AUGUSTUS G. MILLER — A highly-esteemed member of the Masonic fraternity of Fullerton, and a citizen who has become a man of affairs in other departments of life, adding by his daily labors to the stability of institutions and furthering the aims of commerce and finance, is Augustus G. Miller, the rancher of East Orangethorpe Avenue, and vice-president of the Placentia-Fullerton Walnut Growers Association. He was born in Chicago, Ill., on June 26, 1864. the son of August Carl and Rose (Bartels) Miller. The father came from Hanover, Germany, in 1852 to escape military oppression, and for six years was busy in New York City as an expert sugar boiler in Havemeyer's Sugar Refinery. In 1858 they came on to Chicago, Ill., and continued in the sugar industry until the Civil War broke out in 1861. He then offered his services as a soldier in the Federal Army; but he was refused enlistment on account of a crippled right hand. This led him to turn to the mercantile field, in which he accumulated a small fortune; but the Chicago fire of 1871 burned up all of his holdings and left him stranded, penniless.

He then moved away in 1874 into the valley of the Des Plaines River, just west of Chicago, where he leased a farm of 140 acres and went into market-gardening for the Chicago trade; but four years later he removed to a farm of 140 acres near Fort Scott, Kans., in 1880, and there in Bourbon County he raised corn, grain and cattle. He was assisted all this time by our subject, who profited greatly on account of his father's experience and dependable guidance.

In about 1895 they sold out and joined our subject at Fullerton and with him they had a comfortable home until their death. The father died January 26, 1913, while the mother survived until the following March. Of their three children Augustus is the only son and the second oldest of the family; his two sisters are Mrs. Bertha Leaton and Mrs. Mathilda Greenwalt of Los Angeles. Augustus received his education in the public schools of Chicago although his advantages were somewhat limited on account of having to work to assist his father make a living, after the total loss in the Chicago fire. However, by self study, reading and business experiences he has become a well-informed man.

On October 19, 1889, Augustus Miller was married at Uniontown, Kans., to Miss Minnie Teague, a native of Bourbon County, Kans.. and the daughter of Calvin T. Teague and Mary Holt, his wife. Both the Teague and Holt families were early settlers in Kansas, and Joab Teague, Mrs. Miller's grandfather, rode 250 miles on horseback carrying from Jefferson City, Mo., the first apple trees brought to Uniontown, Kans. He planted the trees there and took the gold medal in 1876 with apples from the trees exhibited at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. Mrs. Miller's father taught school in Kansas in the log-cabin schoolhouse days, and first directed the course of many who afterward attained prominence in the western world.

Just after the great "boom" in Southern California realty. Mr. Miller came to California in February, 1891, and was made superintendent of the Gordon Ranch in the San Joaquin Valley, near Hanford in Tulare County; and there he remained until 1894. In that year he removed to Riverside, and became superintendent of the San Jacinto Land Company. He had 800 acres under his charge, and 600 acres of these he laid out and planted to oranges and lemons. The land was hilly, and the laying out of the rows of trees was difficult in the extreme; he superintended the care of them for eight years and today it is a very valuable orchard.

As early as 1899, Mr. Miller purchased eighteen acres, which he improved while superintendent of the San Jacinto Ranch. Half of this acreage is set out to Valencia orange trees and half to walnuts, and the whole is under the Anaheim Union Water Company. In February. 1913, he purchased twenty acres at Woodlake in Tulare County which he developed by setting out oranges and olives, and now he has a fine grove there of five-year-old trees in a frostless belt.

Of the two children granted Mr. and Mrs. Miller, Mamie became the wife of Rufus G. Killian and resided at Woodlake until she passed away June 25, 1919. Merrill H. is a graduate of Fullerton high school, now with the Union Oil Company. The family attend the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Miller is a Republican in national political affairs, but nonpartisan when it comes to local movements; he is an original stockholder in the Standard Bank of Orange County in Fullerton. a director in the Anaheim Union Water Company, and a member and director of the Anaheim Orange and Lemon Growers Association. He is also a past master of Fullerton Lodge, No. 191, F. & A. M. and was a prime mover in the building of the new Masonic temple of which he is trustee. He is also a member of Fullerton Chapter, R. A. M., in which he is serving as chaplain and is a member of Santa Ana Council, R. & S. M. He is at present serving his second term as patron of the Eastern Star, to which excellent organization Mrs. Miller also belongs. Mr. and Mrs. Miller were active in all the recent war and Red Cross drives, Mr. Miller being captain of the local bond drive committee.

JOHN R. PORTER — A leading financier of Orange County whose influence among the old-timers of both Santa Ana and Orange is continually felt, and for the best, is John R. Porter, a man known to attend strictly to his business, to drive the same along, and never to allow his business affairs to drive him along. He is cashier of the National Bank of Orange, and though primarily most devoted to that well-established and prosperous institution, he is ever ready to give a helping hand to any other establishment of value to the Orange County communities. He was born in Galesburg, III., in 1867. and was educated at Knox College, from which he was graduated with the degree of B. S. in 1886. Then he came out to California, and at Santa Ana was soon employed by the Commercial Bank as bookkeeper. When the Bank of Orange was opened in the boom year of 1887, he removed to Orange and became the new bank's bookkeeper. The bank bought their present corner on the Plaza and then erected their imposing building, and from the first they have enjoyed an excellent patronage.

In 1889, however, Mr. Porter resigned his position in the Orange bank and returned to Santa Ana, having been elected the first tax collector of Orange County; and in January, 1890, he entered upon the duties of the office. A year of the work satisfied him, especially as the First National Bank of Santa Ana offered him the tellership; and so he resigned to work for that banking house. In 1893 he resigned again, having purchased an interest in a new shoe store in Santa Ana; and there he continued until July, 1895, when he returned to Orange, as cashier of the Bank of Orange — a position of increasing responsibility which he has filled with signal ability.

In 1906, the bank was nationalized and named the National Bank of Orange, starting thus with a capital of fifty thousand dollars; and later the capital of the bank was increased to $100,000. Now the deposits total over $1,250,000. In 1906 was also started the Orange Savings Bank, affiliated with the National Bank of Orange, and of this Mr. Porter has also since been cashier. Undoubtedly, both of these splendid institutions owe much of their progress and prosperity to Mr. Porter's conservative policy and careful management, for it is looked upon as one of the strongest banks in Orange County. The character of its officers has had much to do with favoring it with the confidence of the public; and never yet has that confidence been shaken.

Some time ago Mr. Porter improved ten acres of orange grove on Batavia Street, but this excellent property he has recently disposed of. He now owns a walnut orchard. He is a member of the Santiago Orange Growers Association, and most emphatically believes that it is the cooperation of the growers, there brought about, that spells the success of the enterprise.

Mr. Porter was made a Mason in Santa Ana Lodge, F. & A. M., and is now a member of Orange Grove Lodge, No. 293, F. & A. M. He belongs to Orange Grove Chapter, No. 99, R. A. M., and to the Santa Ana Commandery, No. 36, K. T. He is also a life member of Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and a member of the Santa Ana lodge of the Elks.

DILLARD E. FORD AND RAY FORD — The Ray Ford Company of Santa Ana, the popular and well-known dealers in hay, grain and feed, is composed of Ray Ford and his father, Dillard E. Ford. Ray Ford is a native son, born at Fullerton, August 30, 1897; his father is a native of Missouri, while his mother, who in maidenhood was Polly Steele, was born in Georgia. They are the parents of seven children: Helena, Ray, Le Roy, Richard, Russell, Mary and Eleanor.

Dillard E. Ford located in Fullerton in 1895, where he was engaged with the St. Helena Ranch Company, north of Fullerton, and planted walnut trees which were among the first planted in that district. Later he purchased land near Placentia, part of which he sold, and on this same land oil is now being developed. Afterwards Mr. Ford located at Huntington Beach, being one of the pioneers of that thriving beach city, having been there when the town was laid out, and became foreman of the Huntington Beach Company. He was also foreman of the Bolsa Ranch, then owned by Robert Norton. For three years Mr. Ford was engaged in raising celery in the peat land section of Orange County. Later he became buyer for the Interstate Fruit Distributors Association, the first association to ship fruit and vegetables out of Orange County.

In 1912, when the Holly Sugar Factory at Huntington Beach was built, Mr. Ford entered their employ and so efficient has been his service that he is still with the company and now fills the important post of agriculturist. On Fairview Avenue, south of Santa Ana, Mr. Ford owns a five-acre ranch set to young walnut trees, and here he also engages in poultry raising, having 500 chickens in his flock. He has always taken an active interest in the growth and development of Orange County and at one time was the owner of fifty-five acres near the race track, south of Santa Ana, which he devoted to sugar beets. Fraternally Mr. Ford is an Odd Fellow, a member of Downey Lodge.

Ray Ford received his early education in the public schools of Huntington Beach and Santa Ana, after which, for a year and a half, he looked after his father's ranch. His next employment was as storekeeper for the Holly Sugar Factory at Huntington Beach. During the World War he valiantly responded to the call of his country, enlisting June 29, 1918, in the U. S. Navy as a seaman gunner. He was attached to the U. S, Mine Carrier Lakeview. and saw fourteen months of service, receiving his honorable discharge August 16, 1919. After leaving the Navy Mr. Ford returned to Santa Ana, where, in partnership with his father, they bought the feed store of R. S. Smith on North Birch Street. They deal in hay, grain, mill feed, fuel, seeds and poultry supplies. Mr. Ford is making a splendid success in his new enterprise.

On January 14, 1920, Ray Ford was united in marriage with Miss Florence N. Cary, born at Talbert, a daughter of Robert J. Cary, who was formerly a rancher there but is now a resident of San Bernardino County.

DENNIS J. McCARTHY — A well-traveled and well-informed rancher who is particularly familiar with Alaska, having visited and thoroughly explored that country several times, is Dennis J. McCarthy, at present farming to the northeast of Anaheim. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 5, 1857, the son of Jeremiah McCarthy, a railroad man, who had married Mary Holland. They were both born in County Cork, Ireland, but were married in England and there they followed farming until 1854, when they came to Cincinnati, Ohio. During the Civil War Jeremiah McCarthy was in the government employ as a wagon maker.

In 1865, they removed to Osgood, Ripley County, Ind., where they purchased a farm and resided there until their demise. This worthy couple had seven children Dennis J. being the second oldest. The lad attended the Ripley County schools, and just how hard he had to strive for what educational advantages he enjoyed may be gathered from the fact that he walked four miles to the schoolhouse, which was opened for only four months in the year. Like his father, he took up railway work, and it was not long before his services were fully appreciated by those employing him.

In 1881 he came west to Colorado for railroad construction, and the next spring to Wyoming and in the fall of 1882 proceeded on to San Francisco, Cal. For a short time he was busy in railroad building in San Francisco and vicinity, and then he removed to Idaho and settled at Pocatello, where he took up bridge building. From Pocatello, he worked for the Oregon Short Line out toward Butte, Mont., and Huntington, Ore., Granger, Wyo.. and Ogden, Utah, and he assisted in erecting some of the most notable bridges along the great railway lines.

In 1902, Mr. McCarthy returned to California and settled in .Anaheim, where he purchased ten acres at the corner of North and Sunkist avenues. It was bare land when he acquired possession; but in 1914 he set out a fine grove of Valencia trees, and now he owns one of the handsome, promising orchards of the county. His land is served by the Anaheim Union Water Company, and he markets through the Red Fox Packing House.

Mr. McCarthy is an authority on .Alaska, although he speaks with modesty of what he has seen and accomplished there, having made no less than five trips to the land of the Midnight Sun. He first went there in 1898. at the time of the rush to the Klondike for gold, and in partnership with S. W. Evans went over the White Pass, leaving Skagway February 1, over the snow. They took 3,500 pounds of provisions, as well as tools, and used one horse and two sleds on this trip and camped on snow over forty feet deep. In 1899, he made a second trip, and the next year a third. In 1916 he went to .Anchorage, Alaska, and the next year to Juneau. He was an eye-witness to stirring events in historic days, and took an active part of the making of history in Alaska. It is no wonder, therefore, that he is non-partisan in politics, and decidedly believes in selecting men fit for office regardless of party.

HENRY DEAN POLHEMUS — An interesting representative of a tine old California family long identified with the pioneer history of Orange County, is Henry D. Polhemus, who was born on the old Polhemus ranch on the State Highway, south of Anaheim, April 27, 1890, the son of Henry D. and Emma M. (Hanna) Polhemus. Henry D. Polhemus, Sr., was born in Valparaiso, Chili, October 13, 1843. His father, John Hart Polhemus, was the American minister to Chili at the time, serving during President Tyler's administration. In 1849 they made the voyage back to the States, locating at Mt. Holly, Burlington County, N. J., where Henry D. received his preparation for college and entered the Jersey Collegiate Institute. After completing a course there he entered a pharmacy, continuing until August 26, 1862, when fired by patriotism he enlisted in the Twenty-third New Jersey Volunteer Infantry and rose to the rank of hospital steward. He was in the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. He continued in service until June 27, 1863, when he was honorably discharged by reason of the expiration of his term of enlistment.

In August, 1863, he migrated to California via Panama and made his way on to Empire City, Nev., where he was assayer for the Silver State Reduction Works for one year when he returned to San Francisco and became agent for the San Francisco and San Jose Railroad until the fall of 1868, when he resigned and came with the Los Angeles and San Bernardino Land Association with whom he continued for several years. In February, 1876, he became agent at San Rafael for the North Pacific Coast Railroad and in May, 1877, he assumed the same position for the company at Tomales. In 1880 he came to Anaheim and purchased thirty-five acres on what is now the State Highway at Flores station on the Southern Pacific where he was agent for a time. However, he soon engaged in farming and improved the place to walnuts. He died in 1900. His widow survives him and resides in Artesia; she was born at Clintonville, Va., November 5, 1852. Her father, John Hanna, was also a pioneer of Orange County and had a thirty-five-acre ranch on the State Highway, having located in this section as early as 1862.

Henry D. Polhemus was sent to the grammar schools of Katella, and later attended the Harvard Military School at Los Angeles. On September 21, 1912, he was married to Miss Christine Joens, a native of Oakland, and the daughter of John and Sophia (Hansen) Joens. who were early settlers of Oakland. Her father was a merchant of Oakland, and he came to Los Angeles and was prominent as a produce merchant there at the time of the marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Joens now reside at the Polhemus home. Two children have blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Polhemus, and they bear the pretty names of Evelyn Martha and Henry Dean, Jr. Mr. Polhemus took an apprentice's course in electrical work in the International Correspondence School, and was engaged by the Los Angeles Railroad as an electrician up to 1907. Then he went with the Southern California Edison Company as operator at the Katella Station, and was with them for over three years. He resigned and in 1911 was engaged by the Union Oil Company as chief electrician and has had charge of their electrical work in the Southern division, extending from Santa Paula in Ventura County to San Juan Capistrano and he also had charge of their telephone line as well as all construction work.

On his twenty-first birthday, Mr. Polhemus was given by his mother ten acres of land on Placentia and Cerritos avenues, and although it was barren then, he has since set it out to Valencia orange trees now bearing. He has a trim ranch, and markets through the Anaheim Mutual Orange Distributors Association. Mr. Polhemus was made a Mason in Anaheim Lodge No. 207, F. & A. M., and politically he votes for the best man irrespective of party.

WILLIAM L. YORK  — A successful horticulturist and a conservative, yet progressive financier of philanthropic tendencies, distinguished as one of the public-spirited citizens in the La Habra Valley, and certainly one who has inspired others to do their best for society and in particular for their home district, William L. York occupies an enviable position in Orange County. He was born in Aledo, Mercer County, Ill., in 1865. the only son of Charles York, a Kentuckian, who migrated to Illinois and there did yeoman service as a pioneer. He owned many head of oxen, and took up the work of a prairie breaker, hiring out his ox teams. Once, long ago, he visited California, but he never settled here. He owned a farm of 320 acres, where he raised stock and grain, and he served his fellow-citizens as tax collector of his township for many terms. This farm had been preempted by the maternal grandfather, Zachariah Landreth, from the U. S. Government, when that state was a territory, and he sold it to Charles York, and on this farm both Charles York and his wife died. Some of the apple trees on the place are from seventy to eighty years old. and when our subject and his wife made a trip East last year, they found the farm still kept up to its normal condition. Mrs. Charles York was Miss Jane Landreth, a native of the state of Pennsylvania, but born of English parentage.

William York attended the district school, and then studied for a term at Heding College; and when he was twenty-one years of age, he assumed the management of the farm. Later, during the winter months, he taught school. On March 20, 1890, he was married to Miss Clara Bell Tenney, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Tenney, pioneer agriculturists in Mercer County, Ill. She also was a pupil of the common schools of her district, afterward attended Simpson College, and, when sixteen years old, taught the district school. In fact, for a term after their marriage, both Mr. and Mrs. York taught school.

Mr. York farmed in Illinois until 1902, and for three terms he was a justice of the peace in Mercer County. When he came West, his destination was Whittier, and there he paid the record price up to that time for ten acres of citrus fruit. In 1911 he sold his Whittier holdings and bought seventeen acres of year-old Eureka lemons at La Habra. He is a member of the La Habra Valley Water Company, and is vice-president of the La Habra Citrus Association. He is also president of the First National Bank of La Habra, which is operated in connection with the Federal Reserve.

Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. York: Frank Albert enlisted November 17, 1917, in the Twenty-sixth Engineers, as a private of the first class, and was trained at Camp Dix. He was overseas for nine months, and during that time was on the front for seven months, and participated in the Argonne and the Meuse offensives, and fought at Chateau Thierry and at Metz. In April, 1919, he was honorably discharged from Camp Fremont. After leaving the army he married Miss Clara Baldwin, and they have one daughter, Willa Jane. He is engaged in the oil production business as a driller. Maribel, the second child, is the wife of David F. Lemke, the rancher at Placentia. and now has three children, Cloise Dudley, John York and Robert Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. York and family are Methodists, and Mr. York is a church trustee. In national politics he is a Democrat, but in local movements decidedly nonpartisan.

H. FRED TOWNER  — A man who believes in turning out only the highest standard of work is H. Fred Towner, the well-known manufacturer of agricultural implements and tractor attachments at Santa Ana. He was born at Santa Ana on September 26, 1882, the son of A. J. Towner, who had married Mrs. Augusta E. Hamilton. His parents came from Syracuse, N. Y., in 1880, and settled at Santa Ana, where they ranched. A. J. Towner was a gunsmith by trade and also conducted a sporting goods store. Fred's grandfather, Judge James William Towner, an attorney by profession, was the first judge of the Superior Court in Orange County and when he resigned in 1897 he was presented with a gold-headed cane by the Orange County Bar. This cane is now a prized heirloom in the possession of our subject. A. J. Towner died in Santa Ana. while his wife passed away at the home of a daughter in New York. Their daughter Xarifa succumbed to influenza while on a visit to Michigan.

Tiring rather early of the tasks at the public school, H. Fred Towner left his books because he preferred to work. At the age of seventeen he began to learn the blacksmith trade under W. C. Young, a pioneer blacksmith of Santa Ana, working for wages until October, 1914. The following year he built the first part of his present place and in 1920 he erected a larger building adjoining and now has a building 100 by 90, and on the rear of his lots a warehouse 30 by 90. His establishment is splendidly fitted out with modern machinery and he employs about twenty-one men. each of them skilled in his particular line. The factory is located at 105-07-09-11 North Main Street and it is Mr. Towner's intention to continue to enlarge his plant and to give work to a still larger force of employees.

The establishment is equipped as an up-to-date machine shop, with lathes, shapers. high-speed drills, power punches, shears, automatic thread cutters and triphammers. as well as hacksaws and emery stands, the whole being operated by electric power from motors of a combined capacity of thirty-two and a half horsepower and it is the consensus of opinion that it is the best-equipped machine shop in the county. He is the largest manufacturer of agricultural implements in the county and is equipped to do all kinds of work in this line. His motto is, "If nobody else will build it we will," and he has handled a number of jobs that no one else, on the coast would attempt and has made a success of them because of his initiative and experience.

Mr. Towner's specialty is the building to order of farm implements, such as subsoil plows, cyclones, bean planters, bean cutters, cultivators, furrowers, gang plows and other farm machinery. He has patented a subsoil plow which has an oscillating standard, and has taken out a second patent on this subsoiler, which oscillates below the frame instead of in the frame; he has taken this out to protect his first patent and they are the only oscillating subsoilers on the market that one can back up with. He also has a third patent on the subsoiler called the Perfection subsoiler, an attachment to the Oliver plow, and it is an exclusive Fordson automatic tool. He has also invented and manufactures a patent hitch for Fordson and Samson tractors and a patent roller hitch for them and tractors of similar construction. At the present time Mr. Towner furnishes all the extension grousers for Fordson tractors for all the Pacific Coast states and all the extension grousers for the Samson tractors in the state of California. He also carries a large stock of steel, heavy and light bolts and nuts, as well as coal and general blacksmith's supplies for the retail trade.

On May 14, 1905, Mr. Towner was married to Miss Anna Schlasman, the ceremony taking place at Orange. Three sons blessed the union: James William, who died when he was fourteen months old; H. Frederick and Rutherford Glenn. The family occupy their own home at 833 North Baker Street, on the corner of Towner Street, named for his father. Mr. Towner belongs to the Maccabees and is a life member of the Elks. While a Democrat in national politics, in local matters he is a man above mere party lines. He is a believer in church and educational institutions and is always ready to contribute his share toward worthy enterprises and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Towner was a member of the old Santa Ana Volunteer Fire Department and for some years served as its vice-president.

EDMUND E. KNIGHT — After an interesting life, many years of which were spent in a foreign land, Edmund E. Knight, the proprietor of the well-known Guatemala Avocado Nursery, located in Orange County in 1914, purchasing a tract of five acres on North Eureka Avenue, Yorba Linda, where he has since made his home. Born at Utica, Mich., May 4, 1860, Mr. Knight was the son of Philip Atwood Knight, who was a member of one of the earliest classes to graduate from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. For fifty years he was a prominent physician and surgeon at Utica, passing away there at the age of seventy-seven.

Educated in the public and high schools of his native town, Mr. Knight remained there until he was eighteen years of age, when he came West with an uncle, and for five years remained in Nevada and San Francisco. In 1885 he went back to the old home in Michigan on a visit and was returning to San Francisco by way of Panama when he decided to stop off at Guatemala, and he remained in Mexico, Central and South America for a period of thirty years. He established himself as a railroad contractor in different parts of those countries, and a part of the time was engaged in general merchandising and farming. At the time of his leaving there he was the oldest American resident in point of years of continuous sojourn in Guatemala. During his residence there he married into a well-known old Spanish family, and two children, a son and a daughter, were born to this union: Alfred is a train dispatcher in Honduras; Ellen, Mrs. Martina Vernon, resides at the family home at Yorba Linda. Mrs. Knight passed away in Guatemala.

Mr. Knight had made numerous trips to the States, and on his trips to California came to the conclusion there was a splendid opening here for raising avocados. At the time of the first Balkan War railroad building in Central America ceased because the companies could not borrow the money to finance their building, so Mr. Knight sold his holdings and came to Los .Angeles. After looking over different portions of Southern California, he selected Yorba Linda as the most suitable because it is practically frostless and has an abundance of good water. So, in March, 1914, Mr. Knight began an extensive planting of avocado seedlings on his ranch at Yorba Linda, and shortly afterward went direct to Guatemala, Central .America, to procure avocado buds from the best trees fruiting in that country, famed for the finest avocados. It was necessary for him to obtain a special permit from the United States Government to import these buds, and in order to insure them arriving in proper condition he had a special refrigerator box built on board ship to preserve the buds in their dormant state. Returning to the United States, he brought with him the first successful shipment of the famous Guatemala hard-shell avocado, comprising 41,000 buds, and from these he was able to grow eighty-one sturdy trees. He is the only individual that has imported Avocado buds into the U. S. from Guatemala and made them grow, and this two years before the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of .Agriculture at Washington did it successfully. From the beginning Mr. Knight was quick to see the wonderful possibilities in the avocado industry in the United States, and his thorough study of all angles of this comparatively new branch of horticulture has made him one of the authorities in this part of the country, and he has contributed largely toward putting the industry on a successful commercial basis. He has developed Linda, Queen, Kist and Knight varieties, all of them the choicest qualities, and he finds a ready market for all the fruit he grows. He was a pioneer in the use of the overhead or spray system of irrigation, and also was the first to demonstrate that the avocado thrives best where the ground around is not cultivated. In addition to his choice nursery of avocados, he has an orchard of 600 to 700 trees, it being the first close-set orchard of avocados in California.

Mr. Knight's second marriage occurred at Los Angeles on April 29. 1919, when he was united with Mrs. Florence (Wade) DeVries. She was born at Fremont. Mich., a daughter of Warren and Jennie Wade. Her father was a lumberman, being president of the Michigan Lumber Company. He died in 1910, being survived by his widow. Mrs. Knight is a graduate of the Ypsilanti State Normal and was supervisor of manual training of the Pontiac schools for twelve years. She has one son by her first marriage. Wade DeVries, a senior at the University of Michigan. Mr. Knight was made a Mason in California Lodge No. A. F. & A. M., San Francisco, and is a charter member of Yorba Linda Lodge No. 459, F. & A. M.. as well as Fullerton Commandery, K. T., and with his wife is a member of Yorba Linda Chapter. O. E. S. A charter member of the California Avocado Association, Mr. Knight is one of its most enthusiastic members, and never misses a meeting of the organization. A liberal in politics, he is interested in all the progressive movements of the locality. Fond of outdoor life, he finds much recreation in exploring the high Sierras.

A. K. CRAVATH  — A public-spirited official who has labored long and accomplished much at his own private expense for the benefit of the mass of his fellow citizens, is A. K. Cravath. the wide-awake and popular deputy sheriff of Orange County, who was born in Chesterville. Knox County. Ohio, eight miles from Mount Vernon, on April 23, 1852. His father, Samuel P. Cravath born in Genesee County, N. Y., was a cabinet maker, with his own shop and trade; and he had married, in Pennsylvania, Miss Katherine Freeman, born in Crawford County, Pa. They moved to Will County, Ill., in 1855. and there Mr. Cravath rented a farm for three years; after which they removed to Worth County, Iowa, where they purchased a quarter-section farm lying along the Minnesota state line, which they devoted to corn and stock.

The lad, A. K., was educated at the district school at North Wood and finished his studies in the Baptist Seminary at Osage. Iowa. Then he returned to the home farm and continued to assist the folks at home until June, 1872. In that year he came to California with his sister, Mrs. C. C. Watson and her husband, a Civil War veteran who had lost an arm, and settled in San Diego County, where Mr. Watson purchased a ranch of 320 acres in Poway Valley, which he devoted to dry farming and stock raising. Mr. Cravath continued to live and work in San Diego County until he acquired P80 acres in one tract in Poway Valley, and 870 acres in another tract in Bernardo, half way between Poway and Escondido. The home place, however, he sold in 1886, and then he became assistant manager in the Escondido Land & Town Company, which was operated by San Diego capital, and with that company he remained for eight years.

When he sold out his interest in 1894, he removed to Santa An?., and he has lived in the latter town ever since, serving as deputy sheriff for eight years under Lacy and for four years under Jackson, at the present time being associated with the district attorney's office as special investigator. Nearly all the time he has been connected with the police and constable departments. In national politics a Progressive Republican, Mr. Cravath has endeavored most conscientiously to discharge his duties as a citizen in favor of the highest civic standards, independent of all partisan considerations.

Mr. Cravath may be said to be the father, in many respects, of Escondido. where he built the first home and the first business block — at the corner of Grand Avenue and Lime Street — then known as the Escondido Bank block and now familiar as the home of the Escondido National Bank, which he organized in the boom year, 1887; a prime mover in incorporating the city of Escondido he was a member and chairman of its first board of trustees. He built, in fact, many of the best homes in Escondido. and spent the best years of his life, and the best part of his private capital, in developing, first the water system of Escondido. and then the water supply in the neighboring valley, thereby bringing to a high state these much-needed public utilities. He brought the water down from the San Luis Rey River, from what is known as Palomar in the Smith Mountains, accomplishing a great engineering feat, by means of tunnels, ditches and flumes, in leading the water across intervening ridges. One tunnel of 640 feet through solid rock, at San Luis Rey River, connected with a flume and then a ditch, carried the flow for sixteen miles through what are known as horseshoe bends, to Valley Center and after that through another tunnel 470 feet long, emptying the water into a reservoir in Little Bear Valley, from which the supply was sent to various parts of the valley. This work was completed in the fall of 1893. and has ever since proven one of the most useful public utilities in Southern California. The cost of the ditch line w-as first estimated by the consulting engineer. John D. Schuyler, to be sure to approximate a round quarter of a million dollars; but it only cost $93,000. a matter of congratulation to all concerned. He was twenty years ahead of his time and had a hard time getting the people interested and to see the vast benefit of owning the water rights. Mr. Cravath was sheriff of San Diego County, filling the unexpired term of John L. Folk, filling the office made vacant through his removal, by the Superior Court. He completed the term but was not a candidate for reelection. This exacting work made him familiar with criminal cases, and he has long enjoyed the reputation of being among the best-posted men on Southern California criminal affairs.

On December 1, 1877, Mr. Cravath was married to Miss Kate Sikes, a native daughter who first saw the light in Santa Clara, where she was educated at the district school. Her parents were Zenis and Elizabeth Sikes and her father owned 2,200 acres of the Bernardo ranch in San Diego County, which he purchased after he had come from Santa Clara in 1872. Nine children, three sons and six daughters, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cravath. Bertha was the wife of Harold Welch and she died in Colorado, leaving a son, Newell, whom Mr. and Mrs. Cravath have raised from a babe; Howard A. is a druggist at Bakersfield: Clifford C. resides at Laguna Beach, and is the manager of the Philadelphia "Nationals" baseball team: Gertrude R. is deputy county clerk of Kern County: Arlie M. is assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Santa .Ana; Irene resides with her parents: Verian is employed in the Unique Clothing Store at Santa .Ana; Muriel D. is the stenographer of Messrs. Koepsel and Eden at Santa Ana, and Bert S. is employed by the U. S. Government in Arizona, developing water wells for the Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservation.

JOHN HENRY LANG, M. D. — Since 1911 Dr. John Henry Lang has been a resident of Fullerton and among the town's leading surgical and medical practitioners. He is a native of Cape Girardeau County, Mo., where he was born July 26, 1882. His father, W. E., now deceased, and mother. Mary C. (Schultz) Lang, were farmers, and of their family of nine children John Henry was the seventh child in order of birth. He received his preliminary education in the public schools of his native state and at the State Normal school at Cape Girardeau, and in choosing a profession in life chose that of his grandfather, David Lang, a prominent M. D. in his day and generation. Dr. J. H. Lang's professional training, which has placed him among the foremost exponents of the science of surgery and medicine wherever he has practiced, was acquired at the St. Louis University Medical Department, from which he was graduated with the class of 1906 with the degree of M. D. In selecting a place to begin the practice of his profession he chose Centertown, Mo., where he practiced successfully for five years before locating at Fullerton, Cal., in 1911. His surgical work is generally performed at the Fullerton Hospital. On two different occasions he took post-graduate courses at St. Louis and Chicago.

His marriage occurred October 17, 1906, uniting him with Miss Carrie Blanche Milster, a native of Perry County, Mo., and they are the parents of three children: Beatrice Lucile, Helen Dale and Howard Milster. Dr. Lang is a member of both state and county medical societies and vice-president of the latter. He was chief examiner of the exemption board for northern Orange County during the World War, and is the present city health officer. He is a director in the Standard Bank of Orange County, as well as the Home Builders of Fullerton, and is interested in citriculture, owning a Valencia orange grove. In his religious associations he is a Methodist, and in national politics he is a Republican. In local issues he lends his influence toward electing the man best fitted for the office, regardless of party affiliations, and is a member of the Board of Trade. Fraternally, in his Masonic connections he is a member of Fullerton Lodge No. 339, F. & A. M.. and Fullerton Chapter R. A. M.. of which he is past high priest, and is a charter member of Fullerton Commandery No. 55, K. T., and with his wife is a member of the Eastern Star, in which order they are both past officers. Dr. Lang is also a member of Santa -Ana Council R. & S. M., and is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Fullerton, as well as affiliated with various other fraternal orders. He is also a member of the Fullerton Club. His advice and opinion carry the weight of influence and authority in all of the societies with which he is connected, and his painstaking professional efforts and maintenance of high medical ethics render him an invaluable addition to the medical fraternity of Orange County.

BENJAMIN J. FOSS — Believing that the solution of the labor problem is not in the continual reduction of hours, but rather by increasing production by applying more hours to work. Benjamin J. Foss has put his theories into practice by developing his fourteen-acre ranch at Yorba Linda while pursuing his duties as a conductor on the Pacific Electric Railway at the same time, and he attributes his success to the fact that he gets the same recreation out of his ranch as he would from any outdoor sport.

A native of Norway, Benjamin J. Foss was born at West Totem in that northern country on September 27, 1885. His parents were John and Lina (Evenson) Foss, the father being a merchant in this Norwegian town. One of a family of thirteen children, Benjamin spent his boyhood days in the region of his birthplace, attending the public schools there. Before he had reached the age of fifteen he decided to emigrate to America, and he arrived here on April 8, 1900, going to Boyd, Minn., where an uncle, A. A. Roseth, resided. After working for several years in the lumber mill of his uncle, he decided to secure a better education, so he went to Montevideo, Minn., where he attended the public school for two years, and one year in high school, getting a general business education, which has since been of the greatest value to him. For a short time he worked as an apprentice in the paint business, but in 1904 he entered the employ of the Twin City Transit Company at Minneapolis as a conductor, continuing with this company for five years.

Coming to Los Angeles, Cal., in 1909. Mr. Foss the next day after his arrival obtained employment with the Pacific Electric Company as a conductor, through the credentials which he had earned in the East. For ten years he gave the company efficient service on the Los Angeles-La Habra-Yorba Linda line. During that time he was frequently consulted in making improvements on the time schedule, one of the most beneficial being the tying up of his car at Yorba Linda at night, thus giving the people of this locality the advantage of a late car out of Los Angeles and an early car in the morning.

In 1913 Mr. Foss purchased fourteen acres of open, barren land at Yorba Linda, and here he set about to develop his tract in his spare moments off duty. He set out a large part of the acreage to citrus trees and established a well laid out system of irrigation. In 1915 he erected a fine, comfortable residence on the ranch, and since that time has made it his home. He has recently sold four acres of his holdings, and he has leased his ranch for oil development, and as an oil well is now in process of drilling with good prospects, Mr. Foss may realize a handsome addition to his income from this source. In 1919 he resigned his position with the Pacific Electric and is now with the General Petroleum Oil Company.

On June 30, 1915, Mr. Foss was married to Miss Julia Bond, a native daughter of the Golden West, the ceremony being performed in Orange County Park. Her parents are B. F. and Laura May (Holladay) Bond, her father being one of Long Beach's pioneer realty dealers. Mrs. Foss. who is a woman of many accomplishments, was educated at the Huntington Park Training School and Long Beach high school. Mr. and Mrs. Foss are the parents of one son. Norman Olaf. They attend the Friends Church at Yorba Linda. In 1912 Mr. Foss returned to his native land for a visit, and four months were spent there and in touring Europe, when he returned to America, more than ever enthusiastic over the land of his adoption. He received his final naturalization papers on July 21, 1915, and is one of Orange County's most loyal citizens, ever ready to give of his time and means to every movement for the public good. In 1916 Mr. Foss was elected to the directorate of the Yorba Linda Citrus Association, a post he still occupies. In political matters he is a strong adherent of the Republican party.

HENRY W. DANIELS — Beginning a meritorious career as an educator at the early age of sixteen, Henry W. Daniels is now enviably esteemed as a pedagogue of longer continuous experience that any member of the Fullerton high school faculty. Michigan was Mr. Daniels' native state, and there he was born at Onstead, on December 18, 1861, the third oldest of five children born to Calvin and Mary (Monagin) Daniels. The father was a native of Painted Post, Steuben County, N. Y., while the mother came to New York state from her native land. Ireland, when a child of three years.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Daniels came west to Michigan, settling in Lenawee County, and here Henry W. Daniels spent his early years on his father's well-kept farm. When sixteen years of age he obtained a teacher's certificate and for two years taught a district school. He then entered Adrian College, making his way through his own efforts, and after two years in college he resumed teaching, the next ten years being spent in the high schools at Ridgeway. Rome and Clinton. Mich. He then entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, graduating from there in 1898 with the degree of B. S., C. E., and B. P. The following year the degree of M. S. was conferred on him by Adrian College.

Following his graduation from the university, Mr. Daniels became the principal of the high school at Newago, Mich., remaining there two years, when he became superintendent of schools at St. Louis. Gratiot County. Mich., resigning there after a period of five years to come to California. In the fall of 1905 he came to Palo Alto, where for six months he did graduate work at Stanford University, and after that he was instructor of chemistry for a semester at Pomona College. At the end of the school year he came to Fullerton and was made head of physics and chemistry in the high school there. Four years later he was made head of physics and mathematics. continuing until 1919. when he was relieved of physics, so that he could devote all his time as head of mathematics.

In 1912 Mr. Daniels bought seven and a half acres of fine land on East Chapman Street, Fullerton, which he planted to Valencia oranges, and when he bids adieu to the lecture-room he will know just where to turn to continue usefully busy. Since 1910 Mr. Daniels has served as a member of the board of trustees of the Fullerton Public Library, and his efficient service in this direction will always associate him pleasantly with this up-to-date town.

On July 27, 1892, at Ogden Center, Mich., Mr. Daniels was married to Miss Jennie McComb. born at Coldwater, Mich., the daughter of Thomas and Isabelle (Patterson) McComb; the father, who was a business man of Ogden Center, Mich., was a native of Mt. Morris, N. Y., while Mrs. McComb was born in Belfast, Ireland. Mrs. Daniels was reared at Ogden Center, later completing her education at Davis College, Toledo, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Daniels are the parents of one son, Donald H. They are active in the membership of the Christian Church at Fullerton. Mr. Daniels was made a Mason in Tecumseh Lodge at Tecumseh, Mich., of which he is past master, and is now a member of Fullerton Lodge No. 339, F. & A. M. He is also a member of Fullerton Chapter, R. A. M., and of the Consistory. He also cooperates in community affairs by membership in the Placentia Orange Growers Association. With his wife he participated in all the notable drives of the war and gave his support to all the various war activities.

CHARLES HERBERT CHAPMAN — An influential member of the board of trustees of Santa Ana who, as a very enterprising, far-seeing young man, has been able to contribute much toward the building up, and also the upbuilding of the city, is Charles H. Chapman, one of the acknowledged leaders in the lumber business. He was born near Louisville, in Pottawatomie County, Kans., on January 3, 1875, the son of Simeon J. Chapman, a native of Missouri, who settled in Pottawatomie County in October, 1868, after having lost three brothers in the Civil War. He homesteaded eighty acres there, improved the same, raised grain and stock and, when he was ready, sold his holding at a handsome profit. He located at Westmoreland, in the same county, and engaged in both the bakery and confectionery line, and in running a transfer business. When he retired, in 1903, he located at Santa Ana, residing for a while with our subject. He had married Miss Hattie M. Finney, a native of Ohio; and she is also, happily, still living in the enjoyment of health. Grandfather Chapman was a native of Pennsylvania, although Grandmother Chapman was of French parentage.

The fourth eldest in the order of birth, Charles H. Chapman was brought up on a farm until he was fourteen years old, during which time he attended the district school; and then he began to hustle for himself. He worked at the baker's trade, the first year for his "keep," and the following two years on a regular wage, in a bakery at Onaga, Kans., after which he entered the employ of the Onaga Lumber Company. He began at the lowest round of the ladder, worked up for nine years, and finally, when he came to have an interest in the company, had full charge of the concern. He might have remained there longer; but at the end of two years, the yard was sold, and then, instead of regarding the turn of affairs as in any way a set-back, he very wisely decided to avail himself of the opportunity to come to California.

In 1904 Mr. Chapman located at Santa Ana, and there at 120 Bush Street, at the corner of Second and Bush, he commenced what has since developed into his present imposing establishment. His yard was advantageously situated, half a block threw to First Street, and by delivering with trucks, he gave general satisfaction and soon controlled an enviable trade. He also set up a small planing mill, which was kept busy filling orders from near and far. He belongs to the Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of Southern California, the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants and Manufacturers Association: and in the latter organization, he was chairman of the Board for two years.

At Onaga, Kans., Mr. Chapman was married to Miss Myrtle M. Hayes, a native of Pottawatomie County, a lady of accomplishments and personal charms; and their fortunate union has been blessed with the birth of three children; Hazel, Elva and Viola. He was made a Mason in the Onaga Lodge in Kansas, and now he belongs to Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, at Santa Ana. He is also in the Santa Ana Council No. 14, R. & S. M.; and he, his wife and daughter are members of Hermosa Chapter, O. E. S. They attend the First Congregational Church, and Mr. Chapman teaches a boys' class in the Sunday School.

Having been elected a trustee of the city of Santa Ana in April, 1919, Mr. Chapman is the water and sewer commissioner. He is a charter member of the Santa Ana Rotary Club, No. 641, and has long been chairman of the membership committee. He belongs to the Sunset Club, and the fact that he is chairman of its finance committee speaks for the good opinion held of him by his fellows.

MURRAY A. PATTON, D.D.S. — A dentist who has done much to elevate and preserve a high standard of ethics for the profession in Orange County, is Murray A. Patton of Santa Ana, who was born in Adams County, Nebr., on March 3, 1879. His father was M. B. Patton, now deceased, and he married Miss Alice Hossler. As parents having the best interests of their children at heart, they afforded such educational advantages as were possible to the lad, who grew up on a Nebraska farm.

When he was fifteen, the family came west to California, and at Santa Ana he continued his schooling, first in the grammar grades and then at the Santa Ana high school, from which he was graduated in 1900.

Going to Chicago, he took his professional courses at the dental school of the Northwestern University and graduated with the Class of '03. He might have found a lucrative field in the East, but he preferred California and so came to Santa Ana. On May 6, 1906, Dr. Patton was married to Miss Etta McNeil. Their union has been a fortunate one, and has been blessed in the birth of two children, Thelma Christine and Murray McNeil.

Dr. Patton, who is fond of hunting, golf and mountain climbing, belongs to the Lodge, Council, Chapter and Commandery in Masonry and the Elks and in the circle of each enjoys an enviable popularity. He is deeply interested in his home district, and ever ready, as a member of the Rotary Club, to "boost" any reasonable movement for local advancement.

ROY CHARLES PETERSON — Probably there never was a time when it was equally a matter of interest as to the character and experience of the men in charge of the American shoe trade, and that may be one reason why success has rewarded the efforts of Roy Charles Peterson to serve the public, as proprietor of Peterson's Shoe Store, to the best of his ability. In Canada, where he was born, at Waterville, in Quebec, he laid the foundations on which he has subsequently, as a typically enterprising American, so handsomely built. His father was Charles O. Peterson, and the maiden name of his mother was Margaret Porteous.

The family came to Santa Ana in 1907, and there the father engaged in the selling of shoes, and soon established an enviable reputation for both his judgment in selection and his ability to outdistance his competitors in prices. After a while he disposed of his interests, and retired. He died in January, 1920, at Santa Ana, and his good wife preceded him, passing away April 17, 1912.

Educated at the public schools in Canada. Roy was fortunate in being sent to Johnsbury, Vt. Later, as a commercial representative, he traveled through the Canadian Northwest for several years, and when he joined his father at Santa Ana in 1907. it was to bring the fruits of wide wandering and varied experience for the benefit generally of the new business. In June, 1912, Mr. Peterson opened an establishment on Sycamore Street but as the business grew he moved to his new location, 215 West Fourth Street in June, 1920.

Notwithstanding these pressing obligations, Mr. Peterson responded to his country's call during the great World War, and on October 30, 1918, enlisted in the Twenty-fifth Regiment, U. S. Heavy Artillery. He was 'keyed up for action and sacrifice; but the armistice prevented him seeing the service he had hoped to engage in. He therefore resumed, as an American and a Republican, such work as has been possible for him to perform in elevating the standard of good citizenship.

Mr. Peterson's wife was named Alice Norton before her marriage, and she shares with him an agreeable popularity in the circles where they are known. He is a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Elks Lodge, where he is the Exalted Ruler (1920). Fond of fishing and other healthful diversions, Mr. Peterson loses no opportunity to "boost" Santa Ana and all Orange County, and so is naturally a livewire in the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce.

MRS. ADELINA CARRILLO  — A charming and most interesting representative of one of California's most celebrated native families is Mrs. Adelina Carrillo, a sister of Felipa Dominguez, a daughter of Prudencio Yorba, a granddaughter of Bernardo Yorba. and a great-granddaughter of Antonio Yorba, who came direct from Spain to the Pacific Coast. Although of refined temperament and gentle demeanor, Mrs. Carrillo is a successful rancher and has very well managed her several properties, thanks in part to the assistance of her children. She owns a fine home ranch of 207 acres, and a grain ranch of 141 acres at Corona, in Riverside County, but makes her home on the ranch at Esperanza.

She was born at Yorba, then Los Angeles County, November 20, 1853, and as a child, attended the public school at Peralta, and then, to finish her education, she went to the Academy of Sisters of Charity in Los Angeles. On January 19, 1884, she was married to Joseph R. Carrillo, born in Los Angeles. Seven children blessed the union. Two were lost in infancy, and one has passed away of late. The other four are: Esperanza, who graduated from both the Corona high school and the State University at Berkeley, is now a teacher in the Hollywood High School; Edelfrida, also a graduate of the Corona high school, is the wife of Homer Pate, a farmer at Corona; Eutimio, the next, manages his mother's home ranch of 207 acres; and Elena is the wife of Norman Reeves, the oil man living at Esperanza. Eutimio served in the great World War, and joined the provost guard at Camp Kearny; and after serving with honor in the infantry, he was discharged with the coveted credentials on January 9, 1919, at Camp Kearny. He belongs to the Knights of Columbus.

Audel, the fourth oldest, was assisting in operating his mother's ranches when a mournful tragedy disturbed the otherwise placid waters of the Carrillo family life — a tragedy whose one consolation was the evidence of the old heroic Yorba spirit that had animated the family for generations. On May 26, 1919, Audel Carrillo, visiting the Corona ranch, suddenly came upon two Mexican bandits who had broken into the ranch house and they shot him in cold blood — first, two inches below the heart and secondly in the back. With wonderful nerve and fortitude, the wounded young man, although bleeding profusely, drove his automobile to Corona at a speed of forty-five miles an hour, in quest of medical aid; and after personally reporting his case to the police, he went to the Riverside Hospital. There he was operated upon and made a brave fight for life; and although he lived from ten o'clock that morning until eight o'clock the following evening, he died on May 27, in his twenty-seventh year. He was powerfully built and had been not only an indefatigable worker, but had played fullback on the Corona high school football team. He was, therefore, a general favorite — loved by everyone who knew him; and when he was buried at the Yorba Cemetery, his remains were followed to their last resting place by a large concourse of friends.

E. MARTIN CHRISTENSEN — An upright, energetic and thoroughly capable young man who has already had a broad and valuable experience in life, is E. M. Christensen, known to his friends as "Martin," a native son, having been born in Los Angeles on November 20, 1884. His father was S. Christensen, a native of Denmark, who had married Johanna Christine Johnson, of Sweden. They were made man and wife in California, and came to Orange County in 1890. He had been foreman for the Griffith Lumber Company in Los Angeles, where he also built up a transfer business in the early eighties; and was employed by that firm to come to Santa Ana, lay out their yard here, and start their business. He is now an orange grower and has a ranch of forty-seven acres in the Garden Grove precinct, and there he and his good wife are among the most respected residents. Eight children — five boys and three girls — were born of this union; one boy died in 1886, and a daughter married Samuel Gibson and died on January 13, 1920.

S. Christensen having moved with his family direct to his ranch at Garden Grove in 1890, Martin Christensen's schooling was obtained in the Garden Grove district. He worked on the home farm until he was sixteen, and then he went north to Alaska, to seek his fortune. At Seward he worked with a construction gang for eleven months, when he was kicked by a horse and so severely injured that he was laid up in the hospital and lost his hearing in the left ear for fourteen years. Of late he has been slowly recovering the use of the injured organ, thanks to scientific skill and the patient ministrations of a devoted doctor.

From Alaska Mr. Christensen came back to the States and followed construction work in Oregon and San Francisco as a cement finisher. He reached San Francisco just after the earthquake, and the following year settled in Garden Grove, where he established himself as a cement contractor and manufacturer of cement pipes for irrigation. He had no difficulty in demonstrating his ability in his chosen field, and soon built up an extensive business in pipe-making and the installing of irrigation systems.

Mr. Christensen's cement pipe plant is located on the ten acres which he bought in the Garden Grove precinct in November, 1919, and where he has a full complement of machinery and tools, with a mixer run by a two-horse power electric motor. He makes eight-inch, ten-inch and twelve-inch pipe, and in this section alone has laid about 100 miles of piping.

Besides this property, Mr. Christensen owns ten acres in the Katella voting precinct, where he resides, and two houses and lots in Garden Grove. He belongs to the Orange Growers Association at Garden Grove, to the Walnut Growers Association at Anaheim, and to the Central Lemon Growers Association at Villa Park, being interested in the culture of all three of these fruits.

On April 7, 1915, Mr. Christensen was married to Miss Rachel Knapp, a sister of J. A. Knapp, the well-known "Chili King." He and his good wife belong to the Baptist Church, and under the leadership of the Republican party, he votes for the principles and the men representing them most appealing to his conscience.

MRS. FELIPA Y. DOMINGUEZ — A very interesting and distinguished representative of one of the noblest of Southern California families is Mrs. Felipa Dominguez, the well-to-do widow of the late Pablo Dominguez, and a successful rancher at Esperanza, six miles east of Placentia in the Santa Ana Canyon. She always has a story to tell that is well worth the hearing; and those who are thus favored never forget the charm of her sympathetic and genial personality, as a delightful souvenir of "the good old days'' of California hospitality.

The parents of Mrs. Dominguez were Prudencio Yorba and his good wife, who was Dolores Ontiveros before her marriage, and they had twelve children: Felipa, our subject, was the eldest, and attended the Sisters School at Los Angeles; Adelina, the next in the order of birth, is now Mrs. Carrillo and owns a ranch of 207 acres in the Yorba precinct, in which district David, unmarried, also lives; Angelina is the wife of Samuel Kraemer and resides in Placentia; Prudencio S. is also a rancher of the Yorba precinct; Zoraida is the widow of Coleman Travis, long a neighboring Yorba rancher, and Ernest is also a Yorba farmer; Dolores and her husband, Joseph Ruiz, reside in Santa Maria; Esperanza lived to see her fifteenth year, and the other children passed away at a very early age. Esperanza, the freight station on the Santa Fe, which has proven of such convenience in the dispatching of fresh fruit and other farm products, was named after the lamented daughter. Mrs. Dominguez was born at Yorba, August 24, 1852, and is now, therefore, one of the oldest settlers in what is now Orange County.

Mrs. Dominguez was unusually fortunate in her ancestry and may be pardoned for especial pride in her family associations with the historic past. Her great-grandfather was Antonio Yorba. a native of Catalonia, Spain, who came to the Pacific Coast as a soldier under the Spanish commander Fages. He landed at Monterey, and stopped for a while at the famous Monterey Mission. Being full of adventure, however, he explored nearly all of Southern California lying south of Yerba Buena, and fell in love particularly with that portion of the country which was drained by the Santa Ana River and the Santiago Creek. He obtained a grant to this land, which included all the lands from San Bernardino drained by the Santa Ana River and the Santiago Creek, to the Pacific Ocean; and under his hand this vast area became a very celebrated rancho. Legally, it was known as "El Canon de San Antonio de Santa Ana de los Yorba;" and after the death of Antonio Yorba, the title passed to his son, Bernardo Yorba. The latter improved the property in many respects, and built thereon a magnificent adobe of 90 rooms, which was the scene of many elaborate social functions. It had a dance hall with a polished floor, where fandango after fandango furnished enjoyment to the wide-awake young people. The third wife of Bernardo Yorba was a very ambitious and progressive woman, and she induced Bernardo to establish various kinds of shops and mills, where leather was tanned, and shoes, harness, saddles, lariats, tools, woolen, etc., mere manufactured. Utensils of iron and copper, axes, picks, shovels, locks and keys were among the things made, and many of these products are still known to exist. The ruins only of the spacious old adobe still stand; it was of two stories, the walls were twenty-six inches thick, and they were finished with white plaster. Rancho Yorba became one of the richest, as it was also one of the most celebrated Spanish grants in Southern California. Bernardo Yorba lived to be fifty-eight years of age. Prudencio Yorba died July 3, 1885, and his wife, on November 24, 1894.

Mrs. Dominguez is also related, in a very interesting way, to one of the notable families of the North. She is a niece of Abraham Ontiveros, of Santa Maria, who was born on the San Juan Cajon rancho, on April 5, 1852, and was educated by Spanish tutors and in the public schools. He grew up on the Tepesquet ranch, and upon his father's death, inherited 2,000 acres of valuable land. Being decidedly progressive, he introduced the most up-to-date methods and machinery in the raising of his grain and stock; his horses became his pride; and to properly irrigate his land, he built a reservoir with a capacity of 200,000 gallons, on an elevation 150 feet high. After a residence of more than fifty years on his home ranch. Mr. Ontiveros abandoned farm life and moved into the town of Santa Maria. His two marriages united him with the well-known, long established Spanish families of Vidal and Arellanes.

Pablo Dominguez was born at Peralta, Orange County, in 1836, descended from an old family of California. After his marriage to Felipa Yorba, they engaged in farming at Peralta until his death in 1895, after which Mrs. Dominguez moved to her ranch at Esperanza which she inherited from her father, where she reared and educated her children. Mrs. Dominguez's 414 acres of land, was devoted largely to viticulture. When it became apparent that the nation would "go dry," the vines were grubbed out and in 1919 twenty-five acres of Valencia oranges planted in their stead. A Fordson tractor is used for plowing, and eight horses assist in the cultivating. Mrs. Dominguez makes use of a Paige automobile, and thus rapidly moves about where her distinguished ancestors journeyed in more leisurely fashion. Two hundred acres are planted to barley, and sixty acres to lima beans.

Five children blessed the union of Pablo and Felipa Dominguez; Dorinda is the wife of Adolph Marzo. he is the proprietor of the tomato cannery at Placentia, and resides at Peralta; Arnulio Orlando, manages his mother's ranch, he also owns eighteen acres of budded walnuts on the south side of the Santa Ana River. which he himself planted six years ago; Lydia married Julian Yorba. the Puente rancher; Carlos N. helps to run the ranch, he joined the United States infantry, and was on the way to New York, to sail for France, when the train was wrecked at Geneva, Ill., and he suffered a compound fracture of the right leg. as the result of which he was honorably discharged: Pablo Vicente is married to Laura Irene Knowlton and resides in Anaheim, but he also assists his mother to operate the Dominguez ranch. The family attend the Catholic Church at Yorba. and enjoy their reunions m the handsome eight-room residence erected by Mrs. Dominguez in 1908.

JOSEPH NUSBAUMER — An able and all-around excellent young man is Joseph Nusbaumer, son of the late Joseph Nusbaumer, the well-known pioneer who came to what is now the Newport precinct, then Los Angeles, now Orange County, as early as 1882. The elder Nusbaumer was born in Alsace, France, April 25, 1847. He served in the French army in the Franco-Prussian War. Immediately after the close of the war he came to Reno, Nev., and there he was married to Miss Sarah Britton, a native of Dayton, Ohio. She came to Nevada with friends, where she met Mr. Nusbaumer, and in September, 1882, they located in Newport precinct and purchased twenty acres which is still held by the family. Mr. Nusbaumer brought with him some of the most desirable qualities of the hard-working European; and these virtues, with those of the accomplished and ambitious American wife, were happily transmitted in their one child, the subject of our interesting sketch, who had the good fortune to be born a native son, at Santa Ana. Cal., on November 9 of the year when his parents took up their residence here. The father died on July 24, 1917, but his widow is still living.

On March 16, 1911, Joseph Nusbaumer was married at Santa Ana to Miss Beulah Lawrence, a charming and devoted lady, who was reared in the pleasant environment of Sherman, Texas. Together they have striven and worked; and as a natural reward for intelligent operation, they enjoy a handsome return from all their investments.

Mr. Nusbaumer is a Republican in matters of national political import, but he does not allow partisanship to interfere with his supporting the best men and the most reasonable measures. This is particularly the case in local affairs. He and his broad-minded wife take a keen interest in popular education, and he is a trustee of the Diamond school district, situated two miles southwest of Santa Ana.

FRED BOOSEY  — No district in Orange County, perhaps, has been more noted than Tustin for its many busy ranchers, among whom Fred Boosey must be mentioned as having made- for himself a high place in the esteem of all who know him. He owns a well-cultivated ranch of ten acres devoted to citrus fruit, although he is also extensively engaged in bean growing. He formerly worked as high as 500 acres in a season, but at present he is operating 300 acres in conjunction with his orange ranch.

Mr. Boosey was born in Kansas on December 6, 1883, and is the son of Oliver and Sarah (Sherbet) Boosey, natives of the state of Vermont. The father served in a Vermont regiment in the Civil War, having enlisted when seventeen years of age. They migrated to Riley County, Kans., at an early day in the history of that state, and settled there as homesteaders; and they now reside at Clay Center. Kans. To them were born fifteen children, and twelve are living, among whom our subject is the eleventh in the order of birth. Five of this number are in California, and two in Orange County — Henry and Fred. Howard, another brother, served in the World War.

Fred Boosey was reared and educated in the public schools of his native state, and always confined himself, until 1901. to agricultural pursuits. In 1901 he migrated to California, and since 1904 he has been in Tustin, Orange County, engaged in bean growing. In 1917 he bought the ten acres on Yorba Street which he devotes to Valencia oranges. As the result of his thorough way of carrying through any work undertaken. Mr. Boosey has never failed, with a good understanding of the local field, and by the application of the "last word" in science, to get high results.

In February, 1917, Mr. Boosey was happily united in marriage to Miss Celina Dalton, the daughter of Adolph and Emma (Hunt) Dalton, born in Montreal, Canada, but married in Massachusetts. A native of Chicago, Ill., she was educated in the public schools, and St. Anne's Academy. She is delighted with Southern California; is a lover of nature, and therefore enjoys the flowers and the birds of the Golden State, and could not be induced to return to the "windy city" by the lakes. Mr. Boosey is a believer in cooperation and is a member of the Santiago Orange Growers Association at Orange.

CHARLES F. CROSE — It is true that when an individual is endowed by nature with the valuable traits of determination and perseverance their success in life is usually a foregone conclusion. These characteristics were dominant in the character of the late Charles F. Crose, who was widely esteemed for his active participation in interests of a public nature, while he lived the few years granted him to be a citizen of Orange County.

Intimately associated with the early history of Shenandoah, Iowa, Charles F. Crose was born in a log cabin at Sidney, Fremont County, Iowa, on March 16, 1858, the son of W. F. Crose, who was a native of Bourbon County, Ky., where he was born in 1824, and Eliza J. ( Van Eaton) Crose, his wife, a native of Union County, Ind., born in 1825. They were married in 1845 and became early settlers in Iowa where they developed a farm from the virgin prairie. They lived there at a time when Indians roamed at will over that frontier state and had many interesting experiences while developing their farm. The elder Crose died in 1895, after a long and useful career. His widow survived him until January 17, 1904.

Charles F. was educated in the public schools of his native town and was reared to farm life until he was about fifteen, when he entered the employ of his elder brother, R. B. Crose, who was a general merchant at Manti, before Shenandoah had been started. The young man was ambitious and he left the employ of his brother and started to study medicine, but after a year he gave it up and entered Bryant and Stratton's Business College in Chicago, where he pursued a commercial law and a business course for about nine months and graduated with second honors in a class of over 150. He moved his stock of merchandise on wagons from Manti to the new town of Shenandoah and there became one of the pioneer merchants. In March, 1881, Charles F. bought an interest in the business and thereafter gave his personal attention to the management of the concern, and made of it an unqualified success.

While connected with the mercantile interests of the town he was active in the affairs of the Republican party and finally was persuaded to become a candidate for the genera! assembly, being elected in 1903 and serving for two terms, being reelected to succeed himself. For twelve 3'ears he was a member of the school board, six years as it secretary; was secretary of the Shenandoah Fair Association; director of the Shenandoah National Bank; prominent in the organization and management of the cannery and the creamery there, and in all other activities for the building up of the growing city. He also served as one of two trustees for the original donors of the Western Normal College. He had wisely invested in realty there and owned a farm and considerable business and residence property in Shenandoah. On account of the ill health of his wife he decided he would locate in California, in consequence of which he disposed of his holdings and in 1910 settled in Santa Ana in a beautiful home which they erected on the corner of Cypress and Pine streets. He had purchased a walnut grove, on which his daughter and her husband settled, and to this he gave much of his attention. He became interested in the Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association, which had suffered many set-backs and he was induced to become its secretary and manager of the packing house. He threw himself into the reorganization of this concern with his accustomed vigor and soon had it on a sound basis. He was also identified with the Orange County Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and was president of the State Mutual Insurance Association. In this county, while he lived, he continued to take an active interest in public affairs and was a staunch Republican, though his father was a Democrat. He was a Knights Templar Mason and a Shriner, also a past patron of the Eastern Star Chapter; was also a member of the B. P. O. Elks, and an Odd Fellow, the latter membership being retained at his old home in Iowa. For years he was a consistent member of the Congregational Church and a worker in its causes. No worthy cause was ever presented to his notice, either in his Iowa or his California home that he did not give it his support.

At Afton, Union County, Iowa, on June 2, 1880, Mr. Crose was united in marriage with Miss Nina Nixon, who was born in Morgantown, W. Va., daughter of Rev. George J., a M. E. preacher, and Sarah (Bruen) Nixon, who settled in Iowa when their daughter was eight years old. She was educated in the public schools and in Simpson College of Indianola, Iowa, and thus was well qualified to be a worthy helpmate for her gifted husband; she entered heartily into all his plans and assisted him with his work and soon became a leader in social circles in Shenandoah. She was a member, and the president for some years, of the Kappa Delta Club, also a district secretary for some time; for ten years she was president of the missionary society of the Congregational Church, and soon after settling in Santa Ana, Cal.. was elected to the same position here and has served for seven years, being still in office; she is an ex-president of the Ebell Club of Santa Ana, which has a membership of over 300, and is on the executive board; is president of the County Federated Clubs; has held offices in the Women's Club: and is on the executive board of the southern branch of the Woman's Board of Missions of the Pacific. During the World War she was active in Red Cross and other allied activities, and still retains her interest in the Red Cross; and was chairman of the educational department of the County Council of Defense of Orange County. She is a member of the Eastern Star Chapter of Santa Ana.

Mr. and Mrs. Crose became the parents of a daughter, Mabel C., now the wife of Fred C. Rowland, a prosperous rancher of McClay Street, and they have two charming daughters, Nina Jeannette and Barbara Ruth. A man of broad mentality and strict integrity, who can well be called a self-made man, Charles F. Crose was called by the grim reaper on January 11, 1917, and there was left to mourn his passing a wide circle of friends in Orange County as well as in his former Iowa home, all of whom valued him for his worth as a citizen and friend.

GEORGE J. COCKING  — An enterprising and progressive native son who is making a decided success of the plumbing, heating and sheet metal business in Santa Ana, is George J. Cocking. He was born at Colton, Cal., August 28, 1888, a son of Isaac and Annie (Drown) Cocking, natives of England. Isaac Cocking came to California in the early eighties, locating at Colton, where he became manager for the corporation which purchased the large hill of lime rock near Colton, and which the company demolished for making building lime.

George J. Cocking received his early education in the public schools of Colton and Redlands. At Riverside he was employed by Copley Brothers, with whom he learned the trade of a sheet metal worker. Returning to Redlands he worked for Worthington, the plumber, also Kline and Underwood. In 1908 Mr. Cocking moved to Pasadena, where he was employed by the Pacific Sheet Metal Works and the Warren and Foss Company. The year 1912 marked his advent into the business life of Santa Ana, when he entered the employ of the McFadden Hardware Company and built up their department for sheet metal work and became manager. During his connection with the McFadden Hardware Company he installed the sheet metal work for the Santa Ana high school, the Athletic Club and the Yost Theater; also the high school building at Orange. Mr. Cocking also installed the heating and ventilating plants in the following buildings: the Methodist and Congregational churches in Santa Ana; Anaheim Public Library: other business blocks and fine residences at Anaheim.

In April, 1918, Mr. Cocking decided to enter into business for himself and since then he has been conducting his chosen line of work most successfully. He can point with pride to the following buildings where he has done the plumbing or installed the heating plants: at the Crawford Marmalade Factory, Anaheim, he installed their steam heating plant; installed the plumbing in the fine residence of C. V. Davis at Santa Ana; bungalow court at First and Court streets; the McCormick Apartments; four houses for J. W. Sackman; an apartment house for Mrs. Lowman on South Birch Street; and a number of houses built by George Barrows.

On February 2, 1912, Mr. Cocking was united in marriage with Miss Bertha J. Simpson of Kansas, and they are the parents of one son, George Richard.

WILLIAM J. SAUNBY  — Flourishing and promising Tustin numbers in its citizenship many progressive men, and one of the most pronounced, both in ability and accomplishment, is William J. Saunby, who owns twenty-five acres of land, twenty of which are devoted to oranges and five to walnuts. For eighteen years he has resided there, and more and more he has contributed to the growth, improvement and development of his town.

Mr. Saunby is a native of Ontario, Canada, where he was born on October 5, 1859. There, too, in his native city. London, he was reared and educated. Up to 1901 he spent his work days in the milling and grain business with his father, who owned two flour mills in London, but in that year he crossed the border into "the States," coming direct to Tustin, Cal., and as soon thereafter as he could procure his naturalization papers, he did so. Now he is a full-fledged citizen of a country he adopted with gratitude and hope. The father of Mr. Saunby was Joseph D. Saunby, a native of the Province of Quebec, and he married Miss Elizabeth Bird Elson of London, a daughter of John and Mary Elson whose family like the Saunby's is traced back to England. Two children were born to the worthy couple, the other child being a son named Stephen, now deceased. William J. was popular and influential in his native country, where he was elected to the office of reeve, akin to mayor, at London West, a post he filled for two full years.

At London, December 30, 1886, Mr. Saunby was married to Miss Alice Cosford, the daughter of the Rev. Thomas Cosford, who was born in Northamptonshire, England, of a splendid old North of England family; he studied classics and theology and became a minister in the Methodist Church of Canada, preaching in different cities in Ontario for over fifty years, until his death. In Ontario he was also married, being united with Nancy Hartman of that native heath. Reverend Cosford was a man much loved in the communities where he preached for his mild and charitable disposition as well as for his straightforwardness and fearlessness in speaking the truth. From the fortunate union of Mr. and Mrs. Saunby have been born five children, four of whom grew up. Sidney during the recent great war served as a member of the U. S. forces. He studied electricity and especially ignition at the government quarters in Los Angeles that he might become proficient as an automobile expert. Previous to the outbreak of the war he was with the Edison Company and he is now assisting his father in operating the ranch; Dora is a graduate nurse, now with the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago; Alice is a student nurse in the Methodist Episcopal Hospital in Los Angeles; while Ernest, the youngest, is attending Santa Ana high school.

Mr. Saunby is a believer that cooperation is the only successful method of marketing citrus and walnut crops, so is very naturally a member of the Santiago Orange Association and the Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association, being a member of the board of directors in the former. Both he and his estimable wife are devout Methodists holding membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Santa Ana where he is a member of the official board, and liberally inclined, they take an active part in the benevolences of the church. Strong advocates of temperance, they did all they could to fight the demon rum and abolish the saloon as well as working for the success of national prohibition. They have lived noble and useful lives and by their helpfulness and many charities have endeared themselves to the people of their community who appreciate them for their worth and integrity. Tustin would gladly welcome citizens and their families of the Saunby type.

IRVIN LIVENSPIRE  — A contractor very naturally in constant demand because of his technical knowledge of every kind of brick masonry, is Irvin Livenspire, who was born in Wyandot County, Ohio, on January 23, 1867. He was the son of a merchant, Charles Livenspire, and so came to get an insight early in life into business ways of the world. He was also fortunate in the character and devotion of his mother, who was Catherine Kellogg before her marriage, and owed much to her in his preparation for the responsibilities of later years. Both parents, well known for their standing in Ohio communities, are now dead.

Irvin attended the public schools of Ohio, among the best in the United States, and when he was old enough to profit from apprenticeship, he learned the brickmason's trade. He was successful from the beginning in the opportunities to work where he developed rapidly; and when he came to California in 1902, he was prepared to stand shoulder to shoulder with the best artisans.

For five years Mr. Livenspire worked in Los Angeles, but in 1907 he removed to Santa Ana, and since then his reputation for both skill and honesty, as well as reasonable terms, has made him much in demand. Among important commissions, he did the mason work on the Masonic Temple, the Spurgeon Building, the West-End Theater, and the Rutherford Building, and of course a great deal of other excellent work throughout the county. He is in partnership with Henry Walters, and the firm name is Livenspire and Walters. On an average, they employ twelve men.

Mrs. Livenspire was Miss Ida Blake before her marriage, and she is the mother of a son, Ralph, who is associated in business with Mr. Livenspire, and a daughter, Mildred. Mr. Livenspire is a Democrat, but first, last and always an American, and when it comes to "boosting'" Santa Ana or Orange County, he forgets all about the narrowness of party lines, and seeks to support only the best, be it in men or measures designed to help the community to higher, broader and better things.

THOMAS C. H. De LAPP — An efficient and popular public official of Huntington Beach, who has earned the confidence of his fellow-citizens and the honors bestowed upon him by the Government, is Thomas C. H. De Lapp, the postmaster. He was born in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Ill., on September 5, 1866, the son of John M. De Lapp, a native of Cape Girardeau. Mo., a descendant of French-Huguenot stock, also a Mexican War veteran with the rank of sergeant and he helped to gain possession of California for the United States. He married Mary F. Headen, who was born in Mooresville, Tenn. For a while the parents rented a farm in Morgan County, Ill., and there they became esteemed as industrious, progressive and altogether estimable folk.

It thus happened that Thomas grew up to farm work, learning thoroughly first how to do the usual chores, and secondly the methods of agriculture then in vogue in that part of the country. When, however, he was twenty-three years of age, he removed to St. Louis, Mo., and there worked at various occupations. He found employment in planing mills, and for the remainder of five years or so was in the car factories of that city. He proved competent in every way until he broke his wrist, and then he was forced to seek different employment. Having become known to the street car authorities, he was made a conductor on the Lindell Avenue Railway, and for another live years had charge of passenger traffic.

While in St. Louis on July 2, 1892, Mr. De Lapp was married to Miss Mary Elizabeth Boggs, a relative of the pioneer, Lilburn W. Boggs, a Kentuckian born in 1798, who removed to Missouri, was elected governor in 1836, and took a prominent part in the expulsion of the Mormons. In 1846 he migrated to California, and from 1847 to 1849 was alcalde of the Sonoma district, where he became somewhat famous for the administration of office during a trying period of the interregnum, and so is deserving of prominence in the annals of California. Mrs. De Lapp was reared in Missouri, and later came to the Pacific Coast. Mr. and Mrs. De Lapp have two children: George T., who is a student in the high school; and Margaret F. E., who is still attending the grammar school.

In November, 1899, Mr. De Lapp came out to California, and engaged with the Los Angeles Traction Company as a conductor; and for a year he resided in the metropolis of the Southland. Next he put in six years with the San Dimas Citrus Association, thereby acquiring a still better knowledge of the resources of the Golden State. In 1906 he came to Huntington Beach, and here he bought acreage and city property. For two years he was manager of the Tent City, and ever since he has been a genuine "booster" for the town. He was one of the first to see the importance of good roads to the district, and to advocate building the same. For four years, too, Mr. De Lapp farmed hereabouts and raised sugar beets, and in course of time he helped to get the Huntington Beach Sugar Factory, that is, to induce the Holly Sugar Corporation to build their establishment. To make the venture a success, he undertook to grow the sugar beet on a large scale, and for a while he had forty acres planted to beets.

In January, 1915, Mr. De Lapp was appointed, as a Democrat, postmaster at Huntington Beach, a position of responsibility, as the office there handles a large amount of mail. This is due largely to the presence of many tourists or visitors in the bathing season, a moving class difficult to cater to. He was reappointed to serve a second term on August 15. 1919. Two assistants aid the postmaster — Miss Abigail Crum, who is the assistant postmaster, and a clerk, Mrs. Anna Rowland-Taylor. There is also a village carrier. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Hoge, and a rural carrier, Samuel M. Hosack.

Mr. De Lapp was made a Mason some years ago, and belongs- to Huntington Beach Lodge No. 383. F. & A. M. Both Mr. and Mrs. De Lapp are members of the Eastern Star. For nine years Mr. De Lapp was superintendent of the Christian Sunday school, and he helped with a generous hand to build the Christian Church at Huntington Beach. Now Mr. and Mrs. De Lapp and their family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, over the Sunday school of which he has presided for one year as superintendent.

History of Orange County, California: Samuel Armor

Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA 1921

Transcribed by: Marianne Swan, 8 October 2009 : Pages - 1219-1249

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