latter was the first to come out
to the Pacific Coast. Both attended the common schools of their home district, but
received a good part of their most valuable instruction for a wrestle with the world
in the "school of hard knocks." In his seventeenth year, James pushed westward to
California seeking broader opportunities, and for a short time after reaching Los
Angeles he again attended school, at the same time working at anything he could find
to do. In 1906 John joined his brother here and they went to Rialto, in San Bernardino
County, where they worked for a year on ranches, when they made their way to the
Imperial Valley. They spent four years there, and during that time not only bought
land, but they developed an alfalfa ranch, which they later sold to advantage.
In March, 1911, James F. Moore came to Fullerton, soon followed by his brother,
John A., and shortly afterward they opened the first cement pipe-yard here, styling the
firm Moore Bros. They began on a small scale on West Santa Fe Avenue, and by
studying the wants of their patrons, and giving conscientious attention to details, they
gradually increased their volume of trade. In 1913, John A. Moore went to Le Grand,
Merced County, bought and developed property, and disposed of the same at a satis
factory increase; but he and James F. still own the water franchise and the water
system at that place.
In January, 1918, responding to the call of his country for active service in the
great World War, James F. Moore enlisted in the Three Hundred Nineteenth Engi-

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neers and was transferred to remount station at Camp Fremont, where he remained
until he was honorably discharged, in January, 1919. Then he returned to resume the
cement business at Fullerton. In September, however, he sold his interest in the West
Santa Fe yard to his brother, E. W. Moore, and in the spring of 1920, with his brother,
John A., he again formed a partnership and commenced the manufacture of cement
pipe for irrigating at 221 East Santa Fe Avenue. The firm not only manufactures
cement pipes, but they contract to install such irrigating systems as may be required.
They are also well equipped to do all kinds of cement curbing, gutters, and foundations,
working in cooperation in this department, with John Osborne, and their thoroughly
satisfactory work has given them an enviable reputation, so that they always have all
that they can do. They employ from a dozen to fifteen men in all departments of their
work. Besides the property at 228 East Commonwealth Avenue, Fullerton, they own
some very desirable harbor property on the West Basin at Wilmington.
The cement industry, carried on as it is today with the aid of scientific research,
has come to mean a great deal in the development of new towns and their outlying
neighborhoods, and Orange County is to be congratulated on such an establishment
as that of the Moore Bros. Company.
HENRY SCHAFFERT. — An energetic, successful business man who, although
comparatively young, has accomplished much, and whose judgment and advice, there
fore, are often sought, is Henry Schaffert, well known at Orange as the owner of the
Schaffert Block. Good luck has followed him, as the result of his integrity and
industry, ever since in Kansas he commenced to work for a farmer at the low
wage of fifteen dollars a month; for, after only six years of steady labor, he owned
the entire 190 acres that were the pride of his first employer.
Mr. Schaffert was born in Everbach, Wurtemberg, Germany, and was reared at
Asberg, near Ludvigsburg, his birth occurring on January 28, 1874, the son of Michael
Schaffert, a farmer, who had married Miss Caroline Miller. She died in 1875, leaving
several children. Michael is in Orange; Louis is at Youngstown, Ohio, as is also Fred;
while Carl and Mary remained in Germany. Henry went to school at Asberg, but as
the idea of military oppression was distasteful to him, he decided to follow his
brothers to the land of the Stars and Stripes.
When, therefore, he was about sixteen years old, in the fall of 1890, Mr. Schaffert
crossed the ocean and pushed west to Youngstown, Ohio, and he soon found work
in the large car shops as a car repairer. Hard times, however, swept over the coun
try, and in 1893 he continued west to Rock Creek, Jefferson County, Kans., where
he worked at farming. He was not long in buying a farm of eighty acres, on which
he raised corn and hogs. He became a successful cattle feeder and stock dealer, and
owned an elevator at Rock Creek on the St. Joe branch of the Santa Fe Railroad,
gathering and exporting grain.
Mr. Schaffert also did an extensive land business, buying and selling farms. He
sold much hay and grain, and bought, fed and shipped cattle and hogs. He built a
corn sheller, so that corn could be dumped from the wagons of the farmers and
shelled immediately. When he had reached a comfortable stage, Mr. Schaffert mar
ried, and then his father came to America and Kansas to visit him, returning to
Germany where his death occurred in 1915. He was born in 1836, and during the
span of his busy life he witnessed many interesting developments in Germany and
throughout the world, and was privileged to get a glimpse of the wonders of American
progress. 1 tMr' S^haffert's bride was Miss Geneva P. Winslow, a native of Kansas, and the
daughter of Josiah Winslow, and as her folks had come to California and had settled
at Huntington Park, he decided to sell his land and elevator, and to join these relatives
in the balmier clime. In November, 1917, therefore, he and his family cast off from
the East and reached the Golden State; and not long afterward he located at Orange
and began to deal m real estate. He bought, traded and sold for himself, and he
W 1Ti,a,ge"eral realty b"siness for others. Mr. and Mrs. Schafferfs eldest
daughter, Electa ,s Mrs Easton of Lancaster; Hazel attends the Orange high school,
Mr ITO™* J and CeCl1' BesideS settinS °ut and sell;ng several orange groves,
ntr, fr 1f ,?°W °I i! a ra"Ch at Lancaster' which he has improved, with a pumping
concrete b,,aH; ^ ^ Tl* the Schaffert Block on South Glassell Street, a fine
concrete building worthy of the city of Orange
irres^eHve "i1 n^f 0-™^™ °f nati°nal poUtical imPort< Mr" Schaffert lends a hand,
"cinitv and n^T^ 0 'V"7 f "1 ^6ry g0od project likely to benefit the town and
to the wf A„fl T TluW°*\h*0S ab,y Seconded by his £°od wife. He belongs
to° Z Sotrfw^en o^eSc^ ^ *' °™" ^ °f ^ L °" °' F" «d

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MARTIN R. HENINGER.— In the development of the southern section of the
city of Santa Ana no one has been more active than Martin R. Heninger, who, in the
fourteen years of his residence here, has seen a wonderful transformation in this part
of the city — a transformation that he has had the greatest part in bringing about. Mr.
Heninger is a native of Missouri and was born in Monroe County, a son of William W.
and Eliza J. (Stalcup) Heninger, on November 29, 1851, and was reared on a farm and
spent his early years in agricultural activities.
After his marriage, in 1882, he removed to Dakota Territory and there he engaged
in the retail lumber business at Ordway, now South Dakota, remaining there for
one year, when he moved to Westport, where he remained about twenty years, being
one of the town's most substantial business men. He also did the banking exchange
business of that town — a boon to the farmers and business men, and owned a farm
of 450 acres. Selling out he then located in Aberdeen, where he bought a third
interest in the Aberdeen Electric Light and Gas Company, remaining there until 1906.
During the many years of Mr. Heninger's residence in South Dakota he was very
prominent in Republican politics and in the public life of the State and was a
member of the Constitutional Convention held at Sioux Falls which acted in the ad
mission of South Dakota to statehood in 1889. He also served as clerk of the district
court of Brown County for two years — 1895-96. He was appointed by Governor
Sheldon, a member of the State Board of Regents of Education, but resigned on account
of his business.
Disposing of his interest in the Aberdeen Electric Light and Gas Company, Mr.
Heninger decided to locate in California, and arrived at Santa Ana May 15, 1906. In
1907, with his brother, H. B. Heninger, now deceased, he bought thirty-four acres of
the Palmer Tract, south of First Street. They developed and platted this tract, planting
trees, putting in sidewalks and curbs; later they bought additional tracts, one of ten
and one of eighteen acres, which they platted and improved. These properties are
known as. Heninger Additions, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. Many miles of street paving, side
walks and curbs were put in; $10,000 being paid out for street paving alone in one year.
When Mr. Heninger purchased this' property it was a barley field, and the follow
ing year a combined harvester was at work on the property, cutting, threshing and
sacking the barley. Now it is the finest residence section of the city, built up with fine
homes, all of which have been erected within the past twelve years. Mr. Heninger and
his brother have erected 150 houses on the property.
Notwithstanding the labor and responsibility entailed by his development opera
tions, Mr. Heninger has also been very active in the development of citrus groves.
He has owned three different tracts, one of seven acres on Lincoln Avenue, seventeen
acres in Lemon Heights, and five acres within the city limits. Two of these places he
has improved and planted himself, subsequently disposing of them at a good profit.
Mr. Heninger's marriage united him with Miss Mary A. Way, a native of Pennsyl
vania, their marriage occurring in 1882 in Shelbina, Mo. Three daughters have been
born to them: Nora L, Mrs. W. T. Elliott; Mabel H., Mrs. Fred S. Chapman, and
Mildred, Mrs. N. S. Rulon, all of Santa Ana. It is quite safe to say that no other man
has done as much for the development of the south part of Santa Ana as has Mr.
Heninger, and he is still actively at work, many new residences being erected on his
properties. It is to men of the character and energy of Mr. Heninger that Orange
County owes much for the wonderful progress made in the past few years.
JOHN SIMON FLUOR. — As a man prominent in the upbuilding of Orange
County, John Simon Fluor has come to be well known throughout this section^ of the
state. With unswerving faith in the future growth of the county, and the ability and
readiness to do all in his power to advance its best interests, he has been an important
factor in the development of its resources in the past ten years, and bids fair to be in
the future as in the past, one of the men at the backbone of the further development
of this garden spot of California.
Born February 4, 1867, Mr. Fluor is a native of Switzerland, where at an early
age he took up the trade of contractor and builder. In May, 1888, he arrived in the
United States and located at Oshkosh, Wis., where he was one of the founders and
was manager of the Fluor Brothers Construction Company. This firm is still in
existence and doing business; he built the company up to one of the best in that
section, specializing in big jobs, such as factories, warehouses, etc., and erected a num
ber of large manufacturing plants in Wisconsin, and saw and lumber mills in Florida.
In the fall of 1912 Mr. Fluor located in Santa Ana, where he has since followed
construction work as a contractor and builder; the following are some of his buildings
erected in Santa Ana: the fine mausoleum in the Santa Ana Cemetery; the California
National Bank Building; Taylor Bros.' warehouse and cannery; the D. A. Dale Block;
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other large garages, besides other buildings too numerous to mention. In Fullerton
he erected two business blocks for George Amerige; a group of high school buildings
in South Pasadena; and a school at Niland. All of his building operations bear the
stamp of a master hand, with thorough attention to detail and first-class quality of
material and workmanship.
The marriage of Mr. Fluor united him with Emma Sonnenberg, a native of Wis
consin, and five children have blessed their union: Peter E. who saw service in the
World War in France as a lieutenant in the Aviation Corps; Fred C. in the U. S. Navy
during the war; John S., Jr.; Mrs. Esther Gardner and Elsie at home. The sons are
associated with their father in business. The family home is at 838 North Ross Street,
Santa Ana. Mr. Fluor is a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks, and of
the Chamber of Commerce.
EDWARD HENRY DIERKER. — A prominent director of the Santiago Orange
Growers Association is Edward Henry Dierker, a rancher who understands the many
problems of citrus culture. He was born in Monterey, Nebr., on October 9, 1875, the
son of the well-known pioneer, Henry Dierker, and the sixth eldest in a family of ten
children. He was brought up on a farm in Nebraska and went to the local public schools;
and having thus made an excellent start in life, he came to California in October, 1892.
He settled at Orange and attended the Orange County Business College in Santa Ana,
and then, for five years, he was a salesman in the Ehlen and Grote Company's grocery
store. Later, in 1902, he bought the twenty acres of bare land at the corner of
Lemon and West Palmyra streets, Orange, and the following year set the same out to
Valencia and Navel oranges. Of all the fine ranches hereabouts, this is the closest in,
and this fact alone adds to its value and prospects. All in all, it has become valuable
property, and its worth is- largely due to the attention and skill bestowed upon it by
its owner. Mr. Dierker is a member of the Santiago Orange Growers Association, is a
director in the same, and was on the building committee when the new packing house,
so attractive in its Mission style, was erected. The committee also built an ice plant,
one of the finest in the state, where ice is made for precooling the fruit-cars, and for
stocking cars with ice. He is also a director in the Orange County Fumigating Com
pany, to which he also gives the same honest and careful attention. Mr. Dierker is also
a member of the Richland Walnut Growers Association and of the California Prune
and Apricot Association.
At Orange, August 3, 1898, Mr. Dierker was married to Miss Lydia Kogler, a-
native of Minneapolis, Minn., and the daughter of the Rev. Jacob Kogler; and from her
third year she was reared in Orange. Three children have blessed this union: Alvin,
a graduate of the Orange Union high school, who is attending Stanford University as
a member of the class of 1922, and during the war was a member of the student army;
Celeste, who is in the Orange Union high school, class of 1921; and Florence. Mr. and
Mrs. Dierker are members of St. John's Lutheran Church, where he has been trustee
for fifteen years and also, for the last ten years, as treasurer of the board, a position he
filled during the building of the new church. He is also a member of the Lutheran
Men's Club, while Mrs. Dierker is equally active in the Ladies' Aid and Missionary so
cieties of the church. Mr. Dierker is very enterprising and progressive, and has always
been ready to give of his time and means as far as he is able to aid in the building up
of the county's horticultural and agricultural industries. He also applies himself to
civic duties, and from time to time, under the leadership of the Republican party.
CHESTER K. LEE. — Among Garden Grove's foremost citizens and successful
business men is Chester K. Lee, the efficient manager and secretary of. the Garden
Grove Walnut Growers Association. Mr. Lee was born September 21. 1873, at Alex
andria, Madison County, Ind., about forty-five miles northeast of Indianapolis, and is
the son of A. J. and Lucy J. (Powell) Lee. The father's people were natives of North
Carolina, and the mother's people were natives of Delaware, but she was born and
reared in Franklin County, Ind. A. J. Lee owned a farm of 120 acres and residence
property at Alexandria, Ind. He frequently visited his children in Orange County.
Cal., and in the spring of 1920 disposed of his holdings in the East and purchased
residence property on Spurgeon Street, at Santa Ana, where he is now living retired.
Chester K. Lee grew up at Alexandria, Ind., was educated in the public schools
and attended Taylor University, at Upland, Ind., two years, afterward being employed
m the paper mill at Alexandria. In 1902 he married, at Alexandria, Miss Pareppa R.
Houghton who was born and reared in Indiana, and in 1903 the young people came
to banta Ana, Cal., to make their home. They are the parents of four children: Mary
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Mr. Lee worked for the Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association, then became manager
of the house. He is the second oldest walnut packer in California, the one man older
in the business than he being Mr. Sharp, of Santa Paula. Preferring Garden Grove
as a place of residence, Mr. Lee purchased property there, and since 1914 his work
has been in Garden Grove. In that year he built the Garden Grove walnut house after
plans of his own, a frame building 50x80 feet in dimension, located on the Pacific
Electric right-of-way. The association uses Mr. Lee's system in cleaning, fanning,
bleaching and sorting the walnuts, and they are packed in new burlap sacks with the
"Diamond Brand" of which there are five grades: Fancy Budded, No. 1, Golden State,
Jumbos and No. 2. Mr. Lee's reputation as a walnut man has gone throughout the
entire state. He is considered an authority in his line, and is often called upon for
articles for the leading agricultural and horticultural papers and magazines. He is
also frequently asked to go out to different places in California for the Central Asso
ciation, to instruct and give advice to other walnut growers associations, and his serv
ices have often been sought in the matter of devising architectural plans and building,
and properly equipping other walnut warehouses. In 1913 he remodeled the warehouse
at Santa Ana and installed the machinery; in 1917 he equipped the Santa Susana ware
house with adequate machinery, and in 1919 installed machinery in the one at Puente.
In 1920 they equipped a warehouse complete, in Garden Grove, for packing budded
nuts. He is an authority on bleaching, and in 1918, when the San Francisco Almond
Growers Association had great difficulty in properly bleaching the product Mr. Lee was
sent for and solved the matter by prescribing a bleach which did the work satisfactorily.
The year 1919 was the most successful year the association has enjoyed since
its organization in 1914; twenty-eight members being added to its list, and about
twenty others were added in 1920. The outlook for the association could scarcely be
brighter. The production promises to steadily increase, as many young groves are
coming into bearing. The oldest trees are only fifteen years old and are located on the
Townsend place two miles north of town. As an illustration of the quality of the
walnuts produced in the Garden Grove district, two carloads were shipped to Los
Angeles, and were of such size and perfection that they were held there and packed in
attractive five-pound cartons and sold in the city at fancy prices. In the cull depart
ment thirty girls are employed cracking walnuts and preparing the meats for market.
The annual meeting of the association was held at the Garden Grove office Saturday,
January 24, 1920. It was harmonious and enthusiastic, and all the officers and directors
were reelected, viz., William Schnitger, president; F. E. Farnsworth, vice-president;
and C. K. Lee, secretary. The other directors are N. I. Rice, Gorge Cook and F. B.
Cleveland. In his religious association Mr. Lee is a member of the Baptist Church, and
served as one of its trustees for several years. Politically he is a Prohibitionist and
he is a charter member of the Garden Grove Chamber of Commerce.
CHARLES H. HOWARD. — A potent factor in the development and growth of
the financial and commercial enterprises of Huntington Beach, a man of unusual
resourcefulness and executive ability, is Charles H. Howard, a pioneer merchant of this
thriving beach city and one of the founders of the First National Bank of Huntington
Beach. He was born at Frewsburg, N. Y., January 2, 1862, and there was reared
and educated. His school days being over he went to Jamestown in 1877, where ne
began working as delivery bo}\ then as clerk, and later as a partner in the same store.
Thus he became a prominent merchant in that place, residing there until 1893 when he
took a trip to the Golden State, locating for two years at Redlands, where he was
engaged in the mercantile business, the first novelty store in that place. Afterwards
he returned East, but the lure of the land of sunshine and flowers, with its equable
climate, was too strong to resist longer, so in 1906 he returned to California, this time
locating at Huntington Beach. He opened a grocery store, becoming one of the pioneer
merchants of the beach town.
Possessing keen business foresight and realizing- the potential financial and com
mercial possibilities of the then small town, Mr. Howard became a stockholder in the
First National Bank of Huntington Beach, serving as its vice-president and one of its
directors. In 1916 Mr. Howard sold his grocery business and assumed the active
management of the bank, being one of its largest stockholders. He continued in the
banking business until 1918, when he sold out his interest, resigned his position and
removed to Covina, where he purchased an orange grove, remaining- there until the
spring of 1920, when he returned to the city of his choice, Huntington Beach, where as
of yore, in the same optimistic way he saw the great commercial opportunities and
realizing this laid his plans to again enter business life. With his son, Marcus G., and
his son-in-law, Roy K. Smith, under the firm name of Howard & Smith, he has estab
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corner of Main and Walnut streets, and Store Number Two in a building he has just
completed on the corner of Eleventh and Orange streets. His many years of experi
ence and successful business career, in connection with his high standing as a man of
strict integrity and honesty of purpose enabled him to immediately establish a large
and ever-increasing trade.
On his return he also became active in real estate development and built three
fine residences which he sold; he has just completed a handsome house overlooking
the ocean, where he intends to make his permanent home. Another of his successful
enterprises is the Princess Theatre, which he built and owns. Among the many
enterprises Mr. Howard was instrumental in founding at Huntington Beach, none have
given him as much real pleasure and satisfaction as the organizing and building of the
First Methodist Church of Huntington Beach, to which he gave freely of his time
and financial help and served as president of the church board. He is recognized as
one of the most public-spirited men of the city and is always ready to help promote
every worthy movement that has as its ultimate aim the upbuilding and fostering of the
best interests of Huntington Beach. Mr. Howard has served as president of the
Chamber of Commerce and also was one of the original board of trustees of the city.
In 1886 Mr. Howard was united in marriage at Jamestown, N. Y., with Miss
Adelaide M. Hazzard, a native of Little Falls, N. Y., and they are the parents of four
children: Marcus G, who is manager of one of the Acme Grocery Stores in Los
Angeles, married Miss Mabel Elfeld of Huntington Beach; Lillian S. is the wife of
J. J. Goetz, a teacher in the Long Beach high school; Frances L. is the wife of Roy K.
Smith, the general manager of the chain of Acme Grovery Stores in Los Angeles;
Virginia is a student at the Huntington Beach high school.
ROY I. LOVERING. — A successful Tulare rancher who profited by his discovery
that, after all, there is nothing to compare with Orange County, and straightway moved
hither, is Roy I. Lovering, proprietor of the estate so well known in the Orangethorpe
district and a member of a family that has prospered wonderfully in California. He
was born in Lucas County, Iowa, on November 26, 1882, the son of Martin Van Buren
Lovering, a farmer of that state, and his good wife Mary. He came to California
when he was a baby in 1883, so that for all practical purposes, so to speak, he is a
genuine native son. At that time his father came to Orangthorpe, and here purchased
eighty acres on West Orangethorpe Avenue. It was then covered with wild mus
tard and sunflowers, and was known as the Baker-Lovering subdivision.
At the present time there are forty acres in the Lovering homestead, and all are
in oranges, entirely under the Anaheim Union Water Company's service. The ranch
was run by our subject until 1904, when he purchased 560 acres in Tulare County for
a cattle ranch, and for the next six years lived there. Then he removed to Mexico,
and at Ontagota had a ranch of 123 acres in grain from 1910 to 1911. Returning to
Tulare County, he again ran his ranch there until January, 1916, when he concluded
to return to the old homestead at Orangthorpe. He joined the Anaheim Orange and
Lemon Growers Association, and with his brothers became especially interested in
sixteen acres west of the Emery oil fields.
On June 8, 1904, Mr. • Lovering was married in Orangethorpe to Miss Nellie
Weaver, a native of Kansas and the daughter of W. W. Weaver, who married Miss
Flora Birtch. The Weavers came to California in 1887 and settled at Anaheim; and
there Miss Nellie went to school. Two children— Norma Doris and Jassmine Evelyn-
have blessed the union. Fraternally, Mr. Lovering is a member of the Elks of Ana
heim; nor is there in that flourishing society a more active or popular member.
JESSE B. IRWIN.— A faithful public official whose interest in Orange County
history is second only to his devotion to duty and his interest in the history of his
family, now enhanced by the enviable war records of his sons, is Jesse B Irwin the
popular custodian of the Orange County Park. He is the son of James and Delila
(Ennis) Irwin, old settlers of Ohio, where the father died, and was born near Upper
Sandusky Wyandot County, in the Buckeye State, on September 27, 1851, the fifth child
m a family of nine, six of whom are still living, three sons and three daughters.
At the age of seventeen he removed to Monticello, 111., with his widowed mother
and the rest of the family, and there helped on the farm where they raised corn. In
1871, the family moved to Mankato, Jewell County, Kans., and in the fall of 1885,
marrVdt 'm V pt ,^ "^J^ in farming' 0n September 16, 1886, he was
NI Za ?h Mlss Eva E- Talb" t, at Salina, Kans., a charming lady born near Monticello,
mernher t £ ^T ( '" ^ .grammar schools- She is a sister of T. B. Talbert, a
FrS Lt t r,! 0^upervls-rs °f Orange County. After marriage Mr. and Mrs
Irwin went to Colby, Thomas County, Kans., where Mr. Irwin engaged in the real
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tural pursuits for ten years. In 1902 he was appointed deputy county clerk of Pialt
County and served until Sept. 1, 1911, working under two administrations.
In September, 1911, Mr. Irwin and family came west to California, principally
for his health, settled in Huntington Beach and has ever since worked hard for the
advancement of Orange County interests, and is a good "booster" for this section of the
great state — an enthusiasm and a work in which his wife and all the family join.
Nine children blessed this union of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin, one child, Nettie, dying
at the age of nine. Clyde C, who married on August 1, 1919, lives in Los Angeles and
is an expert caterpillar mechanic; Zella was married in 1913 to W. S. Thompson of
Garden Grove, at present a rancher with 120 acres at Huntington Beach; Marie D.,
the fourth in the order of birth, is a graduate of the Clara Barton Hospital of Los
Angeles, and was married August 25, 1920, to John H. Carter, an oil worker at Brea.
He was a soldier in the World War; Fay F. attended the Huntington Beach high
school and is now at home; Fern G., married in October, 1918, Loraine E. Tarbox,
who is engaged with his father in the hardware business at Huntington Beach; Rachel
is a senior in the Orange high school; Joseph B. in Orange high school, and Esther,
a student in the El Modena grammar school. Mr. Irwin, who has been an Odd Fellow
since 1884, now belongs to Huntington Beach Lodge.
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin can well be proud of the war record of their sons. Clyde
C. served with the Ninety-first Division of the Three Hundred Forty-Eighth Field
Artillery, and trained at Camp Lewis from April 26, 1918, to the following July, when
he sailed with his division from New York for France. In the latter country, he was
in charge of munition trucks, and he also served in the Army of Occupation. In April,
1919, he returned to California, and at Camp Kearny, on the twenty-fifth of the month
was honorably discharged. Fay F. Irwin volunteered in June, 1918, for service in naval
aviation, and trained at North Island until December, when he was sent with his class
to the Great Lakes Station, and there he served, until he was honorably discharged,
in April, 1919, when he at once returned to California.
HENRI F. GARDNER. — An early pioneer of Orange who had much to do with
the building up and improving of that section was the late Henri F. Gardner, who was
born in Jackson County, Mich., in 1852, descendant of a prominent and old Connecticut
family. He was educated in the public schools, after which he learned the printer's
trade and then entered the University of Michigan, but on account of his health and
wishing to seek a more equable climate he came to California. He spent one year
working on the Anaheim Gazette and then located in Orange in 1873 and purchased
twenty acres on South Glassell Street, which is still in possession of his family.
Orange was then only a country cross roads with a store and blacksmith shop.
The place was wild land and with his customary zeal he leveled and improved it, setting
out an orchard. He was very prominent in and served as an officer of the Santa Ana
Valley Irrigation Company, was secretary of the company for some years and after
wards became superintendent of the company until he resigned. He bought other
ranches and improved them and then sold them. He also owned valuable property on
West Third Street, Los Angeles; he passed away in Los Angeles on October 27, 1918.
Interested in the cause of education, Mr. Gardner was school trustee in Orange from
the early days, serving acceptably for many years. He was also a prominent member
of the board of trustees of Orange and helped materially to shape the destinies of the
town. He was, however, most prominent in organizing and building up the Santa Ana
Valley Irrigation Company, and with his associates he made it one of the best irrigating
systems in the state.
Mr. Gardner was married in Downey in 1872, when he was united with Miss Emma
Howard, who was born in Pennsylvania, but educated in Rock Island, 111., where she
was a graduate of the Rock Island Normal. She came to San Francisco with her
mother in 1872, and soon afterwards to Los Angeles, where she was engaged in teach
ing, and it was here she met Mr. Gardner, the acquaintance resulting in their marriage.
Mrs. Gardner is a lady of culture and refinement and always encouraged and assisted
her husband in his ambitions. Their union was blessed with seven children: H. H,
is a rancher at Villa Park; Dian R. is an attorney-at-law now residing at Orange;
Vera P., a graduate of the University of Michigan with the degree of M.D., saw
service with the Red Cross overseas and was in charge of the bacteriological laboratory
for the American Commission in Poland, being stationed in Warsaw; she is now the
wife of Dr. A. J. Chesley of Minneapolis, Minn.; Mrs. Ora Devereaux resides in Los
Angeles; H. Reginald is superintendent of a mine in Plumas County, Cal.; Margaret is
a graduate of Stanford University with the degree of A.B.; she afterwards studied law,
was admitted to the bar and she was deputy city prosecutor of Los Angeles until the
war when she volunteered in the Red Cross, serving overseas one year in France, then
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in Poland, where she was head of the department of home communication for the
American Commission. She is again practicing her profession in Los Angeles; Sydnie
is the wife of M. M. Fogel of Santa Monica. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner with Mr. and Mrs.
Robt. Tenor were greatly interested in starting the first public library in Orange,
which eventually grew and became the Orange County Public Library, of which they
were the organizers. Mrs. Gardner continues to make her home in Los Angeles sur
rounded by her children, who assist her in caring for the interests and property left by
her husband. She is now one of the few remaining pioneers of old Orange County.
CLYDE D. BUTLER. — A live, progressive factor in the development of many
Orange County interests in recent years is Clyde D. Butler, a native of Goldendale,
Wash., where he was born in territorial days on April 6, 1883, the son of J. H. and
Lizzie E.. (Hasty) Butler, born in New York and Maine, respectively, who located in
and have been associated with Santa Ana since 1894. When he was six months old
the family moved to Arapahoe, Nebr., and there he was reared until his eleventh year.
In 1894 he came to California and Santa Ana and here finished the courses of the Santa
Ana high school. While still a student at the high school he was also in the office of
the city engineer and there learned enough of engineering to encourage his taking an
engineering course in the University of California.
Mr. Butler next became an assistant in the city engineer's office at Santa Ana, and
at the end of two years, when the Orange County Highway Commission was formed
and the bond issue carried for the construction of highways in Orange County, he
entered the employ of the commission, first, in the discharge of office work, later as
resident engineer in the field, and lastly, as chief field engineer for the highway
commission. When the new highways had been completed, Mr. Butler helped to form the
Orange County Engineering and Construction Company, which was organized on
September 21, 1916. From the very beginning it proved a success and its operations,
aggressive and extensive, pointing the way and raising the standards of such work,
had much to do with the rapid and sound development, not merely of Santa Ana and
the immediate outlying districts, but also with Orange County. The company does
general engineering and survey work, together with heavy concrete construction, and
has built many highways in the county, including miles of concrete paving in Santa
Ana, and making a specialty of both rock and oil and asphalt roads. They have also put
up some notable structure;., such as the beautiful Evergreen Mausoleum in Oakland
Cemetery, which cost about $125,000.
He was active in the affairs of the company until January, 1920, when, finding his
other interests occupied too much of his time, he sold his interest and resigned and since
then is looking after his own affairs; particularly is he occupied with his official duties
as deputy city manager of Anaheim as well as deputy city surveyor and department
street superintendent of the same city. He still follows surveying and civil engineering,
making his home in Santa Ana. He takes the deepest interest in all problems pertain
ing to the future of both city and county and is ever willing to lend a hand in the most
unselfish manner in order to attain the desired ends.
ANDREW J. TEAGUE. — An experienced, enthusiastic, influential and effective
"booster" for Orange County, whose services, always freely given, are widely appre
ciated, is Andrew J. Teague, the special agent for the Union Oil Company at Hunting
ton Beach. A native of Missouri, he was born in Texas County on March 3, 1883,
and reared on a Missouri farm, in a flourishing district, where he learned a good deal
about the best way of doing things, according to the latest American methods in agri
culture. He attended first the district, and then the high school at Houston, Mo., and
was eventually graduated from the State Normal School at Ravenden Springs, Ark.,
in 1906. He received a teacher's certificate and taught for six years in the rural schools
of Arkansas. In 1912 Mr. Teague came west to California and settled at Santa Ana, equipped
with a diploma from Draughon's Business College of Little Rock, Ark., and for
three years he demonstrated his ability in trade lines as a clerk for the Santa Ana
Mercantile Company. Then he became a salesman for the Standard Oil Company,
and later acted in the same capacity for the Union Oil Company of Santa Ana.
Having thus gained a thorough knowledge of the commercial side of the oil
business, he was naturally the most available man to manage the new plant of the
Union Oil Company at Huntington Beach, which was completed in 1917. He has
succeeded well with this responsibility, both for the interests of the company and for
his own advancement, and his success is undoubtedly due to his having considered the
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Mr. Teague has always taken a live interest in the affairs of Huntington Beach
and has made this interest felt in his work as a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
He has been in favor of everything which would make for a larger, more go-ahead and
still more prosperous community, and for the most desirable conditions likely to make
Huntington Beach the ideal town; believing that the young city already contains a
large number of the best sort of families and the most public-spirited citizens.
When Mr. Teague was married, he took for his bride Miss Essie Ulmer of
Arkansas; and their fortunate union has been blessed through the birth of two children,
Nerna and Jack. When twenty-one years of age, Mr. Teague joined the Odd Fellows
in Arkansas, and was secretary of the lodge at Imboden, Lawrence County; and now
he is treasurer of the Huntington Beach Lodge No. 183, of this order.
ALCEDAS B. ROUSSELLE. — Among the interesting narratives connected with
early American history, none is more absorbing than the adventures of the seven
Rousselle brothers who came over to Newfoundland from Boulogne-sur-Mer, in France,
just before the battle of Waterloo. They believed in the principles enunciated by the
Prince of Peace, and set out to make the mainland of Massachusetts; but they were
wrecked and got no further than the coast of Newfoundland, from which they scattered
to Canada, New Orleans and New England.
The paternal grandfather of our subject was Xavier Rousselle, who settled in
Canada, and his father was Moise Rousselle, who was born there, married there and
afterward migrated to Connecticut. The Rousselles had been an aristocratic family in
France, intimately connected with the early military history of that country, but op
posed to the principles of conquest that followed in the wake of the Napoleonic wars;
and hence their movement toward the New World with its more promising future.
Moise Rousselle, who was a farmer in Canada, married Miss Armine Bessette, a Cana
dian by birth, and then moved to Taftville, Conn., where he continued agricultural
pursuits on a much large scale. They had eleven children; and Alcedas, the youngest
and the only one now living, was born in Taftville, June 17, 1878.
When he was two years old, his mother died, and on his father's removal to
Chicopee, Mass., he was sent to live with relatives of his mother at Worcester, kind
folks, who did for him what they could. Two of his uncles became priests and he lived
with and was reared by one of them — the Rev. J. C. Bessette, for the past twenty-five
years rector of Our Lady of Consolation at Pawtucket, R. I. The Bessette family were
among the early families of Canada, and in France they had risen to distinction as
professional men of literary, scholarly pursuits, being for several generations at the
head of college and church affairs. It was the desire of his relatives in Connecticut,
therefore, that Alcedas should be a priest, but business appealed to him more strongly.
He attended the public schools, and after school hours and on Saturdays clerked
in a large clothing store at Worcester, owned by his family relations. They had, in
fact, a chain of stores in New England cities, and he rose to be manager and buyer.
Under this severe strain, however, his health broke down, and this misfortune brought
him to the Pacific Coast. He spent his first year in Seattle, the next in San Francisco,
and in the third year, or 1905, came south to Los Angeles, where he engaged in real
estate transactions, making a specialty of beach, oil and mining properties. He was
at Tonopah and Goldfield for awhile, and came out of the Nevada gold fields a winner.
He also did well at Venice, Ocean Park, Santa Monica and Redondo, and was one of
the pioneers in the early development of Southern California beaches.
Mr. Rousselle came to East Newport in 1911, and sold off the tract of 500 acres
belonging to Stephen Townsend of Long Beach, thereby handling nearly a million
dollars' worth of East Newport, Balboa, Newport and Newport Heights — now called
Costa Mesa — property; and he also took over the unsold holdings of the Townsend- Yan
de "'Water Company of Long Beach. As a result he himself has invested heavily in all
parts of these coast towns and has come to have the interests of the vicinity really at
heart, and to enjoy a sublime faith in Newport Bay and Newport Beach and its en
virons. He organized the Balboa Chamber of Commerce, was its first president, and
is now a director and chairman of its harbor committee. He is also a member of the
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and a member of its foreign trade club and one
of the World Traders.
While in Los Angeles, Mr. Rousselle was married to Miss Fiorina A. Gendron, a
native of Worcester, Mass. She is the daughter of Joseph T. and Domitile (Roche
leau) Gendron, natives of the Province of Quebec, Canada, of French parents. Her
maternal grandfather, H. L. Rocheleau, became a large merchant, beginning in the
Province of Quebec, and finally establishing the nucleus of their present large chain
of stores in New England. Joseph T. Gendron was a prominent architect in Wor
cester, Mass., until he retired, when he spent most of his time traveling abroad. Hence
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cultured, refined woman, her education having been completed in the Sisters of St.
Anne school at Worcester, Mass.
In 1919, Mr. and Mrs. Rousselle made an extended trip to Alaska, and on their
return to Seattle took in Yellowstone Park, Niagara Falls and Boston, then motored
through Vermont and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and the balance of the
1,700 miles down the St. Lawrence from Montreal to Quebec and St. Anne de Beau-Pre.
When at home, Mr. and Mrs. Rousselle have likewise participated in the best things
of social life. He helped to organize the Newport Harbor Yacht Club, of which he is
still an enthusiastic member, and was its first fleet captain and a member of its first
board of directors. He was also a "booster" for and among the first members of the
Orange County Country Club, with its fine golf links, and for ten years has been a
prominent member of Lodge No. 99, of the Los Angeles Elks.
Mr. and Mrs. Rousselle left in the fall of 1920 on a tour of eight months, including
the Mediterranean and other countries of Continental Europe, their intention being to
return through the Suez Canal and visit the Islands of the Pacific thereby materially
adding to a knowledge of the world ordinarily not possessed by less favored men.
DANIEL McKINLEY. — As the special agent for Orange County of the M. M.
Cobb Company, packers and shippers of green vegetables, with headquarters at 203
East Walnut Street, Fullerton, Daniel McKinley is numbered among California's native
sons who have achieved success in business life.
He was born at Los Angeles, January 19, 1884, and is the son of Daniel McKinley,
Sr., a native of Ireland, who was among the Argonauts who crossed the plains in the
days of '49 in quest of the yellow metal that lured so many to California's shores in
early days. First locating in northern California, the elder McKinley in later days
drifted to the City of the Angels when it was a small hamlet, and was among the
pioneers of that place in the line of horticulture before the day of the Navel orange.
He planted an eighty-acre ranch to seedling orange trees and other varieties of fruit in
the South Park district of Los Angeles, between Forty-seventh and Fifty-first streets,
followed the nursery, business and fruit raising and lived on and developed his ranch
until the time of his death.
Daniel McKinley, Jr., was educated in the public schools of Los Angeles, and in
1905, after attaining his majority, came to Fullerton and entered the employ of M. M.
Cobb, who had just completed a warehouse at Fullerton, and was entering the vegetable
shipping business in Orange County. The M. M. Cobb Company represents one of the
oldest vegetable packing companies in California, the business having been started by
M. M. Cobb, who has been in the business over thirty years. The company was incorpo
rated as the M. M. Cobb Company about 1913. Their Fullerton packing house was the
first one built in the packing- house district of that place. During the fifteen years that
Mr. McKinley has been with this concern he has worked his way up from the bottom
until he has attained the position of the company's special agent, and his example of
self-won success should be an incentive to ambitious young men starting life on the
road that leads toward the goal of their hopes. Mr. McKinley's marriage, in 1914,
united him with Miss Mattie K. Lamb, a native of Chicago, and two children have
6een born to them, Daniel, Jr., and Alice, both natives of Fullerton. Mr. and Mrs.
McKinley have many warm friends and are among Fullerton's respected and honored
citizens. Mr. McKinley is a member of Anaheim Lodge, No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks.
ANGUS McAULAY.— Among the representative and progressive business men of
the Fullerton and Anaheim districts in Orange County we find Angus McAulay, whose
reputation as a "live wire" is easily demonstrated by his activities in the Fullerton
Board of Trade and as the owner and proprietor of Fullerton's undertaking parlors.
Of foreign birth he first saw the light in Nova Scotia on April 20, 1886, and as his name
indicates his Scottish lineage, the characteristics usually associated with that nationality
are not lacking in Mr. McAulay. A strong sense of justice, unswerving integrity and
thorough reliability have won the confidence and esteem of his associates in business
and social life. His parents, Malcolm and Elizabeth (Scott) McAulay, in searching for
a quiet nook in which to spend their declining years came to California in 1895 and
i ™ at™n? ?'m Where the father lives retired from the ac*;ve cares of life. Mr.
and Mrs. McAulay became the parents of nine children
Angus was educated in the public schools of California and in the larger school
of experience and for twelve years he was engaged in the furniture and undertaking
business at Anaheim with F. A. Backs. In January, 1914, he opened an establishment
in Fullerton and in 1915 erected the modern building at 411 North Spadra Street in
which his parlors are located. The building is fully equipped with all modern con
veniences for the conduct of his business; has a comfortable chapel, display and oper
ating rooms, and full motor equipment. His careful consideration and efforts to please

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those he is called upon to serve is- bringing him the reward his sympathetic and kindly
attention deserves.
His marriage October 23, 1912, united him with Miss Suzanne D. Beebe of Ana
heim. The children resulting from their union are named respectively, Pearl, Agnes
and Jay. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Mc
Aulay is an elder. Politically Mr. McAulay votes the Republican ticket and fraternally
he holds membership in several lodges in Orange County. He belongs to the Fullerton
Club, is a member of the Board of Trade, and is actively interested in the growth and
development of Orange County.
SHERMAN FOSTER. — A Californian upon whom Dame Fortune has smiled so
that now he is one of the most ardent boosters for the Southland, and particularly for
Orange County, is Sherman Foster, one of the well-known citizens of Orange. He was
born in Aurora, 111., on October 16, 1864, the son of George S. Foster, a veteran of the
Civil War, a native of New York and a blacksmith by trade, who came to Illinois and
set himself up at Aurora as a farmer and blacksmith. He served in the Civil War in
an Illinois regiment, and in that state married Miss Martha L. Greene, also a native of
New York state. In 1868 he located at Hiawatha, Brown County, Kans., driving there
with horses and wagons; and after a while he bought a farm on the Kickapoo Indian
Reservation, eleven miles southwest of Hiawatha, where he was a farmer and a black
smith, and there both he and Mrs. Foster died.
The third eldest of the four children in the family, Sherman, was reared in Kansas
and attended the local public schools, finishing at the Hiawatha Academy. At Fairview,
Kans., on February 11, 1894, he married Miss Nellie Johnson, a native of Brown County,
Kans., and the daughter of Arthur Johnson, who was born in Wisconsin. He had mar
ried Miss Mary White, a native of Missouri, after which they settled in Brown County,
Kans. Miss Nellie was the only child of this marriage, and like her husband, attended
rhe public schools.
For a while, Mr. Foster farmed the old home ranch of 320 acres, planting grain
and corn and raising stock; and in 1898 he made a first trip to California. He remained
nine months at Orange, and bought a house and lot on East Chapman Street, which he
later sold. In 1906, he came again to California and to Orange, and bought twenty
acres two miles north of Orange, on Taft Avenue. It had fine orchards of walnuts and
apricots, to which he gave a rancher's attention for eighteen months, when he sold the
property and returned to Kansas on another visit.
In the fall of 1909, however, Mr. Foster moved to Orange permanently and bought
the residence where he has since been living. He also bought two and a half acres
on Walnut Avenue, which he set out to oranges, and sold. Then he bought a walnut
grove of1 nine acres on Fairhaven Avenue, managed it for four years, and sold it; after
which he bought forty acres at Hemet, which he later sold. Next he purchased a resi
dential place on North Main Street, and that he also sold. Twenty-three acres south
of Santa Ana, which he then bought, has very rich soil and an artesian well and pump
ing plant for domestic use as well as irrigation. This he devotes to the raising of sugar-
beets, and has a record of the large yield of fifteen tons to the acre. In partnership
with Mr. King, Mr. Foster also bought a lot on South Glassell Street, where he built a
business house.
Two children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Foster. Harold is a graduate of
the Orange Union high school and now attending Throop Polytechnic at Pasadena;
and Gladys is in the class of 1921, Orange Union high school. Mrs. Foster is a member
of the Christian Church; Mr. Foster joined the Odd Fellows at Fairview Lodge No. 399,
at Fairview, Kans., of which lodge he is a past grand. In national politics a Republican.
Mr. Foster believes in the greatest latitude as to local affairs, and in local movements
is strictly nonpartisan.
HENRY SCHULTZ. — The city of Anaheim, the oldest city of Orange County,
was founded and settled by fifty Germans, all citizens of the United States. They
were a sturdy set of pioneers and without their courageous spirit, which enabled them
to endure the hardships and discomforts of pioneer life, the great commonwealth of
Orange County might have remained for many years longer a wilderness, with barren,
sandy plains. The fame of this progressive German community reached the Fatherland
and among the later settlers in this section of Orange County is Henry Schultz, who
was born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, February 12, 1847.
To get away from military oppression Mr. Schultz immigrated to the United
States in 1871, locating first in Shawano County, Wis., where he bought timberland,
three forties of land, fifty of which he cleared himself. While living there he took out
his first naturalization papers, and after removing to Orange County, in 1892, he took
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since 1892. After remaining in Anaheim a short time looking around for a location
he purchased a ranch of twenty acres, paying at that time but $65 an acre. The land
had been a part of the Stearns Rancho and had been plowed' but once. He has made
all improvements on the place and now has a comfortable, well-kept ranch, where he
engages in general farming and also conducted, a dairy business for. many years. He
sold ten acres in 1916 and on the balance he has four acres of walnuts.
In 1878 Mr. Schultz was united in marriage with Miss Wilhelmina Strasman,
also a native of Germany, and three children have been born to them: Mrs. Emma
Hein of Brookhurst Road and mother of five children; Mrs. Sarah Gust, living near
the Garden Grove Road, who has three children; and one child, who died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Schultz are active in the membership of the Evangelical Church and are
highly respected in their large circle of friends and have been supporters of all the
movements that have helped make Orange County.
MISS LILLIAN E. YAEGER. — When one considers the astonishingly large
number of women who are today using automobiles as more or less expert drivers,
often quite familiar with the mechanism of their car, it is not surprising to find a woman
dealing in autos; and when one reviews the successful career of Miss Lillian Yaeger,
it is quite as natural to learn that she is the agent for northern Orange County, repre
ssing the Dodge Brothers motor cars. She was born, a native daughter proud of her
association with the great state of California, at Anaheim; and her parents are among
the old-timers in that section where they were married. Jacob Yaeger, a native of
Germany, married Miss Stella Kelp, born in Anaheim, and both are now living in
Fullerton; they had five children — four girls and a boy, among whom Miss Yaeger was
the oldest daughter. Mr. Yaeger was a wagon maker, and few craftsmen were more
skilled in the technique of their trade. In the light of his handicraft and its relation
to the problems of early transportation, therefore, it is more than interesting that his
gifted daughter should today carry on, in a more advanced stage, that same work of
solving the problems for another generation.
Removing to Fullerton when she was a child, Miss Yaeger attended the public
schools and even as a young girl went to work. Step by step she advanced in a
knowledge of modern industrial and trade conditions, and in 1909 she engaged in the
line in which, as has been said, she has made such a pronounced success, notwith
standing that she started with very little capital. Her shrewd insight into "the great
game," and her desire to serve, please and accommodate, while dealing justly in every
respect, has placed at her disposal an establishment occupying the building which she
erected in October, 1919, carrying a full line of accessories, and manned by no less
than fourteen highly-trained people. In addition to representing the fast-selling Dodge
Brothers motor cars, Miss Yeager also maintains the largest garage in the county, the
repair department being located on the second floor and equipped with modern appli
ances and machinery to care for her growing trade. So long as Orange County boasts
of such wide-awake promoters of commerce as this enterprising young woman of
Fullerton, so long need the county have no worry as to its future.
FRANK J. GOBAR, M. D. — Fullerton has been unusually fortunate in the caliber
of the men who have elected to make that city their home and the field for their
professional and business efforts. Prominent among these is Dr. Frank J. Gobar, the
physician and surgeon who has become well known in the practice of his profession
in different cities and now centers his work of relieving suffering humanity in Orange
County, which section has for the past fourteen years had the benefit of his knowl
edge and skill. He was born in Alma, Buffalo County, Wis., June 14, 1860. When he
was six years old, in 1866, the family removed to southwestern Missouri, and there the
young lad attended the common schools for his primary education. Returning to
Wisconsin while still a youth, he located in Durand, and there clerked in a general
store, and studied pharmacy; later he conducted a drug store in that town.
The study of medicine was his object, however, and he entered Rush Medical
College of Chicago in 1883, graduating in 1885 with the degree of M. D. Then return
ing to Durand, the young medico practiced his profession in that city until 1901, and
while a resident there took a prominent part in civic affairs, serving as mayor of the
town, and was a member of the board of health and active in all good works for com
munity betterment; he was one of the promoters and founders of the electric light
system and of the telephone company there. He also took an active interest in fraternal
orders, joined the Masons in Durand and received the Consistory Degree of that
order m Milwaukee, Wis. The Odd Fellows took him into the fold in Durand, also,
and professionally he was a member of the County Medical Society. For fifteen years
Dr. Gobar was surgeon for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, and a mem
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In 1901, he removed with his family to western Oregon, locating in Tillamook
County, where he practiced his profession and also engaged in the cattle business, and
owned a toll road. In 1906, he sold out his interests there and that year marks his
arrival in Fullerton, and he has since that date been in general practice and specializing
in casualty work. He is surgeon for the Santa Fe Railroad, receiving his appointment
in 1913, and his time is well filled with good works for the general welfare.
The marriage of Dr. Gobar, which occurred June 10, 1885, united him with Miss
Nellie Hutchinson, a native of Durand, Wis., where the ceremony took place, and the
daughter of a prominent surgeon there. Eight children have blessed the union: George
H., an attorney associated with Kemp, Mitchell and Silverberg, with offices in the
Marsh-Strong building, Los Angeles; he was active in local war work, acted as chief
clerk of the exemption board at Santa Ana and also at Fullerton; Elizabeth, wife of
Victor A. Porter of Fullerton and the mother of two children, Miriam and Frank;
Frank H., a student in the medical department of the University of Southern California,
saw service in France during the World War, acting as corporal in the Three Hundred
Sixty-first Field Hospital Corps, Ninety-first Division, and saw active service in the
Argonne, at St. Mihiel, Meuse, Lys, Scheldt, and in Belgium; since his discharge he
has entered Stanford University to finish his medical course. He is married and has
one child, Robert Franklin; Julian S., the fourth child, remained at home to care for
the Victor Valley ranch; David E. saw service in the war, first as sergeant in _. machine-
gun company, and later he was trasferred to the field hospital at Camp Lewis, and he
finally saw service in France in the same company as his older brother, the Three
Hundred Sixty-first Field Hospital Corps, Ninety-first Division, in the freighting de
partment with rank as wagoner; Charlotte, a graduate of the Fullerton high school, is
a student at Brownsberger College, Los Angeles; Roland K., a graduate of the Fuller-
ton high school; and Eunice, a student at the Fullerton grammar school.
In partnership with his sons, Dr. Gobar, owns a 480-acre cattle ranch in Victor
Valley, San Bernardino County; the venture has been very successful. He is a member
of the board of sessions of the First Presbyterian Church of Fullerton, and is a member
of the American Medical Association, the State and County Medical Societies. A man
who stands out from the ranks in many respects, Dr. Gobar has brought much to the
community life of Fullerton and Orange County; he has gained the respect and admir
ation of all who have come in contact with his fine personality, and in rearing and
educating his typically American family, he and his wife have proven themselves
citizens of inestimable value to their country and the world.
JAMES HERVEY ROCHESTER.— Eminent among the distinguished citizens of
Orange County certain to be depended upon for the exertion of a widely-felt and
beneficent influence making for both the upbuilding and the building up of California,
is James Hervey Rochester, of Costa Mesa, the branches of whose family tree reach
out through successive generations and centuries to distant climes and great or notable.
people. He was born at Owasco, Cayuga County, N. Y., on April 18, 1859, the son of
James Hervey Rochester, a native of Bath, Steuben County, N. Y., where he was born
on April 19, 1819, and a great-grandson of Nathaniel Rochester, who enjoyed the abiding
honor of establishing the now great city of Rochester, N. Y. The family name,
Rochester, originated from the city of Rochester, a place of great antiquity in County
Kent, England, about twenty-five miles further out than Canterbury from London.
The name is a relic of the days of Roman occupation, and means "rock castle" or camp,
and besides the ever-interesting cathedral, which gives the place the English status of
"town," the remains of the castle occupy a commanding position overlooking the river
Medway. The family of Rochester were residents in County Essex in 1558 as is evi
denced by the Herald's Visitations when the coat of arms, "pr a fesse between three
crescents" was confirmed, or allowed to the family.
Nicholas Rochester, the first member of the family to come to America, was born
in Kent, England, in 1640; and having settled in the Colony of Virginia in 1689, he
purchased, on Christmas Day of that year, 100 acres of land in Westmoreland County.
His only son, William, was born in 1680 and died in October, 1750; and his eldest son,
John, was born in 1708 and died in November, 1754. Nathaniel Rochester, the third
son of John, was born on February 21, 1752, and died on May 17, 1831; and his oldest
son was William Beatty Rochester, who was born on January 29, 1789, and died on
June 15, 1838. James Hervey Rochester, first, eldest son of William Beatty Rochester
died on' March 22, 1860.
This association of James Hervey Rochester, 2d, with his pioneer great-grand
father is of more than personal or temporary importance; it is a matter of national
and historic interest to recall some of the incidents connected with the founding, by
Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, in 1810, of the city which has played a such a role in the
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the memory of eminent men, but none more unique and enduring than this where, by
the adoption of the founder's name, the city itself, so long as it shall endure, will
keep alive the name' of Colonel Rochester.
Nathaniel Rochester was twenty-three years of age at the beginning of the War
of the Revolution, but before April, 1776, despite his youth he successively held the
positions of members of the Committee of Safety of Orange County, N. C, where he
then lived, Justice of the Peace, Major of Militia and Paymaster, and then Lieutenant-
Colonel. In May, 1776, he was elected a member of the state convention which adopted
the State Constitution, and later, the same year, he was appointed Commissary Gen
eral of Military Stores — certainly remarkably rapid promotions, without reference to
age, and of especial note when this important factor is considered. Severe illness pre
vented continuous service in the Continental Army, but in 1777 he was appointed a
state commissioner to establish and operate a gun factory at Hillsboro, N. C, for the
Continental Congress.
The personal history of this energetic patriot illustrates throughout his life the
same active and efficient connection with public work. Colonel Rochester was born
in the same county in Virginia (Westmoreland) where twenty years earlier George
Washington entered upon the stage of human affairs; and after the War of the Revo
lution he was engaged in the practice of law in Hillsboro, N. C., and Philadelphia, Pa.,
but soon removed to Hagerstown, Md., where he built and operated mills for the manu
facture of nails and rope, and later still erected a flour mill. In 1788 he married Sophia,
daughter of Colonel William Beatty of Frederick, Md., and while living at Hagerstown,
he successively filled the offices of Member of Assembly of Maryland, Postmaster, and
Judge of the County Court, and in 1808 was chosen a presidential elector. He was
the first president and founder of the Hagerstown Bank, and a portrait of him painted
at that time is in the bank at the present day, and a vignette steel engraving of this
portrait is used on the bank's checks.
In 1800 he made his first visit to the "Genesee country" in New York State, where
he had previously made a purchase of 640 acres, and in September of that year, asso
ciating with him Major Charles Carroll, Colonel William Fitzhugh, and Colonel Hilton
of Maryland, he made large purchases of land in Livingston County, near Dansville.
In 1802 he purchased 100 acres on the Genesee River which was to be the future site
of the city of Rochester. In May, 1810, having closed up his business in Maryland, he
first became a resident of western New York, and during the first five years he lived at
Dansville. Then, disposing of his interests there, he removed to Bloomfield, Ontario
County, and then to this place on the Genesee River at the Falls, which he had pre
viously visited, surveying the land and laying out a townsite, which received the name
of Rochester. Tn 1816, Colonel Rochester was a second time an elector for president; and in
in January, 1817, he was secretary of the important convention at Canandaigua, which
urged the construction of the Erie Canal. During this year he went to Albany, N. Y.,
as agent for the petitioners for the establishing of a new county in western New York,
known as Monroe County, and he was first clerk of the new county, and also its first
representative in the state legislature of 1821-2. Upon the organization of the Bank of
Rochester, he was unanimously elected its president. He had always been attached to
the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was one of the founders of St. Luke's Church of
Rochester. After having opened his eyes to the beauties of this world in Cople Parish,
Westmoreland County, Va., he died in Rochester on the morning of the seventeenth of
May, 1831, after a long and most interesting career of far-reaching usefulness. When
his country had demanded his services, he freely gave them, participating alternately
m its arduous financial, military and legislative work; and its exigencies terminating,
he was a zealous coworker in all that related to the beneficial uses of free government.
Almost constantly filling important public trusts, he at the same time established great
business enterprises, promoted in many ways an enduring public prosperity, and finally
achieved the enviable and lasting- distinction, the founder of a city, and one now more
than a century old.
Not less interesting, in its way, is the story of William Beatty Rochester, the
Colonel s eldest son. who was born in Hagerstown, Md., on January 29, 1789, and was
graduated from Charlotte Hall, in St. Mary's County, Md. He studied law with Henry
Uay in Lexington, Ky., and having moved to New York State, in 1818 represented
Steuben County in the legislature. In 1821, he was presidential elector from New
0 *?' W3S a member of the Seventeenth Congress. In 1823 he was appointed
judge of the eighth circuit of New York, but resigned in 1826 to accept the nomination
for governor of Xew York. In 1837, on account of ill health he went to Florida where,
at Fensacola he became president of the Bank of Pensacola and a director in the
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Charleston was persuaded by his friends, the Lamars, to accompany them to Baltimore
on their new steamer "Pulaski" on her first trip north. On the morning of June 14th,
the steamer left Charleston, and that night at 11 o'clock, the starboard boiler exploded,
tearing out that side of the boat, which keeled over to the port side and floated about
forty minutes, when she parted and capsized. Judge Rochester seized a settee, which
hardly buoyed him up; but after he had floated for three hours or more, the first mate's
boat came up and took him in. In endeavoring to effect a landing, the frail boat was
capsized by the heavy surf, and he was lost within a few yards of the shore. Judge
Rochester's career was also remarkable for the rapidity of his promotion to the various
offices which he filled to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. Genial and always
fond of good company, both as a young man and through life, he deserved and enjoyed
popularity. William Beatty Rochester's son, James Hervey, was married on May 14, 1846, to
Miss Evelina Throop Martin, a native of Lyons, Wayne County, N. Y., where she was
born on February 11, 1822. She was a niece of Enos Thompson Throop, the intimate
friend of President Martin Van Buren, through whom he was made, to the good fortune
of New Yorkers, first lieutenant-governor and then governor of the Empire State, was
relected, and served in that high office from 1829 to 1833, when he was appointed by
President Jackson naval officer at the port of New York, later still being sent by Presi
dent Van Buren as charge d'affaires of the United States to the kingdom of the Two
Sicilies at Naples. Mrs. Rochester, the mother of our subject, was a lady of rare
accomplishment, and of more than passing interest, being a descendant of Robert
Bruce, King of Scotland. A direct forefather was William Seaborn Martin, son of
Lieutenant Samuel Martin of New Haven and Wethersfield, Conn., who was born in
Devonshire, England, and came from Plymouth to America in 1640. Samuel Martin
married Phebe Bracey; and inasmuch as their son William was born on shipboard, on
their way to this country, he was called William Seaborn Martin. On June 25, 1685,
he married Abigail Nichols, the daughter of Caleb Nichols; and he was the son of
Francis Nichols, who married Margaret Bruce, daughter of Sir George Bruce of Car-
nock, who was a son of Robert Bruce. He was a son of Edward Bruce (1565), the
son of Sir David Bruce (1497), the son of Sir David Bruce who was a son of Sir Robert
Bruce (1393), the son of Sir Edward Bruce, who was a son of Robert Bruce of Clack-
mana (1367). The latter was a son of King Robert Bruce, who was born on March 21,
1274, crowned at Scone on March 27, 1306, and after a reign of twenty-three years,
seldom equalled and never excelled, all things considered, died on June 7, 1329. Four
years after his marriage, James Hervey Rochester, Sr., came out to California, and for
eight years was a member of the banking firm of Oliver Lees and Company of San
Francisco. A brother, William Beatty Rochester, was the first general manager of tie
Wells-Fargo Express Company, and was stationed at Marysville, the headquarters of the
company at that time. Through his mother Amanda Hopkins, he was a cousin of the
late Mark Hopkins of San Francisco, Cal.
James Hervey Rochester, 2d, was graduated from the Auburn Academy in Cayuga
County, N. Y., in 1877, and as his inclinations favored an art career, he studied under
the best teachers at home, and then at the National Academy of Design in New York.
A great uncle, Whitfield Hatch, was founder and president of the American Banknote
Engraving Company of New York, and this circumstance led James Hervey, on leaving
home at the age of seventeen, to take up engraving as the most desirable branch of
art work. He went to Buffalo and there worked with the Bureau of Illustration and
the Courier Publishing Company; but wishing a more extended field, he went to New
York City in 1880, and soon was busy producing the finest class of magazine engravings
for Harper's, Scribner's and the Century. As some classes of engraving in particular
have been peculiarly at home in America,. Mr. Rochester's work could not fail of cordial
recognition in the United States and abroad; and he continued in that artistic field
until the constant and prolonged strain caused for him serious eye trouble. Through
the advice of oculists, he therefore discontinued engraving and since then has devoted
himself to portrait and landscape painting. In March, 1908, Mr. Rochester came to
California and located at Costa Mesa, in Orange County, where he established a perma
nent residence. Mr. Rochester at Lewiston, Me., on June 20, 1895, married Miss Edith Grensted,
the daughter of Henry W. Grensted, of Maidstone, the county town of Kent, situated
on the right bank of the Medway. She grew up near the old Gothic archbishop's
palace dating from the fourteenth century; inspired by an uncle, Frederick Finnis
Grensted, canon of Liverpool Cathedral and a writer of considerable note on ecclesias
tical subjects, she came to be favorably known as the author of a book of poems on
Southern California entitled "From Star to Star," and another volume entitled, "Fore
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friends, she passed to the life eternal on January 18, 1920. Two children blessed this
fortunate union— William Beatty Rochester was born on April 21, 1896; and Nathaniel
Norman Rochester on November 8, 1897. During the World War, Nathaniel enlisted
in defense of his country and became sergeant of Company L, Seventh Regiment, Santa
Ana, Cal., later the One Hundred Sixtieth Infantry when federalized at Camp Kearney;
and as one of a replacement unit, Sergeant Rochester was a member of Company B,
Three Hundred Eighth Infantry, and so won undying honor when killed spiritedly fight
ing with the "Lost Battalion" in the French Forest of Argonne, on October 8, 1918,
only a short time, comparatively, before the armistice.
Mr. Rochester is a member of the Episcopal Church, for the Rochesters have
been Episcopalians, or Anglicans, as far back as may be traced. In Bishop Meade's
"Old Churches and Families of Virginia," mention is made of the great-great-grand
father, John Rochester, as one of the vestrymen of Cople Parish, Westmoreland County,
Va., serving in 1785 with John A. Washington, an uncle of the Father of his Country.
Mr. Rochester has the inherited right to membership in the Society of the Cincinnati,
and also in the Sons of the Revolution; and he took the master Mason's degree at Ionic
Lodge No. 61, Oviedo,- Orange County, Fla., in 1890. In national political affairs Mr.
Rochester is an Independent.
SAMUEL N. FULLER. — A representative citizen of Fullerton who has aided
much in developing the agricultural resources of that district is S. N. Fuller, prpmi-
nently identified with progressive movements in Orange County as a dealer in country
and city real estate, also a rancher who has made good in putting many acres of
unimproved or partly improved land under a high state of cultivation and then sold at
a profit to settlers who have chosen this part of Orange County as a home.
Mr. Fuller was born in Greene County, Ind., February 24, 1865, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Darling Fuller, farmer folk of Indiana. His mother died when he was a small
child and he was educated in the rural schools of his native state and the high school,
and a commercial college at Terre Haute, after which he farmed for a time. He came
to California in 1901 and settled at Fullerton where he began improving a ranch by
setting out an orange grove and then selling the same. This line of work has occupied
almost his entire time since he has been in this state and he has improved many acres
in this manner. He has bought land and subdivided it and then sold. With three
associates Mr. Fuller purchased ninety-seven acres of what was known as the Benchley
Estate and this was subdivided and sold in small tracts; on a part of this land are now
located the Fullerton Union high school buildings, which, by the way, Mr. Fuller
and others were instrumental in having located in its present location and which is
one of the finest group of buildings of their kind to be found in the state and to which
every citizen of Fullerton and vicinity point with much pride.
.Aoril 8, 1891, he was united in marriage with Miss Jennie McDermont of Indiana,
the fruit of their union being two sons, both of whom served in the United States Army
in France during the recent World War. Fred is cashier in the First National Bank
at Fullerton, and Lloyd L. had the distinction of being wounded while in the service
of his country and now is attending a commercial college in Los Angeles.
Mr. Fuller is a director in the First National Bank at Fullerton, and is deeply
interested in all that concerns this section of country. He was clerk of the grammar
school board and is a member of the Board of Trade and Housing Committee. In his
religious convictions he is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and fraternally is a
Royal Arch Mason and a member of the I. O. O. F. He is a man of strong and
forceful character, enterprising and public spirited, and worthily enjoys the respect and
esteem of the residents of Fullerton and vicinity.
JOHN R. PARKER. — The high standard of education long ago established and
always maintained in Ontario, Canada, has resulted in that commonwealth furnishing
the American Republic with many leaders in educational work, and among these have
been men and women who have for years helped to shape the educational policies, on
broad and advanced lines, of the great state of California. To this well-trained staff
belongs the district superintendent of schools of Fullerton, John R. Parker, who was
born in Ontario, Canada. His father was Andrew Parker, a well-known business man
now deceased. He had married Miss Margaret Cooper, the daughter of Robert Cooper,
a Scotchman, and business man of Ontario, Canada. Mrs. Parker, a gifted lady, is
still living in Los Angeles. John was the only child of this happy union, and enjoyed
the best of educational advantages.
He attended the common schools of Canada, and the Collegiate Institute of
Ontario, with its model school and normal school at Ottawa, and afterward accepted
the principalship of a school in Trenton. At the end of two years, he resigned to come
to California, in 1888. Here, having taken and passed the examinations for both ele-

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mentary and high school teachers, he taught in Santa Barbara County for thirteen
years, and then for three years was principal of a school at Clearwater, Los Angeles
County. He next was principal of a school at Long Beach for two years.
In 1911, he took charge of the schools of Fullerton, commencing his superintend-
ency with seven teachers; and since then the schools of the district have' so expanded
that there were twenty-four teachers working under and with him. He introducd the
normal training and the home economics, did good work as a member of the county-
board of education, and was twice president of that board. In June, 1920, Mr. Parker
resigned to devote his time to his orange grove which he has developed east of Ana
heim. A Republican in matters of national import, Mr. Parker has never allowed
partisanship to interfere with a hearty support of the best men and the best measures
for local uplift and development. Fie is a member of the Men's League and the Board
of Trade, and a member whose whole-souled activity counts.
In Santa Barbara County, in December, 1891, Mr. Parker was married to Miss
Harriet C. Martin, a native daughter whose parents were Edwin and Mary Isabelle
Martin, pioneers of Santa Barbara County, now deceased. Three children — Robert,
Isabel and Percy — have been granted Mr. and Mrs. Parker, and have added cheer to
the Parker home. Mr. Parker is both an Odd Fellow and a Mason, holding his mem
bership in the former in Santa Barbara and the Masons in Fullerton.
LEON A. SAYLES. — Well and favorably known in banking circles in Orange
County since 1915, but since September 1, 1920, a valued employe of the Union Oil
Company at Brea, where his influence as a public-spirited and progressive upbuilder has
been demonstrated, is Leon A. Sayles, a native of Michigan, where he was born, in
Ionia County, on March 5, 1880. His father was A. W. Sayles, who had married
Lodema Ayres; and after Mr. Sayles' death, his family came out to California. Leon
had preceded the rest, and arrived in Los Angeles in 1902.
He enjoyed the helpful instruction of the Michigan grammar schools and a first-
class business college; and on taking up his residence in Southern California was em
ployed in the U. S. postoffice for about nine years. Then, for four years, he had a
ranch of his own in the San Gabriel Valley; and, on selling out, he went to San Diego,
where he remained until 1915.
In that year, Mr. Sayles came to Brea and joined the staff of the La Habra Valley
Bank which had been established three years before by C. R. Thomas. For the first
year, he was assistant cashier, and then he was appointed to the responsible position
of cashier. During the five years that he had charge of this department of the insti
tution's activities, the bank considerably enlarged its business. On September 1, 1920,
Mr. Sayles resigned his office in the bank to accept a very desirable and responsible
position with the Union Oil Company at Brea.
On November 25, 1903, Mr. Sayles was married to Miss Maude B. Stedman, a
member of a family well known in America on account of its varied accomplishment.
His domestic and private life, therefore, is all that might be desired; enhanced with
the diversion of attention, from time to time, to a flourishing orange grove.
Ever ready to support any worthy local movement regardless of party lines or
creeds, Mr. Sayles is a Republican in national politics and under the banners of the
G. O. P. seeks to contribute somewhat to the elevation of standards in citizenship. In
fraternal matters, he is a Knight of Pythias.
DR. SAMUEL STROCK. — Attracted to the great spaces of the West and its free,
out-door life by his love of nature, Dr. Samuel Strock has for the past eighteen years
been an enthusiastic resident of the Southland. A scholarly representative of the great
science of medicine, although he has retired from its active practice, he still takes a
philanthropic interest in hurnanitarian progress and public affairs and devotes much of
his time to reading and research.
A native of New Jersey, Samuel Strock was born at Flemington on February 9,
1857, the son of the Rev. James T. Strock, born in Philadelphia, long honored for his
faithful work in the Methodist ministry, who died in the harness in 1881; his mother,
who passed away at Flemington in 1857, was Miss Keziah Lamb before her marriage,
a native of Philadelphia and a descendant of one of the earliest families that settled
in that city. Grandmother Lamb was a Matlack, one of the noted Quaker families, who
despite their religious beliefs, served in the war of the Revolution. Nine children
were born to Mr. and Mrs. James T. Strock, six of them growing to maturity, Samuel
Strock being the youngest of the family.
He took the preparatory course of study at Wyoming Seminary, and for a couple
of years was a student in the Pennsylvania State College. Then he matriculated in
the University of Vermont and was graduated from its medical department with the
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there he took a post-graduate course in the New York Post-Graduate College, where
so many advantages were open to him.
On October 11, 1892, Dr. Strock was married to Miss Elizabeth Bogart Perry,
and one child, Samuel Cornelius, was born to them, living however, to be but two
years of age. Mrs. Strock, who was born at Bridgeport, Conn., received her education
at Pennsylvania State College; she was the daughter of Rev. Talmon C. Perry, a grad
uate of Yale College and also of Princeton Theological Seminary, and for many years
a minister in the Presbyterian Church. He was descended from an old New England
family and was closely related to Commodore Perry, the hero of Lake Erie. Mrs.
Strock's mother, Sarah Conger Clark, before her marriage, came of old Knickerbocker
stock who were the original settlers of New Amsterdam.
To satisfy his desire for the enjoyment of the out-door life and the grandeur of
the West, Dr. Strock, accompanied by his wife, came to California in 1902 and located
at Santa Ana on a five-acre ranch; the same year he purchased thirty-six acres in
Santa Ana Canyon, one and a half miles north of Olive, which was then a stubble
field. This land he has brought .to a high state of cultivation, setting out Valencia
oranges and walnuts. He has since disposed of part of this and to the balance he is
giving most excellent care.
Notwithstanding the active part he takes in horticultural development, Dr.
Strock still finds time for intellectual pursuits. Intensely interested in literature, his
spare moments are taken up with a wide range of reading, and during these years he
has accumulated a large, well-selected library, to which he is constantly adding. Well
informed on important questions of the day, he is an interesting conversationalist, and
he stands high in the esteem of the community as a neighbor and a citizen.
GEORGE PAUL ELTISTE. — A far-seeing and optimistic young man of remark
able energy, whose "hustling" spirit of enterprise, contagious to others, has brought
well-merited success, is George Paul Eltiste, the well-known horticulturist. He was
born in Phillipsburg, Phillips County, Kans., on September 7, 1892, the son of M.
Eltiste, and the eldest of six children, all of whom are living. He was reared on a farm
in Kansas, and attended the local public schools.
In August, 1906, Mr. Eltiste came out to California and settled in Orange County;
and being still in his teens, he continued his schooling, topping off with a thorough
course at the Orange County Business College at Santa Ana. Then he commenced
to work for J. C. Williams in his implement store, and after that in a blacksmith shop,
where he learned the trade. He next formed a partnership with Chris Ruehle, under the
firm name of Ruehle & Eltiste, and they conducted their business very successfully at
their shop on North Glassell Street.
Selling out his interest, Mr. Eltiste engaged in ranching and took care of his
father's ranch of twenty-three acres. It was then only partly set out,- and he finished
the planting; and he conducted it for four years. Then he bought three acres of
Valencia oranges on East Walnut Street, to which he added by purchase two acres ad
joining and later ten acres more, making him owner of fifteen acres in a body. The
ten acres he has planted to Valencia oranges, and the five to lemons. He uses an
International tractor in the operation of the two farms, and otherwise employs up-to-
date machinery and methods. He belongs to the Central Lemon Association, and is
an equally live wire in the Santiago Orange Growers Association.
At Orange, on June 14, 1916, Mr. Eltiste was married to Miss Bertha Schmetgen,
a native of Orange and the daughter of George Schmetgen, the local orange grower
now retired. Two children have blessed the union— Clarence and Evelyn; and with their
parents they attend the Lutheran Church. Mr. Eltiste is a member of the Lutheran
Men's Club. In national politics, he is a Republican, but locally is independent and is
always interested in promoting the highest American civic ideals.
CARL O. HEIM.— An excellent young man representing one of the good German-
American families of Orange, who is rapidly forging ahead as a successful rancher and
orange and walnut grower, is Carl O. Heim, of Olive, who married a lady from one of
the best families in the social and business circles of Orange. Their home, therefore,
on the Anaheim Boulevard, is a happy center of boundless hospitality
He was born at Bloomington, 111., on September 13. 1878, the son of Herman F.
and Augusta (Mueller) Heim, now retired ranchers at Olive. His father was then a
laboring man working at Bloomington, but he later removed to Allen County, Kans.,
and there bought a farm. When Carl was six years old, the family came west to Cali
fornia; and in 884 settled at Orange, where Herman Heim worked around for other
persons, while he rented land for himself.
Carl grew up on such a rented farm south of Orange, and when twenty years of
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Avenue, east of the Santa Ana Cemetery. At the end of two years, however, he went
to the Santa Fe Railroad as a section hand, and next became & clerk in the grocery
department of Ehlen and Grote's department store in Orange.
During the ten and a half years when he was clerking for this well-known and
progressive firm, he married Miss Emma Grote, a daughter of his employer, Henry
Grote, and a general social favorite; and afterward came up to Olive where, for three
years, he worked on his father's walnut and orange ranch of twenty-four acre's. During
the next two years, he maintained a partnership with his brother Albert, and together
they managed the home ranch.
In June, 1919, in partnership with his brother-in-law, Alfred Huhn, Mr. Heim
bought a Valencia orange orchard of eleven acres, one and a half miles to the south of
Olive on the Olive Boulevard; and this ranch Mr. Heim is now operating. He is both
a stockholder and director in the Mutual Orange Distributors Association at Olive,
which has its own well-equipped packing house, and is a stockholder in the First
National Bank of Olive as well as of the California Fig Nut Company of Orange.
Mr. and Mrs. Heim are the fortunate parents of four promising children: Alma
is in the Orange high school; Elmer, Florence and Esther attend St. Paul's school at
Olive. He and his family are members of St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Olive of which
Mr. Heim is a trustee. In national politics a Republican, Mr. Heim is first, last and all
the time an American and a "booster" for Olive and Orange County.
PETER D. HAX. — A thoroughly progressive, public-spirited man of business
affairs, who has attained to an enviable degree of popularity and possessing a wide
and powerful influence, is Peter D. Hax, of the Stein Fassel and Hax Mercantile
Company of Fullerton. He was born at Saginaw, Mich., on April 13, 1881, the son of
Peter Hax, now deceased, who had married Miss Catherine Spain.
After spending his boyhood in Michigan, during which time he attended the
grammar and high schools, he engaged in accounting and followed it until coming
West in 1907.
On locating at Fullerton, he became secretary and treasurer of the Stern and
Goodman Mercantile Company, the oldest concern of the kind in Fullerton, with which
he remained for eleven years. In October, 1918, the Stein Fassel and Hax Mercantile
Company was formed, and they have grown so rapidly that they now have three branch
stores, and employ fifteen people.
A Republican, with broad views as to. the relation of party politics to local issues,
Mr. Hax is a member of the Knights of Pythias and also of the Elks. Among his
out-of-door pleasures is a good game of baseball.
H. A. STEWART. — An energetic, progressive and very successful rancher whose
well-founded judgment and conscientiousness have always commended him to his
fellow-men, who stand for- uprightness and integrity of purpose, is Henry A. Stewart,
the walnut grower living one mile southwest of San Juan Capistrano, where with expe
rienced methods and almost perfect system in his various operations, he gets results
such as ought to gratify and reward anyone. His self-made career has given him a self-
reliance of great value not merely to himself, but to those neighborhood interests in
which his progressive influence is always felt. He has brought his ranch up to a high
state of cultivation, and there enjoys a good home presided over by an accomplished,
devoted wife.
He was born at Lone Pine, Inyo County, Cal., on February 10, 1873, the son of
Henry B. Stewart, a native of Painted Post, N. Y., who early came to California with
his brother, driving a mule team across the great plains, and settling for a while at
Marysville. From there he removed to Lone Pine, where he entered into partnership
with John B. Denari, one of several brothers who had made their mark as pioneer
merchants in booming San Francisco when that town had plenty of gold with which
to buy things and needed someone of intelligence, honesty and enterprise to supply
the necessaries of life. Messrs. Denari and Stewart maintained the best store at Lone
Pine, and it was while they were doing business together that Mr. Stewart met Miss
Catherine Cainan, the daughter of John Cainan, a native of Cork, Ireland, who came
to Canada and there he married Miss Annie McLellan. Mr. Cainan was in the South
when the Civil War started and he served under General Stonewall Jackson; was taken
prisoner at the second battle of Bull Run and paroled to Camp Chase, Ohio, where he
was killed by the fall of a limb from a tree during a storm. His widow married again
to Norman McLean and the family came to California and Lone Pine, where Catherine
Cainan met and later married Mr. Stewart.
When Henry Stewart was only a year old, his parents removed north to Wash
ington Territory, and there the father, a most industrious man whose health had become
impaired, died and left three children, two of whom are living today. One is the sue-

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cessful horticulturist of whom we are writing; the other is his sister, Annie, now Mrs.
Grohe of Salem, Ore: Owing to this break in their family, Henry's educational ad
vantages were very limited, and he has since had to reach out and acquire what school
ing he could get from reading, observation arid contact with the world.
With his widowed mother and the other children, he came south again, to San
Francisco in 1879, and there Mrs. Stewart married her husband's former partner, Mr.
Denari, a native of Italy who was born near Genoa, of an old-established Mediterranean
family. As has been stated, these two gentlemen were once partners, in the store at
Lone Pine, so Mr. Denari was able, to a degree not usually possible, to enter into the
life of the bereaved lady and to afford her the best of companionship and support.
When, therefore, Mr. and Mrs. Denari came still further south, to San Juan Capistrano,
where Mr. Denari was to become an extensive landowner and farmer, giving up his'
mercantile interests, the son and stepson came with them. Mr. Denari was elected the
first justice of the peace at San Juan Capistrano, but he also continued, with the able
assistance of his wife, to farm; and Henry worked on the ranch and very naturally
grew up a farmer, too.
At Santa Ana, on July 12, 1911, he was married to Miss Ruth EnEarl, a native
of Pipestone, Minn., and the daughter of James H. and Elizabeth (Shaubut) EnEarl,
who settled in San Diego County, when Ruth was only five years old. They removed
in time to Anaheim, and from the excellent high school of that pioneer town, the young
lady was duly graduated. Two children have blessed this union of Mr. and Mrs.
Stewart. The elder is a boy, Henry A. Stewart, Jr., and the younger is a girl, Vir
ginia. James H. EnEarl served in a New York regiment in the Civil War, serving until
the close of the war. As a young man he went to Minnesota where he was married.
He and his wife now live in Anaheim. Their children are Ruth, Mrs. Stewart;
Katharine, Mrs. Chamberlain of Chicag6; Arnold served in the aviation section, U.
S. Army, World War, and is now in business in Fullerton. Mr. Stewart owns some
300 hundred acres of excellent Orange County land, of which thirty-two acres are in
full-bearing walnuts. He has 220 acres of lima beans, twenty acres of blackeyed beans,
while' twenty-eight acres are devoted to pasture, yards, etc.
In national politics Mr. Stewart is a Republican, and it goes without saying that
he is both an admirer of and a warm friend of Hiram Johnson, ex-governor and U. S.
senator, and the choice of many for president. As a public-spirited citizen, Mr. Stewart
has sought to advance the interests of the township and county in which he has lived,
in every way possible, and he has always labored in particular for better roads, believing
that good highways have much to do with the progress of a nation.
LYMAN AND MABEL VANCE TREMAIN.— A distinguished Orange County
couple who are "one hundred per cent Americans," are Lyman and Mabel Vance Tre
main. Mrs. Tremain is the earliest and perhaps the most successful osteopath in the
county, and her husband, Lyman Tremain, is a well-known railway man from the East.
He is well connected with the best of New York State families of lawyers, financiers
and other professional and business men, and for years held responsible positions with
leading railroads. In their cozy bungalow on the Santa Ana Canyon Boulevard they
are at present rusticating contentedly and so enjoying a much-needed rest.
Lyman Tremain was born at Albany, N. Y., and is a grandson of the late Lyman
Tremain, judge of the New York Court of Appeals. His mother was Eliza Martin,
a sister of Edward S. Martin, the editor of "Life." She was born and reared in western
New York, near Auburn. Mr. Tremain's father was Grenville Tremain, of the well
known law firm of Peckham and Tremain, of Albany, N. Y., this partner, Rufus W.
Peckham, afterwards becoming justice of the United States Supreme Court. A maternal
grandfather of Lyman Tremain was Enos Thompson Throop Martin, a nephew of
Enos Thompson Throop, at one time governor of New York. After the death of
Grenville Tremain, -which occurred when Lyman was seven years old, the widow, with
his children, moved up to her father's home, on a farm near Auburn, N. Y. Her four
children were as follows: Helen is the wife of William B. Anderson, an attorney in
New York City; Lyman, of whom we write; Emily is in the U. S. Public Health Serv
ice and has an honorable record for service in France; Mabel is the wife of Robert
S. Brewster, a son of Benjamin Brewster, who was John D. Rockefeller's first partner
at Cleveland and later became chairman of the executive committee of the Standard
Oil Company. After his father's death, Lyman Tremain grew up on the farm near Auburn, N. Y.,
later attending the Quincy School at Geneva, N. Y., and then the Groton School at
Groton, Mass., and at the latter place he was prepared for Harvard. He was early
distinguished as an athlete, especially as a football player, and so enjoyed prestige
from the day when he entered Harvard. He matriculated at Harvard in 1889, with the
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years, however, he entered the railroad business with the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany at Philadelphia, and for twelve years served in the traffic department. He rose to
be contracting agent, and made a wide acquaintance with the leading Eastern manu
facturers and shippers. Through the influence of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
he secured a position as traffic manager of the Corn Products Refining Company of
New York City and served them steadily for six years, after which he resigned and
came to California in April, 1909, and went into the traffic claim department of the
Santa Fe Railroad, working out from their Los Angeles office. In the fall of 1910, with
his cousin, James Rochester, he set out an apple orchard at Harper, Orange County,
the first commercial apple orchard there.
On October 10, 1912, Mr. Tremain was married to Dr. Mabel Vance, who was
Ihe first regularly licensed osteopathic woman physician and surgeon at Santa Ana.
She was born at Mulberry Grove, Bond County, 111., the daughter of Rev. Thomas
Vance, a minister in the Christian Church. He had married Melvina Elam, whose
family belonged to the old settlers of that county and owned valuable coal lands there.
Of their five children, Mrs. Tremain's twin sister, Mrs. May Reeve, lives at La Mirada;
Dr. A. T. Vance is practicing at Los Angeles; Anna is the wife of James R. Coxen,
state superintendent of vocational training at Laramie, Wyo.; Joy is the wife of
William F. Wakefield of Fresno. When Mabel Vance was twelve years old her parents
moved to Indianapolis, Ind., and there she attended the high school and Butler Uni
versity. She pursued a general scientific course, and thereby laid the foundation for
her excellent professional work. She then entered Dr. A. T. Still's School of Osteo
pathy at Kirksville, Mo., from which she was graduated in 1905, with the degree of
D.O., when she located at Oneonta, N. Y., and for two years was successfully engaged
in practice. In the meantime her people had moved to California and so she also canio
to the land of gold and sunshine on the Pacific and located at Santa Ana in 1907,
and in twelve years has built up a lucrative practice. She is a charter member of the
Orange County Osteopathic Society and also a member of the California State Osteo
pathic Society.
About nine or ten years ago Dr. Tremain wisely purchased five acres of land on
Santa Ana Canyon Boulevard, about two miles northwest of Olive, which they have
improved and set to Valencia oranges which have now come into bearing; and in this
beautiful orchard they have built their residence and now make their home.
Mr. Tremain, besides being an experienced railway manager and a successful
horticulturist, is a fine vocalist, possesing a rare tenor voice, very pleasing to the
ear, and he is a member of the Episcopal Church choir at Santa Ana. In many ways
Mr. and Mrs. Tremain have identified themselves with the most notable movements
for the welfare and uplift of society, and being devoted to Orange County, never tire
of singing its praises and contribute in some way to its development every day.
FREDERICK CHARLES HEZMALHALCH.— The efficiency of the Orange
County public service is reflected in the life and work of such well-equipped and faithful
officials as Frederick Charles Hezmalhalch, the city clerk of Fullerton, who was born
at Leeds, England, an ancient town probably once a Roman station, the largest and
most flourishing city of Yorkshire, on the Aire, and the metropolis of the woolen maim- '
facture, on August 3, 1874. His father, Thomas Hezmalhalch, was born in Paterson,
N. J., and educated in Chicago. He became superintendent of his father's foundry and
during the Civil War moulded shells for the Government. He prepared for a mis
sionary in Leeds, England, and there he was married. In 1884 the family came to Glen-
dale, Cal. Later he went to South Africa accompanied by his wife, who was his able
assistant and there they did splendid work and had a very interesting experience.
They now make their home at Monrovia. The mother was in maidenhood Miss
Charlotte Best, a native of Leeds, and is a woman of much ability. They were the
parents of nine children; four grew up and are living, the eldest of whom is the subject
of this sketch. When ten years old Fred C. came to California with his parents and
attended both the grammar and high schools at Glendale, while he also enjoyed certain
private instruction. He was a member of Troop D, Cavalry, at Los Angeles when the
Spanish-American War broke out and he enlisted in Company F, Seventh California
Regiment of Infantry, serving until the close of the war. He then began the study
of music  both vocal and instrumental — and in time became a teacher of vocal music
with his studio in Blanchard Hall; for three years of this time he was the solo tenor
in St. Vibiana's Cathedral. .
Giving up the profession of music he engaged in business in Glendale until De
cember, 1907, when he located at Fullerton and for two years had charge of the Harris
ranch, after which for three years he was in the grocery and meat business and then
with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for two years, until April, 1916, when
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for a four-year term, filling the position with much credit and entire satisfaction to all.
During the late war Mr. Hezmalhalch took an active part in instructing and drilling
the boys who were called to the colors and served acceptably, as first lieutenant in the
California Military Reserve, Company Seventy-eight, and also took part in all the bond
and war drives.
At Los Angeles August 23, 1903, occurred the marriage of Mr. Hezmalhalch to
Miss Lottie B. Harris, a native of Orange, the daughter of Chas. T. and Elida (Hale)
Harris, pioneers of Orange, of which union have been born the several children:
Frederick H., Lillian E., Nance E., Robert and Charles (twins), Jean O and William
H. Hezmalhalch. The family attend the Presbyterian Church, where Mr. Hezmalhalch
has charge of the music. He belongs to the Odd Fellows, has passed through all
chairs, and is a Master Mason, a member of Fullerton Lodge and Chapter. He is an
Independent in politics, is fond of out-door sports, and is an adept in fencing. Public-
spirited by nature, Mr. Hezmalhalch could hardly fail, even were he not an incumbent
of office, to take a deep interest m the rapid and successful development of so favored
a section of the Golden State as Orange County.
FREDERIC JOSEPH WAGNER.— Among the ablest machinists in all of Orange
County must be rated Frederic Joseph Wagner, who resides with his devoted wife at
3061/, East Third Street, Santa Ana, having been born at New Orleans, La., on October
6, 1872. His father was Joseph Wagner, and he had married Miss Marie Hagstette. He
came irom Alsace-Lorraine, and has been a well-known transfer-man in New Orleans
for many years. There Frederic grew up, and as the Hagstettes were machinists from
"'way back," when fifteen years of age he was apprenticed at the machinist trade in
New Orleans. He then branched out as an employe of different sugar mills in Lou
isiana and served them as both master mechanic and chief engineer.
After working in many of the leading cane-sugar factories of Louisiana, in 1899
he moved north to Minneapolis, to accept the very responsible post of chief engineer of
the Minnesota Beet Sugar Factory. In 1904, he set up the machinery for the Chippewa
Sugar Company at Chippewa Falls, Wis., from which town he went to Riverside, 111,
and put up the machinery in the Charles Pope Sugar Works, continuing with that con
cern until he came out to California in 1908.
Coming to Orange County in that year, he installed the machinery for the South
ern California Sugar Company plant in the Delhi precinct, and remained with that
company for four years as chief engineer and master mechanic. In 1913, he came over
to the factory of the Santa Ana Sugar Company, in the same precinct, was made master
mechanic, and has occupied that position ever since. The relative importance of the
two important and successful factories may be seen from the output of the former, 600
tons of beets a day, and that of the latter, 1,000 tons a day. The intricacy of the highly-
specialized machinery naturally calls for unusual ability and wide experience.
The Santa Ana Sugar Factory is said, indeed, to be the best-equipped to produce
sugar in the most sanitary and economical manner of any beet-sugar factory in Cali
fornia. It was erected in 1912; the size of the main building is 66 by 266 feet; the length
of all buildings is 971 feet; and they are equipped with American machinery. Two
hundred twenty-six independent farmers grew beets for this factory in 1912, and the
area of their beet-patches aggregated 9,061 acres.
At New Orleans, Mr. Wagner was married to Miss Fredericker Silbernagel, a
native of New Orleans, and one child has been granted them — a son,. William J„ also an
expert machinist, who is conducting, however, a general merchandise store at Delhi.
Mr. and Mrs. Wagner live at Santa Ana, and attend the Catholic Church. Mr. Wagner
is a member of the Knights of Columbus and also of the Elks.
CARL J. GRINNELL. — That it is not necessary for one to have lived long in
Orange County to partake enthusiastically of its progressive spirit and to wish to
contribute in any way possible to its further development is demonstrated by Carl J.
Grinnell. the successful citrus grower of East Orangethorpe Avenue, who has a fine
grove and keeps it in excellent condition. He was born near Lansing, Mich., on
July 25, 1886, the son of Theron J. and Cora (Craft) Grinnell, natives of Michigan,
whose parents came from New York; they were farmers and raised grain, cattle and
all kinds of stock, on their farm, where they still make their home. Carl J. is the oldest
of their two children and was graduated from the Mason high school at Mason, Mich.
He then matriculated at the State Agricultural College at Lansing and was graduated
with the class of '10, with the degree of M.E. after which he took up the practical end
of mechanical engineering with the Detroit Edison Illuminating Company
-,* tnt? nng™-S en^aSement there> Mr. Grinnell was married at Kalamazoo on October
26, 191 \ to Miss Jessie Dean, born in Rockford, Iowa, a daughter of Rev. J. O. and
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was a Baptist clergyman; he is now deceased, while his widow resides at Kalamazoo.
She received her training first in the public schools of Michigan and then at the State
Normal in Kalamazoo, and for several years she was an instructor in both the graded
and high schools at Fowlerville and Pinckney, Mich. After his marriage, Mr. Grinnell
spent three and a half years with his father on the home farm near Mason. In Novem
ber, 1916, he came out to California, and purchased ten acres on East Orangethorpe
Avenue. Walnut and orange trees were already interset there, but Mr. Grinnell took
out the walnuts and put in Valencias instead. He brought the land under the Anaheim
Union Water Company, and in 1917 built his home on the ranch. He markets his
oranges through the Placentia Orange Growers Association.
Mr. and Mrs. Grinnell are members of the Baptist Church of Fullerton, and also
of the Eastern Star. Mr. Grinnell who was made a Mason in the Mason (Mich.) Lodge,
No. 70, A. F. & A. M., is now a member of Fullerton Lodge, No. 339, F. & A. M.;
Fullerton Chapter No. 90, and Santa Ana Council, R. & S. M. In local politics he is
an Independent, .preferring to vote for the men and measures irrespective of party.
JOHN OBORNE. — England has given many a first-rate settler to the United
States and especially has she furnished her sons and daughters for the great work of
developing the commonwealth of California, so wondrously rich in her resources.
Among these Britons to come here and cast their fortunes in with thousands of others
willing to wage in order to win is John Oborne, the successful and well-known cement
contractor of Fullerton who was born in Somersetshire, on October 14, 1867, the son
of George and Amy (Higgins) Oborne, who were the parents of thirteen children.
From the boyhood experience of our subject, who was the third child born to the enter
prising couple, it is fair to assume that the number in the family was a lucky one,
albeit John got more schooling from the outside world than he did from the class room
for he had to go to work as a boy, and that much he certainly learned — how to work.
When only fourteen years of age, the lad crossed the ocean to Canada and for
two and a half years stopped at Woodstock, Ontario; then, crossing the line into the
States, he lived in Michigan until 1904, where he worked in timber camps and at
farming. In that year he came west to California, and from the first located at Fuller-
ton, although for two years he was in Santa Ana.
For the past eight years, Mr. Oborne has been contracting for all kinds of cement
work, and while employing five men or more, he has built most of the Fullerton side
walks, and among other buildings "poured" by him is the local jail — as ornate as it is
substantial and safe. Besides his home place he is developing a five-acre orange grove
near Olinda.
On January 11, 1900, at Detroit, Mich., Mr. Oborne was married to Miss Susie
Chovin, a native of Detroit, Mich., and the daughter of Frank A. and Hannah Chovin,
farmers near Detroit. She is a member of the Methodist Church, while Mr. Oborne
clings to his Anglican, or Episcopal Church. Three children — all girls — have blessed
their union; and they bear the names of Mary E., Mildred E. and Edith M. Mr.
Oborne is a Republican, and also a Woodman of the World and a member of the
Protected Home Circle of Detroit, Mich. He and his good wife are deeply interested
in Orange County, and ready to cooperate in any civic movement for the uplift of the
community, and the furtherance of its progress.
LORENZO A. HAMPTON. — A promising young rancher whose scientific knowl
edge is likely to assist him in more satisfactorily solving some of the problems of hor
ticulture, is Lorenzo A. Hampton, a native of Iowa, where he was born near West Bend
in Buena Vista County on August 13, 1885, the son of Lindley E. Hampton, a farmer
who raised stock and also followed general agriculture. He had married Ruia Swart-
wout, and they removed to Palisade, Colo., when Lorenzo was only eight years of
age. He attended the schools of that town, and later graduated from the Denver high
school. Lindley Hampton had a peach grove of twenty acres near Palisade, and this
had to be irrigated, a work in which father and son both joined.
Once having finished his studies, Lorenzo Hampton came to California in 1906
and studied at the University of Southern California, from which he was duly grad
uated in 1911 with the degree of A.B. He made a specialty of chemistry and was em
ployed as a chemist by the engineer department of the city of Los Angeles. At the end
of a year, he left municipal service, continuing in the line of his professional work with
the Federal Chemical Fertilizing Company.
In 1906 his parents came out to California to live, and the following year they
purchased a ranch of twenty acres on East Orangethorpe Avenue. Part of the ranch
was planted to walnuts, but he took out the walnuts and planted orange trees instead.
Now all of. the ranch but one acre — in walnuts — is devoted to the culture of oranges.
Lorenzo A. Hampton spent three years on the home ranch, from 1912 to 1915, and
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then he purchased five acres from his father. That same year he returned to the
University of Southern California, after which he taught in Burbank for a couple of
years. His next move brought him to the Los Angeles high school, and there he is at
present, one of the faculty. He teaches chemistry, and in his spare time looks after his
five acres of Valencias. He has a private pumping plant and it commands thirty-five
inches of water. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and aims to keep
abreast of the times.
On June 15, 1911, Mr. Hampton was married to Miss Katherine Twombly, a native
of Little Rock, Ark., and the daughter of Sidney S. and Etta Twombly. Her father
was professor of agriculture in the University of Arkansas, and her home surroundings
had been of the best. Mr. Twombly was made a professor in the University of Utah,
and to that state they removed. They came to California in 1895, and having settled
in Orange County, purchased a ranch on East Chapman Avenue, Fullerton. There
were twenty-eight acres in the ranch, and there they have lived ever since. Two chil
dren blessed the happy union of Mr. and Mrs. Hampton. The elder is Gordon Francis,
and the younger, Katherine Elizabeth. In national political affairs Mr. Hampton is a
Republican, but in local movements he does not hesitate to support heartily the best
men and the best measures, regardless of party.
HUGH CONGER THOMSON.— A native son, full of the genuine spirit of Amer
icanism, and an ingenious workman of valuable initiative, capable of pointing the way
to others and leading in aggressive, bold movements, is Hugh Conger Thomson, the
son of Hugh T. Thomson, the well-known and popular manager of the Jotham Bixby
estate in Orange County. He was born in Villa Park, on July 6, 1893, and at that place
attended the excellent graded school. Later, in 1909, he put in a very profitable year
at Throop College, Pasadena, when he entered the employ of Brintnell's ranch at
Guadalupe, Cal. He was. also employed, for a year, in 1911, by the Jotham Bixby Com
pany, but the next year he became zanjero for the Gray Tract Well Company.
In 1918, Mr. Thomson became foreman for the Jotham Bixby Company, in which
position he had the responsibility of improving and developing new acreage. In the
fall of 1919, he gave up his position there to try farming for himself, and he continues
to ranch on his home place in Villa Park, where he has five and a half acres of Valencia
oranges and lemons seven years old.
On November 21, 1910, Mr. Thomson was married to Miss Edyth Popplewell,
a schoolmate of days at Villa Park; and three children have blessed their union —
Barbara Edyth, Emma Nancy and Hugh Conger, Jr. In national politics a Republican,
Mr. Thomson is at all times ready to do nonpartisan "boosting" for the community
and county in which he lives. He is also fond of sport in the open, and enjoys hunt
ing trips to Bear Valley and other natural preserves known to the real sportsman.
WILLIAM BAKER. — A successful manufacturer and business man, who has
proven of great service to many in need of expert work in the mechanical field, is
William Baker, proprietor of the Santa Ana Machine Works, at the corner of First
and Sycamore streets. He was born in Ness City, Ness County, Kans., on July 10,
1885, the son of James H. Baker, a native of Ohio, who had married Susan Barker,
born in Clearmont, Ky.; they were married in Kentucky and removed to Ness County,
Kans., where he was a stockman. In 1904 they brought the family to Southern Cali
fornia and engaged in stock raising, and now reside in Escondido, San Diego County.
William attended the public schools in Kansas until he was fifteen years of age,
and during this time helped his father on the ranch, riding the range and driving
teams. Breaking away from home, he went to Yuma, Ariz., in 1901, arriving with $1.65
as his entire capital, and for seven and a half years was in the mechanical department
ot the U. b. Reclamation Service, learning the trade of machinist. Next he put in
a year and a half in the oil fields at Santa Maria, Cal., and then went to Douglas, Ariz.,
where he worked for the El Paso & South Western Railroad. After that he was
master mechanic for the Copper Queen Company at Tombstone for three and a half
years. He put in eight months at Bisbee, Ariz., still following his trade.
On April 28, 1918, Mr. Baker came to Santa Ana and bought, from E G Jenks,
his Present machine shop, in which he installed new machinery, until it is now a fine
establishment, thoroughly modern in every respect, whose equipment for first-class
work is such that it serves patrons all over Orange County, and as far as Tacoma,
Seattle, Chicago, St. Paul, Minn., and even to the Hawaiian Islands. He gives em
ployment to quite a number of skilled mechanics, and the constant increase in his trade
has made it clear that he must soon considerably enlarge his place and equipment. He
does all kinds of repair work on farm implements and pumping plants, and among
special appliances of his own, makes a specialty, as ,- partner of S. E. Lane of the
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for oil well use. The object is a coupling for connecting, detachably, two sections so
that they will not be subject to accidental disconnections; and in attending to first-
class machine work of all kinds Mr. Baker has been more than successful. He also
manufactures eye benders for auto springs for the Kenyon Eye Bender Manufactur
ing Company, as well as others.
On January 18, 1912, he was married to Miss Camilla Venneman, born in Chi
cago, 111., a charming lady and a valuable helpmate. Both Mr. and Mrs. Baker are
fond of outdoor life, and in leisure hours make the most of residence in a state un
rivalled for its climate, and in a progressive city with the most improved means of
communication with the outside world. He is a member of the Merchants and Manu
facturers Association, and fraternally is a member of Santa Ana Lodge of Elks.
ABE PRITCHARD. — A man of vigorous activities, who knows how to persevere
and to give his courage and unusual energy to the accomplishment of the task at
hand, Abe Pritchard has for the past fifteen years ably guided the affairs of the Pla
centia Orange Growers Association, and his wise counsel and efficient execution have
greatly aided in its upbuilding. A thoroughly wide-awake, admirably equipped organ
ization, it has done much to advance the individual interests of those engaged in citrus
fruit culture, and which has thereby also forwarded the best and most permanent
interests of the Fullerton district. During the season, when the two packing houses
of which Mr. Pritchard has charge are running to their full capacity, they employ
225 people, so that their operafions form one of those enterprises for which any
ambitious and progressive community would be glad to make a substantial bid.
A Canadian by birth, Mr. Pritchard was born at Kazabazua, Province of Quebec,
on January 17, 1865, the son of James Pritchard, a farmer, who had married Miss Eliza
Steenson, by whom he had ten children, nine sons and a daughter, of whom Abe
Pritchard is next to the youngest and the only one in California. He was educated
in the local schools of his birthplace, and assisted his parents on the farm. After the
death of his parents he engaged in farming on the old home place in partnership with
his brother Robert, until 1900, when they dissolved partnership, as Mr. Pritchard
had decided to try his fortune on the Pacific Coast. Coming direct to Orange County,
Cal., in 1900 he liked it so well that he decided to locate here permanently, and fortu
nately both for himself and the young town, Mr. Pritchard early located at Fullerton,
where he found work in packing houses. In time he became employed with the
Benchley Fruit Company, and in 1905 he was made manager of the Placentia Orange
Growers Association, their house then being located on the Santa Fe Railroad. In
1910 they built a packing house at Placentia, and in 1917, completed the large packing
house on East Commonwealth Avenue, Fullerton, Mr. Pritchard being manager of
both. They are both models of efficiency, being equipped with the most modern
machinery in the line of the orange trade. In 1905, Mr. Pritchard's first year as
manager, the association shipped 135 cars of citrus fruit, and in 1919 the shipment
reached 1,280 cars, a wonderful growth.
Mr. Pritchard's many-sided business associations have awakened in him an
intense interest in the welfare and the future prospects of Orange County, and just
as in matters of national political import he seeks tp do his full duty as a citizen under
the leadership of the Republican party, so in an equally nonpartisan manner he is
among the first to put his shoulder to the wheel and to help along any worthy move
ment likely to hasten the day when Fullerton "comes to her own." He is particularly
active in this regard through the channels of the Fullerton Board of Trade and the
Fullerton Club, being a charter member of the latter organization.
On November 12, 1912, at Los Angeles, Mr. Pritchard was married to Miss Bertha
Wilhite, who was born at Dripping Springs, near Austin, Texas, and three daughters
have come to complete the family circle and to further gladden their lives: Carolyn,
Marian Louise and Katherine Elizabeth.
BENJAMIN H. COLE. — Numbered among the energetic and successful young
business men of Olive is the efficient manager of the Olive Heights Citrus Association,
Benjamin Harrison Cole, who has resided at Olive for the past eight years. Mr. Cole
is a native of New Albany, Ind., born August 21, 1888, and is the son of Joseph, a dis
abled Union soldier, and Harriet F. (Moore) Cole, also natives of Indiana, where the
father followed the calling of a merchant. In 1899, when Benjamin was a lad of eleven,
the family removed to California, settling at Upland in San Bernardino County, where
the father died in 1905, survived by his widow, who is still living at Upland.
Benjamin H. acquired a grammar school education and at the age of twelve went
to work in the Upland packing house. He is the fourth child in order of birth in the
parental family of five children. The oldest of the family, Will, is employed as ticket
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Bodenheimer, who is employed by the horticultural commissioner of Los Angeles;
Alma is the wife of Charles Perkin, a rural mail carrier at Upland, Cal., and Roy, the
youngest of the family, is with the North Ontario Packing Company at Los Angeles'.
Benjamin Cole resided at Upland for thirteen years and at the age of sixteen became
foreman of the packing house, continuing in the company's employ until he came to
Olive for a change of climate on account of his health, eight years ago. He was in the
employ of the Growers Fruit Company at Olive, and in May, 1915, accepted the position
as foreman of the Olive Heights Citrus Association, succeeding Mr. White as secretary
and manager of the company in 1916. The company handles the product of 700 acres
of fruit, principally Valencia oranges, and market their product in New York and
Philadelphia, shipping forty carloads of fruit a year, aggregating $375,000 worth of
fruit. ' The present officers are Dr. Thomas, president; C. A. Palmer, vice-president;
B. H. Cole, secretary and manager, and K. V. Wolff, treasurer. The Association's
packing house is located on a switch of the Santa Fe Railway and is 70x120 feet in
dimension, with a capacity of four carloads of fruit per day. The entire process of
taking care of the fruit, excepting refrigeration, is done here.
In 1907 Mr. Cole established domestic ties by his marriage with Miss Mary Barton
of Upland, Cal. They have two children — Marian and Robert B. Mr. Cole resides on
a twenty-five-acre orange and walnut grove on the Olive-Orange Boulevard, in which
he has a half interest. Fraternally he is affiliated with Anaheim Lodge, No. 1345, B.
P. O. Elks, where he is justly popular.
GUSTAVE HEDSTROM.— Much credit is due to those who have succeeded in
life solely by their own efforts, and among these, Gustave Hedstrom, the enterprising
and up-to-date orange and walnut grower on the Garden Grove-Anaheim Boulevard, is
classed as a leader and is in every way worthy of the success he has achieved. What
he has in the way of worldly goods has been the result of years of toil, and in all his
labors he has had the hearty cooperation of his wife, who shares with him the esteem
of all who know them.
A native of Sweden, Gustave Hedstrom was born on May 2, 1858, the son of
Charles and Sarah Hedstrom, both natives of that country, whose family consisted of
seven children, only four of whom are still living. Gustave received his schooling in his
native country and in 1879, thinking to be able to better his condition in the new world,
left home and upon arriving in America located for a short time in Knoxville, Tenn.
Later he spent six months in Pittsburgh, Pa., then located in Trenton, N. J., for a year.
He was looking about for a place in which to cast anchor, and in 1881, he went west
to North Dakota, where he took up a homestead and for the four years that he was
proving up on his property he engaged in railroad work to make what money was
necessary for a living until he could raise some crops. When he disposed of his farm
he removed to Joliet, 111., and for fifteen years he was engaged in the mercantile busi
ness, meeting with success in his venture.
He had acquired considerable information about California and its opportunities
and he decided to cast in his lot with this commonwealth; accordingly he disposed of
his holdings in the East and in 1893 located in Los Angeles. In his younger davs he
had worked at the trade of carpenter and after his arrival here he contracted for build
ings in Huntington Park for four years. He recalls the time when he was offered a lot
where now stands the great Hamburger building for $400. He was to pay down $10
and to pay $10 per month till it was paid for, but on account of nothing in the line of
improvements in that locality and being practically in the country, he could not see the
proposition in the light of a good investment. Orange groves were then scattered
throughout the district south of Tenth Street. He worked about Los Angeles at his
trade until settling on his twenty-acre ranch, which he bought in 1906, and ever since
locating on the place he has spent considerable time at his trade, in all working about
twenty-five years at it in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
« /Jf P-!TaCe he 0W,nS was formerly the property of A. M. Nutt and was appropriately
called the Nutwood Ranch, which name is still in vogue, as Mr. Nutt set out the trees.
bmce becoming the owner of this valuable place, Mr. Hedstrom has added many innova-
" I" h T^non V C6S and US6S e,ectricity for his fine pumping plant, which has
Itl01'".,-?^ an automatic pumping device, and continues making im-
fhe ranch Th 0 ^ ™* gr°UndS Until he has made a veritable "show place" of
in th wS V H rr*".56* Wth VaIencia oranSe trees- He a,so owns a ranch
in the Imperial Valley, which is being improved under his direction.
s„," 188S' at J0!16.*' I!1- Mr- Hedstrom and Miss Mathilda Johnson, a native of
G EdiLdYsV 1 •"amage and seven children have coffle Jto ^
G. Edward is running the Imperial Valley ranch; Jennie M.; Edith and Esther are both
vershvgofSCal0f '"¦ ^T ^"^ ^ °' t0°k a P-t-graduate course at the Uni
versity of California and is now teaching in the Anaheim high school. He served in

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the World War in the Naval Officers Training School at San Pedro and is still a mem
ber of the Naval Reserves; Helen and Grace are both attending the University of
Redlands. The family are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Hedstrom belongs to
the Modern Woodmen of America and to the Fraternal Aid Union; is a stanch supporter
of the principles of the Republican party and believes in cooperation, holding member
ship in both the Walnut Growers Association and the Orange Growers Fruit Exchange
at Anaheim. In every enterprise that Mr. Hedstrom has engaged in he has met with
success and he is now enjoying a well-earned rest after many years of toil. He and his
family are highly esteemed by all who know them and they have an ever-widening
circle of friends. As a progressive citizen and rancher, Mr. Hedstrom tries to make
this place a desirable locality in which to invite settlers to help build up the county.
WAYMAN K. JOHNSON. — An experienced and ambitiously aggressive young
farmer of much promise. is Wayman K. Johnson, who is happily settled on a leased
ranch two miles south of Irvine Station, where, having recently married, he is fixing
up the buildings, and will soon have a comfortable, attractive home. He was born
at Long Beach on June 9, 1900, and from his first year grew up on the famous San
Joaquin Ranch. He attended the grade schools at Irvine, and for three years studied
at the high school at Santa Ana. He was then compelled to abandon his books,
but he has always been a good observer, of studious mind, so that he has already
added much from practical experience with the world. He assisted his father on the
farm, and when he was only seventeen he was his father's foreman and main assistant.
In 1920 he began farming for himself on the San Joaquin Ranch, and there he is
working out his agricultural problems not far from the State highway. He is farming,
all in all, 397 acres, sixty being devoted to the making of barley hay, another sixty
to the growing of blackeye beans, and 250 acres to the ever-popular lima bean. Taking
the greatest care to put into the earth only the best quality of seed, and giving unre
mitting attention thereafter to coaxing from the earth those superior results and
fruits such as always gladden the heart of the tiller, it is almost a foregone conclusion
that Mr. Johnson cannot fail to evolve crops of which any ranchman might be proud.
On October 6, 1919, Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Jessie Huff, of Santa Ana,
and a daughter of Nathan Huff of the same city. Congenial in their tastes and ideas,
they are equally interested in making of their experience as Orange County ranchers
only what Orange County guarantees to all who will work intelligently, and hope
at the same time. Although young, Mr. Johnson seems familiar with most of the
many sides of modern California ranching; and what he does not know or at once
recall, the helpful intuition of his gifted young, but studious wife is likely at all times
to supply. REV. LOUIS PHILIPPE GENEST — Among the accomplished and devoted
clergy of Orange County who have done so much, through their natural gifts, their
industry and unselfish labors, and their high ideals and farsightedness, both to make
Southeui California what it is as a desirable home place, and what it promises to be,
more and more, as the golden years roll by, must be mentioned, and among the first, the
Rev. Louis Philippe Genest, the pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church at Huntington
Beach. He was born at Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, on September 14, 1890, the son
of Arthur and Rose de Lima (Dussault) Genest, born in Quebec, whose parents came
fom France to Canada and were pioneers of Sherbrooke, Quebec. Reverend Genest's
father was in the employ of the government civil service for many years until he was
retired with a pension, and he and his estimable wife, now reside at. the old home in
comfortable circumstances.
Father Genest was educated, first at the school of the Brothers of the Sacred
Heart, and then at the Seminary bf St. Charles-Borromee. At the former, he pursued
the primary studies, and at the latter he received instruction in the classics and matters
of theology, according to the teachings of the Catholic Church. Both of these fine insti
tutions are at Sherbrooke, so that he was able, while studying, to remain amid sur
roundings altogether familiar and helpful in their congenialty to him. On June 29,
1915, he was ordained to the priesthood in the Cathedral at Sherbrooke by the Rt. Rev.
Bishop Paul La Rocque, bishop of Sherbrooke, and then he was made assistant pastor
of churches, first at Coaticook, then at Richmond, then Weedon, then Asbestos and
finally at Wotton. For a few months, also, he was chaplain of Ursuline Convent at
Stanstead, Quebec.
Owing to ill health, brought about by overwork in the devotion to his duty,
Father Genest obtained leave of absence and came to California; and on January 1,
1920, he became resident pastor of St.' Mary's Church at Huntington Beach. The people
from Newport, East Newport and Balboa are also attended from Huntington Beach.
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has endeavored from the first to make its advancement coincide with the expansion of
the town itself — now one of the most promising settlements in Orange County. St.
Mary's Catholic Church at Huntington Beach was established by and under the charge
of Rev. J. A. Reardon of Long Beach. They first rented a building and remodeled it
for their use, but in about 1912 they purchased the property they had under lease on
the corner of Tenth and Orange streets, Huntington Beach. The first resident pastor
was Rev. John Reynolds, then Father M. J. Slattery, and after him Rev. Henry O'Reilly;
then came Rev. Francis Woodcutter, Rev. C. Breitkopf and Father Benson until the
arrival of Father Genest, who has by his affability, scholarly attainments and kindness
greatly endeared himself not only to the members of his congregation, but to all
who know him. Aside from his duties as pastor he has found time to accept and fill
the position of teacher of French at the Long Beach Catholic high school, a place he is
filling with ability. About eighty families make up membership of the church, which is
constantly growing, and which, now that Father Genest has put his hand to the helm,
will be sure to increase in the healthiest manner.
CHARLES W. OLSON. — The right man in the right place has more than once
proven to be Charles W. Olson, the efficient and popular foreman for the Santa Ana
Sugar Company, who was born at Denver, Colo., on June 20, 1885, the son of Alfred
and Carrie Olson. He was sent to school in Denver, for his parents, who came from
Sweden, brought with them as a precious heritage, a high regard for education. They
were pioneers in Colorado, and Alfred Olson was an engineer on the old Kansas Pacific,
now called the Union Pacific Railroad. Charles W. Olson came to California in 1903,
and worked for six months on a ranch west of Santa Ana. Then he returned to Colo
rado, and farmed north of Denver. He had 240 acres devoted to gardening and dairying,
and was for ten years superintendent of that farm.
At the time of the earthquake in 1906 Mr. Olson was in San Francisco, and he
came down to Southern California to recuperate after the hardships and shock sustained
in that harrowing experience. After a six-months' stay he returned to Denver, carrying
with him such pleasant memories of the 'Southland that in 1912 he decided to locate
here permanently. Arriving here, he entered the employ of the Santa Ana Sugar
Company, from its first construction, and there, his ability and fidelity more and more
appreciated, he has been employed ever since. For the past six years, he has been
general foreman of the entire plant, which has a capacity of a thousand tons of beets
every twenty-four hours; nor could he have found anywhere a more satisfactory
corporation to work for. The sugar is marketed through the Los Angeles brokers,
the company making beet pulp and other by-products.
Mr. Olson has always taken a constructive interest in everything pertaining to
the advancement of the community and is rated as one of its most dependable citizens.
In fraternal circles he is a Knight Templar Mason and a Shriner.
WILLIAM J. RICHARDSON. — An engineer of wide and varied experience who
has proven to be very efficient in executive work as superintendent of the -Orange
Water Works, is William J. Richardson, who first came to California in 1908, two
years after he had left England, his native country, in the month of April. He was
born in Somersetshire, on April 30, 1872, but reared at Bradford, in Yorkshire, the
son of William J. Richardson, a teamster of Bradford. There were seven children in
the family, but William is the only one now on the Pacific Coast.
He attended the local public schools, and when sixteen years of age was appren
ticed as an engineer and machinist to the manufacturers, the William Ramsden Com
pany. At the end of five years, he entered the service of the city of Bradford, as
engineer of the fire department, and later, for four years, he was with the Water-Lane
Dye Company, as hydraulic engineer, from which he resigned in order to come to the
United States.
Arriving in New York City on May 2, 1906, Mr. Richardson was made master
mechanic for the Standard Steel Works at Burnham, Pa., and discharged that respon
sibility until February 1908. when he resigned and came west to California. In April,
attracted by an offer from the Modern Manufacturing Company of Orange to become
their die maker, he settled at Orange; and when the office of superintendent of the
TerlnAZZ^ TO T-T', h! WaS aPP°inted t° the post, and accepted. He has since
remodeled he plant which had become run down, bringing it up to a high standard.
««inm the citizens of Orange voted a bond issue of $50,000; and of that sum
new Tein?„SrrS 1 '" t^OO Cast-ivon P'Pe a"d hydrants, and $20,000 for erecting
1 ! e'e buildings and installing boilers, as well as for a 2,000.000
So wiseW Ts nirT6; |nd ! 60°'000 ga,1°n reinforced-concrete storage reUrvoir.
now works tn n 00 *' ri"1-50 s"ccessfully installed, that everything in the plant
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employed; but at night there is storage by high pressure in two 50,000-gallon tanks.
Mr. Richardson devotes all of his time to the responsible work in hand, and so is able
to give entire satisfaction.
Mr. Richardson was first married in Bradford, England, when he was united with
Miss Elizabeth Hannah- Holmes. At the Empire Day disaster at Long Beach, on May
24, 1913, she was among those killed when the approach to the Auditorium gave way;
at the time she was only thirty-eight years of age and left her husband and two chil
dren, John William, now an engineer in the merchant marine sailing out of San Fran
cisco, and Rose Alice, a graduate of the Orange County Business College, and now
with the National Bank of Orange.
At Orange Mr. Richardson was married a second time when he was joined to
Miss Marie Stine, a native of Illinois, who with him attends the Presbyterian Church.
He was made a Mason in Orange Grove Lodge No. 293, and long ago joined the
Republican party, and declared himself for protection.
LEO. M. DOYLE. — Prominent among those broad-minded, large-hearted citizens
of high ideals and straightforward ways, whose integrity never was questioned and
whose judgment was sought and advice followed must ever be mentioned the late Leo
M. Doyle, the banker of Santa Ana, a gentleman esteemed for his thorough knowledge
of banking in all its details, and also for his ability to size up and appreciate fellowmen.
He was born in Gratiot, Wis., on May 27, 1882, the son of M. M. and Joanna (Quinn)
Doyle, who were farmers in that state until they removed to Dakota where Mr. Doyle
was a banker. Now they make their home at Hollywood, honored by an enviable
circle of devoted friends.
Leo Doyle was reared at Darlington, Wis., where he attended both the grammar
and high schools, and when seventeen years of age he removed with his parents to
Mitchell, S. D., where he matriculated at the Wesleyan University. Having been
graduated from that excellent institution, he took a course at the business college in
Mitchell, and on completing his studies, entered the Western National Bank in that
town, as teller, both he and his father having become interested in the institution.
He was also interested in farming, and grew to be a successful dealer in lands.
At Pierre, S. D., on October 30, 1906, Mr. Doyle was married to Miss Rose Collins,
a native of Wakonda, in that state, and the daughter of William Collins, who was born
in Dubuque, Iowa, and who had married Miss Margaret Mulvehill. Then they moved
to South Dakota, where Mr. Collins was a business man in Wakonda, until his death.
His widow, Mrs. Doyle's mother, still makes her home there. After his marriage, Mr.
Doyle removed to Letcher, S. D., where with his father he started the Citizens Bank
of Letcher, acting as cashier, while Mrs. Doyle was assistant cashier; but in December,
1913, when his father had already removed to California and liked it well, he sold his
banking interest and also came out to the Coast. He settled temporarily at Hollywood,
and entered the Home Savings Bank in Los Angeles to get familiar with California.
Then, after traveling the state from north to south, he selected Santa Ana for his
permanent location, and immediately sta'rted to organize the Citizens Commercial
Savings Bank, associating with him his father, M. M. Doyle and others.
In 1917, the Citizens Commercial Savings Bank was merged into the California
National Bank, and Mr. Doyle was elected cashier; and he continued active in the bank's
management and on January 1, 1920, was elected its vice-president. Unfortunately, the
influenza attacked him in October, 1918, and he had only partially recovered when he
went back to work; but although he made his home on his ranch at El Modena, he
could hot regain his strength. Then he gave up regular work in the bank and went
camping in the mountains for a while; but in August he purchased a residence in Mon
rovia and there removed with his family. He tried in vain, however, to call back his
old-time strength and vigor, and on March 16, 1920, passed away, widely esteemed and
beloved by all who intimately knew him. His body was interred at Calvary Cemetery.
Leo M. Doyle was a devout member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, and was
not only one of the organizers of the Knights of Columbus, but was for two terms a
grand knight. He was prominent in civic affairs, and was a member of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association and also the Chamber of Commerce, and was active in
the bond and other war drives. He was also a popular member of the Orange County
Country Club. On the day of his lamented demise, the Santa Ana Register said of
him: "Mr. Doyle became well known, and the stamp of his personality has been left
upon both business enterprises and in social circles in Santa Ana." Since her hus
band's death, Mrs. Doyle has moved back to Santa Ana where, surrounded by her
former friends and endearing associations, she is looking after the large business affairs
left by her husband. A devout Christian, she is conscientiously directing the education
of her four children — Rosalie, Dolores, Kenneth and Mary Elizabeth, and is a member
of St. Joseph's Church and the Altar Society of that congregation.

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JAMES THOMAS STOCKTON.— Born in Jacksonville, Texas, May 8, 1862,
James Thomas Stockton was a son of Richard and Sarah (Bugg) Stockton, members of
old Southern families and successful farmers. The mother died in Texas in 1867, the
family moved to Washington County, Ark., and later to Ozark, Ark., where his father
died. James was next to the youngest of the children of this union and was reared
a farmer's boy and attended the public school in his district. When twenty-two years of
age he began farming for himself.
At Ozark, Ark., December 29, 1887, Mr. Stockton was married to Cener A. Hadley,
who was a native of that place, a daughter of John and Agnes A. (Miller) Hadley,
natives of Alabama and Tennessee, respectively, who were early settlers of Arkansas.
Later they came to Santa Ana, where the mother died. The father went to Wagner,
Okla., where he died in December, 1902. There were three children born of this union:
Cener, Mrs. Stockton; Minnie, Mrs. Johnston of Whittier; and L. B., a large celery
grower on Jersey Island, Cal. Cener Hadley received her education in the public
schools of Arkansas.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Stockton started farming and a year later, in
1888, removed to Polk County, Ark., and homesteaded 160 acres, making the improve
ments and proved up on it. After nine years, in 1897, they came to California and
located in Orange County. They purchased twenty acres near Talbert and a few
months later sold it at a profit. Next, they bought thirty acres on the Mesa near
Wintersburg from Mr: Draper and later traded twenty acres of this for twenty acres
adjoining the Draper twenty acres, making forty acres in a body, where they raised
alfalfa and corn. Later they sold the original ten acres at a good profit to a Mr.
Preston; then they bought fifty acres across the road from their home, making thenr
ninety acres. In 1910 they sold the original Draper twenty acres to Walton Blaylock
and afterwards the other twenty acres to a Mr. Pond. In the fall of 1910 they moved
to Santa Ana and bought a residence on Parton Street and resided there over one year,
in 1912 selling the Parton Street residence and purchasing fourteen acres on West
Fifth Street, west of Santa Ana; later they bought twenty acres more across from their
place on Fifth Street. In 1913 they sold the twenty acres at a profit and soon after
wards also sold the fourteen acres and bought a residence on North Bush Street, where
they resided until the fall of 1914, when they sold and bought a residence at 709 South
Birch Street and there they resided until the fall of 1916, when they sold it and moved
back to the ranch and bought ten acres adjoining it on the north and there they were
farming when Mr. Stockton died, September 14, 1919.
Mr. Stockton was indeed a progressive and enterprising man and was the first
rancher to raise sugar beets in that section. With his brother Newton he raised the
first crop of lima beans in his section; it was threshed on the ground and tramped out
with horses pulling a disc harrow over it. In this way they showed what could be
raised. He was also one of the early celery growers and was a good and successful
farmer. Since her husband's death Mrs. Stockton manages the sixty-acre ranch with the
assistance of her son, Everett; she also owns 320 acres in Nevada. She has lately
moved to Santa Ana, where she bought a comfortable bungalow at 801 South Sycamore
Street, which she sold in August, 1920, when she made a trip to Oregon and Wash
ington and on her return purchased her present bungalow, 506 South Garnsey Street,
where she now makes her home. Mr. and Mrs. Stockton had five children: Everett A.
is running the home farm; Effie, Mrs. H. J. Lamb of Santa Ana; Minnie, Mrs. E. R.
Porter of Glendora; Eunice T., Mrs. J. H. Sewell of Berkeley; and Gordon Maurice is
still at home. Mr. and Mrs. Stockton were members of the Church of Christ, of which
she has been a member since she was fourteen years old and is still an active member.
ADOLPH T. HAMMERSCHMIDT.— Some very interesting pioneer history is
recalled in the story of Adolph T. Hammerschmidt and his family. He was born in
Lombard, Du Page County, 111., on April 29, 1883, the son of William H. Hammer
schmidt a farmer and the proprietor of the Lombard Brick and Tile Company, as well
as president of the Elmhurst Chicago Stone Company, who had married Miss Elizabeth
mirdorf. Adolph was the eldest of eight children and while staying with his father on
the home farm, he attended first the common schools of Lombard and then the North
western College of Naperville, 111., where he took a business course. After that for two
terms he pursued the manual training course of the Lewis Institute in Chicago.
^Oa It Z V"? 0 California- and at Fullerton, on August 8. 1907, he was
marr ed to Miss Marie Burdorf the daughter of Henry and Dorothy (Wohler) Burdorf.
rl -™^r- the earliest settlers of Orange County, and came from Hanover,
fnrZTZ'JZ V!f thei!Sth,^S °f Panama t0 San Francisco. He then came down
citv lim,>f ,nH h'K -u t,ard ^ acres SOUth of Fu»erto„ now adjoining the southern
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town had two sections of land fenced in and it was decidedly a pioneer venture to build
in the -'wilds" outside the paling, there being no Fullerton at that time. Since then
Mr. Burdorf has divided the 100 acres, so bare when he first acquired them, among
his sons and daughters; and then ten acres Mr. Hammerschmidt is now living on were
given to the latter's first wife. Mrs. Hammerschmidt was thus reared and educated at
Orangethorpe. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Hammerschmidt returned to Illinois and lived
for a year and a half on a farm near Lombard, but his wife could not stand the more
severe climate, and they came back to sunnier California. They settled on the ten acres
at Orangthorpe near Spadra, and improved the land by setting out trees. They planted
an acre and a half to Navel oranges, three and a half acres to Valencias, and three and
half acres to walnuts; and a quarter of an acre they devoted to various other kinds of
fruit, and in 1908 built a handsome residence. Mr. Hammerschmidt cultivates with an
All-Work tractor and markets through the Fullerton Mutual Orange Growers Asso
ciation. He has a seven-inch well 175 feet deep with a Johnson Marine pump which
yields forty inches of water.
On June 20, 1913, Mrs. Hammerschmidt died, the mother of four children— Doris,
Leonard, Marie and Richard. Mr. Hammerschmidt's second marriage united him with
Miss Annie Gerken of Santa Ana, the ceremony occurring on August 6, 1914; she was
a native of Minnesota, and the daughter of John and Alvina (Eck) Gerken, who came
to California when she was a little girl. Three children have resulted from this second
marriage, and they bear the names of George, Bernhard and Clara. With his family
he belongs to the German Lutheran Church of Anaheim of which he is a trustee, and
they are pre-eminent in patriotic work for the upbuilding, as well as the building up,
of the community.
In 1913, Mr. Hammerschmidt entered the U. S. mail service and assumed charge
of Rural Free Delivery Route No. 2 leading out of Fullerton. This covers twenty-eight
miles, and it is known to be the heaviest rural route in the state, requiring Mr. Hammer
schmidt to handle over 30,000 pieces of mail a month. Not every man, perhaps, could
hope to cope with the problems here presented, but Mr. Hammerschmidt thus far
seems to have given satisfaction to everybody.
HARRY F. DIERKER. — Fortunate in a past record of varied and enviable experi
ence, successive, continued successes, and definite, pronounced progress, Harry F.
Dierker has easily risen to prominence and influence in the short time in which he has
again been a resident of the Anaheim-Fullerton district, and one of the most active
workers for the upbuilding, as well as the building up, on broad and permanent lines, of
Orange County. He was born at Monterey, Nebr., the son of Henry Dierker, the
well-known pioneer whose interesting life story is given elsewhere in this historical
work, and when seven years of age came to California with his parents. He attended
both the grammar and the high schools at Orange, and was graduated from the Orange
County Business College at Santa Ana, thereby topping off an unusually thorough
preparation, at home and in the classroom, for a winning tussle with the exacting world.
As a young man, Harry, who from boyhood had been lucky in his helpful friend
ships, went into Los Angeles, where he became the office boy of the Pacific Tank
Company, and later mastered the ins and outs of manufacturing wooden tanks, and
two years afterward, while still advancing with that concern, he was transferred to their
San Francisco office. When he had served them well for five years, the company sent
Mr. Dierker to Washington, to establish their factory at Olympia; and having been
made general manager, with the oversight of 200 men or more, he proved his capability
in executing several contracts, some for as high as $50,000 and $60,000 worth of work,
installing complete water systems where wooden tanks and piping were used. After
four years in Washington Mr. Dierker returned to Los Angeles, and for the same
period of time assumed the management of the Los Angeles branch of the'tank-making
enterprise; and continuing to meet with success, giving entire satisfaction to both the
company's patrons and to his employers, he firmly established himself in the business
world. Mr. Dierker next spent a year in the North Yakima country, in Washington,
developing part of some land he had previously bought, and engaging in stock raising;
but eventually disposing of all his holdings save forty acres, he returned to Los Angeles
and organized the Chapman-Dierker Company, for the building of fine homes in the
Wilshire district, in Los Angeles, and he also associated himself with .the Chas. C. and
S. J. Chapman Company, as superintendent of their operations in building, which have
had such a marked effect on the development of the renowned Wilshire district and
contributed so rapidly and effectually toward making the West End of Los Angeles
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it is fair to assume, ought to prove a valuable asset in enabling Mr. Dierker, from time
to time to be of greatest service, in various ways, to the communities with which he
now ha's most frequent relations, and which are continually facing the multiform
problems of development and building for the future.
After another four years of successful work in the city of Los Angeles, Mr. Dierker
severed his connection there and bought ten acres of ten-year-old Valencia orange trees
in the Commonwealth school district in Orange County, not far from Anaheim,
effecting the sale in 1919, and there he has built for himself a comfortable, attractive
home, made and is still making many improvements, and is farming in the most
scientific manner. He owns, besides, a one-half interest in sixty-two and a half acres
near Richfield, which have been leased at a handsome figure for oil purposes, and he
also has a one-half interest in sixty acres southwest of Anaheim, now being developed
with fine prospects to oranges.
At Kokomo, Howard County, Ind., — the home-town of Elwood Haynes, the
inventor, who in the early nineties designed and constructed there the oldest American
automobile in existence, now one of the scientific treasures of the Smithsonian Institu
tion at Washington, — on September 25, 1907, Mr. Dierker was married to Miss Flora
May Kirk, a native of that city and an accomplished lady, who has always found
happiness in sociological and uplift work of all kinds, and who has become prominent
in Christian- Church circles. Mr. Dierker also has long been a leader in that well-
organized communion; and having been superintendent of the Wilshire Boulevard
Christian Church Sunday School, in Los Angeles, and active in the programs of the
church, he has already participated to the fullest degree possible in Christian Church
work at Fullerton, doing what he can to make this desirable section of the Golden State
still more attractive as a place in which not merely to labor, but to live.
MRS. CATHERINE J. DANERL— Interesting and often inspiring, especially to
youth and the mind that is ambitious of attaining all that the New West offers to those
who will work and hope, is the story of Mrs. Catherine J. Daneri, one bf the truly dis
tinguished pioneers of Orange County, and those associated, in one way or another,
intimately with her life. She was born in Glengarry County, Canada West, now known
as the Province of Ontario, the daughter of John Cainan, a well educated and well-to-do
Catholic of the city of Cork, Ireland. He came out to Canada and there married Miss
Annie McLellan, a native of Canada West and the child of Scotch Presbyterians.
About the time of the breaking out of the Civil Whr Mrs. Cainan crossed the border
into the United States and moved to Willoughby, twenty miles east of Cleveland, Ohio;
at this time Mr. Cainan was in the South and joining the forces of the Confederates in
the Civil War, he fought under General Stonewall Jackson. He was taken prisoner by
the Federals at the second battle of Bull Run and while on parole at Camp Chase,
Little Miami, Ohio, during a cyclone was struck by a falling tree limb, lopped off by
lightning, and instantly killed and lies buried in the local cemetery. These worthy
parents had five children — three sisters and two brothers, all of whom are deceased
except the subject, who was next to the youngest in the order of birth, and who was
born on May 19, 1849.
Catherine attended the public schools of her district, and came to California with
her mother and two brothers, taking the steamer from Cleveland to Chicago, and the
railroad from Chicago to Omaha, and a prairie schooner from Omaha to Lone Pine,
Inyo County, Cal., where they arrived in February, 1870. They lived through the
earthquake at Lone Pine, in 1872, losing everything they had, but escaping with their
lives; notwithstanding that twenty-one victims were buried in one grave.
A general merchandise store at Lone Pine was conducted by Messrs. Daneri and
Stewart, and Miss Cainan there became acquainted with one of the partners, Henry
B. Stewart, and there also, on August 3, 1870, married him. He was a native of Painted
Post, N. Y., and came to California with his brother, driving a large mule team across
the plains, and then freighting to the various mining camps, settling for a while at
Marysville. From there, he came to Lone Pine and effected the partnership which was
dissolved in 1873, after the earthquake, when Mr. and Mrs. Stewart and their two chil
dren moved north to Washington Territory. There, in Whatcom County, Mr. Stewart
began to farm; but he was taken sick, met with reverses, lost everything and died there
in 1879, leaving three children— Annie, Henry Alexander and Estella.
Mrs. Stewart married a second time, at San Francisco, in October, 1879, choosing
for her husband 'John B. Daneri, at one time Mr. Stewart's partner. He was one of
several brothers who were pioneer merchants at San Francisco and four other places,
selling both at retail and wholesale, before John B. Daneri came to Lone Pine, so that
he was a man of practical, valuable experience. He was born in Chiavari, near Genoa,
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around the Horn, and reached San Francisco on Washington's Birthday, 1849— a
genuine Argonaut.
Mr. Denari was, in fact, a merchant all his life until he went to the historic old
Mission town of San Juan Capistrano in 1877 and there became a farmer, taking up the
special line of the orchardist. He planted walnuts, and brought his ranch up to a high
state of cultivation, and accumulated and lost several fortunes. He died, in 1907, while
on a visit to his oldest daughter, Mrs. J. N. Grohe, at Sheridan, Ore., at the 'age of
seventy-six years and was buried in the Masonic Cemetery in that place. He left four
children: Angela, who owns the beautiful residence at 626 South Sycamore Street,
where Mrs. Denari now lives in Santa Ana; John B., the rancher and justice of the
peace, and Luigi M. and Achille F., who run Mrs. Denari's farm at San Juan
Capistrano. Mr. Denari also held the office of justice of the peace for many terms until he
resigned, some years before his death, for he was not only able to speak six languages,
but could read and write them as well, and was a well-read man. During much of their
residence at San Juan Capistrano, Mrs. Denari attended to matters of business, and* for
about twenty years she managed the farm she has now given to her children, retaining
only a life .interest, or lease. She is a strong and well-preserved woman— a Christian
making no profession of special church association; and for years she has found her
greatest pleasure in laboring for the common welfare of those about her.
WALLACE EDWIN OSWALD.— One of Fullerton's most energetic young busi
ness men, possessed of the qualities that bring success in life, coupled with the ability
to rightly apply them, is Wallace Edwin Oswald; and since his advent to Fullerton
not only has the city been favored with an automotive battery and electrical establish
ment worthy of such a progressive, hustling municipality, but the surrounding country
as well, which looks to the Oswald establishment for the last word in dependable work
manship, has never needed to journey farther to have its wants supplied.
Born in Sanborn County, S. D., on July 10, 1888, and coming to California with
his parents when he was eleven years old, Mr. Oswald, already imbued with fhe "go-
ahead" spirit of the West, has kept pace with his progressive surroundings and so has
come to take his proper place in the business circles of Fullerton, a community already
widely known for its energy, ambition and productivity. He was educated in the
schools of Santa Ana, where his parents had settled, but soon set out to make his own
way in the world.
Taking to mechanical work from the start, Mr. Oswald spent some time in
machine shops and automotive establishments, among them the Ford Motor Company
of Los Angeles, thereby gaining a thorough knowledge of all the details of this work
and the indispensable practical experience which has since stood him in good stead.
When he returned to Fullerton he opened a small shop from which has grown the
present large business establishment opened April 4, 1915. He distributes the Exide
battery and other motor accessories and his thorough workmanship and ability to
handle every phase of ignition and electrical trouble, and to give first-class automotive
service in every particular, have brought him an ever-increasing business.
Mr. Oswald's marriage united him with Miss Pearl L. Ruddock, a native of Wis
consin, whose parents, Charles E. and Lila Ruddock, are represented elsewhere in this
work. Mr. and Mrs. Oswald have two children, Una and Wanda. Mr. Oswald's
political preferences are Republican, and fraternally he is a Knights Templar Mason.
Always patriotic and public spirited, he is first, last and always for Fullerton and
Orange County.
WILLIAM G. PATTILLO. — Numbered among the prominent and rising young
business men of Fullerton is William G. Pattillo, proprietor of Pattillo's Truck and
Transfer Company. He was born at Hopkinsville, Christian County, Ky., August 3, 1880,
was reared on the farm, educated in the public schools, and followed the occupation of
farming with his father until 1900, the year he came to California. He first located
at Fullerton, where he secured employment with A. V. Smith, general manager for
F. and W. Thumb Company, large ranch owners in the Fullerton district and in San
Diego County, and was engaged in picking fruit in their citrus groves. After becoming
thoroughly acquainted with the business he became foreman, and was in the employ of
the Thumb brothers for eleven years, six years of that time being foreman of their
large lemon and alfalfa ranch in El Cajon Mesa, San Diego County and later at Lake
side, the same county. He returned to Fullerton in 1911, purchased a team, and began
business for himself, taking care of the ranches of other people, some of whom lived
in the East. He did contract work and took full charge of the development of the
groves, irrigating, cultivating, fertilizing, picking fruit, etc. About two years and a
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at Fullerton. Aside from the general transfer and hauling business he is also a dealer
in fertilizer and bean straw, which is distributed to the orange growers for use in their
groves. His offices and headquarters are at 314 South Spadra Street and four large
trucks are continually in use, so it is readily seen he has built up a profitable business.
Mr. Pattillo's father, John Pattillo, was a native Virginian who served four years in
a Confederate regiment in the Civil War; he was commissioned a lieutenant, saw very
active service and was wounded. After the war he settled in Christian County, 111.
He married Lydia Barbee also a Virginian, and they still reside at the old home.
Of their seven children, Wm. G. is the third oldest and the only one in California.
Since coming to California, twenty years ago, Mr. Pattillo was united in marriage
in San Diego, October 14, 1909, with Miss Teresa McCarthy, a native of McCook, Nebr.
Her father Thomas McCarthy was a native of Lewisburg, Ohio, and was married in
Nebraska to Olivia Belle Moore of Iowa. He engaged in railroading until 1890, when
he brought his family to Southern California. He was among the first realtors in Long
Beach; afterwards he was one of the discoverers of the Tungsten mines at Atolia and
was* for some years manager of the Atolia Mining Company. He now resides at La
Mesa, San Diego County, his wife having passed on in 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Pattillo are
the parents of five children: Delia, Robert, Leo, Virginia and Francis. Fraternally
Mr. Pattillo is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America.
MRS. ELIZABETH EISMANN.— A straightforward, enterprising and altogether
amiable and estimable woman, who, having been thrown upon her own resources,
proved equal to the emergencies and today has a nice property valued highly, is Mrs.
Elizabeth Eismann, who came to Orange at the beginning of this century, and since
April, 1903, has been conducting the Depot Hotel. She was born in Westercappen,
Prussia, to which district her grandparents came from Holland, the daughter of Fred
erick Kroener, a native also of Westercappen and a baker by trade. In 1865 he came
to the United States, and for twenty-five years had a bakery business at Philadelphia,
after which he removed to Lexington, Mo., where he was a farmer, and where he died,
in 1918, at the age of ninety-two. The mother, Marguerite Eismann, also died in
Missouri, aged eighty years. Five children were born of this marriage, among whom
the subject of our review was the oldest.
The mother and her children joined the father in Philadelphia in 1868, and from
her fourteenth year, Elizabeth Kroener was brought up in Philadelphia. Inasmuch as
her mother was in ill health, it was up to Elizabeth to do most of the responsible work
and otherwise mother the family. When, therefore, she was married in the City of
Brotherly Love in 1874, to William Eismann, a native of her birthplace and a soldier
in the Franco-Prussian War who had just come to Philadelphia, she was equippejl with
a valuable practical experience; and on their removal to Pittsburgh, Pa., where Mr.
Eismann was for eight years in the Painter iron works, she easily established with him
a comfortable home. In 1882 they pushed still further west, to Lexington, Mo., where
they bought first one, and then another farm; and there they continued successfully
agricultural pursuits.
In 1900 Mr. and Mrs. Eismann came to Orange, Cal., and here hoped to have
established themselves; but Mr. Eismann was badly injured in a runaway accident,
and again it was up to Mrs. Eismann to find a way to provide for the family. In April,
1903, she purchased the lots upon which she now resides, and there built the Depot
Hotel, the oldest hostelry in Orange, and one of the oldest in Orange County, for
which she has always enjoyed a liberal patronage.
In August, 1911, Mr. Eismann died, mourned by all who knew him, the revered
father of five children. Only one is still living— John, a painter and contractor, who
is married and has six children. Mrs. Eismann is a member of the Evangelical
Association Church in Santa Ana, and extends the moral uplift work commenced there
in her civic activities as a Republican.
MRS. ELLEN J. STREECH.— The busy, useful life of a highly successful horti
culturist who was esteemed for both his integrity and his industry is pleasantly recalled
in the story of Mrs Streech's equally successful enterprises in continuing to manage the
estate she and her husband had together, as hard working helpmates, acquired. She was
born at Rio, Columb.a County, Wis., the daughter of Frank Gallagher of New York
K.n te-anagnl Jurist who went in for general farming, and who had married Miss Isa
belle Halpin, born in Wisconsin, and she attended the public school at Rio When she
nT1!;^ren?'earSJ0iage'-he,roParents removed to Williams County, N. T>'., afterwards
Se rt^il ^ T ^ m 19°7 her father h°mesteaded a quarter section of land, with
of nioneer nflL, Vf "-n?*" lhe exPerie"ced the pleasures and the inconveniences
the Ta nS ll\J 0* uT comPleted "« education and there, too, she formed
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August 9, 1911, being united with Fred G. Streech, a native of Minnesota, where he
was born on a farm near Renville, the son of Fred and Wilhelmina Streech. He
attended the district school of his home place, and spent his boyhood days on his
father's farm. He had been in California in 1910 and had purchased ten acres devoted
to the culture of Valencia oranges on South Raymond Avenue, south of Fullerton;
and as this land was under the Anaheim Union Water Company, the grove was prom
ising in every respect. Prior to his marriage, and when he was only twenty-one, Mr.
Streech had also taken up homestead land in North Dakota, and he was thus prepared
to develop his new California acquisition. After their marriage they spent a few months
in travel until January, 1912; they located on their Fullerton ranch where Mr. Streech
cared for their Valencia grove and enjoyed the salubrious climate of Southern Cali
fornia, but unfortunately he was not permitted to see the culmination of his ambitions,
for death called him from his labors, on July 1, 1915. He had been a consistent
Methodist, and he left a widow and two children, devoted Catholics. The children are
Avery V. and Wilbur J., and with their mother they are comfortably situated on their
handsome little ranch.
Mrs. Streech has shown unusual ability in the management of her property, mar
keting her choice fruit through the Placentia Orange Growers Association, and she
often looks back with fondness to the six months of travel spent with her husband
before they settled down to the more serious responsibilities of life.
WALTER WRAY. — A thoroughly-trained mechanic, whose ambition led him to
the higher work of an engineer, and whose ability has been recognized in his appoint
ment to a responsible public office in California, is Walter Wray, a native of Ireland,
where he was born on January 4, 1868. His father was Joseph Wray, and he married
Miss Jane Farei. They had nine children, and' Walter was the youngest.
He began his schooling in Ireland, and continued it in the United States, and
in both countries attended the private rather than the public institutions. When the
opportunity came his way, he took up mechanical engineering, and for nineteen years
followed that line of work, for the most part in Massachusetts. Success attended his
labors in the East, but the lure of California drew him more and more to the shores
of the Pacific.
In 1909 Mr. Wray came to the Golden State and settled at Santa Ana. He
bought a ranch, and became a California orange grower. In October, 1918, the city
council of Santa Ana appointed him superintendent of water and sewers, and while
still retaining his orange ranch, he entered upon his present responsibilities.
Mr. Wray's marriage united him with Miss Helen Parke Doty, a lady who has
demonstrated many times her especial capabilities as a companion and helpmate. Mr.
Wray is a Republican in national political affairs, but both he and his public-spirited
wife support all local movements for the betterment of the community regardless of
partisanship. A thirty-second degree Mason, he is a life member of the Massachusetts Con
sistory. He is a Knight Templar, the present commander of Santa Ana Commandery
No. 36, K. T., and belongs to Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., at Los Angeles.
He is also a member of the Odd Fellows. He is still very fond of music, and has an
enviable record, from his down-east days, as musician in the First Light Artillery
of Massachusetts. No better person could have been selected for the responsible post of city water
and sewer superintendent, and it goes without saying that Santa Ana has a water and
sewerage system that is thoroughly up-to-date and satisfactory in every respect.
FRED ROHRS, SR., — An enterprising, progressive and self-made business man,
who takes a very live interest in all that pertains to the building up of both Santa Ana
and Orange County, is Fred Rohrs, the realty owner and rancher of 1245 East Seven
teenth Street, Santa Ana. With Christian standards to guide them, he has reared a
family such as would do honor to anyone; and is therefore both a beloved husband
and father. He had a truly historic beginning, if dates count for anything, for he
was born in Germany on the birthday of Washington, in the memorable revolutionary
year of 1848. When eighteen years of age he left his native land, sailing from Bremen
for New York, having for his destination Napoleon, Henry County, Ohio. There he
hired out as a farm hand, receiving at first only from six to seven dollars and his board
a month. Then he removed to Kelleys Island, Erie County, Ohio, and became interested
in horticulture, working among the vineyards and fruit orchards, and making wine for
years. Two of his brothers followed him to America, and one, Henry W., is at
present in Orange County. _
On April 17, 1874, Mr. Rohrs married Miss Anna Gobrugge, a native of Germany,
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claim in the Ohio forests, and cleared some valuable land, on which he later raised
grain and stock. He was not phenomenally successful, however, and could not be said
to have much in return for his hard labor. Five children, however, blessed their union.
Henry is a rancher in Orange; Fred, Jr., is a rancher in Santa Ana; John also has a
ranch in Orange; George is farming on the home place, on Seventeenth Street; and
Minnie is the wife of Charles Maier, ranching at the old home. All the sons are mar
ried, and are doing well.
When Mr. Rohrs first came to Santa Ana in-the early spring of 1881, when there
were no roads and no fences, he purchased a barley field of twenty-five acres, his
present home place; later he added twenty acres to the home place, and also improved
other acreage with the assistance of his sons. He tried first to raise grapes, then grain,
then apricots; but he finally set out walnuts and both Valencia and Navel oranges.
Now he has many other important interests besides his ranch home on Seventeenth
Street, where he has a tractor and horses for his ranch work, and has two residences.
He has built a modern, up-to-date brick business block at the southeast corner of
Sycamore and Fourth Streets, 44x100 feet in size, two stories in height with a full
basement, at a cost of $30,000; and he also owns another brick block, situated on West
Fourth Street.
For many years Mr. Rohrs was a director of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation
Company, and he is at present a member of the Tri-Counties Reforestration Committee.
In national politics a Republican, in his religious affiliation Mr. Rohrs is a member of
the Santa Ana Evangelical Association and has always been active in promoting better
citizenship and a higher class of clean living. When he came here he could ride horse
back through the tall mustard to the one brick store in Santa Ana; he has seen the town
grow up and has taken an important part in its development, having hauled lumber
from Newport for the early buildings in Santa Ana; and has seen the town built to its
present size and splendor. He has always aided in the upbuilding of the city and can
well exclaim, "All of which I saw and part of which I was."
CHARLES R. NUTT.— The popular and efficient city clerk of Huntington Beach,
Charles R. Nutt, is a native son, born August 14, 1869, in Yankee Jims, Placer County.
He is a son of Nathaniel and Helen (Keeler) Nutt, natives of Ohio and Michigan,
respectively. Nathaniel Nutt was a '49er who crossed the Indian infested plains to the
Golden State, where he engaged in mining. C. R. Nutt was reared at Dutch Flat and
at the early age of twelve years began to work. His occupations during his career
have been many and varied and include mining, saw mill and pulp mill work, railroad
telegraph operator and station agent. At one time he was in the employ of the
Southern Pacific Railway Company in Placer County; later he was with the San Fran
cisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway, which afterwards became a part of the Santa
Fe system. Mr. Nutt became agent for the Santa Fe Railway at Tulare, where he
remained until 1898. Later he was associated with the Power, Transit and Light Com
pany, stationed at Bakersfield. In 1907 he located at Huntington Beach, where for
three years he filled the position of bookkeeper for the Huntington Beach Company.
Afterwards he opened an electric shop and engaged in contract work and did the elec
tric wiring in many of the residences and buildings in Huntington Beach.
In 1914 Mr. Nutt was elected to the important post of city clerk and ex-officio
assessor of Huntington Beach. That his duties have been ably and most intelligently
discharged to the entire satisfaction of the community is attested by the fact that he
has thrice been reelected to this office, his last election being for four years. Aside
from his above duties he is also acting as city tax collector. During his term of office
many important improvements have been made in public works, paving, sewers and a
municipal gas system were installed. Mr. Nutt is especially fond of instrumental
music and has the distinction of having organized the Huntington Beach band and
his artistic. rendition of solos, both on the saxaphone and melophone, have delighted
the citizens of this up-to-date beach city. He is very public spirited and is always
ready to give his assistance to every worthy movement that has as its aim the up
building of the best interests of Huntington Beach. He is a member of the Chamber
of Commerce and was clerk of the high school board for five years.
In 1891 [ C. R. Nutt was united in marriage with Minnie Bond, a native of Mass
achusetts, bhe was one of the organizers of the Women's Club of Huntington Beach
and served as its first secretary. This union has been blessed with two children:
Helen who is now Mrs. Fountain of Los Angeles; and Charles R., Jr., who for five
years has been a musician in Headquarters Company, First Infantry, U. S. Army,
having the rank of corporal Fraternally Mr. Nutt is a member of Huntington Beach
Lodge No. 380, F. & A. M.; also of Huntington Beach Lodge No. 183, I. O. O.
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HENRY LAE. — A native son of Orange County, of French parentage, Henry Lae
is making a fine success of ranching near Brea, in partnership with his brother, Louis
Lae. He is the son of Joseph and Mary Lae, the father coming to America in 1885
from the Basses-Pyrenees, in the southern part of France. Sheep raising is one of the
principal means of livelihood in that mountainous country and being accustomed to
that work Mr. Lae became a sheep herder on the ranch of Domingo Bastanchury,
known throughout Southern California as the largest sheep owner in this section,
having as many as 20,000 sheep in the early days when this great industry was at its
height. When the country began to be more thickly settled and the sheep ranges cut
up into small ranches, the industry gradually ceased to exist commercially, and for a
number of years a flock of sheep has been a rare sight in this county. Like many others
who had been engaged in this business, Joseph Lae took up farming, leasing eighty
acres from the Union Oil Company on the east side of the Fullerton-Brea Boulevard.
Here with his sons he raised large crops of hay, continuing here until his death, which
occurred in November, 1918, the mother having passed away in 1896, at their home
in Fullerton. Born at Fullerton, November 4, 1895, Henry Lae has spent all his life in this
vicinity. He attended the Fullerton schools, meanwhile assisting his father in the
ranching operations and early learning to do all kinds of farm work. After the death
of his father, with his brother, Louis Lae, he leased eighty acres of land from the
Union Oil Company and the same amount from the Coyote Land Company, this being
situated on the Fullerton-Brea Boulevard, across from the tract formerly operated by
the father. They have been very successful in their work here and their yearly crop
of hay brings them an excellent price.
Two of the Lae brothers served in the World War, Louis being for eight months
in the Coast Artillery, while Phillip saw twenty months' service in Headquarters Com
pany of the Three Hundred Sixty-fourth Infantry, Ninety-first Division, and went
through the big drives of the war.
GEORGE N. WERSEL.— Of French and Dutch ancestry, George N. Wersel has
inherited the thriftiness and industry that characterize both of these nations, and this
heritage has had no small part in the success that he has achieved. Born in Cincinnati,
December 14, 1861, George N. is the son of Frank and Mary (Wagner) Wersel. Mr.
Wersel was born in Holland and Mrs. Wersel in France, both of them coming to
America when they were children.
One of a family of five sons and two daughters, all of whom are living, George
N. Wersel was educated in the public schools and the Academy of the Holy Cross in
Cincinnati. His father had for years been engaged in the upholstering business at
Cincinnati, and after his schooling was completed George Wersel took, up this work,
serving an apprenticeship under his father, later going into business with him, and
continuing in this line for many years.
Coming to California in September, 1913, Mr. Wersel spent a few months in Los
Angeles, coming from there to La Habra, where he purchased the ten-acre ranch on
La Mirada Avenue which is now his home. Seven acres of the ranch are devoted to
walnuts, while the remaining three acres is set to lemons, and the whole tract shows
the gratifying results of intelligent care and painstaking work. Mr. Wersel has estab
lished an excellent irrigating system, water being furnished by the La Habra Mutual
Water Company. He markets his walnuts through the California Walnut Growers
Association of La Habra, and his lemons through the Mutual Orange Distributors. In
1914 Mr. Wersel built a beautiful bungalow on his ranch, and here he resides with
his sisters, Agnes and Estella Wersel.
Mr. Wersel is held in high esteem by the people of his locality, who appreciate
his many excellent qualities, his integrity and reliability. Nonpartisan in his political
views, he is nevertheless interested in the welfare of the country in the largest and
broadest sense, and believes in casting his vote for the best men and measures. In
fraternal circles he is affiliated with the Elks and the Knights of Columbus.
GEORGE M. EABY. — That a man need not own extensive acreage in order to
exercise important influence in a community is demonstrated by George M. Eaby, the
proud possessor of a modest but enviable grove of citrus and walnut trees, who has
had a hand in the late development of La Habra and vicinity. He was born near Laton.
Rooks County, Kans., on May 21, 1876, the son of Aaron S. and Cordelia (Gregory)
Eaby, early settlers of the "Garden of the West," the father, a Pennsylvanian, having
moved there in 1874, a year after the mother, who came from Iowa. Aaron Eaby was
a farmer; hence, while he attended the local schools, George spent his boyhood and
youth on the home farm. Later, he attended the Kansas Wesleyan University at
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In 1896 Mr. Eaby came to California and settled at Whittier, where he worked on
various ranches. The next year, on September 23, he was married to Mrs. Alice
Prentice, a native of Iowa, where she was born near Des Moines. Her maiden name
was Alice Hites, and she was the daughter of Joseph and Catherine Hites; and she
attended the country school near Des Moines.
In 1906 Mr. Eaby purchased six acres on La Mirada Avenue, west of La Habra,
three acres of which were set out to walnuts; and the remaining three acres he set
out to Valencia oranges. Seven years later he built his own home there. He buys
the water he needs for irrigation from the La Habra Water Company, markets his
walnuts through the La Habra Walnut Growers Association, and his oranges through
the Index Orchards of the M. O. D. of Redlands.
A Republican in matters of national political import, and always ready to advance
the principles long set forth by that great body, Mr. Eaby is a broad-minded American,
favoring the best men and the best measures, particularly in local movements, for the
attainment of ends difficult or impossible when partisanship prevails. He takes a keen
interest in all that happens at La Habra, having the utmost confidence in the ever-
increasing prosperity of this highly-favored region.
LUCIAN T. ROGERS. — An enterprising, self-made horticulturist, whose disposi
tion to work hard when he works, and to play hard when he plays, has enabled him
to become a successful citrus rancher, is Lucian T. Rogers, a native son proud of his
association with the great Pacific commonwealth. He was born amid the excitement
of the greatest boom Southern California has ever known, at Santa Ana, on May 29,
1888, the only son living of Joseph C. Rogers, a very successful Iowan who came to
California in 1884 and now lives, a retired rancher, at Long Beach. He had married
Miss Margaret Voris, an admirable lady, who died at Fullerton in 1908, the mother of
three children, of whom our subject was next to the youngest.
He attended the grammar school at Fullerton, and then went to the Browns-
berger Business College in Los Angeles, from which he was graduated in 1908. Then
he worked for Fullerton Mutual Orange Association for over two years.
When he took up ranching, he assumed the responsibility of managing and de
veloping a twenty-eight and one-third acre ranch on East Chapman, the property of
his father and, to facilitate marketing, he joined the Fullerton Mutual Orange Growers
Association of which his father was president. Mr. Rogers is also a member of the
Fullerton Walnut Growers Association. He also took stock in the Anaheim Union
Water Company. The ranch, mostly devoted to raising Valencia oranges, may well
be regarded as a model for one of its size, and the fruit he raises is also of a superior
quality. Mr. Rogers also owns eight and half acres in Yucaipa Valley which he has
set out to an apple orchard.
On June 12, 1910, Mr. Rogers was married at Fullerton to Miss Ida Speheger,
daughter of Abraham and Rebecca (Fritz) Speheger, farmers of Bluffton, Ind., where
Ida was born. Her father died in August, 1918, being survived by his widow. Miss
Speheger came to Fullerton on a visit to her brother Fred and here she met Mr. Rogers,
the acquaintance resulting in their marriage. They have been blessed with one child, a
son, Donald Lucian.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Rogers are interested in every worthy endeavor for the up
building of a community, and they gladly discharged their responsibilities toward the
late war and war-work. Mr. Rogers was for some years a member of the Knights of
Pythias, and a good "mixer" in every circle to which he gives his time.
JOSEPH O'DONNELL.— A successful horticulturist who has attained to still
higher and better things in becoming so widely esteemed for his sterling character
and his "genial, kindly nature, is Joseph O'Donnell, the progressive orange grower,
7oh°io^aS b°rn in Fayette County, Ohio, twenty-six miles from Columbus, on July
18,- 1859, the son of Patrick O'Donnell, who died there, honored for his vigorous
participation in the Civil War, towards the close of the great conflict. He had married
.Bridget Breslan, and she also died in Ohio.
The second oldest of the six children in the family— two of whom are living—
and the only one in California, Joseph was taken when seven years old to the neigh
borhood of Indianapolis, Ind., and for a brief period sent to the public schools. He
was compelled, however, to go to work early, and to get such instruction as he could
in the limited winter sessions of the school. When he was fourteen, his mother died
and he began to paddle his own canoe."
F°I V a16^6 Y°rkedr °,n a farm as a carPenter, and then for sixteen years he
was with FA. Fletcher, of the Indiana Blooded Stock Company, breeders of fine
Hereford cattle, traveling for that enterprising man for eight years and placing his

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blooded stock for him. He shipped into Portland, Ore., thirty-four years ago the
first Herefords ever consigned there, and he also sent cattle of high grade to Washing
ton, where they were disposed of by auction sale. His full-blooded stock was, in
fact, the first put up at auction in Portland, and received the highest price of any up
to that time.
In 1896 Mr. O'Donnell resigned and went to Indianapolis, where he was on the
police force for seven years. Then he was with the Atlas Engineering Works for
another three years, serving them as a machinist. In 1906, he went to Boise City,
Idaho, and there he was in the transfer business until, in 1908, when he located here.
He bought his present twenty acres, then raw, land, on Rio Vista Avenue, raised
seedlings, which he budded to Valencia oranges, and set out an orchard, consisting
of twenty acres of rich soil, well located. With this wonderful soil as an almost
magical stimulant, Mr. O'Donnell has been able in this short time to evolve a full-
bearing orchard. When he bought the place, he had only $150 with which to start,
and for the first four years he raised sweet potatoes. Now he has sixteen acres of
Valencia oranges, four acres of Navels, while the balance of the acreage is given up
to residence and yards. Naturally, he belongs to the Mutual Orange Growers Associ
ation in Anaheim.
Mr. O'Donnell was married in Morgan County, Ind., to Miss Mary Dove, a native
of that state, and they have one child, Harold, a graduate of Anaheim high school,
class of 1920. She shares her husband's interest in independent political action, and
is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
MRS. PHOEBE ANN BURBANK.— A well-read, deep-thinking woman with an
interesting personality, who has attained, in the school of hard work an enviable self-
poise, is Mrs. Phoebe Ann Burbank, the owner and manager of a well improved orange
and walnut grove of thirty-one acres. She was born near Watsonville, Santa Cruz, Cal.
Her father was the late John M. Bush., Sr., a native of Kentucky, where he was born
on April 10, 1829; and her mother had been Sarah A. Watson, who was born in Inde
pendence, Mo., eight years later. John M. Bush migrated with his parents from
Kentucky to Clay County, Mo., at the beginning of his teens; and in 1849, when the
country was electrified by the startling news of the discovery of gold in California, he
sought and obtained parental permission to cross the plains, and soon set out overland
to seek his fortune. Having remained in the Golden State, he married in 1851; and
when gold-digging petered out, he went in for farming. He farmed in Santa Cruz
County and was engaged in sheep raising until about 1869, when he located in Santa
Ana Canyon and purchased a large ranch and engaged in sheep raising until his death
February 8, 1913, followed seven years later, by Mrs. Bush, who died March 26, 1920,
aged eighty-four. She had 105 descendants — ten children, fifty-five grandchildren, and
forty great-grandchildren. The ten children are Mrs. P. J. Ralls, Charles T. and
Jonathan Bush, Mrs. L. J. Stone and Mrs. Lillie Holloway, all of Kern County; Mrs.
Elizabeth Borden, of San Bernardino; and J. M. and T. Taylor Bush, and Mrs. Phoebe
A. Burbank, of Olive, and Mrs. S. C. Howard, of Long Beach.
Miss Phoebe Bush was reared on the old Bush ranch from a child and received
her education in the public schools. She was married in Anaheim to Corri N. Burbank,
a native of Vermont, where he was born on February 28, 1865, and who was twenty-one
when he assumed the new responsibility. He had come out to California when a mere
youth, and settled in San Diego County, where he had an uncle, Mathias Stone, and
for more than twenty years Mr. and Mrs. Burbank lived an ideal life until November
26, 1907, when he died, aged forty-two. Mr. Burbank learned the miller's trade in the
Olive Mills under Dillen Bros, and after their marriage he continued as miller even
after the Dillens sold their interest and the new mill was built. He was a splendid
miller and was head miller when he quit to locate on the thirty-one acres of land Mrs.
Burbank inherited from her father's estate which they set to oranges and walnuts.
Since he died she continues to run the ranch, assisted by her son Raymond C. C. She
is a member of the Foothill Orange Growers Association. Mr. and Mrs. Burbank had
four children, all of whom are married and doing well. Phoebe Frances married
J. A. Allen by whom she had one child, Edith Huldah, who is at present fourteen
years old. Now she is Mrs. A. R. Balok, and resides at West Park, Pa. Huldah Ann
is the wife of G. E. Shell and resides at El Segundo, Cal., she has two children — Ray
mond E. and Evelyn P. Raymond C. C. Burbank manages his mother's ranch; he is
twenty-six years of age, and the husband of Miss Nellie Shell, of Orange; they have
two children, Thelma I. and Curtiss L. Burbank. Clarence M. is a pumper for the
Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and married Miss Elizabeth Breau of Long
Beach. They have two children — Mildred E. and Purl M. All of these children and
grandchildren shower their affection upon Mrs. Burbank.
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ARCH M. EDWARDS. — Among -the thoroughly wide-awake business men of
Orange County who are deeply interested in advancing permanently the best interests
of this part of the Golden State must be mentioned Arch M. Edwards, formerly a mem
ber of the well-known firm of Edwards and Pattillo, transfer agents of Fullerton. He
was born on a farm in Benton County, Ark., in September, 1884, and grew up amid the
sturdy environment of that state still so much in the making. His father was A. J.
Edwards, who had married Miss Jane Wilson, and they were devoted parents who
sought the best for their children.
Arch, therefore, attended the rural schools while he helped his father on the
farm; and at the age of twenty-one, when he had performed his filial duty, he left
home. For a while he worked at various jobs, and finally he took the important step
of migrating west to California. Later he returned to his home in the East; but in
1907 he came back to Fullerton and for four years worked on a ranch here.
At the end of that period, he bought a ranch of ten acres for himself, which he has
reset to Valencia oranges, and at the same time he went in for general teaming for
other ranchers. He also began to care for orchards. Enjoying a reputation for both
experience and conscientious industry, Mr. Edwards never had any trouble to find all
that his hands and a long day could do.
In 1918, he formed the Edwards and Pattillo Transfer Company, which grew with
the city and employed seven men and five trucks, all their own, and maintained a
monthly payroll of about $1,100. He sold out his interest in June, 1920, to devote his
time to his ranching interests.
On September 1, 1906, Mr. Edwards was married to Miss Lydia Brown of Arkan
sas, like himself a live and patriotic citizen, and is a member of the Fullerton Club.
A Democrat in matters of national politics, Mr. Edwards is above party and partisan
ship particularly when it comes to local issues, and no resident of Fullerton lines up
better as a consistent "booster" for both town and county.
CAYETANO CASTILLO, JR.— An apt and enterprising young farmer whose
success is due in part to his very thorough knowledge of the citrus industry, is Cayetano
Castillo, Jr., the dry-ranch manager of Yorba, highly esteemed for his upright, Christian
character. He was born on April 3, 1893, on a small ranch near Yorba, the fifth son of
Cayetano Castillo, and Navarro, his devoted wife. Both parents are living on their eight
acres at Yorba, where their chief crop — barley, to be made into hay — is secured by
dry farming. His father came as a pioneer from Mexico to the Yorba district, but his
mother was born on the Irvine ranch.
Cayetano, the lad, attended the school of the district and so grew up one of a
family of eleven children, and the fifth in the order of birth. Teresa, the wife of A.
Coronado, the rancher at Yorba, is the eldest, while the next is Gertrude, now Mrs.
Pete Romero, the walnut and citrus rancher at the same place. Alexander married
Miss Adelfina de Ruiz; Beranda is the wife of Stephen Reyes of Fullerton; Edna R.,
the next after Cayetano, is Mrs. Domingo Romero, a rancher; Ange is the wife of
Celestine Bleecker of Orange; Theodore L. married Jennie Roderquez, and is deceased;
Frank married Evelyn Robertson; he enlisted in the great World War, and was
honorably discharged at San Francisco from the U. S. Army on January 19, 1919;
Helen E. is at home, and so is Natalia.
Cayetano Castillo, who is at present employed by Herman F. Locke in citrus
development at Yorba, never married, desiring to afford a home for his parents. For
the past two years, he has also assisted the superintendent of county roads in looking
after the excellent highways of Orange County. He is a Republican in matters of
national politics, and belongs to the Catholic Church at Yorba. Few, if any, young
men of Yorba merit and receive a larger share of the respect of their fellow-citizens
than Mr. Castillo, a standing he has won by his industry and integrity.
HARRY E. MATTHEWS.— Among the most substantial and popular citizens
of the county, in which he has now resided for a number of years, making more than
a decade, Harry E. Matthews resides on his own ranch south of Tustin, which he
purchased in January, 1909. He took it when it was in an unreclaimed state, and
straightway set out his orange trees and made the other needed improvements, but
by hard, steady work his place is now bringing in the handsome returns for which
he labored. His products are Valencia oranges and walnuts, and there are none better
in the county.
Born in Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa, on August 28, 1858, Mr. Matthews is
a son of Fenelon and Mary (Hogin) Matthews, natives, respectively, of South Caro
lina and Maryland, who were pioneer settlers of Iowa, where Fenelon Matthews
became a well-known merchant and successful business man. Showing his patriotism
for the Stars and Stripes, he volunteered his services in an Iowa regiment on the break
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charged as sergeant. He came of an old Southern family that is traced back to
Welsh and French descent. Mr. Matthews spent his boyhood in Keokuk County,
Iowa, where his education was acquired at the common schools. When he first began
to work for a living, after his school days, he entered the mercantile field, and a mer
cantile career he continued even after he moved to Kiowa, Barber County, Kans., in
1877. He joined to it, however, the enterprise of stock raising, having acquired 320
acres of land; 160 he devoted to crops and the remainder to grazing.
For a number of years Mr. Matthews was under-sheriff of Barber County, Kans.
He made a splendid record as an officer, and having an enviable record as a citizen, it
is no wonder that when his term of office expired, he was offered the nomination for
the office of sheriff. He declined the office and the honor, however, but more than
ever retained his popularity, and none of this popularity has he lost since he came
to the Golden State. As he was in Kansas, so he is in California; those with whom
he becomes acquainted are his friends.
In 1886 Mr. Matthews was united in marriage at Kiowa, Kans., to Miss Sarah
May, the daughter of Charles and Carrie (Harding) Rumsey, who were early settlers
of Barber County, Kans., and later also removed to Tustin, where Mr. Rumsey died
in August, 1920, his widow being spared, and still lives at her home on Main Street.
The happy union of Mr. and Mrs. Matthews has been blessed with twelve children,
three of whom are now deceased. The others are Gertrude, the wife of Andrew L.
Cock, who resides at Delhi; Fenelon C, who is ranching near Tustin, and married
Edith Stearns; Van A. is a farmer at Kiowa, Kans.; Alice is Mrs. D. C. Kiser of
Tustin; Jessie is Mrs. Verne Maynard, also of Tustin; Carrie E. is wife of Glyde
Cooper, and resides near El Toro; George is serving in the United States Navy, while
Frank and Harry are still under the paternal roof.
A Democrat in national politics, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Chufch, Mr. Matthews is a member of the Masonic order, to which he has belonged
for years. He is well informed, and, being a man of pleasing personality, is an inter
esting conversationalist. He does not regret selecting Orange County for his home
and that he cast his lot here, for he finds by comparison it has the most ideal climate,
and is undoubtedly the most productive and prosperous county for its size in the world.
CHARLES E. HARVEY.— Well known throughout Southern California as a
wide-awake business man and one especially well posted on orange growing and
development, Charles E. Harvey was born in Switzerland County, Ind., March 18,
1856, and raised on his father's stock farm in Jefferson County of that state. When
reaching his majority he located in Filmore County, Nebr., and there became foreman
of a large ranch for a period of three years. In 1880 he came to Los Angeles and
became manager for the Continental Oil and- Transportation Company for five years,
during which time he traveled on the road as salesman. He made the journey back
to Indiana, and returned to California, this time to settle in Riverside, where he
resided for twenty-seven years, and had charge of the upkeep and development of
orange groves, also owning groves of his own.
On October 7, 1913, Mr. Harvey came to Fullerton, and became special agent
for the James F. Jackson Fertilizer Company; later Mr. Jackson combined with two
other companies and formed the Southern California Fertilizer Company, dealing in
manure, fertilizer, bean straw and melilotus seed, lime, etc. Mr. Harvey's territory
covers all of Orange County, the Montebello and Whittier district and San Diego
County. In 1919 he sold 4,000 cars of fertilizer, his customers being the leading
ranchers in his territory, and he has also sold to the San Fernando Valley. The
manure is- taken from the dairy ranches and stables all over Southern California,
including Kern and Imperial counties. The secret of Mr. Harvey's success as a sales
man is his reputation for honesty and fair dealing, always giving value received, and
the fact that he is one of the best-posted men in the state on the needs of orange
groves, being a grower himself and with many years of experience in the citrus industry.
The marriage of Mr. Harvey, which occurred October 12, 1882, in Jefferson
County, Ind., united him with Sarah E. Siebenthal, born in the same county in Indiana,
daughter of Perret F. Siebenthal, pioneer miller of Indiana; one daughter has blessed
their union, Birday Daisy, wife of William A. De Moss of Fullerton. Fraternally Mr.
Harvey is a member of the Jr. O. U. A. M. Lodge of Riverside, a charter member,
and has passed through all the chairs up to vice counsel oh the state of California;
he has the ritual of the order committed to memory and has installed different lodges
of the order. He is also well known throughout this section as deputy sheriff of
Orange County, is the owner of an orange grove planted to Washington Navels in
Riverside County, and owns his own home in Fullerton, and is popular throughout the
community, interested in all things for the further development of his district, and
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SAMUEL E. TALBERT. — Not many men have the honor to be the leading citi
zens of their districts, or to have an embryo town named after them, as is the case with
Samuel Edmonson Talbert, whose honored family will be celebrated in the name given
to Talbert, Orange County. He was born in Piatt County, 111., on February 4, 1874, and
his father was James T. Talbert, a native of Kentucky, who went to Illinois when he
was a young man. In Piatt County he was married to Miss Rachel Weddle and when
the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in one of the Illinois volunteer infantry regiments,
and served for four years with the Union Army. He sent to his wife, while he was in
the field, such money as he could save, and with it she invested in forty acres of Piatt
County land, and there he settled after the war.
Samuel was eight years old when his mother died, leaving eight children: Mary,
the oldest, is the wife of William Piper, and resides at Deshler, Henry County, Ohio;
Nettie became the wife of Fred Finity and died in Los Angeles, leaving a son named
James; Eva is the wife of J. B. Irwin, and resides in Orange County Park, Orange
County, Cal.; Frances married a Missouri attorney, David McCullem, and died, the
mother of three children; Lavina resides at Chestnut, 111., and is the wife of Joe Miller,
a farmer; Samuel E., the subject of our sketch, was the sixth in the order of birth;
T. B. Talbert, the next, is the Orange County supervisor; and Henry E. resides at
Huntington Beach, having married Ella McGowan, by whom he has had one child,
Henry Kime.
After a boyhood and youth spent in Piatt County, 111., until he was eighteen,
Samuel left Illinois on his birthday, accompanied by his father and brothers, destined
for California. They reached Long Beach, where an uncle, William Talbert, lived, on
February 9, 1892. He had attended the public schools in Illinois, and he continued
his schooling at Lucerne, Los Angeles County, where his father rented a ranch. They
went up to Antelope Valley, but did not like it, and traveled around to other places;
and finally, in November, 1896, came down to Fountain Valley or what used to be
called Gospel Swamp. While he was a resident at Long Beach, James T. Talbert
became prominent as a member of the Grand Army of the Republic; and at Long
Beach he died on May 18, 1918, in the seventy-seventh year of his age.
Father and son bought 320 acres of land, of which a cousin, W. O. Afer, tool-
forty acres, and now Samuel owns 178 acres of the best land at Talbert. He has eleven
flowing wells, one and two on each twenty acres, and a fine bungalow residence, which
he remodeled about four years ago; but it is rather for what he has done for the
county, than for what he possesses, that he is best known, and most honored.
He was the main spirit, for example, in organizing the Talbert Drainage district,
and made the first ditch, and has made nearly all the other drainage ditches in that
district since. On account of the land lying so low and near to the water-level of the
Pacific Ocean, the question was asked, whether the land could be drained at all; and
when many doubted, Mr. Talbert both said that it could, and actually drained it.
Twenty-thousand dollars' worth of bonds were voted, to build the ditches, which are
constructed on the east side of the section line, or the half-section, as the case may
be, and the dirt has been put on the west side of the ditches, to throw the drainage
down toward Newport Bay and make the roads in the district.
The flood of 1916 filled up the bay, and a new channel was cut below Newport
Bay and Huntington Beach. That filled up with sand, and it became necessary to
put two 54-inch galvanized corrugated iron pipes leading into the ocean, equipped with
gates to keep the water back during high tide, at a cost of $5,000 to Talbert district.
This project has reclaimed about 1,000 acres belonging to the Pacific Gun Club. The
talbert drainage district contains 15,000 acres now excellent land for the growing of
sugar beets, lima beans and celery; and to such an extent has drainage been the making
r '.,', tr'C' that farm land there is now worth as high as $1,000 an acre and rents
tor -$25 to $75 an acre, where formerly there was only a swamp covered with willows
and tules and could have been bought for from $12.50 to $40.00 per acre
c . MAr' TaIbert rwas aIso the first to devise plans and later to dig ditches to. keep the
banta Ana River from spreading over this entire delta country. He secured a right-of-
way tor deepening and making a new channel for the said Santa Ana River from Seven
teenth btreet in Santa Ana to the ocean, and took the contract to dig the channel, and
successfully dug it. This has confined the river to its new channel, and protected the
farming lands from flood water. No money was available for this work at first; the
Newbert Protection District was organized, bonds were voted and he was made presi
dent and manager and the success of the enterprise followed. His work was highly
praised by engineers and he has repeatedly been the subject of interesting write-ups in
the banta Ana and Los Angeles papers
Pacif,^ t ' bp0t,her' \B- Talb6rt' °Ur Subject secured the right-of-way for the
fnT a a V Ra'Iway' ^e excavated the road-bed, moved houses and grubbed trees,
and graded six miles of the route from Huntington Beach to the Santa Ana River

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channel, in twenty-eight days, finishing the job in two days less than the time stipulated
in the contract. The distance from Huntington Beach to Santa Ana is fifteen miles,
and the performance was one of which anyone might reasonably be proud.
On January 26, 1895, Mr. Talbert was married to Miss Hattie L. Brady, then a
maiden of fifteen and a half years of age, who was born at Santa Ana, the daughter
of John and Louisa (Shrode) Brady of that city. Her father was a butcher, and con
ducted a butcher shop there when the town was only a village. The parents had both
been born and married in Texas, and when they came from Texas to Santa Ana, in the
seventies, they brought two children with them. Her father, therefore, was well known
to the pioneers of Santa Ana. He removed to Long Beach, and there he died when
Mrs. Talbert was a girl of only eight. Hence, she attended school in Long Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. Talbert have never had any children of their own, but they have brought
up several, both boys and girls, among them Will Howardson, now employed by the
Southern California Edison Electric Company at Long Beach.
Mr. Talbert has always been working for the improvement of the county and the
building up of the farming section. He has worked honestly and conscientiously for
the public welfare, thus being in the van of progress for the great future he saw in
store for his section of Orange County.
NATHAN E. ALLEN. — A successful rancher who made a splendid record for
himself in an entirely different field prior to undertaking orange growing, is Nathan E.
Allen, who lives at the corner pf Cerritos and Placentia avenues, in southeast Anaheim.
He was born at Jefferson, Jefferson County, Wis., on March 9, 1866, the son of Samuel
Allen, who went to Idaho to engage in the cattle business, but died soon after going
there, in 1872. He was a native of England and came from Worcestershire, and was
highly esteemed by all who knew him; and he married a most estimable lady, Miss
Nora Britton, a native of Watertown, N. Y., of an old New England family who also
enjoyed a wide circle of devoted friends.
Nathan Allen attended the country schools of Jefferson County, where he had to
"dig" for an education, and spent his early years on a Wisconsin farm. Then he was
apprenticed to the marine engineer's trade, and when just twenty-one was granted a
license to act as assistant engineer on a fresh-water steamer. He therefore sailed on the
Great Lakes as one of the marine engineering staff for more than twenty-four years.
He was chief engineer of the "L. C. Waldo," once the third largest fresh-water steamer
afloat, for fifteen years until he resigned to come out to California in the winter of
1911. Mr. Allen settled at Anaheim and purchased thirteen acres of Tom Walton, on
Placentia and Cerritos avenues. It was bare land; but he set it out to Valencia
oranges, and put it under the service of the Equitable Water Company, which takes
in an area of 104 acres in that vicinity, and such care has he bestowed on it that
it is counted one of the finest groves in the section. He also became a director in the
Anaheim Cooperative Orange Growers Association.
On February 13, 1904, Mr. Allen was married to Mrs. Mary (Knox) Peltier, a
native of Canada, and the daughter of George and Martha (Hansel) Knox, She was
educated at the grade schools of Brampton, Ontario, where her father died, while her
mother came to California and spent her last days with the Aliens on the ranch and
died March 18, 1917. Mrs. Allen belongs to the Anaheim Methodist Church, and finds
the highest pleasure in doing good. Mr. Allen is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity,
and is a Knight Templar.
NORMAN B. TEDFORD.— A visitor to Anaheim cannot help but be attracted
by the many fine homes and business blocks in that city, and also the beautiful, country
places in its environs, all evidence of the wealth and prosperity of the community,
and also of the class of architects and builders who have made this district the center
of their business interests and by their handiwork have beautified one of Nature's
garden spots of the world. Prominent among these men may be mentioned Norman
B. Tedford, contractor and builder. A native of Canada, he was born at Yarmouth,
Nova Scotia, November 30, 1876, and received his education in the public schools of
that country. When a lad of eighteen he started out to make his own way in life, and came to
"the States," locating in Boston, Mass., and there learned the trade of carpenter with
one of the largest and most prominent contracting firms of that city, Mitchell and
Sutherland, remaining in their employ eleven years, during which time he assisted in
the construction of many residences for the millionaire colony of the Back Bay dis
trict, and was also foreman for the company in the construction of many large office
buildings in Boston. For the same firm he went to Newport, R. I., and worked on
some of the finest homes there, including those in the famous Vanderbilt colony.
In 1904, Mr. Tedford came west to visit the World's Fair at St. Louis, and from
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in Anaheim, and here entered into partnership with the late A. E. Strehle, the well-
known contractor, under the firm name of Strehle and Tedford. In about four years
this partnership was dissolved and Mr. Tedford continued alone as a contractor and
builder; his early schooling with one of the best firms in the country made him an
expert in his line, and he has drawn designs for many of the homes he has erected,
and makes a specialty of fine residences, having completed one of the finest in Ana
heim, the John Ruther home on North Los Angeles Street. Other evidences of his
craft are the C. F. Grim residence; the H. C. Lawrence home; four residences for
Levi Mann, and the homes of Jas. O'Brien, J. Hunter, -and others too numerous to
mention, besides several business blocks and many fine homes on the ranches in the
Anaheim district. His skill has made him well known in other parts of the country,
and he erected a theater building in Yuma, Ariz., and also has done work in Northern
California. The benefits gained from having a man of wide knowledge and ability in
a community are far reaching and readily seen in the advancement and progress made
in Orange County in the past decade, a progress phenomenal even for this rapidly
growing State of California.
The marriage of Mr. Tedford, which occurred in Santa Ana on December 24,
1904, united him with Mae Horslin of Boston, Mass., and two children have blessed
their union: Roma F. and Harvey L., both natives of California. In fraternal circles
Mr. Tedford has been active in the lodge of Eagles, and is past worthy president of
Anaheim Lodge of that order. A man of broad vision, and keen outlook on life, he
has been prominent in all good works of the county, and has earned a place distinct
ively his own in this section of the state.
ORRIN M. THOMPSON.— Among the enterprises of Fullerton long looked
upon as especially serviceable to the community must be mentioned the Central Garage,
owned and conducted by Orrin M. Thompson, at 121 North Spadra Street. Its pro
prietor first saw the light in Montgomery County, Iowa, in September, 1875, and was
born into the family of W. S. Thompson, a farmer, who had married Miss Mary An
derson. Both parents are now deceased, but they left behind them the precious herit
age of character, industry and thrift, three factors that have contributed greatly to
Mr. Thompson's success, especially in the attainment of the esteem of his fellow-
citizens of Fullerton.
He attended the rural schools of his locality, and grew up at home until he was
twenty. He was for a number of years a railroad engineer out of Sioux City, Iowa.
In 1911 he came to California, and the following August he located in Fullerton, where
he started the business he is at present expanding with such success. He is a member
of the Board of Trade, and one that never loses a good opportunity to advertise the
town, and to present it in its most attractive but true light, as a place of safe invest
ments. In 1914 Mr. Thompson bought land in the Richfield section, which is now pro
ducing oil.
In addition to the ordinary business of a garage, Mr. Thompson carries on the
repairing of automobiles and the sale of auto accessories; and for this he requires the
assistance of ten skilled men — a tangible fact that speaks much for his claims to' do
the larger part of such trade in the town.
On July 23, 1902, at Waterbury, Nebr., Miss Margaret Herrick, a native of
Nebraska, became the wife of Mr. Thompson, and she is now the mother of four
children, Raymond, Helen, Janet and Dorothy. The family attend the Methodist
Church,, and both Mr. and Mrs. Thompson take a keen interest in politics, political
reforms and such higher standards in civic life as can best be promoted, they believe,
through nonpartisanship.
ALBERT CAILLAUD. — The fumigating department is one of the most important
in the conduct of our modern citrus industry. The introduction of this system has
freed the orchards from infectious diseases and caused thousands of trees to bear
bounteous crops that otherwise would not have matured. The fumigating . depart
ment of. the Placentia Orange Growers Association, at Fullerton, is fortunate in having
as its superintendent Albert Caillaud, a native son of French lineage, born at Riverside,
Cal., August 12, 1893. His father, Alex Caillaud, now deceased, came to California from
f ranee in 1880. He located m Riverside County, where he conducted a nursery and
engaged in budding and pruning citrus orchards, becoming an expert in this line; at
one time he had a nursery at San Dimas.
Albert Caillaud received his education in the Riverside public schools and helped
his father in the nursery business. In 1913 he located in Orange and for one season
worked for a large fumigating company. His next move was to Pomona, where he
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the state. While with this company he gained a thorough knowledge of the business
and became so efficient that he was made foreman of the fumigating outfits.
During the World War, Mr. Caillaud saw twenty months of service, becoming a
sergeant in the One Hundred Sixteenth Engineers, Forty-first Division. As early as
November, 1917, he was sent abroad and remained for six months after the close of
the war, returning to the United States in July, 1919. Owing to his ability to speak
French fluently he was made an interpreter and he also filled the position of buyer of
supplies for the regiment. He spent six months in Belgium, where he was attached
to the grave registration department, his duty being to take bodies from the battlefield
to the cemetery. Whatever duty he was called upon to perform, Mr. Caillaud gave it
his whole-hearted and loyal support.
Fraternally Mr. Caillaud is a member of Post 142, American Legion, at Fullerton
and of the San Dimas Lodge of Odd Fellows. He accepted his present position with
the Placentia Orange Growers Association in February, 1920. Mr. Caillaud was married
in March, 1920, to Miss Martha Stolle, born in Missouri, but a resident of San Dimas.
NEWTON J. PENMAN.— A self-made, self-reliant American who has become
one of the most substantial and promising citizens of Orange County, is Newton J.
Penman, member of the firm of William W. Penman and Sons, now enjoying the
distinction of being Orange County's most extensive individual sugar beet growers.
He was born in Nevada County, Cal., on February 7, 1875, and was reared in the Paso
Robles section of San Luis Obispo County, where he received a good education in the
public schools. From a boy he assisted his father at farming and stock raising until
1912, when the family came to Orange County.
On December 24, 1915, he was married to Mrs. La Venia A. Wollenberg, nee
Hubbard, a daughter of Mortimer Hubbard, the Santa Ana pioneer, now the contracting
carpenter and builder at San Juan Capistrano.. She was born and reared at Santa
Ana. The father was born near Santa Rosa, Cal., while Mrs. Hubbard, who was
Emma O. Burton before her marriage, was a native of Wisconsin, coming from there
with her parents. Mrs. Penman's first husband, Edmund Wollenberg, a native of
Beecher, 111., was a business man in Tustin until he passed away, in 1914, and left her
with two children — Marjory Pauline Wollenberg and Dorothy Edna Wollenberg. In
national political affairs a Republican, Mr. Penman is a devoted citizen of the county
and neighborhood in which he lives and thrives, and never allows party politics to
interfere with his support of worthy measures for the betterment of society.
Messrs. William W. Penman and Sons are the most extensive and therefore the
leading beet raisers in Orange County, and they operate two leases on the James
Irvine, or old San Joaquin Raneh, each being separately located, but under one man
agement — that of William W. Penman, Sr., and his two sons, our subject and a brother,
John R. There are 920 acres in the two leases; the father lives on the one ranch, and
Newton J. Penman resides on the other.
When one considers the ever-fast development of the sugar beet industry in Cali
fornia, the advent of such young manhood as that of Newton J. Penman augurs much
for the future contribution of the state toward this economic need of the world. They
are members of the Episcopal Church in Orange. Mr. Penman is a member of the
Knights of Pythias, while his wife is a member of the Pythian Sisters, of which she
is past chief.
JOSE FRANCISCO VELASCO.— The absorbing romance of more than one early
native family of California is recalled by the life stories- of Mr. and Mrs. Jose Francisco
Velasco, long among the leading residents of the Yorba district, and the proprietors
of the one store or commercial establishment there. Mr. Velasco was born in Tucson,
Ariz., on November 6, 1872, the son of Carlos Y. Velasco, for years the editor of "El
Fronterizo," a weekly Spanish paper published at Tucson. He was a native of
Hermosillo, Sonora, Mex., and was twice elected a representative from Sonora to the
capital, Mexico City. After having married in Mexico, Miss Beatrice Ferrer, also of
Hermosillo, he removed to Tucson, Ariz., where he died in 1914, at the age of
seventy-six, honored not only as a man of ability, but as a citizen and neighbor of
generous deeds. Mrs. Velasco is still living, and is in her seventy-fifth year.
Jose Francisco Velasco is the oldest son and the second child in a family of
whom there are now only three living: Dolores resides at Tucson; Jose Francisco is
the subject of our sketch; and Carlos is in business, dealing extensively in automobiles,
at Tucson. Growing up, while attending the Tucson public schools, Jose became a
typesetter in his father's printing office, and at the same time a writer in Spanish as
well as in English. He founded a weekly newspaper at Phoenix, called "El Hijo de
Fronterizo," and ran it for several months. Later he became foreman of that news
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of Francis Heney, the well-known lawyer. As in the case of early California papers,
this newspaper was printed in both Spanish and English.
During this time Mr. Velasco was married to Miss Amelia L. Davila, the ceremony
taking place at Yorba on April 21, 1897. She is the only living daughter of Pio Quinto
Davila, who married Andrea Elisalde de Yorba, who was the third and last wife and
the widow of Bernardo Yorba, then owner and proprietor of the great Yorba rancho.
Mr. Davila was born in Bogota, United States of Colombia, and came from an eminent
family there. Mrs. Velasco was born in Los Angeles, as was her mother, her maternal
grandmother, and her great-grandmother. She was educated by an English governess,
Miss Charlotte Knollys, and by private tutors in her father's home in Los Angeles.
She also attended the Sisters' School there, and it was while she was on a vacation at
Yorba that she met Mr. Velasco. After marriage they removed to Arizona, and engaged
in the general mercantile business; but finding that the climate did not agree with his
wife, Mr. Velasco came back to Yorba in 1899.
The following year he bought out the general merchandise store at Yorba Station,
and since then he has been engaged in commerce and also in taking an active part in
civil and governmental affairs. Not only is he the one merchant here, but he has
found time to serve as clerk of the board of school trustees for Yorba. He is also
deputy county registration clerk, and has filled that office with credit for years. A
Republican in matters of national moment, Mr. Velasco is too broad-minded and too
much interested in Yorba and in Orange County to allow any form of partisanship to
interfere with his loyal support of the best attainable in home affairs.
Five children have blessed the happy union of Mr. and Mrs. Velasco: Josefita
is the wife of T. E. Woods, the interior decorator, and resides in Los Angeles, the
happy mother of one child, Thomas. Jose Francisco served for two years in the U. S.
Navy, on the Cincinnati, and is a third-class quartermaster signalman, with an honorable
discharge, and also an "honorable mention" to his credit. By trade he is a lapidarist,
and lives in Los Angeles. Victor is a graduate of Fullerton Union High School, class
of 1920, now attending the electrical department at the Y. M. C. A. Vincent is a
sophomore in the Fullerton Union High School, and there is Louis A. Velasco. Mrs.
Velasco is a woman of interesting versatility, with a liking and ability for the study of
local history. Besides bringing up her children, and attending to her household duties,
she has written for various publications and studied both music and art. As a well-
traveled person, she is the life of society at Yorba, where she is a general favorite.
CHARLES A. ANDRES. — A fine grove of twenty acres, consisting of Valencia
oranges, walnuts and deciduous fruits of many kinds, is the reward of many years of
hard, diligent effort on the part of Charles A. Andras, whose ranch is one-half mile
north of Garden Grove, although he makes his home at 1711 North Bush Street, Santa
Ana. Born in Prussia, Germany, August 10, 1871, Charles A.. Andres is the son of
Ludwig and Marie (Dee) Andres, a narrative of the Andres family being given at
length in the sketch of George Frederick Andres, an elder brother, elsewhere in this
volume. The death of the mother soon after the family had come to Lansing, Iowa,
and that of the father by an accidental fall, left the Andres children orphans at a very
early age. George Frederick, the eldest of the family, was taken into the family of an
uncle, Gustav Dee, while Charles A. went to live in the home of another uncle, Theo-
dor Dee. When he was but a sinall boy he began working on his uncle's farm, plowing
when he was so small that he had to reach up to hold the plow handles. He attended
school when he could, but his opportunities were very limited as the schools were far
away and he was compelled to' wade through deep snow in the long cold winter to
attend, and much of the time he was expected to be at work on the farm. He was
determined to get a better education, however, and after he was twenty-one he worked
out in the summers and saved his money so that he could attend Nora Springs Semi
nary in the winters, where he was graduated from the commercial department.
Mr. Andres remained on his uncle's farm until he was eighteen, and then worked
out by the month in different places, wherever he could secure the best wages. After
he had been able to save some money, he went to Beaver Creek, Rock County, Minn.,
t i rf_ innrented & haH section of lan<h farming it for three years. In the meantime
July 3, 1901, he had been united in marriage with Miss Clara Hoefer, a native of Rock
County, Minn., a daughter of Christian and Rosa (Krapf) Hoefer, natives of Wurtem-
berg, Germany, born near Stuttgart; coming to the United States when young people;
they were married at Cedar Falls, Iowa. Afterwards they removed to and were early
settlers of Rock County, Minn., where they homesteaded 160 acres on Beaver Creek
which they improved and where they raised their family. Mr. Hoefer was prominent
in the Evangelical church as class leader and Sunday school superintendent. They
moved to Santa Ana in the spring of 1902, where the father died November 17, 1913,
while his widow still survives. Their six living children are as follows: Mary, Mrs.

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August Eikmeier of Pipestone, Minn.; William, an orange grower in Santa Ana;
Mrs. Clara Andres; Rose, the wife of Philip Lutz of Santa Ana; Arthur resides at
Owensmouth and Helen, Mrs. Steadman, lives in Santa Ana.
Mr. and Mrs. Andres decided to try their fortune in California and in December,
1903, they arrived in Santa Ana. In the spring of 1904 he bought twenty acres on
McFadden Street, in the southern outskirts of Santa Ana, part of it being within the
corporate limits. It was an alfalfa field, full of gopher holes, but Mr. Andres improved
it, building a good house on the west ten acres, which he sold. After building on the
east ten acres, he also disposed of this and in the fall of 1912, he purchased his present
ranch north of Garden Grove. This consisted of twenty acres, much of which was
unusually rough land. Seven acres of it had been planted to eucalyptus trees and
these Mr. Andres cut down, pulling out the stumps with a stump puller. There were
two deep sloughs across it which he filled up and altogether it was a great undertaking
and required a tremendous amount of hard work. Finally, however, he had it leveled
up and ready for irrigation. Eight acres were set to walnuts and ten acres to Valencia
oranges, all now bearing. He also has two acres in lemons. His walnut orchard is
interset with oranges, pears, plums, peaches and apples, and he also grew lima beans
in between the rows when the trees were young, thus helping to pay expenses.
Mr. and Mrs. Andres are the parents of two children: Paul A., a graduate of the
Santa Ana high school and now at the agricultural department of the University of
California at Davis; and Viola E. The family live in their attractive home on North
Bush Street, Santa Ana, which Mr. Andres erected in 1915. The family attend the
Evangelical Church at Santa Ana and Mr. Andres is chairman of the board of trustees.
He is a member of the Garden Grove Citrus Association, the Garden Grove Walnut
Growers Association and the Garden Grove Farm Center. In political matters, he is
an advocate of the principles of the Republican party. Although he was exposed to
many hardships and temptations in his early days, he has risen above them all by his
own unaided efforts and now stands in his community as an example of honest, exem
plary citizenship.
DR. WILLIAM M. POPPLEWELL.— Among the professional men who have
retired from active professional life and engaged in the citrus industry in Orange
County, California, is Dr. William M. Popplewell. He is a native of Missouri, born
at Havana, Gentry County, September 25, 1862. His father, Barrett Popplewell, born
in Kentucky, was a pioneer citizen of Missouri, and his mother,' Eliza (Hoyt) Popple
well, a native of the state of Maine, were married in Missouri. The father served in the
Union Army during the Civil War, and now, at the age of eighty-three, with his wife,
aged, seventy-five, still lives in the state in which his lot in life was cast in his younger
years. Of their four children who are living, two sons and a daughter hve in the
Central West.
William M. is the oldest child and was reared on his father's farm. He attended
the public schools in his native state, took a course in the Normal School at Stanberry,
Mo., and taught five terms in that state. He had always had a desire to study medicine,
so he matriculated at Ensworth Medical College, St. Joseph, Mo., graduating with the
class of 1896. receiving the degree of M. D. He served as interne for fourteen months
at Ensworth Hospital, and after five years of successful practice at New Hampton,
Mo., took a post-graduate course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York
City, specializing in eye, ear, nose and throat. He afterward returned to New Hamp
ton and practiced successfully until he moved to Santa Fe, N. M., in the year 1902,
where he continued until 1905. He had a keen desire to change his location to a
country that had greater natural resources, and particularly along the line of horticul
ture, so in May of that year he came to Orange County, Cal., having learned of the
great possibilities of the rich sod for growing citrus fruits.
His marriage, which occurred in 1889, at Stanberry, Mo„ united him with Miss
Nannie Ferguson, of Scotch descent, who was born in Tennessee and reared in north
western Missouri. She was a student at Park College, Parkville, Mo„ a Presbyterian
school, and she also had an experience as a teacher to her credit. Dr. and Mrs.
Popplewell are the parents of two children. Edith married Hugh Conger Thomson, a
rancher in Villa Park Precinct, and they have three children. Margery Geiger is the
wife of Elmer Horace Ball of Downey.
After coming to Villa Park Dr. Popplewell became prominently identified with
the Valencia orange and the lemon industries. He is a director in the Central Lemon
Growers Association, which he helped organize, and to which he gives his best ability.
He cooperates with the other progressive people of his community in all that pertains
to the o-eneral welfare, especially in the matter of water for irrigation purooses from
Santiago Creek and from wells. He is a member of the Gray Tract Well Company
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They have drilled two wells and are drilling the third one. This water is held in
reserve against periods of extraordinary drought, and there is one share of water stock
to each acre of land.
Dr. Popplewell purchased thirty-one and one-half acres of land after coming to
Villa Park Precinct, and afterwards gave his daughter, Mrs. Edith Thomson, five and
one-half acres, and retained the twenty-six acres, which is devoted to the culture of
citrus fruit, upon which he and his family live happily. In 1919 Dr. Popplewell and
his wife took a 7,200-mile auto trip. They were gone three months and three days,
traveling in their own auto, and visited their parents and friends in their old Missouri
home, the historic and interesting places at Santa Fe and various places in the Central
West. While glad to renew old associations and enjoy a visit with their parents and
friends, they were more than satisfied to get back to their cozy Villa Park home. Dr.
Popplewell's genial ways, sound business judgment, and keen interest, in the progress
of Orange County, combined with his earnest endeavors to uplift the community
morally and socially, has made him a welcome addition to Villa Park. He has demon
strated his reliability, public spirit and rare good fellowship, and is a favorite among
his fellow-citizens. PHILIP HERMANN KRICK. — A broad-minded and liberal-hearted resident of
Anaheim, whose splendid foresight and energy have already accomplished so much for
the development of Orange County in many lines is Philip H. Krick, who, as a
progressive educator, did much to lay the foundations of the sound educational stand:
ards of the county. Indeed he has been active in all movements tending to build up
this section and as a believer in the excellent doctrine of "live and let live" he can
count his friends by the score.
Mr. Krick was born in Elcho, Ontario, Canada, about twenty miles west of Niagara
Falls. After completing the grammar schools, he entered St. Catherines Collegiate
Institute, and following his graduation he took a course at the Hamilton School of
Pedagogy. During the years of his college course, he was engaged in both farming
and teaching, and after graduating he became a teacher in high schools of Ontario
until 1894, when he decided to migrate to California, arriving in August of that year.
Locating in Placentia, he became principal of the Placentia school, a position which
he filled continuously until 1901. Resigning to accept a position as secretary of the
Anaheim Union Water Company, he ably filled this position for the succeeding nine
years. In the meantime he purchased city property on North Los Angeles Street,
Anaheim, and here he still resides. He also became actively interested in real estate,
buying, developing and selling a number of orange groves in the Placentia and Ana
heim districts, and at present is the owner of three splendid groves, which he has
developed to a high state of cultivation.
In addition to his horticultural interests, Mr. Krick has contributed largely to
raising the dairy stock of the county to its present high standard. On one of his
ranches he maintains a dairy, and here he has what is considered the finest herd of
registered pure-bred Holstein cattle in Orange County, comprising fifty head. One
of the cows, King Pontiac Idyl Segis, holds the Junior four-year-old record for the
state of California, having produced thirty-five and two-third pounds of butter in
seven days. The registered bull which heads the herd comes from fine producing
stock, his dam having- been the first cow in the state to produce over 1,200 pounds
of butter in one year. The herd contains ten of the granddaughters of the King of
the Pontiacs, the greatest Holstein sire in the world. The Krick dairy, which is
located on Garden Grove Road, about one mile from Anaheim, is modern and sanitary
in every respect, with cement floors and all modern equipment, including milking
machines. He is a member and Orange County representative of the Southern Cali
fornia Holstein-Friesian Association and also a member of the Holstein-Friesian
Association of America.
Mr. Krick's operations are not confined alone to Orange County, but he also has
interests in several other sections of California. As early as 1905 he became interested
in farm land in Kern and Tulare counties and was a pioneer in the development of
pumping plants for irrigating in the Wasco section of Kern County. He was a director
of the Fourth Extension Water Company, this company making the first united effort
to sink wells and by means of pumping plants put water on a large area of land.
Mr. Krick improved his land to alfalfa, also setting out a vineyard. At the same time
he also improved a ranch at Alpaugh, Tulare County, which is irrigated from flowing
wells and where he raises grain and alfalfa.
The marriage of Mr. Krick which occurred at St. Catherines, Ontario, in 1891,
united him with Miss Edith M. Beckett, a native of that place and the daughter of
Mr- and Mrs. William Beckett, the father being a well-known manufacturer of woolens
ot bt. Catherines. Two uncles of Mrs. Krick, John and Alfred Beckett, were pioneers

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of Orange County, coming here as early as 1876 and locating at Alamitos, where
they were engaged in general farming and horticulture. Representatives of old Penn
sylvania Quaker stock, they took a leading part in the building of the Friends Church
at Alamitos, and gave it their generous support. Familiarly known as Uncle John
and Uncle Alfred, they both reached the advanced age of eighty years, and were loved
and esteemed by every one who knew them.
Always a leader in progressive and constructive movements, Mr. Krick was one of
the organizers and a stockholder of the Anaheim Sugar Company. He was also a
charter member of the Anaheim Orange Growers Association, since changed to the
Anaheim Cooperative Orange Association, and has served as president of the Anaheim
Center of the Orange County Farm Bureau. Fraternally Mr. Krick is prominent in
Masonic circles, being a Master Mason, a Knight Templar and a Shriner. He was
initiated into Masonry at Wardsville, Canada, and has served three consecutive terms
as master of Anaheim Lodge, No. 207, F. & A. M., and for three years was inspector of
this Masonic district.
In early days Mr. Krick was secretary of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce,
and he has never ceased to give of his best efforts toward advancing the interests of
his community, always standing for a high standard of the moral betterment of its
citizens. Both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Anaheim, Mr. and Mrs.
Krick have always taken an active part in its good works, giving generously both of
their time and means to its support.
JOHN LESLIE HAVER.— What the Fullerton Meat and Grocery store is doing
for the comfort, health and prosperity of the citizens of that city, those only who have
traded there for some time are able in full to comprehend. Its proprietor is John
Leslie Haver, who came from Kansas, where he was born at Highland on December
18, 1883, and brought with him to his task some of the invaluable Middle West spirit,
the inheritance of knowledge and traits from a father who was a successful business
man, and a go-ahead force of his own. His father was J. H. Haver, who came from
Pennsylvania to Kansas, and he married Miss Elizabeth Vernon, whose native place
was also Pennsylvania.
The second in the order of birth, John Leslie received his^ education at the
grammar and high schools of his home town, and in October, 1906, came to California.
For three years he lived at Riverside and worked for Messrs. Newberry and Parker, and
then he was in Santa Ana for a year. In 1910 he came to Fullerton, and at the same
time, in partnership with A. C. Gerrard, Mr. Haver started the Fullerton Meat and
Grocery Store. In 1916 they started the groceteria at 243 North Spadra, known as the
Fullerton Groceteria, but in April, 1917, he bought out his associate in both stores,
and since then he has been conducting the entire business himself. In the two places
he employs ten people, and even then is kept mighty busy catering to the wants of his
many and increasing patrons. He is one of the livest members of the Board of Trade-
in Santa Ana, on October 10, 1907, Mr. Haver was married to Miss Mary E.
Babbitt, a native of Hiawatha, Brown County, Kans., and the daughter of Worth
Babbitt, who with his wife now live in Santa Ana. Mr. and Mrs. Haver have two
children — Forrest Elden and Dorothy Jean, and attend the Christian Science Church. A
Republican in national politics, Mr. Haver has never sought nor accepted public office,
although extremely public spirited. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, and is fond
of fishing and outdoor life.
HAROLD ARLINGTON WATSON.— The long-honored name of Jonathan
Watson, one of the most distinguished of Orange County's pioneers, is worthily borne
by his youngest child, Harold Arlington Watson, who may himself boast of- an
enviable record for service in the great World War. As a rancher he is a successful
citrus fruit and walnut grower, operating the home ranch in connection with his
brothers. He was born in 1899, and was a junior in the Orange Union high school when,
on the declaration of war on Germany by Congress, he enlisted on April 7, 1917, as one
of the first to volunteer from Orange and Orange County— sharing with Percy Atwood
and Earl Granger of Orange the honor of being one of the first three. He joined
Company L of the One Hundred and Sixtieth California Infantry as a private, and
later became corporal, and after sixteen months' training at Camp Kearny, sailed
from Hoboken N. J., on the "Nestor," for France. He landed first at Liverpool, and
then reembarked for Havre, on August 26, 1918. He trained at various places in
France preparatory to going to the front, and at the time of the armistice narrowly
escaped death from the "flu." He landed at New York on March 24, 1919, and was
honorably discharged at Camp Kearny, in California, on April 16, 1919. ,
Mr Watson then doffed the corporal's uniform and went to work on his father s
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electrical firm of Thompson & Watson, Errol Trafford Watson and our subject. The
latter two sons assume active control, aided in various ways by Floyd. They raise
oranges, lemons and walnuts, and nowhere for miles around may fruit of a higher
quality be found. Having mastered the details of ranch work when he was a boy, as
did his brothers before him, Mr. Watson has found no difficulty coping with the many
agricultural problems of the day.
From his father, whose record for endurance and accomplishment is so remark
able in many ways, Mr. Watson has inherited not only his love for the great outdoors,
but his proficiency as a marksman. He was, therefore, one of the best five rifle shots,
with Springfield rifles, in his regiment of over 3,500 men, and was a prize marksman
at all the ranges. He is a member of Post No. 132, American Legion, at Orange.
Just before leaving for France Mr. Watson was married to Miss Bernice Wilbur,
a native daughter, of Orange, and one child was born to them, Jeanne M. Mrs. Watson,
as a popular belle, was the daughter of Dr. D. F. Royer of that city. A most distress
ing accident deprived these devoted young parents of their little daughter, Jeanne, only
fourteen months old. The little one, with their parents, was visiting at the home of
the beloved grandfather, when an automobile, backing out, ran the child down. The
baby was rushed to the Anaheim hospital for operation, but died soon after reaching
there. The tragedy brought the deepest sorrow to a host of friends, as well as to the
bereaved parents.
JOHN C. KEEFE. — A clear-headed, able-bodied man of three-score and fifteen
years, whose mental vitality is demonstrated in the valuable, patented inventions to
his credit, and whose physical vigor is equally well shown in his personal management
of a forty-acre farm, is John C. Keefe, a type of American always an asset to any
commonwealth, arid especially to a rapidly-expanding empire like that of the state of
California. He was born in Chicopee, Hampden County, Mass., on June 27, 1845, the
grandson of a sturdy Irish emigrant who left the historic and picturesque County of
Cork in 1798, and pushed out for the New World. He had a son, Cornelius Keefe, the
father of our subject, who married Miss Hannah O'Connell and died at Chicopee
when John was five years old. He had been a skilled worker in the plant of Ames
Bros., long better known as the firm of Oliver Ames & Sons, Oliver Ames having been
a blacksmith, who* early acquired reputation in the making of shovels and picks. The
Civil War in particular gave them an extensive field for supplying both shovels and
swords to the Federal Government.
After the death of her husband, Mrs. Keefe moved from Chicopee to the upper
part of New York City known as Harlem, where they lived with Mrs. Keefe's sister
and John's uncle, and during this period the lad had a chance to ride on the first car
of the new street railway running from New York City proper to Harlem, a distance of
seven miles, and drawn by mules. In 1851, with his -grandfather, Timothy O'Connell,
his mother, two aunts and an uncle, John traveled further west, and lived on a timber
claim of 640 acres in Washington County, near Milwaukee, Wis., and as a sturdy boy,
he helped clear and develop that land. In 1853, the Black Hawk Indians returned to
Washington County, and they had a tribe pow-wow. He saw a good deal of the Red
skins, for their acreage was full of berries and game, and naturally became the hunting
grounds of the savages.
While thus living in a log cabin, he worked during the summer time and went
to school in winter; and being considered a good student, at eighteen he was given a
teacher's certificate and for a couple of years taught school. In 1868, he matriculated
at the University of Wisconsin, where he was graduated in 1872 with the B. S. degree.
the next year he was made principal of the Barton high school.
,,., In, 187:_. he became the private secretary to William E. Cramer, editor of the
Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, and a year after that was made a reporter on the paper,
ajid then, m 1875, the financial editor. And in the Centennial Year he became city
, -^ te. Paper' He has a sPlend;d flow of language, is well read and traveled,
and with his retentive memory is an interesting conversationalist. He writes in an easy
and flowing style and his articles, while he was a journalist, were very favorably com
mented on by critics.
_atl °n September 1, 1878, Mr. Keefe was married to Miss Helen Marie O'Neal, a
tTNealh M ' and «*. daughter of Edward and Hilda (Johnson) O'Neal. Mr.
was ^bJnJerinM11?0, °f ^ waukee for six terms, and at the time of their marriage,
;;,,,„" '" tlat Cltl He sent his daughter to the Convent of the Holy Name in
ooi7e snrf;/ ' T" gIVe" the edu=ati°n deemed necessary for a lady in
polite society and a practical world
Danv^uten^Rq?^!?1'5-!1?' , *' K^ built the Milwaukee Cracker and Candy Com-
Sn dollars a2' Z * h** S° gr?wn that h Was do[ng a b"sin«s of a quarter of a
million dollars a year, he sold out his interest, and went in for the making of metal

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furniture for bank vaults and offices. He patented a knife that would cut sheet brass,
at the same time that it bent it into a half-round shape, making a metal used in office
furniture facing; having previously made two other notable inventions: a patent oven,
for quick baking, put out in 1879, and a patent bill-file, now extensively used in offices,
and given to the commercial-stationery world in 1894.
When Mr. Keefe at length disposed of his holdings in this metal-furniture factory,
he spent the following two years in handling realty in Milwaukee, and first came to
California and West Orange in 1900. Then he traded some iron mine property in
Northern Michigan for a ranch of forty acres, now his home place, and there he himself
has since planted five acres of walnut trees, ten acres of Navel oranges, five acres of
Valencia oranges — now rather old trees — five acres of young Valencias, and two acres
of lemons, leaving the balance vacant land. He also built his own home. His inventive
faculty has frequently stood him well in stead, and has doubtless inclined him to
experiment in the production of new fruit, among them a seedless lemon, as well as
developing sugar pears and a new kind of walnut from the buds of the Eureka and
Placentia walnuts.
Three children have blessed this fortunate union and Mr. and Mrs. Keefe.
Edward Neil Keefe has charge of the branch postoffice at the corner of First and
Rowan streets in Los Angeles, and there are Clarice and Alice Keefe, the former named
after Sister Clara Keefe, the renowned war-nurse who, with the aid of an aged man
and old horse and wagon, brought in many wounded soldiers from the battlefield of
Antietam, taking them into a hospital at Baltimore. Mr.. Keefe is a member of the
Catholic Church of Santa Ana, and while in Milwaukee was the principal founder of the
Knights of Wisconsin, a Catholic order begun in 1892 and since developed into a large
organization. While not a spiritualist in the accepted term, Mr. Keefe has been in
communication with the spirit world for the past five years.
JOHN PEMBERTON BAUMGARTNER.— California owes much of her mar
velous and rapid development to her journalists, prominent among whom may be
mentioned John Pemberton Baumgartner, the principal owner, general manager and
editor of the Santa Ana Daily Register, the largest and leading daily newspaper of
Orange County, and the only daily published at the county seat. Before coming to
Santa Ana in 1906, he had achieved exceptional success in the development of newspaper
properties in several of the larger Southern California towns. He published a model
and very successful weekly in Riverside for several years, and then consolidated that
paper with the Riverside Daily Press, of which he became part owner and business
manager. A few years later, when he had greatly enlarged and improved the Press,
he sold his interest and bought the Pasadena Daily Star; and in seven years he
developed the Star into a fine newspaper property, which he then sold. A few months
later he bought a controlling interest in the Long Beach Press, and, although he never
lived in Long Beach, he directed the development of that property, under the manage
ment of C. L. Day, into one of the finest papers of its class on the Pacific Coast.
Meantime, he had purchased the Santa Ana Daily Register, which he was giving his
personal attention, and to which, a few years later, when he had sold the Long Beach
Press, he devoted his entire time. Since the Register passed into Mr. Baumgartner's
control it has been developed from a paper with a circulation of 800 copies to a semi-
metropolitan publication with a circulation of nearly 7,000, and it is conceded by
newspaper men to be the biggest and best newspaper of its class in the country.
Mr. Baumgartner was born on February 9, 1861, in Columbia, Boone County, Mo.,
and there received his scholastic training. He was able to attend the public schools
until he was twelve years old, and then for three years he was a farmer boy. During
the next two years, the family having returned to town, he continued his schooling, and
for a short time he was a student at the Missouri State University. It will thus be
seen that he was almost entirely self-educated. In his early youth Mr. Baumgartner
forecast and laid the foundation for his newspaper career by becoming a newsboy; and
with the exception of the three years he spent on the farm, he sold St. Louis and
Kansas City newspapers on the streets of Columbia most of the time between the ages
of eight and seventeen, and part of that time conducted a general newsstand there.
When seventeen, on account of threatened ill health, he went to Texas, driving thither
in a wagon from his home in Columbia, to Sherman, in Grayson County. Returning to
Columbia a few months later, he worked as a reporter on the Boone County Sentinel,
and soon became the manager and lessee of that paper. In 1885 he became a reporter
on the St. Louis Chronicle, and in August of that year he married Lida Sexton, a
native of his home town. Soon after his marriage he returned to Columbia. Mo to
assume in a large measure, the editorship and management of the Columbia Herald, in
which position he continued until August, 1887, the summer of the great boom year,
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His first newspaper work in this state was as a reporter on the San Diego Union,
and from there he went to Riverside, in the spring of 1891, and after a few months as
editor of the Riverside Phoenix, he established the Riverside Reflex, a weekly paper
which, within a few months, absorbed the Phoenix. His next progressive step was
the consolidation of the Riverside Reflex with the Riverside Daily Press. From that
time on, as related above, Mr. Baumgartner's progress as a California newspaper man
has been steadily onward and upward.
Mr. Baumgartner has always been active in district, state and national newspaper
organizations. He was for five successive terms president of the Southern California
Editorial Association, and in 1907, at the convention in New Orleans, he was elected
president of the National Editorial Association. The following year he presided over
the convention at Detroit and took the National Convention on an eight days' excursion
through eastern Canada. By reason of having held the office of president of the
National Editorial Association, Mr. Baumgartner became a life member of the organi
zation, and now holds the office of past president.
He is essentially an all-around newspaper man, being equally at home in any
department of the business. He is a forceful and graceful editorial writer, and as a
business builder he has few equals in country newspaper fields. Every paper with
which he. has ever been connected has been not only a business, but a journalistic
success. Although often solicited to enter public life, Mr. Baumgartner has preferred
to be just a newspaper man, and the only public office he has ever held was one involving
much hard work without pay — that of a member of the California State Conservation
Commission. CHRISTIAN ANDERSON.— A hard-working, self-made man who has become a
very successful rancher, partly perhaps because he believes in treating the other fellow
as he would like to be treated himself, is Christian Anderson, the youngest son of
Andres and Meta Christina (Jepsen) Thygesen, who was born in Schleswig-Holstein,
northern Germany, July 10, 1865, and came to America on March 28, 1888. He went to
the usual, thorough schools, and at fourteen was confirmed, so that he pushed out into
the world to care for himself, at an age when many boys are still enjoying the environ
ments of a pleasant home. Both of his worthy parents are now dead.
Mr. Anderson had California, fortunately, for his destination, and he was also
lucky to come direct to Fullerton. In the fall of 1892, he purchased twenty acres of
open land to the east of Fullerton, and for a while his chief crop was cabbage; but in
1894 he began to set out citrus trees, and by fall he completed the first five acres, and
he has kept setting out oranges until the twenty acres was set to fruit. Then he pur
chased, in 1904, the twelve acres adjoining, which is in walnuts. In 1900, he
built for himself on the ranch both a dwelling and the necessary outbuildings, all of
which are creditably substantial.
Mr. Anderson is a charter member of the Anaheim Union Water Company, and
he also owns stock in the Placentia Bank. He markets his oranges through the Pla
centia Orange Growers Association and his walnuts through the Fullerton-Placentia
Walnut Association. A brother, Nels Anderson, has three wells producing oil on his
land, and is fast becoming interested in oil prospects, and Tige Anderson of Placentia
is another brother. Mr. Anderson is a Republican, and as such endeavors to elevate
the standards of American citizenship, and to increase the spirit of patriotism.
PETER STOFFEL.— The same qualities of perseverance, industry and thrift
that made possible the success of Peter Stoffel as a grain farmer and stock raiser in
Kansas have insured the gratifying prosperity which has attended his efforts since he
Oi- T t0A/a c te.'a and enga§ed in citrus culture. Although not a native of the United
Mates, Mr. Stoffel has no recollection of any home other than this country. He was
?°r" '" Luxembourg, Germany, July 9, 1864, and when only two years old, in April,
1«66, his parents came to America, locating in Jackson County, Iowa. Here he
received his early education in the public schools. In 1877 the family moved to Kansas.
locating in Sedgwick County, near Wichita, and Peter finished his education at a
business college m Wichita. His father was a large farmer, owning several farms, and
a, i jO- r6nted land from his father> but later he bought 160 acres and
developed this acreage mto one of the best farms in the county, raising grain, cattle
and hogs. Always very active in politics, he was prominent in the local affairs of his
rnwtt1* Pm^ °f th£ RePubHcan Central Committee and the Congressional
.Tf!" , F°r, fi/teen years he was lessor and trustee of Attica Township, Sedg
wick County and for nineteen years clerk of the school board.-
.rJ" ww' ^.° . ' SLbr°th,er made a visit to Anaheim, Cal, and sent such glowing
™T2 A to his brother that in July, 1906, he also came to Anaheim, and was so
much pleased with the country that he decided to locate here. He bought the Wallace

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grocery store on East Center Street and enlarged the business, employing six clerks,
and he also purchased his present house and six lots at 520 West Center Street. After
four years he sold out his grocery business. In the meantime he had bought twenty-
nine acres of raw land four miles southwest of Anaheim, and there he has developed
one of the best fruit ranches in the district, five acres being in lemons and the remainder
in Valencia oranges. He paid $15,000 cash for this place, and has since added many
improvements, including a pumping plant. In 1920 the grove produced 4,000 boxes of
oranges. In July, 1919, he bought twenty acres more near by, which he leveled and
which he has set to walnuts. He gives his personal attention to the care of these
places, and the hard work that he has put in shows itself in the fine grove he has
developed. He and his brother were the first men to come to Anaheim from Sedgwick,
Kans., and with his enthusiasm over the possibilities of Orange County, Mr. Stoffel has
not been content alone to reap the benefits of climate and soil, but has encouraged a
number of his former neighbors and friends in Sedgwick County to locate here, in
that way showing them the road to prosperity and at the same time helping in 'the
development of the wonderful resources of the county. All the settlers who have
come" through Mr. Stoffel's recommendation are well pleased with the locality, and
have bought ranches and prospered.
Mr. Stoffel's marriage united him with Mary E. Geiger, a native of Indiana, and
they are the parents of ten children, eight of whom are living: Mrs. Johanna Kramer
of Anaheim; Bernard A., who served his country during the war, being stationed at
Camp Lewis with a machine-gun company; Mrs. Annie E. Volz. deceased; Joseph,
deceased; Edward H.; Cora A.; Otto J., with his father on the ranch; Victor; Clara;
and Herman J. They are also rearing a grandchild, Frank Volz, the son of their
deceased daughter. Progressive and enterprising, Mr. Stoffel occupies an honored
position in the community for his sterling and substantial qualities as a citizen.
ALFRED SHROSBREE. — An interesting English-American couple who, as
pioneers at Huntington Beach, have done much to lay broad and deep the foundations
there, are Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Shrosbree, who are enjoying their retirement after
many years of hard work. Mr. Shrosbree was born at London, on February 17, 1844,
and grew up in the delightful environment of Old England, under the inspiration of a
scientifically-inclined parent; for his father, William Shrosbree, was a taxidermist, and
mounted animals gathered from various quarters of the earth. He ran a taxidermist's
store in the world's metropolis, and was visited by globe-trotters. He was born,
married and died in London. He married Miss Maria Webb, also of London, who
passed away in that city. They had nineteen children, among whom Alfred Shrosbree
was the fourth 'child in the order of birth, as he is the only one of the family now
living, although nine grew to maturity. Several of the brothers were taxidermists.
Alfred attended the common schools and was brought up in the Church of
England. He learned the ivory-carver's trade in all its branches, and was proficient
in carving, turning and flat work. Later he took up the trade of the carpenter and
builder, but suffering severely from bronchitis, at the age of twenty-seven he determined
to seek relief by a change of residence and air — that is, to come to America. He sailed
from Liverpool on August 31, 1881, taking passage on the steamer City of Brussels,
and landed at New York City. At first he came west only as far as Adams County,
Nebr., where his wife's father, Richard Miles, lived and farmed; and there the bronchitis
left him. He has never been back to England since.
In Nebraska, in 1883, Mr. Shrosbree was married to Miss Elizabeth Miles, a
native of Oxfordshire, England, who had come to America several years .before; and
for twenty years he worked as a contractor and builder, with headquarters at Blue Hill,
Webster County, Nebr. In 1901 Mr. and Mrs. Shrosbree came to Long Beach and
lived there a year; and then, for a year, they lived in South Pasadena. In 1903 they
came to Pacific City, now Huntington Beach, and at the new and promising resort
Mr. Shrosbree followed his trade.
Since coming to California Mr. and Mrs. Shrosbree have witnessed many exciting
events. They happened, for example, to be in the great disaster at Long Beach on
Empire Day, 1913, at the falling of the approach to the Auditorium, and they fell with
the crowd through the pier to the bottom. Both were hurt — Mrs. Shrosbree sustaining
two broken ankles and ribs, and Mr. Shrosbree having his nose and right shoulder and
several ribs broken. Of the 300 people that went down thirty-seven were brought out
dead, and four of the injured persons died. Mr. and Mrs. Shrosbree showed their
magnanimity by not presenting a claim for damages.
There was no school and no post office at what is now Huntington Beach when
Mr. Shrosbree first pitched his tent there, and as as there was also no Episcopalian
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naturalized citizen, of course, and a Republican, but in local matters is nonpartisan. At
the age of seventy-seven, he resides happily with his wife and, as a patriotic pioneer,
enjoys the esteem of a wide range of friends and acquaintances. He was active at his
trade until the Long Beach disaster, and then he and his wife were forced to retire.
Mrs. Shrosbree is found in every good work intended for the general welfare of the
community, and as a model housekeeper takes particular pride in their Ocean Avenue
home, which abounds with art and other evidences of the refined and cultivated mind.
Mr. Shrosbree built his fine bungalow residence of eight rooms at 630 Ocean Avenue,
and this is only one of several houses he has erected at Huntington Beach, and one
of four that he still owns.
JAMES ERVIN LUTHER. — A well-posted and most interesting early settler,
who has not only contributed something definite toward the building up and improve
ment of the country, but is able to boast with modest pride that both his father and his
grandfather crossed the plains in 1851 and for three years underwent all the privations
and rigors of the miner's life here, is James Ervin Luther, who was born in Bennington,
Shiawassee County, Mich., on January 4, 1851. His father, James Martin Luther, was
a native of New York and was educated at Granville College in Ohio, after which he
married Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, who was born in New York State. Grandfather Ellis
Luther had married Amelia Ervin who was a native of England, and the daughter
of James Ervin, a sea captain, who owned his own vessel and also a large,, comfortable
residence on the ocean front in New York City from which his family could always
watch for his coming. Piloting a valuable cargo, also owned by him, he arrived within
sight of New York harbor one evening, and was sighted by his faithful wife and
children, just as a severe storm arose; and the next morning not a vestige of ship or
cargo could be seen, nor was the veteran captain and his supposedly sturdy vessel
ever heard from again. James Martin Luther, who traces his ancestry back to the
famous German of the Reformation, Martin Luther, was a teacher until his hearing
became affected, when he became a clerk on the Erie Canal; after his marriage they
resided at Lansing, Mich., until he came west. After mining in Nevada, he accompanied
his father to San Francisco and then back to the East by way of Panama; and he
did clerical work and was postmaster at Northstar, Gratiot County, Mich. Later still
he was a farmer, and he spent his last days with our subject in Orange County, where
he died in 1916, at the age of ninety-three. Mrs. Luther, his beloved life-companion,
gave joy to the same home circle until 1915, when she passed away at the age of
eighty-seven. Her father, Mark Jacobs, a Vermonter, became a farmer in Michigan,
and died at Brighton, Livingston County. They had five children, alj of whom grew
to maturity; and the eldest of the family, our subject is one of three still living.
James Ervin Luther was reared at North Star, near Ithaca, and while attending
the public schools, worked on a farm, continuing to assist his father until he was
twenty-four years of age. Then he came to California and arrived at Santa Ana in
November, 1874. The place was then a mere hamlet, but a year later he purchased ten
acres, the nucleus of his present valuable property, in the Chapman and Glassell tract
on Yorba Street; and moving onto it, he built there a small house. Three very dry
years succeeded, however, and he had to work out to tide over the critical period,
while he did his best to improve the place.
He first set out grapes, but they died; and then he planted apricots, a few of
which are still standing and bearing. Two years later, he bought another ten acres,
and still later ten more; and having sold five acres, he now has a fine farm of twenty-
five acres. Nine acres of these are set out to Valencia oranges, and the balance are
given over to apricots; and one year he had seventeen tons of dried fruit. He belongs
to the California Prune and Apricot Association, and also to the Santiago Orange
Growers Association, and in both of these excellent organizations he is appreciated both
for the quality of his products and his care in preparing them for the market.
At Orange, on March 6, 1886, Mr. Luther was married to Miss Mary McClintock,
a native, of Pittsfield, 111., and the daughter of John R. McClintock, who was born in
Indiana of an old Tennessee family. He settled in Illinois and married Nancy Cline,
of Pennsylvania parentage, and became a farmer at Pittsfield. There Mrs. McClintock
died, but Mr. McClintock is still living, at Long Beach, enjoying life in- the eighty-
second year of his age. There were seven children in that family, and Mrs. Luther,
who was he eldest received the best of educational advantages in Illinois. In 1882,
she and a brother, W. O. McClintock, came out to Los Angeles, and that same year she
removed to Santa Ana. One child, Porter G. Luther, has blessed this union, and he
is foreman for the gas engine tractor company in Bakersfield. Mr. and Mrs. Luther
are members of the Christian Science Church at Santa Ana, and Mr. Luther marches
under the banners of the Republican party.

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CHRIS PAULUS. — A liberal-minded, kind-hearted and very progressive rancher
who has had many interesting, if not always agreeable, experiences in a series of
alternating "ups and downs," is Chris Paulus, who has at length reached a state of
independence, with a fine Valencia orange orchard and a comfortable home. He came
to California in the late nineties; and if Mr. Paulus and the Californians have any
regret in the matter, it is that he did not settle here years before. He was born in
Washington County, Wis., in 1845, the son of Chris Paulus, a farmer, who had forty
acres there, and in 1848 moved to Ozaukee County, in the same state, where he cleared
the timber land for a home. He had married Miss Catherine Hiltz, who proved to him
an excellent helpmate. They had ten children, six of whom grew up; and among them
Chris was the second Oldest child. He was reared on a farm, and sent to a log
schoolhouse; and growing up a good axeman, he helped to clear the home farm
of 120 acres of sohd t.mber, remaining home until he was twenty-three. Then
he removed to Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, where he worked for six months. He then
made his way to Sedalia, Mo., and took up farming. Then he worked for many years
at the stock yards at bedalia, holding the position of foreman for almost three years.
On February 4, 1874, Mr. Paulus was married to Miss Catherine Dexhimer, who
was born near Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Hultz) Dex
himer, farmers in Ohio, then early settlers of St. Genevieve County, Mo., later at
Hannibal, and in 1868 he located in Sedalia, Mo. After his marriage Mr. Paulus farmed
on a farm of eighty acres that he had bought in 1869. The drought and grasshoppers
destroyed the crops, and in the fall of 1874 they returned to Sedalia, where he. began
well drilling, which he followed for twelve years, finally using a steam well rig. During
this time he bought property in Kansas City and started a blacksmith shop; but when
the boom "busted" there, Mr. Paulus again returned to Sedalia and took up well
drilling. As early as 1869 he decided to come to California; but he put it off until 1897,
when he removed to San Bernardino, where he made a trade for a ranch of ten acres.
He built a residence, dug a well and resided upon and improved the property for four
years; but in the end he was beaten out of it, and lost all that he had invested.
Once again Mr. Paulus began all over, locating at Compton, where he rented
forty acres for the growing of beets; but at the end of the year he was $170 in the hole.
Then he rented 100 acres from the Seaside Water Company, raising thirty-three sacks
of barley per acre, but the second year the crop was a failure. He next went to
Downey and rented thirty acres, and there he tried to raise hogs; but he lost all his
hogs and traded for a house in Los Angeles, where he worked for the Lacy Manu
facturing Company, punching washers. He forged ahead, but was laid off; and then
he took up farming again, and searched for months until he found his present property.
He traded his house and two lots fer five acres on the corner of Olive and Sunkist
Avenues, and there were only eighty-one orange trees set out; he himself set out the
rest, all Valencia orange trees, now in full bearing. He has also helped improve other
orchards. His soil is superior; he uses the best of fertilizers, and plenty of them; he
has an excellent pumping plant, originally started by the Orange Grove Water Com
pany, and his highly-productive ranch is now cared for by his son, Walter, who uses
a tractor and a team, and follows the latest, most scientific and practical methods of
agriculture. An example of the increase in values is shown by the fact that he bought
it for $1,850, and he has lately refused $30,000 for it.
Eight children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Paulus: William, Peter
and Jacob are in Los Angeles; Walter, as has been stated, Is ranching; Charles is also
in Los Angeles; Fred is at McKittrick; Katie is Mrs. Robert Law, of the same place;
and Elizabeth is Mrs. Fred Law, and lives at Anaheim. The family are members of
the Presbyterian Church at Anaheim.
CHARLES W. MORROW. — A highly intelligent native son of California, whose
love of good reading has assisted him in working for a higher standard of citizenship,
is Charles W. Morrow, who was born in what is now Orange County on April 10, 1885,
the son of George Clinton Morrow, whose sister, Mrs. Adaline Wright, crossed the
great continent in the famous year of 1849, as did a brother, Harrison Morrow.
George C. Morrow was born in Ohio, and as his health was poor he therefore
sought outdoor employment. Going to Iowa when a young man, he farmed there
and°drove a stage, later driving a stage in Nebraska. He had come to California in 1865,
when Mr. and Mrs. Wright made their second trip, remaining there but a short time,
driving freight teams from San Pedro to Los Angeles. Upon his return to Iowa he
was married to Sarah Jane Hutchings, a native of Ohio, but who had lived in Iowa
from the age of nine years. Returning to California in 1871, Mr. Morrow settled in
Los Angeles County, driving the stage from Anaheim to Los Flores. Mr. and Mrs.
Morrow had eight children: Thomas Benton, George Clinton, Jr., Mrs. Maggie May
Bowden, Mrs. Madge Christensen, Mrs. Nellie Fenton, Mrs. Annie Wheeler, Sylvester
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and Charles W. Mr. and Mrs. Morrow are still living and reside in the Villa Park
district, Orange County, the father being eighty-five and the mother seventy-six years
of age. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on September 15, 1919.
Charles W. Morrow was sent to what was then called the Mountain View school,
now known as the school at Villa Park — the name having been changed as late as
1908-09 — and lived to serve as one of the trustees of that institution. He acquired three
acres of his own, which he has well improved and where he has lately built a fine
residence; and he is the manager of a tract of Valencia oranges, owned by his
father, set out to Valencias and lemons. He is also a director in the Gray Tract Water
Association, which is now supplying service to 600 acres of citrus land, having plenty of '
wells to insure against drought. He also belongs to the Villa Park Orchards Asso
ciation. On September 15, 1908, Mr. Morrow was married to Miss Mabel Stutheit of
Villa Park, a talented lady, noted especially for her accomplishment in music, who
came to California from Kansas with her parents. Two children have blessed the uijion
of the younger couple — Lillian Bernice and Hazel May.
Mr. Morrow is a Democrat in matters of national political import, and yet quite
nonpartisan when it comes to doing his duty by local movements. He belongs to the
Community Church, and is honored as one of its trustees. All in all, Orange County as
well as Villa Park may congratulate itself on such thoroughly loyal and active citizens
as Mr. Morrow.
ERROL TRAFFORD WATSON.— An industrious and exceptionally able young
man is Errol Trafford Watson, the second son of the widely-known and well-beloved
pioneer, Jonathan Watson, who shares in the active management of the Watson ranch,
raising in particular oranges, lemons and walnuts. He was born on June 3, 1894, and
twenty years later graduated with credit from the Orange Union high school. His
father being a rancher and horticulturist, Errol was therefore naturally interested in
ranch work, and so has easily become expert in farm management. Like his father,
who is known to have out-shot Buffalo Bill, he loves hunting in the great outdoors, and
always carries a gun with him when he goes for a walk in the open. Should ravens,
hawks or other birds get too close to the chicken yard on the Watson premises, there
fore, they invariably suffer the penalty.
On September 6, 1916, Mr. Watson was married to Miss Beatrice Durkee, a native
of Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and the daughter of Joseph E. and Lucinda (Stewart) Durkee,
natives of Iowa, who were married in Minnesota. Her father was a public school
teacher, and for twenty years served as superintendent of schools in Buena Vista
County, Iowa. In 1908 they came to California, and settled in Los Angeles, where the
mother died in February, 1909, leaving three children — Beatrice, Florence and Ruth.
The following month Mr. Durkee removed to Orange County and bought a ranch of
twenty acres, three and a half miles to the northwest of Anaheim, and there he is
still living. Two children have blessed this happy union, June and Maxine.
The three Watson brothers, Floyd E., Errol Trafford and Harold Arlington,
operate the ranch of one hundred twelve and a half acres belonging to their father,
Jonathan Watson, and cultivate forty-five acres given to walnuts and the balance
mostly in oranges. The walnut trees are from four to thirty years old. They use two
tractors in operating the ranch, this being at least so far as the Watsons are concerned,
a horseless age. This is all the more strange since Jonathan Watson, aided by his
sons, was noted as a breeder of standard and draft horses. Errol Watson is director
in the Orange County Walnut Growers Association at Santa Ana. California need
not worry when its future destiny lies at the disposal of such brain and brawn as mark
the conservative aggressiveness of these Orange County young men.
LEE O. MYERS.— Among the wide-awake, far-seeing and scientifically operating
ranchers who have been "doing things" in Orange County may well be mentioned Lee
U. Myers, who is proud of his birth, as a native son, at Susanville, in Lassen County,
Cal.. in 1881, the son of Cyrus Myers, the blacksmith, who died from a sad accident
when our subject was only five years old. He had married Miss Barbara Scherer, a
native of Illinois, an amiable, devoted woman; and she proved a very lovable mother
and guardian to her four children in their hour of need. Among these dependents,
Lee was the youngest. For nine years he lived in Santa Paula with his uncle, and
until his seventeenth year he was educated at the public schools of his district. Then,
tor two years he was employed by the Lacy Manufacturing Company of Los Angeles,
and it goes without saying, ,n view of that extended, single engagement, that he made
himself, through his intelligence, industry and fidelity, invaluable to that firm.
On November 11. 1903, Mr. Myers was married to Miss Mette Hansen, the young
est daughter of the late Charles and Mrs. Mette Hansen, old pioneers in the Placentia
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They now are old enough to attend the Placentia grammar school, and with their
parents go to the Presbyterian Church at Placentia.
Later, Mr. Myers, having sold six acres he had owned in the Placentia district,
bought twenty-five acres of the original Charles Hansen tract then owned by the Thum
Bros., and five acres he afterward disposed of to accommodate his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Hansen. Thrift and time profitably spent on the ranch have brought Mr. and Mrs.
Myers success; and he is very naturally a member of the Anaheim Union Water Com-
. pany and the Fullerton Walnut Association. Although preferring his home to the best
club in the world, Mr. Myers was for some years an Odd Fellow. He is out and out
a loyal, enthusiastic American, and during the recent war supported the work of the
Red Cross whenever and however he was able.
AUGUSTUS G. MILLER. — A highly-esteemed member of the Masonic frater
nity of Fullerton, and a citizen who has become a man of affairs in other departments
of life, adding by his daily labors to the stability of institutions and furthering- the aims
of commerce and finance, is Augustus G. Miller, the rancher of East Orangethorpe
Avenue, and vice-president of the Placentia-Fullerton Walnut Growers Association.
He was born in Chicago, 111., on June 26, 1864, the son of August Carl and Rose (Bar-
tels) Miller. The father came from Hanover, Germany, in 1852 to escape military
oppression, and for six years was busy in New York City as an expert sugar boiler in
Havemeyer's Sugar Refinery. In 1858 they came on to Chicago, 111., and continued in
the sugar industry until the Civil War broke out in 1861. He then offered his services
as a soldier in the Federal Army; but he was refused enlistment on account of a
crippled right hand. This led him to turn to the mercantile field, in which he accumu
lated a small fortune; but the Chicago fire of 1871 burned up all of his holdings and
left him stranded, penniless.
He then moved away in 1874 into the valley of the Des Plaines River, just west
of Chicago, where he leased a farm of 140 acres and went into market-gardening for
the Chicago trade; but four years later he removed to a farm of 140 acres near Fort
Scott, Kans., in 1880, and there in Bourbon County he raised corn, grain and cattle.
He was assisted all this time by our subject, who profited greatly on account of his
father's experience and dependable guidance.
In about 1895 they sold out and joined our subject at Fullerton and with him
they had a comfortable home until their death. The father died January 26, 1913, while
the mother survived until the following March. Of their three children Augustus is the
only son and the second oldest of the family; his two sisters are Mrs. Bertha Leaton
and Mrs. Mathilda Greenwalt of Los Angeles. -Augustus received his education in the
public schools of Chicago although his advantages were somewhat limited on account
of having to work to assist his father make a living, after the total loss in the Chicago
fire. However, by self study, reading and business experiences he has become a well-
informed man.
On October 19, 1889, Augustus Miller was married at Uniontown, Kans., to Miss
Minnie Teague, a native of Bourbon County, Kans., and the daughter of Calvin T.
Teague and Mary Holt, his wife. Both the Teague and Holt families were early settlers
in Kansas, and Joab Teague, Mrs. Miller's grandfather, rode 250 miles on horseback
carrying from Jefferson City, Mo., the first apple trees brought to Uniontown, Kans.
He planted the trees there and took the gold medal in 1876 with apples from the trees
exhibited at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. Mrs. Miller's father taught
school in Kansas in the log-cabin schoolhouse days, and first directed the course of
many who afterward attained prominence in the western world.
Just after the great "boom" in Southern California realty, Mr. Miller came to
California in February, 1891, and was made superintendent of the Gordon Ranch in the
San Joaquin Valley, near Hanford in Tulare County; and there he remained until 1894
In that year he removed to Riverside, and became superintendent of the San Jacinto
Land Company. He had 800 acres under his charge, and 600 acres of these he laid
out and planted to oranges and lemons. The land was hilly, and the laying out of
the rows of trees was difficult in the extreme; he superintended the care of them for
eight years and today it is a very valuable orchard.
As early as 1899 Mr. Miller purchased eighteen acres, which he improved while
superintendent of the San Jacinto Ranch. Half of this acreage is set out to Valencia
orange trees and half to walnuts, and the whole is under the Anaheim Union Water
Company. In February, 1913, he purchased twenty acres at Woodlake in Tulare
County which he developed by setting out oranges and olives, and now he has a fine
grove there of five-year-old trees in a frostless belt.
Of the two children granted Mr. and Mrs. Miller, Mamie became the wife of
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H. is a graduate of Fullerton high school, now with the Union Oil Company. The
family attend the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Miller is a Republican in national political
affairs, but nonpartisan when it comes to local movements; he is an original stock
holder in the Standard Bank of Orange County in Fullerton, a director in the Anaheim
Union Water Company, and a member and director of the Anaheim Orange and Lemon
Growers Association. He is also a past master of Fullerton Lodge, No. 191, F. & A. M.
and was a prime mover in the building of the new Masonic temple of which he is
trustee. He is also a member of Fullerton Chapter, R. A. M., in which he is serving.
as chaplain and is a member of Santa Ana Council, R. & S. M. He is at present serving
his second term as patron of the Eastern Star, to which excellent organization Mrs.
Miller also belongs. Mr. and Mrs. Miller were active in all the recent war and Red
Cross drives, Mr. Miller being captain of the local bond drive committee.
JOHN R. PORTER. — A leading financier of Orange County whose influence
among the old-timers of both Santa Ana and Orange is continually felt, and for the
best, is John R. Porter, a man known to attend strictly to his business, to drive the
same along, and never to allow his business affairs to drive him along. He is cashier
of the National Bank of Orange, and though primarily most devoted to that well-
established and prosperous institution, he is ever ready to give a helping hand to any
other establishment of value to the Orange County communities. He was born in
Galesburg, 111., in 1867, and was educated at Knox College, from which he was
graduated with the degree of B. S. in 1886. Then he came out to California, and at
Santa Ana was soon employed by the Commercial Bank as bookkeeper. When the
Bank of Orange was opened in the boom year of 1887, he removed to Orange and
became the new bank's bookkeeper. The bank bought their present corner on the
Plaza and then erected their imposing building, and from the first they have enjoyed
an excellent patronage.
In 1889, however, Mr. Porter resigned his position in the Orange bank and
returned to Santa Ana, having been elected the first tax collector of Orange County;
and in January, 1890, he entered upon the duties of the office. A year of the work
satisfied him, especially as the First National Bank of Santa Ana offered him the
tellership; and so he resigned to work for that banking house. In 1893 he resigned
again, having purchased an interest in a new shoe store in Santa Ana; and there he
continued until July, 1895, when he returned to Orange, as cashier of the Bank of
Orange — a position of increasing responsibility which he has filled with signal ability.
In 1906 the bank was nationalized and named the National Bank of Orange,
starting thus with a capital of fifty thousand dollars; and later the capital of the bank
was increased to $100,000. Now the deposits total over $1,250,000. In 1906 was also
started the Orange Savings Bank, affiliated with the National Bank of Orange, and of
this Mr. Porter has also since been cashier. Undoubtedly, both of these splendid
institutions owe much of their progress and prosperity to Mr. Porter's conservative
policy and careful management, for it is looked upon as one of the strongest banks in
Orange County. The character of its officers has had much to do with favoring it with
the confidence of the public; and never yet has that confidence been shaken.
Some time ago Mr. Porter improved ten acres of orange grove on Batavia Street,
but this excellent property he has recently disposed of. He now owns a walnut orchard.
He is a member of the Santiago Orange Growers Association, and most .emphatically
believes that it is the cooperation of the growers, there brought about, that spells
the success of the enterprise.
Mr. Porter was made a Mason in Santa Ana Lodge, F. & A. M., and is now a
member of Orange Grove Lodge, No. 293, F. & A. M. He belongs to Orange Grove
Chapter, No. 99, R. A. M„ and to the Santa Ana Commandery, No. 36, K. T. He is
also a life member of Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and a member of the
Santa Ana lodge of the Elks.
DILLARD E. FORD AND RAY FORD.-The Ray Ford Company of Santa
Ana the popular and well-known dealers in hay, grain and feed, is composed of Ray
Ford and his father, Dillard E. Ford. Ray Ford is a native son, born at Fullerton,
August 30 1897; his father is a native of Missouri, while his mother, who in maiden
hood was Polly Steele, was born in Georgia. They are the parents of seven children:
Helena, Ray, LeRoy, Richard, Russell, Mary and Eleanor
Dillard IE. Ford located in Fullerton in 1895, where he was engaged with the
St. Helena Ranch Company, north of Fullerton, and planted walnut trees which were
among the first planted in that district. Later he purchased land near Placentia, part
of which he solch and on this same land oil is now being developed. Afterwards Mr.
Ford located at Huntington Beach, being one of the pioneers of that thriving beach city,
having been there when the town was laid out, and became foreman of the Huntington

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Beach Company. He was also foreman of the Bolsa Ranch, then owned by Robert
Norton. For three years Mr. Ford was engaged in raising celery in the peat land
section of Orange County. Later he became buyer for the Interstate Fruit Distributors
Association, the first association to ship fruit and vegetables out of Orange County.
In 1912, when the Holly Sugar Factory at Huntington Beach was built, Mr.
Ford entered their employ and so efficient has been his service that he is still with
the company and now fills the important post of agriculturist. On Fairview Avenue,
south of Santa Ana, Mr. Ford owns a five-acre ranch set to young walnut trees, and
here he also engages in poultry raising, having 500 chickens in his flock. He has always
taken an active interest in the growth and development of Orange County and at one
time was the owner of fifty-five acres near the race track, south of Santa Ana, which
he devoted to sugar beets. Fraternally Mr. Ford is an Odd Fellow, a member of
Downey Lodge.
Ray Ford received his early education in the public schools of Huntington Beach
and Santa Ana, after which, for a year and a half, he looked after his father's ranch.
His next employment was as storekeeper for the Holly Sugar Factory at Huntington
B.each. During the World War he valiantly responded to the call of his country, en
listing June 29, 1918, in the U. S. Navy as a seaman gunner. He was attached to the
U. S. Mine Carrier Lakeview, and saw fourteen months of service, receiving his honor
able discharge August 16, 1919. After leaving the Navy Mr. Ford returned to Santa
Ana, where, in partnership with his father, they bought the feed store of R. S. Smith
on North Birch Street. They deal in hay, grain, mill feed, fuel, seeds and poultry
supplies. Mr. Ford is making a splendid success in his new enterprise.
On January 14, 1920, Ray Ford was united in marriage with Miss Florence N.
Cary, born at Talbert, a daughter of Robert J. Cary, who was formerly a rancher
there but is now a resident of San Bernardino County.
DENNIS J. MCCARTHY.— A well-traveled and well-informed rancher who is
particularly familiar with Alaska, having visited and thoroughly explored that country
several times, is Dennis J. McCarthy, at present farming to the northeast of Anaheim.
He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 5, 1857, the son of Jeremiah McCarthy,
a railroad man, who had married Mary Holland. They were both born in County
Cork, Ireland, but were married in England and there they followed farming until 1854,
when they came to Cincinnati, Ohio. During the Civil War Jeremiah McCarthy was
in the government employ as a wagon maker.
In 1865 they removed to Osgood, Ripley County, Ind., where they purchased a
farm and resided there until their demise. 'This worthy couple had seven children
Dennis J. being the second oldest. The lad attended the Ripley County schools, and
just how hard he had to strive for what educational advantages he enjoyed may be
gathered from the fact that he walked four miles to the schoolhouse, which was opened
for only four months in the year. Like his father, he took up railway work, and it
was not long before' his services were fully appreciated by those employing him.
In 1881 he came west to Colorado for railroad construction, and the next spring
to Wyoming and in the fall of 1882 proceeded on to San Francisco, Cal. For a short
time he was busy in railroad building in San Francisco and vicinity, and then he re
moved to Idaho and settled at Pocatello, where he took up bridge building. From
Pocatello, he worked for the Oregon Short Line out toward Butte, Mont., and Hunt
ington, Ore., Granger, Wyo., and Ogden, Utah, and he assisted in erecting some of the
most notable bridges along the great railway lines.
In 1902, Mr. McCarthy returned to California and settled in Anaheim, where he
purchased ten acres at the corner of North and Sunkist avenues. It was bare land
when he acquired possession; but in 1914 he set out a fine grove of Valencia trees, and
now he owns one of the handsome, promising orchards of the county. His land is
served by the Anaheim Union Water Company, and he markets through the Red Fox
Packing House.
Mr. McCarthy is an authority on Alaska, although he speaks with modesty of
what he has seen and accomplished there, having made no less than five trips to the
land of the Midnight Sun. He first went there in 1898, at the time of the rush to the
Klondike for gold, and in partnership with S. W. Evans went over the White Pass,
leaving Skagway February 1, over the snow. They took 3,500 pounds of provisions,
as well as tools, and used one horse and two sleds on this trip and camped on snow
over forty feet deep. In 1899, he made a second trip, and the next year a third. In
1916 he went to Anchorage, Alaska, and the next year to Juneau. He was an eye
witness to stirring events in historic days, and took an active part of the making ot
history in Alaska. It is no wonder, therefore, that he is nonpartisian in politics, and
decidedly believes in selecting men fit for office regardless of party.

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HENRY DEAN POLHEMUS.— An interesting representative of a fine old Cali
fornia family long identified with the pioneer history of Orange County, is Henry D.
Polhemus, who was born on the old Polhemus ranch on the State Highway, south of
Anaheim, April 27, 1890, the son of Henry D. and Emma M. (Hanna) Polhemus.
Henry D. Polhemus, Sr., was born in Valparaiso, Chili, October 13, 1843. His father,
John Hart Polhemus, was the American minister to Chili at the time, serving during
President Tyler's administration. In 1849 they made the voyage back to the States,
locating at Mt. Holly, Burlington County, N. J., where Henry D. received his prepa
ration for college and entered the Jersey Collegiate Institute. After completing a
course there he entered a pharmacy, continuing until August 26, 1862, when fired by
patriotism he enlisted in the Twenty-third New Jersey Volunteer Infantry and rose to
the rank of hospital steward. He was in the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13,
1862. He continued in service until June 27, 1863, when he was honorably discharged
by reason of the expiration of his term of enlistment.
In August, 1863, he migrated to California via Panama and made his way on to
Empire City, Nev., where he was assayer for the Silver State Reduction Works for
one year when he returned to San Francisco and became agent for the San Francisco
and San Jose Railroad until the fall of 1868, when he resigned and came with the
Los Angeles and San Bernardino Land Association with whom he continued for several
years. In February, 1876, he became agent at San Rafael for the North Pacific Coast
Railroad and in May, 1877, he assumed the same position for the company at Tomales.
In 1880 he came to Anaheim and purchased thirty-five acres on what is now the State
Highway at Flores station on the Southern Pacific where he was agent for a time.
However, he soon engaged in farming and improved the place to walnuts. He died
in 1900. His widow survives him and resides in Artesia; she was born at Clintonville,
Va., November 5, 1852. Her father, John Hanna, was also a pioneer of Orange County
and had a thirty-five-acre ranch on the State Highway, having located in this section
as early as 1862.
Henry D. Polhemus was sent to the grammar schools of Katella, and later attended
the Harvard Military School at Los Angeles. On September 21, 1912, he was married
to Miss Christine Joens, a native of Oakland, and the daughter of John and Sophia
(Hansen) Joens, who were early settlers of Oakland. Her father was a merchant of
Oakland, and he came to Los Angeles and was prominent as a produce merchant there
at the time of the marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Joens now reside at the Polhemus home.
Two children have blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Polhemus, and they bear the
pretty names of Evelyn Martha and Henry Dean, Jr. Mr. Polhemus took an appren
tice's course in electrical work in the International Correspondence School, and was
engaged by the Los Angeles Railroad as an electrician up to 1907. Then he went with
the Southern California Edison Company as operator at the Katella Station, and was
with them for over three years. He resigned and in 1911 was engaged by the Union
Oil Company as chief electrician and has had charge of their electrical work in the
Southern division, extending from Santa Paula in Ventura County to San Juan Capis
trano and he also had charge of their telephone line as well as all construction work.
On his twenty-first birthday, Mr. Polhemus was given by his mother ten acres of
land on Placentia and Cerritos avenues, and although it was barren then, he has since
set it out to Valencia orange trees now bearing. He has a trim ranch, and markets
through the Anaheim Mutual Orange Distributors Association. Mr. Polhemus was
made a Mason in Anaheim Lodge No. 207, F. & A. M., and politically he votes for
the best man irrespective of party.
WILLIAM L. YORK.— A successful horticulturist and a conservative, yet pro
gressive financier of philanthropic tendencies, distinguished as one of the public-spirited
citizens m the La Habra Valley, and certainly one who has inspired others to do their
best tor society and in particular for their home district, William L. York occupies
an enviable position in Orange County. He was born in Aledo, Mercer County, 111., in
1865, the only son of Charles York, a Kentuckian, who migrated to Illinois and there
did yeoman service as a pioneer. He owned many head of oxen, and took up the
work of a prairie breaker hiring out his ox teams. Once, long ago, he visited Cali-
forma, but he never settled here. He owned a farm of 320 acres, where he raised stock
"dng™'.a"d he served his fellow-citizens as tax collector of his township for many
frorr, thi r 0 r Preempted by the maternal grandfather, Zachariah Landreth,
York anH nn ^ rr"m,ent^uen,that State was a territory, and he sold it to Charles
1° ' a °n this farm both Charles York and his wife died. Some of the apple trees
mad a trin Zl rT SeVenti; to0'ghty >'ears old, and when our subject and his wife
S fAl EaSt,last yf<- they found the farm still kept up to its normal condition.
Jorn Sf ,r Wa! MlSS J3ne Landreth, a native of the state of Pennsylvania, but
born ot English parentage.

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William York attended the district school, and then studied for a term at Heding
College; and when he was twenty-one years of age, he assumed the management of
the farm. Later, during the winter months, he taught school. On March 20, 1890, he
was married to Miss Clara Bell Tenney, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Tenney,
pioneer agriculturists in Mercer County, 111. She also was a pupil of the common
schools of her district, afterward attended Simpson College, and, when sixteen years
old, taught the district school. In fact, for a term after their marriage, both Mr. and
Mrs. York taught school.
Mr. York farmed in Illinois until 1902, and for three terms he was a justice of
the peace in Mercer County. When he came West, his destination was Whittier, and
there he paid the record price up to that time for ten acres of citrus fruit. In 1911 he
sold his Whittier holdings and bought seventeen acres of year-old Eureka lemons at
La Habra. He is a member of the La Habra Valley Water Company, and is vice-
president of the La Flabra Citrus Association. He is also president of the First
National Bank of La Habra, which is operated in connection with the Federal Reserve.
Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. York: Frank Albert enlisted
November 17, 1917, in the Twenty-sixth Engineers, as a private of the first class, and
was trained at Camp Dix. He was overseas for nine months, and during that time was
on the front for seven months, and participated in the Argonne arid the Meuse offen
sives, and fought at Chateau Thierry and at Metz. In April, 1919, he was honorably
discharged from Camp Fremont. After leaving the army he married Miss Clara Bald
win, and they have one daughter, Willa Jane. He is engaged in the oil production busi
ness as a driller. Maribel, the second child, is the wife of David F. Lemke, the rancher
at Placentia, and now has three children, Cloise Dudley, John York and Robert Lewis.
Mr. and Mrs. York and family are Methodists, and Mr. York is a church trustee. In
national politics he is a Democrat, but in local movements decidedly nonpartisan.
H. FRED TOWNER. — A man who believes in turning out only the highest stand
ard of work is H. Fred Towner, the well-known manufacturer of agricultural imple
ments and tractor attachments at Santa Ana. He was born at Santa Ana on September
26, 1882, the son of A. J. Towner, who had married Mrs. Augusta E. Hamilton. His
parents came from Syracuse, N. Y., in 1880, and settled at Santa Ana, where they
ranched. A. J. Towner was a gunsmith by trade and also conducted a sporting goods
store. Fred's grandfather, Judge James William Towner, an attorney by profession,
was the first judge of the Superior Court in Orange County and when he resigned in
1897 he was presented with a gold-headed cane by the Orange County Bar. This cane
is now a prized heirloom in the possession of our subject. A. J. Towner died in
Santa Ana. while his wife passed away at the home of a daughter in New York. Their
daughter Xarifa succumbed to influenza while on a visit to Michigan.
Tiring rather early of the tasks at the public school, H.Fred Towner left his
books because he preferred to work. At the age of seventeen he began to learn the
blacksmith trade under W. C. Young, a pioneer blacksmith of Santa Ana, working
for wages until October, 1914. The following year he built the first part of his present
place and in 1920 he erected a larger building adjoining arid now has a building 100
by 90, and on the rear of'his lots a warehouse 30 by 90. His establishment is splen
didly fitted out with modern machinery and he employs about twenty-one men, each of
them skilled in his particular line. The factory is located at 105-07-09-11 North Main
Street and it is Mr. Towner's intention to continue to enlarge his plant and to give
work to a still larger force of employees.
The establishment is equipped as an up-to-date machine shop, with lathes, shapers,
high-speed drills, power punches, shears, automatic thread cutters and triphammers,
as well as hacksaws and emery stands, the whole being operated by electric power from
motors of a combined capacity of thirty-two and a half horsepower and it is the con
sensus of opinion that it is the best-equipped machine shop in the county. He is the
largest manufacturer of agricultural implements in the county and is equipped to do
all kinds of work in this line. His motto is, "If nobody else will build it we will," and
he has handled a number of jobs that no one else on the coast would attempt and
has made a success of them because of his initiative and experience.
Mr. Towner's specialty is the building to order of farm implements, such as sub
soil plows, cyclones, bean planters, bean cutters, cultivators, furrowers, gang plows
and other farm machinery. He has patented a subsoil plow which has an oscillating
standard, and has taken out a second patent on this subsoiler, which oscillates below
the frame instead of in the frame; he has taken this out to protect his first patent and
they are the only oscillating subsoilers on the market that one can back up with. He
also has a third patent on the subsoiler called the Perfection subsoiler, an attachment
to the Oliver plow, and it is an exclusive Fordson automatic tool. He has also in
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roller hitch for them and tractors of similar construction. At the present time Mr.
Towner furnishes all the extension grousers for Fordson tractors for all the Pacific
Coast states and all the extension grousers for the Samson tractors in the state of
California. He also carries a large stock of steel, heavy and light bolts and nuts, as
well as coal and general blacksmith's supplies for the retail trade.
On May 14, 1905, Mr. Towner was married to Miss Anna Schlasman, .the cere
mony taking place at Orange. Three sons blessed the union: James William, who
died when he was fourteen months old; H. Frederick and Rutherford Glenn. The
family occupy their own home at 833 North Baker Street, on the corner of Towner
Street, named for his father. Mr. Towner belongs to the Maccabees and is a life
member of the Elks. While a Democrat in national politics, in local matters he is a
man above mere party lines. He is a believer in church and educational institutions
and is always ready to contribute his share toward worthy enterprises and is a mem
ber of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Towner was a member of the old Santa Ana
Volunteer Fire Department and for some years served as its vice-president.
EDMUND E. KNIGHT. — After an interesting life, many years of which were
spent in a foreign land, Edmund E. Knight, the proprietor of the well-known Guatemala
Avocado Nursery, located in Orange County in 1914, purchasing a tract of five acres
on North Eureka Avenue, Yorba Linda, where he has since made his home. Born at
Utica, Mich., May 4, 1860, Mr. Knight was the son of Philip Atwood Knight, who was
a member of one of the earliest classes to graduate from the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor. For fifty years he was a prominent physician and surgeon at Utica,
passing away there at the age of seventy-seven.
Educated in the public and high schools of his native town, Mr. Knight remained
there until he was eighteen years of age, when he came West with an uncle, and for
five years remained in Nevada and San Francisco. In 1885 he went back to the old
.home in Michigan on a visit and was returning to San Francisco by way of Panama
when he decided to stop off at Guatemala, and he remained in Mexico, Central and
South America for a period of thirty years. He established himself as a railroad
contractor in different parts of those countries, and a part of the time was engaged in
general merchandising and farming. At the time of his leaving there he was the oldest
American resident in point of years of continuous sojourn in Guatemala. During his
residence there he married into a well-known old Spanish family, and two children, a
son and a daughter, were born to this union: Alfred is a train dispatcher in Honduras;
Ellen, Mrs. Martina Vernon, resides at the family home at Yorba Linda. Mrs. Knight
passed away in Guatemala.
Mr. Knight had made numerous trips to the States, and on his trips to California
came to the conclusion, there was a splendid opening here for raising avocados. At the
time of the first Balkan War railroad building in Central America ceased because the
companies could not borrow the money to finance their building, so Mr. Knight sold his
holdings and came to Los Angeles. After looking over different portions of Southern
California, he selected Yorba Linda as the most suitable because it is practically
frostless and has an abundance of good water. So, in March, 1914, Mr. Knight began
an extensive planting of avocado seedlings on his ranch at Yorba Linda, and shortly
afterward went direct to Guatemala, Central America, to procure avocado buds from
the best trees fruiting in that country, famed for the finest avocados. It was necessary
for him to obtain a special permit from the United States Government to import these
buds, and in order to insure them arriving in proper condition he had a special refrigera
tor box built on board ship to preserve the buds in their dormant state. Returning to
the United States, he brought with him the first successful shipment of the famous
Guatemala hard-shell avocado, comprising 41,000 buds, and from these he was able to
grow eightv-one sturdy trees. He is the only individual that has imported avocado
buds into the U. S. from Guatemala and made them grow, and this two years before
the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture at Washington did it
successfully. From the beginning Mr. Knight was quick to see the wonderful possi
bilities in the avocado industry in the United States, and his thorough study of all
angles of this comparatively new branch of horticulture has made him one of the
authorities in this part of the country, and he has contributed largely toward putting
the industry on a successful commercial basis. He has developed Linda, Queen, Kist
and Knight varieties, all of them the choicest qualities, and he finds a ready market
tor all the fruit he grows. He was a pioneer in the use of the overhead or spray
system of irrigation, and also was the first to demonstrate that the avocado thrives
best where the ground around is not cultivated. In addition to his choice nursery of
avocados, he has an orchard of 600 to 700 trees, it being the first close-set orchard of
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Mr. Knight's second marriage occurred at Los Angeles on April 29, 1919, when
he was united with Mrs. Florence (Wade) DeVries. She was born at Fremont, Mich.,
a daughter of Warren and Jennie Wade. Her father was a lumberman, being president
of the Michigan Lumber Company. He died in 1910, being survived by his widow.
Mrs. Knight is a graduate of the Ypsilanti State Normal and was supervisor of
manual training of the Pontiac schools for twelve years. She has one son by her first
marriage, Wade DeVries, a senior at the University of Michigan. Mr. Knight was
made a Mason in California Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M., San Francisco, and is a charter
member of Yorba Linda Lodge No. 469, F. & A. M., as well as Fullerton Commandery,
K. T., and with his wife is a member of Yorba Linda Chapter, O. E. S. A charter
member of the California Avocado Association, Mr. Knight is one of its most enthusi
astic members, and never misses a meeting of the organization. A liberal in politics,
lie is interested in al] the progressive movements of the locality. Fond of outdoor
life, he finds much recreation in exploring the high Sierras.
A. K. CRAVATH. — A public-spirited official who has labored long and accom
plished much at his own private expense for the benefit of the mass of his fellow-
citizens, is A. K. Cravath, the wide-awake and popular deputy sheriff of Orange County,
who was born in Chesterville, Knox County, Ohio, eight miles from Mount Vernon,
on April 23, 1852. His father, Samuel P. Cravath born in Genesee County, N. Y., was
a cabinet maker, with his own shop and trade; and he had married, in Pennsylvania,
Miss Katherine Freeman, born in Crawford County, Pa. They moved to Will County,
111., in 1855, and there Mr. Cravath rented a farm for three years; after which they
removed to Worth County, Iowa, where t.:ey purchased a quarter-section farm lying
along the Minnesota state line, which they devoted to corn and stock.
The lad, A. K., was educated at the district school at North Wood and finished
his studies in the Baptist Seminary at Osage, Iowa. Then he returned to the home
farm and continued to assist the folks at home until June, 1872. In that year he came
to California with his sister, Mrs. C. C. Watson and her husband, a Civil War veteran
who had lost an arm, and settled in San Diego County, where Mr. Watson purchased
a ranch of 320 acres in Powey Valley, which he devoted to dry farming and stock
raising. Mr. Cravath continued to live and work in San Diego County until he acquired
880 acres in one tract in Powey Valley, and 870 acres in another tract in Bernardo,
half way between Powey and Escondido. The home place, however, he sold in 1886,
and then he became assistant manager in the Escondido Land & Town Company,
which was operated by San Diego capital, and with that company he remained for
eight years.
When he sold out his interest in 1894, he removed to Santa Ana, and he has lived
in the latter town ever since, serving as deputy sheriff for eight years under Lacy and
for four years under Jackson, at the present time being associated with the district
attorney's office as special investigator. Nearly all the time he has been connected with
the police and constable departments. In national politics a Progressive Republican,
Mr. Cravath has endeavored most conscientiously to discharge his duties as a citizen
in favor of the highest civic standards, independent of all partisan considerations.
Mr. Cravath may be said to be the father, in many respects, of Escondido, where
he built the first home and the first business block — at the corner of Grand Avenue
and Lime Street — then known as the Escondido Bank block and now familiar as the
home of the Escondido National Bank, which he organized in the boom year, 1887; a
prime mover in incorporating the city of Escondido he was a member and chairman
of its first board of trustees. He built, in fact, many of the best homes in Escondido,
and spent the best years of his life, and the best part of his private capital, in develop
ing, first the water system of Escondido, and then the water supply in the neighboring
valley, thereby bringing to a high state these much-needed pubic utilities. He brought
the water down from the San Luis Rey River, from what is known as Palomar in the
Smith Mountains, accomplishing a great engineering feat, by means of tunnels, ditches
and flumes, in leading the water across intervening- ridges. One tunnel of 640 feet
through solid rock, at San Luis Rey River, connected with a flume and then a ditch,
carried the flow for sixteen miles through what are known as horseshoe bends, to
Valley Center and after that through another tunnel 470 feet long, emptying the water
into a reservoir in Little Bear Valley, from which the supply was sent to various parts
of the valley. This work was completed in the fall of 1893, and has ever since proven
one of the most useful public utilities in Southern Californ'a. The cost of the ditch
line was first estimated by the consulting engineer, John D. Schuyler, to be sure to
approximate a round quarter of a million dollars; but it only cost $93,000, a matter of
congratulation to all concerned. He was twenty years ahead of his time and had a
hard time getting the people interested and to see the vast benefit of own'ng the water
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John L. Folk, filling the office made vacant through his removal, by the Superior
Court. He completed the term but was not a candidate for reelection. This exacting
work made him familiar with criminal cases, and he has long enjoyed the reputation of
being among the best-posted men on Southern California criminal affairs.
On December 1, 1877, Mr. Cravath was married to Miss Kate Sikes, a native
daughter who first saw the light in Santa Clara, where she was educated at the district
school. Her parents were Zenis and Elizabeth Sikes and her father owned 2,200 acres
of the Bernardo ranch in San Diego County, which he purchased after he had come
from Santa Clara in 1872. Nine children, three sons and six daughters, were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Cravath. Bertha was the wife of Harold Welch and she died in Colo
rado, leaving a son, Newell, whom Mr. and Mrs. Cravath have raised from a babe;
Howard A. is a druggist at Bakersfield; Clifford C. resides at Laguna Beach, and is
the manager of the Philadelphia "Nationals" baseball team; Gertrude R. is deputy
county clerk of Kern County; Arlie M. is assistant secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce of Santa Ana; Irene resides with her parents; Verian is employed in the Unique
Clothing Store at Santa Ana; Muriel D. is the stenographer of Messrs. Koepsel and
Eden at Santa Ana, and Bert S. is employed by the U. S. Government in Arizona, devel
oping water wells for the Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservation.
JOHN HENRY LANG, M. D.— Since 1911 Dr. John Henry Lang has been a
resident of Fullerton and among the town's leading surgical and medical practitioners.
He is a native of Cape Girardeau County, Mo., where he was born July 26, 1882.
His father, W. E., now deceased, and mother, Mary C. (Schultz) Lang, were farmers,
and of their family of nine children John Henry was the seventh child in order of
birth. He received his preliminary education in the public schools of his native state
and at the State Normal school at Cape Girardeau, and in choosing a profession in
life chose that of his grandfather, David Lang, a prominent M. D. in his day and
generation. Dr. J. H. Lang's professional training, which has placed him among the
foremost exponents of the science of surgery and medicine wherever he has prac
ticed, was acquired at the St. Louis University Medical Department, from which he
was graduated with the class of 1906 with the degree of M. D. In selecting a place
to begin the practice of his profession he chose Centertown, Mo., where he practiced
successfully for five years before locating at Fullerton, Cal., in 1911. His surgical
work is generally performed at the Fullerton Hospital. On two different occasions
he took post-graduate courses at St. Louis and Chicago.
His marriage occurred October 17, 1906, uniting him with Miss Carrie Blanche
Milster, a native of Perry County, Mo., and they are the parents of three children:
Beatrice Lucile, Helen Dale and Howard Milster. Dr. Lang is a member of both
state and county medical societies and vice-president of the latter. He was chief
examiner of the exemption board for northern Orange County during the World
War, and is the present city health officer. He is a director in the Standard Bank of
Orange County, as well as the Home Builders of Fullerton, and is interested in
citriculture, owning a Valencia orange grove. In his religious associations he is a
Methodist, and in national politics he is a Republican. In local issues he lends his
influence toward electing the man best fitted for the office, regardless of party affilia
tions, and is a member of the Board of Trade. Fraternally, in his Masonic connec
tions he is a member of Fullerton Lodge No. 339, F. & A. M., and Fullerton Chapter
R. A. M of which he is past high priest, and is a charter member of Fullerton
Commandery -No. 55, K. T., and with his wife is a member of the Eastern Star, in which
order they are both past officers. Dr. Lang is also a member of Santa Ana Council
bO-' _," Md 'S a PaSt chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Fullerton, as well
as affiliated with various other fraternal orders. He is also a member of the Fuller-
ton Club. His advice and opinion carry the weight of influence and authority in all
ot the societies with which he is connected, and his painstaking professional efforts
and maintenance of high medical ethics render him an invaluable addition to the
medical fraternity of Orange County.
iv the^ommliT \ P°SS-7Beheving that the solution of the labor problem is not
more \ reduction of hours, but rather by increasing production by applying
h s fourTen ' ^"V" '" Foss has P<* his theories into practice by developing
M e Pa i R ^'f -"P , 3t Y°rba L!nda While P"rsuinS his duties as a conductor on
W Vp Jpt 10, Ra!lway at the same time, and he attributes his success to the fact
\ na Le nfSajme recreat,on out °f his ranch as he would from any outdoor sport.
counrrVnX ?rWa& B,ZO™0 Foss was born at West Toten in that northern
the fatherbe ? ,' 188S' ^'S ParentS Were J°hn a»d ^ina (Evenson) Foss,
n Hclre Re, ™0 , "* i'" , " XorweSia" town. One of a family of thirteen
cmlaren, Benjamin spent his boyhood days in the region of his birthplace, attending

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the public schools there. Before he had reached the age of fifteen he decided to
emigrate to America, and he arrived here on April 8, 1900, going to Boyd Minn
where an uncle, A. A. Roseth, resided. After working for several years in the lumber
mill of his uncle, he decided to secure a better education, so he went to Montevideo
Minn., where he attended the public school for two years, and one year in high school
getting a general business education, which has since been of the greatest value to him!
For a short time he worked as an apprentice in the paint business but in 1904 he
entered the employ of the Twin City Transit Company at Minneapolis as a conductor,
continuing with this company for five years.
Coming to Los Angeles, Cal., in 1909, Mr. Foss the next day after his arrival
obtained employment with the Pacific Electric Company as a conductor, through the
credentials which he had earned in the East. For ten years he gave the company
efficient service on the Los Angeles-La Habra- Yorba Linda line. During that time he
was frequently consulted in making improvements on the time schedule, one of the
most beneficial being the tying up of his car at Yorba Linda at night, thus giving the
people of this locality the advantage of a late car out of Los Angeles and an early car
in the morning.
In 1913 Mr. Foss purchased fourteen acres of open, barren land at Yorba Linda,
and here he set about to develop his tract in his spare moments off duty. He set out
a large part of the acreage to citrus trees and established a well laid out system of
irrigation. In 1915 he erected a fine, comfortable residence on the ranch, and since
that time has made it his home. He has recently sold four acres of his holdings, and
he has leased his ranch for oil development, and as an oil well is now in process of
drilling with good prospects, Mr. Foss may realize a handsome addition to his income
from this source. In 1919 he resigned his position with the Pacific Electric and is
now with the General Petroleum Oil Company.
On June 30, 1915, Mr. Foss was married to Miss Julia Bond, a native daughter
of the Golden West, the ceremony being performed in Orange County Park. Her
parents are B. F. and Laura May (Holladay)'Bond, her father being one of Long
Beach's pioneer realty dealers. Mrs. Foss, who is a woman of many accomplishments.
was educated at the Huntington Park Training School and Long Beach high school.
Mr. and Mrs. Foss are the parents of one son, Norman Olaf. They attend the Friends
Church at Yorba Linda. In 1912 Mr. Foss returned to his native land for a visit, and
four months were spent there and in touring Europe, when he returned to America,
more than ever enthusiastic over the land of his adoption. He received his final
naturalization papers on July 21, 1915, and is one of Orange County's most loyal
citizens, ever ready to give of his time and means to every movement for the public
good. In 1916 Mr. Foss was elected to the directorate of the Yorba Linda Citrus
Association, a post he still occupies. In political matters he is a strong adherent of
the Republican party.
HENRY W. DANIELS. — Beginning a meritorious career as an educator at the
early age of sixteen, Henry W. Daniels is now enviably esteemed as a pedagogue of
longer continuous experience that any member of the Fullerton high school faculty.
Michigan was Mr. Daniels' native state, and there he was born at Onstead, on December
18, 1861, the third oldest of five children born to Calvin and Mary (Monagin) Daniels.
The father was a native of Painted Post, Steuben County, N. Y., while the mother
came to New York state from her native land, Ireland, when a child of three years.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Daniels came west to Michigan, settling in
Lenawee County, and here Henry W. Daniels spent his early years on his father's
well-kept farm. When sixteen years of age he obtained a teacher's certificate and for
two years taught a district school. He then entered Adrian College, making his way
through his own efforts, and after two years in college he resumed teaching, the next
ten years being spent in the high schools at Ridgeway, Rome and Clinton, Mich. He
then entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, graduating from there in
1898 with the degree of B. S., C. E., and B. P. The following year the degree of M. S.
was conferred on him by Adrian College.
Following his graduation from the university, Mr. Daniels became the principal
of the high school at Newago, Mich., remaining there two years, when he became
superintendent of schools at St. Louis, Gratiot County, Mich., resigning there after a
period of five years to come to California. In the fall of 1905 he came to Palo Alto,
where for six months he did graduate work at Stanford University, and after that he
was instructor of chemistry for a semester at Pomona College. At the end of the
school year he came to Fullerton and was made head of physics and chemistry in the
high school there. Four years later he was made head of physics and mathematics.
continuing until 1919, when he was relieved of physics, so that he could devote all his
time as head of mathematics.

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In 1912 Mr. Daniels bought seven and a half acres of fine land on East Chapman
Street, Fullerton, which he planted to Valencia oranges, and when he bids adieu to
the lecture-room he will know just where to turn to continue usefully busy. Since
1910 Mr. Daniels has served as a member of the board of trustees of the Fullerton
Public Library, and his efficient service in this direction will always associate him
pleasantly with this up-to-date town.
On July 27, 1892, at Ogden Center, Mich., Mr. Daniels was married to Miss
Jennie McComb, born at Coldwater, Mich., the daughter of Thomas and Isabelle
(Patterson) McComb; the father, who was a business man of Ogden Center, Mich.,
was a native of Mt. Morris, N. Y., while Mrs. McComb was born in Belfast, Ireland.
Mrs. Daniels was reared at Ogden Center, later completing her education at Davis
College, Toledo, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Daniels are the parents of one son, Donald H.
They are active in the membership of the Christian Church at Fullerton-. Mr. Daniels
was made a Mason in Tecumseh Lodge at Tecumseh, Mich., of which he is past master,
and is now a member of Fullerton Lodge No. 339, F. & A. M. He is also a member
of Fullerton Chapter, R. A. M., and of the Consistory. He also cooperates in com
munity affairs by membership in the Placentia Orange Growers Association. With
his wife he participated in all the notable drives of the war and gave his support to all
the various war activities.
CHARLES HERBERT CHAPMAN.— An influential member of the board of
trustees of Santa Ana who, as a very enterprising, far-seeing young man, has been
able to contribute much toward the building up, and also the upbuilding of the city,
is Charles H. Chapman, one of the acknowledged leaders in the lumber business. He
was born near Louisville, in Pottawatomie County, Kans., on January 3, 1875, the son
of Simeon J. Chapman, a native of Missouri, who settled in Pottawatomie County in
October, 1868, after having lost three brothers in the Civil War. He homesteaded
eighty acres there, improved the same, raised grain and stock and, when he was ready,
sold his holding at a handsome profit. He located at Westmoreland, in the same
county, and engaged in both the bakery and confectionery line, and in running a trans
fer business. When he retired, in 1903, he located at Santa Ana, residing for a while
with our subject. He had married Miss Hattie M. Finney, a native of Ohio; and she
is also, happily, still living in the enjoyment of health. Grandfather Chapman was a
native of Pennsylvania, although Grandmother Chapman was of French parentage.
The fourth eldest in the order of birth, Charles H. Chapman was brought up
on a farm until he was fourteen years old, during which time he attended the district
school; and then he began to hustle for himself. He worked at the baker's trade, the
first year for his "keep," and the following two years on a regular wage, in a bakery
at Onaga, Kans., after which he entered the employ of the Onaga Lumber Company.
He began at the lowest round of the ladder, worked up for nine years, and finally,
when he came to have an' interest in the company, had full charge of the concern. He
might have remained there longer; but at the end of two years, the yard was sold,
and then, instead of regarding the turn of affairs as in any way a set-back, he very
wisely decided to avail himself of the opportunity to come to California.
In 1904 Mr. Chapman located at Santa Ana, and there at 120 Bush Street, at the
corner of Second and Bush, he commenced what has since developed into his present
imposing establishment. His yard was advantageously situated, half a block through
to First Street, and by delivering with trucks, he gave general satisfaction and soon
controlled an enviable trade. He also set up a small planing mill, which was kept
busy filling orders from near and far. He belongs to the Retail Lumber Dealers'
Association of Southern California, the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association; and in the latter organization, he was chairman of the
Board for two years.
At Onaga, Kans., Mr. Chapman was married to Miss Myrtle M. Hayes, a native
of Pottawatomie County, a lady of accomplishments and personal charms; and their
fortunate union has been blessed with the birth of three children: Hazel, Elva and
Viola. He was made a Mason in the Onaga Lodge in Kansas, and now he belongs to
R* c "Ir g6i ^°' 241, at Santa Ana' He is also in ^e Santa Ana Council No. 14,
p q te ' ' hls wlfe and daughter are members of Hermosa Chapter, O.
i_. b. J. hey attend the First Congregational Church, and Mr. Chapman teaches a
boys class in the Sunday School.
Having been elected a trustee of the city of Santa Ana in April, 1919, Mr. Chap
man is the water and sewer commissioner. He is a charter member of the Santa Ana
Kotary Club No. 641, and has long been chairman of the membership committee. He
belongs to the Sunset Club, and the fact that he is chairman of its finance committee
speaks for the good opinion held of him by his fellows.

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MURRAY A. PATTON, D.D.S.— A dentist who has done much to elevate and
preserve a high standard of ethics for the profession in Orange County, is Murray A.
Patton of Santa Ana, who was born in Adams County, Nebr., on March 3, 1879. His
father was M. B. Patton, now deceased, and he married Miss Alice Hossler. As parents
having the best interests of their children at heart, they afforded such educational
advantages as were possible to the lad, who grew up on a Nebraska farm.
When he was fifteen, the family came west to California, and at Santa Ana
he continued his schooling, first in the grammar grades and then at the Santa Ana
high school, from which he was graduated in 1900.
Going to Chicago, he took his professional courses at the dental school of
the Northwestern University and graduated with the Class of '03. He might have
found a lucrative field in the East, but he preferred California and so came to Santa
Ana. On May 6, 1906, Dr. Patton was married to Miss Etta McNeil. Their union has
been a fortunate one, and has been blessed in the birth of two children, Thelma Chris
tine and Murray McNeil.
Dr. Patton, who is fond of hunting, golf and mountain climbing, belongs to the
Lodge, Council, Chapter and Commandery in Masonry and the Elks and in the circle
of each enjoys an enviable popularity. He is deeply interested in his home district,
and ever ready, as a member of the Rotary Club, to "boost" any reasonable movement
for local advancement.
ROY CHARLES PETERSON.— Probably there never was a time when it was
equally a matter of interest as to the character and experience of the men in charge
of the American shoe trade, and that may be one reason why success has rewarded the
efforts of Roy Charles Peterson to serve the public, as proprietor of Peterson's Shoe
Store, to the best of his ability. In Canada, where he was born, at Waterville, in
Quebec, he laid the foundations on which he has subsequently, as a typically enter
prising American, so handsomely built. His father was Charles O. Peterson, and the
maiden name of his mother was Margaret Porteous.
The family came to Santa Ana in 1907, and there the father engaged in the selling
of shoes, and soon established an enviable reputation for both his judgment in selection
and his ability to outdistance his competitors in prices. After a while he disposed of
his interests, and retired. He died in January, 1920, at Santa Ana, and his good wife
preceded him, passing away April 17, 1912.
Educated at the public schools in Canada, Roy was fortunate in being sent to
the preparatory school for Dartmouth College at St. Johnsbury, Vt. Later, as a com
mercial representative, he traveled through the Canadian Northwest for several years,
and when he joined his father at Santa Ana in 1907, it was to bring the fruits of wide
wandering and varied experience for the benefit generally of the new business. In
June, 1912, Mr. Peterson opened an establishment on Sycamore Street but as the busi
ness grew he moved to his new location, 215 West Fourth Street in June, 1920.
Notwithstanding these pressing obligations, Mr. Peterson responded to his coun
try's call during the great World War, and on October 30, 1918, enlisted in the
Twenty-fifth Regiment, U. S. Heavy Artillery. He was keyed up for action and
sacrifice; but the armistice prevented him seeing the service he had hoped to engage in.
He therefore resumed, as an American and a Republican, such work as has been possible
for him to perform in elevating the standard of good citizenship.
Mr. Peterson's wife was named Alice Norton before her marriage, and she
shares with him an agreeable popularity in the circles where they are known. He is
a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Elks Lodge, where he is the Exalted Ruler
(1920). Fond of fishing and other healthful diversions, Mr. Peterson loses no oppor
tunity to "boost" Santa Ana and all Orange County, and so is naturally a livewire in
the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce.
MRS. ADELINA CARRILLO. — A charming and most interesting representative
of one of California's most celebrated native families is Mrs. Adelina Carrillo, a sister
of Felipa Dominguez, a daughter of Prudencio Yorba, a granddaughter of Bernardo
Yorba, and a great-granddaughter of Antonio Yorba, who came direct from Spain to
the Pacific Coast. Although of refined temperament and gentle demeanor, Mrs. Carrillo
is a successful rancher and has very well managed her several properties, thanks in
part to the assistarice of her children. She owns a fine home ranch of 207 acres, and
a grain ranch of 141 acres at Corona, in Riverside County, but makes her home on the
ranch at Esperanza.
She was born at Yorba, then Los Angeles County, November 20, 1853, and as a
child attended the public school at Peralta, and' then, to finish her education she went
to the Academy of Sisters of Charity in Los Angeles. On January 19, 1884 she was
married to Joseph R. Carrillo, born in Los Angeles. Seven children blessed the union.

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Two were lost in infancy, and one has passed away of late. The other four are:
Esperanza, who graduated from both the Corona high school and the State University
at Berkeley, is now a teacher in the Hollywood High School; Edelfrida, also a graduate
of the Corona high school, is the wife of Homer Pate, a farmer at Corona; Eutimio, the
next, manages his mother's home ranch of 207 acres; and Elena is the wife of Norman
Reeves, the oil man living at Esperanza. Eutimio served in the great World War,
and joined the provost guard at Camp Kearny; and after serving with honor in the
infantry, he was discharged with the' coveted credentials on January 9, 1919, at Camp
Kearny. He belongs to the Knights of Columbus.
Audel, the fourth oldest, was. assisting in operating his mother's ranches when
a mournful tragedy disturbed the otherwise placid waters of the Carrillo family life — ¦
a tragedy whose one consolation was the evidence of the old heroic Yorba spirit that
had animated the family for generations. On May 26, 1919, Audel Carrillo, visiting the
Corona ranch, suddenly came upon two Mexican bandits who had broken into the ranch
house and they shot him in cold blood — first, two inches below the heart and secondly
in the back. With wonderful nerve and fortitude, the wounded young mail, although
bleeding profusely, drove his automobile to Corona at a speed of forty-five miles an
hour, in quest of medical aid; and after personally reporting his case to the police, he
went to the Riverside Hospital. There he was operated upon and made a brave fight
for life; and although he lived from ten o'clock that morning until eight o'clock the
following evening, he died on May 27, in his twenty-seventh year. He was powerfully
built and had been not only an indefatigable worker, but had played fullback on the
Corona high school football team. He was, therefore, a general favorite — loved by
everyone who knew him; and when he was buried at the Yorba Cemetery, his remains
were followed to their last resting place by a large concourse of friends.
E. MARTIN CHRISTENSEN.— An upright, energetic and thoroughly capable
young man who has already had a broad and valuable experience in life, is E. M.
Christensen, known to his friends as "Martin," a native son, having been born in Los
Angeles on November 20, 1884. His father was S. Christensen, a native of Denmark,
who had married Johanna Christine Johnson, of Sweden. They were made man and
wife in California, and came to Orange County in 1890. He had been foreman for
the Griffith Lumber Company in Los Angeles, where he also built up a transfer busi
ness in the early eighties; and was employed by that firm to come to Santa Ana,
lay out their yard here, and start their business. He is now an orange grower and
has a ranch of forty-seven acres in the Garden Grove precinct, and there he and his
good wife are among the most respected residents. Eight children — five boys and three
girls — were born of this union; one boy died in 1886, and a daughter married Samuel
Gibson and died on January 13, 1920.
S. Christensen having moved with his family direct to his ranch at Garden Grove
in 1890, Martin Christensen's schooling was obtained in the Garden Grove district. He
worked on the home farm until he was sixteen, and then he went north to Alaska,
to seek his fortune. At Seward he worked with a construction gang for eleven months,
when he was kicked by a horse and so severely injured that he was laid up in the
hospital and lost his hearing in the left ear for fourteen years. Of late he has been
slowly recovering the use of the injured organ, thanks to scientific skill and the patient
ministrations of a devoted doctor.
From Alaska Mr. Christensen came back to the States and followed construction
work in Oregon and San Francisco as a cement finisher. He reached San Francisco
just after the earthquake, and the following year settled in Garden Grove, where he
established himself as a cement contractor and manufacturer of cement pipes for irri
gation. He had no difficulty in demonstrating his ability in his chosen field, and soon
built up an extensive business in pipe-making and the installing of irrigation systems.
Mr. Christensen's cement pipe plant is located on the ten acres which he bought
m the Garden Grove precinct in November, 1919, and where he has a full complement
of machinery and tools, with a mixer run by a two-horse power electric motor. He
makes eight-inch, ten-inch and twelve-inch pipe, and in this section alone has laid about
100 miles of piping.
Besides this property, Mr. Christensen owns ten acres in the Katella voting pre
cinct, where he resides, and two houses and lots in Garden Grove. He belongs to the
Orange Growers Association at Garden Grove, to the Walnut Growers Association at
Anaheim, and to the Central Lemon Growers Association at Villa Park, being inter
ested in the culture of all three of these fruits.
t a 9/1 Apri1,7' 191S' Mn Christensen was married to Miss Rachel Knapp, a sister of
J. A^Knapp, the well-known "Chili King." He and his good wife belong to the Bap
tist Church and under the leadership of the Republican party, he votes for the prin
ciples and the men representing them most appealing to his conscience

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MRS. FELIPA Y. DOMINGUEZ.— A very interesting and distinguished repre
sentative of one of the noblest of Southern California families is Mrs. Felipa Dominguez,
the well-to-do widow of the late Pablo Dominguez, and a successful rancher at Esper
anza, six miles east of Placentia in the Santa Ana Canyon. She always has a story to
tell that is well worth the hearing; and those who are thus favored never forget the
charm of her sympathetic and genial personality, as a delightful souvenir of "the good
old days" of California hospitality.
The parents of Mrs. Dominguez were Prudencio Yorba and his good wife, who
was Dolores Ontiveros before her marriage, and they had twelve children: Felipa,
our subject, was the eldest, and attended the Sisters School at Los Angeles; Adelina,
the next in the order of birth, is now Mrs. Carrillo and owns a ranch of 207 acres in
the Yorba precinct, in which district David, unmarried, also lives; Angelina is the wife
of Samuel Kraemer and resides in Placentia; Prudencio S. is also a rancher of the
Yorba precinct; Zoraida is the widow of Coleman Travis, long a neighboring Yerba
rancher, and Ernest is also a Yorba farmer; Dolores and her husband, Joseph Ruiz,
reside in Santa Maria; Esperanza lived to see her fifteenth year, and the other children
passed away at a very early age. Esperanza, the freight station on the Santa Fe, which
has proven of such convenience in the dispatching of fresh fruit and other farm
products, was named after the lamented daughter. Mrs. Dominguez was born at
Yorba, August 24, 1852, and is now, therefore, one of the oldest settlers in what is now
Orange County.
Mrs. Dominguez was unusually fortunate in her ancestry and may be pardoned
for especial pride in her family associations with the historic past. Her great-grand
father was Antonio Yorba, a native of Catalonia, Spain, who came to the Pacific Coast
as a soldier under the Spanish commander Fages. He landed at Monterey, and stopped
for a while at the famous Monterey Mission. Being full of adventure, however, he
explored nearly all of Southern California lying south of Yerba Buena, and fell in love
particularly with that portion of the country which was drained by the Santa Ana
River and the Santiago Creek. He obtained a grant to this land, which included all
the lands from San Bernardino drained by the Santa Ana River and the Santiago
Creek, to the Pacific Ocean; and under his hand this vast area became a very celebrated
rancho. Legally, it was known as "El Canon de San Antonio de Santa Ana de los
Yorba;" and after the death of Antonio Yorba, the title passed to his son, Bernardo
Yorba. The latter improved the property in many respects, and built thereon a mag
nificent adobe of 90 rooms, which was the scene of many elaborate social functions. It
had a dance hall with a polished floor, where fandango after fandango furnished enjoy
ment to the wide-awake young people. The third wife of Bernardo Yorba was a very
ambitious and progressive woman, and she induced Bernardo to establish various kinds
of shops and mills, where leather was tanned, and shoes, harness, saddles, lariats, tools,
woolen, etc., mere manufactured. Utensils of iron and copper, axes, picks, shovels,
locks and keys were among the things made, and many of these products are still
known to exist. The ruins only of the spacious old adobe still stand; it was of two
stories, the walls were twenty-six inches thick, and they were finished with white
plaster. Rancho Yorba became one of the richest, as it was also one of the most cele
brated Spanish grants in Southern California. Bernardo Yorba lived to be fifty-eight
years of age. Prudencio Yorba died July 3, 1885, and his wife, on November 24, 1894.
Mrs. Dominguez is also related, in a very interesting way, to one of the notable
families of the North. She is a niece of Abraham Ontiveros, of Santa Maria, who was
born on the San Juan Cajon rancho, on April 5, 1852, and was educated by Spanish
tutors and in the public schools. He grew up on the Tepesquet ranch, and upon his
father's death, inherited 2,000 acres of valuable land. Being decidedly progressive, he
introduced the most up-to-date methods and machinery in the. raising of his grain and
stock; his horses became his pride; and to properly irrigate his land, he built a reservoir
with a capacity of 200,000 gallons, on an elevation 150 feet high. After a residence of
more than fifty years on his home ranch, Mr. Ontiveros abandoned farm life and moved
into the town of Santa Maria. His two marriages united him with the well-known, long
established Spanish families of Vidal and Arellanes.
Pablo Dominguez was born at Peralta, Orange County, in 1836, descended from
an old family of California. After his marriage to Felipa Yorba, they engaged in
farming at Peralta until his death in 1895, after which Mrs. Dominguez moved to her
ranch at Esperanza which she inherited from her father, where she reared and educated
her children. Mrs. Dominguez's 414 acres of land, was devoted largely to viticulture.
When it became apparent that the nation would "go dry," the vines were grubbed out
and in 1919 twenty-five acres of Valencia oranges planted in their stead. A Fordson
tractor is used for plowing, and eight horses assist in the cultivating. Mrs. Dominguez
makes use of a Paige automobile, and thus rapidly moves about where her distinguished

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ancestors journeyed in more leisurely fashion. Two hundred acres are planted to
barley, and sixty acres to lima beans.
Five children blessed the union of Pablo and Felipa Dominguez: Dorinda is the
wife of Adolph Marzo, he is the proprietor of the tomato cannery at Placentia, and
resides at Peralta; Arnulfo Orlando, manages his mother's ranch, he also owns eighteen
acres of budded walnuts on the south -side of the Santa Ana River, which he himself
planted six years ago; Lydia married Julian Yorba, the Puente rancher; Carlos N. helps
to run the ranch, he joined the United States infantry, and was on the way to New
York, to sail for France, when the train was wrecked at Geneva, 111., and he suffered
a compound fracture of the right leg, as the result of which he was honorably dis
charged; Pablo Vicente is married to Laura Irene Knowlton and resides in Anaheim, but
he also assists his mother to operate the Dominguez ranch. The family attend the
Catholic Church at Yorba, and enjoy their reunions in the handsome eight-room
residence erected by Mrs. Dominguez in 1908.
JOSEPH NUSBAUMER. — An able and all-around excellent young man is Joseph
Nusbaumer, son of the late Joseph Nusbaumer, the well-known pioneer who came to
what is now the Newport precinct, then Los Angeles, now Orange County, as early as
1882. The elder Nusbaumer was born in Alsace, France, April 25, 1847. He served in
the French army in the Franco-Prussian War. Immediately after the close of the war
he came to Reno, Nev., and there he was married to Miss Sarah Britton, a native of
Dayton, Ohio. She came to Nevada with friends, where she met Mr. Nusbaumer, and in
beptember, 1882, they located in Newport precinct and purchased twenty acres which is
still held by the family. Mr. Nusbaumer brought with him some of the most desirable
qualities of the hard-working European; and these virtues, with those of the accom
plished and ambitious American wife, were happily transmitted in their one child, the
subject of our interesting sketch,- who had the good fortune to be born a native son,
at Santa Ana, Cal., on November 9 of the year when his parents took up their residence
here. The father died on July 24, 1917, but his widow is still living.
On March 16, 1911, Joseph Nusbaumer was married at Santa Ana to Miss Beulah
Lawrence, a charming and devoted lady, who was reared in the pleasant environment
of Sherman, Texas. Together they have striven and worked; and as a natural reward
for intelligent operation, they enjoy a handsome return from all their investments.
Mr. Nusbaumer is a Republican in matters of national political import, but he
does not allow partisanship to interfere with his supporting the best men and the
most reasonable measures. This is particularly the case in local affairs. He and his
broad-minded wife take a keen interest in popular education, and he is a trustee of
the Diamond school district, situated two miles southwest of Santa Ana.
FRED BOOSEY. — No district in Orange County, perhaps, has been more noted
than Tustin for its many busy ranchers, among whom Fred Boosey must be mentioned
as having made for himself a high place in the esteem of all who know him. He owns
a well-cultivated ranch of ten acres devoted to citrus fruit, although he is also exten
sively engaged in bean growing. He formerly worked as high as 500 acres in a season,
but at present he is operating 300 acres in conjunction with his orange ranch.
Mr. Boosey was born in Kansas on December 6, 1883, and is the son of Oliver
and Sarah (Sherbet) Boosey, natives of the state of Vermont. The father served in
a Vermont regiment in the Civil War, having enlisted when seventeen years of age.
They migrated to Riley County, Kans., at an early day in the history of that state, and
settled there as homesteaders; and they now reside at Clay Center, Kans. To them
were born fifteen children, and twelve are living, among whom our subject is the elev
enth in the order of birth. Five of this number are in California, and two in Orange
County— Henry and Fred. Howard, another brother, served in the World War.
Fred Boosey was reared and educated in the public schools of his native state,
and a ways confined himself, until 1901, to agricultural pursuits. In 1901 he migrated
to California and since 1904 he has been in Tustin, Orange County, engaged in bean
growing. In 1917 he bought the ten acres on Yorba Street which he devotes to Valencia
oranges. As the icsult of his thorough way of carrying through any work undertaken,
Mr Boosey has never failed, with a good understanding of the local field, and by the
application .of the last word" in science, to get high results
n.lJ" PbiUaT'. 1917/ a1)"', ?°°Sey Was hapP;ly united ^ marriage to Miss Celina
Dalton, the daughter of Adolph and Emma (Hunt) Dalton, born in Montreal, Canada,
Knnf, a% a^' T'f A-1o ive °f ChicaS°' I1L' she was educated in the public
tt, h ?"., T ' Academy' She is lighted with Southern California; is a lover
not £ f„H, A t " ,°re C0 T ^e.fl°wers and the birds of the Golden State and could
not be induced to return to the "windy city" by the lakes. Mr. Boosey is a believer in
cooperation and is a member of the Santiago Orange Growers Association at Orange.

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CHARLES F. CROSE. — It is true that when an individual is endowed by nature-
with the valuable traits of determination and perseverance their success in life is
usually a foregone conclusion. These characteristics were dominant in the character
of the late Charles F. Crose, who was widely esteemed for his active participation in
interests of a public nature, while he lived the few years granted him to be a citizen
of Orange County.
Intimately associated with the early history of Shenandoah, Iowa, Charles F.
Crose was born in a log cabin at Sidney, Fremont County, Iowa, on March 16, 1856,
the son of W. F. Crose, who was a native of Bourbon County, Ky., where he was born
in 1824, and Eliza J. (Van Eaton) Crose, his wife, a native of Union County, Ind.,
born in 1825. They were married in 1845 and became early settlers in Iowa where they
developed a farm from the virgin prairie. They lived there at a time when Indians
roamed at will over that frontier state and had many interesting experiences while
developing their farm. The elder Crose died in 1895, after a long and useful career.
His widow survived him until January 17, 1904.
Charles F. was educated in the public schools of his native town and was reared
to farm life until he was about fiifteen, when he entered the employ of his elder
brother, R. B. Crose, who was a general merchant at Manti, before Shenandoah had
been started. The young man was ambitious and he left the employ of his brother and
started to study medicine, but after a year he gave it up and entered Bryant and
Stratton's Business College in Chicago, where he pursued a commercial law and a
business course for about nine months and graduated with second honors in a class of
over 150. He moved his stock of merchandise on wagons from Manti to the new town
of Shenandoah and there became one of the pioneer merchants. In March, 1881,
Charles F. bought an interest in the business and thereafter gave his personal atten
tion to the management of the concern, and made of it an unqualified success.
While connected with the mercantile interests of the town he was active in the
affairs of the Republican party and finally was persuaded to become a candidate for
the general assembly, being elected in 1903 and serving for two terms, being reelected
to succeed himself. For twelve years he was a member of the school board, six years
as it secretary; was secretary of the Shenandoah Fair Association; director of the
Shenandoah National Bank; prominent in the organization and management of the
cannery and the creamery there, and in all other activities for the building up of the
growing city. He also served as one of two trustees for the original donors of the
Western Normal College. He had wisely invested in realty there and owned a farm
and considerable business and residence property in Shenandoah. On account of the
ill health of his wife he decided he would locate in California, in consequence of which
he disposed of his holdings and in 1910 settled in Santa Ana in a beautiful home
which they erected' on the corner of Cypress and Pine streets. He had purchased a
walnut grove, on which his daughter and her husband settled, and to this he gave
much of his attention. He became interested in the Santa Ana Walnut Growers
Association, which had suffered many set-backs and he was induced to become its
secretary and manager of the packing house. He threw himself into the reorganiza
tion of this concern with his accustomed vigor and soon had it on a sound basis. He
was also identified with the Orange County Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
and was president of the State Mutual Insurance Association. In this county, while he
lived, he continued to take an active interest in public affairs and was a staunch Repub
lican, though his father was a Democrat. He was a Knights Templar Mason and a
Shriner,' also a past patron of the Eastern Star Chapter; was also a member of the
B. P. O. Elks, and an Odd Fellow, the latter membership being retained at his old
home in Iowa. For years he was a consistent member of the Congregational Church
and a worker in its causes. No worthy cause was ever presented to his notice, either
in his Iowa or his California home that he did not give it his support.
At Afton, Union County, Iowa, on June 2, 1880, Mr. Crose was united in marriage
with Miss Nina Nixon, who was born in Morgantown, W. Va., daughter of Rev.
George J., a M. E. preacher, and Sarah (Bruen) Nixon, who settled in Iowa when
their daughter was eight years old. She was educated in the public schools and in
Simpson College of Indianola, Iowa, and thus was well qualified to be a worthy help
mate for her gifted husband; she entered heartily into all his plans and assisted him
with his work and soon became a leader in social circles in Shenandoah. She was a
member, and the president for some years, of the Kappa Delta Club, also a district
secretary for some time; for ten years she was president of the missionary society of
the Congregational Church, and soon after settling in Santa Ana, Cal., was elected
to the same position here and has served for seven years, being still in office; she is an
ex-president of the Ebell Club of Santa Ana, which has a membership of over 300, and
is on the executive board; is president of the County Federated Clubs; has held offices
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in the Woman's Club; and is on the executive board of the southern branch of the
Woman's Board of Missions of the Pacific. During the World War she was active in
Red Cross and other allied activities, and still retains her interest in the Red Cross;
and was chairman of the educational department of the County Council of Defense
of Orange County. She is a member of the Eastern Star Chapter of Santa Ana.
Mr. and Mrs. Crose became the parents of a daughter, Mabel C, now the wife
of Fred C. Rowland, a prosperous rancher of McClay Street, and they have two charm-
in°- daughters, Nina Jeannette and Barbara Ruth. A man of broad mentality and strict
integrity, who can well be called a self-made man, Charles F. Crose was called by the
grim reaper on January 11, 1917, and there was left to mourn his passing a wide circle
of friends in Orange County as well as in his former Iowa home, all of whom valued
him for his worth as a citizen and friend.
GEORGE J. COCKING. — An enterprising and progressive native son who is
making a decided success of the plumbing, heating and sheet metal business in Santa
Ana, is George J. Cocking. He was born at Colton, Cal., August 28, 1888, a son of
Isaac and Annie (Drown) Cocking, natives of England. Isaac Cocking came to Cali
fornia in the early eighties, locating at Colton, where he became manager for the
corporation which purchased the large hill of lime rock near Colton, and which the
company demolished for making building lime.
George J. Cocking received his early education in the public schools of Colton
and Redlands. At Riverside he was employed by Copley Brothers, with whom he
learned the trade of a sheet metal worker. Returning to Redlands he worked for
Worthington, the plumber, also Kline and Underwood. In 1908 Mr. Cocking moved to
Pasadena, where he was employed by the Pacific Sheet Metal Works and the Warren
and Foss Company. The year 1912 marked his advent into the business life of Santa
Ana, when he entered the employ of the McFadden Hardware Company and built
up their department for sheet metal work and became manager. During his con
nection with the McFadden Hardware Company he installed the sheet metal work for
the Santa Ana high school, the Athletic Club and the Yost Theater; also the high
school building at Orange. Mr. Cocking also installed the heating and ventilating
plants in the following buildings: the Methodist and Congregational churches in Santa
Ana; Anaheim Public Library; other business blocks and fine residences at Anaheim.
In April, 1918, Mr. Cocking decided to enter into business for himself and since
then he has been conducting his chosen line of work most successfully. He can point
with pride to the following buildings where he has done the plumbing or installed the
heating plants: at the Crawford Marmalade Factory, Anaheim, he installed their steam
heating plant; installed the plumbing in the fine residence of C. V. Davis at Santa
Ana; bungalow court at First and Court streets; the McCormick Apartments; four
houses for J. W. Sackman; an apartment house for Mrs. Lowman on South Birch
Street; and a number of houses built by George Barrows.
On February 2, 1912, Mr. Cocking was united in marriage with Miss Bertha J.
Simpson of Kansas, and they are the parents of one son, George Richard.
WILLIAM J. SAUNBY. — Flourishing and promising Tustin numbers in its citi
zenship many progressive men, and one of the most pronounced, both in ability and
accomplishment, is William J. Saunby, who owns twenty-five acres of land, twenty of
which are devoted to oranges and five to walnuts. For eighteen years he has resided
there, and more and more he has contributed to the growth, improvement and develop
ment of his town.
Mr. Saunby is a native of Ontario, Canada, where he was born on October 5,
1859. There, too, in his native city, London, he was reared and educated. Up to
1901 he spent his work days in the milling and grain business with his father, who owned
two flour mills in London, but in that year he crossed the border into "the States,"
coming direct to Tustin, Cal., and as soon thereafter as he could procure his naturaliza
tion papers, he did so. Now he is a full-fledged citizen of a country he adopted with
gratitude and hope. The father of Mr. Saunby was Joseph D. Saunby, a native of the-
Province of Quebec, and he married Miss Elizabeth Bird Elson of London, a daughter
ot John and Mary Elson whose family like the Saunby's is traced back to England.
1 wo children were born to the worthy couple, the other child being a son named
Stephen, now deceased. William J. was popular and influential in his native country,
where he was elected to the office of reeve, akin to mayor, at London West, a post
he filled for two full years.
rt /* ^nd°?' ?eC»mhZ 3°' 1886' Mr' Saunby was married to Miss Alice Cosford,
the daughter of the Rev. Thomas Cosford, who was born in Northamptonshire, Eng
land, of a splendid old North of England family; he studied classics and theology
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cities in Ontario for over fifty years, until his death. In Ontario he was also married,
being united with Nancy Hartman of that native heath. Reverend Cosford was a man
much loved in the communities where he preached for his mild and charitable disposi
tion as well as for his straightforwardness and fearlessness in speaking the truth.
From the fortunate union of Mr. and Mrs. Saunby have been born five children, four of
whom grew up. Sidney during the recent great war served as a member of the U. S.
forces. He studied electricity and especially ignition at the government quarters in
Los Angeles that he might become proficient as an automobile expert. Previous to the
outbreak of the war he was with the Edison Company and he is now assisting his
father in operating the ranch; Dora is a graduate nurse, now with the Michael Reese
Hospital in Chicago; Alice is a student nurse in the Methodist Episcopal Hospital in
Los Angeles; while Ernest, the youngest, is attending Santa Ana high school.
Mr. Saunby is a believer that cooperation is the only successful method of mar
keting citrus and walnut crops, so is very naturally a member of the Santiago Orange
Association and the Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association, being a member of the
board of directors in the former. Both he and his estimable wife are devout Metho
dists holding membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Santa Ana where he
is a member of the official board, and liberally inclined, they take an active part in the
benevolences of the church. Strong advocates of temperance, they did all they could to
fight the demon rum and abolish the saloon as well as working for the success of
national prohibition. They have lived noble and useful lives and by their helpfulness
and many charities have endeared themselves to the people of their community who
appreciate them for their worth and integrity. Tustin would gladly welcome citizens
and their families of the Saunby type.
IRVIN LIVENSPIRE. — A contractor very naturally in constant demand because
of his technical knowledge of every kind of brick masonry, is Irvin Livenspire, who
was born in Wyandot County, Ohio, on January 23, 1867. He was the son of a mer
chant, Charles Livenspire, and so came to get an insight early in life into business
ways of the world. He was also fortunate in the character and devotion of his mother,
who was Catherine Kellogg before her marriage, and owed much to her in his prepa
ration for the responsibilities of later years. Both parents, well known for their stand
ing in Ohio communities, are now dead.
Irvin attended the public schools of Ohio, among the best in the United States,
and when he was old enough to profit from apprenticeship, he learned the brickmason's
trade. He was successful from the beginning in the opportunities to work where he
developed rapidly; and when he came to California in 1902, he was prepared to stand
shoulder to shoulder with the best artisans.
For five years Mr. Livenspire worked in Los Angeles, but in 1907 he removed to
Santa Ana, and since then his reputation for both skill and honesty, as well as rea
sonable terms, has made him much in demand. Among important commissions, he did
the mason work on the Masonic Temple, the Spurgeon Building, the West-End Thea
ter, and the Rutherford Building, and of course a great deal of other excellent work
throughout the county. He is in partnership with Henry Walters, and the firm name is
Livenspire and Walters. On an average, they employ twelve men.
Mrs. Livenspire was Miss Ida Blake before her marriage, and she is the mother
of a son, Ralph, who is associated in business with Mr. Livenspire, and a daughter,
Mildred. Mr. Livenspire is a Democrat, but first, last and always an American, and
when it comes to "boosting" Santa Ana or Orange County, he forgets all about the
narrowness of party lines, and seeks to support only the best, be it in men or measures
designed to help the community to higher, broader and better things.
THOMAS C. H. De LAPP. — An efficient and popular public official of Huntington
Beach, who has earned the confidence of his fellow-citizens and the honors bestowed
upon him by the Government, is Thomas C. H. De Lapp, the postmaster. He was born
in Jacksonville, Morgan County, 111., on September 5, 1866, the son of John M. De Lapp,
a native of Cape Girardeau, Mo., a descendant of French-Huguenot stock, also a Mexican
War veteran with the rank of sergeant and he helped to gain possession of California
for the United States. He married Mary F. Headen, who was born in Mooresville,
Tenn. For a while the parents rented a farm in Morgan County, 111., and there they
became esteemed as industrious, progressive and altogether estimable folk.
It thus happened that Thomas grew up to farm work, learning thoroughly first
how to do the usual chores, and secondly the methods of agriculture then in vogue in
that part of the country. When, however, he was twenty-three years of age, he removed
to St. Louis, Mo., and there worked at various occupations. He found employment in
planing mills, and for the remainder of five years or so was in the car factories of that
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forced to seek different employment. Having become known to the street car author
ities, he was made a conductor on the Lindell Avenue Railway, and for another five
years had charge of passenger traffic.
While in St. Louis on July 2, 1892, Mr. De Lapp was married to Miss Mary Eliza
beth Boggs, a relative of the pioneer, Lilburn W. Boggs, a Kentuckian born in 1798,
who removed to Missouri, was elected governor in 1836, and took a prominent part in
the expulsion of the Mormons. In 1846 he migrated to California, and from 1847 to
1849 was alcalde of the, Sonoma district, where he became somewhat famous for the
administration of office during a trying period of the interregnum, and so is deserving
of prominence in the annals of California. Mrs. De Lapp was reared in Missouri, and
later came to the Pacific Coast. Mr. and Mrs. De Lapp have two children: George T„
who is a student in the high school; and Margaret F. E., who is still attending the
grammar school.
In November, 1899, Mr. De Lapp came out to California, and engaged with the
Los Angeles Traction Company as a conductor; and for a year he resided in the metrop
olis of the Southland. Next he put in six years with the San Dimas Citrus Association,
thereby acquiring a still better knowledge of the resources of the Golden State. In
1906 he came to Huntington Beach, and here he bought acreage and city property. For
two years he was manager of the Tent City, and ever since he has been a genuine
"booster" for the town. He was one of the first to see the importance of good roads
to the district, and to advocate building the same. For four years, too, Mr. De Lapp
farmed hereabouts and raised sugar beets, and in course of time he helped to get the
Huntington Beach Sugar Factory, that is, to induce the Holly Sugar Corporation to
build their establishment. To make the venture a success, he undertook to grow the
sugar beet on a large scale, and for a while he had forty acres planted to beets.
In January, 1915, Mr. De Lapp was appointed, as a Democrat, postmaster at
Huntington Beach, a position of responsibility, as the office there handles a large
amount of mail. This is due largely to the presence of many tourists or visitors in
the bathing season, a moving class difficult to cater to. He was reappointed to serve
a second term on August 15, 1919. Two assistants aid the postmaster — Miss Abagail
Crum, who is the assistant postmaster, and a clerk, Mrs. Anna Rowland-Taylor. There
is also a village carrier, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Hoge, and a rural carrier, Samuel M. Hosack.
Mr. De Lapp was made a Mason some years ago, and belongs to Huntington
Beach Lodge No. 383, F. & A. M. Both Mr. and Mrs. De Lapp are members of the
Eastern Star. For nine years Mr. De Lapp was superintendent of the Christian Sunday
school, and he helped with a generous hand to build the Christian Church at Huntington
Beach. Now Mr. and Mrs. De Lapp and their family belong to the Methodist Epis
copal Church, over the Sunday school of which he has presided for one year as
superintendent. HENRY A. SKILES. — An industrious, frugal man who credits his success in
business life largely to his having endeavored to lead a devout, Christian life, and his
good health, enabling him at the age of seventy-two, to ride a motorcycle daily, is
Henry A. Skiles, the well-known building contractor of 912 Orange Avenue. He was
born at Mt. Pleasant, Ind., on July 28, 1848, the son of Henry Skiles, a native of Penn
sylvania. He came of a family of farmers, and was an early settler and builder-up of
Mt. Pleasant, Ind. He had married Jane Andrews, a native of Ireland, who came to
America with her parents. Henry is the fifth son in a family of seven children honoring
this worthy couple.
When he was eight years old, his parents removed, first to Lee and then to
Henry County, Iowa, and the lad attended a log-cabin school in the winter while he
was being initiated into the details of farming, for which he early showed a liking.
His father had a good farm of 160 acres, where he raised grain and stock, so that he
had the best opportunity, under his guidance, to learn. After the Civil War, his folks
removed to Johnson County, Mo., within fifty miles of Kansas City, where they con
tinued to farm; and at agricultural pursuits, in the service of others, in Iowa and
Kansas and Missouri, he continued until he was twenty-one.
t.Th^> marriage of Mr- Sknes united him with Miss Sarah Thompson, a daughter
of the Rev. R. G. Thompson of Kingsville, Mo., and there, he took up farming
with eighty acres, raising grain and stock. Mrs. Skiles' mother was Sarah Leland
Brown a native of Virginia, while Mr. Thompson originally came from Pennsylvania.
lie died at the age of seventy-nine.
In 1874, Mr. Skiles came West with his family to Oakland, and there did general
carpentering, associated for four years with his uncle, Henry Brown. Meeting with
James McFadden, when the latter came to Oakland, he decided to come south; and
in 1878 removed to Santa Ana, shipping his effects by boat to Newport. From the
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he soon put up a number of the better residences, and for a quarter of a century was
Santa Ana's leading building contractor.
Mr. Skiles has three acres of orchard at his home place, purchased in 1900, and
ten acres of apricots at Hemet. Seven children have assisted in the daily toil, besides
adding to the pleasures of domestic life. Robert, who married Katherine Brown, is
deputy assessor of Orange County, and has twb children, Dorothy and Corinne; Leland
married E. C. Baer and is ranching at Hemet; they have two children, Rolston and
Lois; Edna is the wife of A. E. Cox, a rancher living at Huntington Park; their two
children are Carmen and Elwood; Leslie is also a farmer at Hemet, his wife was
Frances Armstrong, and they have one child, Denton A.; Ira is a plumber at Long
Beach, and is married to Lea Snyder; Earl is the husband of Louise Riley of San Fran
cisco, and the father of two children, Margaret and June; and he is the private secretary
of the estate of E. T. Earl of Los Angeles; Bruce married Miss Grace Doty, and is
employed by J. Tubbs of the Santa Ana Commercial Company and they have one child,
Helen. Mr. Skiles is a Prohibitionist in national political affairs, and a good "booster"
in everything pertaining to Santa Ana and Orange County. He and his family are
consistent church members.
FRANK SAWYER. — A successful garage manager who thoroughly understands
the many-sided problems of the autoist and the tourist, is Frank Sawyer, the popular
proprietor of the West End Garage at Santa Ana. He was born in Pawnee City,
Pawnee County, Nebr., on October 24, 1893, the son of J. B. Sawyer who had married
Elizabeth A. Karnes by whom he came to have six children, three sons and three daugh
ters. He brought his family to California in December, 1912, and located at Long
Beach; and both parents are still enjoying the salubrious climate of sub-tropical
California. Frank got all he could out of the excellent public schools of his neighborhood,
and followed this elementary training with a course of technical studies at Highland
Park College at Des Moines, Iowa. Appreciating the ever-expanding field of service
for the motorist, since 1907 he has followed the mechanism of automobiles, and since
coming to California in 1912 he continued in the automobile business and has now well
established himself as one of the indispensables in Santa Ana.
In 1919, Mr. Sawyer bought his present plant and spared neither pains nor ex
pense in providing for his patrons the most modern machinery and appliances. He is
thus able to execute all kinds of repair work, and his fame for doing that which so
many are unable to tackle having extended even beyond the confines of Orange County,
he has all the commissions which any man would care to undertake with some leisure
and comfort to himself. He employs four men regularly, each like himself an expert
in every kind of auto or motor renovating. Only the best of materials are used, and
satisfaction to the customer is thus easily guaranteed. The West End Garage has
become one of the most popular repair shops in the county.
On December 15, 1914, Mr. Sawyer married- Julia Ruth Walker, a native daughter
of Orange County, born near Santa Ana; and they have one child, Margaret Ellen.
Besides taking an active part in the work of the Chamber of Commerce, to which
Mr. Sawyer belongs, and participating with fellow Republicans in civic reforms,
Mr. Sawyer belongs to the Elks, being a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 794.
HARVEY GARBER. — That great progress has been made in the manufacture of
brick is clearly demonstrated by Harvey Garber, one of the most aggressively pro
gressive leaders in that field in Southern California, and a prominent business man
of Santa Ana. He was born in Emmet County, Mich., on March 28, 1879, the son of
Jacob M. Garber, a native Ohian, still happily living. The good mother born in Indiana,
now among the silent majority, was Libbie Shrock before her marriage, and gave early
guidance to three children, among whom Harvey was the youngest.
He attended the public schools in northern Indiana, while being raised on a farm,
but had to lay aside his books all too early, so that much of his real schooling came
through contact with the outside, exacting world. At the age of twenty, he had
learned the pressfeeder's trade, but a year later took up carpentering and followed that
by preference. On January 13, 1914, he came to California; and having had five years' experience
as a contractor at South Bend, Ind., he established himself in Orange County in
general contracting, with his residence at Orange. He built the grammar school in
Huntington Beach, the Alfred Huhn Building at Orange, a brick block at Newport
Beach, the Greenville School, the L. B. Resh brick block at Anaheim, and many fine
residences in various towns in the county. In August, 1919, he bought the brick plant
at Santa Ana, and since then he has devoted all his time to the manufacture of brick
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Mr. Garber has always taken a live interest, as a Republican, in America national
politics, ever ready to elevate the standard of patriotic citizenship, and has participated
in Chamber of Commerce and other "boosting" and developing work; and during the
war he had been notified of his recommendation for a first lieutenancy in the construc
tion division of the quartermaster department, b*ut the commission was never forwarded
because of the signing of the armistice. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce
and the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, and also belongs to the Orange
County Commercial Club.
On June 2, 1909, Mr. Garber was married to Miss Freda B. Kelley; and their
marriage has brought them the inestimable blessing of an attractive daughter, Marian
Elizabeth. Mr. Garber is a Scottish Rite, thirty-second degree Mason, and also a
Shriner; and Mrs. Garber shares his popularity in fraternal circles. Both are fond of
outdoor life, and glad to be in California, the land of outdoors.
ARCHIE M. ROBINSON. — Since every other important line of industry in the
world centers around the occupation of tilling the soil the rancher may truthfully be
called the Hub of the World. One of the industrious, progressive and self-made
orange growers of Orange County, Cal., is Archie M. Robinson, a native of ¦ Delhi,
Delaware County, N. Y., where he was born October 21, 1871. His father, Buel W.,
and mother, Jane (Christie) Robinson, also natives of the Empire State, were the
parents of seven children, of whom A. M. Robinson is the only one residing in Cali
fornia. The father, Buel W., now deceased, served as a volunteer during the Civil
War in Company C, One Hundred Fourty-fourth New York Volunteer Regiment.
Archie M. Robinson received a common school education and resided in his
native state, following general farming until 1901, when the call of the West caused
him to turn his face toward the shores of the Golden State, and since then he has been
a resident of Orange County. The first year in his new home he worked on a ranch,
cleared $300 and invested it in a twenty-five-acre ranch on Prospect Avenue, which
he improved, owned for two years and sold. He then purchased his present twenty-
six-acre ranch on Fairhaven Avenue, which is devoted exclusively to the culture of
oranges. The property was formerly planted to oranges and apricots, the latter being
reset, so now the whole acreage is producing fine Valencia oranges. During the earlier
years of Mr. Robinson's residence in Orange County he experienced, in common with
other ranchers, the scarcity of water. Necessity caused the combination of their
forces and a company was formed to overcome the difficulty by developing water. In
1913 wells were sunk to the depth of 300 feet, resulting in an abundant flow of water,
which insured the crops and increased the value of land immeasurably. He has been
a director in the Tustin Hill Citrus Association from its organization in 1909.
In 1910 Mr. Robinson was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Pilcher, a
native of St. Louis, Mo., and daughter of William Pilcher. Two daughters have been
born of their union, Elizabeth and Dorothy by name. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson are
members of the Baptist Church of Santa Ana, being a member of the board of trustees,
and fraternally Mr. Robinson affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
his membership being in the Santa Ana Lodge.
JOHN C. HAYDEN. — A Philadelphian of extraordinary business ability, who is
"making good" m Orange County as district superintendent of the Southern Counties
Gas Company, is John C. Hayden, popular, with his family, in the best social circles.
He was born in the City of Brotherly Love on November 27, 1888, and grew up in that
center of Pennsylvania life. His father, now deceased, was Michael J. Hayden, a very
successful business man who ran a chain of retail stationery stores in Philadelphia.
His mother was Rose G. Deehan before her marriage; and she is also deceased. There
were three boys and a girl in the family, and John was the youngest of them all. A
sister, Mrs. Marie Warke, resides in Los Angeles, and they are the only two in
California. He attended the Gesu Parochial School and St. Joseph's College at Phil
adelphia, and then entered the stationery business of his father, his mother having died
when he was nine years old. Michael Hayden made a visit to Los Angeles and other
parts of California in 1906, and four years later, accompanied by John, he came out
here to reside.
At that time our subject entered the employ of the Gillespie Book and Stationery
btore, Los Angeles, and he was placed in charge of the book department, and there
he remained for five years. In September, 1916, he came to Santa Ana as chief clerk
for the bouthern Counties Gas Company, and he rose to be commercial agent, holding
that post until he was promoted to be district superintendent on December 1, 1919.
At Santa Ana in 1913, Mr. Hayden was married to Miss Gladys Starkey, of Los
Angeles; and one child, a boy named Herbert Hughes Hayden, has come to bless their
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and also in the Rotary Club of that city, whose motto is: "He profits most who
serves best."
The Southern Counties Gas Company is a very important utility corporation,
supplying both domestic and industrial consumers. The "general meter shop, for the
whole system of California, is located on East First Street in Santa Ana, where is also
the automobile shop and the general store-rooms employing some sixty-five persons.
Four districts and eight divisions represent the business interests of this corporation.
The eastern district comprises Orange County division, which includes Santa Ana,
Orange, Tustin, Anaheim, El Modena, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Placentia, Buena Park,
along the route from Garden Grove to Huntington Beach; the Whittier division com
prising Whittier, La Habra, Monterey Park and the adjacent territory; the Monrovia
division includes Monrovia, Arcadia, Sierre Madre, South Santa Anita and El Monte;
while the remaining division of Pomona is made up of Pomona, Claremont, Spadra,
LaVerne, Glendora, Chino, Ontario, Uplands, Azusa, San Dimas and Baldwin Park.
Mr. Hayden has supervision of the Orange County division.
WILLIAM KLAUSING. — An old-timer who, by improving the soil of a barren
waste, has developed a splendid orchard and in so doing has not only acquired property
worth the whole for himself, but has added to the wealth of an already rich country, is
William Klausing, who was born in Troy, Madison County, 111., on June 15, 1864, the
son of Henry Klausing, a farmer of that state who died there in 1870. He had married
Miss Mary Taake, and she died in 1886. They had four children, of whom three grew
to maturity, and of these, William is the second eldest. He was brought up on the
home farm, while he attended the local schools; and until he was seventeen, assisted his
mother with the farm work. Then he went out to work for others as an experienced
farm hand.
During the great "boom" in Southern California realty, Mr. Klausing came west to
Los Angeles, in 1887, then pretty small and provincial, and secured an engagement to
work for Mrs. Hollenbeck on Boyle Heights. At the end of two years, he entered the
employment of William H. Perry, and then he was with Dr. Gray and also Judge
Gardener, on West Adams Street. At the end of two years there, he traveled north to
San Francisco, where he worked for eighteen months for George D. Toy at San Mateo;
and after that he was in the service of Andrew Harrell of Visalia, with whom he con
tinued for four years.
In July, 1897, Mr. Klausing returned east on a visit to Missouri and Illinois, but
the lure of California still holding him, he came back here in 1898, and with a brother
rented a ranch for a year in Eagle Rock. They were not very successful, and they dis
solved their partnership. Then his attention was directed to Anaheim, and in 1899 he
located here. At first he was in the employ of John Brunworth, as zanjero for the
water company, and assisted him also on his ranch; but in 1901 he bought his present
place on Sunkist Avenue in West Anaheim, which was raw land, covered with cactus
and bushes. He paid thirty-five dollars an acre; and while he continued with Mr. Brun
worth for eight years, he cleared, leveled and otherwise improved his own property. In
1905 he set out orange and walnut trees, and two years later he built his residence.
Now he has twelve and a half acres in Valencia oranges, and seven acres in wal
nuts, and is probably the oldest orange rancher in the district, with property on which
he worked very hard, in the beginning, to grow chili pepoers. He also owns fortv acres
in the Palos Verde Valley, which is devoted to the raising of cotton, and he has ten
acres in the Golden State tract which he set out to Valencia oranges. Of course, he
is a member of the Anaheim Orange and Lemon Association and the Anaheim Walnut
Growers Association.
At Anaheim Mr. Klausing was married to Miss Dora Dieckoff, a native of Ger
many, and two children have further blessed their union — Gertrude and Henrv. Mr.
Klausing is a Reoublican; and he and his family are members of the Anaheim Lutheran
Church, of which he was formerly a trustee.
PHRANDA A. ROBINSON. — A pioneer railroad and livestock man who is replete
with interesting stories of early days on various frontiers, is Phranda A. Robinson, a
native of the Emoire State, where he was born, in St. Lawrence County on August
21. 1851. His father was William A. Robinson, a farmer and a contractor, and a true
Wisconsin pioneer, and he married Miss Almira Davis, by whom he had six children.
The eldest in the order of birth, Phranda attended the common schools of Wis
consin, to which state the family moved when he was only four years of age. Growing
up, he made his way to Colorado and for a while worked with a railroad contractor
in constructing the first three railroads built into Denver. This was at the beginning
of the seventies. At the end of two years he removed to Ellis County, Kans.. and
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ern part of the state was then the hunting grounds of the Indians, and he hauled sup
plies to them for the Government. Buffalo were plentiful, and one could buy plenty
of buffalo hides at five dollars a pelt. Taking up his residence in Wisconsin again,
he engaged for seven years in mercantile trade at Antigo, and selling out, he spent
ten years in southern Wisconsin at Clinton Junction. After that he removed to Gray's
Lake, 111., where he was in the banking business for seven years, also building several
houses there. In 1906 he came to Berkeley, Cal., built houses and sold them; and
four years later he removed to Santa Ana. Since coming here, he has erected over
fifty of the most desirable houses in the city.
Mr. Robinson married Ida Lusk, a native of Wisconsin. He is the father of three
children — Caroline, Charles and Harriet, and grandfather to five. The family attend
the Methodist Church. Mr. Robinson belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, and is
ever ready to aid any reasonable movement likely to make for the growth or the
betterment of the community. He is a standpat Republican, and yet never draws the
party line in seeking to elevate the standard of local civic pride. Keenly alive to public
questions of moment, he has never accepted any of the invitations to stand for public
office, and still pursues his quiet way as a private, if thoroughly wide-awake citizen,
interested at all times in Orange County and its rapid development.
GEORGE FREDERICK ANDRES.— A prosperous rancher who has by his own
efforts and the able assistance of his capable wife developed an excellent orange and
walnut grove northeast of Garden Grove is George Frederick Andres, popularly known
to his large circle of friends as "Fred" Andres. This forty-acre ranch is on the Garden
Grove Road and twenty acres of it is planted to Valencia oranges and the remainder to
walnuts. Mr. Andres also owns fifteen acres within the city limits of Santa Ana, which
is set out to ten-3'ear-old budded walnuts. He also maintains a chicken ranch on the
Santa Ana property and has 1500 White Leghorn fowls on it at present.
Born on October 1, 1868, in Germany, about fifty miles west of Berlin, Mr. Andres
was the eldest of a family of five children, four of whom were born in Germany and
one in Iowa. His parents were Ludwig and Marie (Dee) Andres. The father was
a stone and brick mason and stone cutter, having learned his trade very thoroughly
in Berlin, and he could do the finest kind of stone work, even to lettering on marble
and stone monuments. The whole family sailed from Hamburg on the S. S. Wieland '
of the Hamburg Line, landing in New York the first week of April, 1875. They went
on to Lansing, Iowa, where they settled. In September of that year, Winnifred, the
youngest child was born, and the' mother passed away the next month, the arduous
conditions of the new life and homesickness for the old home proving fatal to her. A
year or so afterward the father married again, being united to Mary Laaps, and
one child, William was born to them. The family remained at Lansing for two years,
then went to Waukon, and later to Village Creek, Iowa. While living here Ludwig
Andres went to Minneapolis to work as a stone mason on the great Pillsbury Mills,
and here he was instantly killed, when a scaffolding on which he was working gave
way. The loss of both father and mother filled the young lives of the Andres children
with sadness as it meant their separation. Fred, who at that time was only ten years
old, was taken by his uncle, Gustav Dee, while his younger brother, Charles A., went
to live with another uncle, Theodore Dee, both farmers in Allamakee County, Iowa,
and for three years the brothers did not see each other. Fred remained with his
uncle until he was seventeen years old and then hired out at the rate of five dollars
a month during the winter, in the meantime securing what schooling he could. He
kept working out by the month and saved his money and for two years was in Western
Iowa, still working out, also farmed for himself there and then broke up 160 acres
in Adrian, Minn., which he later sold and in 1894 went to Rock County, Minn., and
began renting land near Luverne. Like many other pioneer farmers of that region,
Mr. Andres at times suffered may discouraging reverses; one year his crops were a
total failure, so that he could not even pay his rent, and he was compelled to borrow
t inn? ^ed h'S horses- which he afterward repaid at the rate of two bushels for one.
In 1J03 he moved to Hutchinson County, S. D., where he bought 320 acres of land and
raised three crops, and from there he removed to California in 1906. His brother,
Charles A. had already located at Santa Ana, and Mr. Andres in the meantime had
purchased his present home ranch of forty acres, at that time alfalfa land, paying
$300 an acre for it.
After his removal, Mr. Andres at once began the improvement of his land, raising
alfalfa horses and hogs. He bred fine Percheron horses for a number of years from
some full-blooded Percheron stock which he brought with him. He continued general
farming and stockraismg until 1911, when he began to set out walnut trees, the next
year setting out his \ alencia orange grove. Since that time he has given his time to
developing his orchards to a. high state of productivity and he is meeting with gratify-

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ing success. He has a never-failing well and has installed an electric pumping plant
and laid over 5,000 feet of cement pipe for irrigation. He has remodeled his residence
and the whole place reflects the intelligent care of its owners, as Mrs. Andres has been
a true helpmate to him, aiding and encouraging him in all his undertakings. During
his -residence in Iowa Mr. Andres and John Gephardt owned and operated a Case
threshing outfit and became quite expert in this line of work. With William E. and
Arthur A. Schnitger he has run two threshing machines in Orange County, using them
to thresh beans, converting the machines themselves into bean threshers.
The five brothers and sisters had not all "been together since their mother died
until the time of the Exposition at Portland, Ore., when they had a family reunion.
The three sisters had been reared by different families in Iowa and took the names of
their adopted parents. They are: Elsie, now the wife of Dr. F. G. Ulman of Enum-
claw, Wash., who was a captain in the United States Army in the late war; Miss Marie
Rockwell, formerly a high school teacher in Salem, Ore., is now a stenographer and
bookkeeper at Portland, Ore.; and Winnifred, who is the wife of Rev. J. V. Knoll of
Lansing, Iowa.
On October 17, 1896, when farming in Rock County, Minn., Mr. Andres was
united in marriage with Miss Ora Luvan Savage, the daughter of Oliver and Eliza
(Young) Savage, the father being a native of New York, while the mother was born near
Chicago, 111. They were married in Wisconsin, moving later to Dodge County, Minn.,
where Mrs. Andres was born. There were three daughters in the Savage family:
Emma is the wife of L. H. Owen of Pomona; Ora is Mrs. Andres; and Susie became
the wife of Frank Welker, a merchant of Beaver Creek, Minn., where she died. By a
former marriage Mr. Savage had two sons: Gibson, a resident of Los Angeles, passed
away in 1917; and Elmer, who is a farmer at Waupun, Wis. Mrs. Andres was educated
in Iowa, and afterwards became a school teacher, teaching four years in Rock County,
Minn., where she met Mr. Andres, and one year in Minnehaha County, S. D. Three
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Andres: Floyd E., a graduate of the Santa
Ana high school in the class of 1919 is now a student at the U. C. at Berkeley; Marie
Lillian died in 1904 at the age of seven years; and Charles Frederick. They are also
rearing an adopted daughter, Ruth Estella Andres.
Mr. and Mrs. Andres are active in the membership of the Methodist Church at
Garden Grove, Mr. Andres being a member of the official board, while Mrs. Andres is
a teacher in the Sunday School and president of the Ladies' Aid Society; she was also
prominent in Red Cross work during the war. Mr. Andres is a member of the Garden
Grove Walnut Growers Association, the Garden Grove Orange Growers Association
and the Garden Grove Farm Center, being a director and one of the moving spirits
of the latter. Politically he is inclined to be non-partisan in his views, considering the
best men and principles when voting, but always a firm advocate of temperance. Self-
taught and self-made, he is a man of true worth, and both he and his estimable
wife are popular in the community because of their generous, liberal views.
JOHN HUHN. — A veteran of the Civil War and a resident of the United States
since he was eight years of age, John Huhn, whose ranch lies on the Garden Grove
Road, west of Anaheim, has contributed his share to the development of this section
since his" removal here in 1898. He was born in Brunswick, Germany, August 18, 1844,
and in 1852 he migrated to America with his parents, William and Anna Huhn. The
father was a building, contractor in his native land and, after coming to America, he con
tinued in this line of work at St. Louis, where the' family located shortly after arriving
in this country. Loyal to the land of his adoption, William Huhn served in the home
guards during the period of the Civil War.
The early years of John Huhn were spent in St. Louis, where, as soon as old
enough, he engaged with his father, learning the trade. Although but seventeen years
old when the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the Union Army in Company F,
Seventeenth Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry and served for three years under
General Sherman, where he passed through many dangers and hardships in the hard-
fought campaigns of that great leader. After the war was over he took up farming,
settling, in 1870, in Montgomery County, 111., and it was during his residence here that
his marriage occurred, when he was united with Miss Louisa Struck on May 17,
18.83, at her home near Hillsboro, 111. She was also a native of Germany, born at Peine,
near Hanover, the daughter of Henry and Wilhelmina (Stenzig) Struck, the father being
employed at the iron foundry at Peine. Mrs. Huhn came to America in 1881 and made
her home with an uncle, near Hillsboro, 111., until her marriage.
After his marriage Mr. Huhn located on an eighty-acre farm near Raymond, 111.,
and here he farmed successfully, raising wheat, corn and hogs, remaining here until
1898, when he removed to California. Locating in Orange County, he purchased ten
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this tract and the remaining five acres is a fine walnut grove, which is irrigated by
the Ideal Water Company's pumping plant. Mr. Huhn's ranch is a good producer and
brings him in an excellent income. He markets his product independently.
Mr. and Mrs. Huhn are the parents of four children: Alice S. is a chiropractor
with a growing practice in the vicinity of Anaheim; William Henry is at home, he is
married and has three children, Leona, Mildred and William; Irma is also at home;
Albert E. is a rancher at Red Bluff, Tehama County, Cal. The family attend the
Lutheran Church at Anaheim. A resident of the United States for sixty-eight years,
Mr. Huhn became imbued with the spirit of its institutions in his early boyhood, and
since he has reached man's estate has been a stanch Republican, giving his influence
and vote to the nominees of that party. He belongs to the Fullerton G. A. R. Post.
GEORGE A. BARROWS.— The prosperous, substantial district of Groton, Tomp
kins County, N. Y., claims the birth of George A. Barrows, the general contractor and
builder, who first saw the light there on May 18, in the historic Centennial Year of
1876. His father was Theodore Barrows, a farmer well known to Tompkins County
agriculturists; and he had married Sarah L. Wood, by whom he had six children. Both
parents are now dead.
The fifth child in the order of birth, George attended the well-appointed grammar
and high schools of Groton, and for a while stuck by the home farm, which he also
took charge of at the age of twenty-one, when his father died. He added to his ex
perience some four years in a creamery and during these years he was also engaged in
raising fancy poultry, but early worked at carpentering, for which he had unmistaikable
talent, and which he liked best of all.
In March, 1911, Mr. Barrows settled in Santa Ana, and from that date has given
all of his time and attention to contracting and building, undertaking many notable
works. He has erected some of the finest residences, and has also built some of the
best structures in the business and manufacturing district of the city, and has long
employed from ten to fifteen men for his varied and responsible operations. A thorough
student of the latest methods both in construction and device, Mr. Barrows easily
demonstrates his entire familiarity with modern building problems, and his advantage
in experience and equipment for extensive and artistic work over his competitors. By
his close application, honest and conscientious method of carrying out the various con
tracts, he has become singularly successful and as a result his business has grown to
large proportions.
At Groton, N. Y., on Washington's Birthday, 1899, Mr. Barrows was married to
Lucy Mae Harrington, a charming woman known for her good works. With her hus
band, she attends the Methodist Church. They have one son, Howard. Mr. Barrows
>s much interested in the purification and elevation of party politics, and therefore
acknowledges no slavish adherence to any of the political organizations.
FRANCIS M. THOMAS. — An enterprising rancher who by years of unremitting
industry and the maintenance of a high sense of honor, always pursuing a conservatively
progressive program toward a definite, laudable goal, is Francis M. Thomas, of 914
South Main Street, Santa Ana, where he resides in a beautiful two-story frame structure,
in the full enjoyment of his interesting family. He was born in Lee County, Va., near
Rose Hill, on January 29, 1862, the son of Josiah Clemmens Thomas, a native of Powels
\ alley, Lee County, where he was born on January 12, 1835. The latter grew up on a
farm east of Cumberland Gap, some twelve miles west of the county seat, Jonesville,
with little educational opportunity, owing to the modest circumstances of his parents
and the dearth of public schools there. When nineteen years old, he undertook farm
ing for himself, and the first summer managed to make about nine dollars a month and
his board, and the second summer eleven dollars. Then he went to a private school
and studied reading, writing and arithmetic. When twenty-one, he Crossed over the
mountains mto Kentucky and for three years worked on a farm, where his cash allow
ance was from ten to twenty dollars a month. By saving his money, he was able to
get back to the old home in Virginia, and there, on November 18, 1859, he was joined
m holy matrimony with Nancy Bartley. After farming there for three years, they
moved with their family to Grant County, Ky., where they lived on a farm for four
years. 1 he third year he purchased a farm, and the fourth year he was able to dispose
of it 3gain for practically double the price which he gave for' it
Dropsy, however, sorely afflicted him, and with his family he moved back to
Lee County Va., toward Christmas, 1865 and there found relief in a cure effected by
Dr. Henly Robinson; but while he was still ill, his good wife died of typhoid fever,
her demise occurring on March 26, 1866. She left him four children, and a year later
he married Miss Sarah E. Johnson, after which, taking his household, he moved back
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neighboring farm. Failing health induced him to make another change and to trade
what he had for a stock of general merchandise in Pendleton County, Ky.; but after a
year, he moved his family to Hiawatha, Kans., and in January, 1869, purchased a farm
one mile east of the town. At the end of another year, half eaten out by grasshoppers
he sold his holdings, and purchased 160 acres of land on the Kickapoo Reservation
and there for four years, he labored hard to improve it. Then, selling out, he moved
into Hiawatha and there formed a partnership with his brother, A. H Thomas for
the transaction of mercantile business. They succeeded, as anyone who knew them,
their standards and their personalities, would have expected, and then they sold out'
In the meantime, Josiah C. Thomas had bought one after another of four fine farms
near Hiawatha, improved them and later sold them at a profit.
In the early summer of 1883, Mr. Thomas made a trip to California, on account
of renewed illness, and taken with the climate and the prospects of Orange County, he
bought 200 acres of land two miles southeast of Santa Ana. Returning to Hiawatha,
he brought his family from Kansas to the Coast, and for a couple of years improved the
new home farm. He then moved into Santa Ana, on Spurgeon Street, and there he
died, in September, 1913. The four children left him by his first wife were: Melville
C., Francis M., our subject, Alice and Charles L. Thomas. Melville died by drowning
in the Galveston flood, he, his wife, their one child and their home having been swept
away by the angry waters. He was a railroad man, and for years had worked in the
railway yards at Galveston. Alice is the wife of Otis Bridgeford, the rancher; she
was formerly Mrs. L. Hiskey, and is the mother of Walter E. Hiskey, a rancher in
the Delhi district of Orange County. The last or youngest is Dr. Charles L. Thomas,
the dental surgeon, of Los Angeles, who owns extensive, valuable citrus property at
El Modena. Francis M. Thomas left Virginia with his parents when he was five years old and
for two years lived in Kentucky, then removed to Kansas, where he was educated in
the public schools of Hiawatha., With his older brother he looked after the farm, while
his father bought and sold farms and dealt in dry goods and groceries. He was twenty-
two years of age when, in the spring of 1884, he came out to California and settled
at Santa Ana. He worked out for a year or two, getting used to the climate and the
ways of the country.
At Santa Ana, August 15, 1886, Mr. Thomas was married to Miss Zoura Kerr, a
native of Mexico, Audrain County, Mo., who came to Santa Ana in March, 1886, with
her mother, Mrs. Serilda (Bates) Kerr, a native of Lee County, Va., who came to visit
her brother, A. T. Bates, whom she had not seen for forty-two years. Mr. Bates had
crossed the plains during the gold rush and was an early settler near Santa Ana. Mrs.
Thomas' father, William Kerr, was born near Rockbridge, Va., later coming to Mis
souri, where he engaged in farming, passing away there when Mrs, Thomas was nineteen
years of age. Mrs. Kerr died at the Thomas ranch August 7, 1910, at the age of
seventy-nine, the mother of nine children, seven of whom are living.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas are the parents of six children: Lester R. is a mechanic
with a specialty of automobiles and resides at Phoenix, Ariz.; Lelah married Clyde
Deardorff, a tenant on Mr. Thomas' ranch; they have one child, Beverly June; Beulah
is the wife of Harold Bullock, a tenant on her father's ranch and a partner with Mr.
Deardorff; Gladys is an accomplished musician and resides at home; Eugene and
Semone attend the Santa Ana high school. Mrs. Thomas is a member of the First
Presbyterian Church of Santa Ana.
Mr. Thomas had ranched a number of years in Orange County when he bought
his first farm and this was added to until he has 140 acres in one body that he still
owns. It is a very valuable ranch, devoted largely to the raising of citrus fruit and to
mixed farming. He set out orchards of walnuts and oranges to the extent of about
fifty acres. For many years, he also followed dairy farming. In the early days of
1885 he ran a self-binder over the southern part of the city of Santa Ana that is now
all built up and so he has cut and reaped grain on the spot where his residence now
stands on South Main Street. He is a Republican in matters of national politics, but
never permits a narrow partisanship to interfere with a hearty support of local measures
and local men.
"Sarah Bartley, Mr. Thomas' maternal grandmother, died at Grand Prairie, Brown
County, Kans., on December 10, 1889, aged eighty-two' years. She was born in Wash
ington County, Va., on May 22, 1807, and with her parents removed to Lee County,
Va., in 1828, her father being a Methodist minister. In 1829, Miss Sarah Speak mar
ried James Bartley of Lee County, Va. This was indeed a happy marriage; for over
sixty years they walked side by side, and during this time they were trusting God.
Their home, until they moved to Kansas in 1884, was the home of the itinerant preacher.
who always found a welcome and a share in the best of home comforts. This family
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passed on, but nine children survive her, all having homes of their own and enjoying
prosperity. The last year of her life was passed in Kansas, that she and her husband
might be with their children. She was a great sufferer during that year, and death,
when it came, was welcome, for she passed away in the triumph of faith. Her husband,
eighty-three years of age, yet survives." Such is part of an obituary notice, honoring
this widely-honored lady. Another obituary notice bearing upon the story of Mrs.
Thomas' life reads as follows:
"William H. Kerr, Esq., of Milo, Vernon County, whose remains were interred
in Deepwood Cemetery, Wednesday, was born in Augusta County, Va., in 1819. He
moved to this state (Missouri) in 1840, and has lived here ever since. He united
with the Presbyterian Church when he was nineteen years old, and has been an honored
and faithful member for nearly half a century. He married Serilda Bates in January,
1846, and leaves nine children. It is a remarkable fact that in so large a family, there
has not been a death these forty-one years. A good man has gone, and few have left
behind them a more worthy life record for the comfort and imitation of their children."
EARL A. GARDNER. — One of the younger generation of ranchers of Orange
County, Earl A. Gardner, is rapidly forging to the front and developing into a
"bonanza" farmer. Practically all of Mr. Gardner's life has been spent in California,
as he came here when but a lad of eight years. Born in Cherry County, Nebr., August 9,
1886, his parents were David D. and Sarah (Hetzler) Gardner, who were successful
farmers in Nebraska for a number of years, and there their six children were born:
Adam is in business in San Francisco; Allen is a resident of Talbert; Ralph is a rancher
at Oakdale; David D. lives near Huntington Beach; Earl A., of this review; and Lyda,
wife of Frank Benton, of Orange County. In 1891 the Gardner family moved to Utah,
remaining there three years, and coming overland by wagons from Ogden to California
in 1894. They stopped some three months at Clearwater, coming to Wintersburg in the
fall of that year, and since that time members of the family have been continuously
connected with the ranching interests of Orange County.
Since his father farmed on rented land in different localities, Earl A. Gardner
attended the public schools in several places, among them the Fullerton, Orangethorpe
and Ocean View districts. David D. Gardner, Sr., died in 1903, at the age of fifty-three
years, so that Earl was thrown npon his own resources at an early age. With a genuine
interest in and liking for agriculture, he entered with energy and enthusiasm into ranch
ing and soon branched out for himself as a tenant farmer. By hard work and excellent
business management he has become one of the largest farmers in the Bolsa precinct,
and has succeeded so well that now, at the age of only thirty-four, he is the owner of
eighty acres of choice land, and an equipment of horses, two caterpillar tractors and a
full complement of up-to-date implements and wagons with which he operates in all
750 acres of land, as besides his own farm he leases 670 acres from eight different
landlords. The value of his crops will aggregate $85,000 per year, and his tools and
implements of necessity are of a large range, variety and number, since his farming
operations include the production of the following crops: lima beans, of which he will
have thirty acres in 1920; 550 acres of sugar beets, celery, barley, oats and alfalfa hay.
His equipment is worth $20,000 in money actually invested, and he keeps five men the
year around and during the busy season has forty-five men on his pay roll.
In 1908, Mr. Gardner was married at Los Alamitos to Miss Fern Shutt, daughter
of J. D. Shutt, a very attractive and accomplished young lady who was a member of the
first high school class in the high school at Huntington Beach. Three interesting chil
dren have come to enliven their home: Bessie A., Margaret E. and Myrtle L They
reside on one of Mr. Gardner's rented ranches one-half mile south of Bolsa. Mrs.
Gardner is a Congregationalist and is very popular in church and social circles. In
politics Mr. Gardner favors the principles of the Republican party and in fraternal cir
cles is a popular_ member of the Elks Lodge at Santa Ana. Mr. Gardner's mother, Mrs.
Sarah Gardner, is still living and makes her home on one of the farms leased by him.
MRS. GRACE O. BOOSEY.— An excellent example of what a highly-intelligent,
resolute, idealistic woman can do when thrown upon her own resources is afforded
in the life and success of Mrs. Grace O. Boosey who operates 275 acres on the Irvine
ranch, and in so doing enjoys the confidence and esteem, to an exceptional degree, of
all in the community. A widow for the past five years, she has continued the business
interests committed to her, maintained her cheerful and hospitable home, and reared
her family of interesting children, and has accomplished more, in various ways, than
many men have done.
Before her marriage, Mrs. Boosey was Miss Grace O. Chaffee, born in Riley
County, Kans., and her parents, now both deceased, were Robert and Ann (Shields)
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and she a native of England. They had eight children, and Mrs. Boosey was the
youngest of them all. After completing the course in the public school she obtained
a teacher's certificate at the age of seventeen and then taught school for four years.
On February 17, 1897, she was married to George Boosey, who was also born in Riley
County, Kans. His parents were Vermonters, the father having served in the Civil
War. They also were very early settlers of Riley County and there George Boosey
was reared on the frontier farm and there after their marriage they farmed until in
1909, they came to California.
Luckily, they early found their way to smiling Orange County; and on the Irvine
ranch they settled as tenant farmers. Having mastered the ins and outs of agriculture
in one of the greatest of all farm states in the Union, Mr. Boosey had no difficulty
in succeeding as a rancher here; not merely accomplishing interesting things for him
self, but pointing the way to others less able to master the difficulties of new, un
developed environment. A loss to the county in which he had made such strides' for
ward and where he would have undoubtedly continued to be a leader among aggres
sively progressive cultivators, Mr. Boosey died on November 9, 1915.
Now Mrs. Boosey plants twenty-five acres to black-eye beans, and 200 acres to
lima beans, and sows fifty acres to hay; nor do other ranches yield a crop of superior
quality than hers. She is assisted by her son, Raymond, the second-born, while her
eldest child, Ramona, is employed in Los Angeles, and Florence, Robert and Cora
are at home.
M. RUSSELL SCOTT. — A business man who has been able to turn his experi
ence to good account, both for his own benefit and that of others, by engaging in
real estate operations such as contribute to the development of the locality, is M.
Russell Scott, who was born in Appanoose County, Iowa, on September 17, 1875. His
parents were John E. and Sarah J. (Wright) Scott, the former a native of Iowa and
the latter of Indiana. The family were pioneers of Iowa, and in that state they became
prominent. They had three children, and the youngest is the subject of our review.
John E. Scott died on February 3, 1916, but the mother is still living at Santa Ana.
Russell Scott attended the public school at Glenwood, Iowa, and Shenandoah
College, and then engaged in the merchandise business in partnership with his father,
remaining in Glenwood, Iowa, for ten years. When he sold out, he came to California
and soon located at Santa Ana.
Here he bought the old Ford Ranch of forty acres, devoted to walnuts which he
still owns. All these years he has been engaged in real estate ventures, and as an
experienced dealer has owned and traded land all over California. Now he resides at
123 North Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, with his devoted wife, who was Blanche
L. Lingo before her marriage, which took place on May 9, 1906. She is a native of
Belmont County, Ohio, whose father was born in Virginia, her mother being a native
of Maryland. By a former marriage, Mr. Scott had three children — Gruba Leonora,
Walter B., and Josephine L. The family attend the First Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Scott is an Elk, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and also belongs
to the Golf Club, while he is especially fond of quail hunting. In national politics he
is a Republican, but in all local affairs for the making of a better community, and the
more rapid and permanent development of Orange County, he is a first-class "booster,"
first, last and all the time.
THOMAS JAMES WILSON. — One of our most eminent poets immortalized the
blacksmith trade in his poem, "The Village Blacksmith." However, the present day
blacksmith shop, with its modern machinery, is quite another affair from Longfellow's
"village smithy which stood under a spreading chestnut tree."
Thomas J. Wilson, of Tustin, Orange County, is engaged in general blacksmithing
business, and owns a shop equipped with all the modern and improved machinery for
the speedy output of all class of work. Although among the newer residents of Tustin,
by his skill as a mechanic and his courteous and gentlemanly treatment of his cus
tomers he has won the favor of his numerous patrons and built up a profitable and
permanent business. While he first came to California in 1901 he did not locate in
Orange County until 1918.
Mr. Wilson was born in Boise City, Idaho, October 6, 1883, and is the son of
James and Walburga (Jehle) Wilson, natives of Ireland and Germany, respectively.
Reared and educated in his native state until 1897, he began to learn the horseshoer's
trade in Omaha and later also took up general blacksmithing, which he has continued
up to the present time.
During the Spanish-American War he served in the U. S. Navy as a blacksmith.
He was first on the armored cruiser, Brooklyn, which was conspicuous in the battle of
Santiago as Captain Schley's flag ship; later he served on the cruiser New York in the
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his vessel touched at nearly every important port in the Orient. After the expiration
of his three years' enlistment he was returned to San Francisco where he was honor
ably discharged as first chief petty officer. He then located at Moore, Mont., and
engaged in the blacksmith business.
On September 12, 1915, Mr. Wilson was united in marriage with Miss Alice M.
Robinson, born in Buffalo County, Nebr., a daughter of Charles L. and Mertie (Owen)
Robinson, and they are the parents of a daughter, Mertie Marie. In their political
views of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are Republicans, and religiously are consistent members
of the Christian Church. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias and
the Odd Fellows.
BYRON ASA CRAWFORD.— The efficient manager of the Tustin Hill Citrus
Association, Byron Asa Crawford, has held this position since 1915. He was born in
Ripon, Wis., April 10, 1878, and is the son of Wm. F. and Ella J. (Newell) Crawford,
natives of Connecticut and New York, respectively. There were two children in the
parental home, Byron A. and Alice E. The father was a veteran of the Civil War, and
served from its inception until the close. He enlisted twice; the first time in the
Twenty-second Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and the second time in the Forty-
fourth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the war, and was com
missioned second lieutenant. After the war he engaged in the manufacture of flour,
becoming proprietor of the Ripon Flour Mills. The family came out to Tustin, Cal., in
1888, and he died in 1912, while living in Santa Ana; his widow survives him and resides
in Los Angeles. He was popular in G. A. R. circles.
Byron A. Crawford received his education in the Tustin grammar school and then
entered the Santa Ana high school, where he was graduated in 1897. After his school
days were over he began his active connection with the marketing department of the
citrus industry, finally entering the employ of the Ruddock Trench Company, becoming
their foreman. From 1902 till 1905 he was engaged in the real estate business in Los
Angeles, after which he made a trip to Nevada, where he operated a stage and freight
line out of Searchlight. Returning to California, he became manager for the Iomosa
Foothill Association at Cucamonga until 1913, when he returned to Orange County and
was with the San Joaquin Fruit Company until 1915, then accepting his present
position as manager of the Tustin Hill Citrus Association.
Mr. Crawford has been in the citrus business for almost twenty-five years, and is
thoroughly competent for the responsible position he holds as manager of the Citrus
Association. Since he has been in charge the directors have had no cause to complain
of lack of interest on his part, and the growth of the institution under his capable man
agement is sufficient evidence of his efficiency. The Tustin Hill Citrus Association was
organized in 1909 by M. Atkin, H. Sharpless, A. J. Padgham and R. Brinsmead. The
plant is located on the Newport road and the Southern Pacific Railroad, so has splen
did shipping facilities. The plant has a large capacity, with plans for enlargement.
The following are directors: A. E. Bennett, president; A. M. Robinson, first vice-presi
dent; J. A. McFadden, second vice-president; A. G. Finley, F. B. Browning, C. J. Klatt
and Perry Lewis.
On February 22, 1906, occurred the marriage of Mr. Crawford, when he was united
with Miss Violet L. Forney, daughter of T. D. and Elizabeth Forney, Denver, Colo.,
being her birthplace. Four children have come to bless their union: Dudley F., Wm. F.,
Janet E., and Kenneth B. Politically Mr. .Crawford is an ardent Republican,' and fra
ternally is affiliated with the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks and the Tustin Lodge of Knights
of Pythias. FENELON C. MATTHEWS.— A self-made young man of far-sighted and bustling
enterprise, whose success as a sugar beet grower and also as a breeder of the highest
grade of Duroc-Jersey red swine has been notable, encouraging others to follow where
he has led, is Fenelon C. Matthews, son of H. E. Matthews of Tustin, and junior
5> l^on1" m} firm °f Stearns and Matthews. He was born in Kansas on September
2, 1889, and grew up on his father's Kansas farm where he had the greatest advantage

ranch, and since then he has been a part of the history of Orange County. The Golden
him se^rehaiT * ^^ ^ ^ exertions and sacrifices; and the challenge made
T„=t.nMr' ^a!lheWSr °W!,u a forty-acre h°g ranch, one and a half miles southwest of
Id sw-n. TV," • . PfSt y6ar he haS been breedi"S registered Duroc-Jersey
iTlw o"^! st°ck wasthe best he could obtain, having been brought from
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United States. Mr. Matthews is breeding both for the stock markets as well as breed
ers. He is a very naturally a member of the National Duroc-Record Association, and
the San Joaquin Lima Bean Association. For the past twelve years, Mr. Matthews
has grown sugar beets, and he leases 205 acres of the Irvine ranch all under irriga
tion, 150 acres of which he has planted to sugar beets, and fifty-five acres to lima
beans. No better quality of beets or beans could well be found, for in addition to
what he naturally acquires from his instructing personal experience, Mr. Matthews
keeps abreast of the times and profits by the researches of those whose life work is
to aid the farmer.
On this leased ranch Mr. Matthews resides with- his wife and child, Harold Eugene,
a happy family, if one is to be seen anywhere. Mrs. Matthews was Miss Edith Stearns,
a daughter of Mr. Matthews' partner, before her marriage, and their wedding, one
of the pleasant social affairs of the time, took place at Tustin in 1914. Mr. Matthews
belongs to the Santa Ana Lodge of Odd Fellows and also to the Knights of Pythias
in Tustin and in politics of national import he is an Independent Democrat. As might
be surmised, this independence of view and action never permits partisanship to stand
in the way of his giving hearty support to local measures well endorsed.
BARNEY P. CLINARD.— One of Orange County's progressive and wealthy
ranchers is Barney P. Clinard, who raises grain on an extensive scale in the El Toro
neighborhood, now having under cultivation more than 2,000 acres of land devoted
to barley, wheat and beans. North Carolina was Mr. Clinard's birthplace, the Clinard
family at that time residing near Thomasville in Davidson County, that state. The
date of his birth was July 21, 1870, and he was the next to youngest of six children
born to Randall and Jane (Payne) Clinard. Grandfather Clinard was born in Ireland,
coming to North Carolina where he became a well-known farmer in Davidson County.
During the Civil War Randall Clinard enlisted in the Confederate Army and saw
active service in that four years of terrible fighting.. Barney Clinard remained at the
old home in North Carolina until he was of age, helping his father in the work on the
farm, but in 1893 he decided to locate in the Far West, as he felt that the opportunities
for success were greater than in his home state, which was still suffering from the
ravages of war.
Mr. Clinard arrived in California January 17, 1893, and soon began working on
ranches in the southern part of Orange County, spending several seasons with threshing
crews in that locality. In 1904 he began ranching operations on his own account on
the Lewis F. Moulton ranch at El Toro. He began in a modest way but was success
ful from the start and has expanded his operations until he now leases and cultivates
2,200 acres of this ranch. For the season of 1920 he has 2,000 acres in barley, eighty in
wheat and 150 in beans. H'e produces an unusually large yield of all these crops and
owns and operates his own bean thresher. In addition to this, Mr. Clinard is the owner
of a thriving 40-acre walnut orchard on Halladay Street, Santa Ana, and also has a
half interest in still another ranch at Irvine; Walter Cook, his partner in this enter
prise, is in charge of the place. It consists of 141 acres, of which 101 acres are set to
budded walnuts, twenty to oranges and twenty to lemons. The whole is irrigated by
means of two electric pumping plants. In addition, Mr. Clinard also raises live
stock and at the present time he is the owner of over 100 head of horses, mules and
colts and fifty head of hogs.
A wide-awake, progressive and scientific farmer, Mr. Clinard richly deserves the
splendid financial success that he has made, as it is due to his industry and intelligent
work alone, as all the capital he had when he reached California amounted only to a
few hundred dollars. A man of powerful physique, Mr. Clinard is the personification
of energy and his genial nature makes him popular among a wide circle of friends.
He is a member of the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks.
JASPER N. TRICKEY. — A merchant with many years of valuable experience to
his credit, who has become one of the leading business men of Balboa, is Jasper N.
Trickey, a doubly interesting personality on account of his wonderful vitality and daily
activity at the age of eighty-two. He was born at Exeter, Maine, on September 25,
1838, the son of William H. Trickey, a native of New Hampshire who was in the shoe
business. He had married Miss Abagail Nudd, also a native of the Granite State, who
lived to be fifty— or twenty-two years younger than her husband, when he died — and
left eight children. Originally, the Trickeys came from Exeter, England, in 1640. They
were shipbuilders and manufacturers, and settling at Portsmouth, Mass., did much to
establish what in its time was one of the greatest of all American industries.
Leaving Maine when he was seventeen years old, Mr. Trickey came to California
via Panama and landed at San Francisco in April, 1856. He went up to Oroville and
for two years ran a fruit business there. Then he moved on to Victoria, B. C, where
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River, engaged at the same time in merchandise business. He was later still ,a mer
chant in Salt Lake City, and while there he saw the last rail laid and golden spike
driven at Promontory Point, 1869, connecting up the Union Pacific with the Central
Pacific Railroad.
When he left Salt Lake, he returned east to Wichita, Kans., and he helped build
up that city. During the same period, he went to Clinton County, Mo., and was married
to Miss Harriet Stover, a native of Ohio. He spent thirty years in Sedgwick County,
Kans., and gave of his best to help build up Wichita and other places, all the while
engaged in general merchandising.
In 1899, Mr. Trickey returned- to California and settled at Santa Ana; and there,
at the corner of Fourth Street and Broadway, he had one of the choicest grocery
stores in Orange County. He bought a residence at Santa Ana, and this he still owns.
On selling out, he came to Balboa in November, 1914, and here he has conducted a
first class grocery ever since. He also owns good residence property at Balboa. As
a representative business man of so many years experience, Mr. Trickey's choice of the
political creeds of the Republican party is interesting.
Six of Mr. and Mrs. Trickey's children are still living, although the eldest child,
Clarence, died in 1919 at Mesa, Ariz., where he ran a large furniture store. He left
a wife, Lunette Turner, and two children, Helen and Margaret. Frank is married to
Ethel Newman of Kansas and has two children — Phyllis and Keith; he has been deputy
city clerk at Mesa, Ariz., for the past two years. Paul is with Smart and Final Com
pany, wholesale grocers, at Santa Ana. He married Flossie Talcott and has four chil
dren — Evelyn, Beverly, Pauline and Virginia. Lawrence clerks for the Spurgeon Furni
ture Company, and resides at Santa Ana with his wife, who was Ethel Rose, and has
one child — Lawrence L., Jr.; Melvin lives with his wife, Maxine, at Pomona; John and
Hope assist their father. Mr. Trickey is a Knight Templar, being a member of the
Santa Ana Commandery; nor has that worthy organization a worthier member or one
more devoted.
LINCOLN JOSEPH CARDEN.— One of the best-informed men in the busy
realty world of Santa Ana, and therefore one of the most optimistic regarding the
future of Orange County property of every description, is Lincoln Joseph Carden, for
the past sixteen years engaged, as few have been, including even the most enthusiastic
native sons, in "boosting" this favored section of the rich and promising Golden State.
He was born in Danville, Iowa, oh January 15, 1860, the son of William Carden, whose
birthplace was sixteen miles from Cincinnati, Ohio, and who grew up a farmer. He
came west to Iowa in 1855, pioneered in Des Moines County, farmed extensively at
Danville, and died in 1866, at the age of thirty-seven. He had married Miss Elizabeth
Miller, a native of Ohio, who died in Iowa in 1890. They had eight children— seven
boys and a girl — and all are living save the daughter and a son.
The fourth youngest and the only one in California, Lincoln Joseph, was brought
up on the home farm and attended Howes Academy at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, after which
he studied at Christian College in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Then he taught school in Des
Moines County for five years, after which he married Miss Minnie A. Lyons, a native of
Winfield, Iowa, and the daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth Lyons. As an old settler, her
father was an extensive farmer, prominent in Iowa politics, and a member of the assem
bly in the Iowa legislature.
Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Carden removed to Henry County and
engaged in the hardware and implement business; and there they continued until 1904,
when they came to California and Santa Ana, and for a year Mr. Carden was in the
general merchandise business. Then he began his career as a realtor, and such has been
his success in this field, that he has continued in it ever since. He is now the senior
member of Carden, Liebig & Seamans, who have their offices at 307 North Main
Street. They handle both city and country property, and make a specialty of ranches.
Mr. Carden himself is interested directly in horticulture, having owned and improved
several ranches, and so is able personally to judge of many points at issue in the selling
and buying of farm property. He is an ex-director of the Chamber of Commerce, and
a stockholder and a director in the Orange County Trust and Savings Bank. A
Republican in matters of national politics, he has not allowed partisanship to influence
him m his willing service as a member, for a term, on the board of education.
r i- ri-h,, 6 rColIdren blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Carden: Jessie has become Mrs.
Jabe Hill of Santa Ana, her husband being a member of Hill & Carden, the clothiers;
Lester T. is the other member of that firm; and Helen is at home. Mr. Carden was made
a Mason m Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M., and he also belongs to the Santa Ana
, ,°/ 0 ,Fenows- The family are members of the First Presbyterian Church,
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FRANK W. MILLEN. — The right man, in the right place, at the right hour would
seem to be Frank W. Millen, of the well-known firm of Millen and Lampman, dealers
in sand and gravel, who are doing as much as any one in Orange County to solve the
vexing problems attending the dearth of houses and the urgent demand for buildings
and building materials. He is a man of wide experience, excellent judgment and con
scientious attention to business; and is very popular with all who have occasion to
have dealings with him.
Mr. Millen was born in Henderson County, 111., on May 8, 1872, the son of John
and Sarah (Gordon) Millen. His father was born in Indiana and married in Illinois;
and in that latter state both his mother and he himself were born, on the same old
family farm. He grew up in the vicinity of his birth, and not far from his birthplace
served his apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade.
In 1906 Mr. Millen came out to California and settled in Santa Ana; he worked
at his trade for about one year, then took up the contracting business on his own
responsibility and built many residences during the nine years he followed the business.
Santa Ana has been his home ever since, with the exception of two and a half years
when he and his partner were cement contractors at San Pedro. In 1917, Messrs.
Millen and Lampman removed from the harbor, and recently they have further ex
panded by leasing a tract of five acres on the Long Beach road, one quarter of a mile
west of the County Hospital. There they have installed a hoist and screen drawn by
an eight-horse power gas engine; and this is perhaps the largest deposit of pea gravel
and clean sand to be found in Orange County. A careful analysis has shown it to be
free from dirt — an advantage that only the builder appreciates. The carefully-wrought
screens sort out four grades, all the way from plastering sand to pea gravel for foun
dations, curbs, gutters and sidewalks. Their product is delivered to the contractors in
Orange County and adjacent territory by truck. Their capacity now averages fifty yards
daily and they are rapidly increasing their plant.
Both Mr. Lampman and Mr. Millen are experienced, energetic and highly progres
sive operators; and in view of the growing markets touching their field, it is safe to
predict for them a constantly increasing trade. Already they are one of the elements
of strength, and most promising, in the Santa Ana commercial world.
HENRY W. WITMAN. — A ranchman who has had an extensive, varied experi
ence, and has so well succeeded that he has become an excellent beet grower, a public-
spirited citizen and a good neighbor, is Henry W. Witman, at present operating 150
acres on the Irvine ranch. He was born at Catlettsburg, Ky., July 13, 1860, situated
on the Ohio and Big Sandy Rivers, and was reared in the oil fields of West Virginia.
His father was Charles Witman, a pioneer West Virginia oil operator, who at one time
had 100 pumping wells. He was married in Kentucky to Miss Ann McMillan, a native
of Aberdeen, Ohio, and the daughter of Wm. McMillan, a Scotch-Irish millwright. The
Witmans during several generations were identified with Pennsylvania, and Henry
Witman, a brother of Charles, was also a pioneer in the oil enterprise and made a
specialty of the manufacture and vending of tools and machinery for sinking oil wells,
his headquarters being at Parkersburg, W. Va. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Witman came
to California in 1885, and they both died at Los Angeles, having each reached the ripe
old age of eighty-one.
As Henry Witman grew up, he also got into the oil game, and at twenty-one in
Volcano, W. Va., September 21, 1881, he was married to Miss Emma C. Mudge, a native
of Philadelphia, Pa., but a resident of Parkersburg, W. Va., and a graduate of the Lees-
burg, Va., Seminary. Mr. Witman himself was a graduate of the celebrated Eastman
Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mrs. Witman is a daughter of Daniel C. and
Emily (Carr) Mudge, born on Long Island, N. Y., and St. Louis, Mo., respectively.
As a young man Mr. Mudge was located at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with a firm of Indian
traders. Returning East he was married in Virginia after which he was with Hood,
Bonbright and Company, an importing firm in Philadelphia, Pa. Later he was super
intendent of coal mines in Pennsylvania and then in West Virginia. After he retired
they resided in Yonkers, N. Y., until their death. On her mother's side Mrs. Witman's
ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War.
After his marriage, Mr. Witman took up the lumber business in the great saw
mills of the Alleghany Mountains, in West Virginia, and for two and a half years
was in the service of a Baltimore Lumber Company. In 1887, however, during the
great "boom" in realty here, he came out to California and settled at Hueneme, in
Ventura County, where he engaged in hardware and plumbing until 1900, when the
Oxnard Sugar Factory started up, and he removed his business to Oxnard where, aside
from his hardware and plumbing business, he was associated with E. A. Chambers in
drilling artesian wells. For twelve years he continued in business and under President
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McKinley and President Roosevelt he served as postmaster of Oxnard. He was also
secretary of the board of trustees of the Oxnard Union high school for ten years.
In 1908, with the same partner, E. A. Chambers, now deceased, he leased a ranch
of 700 acres at Tomato Springs on the Irvine ranch, Orange County, and for five
years farmed to lima beans. Then his partner died, and Mr. Witman then turned over
the lease to his son, H. W. Witman, Jr., who is still farming there. In 1913 he dis
posed of his interests in Ventura County and moved to Orange County and took his
present lease on the Irvine ranch.
Mr. Witman has wrought a magical transformation in the 150 acres he is oper
ating. He devotes 100 acres to sugar beets, and fifty acres to barley hay, and it is
safe to say that there are no more attractive fields anywhere in the Aliso district, the
whole presenting a very different sight from that beheld by him and W. G. Mitchell,
manager of the Irvine Company, with whom he drove through there seven years ago.
Then there was such a morass of wild mustard and sunflowers that they had to stand
up in their wagon to see where they were. He put the first plow in the soil and the
land is now a choice beet and market garden district, recently drained by the Irvine
Company, which supplies all the water needed, from wells pumped by electricity.
Five children have blessed this marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Witman. Roy B., the
eldest, is in the furniture and plumbing business at Oxnard. Mary M. is the wife
of Harry C. Bohlander, a beet grower on the Irvine ranch. Ellen B., the third born,
became the wife of L. L. Edmunds, chief engineer of the Crockett Sugar Refinery,
residing at Crockett, and died on May 8, 1920, leaving two children: H. W., Jr., already
referred to, is the lima bean grower on the Irvine ranch, and Daniel Phillip, who grad
uated from the Harvard Military School at Los Angeles, in June, 1920, is farming beets
on the Irvine ranch with his father.
A Republican in national politics, Mr. Witman was for years active in Ventura
County politics as central committeeman and delegate to county conventions. Fra
ternally he was made a Mason in Volcano Lodge in West Virginia, in 1881 and on
coming to California was a charter member of Hueneme Lodge No. 341, F. & A. M.,
which was afterwards removed to Oxnard and named Oxnard Lodge No. 341, and
there he was the second master. He is a member of Oxnard Chapter, R. A. M., and of
Ventura Commandery No. 4, K. T. and Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Los
Angeles. He is also a life member of the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks and a member of
the Eagles of Oxnard. Mrs. Witman is a member of the Episcopal Church as well as
the Ebell Club of Santa Ana and both took an active part in the Red Cross and war
drives in the Irvine district.
WILLIAM HENEKS. — Descended through the paternal genealogy from sturdy
residents of Holland, that little country famed for its thrift and frugality, William
Heneks has inherited many of the sterling qualities of his forbears, and these, com
bined with his own initiative and determination, have brought him a large degree of
success. Mr. Heneks was born in Montgomery County, Pa., in 1844, his parents being
John and Mary (Treichler) Heneks. The father, who combined the occupation of
blacksmith with agricultural pursuits, was also a native of that state, Grandfather
Heneks having settled in eastern Pennsylvania shortly after coming over from Holland.
Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. John Heneks: John Parker, Lydia Ann;
Effinger, who lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Joseph; David; Elizabeth, who resides at
Santa Ana with her brother William; Mary, who died in Iowa; and William.
Up to the age of twelve years, William Heneks resided on the old home farm in
Pennsylvania, attending the local schools of the community. In 1855 the Heneks
family removed to Cedar County, Iowa, and here he received but little opportunity for
any further education, as he early began to do farm work, helping establish the family
home in the new country, as the locality now occupied by large towns and rich farm's
was as yet comparatively sparsely settled and the magnitude of its present prosperity
as yet undiscerned. By dint of industry and good management he became the owner
of a good farm of 120 acres and this he farmed with splendid results for a number of
years, also being associated with his sister, Miss Elizabeth Heneks, in the cultivation
of the eighty-acre farm she had acquired.
An older brother, John Parker Heneks, came to California about 1898, his health
requiring a milder climate; he was a veteran of the Civil War, having participated in
Sherman s famous march to the sea and the many hardships he had undergone had
sadly impaired his health. Although comparatively an invalid and unable to take any
active part in business he was much impressed with the wonderful possibilities apparent
in this beautiful country, and he wrote to his brothers and sisters, urging them to come
to Orange County and enjoy its wonderful climate and take advantage of its oppor
tunities. At the time of his death, 1900, William Heneks and his brother Effinger, now

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ninety-three years old, came to Santa Ana and even during their short stay at that
time they were much impressed with this part of the country. In 1903 William and his
sister Elizabeth disposed of their farming interests in Iowa and came to Santa Ana.
For a year and a half they lived on Pine Street, removing from there to 1406 East First
Street, where they purchased a twenty-acre walnut ranch. Mr. Heneks at once set
to work to improve the place in every possible way, putting in cement pipe lines for
irrigation and bringing the whole ranch up to a high state of cultivation, so that it
became one of the best paying properties in the vicinity. In January, 1920, they dis
posed of this ranch at a handsome figure and he and his sister now reside at their
beautiful home at 702 South Broadway, Santa Ana, one of the south side's most attrac
tive places, with its well-kept lawn, walks, arbors and- flowers, and here they enjoy
the fruits of their useful and industrious lives. They enter heartily into the spirit- of
Santa Ana's progress and the community is indeed fortunate to have gained such
worthy and estimable residents.
JUAN GARIBALDI CARILLO.— The name of Carillo is one that is well known
in Southern California, the family having been among the largest landowners in this
section, and prominent in the history of its early days. J. G. Carillo, or Garibaldi, as
he is familiarly known by his friends, the subject of this sketch, is the son of Jose R.
and Vincenta (Sepulveda) Carillo, the latter being the daughter of Francisco Sepulveda,
who was the owner of a large rancho west of Olive. At the time of her marriage to
Jose R. Carillo she was the widow of Thomas Yorba, of the well-known Spanish family
whose name is linked with the early days of Orange County.
Jose R. Carillo was the owner of a large Spanish grant in San Diego County,
now called Warner's ranch. It was three miles square and comprised 5,760 acres. He
also owned the Rancho San Jose, adjoining Warner's ranch, a tract of over 25,000 acres.
Mr. and Mrs. Carillo were the parents of nine children, six daughters and three sons,
Garibaldi being the youngest in order of birth. He was born on the Carillo ranch in
San Diego County, May 19, 1861. His father died in 1864, having been shot from
ambuscade at Cucamonga Creek. Garibaldi then lived with his mother on Warner's
ranch until 1870, when they moved to Anaheim, where he went to school and also
worked out on farms to help his mother. When sixteen years of age, he with twelve
others drove 900 head of horses belonging to Don Juan Forster to Utah, remaining there
two years, when he returned home. He farmed near Corona, Riverside County, for five
years, and then became foreman for Don Marco Forster at Capistrano, which position
he filled five years; then as foreman for Richard O'Neill an additional five years, when
he resigned to go to Nicaragua, Central America, in 1893; for two years he dealt
in coffee, rubber and hides, shipping to New York City, when he was taken sick and
returned to California in 1895. He then became foreman for James McFadden, a posi
tion he filled with ability for five years, when he quit and located a homestead of 160
acres near Hot Springs, Riverside County, where he resided and brought it to a high
state of cultivation. He then returned to Santa Ana and spent one year as a foreman
and then quit to engage in partnership in cattle raising with James McFadden on the
place he is now on, known as the Aliso ranch of 1,487 acres — five miles east of El Toro,
and the next year he leased the ranch and since then has engaged in farming and raising
cattle, horses, mules and hogs, in which he has been very successful, being a member of
the California Cattle Growers Association. He is also the owner of a ranch of 160
acres in Riverside County and this he devotes to stock raising, having for the past
fifteen years used the Forest Reserve for a stock range.
In San Luis Rey, March 4, 1900, Juan G. Carillo was united in marriage with Miss
Petra Ortega, who is also a descendant of two distinguished Spanish families. She is
the daughter of Juan D. and Eduvige (Tico) Ortega, and both parents are still living,
the father being the manager of the James McFadden ranch at Santa Ana. Grand
father Miguel Emidio Ortega, who owned the Ortega grant in Santa Barbara County,
covering two leagues, married Concepcion Dominguez, who died in 1909 at Ventura at
the age of ninety-seven years, after an eventful life covering a long vista of years, in
which she saw the country grow from the small settlement clustered about the Mission
to a thriving city and prosperous countryside. The old Ortega homestead, where she
passed so many years of her life, has long occupied a place among the interesting land
marks of Ventura and its reproduction on paper has become familiar to thousands
throughout the United States and foreign lands, as it is used as a trademark by E. C.
Ortega, the wealthy owner and founder of the Pioneer Chile Packing Company of Los
Angeles, a son of Dona Concepcion Dominguez Ortega.
Mrs. Petra Carillo is descended from the Tico family through her mother, whose
brother, J. J. Tico, was one of Ventura's oldest residents, his death occurring there in
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grant, covering four Spanish leagues, by Governor Juan D. Alvarado, the Ticos being
among the first Spanish families to settle in Ventura County.
Mr. and Mrs. Carillo are the parents of seven children: Carlos and Vincenta at
tend the Capistrano Union high school and Vincenta took the prize in the Liberty Loan
speakers' contest at Trabuca school in 1919; Juanita, Bennie, Jerome, Randolph and
George. Identified with this locality for half a century, Mr. Carillo stands high in the
esteem of a large circle of friends and with his interesting family takes an active interest
in all that pertains to the welfare of the community. The family are communicants of
the Catholic Church at El Toro and in politics Mr. Carillo is a Republican.
HARVEY F. BENNETT. — The son of one of Orange County's best known
pioneer citizens who contributed much to. the advancement of the vital interests bf
the county, especially in the early days, Harvey F. Bennett is himself a native son of
the Golden State. The Bennett family traces its ancestry back to the earlist colonial
days, some of that name being among the first groups of those brave souls who risked
the dangers of the deep and the barren conditions of a new land. They were identified
with the early agricultural upbuilding of this country and_fought valiantly in its wars
and were always prominent in its public affairs.
Charles F. Bennett, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at Kent,
Litchfield County, Conn., April 23, 1842, his parents being William and Sarah (Brun-
sen) Bennett. William Bennett was engaged in various manufacturing enterprises at
Litchfield, but in 1851 he removed with his family to the then sparsely settled regions
of LaSalle County, 111., settling near Deerpark, where he took up a tract of virgin land,
which he brought under cultivation, at the same time devoting some attention to manu
facturing various articles. Charles F. Bennett received his early education at the old
Connecticut home, where as a small boy he had the great fortune to come under the
personal influence of Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison, so that he was
from a child inculcated with the principles of abolition, and in later years this was
increased by a personal acquaintance with Abraham Lincoln and John C. Fremont.
Coming with his parents to Illinois, his boyhood was spent on the home farm in
LaSalle County, and even then he was identified with many stirring scenes in aiding
slaves in their flight toward liberty. When the Civil War broke out he was taking a
preparatory course in the Chicago University, and he soon enlisted. In August, 1862,
he was assigned to the Douglas Brigade, participating in thirty-two engagements with
this organization, among them the battles of Shiloh and Vicksburg. He had charge
of the guard at General Sherman's headquarters during the famous march to the sea
and vividly recalls the consultation between Sherman, Grant and Logan regarding the
decision to take this line of action, which proved to be the turning point of the war.
Mr. Bennett was slightly wounded several times and had many narrow escapes, being
grazed with bullets on a number of occasions. When he received his honorable dis
charge, with the rank of first lieutenant, at the close of the war, the hardships and
privations had greatly impaired his health, but after two years he was again suffi
ciently restored in strength to take up active work. For a number of years he engaged
in teaching school in various parts of Illinois, and was also interested in stock raising
near the old Bennett homestead.
In 1872 C. F. Bennett was united in marriage with Miss Helen Beach, who was
also a native of Connecticut, and in 1878 they decided to seek their fortune on the
great plains of the West and so removed to Nebraska, making the long journey from
Illinois in a prairie schooner. Mr. Bennett engaged in cattle raising until the range
became too limited through the settling up of the country. He then settled at Arapahoe,
Nebr where he conducted a hotel as well as a large merchandise business Coming
to California m 1885, they settled first at San Diego, a small town at that time, as the
railroad to that point had not yet been built. They remained there but a short time,
coming up the coast to Oceanside, where they purchased a forty-acre hillside farm.
During the boom, they disposed of their holdings at a profit and came to Tustin,
where he purchased ten acres, subsequently developing it and making it one of the
choice properties of that locality; he now has twenty-two acres in Tustin and Santa
Ana; also owns a sixty-acre ranch at El Toro. One of the authorities on irrigation in
he country, Mr. Bennett insta led one of the few private irrigation systems at El Toro
taking water from Aliso Creek, also put in a well and pumping plant, and his active
ZT!lZ,PT°^ a 'mgatf10n ™ veme„ts had much to do with the advancement of
land values. He and his wife still reside on their home place at Tustin
Ch.r^I A h w l^T- are the Parents of three livinS children-Frederick W,
Charles A., and Harvey F., their on v Hano-htpr p»„i t,a„ i ¦ ,
vp.r- a ' xt,,.,-,-.- J t, b y daughter, Fearl Edna, having passed away some
™h „ Vt, v \ y» V Bennett ,as born at Tustin on October 31, 1892, and was
school at Tustfnand t 7ef ^ T'O- u* reCeived & g°°d eduCati°" in the grammar
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get a start for himself he began farming while he was in his senior year at high school.
He located at El Toro in 1911, and as a reward for the thrift and industry of his early
years he is now the owner of a choice ranch of-twenty acres half a mile southeast of
El Toro, ten acres of which is in budded walnuts, now twelve years old, the other half
of his acreage being set to three-year-old Valencia oranges. In addition to this Mr.
Bennett manages the sixty-acre ranch belonging to his father, thirty acres of which is
in walnuts, the remaining thirty being planted to apricots, interspersed with walnuts.
The management of both holdings, comprising eighty acres, naturally brings with it
much responsibility and hard work, but Mr. Bennett is making a splendid success,
which is richly deserved.
Mr. Bennett's marriage, which occurred in 1914, united him with Miss Frances
Lillian McDonald, a daughter of T. F. McDonald, the well-known carpenter and builder
of Santa Ana. Two little girls have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bennett — Helen Marie
and Beverly Ellen. Mrs. Bennett is a social leader in the community and in the
circles of the Episcopal Church at El Toro, where she teaches in the Sunday School
and is prominent in the work of the ladies' aid. While Mr. Bennett is inclined to the
political policies of the Democratic party, he is broad minded and nonpartisan in local
affairs, believing the interests of the community are best conserved by voting for the
best men and measures.
JOHN H. WARNE. — A well-to-do rancher of the Bolsa district, who has won his
success entirely through his own industry and enterprise, is John H. Warne. One of
England's sons, he was born in the County of Cornwall, March 8, 1870, the son of John
and Betty (Pascoe) Warne. The parents were substantial farmers, the home place
being near Truro, and there they both lived and died. Besides John H., they were the
parents of one daughter, Mary E., now widowed, and who is a resident of England. He
attended the common schools of his birthplace and was brought up in the Wesleyan
faith, his 'parents being devoted members of that denomination. Up to the age of
seventeen he lived on the home farm, where he assisted his father in all the labor about
the place, getting the foundational training for the life of a rancher which he has led in
recent years. In the fall of 1887, however, he determined to -strike out for himself,
encouraged by the stories he had heard of the greater opportunities awaiting young men
in America. After a very stormy voyage on the SS. Celtic, he landed at Castle Garden,
October 9 of that year. He went directly to Ishpeming, Mich., and at once obtained
employment in the iron mines there. It was hard, unpleasant work, for the most part
underground, but Mr. Warne remained there for three years, in the meantime practic
ing thrift and economy and saving as much of his wages as possible.
In 1890 he decided to move on westward, and so made the journey to Los Angeles,
going later to Hanford, Kings County, where he secured work on farms in that locality.
After eight years in Hanford, he returned to Ishpeming, remaining there for two years,
coming back to California in 1900 and locating this time at Santa Ana. He ourchased
forty acres of land in the vicinity of Bolsa and has since made it his home. He started
in at once to cultivate his holdings and has" continued to make improvements from
year to year. He has developed several flowing wells on his place and installed an up-
to-date pumping plant, and has $5,000 worth of cement pioe and open ditches for irriga
tion. He has also erected an attractive bungalow, a fine large barn and other buildings
and the whole ranch has the well-kept, prosperous appearance that betokens the
progressive farmer. He has added to his first holdings by three subsequent purchases
and now has 162 acres, all in a body.
Mr. Warne was united in marriage on September 20, 1905, to Miss Sarah E. Mc-
Garvin, a daughter of Richard and Nettie (Vance) McGarvin, natives of Missouri, com
ing to Los Angeles County in 1875, settling in the New Hope section, then called
Gospel Swamp, but both now deceased. Mrs. Warne was born in Orange County and
was reared and educated in the Garden Grove d;strict. Mr. and Mrs. Warne have three
sons: Tohn L., Henry William, and Thomas Wesley. Generous and kindly to all, Mr.
Warne "is always progressive in his ideas and gladly conforms to the best thought and
reform movements of the day, and his life under two flags has broadened his views and
widened his sympathies for common humanity.
DEMPSEY W. GOULD.— Fulton County, 111., was the birthplace of Dempsey
W. Gould, his birth occurring near Lewistown in that state on January 21, 1876, his
parents being Thomas and Christina (Wadkins) Gould— born in Browne County, Ohio,
and Fulton County, 111., respectively. Thos. Gould when a youth enlisted as a drummer
boy in Company I, One Hundred Forty-sixth Ohio Regiment of Infantry, rising to the
rank of first lieutenant. He came out to Illinois where be became a well known
veterinary surgeon, and was also engaged in agriculture, the home place being situated
about seventeen miles south of Lewistown. Grandfather Samuel_ Gould was born in
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coming to Illinois, where he was a pioneer in Fulton and Schuyler counties. He pre
empted land here in the early days and engaged in farming on the virgin prairie soil.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gould were the parents of ten children; six daughters
and two sons are still living. The fifth child in order of birth, Dempsey W. Gould
is the only one of the family residing in California. He received his education
in the country schools of the neighborhood and from the age of fifteen he has
made his own way in the world without financial assistance from others. For a time
he worked out on farms in the locality, later engaging in farming on rented land in the
county of his birth. In March, 1907, with thirteen other young men from Fulton
County, he went to Payne County, Okla., to engage in raising cotton. The experiment
was a disastrous one, however,- and they lost everything they had invested. Without
financial resources and with a wife and two children depending upon him for support,
one less resolute than Mr. Gould would have given away to discouragement, but he
has always met reverses with a courageous smile and wrested success from circum
stances that would have daunted one of less determination and energy.
Borrowing the sum of $100, Mr. Gould brought his family from Oklahoma to Cali
fornia and took a job as track man for the Santa Fe Railroad at Capistrano, at a dollar
and a half per day. He continued to work for the Santa Fe for nearly two years,
becoming an extra section foreman. It was natural, however, for one of his agricultural
training to gravitate back to the land, so he worked with a threshing crew for a season.
In 1912 he came to El Toro, and leased 250 acres of land and this amount he has
increased from time to time until he now operates 700 acres on the O'Neill or Santa
Margarita ranch, southeast of El Toro. Here he engages in grain farming on an
extensive scale, the larger part of his acreage being devoted to barley. Mr. Gould
owns the house and other buildings and a full complement of farm implements and
has forty-two head of mules, horses and colts.
On June 6, 1901, at Havana, Mason County, 111., Mr. Gould was united in marriage
with Miss Lillian Trapp, who was also born near Lewistown, 111., the daughter of
John Trapp born in Illinois, a prominent Fulton County farmer who is now deceased;
her mother was Elizabeth Freeman who, at the age of eighty-one, is living in El Toro.
Of their nine children Mrs. Gould is the youngest.
Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gould — Bruce M_ who assists
his father on the farm, and Ferfie, and both are social favorites. A Republican in
politics, Mr. Gould takes a lively interest in the questions of the day, is a good talker,
and his affability has made for him a large circle of friends.
MRS. IDA B. KING. — California, justly appreciative of both her sons and her
daughters, is especially proud of those women who, called upon to assume the serious
responsibilities of life in a world still largely managed by the stronger sex, have dis
played such signal fitness for their work that they have not only held their own, but
have often pointed the way, and perhaps by far better routes or means of travel, to
others with even longer experience. Such a leader in the feminine world in the manage
ment of important affairs is Mrs. Ida B. King, widow of the late Charles H. King,
and daughter of the well-known pioneer of Santa Ana, Samuel Ross. For twenty-six
years past she has been a tenant on the Irvine ranch, probably the oldest tenant, there
fore, on the historic San Joaquin; and, as one of the first generation of Orange County
girls, she herself has a most interesting association with the history of Southern
California. Growing up in the city and county of her birth, Mrs. King was married in 1894
toCharles H. Kmg, a native of Waitsburg, Wash., where he was born on January 19,
1873, the son of Samuel and Sarah Ann King, who early came to Washington After
he had braved the dangers of the great plains and had helped to establish law order
and civilization in the North, Mr. King came south to Orange County, and settled first
at Orange and later at Garden Grove. Charles was reared and educated in that vicinity;
and as his father was a rancher, he took naturally to the life of the agriculturist, and
after a while commenced to raise grain for himself on the Freeman ranch near
inglewood. Encouraged by his success, he branched out in 1891 on a larger scale by coming
to Orange County and leasing, on shares, 320 acres on the San Joaquin ranch. Prior
jJOO°mml a' n° ZO had Ter attempted to raise barley and beans on the San
H T™,nt ; ^ "e'gh,bormS -^rmers watched his venture with scientific interest.
he rtkT h, f It t W Wh3t he WaS ab0Ut not on{y in t^ quality of the beans
he raised, but in the fifteen or more sacks yielded by each acre at the harvest He
was among he first to purchase a gasoline traction engine to plow his land and that
acreToMhe s^il Z^ ^^ famous' f°r ^ could turn "up from' ten to fifS
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Mr. King was a Republican in politics, and took a very live interest in local
political happenings. He was a deputy registration clerk on the Myford board at every
election, represented his precinct at county conventions, and was a member of the
county central committee. Affiliated with Santa Ana Lodge No. 142, Knights of
Pythias, he also belonged to Santa Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. E. He died on
May 14, 1911. Since his death, Mrs. King has continued to manage and develop the
estate, and she has done so with rare ability. She now operates 300 acres of the
James Irvine, or San Joaquin ranch, of which fifty acres are devoted to the making of
hay and 250 to the growing of lima beans. She also owns ten acres at Tustin, now
planted to oranges, upon which she intends soon to build.
Three children give joy and solace to this admirable woman, whose life is lived
in part for the advancement of the best and most permanent interests of Orange County
and the promising Southland. Mildred is the wife of Joe Branson and resides at Madera.
Ruth has become Mrs. Fred Rising, and lives at Los Angeles. And Herald is at home,
at the interesting age of fifteen. Another son, Roscoe, died when eight years of age.
She is also rearing a grandchild, Lamar Hossler, to whom she also gives her motherly
care and devotion.
MIGUEL ERRECA. — One of the pioneer stockmen of Southern California,
Miguel Erreca was born near Aldudes, Basses Pyrenees, on the line between France
and Spain, August 10, 1854, a son of Juan and Marie Erreca, who were well-to-do
farmers, owning a place of 500 acres, but both passed away before Miguel left that
country. They had three children, two of whom grew up, our subject being the only
one now living. His brother Juan came to California with Miguel and they were
partners for eleven years, when Juan returned to France and died two years later.
Miguel Erreca was brought up on the home farm, and this place he still owns
in partnership with a nephew. Having heard good reports of splendid opportunities
awaiting young men who were not afraid to work he came to California in 1873 and
made his way by the Overland stage from Los Angeles to San Juan Capistrano, where
he had a cousin, Bernardo Erreca, who was engaged in the sheep business. He had
arrived in the old mission town at one o'clock one February morning. The next morn
ing he got up a little late and looked out to see what the place was like. He saw a
band of vaqueros, all horseback; they had long whiskers and long hair that covered
their ears and eyes and, as he says, looked like a band of goats. Big pistols were
hanging at their sides and big knives in their belts. He was at first a little frightened
but when he got outside and up closer he heard them talk Spanish and entered into
conversation with them. They were half Mexicans and half Indians but all turned
out to be good fellows. He lived eleven years in San Juan Capistrano among those
people and found them square and reliable. After working two months for Chas.
Landell he went to work for his cousin, Bernardo Erreca, and continued with him for
seven years and six months. Bernardo Erreca had four partners, among them two
Orroqui brothers; one of them is now dead, but the other, Juan Orroqui, is still living
and was one of Miguel's first bosses; he now resides on Garnsey Street, Santa Ana,
eighty-two years, of age and totally blind — but Miguel still visits him and tries to bring
him comfort and cheer in his .unfortunate condition.
After working for Bernardo Erreca for over seven years, Miguel and his brother
purchased a half interest and they continued together successfully. Two years later
they bought more sheep from Erreca's old partners and leased all of the Trabuco ranch
and ran 20,000 head of sheep. About two years later Miguel and his brother bought
Bernardo's interest and ran the whole ranch and flocks. They did well and their flocks
increased. There was no market for the sale of sheep to speak of in Southern California
at that time, so once every two years they would drive two flocks of about 2,500 head
each to San Francisco and dispose of them, the entire trip and return consuming about
three months. Sheep at that time sold from $1.50 to $2.50 a head, including the wool.
Later on Miguel bought his brother's interest and continued business alone with his
headquarters on the Trabuco ranch of 26,000 acres.
It was the custom of the ranchers in those days to go to San Juan Capistrano to
buy their supply of groceries. They would hitch their horses in front of the store
and be all loaded up when they would go in to have a final smile and then they would
keep on smiling till supper was announced, and after supper again had to have a few
more rounds, and so the horses stood hitched outside until after midnight. They never
found anything missing from the wagons in those days for they were all good, honest
and reliable people. They would then start for their homes, arriving in the wee sma'
hours of the next morning.
Mr. Erreca was offered the whole of the Trabuco ranch for $4.00 per acre and a
banker in Los Angeles advised him to buy it and said he would furnish him the mone.,
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risk it, but afterwards saw he had made the mistake of his life. A couple of years
later Richard O'Neill bought the ranch and he, of course, lost the lease of it. Mr.
Erreca then leased a part of the Irvine ranch, a tract 6,000 acres, which extended
from Newport to Tustin; here he ran sheep for nine years and then sold out. Mean
time, in 1883, he had purchased four acres on Hickey and Sixth streets, between Olive
and Baker streets, Santa Ana, built a residence and made it his home. He then began
farming on the James McFadden ranch and then leased land in various parts of
Orange County. One year he had 3,700 acres in grain; one season he lost about
$50,000 but he kept on and finally paid the debt one hundred cents on the dollar; he
later farmed 1,700 acres on the Moulton ranch for seven years. In 1917 he quit farming
and sold his outfit. He now makes his residence on his four-acre tract that he has set
to Valencia oranges.
Mr. Erreca was married in Los Angeles, where he was united with Miss Marie
Oronos, born in Bigorre, France, an estimable woman of a lovable disposition of whom
he was bereaved on February 6, 1894. She left him two children: Juanita, a graduate
of the Orange County Business College is now the wife of Lem Conkle, who resides
with Mr. Erreca and she presides gracefully over her father's home and ministers
devotedly to his comfort; Marcelina is the wife of Chas. Eckles of Santa Ana; Lem
Conkle was in the U. S. Navy during the World War, serving overseas for eighteen
months. Mr. Erreca is one of the oldest settlers of this section of California, is a highly
respected man whose veracity and integrity have never been questioned. As a young
man he was noted for his great strength, activity and endurance. In 1887 he made a
trip back to his old home in France and had an enjoyable time but was glad to get back
to the land of gold and sunshine. He is a member of the Catholic Church in Santa
Ana and politically is a Republican.
HOMER L. COLE.— The eldest child of M. C. and Ella (Delavan) Cole, pioneers
of Orange County, Homer L. was born at Deansboro. N. Y., on December 22, 1878.
He attended the public and high schools at Oneida, N. Y., coming to California with
his parents in 1898. On June 15, 1905, he was married to Miss Jessie M. Hoffman, who
was born at Mendota, La Salle County, 111., one of seven children born to John B.
and Mary J. (Thomas) Hoffman, the latter of whom is still living at 521 East Pine
Street, Santa Ana. Grandfather Hoffman was one of the pioneer settlers of LaSalle
County, 111., and a large landowner there.
Homer L. Cole is well known as a successful contractor and builder, having been
engaged in this line of work since 1910. In 1913 the firm of Bishop and Cole was
formed, continuing until 1918, and they specialized in the erection of walnut ware
houses and in the invention of machinery for use in these warehouses. Among the
buildings for which they were contractors are the following: Fullerton-Placentia
warehouse at Fullerton; Irvine Association's building at Tustin; the Capistrano Asso
ciation building at San Juan Capistrano; and the Saticoy Association's house at Ventura.
Messrs. Bishop and Cole also perfected the walnut vacuum machine which sorts out
the worthless or "blank" walnuts and is in use in many of the large walnut ware
houses. They also invented a machine for cleaning the mold from walnut meats which
has been found a most useful adjunct to the industry. Mr. Cole is also an experienced
walnut grower and, previous to taking up the work of contracting and building, he
operated the forty-acre ranch of his uncle, Directus Cole at Anaheim. He now man
ages the sixty-acre walnut ranch of his mother in Wintersburg- precinct, and under his
expert attention it is showing handsome returns. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Cole are the
parents of one son, Clifford Delavan Cole.
BENNIE W. OSTERMAN. — Preeminent among the most perfectly arranged and
scientifically managed ranches in all Orange County, if not in the entire state, must be
mentioned the two important holdings of Messrs. Osterman and Osterman, the bonanza
farmers near El Toro, whose junior member is the subject of our sketch. A native
son with plenty of pride in the Golden State, Mr. Osterman was born at Newport
Beach on November 4, 1896, where his mother was then visiting, for his parents lived
on their noted ranch in the Trabuco Canyon. His father is John Osterman, who first
came to California in 1890, and five years later took the decisive step of acquiring by
purchase the fine property referred to. He was born in Price County, northern Wis
consin, on October 18, 1872, the son of Peter and Hannah (Andrews) Osterman. His
father was a pioneer woodsman, and at the early age of twelve, John began to swing
an axe in the lumber camps on the Wisconsin River, abandoning the Wisconsin lumber
field only in 1890, when he determined to come to California.
He found work on a ranch near Redondo, and soon secured a better engagement
on the San Joaquin ranch, where he remained for about a year. In the autumn of
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to do farm work. At the end of two years, he had saved enough, and had also become
sufficiently posted on ranch property values, to be able to buy his first eighty acres,
to which he soon added another one hundred sixty. The land was in poor shape when
he took hold of it; but he set out fruit and other trees, made various improvements, and
transformed it, by his own exhausting efforts, into the showplace it became. He set
out in particular olive trees, peaches and apricots, and reserved the remainder of the
land for pasturage. His public-spiritedness was soon evident to his fellow-citizens,
who elected him road superintendent, and for years he was entitled to much of the
credit for the excellent roads, both built and repaired during his administration.
Besides managing his own homestead ranch, Mr. Osterman in partnership with
William J. Waller, leased 2,000 acres of the Whiting ranch near El Toro, and before
long had 1,600 acres under cultivation, all in barley, of which in 1909 they gathered
some 14,000 sacks. Naturally a mechanic, Mr. Osterman invested heavily in farm
machinery, and, besides harvesting for himself, he contracted to gather in the crops
of other ranchers.
John Osterman was twice married. His first marriage, in 1895, united him with
Miss Sadie Havens of Trabuco who died in 1901 and left him two sons — Bennie W. and
George D., a cement contractor of Santa Ana. Through his second marriage, in 1903,
a sister of his deceased wife, Miss Lillie Havens, became his life companion/and two
children, Ethel and Elmer, blessed that union. A third Miss Havens, Rose E., became
the wife of William E. Adkinson, the rancher and game warden of the Trabuco district.
These ladies were the daughters of George F. Havens, now well known as a resident of
Santa Ana, aged eighty-three, and a native of Pennsylvania. He served four years in
the Union Army, and married Miss Millie Copeland, who died in 1894. The Havens
came from Texas to California in 1883, and had eight children.
Bennie W. Osterman was sent to the El Toro grammar school and then was
graduated from the high school at Santa Ana, a member of the class of '14, and five
years later, on April 2, he was married to Miss Cynthia Munger of El Toro. In time,
he became the junior member of Messrs. Osterman and Osterman, the. partner being
his father. They have two large ranches near El Toro, and our subject resides on
the Whiting ranch of 1,200 acres on the Trabuco Road, where 900 acres are under
the plow, and 300 are in .rough pasture range. The other farm they operate consists
of 840 acres, and is a part of the L. F. Moulton and Company's ranch. In addition,
John Osterman owns an orange orchard in Tustin where he resides.
Messrs. Osterman and Osterman have $50,000 worth of equipment, consisting of
buildings on rented ranch land, two threshing machines, one a grain separator of the
Case make, and the other a bean thresher. They also own a Holt 75 tractor, and two
headers, which they use in harvesting. They usually have about 1,700 acres in crop
each year. Mr. Osterman is a Republican in national politics, although too broad
minded to allow partisanship to affect his attitude toward local issues and movements
properly endorsed, and fraternally he is an Elk — of the type all lodges are anxious
to have among their number.
NEWTON BARRIS PIERCE.— It is not given to many men to leave behind
them such an enviable record for specific accomplishment in a new field as that of the
late Newton Barris Pierce, the widely-known vegetable pathologist, who conceived the
magnificent idea of collecting and developing the wild flowers of the earth, and who
identified modest little Santa Ana with his pretentious undertaking and almost unhoped
for attainment. He was born at Brockport, N. Y., on September 26, 1856, the son of
Franklin B. and Melissa (Hinman) Pierce, his forebears on the father's side having
been Bostonians of an old-established line, and doubtless related to the family of Presi
dent Franklin Pierce, and on the mother's side coming from New York State, and
probably related to the Hinmans of Connecticut, recalling Americans distinguished as
soldiers, scholars and educators. He attended the common and high schools of New
York, Wisconsin and Michigan, and later, in 1882-83, entered Harvard College at Cam
bridge, Mass., where he studied in the Museum of Entomology. Then he went to Ann
Arbor, Mich., and finished the course of vegetable pathology, giving the two years in
that well equipped institution between 1887 and 1889.
At Ludington, Mason County, Mich., Mr. Pierce had a private laboratory from
1876 to 1889, and there he applied himself to collecting and studing insects. In 1890
he was commissioned to come to Southern California and study the grapevine disease;
locating at Santa Ana. After a few months here, he concluded to go to Southern
Europe and Northern Africa, where the trouble was said to have originated. The
next year, he returned to California and Santa Ana, rich in added experience.
On March 11, 1897, Mr. Pierce married Miss Maude B. Lacy, the daughter of
Dr. John McClelland and Eliza (Bean) Lacy, pioneers of Santa Ana, where Dr. Lacy
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Pierce, now a sophomore in the Santa Ana high school, blessed the union of Mr. and
Mrs. Pierce.
As far back as 1874 in Michigan, Mr. Pierce was a lumber inspector, a partner in
the firm of Pierce Bros., who established an office in Ludington in 1876, which they
kept open until 1895. In time, he became connected with the sinking of early salt
wells in Western Michigan. When the California grapevine disease threatened the
industry on the Pacific Coast, David Hewes sent to Washington for aid, and the au
thorities at the Federal capital sent to Michigan for a competent man; and as the result
of special recommendation, Mr. Pierce was appointed by the U. S. Agricultural Depart
ment to find a way to fight the disease.
In 1889, he was placed in charge of vegetable pathology for the United States
Department of Agriculture, and three years later established the wild plant improve
ment gardens. He became a life member of the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, a member of the International Association of Botanists, the American
Association of Bacteriologists, and a life member of the Michigan and Illinois Hor
ticultural societies. He was also a member of the California Entomological Club and
of the California Viticultural Club. In religion he was a consistent member of the
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Ana.
Mr. Pierce, who was a true and reverent scientist, established an exchange bureau
with various misssionaries throughout the world, thereby obtaining wild plants from
all over the globe, and this important work is now being carried on by a special branch
of the United States Agricultural Department. When he passed away, on October
13, 1916, to the sorrow of many besides his personal friends, he had given his name as
author to several interesting books and numerous papers on plant disease, including:
"California Vine Disease," edited in 1892, and "Peach Leaf Curl," a work produced
eight years afterward.
FREDERICK E. BANGS.— A successful California rancher who may look back
with satisfaction to a long and enviable record as a distinguished educator in the East,
is Frederick E. Bangs, of 701 Orange Avenue, Santa Ana. He was born in the town of
Groton, Tompkins County, N. Y., on July 27, 1848, the son of Samuel and Eliza (Berry)
Bangs, farmer folk in a dairy country. They moved to Cayuga County when Frederick
E. was a year and a half old, and purchased a farm there of 160 acres. The lad was
therefore brought up on a farm, and until he was fourteen, sent to the district school.
Then he continued his studies at Cortland Academy, Homer, N. Y., and later attended
Lawrence University at Appleton, Wis., from which he was duly graduated with honors.
He taught school for three winters and a summer near Oshkosh, at the same time
keeping up his college work, and afterward attended Yale University, from which he
was graduated with the Class of 76, in the Centennial year of the Republic. He had
received his degree of B.S. at Lawrence, and when he obtained his B.D. degree from
Yale, he was given, automatically, the M.A. degree of Lawrence University. After that,
he went into the mission field at Farmington, Iowa, for a year.
Then he was appointed principal of the five grammar schools in Wooster district,
at New Haven, Conn., and there he remained from 1877 until 1894. Prior to beginning
his teaching— that is, at New Haven on May 18, 1876 — Mr. Bangs was married to Miss
Edith Seaver Day, the daughter of Horace and Sarah (Seaver) Day, her father, a
scholarly man, being secretary of the Board of Education of New Haven, serving forty
years. She proved an invaluable helpmate, but passed away on February 28, 1884. A
second time, four years later, on May 3, Mr. Bangs married, this time choosing Miss
Augusta Crane, a native of East Orange, N. J. The ceremony took place at Little Falls
in that state. She was the daughter of Charles and Louisa (Munn) Crane, and her
father was a dealer in general merchandise at Orange. Both the Munn and Crane
families trace their ancestry back to colonial times. She was first sent to the
Orange grammar schools, and later to the New Jersey State Normal at Trenton, where
she was graduated in the advanced courses. She taught one year at Vineland, then she
was an instructor in the schools at East Orange from 1876 to 1879 under C. F. Carroll.
Then she was called to New Haven by S. T. Dutton and taught for two years in the
Eaton school under him, and in 1880 she served as first assistant teacher to Mr. Bangs
at New Haven, and continued to teach there until she was married.
_ After having had charge of the Wooster schools for seventeen years, Mr. Bangs
retired from teaching in 1894, and returned to the old homestead at Groton, where he
engaged m general farming. In 1901 he disposed of his holding and came west to
California and Santa Ana. Here he purchased a ranch of eleven and a quarter acres
on Orange Avenue, which was at one time the southwest part of the old Stafford
estate and later he sold four and a half acres lying east of the Pacific Electric Railway.
Now he has about six acres, interset with oranges and walnuts, and thriving well under
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In national politics a Republican, Mr. Bangs endeavors to perform his civic duties
in local affairs without restricting partisanship and in the broad spirit most likely to
make for the best standards in citizenship. Naturally, he is an advocate of popular
education, and leaves no stone unturned to advance and strengthen one of the most
aggressive and most beneficent of American institutions.
Two children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Bangs: Marguerite Louise
is now Mrs. Charles H. Stearns of Santa Ana and the mother of two sons— Oliver
Charles, born January 22, 1916, and Frederick Edward, born May 5, 191.8. She gradu
ated from Pomona College with the Bachelor of Arts degree, and also received the
degree of Master of Arts from the University of Southern California. She was a high
school teacher at Bishop, Cal., for a year, and for another year at Visalia. Edward
Crane Bangs is also a graduate of Pomona College with the degree of B.A., and is an
alumnus of the University of California, having majored at Berkeley in chemistry. He
was teaching in the high school at Areata, when he enlisted in the United States Army
in February, 1918, as a member of the Three Hundred Nineteenth Engineers Corps, and
was sent to Camp Fremont. In April, he was sent to the officers' training school at
Camp Lee, Va., and in the following month of May was commissioned a second lieu
tenant. He proved one of the ablest of the class, and was needed in the chemical de
partment of the army. He was then sent to the gas defense school, from which he was
graduated in July, 1918. After that, he was despatched to Camp Grant, to become
instructor in gas to the entire camp; and when it transpired that this camp was not
ready for his work, he was sent on to Sparta, Wis., as the instructor to the artillery
stationed there. He later returned to Camp Grant and took charge of the instruction
in defense work, and rose to the rank of chief gas officer. On February 17, 1919, he
was honorably discharged at Camp Grant, and returned to his home state, where he
is now engaged as a high school teacher.
JO LOWELL. — An industrious, successful man of comfortable affluence is Jo
Lowell, the rancher of 1108 West Fifth Street, Santa Ana, whose modest disposition,
despite his useful, influential life, draws to him a circle of devoted friends. He was
born at Sacramento on May 10, 1872, the son of William Henry and Mary Lowell. The
father was an employe of the Wells Fargo Express Company, before the advent here
of the railroad, and had charge of one of the wagon routes. The mother died when
Jo was ten years old, and at that tender age he set out to seek his own fortune.
He went into Kern County, on the south fork of the Kern River, and worked on
T. S. Smith's stock ranch of one thousand acres; and for twenty years he was in the
employ of the same man. In the fall of 1903 he came to Santa Ana; and on November
18 he was married to Miss Mabel T. Townsend, a native daughter born in San Ber
nardino, whose parents were B. F. and Anna Townsend. They came to Garden Grove
when she was two years old, and became pioneers of Orange County, so that Mabel
was sent to the Garden Grove district school. Later, she continued her studies at a
preparatory school at Orange and in time was graduated from Stanford University.
Their wedding took place at Santa Ana, and was one of the quiet, pleasant events of
the year. For a while thereafter, while they made Santa Ana their home, Mr. Lowell
worked on ranches in the vicinity.
In 1906 he went to San Diego, Texas, and ranched sixteen miles to the southwest
of that town until 1909 on 2,300 acres. On his return to California, he farmed 260
acres near Stockton, raising barley and potatoes. In 1912, he came back to Santa Ana,
to take care of his fourteen and a half-acre ranch, ten acres of which were devoted to
Valencia oranges, and four and a half acres to walnuts. This neat little ranch was
purchased by B. F. Townsend, Mrs. Lowell's father, in 1886, and as he died in May,
1917, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell inherited it. They have also inherited 2,300 acres in Texas,
once owned by Mr. Townsend, as well as the latter's home, at 1108 West Fifth Street,
Santa Ana.
Three children have come to make still happier the delightful home life of these
thoroughly American folks. Kenneth Townsend Lowell is a high school student at
Santa Ana; Virginia May is in the intermediate school; and so is Charline Elizabeth.
Fraternally, Mr. Lowell is a Mason; in national politics he is a Republican.
RODGER BROS. — Conspicuous among the most properous and interesting indus
trial establishments of Balboa is that of the auto and shipbuilding firm of Rodger Bros.,
composed of C. G. and E. D. Rodger, who own a first-class garage, machine shop
and ship ways, are always active in promoting the best interests of the tourist, and who
have added to the attractiveness of Balboa as a harbor resort by keeping well-equipped
boats for charter.
C. C. Rodger, popularly known as Cordie Rodger, was born in Iowa, in April,
1876, while E. D. Rodger was also born in Iowa, in August, 1878. They were both
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although the father had been here before, and was in many ways a thorough, typical
Californian. Grandfather Glaud Rodger was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, who had
married Miss Matilda Clark, a native of Liverpool, England. They crossed the great
American plains in 1852, and stayed at Salt Lake over winter, and there their child,
Glaud H., was born. The following season they came on to California and settled at
San Bernardino. The grandfather was a farmer, and Glaud H. grew up to follow
agriculture. He went back to Iowa, and when twenty-two years old married Miss
Nancy M. Sutherland, the ceremony taking place in Decatur County, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Rodger lived in Iowa for thirteen years, and then they came to
California in the spring of 1887, and settled at what is now Laguna Beach. Later
they went to El Toro and farmed on the Moulton Ranch — in fact Mr. Rodger did the
first grain farming on the great Moulton acreage, and he bought and operated the first
header ever brought on to that place. Now he and his devoted wife are both living in
their comfortable residence at Balboa. They belong to the reorganized L. D. S. Church.
Of their nine children, six grew to maturity, three having died in fancy. Jessie
married William Woodhouse, a rancher at El Toro; but she died four years ago,
mourned by many. C. G. and E. D. Rodger, the subjects of this instructive review,
have materially advanced the importance of Balboa in its relation to the outside world
and as an attractive place for outsiders to come to and settle in. Fred is a rancher at
El Toro. Dolly is the wife of William Cubben, the machinist; and Ethel is at home.
Twelve years ago, E. D. Rodger came to Balboa and went to work as a machinist
for W. S. Collins at the Collins shipyard in Balboa, and later he founded the firm of
Rodger Bros., which got along at first with a building 35x126 feet in size, now adjoin
ing on the east their newer structure of 1920, 35x136 feet in size. They have built and
equipped many boats, among them the Limit, constructed in 1916, and the Harriet N,
1918 — both fine specimens of naval architecture; and they repair much of the craft
used on the bay and the ocean. Even as boys, both of the Rodgers were apt machinists,
and it is not surprising that their patrons come from miles around. They make a
specialty of motion picture water work — now one of the departments of a most impor
tant modern undertaking, with its effect on the civilization of the four quarters of the
globe. In 1900, E. D. Rodger was married at El Toro to Miss Viola Zimmerman, a
lady of talents and the capacity of cooperation, who also has her circle of friends.
EARL L. MATTHEWS. — An admirable example of the man who can accomplish
much entirely through his own initiative and determination to succeed is found in
Earl L. Matthews, the president of the Orange County Ignition Works, Inc., the largest
business of its kind in the county, and his reputation for thorough workmanship and
absolutely reliable service has brought him a lucrative patronage that is in every way
well deserved. His career, in its practical results, is an encouragement to every strug-7
gling young man who has ambition and genius and is willing to make sacrifices and
endure long hours of hard work.
Earl L. Matthews is a native of Ohio, being born at Toledo on April 23, 1888. His
parents are William H. and Frances (West) Matthews and they left their Ohio home in
1906 and came to California to reside. They located first at Porterville in Tulare
County, remaining there for two years, then removing- to Long Beach, where they re
sided for another period of two years, coming to Santa Ana in 1910, and they still
make their home there. The only child of his parents, Earl L. Matthews was edu
cated in the public and high schools of Toledo, Ohio, and later took a commercial
course in the Toledo Business College. Always of a mechanical turn of mind, after
coming to California in 1906 Mr. Matthews became interested in auto electrical work
and very wisely decided that the surest way to success was to begin at the bottom and
master every angle of the business. Accordingly he spent considerable time in some of
the largest shops in Los Angeles, learning all the details of the work and gaining a
most valuable practical experience.
On coming to Santa Ana in 1910, Mr. Matthews started the nucleus of his present
large business, beginning in a small store building at 414 West Fourth Street, and by
well-directed effort the business increased so rapidly that he saw the need of expansion,
and so occupied three other locations before coming- to his present place at the corner
of Fifth and Spurgeon streets. In 1916 he incorporated his business as the Orange
County Ignition Works and since that time he has built up a wonderfully successful
business, employing over thirty people, and having branch houses at Fullerton and
Orange. At both of these places he occupies fireproof buildings, which have been erect
ed according to his own designs and needs. He handles the Willard storage battery
and specializes in electrical apparatus pertaining to automobiles, confining his business
to this line of work. He maintains a thoroughly equipped electrical repair department
which is fully prepared to handle ignition and electrical trouble on every make of auto
mobile and particular attention is paid to electrical trouble on trucks and farm tractors,

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thus giving assistance and immediate aid to ranchers and transportation men in the
fields and remote highways.
Mr Matthews' marriage at Los Angeles on April 28, 1909, united him with Miss
Letitia Hennessey of Santa Ana and they are the parents of two children Russell P
and Marjory F. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics Mr
Matthews gives his allegiance to the Republican party and in fraternal circles he is
prominent m the ranks of the Elks and is a Knights Templar Mason. To further the
interests of his own line of work he is a member and vice-president of the Orange
County Auto Trades Association, and he is no less zealous in aiding in the work of the
Merchants and Manufacturers Association and the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce,
holding membership in both of these organizations. He finds much enjoyment in out
door hfe and is particularly fond of fishing. Generous and liberal, he is one of Orange
County's loyal boosters and can always be counted upon to support all movements for
the public good.
JAMES ARTHUR ROSS. — A most interesting representative of a long-honored
pioneer Santa Ana family is J. Arthur Ross, familiarly known by his friends as Ott
Ross, a son of Samuel Ross, who crossed the great plains in the middle sixties, accom
panied by his bride of a few weeks, to whom he had been married in Ross Township,
111. This Samuel Ross became one of the earliest settlers at Santa Ana, and Ross
Street was named after a brother, Jacob Ross, who was county tax collector and
assessor in early days. Mrs. Ross was Catherine Leonard before her marriage, and
she died when J. Arthur was nine years old. Ott Ross was born at Santa Ana on
January 15, 1881, and grew up in that town, one of eleven children, six of whom are
still living. He attended the public grammar schools and learned to be a farmer.
When he was married, he chose for his wife Mrs. Jennie (Smith) Kight of Santa
Ana, a native of Madison, Ga., a daughter of William and Carrie (Reid) Smith, also
of that state. The father served in the Confederate Army in the Civil War and died
when Mrs. Ross was a child; she was reared and educated in Georgia. Her uncle,
Capt. John G. Smith, was one of the early settlers of Birmingham, Ala., and was a promi
nent veteran of the Confederacy and a Mason and laid the cornerstone for the Masonic
temple at Birmingham. She is the youngest of three children: the eldest was Henry
who died in Box Springs, Ga., and Wm. Eugene is an extensive cotton buyer at
Madison, Ga. In 1899 Mrs. Ross came to Santa Ana with her mother where she met
Ott Ross, the acquaintance resulting in their marriage and she has proven the most
helpful of helpmates. Her mother died here in 1915. They have four children —
Catherine, Lula, Christy and Leonard. Mr. Ross has engaged in farming in the district
south of Santa Ana for twenty years and since 1918, farming on the Irvine ranch.
Notwithstanding a serious set-back in 1919, such as might well discourage many,
Mr. and Mrs. Ross are succeeding and, little by little, attaining their, goal. In that
year, a mysterious fire burned down their barn, shed and other outbuildings, and de
stroyed, among other things, a great quantity of hay. It was a severe blow, for Mr.
Ross had little or no insurance. He bravely rebuilt, however, for like the other tenants
on the San Joaquin ranch, he owns his own buildings and equipment. He is energetic
and persistent; Mrs. Ross is cheerful and optimistic; and it is not surprising that he
and his family live happily, and that those who know them, expect great things from
them in the years to come. He leases 270 acres, where he devotes about 200 acres
to lima beans; the balance to hay and blackeye beans. Mr. and Mrs. Ross are believers
in protection for Americans and are naturally strong Republicans.
ASBURY J. SHAW. — Numbered among the successful ranchers of the El Toro
district is Asbury J. Shaw, who is equally proficient as a machinist, as he does a great
deal of work on automobiles, gasoline engines, threshers and all kinds of farm machin
ery, maintaining a well-equipped blacksmith shop on his place. A native son of Cali
fornia, Mr. Shaw was born on the original El Toro ranch in Aliso Canyon on October
2, 1891. His parents were R. L. and Catherine Ellen (Little) Shaw, natives, respectively,
of Texas and Georgia. Besides the subject of this review, a daughter, Fannie Pearl,
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Shaw and she is now the wife of Albert Gibson, a rancher
on the Irvine ranch. R. L. Shaw was twice married; by his first marriage he had two
children, one of whom is living, Frank Shaw of ^aguna Beach. Catherine Ellen Little
was also married twice, her first husband being Peter Fraser Groover, who was born in
Georgia. They came to California about 1872, and located in Fresno County, where
they were engaged in sheep raising; afterwards they came to Gospel Swamp, now
Talbert, and later to Aliso Canyon, where they homesteaded and farmed. Mr. Groover
died at Downey in 1881. Of this marriage there were five children: Frank, who is a
mechanic, resides in Arizona; H. L-, also a mechanic, makes his home in Santa Ana;
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also farms on the Irvine ranch. About three years after her husband's death Mrs.
Groover married Robert L. Shaw, who came with his parents across the plains in an
ox-team train, in the early fifties. He followed ranching in Los Angeles and Orange
counties and he and Mrs. Shaw still make their home in Orange County.
Asbury J. Shaw spent his boyhood days on the Aliso Canyon ranch, and early in
life started to earn his own way, working out as a farm hand on the neighboring
ranches, earning at first only ten dollars a month. He became expert at handling mules
when he was only a boy and this helped him to get employment in hauling cement
and other heavy freight at the time of the building of the great Los Angeles Aqueduct.
He was considered one of the best drivers on the entire job and handled a team of
twelve mules perfectly.
In 1913 Mr. Shaw began ranching operations for himself by leasing 150 acres
of the Santa Margarita ranch, the property of James O'Neill. Since then he has
added to his acreage and now has 275 acres, all plow land, which he devotes to grain,
barley and hay being his principal crop. He has a $5,000 equipment on his place, owning
ten head of horses, six mules, a twelve-foot Deering header, a fifteen horsepower Fair
banks-Morse portable engine and a separator for threshing either grain or beans.
Recently he has been engaged in rebuilding a Ventura threshing machine and putting
a gasoline engine in shape, and with this combination he will thresh his own crop of
barley and beans, as well as threshing for others in the neighborhood. Mr. Shaw's
blacksmith shop is also equipped with wood-working machinery and with his natural
aptitude toward everything mechanical he does considerable work in this line. For
several months he was at Yuma, Ariz., where he was engaged in running a gasoline
hoist at the' old Pecachio gold and' silver mines.
Mr. Shaw's marriage, which occurred in October, 1916, united him with Miss
Ruby Leona Alsbach and one child, Marion Lucine, has added to their happy home
life. Of a genial disposition, Mr. Shaw has many friends who admire him for his
integrity and his sterling, industrious character. While generally voting the Democratic
ticket in national elections, Mr. Shaw is broad-minded and nonpartisan in local affairs,
aiming to vote for the best men and measures.
THEODORE ROBERTS. — Orange County has drawn its leading citizens from
many countries, and the opportunities to be found here have attracted men of character
and with the progressive ideas which make for success in any country. Among these
may be mentioned Theodore Roberts, prominent in business circles in Anaheim, where
he is the leading jeweler and optometrist. A native of Germany, Mr. Roberts was
born in Danzig, West Prussia, February 12, 1882. There he learned the trade of watch
maker and jeweler and worked at his profession in the large cities of Germany,
Switzerland, France and Belgium. When he landed at Boston, in 1905, he could not
speak a word of English, but gradually acquired the language and after visiting New
York he went to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he secured work on a farm at a wage of
one dollar per day.
Although intending to make farming his occupation in the new country, the young
traveler soon gave up that intention, and in 1907 he came to California, settling in Los
Angeles, where he took iip his trade, and also studied optometry. After working in
leading jewelry stores in that city, he sought new fields, and in 1911 he came to
Anaheim and opened a small jewelry store at 113 East Center Street. As his busi
ness grew he enlarged his quarters, and in 1915 he moved into larger quarters at 105
East Center Street. In 1918 he purchased a large piece of property, including the
block between Lemon and Clementine and Helena and Palm on West Center Street, a
part of the old Deutch property. He has erected a building on- the whole of the block
from Lemon to Clementine on Center, making twelve stores and a large garage, and
he also erected a building on West Center between Helena and Palm, and is now starting
work on the erection of the Roberts Theater on West Center and Clementine streets,
which, when completed, will be the largest theater building in Orange County. So it is
readily seen that in a few years he has accomplished much and thus has done more than
his share m the building up of Anaheim. In 1920 he moved his store to 223 West
(-.enter btreet, where he has a thoroughly up-to-date establishment with a large and
carefully selected stock.
• i,Fr0T *.!f- beginninS of his residence here Mr. Roberts has taken a keen interest
m the upbuilding of the city, and he was one of the first merchants to advocate the
widening and improving of Center Street, and in fact started the movement.
A self-made man m every respect, for he came to a new land, not knowing a word
of its language nor with anything but his own brain and muscle to help carve a future,
Mr. Roberts can rightfully be called a representative citizen of his adopted country, and
serving its best interests as he serves his own.

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The marriage of Mr. Roberts united him with Ella B. Stroka, a native of Austria
and two sons have blessed their union: Theodore, Jr., and Joseph, both natives of Ana
heim. Fraternally, Mr. Roberts is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and in business
circles he is a member of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce. He is also interested
in horticulture, owning an orange grove in the Placentia district, while professionally
he is a member of the Retail Jewelers Association of California and the State Associa
tion of Optometrists.
C. E. UTT.— A man of much enterprise and force of character, a native son and
the son of a '49er, is C. E. Utt, the president of the First National Bank of Tustin, who
for the long period of .forty-six years has been identified with this place. His father,
Lysander Utt, was a native of Virginia, of Dutch ancestry, and he came here with the
early gold seekers of the Argonaut days. While in the gold-mining country he met
and married Miss Arvilla Piatt, a native of New York who had come to California with
her parents when a girl. Lysander Utt crossed the Santa Fe trail a number of times
before the Mexican War and made and lost several fortunes. In 1874 he brought his
family to Tustin, driving overland all the way from Placer County. The Southern
Pacific Railroad was then just being constructed to Los Angeles, which was a town of
about 8,000 people. Santa Ana was a hamlet of perhaps a dozen houses, while a little
cluster of half a dozen cottages constituted the present town of Tustin. It was at
that time still a cattle and sheep country, agriculture being yet in its infancy, -as not
more than two per cent of the county had even been plowed. Here Lysander Utt
engaged in the merchandise business, buying the stock of H. H. Dickerman, who had
started, the first store in Tustin two years before, and died.
C. E. Utt was the only child of his parents and was but eight years old when the
family came to Tustin. They made their home in the store building and he naturally
grew up with the business from his childhood, and when he was twenty-one years of
age he took charge of the store. From that time until 1893, he continued in the
general merchandise business, giving it up at that time to engage in ranching, and this
he has pursued ever since with great success. With the exception of sugar beets, he has
grown practically every crop known to Orange County.
Mr. Utt was one of the organizers of the San Joaquin Fruit Company, and has
been its president since its inception. This company owns 1,000 acres of land adjacent
to Tustin, set out to Valencia oranges, lemons and walnuts, and now produces several
hundred carloads of fruit and nuts every year. There are three packing houses on the
ranch and a spur from the Santa Fe tracks runs up to their packing houses in the
middle of the ranch.
In 1894 Mr. Utt was united in marriage with Miss Mary M. Sheldon of Tustin, the
daughter of an old pioneer family. Mrs. Utt passed away in 1918, leaving five children:
Mrs. Gertrude Hess of Victorville; Mrs. Dorothy Robertson of Los Mochis, Mexico;
James B. of Tustin; Louise and Elizabeth. The family attend the Presbyterian Church
. and politically Mr. Utt was a strong Prohibitionist; since the passage of the Eighteenth
Amendment he affiliates with the Republican party. In addition to his duties as presi
dent of the First National Bank of Tustin he is also treasurer of the Haven Seed Com
pany. A self-made man, he has won his success by hard work and good management
and he enjoys the confidence and good will of the whole community.
WILLIAM G. KOTHE. — One of the most enterprising horticulturists of the dis
trict in which his orchard is situated is William G. Kothe, whose well-cultivated orange
grove of eight acres is devoted exclusively to Valencias. He has been a resident of
Orange County for over twenty years, and to him there is no other section of the
Golden State he finds so well adapted for citrus culture. Like many another, he began
at the bottom of the ladder; but by hard work of untiring brain and muscle, he has
won his way to a favorable place in the horticultural world.
Mr. Kothe is a native of Hanover, Germany, where he was born on August 2,
1877, and his parents were William and Sophie Kothe, also natives of Hanover. There
were three children in the family, and they all came to reside in the West. Mary, Mrs.
Riggers, is in Idaho; Annie, Mrs. Hiestermann, in Kansas, and William G, our subject,
is the eldest of the family. The father died in Germany in 1883, and in time Mrs. Kothe
remarried to Henry Ohlde, and three children were born of her second marriage.
In 1885 the entire family migrated to the United States, and settled in Washington
County, Kans. William was then seven years of age, and he was reared and educated
in, as the Kansans say, the "Garden of the West." Then, until 1900, he followed farming.
At the beginning of the century, he migrated to Orange County, Cal., and began
his experience in orchard work. In 1904 he made a trip back to his old Kansas home
and while there wed Miss Minnie Heitman who had come to Kansas to visit her
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1904. She was the accomplished daughter of William and Dorathea Heitman, and
was also born in Hanover, Germany, coming in 1893 to the United States. She was
one of twelve children, the others still living being William, Mary, Freda, Ernest,
Henry, Emma, George, Olga and Louis.
After his marriage Mr. Kothe returned with his bride' to Orange County and
engaged in horticulture. In 1909 he purchased their present place of eight acres on
Tustin Avenue near Fairhaven, which he has improved to a splendid Valencia orange
orchard. Aside from his own place he also cares for twenty acres of orange groves
for others. He is a stockholder in the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and the
Santiago Orange Growers Association. He has lately completed a seven-room bunga
low, which is much enjoyed by his family. Their four children are Elsie, who attends
Orange Union high school; Arnold, Dorathea and Martin. With his family, Mr. Kothe
is a member of St. John's Lutheran church at Orange. Mrs. Kothe has been of great
aid to her husband by encouraging him in his ambitions, and he in turn appreciates
and acknowledges her assistance.
HAROLD EDWARD WAHLBERG. — A scientifically trained agriculturist whose
advice has come to be recognized as of such value that he devotes his time professionally
to studying other agriculturists's problems and to counseling the less experienced in
the way they would better go, is Harold Edward Wahlberg, a native of the state of
Washington. He was born at Seattle, on July 18, 1890, and his father was Hans Chris
tian Wahlberg. He had married Miss Elizabeth Swedberg, by whom he had four chil
dren — one girl and three boys. The parents are now living retired at San Francisco,
honored by all who have the pleasure of knowing them.
The eldest in the family, Harold attended both the grammar and high schools
of the vicinity in which he grew up, and later pursued courses of study at the Oregon
Agricultural College. In 1910 he was graduated from that institution with the degree
of Bachelor of Science.
For a year he served as the first superintendent of the Eden Valley Orchards of
Medford, and then he removed to Woodland, Cal., where he was superintendent of the
Yolo Orchard Company for two and a half years. After that he put in about three
years with the Sycamore Ranch Company at Los Molinos, Cal., where he was general
manager, and then for a year and a half he was on the horticultural commission for
Glenn County. Since August, 1918, he has been farm adviser for Orange County.
Mr. Wahlberg is a Democrat, and under Democratic banners he has been a
live wire, when needed, in national political affairs; but he believes in nonpartisan-
ship in local civic movements, and has ever been ready to help along the community
in which he has cast his lot. Very naturally, he is deeply interested in the problems
of development in Orange County, nor could he have a more fruitful soil upon which,
actually and figuratively speaking, to spend his energies. On March 17, 1920, Mr. Wahl
berg was united in marriage with Miss Bertha Wing, born in New England, but a resi
dent of California for several years, and they make their home in Santa Ana.
The Masons and Elks claim Mr. Wahlberg as a member, and as a devotee of
both boating and chess, he seeks the invigorating pleasure of outdoor life, and the
stimulating pastimes of the quiet corner.
H. E. DUNGAN. — The proprietor of the oil station at the corner of Euclid and
Stanford avenues, at Garden Grove, H. E. Dungan, is a man who has seen much of life
in the various countries of the New and Old World that he has visited. An ex-soldier
on the retired list, he. was born near Muscatine, Iowa, May 2, 1869. His parents, John
B., and Anna (Pratt) Dungan, were farmers, and after his birth removed to Illinois,
going thence to Clay Center, Clay County, Kans., where they settled on a farm. Mr.
Dungan's earliest recollections are associated with the Kansas farm where he lived until
he was fourteen years old. He then returned to Illinois, and from there went to Texas
and thence to the territory of Washington. Returning to Texas he gave up ranching
in 1891, went to Dallas, Texas, and enlisted in the Twenty-third Infantry of the U. S.
Army for a term of three years. After his term of service expired he entered the
Quartermaster's department at Laredo, Texas, and served in that department eighteen
months. He then drifted to old Mexico and Central America, working- at mining and
railroading, and when the Spanish war broke out in 1898 was near Gorgetown, Central
America. Losing no time he took the first boat out, went to Cuba and enlisted with
the Fifteen U. S. Regulars for a term of three years. He was in Cuba fourteen
months, and during this time was in numerous skirmishes. Returning to the United
States, he was stationed in Vermont six months, and was then ordered to San Fran
cisco. Leaving there under sealed orders, when they reached Nagasaki, Japan, they
were ordered on to China. Transferred to another steamship they landed at Taku,
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China. After this campaign was over he was transferred to the Philippines, and
served at Tabaco, Pandan and Samar Island. His term of service expiring in the
Philippines he went to the constabulary and severed nine years at different places and
on different islands in the Philippines. In 1911 he resigned and came back to the army
in order to be retired, and was first sergeant when he was placed on the retired list
in 1912. He came to Garden Grove in that year and bought two and a half acres,
which he afterward sold.
In 1914 he was married at Riverside to Miss Marie Rich, a native of France who
came to California from her native country when a girl of fifteen. Two children have
been born of their union, Frances and Donald by name. In 1917 Mr. Dungan was
called back to active service and was engaged in the recruiting service at Los Angeles
and in Arizona and Southern California, until the close of the war with Germany. He
says: "The American soldier is the best soldier on earth." He has been around the
world once and has made four trips to the Philippines. He owns the acre and a
half at Garden Grove, on which his oil station and residence are located, and deals in
the Standard Oil Company's products, handling gasoline and lubricating oils. In poli
tics a Republican, he is a humanitarian in his view of life, and is a man of reliability
and rectitude. He has lived a clean and consistent life, and is justly entitled to the
competency he has earned, and to the respect accorded him by his intimate friends
and acquaintances. HENRY MEIER. — An industrious young man of exceptional ability who has
naturally "made good" and is the admiration of many, is Henry Meier, who was born
in Belvue, Pottawatomie County, Kans., in August, 1879. His father, George Meier,
was a native of Germany and as a young man came out to the United States. He
stopped in Illinois and for years worked at farming for a James Short. Then he moved
to Kansas and became an early settler in Pottawatomie County. He bought railroad
land, was the first to break up much of the soil, and he engaged in raising corn and
stock. In 1895, however, he rented out his farm and, coming west to California, pitched
his tent at Orange for a couple of years. Then he bought a ranch of thirty-nine acres
on East Chapman Avenue and engaged in general farming and the raising of vegetables.
He also. set out walnuts. In 1904, full of years and blessed with many friends, Mr. Meier
died, at the age of sixty-nine. His wife was Mary Grote before her marriage, the
sister of Henry Grote, another well-known pioneer of Orange, and she is now in her
seventieth year, the mother of four children: Amelia is Mrs. J. F. Stone of McPherson;
Henry and Annie are twins, and the latter lives at Los Angeles; and Bertha is Mrs.
Bogart of San Jacinto.
Brought up in Kansas, Henry attended the public schools and first came to Cali
fornia in his sixteenth year, when he completed his schooling. Then he helped his
lather on the home farm, and after a while he ran the place, and he has continued the
management of the estate, at the same time conducting his own ranching enterprises.
The home place consists of twenty-eight acres, and he himself owns eleven acres ad
joining. The old place is used for the growing of oranges and lemons, on trees grown
in his own nursery and set out and cared for by himself; for twelve years ago he began
the nursery, making a specialty of Valencia orange trees, as well as lemons and walnuts,
and he is still raising nursery stock, in what is widely and favorably known as the H.
Meier Nursery. He also owns another six acres of citrus orchard, giving him sixteen
acres of citrus fruit, and this acreage, under his experienced eye and hand, approaches
very nearly to the ideal of a true "show place." As might be expected of one known
to understand the problems of citrus growing and to favor every sensible measure likely
to develop the industry in California, Mr. Meier is an active member of the Central
Lemon Association and the McPherson Heights Orange Growers Association. In 1919
his nine-year-old trees had the record crop of this association for heaviest yield per
acre. The Kansas farm, still owned by George Meier when he died, was sold by the
family in January, 1919.
Mr. Meier was married at Los Angeles, May 16, 1912, to Miss Amy West, a native
of California, born in Orange, and the daughter of Henry West, an esteemed pioneer of
Orange; a clever young lady of present-day training and enterprise. After completing
with credit a commercial course at the Orange County Business College in Santa Ana,
she entered the employ of the National Bank of Orange, continuing there for eight
years until her resignation, when she married. She is capable, therefore, of cooperating
.with Mr. Meier in a very helpful way.
Mr. Meier is very enthusiastic for the future of this region and is not averse to
putting his shoulder to the wheel and "boosting" Orange and Orange County, for which
he sees a bright future, and he is always ready to work for its upbuilding and enhancing
the importance of the commonwealth.
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OTTO R. HAAN. — A native of Michigan, who has been privileged to contribute
much toward the development, along the most desirable and permanent of lines, of
the youthful county of Orange, is Otto R. Haan, who was born at Grand Rapids on
January 7, 1879, the eldest of two children born to Rudolph and Gertrude (Smith) Haan.
Mr. Haan attended the common school and received the usual training for a tussle
with the exacting world.
For seven years he was news agent on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Railroad, the Michigan Central Railroad, the Pere Marquette, as well as the Wabash
system and step by step he advanced until he became superintendent of the news
service for Fred Harvey on the Santa Fe system, a post he continued to fill for twenty
years. This association with one of the best-known purveying concerns in the country
caused him to travel widely and to reside from time to time in various places, and he
lived in particular at Albuquerque and Los Angeles.
On coming to Santa Ana in 1917, Mr. Haan bought out H. H. Kelley's Cadillac
agency, later incorporating the Cadillac Garage Company, of which he is president
and manager. The business has grown very rapidly and it now requires the services of
fifteen men. It is located at the corner of Second and Main Streets. Mr. Haan is
active in automobile circles, is a member of the Orange County Auto Trade Associa
tion, of which he is president and is now vice-president of the California Auto Trade
Association. Intensely interested in Orange County, he is an active member of the
Merchants and Manufacturers Association and the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce,
and gives them, whenever possible, the best support.
On August 7, 1913, Mr. Haan was married at Chicago, 111., to Miss Dora May
Dazey, a native of Chicago and the daughter of Frank L. and Eva L. (Dove) Dazey,
who shares his love of outdoor life. Fraternally he is a Knights Templar Mason and
a Shriner, as well as an Elk, and is a member of the Orange County Country Club and
counts his friends — one of the best of all business assets — among all social and com
mercial circles. Both Santa Ana and Orange County may be congratulated on the
success attained here under their fostering, favorable conditions, of this aggressive and
progressive leader in the business world.
CHARLES E. HOUSER.— With California as his birthplace, Charles E. Houser
is a typical representative of the native sons of the Golden West, and is enjoying the
prosperity that has come to him solely as the result of his own unaided efforts. Mr.
Houser was born in Los Angeles, March 25, 1886, the son of Benjamin F. and Jennie
(Lewis) Houser. The father is a native of Indiana, but went when a young man to
Kansas, where he was married, residing there until 1884, when he and his wife came
to Los Angeles. Mrs. Houser is deceased, but Benjamin F. Houser is still living and
is engaged in ranching at Corcoran, Cal.
The eldest of a family of five children, Charles E. Houser grew up in the Fountain
Valley district in Orange County, where his father had leased land and engaged in
farming. Early in life he began to work on the home farm and later on the neighboring
ranches, acquiring a valuable knowledge of agricultural methods, especially those appli
cable to the soil and climate of Southern California. In 1909 he entered the employ
of the Golden West Celery and Produce Company working as a teamster for eighteen
months, later becoming warehouseman, having in charge the extensive warehouse of
the company in Westminster for four years; with one exception this is the largest
warehouse in Orange County, having a capacity of 60,000 sacks. During the palmy
days of the Golden West Celery and Produce Company, Mr. Houser contributed
largely to its success and he remained its foreman until the company sold out, April
12, 1919. He at once entered the employ of R. L. Draper as head foreman, a position
that his experience and ability eminently qualifies him to fill. The Draper ranch is one
of. the most extensive in this region, consisting, besides Mr. Draper's own farm of 160
acres, of 565 acres owned by the Aldrich Land Company, formerly the Golden West
Company s ranch. The Draper place is largely devoted to growing sugar beets and
lima beans which have become a leading industry of Orange County, and Mr. Houser
is thoroughly conversant with the latest and most successful methods in their suc
cessful production.
Mr Houser was married in 1917 to Miss Annie Nankervis and one child, a daugh
ter Geraldine, has been born to them. Mrs. Houser is likewise a native daughter, her
parents bemg Richard and Caroline (Buzza) Nankervis, pioneer settlers of West
minster. .The father was born in England, but came to America when a young man,
settling in Philadelphia, where his marriage occurred. Mr. and Mrs. Nankervis
cZVv^fwTrO StSt in Nevada C°Unty' and coming t° what is now Orange
County ,n 1885. They are the parents of nine children, all living: Thomas is a rancher
Pacific r^^TpiV116 ^ ^ ofAWil,iam 01son, an engineer on the Southern
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the packing house at Azusa; John is a rancher and owns the old Nankervis place west
of Westminster; Vinnie is the wife of Harry Bray, the proprietor of a meat market at
Oakland; Richard, Jr., is in the employ of the E. K. Wood Lumber Company of Los
Angeles; Jennie makes her home with her brother, Thomas; Will is a rancher at
Westminster; and Annie is the wife of Charles E. Houser, of this review. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Nankervis are living and reside with their oldest son, Thomas
Nankervis. In fraternal circles, Mr. Houser is a member of the Independent Order of For
esters at Westminster and of the B. P. O. Elks of Santa Ana. Well informed, kindly
disposed and generous, he has host of friends throughout the county. Mrs. Houser
shares with her husband a just popularity in the social circles of Smeltzer and
Westminster. JOHN UTZ. — An unusually interesting, fine old gentleman, whose mental and
physical powers command admiration, and whose interesting personality has brought
him, with the passing years, a host of steadfast friends, is John Utz, a native of Jeffer
son, Clinton County, Ind., where he was born on November 4, 1837. His father, Jacob
Utz, was a native of Maryland, and in that state he was married to Miss Matilda Koontz,
also a Marylander. They migrated to Clinton County, Ind., and as Mr. Utz was a car
penter by trade, he started a wagon shop in Jefferson, and continued to manage it until
he was forced to retire on account of a stroke of paralysis. He died in 1863, and his
good wife followed him to the grave ten years afterward. They had three children:
John was the eldest; then came Joseph H., who resides at Newport Beach, Cal.; while
the youngest was Lydia Ann, now Mrs. Timmons of Los Angeles.
Brought up at Jefferson, Ind., John attended the grammar schools three months a
year, and from his tenth year, worked on a farm, especially in summer time. At first
he received only $4.50 a month, with his board; then, after he was fifteen, $9; and later,
$13; and for these meager wages, regarded at that time as good, he worked from before
daylight until dark. When he reached his twenty-first year, he leased a farm in Perry
township, bought an outfit, and went in for raising grain and stock.
Mr. Utz was first married in Perry township, Clinton County, in 1862, to Miss
Phoebe Jane Lane, a native of that county; and there, after twelve years of happy mar
ried life, she died. There he became owner of a farm of ninety-one and a half acres,
which he cleared, ditched, tiled and planted to grain and supplied with stock; in other
ways he improved the property, and he erected the necessary farm buildings. Mr. Utz's
second marriage took place at Oakland, in Coles County, 111., in 1875, and then Mi'ss
Ellen Street became his wife. She was a native of Ohio, and the daughter of Aaron and
Sarah (Sinkey) Street, also of the Buckeye State. Mr. Utz leased his land and moved
to Colfax, Ind., and became a merchant. After ten years, however, he returned to the
farm and operated it once more; and getting it into good shape, sold it in 1906.
On account of his health, he then came to California and bought a ranch of ten
and a half acres in the Tustin district of Orange County, which was already planted to
apricots and.walnuts. He took out the former and planted oranges instead, and this he
operated until 1917, when he leased it for a couple of years, and in March, 1919, sold it.
In 1917 he moved to Orange and bought the residence that is now his home. By his
first marriage, he had a daughter, Clara E. Utz, who became Mrs. James H. Worrell
and now resides at Salt Lake City, and the mother of four children. By the second
marriage two children were born, but they died in infancy. Both Mr. and Mrs. Utz
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; and Mr. Utz is a Republican, with
broad views and sympathies as to the relation of politics to local movements and the
development of the community. He was made a Mason in Plumb Lodge No. 472, A. F.
& A. M.. at Colfax, Ind. Both Mr. and Mrs. Utz were members of the Eastern Star, in
which she was worthy matron two terms in Colfax.
ALEXANDER P. NELSON.— Although Alexander P. Nelson did not come
to California until 1914, when he settled at Santa Ana, he has been a prominent man in
the affairs of the city of his adoption since that time. Born in Barnet, Vt., July 9,
1866, he is the son of W. H. and Margaret (Monteith) Nelson, who were the parents
of twelve children, Alexander P. being the eleventh in order of birth. Mrs. Nelson is
now living at the advanced age of ninety-one years, Mr. Nelson having passed away.
Alexander P. Nelson received an unusually good education, having attended the public
schools and later Dartmouth College, being graduated from the latter institution with
the degree of A. B. Afterwards he studied privately and attended a course of lectures
on law, being admitted to the bar in 1891 in the state of Vermont.
He practiced his profession for five years in Vermont, went to Boston, Mass., and
from Boston to Alaska, where he stayed for three years, not practicing during his
sojourn there. On his return, he practiced law in New Hampshire and then in 1914,
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of deputy district attorney on January 1, 1919, a position he is filling ably. During his
years in the East, he was city attorney at Medford, Mass., and later held the same
office at Huntington Beach, Cal.
On November 25, 1914, Mr. Nelson was united in marriage to Frances Read and
the couple are well known in the social circles of Santa Ana. They attend the Chris
tian Science Church.
In politics Mr. Nelson is a Republican. He is fond of hunting and all out-of-door
life, being greatly interested in the development of the orange industry in California.
Santa Ana surely has no adopted son more public-spirited and anxious for the future
greatness of that thriving city than Alexander P. Nelson.
DR. CLIFFORD HUGH BROOKS.— Since his location at Santa Ana in 1911,
Dr. Clifford Hugh Brooks has quickly risen to a place of prominence, not only in the
city of his residence, but throughout a large radius of the surrounding country. Born
at Vinton, Benton County, Iowa, on June 12, 1885, Dr. Brooks is the son of Chester B.
and Sophia (Pratt) Brooks. The parents are prominent farmers there, where they have
resided for many years and both are still living. Of their nine children, Clifford Hugh
was the fifth in order of birth. He was fortunate in receiving an excellent early train
ing in the public and high schools of his native ,place, and this he continued with a
course at the University of Iowa at Iowa City, where he graduated from the Medical
Department in 1910. He also had the additional benefit of post-graduate courses at the
University of Iowa and at New York and Chicago.
Dr. Brooks first began his practice in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, but having a strong
desire to make California his home he came to Santa Ana, and began his work as a
specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Gifte'd with unusual medical
skill, and with his years of scientific training, Dr. Brooks has met with marked success
in the special branches to which he confines his practice — a success that has rapidly
established his preeminence. He has made an especial study of the tonsils, and has
become an authority in this line and probably has few equals west of the Mississippi.
Even during his college days, Dr. Brooks' grasp of his subject was such that he was
made assistant professor of Opthalmology at the University of Iowa, holding this chair
for three years, so that his ability was early recognized.
From the beginning of his residence in Santa Ana, Dr. Brooks has taken an active
interest in the civic affairs of the community, and despite his busy professional life,
finds time to enter into the progressive movements that are promoting its growth.
With a personality wholesome and kindly and a sympathy that is genuine, he has won
his enviable position through his consistent upholding of the best ethics of his pro
fession. In his professional associations he is active in the work of the various medical
societies, being a member of the American Medical Association, the State and County
Medical Societies, the Pacific Coast Opthalmological Society, and the Los Angeles
Medical Society.
ARTHUR C. STANLEY.— A North Carolina boy who has made good as a Val
encia orange grower at Garden Grove, is Arthur C. Stanley, the popular president of
the Garden Grove Farm Center. After nearly a quarter of a century in the postal
service he has settled down to ranch life, bringing with him, in the performance of his
new civic duties, a most valuable experience likely to benefit his fellow-citizens as well
as himself. He was born at Colfax, in Guilford County, on June 18, 1873, the son of
James Stanley, also a North Carolinan, and a planter by occupation, who married in
that state a daughter of North Carolina, Miss Laura Pegg.
Arthur C. Stanley grew up in North Carolina, and in time attended Guilford
College. At the age of twenty he entered the railway mail service, and for years
traveled on the Southern Railway Seaboard Air Line; he was also stationed at Jack
sonville, Fla., for several years, and at Washington, D. C. His coming to Orange
County was for the purpose of visiting his father, who had moved here in 1897; the
father had become a rancher, but the mother had died in North Carolina when Arthur
was three or four years old. In 1901 his father died near Santa Ana, at the age of
fifty-seven. While in California, Mr. Stanley met the lady who was to become his helpmate
for life— Miss Lillian Agnes Ware, the daughter of the late Edward G. Ware; and they
were married at Garden Grove on August 24, 1905. He was then in the railway
service, and lived at Jacksonville, Fla.; and hither he took his bride. Later he was trans
ferred to Washington, and later, still, to San Francisco; and from that city he ran out
on the banta Fe system for eight months. Then he resigned having a very enviable
record of twenty-four years in the U. S. Railway Mail Service
Mr. Stanley now farms the forty-acre ranch belonging to Mrs. Stanley, where
they have three acres of Navel oranges, ten acres of Valencias, and sixteen and a half

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acres of walnuts. In 1918, he remodeled the residence making it a modern dwelling
and strictly to-to-date. Having been reared in the church of the Friends, Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley still remain devoted to that denomination and its excellent and many
good works. They have one child, Emerson, the ninth generation on the Ware side
in America. Mr. Stanley is the president of the Garden Grove Farm Center, having been
elected to that responsible office at a regular meeting held at Garden Grove on January
26, 1920, concerning which the Garden Grove News of January 30 had a flattering
report. One hundred and forty members, so it said, representing an increase of 150
per cent over the previous year, was the strength of the Center reported by Secretary
Oldfield. The farm adviser commented on the success of the membership drive, and
predicted that the Farm Center could be the leader of progress and development in the
community, if the members would accept the opportunity that is within their reach.
The Farm Center has become a strong institution in Garden Grove, and is looked to,
each month, as the forum for the expression of local sentiment on all local pertinent
issues. According to Carl Nichols, formerly farm adviser of Contra Costa County,
and a rancher in Garden Grove, the centers in the north having the largest member
ship and displaying the greatest interest in the work are those that bring the entire
family out. The officers elected on this occasion are: president, Arthur C. Stanley;
vice-president, E. R. Stillens; secretary and treasurer, Waldo Tournat; director, J. O.
Arkley; vice-director, Carl Nichols.
FREDERICK BASTADY.— Of Swiss parentage, Frederick Bastady, the well-
known rancher, whose residence is south of Buena Park, has been identified with this
locality since 1906. His parents, Emanuel and Anna B. Bastady, eager to found a home
for their family in the New World, left their native Switzerland and came to the United
States in 1884, locating in New York City, where they lived for sixteen years. It was
during their residence there, on June 6, 1885, that Frederick was born on Long Island,
the other children being born in Switzerland. Here he was reared and educated in the
public schools of New York City, making splendid use of his early opportunities.
In 1900, attracted by the wonderful climate and possibilities of California, they
crossed the continent and located in Pasadena, and here they resided until 1906, when
they removed to Buena Park, where they have since made their home. Emanuel Bastady
passed away here on July 1, 1912; Mrs. Bastady died at the old homestead on February
29, 1920. The original Bastady ranch consisted of sixty acres, but through purchases
made by the children the holdings increased to 103 acres, which is devoted to general
farming. When the family settled upon this land it was a barley field and pasture,
but through diligent and painstaking labor it has been transformed into a valuable,
prosperous property.
Frederick Bastady was united in marriage on October 3, 1907, with Miss Nellie
M. Ruedy, a native of Iowa, and the daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Ruedy, and they
are the parents of three children: Harriet Lillian, Edwin Frederick and Barbara Marie.
His brother, Emanuel, married Miss Lydia E. Ruedy, a sister of Mrs. Bastady, and they
have four children: Carl A., Ernest E, Ruth, and Albert. The sister, Rose, who became
the wife of Harvey Hartman. is the mother of four children: Rosalie M„ Helen E.,
Ida M. and Frank C. The oldest brother, Adolph, died six months after arriving in
California. Held in high esteem as a useful and progressive member of his community, Mr.
Bastady has been honored with the office of president of the Chamber of Commerce of
Buena Park; he was chairman of the school board, holding this office from 1913 until
1919, and chairman of the Buena Park Farm Center for two years. The family are
members of the Congregational Church.
GEORGE AHLEFELD.— One of the best-known and most respected citizens of
the district in which he has resided since 1894 is George Ahlefeld, who then purchased
five acres of land, with comparatively few improvements, for $1,000. In 1909 he added
five more acres to his first block, and now he has a ranch as large as he wishes to
handle, and quite sufficient for his maintenance. This ranch is located southeast of
Orange, but is in the Tustin district. It is in a fine state of cultivation, and shows
that a master hand guides the plow of progress.
Mr. Ahlefeld is a native of Hanover, Germany, where he was born in 1861, a
son of Frederick Ahlefeld and Louisa (Wilkins) Ahlefeld, also natives of that country.
Our subject, therefore, received his early training in his native country, and grew
up with the attraction, buoying up the rest of the family, of early migrating to the
freer American Republic. As fast as their finances permitted, one by one these subjects
of a despotic government left for the United States, and one by one they became
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is in Illinois; August, who is in Oklahoma, and Frederick, who is with his brother
George in California.
Coming to Illinois in 1879, George Ahlefeld began life in this country with prac
tically nothing, but by close application to work and strict economy, he paid for his
several holdings. In 1896 he came to Orange County and now he has all the comforts
and many of the luxuries of life as a reward for industry in his young days.
In 1886 Mr. Ahlefeld was joined in marriage to Miss Louisa Stauch, also a native
of Germany, who came to Illinois in 1881, and by whom he had six children. The
eldest, George, is now deceased; then came Frederick and Otto, and after them Ralph
and Harry, who are also both dead; while the youngest was Ethal. The family are
Lutherans. Mr. Ahlefeld resided in Du Page County, 111., for twenty-five years before coming
to Orange County, and while there he busied himself with agricultural pursuits. Otto
has followed the example of his father, and has purchased a five-acre ranch which he
devotes to citrus culture. He married Miss Verona Strong, daughter of Carl Strong,
and they are the parents of one son, Karl George.
THOMAS L. FARIS. — The value of experience and integrity in the conducting
of any business, and especially in the handling of hay, grain and feed, has never better
been shown, perhaps, than in the history of the establishment at Orange, owned and
managed by Thomas L. Faris, a native of Bloomington, Monroe County, Ind., where he
was born in the eventful year of 1868. His father was J. M. Faris, a farmer in Indiana
but a native of Ohio, and his mother before her marriage was Margaret Smith, a native
of Indiana. Thomas L. Faris is a product of the splendid American rural school which, no
matter what its other shortcomings may be, generally sets the lad fortunate in
attendance there going in the right way in the world. The comforts and pleasures of
home were accorded him until he was twenty-one years old, and then he engaged in
the grocery and feed business, remaining in Bloomington, Indiana. After that he went
to Greeley, Colo., and for six years was a contractor in cement work.
Reaching California in 1912, Mr. Faris settled first at Santa Ana, from which
place he removed to Orange. The year 1914 saw him one of the progressive mer
chants of Orange, and in his present business, and three years later he had established
another store at Fullerton. Little by little he has built up a trade that requires the
daily work of five men to handle. The best of everything offered, by the fairest weight
at the lowest price possible, promptly and cheerfully delivered — these features of Mr.
Faris' management could not fail to win for him the loyal and grateful support of a
wide public.
In Bloomington, Ind., 1892, Mr. Faris was married to Miss Haddie Curry, also a
native of Bloomington, Ind., whose parents were J. H. and Lizzie (Moore) Curry, of
that place, and by her he has had two children — Margaret and Dwight. The family
are members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, in which" he is an elder and is an
active member of Orange Merchants and Manufacturers Association.
VICTOR W. LA MONT. — Among those who have endeavored to set a.high civic
standard for fast-developing Anaheim must be mentioned Victor W. La Mont, the
enterprising owner of the Colonial Apartment Building at 149 North Lemon Street,
one of the most agreeable in design and best-appointed of all the apartment houses,
not only in the town, but in Orange County as well. He was born at Perth Amboy
in New Jersey on May 27, 1882, the son of Louis La Mont, a terra cotta maker who built
the first kiln for firing that kind of unglazed pottery in Canada. He married Miss
Emily Wildhen, and the family came to Los Angeles in 1903. There were three chil
dren, and Victor is the second child. Mr. La Mont is now dead.
Victor attended the grammar and high schools of Illinois, and for a while worked
in photography. Then he learned the machinist's and engineer's trades, and followed
them for six years; after that he was in the postal service for six years. In August,
1912, he came to Orange County and then he went into the wholesale liquor business.
His most recent enterprise is a strictly modern apartment house, with eleven single
and nineteen double apartments— a very desirable and useful addition to the town.
He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. La Mont was married on June 28, 1910, at Anaheim to Miss Clara Fischer, a
native of this city, whose parents, William and Clara Fischer, were pioneers of Anaheim.
two sons, Victor C, and Allan W. La Mont, have been born to this union. Mr.
La Mont is a member of the Elks and the Masons.
In national politics a Republican and a citizen with a good record for volunteer
service in the state militia of Illinois, Mr. La Mont has never neglected an opportunity
for the uplift of the community or district in which he lives.

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CHARLES C. BENNETT.— An experienced, highly-esteemed walnut rancher who
has proven thoroughly reliable as foreman of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company,
is Charles C. Bennett, who was born near Humansville, Polk County, Mo., on June 6,
1871, the son of Samuel Bennett, a native of Ohio, who settled in Missouri in 1866.
While a resident of the Buckeye State, he enlisted for service in the great war for the
Union and joined the Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with honorable
mention until discharged from service. In 1866, while still a young man, he removed,
first to Illinois and then to Missouri; and in the latter state married Miss Harriet A.
Rentfrow, a native of Missouri. He worked at agricultural pursuits until 1900, when he
and his devoted wife came to California, and located a mile east of Orange. He bought
a farm, which he operated for five years; and when he sold it, they moved to Orange,
where he died, in December, 1909, a member of Gordon Granger Post of the Grand
Army of the Republic. Mrs. Bennett passed away in August, 1919, the mother of four
children, two of whom are still living. The other son is F. M. Bennett of Orange.
Reared on a farm, Charles attended the public schools of his locality, and when
twenty-two, entered into partnership with his father, buying a store at Rondo. There,
too, he was married to Miss Maude G. Pollard, a native of Caldwell County, Mo., after
which he continued in mercantile business. He enjoyed the confidence of the com
munity to that extent that he was also made postmaster of Rondo.
In 1903 he came to Orange in the employ of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Com
pany, and continued with them from June until November; then he returned to Missouri
and bought a farm of 120 acres near Rondo. He engaged in farming and stock raising,
and, also acted as school trustee; but, resigning from that pleasureable responsibility, he
sold his property, in 1908, and on account of- his wife's health, returned to California
and located at Orange. At first, however, for a year he tarried at Oro Grande, or until
his wife died, in May, 1909.
In March, 1910, Mr. Bennett again entered the employ of the Santa Ana Valley
Irrigation Company, and in January, 1913, he was made foreman of all construction
work — a position he has held with credit to himself and advantage to the company ever
since. He has also been able to acquire a ten-acre ranch of walnuts one and a half
miles southwest of Orange — a choice piece of property, sure to appreciate in the future.
By his first marriage, Mr. Bennett had two children— Clyde, who is in the Medical
Reserve Corps of the United States Army, and Grace, who is attending high school. A
second marriage made him the husband of Miss Hattie B. Tompkins, at Santa Ana, a
charming lady who shares with him his responsibilties and his ambitions, and attends
the Methodist Church. She is a native of Ohio, born near Jefferson, Ashtabula County,
and came to Missouri when only two and a half years old with her parents, James H.
and Maggie I. (Noble) Tompkins, also natives of Ohio, where her father died. Her
mother now makes her home in Orange. Mr. Bennett belongs to the Woodmen of the
World — and there is no more popular member in the order.
DR. PERYL B. MAGILL.— A thoroughly competent representative of one of the
important branches of modern medical science, Dr. Peryl B. Magill has done much, not
only to alleviate suffering and to prolong health and life, but to dissipate certain
prejudice now generally recognized as one of the greatest barriers to human progress.
She was born near St. John's, Stafford County, Kans., the daughter of Cyrus N. Magill,
a farmer who proved his devotion to the cause of the threatened Union by serving in
the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery during the Civil War. He had married Margaret
Brady and they had four children, Peryl being tbe second in the order of birth The
family came west to California in 1890, and Cyrus N. Magill purchased a ranch near
Santa Ana. , , • , , i _• u- u i
Peryl Magill attended the Orange grammar and high schools, from which she was
graduated in 1909, after which she went in for professional training at the Los Angeles
College of Osteopathy, from which well-known institution she was graduated m June,
1912 The following March she commenced to practice at Santa Ana; and here ever
since then she has been steadily acquiring an enviable reputation. Her suite of offices
is in the Rowley Building, at the corner of Fourth and Mam Streets, and she has been
more than successful in securing and holding a satisfied patronage. ...
Fond of out-of-door life, Dr. Magill also finds it agreeable to participate in the
,aT°;_l activities of such organizations as the Ebell Club, the Daughters of
Ve erans the^resenrSy Club. ancUhe Women's Osteopathic Club of Los Angeles.
Veterans, tne ¦ ^c > County Osteopathic Association as well as a member and
fru'stee^^Californ a Osteopathic Assodation. In politics, she is decidedly a woman
above par y ana lends her support only, in the most nonpartisan manner, to those
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WILLIAM FRANKLIN WINTERS.— A hard-working, liberal-minded and justly
popular young man of exceptional merit and, therefore, of interesting promise, is Wil
liam Franklin Winters, a native of Phillips County, Kans., where he was born on
October 30, 1894. His father is John Winters, now a successful rancher near Garden
Grove, who married Mary Alice Newman, also living to gladden all who know her.
When five years of age, Frank came to California and Orange County with his
parents, and began to attend the local school at Garden Grove. In July and August,
1909, he commenced to work by the day for others, and ever since then he has made
his way in the world largely by his own efforts.
In 1914 he was married to Miss Eva Loretta DeVaul, the daughter of Jasper N.
and Mary (Holt) DeVaul, and by her he has had two children, Eugene Newton and
Glenn Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Winters are consistent members of the Methodist Epis
copal Church at Garden Grove; and in their endeavor to elevate civic standards, work
and vote for the best men and women, and the best measures:
Mr. Winters owns in his home place, half a mile north and a quarter of a mile
east of Garden Grove, a nice little ranch of five acres of Valencias. He bought the land
in 1914, and set it out himself. In November, 1918, he purchased another ten acres and
set that out to Valencias; and inasmuch as this second ranch is at the very edge of the
town, it must be regarded as unusually choice property. He owns still another ranch
of five acres, which he bought just one year later, and that is in full bearing, a quarter
of a mile to the south; and to each of these he has given the touch of the experienced
horticulturist, so that they bid fair to add materially to the show places of which, more
and more, Garden Grove may boast.
Mrs. Winters, esteemed by her wide circle of friends as a very attractive and
agreeable lady, and a most helpful neighbor and friend, enters heartily into the various
projects of her husband, and so proves to him the best of helpmates, and to the com
munity, the most progressive of citizens.
JOHN O. GUPTILL. — An energetic young man with ability as a machinist, and
an agriculturist, John O. Guptill is a son on Charles E. Guptill, whose sketch appears
elsewhere in this work. Born near Shirland, Winnebago County, 111., December 13,
1880, he accompanied his parents when they removed to his maternal grandfather's
farm in Rock County, Wis., and was seven years old when the family migrated to
Canton, Lincoln County, S. D., and he was reared on his father's 120-acre Dakota farm,
where he assisted his father in his farming and stock raising operations. Later he
moved with his father's family to Springfield, S. D., where they resided from 1901 to
1909. In the latter year he came to Los Angeles, Cal., where he worked at various
pursuits until he came to Garden Grove in 1913.
The marriage of Mr. Guptill, which occurred in January, 1917, united him with
Miss Elizabeth Trumpy, who was born at Ramona, near Madison, S. D., and they have
one child, John O., Jr. In addition to managing his ten acres Mr. Guptill carries on a
prosperous freight and transfer business, and is the owner of a ton-and-a-half truck,
which he uses in his business. He is a helpful factor in local affairs at Garden Grove,
where he and his wife are welcome in social circles, and are forming an ever-widening
circle of friends and acquaintances. It is to such young Americans as John O. Guptill
that our country looks for its future advancement and betterment, socially and
financially, and his public spirit and interest in the upbuilding of Garden Grove Is an
evidence of his faith in the future of the community.
E. A. PEARSON. — In the history of the country no industry has taken greater
strides than the automobile business,, and about the busiest place in Garden Grove is
Pearson and Butler's garage on Euclid Avenue. Mr. Pearson is a native of Philadelphia,
and was born in the City of Brotherly Love, September 7, 1888. Educated in the public
schools, supplemented with a business college course, he learned the machinist's trade
as a young man, and with wise foresight as to future conditions became an expert in
the automobile line. He came direct from his native state to Santa Ana, Cal., going
thence to Hollywood, where for several years he was engaged at his trade. There he
was united in marriage with Miss Geneva Ball, and they are the parents of a daughter,
Elizabeth. In 1917 Mr. Pearson located at Garden Grove, and in June of that year engaged
in the automobile business with Mr. Butler, u'nder the firm name of Pearson and
sutler. Mr. Pearson has made good at every step of his business career, and in the
Carden Grove garage the young men are prepared to do repair work on all makes of
autos, trucks and tractors. Vulcanizing is well and expeditiously done, and they deal
m Fisk, Goodrich and Oldfield tires, Ford parts, and keep a well selected line of other
auto parts and accessories. Thorough machinists and auto men, their efficient service,
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the first Euclid Avenue shop became too small to accommodate their large and increas
ing business, and they have made arrangements for a long lease on a building erected
to accommodate their trade, where is to be found one of the finest and most up-to-date
garage buildings in Orange County. In recognition of their high standing among auto-
mobilists Messrs. Pearson and Butler's new place is the garage for the Southern Cali
fornia Auto Club at Garden Grove.
Mr. Pearson is an enthusiastic member of the Garden Grove Chamber of Com
merce, and has entered whole-heartedly into the advancement of the community in
which his lot is cast, and the people have reciprocated by making him thrice welcome
to Garden Grove, and fully appreciate their advantage in having a man in their midst
who is accounted one of the best informed automobile experts in the country.
SOULE C. OERTLY. — The attractive twenty-acre ranch located on Euclid Ave
nue half a mile north of Garden Grove, and owned by Soule C. Oertly, is of note among
the many well-cared for places on that thoroughfare. Mr. Oertly was born at Lex
ington, Ky., February 28, 1887, and was five years old when he accompanied his parents,
Conrad and Eliza (Widmer) Oertly to California. The parents, natives of Switzerland,
are mentioned on another page of this work.
When Soule Oertly, who is the oldest child of his parents, was three years old
he accompanied his parents on a trip to their old home in Switzerland, and remained
in that country until he was five years of age. Returning to the United States the
family settled in Los Angeles, and in 1907 removed to Garden Grove. Soule attended
kindergarten in Switzerland and also in Los Angeles, afterwards attending the Los
Angeles public schools. He was twenty years old when he came to Garden Grove,
where he assisted his father. His marriage occurred at Garden Grove in 1912, uniting
him with Miss Dorothy Head, a native of Detroit, Mich., and daughter of George and
Elizabeth (West) Head of Garden Grove, who was educated in the Garden Grove, Los
Angeles and Santa Ana schools. Mr. and Mrs. Oertly are the parents of three children,
Ellen E-, George C, and John W., who was born in Alberta, Canada.
Mr. Oertly formely conducted a cement pipe manufacturing business at Garden
Grove and at the same time engaged as an irrigation contractor, putting in irrigation
systems for different ranchers in the vicinity. He is considered an authority on irriga
tion, and on laying out orange and lemon groves. For two and a half years he had
charge of Dr. Johnston's Rancho Vista Del Rio, above Olive, laid out the ranch, put
in the irrigation system and planted the place to Valencias and lemons. In 1916 Mr.
Oertly and his family went to Canada, where he became acquainted with Mr. C. S.
Noble, and for six months was engaged as a traction engineer. He did his work so
competently that he was appointed superintendent of Mr. Noble's Grand View farm of
four and a half sections, and engaged in raising wheat, cattle, hogs, and in dairying.
He remained in Alberta until after his brother Bernhard's death, then resigned his
position and returned to Garden Grove, where in 1919, he purchased his present ranch.
In addition to caring for his sixteen acres of young orange trees and four acres of
lemons, which is interplanted with lima beans, he does a great deal of grading and
putting ranches in shape. He also cultivates and cares for H. A. Lake's seven and a
half-acre ranch.
In their religious convictions Mr. and Mrs. Oertly are members of the Baptist
Church and Mr. Oertly is one of the active workers in and standbys of the Y. M. C. A.
at Garden Grove. He has many warm friends at Garden Grove and enjoys an
enviable reputation for his public spirit and integrity.
HARRY C. FULTON. — Among the later comers to the Talbert district of
Orange County, Cal., is Harry C. Fulton, son of W. T. Fulton, owner of the townsite at
Camarillo, Ventura County, and for the past thirty-five years a well-known and leading
citizen of his section.
Harry C. Fulton owns the highly cultivated forty-acre ranch located one-half mile
west of Talbert, and is a native son of California, born near Camarillo in Ventura
County, November 5, 1891. He is one of several Ventura County boys who have made
a success in western Orange County. When an infant three weeks old he was made a
half orphan by the death of his mother. His education was acquired^ in the public
schools and at Brownsberger Business College, Los Angeles, after which he entered
the United States postal service as a rural mail carrier in his native county. He was
the first mail carrier who ever carried mail out from Camarillo, and he served Uncle
Sam efficiently eight years and seven months before he resigned from the position.
During the latter part of his service as mail carrier he farmed forty acres in Ventura
County, and found ranching to be profitable, thoroughly learning the business of grow
ing lima beans successfully. Mr. Fulton purchased the ranch near Talbert in 1917, and
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His marriage was solemnized in 1913, and united him with Miss Mildred E. Sten-
strom, a native of Tacoma, Wash., who was reared in her native state and in Ventura
County, Cal. She is a most estimable woman, an excellent helpmate to her devoted
husband and a fine mother to their two interesting children, Harry Charles, and Char
lotte. Mr. Fulton inherits from his sturdy pioneer ancestry the independence and
self-reliance that is developed through strenuous experience with hardship in a new and
undeveloped country. Successful in his chosen vocation he may confidently hope for
the future success in life that attends maturer years and rightly directed energy.
FLOYD B. KEALIHER. — A large and important industry of Orange County, one
not so generally known as the orange and oil enterprises, is the growing and marketing
of chili peppers, which has developed, in less than twenty-five years, into a million
dollar industry, and statistics show that Orange County grows more than three-fourths
of all the peppers consumed in the United States.
The grinding and shipping of chili peppers has become an important business in
the county and among the most prominent and successful men engaged in this special
enterprise is F. B. Kealiher, whose plant is located just outside of the* city of Anaheim,
to the southwest, where he has for twenty-three years been successfully engaged in this
work. He is a native of Illinois, born in Bureau County, July 24, 1876, a son of Hugh F.
and Daisy (Murdock) Kealiher. Hugh F. Kealiher was born in Maine in 1843, a son
of Sewall and Jane Kealiher, natives of Maine and Ireland, respectively. Mr. and Mrs.
Sewell Kealiher were the parents of twelve children, six of whom are living, Hugh F.
being the sixth child in order of birth. He was reared in Maine and Missouri, his parents
having migrated to the latter state in 1857. In 1862, Hugh F. Kealiher enlisted in the
Union Army and was mustered into the First Missouri Cavalry. His three brothers,
John, William and Amos, were also in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Upon his return home after the war, Hugh F. Kealiher settled in Michigan, where
he followed the trade of a builder and continued his work along that line until recent
years. He moved to California, locating in Anaheim in 1894, and is a member of Sedg
wick Post, G. A. R., of Santa Ana. In 1875, he was married to Miss Daisy L. Murdock,
and of this union one child, F. B. Kealiher, the subject of this sketch, was born. In 1918,
Mrs. Kealiher passed away. Mr. Kealiher's second marriage, which occurred on August
12, 1919, united him with Mrs. Mary McCain, widow of John R. McCain; she is promi
nent in the circles of the Women's Relief Corps, being past president of the organi
zation at Santa Ana.
Floyd B. Kealiher was reared and educated in Nebraska, whither his parents
moved in 1878. In 1894 he came to California, and in 1897 engaged in growing chili
peppers, and in 1900 he began to ship independently. The demand for ground chili
caused him to install a mill in 1904, being the only one in the county. The extensive-
ness of his business can better be understood when one realizes that he ships 100 tons
of ground chili per season, which is shipped from Anaheim, and from 300 to 400 tons of
pod chili, which is shipped from his warehouse in Garden Grove, from which place, in
1919, he shipped approximately 600 tons. In the operation of his plant he uses a fifteen-
horsepowergas engine, and his product is shipped throughout the United States, where
it is extensively used by large canning companies.
In 1904, F. B. Kealiher was united in marriage, at Long Beach, with Miss Anna
Belle Beach, a native of Minnesota, and of this union one child was born, Vernon, who
is now deceased. Mr. Kealiher was bereaved of his wife on April 30, 1918. Fraternally,
he is a member of Anaheim Lodge No. 199, I. O. O. F., and of Anaheim Lodge No.
1345, B. P. O. Elks.
FRANK WARREN CROUCH.— Among the successful ranchers of the Garden
Grove district is Frank W. Crouch, who was born at Potosi, Grant County, Wis.,
November 30, 1867, and was four years old when his parents, R. M. and Maria A.
(Foltz) Crouch, removed to Plymouth County, Iowa, where his father filed and proved
up on a homestead of 160 acres. The father is a native of Jamestown, N. Y., and was
twelve years old when he went to Wisconsin, where he grew to manhood. At the
breaking-out of the Civil War he enlisted in Company I of the Twenty-fifth Wisconsin
Volunteer Infantry, and served a year and a half when he was discharged. There were
three children in the paternal family: Frank Warren, of Garden Grove; Lillie M., the
wile of W. H. McNeill, residing at Hollywood; and A. Blaine, a barber at Early, Iowa.
K. M. Crouch and his wife live at Hollywood, Cal.
Frank W. was reared in his native state' and acquired his education in the com
mon schools, afterward attending the Normal School for a short time. He followed
farming m Iowa, and became the owner of 120 acres, which he disposed of in 1900 and
joined his father who was conducting the Bank of Hinton at Hinton, Iowa. Frank
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In 1893 he married Miss Effie Patterson, in Iowa, a native of Peotone, Will
County, 111., and they became the parents of a son named Kenneth W., whose ill
health caused Mr. Crouch to dispose of his Iowa interests in 1906, and come to Cali
fornia. The lad regained his health in the genial California climate, and graduated from
Leland Stanford University, and is now employed by the Standard Oil Company in
San Francisco. With wise foresight, Mr. Crouch planted eighteen acres of his twenty-
eight-acre ranch, one and a half miles west of Garden Grove, to a eucalyptus grove, and
is now cutting the timber, which yields fifty cords of stove wood to an acre. Fra
ternally he is a member of the Santa Ana lodge of Masons, and also belongs to the
Modern Woodmen of America Camp in that city. He is a member of the Garden
Grove Farm Center, and of the Walnut Growers Association, and in his service as a
member of the board of trustees of the Alamitos grammar school has been helpful to
the best interests of that school district. A broad-minded, enterprising man, he is ever
ready for the advancement of his section of country, and his courteous friendliness as
a host is supplemented by the cordial welcome extended by his wife to those who are
privileged to partake of their hospitality. They have many warm friends and are highly
respected in the community.
GEORGE P. WILSON. — Prominent among the men of affairs who have helped
to make Balboa what it is today — one of the really important centers in Orange County,
and a community full of promise for the future — must be mentioned George P. Wilson,
the pioneer business man there. He was born at Fairmount, Minn., on August 28, 1883,
the son of J. R. Wilson, a native and a pioneer of that state, who also became well
known to Santa Ana, where he settled with his family in 1899. He was a contracting
builder and carpenter used to undertaking large and important commissions; and he died
at Santa Ana, about five years ago, at the age of sixty-seven, having completed a life
of hard work and very useful activities. He had married in Minnesota Miss Ella Cham
berlain, a native of the same state as himself, and a lady who made many friends
wherever she resided.
Mr. Wilson came to California first in 1897, and at first stopped at Glendora for
a year. Then he moved to Santa Ana, and later went to Garden Grove, where he
finished his schooling. Then he came back to Santa Ana, and for a while had a cigar
and confectionery store in Santa Ana.
When he took up his residence in the undeveloped Balboa, he worked for a while
for the Newport Bay Investment Company, now the Balboa Land and Water Com
pany, and he helped to build the roads leading to Balboa. He also ran on the Bay
a pleasure boat of his own, named the Comet; and later on he managed the boat for
the Balboa Land and Water Company. He also worked for a while with Boswell, the
cement contractor there, in each engagement acquiring a more varied experience and
getting better and better posted on Balboa and its possibilities.
Eight years ago, he embarked in business for himself, and now he has an attractive
establishment at the corner of Main and Bay avenues, where he deals in stationery,
papers, soda water and confectionery. His honesty and his willingness to try to accom
modate and serve have been decided factors in securing for him a good patronage, and
in keeping the patrons once so secured.
In Los Angeles, Mr. Wilson was married to Mrs. Chloe Saunders, nee Baker, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cana Baker. With his wife he enters heartily into the social
as well as the business and political life of Balboa, and besides belonging to the Balboa
Yacht Club, and the Chamber of Commerce of Newport Beach, is also a member of
Santa Lodge of Elks. He was elected to the city council of Newport Beach, served
four years, was reelected, and after serving two years of his second term, resigned,
having given six years to the public service in the capacity of city father, and during
that time enjoyed the confidence of his fellow-citizens so much so that when a vacancy
occurred October 4, 1920, he was again appointed a trustee and is again serving the
city with some of his old colleagues.
GEORGE TOURNAT.— The well-known and highly respected citizen, George
Tournat, whose twenty-acre ranch lies northwest of Garden Grove, migrated from
Texas, his native state, to California in the fall of 1909, and for ten years has resided
on his well-improved acres, which are devoted to the culture of citrus fruit and walnuts.
His father, H. Tournat, preceded him to California in 1906, and settled in Santa Monica
where he died, his mother passing away when he was eighteen years old.
Mr. Tournat was born July 17, 1865, near San Antonio, and his early life was
passed on his father's Texas farm. Educated in the common schools he afterward went
to Virginia, where he attended the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Blacksburg
one year. Returning to Texas, he was married in 1891 to Miss Lillie Bundren, a
native of Mississippi and eight children have been born to their union, of whom the

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seven now living were born in Texas: Clara, is the wife of Monte Preston, a druggist
at Downey, Cal.; Thomas E. is operator at the Pacific Electric sub-station at Stanton,
he was a musician in the artillery during the late war; Waldo E., secretary of the
Garden Grove Farm Center, is a graduate of the Santa Ana high school and later
attended Leland Stanford University, enlisting from there into the U. S. Navy, in
which he served until the close of the late war; Georgia is a graduate of the Orange
County Business College at Santa Ana; Stella is a graduate of the Santa Ana high
school and now attending Junior College; and Leigh is a student in the Santa Ana
high school; Grace is in the Garden Grove grammar school, and Mary, who was born at
Garden Grove, died at the age of three. After his marriage Mr. Tournat continued the
occupation of farming, and became the owner of 166 acres near San Antonio, Bexar
County, Texas.
Mr. Tournat has planted and improved his Garden Grove ranch, and has five
acres in Eureka lemons, five acres in Navel oranges, five acres in Valencias, and five
acres in walnuts. He built a beautiful bungalow home on the ranch, and the property
is well equipped with barns, sheds and wells for irrigation. He has installed a pumping
plant and has a new up-to-date air-pressure automatic pump run by electric power.
Ever ready to embrace modern conveniences that tend to the lessening of labor, his
ranch is not only equipped outside with these latest adjuncts, but in his attractive and
up-to-date home he has an electric cooking range. In addition to his ranch Mr.
Tournat owned twelve acres of unimproved land, which he gave to his sons, Thomas
and Waldo, to assist them in getting a start in life. The boys are engaged in the
nursery business, budding and raising Valencia orange trees for nursery stock, and
are meeting with deserved success in their new venture.
Mr. and Mrs. Tournat are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Garden
Grove, and their interest is ever to advance the general welfare of the community,
among whom they are social favorites and are warmly esteemed by their large circle
of friends. FRANK J. BUCHHEIM. — A wide-awake young native son who, as a progressive
rancher employing up-to-date apparatus and scientific methods, promises to make his
way rapidly in the agricultural world, is Frank J. Buchheim, who resides on East
Seventeenth Street, Santa Ana, on a nine-acre ranch, part of the original thirty-acre
tract purchased by his father, Frank S. Buchheim, in 1880, and now devoted t° the
culture of walnuts and oranges. The father was born in Austria in 1844 and emigrated
to the United States with his parents in 1856, when he was only twelve years of age.
He located in Faribault, Minn., and there prospered as a young agriculturist, leaving the
plow only to serve his adopted country in the Civil War, but he was spared the roughest
experiences owing to the near close of the struggle.
From Minnesota, Mr. Buchheim removed to California in 1880, and on arriving
here purchased thirty acres of waste or barren land, in the development of which he
had many and varied experiences. He made numerous improvements and these were
added to by his heirs, for he had twelve children, ten of whom are still living. In
Minnesota he married Miss Caroline Zymon, a native of Germany, who came to Min
nesota when she was a girl of nineteen. Frank S. Buchheim was a successful horti
culturist in Santa Ana until his death, which occurred in 1904, when he was sixty years
of age, while his wife passed away when almost sixty-nine years of age. Her mother,
Mrs. Beatrice Zymon, also came to California, spending her last days with the Buch-
heims, passing away at the advanced age of ninety-three years. Mr. and Mrs. Buchheim
were the parents of twelve children: Lydia, Mrs. Hemenway, lives near El Toro;
Aaron at San Juan Capistrano; John at Garden Grove; Jacob is at Downey; Henry at
Capistrano; Josie, Mrs. Whisler, at El Toro; Paul at Capistrano; Frank J., the subject
of our review; Emile, also at Capistrano; and Minnie, Mrs. Hoeffner, of Bloomfield,
Nebr.; all are successful farmers. Emma and Frederick are deceased.
Frank J. spent his boyhood on the farm, attending the public school in Santa Ana,
and from a lad on assisted his father on the home place. On the death of his father he
took charge of the ranch for his mother until her death, when he purchased nine acres
of the ranch, with the home residence, and continues to make his home here, while he
also owns seven and a half acres on Santiago Creek, at El Modena, his ranches being
devoted to growing oranges, lemons and walnuts. In Santa Ana, on December 1, 1915,
occurred the marriage of Mr. Buchheim, when he was united with Miss Annie Barg-
sten, born in Hanover, Germany, the daughter of Claus and Margreta (Jers) Bargsten,
who were farmer folk in Hanover. Mrs. Buchheim came to Orange, Cal., with her
uncle, Jacob Bargsten, in 1912, as he was returning from a visit home. Jacob Bargsten
was one of the pioneer settlers of Orange. Mr. and Mrs. Buchheim have been blessed
with two children; the younger, Robert Frank, is living. They attend the Lutheran
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Having a desire to see his parents' pioneer home in Minnesota, Mr. Buchheim
has made two trips back to that state and also extended his travel to the Atlantic
.Coast, visiting New York City and other Atlantic ports. Although he was charmed
with the country in the East, yet in his estimation it does not equal California, and
Orange County in particular.
Mr. Buchheim is a good example of the efficient builders of the California of
today, who not only bring to bear the experience and wisdom of yesterday in the
inheritance of pioneer brawn and brain, but who are fortified with something of value
originating in a foreign land, and adapted to the institutions of our own country.
CHARLES J. SEGERSTROM. — A rancher whose carefully planned years of hard
work has netted him and his equally able wife and industrious family handsome returns,
is Charles J. Segerstrom, one of the most successful farmers in the Greenville district.
He was born at Sodermanland Lan, near Stockholm, Sweden, on June 29, 1856, the
son of Gustav Adolph Segerstrom, who came from a long line of military heroes, and
Anna Charlotta Anderson, whose family were seafaring merchants. The good parents
had seven children, all of whom are deceased except two daughters, who are now
living in Chicago, and Charles. Gustav Adolph Segerstrom died in Sweden in 1876 and
his wife died in St. Paul, Minn., in 1884.
Charles passed his early life in Sweden, where he enjoyed the usual advantages of
the excellent elementary schools. After graduating from school he took a course in
agriculture under the best Government experts, and at an early age began farming for
himself, and since then has made his own way in the world.
On May 30, 1878, he was united in marriage to Bertha Christine Anderson, who
since has proven such a valuable helpmate in Mr. Segerstrom's ventures in the new
world. In 1882 he and his wife and three children sailed from Gothenburg, crossing the
North Sea to Hull, England, from there to Glasgow, where they went aboard the
Fornecia, the largest boat then used in crossing the Atlantic. After fourteen days of
stormy voyage they landed at Castle Garden on May 20, 1882, and soon after left for
Chicago. Arrived in the metropolis by the. lakes, Mr. Segerstrom secured employment
with Libby, McNeil and Libby, the packers, and lost no time in entering on the great
work of adapting himself to his America environment.
After a year spent in Chicago, they moved to Prentice, Wis., where they spent
two years in the heart of the great pine forests as pioneers. The family next moved to
St Paul, Minn., and here Charles was naturalized. He was engaged in the railroad
business for thirteen years and as a result he received the best of recommendations
from the railroad company.
In 1898 lured by the reports of still greater opportunities in the West the family
moved to California. They located at Orange, first leasing a twenty-acre orange ranch
from Mr. Riley'. While there they took a pleasure trip to Newport Beach and passing
through Old Newport were so pleased with the locality they decided to locate there.
The first purchase was a forty-acre tract belonging to Ben Fallert, where they engaged
in dairying and alfalfa raising. The holdings have been increased extensively, one of
the purchases being the Brooks ranch, in 1912, where a modern residence has been
erected and is now the family home.
For the past five years Mr. Segerstrom and his sons have engaged in dairying
and the growing of lima beans and have enjoyed good and profitable results, the ranch
now being equipped with all modern buildings and machinery. Mr. and Mrs. Seger
strom have been blessed with eleven children, all living except Clara who died in 1912.
The girls are: Christine, Anne, Ida and Esther. The boys are: Charles Jr., Eric
William, Anton, Fred and Harold.
FRANK ULRICH. — An expert blacksmith who has become a clever and success
ful inventor, is Frank Ulrich, in more respects than one a citizen of worth. He was
born in Fayette County, 111., on February 19, 1876, the son of Fred Ulrich, who had
married Martha Walker. After Frank Was born, his parents moved with him, then their
only child, to Barton County, Mo.,, and there the lad grew up in the public schools,
topping off his studies with a course at the Polytechnic high school at La Mar, Mo.
In the same town he served a three years' apprenticeship at the trade of a blacksmith,
and there the other four children of the family were born.
In 1896 Mr. Ulrich was married to Miss Alice Ainscough, a native of Barton
County, and four years later he came west to California, and settled for. a while in
San Bernardino, where he worked in the railway shops of the Santa Fe Railway. Then
he went to Banning and put in two and a half years in a blacksmith shop there. Then
he shifted to Smeltzer, and worked for John McMillan, who then ran the blacksmith
shop at that place, and continued with him for about six months, until he sold out.

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After that Mr. Ulrich pitched his tent in Wintersburg and once he had decided to
stay, he bought of James Kane the shop built by the latter. It is a one-story frame
structure, 24x72 feet in size, fitted up with an electric motor and an electric blower, as
well as a trip-hammer, an emery wheel, a drill and a power hacksaw, and also two
forges. In 1909, Mr. Ulrich built his residence, a pretty bungalow.
Mr. Ulrich does a general blacksmithing business, which includes horse-shoeing and
horse-clipping, and makes a specialty of oxy-acetylene welding, and he employs at least
one man the year around. He builds beet plows, cyclones and a so-called Swedish
harrow, and manufactures celery growers' tools. He has invented a tubing drainer, for
pumping oil out of oil wells, which he patented in 1918, and two of his inventions are
on trial in the Midway oil field at Taft, on the Santa Fe and the Hondo Oil Company's
leases. They give entire satisfaction and are well spoken of.
As a progressive, patriotic citizen, Mr. Ulrich has found pleasure in serving on
the board of trustees of the Ocean View School, and he was on both the board and
the building commission when that school was erected. He is a member of the Modern
Woodmen of America, and served as worthy council; Mrs. Ulrich attends the Metho
dist Episcopal Church.
CHARLES TREULIEB.— The pioneer blacksmith of Cypress, Orange County,
Charles Treulieb is, a "public-spirited citizen, who has done his share to aid in the up
building of his section of the county by giving his hearty support to all movements
for the public good and thereby has gained an enviable reputation among his fellows,
who appreciate his good qualities.
A native of Russia, he was born in Courland, Dondangen, February 28, 1865, the
son of Charles and Julia Treulieb, both natives of that country and the parents of four
teen children, four of whom came to America, and two of these are living in Orange
County — Charles and his sister, Mrs. Margaret Yudis. His brother, Christ, lives in
Alameda, Cal., and August is a resident of New York. Both parents died in their
native land after living useful lives among their neighbors.
Charles attended the public schools of his native town and when he was eighteen
he was apprenticed to a blacksmith for five years to learn that trade. After he had
mastered it he traveled in various parts of the old world and then came to America to
broaden his education and to master English by personal contact with the people, first
stopping for a few months in Rio Janeiro, where he worked for a short time. This was
in 1893, and it was that same year that he landed in New York, going thence to the
West Indies; later he came back to America and stopped in Maine for a time. The
West seemed to hold a fascination for him and he came to Arizona, where for sorne
years he worked at his trade in Jerome. He became an American citizen at Prescott
in 1903 and ever since has been among the most loyal of citizens of the country he
adopted as his home. In 1905 he arrived in Los Angeles, but very soon came to Los
Alamitos and was employed as a machinist at the sugar factory until 1905, when he
opened his present blacksmith shop at Cypress, where he has catered to the wants
of the locality ever since. He has seen this part of the county grow from an almost
unproductive section to one of diversified farming and a very rich and productive cen
ter: m fact, as one of the pioneers here, he has aided every movement that meant ad
vancing the interest of the people. Besides a well-equipped shop, where he does all
kinds of blacksmithing, he conducts an oil-filling station and sells motor supplies; in both
lines of activity he is meeting with well-deserved success. His obliging manner and
cheery disposition have made him many friends. He is a member of the Woodmen of
the \\ orld and politically is a broad-minded man who believes in living and letting live.
ROCH COURREGES.— A pioneer rancher who has become prosperous and influ
ential, and who while forging ahead to affluence, has never failed to encourage any
movement worth the while for the development of Huntington Beach, and has thereby
been privileged to assist in establishing there most of its important industries and
institutions, is Roch Courreges, who owns a fine ranch of sixty acres on the Talbert-
?™"p v °ad* 3 T"e WCSt of Talbert He was bom at Bruges, in the
J. ^77' France on November 3, 1850. His father was Joseph Courreges, a
1'p 8S, T u^^68' Wh° conducted a lumber business; he married Justine
fn 1867 n Y 5 hV£d a"d died in France' Roch first ^me to the United States
out ten/n th^ vlaPanama a"d landed in San Francisco on February 12; he started
acou red FnlrT 1 eq",pped, ,'.* a S°od French grammar school education, and
learned m "v V TV m Amedca' Indeed' he is fo*d of admitting that he
children or Lr, V" I la"gUage °f his adopted country while talking with his
children, or perusing their school books
Franrisco^nd'^M *T "r '" Ca,if°rnia wa* milking cows on dairy farms in San
Francisco and in Monterey County, after which, for a while, he went to the placer

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mines in Tuolumne County. Then he came back to San Francisco and worked in a tripe
factory. At the 'end of five years, he gave that up and for a year kept a boarding
house. He then became a partner in the tripe factory, but sold his interest in 1877. The
following year he came to Los Angeles County, and since then he has experienced a
great deal and has seen many changes.
The marriage of Mr. Courreges took place at Bolso Chica, in 1880, when he was
united with Mrs. Magdalena Smith, nee Mogart, a native of Lower California and a
member of an old Spanish family. Thirty-seven years later, on November 29, she died,
aged sixty-four years. By her first husband, she had had two children, Josephine Smith
and Walter Smith; while through her second marriage, she was the mother of, besides
three who died young, the following offspring: Joseph, who married Maria Ramariz, and
is a rancher, operating the place owned by Mr. Courreges, and residing there, in part
nership with his younger brother John; Elizabeth, the wife of Peter Lacabanne, a
resident of Los Angeles; Philippine, the wife of Henry Lacabanne, the rancher of this
place; Justine, who gracefully presides over her father's home; and John, who was in
the field artillery service in France for three months. He was honorably discharged,
and he is now farming at home, as has been stated, in partnership with Joseph.
Mr. Courreges came to Bolsa Chica on December 15, 1878, as a sheep raiser, for
this was then a sheep country. This section at that time was in Los Angeles County,
and there were no railroads, steam or electric. Six years before that, or in 1872, settlers
had made their inroads and had squatted here, or taken the land without authority, but
they were disturbed by the Stearns Ranch Company in 1880. In 1883, the Secretary of
the Interior rendered his decision, but the squatters retained possession until 1890, when
they were ousted for good. In April, 1883, Mr. Courreges established his sheep camp
on the spot where his house now stands; and when he first rented pasture land, he
leased from the Stearns Ranch Company, and when he came to the site of his present
farm in 1882, it was also as a tenant of the said Stearns Company.
At first, Mr. Courreges was a partner in the sheep business with Roch Sarrail, and
they herded sheep at Bolsa Chica, as well as at Bolsa Grande, two places named in
the terminology of the miner, "small pocket" and "large pocket." They kept high
grade merinos, and when they separated in 1882 they had 6,000 head. Mr. Courreges
took charge of the camp at Bolsa Grande, and continued in that line for twenty-one
years, and at one time he had 8,500 head of sheep.
It was in 1896 that Mr. Courreges bought some eighty acres, including his present
ranch, from the Stearns Company, of which he later sold twenty acres to his son-in-
law, Henry Lacabanne; and in company with his oldest son he went into farming. At
first, he raised potatoes, corn, pumpkins, and alfalfa, and he kept a few cows; and for
many years he raised sugar beets in the rich bottom lands, which make up his farm
for the most part. He encouraged the establishing of the Holly Sugar Corporation,
but two years ago, he planted some lima beans, and in 1919 and 1920 he has had the
entire sixty acres planted to limas. His first house burned down five years ago; and
since then he has built a beautiful bungalow home on the mesa. He has a couple of
good wells and a tank house, furnishing and retaining a good supply of water; and
irrigation is carried on by his own pumping plant.
Mr. Courreges has ever been a public-spirited citizen, and he has helped in every
way to establish good roads. He worked for the state highway, and voted for county
road bonds. He donated the right-of-way through his land for county roads, giving
a deed therefor, and has paved the county road past his home. He also worked
hard for the cannery at Huntington Beach, but it failed, and he lost $7,000 as the
result. He invested $15,000 in twenty-nine lots at Huntington Beach, and he still owns
the same. He helped to established the Linoleum Company at Huntington Beach, and
also to bring about the "Tent City." He was one of the founders of the First National
Bank of Huntington Beach, and owns fifty shares of its stock; and was a director from
its organization and has been the vice-president of the bank for the past five years.
He also interested himself in the coming here, north of Huntington Beach, of the
peat-fuel company, and in encouraging in every way the operations of the Southern
Pacific, the Santa Fe and the Pacific Electric railways.
HENRY LACABANNE.— A hard-working and progressive farmer, whose attrac
tive and equally industrious wife shares with him the good will and esteem of a large
circle of friends, is Henry Lacabanne, the son-in-law of Roch Courreges, the pioneer.
He was born in Estialesq, France, on October 9, 1873, the son of Pierre Lacabanne, -a
farmer, who had married Catherine Lagrave. They were owners of valuable land, and
lived and died in their native country. They had six children, all sons, among whom
Henry was the fourth in the order of birth. Two of the boys, besides Henry, came out
to California; Jean is a rancher at Huntington Beach, and Pierre is employed by the
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Auguste Lacabanne, served throughout the late war, or until he was taken prisoner, in
July, 1918, but is still alive and in France.
Henry attended the excellent French grammar schools, and later worked on his
father's farm. In 1892 he resolved to come to America, and in the latter part of May
landed in New York City. On June 6, he reached the capital of California's Southland,
Los Angeles. For a while he worked at hay-baling, and then he went to Ventura
County, and in October began a five years' engagement as a sheep herder. After that
he bought a band of sheep and with his older brother, Jean, as partner, came to San
Joaquin ranch in Orange County. He prospered, and remained there until his marriage.
This interesting event occurred in 1905, when he married the second daughter and
third child, Philippine Courreges, of the well-known pioneer. Once established as the
head of a family, he bought ten acres at Katella, which he planted as a walnut orchard.
At the proper time for a good deal, he sold this and came to the other locality in
Orange County, where he now resides. In 1910, he bought the twenty acres he manages
as a home farm, purchasing- from his father-in-law, and by hard work converted it
from the bare land, and has brought it up to a high state of cultivation, built a modest
but very comfortable home, and has paid for all the improvements, including a large
barn, a good well, and a first class pumping plant.
In 1910, also, Mr. Lacabanne took out his last papers, and now as an American
citizen, and a patriotic Republican, he seeks to do his civic duty in every respect. He
lives on the Talbert Road, a finely-paved county thoroughfare, and in his well-kept
ranch has something to display as the evidence of a life of intelligent industry.
HERMAN F. RUTSCHOW — Born in Ganschendorf, Pomerania, Germany, on
September 5, 1868, Herman F. Rutschow was reared there until in his fourteenth year.
On April 5, 1882, he emigrated with his parents, Carl and Wilhelmina Rutschow, to the
United States and located at Alma, Buffalo County, Wis. Here Carl Rutschow engaged
in railroading for a time until he entered the employ of the brewery in Alma, where
he became brewmaster. In 1898 he removed to Seattle, Wash., and was brewmaster
for Heinrich Bros. Brewery until he was retired on a pension; he died in Seattle in
1917, while his wife had preceded him, dying in 1904. Of their seven living children
Herman F. is the second oldest and received a good education in the schools of his old
home-town and was confirmed just before he left for Wisconsin, where he continued
his education. When eighteen, Mr. Rutschow began to learn the brewer's trade and on com
pleting it in 1892 he migrated to Washington where he was foreman of the bottling
department for the Bay View Brewing Company at Pt. Townsend; thence to Vancouver,
B. C, where he filled the same position in the Red Cross Brewery for one year, then
he returned to Seattle and was employed in the Rainier Brewery owned by Heinrich
Bros, (one of them, Alvin Heinrich, was Mr. Rutschow's brother-in-law). He continued
with them as a brewer for many years and during this time took a course in Wilson's
Business College in Seattle. After many years in the above responsible position he
resigned and engaged in business on his own account in Seattle for five years. He
built a brewery in Aberdeen, which he called Gray's Harbor Brewery and Malting
Company and later sold it to Alvin Heinrich and then purchased another brewery, which
he managed for eighteen months, then sold it at a good profit. Next he took a trip
to Calgary, Canada, where he took up a farm of 320 acres of land, but the promised
government loan failed to materialize so he gave it up six months later and returned to
Seattle and became foreman of the bottling department for the Aberdeen Brewing Com
pany a position he filled very ably for a period of seven years when the state of
Washington went dry. He then ran a stage between Montesano and Aberdeen for
eighteen months, then was employed in the shipyards at Aberdeen for six months.
After this he came to San Francisco, Cal., where he was employed three months with
Chas. Bach and Company.
In 1917 he came to Anaheim as brewer for the Anaheim Brewing Company and
one year later was made brewmaster, a position he filled till September, 1919, when he
resigned to take the agency of the E. & A. Extract manufactured by the North Coast
Products Company of Aberdeen, Wash., and is representing them in the ten counties
of Southern California having established local agencies in most of the towns, his
headquarters being at 118 North Thalia Street, Anaheim.
Mr. Rutschow was married in Seattle when he was united with Miss Margaret
Antonia Koch, who was born in Zittau, Saxony, Germany, and they have one child,
rv™ , tr^ p ? T 6arnmg the aut°mobile machinist's trade in a city near Zittau,
£/?£ f *ut?.c.htw IS enterprising and progressive and is always willing to do
Ilrnt t Tt^ng,-ntetpnSM that have for their aim the buildi"g UP °f ^e
community in which he lives.

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JOSHUA O. PYLE. — Ability and industry, combined with a good practical head
for business, are among the qualities that have brought success in life to J. O. Pyle,
rancher near Smeltzer, and an able machinist as well as an agriculturist.
Mr. Pyle, a young man of striking personality, was born in Washington County,
Pa., December 5, 1880. His parents, William Wesley, and Laura (Scott) Pyle, pioneer
farmers of that section of country, were natives of Pennsylvania and Iowa, respectively.
The father died in 1905 and the mother in 1910. Mr. Pyle's uncle, Joshua J. Pyle, is
a well-to-do pioneer rancher of the Westminster precinct of Orange County, and the
youngest and only surviving member of a family of three brothers and three sisters.
Joshua O. Pyle comes of an historic and long-lived family. His paternal great-
great-grandfather on the maternal side, William Lyons, attained the advanced age of
ninety. His great-grandfather, and great-grandmother, who was a cousin of General
Robert E. Lee of Civil War fame, each lived to be eighty-four years old. His grand
father, William Pyle, who in early life followed the occupation of a carpenter "and later
the occupation of tilling the soil in western Pennsylvania, lived to be seventy-seven
years old, and was a member of the Home Guard and captain of the Black Horse
Cavalry Company.
Joshua O. first started in life as a machinist. He was fireman on the Pennsyl
vania Railroad for two and a half years, and afterwards a locomotive engineer for one
year. In 1906, at the age of twenty-six, he went to Alberta, Canada, and engaged in
running a steam plow and threshing outfit. Three years later, in 1909, he came to
California, and worked for a time for the old California sugar factory, finally settling
at Smeltzer. He holds a lease on eighty acres of land owned by the Anaheim Sugar
Company, the forty acres on which he lives, and another forty acres north of Smeltzer.
Twenty-five acres of the land is planted to sugar beets, and he will plant the remainder
largely to lima beans. He planted sixteen acres of land to oranges in the Garden Grove
district, which, he disposed of to good advantage.
In 1910 Mr. Pyle was united in marriage with Miss Minnie Keseman, a native
daughter of San Bernardino County, Cal. Politically Mr. Pyle casts his vote with the
Republican party. Fraternally he is a member of the Huntington Beach Lodge No. 380,
F. & A. M., of which he is past master; belongs to Santa Ana Chapter No. 73, R. A. M.,
Santa Ana Council No. 14, R. & S. M., and to Santa Ana Commandery No. 36, Knight
Templars and Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Los Angeles, and is held in
high esteem by his brother Masons. He and his wife are members of the Order of
Eastern Star, of which she is past matron and he is past patron. Generous and hos
pitable, Mr. and Mrs. Pyle are justly popular among their friends and neighbors.
ARTHUR A. SCHNITGER. — A thoroughly practical agriculturist who has been
able to transform rough grain fields into beautiful gardens and orchards, and to create
one of the finest ranches in his neighborhood, is Arthur A. Schnitger, proprietor of
twenty choice acres on Euclid Avenue, one mile north of Garden Grove. He was born
at Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis., on April 13, 1879, the youngest son in a family
of nine children, including two brothers and six sisters. His father was Adolph F.
Schnitger, who came here from Watertown in 1892, and bought the forty acres known
as the Langenberger Place. It was planted to a vineyard, and fenced around with
lattice — but the vineyard died out, and Mr. Schnitger turned it into an alfalfa ranch.
He became well and favorably known in and around Anaheim and Garden Grove as a
man in every way of sterling worth; and when he died, in 1913 at the age of sixty-six,
he was widely mourned. Mrs. Schnitger was Caroline Hager before her marriage, and
she is still living at Anaheim. Mary, the eldest child, married the Rev. J. Schneider,
and now resides at Oakland; Edwin expects to remove from Watertown to California;
William E. is the president of the Garden Grove Walnut Growers Association; Lydia
is the wife of Martin Fisher of Anaheim; Arthur Albert is the subject of this sketch.
Pauline became the wife of H. C. Meiser, orange grower and nurseryman at Fuller-
ton; Ella died at the age of eleven; Esther, a seamstress, shares the home life of her
mother at Anaheim; and Hattie, who married Henry G. Carl, resides at Salem, Ore.
Arthur Schnitger attended the district schools in Jefferson County, Wis., and
continued his studies at Garden Grove, where he was graduated from the grammar
school. In 1906 he bought the twenty acres he has so handsomely developed — an
unattractive stretch of grain land, with not a tree upon it; now he has fourteen and a
half acres set out to Valencia oranges, five acres planted to walnuts, and maintains a
very good family orchard and vegetable garden. He has a fine well 149 feet deep, with
a fifty-foot lift, driven by a powerful electric dynamo. His ranch has already reached
the horseless stage, where a touring car and a Cleveland tractor do it all, and there
is not a horse to be seen. He has also a good blacksmith and machine shop on his
place, and there he does nearly everything needed in the mechanical line.
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The first improvement effected by Mr. Schnitger on his place was his barn,
after which came the sinking- of a well and the building of a water tank. In 1916, with
the assistance of the late Benjamin Oertly of Garden Grove, he built his attractive
bungalow without the help of any other carpenters or mechanics. The two friends not
only did every part of the carpenter work, but also the porches, steps, chimney and
other cement and brick work, and they executed all so well that the house is strikingly
attractive and embraces many modern conveniences, provided in plans drawn to a
scale by Mr. Schnitger and his talented wife.
For several years Arthur Schnitger, with others, ran a bean threshing outfit, and
while his partners sold out from time to time he, himself was interested in the business
longer than the others. With the Belle City and the Rumely, both rebuilt machines,
the men did a good business in their lines from Tustin to Buena Park and south to
Wintersburg. W. E. Schnitger, assisted by Arthur A. Schnitger rebuilt and converted
a steam threshing machine into a traction thresher using gasoline. The various men
who at different times composed the partnership in threshing were Messrs. Dozier,
Schnitger, Andres and Gibson.
At Garden Grove Mr. Schnitger was married to Helen Schneider, born in Missouri,
by whom he has had two children, twins, Barbara Joy and Fern Lucile. Leading
upright, industrious lives, Mr. and Mrs. Schnitger find time for something beside the
acquisition of material wealth, and take especial pleasure in active participation in all
the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Garden Grove.
VERNON H. KING. — Among the ablest and most successful newspaper editors
and proprietors of California, and one deserving in full .the popularity he enjoys in his
own and neighboring communities, must be rated Vernon H. King, the live wire manip
ulating the well-conducted Garden Grove News. He was born at Little Rock, Iowa,
on May 7, 1884, the son of Charles H. King, who is still living and resides with the
subject. Mrs. King, the mother, was Huldah Beeman before her marriage, and she died
at Bellflower, Cal., two years ago. These good parents had nine children, and six are
living today: Everett, the eldest, was until recently editor and proprietor of the Covina
Citizen, and now resides at Los Angeles; Vernon was the second in the order of birth;
Ethel has become the wife of Judge Hall, county judge of Brookings County, S. D.;
Charles is the superintendent of the Los Angeles Creamery; Laura is the wife of
Wallace Cornman, and lives at Los Angeles; Leonard is employed by the Union Oil
Company at Los Angeles. Charles H. King was a native of Maine; and Mrs. King a
native of Iowa. The father was a farmer and stockman, and moved from Lyon County,
Iowa, to Grant County, S. D., where, from 1891 to 1896, he was located at Summit.
His first actual newspaper work was done on the Pipestone Leader, when he was
for a while the "devil," or boy-of-all work, and incidentally learned to set type. He
worked on both of the newspapers there, also the Brookings Press and the Brookings
Leader, and added rapidly to his experience; and when the Minneapolis and St. Louis
Railway was building through South Dakota, he bought lots at Florence, S. D., pur
chased presses and other necessary equipment for a newspaper office, and put in his
printing plant before the rails had been laid to Florence. That was in 1906; and at
Florence he established the Florence Forum, and later bought the Wallace World and
also the Crocker Tribune, making three newspapers of which he was editor and pro
prietor, at the same time. He continued to live in South Dakota until he sold out his
newspapers to come to California, in 1912.
Settling in the Imperial Valley, in 1914 he established the Niland Review at Niland,
formerly called Imperial Junction, and that was the first newspaper there He con
ducted the Review until 1916, when he came to Garden Grove and bought out Walter
Potter, the owner of the Garden Grove News. A most loyal American, first last and
all the time, and a Republican whose counsel is often sought by the local party leaders,
Mr. King contributes what he can toward both a better citizenship and to the welfare
of the community. He was chairman of the League to Enforce Peace, and participated
actively in all war work. From 1917 to 1918 Mr. King was the wide-awake secretary of
the Garden Grove Chamber of Commerce, and it is no wonder that the circulation of the
News has doubled since he took hold of the paper. His printery includes all the
equipment necessary for any variety of high class job and newspaper work
In 1908 Mr. King was married to Miss Belle R. Ohnstad, a native of Codington
foiR % « an/ f\-a\. f" °i ^r ' L' K' °hnstad. who died in South Dakota in
1918. She attended high school at Waubay and at Watertown, S. D., and there was
0^,^, V ^ IT^ ^^ ^ ChiWren haVe bleSSed the ^^ate union,
Orville and Velma Upon coming to Garden Grove, four years ago, Mr. King pur
chased five acres, planted to Valencias, at present in a handsome sta£e of their growth;
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GUSTAVE J. CALLENS. — An excellent illustration of the advantages of coopera
tion in industry, especially among near of kin understanding each other and impelled
by common, unselfish motives, is afforded in the operations of the Callens Brothers,
Belgian-Americans, who have made good since they established themselves in Cali
fornia. The eldest of these is Gustave J. Callens, the rancher, who resids five miles
to the north of Irvine Station. He was born near Kortryk in Flanders, Belgium, on
November 13, 1879, the son of Henry Callens, a farmer, who was born and married
in Belgium, and is still farming there. He had married Mathilda Seurinck, a worthy
daughter of that country, whose fidelity as wife and mother was such that her end,
in being run over and killed by an enemy truck, was pathetic in the extreme. They
had eight children, two of whom died; and the other two who came to America are
Adolphe and Joseph Albert. Adolphe was born about 1884, married Miss Alice Vander-
beke, a resident of Anaheim but a native of Belgium. During 1920 they returned to
Belgium for a visit, being among the few thus favored in early seeing the devastated,
but still beautiful, country. The third brother of the group is Joseph Albert, whose
birth occurred about 1890, also in Belgium. All three of these sturdy boys grew up
in their native country, and enjoyed the usual educational advantages for which Bel
gium is widely known, studying in particular foreign languages, so that they read,
write and speak Flemish, the language of the people, French, which is more generally
used in business and officially, and English, now especially such a requisite in inter
course with the outside world.
Adolphe Callens was the first of the brothers to come to California, in 1907,
and he was followed the next year by Gustave and Joseph Albert. They had many
relatives in Oxnard, Ventura County, and there for a while they worked around on
ranches; and in 1911 they came south to Orange County, where they began to rent
six hundred acres of their present ranch. Since then, they have augmented the area
of their valuable lease by clearing up and bringing under the plow a lot of land that
previously was waste.
They are renting, in fact, two farms — one of nine hundred sixty-seven acres, and
another of six hundred acres, making over fifteen hundred acres in all which they
are operating. They also own a fine ranch of eighty acres at Greenville, in Orange
County, devoted to the culture of lima beans, and a forty-acre walnut grove at Ana
heim. Of the 967 acres rented from James Irvine, one hundred sixty-five acres are
set aside for lima beans, three hundred acres for black-eye beans, one hundred fifty-five
acres for wheat, and one hundred fifty acres for barley. The balance is in pasture, or
rough land, for this ranch lies close to the foothills. The scientific, economic and
progressive manner in which these experienced ranchers handle their crops has been
a source of instructive interest to fellow ranchers, and no one in the vicinity stands
higher than the three Callens brothers.
Gustave Callens, besides being a successful rancher, with something definite to
show for his intelligent industry, also has a war record of which anyone might be
proud. In 1914, having returned to Belgium, he was impressed for military service;
and having previously performed three years of military drill, he went into the front
lines as a seasoned soldier. He campaigned for four and a half years in Belgium and
France, and was in many very bloOdy engagements; but, luckily, he was never
wounded. After a year's service in the Belgian infantry, he was transferred to the
commissary department, in which he served as first sergeant during the last three
and a half years of the war. The first year he was in the Third Company, Seventh
regiment of infantry.
While in Belgium, on May 1, 1919, Mr. Callens was married to Miss Elie Devlies,
who returned with him to California, and was nicely settled on the San Joaquin
ranch, at the head of an ideal country home, but she died on June 22, 1920, mourned
by all who had come to know her.
ADOLPHE CALLENS. — An energetic, able, "get-there" type of young man
whose success has been phenomenal, is Adolphe Callens, one of the three well-known
brothers, bonanza ranchers on the San Joaquin, and the first one to come to America
and to lead the way for the other boys to reach California. He was born in West
Flanders, Belgium, on August 6, 1884, the son of Henry and Mathilda (Seurinck)
Callens, worthy farmer folks, who gave themselves to years of honest, exhausting toil.
The father is still living in Belgium at the age of seventy-six; but the mother was
killed during the World War when run over by a truck of the enemy. They had eighi
children and seven are living.
Adolphe's early life was spent in his native land, where he was given the best
of public school educational advantages, especially in the matter of modern tongues,
so that he learned French and Flemish before leaving for abroad, and for some time
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He first came to America in 1907, and proceeded west to Ventura County, Cal.,
and the following year he was joined there by his brothers, Gustave and Joseph. The
three were not long in hiring themselves out to work on farms, and being intelligent,
strong and willing, they became favorites with those who employed them. In 1910 he
came down to his present locality, and in partnership with his brothers rented a ranch
from Mr. Irvine. Now they are operating two large ranches on the San Joaquin,
and they also own an excellent ranch of eighty acres at Greenville, Orange County,
on which they grow lima beans, and they own and operate a grove of walnuts forty
acres in size, near Anaheim.
At Anaheim in 1916, Mr. Callens was married to Miss Alice Vanderbeke, a native
of Belgium and the daughter of Angelus Vanderbeke, who was actively engaged in
farming until he was eighty-two' and now lives retired at the advanced age of ninety-
two years. His devoted wife, who was formerly Juliana Vermeerch, passed away
April 8, 1919, in her seventy-fourth year, leaving three children: Adiel, a farmer in
Orangethorpe; Alice, Mrs. Callens, and Adila, who presides over her father's home.
After completing her education in Flanders, Mrs. Callens came to Newton, Jasper
County, Iowa, in 1910, and in 1911 came on to Anaheim, Cal., arriving July 4 of that
year. She graduated as a nurse from the Anaheim Hospital, where she practiced her
profession until her marriage. Three daughters have blessed the union of Mr. and
Mrs. Callens, and they are named, Angela, Agnes and Anita. Mr. Callens is a member
of the Knights of Columbus, affiliated with the Santa Ana branch.
During 1920, Mr! and Mrs. Callens made a trip to Belgium to see the familiar
spots and faces, or such as were left of them, again. On their return they landed at
New York City on the Fourth of July; but they soon embarked for the West and made
such good time that they arrived in their favorite home place in California on July 8.
AUGUST L. MARTEL. — A French-American with an interesting history and
experience having to do with both the Old World and the New, and with both North
ern and Southern California, is August L. Martel, the livestock man, butcher and land
owner of Talbert. He was born at Gap, in the Hautes-Alpes, in the southeastern part
of France, on February 4, 1865, and had the good educational opportunities of that
country. His father, Louis Martel, was a farmer and a stOckman, who married
Veronica Boudoir, their birth and marriage, as well as their death, taking place in
their native France. They had four children — three girls and a boy — among whom our
subject was the .second in the order of birth.
At nineteen years of age, he came to San Francisco in 1884, where he served an
apprenticeship as chef and when he was proficient he served in that capacity for the
celebrated Bohemian Club, of San Francisco, and also for the Palace Hotel and Maison
Dore, and coming south to Bakersfield, he also was chef for the old Southern Hotel,
and was there when the city and the old hotel burned. He then ran a restaurant there
for several years. Removing to Los Angeles, he displayed his culinary art to the patrons
of the old Hollenbeck Hotel, and thousands knew of his tasteful dinners and lunches,
and his skill in manipulating great banquets.
Three years before he came to Los Angeles, or about twenty-two years ago,
Mr. Martel went down to Fountain Valley and immediately he bought his ten acres, of
which he has since had such good reason to be proud. Thereon he has erected a
store building, which contains his meat market and grocery, residence and barns, and
where he employs three men in the business. The balance of the acreage he has
brought to a high state of cultivation. Always a hard worker, he has reaped the usual
fruits, in success of intelligent, persistent labor. He takes a live interest in the duties
of a citizen, and while voting on national issues under the principles of the Republican
party, he casts aside partisanship in local campaigns, and supports whatever or who
ever is best for the community. Besides dealing in staple and fancy groceries— the
finest and best are none too good for him— and fresh and salt meats, in the selection of
which he is naturally an expert, he buys and sells, and also butchers, beeves, hogs, sheep
and calves. While living at Bakersfield, Mr. Martel was married to Miss Mamie Lincoln, by
whom he had one child, who passed away; and in Fountain Valley this good companion
passed away He was married a second time, in Los Angeles, January 24, 1910, to
Mrs Millie Mueller, the daughter of John and Lou F. (Motley) Heaston, who are now
residing at Huntington Beach, honored as among the oldest pioneers in this western
part of Orange County. Mr. Heaston, who was born in Missouri, is now eighty-two
years of age, and Mrs. Heaston, who hails from Old Virginia, has attained her sixty-
second year. Mrs. Martel was born near Richmond, and lived there until she was seven.
then, after a couple of years spent in Missouri, she. came west to California and grew
M ynm8:nTea °d i" Sa" ?'eg° C°Unty' There she met her first husband, Emil
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California at Los Angeles. He practiced dentistry at Spring and Fourth streets, Los
Angeles, and at the same time was professor of dental surgery at the University of
Southern California until the time of his death, at the age of thirty-eight, in 1906. She
had one child by her first husband, Mary, now nineteen years old and a graduate of the
Huntington Beach high school, now Mrs. Emil Keslenholtz of Anaheim. Mrs. Martel
has six brothers and sisters, all of whom have been prosperous. One is Mrs. George
Bushard; another, James Heaston, who resides at Los Alamitos; a third, Cleve, who
is a resident of Los Angeles; a sister, Mrs. Frank P. Borchard, of Santa Ana; a brother
named Fields M. Heaston, a rancher of Lancaster, Los Angeles County; and the
youngest of the family, John W. Heaston, a rancher of Kern County.
ROBERT L. KNAPP. — Numbered as one of the ambitious, industrious and
progressive men of the younger generation of ranchers in Orange County, Robert
L. Knapp is rapidly advancing to the front rank of successful orchardists in the
Anaheim district, his ranch being located on Nursery Avenue in the Katella school
district. He was born in Canada on December 6, 1896, the son of the late Peter
B. Knapp, who came to California and located in Los Angeles County, as there was
no Orange County at that date — 1888. The mother was in maide"hhood, Christine
Livingston, who, like her husband, was a native of Canada. There were seven chil
dren in the Knapp family, all born in Canada, and five of them are living: Mary M.,
Mrs. G. W. Dorr; J. Allen; Rachel J., Mrs. E. M. Christensen; Elmer C; and Robert
L. George and Annie are both deceased. Mr. Knapp died in 1903 and his widow still
lives on the home place with her son Robert L. After Peter B. Knapp and his son
George had been in Orange County about twelve years the other members of the
family came here to join them in 1900, and they moved on the ranch where the family
now lives. Robert L. Knapp attended the public schools in Orange County, and he at once
began making improvements on the ranch after the death of his father. Under his
skillful hands, assisted by his brother, Elmer C, who was born in Canada on May 20,
1894, the thirty-acre ranch has been set to Valencia oranges and lemons. While
the trees were maturing they raised beans and peppers between the rows to meet ex
penses. The trees are now in a very thriving 'condition and much is expected from
the model ranch as the years pass. With the exception of the buildings on the place,
every improvement has been placed thereon by the Knapp Brothers, and is being oper
ated by them, they having bought the property from their mother and each looks
after his portion. Robert is public-spirited and lends his aid to all movements for the
betterment of conditions and the upbuilding of the county, and his friends repose the
highest confidence in his integrity, and his standing in the community is deservedly the
highest. It is in the hands of such men that the future of Orange County is placed
and the results they will obtain are certain to be of the highest order.
HUNTINGTON BEACH UNION HIGH SCHOOL.— Few institutions of learn
ing in California have done more to help shape the destiny of the younger and fast-
growing communities than has the Huntington Beach Union High School, whose
excellent standing as an accredited high school, admitting to colleges and universities
without further examination, is due in part to the scholarly, thorough work of Mc
Clelland G. Jones, its principal. The grounds include ten acres, a mile northwest of
the business center of the beach, while among the buildings on that site is the two-
story brick and concrete structure devoted to manual arts work. There are excellent
facilities for athletics, including a basket ball ground and three tennis courts, together
with a football and baseball field, and fields and track for general athletics. The high
school course includes four years of work beginning with the ninth and extending
through the twelfth grade; and there is also an opportunity for graduate work. As in
most modern high schools the program includes a commercial department and -a depart
ment of domestic science; as well as courses in art, music and agriculture. The precinct
of the high school takes in all the beach and coast from Seal to Newport Beach, and the
school furnishes transportation for those pupils coming from the cities and places on
the line of the Pacific Electric Railway, namely, Balboa, Newport Beach, Sunset Beach
and Seal Beach. The school also operates two auto busses, gathering up the pupils
from the outlying country districts. The enrollment December, 1919, was 163 pupils,
and there are twenty-three seniors in the class of '20. The average daily attendance
is 155 pupils.
The board of directors of the Union high school are: President, E. R. Bradbury;
clerk, C. A. Johnson; and the balance of the trustees, W. T. Newland, Sr., R. E. Larter,
arid H. L. Heffner. Meetings of the board are held the second Friday in each month.
The principal, as has been stated, is McClelland G. Jones; and the remainder of the
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Maro-aret Keen, Miss Francis Douthit, Miss Martha Trafford, Miss Florence Larter,
Frank Smith, Leon Olds, Ray Walker, and Dr. Paul White. Mrs. Julia M. Payne is
secretary to the principal.
Principal Jones was born at Delevan, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., on December
14 1885 the son of Evan Jones, who was born in Wales. He became an educator,
having migrated to America, and was graduated from the Geneseo, N. Y., Normal
School, after which he taught school in western New York for ten years. Then he
went into business in the same region and engaged in the manufacturing of butter and
cheese. Mrs. Jones, now deceased, was also a native of the Empire State and was
popular as Miss Adda Gibby; she graduated from the Franklinville Academy, and 'was
a teacher before her marriage. In the spring of 1914 she passed away, mourned by five
children, among whom the subject of our interesting review was the second in order
of birth. McClelland Jones was graduated with the class of '04 from the Delevan, N. Y.,
high school, and for three years engaged in business. Then he entered the the Liberal
Arts department of the University of Michigan, and was graduated in June, 1911, with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He served as principal of the high school at Owosso,
Mich., from 19ll to 1915, in all four and one-half years, when he was advised by phy
sicians to seek out-of-door life; but remaining in central Michigan until January, 1918,
he suffered a complete breakdown.
On March 7 of the following year Mr. Jones came west to Los Angeles, and for
several months he pursued graduate work in the University of Southern California.
On July 1 of the same year, he entered upon his present position.
While in western New York, Mr. Jones was married to Miss Mabel Cheney, a
native of Bradford, Pa., although at the time of her marriage, a resident of Delevan,
N. Y. She is a graduate of Ithaca, N. Y., high school, one of the best of New York's
secondary institutions, and has thus been able to enter intensively into the work of
her husband. JAMES E. BROWN. — Among the well-known residents of the Bolso voting
precinct, Orange County, is James E. Brown, a representative of that very important
class of American farmers who have won success through industry, frugality and self-
denial. Beginning life handicapped by many disadvantages he has made a success and
his sterling traits of character have won recognition among his associates in the
twenty-four years of his residence in Orange County.
Mr. Brown is a native of Virginia, born near Middletown, Warren County,
February 22, 1869. His father, James E-, for whom he was named, served as a soldier
in the Confederate army, and died when his son James was but a year old. The
widowed mother moved with her three children to Lincoln County, Mo., where she
married William Swiger, a farmer. James grew up on the home farm in Lincoln
County, and his educational advantages were limited to the short time in winter when
it was too cold to work. At the age of seventeen he began to work out on the neigh
boring farms by the month, and afterwards went to Pike County, 111., where he was
married, August 2, 1891, to Miss Mary C. Helm, a native of that county, whose father,
William Helm, was a native of England, and whose mother, Elizabeth (Reeder) Helm,
was born in Scott County, 111. Her father was a carpenter, who followed farming after
his marriage, and she is the second child in a family of three daughters and one son.
Her mother died when she was six, and when sixteen death claimed her father.
Mr. Brown rented land for four years in Pike County, 111., and farmed until he
came to California in 1896 and purchased the home place of ten acres. Mr. and Mrs.
Brown have three living children: Eliabeth J. graduated from the Santa Ana high school
in 1917; she is a stenographer and a very capable employe of the First National Bank
at Garden Grove; Virgil E. is a graduate of the Santa Ana high school, class of 1914,
and also graduated from the agricultural department of the University of California at
Davis in 1917; Harriet M. graduated from the Santa Ana high school with the class of
1917, and is now a senior in the University of Southern California. She also graduated
from the Junior College at Santa Ana in 1919; Virgil enlisted in the Twenty-first Com
pany of the National Guard of the Coast Artillery, July 23, 1917, trained at Fort Mc-
Arthur, was transferred to the Fifty-fifth Ammunition Train, Company C, and sailed
from New York, September 8, 1918, landing at Brest, France, September 21 of that
year. He was at Cluffes, France, when the armistice was signed, and remained in
France until February, 1919, being honorably discharged at Camp Kearny, San Diego,
March 17, 1919. Virgil and his father jointly own thirty-four acres adjoining the forty
acres owned by Mr. Brown, which they purchased January, 1920. The father takes ten
acres of this property and the son retains the other twenty-four. They leveled the
property and planted ten acres of it to Valencia oranges in 1920, and expect to plant the
remainder of it to Valencias. Mr. Brown grows beans, peppers and sugar beets.

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Although Mr. Brown through unfortunate circumstances was denied the advan
tages of a good education in his boyhood days, he is a stanch champion for good
public schools, and is now serving his fourth three-year term as clerk of the Garden
Grove grammar school, one of the best schools of its kind in Southern California.
While carefully conserving the public funds he is liberal and generous, and the school
children of this favored district reap the advantages thus afforded. He is an honest
upright, straightforward, common sense man, frank and honorable in every deal and
his hfe will ever remain an encouragement to all who are compelled to start life under
the handicap of limited means and lack of opportunity. He has been ably assisted in
his battle through life by his true and loyal wife, a woman of splendid good sense and
strong character, and a dutiful and loving wife and mother. Mr. Brown's daughters
are members of the Garden Grove Methodist Church, and in his fraternal affiliations
Mr. Brown is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
E. C. MILES.— Cooperation having come to be recognized, more and more, as
one of the most indispensable requisites of success in modern industry, it is not sur
prising to find in Fullerton, which has already set the high water mark in various
fields of endeavor, an organization of such merit as the Fullerton Mutual Orange
Association, whose efficient secretary and manager is E. C. Miles. Not less than thirty-
five people are employed to carry on a work directed for the past seven years by him.
Mr. Miles was born in Keokuk County, Iowa, on January 13, 1867, the son of Daniel
Miles, a farmer well known in Iowa for the common sense and thorough methods he
employed in tilling the soil and harvesting. He was a native of Ohio, and married
Miss Deliah Fear, who was born in Iowa. When the Civil War threatened to divide
these United States, Mr. Miles enlisted for the cause of the Union, and for three years
served with the Thirty-third Iowa Regiment. Both parents are now dead.
The oldest of eleven children, E. C. Miles was educated at a rural school and
later attended a business college at Trinidad, Colo., which gave him a valuable drill in
the methods of commerce and industry. He had remained at home with his father
until he was twenty-one years of age, and then located at Trinidad, Colo., where he
was in the wholesale grocery business for seven years. In Denver, the dry goods
business attracted him for three years, and then, at the beginning of this century, he
came to California.
Settling for a while at Monrovia, Mr. Miles went into the packing business; and
later he was engaged in contracting and building for ten years. In 1911 he removed
to Fullerton, and bought an orange grove; and soon after he assumed his present
position with, the Fullerton Mutual Orange Association. Very naturally, Mr. Miles
is a member and greatly interested in the Fullerton Board of Trade. Mr. Miles is
also interested in developing a ranch in Tulare County, devoted to vineyard, as well
as a lumber, hardware and building material business at Venice Hill, Tulare County.
The marriage of Mr. Miles and Miss Alice Richardson occurred at Trinidad, Colo.,
on June 14, 1892, and this union has been blessed with the birth of two children:
C. Neal is a rancher in Tulare County; and Bessie is the wife of Foster E. Chambers of
Orange. Mrs. Miles was born in Illinois. Neal Miles has proven, as a soldier who
went to the denfense of his country, a son such as any parent might be proud of. He
enlisted in the United States Coast Artillery, and was made a sergeant of the first
class. A Republican always desirous of doing his full civic duty, Mr. Miles is a Mason,
a Modern Woodman, a member of the Woodmen of the World and a Yeoman. He is a
director of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Fullerton, and is a member and
financial supporter of the First Baptist Church of that place. Fond of hunting and
fishing, he rejoices with thousands of others that California affords such sport in both
of these fields.
J. M. WOODWORTH. — Orange County will never forget the important and
necessary part played by the far-sighted, experienced and conservative bankers in her
agricultural, commercial, philanthropic and even social development through which she
has come to take a front place of honor and influence in the Californian conclave and
prominent among the agencies which have made for the greatest progress in the South
land must be mentioned the First National Bank of Garden Grove, now one of the
healthiest ten-year-olds in the state. Its success is undoubtedly due, in part, to the
conviction of the wide-awake people in the community it tries to serve that it possesses
every banking facility and meets every local requirement; while, on the other hand, its
increased working capital, together with recent physical changes in the bank's interior,
adding to the convenience and general satisfaction of the patrons, has widened its
territory, added rapidly by new acquisitions to the number of its depositors, and enabled
it to do business on a broader and more liberal, if at the same time thoroughly con
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growth is due to the personal attention to every detail, and the hard, conscientious
work by J. M. Woodworth, the Iowa banker who settled here in 1918 and purchased a
controlling interest, through which he was made president and came to assume the
active management.
For twenty-five years or more Mr. Woodworth was interested in three or four
banks in Iowa, and came from the well-known town of Grinnell thoroughly familiar
with the conditions of investment he was to deal with here. He associated with him
as officers Vice-President C. B. Scott, Jr., and Cashier F. A. Monroe, and made up a
board of directors composed of himself, Mr. Scott, H. C. Head and W. S. Fawcett. The
latter, now a large rancher in the Imperial Valley, was a boyhood friend of Mr. Wood-
worth, and, as a frequent caller at Garden Grove, keeps in intimate touch with the
progress of local affairs and the management of the bank, although he also discharges
the responsibility of a director of the First National Bank of El Centro as well as
the Southern Trust Company of San Diego. It is no wonder that the First National
Bank enjoys the entire confidence of the people of this section, for it has become a
member of the great Federal Reserve System, and as such is sure to provide the best
of banking conditions through good times and bad.
It was really early in 1909 that a few men — those men of both, vision and faith
who work miracles, expand communities and develop commonwealths — seeing the neces
sity for a financial institution, especially when Garden Grove was mostly a postoffice
among merely barley patches, but patches and fields of the greatest promise, estab
lished the Bank of Garden Grove. That fall it was opened for business under a state
charter, and, as the policy of the institution from the beginning was to work for the
best interests of the district, the bank grew rapidly and strongly with the community
and the town. In September, 1918, it was converted into "The First National Bank of
Garden Grove," and since that date its growth has been especially gratifying. Indeed,
at the last call from the Comptroller for a statement of its actual condition, it showed
a working capital of $50,000, and total resources of over one-half million dollars. It
has assisted Garden Grove to rise from a grain field of uncertain quantity to productive
acres bringing cash returns of $1,000 each in a short space of ten years. There were
actually shipped from Garden Grove station over 700 carloads, valued at over two
millions of dollars, miscellaneous products grown in the immediate vicinity of Garden
Grove for the year 1919, and Garden Grove, properly appreciative, has assisted to give
the bank, by its generous, good-willed patronage, all the stability that could be desired.
Thus not only have soil, water and climate lavished blessings to all who would partake,
but the courage, ambition and knowledge of the settlers have been liberally rewarded,
and all have gained immensely who had faith and vision to invest and work out results.
With a general bank equipment the equal of any country bank in the county, and
a management and expert force ready and anxious to serve customers within and from
without the community, the bank has a fireproof vault in which can be stored at small
cost valuable papers and records, and a complete set of maps showing all platted lands
and ownership in the community, which maps are always at the service of the public.
PAUL BENJAMIN ROY.— A dependable citizen of Garden Grove, a locality
chosen by him for residence and work as the most attractive he ever found anywhere
in his wide travels, is Paul Benjamin Roy, who has attained to his present position of
affluence and influence after an interesting development in varied lines of endeavor.
He was born in the city of Montreal, Canada, on July 4, 1866, the son of Benjamin Roy,
a J-rench-Canadian who was also a native of Montreal and became a steamboat man
on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence, where he piloted the important steamers of
the mail line, and made railway time between Montreal and Hamilton. He was so
expert that he could pilot the rapids of the Thousand Isles, the Long Sioux Rapids,
the Cascades, the Shoat a Balom Rapids, as well as the rapids beneath the Victoria
linage He was married in Montreal to Miss Annie Sweeney, a native of England
whose father and brother were marine engineers under the British government, and
who grew up ,n Montreal. Eleven children were born to them, and three are now
hvmg^ Sarah is the wife of John Olszewski, a hotel chef who resides in Los Angeles;
nn^ilt ^iVV b J6Ct °f °Ur review; and Adelille is the wife of William Roy-
no relative of P. B. Roy-and hves at Montreal, where her husband is boss in a cotton
Z Tai Be"Ja"lln R°y' at the a^e of thirty-seven, was one of twenty-two persons lost
fire III ." November' 187S> whe", at ten o'clock at night, his steamer caught
children Paid Za |aS°enger?, ""V™™* Mrs. Roy, the mother, lived with her
When ¦ ? ' ,, *h e dled in Califomia at the age of seventy.
ivhirhh 1 ?/rS °ld' ,Paul Beniami" e"tered the service of the same line by
nthian J£ fo d ^ employed' whe" he was pilot for the Spartan and the Cor-
Le went nn theg \T° .yea"a s a. ™«s-room boy. When he left the Richelieu line,
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with this merchant line which carried passengers between Montreal and Chicago. The
second year he was transferred to the St. Catherine and was on that ill-fated vessel
when, at three o'clock in the morning, it was struck amidships and sunk by an American
vessel. The passengers and all hands save a fireman escaped, but the vessel went
down within thirty minutes.
For eight years Mr. Roy followed steamboating, next going on a freight boat
of the Ward line running out of Detroit, and between Duluth and Buffalo, on which
line he remained for two seasons, acting as lookout man or second mate. The next
season he followed Captain Will Compo on the Northwest, a vessel of the Great
Northern Steamship Company and at that time the finest fresh water boat, plying
between Duluth and Buffalo. In the meantime, too, he had ventured into the barber's
business, and for a couple of years ran a barber shop in West Superior, Wis., so that
when he came to California nearly a quarter of a century ago, he was so well equipped
with experience that he soon became the leading tonsorial proprietor of Los Angeles.
He owned the Metropolitan Barber Shop at 219 West Third Street, which had a full
equipment for Turkish and other baths, then the largest and finest barber shop in the
world. During his long and eventful career in steamboating, Mr. Roy met many famous
men and women. Among them was the Prince of Wales, later King Edward of Eng
land, and he shook hands with the" Princess of Wales, and chatted with her for several
minutes. Mr. Roy has owned and improved several ranches, among them one of 200 acres
devoted to apples and alfalfa in Victorville, and from there he went to Perris, River
side County, and engaged in raising alfalfa, purchasing a ranch of eighty acres. For a
while he lived in San Diego County, where he was proprietor of the Kilkenny Hotel, at
the same time that he developed a lemon grove of twenty acres four miles east of San
Diego. When he sold his alfalfa ranch at Perris in 1919, he removed to Garden Grove,
where he owns a ranch of twenty acres, largely a Valencia orange grove. Eighteen
years ago he bought 100 acres of raw land at Anaheim, but disposed of it later at an
advanced price. He set out walnut trees, and the grove is now known as the Cleveland
ranch. He also built up and replanted the Big Four ranch at North Rialto in San
Bernardino County, and this is still known as the "Roy" ranch.
When Mr. Roy married, in 1888, he took for his bride Miss Amelia Provost, a
native of St. Paul, Minn., who is as enthusiastic concerning Garden Grove as he is
himself. One daughter blessed their union, and she is now Mrs. W. L. Christian of
Los Angeles. Mr. Roy is a naturalized American, and an active Republican. Mr. and
Mrs. Roy have been extensive travelers, having been through Europe, Japan, Australia
and Philippines. Mr. Roy is a good deal of a sport, and has something to show for it. While a
boatman, he became an expert swimmer and came to boast of the world's championship
medal for long distance swimming. Through this prowess he really first came to
California; for he intended to swim from Catalina to the mainland — a feat he never
undertook, after all. He also drove the first automobile — a steam car which he himself
owned — seen in the streets of Santa Ana, and made early record trips from San Diego
to Los Angeles, and from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara. In the first case, on country
roads he covered the ground in six hours and six minutes; while on the run to Santa
Barbara he motored about four hours. He has put from $50,000 to $60,000 into his
present estate at Garden Grove, and still plans other improvements. He is a member
of numerous fraternal orders and clubs.
AMOS. B. EVERETT. — Numbered among the respected citizens of Buaro pre
cinct is Amos B. Everett, a man who despite the hardships and tragedies encountered
in his earlier life has maintained his poise, and now enjoys a tranquil life on a walnut
grove in Buaro precinct. Eight acres of the twenty he owns is planted to twelve-year-
old walnut trees, two acres to two-year-old budded walnut trees, eight acres to budded
trees, and he has two acres for a family garden.
Mr. Everett was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, June 23, 1852, a son of Benjamin
and Catherine (Lowery) Everett, natives of New York State and Ohio, respectively.
The father was a farmer and went to Illinois when Amos B. was only two years old,
settling at Knoxville, Knox County, where Amos was reared on his father's farm and
assisted him with the farm work while two of his brothers served in the Union army
during the Civil War. He began working on the farm when very young, drove a team
and plowed when nine years old and had to stand on a box in order to harness the
horses. When he was twenty-one years old he began to work for wages, and migrated
from Illinois to Kansas, settling near Hutchinson where he took a tree claim and
proved up on it, and lived in Kansas twenty-five years. From Kansas he went to
Nebraska where he was married to Emma Pearson, and there m Cherry County was
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she was out driving, and she lost her life. By a strange coincidence this was the only
time she had ever left her little daughter at home alone. The child, Stella May, is now
the wife of Fay Brown, a farmer of Partridge, Kans., and they are the parents of a
daughter named Edith. The same prairie fire also destroyed about 100 head of cattle be
longing to Mr. Everett. Alone and discouraged he decided to change his environment
and went to Kansas, from whence he came to California in 1903. Three years before
coming to California Mr. Everett was married a second time, his wife, who was Miss
Flora Davis before her marriage, is a native of Ohio and was reared in Kansas. They
are the parents of six children: Lester and Elmer work at Santa Ana; William, Ada,
Olathe and Grace are at home.
Mr. Everett is recognized by all as a man of strict integrity, and his kindly and
considerate nature has won for him many warm friends during the seventeen years of
his residence in the Garden Grove district. In his political views he is a Republican.
DR. JOHN I. CLARK. — From the time of the founding of our great republic, and
indeed long before in the traditions of the Anglo-Saxon people, the status of the physi
cian has been an enviable one in the representative community, village, town or city, on
which account the part played in the municipality of Santa Ana by such a progressive
humanitarian and scientist as Dr. John I. Clark, the physician and surgeon, is all the
more interesting. He was born at Craig, Nebr., on February 4, 1875, the son of
William A. Clark, a farmer and stockman who married Miss Mary E. Kennedy, and
when the time came that the North and the South faced each other in the awful Civil
War, he served his country faithfully in the Federal Army. They were the parents of
five children — three boys and two girls — among whom our subject was second in the
order of birth. Both parents are now dead. Having attended the grammar schools
at Craig, while he grew up on his father's farm, and been graduated from the high
school there, John Clark matriculated at the Rush Medical College in Chicago, and
graduated from that famous institution with the class of 1897, with degree of M.D.
Then he became an interne at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, where he began
to acquire his first valuable practical experience.
Once equipped to follow his professional work, Dr. Clark practiced for a year
at Craig, Nebr., and then continued his practice for four years at Idaho Springs, Colo.
His fortunate geographical location brought him soon into contact with many from
distant as well as near by points, and so his reputation rapidly developed. On coming
to Santa Ana in May, 1904, Dr. Clark established himself with ease; and it was not long
before he was a director in the Santa Ana Hospital. More and more, he enjoyed the
entire confidence of his fellow-citizens; and for twelve years he was city health officer.
In national politics a Republican, he has never failed to participate without partisanship
in all civic discussions and endeavors for the public good.
At Craig, Nebr., on April 6, 1898, Dr. Clark was married to Miss Mollie D. Clark,
an estimable lady of no relationship, the daughter of Dr. Samuel W. Clark of Iowa;
and since then Mrs. Clark has participated in the deep interest of her husband in the
development of the community in which they have lived, and in his outdoor life with
golf and fishing. He belongs to the Masonic order being a Knight Templar and
Shriner, his membership in the latter being in Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.,
Los Angeles. He is also a member of Santa Ana Lodge of Elks and of the Orange
County Country Club.
As might be expected of one so favorably known as a highly-trained practitioner,
Dr. Clark is a member of the American Medical Association, the State, Southern Cali
fornia and the County Medical societies; and his activity in these organizations con
stantly helps to maintain Orange County in pleasant association with the outside
scientific world.
ANDREW MEYER. — The excellent cultivation, tillage and good management
expended in the care of the property operated by Andrew Meyer, lying two miles
northwest of Orange, bespeaks the thrift and good judgment of the owner. Mr. Meyer
has four acres in Valencia oranges and six acres of walnuts, and takes a just pride in
the neat appearance of his acreage. He was born in Clinton County, 111., August 24,
1880, and when five years old, in 1885, accompanied his parents, August and Fredericka
ifn r Meyer t° Neosho County, Kans., where the father became the owner of a
160-acre farm. The parents and their seven children are living, and Andrew is the
youngest son and fifth child in order of birth in the parental family. He early became
accustomed to ranch work, plowing when only ten years of age, and grew to young
manhood on the home farm, assisting in the various duties that pertain to life on a
tarm He was educated in the common schools of his home district, and in 1906 went
to Idaho and Washington, returning after eight months to his Kansas home. The next
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He was associated with his brother George in this venture, and they purchased 320
acres of land, which they afterward traded for 480 acres. From 1906 to 1912 they
ran from eighty to one hundred head of cattle and about the same number of swine
on their property.
In 1913 Mr. Meyer went to Wichita Falls, Texas, where he worked at the carpen
ter's trade for one year. He then tried his fortune in central Kansas, continuing the
same occupation, and afterwards went to northwestern Kansas and engaged in the real
estate business for one and a half years. Then California's charms appealed to him and
he decided to cast his lot in that state. He came to the Pacific Coast in 1915, and in
November of that year established domestic ties by his marriage with Mrs.' Emma
Struck, born in Pennsylvania, daughter of Herman Heim of Orange and widow of the
late Max Struck, who was well and favorably known to the community. As a child
Mrs. Struck came to Kansas with her parents, and later the family removed to Orange,
Cal. She is the sister of Albert and Carl O. Heim, whose sketches appear elsewhere
in this work. At the age of twenty-two she married Max Struck, whose death occurred
in 1908 as the result of an accident. Mr. Struck owned the ten acres that Mr. Meyer
now operates and which continues to be their home. Mrs. Meyer is noted for her
housewifely qualities and fortunate indeed is the passing stranger or the friend who
is invited to share the hospitality of the genial host and hostess in their model and
excellent home. Mr. Meyer enjoys to an exceptional degree the esteem and confidence
of his associates, and he and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church at Orange,
and have many warm friends.
JOSEPH BRICKE. — The spirit that prompted our forefathers to leave their native
land to carve out their fortunes in a new world has its counterpart in this generation
in many who, animated by a desire to avail themselves of broader opportunities, have
left the older civilization to seek the newer fields of untried possibilities. That this
spirit, coupled with industry and perseverance, will almost invariably succeed is mani
fested in the life of Joseph Bricke, the citrus grower of Orange, who is the owner of
two prosperous ranches.
Born in Bavaria, Germany, June 10, 1872, Joseph Bricke is the son of Joseph and
Mary (Knoth) Bricke, the father being engaged in the undertaking business and having
agricultural interests as well. Joseph remained at home until he was twenty-one years
of age, when he left the old home for America, landing at Philadelphia on August 27,
1893. He soon located in the vicinity of Buffalo, N. Y., remaining there for thirteen
years, engaged in farming.
In 1905, Mr. Bricke decided to seek his fortune in the milder climate of California
and that this decision was a wise one is evidenced by the splendid success he has made
as a rancher. For a time after arriving in Orange County Mr. Bricke worked out on
the farms of others, gaining experience in the agricultural modes of this part of the
country and accumulating capital to embark in the ranching business for himself. He
is now the owner of two ten-acre citrus ranches, which he has planted and developed
himself, and which he has brought up to a high state of productivity, so that both
ranches now bring him a handsome income. His home ranch is situated two and a
half miles northeast of Orange and here he has resided since 1908. His other place
is located on Seventeenth Street, Santa Ana, and his time is busily occupied in looking
after these properties.
Mr. Bricke was married January 5, 1911, to Miss Ethel House, who was born in
Arizona, and they are the parents of one son, Donald Earl, born July 31, 1914. Mrs.
Bricke is descended from two generations of California pioneers, both her father and
grandfather having been among the early settlers of the state. Her parents are Edmond
Shirley and Alice Henrietta (Grimes) House, who are both still living, the father at the
age of eighty-one years, and since October, 1919, they have resided with their son,
Edmond H. House, on a part of the Irvine ranch at the head of Peters Canyon, in
Silverado precinct.
Edmond Shirley House was born in Stoddard County, Mo., in 1840, his parents
being Henry and Kitty House. He was the youngest of a family of four girls and three
boys and when a lad of ten he accompanied his parents to Texas, where he received
his early education in the district schools there. He remained there until he was nine
teen years old, when he made the overland journey to California, arriving at El Monte
in the fall of 1859. The next spring he went to Salinas and went to stock raising
there, very little grain farming being carried on at that time. The next twenty years
he spent in stock raising, in which he made good success, meanwhile acquiring the
Spanish language, which he found a decided asset in his transactions with the native
settlers. In 1880 Mr. House removed to San Benito County, where he took up two
government claims, raising stock on this land. After two years he went to San Luis
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not prove entirely successful, however, so he came to Orange County in 1884, bought
forty acres of peat land near Westminster and continued his agricultural operations.
He was always a very successful farmer, and notwithstanding the low prices of farm
products in those days he was able to amass considerable means.
In 1889 he moved to Arizona, spending one season there, and it was during this
time that Mrs. Bricke was born. Later he went to Honolulu, and with his family spent
two years in the Hawaiian Islands, and on his return to the United States settled at
Redlands, where he resided until the fall of 1919, when he went to live with his son on
the Irvine ranch.
Mr. House was united in marriage with Miss Alice Henrietta Grimes in 1869 at
Salinas, Cal., her parents being California pioneers. Of their six children, four are
living: Margaret is the wife of Charles Wheaton, a rancher at Redlands; Edmond H.
married Bessie Whisler and resides on the Irvine ranch; Ethel is the wife of Joseph
Bricke, of this review; John Earl is a ranch foreman at El Toro. An interesting talker,
Mr. House has indeed lived a useful and successful life, full of varied experiences, and
he and his good wife, after fifty-one years of companionship, are still in the enjoyment
of good health and the devoted friendship of a large circle of friends.
JOHN P. HOEPTNER.— A splendid example of what the larger, freer oppor
tunities of America may afford is furnished by the now well-to-do family of John P.
Hoeptner, who rose from the laboring classes of Prussia, came to the United States,
and was able, through hard work and frugality, to establish a home and bring up a
large family in the most intelligent and loyal manner. He was born in Prussia on
May 12, 1865, and when twenty-seven was married to Miss Ida Minach. Three years-
after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Hoeptner came from Germany to California with
their two children, and at once located in Los Angeles County, and there he lost no
time in buying land and establishing a more permanent home. He purchased twenty
acres of the Dominguez Ranch near Long Beach, in that county, and this was the
place where the worthy couple reared their children, and where they still maintain
their home. He has a fine, up-to-date residence, which he himself ordered built.
In 1915, Mr. Hoeptner bought another ranch of forty acres at Talbert, in Orange
County, which he still owns and operates, and which was known as the John McDowell
ranch. He raises beets and beans,, and has had very good crops. He is far-seeing
in his operations, untiring in his attention to the work of the hour, and so carries out
a program almost sure of success.
Eight children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Hoeptner, bringing out
the best traits of the parents, and evidencing the best of devotion from sons and daugh
ters. Bertha is in the government service as a trained nurse at the March Field Aviation
Camp at Riverside; Max, a rancher, farms eighty-five acres of rented land at Talbert,
and lives on the forty-acre ranch of his father; Herbert served in the California National
Guard and served on the Mexican Bosder, receiving a medal for bravery. When
America entered the World War he enlisted, and served until the armistice, when he
was honorably discharged with the rank of lieutenant. He married Miss Clara Ball
of National City, and is now with the Santa Fe Railroad at Santa Barbara. Hazel,
who graduatedlrom the McKay Business College at Los Angeles, is a stenographer in
that city; Irene had the same training and is also similarly employed. Frederick is
another graduate from this excellent institution, and is a bookkeeper for the McCor
mick Lumber Company at San Pedro; Lincoln is at home with his father, and Louise
is in the Compton High School.
A Republican in national politics, Mr. Hoeptner and his family are preeminently
Americans, and not only aided in the Red Cross work to the extent of their ability, but
also bought Liberty Bonds to their full capacity.
, JEROME T. LAMB.— One of the most prosperous and successful walnut growers
oi Urange County but now living retired at Huntington Beach, Jerome T. Lamb is
related to two distinguished American families, the Grant and Fillmore families. Mr.
0VS 3 Tna/?-e °f Wlsconsm, horn at Waukesha, December 17, 1854, a son of James
and Mary j. (Fillmore) Lamb, both natives of the state of New York. The father of
Mrs teamb, Daniel Fillmore, was a cousin of President Millard Fillmore, while her
mother was Thankful Ann Grant, a cousin of President U. S. Grant
\\ hen James Lamb was a lad of fourteen years, he ran away from home and
became a sailor on a whaling vessel, following the adventurous life of a sailor for
eleven years, afterward returning to Wisconsin where he married and engaged in farm
ing. During the year 1848, he made the trip around Cape Horn, and up to California,
returning to Wisconsin ,n 1852. In 1857, with his family, he joined an overland train,
consisting o eighty covered wagons, bound for Oregon. The emigrant train started on
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crossing the Indian-infested plains they were also attacked and lost all their cows
and oxen. The party reached Utah through Echo Canyon, and Mr. Lamb was obliged
to remain in the canyon for six years, where he was engaged in cutting timber for
saw mills. The original idea of going tq Oregon was abandoned and instead Mr.
Lamb and his family took the southern route, and in course of time reached San
Bernardino, Cal., in 1865.
In 1871 the family moved to Los Angeles County and located on the Brea ranch,
farming the land where the oil wells were afterwards found. James Lamb died in
1908 in San Diego County at the advanced age of eighty-one years; his wife returned
to Los Angeles County, where she passed away in 1910 at the age of 'seventy-one.
They were the parents of nine children, eight of whom reached maturity.
Jerome T. Lamb was the eldest child and was but three years of age when the
family started on their long overland journey across the plains. He grew up in San
Bernardino and Los Angeles counties, following farming in the latter county. In 1912
he located in Orange County, settling in Buaro precinct where he purchased twenty
acres of land, fourteen of which he planted to walnuts and one and a fourth acres to
oranges. He installed a pumping plant and has developed his place into one of the
most productive walnut groves in the district.
On November 13, 1879, Jerome T. Lamb was united in marriage with Miss Clara
E. Short, daughter of John E. and Mary Elizabeth (Hardy) Short, natives of Illinois,
the ceremony being solemnized at Pomona. Mrs. Lamb was left an orphan at the age
of twelve years, after which she made her home with an uncle, Thomas Short, a farmer
at Percy, 111., When nineteen years old she came with a married sister to Los Angeles
and was married 'to Mr. Lamb the following- year. Of this happy union two children
were born: Mary Adella is the wife gf Earl W. Jonas, bridge inspector for the Salt
Lake Railway Company, and they have four children — Helen I., Thelma M., Earl W.
and Margaret; Walter T. Lamb, the second child, is a civil engineer at Los Angeles and
was born at Pasadena, August 22, 1883. He is in the engineering department of the
Pacific Electric Railway and lives in Los Angeles. He was married August 27, 1912,
to Miss Agnes Nast of Los Angeles and they are the parents of three children — Audrey
E., Mildred and Dorothy. Jerome T. Lamb is a member of Palms Lodge No. 422,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while with his wife he is a member of Acacia
Rebekah Lodge No. 314, Huntington Beach.
WENDELL P. READ. — Well adapted for the prominent and important position
he holds as principal of the El Modena grammar school, Wendell P. Read, is recog
nized by all as a competent, successful and popular teacher. Mr. Read was born in a
log cabin on a Kansas homestead at Council Grove, Kans., October 8, 1876, and is the
son of Dwight R. Read, a native of Oswego, New York, and an old time abolitionist
who enlisted in Company H of the One Hundredth New York Volunteer Infantry,
serving valiantly throughout the entire Civil War. After the close of the war he was
married at Atchison, Kans., to Miss Mary Elizabeth Ingersoll, who was born in Indiana
and reared in Iowa, and was a distant relative of the late Colonel Ingersoll — about a
fourth cousin. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Read went to Morris County, Kans.,
and homesteaded a piece of property, and upon this homestead their three children
were born: Dwight, who is now the editor of the "Milton Gazette," at Milton, Fla.;
Lilly, who is the wife of Harvey Short, a business man of Wyoming; and Wendell
Phillips. The parents continued to farm until the father's health failed. They then
retired to. Fredonia, Kans., where he passed to the Great Beyond, in 1896, aged seventy-
three. The mother came to California in January, 1919, and died at Mr. Read's home
at El Modena, at the age of eighty-four.
Wendell P. grew up on the Kansas farm, attended the district schools of the
locality in winter and spent his summers doing farm work. At seventeen he passed a
teacher's examination and taught school in Wilson County, Kans. He afterward be
came a student at the Kansas State Normal at Emporia, where he pursued the regular
three years' pedagogical course. He finished the course in 1902, and was listed with
the 1903 class. His first experience in school work after graduating was as the principal
of the Williamsburg grammar school, Fremont County, Colo., in 1902-3.
Mr. Read's marriage, which occurred at Fredonia, Kans., June 8, 1902, united him
with Miss Pearl Souders, a native of Ohio. Her parents John and Amelia (Bonham)
Souders, are now living retired at Hollywood, Cal. Mrs. Read also graduated from the
Kansas State Normal. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Read, namely,
Ruth, Paul I. and Lois A. Mr. Read farmed in Kansas until 1911, then went to Florida
and purchased a forty-five-acre plantation. He again enlisted as a teacher and organ
ized and became the principal of the Parish, Fla., high school. Attacked with the
malady so common to the southern states, malaria, he returned to Kansas and became
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the spring of 1914 he came to Los Angeles and entered the summer school of the
University of Southern California, completing the course in the summer of 1916 with
the degree of A.M. In 1914 he came to El Modena and took charge of the El Modena
grammar school, an up-to-date school of eight grades, which gives manual training
to the boys and girls, has a string orchestra, etc. Mr. Read is the owner of a ranch at
El Modena. He bought the eight acres with the comfortable, modern- bungalow upon
it, January, 1919, and recently added another two acres to his possession, giving him a
fine ten-acre ranch. He also owns a fifty-seven-acre ranch at San Jacinto. He finds
recreation from the arduous mental labor as a teacher in taking care of the El Modena
ranch, which 'is devoted to the culture of citrus fruit, working evenings and Saturdays.
Mr. Read enters heartily into community affairs and was elected president of the Farm
Center at El Modena, January, 1920. A firm advocate of national prohibition, he is a
consistent Christian, he and his wife being members of the Friends Church at El
Modena. A man of fine character, a clear thinker, broad-minded and original, his con
versation is spiced with dry wit and humor and he has a keen desire for the community's
betterment, morally, commercially and educationally.
SAMUEL A. MARSDEN, M.D. — A physician of pleasing personality who is
meeting with merited success, is Dr. Samuel A. Marsden, popular with his patients and
fellow-citizens. He was born at Centerville, Iowa, March 17, 1885, where he spent the
first twelve years of his. life, after which he came to Oregon with his parents in 1897,
and made his home at Portland. On completing the courses at the Marshfield high
school, he entered Portland Academy, from which in due time he was graduated with
honors; and then he became a clerk in a drug store, and for some years continued
active in the drug business at Portland and at Marshfield, Ore. From a boy, however,
he had had the desire to study medicine and surgery, and finally the way was opened
to his reaching that goal. Having come south to Orange, he entered the premedical
department of the University of Southern Calfornia, and there continued the study of
medicine until his graduation, in 1917, with the degree of M.D. He then put in eighteen
months as interne at the Los Angeles County Hospital.
A month later, Dr. Marsden volunteered his services to the United States Govern
ment, and was commissioned a first lieutenant in the U. S. Medical Crops. He was
sent to the training camp for medical officers at Fort Riley, Kans., and at the end of
sixty days was transferred to Camp Kearny, where he was stationed until the armistice.
On December 10, 1918, he was honorably discharged, and three days later began his
medical practice in Orange, associating himself as a partner with Dr. Domann, the
firm becoming Domann and Marsden. He was made deputy county physician, and has
since been unusually active in responding to the many demands for his services. He
holds a two-hour free clinic at the Social Science League in Santa Ana each week, on
Tuesdays, and there performs a philanthropic service that is of growing importance.
He is a member of the American Medical Association, the State Medical Society,
Southern California Medical Society, and the Orange County Medical Association and
the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.
Dr. Marsden was made a Mason at Blanco Lodge No. 48, A. F. & A. M., at Marsh
field, Ore., and belongs to Arago Chapter No. 22, R. A. M., at Marshfield. He is also
affiliated with the San Diego Consistory of the Scottish Rite Masons, Al Malaikah
Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S„ Los Angeles, and he is a member of the Doric Chapter
No. 53, O. E. S., at Marshfield, Ore., where he is a past patron. In college, he belonged'
to the Phi Rho Sigma, and is a member of the local chapter of the American Legion.
REO C. ADAMS. — Among the old colonial families of America the name of
Adams stands preeminent for physical and mental strength, virility, versatility and
many other excellent qualities that have aided in large measure to develop our com
monwealth. A worthy exponent of his branch of this most estimable family, is Reo
C. Adams, prominent citrus rancher of Alameda Street, at El Modena, Cal., who was
born of good old New England Adams' stock at Dublin, N. H., December 13, 1879.
His parents, John L. and Abbie J. (Wheeler) Adams, are natives of New Hampshire,
where the father owned a farm. They are now living at Pomona, Cal., and the father
owns a walnut ranch. Reo C. is the second child in a family of three children: Willis
J a rancher, died in California in 1919; George A. resides at Monrovia, and is in
the employ of the Edison Electric Company.
Reo C. came to California, a lad about ten years of age, with his parents, who first
located at Los Angeles, where they lived two and a half years. They afterwards spent
five years at Duarte, then returned to Los Angeles for five months before they settled
in Bolsa precinct, Orange County, in 1896. Reo attended the public schools of Duarte,
and before his marriage worked for Raitt's Banner Dairy at Santa Ana for two years.
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remaining with the company two years. His marriage occurred June 25, 1902, and
united him with Miss Etta Clark, daughter of the late William C. Clark of Santa Ana.
Mrs. Adams was born in Nebraska and was fifteen years old when she accompanied
her parents to California. Two daughters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Adams,
May Etta and Eva Minnie, by name.
Mr. Adams' five-acre ranch is located on Alameda Street. He has lived on and
operated the place for the past thirteen years, purchasing it about five years ago. He
has lived in California for thirty years, and twenty-three years of that time his home
has been in Orange County. His enthusiastic and optimistic nature makes many friends
and his efficiency and energy as a worker have brought excellent results in the success
he has attained financially. Fraternally he affiliates with the Modern Woodmen of
America, and in his political convictions he is a consistent Republican. He and his
wife are members of the First Methodist Church at Santa Ana.
U. G. LITTELL, D. O. — Prominent among the Orange County physicians of note
who have done much to advance not only medical science but the proper appreciation
of the possibilities of osteopathy must be mentioned Dr. U. G. Littell, whose offices at
317-18 W. H. Spurgeon Building, Santa Ana, have become a mecca for many suffering
from various human ills. He was born at Odon, Daviess County, Ind., on June 28,
1864, the son of William N. Littell, a minister in the Church of Christ, who had married
in Indiana Miss Mary E. Johnson, like himself a native of the Hoosier State, and a
charming, good woman, whose life blessed all who came in contact with her.
The subject of our sketch lived at home until he was twenty-one, attending both
the schools of his district and the Normal School at Owensburg; and having been grad
uated by the latter institution of note, he received a teacher's certificate and taught'for
a year, in Indiana. He then removed to Nebraska and there taught school for six
years, after which he continued his teaching for a year in Iowa. If he had made no
other progress than to acquire his first-hand knowledge of human nature thus obtained;
he would have accomplished much.
In 1891 he accomplished the equally great step of migrating to California and
getting acquainted with the great Pacific commonwealth at one of its most important
periods of development, settling in what is now the Winterburg Precinct, Orange
County. Here he farmed, and for a while also worked at the carpenter's trade. In
Orange County, too, on August 25, 1893, Mr. Littell married Miss Mary E. Blaylock, a
sister of W. W. Blaylock of the Ocean View school district, and thus happily set up
his domestic establishment.
Public spirited to an admirable degree, Mr. Littell in 1898 became a candidate
for the office of county auditor; but, after a live campaign in which he made an excellent
run, he was defeated by Captain Hall, who obtained a small majority of the votes.
In 1903 Mr. Littell matriculated at the Pacific College of Osteopathy in South
Pasadena, from which he graduated with honors in June, 1906, in Los Angeles. After
graduation, he settled at Santa Ana where he has since practiced with great success.
Their residence at 635 Parton Street is the center of a generous hospitality. Besides
belonging to the National, State and County Osteopathic associations, Dr. Littell is a
member of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce. Both Dr. and Mrs. Littell belong
to the Church of Christ at the corner of Broadway and Walnut streets, and the Doctor
is also a Modern Woodman of America. Dr. Littell is always a good "booster," be
lieving in Santa Ana and Orange County, first, last and all the time.
CHAS. E. SMILEY. — The beautiful residence and home of Chas. E. Smiley,
¦ located on Collins Avenue near Tustin Street, attracts the attention of all who pass
on the thoroughfare. The property is under a high state of cultivation and five of
the ten acres comprised in the place are planted to Valencia oranges, the remainder
being planted to lemons. Mr. Smiley was born near Ithaca, Tompkins County, N. Y.,
on May 16, 1862, and grew up on the home farm there. His father, Artemas L., and
mother, Emily (George) Smiley, were members of old New York State families and
were the parents of five children, two girls and three boys, only two of whom survive —
Mr. Smiley and his sister, Mary, the wife of George W. Sutfin, who resides at Dryden,
N. Y., aged seventy-three. The other brothers and sister, who were all married, are
survived by children. The celebrated Dr. N. K. Foster of Oakland, is the surviving
husband of Mr. Smiley's sister, Jennie, who died in 1893. Dr. Foster served two terms
in the California legislature and for ten years was secretary of the state board of
health. He has one child, a son, Dr. H. E. Foster, a young and progressive physician
of Oakland. Chas. E. Smiley received a good education in the public schools of the Empire
State and at the age of twenty left home to join his two brothers, Robert A. and John
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brothers owned 15,000 head of sheep and Chas. E. worked for them about three years,
afterwards engaging in the cattle business for himself in 1885. His home was in
Rawlins, Wyo., but he made his headquarters in the foothills of Elk Mountain, near
Fort Steele, Wyo., and his brand was Y 3. He ran from 400 to 500 head of cattle on
the range for several years and in 1892 disposed of his ranch and engaged in wool
growing. Purchasing a band of sheep he ranged them on the desert and in the moun
tains increasing his numbers until he had 9,000 head. He afterward drove his sheep
to BellefOurche, S. D., where he disposed of them in the fall of 1905 and in the fall
of 1906 he came to Southern California. To him the change from the plains of Wyo
ming to the citrus section of Southern California was rather extreme in one particular,
to say the least. In Wyoming he had left plenty of land that could be purchased at
fifty cents an acre and here he found orange and lemon orchards selling from $2,000
to $3,000 an acre and this made him desirous, first, to get an insight, not only in the
care of the orchard, but income derived from same, so he put in the first few months
working on the large Leffingwell ranch and there acquired considerable knowledge of
citrus growing as well as the method of marketing the crops.
In the spring of 1907 he purchased an orange grove at Covina, and selling it in
1911 he purchased his present ten-acre orange orchard on Collins Avenue, Orange,
which he has brought to a high state of cultivation and bearing. He is a member of the
Villa Park Orchard Association and the Central Lemon Association of Villa Park. In
Wyoming he was prominent in politics and in 1902 he was elected a member of the
state legislature of Wyoming on the Republican ticket serving during the session of
1903; he took an active part in the session and secured the passage of several bills
in tlje interest of stockmen and other needed legislation.
His marriage occurred at Fort Steele, Wyo., in 1898, and united him with Miss
Mary Nelson, a native of England, who was reared in Ontario from the age of six
years until she attained the age of sixteen, when she came to Wyoming with her sister.
In his fraternal relations he is a life member of Rawlins Lodge No. 609 of the Elks.
Mrs. Smiley is a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Orange, which he also
attends and supports.
CARL E. DURNBAUGH. — A self-made man who has become a prosperous dairy
man is Carl E. Durnbaugh, who lives at the corner of Yorba and Chapman Streets, in
Orange. He was born near Seward, Nebr., on March 7, 1893, the son of George E. and
Laura Durnbaugh, prosperous farm folks. Mrs. Durnbaugh died in 1896, and then her
husband sold his Nebraska farm and purchased several thousand acres in Osborne Coun
ty, Kans., on which he raised stock, wheat, corn, cattle and hogs. He aimed to keep
seven or eight carloads of both cattle and hogs if the season was good, and less if the
year was dry.
In 1900, however, George Durnbaugh sold out and came to Orange County, Cal.,
and settled at the corner of Tustin and Collins avenues, in Orange, where he pur
chased fifteen acres, set out to oranges and apricots. After ten years, he sold this land
and bought property in the city of Orange. Tiring of this, after three years, he dis
posed of his Orange holding and removed to Madera, where he bought a grocery busi
ness. After another three years, Mr. Durnbaugh moved to Inglewood, Los Angeles
County, where he at present lives, hale and hearthy at the age of sixty-five.
Carl Durnbaugh lived at home until he was married, in Orange, to Miss Veva H.
Pierce, a Michigan girl born near Langsburg, the daughter of Frank J. and Myrtle R.
Pierce, old settlers of the state. She came to California with her parents in 1906, but
after a year here moved back to Michigan for a couple of years. The never-failing
spell of California brought her family again to the Golden West, and they made their
home in Orange; and here, on March 7, 1919, her father died.
tu t. }™™fiate]y af,r marrying, Mr. Durnbaugh engaged in teaming, continuing in
that field for a couple of years. In the fall of 1913, he started a dairy on Cambridge
Street, and for three years followed that industry. When he sold out, he bought fifty
acres of alfalfa land in Perris Valley, Cal., where he raised hogs, cattle, turkeys and
in EaTvm P V W I™ ,hlSO'd tHat and purchas^d a lemon grove of twelve acres
n East Villa Park He lived there until the latter part of 1917, when he disposed of
Avenue1 He T , eyabl,sh£d ,S ?«ry at the corner of Yorba Street and Chapman
Avenue. He has twenty-one head of milch cattle, mostly Jerseys, scattered over the
three acres; he has remodeled his house, and built a barn and a milk house He sells
o^ on^c. "^ fr°m h°USe " h°U- he ^ — - plant Valencia
,Mr ^ ^ MrKs- DurnbauSh are the proud parents of a bouncing boy, Oscar Carl a
year old. They belong to the First Methodist Church, have worked for the war loans
and maintain their interest in community welfare, and independence in politks

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THEODORE E. STOLT. — A patriotic American gentleman who has "made good"
with little or no external assistance is Theodore E. Stolt, of Anaheim, who was born
near New London, Wis., on September 2, 1872, the son of William F. and Bertha Stolt,
both natives of Germany, from which country they emigrated as children to the United
States, after which they met and married here. Five children were granted them,
although only four are still living; and of these/our subject and Edward E. are the only
ones of the family now in California.
While Theodore was a boy, his parents removed to Westpoint, Cuming County,
Nebr., and there he was reared and educated, remaining in that state until he was
twenty-one. He had a varied experience as a manufacturer and a dealer in brick and
paper, and then he took up photography, continuing in that field for six years. After a
while he went back to Wisconsin; but not finding there, after all, just what he wanted as
a life environment, he determined to come west, to the "jumping- off" place.
Iri February, 1910, Mr. Stolt came to California, and in Orange County he secured
a pasture range which he has so improved, through the fruits of his past experience and
hard, unremitting labor, that it is now a feast to the eye, and frequently visited by those
who travel miles to see a model ranch. He now owns forty acres, twenty-six of which
are devoted to oranges, while seven acres are given to lemons, his trees beyig nine years
old, and they are situated conveniently and advantageously on the county highway three
miles west of Anaheim. He did own sixty acres, but sold twenty and these acres he
partly improved. Mr. Stolt devotes his best energies and most careful thought to apply
ing the latest word of science in the operation of this ranch by the most approved
methods and with the most up-to-date appliances; and it is natural that he should be
a member of the Orange and Lemon Growers Association at Anaheim. In politics he
is a Republican. In 1910, the same year in which he showed his wise discrimination by the purchase
of his land, Mr. Stolt took another step most wisely, and was united in matrimony to
Miss Helen M. Hein, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Hein, a native of Nebraska,
where she was as much of a favorite as she has been in a wide circle since she came to
Anaheim. They have a comfortable, cheery home, and dispense a modest, but satisfying
hospitality; just such a home as makes, for example, for the wealth, endurance and last
ing- happiness of a commonwealth. Anaheim is pleased that Mr. Stolt chose to pitch his
tent under such favoring conditions; and Mr. Stolt — well, ask him if he ever regretted
coming to Orange County.
J. F. KAUFMAN. — An expert mechanic who by personal attention to the work
in his machine shop and the installation of thoroughly up-to-date machinery, has fast
built up a very profitable patronage, is J. F. Kaufman, the proprietor of the Eureka
Garage Repair Shop. He was born on a farm near Ithaca, Mich., on May 26, 1892, the
son of Franklin D. and Maria E. Kaufman, and received his schooling in Stanton and
Belding, in that state. His father was a Free Methodist minister, and like his col
leagues, moved about the country a good deal with his family.
Our subject worked in the Oldsmobile automobile factory for five years, becoming
chief inspector of the outside department, which then had charge of smoothing up the
gears and other mechanism of all the cars before they were placed on the market; and
during the three years that he was associated with the Oldsmobile production, he amply
demonstrated his ability and contributed toward making that car one of the most
dependable on the market. Then he moved back to Belding and in 1913 went into
. business for himself. He maintained a garage and repair shop, and when he sold
out at the end of the year, he did so planning to come out to California. He was
advised, however, that conditions here were none too favorable at that time, and so he
moved to Lansing, where he worked in the Reo factory, giving two active years to
their service department.
A.t last, in the fall of 1916, Mr. Kaufman came out to California, landing here on
the last day of October, when he started working for the Libby Motor Company; with
which concern he continued until the following January. Then he entered the employ
of Layton Bros., in the same building he himself now occupies. On October 15, 1918,
he bought out Layton and formed a partnership with L. J. Fremeau. The next sum
mer, on August 1, he purchased the interest of the partner and became sole proprietor.
Now Mr. Kaufman's business, which has kept pace with the growth of the auto
industry of the town and vicinity, embraces the reboring of cylinders and the fitting of
pistons; general machine work, with the latest appliances, and all kinds of miscellaneous
repairs on all kinds of machines. This requires the services of no less than five expert
mechanics, for among other specialties, the Kaufman garage maintains a service station
for the Maxwell Motor Car.
Mr. Kaufman's father died in Michigan on February 6, 1905, and six years later
the mother of our subject, together with a daughter, came to Santa Ana, where they
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now live. This sister, Miss Stella Kaufman, has been for years engaged in school work,
of late instructing in the Spurgeon school. On May 26, 1910, Mr. Kaufman was married
to Miss Anna Kamans, a native of Grand Rapids, Mich., and the daughter of Anthony
Kamans and his wife, Catherine. She was educated in the fine public schools of Grand
Rapids, while she enjoyed the home life of her parents, comfortable farmer-folk who
had come to Grand Rapids to retire. One child, Richard L-, has blessed this union.
The family reside at 814 East Sixth Street, in a dwelling purchased by Mr. Kaufman
as his future home, and attend the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Kaufman is a Mason,
and also an independent Republican, refusing to be trammeled by partisanship if the
candidate or the measure is unfit or unsatisfactory.
FENN B. FIELD AND MRS. LOUISE W. FIELD.— An exceptionally apt young
rancher who has demonstrated again and again a thorough knowledge of the details
of the citrus industry, is Fenn B. Field, who was born at Sioux Falls, S. D., on July
23, 1885. His father was the late Samuel I., and his mother, Louise W. Field. She
was born at Taylor, Cortland County, N. Y., on July 14, 1843, the daughter of Augustus
Wire, of Goshen, Conn., who had married Louise Neal, of Litchfield, the same state.
Thomas Wire, the great-grandfather, fought seven years in the Revolutionary War.
Augustus Wire was a prosperous farmer, both raising the necessaries of life and weav
ing cloth for clothing, thereby maintaining himself independently. Mrs. Field attended
the district school, and afterward the academy at Cincinnatus, N. Y., and at the age of
twenty-five removed to Winslow, 111., where she lived with her two brothers, Ithamar
and Augustus. Next to the youngest in a family of eight, she is the only survivor.
For three years, Miss Wire lived in Illinois, and then she went back to Taylor,
N. Y., where on December 1, 1868, she was married to Samuel I. Field. The date of
his birth was January 13, 1831, and he first saw the light in Tompkins County, N. Y.
His father was Augustus, and his mother Mary Field, and they were both natives
of Massachusetts. Samuel Field was brought up on the home farm, and was educated
at the district school. He was early attracted to Iowa, and for a while he farmed near
Waterloo. He soon moved on to Colorado, where he mined for gold and was a hotel-
keeper at Fall River, Colo., but in 1868 he returned to New York for his bride. Imme
diately after that, he went to Green River, Wyo., where Mrs. Field was one of the
pnly three women there at that time, when the country was in the making. He saw, in
fact, the development of Wyoming, for in 1869 the Union Pacific Railroad from Green
River to Ogden was united at the latter place with the Central Pacific.
At Green River, Mr. Field secured a patent on 160 acres, the land on which now
stands the switch yards of the Union Pacific Railway. Mr. Field was a merchant at
Green River, and also the proprietor of the restaurant serving the passengers from the
East each morning, and from the West each evening. When the first original eating-
house burned down in 1873, Mr. Field rebuilt on a larger scale, and was proprietor of
the new restaurant for three years. He also built the first district school house at
Green River at his own expense. It was from Mr. Field's place that the distinguished
Major John Wesley Powell started on his explorations for the Smithsonian Institute
down the Green River and Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. In 1918, Mrs. Field
returned to Green River and was honored by being invited to christen the monument
erected in memory of Major Powell. Water, and not champagne was used in the
ceremony, and the crystal liquid was brought up 4,500 feet from springs below by
devoted Indians.
After nine years in Green River, during which time Mr. Field was the leading
merchant there, he sold out his business and moved to Kansas where he lived for six '
years. He then moved to Sioux Falls, where he spent another six years in that South
Dakota town. In 1890, Mr. Field, longing for the rich lands of California, came out
to McPherson where, at that time, the main industry was the culture of raisins The
grapevines gradually died from blight, and orange trees took the place of the vines.
Ever since then, Mrs. Field has lived at McPherson
Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Field, seven of whom are still living:
SamueMV resides at Kimberly, Minn.; David Dudley lives on a ranch on Seventeenth
btreet in Orange; Louisa has become Mrs. B. F. Merrill, of Nuevo, Riverside County;
Gary M. is a citrus rancher of Olive; Guy I. ranches at McPherson; Foss is on a dairy
and vineyard at Hanford; and Fenn B. is foreman of the Guthrie ranch on Le Veta
Avenue, Orange. The deceased children are: Huldah, who died at Green River! when
she was a year old and Mary V. who attained the age of nineteen.
SantifJTJL if", % McPh rson with his parents in 1889, and attended the
the new n' n °i°\ Hl T V a member of the first class to graduate from
CoUe J wh f V T\ ,t SCh°01 ." 19°6' DuHng 1907 and 1908' he ^tended Pomona
bro her Foss \h lT 1 f""^ """^ bUt in 19°9 he Went to Mexico with his
brother Foss, and there leased a mme, spending a year in mining for gold and silver.

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GEORGE McGUIRE. — To develop twenty acres of raw land into a highly de
veloped orange orchard is an achievement anyone might be proud to claim. This may
be said of George McGuire, the owner of one of the best developed groves, for its size
and age, on the County Highway, being about three miles west of Anaheim.
George McGuire was born in Gallatin, Mo., November 23, 1868, the son of Thomas
and Frances (Lutz) McGuire, natives of Ireland and Missouri, respectively. Five
children were born to them, four residing in California, two of them in Orange County.
Thomas McGuire was brought to the United States by his parents when he was a lad
of nine and he grew up in this country and was one of its most loyal citizens while he
lived. He first came to California in the early '60s, via Cape Horn, to join an older
brother who had already located in this state. Like the greater majority of immi
grants he mined for a time, but did not find the fortune he expected and later he joined
a train bound for the East, the party consisting of his older brother, a sister and her
husband and his mother. When crossing through Nebraska, they were attacked by
Indians, who ran off all their stock, leaving them but two scrub teams with which they
made their way eastward, the men having to walk the entire distance. Some time
after his marriage, when George was ten years of age, the family moved to Washington
County, Kans., where the father farmed. The wife and mother died in Missouri in
1878, and Mr. McGuire married again, choosing for his wife a sister of his first wife,
and by her a daughter was born, who is now living in California. This wife died soon
after and he was married a third time.
The McGuire family subsequently moved to Western Texas and here the father
and his four sons engaged in stock raising and farming in a partnership arrangement.
The father came to California in 1895, leaving his sons to carry on the ranching opera
tions in Texas, but he made a trip back there and soon sold out to them and, returning
to California, made his permanent home in Orange County, where he owned twenty
acres of land three miles west of Anaheim. He died in Los Angeles in 1912, mourned
by a wide circle of devoted friends.
George McGuire made a visit to see his father in Orange County in 1905, and so
well impressed was he with the country that he decided to locate here and he returned
to Texas and by 1909, after having lived twenty years in Texas, disposed of his interests
there and located in Orange County on the twenty-acre ranch he now owns and which
he developed from a barley field into one of the finest orange groves in this section of
the county. He grew the nursery stock and set out the trees, leveled the land and made
it possible to irrigate the entire tract. While his orchard was developing he raised
beans and other products between the rows until now he can depend upon a steady
income from his fine trees. What he now owns has been the result of hard work, in
dustrious efforts and good management. In all his operations he has had the coopera
tion of his devoted wife, who shares with him the esteem of a wide circle of friends.
In 1896 Mr. McGuire was married to Miss Chassie Bowser, a native of Brown
County. Texas, the daughter of Abraham and Mary (Kemp) Bowser, the ceremony
occurring in Brownwood, Texas. Five children have been born to them: George D..
deceased; Mary Frances, Mabel, Thomas and James A. Mr. McGuire has shown his
interest in educational matters by serving as a school trustee in his district, and has
given much satisfaction in the discharge of his duties. He and his wife are members
of the Christian Church of Anaheim, Mr. McGuire being a deacon of the church and
prominent in its activities.
WILLARD C. DuBOIS, M. D. — Since locating in Santa Ana, his boyhood home,
in 1914, Dr. Willard C. DuBois has attained a high position as a successful practitioner.
The son of a prominent Orange County family, Willard C. DuBois was born at Grant
City, Mo., August 25, 1882. His parents are Valentine and Sarah (Alexander) DuBois,
both natives of Indiana. The father spent his early days on a farm in that state,
acquiring a thorough knowledge of farming while yet in his youth, so that he was able
to make his own way in the world when many other lads of his age were still at their
studies. Migrating to Missouri, he farmed there for four years, going later to the
Northwest, where he was employed near Tacoma, Wash., for about four years. Com
ing down to California, he settled near San Jose, and for five years devoted his time
to farming there, until 1895, when he located at Santa Ana, and here he has since made
his home. During the intervening years Mr. DuBois acquired several tracts located in
the vicinity of Santa Ana, accumulating a competence solely by his good judgment
and tireless energy. Rated among tbe prosperous citizens of Orange County, he and
his wife are now living retired at their Santa Ana home.
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Valentine DuBois: Gertrude is now the
wife of Walter D. Lamb, the well-known rancher of Talbert; Dr. Willard C. Dubois of
this sketch; and Cecil DuBois, now deceased. A resident of Santa Ana since his tenth
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•Louisville University at Louisville, Ky., -where he spent three years. Entering the
University of Denver at Denver, Colo., he completed his medical course there, grad
uating in 1910. Receiving an appointment as interne at St. Luke's Hospital at Denver,
Dr. DuBois spent a year and a half there, profiting greatly by the valuable experience
gained in that famed institution, which ranks high among the hospitals of the West.
Subsequently he spent some time with a mining company in Arizona.
Locating in Santa Ana in 1914, Dr. DuBois at once entered into the active prac
tice of medicine and surgery and his genuine talent for materia medica, combined with
his thorough preparation for his life-work under skilled instructors, have given him a
place of high standing in the community. Despite his busy professional life, Dr. Du
Bois is exceedingly public spirited and ready to give of his time and interest to all
movements for the betterment of the town and county, furthering this by membership
in the Chamber of Commerce. A firm believer in the principles of the Republican party,
Dr. DuBois gives his political influence to that organization. Fraternally he is a mem
ber of the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks and during the war served on the examining board
and is a member of the Reserve Medical Corps.
ROY HUNTER MITCHELL. — Among the young men who are contributing to
the growth and development of Brea is Roy Hunter Mitchell, who is with the Standard
Oil Company. A native of New York, Mr. Mitchell was born at Rock City, in that
state, on March 28, 1882. His parents were William and Mary (Leyda) Mitchell, and
they are now both living in Pennsylvania. William Mitchell has been in the oil busi
ness as an oil gauger for many years, working in the different fields of the East. Mr.
and Mrs. Mitchell were the parents of nine children and Roy is the sixth in order of
birth. He was fortunate in receiving a good education in the public schools of Penn
sylvania, graduating from the high school at Titusville.
Following in his father's footsteps, Mr. Mitchell went into the oil business, work
ing in the Eastern fields until 1910, when he decided to seek his fortune in California.
For some time previous to his coming West he had been in the employ of the Standard
Oil Company, and he still continues with them, having now a record of fifteen years
of faithful service with them. Wide-awake and progressive in his ideas, Mr. Mitchell
is a firm believer in the future of Orange County, and is especially interested in the
dvelopment of Brea. When this place was incorporated, he was elected a trustee, and
in 1918 he was reelected, and is now serving a four-year term.
Mr. Mitchell's marriage occurred on March 9, 1910, when he was united with Miss
Estella Ashton; they have one daughter, Kathryn L. The family attend the Congre
gational Church. Mr. Mitchell is a member of the Elks of Whittier, and in politics is
a believer in the principles of the Democratic party.
BURLEIGH L. GOODRICH. — Among the industries represented in the pros
perous and progressive city of Fullerton plumbing is prominently identified with the
city's steady advancement toward metropolitan proportions. Burleigh L. Goodrich,
Fullerton's well-known plumbing contractor, was born at Bangor, Van Buren County,
Mich., November 25, 1883. His parents, Leander and Alpha (Herrington) Goodrich,
also natives of Michigan, were farmers, and in 1890 removed to California, where they
engaged in ranching at Artesia, Los Angeles County. They now reside at Los Angeles.
In a family of four brothers, Burleigh L. was the eldest, and was but seven years
of age when his parents came to California. He received a public school education and
assisted his father on the ranch until he attained the age of fifteen, when he learned
the plumbing trade under M. T. Cunniff at Riverside, Cal. He was engaged as a
journeyman plumber in Riverside until 1911, when he entered business under the firm
name of Armbrust and Goodrich, plumbing contractors at Anaheim. He continued the
Anaheim business for seven and a half years and then sold his interest to his partner,
and in January, 1919, removed to Fullerton, where he started in the same business.
He has rapidly assumed the lead as an expert in his line of business. During the
busy season he employs six men, all competent workmen and guaranteeing satisfac
tion in every particular. Among specimens of his work may be cited: The Municipal
Building in the City Park, the City Jail, the Roberts Apartments in Anaheim, the resi
dences of E. K. Benchley, P. E. Huddleson and Frank Benchley. While in Anaheim
he did the plumbing work on the Valencia Hotel, Central Building, several buildings
for the Bastanchury ranch and many other fine residence in both cities. He also carries
a full line of plumbing supplies at his location, 115 West Commonwealth Avenue.
At Riverside in 1908, Mr. Goodrich was united in marriage with Miss Nellie Glim,
a native of Sweden, who was reared in Illinois from the age of two years and came to
Riverside in 1903, and their union has been blessed by the birth of two sons, Burton
and Robert. Mr. Goodrich was a volunteer in the Riverside Fire Department for
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serving as assistant chief for one year and then chief of the department for a year, when
he resigned on moving to Fullerton. In Riverside also he was a member of Company
M, Seventh Regiment California National Guard, being called to San Francisco at the
time of the big fire in 1906.
While not associated with any political party he casts his ballot for the man whom
he considers best qualified for official duties. Fraternally he is a member of the
Knights of Pythias and the Anaheim Lodge. No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks, as well as Fuller-
ton Lodge of Odd Fellows, and with his wife is a member of the Yeomen. He is a
member of the Board of Trade and is a public-spirited citizen, thoroughly interested
in the welfare and development of Orange County.
WILLIAM A. DOLAN. — It has been fortunate for Anaheim that such men of
character and experience, good judgment and foresight as William A. Dolan, president
of the Anaheim National Bank, have been at the head of its financial affairs, for thereby
has not only banking been stabilized, but commerce and all that is associated with it
have taken on a healthier tone. A native of Nebraska, where he was born at Exeter,
in Fillmore County, on November 5, 1878, Mr. Dolan has made his influence felt in
many circles, and always for positive good, since he first permanently identified himself
with California.
His father was James W. Dolan, a native of Ireland and a banker of Nebraska,
who came to Los Angeles in 1904. His wife was Miss Ida M. Hager before her mar
riage, and was a native of Illinois. They are both living, honored of ten children,
among whom William is the second child.
Having attended the grammar schools of his locality, Mr. Dolan was graduated
from the high school at Indianola, Red Willow County, Nebr., with the class of '96,
and later, for a year attended the State University at Lincoln. Then, in 1897, in Indian
ola, Nebr., he entered his father's bank, and for three years he was bookkeeper and
assistant cashier there, and then for sixteen years was cashier.
In March, 1917, Mr. Dolan came to Anaheim and bought out the interest of F. C.
Krause hi the Anaheim National Bank; he is ex-president of the Orange County
Bankers Association; is a member of the Board of Trade; is a Republican, with broad
views as to party influence in local affairs, and has served as mayor of the city of
Indianola, Nebr. During the Spanish-American War, he served under Colonel William
Jennings Bryan as a member of the Third Regiment, Nebraska Volunteer Infantry.
On Independence Day, 1900, Mr. Dolan was married at Indianola, Nebr., to Miss
Louise W. Beardslee, the daughter of I. M. and Laura (Post) Beardslee, natives of
Illinois; and they have had three children — Geraldine, Isabel and William James. He
belongs to the Knights of Columbus, the Elks, the Mother Colony Club, the Newport
Yacht Club, and the Hacienda Country Club.
RILEY B. WARNE. — A public-spirited man and a worthy representative of one
of the well-known pioneer families, Riley B. Warne, who came to La Habra with his
parents in 1894, among the first settlers in the valley, is naturally a warm advocate of
the preservation, in county history form, of the historical data of the community. His
father was Thomas P. Warne, who married Miss Barbara Flory, a native of Ohio and
a kind and generous mother. Mr. Warne was a native of New York State, and as a
farmer, he turned the first furrows in 320 acfes of Douglas County soil in the great
state of Kansas. There our subject was reared, attending the district school, the sixth
in a family of nine sons, while Mr. Warne served as trustee of the high school board
of Douglas County. After Riley had remained at home on his father's farm until he was
twenty-one his father passed away, in 1908, at the end of a year's illness, and soon after
Riley bought ten acres on Central Avenue improved it and sold in 1912. As an illus
tration of the advance in land values since the time when Thomas Warne first acquired
his tract of 100 acres, it may be stated that Riley Warne sold, in 1914, a strip sixty
feet wide, running through his ranch, for the price paid for the entire tract.
On June 7, 1917, Mr. Warne was married to Miss Pansy B. Remington, a daughter
of H. M. Remington, the pioneer photographer of Fullerton, a lady well and favorably
known throughout the country for her interest in and work for the Christian Endeavor
movement and also secretary and treasurer of the Red Cross of the La Habra branch
of the Fullerton Chapter. In 1912 Mr. Warne bought one and a half acres on the
State Highway, and later purchased five acres on Cypress Avenue, part set to oranges,
and some lemons, and where they are planning to erect their home.
Mr. Warne is a member of the La Habra Citrus Association, and a member and
stockholder in the La Habra Water Company, and he also owns bank stock. He is a
Republican in matters of national political import and a nonpartisan supporter of the
best men and the best measures for the locality. He endeavors to live according to the
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ANTON KLUEWER. — Prominent in business circles in Anaheim, and meeting
with the success attendant upon years of experience in his line, Anton Kluewer is well
known throughout Southern California. A native of Hamburg, Germany, his birth
occurred March 10, 1873, and he received his education in the public schools of that
country. On finishing his schooling, he was apprenticed to the trade of window trimmer,
paying for his instruction at a private school, and was obliged to serve four years there
before following his trade elsewhere. He then served two years in the German army
and spent the next year working at his trade in Germany.
In 1900 the young man sought greater opportunities, and came across the sea to
the City of Mexico, and secured a position as window trimmer with the large depart
ment store of J. Albert Company, remaining with that concern five years. At the end
of that time he came to Los Angeles, and became cashier and steward of the Turner
Hall cafe on South Main Street. After six years with them he was steward and cashier
of the Louvre Cafe on South Spring Street for two years.
In 1911 Mr. Kluewer located in Anaheim, and started a cafe and grill at 154 West
Center Street, where he now has one of the best appointed grills in the county, which
is noted for a decided novelty in the shape of two private dining rooms patterned after
large wine casks, and seating twelve guests each, an idea Mr. Kluewer got from a Paris
restaurant he visited some twenty years ago. He has splendid cooks and serves only
the best foods, maintaining a first class and well appointed establishment and has met
with deserved success in his business. In addition to his other business interests Mr.
Kluewer has bought and sold real estate in Anaheim, and at one time was the owner of
a ten-acre orange grove at Fullerton.
The marriage of Mr. Kluewer which occurred in September, 1919, united him with
Miss Louise Russmueller, a native of Chicago. Fraternally he is a member of the Red
Men, and is past chief in the lodge at Anaheim. With the best interests of his city
and country at heart, Mr. Kluewer has entered whole-heartedly into all projects for
advancing their welfare, and his broad-minded and generous aid have been of material
help in the general progress of this section of California. He is a member of. the Ana
heim Chamber of. Commerce and of the Merchants Association.
WILLIAM A. CULP. — How much Californians have accomplished both to ad
vance the state of husbandry and also to make this part of the coast areas fruitful and
attractive to the rest of the world, is well illustrated in the life and accomplishment of
William A. Culp, the orchardist of Brea. He is a Pennsylvanian by birth, having been
born in Clarion County of the Keystone State on December 18 of the Centennial Year;
and his parents were J. C. and Louise (Lineman) Culp. His father was an oil man, and
had an interesting association with the development of one of the great industries of
Pennsylvania. They were the parents of four children. Mr. Culp is deceased and Mrs.
Culp resides in Rochester, N. Y.
William A. Culp attended the grammar and high schools at Meadville, and early
got into the oil business, which he followed in the East and after coming West in 1911.
Three years later, he had entered another field, that of growing citrus fruits and still
later became the owner of the Brea Garage, and is now erecting a modern cement block
building for a moving picture theater. He is an active member of the Chamber of
Commerce, and leaves no stone unturned to contribute to the growth of Brea and its
flourishing county.
On August 29, 1900, Mr. Culp was married to Miss Edith Goodwin, who has
proven a valuable helpmate, sharing enthusiastically in his enterprises. His children,
Helen, Lura, Julia, Margaret and Sarah, have always enjoyed a large measure of
popularity. Although a "standpat" Democrat in matters of national politics, Mr. Culp
is broad-minded and free in his support of local issues. He has been honored with the
presidency of the school board, and also of the Chamber of Commerce.
GEORGE RAYMOND JONES.-Another representative business man of Fuller-
ton who has brought to bear, in the discharge of his responsibilities, a valuable expe
rience and a never-failing energy, so that the community in which he has cast his lot
has come to feel and benefit from his healthy influence, is George Raymond Jones, of
the well-known firm of C. C. and G. R. Jones, agents for the Oakland Motor Car. He
was born at Jacksonville, Texas, on March 4, 1895, the son of J. E. Jones, who was
once president of the First National Bank of Fullerton, but is now retired. His wife
was Texanna Crosby Brooks before her marriage, and she and her worthy husband
are still living, blessed by their five children.
r-atPHThe.i!hirdi,ChJld,fGr,rge Raymond' "me to California in 1914, having been edu-
Ann Arhn ^ °°ls-°f Arkansas, after which he went to the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor. Returning to Fullerton. Mr. Jones was for a while in the Fullerton National
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into the Wickersheim Company and acted as its secretary for two and a half years,
at the end of which time he sold out to Mr. Wickersheim, and organized the company
he is at present associated with. They have the north end of Orange County, as their
territory for the Oakland car, own modern buildings and maintain a show room, and
employ six men. Mr. Jones belongs to the Fullerton Board of Trade and cooperates
loyally in promoting the best interests of the town in which he enjoys his prosperity.
At Fullerton, in July, 1915, Mr. Jones was married to Miss Frances Jane Sturte-
vant, a native of Michigan and the daughter of Frank Sturtevant. One child, Frances
Jane, has been granted the fortunate couple. Mr. Jones finds the standards of the
Republican party most to his liking in matters of political moment, and he enjoys the
social life of both the Elks and the Fullerton Club.
IRA W. POLING. — What Southern California has done and, therefore, what she
may do again for the orange growers, is well illustrated in the success attained by Ira
W. Poling, who came to California a little over a decade ago. He was born near Ke-
wanna, Fulton County, Ind., on March 18, 1852, the son of Arnold and Lydia (Hudkins)
Poling, born in Virginia, who removed to Indiana and became farmers there. Ira W.
grew up on the home farm until he was twenty-three years of age. Then, in 1875, he
removed to Pawnee County, Nebr., where he bought a quarter-section of land near
Pawnee City, which he improved and brought to a high state of cultivation. Selling
out, he went to Jackson County, Kans., near Holton, and there bought eighty acres,
which he farmed for a short time. Once more selling out, he removed to Shawnee
County, in the same state, and there secured a quarter-section of land near Topeka,
which he farmed and afterward traded for a quarter-section near Oklahoma City,
Okla., where he engaged in agricultural pursuits for fourteen years. In Kansas he was
a member of the Farmers Alliance, and both profited and contributed toward the asso
ciation, with others in the same field.
In the fall of 1906, Mr. Poling came to Pomona, where he purchased an orange
grove on San Bernardino Avenue, consisting of nine, and a third acres, which he after
wards sold. Then he bought an orange ranch of ten and a third acres on East Kingsley
Avenue. He erected a fine residence and other desirable buildings, and otherwise
greatly improved the property; and after he had introduced the most scientific methods
in its management, he took in 1913 about $9,000 worth of fruit from the farm. Since
then he has demonstrated that in good years his ranch will produce 6,000 boxes of
fruit. He also bought a fine grove on East Holt Avenue of eight and a half acres. As
might be expected of so enterprising and representative an orange grower, Mr. Poling
identified himself with the Pomona Fruit Growers Exchange and also with the Palo-
mares Irrigation Company.
In Pawnee County, Nebr., on March 26, 1878, Mr. Poling was married to Miss
Myra E. Ennefer, a native of Eureka, Woodford County, 111., and the daughter of
William and Rebecca (Carpenter) Ennefer, born in England and Ohio, respectively.
They removed from Illinois to Nebraska in 1876. The father died in Jackson County,
Kans., being survived by his widow, who is now eighty-four years old. Mr. and Mrs.
Poling have had five daughters, all popular in their circles. Lulu, the eldest, and Esther,
the youngest, are at home; Nellie is the wife of C. F. Compton of Los Angeles and the
mother of two children; Minnie is the wife of E. C. Beesley of Ontario; and Eva has
become Mrs. O. C. Williams of Pomona and is the mother of three children.
Mr. Poling sold his orchards in Pomona in 1919, and removed to Anaheim, where
he purchased twenty-four acres on East Center Street, which is devoted to raising
Valencia oranges, and he is now a member of the Anaheim Citrus Fruit Association.
With his family he is a member of the Christian Church in Anaheim.
TAYLOR R. REID. — The advanced state of electrical science and technology is
daily illustrated in the work of the Reid and Farley Electrical Company, the senior
member of which is Taylor R. Reid, a native of Indianapolis, where he was born on
March 15, 1889. His parents were Joseph T. and Elina (Dale) Reid. To this worthy
couple were granted ten children. Taylor was the seventh in the order of birth, and
he was educated at the public and high schools of Indianapolis.
Having finished his studies, he learned the tinsmith's trade and for a while worked
as a journeyman in that field. In 1907 he first came to California, and after looking
over Southern California, located at Los Angeles, where he was with the Pacific Elec
tric for four years. He then located in Downey where he entered the employ of the
Downey Light and Power Company, where for four years he had charge of the con
struction work, after which he returned to Los Angeles and started in the electrical
business. He continued there until 1916. when he located in Fullerlon, where he estab
lished himself in his present business. In 1917 he enlisted in the electrical department
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York where he was mustered out in Febraury, 1919, and he immediately returned to
Fullerton. During this time, the business was conducted by J. J. Farley. On Mr.
Reid's return, after a year abroad, the two men formed a partnership as Reid and
Farley Electrical Company, and now they keep seven men employed steadily doing
the electrical work committed to their care. They carry a full line of electrical equip
ment and household appliances, and have done the electrical work, some of it intricate
and difficult, in all the principal buildings in Fullerton and vicinity.
Mr. Reid, who enjoys a wide and pleasing popularity, belongs to the Knights of
Pythias and the Elks, and to the Fullerton Club, and few men, if any, are more welcome
in fraternal circles.
ARTHUR W. LINDLEY. — A highly intelligent, industrious and expanding
rancher, whose enterprise and ambition enable him to cultivate more land than he
really owns, is Arthur W. Lindley, resident on Brookhurst Street. He was born in
Orange County, Ind., on December 10, 1881, the son of J. A. and Helen S. (Webb)
Lindley, also of the Hoosier State, who had five children. Arthur was the third in the
order of birth, and he was reared and educated in Indiana, where he grew up to become
especially familiar with the problems of agriculture. He has resided in the Golden
State since 1907, and is the only member of the family in Orange County.
He lived for a while in Los Angeles, and for eight years was in the employ of a
creamery company where his sales averaged $200 per day. Attractive as this activity
was, he saw still greater possibilities before him as a rancher operating for himself;
and as soon as the opportunity presented itself, he acquired about twenty acres of the
best land he could find. He devoted this to truck farm produce, and with such gratify
ing returns, that he rented twenty-five acres in addition, also for the cultivation of
garden-truck. In 1917 Mr. Lindley was united in marriage to Miss Nellie Long, the accomplished
daughter of Thomas Y. and Melissa A. Long; they have one daughter, Mary Jane. Mr.
Lindley joined the Modern Woodmen as well as the Woodmen of the World.
Work is nothing to Mr. Lindley unless it is planned and carried out with reason
able intelligence and detailed attention, profiting today from the experience of yester
day; and that is why, very likely, when Mr. Lindley totals up the outcome of his
thoughtful efforts, he invariably has something to show for them.
JOSEPH WALTER RAIKES.— One of the busiest men in Fullerton is Joseph
Walter Raikes, who has entire charge of the pumping plant of the Anaheim Union
Water Company. He was born in Fall River, Mass, July 3, 1874, the son of Walter
Raikes, a stonemason who had a leading hand in the building of modern Fall River.
He married Miss Ellen Hathaway, and in 1882 they removed west to Boulder, Colo.,
where he followed his trade. Joseph therefore attended school in Boulder, but when
he was thirteen years of age, he started to support himself.
He chose his father's trade, and became both a stonemason and a cement worker,
and such was the quality of his work that he engaged in contracting stone and cement
work. Among others he built the Physicians' Block, the Elks Building, the Washington
School, and many of the finest homes of Boulder.
While in that city, too, on November 15, 1895, Mr. Raikes was married to Miss
Clara A. Atteberry, a native of Missouri, where she was born near Mt. Maria. Her
parents were T. B. and Mary Atteberry, and her father was a farmer in the Iron State.
He came to Colorado for his health, and there followed gold and silver mining. Mrs.
Raikes went to school in Boulder, and grew up to claim two states as her homes.
In 1918 Mr. Raikes came to California and settled in Anaheim; and he did the
cement work for the Anaheim Union Water Company and also for the Telephone
Company. On September 1, 1919, he was persuaded to take the position as engineer in
charge of the pumping plant, and now he has complete charge of the two wells— Well
No. 2 with a capacity of 500 inches, and Well No. 4 with a flow of 300 inches. As
part of his responsibility, he has the care of a Booster pump of 400 inches capacity
that forces the water of the local reservoir into the distributing reservoir.
On December 1, 1919, the saddest of calamities befell Mr. Raikes, eliciting the
warmest sympathy of all who had so esteemed him and his charming wife. That
estimable lady died after a severe attack of influenza and pneumonia, leaving four chil
dren. Glen O Raikes, the eldest, is married and lives in Long Beach; while Dean
Horace, Harold Edwin and Ruth Charlotte live at home. The family attend the Baptist
Church Since Mrs. Raikes' demise, the father and mother of her lamenting husband
are making their home where she once was the center of an admiring circle. Mr.
Raikes is a Republican, but never allows partisanship to interfere with his energetic
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SIEGFRIED M. CHRISTIANSEN.— A far-seeing, hard-working rancher who has
reaped in his success a splendid reward for his labors is Siegfried M. Christiansen, of
East Commonwealth Avenue, Fullerton, who was born in Schleswig, on Fohr Island,
on August 19, 1858, the son of Jens D. and Louise (Bohn) Christiansen. His father
was a farmer, and he worked industriously to afford a comfortable home for his family,
and to give them the best of advantages within his reach; with the result that the lad
received an excellent public school education.
In 1875 he crossed the Atlantic alone and landed at the historic Castle Garden,
New York City, N. Y., and continuing his journey west to Illinois, he settled in Cook
County, where he worked for four years on a farm. Whatever else he profited by in
this Middle West experience, he learned there the spirit of American institutions and
also a few wrinkles as to the American methods of agriculture. In 1879 he came on
west to California, being employed on ranches near Wheatland, Yuba County. Indeed,
he continued in the north near that city for fourteen years, when he returned East and
for fifteen years lived in Chicago.
In 1882, Mr. Christiansen recrossed the ocean to see the old folks at home, and
there he tarried for six months before he returned to America. One attraction or
another drew him back to the Old World five years later, and on December 20, 1887,
he was married to Miss Thomasin Knudtsen, the daughter of Thomas J. Knudtsen, who
had married Miss Rebecca Breckling, a native of Tonsberg, Norway. He was for years
captain of the sailing vessel, "John Bertram," carrying passengers between Hoboken,
N. J. and Hamburg, Germany; and with that trim craft he made the record of the
fastest trip in fourteen days. When Mr. and Mrs. Christiansen came to America
together, they lived for a while in Chicago, where Mr. Christiansen engaged in teaming.
When he came back to California for good in 1909, he settled at Fullerton and
purchased ten acres on East Commonwealth Avenue, part of which he set out to Valen
cia oranges. Three of these acres had already been given to walnuts, but the remaining
seven are due to his industry. The Anaheim Union Water Company supplies the water
he needs, and he has the services of the Placentia Orange Growers Association in the
marketing of his fruit. In 1909 he built a home on his ranch. He belongs to the Mac
cabees, is a Republican in national politics, and the family attend the Lutheran Church
of Anaheim. Three children have blessed the home life of Mr. and Mrs. Christiansen, although
all are now away from the family hearth: John is living in Arizona; William is in the
Fullerton oil fields; and Bettie is at the Bronson Vocal Studio of Los Angeles, making
voice culture her aim. John served overseas as sergeant in the U. S. Army, being
stationed at Brest, France. Wm. E. also served overseas, a member of the U. S.
Marines, taking an active part at the front at St. Mihiel and the Argonne, where he
was twice wounded, receiving a decoration from the French government.
JOACHIM QUEYREL. — California offers men of foreign birth opportunities
they were unable to enjoy in their native lands, and the career of Joachim Queyrel
furnishes a striking example of what energy and resourcefulness can accomplish when
wisely directed and coupled with judicious management of one's financial affairs.
Arriving in Los Angeles in 1907, a poor boy with only twenty-five cents as his financial
assets, but with a stout heart, good character, a desire to work and a definite goal in
life, Mr. Queyrel has, in a few years, become eminently successful in business and is
now the owner of a business building in the growing town of Placentia.
Joachim Queyrel is a native of Gap, Hautes Alps, France, where he was born
-November 28, 1887. His parents were farmers, their home place being situated in the
picturesque high Alps. Joachim was reared on the home farm, where he worked
hard, early and late", assisting his father in the raising of the various crops, caring for
the cattle and sheep and doing the many chores that form the every-day duties of
an active farmer and attending the excellent schools in that country. Joachim had
friends in Los Angeles, and no doubt they had written him glowing accounts of this
land of sunshine and of its wonderful opportunities for young men, so he concluded
to cast in his lot on the Pacific Coast and April, 1907, found him in Los Angeles, Cal.
His financial condition made him seek employment at once and he soon found work
with the Los Angeles Gas Company. Afterwards he secured work on farms in Los
Angeles County, and for two years followed farm work for wages. Being thrifty and
economical in his living, Mr. Queyrel at the end of two years had saved enough money
to lease a tract of land at Norwalk, which he planted to grain.
In 1909, where the thriving town of Placentia now stands, was a barley field.
Mr. Queyrel leased 200 acres of the Mesmer ranch, which included the land recently
made famous as the location of the celebrated Chapman oil gusher; this land he farmed
for one year to oats and barley. With the money he made from his crops he purchased
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just being laid out, his purchase being the second lot sold in the new town. After
wards he bought two lots adjoining, making seventy-five foot frontage. Upon his lot
he erected a small frame building and opened a little bakery. He hired experienced
bakers, who taught him the business, and as the town grew his business expanded.
Possessing keen business foresight, Mr. Queyrel built a two-story brick business block
west of his shop, which is now occupied by his retail store. Mr. Queyrel has recently
remodeled his bakery, installed up-to-date machinery, and new ovens equipped with
new fixtures and made many improvements, so now the famous "Placentia Bread" is
known far and wide in this section of the county. Fraternally Mr. Queyrel is a member
of Anaheim Lodge, No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks. In Placentia Mr. Queyrel was married
to Miss Linda Haase, a native of Texas, born near San Antonio, where she was reared
and educated. Mr. Queyrel has seen the town of Placentia develop from a barley field
and has contributed his share towards the upbuilding of this progressive and thriving
town and the surrounding district.
ROBERT L. DRAPER. — No man has contributed more to the growth and pros
perity of Smeltzer than Robert L. Draper, who rightfully occupies the position accorded
him as leading citizen of Smeltzer. His progressive energy is apparent in all his enter
prises, and in addition to farming his own 165 acres he leases in addition the 565 acres
known as the Golden West Company's ranch, now owned by the Aldrich Land Com
pany and formerly the property of the Golden West Celery Produce Company.
Mr. Draper is of English extraction, and is a lineal descendant of the Drapers
of early colonial days in New England, who came over in the Mayflower. He was born
in Texas, October 21, 1871, and was an infant in his mother's arms when the family
removed to Oklahoma and settled in the Choctaw nation, going thence to Arkansas.
He attended the public schools in Arkansas, but is a self-educated, self-made man. At
the age of eighteen he went to the Choctaw country in Oklahoma and leased large tracts-
of Indian lands and engaged extensively in farming and stock raising. He was married
in Oklahoma in 1893 to Miss Emma A. Gregory, a native of Tennessee, and they became
the parents of three children: Frank, Bessie and Flossie. After meeting with reverses
in Oklahoma, the family removed from the Cherokee country and came to California.
With his wife and two children, and but eighteen dollars and ten cents in his pocket,
he arrived at Los Alamitos, Cal., Saturday night, October 2, 1897, and the following
Monday morning began working in the Los Alamitos Sugar Mill. He has resided in
Smeltzer since 1906, and during that time has been engaged in ranching. He raises
sugar beets and lima beans, sells his beets to the Santa Ana Sugar Company, formerly
the Co-operative Sugar Company, and to the Anaheim Sugar Company. During the
busiest season Mr. Draper employs as high as eighty men. He owns two forty-five-
horsepower Holt tractors, and fourteen head of horses and mules. He has irrigation
water from flowing wells, and in addition to his other enterprises is a well-borer. He
has bored several of his own wells. He also owns 200 acres of land near Orland, in
Glenn County. Fraternally, he is a member of Anaheim Lodge No. 207, F. & A. M.,
and is a life member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks. Politically, his in
terest is active in county, state and national politics, and he takes a just pride in the
achievements of Orange County. A man of great force of character, he is necessarily
prominent in all that he undertakes, and the good financial results realized from his
many years of energetic labor and his efforts toward the betterment of the community
in which his lot in life is cast entitle him to the esteem and popularity he enjoys among
his many friends and acquaintances. Mr. Draper has seen the increase in value of farm
land from $200 to $1,500 per acre and he has done his part to aid in this development.
ALBERT E. QUEYREL.— Among Orange County's able and efficient men who
are examples of what self-made men can accomplish, is Albert E. Queyrel, of the firm
of Queyrel and Piepenbrink, Federal Trucking Company, at Placentia.
Mr. Queyrel was born at Dauphine, France, in the high Alps, March 18, 1889. His
parents were farmers and he was reared on the home place and educated in the excellent
schools of France. When nineteen, in 1908, he came to California, arriving in Los
Angeles in November, 1908, where he worked at gardening. Later he joined his brother
Joachim m the Placentia district, and worked for him on the Mesmer grain ranch.
They made their home at Placentia, and walked to and from their work each day. He
afterwards worked for his brother in the Placentia bakery. He became manager of the
twenty-acre orange ranch of his father-in-law, A. Piepenbrink, and helped develop and
.i! i!-° 7ale"cla oranges and bring it to a high state of cultivation; then in partnership
with his brother he leased 350 acres at Yorba, devoted to raising hay and potatoes. He
continued there two years and then formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Otto
'ePf,n f r>nk, and engaged in the trucking business. They own two Federal three-and-
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lucrative business in all kinds of heavy trucking, such as hauling oil well supplies
fertilizer, oranges, cement, etc., and had the contract to haul the 1920 crop of oranges'
and lemons for two Placentia packing companies, the Placentia Orange Growers Asso
ciation, and the Placentia Mutual Orange Association. Mr. Queyrel bought one of the
first residence lots sold m Placentia, on North Bradford Avenue, and built a modern
bungalow in which the family reside.
Mrs. Queyrel, who was Elizabeth Piepenbrink before her marriage, is a native
of San Marcos, Texas, and the mother of two children, Albert E. Jr., and Leah Mrs
Queyrel is the daughter of August and Emmy Piepenbrink, who came to California in
1909. Albert Queyrel's experience since coming to California illustrates what a young
man without means and imbued with sufficient determination to overcome obstacles,
can accomplish in gaining a competency and establishing himself as a worthy citizen
who enjoys to an unusual degree the confidence and esteem of his fellow-townsmen.
He is an enthusiastic booster for -Orange County, and one of its prosperous and suc
cessful citizens.
HARVEY SYLVESTER GAINES.— One of the best known lumber men of
Southern California, Harvey Sylvester Gaines has twenty years' oi experience in that
business to his credit, and brings to his responsible position in Placentia, Orange
County, the knowledge gained by practical application as well as a thorough education.
He is a native of Illinois, born in Henry County, August 11, 1868, and received his
education in the public schools of his native state, and also in Grinnell University,
Grinnell, Iowa, from which he was graduated in 1886.
Coming to Southern California in 1887, Mr. Gaines located in Los Angeles, and
for seven years was traveling auditor for the Santa Fe Railway. He then went to
Redlands, and for the next twenty years was engaged in the lumber business in that
city, first as manager of the Newport Lumber Company; next as manager of the Russ
Lumber and Mill Company, remaining with them eight years; he was one of the
organizers and a member of the firm of Fox Woodson Lumber Company of Redlands
and remained with them for eight years. In October, 1919, he accepted the position
of manager of the Gibbs Lumber Company at Placentia.
The marriage of Mr. Gaines, which occurred at Riverside, Cal., united him with
Mrs. Nellie (McNulty) Tracy, a native of Canada, and two sons have been born to them
— Nelson and Richard. Fraternally Mr. Gaines is a number of the Redland Lodge,
No. 583, B. P. O. Elks, and of the Masons and Knights of Pythias of that city. He is
a member of the Southern California Retail Lumber Dealers Association and served as
a director of that organization for a number of years.
CHARLES W. SADLER.— A recent settler in Orange County who has seen
enough of the phenomenal advance in citrus ranching in La Habra and vicinity to
become enthusiastically interested in a still more rapid and permanent development of
the region, is C. W. Sadler, who was born near Ottosen, Humboldt County, Iowa, on
October 15, 1893, the son of John Wesley Sadler, who had married Mary M. Sharp, a
direct descendant of old Grandmother Sharp, the only survivor of the notorious "Spirit
Lake Massacre." John W. Sadler, therefore, was an early settler of Iowa, where he
purchased a relinquishment of Government land and became a very successful farmer.
C. W. Sadler' attended the county schools near Ottosen and helped his father on the
home farm up to the time when he came to California. They bred thoroughbred, short
horn cattle and Duroc-Jersey swine, and J. W. Sadler still has some of the finest stock,
purchasing his breeders in the East.
In 1911 father and son came to California and stayed a short time in Whittier,
when the father returned to Iowa; but C. W. Sadler remained to work on various
farms. On November 27, 1913, he was married in Los Angeles to Miss Lulu Box, a
native of Hanford, and the daughter of John K. and Eliza J. (Pratt) Box. Her folks
came to California in 1885 and settled in Kings County, then a wild country; and
Mrs. Sadler went to the grade schools of Hanford. After their marriage, Mr. and
Mrs. Sadler made their home at Whittier, while he engaged in the care and pruning
of orchards. They have one child, Harold Eugene Sadler.
In April, 1919, Mr. Sadler purchased fifteen acres near La Habra, eleven acres of
which were devoted to Valencia oranges, one acre to lemons and three acres to walnuts;
and in May his father purchased fifteen acres adjoining that of his son on the west.
Twelve acres of the latter tract were in lemons, and three in oranges. Water for
irrigation is supplied by the La Habra Domestic Water Company, and the La Habra
Citrus Association markets his products.
Mr. Sadler believes in independent action, rather than according to party leanings,
and decidedly favors trying, irrespective of partisanship, to get the right men for the
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C. G. ANDERSON. — The life which this narrative sketches began in far-away
Stockholm, Sweden, on January 26, 1880. When C. G. Anderson, the successful paint
ing and decorating contractor of Fullerton, was sixteen years old he was apprenticed
for four years to a painter to learn the art of decorating and house painting. While
learning the trade the wages received by an apprentice are very small, but the knowl
edge he gains of mixing colors and important pointers about the art of decorating is
very thorough and extensive.
Mr. Anderson followed his trade in Sweden until 1903, when he left his native
land for America, landing in Boston, Mass., where he secured employment with the
American Decorating Company, the leading painting contractors of the Hub City,
remaining with them two years, and while there did work on many of- the finest homes
in the Back Bay district of Boston. Possessed of a desire to see more of the United
States, and especially of the Far West, he came to Orange County, Cal., in 1905 and
for a time located in Anaheim, where he was employed by J. L. Abbott. In the fall
of 1905 Mr. Anderson came to Fullerton, where he has resided since, and it was here
that he engaged in the painting and contracting business for himself. He has decorated
many of the business blocks and many of the fine residences in Fullerton. Seven years
ago he purchased fcfur acres of land on West Commonwealth Avenue. At that time the
land was in a raw state, but through the energetic efforts of Mr. Anderson the place has
been brought under cultivation, and is planted to Valencia oranges, now six years old
and in fruitful condition, and here he now makes his home.
In Fullerton, Mr. Anderson was united in marriage with Signe E. Holm, also a
native of Sweden, and of this union two children were born, Robert and Edna. Mr.
Anderson's success has been due entirely to his own efforts and especially in following
a definite course in life, which he planned when a lad of sixteen, when he was appren
ticed to learn the painter's trade.
BYRON B. CORBIT. — Many years of practical experience in the fruit packing
industry has especially fitted Byron B. Corbit for the important position of foreman of
the orange department of the La Habra Citrus Association packing house. He is a
native of the Buckeye State, born in Coshocton County, Ohio, April 21, 1882, a son of
Edward and Eleanor Corbit. When eighteen months old his parents migrated to Cald
well County, Mo., where he was reared and educated. At the age of sixteen he went
to Cameron, Mo., to live, following farming there until 1905.
Fifteen years ago Mr. Corbit came to California, locating in Riverside County
where he entered the employ of the Rubidoux Fruit Company and, while with this
well-known company, by his constant fidelity to duty he gained a thorough knowledge
of the packing business in all of its varied branches. After severing his connection with
this company, Mr. Corbit became foreman of the Pinkham-McKevitt Packing Company
at Riverside, and later on accepted a like position with the Bradbury Estate Packing
House at San Gabriel. His next move brought him to Fullerton, where he accepted
the position of foreman of the Benchley Fruit Company's packing house and subse
quently he became the foreman of the R. T. Davies Packing Company of Placentia.
After leaving Placentia Mr. Corbit spent two years in the oil fields in the Brea dis
trict, Orange County. On May 15, 1919, he accepted his present important post, as
department foreman of the La Habra Citrus Association. He is an Orange County
enthusiast and always ready to help, to the extent of his ability, all nfovements that
tend toward the upbuilding of the county's best interests. On August 16, 1916, Mr.
Corbit and Miss Ruby Mareen Hickok were united in marriage; she is a native .daugh
ter of California and their union has been blessed by a son, Wayne Corbit.
WILLIAM T. WALLOP.— The earliest recollections of William T. Wallop, able
superintendent of the Anaheim Union Water Company, is associated with California,
where he has resided since he was a year old. He was born at Horntown, Accomac
w,', y' , " Fe_brruary U- 1882> and his parents, Asher T. and Eliza H. (Tuffree)
Wallop, born m Virginia and Philadelphia, respectively, were planters in Virginia. They
came to Placentia Cal., in 1883, where the father was engaged in business until he
retired; his wife died October 31, 1908.
The fifth child in a family of seven children, William T. was educated in the
public and high schools at Anaheim, and attended a business college in Oakland, grad
uating in 1901. At the age of eighteen he was in an office in Oakland, where he
remained two years; he then spent two years in Honolulu in office work, and was
later engaged in the grocery business at Anaheim for five years. Disposing of his
interes m this business he became manager of the Anaheim Gas Company for a year,
-nd following this was ,n the employ of the Wells Fargo Express Company three
years. In 1912_ he assumed the position of secretary with the Anaheim Union Water
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He is also interested in the citrus industry, and is the owner of a ten-acre orange
grove on Anaheim Road and his home place of ten acres on South Walnut Street.
He is also secretary of the Eucalyptus Water Company.
Mr. Wallop's marriage with Miss Ella Rea was solemnized May 19, 1909. She was
born in El Cajon, Cal., a daughter of J. B. and Margaret (Wilkie) Rea, born in Ontario,
Canada. Mr. Rea settled in El Cajon in 1872, and in 1896 he located near Anaheim,
where he set out the Katella orchard, naming it for his two daughters, Kate and Ella.
He died in Anaheim, where his widow still resides. Mr. and Mrs. Wallop are members
of the First Presbyterian Church in Anaheim, in which he is a trustee. He is a member
of the Anaheim Masonic Lodge, of Fullerton Chapter, R. A. M., and Santa Ana Council,
R. & S. M. Politically he is a Democrat. He has a large circle of warm friends, and
holds a position among the progressive men of Anaheim, to whose energy and resource
fulness Orange County's rapid strides may be ascribed.
ALBERT JOHN HANIMAN — A recent comer to Orange County whose interest
in things Californian has been intensified through the associations of his father, who
was one of the best known and most influential business men in Los Angeles in early
days, is Albert John Haniman, who was born in the "City of the Angels" on May 3, 1883,
the son of Albert and Lena Haniman. His father was a native of Michigan, who came
to California from Detroit a few years after the first discovery of gold, and while busy
as a merchant in Los Angeles, founded the Haniman Fish Company in operation today.
Albert attended the Los Angeles schools, and although he lost his father when he was
only nine years old, he succeeded in studying at the high school.
The death of his father, however, affected his fortunes to the extent that he struck
out for himself while in his teens, and in 1892 he removed to St. Paul, where he started
a cafe. Success rewarded his efforts from the start, and for twenty-five years he was
noted as one of the ablest caterers of that city. Many of the leading citizens of that
city so famous for its contact, through travel, with both the East and the West, used
to regale themselves regularly at Al Haniman's well-kept restaurant, and it may well
be said that he thus identified himself in one of the pleasantest manners possible, with
the history of that growing town.
On Christmas Eve, 1908, Mr. Haniman was married at Los Angeles to Miss Stella
Grace Ketchem, a native of Iowa, who came with her parents to California when she
was three years old. After this eventful step, Mr. Haniman returned to St. Paul and
continued in the cafe business. In 1918, however, he sold out his Minnesota interests
and came on to California. Since then, Mr. Haniman has been in the commissary de
partment of the Standard Oil Company, which department is charged with caring for
the meals and other comforts of the men employed by the Standard Murphy Coyote
Company, southwest o'f La Habra. He makes his home on La Mirada Avenue on the
Harris ranch, and is always "on the job."
Mr. Haniman has long belonged to the Modern Woodmen, the Masons and the
B. P. O. Elks, while in political affairs he believes in emphasizing the fitness of the
man above the claims of party.
W. R. ROGERS. — Among the most progressive growers of sugar beets and lima
beans in Orange County, and decidedly a leader among those who, while operating for
themselves, have also helped to open the field to others, is W. R. Rogers, the president
of the board of trustees of the Diamond school district. He has for years been impelled
forward in his successful career by up-to-date ideas, and in fact has often had the
vision and the courage of action to anticipate and outrun his competitors, while his
generous impulses have won him a host of admiring friends.
He was born in New Madrid County, Mo., on March 5, 1880, the son of W. S.
Rogers, who was a farmer and a lumberman that contracted to supply the Government
with cypress piling in southeastern Missouri. He married, in Missouri, Miss Sallie La
Valley, like himself a native of that state. He died in Missouri, to which he had returned
after a visit to California; but Mrs. Rogers passed away in Orange County. They
had three children: Estella resides at Santa Ana; Ruth became the wife of John L.
Taylor and died at Los Angeles in 1905, leaving one child, Merl; while the third in the
order of birth is William Reginald, the subject of our sketch.
When he was eight years old, he came out to California with his parents, and
for a short time lived at Ballard, in Santa Barbara County. About 1890 his folks came
down to Santa Ana, and they bought the ten acres upon which he is now living and
which is owned by Miss Estella Rogers and himself. He attended the public schools
and grew up to know a deal about California farming. These ten acres are devoted
mainly to the culture of sugar beets, and they are on Brystol Street.
As one of the most successful growers of lima beans and sugar beets south oi
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acres to the south, both of which tracts he devotes to sugar beets, and five acres imme
diately west, where he grows lima beans. He is a member of the firm of Fickas and
Rogers, and they rent of the Haven Seed Company forty acres for beet growing.
Four children make still more glad the happy home of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers. They
are Reginald W., Edwin, Ellene, and Noma, and they stimulate Mr. Rogers' interest
in all the children of the neighborhood. In 1919 he was elected president of the board
of education of the Diamond school district, and ever since he has worked for the best
educational advantages for the little ones.
H. PERCY THELAN. — A hard-worker, who keeps healthily active for the love
of labor and not on account of the necessity of the thing, is H. Percy Thelan, known
widely as not only having "made good" as deputy game warden, but as having set an
excellent example of just how such a responsible office ought to be conducted. A
native son, he was born in Santa Ana at the home of his father, a pioneer saddler and
harness maker of Santa- Ana, who then owned the house and resided at the corner" of
First and West streets, now the corner of First and Broadway. He first saw the light of
day on June 5, 1879, and was lovingly cared for by his parents, Charles Columbus and
Emma (Palmer) Thelan, and welcomed into this world by the late pioneer, Noah
Palmer, his esteemed grandfather. Noah Palmer came to Santa Ana in 1874, and C. C.
Thelan followed two years later. He died on October 16, 1897; and Mrs. Thelan, be
loved by all who have ever known her mind and heart, remarried and is now Mrs.
George J. Mosbaugh.
H. Percy Thelan finished his studies in the grammar school now historic as the
oldest in Santa Ana, and then took a commercial course under Prof. R. L. Bisby in the
Orange County Business College. In 1898 he left Santa Ana to work in Kern County
during the "boom" in the oil-fields, and there he continued for four years. He was a
tool dresser on the Monte Cristo lease at Maricopa, and going to San Francisco, he had
no difficulty securing a good engagement with Messrs. McNabb & Smith, foundrymen
and machinists, as a machinist's helper, which post he held for another three years.
He then became a member of the firm of Thelan & Merrit, proprietors of the
garage at Twelfth and Oak streets, Oakland, running that successfully; but he came
back to Santa Ana in 1910 and two years later started the Thelan Machine Shop and
Garage, now the Mayo Machine Shop, on East Fourth Street. When he sold out, he
became deputy county game warden for a couple of years.
Mr. Thelan then bought a couple of fishing and towing outfits at Newport Beach,
and is now the owner of the popular boats, "Ray II," a tug-boat, fifty feet long, and the
"O. U. I.," a fishing trawler thirty feet in length. He was formerly a member of the
Chamber of Commerce at Santa Ana, as he is now of the Chamber of Commerce at
Newport; and with plenty of faith in the beach towns, he remains one of the most ener
getic and loyal of all "boosters" for Orange County. He owns a business block at
Laguna Beach.
In 1911, Mr. Thelan was married to Miss Edith Yost, a daughter of W. R. Yost,
of Santa Ana; and they have one child, Ray Palmer Thelan. Mr. Thelan owns the resi
dence in which he lives at 632 North Broadway, and has, besides, a summer home at
Laguna. A desire to be most useful to society, therefore, impels him to daily toil,
through which he keeps himself thoroughly in touch with the rest of the world.
EUGENE O. AHERN. — Among the most progressive and prosperous grain farm
ers of Southern California must be rated Eugene O. Ahern, for fifteen years past one
of the principal tenants on the Lewis F. Moulton and Company ranch, two miles south
east of El Toro, where he owns the farm buildings and all the necessary harvesting
machinery for handling the 2,000 acres which he has under lease. A native son of Cali
fornia, he was born near Saticoy in Ventura County, April 28, 1874, the son of Thomas
Ahern, a native of Ireland, who came to America from the Emerald Isle, and direct to
California, when he was eighteen years of age. He married Miss Honora Purcell, also
Irish by birth, and they had fourteen children, among whom Eugene was the sixth.
Mr. Ahern has gone to his eternal reward; but the mother still lives at Anaheim.
Eugene Ahern's boyhood days were spent in Los Angeles, when the present
metropolis was comparatively a small place, receiving his education in the public
schools. When nineteen years of age, he came to Orange County in 1893 and began
working on farms in the vicinity of El Toro and by experience and contact with the
world, and through keeping his eyes and ears open he has become a well-informed man.
His father ranched at various times in Contra Costa, Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange
counties, and very naturally Eugene gave him the greatest assistance he could, mastering
at the same time all kinds of ranch work. Finally at Santa Ana he was married,
Februry 2. 1899, to Miss Margaret Anna Kelly, born in New Zealand, the daughter of
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respectively. Her father, Capt. Wm. Kelly, was a seafaring man and rose to master of
the vessel. For some years he made his headquarters in New Zealand. It was in 1884
he came to Newport, Cal., where he became particularly well known, piloting vessels
over the bar. Captain Kelly and his good wife now live in Santa Ana. Mrs. Ahern is
the third oldest of eight living children and she was reared and educated in the public
schools of Orange County. Two children came to add to their marital happiness:
Laura who married Drennan Krauchi, now deceased, and now resides at the Ahern
home at Tustin; and Juanita.
As has been said, Mr. Ahern began his acquaintance with the life and problems
of the farmer on the ranch of his father, who at one time was engaged in farming-
leased land on the Irvine, or the San Joaquin ranch at Irvine. Later on, he came down
to El Toro and worked on the Twist ranch. He rose to be Mr. Twist's foreman, and
held that position for a number of years; about fifteen years ago he began farming
operations on his own account. At the present Mr. Ahern has 1,600 acres planted to
grain, of which 250 acres are in wheat, and 1,350 acres are in barley grain. He has
200 acres of hay, and 200 acres of beans. He resides with his family at Tustin, where
he owns a ranch — a trim little farm of twenty acres, seventeen of which are set out to
budded walnuts, while three acres are in Valencia oranges.
Mr. Ahern is serving as school trustee in the El Toro district, and is interested in
the proper education of the rising generation, believing that every boy and girl should
have the best of educational opportunities. In national politics, he is a Democrat, but
he aims to study and to act upon the great questions of the day in the" broadest, most
nonpartisan spirit. He and his gifted wife still continue to apply themselves closely
to their life work and to give the most conscientious attention to every detail in busi
ness; and they enjoy the highest respect of a large circle of friends.
GEORGE H. HANSEN. — An enterprising, successful rancher with an enviable
record as an expert oil driller, whose prosperity has stimulated his interest in local
affairs of every sort, is George H. Hansen, who was born, a native son, in Placentia,
Cal., on May 25, 1882. He is the eldest son of the well-known and highly respected
citizen of Placentia, Peter Hansen, and from childhood enjoyed the advantages of a
comfortable home, while he attended the district school at Placentia. Later he grad
uated, as a member of the class of '97, from the Orange County Business College at
Santa Ana.
Entering the employ of the Union Oil Company at Maricopa, in Kern County,
Mr. Hansen was for four years an expert driller in that company's service, acquiring
practical experience which proved very profitable. Thert in 1913 he took up ranching,
on his nine acres devoted to Valencia oranges. It is under the service of the Anaheim
Union Water Company and he is a member of the Placentia Orange Growers Associa
tion. In 1918, he built a handsome residence on his ranch.
Mr. Hansen has been married twice. His first wife, Ceola D. Boswell, before her
marriage, died in 1917, the mother of three children — Christine May, Ernest and Robert.
Ernest served a year and a half in the merchant marine, and at San Francisco was
honorably discharged, and now he is an expert baker at Portland. His second marriage
made him the husband of Miss Bertha L. Herman, the daughter of R. B. Herman,
the rancher of Anaheim. She was a trained nurse, and is now a great helpmate; and
she is the mother of one child, George Hansen, Jr. In national politics, Mr. Hansen
is a Republican; but he is first, last and all the time American, and ready to work for
America and her ideals.
WARREN M. GRAY. — An industrious, progressive and self-made young man
conspicuous among those who are "making good" is Warren M. Gray, naturally a
mechanic, through training an expert machinist, and very experienced in the handling
and directing of men. He is the owner of an excellent ranch about a mile and a
quarter east of El Toro, in whose community he and his promising family are highly
rated for their citizenship and neighborliness.
He was born in Boone County, Iowa, on July 8, 1886, the youngest of five children
born to J. M. and Frances (Westlake) Gray, and he came to California in 1891 with
his parents and the rest of the children. They settled first at San Juan Capistrano, and
there Warren grew up and attended the public schools. When thirteen years old he
began to work for the Santa Fe Railway, helping to construct and repair, and laboring
especially at the laying of track. Three years later, he was made section foreman, and
in that capacity he continued with the Santa Fe for thirteen years. His father was a
track and construction man for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway in Iowa for
twenty-three years and seventeen years for the Santa Fe at Capistrano; he now resides
with his daughter, Mrs. Alfred Trapp at El Toro, in the eighty-fourth year of his age,
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Warren M. Gray took up mechanical engineering through the International
Correspondence School at Scranton, Pa., which gave him the necessary insight, since
which time he has fortified himself through actual, valuable experience. He is very
efficient in repairing automobiles, is a good separator man, and with A. C. Carle he
owns a complete and dependable threshing outfit. Some time ago Mr. Gray purchased
twenty acres of rich land, his present home place, and he has since set it out to walnuts,
making it a very productive ranch.
In 1910 Mr. Gray was married to Miss Rosie Zarn, a native of Del Mar, in San
'Diego County; and they have two attractive children, as one might expect who knows
Mrs. Gray's charming personality. They are named Catherine and Carrie.
ALFRED HUHN. — A far-seeing business man of winning personality who has
repeatedly demonstrated that he has marked ability, is Alfred Huhn, president and
manager of the Ehlen and Grote Company. He was born at St. Louis, Mo., on No
vember 18, 1875, the son of Peter and Lena (Theiss) Huhn of St. Louis, where her
father was a prominent merchant for many years. There were four children in the
family, and three are now living; and Alfred is the only one in California. Both
Peter Huhn and his good wife are now dead.
Alfred was reared in St. Louis and educated in the local schools, after which he
entered Walther College, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts
degree. Soon after this he entered the Third National, now the First National Bank
of St. Louis, following banking until 1901, when he resigned his position and came
west to California. He looked over the Southland and was not long in locating in
Orange. Soon after his arrival, he entered the employ of the Ehlen and Grote Com
pany, and for some years continued with them as a clerk. When the business was
incorporated in 1906, Mr. Huhn became a stockholder and was elected secretary and
director; and in that capacity he remained until Mr. Ehlen sold his interest in 1910,
when Mr. Huhn was made president and manager; and these positions he has filled
to everyone's satisfaction since 1910. Through the excellent management accorded
by Mr. Huhn and his associates, the firm retains its old-time prestige of being the
largest retail grocery in Orange County, and very naturally Mr. Huhn is a livewire in
the Orange Merchants and Manufacturers Association.
Mr. Huhn is interested in horticulture, and owns an orange ranch near Olive.
He also owns business property in Orange and in Los Angeles. He is a director and
secretary of the California Fig Nut Company, which maintains factories for the prepa
ration of breakfast food known as "Fig Nuts" made from figs, nuts and whole wheat,
a superior article rapidly coming to the front; the demand has increased so rapidly
the company is enlarging the capacity and also making plans for materially enlarging
the plant. He is also a stockholder in the National Bank of Orange.
At Orange Mr. Huhn was married to Miss Sophie Grote, a native of Kansas, and
the daughter of Henry Grote, the pioneer. Two children have brightened their home,
and their names are Alfred, Jr., and Lester.
The family are members of St. John's Lutheran Church, and Mr. Huhn is a
member of the Lutheran Men's Club, as well as the Commercial Club of Orange. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Huhn are intensely interested in the broadest and most enduring develop
ment of Orange County, and are eager supporters of every good movement tending
toward those ends.
ERNEST L. MORRISON.— One of the prosperous ranchers of Santa Ana is
Ernest L Morrison, of South Birch Street, a native of Iowa who came to California
to spend the rest of his days, and has since had so much success here that he has taken
a new lease of life and more than ever, perhaps, longs to play the game. He was born
near Cedar Rapids on November 10, 1864, the son of J. W. and Emilie Morrison, and
was sent to school at Cedar Rapids, while his father traveled hither and thither as a
salesman for wholesale houses. He was an apt student, and in time was graduated from
the Cedar Rapids Commercial College.
When only seventeen years of age, he also started out as a salesman, representing
the farmers Fire Insurance Company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; limited in his territory
at first to Cedar and Jones counties, but later special, agent, representing the entire
state. He next purchased various strips of timberland and built a sawmill in Iowa, cut
his own timber, and sold cordwood, railroad ties and lumber. He built many houses
in Cedar Rapids, and bought and sold property there. He had a delightful suburban
farm of twenty acres near Cedar Rapids, suitable for the life of a country gentleman,
and a farm of 180 acres in Cedar County, devoted to general agriculture. Much of the
time while he owned this ranch property, he had a tenant on the farm, and he himself
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In 1908, Mr. Morrison sold his interests in Iowa, including some stock in the
Farmers Fire Insurance Company, and came out to California on a six months' tour
of inspection; and having looked the state over pretty well, he located in Santa Ana.
He built a home at 530 East Seventeenth Street, and there made his home until he
sold the place in 1916. In April of that year, he 'bought a five-acre grove of Valencia
oranges on Santiago Street, which is well watered by the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation
Company. In February, 1920, Mr. Morrison purchased twenty acres from R. J. Thomp
son of Santa Ana, lying west of the County Hospital, for which he has a private pump
ing plant — that of the Dawn Company, Inc., which has a capacity of 200 inches. He
bought his present home at 116 South Birch Street in April, 1919. He is, very naturally,
a member of the Santiago Orange Growers Association.
On October 14, 1886, Mr. Morrison was married to Miss Martha A. Jeffries, who
was born near Cedar Rapids and educated at both the high school and the commercial
college of that city, in the district in which the Jeffries were early settlers. Mr. and
Mrs. Morrison are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Ana, and Mr.
Morrison is one of the trustees of that congregation. He was formerly a director in
the California National Bank. In national politics a Republican, Mr. Morrison is too
broad-minded to be partisan in his "boosting" of local projects, and therefore supports
heartily any movement deemed worthy for the betterment of the community or the
county in which he lives, labors and prospers.
HARRY BARTER. — For nearly a quarter of a century Harry Barter, the pro
gressive rancher of Magnolia Avenue, Stanton, has resided on the same place where
he now lives. The ranch was purchased by his father, Alfred Barter, from the Stearns
Rancho Company and at that time was a sheep pasture.
Harry Barter was born in Virgil City, Vernon County, Mo., April 17, 1884, the
son of Alfred and Annie (Swartz) Barter. The family consisted of six children, three
of whom are living, two being residents of Los Angeles County. Alfred Barter was
an extensive farmer who, in conjunction with general farming, conducted a nursery
for many years in Orange County. He passed away in 1897 and his widow now resides
• at Long Beach.
Although born in Missouri, Harry Barter was reared and educated in Orange
County and has always followed agricultural pursuits. His ranch of eighteen acres is
devoted to general farming and is highly cultivated and very productive.
In 1911, Mr. Barter was united in marriage with Miss Mary F. Hooven, a native
of Wyoming Valley, Pa., and the daughter of Mrs. Tillie Hooven. Mr. Barter is an
enterprising and progressive rancher and is most highly respected for his integrity and
high ideals of citizenship.
CHARLES PRINSLOW.— A self-made, self-reliant, substantial and well-to-do
rancher, who has worked hard for every dollar that he possesses, is Charles Prinslow,
the orchardist, whose trim fifty acres near the Costa Mesa postoffice are well known
to other California farmers. He was born at Brandenburg, Germany, on September 28,
1853, the son of Martin and Wilhelmina (Fredericks) Prinslow, farmers and landowners,
who migrated with their eight children to Fond du Lac, Wis., in 1869, and there con
tinued, agricultural pursuits. The second son and third child, Charles, was then sixteen
years of age, and therefore he was educated partly in his native land and partly in
Wisconsin. When twenty-three years of age, he struck out for himself and first pulled up in
Lincoln County, Dakota Territory. There he took up a homestead of 160 acres and
also a timber claim of the same extent, and proved up on both; and this land he still
owns, and a section more.
In 1881, he was married to Miss Nina Ireland, born near Randolph, Wis., and a
daughter of James Ireland, who became a farmer near Centerville, where our subject
then lived. And after his marriage he raised wheat, corn, hay and barley, as well as
stock, so that he became a cattle feeder. Indeed, he fed thousands of cattle for the
Chicago market, and was favorably known as one of the extensive cattle feeders of
southeastern South Dakota. He bought more land, and in every way prospered.
In 1915, Mr. Prinslow came out from South Dakota, took in the two expositions
at San Francisco and San Diego, and returned to his farm of 960 acres in Brooklyn
Township, Lincoln County, and the following spring came back to California with
Mrs. Prinslow. After looking over various attractive localities, they bought a five-acre
home, to which they moved with their family, in January, 1916. They still retain their
fine Dakota farm, worth, according to a conservative estimate, at least $300,000, and
since their coming here they have made a trip to South Dakota each year. Mr.
Pfinslow has identified himself in many ways with the life and progress of Orange
County, and is known at Newport Heights as president of the Newport Heights Irri-
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o-ation District, which owns three artesian wells on twenty acres of ground bought
from James Irvine.
Mr. and Mrs. Prinslow have had eight children — the same number as made up the
family of which the subject of this sketch was a member. Mabel is the wife of William
losty, a farmer at Centerville, S. D.'; and Elmer, the second born, is also farming
nearby; Lewis was a sergeant in the United States Army, now a barber at Marysville,
Cal.- Frank died, unmarried, when he was twenty-two years old; Minnie's husband is
John Boyd, the rancher and orchardist in Harper Precinct and they have a son, William;
and Charles is a farmer in Lincoln County, S. D.; Alice married John Jones, a fumi-
gator residing at Costa Mesa, and they have one child, Robert; Clarence, who has
reached his seventeenth year, lives at home.
Mr. Prinslow is a Republican according to his party preferences; but he endeavors
to put aside partisanship when local movements and measures are up for support or
defeat, and in that way works for the best interests of the community in which he
lives and prospers.
ROBERT L. BLANCHAR. — A far-seeing, progressive agriculturist, who leads a
quiet but very fruitful life, operating with excellent results some twenty acres on North
Flower Street, is Robert L. Blanchar, among the most successful of Orange ranchers.
He was born near Windsor, Wis., on August 24, 1877, the son of Harvey C. and Mary
Blanchar, and grew up in a circle of refinement and education such as might be
expected from the fact that his father was a student at the University of Wisconsin.
In 1900 Robert moved to Faribault County, Minn., with his parents, and there
purchased a farm of 200 acres of prairie land, which he devoted to the raising of cattle,
horses, sheep and grain. He lived nine years in Minnesota, and then sold out his hold
ings. In the meantime, in 1908, his parents moved to town. In that same year, also,
our subject was married, on July 2, to Miss Grace Rorman, the ceremony taking place
at Winnebago, Minn.
In December, 1909, Harvey Blanchar came to California and located on North
Flower Street, in Santa Ana, later returning to Minnesota. In the spring of the fol
lowing year he and his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Blanchar, moved out to
California for good. This North Flower Street ranch consists of twenty and a half
acres, five of which are set out to apricots, two and a half to oranges, and thirteen to
walnuts. Our subject set out the apricots and oranges himself, but the walnut trees
were already there. He has ten acres under the service of the Santa Ana Valley Irriga
tion Company, and also a private pumping plant with a capacity of forty inches. He
uses an electric motor of fifteen horsepower, and a number four pump. In 1910 he
built the home in which his mother now lives. His father died, ripe with the honors
of seventy-one years, on June 29, 1917. Robert Blanchar belongs to the Orange Lodge
of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of Santa Ana.
Mrs. Blanchar was born at Delavan, Faribault County, Minn., the daughter of
Will and Kate Rorman, natives of Minnesota, who continue to reside in that state.
She attended the grammar schools of the district, and also studied at the high school
in Winnebago. Four children have blessed their union. Helen E., Eunice D. and
Vivian M. are pupils of the grammar school; and Robert L-, Jr., is at home. The family
belongs to the First Baptist Church of Santa Ana.
JOSEPH E. DURKEE. — That a professional man may become a successful and
prosperous rancher, under the benign influence of sunny California, is clearly demon
strated in the career of J. E. Durkee of Orangethorpe, where he owns twenty acres
devoted to oranges and walnuts. For twenty years he taught school in Iowa, and for
eleven years he was superintendent of schools of Buena Vista County, in that state.
Mr. Durkee was born January 6, 1862, in Leeds, Wis., the son of Joseph and Edna
(Webb) Durkee. In 1855 the parents moved to Wisconsin, and from there the father
enlisted in the Civil War and was killed at Yorktown. Later the family moved to
Iowa, where J. E. received his early education in the excellent public schools of his
locality. Subsequently he attended the Agricultural College of Iowa at Ames from
which institution he was graduated in 1889; he then took up teaching as a profession
and for which he was admirably qualified.
In 1909 Mr. Durkee came to California, and after spending one year in Los
Angeles, he purchased his present ranch in Orange County, where he has since resided.
At the time of purchase the ranch was mostly unimproved, but Mr. Durkee with his
characteristic enterprise and spirit of progress, began at once to improve and develop
the place, and after expending much money and labor he has brought the ranch up to
a high state of productiveness and has made of it a beautiful homestead
Mr. Durkee's marriage occurred in 1892, when he was united with Miss Lucinda
Stewart of Floyd, Iowa. Five children have been born to them, three of them living =

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Beatrice, wife of E. T. Watson of Orange, Florence and Ruth. Mrs. Durkee died in
Los Angeles in 1910. Fraternally, Mr. Durkee is a Mason, a member of Sioux Rapids,
Iowa, Lodge A. F. & A. M., and a member of the Chapter of that city; he is also
affiliated with the Odd Fellows.
In these days of scientific farming a man of education and attainments is a valu
able asset to any community. That Mr. Durkee's capabilities have been recognized by
his fellow citizens is evidenced by the fact that he has been made a school director
of his district and he wields a broad influence in shaping its educational policy, as he
is an enthusiastic supporter of every movement for the widening of the educational
facilities of the community.
MRS. MINNIE M. DIETRICH.— An enterprising, liberal and kind-hearted woman
who has spent many years of her life in Santa Ana, where she is well liked and highly
esteemed is Mrs. Minnie M. Dietrich, who was in maidenhood Minnie M. Buchmann, a
native of Berlin, Germany, born in 1856, a daughter of John and Rosina (Seidel) Buch
mann, who brought their family of children to Buffalo, N. Y., in 1860, where after a
residence of four years they removed to Richardson County, Nebr. There they became
successful farmers and there both spent the remainder of their lives.
Minnie Buchmann spent her teens in Richardson County and received a good
education in the public schools of that county, and at Fall City, Nebr., she was
married, January 21, 1872, when Penrose C. Dietrich became her husband. He was a
native of Pennsylvania, born at Kutztown, May 24, 1840. His father, Daniel Dietrich,
was also born in Pennsylvania and was a farmer near Kutztown, where he and his
estimable wife died. Penrose Dietrich after completing the public schools of his
locality came out to Iowa when seventeen years of age and soon afterwards still farther
west, locating at Fall City, Nebr., where he met Miss Buchmann, the acquaintance
resulting in their marriage. The young couple then located on a Nebraska prairie farm
which they improved, growing corn, wheat and oats. In about 1895 they removed to
Long Island, Phillips County, Kans., where they purchased and improved a farm and
became successful stock raisers and feeders. They met with splendid returns and
became owners of a 400-acre farm.
In 1900 they made their first trip to Santa Ana, Cal., and after remaining a year,
returned to their Kansas farm, but the lure of the balmy climate was too great and they
responded to the call of the West, so in April, 1905, sold their Eastern holdings and
located in Santa Ana. They purchased the place- Mrs. Dietrich still owns, between four
and five acres, on Grand Avenue. They also owned the old Reuter place on Depot
Street, where they first made their home until he sold it. They journeyed back East for
a visit and there he was taken ill, but so strong was his desire to return to California,
the state of his adoption, that he made the trip back, but died six or seven months
later, on April 11, 1918.
After his death Mrs. Dietrich spent some time in Los Angeles at her residence,
1231 West Forty-first Street, but now she makes her home on the Grand Avenue
ranch, surrounded by her children and many friends. Her seven children are as follows:
Annie is the wife of John Hasenyager of Santa Ana, and they have two children;
Wm. married Leola Wagner of Santa Ana; Edward is a rancher in Tustin, and married
Miss Maude Skelton of Kansas; Frank married Miss Bessie Killebrew of Kansas;
Albert and Carrie are deceased; and Elmer is assisting. his mother in the care of the
ranch. Mrs. Dietrich is a member of the Lutheran Church in Santa Ana and is very
charitable in her donations for its upkeep.
JOSEPH POLLOCK. — A very successful, influential rancher whose busy life has
been fruitful, ever since his advent here, in advancing- the best interests of Orange
County, is Joseph Pollock, who lives on Santa Clara Avenue, in Santa Ana, where he
devotes his time exclusively to the culture of oranges, and where he has operated since
1911 buying and selling real estate, encouraging others to come to Santa Ana and
vicinity to settle, and proving the magnet through which many have found their way
to Southern California and fortune.
Mr. Pollock was born in Washington County, New York state, on June 10, 1849,
the son of William and Rheuamy (Kinney) Pollock, natives, respectively, of Ireland
and New York. He was one of eight children, all of whom grew to maturity, while
six are now living; and he is the only one residing in California. He was reared in the
Empire State and there educated at its excellent public schools; and when the time
came for such a decision, he himself chose to be a farmer.
In 1864, however, as a lad of fifteen, when the Civil War was in full swing, he
enlisted as a volunteer in the United States Navy and was assigned to the Albert Lee
squadron, in which he served on the old frigate Minnesota, at Fortress Monroe, and
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officer was Lieutenant George Dewey, in more modern times Admiral Dewey, the hero
of Manila Bay. After extended, active service along the Atlantic Coast, Mr. Pollock
was honorably discharged at Norfolk, Va., in July, 1865, when he returned to New York.
He then started West and traveled in most of the Middle and Western States, as
far as Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, where he followed mining; and then he came
back to Hinkley', 111-, and on November 30, 1876, was married to Miss Amanda Strever,
the daughter of' John Strever, a lady of accomplishment and a member of a family
lono- highly esteemed in their locality. Then he resolved to settle down; and in the
spring of 1877 he removed to Austin, Mower County, Minn., where he remained for
thirty years, and where he owned and cultivated a farm of 220 acres.
In 1905 he removed to Orange County, Cal., and more than ever he has prospered
in his latest environment. He came here with some $15,000, and this he has invested
so wisely that it has multiplied materially. Besides his home ranch on Santa Clara
Avenue, Mr. Pollock has another farm of twenty acres near Anaheim, upon which he
has placed his son, Roy Pollock, who cultivates both oranges and lemons.
Mr. and Mrs. Pollock have had two children, but only one has survived. Roy
married Miss Carrie White, by whom he has had four children, three of whom are still
living. Mr. and Mrs. Pollock are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at
Santa Ana, and politically are staunch Republicans, and he is naturally a worthy member
of the Grand Army of the Republic at Orange.
HANS VICTOR WEISEL. — Prominent among the attorneys of Orange County
is Hans Victor Weisel, of Anaheim, where he maintains offices in the Golden State
Bank Building. Although not a native of this state, Mr. Weisel has spent much of his
life here, coming here with his parents when he was a lad of but nine years. His birth
occurred in Milwaukee, Wis., November 6, 1883, and he is of German and French
descent, his parents being Peter and Josephine (Cordes) Weisel, the latter a native of
Milwaukee, Wis. Both parents are now deceased. The family came to California in
1892, and Hans, who was the seventh child in order of birth of the nine children, re
ceived the greater part of his early education in the grammar and high schools here.
Later he attended Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, Ind., where for two
years he gave his time and attention to the study of electrical and chemical engineering.
However, having decided upon a career in the legal profession, he returned to California
and entered the College of Law, University of Southern California, where he graduated
in 1907. Coming to Anaheim, he entered the practice of law, and after three years he
formed a partnership with Roger C. Dutton, under the firm name of Weisel & Dutton.
This partnership continued until 1915, and since that time Mr. Weisel has maintained
his own offices.
Taking a deep interest in politics, Mr. Weisel was honored by "election to the
House of Representatives of the State Legislature' of California, serving in 1912-14. In
politics he is a Republican and was a firm supporter of Roosevelt and Johnson. Fra
ternally he is an Elk and a member of the Alpha Tau Omega.
On September 25, 1910, occurred Mr. Weisel's marriage to Miss Evangeline C.
Gentry, a native daughter of California, and two children have been born to them,
Victor G. and Anita E. Their home is at Brookhurst and Mr. Weisel is also the owner
of an orange grove. Fond of outdoor life, he enjoys especially the sports of hunting
and fishing. Deeply interested in all matters of local import, he is progressive and
wide awake in his views and a firm believer in the future of this part of the state.
MISS BELLA J. WALKER.— Among the educators of Orange County who are
entitled to the highest confidence and esteem, partly because of their character and
personality, and partly on account of the high standards they have set and attained
in their academic work, may be named Miss Bella J. Walker, the head of the department
of English in the Anaheim Union high school. She comes of a family well known for
its identification, through her father and brothers, with the Christian ministry, and is
herself rated as a brilliant instructor. She enjoys a popularity not only complimentary
in the highest degree to herself, but helpful to the institution in which, under the
generaHeadership of its able principal, she has the honor to teach.
Miss Walker was born in Cayuga, in the province of Ontario, Canada, and is the
daughter of the Rev. J. L. Walker, a Methodist minister who was born in Aberdeen,
Scotland, and came out to Canada when he was ten years old. He married Miss Eliza
beth A. Baldwin; and when our subject was in her third year, they crossed the line into
the United States and settled at Columbus. At the end of two years, according to the
TSt£rm *u thC Me?hodlst Church, Mr. Walker went on to the LAnse Indian Mission in
the Northern Peninsula, and for many years presided over various charges in Michigan.
Miss Walker received the best training possible in the grade schools, considering
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graduated from the Ypsilanti Normal College. Then, for seven years, she taught in
the high school of Republic, Mich. After that, in 1902, she studied at the University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and then, for two years, she was both principal and in
structor in the high school at Petoskey, Mich. In 1904, she went to Owosso, in the
same state, and became an instructor in the County Teachers' Training School; and
she was there until 1907.
In that year, Miss Walker journeyed west to California, to visit her brother, J.
Franklin Walker, who was principal of the Anaheim Union high school; and during her
visit she purchased five acres on North Street. She went back to Michigan, however,
and taught for a year; and in 1908 she returned to the Golden State with her father
and sister, Margaret. She built a home on her ranch, and within a year the trio moved
onto the five acres. Her beloved mother had passed away in Michigan, and her father
went to his eternal reward, rich in the works of eighty-four years, in 1916 while residing
in California. Having once established herself as a member of the Anaheim community, Miss
Walker joined the staff of the Anaheim high school and was made head of the English
department; and in that very responsible position she has served, the commonwealth
ever since, contributing what she could toward the highest efficiency in the study of
English, both for the present and the opening years to come. When she first saw the
high school at Anaheim, her brother as principal was in charge of seventy-nine pupils;
and now the school has four hundred. A sister, Miss Margaret Walker, married J. K.
Langdon, and lives in Anaheim; and this social relation, together with such activity
as Red Cross work during the progress of the late war, has added to the happiness of
Miss Walker's residence in the early Orange County town.
The Reverend Mr. Walker found cactus and brush on the land on North Street
purchased when they came, and he developed the waste into splendid acreage. Now
it is devoted to the cultivation of citrus fruit, and supports seven and eight-year-old
Valencia orange trees, irrigated by Section No. 2 of the Water Company. The success
of his labors there was but such as one might have expected who had followed his long
and successful harvesting as a reaper of souls.
JACOB S. SWINDLER.— About two miles south of Anaheim is the highly culti
vated and well-kept walnut grove and orange orchard of Jacob S. Swindler. He was
born on October 6, 1852, in Montgomery County, near Crawfordville, Ind., in a log-
house, and when quite young his parents moved to Missouri where he was reared and
educated. His parents, Joseph S. and Salina (Lyter) Swindler, had a family of eleven
children, nine of whom grew to maturity, and six are now living. Jacob S. is the only
member of the family living in California. During most of his life he has followed
farming although he learned the trade of a carpenter, which he had found of great
benefit to him, even in ranching, as the knowledge of the trade enables him to do his
own carpenter work, and at times he has done work for his neighbors. Mr. Swindler
resided in Missouri until 1900, when he went to Idaho, bought a ranch of 160 acres near
Lewiston, where he remained until coming to California in 1911.
Mr. Swindler has been married three times; his first wife was Miss Catherine
Davis of Missouri, to whom he was united in February, 1879, and of this union three
children were born, two of whom are living: Virgil C; and Laura, Mrs. Alfred Edwards
of Missouri. Mrs. Swindler passed away in 1883. On October 22, 1886, he was united
in marriage with Miss Maggie Boyd, she died in April, 1913, in Orange County. Mr.
Swindler's present wife, before her marriage, was Mrs. Mary (Williams) Wiley. She
and Mr. Swindler were married on June 13, 1914, and one daughter, Dorothy Elizabeth,
has been born to them. Mrs. Swindler is a native of Ohio, of Welsh parents, and is
the mother of three living children by her former marriage: Fannie, Ethel and
W. Victor Wiley. Mrs. Swindler has lived in California since a year old. Her parents
came to what is now Orange County in 1876, and settled in Gospel Swamp, where they
have since lived. She was reared and educated here, and in 1900 was married to Victor
L. Wiley. She spent six years in Iowa after her marriage, but came back to California,
where Mr. Wiley died in 1908.
Mrs. Swindler is the owner of a ranch of ten and one-third acres which is well
improved, and since her marriage to Mr. Swindler he has given it his especial attention,
making many improvements which have enhanced the value and attractiveness of the
property by setting out six acres of Valencia oranges and four acres of walnuts. Mr.
Swindler owns eleven and one-quarter acres of walnuts near by, all of which he looks
after in person. Mr. and Mrs. Swindler are members of the Christian Church and are
highly respected citizens of the community, where they have many warm friends. In
politics they are Republicans.

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HERMAN F. MEYER. — An industrious and enterprising orange grower, residing
on Katella Road and Palm Avenue, in the Anaheim district, is Herman F. Meyer, the
owner of a five-acre orange orchard, about seven years old. His ranch is well improved
and a modern residence adds to its attractiveness. Mr. Meyer was born on September
5, 1857, at Chicago 111., a son of Herman and Wilhelmina Meyer, natives of Germany.
Herman Meyer, Sr., learned the trade of a shoemaker in Germany but after emigrating
to the United States he followed agricultural pursuits. The family settled in Iowa,
where the father engaged in farming until he passed away in 1900. After the death of
her husband, Mrs. Meyer moved to California in 1907, with her son Herman F., and
she passed away at Los Angeles in 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer were the parents of
eleven children, seven of whom are living, and four brothers, Henry, August, Charles
and Herman F., reside in California.
When Herman F. Meyer came to California in 1907 he went to Santa Cruz, where
he lived for six and one-half years, subsequently going to Aromas, San Benito County,
where he owned about sixty acres which he devoted to general farming and fruit
raising. In 1918 he removed to Orange County and located on his present place, and
as a result of his diligent work he has become one of the successful ranchers there.
On June 4, 1896, Mr. Meyer was united in marriage with Miss Anna M. Rudolph,
daughter of Valentine and Catherine Rudolph, and they have become the parents of
six children: Edgar, Marie, Carl, Albert, Merten and Herman. Mrs. Meyer is a native
of Cedar Lake, Ind., where she was born on December 21, 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and politically they support the
Republican ticket. A former marriage of Mr. Meyer, in 1884, united him with Miss
Sophia Frevert, and two children were born to them, Hulda of Santa Rosa, and Esther,
who is now deceased.
EDWARD KARLOFF. — An enterprising, successful orange grower who is known
as a liberal-minded, public-spirited citizen, ready at all times to do what he can both
to build up the town and the county and also to help in the great work of upbuilding,
or improving things socially and educationally, is Edward Karloff, who was born in
Posen, Germany, on March 5, 1868, and there attended the public schools. As early
as 1891 he was fortunate in being able to come out to America and to Chicago, and
there he soon found work in the great stockyards. Then he took to gardening, and
made a success of that; and when he decided to push on still further to the West, he
was ready for the new and severer problems awaiting his attention.
In 1894 he arrived at Anaheim and at once went to work on a ranch as a farm
hand, getting one dollar and a quarter a day for from twelve to fifteen hours of labor,
and boarding himself. He was frugal, however, notwithstanding these adverse condi
tions, and by 1902 had saved enough to be able to buy his present place of ten acres on
Ball Road. It was raw land then; but his industry, guided by intelligent reflection, soon
transformed it into improved land, and there he set out Valencia oranges, interset with
walnuts which his enterprise had raised independently of the nurseries, and today all
are bearing finely.
While in Germany, Mr. Karloff was married to Miss Louisa Kroeger, a native
of Posen and a woman with the desirable domestic virtues and accomplishments for
which Germans are so favorably known; and they have three bright children— Elsa,
Bertha and Walter. The family attend the Anaheim Lutheran Church; and Mr. and
Ou arIoff' lntense in their patriotic Americanism, subscribe to the political creeds
ot the Republican party, although in supporting desirable local projects they are non
partisan m the extreme. Mr. Karloff thinks that Orange County can have only a
brilliant future; and Orange County naturally expects but one result from the hard work
of Mr. and Mrs. Karloff to make a happy home and a prosperous ranching estate.
, , J°.HN ?". GUTHRIE,— Descended from Scotch ancestors who were early settlers
nJ^Tb ]ZT ' G^ ,ie,-is himself a native of the Old Dominion. He was born
Sal \l C, ft ' Wnearf Nathahe' in Halifax County, Va., his parents being Thomas and
400 arrJ Ih16- ,S .V?"' Wh° Yas also a native of Virginia, was the owner of a
dS" receSVP TT mHa"fax County> and here John F. spent his boyhood
velrs of ale I 0 tduCaUon ln the schools at Nathalie. When he was twenty-two
vrsittoC«hL„%P °k aVXtenTVe-tnp thr°Ugh the Southern States and also made a
™'„C TJV° p'C°- D^unn? the year 1897 he farmed in F1°rida, near Braden-
KoukeSf " ^ J11°Wing year' When the Spanish-American War
U S Armv beinfst t TlTu -™l ™ '" the 9"artermaster's department of the
U. b. Army, being stationed both in Cuba and Porto Rico
for twoveTrs hut f? T ^T L" W™ at the close of the war, he farmed there
desi Ho see mori of %hlPS Tl V^ ^ken gave him a taste for travel a"°. a keen
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at Los Angeles, engaged in various kinds of work, being for a time with the Kerckhoff-
Cuzner Lumber Company and later spending a short time on a ranch near Compton
On April 2, 1907, Mr. Guthrie was married to Miss Emma Ahrens the ceremony
being solemnized at Los Angeles. She is a native daughter of California, her parents,
Fred and Caroline Ahrens, residing at Main and Nineteenth streets at the time of her
birth. Mr. Ahrens, who was a cabinet maker by trade, came to California from
Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1886, following his trade after locating in Los Angeles. Mr.
and Mrs. Guthrie are the parents of two sons, Randolph and Arthur.
Shortly after his marriage Mr. Guthrie removed to San Mateo, where he spent
six years with the Wisdom-Loop Lumber Company, as foreman of their San Mateo
yards. He then gave up lumber yard work and came to Orange County, purchasing
ten acres of land on Magnolia Avenue in 1912. At the time he bought it, it was barren
cactus land and he set to work to develop it, setting it out to Valencia oranges. He ha_
used the most up-to-date methods in his ranch work and has been very successful, the
income from his orchard increasing steadily each year. Mr. Guthrie has a private
pumping plant on his ranch and has one of the best pipe systems in the vicinity, having
three sets of valves across the property. Besides caring for his own ranch Mr. Guthrie
rents from 50 to 100 acres of land each year on which he does truck gardening, raising
corn, tomatoes, beans, etc.
Mr. Guthrie takes an active interest in all civic affairs and has served on the
school board as a trustee. A believer in the principles of the Republican party, he
gives his support and vote to the nominees of that party. Fraternally he is affiliated
with the Masonic order and with his wife attends the Grace Lutheran Church at Ana
heim. During his residence in San Mateo Mr. Guthrie was appointed by Governor
Gillett to fill a vacancy on the sanitation committee of the hospital in that vicinity, and
he discharged the duties of this office to the satisfaction of everyone.
MISS MABLE McGEE. — One of the most capable and successful business women
of Brea, and one who, in fact, has the distinction of having filled four city offices, is
Miss Mable McGee, dealer in real estate, insurance, investments, bonding, etc. She is
a native of Page County, Iowa, and received her early education in the grammar
and high schools of Coin, Iowa, which was supplemented with a special commercial
course in Amity College, and subsequently a business and commercial course in the
Omaha Business College, at Omaha, Nebr. She fitted herself for the vocation of a
stenographer, and she held positions of responsibility in this line of work in Omaha,
Nebr., Denver, Colo., Wyoming and New Mexico.
In 1912, Miss McGee came to Los Angeles, Cal., and in 1914 located in Brea, soon
after this thriving little town had started. For three and a half years she was in the
employ of Stern and Goodman and Ray Brothers, and later became stenographer for
the firm of Salveson-Brown; afterwards she was stenographer for the city attorney of
Brea, Albert Launer. While in the latter office she decided to seek the position of
clerk of Brea, and at the polls was duly elected to that important office in 1918 for a
two-year term, ending in April, 1920. That she ably filled the office to the utmost
satisfaction of the citizens of Brea is attested to by the fact of her appointment to the
additional positions of city recorder, city assessor and deputy tax collector.
In addition to her many civic duties Miss McGee engaged in the real estate and
insurance business, is notary public and public stenographer. The busy and successful
career of this young business woman furnishes a splendid example of what can be
accomplished by women who are specially trained for their specific lines of business.
By her splendid achievements in the civic life of Brea, Miss McGee has won for herself
a prominent place among the citizens of this growing and prosperous little city.
FRED BENTJEN. — A very successful horticulturist, who attributes much of his
progress to the ambition, striving and self-denial of his good wife, is Fred Bentjen,
rated by all who know his warm advocacy of both popular and advanced education as
one of the truest-hearted of Americans. He was born in Germany on February 4, 1863,
the son of Dietrich and Helen (Janscen) Bentjen, farmer folk in that country, noted for
their intelligence and up-to-date ideas, and he was twenty-three years old when he left
home to come to America. He sailed from Bremen for New York, and then went on to
Nebraska. While at home, he had helped his father with the farm work, and in the
new West he always found engagements enough, continuing for nine years as a
laborer on a farm. Once he went back to his native country; but it was only for a
visit and he not only returned to the United States, but he married at Pender, Thurston
County, Nebr., on March 29, 1895, Miss Helen Wolffe, also a native of Germany.
Selling out his interests at Pender, he moved to Boone County, in the same state,
where he went in for general farming, raising in particular on his 200 acres grain and
stock, and also potatoes. In 1909 he came west to California and for three years lived

1406 HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY
at Richfield; and in 1912 he removed to West Anaheim. There he planted fourteen
acres of citrus trees now six years old and full bearing, and three acres of walnuts;
joined the Farm Center, became active in civic work under the banners of the Repub
lican party, and also became a stockholder in the Anaheim Orange and Lemon Growers
Association. He bought into a well company having a plant pumping 100 inches and
serving twenty ranchers, and he assumed charge of the well and the pump, which are
located on his ranch.
Six children have blessed the fortunate union of Mr. and Mrs. Bentjen: Anna
is now the wife of Otto Rohrs, the rancher of Orange, and has one child; Tillie is
married and is the wife of Dick Heitshusen, an oil man of Brea, the ceremony having
taken place in July, 1920; Fred entered the army in defense of his country, but was not
sent to the front on account of the armistice, and now he is ranching and living at
home; Ida is the wife of Raymond Grimm, a rancher of Anaheim; Lena resides at home,
and so does Mary. All the children were born in Nebraska, and confirmed in the
Lutheran faith. Mr. Bentjen has served as a member of the board of the Anaheim
German Parochial School.
DAVID D. GARDNER. — An expert celery grower who is also a good business
man is David D. Gardner, who owned ten acres three and a half miles northeast of
Huntington Beach, and grows twenty acres of celery on rented land. He is a partner
with his brother-in-law, Wallace W. Blaylock, and together they are widely known as
celery experts.
He was born in Madison County, Nebr., on March 2, 1884, the son of David
Gardner, a rancher, who had married Miss Sarah Hetzler. In 1892 they removed to
California, taking with them their family of six children. Here the father passed away,
in 1906, and the mother is now living, retired, in the La Bolsa district, in Orange
County. Adam Gardner, who is in business in San Francisco, was the first born of the
family; then came Al, who lives at home; after that Ralph, the rancher at Oakdale; then
David, our subject; next Earl, who owns twenty acres and rents seven hundred, and
lives a quarter of a mile from Bolsa; and finally, Lida, the wife of Frank Burton, the
rancher, of Stanton, Orange County.
David was eight years old when he came to Orange County, and in 1907 he was
married to Miss Johnnie Girdner Horton, a native of Arkansas, and the daughter of
Warren H. and Laura Horton. The former died here in 1907. Mrs. Gardner is a near
relative of Dr. Girdner of New York. Four children blessed this union: Hayden,
Mabel, Geraldine and David.
Mr. Gardner planted his farm of ten acres to beans and beets, and this alone
affords him a good living. He has a good partner, and some of their celery will
bring $1,500 an acre, netting each partner a handsome income. As a family, the
Gardners have valuable connections and many friends, being highly esteemed for their
ideals and public spirit.
WALLACE W. BLAYLOCK.— The successful culture of celery in Orange County
owes much to Wallace W. Blaylock, like his partner, David D. Gardner, a noted celery
expert. He lives with his interesting family on his ranch of twenty acres in the Talbot-
Wintersburg district, where he is known and respected as a very successful farmer. In
national politics, he has always supported the Democratic platforms; but he has cast
aside partisanship in endorsing the best men and the best measures for local develop
ment, with the result that today he enjoys life in one of the most favored areas in all
the Golden State.
He was born in Franklin County, Ark., in the Ozark country, famous for its large.
red apples, on September 11, 1863, and there attended the public schools. His father
was Robert Blaylock, a native of Georgia and a member of a fine old English family
that had settled in the South; and his mother was Agnes Blaylock, who was born in
lennessee. They married in Arkansas, and there Robert Blaylock died when Wallace
was only twelve years of age. Mrs. Blaylock lived to be seventy-six, and died in
California Five of their children grew up; and among them Wallace was the second
in the order of birth. Mrs. Blaylock came of Scotch ancestry, and Grandfather Blay
lock reached the grand old age of 103; Wallace, therefore, has very naturally inherited
exceptional virility.
..i yhenJje,7aS twenty-one years of age, Mr. Blaylock came west to California and
settled at El Monte, in Los Angeles County; and in 1900 he returned to Arkansas
there he married Miss Emma Horton, a sister of Mrs. D. D. Gardner. Mrs Blaylock'.
uncle was the noted New Yorker, Dr. Girdner.
Mr and Mrs Blaylock have five children: Both Frances and Charles are in the
high school at Huntington Beach; while Julienne, William and Wallace, twins, are
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EARL CHESTER DUTTON.— The Buckeye State claims Earl C. Dutton, the
progressive young rancher of the Anaheim district, as a native son. He was born in
Albany, Athens County, Ohio, on July 11, 1882, a son of W. H. and Ida (Linscott)
Dutton. They were the parents of two children, C. Clifford and Earl Chester Dutton,
the subject of this review.
W. H. Dutton was born in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1858 and followed the
jewelry business from boyhood, his father having been a pioneer jeweler in Ohio. In
1891, he migrated with his family to California, where he engaged in the jewelry busi
ness at Los Angeles, remaining there until 1908, when the family moved to their present
home place in Orange County. At that time the land was unimproved. Three months
after locating on his ranch of ten acres, W. H. Dutton passed away; his son Earl took
charge of the estate, and has made all the improvements and spared neither labor or
expense in bringing the place up to its present day high state of production. His
indefatigable labors and enterprising efforts have been amply rewarded by bountiful
crops, seven acres being devoted to oranges and three to avocados. He makes a
specialty of the Dutton avocado, originated by himself on his ranch and which has
proven of great value because it ripens in winter. This is a widely planted variety,
calls having come from Florida and the Hawaiian Islands for the budded variety.
Mr. Dutton is a member of the California Avocado Association. For ten years he has
been a member of the Orange County Republican Central Committee and taken an
active interest in political affairs in the county and state.
On September 21, 1906, Mr. Dutton was united in marriage with Miss Mildred C.
Cottrell, and four children have been born to them: William K., John C, Margaret C,
and Ruth D. Fraternally, Mr. Dutton is a member of the Order of Eagles, being the
past president of Anaheim Aerie No. 947, and also holds membership in the American
Genetic Society. He and his family are highly esteemed in the community for their
high ideals of character and citizenship.
FERDINAND HEYING. — A poultry fancier who is unusually successful in rais
ing prize show birds, as well as in maintaining a fine orange ranch, is Ferdinand Heying,
whose home is on Loara Road, west of Anaheim. Missouri was Mr. Heying's native
state, and he was born there on -June 3, 1866, at Rhineland, Montgomery County. His
parents were Bernhard and Alida (Struttman) Heying, the father having come from
Germany in 1844, and was one of the pioneer settlers of Montgomery County, Mo. He
was a well known farmer there for many years, owning 120 acres, most of which was
Missouri River bottom land. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted in the Union
Army and served valiantly for his adopted country.
*The early days of Ferdinand Heying were spent on the home place, where he
obtained such education as the schools of that time and place afforded, but as the terms
were short — only four months a year — he had to gain most of his schooling through
his own efforts. Part of their farm was timberland and this he helped his father clear,
raising a few acres of tobacco here, and devoting the remainder to corn, wheat and
stock. One of the happiest memories of Mr. Heying's youthful days is his member
ship in the Rhineland Brass Band. This little organization made quite a reputation for
itself, being called upon to play for every notable gathering in that part of the country,
for every member of the band was a good performer on his particular instrument and
with their zealous hours of practice they were able to play music quite in advance of
the usual village band. Mr. Heying was one of the leading performers, playing the
E-flat cornet in the band and the B-flat cornet in the orchestra work.
Mr. Heying remained on his father's farm until he was of age, when he engaged
in the lumber business, sawing the rough lumber for the farm buildings of the vicinity
at his mill. He handled walnut, oak, elm, sycamore, maple and cottonwood lumber,
and when the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad was built through that part of
Missouri he furnished ties for the company. Mr. Heying also acquired an eighty-acre
farm near Rhineland, sixty-five acres being bottom land and fifteen acres upland, and
here he set out a fine apple orchard, Winesaps, Zanos, Jonathans and Arkansas Blacks
being among the varieties that he grew; in addition he also had a good sized orchard
of peaches and pears.
In 1902 Mr. Heying came to California and settled at Anaheim, where for some
time he was engaged at various occupations. Later he purchased thirteen acres of land
near Fullerton, north of the Burdoff ranch; this was vacant land at the time and Mr.
Heying began at once to improve it, setting it out to walnuts and bringing it up to a
high state of cultivation. He still owns this property, which is producing a fine
yield and he markets his walnuts at the Benchley Packing House. In November,
1916,' he purchased five acres on Loara Road, west of Anaheim, and here he now
makes his home. The place is set to Valencia oranges and it is irrigated by water
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County. Mr. Heying is a member of the Anaheim Citrus Exchange, and of course,
markets his oranges through that organization. Since coming to his Anaheim ranch
Mr. Heying has developed a thriving poultry business on his ranch, specializing
in prize show birds of the Rhode Island Red variety. He has made a special study of
this branch of the poultry business and has mastered the secrets of its success; he
now has about 300 birds.
The marriage of Mr. Heying occurred on June 24, 1888, when he was united with
Miss Emma Dyckman, who like himself was born in Montgomery County, Mo. They
are the parents of four children: Alfred and Oscar, are both graduate pharmacists and
have a splendid business at Anaheim; Alfred graduated from the San Francisco School
of Pharmacy and on account of his brilliant work there won a scholarship that entitled
him to an additional year of study; Edward G. lives at Fillmore, where he also has a
drug store; Ernest B. is attending a dental college at Los Angeles. Oscar and Edward
trained at Camp Lewis; the former went to France and the latter was in the gas detail
in the United States where the gas was manufactured. Ernest attended the dental col
lege under government regulation until the armistice was signed. A Republican in
national politics, Mr. Heying is nonpartisan in his political views where local issues are
concerned, believing the best interests of the community are conserved by putting the
best man in office, regardless of party ties.
EUGENE L. McCARTER.— A resident of Orange County since 1903 and now
an enthusiastic horticulturist in the Tustin district is Eugene L. McCarter, who was
born near Clay Center, Clay County, Kans., April 5, 1888, a son of Thos. J. McCarter
who is represented on another page in this work. Eugene L. was reared on the farm
in Kansas and attended the public school of his district. Coming with his parents to
Orange County when he was in his fifteenth year, he completed the grammar school
and then entered the Santa Ana high school where he was graduated in 1910.
He then followed ranching for a time to earn the money to pay his way through
the Brownsberger Business College iri Los Angeles. After graduating from this insti
tution he became bookkeeper for a Los Angeles Grocery Company where he con
tinued for eighteen months. But the call of the farm was too strong so he returned to
Orange County to begin ranching. He purchased ten 'acres on the Newport Road and
also leased land and engaged in horticulture as well as raising beans. Two years later
he sold his place at a good profit and bought a ten-acre walnut grove on the Red Hill
Road in Tustin which was interset with Valencia oranges. Four years later he sold
it at a big profit and then he bought two ranches, one of ten acres on Red Hill and
San Juan streets, devoted to walnuts and the other of eleven acres set to Valencia
oranges, located on Prospect Avenue, both lying in the Tustin district. Meantirne he
also purchased ten acres at West Acres adjoining the Forkner Fig Gardens in Fresno,
which he set to figs and two years later sold it at a profit.
Aside from his own ranches he has helped to develop and set out several other
ranches to orange and walnut groves. During this time he has been a close student
of horticulture, so much so that he has become a well posted and successful horticul
turist. He is also the owner of a valuable corner in Seattle, Wash. He is a member
of the Santa Ana Valley Walnut Growers Association and the Tustin Hill Citrus Asso
ciation. Mr. McCarter makes his home on Prospect Avenue, where he has a comfort
able residence and resides with his wife and three children, Barbara, Eugene L, Jr.,
and Gwendolyn. His marriage in Santa Ana, February 28, 1916, united him with Miss Minnie Mae
Montgomery, born in Hereford, Texas. She came with her parents, Lyman A. and
Kate (Mercer) Montgomery, to Santa Ana; they were natives of Iowa and Mr. Mont
gomery died here Mrs. Montgomery is a graduate of the San Diego State Normal and
mitct eB ™gag^ A" educational work for many years and now teaching at West-
TTu «- A. ^rter was graduated from Santa Ana high school in 1914. The
Mr MrcT T "* Pfesbyterian Church of Santa Ana. In national principles
Mr. McCarter believes ,n the policy of protection and is a stanch Republican
Southt^?? BELDEN McCORD.-The history of the banking institutions of
and W mf TT 1? Tinteres7"?' and their soundness and stability are due to the tried
oWer esta^ ishedF T' I iTT8 them in the past to weather many a storm in which
older established Eastern banks have been less fortunate
Shelburn 7nTTT *f TT" ,°T0T °f the Anaheim National Bank is a native of
rigg ^Mc'Cord\re Hvfn? T "" i' 18, " Hk parentS' George A' and Lethia (Hazel-
Arthur tL Tu f,S Anp,l6S' Where the father is a contractor.
public school ed,,tyS 6 ° dCSt Chjld in a family °f efght children, and received a
rte Central Norm?, 4,°YT "T^" a business college course/and a course at
the Central Normal School at Danville, Ind., after which he taught school for three

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years at Fairbanks, that state. His first step in the business world was in connec
tion with the Terre Haute Traction and Light Company, in their purchasing depart
ment, in which position he remained two years. After coming to California he was
connected with the Commercial National Bank at Los Angeles, for five years, and was
assistant cashier of the Traders Bank in that city, two years. He then accepted a posi
tion as cashier of the German American Bank of Anaheim, and from there went to
the Anaheim National Bank as cashier, his present position.
The marriage of Mr. McCord occurred April 30, 1905, and united him with Miss
Ellen Mahaney of Indiana. Mr. McCord belongs to the Christian Church and politically
is a stanch Republican. He is associated fraternally with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is fond of hunting,
fishing and motoring, recreations in which he finds relaxation from the cares of busi
ness life. _ He is very active in Anaheim civic affairs, and is a man of standing and
influence in the community, where he is esteemed not only for his personal worth but
for the public spirit he manifests and his interest in all things pertaining to the welfare
of Orange County.
FRANCIS M. BENNETT. — A rancher who has farmed in various sections of
Orange County and is, therefore, well posted as to soil and climatic conditions in this
favored part of the Golden State, is F. M. Bennett who is at present yard foreman for
the Orange County Fumigating Company. He was born near Rondo, Polk County,
Mo., on August 24, 1875, and his parents were Samuel and Harriet A. Bennett, farmers
in the Iron State. The lad attended the district school at Rondo, and worked at home
until after he was of age.
On attaining his twenty-first year, he started out into the world for himself, taking
up farming as a means for a livelihood. On May 18, 1897, he was married to Miss
Catherine Marsh, who was born in northern Missouri, the daughter of Richard and
Elizabeth Marsh, also farmers; and they, came to California and remained two years,
during which time their only child, Jesse D., was accidentally burned at Orange, and
died from its injuries. Later, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett returned to Missouri, and there,
in 1899, Mrs. Bennett died.
Once again Mr. Bennett came out to California, and this time he brought with
him his father and mother. They settled on East Chapman Avenue in Orange, and
there purchased ten acres for $3,500. At the end of two years, however, they disposed
of their holding and moved into Orange. In 1909, Mr. Bennett's father died, and just
ten years later, his mother passed away.
On November 15, 1905, Mr. Bennett married a second time, choosing for his wife
Miss Alice Ferguson, a native of Iowa and the daughter of Chauncey and Laura Fergu
son; and since then have been farming, for the most part near Santa Ana, Orange and
Anaheim. In 1912, he had a boarding house at Camp No. 7, Big Creek, in the Sierras,
about seventy-five miles from Fresno; but after spending a year there in the mountains,
he left and went to Texas, settling some sixty miles from San Antonio. He ran an
express, and farmed eighty acres of land. The lure of California drew him back to
Orange County in 1914, and then he worked as yard foreman for the Orange County
Fumigating Company. He next removed to Buena Park and ranched for a while, and
then was overseer of the Holton ranch, forty acres of which are devoted to oranges,
and forty to walnuts. While in Texas, Mr. Bennett bought twenty acres near proven
oil lands. Mr. Bennett is a member of the Episcopal Church at Anaheim, in politics is
a Republican, and fraternally belongs to both the Odd Fellows and Masons of Orange.
G. RAYMOND FRANKLIN. — Interesting and varied have been the life experi
ences of G. Raymond Franklin; an extensive traveler, soldier of fortune and now a
successful business man, makes an unusual combination, and goes far to show the
versatility of this patriotic American. Instead of turning his attention to politics on
leaving the army, as the hero of San Juan, Roosevelt, did, he has "thrown his hat"
into the business ring, and the mettle of the man insures success. Born in Dwight,
Livingston County, '111., May 30, 1878, he is a son of James L. and Dora (Schuman)
Franklin, both natives of Illinois, and the father conducted the largest general store
at Dwight for many years.
The son received his education in the public schools of his home town, and the
Dwight high school, and when a young man took a trip to Europe, traveling exten
sively and visiting nearly all the principal cities all over the continent. In 1898, when
the Spanish War broke out, he enlisted in the Thirteenth Infantry of Regulars, as a
private, and rose to the position of first lieutenant. His regiment was the third to
land in Cuba, and saw active service all through the Cuban campaign, taking part in
the battle of San Juan Hill, at which time Mr. Franklin was sergeant. He arrived in
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many skirmishes and engagements, serving under General Lawton, and was near that
brave soldier when he was shot from his horse, and wounded in the arm, at the capture
of San Fabian. Besides becoming an officer in the Philippine Islands, the young
soldier served as interpreter, speaking Spanish fluently. On returning to the United
States he was placed in charge of the military prison at Alcatraz Island, San Francisco
Bay. He resigned from the army in 1905, after seven years of faithful service.
His first civilian occupation after military life was as bookkeeper and cashier with
the Pacific Implement Company of San Francisco, and he later held the same position
with the Standard Hardware Company of that city. He next went down into Mexico
and became forwarding agent with the Southern Pacific Railway during the construc
tion of the line from Guaymas to Tepic, on the west coast. After his work in Mexico,
he became purchasing agent for the U. S. Smelting Company of Kingman, Ariz., for
three years, and then engaged in business for himself in Kingman, selling mining
machinery and automobiles, for five years. During the World War he served for six
months, receiving a captain's commission from Washington and was sent to Camp
Fremont, where he was general instructor at the officers' training camp.
In April, 1919, Mr. Franklin came to Anaheim and was one of the organizers of
the Orange County Auto Company, becoming secretary and manager of the concern,
J. L- Finley of Pasadena being the president. The company occupied a large and
modern garage and show room at 111-113 North Lemon Street and did a flourishing
business handling several makes of cars. On June 1, 1920, Mr. Franklin severed his
connection with the company and took the agency for the Auburn Beauty Six and
Gardner Four and is located on West Center Street where he meets his many friends
in his usual genial manner.
The marriage of G. R. Franklin united him with Ethel M. Jeans, a native of San
Francisco, and they have one daughter, Barbara. Fraternally, Mr. Franklin is a
member of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, having demitted from Kingman (Ariz.) Lodge
No. 468, B. P. O. Elks. Since he has elected to make Anaheim his home he has become
interested in all movements that have for their aim the betterment of the community
and is rapidly building up a reputation among the business men of the county.
HARRY J. NYLEN. — Numbered among the newer residents of Orange County
who are making a success of citrus culture is H. J. Nylen, whose ranch is located on
Orange Avenue, near Anaheim. Although he has lived in Orange County but a short
time, Mr. Nylen is no stranger to California, as he previously resided at Whittier,
where his father's family located in 1900.
H. J. Nylen was born in Corry, Erie County, Pa., on May 30, 1872, the son of
J. T. and Olive Nylen, whose family consisted of five children, three of whom are
living in California. The mother passed away on January 21, 1917; the father still
resides at Whittier. H. J. Nylen followed the barber's trade in Whittier for nine years,
after which he engaged in agriculture and citrus culture and then went to Hemet, bought
twenty acres and set it out to peaches and apricots. Seven years later they sold out and
spent one year in Santa Ana. In 1916 he located on a ranch in West Anaheim, which
he devoted to citrus growing, and where he made many needed improvements by
setting out Valencia oranges. He sold the ranch in January, 1920, and took up his
residence in Anaheim.
On October 10, 1907, Mr. Nylen was ' united in marriage with Mary Elizabeth
Lark, a native of Illinois, born in McDonough County, and the daughter of Mrs.
Caroline Lark, who came to California in 1900. One son, John, now deceased, was
born to them. Fraternally Mr. Nylen has been an Odd Fellow, and also a member of
the Modern Woodmen lodge at Hemet. He and his wife belong .to the Christian Church.
WILLIAM EDWARD DUCKWORTH.— An experienced merchant who has
attended strictly to business, and in doing so has established a flourishing trade in feed,
fuel, seeds and ice, as well as all kinds of poultry supplies, is William Edward Duck
worth who was born at Hutchinson, Kans., on November 26, 1885. His father was
John W. Duckworth, born in Iowa, while his mother was Emma Handy before her
marriage, and a native of Illinois. They now live retired in Anaheim, and of their three
children Wm. E is second oldest. The oldest is Guy E., a merchant in Honolulu.
Ihe youngest is Mrs. Lola Pendleton of Pasadena.
When William was still a child, the family came to California in 1895, and'under
the inspiring environment of the Golden State he was reared and educated. He first
attended the grammar and then the high school of Anaheim; and after that, for several
years, assisted his father in mercantile business. Then he engaged in blacksmithing and
the sale of implements; and in each of these endeavors he proved his ability to under
stand the wants of the public, and to please and give convenience to his patrons by
anticipating their desires.

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In 1907 Mr. Duckworth established his present business, in which he has been very
successful, being now the largest individual business of the kind in Anaheim He
belongs to the Board of Trade and the Merchants Association, and whenever there is
anything to be done under their leadership, William Duckworth is one of the first to
volunteer to put his shoulder to the wheel.
When, on August 16, 1904, Mr. Duckworth was married, he took for his bride
Miss Gertrude Crippen of Anaheim; and two children have blessed their fortunate
union, John and Guy Duckworth. The family attend the Presbyterian Church. Mr
Duckworth is a Republican in national politics, and greatly interested in civic duty and
reforms. He is an Elk, and belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of
the World. BERNARD R. MASTERS.— Among the enterprising and successful young ranch
ers of the Anaheim district, one who has been a citizen of Orange County from a
young lad, is Bernard R. Masters, lessee of a ten-acre ranch on Dale Street, one-
quarter of a mile north of the County Road.
He is a native of Nebraska, born at College View, March 6, 1892, the son of
John and Bettie Masters, natives of Illinois and Norway, respectively. John Masters
was by trade a wagonmaker and followed this occupation most of his lifetime. In
1898 John Masters migrated to California and, after spending two years in the Golden
State, sent for his family to join him in the land of sunshine and flowers. In 1900 he
purchased the place now operated by his son, Bernard R. Masters. John Masters is still
living and resides at his ranch; his loving and faithful wife passed away to the Great
Beyond in 1916. Their family consisted of eight children, seven of whom are living, and
residents of California.
In 1900, when Mr. Masters purchased his present ranch, the land was used as a
barley field and possessed a flowing well. Since that time many improvements have
been made, the land set out to citrus fruit and appropriate buildings erected. The
original well finally failed to supply the much-needed water for the development of the
ranch, but another well, with a seven-inch bore sunk 127 feet, supplies sufficient water,
by a powerful pumping plant, to irrigate the entire place.
Bernard R. Masters received his early education in the splendid public school of
his district and has grown to manhood in this community where he is highly esteemed
for his manly qualities and loyal support of all worthy movements for the development
of the county's best interests.
Disregarding the superstitution of Friday the thirteenth, Bernard R. Masters was
united in marriage on Friday, December 13, 1918, with Miss Catherine, daughter of
Mrs. Mary McDougall. She is a native daughter, born at Lancaster, Los Angeles
County, and they have one daughter, Bettie Mary Masters. The McDougall family
moved to California the same year in which the Masters located in Orange County.
Mr. McDougall was a prominent stockman and passed away in Lancaster. Mr. and
Mrs. Bernard Masters have a large circle of warm friends in their community. In
politics Mr. Masters is a Republican.
EDWARD W. LEHMBERG — Thrift and frugality are characteristics which
usually bring success to the man who consistently practices them in his business. It
is to these traits of character that can be attributed the rapid strides that Edward D.
Lehmberg has made in the citrus industry since coming to Orange County, when his
financial assets amounted to but two dollars in cash. At the present time he is the
owner of a ten-acre ranch devoted to citrus fruit, located on Brookhurst Road, in the
Anaheim district.
This progressive young rancher was born in Illinois on June 5, 1893, and is the
adopted son of William and Annie Miller. His mother died when he was but an
infant, but his foster parents gave him the same loving care and attention. as though he
had been their own child. In subsequent years, after learning that his father was living,
and that Mr. and Mrs. Miller were his foster parents, he took the surname of his
father, Lehmberg.
Edward W. Lehmberg was reared and educated in Illinois by Mr. and Mrs. Miller
and when old enough he chose agriculture for his vocation. In 1911 he left their home
to seek his fortune in the West, locating that year in Orange County, where he has
since resided. At first he was employed on a ranch, but being thrifty and possessed
of a progressive spirit he wisely saved his money and today is the owner of a well
kept and profitable citrus orchard.
On February 24, 1916, Mr. Lehmberg was united in marriage with Miss Lillian
Otte, a native of Iowa, and the daughter of Claus and Catherine Otte, who have lived
in the Olive district of Orange County since 1906. Two children have been born to
Mr. and Mrs. Lehmberg: Lola C. and Roger W. They attend the Lutheran Church
and are highly respected among their ever widening circle of friends.

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HUGO J. LAMB.— A favorite son of western Orange County who is fast rising
into prominence and influence, is Hugo J. Lamb, who is also a very successful beet
and bean raiser, operating his ranch of 144 acres, but resides in Santa Ana. He was
born at New Hope, in Orange County, on December 9, 1888, the fourth of the five living
children of the late W. D. and Elizabeth (Holt) Lamb. The other four children are:
Mrs. E. J. Levengood, of Pomona; Walter D. Lamb, who resides at 415 West Walnut
Street, in Santa Ana; Mrs. G. L. Harper, the wife of the rancher living on Mrs. Eliza
beth Lamb's ranch; and Earl A. Lamb, also a rancher. Hugo J. grew up in western
Orange County, and saw the Gospel Swamp, as the country used to be called, in its
native state of jungle, tules, willows and peat bogs. He attended the Talbert grammar
school, which is known by the name of the Fountain Valley grammar school; and
being ambitious of obtaining as good an education as was possible, he also pursued the
courses of the Huntington Beach high school.
At the age of twenty, March 3, 1909, Mr. Lamb was married at Santa Ana to
Miss Effie Stockton, born in Arkansas, a daughter of the late J. T. Stockton of Winters
burg. Their union has been a singularly happy one, and was blessed with the birth of
two children, Lois and Alice. Mr. Lamb belongs to Santa Ana Lodge, No. 794, B. P.
O. Elks, and in politics aims to support only the best men and the best principles. He
is serving as a member of the Orange County grand jury. Foresight and the appli
cation of the last word in science to the problems of agriculture characterize the manner
in which Mr. Lamb operates. He uses twenty horses for his farm work, and both a
Holt forty-five horsepower tractor and a tractor of the Sampson make. All the other
appliances of his well-kept farm are thoroughly up to date. Although still operating
the farm he resides with his family in his residence at 530 South Sycamore Street,
Santa Ana.
RUDOLPH MEGER. — A progressive, successful rancher whose home-place im
provements have added materially both to the wealth and the attractiveness of Orange
County, is Rudolph Meger, who owns and operates ten acres devoted to choice oranges,
a quarter of a mile south of Broadway and east of Brookhurst Street, Anaheim. When
he purchased the property, in 1913, it was in a very unimproved condition; but it was
not long before he had set out 300 trees which will soon be in full bearing condition.
He continued his labors and experiments, and he has been able to make many other
desirable improvements on his ranch, converting the land into a most desirable country
estate. Mr. Meger was born in Russia-Poland, on March 10, 1884, and is the son of
Gotlieb and Elvina Meger, natives of the same northern country. No less than eleven
of the fourteen children born to his parents are now in America, and of these, nine
are in California and seven are in Orange County.
As early as 1902 Mr. Meger came to Orange County, and having always followed
agricultural pursuits, he had less difficulty than many in establishing himself amid new
environments. He has also always worked hard, and as a reward he has seen a profit
able homestead spring into existence for himself and family, if not in a single night,
then by such steady degrees as give heart and satisfaction to the worker. What he
and his worthy family have, they may fairly be said to have made with their own
hands, and so should be credited with the favorable results.
Successful and assured of even more success, smiling at a world that beamed and
smiled at him, Mr. Meger on July 3, 1912, was married to Miss Tina Edinger, the
daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Edinger; and three children have blessed their
fortunate union. They are Ruth, Edward and Henry. Mrs. Meger was also born in
Russia, in 1890, and was a mere babe when she came to the United States, so that she
has grown up under the Stars and Stripes.
WALTER A. LUCE.— A young, enterprising rancher of the type which can never
be restrained from forging ahead and making for itself a most honorable place in the
agricultural world, is Walter A. Luce, who has been a resident of California since 1906.
tie is a native of Hazardville, Conn., where he was born on October 30, 1886, and is
the son of Walter and Mary Luce, the former a native of Connecticut, the latter having
hrst seen the light m Germany. Besides our subject, these worthy folks had another
son, frank, who is now a painting contractor in Anaheim
The family migrated to Nebraska when Walter was a small boy, and there he
^fn-nJ1 1? "|en-°yr/ T advanta8'e °f b°th a grammar school and a high school
SL " y -Ir ' h£wentered the d^ ^ods trade in Omaha, and in time he
buver here ?n th r^ ?' T^* aS a ckrk in °maha> then became a millinery
buyer there in he store where he was employed, then went to Houston Texas in the
cTTZfV T ^ T* T"™, Y°rk Chy and from there ca™ "° Los Angeles,
Cal., in 1906, as millinery buyer for the Broadway Department Store. He followed thiS
business until coming to Anaheim in 1917 to take charge of the orange and lemon ranch

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that had been purchased by his mother, three miles west of Anaheim on the boulevard,
in that year, and since that time he has applied himself steadily to the task of making
the place a paying proposition and how well he has succeeded is shown by the returns
from the acreage. He was married in 1914 to Miss Caroline Hartman. Mr. Luce's
father died in 1891 and the widow is making her home in Anaheim.
The Luces have brought their acreage up to a high and very creditable state of
production, and no doubt their excellent well and pumping plant, installed according
to the most up-to-date plans, have had much to do with the development. The well is
250 feet deep with a ten-inch bore, affording a capacity of eighty inches of water; and
the pump is one of the best pieces of machinery for miles around and operated by
electricity. Anaheim has always welcomed such progressive citizens as Mr. Luce and
his near-of-kin, and well may they be proud of them, for they are the sort that, in
building for themselves, also build and upbuild for others.
GEORGE McNEIL. — A resident of Buena Park, where he owns and operates a
fruit ranch on Orangethorpe Avenue, George McNeil has been a valued citizen of
Orange County for the past fourteen years. Mr. McNeil comes from good old New
England stock, being born in Deering, Hillsboro County, N. H., June 2, 1863, the son
of William and Elizabeth (McQuesten) McNeil, who were also natives of that state
and both passed away there. To them were born four children, and two of them are
still living — a sister, Anna, who still resides in the East, and George, the subject of this
review. He was reared in his native state and after he had completed his education in
the schools of his locality, he spent several years as a clerk in a mercantile establish
ment. When he became of age, however, he decided to try his fortune in the great
western country, of which he had heard such glowing tales. Accordingly he made the
long journey across the continent, reaching California in 1894. Locating in Los Angeles,
he spent five years as clerk in a store, but with the exception of that period, all his
time has been spent in agricultural pursuits.
In 1906, Mr. McNeil decided to locate in Orange County, being attracted there
by the wonderful successes being made in fruit growing. He purchased a place of nine
acres on Orangethorpe Avenue, and he has ever since made this his home. His ranch
is at present devoted to oranges, walnuts, and fruits in general. He is working to the
end, however, of devoting all his acreage to the citrus industry. All the improvements
on the place have been made by himself.
Mr. McNeil's marriage occurred in 1900, in Los Angeles, when he was united to
Miss Lillie E. Tubbs, also a native of New Hampshire, and the daughter of Alvin and
Jennie Tubbs. Their home has been blessed with a son and a daughter, Alvin G.
and Ethel C, attending Pomona College. Mr. McNeil is prominent in the Masonic fra
ternity, where he holds the office of master in Buena Park Lodge No. 357, F. & A. M.
He has also been honored with a seat on the school board, which he has held since
1912. He -is a Republican in national politics. He is a worthy citizen who has won the
entire confidence of a large circle of friends through his genial personality.
FRED PEITZKE. — Among the successful growers of oranges and walnuts in the
Anaheim district is Fred Peitzke, whose home is on Stanton Street, near the County
Highway. Mr. Peitzke is a native of Southern Iowa, where he was born on August
24, 1877, a son of William and Ruah Peitzke. The family of William Peitzke consisted
of twelve children, and when Fred was one year of age his parents removed to Wright
County, Iowa, where he was reared and educated. During his younger days he followed
the cattle business from the age of eight until he was seventeen. Endowed by nature
with an unusually large and virile physique, fearless and courageous of spirit, it is not
strange that such a man should be sought to fill the position of city marshal of Kaw
City, Okla. In the early days in this territory, men were not chosen for this hazardous
position because of political affiliations or social relations, the chief requisite being a
good shot and one who could get his man. While filling this position Mr. Peitzke,
although equipped with the usual allotment of arms and ammunition while on duty,
seldom resorted to their use in capturing his man, but, with his firm grip on the person
of the lawbreaker, the criminal always submitted. Mr. Peitzke always considered his
powerful hands his best weapons at close range.
In 1913 Mr. Peitzke migrated to California and took up his residence near Ana
heim, Orange County, on Stanton Street on his father's property. He bought five
acres where he now lives and made all the improvements. Here he has successfully
and most profitably cultivated oranges; some of his orange trees are now six years old.
Mr. Peitzke's marriage occurred in 1903, when he was united with Miss Ellen
Fullington. Fraternally he is a member of Ridgely Lodge, I. O. O. F., at Black-
well, Okla., and is also a member of the Orange and Walnut Growers Associations of
Anaheim. Mr. Peitzke's father and family came to California in 1910, and three sons
and a daughter are now residents of Southern California.

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DR. WILLIAM M. CHAMBERS. — A retired dentist, who successfully practiced
his profession many years in Mexico and Central America, Dr. William M. Chambers
owns and operates a fine ranch of forty-one acres situated one quarter mile west of the
State Highway, on Katella Road, in the Anaheim section of Orange County. His
ranch is devoted to walnuts and oranges and was settled by his father, Dr. William
Chambers, in 1890, who purchased the land in its virgin state from John Hannah.
Dr. William M. Chambers, of this review, is a son of William and Martha Cham
bers natives of Pennsylvania, who lived near Philadelphia and were descendants of
Quaker families. William Chambers, Sr., was a dentist of high repute and practiced his
profession many years in Bogota, Colombia, South America, where he located in 1852,
and here Dr. Chambers was born in 1866. His father moved to California in 1890,
locating on the ranch now occupied by his son, and here he passed away in 1893; his
widow still survives and is now a resident of Los Angeles. Dr. Chambers was edu
cated at the University of Pennsylvania, from which institution he graduated with the
degree of D.D.S., in 1886. Afterwards, for nine years, he practiced his profession in
Guatemala City, Central America, and from 1898 to 1911 he was located at Puebla,
Mexico, where he practiced dentistry and was for ten years the consular agent for the
United States, being the predecessor of William O. Jenkins, whose imprisonment by the
Mexican authorities caused such widespread discussion.
In 1911, Dr. Chambers returned to the United States and settled on the old home
stead near Anaheim. He made many improvements, set out trees, installed a water
system for irrigation and erected a modern residence, which has added much to the
attractiveness of the place. In addition to raising walnuts and oranges, Dr. Chambers
is deeply interested in breeding pure-blooded Chester- White hogs, his stock being
acknowledged by experts among the best in the state.
Dr. Chambers was married in 1889 to Miss Jennie Berley, a native of Lousiana,
and four children have been born to them, and three of them are now living: Olive,
Fenner and Amanda.
CHARLES S. COX. — Among the citrus fruit growers of California can be found
men from every state in the Union — men of virility and strength of purpose who have
had the courage and energy to seek new fields in which to make their homes and
fortunes. A native of Hendricks County, Ind., Charles S. Cox, who now has an orange
and lemon grove east of Cypress, migrated to California in 1897. His parents, Daniel
and Elizabeth Cox were both natives of Indiana and there their eleven children were
born. The father died in 1890, but Mrs. Cox is still living, aged eighty-eight years.
Charles S., who was born in January, 1857, is the only member of the family in
the State of California.
On coming to California Mr. Cox first located near Morgan Hill in Santa Clara
County, where he purchased a forty-acre ranch devoted exclusively to prunes. He
remained in Santa Clara County until February, 1907, when he removed to Madera
County and one year later moved to Los Angeles County and then, in 1909, located on
his present holdings near Cypress, Orange County. When Mr. Cox bought this ranch
of twenty acres the land was in a barren state, and while the soil was rich and produc
tive, it required steady, hard and intelligent work on the part of Mr. Cox to bring it
up to its present state of cultivation. He has devoted his holdings to the production of
oranges and lemons, and some of the trees are now bearing abundantly, bringing him
well deserved returns. Mr. Cox has an interest in the Wilcox well, which has a
sixteen-inch bore, and is capable of furnishing irrigation for several ranches. From this
well he expects to draw an extra supply of water, if it should ever be necessary.
In Hendricks County, Ind., August 19, 1879, Mr. Cox was united in marriage with
Miss Flora Ader, also born in Indiana, whose parents were William and Julia Ader.
Four children have been born to them: Bernard is a structural iron worker and resides
in Portland, Ore.; during the World War he served in the Spruce Division of the
Aviation Corps; Ernest is a shipfitter and marine engineer and is employed on a vessel
in the Pacific trade; Walter is a guarantee marine engineer and during the war was
inspector for the U. S. Shipping Board at Seattle, Wash.; and Herbert is a graduate in
the first class with eight members from the State Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo; he
is an electrician in the employ of the Edison Company and lives with his wife and son,
James Leslie, in Eagle Rock. Mr. and Mrs. Cox are entitled to much praise for the
progress their sons have made in their chosen pursuits, since their home training and
education have fitted them in a high degree for the advancement they are making.
Mr. Cox is a member of the Cooperative Orange Growers Association at Anaheim. For
more than thirty-six years he has consistently voted the Prohibition ticket and has
supported all uplift movements in the county that have been brought to his notice.

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JOHN C. CORDES. — Orange County is fortunate in the number of its real estate
representatives who themselves own and operate property, so that they are the better
able to judge of realty values and rightly and honestly to forecast the future of one of
the most favored and promising sections in the entire state. Such a man is John C.
Cordes, who was born near Bremen, in Hanover, Germany, on May 25, 1863, and reared
on a fruitful North German farm until he came out to the still more alluring America.
He was about twenty-five when, in 1888, he first began to assimilate himself with the
life and ideals of the young Republic; and for a while he worked for a farmer in
Iowa. Later, he bought 285 acres in Iowa County, Iowa, which he so improved that
he easily became one of the most successful farmers of that county.
In 1904 he came to California and Anaheim, and soon after pitching his tent here,
entered the field of realty, and so welcome was he in an environment very congenial
to him from the first, that he has ever since handled Anaheim and other real estate.
He really came to California for his health; but he found that, after opening his office
at 171 West Center Street, his activities contributed to, rather than mitigated against,
his improvement, and he found recreation in a line of* trade in which he had a chance
to contribute toward both the building up and the upbuilding of the town.
Mr. Cordes also owns the famous Captain Henry estate, one of the well-known
show-places hereabouts — a ten-acre ranch located on the County Road, and highly
improved with Valencia oranges. He had, besides, five and a half acres of an orange
grove within the city limits, on West Street. This is one of the best producers in the
county, and he sold it for $35,000, the highest price paid for a five-acre tract thus far.
The 1919 crop was about 3,000 boxes. He owned the brick block on East Center
Street now occupied by the Puritan Dry Cleaning Company, but he traded it for the
five and a half acres just described. He is a stockholder in the Anaheim Citrus Fruit
Association, and also in the Mutual Orange Distributors Association.
While in Germany, Mr. Cordes was married to Miss Annie Steurman, who died
in 1919, leaving many to mourn her demise. They had ten children, and nine are still
living — Lena, Herman, Henry, Katie, Alfred, William, Annie, Alma and Linda. Mr.
Cordes has for years been president of the Concordia Singing Society, and he is now
an alderman in the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church. He belongs to Anaheim
Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks. In every way, Mr. Cordes and his family have been
progressive, public-spirited, patriotic citizens, proving themselves splendid examples of
the combination of ideals and attainments in more than one race or people.
JOHN A. CRANSTON. — For her substantial fame as one of the most desirable
of all places for residence, Santa Ana owes much, to Professor John A. Cranston, super
intendent of the public schools of that city, who has done much, since his advent here
nearly a decade and a half ago, to advance the cause of popular education in Orange
County. He was born at Madrid, an interesting town in St. Lawrence County, N. Y.,
on June 14, 1863 — a very notable day in Civil War history, for the Confederates in
vested Winchester, the Federals fought their way out with a loss of three thousand
men. Confederate cavalry invaded Maryland and Pennsylvania, and fortifications were
thrown up around Pittsburgh; he came of a family distinguished through various
branches, numbering as it does Henry Young Cranston, the Rhode Island lawyer,
Robert Bennie Cranston, his brother, who bequeathed $75,000 to those poor of Newport
"too honest to steal and too proud to beg," and long before their day, John and Samuel
Cranston, both presidents of the Little Rhody commonwealth. The family has also
left its impress in the familiar history of the Hudson.
Mr. Cranston's father was John Cranston, a farmer, of Madrid, N. Y., and he
married Mary Ann Weatherston, who came from Scotland with her parents when she
was three years of age. Both are now dead. There were seven children, two daughters
and five sons, in the family; and our subject was the fifth child in the order of birth
and the eldest of the three children living. John A. Cranston was educated in the public
schools of his district and the Canton Academy, and in 1887 was graduated from the
University of St. Lawrence, when he received the B.S. degree.
Having chosen the career of a pedagogue, Mr. Cranston accepted the principal-
ship of a grade school at Helena, Mont., but after a short time there, resigned to
travel. In the fall of 1888, he went to Phoenix, Ariz., where he taught school one
term, and in the following spring went to Minnesota as superintendent of schools.
From 1889 until 1893, he was at Wadena; from 1893 to 1898 at Elk River; from 1898
to 1902 at Alexandria; from 1902 to 1906 at St. Cloud; and since 1906 he has been at
Santa Ana. Some idea of the growth of the school in Santa Ana is noted that in 1906
there were fifty-four teachers and 1,400 pupils, and now there are 140 teachers and about
4,000 pupils enrolled — this includes kindergarten, elementary, high school and junior
college. A Republican in matters of national political impoj-t, Mr. Cranston was chair-
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man of the Juvenile Home Committee for nine years, and for seven years he was also
on the California council of education. He belongs to the California Teachers Associa
tion, and was president of the Southern section in 1912, and a member of the National
Education Association since 1902.
At Canton, N. Y., in 1891, Mr. Cranston was married to Miss Gertrude Gulley, a
native of Canton, N. Y., and the daughter of Argalous D. and Caroline (Curler) Gulley,
Vermonters who settled in New York. Two children have blessed their happy union:
Alice has become Mrs. J. Baxter Jouvenat, Jr.; and Rena Gertrude, who was married in
June, 1920, to E. T. Borchard of Long Beach, Cal.
Mr. Cranston is fond of tennis and out-of-door sports generally; and his close
touch with Nature makes him more and more interested in both the past and the future
of Orange County. He has put his whole energy, and devoted a great part of his time
to the important school interests entrusted to him; and among other things to which
he may point as more or less monuments to his life and work may be mentioned the
new high school buildings erected in 1913, under his incentive and supervision, the
high school plant being considered one of the finest in the state and naturally a pride
to the residents of Santa Ana.
DALE R. KING. — The increase in the acreage devoted to growing citrus fruits
has caused the establishment of many associations and more district exchanges in
various sections of the country for handling the product of the orange and lemon
groves. The Northern Orange County Citrus Exchange was established August 1,
1917, and is under the competent management of Dale R. King, a native of Knights-
town, Ind., born March 26, 1887. He is the son of William F., now deceased, and
Ella (Reeves) King. In the parental family of six boys and five girls, Dale R. was
the fourth child in order of birth. He was educated in the public and high schools
of Indianapolis, Ind., a city noted for the excellency of its schools. After completing
his education he followed various vocations, among others the commission business,
which he first engaged in at Indianapolis. He was in the sales department of the
California Fruit Growers Exchange for ten years, being located at Indianapolis, Chicago
and San Francisco, going thence to Orange County, Cal., to assume the management of
the Northern Orange County Citrus Exchange on its organization in August, 1917.
On August 11, 1909, Mr. King was united in marriage with Miss Vie Barnes, and
they are the parents of two children, Jeanne and Lois. Politically Mr. King casts his
ballot with the Republican party. He is a member of the Fullerton Club and the
Board of Trade and takes an active and helpful interest in the development of Orange
County. He has business acumen and the ability to grasp an opportunity, and is
making a name for himself in the community in which he lives, and in which he is
esteemed as an upright and progressive citizen.
RAYMOND N. JOHNSON.— An enterprising young rancher who is a good
"booster" for Placentia, having learned, after an automobile ride of 2,000 miles in
Northern California that there is "no place like home" — when that home is in Orange
County— is Ray Johnson, of Placentia Drive, who was born, a native son, in Placentia,
September 5, 1895. He is the youngest son of Nels Johnson, the pioneer rancher of
Orange County, who married Miss Martha Paulson, who proved just the right kind of
a helpmate. Eight children were born to the sturdy parents, four of whom are living,
and all reflected creditably on the family name. Ray attended the grammar school and
meanwhile worked on his father's ranch until he was fourteen years of age. And
then, although still in his teens, he commenced to ranch for himself. He began by
farming the thirty-two acres of his father's land and now owns fourteen acres. He
uses the tractor and other machinery exclusively, and no longer employs the horse.
In March, 1918, Mr. Johnson enlisted in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps,
and was sent to North Isle, San Diego. From there he was transferred to the One
Hundred Forty-fifth Field Artillery, and within less than five weeks, he was on his way
with the troops to France. Genuinely pleased at the chance to get to the front, he
served overseas for five months, and on his return to the Presidio at San Francisco
received his honorable discharge. He is a member of Anaheim Post, American Legion.
, „. VVhen, ^n Johnson married, he took for his wife Miss Olive Schumacher, daughter
of Oliver Schumacher of Placentia, a life-long friend and schoolmate of boyhood days;
and the happy couple now reside on the old home ranch, built many years ago, where
they have a very comfortable home. He is a member of the Placentia Orange Growers
and the Placentia Walnut Growers associations, and a stockholder in the Anaheim
Union Water Company, and he profits from their combined services. In national
politics a Republican, Mr. Johnson is too much interested in the upbuilding, as well
as the building up, of the community to allow partisanship to interfere with his hearty
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WALTER E. WHITACRE. — How valuable may be the services rendered by an
experienced representative of a well organized association is clearly illustrated in the
relations of Walter E. Whitacre, the Orange County agent of the California Vegetable
Union, to that influential and progressive movement, now known as one of the great
forces for promoting the best interests of the Golden State agriculturist. He was born
at Shelbyville, 111., on February 2, 1881, the son of George B. Whitacre, a physician
and surgeon, long resident at Shelbyville, who married Miss Nettie Kelly, also a native
of Illinois. Three children, two sons and a daughter, were born to this worthy couple;
and Walter, the only one now living of all the family, was the second child in the
order of birth. He was educated in the public schools, and also attended the Austin
College at Effingham, 111., after which he engaged in clerical work from 1899 to 1906.
In 1912 he was fortunate in coming west to California, and for a while he located
at San Diego, where he bought a ranch which he operated for three years. When he
sold out, he went to work for the California Vegetable Union. At first, he was assigned
to Sacramento for a couple of months, but in April, 1914, he came to Fullerton. With
this city as his headquarters, Mr. Whitacre was given the whole of Orange County
as his district; nor could a more desirable field, considering both the character of the
people he may deal with arid the nature of the country, anywhere be found. After these
years of energetic operation here, Mr. Whitacre is a member of the Board of Trade and
the Fullerton Club, and a very "live wire" associate, also.
On June 8, 1904, Mr. Whitacre was married at St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Marie C.
Brendle, a native of Edwardsville, 111. One child, Kenneth L. Whitacre, has blessed
the union. Mr. Whitacre, a Republican, is also an Elk and is known for his fondness
for fishing and many phases of out-of-door life.
JOHN H. HINCKLEY.— The enviable position of Fullerton today, as a kind of
magnetic center drawing to it thousands from far and wide, is largely due to such far-
sighted, level-headed, venturesome yet conservative men of experience and integrity as
John H. Hinckley, a general broker. He was born at Waukegan, 111., on January 14,
1873, the son of G. L. and Mary (Clarkin) Hinckley. These worthy parents had two
children, and of these two, John was the elder.
He enjoyed the excellent grammar and high schools of Chicago, and for three
and a half years he was at the University of Illinois, a student in the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago. Because of poor health, however, he had to
give up his studies, and then coming West, he engaged in San Francisco in the stock
and bond business, at which he remained for four years. In the same city, he took up
advertising, and for two to three years he was in Los Angeles, where he worked on
subdivisions in the Imperial Valley.
In the fall of 1916, impressed with the advantages offered by Fullerton and its
environs, he removed to this town and established himself in the real estate field. In
May, 1917, he formed the partnership of Porter and Hinckley which has proven so
successful, and of such a benefit to the realty interests of the town. In March, 1920,
they dissolved partnership since which time Mr. Hinckley has been engaged in the
general brokerage business.
On August 27, 1907, at Eureka, Cal., Mr. Hinckley was married to Miss Alice
McConnell, a native of Eastern Canada. A man above party, under any and all circum
stances, Mr. Hinckley is decidedly a Progressive and seeks to vote for the best man
and the best measures.
OLBERT ARVEL HALEY. — A native of Missouri who may have come West to
be "shown," but who has made good in the showing to others of much worth the
observing, is Olbert Arvel Haley, proprietor of the well-equipped O. A. Haley Garage,
the authorized agency for Dodge Brothers motor cars, who was born at Macon City,
on September 17, 1873. His father was H. C. Haley, a business man, now deceased,
who had married Miss Maria Fletcher, a native of Macon County, Mo.; the latter now
makes her home in Rice, Wash. The union was blessed with the birth of two children,
the elder of whom was the subject of our sketch.
Olbert A. Haley attended the public schools of his locality, and afterwards studied
at the Little Rock, Ark., Commercial College. Then he went into the grocery trade
and followed that in Arkansas and at Seattle. In the latter city he owned five stores;
but he sold out in May, 1912. He next opened an auto business at Everett, Wash.,
which he continued to manage for four years. Coming to Santa Ana in 1916, Mr. Haley
established the factory distributing agency for Orange County for the Dodge Brothers
motor cars; and so successful has he since been that he employs nine salesmen to assist
him in taking care of the business in Orange County.
The O. A. Haley Garage is located on the northeast corner of Fifth and Bush
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Fifth and Bush, known as the Haley apartments, where he intends soon to build a large
modern two-story garage. His business has grown to be very large in the county. He
has a salesroom in Orange and has a subdealership at Anaheim conducted by Charles
Mann, and one at Fullerton conducted by Miss Lillian Yaeger. Mr. Haley was president
of the Auto Trades Association of Orange County for 1918-19, and is today an active
member of the Chamber of Commerce and a director in the Automobile Club of
Orange County. These honors are in keeping with the extent and elaborate complete
ness of his garage, with its fine display rooms and its thoroughly modern workshop.
He is a stockholder in the California National Bank of Santa Ana.
On September 17, 1902, Mr. Haley was married to Miss Mary Ellen O'Conner,
the ceremony taking place at Toledo, Wash. The bride, who was born in Toledo, is
the daughter of W. W. and Mary O'Conner of that place, and now has two children,
Hugh Warren and Margaret. She shares with her husband his public-spiritedness and
interest in civic movements. He is president of the Kiwanis Club of Santa Ana, and
is a member of the local lodge of Masons and the Royal Arch Chapter, and a life
member of Santa Ana Lodge JNo. 794, B. P. O. Elks.
FRED W. TIMKEN. — A straightforward citizen who feels a keen interest in all
that pertains to the rapid and permanent development of Orange County, and who
leaves no stone unturned to promote, when possible, the general welfare, is Fred W.
Timken, the well-known rancher residing on the Anaheim Boulevard at Olive. He was
born in McPherson County, Kans., on December 27, 1883, the son of Jacob and Metha
Timken, of Coal Camp, Mo., and was the second eldest of five living children of this
union. His three brothers are Jacob G., Walter L. and Henry Timken, and he has a
sister, Mrs. R. H. Paulus of Olive.
When our subject was one year old, his parents removed to Los Angeles, Cal.,
from which place they went to Acton, where Mr. Timken mined for gold for a year.
Then he changed his residence to San Luis Obispo County, and there engaged in grain
farming. He had some 180 acres, and devoted the same to small grain, fruit and grapes.
Fred early learned to make himself useful, and finally became invaluable in farm work.
In 1902 he removed with his parents to Orange.
In 1919, Mr. Timken went to Texas and on March 6 of that year married at
Mercedes, the home of the bride, Miss Elda M. W. Schroeder, the daughter of Conrad
and Dora Schroeder. This lady was born in Illinois on March 22, 1895, and on October
13, 1911, arrived in California with her parents. The family lived at Olive for ten
months, when a change to the climate of Texas was advised on account of the health
of her father. They removed to Mercedes, therefore, in August, 1912, and there she
lived at home until her marriage. In April, 1919, Mr. and Mrs. Timken came to Cali
fornia and settled at Olive.
Together with his brother, Henry, Mr. Timken owns twelve acres on the Anaheim
Boulevard, one-half of which is set out to Valencia oranges, while the other half is
planted to walnuts. Mr. Timken owns twelve shares of stock in the Santa Ana Valley
Irrigation Company, and his land, is watered from that company's ditch. This land
is also included in the Samuel Camphouse oil lease, the object of which is to test the
land for oil. One test well is now being sunk by the Olive Petroleum Company.
Seven hundred acres, the property of many owners, is included in this Camphouse lease,
of such importance to Olive and vicinity; at last accounts, the oil well had been
sunk 3,300 feet, with good indications of success, so that much is expected from the
venture. Mr. and Mrs. Timken are devoted members of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church at Olive, and equally enthusiastic as Americans interested in civic efforts.
SALVADOR LABAT.— A resident of California since 1883, Salvador Labat was
born at Hasparren, Basses-Pyrenees, France, March 19, 1865, the son of Martin and
Marie (Cassou) Labat, farmer folk in that picturesque corner of France. There the
mother passed away, after which the father came to California, arriving here in the
early days of 1870. He first engaged in sheep raising in California and Nevada, later
on making his headquarters in Bakersfield, Kern County. From there he came down
to ban Juan Capistrano, then the center of a great sheep district, and there he became
superintendent for Oyharzabal Brothers, remaining with them until his death, in 1902.
He was the father of three sons: G. P. died in 1914; Salvador, of whom we write; and
.Peter, who is with our subject.
Salvador Labat was reared in France until he was eighteen years of age, receiving
%.g?°« eiUCatlon there' ,He came to California in 1883 and was employed by Oyharz
abal Brothers, running sheep in the mountains. He next went to Ventura, where his
father was interested in the sheep business and continued there with him until 1890,
when he sold his sheep and came to San Juan Capistrano. With his brother Peter, he
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short time until he opened a meat market near the Mission in San Juan Capistrano;
in this venture he was very successful, establishing a large trade which continued to
grow until he sold out in 1917, after a period of eighteen years in business.
In Los Angeles, Mr. Labat was married to Miss Ysabel Arambell, also a native of
Hasparren, France, who came here when a girl. She passed away in 1912, deeply
mourned by her family and friends, leaving a son, Edward Labat. Mr. Labat is very
progressive and is a highly respected citizen, well and favorably known for his liberality
and enterprise. He is a member of the W. O. W. in Capistrano and is a Republican
in national politics.
Peter Labat was born on March 1, 1868, and came to California in 1883 with his
father to San Juan Capistrano, residing here and at Ventura ever since. He married
Helene (Daguerre) Luc, also a native of Bigorre, France; she came to California in
1906. By this union they have one child, Juanita; by her former marriage, Mrs. Labat
has two children, John Luc and Dominic Luc. Mr. Labat is a member of the Woodmen
of the World.
G. A. SCHWEIGER. — A decided lover of travel, history and tradition, who has
done much to induce thousands of other folks to travel to and through California, is
G. A. Schweiger, the efficient, genial and exceedingly popular proprietor and manager
of the Modjeska Inn at the Modjeska Ranch, which was the home of the world-famous
Shakespearean actress, Madame Helena Modjeska, for a period of twenty-seven years.
He was born on August 3, 1884, at Semmering, Austria, in the Tyrolean Alps, the son
of Swiss parents resident there. He had a normal school education, and left home
when he was nineteen, after which time he spent his years in travel and business
pursuits, thus adding to his store of knowledge.
Going to England, he passed two years in London, -at Brighton and in Wales,
and then spent two years in France, where he was also in the hotel business. He
had charge of Chateau Royale d'Ardenne, which was the castle of King Leopold of
Belgium, and after two years in France, he spent a season at the Ghezireh Palace,
which overlooks the Nile, at Cairo, Egypt. The next season he found himself at Ger
many's delightful resort, Baden-Baden, and from there, in 1907, he came to the United
States, since .then the scene of his operations.
For a year he was employed in New York City at the St. Regis hotel, and then
he went to Colorado Springs, where he had charge of a department at "The Antlers"
for a couple of seasons. He spent the following year mining in Arizona, on the
Union Pass, old Fort Mojave Road, and after that he came to Los Angeles, where
he was assistant manager of the Alexandria dining room until he leased Madame
Modjeska's Inn in 1918, immediately taking charge, and a few months later, in order
to more thoroughly carry out his plans for development, he acquired the property.
In France', in May, 1905, Mr. Schweiger was married to Mile. C. Cuervo, by nature
especially qualified to assist him in his responsible labors, and they have had three
children. Joseph, born in France, came alone, at the age of only nine, to America,
to join his parents here, and at present he is a student at the Santa Ana high school.
The other two children are Amadeen and Marcell, both born in Los Angeles, and
attending the Silverado School.
It is well known that the Modjeska Ranch, through the association of the late
tragedienne, has attained a celebrity that is not only nation-wide, but international.
So it is naturally Mr. Schweiger's sole ambition and desire to retain Madame Mod
jeska's Forest of Arden and the home in all of its original splendor and beauty, keep
ing it open to the public as a first-class mountain resort equal to any of the famous
Swiss resorts, thereby doing his share towards the upbuilding of the hotel industry,
not only in Orange County but the state of California as well.
GOTLIEB MEGER. — A citizen who is thoroughly loyal to his adopted country
because it has given to him much that he never could secure in his native land, is
Gotlieb Meger, who is living on his highly improved ranch of twenty acres west of
Anaheim at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and the Garden Grove Boulevard. He is a
native of .Russia-Poland and was born July 25, 1850, the son of parents who were
also born in that country. Gotlieb was educated and reared in his own country and
lived there until 1900, when he felt that he could better his condition by coming to
the United States, and begin life amidst new surroundings. With his wife and nine
children he arrived in this country and spent one year in Michigan, then came on to
California and bargained for the property that is now his home. At that time it was
unimproved and was covered with stumps of eucalyptus, cypress and pepper trees
and was used as a pasture. With his characteristic energy he set to work and cleared
the land and in time he had as good a ranch as was to be found in the locality and
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Ball Road and there he farmed and also set out Valencia oranges. Later he sold off
twenty acres. On his home place he erected a set of good farm buildings which are in
harmony with his well-tilled fields and which bespeak the successful owner.
Mr. Meger has been married twice; by his first wife, who was Miss Ernstina
Ricka, he had one son, Edward, now a farmer in Oklahoma. His second wife was
Malvina Evert and they became the parents of the following children who are still
living: Rudolph, Theodore, Martha, Helena, Augusta, Emma, Hulda, Olga, Otto and
Lydia. Rudolph married Tena Edinger and they have three children: Augusta became
the wife of Emil Smith and they have two children; Martha, married William Everett
and three children have been born to them. Amelia, the oldest daughter and child in
the family, died in 1905 leaving four children, two of whom are still with their father,
and two, Elsie and Victor, were taken by Mr. Meger and his wife to rear. Mrs. Meger
passed away in 1916, mourned by her children and husband and by her large circle
of friends. The family are members of the Baptist Church of Anaheim and are highly
respected by all who know them. Mr. Meger has educated his children in the public
schools of the county and in business college to fit them for their places in life and he
is a loyal supporter of all American institutions that help to build up the government.
FRANK C. STEARNS. — An enterprising agriculturist whose strict attention to
the problems he has had before him has enabled him to advance rapidly, according to
the most scientific and progressive methods, as one of the noted raisers of pure-bred
swine, is Frank C. Stearns, the resident manager of the firm of Matthews and Stearns,
and the partner of F. C. Matthews, also well known in Orange County. He was born
at Canisteo, Steuben County, N. Y., on January 8, 1866, and left the Empire State with
his parents for Traverse City, Grand Traverse County, Mich., where he grew up until
his sixteenth year. Then he removed to Kansas and lived there for six years, and after
that he went to Trinidad, Colo., where he was married to Miss Elva A. Ingle, a native
of Greenwood, Kans. Their two oldest children were born at Trinidad, and they are
Edith, who is Mrs. F. C. Matthews; and Eva, the wife of C. A. Tucker, who is also
engaged in farming. A third daughter is Gladys, a native of California, and she is the
wife of Lisle Farquhar, formerly a banker at Orient, Iowa, now residing at Tustin.
Mrs. Steam's father was Enos Ingle, a native of Piqua, Ohio, in which- state he was
married to Marietta Freeman. The father of F. C. Stearns is John H. Stearns also born
in Steuben County, N. Y., a lumberman living in Wellington, Kans., at the age of eighty-
two. His wife was Demaris Batchelder, of New Hampshire, and as the representative
of an old New England family, lived to be seventy-two.
Having already established himself in the cattle business, Mr. Stearns came to
California in 1897 with his family and settled at Tustin. He took up the work of a
sprayer of trees, and built up an extensive and lucrative patronage in assisting ranchers
to save their fruit. At present, he directs the fast-growing interests of Messrs.
Matthews and Stearns, breeders of pure-bred and high-grade Duroc-Jersey hogs upon
Mr. Matthews' ranch of forty acres; and being widely known, partly as the former
proprietor of the Tustin Manufacturing Company, he has no difficulty in disposing at
fancy figures of all of their stock. His studious inclinations, and his hard, steady, sys
tematic work combine to assist Mr. Stearns to produce only the most desirable of
breeds; so that, apart from his business success, he is rendering a patriotic service in
thus scientifically seeking to attain a high goal for the benefit of thousands of the
morrow as well as of today.
H. M. PETERSON. — A gentleman of enterprise and progressive ideas who has
entered heartily into the Orange County spirit and has been doing his share to advance
the horticultural interests of the Golden State, is H. M. Peterson, the wide-awake
rancher, whose trim-appearing orchard is on the Katella Road, near the State Highway
about one mile south of Anaheim. He was born near New Hartford, Grundy County,
fowa, on June 2, 1884, the son of James and Mary (Nelson) Peterson, who located in
Grundy County in 1869, and became owner of a 330-acre farm, which they improved
lo imfaglVn ralSmg gram and stock' The m°ther died at Cedar Falls, November
22, 1917, while the father now makes his home with his son, H. M. Peterson -in Orange
_r-°Unt.y,'_„ / worthy couple had seven children, our subject being the eldest. Spending
his childhood on the farm he attended the local schools and later the private academy
at Mewart, in the same state.
When old enough to push out into the world, Mr. Peterson took up traveling for
the United Neckwear Manufacturing Company of Waterloo, Iowa, and as their repre
sentative^ covered Iowa, Minnesota and part of Nebraska. On June 2, 1917, at Mus
kogee, Okla he was married to Miss Myrtle Ward, a native of Kansas, in which
hustling Middle West state she was born at Abilene. Her father was William Ward,
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.Kans., where they were farmers; he had married Ida Bricker and they now live in
Marshalltown, Iowa. Mrs. Peterson is the fourth youngest of their six children. For
a time Mrs. Peterson attended the Iowa Teachers College at Cedar Falls, and afterwards
the A. N. Palmer School of Penmanship in the same city and after her graduation
became supervisor of penmanship in the Muskogee, Okla., schools, for a period of
three years, up until her marriage, and soon after this they removed to Lamar,
Prowers County, Colo., and there Mr. Peterson engaged in contracting and building.
At the end of five months, however, he decided to come to California, and the step
proved the wisest he had made.
On November 30, 1918, he arrived in Anaheim, and soon purchased a five-acre
grove of Valencia oranges on the Katella Road, west of the State Highway. He
obtains the water he needs for irrigating his orchard from a private pumping plant,
and he is fortunate in having one of the best irrigation supplies available to anyone
hereabouts. He is also engaged in contracting and building. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson
are members of the Christian Church of Anaheim, and participate eagerly in any sensi
ble work likely to uplift the community. They are Republicans in matters of national
politics, and ever ready to aid in advancing civic standards. They are delighted with
Orange County as a home place with future prospects, and Orange County and the
Katella district are satisfied with Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, and confident in respect to
their coming prosperity. Mrs. Peterson is a member of Anaheim Chapter, P. E. O.
RICHARD FISCHLE.— The life story of Richard Fischle is a fine example of
what can be accomplished by one man, providing he has the will to succeed and the
energy and perseverance to carry him along to the goal he has set for himself. He is
a native of Germany, born at Reutlingen, Wurtemberg, May 20, 1879, a son of Chris
tian F. and Bertha (Walz) Fischle, also born in Reutlingen. The father was a deco
rator of ability, and was very prominent in the local fire department, serving as chief
of the department for thirty-six years.
Richard was educated in the local school, and as was the custom in that country,
when he reached the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a trade. He chose the con
fectionery trade, and so learned to make candy and French pastry, completing a three
years' course, and paying for his tuition in a private school where he also studied
both German and French. At the end of the three years he had to pass a rigid
examination as to his ability before he was allowed to work at his trade. He worked
in the leading cities of Germany, Switzerland and France, and during this time served
two years in the German army.
Mr. Fischle had a brother-in-law, Chas. Lange, residing in Anaheim, Cal., and
in 1903 he came here to live. On May 4, 1904, he opened his first candy store, with
a capital of fifty dollars, establishing his business in a small store just east of what
is now the First National Bank building. The store was divided into two front
rooms, on one side was the first Public Library of Anaheim, and on the other side
Mr. Fischle carried on his candy store, and had charge of the library in connection,
making him the first librarian in Anaheim. He divided his time making and selling
candy, and attending to the library patrons, and it is interesting to know that his
first day's sales amounted to five dollars; some days the receipts would drop to three
dollars, and when his day's tally showed eight dollars, business was good!
Later Mr. Fischle moved to a larger store a few doors east, taking the library
with him. In 1914 he moved to his present modern store at 118 West Center Street,
where he does a large and profitable business; much of his confectionery is made
by himself in his own factory in the rear of his store, and he also caters to dances,
parties and receptions. The growth of this establishment shows what can be accom
plished in a few years by a man whose traits of character would make for success in
any field of endeavor.
The marriage of Mr. Fischle united him with Elizabeth Whitefield, a native of
New York State, and four children have blessed their union: Frederick C, Richard
W., Charles W. and Edward. Fraternally Mr. Fischle is a member of Anaheim
Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks, the Odd Fellows and Woodmen of the World. In
civic affairs he belongs to the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce and to the Merchants
Association. For the past ten years he has been a member of the Anaheim Fire
Department, serving through the different offices, and in 1918 he was appointed chief of
the Department. From the time he was a small boy he had been intensely interested
in fire department life, and nothing kept him from running to the fires in his old
home where his father was the chief, so his appointment gave him the incentive to
give to the Department the same careful attention he does to his business, and the
result is shown in its growth and efficiency; and the citizens show their appreciation
by his being reelected chief in 1919, and again in 1920, an honor of which he can justly
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LE ROY R. COOK. — An expert machinist who is also a successful farmer and
walnut grower is Le Roy R. Cook, who lives one mile east of Capistrano on the Hot
Springs Road. His father was R. B. Cook, the well-known pioneer of San Juan Capis
trano, who married Miss Hattie Congdon, and they live at 402 East Sixth Street, Santa
Ana. Her father was J. R. Congdon, who died at Santa Ana, four years ago; he came
to California from Hartford, Conn., when he was sixteen years old. He married Miss
Mary Rouse, a sister of Mrs. Albert Fuller, and a native of the East, who crossed
the plains with her parents, while she was yet a little girl. The Rouses settled at
first at San Bernardino, where she grew up, met and married Mr. Congdon. He was a
farmer and first had a ranch in the mountains of San Bernardino County; and there two
of their children were born, while seven first saw the light here, Mrs. R. B. Cook being
the oldest of the family. The Fullers and the Congdons came West together and took
up a homestead about one and a quarter miles south of the Mission. Grandfather
Congdon planted the first walnut orchard in what is now Orange County, in 1871, and
it was the second one planted in Southern California. Though living retired at Santa
Ana, Mr. and Mrs. Cook own a ranch of forty acres below San Juan Capistrano, oper
ated by their younger son, Congdon Russell Cook, who lately returned from France,
where he served for twenty months in the aviation section of the U. S. Army.
Le Roy R. Cook was born at San Juan Capistrano on April 21, 1884, and bought
his present homeplace four years ago, becoming a member and stockholder of the
Capistrano Walnut Growers Association at San Juan Capistrano. His father had come
down to San Juan Capistrano from the San Mateo Valley, and so had early identified
himself with the development of this section. The lad attended the common schools
at San Juan and Santa Ana, and then worked in the railway shops at San Bernardino,
continuing there for four years. After purchasing his ranch, eighty-five acres devoted
principally to raising walnuts and Valencia oranges, he remodeled the residence and
buildings, and made it, in accordance with his natural ambition, one of the best ranches
of its size for miles around.
At Santa Ana, on June 12, 1903, Mr. Cook was married to Miss Fay McCarty, a
daughter of John H. and Addie F. McCarty and a native of Athens County, Ohio.
When nine years old, she came to Los Angeles with her father, who for twenty years
has been the agent for the Santa Fe Railway at San Juan Capistrano, and since then
she has graduated from the San Diego State Normal School. She is popular as a clever,
captivating lady, and so are her children — Le Roy Glenn, a sophomore in the Santa Ana
Polytechnic high school, and Florence Lenore, Elmer R., and Hilah Marie. Mr. Cook
is a Republican in national political affairs, and has served as judge of election.
DR. CONRAD RICHTER.— Although he has spent many years in the successful
practice of medicine and surgery and obtained a competency, Dr. Conrad Richter is still
active in his profession, preferring to continue in practice from the love of his profession
and the enjoyment in alleviating pain and suffering. Driven by wanderlust and a desire
for the climate on the Pacific Coast, he came to San Francisco in 1903 from Milwaukee,
Wis., where he had engaged in the practice of medicine on the shores of the Great
Lakes. In time he became chief surgeon for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company of
San Francisco and in that capacity visited the Orient, including Japan, China, the Malay
Peninsula and India.
In 1916, with his wife, formerly Miss Rietta Ring of New Orleans, La., he located
in Balboa, where they find much pleasure in their comfortable home on Bay Island. Dr.
Richter, aside from his practice, finds time to encourage civic improvements and thus
we find him an active member of the board of trustees of Newport Beach, as well as of
the school board. He was an organizer and is a director in the Newport Yacht Club,
and is one of its most enthusiastic members, the club having increased its membership
from sixty-five to over three hundred. Dr. Richter himself a world traveler, having
visited every continent on the globe, says that with perhaps the exception of Honolulu,
he has never seen a more perfect climate than that of Newport Beach.
GEORGE M. TAYLOR.— The popular city marshal of the hustling city of Hunt
ington Beach, George M. Taylor, was born on a farm near Ozark, Ark., December 8,
1883. At the tender age of twelve years, he began to make his way in the world, his
first work being in the coal mines of western Arkansas. He was employed by the
following concerns: The Stewell Mining Company, Kemp-Small Mining Company; H.
Devine Company, and the Western Coal Mining Company. After a time spent in the
mines Mr Taylor decided to try some other kind of employment and subsequently
located in East St. Louis, 111., where he secured work with the Swift Packing Company
and the Nelson Morris Packing Company, and later on returned to his native state.
In 1900 Mr. Taylor came to the Pacific Coast, and on December 23, located at
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became stationary engineer at the La Bolsa Tile Works and later was employed by
I. J. Clark, who operated a tile ditching machine. In time George Taylor purchased a
Buckeye tractor ditching machine and engaged in business for himself, contracting
for drainage ditches, and he has made many thousand feet of ditches in Smeltzer and
Greenville districts. In 1917 he took up his residence in Huntington Beach, where he
is still engaged in contract ditch and track work. On March 15, 1920, he was appointed
city marshal of Huntington Beach; he also fills the positions of superintendent of
streets, pound master and truant officer. Mr. Taylor is chairman of the housing com
mittee for the Orange County Fair Association which is held annually at Huntington
Beach, and has full charge of the grounds and buildings.
In Santa Ana, Mr. Taylor was united in marriage with Rhoda Justice, a native
daughter and member of the pioneer Justice family of Orange County. Mr. and Mrs.
Taylor are the parents of four children: Leslie George, Lorna May, Ruby Viola and
Laddie Justice. Mr. Taylor is a worthy and highly respected citizen and is making
good in his responsible post of city marshal. Fraternally he is a member of Hunt
ington Beach Lodge No. 133, I. O. O. F., and with his wife is popular in the membership
of the Rebekahs.
ARTHUR H. T. OSBORNE.— As manager for the American Fruit Growers,
Incorporated, buyers and shippers of fruits and vegetables, with headquarters in Fuller-
ton, Orange County, Arthur H. T. Osborne is filling a position for which he is by
natural ability and years of experience along that particular line of industry, peculiarly
fitted. A Canadian by birth, he is a native of Thorold, Ontario, born November 6,
1871. He later resided in Toronto, and in October, 1887, arrived in Los Angeles, a youth
of sixteen, with the responsibilities of a livelihood already on his young shoulders. He
secured employment as clerk in a dry goods store, and later entered into the business
of shipping fruit and produce," and for twenty-four years has followed the business,
learning it from the bottom up to all of its branches and becoming expert in the
practical application of his knowledge.
First in the employ of the Earl Fruit Company in Los Angeles, in 1900, Mr.
Osborne located in Fullerton, with the Golden West Celery and Produce Company, a
part of the California Vegetable Union. For many years he was district manager for
them. Later, he was again with the Earl Fruit Company, and went on the road for
them, buying green fruit, with headquarters in Sacramento. Returning to Fullerton,
he became district manager for the Benchley Fruit Company, and Mr. Osborne is now
district manager for the American Fruit Growers, Incorporated, an extensive corpo
ration, buying and shipping dried and citrus fruits, vegetables and walnuts, with ware
houses all over the state. One of the best informed men in Southern California on the
fruit and vegetable industry, and fitted by nature with the thoroughgoing methods and
perseverance for which his nation is famed, Mr. Osborne is recognized as an expert in
the marketing and distribution of these products, which are the backbone of California's
prosperity. The marriage of Mr. Osborne, which occurred in Los Angeles, December 9, 1896,
united him with Maita Dupuy, a native of Illinois, and two children have been born
to them: Harold, who for eight months saw service in France in the U. S. Heavy
Artillery, and acted as interpreter, speaking both Spanish and French; he is now farm
ing on the Irvine ranch; and George, attending Fullerton Union high school. Frater
nally, Mr. Osborne is a member of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, Elks, and is chaplain of
that order; he is also a member of the Foresters. Since his first arrival in California
he has been active in the development of the state's most important industries, and
devotes his time and energy to further progress along those lines.
CHARLES J. BAGNALL. — Among the many men of ability who have been
attracted to Southern California by her wonderful resources and phenomenal growth
is Charles J. Bagnall, the efficient general foreman of The American Fruit Growers,
Inc., at Fullerton. Mr. Bagnall is a native Californian, and was born January 14,
1880, at Sacramento. He is the son of Cornelius and Mary Jane (Phillips) Bagnall,
natives of England. His father, one of California's pioneers, now deceased, crossed the
plains by ox-team in 1852 and followed the occupation of farming in the Sacramento
Valley and in Northern California. His mother is still living. Charles J. was edu
cated in the public and high schools of Sacramento, and as a young man entered the
fruit and vegetable business, which he has followed ever since. He was first employed
with the W. R. Strong Company of Sacramento, pioneers in shipping vegetables, who
shipped the first carload of vegetables out of the state. Mr. Bagnall was with the
company eight years, and worked in the. various departments of seed, flower, fruit and
vegetables. At the time he severed his connection with the company he was district
manager of the seed department. Afterwards he engaged with the Earl Fruit Company,
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County, engaged in buying and shipping fruit, with headquarters in that county. The
next three years he held the same position with the Producers Fruit Company in El
Dorado County, and then became allied with the Pioneer Fruit Company of Sacramento
as district deputy agent for the northern counties, in charge of packing and shipping
fruit. In 1914 he came to Southern California and was house manager for the American
Fruit Distributors at Redlands. Afterward, for one year, he was house manager for the
Placentia Mutual Orange Association, at Placentia. In 1917 he became associated
with the Benchley Fruit Company until the fall of 1918, when the American Fruit
Growers, Inc., started their plant at Fullerton, and he came with them in the capacity
of foreman. Mr. Bagnall's marriage united him with Miss Nina B. Mack, a native of Illinois.
Fraternally he is affiliated with the Anaheim Lodge No. 1345 B. P. O. Elks, and the
Suisun Lodge of Eagles. Mr. Bagnall's success is due to industry, intelligent energy
rightly directed and integrity. These qualities, coupled with wide experience gained
in the many important positions he has held during his business career, have placed
him in the front rank among the experts in his line of business.
WILLIAM W. CROSIER. — A prominent Orange County dealer in lumber who
has had the advantage of having had a valuable experience in other important lines of
activity, is William W. Crosier, partner with Fred J. Crosier in the Newport Beach
Lumber Company firm, and a thoroughly dependable "booster" for Newport Beach. He
was born in Battle Creek, Mich., on August 12, 1854, and left his native state when
he was ten years old, moving to Ontario County, N. Y., where his father farmed. He
was Jefferson Crosier, a native of New York, who was both born and married in the
Empire State, choosing for his wife Miss Helen Blodgett. After their marriage, they
moved to Battle Creek, Mich.; and then they returned to New York state. William
thus attended the public schools in both Michigan and New York.
When old enough to push out into the world for himself, he took up office work in
the freight department of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad at Cleveland;
and later he entered the service of the Santa Fe, their officials in Cleveland inducing him,
at the height of the boom in 1888, to come out to California and Los Angeles. He had
previously married, at Cleveland, Miss Millie Mount, and he was the head of a family of
two children when he first saw the City of the Angels. Later, he came to Santa Ana,
as agent for the Santa Fe; and until three years ago, he made his home there, although
fifteen years ago he quit railroading and embarked in lumbering instead, to the great
benefit and satisfaction of Balboa, Newport Beach and Harper precinct, all of which
places, thanks in part to the Newport Beach Lumber Company, are building up rapidly
and at the greatest economic advantage. Three of Mr. and Mrs. Crosier's children are
still living, and they are Mildred I., Florence B. and Fred J. Crosier, and with their
parents they live at Balboa. They attend the First Baptist Church at Santa Ana, mem
bership in which Mr. Crosier has had for years, and where he is and has long been
a deacon. The Newport Beach Lumber Company has had an interesting history with a
significance greater than that of mere commercial interest. Originally, the yard was
started by the Griffith Lumber Company and the Pendleton Lumber Company, who
owned it jointly; and in 1915 Mr. Crosier bought out the half-interest of the Griffith
concern, and two years later the other half-interest of the Pendleton Company. It is
the only yard at Newport Beach, and in its supplying of lumber, roofing, cement, stucco,
and builders supplies generally it renders an invaluable service to residents and mer
chants for miles around.
VERNON C. MYERS.— One of the most popular city officials of Fullerton,
Vernon C. Myers, the fearless and courageous city marshal, is a. native of Saint Joseph,
Mich., where he was born March 20, 1885. In 1900 he came to California and during
his boyhood days was engaged as a bell-boy in various hotels in California, principally
in the cities of Stockton, Sacramento and Fresno. In 1901 he became possessed of a
desire to see more of the world, to engage in a more adventurous life, and to fulfill his
earnest longing for a complete change of environment took a trip to Dawson, Alaska,
where he remained for one year and then returned to California. In 1902 he became a
professional jockey and was engaged in horse racing at Emeryville, Cal., and at Port
land Ore. Among the well-known sportsmen who employed him were Billy Murray
and Walter Jennings. In the course of time he became too heavy for a jockey and so
gave up the sport and sought other employment, accepting a position with the Los
Angeles Gas Company for a time, after which he was appointed to a place on the
police force of Los Angeles, becoming a motorcycle officer, patrolling the highways in
search of speeders. He spent five years in the service of the police department, two of
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In the spring of 1917, Mr. Myers resigned to accept his present responsible post as
city marshal of Fullerton, where he has been eminently successful in the discharge of
his duties and has by his undaunted spirit and intrepid action freed Fullerton of
criminals, to a large extent, and reduced the city's record of crimes to a minimum. Mr.
Myers conducts the affairs of his office along the latest methods established in police
departments of large cities. He has introduced into the Fullerton department the
finger print system of identification, as well as the photographing of criminals. Few
towns the size of Fullerton can boast of having such an up-to-date system. Among
notorious holdup men Marshal Myers succeeded in capturing were Joe Marino and
Ralph Carvornal. Mr. Myers is the owner of a pair of English bloodhounds, from the
celebrated Rockwood Kennels at Lexington, Ky. He is training these dogs to become
experts in tracking criminals and believes that ninety per cent of Orange County
criminals could have been apprehended, if bloodhounds had been used. Mr. Myers has
already made a name for himself in the discharge of his official duties.
In 1911, Mr. Myers was united in marriage with Miss Alma J. Finch of Minne
apolis, Minn., and they are the parents of three children: James, Delta and Luella.
Fraternally Mr. Myers is a member of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks and
of Fullerton Lodge of the Odd Fellows.
SAMUEL W. WHIPPO.— The efficient and successful foreman of the Fullerton
Mutual Orange Distributors Association, S. W. Whippo, was born at Parkers Landing,
Pa., January 27, 1889, a son of G. W. and Mary D. Whippo. The father was a rig
building contractor principally in Butler and Armstrong counties and was among the
pioneers of that section of the Pennsylvania oil fields. After finishing his school days,
Samuel assisted his father in the construction of oil rigs. Like many another ambitious
young man seeking greater opportunities for his abilities, Mr. Whippo migrated to
the Golden State, arriving in Orange County in June, 1908, where he immediately
secured employment with the Birch Oil Company, on the Birch lease in Brea Canyon,
later for the West Coast Oil Company at Olinda.
After spending five years in the oil fields, on January 1, 1914, he entered the
employ of the Fullerton Mutual Orange Distributors Association and worked in all
the departments of the packing house until he gained a thorough knowledge of the
business. At the expiration of four years, his service had been so efficient and loyal
to the company that his abilities were recognized and on January 1, 1917, he was
appointed to the responsible position of foreman of the plant. His close attention to
details and natural executive ability gained for him this position as an overseer of a
large number of employes, in whose welfare he takes the greatest interest and dis
charges his duties with justice and impartiality to all.
In Anaheim, Mr. Whippo was married to Miss Bertha Rickenberg, a native of
Illinois. This union has been blessed with two children: Irene Alberta and Donald
Leon. Mr. Whippo is a member of the First Methodist Church of Fullerton.
ALEX. HENDERSON. — With all the sturdy characteristics of his Scottish an
cestors, Alex. Henderson has made his way in life with no further aid than his own
determination to succeed, and the perseverance and steady application which make for
success in any walk of life. Born in the Parish of Leslie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland,
March 31, 1866, when five years of age his parents, Peter and Margaret Henderson,
brought him to Ontario, Canada, locating in Winterburn, and there he was reared on
the farm and educated in the public schools. When nineteen years of age he was
apprenticed to the blacksmith's trade under Fleming Brothers at Ravenna, Gray County,
Ontario, where he received able instructions for a period of three years. After this
he followed the trade in Pt. Dover, then in Kitchener and next in Breslau. He had a
brother, Peter Henderson, who was employed by one of the pioneer oil companies in
the Puente field in California and through correspondence he became much interested
in the Pacific Coast country and concluded to cast in his lot in the land of sunshine
and flowers. Thus seeking new fields for his labors, in January, 1892, Mr. Henderson
arrived in Fullerton, Orange County, Cal., and here opened up a blacksmith shop on
Spadra Street. He was advised by the people round about that a shop would not pay
in that location, but he thought otherwise and his foresight proved his business sagacity,
for success attended his labors and for twenty-six years he was in business in Fuller-
ton. In 1912 he had invested in eighteen acres of raw land on East Orangethorpe
Avenue, which he planted to Valencia oranges; here he built his home, a fine two-story
structure, and can spend the rest of his days enjoying the beautiful surroundings made
possible by earlier years of energy and thrift. He also owns a five-acre walnut grove
on South Highland Avenue, and other town property in Fullerton. At the time he
retired from business, in 1914, he was one of the oldest blacksmiths in the county and
though he was still hale and hearty he quit to devote his time to his orange and
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In Ontario occurred Mr. Henderson's marriage to Miss Jessie Watt, a native of
Ontario, and one child has blessed this union, James, attending school in Fullerton.
She is also of Scotch descent, the daughter of Lawrence and Jessie (Smith) Watt, born
in Aberdenshire, Scotland, who settled in Canada. By his former marriage Mr. Hen
derson had two daughters: Agnes Jessie, who died at 18; and Edith, Mrs. Anderson, of
Los Angeles. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church in Fullerton.
Mr. Henderson was made a Mason in Anaheim Lodge, F. & A. M., and was a
charter member of -Fullerton Lodge No. 339, F. & A. M., and he is also a member of the
Foresters. A warm friend and colleague of the late Chas. L. Ruddock, he served for
some time under him as deputy city marshal of Fullerton and was pronounced a very
able officer. He has from his first residence in Orange County been public-spirited to
a high degree, always interested in whatever meant the forwarding of the welfare of
his home community, and ready to back his interest with substantial help and the time
necessary for furthering such projects. Coming to this section of California at the
beginning of its upward climb, he has watched its development from small beginnings
just as his own affairs have- prospered, with a just pride in both his own unaided
achievements and the growth and advancement of his town and county.
THOMAS EADINGTON. — Another one of the many Englishmen who have con
tributed so much, in one way or another, to the development of the best interests of
California, is Thomas Eadington, the efficient and affable buyer and shipper of citrus
fruit located at Placentia. He was born at Lancaster, England, September 26, 1886, and
grew up on the banks of the Lune, not far from its entrance into the sea, near the hill
upon whose summit is the castle fortress, erected by John of Gaunt. His birthplace
is doubly interesting as the city which affords the title of Duke to the Prince of Wales.
Mr. Eadington's father was George Eadington, a business man and contractor of Lan
caster, who married Mary E. I'Anson. Both parents are now dead.
Having attended the excellent common schools of England, Thomas, at the age
of eighteen, took up stock brokerage in his native city, and continued a broker for
several years. In 1911, he migrated to the United States, and almost ifnmediately came
to California. At Los Angeles he joined a firm of engineers and contractors as secre
tary and treasurer, but in 1915 he came to Fullerton as the secretary of the Benchley
Fruit Company, in time becoming also treasurer and manager of the concern, which
prospered greatly under his initiative and at the same time was an active member of
the Fullerton Board of Trade. In 1920 he resigned and established himself as a fruit
shipper under the name of Placentia Packing Company, with packing houses in Pla
centia, where as an independent shipper he makes a specialty of shipping all citrus
fruits, i. c, oranges, lemons and grapefruit. He has remodeled his packing house, so
now it is most modern and up to the minute for grading and packing citrus fruits.
On July 22, 1913, at Greeley, Nebr., Mr. Eadington was married to Miss Mary
W. Cottam, also a native of Lancaster, England, and the daughter of James and Susanna
Cottam; and four children have blessed the union and added to the delightful social
ties of the family. They are Thomas J., Mary W., Margaret E. and Grace M. Eading
ton. The family attend the Roman Catholic Church; Mr. Eadington belongs to the
Knights of Columbus, and he is also a member of the Elks of Anaheim, as well as of
the Fullerton Club. Fond of fishing and tennis — for, as an Englishman, he must needs
have some sport — Mr. Eadington rejoices in outdoor life; so that it is perfectly natural
that he should be appreciative of all that Orange County, above all other counties,
affords to the nature lover and the health seeker, and always ready to "boost" it when
he can. It is also natural that he should look upon Fullerton, where he makes his
residence, as the choicest home spot in the county.
ELDO R. WEST.— The life of Eldo R. West, the efficient superintendent of the
Yorba Linda Water Company, and a prominent citrus grower of Yorba Linda, -began
in Jennings County, Ind., where he was born September 27, 1879. He was reared on a
farm and educated in the'country schools, afterwards attending the Indianapolis Normal
School. He taught school in Indiana, and in the spring of 1909 came to California,
locating on a ranch at Whittier, where he resided two years. He is a pioneer of the
Yorba Linda district, and came there before the town of Yorba Linda was in existence.
He purchased a ten-acre ranch, planted it to lemons and sold it in two years' time.
After coming to Yorba Linda he began working for the Yorba Linda Water Com
pany, and in 1913 was made superintendent. The officers of the company are: J. H.
¦Barton, president; E. R. Walker, vice-president; J. W. Murray, secretary and treasurer.
Directors: G. W. Wells, G. F. Collins, Arthur Staley, Thomas Hughes and E. J. Her
bert. The company furnishes water for irrigation and domestic use, and serves nearly
3,000 acres. It started with one well and two booster pumps, and now has four wells
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pipes under pressure. The main reservoir holds 4,500,000 gallons of water and the
second reservoir holds 1,000,000 gallons. The water is changed every twenty-four hours
and is of excellent quality and in fine condition. The company's main pipes are of
reinforced steel, and they have thirty-five miles of pipe line. A 240-horsepower gas
engine and new booster pump have recently been installed. Water for domestic pur
poses is placed in the homes and measured by meter with a 100-pound pressure. The
company have also installed fire hydrants. The two reservoir sites are leased to the
General Petroleum Oil Company and the first well is a producer, thus adding a choice
asset to the company.
Mr. West married Miss Grace A. Milhous, of Indiana, and four children have
been born to them: M. Jessamyn, Myron E., Clara Carmon and Merle. Mr. West
built the Yorba Linda garage building, in which he was a half owner until he disposed
of his interest. He owns a five-acre ranch planted to Valencia oranges and grapefruit.
In his religious convictions he is a member of the Friends Church at Yorba Linda, and
fraternally is a Mason, member of Yorba Linda Lodge No. 469, F. & A. M., and of
Fullerton Chapter, R. A. M., and with his wife is a member of the Order of Eastern
Star. He is respected for his integrity and all who know him appreciate him for the
qualities of citizenship he has displayed during his residence at Yorba Linda.
WAIGHTSTILL A. MOORE. — Occupying an important position with the Stand
ard Oil Company, Waightstill A. Moore, the company's special agent at Fullerton,
Cal., was born in Caldwell County, North Carolina, October 4, 1872. He acquired his
education in one of the private academies common to the South in those days, and in
1890, when eighteen years old, located at Manhattan, Kans., where he entered the
employ of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. He continued in the railway
business fourteen years, working his way through the various branches of road work
up to the position of conductor, then gave up railroading and engaged in the mercantile
business at Manhattan, Kans., following the occupation three years in that city. No
vember 22, 1910, Mr. Moore came to California, locating at Los Angeles, where he
entered the employ of the Standard Oil Company as warehouseman, rising rapidly to
more important positions with the company. He was their special agent at Santa
Ana for two years, 1911 and 1912, and occupied the same position in TPasadena one
year, going thence to Slauson Junction station in the same capacity. He came to
Fullerton in 1917.
His marriage with Miss Nancy Witten, a native of Trenton, Mo., resulted in the
birth of two winsome children, Nancy E. and Mary Nell. Fraternally Mr. Moore is a
Blue Lodge Mason, a member of the Chapter and the Commandery, and a Shriner.
He is further associated fraternally with the Trenton, Mo., Lodge No. 801, B. P. O.
Elks, and is not only one of Fullerton's successful, public spirited citizens, keenly
interested in Orange County, but a young man of more than ordinary ability who has
won the well-merited success that attends the earnest efforts of a self-made man.
PHILIP W. DAMON. — As treasurer and manager of the Yorba Linda Citrus
Association at Yorba Linda, Cal., Philip W. Damon has ably demonstrated his ability
as an executive and his good business judgment. He was born December 27, 1888, at
Concord, Mass., a city of interest from an historical standpoint and from the associa
tions connected with it as the home of renowned literary celebrities of past days.
Young Philip's education was acquired in the public schools of his native city and supple
mented with a course at business college. His first actual business experience was
acquired in Boston, Mass., where he held a position as clerk in the Old Colony Trust
Company and remained three years. He came to California in 1914 and started as an
orange picker in the orange groves at Uplands, San Bernardino County. After two
years at Uplands he removed to San Dimas, Los Angeles County, and followed the
same line of business, doing packing house work with the San Dimas Lemon Associa
tion. He then became manager of the Fallbrook Citrus Association packing house at
Fallbrook, Cal., and in the fall of 1918 came to Yorba Linda, where he became asso
ciated with the Yorba Linda Citrus Association. He was with the company six months
when he enlisted in the World War and became a member of the Three Hundred Forty-
eighth Field Artillery, Ninety-first Division. He trained at Camp Lewis, accompanied
his division overseas and trained in France. His regiment was just ready to go into
action when the armistice was signed and was only six miles behind the line during
the fighting. Then he spent three months with the Army of Occupation at Coblenz, Ger
many, until he returned to New York in April, 1919, and was honorably discharged at
Camp Devens, Mass., the same month. After his discharge from the service he became
manager of the Alta Loma Citrus Association at Alta Loma, holding the position four
months and going thence to Fullerton to become assistant district manager of the
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1919, and was appointed secretary, treasurer and manager of the Yorba Linda Citrus
Association, the position he now holds. This company shipped 250 cars of fruit in
1919, and are members of the California Fruit Growers Exchange. Its officers are:
L B. Pike, president; E. Albertson, of Whittier, vice-president; and P. W. Damon,
treasurer and manager. Directors: V. C. Dillingham, B. F. Foss, G. W. Wells, E.
Jones, and W. E. Swain, all of Yorba Linda. Fraternally Mr. Damon was made a
Mason in Corinthian Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Concord, Mass., as well as Concord
Chapter, R. A. M. A young man of ability and energy, his wide experience in the
citrus industry and thorough knowledge of the business make him an able and valuable
man for the position he occupies.
SYLVESTER W. MORROW. — A native son of Orange County and the son of
one of its most esteemed early settlers, George C. Morrow, Sylvester W. Morrow is
justly proud of his father's pioneer history, for it is due to the courageous spirit of
those who were identified with the early days of this vicinity that the present generation
enjoys much of its prosperity. Sylvester W. Morrow was born on the old family ranch
in Villa Park precinct, June 28, 1882, and has grown up in the environment of his
childhood days. He attended what was then known as the Mountain View school, now
the Villa Park grammar school. Being reared in a locality so largely given over to
citrus and walnut culture it was but natural that he early acquired a practical and
thorough knowledge of these industries and he now occupies the responsible position
of foreman of the 150-acre ranch of Ed Farnsworth, the Santa Ana banker and
financier. This choice property, which is devoted to oranges and walnuts, is now in
full bearing; until the present year it was part of the great Jotham Bixby ranch and is
one of the most valuable acreages in this district, and under the efficient and capable
supervision of Mr. Morrow it will undoubtedly yield even more handsome returns.
On November 20, 1918, Mr. Morrow was united in marriage with Miss Flossie
Essick, who was born and reared in Iowa, and they are the parents of one son, William
W. They make their home on the Farnsworth ranch, six miles northeast of Orange.
In 1909 Mr. Morrow was appointed state fire warden and he has served continuously
ever since and has often been called upon to take an active part in fighting forest fires.
Able, efficient and energetic, Mr. Morrow stands high in the regard of the community
as do all the members of his family. In fraternal circles he is a member oi the Odd
Fellows Lodge at Orange.
JULIAN E. THOMAS. — A rancher who is a decided credit to the Fullerton com
munity, first because of his character, his public-spiritedness and his willingness to par
ticipate large-heartedly in all worthy local movements, and secondly on account of his
handsome orange grove which attests the owner's knowledge and care, is Julian E.
Thomas, who was born at Hendersonville, N. C, on' October 28, 1860, the son of William
R. Thomas who had married Miss Minerva Dawson. Great-grandfather Thomas came
from Wales and settled in New Orleans; and Julian's grandfather was born in Orange
burg, S. C, while his grandmother came from Newberry, S. C. Julian studied at the
Byers Academy near Hendersonville and at the Hendersonville College, while he stayed
at home and helped his father on his plantation. Then, on September 26, 1885, he was
married near that town to Miss Emma Hollingsworth, who was born and reared in
that vicinity and attended the same schools to which Julian had gone. She was the
daughter of Isaac and Katherine Hollingsworth, and grew up to become an artist in
the designing of dresses and millinery. The couple lived on the old Thomas plantation
until April 5, 1888, and then they came out to the Northwest and settled at Ellensburg,
Wash. There they engaged in cattle raising and general farming on a ranch of eighty
acres, and for sixteen years they pursued agriculture in that state.
In 1905, Mr. Thomas sold his Washington farm and came south to Fullerton; and
while making his home here, he followed carpentering for five years. He helped to
erect the Dean Block, the Shumaker Building and other notable structures, and with
C. H. Smith, the contractor, he engaged in building St. Agnes Church at the corner of
Vermont and West Adams streets, Los Angeles.
In 1907, Mr. Thomas bought a ranch on West Orangethorpe Avenue — seventeen
and a half acres near the Christlieb ranch; and when he had set out some two acres
with oranges, he sold the ranch to Stern and Goodman. In turn, he purchased from
Mr. Goodman six acres of vacant land on West Commonwealth and Nicholas avenues,
which he has set out to Valencia oranges. He built his own home on the ranch, and
there he lives in comfort, applying with his good wife the teachings of Christian
Science faith and practice. Two children have brought added happiness to this worthy
couple: Ralph is in business in Seattle; and Florence is employed at the Farmers and
Merchants Bank of Fullerton. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas take great pride in community
development work, and are always among the first to support good works, good schools
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FRED C. KRAUSE. — An Orange County financier influential in banking and
commercial circles because of his exceptional character, valuable experience and wise
leadership making for expansion and development on rational and permanent lines, is
Fred C. Krause, the president of the First National Bank of Fullerton, who was born
at Sumner, Iowa, on July 15, 1868. His father was Fred Krause, a native of Germany
who left the land of his birth because of the tyranny of military service, and who
pioneered in Iowa as a rancher. The parents are both deceased, but they are pleasantly
recalled in the community in which they lived and labored, as among the builders of
the state they adopted as their own.
The youngest child, Fred, enjoyed such advantages as the public school offered,
supplemented by three years in Upper Iowa University at Fayette, and four years in
the Northwestern College at Naperville, 111., from which he was graduated in 1895, with
the degree of A.B. Three years of additional study at the Pacific Theological Seminary
at Oakland gave him his Bachelor of Divinity parchment in 1899, after which he spent
seven years in the ministry of the Congregational Church, being pastor at East Oakland
and afterwards at Spokane, Wash. He then went to Southeastern Alaska, where he
was pastor of the Congregational Church at Douglas Island for one year and was
then appointed United States Commissioner at Fairbanks, filling the office almost four
years, when he resigned to enter the banking circles of Newport, Wash., where he
organized the Security State Bank, of which he was president for three years.
Selling out his Washington interests, he came south to California and Orange
County, and in 1911, bought a ranch at Anaheim, associated with Charles H. Eygabrood.
There he became one of the organizers of the Anaheim National Bank, of which he
was cashier and later president for five years. During this time, being interested in
civics, he served as president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Orange
County for one term. In March, 1917, he sold his interest in the bank, and then gave
his attention to his ranch and taking a prominent .part in the different war drives,
serving as chairman of the local chapter of the American Red Cross.
In April, 1918, Mr. Krause purchased a large interest in the First National Bank
of Fullerton, of which he is the president, giving it all of his time and contributing
materially to the wonderful growth of the institution. He is also president of the
Fullerton Savings Bank, an affiliated institution. He is still interested in horticulture,
having five different groves in Orange County, most of them in the Richfield district.
On July 17, 1894, Mr. Krause was married at Dubuque, Iowa, to Miss Adelaide
V. Beck, a native of Iowa, who was a student at Northwestern College when they
first met, and has been the truest kind of a helpmate ever since. TwO children were
born to them: Howard A. Krause is cashier of the First National Bank of Fullerton;
and Lucile is a student at the University of California at Berkeley. The family are
members of the Congregational Church, and Mr. Krause belongs to the Fullerton
Club and the Hacienda Country Club at La Habra. He is also a member of the Odd
Fellows and is a thirty-second degree Mason as well as a Shriner, When Mr. Krause
was a student at Upper Iowa University, he belonged to the National Guard, and as
a Republican he has sought to raise the standards of civic life, having rounded out a
career that will prove a model and an incentive for the emulation of young men.
WILLIAM E. SCHNITGER. — A painstaking, scientific grower of effective execu
tive force and a worker in mechanical lines, so that he can help not only himself but
others in difficult, everyday problems, is William E. Schnitger, the owner of twenty
acres of the finest land near Garden Grove, devoted to oranges and walnuts and presi
dent of the Garden Grove Walnut Growers Association. He was born near Water-
town, in Jefferson County, Wis., on September 5, 1874, the son of Adolph Schnitger,
who had married Caroline Hager. He attended the common schools of his neighbor
hood and grew up on his father's farm, where he worked hard and faithfully, and early
developed his talents with all kinds of tools. When about twenty years old he accom
panied his parents, and a brother and six sisters, to California, traveling hither on the
last excursion train out of Chicago over the Santa Fe, in November, 1893. Adolph
Schnitger had been in California the year previous and had bought forty acres now
situated across the road east of William Schnitger's property, known as the Langen-
berger Place; and there all went to work with a will. Within a week, however, a
younger sister, Ella, was suddenly taken sick and died; and since then his father has
passed to the Great Beyond. Mrs. Schnitger is still living, the center of a circle of
devoted friends, at Anaheim. There were nine children in the family: Mary, the wife
of Rev. J. Schneider, of Oakland; Edwin, of Watertown, Wis., who contemplates re
moving to California; William E., the subject of our review; Lydia, the wife of Martin
Fisher, a gardener at Anaheim; Arthur Albert, who married Miss Helen Schneider, of
Garden Grove; Pauline, the wife of H. C. Meiser, the orange grower and nurseryman
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residing with her mother at Anaheim; and Hattie, who resides at Salem, Ore., and is
the wife of Henry G. Carl, a contracting carpenter and builder.
In November, 1897, Mr. Schnitger was married to Geneva E. Sherwood, born in
Illinois. Not having children of their own they have adopted two boys, Ralph Merl,
and Donald Lincoln Schnitger. Following his marriage, for three years he rented, then
purchased his father's place of fifty acres, one and one-quarter miles northeast of Garden
Grove, and there he lived until selling out, when he purchased his present place about
1904. Having come to possess exceptional common sense and good judgment, partly
as the result of his self-development, Mr. Schnitger made no mistake in choosing the land
lying on the north side of the road running east to Orange, only five miles away, and
within twenty-five minutes' walk of Garden Grove. Here he has planted Valencia
oranges and walnuts, and has brought his place up to a very high state of cultivation.
Using scientific and up-to-date methods, and being systematic, he naturally reaps the
desired-for results. He has built a very good country residence, and there he and his
good wife dispense a generous hospitality. Both his weedless ranch, his symmetrical
yards and his clean and well kept buildings speak of the orderly habits of the owner,
and his belief in what makes for advancement and progress.
The qualities that made him so successful in matters of business, doubtless had
much to do with his selection as one of the directors of the Garden Grove Walnut
Growers Association, of which he was first a vice-president and then president. To
the latter office he was elevated in 1919; and, concerning the deserved honor of re
election, the Garden Grove News of January 30, 1920, has this to say:
"The Garden Grove Walnut Association held the annual election of directors
at the packing house Saturday afternoon. All the old directors were reelected,
the roster for the ensuing year being as follows: William Schnitger, F. E. Farns
worth, N. I. Rice, George Cook and F. B. Cleveland. The directors reelected
officers as follows: William Schnitger, president; F. E. Farnsworth, vice-presi
dent; C. K. Lee, secretary and manager; George Cook, representative to the Cali
fornia Walnut Growers Association.
"The Association is fortunate in having exceptionally efficient officers, and
the business is being handled in a capable and thoroughly satisfactory manner."
VICENTE G. YORBA. — Among the most progressive and, therefore, the most
influential, of all the descendants bearing the time-honored name of' Yorba, should
be mentioned Vicente G. Yorba, the road overseer, rancher and storekeeper at Peralta,
the picturesque country village with its type of the Spanish settlement, on the Santa
Ana Canyon Boulevard Road, about five miles northeast of Olive, in one of the most
beautiful scenic portions of Orange County. He comes of the proud old Catalonian
family who once owned the extensive Yorba Rancho.
He was born at Peralta, and is a son of the late Vicente Yorba, and a grandson
of Bernardo Yorba, whose family originated in Catalonia, Spain; he first saw the
light on December 13, 1874. He attended the Peralta district school, and was married
in San Diego to Miss Theresa Marron, a native of that city, and they have had
four children: Sophia, Rowena, Leonzio and Horace, all of whom, with himself, attend
the Catholic Church. Mr. Yorba's mother was Anita Peralta, a daughter of Rafael
Peralta, one of the owners of the Rancho Santa Ana de Santiago, an historical cir
cumstance the more interesting because of the Yorba associations. The Yorba family
owned the great Spanish Grant known as the Rancho Yorba, comprising 167,000
acres, and extending from the Santa Ana Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. V. G.
Yorba's mother was Vicente Yorba's first wife, and when our subject was about
fifteen years old, she died, leaving two children — Philippa, now the wife of Juan
Farias, a rancher at Santa Monica, and Vicente G. The father married again, choosing
Erolinda Cota of Santa Monica as his wife, by whom he had six children — two boys
and four girls. She is still living, and is active as a rancher on the Santa Ana Canyon
Road, northeast of Olive. Vicente Yorba, the father, died in 1903, aged sixty-five.
When the father remarried, V. G. Yorba pushed out into the world for himself,
and so early embarked upon that career which has made him so self-reliant. He first
purchased the ranch he now owns, a very valuable place, beautifully located upon
the highway, and there he has built a fine bungalow country house, in which he and
his excellent family enjoy all the advantages of up-to-date American life There are
thirty-one acres in the ranch, devoted to Valencia oranges and walnuts. He also
bought a ranch at Yorba which he set out to Valencia oranges, now bearing which
he still owns. He is also the owner of a general merchandise store at Peralta, as
well as a ranch at Pomona. He is, besides, the popular road overseer, and is serving
tinder Supervisor N. T. Edwards. He is a trustee of the Peralta school district, and
for many years has been clerk of the school board. In national politics he is a
Republican.

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HAROLD L. WILKINS, V. S.— Though a native of a far-off Eastern state, Harold
L. Wilkins has spent most of his youth and mature life in Orange County, and has
returned from his military experience with fresh enthusiasm for the practice of his
profession in his home environment. Born in the town of Saint Clair, Mich., August
24, 1890, when he was seven years old the family moved to Oklahoma, and in 1910,
located in Anaheim. Mr. Wilkins obtained his education in the public schools and
finished with a course in the high school at Anaheim, and in Throop College, Pasadena.
Deciding on the profession of veterinary surgeon, he entered the San Francisco
Veterinary College, and after a three-year course, graduated from that institution in
1917. While engaged in the practice of his profession in San Francisco, he answered
the call of his country, and enlisted in the Twenty-fourth Veterinary Unit, Veterinary
Reserve Corps, and was called into service just as the armistice was signed and the
World War brought to an end. He then resumed his practice in San Francisco, and
in June, 1919, returned to Orange County and started his practice in Anaheim and
Fullerton, with offices at 219 Chestnut Street, Anaheim, and at the Eureka Stables, 201
South Spadra Street, Fullerton, as a surgeon and dentist, treating horses, cattle, dogs
and cats, and, being a lover of animals and understanding them, he has met with
splendid success in his work in their behalf.
The marriage of Mr. Wilkins, which occurred in Anaheim, united him with Mary
Ranker, a native of Ohio, and one daughter has blessed their union, Virginia. Mr.
Wilkins is a member of Anaheim Post, American Legion, and with true American
spirit does his share toward promoting the welfare of his home county.
HOWARD A. KRAUSE. — A very aggressive young banker, from whose inspiring
leadership much may be expected for the future progress of Fullerton, is Howard A.
Krause, cashier of the First National Bank of Fullerton and son of Fred C. Krause, the
bank's president, whose interesting career is elsewhere sketched in detail in this volume.
His father, who had been a clergyman of the Congregational Church, and had spent
some time in Alaska as a United States Commissioner, finally took up banking in
Washington, and organized and presided over the Security State Bank at Newport; and
so it came about that Howard was born at Hood River, Ore., on July 9, 1896. His
mother was Miss Adelaide V. Beck before her marriage, a native of Iowa and a fellow
student at one time with Mr. Krause at Northwestern College, the latter having also
hailed from Iowa.
The public schools, including a first-class high school, helped Howard to prepare
for his part in the world, and two years at Pomona College finished his academic
career. Entering the bank with his father, he made progress quite as rapidly in winning
friends for himself and the institution as in mastering the many and intricate details
of financial and commercial and banking procedure. Few,' if any, young men in
Fullerton enjoy a more deserved popularity.
On April 10, 1917, Howard Krause was married to Miss Lila G. Foss, the cere
mony taking place at Anaheim; the bride is a native of Corona, Cal. One child,
Harriett, has gladdened the parents' hearts.
Mr. Krause is a Republican in national political affairs, though admirably non
partisan as to local issues, and ready at all times to cooperate in work for the advance
ment of the nation, the state, the county or the town. He belongs to the Masons, and
there enjoys the popularity natural for one of his affability and progressiveness.
WILLIAM H. ROBINSON. — A well-known and, what is infinitely more desirable,
a well-liked citizen, William H. Robinson, the rancher of East Orangethorpe Avenue,
has enjoyed an enviable association with Fullerton so that he is indeed a part of the
history of the town. He was born near Barrie, Ontario, Canada, on November 14, 1879,
the son of Moses Robinson, a native of the North of Ireland who came to Canada
when he was two years old, and who eventually married Miss Matilda Lockard of
Scotland. She died when William was six years of age, and his education in Ontario
was continued without her guiding care. His father now makes his home in Barrie.
When thirteen years of age William began to earn his own livelihood, continuing on
farms until 1896, when he. came to New York State. From 1896 to 1900, he spent four
years in the restaurant business in Rochester. In 1900 he went to New York City and
acted as cashier in hotels for three years, and for a summer he was dining room cashier
on the coastwise steamer, Shinnecock. In 1903, he journeyed to Detroit to attend the
wedding of a brother, and from there he reached Chicago, where he spent a year. Then
he went to St. Louis and worked in the St. Nicholas Hotel during the Exposition.
In 1904, Mr. Robinson came to Los Angeles on a tour to see California, and he
has since made this state his home. At first he opened a cigar business, but it satis
fied him for only a year. Then he came to Fullerton, and for ten years worked for
Cline Bros., the grocers. He purchased four and a half acres on West Amerige Ave-
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nue, but in 1919 subdivided a part into lots, continuing Wilshire Avenue through it, and
sold the balance to the Fullerton Home Builders, to be subdivided into lots. On
November 25 of the same year he bought a ranch of twenty acres on East Orange
thorpe Avenue, near the Santa Fe Railroad, and on December 4 he moved onto the
farm. Six acres are devoted to lemons, five to Valencia oranges, and nine acres to
walnuts; and from a rundown ranch he has made it a first class grove. He owns
nineteen shares in the, Anaheim Union Water Company.
At Fullerton on October 31, 1906, Mr. Robinson was married to Miss Ida Morri
son, a native of Ontario. She lived with her aunt, Mrs. Harry Scott, in Buffalo, N. Y.,
and as Mr. Scott was a prominent citizen and an equally prominent Mason, she en
joyed various advantages. Two children blessed this fortunate union; the elder is
Edith Matilda, the younger Harry William Robinson; and they both attend the
Fullerton grammar school. The family attend the Christian Church at Fullerton, and
Mr. Robinson is a member of Fullerton Lodge No. 339, F. & A. M., of Fullerton Chap
ter No. 90, R. A. M., and Santa Alia Council No. 14, R. & S. M., and politically is a
Republican, with decided preferences as to the fitness of men for office regardless of
party ties. Mrs. Robinson is a member of the Order of Eastern Star and the Ebell Club,
Fullerton. During the ten years in which Mr. Robinson was with Cline Bros., he
served on the Volunteer Fire Department of Fullerton, serving as assistant chief for
three years, and six months he filled the chief's place, and he has the record of having
been the promptest member. He also served as truant officer of the Fullerton grammar
school, and from 1915 to 1919 was the town's deputy marshal.
HARRY V. WILLIAMS. — The favoring conditions in both the industrial and
commercial fields of Fullerton, together with its growing importance as a residential
town and educational center, have attracted to the city financiers of ability and ambi
tion, and among the gifted and most promising is Harry V. Williams, the popular
assistant cashier of the First National Bank. He was born at Port Hope, in Canada,
on October 12, 1874, but was reared at Brantford. His father was George Williams, a
meat merchant, who married Lucy Jull, a native of Kent, England; they were the
parents of seven children. Both parents are now dead.
Educated in the schools of Brantford, to which town the family had moved when
our subject was six years of age, Harry, the youngest child in the family, later attended
the Collegiate Institute there. After leaving school, he grew up on the home farm, and
there he assisted until he was twenty-one years of age.
His first move, in breaking away from home, was the long stride to the Pacific;
he first came to California, in 1895, but located permanently here in 1903. He luckily
wended his way to Pomona, where he found employment for five years in the orange
industry. Then, for ten years, he was with E. E. Armour's Drug Store at Pomona.
In September, 1915, attracted by the more favorable prospects in Fullerton, he removed
to the town in which he is now so well known.
For two years Mr. Williams was interested in the drug business as proprietor of
the Corner Drug Store, but selling out, he entered the First National Bank as book
keeper, and was later advanced to be assistant cashier. Since then, he has become more
and more identified with the growing town. He has been active as a Republican in
national political movements, and as a nonpartisan in local affairs, has participated in
the uplift work of the Christian Church, of which he is a member, and has gotten his
share of deserved popularity among the Masons and the Knights of Pythias. On June
10, 1903, Mr. Williams was married to Miss Fanny Mae Varcoe, a native of Dungannon,
Ontario, and the daughter of Wm. and Sophia Varcoe, now of Pomona One child has
blessed their union, a daughter, Dorothy Grace.
JAMES H. WHITAKER.— Among the old residents and business men in Orange
County is James H. Whitaker, a native Chicagoan who has long been identified with
Southern California so that Orange County seems his natural home. He was born
on December 19, 1864, a date memorable in American history, for or that very day
President Lincoln called for 300,000 more volunteer soldiers. His father was Andrew
Whitaker a farmer, who came to California in 1887, and located in Anaheim. He had
married Miss Mary Cox, a native of Connecticut, and the family came West in 1887"
both parents are now dead.
There were four boys in the family, all of whom are living, and James was the
second child. He went to the local public school and the Lake Forest University and
on completing the course he came to California in 1884 with an uncle, James Whitaker,
who laid out Buena Park in Orange County. For some time uncle and nephew worked
together, and then our subject, with Tom Deering, bought out a general merchandise
establishment at Buena Park, at which place he was in business until 1909. He was the
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On removing to Anaheim, Mr. Whitaker edited the paper called The Derrick,
after which he was with Mr. Yungbluth in the clothing and furnishing business for
three years. On January 1, 1917, he became secretary of the Anaheim Board of Trade —
a happy appointment, for never did the organization flourish so well as during Mr.
Whitaker's assignment to the wheel. Having become interested in the Orange County
Rock and Gravel Company, Mr. Whitaker resigned as secretary of the Board of Trade
in July, 1920, to devote his time to his personal interests. He is secretary of the
Mother Colony Club, is an influential Republican, is a Knights Templar Mason and an
Elk. In Chicago, he was a loyal member of the National Guard.
At Buena Park on September 1, 1891, Mr. Whitaker was married to Miss Lillian
Whitaker, also born in Chicago, and they are the parents of four children: Madeleine
is Mrs. Ralph Maas; and there are three sons, Loring, Gerald and James. The family
attend the Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Whitaker is a vestryman.
ELMER ORVAL HOOKER.— Prominent among the interesting pioneers of
Orange County who have contributed something worth while toward the development
of the section in which they have lived and toiled, must be mentioned Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer O. Hooker, identified in an enviable way with the introduction of the sugar
beet into Los Alamitos. He was born at Terre Haute, Ind., on January 18, 1873, the
son of William O. and Elizabeth (Ratts) Hooker, natives of Virginia and- Indiana,
respectively, and when three years of age was brought by his parents to Phillips
County, Kans. There his father raised wheat, corn, rye and oats; and while he strove
for a common school education, he helped on the home farm. Of their six children,
four of whom are living, our subject is the third eldest.
In 1894, Mr. Hooker came out to California, and that same year he took up farm
ing at Pomona. Three years later, he removed to Los Alamitos, settling there early
enough to build one of the first houses, and to become one of the first sugar beet grow
ers in that vicinity. He helped on the construction of the sugar factory, and he also
became one of the foremen for the five following years of the Los Alamitos Sugar Re
finery and helped to make its reputation for a superior product. He was manager of
the Los Alamitos Beet Growers Association for a number of years, and set the pace in
growing beets by the latest, most up-to-date methods. He operated from 150 to 500
acres planted to sugar beets, but in 1919 he gave up raising sugar beets and located
on a ranch of forty-seven acres he had purchased in Santiago Canyon in 1917. The
ranch was formerly a part of the Madame Modjeska ranch, and has over 3,000 olive
trees planted by the distinguished Polish actress over twenty years ago which he is
grubbing out so that he may plant the land to alfalfa and walnuts. Besides seven head
of horses and eight of cattle, he follows the chicken industry as a side issue. He also
improved and still owns valuable residence and business property at Seal Beach, Los
Alamitos and Huntington Beach.
At Los Alamitos on September 12, 1915, Mr. Hooker was married to Mrs. Adelina
S. Upperman, a southern lady born at Macon, Ga., the daughter of Harry 1. and Laura
A. (Alverson) Joy, natives of Ellsworth, Maine, and Macon, Ga., respectively. Harry
Joy served in a Maine regiment during the Civil War, after which he married a
southern woman and engaged in farming until his death; his widow now lives in Evans-
ville, Ind. Adelina Joy was educated in the schools of Macon, Ga., and there, too, she
married William Upperman and they removed to Saskatchewan, Canada, where he was
employed as railroad engineer on the Canadian Pacific until he was killed in a train
wreck. After his death his widow engaged in railroad Y. M. C. A. work until she came
to California in February, 1915, and in September of the same year changed her name.
Besides ranching so successful^, Mr. Hooker has had both public office experience
and done good civic work. He was in charge of the road improvement work in his
district for years, and has served for a season on the jury. He is what might be
termed an exceedingly useful citizen, both doing things and setting an inspiring, con
tagious example to others.
O. T. JOHNSON. — Among the highly-respected citizens now residing, retired, at
Santa Ana are Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Johnson, who were long prosperous farmers in
Iowa, and reside at their comfortable bungalow at Washington and French streets in
Santa Ana. They have been privileged to rear a family, all of whom have married well
and are in turn occupying positions of responsibility and esteem in the world.
Mr. Johnson was born in Holmes County, Ohio, on February 6 of the historic
year, 1848, and eight years later was taken by his parents to Cedar County, Iowa.
There he grew up and became the owner of a well improved farm of one hundred sixty
acres. There, too, on New Year's Day, 1873, he was married to Miss Mary Elijah, a
native of Delaware County, N. Y., who came West and became a resident of the Hawk-
eye State. They joined the Methodist Church, and have been consistent Methodists

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ever since. In 1908, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson bade good-bye to their Middle West home
and came out to sunnier California, locating in Santa Ana, where they have since made
their home. And every day in the happy years intervening, they have been busy adding
to their cherished memories of devoted friends or pleasant places or occasions.
Four children have blessed their uninterruptedly happy home life. William E.
Johnson is employed by the Pomona Valley Telephone and Telegraph Union, and is
the father of eight children; he married Miss Jessamine Coe, of Clarence, Iowa, who
passed to the Great Beyond in April, 1917: Myrtie is the wife of W. W. Wasser, the
secretary of the Santa Afia Elks; Clare was for fourteen years mechanical foreman for
the Santa Ana Register, he lives in Santa Ana, but is ranching near Anaheim; and
Mildred is the wife of Fred D. Stever, the well-known realty man of Santa Ana, just
returned from an eight months' service in France. Her first husband was Walter
Galbraith, a native son of Santa Ana's first generation; but he died in 1917, leaving
one child, De Mont Galbraith.
NORTON W. HATFIELD. — A worthy representative of a fine old pioneer family
naturally proud of its record of useful and successful activity in two states is Norton
W. Hatfield, who was born near Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, on August 22,
1884, the son of George Henry Hatfield who was then a prosperous farmer in the
Hawkeye State. He distributed milk and dairy products in the county, and also had
charge of one of the rural delivery routes of the U. S. mail service. In 1885 he removed
to California and purchased forty acres on the Garden Grove Road, at that time cactus
and sagebrush; but with the assistance of his good wife, who was Helena A. Fuller
before her marriage, and his son Norton, for a while a pupil of the Orangethorpe
school, he cleared the cactus and sagebrush and planted the land to grapes. The grapes
died, however, and then the vines were grubbed out and apricots, peaches and walnuts
were set out instead. These in turn were pulled out, and some of the forty acres have
since been sold. Now his sister, Mrs. Parrett, owns eleven acres, five acres belongs
to the mother of the subject of our sketch, and ten acres to him.
Norton Hatfield's acreage is devoted to Valencia oranges, and is under the service
of the Anaheim Union Water Company, although he also receives water from the
Browning pumping plant, which commands a well of fifty inches; and the grove is
properly rated as one of the most attractive, as it is one of the most fruitful and
profitable, in Orange County. The ranching is carried on according to the latest guid
ance of scientific research, and only the most up-to-date methods and machinery are
employed. He markets his fruit through the Mutual Orange Distributors Association
in Fullerton in which he is a director.
On December 28, 1908, Mr. Hatfield was married to Miss Hattie Kaminske, a
native of Burlington, Iowa, and the daughter of Charles K. Kaminske, who had married
Miss Louise Bruns. He was a talented musician, but he gave up his profession for farm
work; he died in Iowa and his widow with her daughter, Hattie, came to California in
the fall of 1907. Two children came to brighten the Hatfield fireside, and they are
Ruth and George. Mr. Hatfield is a member of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O.
Elks, and Mrs. Hatfield belongs to the Presbyterian Church of the same place.
JOHN T. JOHNSON. — An interesting rancher of the class always sought for
by every new community, their lives speaking for themselves, and each year of their
activity bearing more and more desirable fruit, is John T. Johnson, who was born
near Uniontown, Bourbon County, Kans., on September 7, 1886, the son of J. D. John
son, a farmer of that state, who was born in Missouri and came to Kansas when he was
three years old. In time, he married Miss Mina E. Griffith, a lady of accomplishment,
who proved a devoted wife and an affectionate mother. They are still living J D
Johnson raised stock and grain; and so, while he was attending school in Allen and
Neosho counties, John spent the first nineteen years of his life at home, assisting his
father on the farm. In 1905 he came west to California and struck out for himself.
For two years he worked at the packing house of the Leffingwell ranch at Whittier,
and after that he put in a year at the Escondido packing house. He next went to Ven
tura County and for three years worked in a packing house at Fillmore, and while
V«LTT»Ta Oa u OTO}'15 l°mth year' He Purchased seven acres near
f lllmore, and devoted all of the land to Navel orano-es
Anahefm'anH t fi°hfSr "T T f 1914> he ^ to °ranSe C°u«ty and settled in
of AnTe'im T^ Phased five acres on South Los Angeles Street, just outside
J*Ta T T WCre thr?e-y ea r-old Valencia orange trees on the farm and he had
a good chance to experiment m cultivating citrus fruit. In July, 1918, he also purchased
oTberr?9109nhpnS,edmhRfid ^ ^"T " ^Ve"Ue' a" set out to Valencia's, and in
Sher h,',,-EB V "T h" He PUt UP a h0USe and such barns and
other buildings as were necessary, and on his seven acres he is living today In

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November, 1919, Mr. Johnson purchased a ranch at the corner of Broadway and West
Street, and he thereby added to his holdings nine acres of full-bearing orange trees,
surrounded by a row of walnuts. About three acres are devoted to Navel and sweet
oranges, and some six acres to Valencias. He receives his water from a private irriga
tion plant, and markets his products through the California Fruit Growers Exchange.
At Santa Ana on December 2, 1909, Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Minnie
E. Hodge, a native of Tennessee, where she was educated in private schools. Her
grandparents were pioneers in northeastern Tennessee, and her father was a Southern
planter, and a man of progressive ideas and wide influence in his district. Mr. Johnson
is a Mason, affiliated with Anaheim Lodge No. 207, F. & A. M., and there is no more
popular member in that order.
NATHAN C. STOCKWELL.— An up-to-date, thoroughly progressive and suc
cessful rancher, Nathan C. Stockwell, the well-known citrus grower north of Anaheim
is a fine representative of the Buckeye State, where he was born, near Willoughby, in
the vicinity of Cleveland, on September 16, 1871. His father was Joseph E. Stockwell,
an extensive manufacturer of brick in Nebraska, who had the first machine for moulding
bricks in Lincoln; and he had married Miss La Villa Henderson. She died on the ranch
at North Anaheim, in October, 1919, mourned by all who had been attracted by her
charming personality as a neighbor and a friend; Joseph E. Stockwell sustained serious
injuries in an auto accident, which impaired his otherwise sturdy constitution, upon
which he had relied for years, although he is still astonishingly active. These good
parents moved to Lincoln when Nathan was ten years old; and near that city he was
educated in a country school. He thus grew up to help his father in the brickyard; and
when the latter left Nebraska and removed to Tacoma, Wash., he accompanied him
and shared his varied and varying fortunes there for four or five years. In 1905, they
came to Southern California and purchased sixty acres north of Anaheim; it was
covered with cactus and sand, and was declared by the old residents to be worthless
or at least undesirable acreage.
With the assistance of his father, however, he cleared the land, sunk a well and
installed a pumping plant; and having set the land out to lemons and oranges, it is
today valuable to a high degree. From time to time, he has sold some of the area;
but father and son still have sixteen acres devoted to raising Valencia oranges, served
by a fine pumping plant tapping seventy-five inches of water, raised by a Krow pump.
Joseph E. Stockwell is a member and director of the Anaheim Cooperative Orange
Growers Association; he marches under the banner of the Republicans, and Nathan
Stockwell is a live member of the Modern Woodmen of America. Both father and son
belong to that highly desirable class of settlers who, when they have once pitched
their tent, never break camp without effecting some improvement in the neighborhood
worth the while.
C. S. BUNDSCHUH.— The city of Huntington Beach and the surrounding coun
try are fortunate indeed to have, such an efficient and considerate funeral director as is
found in the person of C. S. Bundschuh, master of the art of embalming and numbered
among the most able and successful business men of Huntington Beach. He was
born March 31, 1873, in Olmstead, in Pulaski County, 111., a son of August and Catherine
(Lilley) 1-Vundschuh. August Bundschuh passed away in Olmstead, 111.; his widow, now
in her eighty-first year, is well and active and resides in Huntington Beach. Mr.
Bundschuh's early life was spent on the home place in Pulaski County, and here he
received his education.
In 1898 Mr. Bundschuh was united in marriage with Miss Mary Hanna, who was
also a resident of Illinois. She passed away five years later, in 1903, leaving two chil
dren, both of whom are now deceased. His second marriage occurred in 1904, when
he was united with Miss Alice Cockrum, of Arkansas, the ceremony being solemnized at
Cairo, 111. This union has been blessed with four children: George, a student at
Huntington Beach high school; Alice Louise, Grace and Norbit. Mr. Bundschuh
first engaged in the undertaking business at Ullin, Pulaski County, 111. After several
years there he sold his business in 1910 and moved to Chicago, locating at 1625 Wells
Street, where he was engaged in the undertaking business until 1912. While living in
Chicago Mr. Bundschuh had the proud distinction of owning and operating the first
auto hearse in that city, and also said to have been the second one in use in the
United States.
In 1912 Mr. Bundschuh came to California, locating at Huntington Beach, where
he purchased six lots at the corner of Seventh and Main streets, and here, during the
year, he built his residence. The following year his undertaking establishment and
funeral chapel were built, Mr. Bundschuh becoming the pioneer undertaker of Hunt
ington Beach. His establishment is a model one in every respect, the chapel seating

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140 persons. In order to perfect himself in his profession he took a course in embalm
ing at Williams College, Kansas City, Mo., in 1905, and supplemented his training with
a post-graduate course in 1906, at the College of Embalming at St. Louis, Mo. Fra
ternally, Mr. Bundschuh is a Mason, being past master of Huntington Beach Lodge
No. 380, F. & A. M. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the
Modern Woodmen of America. In addition to his business at Huntington Beach, he
is a partner in the Coachella Valley Undertaking Company at Thermal, Cal. Ever
since locating at Huntington Beach, Mr. Bundschuh has taken an active interest in
all the afjairs of the community and with his family enjoys a justly deserved popularity.
PALITO ARBALLO. — A carefree, willing and devotedly conscientious laborer,
whose simple, upright life and an attractive temperament, doubtless inherited from his
worthy parents, have made him justly popular among his associates, is Palito Arballo,
the rancher and assistant road overseer at Yorba Station. He was born at Anaheim,
the son of Francisco Arballo, the farmer of that vicinity, and married Mrs. A. Frances
Ruiz, widow of the -late Francisco Ruiz, a native of Anaheim. She was the daughter of
Francisco Lopez, who had married Ruth Urius. By her first union, Mrs. Arballo had
four children: Albertine is now the wife of William Vasquez, and lives across the
street from her parents on the same ranch; Ruby Ruiz is sixteen; Lily thirteen; and
Josephine seven years old. The children attend the Yorba grade school.
Mrs. Arballo owns the ranch of five acres in the Yorba precinct where they make
their home. It is devoted to walnuts, and as the grove is now about twelve years old,
is in fine shape. Mr. Arballo's regular line of work has been teaming and farming, but
of late he has been appointed to the position for which he is so well prepared by
experience and enterprise, that of assistant road overseer under V. G. Yorba. In
national politics he is a Republican, but this party preference never interferes with his
cordial support of whatever seems to be best for the community.
J. VALENTI. — A young man who served in a California regiment in the World
War is J. Valenti, who was born near Palermo, Sicily, May 16, 1892, where he received
a good education in the public schools. At the age of twelve years he was apprenticed
to the shoemakers' trade and on completing the trade at the age of seventeen he started
a shop in his native town. He served three months in the Italian army when he was
taken ill and was duly honorably discharged. In 1913 he came to New York City,
where he worked at his trade. Having always had a desire to see California and to
try his luck in the land of gold and sunshine he came to the Pacific Coast in 1914,
locating in San Bernardino, where he was employed at his trade until Congress declared
war on Germany.
Being anxious to join the colors of the Stars and Stripes he immediately took
out his first papers and on May 29, 1917, he enlisted in the Coast Artillery Band. He
was stationed at Fort McArthur and later transferred to the Quartermaster's depart
ment as corporal and was stationed at San Pedro until February 24, 1919, when he
received his honorable discharge. Looking for a location he was so well pleased
with conditions in Orange he located here and opened his present place of business
for the repairing and making of shoes, having the latest machinery, all operated by
electric power and thus has acquired a large and paying business in a short time.
In San Bernardino occurred the marriage of Mr. Valenti with Josephine Valord,
who was born in Texas and they have one child, Mary Grace. Mr. Valenti is a very
liberal and enterprising young man and is ready at all times to aid movements for the
upbuilding of his adopted country. In political views, Mr. Valenti is a Republican.
CHARLES L. CRUMRINE.— A native son who has made an enviable record as
the manager of the La Habra Citrus Association, one who is very progressive and
believes in adopting the latest methods that make for business advancement, is Charles
L. Crumrine He was born in Ventura County, May 30, 1881, a- son of Harrison and
Mary (Trotter) Crumrme, natives of Pennsylvania and Illinois, respectively
Harrison Crumrine is a pioneer of Ventura County, having located there in 1869.
the tr" TaT '" ' ^i ,gra Jmar and high schools °f Ve"t«ra, and since entering
the business world has followed the citrus packing industry very closelv and bv
Fortrsiiveagrshh ^^ ^ & TT T' he *" «*ie?ed ™™ -cess as a manager"
iTTJTT ™ana,f r °f t.he Santa Paula Citrus Association and in 1911 became
H wa! n 19^ th t MgWr "'^ H°USe' °n the Leffingwell ranch near La Habra.
cTT «! • V T.V- Cr,Umrme accepted the position of manager of the La Habra
Sal Lowth inb' ' Pant Z'T tHe largeSt in 0range Cou»ty. a"d its phenom-
7* tantnnsr'TL11" T\ Cm™™ iook charge, emphasizes his fitness for
exhhXd and h P ? ?/ ,eXCe]lent buslness Judgment and fidelity to details he has
oroof that the d^'f' ta'Ct/U iand «=o«.rteous treatment of the employes is conclusive
proof that the directors of the association made no mistake when they chose Mr.

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Crumrine as their manager. There was but one section to the plant when, he took
charge; now there are four. One hundred forty cars each of lemons and oranges .was
the maximum shipment in a season, but through his efficient management there were
packed during 1919, 425 cars of lemons and 375 cars of oranges. He predicts that the
next three years will see 800 cars of lemons and 600 of oranges packed and shipped
each year by this association. The management contemplates the building of a new
orange house in 1921, to care for its anticipated increase in business.
The La Habra Citrus Association is composed of 170 growers, who represent
2,000 acres of land devoted to citrus culture, and it maintains a fumigating and picking
department. A Mexican colony has been established by the association for the comfort
and benefit of its pickers; a settlement worker is located in the colony, who looks after
the morale of its members and the general welfare of the colony. The citrus district of
La Habra is one of the most productive in the county, its soil being especially adapted
to the growing of a fine quality of fruit, which commands the highest price in the
Eastern market. The officers and directors of the association are: A. M. Otis, presi
dent; W. L. York, vice-president; C. L. Crumrine, secretary and manager; and the
following brands are packed La Habra, Shepherd, Reliable Sunkist brands, and Rex and
Bengal, choice brands.
On June 30, 1903, at Santa Paula, Mr. Crumrine was united in marriage with Miss
May Brookhouser, and this union has been blessed with a daughter, Pauline May.
Fraternally Mr. Crumrine is a Mason, a member of Whittier Lodge No. 323, F. & A. M.,
at Whittier, Cal. In addition to the responsibilities of his position, Mr. Crumrine is
the owner of a citrus orchard in the La Habra Heights Addition, which he has himself
developed. GEORGE DUNTON. — A progressive young man of superior business qualifica
tions who has been identified with the automobile business since he was eighteen
years of age, George Dunton has made for himself a distinct place in Anaheim's busi
ness circles. Quick to discriminate and swift to grasp the opportunity for success,
his selection of Orange County as the scene of his operations in the automobile field
has been well rewarded.
He was born in Chicago, 111., November 27, 1888, the only child of William B.
and May B. (Keeler) Dunton, natives of Belvedere, 111. The father was engaged in
the grain business in Chicago until 1914, when he decided to locate in California, and
he has since been engaged in orange growing at Anaheim. George Dunton was edu
cated in the public schools of Chicago and at the Athenaeum in that city, and upon
embarking in business lfe was engaged with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and
the Southern Pacific for a period of two years. In 1906 he entered the automobile
business in Chicago, continuing there until he came to California in 1911, where he
was at first with the Stromberg Carburetor Company. In 1912 he entered the
employ of the Ford Motor. Company at Los Angeles, continuing with them for six
years and becoming their sales manager. Wishing to engage in business for himself,
in 1918 he purchased his present business, the Ford Agency at Anaheim, from G. T.
Ingram, and also added the agency for the Fordson tractor for Orange County,
which he held until the agency for the tractor was divided among the Ford agents
of the county. His territory is Anaheim and vicinity, including Garden Grove and
Los Alamitos. His business has rapidly increased until he now employs twenty-six
people, and finds that his thorough business experience in the East in the automobile
field is of great advantage to him. He occupies a large garage, 60x110, located at
North Los Angeles and Cypress streets, and besides has a warehouse on the Southern
Pacific Railroad. Up until October 1, 1920, at the end of the first two years' sales,
he has delivered 344 tractors, a surprisingly large number, even outnumbering the
sale of Ford automobiles during the same period, showing the wonderful popularity
of the Fordson tractor.
Mr. Dunton's marriage, on June 15, 1914, at White Bear Lake, Minn., united
him with Miss Ruby Matthews of St. Paul, Minn., and two daughters have been
born to them, Elizabeth and Barbara. Mr. Dunton is a member of the Orange County
Automobile Trades Association, and is popular in the circles of the Los Angeles
Athletic Club, the Orange County Country Club and the Hacienda Country Club of
La Habra, in all of which he holds membership. In fraternal circles he is a Knight
Templar Mason and a Shriner, belonging to Al Malaikah Temple at Los Angeles,
and is also a member of the Anaheim Lodge of Elks.
Mr. Dunton finds recreation from the arduous cares of business in golf and
tennis, and his deep interest in Orange County is manifested in the enthusiasm with
which he furthers all measures or organizations that tend toward the development of
the county and for the public weal.

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CHARLES EBERTH. — A thorough workman who has done much to perfect the
manufacture of auto tops and to improve the methods of auto painting, is Charles
Eberth, the expert upholsterer of Orange, who is a familiar figure in the social life *
of his home town, Santa Ana. He was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1859, educated in the
excellent public schools of that country, also attending the gymnasium, and there
learned the trade of an upholsterer and a cabinetmaker. For five years he served in
the Austrian army, as a member of the Sixth Hussar Regiment, in which he was ser
geant, and campaigned at the front in the Turkish-Russian War of 1878-79, taking
part in the battles of Serreava and Burtscka, and was wounded in the thigh in the
latter struggle. He obtained a furlough; and while on the reserve list came to the
United States in 1881, and went to work at his trade in New York.
In 1894, he removed to Chicago and entered the employ of the Pullman Car
Works; and for thirteen years he was one of their most accomplished upholsterers. In
1907, he came out to the Northwest, and for five years followed his trade at Portland.
His natural gifts, his developed technical skill and his superior taste, together with his
known determination never to deliver any work that was not finished in every respect,
all combined to bring him all the patronage that he could take care of.
In 1912, he came South to Los Angeles and was soon engaged by Barker Bros.
as upholsterer. Next he removed to Pasadena and worked for Knowles and Phillips
in the same line. In 1915 he located in Santa Ana, where he bought a residence- and
followed his trade, making a specialty of automobile tops and other motor upholstery.
In 1919 he sold out and started the same business at Orange, making tops and uphols
tering. He also went in for automobile painting at the corner of Olive and North
Glassell streets; and his advent into Orange was followed by an immediate increase in
profitable trade.
Twenty-five years ago, at Seattle, Mr. Eberth was married to Miss Anna, Studavil,
a native of Galveston, and a lady with a strong, winning personality. They have had
twelve children, and six are still living. Mr. and Mrs. Eberth belong to the Baptist
Church in Santa Ana, and are active in all good works in time of war as well as in
times of peace.
EDSON JOEL BALL. — An experienced, well-posted realty dealer of Orange,
California, whose prosperity has very naturally made him an enthusiastic booster and
loyal citizen of Orange County, is Edson J. Ball, who was born in Petersburg, Monroe
County, Mich., December 24, 1850. His father was Wesley Ball, a native of Rochester,
N. Y„ who came with his father, Joel Ball, a farmer, to Michigan, where the latter
lived and labored, and died at the age of ninety-four. The Ball family are of Puritan
stock, closely related to Mary Ball, the mother of George Washington, and were long
residents of Massachusetts. Wesley Ball cleared a farm from the timber at a time
when there were only cow paths and Edson J. could often, as a boy, see bear tracks
near their cabin. There were six children in the family, but only two now living.
Edson J., the third eldest, was brought up on a farm, when for a time there was
no public school, and finally a log schoolhouse was put up, with a teacher who
"boarded 'round," and he continued at home with his father until he was eighteen
years old. He then struck out for himself and started to learn the butcher business,
buying cattle and hogs and wholesaled meat in Toledo, Ohio. There were no railroads
over which to ship stock and he drove them through from Southern Michigan to
Toledo, and having no scales at that time, he had to guess at the weight hitting the
mark generally, within a few pounds. As he paid cash for the stock he was able to
sell then to good advantage. Many a time he bought A-No. 1 beef cattle for from
t° $16 per head, selling the entire carcass for three and one-half cents per pound-
some difference in prices compared with the present time when the high cost of living
is the Principal topic of conversation. Mr. Ball met with good success in his ventures
and in 1876 added dairying to his stock business in Petersburg, along the stamping
grounds of General Custer, who was reared only seventeen miles from the home of
the Balls, so that they saw much of him as a boy.
It was while Mr Ball was living in Petersburg that he became city marshal and
heTTATT'TO, th£ t0, "' There Was a bad dement at large in the town and
\ZTTa in T a T t0 CT" UP the Place and make * safer for the people who
known b T T , der' He had the entire c°nfidence of the citizens, and was
known by the rough element to be absolutely fearless in the discharge of his duties as
braced nor ?TZ * T^^ "^ did he take to the Penitentiary without using
often tvsth tT / T™* 0 eSCape for they wel1 knew the results. Mr. Ball
took hi Hfe Th L°ld TSt haVe- SPared him for some Particular purpose as he
took his lite in his own hands many times
citv !em!?nin.r';nB^ 7™* v Sp°kane' Wash" and was made meat inspector for that
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stalled. After that he was called many times to render expert opinion on practical
subjects. While meat inspector he made better the working conditions for employes
of the slaughter houses, the handling of meat more sanitary, thereby rendering a
distinct service to the consumers. He was appointed deputy city assessor of Spokane
and held the office until 1911, when he resigned to come to California. On looking
about the southern part of the state he finally selected Orange as a satisfactory place
to settle and he at once established himself in the real estate business, selling city and
ranch properties, writing insurance — representing the German-American and the Spring
field companies — and negotiating loans, in all of which he has been singularly successful
and has been a real benefactor to the city and county.
In 1876, Mr. Ball was united in marriage with Miss Jennie Hill, born in Peters
burg, Mich., the daughter of Horace C. Hill, a Vermonter by birth and attorney by
profession, who drove to Michigan, with his first wife and five children, with an ox-
team. Mrs. Hill, who was before her marriage, Amelia Trumley, died in Michigan;
for a second wife he married Miss Julia Bowen, by whom he had seven children. He
practiced law in Monroe County and there both he and his wife died. Seven of the
two families of children are still living. The Hill and Ball families were among the
very earliest settlers in Monroe County and Jennie Hill and Edson Ball grew up to
gether as children. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Ball: Harry, a farmer of
Jackson, Mich., has three daughters, Josephine, Mabel and Winnifred; Mable Ball be
came the wife of Dr. E. T. Lamb, of Alma, Mich., and they have two sons, Woodburn
and Gordon; Iva Lena, is a graduate of Alma College and taught school for some
years, she married Cleve Best and they have a daughter, Ruth, and live at Flint, Mich.;
Bernice is Mrs. G. W. Moore and the mother of two daughters, Marian and Lucile, they
reside in Hollywood, Cal.; Everell J., lives in Montana, is married and has a daughter,
Audrey; George Ball, the youngest, also makes his home in Montana, is married and
has a son Norwood Dickerson Ball, who bears a striking likeness to his grandfather.
George was commissioned a captain during the World War and was stationed at
Quantico, Va., as supervisor of the officers' training school there. He is a member of
the Officers' Reserve and subject to call should his services be needed.
The Ball family attend the Presbyterian Church in Orange, and -Mr. Ball marches
with the Republicans in national affairs, but in local issues he supports the men and
measures he deems best suited for the town and county regardless of party lines. Mr.
and Mrs. Ball have an ever-widening circle of friends and well-wishers in Orange and
the county. G. W. STRUCK. — An enterprising Californian who has been very successful, but
who, while attaining prosperity for himself, did not fail to do his best to help build up
Orange and the surrounding locality, is G. W. Struck, who came to Orange County in
the early eighties. He was born in Pomerania,. Germany, in 1866, and when only four
years of age was brought across the ocean to Minnesota. His father, Carl Struck,
settled near Zurnbrota, Minn., and from 1870 to 1878 was a farmer there; then he
removed to near Austin, the county seat of Mower County, in the same state, where
he remained for four years. In December, 1882, he came west to California and at
Orange was a raiser of fruit until he died, on October 4, 1917, in his seventy-eighth
year. He was one of the organizers of the Lutheran Church at Orange, and was on
its board of trustees. Mrs.' Struck, the mother, was Amelia Kamrath before her mar
riage, and she died at Orange in November, 1892, aged fifty-three years. She was the
mother of four children — Fred, G. W. and Herman Struck, all now in Orange, and
Max Struck, who died in 1908.
From the early seventies until 1882 G. W. Struck was reared in Minnesota, where
he attended the local schools; and when he came to California in 1882, he went to
work at teaming and at farming. He learned the blacksmith's trade at Jack Goodin's
shop in Los Angeles, on old Fort Street, now Upper Broadway, and when Goodin
sold out and removed, to Sespie as a contractor in the stone quarry, he went with
him, and worked as a driller and a blacksmith. After six months, Goodin removed to
Oakland, and again Mr. Struck went along in his service, and took up teaming. Still
again, when Goodin went to Telluride, Colo., to work in the mines, he shared his
venture, and while Goodin ran the blacksmith end of the enterprise, Struck ran a pack
train of burrows, from Marshall Pass to the end of the railroad at Bridal Veil Falls.
Then he went to Cripple Creek, Colo., when there were all tent houses in that section,
and located some claims and worked as a blacksmith; but the sickness of his mother
compelled him to return, after three years' absence from the state.
He bought a shop at the northeast corner of Chapman and Orange streets, and
started in at blacksmithing and carriage-making and repairing with A. Albrecht, under
the firm name of Albrecht and Struck, and built up an extensive business; and later they
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and Orange streets, and extended the variety of business undertaken. Later, Mr. Struck
bought Mr. Albrecht out, and for six or eight years ran the business alone, when he
sold it to Frank Wheeler.
While blacksmithing, Mr. Struck had bought ten acres on Batavia Street, near
Taft, set out to apricots and walnuts, which he afterward sold, but not before he had
purchased his present place of ten acres at 621 North' Glassell Street. It had at first
only a few orange trees; but he improved it, and set it out to Valencia oranges. He
also owns two other valuable orange orchards. He still owns the buildings where he
had his shop, and also built a garage, 60x100 feet in size, next to his shop.
At Orange, Mr. Struck was married to Miss Clara Boese, a native of Wisconsin,
who died here in 1913, leaving one son, George M. Struck, who assists his father. In
1917 Mr. Struck married a second time, the ceremony also taking place at Orange;
his bride being Miss Minnie Maas, a native of Norfolk, Nebr. Mr. Struck belongs to
the Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Men's Club, and is a member of the Foothill
Valencia Orange Growers Association, and also a director in the same.
LEO BORCHARD. — Among those whose exceptional enterprise and movements
for progress have given them, more and more, an enviable rank among the leading
ranchers of Orange County, may be mentioned Leo Borchard of Santa Ana, who with
his brother, Frank P., owned a fine tract of over 900 acres on the Talbert Road, four
miles south of Huntington Beach, which they reclaimed from tule and swamp land
until it was one of the most productive ranches in the county, farming it until they
disposed of the larger part of it. They are the sons of Casper Borchard, a native of
Germany and a pioneer of what is now western Orange County, residing at Conejo,
Cal., where he is successful and respected. The maiden name of the mother, Mrs.
Borchard, was Teresa Maring, and she died when the lad Leo was seventeen. Casper
Borchard was a stockman and a farmer, and came to- own 4,000 acres in Ventura
County, and 2,700 acres in Madera County, as well as several fine ranches in Orange
County. In recent years he has disposed of his lands to his children, and Borchard
Bros, were among the largest landowners in the city of Huntington Beach. Casper
Borchard settled on land hitherto untouched by the hand of man, and cleared it of the
underbrush with which it was covered, plowed it, and otherwise prepared it for culti
vation. He was indeed a true pioneer, for he was the first man to plow the soil south
of the Santa Clara River in Ventura County, and was a pioneer cattle and grain rancher.
The eldest son of a family of five boys and three girls, Leo Borchard was born on
a ranch two and a half miles northeast of what is now Oxnard, in Ventura County, on
December 16, 1879, and there he was reared, remaining in Ventura County until 1900,
when he came to this vicinity, very properly called the Swamp. Being apt, and clever
in the use of machinery, he was given the job to run the big excavator or ditch-digging
machine owned by his father, W. T. Newland and W. D. Lamb. That was the first
work of importance that he ever did and he continued at it until two large ditches were
constructed. The well-drained country, the great ditches through the Swamp, and the
graded Talbert Road bear testimony to his judgment and thoroughness. Prior to that
he had attended the public schools at Newbury Park, but his educational advantages
were limited, for as the eldest boy, it was necessary for him to work.
Under his father, Mr. Borchard not only helped to build the drainage ditch and
the Talbert Road, but he assisted in clearing it of willows and reclaiming large stretches
of the Swamp, covered also with tules, and turning the morass into a veritable garden
spot To his energy and handiwork may be credited the many improvements on his
own home ranch— a good bungalow residence, large barns, a tank house, a garage, a
windmill, good yards for livestock, and a fine yard, besides a ten-inch well and three
twelve-inch wells all flowing. With his brother Frank, their holdings were divided
T 1 following excellent ranches: 316 acres and 160 acres on the west side of Santa
Ana. 200 acres south of Huntington Beach, 118 acres on the Mesa, 252 acres in the
bottoms, and seventy-six acres at Fairview. Mr. Borchard also owns cojointly with
his tour brothers a twenty-acre tract at Garden Grove, while these same brothers own
a half-interest with W. T Newland, Sr., in sixty acres on the southeast of Newland
for «« mnC Hunt,mj?L°n Beach Strict. In 1920 the two brothers sold over 800 acres
for $335,000 a vas difference from the orignal purchase price when it was swamp land,
showing what well directed energy and perseverance can do
Mr. Borchard and his brothers were well known as breeders of Percheron-Nor-
Tr TuTTT n 0 They br°Ught in here some °f ^e best Percheron stallions
2000 Znl to °range County and have raised draft horses weighing from 1800 to
BnrehTn Y OT T celebrated iack, "Burr Oak," which cost $3,000. Mr.
nneTir\nTSA°T i ' *T '" western °™^ County to use tractors in farming
s'xtv five horsen h3S °Wned three Holt caterpillars, two of forty-five, and one of
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has served as a director in the Newbert protection district, and he was also a director
in the Talbert drainage district. Since selling his ranches he has retired to Santa Ana,
where he purchased a bungalow at 802 South Broadway where, with his wife, he makes
his home. He still owns valuable lands in Huntington Beach as well as near Newport,
besides an orange grove on the Santa Ana Canyon Boulevard. He is a stockholder in
the First National Bank of Santa Ana and also a stockholder in the Old Colony Oil
Company, operating in Wichita Falls, Texas, that has fourteen producing wells. He
owns land near Tampico, Texas, and is interested in copper and silver mines (the
Midnight mine and Tidal Wave mine) in New Mexico.
In 1904 Mr. Borchard was married to Miss Marie Hauptman, a native of Connells-
ville, 111., who came to California with her parents, Henry J. and Margaret Marie
Hauptman, when she was a girl of sixteen. She has been a great' encouragement to
him in his ambition and a great helpmate to him. Mr. Borchard has traveled not only
ov.er the Pacific Coast states but into Texas and Mexico and the Mississippi Valley
as far east as Chicago, but on investigation he has found nothing to equal Southern
California and particularly Orange County. He is a member of the Knights of
Columbus at Santa Ana, and is a stanch Republican, and a member of Santa Ana
Lodge, No. 794, B. P. O. Elks.
WILLIAM E. STORK. — A wide-awake young man, fortunate in a thorough un
derstanding- of both the lumber and the building trades, and therefore unusually well
equipped for the responsibilities of a superintendent, is William E. Stork, manager of
the Orange Branch of the Hammond Lumber Company. He was born at Hartford,
in Lyon County, Kans., July 14, 1889, the son of Phillip Stork, a contractor and builder
of that town, who now, after a strenuous life, is enjoying the milder climate of Cali
fornia while residing with the subject of our interesting sketch. He had married Miss
Etta Garrett; but she died in Kansas, the mother of three boys and a girl, among whom
William was next to the youngest.
He was sent to the grammar schools and then to the Hartford high school, from
which he was duly graduated, when he entered the employ of the telephone company,
wliere he remained for two or three years. After that he learned the carpenter's
trade; and as he was apprenticed under his father, he learned the trade well.
In 1913 Mr. Stork came west to California and at Orange hired out as a carpenter
for a year, when he accepted an offer from the Orange Lumber Company as yard
foreman, and as such continued until 1916. Then the Hammond Lumber Company
bought out the Orange Lumber Company, and he continued with them as bookkeeper.
In 1918, the company, recognizing both his special qualifications and his fidelity, made
Mr. Stork manager of their plant, which is at 230 North Lemon street; and today, as
a member of the Southern California Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, he is one of
the influential factors in that live and useful organization.
Since coming to Orange in 1914, Mr. Stork was married to Miss Ethel Shields, a
native of Hutchinson, Kans., and they have one child, Maurine. He was made a Mason
in Hartford Lodge No. 193, at' Hartford, Kans., and still retains an affectionate loyalty
for the society and its fraternal associations.
The Hammond Lumber Company, from its entrance into this local field, has left
undone nothing possible to anticipate the wants of the community, and to satisfy the
many and sudden demands of builders and architects; with the result that Orange,
known far and wide as a well-built town, has responded and given in turn to this con
cern an enviable and constantly growing patronage.
FRED C. BAIER.— A successful business man, using only modern machinery and
up-to-date methods and fortunate in the assistance afforded him by his gifted wife, is
Fred C Baier who came to Orange in 1909 and the next year began cement con
tracting He was born at Caledonia, in Huston County, Minn., in 1885, the son of
William and Caroline Baier, pioneer settlers and farmers there who resided in Minne
sota until 1920 when they sold out to live at Orange. They have seven children:
William is a farmer in Dakota; Kate has become Mrs. Flynn and lives in Wisconsin;
Mary is Mrs Rudisuhle, and lives at LaCrosse; George is a business man in Orange;
Louis, who also resides in Orange, was in the United States Army and served overseas
in the World War; and Edward was in the U. S. Navy and served on the Wyoming
Fred C Baier was educated in the public schools, and at thirteen began to paddle
his own canoe. In 1898 he moved west to Seattle and was there employed m the great
lumber yards. He also took up farming, and in each field he demonstrated his ability to
master the problems of the hour. At Spokane, in 1905 he learned the cement trade,
and learned it thoroughly. „ ,.. . . _, . _,-,-. c.,r.oH
Four years later Mr. Baier moved south to California, and the next year started
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also gave his personal attention to putting down the cement pipe. The high quality of
both°his labor and his materials, resulting in a strictly first class product, was soon
appreciated, and before he knew it, he had more than he alone could do.
Now Mr. Baier uses a McCracken cement pipe machine, the first set up in Cali
fornia, and is proud of having done the first centrifugal force pipe work in the state.
He has also installed at Orange a rock crusher, with which he is able to provide a
much better grade of rock for the cement used in pipes — a volcanic rock otherwise not
at the service of every cement worker. He makes this pipe in all sizes, and some
capable of withstanding such pressure that it easily replaces the steel pipe once in such
demand. He sells his pipe from OceanSide to Riverside, hauling it in trucks within a
radius of fifty miles, doing more than half of his business as a wholesaler, and has
laid it under thousands of acres. He organized the Southern California Associated
Concrete Pipe Manufacturers, of which he was president until he resigned in May,
1920, and is also a prominent member of the Associated Concrete Pipe Manufacturers'
Association of Northern California.
At Spokane, Wash., on June 12, 1907, Mr. Baier was married to Miss Rebecca
Adley, a native of Melrose, Minn., and the daughter of Napoleon and Lydia (Eaton)
Adley, who had been born in Maine and New Hampshire, respectively, and were mar
ried in Minnesota. As a young man, Mr. Adley enlisted in a Maine Regiment and
fought through the Civil War; and later he migrated to Minnesota, and there became
a stockdealer. Then he moved to Spokane and was in the dairy business in that place
until he died, in 1904. Her mother lived with Mrs. Baier in Orange, and died in 1918.
Mr. and Mrs. Adley had six children, Christopher, a farmer at Seattle, being the oldest.
Helen, now Mrs. Bisbee, of Spokane, comes next, and Leigh is also a farmer at Spokane,
as is his brother, Arichibald. John was accidentally killed while threshing near Spo
kane. Rebecca, the fifth in the order of birth, was graduated from the Spokane High
School and also from the Northwestern Business College of that place. One child, a
daughter, Dorothy, blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Baier.
FRANK BLAIR DALE. — An interesting couple who have just completed a new
and beautiful home, and who in many other ways have contributed to the building up
of Orange, are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blair Dale. A man of wide experience and a valu
able fund of information, Mr. Dale is good company as a conversationalist and an
appreciated adviser to many in need of one kind or another of guidance; while Mrs.
Dale is no less attractive to those who know her in the encouragement she has always
given her husband in his ambitions and arduous labors.
Mr. Dale was born at Carthage, Hancock County, 111., on April 30, 1870, the son
of William Dale, a native of the same county, and a grandson of Andrew Dale, one of
the sturdiest of pioneers there. He owned a farm, and built a grist mill on the river
east of Carthage; and he also had a carding mill, a saw mill, and a furniture factory.
He served throughout the Civil War in an- Illinois regiment, and died at the scene of
his honorable activities. William Dale was also a farmer, and resided at the old
homestead. He had married Miss Mary Wood, a native of Illinois and the daughter
of Nathan Wood, who migrated from Pennsylvania, where he was born, and became
a farmer in Illinois. Mrs. William Dale enjoyed life for a while in California, and died
at Orange. She was the mother of five children, four of whom are now living.
The eldest in the family, Frank, was brought up on the home farm and from
there went to the public schools. When he had finished with school books he came
west to Denver, in 1890, and entered the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany, and for a while ran as fireman out of Denver. Later, he became an engineer, but
in 1896 he quit railroading, and went to Kansas. He located near Chanute, in Neosho
County, and having taken up farming, continued there for about eight years.
On migrating to California, Mr. Dale located at Orange, where he built a residence
on South Grand Avenue. He first built south of Palmyra Avenue, in an orange grove;
then he worked as a carpenter and bought a ranch; but at the end of two years he
returned to carpentering. Then he purchased a ranch west of Santa Ana, but at the
end of two years returned td Orange.
Here he took up contracting and building, having a partner, O A Long- but
when the latter removed from the district, he continued in business alone until 1917,
when he made a partnership with C. W. Riggle, under the firm name of Dale & Riggle,
and undertook general contracting— the erection of houses and the laying of first-class
cement. Among the many fine residences put up by this firm may be mentioned Henry
lerrys residence on East Chapman Avenue, and the Ryan residence at Villa Park as
well as numerous artistic bungalows. They remodeled the City Hall, Mr. Dale making
the drawings himself; and he has now just completed, for the eighth time,, a residence
for himself-at the corner of Center and Almond Streets. He belongs, very naturally,
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On December 9, 1915, Mr. Dale was married at Oceanside to Mrs. Nina (Robinson)
Frankforther, a native of Topeka, Kans., and the adopted daughter of Miss Kate
Hubbard, now of Orange, but formerly of Glasco, Kans. Miss Hubbard was born
near Dixon, 111., the daughter of Thomas S. Flubbard, a native of New York City, who
came to Illinois in 1837, and there married Miss Catherine Kessler, a native of Reading,
Penn., who came out to Illinois with a married sister. After farming there for a few
years, Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard in 1846 removed to Independence, Buchanan County,
Iowa, and bought land, which he improved and made into a farm. Four years later
he removed to near Monticello, Jones County, Iowa, where he was a farmer and a
justice of the peace. In 1879 he and his family moved again, this time to Glasco,
Cloud County, Kans., where he was a farmer until he died, in 1900, at the age of eighty-
five years. Mrs. Hubbard died in Kansas in 1907, at the age of eighty-nine, the mother
of four children — Catherine, or Kate, and Victor, who reside in Orange; Florence, now
Mrs. Lawrence of Dixon, 111., and Charles, who lives at Ontario. Miss Hubbard came
in 1879 to Kansas, where her father had a farm; and in 1908 she located at Orange and
bought the corner where she has lived, highly honored by all who know her, ever since.
She has reared and adopted three daughters: Hester, who is now the wife of Alfred
Rogers, of Glasco, Kans.; Nina, the wife of F. B. Dale of Orange; and Gladys, or
Mrs. Joseph McDonald, who lives near Santa Ana. Mrs. Dale was married the first
time in Kansas to Levi Frankforther, who was the editor of the Glasco Sun until his
death; and they had one child, Nina Catharine. After Mr. Frankforther's demise, she
came to Orange, to join her adopted mother, who had moved there.
Mr. Dale is a member of Orange Lodge No. 225, I. O. O. F., where he is a past
grand, and of Santa Ana Encampment, and with Mrs. Dale belongs to the Rebekahs,
in which organization she is a past noble grand. She is also a member of the Yeomen
and the Royal Neighbors, and she belongs to the Christian Church. Mr. Dale is a
Republican, but nonpartisan in local issues.
CHARLES W. RIGGLE. — A progressive carpenter and builder, whose ideals
and methods have been such that he could hardly have escaped success if he would,
is C. W. Riggle, a native of Coshocton, O., where he was born in 1873. His father
was Edward Riggle, a thoroughly patriotic American, who served in the One Hundred
and Twenty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War, and was
wounded at Cold Harbor. After the great conflict, he took up agriculture, and for a
while farmed at Macon City, Mo.; and now resides near Springfield. Mrs. Riggle was
Mary Lyons before her marriage, and she died in Missouri in 1919. She was the mother
of five boys, and among them C. W. Riggle was the eldest.
He was brought up in Missouri, and attended the public schools of Macon County.
Later, he learned the carpenter's trade, and when twenty years of age, came out
to Kansas City, and was made foreman for an important construction company, which
was constantly erecting extensive business blocks, and his opportunities for experience
of a varied kind were exceptional.
Having been well equipped, therefore, for original work, Mr. Riggle came to
California in 1913 and located at Orange, where he began on his own account as a
contractor and builder; and three years ago he formed a partnership with Frank Dale,
under the firm name of Riggle & Dale. They not only make their own designs, but
furnish working plans for others. Both the style and the quality of their work being
such as to appeal to the intelligent patron looking for the best, they have been more
and more sought, especially for building enterprises involving risk and responsibility.
At Kansas City, Mr. Riggle was married to Miss Dovie Barnett, a native of that
municipality, and they have been blessed with two children. Harvey, who is a grad
uate of the Orange high school, is attending the Y. M. C. A. school of Los Angeles,
and is taking a mechanical course; and Mary is still in the high school. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Riggle are members of the Baptist Church at Orange, of which Mr. Riggle is a
trustee. Mr. Riggle is a Mason,' having been initiated in Mountain Dale Lodge No.
554, A. F. & A. M., at Seymour, Missouri.
JOHN F. RICHARDS. — An interesting Californian of the genuinely American
type is John F. Richards, who was born near Manhattan, Kans., in 1872, the son of
A and Adeline Richards, the former a native of Kentucky, who in 1857 became an
early settler of Pottawatomie County, Kans., and there improved a farm which was
originally a raw prairie. He engaged in stock raising and was so successful that he
came to own 5,000 acres of land. He is now living retired at Orange, his good wife
and companion having died in Kansas. They had nine children, and John was the third
youngest of them all. . ,, Cf„,.
After completing the courses of the public schools, he took a course at the Mate
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serves the district in which it is placed. Mr. Marquez was trustee there for several
years, as he was also justice of the peace of Yorba judicial township for two terms.
Always a Republican, as was his father before him, he is a member of the Catholic
Church, at San Antonio Mission. With others he succeeded in getting the suburban
telephone built up the Valley to accommodate the farmers. Mr. Marquez has always
stood for progress and has done his share towards any movement for improvement
in his section. During the World War he was appointed by the United States govern
ment a licensing agent of explosives through the Explosives Bureau of the Department
of Mines. As an experienced apiarist, with some 115 stands of bees, Mr. Marquez derives
a substantial profit from the sale of honey. He has been active in that field for over
forty years, and in the science of bee culture in Orange County owes something today
to his unwearying experiments and efforts to reach the highest standards.
CHARLES F. RAMSEY. — An old-timer in Southern California, long prominent
in politics as a Democratic leader and honored as both an efficient and conscientious
officeholder, is Charles F. Ramsey, the representative of a fine old family in the South,
with interesting progenitors on both the paternal and maternal side. His great uncle
was James Gattys McGregor Ramsey, the well-known author, who was born in Knox
County, Tenn., in 1796, and died at Knoxville in 1884. He was the son of Francis A.
Ramsey, who had emigrated to the West when a young man, and had become secretary
of the state of Franklin, which was subsequently admitted to the Union under the
name of Tennessee. While becoming trained both as an M. D. and a banker, James
Ramsey began to collect materials for a history of Tennessee; and at Charleston, S. C,
in 1853, he published the 'Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century."
He also founded the first historical society in the state. He joined the Confederate
Army on its retreat from Knoxville, and in his absence his house was burned and all
the valuable historical papers, as well as much other property, were destroyed.
The father of our subject, who was a regimental commander in a Tennessee regi
ment during the Civil War, was also named Frank A. Ramsey. He spent eight years
in California and then went back to Missouri, where he married Mary Kaylor, a native
of Virginia and the representative of a well-known family in that state. She now
resides with Charles F. Ramsey, the center of a circle of admiring friends, and the
mother of seven children, among whom Charles F. is the fourth in the order of birth.
He was brought up at Cameron, Mo., where he attended the grammar schools and
eventually graduated from the Cameron high school, after which he attended Fayette
College. In 1896 he came to Los Angeles, and for a while followed various lines of
business, engaging, in the end, in real estate and brokerage.
In 1919, Mr. Ramsey came to Orange and bought the Colonial Theater, which he
remodeled and enlarged and managed it for a little more than a year. In May, 1920,
he formed a partnership with J. E. Coe, under the firm name of the Coe Realty Com
pany, and which does a general real estate brokerage business. Their office is located
at 111 South Glassell Street. A live wire for the upbuilding of Orange County, Mr.
Ramsey is a member of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association.
At Los Angeles Mr. Ramsey was married to Miss Hazel Wright, a native daughter
from Napa, Cal, and their fortunate union has been blessed with two children — Virginia
and Eunice. The family attends the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Ramsey is
a member of Redlands Lodge No. 583, B. P. O. Elks.
EDWARD HARTMAN. — Among the progressive citizens of Stanton, Orange
County, is Edward Hartman, owner of a highly improved ranch of ten acres located
on Magnolia Avenue, and devoted to the growing of oranges and walnuts. The prop
erty is improved with good buildings and a pumping plant that supplies sufficient water
for all purposes. The land was purchased by Mr. Hartman in 1909, and was a part of
a large ranch and unimproved in any way, so that when he became the owner he at
once leveled and prepared the land for his oranges and walnuts. The trees are in a
splendid condition and bearing more and more with each succeeding year, and he is
adding needed improvements as his means will permit.
Edward Hartman was born in Schwartzburg-Rudolstadt, Germany, on May 15,
1852, the son of Henry and Sophia (Seidel) Hartman, also natives of that locality,
where their five children were born. The father died in 1870, and in 1872 Mrs. Hart
man and other members of her family came to America to join her eldest son, our
subject, who had come here in 1868 and settled in Green Bay, Wis. Upon his arrival
in America, Edward was engaged in making building bricks until 1873, the year of
financial depression, when it became impossible to dispose of their product, so he
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and blasted out the stumps with dynamite, for it was a timber slashing. He produced
some wonderful crops from the land, and also engaged to clear land from the stumps
for others under contract, clearing in all over 300 acres. After farming successfully
for many years, in 1906 he decided to come to California, and he landed in Anaheim.
Six years later he located on his present property and is content to remain here.
In 1884 Mr. Hartman married Miss Eline Sitzeman, a native of Wisconsin. They
have had ten children, seven of whom survive: Matilda, Mrs. August Schumacher;
Frederick, a railway mail clerk in Arizona; Theodore and Edward are ranching to
gether; Alfred, Emiel and Madeline are still at home. Theodore served as a member
of the Three Hundred and Sixty-eighth Field Artillery in France and for his excellent
record was made a corporal. Mr. Hartman is a member of the Fullerton Walnut
Growers' Association, and both himself and wife belong to the Zion Lutheran Church
in Anaheim. They are Republicans and have a large circle of friends who appreciate
their worth as citizens.
EDWARD M. DOZIER. — The Garden Grove Citrus Association is fortunate in
having an able secretary and manager in the person of Edward M. Dozier, who not
only possesses unusually good business judgment, but has also an extensive and thor
ough knowledge of the citrus industry. He was born in the state of Iowa, near Argonia,
Hardin County, June 19, 1878, and is the son of Thomas E. and Caroline Dozier, natives
of North Carolina, who emigrated from Iowa to California in 1885, when their son
Edward was seven years old. These parents had three sons: Ray is married, has three
sons, and lives in Los Angeles County; Edward M., and Ernest. For some years the
father has been in the real estate business at Orange, where he has made his home
for the past fifteen years. „
The Garden Grove Citrus Association was organized November 3, 1915, with Mr.
J. O. Arkley as its president. It has grown steadily since its organization, and the
first year shipped ten and one-half carloads of fruit, the second year thirty-seven car
loads were shipped; in 1919, 107 carloads, and, in 1920, 175 carloads. The association
employs upward of thirty-five hands, its building covers nearly an acre of ground, and
has 9,750 square feet in its ground floor. The association has everything in its favor
in possessing the trees, the fruit and the right kind of men behind it, to make it an
unprecedented success. Milo B. Allen is now president, and has an able second in the
popular secretary and manager. . Mr. Dozier bought nineteen acres of raw land which
he, himself, set to oranges and walnuts, owned the ranch thirteen years and sold in
January, 1920, at a handsome advance over the purchase price.
Mr. Dozier's marriage, which occurred in 1904, united him with Miss Elva Boden-
hamer, daughter of John and Mary Bodenhamer, and their union has been blessed by
the birth of three sons: Paul Melvin, Leslie Myron and Stanley Robert. Mr. Dozier is
a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Garden Grove.
LOUIS ABACIHERLI. — One of the largest dairymen of Orange County is Louisv
Abacherli of Hansen Station. His dairy consists of 200 head of three-quarters Holstein
stock, and in addition to this he owns 100 head of young heifers. In each herd he has
a sprinkling of Jerseys to raise the quality of the milk. His ranch embraces 200 acres
and he produces almost 3,040 pounds of milk per day, which he markets in Los Angeles.
He installed modern milking machines and employs two milkers.
Mr. Abacherli is a native of Switzerland, where he was born in the Canton Ob-
walden, May 28, 1872. He is the son of Joseph and Josephine (Ambiel) Abacherli, who
were the parents of four children, three of whom are living, Adelheid and Theresa
being the daughters. Louis is the only one in the United States. Accompanied by his
wife he came to this country in November, 1912, and when they came to Orange County
they settled at Los Alamitos. In 1915 Mr. Abacherli leased his present ranch of Mrs.
Hansen of Long Beach, and he has built up a successful and prosperous business through
his own efforts, being well qualified for an undertaking of this magnitude. He also
leases considerable land, having in 1920 about 800 acres, 110 acres planted to beets, the
balance being in barley, corn and alfalfa.
Mrs. Abacherli is also a native of Switzerland, and before her marriage, which
occurred on November 25, 1894, she was Rosalia Abacherli, the daughter of Balz and
Mary (Rathlin) Abacherli. Four -children have blessed- the union of Mr. and Mrs.
Abacherli and three of them are living: Arnold, Louis and John, all living at home.
Rosalie, the edest child died aged twenty-one years, November 20, 1916. They took a
httle girl Helen Ambiel, when five months old, and are rearing her as one of their
own children. She is six years old and is attending school. The family are members
of the Roman Catholic Church of Anaheim.

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AUGUST LEMKE. — A good ranch manager, prudent alike as to his investment
of money and time, who is not only a lovable father and an ideal husband, but is also
in every respect a public-spirited citizen, is August Lemke, the walnut and citrus fruit
grower, owning a handsome ranch — his home place — of twenty acres on the Santa Ana
Canyon Boulevard, two and a half miles northeast of Olive, in one of the choicest and
most promising sections of Orange County. He was born at Liptno in Russia Poland
on February 13, 1874, and there attended local schools in which he was taught to read
both the Russian and the German languages. He was also confirmed in the German
Lutheran Church there. His parents were Carl and Minnie (Zoidtke) Lemke, both
natives of Russia Poland, in which country they married. He was a farmer and
attracted by the greater opportunities in the United States, came to America and the
Golden State. They had five children, all of whom are still living. Mrs. Lemke passed
away in California in 1900, and her husband is still enjoying life, at the age of seventy-
three, in the home of our subject. When Carl Lemke left Russia in 1886, he sailed for
New York, and then spent a couple of months in Philadelphia. On arriving in Cali
fornia in 1887, he went to Placentia; and sUch was his remarkable industry, that. in
two years he was able to send money back to Russia, to pay for the passage of his two
sons, William and August.
The young men then sailed from Hamburg and landed in New York City in
January, 1890. They were also not long in reaching Placentia, where they went to
work immediately as farm hands. They were a year and half in the service of the
Santa Fe Asphaltum Company, making asphaltum pipe, and building culverts, and then
August Lemke worked for nine months as a section hand at Olive, at $1.25 a day. For
two and a half years, also, he was zanjero for the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Com
pany, but otherwise, he has always been employed at ranch and orchard work.
On November 3, 1896, Mr. Lemke voted for William McKinley, and having per
formed one good deed, the next day he was married to Auguste Lemke, also a native
of Russia Poland, who came to California on January 1, 1890. Her parents Christian
and Julia Meilke Lemke, were farmer folks in their native country. Christian Lemke
migrated to the land of the Stars and Stripes in the fall of 1888, intending if he liked
it to send for his family. After stopping a few months in Denver, Colo., he came on
to Anaheim where his three brothers, Charles, August and John, were residing, and
here his wife and five children joined him in January, 1890. He engaged in farming,
eventually improving a ranch of twenty-five acres on the Santa Ana Canyon Boulevard,
where he resided until his demise in March, 1909, being survived by his widow, who
resides in Olive. This worthy couple were the parents of eleven children, eight of
whom are living, Auguste being the oldest of all; she came to Orange County when
she was twelve years old, thus having the satisfaction of completing her education in
the Placentia and Orange schools. Seven children blessed this union: George K. C.
Lemke was in the U. S. Navy during the late war, was honorably discharged, and is
now at home. A twin brother, John Benjamin H. Lemke, married Ada Schmadeke, ot
Iowa, and assists his father on the ranch. Alma, the third in the order of birth, is the
wife of Walter Timken, the rancher, in the Olive precinct, and has one child, Law
rence. Emil A. E. Lemke attends Concordia College in Oakland, and Minnie, Edwin
and Arthur are at home. One child died at birth.
Endeavoring to be thoroughly consistent in religious matters, Mr. Lemke helped
to organize the Lutheran Church at Olive, and now serves that useful body as one of
its trustees. He has also been elected justice of the peace for Yorba township four
times and is now serving his fourth term in that office — and while a Republican in mat
ters of national politics, is a good nonpartisan "booster" in and for everything that per
tains to the development and advancement of Orange County. He helped to start the
First National Bank at Olive, and is one of its stockholders, and is also a member of
Olive Hillside Groves Association at Olive. Besides his fine home ranch, he owns
two other ranches in the same canyon — one of seven acres devoted to Valencia oranges,
and a third ranch of thirteen acres devoted to Valencias and walnuts.
HERMAN LEMKE. — An honest, studious, hard working and self-reliant rancher.
who has become a highly respected citizen, is Herman Lemke, who owns eleven and
a half acres of as fine and well bearing land, planted by himself in 1906, 1908 and 1916,
as can be found anywhere in Orange County. He was born in Russia-Poland on Sep
tember 22, 1880, one of a family of nine children, eight of whom — four boys and four
girls — are still living, and is the eldest son, and the second eldest child of the widow,
Julia Lemke, who owns an excellent ranch of eleven acres in the Yorba precinct, but
lives in Olive, enjoying life at the ripe age of sixty-three. The father of our subject,
Christian Lemke, died in his fifty-sixth year at the home ranch in the Yorba precinct.
The parents were both born and married in Russia-Poland, and came to California
with their five children in 1890. They settled first at Placentia, then went to Orange
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for a couple of years, and next lived for five years at Villa Park; from which place
Mr. Lemke came to the Santa Aria Canyon and bought his twenty-six acres of barley
stubble land, which he set out and improved.
The lad Herman attended the German Lutheran School at Orange and the gram
mar school at Placentia, at the same time that he worked on his father's ranch. He
also served for three years in Company E of the Anaheim Home Militia. He was
married in 1906 to Miss Emma Kolberg, a native of Orange and a daughter of the
late Wm. Kolberg, the rancher; her mother, Joanna (Beske) Golberg died in 1912. Since
marrying, Mr. and Mrs. Lemke have built a house on their ranch three miles northeast
of Olive on the Santa Ana Canyon Boulevard, and they have continued active as mem
bers of the Lutheran Church at Olive. In national politics a Republican, Mr. Lemke
lends his most cordial support to every good local movement and in doing so, excludes
partisanship altogether.
Progressiva to a high degree in every way, Mr. Lemke uses a Cleveland tractor,
and a Buick roadster. He informs himself as to the latest scientific methods, and so
operates according to the most approved and up-to-date ways. Naturally, he has not
only succeeded in his own affairs, but he has pointed the way to others.
ROBERT LEMKE. — The identification of the Lemke family with the development
of the agricultural interests of Orange County dates back to 1890, when Christ and
Julia (Mielke) Lemke, immigrated from Russia-Poland to the United States and
settled near Olive, Cal., where Mr. Lemke purchased twenty-five acres of land. He
followed ranching in this section until 1909, when he passed away. His widow still
resides at Olive. Mr. and Mrs. Lemke were the parents of nine children: Herman,
Augusta, Millie, Ernest, Robert, Lena and Gustaf, twins, Henry and Tillie.
Robert Lemke, the subject of this review, was born in Russia-Poland, February
8, 1888, and when in his second year he was brought by his parents to America. He
was reared in the neighborhood of Olive and attended the splendid public schools of
Orange, from which he subsequently graduated. From boyhood he had always followed
farming and he now owns and operates a splendid ranch of ten acres on South Magnolia
Avenue, near Anaheim, which he devotes to Valencia oranges. His trees range from
three to nine years of age, the place formerly being known as the Kennedy ranch.
In 1917, Mr. Lemke was happily united in marriage with Miss Emma Paulus, a
native of San Luis Obispo County, the daughter of David and Marie Paulus, born in
Port Washington and Milwaukee, Wis., respectively, who located in San Luis Obispo
County in 1888 and in 1908, moved to Orange County and there soent the remainder
of their days. One son, Elmer H., has been born to' them. Mr. and Mrs. Lemke are
members of the Lutheran Church at Olive, and politically, Mr. Lemke is a supporter of
the Republican party. He is recognized as one of the successful ranchers of his com
munity, where he is held in high esteem for his integrity of character.
MANLEY C. CHASE.— A resident of Cypress, well known throughout Orange
County, not alone because of his business dealings, which were extensive, but also
because of his sterling worth as a citizen, is Manley C. Chase. A native of Maine
he was born at Bingham, Somerset County on May 16, 1852, the son of Calvin S. and
™\)l , J' (Andrews) Chase, both old residents of Maine, where the father died in
1855, when Manley C. was a lad of three years. Three children were born to Mr. and
Mrs^ Chase, two of whom, Manley C. and his sister, Mrs. Mary Hollister, are residents
of Orange County. Mrs. Martha Chase married for her second husband, B. J. Hanna-
ford, and soon after ¦they went to Pawnee County, Nebr., where they lived and where
Mrs. Hannaford died m 1868. She had six children by this marriage
.h f In-i8.' if' Q Cha^ 1?Cated '" Waupun' Wis- then seven years later he went with
the family to Kansas. He later spent .some time in Mexico, 1891 to 1894, when he was
*cTlTTnl T Ka"sas I"vest , c- Company, under whose improvements the American
Tn those H «?•?•' W°r-0,f the comPany ™s to develop water for the colonists.
can SwaffinT -rS Were Jalrly T11 S6ttled c°mParcd to the present, and American
living _rT Kansa M 7? *"' , tHe develoP™nt of a number of projects. While
consfaMe H 0 V T Se"ed aV depUty sheriff °f 0sb°™ County, also as a
trirstee'for man"^ '^ lntenSdy ^"^ * SCh°01 *»«*» »d "™* aS a
in cIrZTTLTXy'T T" M/' ChaSE haS been ^terested in drilling water wells
IhnVT 0 n da' • F°r a few years he was in partnership with Dr. Gobar,
havfmeant so muchyt "TTT^ T W°fk in hand' He has sunk many wdU that
in CalTforn a he h° V ^^ '" b°th States where water is "ki^-" Since settling
n Sou hern Californf . *yew,tn?s 0 the wonderful changes that have been enacted
UnforH,^ TT haS P.fited by the increase in land values.
incapSate him fo TT"' ™ ¦*'¦ JT 1918 Mr' Chase met w*h a" accident which
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years of his time and endeavor, but he at once turned his attention to the poultry
business at Cypress, where he has lived since 1912. He has a thriving flock of a thousand
fowls, equally divided between Rhode Island Reds and White Leghorns. He has suffi
cient land to raise all the green feed necessary for his flock, and buys grain by the
carload for feeding. He formerly owned a forty-acre ranch north of his present resi
dence, but this he sold in 1918.
In 1879 Mr. Chase was united in marriage with Miss Sarah L. Reed, a native
of the state of Missouri, the daughter of Levi and Mary Reed, and three daughters
have blessed their home: Nellie, Mrs. S. J. Scally, living in Orange County; Stella,
wife of J. A. Hollingsworth of this county; and Luella, wife of M. W. Sawdey, and they
live in Anaheim. Mr. Chase is a man who stands high in the estimation of his fellow
citizens, rising, as he has, by his own efforts, coupled with honesty and integrity.
JOHN W. STUCKENBRUCK.— A well-known and highly respected citizen of
Orange County who, as a pioneer at Newport Beach, has the utmost faith in this
resort for the future and is therefore influential frequently in inducing others to share
his optimism and to pitch their tents in this most favored spot, is John W. Stucken-
bruck, who was born in Mansfield Ohio, on December 31, 1852, and was taken to Iowa
when he was two years of age by his parents, Frederick and Jane (Sperry) Stucken-
bruck. For the second time his mother became a widow, and she is now living, in
good health and active, at Lodi in her ninetieth year.
Mr. Stuckenbruck grew up in Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa, remaining home until
seventeen years of age and then worked two years on farms and after that for seven
years clerked for one man, J. L. Sherman, the storekeeper at Tipton in that state.
There, too, he was married to Miss Alice D. Wirick, a native of Iowa who died at
Tustin twenty-seven years ago, esteemed and beloved by many as an excellent woman,
a devoted mother of two children. Eva E. became Mrs. A. J. Hadley, the rancher at
Tustin, and the mother of three children — Emma, Johnny and Woodrow W.; while
Allie May is the wife of B. C. Killifer, the section foreman for the Salt Lake Railroad
Company, an old and trusted employe at Pasadena. They have one child, Allie May.
When Mr. Stuckenbruck came to Newport Beach in 1887, it was only a sand-
spit; and the next year he worked for James McFadden, then a butcher, and drove the
meat wagon and attended to customers in the meat market. Now he owns the building
where the Newport Restaurant is located, and also the house at the rear, and he will
soon put in a substantial store building with a brick front. In making such an invest
ment as this, he is giving proof of the faith long in him that Newport Beach has
natural attractions, and enjoys a superior location bound to make it one of the great
summer and winter resorts along the Coast, as it is now the favorite with those familiar
with its advantages. He was elected and served as the first city marshal of Newport
Beach, and he is now the oldest settler living here, having been here many years before
the town was started.
HENRY G. HEINEMANN. — Not everybody has been able to bring along to
California such a neat sum as that of Henry G. Heinemann, $35,000 available, when he
migrated hither from Nebraska, nor has everyone shown equal courage and common
sense in investing what he had at Olive, among the most rapidly developing communi
ties of promising Orange County. Now he owns an excellent orange ranch of nine
teen acres under a high state of cultivation, and lives in a beautiful new, up-to-date
bungalow, erected in 1920 at a cost of some $5,000. He was* born in the ancient town
of Oldenburg, the capital of the grandduchy of that name, not so very far from the
seaport of Bremen, on October 26, 1860, the son of Henry G. Heinemann, a well-to-do
farmer who had married Miss Elise Looschen. They lived and died where they had
established their comfortable home. They had ten children, among whom Henry was
the fourth child and the second son.
He enjoyed a common school, but excellent education, and was brought up in the
German Lutheran Church. For a while he worked at farming on the home ranch, and
after that entered the service of a distillery at Delmenhorst, in time coming to know
how to distil himself. About that time some friends, who had been in America visited
his home town; they were very enthusiastic about the United States, and such was the
effect of their reports upon him, that when twenty-eight years of age, Mr. Heinemann
decided to cross the ocean himself. This decision was made in face of the fact that he
had always done well at home, and had valuable connections there. He had become
an accountant and scrivener, for example, in a local government office, and had, besides,
a three-year military service and training. He attended an officers' training school,
and rose to the rank of sergeant in the German army. He was, therefore, well up on
military science and tactics. During the late war, he had a brother-in-law and seven
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Mr. Heinemann sailed from Bremerhaven on the steamship "Saale" of the North
German Lloyd, and landed at Castle Garden in New York on March I, 1889. He came
on west to Hooper, Nebr., and for two years worked out as a -farm hand, for three
years rented land, and after that bought there 240 acres. In Nebraska, too, in 1891, he
was married to Miss Gesine Rehling, also a native of Oldenburg, who was nine years
old when she came to America accompanied by her parents. They were August and
Margaret (Bulter) Rehling, and her father was a blacksmith. She saw New York for
the first time in 1881, and after her ninth year, grew up in Dodge County, Nebr.
After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Heinemann farmed in that state, and by very
hard work, prospered so that they became owners of a well improved and very valuable
Nebraska farm of 240 acres. Having borne the burden and heat of such labor under the
vicissitudes of the Nebraska climate for so many years, Mr. Heinemann's health broke
down, as he became a sufferer from asthma and rheumatism. He made his first visit to
California in the spring of 1908, with the intention of establishing a home here, but the
conditions in Orange County were so radically different that he became homesick for
Nebraska, to which state he returned and continued for a year and a half.
In the fall of 1909, however, his thoughts were again directed Cailfornia-ward,
and he speedily sold his excellent farm of 240 acres to a neighbor for $110 per acre,
and in December of that year came out to California with his entire family, and
settled at Olive. He bought twenty-four acres, in reality two places, at Olive, and
immediately began making substantial improvements. In 1919, he sold five acres of
his holdings, and during the same winter made preparations to build a beautiful bunga
low residence, to cost $5,000. It was completed in 1920.
In October, 1903, Mr. Heinemann returned to Germany and paid a visit to his old
home at Oldenburg. His father was then dead, but his mother was alive at the age of
seventy-five. She lived to be ten years older, and passed away in July, 1914. Mr. and
Mrs. Heinemann have five children: August, the rancher of Orange, married Amanda
Guenther; Ella is the wife of August Matthes, who recently came to reside in Orange
County, moving from Nebraska, where he has a fine farm of 640 acres; Freda married
Walter Lieffers, the rancher, and lives near Orange; William H. is the husband of
Fanny Wurl, and is a farmer in Cheyenne County, Nebr.; he served in the late war,
and was honorably discharged from military service; George A. Heineman is at home.
In national politics a Republican, it is as a thorough American that Mr. Heine
mann works to elevate civic standards, and to promote public-spiritedness. He loves the
adopted country of his choice, and has endeavored to do as much for it, as it has done
for him; and no citizen could set before him a more laudable or practical ideal.
A. F. STOHLMANN. — An honest, capable, self-made and successful citrus rancher
is A. F. Sfohlmann, who is also a clever and experienced carpenter, well known for his
activity in local affairs, particularly in his support of the various loan drives and other
campaign movements in the recent war. He was born at Williamsburg, Iowa, on
January 10, 1883, the son of Frank Stohlman, a native of Germany, who came from
Europe direct to Williamsburg in the far-away spring of 1867. He bought 160 acres
there, and set to work, in accordance with his native industry and sagacity, to bring it
up to a high state of cultivation.
Soon after his arrival here, too, Mr. Sfohlmann married in Iowa, Miss Lenora
Kleinmeyer, also a native of Central Germany, but one who came out to the United
States with her parents when she was a mere girl. Together, they formed a model
home; and Mr. Sfohlmann became one of the very successful farmers of the Hawkeye
State, and when he had made his valuable contribution as a foreigner to the develop
ment of the great American West, he passed on to his eternal reward, at the rather ripe
age of sixty-six.
_ A. F. Sfohlmann, the subject of our sketch, enjoyed the best common school edu
cation that the country schools of his district, supplemented by the help his parents
gave, could afford, and becoming early interested in carpenter work, he soon learned
the carpenter's trade under the supervision of a brother-in-law. At that time he worked
for a dollar a day and his board, and it is safe to say that he earned every penny of it.
tie was not satisfied, however, to stay at home, and when the first opportunity
to come out to the Pacific Coast presented itself, he was wide-awake to avail himself
of the chance. He accompanied a rich uncle, who was a shipper and raiser of stock, and
landed in Los Angeles in the spring of 1904. This uncle was E. F. Kleinmeyer, who
continued to deal heavily m livestock, and he worked for him at carpentering.
in 1906 he purchased the sixteen-acre ranch which he has since greatly improved,
and he also took : water stock in the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. Now he
has ten acres of Valencia oranges in full bearing and the balance in walnuts. He uses
a tractor and other up-to-date farm implements and machinery. This ranch work
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contractor and builder of no mean order and has again and again demonstrated his
superior ability.
On April 28, 1910, Mr. Sfohlmann was married to Miss June Baker, a native
daughter born at Orange on June 17, 1893. Her father was M. A. Baker, a rancher at
Fairview, in Orange County, and at Fairview she was educated. Five children were
granted this worthy couple, and three in God's providence have survived: Frank
Martin is deceased, having passed away on March 31, 1918; Alton Theo; Melvina May;
Lorina June, born on December 23, 1916, died on May 1 of the following year; and
Alvin Laverne. The family are active members of the Lutheran Church at Olive, and
reside in a beautiful home erected in 1910, where they dispense a hospitality thoroughly
Californian. Mr. Stohlmann is a Republican in matters of national political import, but
first, last and all the time an American. As a result, he and his family did their full
duty as American citizens in the recent trying times of the World War.
PAUL JOHN LOTZE.— There is ample opportunity in Fullerton for the exercise
of the energies of those engaged in the plumbing business, and the proprietor of the
Plumbing and Sheet Metal Works, in that city, Paul John Lotze, is well known as a
superior workman in this industry. A native of Germany, he was born November 29,
1884, and is the fourth child in order of birth in William M. and Augusta (Simnig)
Lotze's family of seven children. The father, an engineer by occupation, brought his
family to California from Germany in 1900, his son Paul John having preceded him
to America a year previous.
Paul John acquired his education in the public schools of Germany, and at the
age of fifteen, in 1899, he emigrated to the United States, locating first in Kansas, where
he remained three years working on a farm and during the winter attending school.
He then journeyed west to San Bernardino, Cal., in 1902, where he remained six years,
and in the meantime learned the plumbing and sheet metal trades. In January, 1908,
he located at Fullerton, Cal., and established his business, beginning on a small scale
and has grown ahd prospered ever since its inception, and in which he keeps three
people employed. Among the excellent work he has done may be mentioned the
plumbing in the Fullerton high school, and in the Evangelical Association Church at
Anaheim, the plumbing in the residences of H. C. Ruggles, George L. Vance, J. R. Car
hart, C. C. Chapman, and many other of the best residences in the community, as well
as doing work for the city of Fullerton. In 1920, Mr. Lotze erected a very modern
business establishment on a lot that he owned at 124 West Commonwealth Avenue.
Here he has his office and display room, as well as his workshop. The work done by
Mr. Lotze is his best advertisement and he is desirous of satisfying his patrons.
The marriage of Mr. Lotze on June 30, 1910, united him with Miss Amelia
Matilda Holve, a native of Germany, who came to California to make her home in
1907. They are the parents of three children — Clarence, Walter and Lucille. The
family home is located on an acre of ground on South Highland Avenue, Fullerton,
and the land is a fine orange grove in full bearing. Mr. and Mrs. Lotze are members of
the Evangelical Association. In politics Mr. Lotze is an independent voter, supporting
the best men and measures. Fraternally he belongs to the Fraternal Brotherhood. Not
a little of the success achieved by this enterprising business man is the result of the
encouragement and cooperation of his wife, to whom he readily give's much credit.
Honorable in his dealings, industrious in disposition, his influence is ever used un
sparingly in promoting the welfare of Fullerton, and his many friends esteem him for
his public zeal and his many excellent characteristics.
ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH, OLIVE.— Prominent among the agencies
making for permanent uplift in Orange County must be mentioned St. Paul's Lutheran
Church at Olive, now under the* able direction of Rev. William A. Theiss, U. A. C. of
the Missouri Synod. A native son, and therefore an American thoroughly familiar with
California conditions, Mr. Theiss was born at Oakland on November 9, 1889, the son
of Professor J. G. and Lena (Bahls) Theiss of that city, and received his early education
at the Parochial School in Oakland, presided over by his father. He then studied at
Concordia College at Milwaukee, preparatory to his final course at Concordia Seminary
at St. Louis.
When he was married, at the home of the bride in Milwaukee on August 19, 1913,
Mr. Theiss chose for his wife and helpmate Miss Emma Juds, the daughter of August
and Bertha Juds of Milwaukee. In that city she was born on January 24, 1887, and
there she was educated, living at home with her parents until she was married.
The first charge of Rev. Mr. Theiss was at Petaluma, where he continued until
1916, and then he came to Olive and has since been the indefatigable pastor of the
St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Two living children, Eleanor M. and Waldemar A.,
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this estimable pair have found congenial work in vigorously supporting the Liberty
Loan and Red Cross drives, during the late World War.
The history of St. Paul's Church is full of interest. In 1907 ten active members
of the St. John's Lutheran Church at Orange, all residing at Olive, asked their release
in order to found a Lutheran Church at Olive; and this request having been granted
by the congregation of St. John's, St. Paul's was founded when the present school
building served as the main church edifice. On November 3, 1912, the corner stone
of the new church was laid, and that year saw the completion of the edifice. From
the small beginning noted, the church has grown until there are now 140 communi
cants, of whom forty-nine are voting members.
Important among the various activities of the church should be noted the thorough
and patriotic work done by the Parochial School, with forty-eight pupils, under Prin
cipal A. W. Schmid. The sessions are held in the old church building, and the attend
ance is on the steady increase.
JOHN LE BARD. — For the past thirteen years John Le Bard has been a resident
of Orange County. He is an experienced rancher of the San Joaquin precinct, where
he operates a 500-acre ranch devoted to the culture of beans. He employs from fifteen
to twenty hands on the ranch, and some years the ranch has yielded as high as twenty
sacks of beans per acre.
He is a native of Milton, Union County, Pa., where he was born October 29, 1861,
and was reared and educated in his native state and county. When eighteen he migrated
to Ft. Dodge, Kans., where he rode the range on a large cattle ranch, the "R Bar S,"
becoming adept at roping and riding. Afterwards he was in the employ of government
contractors hauling and delivering goods between Camp Supply, Indian Territory, and
Ft. Elliot before the time of railroads across the continent, and he is full of remini
scences of many interesting experiences that occurred during the seven years he was
thus engaged. In 1891 he removed to California and located near Fillmore in Ventura County
and engaged in farming, and in 1906 came to Orange County, where he has since resided.
He is the son of Joseph and Sarah Le Bard. The father, a veteran of the Civil War,
serving in a Pennsylvania regiment, was wounded while in the service of his country.
In his youth the father followed a seafaring life for a number of years. Of the parental
family of eight children five are living, and three of the number are residents of Cali
fornia: James, R. B. and John, our subject.
On April 3, 1893, Mr. Le Bard was united in marriage with Miss Mary J. Mc
Donald, born in Truro, Nova Scotia; she was a daughter of Wm. and Lillian (Suther
land) McDonald. The father died in Nova Scotia and Mary came to California with
her mother when she was nineteen years old. Mrs. McDonald spent her last days with
Mrs. Le Bard, passing away in 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Le Bard's union has been blessed
with ten children, eight of whom are living: Adam served in the Third Supply Traill
in the World War and now resides in Santa Ana; Viola, a graduate nurse also lives in
Santa Ana; Aubrey served at Camp Lewis, and is now assisting his father; Thomas
served overseas in the World War and is also assisting on the home farm; Harry, Roy,
Hugh and Grace. Mr. Le Bard is a Republican and fraternally is a member of the
Knights of Py.thias.
S. L. PUGH. — A well-posted, successful oil man who thoroughly understands his
business is Solomon Leonard Pugh, the former superintendent of the Heffern Oil
Company, now connected with the Orange County Drilling Company, a contracting
concern; he is also growing oranges on his splendid nine-acre orchard, thereby demon
strating his knowledge of horticulture as well as of oil. He was born in Romney,
Hampshire County, W. Va., on July 25, 1880, the son, of J. W. Pugh, a farmer who
came to Missouri and now resides at Mansfield in that state. He had married Miss
Lillian Burkheimer, a West Virginian, and she also is living. Our subject is the oldest
ot the seven surviving children, and was brought up in Virginia until four years of age.
Going to Missouri with his parents, he attended the public schools there, and in
that same state, on September 16, 1902, was married to Miss Lena B. Christner, after
which he followed farming. He purchased a farm in Douglas County and operated it
with success until he came to California in 1910.
Oil rw.ing &t B/^rSfi7d' h£ entered the oil business, first for the Howell and Davies
of the Z/nT r f°r S6Veral companies ^ Taft. He next entered the service
Taft Tn 10I7 I g C°,pany' and after that with the Associated Oil Company in
he helned drni fo, ""T , t0 ?"£ <° W°rk f°r the Amalgamated Company, and then
he helped drill four wells for the Head Drilling Company.
was also made a stn\v, IT'™6, superintende"t of the Heffern Oil Company, and he
was also made a stockholder and a director. They have about 300 acres in their lease,

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so that he had a position of much responsibility. He belongs to the Oil Workers'
Union, and is likely to do his full share in the development of Orange County's hidden
and untold liquid wealth.
Three children were granted Mr. and Mrs. Pugh, two still living — Thelma Marie
and Everett Fowler. Mary Lillian died, aged two years and eight months. Mrs.
Pugh attends the Baptist Church; Mr. Pugh belongs to the Modern Woodmen of
America, and has been affiliated with that organization since he was eighteen years old.
In national politics he is a Democrat; but he does not favor party politics in local
movements. In 1918 he traded his Missouri farm for a nine-acre ranch, set out to
Valencia oranges; he has a fine home there and enjoys the alternation of ranching with
his oil interests.
RAYMOND C. FINCH.— A well-educated, progressive and highly successful
young orchardist, operating according to the last word of science and with the most
approved methods and appliances anywhere to be obtained, is Raymond C. Finch,
tenant-proprietor of the celebrated Finch ranch, well situated on North Main Street,
about midway between Santa Ana and Orange. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on
April 14, 1890, and grew lip in that city until the beginning of his teens, when he came
to California with his parents. His father, Charles Finch, engaged in the oil business
at Bakersfield and later conducted a meat market at Los Angeles, where he died in
1907. He acquired ten acres of excellent land at the above mentioned site, and it is this
ranch of walnut, apricot, Valencia and Navel orange trees belonging to the Finch estate
which Mr. Finch is now managing.
Mrs. Finch, whose maiden name was Elizabeth I. Robinson, died on the home
ranch in the month of November, 1918, at the age of fifty-eight, much loved by her family
and friends. She left five children, Alfred W., Raymond C, Jennie, John and Leonard,
all of whom have succeeded in the world.
Raymond Finch enjoyed the superior advantages of an educational training at the
Harvard Military School in Los Angeles, and in 1911 he began to farm. Since then he
has been attaining more and more success, and consequently more and more enjoying
the esteem of fellow ranchers who like to see enterprise and common sense operations
in their field. Mr. Finch takes a live interest in the various political and sociological
questions of the day, and stands ready at all times to "lend a helping hand."
WILLIAM J. OELKE. — The fumigating of orange groves has developed into one
of the important adjuncts of citrus growing in Southern California, and the men, expert
in this line of business, are indispensable to the productiveness of this principal indus
try of Orange County. Among these, William J. Oelke is well known throughout the
district and is kept busy by an ever-increasing demand for his services.
Born in Summit, Essex County, N. J., June 14, 1891, when a lad he learned the
trade of carpenter and followed that occupation in his native town until he located in
Anaheim, in 1909. For four years after his arrival here he worked in the oil fields,
doing rig building and carpenter work. In 1913 he started in as a fumigator and became
foreman for the two leading fumigators in Orange County, Mr. Coffman and Mr. Bon-
kosky. He had charge of the crews for these contractors and gained a thorough
knowledge of the business. In the summer of 1919 he decided to go into the fumigating
contracting business for himself, and in partnership with his brother, Carl F., formed
the firm of Oelke Bros., which continued one year and proved very satisfactory, in fact,
they had more work than they could handle with their equipment. In January, 1920,
W. J. Oelke became sole owner and he has been adding enough equipment to enable
him to take care of the rapidly growing business. The first season Oelke Bros, treated
70,000 trees, their territory covering the entire citrus belt of Orange County; Mr.
Oelke contracts work by the tree and the gas is paid for by the owner of the grove.
William J. Oelke has made a thorough study of tree fumigating and is one of the
best informed men in that line in the county. He is the first man in the Anaheim,
Fullerton and Orange districts to do daylight fumigating, heretofore all the work being
done at night, and has been very successful with daylight work. When he entered the
business the work was done on .the trees every other year; now many of the growers
are fumigating every year. Mr. Oelke states that fumigating stimulates the tree and
adds to its growth and advocates yearly fumigating. In connection with his work he
advises with the grower, examines the grove, and in other words, acts as a "tree
doctor.'- He has gained many friends among the growers and takes pride in having
them find his work always thorough and satisfactory.
The marriage of William J. Oelke united him with Miss Osa A. Pontius, a native
of Indiana, and one daughter, Coral, has blessed their union. Mr. Oelke is a member
of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks.

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ESTABAN AND PETER OYHARZABAL. — Among the enterprising ranchers
of San Juan Capistrano are Estaban and Peter Oyharzabal, natives of Basses-Pyrenees,
France, born in Canton Hasparren, Arrondissement Bayonne, in 1877 and 1882, respec
tively. Their father, Jean Oyharzabal, was a business man and farmer, and died in that
country. Their mother, who was Graciosa Amestoy, is still living in the vicinity of the
old home, the mother of seven children, three of whom are in California; Domingo, a
sheep raiser at Bakersfield, and the two brothers in Capistrano. The Oyharzabal boys
were brought up in the region of the Pyrenees, receiving a good education in the local
schools and at the college in Mauleon, and later at Larressore. When sixteen years of
age Peter left for South America with a sister. Arriving at Buenos Ayres, he found em
ployment, and in 1899 his brother Estaban joined him. They had two uncles, Domingo
and Estaban Oyharzabal, who were early settlers of San Juan Capistrano, where they
were prominent merchants, so they resolved to migrate to California, and in 1904 the
two brothers came on to San Juan Capistrano, where they entered the employ of their
uncles, riding the range and became proficient in the care of cattle, learning to rope and
brand. Later Peter entered his uncles' store as a clerk and Estaban became manager
of the Oyharzabal ranch of 4,000 acres and they continued in their respective capacities
until May, 1920, when the two brothers formed a partnership, leased their uncles'
ranch and engaged in ranching.
The two brothers own a fine ranch of seventy-four acre's on the Capistrano
River, twenty-five acres being in walnuts. They also lease and operate a part of the
E. Oyharzabal ranch, which they devote to raising grain, alfalfa and walnuts. The
whole is under irrigation from their individual pumping plant and thus they are en
gaged in general farming. Peter Oyharzabal was married in Capistrano on April 24,
1911, to Miss Crecencia Leon, a native daughter of San Juan Capistrano, the daughter
of Don Incarnacion and Juana (Mendes) Leon, born in Sonora, Mexico, who were
early settlers of Capistrano, where Mrs. Oyharzabal was reared and educated in the
public schools. Mr. Oyharzabal is a member of the Walnut Growers Association and
in politics favors Republican principles.
G. FRED PRESSEL. — A self-made man, and public-spirited as are all men of the
calibre to succeed against obstacles, G. Fred Pressel is numbered among the early
pioneers of Anaheim, where he has prospered with the growth of the community and
has reached a position of real success in life. A native of Obermetzbach, Bavaria,
Germany, he was born December 22, 1855, and, after finishing his schooling, served
three years in the army. At the age of fourteen he began the trade of a blacksmith
under his father, John Pressel, and followed this work in his native land until after
his father's death.
Coming to California in 1887, Mr. Pressel went direct to Anaheim, and after his
arrival worked one year for Boetticker, the blacksmith, on the spot on West Center
Street where he now owns his own blacksmith shop. He then located in Portland,
Ore., and worked for four and a half years in a machine shop. Returning to California,
he operated a shop of his own in Monrovia for a year; then selling out, in 1891, he
went back to Anaheim with $300 capital, with which he bought out his old employer
and continued the business at 218 West Center Street. In 1910 he took his son Carl
in as a partner and built a new shop, and was actively engaged there until September,
1915, when he retired on account of an injury to his right arm. Since then he has
remodeled his building for a garage, now occupied by the Franklin Motor Company. A
man of strict business integrity and farsighted in his selection of a site for future
endeavors, he has increased his original capital over one hundred times, and has in the
meantime taken an active part in the civic and business growth of the community. At
one time he owned a twenty-acre orange grove at Placentia, which he sold. He now
makes his home at 403 East Broadway, and also owns an orange grove of three and a
half acres at 300 West Santa Ana Street. On retiring, Mr. Pressel sold his business to
his son, who is carrying on the enterprise on Oak and Clementine streets, with the
characteristic attention to details, which makes for success.
Twice married, Mr. Pressel's first wife was Margaret Mueller, a native of Ger-
TT Tu t -PaSSed aWay in 1914' leavinS three children: Carl, who carries on the
blacksmith business, is an Odd Fellow and an Elk; Margaret is the wife of Thomas
l™g; fand Kate' thf wife of C. O. Vannatta; both sons-in-law are Masons. An
"7'L Pressel s fine spirit may be found in the fact that he has built three
them hh"6 TTTO T chMren' °" South Clementine Street, and presented to
them as wedding gifts. The family are members of Zion's Lutheran Church at Anaheim.
with Mrs A1mWreCTd ^a,,riage tO0k P'aCe in San Francisco, when he was united
She was bornTn R r" r '""' * T™ that has proven ^ery happy to them both.
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to Council Bluffs, Iowa. Her parents afterwards returned to Chicago, where they
resided until their death. Alma Gerick attended school in Council Bluffs, and it was
in the former metropolis that she married Mr. Miller, who was engaged in the real
estate business in Janesville, Wis.; he also built and owned eight bowling alleys in
southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. In 1909 Mr. and Mrs. Miller came to Cali
fornia and were among the first settlers of Brea, building one of the first two houses
erected in that place. They also built two stores and the first livery barn, and pur
chased a ranch at Inglewood. They returned to Janesville, Wis., in 1912, and there Mr.
Miller passed away in 1916. After settling her affairs there Mrs. Miller came back to
California to look after her property, and located at Anaheim, from which place she
superintended her interests, and she still owns her business property at Brea. In
Anaheim she met Mr. Pressel and the acquaintance resulted in their marriage May 12,
1919. She was a prominent member of the Janesville Rebekah Lodge No. 171, and a
past noble grand, and was representative to the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin. She is now
a member of Lois Rebekah Lodge of Anaheim, as well as the Royal Neighbors, and
takes much pleasure in her membership in the Ebell Club. She is also a member of the
ladies' society of Zion's Lutheran Church and the Woman's Relief Corps, while politic
ally Mr. and Mrs. Pressel are both strong Republicans. Mrs. Pressel is a cultured,
refined woman, her taste for the beautiful finding expression in her work as an artist,
in which she shows much ability, her home being replete with her own handiwork of
paintings on canvas and china and water-color work.
In 1909, Mr. Pressel, accompanied by his two daughters, made a six months' trip
to Europe, where he visited the old home and many other places of interest on the
continent, but returned to Anaheim more pleased than ever with his adopted land.
FELIX STEIN. — One of the enterprising merchants of Orange County, Felix
Stein has progressed with the growth of this section, and has reached an assured
position in the community. His birth took place many miles away, in Barton, Ger
many, February 8, 1888. When a youth of sixteen he landed in New York City, in the
year 1904, and for a few years he was in the employ of a wholesale clothing company
there. The year 1908 marked the arrival of Mr. Stein in Fullerton, Cal., and in the
spring of that year he entered the employ of Stern and Goodman, mercantile firm, as
a clerk. Later he was manager for their branch stores at Anaheim and Olinda for a
time. Then, in partnership with Mr. William Fassel he bought out the branch stores of
Stern and Goodman in Olinda, Placentia and Yorba Linda, operating the three stores
under the firm name of Stein and Fassel. In 1918 they took over the Stern and
Goodman store in Fullerton, and Mr. Hax became a member of the firm in that city,
and under the firm of Stein, Fassel and Hax they operate a modern and up-to-date
grocery and hardware establishment at 100 South Spadra Street; they have put a new
front in the store and in keeping with the other mercantile establishments in Fullerton,
maintain a high grade of merchandise handled with the efficiency and good management
of men experienced in their line of business.
Mr. Stein has also interested himself with the horticultural development of the
county, and has bought and sold orange and lemon groves; at the present time the
firm own two orange and lemon ranches in this section.
The marriage of Mr. Stein, which occurred at Fullerton, united him with Claire
Nicolas, a native of Fullerton, and the daughter of Pierre Nicolas, one of the pioneers
of the city. Two children have blessed their union, Babette and Paul. Mr. Stein has
joined in the fraternal life of the county, and is a member of the Anaheim Lodge No.
1345, Elks, and of the Knights of Pythias of Fullerton. A believer in progress and a
"booster" for his section, he sees even greater advancement for Orange County in
the future than has taken place in the past, and is willing at all times to do his share
toward the further upbuilding of the section where he makes his home and carries
on his business interests.
WALTER J. JEWELL. — An enterprising operator on a large scale in Orange
County real estate who has done much to make known to the outside world the attrac
tions and advantages of this flourishing county, thereby encouraging many substantial
people to settle here and establish themselves comfortably, is Walter J. Jewell, who is
coming to be one of the best known realtors in the county. Michigan is Mr. Jewell's
native state, and here he was born at Ann Arbor on May 13, 1881; his parents are
Richard and Mary (Hall) Jewell, the father a native of England, and they came to this
part of Michigan when the country was new and but sparsely settled.
Walter J. Jewell was educated in the grammar and high schools of Ann Arbor,
following this with a business course in Flint'College, at Flint, Mich., which in subse
quent years he has found to be of much benefit. Remaining at Flint he went to work
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plant there. In 1906 Mr. Jewell came to California, locating at Brea, and later, for five
years he was a partner in the Brea Machine Works there. During the war he helped
back up the Government's shipbuilding program by working at the shipyards at Long
Beach, spending a year there. Coming back to Anaheim after the close of the war,
Mr. Jewell organized the W. J. Jewell Realty Company and from the beginning he has
been most successful. He makes a specialty of ranch lands and leases and his realty
operations now extend over practically the entire county. A close observer of land
values in the years of his residence here, Mr. Jewell's judgment in matters of this
sort is highly regarded and this, combined with thorough honesty and justness in his
business transactions, has enabled him to close some important deals.
Mr. Jewell has also shown his faith in Orange County's prosperity by purchasing
a ten-acre ranch four miles west of Anaheim; he has developed this tract into a fine
Valencia orange grove, doing a large part of the work himself, and has installed a
private pumping plant. The grove is in a thriving condition and bids fair to be one
of the most profitable producers in the vicinity.
On June 17, 1904, Mr. Jewell was married at Anaheim to Miss Lois M. Blake of
that city, a native of Reedsburg, Wis., the daughter of L. C. and Marian (Carver)
Blake, Mr. Blake being connected with the Fullerton Tribune. Mr. and Mrs. Jewell
are the parents of two children, Richard and Mary, and make their home in their
attractive residence on their ranch, while Mr. Jewell maintains his office at 136 North
Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. Mrs. Jewell is a granddaughter of Washington I.
Carver, one of Anaheim's oldest and most highly respected citizens, a review of his
life appearing upon another page of this history.
WILLIAM DEVENNEY. — A successful rancher whose experiments on a large
scale have contributed to advancing the science of sugar beet culture in California, is
William Devenney, who owns a valuable farm near Talbert, and also has 120 acres of
sugar beets on rented land. He is a son of a California pioneer who married one of
the excellent daughters of Orange County; and as a chip off the old block, he is a live
wire, and a very likeable fellow.
He was born in Sonoma County, Cal., on March 8, 1874, the son of John Devenney,
born in Iowa, who was once deputy sheriff of Orange County and died at Seal Beach
in 1914, at the age of sixty-eight, when he was manager for the Stanton Bayside Land
Company. He was married in Iowa to Miss Eliza McDonald, a native of that state, and
came from Iowa to California. For a while he and his good wife lived in Sonoma
County, and then, for a short period, they moved down to San Bernardino County, and
after that came to Los Angeles, now Orange County, where Mr. Devenney bought a
farm of forty acres near old Newport. He was elected road overseer for twelve years
in succession, and this fact speaks well for his standing in the communities in which
he moved. Mrs. Devenney died in 1918, also highly esteemed by those who knew her
worth. Two of Mr. and Mrs. Devenney's children died in infancy; the other eight are:
Annie, the eldest; William, the subject of our review; and Maggie, who is the wife of
Jean Lytton, and resides at Orange; Henry is the fourth in order; and Sadie married
Tom Harlan, of the San Joaquin ranch; Fred is foreman at the Southern California
Sugar Factory; Inez is the wife, of Walter Stark, and resides at Seal Beach. The
youngest of the family is Lou Devenney.
William Devenney was only two years old when he came with his parents to what
is now Orange County and he attended the public schools of his home district. In
his youth, he was a noted sprinter, and held the Pacific Coast amateur record for 220
yards, and won his laurels on the association race track south of Santa Ana. Later,
he worked for the Flood brothers, grain farmers on the San Joaquin ranch; and now,
while he rents out his own land, he farms seventy acres which he rents from the
Southern California Sugar Company, and another fifty acres which he leases from a
private individual, so that he has 120 acres in sugar beets. To operate this acreage, he
uses ten head of horses and mules. On his fifty-acre ranch in the Talbert precinct, he
grows chili peppers as well as sugar beets.
In May, 1900, Mr. Devenney was married at Santa Ana, to Miss Martha Williams,
an accomplished lady, who shares in his popularity. She is a native of Orange County
and the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Williams) Williams, natives of Wales,
7ooa 6 TY W6re marned and afterwards migrated to Ohio, residing there until about
1880, when they migrated to California and located near Santa Ana, where they have
since successfully engaged in farming at New Hope. This worthy couple have fifteen
children that are living, Mrs. Devenney being the third oldest; she was born at New
Hope Orange County, and there she received her education in the public schools. She
is endowed with much ability in business affairs and is of great assistance to her
husband in his farming enterprises, a credit he proudly accords her.

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WILLIAM F. SPEER. — A splendid example of an enterprising, progressive man
who, assisted by his faithful and gifted wife, is well rewarded for the attention and
energy expended in developing an orange ranch, is afforded by William F. Speer, who
was born in Essex County, N. J., in 1888. His father was Charles T. Speer, a native
of Montclair, N. J., who was a contractor and builder, first at Montclair, then at
Orange, and who made trips to California. He had married Miss Amelia Small, also
a native of New Jersey, a lady of enviable traits, who died, rich in friends, in December,
1919. They had six children, three boys and three girls; and among these William was
the third child.
He was brought up at Orange, N. J., attended the grammar and the high school
there, and was duly graduated from the latter institution, after which he went into
New York City and entered the service of Topping Bros., wholesalers in hardware and
furniture, working in their offices for six years. He acquired an excellent idea of busi
ness as conducted in one of the great cities of the world, and in a practical way supple
mented his schooling so that he was well prepared for commercial work anywhere.
In 1911 he came out to California and settled in Orange County, entering the
horticultural field and commencing to grow oranges; and the same year he bought
ten acres of land, raw as could be found, in the Commonwealth district, which he
cleared, leveled and otherwise improved. With others, he invested in an electrical
pumping plant; and then set out his land to Valencia oranges. He also bought five
acres which he set out to lemons, and then sold. He joined the Placentia Mutual
Orange Growers Association, and both derived benefit from the same and also con
tributed to its success.
During the year 1918, at Los Angeles, Mr. Speer was married to Miss Augusta
Hein; and they have one child, a daughter, Ruth. Mr. and Mrs. Speer are Republicans
in their preference for national political creeds; but they are broad-minded when it
comes to supporting local measures, and especially interested in forwarding the best
interests of Orange County first, last and all the time.
JOHN W. MAAG. — Among the men of the younger generation of the vicinity of
Orange, John W. Maag is rapidly forging to the front rank as a successful citrus
grower. His twenty-two and a half acre ranch, which he purchased in 1906, is planted
to fourteen acres of bearing Valencia oranges, four acres of one-year-old Valencias and
four acres of walnuts.
He was born in Humphrey, Platte County, Nebr., April 27, 1885, and came with
his parents to California in March, 1891, stopping four months in Los Angeles before
coming to Orange, where the father bought thirty-one acres on Fairhaven Avenue, a
mile and a quarter south of the city of Orange, on which he is still living. The father,
J. A. Maag, was born in Germany, and the mother, Catherine (Steffes) Maag, is a
native of Michigan. John W. has seven brothers and two sisters living. Two of the
twelve children comprising the parental family died in infancy in Nebraska. Mr. Maag
attended school at Orange and completed the eighth grade, afterward taking a com
mercial course in the Orange County Business College at Santa Ana.
He established domestic ties by his marriage, in Santa Ana, April 15, 1913, with
Miss Anna Lypps, a native of Hart, Oceana County, Mich., who was reared in her
native state and was grown when she came to Santa Ana, Cal. Their union has been
blessed by the birth of two children, Robert V. and Lucena Marie. He is a member
of Olive Heights Citrus Association and of Richmond Walnut Growers Association of
Orange. He is a communicant of the Catholic Church, and in his fraternal affiliations
is associated with the Knights of Columbus. Upright in character, and enterprising in
disposition, perhaps there is no trait more noticeable in his life than that of energy.
These valuable assets give promise of bearing rich fruitage in acquiring a comfortable
competency and in placing him in the front rank among the leaders of Orange County.
RICHARD A. BIRD. — A first class caterer, very experienced in the management
of both restaurants and hotels, whose care for the demands of high grade trade has
made him justly popular with the community as well as the traveling public, is Richard
A. Bird, one of the latest comers to San Juan Capistrano and Orange County. He
owns and operates the celebrated "Palm Cafe" at this place, cleverly advertised before
the eye of the motorist for miles along the Southern California highways, and also
conducts the Los Rosas Hotel, which he manages under a lease. Everything about his
establishment is clean, sanitary, up-to-date and appetizing in every respect; and as he is
ably assisted by his wife and three sons, he is "making good" in such a manner that
no one can doubt his success.
Mr. Bird was born in Columbia County, Ark., on October 22, 1870, and in that
state grew to maturity. There, too, in 1896, he was married to Miss Emma Thompson,
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property interests. On December 11, 1919, Mr. Bird came south to California; and liking
San Juan Capistrano, with its historic old Mission, and seeing the business possibilities
through providing for the public bound to pass that way the best service possible for
their comfort, at the most reasonable prices, bought the building in which he now has
his cafe, a roomy, mission style structure 102x193 feet in size, and set to work to give
San Juan Capistrano what it had never had before — a first class restaurant, within the
reach of everybody. That the public, a good percentage of which is not merely trans
ient, but passes through the town and stops, repeatedly, appreciates what the Palm Cafe
and' the Los Rosas Hotel have to offer, is shown by the amount of business he does
almost daily. Fraternally he is a member of Seattle Lodge No. 92 of Elks, his member
ship dating from Pine Bluff Lodge, Arkansas.
All of Mr. Bird's children were born in Arkansas, and all are at home. Richard
Bernard served in the war for twenty-four months, becoming sergeant of the Fourth
Aircraft Medical Corps, and was in France; and he married Miss Gertrude La Grave
of Seattle. The other boys are Jennings and Thomas D. Bird.
FRANK KYLE KIRKER. — A prosperous rancher with the advantage of a valu
able experience as a mechanical engineer and successful business man is F. K. Kirker,
of East Orangethorpe Avenue, Fullerton, who has attained his present success by very
hard work and may therefore the more enjoy what he possesses in his promising family
and handsome farm. He was born in Catlettsburg, Boyd County, Ky., on April 1, 1868,
the son of James M. Kirker, the captain of a steamboat on the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers. He attended the grammar school of Catlettsburg and later graduated from the
high school at Ironton, Ohio, just across the line, at the same time that, as a youngster,
he worked as engineer with his father on the steamboat.
Later, Mr. Kirker studied the science of refrigeration and for years traveled for
the York Manufacturing Company of York, Pa., selling and installing large refrigeration
plants. He sold to the Home Ice and Cold Storage Company, for example, in 1905, the
100-ton plant still located on Alameda and Sixth streets, Los Angeles, and in his travels
he covered the entire West, installing notable plants in Winslow and Tucson, Ariz.; San
Francisco, Santa Rosa and Sacramento, Cal. In 1907, wishing to establish for himself
a permanent home, Mr. Kirker purchased twenty acres on East Orangethorpe Avenue,
eight acres of which were already planted to walnuts; and resetting these to oranges, he
planted the entire area to citrus trees, making a specialty of the Valencia. The same
year, he built a fine residence on the ranch; and superintending personally the various
improvements, he attained results not generally seen hereabouts. He has a turbine
pumping plant with a capacity of 100 inches, although he also owns eighteen shares
of Anaheim Union Water Company stock. He markets his fruit through the Placentia
Orange Growers Association of Fullerton, and is justly proud of the fine products sent
by him to market. At present he has five acres of Navel oranges, two acres of walnuts,
and thirteen acres of Valencia orange trees, all in bearing.
On January 1, 1905, and at Los Angeles, Mr. Kirker was married to Miss Harriet
H. Schwinge, a native of Indianapolis, Ind., and the daughter of A. H. and Helen
(McVicker) Schwinge. Her father was of old Knickerbocker stock and her mother of
Scotch descent. Her father was a business man in Indianapolis, and had one of the
largest and most thriving groceries there. Three children have resulted from this
fortunate marriage: James M. is the elder; and Catherine H. is the younger of the two
still surviving; Helen L. died in infancy. Mr. Kirker is a thirty-second degree Scottish
Rite Mason belonging to the Los Angeles Consistory. He was made a Mason in
Hampton Lodge No, 235, A. F. A. M., at Catlettsburg, Ky., but he is now a member of
Fullerton Lodge No. 339, F. & A. M., and Fullerton Chapter No. 90, R. A. M., and a
member of Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Los Angeles.
SCOTT R. WALTER. — A broad-minded, enterprising business man whose knowl
edge of the wants of the community in which he operates, together with his evident
ambition not merely to satisfy the needs of the public, but to anticipate them, have
undoubtedly spelt much of his enviable success, is Scott R. Walter, the proprietor of the
Anaheim Vulcanizing Works at 156 South Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. He was born
at Leadville, Colo., on October 20, 1884, the son of Samuel Walter, a native of Ohio,
who married Miss Ida Roland, who was born in Maryland. When Scott was a youth
his folks moved to Iowa, and there he was sent to the public schools in Polk and Benton
counties. His parents soon after died, and he was thrown upon his own resources when
hardly mature enough to be expected to accomplish much.
He later became a traveling salesman and during the fourteen years that he was
on the road, he demonstrated repeatedly the real stuff that was in him. At first, he
represented the International Harvester Company, and later he traveled for a whole
sale house handling electrical supplies and mining machinery. He started from St.

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Louis and Chicago, and journeyed throughout the Western States and as far as Alaska.
In 1912, he gave up traveling, and located in Des Moines, where he was city salesman
for the largest auto supply house west of Chicago.
In 1915, he drove his auto out to California to take in the Expositions, and he
has been here ever since. The same year he located at Anaheim, but not before he
had traveled over the state, and was thoroughly convinced of the superior attractions
of this part of Orange County, and the next year he purchased a small auto tire shop
at 156 South Los Angeles Street. To this he has added modern machinery for repair
work, and made many other improvements; at the same time, he bought the lot and
building, and added a ninety-foot addition, as one result of which he has more than
trebled his tire business. He carries the largest and most complete line of tires and
tubes in Orange County, and, of course, th*e public know it, and appreciate the fact.
He has in stock the United States tires, the Goodrich, the Firestone, and the
Goodyear, and in the spring of 1919 he added the Exide Battery equipment, for re
building and recharging batteries. He sees to it personally that his warerooms offer
everything in the auto electric line, and having, installed the first retreading mold in
Orange County, he is able to give satisfaction to those who might otherwise need to
journey far for relief. While in Des Moines, he helped to organize the Iowa State
Auto Trade Association, he assisted in organizing the Orange County Automobile
Association, and he is now a live-wire in both the Board of Trade and the Merchants
Association of Anaheim, ready at all times to help "boost" town and county.
While in Iowa, Mr. Walter married Miss Grace M. Brewer of that state; and
they have one son, Scott R. Walter, Jr. Mr. Walter is a Mason, a member of the
Knights of Pythias, and of Anaheim Lodge No.' 1345, B. P. O. Elks.
JOHN A. FRIDD. — The orchardist has long played an important role in the
development of Fullerton and the industrial and commercial interests of its environs, as
may be judged from such successful careers as that of John A. Fridd, who came here
about a decade ago. He was born in Winnebago County, Wis., on October 23, 1850,
the son of John W. Fridd, a farmer and also a minister of the Gospel, who was a native
of England. He had married Miss Mary Lathrop, who was born in New York, and they
had seven children. Mr. and Mrs. Fridd are now dead.
John A. Fridd was the third child in the order of birth, and was educated in the
local public schools, and at Ripon College, in Fond du Lac County; arid after finishing
his studies, he remained at home until he was twenty-two years of age. In 1872 he was
married to Miss Addie Atkins, a native of Wisconsin and a daughter of Samuel 'and
Caroline Atkins. Of this union one daughter has been born, Grace, now the wife of
Dr. Jesse Chilton of Fullerton.
Mr. Fridd farmed for over two score years in Wisconsin, all of the time in Winne
bago County, where he became prominent in Republican politics. He served as a
member of the town board of his township for eleven years; also as a member of the
state assembly from the third district during the sessions of 1903-1905, two terms; and
of the state senate from the nineteenth district for the session 1907-1909. He had made
a visit to Orange County in 1908 and then determined that he would eventually make
this his home and accordingly, in 1910, he and his wife moved to Fullerton where they
now live and where they have become closely identified with the best interests of this
home city.
Fond of social life, Mr. Fridd is a member of the Odd Fellows and the Masons,
being a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner. He holds his Con
sistory membership in Milwaukee, Wis., and the Al Malaikah Shrine in Los Angeles
claims his allegiance. The other branches of the order of which he is a member are
in Fullerton. He is a charter member and one of the organizers of the Fullerton Club.
CHAUNCEY S. ORTON. — The founder and one of the proprietors of the Fuller-
ton Ice Company, Chauncey S. Orton, one of Fullerton's most progressive and enter
prising citizens, has had a broad and interesting experience as a mechanical engineer.
He was born July 9, 1880, in Cass County, Nebr., and received his education in his
native state, graduating as a mechanical engineer from the University of Nebraska in
1902. For one year after graduating he was associated with the Westinghouse Machine
Company at Pittsburgh, Pa., and in 1903 moved to Milwaukee, Wis., where he entered
the employ of the Allis-Chalmers Company, manufacturers of engines and electrical
machinery. While associated with this well-known firm Mr. Orton had charge of
erecting and installing the following: A 2500-horsepower engine in the paper mill of
the Barret Manufacturing Company of Peoria, 111.; a large air compressor for the
Armour Company, Chicago, and he assisted in the installation of a 20,000-horsepower
plant for the Union Electric Light and Power Company of St. Louis, Mo.
In 1905, Mr. Orton formed a partnership with S. C. Campbell and D. L. McDonald
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Mr. Orton resigned his position with the Allis-Chalmers Company and located at
Rock Hill, so that he might be better able to superintend his interests in the Rock
Hill Ice Company. In 1909 he sold his interest in the ice company and came to Fuller-
ton. Realizing that this thriving city needed an ice company, Mr. Orton, in partner
ship with W. R. Davis and R. R. Davis, organized the Fullerton Ice Company, in 1910,
this being the first ice manufacturing plant located in the northern part of Orange
County, and the third erected in the county. It has a daily capacity of twenty tons
and 'the company contemplates erecting in the near future a cold storage plant to be
operated in connection with the ice business. In addition to the manufacturing of ice
the company owns an orange grove.
On October 23, 1906, Mr. Orton was united in marriage with Miss Lulu Davis,
a native of Nebraska, and this happy union has been blessed with three children:
William, Chauncey S., Jr., and Mary. Fraternally, Mr. Orton is a member of Fullerton
Lodge No. 294, Knights of Pythias, and of the Board of Trade. During the World War
he was a member of the California Home Guards of Fullerton and deeply interested in
war work. JOHN E. WAGNER. — A very successful business man highly esteemed for his
conservative, yet sane methods and for his ideals and exemplary walk as a public-
spirited citizen, is John E. Wagner, who enjoys not only the natural rewards for his
own foresight and labors, but the benefits accruing from the life and accomplishment
of both his father and his step-fathers, who previously brought his rancho to a high
state of development. With his twin brother, Joseph E-, he was born in the Placentia
district, April 20, 1880, the son of Charles Wagner, an early settler there, and a descend
ant of pioneers at Grand Rapids, Mich. He had married Miss Josie Andrada, whose
family has always been recognized as one of the most representative Spanish-American
families in this part of California. Charles Wagner was noted in his day as the owner
of vast sheep herds, thousands of his sheep grazing in and about the city of Los Angeles,
at that time more or less of a sheep corral. Five children have survived of those who
were born to this distinguished ranching couple; Lucy is the wife of James J. Ortega;
Josephine has become Mrs. William Berkenstock; Charles C. is a rancher at Placentia;
Joseph E. is also a rancher near by; and John E. is the subject of this sketch.
His able father died when John was two months old, and he attended the grammar
school at Placentia, and for sixteen years he worked for his mother and the estate. In
Placentia, November, 1902, he was married to Miss Lena Hansen, a schoolmate and the
daughter of Chas. and Mette Hansen, of Placentia; she also was born in Placentia.
Two children have resulted from this marriage: Wilton C. attends the high school
at Fullerton; Ardeth attends the Placentia school.
For some years-, Mr. Wagner leased land and farmed grain, cabbage and corn
under what has been known as dry farming, and in 1905 he became the owner of twenty
acres of a citrus grove, where he took out eight acres of walnuts and planted his own
nursery stock setting out Valencia orange trees. With this ranch, he has done very
well, solving his irrigation problems through the Anaheim Union Water Company, and
marketing through the Placentia Orange Growers Association. Later, he became inter
ested in transportation as a public service, and organized the Wagner heavy hauling
and transfer service, which operated six F. W. D. trucks and trailers. This business he
sold to others, some time ago.
Mr. Wagner erected a very substantial two-story residence on his ranch about
twelve years ago, and this, the center of a generous hospitality, has been the mecca of
many ever since, at joyous social engagements. With his good wife, he supported
vigorously all the war loans and other activities of the various drives, and in times of
peace he endeavors, as an enthusiastic Republican, to stimulate a higher regard for
civic duty and true Americanism. His own life has been affected in an interesting
manner by the fortunes of his beloved mother, who passed away in October, 1901,
haying reared and educated her children and left a nice estate. Many were the hard
ships undergone by the family in those early pioneer days, in order to win out for a
golden future The estate left by Mrs. Wagner was settled three or four years after her
death agreeable to all of the°five heirs, who were mutually benefitted.
P P n p agnfr 1S a barter member of the Anaheim Elks, Lodge No. 1345 of the
7hOl tj- a" V- 1S n<:edless to say is among the most popular and welcome visitors
the T, IT mta'ns a horseless ranch, a fact of the more interest in comparison with
TtTf 7 T: and aU the work there is done by tractor power. Two years
cwt TT a partnershlp wjth Robert Edens under the firm name of the Orange
t T r n T "• Company' located at Fullerton. They are also extensively interested
T TTeT bUS'TS' mai"taining an office in Fullerton, and are engaged in leasing
hz member IfT T ,, rOuTgT Beach' Ventura and San Diego Mrs. Wagner
is a member of the Ebell Club of Fullerton.

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FRANCISCO ERRECARTE.— Another couple from the Basses-Pyrenees who
have contributed something definite toward the development of Orange County, and
in thus "making good" with their own enterprises, have deserved the highest respect of
their fellow citizens, is Francisco Errecarte and his good wife, a compatriot with him
and an able helpmate in his California ventures. He was born at Navarra, Spain, fifty-
two years ago, and came to America when he was nineteen years old, having grown
up in Spain on his father's farm. He already understood farming and stock raising,
and when he settled at San Juan Capistrano he had no difficulty in making himself
valuable to E. Oyharzabal, for whom he herded sheep and cattle for twenty-two years.
When he married, he took for his wife Miss Juanita Espirial, who was also born
in the Basses-Pyrenees and came to America when, like himself, just nineteen years
old and full of ambition and hope. Seven children came to them — Cipriano, Mary,
Julia, Stephen, Margaret, Pedro and Joaquin. All are bright and interesting, and give
promise of useful, successful lives.
Mr. and Mrs. Errecarte have a valuable ranch of twenty-three acres conveniently
located about two miles east of Capistrano, on the Capistrano Hot Springs Road. They
take comfort in their modest home, and look back complacently to the years of hard
work when Mr. Errecarte ranged the hills for years, and Mrs. Errecarte worked at the
old Mission Inn Hotel, and for private families, and both learned the value of frugality
with industry. Ten acres of their ranch is set out to walnuts, and he uses three horses
in the processes of farming.
HARRY LEE WILBER.— No field of healthful entertainment has developed so
extraordinarily in the past half century as has the motion picture industry, for the
extension of which the eager public is indebted to such enterprising men as Harry Lee
Wilber, the secretary of the Fullerton Board of Trade, a native of Albion, N. Y., where
he was born on June 20, 1875. His father, Jerome J. Wilber, was a newspaper man
connected with the Associated Press at Washington, and he married Miss Alice Lee, a
gifted lady of Denver. , Harry was an only child, and he came with the family to
California in 1885.
Having attended the grammar and high schools of San Diego, Mr. Wilber grew
up in Denver to engage in editorial work there. He was in turn city editor of the
Rocky Mountain News, the Denver Post and the Denver Times, and in each position
of responsibility he proved the man for the job; but he was far-seeing enough to
recognize the great possibilities in the motion picture industry, and in 1914 moved to
San Diego, where he and his partner maintained two of the best moving picture
theaters the city has ever had. At the end of three years, he came north to Fullerton,
and since then he has enjoyed unprecedented support of a venture made upon edifying
lines. As secretary of the Board of Trade, Mr. Wilber has been as generous to others
as the public is generous to him, and has left unturned no stone needed to advance
the commercial or other interests of the community generally.
At Golden, Colo., on March 23, 1897, Mr. Wilber was married to Miss Nellie
Wilmot, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Wilmot. They have two children: Winifred,
now attending the University at Berkeley; and Alice, at Fullerton Junior College.
Formerly president of the Denver Press Club, Mr. Wilber now confines his club life
largely to the circle of the Elks and the Fullerton Club of which he is a director.
JOHN FRANKLIN WALTON. — A highly respected citizen whose family has
been in Orange County, and closely identified with its development, for so many years
that they have seen many changes, is John Franklin Walton, the rancher of Placentia
Avenue, Anaheim. He was born in Carthage, Mo., on February 21, 1866, the son of
John Q. A. and Katherine (Snodgrass) Walton. His father was a building con
tractor and erected the first court house that Carthage ever had — a historic edifice,
since it was burned down during the Civil War. His father joined the Confederate
Army, and saw hard service under Colonel Joe Shelby.
When John was a year old, his parents removed to Washington County, Ark.,
and there his father had a farm, although he generally worked at his trade. John
was sent to the graded schools of Washington County and received a good start for
the battle of life. Two of his brothers, D. H. and W. T., having gone to California in
1884, John, accompanying his father and a sister came out in the great boom year of
1887! Their mother was to have come with them, but she died just prior to the time
of their moving. . .
The elder Walton came to Santa Ana and made that town his home for a couple
of years and six months after their arrival the daughter Maggie died; while the father
lived until February, 1908, when he died at the age of eighty-six years. John left home
and worked out for two years in San Bernardino County. During the following three
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he went to the state of Washington, and at Oakesdale, Wash., he was married on July
23, 1896, to Miss Alice Skidmore, a native of Morgan County, Ala., where she was born
near Hartsell, the daughter of Robt. A. and Susan (Lassiter) Skidmore. Her father
was a planter' and raised much cotton. Her folks moved to Washington County, Ark.,
and settled in the vicinity of Mr. Walton's home; and so the well-mated couple were
educated in the same school. Then her parents moved on to Oakesdale, and there she
lived until she was married.
After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Walton settled in Redlands, Cal., where they
resided for five years; and then they spent another five years in Los Angeles and
vicinity. In 1906 they' purchased from the Stearns Rancho Company eighteen acres on
Placentia Avenue, all bare land; they cleared and leveled it and twelve acres they set
out to Valencia oranges, and three and a half acres to walnuts. This season, the balance
will be set out to oranges and he markets through the Anaheim Cooperative Orange
Association and is also a member of the Richland Walnut Association of Orange.
Four children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Walton: Robert, Wallace and
Kitty are students in the high school at Anaheim, and Marvin is in the grammar school.
The family are members of the Methodist Church, South, of Santa Ana, Mr. Walton
being a member of the official board, and he endeavors under the leadership of the
Democratic Party to effect whatever civic reforms are possible. He was here at the
time of the county division and voted for the organization of the county.
EARL D. GAGE. — A successful, home-loving rancher, who attributes much of
his success to his clever, devoted wife, and who has, as a Republican advocating the
prohibition of alcohol, lived to see many of his dreams and wishes realized, is Earl D.
Gage, of Fullerton, who was born in Nemaha County, Kans., the only son of Charles
Gage, a farmer, who had married Mary Walker and they now make their home at
Fullerton. Earl attended the public schools of his home district; but his education was
more or less interfered with by the hard work of the farm, for his father's farm of
eighty acres along the military road between East and West Kansas was devoted
mostly to the raising of corn, and the crop had to be attended to with religious
punctuality. In 1890, Mr. Gage came west to Fullerton, and for a while was employed at
horticultural and orchard work. A year later, he was instrumental in assisting his
parents to dispose of their holdings in Kansas, and to bring them out to the sunnier
conditions of Southern California. After working for other folks for eight or ten years,
Mr. Gage in 1900 purchased thirty acres of Edward Atherton, at one time the caretaker
of the California Ostrich Farm, which he set out to citrus trees. He had his own
nursery; but he also sold many buds and trees. He planted three and a half acres of
avocados, and as they are practically in the frostless belt, they are doing very well.
He joined the Placentia Orange Growers Association, and in 1916 he erected a fine
residence on his ranch. He also took stock in the Anaheim Union Water Company.
On January 11, 1909, Mr. Gage was married to Miss Mayme Clark, a native
daughter of California, who was born in Los Angeles. Two children, Lydia and
Mildred, blessed their union, and attend, with their parents, the First Baptist Church
where Mr. Gage is a member of the board of trustees. During the recent war, Mr.
and Mrs. Gage liberally supported all the loan and Red Cross drives, and they are ever
ready to assist in all that makes for the upbuilding and improvement of the community.
MARY E. WRIGHT, D. O. — An osteopathic physician and surgeon of marked
ability, who is making a splendid success in her profession in Santa Ana, is Dr. Mary
E. Wright, a graduate of the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of Los
Angeles, who, before locating in Santa Ana, practiced her profession in Los Angeles
and Pomona. Dr. Wright was born near Danville, 111., a daughter of Benjamin Browning, a
native of England. Mr. Browning was an early settler of Placer County, Cal., where
he was engaged in fruit growing. Dr. Wright received her early education in the
public schools of Oakland, which was supplemented by a Normal School course in
Stockton, after which she taught school for a number of years in the northern part
of California. She is deeply interested in the science of osteopathy, which has accom
plished such wonderful and restorative results and alleviated suffering humanity after
many other systems have failed, and has established a large and appreciative clientele
since her coming to Santa Ana, only two years ago.
Dr. Wright is a member of the State and County Associations of Osteopaths, as
well as the Women s Osteopathic Club of Los Angeles. She keeps abreast of the
times in literary and civic circles and is an honored member of the Ebell Club of
Santa Ana, a member of the Present Day Club and the Book Review Club of Santa Ana.
During the World War her three sons, Frank B., Chester M. and Lawrence C. Wright,
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D. B. GREGORY.— Born near Jackson, Mich., on December 17, 1868, D. B.
Gregory is the son of Halsted and Agnes Gregory. His grandfather was a pioneer of
the pioneers of Michigan, where he took up Government land, and our subject has to
this day his grandfather's deed. His father, therefore, was a prosperous Michigan
farmer. D. B. Gregory was sent to the grade country school near Jackson, and later
he studied at the Cleary Business College of Ypsilanti, while he spent his early days
on his father's farm.
On November 29, 1897, Mr. Gregory was married to Henrietta Hudson, who was
born near Lansing, Mich., the granddaughter of an Englishman who migrated from
England to the United States and settled in Michigan. They belonged to the famous
Hudson family of the British Isles, and traced his lineage proudly back to the well
known explorer so intimately connected with American history, Henry Hudson.
After his marriage, Mr. Gregory assumed the responsibility of running his father's
farm of 240 acres, which he devoted to general farming; and when he came to Cali
fornia in 1907 and settled near Los Nietos, he purchased twenty-seven acres of walnuts.
For five years he lived on that ranch, and then he sold it and purchased his present
fifteen acres on the State Highway, twelve acres of which have been set out to wal
nuts, and three to oranges. He has a private pumping plant affording a capacity of
seventy-five inches, and is a member of both the Anaheim Walnut Growers Asso
ciation and the Anaheim Citrus Fruit Association. A Democrat in matters of national
politics, Mr. Gregory belongs to the Odd Fellows, among whom he enjoys an enviable
popularity. ROY R. DAVIS. — The extent to which modern conveniences have added attrac
tion, particularly to American life, is shown in such service as that of the Fullerton
Ice Company, directed in part by the city trustee, Roy R. Davis, one of the firm's
energetic members. He is another native of Nebraska who has made good in California,
and in succeeding after the fashion so satisfactory to the world, has made the world
itself a deal better for his having living and worked in it.
He was born in Cass County on June 5, 1881, the son of William R. and Mary
Emma (Harmon) Davis, who settled in Nebraska in 1856, and who came to California
about a decade ago, and are now living at Fullerton, where they arrived in March, 1910.
They were granted seven children, four of them living, the first born being the subject
of our sketch.
Roy attended the grammar and high schools at Weeping Water, Nebr., and then
farmed until he was twenty-eight. Since coming to California in March, 1910, he has
been engaged in the manufacturing of ice; and after an extended experience, following
the most recent developments and methods in that field, the company now employs
fifteen men, and none of them are ever idle, caring for a steadily increasing business.
A man above his party, Mr. Davis knows how to combine business with politics; he is
public-spirited and inclined to cooperate to a marked degree, and is, therefore, widely
respected and enjoys the good will of all who are fortunate to know or know about
him. He is a member of the California national reserves, and was appointed, in 1917,
to fill a vacancy in the city council, to which he was elected in 1918, also being chief of
the fire department of twenty members. He belongs to the Board of Trade and the
Fullerton Club.
In August, 1909, occurred the wedding, at Pasadena, of Mr. Davis and Miss
Harriett Inez Hesser, the daughter of Wm. Hesser, who had the first greenhouse in
Nebraska. He died in Pasadena in 1917. Mrs. Davis was born at Murray, Nebr. Two
sons, William R. and Wesley A., have blessed this union. Mr. Davis is a member of
the Woodmen of the World.
LEO. F. DOUGLASS. — A highly progressive rancher who has spent most of his
life in the vicinity of Orange and not only has come to be intimately acquainted with
the development of this part of California, but has himself, in his own skilful handling
of his ranch, contributed toward the enriching of the commonwealth, is Leo F. Doug
lass who was born in Ottumwa, Iowa, on October 26, 1892, the son of B. R. and Lillie
M. Douglass. His father was an Iowa farmer, and came west to El Modena, Cal.,
when our subject was eight years old. And there, for a number of years, he owned and
ran the El Modena store.
Leo attended the common schools of El Modena and also the high school at
Orange, and later took up ranching with his father on 160 acres in San Bernardino
County.' At the end of the year, they sold out; and then his father moved back to
Orange and made that town his home.
With his father, Mr. Douglass then purchased forty-five acres in the Katella pre
cinct between the Santa Ana River and Placentia Avenue, and together they cleared
the land, graded and leveled it, and set it out to Valencia oranges, which are well
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watered by a private pumping plant having a capacity of eighty inches flow. Since
then the elder Douglass has sold off ten acres, leaving thirty-five in the ranch.
On September 22, 1914, Mr. Douglass was married to Miss Gertrude Perry, a
native of Nebraska, where she was born near Maynard, the daughter of W. W. and
Hattie Perry. Her father came to California and purchased an orange grove on Collins
and Tustin avenues, and there Mrs. Douglass was living at the time of her marriage.
Two children blessed the union, Herbert P. and Theodore R. Douglass. Mrs. Douglass
is a member of the Orange Methodist Church, and as such takes pleasure in participating
in whatever makes for the uplift of the community; and Mr. Douglass, as a loyal Re
publican and a still more loyal American, endeavors to elevate the standard of
citizenship.- JOSEPH E. WAGNER.— A native son of California, born at Placentia, April
20, 1880, Joseph E. Wagner is a son of Charles and Josephine (Andrada) Wagner, who
were born in Germany and Elizabeth Lake, Cal., respectively. His maternal grand
father was also, born in California and still lives at Elizabeth Lake, almost eighty-eight
years of age. Charles Wagner, on emigrating to the United States, first located in
Michigan, where he followed mining until the discovery of gold in California when he
joined the rush to the new Eldorado, crossing the plains in 1849 in an ox-team train
to California. Later he was attracted to the stock business in the Elizabeth Lake coun
try of Southern California, where he engaged in sheep raising and where he was married.
In the early seventies they located at Placentia and engaged in sheep raising in the
Brea Canyon district. He was accidentally killed while hauling brick from Anaheim
Landing to his ranch when our subject was two months old, in June, 1880.
The mother continued farming and stock raising and afterwards married John
Wagner, a brother of her first husband. They bought seven acres in Placentia which
they improved to oranges and where they made their home. Afterwards they pur
chased eighty-six acres in the northeast part of Placentia which, they first set out to
vineyard, but when the vines died they set out Valencia oranges and walnuts and later
on the walnuts were dug out and the land set to Valencia oranges. John Wagner died
in 1898 and Mrs. Wagner passed on in 1899. Her only children were by the first
marriage, five in number as follows: Chas. C. a rancher at Placentia; Lucy, Mrs.
Ortega of Fullerton; Josephine, Mrs. Berkenstock of Placentia; and John E. and
Joseph E., twin brothers who reside on their ranches in Placentia.
Joseph E. Wagner from a lad learned farming and received a good education in
the public schools of the Placentia district. During these years he assisted his mother
to improve the ranch and he was nineteen years of age when she passed away. A year
later he became possessor of twenty-seven acres of the old home, which is located on
the Yorba Linda Road and which was devoted to Valencias, Mediterranean sweets and
Navel oranges and walnuts. Since then he has dug out the walnuts and set Valencia
oranges and has budded the Mediterranean sweets and Navels to Valencias, making a
very valuable and choice orchard. Later he sold twelve acres, so he has fifteen acres
left. In 1920 he completed a large and beautiful residence of Swiss chalet design and
his is one of the show places of the vicinity.
Mr. Wagner was married in Placentia, being united with Miss Emily Heinzman,
born in Indiana, who came to Anaheim when four years of age, where she attended
school and two children have blessed their union, Elmer James and lone Olive Fra
ternally he is a member of Anaheim Lodge of Masons and is a charter member of
Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks. Believing in cooperation, Mr. Wagner is a
member of the Placentia Orange Growers Association and is a decided protectionist
ana .Republican. JOSEPH OLIVERAS.-A native son of the Golden West Joseph Oliveras was
born in San Juan Capistrano, December 26, 1886, where he grew tc manhood receiving
his education in the public schools. From a lad he worked on V Miches and learned
fo drive the big teams m the grain fields; when he reached the age of twenty he began
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cattle on the San Mateo ranch for Midland TnlThtVsZnTtTjTZZen
? fill t\WaS transferred t0 Mlsslon Vejar ranch near San Juan Capistrano where he
of seven children! P°Slt'°n ^ ^ h" makes U* h°™ ™ih his wife and ^fami.;
™h„ Mr' pliverascwasTmarried in Santa Ana, being united with Miss Vivian Record
who was born in San Juan Capistrano. He is a lover of fine horses 000T +¦ ''
Ime 5 ^n8^^8,^ IT h0rS£S a"d dispOSed °f 2« - a good "price* TTTs
hne of work he is held in high regard by his employer. In national politics he is a
Republican, while fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Columbus.

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JOSEPH HILTSCHER.— A rancher with an interesting family history is Joseph
Hiltscher, of Romneya Drive, to the southwest of Fullerton. He was born in Stern
berg, in Mehren, Austria, on February 24, 1873, the son of a weaver by trade who made
the finest kind of linen, especially for the table. His name was August Hiltscher, and
he had married Frederika Bockisch. He used to sell his linen in America, and having
heard so much about the New World, he decided to come out to the United States.
They had five sons, and Joseph was the middle one and attended the usual graded
schools of his native country.
In 1886, the family crossed the Atlantic Ocean, sailing from Hamburg on the
steamer Retzia, and landed at Castle Garden, New York, from which city they came
direct to California and Anaheim. Here August Hiltscher purchased, only three weeks
after his arrival, twenty acres on Orangethorpe and Nicholas avenues. It had been a
vineyard, but at the time of the blight, the vines. were rooted out. The newcomers
planted ten acres to apricots and peaches, and ten acres were left for general farming
and the raising of corn and stock. Later, these open ten acres were planted to walnuts.
Since that time, the apricots, peaches and walnuts have been pulled out, and the entire
twenty acres is now devoted to Valencia oranges. August Hiltscher died in 1891; his
widow, with the aid of her son, Joseph, made the above improvements and she died
while on a pleasure trip in the Yosemite Valley in August, 1919, aged sixty-nine.
On May 29, 1899, Joseph Hiltscher was married to Miss Flora Weisel, a native
of Wisconsin, where she was born in Milwaukee, the daughter of Peter and Josephine
Weisel. Her father was a manufacturer of ice-cooling and refrigerating systems, and
installed cooling plants in breweries and packing houses. In 1892 Mr. and Mrs. Weisel
brought their family of nine children to California, and in their later years enjoyed a
balmier climate. Mrs. Hiltscher was educated in the schools of Milwaukee and in Ana
heim. Six children have blessed the happy union of Mr. and Mrs. Hiltscher. They are
Peter, Josephine, Alphons, Carl, Frederika and Max; and they all attend the Catholic
Church at Anaheim.
Mr. Hiltscher and his brother engaged in the meat business in Fullerton for twelve
years and had the finest market in town; they killed their own beef, pork, lamb and
mutton, but when the packers got control, they discontinued their own slaughter. Mr.
Hiltscher sold his interest in the market in 1908 and purchased twenty-one acres on the
Romneya Drive, and himself set the land out to Valencia oranges. Later he purchased
ten acres adjoining, also devoted to raising Valencia oranges. He also owns four acres
of the old home place, making thirty-five acres in all. Aside from setting out his own
and his mother's orchard he has set out for several other ranchers, or more than 300
acres in all. He is an experienced orchardist and particularly of citrus fruits and his
advice and ideas are sought by others. He also helped to make roads and clear and
break up much land here. He receives water for his irrigation from a community
pumping plant, and profits by the supply of seventy inches in the well. He built the
home on his ranch himself — and it goes without saying that it is a comfortable dwelling.
He markets his oranges through the Placentia-Fullerton Orange Growers Association,
and as he is a hard worker his grove shows the best of attention.
BAUTISTA DUHART.— A resident of California since 1878, when he located at
San Juan Capistrano, is Bautista Duhart, born in Hasparren, Basses Pyrenees, France,
January 20, 1856, a son of Jean and Marie Duhart, farmer folk, now both deceased.
Of their ten children Bautista is the eighth in order of birth and received a good educa
tion in the schools of his native place where he was brought up on the farm. In 1878
he came to California locating at San Juan Capistrano and immediately went to work
for Oyharzabal Bros.
He continued with them, caring for their stock for seven years when he formed
a partnership with Pierre Daguerre, purchasing a flock of sheep and they continued
together about five years, when he sold his interest to Mr. Daguerre and then became
associated with D. Oyharzabal, raising sheep for nine years, when he sold out and
located in Santa Ana and purchased a ranch on McClay Street which he set out to
walnuts. Two years later he also purchased his present place of four acres on Hickey
and Baker streets, Santa Ana, where he raises walnuts, oranges and lemons and where
he has a comfortable residence from which place he operates his other ranch.
In Los Angeles in 1889 occurred the marriage of Mr. Duhart when he was united
with Miss Marie Ydelaray, who was also born in Basses Pyrenees, France, and this
union was blessed with seven children: Leona, deceased; Stephen assists his father on
the ranch; Peter resides at Taft; Henrietta is Mrs. Crowell of Santa Ana; Helen and
Miguel are deceased; and Josephine is the youngest. Mr. Duhart is a member of the
Tustin Lemon Growers Association and of the Santa Ana Walnut Growers Asso
ciation. With his family he is a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Santa Ana,
while politically he is a decided Republican.

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CARL G. GUTZMAN.— The proprietor of the popular. Bon Ton Bakery, at 310
West Fourth Street, Santa Ana, Carl G. Gutzman was born in Pembroke, Ontario,
Canada, on December 28, 1890. He was reared on a farm and attended the rural
schools of his district. In 1912 Mr. Gutzman came to California and located at Ana
heim, where he learned the trade of a baker with the Wilson Bakery. In 1914, in
partnership with his brother, Albert, he opened a bakery at La Habra, where he
remained until 1915, when he sold his interest and followed his trade in various places
in Southern California until he came back to Santa Ana in 1916. At first he entered
the employ of D. F. Cook, proprietor of the Bon Ton Bakery, and continued as an
employee until January 1, 1919, when he purchased it and became the sole owner.
The Bon Ton is the largest and most modern bakery in Santa Ana, and is strictly
sanitary in all its appointments; the floors are of hardwood, the kitchen is light and
airy; the huge oven is of the latest model, with white pressed brick front, and gas
is used for fuel. The most modern machinery is installed for making bread and pastry.
Mr. Gutzman buys his flour in carload lots, and before putting it into the mixer every
sack is poured into the sifter, where it is both cleaned and screened, thus assuring the
sanitation of every pound. The Bon Ton is one of the few bakeries in the county that
uses this extra precaution. "Bon Ton Bread" has always been very popular with the
people of Santa Ana, and their pastry and fancy cakes are also sold in large quantities.
The average output of the bakery is 600 loaves daily. Mr. Gutzman is an enterprising
and up-to-date business man and is making a great success of his business.
In Santa Ana in 1914, Mr. Gutzman was united in marriage with Miss Rosa Ana
Krock, a native of Ohio, and they are the parents of two children: Dorothy Mildred
and Oscar Eugene. He has much civic pride and is deeply interested in the Merchants
and Manufacturers' Association of Santa Ana.
ARNOLD F. PEEK. — In applying himself to the solution of the important prob
lem, "What does the public really want?" Arnold F. Peek, proprietor of the Fourth
Street Meat Market, has not only rendered good service to the community, but he has
undertaken to do what was certain of bringing its own reward, and spelling for Mr.
Peek unqualified success. He was born at White Cloud, Doniphan County, Kans., on
July 21, 1892, and so came to California rather late — in 1904.
His father, W. S. Peek, was a dealer in furniture and hardware, and had a suc
cessful career, also, so that he was able to retire. He passed away, however, leaving
a widow, who was Jennie Arnold before her marriage, and she is still breathing the
balmy air of the Golden State.
Arnold's education was obtained at the grammar and high schools of his native
state, and also at the State Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo. When able to assume
the responsibilities of a business he formed a partnership and bought the Chicago
Market at 318 East Fourth Street. Later he sold out his interest to .his partner,
and on November 1, 1916, he purchased full title to the Fourth Street Market, one of
the oldest in the county. He has completed the furnishing in a thoroughly modern
fashion, and by diligent attention to his patrons, both anticipating their needs and
striving in all cases to satisfy their desires, he has built up a trade demanding the
employment regularly of no less than five men. He belongs to the Chamber of
Commerce and the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association, and lends his influence
in all cases to forwarding the permanent interests of both city and county.
On July 20, 1912, Mr. Peek was married to Miss Ionia Tunison, and they have
three children: Stewart, Damaris and Gordon. He takes a keen interest in national
politics, working with the Republicans, and prides himself that in local affairs he
knows no party lines.
MERTON BLACKFORD.-The choice for the office of postmaster is not always
wisely made, even after counselling and deliberation, but few if any commuities in all
California have greater reason for congratulation on account of the incumbent in the
Federal office than has Fullerton, which is so well served by the Hon. Merton Blackford,
a native of Illinois, but for years a thorough Californian. He was born at Hoopeston,
Vermilion County, on January 14, 1878, the son of James A. Blackford, a sturdy farmer
who had married Miss Lucinda Thomas, the latter of Welsh descent while the former's
parents were from Kentucky and migrated to Indiana in an early day. They had five
children and Merton was the fourth in the order of birth. Both parents are now
among the silent majority of mankind.
When he was still a child, the Blackfords moved to Holton, Jackson County,
Kans and there the lad continued his schooling. Afterward, he worked on a farm,
and then for a couple of years he was busy with railroad express work.
Coming to California in 1901, Mr. Blackford located at Fullerton and took up
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a Democrat, he received the political support necessary for nomination as postmaster,
and was appointed by President Wilson on February 15, 1916. Since that date the
office has been conducted in the most approved manner, worthy of both the nation
and the city, and in accord with the modern American spirit that insists on faithful
and disinterested service, so much so that on June 4, 1920, he was renominated and
again appointed for another term by President Wilson.
At Anaheim Mr. Blackford was married to Miss Edna M. Moss, a native of
Kansas and the daughter of W. R. and Susan Moss of Olinda, by whom he has had
three children: Alvin, Buford and Nina. Fond of outdoor life and baseball, Mr.
Blackford also finds recreation and stimulation with his fellows in the Masons and the
Woodmen of the World.
JAMES H. LATOURETTE. — A rancher who succeeded in converting an area of
cactus and brush into one of the choice citrus groves of Orange County is James H.
Latourette, who thereby discovered the true field for the exercise of his initiative and
enterprise, that of hatching out baby chicks. He was born at Long Valley, Morris
County, N. J., on January 16, 1865, the son of Obadiah and Martha (Apgar) Latourette,
born in New Jersey. On his father's side he is descended from old French Huguenot
stock, who were early settlers on Long Island and later in New Jersey. James H. grew
up to assist his father, who was a miller by trade but did general farming. He attended
a private school at Long Valley, and at the age of eighteen took a trip to Omaha, where
he worked at carpentering. He thus gradually ventured into contracting and building,
and in that line busied himself for the next five years in Omaha. Then he removed to
North Dakota, and settled in the new town of Amenia, in Cass County. He continued
to contract for building, and he did all the building for the Amenia-Sharon Land
Company, erecting grain elevators, farm, buildings and farm homes. The Amenia-
Sharon Company had 62,000 acres of North Dakota land, and they undertook to build
a complete set of farm buildings on each section of land, after which they rented the
same out to tenants; and so satisfactory were his dealings with that go-ahead concern,
that he remained in their service for fifteen years. To accomplish this he ran a crew
of from ten to forty men.
In 1910, Mr. Latourette came to California with his family and settled at Anaheim,
and here he purchased five acres on North Street, which he set out to Valencia orange
trees. Needing fertilizer for his grove, he started raising poultry, establishing the
Latourette Rhode Island Red Hatchery; and so successful has he been in this field that
during the past season he has hatched, raised and sold some 17,000 baby chicks. His
specialty is Rhode Island Reds, and he has at last reached that degree of prosperity
that his name is a guarantee for anything sold or shipped by him. He keeps the finest
stock obtainable and thus gets good results.
On Christmas Day, 1906, Mr. Latourette was married, at St. Paul, to Miss Char
lotte Crawford, a native of Ridgeway, Winneshiek County, Iowa, and a lady of natural
accomplishments who was educated in that state. She is a daughter of Henry and
Marjorie (Mcintosh) Crawford, born on the Isle of Man and Wellsville, Ohio, respect
ively, who were settlers in Winneshiek County, Iowa, as early as 1854, where Mr.
Crawford died; his widow survives him and now resides on her orange ranch on Pla
centia Avenue near Anaheim. Mrs. Latourette received her education at the Decorah
Institute, after which she was engaged in educational work until she removed to North
Dakota, where her brother, John Crawford, was a farmer and there she met and married
Mr. Latourette. He gives no small amount of credit for his success to his devoted
wife who has been a constant helpmate and an enthusiastic encouragement to him in his
ambitions. They have two daughters, Marjorie Janet and Mildred Helen, both students
in the Anaheim schools, and parents and children attend the Methodist Church of
Anaheim. Mr. Latourette is a charter member of the Yeoman Lodge of Amenia, and
was formerly an Odd Fellow.
LEO J. SHERIDAN. — There is always room at the top of the ladder for the
climber who is anxious to reach that goal, and Leo J. Sheridan, the efficient secretary
of the Anaheim Union Water Company, is an example of what may be accomplished
by a young man who applies himself energetically to his work, fulfills his duties to the
best of his ability, and brings out the best that is in him.
Mr. Sheridan's native state is South Dakota, where he was born at Columbia,
August 8, 1887. He attended the public schools in his native city, where he acquired
a good education, and continued his studies for three years at St. Johns University,
Collegeville, Minn. Returning to his native state, he engaged in mercantile pursuits,
working in establishments at Columbia and at Mt. Vernon, S. D. He came to Anaheim,
Cal., in 1911, and for three years was engaged with the Elliott and Bushard Realty
Company as salesman. He then entered th'e employ of the Anaheim Union Water

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Company, starting at the bottom of the ladder. He worked in the company's pumping
plants, gained a general knowledge of the business, and was appointed zanjero, holding
this position for four years. He was detailed to office work in Anaheim one month of
each year, and when a vacancy occurred in the office force in the fall of 1919 he was
appointed secretary of the company.
His marriage united him with Miss Evelyn River of Iowa, and their union has
been blessed by the birth of one child, a daughter, named Kathleen. Mr. Sheridan is
a communicant of the Roman Catholic Church, is a member of the Knights of Colum
bus, and is further, affiliated fraternally with Anaheim Lodge, B. P. O. Elks.
ALBERT BINER. — A very energetic and successful young business man, who
has by his efficient management become one of the largest manufacturers of soft
drinks in Southern California, is Albert Biner, proprietor of the Santa Ana Soda
Works, 807 West First Street. He first saw the light of day at Miles City, Mont.,
January 31, 1885, a son of Theophile and Julia (Truffer) Biner, natives of the Republic
of Switzerland, who settled at this Montana town. The father, who was engaged in
the contracting business there, is now a resident of Los Angeles.
Albert Biner's early education was received in the public schools of Montana
and British Columbia, which was supplemented by a course in the Seattle Business
College. In 1905, in company with his father and brothers, he established the Phoenix
Brewing Company at Phoenix, B. C, where he continued in business for nine years;
after retiring from the brewing company he located in Santa Ana in 1915, where he
established the Biner & McKay Bottling Works. The next year, having bought out
his partner, Mr. Biner purchased the Santa Ana Soda Works from G. W. Wells, the
pioneer soda manufacturer of Orange County, who had been engaged in the business
here for fifteen years. Mr. Biner enlarged and greatly improved the plant, installing
new machinery, so that it is now one of the best equipped plants of its kind in the
state. He also installed a Lowe hydro bottle sterilizer and automatic filling machine.
The "Jester Brand" is the trade mark of his products, his specialties being grape,
orange and ginger ale, which he manufactures from his private formulae, and con
noisseurs pronounce them superior to the average soft drinks of this class. In addi
tion to his own soda business Mr. Biner has the agency for Los Angeles and Orange
County for the new soft drink, Ward's Orange and Lemon Crush, a plant for manu
facturing these popular beverages having just been completed in Los Angeles. Mr.
Biner is also Orange County agent for East Side Zest.
The extensiveness of Mr. Biner's business operations is better understood when
one realizes that it requires five large trucks to deliver his products throughout the
county. The great increase in his business has made it necessary for him to install
another filling machine. The capacity of the plant is now 1,000 cases daily.
In 1910 Mr. Biner was united in marriage with May Kreider, the ceremony being
solemnized at Olympia, Wash., and this union has been blessed with four children:
Marjorie, Genevieve, Carolyn and Leo. Mr. Biner's enterprising spirit is shown by his
membership in the Santa Ana Merchants and Manufacturers Association and the
Chamber of Commerce of that city.
ALVIN F. NOWOTNY. — A rising young man in Anaheim and vicinity is Alvin
F. Nowotny, who came very -naturally and honestly by his special gifts, for his father
was one of the men in the early days of Texas capable of filling public office and assum
ing a progressive and an aggressive leadership. Our subject was born in New Braun-
fels, Texas, on March 2, 1887, the son of Frank and Mary Nowotny, and from his boy
hood he profited by all the advantages arising from the fact that his father, when he
was only twenty-four years of age, had been elected city marshal, which office he
filled with signal ability until the time of the Civil War. Then he enlisted for active
service at the front, but was discharged on account of physical disability and made
sheriff, which office he held till 1870; that year and for the following two years, he
served as a Texas ranger and helped to drive the Indians out of Texas. In the early
seventies he purchased his ranch near New Braunfels, and there he reared his family.
Having come from Bohemia, Austria, when he was sixteen years old, and settled in
lexas, frank Nowotny brought with him some of the best Old World blood and
spirit of thrift and endurance; and his .wife was equally fortunate in her inheritance,
for she was born m Luxemburg, and came to America with her parents when she was
three years old.
i ¦ A!u " Now°tny was sent to the grade school in New Braunfels, but having lost
his mother when he was twelve years old, he started to work in a grocery store, and
ever since then he has been working for himself. He spent fifteen years in the grocery
trade and then he embarked in insurance. He also had a "try" at the hotel management,
which if it did nothing else for him, enlarged considerably his knowledge of human
nature. In 1908 he came out to Anaheifii and entered the mercantile field with Fred

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Ahlborn; and he remained with him until 1913. In 1914, he tried his luck at men's
furnishings, but after a year, he sold outr Then, in 1915, he went into the grocery busi
ness with Fred Marsh, but since then he has been occupied in extending the ever-
enlarging field of the Metropolitan Insurance Company of New York, as assistant
superintendent of the Anaheim district.
Mr. Nowotny not only made his home in Anaheim since coming to California, but
in April, 1920, he purchased his ranch of five acres on East North Street. It was set
out to Valencia orange trees, six and eight years old; and this, with his customary
foresight and enterprise, he has brought to a still higher state of cultivation. His land
is watered from Pumping Plant, Section No. 2. He belongs to the Anaheim Cooperative
Orange Association, and contributes as far as he is able to its excellent work.
On June 5, 1907, Mr. Nowotny was married to Miss Ella Riley, who was born in
the vicinity of New Braunfels, the daughter of John Riley who had married Johanna
Kloepper. The Kloepper family came to Texas in 1849, while the Rileys came to the
Lone Star State nineteen years before. Mrs. Nowotny, attended the grade schools of
New Braunfels. Two children blessed this union of Mr. and Mrs. Nowotny — Raymond
A. and Alvin Wilbur. Mr. Nowotny is a Democrat; is a member of the Lutheran
Church of Anaheim; and belongs to the Masons and the Elks.
ERNEST S. GREGORY.— The success that has attended Ernest S. Gregory in his
vocation of building contractor is due to honest dealing, thorough workmanship, artistic
ability and an earnest effort to give satisfaction to his patrons.
Mr. Gregory is a native of the Old Dominion, and was born March 3, 1881, in
Chesterfield County, Va. Reared on a farm, he attended the country schools, and at
the age of nineteen sought a wider field for his ambition and talents in California,
locating at Fullerton, where he learned the carpenter's trade with contractor C. H.
Smith. This was supplemented by a course at Throop Polytechnic Institute at Pasa
dena, and a course in the International Correspondence School at Scranton, Pa., in
mathematics and drafting, for which he received a diploma. After two years at Fuller-
ton he went to Los Angeles and became foreman of one of the largest building concerns
in that city, erecting over 3,000 bungalows for this company in eleven years. During
these years he used to make short visits to Fullerton, where he built three or four
houses a year, and in the spring of 1919 he located permanently at Fullerton. The
character of the people who have chosen Fullerton as their home is such as to demand
for the individual's comfort the very best that can be procured for the money expended,
and Mr. Gregory caters to the middle class of people who want to own their own
homes. He purchases lots, draws his own plans, endeavors to make each one a little
different from the others, builds bungalows and sells them on the installment plan.
In 1919 he erected thirty bungalows, and in 1920 has averaged one home a week. Among
the artistic work he has done may be mentioned some of the homes at Ramona, and
homes in the Home Builders and Victoria Square tracts. A prominent banker at
Fullerton recently said that E. S. Gregory had done more to upbuild the city of
Fullerton the past two years than any other man in the place. The conception of
Mr. Gregory's bungalows are especially artistic, and they sell readily, many of them
having added charm by reason of their situation among the orange and walnut orchards.
Mr. Gregory's marriage united him with Miss Laura E. Gage, a native of Kansas,
and of their union have been born two children, Esther and Ellsworth. Mr. Gregory
has realized his ambition to secure a solid and substantial start in the world to a
gratifying extent, and Fullerton is deeply indebted to this broad-gauged, self-made
man, who has added so much to the material comfort of her citizens and the wealth
and artistic beauty of the city. With his wife Mr. Gregory holds a high position
among the residents of Fullerton, and they number the most intelligent and cultured
people of the place among their friends. Mr. Gregory is a member of the Fullerton
Club and the Board of Trade.
REV. ARTHUR T. O'REAR.-^-Coming to Santa Ana on January 1, 1916, to take
the pastorate of the Spurgeon Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Arthur
T. O'Rear has become closely identified with all the movements that aim to encour
age, foster and strengthen the moral and uplifting forces of the community. Not alone
has his church shown a steady growth, both in members and influence, but Reverend
O'Rear has also given much of his time to activities of a civic and public nature.
During the war he was especially active in all the local work, taking a prominent part
in all the Liberty Loan drives and serving as vice-president of the County Council of
Defense. At present he is a member of the Reconstruction Committee; executive
secretary of the Near East Relief Association; a director of the Social Service Board;
treasurer of the new Santa Ana Hospital Association; chairman of the Inter-Church
World Conference for Orange County, and president of the Santa Ana Ministerial
Association.

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A native of Virginia, Arthur T. O'Rear was born at Glade Spring, Washington
County, October 6, 1878. His parents were John C. and Martha C. (Brooks) O'Rear,
the former born at Winchester, Tenn., and the latter in Tazewell County, Va. A
descendant of old Revolutionary stock, Arthur O'Rear is eligible to membership in
the Sons of the American Revolution. For generations many members of his family
have stood high in professional circles, numbering among them judges, ministers and
educators, one cousin being for eight years chief justice of the Supreme Court of
Kentucky. Educated in his early years in the public schools of Virginia, Reverend O'Rear
later attended the Glade Spring Military Academy for four years. Glade Spring is a
Methodist community and he became a member of this denomination when a young-
man. Later he took a four years' course at the Emory and Henry Methodist College,
at Emory, Va., a famous ministerial college of the South, graduating in 1898. He then
entered Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn., where he took a post-graduate
course. Taking up missionary work, he spent four years in the mountains of North
Carolina, having headquarters at Asheville, and also taught school in West Virginia.
In 1904 Reverend O'Rear joined the Methodist Conference, his first charge being
at Eminence, Ky., later serving the churches at Woodlawn, Ky., Covington, Ky., for
two years, and Cynthiana, Ky., for four years. Following this he' joined the West
Viriginia Conference, occupying the pastorate of St. Paul's Church at Parkersburg,
W. Va., for four years.
In 1916 Reverend O'Rear was called to the pastorate of the Spurgeon Memorial
Church, at Santa Ana, and here his ministry has indeed been crowned with success,
pastor and congregation working together in closest harmony in promoting the affairs
of the church and in enriching the spiritual life of the community. His marriage,
which occurred June 15, 1904, united him with Miss Ailene Parsons, who was born
in Kentucky, but reared in Marion, Ind., One son, Edward, was born to them during
their residence in Covington, Ky.
DEIDERICH KLANER. — A self-made man who enjoys the satisfaction of having
been able both to acquire excellent property for himself and family and to contribute
something for the common weal, is Deiderich Klaner, for years a hard-working man
in Nebraska, where he improved a farm of 160 acres and was esteemed by all who
knew him as a patriotic American ready to lend a helping hand to every good cause.
He was born about twenty-seven miles from Bremen, Germany, in Oldenburg, a quiet
and pleasant town on the River Hunte, on September 9, 1864, and in his native land
he was married to Katherine Wieker, in time the mother of five children. The family
attend the Lutheran Church at Orange, and interest themselves in all good work, within
and without that congregation's activities, for the religious, social and civic betterment
of the community.
Mr. Klaner came to Orange from Nebraska fifteen years ago, and bought his
twenty acres in the Olive precinct. It was then for the most part bare land, with a
small patch of alfalfa; and its present high state of cultivation is due largely to his
experience, industry and foresight. In time, he built his beautiful, up-to-date bungalow
residence at 224 South Olive Street, Orange. He also owns an excellent citrus ranch
of twenty acres on North Tustin Street, somewhat south of Taft Avenue, which he has
improved, and which is one of the best of its size in all the county.
Orange County has been fortunate, all in all, in the class of its incoming citizens,
and it has been through such intelligent, industrious and honest burghers as Deiderich
Klaner and his family that much of the present prosperity of the county has been
brought about.
IRVING ALFRED THOMPSON.-A native son in all but birth, having come to
California with his parents in the first year of his life, Irving Alfred Thompson was
T«7< aL I' T Mmn" M,arch 26' 1874' His parents having located at Laguna Beach
in 1875, that is the scene of his first recollection and there, too, he attended school.
From a youth he made himself generally useful on the farm and learned to drive the
big teams in the grain fields.
ft,™ ^ !fu' Mn Thompso"'s P^nts moved to El Toro, and there he continued to
whn\ . I maOOge m,L°! AnSeles' when he was united with Wilmuth Newland,
Bearh V ? TT ' daUghter °f Wm' T" Newland, the pioneer of Huntington
oisTvZTVe\TTO-yTe*°UT Hved in San DieS°' but s°°n Purchased a ranch
first to raieee, Hun'lnfton Beach and engaged in raising celery. He was one of the
Association he X '" ' "^T T WaS a member of the California Celery Growers
mi he emoiedT^M 0 T °f the 6arly beet powers. Having sold his ranch in
or sLals Bnle a T %* u™^ ,T purchased 320 acres four and a half miles north
of Skaggs Bridge and ,n February, 1912, moved on the place with his family. He sunk

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wells and installed an electric pumping plant, leveled and checked the land and planted
sixty acres of alfalfa. He also engaged in raising grain and stock and bought and fed
cattle and hogs for the market, in all of which he was successful.
In 1919 Mr. Thompson sold the ranch to advantage and came to El Toro, where
he now resides. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are the parents of five children: Howard,
Clara, Lawrence, Juanita and Irene. Fraternally Mr. Thompson is a' member of the
Odd Fellows Lodge at Huntington Beach, and with his wife is a member of the
Rebekahs. In national politics he is a decided Republican.
JOHN W. TUBBS. — The phenomenal growth of the automobile industry in the
past few years has attracted to this field many of the country's most capable men,
and prominent among these in Santa Ana is John W. Tubbs, now the manager of the
Santa Ana branch of the White Auto Company of Los Angeles, dealers in the popular
Stephens Salient Six and White trucks, in addition acting as local representative of
the Motor Transit Company. The latter is one of the largest stage companies in
the United States, as they operate along the Pacific Coast from San Diego to San
Francisco, with connecting lines into Oregon, Arizona and the Imperial Valley.
Iowa was Mr. Tubbs' native state, and there he was born at Emerson, in Mills
County, on October 8, 1881. His father was William L. Tubbs, who was born at
Three Rivers, Mich., and his mother, before her marriage Miss Alice Tomblin, was a
native of Piano, 111. After a successful period as a farmer in Iowa, William L. Tubbs
disposed of his interests there and located in Santa Ana, where he lived retired until
his death, being survived by his good wife, the mother of three boys, among whom
John was the second-born. He attended the public schools in the vicinity of his
Iowa home, and growing up, followed, for a while, all kinds of mercantile work. Then
he studied pharmacy and passed his examinations as a druggist, but never followed
that line of professional work.
After coming to California he was engaged in the general mercantile business
with Joe Parsons at Talbert for two years. He then came to Santa Ana, where for
the next twelve years he was identified with the Santa Ana Commercial Company,
one of the best-known manufacturing organizations in Southern California. Espe
cially during the three latter years of his connection with the company he directed
much of the important activity having to do with its development, filling the important
posts of secretary, treasurer and manager, and continuing with them until September
1, 1920, when he resigned to enter his new field of endeavor. His new place of busi
ness is at 415-17-19 East Fourth Street, where he occupies a fine fireproof building,
75 by 132 feet. With the pleasing personality that has won for him a host of friends,
and is the open sesame of his success, it is a foregone conclusion that the progressive
spirit that has always been one of his leading characteristics will be increasingly
manifest. His general ability and peculiar fitness for responsibility having been widely
recognized, Mr. Tubbs was elected a city trustee in April, 1915; and at the end of four
years of faithful and effective service, during which time he carried through various
reforms and meritorious projects, he was reelected in 1919 for another four years.
In national politics Mr. Tubbs is a Republican, but his views and sympathies are too
broad to permit of any narrow partisanship, particularly when matters of purely local
moment are at stake.
The marriage of Mr. Tubbs to Miss Stella Brock occurred at Santa Ana on April
12, 1904, and was one of the pleasant social events of the season. Her parents, D. E.
and Clara Brock, were for years well-known residents of Santa Ana. Mr. and Mrs.
Tubbs are the parents of a daughter, Gwendolyn. Mr. Tubbs is a life and charter
member of the Elks, and also belongs to the Orange County Country Club, and he is
fond of outdoor life — hunting, fishing and golf.
MRS. C. ELLA WEAVER.— A resident of California since 1902, Mrs. C. Ella
Weaver, proprietor of the Santa Ana Rug Factory, was born near Carney, Hamilton
County, Ind., a daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Newby) Wilson, born in North
Carolina and Indiana, respectively. Her father was a saddler and later a contractor
and builder and also followed farming. Later on the family moved to Wilsall, Mont.,
and there the father died. His widow came to Santa Ana in 1898 and she died here in
September, 1918, aged eighty-two years.
Ella Wilson was the oldest of their five children and is the only one of the -family
residing in Santa Ana. Her parents moved to Iowa when she was eight years of age
and she completed the normal course in Albion Seminary, after which she engaged in
teaching. For sixteen years she taught in different counties, including Marshall, Story,
Grundy, Shawnee and Hardin counties, Iowa, finally becoming principal of the Walnut
Hill school in the suburbs of Des Moines. After this she removed to Topeka, Kans.,
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Miss Wilson was married at Newkirk, Okla., in 1900, where she became the wife
of Samuel K. Weaver who was born near New Enterprise, Pa., and who was a traveling
salesman in Kansas until 1902, when they located in Santa Ana whither her mother had
come four years before and Mrs. Weaver joined her mother who was making rugs and
was desirous of making carpets. The rugs were originally made by Miss Esther Hill
and Lou Burner on West First Street across the street from their present location,
when her mother took the embryo business over and they continued the undertaking,
In the spring of 1909, her brother, M. C. Wilson, joined them and they started the new
place; he was a carpenter and made the looms and other machinery and they then
named it the Santa Ana Rug Factory. Since 1918 Mrs. Weaver has been the sole
proprietor. Mrs. Weaver still preserves the first loom made- and used in Santa Ana. Her
mother had the first fly shuttle loom on the Pacific Coast. She now has power looms,
cutters, frayers and twisters, run by electric power, manufacturing carpets of all sizes
up to eleven and a half feet in width and is the largest rug factory in the county.
Her displays at the various Orange County fairs, as well as the Glendale Bazaar, has
taken its share of prizes. She was bereaved of her husband July 20, 1919. Mrs. Weaver
is a member of the Friends Church in El Modena, as were her parents, and is a strong
advocate of the principles of Prohibition.
JOHN M. ORTEGA. — A prosperous young rancher whose family is intimately
associated with the early history of Orange County, is John M. Ortega, of East Com
monwealth Avenue, Fullerton, in which town he was born on April 2, 1895, the son
of James J. and Lucy (Wagner) Ortega. His father was born and reared in San
Gabriel, and was one of the Ortegas so favorably known in California history; while
the Wagners came West so early that two of the brothers made two trips across the
plains, traveling with ox teams, and fighting their way through the Indian country at
every step. The Wagners engaged in stock raising and ranged their sheep over the
acres of land now active as oil fields and could have purchased it for fifty cents an
acre, but like hundreds of others could not see its value then; however, later on they
purchased some land in the same vicinity and set out orange and walnut orchards, and
then divided it among the children.
John M. Ortega went to school in Placentia and graduated from the high school
at Fullerton, and he also attended the Fullerton Junior College. During these youthful
days, he lived on his father's ranch; but on April .8, 1916, he took the momentous step
of establishing his own household and was married to Miss Margaret Chapman, a
daughter of Fred Chapman of Fullerton. The gifted lady was born in Chicago, 111.,
but came to California when a child; and here she attended the same educational
institutions as had imparted instruction to her husband.
In the fall of 1919, Mr. Ortega purchased six acres of walnuts and six acres of
Valencia oranges on East Commonwealth Avenue, under the service of the Anaheim
Union Water Company, having before that owned a ranch of eleven acres in North
Whittier Heights which he set out to Valencia oranges. At the end of two and a half
years he sold the property which he had secured as an investment.
One child has resulted from the happy union of Mr. and Mrs. Ortega— Charles
Bille. They are members of the Christian Church of Fullerton, and Mr. Ortega exer
cises his rights as a free citizen at the polls without party dictation and strictly in
favor of the right man for the best place.
ARGUS ADAMS.— A successful California rancher who made no less than four
trips to the Pacific Coast before he was persuaded that he had really found the Golden
Mate, and yet a representative man of affairs in Orange County today who has never
regretted that he pitched his tent here, is Argus Adams, a director in both the Fuller-
ton Mutual Orange Growers Association and the Loma Vista Cemetery, and a resident
on bouth Acacia Avenue, Fullerton. He was born at Allendale, Worth County, Mo.,
on December 27, 867, the son of James Adams, who is still living, at the age of
ninety-four, in Anaheim one of the oldest men in Orange County, having been born in
Missouri. He married Miss Ruth W. Cowan, who passed away a couple of years ago,
also at an advanced age.
Argus went to the Allendale schools, and afterwards attended the normal school
lt,;'7e!ry' ln, <f "try County, at the same time growing up on his father's farm
where he learned to make himself useful. When twenty-two years of age, he started
TTa ??n u -TTT & Whik he rented a farm in Missouri. Then he pur
chased 230 acres, which he devoted to general farming
At Grant City, Mo., on January 27, 1892, he was married to Miss Dale Scott,
marntefM T neV a' *™n' the daughter of George P. Scott, a farmer who had
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up to be very familiar with Missourian and Middle West life. Six years after his mar
riage, Mr. Adams came out to California for the first time; but after a stay here of
fifteen months, he returned to Worth County. In 1905, he was back in the Southland
and for a year and a half lived at Anaheim; but once more he journeyed back to
Worth County.
On January 1, 1912, Mr. and Mrs. Adams came to California to stay, and at
Fullerton they purchased twenty-three acres on Acacia Street, where they set out
Valencia orange trees now eight years old. The land is under the Anaheim Union
Water Company, and Mr. Adams markets through the Fullerton Mutual Orange Grow
ers Association, in which he is also a director. Four children have added joy and
comfort to the lives of this worthy couple. Earl W. married Miss Frances McCloskey;
they have two children, Evelyn and Wayne, and they live in Terrabella, Tulare County;
Wayne H. resides on South Acacia Avenue, southeast of Fullerton; Blanche is Mrs.
Ernest Purbeck of Oakland; and Loman H. is at home. Mr. Adams is a Mason, being
a member of the lodge, chapter and council and in politics believes in independent
action by each voter, irrespective of party lines.
Wayne H. Adams was born near Allendale, Mo., on November 23, 1897, and
attended the local district schools. When he came to California in 1912, he continued
his schooling at Fullerton and was duly graduated from the high school in that town.
Meanwhile he helped his father with ranch work, and when he was able, he purchased
from him five acres. This was in 1918, and since then he has been busy there develop
ing the land and cultivating Valencia oranges. He has the service of the Anaheim
Union Water Company, and his four-year-old trees are therefore well irrigated. On
June 20, 1918, Mr. Adams was married to Miss Juanita Owens, a native of Waxahatchie,
Ellis County, Texas, and the daughter of L. A. Owens. One child, Donald Adams, has
blessed this union, and gives promise of carrying onward an already honored name.
NORMAN LE MARQUAND. — Representative of the younger business men of
Orange County is Norman Le Marquand, the wide-awake manager of the Fullerton
Lumber Company, to whose wholesome expansion is traced the experienced guiding
hand of our subject. He was born in Mount Forest, Ontario, Canada, October 18, 1882,
the son of John and Maria Margaret (Pilcher) Le Marquand. John Le Marquand was
born on the Island of Jersey and he was later a fruit merchant in Canada; after
settling in California he engaged in the restaurant business in Los Angeles. Mrs. Le
Marquand was born in Mount Forest and was the daughter of Joseph Pilcher.
Norman received his education in the public schools of Ontario and early in life
became associated with the lumber trade in his native province. Soon after the family
located in California he became an employe of the Southern California Lumber Com
pany in Los Angeles, remaining with that concern from 1899 until 1905; when he
removed to Fullerton in December, 1906, it was to become assistant manager of the
Brown and Dauser Lumber Company with whom he remained for three years, then
returned to Los Angeles. In 1910 he again came to Fullerton and ever since he has
been connected with the Fullerton Lumber Company here and has very materially
engineered its growth in this section of the county. By his close attention to business
affairs he has gained a wide circle of friends and also built up a substantial business
for his company.
Mr. Le Marquand served two years as secretary of the Fullerton Board of Trade,
and he is one of the board's delegates to the Associated Chambers of Commerce of
Orange County — and no better could be found, considering his public-spiritedness. He
is a charter member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Fullerton Club, of which he
was one of the organizers and its first secretary. Politically he is a Progressive. In
many ways he has contributed to the welfare of the community with which he has been
closely identified for nearly fifteen years, during which time he has witnessed the won
derful development of the whole of Southern California.
CLARENCE R. VANDERBURG. — A far-sighted, progressive young rancher who
worthily represent ones of the sturdy pioneers to whom the United States owes so
much for the expansion of a great empire, is Clarence R. Vanderburg, who was born
at Cushing, Nebr., on September 6, 1893. His parents are Lester C. and Jennie
(Hiserodt) Vanderburg, prosperous farmers in Nebraska before they came out to
California in 1894 and purchased fifteen acres in Orangethorpe, five acres of which
were set out to walnuts and some orange trees, while the balance was vacant land. In
1908, however, Mr. Vanderburg sold his ranch and moved to Montebello; and there
he bought ten acres devoted to oranges, some deciduous fruit trees and truck gardening.
In 1914, Mr. Vanderburg again sold his holdings, and came to Fullerton, having bought,
the year previous, ten acres in the Orangethorpe district.
On account of these successive movings of the family, Clarence Vanderburg
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for another three, and afterward went to the Montebello high school, where he was a
student the first year the high school was organized, and he graduated from the
Montebello high school in 1913. On May 11, 1916, he married Miss Hilda Richards
who was born in the famous cathedral town of Salisbury, England, the daughter of
Herbert R and Alice M. (Johnson) Richards. Her father was a florist in England
and edited floral journals; and having removed to Bristol, Mrs. Vanderburg attended
the parochial schools there. In 1906, her folks came out to Toronto, where her father
spent a few months, coming on to Chicago in December, still interested in the floral
trade; and to that city his family followed. Mr. Richards remained in Chicago for
five years, both conducting a florist business and representing the "American Florist";
and during that time Mrs. Richards, esteemed by all who had come to know her, passed
away. In 1910 Mr. Richards came west to California and two years later settled in
Montebello; and there he still lives, active as a florist.
After his marriage, Mr. Vanderburg continued on his father's ranch, caring for the
ten acres, five of which he had purchased, and he also built a home there. The ten
acres are devoted to the culture of Valencia and Navel oranges, and though under
the service of the Anaheim Union Water Company, there were eight neighboring
ranchers who joined together and put down a well, having a fourteen-inch flow, suitable
for irrigating their various properties. Mr. Vanderburg markets his oranges through
the Fullerton Mutual Orange Growers Association, and sends to market some of the
choicest fruit raised hereabouts.
A son, Raymond Lester, has blessed the happy home of Mr. and Mrs. Vanderburg,
who attend the Methodist Church. Mr. Vanderburg for years was a Prohibitionist, but
now that the desired-for goal has been reached, he believes that attention should be
concentrated on the fitness of the candidate for office.
THEODORE A. MEYER. — A progressive, successful rancher who has had the
advantage of wide travel and a varied, extensive experience in other fields, is Theodore
A. Meyer, a native of the city of Hanover, Germany, where he was born on May 24,
1860, the son of John C. and Albertine (Ash) Meyer. Theodore received a good edu
cation in the excellent schools of that country, completing his college course at the
gymnasium in Hanover, after which he served in the German army from which he
retired with a commission. His father was an educator who attained prominence and
was well known beyond the confines of Germany for his furthering of commerce; and
perhaps it was because of his early familiarity with distant lands that led our subject,
when he was only eighteen years of age, to leave home and go to South Africa, where
he engaged in plantation work. When the Zulu War broke out, he joined the Colonial
forces and served throughout the campaigns as a first lieutenant. He purchased provi
sions and cattle from the Boers for the use of the Imperial troops, and so aided in
British victory.
After the war, he made a small fortune in the diamond fields of South Africa, and
later he took a trip to the. West Coast. He spent two years in Africa, and then sailed
for India. He was some time in Calcutta and later in Ceylon; and he had charge of
government billets in India. After a year in India, he went on to Australia, and there
he settled in Adelaide; and so well was he pleased with that country, that he spent
thirty years there. He made up an expedition to explore the continent, intending to
cross from the south to the north, about midway east and west; but he struck hardships,
all his natives left him, and with another white companion he nearly died of thirst while
crossing the arid regions. On this trip he discovered a gold mine that nine years later
proved to be very productive of the coveted metal. While in Australia, he was an
importer of house-furnishing goods, and he was also captain of the mounted police in
the vicinity of Tanunda and he was postmaster for seven years at Tanunda. He intro
duced irrigation into southern Australia, but had to overcome the stupid obstinacy of
the natives, who were slow to take up new ideas.
In 1911, Mr. Meyer came to California and settled at Upland, where he purchased
six and a half acres of oranges and for six years made that neighborhood his home.
In 1917, he sold out and came to Orange County. Now he has a twenty-acre ranch
on Anaheim Road, near Sunkist Avenue, with four-year-old trees, which are developing
splendidly in a rich soil. He receives the irrigation water needed from a private pump
ing plant known as the Eucalyptus Water Company.
Mr. Meyer has been twice married. He was wedded to his first wife, Miss Emily
Edmonds, in Australia, a native of England who had come to Australia when she was a
mere child. And in Australia the estimable lady died in 1906, the mother of five chil
dren, three of whom are still living: Mary is Mrs. Martin of Pasadena; Emily is Mrs.
Muir of Los Angeles; and there is Theodore J. who served in the great World War
with the regular army as one o'f the Thirteenth Field Artillery, Fourth Division. He

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went through all the major offensives in France, and returned home to civilian life
in September, 1919.
In February, 1917, in the city of Los Angeles, Mr. Meyer was married to Mrs.
Maud (Farnham) Clay, born in Sanbornton, Belknap County, N. H., a daughter of
Horace and Anna B. (Pike) Farnham, born in Maine and New Hampshire, respectively.
Her maternal great-grandfather Clark served in the Revolutionary War. Horace Farn
ham was an expert temperer of tools and watch springs. He passed away while on
a trip to Maine while his wife died in New Hampshire. Maud Farnham was reared in
St. Lawrence County, N. Y., where she specialized in bookkeeping and when eighteen
years of age went to New York City where she was a bookkeeper for different com
mercial enterprises. In that city, too, she was married the first time, being united with
Myron Clay. She came to California in 1907, and became the pioneer settler in the
Golden State tract on the Anaheim Road in Orange County. When she purchased this
twenty acres it was overgrown with cactus and brush, which she had cleared and
improved for farming and she is now the only one left of the original settlers on the
tract. She is a member of the Placentia Presbyterian Church as well as active in its
Missionary Societies and Ladies' Social Circle. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer are both enter
prising; are believers in protection and Republicans.
EDGAR W. MOORE. — When the early settlers of California realized the advan
tage and oftimes the necessity of irrigating their crops, they naturally chose the
easiest method of accomplishing this — the open-ditch system; but as the country became
more thickly settled and the water problem grew more acute, the wastefulness of this
primitive means was recognized, and thus the opportunity for a new industry was
created, that of the manufacture of concrete pipe. In this business Edgar W. Moore
has been successfully engaged since coming to Fullerton in 1914. A native of Missouri,
Mr. Moore was born at Knobnoster, in that state, on April 24, 1881. His parents were
William P. and Martha (Skaggs) Moore, and of their seven children, Edgar was the
third in order of birth. He received his education in the public schools of the locality
and in the hard school of experience. At an early age he began working on the farm
and this he continued through the years of his young manhood.
In 1907, desiring to seek broader opportunities for advancement, Mr. Moore,
accompanied by his mother, came to California, and locating at San Bernardino, became
overseer of a large tract of land, remaining there for six years. He then came to Fuller-
ton and with his brother engaged in the manufacture of concrete pipe at 202 West Santa
Fe Avenue. In 1919 he bought out his brother's interest, and is making a splendid
success of his business in which he employs about ten men. He finds a market for
practically all of his output in the vicinity; in addition, he also contracts to install the
pipe in orchards, as well as doing a general cement contracting business.
On June 6, 1918, Mr. Moore was married to Margaret Wix Haffly, and a little
daughter, Mary Margaret, has come to bless their home. The family attend the Baptist
Church, and in politics Mr. Moore is a Democrat. He is a member of the Fullerton
Board of Trade. With a deep interest in all that concerns the future of Orange County,
particularly of Fullerton, Mr. Moore can be counted upon to take an active part in
every worthy civic project.
ALEXANDER J. CHRISTLIEB.— A citrus rancher who, through his thorough
and exceedingly valuable knowledge of citrus nursery stock, and his scientific experi
ments with trees, has done much to advance horticulture in Orange County, is Alex
ander J. Christlieb, the rancher of West Orangethorpe Avenue, who was born in Long
Lake, Minn., on August 1, 1882. His father was I. A. Christlieb, a farmer known for
his progressive methods, and he had married Miss Mary E. Clasen. In 1897 he came to
Los Angeles to live.
Alexander grew up on his father's farm, while he attended the common schools
of his home district, and in 1900 he fellowed his father to California. The latter pur
chased forty-nine acres on Brookhurst Road and Orangethorpe Avenue, and at that
time it was vacant mesa land; and Alexander and his brother, B. H., helped to develop
the acreage, which is devoted exclusively to oranges. They have a private pumping
plant with a capacity of ninety inches of water, and so have already solved the irrigation
problem. I. A. Christlieb passed away in 1917, esteemed and lamented by all who
knew him.
Mr. Christlieb is also interested with his brother in a half-section of land in the
Imperial Valley; it is agricultural land, but at present has no water supply. He expects
to prove up on it, however, and had it under what is known as the Relief Act. On his
Fullerton ranch he is digging large pits, three to four feet deep, and putting in a
heavier soil, and thereby hopes to get orange trees of greater strength and growth.
Mr. Christlieb is a charter member of the Knights of Pythias of Anaheim, and the
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JESSE GOODWIN. — A farmer whose prosperity and good taste are attested by
the magnificent home he has recently erected on his ranch at the corner of East
Orangethorpe and Raymond, a modern structure, by the way, notable as one of the
finest° country residences in Orange County, is Jesse Goodwin, who was born near
Stockton in San Joaquin County on April 6, 1876, the son of Almon Goodwin, also a
native of San Joaquin County, and a nephew of Major Goodwin, the right hand man of
General Fremont on his perilous expedition into California. Almon Goodwin was a
playmate with Gov. James H. Budd in their boyhood days, and with his brother George
took over the ranch of their father, who came from St. Lawrence County in New
York State. He married Miss Katherine Vilinger, and became a man notable in Orange
County for his association with its rapid development.
Jesse Goodwin was four years old when his parents came to Southern California;
he grew up on the farm and attended the public schools at Tustin and Santa Ana.
From a lad he assisted on the ranch and became an adept at farming. In 1897 he en
gaged in raising sugar beets near Buena Park, but that year proved a dry season, and
he decided to discontinue the venture. From 1898, for a year and a half he was em
ployed by the Buena Park Creamery, after which he came to Orangethorpe and began
his career as a citriculturist by improving a nineteen-acre orange grove now in full
bearing. However, he has disposed of all but nine acres fronting on East Orange
thorpe Avenue devoted to raising Valencia oranges, having brought the grove to a high
standard as a producer both as to quantity and quality of the fruit, ample water for
irrigation being obtained from the Anaheim Union Water Company. The elegant
residence already referred to was completed in December, 1919, where the family
generously dispense the old-time California hospitality.
In November, 1897, Mr. Goodwin was married at Buena Park to Miss Rose
Hickey, born near Montgomery, Ala., and the daughter of Richard and Jane (Weathers)
Hickey. They came to California when Mrs. Goodwin was ten years old, so that she
almost regards herself as a native daughter. Six children have been granted Mr. and
Mrs. Goodwin. Ina graduated from the Fullerton high school and, marrying, became
Mrs. Jesse C. Michaeli of this vicinity; Almon is also a graduate of the Fullerton high
school, while Alice I. is still a student there. The other children, Herbert, James and
Donald, are pupils at the grammar schools. Mr. Goodwin was made a Mason in
Fullerton Lodge No. 339, F. & A. M., and was exalted in Fullerton Chapter, R. A. M.;
he is also a member of Santa Ana Council, R. & S. M. and the Fullerton lodge of
Odd Fellows, being a past grand in the latter. With his wife he is a member of both
the Eastern Star and the Rebekahs. Mrs. Goodwin is a member of the Methodist
Church in Fullerton while Mr. Goodwin is a firm believer in protection and naturally
a decided Republican.
LORON W. EVANS. — The prominent citizen and prosperous rancher, Loron W.
Evans, whose property lies about one mile north of El Modena, is not only a good
horticulturist, but a most excellent manager. His thrift and progressive ideas make him
a leader among El Modena's citizens, and in the seventeen years of his residence in
this locality he has prospered and is now enjoying the fruit of his arduous labor of
past years. His home ranch comprises sixteen and one-half acres, and this in con
junction with the ranch of his sister, M. Lulu Evans, makes thirty-five acres under his
care. With the exception of two acres Mr. Evans set out the entire thirty-five acres
to citrus fruit, starting his groves from the seed and afterward budding them to
Valencia oranges and lemons, of which latter he has five acres.
w cT EvfnS is a "ative °f Iowa' having been born near Ackley, August 8, 1870.
His father Owen, was born in Reading, Pa., and his mother, who in maidenhood was
a \ _ , ' WaS a native of Southern Ohio. His parents were married in Iowa
and the father followed the occupation of a house painter, decorator and carriage
painter. The paternal grandfather, Owen Evans, who was a native of Wales, was
an iron worker and foundryman, and built one of the first blast furnaces ever erected
in Pennsylvania. He was married in his native country to Annie Peregreen. Mr.
Evans is the second child in order of birth in a family of five children, namely, M.
Lulu, Loron W, Jessie M., Frank Uriah, and Myrtle, the latter three being deceased.
Loron W. was four years of age when his parents removed to Firth, Lancaster
County, Nebr., ,n 1874, and the family shared incidentally in the vicissitudes that came
VT fT a 0°T7 T°?Bh thE Srassh°PPer scourge in those years. The elder
Evans followed his trade of house and carriage painter at Firth, and when Loron
ranrnJ A T 7 Ta ^'O m°Ved t0 Dawes County. Nebr., 170 miles from the
brS id Tl T 'a TV " ?leC\°f Iand' Lor0n helped turn the virgin sod of Ne-
at Pen, N.h w ' ' TT Sch°°'S' ,ater becoming a student in the State Normal
Countv Nehr ^e"PaiSoSnd the teachers' examination and taught school in Dawes
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settling in El Modena precinct, on the east side of Alameda Street. The father pur
chased twenty-one and a half acres of land and later added to this by the purchase of
another twenty acres. The father died at El Modena in 1908, aged sixty-three; the
mother was sixty-seven at her demise in 1914. In 1901-2 Loron W. made a trip
to Oregon and engaged in the vocation of carpentering at Corvallis, remaining there
a little over a year. He returned to Orange County when his father purchased the
present home place, February 19, 1904. His marriage in 1907, united him with Miss
Rosa B. Robinson, daughter of Fletcher Robinson of North Carolina, in which state
Mrs. Evans was also born. She came to California about the same time that her hus
band came to the state. Two children have been born to them— »Norol Owen and
Richard Fletcher by name.
For many years Mr. Evans has been associated with the John T. Carpenter Water
Company, which furnishes water for irrigation. He was first a stockholder in the
company, then became a director and in 1908 was elected its president, in which capacity
he has served continuously ever since. The company served about 1,100 acres of
citrus land and obtained the water from Santiago River wells. Mr. Evans is a trustee
from El Modena precinct on the Orange Union high school board, and has served on
the election board and as juryman in the district court at Santa Ana. He is a stock
holder in the National Bank of Orange, is a member of the Central Lemon Growers
Association at Villa Park, is director and vice-president in the McPherson Heights
Orange Growers Association and also a director and president of the Orange County
Fumigation Company frpm its organization. Politically he is a Republican in national
issues, but in local matters is governed by principle and votes for the man he thinks
best qualified for the public office. Mr. and Mrs. Evans are members of the First
Methodist Church at Orange.
ANTONE BORCHARD. — This enterprising, successful rancher was born near
what is now Oxnard, where the well-known sugar beet factory is located, on September
6, 1883, the son of Casper Borchard, a native of Hanover, Germany, who is still living
and resides at Newbury Park, Ventura County. His wife, who was Theresa Maring,
also a native of Hanover, died when Anton was in his fourteenth year. The father
never remarried, but he divided his lands among his children, and now has the satis
faction of seeing all of his family useful, prosperous and honored citizens. He and
his good wife were hard-working, frugal people, and they became large landowners in
Ventura, Madera and Orange counties.
When Casper Borchard first came to California, the livestock business was the
one great occupation which engaged nearly all of the white settlers in the state, and
he soon began to raise cattle, horses, mules, some sheep and even goats. He was from
the beginning well supported by his five sons and three daughters, the boys caring for
the cattle on the hills of Ventura County from the time they were old enough to ride
a horse. For a while, Casper had a herd of about 900 cattle, and he became the owner
of more than 3,000 acres in Ventura County, and of about as wide a stretch in Madera
County. He came down to Orange County, and with his excellent judgment of soil
and farming lands bought extensively in the Gospel Swamp south and east of what
is now Huntington Beach. He added to his original purchases from time to time,
until he became one of the large landowners in Orange County, while he also retained
his large holdings in Ventura and Madera counties.
These worthy parents reared eight children. Rosa is now the wife of Silas Kelley,
the rancher of Ventura County, and resides at Newbury Park; Mary presides over her
father's house; Leo was an extensive rancher near Huntington Beach, now retired in
Santa Ana; Casper, Jr., is a rancher near Newbury Park; Antone, the fifth in the order
of birth, is the subject of this review; Frank P. is another large landowner residing in
Santa Ana; Charles is a rancher at Fairview, Orange County; and Theresa is the wife
of Ed Borchard, a rancher at Newbury Park.
Antone Borchard began riding the range with his father, making himself generally
useful about his father's extensive grain and stock farm, and so well did he early learn
to handle horses that he was able to drive two, four, six, eight or, finally, even thirty-
two horses on the great Holt combined harvester and thresher used by the Borchards in
reaping the golden grain of Ventura County. He saw the establishing of the great
Oxnard Sugar Factory; and as the Borchard land was well-suited to the growing of
sugar beets, they became interested in that industry and took rank among the leading
beet growers, as they had previously led in the livestock and grain farming industries.
When twenty-two years of age, in partnership with his younger brother, Frank
P. Borchard, he rented his father's grain ranch of 3,000 acres in Ventura County, and
for four years, or until he married, the brothers farmed it successfully together. In
1911 Mr. Borchard was married in that county to Miss Anna Kellner, a young lady of
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the ancient town of Duderstadt, Hanover, the daughter of John and Amalia (Adler)
Kellner, farmers who also had a bakery and a restaurant, and who because of their
industry and enterprise, became prosperous. Her father had been a schoolmate with
Casper Borchard; and when the latter returned to California from a visit to Germany
in 1906, Miss Kellner and several other young women and men of Duderstadt accom
panied him. Her parents both lived and died in Germany, and she still has four sisters
and two brothers living in that country. They duly landed in New York after an un
eventful voyage across the Atlantic, and on August 24, 1906, reached Oxnard. Since
her advent in the Golden State, Mrs. Borchard has thoroughly adopted American and
Californian ways,. and she is in perfect accord with their institutions. Physically and
mentally well-endowed, she is among the busiest of women, caring conscientiously for
her household and her four children— Vincent, Frances, Bernice and Wilma.
For four years Antone farmed with his brother, Frank P., and then for four years
he was in partnership with another brother, Casper, Jr. After his marriage, the
partnership was dissolved; but Antone continued to operate one-half of the Borchard
holdings in Ventura County until 1914, when he came down to Orange County, where
the father, Casper Borchard, already owned much land, and bought the Ed Farnsworth
ranch of 245 acres. This he has well improved by building a beautiful country^ resi
dence in bungalow style, with barns, water wells, a tank house and other desirable
accessories. It is commandingly situated on the east side of the county highway,
running from Santa Ana to Greenville, about four miles south of Santa Ana.
Mr. Borchard has never been afraid of hard work, and is never idle, and he has
certainly succeeded in the raising of livestock, grain farming, and the cultivation of
sugar beets, as well as lima beans. His land is exceptionally adapted to the latter,
and produces as many as twenty-two sacks to the acre. In 1918 he helped to organize
and is an officer in the Greenville Bean Growers Warehouse. The company has erected
a fireproof cement warehouse, on the line of the Pacific Electric at Greenville, and they
have installed up-to-date machinery for cleaning and sorting the beans, and are handling
approximately half a million dollars' worth of beans annually.
Although a man who has succeeded beyond the majority of men, so that he is
now a man of wealth and affluence, Antone Borchard still actively farms his own place,
and can be seen any day superintending the place and doing what is necessary to be
done around the ranch, where he is constantly making improvements.
HERBERT ANDREW FORD, D. D. S.— The distinction of being a native Cali
fornian, and the son of a California pioneer belongs to Herbert Andrew Ford, D. D. S.,
of Fullerton. He was born at Fullerton, Cal., June 27, 1895, and is the son of Herbert
Alvin and Carrie (McFadden) Ford. His father, who is deceased, followed the occu
pation of ranching during his lifetime. The mother is still living, and Herbert A. is the
youngest of her three children.
He received a good public and high school education, which was supplemented
with a professional course in the dental department of the University of Southern
California, from which he graduated in 1918 with the above degree. He saw service in
the Medical Corps of the U. S. Army, stationed at Camp Greenleaf, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga.,
and upon being discharged he opened his practice in Fullerton. He is a young man
of fine characteristics, standing on the threshold of a promising future, and has become
substantially identified with the dental profession at Fullerton, in which he has built
up a lucrative practice. He is a member of Los Angeles County Dental Association,
Southern California Dental Association and the National Dental Association, and also
of the Delta Sigma Delta Fraternity.
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Fullerton; politically he is
nonpartisan; and fraternally he affiliates with Anaheim Lodge 1345 of Elks; is a member
of the Fullerton Club and the Hacienda Country Club of La Habra as well as the Board
of Trade, and takes a warm interest in the general welfare of Orange County.
PLEASANT B. LEE.— One of the enterprising ranchers of Orange County, Cal.,
engaged exclusively in growing lima beans and deeply impressed with the great possi
bilities of the soil and climate is Pleasant B. Lee, a native of Tennessee, where he was
born at Cookville, Putnam County, February 26, 1884. His parents Nathaniel and
Milhsa (Myatt) Lee were also natives of Tennessee, and of their family of nine children,
seven are living. Pleasant B. is the eldest and the only one of the family in California.
The other children are: William, Eldridge, Alfred, Everett, Clinton and Naomi.
From a lad Pleasant B. cheerfully learned the tasks necessary for making a suc
cess of farming as carried on in Tennessee and meanwhile obtained a good education
in the grammar school in his neighborhood. He assisted his parents on the home
farm until he came to Orange County, Cal., in 1906. For three years he was in the
employ of Mr Zemeau, a retail oil merchant in Santa Ana, then for two years with the
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pany until he resigned. in 1915 to become foreman on the present ranch of W. A. Cook
until 1919, when he took over the lease of 200 acres, which he devotes to raising lima
beans. He is an energetic and progressive young man of the type that makes a suc
cess in life. He established domestic ties by. his marriage in Santa Ana, February 14,
1907, to Miss Margaret L. Matthew, a native of Santa Ana and a daughter of Oscar and
Cora (Ratcliffe) Matthew, born in Forest Hill, Cal., and Bellefontaine, Ohio, respec
tively, who were married at Downey, Cal., where they were farmers; they now make
their honje in Santa Ana. Mrs. Lee is the eldest of their five children and received her
education in the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Lee are consistent members of the
Christian Church and fraternally Mr. Lee is affiliated with the order of Maccabees.
THOMAS BLACKLOCK WELCH.— For many years well known in the Eastern
markets through his association with the mercantile business, Thomas B. Welch has
spent the past ten years of his life as a citrus rancher. Mr. Welch was born at Bots-
ford, Westmoreland County, New Brunswick, April 21, 1850, his father being the Hon.
E. A. Welch, a prominent attorney, who was also interested in agriculture and lumber
ing. His mother was Jean (Blacklock) Welch. They were natives of Ecclefechen,
Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and were members of old Presbyterian families who were
prominent in Scotch history. Mr. Welch was the eldest of eight children, only three
of whom now survive. He was educated in the pay schools of his home locality
and assisted on the home farm and in lumbering. When a young man of sixteen
he apprenticed to the dry goods business serving three years, when he joined an im
porting house in St. John, New Brunswick. In 1877, the city of St. John suffered a
disastrous fire and Mr. Welch had the misfortune of seeing his home and interest in the
business wiped out. The following year he brought his family to the States, and
settled at Boston, Mass. For many years he was foreign buyer of fine fabrics, linens
and laces for a number of exclusive importing firms in Boston, then St. Louis, then
Chicago, where he was with Mandel Bros, for nine years, then New York City with Lord
and Taylor, continuing for thirteen years. He made numerous trips abroad in this
connection and traveled extensively throughout all the large European countries.
In 1910, Mr. Welch retired from active commercial life and came with his family
to California, and on April 21 of that year he purchased a tract of twenty acres at
Yorba Linda which he named the Valley View ranch. He at once began experimenting
in citrus culture and in this he has been very successful and his ranch is now one of the
most attractive places in the district. When he settled at Yorba Linda, ten years ago,
there were only a couple of houses in sight and Mr. Welch has taken a leading part
in the development of this thriving place. He was instrumental in organizing the
Yorba Linda Chamber of Commerce and served as its president for the first two years
of its existence. As president of the Yorba Linda Water Users Association he was
one of the most active in their litigation, and finally won out in the courts over the
investment company that was endeavoring to float a bond issue. An enthusiast on the
subject of goods roads, he was an earnest supporter of the bond issue to build the
boulevard in that locality.
In Halifax, Nova Scotia, on November 18, 1875, occurred Mr. Welch's marriage,
when he was united with Miss Julia A. Crook, a native of St. John, N. B., the daughter
of Capt. Isaac and Maria (Canton) Crook, the father being interested in a number of
merchant vessels sailing out of Halifax. Mrs. Welch was reared in Halifax and given
an excellent education in the Misses Crawford's School. She spent many interesting
days on board her father's vessels, while on their cruises. Since coming to California,
Mrs. Welch has taken an active interest in all the community affairs at Yorba Linda,
was president of the Woman's Club, and it was through her instrumentality, associated
with Mrs. Carl Seaman, that the custom of holding the beautiful Easter sunrise service
there was established and it was she who had the cross erected on the hill where this
service is held.
Mr. and Mrs. Welch are the parents of five children: Jessie M. is the wife of
Frederick B. Murlock, superintendent of the Memorial Hospital at Richmond, Va.;
Edward A. is owner and manager of the Medford Wholesale Grocery Company at
Medford, Ore.; Emma V. is the wife of Nelson P. Young of Los Angeles; Edith G. is
the wife of Charles R. Selover of Yorba Linda. It was through Mrs. Selover's initiative
that the Yorba Linda Public Library was started, and she supplied the first books for
the shelves. The youngest son, Harold C, is the manager of a ranch of eighty acres
at La Habra. Mr. Welch is devoted to the land of his adoption and gave freely of
his time and means in all the Red Cross work and loan campaigns during the recent
war. In politics he is a stanch adherent of the Republican party. The family are
members of the Presbyterian Church and their comfortable home is a center oi
hospitality for the community.
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ARTHUR WALDO PURDY. — From good old "down East" Nova Scotia have
come much of the brawn and brain which at times have proven so efficacious in pro
moting needed enterprises in the Golden State along the most rational and successful
lines, and Nova Scotians settling in California have taken a prominent part, in particular,
in th'e development of California agriculture. Arthur Waldo Purdy is a living repre
sentative, in his aggressive operations as owner of the Fullerton Sanitary Dairy, of just
what the thoroughly-trained farmer from that favored section of America may do, given
the almost unlimited opportunities of the Pacific Coast.
He was born in Digby County, N. S., on August 28, 1882, the son of Albert H.
Purdy, a farmer, who married Miss Sophia Potter, by whom he had twelve children.
Arthur was the ninth in the order of birth, and was educated partly in Nova Scotia,
partly in New Hampshire, to which Yankee State he had gone when fourteen years of
age. Later he attended the high school at Wilton, N. H., from which he was grad
uated with the class of '02, and after that he took a course at a first-class business
college in Boston. Mr. Purdy, therefore, is in part the product of American institu
tions, as he is today the most intense and loyal of American citizens.
For a while he engaged in the lumber business with a brother, taking up all sides
of it, even to the running of a sawmill, and then, for fourteen years, he was dairying,
for six years caring for the estate of J. E. Devlin at Wilton. On the first of December,
1915, he came to Fullerton, and here he again engaged in dairying. Since that time he
has developed his interests so that he now has three milk wagons and supplies the
highest grade of milk to Placentia, Brea and Fullerton. When he started in the busi
ness here, he had fifteen cows and employed one assistant; now he keeps seven people
busy caring for his 150 cows. In the beginning, years ago, he handled forty gallons
of milk a day; now the output is 300 gallons. In the spring of 1920 he consolidated
his business with the Excelsior Creamery Company, Santa Ana, of which company he
is now a stockholder and director. Naturally, he is a member of the Board of Trade.
On June 17, 1906, the wedding of Mr. Purdy and Miss Evelyn G. Chesley, a native
of Milton Mills, N. H., took place at Farmington, N. H., and they are blessed with one
son, Roland C. Purdy.
LE ROY E. LYON. — A well-educated, well-read and altogether interesting gen
tleman whose enterprise and foresight have frequently been demonstrated in a striking
manner, is Le Roy E. Lyon, who was born in Wilmington, Lake County, 111., on Sep
tember 20, 1885. His father was Edward S. Lyon, also a native of the Prairie State, and
he was a college graduate and an educator. He removed to Atwood, Rawlins County,
Kans., and there became influential as a professor until his health failed, when he
engaged in the mercantile business. Disappointed, that with the new indoor activity, his
health did not improve, he went in for cattle raising and ranching in western Kansas
and eastern Colorado; and thus occupied, he continued until his death. He had married
Miss Julia Hegar, a native of Wisconsin; and of their three children — LeRoy is the
oldest and the only one of the family in California.
Le Roy was brought up in Kansas and attended the grammar school until his
twelfth year, when he removed with his parents to North Park, Colo., and there attended
the high school at Boulder. Having been graduated from the latter, he matriculated in
the law department of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and continued to study
there until his junior year; but on account of the bad effect upon his health by the con
finement, he abandoned the law course, and in 1911 came out to California to seek a
permanent location.
During vacations, Mr. Lyon assisted his father and rode the range, and this gave
him an excellent opportunity to practice shooting, so that he became very adept.
\\ hen he started in high school, he continued shooting, and in the state matches won
the Colorado state championship. Then as a member of the state team he represented
Colorado in national matches, and for three years his team, and he also personally,
won many honors. In the report of the National Rifle and Revolver Association of
America both his portrait and pictures of the cups he won grace the volumes, and some
eTT TT "OW /S, 'n h'S home' Mr' Lyon has won over seventy medals for
expert shooting, some of them very difficult to attain
n,',wHlh0ldS tW° seventy-five-yard revolver records-world attainments-having made
11/7° °Ut °L°,ne hundred- and al*° the world's fifty-yard record, where
schcTol and eV116 °Ut+,°f fifty' By bdng an expert shot he put himself through high
e Jeciallv con HgC- '" h ' T"™' T "^ he apo,o^e for the means he provided,
back from C°n.lderm^ the educational target he was aiming at. In 1912 Mr. Lyon went
it was then ^ T'a a Co,lorad° t° Participate in the state championship match, and
wJen on TAt thls uTnderfuI rec°rd in footing, and for the third time.
Comrnnnl« uu u , T^ hlS pr6Sent place of eighteen and one-half acres in the
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This he cleared off and leveled the land; then he bought an interest in a water com
pany, and with others developed water and installed an electrical pumping plant,
distributing the water by means of cement pipe lines. The plant was incorporated as
the Pilot Water Company, and of this organization Mr. Lyon is secretary and treasurer,
and a director. It irrigates already 158 acres of citrus groves, so that it probably has
an interesting future. Mr. Lyon set out the nursery stock, and budded them to Valencia
oranges, and thus himself made his eighteen and a half acres a fine Valencia orange
grove, now in good bearing. Until he got well started with his citrus industry, he raised
vegetables of various kinds, particularly potatoes. He operates the ranch with a Ford
tractor, and all his other machinery and implements are of the latest and best design.
He is a member, and a very interested, progressive one at that, of the Placentia
Mutual Orange Association, and supports its programs vigorously.
In San Bernardino County, Cal., Mr. Lyon was married to Miss Mildred Laney,
a native of Missouri who came to California with her parents. She attended the Ana
heim high school, and grew up in the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Lyon is clerk of the
board of trustees of the Commonwealth school district, and in national politics he is a
Republican. JUAN D. ORTEGA. — An interesting representative of one of California's oldest
and proudest families is Juan D. Ortega, the experienced, efficient and genial manager
of the famous James McFadden ranch south of Santa Ana, who is also related by mar
riage with another celebrated early house, that of Tico. He was born at Santa Bar
bara on March 8, 1843, the son of Emidio Ortega, who owned the Ortega grant of two
leagues in Santa Barbara County. His father, the grandfather of our subject, was
also Juan Ortega, a Spanish soldier who was captain of the troops at San Gabriel,
where he died. The wife of Emidio Ortega was Concepcion Dominguez before her
marriage, also a member of a very well-known Spanish family here, and she lived to
be ninety-seven and a half years old.
Juan D. Ortega grew up in Santa Barbara County, and was married in Ventura
to Eduvige Tico, the ceremony occurring in 1866; and she is happily still living, the
mother of six children. Carlos B. was the eldest and kept the hotel on the Irvine
ranch; he died on March 3, 1920, leaving a widow and two children. He formerly
resided in San Diego County, where he was deputy sheriff. Juan B. is a rancher at
Carlsbad, San Diego County. Frank is married to Miss Lillie Kelly, a native daugh
ter, and they assist their father on the ranch. Otilia is the wife of Frank Carpenter,
and lives at Carlsbad. Maria A. is the wife of Phil Rutherford, the rancher, and
they reside at Turlock, in Stanislaus County, and Petra is the wife of Juan J. Carillo,
the rancher, at El Toro, in Orange County.
In 1869 Mr. Ortega came to San Diego County and there commenced a ranching
experience of fifty years, during which time he knew Ernest Erastus Horton, the
Spreckels and other leading men of the city and county of San Diego. For the past
three and a half years he has managed the James McFadden ranch, which is a land
mark at Santa Ana, being devoted to general or mixed farming. It was owned by
the late James McFadden, the pioneer, who built the railroad to Newport Beach and
owned the steamboat plying between San Francisco and Newport, and had much to
do with the building up of Santa Ana and other parts of the Southland. His widow
and daughter still own the ranch, and live at Altadena, and the family name is every-*
where held in esteem.
Mr. Ortega has always been as hard-working as he has been successful, and his
foresight, industry and prosperity have entitled him to a reputation such as anyone
might envy.
JOHN KNOWLTON BROWN.— A studious agriculturist who, at the age of
eighty-one, is still active in California horticultural circles as the owner of three trim
ranches, is John Knowlton Brown, the philanthropist of Anaheim, who was born on
May 22, 1840, at Liberty, Waldo County, Maine. His father was the late Dr. Joab
Brown, physician and surgeon, and formerly medical examiner for the U. S. Army,
one of a continuous line of successful men and women whose ancestry leads back to
Revolutionary War periods. Dr. Joab Brown married Ann Knowlton, and John's
grandfather, John Knowlton, was a seafaring man and became master of his own
vessel. When he married he quit the sea and located on Lake George, Waldo County,
Maine, where he bought several thousand acres of Government land and founded the
town of Liberty where he built saw mills, stave and heading mills and also a woolen
and grist mill; he had eleven children and gave each of them a farm. He died at
seventy-two years while his wife lived to be ninety-four years old. Dr. Brown practiced
medicine and was a very prominent man and leader in local affairs until his death, at
eighty-six years, his wife surviving him and died at ninety-one. J. K. is second oldest
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Grandfather Joab Brown, born in Massachusetts, was a physician and also a
preacher; he also located in Waldo County, Maine, and purchased a large tract of
land where the city of Camden now stands. He married a Miss Ingraham of Rock
land, Maine, the second eldest of a family of four children. When sixteen years of
age, John K. Brown finished his schooling, and although his father tried to persuade
him to study either the law or medicine, he declined and commenced, instead, to earn
his own support, and maintain himself. He even, later turned down positions offered
him as instructor in the city schools. Then he went to Haverhill, Mass., and was
apprenticed to a shoe manufacturer. He worked and saved, wisely keeping his eye
on the future; but his desire to get into more comfortable circumstances did not
prevent him from offering his services patriotically to the Government when his coun
try needed help. At the age of twenty-one, he served as captain of the Home Militia
of Liberty, Maine.
Mr. Brown next took up photography, made a business of it, and succeeded so
well that he was active in that field for three years; and having accumulated a small
fortune, he entered the retail shoe business at Lawrence, Mass., but he soon sold and
located in Worcester, Mass. Whatever he did, seemed to prosper; he conducted at
one time as many as four stores; and he has owned and sold fifty-one mercantile
establishments. In 1887 he was a prime mover in the organization of the Retail Shoe
Dealers' National Association of the United States, and its first president, during which
time he was the father of- the standard last measurement for shoes, which was adopted
by the association. After he quit the retail business Mr. Brown traveled extensively
over the United States for wholesale shoe houses. In 1909 he made his first trip to
California and finally located in Los Angeles. In 1914 he purchased an orange grove
and later bought another on West Broadway, Anaheim, where he makes his home.
In 1917 he quit traveling and devotes all of his time to his orchards.
How successful he has been may be judged from the fact that he has been offered
$70,000 for his ten and one-third-acre grove of citrus trees, and refused the offer. He
assisted to start the Anaheim Lemon and Orange Association, and is still a member
of the same. Besides his California holdings, Mr. Brown also owns a farm of 320 acres
in Maine and several business and residence lots in Los Angeles; and he has some real
estate in Worcester, Mass.
On March 23, 1861, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Ida P. Kincaid, a native of
Skowhegan, Maine, and the daughter of George Washington and Lucy Ann (Nichols)
Kincaid, whose ancestors, both paternal and maternal, came early to the coast of Maine
from Scotland. Their older child, Walter L. Brown, is a graduate of the Worcester
Academy, and married a Miss Hale, a Canadian lady, by whom he has had one child,
Norman Brown. At present, he is representing C. H. Baker, the shoe manufacturer,
at Los Angeles. Alice Rose Brown, the younger child, has become the wife of Dr.
B. Paul Simpson, the dental surgeon of Maiden, Mass. Mr. Brown is a Republican,
and cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are members of
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Anaheim, and loyally supported the war work in the
recent chaos of nations, and have been especially devoted to the Red Cross.
PETER JACOBSEN. — A hard-working rancher who owes his success largely to
his own honest efforts and unremitting, fatiguing toil, is Peter Jacobsen, of East
Orangethorpe Avenue, who was born on the Island of Taasinge, northern Denmark, on
March 17, 1871, the son of Jacob Petersen, who had married Miss Marie Hansen. His
father had a dairy on the little island of Taasinge, a region devoted entirely to dairying,
and was highly respected as a progressively industrious farmer. According to Danish
custom, our subject changed his name in a manner rather puzzling perhaps to Amer
icans, but perfectly understandable to the Dane.
He attended the excellent graded schools of Denmark, and up to his eighteenth
year remained at home on the farm. Then he struck out for himself and came to the
United States; and having caught a glimpse of the East, pushed on to Lakeview,
ThiO?n°Tyi WaT 0hT ten miles' from Tacoma, where he spent about one year
son Ts1 H S TT cThen he worked for a couple of years in the brickyards on Ander
son Island in Puget Sound, after which he came down to Southern California in 1892.
oran^ZTOfT T empI°y of Charles C. Chapman and soon became the head
tion and 1 T u Chapman V&CTS House at Placentia. He gave such satisfac-
rade thatTere^ /0-r'lSat;Sfied With the ChaPman methods of industry and
hem Tw Ihe TT I t V T™/ estab^hme„t for twenty-one years, and left
them only when he determined to found a home place for himself.
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As a part of the improvement, he has erected there a modest, but comfortable home,
adding decidedly to the attractiveness of the property. Besides caring for his own
five acres, Mr. Jacobsen is also a grader of oranges for the Placentia Mutual Orange
Growers Association.
On December 2, 1903, Mr. Jacobsen was married in Santa Ana to Miss. Mary
Petersen, who was born in Denmark in the vicinity of his own birthplace and attended
there the same school to which he had gone. She was left an orphan when ten years of
age. In 1903 she came to Orange County, having met Mr. Jacobsen at the time of his
visit to his home in 1899-1900. Two children were born of this union: Alfred J., who
is with his father on the ranch and who also works in the packing house, and Mamie
K., a most attractive girl who passed away on December 13, 1919, just three days after
her thirteenth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobsen are members of the Methodist Church
of Fullerton. WILLIAM W. KAYS. — An architect who has done much to elevate the standard
of common sense taste in architectural art in Orange County, and to increase the safe
guards to life and property through other common sense measures and devices, is
William W. Kays, a native of Old Kentucky, where he was born at Nicholasville,
Jessamine County, on November 10, 1872. His father, George W. Kays, was a pros
perous farmer, who had married Miss Miranda Gorman. They had eleven children, and
William was the fifth in the order of birth. Both parents are now deceased, but still
remembered and honored by many for the usefulness and beauty of their lives.
William mastered thoroughly all that he was asked to do in the practical public
schools of his home district, and later took a course at the Alexander Hamilton Insti
tute in New York City.. From a youth off and on he was employed in a planing mill,
and for five years made furniture. After that, with some older brothers he was in the
building line until 1895. In March of that year he came to California and located at
Los Banos, where he did construction work for Miller and Lux. For a year he followed
civil engineering in the same county, and then he went to Fresno and for a year and
a half engaged in building there. Next, for four years, or until 1910, Mr. Kays was the
manager of the Union Lumber Company's mill, and after that manager of the manu
facturing department of the Pacific Tank.
In the fall of 1910 Mr. Kays came to Santa Ana and assumed the responsibilities
of managing the Pendelton Lumber Company. He also engaged in architectural work.
In April, 1917, he sold out his other interests and confined himself to the designing
and supervising of new buildings. Since then he has erected many of the most notable
structures in Orange County. He designed, for example, the athletic building of Poly
technic high school, Santa Ana, as well as the Bolsa grammar school, the John C.
Tuffree residence, the Cross home at Fullerton, the Kraemer residence at Placentia,
the D. Woodward dwelling at Loftus Station, the John Ruther home at Anaheim,
the Bergerhof residence at Garden Grove, the home of Sherman Steven at Tustin, Fred
Rohrs' building and store fittings for Spier and Company, as well as the fixtures in the
American National Bank of Santa Ana, and numerous other buildings more or less
costly in construction; these he both made the plans for and supervised, while they were
being constructed. As his business has grown and branched out, he has for convenience,
opened an office and sales service in the Pantages building, Los Angeles, so he divides
his time between the two places.
The marriage of Mr. Kays took place on April 21, 1914, when he chose for his
wife Hazel A. Kenyon of Iowa. Mr. Kays is both an Odd Fellow and an Elk, and in
national politics is a Republican. Both he and Mrs. Kays, however, are active in the
support of all worthy movements for local uplift and development, and in such com
munity endeavors know no partisanship, but endorse and work for the best men and
women, and the best measures.
WALTER H. KIDD. — One of the leading and most successful plastering con
tractors of Orange County, Walter H. Kidd is a native of Vernon County, Mo., where
he was born April 3, 1883, a son of James and Nancy Jane Kidd. When one year old,
his parents moved to Oregon, locating in Union County, and in the public schools of
that state Walter received his early education. In 1899 he came to California to live,
locating in Los Angeles, and while there learned the trade of a plasterer with the
well-known contractors, Engstrom and Company. While in their employ Mr. Kidd
worked as a plasterer on a number of large and important buildings in Los Angeles,
among which mention is made of the following: County Hall of Records, New Orpheum
Building, Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, and the new Jail Building.
Since 1911 Mr. Kidd has been engaged in contract plastering for himself at Ana
heim. He has been very successful in his chosen line of work and has done an exten
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integrity of character in his business relations, Mr. Kidd believes in putting his best
efforts in every piece of work, regardless of its being a large or small contract, and
he thus has attained an enviable reputation for satisfactory workmanship. Among the
important buildings in Orange County for which he received the plastering contract
are the following: German-American Bank Building and St. Boniface Catholic Church,
Anaheim; La Habra, Olive and Bolsa school buildings. He also had the contract for
the plaster and cement work on the Polytechnic Building of the Fullerton Union high
school, on which he put 5,000 feet of cement moulding. Among the high-class houses
plastered by this enterprising contractor are the beautiful residences of Charles H.
Eygabroad and Alexander H. Witman, Jr., in Anaheim; but the greater part of his
work has been done on the new ranch homes located in the Fullerton, Placentia and
La Habra districts. His extensive operations keep a crew of thirteen men busy.
Mr. Kidd's marriage occurred in Los Angeles when he was united with Miss
Juletta Vivian, a native of England. Two sons, James and Herbert, have been born
to them. The family attend the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
JACOB RUEDY. — A prosperous orange grower who previously had made an
equal success as a planter in Virginia, raising peanuts, is Jacob Ruedy, of East Orange
thorpe Avenue, near Raymond, Fullerton, who was born at the famous Falls of the
Rhine, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, on October 27, 1858, the son of J. J. and Annie
Ruedy. His father was a farmer, and our subject assisted him while he pursued his
grammar and high school studies.
In 1879 he came to America and joined a sister, Mrs. Annie Weber, at Pittsburgh,
Pa., with whom he lived for a couple of years, and in 1882 he removed to the vicinity
of Petersburg, Va. There he purchased a farm of 600 acres, and he raised peanuts and
cotton and stock. This ranch was near where the present Camp Lee is located; and
there he lived for thirty-five years.
At Petersburg, on March 7, 1882, Mr. Ruedy was married to Miss Elizabeth Vogel,
who was also born in Schaffhausen in Switzerland, and was reared and educated there.
In 1915 the San Francisco Fair drew Mr. and Mrs. Ruedy; and after they had seen
the Golden State, they returned to Virginia and sold their interests there. Then they
came to California, bought five acres on East Orangethorpe, Fullerton, and also six
acres on Placentia Avenue, in Placentia. Both have Valencia orange trees, and both
are under the Anaheim Union Water Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Ruedy are members of the Methodist Church of Fullerton, and
delight in taking part in good works for their neighbors and the community generally.
They have also done what they could to maintain a high civic standard, and to instill
patriotism, and during the recent war they did good war work.
FRANK J. DAUSER. — The ever-interesting pioneer history of California is
recalled in the story of Frank J. Dauser and his family, of East Commonwealth Avenue,
Fullerton, for his father came here when the land was covered with wild mustard, sage
and cactus, and he was among the earliest to demonstrate that raisin grapevines have
a longer endurance than those designed for the production of wine. The grandfather
of Mrs. Dauser was also an early settler in the Golden State; hence, California and its
stirring past has ever been a theme in the Dauser circle, where the brilliant and certain
future of the state has also been present to inspire to renewed activity.
Mr. Dauser was born on December 29, 1877, near Faribault, Rice County, Minn.,
the son of Francis X. and Mary (Stueckle) Dauser, and his father, a farmer, was a
native of Pennsylvania who removed first to Wisconsin and then to Minnesota. There
he raised for the most part wheat, and being a progressive agriculturist, prospered; but
attracted by the still greater advantages of California, he and his good wife came
out here when Frank was seven years old.
_ Settling in what is now Fullerton they purchased within six months after their
arrival some twenty acres on Cypress Avenue, east of Fullerton, which they planted
to raisin grapes; and such was the greater hardihood of the vines, as compared with
some of the wme grapes, that they continued to yield for five years after their period
of full bearing As the grapes died out, Mr. Dauser sensibly planted Valencia, Navel
ITTT ' , Tluge treCS' S6tting 0Ut one tree for every twenty-four feet, and
aiound the edge of the grove placed a row of walnut trees
t,W ITk J' Dau,ser ^nt to the Placentia schools, there being no Fullerton at that
Te Then TT? TO ioni T iath"T'S farm until he was twenty-two years of
takin/nlaee In A I""' ' i"01' \e WaS married to Miss Mar7 Prattf the ceremony
West Anaheim TT Sh£ WSS b.°rn in Kankakee, 111., and came to California and
John Pratt and th A ^^ Tu™ ^ WaS thirteen ^ears °Id- Her father was
as weh as the Pratis " T l°f ^ m°ther Was Louise EmHng= a"d the Emlings,
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Kankakee and also in Anaheim, and so saw the life of two great and distinctive regions
of the United States.
After their marriage, Mr. Dauser was employed for a while in the planing mills
at Fullerton, for Brown and Dauser Company, in time becoming foreman of the yard,
serving in that capacity until he decided to engage in ranching, after sixteen years
with that company. He then was given charge of the Brown ranch of 20 acres in La
Habra which he set to Valencias and lemons, continuing there for four years, when
he located on his own ranch purchased from his father. It comprises 10 acres or one-
half of the original estate, which is devoted to raising oranges. His land, unusually
rich and fertile, is under the Anaheim Union Water Company, and he markets through
the Fullerton Mutual Orange Growers Association.
Five children are the pride of Mr. and Mrs. Dauser: Cyril J. has already grad
uated from the high school at Fullerton, now attending Woodbury's Business College
in Los Angeles; Mildred attending Fullerton high, and Clarence, Vincent and Dorothy
are pupils in the grammar school.
GARDNER W. CLOSSON, D. V. S.— As county livestock inspector of Orange
County and veterinary surgeon of Anaheim, G. W. Closson, D. V. S., is carrying on a
work of much importance to the prosperity and growth of the district, and his con
scientious attention to his duties has won him the respect and admiration of his fellow
citizens in the county. A native of Kansas, he was born in Smith County, July 4, 1881.
When six years old he was brought to Lincoln, Nebr., and there attended the public
schools. At the age of nineteen he migrated to St. Joseph, Mo., and for two years
worked in the stock yards there. He then returned to Missouri and attended the
Kansas City Veterinary College, graduating in 1905.
That same year Dr. Closson came to California, and opened the practice of his
profession in Santa Ana, since which time he has been in active practice in Orange
County and very successful in his methods of treatment, being the oldest veterinary
in point of service now in the county. For the past eight years he has been county
livestock inspector and has accomplished much good during this term of service, among
other things has driven out the Texas fever tick, and made the county reasonably free
of glanders. In addition to his professional duties, Dr. Closson maintains a forty-cow
dairy one and one-half miles east of Anaheim.
The marriage of Dr. Closson united him with Miss Wilma Crevling, a native of
Iowa. Fraternally he is a member of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks and
professionally he is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association and the
state association and of the Southern California branch of that order, of which he is a
past president and he is past president of the Los Angeles Veterinary Medical Asso
ciation. In politics he is a stanch Republican. His years of experience and practical
knowledge have been of great benefit to the ranchers in Orange County, and combined
with his scientific studies, it would be hard to find a man more fitted for the position
he occupies in the community.
LEONARD PARKER. — A sturdy pioneer who in early days saw active service
in helping to quell the Indian outbreaks in Nebraska, and who has been identified with
the development of important interests in California since the middle of the nineties,
is Leonard Parker, who was born at Racine, Wis., on May 16, 1851, the son of Fletcher
and Priscilla Parker, farmer-folk and among the first settlers of Racine. They moved
to Eden, Fayette County, Iowa, in the fall of 1854, that is, the mother and the elder
brother of our subject went there, following the death of the father in Wisconsin, and
the former purchased 120 acres of Government land, where they raised stock and grain.
Leonard attended the common schools of Iowa when school was kept and work per
mitted, and by industry snatched such education as he could.
When he was seventeen, he and his brother Samuel moved on to Jefferson County,
Nebr., and near Meridian the brother took up 160 acres of prairie land, which he devoted
to wheat, barley and corn. He joined Company C of the Nebraska Militia and soon
had a hand in quieting the Indians. On October 15, 1879, he was married to Miss
Mary McKenna, who was born near New York City, and the daughter of Patrick and
Margaret McKenna who came to Nebraska in 1859.
In 1881, Mr. Parker moved to Pueblo, Colo., and there he was employed by the
Colorado Coal and Iron Company, for the following three years. When he moved
back to Nebraska, he settled in Scotts Bluff County, and taking up a quarter section of
homestead land, raised grain. He stayed two years on the Nebraska homestead, and
then he removed to Portland, Ore., in 1888. He went into well drilling, and for seven
years helped to develop the water resources of that state.
On November 29, 1895, Mr. Parker came to California, landing first at Newport
Beach but soon coming on to Santa Ana. He made this town his home, but worked
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as well as Whittier. In 1904, he purchased a ten-acre farm on South Sullivan Street,
which he used for truck farming, raising in particular cabbages and squash; and his
success in this new undertaking demonstrates his capability in general.
Five children have come to bless the fortunate union of Mr. and Mrs. Parker.
Ethel is Mrs. James E. Hone of Los Angeles; Orlando lives on the ranch west of
Santa Ana; Llewellyn is on the Irvine ranch; Roy is ranching west of Santa Ana.
And last, but by no means least, Clarence is ranching on Buena Vista Avenue. For
years, with the Jones Brothers shows, he followed the circus, traveling throughout the
United States and Canada doing a contortion act, trapeze work and barrel jacking; but
having recently leased some choice land on Buena Vista Street, he has resumed agri
cultural pursuits. On Washington's Birthday, 1919, he married Miss Viola Kaldenberg,
a native of Des Moines, Iowa, who came to California to live with her sister, Mrs.
Pittman, at Santa Ana. They have been blessed with a daughter, lone Dora. Mr.
Parker is a Republican and a member of the Fraternal Union, in which he is a
favorite, esteemed for his wide experience and practical common sense.
WILBUR W. WASSER. — Few among the popular officials of fraternities so well
deserve the good will showered upon them as Wilbur W. Wasser, the able secretary of
the B. P. O. Elks Lodge No. 794, at Santa Ana. He comes from the Hawkeye State,
where he was born in Cedar County, on January 29 of the famous Centennial Year.
His father was J. S. Wasser, a cigar manufacturer, although he was originally a farmer.
He came to Santa Ana in 1902, and opened a modest factory; and later he retired, and
is still living at this place. Mrs. Wasser was Alice Kiser before her marriage, and she
became the mother of three children, among whom Wilbur was the only boy. The
good mother is now dead.
Wilbur enjoyed the advantages of both the grammar and the high schools at Tip
ton, Iowa, but later had to supplement his studies in the much harder school of
practical world experience. He remained with his father on the farm until he married,
and then he farmed for himself. On January 2, 1904, he came to Santa Ana, and soon
after bought the livery business at the corner of Fourth and French streets, which he
conducted for ten years. Then he purchased an orange ranch, which he managed for
a year and still owns. Here he enlarged his experience greatly, particularly in the
study of human nature — a very valuable asset in his present position of responsibility,
requiring foresight, tact and common sense.
In 1915, Mr. Wasser became secretary for the B. P. O. Elks, having the honor
to be the first secretary in the Elks' new home. He allows nothing to interfere with his
giving the duties of that post his first consideration; but he is still interested in the
culture of oranges, and is a lover of outdoor life and sport.
In Cedar County, Iowa, on August 25, 1897, Mr. Wasser was married to Miss
Myrta L. Johnson, by whom he had had two attractive children — Alice E. and Donald
W. Wasser. Besides belonging to the Elks, Mr. Wasser is a Knights Templar Mason,
a member of the Eastern Star and also of the Knights of Pythias. In national politics
a Democrat, Mr. Wasser knows no partisanship when it comes to local issues and
always works for the best men and the best measures.
RAYMOND T. DIXON.— An enterprising business man is Raymond T. Dixon,
the owner of Dixon's Pump Works at Santa Ana. He comes from the Hoosier State,
at Vincennes, where he was born on March 10, 1885, and belongs to that army of
Indianans who have contributed so much to the broad and permanent development of
the Golden State.
He. obtained only the usual grammar school education in his home district, and
/u1 kA° te ahforma m 1911> blowing a year after his parents, Charles E. and Mollie
(Hobb) Dixon Before coming West, he had worked at railroading for the Chicago,
Kock Island and Pacific Railroad out of Caldwell, Kans., for a couple of years and then
engaged in the automobile and garage business in Caldwell for four years.
1 • ioi%" ""Oi-TfO a Ana' Cal" 1912' he entered the field of irrigation machinery,
and in 1915 established himself in business in Santa Ana handling and installing irriga
tion machinery beginning with a modest capital. Two years later he built his present
large factory, which has a floor space 150x150 feet in size, located at corner of Fifth and
Carnsey streets. He employs twenty-four men in the making and repairing of irriga-
"°" "^mery, makes a specialty of the Dixon centrifugal turbine pump-one of the
Southern P "Untry-wh.ch he invented and patented, and does work for all parts of
he ?Tf T T0°n h£ al5° built a fo"ndry t° his Plant, where he manu
re nfneaf/s^ T br°nze ,castmgs. th"s maki"g everything for his pumps but
steJ v ' !r T throu^out the factory has a large capacity which he is
Samson ZZTT T ^ alsoJnvented and patented a front wheel flange for the
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His machine shop is equipped with the most modern and up-to-date machinery run by
electric power and he is the largest manufacturer of his special line of irrigation machin
ery in Southern California.
On August 17, 1906, Mr. Dixon and Faith Seeber were married; and now they have
an attractive family of four children — Louis, Raymond, Vincent and Dorothea. Mr.
and Mrs. Dixon are Christian Scientists. In national politics a Republican, Mr. Dixon
at all times works for the best men and the best measures when local issues are
involved, and casts aside partisanship to secure the best ends.
Mr. Dixon was made a Mason in Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M., and was
exalted in Santa Ana Chapel No. 73, R. A. M., and is also a member of Santa Ana
Council No. 14, R. & S. M., as well as an active member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 794,
B. P. O. Elks. Enterprising and progressive he takes a keen interest in his membership
with the Merchants and Manufacturers Association as well as the Chamber of Com
merce. Though proprietor, of one of the really important and largest industrial estab
lishments of the city, Mr. Dixon is never so busy that he cannot give some time,
sooner or later, to hunting and fishing, and other out-of-door life.
WILLIAM H. ROHRS. — Possessed of the qualities that make for success in life,
William H. Rohrs has taken a place among the prosperous horticulturists of Orange,
a business he has been familiar with from the time he was a boy.
Mr. Rohrs is a native of Ohio, having been born at Kelly Isle, Buckeye County,
that state, on August 23, 1879. His parents were Henry W. and Anna (Cordes) Rohrs
who brought their family to California in 1881. His mother passed away, but his
father is still living and is a prosperous farmer and very .highly respected citizen of
Orange. The eldest of a family of five children, Wm. H. Rohrs came to California with
his parents when in his second year, so this is the scene of his first recollections. They
located first at Wilmington, later coming to Santa Ana in 1882, and here William re
ceived his education in the public schools, which was supplemented by a course in- the
Orange County Business College under R. L. Bisby. Being the eldest son, Wm. Rohrs
early took a hand in the farm work, thus getting a thorough, practical knowledge of
its problems and details, so that when he became of age he was ready to start ranching
on his own account. In 1900 he purchased a tract of twenty acres of raw land on
South Glassell Street, near Orange, which he improved and planted to walnuts and
Valencia oranges. Here he put in many years of hard, industrious work, giving his
trees the best possible care, and he has had his reward in seeing his ranch develop
from the bare land to a prosperous and productive grove, which shows the years of
careful cultivation it has received.
On February 9, 1905, Mr. Rohrs was married in Santa Ana to Miss Anna Holz
grafe, a native daughter of the Golden West, born in Santa Ana, the daughter of
Fred and Helen (Shield) Holzgrafe. Mr. Holzgrafe was a pioneer manufacturer of
Santa Ana, being first located on Fifth and Main streets, and later on Third and Main,
where the city hall now stands. After this he purchased the corner of Second and
Sycamore, and all these years he did a thriving business in the manufacture of wagons
and carriages until he retired in January, 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Rohrs are the parents of
two children, Lester William and Evelyn Helene. The family are members of the
Evangelical Church at Santa Ana. Enthusiastic in the possibilities of development of
this favored section, Mr. Rohrs has identified himself with all its progressive move
ments and is a member of the Santiago Orange Growers Association, the Richland
Walnut Growers Association at Orange, and of the Commercial Club of Orange. An
interesting relic of the Civil War times which Mr. Rohrs treasures in his home is a
copy of the issue of April 15, 1865, of the Washington Post, giving the full account
of the assassination of President Lincoln and of the assassin, J. Wilkes Booth. He has
had this carefully framed so as to preserve it, as its value as a historical memento will
increase year by year.
GUSTAF LEANDER. — An expert mechanic who has also made a success of all
that he has undertaken in other fields, working intelligently and industriously, and
modestly enjoying the well-earned fruits of his labors, is Gustaf Leander, who was
born in Sweden on August 12, 1871, and was educated in that country so famous for
its schools and completed a course at the Agricultural College at Gotland. He came
to America in 1891, landing at New York City, and proceeded directly to Los Angeles,
Cal., and learned the machinist trade in the Axelsori Machine Shop and then was em
ployed in other shops in Southern California .and Arizona. After that, for four years,
he worked in the sugar factory at Los Alamitos, where he was employed as the factory
mechanic. Tiring of the work, or seeing perhaps a still greater opportunity in the con
fectionery business, Mr. Leander in 1905 came to Fullerton and bought out Steve W.
McColloch; and having taken possession, he put a deal of hard work into the enter
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income from the investment. Before the days of the ice plant, he also distributed ice
to the Fullerton community, purchasing the crystal blocks from the National Ice Com
pany of Los Angeles and shipping it to Fullerton. He also distributed Los Angeles
newspapers and periodicals in the Fullerton and oil well districts, and enlisted a wide
patronage. After several years in the confectionery field, Mr. Leander sold out his
business to F. E. Copp.
He then purchased fifteen and a half acres on Orangethorpe Avenue, buying the
same from J. A. Clark, and devoted ten acres to Valencia oranges and five acres to
walnuts; and he obtains water service for irrigation from the Anaheim Union Water
Company. After trying his latest venture long enough to form a sensible and helpful
opinion, he thinks there is nothing like ranching, and has decided to stick to his trim
little farm.
On December 31, 1903, Mr. Leander was married at San Diego to Miss Meriam
Pearson, a native of Sweden who came to Minnesota when she was eight years old.
She was reared and educated near Duluth, and 1901 came west to California. Two
children have blessed this fortunate union, Otto A. and Elna Leander, and they reflect
all the good qualities of their worthy parents. Fraternally he is a member of the
Knights of Pythias, while Mrs. Leander is a member ot the Christian Church in
Fullerton. TOM P. PAPPAS. — If the details of the life of Tom P. Pappas, proprietor of the
Chateau Thierry cafe and confectionery, at 116 North Spadra Street, Fullerton, were
written, it would make as interesting reading as a tale of fiction. A hero of the
famous battle of Chateau Thierry in the late World W)ar, he named his place of busi
ness at Fullerton in honor of that memorable battlefield.
Mr. Pappas was born March 23, 1884, in the ancient city of Athens, Greece, and at
the early age of eight manfully assumed life's responsibilities and began to earn his.
living by selling papers on the streets of his native city, a vocation that some of our
most prominent men have followed in early life. In 1906, when twenty-two years old,
he came to the United States and engaged in the business of news vender on the
streets of Chicago, 111. Later, in company with his brother William, he entered the
confectionery business in Chicago. The young men built up a fine business and became
the owners of three confectionery stores. Mr. Pappas disposed of his interest in 1913
and came to California, locating at Whittier, where he opened a confectionery store.
He was afterwards intesested in operating a chicken ranch at Montebello. In the
fall of 1916 he came to Fullerton and bought out a cigar store and continued business
till he went to war.
When the war broke out he sold his business to volunteer his services and enlisted
in the One Hundred Forty-fourth Field Artillery (the Grizzly Regiment) and was sent
to Camp Kearny. After a week there he was discharged because he was not an Amer
ican citizen. With undaunted courage and commendable zeal he returned to Orange
County, took out his first citizen's papers at Santa Ana, and rejoined his regiment at
Camp Kearny. After two months at the camp, volunteers were called for to fill up
the regiments overseas. He volunteered, was sent overseas to France, became a mem
ber of the Thirteenth Field Artillery, Fourth Division, and was in active service on four
different battle fronts, serving as a gunner working a hundred fifty-five six-inch gun.
He fought at St. Mihiel, Lorraine, Chateau Thierry and the Argonne. He was gassed
at Chateau Thierry, and being rescued from the field he was in the field hospital three
weeks and then rejoined his regiment, being in active service until the armistice, when
he was again taken ill from the former effects of being gassed and was compelled
to remain in the hospital for six months. He then returned to the United States and
San Francisco, May 3, 1919, receiving his honorable discharge about a week later, when
he immediately returned to Fullerton and purchased the present confectionery estab
lishment from F. Ross, which he immediately remodeled, naming it the Chateau Thierry
cafe and confectionery and by close application to business and affability it has become
very popular, having indeed made it a most up-to-the-minute place, second to none in
the county. He is interested in oil land with Thompson and Goodwin which is leased
to the Union Oil Company, who have already obtained two flowing oil wells on their
property. Besides he is a stockholder in seven different oil companies in the Richfield
district some of them already producing oil.
Being much interested in civic improvement he is also a member of the Fullerton
Board of Trade. Fraternally he is a member of the Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O.
Llks, and a charter member of Post No. 142 of the American Legion. While he gives
undivided attention to his business interests, his duties as a citizen and a neighbor are
never lost sight of, and his fine war record and indubitable patriotism to his adopted
country deservedly entitles him to the consideration and popularity he enjoys among
his fellow-citizens.

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FRED STRAUSS. — The business enterprise long such a characteristic feature
of life in Fullerton is well reflected in the well organized and well managed establish
ment of F. Strauss and Company, whose extensive trade is chiefly in men's furnishings
and shoes. Mr. Strauss, now an American of the Americans, is a native of Bavaria,
one of the most progressive of all the divisions of Germany, so that he represents that
fortunate combination of German organization and Yankee aggressiveness. He was
born on September 28, 1889, and first came to the United States when he was sixteen
years of age — just the receptive period when he would most likely respond to helpful
impressions. His father was Leopold Strauss, a successful merchant now deceased, and he
married Miss Ricka Silverman, who survives him. They had four children, and Fred
was the youngest of them all. He attended the schools of Bavaria, and about 1905
sailed for America.
For three years he lived in the bustling metropolis of New York, and then, having
acquired the spirit of American institutions, he came west to California and located at
Fullerton. This was in 1908, and the town was small and unpretentious as compared
with today. There was one firm, however, among others worthy of such a growing
place, and that was Stern and Goodman. He remained with them until 1917, when
duty called him to the national colors.
In that year he enlisted in the U. S. Army, and served overseas for six months in
France. On February 28, 1919, at the end of sixteen months, he was honorably dis
charged and returned to San Francisco. Arriving once more in Fullerton, he organized
this company, and since has been doing very well. He is a Republican in national
politics, but never allows political considerations to interfere with civic duty, local
loyalty, business or pleasure, especially hunting and fishing, of which he is particularly
fond. As might be expected, Mr. Strauss is a live wire in the Fullerton Board of
Trade. Very naturally he is a member of Fullerton Post American Legion and in
fraternal life, Mr. Strauss divides his time with the Anaheim Lodge of Elks and the
Fullerton Club.
HARRY E. JESSUP. — Among the most enterprising, scientifically-trained ranch
ers at present devoting their best energies to the very important industry, the growing
of beans, none has accomplished more for California husbandry, while attaining most
profitable success for himself, than Harry E. Jessup, the oldest son of Thomas Jessup,
the well-to-do farmer who is ranching both at Garden Grove and on the San Joaquin
ranch. His acreage presents what is well termed one of the trim "show places" of the
county, and is a delight to the eye of those daily watching the development there of
the bountiful crops, and also to those who often come from afar to learn from Mr.
Jessup the last word in bean culture.
He was born in Illinois on October 20, 1888, and came to California as a babe,
and grew up upon his father's ranches, and attended the public schools at Garden
Grove; and while he learned the ins and outs of farming in California under the best
of masters, he also acquired the California spirit which has been back of all Orange
County push to the fore.
In 1909 he was married to Miss Lillian Beswick, a popular lady of Garden Grove,
and just the companion desirable for his future field of work and residence. Two
children have blessed their union; and they bear the attractive names, as they them
selves are voted attractive by their many friends, of Catherine and Dorothy.
Mr. Jessup at present has 150 acres in lima beans, while fifty acres are planted
to blackeyes. He also has thirty acres in barley. He is a member of the California
Lima Bean Growers Association, profits by its service, and takes that intelligent
interest in its problems and its work that enables him, from time to time, to contribute
toward its prosperity. With all its present make-up, would that Orange County had
thousands of ranchers more with the foresight, the reflection, the ambition and the
will to do of Harry E. Jessup.
JAMES G. ROBERTSON. — An expert electrician with an extensive knowledge,
both scientific and technical, of his interesting subject, and is widely regarded as one
of the best in his field in all the county, is James G. Robertson, who was born near
.Marshfield, Mo., on January 21, 1873, the son of Daniel W. Robertson, a lumber mer
chant in Marshfield, and one of the real pioneers of that country. He had married
Miss Mattie A. Shackelford, who proved both a very devoted wife and mother. She
bestowed loving care upon the subject of our sketch, while he attended the district
school of their neighborhood.
When he was of age, he went into the telephone business, erecting a private tele
phone system, having four central offices and about 1,000 telephones. He also organized
and installed the electric lighting plant for Marshfield, equipped with a fifty kilowatt
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when he sold out to a company, and came west to California. He arrived in 1911, and
came, luckily, direct to Santa Ana. Since coming here he has purchased a five-acre grove
at 2680 North Main Street, which he devotes to oranges and walnuts.
In 1911, Mr. Robertson started an electric contract business in Santa Ana, and
was soon active in wiring houses, installing motors and making electrical repair work.
He also handled a large stock of general electrical supplies. Now his store is located
at 303 North Main Street, and is one of the popular headquarters in the city, patrons
knowing that they will find there just what they need, and often what is not obtainable
even in larger cities.
On October 21, 1896, Mr. Robertson was married in Marshfield, Mo., to Miss
Margaret Nelson, a native of Bedford County, Pa., and the daughter of J. W. and
Hester Nelson. Her father was a farmer, and he moved with his family to Missouri
in 1885. Two sons have blessed the union. Orlyn is at Pomona College, and Fred is
in the Santa Ana high school. The family attend the First Methodist Church at
Santa Ana.
THEODORE BROTHERS.— The life story of the Theodore brothers shows
what can be accomplished by pluck and perseverance. Coming to America poor
boys, they have, in a new country, by their own unaided efforts, built up a prosperous
business and, in keeping up with the times in every respect, have given the community
the benefit of their efficient business methods.
The Theodore Brothers, Gus M., Nicholas and George, were born in Tripoli,
Greece, where they grew up and received a good education in the public schools. Gus
M., when a boy of sixteen, was the first to migrate to the United States and begin
making his way in the New World. His first employment was with the Santa Fe
Railway, in Chicago, and in 1902 he located in Los Angeles, Cal., and there started
in to learn the laundry business.
After working in different laundry plants in that city, in 1910 Mr. Theodore
came to Anahem and went to work for Mr. J. E. Fisher, who owned the Anaheim
Laundry. After one year the new employee bought out the laundry, and in partnership
with his two brothers, Nicholas and George, has since carried on the business, during
which time they have built up the concern to a high degree of efficient management,
conducting a modern laundry in every respect, located at 412 South Lemon Street.
All the old machinery has been taken out and new and modern installed, the firm
being always in the market for any appliances which will increase the high standard
of the business. They have recently installed a $4,000 water softener, and have their
own well and pumping plant on the property; five wagons are used for the con
venience of their patrons, and their trade is drawn from a large territory surrounding
Anaheim; when they acquired the business, in 1911, but fifteen hands were employed,
while fifty-five are now kept busy, an example of the growth of the business. The
two younger brothers came to the States six years later than Gus M., and have since
been etlgaged in the laundry business.
While devoting their time to business, Theodore Bros, have also found time to
enter into projects formed for the further advancement of Anaheim and Orange
County, and are active members of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Mer
chants and Manufacturers Association of Anaheim, as well as the Mother Colony
Club. As evidenced by their business methods, they are "live wires" and enthusiastic
over the splendid future they see in store for this section of California. As one
would naturally suppose, they are members of the Laundry Owners Association of
Southern California, as well as the California Laundry Owners Association and the
National Laundry Owners Association.
JOHN EELLS.— A representative citrus grower who has accomplished much since
he came here in 1904, is John Eells, who is the owner of a fine ranch on the Loara
bo°0 d', near Anaheim. Born near Waupun, in Fond du Lac County, Wis., October 13,
1873 he is the son of Horace and Elizabeth (Cooper) Eejls, who were early pioneers
of that part of Wisconsin. The father cleared up seventy acres of timber land in Fond
du Lac County and farmed it for a number of years.
Coming to California in 1904 with his parents, John Eells located near Anaheim,
purchasing a ranch of twenty-seven and a half acres from Joseph Dauser, which was
devoted to walnuts and Navel oranges. Later he disposed of this property, at different
times, and then with his brother, Charles Eells, bought a tract of forty acres on North
Loara Road, this being a part of the old Browning estate. This they leveled and set
out to Valencia oranges, later he and his brother dividing the property. Since then Mr.
Eells has disposed of five acres of his share, leaving a fine grove of fifteen acres,
eleven acres being in Valencia oranges, three acres in Navels and the remainder in
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through the Anaheim Fruit Growers Association. In 1906 he built a comfortable resi
dence on his ranch and there he has since made his home. Six years later he sunk a
water well on his property which is the finest well in the vicinity. It pumps 100 inches
of water and he supplies some of the ranchers of his neighborhood with irrigation
water from it. In 1919 Mr. Eells purchased an additional five acres of vacant land
west of Anaheim and this he has also set to Valencia oranges. He is giving all his
holdings the best of attention and care and is being rewarded in the fine grade of fruit
that is being produced.
Mr. Eells first marriage occurred at Waupun, Wis., when he was united with Miss
Tillie Erickson, a native of Sweden, who came to America when a young woman. She
passed away in February, 1916, leaving two children, Doris and Marion. On January 4,
1917, Mr. Eells was married to Miss Eleanor Herring, who was born near Salem, Ore.,
the ceremony being solemnized at Anaheim. While the care of his property occupies
the greater part of his time Mr. Eells is always found ready to take his part in every
movement that will promote the public good, and he has evinced his interest in edu
cational matters by serving as a member of the board of school board trustees of the
Loara district. In political matters he is unbiased by party slogans, believing the fit
ness of the man for the office rather than party affiliation is the prime requisite.
HENRY D. WITT. — A rancher who cultivates in the most scientific fashion with
a modern tractor, and who boasts, therefore, of one of the choicest grove properties in
this section, is Henry D. Witt, the son of the well-known Michael Witt and his good
wife Sarah (Trumpey) Witt. He was born in Monroe, Wis., on September 11, of the
great Centennial Year, and he has kept pace with the growth of the second century
of the nation ever since.
When Henry was six years old, in 1882, his parents came west to California and
brought him along, thus almost making him a native son of the Golden State; and it
happened, therefore, that he was brought up to attend the public schools of Santa Ana,
fortunate in having one of the best systems of education for a small town; and later,
when ready for it, he pursued a profitable course at the progressive business college in
the same city.
For some years, he lived at the Seventeenth Street home, where the family lived
for eighteen years; and when that was sold in 1902, the father built his home on the
South side of La Veta Street between Flower and Main. The same year, Henry D.
took charge of the rural mail route No. 2, running to the north and the west of Orange,
and in a short time was a welcome visitor to the homes in that area.
In 1903, he purchased five acres of orange trees from his father, who had set out
a promising grove and in 1906 built a neat home on the same ranch land, providing for
the service of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company; and later he bought five more
acres, in walnuts, adjoining. He joined the Santiago Orange Growers Association and
also the Richland Walnut Growers Association at Orange.
On September 27, 1906, Mr. Witt was married to Miss Emma Schroeder, a native
of Santa Ana and the daughter of Fred and Verena Schroeder. Her parents came from
Kelleys Island, Ohio, to California in 1880, and settled in Santa Ana; and in this town
she also received her education at the public schools. Two children have blessed their
union — Velma M. and Robert F.
Mr. Witt is a member of the Evangelical Association of Santa Ana, and belongs
to the ranks of the Republicans. When it comes to helping along worthy local projects,
however, neither Mr. nor Mrs. Witt are limited by partisanship, and they contribute
heartily toward the best men and the best measures.
ARTHUR L. TRICKEY. — An energetic rancher, whose ambition, industry, keen
powers of observation and ability to look ahead have made him a successful operator
of a part of the great Irvine ranch, is Arthur L. Trickey, who resides on the Laguna
Road about two and a half miles from Irvine. He was born near Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kans., on August 21, 1889, and grew up in that state until his fifteenth year,
profiting by many of the advantages offered by the more settled older commonwealth.
His father, R. L. Trickey, who died in California in 1919, was a grain buyer at Derby,
Kans., and owned a farm of 240 acres, which his sons ran while the father gave his
attention to grain.
In 1904 our subject came to California and settled at Tustin; but it was not until
1911 that he came to the Irvine ranch, where he is now harvesting his ninth crop. He
takes pride both in the product of his labor and the soil he cultivates, and also in the
trim appearance of his farm; and thus, while developing and advancing, he gets all the
fun that he can out of what some people regard as only exhausting toil.
This disposition to look on the optimistic side of life is not surprising to those
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Maine, and in Kansas married Miss Addie Brownlee, who was born in Illinois, and who
is still living at Tustin, the center of a group of devoted friends, at the age of sixty
years. Nine children were granted these worthy pioneers: Albert is a farmer in
Peters Canyon on the Irvine ranch; Roy farms in Sedgwick County, Kans.; Willie is
also a farmer in Kansas; John is the manager of Zaiser's lease near Tustin; Arthur L. is
the subject of this sketch; Ellis cultivates a part of the Whiting ranch; Addie is chief
operator at the Tustin telephone exchange; and Myron works for his brother Arthur.
The eighth-born, Walter, died in infancy.
In 1910, at Garden Grove, Mr. Trickey was married to Miss Bertha Jessup, the
accomplished daughter of Thomas Jessup, the rancher and orange grower living near
Garden Grove; and two children — Lloyd and Thelma — have blessed their fortunate
union. Mr. Trickey belongs to the Modern Woodmen at Santa Ana, and none is more
popular among its many members.
THOMAS B. TALBERT.— An efficient and faithful public official, invaluable to
Orange County because of his integrity, foresight and high sense of civic duty, whose
identification with this part of the great commonwealth of California is memorialized in
the postoffice bearing his family name, is Thomas B. Talbert, a native of Illinois, who
was born at Monticello, in Piatt County, on March 5, 1878. His father was James T.
Talbert, a native of Greenville, Muhlenburg County, Ky., who emigrated to Macoupin
County, 111., in 1858. He enlisted as a volunteer in the Civil War on August 7, 1862,
and was honorably discharged in June, 1865. He married Miss Rachel Weddle, a native
of Piatt County, 111., and a member of the Spencer Weddle family of that section, all
of whom were quite prosperous.
Next to the youngest of a family of nine children, six of whom are living, Thomas
B._ Talbert came out to California with his parents in February, 1891. He attended
the grammar schools at Long Beach and also spent four years at the high school at
that place. Following this he engaged in dairying and farming at Long Beach for
three years, and then, in about 1898, he moved to the lower Santa Ana Valley, and
there bought land in what was known as Gospel Swamp. After being there about one
year, his father, brothers and he started the townsite and postoffice now known as
Talbert, and Thomas B. Talbert was appointed the first postmaster. He bought a
little general merchandise store that had been started by John Corbett, and built up a
good business in this line, continuing there for about four years, when he sold out.
Then he spent a year on a ranch at Talbert, and in 1904 moved to Pacific City, now
Huntington Beach, which had just been started, and where he began selling real estate.
Mr. Talbert was among the very first to engage in growing sugar beets in Orange
County and was also a pioneer in the celery industry, growing celery for several years,
and was an active member of the Celery Growers Association of Orange County. He
is today the oldest realtor in Huntington Beach and is considered one of the best
judges of real estate values here. He is interested in oil development and was one of
the promoters of the H. K. and T. Syndicate that are drilling for oil three miles south
of Irvine on the Irvine ranch. He was a promoter and is a director in the West
Whittier Oil Company, drilling at Huntington Beach with most excellent prospects.
He is also extensively interested in oil lands and leases here. For the past seven years
he has had the agency of Ford cars and is now one of the proprietors of the City
Garage, located on Fifth Street, Huntington Beach. The business is conducted under
the firm name of Talbert and Company, his partners being Messrs McDonald and
Bergey, and they have the agency for both the Ford and Dodge cars.
In August, 1909, a vacancy occurred on the board of supervisors of Orange County
caused by the resignation of George W. Moore; and to that office Mr. Talbert was
appointed by Governor Gillett to fill the unexpired term. Since that time— such is the
endorsement of his public services given by the people themselves— Mr. Talbe/t has
been elected to the same office three times, once in the fall of 1910, again in 1914, and
finally in 1918; the last two times he was elected at the primaries. He was also
elected by his fellow supervisors to the chairmanship of the board in January, 1911, and
he has been elected to the same enviable position every two years since. As an appre
ciation of his worth in other departments of local activity, Mr. Talbert has been a
director m the First National Bank of Huntington Beach since the bank's early history.
r> ¦ u ^V '1ralbert WaS in maidenhood Miss Margaret Elizabeth Crum, a daughter of
Uwight M. Crum and a member of a highly respected family originally from Fairbury,
111 bhe is a graduate of the University of California and was a teacher of languages
at the Huntington Beach Union high school up to the time of her nftrriage, the cere
mony occurring at Compton, July 17, 1912. They have been blessed by the birth of a
son I homas Van. By his former marriage Mr. Talbert has one child, Gordon B.
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Mr. Talbert drove the team that cut the first drainage ditch in the Talbert Drain
age district. This was the beginning of the improvement that drained the swamp lands
of this district, which gave Orange County her rich peat lands and made possible the
development of the beet and celery industry. As supervisor his great ambition has been
to see this county become one of the greatest sections in the United States, and during
his years as a realtor he has been instrumental in locating a sugar factory at Huntington
Beach, and an oil-cloth factory, as well. He was a strong advocate and factor in
obtaining the Coast Highway and in the voting of bonds for the beginning of the
county's harbor at Newport Bay, which will soon have admirable shipping facilities.
Indeed, many of the improvements of the county have been carried out under Mr.
Talbert's supervision; these include the establishment of the County Farm Hospital
and the Detention Home, and the building of bridges and many miles of good roads.
It is easily apparent, therefore, how fortunate Orange County has been in the prolonged
career and services of such a faithful and capable public servant.
ROY F. SPANGLER. — It is not often that one finds such a combination of com
petency as in the case of Roy F. Spangler, a thoroughly trained electrician and engi
neer, an experienced and aggressively progressive farmer, and a far-seeing, wide-awake
manager, at present in charge of the Wassum lima bean ranch, a part of the famous
Irvine ranch, itself going back to the historic San Joaquin. He was born and reared
in Santa Ana, and is the son of the late David Franklin Spangler, a native of Penn
sylvania and a pioneer blacksmith whose highly-interesting old shop will be recalled by
many as one of the landmarks of Santa Ana of thirty years ago. The shop still stands,
in fact, on Sycamore Street, being run by our subject's brother, George, and is prob
ably the oldest, as it is today the leading smithy in Santa Ana.
Roy was born on May 5, 1887, and his mother was Miss Dora Beard before her
marriage on Oregon, where she was born. She is living, an honored resident, at 638
Birch Street, Santa Ana. There are four children: George, the blacksmith; Charles,
who resides at Pasadena; Roy F., our subject, and Edith, now the wife of Flake Smith,
the popular clerk at the Santa Ana postoffice.
When a lad, Roy worked with his father in the blacksmith shop, and he was in
the junior year of his course at the Santa Ana high school when his father passed away.
It seemed advisable then that he should leave school; 5o he started to master electrical
work. He wired houses, and put in five years for W. E. Houston on power, motor and
other work. He was then engaged by the Edison Company for 'nine years, making
fourteen in all as the period of his life devoted to electrical work. During this time,
Mr. Spangler was married to Miss Jeanette Milstead, a native of Arkansas, reared in
Oklahoma. When twenty-two years old, she came to California. Two children have
blessed this union — Harold and Howard.
In' February, 1920, Mr. Spangler came to the Wassum ranch as manager. He has
charge of four hundred acres devoted to the growing of lima beans, and this land is
under lease by Howard A. Wassum, a member of the Board of Supervisors of Orange
County, and one of its largest farmers and bean growers. No better choice could be
made, nor could Mr. Spangler wish for a more interesting task than to develop this
part of the Irvine acreage, for he knows the value of land and how to appreciate
forethought and fidelity, in its care.
C. BRUCE STOCKTON. — A tenant bf the celebrated Irvine ranch who, having
made a pronounced success in the important technical field of well drilling, is more
than "making good" as a lima bean grower, is C. Bruce Stockton, a member of one of
the historic families of California, and the husband of a lady highly esteemed for her
progressive work, before her marriage, as an educator. He was born at Saticoy, in
Ventura County, on December 5, 1882, and grew up there where his father, George W.
Stockton, was both a rancher and a landowner. His mother, popular as May Beekman
in her maidenhood, was a native of Sierra County, Cal., and the daughter of a Cali
fornia pioneer. She is still living in Los Angeles, at the ripe age of sixty years.
George W. Stockton was a native of Illinois, and his father was I. D. Stockton, a
physician and surgeon who saw strenuous service in the Black Hawk War. Both father
and grandfather crossed the plains in 1849 and as something more than pastime, fought
the "pesky Redskins." They settled in Sonoma County, and later moved to Kern
County, and then built up the Stockton stock ranch fifteen miles south of Bakersfield,
now called the Lakeside ranch of the Kern County Land Company's holdings. George
W. Stockton moved over to Ventura County, and there became a well-to-do rancher.
He died in Los Angeles at the age of fifty-nine years.
Five children were born to this worthy couple and grew to maturity. G. G. Stock
ton is an oil man well known in South America, and stationed near Caracas, in Vene
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Walter Cook, the rancher on the Irvine; E. E. Stockton, the owner of the Lake ranch
in Ventura County, resides in Los Angeles and is in the hardware trade; and Myrle is
the wife of H. L. Carpenter of Los Angeles. Through the fact that the father of I. D.
Stockton was closely related to Commodore Robert Field Stockton, and hence to the
Commodore's grandfather, Senator Richard Stockton, signer of the Declaration of Inde
pendence, C. Bruce Stockton is related to a circle of Americans known for having,
each one of them, accomplished something worth while for the world, and something
very definite, and needed, for the advancement of their country. Bruce's early educa
tion was in the public schools in Ventura and later attended the preparatory schools at
Bakersfield, in the more quiet days before anyone suspected that the broad meadows
were soaking with oil, and when the discovery and the ensuing excitement transformed
that locality, he went to work in the Kern River oil fields as a roustabout, became a
tool dresser and later a driller, and worked to develop, in particular, the much-needed
petroleum. Then he entered the oil fields of the Santa Fe at Fellows and of the Southern
Pacific at Maricopa; and after acquiring seven years of valuable experience, he jour
neyed to Mexico. He drilled at Tampico and Tuxpan, and when the United States
Government landed troops at Vera Cruz, came out of the country as a refugee on one of
the U. S. war ships to Galveston. Returning to Taft, he later went south to the
Island of Trinidad, off the coast of Venezuela, where he drilled for a year and a half.
Once more he came to California, and for a year farmed on the Irvine ranch.
At Los Angeles, on June 26, 1916, he was married to Miss Ethel Rouse, a native
of Colton, Cal., and the daughter of John M'. and Olive (Leonard) Rouse. When she
was eight years of age, she was brought by her parents to Los Angeles, and in 1910, she
graduated from the Polytechnic high school, and still later from the Los Angeles
Normal. Then she taught school, for a year in Riverside County, for three years in the
city of Los Angeles, and for a year in Kern County. One child has blessed their
fortunate union — a daughter, Lois May. The family attend by preference the Presby
terian Church, while holding broad, sympathetic views toward all who are seeking to
make life more worth the living. Mr. Stockton belongs to the Santa Ana Elks, and
in politics seeks to act according to his best judgment, independent of partisan bias
or dictation. JUAN PABLO PERALTA.— A highly respected citizen is the old settler, Juan
Pablo Peralta, living on the Santa Ana Canyon Road, four and a half miles northeast
of Olive, where he owns a small ranch. Although living frugally — a modest abstinence
apparently favorable to his health, judging from his massive build — he is a proud
old Californian, and with good reason, for he is a worthy descendant of early Spanish
military officers from Catalonia, Spain, who came out to take charge of the port of
San Francisco in the Yerba Buena days. He and his family, therefore, are well-known
and respected. Juan Pablo Peralta is the son of Juan Pablo Peralta, who was born near what is
now Buena Park. He married in Los Angeles, Neavis Lopez, a native of that city,
and died on May 21, 1852. Nine days later, May 30, the subject of our sketch was
born, the last of eleven children — nine girls and two boys — and he grew up to raise
stock on land with an association especially close toward his family. His grandfather,
Juan Pablo Peralta, born in San Francisco, had been married in San Diego, and
came up to the Santa Ana River and became the owner of Rancho Santiago de Santa
Ana, which was the name of the Peralta Grant. His father, also Don Juan Pablo
Peralta was born in San Francisco, and he knew General Vallejo very well, and had
interests at Oakland and at San Leandro, where to this day the name Peralta denotes
old landmarks. Juan P. Peralta now owns a ranch of eight acres, which he bought fourteen
years ago. In November, 1918, he built a bungalow, which affords him and his
family a very good and up-to-date home. In 1887 he was married to Miss Betsida
Yorba, born at Prado, Riverside County, the daughter of Rimondo and Concepcion
(Serrano) Yorba, who was also a granddaughter of Bernardo Yorba, and they had
six children— Juan Pablo, Jr., Neavis, Ramon, Florisa, Ellena and Constance For
several years he had a general store at Peralta; now he grows walnuts and apricots.
He also leases over 500 acres of land and engages in raising grain and hay, in which
he is very successful.
A Democrat in matters of national political moment, Mr. Peralta is nonpartisan
in his enthusiastic support of whatever makes for a greater development of his home
district. He has served as a trustee of the Peralta school district, has been road
overseer for some time, and has done jury duty at various times. Orange County
is happy to note the prosperity of those who so well represent the historic past of
the state.

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WILLIAM LEMKE. — One of the very enterprising men among the prominent
and successful citizens of Orange County who has contributed his share in the up
building and development of the citrus and walnut industries of the county is William
Lemke, the owner of a twenty-acre ranch, devoted to oranges, walnuts and deciduous
fruits, located three miles north of Olive, on the Santa Ana Canyon Boulevard.
Mr. Lemke was born at Liptno, in Russia Poland, October 16, 1870, the son of
Charles and Wilhelmina (Zutke) Lemke, who were also natives of that country. The
father came to the United States in. 1886, to prepare a home for his family and was
joined a year later by his wife. In the fall of 1889, William, accompanied by his
brother August, crossed the ocean to make his home in the New World and to seek his
fortune in the Golden State. He came with his brother to Placentia, Orange County,
where he secured employment on a ranch. In 1892 he took up a homestead in Lassen
County, on which he proved up and afterwards sold. He returned to Orange County
where he purchased his present twenty-acre ranch, which at that time was uncultivated
land used as a pasture. Mr. Lemke has always been a hard worker and through his
industrious- efforts and untiring energy has developed his desert land into a prosperous,
up-to-date ranch which bespeaks success. Five acres are planted to Valencia oranges,
six acres to deciduous fruits, eight acres are devoted to walnuts and one acre to the
home site and yard. Mr. Lemke in 1920 built and completed a beautiful ten-room
residence at a cost of about $10,000.
In 1906 Mr. Lemke was united in marriage with Miss Emma Schmidt, also a native
of Russia Poland, who came to Anaheim in 1903. Her father, Adolph Schmidt, died in
Russia and her mother, Christena (Biske) Schmidt, came to California in 1914, where
she makes her home with her daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Lemke are the parents of three
children: Lydia, Elsie and Adolph William F. In religious matters Mr. Lemke is a
member of the German Lutheran Church at Olive, while his wife belongs to the German
Baptist Church at Anaheim.
William Lemke is a patriotic American citizen, proud to be known as a self-made
man who has gained financial success by his own unaided efforts and by his industry
and the practice of economy.
GEORGE M. BARTLEY.— A well-informed, level-headed young man, who has
a splendid ranch of Valencia orange trees in a high state of cultivation near one of
the tasteful bungalow homes of the locality, and who, through his business specialty,
is contributing toward the preservation of other ranch properties and, therefore, doing
a commendable public service, is George M. Bartley, the deputy constable and sprayer,
and popular son of a highly-esteemed pioneer. He was born at Lompoc, in Santa
Barbara County, on October 21, 1880, the son of David J. Bartley, a native of New
York State, who came to Salinas, Cal., in 1875, an agriculturist who had farmed in
Nebraska. In that state, too, he had married Miss Mary Ann Hoyt, a lady always
esteemed by all who knew her for her high ideals and capability as a wife, mother,
friend and neighbor. Mr. Bartley died in El Modena in 1909, seventy-two years old;
and Mrs. Bartley passed to her eternal reward after a distressing railway accident.
In 1888 with Grandfather William Bartley and an aunt, Miss Rose Benton, Mrs. Bartley
was driving along Fruit Street, Santa Ana, when their vehicle was struck by a Santa
Fe locomotive, and the occupants were instantly killed. Seldom has there been wider
regret at the demise of anyone than in the case of this estimable lady, whose broad
sympathies enabled her to be of service to many, and whose integrity, like that of her
devoted husband, was marked. They had three children: Will H., the rancher at Buena
Park; Margaret E., now Mrs. Thomas, residing at Fresno; and George Milton, the
subject of this sketch.
He was only one year old when he was brought to El Modena by his parents,
and he is therefore the citizen who has lived there longest continuously. He was
brought up at El Modena on his father's ranch, and attended the local grammar school
while he made himself useful on a forty-acre ranch. His father was a vineyardist, and
in common with others suffered heavy losses when the mysterious blight killed the
grapevines said to have been of the finest quality. George was always handy around
horses, and being a good teamster, drove a tank wagon for the Union Oil Company in
Los Angeles for five years.
Then he went to Corcoran, in Kern County, and there bought a farm and engaged
in ranching from 1907 until 1909. In that year, he was married at Bakersfield to Miss
Frankie S. Rudolph of Lompoc, the same town, by-the-way, in which Mr. Bartley was
born; and after that he and his bride came back to El Modena, reaching home just
before his father died.
Since 1909, Mr. Bartley has put in his time at El Modena, in 1916 becoming a
•licensed sprayer and branching off into the business of spraying trees. He bought a
bean spraying outfit with a two-hundred gallon tank, and is doing his full share of
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the work in both the Villa Park and the El Modena districts. He belongs to the
Orange Growers Association at McPherson, and is active in promoting in every way
the interests of all the community, including the further appreciation of land. He is
also a member of the El Modena Farm Center. Mr. Bartley's father paid sixty-five
dollars an acre for his land, and our subject has refused $5,000 an acre.
A Republican in matters of national politics, Mr. Bartley served for three years
as deputy sheriff under Sheriff C. E. Ruddock, and for four years as deputy constable
under Logan Jackson; and he is at present deputy constable under William A. Holt, of
Orange. He is also a member of the election board.
Mr. and Mrs. Bartley have had two children: Dorothy E. is in the grammar
school at El Modena; but Glennagene died when fourteen months old. The family live
in a comfortable bungalow recently built by Mr. Bartley himself at El Modena,
opposite the El Modena grammar school. Mr. Bartley belongs to the Woodmen of
the World. JOSHUA BARKER. — An intelligent, industrious and ambitious worker, who is
valued by all who know him as an honest, reliable citizen and a good fellow, is Joshua
Barker, the rancher near Irvine Station, whose able and faithful wife is also just the
helpmate needed. He works for Henry J. Harkleroad as foreman on his fine ranch of
160 acres to the southeast of Irvine, and no more competent overseer probably could
be found. A native son happy in his association with the Golden State, Mr. Barker was born
at Tulare on April 20, 1862, the son of William Barker who was an early settler in
that county. He was a native of Missouri, and was married to Miss Margaret Burris,
who hailed from that same state, and there he became a successful farmer and stock-
raiser. William Barker has passed away; but his esteemed widow is still living at
Tustin. They had ten children, eight of whom are still living; and among them Joshua
is the oldest.
His schooling was very limited, for from boyhood he had to do plenty of hard
work at farming. He began hiring out for low wages when a lad, and continued to
work by the month until he was thirty-five, when he succeeded in renting land in Ven
tura County. He planted blackeye beans, and enjoyed, as never before, the harvest,
for what he reaped was entirely his own. Later, he came down to the San Joaquin
ranch in Orange County; and since then he has moved back and forth between here
and Ventura County, sought by many both for his services and his experience and
advice, and contributing something- definite, in his own hard work for the higher
cultivation of land, toward the development of California agriculture.
At Santa Ana, Mr. Barker was married to Miss Martha Horton, a native of Ven
tura and they have had six children: Walter, who married Miss Maude Boyd of Santa
Ana, is foreman on a ranch at San Luis Rey; Roy, the husband of Miss Lottie Steward
of Ventura, is farming near Orange County Park, the proud father of two children,
Hazel and Donald; Alice married Charles Van Horn, a truck driver on road work
for Orange County, she has one boy, Glenn, and resides at Santa Ana; Freddie is em
ployed at ranching at Talbert, and is the husband of Miss Maude Albertson of that
town, by whom he has had two children, Lloyd and Llodine; Elsie is the wife of Victor
Vann, a ranch employe at El Centro; and Jim is in the U. S. Navy. It will thus be
seen that not only have Mr. and Mrs. Barker done well themselves, but they have
reared a family, each member of which has gone forth into the world and become a
credit to the good Barker name.
JOHN H. STINSON. — The well-known rancher, citrus grower and dairy farmer,
John H. Stinson of Taft Avenue, Orange, Cal., has attained a gratifying decree of
success in the vocation he has chosen. He is a native of Hall County Nebr where
he was born at Doniphan, January 3, 1880, and is the son of Edward and Dinah (Harrod)
Stinson. His father was born thirty miles from Dublin, Ireland, came to the Province
of Quebec, Canada, with his parents when a babe, and was reared there His mother
is a native of London, England, and accompanied her parents to America from her
native city, settling at Rockford, 111., where later her marriage occurred After their
marriage the parents lived in various places and finally settled in Hall County Nebr
going thither from Illinois. The father traded his team of horses for a relinquishment
and proved up on a 160-acre homestead, where his son John H. was born and reared until
he attained the age of eleven. He worked on his father's farm, held the breaking nfow
and turned virgin soil of Nebraska when only nine years old. The family migrated to
Orange County, Cal., and settled at Villa Park, then called Wanda Station on the
Southern Pacific, where the father had already traded Nebraska land for a forty-acre
ranch on Vista Street, Orange; here he followed farming until his death, April 11
1911, being survived by his widow. '

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John H. is the eleventh child in a family of fourteen children, six of whom are
living. He received his education in the grammar school at Orange, and worked on
his father's forty-acre ranch. At the age of nineteen he assumed the responsibilities
of life and purchased fifteen acres on Vista Street, Orange, for $1,200. He was married
in Orange, July 26, 1905, to Miss Ethel Durler, daughter of Reverend Levi and Alice
(Lyon) Durler, who now live at Orange. Mrs. Stinson was born at Stryker, Ohio, and
was reared in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, coming to California with her parents in
1904. She is the oldest of four living children. Mr. and Mrs. Stinson are the parents
of a daughter, Jennie Fay by name, and have an adopted son whose name is Ernest.
Mr. Stinson owns a ranch of seventeen acres on Taft Avenue, which he planted to
Valencia oranges, now in bearing, and is also a joint owner with his brother, E. G.
Stinson, in a seventy-eight-acre dairy ranch on the Santa Ana River on Taft Avenue.
This was a barren waste of brush and trees, which they cleared, leveled the land and
planted to alfalfa. Although they have service for irrigation from the S. A. V. I. Com
pany, they have installed an electric pumping plant of 125 inches. They have a well
selected dairy herd of 129 cows. Their buildings are modern and sanitary and equipped
with milking machines.
Mr. Stinson is a type of citizen of whom Orange County may well be proud and
has .been most helpful to the permanent welfare of that section. He is active, intelli
gent and interesting, with a strong appreciation of humor, which is perhaps a heritage
from his Hibernian ancestry. Mrs. Stinson is a woman of pleasing personality, cul
tured and refined, with most excellent qualities of heart and mind. She is a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Orange and is active in church work, the Ladies'
Aid Society and the Home Mission Society, and both are popular among their large
circle of acquaintances.
CLYDE R. ALLING. — The interesting career of a hustling young business man
of Santa Ana affords another illustration of not only the unrivalled opportunities pre
sented for advancement and success in California, and especially in Orange County, but
the elastic capability of the typical American in rising to the occasion when Oppor
tunity opens the door. This wide-awake young man is Clyde R. Ailing, proprietor of
the "Cherry Blossom" bakery, confectionery store and cafe in Santa Ana, which is
pleasantly and conveniently situated at 120 East Fourth Street.
He was born in the city of Chicago on August 28, 1892, and in that city passed
his early life. He attended the grammar schools, and commenced his mercantile oper
ations against heavy odds by working as a newsboy and selling the Chicago Tribune
and Inter-Ocean on the crowded streets. This strenuous exertion was rendered neces
sary because of political intrigues which had half-ruined his father, a contractor. The
lad developed something of the system that he displays today, knowing just where
and when to sell, and catching the big idea of giving people what they want, and
when. After a while, however, he saw that selling newspapers could not be the
avocation he must eventually be looking for, and he changed jobs, to run a soda
fountain at Peoria, 111.
In 1912, heeding Horace Greeley's advice, "Go West, and grow up with the
country," Mr. Ailing came to Santa Ana, Cal., and for a year he worked at the soda
fountain in the Dragon store. Two years later, in January, he made sacrifices to buy
L. J. Christopher's confectionery store in Anaheim, now the "Cherry Blossom" and
the success of that popular resort today -shows whether or not his judgment was good.
Sighing for more worlds to conquer— as a local scribe once said of him in an
appreciative write-up — Mr. Ailing, on November 25, 1915, returned to Santa Ana and
leased the building formerly occupied by the California National Bank, preparatory
to opening another Cherry Blossom. Then came the flood, and for four months Mr.
Ailing paid rent on a building he could not occupy. Worse than that, no one seemed to
care a fig, whether he came or not; but in March, 1916, he threw open for business what
he considered to be the finest-equipped confectionery in Santa Ana. He spent $30,000
in fitting up and finishing this most attractive place in Orange County, occupying as it
does the entire building, with the basement; and when the people began to find their
way to the "Cherry Blossom," they also began to comprehend what had been added to
the worth-while attractions of Santa Ana.
The basement is used for chocolate dipping and a stock room, and on the first
floor there is the soda fountain, the restaurant and the ice cream parlor. The second
floor is devoted to the manufacture of candies and other confections, for Mr. Ailing
manufactures almost everything that he sells. There is an ice house in the rear, where
the choicest of ice cream is made, not only for patrons in town, but for such near-by
resorts as Laguna Beach, Newport and Balboa, and also for Orange and other towns.
Boasting the finest dining room in the city, it is not surprising that the cash register
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A likeable man, an honorable competitor and, most of all, an untiring worker,
Clyde Ailing long ago rose to the point where he was a great factor in the develop
ment of wholesale and retail trade in Orange County. With only twenty-eight years
behind him, it is also not surprising that he should feel a great future ahead. Of genial
disposition, with always a word of cheer, no matter what the weather happens to be,
he draws customers as a honey-pot draws flies. His handshake is one you feel. His
words are words you remember. And most of all he is busy, for long, hours are re
quired to run "Cherry Blossoms," and he is always on the job. This strenuosity, how
ever, in business hours does not prevent him from snatching a few moments, now
and then, to enjoy the company of his fellow Masons and Elks.
JOHN GREEN BAKER.— A successful farmer and bean grower who had the
advantage of a wide and valuable experience in other pursuits and elsewhere before
he came to the Irvine ranch, is John Green Baker, who lives one mile and a half
northeast of Irvine. He was born in Madison County, Tenn., on August 9, 1874. amid the
stimulating environment of the Cumberland Mountains, and until he was fifteen lived in
that state. Then, with his folks, he moved to La Veta, Colo., and for a year had the
hard work of a farmer's lad. After that, he went to Texas, then to New Mexico, and
later still to Arizona; and in 1912 he arrived in the Golden State. He thus went to
school in three states — Tennessee, Colorado and Texas. His father was the Rev. W. H.
Baker of the Baptist Church, in whose ministry for years he did faithful, self-sacrificing
service, and he is now living in Arkansas, retired, at the age of eighty. His mother
was Miss Nancy Green before her marriage, and she was born in North Carolina and
died in Texas. She had eight children, of whom John is the seventh in the order of
birth of the family.
John G. Baker started out for himself in Texas as an employe on a Donley County
cattle ranch, then teamed and rode range in New Mexico and mined at Bisbee, Ariz.;
and on coming to California he followed the carpenter trade in Los Angeles until 1915,
when he came to Santa Ana and engaged in ranching. He now operates 160 acres on
the Irvine ranch, which he has planted to lima beans, and he is among those who get
satisfactory results whenever the conditions of climate make it possible to succeed.
When Mr. Baker was married in Los Angeles in 1912, he took for his wife Mrs.
Inez Asbell, nee White, a native of Ohio; and together they have worked hard to
solve the problems peculiar to California agriculture, and they are gradually attaining
more and more of an enviable position. A consistent Democrat, but. a broad-minded
American, always desirous of pulling with his neighbors for whatever is best for the
locality irrespective of party considerations, Mr. Baker has been serving as a popular
member of the election board in the San Joaquin voting precinct.
CHARLES E. BEST. — An experienced rancher who has entrusted to his judgment
and fidelity an important interest of the Irvine Ranch is Charles E. Best, in charge
of the hog ranch on the old San Joaquin. He was born in San Benito, on November
12, 1871, the son of Newton Wells Best, a native of Port Williams, N. S., where he was
born on October 12, 1838, and his good wife, also a Nova Scotian, who was Annie C.
Holmes before her marriage, in Nova Scotia in 1864. There their two eldest children
were born. Newton Wells Best left his family on March 19, 1868, and landed at San
Francisco on April 19 of the same year, having lost five days in New York City
waiting for a steamer. Settling first on the San Benito River, then in Monterey, now in
San Benito County, he took up Government land and farmed for five years and
then he came south to Santa Maria Valley, in Santa Barbara County where he stayed
another five years, also farming. His next move was to Santa Ana, then in Los
Angeles County, which he reached in 1878, and there he bought a farm in the New
Hope school district, and helped to build the New Hope schoolhouse, acting as one of
the school trustees.
He farmed at New Hope for seven years, and then he went to what is now
Beaumont in Riverside County, then San Gorgonio, San Bernardino County, where he
hernn iT P T T^a OT 'S ^T^ f°r fifteen *«"• When he quit farming,
he moved to Redlands and lived there for fourteen years, running a grocery, and a feed
and fuel business He returned to Santa Ana in 1914; and there, three years later his
devoted wife died, aged seventy-one years. '
Nine children were born to this worthy couple: William Henry is of the real
estate firm, Best, DeBoyce and Covington in Brawley, Cal.; Frank S. is retired and
lives in Pasadena; Fred N. is a carpenter and builder at Lamona, in Iowa- Charles
^"f M "TT % TO * Vkw; Arthur L' died when he was fourteen years old-
Maude is the wife of G M. Austin, an Imperial Valley rancher; Pearla is now Mrs'
u-u'J? Y 3Jnd "j1 d6S at,Turlock- Stanislaus County; Luella has become Mrs'
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Charles was sent to the grammar school, and grew up with the usual limited, yet
positive advantages of a boy in the country. On September 20, 1898, he was married
to Miss Jessie Speed of Santa Ana, who was born in Potsdam, N. Y., and came to
Orange County in 1892 with her parents, John and Marthesia (Stanton) Speed. After
their marriage they continued farming at Beaumont for eight years, then moved to
Redlands where he lived six years, thence to San Jacinto where he ranched for five
years. In the fall of 1915 they located in Orange County and began ranching on the
Irvine ranch and in the management of the hog ranch, Mr. Best has made numerous
contributions to practical ranching by modern, improved methods.
Five children have gladdened the hospitable, comfortable home of Mr. and Mrs.
Best. Jessie Pearla is a senior in the Santa Ana high school. Everett and Elliott are
twins, and are universal favorites through their playing right and left halfback on the
football team of the Santa Ana high school. And there are Stanton and Ralph Le Roy,
full of promise.
E. S. MORALES. — A self-educated ranchman, proud of his descent from one of
the old, distinguished families of Spanish history and tradition, who has come to the
front by sheer force of his own ability and worth, is E. S. Morales, popularly known as
Captain Morales, residing on the Hot Springs road some five miles northeast of San
Juan Capistrano. He is a tenant farmer on a part of the great Santa Margarita rancho,
the oldest grant at San Juan Capistrano. He was born at Los Angeles on October 18,
1866, but was reared at San Juan Capistrano. He had the usual schooling for a boy in
that locality, and early went to work for Richard O'Neill, the father of Jerome O'Neill,
the present owner of the Santa Margarita ranch, on which farm he has been steadily
since 1886. He is a vaquero, and one of the fine old type, and as such can rope and
brand a steer, break a broncho, shoe a horse, skin a beef, or even run a binder and
repair any kind of machinery, such as is used about a farm.
When Captain Morales decided to share his domestic life with another, he married
Miss Morina Garcia, a popular belle of San Juan Capistrano, and also a member of
one of the early Spanish families. She has proved an excellent helpmate, making him
a good home, while he attends to his many responsibilities. All in all, he is a very
unusual man, and it is not surprising that he is honored with the title of captain.
For years, he has been one of the most trusted of the many employes on the great
Santa Margarita ranch, in which principality he is employed at various tasks. He can
drive two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two or even sixty-four horses, and he is both a
blacksmith and a machinist of no mean ability. His generous and whole-hearted dis
position has earned for him the good will of all those associated with, or under him.
During the present season, he is engaged in harvesting a "bumper" crop of the
celebrated "Defiance" wheat on his leasehold of 190 acres; and it will run forty bushels
to the acre, worth five dollars per hundred weight — one of the best crops, very likely,
in Orange County. He has a twenty-inch cylinder Case thresher, and other thoroughly
up-to-date appliances, and is often able to point the way to others in modern agri
cultural methods.
WILLIAM D. PETERKIN. — A busy man of affairs, whose popularity has been
founded in part on his expertness in the field in which he is a leader, and partly on his
genial and sympathetic temperament, is William D. Peterkin, the assistant manager
of the Orange County Fumigation Company, whose office is at 349 South Lemon Street,
Orange. He was born in the city of Montreal, Canada, on June 9, 1883, the son of
William H. Peterkin, the well-known rancher and orchardist of Orange, from whom
he inherited and derived by companionship and personal instruction much of that
ability and knowledge which have enabled him to come forward so rapidly.
Fifteen years ago Mr. Peterkin came from Santa Barbara County to Orange
County and engaged in citrus work. He accepted one position after another and
gradually became familiar with horticultural problems. In time, he was employed by
J. A. King at fumigating, and he has since become assistant to him as general manager
of the Orange County Fumigating Company. It is exceedingly dangerous work, for
science calls for and supplies death-dealing agents, which may also work destruction
to those engaged in the work. No less than ten men died in Orange County, in 1919-
1920, while ridding orchards of damaging scale and other pests.
Some idea of the extent of the Orange County Fumigating Company's business
may be formed from the fact that they make use of 1,000 tents, and send out fifteen
or more outfits, detailing six men to each outfit, and operating with the Fruit Growers
Exchange of Orange County. They follow the last word of science, profiting from the
experiments with liquid hydrocyanic acid which was first used largely in experimental
tests in 1916, and on an extensive commercial basis the following year for the fumiga
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years, but probably because of its instability and its very poisonous nature, it has not
been manufactured on a large scale. It is a colorless liquid, less than three-fourths the
weight of water, and is also very volatile, and boils at less than eighty degrees Fahren
heit. For these reasons, hydrocyanic acid gas is rapidly given off from the surface
of the liquid, and there is danger in breathing in an atmosphere close to an open
container. This danger is increased when the liquid is sprayed or spattered. Gas
from this acid will injure the fruit and foliage if used in excess, in much the same way
as the gas generated by other methods; hence it is highly important that such work of
fumigating should be given to a thoroughly reliable concern like the one of which
we are writing.
The killing efficiency of the liquid hydrocyanic acid as compared with pot and
machine generation, or other methods of fumigation was determined, first by com
parative tests in a fumatorium; second, by comparative tests under form trees; third,
by comparative tests in the field; and fourth, by examination of commercial work in
the field, and it is no wonder that this new means of citrus fumigation has come into
such favor that the Orange County Fumigation Company has all that it can do. The
place, with this new method, where the greatest concentration of gas occurs under
the tent from the liquid is practically the reverse of that from the pot, or portable
generator; with the former method, the most effective killing is at the bottom of the
tree, while with the latter the most effective killing is at the top. *
The Orange County Fumigating Company is a growing enterprise, having been
duly incorporated for a very necessary work. Its officers are: president, L. W. Evans;
vice-president, J. A. Maag; secretary and manager, J. A. King; treasurer, E. W. Bol-
inger. Directors: L. W'. Evans, El Modena; J. A. Maag, Orange; L. A. Bortz, Olive;
J. F. Allen, Orange; A. G. Finley, Santa Ana; and Ed. H. Dierker, Orange.
Mr. Peterkin is a member of the Odd Fellows at Orange, and also of the Modern
Woodmen and the Elks at Santa Ana. He was married at Santa Barbara to Miss
Rebecca Jordan, a native of Missouri; and their fortunate union has been rendered the
happier by the birth of one child, Thelma.
WILLIAM F. DIERS. — Santa Ana owes much of her commercial prosperity to
such far-sighted, optimistic men of grit and experience as William F. Diers, for the
past six years manager of the Wm. F. Lutz Company, Inc. He is a native son, and
was born in Kern County, on November 11, 1884, and his father was Henry Diers,
a farmer still living, who was born in Germany, and now resides in Santa Ana. He
married Miss Mattie Baker, by whom he had four children, and she passed away some
thirty years ago.
William was the third child in the interesting family, and enjoyed the educational
advantages of both the grammar and the high schools. He came with his folks to
Santa Ana in 1890, and grew up not only to prepare himself for an earnest tussle with
the world, but to enjoy sport as well, particularly horseback riding. He belongs to
the Orange County Country Club.
In 1900 he entered the service of the Wm. F. Lutz Company, Inc., and step by
step rose to his present position of responsibility and trust. In 1913 he was made
manager of the firm, and much of its recent success must be credited to his experience
and fidelity. A stanch member of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Diers is
also an active worker in the Merchants and Manufacturers Association. Mr. Diers is
a Republican m national political affairs and has served for three years in the National
Guard of California. He belongs to Santa Ana Lodge No 794 B P O Elks and
was honored there as exalted ruler in 1919. In the World War 'period, he was 'most
active on all the drives for war work purposes, and in many respects has set an inspir
ing example of plain, loyal and worth-while citizenship. On February 28 1920 he
married Mrs. F. E. Gustlin of Santa Ana.
ROBERT G. TUTHILL.— Could a history of the recent development, along sani
tary and strictly edifying lines, of undertaking i„ California be written, and proper
credi given those individuals who have not only "done things," but have pointed the
way to others wishing also to do and willing to follow, then one of the leadino- firms
ranked la.MeSStrS- IT, T ^T^^ -ce^sarily be mentioned in th'e fron
rank and another star be added to the long list for which the town has striven and
fought these many years. Both Robert G. Tuthill and his partner, George S Smith
have endeavored, ever since creating their present establishment, to advance the status
of undertaking whenever and wherever possible; and how far they have succeeded in
their ideals those most familiar with their actual accomplishments can tell
Born in Oskaloosa Iowa, in May, 1878, Robert was the son of George Tuthill a
business man born in New York, who had married Miss Mary Skillen. The parents
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on to Portland, Ore., where they are both living. They had three children, and Robert
was the second in the order of birth.
He attended the grammar and high schools of Kansas, and also a business college,
and as a young man followed the undertaking business, first, in 1899, at San Francisco
and after two years again in Kansas. Three years later, he was back in Los Angeles;
and there he continued in undertaking for seven years.
On March 1, 1914, Mr. Tuthill came to Santa Ana, and soon afterward formed a
partnership with Mr. Smith, who had been here twenty years. In every respect the
equipment, including the needed automobiles, is modern and strictly up-to-date; and
the progressive, refined and refining spirit animating the two gentlemen and their
associates has won for them a large number of appreciative patrons. It is not sur
prising that Mr. Tuthill is a wide-awake director of the Santa Ana Chamber of Com
merce and enthusiastic in its progressive work.
On September 22, 1913, Mr. Tuthill and Miss Ella Dougherty were married at
Portland, Ore.; the bride being a native of Kansas and the daughter of Jas. and Mary
Dougherty. They have three children — Mary, Martha and Roberta. In national
politics Mr. Tuthill is a Republican, he is a Protestant in religious faith, and he belongs
to the Masons, the Knights Templar, the Odd Fellows and the Elks.
ARCHIE VERNON FEWELL.— The distinction of being a native Californian
belongs to Archie Vernon Fewell, of the firm of Wine and Fewell, cement pipe manu
facturers and irrigation contractors, and he has spent practically all his life in Orange
County, his birthplace. Mr. Fewell was born at Santa Ana on June 4, 1892, the son
of Edward and Rosa Wilkinson Fewell, who were the parents of three children: Archie
Vernon, of this review; Blanche, now the wife of Merrill Stearnes, a cotton grower in
Arizona; and Mildred, the wife of Albert Shinn, also residents of Arizona. The father,
who is a resident of Tustin, was born in Iowa, while the mother was a native of that
state. She passed away in 1905, when Archie was but thirteen years old.
Mr. Fewell started in the cement business in Santa Ana at the early age of fifteen,
working for John M. Wine, now his partner. He remained there until 1914, when he
went to Lankershim where he conducted a general cement business. After one year
there he returned to Santa Ana and formed a partnership with his former employer,
John M. Wine, their place of business being located at 1029 East First Street. They
are the leading firm in this line in Santa Ana and have always on hand a full stock
of valves, gates and cement pipe of all sizes, so that they are able to handle any work
that comes to them. They have executed many large contracts for Orange County, as
well as for scores of the largest citrus growers and ranchers of Santa Ana and the
neighboring towns. They place an absolute guarantee on every foot of their work
and have built up a reputation for thorough, efficient work and square dealing that
places them in the forefront of reliable business firms of the county. In the laying
of cement pipes, Mr. Fewell has no equal, perhaps, within a wide radius. He does
all this work himself and from January 1 up to the first of June, 1920, he laid more
than 75,000 feet of pipe. Endowed with strength and physique far above the average,
Mr. Fewell has a propensity for hard work and it is often said of him that he does two
men's work every day.
Mr. Fewell's marriage which occurred at Santa Ana, June 15, 1911, united him
with Miss Ollie Pickering, a native daughter of California, born at Santa Paula, Ven
tura County, but reared in Seattle, Wash. Her parents are George and Laura (Buff-
ham) Pickering, the father of English birth and the mother a native of Illinois. Mrs.
Pickering is one of Santa Ana's successful business women, being engaged in the real
estate business there. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Fewell: Their
first born were twins, George V. and Laura Belle, the former only living to be sixteen
months old; Dorothie Rose and Bernice. The family home is at 910 West Fourth
Street, Santa Ana. Mr. and Mrs. Fewell attend the United Presbyterian Church at
Santa Ana and enjoy a wide popularity in its social circles.
FREDERICK P. YANDEAU. — The ranch of twenty acres on Western Avenue,
owned by Frederick P. Yandeau, is one of the show places of the vicinity, with its
well-cared for, up-to-date appearance. The Valencia orange trees, now in their sixth
year of growth, had just been set out when Mr. Yandeau purchased the place. At that
time the irrigation facilities were limited, but the property is now piped and valved to
a complete degree, and its appearance testifies to the care bestowed upon it.
Mr. Yandeau was born in Essex Junction, Vt., on April 11, 1872, the son of
John and Tillie Yandeau, also natives of the Green Mountain State, whose children
numbered eight, six of whom are living, and two of whom migrated to California.
Frederick P. was reared and educated in his native state and had the benefit of a high
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of years, and in 1897, when twenty-five years of age, came to California. A year later,
in 1898, he entered the U. S. service as a member of the signal corps, and served in
this capacity until 1900. At the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion in China, he again
entered active service, serving one year in China. He returned at the close oi that
time to the Philippine Islands, which he left for the scene of war. In 1904 he was
appointed district telegraph officer in the Philippine constabulary, ranking as first
lieutenant. After a period of two years he was appointed postoffice inspector, and
retained the office four years. Ill health caused him to retire from the service and
return to California, where he located in San Diego County to recuperate his failing
health in the balmy climate of the Southland.
His marriage in 1908 united him with Miss Lena M. Holliday. His interest is
ever to build up and add to the commercial influence and prosperity of the community
in which his lot in life is cast, and among whose citizens he is highly esteemed as a
worthy member. He is active in the membership of the Anaheim Cooperative Orange
Growers Association.
P. H. NORTON. — A conservatively careful, yet progressive ranchman whose agri
cultural methods are the true keys to his phenomenal success, is P. H. Norton, of 301
Edgewood Road, Santa Ana. He was born on November 20, 1877, in Freeborn County,
Minn., the son of G. E. and May H. (Phillips) Norton, and started life with the district
school training there. His father was a native of Vermont, and his mother was born
in Wisconsin, and as might be expected of such genuinely American folks, they afforded
every advantage possible for the education of the son, who eventually took an agri
cultural course at the St. Anthony Park branch of the University of Minnesota, during
the time, until he was twenty-six years old, when he remained at home on his father's
farm, lending a hand in the work there.
On December 9, 1904, Mr. Norton was married to Miss Iva E. Wiseman, who
was born near Albert Lea in Freeborn County, Minn., the daughter of A. P. and Ellen
Wiseman, farmers and early settlers of Minnesota. The same years, Mr. Norton pur
chased eighty acres and leased 160 acres in addition, farming 240 acres in Redwood
County. He followed agriculture there for seven years, making a specialty of breeding
Percheron horses.
When he sold out, finally, he came to Santa Ana, and in 1911 purchased a tract
of about six and one-half acres on Edgewood Avenue, two acres of which were in
walnuts and three in Valencias. In 1918 he added by purchase six acres of walnuts,
and as all was under the service of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, he
easily had one of the most desirable properties in the county. From 1916 to 1917, Mr.
Norton also owned a four-acre grove of young Valencias on East Palmyra Street.
He is a member of the Santa Ana Valley Walnut Growers Association and also of the
Santiago Orange Growers Association.
Four boys make up the family of Mr. and Mrs. Norton: Arold P. is a student
at the Santa Ana high school; and Francis W., George Stanley and Miles A. Norton
are m the grammar school. Mr. Norton is a member of the First Baptist Church at
Santa Ana, and is also a Mason. Mrs. Norton, who long studied music under the best
masters available, gives much pleasure to her family and friends with her proficiency
on the piano.
ORAL V. DART— A man who will long and pleasantly be remembered for his
substantial work in both building- up and upbuilding Santa Ana and Orange County is
Ural V. Dart, the carpenter and contract house mover, who was born in Rexford,
Ihomas County, Kans., on November 9, 1887, the son of George W. and Tracy J Dart
farmers and landowners, being among the first settlers of western Kansas. When
Oral was nine years old, they removed with him to Jewell County, where he was
educated in the Jewell district school.
In 1908 he came to California and worked on the Valencia ranch near San Juan
Capistrano for the following two years, when he returned to Kansas for a short time,
in the winter of 1911, owing to the death of his beloved mother. Then he came West
again, this time to Seattle, and there he was employed by Albers Bros, in their flour
mill. Unce more he returned to Kansas and farmed.
In 1912 he came to California and for some time limited himself to ordinary
thTn uTg- HRfeallZ,lng TOT' h°Wever' °f a" expert mover °f houses, he entered
that field, and found no difficulty >n demonstrating that he was the man for the
occasion and the community. Since then he has been busy enough contracting for
lu A T u W°, ; U1 S°me mstances undertaking what others would not care, under
the difficult conditions, to attempt.
At Santa Ana, on June U 1917, Mr. Dart was married to Miss Helen Teel a
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reared and educated. One boy, a promising lad named Alvin Lowell, born on July 9,
1918, has blessed this fortunate union. Mrs. Dart is a member of the Nazarene Church
of Santa Ana, and Mr. Dart belongs to the Free Methodist Church.
He has just traded his handsome home at 1322 West Fifth Street for a grove of
eleven acres lying between Santa Ana and Orange, and as nine acres are already in
walnuts, the cosy ranch bids fair to be of real value in the near future.
Orange County is fortunate in having such public-spirited men as Mr. Dart, who
for years stuck by the Prohibition party, and now that their goal has been reached,
believes in working for the highest citizenship regardless of party lines.
JEROME V. SCHULZ. — A sincere, peace-loving citizen, fond of his home and
solicitous for the welfare of children, and interested in the political problems of the
day, is Jerome V. Schulz, the successful Williams Canyon rancher. His parents were
John C. and Mary Ann Schulz, and he was born in Waterloo County, Iowa, on May
21, 1873. After having become a prosperous farmer, John C. Schulz came out to San
Francisco with his wife and the six-year-old lad, Jerome, and for three years engaged
in the hardware business. In 1882, Mr. Schulz came south to Anaheim and bought five
acres. The land had been set out to grapes, but the new owner planted walnut trees.
The lad helped his father on the ranch, at the same time attending the district schools.
On October 18, 1905, in Santa Ana, Jerome Schulz was married to Naomi A.
Alsbach, the daughter of Montgomery and Mary E. Alsbach. The lady had first seen
the light at Los Angeles, and when a year old had accompanied her parents to
Downey. On account of her mother's health, they removed to Silverado Canyon,
and there she still lives on their old home-site.
Directly after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Schulz moved to their present ranch
in Williams Canyon, which Mr. Schulz had purchased in 1902, and where they and
their family have lived ever since. There are 160 acres in the ranch, eight of which
he has planted to budded walnuts, twenty-one are under cultivation in small grain
and corn for domestic use, and two acres are given to prunes and apricots. Sycamore
and eucalyptus trees grow in abundance on the place. This land was originally
the Williams Ranch, and belonged to the man after whom the canyon was named.
When Williams purchased the ranch he bought it for a sixty-pound can of honey;
he had for the most part goats as stock, and mountain lions would come down and
steal them. Now the Schulz children go over a mountain trail one and a half miles
long, on their way to school, and they used to frequently call to their father to come
and kill the rattlesnakes they found. Of late, they have killed many of the reptiles
themselves. This particular place on the ridge they have named Rattlesnake Peak.
Five children — four girls and a boy — have blessed the happy union of Mr. and
Mrs. Schulz. Evelyn Dorothy is the oldest; then comes Vernon Everett, and after
that Alice May, Florence Louise and Frances Isabel, all of whom attend the Silverado
grammar school. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz are Democrats, but also were stand-patters for
Hoover. Mrs. Schulz, who is serving her second term as trustee and clerk of the Sil
verado School district, is a woman of much native ability and business acumen, who
is of much assistance to her husband, and both are taking an active part in helping
the movements that have for their aim the building up of the county and community.
WILLIAM B. ALEXANDER.— The history of the family of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam B. Alexander is associated in a very interesting manner with the stirring events
in three great commonwealths — California, Tennessee and Colorado — Mrs. Alexander's
father having been among those who repeatedly braved and suffered much to help
found the Pacific State, and Mr. Alexander having held public office when such was
anything but a sinecure. He was born in Lebanon, Tenn., about thirty miles east of
Nashville, on August 6, 1858, the son of John C. and Sarah (Moser) Alexander, also
natives of' that state, as their parents were before them; and he was educated at the
district school at Lebanon, Tenn.
When nineteen, in 1877, he left home to go to Colorado, and in Durango, La Plata
County, he settled for a while and was employed by the San Juan Smelter and Refining
Company. Supplies were at that time very scarce and dear; so much so that when he
went on tours of investigation in the Rockies, he had to pay as high as sixty-five dollars
a ton for his hay for the horses.
Durango was four miles from the Navajo Indian Reservation, where the Utahs,
the Navajos and the Pueblos lived; and the Indians would steal the whites' horses,
and the whites, in turn, would steal the redskins' cattle. Then uprisings occurred, and
the whites would be compelled to drive the Indians back into their own territory.
Notwithstanding the privations and the responsibility, Mr. Alexander remained fore
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After that he went into the cattle business, and often bought and sold as many
as 1,000 head at a time. And he continued buying and selling cattle for about eight
years, when he sold out and came West to San Diego, Cal., where he engaged in
wholesaling and retailing.
When he came to Orange County, he purchased ten acres west of Santa Ana,
which he devoted with success to beets and beans; and he also bought and sold property
in Santa Ana. He owned good lots on Baker and Parton streets; and being satisfied
with the future outlook of the town, in 1917 he bought a home on West Fifth Street,
and also established his vulcanizing works. The patronage accorded by the public from
the start of this enterprise speaks for itself.
In February, 1878, Mr. Alexander was married to Miss Ina L. Pennington, a
native of Wilson County, Kans., and the daughter of J. T. and Sarah Pennington, early
settlers in Wilson County, who came to Durango, Colo., in 1872. One son has blessed
the union — Thomas D., who works in Santa Ana. Mrs. Alexander was educated at the
Durango high school, and later taught in the vicinity of her home until she was
married. Her father made three trips in "prairie schooners" across the plains, coming
to California for the first time in 1849, during the famous gold rush. The family
attend the Methodist Church.
In Tennessee, before going to Colorado, Mr. Alexander was a deputy sheriff for
a couple of years; and in Durango he was on the town board for two years. In national
politics he is a Democrat. Fraternally, he is a member of the Odd Fellows, of the
Woodmen, and of the Elks; and there is no one who enjoys greater popularity, or
carries his honors more modestly.
S. E. TINGLEY. — Among the decidedly progressive men of Orange County, itself
one of the most progressive sections of the great California commonwealth, should
be mentioned S. E. Tingley, a prominent resident of Tustin, who in 1910 established
the Tustin Lumber Company, now playing such an important part in the development
of the district. They do a general lumber and mill business, and handle all kinds of
builders' material, cement, roofing and wall board; and by anticipating the wants,
rather than merely catering to the needs of the community, render the town and
environs a great service. A large force of men are employed on the two acres of the
company, and it is not surprising that their business last year amounted to forty
thousand dollars.
Mr. Tingley is a native of Trenton, Mo., and was born in the notable year of
1876, when the nation was celebrating its first century of existence and prosperity.
His father was Joseph F. Tingley, a native of Ohio, who married Miss Eliza Roberts,
a native of Virginia. Of their five living children, S. E. is next to the youngest and
was two years of age when the family removed to Wamego, Pottawatomie County,
Kans., remaining there until 1887, when they came to the Pacific Coast, locating at
National City, San Diego County, Cal., and here he completed the public schools.
t Tu- 1896 Mr' Tmgley was married at National City to Miss Sarah J. Cox, daughter
ot William and Isabel Cox, natives of England, and they have one daughter, Margaret
U. tingley In 1902 he moved to Santa Ana, and here, in Orange County, he has
been actively engaged in the lumber business ever since. Previous to his establishing
the Tustin Lumber Company, Mr. Tingley was in the employ of the Pendleton Lum
ber Company at Santa Ana.
As a wide-awake citizen who has not only provided a place for himself, but has
contributed toward the advancement of both the county and the state, Mr. Tingley is
a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Tustin, and never fails to support a move
ment for the Progress of the town. He is also both a member and a trustee of the
TrienHs lail T T Masomc circles he is especially popular, but he counts his
friends in all circles of society, and in various communities.
tinn WARNER RDROSS.-To the young men, both of the past and present genera
tion, California had proved a land of opportunity, and success is within the reach of
all who possess energy business ability and a determination to succeed. Such has
Toannin w3nenCer°f "^ R'- Dr°SS' the ^^ warehouseman of the San
Joaquin Warehouse Company, a position he has held for the past ten years This is
he largest lima bean warehouse on the Pacific Coast, and consists of two large
loaTd Tate T 4° T,£t a"d th£ °ther S°° by 4° feet' Seventee" cars °f beans can
be loaded at one time There are two bean cleaners in each warehouse and only the
em, oved fo ^ T T T\ th6 . St machi"ery are used, none but white labor being
readv for the P ™d "^ the bea"S' The product is put up in 100-pound sacks,
leaay tor the consumer.
_ A native of Germany, Werner R. Dross was born at Elbing on February 6 1879
his parents being Walter and Vanda (Gerdes) Dross, both natives of Germany', who

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lived and died there. The father was the owner of a flour mill, farm and grain
warehouse at Elbing, so that Werner was familiar with the warehouse business from
his earliest childhood. By his first marriage Walter Dross was the father of fhree
children: Frieda, who died in Germany, leaving three children; Werner R., the subject
of this sketch; and Erich, a farmer in Germany. The mother passed away when
Werner was but three years old, and the father married again, his second marriage
uniting him with Augusta Kaehler, who is still living in Germany. The following
children were born of this marriage: Walter, Robert, Maryana, Bernhard, Gerhard and
Helmut. Bernhard the first and Gerhard both died in infancy, and Walter and Helmut
lost their lives in the recent war. Bernhard, second, is the manager of the Newton
Grain and Bean Warehouse at Oceanside, he and Werner being the only members of
the family in America.
Mr. Dross grew up at Elbing and received an excellent education there, attending
the high and polytechnic schools, where he studied bookkeeping, higher mathematics,
Latin and French. At the age of nineteen he became a sailor before the mast, shipping
to Singapore, thence to Buenos Aires, South America, and from there to Honolulu, and
back to San Francisco. When he reached the latter port in March, 1900, he was so
agreeably impressed with the country that he resolved to locate in California. Shortly
after landing, however, he heard of the great mining prospects in Lima, Peru, and
made his way there with a friend. He was soon engaged by the Prussian government
as a draftsman, a position for which he was well qualified by his polytechnic school
training in his native land. He soon decided, however, that Peru was too warm a
climate for a place of residence, so returned to California, and he has since made his
home in the state of his choice. His first position was with George W. Kneass, the
proprietor of a boat building and furniture manufacturing establishment in San Fran
cisco, _and there he remained for two years, working as a mill hand. He then went to
work for the S. P. Milling Company in 1904, holding positions with that company at
Santa Barbara, Oxnard, Kings City, San Ardo and Camarillo. In 1911 he came from
the latter place to Irvine, taking the position of warehouseman with the San Joaquin
Warehouse Company, and he has continued with that concern ever since, making a
splendid success of his responsible position.
A man of excellent business judgment and executive ability, Mr. Dross stands high
in the community, and is popular in the circles of the Elks and Odd Fellows, having
been a member of the Santa Ana lodges of these organizations for several years.
Having become a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1913, in Santa Ana, Mr. .
Dross has never regretted the circumstances that led him to make this land his home,
and the passing of the years has made him increasingly fond of this particular section
of his adopted country.
WALTER N. CONGDON. — The interesting and highly instructive history of
several representative pioneer families is recalled by the story of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
N. Congdon and their continued and increasing prosperity. Mr. Congdon is the
proprietor of the Congdon Motor Car Company, whose motto, "We can fix your
automobile any place, any time," has captured more and more patrons, and as an
ignition expert managing the Prest-O-Lite exchange, he has done much for Orange
County motorists in guaranteeing strictly first-class machine work. He was born at
San Juan Capistrano on August 16, 1878, the son of J. R. Congdon, so well known to
Californians, who had married Miss Mary A. Rouse, one of another widely-connected
family. He learned the plumbing trade at Santa Ana, and worked for the Nickey
Hardware Company, whose proprietor was Frank P. Nickey, of Santa Ana.
On June 15, Mr. Congdon was married to Miss Allie M. Nickey, of 517 Bush
Street, and the daughter of the aforesaid gentleman, once a supervisor of Orange
County. She was born in Iowa, but grew up in Santa Ana, and here attended the high
school, from which she was graduated in time with honors. Two children blessed the
union — Jack N. and Mildred Allyne.
Having made his mark in Santa Ana, Mr. Congdon returned to San Juan Capis
trano, and in 1914 established, under the name of Congdon's Garage, the business now
so agreeably associated with his daily activity, and under the charge of Mrs. Congdon.
as well as himself, that accomplished lady acting as bookkeeper. Mr. Congdon is ably
assisted by his younger brother, Chester, who is also a first-class mechanic and autc
expert. They maintain a Ford service station, and while doing vulcanizing, carry a full
line of four or five different kinds of tires. They sell gasoline, oil, greases and a full
line of auto supplies; and because of the completeness and quality of their stock and
their prompt way of doing things, it is safe to say that they never lose a customer
when once they get one. And they always have as many as they can conveniently
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FRANK C. PLANCHON.— A hard-working, successful rancher, who has be
come a leading grower of both beets and beans in Orange County, is ^"V..
Planchon, who owns a fine ranch of thirty acres in the Newport p recinct tie w
born in Santa Clara, Cal., on March 4, 1885, the son of John P. S. and Martha (Key
naud) Planchon. His father, who was born in South America, was a business man m
Montevideo, where the grandfather, also named John P. S. Planchon, established a
large wholesale meat market, and he owned, besides, 10,000 acres of land, and 10 000
or more head of cattle, the market for which he thus found himself. He also estab
lished a confectionery manufactory there. The Waldensians had a settlement of
about fifty families at that place, but on account of the frequently occurmg revolu
tions in that country, having for the most part large families, they were desirous
of getting the young men away from being pressed into military service for no cause
whatever! so the minister, the Reverend Solomon, and ten families left La Plata, and
came to Barry County, Mo., and how and where they traveled en route is worth
recording The trip from- Montevideo to Verona, Mo., took two months, for they
sailed from La Plata to Buenos Ayres,. thence to Rio de Janeiro, after that to Cape
Colony, South Africa, and then up the African Coast to the Canary and the Cape
Verde islands, and after that to the Azores, then to Havre, France, next to Liverpool,
and thence to New York City-sixty-four days on the seas. From New York they
proceeded by rail to St. Louis, and finally to Verona, where the Waldensian settlers
had bought land. Grandfather Planchon was born near Piedmont, in the duchy ot
Savoy, and he went to South America as a young man, and there married Miss Cath
erine Courdin, who was a native of Piedmont. Once arrived m Missouri, Mr.
Planchon bought 1,000 acres of land, and here he resided until his death. He had
six boys and two girls; his son, John P. S., came to California when a young mail
in the early eighties, and was married in Santa Clara County to Martha Reynaud,
born in France. They followed farming until 1886, and then returned to -Barry
County, Mo., where he is a large and successful farmer.
Frank C. Planchon grew up on his father's farm in Missouri, receiving a good
education in the local public school. When twenty years of age, having always
had a desire to see the state of his nativity, he came to Orange County, intending
to stay four months and then return home, but he liked the country and conditions
so well here that he has prolonged his stay until now. He worked on ranches and
then rented land and engaged in farming.
In 1908 Mr. Planchon was married to Miss Pearl Walker, who was born and
reared in Los Angeles, and who had moved to Talbert in 1905, where her father,
Frank P. Walker, was a farmer until his death. They have been blessed with three
children, Carl, Earl and Martha. Mr. and Mrs. Planchon are members of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church South at Greenville, where he is financial secretary, as well
as secretary of the board of trustees, and where his influence is directed for the good
of the community.
In 1915 Mr. Planchon bought his ranch of thirty acres, two miles southwest
of Santa Ana, seven of which he has planted to lima beans, fifteen to beets, while
the balance of the area is devoted to yards and alfalfa. His method of cultivation
shows a thorough knowledge of local conditions — the first requisite always to success.
ALBERT C. LANTZ. — A representative of a successful business family, noted
as an oil expert, who is pardonably proud of his accomplishment in effecting an
extensive oil lease, is Albert C. Lantz, who was born eight miles from Aurora, in Will
County, 111., on July 29, 1885. His father was W. D. Lantz, a native of Will County,
where he first saw the light of day on August 21, 1859, the son of Daniel and Betsy
(Holdman) Lantz; and he was married to Miss Isabelle Malcolm, the mother of our
subject, in Will County, November 4, 1880. Albert lived with his parents, who were
farmers, raising Shorthorn beef cattle and Poland-China hogs.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Lantz removed to Iowa in 1893 and there purchased a farm
of 240 acres four miles north of Waterloo, devoted to corn, stock and grain. At
Waterloo, Albert went to the district school, at the same that, as a live, healthy boy, he
worked about the farm. In 1907, W. D. Lantz came to Santa Ana and began to deal in
real estate, buying and selling houses; establishing that reputation for experience "and
fair dealing which has ever since been of such value to them and brought them so
much patronage.
After coming to California, Albert Lantz engaged in the automobile business as
the authorized Ford distributor for Santa Ana; and this Ford agency he conducted
until 1914. Now he is in the oil promotion field, and owns a half interest in the largest
oil lease in Orange County. This lease was effected on May 15, 1920, and is jointly
owned by R. T. Tustin of Chicago, who has recently come to Santa Ana as an old oil
expert from the East, and A. C. Lantz, our subject. The lease embraces 23,835 acres

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of old, proven oil land, and was given by L- F. Moulton. On this land, some ten years
ago, a well was sunk 2,400 feet, striking oil, but the oil was not produced in paying
quantity. The lease extends in wide area from the Moulton lines near El Toro, running
southwesterly to the ocean.
A derrick is to be put up and first-class oil drilling machinery will be installed in
Aliso Canyon. A well is then proposed for each thousand acres, and if production
warrants the increased investment, two wells will be sunk for the same area. Mr. Lantz
was a graduate of the Waterloo high school, and so has the fortunate asset of a good
education. He belongs to the Elks.
Royce W. Lantz, another son of W. D. Lantz and a brother of our subject, was
born near Aurora, in Will County, 111., on November 11, 1892, and lived with his parents,
coming west to California with them. He went to the district school in Will County,
and finished his studies in Santa Ana, where he graduated from the high school. Since
then he has engaged with his father in Santa Ana realty, and at present is widely
known as a wide-awake, successful operator, making honesty the basis of all of his
business dealings.
On December 13, 1917, Mr. Lantz enlisted in the United States Navy, and was
sent to Mare Island for training. He left for the Hawaiian Islands on February 15,
1918, and there served as a machinist's mate at the radio station. Later he returned
to the United States and was discharged on July 23, 1919: Now he is a member of
the American Legion.
ALFRED TRAPP. — Honest, industrious and well-informed Americans, reason
ably contented with their environment and lot, and ambitious and hopeful for the
future, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Trapp belong to that sterling class of "hard laborers"
which is the wealth, the bulwark and the pride of our country. He is a machinist, a
blacksmith and a carpenter, and an all-around mechanic as well, trained through long
experience as a section foreman on the Santa Fe Railway, a ranch foreman and a
builder, and is employed by the L. F. Moulton Company, who undoubtedly appreciate
his versatility. He was born at Otto; in Fulton County, 111., on September 7, 1873, a brother of
Mrs. Dempsey W. Gould, and grew up in Illinois, where he attended the public schools.
He was early introduced to a life of unremitting industry; and since he was always
handy with tools, he had no need to be begged to develop his mechanical turn.
He came out from Illinois to California in 1898, and went to work as a trackman
at Serra, in Orange County, in the service of the Santa Fe Railroad Company. For
two years he worked as a section hand, and then he rose to be track foreman or
section boss, and that position of responsibility he held for five years.
In Capistrano he was married to Miss Chester C.Gray, a daughter of J. M. Gray,
who lives with the Trapps at El Toro, and a sister of Warren M. Gray, who is
mentioned elsewhere in this book. J. M. Gray was a track foreman and construction
boss for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway in Iowa for over forty years, and
well earned the rest he now enjoys. Mrs. Gray is dead. After that, Mr. Trapp
entered the employ of E. W. Scripps at Miramar, in San Diego County, and for six
years shouldered all the responsibility as foreman of road building on that millionaire's
elegant ranch and adjacent roads. He takes great delight in his problems, and derives
from his work something more than mere income.
Four children were given to Mr. and Mrs. Trapp, and three they have been
allowed to retain, one having passed beyond. She was the second in the order of
birth, and was given the attractive names Frances Elizabeth. The surviving children
are the eldest, the third, and the youngest — John M., Grace Myrtle and Harry Alfred.
Mr. Trapp who, by the way, has been a Socialist for the past twenty years, is a
student of economics, industrial relations and politics, and in common with his good
wife, who also has a humanitarian disposition, is deeply interested in the industrial
and other questions of the day.
HARRY ARTHUR FROEHLICH. — Among the many freedom-loving citizens of
the German Empire who left their native land to escape the iron rule of Bismarck
was Joseph Froehlich, a friend and compatriot of Carl Schurz, who came to American
as soon as he had finished his required term of service in the German army. He had
received an excellent education in the schools of his native country and had been
taught the trade of a piano maker there, but after coming to the United States he took
up the work of court reporting in the circuit court in Henderson County, 111. Shortly
after coming to this country Mr. Froehlich was united in marriage with Miss Amelia
Stuck, who was, like himself, born in Germany. Four children were born to them:
William is a blacksmith at Fillmore, Ventura County; Harry Arthur is the subject of
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department of one of the large moving picture concerns and makes his home at Los
Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Froehlich are both deceased.
Harry Arthur Froehlich was born at Oquawaka, 111., December 27, 1873, an.d
passed the first six years of his life in Illinois, when he moved to Winfield, Sumner
County, Kans., with his parents. Here his father engaged in the lumber business as
agent for the Rock Island Lumber Company, and the family made their home there
for about eleven years. Coming to San Diego, Cal., in the spring of 1889, Harry A.
started to work for M. F. Heller, continuing with him for the next six yars, after
which he traveled out of Los Angeles for four years representing the old firm of
Steinen and Kirchner, a barber and butcher supply house. On account of ill health he
gave up his business association with them and located at Miramar, San Diego County,
where he engaged in the grocery and general merchandise business with good success
for a period of five years, when he disposed of his business profitably and went to
farming at Del Mar. After two years he sold out his leasehold and leased the
Boynton fruit ranch at El Toro. At different times he was employed by L. F. Moulton,
and on March 1, 19'19, he accepted the post of warehouseman for the L. F. Moulton
Company ,a position of great responsibility and trust, as he handles upwards of $500,000
worth of grain and beans each year.
El Toro is the grain emporium of Orange County, and the greater part of it is
handled through the two grSat warehouses of the L. F. Moulton Company, which have
a capacity of 100,000 sacks. They are finely equipped with the latest and most approved
machinery for cleaning beans and a roller mill for crushing barley.
On December 25, 1897, Mr. Froehlich was united in marriage with Miss Grace
North, a native daughter of the state, Santa Ana being her birthplace. Her parents,
who are now both deceased, were John J. and Sophia Jane North, the father, a native
of Liverpool, England, while Mrs. North was born in Australia. Mr. Froehlich is a
Republican, and fraternally is affiliated with the Wbodmen of the World.
ALBERT PRYOR. — A highly-intelligent and industrious representative of an
early pioneer family of Southern California, concerning whom it would not be a mere
commonplace to say that "his word is as good as his bond," is Albert Pryor, the San
Juan Capistrano horticulturist, who owns over forty of the choicest acres in the neigh
borhood, including eighteen in well-set walnuts. He not only lives in the famous
Mission town, but he was born there, on April 6, 1872, and there he attended the public
schools, later studying at the excellent St. Vincent's College at Los Angeles, and
topping off his student work with a stiff course at the Woodbury Business College,
in the same city.
Nathaniel Pryor— sometimes referred to as Don Miguel N. Pryor— was the grand
father of our subject, and came here, it is said, far back in 1828, when he was thirty
years of age, being, therefore, one of the earliest Easterners to settle in California.
Fifteen or twenty years later, about the time that he was made a Regidor or Council
man he was one of perhaps ten Easterners who had farms inside of the district of
T ul 7gO, ?OT and was one of the oldest and most prominent citizens, well
thought of and highly respected by everyone. Part of his property was a vineyard,
between the river and what is now Los Angeles Street, and on it was an old adobe
which according to Harris Newmark, the pioneer-historian, may still be seen on Jack
son Street, the only mud-brick structure in that section. Nathaniel Pryor was twice
married, having a son, Pablo by his first wife, and a son, Nathaniel, Jr , by his second
His first marriage was to Theressa Sepulveda of Los Angeles, who died when her
he mottrnf5 P°rnpn abr°Ut-1, ?' a"d is °ne 0f the few> according to Newmark, with
LT P pC°'i b ,16d mSlde °f the °ld Cathollc church at the Plaza Los
Angeles. Pablo, or Paul, who was born in Los Angeles, married Rosa Avila of San
£ ?rvorroav;nedHtehr ^n ^TT ^ WM * large iandowner and cattle growe
fble !s 2te in San Z n r T Ulgwl .^^ ranch in Los Angeles, as well as a valu
able estate in San Juan Capistrano, residing at the latter place until his death in 1878
l^d umiri^is"' S1X Ch,Wren' Alb6rt b6ing n6Xt t0 the y°™g^- The widow sur-
chargt ofrhir?srat7a^With Tu t ^T d * L°S Angdes until his death, and had
charge of his estate. During that time, he witnessed many stirring events and saw
n 1894 hyePwTmarri dthe ST°uthi«d.^luding the buildin/of the Santa Fe Rahroal
In/ he,was marred, m Los Angeles, to Miss Natalia Leonis, a native of Los An
PauT' 'Selnteen t7 ^ ™ T^' "P' Md th^ have had *"« children-Alben T id
remain there and TffordT h^i? T idence at Sa" Juan Capistrano, in oraer fo
oTTtThT a children the best educational facilities. He owns a farm
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LEON EYRAUD. — Southern California has welcomed many sons and daughters
of the Hautes Alpes, France, affording them opportunities they would probably never
have enjoyed had they remained in their beautiful but less favored country, and among
those who have succeeded here, and who, in succeeding, have contributed toward the'
advancement of the great commonwealth, must be noted Leon Eyraud, the genial and
thoroughly attentive proprietor of the Capistrano Hot Springs Resort, twelve miles
northeast of San Juan Capistrano. He was born in or near Marseilles, France, on
February 24, 1878, the son of Pierre Eyraud, who had married Honorine Cadwel; his
father was a blacksmith who had both a smithy and a cafe, and he and his wife were
born, married and died in France, passing away at the ages, respectively, of seventy-six
and seventy-eight. They had seventeen children, eleven boys and six girls; and among
them Leon was the sixteenth in the order of birth. Pierre Eyraud served under
Napoleon in 1848, and was esteemed because of his military record.
Leon attended the government, or public schools in France, and learned the
blacksmith trade from his father. He served for three years in the French cavalry,
and while in France was married to Miss Fannie Faur, who was born near Marseilles.
Then he and his bride came across the ocean and the continent to Los Angeles, in
1906, sailing from Havre on the steamship La Provence of the Transatlantique Com
pany on September 22, and landing at New York City, after a pleasant voyage, on
September 28. They spent three days in the New World metropolis, and then took the
train for Los Angeles, in which city they arrived on October 4.
For four years Mr. Eyraud worked for the Cudahy Packing Company at Los
Angeles as a sausage maker, and then he conducted a French boarding-house under the
name of the Cafe des Alpes, which he started in 1913.
Having bought the Capistrano Hot Springs on January 1, 1919, he sold his Los
Angeles cafe on January 20, 1920. Since then he has expended some $10,000 in fixing
up the new. resort. He has his own vegetable garden, and produces his own supply of
milk, cream and butter. He bought all the buildings, consisting of the main hotel, a
store building, a pavilion, a fine kitchen and dining-room, and seventeen cottages and
twenty-four tents; and on last'Memorial Day catered to over 200 people. He maintains
his own poultry ranch, and also a store for various supplies, including oil and gasoline
for automobiles, and is also the postmaster of Capistrano Hot Springs. He holds
under lease some 150 acres of the Mission Viego rancho, and he has engaged a full
staff of competent help who operate under the successful direction of Mrs. Eyraud.
The Springs which have made this resort so famous maintain their temperature
of 137 degrees, winter as well as summer, and are charged with the most life-giving
substances. They afford Nature another opportunity to dispense her own remedial
properties for the restoration of health, and have proven to many persons to contain
wonderful recuperative powers. They are situated at a high elevation in the picturesque
and romantic mountains of San Juan Capistrano, where the bracing mountain air, and
the life-giving heat of a southern sun, tempered by the ever-blowing afternoon sea
breeze from the Pacific Ocean, only a short distance, away, together make an Elysian
paradise. Hundreds of visitors come annually to partake of the beneficial waters and
to enjoy the wonderful baths; for the waters are of particular value to those suffering
from rheumatism, gout, stomach disorders, skin diseases, nervous affection, neuralgia,
and bladder, kidney and liver troubles.
FRED HUTTER. — A decidedly live wire is Fred Hutter, the live-stock dealer in
Santa Ana, a circumstance the more interesting because, while Orange County makes
no claim as a stock country, it shipped, in 1919, $1,500,000 worth of live stock. He is
the proprietor of the "Illinois Stock Farm," and both as a wide-awake buyer and dealer
of experience, and a man desirous of handing out the square deal to his fellows, he is
enjoying increasing popularity.
He was born at Lincoln, Logan County, 111., on March 1, 1875, the son of Frank
Hutter, born in Germany but a butcher and stockman at Lincoln, where he died in
1918. He married Margaret Wachner, who died when Fred was only two weeks old.
The lad was the youngest of four children, but by a second marriage his father had
fifteen children, and eleven are living. Fred was reared, therefore, by his stepmother,
who died in Illinois in 1919. He attended the German Catholic school at Lincoln, and
also for three years the high school, and meanwhile learned the butcher's trade, working
under his father.
In 1897 Mr. Hutter came to California for the first time and worked at his trade
in various parts of Northern California for about eight years. He then went into
Nevada, and from there to Colorado, and while in Denver was united in marriage with
an estimable lady. Soon after they went to Lincoln, 111., but in two months' time
arrived back in California. Mrs. Hutter's health being delicate for two years, they
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Pasadena in 1908, leaving a daughter, Zelma, now eighteen years old and living in
Phoenix, Ariz. In Tucson, that state, in 1913, Mr. Hutter married his second wife,
Miss Fredericka Korn, born and reared in Wisconsin until she was ten years old, when
she was taken to Connecticut. They have one daughter, Dorothy Mae.
That same year, 1913, Mr. Hutter came to Southern California, and has lived in
Santa Ana ever since, preferring that and Orange County to all the other wonder spots
in the state. He bought his present place in November, 1919. There are six acres in
his stock ranch on South McClay Street, and he has a slaughterhouse there. He buys
hogs and cattle, and slaughters and sells to local dealers. He also buys and sells
stockers and feeders, and makes a specialty of cows and dairy cattle.
LINDLEY B. SKILES. — A rancher deeply interested in the development of
Orange County, whose modest estimate of the fruits of his years of hard, intelligent
and public-spirited work still permits him to believe that he has had much to do with
the building up of Santa Ana, especially as a home place, is L. B. Skiles, the rancher
of 2548 Santiago Street. He was born on December 28, 1857, near Mt. Pleasant, Henry
County, Iowa, the son of Henry and Jane Skiles, farmer-folk who made a specialty of
raising corn, grain, cattle and hogs. He attended the Mt. Pleasant district school,
while he lived with his parents on a farm. After a while Mr. and Mrs. Henry Skiles
moved to Johnson County, Mo., and in 1867 took up farming there.
On December 28, 1881, Mr. Skiles was married in Johnson County to Miss Flora
L. Miller, the daughter of John and Jane Miller, Missouri pioneers, who came to that
state in 1869; and after his marriage he farmed, with three brothers, on an extensive
scale in Missouri.
In 1887, during the great "boom," he came to California, and on Christmas Eve
arrived in Santa Ana. There he worked at the carpenter's trade for twenty years, and
during that period of bustling activity, erected many of the finest and most comfortable
homes in Santa Ana. He himself lived on Orange Avenue for a while, and then, in
February, 1919, he purchased a home on North Santiago .Street, where he has half an
acre of walnuts showing a high state of culture.
Four children have been granted Mr. and Mrs. Skiles: Harry L. is a rancher,
living in Stockton; Roy is a plumber and resides at Santa Ana; Clarence is a cement
worker in the employ of Preble & McNeal, of Santa Ana; and Maude, the wife of
J. E. Prentice, lives at Azusa.
The standards of the Republican party have always appealed most to Mr. Skiles;
but he is too broad-minded and too patriotic to allow partisanship to blind him to the
desirability of common action in local affairs, and so throws out partisanship altogether.
As an orchardist he cares for four groves — one of twenty, the other of twelve acres — of
walnuts in the northeastern section of Santa Ana, or the southwestern part of West
Orange; five acres of lemons near the county hospital and ten of oranges near
Anaheim; and this keeps him in vital touch with some of the most important of
California industries, to whose rapid, but permanent development, he is able to con
tribute in no small degree.
HAROLD C. HEBARD.-An energetic, hard-working and prosperous young
poultryman who not only thoroughly understands the many problems of his field but
has mastered some concerning the marketing of walnuts and so is also identified in an
HebarH g T™T ^ ,the ™lnut -d^try of Southern California, is Harold C.
Hebard a native of Topeka, Kans., where he was born on February 11 1896 His
father, Horace A Hebard, was born in Iowa, but went to Nebraska when he was
about eighteen, and was widely known throughout several Central States as an expert
photographer. He had married Miss Belle Cromwell, a daughter of Kansas Mr and
he made it the largest and mott^ucTssfol" hlrchery ^be^cT "^ ^ ^^
raised fo "honlS, ^T^T^V^eTle^ T" *% foU°™* *"
years. During the season of 1919 ™ u P T c?ntented himself for a couple of-
of twenty thousand He has both iWTZTT T uT^ T hatCh"y 4° a caPacity
system devised by himself He erect" a hafohin h inCubat0rs; a"d uses a heating
feet in size, out of hollow til "and IhT^TuTTT^ • twenty"fourJ by thirty-six
uie, ana has a ceiling with an air space made of building

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paper and sawdust packing, that serves to keep the entire room evenly temperatured.
For compactness, his incubators are arranged two tiers deep. Although hatching is
the main business undertaken by Mr. Hebard — and to that he gives his entire attention
from January to August — he has four hundred head of the very choicest Rhode Island
Reds, Barred Plymouth Rocks and White Rocks. His hatchery is located on the
five-acre ranch of Fern S. Bishop. His five acres of walnuts are under the service of
the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company.
Between August and January, Mr. Hebard is busy as manager of the Irvine
Walnut Association, which last year handled over nine hundred tons of walnuts, which
they eventually marketed through the California Walnut Association.
On April 9, 1917, Mr. Hebard was married to Miss Clara Bishop, daughter of the
well-known family of Fern S. and Nellie (Deck) Bishop of Santa Ana. The Bishops
were old settlers in California, and Mrs. Bishop is a native of Santa Ana, where she
was also educated. They have one boy — Harold C. Hebard, Jr.
CHARLES R. FARRAR. — Well known in business and civic circles in Orange
County, Charles R. Farrar was born in La Crosse, Wis., February 25, 1864, and when
one year old was taken to Minnesota. Three years later the family moved to Quincy,
111., and there he was reared and educated, receiving his schooling in the public and
high schools and finishing with a course at the Gem City Business College. When
seventeen years old he entered the hardware business, with the firm of the Cottrell
Hardware Company of Quincy. After spending four years learning the business he
became traveling salesman in Illinois and Missouri for the same firm and continued
for ten years, and at the end of that period traveled for twenty years for the Hibbard,
Spencer, Bartlett Company, of Chicago, in much the same territory. Having made
three different trips to California, he finally concluded to locate here.
In the spring of 1915 Mr. Farrar came to Placentia, and bought out a small
hardware store; this he has greatly improved and now has a modern and up-to-date
establishment in keeping with the growing community, and with a stock which in its
careful selection shows evidence of the years of experience which the proprietor has
had the advantage of in the hardware business. In addition to his business demands,
Mr. Farrar acts as postmaster of Placentia, receiving his appointment in 1917 from
President Wilson when the office was in the fourth class and reappointed when it
reached a third class basis.
Mr. Farrar's marriage, which occurred in East Durham, N. Y., united him with
Minnie Gifford, a native of New York State, and three children have blessed their union:
Harry, married Marion Cober and they are the parents of two sons; he is manager
for the Southern Illinois Gas Company at Murphrysboro, 111.; Gifford, is assisting his
father in business; and Reba, wife of W. C. Cober, assistant postmaster of Placentia.
The family attend the Presbyterian Church.
Active in Masonic circles, Mr. Farrar was made a Mason in Lambert Lodge,
No. 659, A. F. & A. M., Quincy, 111., and demitting, is now a member of Fullerton
Lodge, No. 339, F. & A. M. He is also a member of Fullerton Chapter, R. A. M., and
a charter member of Fullerton Commandery, Knights Templar, and of Quincy Con
sistory, S. R., as well as Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Los Angeles. For
many years he has been and is a member of the United Commercial Travelers and is
an active member of the Orange County Hardware Dealers Association. Mr. Farrar
is liberal and enterprising and has always shown his readiness td assist worthy enter
prises and movements for the betterment of conditions in the community.
W. R. FREEMAN. — A modest, sincere and very public-spirited citizen, albeit
he is interested primarily in the problems of ranching, is W. R. Freeman, of 2527
Santiago Street, Santa Ana, where he has lived for the past three or four years. He
was born near Northfield, Dakota County, Minn., on September 12, 1886,. the son of
William H. and Mary C. Freeman, both natives of New York State. They were
farmers, too, and early settlers in Minnesota, Mr. Freeman's grandfather having come
to Minnesota in 1851.
W. R. Freeman was sent to the district schools in Minnesota, and lived at home,
helping his parents, until they removed from Dakota County in 1906 and came to
California, whereupon he took over his father's farm in Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs.
William H. Freeman came to Santa Ana and purchased a ranch on North Lincoln.
They are now both deceased.
At Waconia, Minn., on June 4, 1907, Mr. Freeman was married to Miss Gussie
Thorn, a daughter of Fred and Elizabeth Thom, natives of Minnesota and farmers.
Miss Thom was born at Waconia, in Carver County. On January 1, 1912, Mr. and
Mrs. W. R. Freeman removed to California from Minnesota, and they lived on the
ranch purchased by the elder Freeman in -1906, continuing to operate it until 1916,
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when they sold it. The same year Mr. Freeman purchased the twelve-acre ranch on
Santiago Street. Two acres are in walnuts, three and a half in oranges, while six and
a half are planted to beans. These six and a half acres will probably be planted to
Valencia oranges next spring; formerly they had various kinds of old fruit trees, which
were grubbed out by Mr. Freeman. The land is watered by the Santa Ana Valley
Irrigation Company.
A member of the First .Methodist Church of Santa Ana and a Republican in
matters of national political moment, Mr. Freeman tries to do his duty before God and
man. He joined Company F of the Santa Ana National Guards in 1918, and expected
to have seen active service before the close of the war.
J. WILLIAM SACKMAN.— A native son, who is very successfully developing
his choice ranch land, bringing it, by the most scientific methods, to a high state of
cultivation, is J. William Sackman, who was born at Oakland on May 1, 1876, the son
of John and Bertha (Brower) Sackman. His father was a skilled mechanic, who came
to Santa Ana when our subject was two years old, and at Santa Ana he made an
enviable reputation for himself in his ability, by original and ingenious, but very
thorough means, to do mechanical work.
J. William Sackman attended the schools at Santa Ana, and when only fifteen
years of age he started out to make his own way, learning the butcher's trade. At
the age of twenty-one he began conducting the Bon Ton Market at Fourth and
Broadway, Santa Ana, but in 1905 he sold out and engaged in the manufacture of
brick. He established a brickyard at Olive and Hickey streets, where he owned four
acres, installed crude oil burners to burn the brick, and machines for the manufacture
of brick, and developed the plant until it put out two millions. of brick a year. When
he had made a success of the enterprise he sold it in August, 1919, to Harvey Garber,
but still retains the four acres of land on which the brickyard is located.
In 1916 Mr. Sackman purchased a ranch of nine and a half acres on North Olive
and Sixth streets, five acres of which he planted in walnuts and four acres in Valencia
oranges. It is improved with a two-story residence, where he makes his home with
his family. On January 6, 1904, Mr. Sackman was married to Miss Gertrude E. Osgood, who
was born in Boston, Mass., on May 1, 1880. When a mere girl her father died and she
came to California with her mother in 1884. They settled for a while in Los Angeles,
and later came to West Orange. Two sons blessed the union, George D. and William
C, both pupils in the grammar schools. Fraternally Mr. Sackman was made a Mason
in Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M., and is also a member of Hermosa Chapter,
O. E. S. For years he was active in the Merchants and Manufacturers Association
and is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
EDWIN JULIAN.— An oil man and a rancher long entrusted with responsibility
calling for hard, unremitting labor, is Edwin Julian, now retired, who was born in
Cornwall County, England, on February 5, 1852, the son of William and Johanna Julian,
residents there who were esteemed by all who knew them. He remained at home until
he was eighteen, and then decided to try his fortunes in the New World Coming
alone to America, he landed in Quebec in 1869. Then he went to Petrolia, Canada, and
worked in the oil fields for ten years; later became a foreman for the Ontario Land
and Oil Company, of Petrolia, and had over 500 wells under his personal supervision.
The wells had one and two-inch pipes, and each produced from four to 100 barrels of
oi a day. To economize power, 120 wells were driven by one pumping plant The
oil basins were shallow, and it was not necessary to go down more than 500 feet to
get the flow. Mr. Julian was foreman for this company for twenty-two years and
was the first man to devise a system for the separation of the oil from the water, after
the water had gotten mto the wells. He used a plug system, plugging the well just
below the oil, and above the water line. While in Canada he also had the supervision
ot hve miles of the country roads in the vicinity of Petrolia
°" May S- 1872- Mr. Julian was married to Miss Harriett Sophia Turner, a native
of London, England and the daughter of Philip and Harriett Turner. Philip Turner
7nA 7 e"f neer' wh° cafe. to America in 1870, followed the next year by his wife
jTTTTT r rS' Jul'an- T a,S° Went to Petrolia' and there made his home.
afterward n u 3- ^"0° T Umted States and settled at Santa Monica, soon
afterward purchasing a ranch of eighty acres in the Topango Canyon. This was
insets and wo' ^It Tu^' T ^ ™ his SUCC£SS W*h ^he 800 *"«, *™ *™
Commerce TIT aV * ^^ , 6re disPlayed by the Los Angeles Chamber of
T^Ta t a IT COWS' ™ules and h°gs on his ranch, and in 1917 his bees
ThiTt VA* a,half t0nS °f h0ney' °n May 19' 1919- Mr' Julian soU his ranch
I? ,« T ' T removed to Santa Ana, where he purchased a beautiful bungalow
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Seven children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Julian, and five are still living.
The eldest, William Charles, is deceased; Edwin is living on the Topango Canyon
Ranch; John Henry is in Canada; Selena A., Mrs. L- A. Menges, is in Indiana; Victor
is a machinist in the Long Beach shipyards; Arthur is deceased; and Fred is in Florida.
Mr. Julian is a Mason, and also belongs to' the Canadian order of Odd Fellows; Mrs.
Julian belongs to the Church of Christ, Scientist.
CLYDE H. ELLIS. — An experienced rancher, who has the advantage of also
being an expert machinist and a good business man, is Clyde H. Ellis, the son of a
well-known pioneer in the Newport-Greenville-Talbert sections of Orange County. He
was born at Tazewell, Claiborne County, Tenn., on May 14, 1885, the son of O. H.
Ellis, a native of the same county, who died in 1913, at the age of sixty-three. He came
to Santa Ana in 1886, and after living there a year removed to Newport, where he ran
a dairy for twelve years. He bought the place he was long identified with some
twenty-five years ago, and after a while successfully engaged in the cultivation of
celery and sugar beets. When he died he owned 120 acres. He had married Mellie
M. Kawood, by whom he had four children. Clyde was the oldest; then came Annie
E., the wife of L. J. Buschard; the third in the order of birth was James N. Ellis,
a native of Orange County, where he was born at Old Newport, or Greenville, on
December 26, 1889; he married Myrtle Washburn. The youngest was Maggie E.
Ellis, wife of Oliver Jones, the rancher, at San Anofra, Cal.
Clyde grew up here on his father's various ranches, and at the same time that
he was learning how to make himself useful, and to prepare for a tussle with the
world, he attended the public schools. His ambition and the desire of his parents
for his higher welfare led him to attend the Orange County Business College, where
he completed a profitable commercial course. Then he went to San Bernardino,
where he accepted a job as a mechanic's helper, and at that he continued for three
years. He still was bent on improving his time, and he therefore took a course, in
his spare time, with the International Correspondence School, and was declared a
competent machinist.
Mr. Ellis next entered the employ of the famous Holt Manufacturing Company,
makers of caterpillar tractors, harvesters and threshing machines, as service guide
or mechanical expert, traveling and looking after Holt machinery. For a time he
made Phoenix, Ariz., his headquarters, and was sent by his company to different parts
of Arizona and the Imperial Valley.
In the fall of 1917 Mr. Ellis came back to the Ellis farm, which he rented and
operated during that and the following years. It was then that he formed his present
association, in partnership, with his brother, James N. Ellis, utilizing the farm owned
by his mother. He also put sixty acres into cabbage, barley, hay and beans. He
made a specialty, while growing cabbages, of the Winningstad variety, and having
started with only $500 in capital, cleared up a small fortune inside of two years. The
Ellis ranch has five flowing wells, with a fine pumping plant, giving and handling
an abundance of good water, and this has proven a natural advantage, taken care of
by a man thoroughly familiar with mechanical problems, and a most valuable asset.
Aside from the Ellis ranch of 120 acres he also leases 525 acres, the Snow and
. Grover ranches, where he is raising barley, beets and beans, and as is natural for a
mechanic of his experience, he has the most modern motive power machinery, using a
Best sixty-horsepower tracklayer and a Holt thirty-horsepower tracklayer.
At Santa Ana, in 1913, Mr. Ellis was married to Miss Sadie G. Miller, a native of
Keokuk County, Iowa. She was one of seven children, and came to Los Angeles with
her parents, Frank C. and Carrie J. Miller. Two children have blessed the Ellis
union; one bears the attractive name of Naomi Fern, and the other is Jack N. Mrs.
Ellis has proven a valuable helpmate to her husband, and has participated in all his
activities for the betterment of tfie community.
R. EARL ELLIOTT. — A very successful Californian who has become an enthusi
ast for California is R. Earl Elliott, the mail carrier and rancher, who improves each
shining moment, after he has discharged his official duties, in caring for and developing
his valuable ranch property. He was born in the comfortable town of Sedalia, Mo., on
Washington's Birthday, 1876, the son of William H. and Margaret Frances (Wason)
Ellit, who at present reside at Wichita, Kans. His parents removed to Butler, Bates
County, Mo., when Earl was a mere child, and in Bates County he was reared on a
ranch, for his father had 160 acres devoted to general farming. He attended school in
the Harmony district and meanwhile steadily mastered a knowledge of farming. The
name was originally Elliott, but the great-grandfather, Thomas, was of Scotch descent,
and changed it to Ellit. He was a pioneer of Louisville, Ky., and built one of the
first houses there. The name remained as such until the present generation, when Earl

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with his eldest brother and sister, changed their name to Elliott. When Mr. Elliott
was twenty-seven he came to California, in February, 1903, and for eighteen months,
from June of that year, served as superintendent of the Santa Ana Cemetery. He
undertook to do all the cement work there previously contracted for by private parties,
and also started a record showing the lots' foe which the upkeep was paid by private
parties. After a while Mr. Elliott sold out his cemetery interest to S. H. C. Ritner, and
with Dr. Newton, of Santa Ana, studied and practiced chiropractic. This did not
permanently satisfy him, however, and he entered the Government service in 1906 and
took charage of a rural free delivery route, which he has held ever since. This
includes a section southwest of Santa Ana through Talbert, and he was the first carrier
to use an automobile for rural delivery in this section.
In 1906 Mr. Elliott built a home at 1702 East Fifth Street and two years later he
traded this for J. E. Livesey's home at 319 East Seventeenth Street, where he set out
an orchard, and in 1912 he built a new home. In March, 1919, he traded that for a
twelve-acre citrus ranch on Warren Street in Tustin, and in December sold it to
C. M. Lyon. Then he purchased the five-acre ranch at 314 Santa Clara Avenue from
John Winter. The ranch is under the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company's service,
and so is well supplied with water, and is devoted to Valencia oranges." It is, in fact,
now one of the model ranches of its size in the neighborhood.
In 1900, at Butler, Mo., Mr. Elliott married Miss Mabel D. Ritner, the daughter
of Spencer H. C. and Mary Ritner, and a native of Henry County, Iowa. Four children
have been granted the happy couple. Spencer, who is at present a gun pointer on the
Battleship Brooklyn, enlisted at Santa Ana on May 5, 1919, and was sent to San
Francisco to be trained on Mare and Goat Island. Ivan R. is a student in the Santa
Ana high school; Ruth is in the eighth grade of the grammar school, and Grace is
in the sixth grade. The family are members of the First Baptist Church of Santa Ana,
where Mr. Elliott is a deacon and is as enthusiastic in his support of all church and
civic improvement work as he is in the prosecution of business and the "booming" of
the favored section and state in which he lives.
ISAAC R. HENDRIE. — An energetic, hardworking and far-seeing rancher of
the sincere, modest type, whose relations to his neighbors are governed by the princi
ple of the Golden Rule, is Isaac R. Hendrie of 1110 West Washington Street, Santa
Ana. He was born at Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa, on September 4, 1869, the son
of Senator James S. Hendrie, born in Ohio, but a settler of Iowa, where he was a
prosperous farmer, owning a half-section of land, half of which was usually devoted
to the growing of corn and the other half to hay and timberland He represented
Mills and Montgomery counties as senator of the Iowa legislature, and later was the
Democratic sheriff of Mills County, Colo. He was married to Mary L. McClanathan,
wiVn Tm they moved to Colorado and located on a farm near Wray, then
Weld County When the county was divided he was appointed a commissioner of the
new county (Washington County) by Gov. Alva Adams. Later Washington County
was divided and he became a commissioner of the new Yuma County, and also county
hi aLa T ^ ^m. m T9' t0 m°Ve t0 Long Beach' Cal" where he resided until
he died in the year 1911, at the age of eighty-three. His wife had passed away in 1910.
Wrav \TTT TOO a3C CZu £ t0 CoIorad° with his parents, who settled near
from lK unt 1 IQnn t Hn,Ven Th£ y0UlS man Hved at home and r°de the range
from. 1886 until 1900, steadily acquiring, through his father's guidance, a thorough
knowledge of agriculture and cattle raising. inorou0n
the same'lines^s dh? Tu PTT^ T father'S land and continued to farm along
further we and tlT th ^TO'T' Until 19°9' when he determined to push
c:TeT::LTsTfsTTi^ee he had improved- He was a member °f *« c°^a«°
Comptn'vZrefor ?f " ^ VT Mr' Hendrie WOrked for the City Water
oh^sfwthin^g onlt^'Santa""^"^?' T'tf ^ P°rchMed BWen ""'
balance to walnuts Oa I ub . , set out four acres to apricots and the
wlere for mries a ound mad" "d one ,of *he trimmest small ranches to be seen any-
from the STn ta Ana TT t ™°? ^o^6 °" aCC0Unt of the excellent water supply
Hendrie has TTv u t Y lrngailon Company. Since purchasing this property Mr
h ckeTs He Puiltt inTub t "I"6 POUltT bUSin?SS' with some 3 00° Whitethorn
also has thf necessary brooder- h™^ ™ T° incubators of 500 capacity each, and
of Southern Californk. ' " & mCmber °f the Poultry Producers Association
of Riiey ^nPdriVmd;fe3VSiineDatW X m"«<A* MiSS MaUde Daka"' the daU^hter
early settlers of Marysville Mc ^n^the" ^ and Kentuf ^respectively, a"d
' ' xo' ln 1892 they came to Colorado, but later returned

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to their farm in Missouri, which they have now owned over fifty years. Mr. Dakan
served as a soldier in a Missouri Regiment during the Civil War and is a prominent
G. A. R. man.
Mr. Hendrie received a very thorough grammar school training at Glenwood,
Iowa, while Mrs. Hendrie was equally fortunate in her training at Wesleyan College,
Cameron, Mo., later teaching school in Colorado, and they have striven to give the
best of educational advantages to their five children. The eldest, James R., is living
at Oakland; Dorothy L. has become Mrs. W. L. Tubbs of Santa Ana; Mary E. lives at
home and is a student at the Santa Ana high school; Harold is a pupil in the grammar
school, and Walter B., the youngest.
JOHN T. LYON. — Southern California has offered many opportunities to John
T. Lyon, and with the keen vision and foresight of a "born" real estate man, he has
grasped the opportunities offered and climbed to success through his own abilities and
energy. Born in Bastrop County, Texas, April 16, 1875, he was reared to boyhood in
Llano, that state, and in 1884, when he was nine years old, the family moved to Wash
ington Territory, where his stepfather took up a timber claim, cleared the land and
engaged in ranching.
On reaching nineteen years of age, in 1894, Mr. Lyon started out for himself,
and came to Southern California, first locating in Pomona, where he worked for
wages on different ranches. In 1895 he came to Santa Ana and worked for a time,
then went back to Pomona, in 1896, and worked on ranches once more. In 1897
he settled in Chino, rented land and raised beets for the sugar factory. In 1898 he
located at Spadra, raised alfalfa and engaged in the feed and fuel business. In 1901
this enterprising young man bought an eleven-acre orange grove in North Pomona,
next to the Richards ranch, and two years later sold this property for a profit of $2,000.
In May, 1904, Mr. Lyon located in Garden Grove, Orange County, bought fifty
acres of land, the old Toomey place, and put in a pumping plant, the first one installed
in that district; he improved the land and sold it in 1906. From 1906 to 1913 he located
in Santa Barbara, erected a business block in that city, and engaged in the mercantile
business; this he sold out in 1913, and then located in Los Angeles, where he engaged
in the real estate business, selling land in the San Fernando Valley for the H. J. Whit
ley Company, which concern had opened up land in the Van Nuys to Owensmouth sec
tion. In this Mr. Lyon was very successful, selling over a million dollars' worth of
property in this district.
In 1917 Mr. Lyon came to Anaheim, and engaged in the buying and selling of
orange groves, and is at present the owner of a very fine grove near Anaheim. He
started in the real estate business in that city in November, 1919, and his years of
experience of the actual, practical sort, throughout Southern California, make him
peculiarly adapted to the appraising of land valuations in this section of the state, and
particularly in Orange County, and his settling in this district shows a keen appre
ciation of its possibilities.
The marriage of Mr. Lyon united him with Fannie M. Baker, a daughter of
Andrew Baker, one of the early settlers of Anaheim. Fraternally Mr. Lyon is a
member of the Santa Barbara Lodge of Knights of Pythias, and of Anaheim Lodge
No. 207, F. & A. M.
RALPH A. FULLER. — A very popular and enterprising business man and horti
culturist of Orange, who is very enthusiastic and optimistic for the wonderful oppor
tunities and great future for Orange County, is Ralph A. Fuller, who was born on
September 19, 1881. His father was Herman A. Fuller, an educator and one of a
family of "down easters," tracing their ancestry back to England, which was also the
case with the family of Mrs. Fuller, who was Ida W. Andrews before her marriage.
Mr. Fuller died when his son Ralph was only ten years old and the lad came to
California with his mother in 1895. Mrs. Fuller- purchased the old Ainsworth place on
Yorba Street at McPherson, consisting of fifteen acres, and in 1909 sold it. Then she
built on her ten acres at the southwest corner of Yorba and Chapman streets. These
are now devoted entirely to Valencia oranges and the acreage is under the Santa Ana
Valley Irrigation Company. Mrs. Fuller, who was a very active member of Hermosa
Chapter, O. E. S., of which she was past matron and also past noble grand of the
Rebekah Lodge of Orange, passed away on Christmas Day, 1913. Of her two children
Ralph A. is the eldest, and his sister is Mrs. Olive M. Fine of 303 West 'Santa Clara
Avenue, Santa Ana.
Ralph A. Fuller's early education was received at El Modena public school and
Santa Ana high school. After school days were over he took charge of his mother's
ranch, and being an admirer of standard bred horses, he was one of the organizers and
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matinees. Among the fine animals he owned was the sire "Raymon," No. 12007. In
1909 he moved to his present place, which he later improved to Valencia oranges. In
May, 1915, he took up life insurance and is now connected with the Travelers' Insur
ance Company of Hartford, Conn., and has become a leader among Southern California
insurance men. He still finds time to look after his orange orchard and see that it has
the proper care, and takes much enjoyment in its development.
Mr. Fuller is active in all community affairs and contributed liberally to the
success of the bond drives during the World War. A Republican in national political
affairs, he allows no partisanship to affect him in the discharge of his duty as a citizen
in matters of local moment. Mr. Fuller is a prominent clubman and a leader in social
affairs, not alone in Orange County, but in the metropolis of the Southland as well.
FRED RAY FRASER. — A hard-working, thoroughly capable young man, who
is steadily rising in the esteem of his employers, is Fred Ray Fraser, who divides his
time as foreman and rancher. He was born at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on March 6, 1891,
the son of Francis P. Fraser, who ran both a flour mill and a farm, and had married
Miss' Rebecca A. Scott. When he was four years old, his parents, in September, 1895,
brought him to California, coming directly to Santa Ana, where his father purchased a
one-acre apricot grove in Tustin. He lived at home with his parents, while he attended
the Santa Ana grammar and high schools, from which he was duly graduated with
credit, and well equipped to take his part in the world's work.
Immediately after finishing his high school studies, Mr. Fraser went to work for
the Gowen and White packing house, and has since then so advanced in work and
responsibility that he is foreman of the walnut and apricot departments.
On December 6, 1911, Mr. Fraser was married at Santa Ana to Miss Hazel Crane,
a Nebraska girl, who was born in Brown County. Her mother, Jennie Crane, died in
Nebraska, and in 1908 her father, Fred O. Crane, came to California with his family.
There were nine children, and she was the youngest daughter.
After his marriage, Mr. Fraser and his wife lived on Valencia Avenue, but in
1919 he sold out and purchased an orange grove at 826 North Baker Street. However,
he found the work of handling this new grove too much, with the responsibility of
the packing house, so he sold the grove and bought the home at 710 West Washington
Street, where he now lives. Three children brighten their home — Velda B., Vivian B.
and Evelyn L. Fraser.
Francis P. Fraser, our subject's father, lived at his Tustin home until 1917, when
he sold out and moved to Santa Ana, where he bought a home at 615 East Second
Street. On May 30, 1919, he passed away, mourned by all who had the good fortune
to know him. Mrs. Fraser lives at her home on East Second Street. Mr. Fraser did
manly service in the Civil War, marching with Sherman on his celebrated campaign
through Georgia, and for four long years engaging under his leadership in other
battles; and he was well honored as a modest veteran, free from hate or rancor.
BARRY H. McPHEE. — A native son of California whose success in buying and
selling property has been such that he thinks there is no place on earth equal to the
Golden State, is Barry H. McPhee, who was born in Elsinore on November 1, 1893,
the son of George W. McPhee, who became one of the proprietors of the Santa Ana
Blade, and in whose comfortable home he remained until he was married in 1913. He
attended the Santa Ana grammar and high schools, and made a specialty of the
commercial course in that institution. Being apt and learning easily, he had time to
spare, and so, at the same time that he studied, he also worked for the Blade.
On February 16 he was united in matrimony to Miss Helen Neff, the accomplished
and popular daughter of L H. and Lydia Neff, who came from Lincoln, Nebr., in 1912.
Here she attended the Santa Ana high school, and made a host of friends.
Mr. McPhee is employed as a lineman for the Edison Company, in whose employ
he has been for the past nine years, and is now connected with the Santa Ana branch,
but he is something more than merely an electrician. He has bought and sold two
groves and two homes in the past few years, and in doing so has turned over some
rather attractive money.
His present holding is ten acres, all in walnuts, one-half of which is interset with
Valencia oranges, and the balance is full bearing, and affords to the eye of even the
novice a fine sight The ranch is served by the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company,
and that means plenty of good water, and at the right time
One daughter, Joy McPhee, a pupil of the Santa Ana grammar school, brightens
the home of this accomplished couple, and bids fair to be herself a young woman of the
right sort of accomplishments. Santa Ana need not worry about her future with such
enthusiastic boosters as the McPhees.

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RUFUS C. McMILLAN. — The wise man of the old has said: "A good name is
rather to be chosen than great riches." The successful contractor of Santa Ana, Rufus
C. McMillan, has, by his conscientious workmanship and high principles of business
integrity, acquired as a reward that much coveted prize — a good reputation. He was
born on Christmas Day, 1879, at Pine Bluff, Ark., and was reared and educated in his
native state, early learning the trade of a carpenter. At the age of fifteen he began to
follow his trade and when nineteen years old began contracting there, and for a time
was in the employ of the Cotton Belt Railroad Company and in 1904 located in Mus
kogee, Okla., where he continued in the contracting and building business and built
several fine residences, one of his patrons at Muskogee being a Mr. Williams, the
banker and wealthy oil magnate. In December, 1906, he returned to Pine Bluff, where
he spent four years in the building business, erecting many fine homes.
It was in 1910 that Mr. McMillan first came to California, having felt the call for
some time previous to inspect the western part of our country. He arrived in Los
Angeles on December 31, and for a time visited various cities of the southern part
of the state looking for a suitable place in which to engage in his business and finally
decided that Santa Ana held out the best inducements to a man of energy and deter
mination. On February 19, 1911, he brought his family here, purchased a lot and built
a home for them and very soon demonstrated his judgment by branching out as a
contractor and at the end of twenty-three months, beginning on May 1, that year he had
completed forty-three buildings. Judging from the success he has achieved since he
took up his residence in Santa Ana, his choice of location was well taken. Up to
January 1, 1919, Mr. McMillan had erected 105 residences and business blocks in the
town, and during 1919, at one time he had fourteen buildings under construction. Dur
ing the year 1920 he completed twenty-five important contracts and numerous smaller
ones in the county. He has not confined his operations to Santa Ana as Fullerton,
Placentia, Anaheim, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and San Juan Capistrano show
examples of his skill as a builder. Some of the residences he has built have cost as
high as $23,000. Among the buildings in Santa Ana erected by Mr. McMillan men
tion is made of the Stanley and Gilmacher blocks; Wickersheim and County garages;
sheriff's office; and the residences of Bert Annin and W. D. Woodward in Fullerton;
Fiscus home in Anaheim; Ray McClintock's in Greenville; the Edwards and Hansen
family residences in Placentia; Herbert Rankin, C. E. Jackson, Judge Thomas, W. D.
Wilson, Briggs, C. T. Johnson and the Crose homes in Santa Ana; and the Ocean
View school building.
Mr. McMillan has been married twice; his first union was on August 4, 1901, in
Pine Bluff, Ark., to Miss Callie M. Beach, and they had three children, Daisy Thelma,
Grace and Mary Agnes. On December 16, 1914, in Santa Ana his second marriage
united him with Miss Pearl Wilcox, a native of Kansas, where she was born near Ness
City, but was reared and educated in Dodge City. They have two children, Eugene and
Pearl Larene. Fraternally Mr. McMillan is a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 794,
B. P. O. Elks. The high regard in which Mr. McMillan is held as a builder is best
exemplified by the fact that his former patrons have retained him to construct their
buildings without asking for competitive bids. Their confidence in his superior judg
ment and unquestioned integrity in all business transactions assures them that their
work will be most satisfactorily completed.
ROY S. LANCASTER. — A wide-awake young rancher intensely interested in the
growth of Orange County, and willing to do his share towards the advancement of
Southern California interests, for the benefit of his neighbors as well as himself, is
Roy S. Lancaster, whose talented wife and true helpmeet is proud of her birth as a
native daughter. He was born in Travers County, Mich., in 1875, the son of James B.
and Minnie (Tracy) Lancaster. His father was a druggist and postmaster, and Roy
grew up with certain home advantages not accorded every young man.
This did not prevent him, however, at the age of seventeen, from feeling the lure
of the outside world, and to such an extent that he went to South Dakota, and in
Britton, Marshall County, worked in the harvest field. He also traveled considerably,
stopping in each place only for a season, and at Rock Island, 111., he engaged in mining
for a year. From Rock Island he then went to Chicago, where he worked for nearly a
year in the Harvey Steel Works, at the same time that he was attending the Columbian
Exposition of 1893.
Mr. Lancaster's next move took him to Idaho, where he secured a timber claim;
but he stayed there only a year. The greater attractions of California brought him to
Orange County in 1894, and here he found employment working out on farms. Since
1913 he has lived on his present ranch at 1426 North Baker Street, Santa Ana.
On July 2, 1901, Mr. Lancaster was married to Miss Grace Greenleaf, daughter
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in Maine and the mother in Ohio, their marriage taking place in Missouri. They
crossed the plains in the sixties in an ox-team train, and spent several years in
Northern California. Pioneer settlers of Santa Ana, they came there in 1871, and
both passed away there. Six children — four boys and two girls — have blessed the
union of Mr. and Mrs. Lancaster: Berney; Robert is a high school student; Lucile,
Catherine and Ray are pupils in the grammar school; and Jack is at home. Mr.
Lancaster is a Republican in national politics, but never allows partisanship to interfere
with his loyal and liberal support of any movement likely to make for the betterment
of the community in which he lives.
EMIL KRUEGER. — A sturdy pioneer who has become one of the most loyal of
American citizens and respected agriculturists of his neighborhood is Emil Krueger,
the owner of a very productive ranch on La Veta Avenue, Orange. He was born in
West Germany in July, 1863, and his parents were Herman and Mathilda Krueger.
They had five children, and all three of those still living are residents of California.
Mrs. Krueger having passed away, the father emigrated to the United States nine
months in advance of his children. He sought here and found a sheltering government
under whose fostering care they could breathe the air of freedom and enjoy equal
rights and privileges.
Emil grew up in his native country, and while profiting from the excellent schools
there, met and cheerfully accepted the challenge of hard work. In 1883 he came to
the United States and spent four years as a. weaver in the cotton mills at Exeter, N. H.,
and in 1887 he came to Orange, Cal., where he worked in orchards and for the Santa Fe
Railroad until he purchased his present ranch, which he improved, and thus advanced
steadily. He is a member of the McPherson Heights Citrus Association and the
Tustin Lemon Association.
In February, 1893, he was married at Orange to Miss Augusta Rosenthal, also a
native of Germany, and by her he has had three children: Herman, a farmer here;
Rose, now Mrs. Harris, and Bertha, now Mrs. Cook, both of Orange.
Mr. Krueger purchased his land in 1890, when it was unimproved stubble, and the
uneven surface seemed to make it quite unfit for irrigation; but by very hard work
during long hours and weary months, he at length set out his fruit trees and accom
plished the task of improvement. Now the ranch is so productive and famous that
the Valencia oranges are a wonder to behold, and the lemons bring, the highest price.
He now has fifteen acres in a body, under the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company.
and he also has a pumping plant. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, and as
a self-made man, Mr. Krueger belongs to that type of citizen of which the town and
county of Orange may well be, as it ever is, justly proud.
SAM STEIN. — A hustling, thoroughly enterprising merchant who has steadily
advanced from a modest beginning to a position of prominence in the commercial
circles of Santa Ana, in which city he has gained the respect of all classes, is Sam
Stein, the proprietor of Stein's Stationery Store at 210 West Fourth Street. By the
public generally he is familiarly known for his stature and his jollity; while to his
many patrons he is the one out of a hundred who not only takes infinite pains to please,
but studies the conditions of today and so anticipates the wants of tomorrow. Once a
man has come to be a customer of Stein's Stationery Store, he is seldom found to turn
elsewhere for that kind of service.
He was born in Russia on September 5, 1885, and his parents were Samuel H.
and Lena Stein. They had five children, and Sam was the second child born to them.
When he was still a child, the parents crossed the wide ocean to the United States;
and as they stayed in New York for a while, he attended the public schools there, and
then for a couple of years went to the City College of New York.
When old enough to do so, Sam learned the plumber's trade, at which he also
worked for a couple of years; but on coming to California in 1902 he entered the
employ of the Lazarus Stationery Company at Los Angeles. This experience with one
of the best firms on the Pacific Coast proved the finest of mercantile schools.
In September, 1914, Mr. Stein came to Santa Ana and started in the stationery
business in a small way, with one clerk; and having attended to business business
increased until now he employs eleven persons. He carries a full line of office supplies
and stationery, and he maintains such a completely equipped kodak finishing house
that, as the only concern of its kind in the county, he does work for many other stores
all over Orange County. Naturally, he is a live wire in the Santa Ana Chamber of
Commerce and the Santa Ana Merchants and Manufacturers Association
On February 23, 1908, Mr. Stein was married at Los Angeles to Miss Celia Singer
ol Los Angeles; and two children have blessed their union— Arthur and Helen. He
belongs to the Masons, the Elks and the Eastern Star; but as a man deeply interested
in public affairs, he is above party and partisanship.

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ANDREW J. KOCH.— Coming to Orange County in 1900, Andrew J. Koch has
indeed attained a splendid success in the twenty years of his residence here and is
now one of the most prosperous citrus ranchers of the Yorba district. Mr. Koch's
parents were Henry P. and Lydia (Buckting) Koch, the father being a native of Ger
many, while the mother was born in Missouri. Henry P. Koch was a pioneer settler
of Rhineland, Mo., having left his home in Germany in early manhood, arriving at
New York March 6, 1854. Some time after his advent to America he located in
Rhineland, where he followed his trade of a blacksmith for many years. He was an
industrious, upright citizen, loyal to the land of his adoption, having become a natural
ized citizen, and he occupied a respected place in his community. He served in the
Twelfth Missouri Cavalry from 1861 to 1865 in the Civil War, being wounded in action.
There were four children in the Koch family: Andrew J., the subject of this review;
Theo, a wealthy farmer residing in Missouri; William, also a farmer in Missouri;
and Clara, the widow of Louis Flucht, who died in Missouri, September 30, 1920.
Born February 21, 1861, at Rhineland, Mo., when but a youth Andrew learned the
blacksmith's trade in his father's shop. In 1883 he started a blacksmith shop in Luter
Island, Mo., where he continued for a period of five years when he sold out and pur
chased a blacksmith business in his old home town, continuing in business there until
1900, when he came to California. Arriving here, he followed blacksmithing for a
number of years at Fullerton, where he built up a profitable business. In the meantime
he purchased seventeen acres west of Yorba on Yorba Boulevard. He sold some and
retained eleven acres, and here he makes his home. The grove is planted to walnuts
and oranges and is now in full bearing. He has brought it up to the highest state of
cultivation and it is now one of the most profitable ranches, in the vicinity, bringing in
a handsome income. Mr. Koch has installed a complete system of cement irrigation
pipes and has erected an attractive modern residence costing $4,000, besides up-to-date
outbuildings. The prosperous, well-kept appearance of the place betokens the industry
and thrift of the owner. In October, 1919, Mr. Koch leased his ranch for oil, being
included in a blanket lease. Two wells are now down and have struck oil so he is
already receiving an income from his lease.
At McKittrick, Mo., February 11, 1884, Mr. Koch was married to Miss Minnie K.
Lindhurst, a native of St. Louis, Mo., and a daughter of Adolph and Louisa (Kall-
meyer) Lindhurst, early settlers of Missouri where her father died while the mother
came to California and passed away here in 1920. Mrs. Koch was the oldest of their
four children. Mr. and Mrs. Koch are the parents of three children: Adolph H. is a
rancher at Yorba and is the owner of an eight-acre citrus ranch; his wife, before her
marriage, was Miss Myrtle Bubach; Albert W. married Miss Lula McClelland and is
with the Standard Oil Company at Fullerton; George A., who married Miss Hattie
McCoy is with the Union Oil Company at Anaheim. The family are all members of
the Anaheim Evangelical Church and Mrs. Koch is prominent in the work of the
Women's Circle of that church. Mr. Koch was made a Mason in Yorba Linda Lodge,
No. 469, F. & A. M., is a member of Fullerton Chapter, R. A. M., and also a member of
Fullerton Lodge, No. 103, I. O. O. F., in which he is past grand and has served as
representative to the Grand Lodge, and he is also a member of the Modern Woodmen
of America. In politics Mr. Koch is an adherent of the Republican party, although not
blindly partisan in his views. Unselfish, liberal-minded and a conscientious Christian
worker, he well deserves the comfortable fortune that he has accumulated entirely
through his own industry and perseverance. Since leaving his home state twenty years
ago he had made two trips back and so appreciative and enthusiastic is he over Cali
fornia, and particularly Orange County, that each time he was delighted to be back
in the land of sunshine and flowers.
ROBERT R. SMITH. — A merchant whose happy combination of conservatism
and aggression in enterprise has brought him substantial success in commercial returns,
is Robert R. Smith, the well-known dealer in feed, fuel and ice. He was born and
reared on a farm near Rockford, Winnebago County, 111., on September 25, 1861, and
he grew up in Illinois on a farm. His father was Robert C. Smith, and he had married
Catherine Stewart. Both parents are now among the silent majority.
The fourth in the order of birth of seven children, Robert attended the rural
schools of Illinois, and then helped on a farm until he was twenty-six years of age,
when he engaged in the grain and stock business in Orchard, Mitchell County, Iowa.
Later he removed to Traer, Tama County, Iowa, where he continued the same line of
business for seven years, coming to Santa Ana, Cal., in 1905. His first trip to
California was as early as 1887, then another trip in 1892, when he was married in Santa
Ana to Grace Smiley, a sister of his late partner, by whom he has had three children:
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Marines during the World War; Carson, who was a chemist in the U. S. service at
Washington, is now with the Goodyear Rubber Company at Akron, Ohio; Harold is
attending the Santa Ana high school. After locating in Santa Ana in 1905, Mr. Smith
established himself in the grain business as Smiley and Smith, at 401-403 West Fourth
Street, which continued until 1915, when he purchased Mr. Smiley's interest and
continued the business of retailing feed, fuel and ice until December, 1919, when he
sold out to give all of his time to real estate. The family attend the United Presby
terian Church. In national politics Mr. Smith is a Democrat, and both he and his
family are distinguished for their public-spiritedness.
Few men in Santa Ana are better or more favorably known than Robert Smith.
He was elected to the school board in 1915, for a four-year term; and during that
period was president of the board of trustees for three years. He installed the Junior
College and advocated such radical changes in the direction of the best business
methods in the management of the schools that debts were cleaned up, and when he
left that high office he turned over to his successor everything in apple-pie order.
It may be added that Stewart Smith has enjoyed the honor of coach at both the
Santa Ana and the Fullerton high schools, where he has made a record for handling
boys; while Carson Smith, the Washington chemist, who directed the services of
twenty subordinates, has made a record for handling men.
JOB DENNI. — A native of Canton Unterwalden, Switzerland, Job Denni was
born on September 30, 1878, at Geswil. He was educated in the public schools of his
native country and is the only one now living of a family of four children born-to his
parents. Job Denni lived in Switzerland until 1902, then decided to seek his fortune in
the United States, and having an uncle, Louis Denni, who had been a resident of
Southern California since 1881, living in Los Alamitos, Orange County, he came here
and his first employment was with the Los Alamitos Sugar Company. So faithful was
he in the discharge of his various duties that he soon won the good will of his em
ployers, and also mastered the English language by persistency of purpose so that
he is proficient in his knowledge of that tongue and feels that it has had no small
assistance in his success.
Mr. Denni's uncle was engaged in the dairy business at Los Alamitos, leasing
land from the Bixby Land Company. After working for his uncle by the day, master
ing the details of the business, he took over his uncle's interests in 1912 and has since
been the successful proprietor of what is known as Dairy No. 2. Mr. Denni owns 150
head of fine Holsteins, besides which he has an interest in other herds. His stock is
kept largely on sugar beet pulp, the home dairy ranch being contiguous to the sugar
company's plant. This is one of the oldest dairy ranches in Orange County and under
the management of its owner produces on an average of 90,000 pounds of milk per
month, which he finds market for in Los Angeles and Long Beach. The ranch covers
500 acres of ground and he grows large quantities of alfalfa and grain. Previous to
buying out his uncle he operated Dairy No. 1, in Los Angeles County, near Signal Hill.
On April 18, 1910, at Long Beach, Job Denni was united in marriage with Miss
Juanita Enfield, a native daughter, born in San Francisco. Her parents were of French
and German extraction and her mother is still living at Long Beach, but had been a
resident of San Francisco for forty-five years. Four daughters have been born to Mr.
and Mrs. Denni — Juanita, Mary, Marguerite and Josephine. Mr. Denni is a member
of the Knights of Columbus of Anaheim.
In 1905 Mr. Denni began buying land in the Cypress district, making his first
purchase of ten acres, and to this he has added from time to time until he now owns
120 acres, twenty acres of which he has set out to Valencia oranges and the balance is
used for alfalfa and barley. He put down a fine well, 618 feet deep, installed a pumping
plant and put in a cement pipe line for irrigating his acreage, even supplying his
neighbors with water, such an abundant supply did he get. He was the very first man
to install a pipe line and many of his neighbors have profited by his example and have
connected up with his line. By his progressive methods he has demonstrated that his
section is a coming Valencia district and thereby enhanced the value of the properties
thereabouts. It had been said that citrus fruit could not be grown successfully west
of Magnolia Avenue and when Mr. Denni bought his land, which was composed of
what is known as dead sand upon which grain would not grow six inches high, people
said it was useless, but his experimental work has won commendation and others are
following in his footsteps and many acres have been set to oranges. Mr. Denni
is a self-made man and by his industry and close application to business has won for
himself a decided success and stands high in the esteem of all who know him for his
square dealings.

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RUPERT BEST. — A pioneer of the early eighties, who is hale and hearty in his
discharge of home duties at the age of seventy-two, and is still highly esteemed as a
most useful citizen, is Rupert Best, for many years an active membe'r of the Maccabees
and long their valued organist. Now he lives retired at 1150 Hickey Street, visited
regularly by devoted friends who find pleasure in talking with him about old times. He
was born in Cornwallis, Kings County, Nova Scotia, on October 29, 1848, the son of
Elisha and Mercy Ann (Bishop) Best. His father was a farmer in the fertile valley of
Cornwallis, who raised potatoes, apples and various kinds of fruit; and while Rupert
was attending the district school, he lived at home and helped his father to run the
farm, thus gaining a valuable experience.
At the time of attaining his majority, Mr. Best left home and went to Halifax
where for five years he clerked in a shoe store. Then, having learned the ins and outs
of that business, he himself embarked in the same line, and continued to sell shoes
until he came to California in the fall of 1882. On October 15 of that year he arrived
at Santa Ana, and having purchased forty acres six miles to the southwest of the town,
he lived there eleven years, enjoying the companionship of and assisted by his family.
He devoted his ranch to general farming, and for the most part raised potatoes, barley
and alfalfa. The twenty-fifth of November, 1878, witnessed the marriage at Halifax, Nova
Scotia, of Mr. Best and Miss Alice Maude West, the daughter of James T. and Sophia
West, who were early settlers of Nova Scotia. Mr. West owned two ships and engaged
in trade between the West Indies and Nova Scotia, sending from Halifax cargoes of
dried, salted and pickled fish and bringing back West Indian products, including sugar.
Mrs. Best had been educated at the district school in Halifax, and proved an excellent
helpmate to her devoted husband. In 1893 he traded his ranch for his present place
at 1150 Hickey Street, Santa Ana, which he improved with a modern residence and here
he has since resided. On February 8, 1918, Mrs. Best passed away, mourned by her
family and friends.
Six children blessed this fortunate union: Ida B. is the wife of Charles F. Coult-
hard, the alfalfa rancher of Chino; Charles Newton, the second-born, affords his father
a comfortable home; Lilly is Mrs. Deardorff of Lents, Ore.; Percy L. is a driller at
Oil Fields; Louis K, of Sixth Street, is employed by the Edison Company; and Eddie
Grant is also with that firm. In national politics a Democrat, Mr. Best always works
and votes for the best men and the best measures in local affairs, irrespective of party.
Mr. Best has always been devoted to the study of music, and for twenty-five
years, or from 1892 until 1917, he served as the organist to the Knights of Maccabees.
This extended period speaks much for the vitality of this rugged gentleman who has
passed his three score years and ten. Mr. Best's mother was also of an exceptionally
hardy constitution. She joined him in California at the age of seventy-four, and it
is said that the balmy climate of the Golden State, and particularly Orange County so
benefitted her that she was able to add nearly a quarter of a century to her life, attain
ing the 'fine old age of nearly ninety-six.
JAMES CLOW METZGAR. — How much of the success of the Chamber of
Commerce as the livest kind of an agency in promoting permanently the best interests
of Santa Ana is due to the labors, well directed and untiring, of its secretary, James
Clow Metzgar, those who are familiar with his exceptional gifts and fortunate training,
as well as his unselfish devotion to the day's work on hand, know. He was born at
Monongahela City, Washington County, Pa., oh July 19, 1876, the son of Daniel H.
Metzgar, a dentist of Pittsburgh and a war veteran. He married Mary Virginia Clow,
the daughter of Dr. James L. Clow, whose father was a pioneer of Pittsburgh and once
owned land from the center of the present Pittsburgh business district five miles up
the Alleghany River to Sharpsburg. James Beach Clow, father of Dr. Clow, was the
first town clerk of Pittsburgh and the first elder in the first Presbyterian Church
established there. He was a son of Captain Clow of the Revolution, and both families
are on record in the first United States census, published in 1790, in the Pittsburgh
district. James C. Metzgar attended the common and the high schools of Pittsburgh, and
later entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in its telegraph
department. In 1902 he came West to California, and took up real estate and bond
brokerage. At present he is the secretary of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce,
and also of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Orange County and the Santa
Ana Merchants and Manufacturers Association.
At Uniontown, Pa., on March 14, 1899, Mr. Metzgar was married to Miss Belle
Hustead, daughter of William Hustead, a prominent coal operater of that city, who
had married Mary Brown. Both the Husteads and the Browns were pioneer families

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of Fayette County, Pa. Three children were born of this union: Miss Mary Virginia
Metzgar is now at the Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles; James Hustead
Metzgar has been attending the Santa Ana high school; and Edgar Clow Metzgar is
deceased. The family attend the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Metzgar belongs to the
Orange County Country Club, the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Elks. In national
politics a Republican, he is at all times nonpartisan in his "boosting" for Santa Ana
and Orange County.
A thorough American, Mr. Metzgar naturally takes pride in his ancestry. His
father's family came from Holland, and descended from the French Huguenot, Thebaid
Metzgar, who established the North German Lloyd Steamship Company, and died in
1642, leaving a large estate, later taken over by the Holland Government. His mother's
family, on the other hand, came from pure Scotch blood, descending from Captain
Clow of the Dragoons in the American Revolution. He was the youngest son in a
family of twelve, and the only one who came to America.
FELIX YRIARTE. — A public-spirited, highly-esteemed citizen of Brea, who
warmly advocates popular education and furnishes the best of examples of industrious
citizenship in working eight hours a day in the shops and then eight hours on his ranch,
is Felix Yriarte, who- was born in Basses-Pyrenees in Spain, November 20, 1884, and
came to America in 1889, when he was five years of age. His father was Patricio
Yriarte, a sheep and cattle owner and herder, and his mother, Pascuala (Arrese)
Yriarte, was also a native of Navarra, in the Basque country. When eleven years of
age, Felix tended the flocks of sheep at Olinda, and there was then a number of oil
wells there. His father controlled, under lease, 4,000 acres, and had 6,000 head of sheep
in an open, wild country. Felix went to school in Orange County, Cal., and here
learned his English.
These good parents lived at the old ranch home in Brea until the death of both
in March and April of 1915, and our subject worked on the farm for his father until he
was twenty-five years old. He had full charge of the machinery and the farm work,
and when the time for a larger development came, he was instrumental in erecting the
very first oil well derrick of the Brea Canyon, in the hills south of Brea, where the
field has proven the largest in the county.
Now Mr. Yriarte understands oil production as well as anyone, and he has also
become an expert acetylene welder and does the most difficult lathe work in the shops
of the Union Oil Company at Brea. This is interesting in contrast to Mr. Yriarte's
experience in San Diego some years -ago, when he was swindled out of $4,000 through
an unwise land investment. He had an estate of thirty-three acres left him by his
father, which he improved to lemons and sunk his own well and sold in November, 1920.
On Orange Street, at Brea, he erected the first residence, in 1909.
At Los Angeles, on December 2, 1909, Mr. Yriarte was married to Miss Celestine
Lorea, a native of the Spanish Basque country, who came to the United States in 1906.
Four children have blessed this union, and they are Mary, Joseph, Paulina and Mar-
guerita. Mr. Yriarte is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and also of the order
of D. O. K. K of Los Angeles.
WILLIAM J. FITSCHEN. — A young and promising rancher whose career is
all the more interesting because he is a native son, and one alert to every opportunity
presented by the great commonwealth of California, is W. J. Fitschen, resident on La
Vera Avenue, Orange, where his beautiful fourteen-acre ranch is exclusively devoted
to citrus fruits. This property, formerly part of the estate of his father, Henry Fitschen,
who bought it in 1906, he has owned for several years.
Mr. Fitschen was born in Orange County, in April, 1890, and is the son of Henry
and Anna Fitschen, natives of Germany, from which country they emigrated to the
United States in 1878. The next year they moved west to California and Orange
County, and ever since Henry Fitschen has been one of the producers of Orange
County. There were nine children in the family, all Americans by birth, and they
bear the names of William J., Anna, Henry, Emma, Frederick, Louisa, George, Mary
and Louis.'Brought up and educated in Orange County, where he enjoyed the advantages
of both the common and the high schools, Mr. Fitschen early engaged in agricultural
pursuits and so has traveled further in that scientific and industrial field than most
men of his age. On June 2, 1915, he was happily united in marriage to Miss Wanda
, •, , w ' g' T?TV °f Mrs' Marie Schoeneberg, by whom he has had two
children, Marie and William. She is a native of Wisconsin, and is a fine type of the
Western woman of that part of the country. The family are worthy members of the
Lutheran Church, and are among those most enthusiastic for all that spells the
permanent development of Orange County on the broadest and best lines

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HUBERT H. DALE. — A Minnesotan so keenly alive to the trend of modern
trade that, foreseeing the development of the automobile industry, he was able to
take the tide at the flood, as Shakespeare says, and attain to fortune, is Hubert H. Dale,
of the well-known firm of Dale & Company, proprietors of the auto body, top and
sheet-metal works at 418-428 West Fifth Street, Santa Ana. He was born at Fairmont,
in the North Star State, on December 14, 1879, the son of D. A. Dale, who became a
hardware merchant of Santa Ana and has had a pleasing part in the fitting out of
many settlers in this favored region. He married Miss Amy J. Allen, who became
the mother of five children, among whom Hubert H. was the oldest. All the family
are now living.
The lad grew up in Minnesota and attended the excellent grammar and high
schools in the vicinity of his home. Then he took a course in a business college, and
thereafter engaged in the livestock business in Chicago. He next went to Wisconsin
and entered the trade in building materials; in each of these undertakings acquiring
more and more experience of value later when he joined the busy, competitive workers
on the Coast.
In 1912, Mr. Dale came to California and Fullerton, and for five years he was
engaged in making well casings — a line of activity he abandoned only to take up
another, his present occupation, still more attractive. Now he has a large, modern
shop, equipped with every kind of machinery needed; and with a trained staff of
twenty-five men, he handles the bulk of the business in his field for Orange County.
The reputation of the establishment, not only for fair dealing but also for experience
and facilities enabling it to meet almost any emergency, has very naturally brought it
steady patronage, with very little solicitation.
At Oshkosh, Wis., on November 11, 1910, Mr. Dale was married to Miss Ivy
Guenther, a daughter of August Guenther and a native of Wisconsin; and two children,
Hubert H., Jr., and Loraine M., have blessed their union. The family attend the
Episcopal Church. Mr. Dale is an Elk and a Republican.
Though unable to give much time to public affairs without the neglect of his
business, Mr. Dale accepted election as city trustee in April, 1919, and notwithstanding
his brief residence here, he has made his presence and influence felt in the unfailing
support of every movement likely to advance Santa Ana and Orange County within
and beyond California.
JOSEPH HOLTZ. — A self-made rancher who has become prosperous and also ex
pert as a beekeeper, is Joseph Holtz, who was born at Herringen, Kreis Saarburg,
Lorraine, on May 12, 1870, the son of Louis and Margareta Holtz, with whom he lived
in that district on a farm until he was twenty, meanwhile enjoying the usual common-
school education and learning the ins and outs of scientific agriculture. In the fall of
1890, he came to the United States quite alone, traveling almost direct to Los Angeles,
and from Los Angeles to Orange. Here he worked on farms when vegetables were
the main crops, and raised potatoes and cabbage. After a while, grapes were planted
and raisins became the crop. However, as the growers were not organized there was
no profit from the enterprise and labor.
In 1894, he came to Silverado Canyon and became interested in the raising of bees.
He spent the summers in bee culture, and during the winters worked out as a ranch
hand. In 1901 he purchased a half-section of land, and this is now the site of his ranch
in Silverado Canyon.
Only an adobe house was standing on the property, and he set out to improve the
land in many ways. In 1905, he built a ranch house, and the same year he married, in
Santa Ana, on January 24, Miss Mary A. Veith, born at Humphrey, Nebr., the daughter
of Ignatz and Julia Veith. They came from Columbus, Nebr., in 1903, and having"
enjoyed community advantages had been able to give their daughter a good common
school education. Immediately after the marriage, the husband and wife moved onto
the ranch, so that the improvements now there are their handiwork.
They have ten acres in barley, three acres in wheat, three acres in corn, ten acres
in alfalfa, and this alone yields from four to seven cuttings a season. Water is obtained
from Silverado Creek by private right of irrigation; the acreage was originally railroad
land. There is an acre of all kinds of fruit trees for domestk use; and there are also
horses, cattle and chickens, and some 160 colonies of bees, and the season of 1920
yielded him thirteen tons, being the best season he ever had; he is a member of Cali
fornia Beekeepers Association.
Six children have come to bless the domestic life of Mr. and Mrs. Holtz. Joseph
L., Alban P., Margaret M., Henry A., Agnes A., and Marie A. The four eldest attend
the Silverado School, of which Mrs. Holtz is one of the trustees. The family attend
the Catholic Church of Santa Ana, and Mr. Holtz is a member of the Knights of
Columbus. In national politics, they are Republicans.

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ALBERT WILLIAM WOOD. — Not every popular official so well deserves the
honors accorded him as does Albert William Wood, the constable of Anaheim Town
ship, the late marshal of the city of Anaheim and license tax collector, nor does every
favored office holder succeed so well .in carrying his honors with modesty and dignity.
A native of Quebec, Canada, where he was born on June 27, 1875, Mr. Wood was the
son of a farmer, John Wood, now deceased, whose wife was Miss Grace Wilson before
her marriage. They were the parents of nine children and Albert William was the
seventh child.
From twelve years of age he was reared at Vankleek Hill, Ontario, and there
received his education in the grammar and high schools, helping on the home farm
and teaching for two years after his own schooling was finished. Next he matriculated
at McGill University at Montreal, expecting to study medicine, but he found at this
time that his health would not permit him to continue the confinement necessary
to complete the course, so decided on a business career. Entering a provision house,
he clerked there for a couple of years, and in 1899 came west to Bisbee, Ariz., where
he engaged in the livery and undertaking business, and under the firm name of Fletcher
and Wood, came to have the leading business in this line in that frontier mining
town. Wishing to locate in California, he disposed of his interest in the busi
ness in 1911 and came to Anaheim. For two years he ran a livery stable, then sold
out and went into general contracting and ranching, continuing in this for some time.
On May 1, 1918, Mr. Wood was appointed city marshal of Anaheim and the
same year was elected constable of Anaheim Township, and he is now filling the duties
of that office as well as that of deputy sheriff. In May, 1920, he resigned his office as
city marshal and license tax collector in order to engage in business, and he was the
proprietor of the People's Service Station at 130 South Lemon Street, and also agent
for the Motor Transit Company at Anaheim, said to be the largest stage company
in the world. In November, 1920, an opportunity presented itself for him to engage
in the real estate business with J. S. Howard and disposing of his business to advantage
he is now devoting his time to his official duties and the Howard Realty Company, their
offices being located on South Los Angeles Street.
At Bisbee, Ariz., February 15, 1904, Mr. Wood was married to Miss Veronica
Jane White, a daughter of Patrick and Jane White, and a native of Tempe, Ariz. Mr.
and Mrs. Wood are the parents of four children: John Albert, Mary Patricia, Allan
William and Wilson Dowling. The family home is at 422 West Broadway, Anaheim.
While Mr. Wood is a Republican in politics, he is broad-gauged when it comes
to issues affecting only the community in which he lives. In fraternal circles, he is
affiliated with the Odd Fellows, being a member of Lodge No. 19, at Bisbee, Ariz.
He was made a member of Elks Lodge No. 671, at Bisbee, but is now a charter member
of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, of the Elks.
ULYSSES S. AMACK.— The distinction of being the leading contractor and
builder of fine homes in Orange County belongs to Ulysses S. Amack. He is a native
of Missouri, born March 9, 1869, in Putnam County, and when two years of age the
family moved to Iowa. He was the second child of three children born to Bartholomew
and Julia Wilson Amack, born in Indiana, who lived in Missouri, and later Iowa. The
father served in Company I, Twenty-third Missouri Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil
War for eighteen months, when he was honorably discharged by reason of physical dis
ability, with the rank of corporal. He had studied medicine under Dr. Carlisle of Putnam
County, Mo., and had also taken a course at the Keokuk Medical College and received
his degree of M. D. and was just going to start practicing medicine in Summerset,
.Iowa, when he died from heart failure, January 14, 1872. Ulysses was reared on a farm
and received his early education in the country schools. When he was three years
old his father died. His stepfather, H. D. Ockerman, was a carpenter, and he taught
Ulysses the trade, which he naturally had inherited a taste for, as both his paternal
and maternal relatives were mechanics. He was quite young when he began his appren
ticeship and after becoming a proficient carpenter he followed his trade successfully
in Norton County, Kans., from 1884 till 1890, when he removed to Denver, Colo.,
where he followed the trade until he returned to Iowa.
In 1902 Mr. Amack came to Long Beach, Cal., where he engaged in carpenter
work for four years, then locating at Anaheim. At first he was employed by others,
but for the past ten years he has conducted a contracting and building business for
himself. At one time he was a member of the contracting firm of Amack, Bever &
Wilson of Anaheim, who constructed a number of the leading business blocks there,
among which, worthy of note, mention is made of the Yungbluth Block and Carroll
Block. Mr. Amack has made a specialty of fine homes, and from February, 1919, to
October, 1920, he has besides others to his credit the construction of homes for the

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following residents of Anaheim: M. E. Beebe, Andy Koch, Oscar Dykeman, George
Barry, Fred Wisel, Harry Spielman, Franz Jauernik, J. W. Sebastian, J. W. Duck
worth, and many others; also seven bungalows for the Anaheim Improvement Com
pany and three for the Anaheim Union Water Company. Besides these homes at
Anaheim he has also constructed residences for James A. Jensen and Oscar Dykeman
at Fullerton; the Golden State school building, east of Anaheim, and the club house
for the Anaheim high school.
In recognition of his splendid ability as a dependable, high-class builder, the
high school board of education for many years secured Mr. Amack to make the repairs
and improvements of buildings until now he has too much work on hand. He is a
member of the First Methodist Church and served as a member of the building com
mittee during the erection of their beautiful house of worship, and is a member of the
board of trustees.
In Wayne County, Iowa, on March 17, 1895, Mr. Amack was united in marriage
with Miss Sadie E. Wolf, a native of Ottumwa, Iowa. She was the daughter of Josiah
and Minerva (Travis) Wolf, born in Ohio and Indiana, respectively, who were farmers
in Wayne County, Iowa. Her father died in Iowa, and her mother spent her last days
in Long Beach. Mrs. Amack was educated in the schools of Albia, Iowa. Mr. and
Mrs. Amack had three children, and two are living: Wayne W., a graduate of the
Anaheim high school, who is a natural mechanic, is foreman of his father's building
business and also fills the position of draftsman; and Coy, attending the high school.
In fraternal circles Mr. Amack is a member of the Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of
the World, and with his wife is a member of the local Rebekah lodge, and in national
politics are Republicans.
DR. HESTER TRIPP OLEWILER.— Although but a recent addition to the
professional circles of Santa Ana, Dr. Hester T. Olewiler, the able and efficient
osteopathic physician and surgeon, with offices at 114i^ East Fourth Street, has estab
lished a large and growing practice.
Dr. Olewiler is the wife of Claude E. Olewiler and is a native daughter and a
descendant of an honored pioneer family. She was born in Riverside County, her
parents being William B. and Alice (Hopkins) Tripp, the former a native of California,
while her mother was born in New Mexico while crossing the plains to California.
Grandfather Tripp laid the first brick in San Bernardino. Dr. Tripp was reared in
Hemet, Riverside- County, where she attended the public school and graduated from the
Hemet high school. She served two years as an apprentice in the Hemet Public
Library and as assistant librarian.
After severing her connection with the library she attended the Los Angeles
College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, where after taking a full course of
four years she was graduated in 1918 with the degree of D. O. For a while she prac
ticed her profession in Los Angeles and on July 10, 1919, opened her office in Santa
Ana. Dr. Olewiler stands high in her profession and is a member of both the state
and county associations of osteopathic physicians, being chairman of the public educa
tional committee of Orange County; she is also a member of the Los Angeles Women's
Osteopathic Association. She is fast winning a reputation as a skillful and conscien
tious practitioner and can look forward to a long and useful career.
WALDO R. McWILLIAMS. — An experienced lumber dealer who has naturally
had much to do with building interests in Orange County, thereby laying the founda
tions in one generation for the welfare of another, is Waldo McWilliams, the genial
and accommodating manager of the Gibbs Lumber Company of Fullerton. A native
of the Hawkeye State, he was born at Hedrick, Iowa, on March 1, 1890, the son of
Samuel McWilliams, a lumber dealer, who married Miss Berthenia Smith, a native of
Iowa. The family came to Los Angeles in 1902, and both parents are still living and
are residents of Pasadena.
Educated in the public schools of Los Angeles, Mr. McWilliams attended the
Los Angeles high school for two years, and then engaged in the lumber trade in that
city. After that, he worked at various places, for a while at the Anaheim yard, then
coming to Placentia as manager, and finally settling as manager at Fullerton. His
father had formerly been manager of the Fullerton yard, and after Waldo McWilliams
was married he came to Fullerton to remain. It was not long before he had become a
live member of the Board of Trade and the Fullerton Club.
On June 9; 1915, Mr. McWilliams was married to Miss Clara Linebarger, the
ceremony taking place at San Diego. The bride was a daughter of Dallison S. and
Ellen Linebarger, and a native of California. Husband and wife attend the Christian
Church, and Mr. McWilliams votes the Democratic ticket. He is fond of out-of-door
sports, and especially interested in baseball.

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RAYMOND F. FRANTZ. — A highly respected citizen who has risen from routine
newspaper work, both in the circulation and mailing departments in Santa Ana and
in Los Angeles, to become a very successful horticulturist making a specialty of citrus
fruit, is R. F. Frantz, familiarly known as "Ray" of Palm Drive, La Habra district,
one of the most outspoken enthusiasts for Orange County, despite that his ranch prop
erty is almost over the county line. He was born in Argonia, Sumner County, Kans.,
on October 29, 1886, the eldest son in a family of three boys and three girls, the son
of F. E. Frantz now of the escrow department of the Whittier National Bank, and for
merly the banker at Argonia. F. E. Frantz is a native of Virginia, came to Illinois
and Kansas as a pioneer, and now at sixty-eight years of age, enjoys the best of health.
He had married Miss Mary Waugh, of Alsace-Lorraine, whose bi-lingual training made
her familiar from childhood with both French and German.
The subject of our review, who was brought to California a babe of three months,
and to Orange County when ten years old, attended the grammar schools of Santa Ana
and Los Angeles, and then for a term went to the commercial department of the high
school in the larger city. After that, he entered the employ of the California Whole
sale Hardware Company in Los Angeles, and still later, he and his father opened and
managed a hardware and implement store at Whittier.
In 1910 he purchased a citrus grove of two acres in East Whittier, and later he
purchased a fourth interest in forty-one acres, and assumed the management of the
property. This gave him valuable ranching experience, and for years he has been in
close touch with the growing of citrus fruits. More recently he has bought thirty-one
acres, and Mr. Espolt sixteen acres of a trim ranch of forty-seven acres, set out to
Valencia oranges and Eureka lemons, and he has joined the La Habra Citrus Asso
ciation, and has undertaken to farm sixty acres of rented land as a dry-farming enter
prise. He uses a tractor and all the other up-to-date machinery desirable. He is a
member and president — 1920-1921 — of the La Habra Chamber of Commerce, is also
identified with the Farm Center, and served as vice-president of that useful organization.
On September 7, 1910, Mr. Frantz was married to Miss Alma W. Espolt, daughter
of William Espolt, the pioneer citrus rancher, of Whittier. She was born in Iowa, and
has one child, Maribel Louise. Mrs. Frantz is a high school graduate, and is active
in the Woman's Club of La Habra, and in Red Cross work. Mr. Frantz was a com
mitteeman for "drive" work during the late war, and he belongs to the Blue Lodge
and the Royal Arch Masons.
LEASON F. POMEROY.— Orange County has been fortunate indeed in tfie
caliber of the men who have elected to make their homes and carry on their business
interests within the confines of this fertile spot. Men of affairs, alive to the oppor
tunities to be found here, they have each one aided in bringing about the present
prosperity of the county, and in so doing have advanced their own interests as well.
Among these, Leason F. Pomeroy, dealer in automobiles, stands out from the ranks
as an enthusiastic "booster" for his home community and keenly alive to the advan
tages to be found here. He was born in Adams County, Nebr., on a farm, February
23, 1877. When he had reached five years of age the family moved to New York state
and he was educated in the schools of East Aurora, that state, and later engaged in
the mercantile business with his father, and for twenty-two years he lived in New
York state.
Seeking newer fields, Mr. Pomeroy returned to his old home in Nebraska and for
seven years farmed 320 acres, meeting with success. In 1910 he came to Anaheim and
bought twenty acres of land one and one-half miles east of town. One-half of this
was in bearing Valencia oranges and he planted the remainder to the same variety
developing a finely producing grove, which he sold in 1919.
In March, 1919, Mr. Pomeroy entered the automobile business, at 134 South Los
Angeles Street, and he is agent for the Chalmers and Hupmobile cars, both high class
in every respect, the Hup car notable especially for the fact that its engineers have
built a chassis so free of complications that it is easily understood by the mechanically-
inclined owner and quick aid given. Mr. Pomeroy is also agent for the Swinhart tire.
„,. The marriage of Mr. Pomeroy united him with Velma M. Eckersley, a native of
Illinois, and two sons have been born to them: Wray S., and Leason F. Jr Fra
ternally, Mr. Pomeroy is a member of Anaheim Lodge, No 1345 B P O E • he is a
member and was one of the governors of the Mother Colony Club, and 'in March, 1918,
he was elected a member of the Anaheim Board of Education and was clerk of that
body. He has also served as a director in the Anaheim Mutual Orange Growers' Asso
ciation, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants' Asso-
11 ' Zt Th ' m t! t0 find a ma" m°re fulIy in accord whh the western spirit
of Ws district ^ Pomeroy' or °ne m°re willing to work for the advancement

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WILLIAM J. FISCHER. — One of Anaheim's earlier settlers, a man highly
esteemed among his associates, was William J. Fischer, who contributed generously
to the upbuilding of both the business and the agricultural development of this locality.
Born in Saxony, Germany, July 26, 1856, Mr. Fischer came to the United States in 1872
at the age of sixteen years. He had learned the trade of cooper in New York and
engaged in this line of work in that city. In 1879 he came to California, locating at
San Francisco and here he entered the employ of the Dreyfus Cooperage Company,
coming to Anaheim in 1881 in the interests of this company. He later bought twenty
acres of land in North Anaheim, planted a vineyard and later sold it to Peter Schu
macher of Fullerton. Mr. Fischer also erected a cooper shop on North Lemon Street,
near Chartres Street, and here he carried on a large business, making barrels and casks
for the wine makers, at one time having six men in his employ. He also planted ninety
acres in walnuts near Anaheim for the Dreyfus Company and for a time he also engaged
in wine-making. Mr. Fischer was united in marriage in 1882 with Miss Clara Hattemer, who was
born in the Rhine country, Germany. She came to New York in 1872 and ten years
later to Anaheim, when she and Mr. Fischer were married. Of the five children born
to them, three are living: Birda is the wife of William Zimmerman, an orange grower
of West Anaheim; William J., deceased; Clara Maude is the wife of Victor W. La
Mont, and the mother of two children^-Victor and Allen; Charles H., a rancher in
Pomona, married Miss Hazel Cook and they have one daughter, Lela; and Robert,
deceased. The children were born, educated and reared in Orange County.
Mr. Fischer died on October 26, 1906, and his passing made a void in a large circle
of friends and in the community, for his sterling qualities and devotion to the best
interests of Anaheim had given him an honored and esteemed place. He was a mem
ber of the Fraternal Aid and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and was very
popular in membership of these organizations. Mrs. Fischer has been an upbuilder of
Anaheim and has erected two houses on property they owned. She has witnessed the
wonderful development of Orange County and is classed as one of the stanch pioneers.
EBON R. RYAN. — An experienced- and successful rancher, who has followed
general farming arid had just set five of his fourteen acres to oranges when he sold
out to buy five acres near Garden Grove, which is set to walnuts, is Ebon R. Ryan, who
enjoys the esteem of all who know him. At various times he has owned other parcels
of land in Orange County, and as a result of which he is able today to form a judgment
of his own as to what are the best producers.
A native of Kentucky, he was born on July 20, 1877, the son of Joseph and Ann
Elizabeth Ryan, both of whom were natives of the Blue Grass State and farmed- exten
sively and successfully. They had fourteen children, and of these Ebon was the
twelfth in the order of birth. When eight years old, his parents migrated to Indiana,
and there he was reared and educated.
In 1914 Ebon R. Ryan left Indiana for the Pacific Coast; and not long after
arriving in Orange County he was appointed foreman for the Water Company at
Yorba Linda, in which position he rendered satisfactory service. He saw little prospects
for advancement and financial betterment, however, and therefore took up farming,
and few ranchers, therefore, throughout the Southland would appear to have better
prospects for the future.
In 1900 at Butlerville, Ind., Mr. Ryan married Miss Myrtle Stewart, a native of
Kentucky and daughter of James N. and Mary Stewart, and six children have been
born of this union; they are Gladys, George, Paul, Mary, Kenneth and Robert. Mrs.
Ryan has two sisters and a brother in Los Angeles County.
OSCAR A. SCHILDMEYER. — A successful horticulturist who owes much of
his progress to clear thinking and rational industry is Oscar A. Schildmeyer, who
manages a fine ranch of fifty-five acres, thirty-five acres owned by his mother, one and
a quarter miles north of Orange, and an additional eighteen acres above the average
across the road. Forty-eight acres of the first-mentioned tract are given to Valencias;
seven acres to lemons, and eighteen acres to Navel oranges. He was born on Febru
ary 2, 1894, and grew up in Orange, where he worked for his father. On June 30,
1917, he was married in Los Angeles to Miss Mirl Brown, a Santa Ana girl, whose
parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Brown, reside at Santa Ana. Mrs. Brown was born in
Missouri and reared in Kirksville, and was seventeen years old when she came to Cali
fornia with her parents and three brothers and two sisters. One child has blessed
this union of Mr. and Mrs. Schildmeyer — a son, Robert Oscar.
In 1919, Mr. Schildmeyer bought ten acres of oranges in the Olive precinct, a
part of the original fifty-five; in the operation of his farm properties he uses only the
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most up-to-date methods and machinery, and these include a draw-bar tractor of
twenty horsepower.
Mr. Schildmeyer entered the U. S. service in the World War on August 6, 1918,
but was honorably discharged at Camp Lee, Va., on December 16 of the same year.
He is a member of the American Legion at Santa Ana. Before the war he served
in the United States Marine Corps for two years, and went all over the Asiatic stations
on the SS. "Brooklyn." He was stationed at Cavite, in the Philippine Islands, for
three months before being sent out on the "Brooklyn," and had an excellent oppor
tunity of seeing something of Philippine life. He served in the military police of the
Eighth Division, and was honorably discharged from the Marine service on Novem
ber 5, 1916. All in all, Mr. Schildmeyer is a very interesting personality, as he is
also an Al ranch manager. An instructive glimpse of the development of the Schild
meyer estate is afforded in another sketch in this work — that of Mrs. Louisa Schild
meyer, the mother of our subject.
HARRY MAYER. — A modest, industrious rancher, whose live interest in the
progress of the community makes him naturally an efficient road foreman of the
Silverado precinct, is Harry Mayer, who was born in Kolmar, Upper Alsace, Germany,
on February 5, 1875. He learned the baker's trade in neighboring Muelhausen, and as a
baker worked in that city for a year. At the age of sixteen, he came to the United
States and traveled widely throughout the central and western country; and by 1893
he reached Colorado. He enlisted in the U. S. Army at Fort Logan, and served both
there and at Fort Russell. After a service of three years and three months, he was
honorably discharged, and returned to civic life.
On October 18, 1896, Mr. Mayer was married to Miss Sophia Bukoutz, a native of
Wamego, Kans. She was reared with a public school education and the work and com
forts of a home farm, and in 1893 moved to Colorado with her parents. Mr. Mayer
farmed in that state for ten years, ably assisted by his wife. On May 22, 1907, he
arrived in California, and at El Modena purchased five acres. Meanwhile he worked
for John King, hauling fumigatihg equipment. In 1912 he sold his ranch, and the next
year took a trip back East to see the Colorado folks. He was wise enough, however,
not to remain there, but returning to California, gave three years to the raising of
grain and hay.
In 1917, Mr. Mayer came to Silverado Canyon and bought his present ranch,
where a well was recently sunk, in a search for coal. The finest artesian water was
struck, instead, so that he now has a good flowing well. Bringing his ranch up to a
high state of cultivation keeps him busy part of the time; and he is also employed as
road foreman in charge of the Silverado Canyon Road and the roads of the Silverado
precinct. Six children have become the pride of Mr. and Mrs. Mayer: Mary is the wife of
Frank Berry of Black Star Canyon; Margarette is Mrs. Walter Whistler of El Modena;
Irene is at home; Henry is a student at the Silverado school; and there are Anna and
Lois. In national politics a Republican, Mr. Mayer is first, last and all the time such a
thorough American that he is ready to support any good local movement, regardless
of partisanship. JOSEPH LAUTENBACH.— The quaint old city of Wittenberg, Germany, red
olent with memories of Luther's day and the Reformation, was the scene in which
the childhood days of Joseph Lautenbach was set. He was born in that city February
29, 1884, and reared in the vocation of his father, who followed the shoe-making busi
ness. Young Joseph worked at his trade in the old country, and when twenty-four
years of age, in 1908, came to Pasadena, Cal. He soon secured employment with The
Innes Shoe Company of Los Angeles, but like many another of his nationality, was
ambitious to work for himself. After nine months in California, he located at Anaheim,
June 14, 1909, and with the undaunted spirit that seems to be the heritage of successful
men, opened a small repair shop on Center Street, in a room four by ten feet in dimen
sion, and with a capital of ten dollars, eight of which he expended for leather with
which to start his business. The shop was a success from its inception, and in four
months' time he installed modern machinery for shoe repairing, being the first man
in Anaheim to install electrically-driven machinery for this work. In November 1914
when the new modern brick block at the corner of Center and Lemon Streets was com
pleted, he moved his shop to that location, occupying the corner store in the building.
He put in a full line of ladies' and gentlemen's shoes and conducts the shoe store in
connection with the repairing department. He carries a full line of the famous Craw
ford shoes for men. His business has made rapid strides, and he is now one of the
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His marriage in 1914 on Christmas Day united him with Miss Caroline Link, a
native of Gridley, 111., daughter of William Link, a retired orange grower of Anaheim,
and they are the parents of a four-year-old son, named Wesley. Mr. Lautenbach has
recently erected a cozy and comfortable new home at Anaheim. In his fraternal affilia
tions he is a member of the Sons of Herman, and has passed all the chairs. A worthy
citizen and a capable business, man, Mr. Lautenbach is self-made in the broadest mean
ing of the term, and has demonstrated what an ambitious and energetic young man
can accomplish in a country where opportunities are ripe for those who have the dispo
sition to take hold of the situation and make the most of it.
HENRY WALTERS. — The junior member of the enterprising and progressive
firm of Livenspire & Walters, brick contractors of Santa Ana, Henry Walters was
born in Louisville, Ky., July 19, 1877. He was reared and educated in the metropolis
of the Blue Grass State, and there he also learned the trade of a brickmason. As a
virile and vigorous young man he was intensely interested in the great American
game and became a professional ball player, filling the position of an outfielder. He
played with the Rock Island, 111., Jacksonville, Fla., Decatur, 111., St. Joseph, Mo., and
Newark, N. J., teams.
As a brickmason, Mr. Walters became a great factor in the construction of large
buildings throughout the country, working on and superintending some of the finest
blocks in the country, from among which especial mention is made of the largest
church and bank building in Maysville, Ky. ; the J. M. Atherton and the Stark Block,
both fifteen-story buildings, in Louisville, Ky. In Cairo, 111., he was foreman of the
construction of the passenger depot for the Louisville & Nashville Railway Com
pany; also for the freight depot and sheds 500 feet long, for the same company. In
Terre Haute, Ind., Mr. Walters was foreman of construction on the five-story building
for the Young Women's Christian Association.
On April 1, 1911, Henry Walters arrived in California. In time he again took
up his trade of a brickmason, and was employed by the well-known contractor, Arthur
Sanborn, as foreman in the construction of the Congregational Church in Pomona, also
a large schoolhouse at Redondo. In 1913 Mr. Walters formed a partnership with Mr.
Livenspire, and they have erected the following buildings in Santa Ana: the Post
Office, Spurgeon Block, West End Theater, Phillips Block and the Santa Ana Ware
house, the John Hetebrink residence at Fullerton, and the residence of John Tuffree
at Placentia, Rutherford Building, a big warehouse at the Delhi Sugar Refinery, and
all the brick garages in Santa Ana. At the San Bernardino Orange Show Mr. Walters
built two displays for the Pacific Sewer Pipe Company, for which he was awarded two
prizes. On the pier at Venice he erected a large display for the Los Angeles Brick
Company, for which the first prize was awarded. Mr. Walters also erected the display
room for the Corona Chamber of Commerce and built a brick block at Newport.
At Louisville, Ky., September 30, 1907, Mr. Walters was united in marriage with
Miss Ada C. Carnahan, a native of Hodginsville, Nelson County, Ky., born on a farm
adjoining the historic Abraham Lincoln farm. However, her schooling was obtained
at Elizabethtown in the same county. Fraternally, Mr. Walters is a member of
Pomona Lodge No. 246, I. O. O. F., and with his wife is a member of Torosa Rebekah
Lodge at Santa Ana, of which' Mrs. Walters is a past noble grand. She is also a mem
ber of Hermosa Chapter O. E. S., and the Woman's Relief Corps, as well as ex-presi
dent of the Daughters of Veterans. Mr. Walters is emphatically with the western
spirit of progress, and especially enthusiastic over the great opportunities Orange
County offers to intelligent and industrious men.
RAYMOND L. GODWIN. — Numbered among the successful and enterprising
contractors of Santa Ana is Raymond L. Godwin, the well and favorably known plas
tering contractor. He is a native of the Hawkeye State, born at Stuart, Guthrie
County, Iowa, November 3, 1882. When fourteen years of age he moved with his
parents to Alamogordo, Otero County, N. M., where for six years he rode the range
for different cattle men.
In 1901 Mr. Godwin came to California and in 1903 he learned the trade of a
plasterer, working for W. O. Rowley of Orange, remaining with him for six years.
While living at Orange, Mr. Godwin helped in the construction of the Union high
school, and it was he who struck the first pick in the ground for the excavation. He
did the plastering on many buildings at Orange, including the German school and
Center Street school buildings; also many fine residences. In 1910 he located at
Corona, where he became foreman for Mr. Rowley, who had the contract for the
Corona high school. Afterwards Mr. Godwin entered business for himself at Corona,
doing cement, brick and plastering contract work, and while there built the Lord
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Coming to Santa Ana in 1914, Mr. Godwin entered the employ of George W.
Young, a plastering contractor. His extensive experience in building and ability to
manage men soon won for him the position of foreman, and it was under his careful
supervision that the plastering contracts on the following buildings in Santa Ana were
satisfactorily finished: Meyer Apartment Hotel, W. H. Spurgeon Block, United Presby
terian Church, F. E. Farnsworth residence and the Mills -and Winbigler Funeral Home;
he also worked on the new buildings of the Orange union high school.
On the most memorable day of modern history, Armistice Day, November 11,
1918, Mr. Godwin decided to enter the contract plastering business again. The wisdom
of his decision has been clearly proved by the splendid success he has achieved in his
business enterprise. Among the buildings and residences he has plastered mention is
made of the following: The Sheriff Office building, Wickersheim Garage, eight resi
dences for Justin Bencher, thirteen residences for R. C. McMillan, and in Orange he
has plastered eleven residences for Dale and Riggle.
His splendid workmanship and the high character of his business integrity have
won for him a leading place among the contractors of Orange County and to facilitate
the completion of his contracts he constantly employs from two to five men. Mr.
Godwin is a "booster" for Orange County and believes in aiding all worthy movements
that have as their aim the upbuilding of the county's best interests.
At Villa Park, October 4, 1905, Mr. Godwin was united in marriage with Margaret
Hinton of Villa Park, and they are the parents of a son, William. Fraternally Mr.
Godwin is a member of Orange Lodge, No. 225, I. O. O. F., as well as Santa' Ana
Lodge, No. 794, B. P. O. Elks.
GEORGE W. WARDWELL.— An efficient, faithful and very popular member
of the public service is George W. Wardwell, the superintendent of rodent control and
the horticultural inspector of Orange County, who was born at Fond du Lac, Wis.,
on June 17, 1874. He attended the excellent public schools of that locality, and early
took up the study of natural history and taxidermy. He had talent for this line of
work, and soon became such an expert taxidermist that he was frequently called upon
to mount animals and birds for private collections.
Having come to California in 1896 at the age of twenty-two, Mr. Wardwell be
came both an interior and exterior decorator, and followed this trade in Los Angeles,
San Francisco and other coast cities; and in 1904 he located at Long Beach, and con
tinued his work there. In 1902 he moved his residence to Wintersburg, although he
still followed his trade in Long Beach.
In 1904, however, when Huntington Beach was started, he decided to pitch his
tent there and grow up with the town. He thus became the first decorator to under
take painting contracts, and for years worked on all the residences and business
structures of Huntington Beach. After a while he bought the Huntington Beach
Nursery, which he conducted until he sold out to its present owner.
In 1913, Mr. Wardwell was appointed by the board of county supervisors to his
present office, in which he is doing a splendid work, clearing the county ot ground
squirrels and gophers. During the past three years, however, he has rid the county
of eighty per cent of the ground squirrels. To accomplish this, poisoned grain was
yiven to the farmer, who scattered it freely on the ground. In the winter and spring
of the year carbon-bisulphide is used. This is poured on the waste balls, which are
placed in the holes of the rodents, next set fire to, so that a poisonous gas is generated,.
which spreads throughout the little tunnels and caves and does its deadly work.
Mr. Wardwell married Miss Ada Hoff, a native of Kansas; and their home life
is blessed with five children. They are Hazel, Helen, George W., Jr., Elizabeth and
William. DR. GEORGE MARKHAM TRALLE.-Distinguished among the members of
the Orange County Medical Society, of which he had the honor to be president in
1919, and eminent among those who have contributed to make Santa Ana one of the
most desirable and safest places for comfortable living in the state, George Markham
Tralle enjoys an enviable reputation as a specialist in the treatment of diseases of the
eye, ear, nose and throat. He was born in Benton County, Mo. July 18 1871 the
son of Henry Tralle, a contractor and builder, now deceased, 'who married Miss
Elizabeth Cooke, a native of Missouri. The father served in the Civil War as a
member of an Illinois regiment, and for years he received the honor due him as one
who helped to preserve the country. Mrs. Tralle is still living, residing in Kansas City,
Mo., and is the mother of eight children, four sons and four daughters
a Thwt,1rd Ct ^ n °nT °f Th' Ge°rge M" was educated at the public schools
and at William Jewell College at Liberty, Mo., after which he matriculated at the
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1899. Going to Purcell, McClain County, Okla., he put in fifteen years in general
practice and then took post-gradu»te work in New York City, and came to California
and did post-graduate work in San Francisco, after which he came direct to Santa
Ana. In January, 1916, he began his practice here, and has limited his work to diseases
of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and has met with very gratifying success and a
constantly increasing practice. Besides the Orange County Medical Society, he belongs
to the American Medical Association and the California State Medical Society, also the
Southern California Medical Society.
On April 18, 1899, at Kansas City, Mo., Dr. Tralle was married to Miss Florence
Hunt, born in Missouri, a daughter of J. M. and Nellie Hunt. She shares with him
the esteem of those who know them and his deep interest in Orange County affairs.
The doctor is a member of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Commandery and Shrine in
Masonry, having passed through the offices of the first three named in Purcell, Okla.
During the World War he was on the examining board for soldiers and a member of
the Volunteer Medical Service Corps, and in various ways he and Mrs. Tralle actively
participated in war work. In national politics he is a Republican.
CHARLES LEO DAVIS. — One of the pioneers in the garage business in Orange
County who has very naturally brought his establishment to the fore so that now it is
one of the best equipped for its size and pretensions in the entire state, is Charles Leo
Davis, proprietor of the Chandler Garage, representative Republican and popular Elk.
He was born at Arlington, Vt., on August 20, 1882, the son of a farmer, R. F. Davis,
who was highly esteemed in his day, but is now deceased. He had married Miss
Martha Curry, whose home was at Slingerlands, N. Y., and who was the daughter of
John Curry, a florist. Mrs. Davis is now living at Santa Ana, the mother of this only
child. The grammar and high schools of his neighborhood furnished the lad with his
first educational advantages, and later he studied at the Polytechnic school at Wor
cester, Mass., and there he took a course in machine steam engineering, and was grad
uated in 1904. For seven years thereafter he was with the Spencer Wire Company, of
Worcester, makers of gas engines, and there he had the finest opportunity to perfect
himself in machine work. In 1910 Mr. Davis came to Santa Ana and entered the service
of the Guarantee Garage. Removing to Orange, he took charge .of the Buick auto shop,
and after that he came to Santa Ana and engaged to work for the Lutz Company. In
1913 he bought into the garage business at 209 North Main Street with George Kellogg;
and two years later, he bought out his interest.
The Chandler Garage not only represents that famous company's cars in the
district of Orange County, but it carries a full line of automobile accessories and under
takes to render prompt and the best of service. For the demands of his trade, as only
thus far developed, Mr. Davis employs eighteen men. On January 1, 1920, he moved
his garage to its present location, at Broadway and Sixth Street, where he occupies the
corner, 100x125 feet.
Like most men given to one or more kinds of sport, Mr. Davis is fond of both
fishing and hunting, and good-naturedly responds to the many appeals in the community
for more serious cooperation, thereby proving his qualities as a citizen and a neighbor.
Fraternally besides being a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks, he is
a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F, & A. M., and a charter member of the
Rotary Club and of the Orange County Auto Trades Association.
DENNIS J. DONNELLY. — Prominent among the more recent settlers of Ana
heim who have become successful orange growers, is Dennis J. Donnelly, a native of
Ireland, born at Tullamore, Kings County, in 1875. His youthful days were spent on
a farm in Ireland, and when twenty years of age he emigrated to the United States
For many years he followed copper mining in the West, two years being located at
Butte, Mont.
In 1898 Mr. Donnelly enlisted in the U. S. Navy, serving during the Spanish-
American War, three years faithfully filling the position of fireman, and during his
enlistment served in the Philippine station. He was aboard the ill-fated U. S. Warship
Charleston when she was lost off Luzon November 2, 1899, and subsequently was
transferred to the U. S. Warship Oregon, being aboard her when she was wrecked in
the Straits of Pechili on the way to the relief of siege of Pekin. He received his
honorable discharge from the U. S. Navy in 1901 at Mare Island, Cal.
Mr. Donnelly is justly proud of his bronze medal, inscribed with the name "U. S.
S. Charleston," awarded to him by the "Citizens of the State of California," and he
is a member of the Spanish-American War Veterans.
Resuming his former occupation of mining, Mr. Donnelly located at Bisbee, Ariz.,
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mines in Sonora, Mexico. The year 1906 found him the proprietor of a hotel at
Seattle, Wash. The fall of the same year he moved To San Francisco, where he helped
in the rebuilding of that stricken city after its destruction by fire and earthquake. In
1907 he again returned to copper mining, this time locating at Globe, Ariz.
During the year 1910 Mr. Donnelly visited Anaheim, Cal., and was so favorably
impressed with the country that he decided to make Orange County his permanent
home. He purchased ten acres of raw land three miles southwest of Anaheim, which
he improved by leveling and planting to Valencia oranges. He still retained his resi
dence in Globe, Ariz., but brought his family to Anaheim for permanent settlement
in 1912, erecting a bungalow at 115 North Helena Street.
Possessing keen business foresight, a progressive spirit and a determined will to
win success in the citrus industry, Mr. Donnelly took up the study of orange culture,
soil conditions and fumigation, and his special efforts have been rewarded by an
abundant crop, the yield for 1919 being 2040 boxes of fruit, which were handled by the
Anaheim Orange & Lemon Association, of which he is a member.
At Bisbee in 1904 Mr. Donnelly was united in marriage with Julia O'Conner, a
native of the Emerald Isle-, born near Killarney, in County Kerry. Of this happy
union two daughters were born: Mary Elizabeth and Rose Annie. Mr. and Mrs.
Donnelly are patriotic American citizens and loyal supporters of their adopted coun
try's cause in every time of need, their motto being "America First." Religiously, they
are members of the Catholic Church.
WILLIAM N. MILLER. — A well-posted oil man, whose keen observation, atten
tion to details, unremitting industry and a regard for the experience of others as well
as his own previous successes or failures have enabled him to thoroughly understand
the oil business, is William N. Miller, who was born near Ava, Douglas County, Mo.,
on July 6, 1889. His father, J. T. Miller, also a native of Missouri, is a farmer there;'
he married Miss Katie Shadden, a native of Tennessee, and they had six children, of
whom William was the oldest.
He was brought up in Missouri, attended the usual grammar school courses, and
when a youth of seventeen came out to the Far West and settled for a while at Condon,
Ore. He went onto a ranch, and during the winter rode the range and continued in
that line of activity until 1911, when he returned to Missouri to marry Miss Minnie
Pugh, a daughter of Missouri, and a sister of S. L. Pugh. On coming-West again the
young couple settled at Taft and there made his entry into the oil industry. He entered
the service of the Union Oil Company, and later was a tool dresser for the Miocene
Oil Company, then was with the Head Drilling Company at Taft for three years.
In 1919 Mr. Miller came to Placentia, as a driller for the Heffern Oil Company;
and when well No. 1 was completed, he set up No. 2. He then worked on the Olive
Petroleum well at Olive and put it down 1,000 feet; and when he resigned, he did so
to accept the superintendency of the Placentia Oil Compariy, where he remained until
March 1, 1920. In November he became interested in the Orange County Drilling
Company. He is a stockholder in the Heffern Oil Company, and in the Fullerton
Leasing Company, and is doing all that he can to develop the important oil interests
of Orange County.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller have had four children, three living: Lois, Glen and Ina.
Carl, the oldest, died aged seventeen months. Mr. Miller belongs to Douglas Lodge,
No. 319, I. O. O. F., at Ava, Mo.; and he also belongs to Anaheim Lodge, No. 1345,
B. P. O. Elks, and is a member of Anaheim Lodge of Masons.
SUMNER E. REED.— The excellent service of the Santa Fe Railroad at Fullerton
has always been appreciated by the townspeople, and never more so than since the
advent here of the present agent, Sumner E. Reed, a native of Wisconsin, where he was
born in Green County on December 21, 1865. His father was Samuel R. Reed, a farmer,
a native of New York state, and his mother, who came from Michigan, -was before her
marriage Miss Lucretia H. Post. They, with their two sons, moved to Nebraska in
1877. Now both of the parents have joined the great throng making up the silent
majority of humanity.
The elder of the two children, Sumner attended the rural and then the high school,
after which he remained on the farm, as have so many faithful American young men!
until he was twenty-one years of age. His first venture in the service of strangers was
made when he accepted a post with the Burlington Railroad; later he went to the
Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad, and next back to the Burlington. That
was followed by an engagement with the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, and
he remained with that company until 1909, when he came to the Santa Fe.
At first he was an operator at Colton, and from there he went to various places
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stationed Mr. Reed acquired measurably some valuable experience, had a good time,
mastered railroading, and made many friends. In March, 1917, he was transferred to
Fullerton, and here has has been, as fully-empowered agent, ever since. Active every
day in endeavoring to promote Fullerton's commerce with the outside world, it is
natural that Mr. Reed should be an energetic worker in the Fullerton Board of Trade.
During April, 1916, while Mr. Reed was at Inglewood, he was married to Mrs.
Myrtle M. (Thayer) Martin, who was born in Michigan. Mr. Reed still enjoys a
lodge evening occasionally, and belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America. In
national politics he is a Republican, but he knows no partisanship when it comes to
boosting for Fullerton, Orange County or even California. Among his recreations are
automobiling and outdoor exercise.
SALVADOR M. PADIAS. — A hard-working farmer, operating scientifically, and
therefore getting all the good results possible from his various expenditures, is Salvador
M. Padias who, through his own honest, untiring efforts, has acquired for himself and
his family a comfortable affluence. He is, in fact, one of the leading beet growers
on the Irvine Ranch, where he operates 268 acres, 156 of which are devoted to sugar
beets and the balance to barley hay.
A native son, he was born at San Juan Capistrano, Cal., on January 29, 1892,
the son of Ramon Padias, now deceased, the representative of one of the proud old
Spanish families. He was an experienced farmer, and left a competence to his
widow, who was Mercedes Mendes before her marriage. She now owns twenty
acres of highly improved land, devoted principally to Valencia oranges, and is located
on South McClay Street, in Santa Ana, where she now resides, aged sixty-two years.
S. M. Padias, the youngest son and the seventh child, attended the grammar
school at Tustin, after which he worked on his father's farm until the latter died in
1912. Then he began to farm for himself, and he also went out and worked for
others with large eight-horse teams. In the beginning, he worked for two different
companies, but both failed financially, and he received only forty-five dollars in cash
and judgments for $2,200 for his work, from which he has since realized nothing.
This most unfortunate experience, however, did not deter him from starting
anew, if in debt, and commencing all over again under such disadvantageous circum
stances that he had to borrow money from others. In the fall of 1915 he leased
the above mentioned ranch, which he has improved and brought to a high state of
cultivation, and it is all under irrigation; his beet crop has averaged as much per
acre as any other on the Irvine ranch, and the position he occupies today shows that
he could not long have been idle. He came to have time enough, though, to partake
in various activities appealing to the patriotic citizen, and to work with the Repub
licans for better civic standards.
In San Diego, July 23, 1914, Mr. Padias was married to Miss Dorothy Talbott,
the daughter of Chas. I. and Leona (Gibson) Talbott, early settlers of Los Angeles
County, the father being the proprietor of the Central Auto Park in Santa Ana. Mrs.
Padias is a native daughter, born at Glendora, but reared and educated in the Garden
Grove grammar and high school. Mrs. Padias' maternal grandfather, George Gibson,
served in a Nebraska regiment in the Civil War, and she is naturally an enthusiastic
member of the Daughters of Veterans. This fortunate union has been blessed with
one child, now a bright four-year-old boy, Robert Edward. Fraternally, Mr. Padias
is a Knight of Pythias, and a popular member he is in that constantly growing order.
JACOB P. PROBST. — Prominent in business circles in Anaheim, and well known
in other parts of the state, Jacob P. Probst was born in Odensa, Denmark, September
7, 1883. He is a son of Hans P. and Rossamina (Petersen) Probst, both natives of
Denmark, and in the fall of 1883 Hans P. Probst brought his family to the United
States, locating in Warrensburg, Mo., where he built up one of the largest carriage
manufacturing plants in the state. His four sons were all associated with him in
business, under the firm name of Probst and Sons, and for twenty-seven years they
carried on the establishment in their own two-story factory, one-half block in area.
They were extensive advertisers and the name became famous all over the state for
fair dealing and high quality of goods. They carried all kinds of horse-drawn vehicles,
also manufactured to order, did repair work and painting.
The children now living of Mr. and Mrs. Hans P. Probst are: George, Merentius,
Jacob P., Blenda, wife of Victor A. Peterson of South Pasadena, and Thorwald A.,
the well-known landscape artist of the Pacific Coast, who is at present writing and
traveling in California in the interest of reclaiming the old California Missions. The
father located in South Pasadena in 1910, where he conducted with his sons a large
auto painting, decorating and repair establishment. The family home in Warrensburg,
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themselves, and the walls and ceilings decorated in the same manner. The home con
tained many valuable works of art designed and collected by the family, many of which
were brought with them to their South Pasadena home.
Jacob P. Probst first came to California as a tourist in 1904, when he traveled all
over the state, and in 1907 he returned to take up his permanent residence here, first
locating in Alhambra, where, in partnership with his brother, he followed painting and
decorating, and erected a home in that city. He later removed to South Pasadena,
where he erected a home, and when his father arrived, in 1910, engaged in business
with him in auto painting.
On June 4, 1917, Mr. Probst located in Anaheim, where he now follows auto
painting and decorating, occupying modern and commodious quarters at 113-115 West
Adele Street. He does the finest class of work, including monograms and crests, and
his years of experience in the painting line make him a valuable man for his line of
work. He takes an active part in the affairs of Anaheim, was a member of the adver
tising committee of the old Anaheim Board of Trade, and ready at all times to give
of his knowledge and effort toward the further advancement of his home city and
county. Fraternally he is a member of Anaheim Lodge, No. 207, F. & A. M.
The marriage of Mr. Probst united him with Della A. Peterson, a native of Iowa,
the ceremony occurring at Santa Barbara, in 1908, and three children have been born
to them: Blenda, Lucille, and Jacob A., deceased. Mrs. Probst is one of a family of
twelve children, all but two of whom are now living. With her husband she joins in
the social life of the community and works toward its upbuilding.
JOHN JOHNSTON. — The efficient chief engineer of the Anaheim Brewery, John
Johnston has been a resident of the United States for nearly twenty-five years. He is
a native of Scotland, having been born at Glasgow on Christmas Day, 1869, and is a
son of John and Catherine Johnston, both natives of the land of the heather. The
Johnston family consisted of nine children, five of whom are living, two being residents
of California. John Johnston, Sr., died in Canada, Mrs. Johnston still making her
home there.
John Johnston was reared and educated in the Dominion of Canada. In 1896 he
came to the United States, and after stopping for some time in New York, he migrated
to California in 1905, locating in Los Angeles, where he remained for three years. In
1911 Mr. Johnston moved to Anaheim and accepted his responsible position with the
Anaheim Brewery, having under his supervision five engines, and has continued with
the company nine years. He is an expert machinist, with thirty years of experience,
and is regarded as one of the most efficient engineers in this section of the state.
In 1901 Mr. Johnston was united in marriage with Miss Ellen Trelfer of Canada
and four children were born to them: Francis, Lillian, James and John. During the
World War James served in a California regiment of infantry stationed at Camp Kear
ney. Mr. Johnston and his children are all musical and their playing is greatly enjoyed
and appreciated by their many friends in the community, where they have gained high
repute as musicians.
The second marriage of Mr. Johnston united him with Miss Margaret Fitzpatrick
of Belfast, Ireland. Fraternally, Mr. Johnston is a member of the Anaheim Lodge No.
1346, Elks, and Anaheim Aerie of Eagles.
JOHN S. RUNYAN.— A highly esteemed resident of Santa Ana who attained the
enviable distinction of being one of the most public-spirited citizens of the town in
which he had previously lived— Medicine Lodge, Kans.— is John S. Runyan, who was
born in Turbotville, Northumberland County, Pa., on October 27, 1853. His father
was George Barton Runyan, a farmer and an early settler in the Keystone State, who
had married Miss Elizabeth Schuyler, also a member of an early family "there. The
lad was sent to the high school at Turbotville, and then to the State Normal school at
Bloomsburg; and afterwards for five years he taught school in Montour County, Pa.
In 1878 he moved to Lawrence, Douglas County, Kans., and there for a couple of years
taught school.
In 1880 he made a new departure in going to Barber County, Kans., and engaging
in the cattle business. Four years later he was in the general merchandise trade in
Medicine Lodge m that state; and there he remained until August 1889. On the twelfth
of that month he entered the First National Bank of Medicine Lodge and for five years
was the bank's assistant cashier; and in 1894 he became the cashier. After that he rose
to be vice-president of the bank; and he was also associated with other banks in Kansas
On November 26, 1885, Mr. Runyan was married in Warrensburg Johnson County
Mo., to Miss Nannie R. Holmes, a native of that town and of a fine old Vir-rinian
family that migrated to Missouri. Her father was Benjamin A. Holmes and her
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course at the Warrensburg State Normal, where she was graduated, receiving a life
certificate as a teacher; and afterwards she taught in Johnson County, and later in the
high school at Liberty, Mo., until her marriage.
In 1911, Mr. Runyan came to California for his health, and settled at Santa Ana;
and the next year he built his home at 416 South Birch Street. In 1919 he purchased
an interest in an orange grove near Placentia, and in July of the same year he bought
an interest in a lemon grove at Yorba Linda. He also purchased stock in the First
National Bank of Santa Ana.
While in Medicine Lodge Mr. Runyan was city treasurer for twelve years, and
he also served on the city council of Medicine Lodge a number of terms, never allowing
his preference for Republican political doctrine to interfere with his administration of
local office. He tried to begin life aright in his profession of religion, and in Santa
Ana found it natural and easy to help the congregation of the First Baptist Church
in 1913 begin the erection of their handsome edifice. He is chairman of the board of
trustees, was on the building committee, and is also a member of the committee of
finance of said church.
For sixteen years in Medicine Lodge Mr. Runyan was both a member of and
treasurer of the board of education. Having no children of their own,- they set out to
rear and educate a niece, Miss Una Holmes, who was a native of Missouri arid lived
with Mr. and Mrs. Runyan in Kansas, and on August 7, 1907, was married to C. C.
Lewis, the private secretary of the late Senator Chester I. Long of Kansas, with whom,
during the season of 1907, they enjoyed the inspiriting life of the capital, Washington.
In the spring of 1909 Mr. and Mrs. Lewis went to Phoenix, Ariz., and later they came
to Monrovia, where Mrs. Lewis died, on February 13, 1916. Then Mr. Lewis returned
to Phoenix, Ariz., and is now with the State Water Commission. Two children were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis. The elder is a girl, Helen by name, and the younger is
called John Runyan.
ROBERT WILSON.— A full and worthy life has been the portion of Robert
Wilson; from stirring events in his boyhood and early life he passed to the more
peaceful pursuits of the business world, and his sterling traits of character have made
for success in both. A native of Canada, Mr. Wilson was born near Guelph, Ontario,
August 15, 1852, the son of James and Elizabeth (Ramsey) Wilson, born in Scotland
and on the Isle of Man, respectively, but married at Eden Mills, Ontario. The father
was an engineer in sawmilling, and later in the manufacture of oatmeal. He made
the oat mill on exhibit at the International Exposition at London in 1862 that was
awarded a medal. His death occurred in Ontario.
Robert Wilson was the second eldest in a family of four boys and one girl, and
he is the only one now living. He was reared at Eden Mills, Ontario, where he ob
tained his education in the country schools. In 1866, when a boy of fourteen, he
enlisted as a bugler in a Canadian company of volunteers, and was in the famous
Fenian Raid and in the battle of Ridgeway, June 6, 1866. For fourteen years he served
under Queen Victoria in the Canadian Militia, was bugler of No. Two Company, Firs*
Ontario Riflemen, went with them to Ft. Garry, now Winnipeg, in 1871, and was in
the Reil Rebellion of that year. Afterwards he was in Infantry Company No. One,
Twenty-eighth Battalion, and later on was in an engineering corps in the second Reil
Rebellion in 1884-85, and was at the Battle of Batoche. As early as 1866, between his
different enlistments, Mr. Wilson learned the trade of baker and candy maker, and in
1873 located in Buffalo, N. Y., entering the employ of Sibley & Holmwood, wholesale
candy manufacturers. Eighteen months later he returned to Stratford, Ontario, and
again served in the militia; later he settled in St. Paul, Minn., where for twenty-one
years he carried on a bakery of his own with success. While there he was local corre
spondent for Eastern magazines devoted to the bakery trade.
The year 1906 marks the arrival of Mr. Wilson in Anaheim. He purchased the
Powell Bakery, on West Center Street, which he carried on with success until June
28, 1915, selling out to B. Jensen, and since that date he has lived retired, with the
record of having been in the bakery business for more than forty-eight years, which
speaks for itself as to the steadfast qualities of the man.
Mr. Wilson was twice married, his first wife being Mary Jane Mcintosh, a native
of Ontario. Her father was for many years in the employ of the Grand Trunk Rail
way, coming to Montreal from Scotland, and was the first boilermaker employed by
that company, continuing until his death at Port Huron, Mich. Mrs. Mary Jane Wilson
died July 7, 1915, leaving three children: Robert, a printer of Los Angeles; Mrs. Agnes
L. Every of Tacoma, Wash.,, whose husband' is claim agent for the Northern Pacific
Railway; and Clarence, a graduate of Stanford University and a civil engineer by pro
fession, of San Francisco; he was a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission
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with the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in San Francisco. He enlisted in the Third
U. S. Engineers in the World War and was stationed at Camp Humphries, Va.
For his second wife Mr. Wilson married Mrs. Jennie A. Keeling, also a native of
Canada, and they are among the esteemed citizens of Orange County. He was made
a Mason in Ancient Landmark Lodge, St. Paul, Minn., and is now a member of Anaheim
Lodge, F. & A. M. He has also been a member of the Odd Fellows for forty-five years
and is a charter member of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks, and of the Modern
Woodmen. For years he was a member of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce.
ANTON C. CARLE. — A thoroughly experienced and successful farmer, whose
intelligence and industry have spelled for him and others a well-merited prosperity,
while his uprightness of character and general dependability have won for him the
confidence of all who know him, is Anton C. Carle, the lessee for eighteen years of a
ranch not far from El Toro, where he lives and labors with his devoted and gifted
wife, in a home made the more attractive through a promising, ambitious daughter,
preparing for a business vocation. He was born in Alsace-Lorraine, France, on May
10, 1878, and like all the inhabitants of that region enjoying better advantages, learned
both French an«l German. At Dinsheim, too, the famous vineyard place not so far
from Strassburg, he was married, on July 21, 1900, to Mary Catherine Kuntz, a native
of that place, where she was born on December 3, 1880, the daughter of Martin Kuntz,
of Alsace-Lorraine. He was an expert machinist, but died in 1907, and his wife, whose
maiden name was Madeline Myer, was born in the same place. Seven girls were born
to Mr. and Mrs. Kuntz, and they attended the schools of the Catholic Sisters.
Mr. and Mrs. Carle were married when she was nineteen years old, and on
August 6, 1900, they bade goodbye to parents, and other relatives and friends, and
began their honeymoon trip with a voyage across the Atlantic. They sailed from
Hamburg and landed in New York, from which city they took the train across the
continent, and alighted at Los Angeles on August 26. In Dundee, Los Angeles, and
also at Loma Linda and Glendora, Mr. and Mrs. Carle worked out together — he as
gardener and she as housekeeper, and when they had made a good start for them
selves, they came out to El Toro.
Here he worked for "Dwight Whiting, at first as a gardener, and among other
things he then accomplished he set out 487 acres of eucalyptus, now almost a forest,
half a mile to the northeast of El Toro. He had almost eighty men working under
him, and this gave him a chance to add Spanish to his fund of languages, so that he now
speaks French, German, English and Spanish. He first came to El Toro in 1904, and
when, five years later, Mr." Whiting died, he took a lease on 320 acres and began to
rent. He now raises hay, barley and oat-hay, mixed and pure, and the balance in
beans and wheat — eighty-five acres of the former and twenty acres of the latter, and
in their comfortable home about two miles from El Toro they reflect with both
happy and sober thoughts on the past.
Mr. Carle's father was also named Anton, and he was born at Gresweile, in
Alsace, as was his wife, whose maiden name was Clementine Doersaff. She died two
years before our subject came to America. She had twelve children, ten girls and
two boys, and among these Anton was the eighth child in the order of birth. He
learned gardening in Alsace, but he worked, while there, mostly as a weaver of cloth.
He wove woolen, cotton and silk goods, and he still has some of the fabrics that he
wove himself.
His first work here was in Dundee at viticulture and horticulture, and then for
Mrs. Frank Taylor, at the corner of Central and Adams streets in Los Angeles, and
from there he went to Loma Linda, where he made the beautiful drives from the rocks,
planned the roadways and laid out the flowers. In this unpretentious but pleasant
manner Mr. Carle began his association with the Southland; today he owns the busi
ness block, including the barber shop and pool hall, opposite the railroad depot at
El Toro, which he built, and for two years he ran a butcher shop, after which he re
modeled it and now rents it as has just been stated. He uses eighteen head of horses
and mules in his farming operations. He also owns a number two special Ventura
bean thresher, and during the season is kept busy threshing in the neighborhood He
is prosperous, and he wishes everyone else to be equally successful. He is an
American through and through, and during the recent war patronized each issue of
the Liberty Bonds, and otherwise supported the war activities. He is a naturalized
American citizen and a Republican.
In 1906 Mrs. Carle returned to Alsace-Lorraine on a visit, and took with her
their daughter, Emma Juanita, now a student in the Orange County Business College.
They had a fine time and have been talking about it with satisfaction ever since.
They have also thought of their home associations with sorrow, for great changes
have occurred where once all was so attractive.

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AMBROSE F. FISHERING. — Perseverance and optimism have ever been the
outstanding characteristics of Ambrose F. Fishering, now a successful rancher near
Anaheim, and these qualities, combined with steady, industrious application to the
task at hand, have enabled him to rise above circumstances that would have daunted
one less courageous. Mr. Fishering's early memories carry him back to the Buckeye
State, where he was born at Xenia,, August 16, 1868, the seventh child in the family
of Henry and Mary (Beall) Fishering. The father was born in Germany, but came
to Ohio in the early days, when he was a lad of sixteen, and he was for many years
in the mercantile business in Xenia.
Mr. Fishering's early education was gained in the public schools of his native
city, but his opportunities in that line were limited as he left home at the age of
thirteen to make his own way in the world. He learned the furniture trade when but
a boy and followed this line of work until he was of age, when he went into the retail
grocery business at Dayton, Ohio. He was meeting with good success when the flood
of 1899 wiped .out his business completely, destroying all that he had. Too ambitious
and energetic to be routed by even this disaster, he rebuilt and soon was forging ahead
more rapidly than ever, only to suffer a second loss of all his possessions in the great
flood of 1900, that caused such a terrible loss of life and property in this Ohio city.
These experiences determined Mr. Fishering to locate in the West, so in 1901 he
came to Los Angeles, Cal., and though practically without capital he undertook the
purchase of five acres of land in the Sunrise tract, now Huntington Park, where he
built the first house. He took a position with the Van Vorst, Burman Furniture Com
pany in Los Angeles, later connecting with Barker Brothers as foreman of their frame
department, a position which he held for fourteen years, driving back and forth with
a horse and buggy to his work. In the meantime Mr. Fishering divided his five-acre
tract into town lots and sold them off, making a handsome profit in the transaction.
In 1908 Mr. Fishering came to Anaheim and soon after purchased ten acres on
Loara Road and Lincoln Boulevard. This was a rough, unattractive piece of land, in
poor condition, and one with less foresight and courage than Mr. Fishering would
have hesitated to buy it, not being able to see its possibilities. He went to work on
it at once, however, developing a sixty-inch water supply, and setting out a citrus grove
from his own nursery stock. He has taken great pride and pleasure in bringing his
ranch, which they have named El-No-Care-O, up to a high state of cultivation, and
works unceasingly to keep it in this condition. Despite the losses he sustained before
coming to California, he has retrieved his fortunes and has accumulated a competence
since his arrival here.
On April 16, 1902, Mr. Fishering was married to Mrs. Sadie J. (Burton) Myers,
formerly of Iowa, but a resident of Los Angeles for a number of years. By her first
marriage she was the mother of a son, Edmond B. Myers, who is an expert mechanic
and served on a submarine in the Atlantic during the war. Mr. and Mrs. Fishering
are the parents of one son, Robert Huntington, so named because he was the first child
born in Huntington Park. He graduated from the Anaheim grammar school and in
July, 1919, enlisted in the U. S. Government radio service and is now at Mare Island
(1920). Mrs. Fishering has ever been a capable helpmate to her husband, cheerfully
aiding him in all his undertakings, and he gives to her due credit for a great degree of
the success they have attained. They have recently erected a fine residence on their
ranch and here they live in comfort. Seeing the necessity for co-operation in all local
affairs, Mr. Fishering is a member of the Anaheim Citrus Association and gives his
loyal support to the affairs of that organization. He marches under the Republican
banner and is a firm adherent of the policies of that party.
CHESTER H. KENYON. — A self-made, scientifically-operating farmer, who has
learned by hard study the best of all the various methods for the production of abundant
crops, is Chester H. Kenyon, the well-known rancher of Glen Avenue, Tustin, among
the best supporters of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company and an energetic
member of the Santa Ana Walnut Growers' Association. He was born near Mt. Union.
Henry County, Iowa, on March 8, 1884, the son of Wm. H. and Flora (Hale) Kenyon,
the father being a native of Wisconsin. Mrs. Kenyon died when our subject was eight
years of age, and then he was taken by an aunt, Mrs. Amelia Crellin, a sister of his
father, by whom he was reared. There were three children in the Kenyon family, and
Chester was the oldest. •
Chester attended the common schools in Henry County, Iowa, until he came to
California with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Crellin, in October, 1899, and then he
finished his schooling here. In June, 1899, these foster parents first came to Tustin,
and two days after their arrival they purchased the "Nat Brown" place, now the home
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boys along. While attending school Chester worked this estate for his uncle, while
he went to work also for other ranchers. In about 1908 his father followed him to
Tustin, and for the first time perhaps enjoyed a balmy climate and some well-earned
rest; he also became an orange grower and makes his home in Tustin. Chester Ken-
yon's first holding was a five-acre citrus grove, which he later sold. In 1913 he bought
eleven and a half acres, which he devoted to walnuts; and this is now the home place,
where he has erected a very comfortable residence. He has added eight acres of wal
nuts adjoining, so now has nineteen and one-half acres. He is also at present raising
beans, of which he has thirty acres on the San Joaquin ranch, so that, altogether, he
manages about seventy acres.
The day after Christmas, 1908, Mr. Kenyon was married to Miss Jessie Scott, the
daughter of Chester H. and Elcina Scott, farmer folks of Kansas, who later removed
to California. One daughter, Marjorie, has blessed this union. Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon
liberally supported Red Cross and War Loan work during the War, and are always
ready to lend a hand, when needed, for social uplift and advancement.
R. W. EDENS. — Orange County has been fortunate to draw within its boundaries
men of energy, resourcefulness and brains, who have devoted their time and talents to
the development of its diversified resources. Among the men who have closely iden
tified themselves with the oil industry is R. W. Edens, of Fullerton, a large stockholder
and general manager of the Mid-Central Oil Company, now drilling for oil in proven
territory at Huntington Beach. He also is financially interested in other companies
that are now drilling in that locality. Besides these extensive interests, Mr. Edens is
one of the proprietors of the Orange County Fertilizer Company, and a member of
the firm of Edens and Wagner, dealers in oil lands and leases, and investments, with
offices in the Amerige Block, Fullerton.
A native of Kentucky, R. W. Edens was born in Cumberland County, September
26, 1875, and was educated in the public schools of his native section until he was
sixteen, then he came to California, and in Ventura County, secured employment in
citrus orchards. He assisted in setting out the famous Lemoneira Orchard, the largest
lemon ranch in the world. After he had labored in the orchards of Ventura County a
number of years he left there and located in Fullerton in 1904. This was then a small
country village with scarcely any civic improvements, and here he opened the first
garage, thus showing that he was strictly up-to-date. He then had the agency for the
Maxwell and Chalmers cars, also sold auto trucks. As he succeeded he formed a
partnership with John E. Wagner, of Placentia, and organized the Orange County
Fertilizer Company, which confines its business to Orange and Los Angeles counties.
They specialize in barnyard manure and commercial fertilizer, and to conduct their
business they operate five motor trucks, three of which they own. This company has
played an important part in the development of the citrus fruit industry in the county
since its inception, the volume of business aggregating about $15,000 per month.
The marriage of R. W. Edens united him with Miss Mollie Matthews, a native of
Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church in Fullerton and a lady of
many accomplishments who shares with her husband the esteem of a wide circle of
friends. Fraternally Mr. Edens is a member of Fullerton Lodge No. 394, F. & A. M.;
Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks, and of the Fullerton Board of Trade.
Mr. Edens is a man of the strictest integrity, liberal and progressive in his ideas
and methods; a live wire and a booster who takes an interest in every movement that
has for its aim the promotion of the best interests of the community, and especially
of Fullerton, where he makes his home and is popularly conceded to be a leader in all
that seeks to elevate the best in citizenship.
LILLIAN PREST FERGUSON.— A painter regarded by many critics as fore
most in the delicate art of portraiture, is Mrs. Lillian Prest Ferguson, whose charming
personality canot fail to hasten the fulfillment of her dream for Laguna Beach as a
center of the best art. She was born in Ontario, Canada, the only daughter of Thomas
Prest, a banker and real estate broker at Windsor, who had married Miss Sarah Smith,
a daughter of Samuel Smith, the first mayor of Guelph, Ontario. When Lillian was
ten years of age she went with her parents out to the great Northwest, and lived in
a sod house; and she has many tales to tell of the hardships endured there. There were
no schools in that territory at that time, and her mother sent her to Winnipeg, where
she was educated in a convent under the instruction of Sister Mary Xavier.
She had a natural talent for portrait sketching, and was early given some instruc
tion; and when only sixteen years of age she finished her first real work. It was a
portrait of the mother of Archbishop Tache, a prelate she has always admired, and to
whom she has felt peculiarly indebted for her early success; and some months later
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Winnipeg some months, studying and painting, and then she went to Toronto, where
she studied with W. L. Forster. She returned to Winnipeg and was made an instructor
in the Winnipeg Art School, where she remained until her marriage with Peter Fer
guson, an attorney of Ontario, with whom she toured England, Scotland and France.
Then she became a student at the Academie Julien of Portraiture in Paris, and there
made rapid progress under the renowned Professor La Fevre. On another trip to
Europe she studied in Holland, with her instructor, Alexander Robinson, and from
there she made various sketching trips to the most picturesque parts of the Continent,
exhibiting her work the next season at the gallery in Paris.
Coming west to California in 1915, Mrs. Ferguson settled for a while at Carmel
by-the-Sea, fortunate in the pleasant association with William M. Chase, who gave
instruction in portraiture. Since 1912 she had made sketching trips to Laguna Beach;
for, having once become familiar with the unrivalled attractions here, she needed no
incentive to urge her to return. During 1918 Mrs. Ferguson planned and erected her
home place one and a quarter miles south of the Laguna Beach Hotel, and she has
started a school of pottery at Laguna Beach, in which she herself gives expert instruc
tion during the winter months. At other times she is generally to be found at her
truly remarkable studio at the beach. .
Mrs. Ferguson's art is to be seen at the galleries at Exposition Park, in Los
Angeles, and also in San Francisco. She is an active member in the Independent
Society of Artists of New York City, the California Art Club and the Laguna Beach
Art Association, of which she is' a charter member. She also belongs to the Hollywood
Woman's Club, and to the MacDowell Society.
GEORGE ROHRS. — A hard-working, progressive and successful native son ot
whom California may well be proud, is George Rohrs, whose life reflects his high
ideals, and does credit alike to his esteemed parents and to himself. His father was
Fred Rohrs, the well-known rancher and realty owner, who was born in Germany, in
the historic year of 1848, and came out to America when he was still in his teens. His
mother was Anna Gobrugge before her marriage, also a native of that country, and
she came to the land of greater freedom, hoping to better her condition— a wish that
was amply satisfied. They were true pioneers of the great state of Ohio, where they
were married, and later did their part in helping to develop the still greater common
wealth of California.
George was born in Orange County on December 10, 1884, and attended the
Central school at Santa Ana. Then he worked on his father's ranches. In time, too.
he purchased twenty acres to the west of his father's ranch, where he set out orange
and walnut trees. He also sunk a good well, and so has reserve water for irrigation.
as has his father on the home ranch. He uses a tractor and horses, and works his
ranch at the same time that he operates his father's. He is a member of the Santa
Ana Valley Irrigation Company.
In May, 1914, Mr. Rohrs was married to Miss Dora Miller, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Miller, of Tustin Avenue, whereupon they went to the East on an
extended honeymoon trip of several months. He had already built a fine residence
upon his ranch, and furnished the same, and it was ready for his home upon their
return. Mr. Rohrs was the owner of real estate and specially of buildings for business
purposes in Santa Ana, so that he may well be looked upon as one of the men of affairs
in the city.
L. E. ALLEN. — A conservative, but enterprising rancher who has had the advan
tage of seeing the steady growth and sure development of the county from the time
that he was a boy, so that it is perfectly natural for him to work for home interests,
and especially, with his appreciation of education and love of literature, for the public
schools, is L. E. Allen, a native of Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada, where he first saw
the light on April 14, 1883. His father, H. A. Allen, was born in Ontario and a
descendant of a well-established old Puritan family of the New England states. He
became both a farmer and a banker, and married Emma German, a native of the
Empire State, a member of that fine old New England circle among whom was
Senator Obadiah German.
H. A. Allen came out to California on a visit in 1860, but returned to Canada.
Twenty-four years later, he returned, with his family. L. E. Allen was then a babe;
but in the course of his boyhood he progressed through the grammar grades of the
local schools. On April 14, 1886, Mr. and Mrs. Allen and their family moved on to
the eight acres on Main Street, known as the Potts Place, which constituted the
home ranch; and there our subject, as a dutiful son, worked until he was twenty-one
years old. When the father died, in 1916, he left over eighty acres of land to his
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L. E. Allen helped Mr. Stevens survey the Fruit Company's ranch and helped
to set out many of the best orchards in this section. His brother, A. H. Allen, is
a partner with him in their ranch enterprises, operating fifty-two acres of land in
the city limits of Santa Ana, with two residences, nearly all set out to walnuts.
They use tractors and horses to operate the ranch. Another brother, Gerald, and
the mother, Mrs. H. A. Allen, now reside at Los Angeles. Mr. Allen belongs to the
Santa Ana Walnut Association .and the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and
in national politics is a Republican; but he endeavors to perform his duty in relation
to local affairs by a groad-gauged nonpartisanship, enabling him to work and vote
for the best men and the best measures. ,
JOHN W. SAUERS. — Yorba Avenue borders some of the most attractive ranches
in the Tustin District, and of special attraction is the well-developed property owned
and operated by John W. Sauers, a native Nebraskan, who is widely known as one of
the most practical of farmers. There are twenty acres in the tract, and nine are de
voted to English walnuts, while eleven bear Valencia oranges. Ten of these acres
Mr. Sauers purchased in 1913, and upon the original ranch he built his dwelling house;
the other ten he bought as recently as 1917. All the land was in poor condition when
he first acquired it, but nc>w he is able to point to a high state of cultivation. The
splendid and well-kept appearance of his orchard demonstrates the large amount of
labor and care he gives to the cultivation of his place, leaving the soil and trees in
such fine condition that it is the consensus of opinion it is one of the best orchards
and counted one of the show-places of the district.
Born at Hooper, Dodge County, in the Black Water State, August 1, 1880, he is
the son of John and Jane (Bruner) Sauers, natives of Pennsylvania, who became
pioneers of Nebraska. The father was an extensive farmer and stock raiser, who later
came to Orange County, where he became a successful and prominent horticulturist
at Tustin. He and his beloved wife passed away at Santa Ana, where they had re
sided during later years. Grandfather John Sauers served in a Pennsylvania regiment
in the Civil War. A brother of J. W. Sauers, C. E. Sauers, and a sister, Margaret,
now Mrs. Suddaby, are also residents of Tustin.
John W. Sauers was brought up and educated in the public schools of Nebraska,
and in time learned the trade of his father, carpentering. After years of application to
this handiwork, he came out to California, in 1906, and fortunately settled in Orange
County, where he has come to enjoy the confidence and esteem of his fellow-men.
Mr. Sauers has been twice married. His first wife, to whom he was married in
1903, was Miss Maud Osborn before her marriage, and she became the mother of a
daughter, Volga Laurene. His second wife, married in 1914, was Miss Hazel, a daugh
ter of R. M. Rowley, who was a pioneer of Santa Ana, coming from Massachusetts to
California in the early days. Being a pharmacist, he started a drug store on Fourth
and Main streets, still known as the Rowley Drug Store, of which he was the active
head until he died in 1918. His widow still survives him. Mrs. Sauers was born in
Santa Ana, and was a graduate of the high school. They have one child, a son, John
Vernon Sauers.
Mr. Sauers has never affiliated with any lodge, but he is nevertheless popular for
his personal worth as a man. Among ranchers he holds his own as a horticulturist
and agriculturist who knows what he wants, and who goes about the getting of it in
a scientific way. Mr. and Mrs. Sauers take an active interest in civic affairs, as well as
a deep interest in religion, both being active members of the First Presbyterian
Church of Santa Ana.
ANDREW COCK.— For many years a prominent resident of Orange County
and actively associated with the development of the horticultural wealth of this part
of the state, Andrew Cock is today one of the best informed and most highly respected
horticulturalists in California. He is owner of an exceptionally valuable ranch just
south of Santa Ana, located on South Main Street, and consisting of fifty-five acres,
devoted to general farming and the nursery business. This property is under a high
state of cultivation and is splendidly improved, making one of the most attractive
homes in the vicinity.
Mr. Cock is a native of Waco, Texas, born August 22, 1886, but came to Cali
fornia with his parents when he was a baby, locating at Tustin, where the father
engaged in _ ranching. He received his education in the public grammar school at
Tustin and in the Polytechnic high school in Santa Ana. When he was nineteen years
of age he entered the employ of the San Joaquin Fruit Company at Tustin, being
stationed- on their 1000-ranch near that place. From his boyhood he had been keenly
interested in horticulture and here he found ample scope for the development of his
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entirely to his liking, and at the age of twenty-two years he was made manager,
which position he held, discharging the heavy responsibility which it entailed with
ability and efficiency, until 1919. In the development of the San Joaquin Fruit Com
pany's ranch Mr. Cock was especially successful. He made a careful and detailed
study of individual trees and secured the buds only from record trees, that produced
fruit of superior quality and in great abundance, thus developing a superior stock
of trees. He assisted with the planting of the first tree, soon after his employment
by the company, and later as manager, superintended the development of vast groves
of oranges, lemons and walnuts. In September, 1919, he resigned his position to
engage in farming for himself, and purchased his present property at Santa Ana,
where he has since made his home.
The marriage of Mr. Cock occurred in Tustin, and united him with Miss Nellie
Gertrude Matthews, a native of Kiowa, Kans., who came to Tustin, Cal., with her
parents in her teens. Of their union have been born three children, two sons and
a daughter, namely, Leonard, Lewis and Margaret. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cock have
a wide circle of friends in Orange County, and have taken an active part in social and
civic affairs. Mr. Cock is a member of the Santa Ana Branch of the Federal Reserve
Board and a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias, Tustin lodge, of which he is
past chancellor. ,
Mr. Cock is descended from a long line of splendid American ancestry. His
father was Linneaus A. Cock, born near Marshall, Texas, April 6, 1856, and his
grandfather, Lafayette Cock, was a native of Tennessee. Lafayette Cock removed
to Mississippi, where he was married to Bennetta Taylor, a native of Mississippi.
They later removed to Texas and engaged in farming near Marshall, but eventually
returned to Mississippi where Lafayette Cock passed away July 31, 1861, and Mrs.
Cock, September 25, 1865. Linneaus A. Cock was brought to Holmes County, Miss.,
by his parents in 1860 and was reared and educated in that state. He was married
in Madison County, Miss., December 11, 1884, to Miss Viola Ward, a native of that
county and the daughter of the Rev. T. M. and Mattie (Taylor) Ward, the former
a native of Tennessee and the latter of Holmes County, Miss. Rev. T. M. Ward,
was a Princeton graduate and also held a medical degree from Columbia University.
He rode the Methodist circuit for many years, preaching and practicing medicine,
carrying his Bible and his medicines in his saddle bags. The maternal great-grand
father of our subject, Andrew Cock, was Elias Taylor, who served through the
Mexican War as private aide to General Zack Taylor, of whom he was a nephew.
He was a prominent railroad man, being one of the builders of the Southern Division
of the Illinois Central Railroad, and served as its president for many years.
After their marriage Linneaus Cock and his bride went to Waco, Texas, and
engaged in cattle raising until 1887, when they came to California, locating at Tustin,
Orange County, where they engaged in ranching. In 1899 he bought a ranch near
Tustin which he greatly improved, and now has ten acres of Valencia oranges and
five acres of walnuts, in full bearing. He is retired from active business and resides
in Tustin with his wife. Of the children born of this union, seven are still living,
all well and favorably known in Orange County. They are Mrs. Edith Egert, a
teacher in the Los Angeles schools; Andrew, the subject of this sketch; Alma, a
graduate nurse, now residing in Los Angeles; Thomas, a traveling salesman for the
Sherwin-Williams Company, of Los Angeles; Edgar, a machinist in Tustin; Willis
residing on his father's ranch at Tustin; and Howard, a student in the Polytechnic
high school in Santa Ana.
S. F. DEAMUD. — A conservative, but progressive man, whose great perseverance
has brought him a measure of prosperity which, in turn, makes him a natural, enthusi
astic "booster" for Santa Ana and Orange County, is S. F. Deamud, a native of Wayne,
Wayne County, Mich., where he was born on January 22, 1858, eighteen miles west
of Detroit. His father, Samuel Deamud, was a native of Toronto, Canada, and as a
maker of shoes controlled for his lifetime a large and profitable business. His mother
was Sarah Moore before her marriage, and she was a daughter of John Moore, an
Englishman by birth. When Samuel Deamud and his wife married, they came to
Wayne, Mich., to make their home.
The lad was sent to the ordinary local schools, and being fond of machinery,
learned how to run an engine when he was a mere youth. After a while, he moved
about from town to town in Michigan, and then he went beyond the state's borders into
and through other large cities, acquiring valuable practical experience.
In 1881 he took up a homestead tract at Arapahoe, Furnace County, Nebr., and
staying with the venture, won out and acquired full title, proving up on the 160
acres. Then he sold his Nebraska holdings, and, like a modern knight, motored west
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At 1003 Grand Avenue he purchased two acres, which he improved and developed
in the setting out of walnuts and oranges. He has stock in the Santa Ana Valley
Irrigation Company, and so gets the benefit of their irrigation service. He is also a
member of the Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association. He is something of a poultry
fancier, with a preference for the best strains of Leghorn and Rhode Island Reds, and
for the purpose he has an ideal poultry house.
On June 7, 1897, Mr. Deamud was married to Mrs. Ella (Scheeks) Keeler, a widow
with two children. Mabel is the wife of Clyde Larson, a farmer of Nebraska, and Lulu
is at home. Mrs. Deamud's father, Nelson Scheeks, was killed in the battle of the
Wilderness, in the Civil War; and the mother died shortly after of sorrow. Mr.. Deamud
has a brother, William H. Deamud, who has been a resident of Santa Ana for the past
thirteen years. He also has a sister, Mrs. Charles Amann, of Los Angeles.
In national politics a Republican, Mr. Deamud has supported prohibition as a
desirable move for the bettering of society; and he has also liberally encouraged both
War loan drives and the work of the Salvation Army.
CHARLES L. COTANT. — A young, but enterprising and very capable business
man, who is fast rising in the local commercial world, is Charles L. Cotant, a native
of Nevada, where he was born at Elko on September 13, 1893. He is the son of Allen
Leroy and Margaret Cotant, early settlers of Nevada and Montana, his father having
been engaged extensively in the cattle business. He came to Orange County for the
first time with his parents in 1898, when Allen L. Cotant purchased a ranch of seventy-
five acres in various tracts at Tustin. The home place was on First Street and Glen
Avenue, and was formerly known as the W. S. Bartlett place; it had groves of walnuts
and oranges, and there the father still resides.
Charles L. Cotant attended both the. Tustin grammar and the Orange County
high schools, and took a course in the School of Commerce and Finance in Los
Angeles in 1910. He also attended the Los Angeles Military Academy. In 1911, he
was employed to make collections for the Cudahy Packing Company, and two years
later he associated himself as assistant cashier with the First National Bank of Tustin,
a position he held for two years. In March, 1915, he took charge of the collection,
escrow and bond departments of the First National Bank of Santa Ana.
On August 31, 1915, Mr. Cotant was married to Miss Eileen Tubbs, the daughter
of V. V. and Lillian Tubbs of Tustin, who came to California in 1890 from Emerson,
Mills County, Iowa, where they were landowners. Miss Tubbs was graduated from
the Santa Ana high school, after which she pursued an art course at Pomona College.
One daughter, Mary Elizabeth, has blessed this marriage. The family attend the First
Presbyterian Church and share in its spiritual, social and sociological life and work.
Mr. Cotant is a Republican in matters of national political moment, but never allows
the hindrance of narrow partisanship to interfere with his support ofthe best measures
for the community in which he resides.
BARRETT L. HALDERMAN. — An enterprising young rancher, whose scientific
knowledge of horticulture has contributed greatly to his success, is Barrett L. Halder
man, a native of Phillips County, Kans., where he was born on November 11, 1883.
His father, Charles M. Halderman, was a native of Ohio, but was reared in Iowa and
removed as a pioneer to Kansas, where he homesteaded 160 acres in Phillips County.
He married Miss Eliza Pillsbury, also a native of Ohio, and of Scotch-Irish ancestry,
and became an extensive landowner in the Northwestern States. Coming to California,
in time he brought his family to Santa Ana, and bought a ranch at Tustin; and since
1903 he has been associated with ranch properties in Orange County.
Barrett Halderman attended both the grammar and high schools at Long Island,
Kans., and for two years studied at the Manhattan Agricultural College. At that time,
however, he felt less interest in horticulture, and developed instead a live interest in
trade. He became a grain buyer and shipper in North Dakota and Minnesota.
On October 1, 1913, Mr. Halderman was married at Lincoln to Miss May Hadell,
the daughter of Alfred and Emma (Nye) Hadell. Her father was a merchant at Long
Island, Kans., and was well known for both his enterprise and his high sense of honor.
Three fine boys have blessed this marriage — Earl, Alan and Barrett. The family attend
the Roman Catholic Church. Mr. Halderman owns eleven and a half acres on East
Washington Street, and the family controls ninety acres of the best soil in the county.
No wonder, then, that they are all good "boosters."
The three brothers of Mr. Halderman have excellent military records, and all the
Haldermans are noted for their loyalty. Barrett Halderman is a Democrat, but non
partisan when it comes to helping along worthy projects of a local character. He is a
member of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, the Santa Ana Walnut Growers
Association, and the Anaheim Orange Growers Association. He also belongs to the
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DR. BERNICE BENNETT.— The professional circles of Huntington Beach have
recently been augmented by the addition of the able and efficient osteopathic physician
and surgeon, Dr. Bernice Bennett. She is the daughter of Arthur W. and Mary E.
(Slocum) Bennett, and was born in Adair County, Iowa. Her early education was re
ceived in the public school of her district and was supplemented by the first-year
course of the high school at Earlham, Iowa.
In 1908 Miss Bennett came to California, locating at Monrovia, where she con
tinued her schooling, graduating from the Monrovia high school in 1912. Deciding
to enter upon a professional career, Miss Bennett chose the science of osteopathy,
together with that of surgery. She entered the Pacific College of Ostopathy, until
it merged and became the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, and was
graduated from the latter institution in January, 1916,- with the degree of D. O., after
which, to equip herself more thoroughly for the responsibilities of her chosen jirofes-
sion, she took a post-graduate course at her Alma Mater, and finished the requirements
in June of the same year.
Because of her splendid ability and thorough training, Dr. Bennett was selected
as an assistant to Dr. A. E. Pike, of the Osteopathic Sanitarium at Long Beach. She
gained much valuable experience by her association with this famous osteopathic
'physician, which greatly aids her in her professional work.
In November, 1919, Dr. Bennett opened an office at Huntington Beach in the
First National Bank Building. Although she has been a resident of Huntington Beach
but a short time, Dr. Bennett has already established a splendid practice, and her fame,
with her thorough knowledge of the science of osteopathy, which is being spread
abroad, greatly augments her clientele. She is a member of the Delta Omega Society,
and professionally is a member of the Orange County Osteopathic Association and
the California State Osteopathic Association.
JOSEPH A. MERRICK. — An engineer who makes a specialty of steel structural
engineering is Joseph A. Merrick, prosperous rancher and business man of Santa Ana,
Orange County, and numbered among the enterprising and progressive men of the
Tustin district. He is the owner of ten acres devoted to the culture of citrus fruit. He
purchased his present home ranch in 1917, and has erected a beautiful and commodious
bungalow with all modern improvements and conveniences.
Mr. Merrick was born in 1874 in the state of Kansas, and is the son of Dr. John
K. and Sarah Merrick. The father, a man of letters who added the degree of D.D.S.
as well as M.D. to his name, practiced his profession in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and
Kansas. In the parental family of nine children two became dentists and six of the
nine are now living, namely, Henry, Mary, Hattie, Don, Grace and Joseph A. of this
sketch. He was reared and educated in California, coming to the latter state in his
early childhood. For twenty-five years he has followed mechanics, principally structural
steel engineering in connection with the Lacy Manufacturing Company about thirteen
years, holding a position with them at the present time. He was with the Union Oil
Company eleven years and has been a resident of Orange County, Cal., for fourteen
years. His marriage April 14, 1900, united him with Miss Pearl E. Dixon, a native of
Minnesota, and of their happy union three children have been born, namely, Vernica,
J. A. Jr., and Ronald.
CHARLES L. HANSEN. — An enthusiastic advocate of the superior possibilities
of Fullerton and her environing districts, whose opinions carry the greater weight
because of the scientific and practical attainments of the "booster," who can himself
demonstrate what can be done through his own high degree of cultivation, is Charles
L. Hansen, the rancher of Placentia Boulevard, who is a native son not only of Cali
fornia, but of Placentia, where he was born in the boom year of 1886, on August 7,
.the youngest son of Peter Hansen, the well-known pioneer. He attended the grammar
school at Placentia, and in 1909 was graduated from the Colorado School of Mines,
with the degree of E. M.
Since that time, Mr. Hansen has been very successful in mining engineering.
He was first employed as a mining engineer with the Quartette Mining Company at
Searchlight, Nev.; then he became superintendent of the Investors Mining and Leas
ing Company at Wall Street, Boulder County, Colo.; then manager of the Dagger
Mining and Milling Company at the Vontrigger mines in San Bernardino County.
covering a period from 1909 until 1915. He is frequently employed as an expert, his
trips taking him to different parts of California, Arizona and Nevada. In all of these
positions of responsibility he has demonstrated fully his fitness for the problems and
work committed to his care. Somewhat impaired health, however, led Mr. Hansen to
return to Placentia and assist his father to subdivide the home ranch.
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In the beginning, he purchased two acres and a house on Placentia Boulevard,
and now he owns sixteen acres in Valencia and Navel oranges, full bearing. In
1919, with H. C. Head, he bought ten acres adjoining, also developed to oranges. He
takes a keen interest in agriculture, and as a result of advanced, intense study and
what might be termed intensive farming, obtains the largest returns for all his invest
ments. From 145 Valencia orange trees, for example, seven years old, he harvested
a yield of 1,140 field boxes of fruit. He belongs to the Placentia Orange Growers
Association, and also has valuable oil leases.
On December 10, 1912, Mr. Hansen was married to Miss Agnes Hanifan, a
daughter of Thomas Hanifan, who lived retired at Los Angeles until his death, Novem
ber 10, 1920. She is a graduate of the State Normal at Los Angeles, and is most
active in club life at Fullerton, being an ex-president of the Ebell Club. In national
politics a Democrat, Mr. Hansen is at all times a nonpartisan, supporter of the best
obtainable for local improvement, and he is never more loyal to his home district
than after such a trip as he recently made of 1,600 miles to the Yosemite and
Lake Tahoe.
E. OYHARZABAL. — A sturdy, interesting pioneer of Orange County who, as
one of the early settlers in San Juan Capistrano added one more to the French colony
iu Southern California, is E. Oyharzabal, popularly called "Steve" Oyharzabal, owner
of the California Hardware Company's building in Los Angeles. He was born in
the Basses-Pyrenees, on January 26, 1854, and sent to the local French schools, where
he received instruction in French and Spanish, while he acquired the idiom of the
Basques. His brother, Domingo, who was born in the same locality eight years
before, and had come to America in 1863, was already in California; and ' this fact-
proved an encouragement to our subject and another brother, William, who also
set out for the western land of promise. William died soon after reaching San
Juan Capistrano, and Domingo and "Steve" who was still in his teens, went to
Inyo County and bought land, and then embarked in the raising of sheep — an enter
prise later carried on at Bakersfield. Their father, Baptiste, and their mother, Sabina
(Belsunce) Oyharzabal, were farmers and stock-raisers; and although the father died
when "Steve" was only two years old, the lads grew up to have a better understanding
of that line of work than any other. The burden of nine children upon the mother
made it necessary for some to leave home, and the three sons mentioned took the
initiative in striking out for themselves.
Both brothers worked hard, and Domingo, perhaps because he was the elder,
soon became prominent. He had a keen eye to climate and conditions, and when he
came to Orange County in 1878, and settled at San Juan Capistrano, he believed that
he had found here a combination of advantages to be had nowhere else in the state.
His faith in Orange County's future led him to make investments in real estate,
purchasing ranches from time to time, as his means permitted, until in 1910 he owned
over 4,000 acres of choice land. He himself planted 150 acres of walnuts. He also
raised large herds of cattle, sheep and livestock, and in time installed a fine system
of irrigation reaching to the remote ends of his ranch, thus greatly enhancing the
value of his land. He even acquired valuable real estate in Los Angeles, and during
his early residence at San Juan Capistrano, he erected the old French hotel, long a
landmark of the Mission town. He is especially mentioned by Harris Newmark, the
distinguished pioneer, whose "Sixty years in Southern California" is such a store
house of information concerning old-timers in the Golden State. Domingo died,
unmarried, at San Juan Capistrano, in 1913, recalled by all who knew him as a
typical Franco-American. Then, for the first time, the long partnership between the
brothers was dissolved.
They were equal partners in all building as well as farming operations, and while
Domingo was the most enterprising, "Steve" did the hard, outside work. Domingo,
for example, superintended the erection of the building now used by the California
Hardware Company at the corner of Alameda and First streets in Los Angeles,
while his brother was in France, but he never lived to see the edifice completed." He
was taken ill and died in his sixty-seventh year; and his demise was regretted by
many, for he was a good-hearted, upright man.
E. Oyharzabal owns the building now used for a grocery store on Central
Street, San Juan Capistrano, just north of his home, a two-story affair maintained,
from 1878 to 1903, by the Oyharzabal brothers as the French hotel, and presided
over for seven years by Mrs. E. Oyharzabal, a woman of accomplishment, in maiden
hood popular as Miss Lucy Darius, whom he had married in 1896. Mr. Oyharzabal
returned to France for the first time in 1884, while his mother was still living; and
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shape, he went back again to visit his beloved Basque country. He remained in the
Basses-Pyrenees until 1905, when he returned to California and to San Juan Capi
strano with Mrs. Oyharzabal. Once more, in 1909, this deserving pair crossed the
ocean to France and Spain, and set foot again on California soil in 1913, shortly before
Domingo Oyharzabal's death.
Mrs. Oyharzabal is a daughter of Pierre and Antoinette (Pocheln) Darius, resi
dents of Bayonne, and she attended school there and also at Bordeaux, where she
acquired, in addition to the Basque dialect, both French and Spanish. She has since-
added English. Her father was a railroad conductor in France, and that circum
stance enabled her to travel somewhat in her country. Mr. and Mrs. Oyharzabal live
in a stately adobe house on Central Avenue, near the State Highway in San Juan
Capistrano. The years of their hard labor have certainly been rewarded, for Mr.
and Mrs. Oyharzabal, knowing where they can find a million or more when they
want it, are about to start once more for France and Spain, to be gone, they hope,
for another three years at least.
A. J. ALBERTS. — A philanthropist who first very wisely learned the great lesson
of doing for himself before attempting to help others, is A. J. Alberts, the successful
rancher of 1135 East Washington Street, who began his career as a newsboy in Chicago.
He was born in Sterling, Whiteside County, 111., on March 12, 1878, the son of A. J.
Alberts, a dry goods merchant of Chicago, whose foresight and hard work eventually
brought him prosperity. He was a native of Illinois, and he had married Miss Sophie
Beuck, also a native of that state.
Our subject enjoyed the advantage of both the grammar and the high schools of
Chicago, during which time he sold newspapers as a boy in that city. He earned for
himself not only many dollars a day, but a reputation which led to his appointment after
five years as the assistant circulation manager of the Chicago Daily News, which
responsible post he held for fifteen years.
In 1903 he made a trip to Antelope Valley, and for a while he stayed at Littlerock,
Los Angeles County. He was connected for some time with a realty company in
Chicago, so that when he again came to California and visited Los Angeles in 1913
he was in a position to profit from a tour of the orange grove districts.
He bought eleven acres of full-bearing walnut and orange trees, nine years old,
joined the Santiago Orange Growers Association, and also the Santa Ana Walnut
Growers Association, and subscribed to the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company,
getting their service.
When Mr. Alberts married, he took for his wife Miss Anna Koehl, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Koehl, residents of Pennsylvania, where they died, after Mr. Koehl
had been for years an active merchant. The Alberts are liberal supporters of the
Presbyterian Church of Santa Ana, and they also patronized the Red Cross and helped
along the War loans. Mr. and Mrs. Alberts have three children. Grace and Paul are
attending school at Santa Ana, and Edward is at home.
JOHN L. PLUMMER, Sr. — A successful promoter of realty in the now famously
fashionable Wilshire district of Los Angeles, who has come to have unshaken faith
in the future of Balboa and as a logical result calculated to influence others, has
already built a great deal there and plans to accomplish far greater things for the
bay town and himself, is John Louis Plummer, who was born on Powell Street, San
Francisco, on March 31, 1856. The story of his parent's life, it has been well said,
reads like romance. His father, John C. Plummer, was an English sea captain, who
came to the United States from Southampton as early as 1832, and sixteen years
later crossed the Isthmus of Tehuantepec on foot in his eager desire to reach the
Pacific. He navigated successive sailing vessels for the P. & O. Company in the Orient,
and after years of adventure and even hardship, during which he had done his share
to build up the merchant marine on the Pacific, he retired from the sea and lived
comfortably at Los Angeles, where he died in 1910. He had married Miss Mary
Cecilia McGuire, a native of the Hawaiian Islands, and a daughter of George McGuire,
a well educated woman of advanced ideas and an early advocate of woman suffrage
in California. On taking up her residence in Los Angeles in 1862, she acquired '
Government land, bought and sold real estate, and became the owner of 1,000 acres
in the Wilshire District, which the family continued to hold title to until it had
greatly appreciated in value.
John Louis Plummer, therefore, had the unusual experience of growing up more
or less familiar with life in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, and of being able
constantly to make comparisons between the pulsations of the two municipalities.
He came to the Southland to reside in the early sixties, and for many years farmed
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garden truck, where now rise some of the stateliest residences in the city. He and
his folks also owned downtown property of great value in Los Angeles. He laid out
160 acres on Sunset Boulevard and cut it up into two-acre tracts, and 140 acres in
Highland Park, which he sold off without subdividing. Besides owning property in
Hollywood, Mr. Plummer has in recent years subdivided the Plummer Ridgewood
Park on Van Ness Avenue, an estate of ninety acres, into lots sixty by 170 feet, with
streets 100 feet wide, on which have been built some thirty houses costing from
$6,000 to $30,000 apiece.
Wishing to hie away from cit)- life, Mr. Plummer in 1914 purchased some sixty
acres of Brand Boulevard land, near San Fernando, set out an orchard and built four
attractive houses, for himself and his children; but as early as 1906 he had begun to
invest at Balboa, and he has continued to do so ever since. In 1919, he erected ten
bungalows in a court, known as the Plummer Place, and he intends to add eleven
more, and a large residence on the Bay front, where he will make his home as his
final harbor.Mr. Plummer was married at Los Angeles to Miss Ellen Dalton, the youngest
daughter of Henry Dalton, the famous pioneer of the Azusa, who came to Southern
California by way of Peru, and owned among other extensive tracts of more or less
historic interest later, much of the land acquired by "Lucky" Baldwin. Mrs. Plummer,
it is sad to relate, passed away in 1918, a noble woman who had nobly fulfilled her
mission in each community wherein she had dwelt, and mourned by a large circle
of friends, and especially by her four sons, John, Charles, Theodore and Anthony,
and the four adopted children, Raymond, Henry, Inez and Eudora. Balboa looks to
Mr. Plummer with greater confidence than ever in facing the problems of the future,
nor will the deserving beach resort be disappointed, for in all that he has hitherto
set his hand, this courageous path breaker has always succeeded.
J. C. WILLIAMS. — An esteemed pioneer who has the distinction of having
been among the first to advocate the cultivation of the Valencia orange as a com
mercial industry is J. C. Williams, the rancher and real estate dealer of Fullerton,
who was born in Monona County, Iowa, in April, 1878, the son of J. W. Williams.
an expert mechanic, who had married Miss Delphina E. Mendenhall. The worthy
couple came to California in 1886 and settled in Los Angeles; and there, for twenty
years, Mr. Williams followed his trade. Our subject received his early education in
ihe graded schools of the old Mission city, and later attended the University of
Southern California, where he pursued a business course. Then, at the age of twenty-
one, he went into the hardware business. He started modestly, but came to have a
profitable wholesale trade with a store in Los Angeles and another in San Francisco,
and he sold out when the fire at San Francisco wrecked so many.
Mr. Williams then entered the real estate field, joining his brother, A. G. Williams,
in a partnership. They had offices at both Los Angeles and Anaheim, and during
their efforts to advance the best interests of this part of the Southland, they took up
the possibilities of Valencia orange development, and enthusiastically presented the
prospects of the industry. They were thus instrumental in inducing many persons
to develop Valencia orange groves, and handled millions of dollars' worth of prop
erty when land was cheap. Such was their experience in contributing to advance
valuations that they saw a certain grove jump in price from $1,200 to $1,400, then
to $7,500, then to $14,500, and recently to $28,000. This grove is near Anaheim, and
is only one of many that the Messrs. Williams handled to the great benefit of suc
cessive owners, and to the advancement of the orange industry in Orange County.
Unmarried, and residing with his sister on Orange Grove, near South Spadra,
on a ranch of choice land, well irrigated by a private pumping plant, Mr. Williams
leads a quiet life, studying citrus and realty conditions, and lending a hand whenever
and wherever he can to elevate politics and civic life, and to upbuild as well as build
up the community in which he has so long and pleasantly lived and labored.
MORTIMER HUGH PEELOR.— A well-known and always interesting- pioneer
who, having made a success in business and become a prosperous merchant, has been
able to branch off and become an equally expert and successful horticulturist, is
Mortimer H. Peelor, who helped establish the foundation of things in Orange as far
back as 1885. He was born in Henry County, Mo., and came to California when he
was sixteen years old. His father was C. P. Peelor, a merchant of Orange, and he
had married Miss M. C. Lotspeich. Two uncles, the Lotspeich brothers, were the
earliest settlers of Villa Park in the Mountain View district, and they were very
worthy men.
Mortimer, the eldest in a family of four children, enjoyed the advantages of
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Business College in Los Angeles. Then he worked in his father's store for a while,
and coming to Placentia entered the employ of Stern-Goodman, with whom he
remained for a number of years or until he bought them out and established himself
in the mercantile world under the firm name of M. H. Peelor. Two years ago, he
sold out his well-conducted grocery, and turned his attention to quite another field.
In 1906, Mr. Peelor had purchased ten acres of choice land, on which he set out
both walnuts and oranges; and in time he became a member of the Placentia-Ful-
lerton Walnut Growers Association; The Placentia Mutual Orange Growers Asso
ciation. He also became a shareholder in the Anaheim Union Water Company. He
is interested in bank stocks, and he wishes prosperity to everybody else, hence he is
a first-class "booster" for both town and county. He is a Democrat in matters of
national political moment, but never allows partisanship to interfere with his enthu
siastic, loyal support of things strictly local.
On October 7, 1890, Mr. Peelor married Miss Mayme Jones, daughter of the
well-known rancher, O. P. Jones of Santa Ana; and one child, Kathleen, now the
wife of S. James Tuffree, and a graduate of the State Normal School at Los Angeles,
class of '13, has blessed this fortunate union. Two years ago Mr. Peelor erected
his residence, where a generous hospitality is dispensed to all of Mr. and Mrs.
Peelor's wide circle of friends.
JOHN H. KIRSCH. — Descended from a long line of honored ancestors, residents
of that stanch little buffer state, Luxemburg, the pawn of kings since the thirteenth
century, John H. Kirsch was the first of his family to leave the old home for the
New World, which has now been his home for more than thirty years. His parents
were John and Marie (Berg) Kirsch, both of whom passed their whole lives there,
until their decease, some years ago. The eldest of a family of ten children, four
of whom are now living, two at the old home and two in California, John H. Kirsch
was born in Canton Diekirch, Luxemburg, November 11, 1865. The father was a
well-known miller and farmer, and after receiving a good education in the local
schools, John H. from his boyhood made himself useful on the farm and at the
mill, learning the miller's trade and also how to dress the mill stones used in the
old water-power mill. On reaching the age of seventeen he left the old home and
went to France, working at his trade of miller, near Chalons-sur-Marne, in the depart
ment of the Marne.
In 1889 Mr. Kirsch came to the United States, and located at Winona, Minn.,
v/here he engaged in farming, later leasing a large farm which he devoted largely
to stock raising. Here he continued until he purchased a farm near Grand Rapids,
Wis., which had an excellent location on the Wisconsin River. It was fine, rich land
and here Mr. Kirsch was very successful, bringing it up to a high state of cultivation.
Attracted by the great opportunities offered on the Pacific Coast, however, Mr. Kirsch
disposed of his Wisconsin farm and came to California in 1906, locating first in
Tulare County, where he purchased forty acres of land and engaged in dairying and
alfalfa raising. Remaining there for a year and a half, he then disposed of his
holdings and came down to Orange County, buying thirteen acres on East and
Santa Fe streets, near Anaheim. This Mr. Kirsch set out to Valencia oranges, bud
ding and raising half of the trees himself, and caring for the orchard until it was
five years old, when he sold it to Mr. Gruessing, and it is now one of the finest
orange groves in the district. He then bought a tract of twenty acres oh Nursery
Avenue, which he also im'proved, setting it out to oranges and lemons, and under his
expert care it soon became one of the show places of the neighborhood, so that in
1917 he was able to dispose of it at a handsome profit. Since that time he has bought
and sold a number of orange groves, and with his wide knowledge of all of the
details of the citrus industry and of Orange County lands and soils, he has been
very successful in all the deals he has closed, giving satisfaction to everyone con
cerned. Optimistic for the future of Orange County, and believing it to be the finest
locality in the world, particularly for citrus culture, Mr. Kirsch neglects no oppor
tunity to prove his faith by his works, taking an active interest in every progres
sive movement. In 1891, while a resident of Minnesota, Mr. Kirsch was united in marriage with
Miss Lena Litt, who like himself was a native of Luxemburg, and who came to the
United States during the same year — 1889. Three children have been born to them:
Katie, is Mrs. J. W. Heinz, her husband being an orange rancher at Anaheim; Anna,
married Ben Heinz, who is also the owner of a citrus ranch at Anaheim; John F.
enlisted when twenty years of age in the U. S. Naval Reserve Corps, serving until
he received his honorable discharge, and he, too, is engaged in orange growing at
Anaheim. Mr. and Mrs. Kirsch reside in their comfortable, attractive home at Palm

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and Chartres streets, Anaheim, a property which Mr. Kirsch built and improved.
In 1904, while a resident of Wisconsin, he made a trip back to his native land, and
spent a happy time visiting his old home and friends, but returning to the land of
his adoption more than ever enthusiastic over its great opportunities. His fore
sight and initiative have enabled him to take advantage of these opportunities and
he has made a splendid success. Liberal and kind-hearted, he is ever ready to lend
a helping hand in every worthy enterprise and he shows his willingness to cooperate
in local affairs by membership in the Anaheim Orange Growers Association. In
fraternal circles he is popular in the ranks of the Knights of Columbus.
WILLIAM E. STRADLEY. — A man eminent in the busy world of affairs in
Los Angeles, who has also become a leader in both the building up and the upbuilding
of Placentia, is William E. Stradley, who was born in Humboldt County, Kans., on
January 12, 1872, and came to Des Moines, Iowa, as a small boy. He was a mason
by trade, and first reached Los Angeles in 1887, at the time of the great boom in
Southern California realty. The next year he made a trip back to Iowa, and then he
came out to the state of Washington, and he laid the first brick in any building in
Seattle on June 9, 1889, three days after the big fire there.
He followed his trade in Seattle, and then, as a journeyman brickmason, traveled
through twenty-eight states, returning to Des Moines in 1898. He took up contract
ing and building in masonry, succeeded very well, but in 1901 returned to Seattle,
and there, as a contractor and builder he remained active until 1904. Then he came
south to Los Angeles again, and there he has since resided, reaping the fruits of his
own enterprises, started far back in 1898. A general contractor, he is the senior
member of the firm of Stradley .& Newton, brick, concrete and cement contractors,
with an office at 500 Stimson Building in that city. In 1919, he himself erected
twenty-eight store buildings in different sections of Los Angeles, and he also put
up buildings in Wasco, Kern County, and at Newhall, Cal. Besides, he erected a
large number of private residences in Los Angeles.
Mr. Stradley's entrance into Orange County dates from 1911, when he came to
Placentia to construct the two-story brick block for the Placentia National Bank.
He then bought lots and started to build up the promising town, and ever since,
he has built additional structures, always holding on to what he has once acquired.
These include the Marjie and the Stradley brick blocks of two stories, on Santa Fe
Avenue, and no less than forty-four apartments in the town. Those who recall that
Mr. Stradley erected the Wilcox Cafe at Seal Beach, will not be surprised at the
thorough manner in which he has taken hold of Placentia real estate and the problem
of the new town's development. He is a director of the Los Angeles Builders
Exchange, and is also an officer in the Mason Contractors' Association of Los Angeles.
Mrs. Stradley, who enjoys the devotion of a large circle of appreciative friends,
was Miss Marguerite M. Kuntz before her marriage, and is a native of Iowa. Mr.
Stradley is a member of Golden State Lodge, No. 358, F. & A. M., Signet Chapter,
No. 57, R. A.' M., Perfection Consistory, No. 3, S. R., Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O.
N. M. S. and Jinniston Grotto, M. O. V. P. E. R., all of Los Angeles. He is also
a member of the Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen, Knights of the Maccabees, and
the Sunset Country Club.
HENRY G. MEISER. — A very successful rancher owning several tracts of
desirable land, and a citizen fortunate not only in the esteem but the hearty good will
of his fellowmen, who are familiar with his leadership in various movements making
for the broad and permanent development of Fullerton and vicinity, is Henry G.
Meiser, who was born near Lincoln, Nebr., on November 21, 1880, the son of Henry
and Elizabeth Meiser, farmer folks of Nebraska. These worthy pioneers came to
California in 1881 and settled at Anaheim; and there Mr. Meiser worked in the lumber
mill for three years. In 1884, the elder Meiser purchased twenty acres of land, which
he set out to grapes, oranges and walnuts; and these twenty acres are known today
as the old Meiser home place. ,
Henry G. Meiser attended the schools in Fullerton, and when only fifteen started
out for himself in the world. For five years he worked in the Orange County Nursery,
and then in 1904, he purchased a ranch of twelve acres, on South Spadra Street, which
he himself set out to Valencia oranges. There, too, in 1916, he built for himself
a home. The land is under both the Anaheim Union Water Company and the El
Camino Water Company, financed by a company of neighboring farmers and com
manding a well of 100 inches. Mr. Meiser took a live interest in this co-operative
project, and until recently was secretary of the company.
Mr. Meiser was also president of the Federal Farm Loan Board of Orangethorpe,
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organization, in which Mr. Meiser then became a director. How much good this
Federal loan movement has accomplished here, both to the individual rancher need
ing the aid of capital, and to the community needing the rancher, only those familiar
-with the^ general working of the Federal Loan may realize, but Mr. Meiser and his
associates are to be congratulated on the fruits of their strenuous labors.
In 1913, Mr. Meiser purchased ten acres of land half a mile west of Fullerton,
a ranch formerly devoted to the culture of walnuts. He grubbed out the latter,
however, and set out Valencia orange trees; and now he has a display of citrus fruit
worth a journey to see. In the fall of 1918, he also bought ten acres on East
Orangethorpe Avenue, near Placentia, and this land with its four-year-old trees bear
ing Valencias is also under the Anaheim Union Water Company. He belongs to the
Placentia Orange Growers Association, and markets his products thereby.
At Fullerton, Mr. Meiser was married to Miss Pauline Schnitger, a native of
Wisconsin who had become a resident of Garden Grove. Both husband and wife
belong to the Methodist Church of Fullerton, and Mr. Meiser is both a Mason and an
Odd Fellow. He also belongs to the ranks of the Republicans; but he is too public
spirited to allow any party preferences to stand in the way of giving his support,
iu local movements at least, to the best men and the best measures.
E. EARL CAMPBELL. — One of the leaders among the scientific young ranchers
of Orange County is E. Earl Campbell, who is also making a marked success, not
only as an orange grower, but also in agricultural ranching. Enterprising and well in
formed in all lines pertaining to soils and crop conditions, Mr. Campbell conducts his
ranch on modern business lines. Belonging to the third generation of Campbells who
have contributed to the development of Orange County, he is the grandson of Robert
Campbell, who came here in 1884, settling on the ranch on South Cambridge Avenue,
a part of which is now owned by Earl Campbell.
Illinois was the birthjjlace of E. Earl Campbell and he first saw the light of day
on the Campbell homestead, near Peoria, on October 29, 1886. His parents were D. F.
and Julia F. (Shaw) Campbell, a sketch of their lives being given elsewhere in this
volume. There were ten children in the Campbell family, as follows: E. Earl of
this review; Henry S., a rancher near Orange; Roy, a graduate of the University of
California, is now an assistant entomologist in the Department of Agriculture; Elma is
Mrs. Wood of Covina; Ruby resides in Los Angeles, where she is employed; Ensley
is assistant farm advisor of Monterey County and Robert attends the University of
California; Margaret is in the Orange Union high school; Hazel and Julia attend the
grammar school at Orange.
When E. Earl Campbell was but a year old his parents removed to California,
where his father engaged in ranching and citrus culture at Orange. Reaching school
age, he attended the grammar school at Orange and graduated from the Orange high
school, being a member of the second class to graduate from that institu
tion and of the first class graduated from the fine, new modern building. Later he
entered the California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo, taking a two years' course, and
was a leader in his class, especially among the debaters of the college; returning to
Orange, in 1908 he began working for his father on the home ranch. In 1909, Mr.
Campbell purchased twenty acres of citrus orchard adjoining the ranch of his father,
and which was a part of the original tract owned by his grandfather, Robert Campbell.
Here he has a fine orange orchard, which he keeps up to the highest state of cultiva
tion. Some time ago he erected a modern ten-room residence, old Colonial style,
on his ranch and it is considered one of the finest and most beautiful homes in the
locality and on which Mr. Campbell spared no expense.
To insure his orange grove being maintained in the very best condition, free from
disease and capable of producing its maximum yield Mr. Campbell employs an expert
in tree husbandry to give the trees the benefit of his care. In addition to his horticul
tural interests, Mr. Campbell is engaged in growing barley and beans. At El Toro, where
with his partner, E. B. Trickey, he is leasing and operating about 1,000 acres of the
Whiting ranch, he has been fortunate in obtaining large yields and successful returns.
Besides himself, two men are kept busy on his ranch and for work stock he uses six
head of mules.
In December, 1919, Mr. Campbell was married to Miss Dora Truscott of Sacra
mento. Two daughters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, Mavis L. and
Helen M. Always ready to help in any movement for the advancement of the com
munity, Mr. Campbell is a firm believer in cooperation, and is a member of the Santiago
Orange Growers Association. In fraternal circles Mr. Campbell is active in the circles
of the Masonic order, being a member of the Orange Grove Lodge, F. & A. M., at
Orange. Despite his busy life and many interests he takes an active interest in politics
and is a decided protectionist and Republican.

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HENRY D. MEYER. — Like many others of his native land, to Henry D.
Meyer, a prosperous citizen and former rancher of Santa Ana, America beckoned
as the land of opportunity, as his immigration here at the age of fifteen testifies.
Born in Hanover, Germany, August 26, 1866, he was the son of Henry and Mary
(Luering) Meyer. The mother died when Henry was a lad of but eleven years, the
father later in life coming to the United States, passing away in Mason County, 111.,
in 1892, at the age of seventy-two years.
Henry D. Meyer received an excellent education in the schools of his native
land up to the time when he was fifteen years old, when he left his home for the long
journey to America. Taking passage on the SS. Oder, he landed at New York
March 25, 1881, and proceeded to Mason County, 111. There he secured work on
a farm, and was there employed at small wages in those days, for about five years,
getting in two months of schooling in the winter time, and poring over his books
whenever the opportunity afforded in order to secure an English education.
Feeling that better opportunities still awaited him on the Pacific Coast, Mr.
Meyer came to California in 1887, arriving at Los Angeles on August 4, of that year
He soon went down' to Wilmington and got his start in the dairy business at San
Pedro and Redondo Beach, continuing in this line until 1892. In 1897 he located at
Fairview, where he engaged in dry farming, meantime acquiring considerable land
in the vicinity. Associated with him in his ranching enterprise are his two sons,
Irving B. and Victor C, and his son-in-law, Louis Butterfield. The ranch is devoted
principally to beans, sugar beets and grain, the crop yield of the former being very
heavy. The raising of cattle and hogs is also an important feature of the ranch.
In 1908 he purchased a fruit ranch of 250 acres at Hemet. which is devoted to apri
cots and peaches.
In 1914 Mr. Meyer removed to Santa Ana and built the commodious Meyer
Apartments at Third and Spurgeon streets. This is the finest building of its kind
in Santa Ana, being a three-story and basement structure of reinforced concrete,
modern in every particular and serving the purpose both of a commercial hotel and
an apartment house. He makes his home at 1712 North Main Street, Santa Ana.
Mr. Meyer's marriage in 1889 united him with Miss Mary Kohlmeier, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Kohlmeier of Los Angeles, the ceremony being
solemnized at Redondo Beach. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Meyer:
Irving B., a sketch of whom is given elsewhere in this historical work; Edna L., the
wife of Louis Butterfield; Victor C, all associated with our subject, and Florine A.
Fraternally a Mason, Mr. Meyer is a Knight Templar and Shriner, as well as an
Elk. A man of industry and foresight, Mr. Meyer has always been very energetic,
giving the closest attention to every undertaking in which he is interested. Well-
deserved success has crowned his efforts and he now stands in the front ranks of
Santa Ana's prosperous citizens, who have succeeded by dint of their own well
directed efforts.
OTTO MILLER.— The owner of the Miller Garage at 112-14 West Common
wealth Avenue, Fullerton, Otto Miller was born at Utica, Winnebago County, Wis.,
March 9, 1870. His grandfather, Christopher Miller, was an early settler in Utica,
where he bought Government land and broke the prairie with ox teams, converting the
virgin soil into a- fertile farm. It was on this farm that our subject's father, John
F. Miller grew to manhood, having come there in his early teens, and he, in turn,
purchased land and improved a farm. His marriage to Julia Hinz followed this step,
which would naturally lead to the establishing of a home. Miss Hinz had also
come to Utica with her parents, who were also pioneers of that district, and resided
there until their death. Our subject is the third eldest of the seven children who
blessed this union and are still living, but he is the only one on the Pacific Coast.
A brother, Paul, who was graduated from the University of Wisconsin, is now
Commissioner of Education for the United States in Porto Rico.
As a boy, Otto worked on the home farm and attended the public school. At
the age of twenty-three he started in the butcher business in Ripon, and later enlarged
his business, adding a line of groceries and building up a large trade. It was there
that he was married to Emma Leitz, and two children were born to them, Erwin E.
and Sarah. While successfully conducting his business, he also operated a farm
which he owned, but after twenty-six years he sold out and decided to locate in
California, Fullerton being the town of his choice. It was there he purchased the
large business building at 112-14 West Commonwealth in August, 1919, and opened
business September 26, his son Erwin E. being associated with him in the garage
business. Being a splendid mechanic, Erwin, after completing his schooling in his
native city, Ripon, where he was born in 1894, took a course in steam and gas
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auto repairing business in Ripon and also worked in the factory of the Four-Wheel-
Drive Auto Truck Company at Clintonville, Wis. After he came to Orange County
in August, 1918, he worked in the garage of Albert Sitton in Fullerton, as well as
other garages in the Valley. When his father purchased the garage property, he
joined him in the business and is devoting his time to the mechanical end of it.
The Miller Garage is well equipped and their show room and offices have been newly
refitted and improved, making it one of the best-appointed garages in Fullerton.
Besides doing all kinds of repair work on automobiles, they buy and sell used cars,
do welding and carry a full line of Miller Tires in which they specialize, and they
have a successful and growing business.
Erwin E. Miller's marriage to Miss Ruth Baker took place in Wisconsin and
they came to California via the L'nc°hi Highway in his automobile. Appreciative
of the great opportunities afforded men in Orange, who are willing to work, Otto
Miller foresees a steady growth and wonderful future for this section of California.
Though a strong Republican, he is too broad minded to let party politics stand in
the way of any move for the betterment of the locality in which he makes his home.
C. FOREST TALMAGE.— Among Orange County's youngest ranchers is C.
Forest Talmage, who is making a decided success for himself as a citrus rancher at
his place of ten acres on East Collins Street, east of Tustin Street, Orange. Mr. Tal-
mage's native state was Iowa and he was born there January 23, 1900, at Monroe.
His parents were Charles F. and Nanna (Rinemuth) Talmage, natives, respectively, of
Ohio and Iowa. The father came from Ohio when a young man and settled at Monroe,
and he was well known in that locality as a prosperous farmer and stock raiser, shipping
to the Chicago markets from his extensive farm of 348 acres.
In the fall of 1913, Charles F. Talmage brought his family to California, arriving
at Orange and soon after purchasing a ranch there. In Iowa, C. Forest Talmage
attended the schools of Monroe, until his twelfth year, and after the removal of
the family to Orange County, he spent one year in the grammar school and three
years in the high school at Orange. For the next two years he worked for his father
on his ranch and in 1918 purchased from him a tract of ten acres on East Collins
Avenue, in the Villa Park district. Here he has developed a splendid orange grove
through his scientific management and steady hard work, and it is one of the best
producers in the vicinity.
On November 28, 1917, Mr. Talmage was united in marriage with Miss Marjorie
Haynes, the ceremony being solemnized at Beaver, Utah. She is the daughter of D. A.
Haynes of Long Beach and was a classmate of her husband at the Orange high school.
They are the parents of a little daughter, Melba Lucile. Mr. and Mrs. Talmage make
their home in their attractive residence which had been built and furnished all ready for
their occupancy before their marriage. They attend the Methodist Church at Orange.
and Mr. Talmage is a member of the Villa Park Orchards Association and of the Santa
Ana Valley Irrigation Company. While young in years, Mr. Talmage has already taken
an assured place in the affairs of the community, through his efficiency and depend
ability and he has the prospect of a most successful future before him.
EMANUEL C. H. FRANZEN. — A prosperous citrus grower, who is naturally
rather proud of what he has accomplished, through hard work and careful study, is
Emanuel C. H. Franzen, who was born in Little Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, in the
vicinity of Ballarat, on July 29, 1866 — in the midst of the winter in that antipodes.
His father, Henry Franzen, was a blacksmith and a native of Schleswig-Holstein;
and he had married Tina Kryhl of Denmlark. This worthy couple moved to Australia
in 1857, and they were getting nicely settled there when Emanuel was born.
On account of the illness of his grandmother, it was deemed best to return to
the vicinity of a good hospital so that the necessary operation might be performed;
hence, the family returned to Germany in 1868 and Kiel, but all in vain, for she
passed away soon after the surgical effort was made to save her life. The Franzen s
then lived near Flensburg for five years, when they migrated to America and to
Illinois. They arrived in Sycamore, Dekalb County, in 1873, and there for a year
Henry Franzen followed blacksmithing until 1883. When he sold out, it was to come
further west, to California.
At Orange, he purchased ten acres on Walnut Street, one and a half miles
northeast of Orange, land owned at present by William Grecht; and Emanuel both
worked at farming and began to learn the carpenter's trade, having attended gram
mar and private schools at Sycamore. The lad began to breathe the milder air of
the Golden State when he was sixteen years old, and by 1893 he was able to purchase
seven acres on South Tustin Avenue, a part of his present place. Later, he pur
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whole making a fine block of fifteen choice acres. He has two acres devoted to
Mediterranean, sweets and thirteen acres to Valencia oranges, and the land is under
the water service of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, in which cooperative
concern Mr. Franzen owns fifteen shares; and all the improvements, including his
splendid residence, garage, barn and pumping plant, have been accomplished through
our subject's own efforts.
On August 3, 1893, Mr. Franzen was married to Miss Mary Gathmann, a sister
of John Gathmann, and a native of Fond du Lac, Wis., and the daughter of John
and Gesche Gathmann, old settlers in that state. She came to Orange with her
parents in 1882, and her father purchased property to the north of and next to Mr,
Franzen's. Her education began in Wisconsin, and was finished at Orange. Mr.
Franzen belongs to the First Presbyterian Church of Orange, and takes an active
part in the many valuable movements there; also participating actively in the war
drives. Six children — five of whom are still living — blessed the happy union of Mr.
and Mrs. Franzen. George H. is living on the old Slater ranch on North Tustin
Avenue. Edward J. is at home with his parents. Emm;a J. also enjoys the life of
her parents' home; she is a graduate and a post-graduate of the local high school,
and is employed by the Guarantee Title Abstract Company in Santa Ana. Delia M.
is taking a general course at the junior college in Santa Ana, and Mabel D. is at the
Orange high school. Lois died on May 27, 1918.
Mr. Franzen stands for principle every time in politics, and his family share his
rugged honesty. Two of his sons sacrificed something in the late war for the sake
of the same worth-while ideal. George H. served in the aviation department, having
enlisted in March, 1918. He served at North Island and at March Field, and had
the care, as a mechanic, of the planes. After being honorably discharged, in the
spring of 1919, he returned to civilian life. Edward J. enlisted in the Navy; went to
the training school at Gulfport, Miss., in June, 1918, and served as landsman and
machinist's mate. And he was busy there until he was retired as a reservist on
January 16, 1919.
HUGH J. HEANEY. — An industrious, enterprising and successful native son of
whom California may well be proud is Hugh J. Heaney, head of the, Los Angeles Divi
sion of Railroad Telegraphers. He was born at Los Angeles on July 25, 1893, the son
of John W. and Mary (McDonald) Heaney. His father came west with his parents
from St. Louis and was graduated from the Los Angeles high school; and later, as a
mechanical engineer, he has served several firms for years in Los Angeles, and acted as
road engineer for the fire department. He has also been active in various movements
in the City of the Angels for the improvement of the community. Mrs. Heaney came
to Los Angeles 'from Nova Scotia, in company with a brother and a sister; and she
was married soon after settling here.
Hugh Heaney finished the usual courses in the grammar school and then studied
for a year at the Los Angeles Polytechnic; but the progress of his studies was inter
rupted when his folks moved to Elsinore. When seventeen years of age, he became
absorbed with telegraphy, and at Elsinore he served an apprenticeship of eighteen
months under Oscar Ray, the station agent and telegrapher. Then he went on the
road for the Santa Fe Railroad Company, as extra relief agent and telegrapher, and
served in the Los Angeles division, which now extends from Barstow to San Diego.
On June 17, 1917, Mr. Heaney came to Santa Ana, and took up the duties of an
operator in the Santa Fe office. He has also served as telegrapher at various stations
on the road, including Elsinore, Mentone — both of these resorts — Placentia and National
City, and also at Redlands. Inasmuch as the telegraph played an important role
during the war, in the movement of troops, Mr. Heaney, as well as all other operators,
was placed under control of the Government. In 1918, also, he became a member of
the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, Los Angeles Division, of which he has been made
local chairman. He also belongs to Lodge No. 583 of the Elks at Redlands, and to the
Knights of Columbus; and in national politics he is a Republican.
On July 3, 1916, Mr. Heaney was married to Miss Grace Callaghan, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. B. Callaghan, fruit growers of Redlands, whose ranch at present comprises
some twenty-five acres. Her parents were pioneers in Redlands, and in that city she
was born on September 16, 1898. Two children have blessed this union: Mary Eliza
beth was born on October 18, 1917; and Grace Loretta on February 11, 1919. Mr.
Heaney has two sisters living. The elder is Mrs. H. C. Taber of Los Angeles, the wife
of a well-known member of the Los Angeles fire department; the younger is the wife
of J. E. Fenton, an instructor in mechanics in the Southern Pacific Railroad shop. Mrs.
Heaney has two brothers and a sister. Bernard J. is a sophomore at Berkeley; John J.,
a salesman, is proud of his military record; and Mary E. is a student at the Girls'
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MACK HENRY MORRISON.— A man who has had a share in various building
enterprises in and around Santa Ana, and has thereby helped to construct one of the
most beautiful of Southern California cities, is Mack Henry Morrison, who was born a
native son in Hornitos, Mariposa County, on January 3, 1867, the son of a sturdy
pioneer, Mack Henry Morrison, who crossed the plains and mountains from Little Rock,
Ark., to California in 1850. He located in Mariposa County and married Miss Susan
Titchenal, the daughter of William H. Titchenal, an early settler of Santa Ana. Five
of Mr. and Mrs. Morrison's children still survive, and Mack Henry is the third son
among them.
He attended the common schools in Mariposa and was reared on a farm of three
hundred twenty acres, five miles northeast of Hornitos, Cal., where his father raised
stock and grain, the nearest market being Merced. In 1883, he was sent to Santa Ana
to attend school, after which he returned to his father's farm. Then he worked out,
saved his earnings, and in 1889 came back to Santa Ana and Orange County, and soon
thereafter entered the employ of Frank and George Heil as a brickmason.
On October 2, 1888, Mr. Morrison was married, at Snelling, to Miss Ida Hamilton,
daughter of Joel and Sarah Hamilton, of Snelling, Merced County. She came to Cali
fornia as a girl with her parents from Moberly, Mo., and it was not long, before she
had thoroughly caught the California spirit. For seven years, Mr. Morrison farmed
for himself in Merced County before coming to Orange County to make his home
in this thriving locality.
In 1896, the happy couple located on the old Neal Place on Bristol Street, in
Santa Ana, and then, for a year, he went to El Modena and the Hot Springs. After
a while, he purchased a ranch at 1120 East Washington Street — a home place with
three acres of walnuts and a good family orchard, where he now makes his residence.
Meanwhile, he is an employee at C. H. Chapman Lumber Yards in Santa Ana. He has
other important financial interests besides those of his ranch, so that, with his daily
labor, he is a busy man indeed.
Six children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Morrison: Crystal is the
wife of Dyas Kenner, a rancher, at Tomato Springs, and the mother of a child, Alieen;
Loftus B. is at home, with a fine record as a graduate of the Orange County Business
College and as a soldier; Marvin, a graduate of Pomona College and at present the
athletic director, football coach, and professor at the Santa Ana high school, also has a
military record, receiving the commission of ensign; he married Miss Cecil Wood, of
Beverly Hills; Orval is in the fire department at Portland, Ore.; Rosalind attends the
Lincoln school; and Evelyn is in the Santa Ana intermediate. The family worship at
the Methodist Episcopal Church South, at Santa Ana. Mr. Morrison, who is a Demo
crat, has always supported prohibition. He is an active member of the Maccabees.
JOEL BRUCE HANDY.— Even as a boy the inclinations of Joel Bruce Handy
were in the direction of agricultural pursuits and at the early age of sixteen he started
ranching on his own account. A native son of Orange County, he has grown to man
hood in his home environment and has been a liberal contributor to modern ideas on
the subject of vegetable growing, particularly of the Monstrous variety lima beans.
The next to the youngest of four children born to Owen and Mary (Parker)
Handy, Joel B. Handy was born December 5, 1881, on Handy Street in Orange, Cal.
His schooling was received in the schools of Villa Park and he was always a leader in
athletics during his school days, being very proficient in all kinds of sports and games.
In 1897 he decided to start out on his own responsibility, although but a boy, and he
began the growing of vegetables. At first he grew only small produce, such as peas,
beans, corn, etc., marketing his produce at Los Angeles and San Francisco. He was
the pioneer in the growing of small vegetables in the Villa Park district and was one
of the founders of the Orange County Vegetable Association, with headquarters at
Villa Park. Mr. Handy was always very successful in his work and soon became
purchasing agent for the large commission firms of Quadroos and Joseph, and Jacobs
and Malcolm, both of San Francisco. He was also the representative of the Aggeler-
Musser Seed Company for some time and proved up on the Monstrous lima bean
here and at Laguna Beach, which has proved the biggest bearer of all lima beans. For
about seven years of this time he also had a nursery, raising orange and lemon trees.
For the past fifteen years Mr. Handy has been manager of the Handy ranch of
thirty acres, which is situated at Villa Park, devoted to oranges and lemons. In addi
tion to his extensive activities as a vegetable grower he has also become interested in
citrus culture, and is the owner of an orchard of seven and a half acres at Villa Park,
half Valencia oranges and half lemons, and here the family make their home. He is a
member of the Central Lemon Association and Villa Park Orchards Association.
On February 10, 1904, Mr. Handy was united in marriage with Miss Esther May
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uncle, G. J. Stock. She is the daughter of Wm. M. and Elizabeth (Stock) Johnson.
Her father is dead, while her mother now makes her home at Anaheim with a younger
brother, Estel Johnson. A sister of Mrs. Handy, Mrs. J. H. Gunnett, resides at Long
Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Handy are the parents of three attractive children: Zelda Eliza
beth, in Orange Union high school, and Owen William and Bruce Johnson.
A man of unusual energy and initiative, Mr. Handy makes a success of any work
that comes his way, and in addition to his profitable ranching activities he is also of
an inventive turn, which frequently stands him in good stead in his ranching enter
prises. Notwithstanding a very busy life, Mr. Handy retains his prowess as a sports
man and has a fine bungalow and fishing launch at Laguna Beach, where he gets great
enjoyment out of the free outdoor life. A firm believer in protection, he is naturally
an adherent of the principles of the Republican party.
THEODORE REUTER. — A self-made man who has won recognition as a success
ful rancher, is Theodore Reuter, who was born at the old ranch house at 902 Grand
Avenue, Santa Ana, on February 12, 1890. His father, Ludwig Reuter, a native of
Germany, married a daughter of that country, Magdalena Herchert; and in 1887, when
so many were flocking to California on account of the "boom," they became pioneers
of Orange County, following one of Mr. Reuter's brothers, already comfortably settled
here, and Mr. Reuter bought eight acres on Fruit and Grand streets.
The second son in a family of four surviving children; Theodore went to the
grammar schools in Santa Ana and then took two years of the high school course; and
from his seventeenth year he began to give his attention earnestly to agriculture. In
1902, Ludwig Reuter increased his holdings to -twenty acres, and in time the family pur
chased and improved other ranches and then sold them at a profit. At present Theo
dore is the manager of nineteen and a half acres, in which two brothers and a sister
also have a share. Ludwig Reuter died in March, 1915, aged fifty-four years; but his
widow is still living at the old home ranch, aged about fifty-six.
Ludwig Reuter became an early winemaker and also wine merchant of Santa Ana,
and the old Reuter home place is a landmark known to thousands throughout the
county. The old house, too, was once used in Tustin as the early schoolhouse, and
so it still has its associations for many. This structure was removed by the ingenious
pioneer, who retained it in good condition. Now Theodore has the management of ten
acres of walnuts, and about nine acres of oranges. He belongs to the Santa Ana
Walnut Growers Association, and also to the Santiago Orange Growers Association.
On August 25, 1916, Mr. Reuter was married to Miss Dorothy Weber, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Weber of West Garden Grove; and one child has blessed their
marriage — the baby, Jean. The family attend the Christian Church, and Mr. Reuter is
a member of the Fraternal Brotherhood of Santa Ana. In national politics, he is a
Republican. Patriotic to the core, Mr. and Mrs. Reuter supported all the Liberty Loan
drives during the war.
A sister of Mr. Reuter is Hedwig S., now the wife of Roy W. Angle, master
mechanic of the Union Oil Company. A brother is H. A. Reuter, and another brother
is Ernest A., who is at home. H. A. Reuter, who is connected with the Santa Ana
Register, enlisted in the World War, as did his brother, Ernest, in August, 1917; and
for two years they both served overseas. E. A. was in the First Division of the Mobile
Repair Ordnance; and H. A. was in the Supply Service at Neuf Chateau, France. In
1919, at San Francisco, they received their honorable discharges.
OTTO L. AHLEFELD.— A native of California in all but birth, Otto L. Ahlefeld
has lived in Orange County since his third year, so that his memory of his childhood
days does not reach beyond its borders. He was born in Lombard, a short distance
from Chicago, 111. January 4, 1894, his parents being George and Louise (Stauch)
Ahlefeld, both of whom were born in Germany, the father coming to America from
his old home at Hamburg when but a young lad. There were six children in the
Ahlefeld family, three of whom are living: Fred E. married Miss Gertrude Lippe of
Santa Ana and they are the parents of one child, Richard; Otto L., the subject of this
sketch; and Ethel, the only daughter, resides with her parents in Orange.
George Ahlefeld farmed in the vicinity of Lombard, 111., for a number of years,
until 1897, when he brought his family to California, settling near Orange, where he
immediately began citrus ranching. He still resides on his original purchase, which
he has improved and developed, having erected a comfortable residence on the property
some years ago. Otto was reared on the home place, receiving a good education in the
public schools at Orange. He early began to help his father on the ranch, so was for
tunate when but a boy in getting a thorough and practical knowledge of the citrus
industry. In 1916 he purchased a tract of five acres at Olive and this he has developed
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purposes from the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. In 1920 he made a consider
able addition to his holdings by the purchase of a well developed ranch of ten acres
on Palmyra and Santiago Creek. Five acres of this ranch are set to Valencia oranges,
while the remainder of the acreage is taken up with the buildings and a thriving walnut
orchard. His ranch at Olive is now leased to the Olive Petroleum Company.
On August 30, 1916, Mr. Ahlefeld was married to Miss Verona Strong, born in this
county, a daughter of Carl and Alice (Straud) Strong, who were pioneers of Orange
and are still ranchers in Los Angeles County, Mrs. Strong being a native daughter
of California. One child, Carl G., has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ahlefeld. They make
their home on the ten-acre ranch which Mr. Ahlefeld purchased this year and here he
is devoting his time and energy to bringing the place up to the highest degree of culti
vation. Seeing the benefits accruing from organization among the growers, Mr. Ahle
feld is a member of the McPherson Heights Citrus Association and of the Olive Hill
side Growers Association, also of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. Politically
he is a believer in the principles of the Republican party. He is a member of the
Lutheran Church at Orange and both of them are active in its circles, where they enjoy
a wide popularity.
LEROY A. WARREN. — A professional man whose choice of the open-air life
of California made him a rancher, and whose common sense and experience have made
him conservative in his progressive operations, is Leroy A. Warren, known to those
who really know him as public spirited and patriotic in every particular. He was born
in Arkansas City, Kans., on September 14, 1891, the son of Thomas L. Warren, now
a business man and property owner at Santa Ana, where he also has a brother in
business, Howard T. Warren. Thomas Warren was born in Iowa in 1866, and later
moved to Kansas. He had married Miss Elizabeth Wilson, who was born in Ohio in
1862, and they came to Santa Ana on Christmas Eve, 1900, bringing their three children
— our subject, an older brother, Martin W. Warren, now in the post office at Santa
Ana, and a younger brother, William H. Warren, who is with the Union Oil Company
of Santa Monica.
Leroy Warren attended the grammar schools at Santa Ana, and in 1911 was
graduated from the high school of this city, after which and during the academic year
of 1912-13 he was a student at Occidental College. Then he matriculated at the Santa
Barbara Normal school, from which he was duly graduated in 1914. He first taught
in the Visalia high school, where he was the athletic trainer for a year, giving instruc
tion as well in the other city schools, and from 1917 to 1919 he was a teacher in the
manual arts department of the high school at Santa Ana, and was athletic trainer and
football coach at Santa Ana.
In 1919 Mr. Warren retired from his professional work and on April 26 bought
three and a half acres of oranges and one and a half acres of lemons at Villa Park — a
small ranch, having a fine residence and an orchard. He has five shares in the Serrano
Water Company and three shares in the Santiago Well Company, and with this most
adequate irrigation he is an independent shipper, and has come to enjoy an enviable
reputation for the quality of his ranch products.
On December 28, 1916, Mr. Warren was married to Miss Ruth E. Alexander, of
Hollywood, who was a fellow-student with Mr. Warren at the Santa Barbara Normal
school. She is a lady of excellent accomplishments, who also taught school, instruct
ing in domestic science at the lnglewood schools. Their one child, James Alexander,
was born on May 15, 1918. Mr. Warren supports the Community Church at Villa Park.
and under the leadership of the Republican party endeavors to work for improved
civic standards.ALFRED W. LEICHTFUSS.— A live worker and, therefore, a very live wire in
the Orange Men's Club, boasting at present a membership of nearly 150, is Alfred W.
Leichtfuss, who was born in Milwaukee, Wis., on July 1, 1883, the son of August F.
Leichtfuss, also a member of that great commonwealth by reason of birth. He was a
decorator and a dealer in artistic draperies; and after a long, arduous business career,
which enabled him to contribute much toward the proper direction and development
of artistic taste in Wisconsin, he came out to California to live in retirement, and now
resides with his son, our subject, on the home ranch. He had married Miss Auguste
Janicke, a native of Germany, who brought to her aid as his life companion the best
traits of womanhood and domestic life in her native land, and a fine appreciation of
the social institutions of America and their significance to broad-minded and large-
hearted women.
Alfred Leichtfuss attended the local grammar schools in Milwaukee, and from
his thirteenth year worked hard for a living. He learned the baker's trade, and was
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for four and a half years. He was the third son in a family of nine children, all still
happily alive, and he made good as a salesman. He represented, also, the Edgewood
Dairy Farm of Wisconsin, and for years traveled extensively for that well-known
concern. In October, 1904, he came to Villa Park and worked as a rancher, and now he
owns and operates for himself sixteen acres, ten of which are set out to Valencias,
three to lemons and three to Navel oranges. By hard, steady work, and in various ways
he greatly improved his ranch and raised it to a high state of cultivation.
On August 1, 1905, Mr. Leichtfuss was married to Miss Elsie Knuth, and they
have three children, all bright students in the neighboring schools. Their names are
Wilfred, Harvey and Lawrence. The family attends the Lutheran Church, in which
Mr. Leichtfuss has served on the building committee. He is a member of the Villa
Park Orchards and the Central Lemon Growers associations, and he marches in his
civic endeavors in the ranks of the Republican party.
MANSON ROUSE. — An enterprising ranchman, with a fine knowledge of horti
culture and full of the progressive spirit of the twentieth century, is Manson Rouse,
who was born at San Francisco on September 3, 1897, the son of D. M. Rouse, a native
of Agency County, Iowa, where he was born in 1870. He had married Sarah Mc-
Cullough, a native of County Armagh, Ireland, and came to Northern California as a
boy in 1875. His success in large irrigation projects in the north has fixed his fame
among the inhabitants there, where he was best known as the superintendent of the
San Joaquin and Kings Rivers Canal and Irrigation Company. His death occurred at
Santa Ana in 1912.
Manson Rouse was sent to the graded schools in Santa Ana, after which he took
the high school course in the same city. For four years he was employed by
Miller & Lux in Merced County, coming direct from the north in 1917 to Villa Park.
With his mother and his younger brother, David, Mr. Rouse also began the manage
ment of a fine lemon and orange ranch of twenty acres, located on the beautiful
Center Drive, and this estate, owned by his mother, he now directs. According to
Mr. Rouse, nowhere in California does the lemon industry make a better showing
than at Villa- Park, and this opinion, founded on scientific study and practical experi
ence, is naturally of great interest to all who are essaying citrus culture in Orange
County. He uses tractors on his up-to-date ranch, and with a fine system of pipe
lines and a complete outfit of modern machinery he is able to maintain a "show place"
and to make a very comfortable income for all concerned.
In national politics Mr. Rouse is a Republican, but he does not allow partisanship
or narrow views of any kind to interfere with his vigorous and effective support of
every measure or movement likely to build up or upbuild the community with which
he is so vitally and so honorably associated.
WILLIAM J. S. HOLDITCH.— An enterprising, experienced and successful
rancher who has made a specialty as a horticulturist, is William J. S. Holditch of Villa
Park, known to everybody for miles around as a "good fellow." He was born at
Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, on September 27, 1881, the son of James Holditch, a native
of that place, who both kept a store and ran a ranch in Sturgeon Falls, and was honored
by his fellow-citizens as their choice for mayor of that town. He came to Sturgeon
Falls as a pioneer with John Parker, and married Ellen Parker, a native of England,
who came to America when she was a girl. William attended the local schools in
Canada, graduating from the high school of Sturgeon Falls, and as the oldest son in a
family of seven children, worked for two years for an uncle in a planing mill at
Sturgeon Falls.
In 1901 Mr. and Mrs. Holditch and a daughter came to California for a year, to
look around and size up the country, and in 1902 they arranged for the remainder of
the family to follow them here. In October of the same year our subject entered the
University of Southern California, and for a couple of semesters pursued such studies
as were congenial to him. He discontinued the course when the health of his father
became impaired, and it was necessary for someone to take charge of the fine twenty-
five acres purchased by him in Villa Park in March, 1903. This ranch has ten acres
of Navel oranges, three acres of apricots, and the balance, or twelve acres, in barley.
It also came to have a good well, finished by James Holditch in 1912. In course of
time John Holditch, another son, bought eight of the acres.
William Holditch started a nursery of citrus trees, where he planted and grew
stock both for his own ranch and for the market. In 1907 he bought from Frederick
Meade of New York some twenty-one unimproved acres at Villa Park, and there he
himself set out the trees. In addition to the water supply from the well dug by his
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Serrano Water Association, and he is a member and shareholder in both the Central
Lemon Growers and Villa Park Orchards associations.
James Holditch came west in pursuit of better health, and found the improvement
desired in Orange County, Cal. He died in 1913, aged sixty-three. His widow lives
contentedly, having at home a daughter, Marguerite, our subject, and two other sons,
George E. and Bronson Holditch. A son, John, married Miss Myrtle Adams and lives
at Villa Park; and a daughter, Anna, became the wife of W. A. Knuth. John Holditch
saw active service in France as a member of the Ninety-first Division of the Three
Hundred Sixty-fourth Regiment. Bronson was also in the land of the Gauls as
one of the Fortieth Division in the One Hundred Forty-fifth Battery of the Heavy
Artillery, and George E. Holditch was connected with the ground service in the
aviation department of the U. S. Army. All received honorable discharges. John is.
a member of the Elks at Anaheim, while William is a charter member of, and has held
office in, the Knights of Pythias of Orange.
In national politics a Republican, in local affairs a first-class nonpartisan "booster,"
Mr. Holditch supports the Community Church and every movement likely to result
in the uplifting and upbuilding of Villa Park and her favored sister communities in the
most favored of all counties, Orange.
BENJAMIN W. JEROME. — A native-born son of the state, who has come into
prominence as one of the successful ranchers of Orange County, is. Benjamin W.
Jerome, who possesses in a large measure those qualities which have been the founda
tion of the ujsbuilding of the West, enterprise and determination, qualities which he
no doubt inherited from his father, William Jerome, a pioneer settler with a record for
valiant service in the Civil War, and later in the bloody conflicts with the Apaches, that
his descendants may well cherish with pride.
William Jerome was born in London, England, on July 21, 1846, and on migrating
to America located in Pennsylvania. Shortly after his arrival there the Civil War
broke out, and he at once joined the colors of his adopted country and enlisted in the
First Pennsylvania Cavalry, and served throughout the conflict. After the close of
the war he enlisted in the regulars and was sent to the Pacific Coast to relieve the
First California Volunteers, who had restrained the depredations of the Indian tribes
during these days. Coming to California via the Isthmus of Panama, they landed at
San Pedro and made their way to Yuma, Ariz. Here Mr. Jerome served for two
years under Captain Dunkelberger, and later in the company of Captain Bernard, and
took part in the Apache campaign when Chief Cochise was at the head of the tribe.
During one of the battles he was twice wounded and on account of climatic conditions
and lack of hospital facilities he was sent to San Diego. After his recovery he was
given his honorable discharge and mustered out and located in Los Angeles; here he
was appointed as a member of the. police force, and it was during- this time that he
made the acquaintance of Miss Martha Ward, like himself a native of London, England,
who had come to California on a visit. The acquaintance continued and resulted in
their marriage in 1875.
In 1879 Mr. and Mrs. Jerome removed to what is now Orange County, settling
at Olive, and on September 25, 1881, he located at Tustin, where he built his home and
thereafter made his residence. ¦ Here he engaged in business as a plaster and cement
contractor, a trade which he had learned in Philadelphia in his early days. He was
always prominent in the ranks of the G. A. R., and his passing, on August 20, 1900,
at the age of fifty-four, left a heartfelt void in the ranks of his comrades. His widow
survives him and makes her home with her daughter, M. Louise, on the Irvine Ranch.
Five children were born to this worthy couple: William C. is the present auditor of
Orange County and a partner with his brother in the ranching business; Benjamin
W., the subject "of this review; M. Louise leases 200 acres of the Irvine ranch; Nellie
is the wife of C, E. Stone, who is foreman of the Whiting ranch operated by the
Jerome brothers; Estelle is Mrs. Don Rudd of Santa Monica.
When Benjamin W. Jerome was in his second year his parents moved to Olive,
Orange County, and later to Tustin, and here he has ever since made his home, attend
ing the public schools and growing up in close touch with every phase of ranch life.
On reaching young manhood he and his brother, William C, started farming on the
Whiting ranch, raising wheat and barley for a number of years. They worked hard
and made a splendid success of their undertaking, which enabled them to branch out
more extensively from year to year. The problems involving the nature, condition
and needs of the soil, and properly supplying that which is lacking in order to realize
the highest state of productiveness, are matters to which they give close attention,
and by the scientific application of the most approved methods of culture they have
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In addition to the 320-acre ranch north of Irvine on which Mr. Jerome makes
his home, the brothers operate 800 acres of the Whiting ranch and the tract of 200
acres south of Irvine which their sister, M. Louise, holds under lease. They also are
the owners of 200 acres, all under cultivation, 160 acres lying in the Imperial Valley
and forty acres near Tustin. Formerly they devoted the greater part of their holdings
to hay and grain, but of late years they have specialized in lima beans, and in this
they are most successful, producing up to twenty sacks an acre on some of their land.
Mr. Jerome's marriage, which occurred at Santa Ana on October 8, 1902, united
him with Miss Effie Smithwick, who was born at Kernville, Kern County. She is the
daughter of Edward Smithwick, a native of Texas, who crossed the plains in the early
days. He engaged in stock raising in Tulare County, later going to Kern County,
where he met and married Rebecca Reid, also a native of Texas, who had been brought
across the plains by her parents when but a babe. The Smithwicks came to Santa
Ana about forty years ago and Mr. Smithwick engaged in the livery business there
and also occupied the office of justice of the peace; he still makes his home there.
Mrs. Jerome was graduated from the Santa Ana high school and for four years was
herself a teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Jerome are the parents of one son, Benjamin E.
Mr. Jerome is prominent in the California Lima Bean Growers Association and
in fraternal circles is a member of the Elks, O.dd Fellows and Modern Woodmen,
being affiliated with the Santa Ana lodges of these organizations. In his political
sympathies he is a firm believer in the principles of the Republican party. Active,
progressive and successful, the Jerome brothers are among the most energetic workers
in Orange County, and they bring to bear upon all their dealings those principles of
honesty and integrity that are ever the real basis of success.
ARTHUR C. PICKERING. — An optimistically inclined, self-made rancher, who
is not ashamed to acknowledge that he commenced ranching in 1910 with an encum
brance of $4000 on his six acres, is Arthur C. Pickering, who may also modestly boast
that today he owes no one a dollar, and now controls eleven well-developed acres, all
set out successfully to citrus fruit. This remarkable prosperity, reached as a matter
of fact in 1918, Mr. Pickering attributes largely to his capable, loyal wife, who has
shared with him his uphill climbs and now enters in with him to enjoy the fruits of
long, hard labor, clear foresight and bold, if wisely conservative, investment.
Mr. Pickering was born in Wellington, Sumner County, Kans., on February 15,
1884, the son of Loring A. and Elnora (Cummins) Pickering, both natives of Indiana,
who pioneered to Kansas in the early seventies and there broke up the virgin soil.
They had to face the most adverse and discouraging conditions, and to undergo many
real hardships; but they accomplished something for the new state, and when Arthur
was five years old they moved back to Indiana. There the lad attended the district
schools of Henry County, and he also worked for his father on the home farm.
When he was twenty-one Mr. Pickering proved up on some homestead land in
Oklahoma, in which he had become interested. His- parents had long wished to'move
westward, but they did not venture to do so until their home had been destroyed by
fire, in 1906, when they went to Galveston, Tex., then came to Whittier, Cal., where
they now live. Arthur C. joined his parents in Texas, working on the docks and for
the General Shipping Board, and he continued to work in the Lone Star State for
three months. In 1907 Arthur followed to the fast-growing Quaker town, and there.
working for his father, he became an enterprising rancher.
In 1910 L. A. and Arthur Pickering bought seventeen acres of open barley field
in the Yorba Linda tract — six acres of which were sold — and at present the entire
tract is held by our subject, who is a member and shareholder in the Yorba Linda
Citrus Association, a member of both the Yorba Linda Water Company, a charter
member of the Yorba Linda Chamber of Commerce, and the holder of stock certificate
No. 1 in the Foothills Growers Association, having been instrumental in bringing to
his district the branch house.
On May 9, 1907, Mr. Pickering was married to Miss Cecil E. Fadely, a schoolmate
of his boyhood days, and four children blessed their happy home. The eldest was
Chauncey, and then came the twins, Carolyn and Elnore, who are attending the Yorba
Linda grammar school, and Elizabeth. The family reside in Yorba Linda on Park
Place. Such was the promising family of this estimable couple; but Chauncey who
first saw the light of day on April 15, 1909, at Whittier, and grew up in Yorba Linda
a favorite with all who knew his sunny disposition, his thoughtful demeanor and his
manly conduct, closed his eyes to the scenes of this world on June 2, 1920 the services
being conducted by Rev. Ray Carter, pastor of the Friends Church,' of which the boy
was a member. He had just finished his fifth grade work and had been naturally
delighted with his success; so much so that one cannot doubt that he was eager to
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RICHARD W. COLE. — With the dogged determination of the British race to
carry on, as shown so clearly in the late war, Richard W. Cole has won his way to
success over all obstacles, and with no help save that of his own energy and will power
has reached an assured position in life, where he can look back and say that his work
was good. Born at Chidlemolt, Devonshire, England, October 16, 1846, when five
years of age he was brought to America by his parents, and the family finally settled
in Ontario, Canada. At the early age of twelve years he was obliged to start to work,
and was employed on farms, making his own way. In 1878 he came out to Coos Bay,
Ore., and engaged in contract lumbering in the Coos Bay district for three years. He
then came to California, first locating in Sonoma County, and worked on the ranch
of ex-Sheriff Adams. Later he worked in the redwood lumber camps near Guerneville,
that county. The year 1881 found him in San Diego County, and there he pre-empted
a homestead of 160 acres near Escondido, and eighty acres of government land, proving
up on his holdings and farmed them for twenty years, only to lose all he had made
during the dry year in that district through lack of water for his land.
Coming to Orange County in 1902, nothing daunted by Dame Fortune turning
her back on him, Mr. Cole started in anew and worked on oil wells for the Union Oil
Cofnpany for nine years. During this time he bought six and one-ninth acres of raw
land of the Tuffree ranch, planted this himself to Valencia oranges, and in 1917 sold
the property for $20,000. He then bought his present ranch of ten and one-half acres
of Valencia oranges, ten-year-old trees now in full bearing, and in 1919 he produced
4013 field boxes from the property. He is a member of the Placentia Mutual Orange
Association, and a man highly esteemed by his neighbors for his sterling qualities and
business ability.
The marriage of Mr. Cole, which occurred in Canada, united him with Margaret
Fraser, a native of Ontario, Canada, and five children have been born to them: Ger
trude, wife of A. Addington of Arizona, and the mother of two children; Bertha I.,
Mrs. Bessonette of Olinda, the mother of three children; Mabel, wife of Frank Sum
mers, with the Union Oil Company, and the mother of three children; Albert, an oil
man of the McKittrick district; Myrtle, wife of Ed Cline, oil man, and the mother of
two children. A sad blow fell on the family December 11, 1920, when his beloved
wife passed away, mourned by her family and many friends.
HERVEY D. NICHOLS. — A progressive citrus rancher, who has attained suc
cess both for himself and for others in his executive work as manager and secretary
of the Villa Park Orchards Association, is Hervey D. Nichols. He was born at Enos-
burg, Franklin County, Vt., December 26, 1887, the son of George H. Nichols, a Ver-
monter, who married Miss Hattie Leach, also a native of that state, and became a
farmer. He owned 360 acres devoted to a dairying enterprise, and had sixty head of
milch cows and forty young stock. Four children were born to this worthy couple,
and of these Hervey is the youngest. An older brother, George L., is the owner and
manager of the old homestead which has been in the possession of the family since
the historical year of 1812.
Hervey attended the Brigham Academy at Bakersfield, Vt., and then went to the
University of Vermont, where he pursued an engineer's course. Having finished his
studies, he became a representative for the Pugh Brothers Automobile Company of
Providence, and for five years attained the most gratifying success in that field. A
trip to Porto Rico led to his remaining there for a couple of years, but in 1913 he
returned to the States.
On October 8, 1913, Mr. Nichols came west with, his mother, who has spent four
winters in California, and stopped a while in Los Angeles, later engaging in the citrus
industry in Pomona; and in this "field he has continued to progress. On August 11,
1915, he returned to Vermont to marry Miss Eunice Story, a native of that state, who
had. been a classmate with him at Brigham Academy. Two children have blessed this
union — Lawrence E., born August 4, 1918, and Winston P., born February 20, 192Q. ,
Mr. Nichols is a member of the Villa Park Community Church, where he is president
of the board of church trustees; he is also a school trustee, and in national politics is
a Republican. The Villa Park Orchards Association, whose six years' existence and the last
two years of successful operation is largely due to the experience and fidelity of Mr.
Nichols, has 150 members and packs and distributes fruit coming from some 1250 acres.
It is a non-profit-sharing, non-capital stock association, and the growers are interested
to the amount of fifty dollars per acre, which is taken out of the proceeds at the rate
of five cents per packed box. The grower owns that much interest in the establish
ment, which is not transferable except through the sale of the acreage. Six years ago
Mr. Nichols was house foreman for the association, and he has been a couple of years
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in his present combined office of manager and secretary. Prior to coming here, for
three years he was at La Verne and served as foreman of the Orange and Lemon
Growers Association there, thus adding greatly to his experience.
The Villa Park Orchards Association now employs as many as 100 men and
women during the season, and so busy is it that its offices are never closed. It fur
nishes transportation to all employees who require it, to and from Orange. It shipped
434 cars of oranges during the season of 1919. Throughout the plant the equipment
is thoroughly modern, and as the fruit raised in this section is among. the choicest
to be found in all of California, it is not surprising that the brands — "Alphabetical,"
fancy, and "Bird Rocks," extra choice — are among those most eagerly sought by
Easterners who know a good orange when they taste one. Three trucks are used to
handle the fruit.
Mr. Nichols is a director in the Lotspeich Water Association, and one-quarter of
a mile east of Villa Park he owns twelve acres of rich farm land, eleven acres of
which are set out to Valencias and one acre to lemons. This property he purchased
from Alfred Leech, a well-known orange grower. It is irrigated .through the Lotspeich
Water Association.
At college Mr. Nichols belonged to the Delta Sigma fraternity, and now he is a
Mason, affiliated with Orange Grove Lodge at Orange. A worker in church and social
organizations, Mr. Nichols and his good wife enjoy a wide popularity.
JULIAN R. CRUIZ. — A young man of sterling worth, who is making good as a
valued employee of the Standard Oil Company, one of the organizations best known
in all the United States for taking care of those who have first shown themselves
capable of faithful, disinterested service, is Julian R. Cruiz, rancher and teamster. He
was born at Yorba, in the Yorba precinct, on January 28, 1888, the son of P. and Jesus
Ramirez Cruiz, both of whom were natives of Sonora, Mexico. He attended the
grammar school at Yorba, and from childhood was properly brought up under the
supervision of the Catholic Church.
When old enough to do so, he began working out on. ranches by the day, and
then by the year, and in 1918 commenced to work for the Standard Oil Company. He
is still with that concern, and is employed on the Kraemer leases. Being single, he is
able to assist his parents, who live on a rented ranch of a couple of acres, and he
furnishes the support of his maternal grandfather. A half-brother of Mr. Cruiz, George
Manzo, works for the Federal Oil Company on the Stern lease; a sister, Mary, is the
wife of Prudencio E. Yorba, the rancher of the Yorba precinct; and a half-sister.
Claudina Asebedo, is the wife of Eugene Navarro, and lives at San Gabriel.
Mr. Cruiz takes a keen interest in all that goes on in the political as well as the
business world, and is ever ready to do what he can to better the conditions of the
locality in which he lives. He is a Republican in matters of national politics, but
believes that when it comes to supporting or rejecting local propositions, it is better
to have a free hand, untrammeled by party requirements. In various ways, therefore,
although young and in modest means, Mr. Cruiz is able to do his full duty as a citizen.
LLOYD E. SHOOK. — The owner of one of the finest small citrus ranches in
Orange County, Lloyd E. Shook has been one of Yorba Linda's most enthusiastic
citizens since settling here in 1911. A native of Iowa, Mr. Shook was born June 25,
1891, in Buena Vista County, that state, his parents being Hiram M. and Candace
(Spencer) Shook, both of whom are still living at the home place in Iowa, but have
made five trips to California. Lloyd E. Shook was one of a family of five children and
was reared at the parental home in the Hawkeye State, where he received his education
in the public schools. When his school days were over he worked for his father on
their large grain and stock farm, continuing there until his father retired in 1909. For
the next two years he was associated with others of the family in farming, after which
he came to California. He came to Yorba Linda, where he purchased the citrus ranch
of six and a half acres on Buena Vista Street that has since been his home. It is a
splendid property, bringing in an excellent income, and it shows the painstaking care
bestowed upon it by its owner.
On February 10, 1917, Mr. Shook was married to Miss Thelma Lois Pike, the
daughter of Loren D. Pike of Yorba Linda, and they are now the parents of two
children, Allen and Dorothy. A firm believer in cooperation in all community mat
ters, Mr. Shook is a member of the Yorba Linda Citrus Association and of the Yorba
Linda Water Company, and he is ever ready to lend a hand in any undertaking that
will be of benefit to the neighborhood. His land is now under lease to an oil com
pany. Should this locality produce oil in commercial quantities it will increase the
value of his holdings immeasurably. In politics Mr. Shook is a firm believer in the
principles of the Republican party.

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H. DELEMERE THURBER.— Among the younger representatives of the legal
profession in Orange County, H. Delemere Thurber holds a prominent place. He was
born in Bourbon, Crawford County, Mo., March 19, 1893, the son of Delos P. Thurber,
a physician and surgeon who died in St. Louis before the removal of the family to
California. He had married Miss Nancy Chilton, a native of Missouri, whose parents
were William and Liddia Louisa (Allen) Chilton. Dr. Thurber and his wife had eight
children, H. D. being the sixth child.
When he was a lad of five years H. D. Thurber was brought to California, and
here he was reared and educated. He attended the grammar schools in San Diego,
later the Polytechnic at Los Angeles, and he was graduated from Bell's Business
College in the same city. His desire was to become a lawyer and he studied law at
the University of Southern California and was graduated with the class of '15. Soon
afterwards he came to Orange County, choosing Fullerton as his place of residence,
and here he has built up a good clientele. In politics he is a Republican on all national
issues, but in his enthusiastic devotion to Fullerton and Orange County he knows no
party lines that might prevent him from advocating the best men and the best measures
at all times.
In June, 1914, Mr. Thurber was united in mariage at Fullerton to Miss Lottie P.
Ellis,' daughter of Lee C. and Elizabeth Ellis. She was born in Pueblo, Colo., and
was living in Fullerton at the time of her marriage. Two children have come to bless
their home; one son bears the honored name of his father, and the second child is
Robert Leland Thurber.
During the World War Mr. Thurber showed his patriotism and enlisted in the
aviation section of the S. E. R. C. as a ground officer and served until honorably dis
charged. He then re-enlisted in the quartermaster corps, but pn account of the armis
tice was not called into service. During the war and when not away in service he
served in the California Military Reserve. He is a member of Fullerton Post, No. 142,
American Legion; is a member of Anaheim Lodge, No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks; has been
an active member of the Fullerton Board of Trade since 1915, and served one year as
a director. Mr. Thurber is a member of the alumni of the University of Southern
California College of Law. Since 1917 he has served as secretary of Loma Vista
Cemetery and Continental Mausoleum. In 1919 he entered into partnership with B. F.
Pinson to engage in the real estate and investment business in Fullerton.
LOREN D. PIKE. — A conservative, successful rancher and one of the most enter
prising citizens of Yorba Linda, Loren D. Pike is highly esteemed throughout Orange
County by all who know and deal with him in his private capacity or as president of
the Yorba Linda Citrus Association. He was born at Willoughby, Ohio, February 17,
1869, the son of J. D. Pike, a farmer of Willoughby, who had married Miss Mabel
Lorinda Gray, also a native of the Buckeye State, and he is now the second eldest of
thfe four surviving- children. He attended the ordinary common school of his district,
and later pursued two years of the high school course; in the meantime commencing
early on his father's farm, and continuing there, in share work with his father, until
he was twenty-eight years old.
When he married, June 11, 1896, he took for his life companion Miss Lucy Brott,
a school teacher and the daughter of Lewis and Amanda (Hoege) Brott, of Mayfield,
Ohio. She received her education in the public schools of her native district. Her
paternal ancestors were Ohio pioneers, while on her mother's side her ancestors helped
to clear the way for civilization in Michigan. Through this domestic relation Mr. Pike
became interested with Mr. Brott in the lumber business, both in the woods and in
the retail business, and they worked together in that field in Ohio for seven years.
They dealt in both wood and coal, and established an enviable reputation for honest,
prompt and reliable service.
In the fall of 1912 Mr. Pike came to California and to Fullerfon, and later he
removed to Yorba Linda. He purchased nine acres of citrus grove on the Yorba Linda
Boulevard, and in 1914 moved his family to this district. Six children have blessed
this worthy couple, and six worthier children could scarcely be found. Thelma is the
wife of Lloyd E. Shook, and the mother of two children, Allen and Dorothy. Helen
is Mrs. Homer Bemis and has one child, Lucie Jane. Bernice married Hugh Nixon,
and is the mother of a child, Loren. Emmett Loren, Ruth Josephine and Marjorie E.
are at home. Mr. Pike belongs to the Friends Church, and serves as the clerk of
the monthly meeting. He is also a member of the Yorba Linda Chamber of Com
merce and of the Yorba Linda Water Company, and has served as the president of
the Yorba Linda Citrus Association three years, and as a director in the same since
1914. He is also a director in the North Orange County District Exchange, represent
ing five branch houses. In national politics he is a Republican.

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HAROLD R. TAYLOR. — An efficient mechanical engineer thoroughly under
standing his business, and attractive to all who know and deal with him on account
of his genial and sympathetic personality, is Harold R. Taylor, who has charge of all
the great pumps for irrigating the celebrated 1000-acre walnut and citrus ranch belong
ing to the San Joaquin Fruit Company, originally a part of the great Irvine or San
Joaquin ranch. He was born in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind., on February 11, 1883,
the son of John M. and America (Johnson) Taylor, both of whom are living on a
farm in Clark County, 111.; from which county Mr. Taylor, the only representative of
the family on the Pacific Coast, came out to California in 1912. He grew up on his
father's farm of 160 acres in Clark County, and attended the public schools at Dennison
and Patton, in Illinois. While in Indiana, at the age of twenty-one, he had the terrible
misfortune to lose his right arm, which got caught in a corn-shredding machine he was
running. From a boy he displayed natural ability as a machinist and was early set to
work running machinery on the farm — threshers, corn shredders, engines. In 1912 he
came to California and located at Tustin, where he accepted a position as above stated.
Four hundred acres of lemons and oranges, and 600 acres of walnuts make up
the area to be irrigated for the San Joaquin Fruit Company by the seven giant pumps
run under Mr. Taylor's supervision, from which one may gather his degree of respon
sibility; for the quality of the fruit company's products rates among the highest sent
to market from any part of California. Mr. Taylor is interested as a partner in the
firm of Taylor and Sears in the growing of lima beans, and assists in the operation
of 400 acres two miles north of Irvine Station, on which both jpartners reside. Of this,
350 acres are planted to beans, principally limas, the balance being reserved for the
making of barley hay. The firm own and run a bean thresher, and engage in threshing
on the Irvine ranch.
Since coming to California, Mr. Taylor was married to a lady from Clark County,
111., Miss Bertha Sears, a native of that county, who has quite fulfilled her duties as a
most encouraging helpmate. She is the daughter of Lincoln and Mary Sears, born in
Clark County, 111., now residing on the Irvine ranch. Husband and wife belong to
the Advent Christian Church at Tustin, and are interested in all that upbuilds their
neighborhood and county. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Knights of Pythias.
MRS. ROSIE J. NORTH. — A woman who has aided materially in building up
and improving Orange County, is Mrs. Rosie J. North, who was born in St. Louis, Mo.,
a daughter of Anton and Anna (Duba) North, who were early settlers of St. Louis,
where her father was a merchant tailor and both have now passed away.
Mrs. North was the next to the youngest of their seven children, and the only
one who resides in California, growing up in the city of St. Louis and having the
advantages of her excellent schools. Her marriage occurred in 1889, when she was
united with Chas. E. North, who was born near St. Louis, where his parents were
farmers. After his marriage they engaged in farming near St. Louis until March, 1908,
when the family migrated to California, locating at Anaheim. They purchased ten
acres of raw land on North Street, two and a half miles east of Anaheim. This he
leveled and improved, establishing a nursery business; he continued this for six years
and also set his place to Valencia and Navel oranges. Later he bought five acres
adjoining and ten acres a mile west, which he also improved to oranges, now full-
bearing groves.
However, he was not permitted to enjoy the fruits of his labors for he passed
away January 1, 1918, and since then his widow has sold ten acres and continues to
care for the place in the most approved manner. In the care of the fifteen-acre ranch,
she is assisted by her children and they use the latest machinery, including a Case
tractor. Believing in cooperation, she is an enthusiastic member of the Anaheim Mutual
Orange Distributors Association.
The union of Mr. and Mrs. North was blessed with five children: Lawrence C,
who is ably assisting his mother with the care of the orange groves; Nellie, a graduate
of Anaheim high school and Woodbury's Business College at Los Angeles, resides in
that city; Ursula is a graduate of Anaheim Union high school; Irvine is attending
Loyola Collge in Los Angeles; while Irene is attending the local school. With her
children, Mrs. North is a member of St. Boniface Church in Anaheim.
Having long had a desire to make a visit to her old home in Missouri, Mrs. North
satisfied her longing in 1920, twelve years after she had located in California and made
a trip 'back to St. Louis, visiting her home and friends and relatives in that section,
spending a period of four months amid the old familiar scenes, returning to California
well satisfied with her trip but more pleased than ever with the state of her adoption—
the land of sunshine and flowers.

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JOHN W. HARGRAVE.— In the history of this or any other country no section
has developed more rapidly or more wonderfully in recent years than Southern Cali
fornia, and the men of affairs in the various smaller towns have been largely instru
mental in forwarding this growth. Prominent among the business men of Yorba Linda
is John W. Hargrave, cashier of the First National Bank of Yorba Linda. Mr. Har-
grave was born near Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, August 19, 1865, and attended the
public schools of his native county until thirteen years of age. His father, Robert
Fleming Hargrave, was born in Virginia and came out to Ohio, where he married
Ruannah Thomas, and they were farmers in Harrison County until his death in 1878.
Mrs. Hargrave was born near Cadiz, Ohio, the daughter of Peter Thomas, born in
1782 in Virginia, who was a pioneer of Harrison County, Ohio, where he hewed a
farm from the heavy timber.
In the spring of 1879, with his mother, John W. Hargrave removed to West
Branch, Cedar County, Iowa, and completed his education in the public schools at that
place, afterward locating at Brookings, Dakota Territory, where he was clerk in a
drug store for two years, then in a general store for three years. In May, 1892, he
began his banking career in Ipswich, S. D., as assistant cashier in the Bank of Ipswich.
He was founder of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Hankinson, N. D., and became
cashier of that institution September 1, 1899, continuing in that capacity until November,
1912, when he resigned to locate in California. On December 1, 1912, he became cashier
of the State Bank of San Pedro, holding the position until January, 1915, when he
resigned and engaged in the real estate business until he organized and promoted the
First National Bank of Yorba Linda, which opened its doors for business October 1,
1916. This bank, which has been a large factor in the growth of Yorba Linda, and has
built up a fine business, owns the fine modern building which it alone occupies. Its
officers and directors are: Dr. Lester Keller of Yorba Linda, president; Chas. H.
Hamburg, of Whittier, vice-president; and J. W. Hargrave, cashier.
Mr. Hargrave has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Nettie Mower
of Brookings, S. D., who was accidentally killed in a runaway at Clear Lake. She bore
him two children: George M., who is a teacher of manual training at Covina high
school; and Edgar J., a student at Occidental College. For his second wife, he married
his brother's widow, Mrs. Della (Miles) Hargrave, born in Oskaloosa, Iowa. She had
two children by her first marriage: Arthur C, a graduate of the University of North
Dakota, is superintendent of the industrial department of Chaffee high school; and a
daughter, Mrs. Merl Sheets of Lemon, S. D. Fraternally, Mr. -Hargrave was made a
Mason in October, 1919, in Yorba Linda Lodge No. 469, F. & A. M., of which he is
treasurer. He is also a member of the Modern Woodman of America and of the
Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is a member of the Yorba Linda Chamber of
Commerce and of the Yorba Linda Farm Center, and during the recent World War
was chairman of all Liberty Loan drives held in Yorba Linda.
HERBERT D. COON. — Prominent among the contractors, designers and build
ers who have forged their way to prosperity and success, is Herbert D. Coon, a man
well known in his line of business at Fullerton, Cal. Mr. Coon was born in Santa
Cruz, Cal., December 23, 1887, and comes of an early pioneer family. His father,
Herbert William Coon, born in Ohio, came to California in about 1870, when he
married Julia Stewart. He was a lumberman in Santa Cruz and they now make their
home in Pasadena; of their six children Herbert D. Coon is the youngest. He received
th'e foundation of his' education in the schools of Santa Cruz, completed it in high
school in North Chicago, 111., and served his apprenticeship with the well-known
Oakland contractor, Frank Irvine. For two years he was engaged in the building of
the Terra Cotta plant at Tracy, Cal., and for the next two years was employed in
construction work for the Stone Canyon Coal Company in Monterey County. In 1910
he located at Pasadena, and engaged in the construction of high-class residences in
the Orange Grove Avenue and Oak Knoll sections, the finest residence sections of
the city. His next venture was in the Yellowstone National Park, where he worked
for the Great Northern Railroad in construction work on hotels, etc., for two years.
He then returned to Pasadena and did construction work on fine houses for. many of
the leading real estate firms. He afterward located at Fullerton and built bungalows
for one year, then doing his bit for the war, worked in the shipyards at San Pedro
for two years. .
In April, 1919, he located again at Fullerton, where he intends to make his home,
and where he continues the vocation of contractor and builder. Among some of the
fine residences he has erected may be mentioned the Wm. Knepp, F. P. Woods and
the Willis Maple homes. He has just completed a beautiful apartment house, of his
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at a cost of $13,000. The exterior of the building is of plaster, carrying out the Fuller-
ton Improvement Designs, which are found in the new public buildings at Fullerton.
His building operations are not alone confined to Orange County, but he is also
building in Long Beach, where he erected the George Treher apartments.
As a designer and for ability to execute any class of work he undertakes he is
preeminent, and in all his work strives for and attains styles that are commensurate
with the high-class of patronage he caters to. His marriage, in Santa Ana, November
25, 1908, united him with Miss Sylvia Hanes, a native of Darke County, Ohio, a daughter
of Henry and Margaret (Puterbaugh) Hanes, descended of old Quaker stock who
came to Pasadena in 1905.
EARL LAMB. — A promising young man well known and justly popular is Earl
Lamb, the youngest son and child of the late W. D. Lamb and his esteemed wife Eliza
beth, both pioneers and highly respected old settlers in the west part of Orange County
where they prospered, and where Mrs. Lamb still lives and is one of the largest land
owners. He was born upon his father's ranch at New Hope, Orange County, on August
2, 1892, and while he attended the Fountain Valley grammar school, was brought up
to share in his father's undertakings as landowner and ditch builder, stock raiser,
dairyman, grain and sugar beet grower, so that he mastered a good deal of knowledge
not usually acquired by boy or youth. Later, he supplemented his common school
studies by a stiff commercial course in the Orange County Business College at Santa
Ana, from which he naturally profited a deal.
Earl Lamb has control of 144 acres of excellent river-bottom lands near Talbert,
near the Santa Ana River, in what was formerly spoken of as the Gospel Swamp, but
is now known as Fountain Valley; and there for four years, or until about 1915, he
grew sugar beets. For the past four years or more he has cleaned up a neat sum in
raising lima beans. Beginning with 1920, Mr. Lamb has planned to rent out his acre
age to three different tenants, who purpose growing beets and beans, while he will con
tinue to reside on the place with his family.
In 1912, Mr. Lamb was married to Miss Etta Bradley, a daughter of George
Bradley, of Huntington Beach, who was formerly a. rancher near Talbert. He still
owns a valuable ranch there, but is chiefly engaged in the warehouse of the Lima
Bean Growers Association at Greenville, in Orange County. Mrs. Lamb is a talented
and charming helpmate, and the parents are proud of three bright and interesting
children, Rachel, Willie and Alvin. The Lamb household is noted for its hospitality,
maintaining a pleasant California tradition of which any family might well be proud.
RICHARD FRAZER. — The building and contracting business of Santa Ana is
indeed fortunate to have added to its already splendid list of artistic designers
and dependable builders the name of Richard Frazer, the large and successful building
operator of Kansas City, who recently located in Santa Ana. For many years he was
actively engaged in building fine residences in the metropolis of Missouri, and while
there built over 300 houses for Roy Russell, now a resident of Santa Ana and a member
of the well-known realty firm of Shaw and Russell.
Richard Frazer was born on a farm in Ray County, Mo., December 9, 1872. He
received his early education at the rural school of his district and followed farming
until he was twenty-eight years of age. In 1900 Mr. Frazer located in Kansas City,
Mo., where he learned the carpenter's trade, and in time formed a partnership with
W. M. McCoy, one of the leading contractors of the city. They made a specialty of
constructing fine residences and continued the partnership five years, Mr. Frazer after
wards engaging in the business alone.
On October 2, 1919, Mr. Frazer moved to Santa Ana and was so deeply im
pressed with the enterprising spirit of the city and its possibilities that he at once
became a stanch booster for Santa Ana and sincerely believes that in the rapidity
of its growth it is the coming city of Southern California. He made a practical demon
stration of his faith by investing at once in real estate, purchasing the corner of Van
Ness and West Sixth, 125 by 150 feet. He has erected one house, and contemplates
building four more on this property. He also purchased a lot 40 by 300 feet at 2012
North Broadway, where he will erect a fine residence for himself. Although a resident
of Santa Ana but six months, he has constructed twenty-five houses. Such a record
augurs well for the future business success of this enterprising designer and builder of
high grade houses and bungalows.
In Ray County, Mo., Mr. Frazer was united in marriage with Miss Frances Miller
of Nebraska and they are the parents of two children: Dorothy, now the wife of R.
J. Jones; and Charles, who is a student in the Santa Ana schools. Fraternally Mr
Frazer is a member of the- Rod- Men. and- of .the-. Mystic .'Workers.

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NEWTON E. WRAY. — A rancher, who is well pleased with his realty investments
and with whom, as a capable and faithful public official, the public is quite as well
satisfied, is Newton E. Wray, a native of California, where he was born at Placerville,
El Dorado County, on March 6, 1874. Placerville used to be known as Hangtown, on
account of the vengeance meted out to. culprits there by citizens who finally took the
law into their own hands. Executions were for a while frequent and swift and it is
even said that one man, commencing his downward path rather early in the morning,
was hanged before breakfast.
George W. and Ethel (Vanderburg) Wray were the parents of our subject and
were natives of Crawfordsvillc, Ind., and Iowa, respectively, and they came across
the unexplored continent with an ox-team train in the gold rush period of 1850 in
separate trains, and it was here they met and were married at Placerville and where
George Wray engaged in mining for some years; he was prominent in the social welfare
of Placerville and with other pioneers was a member of the vigilance committee.
Twenty-six years later they moved to Tulare County and there, five miles east
of Tulare, they purchased a ranch of 640 acres. This was devoted for the most part to
stock, although much grain was also grown there. There Newton lived with his parents
and attended school in the district east of Tulare. When eighteen years of age he left
home and worked out for five or six years and the day before Christmas, 1898, when he
was twenty-four "years old, he was married in Tulare to Miss Isabel Nicholson,
daughter of James and Sarah (De Rosia) Nicholson, who had come to California from
Iowa in 1887. Mrs. Wray received her education in the public schools of Tulare. In
1901 Mr. Wray bought sixty acres in Tulare County and there engaged in the raising
of stock and alfalfa. This fine Tulare property he retained until 1913, when he sold it.
In the fall of 1910 he came to Orange County and for a couple of years rented
a home in Santa Ana, when he purchased the property at 611 South Main Street, lived
there for a year and then sold it. In 1913 he purchased his present ranch of twelve
and a half acres on the Broadway extension, and while operating his place was also
in the employ of C. C. Collins Company as a fruit buyer, and thus has become well
acquainted with the fruit growers all over Orange County. Two acres of Ms ranch
are set out to oranges and the rest is planted to walnuts. He also owns twenty acres
on South McClay Street devoted to general farming and he also has two cottages at
Balboa Beach. He was active in the loan drives during the late war and always works
for the best men and the best measures, irrespective of party ties.
Mr. and Mrs. Wray have one son, Clayton Elmer Wray, who is at present in
the U. S. Naval Service, being second-class pharmacist mate in the hospital department
on the Island of Guam. Mr. Wray holds an appointment under Sheriff Jackson as a
Deputy. He is a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M., and also of Santa
Ana Chapter, R. A. M., and Santa Ana Council, R. S. M., and with his wife is a
member of Hermosa Chapter, Order Eastern Star. He is also a member of Santa
Ana Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he is past grand and with Mrs. Wray belongs to the
Santa Ana Rebekahs.
JOHN B. HICKEY. — A prosperous rancher who has followed the citrus industry
for twenty-eight years, having been four years longer in the Golden State, and who
has thereby acquired a valuable experience which he has at all times placed at the
disposal of his fellow-ranchers, thus contributing to the advancement of California
agriculture, is John B. Hickey, the proprietor of the Hickey ranch of seventeen and
a half acres, three miles southeast of Orange and five miles northeast of Santa Ana.
It was a vineyard when he came into possession of it, and now he has twelve and
a half acres devoted to lemons, and five to oranges, and his trees are from six to
fifteen years old. For twelve years Mr. Hickey has been raising lemons, so that it
is fair to assume that he, if anyone, knows a good deal of the problems and prospects
of lemon culture.
He was born at Millerville, Clay County, Ala., on October 18, 1866, the son of
Richard C. and Jane (Weathers) Hickey, who were married in that state. His father
was a planter, and for four years he gave his best service to the cause of the Con
federacy, attaining the rank of a sergeant. They had eleven children, nine of whom
are now living, six in California; and our subject was the fifth in the order of birth.
With limited schooling obtained during years when he had to assist in the raising
of cotton and corn on a plantation of 400 acres, John Hickey grew to be seventeen years
old, and then he left for Hot Springs, Ark., where he spent the winter. After that, he
went to the Indian Territory for a couple of years, and then he put in a year in Texas.
After a visit to his old home, he migrated to California in 1888, the stirring period of
the boom, and settled at Santa Ana.
In Orange, on February 4, 1895, Mr. Hickey took for his wife Mrs. Nannie
(Harris) Sitton, the daughter of Andrew Simpson Harris; she was born in San Ber-

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nardino, Cal., and had attended school at El Monte, where her father was a farmer.
When she was eight years old, she took a trip to Texas with her parents and returned
the next year. At Orange she was married to B. Martin Sitton, Jr., who was born in
Illinois; after their marriage they engaged in farming near Downey and later near
Orange until his death, December, 1893. They had three children: Zorah D. Sitton
became the wife of Dr. Joseph F. Teeter of Los Angeles; Albert H. Sitton is a machin
ist, who married Miss Rose Rogers, handles the Overland and the Willys-Knight auto
mobiles, and resides at Fullerton; while Rachel Annie died when she was three years
old. Two brothers of Mrs. Hickey are J. Wiley and W. Frank Harris, real estate
dealers with headquarters at Santa Ana.
Andrew Simpson Harris possessed a character, and had an experience by no
means commonplace. He was born on October 22, 1816, in. North Carolina, but early
removed with his parents across the mountains into East Tennessee, then the "frontier,"
abounding with Indians and game, so that he became an adept with both the ax and
the rifle. While yet in his youth, he removed to Western Missouri, and in Cass County
helped to blaze the way for civilization.
The pioneer spirit, however, once more asserted itself, and a move was made to
Denton County, Texas, in 1845. At the end of three years, he returned to his home for
a visit, and was married, in 1848, to Miss Lou Ann Majors, daughter of David Majors
and a native of Madison County, Ky., where she was born on September 3, 1829. The
young couple returned to Texas; but Mr. Harris' failing health made it necessary,
in a few years, for him to leave that state. In 1857, therefore, when he had to be
carried on a bed and three small children must also be provided for, the weary, ox-team
journey to California was undertaken in company with friends. Six long months were
consumed in the tiresome and dangerous trip, when they made their first long stop at
San Bernardino; but about one year later, they located at El Monte, residing at that
place until 1867. Believing that he had regained his health, he braved the journey to
Texas again, this time by horse teams, but a second time undermining his constitution,
he sacrificed much to join another emigrant train, and once more trailed across the desert
El Monte was reached in 1868, and six years later, 1874, he removed to the place near
Orange where his remaining years were spent. After enjoying fairly good health for
years, he suddenly sustained a stroke of paralysis, which was followed by typhoid
fever; and on September 28, 1893, when nearly seventy-seven years old, he passed to
his eternal reward. In all the years of his experience as a Christian, Andrew Simpson
Harris never wavered from a straightforward life of trust in his Savior and devotion
to His cause, and he not only helped to organize the first Baptist Church in that part
of Texas in which he resided, serving as its clerk, but he also took part in the formation
of the Los Angeles Baptist Association. He was also a member of the Orange Baptist
Church since its formation in 1886, and was one of its deacons for a number of years.
Mrs. Harris, while still in her Cass County home, became a member of the Baptist
Church; and thus for more than seventy years she lived an exemplary life. For twenty-
five years, she was a widow, and when acute feebleness overtook her, she spent the
last two years of her life with her son in Orange. Her demise was peaceful and without
illness. Seeing a changed look quietly creeping over her face, her daughter-in-law said:
"Mother, I think the end is near — would you not like to go home, to Heaven now?"
And she answered, "Yes, I would like to go now;" after which, the gentle spirit calmly
departed. Mrs. Harris was survived by her sons, Eli J. Wiley and Frank Harris, and
her daughters, Mrs. Nannie Hickey and Mrs. Mary Beard. She left also twenty-one
grandchildren, twenty-four great-grandchildren, and even one great-great-grandson,
George H. Clem, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Hickey are active, devoted members of the Baptist
Church at Orange, where Mr. Hickey is chairman of the board of trustees and a deacon
of that organization.
JOHN P. HARMS. — A splendid type of the progressive, loyal German-American
is afforded by John P. Harms, who was born in North Hanover, Germany, on October
23, 1855, the son of John L. and Elsie Harms. His father was a farmer, who also did
shoemaking; and so the lad, who was given the best of grammar school advantages,
worked out on a farm in summer time, after his ninth year. When fifteen years of age,
he crossed the ocean to America and proceeded direct to Missouri; and at Higginsville
began his first nine years of farm laboring in America. Now, through hard work, he
has become prosperous, a man devoted to his family and proud of the service his sons
rendered in the late war.
Removing to Clifton, Washington County, Kans., he there worked out on a farm
for a year, after which he purchased eighty acres of land, on which he raised corn, hogs
and cattle. Near Clifton, too, at Palmer Church, he married Rosina Botjer, on Novem
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Botjer, well-to-do farmers and landowners. When Rosina was fourteen years old, her
parents removed to Clifton, Kans., and there they acquired good farm property. The
young lady attended the parochial school at Concordia, Kans., and after their marriage,
Mr. and Mrs. Harms farmed their eighty acres for the next fourteen years. During
the same period, Mr. Harms also bought an additional farm of two hundred acres two
miles to the north. In 1894, he sold these Kansas farms and having decided to come
to California made direct for his present home site. For a while, he merely rented
three acres of this farm, and then he purchased nine acres; two years later he added
five more, making fourteen in all. The land was then planted to grapes; but as these
gradually died off, orange trees were set out, and now Mr. Harms has eleven acres
of Valencias, one acre of Navels, and two acres of lemons. He built a fine dwelling
and the outbuildings himself, and all the improvements on the place are due to his
own efforts. Ten children have come to be numbered in the promising family of this worthy
pioneer couple: Arthur D. Harms married Matilda Rodieck, and is at present living
in Atwood, Cal.; John H. married Nettie E. Pogue and engaged in the drug trade at
Orange; Edward John is a truck driver at Oxnard; Frederick J. C. has a position in the
Imperial Valley; Emil A. married Rosa Schnipp and is living on a ranch on Handy
Street, Orange; Clara Anna married Otto Ohlde and lives in Snohomish, Wash; George
W. is bookkeeper on the Irvine ranch; Ernest A., living at home, cares for his father's
farm; Anna M. is bookkeeper in her brother's drug store; and August William, who
also lives at home, is a student at the Orange high school. The family are members
of the German Lutheran Church.
Frederick J. C. Harms; the fourth child in the order of birth, volunteered as a
mechanic, in July, 1918, for service in the World War, and was enlisted at the Jefferson
high school building in Los Angeles. He was sent to Camp McArthur at San Pedro,
and there he served his country until he was discharged. He was on a list to go to
France when the influenza epidemic placed him under quarantine; and he was honorably
discharged in April, 1919.
WALLER SINCLAIR HEAD. — Among the most progressive young ranchers of
the Anaheim district must be rated "Clair" Head, as he is known to all his acquaint
ances, the owner of two well-kept and fruitful farms, one of thirty acres, on which
he lives, devoted to walnuts and oranges, and the other of ten acres, which he reserves
for sugar beets. Besides operating these in the most scientific manner, he leases sixty-
five acres and there produces lima beans and chili peppers. He purchased the site of
his home ranch only in 1913, when he set out his orange trees, the walnuts having
been planted some fifteen years previous; so that much of his admirable results have
been evolved in a comparatively short time. Indeed, his success thus far would seem
to distinguish Mr. Head as a man much in advance of his age in agricultural lines.
Mr. Head was born at Garden Grove, July 5, 1883, the son of Dr. Henry W. and
Maria E. Head, a sketch of their lives appearing elsewhere in this history. He attended
Garden Grove grammar school and the Santa Ana high school, and then took up
farming as his vocation, and this he has followed ever since.
In 1910, on June 14, Mr. Head was united in marriage with Miss Gladys Coates,
* who was born in Iowa but was reared in California. She attended the Santa Ana high
school and later graduated from the Orange high school. She was a school teacher
before her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Head are the parents of one daughter, Percie
Clair, who attends the Katella school. Loyally interested in all the community's
affairs, Mr. Head has served for three years as clerk of the Katella school district.
JULIAN A. PRESCOTT.— Among the worthy and prosperous ranchers of Tus
tin, Julian A. Prescott is numbered. He is the owner of a ranch of twenty-seven and
one-half acres, planted to oranges, upon which he erected a beautiful and artistic
bungalow in 1912, the year he purchased the property from J. H. Martin. His thrift.
enterprise and progressiveness are indicated in the care bestowed upon his ranch, and
he holds an assured position among the leading residents of his community.
Of New England ancestry, he was born in Lime Springs, Iowa, in 1875, and is
the son of Augustus D. and Sarah (Butterfield) Prescott, natives of Phillips, Maine;
they moved to Iowa, then to Arkansas City, Kans. Julian had the advantage of a
grammar and high school education in Arkansas City and the additional advantage of
association with his father in business. The father, A. D. Prescott, an active business
man and real estate manipulator, followed this business a number of years with pro
nounced success, passing away in 1911. Mrs. Sarah Butterfield Prescott traces her
ancestry back to Revolutionary days and was a member of the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution. She spent her last years with her son, Julian A., in California and
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years associated with his father in business and naturally acquired a valuable experience.
He is well abreast of the time, has a keen eye for business, is well versed in current
topics and events, and is a man who will make a place for himself in the financial and
agricultural world.
In 1912 he came to Los Angeles, Cal. After spending the winter in looking over
California for a location he selected Orange County and purchased twelve acres to
which he has since added until he now has twenty-seven and a half acres to which he
has given his time and best efforts to bring it to its present high standard. It is beau
tifully located on the Newport Road and Seventeenth Street, four and a half miles east
of Santa Ana and is devoted principally to the culture of Valencia oranges. Believing
in cooperation he is naturally a member of the Tustin Hill Citrus Association.
STONE WALKER TODD. — How much of the efficiency of Orange County's
superior gas service is due to the experience and strict attention to business represented
in Stone Walker Todd's superintendency, only those who know the man, and have
followed his career and daily work since he took charge, will be able to state. He was
born at Richmond, Ky., on January 13, 1885, the son of Huston B. Todd, a business man
in that vicinity, who has since died, but is recalled as a successful man of affairs. He
married Miss Mary Rucker, a native of Kentucky, who now resides in Knoxville, Tenn.,
and by her he had six children.
The fourth in the order of birth, Stone Walker attended the grammar school and
later engaged in mercantile work, which he followed for six years, adding to his
experience with the world and human nature, and preparing for- the next important step,
he moved to the Pacific Coast. He arrived in Santa Ana., Cal., on February 1, 1911,
and entered the service of the gas department of the Southern California Ed_son Com
pany. On April 1, 1911, the Southern California Edison Company sold their gas prop
erties in Orange County to the Southern Counties Gas Company. Mr. Todd remained
in the services of the Southern Counties Gas Company at Santa Ana until June, 1911,
when he was transferred to Anaheim to take charge of the work for the gas company
at that place. In October, 1911, he was made district agent of the northern half of
the county for the Southern Counties Gas Company and remained in this position until
October 1, 1915, when the two districts were united and he was made district super
intendent of Orange County, and was moved to Santa Ana, where he remained until
December 1, 1919. He then resigned to take a position as general superintendent of
the Industrial Fuel Supply Company.
The general offices of the new company are located in the First National Bank
Building at Anaheim, Cal., and their purpose is to purchase gas in the Montebello,
Brea Canyon, Placentia and Huntington Beach fields from the oil companies and
wholesale the same. The Industrial Fuel Supply Company has erected two large com
pressor plants, one at the Placentia fields and one at the Montebello fields. In 1916
Mr. Todd purchased four acres of orange land on West Chapman Avenue, where he
makes his home.
THOMAS S. WESTON. — This is an age of specialists and the man who centralizes
his efforts on some one particular branch of his trade or profession is more sure of
winning a success in his chosen line. That this is true in the building and contracting
business is illustrated in the career of Thomas S. Weston, of Santa Ana. He was born
March 23, 1875, at Saginaw, Mich., and remained there with his parents until he was
ten years of age, when his father moved to northern Idaho. John Weston was a mill
man and contractor, and with others purchased a saw mill which he set up at Coeur
d'Alene, Idaho, in 1887, it being one of the first large mills in the state.
Thomas S. Weston finished his education in the public school at Coeur d'Alene,
after which he followed railroading with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for
five years; the last year of service with the company he was employed as an engineer.
After leaving the railway service,' he followed the trade of a carpenter and contractor
with his father and in 1902 located in Boise, Idaho, where he began specializing on
designing and installing store fronts and interior work, continuing along this line ever
since. He has become so proficient in this special branch of carpentry as to be regarded
as an expert. While living in Boise he was appointed building inspector by Mayor
Pence, serving during his term of office.
In 1913, Mr. Weston moved to Los Angeles, where he became foreman for A. J.
Crawford, a contractor who specialized in store work. While in the employ of Mr.
Crawford he put in the store front and interior for Young's Market on Broadway, the
Coliseum Bar and the Chocolate Shop on Broadway. In 1915 Mr. Weston located in
Santa Ana, where he engaged in building and contracting. Special examples of his
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Santa Ana: Seidel's Market, Smart Shop, Peterson's Shoe Store, Mrs. Enlow's Millinery
Store and Miles' Shoe Shop. He also built the Lawrence Block at Santa Ana for
A. J. Crawford. At Balboa Mr. Weston installed a refrigerator window for Henry
Seidel. These cold storage windows are another feature of which he has made a
specialty. At Compton he erected a $20,000 business block for W. J. Zeiss and at Bolsa
he designed and built for O. H. Merritt one of the first up-to-date, sanitary dairy
barns in the county. It cost $5,000, has a cement floor and is forty-eight by fifty feet
in size, with a capacity for accommodating forty cows.
In 1903, Mr. Weston was united in marriage with Nettie Martin, a native of Boise,
Idaho, and they are the parents of two children, a daughter, Esther, and son, Darrell.
Fraternally Mr. Weston is a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks.
JOHN W. UTTER, M.D. — A descendant of pioneers of California on both sides
of the family, Dr. John W. Utter has much to be proud of in his ancestry, and as a
loyal native son of the state he is carrying on to the best of his ability the work
started, by those grand old men and women who made possible the present-day era
of prosperity and peace in the far west. Born September 29, 1872, in Willetts, Men
docino County, he is a son of Isaac Utter, who fought in the Mexican war and came
to California in 1847. For a time he was located in the Anaheim district of Los Angeles
County, in 1877, and he later returned to Mendocino County where he engaged in the
cattle business. His wife, the mother of John W., crossed the continent to this state
on the first steam train, and a grandmother of John W. crossed the plains with ox teams
in pioneer days.
With such a background for his start in life, the young lad could hardly help but
make a success of his own endeavors, and his education was started in the public
schools of Willetts, later graduating from the Ukiah high school, and for eight years
thereafter he taught school in Mendocino County. In 1901 he left his native town
and came south to Los Angeles, where he taught school for four years. At the end
of this period he entered the University of California, at Berkeley, and graduated from
the medical department in 1910, with his degree of M.D.
On leaving the university Dr. Utter came direct to Anaheim, and started the prac
tice of his profession, since which date he has continued in practice here, a well-known
figure in the life of the community, prominent equally as a physician and as a man
with the best interests of his district at heart, loyal to his state and to the city where
he first started to practice his profession.
The marriage of Dr. Utter, which occurred on May 22, 1900, united him with
Stella Moore, like himself, a native Californian, born in Sacramento, and three children
have blessed their union: Marjorie, John W., Jr., and Marion. Active in the fraternal
life of the community, Dr. Utter is a member of the Elks, the Knights of Pythias,
and of the Anaheim Lodge of Masons. Professionally, he is a member of the American
Medical Association and the state and county organizations.

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