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 Missouri 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 Douglas 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 worthwhile 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 entered 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 Reedsburg, 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 defense of the Union, April 13, 1861, and enlisted in Company B. Fifth Wisconsin Infantry, and was mustered in for three years, taking part in the campaigns of Generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade and Grant, and passing through many hard experiences in those crucial days. He was mustered out July 28, 1864, as sergeant. 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 processes 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, Ill., Frank W. was born on May 22, 1869, the son of John and Mary (Southwick) Walton, natives of Kentucky and Massachusetts, respectively, 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 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 of 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, Ill., 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 a 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 experiments 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 developed that they can be eaten every month in the year without having been placed in cold 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 fumigation 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 disposed 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 ammunition train in France in 1918 until his discharge in August, 1919.

In educational matters Mr. Lee has rendered most valuable service. In 1900 he 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 appropriateness 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 large class of prosperous people who till the soil of Southern Michigan. The paternal grandfather, Jabez Brown, a. native of England, who 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 the 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 Stockbridge 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.

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 partisanship, 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 in 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 the McPherson Heights Citrus Association, and he and his wife are a distinct addition to the refining influences of the neighborhood, and with others of like taste and culture assist in forming a social center of high standard. 

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 identified 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 descendants of pioneer Eastern families. Of the live children born to this worthy couple, but two are living: Freman Cady of Los Angeles and an employee 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, Ill., 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 Logansville, 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 here his boyhood days were spent. When a young man of twenty, Daniel Bobst left his Pennsylvania home and came west to Stephenson County, III, 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 enlisted 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 employed 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 Ambercrombie, 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 Walla 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 Salter tried placer mining in the vicinity of Virginia City, but in 1865 he disposed of his mine.

Some of the experiences of the Salters are instructive as affording a glimpse at the 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 Valley 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 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 Fairview 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 dissemination 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 has a capacity of 125 inches of water. He raised orange nursery stock from seeds and 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 considerably raised.

Mr. Henning was one of the first in his vicinity to set out oranges, and was 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 having splendid indications for oil, he expects later on to form an oil company to drill a well on the property.

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 protection and nationalism so is naturally a staunch Republican in politics, and an American 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 transformation 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 nevertheless 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 cultured 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 111 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 community 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 acres of it are in seven-year Valencia oranges, while the balance of the trees are three years old. Mr. Wessler has been unusually successful in developing his property, 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 tine traits of citizenship 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 Americanized. 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 recent 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 invaluable 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 to Kansas, where they farmed; and then, in 1885 they came on to California. For a while they rented at Orange; then, while still renting, Herman Heim came up to Olive and bought the property now owned 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 21, 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 skillfully 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 improvements. 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 life 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.

In 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., practicing medicine; in 1892 came to Westminster, Orange County, Cal., and began to 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 opportunity 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 England, 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 original 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 assassination, 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 Kalamazoo 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 residence 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. Afifa 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 several ranches. He has returned to Michigan, where he has a sister and three brothers 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 department 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, another 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 conveys 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. Commander 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. Delia 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, and 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 himself, 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 for fifteen years did a successful business.

Mr. Ryan was married at the age of twenty-six, in 1889, while in business at Gresham, to Aliss 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 the First National Bank at Loup City, Nebr., and is the father of two children, Frank Arlyu 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 principle, 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 Democratic nominee. Mr. Ryan is deeply interested in all that pertains to the public welfare, and is a whole-hearted, 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 Stanfields 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 homestead 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 Hockett 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 course at Hartford. Conn. He married Marian Catlin. who died recently, and he is now a pastor at Glens Falls, N. Y. The youngest of the family is Alvin Stanfield, also a neighboring- rancher, who married Miss Rose Paris, 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 temperament and a happy, hopeful disposition. At the age of seventy-three, Mr. Stanfield 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 enterprising, 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 commonwealth.

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 the best known pioneer families that had so much to do with the development of California, 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 where 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 early 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 covered 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 Tim 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 bringing settlers to California, and especially in inducing them to locate in the vicinity of Whittier and La Habra. When he died, 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 permanent 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 si.xty 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 equaling 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 Company 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 careful 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 country 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, having retired from active business. The mother passed away in 1906, leaving five children 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 Halifax, 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, however, he secured work at once with Reinberg Brothers, the largest florists in America. 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 grew 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 encroachment 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 resident of California since she was eleven years old. Mr. and Mrs. Reisch are the parents of one daughter, Lucille 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 principles 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 improvements 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 Avenue with one-half mile frontage, at that time overgrown with volunteer hay and mustard; and when he had cleared and graded the acreage, he planted it to Valencia 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 18S5. 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 attaché 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 contracting builders of Orange County, one who has gained an enviable reputation for dependable 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) Xoe, 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 carpenter. 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 Garden & Seamen. Mr. Noe has also constructed a number of homes at Long Beach.

On December 29, 1896, Mr. Noe was united in marriage with Miss Fannie Lankford 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 California, 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. Ill., 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 educated 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, Ill., 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 farming and stock raising.

When they had advantageously rented this farm. Mr. and Mrs. Read moved to Sycamore. Ill., 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; and after a while he returned to Kane County and for another seven years lived on 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 held, 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, Ill., in 1881, and was a student at Wheaton College, at Wheaton. Ill. 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, III. 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, Ill., 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. William 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 standards 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 commissioners 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 correction, having iii 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 management 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 Columbus, 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 Prairie du Chien, Wis., on February 28, 1851, the son of George H. and Elizabeth (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, Ill., taking the four children, among whom Lewis G. was the third in the order of birth. Then ten years old, he went to live with an uncle. Peter Lawyer, a farmer at Sycamore, and with him he stayed, working out on farms until he was 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 H. 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 practicing medicine. Thus Mr. Butler rapidly extended a valuable experience, and he came 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 trees 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 live acres to apricots, and the results attracted wide attention. He also owned twenty acres on Hast 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 supporting 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 Placentia, who, while seeking to live a retired life, free from the cares of labor or investment, 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 Chapman .Avenue, a native of Southern Denmark, where he was born near Kolding, November 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 less wages there than at his 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 it they decided to migrate to the land of the Stars and Stripes. When he had 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 travelled 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. Johnson worked at Watsonville in the lumber yards; then through Peter Hansen, whose wife was a cousin of Mrs. Johnson, and who resided at Fullerton, 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 near Placentia and in the following years, as he worked for the Anaheim Union Water Company, he purchased more land and brought the same to a high state of cultivation. About the year 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 he now derives a good income from it; he has also leased his home place for oil recently. The balance of his land has been given to his children. In 1920 Mr. Johnson built a modern bungalow on his East Chapman Street property, and here he resides with his eldest daughter, Anna, who presides over  his  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 lie 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 lie 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 telephone 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 California followed the occupation of farming. Following this he engaged in selling tractors and in the automobile business for the next ten years, and in 1918 became interested with the Anaheim telephone company, which is also in charge of the Fullerton system, with headquarters at Anaheim. Since assuming the management of the telephone 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 manager 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. Harkleroad, foreman of the Harkleroad Camp, or that portion of the San Joaquin ranch containing some 815 acres planted to walnut, lemon, orange and avocado trees, and irrigated 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. Harkleroad 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 T. 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. He managed, however, to get in a good course at the Hollister Business College, and 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 experience, 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 successful 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 establishment 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 black-eye 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 Huntington 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 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 contractor 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 post office 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 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. Ti, 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 January, 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, » 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, who was born in Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. After completing her education in Karlsruhe