Orange County, California
Biographies
1921
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HENRY A. SKILES  — An industrious, frugal man who credits his success in business life largely to his having endeavored to lead a devout. Christian life, and his good health, enabling him at the age of seventy-two, to ride a motorcycle daily, is Henry A. Skiles, the well-known building contractor of 912 Orange Avenue. He was born at Mt. Pleasant. Ind., on July 28, 1848, the son of Henry Skiles. a native of Pennsylvania. He came of a family of farmers, and was an early settler and builder-up of Mt. Pleasant, Ind. He had married Jane Andrews, a native of Ireland, who came to America with her parents. Henry is the fifth son in a family of seven children honoring this worthy couple.
 
When he was eight years old, his parents removed, first to Lee and then to Henry County, Iowa, and the lad attended a log-cabin school in the winter while he was being initiated into the details of farming, for which he early showed a liking. His father had a good farm of 160 acres, where he raised grain and stock, so that he had the best opportunity, under his guidance, to learn. After the Civil War, his folks removed to Johnson County. Mo., within fifty miles of Kansas City, where they continued to farm; and at agricultural pursuits, in the service of others, in Iowa and Kansas and Missouri, he continued until he was twenty-one.
 
The marriage of Mr. Skiles united him with Miss Sarah Thompson, a daughter of the Rev. R. G. Thompson of Kingsville, Mo., and there, he took up farming with eighty acres, raising grain and stock. Mrs. Skiles' mother was Sarah Leland Brown, a native of Virginia. while Mr. Thompson originally came from Pennsylvania. He died at the age of seventy-nine.
 
In 1874, Mr. Skiles came West with his family to Oakland, and there did general carpentering, associated for four years with his uncle, Henry Brown. Meeting with James McFadden, when the latter came to Oakland, he decided to come south; and in 1878 removed to Santa Ana, shipping his effects by boat to Newport. From the first, he undertook general building and contracting, and with plenty of good help, he soon put up a number of the better residences, and for a quarter of a century was Santa Ana's leading building contractor.
 
Mr. Skiles has three acres of orchard at his home place, purchased in 1900, and ten acres of apricots at Hemet. Seven children have assisted in the daily toil, besides adding to the pleasures of domestic life. Robert, who married Katherine Brown, is deputy assessor of Orange County, and has two children. Dorothy and Corinne; Leland married E. C. Baer and is ranching at Hemet; they have two children. Rolston and Lois; Edna is the wife of A. E. Cox, a rancher living at Huntington Park; their two children are Carmen and Elwood; Leslie is also a farmer at Hemet, his wife was Frances .Armstrong, and they have one child, Denton A.; Ira is a plumber at Long Beach, and is married to Lea Snyder; Earl is the husband of Louise Riley of San Francisco, and the father of two children, Margaret and June; and he is the private secretary of the estate of E. T. Earl of Los Angeles; Bruce married Miss Grace Doty, and is employed by J. Tubbs of the Santa Ana Commercial Company and they have one child, Helen. Mr. Skiles is a Prohibitionist in national political affairs, and a good "booster" in everything pertaining to Santa Ana and Orange County. He and his family are consistent church members.

FRANK SAWYER  — A successful garage manager who thoroughly understands the many-sided problems of the autos and the tourist, is Frank Sawyer, the popular proprietor of the West End Garage at Santa Ana. He was born in Pawnee City, Pawnee County, Nebr., on October 24, 1893, the son of J. B. Sawyer who had married Elizabeth A. Karnes by whom he came to have six children, three sons and three daughters. He brought his family to California in December, 1912, and located at Long Beach; and both parents are still enjoying the salubrious climate of sub-tropical California.
 
Frank got all he could out of the excellent public schools of his neighborhood, and followed this elementary training with a course of technical studies at Highland Park College at Des Moines. Iowa. Appreciating the ever-expanding field of service for the motorist, since 1907 he has followed the mechanism of automobiles, and since coming to California in 1912 he continued in the automobile business and has now well established himself as one of the indispensables in Santa Ana.
 
In 1919, Mr. Sawyer bought his present plant and spared neither pains nor expense in providing for his patrons the most modern machinery and appliances. He is thus able to execute all kinds of repair work, and his fame for doing that which so many are unable to tackle having extended even beyond the confines of Orange County, he has all the commissions which any man would care to undertake with some leisure and comfort to himself. He employs four men regularly, each like himself an expert in every kind of auto or motor renovating. Only the best of materials are used, and satisfaction to the customer is thus easily guaranteed. The West End Garage has become one of the most popular repair shops in the county.
 
On December I5, 1914, Mr. Sawyer married Julia Ruth Walker, a native daughter of Orange County, born near Santa Ana; and they have one child, Margaret Ellen. Besides taking an active part in the work of the Chamber of Commerce, to which Mr. Sawyer belongs, and participating with fellow Republicans in civic reforms, Mr. Sawyer belongs to the Elks, being a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 794.  

HARVEY GARBER — That great progress has been made in the manufacture of brick is clearly demonstrated by Harvey Garber, one of the most aggressively progressive leaders in that field in Southern California, and a prominent business man of Santa Ana. He was born in Emmet County, Mich., on March 28, 1879, the son of Jacob M. Garber, a native Ohian, still happily living. The good mother born in Indiana, now among the silent majority, was Libbie Shrock before her marriage, and gave early guidance to three children, among whom Harvey was the youngest.
 
He attended the public schools in northern Indiana, while being raised on a farm, but had to lay aside his books all too early, so that much of his real schooling came through contact with the outside, exacting world. At the age of twenty, he had learned the pressfeeder's trade, but a year later took up carpentering and followed that by preference.
 
On January 13, 1914, he came to California; and having had five years' experience as a contractor at South Bend, Ind., he established himself in Orange County in general contracting, with his residence at Orange. He built the grammar school in Huntington Beach, the Alfred Huhn Building at Orange, a brick block at Newport Beach, the Greenville School, the L. B. Resh brick block at Anaheim, and many fine residences in various towns in the county. In August, 1919, he bought the brick plant at Santa Ana, and since then he has devoted all his time to the manufacture of brick of all grades. He employs twenty-five men, and pays out over $500 weekly for wages.
 
Mr. Garber has always taken a live interest, as a Republican, in America national politics, ever ready to elevate the standard of patriotic citizenship, and has participated in Chamber of Commerce and other "boosting" and developing work: and during the war he had been notified of his recommendation for a first lieutenancy in the construction division of the quartermaster department, but the commission was never forwarded because of the signing of the armistice. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, and also belongs to the Orange County Commercial Club.
 
On June 2, 1909, Mr. Garber was married to Miss Freda B. Kelley; and their marriage has brought them the inestimable blessing of an attractive daughter, Marian Elizabeth. Mr. Garber is a Scottish Rite, thirty-second degree Mason, and also a Shriner; and Mrs. Garber shares his popularity in fraternal circles. Both are fond of outdoor life, and glad to be in California, the land of outdoors.  

ARCHIE M. ROBINSON — Since every other important line of industry in the world centers around the occupation of tilling the soil the rancher may truthfully be called the Hub of the World. One of the industrious, progressive and self-made orange growers of Orange County, Cal., is Archie M. Robinson, a native of Delhi, Delaware County, N. Y., where he was born October 21, 1871. His father, Buel W., and mother, Jane (Christie) Robinson, also natives of the Empire State, were the parents of seven children, of whom A. M. Robinson is the only one residing in California. The father, Buel W., now deceased, served as a volunteer during the Civil War in Company C, One Hundred Forty-fourth New York Volunteer Regiment.
 
Archie M. Robinson received a common school education and resided in his native state, following general farming until 1901, when the call of the West caused him to turn his face toward the shores of the Golden State, and since then he has been a resident of Orange County. The first year in his new home he worked on a ranch, cleared $300 and invested it in a twenty-five-acre ranch on Prospect Avenue, which he improved, owned for two years and sold. He then purchased his present twenty- six-acre ranch on Fairhaven Avenue, which is devoted exclusively to the culture of oranges. The property was formerly planted to oranges and apricots, the latter being reset, so now the whole acreage is producing fine Valencia oranges. During the earlier years of Mr. Robinson's residence in Orange County he experienced, in common with other ranchers, the scarcity of water. Necessity caused the combination of their forces and a company was formed to overcome the difficulty by developing water. In 1913 wells were sunk to the depth of 300 feet, resulting in a flow of water, which insured the crops and increased the value of land immeasurably. He has been a director in the Tustin Hill Citrus Association from its organization in 1909.
 
In 1910 Mr. Robinson was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Pilcher, a native of St. Louis, Mo., and daughter of William Pilcher. Two daughters have been born of their union, Elizabeth and Dorothy by name. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson are members of the Baptist Church of Santa Ana. being a member of the board of trustees, and fraternally Mr. Robinson affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, his membership being in the Santa Ana Lodge.

JOHN C. HAYDEN — A Philadelphian of extraordinary business ability, who is "making good" in Orange County as district superintendent of the Southern Counties Gas Company, is John C. Hayden, popular, with his family, in the best social circles. He was born in the City of Brotherly Love on November 21 , 1888, and grew up in that center of Pennsylvania life. His father, now deceased, was Michael J. Hayden, a very successful business man who ran a chain of retail stationery stores in Philadelphia. His mother was Rose G. Deehan before her marriage; and she is also deceased. There were three boys and a girl in the family, and John was the youngest of them all. A sister, Mrs. Marie Warke, resides in Los Angeles, and they are the only two in California. He attended the Gesu Parochial School and St. Joseph's College at Philadelphia, and then entered the stationery business of his father, his mother having died when he was nine years old. Michael Hayden made a visit to Los Angeles and other parts of California in 1906, and four years later, accompanied by John, he came out here to reside.
 
At that time our subject entered the employ of the Gillespie Book and Stationery Store, Los Angeles, and he was placed in charge of the book department, and there he remained for five years. In September, 1916, he came to Santa Ana as chief clerk for the Southern Counties Gas Company, and he rose to be commercial agent, holding that post until he was promoted to be district superintendent on December 1, 1919.
 
At Santa Ana in 1913, Mr. Hayden was married to Miss Gladys Starkey, of Los Angeles; and one child, a boy named Herbert Hughes Hayden. has come to bless their fortunate union. Mr. Hayden is prominent in the Elks Lodge No. 794, at Santa Ana, and also in the Rotary Club of that city, whose motto is: "He profits most who serves best."
 
The Southern Counties Gas Company is a very important utility corporation, supplying both domestic and industrial consumers. The general meter shop, for the whole system of California, is located on East First Street in Santa Ana, where is also the automobile shop and the general store-rooms employing some sixty-five persons. Four districts and eight divisions represent the business interests of this corporation. The eastern district comprises Orange County division, which includes Santa Ana, Orange, Tustin, Anaheim, El Modena, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Placentia, Buena Park, along the route from Garden Grove to Huntington Beach; the Whittier division comprising Whittier, La Habra, Monterey Park and the adjacent territory; the Monrovia division includes Monrovia, Arcadia, Sierra Madre, South Santa Anita and El Monte; while the remaining division of Pomona is made up of Pomona, Claremont, Spadra, LaVerne, Glendora. Chino, Ontario, Uplands, Azusa, San Dimas and Baldwin Park. Mr. Hayden has supervision of the Orange County division.            

WILLIAM KLAUSING  — An old-timer who. by improving the soil of a barren waste, has developed a splendid orchard and in so doing has not only acquired property worth the whole for himself, but has added to the wealth of an already rich country, is William Klausing, who was born in Troy, Madison County, Ill., on June 15, 1864, the son of Henry Klausing. a farmer of that state who died there in 1870. He had married Miss Mary Taake, and she died in 1886. They had four children, of whom three grew to maturity, and of these, William is the second eldest. He was brought up on the home farm, while he attended the local schools; and until he was seventeen, assisted his mother with the farm work. Then he went out to work for others as an experienced farm hand.
 
During the great "boom" in Southern California realty. Mr. Klausing came west to Los Angeles, in 1887, then pretty small and provincial, and secured an engagement to work for Mrs. Hollenbeck on Boyle Heights. At the end of two years, he entered the employment of William H. Perry, and then he was with Dr, Gray and also Judge Gardener, on West Adams Street. At the end of two years there, he traveled north to San Francisco, where he worked for eighteen months for George D. Toy at San Mateo; and after that he was in the service of Andrew Harrell of Visalia, with whom he continued for four years.
 
In July, 1897, Mr. Klausing returned east on a visit to Missouri and Illinois, but the lure of California still holding him. he came back here in 1898, and with a brother rented a ranch for a year in Eagle Rock. They were not very successful, and they dissolved their partnership. Then his attention was directed to Anaheim, and in 1899 he located here. At first he was in the employ of John Brunworth, as zanjero for the water company, and assisted him also on his ranch; but in 1901 he bought his present place on Sunkist Avenue in West Anaheim. which was raw land, covered with cactus and bushes. He paid thirty-five dollars an acre: and while he continued with Mr. Brunworth for eight years, he cleared, leveled and otherwise improved his own property. In 1905 he set out orange and walnut trees, and two years later he built his residence.
 
Now he has twelve and a half acres in Valencia oranges, and seven acres in walnuts, and is probably the oldest orange rancher in the district, with property on which he worked very hard, in the beginning to grow chili peppers. He also owns forty acres in the Palos Verde Valley, which is devoted to the raising of cotton, and he has ten acres in the Golden State tract which he set out to Valencia oranges. Of course, he is a member of the Anaheim Orange and Lemon Association and the Anaheim Walnut Growers Association.
 
At Anaheim Mr. Klausing was married to Miss Dora Dieckoff, a native of Germany, and two children have further blessed their union — Gertrude and Henry Mr. Klausing is a Republican; and he and his family are members of the Anaheim Lutheran Church, of which he was formerly a trustee.

PHRANDA A. ROBINSON  — A pioneer railroad and livestock man who is replete with interesting stories of early days on various frontiers, is Phranda A. Robinson, a native of the Empire State, where he was born, in St. Lawrence County on August 21, 1851. His father was William A. Robinson, a farmer and a contractor, and a true Wisconsin pioneer, and he married Miss Almira Davis, by whom he had six children.
 
The eldest in the order of birth, Phranda attended the common schools of Wisconsin, to which state the family moved when he was only four years of age. Growing up, he made his way to Colorado and for a while worked with a railroad contractor in constructing the first three railroads built into Denver. This was at the beginning of the seventies. At the end of two years he removed to Ellis County, Kans., and there, for seven years, he homesteaded and engaged in the cattle business. The western part of the state was then the hunting grounds of the Indians, and he hauled supplies to them for the Government. Buffalo were plentiful, and one could buy plenty of buffalo hides at five dollars a pelt. Taking up his residence in Wisconsin again, he engaged for seven years in mercantile trade at Antigo, and selling out, he spent ten years in southern Wisconsin at Clinton Junction. After that he removed to Gray's Lake, Ill., where he was in the banking business for seven years, also building several houses there. In 1906 he came to Berkeley, Cal., built houses and sold them; and four years later he removed to Santa Ana. Since coming here, he has erected over fifty of the most desirable houses in the city.
 
Mr. Robinson married Ida Lusk, a native of Wisconsin. He is the father of three children — Caroline, Charles and Harriet, and grandfather to five. The family attend the Methodist Church. Mr. Robinson belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, and is ever ready to aid any reasonable movement likely to make for the growth or the betterment of the community. He is a stand-pat Republican, and yet never draws the party line in seeking to elevate the standard of local civic pride. Keenly alive to public questions of moment, he has never accepted any of the invitations to stand for public office, and still pursues his quiet way as a private, if thoroughly wide-awake citizen, interested at all times in Orange County and its rapid development.

GEORGE FREDERICK ANDRES — A prosperous rancher who has by his own efforts and the able assistance of his capable wife developed an excellent orange and walnut grove northeast of Garden Grove is George Frederick Andres, popularly known to his large circle of friends as '"Fred" Andres. This forty-acre ranch is on the Garden Grove Road and twenty acres of it is planted to Valencia oranges and the remainder to walnuts. Mr. Andres also owns fifteen acres within the city limits of Santa Ana. which is set out to ten-year-old budded walnuts. He also maintains a chicken ranch on the Santa Ana property and has 1500 White Leghorn fowls on it at present.
 
Born on October 1, 1868, in Germany, about fifty miles west of Berlin, Mr. Andres was the eldest of a family of five children, four of whom were born in Germany and one in Iowa. His parents were Ludwig and Marie (Dee) Andres. The father was a stone and brick mason and stone cutter, having learned his trade very thoroughly in Berlin, and he could do the finest kind of stone work, even to lettering on marble and stone monuments. The whole family sailed from Hamburg on the S. S. Wieland of the Hamburg Line, landing in New York the first week of April, 1875. They went on to Lansing, Iowa, where they settled. In September of that year, Winnifred, the youngest child was born, and the mother passed away the next month, the arduous conditions of the new life and homesickness for the old home proving fatal to her. A year or so afterward the father married again, being united to Mary Laaps, and one child, William was born to them. The family remained at Lansing for two years, then went to Waukon, and later to Village Creek, Iowa. While living here Ludwig Andres went to Minneapolis to work as a stone mason on the great Pillsbury Mills, and here he was instantly killed, when a scaffolding on which he was working gave way. The loss of both father and mother filled the young lives of the Andres children with sadness as it meant their separation. Fred, who at that time was only ten years old, was taken by his uncle, Gustav Dee, while his younger brother. Charles A., went to live with another uncle, Theodore Dee, both farmers in Allamakee County, Iowa, and for three years the brothers did not see each other. Fred remained with his uncle until he was seventeen years old and then hired out at the rate of five dollars a month during the winter, in the meantime securing what schooling he could. He kept working out by the month and saved his money and for two years was in Western Iowa, still working out, also farmed for himself there and then broke up 160 acres in Adrian, Minn., which he later sold and in 1894 went to Rock County, Minn., and began renting land near Luverne. Like many other pioneer farmers of that region, Mr. Andres at times suffered may discouraging reverses; one year his crops were a total failure, so that he could not even pay his rent, and he was compelled to borrow corn to feed his horses, which he afterward repaid at the rate of two bushels for one. In 1903 he moved to Hutchinson County, S. D., where he bought 320 acres of land and raised three crops, and from there he removed to California in 1906. His brother, Charles A., had already located at Santa Ana, and Mr. Andres in the meantime had purchased his present home ranch of forty acres, at that time alfalfa land, paying ?300 an acre for it.
 
After his removal, Mr. Andres at once began the improvement of his land, raising alfalfa, horses and hogs. He bred fine Percheron horses for a number of years from some full-blooded Percheron stock which he brought with him. He continued general farming and stock-raising until 1911, when he began to set out walnut trees, the next year setting out his Valencia orange grove. Since that time he has given his time to developing his orchards to a high state of productivity and he is meeting with gratifying success. He has a never-failing well and has installed an electric pumping plant and laid over 5,000 feet of cement pipe for irrigation. He has remodeled his residence and the whole place reflects the intelligent care of its owners, as Mrs. Andres has been a true helpmate to him, aiding and encouraging him in all his undertakings. During his residence in Iowa Mr. Andres and John Gephardt owned and operated a Case threshing outfit and became quite expert in this line of work. With William E. and Arthur A. Schnitger he has run two threshing machines in Orange County, using them to thresh beans, converting the machines themselves into bean threshers.
 
The five brothers and sisters had not all been together since their mother died until the time of the Exposition at Portland, Ore., when they had a family reunion. The three sisters had been reared by different families in Iowa and took the names of their adopted parents. They are: Elsie, now the wife of Dr. F. G. Ulman of Enumclaw, Wash., who was a captain in the United States Army in the late war; Miss Marie Rockwell, formerly a high school teacher in Salem, Ore., is now a stenographer and bookkeeper at Portland, Ore.; and Winnifred, who is the wife of Rev. J. V. Knoll of Lansing, Iowa.
 
On October 17, 1896, when farming in Rock County, Minn., Mr. Andres was united in marriage with Miss Ora Luvan Savage, the daughter of Oliver and Eliza (Young) Savage, the father being a native of New York, while the mother was born near Chicago, Ill. They were married in Wisconsin, moving later to Dodge County, Minn., where Mrs. Andres was born. There were three daughters in the Savage family: Emma is the wife of L. H. Owen of Pomona; Ora is Mrs. Andres; and Susie became the wife of Frank Welker, a merchant of Beaver Creek, Minn., where she died. By a former marriage Mr. Savage had two sons: Gibson, a resident of Los Angeles, passed away in 1917; and Elmer, who is a farmer at Waupun, Wis. Mrs. Andres was educated in Iowa, and afterwards became a school teacher, teaching four years in Rock County, Minn., where she met Mr. Andres, and one year in Minnehaha County, S. D. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Andres: Floyd E., a graduate of the Santa Ana high school in the class of 1919 is now a student at the U. C. at Berkeley; Marie Lillian died in 1904 at the age of seven years; and Charles Frederick. They are also rearing an adopted daughter, Ruth Estella Andres.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Andres are active in the membership of the Methodist Church at Garden Grove, Mr. Andres being a member of the official board, while Mrs. Andres is a teacher in the Sunday School and president of the Ladies' Aid Society; she was also prominent in Red Cross work during the war. Mr. Andres is a member of the Garden Grove Walnut Growers Association, the Garden Grove Orange Growers Association and the Garden Grove Farm Center, being a director and one of the moving spirits of the latter. Politically he is inclined to be non-partisan in his views, considering the best men and principles when voting, but always a firm advocate of temperance. Self-taught and self-made, he is a man of true worth, and both he and his estimable wife are popular in the community because of their generous, liberal views.
 
JOHN HUHN — A veteran of the Civil War and a resident of the United States since he was eight years of age, John Huhn, whose ranch lies on the Garden Grove Road, west of Anaheim, has contributed his share to the development of this section since his removal here in 1898. He was born in Brunswick, Germany, August 18, 1844, and in 1852 he migrated to America with his parents, William and Anna Huhn. The father was a building contractor in his native land and, after coming to America, he continued in this line of work at St. Louis, where the family located shortly after arriving in this country. Loyal to the land of his adoption, William Huhn served in the home guards during the period of the Civil War.  

The early years of John Huhn were spent in St. Louis, where, as soon as old enough, he engaged with his father, learning the trade. Though but seventeen years old when the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the Union Army in Company F, Seventeenth Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry and served for three years under General Sherman, where he passed through many dangers and hardships in the hard-fought campaigns of that great leader. After the war was over he took up farming, settling, in 1870, in Montgomery County, Ill., and it was during his residence here that his marriage occurred, when he was united with Miss Louisa Struck on May 17, 1883, at her home near Hillsboro, Ill. She was also a native of Germany, born at Peine, near Hanover, the daughter of Henry and Wilhelmina ( Stenzig) Struck, the father being employed at the iron foundry at Peine. Mrs. Huhn came to America in 1881 and made her home with an uncle, near Hillsboro, Ill., until her marriage.
 
After his marriage Mr. Huhn located on an eighty-acre farm near Raymond, Ill., and here he farmed successfully, raising wheat, corn and hogs, remaining here until 1898, when he removed to California. Locating in Orange County, he purchased ten acres west of Anaheim and here he has since made his home. In 1919 he sold half of this tract and the remaining five acres is a fine walnut grove, which is irrigated by the Ideal Water Company's pumping plant. Mr. Huhn's ranch is a good producer and brings him in an excellent income. He markets his product independently.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Huhn are the parents of four children: Alice S. is a chiropractor with a growing practice in the vicinity of Anaheim; William Henry is at home, he is married and has three children, Leona, Mildred and William; Irma is also at home; Albert E. is a rancher at Red Bluff, Tehama County, Cal. The family attend the Lutheran Church at Anaheim. A resident of the United States for sixty-eight years, Mr. Huhn became imbued with the spirit of its institutions in his early boyhood, and since he has reached man's estate has been a staunch Republican, giving his influence and vote to the nominees of that party. He belongs to the Fullerton G. A. R. Post.
 
GEORGE A. BARROWS — The prosperous, substantial district of Groton, Tompkins County, N. Y., claims the birth of George A. Barrows, the general contractor and builder, who first saw the light there on May 18, in the historic Centennial Year of 1876. His father was Theodore Barrows, a farmer well known to Tompkins County agriculturists; and he had married Sarah L. Wood, by whom he had six children. Both parents are now dead.
 
The fifth child in the order of birth, George attended the well-appointed grammar and high schools of Groton, and for a while stuck by the home farm, which he also took charge of at the age of twenty-one, when his father died. He added to his experience some four years in a creamery and during these years he was also engaged in raising fancy poultry, but early worked at carpentering, for which he had unmistakable talent, and which he liked best of all.
 
In March, 1911, Mr. Barrows settled in Santa Ana, and from that date has given all of his time and attention to contracting and building, undertaking many notable works. He has erected some of the finest residences, and has also built some of the best structures in the business and manufacturing district of the city, and has long employed from ten to fifteen men for his varied and responsible operations. A thorough student of the latest methods both in construction and device. Mr. Barrows easily demonstrates his entire familiarity with modern building problems, and his advantage in experience and equipment for extensive and artistic work over his competitors. By his close application, honest and conscientious method of carrying out the various contracts, he has become singularly successful and as a result his business has grown to large proportions.
 
At Groton, N. Y., on Washington's Birthday, 1899, Mr. Barrows was married to Lucy Mae Harrington, a charming woman known for her good works. With her husband, she attends the Methodist Church. They have one son, Howard. Mr. Barrows is much interested in the purification and elevation of party politics, and therefore acknowledges no slavish adherence to any of the political organizations.

FRANCIS M. THOMAS — An enterprising rancher who by years of unremitting industry and the maintenance of a high sense of honor, always pursuing a conservatively progressive program toward a definite, laudable goal, is Francis M. Thomas, of 914 South Main Street, Santa Ana, where he resides in a beautiful two-story frame structure,
in the full enjoyment of his interesting family. He was born in Lee County. Va.. near Rose Hill, on January 29, 1862, the son of Josiah Clemmens Thomas, a native of Powells Valley, Lee County, where he was born on January 12, 1835. The latter grew up on a farm east of Cumberland Gap, some twelve miles west of the county seat. Jonesville, with little educational opportunity, owing to the modest circumstances -of his parents and the dearth of public schools there. When nineteen years old, he undertook farming for himself, and the first summer managed to make about nine dollars a month and his board, and the second summer eleven dollars. Then he went to a private school and studied reading, writing -and arithmetic. When twenty-one. he crossed over the mountains into Kentucky and for three years worked on a farm, where his cash allowance was from ten to twenty dollars a month. By saving his money, he was able to get back to the old home in Virginia, and there, on November 18, 1859, he was joined in holy matrimony with Nancy Bartley. After farming there for three years, they moved with their family to Grant County, Ky.. where they lived on a farm for four years. The third year he purchased a farm, and the fourth year he was able to dispose of It again for practically double the price which he gave for it.
 
Dropsy, however, sorely afflicted him, and with his family he moved back to Lee County. Va., toward Christmas, 1865 and there found relief in a cure effected by Dr. Henly Robinson: but while he was still ill, his good wife died of typhoid fever, her demise occurring on March 26, 1866. She left him four children, and a year later he married Miss Sarah E. Johnson, after which, taking his household, he moved back to Grant County, Ky., purchased some timber land, and went to work for a year on a neighboring farm. Failing health induced him to make another change and to trade what he had for a stock of general merchandise in Pendleton County, Ky.; but after a year, he moved his family to Hiawatha, Kans., and in January, 1869, purchased a farm one mile east of the town. At the end of another year, half eaten out by grasshoppers, he sold his holdings, and purchased 160 acres of land on the Kickapoo Reservation, and there for four years, he labored hard to improve it. Then, selling out, he moved into Hiawatha and there formed a partnership with his brother, A. H. Thomas, for the transaction of mercantile business. They succeeded, as anyone who knew them, their standards and their personalities, would have expected, and then they sold out. In the meantime, Josiah C. Thomas had bought one after another of four fine farms near Hiawatha, improved them and later sold them at a profit.
 
In the early summer of 1883, Mr. Thomas made a trip to California, on account of renewed illness, and taken with the climate and the prospects of Orange County, he bought 200 acres of land two miles southeast of Santa Ana. Returning to Hiawatha, he brought his family from Kansas to the Coast, and for a couple of years improved the new home farm. He then moved into Santa Ana, on Spurgeon Street, and there he died, in September, 1913. The four children left him by his first wife were: Melville C, Francis M., our subject, Alice and Charles L. Thomas. Melville died by drowning in the Galveston flood, he, his wife, their one child and their home having been swept away by the angry waters. He was a railroad man, and for years had worked in the railway yards at Galveston. Alice is the wife of Otis Bridgeford, the rancher; she was formerly Mrs. L. Hiskey, and is the mother of Walter E. Hiskey, a rancher in the Delhi district of Orange County. The last or youngest is Dr. Charles L. Thomas, the dental surgeon, of Los Angeles, who owns extensive valuable citrus property at El Modena.
 
Francis M. Thomas left Virginia with his parents when he was five years old and for two years lived in Kentucky, then removed to Kansas, where he was educated in the public schools of Hiawatha. With his older brother he looked after the farm, while his father bought and sold farms and dealt in dry goods and groceries. He was twenty-two years of age when, in the spring of 1884, he came out to California and settled at Santa Ana. He worked out for a year or two getting used to the climate and the ways of the country.
 
At Santa Ana, August 15, 1886, Mr. Thomas was married to Miss Zoura Kerr, a native of Mexico, Audrain County, Mo., who came to Santa Ana in March, 1886, with her mother, Mrs. Serilda (Bates) Kerr, a native of Lee County, Va., who came to visit her brother, A. T. Bates, whom she had not seen for forty-two years. Mr. Bates had crossed the plains during the gold rush and was an early settler near Santa Ana. Mrs. Thomas' father, William Kerr, was born near Rockbridge, Va., later coming to Missouri, where he engaged in farming, passing away there when Mrs. Thomas was nineteen years of age. Mrs. Kerr died at the Thomas ranch August 7, 1910, at the age of seventy-nine, the mother of nine children, seven of whom are living.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas are the parents of six children: Lester R. is a mechanic with a specialty of automobiles and resides at Phoenix, Ariz.; Lelah married Clyde Deardorff, a tenant on Mr. Thomas' ranch; they have one child. Beverly June; Beulah is the wife of Harold Bullock, a tenant on her father's ranch and a partner with Mr. Deardorff; Gladys is an accomplished musician and resides at home; Eugene and Semone attend the Santa Ana high school. Mrs. Thomas is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Ana.
 
Mr. Thomas had ranched a number of years in Orange County when he bought his first farm and this was added to until he has 140 acres in one body that he still owns. It is a very valuable ranch, devoted largely to the raising of citrus fruit and to mixed farming. He set out orchards of walnuts and oranges to the extent of about fifty acres. For many years, he also followed dairy farming. In the early days of 188S he ran a self-binder over the southern part of the city of Santa Ana that is now all built up and so he has cut and reaped grain on the spot where his residence now stands on South Main Street. He is a Republican in matters of national politics, but never permits a narrow partisanship to interfere with a hearty support of local measures and local men.
 
"Sarah Bartley. Mr. Thomas' maternal grandmother, died at Grand Prairie. Brown County, Kans., on December 10, 1889, aged eighty-two years. She was born in Washington County, Va., on May 22, 1807, and with her parents removed to Lee County, Va., in 1828, her father being a Methodist minister. In 1829. Miss Sarah Speak married James Bartley of Lee County. Va. This was indeed a happy marriage; for over sixty years they walked side by side, and during this time they were trusting God. Their home, until they moved to Kansas in 1884, was the home of the itinerant preacher, who always found a welcome and a share in the best of home comforts. This family was wonderfully blessed with good health — only one death in sixty years. One daughter passed on, but nine children survive her, all having homes of their own and enjoying prosperity. The last year of her life was passed in Kansas, that she and her husband might be with their children. She was a great sufferer during that year, and death, when it came, was welcome, for she passed away in the triumph of faith. Her husband, eighty-three years of age, yet survives." Such is part of an obituary notice, honoring this widely-honored lady. Another obituary notice bearing upon the story of Mrs. Thomas' life reads as follows:
 
"William H. Kerr, Esq., of Milo, Vernon County, whose remains were interred in Deepwood Cemetery, Wednesday, was born in Augusta County, Va., in 1819. He moved to this state (Missouri) in 1840, and has lived here ever since. He united with the Presbyterian Church when he was nineteen years old, and has been an honored and faithful member for nearly half a century. He married Serilda Bates in January, 1846, and leaves nine children. It is a remarkable fact that in so large a family, there has not been a death these forty-one years. A good man has gone, and few have left behind them a more worthy life record for the comfort and imitation of their children."  

EARL A. GARDNER  — One of the younger generation of ranchers of Orange County, Earl A. Gardner, is rapidly forging to the front and developing into a "bonanza" farmer. Practically all of Mr. Gardner's life has been spent in California, as he came here when but a lad of eight years. Born in Cherry County, Nebr., August 9, 1886, his parents were David D. and Sarah (Hetzler) Gardner, who were successful farmers in Nebraska for a number of years, and there their six children were born: Adam is in business in San Francisco; Allen is a resident of Talbert; Ralph is a rancher at Oakdale; David D. lives near Huntington Beach; Earl A., of this review; and Lyda, wife of Frank Benton, of Orange County. In 1891 the Gardner family moved to Utah, remaining there three years, and coming overland by wagons from Ogden to California in 1894. They stopped some three months at Clearwater, coming to Wintersburg in the fall of that year, and since that time members of the family have been continuously connected with the ranching interests of Orange County.
 
Since his father farmed on rented land in different localities. Earl A. Gardner attended the public schools in several places, among them the Fullerton. Orangethorpe and Ocean View districts. David D. Gardner, Sr.. died in 1903, at the age of fifty-three years, so that Earl was thrown upon his own resources at an early age. With a genuine interest in and liking for agriculture, he entered with energy and enthusiasm into ranching and soon branched out for himself as a tenant farmer. By hard work and excellent business management he has become one of the largest farmers in the Bolsa precinct, and has succeeded so well that now, at the age of only thirty-four, he is the owner of eighty acres of choice land, and an equipment of horses, two caterpillar tractors and a full complement of up-to-date implements and wagons with which he operates in all 750 acres of land, as besides his own farm "he leases 670 acres from eight different landlords. The value of his crops will aggregate $85,000 per year, and his tools and implements of necessity are of a large range, variety and number, since his farming operations include the production of the following crops: lima beans, of which he will have thirty acres in 1920; 550 acres of sugar beets, celery, barley, oats and alfalfa hay. His equipment is worth $20,000 in money actually invested, and he keeps five men the year around and during the busy season has forty-five men on his pay roll.
 
In 1908, Mr. Gardner was married at Los Alamitos to Miss Fern Shutt. daughter of J. D. Shutt, a very attractive and accomplished young lady who was a member of the first high school class in the high school at Huntington Beach. Three interesting children have come to enliven their home: Bessie A., Margaret E. and Myrtle L. They reside on one of Mr. Gardner's rented ranches one-half mile south of Bolsa. Mrs. Gardner is a Congregationalist and is very popular in church and social circles. In politics Mr. Gardner favors the principles of the Republican party and in fraternal circles is a popular member of the Elks Lodge at Santa Ana. Mr. Gardner's mother, Mrs. Sarah Gardner, is still living and makes her home on one of the farms leased by him.
 
MRS. GRACE O. BOOSEY — An excellent example of what a highly-intelligent, resolute, idealistic woman can do w-hen thrown upon her own resources is afforded in the life and success of Mrs. Grace O. Boosey who operates 275 acres on the Irvine ranch, and in so doing enjoys the confidence and esteem, to an exceptional degree, of all in the community. A widow for the past five years, she has continued the business interests committed to her, maintained her cheerful and hospitable home, and reared her family of interesting children, and has accomplished more, in various ways, than many men have done.
 
Before her marriage, Mrs. Boosey was Miss Grace O. Chaffee, born in Riley County, Kans., and her parents, now both deceased, were Robert and Ann (Shields) Chaffee, who were early settlers of Riley County, Kans., he a native New Yorker, and she a native of England. They had eight children, and Mrs. Boosey was the youngest of them all. After completing the course in the public school she obtained a teacher's certificate at the age of seventeen and then taught school for four years. On February 17, 1897, she was married to George Boosey, who was also born in Riley County, Kans. His parents were Vermonters, the father having served in the Civil War. They also were very early settlers of Riley County and there George Boosey was reared on the frontier farm and there after their marriage they farmed until in 1909, they came to California.
 
Luckily, they early found their way to smiling Orange County; and on the Irvine ranch they settled as tenant farmers. Having mastered the ins and outs of agriculture in one of the greatest of all farm states in the Union, Mr. Boosey had no difficulty in succeeding as a rancher here; not merely accomplishing interesting things for himself, but pointing the way to others less able to master the difficulties of new, undeveloped environment. A loss to the county in which he had made such strides forward and where he would have undoubtedly continued to be a leader among aggressively progressive cultivators, Mr. Boosey died on November 9, 1915.
 
Now Mrs. Boosey plants twenty-five acres to black-eye beans, and 200 acres to lima beans, and sows fifty acres to hay; nor do other ranches yield a crop of superior quality than hers. She is assisted by her son, Raymond, the second-born, while her eldest child, Ramona, is employed in Los Angeles, and Florence, Robert and Cora are at home.

M. RUSSELL SCOTT  — A business man who has been able to turn his experience to good account, both for his own benefit and that of others, by engaging in real estate operations such as contribute to the development of the locality, is M. Russell Scott, who was born in Appanoose County, Iowa, on September 17, 1875. His parents were John E. and Sarah J. (Wright) Scott, the former a native of Iowa and the latter of Indiana. The family were pioneers of Iowa, and in that state they became prominent. They had three children, and the youngest is the subject of our review. John E. Scott died on February 3, 1916, but the mother is still living at Santa Ana.
 
Russell Scott attended the public school at Glenwood, Iowa, and Shenandoah College, and then engaged in the merchandise business in partnership with his father, remaining in Glenwood, Iowa, for ten years. When he sold out, he came to California and soon located at Santa Ana.
 
Here he bought the old Ford Ranch of forty acres, devoted to walnuts which he still owns. All these years he has been engaged in real estate ventures, and as an experienced dealer has owned and traded land all over California. Now he resides at 123 North Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, with his devoted wife, who was Blanche L. Lingo before her marriage, which took place on May 9, 1906. She is a native of Belmont County, Ohio, whose father was born in Virginia, her mother being a native of Maryland. By a former marriage. Mr. Scott had three children — Gruba Leonora, Walter B., and Josephine L. The family attend the First Presbyterian Church.
 
Mr. Scott is an Elk, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and also belongs to the Golf Club, while he is especially fond of quail hunting. In national politics he is a Republican, bat in all local affairs for the making of a better community, and the more rapid and permanent development of Orange County, he is a first-class "booster," first, last and all the time.

THOMAS JAMES WILSON  — One of our most eminent poets immortalized the blacksmith trade in his poem. "The Village Blacksmith." However, the present day blacksmith shop, with its modern machinery, is quite another affair from Longfellow's "village smithy which stood under a spreading chestnut tree."
 
Thomas J. Wilson, of Tustin, Orange County, is engaged in general blacksmithing business, and owns a shop equipped with all the modern and improved machinery for the speedy output of all class of work. Although among the newer residents of Tustin, by his skill as a mechanic and his courteous and gentlemanly treatment of his customers he has won the favor of his numerous patrons and built up a profitable and permanent business. While he first came to California in 1901 he did not locate in Orange County until 1918.
 
Mr. Wilson was born in Boise City, Idaho. October 6, 1883. and is the son of James and Walburga (Jehle) Wilson, natives of Ireland and Germany, respectively. Reared and educated in his native state until 1897, he began to learn the horseshoeing trade in Omaha and later also took up general blacksmithing, which he has continued up to the present time.
 
During the Spanish-American War he served in the U. S. Navy as a blacksmith. He was first on the armored cruiser, Brooklyn, which was conspicuous in the battle of Santiago as Captain Schley's flag ship; later he served on the cruiser New York in the Philippines and was also in the Boxer uprising in China, and during his term of service his vessel touched at nearly every important port in the Orient. After the expiration of hi's three years' enlistment he was returned to San Francisco where he was honorably discharged as first chief petty officer. He then located at Moore, Mont., and engaged in the blacksmith business.
 
On September 12, 1915, Mr. Wilson was united in marriage with Miss Alice M. Robinson, born in Buffalo County, Nebr., a daughter of Charles L. and Mertie (Owen) Robinson, and they are the parents of a daughter, Mertie Marie. In their political views of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are Republicans, and religiously are consistent members of the Christian Church. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fellows.

BYRON ASA CRAWFORD — The efficient manager of the Tustin Hill Citrus Association, Byron Asa Crawford, has held this position since 1915. He was born in Ripon, Wis., April 10, 1878, and is the son of Wm. F. and Ella J. (Newell) Crawford, natives of Connecticut and New York, respectively. There were two children in the parental home, Byron A. and Alice E. The father was a veteran of the Civil War, and served from its inception until the close. He enlisted twice; the first time in the Twenty-second Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and the second time in the Forty-fourth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the war, and was commissioned second lieutenant. After the war he engaged in the manufacture of flour, becoming proprietor of the Ripon Flour Mills. The family came out to Tustin, Cal., in 1888, and he died in 1912, while living in Santa Ana; his widow survives him and resides in Los Angeles. He was popular in G. A. R. circles.
 
Byron A. Crawford received his education in the Tustin grammar school and then entered the Santa Ana high school, where he was graduated in 1897. After his school days were over he began his active connection with the marketing department of the citrus industry, finally entering the employ of the Ruddock Trench Company, becoming their foreman. From 1902 till 1905 he was engaged in the real estate business in Los Angeles, after which he made a trip to Nevada, where he operated a stage and freight line out of Searchlight. Returning to California, he became manager for the lomosa Foothill Association at Cucamonga until 1913, when he returned to Orange County and was with the San Joaquin Fruit Company until 1915, then accepting his present position as manager of the Tustin Hill Citrus Association.
 
Mr. Crawford has been in the citrus business for almost twenty-five years, and is thoroughly competent for the responsible position he holds as manager of the Citrus Association. Since he has been in charge the directors have had no cause to complain of lack of interest on his part, and the growth of the institution under his capable management is sufficient evidence of his efficiency. The Tustin Hill Citrus Association was organized in 1909 by M. Atkin, H. Sharpless, A. J. Padgham and R. Brinsmead. The plant is located on the Newport road and the Southern Pacific Railroad, so has splendid shipping facilities. The plant has a large capacity, with plans for enlargement. The following are directors: A. E. Bennett, president; A. M. Robinson, first vice-president; J. A. McFadden, second vice-president; A. G. Finley, F. B. Browning, C. J. Klatt and Perry Lewis.
 
On February 22, 1906, occurred the marriage of Mr. Crawford, when he was united with Miss Violet L. Forney, daughter of T. D. and Elizabeth Forney. Denver. Colo., being her birthplace. Four children have come to bless their union: Dudley F., Wm. F., Janet E., and Kenneth B. Politically Mr. .Crawford is an ardent Republican, and fraternally is affiliated with the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks and the Tustin Lodge of Knights of Pythias.

FENELON C. MATTHEWS — A self-made young man of far-sighted and bustling enterprise, whose success as a sugar beet grower and also as a breeder of the highest grade of Duroc-Jersey red swine has been notable, encouraging others to follow where he has led, is Fenelon C. Matthews, son of H. E. Matthews of Tustin, and junior partner in the firm of Stearns and Matthews. He was born in Kansas on September 2, 1889, and grew up on his father's Kansas farm where he had the greatest advantage in studying agriculture according to the most approved Middle West usages. At the early age of nineteen, however, his ambition urged him to push out into the world for himself; and coming to California in 1908, he took up his quarters on the Irvine ranch, and since then he has been a part of the history of Orange County. The Golden State offered him a rich reward for his exertions and sacrifices; and the challenge made him self-reliant.
 
Mr. Matthews owns a forty-acre hog ranch, one and a half miles southwest of Tustin, and there for the past year he has been breeding registered Duroc-Jersey red swine. The original stock was the best he could obtain, having been brought from Iowa bought from breeders who have the finest registered Duroc-Jersey hogs in the United States. Mr. Matthews is breeding both for the stock markets as well as breeders. He is a very naturally a member of the National Duroc-Record Association, and the San Joaquin Lima Bean Association. For the past twelve years, Mr. Matthews has grown sugar beets, and he leases 205 acres of the Irvine ranch all under irrigation, 150 acres of which he has planted to sugar beets, and fifty-five acres to lima beans. No better quality of beets or beans could well be found, for in addition to what he naturally acquires from his instructing personal experience, Mr. Matthews keeps abreast of the times and profits by the researches of those whose life work is to aid the farmer.
 
On this leased ranch Mr. Matthews resides with his wife and child, Harold Eugene, a happy family, if one is to be seen anywhere. Mrs. Matthews was Miss Edith Stearns, a daughter of Mr. Matthews' partner, before her marriage, and their wedding, one of the pleasant social affairs of the time, took place at Tustin in 1914. Mr. Matthews belongs to the Santa Ana Lodge of Odd Fellows and also to the Knights of Pythias in Tustin and in politics of national import he is an Independent Democrat. As might be surmised, this independence of view and action never permits partisanship to stand in the way of his giving hearty support to. local measures well endorsed.  

BARNEY P. CLINARD — One of Orange County's progressive and wealthy ranchers is Barney P. Clinard, who raises grain on an extensive scale in the El Toro neighborhood, now having under cultivation more than 2,000 acres of land devoted to barley, wheat and beans. North Carolina was Mr. Clinard's birthplace, the Clinard family at that time residing near Thomasville in Davidson County, that state. The date of his birth was July 21, 1870, and he was the next to the youngest of six children born to Randall and Jane (Payne) Clinard. Grandfather Clinard was born in Ireland, coming to North Carolina where he became a well-known farmer in Davidson County. During the Civil War Randall Clinard enlisted in the Confederate Army and saw active service in that four years of terrible fighting. Barney Clinard remained at the old home in North Carolina until he was of age, helping his father in the work on the farm, but in 1893 he decided to locate in the Far West, as he felt that the opportunities for success were greater than in his home state, which was still suffering from the ravages of war.
 
Mr. Clinard arrived in California January 17, 1893, and soon began working on ranches in the southern part of Orange County, spending several seasons with threshing crews in that locality. In 1904 he began ranching operations on his own account on the Lewis F. Moulton ranch at El Toro. He began in a modest way but was successful from the start and has expanded his operations until he now leases and cultivates 2,200 acres of this ranch. For the season of 1920 he has 2,000 acres in barley, eighty in wheat and 150 in beans. He produces an unusually large yield of all these crops and owns and operates his own bean thresher. In addition to this, Mr. Clinard is the owner of a thriving 40-acre walnut orchard on Halladay Street, Santa Ana, and also has a half interest in still another ranch at Irvine; Walter Cook, his partner in this enterprise, is in charge of the place. It consists of 141 acres, of which 101 acres are set to budded walnuts, twenty to oranges and twenty to lemons. The whole is irrigated by means of two electric pumping plants. In addition, Mr. Clinard also raises live stock and at the present time he is the owner of over 100 head of horses, mules and colts and fifty head of hogs.
 
A wide-awake, progressive and scientific farmer, Mr. Clinard richly deserves the splendid financial success that he has made, as it is due to his industry and intelligent work alone, as all the capital he had when he reached California amounted only to a few hundred dollars. A man of powerful physique, Mr. Clinard is the personification of energy and his genial nature makes him popular among a wide circle of friends. He is a member of the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks.  

JASPER N. TRICKEY — A merchant with many years of valuable experience to his credit, who has become one of the leading business men of Balboa, is Jasper N. Trickey, a doubly interesting personality on account of his wonderful vitality and daily activity at the age of eighty-two. He was born at Exeter. Maine, on September 25, 1838, the son of William H. Trickey, a native of New Hampshire who was in the shoe business. He had married Miss Abagail Nudd, also a native of the Granite State, who lived to be fifty — -or twenty-two years younger than her husband, when he died — and left eight children. Originally, the Trickeys came from Exeter, England, in 1640. They were shipbuilders and manufacturers, and settling at Portsmouth, Mass., "did much to establish what in its time was one of the greatest of all American industries.
 
Leaving Maine when he was seventeen years old. Mr. Trickey came to California via Panama and landed at San Francisco in April, 1856. He went up to Oroville and for two years ran a fruit business there. Then he moved on to Victoria, B. C., where he transacted business for four years; and for another four years he was on the Fraser River, engaged at the same time in merchandise business. He was later still a merchant in Salt Lake City, and while there he saw the last rail laid and golden spike driven at Promontory Point. 1869, connecting up the Union Pacific with the Central Pacific Railroad.
 
When he left Salt Lake, he returned east to Wichita. Kans.. and he helped build up that city. During the same period, he went to Clinton County. Mo., and was married to Miss Harriet Stover, a native of Ohio. He spent thirty years in Sedgwick County, Kans., and gave of his best to help build up Wichita and other places, all the while engaged in general merchandising. _
 
In 1899, Mr. Trickey returned to California and settled at Santa Ana; and there, at the corner of Fourth Street and Broadway, he had one of the choicest grocery stores in Orange County. He bought a residence at Santa Ana, and this he still owns. On selling out, he came to Balboa in November, 1914, and here he has conducted a first class grocery ever since. He also owns good residence property at Balboa. As a representative business man of so many years experience, Mr. Trickey's choice of the political creeds of the Republican party is interesting.
 
Six of Mr. and Mrs. Trickey's children are still living, although the eldest child, Clarence, died in 1919 at Mesa, Ariz., where he ran a large furniture store. He left a wife. Lunette Turner, and two children, Helen and Margaret. Frank is married to Ethel Newman of Kansas and has two children — Phyllis and Keith; he has been deputy city clerk at Mesa. Ariz., for the past two years. Paul is with Smart and Final Company, wholesale grocers, at Santa Ana. He married Flossie Talcott and has four children — Evelyn, Beverly, Pauline and Virginia, Lawrence clerks for the Spurgeon Furniture Company, and resides at Santa Ana with his wife, who was Ethel Rose, and has one child — Lawrence L., Jr.; Melvin lives with his wife, Maxine, at Pomona; John and Hope assist their father. Mr. Trickey is a Knight Templar, being a member of the Santa Ana Commandery; nor has that worthy organization a worthier member or one more devoted.  

LINCOLN JOSEPH CARDEN — One of the best-informed men in the busy realty world of Santa Ana, and therefore one of the most optimistic regarding the future of Orange County property of every description, is Lincoln Joseph Carden, for the past sixteen years engaged, as few have been, including even the most enthusiastic native sons, in "boosting" this favored section of the rich and promising Golden State. He was born in Danville, Iowa, on January 15, 1860, the son of William Carden, whose birthplace was sixteen miles from Cincinnati, Ohio, and who grew up a farmer. He came west to Iowa in 1855, pioneered in Des Moines County, farmed extensively at Danville, and died in 1866, at the age of thirty-seven. He had married Miss Elizabeth Miller, a native of Ohio, who died in Iowa in 1890. They had eight children — seven boys and a girl — and all are living save the daughter and a son.
 
The fourth youngest and the only one in California, Lincoln Joseph, was brought up on the home farm and attended Howes Academy at Mt. Pleasant. Iowa, after which he studied at Christian College in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Then he taught school in Des Moines County for five years, after which he married Miss Minnie A. Lyons, a native of Winfield. Iowa, and the daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth Lyons. As an old settler, her father was an extensive farmer, prominent in Iowa politics, and a member of the assembly in the Iowa legislature.
 
Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Carden removed to Henry County and engaged in the hardware and implement business; and there they continued until 1904, when they came to California and Santa Ana, and for a year Mr. Carden was in the general merchandise business. Then he began his career as a realtor, and such has been his success in this field, that he has continued in it ever since. He is now the senior member of Carden, Liebig & Seamans. who have their offices at 307 North Main Street. They handle both city and country property, and make a specialty of ranches. Mr. Carden himself is interested directly in horticulture, having owned and improved several ranches, and so is able personally to judge of many points at issue in the selling and buying of farm property. He is an ex-director of the Chamber of Commerce, and a stockholder and a director in the Orange County Trust and Savings Bank. A Republican in matters of national politics, he has not allowed partisanship to influence him in his willing service as a member, for a term, on the board of education.
 
Three children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Carden: Jessie has become Mrs. Jabe Hill of Santa Ana, her husband being a member of Hill & Carden, the clothiers; Lester T. is the other member of that firm; and Helen is at home. Mr. Carden was made a Mason in Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M., and he also belongs to the Santa Ana Lodge of Odd Fellows. The family are members of the First Presbyterian Church, where Mr. Carden has been a trustee for the past twelve years.  

FRANK W. MILLEN — The right man, in the right place, at the right hour would seem to be Frank W. Millen, of the well-known firm of Millen and Lampman, dealers in sand and gravel, who are doing as much as anyone in Orange County to solve the vexing problems attending the dearth of houses and the urgent demand for buildings and building materials. He is a man of wide experience, excellent judgment and conscientious attention to business; and is very popular with all who have occasion to have dealings with him.
 
Mr. Millen was born in Henderson County, III., on May 8. 1872. the son of John and Sarah (Gordon) Millen. His father was born in Indiana and married in Illinois; and in that latter state both his mother and he himself were born, on the same old family farm. He grew up in the vicinity of his birth, and not far from his birthplace served his apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade.
 
In 1906 Mr. Millen came out to California and settled in Santa Ana; he worked at his trade for about one year, then took up the contracting business on his own responsibility and built many residences during the nine years he followed the business. Santa Ana has been his home ever since, with the exception of two and a half years when he and his partner were cement contractors at San Pedro. In 1917, Messrs. Millen and Lampman removed from the harbor, and recently they have further expanded by leasing a tract of five acres on the Long Beach road, one quarter of a mile west of the County Hospital. There they have installed a hoist and screen drawn by an eight-horse power gas engine; and this is perhaps the largest deposit of pea gravel and clean sand to be found in Orange County. A careful analysis has shown it to be free from dirt — an advantage that only the builder appreciates. The carefully-wrought screens sort out four grades, all the way from plastering sand to pea gravel for foundations, curbs, gutters and sidewalks. Their product is delivered to the contractors in Orange County and adjacent territory by truck. Their capacity now averages fifty yards daily and they are rapidly increasing their plant.
 
Both Mr. Lampman and Mr. Millen are experienced, energetic and highly progressive operators; and in view of the growing markets touching their field, it is safe to predict for them a constantly increasing trade. Already they are one of the elements of strength, and most promising, in the Santa Ana commercial world.  

HENRY W. WITMAN — A ranchman who has had an extensive, varied experience, and has so well succeeded that he has become an excellent beet grower, a public-spirited citizen and a good neighbor, is Henry W. Witman, at present operating 150 acres on the Irvine ranch. He was born at Catlettsburg, Ky., July 13, 1860, situated on the Ohio and Big Sandy Rivers, and was reared in the oil fields of West Virginia. Has father was Charles Witman, a pioneer West Virginia oil operator, who at one time had 100 pumping wells. He was married in Kentucky to Miss Ann McMillan, a native of Aberdeen. Ohio, and the daughter of Wm. McMillan, a Scotch-Irish millwright. The Witmans during several generations were identified with Pennsylvania, and Henry Witman, a brother of Charles, was also a pioneer in the oil enterprise and made a specialty of the manufacture and vending of tools and machinery for sinking oil wells, his headquarters being at Parkersburg, W. Va. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Witman came to California in 1885, and they both died at Los Angeles, having each reached the ripe old age of eighty-one.
 
As Henry Witman grew up. he also got into the oil game, and at twenty-one in Volcano, W. Va.. September 21, 1881, he was married to Miss Emma C. Mudge, a native of Philadelphia. Pa., but a resident of Parkersburg, W. Va., and a graduate of the Leesburg, Va., Seminary. Mr. Witman himself was a graduate of the celebrated Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mrs. Witman is a daughter of Daniel C. and Emily (Carr) Mudge, born on Long Island, N. Y., and St. Louis, Mo., respectively. As a young man Mr. Mudge was located at Council Bluflfs, Iowa, with a firm of Indian traders. Returning East he was married in Virginia after which he was with Hood, Bonbright and Company, an importing firm in Philadelphia, Pa. Later he was superintendent of coal mines in Pennsylvania and then in West Virginia, After he retired they resided in Yonkers, N. Y., until their death. On her mother's side Mrs. Witman's ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War.
 
After his marriage, Mr. Witman took up the lumber business in the great saw mills of the Alleghany Mountains, in West Virginia, and for two and a half years was in the service of a Baltimore Lumber Company. In 1887, however, during the great "boom" in realty here, he came out to California and settled at Hueneme, in Ventura County, where he engaged in hardware and plumbing until 1900, when the Oxnard Sugar Factory started up, and he removed his business to Oxnard where, aside from his hardware and plumbing business, he was associated with E. A. Chambers in drilling artesian wells. For twelve years he continued in business and under President McKinley and President Roosevelt he served as postmaster of Oxnard. He was also secretary of the board of trustees of the Oxnard Union high school for ten years.
 
In 1908, with the same partner, E. A. Chambers, now deceased, he leased a ranch of 700 acres at Tomato Springs on the Irvine ranch. Orange County, and for five years farmed to lima beans. Then his partner died, and Mr. Witman then turned over the lease to his son, H. W. Witman, Jr., who is still farming there. In 1913 he disposed of his interests in Ventura County and moved to Orange County and took his present lease on the Irvine ranch.
 
Mr. Witman has wrought a magical transformation in the 150 acres he is operating. He devotes 100 acres to sugar beets, and fifty acres to barley hay, and it is safe to say that there are no more attractive fields anywhere in the Aliso district, the whole presenting a very different sight from that beheld by him and W. G. Mitchell, manager of the Irvine Company, with whom he drove through seven years ago. Then there was such a morass of wild mustard and sunflowers that they had to stand up in their wagon to see where they were. He put the first plow in the soil and the land is now a choice beet and market garden district, recently drained by the Irvine Company, which supplies all the water needed, from wells pumped by electricity.
 
Five children have blessed this marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Witman. Roy B., the eldest, is in the furniture and plumbing business at Oxnard. Mary M. is the wife of Harry C. Bohlander, a .beet grower on the Irvine ranch. Ellen B., the third born, became the wife of L. L. Edmunds, chief engineer of the Crockett Sugar Refinery, residing at Crockett, and died on May 8, 1920, leaving two children: H. W., Jr., already referred to, is the lima bean grower on the Irvine ranch, and Daniel Phillip, who graduated from the Harvard Military School at Los Angeles, in June, 1920, is farming beets on the Irvine ranch with his father.
 
A Republican in national politics, Mr. Witman was for years active in Ventura County politics as central committeeman and delegate to county conventions. Fraternally he was made a Mason in Volcano Lodge in West Virginia, in 1881 and on coming to California was a charter member of Hueneme Lodge No. 341, F. & A. M., which was afterwards removed to Oxnard and named Oxnard Lodge No. 341, and there he was the second master. He is a member of Oxnard Chapter, R. A. M., and of Ventura Commandery No. 4, K. T. and Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Los Angeles. He is also a life member of the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks and a member of the Eagles of Oxnard. Mrs. Witman is a member of the Episcopal Church as well as the Ebell Club of Santa Ana and both took an active part in the Red Cross and war drives in the Irvine district. 

WILLIAM HENEKS  — Descended through the paternal genealogy from sturdy residents of Holland, that little country famed for its thrift and frugality, William Heneks has inherited many of the sterling qualities of his forbears, and these, combined with his own initiative and determination, have brought him a large degree of success. Mr. Heneks was born in Montgomery County, Pa., in 1844, his parents being John and Mary (Treichler) Heneks. The father, who combined the occupation of blacksmith with agricultural pursuits, was also a native of that state. Grandfather Heneks having settled in eastern Pennsylvania shortly after coming over from Holland. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. John Heneks: John Parker, Lydia Ann; Effinger, who lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Joseph; David; Elizabeth, who resides at Santa Ana with her brother William; Mary, who died in Iowa; and William.
 
Up to the age of twelve years, William Heneks resided on the old home farm in Pennsylvania, attending the local schools of the community. In 185S the Heneks family removed to' Cedar County, Iowa, and here he received but little opportunity for any further education, as he early began to do farm work, helping establish the family home in the new country, as the locality now occupied by large towns and rich farms was as yet comparatively sparsely settled and the magnitude of its present prosperity as yet undiscerned. By dint of industry and good management he became the owner of a good farm of 120 acres and this he farmed with splendid results for a number of years, also being associated with his sister, Miss Elizabeth Heneks, in the cultivation of the eighty-acre farm she had acquired.
 
An older brother, John Parker Heneks, came to California about 1898, his health requiring a milder climate; he was a veteran of the Civil War, having participated in Sherman's famous march to the sea and the many hardships he had undergone had sadly impaired his health. Although comparatively an invalid and unable to take any active part in business he was much impressed with the wonderful possibilities apparent in this beautiful country, and he wrote to his brothers and sisters, urging them to come to Orange County and enjoy its wonderful climate and take advantage of its opportunities. At the time of his death, 1900, William Heneks and his brother Efiinger, now ninety-three years old, came to Santa Ana and even during their short stay at that time they were much impressed with this part of the country. In 1903 William and his sister Elizabeth disposed of their farming interests in Iowa and came to Santa Ana. For a year and a half they lived on Pine Street, removing from there to 1406 East First Street, where they purchased a twenty-acre walnut ranch. Mr. Heneks at once set to work to improve the place in every possible way, putting in cement pipe lines for irrigation and bringing the whole ranch up to a high state of cultivation, so that it became one of the best paying properties in the vicinity. In January, 1920, they disposed of this ranch at a handsome figure and he and his sister now reside at their beautiful home at 702 South Broadway, Santa Ana, one of the south side's most attractive places, with its well-kept lawn, walks, arbors and flowers, and here they enjoy the fruits of their useful and industrious lives. They enter heartily into the spirit of Santa Ana's progress and the community is indeed fortunate to have gained such worthy and estimable residents.
 

JUAN GARIBALDI CARILLO — The name of Carillo is one that is well known m Southern California, the family having been among the largest landowners in this section, and prominent in the history of its early days. T. G. Carillo, or Garibaldi, as he is familiarly known by his friends, the subject of this sketch, is the son of Jose R. and Vincenta (Sepulveda) Carillo, the latter being the daughter of Francisco Sepulveda, who was the owner of a large rancho west of Olive. At the time of her marriage to Jose R. Carillo she was the widow of Thomas Yorba, of the well-known Spanish family whose name is linked with the early days of Orange County.
 
Jose R. Carillo was the owner of a large Spanish grant in San Diego County, now called Warner's ranch. It was three miles square and comprised 5,760 acres. He also owned the Rancho San Jose, adjoining Warner's ranch, a tract of over 25,000 acres. Mr. and Mrs. Carillo were the parents of nine children, six daughters and three sons. Garibaldi being the youngest in order of birth. He was born on the Carillo ranch in San Diego County, May 19, 1861. His father died in 1864, having been shot from ambuscade at Cucamonga Creek. Garibaldi then lived with his mother on Warner's ranch until 1870, when they moved to Anaheim, where he went to school and also worked out on farms to help his mother. When sixteen years of age, he with twelve others drove 900 head of horses belonging to Don Juan Forster to Utah, remaining there two years, when he returned home. He farmed near Corona, Riverside County, for five years, and then became foreman for Don Marco Forster at Capistrano, which position he filled five years: then as foreman for Richard O'Neill an additional five years, when he resigned to go to Nicaragua, Central America, in 1893: for two years he dealt in coffee, rubber and hides, shipping to New York City, when he was taken sick and returned to California in 1895. He then became foreman for James McFadden, a position he filled with ability for five years, when he quit and located a homestead of 160 acres near Hot Springs, Riverside County, where he resided and brought it to a high state of cultivation. He then returned to Santa Ana and spent one year as a foreman and then quit to engage in partnership in cattle raising with James McFadden on the place he is now on, known as the Aliso ranch of 1,487 acres — five miles east of El Toro, and the next year he leased the ranch and since then has engaged in farming and raising cattle, horses, mules and hogs, in which he has been very successful, being a member of the California Cattle Growers Association. He is also the owner of a ranch of 160 acres in Riverside County and this he devotes to stock raising, having for the past fifteen years used the Forest Reserve for a stock range.
 
In San Luis Rey, March 4, 1900, Juan G. Carillo was united in marriage with Miss Petra Ortega, who is also a descendant of two distinguished Spanish families. .She is the daughter of Juan D. and Eduvige (Tico) Ortega, and both parents are still living, the father being the manager of the James McFadden ranch at Santa Ana. Grandfather Miguel Emidio Ortega, who owned the Ortega grant in Santa Barbara County, covering two leagues, married Concepcion Dominguez, who died in 1909 at Ventura at the age of ninety-seven years, after an eventful life covering a long vista of years, in which she saw the country grow from the small settlement clustered about the Mission to a thriving city and prosperous countryside. The old Ortega homestead, where she passed so many years of her life, has long occupied a place among the interesting landmarks of Ventura and its reproduction on paper has become familiar to thousands throughout the United States and foreign lands, as it is used as a trademark by E. C. Ortega, the wealthy owner and founder of the Pioneer Chile Packing Company of Los Angeles, a son of Dona Concepcion Dominguez Ortega.
 
Mrs. Petra Carillo is descended from the Tico family through her mother, whose brother, J. J. Tico, was one of Ventura's oldest residents, his death occurring there in 1919. His father, Fernando Tico, who married Maria Jesus Ortega, was given the Ojai grant, covering four Spanish leagues, by Governor Juan D. Alvarado, the Ticos being among the first Spanish families to settle in Ventura County.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Carillo are the parents of seven children: Carlos and Vincenta attend the Capistrano Union high school and Vincenta took the prize in the Liberty Loan speakers' contest at Trabuca school in 1919; Juanita, Bennie, Jerome, Randolph and George. Identified with this locality for half a century, Mr. Carillo stands high in the esteem of a large circle of friends and with his interesting family takes an active interest in all that pertains to the welfare of the community. The family are communicants of the Catholic Church at El Toro and in politics Mr. Carillo is a Republican.
 

HARVEY F. BENNETT — The son of one of Orange County's best known pioneer citizens who contributed much to the advancement of the vital interests of the county, especially in the early days, Harvey F. Bennett is himself a native son of the Golden State. The Bennett family traces its ancestry back to the earliest colonial days, some of that name being among the first groups of those brave souls who risked the dangers of the deep and the barren conditions of a new land. They were identified with the early agricultural upbuilding of this country and fought valiantly in its wars and were always prominent in its public affairs.
 
Charles F. Bennett, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at Kent, Litchfield County, Conn., April 23, 1842, his parents being William and Sarah (Brunsen) Bennett. William Bennett was engaged in various manufacturing enterprises at Litchfield, but in 1851 he removed with his family to the then sparsely settled regions of LaSalle County, Ill., settling near Deerpark, where he took up a tract of virgin land, which he brought under cultivation, at the same time devoting some attention to manufacturing various articles. Charles F. Bennett received his early education at the old Connecticut home, where as a small boy he had the great fortune to come under the personal influence of Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison, so that he was from a child inculcated with the principles of abolition, and in later years this was increased by a personal acquaintance with Abraham Lincoln and John C. Fremont. Coming with his parents to Illinois, his boyhood was spent on the home farm in LaSalle County, and even then he was identified with many stirring scenes in aiding slaves in their flight toward liberty. When the Civil War broke out he was taking a preparatory course in the Chicago University, and he soon enlisted. In August, 1862, he was assigned to the Douglas Brigade, participating in thirty-two engagements with this organization, among them the battles of Shiloh and Vicksburg. He had charge of the guard at General Sherman's headquarters during the famous march to the sea and vividly recalls the consultation between Sherman, Grant and Logan regarding the decision to take this line of action, which proved to be the turning point of the war. Mr. Bennett was slightly wounded several times and had many narrow escapes, being grazed with bullets on a number of occasions. When he received his honorable discharge, with the rank of first lieutenant, at the close of the war, the hardships and privations had greatly impaired his health, but after two years he was again sufficiently restored in strength to take up active work. For a number of years he engaged in teaching school in various parts of Illinois, and was also interested in stock raising near the old Bennett homestead.
 
In 1872 C. F. Bennett was united in marriage with Miss Helen Beach, who was also a native of Connecticut, and in 1878 they decided to seek their fortune on the great plains of the West and so removed to Nebraska, making the long journey from Illinois in a prairie schooner. Mr. Bennett engaged in cattle raising until the range became too limited through the settling up of the country. He then settled at Arapahoe, Nebr., where he conducted a hotel as well as a large merchandise business. Coming to California in 1885, they settled first at San Diego, a small town at that time, as the railroad to that point had not yet been built. They remained there but a short time, coming up the coast to Oceanside, where they purchased a forty-acre hillside farm. During the boom, they disposed of their holdings at a profit and came to Tustin, where he purchased ten acres, subsequently developing it and making it one of the choice properties of that locality; he now has twenty-two acres in Tustin and Santa Ana; also owns a sixty-acre ranch at El Toro. One of the authorities on irrigation in the country, Mr. Bennett installed one of the few private irrigation systems at El Toro taking water from Aliso Creek, also put in a well and pumping plant, and his active interest in promoting irrigation movements had much to do with the advancement of land values. He and his wife still reside on their home place at Tustin.
 
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Bennett are the parents of three living children — Frederick W., Charles A., and Harvey F.. their only daughter. Pearl Edna, having passed away some years ago. Harvey F. Bennett was born at Tustin on October 31, 1892, and was reared on the Bennett homestead there. He received a good education in the grammar school at Tustin and at the Santa Ana high school, but being ambitious and anxious to get a start for himself he began farming while he was in his senior year at high school. He located at El Toro in 1911, and as a reward for the thrift and industry of his early, years he is now the owner of a choice ranch of twenty acres half a mile southeast of El Toro, ten acres of which is in budded walnuts, now twelve years old, the other half of his acreage being set to three-year-old Valencia oranges. In addition to this Mr. Bennett manages the sixty-acre ranch belonging to his father, thirty acres of which is in walnuts, the remaining thirty being planted to apricots, interspersed with walnuts. The management of both holdings, comprising eighty acres, naturally brings with it much responsibility and hard work, but Mr. Bennett is making a splendid success, which is richly deserved.
 
Mr. Bennett's marriage, which occurred in 1914, united him with Miss Frances Lillian McDonald, a daughter of T. F. McDonald, the well-known carpenter and builder of Santa Ana. Two little girls have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bennett — Helen Marie and Beverly Ellen. Mrs. Bennett is a social leader in the community and in the circles of the Episcopal Church at El Toro, where she teaches in the Sunday School and is prominent in the work of the ladies' aid. While Mr. Bennett is inclined to the political policies of the Democratic party, he is broad minded and nonpartisan in local affairs, believing the interests of the community are best conserved by voting for the best men and measures.  

JOHN H. WARNE — A well-to-do rancher of the Bolsa district, who has won his success entirely through his own industry and enterprise, is John H. Warne. One of England's sons, he was born in the County of Cornwall, March 8, 1870, the son of John and Betty (Pascoe) Warne. The parents were substantial farmers, the home place being near Truro, and there they both lived and died. Besides John H., they were the parents of one daughter, Mary E., now widowed, and who is a resident of England. He attended the common schools of his birthplace and was brought up in the Wesleyan faith, his parents being devoted members of that denomination. Up to the age of seventeen he lived on the home farm, where he assisted his father in all the labor about the place, getting the foundational training for the life of a rancher which he has led in recent years. In the fall of 1887, however, he determined to strike out for himself, encouraged by the stories he had heard of the greater opportunities awaiting young men in America. After a very stormy voyage on the SS. Celtic, he landed at Castle Garden, October 9 of that year. He went directly to Ishpeming, Mich., and at once obtained employment in the iron mines there. It was hard, unpleasant work, for the most part underground, but Mr. Warne remained there for three years, in the meantime practicing thrift and economy and saving as much of his wages as possible.
 
In 1890 he decided to move on westward, and so made the journey to Los Angeles, going later to Hanford. Kings County, where he secured work on farms in that locality. After eight years in Hanford. he returned to Ishpeming. remaining there for two years, coming back to California in 1900 and locating this time at Santa Ana. He purchased forty acres of land in the vicinity of Bolsa and has since made it his home. He started in at once to cultivate his holdings and has continued to make improvements from year to year. He has developed several flowing wells on his place and installed an up-to-date pumping plant, and has $5,000 worth of cement pine and open ditches for irrigation. He has also erected an attractive bungalow, a fine large barn and other buildings and the whole ranch has the well-kept, prosperous appearance that betokens the progressive farmer. He has added to his first holdings by three subsequent purchases and now has 162 acres, all in a body.
 
Mr. Warne was united in marriage on September 20, 1905, to Miss Sarah E. McGarvin, a daughter of Richard and Nettie (Vance) McGarvin, natives of Missouri, coming to Los Angeles County in 1875, settling in the New Hope section, then called Gospel Swamp, but both now deceased. Mrs. Warne was born in Orange County and was reared and educated in the Garden Grove district. Mr. and Mrs. Warne have three sons: John L.. Henry William, and Thomas Wesley. Generous and kindly to all. Mr. Warne is always progressive in his ideas and gladly conforms to the best thought and reform movements of the day. and his life under two flags has broadened his views and widened his sympathies for common humanity.
 

DEMPSEY W. GOULD — Fulton County. Ill., was the birthplace of Dempsey W. Gould, his birth occurring near Lewistown in that state on January 21. 1876, his parents being Thomas and Christina (Wadkins) Gould — born in Browne County. Ohio, and Fulton County, Ill., respectively. Thos. Gould when a youth enlisted as a drummer boy in Company I. One Hundred Forty-sixth Ohio Regiment of Infantry, rising to the rank of first lieutenant. He came out to Illinois where he became a well-known veterinary surgeon, and was also engaged in agriculture, the home place being situated about seventeen miles south of Lewistown. Grandfather Samuel Gould was born in Scotland and came to America when but a boy, settling in Ohio at first and later coming to Illinois, where he was a pioneer in Fulton and Schuyler counties. He preempted land here in the early days and engaged in farming on the virgin prairie soil.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gould were the parents of ten children; six daughters and two sons are still living. The fifth child in order of birth, Dempsey \V. Gould is the only one of the family residing in California. He received his education in the country schools of the neighborhood and from the age of fifteen he has made his own way in the world without financial assistance from others. For a time he worked out on farms in the locality, later engaging in farming on rented land in the county of his birth. In March, 1907, with thirteen other young men from Fulton County, he went to Payne County, Okla., to engage in raising cotton. The experiment was a disastrous one, however, and they lost everything they had invested. Without financial resources and with a wife and two children depending upon him for support, one less resolute than Mr. Gould would have given away to discouragement, but he has always met reverses with a courageous smile and wrested success from circumstances that would have daunted one of less determination and energy.
 
Borrowing the sum of $100, Mr. Gould brought his family from Oklahoma to California and took a job as track man for the Santa Fe Railroad at Capistrano, at a dollar and a half per day. He continued to work for the Santa Fe for nearly two years, becoming an extra section foreman. It was natural, however, for one of his agricultural training to gravitate back to the land, so he worked with a threshing crew for a season. In 1912 he came to El Toro, and leased 250 acres of land and this amount he has increased from time to time until he now operates 700 acres on the O'Neill or Santa Margarita ranch, southeast of El Toro. Here he engages in grain farming on an extensive scale, the larger part of his acreage being devoted to barley. Mr. Gould owns the house and other buildings and a full complement of farm implements and has forty-two head of mules, horses and colts.
 
On June 6, 1901, at Flavana, Mason County, Ill., Mr. Gould was united in marriage with Miss Lillian Trapp, who was also born near Lewistown, Ill., the daughter of John Trapp born in Illinois, a prominent Fulton County farmer who is now deceased; her mother was Elizabeth Freeman who, at the age of eighty-one. is living in El Toro. Of their nine children Mrs. Gould is the youngest.
 
Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gould — Bruce M, who assists his father on the farm, and Feme, and both are social favorites. A Republican in politics, Mr. Gould takes a lively interest in the questions of the day, is a good talker, and his affability has made for him a large circle of friends.   

MRS. IDA B. KING — California, justly appreciative of both her sons and her daughters, is especially proud of those women who, called upon to assume the serious responsibilities of life in a world still largely managed by the stronger sex, have displayed such signal fitness for their work that they have not only held their own, but have often pointed the way, and perhaps by far better routes or means of travel, to others with even longer experience. Such a leader in the feminine world in the management of important affairs is Mrs. Ida B. King, widow of the late Charles H. King, and daughter of the well-known pioneer of Santa Ana. Samuel Ross. For twenty-six years past she has been a tenant on the Irvine ranch, probably the oldest tenant, therefore, on the historic San Joaquin; and, as one of the first generation of Orange County girls, she herself has a most interesting association with the history of Southern California.
 
Growing up in the city and county of her birth, Mrs. King was married in 1894 to Charles H. King, a native of Waitsburg, Wash., where he was born on January 19, 1873, the son of Samuel and Sarah Ann King, who early came to Washington. After he had braved the dangers of the great plains and had helped to establish law, order and civilization in the North, Mr. King came south to Orange County, and settled first at Orange and later at Garden Grove.  Charles was reared and educated in that vicinity, and as his father was a rancher, he took naturally to the life of the agriculturist, and after while commenced to raise grain for himself on the Freeman ranch near Inglewood.
 
Encouraged by his success, he branched out in 1891 on a larger scale by coming to Orange County and leasing, on shares, 320 acres on the San Joaquin ranch. Prior to his coming there, no one had ever attempted to raise barley and beans on the San Joaquin ranch; and neighboring farmers watched his venture with scientific interest. He demonstrated that he knew what he was about not only in the quality of the beans he raised, but in the fifteen or more sacks yielded by each acre at the harvest. He was among the first to purchase a gasoline traction engine to plow his land, and that innovation alone made him locally famous, for he could turn up from ten to fifteen acres of the soil a day, and go twelve inches deep for his beans, which, with horses or mules, is a very difficult task.
 
Mr. King was a Republican in politics, and took a very live interest in local political happenings. He was a deputy registration clerk on the Myford board at every election, represented his precinct at county conventions, and was a member of the county central committee. Affiliated with Santa Ana Lodge No. 142, Knights of Pythias, he also belonged to Santa Ana Lodge No. ,794, B. P. O. E. He died on May 14, 1911. Since his death, Mrs. King has continued to manage and develop the estate, and she has done so with rare ability. She now operates 300 acres of the James Irvine, or San Joaquin ranch, of which fifty acres are devoted to the making of hay and 250 to the growing of lima beans. She also owns ten acres at Tustin, now planted to oranges, upon which she intends soon to build.
 
Three children give joy and solace to this admirable woman, whose life is lived in part for the advancement of the best and most permanent interests of Orange County and the promising Southland. Mildred is the wife of Joe Branson and resides at Madera. Ruth has become Mrs. Fred Rising, and lives at Los Angeles. And Herald is at home, at the interesting age of fifteen. Another son. Roscoe, died when eight years of age. She is also rearing a grandchild. Lamar Hossler, to whom she also gives her motherly care and devotion.  

MIGUEL ERRECA — One of the pioneer stockmen of Southern California, Miguel Erreca was born near Aldudes, Basses Pyrenees, on the line between France and Spain, August 10, 1854, a son of Juan and Marie Erreca, who were well-to-do farmers, owning a place of 500 acres, but both passed away before Miguel left that country. They had three children, two of whom grew up, our subject being the only one now living. His brother Juan came to California with Miguel and they were partners for eleven years, when Juan returned to France and died two years later.
 
Miguel Erreca was brought up on the home farm, and this place he still owns in partnership with a nephew. Having heard good reports of splendid opportunities awaiting young men who were not afraid to work he came to California in 1873 and made his way by the Overland stage from Los Angeles to San Juan Capistrano, where he had a cousin, Bernardo Erreca, who was engaged in the sheep business. He had arrived in the old mission town at one o'clock one February morning. The next morning he got up a little late and looked out to see what the place was like. He saw a band of vaqueros, all horseback; they had long whiskers and long hair that covered their ears and eyes and, as he says, looked like a band of goats. Big pistols were hanging at their sides and big knives in their belts. He was at first a little frightened but when he got outside and up closer he heard them talk Spanish and entered into conversation with them. They were half Mexicans and half Indians but all turned out to be good fellows. He lived eleven years in San Juan Capistrano among those people and found them square and reliable. After working two months for Chas. Landell he went to work for his cousin, Bernardo Erreca, and continued with him for seven years and six months. Bernardo Erreca had four partners, among them two Orroqui brothers; one of them is now dead, but the other, Juan Orroqui is still living and was one of Miguel's first bosses; he now resides on Garnsey Street, Santa Ana, eighty-two years of age and totally blind — but Miguel still visits him and tries to bring him comfort and cheer in his unfortunate condition.
 
After working for Bernardo Erreca for over seven years. Miguel and his brother purchased a half interest and they continued together successfully. Two years later they bought more sheep from Erreca's old partners and leased all of the Trabuco ranch and ran 20.000 head of sheep. About two years later Miguel and his brother bought Bernardo's interest and ran the whole ranch and flocks. They did well and their flocks increased. There was no market for the sale of sheep to speak of in Southern California at that time, so once every two years they would drive two flocks of about 2,500 head each to San Francisco and dispose of them, the entire trip and return consuming about three months. Sheep at that time sold from $1.50 to $2.50 a head, including the wool. Later on Miguel bought his brother's interest and continued business alone with his headquarters on the Trabuco ranch of 26,000 acres.
 
It was the custom of the ranchers in those days to go to San Juan Capistrano to buy their supply of groceries. They would hitch their horses in front of the store and be all loaded up when they would go in to have a final smile and then they would keep on smiling till supper was announced, and after supper again had to have a few more rounds, and so the horses stood hitched outside until after midnight. They never found anything missing from the wagons in those days for they were all good, honest and reliable people. They would then start for their homes, arriving in the wee small hours of the next morning.
 
Mr. Erreca was offered the whole of the Trabuco ranch for $4.00 per acre and a banker in Los Angeles advised him to buy it and said he would furnish him the money and give him all the time he wanted, but Miguel was too conservative and would not risk it; but afterwards saw he had made the mistake of his life. A couple of years later Richard O'Neill bought the ranch and he, of course, lost the lease of it. Mr. Erreca then leased a part of the Irvine ranch, a tract 6,000 acres, which extended from Newport to Tustin: here he ran sheep for nine years and then sold out. Meantime, in 1883, he had purchased four acres on Hickey and Sixth streets, between Olive and Baker streets, Santa Ana, built a residence and made it his home. He then began farming on the James McFadden ranch and then leased land in various parts of Orange County. One year he had 3,700 acres in grain; one season he lost about $50,000 but he kept on and finally paid the debt one hundred cents on the dollar; he later farmed 1,700 acres on the Moulton ranch for seven years. In 1917 he quit farming and sold his outfit. He now makes his residence on his four-acre tract that he has set to Valencia oranges.
 
Mr. Erreca was married in Los Angeles, where he was united with Miss Marie Oronos, born in Bigorre, France, an estimable woman of a lovable disposition of whom he was bereaved on February 6, 1894. She left him two children: Juanita, a graduate of the Orange County Business College is now the wife of Lem Conkle, who resides with Mr. Erreca and she presides gracefully over her father's home and ministers devotedly to his comfort; Marcelina is the wife of Chas. Eckles of Santa Ana; Lem Conkle was in the U. S. Navy during the World War, serving overseas for eighteen months. Mr. Erreca is one of the oldest settlers of this section of California, is a highly respected man whose veracity and integrity have never been questioned. As a young man he was noted for his great strength, activity and endurance. In 1887 he made a trip back to his old home in France and had an enjoyable time but was glad to get back to the land of gold and sunshine. He is a member of the Catholic Church in Santa Ana and politically is a Republican.

HOMER L. COLE — The eldest child of M. C. and Ella ( Delavan) Cole, pioneers of Orange County, Homer L. was born at Deansboro. N. Y.. on December 22, 1878. He attended the public and high schools at Oneida. N. Y.. coming to California with his parents in 1898. On June 15, 1905. he was married to Miss Jessie M. Hoffman, who was born at Mendota, La Salle County, Ill., one of seven children born to John B. and Mary J. (Thomas) Hoffman, the latter of whom is still living at 521 East Pine Street,. Santa Ana. Grandfather Hoffman was one of the pioneer settlers of LaSalle County, Ill., and a large landowner there.
 
Homer L. Cole is well known as a successful contractor and builder, having been engaged in this line of work since 1910. In 1913 the firm of Bishop and Cole was formed, continuing until 1918, and they specialized in the erection of walnut warehouses and in the invention of machinery for use in these warehouses. Among the buildings for which they were contractors are the following: Fullerton-Placentia warehouse at Fullerton; Irvine Association's building at Tustin; the Capistrano Association building at San Juan Capistrano; and the Saticoy Association's house at Ventura. Messrs. Bishop and Cole also perfected the walnut vacuum machine which sorts out the worthless or "blank" walnuts and is in use in many of the large walnut warehouses. They also invented a machine for cleaning the mold from walnut meats which has been found a most useful adjunct to the industry. Mr. Cole is also an experienced walnut grower and, previous to taking up the work of contracting and building, he operated the forty-acre ranch of his uncle, Directus Cole at Anaheim. He now manages the sixty-acre walnut ranch of his mother in Wintersburg precinct, and under his expert attention it is showing handsome returns. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Cole are the parents of one son, Clifford Delavan Cole.  

BENNIE W. OSTERMAN  — Preeminent among the most perfectly arranged and scientifically managed ranches in all Orange County, if not in the entire state, must be mentioned the two important holdings of Messrs. Osterman and Osterman, the bonanza farmers near El Toro. whose junior member is the subject of our sketch. A native son with plenty of pride in the Golden State, Mr. Osterman was born at Newport Beach on November 4, 1896, where his mother was then visiting, for his parents lived on their noted ranch in the Trabuco Canyon. His father is John Osterman, who first came to California in 1890. and five years later took the decisive step of acquiring by purchase the fine property referred to. He was born in Price County, northern Wisconsin, on October 18, 1872, the son of Peter and Hannah (Andrews) Osterman. His father was a pioneer woodsman, and at the early age of twelve, John began to swing an axe in the lumber camps on the Wisconsin River, abandoning the Wisconsin lumber field only in 1890. when he determined to come to California.
 
He found work on a ranch near Redondo. and soon secured a better engagement on the San Joaquin ranch, where he remained for about a year. In the autumn of 1893 he came to Orange County, and in Trabuco Canyon hired himself out for wages to do farm work. At the end of two years, he had saved enough, and had also become sufficiently posted on ranch property values, to be able to buy his first eighty acres, to which he soon added another one hundred sixty. The land was in poor shape when he took hold of it; but he set out fruit and other trees, made various improvements, and transformed it, by his own exhausting efforts, into the showplace it became. He set out in particular olive trees, peaches and apricots, and reserved the remainder of the land for pasturage. His public-spiritedness was soon evident to his fellow-citizens, who elected him road superintendent, and for years he was entitled to much of the credit for the excellent roads, both built and repaired during his administration.
 
Besides managing his own homestead ranch, Mr. Osterman in partnership with William J. Waller, leased 2,000 acres of the Whiting ranch near El Toro, and before long had 1,600 acres under cultivation, all in barley, of which in 1909 they gathered some 14,000 sacks. Naturally a mechanic, Mr. Osterman invested heavily in farm machinery, and, besides harvesting for himself, he contracted to gather in the crops of other ranchers.
 
John Osterman was twice married. His first marriage, in 1895, united him with Miss Sadie Havens of Trabuco who died in 1901 and left him two sons — Bennie W. and George D., a cement contractor of Santa Ana. Through his second marriage, in 1903, a sister of his deceased wife. Miss Lillie Havens, became his life companion, and two children, Ethel and Elmer, blessed that union. A third Miss Havens, Rose E., became the wife of William E. Adkinson. the rancher and game warden of the Trabuco district. These ladies were the daughters of George F. Havens, now well known as a resident of Santa Ana, aged eighty-three, and a native of Pennsylvania. He served four years in the Union Army, and married Miss Millie Copeland, who died in 1894. The Havens came from Texas to California in 1883, and had eight children.
 
Bennie W. Osterman was sent to the El Toro grammar school and then was graduated from the high school at Santa Ana, a member of the class of '14, and five years later, on April 2, he was married to Miss Cynthia Munger of El Toro. In time, he became the junior member of Messrs. Osterman and Osterman, the partner being his father. They have two large ranches near El Toro, and our subject resides on the Whiting ranch of 1,200 acres on the Trabuco Road, where 900 acres are under the plow, and 300 are in rough pasture range. The other farm they operate consists of 840 acres, and is a part of the L. F. Moulton and Company's ranch. In addition, John Osterman owns an orange orchard in Tustin where he resides.
 
Messrs. Osterman and Osterman have $50,000 worth of equipment, consisting of buildings on rented ranch land, two threshing machines, one a grain separator of the Case make, and the other a bean thresher. They also own a Holt 75 tractor, and two headers, which they use in harvesting. They usually have about 1,700 acres in crop each year. Mr. Osterman is a Republican in national politics, although too broad minded to allow partisanship to affect his attitude toward local issues and movements properly endorsed, and fraternally he is an Elk — of the type all lodges are anxious to have among their number.  

NEWTON BARRIS PIERCE — It is not given to many men to leave behind them such an enviable record for specific accomplishment in a new field as that of the late Newton Barris Pierce, the widely-known vegetable pathologist, who conceived the magnificent idea of collecting and developing the wild flowers of the earth, and who identified modest little Santa Ana with his pretentious undertaking and almost unhoped for attainment. He was born at Brockport, N. Y., on September 26, 1856, the son of Franklin B. and Melissa (Hinman) Pierce, his forebears on the father's side having been Bostonians of an old-established line, and doubtless related to the family of President Franklin Pierce, and on the mother's side coming from New York State, and probably related to the Hinmans of Connecticut, recalling Americans distinguished as soldiers, scholars and educators. He attended the common and high schools of New York, Wisconsin and ^Michigan, and later, in 1882-83, entered Harvard College at Cambridge, Mass., where he studied in the Museum of Entomology. Then he went to Ann Arbor, Mich., and finished the course of vegetable pathology, giving the two years in that well equipped institution between 1887 and 1889.
 
At Ludington, Mason County, Mich., Mr. Pierce had a private laboratory from 1876 to 1889, and there he applied himself to collecting and studying insects. In 1890 he was commissioned to come to Southern California and study the grapevine disease; locating at Santa Ana. .After a few months here, he concluded to go to Southern Europe and Northern .Africa, where the trouble was said to have originated. The next year, he returned to California and Santa Ana, rich in added experience.
 
On March 11, 1897, Mr. Pierce married Miss Maude B. Lacy, the daughter of Dr. John McClelland and Eliza (Bean) Lacy, pioneers of Santa Ana. where Dr. Lacy was a prominent and well-known physician and surgeon. One child, Newton Lacy Pierce, now a sophomore in the Santa Ana high school, blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Pierce.
 
As far back as 1874 in Michigan, Mr. Pierce was a lumber inspector, a partner in the firm of Pierce Bros., who established an office in Ludington in 1876, which they kept open until 1895. In time, he became connected with the sinking of early salt wells in Western Michigan. When the California grapevine disease threatened the industry on the Pacific Coast, David Hewes sent to Washington for aid, and the authorities at the Federal capital sent to Michigan for a competent man; and as the result of special recommendation, Mr. Pierce was appointed by the U. S. Agricultural Department to find a way to fight the disease.
 
In 1889, he was placed in charge of vegetable pathology for the United States Department of Agriculture, and three years later established the wild plant improvement gardens. He became a life member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the International Association of Botanists, the American Association of Bacteriologists, and a life member of the Michigan and Illinois Horticultural societies. He was also a member of the California Entomological Club and of the California Viticultural Club. In religion he was a consistent member of the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Ana.
 
Mr. Pierce, who was a true and reverent scientist, established an exchange bureau with various missionaries throughout the world, thereby- obtaining wild plants from all over the globe, and this important work is now being carried on by a special branch of the United States Agricultural Department. When he passed away, on October 13, 1916, to the sorrow of many besides his personal friends, he had given his name as author to several interesting books and numerous papers on plant disease, including: "California Vine Disease," edited in 1892, and "Peach Leaf Curl," a work produced eight years afterward.  

FREDERICK E. BANGS — A successful California rancher who may look back with satisfaction to a long and enviable record as a distinguished educator in the East, is Frederick E. Bangs, of 701 Orange A venue, Santa Ana. He was born in the town of Groton, Tompkins County, N. Y., on July 27, 1848, the son of Samuel and Eliza (Berry) Bangs, farmer folk in a dairy country. They moved to Cayuga County when Frederick E. was a year and a half old, and purchased a farm there of 160 acres. The lad was therefore brought up on a farm, and until he was fourteen, sent to the district school. Then he continued his studies at Cortland Academy, Homer, N. Y.. and later attended Lawrence University at Appleton. Wis., from which he was duly graduated with honors.
 
He taught school for three winters and a summer near Oshkosh. at the same time keeping up his college work, and afterward attended Yale University, from which he was graduated with the Class of 76, in the Centennial year of the Republic. He had received his degree of E.S. at Lawrence, and when he obtained his B.D. degree from Yale, he was given, automatically, the M.A. degree of Lawrence University. After that, he went into the mission field at Farmington, Iowa, for a year.
 
Then he was appointed principal of the five grammar schools in Wooster district, at New Haven, Conn., and there he remained from 1877 until 1894. Prior to beginning his teaching — that is, at New Haven on May 18, 1876 — Mr. Bangs was married to Miss Edith Seaver Day, the daughter of Horace and Sarah (Seaver) Day, her father, a scholarly man, being secretary of the Board of Education of New Haven, serving forty years. She proved an invaluable helpmate, but passed away on February 28, 1884. A second time, four years later, on May 3, Mr. Bangs married, this time choosing Miss Augusta Crane, a native of East Orange. N. J. The ceremony took place at Little Falls in that state. She was the daughter of Charles and Louisa (Munn) Crane, and her father was a dealer in general merchandise at Orange. Both the Munn and Crane families trace their ancestry back to colonial times. She was first sent to the Orange grammar schools, and later to the New Jersey State Normal at Trenton, where she was graduated in the advanced courses. She taught one year at Vineland, then she was an instructor in the schools at East Orange from 1876 to I879 under C. F. Carroll. Then she was called to New Haven by S. T. Dutton and taught for two years in the Eaton school under him, and in 1880 she served as first assistant teacher to Mr. Bangs at New Haven, and continued to teach there until she was married.
 
After having had charge of the Wooster schools for seventeen years. Mr. Bangs retired from teaching in 1894, and returned to the old homestead at Groton. where he engaged in general farming. In 1901 he disposed of his holding and came west to California and Santa Ana. Here he purchased a ranch of eleven and a quarter acres on Orange Avenue. which was at one time the southwest part of the old Stafford estate, and later he sold four and a half acres lying east of the Pacific Electric Railway. Now he has about six acres, interset with oranges and walnuts, and thriving well under the service of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company.
 
In national politics a Republican, Mr. Bangs endeavors to perform his civic duties in local affairs without restricting partisanship and in the broad spirit most likely to make for the best standards in citizenship. Naturally, he is an advocate of popular education, and leaves no stone unturned to advance and strengthen one of the most aggressive and most beneficent of American institutions.
 
Two children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Bangs: Marguerite Louise is now Mrs. Charles H. Stearns of Santa Ana and the mother of two sons — Oliver Charles, born January 12, 1916, and Frederick Edward, born May 5, 1918. She graduated from Pomona College with the Bachelor of Arts degree, and also received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Southern California. She was a high school teacher at Bishop, Cal., for a year, and for another year at Visalia. Edward Crane Bangs is also a graduate of Pomona College with the degree of B.A., and is an alumnus of the University of California, having majored at Berkeley in chemistry. He was teaching in the high school at Arcata, when he enlisted in the United States Army in February, 1918, as a member of the Three Hundred Nineteenth Engineers Corps, and was sent to Camp Fremont. In April, he was sent to the officers' training school at Camp Lee. Va., and in the following month of May was commissioned a second lieutenant. He proved one of the ablest of the class, and was needed in the chemical department of the army. He was then sent to the gas defense school, from which he was graduated in July, 1918. After that, he was dispatched to Camp Grant, to become instructor in gas to the entire camp; and when it transpired that this camp was not ready for his work, he was sent on to Sparta, Wis., as the instructor to the artillery stationed there. He later returned to Camp Grant and took charge of the instruction in defense work, and rose to the rank of chief gas officer. On February 17, 1919, he was honorably discharged at Camp Grant, and returned to his home state, where he is now engaged as a high school teacher.  

JO LOWELL  — An industrious, successful man of comfortable affluence is Jo Lowell, the rancher of 1108 West Fifth Street, Santa Ana, whose modest disposition, despite his useful, influential life, draws to him a circle of devoted friends. He was born at Sacramento on May 10, 1872, the son of William Henry and Mary Lowell. The father was an employee of the Wells Fargo Express Company, before the advent here of the railroad, and had charge of one of the wagon routes. The mother died when Jo was ten years old. and at that tender age he set out to seek his own fortune.
 
He went into Kern County, on the south fork of the Kern River, and worked on T. S. Smith's stock ranch of one thousand acres; and for twenty years he was in the employ of the same man. In the fall of 1903 he came to Santa Ana; and on November 18 he was married to Miss Mabel T. Townsend, a native daughter born in San Bernardino, whose parents were B. F. and Anna Townsend. They came to Garden Grove when she was two years old, and became pioneers of Orange County, so that Mabel was sent to the Garden Grove district school. Later, she continued her studies at a preparatory school at Orange and in time was graduated from Stanford University. Their wedding took place at Santa Ana. and was one of the quiet, pleasant events of the year. For a while thereafter, while they made Santa Ana their home, Mr. Lowell worked on ranches in the vicinity.
 
In 1906 he went to San Diego, Texas, and ranched sixteen miles to the southwest of that town until 1909 on 2,000 acres. On his return to California, he farmed 260 acres near Stockton, raising barley and potatoes. In 1912, he came back to Santa Ana, to take care of his fourteen and a half-acre ranch, ten acres of which were devoted to Valencia oran.ges. and four and a half acres to walnuts. This neat little ranch was purchased by B. F. Townsend, Mrs. Lowell's father, in 1886, and as he died in May, 1917, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell inherited it. They have also inherited 2,300 acres in Texas, once owned by Mr. Townsend, as well as the latter's home, at 1108 West Fifth Street, Santa Ana.
 
Three children have come to make still happier the delightful home life of these thoroughly American folks. Kenneth Townsend Lowell is a high school student at Santa Ana: Virginia May is in the intermediate school; and so is Charline Elizabeth. Fraternally, Mr. Lowell is a Mason; in national politics he is a Republican.  

RODGER BROS  — Conspicuous among the most prosperous and interesting industrial establishments of Balboa is that of the auto and shipbuilding firm of Rodger Bros., composed of C. G. and E. D. Rodger, who own a first-class garage, machine shop and slip ways, are always active in promoting the best interests of the tourist, and who have added to the attractiveness of Balboa as a harbor resort by keeping well-equipped boats for charter.
 
C. C. Rodger, popularly known as Cordie Rodger, was born in Iowa, in April, 1876, while E. D. Rodger was also born in Iowa, in August, 1878. They were both the sons of Glaud H. and Nancy M. Rodger, who came from Iowa to California. although the father had been here before, and was in many ways a thorough, typical Californian. Grandfather Glaud Rodger was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, who had married Miss Matilda Clark, a native of Liverpool, England. They crossed the great American plains in 1852, and stayed at Salt Lake over winter, and there their child, Glaud H., was born. The following season they came on to California and settled at San Bernardino. The grandfather was a farmer, and Glaud H. grew up to follow agriculture. He went back to Iowa, and when twenty-two years old married Miss Nancy M. Sutherland, the ceremony taking place in Decatur County, Iowa.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Rodger lived in Iowa for thirteen years, and then they came to California in the spring of 1887, and settled at what is now Laguna Beach. Later they went to El Toro and farmed on the Moulton Ranch — in fact Mr. Rodger did the first grain farming on the great Moulton acreage, and he bought and operated the first header ever brought on to that place. Now he and his devoted wife are both living in their comfortable residence at Balboa. They belong to the reorganized L. D. S. Church.
 
Of their nine children, six grew to maturity, three having died in fancy. Jessie married William Woodhouse, a rancher at El Toro; but she died four years ago, mourned by many. C. G. and E. D. Rodger, the subjects of this instructive review, hate materially advanced the importance of Balboa in its relation to the outside world and as an attractive place for outsiders to come to and settle in. Fred is a rancher at El Toro. Dolly is the wife of William Cubben, the machinist; and Ethel is at home.
 
Twelve years ago, E. D. Rodger came to Balboa and went to work as a machinist for W. S. Collins at the Collins shipyard in Balboa, and later he founded the firm of Rodger Bros., which got along at first with a building 35x126 feet in size, now adjoining on the east their newer structure of- 1920, 35x136 feet in size. They have built and equipped many boats, among them the Limit, constructed in 1916, and the Harriet N., 1918^both fine specimens of naval architecture; and they repair much of the craft used on the bay and the ocean. Even as boys, both of the Rodgers were apt machinists, and it is not surprising that their patrons come from miles around. They make a specialty of motion picture water work — now one of the departments of a most important modern undertaking, with its effect on the civilization of the four quarters of the globe. In 1900, E. D. Rodger was married at El Toro to Miss Viola Zimmerman, a lady of talents and the capacity of cooperation, who also has her circle of friends.  

EARL L. MATTHEWS — An admirable example of the man who can accomplish much entirely through his own initiative and determination to succeed is found in Earl L. Matthews, the president of the Orange County Ignition Works, Inc., the largest business of its kind in the county, and his reputation for thorough workmanship and absolutely reliable service has brought him a lucrative patronage that is in every way well deserved. His career, in its practical results, is an encouragement to every struggling young man who has ambition and genius and is willing to make sacrifices and endure long hours of hard work.
 
Earl L. Matthews is a native of Ohio, being born at Toledo on April 2Z, 1888. His parents are William H. and Frances (West) Matthews and they left their Ohio home in 1906 and came to California to reside. They located first at Porterville in Tulare County, remaining there for two years, then removing to Long Beach, where they resided for another period of two years, coming to Santa Ana in 1910, and they still make their home there. The only child of his parents, Earl L. Matthews was educated in the public and high schools of Toledo, Ohio, and later took a commercial course in the Toledo Business College. Always of a mechanical turn of mind, after coming to California in 1906 Mr. Matthews became interested in auto electrical work and very wisely decided that the surest way to success was to begin at the bottom and master every angle of the business. Accordingly he spent considerable time in some of the largest shops in Los Angeles, learning all the details of the work and gaining a most valuable practical experience.
 
On coming to Santa Ana in 1910. Mr. Matthews started the nucleus of his present large business, beginning in a small store building at 414 West Fourth Street, and by well-directed effort the business increased so rapidly that he saw the need of expansion, and so occupied three other locations before coming to his present place at the corner of Fifth and Spurgeon streets. In 1916 he incorporated his business as the Orange County Ignition Works and since that time he has built up a wonderfully successful business, employing over thirty people, and having branch houses at Fullerton and Orange. At both of these places he occupies fireproof buildings, which have been erected according to his own designs and needs. He handles the Willard storage battery and specializes in electrical apparatus pertaining to automobiles, confining his business to this line of work. He maintains a thoroughly equipped electrical repair department which is fully prepared to handle ignition and electrical trouble on every make of automobile and particular attention is paid to electrical trouble on trucks and farm tractors. thus giving assistance and immediate aid to ranchers and transportation men in the fields and remote highways.
 
Mr. Matthews' marriage at Los Angeles on April 28, 1909, united him with Miss
Letitia Hennessey of Santa Ana and they are the parents of two children, Russell P. and Marjory F. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics Mr. Matthews gives his allegiance to the Republican party and in fraternal circles he is prominent in the ranks of the Elks and is a Knights Templar Mason. To further the interests of his own line of work he is a member and vice-president of the Orange County Auto Trades Association, and he is no less zealous in aiding in the work of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association and the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce, Holding membership in both of these organizations. He finds much enjoyment in outdoor life and is particularly fond of fishing. Generous and liberal, he is one of Orange County's loyal boosters and can always be counted upon to support all movements for the public good.  

JAMES ARTHUR ROSS — A most interesting representative of a long-honored pioneer Santa Ana family is J. Arthur Ross, familiarly known by his friends as Ott Ross, a son of Samuel Ross, who crossed the great plains in the middle sixties, accompanied by his bride of a few weeks, to whom he had been married in Ross Township, III. This Samuel Ross became one of the earliest settlers at Santa Ana, and Ross Street was named after a brother, Jacob Ross, who was county tax collector and assessor in early days. Mrs. Ross was Catherine Leonard before her marriage, and she died when J. Arthur was nine years old. Ott Ross was born at Santa Ana on January 15, 1881, and grew up in that town, one of eleven children, six of whom are still living. He attended the public grammar schools and learned to be a farmer.
 
When he was married, he chose for his wife Mrs. Jennie (Smith) Kight of Santa Ana, a native of Madison, Ga., a daughter of William and Carrie (Reid) Smith, also of that state. The father served in the Confederate Army in the Civil War and died when Mrs. Ross was a child; she was reared and educated in Georgia. Her uncle, Capt. John G. Smith, was one of the early settlers of Birmingham, Ala., and was a prominent veteran of the Confederacy and a Mason and laid the cornerstone for the Masonic temple at Birmingham. She is the youngest of three children: the eldest was Henry who died in Box Springs, Ga., and Wm. Eugene is an extensive cotton buyer at Madison, Ga. In 1899 Mrs. Ross came to Santa Ana with her mother where she met Ott Ross, the acquaintance resulting in their marriage and she has proven the most helpful of helpmates. Her mother died here in 1915. They have four children — Catherine, Lula, Christy and Leonard. Mr. Ross has engaged in farming in the district south of Santa Ana for twenty years and since 1918, farming on the Irvine ranch.
 
Notwithstanding a serious set-back in 1919, such as might well discourage many. Mr. and Mrs. Ross are succeeding and, little by little, attaining their goal. In that year, a mysterious fire burned down their barn, shed and other outbuildings, and destroyed, among other things, a great quantity of hay. It was a severe blow, for Mr. Ross had little or no insurance. He bravely rebuilt, however, for like the other tenants on the San Joaquin ranch, he owns his own buildings and equipment. He is energetic and persistent; Mrs. Ross is cheerful and optimistic; and it is not surprising that he and his family live happily, and that those who know them, expect great things from them in the years to come. He leases 270 acres, where he devotes about 200 acres to lima beans; the balance to hay and black-eyed beans. Mr. and Mrs. Ross are believers in protection for Americans and are naturally strong Republicans.  

ASBURY J. SHAW — Numbered among the successful ranchers of the El Toro district is Asbury J. Shaw, who is equally proficient as a machinist, as he does a great deal of work on automobiles, gasoline engines, threshers and all kinds of farm machinery, maintaining a well-equipped blacksmith shop on his place. A native son of California, Mr. Shaw was born on the original El Toro ranch in Aliso Canyon on October 2, 1891. His parents were R. L. and Catherine Ellen (Little) Shaw, natives, respectively, of Texas and Georgia. Besides the subject of this review, a daughter, Fannie Pearl, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Shaw and she is now the wife of Albert Gibson, a rancher on the Irvine ranch. R. L. Shaw was twice married; by his first marriage he had two children, one of whom is living, Frank Shaw of Laguna Beach. Catherine Ellen Little was also married twice, her first husband being Peter Eraser Groover, who was born in Georgia. They came to California about 1872, and located in Fresno County, where they were engaged in sheep raising; afterwards they came to Gospel Swamp, now Talbert, and later to Aliso Canyon, where they homesteaded and farmed. Mr. Groover died at Downey in 1881. Of this marriage there were five children; Frank, who is a mechanic, resides in Arizona; H. L., also a mechanic, makes his home in Santa Ana; F. E. farms on the Irvine ranch; Hattie Gertrude is Mrs. Boxley of Los Angeles; V. D. also farms on the Irvine ranch. About three years after her husband's death Mrs. Groover married Robert L. Shaw, who came with his parents across the plains in an ox-team train, in the early fifties. He followed ranching in Los Angeles and Orange counties and he and Mrs. Shaw still make their home in Orange County.
 
Asbury J. Shaw spent his boyhood days on the Aliso Canyon ranch, and early in life started to earn his own way. working out as a farm hand on the neighboring ranches, earning at first only ten dollars a month. He became expert at handling mules when he was only a boy and this helped him to get employment in hauling cement and other heavy freight at the time of the building of the great Los Angeles Aqueduct. He was considered one of the best drivers on the entire job and handled a team of twelve mules perfectly.
 
In 1913 Mr. Shaw began ranching operations for himself by leasing 150 acres of the Santa Margarita ranch, the property of James O'Neill. Since then he has added to his acreage and now has 275 acres, all plow land, which he devotes to grain, barley and hay being his principal crop. He has a $5,000 equipment on his place, owning ten head of horses, six mules, a twelve-foot Deering header, a fifteen horsepower Fair- banks-Morse portable engine and a separator for threshing either grain or beans. Recently he has been engaged in rebuilding a Ventura threshing machine and putting a gasoline engine in shape, and with this combination he will thresh his own crop of barley and beans, as well as threshing for others in the neighborhood. Mr. Shaw's blacksmith shop is also equipped with wood-working machinery and with his natural aptitude toward everything mechanical he does considerable work in this line. For several months he was at Yuma, Ariz., where he was engaged in running a gasoline hoist at the old Pecachio gold and silver mines.
 
Mr. Shaw's marriage, which occurred in October, 1916, united him with Miss Ruby Leona Alsbach and one child. Marion Lucine, has added to their happy home life. Of a genial disposition, Mr. Shaw has many friends who admire him for his integrity and his sterling, industrious character. While generally voting the Democratic ticket in national elections. Mr. Shaw is broad-minded and nonpartisan in local affairs, aiming to vote for the best men and measures.

THEODORE ROBERTS — Orange County has drawn its leading citizens from many countries, and the opportunities to be found here have attracted men of character and with the progressive ideas which make for success in any country. Among these may be mentioned Theodore Roberts, prominent in business circles in Anaheim, where he is the leading jeweler and optometrist. A native of Germany, Mr. Roberts was born in Danzig, West Prussia, February 12, 1882. There he learned the trade of watchmaker and jeweler and worked at his profession in the large cities of Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium. When he landed at Boston, in 1905, he could not speak a word of English, but gradually acquired the language and after visiting New York he went to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he secured work on a farm at a wage of one dollar per day.
 
Although intending to make farming his occupation in the new country, the young traveler soon gave up that intention, and in 1907 he came to California, settling in Los Angeles, where he took up his trade, and also studied optometry. After working in leading jewelry stores in that city, he sought new fields, and in 1911 he came to Anaheim and opened a small jewelry store at 113 East Center Street. As his business grew he enlarged his quarters, and in 1915 he moved into larger quarters at 105 East Center Street. In 1918 he purchased a large piece of property, including the block between Lemon and Clementine and Helena and Palm on West Center Street, a part of the old Deutch property. He has erected a building on the whole of the block from Lemon to Clementine on Center, making twelve stores and a large garage, and he also erected a building on West Center between Helena and Palm, and is now starting work on the erection of the Roberts Theater on West Center and Clementine streets, which, when completed, will be the largest theater building in Orange County. So it is readily seen that in a few years he has accomplished much and thus has done more than his share in the building up of Anaheim. In 1920 he moved his store to 223 West Center Street, where he has a thoroughly up-to-date establishment with a large and carefully selected stock.
 
From the beginning of his residence here Mr. Roberts has taken a keen interest in the upbuilding of the city, and he was one of the first merchants to advocate the widening and improving of Center Street, and in fact started the movement.
 
A self-made man in every respect, for he came to a new land, not knowing a word of its language nor with anything but his own brain and muscle to help carve a future, Mr. Roberts can rightfully be called a representative citizen of his adopted country, and serving its best interests as he serves his own.
 
The marriage of Mr. Roberts united him with Ella B. Stroka. a native of Austria, and two sons have blessed their union: Theodore. Jr., and Joseph, both natives of Anaheim. Fraternally, Mr. Roberts is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and in business circles he is a member of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce. He is also interested in horticulture, owning an orange grove in the Placentia district, while professionally he is a member of the Retail Jewelers Association of California and the State Association of Optometrists.  

C. E. UTT  — A man of much enterprise and force of character, a native son and the son of a '49er, is C. E. Utt, the president of the First National Bank of Tustin, who for the long period of forty-six years has been identified with this place. His father, Lysander Utt, was a native of Virginia, of Dutch ancestry, and he came here with the early gold seekers of the Argonaut days. While in the gold-mining country he met and married Miss Arvilla Piatt, a native of New York who had come to California with her parents when a girl. Lysander Utt crossed the Santa Fe trail a number of times before the Mexican War and made and lost several fortunes. In 1874 he brought his family to Tustin. driving overland all the way from Placer County. The Southern Pacific Railroad was then just being constructed to Los Angeles, which was a town of about 8,000 people. Santa Ana was a hamlet of perhaps a dozen houses, while a little cluster of half a dozen cottages constituted the present town of Tustin. It was at that time still a cattle and sheep country, agriculture being yet in its infancy, as not more than two per cent of the county had even been plowed. Here Lysander Utt engaged in the merchandise business, buying the stock of H. H. Dickerman. who had started the first store in Tustin two years before, and died.
 
C. E. Utt was the only child of his parents and was but eight years old when the family  came to Tustin. They made their home in the store building and he naturally grew up with the business from his childhood, and when he was twenty-one years of age he took charge of the store. From that time until 1893, he continued in the general merchandise business, giving it up at that time to engage in ranching, and this he has pursued ever since with great success. With the exception of sugar beets, he has grown practically every crop known to Orange County.
 
Mr. Utt was one of the organizers of the San Joaquin Fruit Company, and has been its president since its inception. This company owns 1.000 acres of land adjacent to Tustin, set out to Valencia oranges, lemons and walnuts, and now produces several hundred carloads of fruit and nuts every year. There are three packing houses on the ranch and a spur from the Santa Fe tracks runs up to their packing houses in the middle of the ranch.
 
In 1894 Mr. Utt was united in marriage with Miss Mary M. Sheldon of Tustin, the daughter of an old pioneer family. Mrs. Utt passed away in 1918, leaving five children: Mrs. Gertrude Hess of Victorville; Mrs. Dorothy Robertson of Los Mochis, Mexico; James B. of Tustin: Louise and Elizabeth. The family attend the Presbyterian Church and politically Mr. Utt was a strong Prohibitionist: since the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment he affiliates with the Republican party. In addition to his duties as president of the First National Bank of Tustin he is also treasurer of the Haven Seed Company. A self-made man, he has won his success by hard work and good management and he enjoys the confidence and good will of the whole community.  

WILLIAM G. KOTHE  — One of the most enterprising horticulturists of the district in which his orchard is situated is William G. Kothe, whose well-cultivated orange grove of eight acres is devoted exclusively to Valencias. He has been a resident of Orange County for over twenty years, and to him there is no other section of the Golden State he finds so well adapted for citrus culture. Like many another, he began at the bottom of the ladder: but by hard work of untiring brain and muscle, he has won his way to a favorable place in the horticultural world.
 
Mr. Kothe is a native of Hanover, Germany, where he was born on August 2, 1877, and his parents were William and Sophie Kothe. also natives of Hanover. There were three children in the family, and they all came to reside in the West. Mary, Mrs. Riggers, is in Idaho; Annie, Mrs. Hiesterniann. in Kansas, and William G., our subject, is the eldest of the family. The father died in Germany in 1883, and in time Mrs. Kothe remarried to Henry Ohlde. and three children were born of her second marriage.
 
In 1885 the entire family migrated to the United States, and settled in Washington County. Kans. William was then seven years of age, and he was reared and educated in, as the Kansans say, the "Garden of the West." Then, until 1900, he followed farming.
 
At the beginning of the century, he migrated to Orange County. Cal., and began his experience in orchard work. In 1904 he made a trip back to his old Kansas home and while there wed Miss Minnie Heitman who had come to Kansas to visit her brother, the acquaintance resulting in their marriage at Washington, Kans., May 25, 1904. She was the accomplished daughter of William and Dorathea Heitman, and was also born in Hanover, Germany, coming in 1893 to the United States. She was one of twelve children, the others still living being William, Mary, Freda, Ernest, Henry, Emma, George, Olga and Louis.
 
After his marriage Mr. Kothe returned with his bride to Orange County and engaged in horticulture. In 1909 he purchased their present place of eight acres on Tustin Avenue near Fairhaven, which he has improved to a splendid Valencia orange orchard. Aside from his own place he also cares for twenty acres of orange groves for others. He is a stockholder in the Santa Alia Valley Irrigation Company, and the Santiago Orange Growers Association. He has lately completed a seven-room bungalow, which is much enjoyed by his family. Their four children are Elsie, who attends Orange Union high school; Arnold, Dorathea and Martin. With his family, Mr. Kothe is a member of St. John's Lutheran church at Grange. Mrs. Kothe has been of great aid to her husband by encouraging him in his ambitions, and he in turn appreciates and acknowledges her assistance.  

HAROLD EDWARD WAHLBERG — A scientifically trained agriculturist whose advice has come to be recognized as of such value that he devotes his time professionally to studying other agriculturist's problems and to counseling the less experienced in the way they would better go, is Harold Edward Wahlberg, a native of the state of Washington. He was born at Seattle, on July 18, 1890, and his father was Hans Christian Wahlberg. He had married Miss Elizabeth Swedberg, by whom he had four children — one girl and three boys. The parents are now living retired at San Francisco, honored by all who have the pleasure of knowing them.
 
The eldest in the family, Harold attended both the grammar and high schools of the vicinity in which he grew up, and later pursued courses of study at the Oregon agricultural College. In 1910 he was graduated from that institution with the degree of Bachelor of Science.
 
For a year he served as the first superintendent of the Eden Valley Orchards of Medford, and then he removed to Woodland, Cal., where he was superintendent of the Yolo Orchard Company for two and a half years. After that he put in about three years with the Sycamore Ranch Company at Los Molinos, Cal., where he was general manager, and then for a year and a half he was on the horticultural commission for Glenn County. Since August, 1918, he has been farm adviser for Orange County.
 
Mr. Wahlberg is a Democrat, and under Democratic banners he has been a live wire, when needed, in national political affairs; but he believes in nonpartisanship in local civic movements, and has ever been ready to help along the community in which he has cast his lot. Very naturally, he is deeply interested in the problems of development in Orange County, nor could he have a more fruitful soil upon which, actually and figuratively speaking, to spend his energies. On March 17, 1920, Mr. Wahlberg was united in marriage with Miss Bertha Wing, born in New England, but a resident of California for several years, and they make their home in Santa Ana.
 
The Masons and Elks claim Mr. Wahlberg as a member, and as a devotee of both boating and chess, he seeks the invigorating pleasure of outdoor life, and the stimulating pastimes of the quiet corner.
 

H. E. DUNGAN  — The proprietor of the oil station at the corner of Euclid and Stanford avenues, at Garden Grove, H. E. Dungan, is a man who has seen much of life in the various countries of the New and Old World that he has visited. An ex-soldier on the retired list, he was born near Muscatine, Iowa, May 2, 1869. His parents, John B., and Anna (Pratt) Dungan, were farmers, and after his birth removed to Illinois, going thence to Clay Center, Clay County, Kans., where they settled on a farm. Mr. Dungan's earliest recollections are associated with the Kansas farm where he lived until he was fourteen years old. He then returned to Illinois, and from there went to Texas and thence to the territory of Washington. Returning to Texas he gave up ranching in 1891, went to Dallas, Texas, and enlisted in the Twenty-third Infantry of the U. S. Army for a term of three years. After his term of service expired he entered the Quartermaster's department at Laredo, Texas, and served in that department eighteen months. He then drifted to old Mexico and Central America, working at mining and railroading, and when the Spanish war broke out in 1898 was near Georgetown, Central America. Losing no time he took the first boat out, went to Cuba and enlisted with the Fifteen U. S. Regulars for a term of three years. He was in Cuba fourteen months, and during this time was in numerous skirmishes. Returning to the United States, he was stationed in Vermont six months, and was then ordered to San Francisco. Leaving there under sealed orders, when they reached Nagasaki, Japan, they were ordered on to China. Transferred to another steamship they landed at Taku, China, and Mr. Dungan was all through the Boxer troubles, from Tientsin on to Peking, China. After this campaign was over he was transferred to the Philippines, and served at Tabaco, Pandan and Samar Island. His term of service expiring in the Philippines he went to the constabulary and severed nine years at different places and on different islands in the Philippines. In 1911 he resigned and came back to the army in order to be retired, and was first sergeant when he was placed on the retired list ill 1912. He came to Garden Grove in that year and bought two and a half acres, which he afterward sold.
 
In 1914 he was married at Riverside to Miss Marie Rich, a native of France who came to California from her native country when a girl of fifteen. Two children have been born of their union, Frances and Donald by name. In 1917 Mr. Dungan was called back to active service and was engaged in the recruiting service at Los Angeles and in Arizona and Southern California, until the close of the war with Germany. He says: "The American soldier is the best soldier on earth." He has been around the world once and has made four trips to the Philippines. He owns the acre and a half at Garden Grove, on which his oil station and residence are located, and deals in the Standard Oil Company's products, handling gasoline and lubricating oils. In politics a Republican, he is a humanitarian in his view of life, and is a man of reliability and rectitude. He has lived a clean and consistent life, and is justly entitled to the competency he has earned, and to the respect accorded him by his intimate friends and acquaintances.
 

HENRY MEIER  — An industrious young man of exceptional ability who' has naturally "made good" and is the admiration of many, is Henry Meier, who was born in Bellevue, Pottawatomie County, Kans., in August, 1879. His father, George Meier, was a native of Germany and as a young man came out to the United States. He stopped in Illinois and for years worked at farming for a James Short. Then he moved to Kansas and became an early settler in Pottawatomie County. He bought railroad land, was the first to break up much of the soil, and he engaged in raising corn and stock. In 1895, however, he rented out his farm and, coming west to California, pitched his tent at Orange for a couple of years. Then he bought a ranch of thirty-nine acres on East Chapman Avenue and engaged in general farming and the raising of vegetables. He also set out walnuts. In 1904, full of years and blessed with many friends, Mr. Meier died, at the age of sixty-nine. His wife was Mary Grote before her marriage, the sister of Henry Grote, another well-known pioneer of Orange, and she is now in her seventieth year, the mother of four children: Amelia is Mrs. J. F. Stone of McPherson; Henry and Annie are twins, and the latter lives at Los Angeles; and Bertha is Mrs. Bogart of San Jacinto.
 
Brought up in Kansas, Henry attended the public schools and first came to California in his sixteenth year, when he completed his schooling. Then he helped his father on the home farm, and after a while he ran the place, and he has continued the management of the estate, at the same time conducting his own ranching enterprises. The home place consists of twenty-eight acres, and he himself owns eleven acres adjoining. The old place is used for the growing of oranges and lemons, on trees grown in his own nursery and set out and cared for by himself; for twelve years ago he began the nursery, making a specialty of Valencia orange trees, as well as lemons and walnuts, and he is still raising nursery stock, in what is widely and favorably known as the H. Meier Nursery. He also owns another six acres of citrus orchard, giving him sixteen acres of citrus fruit, and this acreage, under his experienced eye and hand, approaches very nearly to the ideal of a true "show place." As might be expected of one known to understand the problems of citrus growing and to favor every sensible measure likely to develop the industry in California. Mr. Meier is an active member of the Central Lemon Association and the McPherson Heights Orange Growers Association. In 1919 his nine-year-old tree? had the record crop of this association for heaviest yield per acre. The Kansas farm, still owned by George Meier when he died, was sold by the family in January. 1919.
 
Mr. Meier was married at Los Angeles, May 16, 1912, to Miss Amy West, a native of California, born in Orange, and the daughter of Henry West, an esteemed pioneer of Orange; a clever young lady of present-day training and enterprise. After completing with credit a commercial course at the Orange County Business College in Santa Ana. she entered the employ of the National Bank of Orange, continuing there for eight years until her resignation, when she married. She is capable, therefore, of cooperating .with Mr. Meier in a very helpful way.
 
Mr. Meier is very enthusiastic for the future of this region and is not averse to putting his shoulder to the wheel and "boosting" Orange and Orange County, for which he sees a bright future, and he is always ready to work for its upbuilding and enhancing the importance of the commonwealth.
 

OTTO R. HAAN — A native of Michigan, who has been privileged to contribute much toward the development, along the most desirable and permanent of lines, of the youthful county of Orange, is Otto R. Haan, who was born at Grand Rapids on January 7, 1879, the eldest of two children born to Rudolph and Gertrude (Smith) Haan. Mr. Haan attended the common school and received the usual training for a tussle with the exacting world.
 
For seven years he was news agent on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, the Michigan Central Railroad, the Pere Marquette, as well as the Wabash system and step by step he advanced until he became superintendent of the news service for Fred Harvey on the Santa Fe system, a post he continued to fill for twenty years. This association with one of the best-known purveying concerns in the country caused him to travel widely and to reside from time to time in various places, and he lived in particular at Albuquerque and Los Angeles.
 
On coming to Santa Ana in 1917, Mr. Haan bought out H. H. Kelley's Cadillac agency, later incorporating the Cadillac Garage Company, of which he is president and manager. The business has grown very rapidly and it now requires the services of fifteen men. It is located at the corner of Second and Main Streets. Mr. Haan is active in automobile circles, is a member of the Orange County Auto Trade Association, of which he is president and is now vice-president of the California Auto Trade Association. Intensely interested in Orange County, he is an active member of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association and the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce, and gives them, whenever possible, the best support.
 
On August 7, 1913, Mr. Haan was married at Chicago, Ill., to Miss Dora May Dazey, a native of Chicago and the daughter of Frank L. and Eva L. (Dove) Dazey, who shares his love of outdoor life. Fraternally he is a Knights Templar Mason and a Shriner, as well as an Elk, and is a member of the Orange County Country Club and counts his friends — one of the best of all business assets — among all social and commercial circles. Both Santa Ana and Orange County may be congratulated on the success attained here under their fostering, favorable conditions, of this aggressive and progressive leader in the business world.

 CHARLES E. HOUSER — With California as his birthplace, Charles E. Houser is a typical representative of the native sons of the Golden West, and is enjoying the prosperity that has come to him solely as the result of his own unaided efforts. Mr. Houser was born in Los Angeles. March 25, 1886, the son of Benjamin F. and Jennie (Lewis) Houser. The father is a native of Indiana, but went when a young man to Kansas, where he was married, residing there until 1884, when he and his wife came to Los Angeles. Mrs. Houser is deceased, but Benjamin F. Houser is still living and is engaged in ranching at Corcoran, Cal.
 
The eldest of a family of five children, Charles E. Houser grew up in the Fountain Valley district in Orange County, where his father had leased land and engaged in farming. Early in life he began to work on the home farm and later on the neighboring ranches, acquiring a valuable knowledge of agricultural methods, especially those applicable to the soil and climate of Southern California. In 1909 he entered the employ of the Golden West Celery and Produce Company working as a teamster for eighteen months, later becoming warehouseman, having in charge the extensive warehouse of the company in Westminster for four years; with one exception this is the largest warehouse in Orange County, having a capacity of 60,000 sacks. During the palmy days of the Golden West Celery and Produce Company, Mr. Houser contributed largely to its success and he remained its foreman until the company sold out, April 12, 1919. He at once entered the employ of R. L. Draper as head foreman, a position that his experience and ability eminently qualifies him to fill. The Draper ranch is one of the most extensive in this region, consisting, besides Mr. Draper's own farm of 160 acres, of 565 acres owned by the Aldrich Land Company, formerly the Golden West Company's ranch. The Draper place is largely devoted to growing sugar beets and lima beans, which have become a leading industry of Orange County, and Mr. Houser is thoroughly conversant with the latest and most successful methods in their successful production.
 
Mr. Houser was married in 1917 to Miss Annie Nankervis and one child, a daughter Geraldine. has been born to them. Mrs. Houser is likewise a native daughter, her parents being Richard and Caroline (Buzza) Nankervis, pioneer settlers of Westminster. The father was born in England, but came to America when a young man, settling in Philadelphia, where his marriage occurred. Mr. and Mrs. Nankervis came to California, settling first in Nevada County, and coming to what is now Orange County in 1885. They are the parents of nine children, all living: Thomas is a rancher at Westminster; Carrie is the wife of William Olson, an engineer on the Southern Pacific, they reside at E! Paso, Texas; Agnes is the wife of James Rogers, manager of the packing house at Azusa; John is a rancher and owns the old Nankervis place west of Westminster; Annie is the wife of Harry Bray, the proprietor of a meat market at Oakland; Richard. Jr.. is in the employ of the E. K. Wood Lumber Company of Los Angeles; Jennie makes her home with her brother. Thomas; Will is a rancher at Westminster; and Annie is the wife of Charles E. Houser, of this review. Both Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nankervis are living and reside with their oldest son, Thomas Nankervis.
 
In fraternal circles, Mr. Houser is a member of the Independent Order of Foresters at Westminster and of the B. P. O. Elks of Santa Ana. Well informed, kindly disposed and generous, he has host of friends throughout the county. Mrs. Houser shares with her husband a just popularity in the social circles of Smeltzer and Westminster.
 

JOHN UTZ  — An unusually interesting, fine old gentleman, whose mental and physical powers command admiration, and whose interesting personality has brought him. with the passing years, a host of steadfast friends, is John Utz, a native of Jefferson, Clinton County, Ind., where he was born on November 4, 1837. His father, Jacob Utz, was a native of Maryland, and in that state he was married to Miss Matilda Koontz, also a Marylander. They migrated to Clinton County, Ind.. and as Mr. Utz was a carpenter by trade, he started a wagon shop in Jefferson, and continued to manage it until he was forced to retire on account of a stroke of paralysis. He died in 1863, and his good wife followed him to the grave ten years afterward. They had three children: John was the eldest; then came Joseph H., who resides at Newport Beach, Cal.; while the youngest was Lydia Ann, now Mrs. Timmons of Los Angeles.
 
Brought up at Jefferson, Ind.. John attended the grammar schools three months a year, and from his tenth year, worked on a farm, especially in summer time. At first he received only $4.50 a month, with his board; then, after he was fifteen, $9; and later, $13; and for these meager wages, regarded at that time as good, he -worked from before daylight until dark. When he reached his twenty-first year, he leased a farm in Perry township, bought an outfit, and went in for raising grain and stock.
 
Mr. Utz was first married in Perry township. Clinton County, in 1862, to Miss Phoebe Jane Lane, a native of that county; and there, after twelve years of happy married life, she died. There he became owner of a farm of ninety-one and a half acres, which he cleared, ditched, tiled and planted to grain and supplied with stock; in other ways he improved the property, and he erected the necessary farm buildings. Mr. Utz's second marriage took place at Oakland, in Coles County, Ill., in 1875, and then Miss Ellen Street became his wife. She was a native of Ohio, and the daughter of Aaron and Sarah (Sinkey) Street, also of the Buckeye State. Mr. Utz leased his land and moved to Colfax. Ind.. and became a merchant. After ten years, however, he returned to the farm and operated it once more; and getting it into good shape, sold it in 1906.
 
On account of his health, he then came to California and bought a ranch of ten and a half acres in the Tustin district of Orange County, which was already planted to apricots and walnuts. He took out the former and planted oranges instead, and this he operated until 1917, when he leased it for a couple of years, and in March. 1919, sold it. In 1917 he moved to Orange and bought the residence that is now his home. By his first marriage, he had a daughter, Clara E. Utz, who became Mrs. James H. Worrell and now resides at Salt Lake City, and the mother of four children. By the second marriage two children -were born, but they died in infancy. Both Mr. and Mrs. Utz are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; and Mr. Utz is a Republican, with broad views and sympathies as to the relation of politics to local movements and the development of the community. He was made a Mason in Plumb Lodge No. 472. A. F. & A. M., at Colfax, Ind. Both Mr. and Mrs. Utz were members of the Eastern Star, in which she was worthy matron two terms in Colfax.
 

ALEXANDER P. NELSON — Although Alexander P. Nelson did not come to California until 1914, when he settled at Santa Ana, he has been a prominent man in the affairs of the city of his adoption since that time. Born in Barnet, Vt., July 9, 1866, he is the son of W. H. and Margaret (Monteith) Nelson, who were the parents of twelve children, Alexander P. being the eleventh in order of birth. Mrs. Nelson is now living at the advanced age of ninety-one years, Mr. Nelson having passed away. Alexander P. Nelson received an unusually good education, having attended the public schools and later Dartmouth College, being graduated from the latter institution with the degree of A. B. Afterwards he studied privately and attended a course of lectures on law, being admitted to the bar in 1891 in the state of Vermont.
 
He practiced his profession for five years in Vermont, went to Boston, Mass., and from Boston to Alaska, where he stayed for three years, not practicing during his sojourn there. On his return, he practiced law in New Hampshire and then in 1914, he came to Santa Ana where he wrote law for three years, being elected to the office of deputy district attorney on January 1, 1919, a position he is filling ably. During his years in the East, he was city attorney at Medford, Mass., and later held the same office at Huntington Beach, Cal.
 
On November 25, 1914, Mr. Nelson was united in marriage to Frances Read and the couple are well known in the social circles of Santa Ana. They attend the Christian Science Church.
 
In politics Mr. Nelson is a Republican. He is. fond of hunting and all out-of-door life, being greatly interested in the development of the orange industry in California. Santa Ana surely has no adopted son more public-spirited and anxious for the future greatness of that thriving city than Alexander P. Nelson.
 

DR. CLIFFORD HUGH BROOKS — Since his location at Santa Ana in 1911, Dr. Clifford Hugh Brooks has quickly risen to a place of prominence, not only in the city of his residence, but throughout a large radius of the surrounding country. Born at Vinton, Benton County, Iowa, on June 12, 1885, Dr. Brooks is the son of Chester B. and Sophia (Pratt) Brooks. The parents are prominent farmers there, where they have resided for many years and both are still living. Of their nine children. Clifford Hugh was the fifth in order of birth. He was fortunate in receiving an excellent early training in the public and high schools of his native place, and this he continued with a course at the University of Iowa at Iowa City, where he graduated from the Medical Department in 1910. He also had the additional benefit of post-graduate courses at the University of Iowa and at New York and Chicago.
 
Dr. Brooks first began his practice in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, but having a strong desire to make California his home he came to Santa Ana, and began his work as a specialist in diseases of the eye. ear, nose and throat. Gifted with unusual medical skill, and with his years of scientific training. Dr. Brooks has met with marked success in the special branches to which he confines his practice — a success that has rapidly established his preeminence. He has made an especial study of the tonsils, and has become an authority in this line and probably has few equals west of the Mississippi. Even during his college days. Dr. Brooks' grasp of his subject was such that he was made assistant professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Iowa, holding this chair for three years, so that his ability was early recognized.
 
From the beginning of his residence in Santa Ana, Dr. Brooks has taken an active interest in the civic affairs of the community, and despite his busy professional life, finds time to enter into the progressive movements that are promoting its growth. With a personality wholesome and kindly and a sympathy that is genuine, he has won his enviable position through his consistent upholding of the best ethics of his profession. In his professional associations he is active in the work of the various medical societies, being a member of the American Medical Association, the State and County Medical Societies, the Pacific Coast Ophthalmological Society, and the Los Angeles Medical Society.
 

ARTHUR C. STANLEY — A North Carolina boy who has made good as a Valencia orange grower at Garden Grove, is Arthur C. Stanley, the popular president of the Garden Grove Farm Center. After nearly a quarter of a century in the postal service he has settled down to ranch life, bringing with him, in the performance of his new civic duties, a most valuable experience likely to benefit his fellow-citizens as well as himself. He was born at Colfax, in Guilford County, on June 18, 1873, the son of James Stanley, also a North Carolinian, and a planter by occupation, who married in that state a daughter of North Carolina. Miss Laura Pegg.
 
Arthur C. Stanley grew up in North Carolina, and in time attended Guilford College. At the age of twenty he entered the railway mail service, and for years traveled on the Southern Railway Seaboard Air Line; he was also stationed at Jacksonville, Fla., for several years, and at Washington, D. C. His coming to Orange County was for the purpose of visiting his father, who had moved here in 1897; the father had become a rancher, but the mother had died in North Carolina when Arthur was three or four years old. In 1901 his father died near Santa Ana. at the age of fifty-seven.
 
While in California, Mr. Stanley met the lady who was to become his helpmate for life— Miss Lillian Agnes Ware, the daughter of the late Edward G. Ware; and they were married at Garden Grove on August 24. 1905. He was then in the railway service, and lived at Jacksonville, Fla.; and hither he took his bride. Later he was transferred to Washington, and later, still, to San Francisco; and from that city he ran out on the Santa Fe system for eight months. Then he resigned having a very enviable record of twenty-four years in the U. S. Railway Mail Service.
 
Mr. Stanley now farms the forty-acre ranch belonging to Mrs. Stanley, where they have three acres of Navel oranges, ten acres of Valencias, and sixteen and a half acres of walnuts. In 1918, he remodeled the residence making it a modern dwelling and strictly to-to-date. Having been reared in the church of the Friends, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley still remain devoted to that denomination and its excellent and many good works. They have one child, Emerson, the ninth generation on the Ware side in America.
 
Mr. Stanley is the president of the Garden Grove Farm Center, having been elected to that responsible office at a regular meeting held at Garden Grove on January 26, 1920, concerning which the Garden Grove News of January 30 had a flattering report. One hundred and forty members, so it said, representing an increase of ISO per cent over the previous year, was the strength of the Center reported by Secretary Oldfield. The farm adviser commented on the success of the membership drive, and predicted that the Farm Center could be the leader of progress and development in the community, if the members would accept the opportunity that is within their reach. The Farm Center has become a strong institution in Garden Grove, and is looked to, each month, as the forum for the expression of local sentiment on all local pertinent issues. According to Carl Nichols, formerly farm adviser of Contra Costa County, and a rancher in Garden Grove, the centers in the north having the largest membership and displaying the greatest interest in the work are those that bring the entire family out. The officers elected on this occasion are: president. Arthur C. Stanley; vice-president, E. R. Stillens; secretary and treasurer, Waldo Tournat; director, J. O. Arkley; vice-director, Carl Nichols.
 

FREDERICK BASTADY — Of Swiss parentage, Frederick Bastady, the well-known rancher, whose residence is south of Buena Park, has been identified with this locality since 1906. His parents, Emanuel and Anna B. Bastady, eager to found a home for their family in the New World, left their native Switzerland and came to the United States in 1884, locating in New York City, where they lived for sixteen years. It was during their residence there, on June 6, 1885, that Frederick was born on Long Island, the other children being born in Switzerland. Here he was reared and educated in the public schools of New York City, making splendid use of his early opportunities.
 
In 1900, attracted by the wonderful climate and possibilities of California, they crossed the continent and located in Pasadena, and here they resided until 1906. when they removed to Buena Park, where they have since made their home. Emanuel Bastady passed away here on July 1, 1912; Mrs. Bastady died at the old homestead on February 29, 1920. The original Bastady ranch consisted of sixty acres, but through purchases made by the children the holdings increased to 103 acres, which is devoted to general farming. When the family settled upon this land it was a barley field and pasture, but through diligent and painstaking labor it has been transformed into a valuable, prosperous property.
 
Frederick Bastady was united in marriage on October 3, 1907, with Miss Nellie M. Ruedy, a native of Iowa, and the daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Ruedy, and they are the parents of three children: Harriet Lillian. Edwin Frederick and Barbara Marie. His brother, Emanuel, married Miss Lydia E. Ruedy, a sister of Mrs. Bastady, and they have four children: Carl A., Ernest E, Ruth, and Albert. The sister, Rose, who became the wife of Harvey Hartman, is the mother of four children: Rosalie M., Helen E., Ida M. and Frank C. The oldest brother, Adolph, died six months after arriving in California.
 
Held in high esteem as a useful and progressive member of his community, Mr. Bastady has been honored with the office of president of the Chamber of Commerce of Buena Park: he was chairman of the school board, holding this office from 1913 until 1919, and chairman of the Buena Park Farm Center for two years. The family are members of the Congregational Church.
 

GEORGE AHLEFELD — One of the best-known and most respected citizens of the district in which he has resided since 1894 is George Ahlefeld, who then purchased five acres of land, with comparatively few improvements, for $1,000. In 1909 he added five more acres to his first block, and now he has a ranch as large as he wishes to handle, and quite sufficient for his maintenance. This ranch is located southeast of Orange, but is in the Tustin district. It is in a fine state of cultivation, and shows that a master hand guides the plow of progress.
 
Mr. Ahlefeld is a native of Hanover. Germany, where he was born in 1861, a son of Frederick Ahlefeld and Louisa (Wilkins) Ahlefeld. also natives of that country. Our subject, therefore, received his early training in his native country, and grew up with the attraction, buoying up the rest of the family, of early migrating to the freer American Republic. As fast as their finances permitted, one by one these subjects of a despotic government left for the United States, and one by one they became naturalized. The other children were Louis, who now resides in Canada: Mary, who is in Illinois; August, who is in Oklahoma, and Frederick, who is with his brother George in California.
 
Coming to Illinois in 1879, George Ahlefeld began life in this country with practically nothing, but by close application to work and strict economy, he paid for his several holdings. In 1896 he came to Orange County and now he has all the comforts and many of the luxuries of life as a reward for industry in his young days.
 
In 1886 Mr. Ahlefeld was joined in marriage to Miss Louisa Stanch, also a native of Germany, who came to Illinois in 1881, and by whom he had six children. The eldest, George, is now deceased; then came Frederick and Otto, and after them Ralph and Harry, who are also both dead; while the youngest was Ethal. The family are Lutherans.
 
Mr. Ahlefeld resided in Du Page County, Ill., for twenty-five years before coming to Orange County, and while there he busied himself with agricultural pursuits- Otto has followed the example of his father, and has purchased a five-acre ranch which he devotes to citrus culture. He married Miss Verona Strong, daughter of Carl Strong, and they are the parents of one son, Karl George.
 

THOMAS L. PARIS  — The value of experience and integrity in the conducting of any business, and especially in the handling of hay, grain and feed, has never better been shown, perhaps, than in the history of the establishment at Orange, owned and managed by Thomas L. Paris, a native of Bloomington, Monroe County, Ind.. where he was born in the eventful year of 1868. His father was J. M. Paris, a farmer in Indiana but a native of Ohio, and his mother before her marriage was Margaret Smith, a native of Indiana.
 
Thomas L. Paris is a product of the splendid American rural school which, no matter what its other shortcomings may be, generally sets the lad fortunate in attendance there going in the right way in the world. The comforts and pleasures of home were accorded him until he was twenty-one years old, and then he engaged in the grocery and feed business, remaining in Bloomington. Indiana. After that he went to Greeley, Colo., and for six years was a contractor in cement work.
 
Reaching California in 1912, Mr. Paris settled first at Santa Ana, from which place he removed to Orange. The year 1914 saw him one of the progressive merchants of Orange, and in his present business, and three years later he had established another store at Fullerton. Little by little he has built up a trade that requires the daily work of five men to handle. The best of everything offered, by the fairest weight at the lowest price possible, promptly and cheerfully delivered — these features of Mr. Paris' management could not fail to win for him the loyal and grateful support of a wide public.
 
In Bloomington, Ind., 1892, Mr. Paris was married to Miss Haddie Curry, also a native of Bloomington, Ind., whose parents were J. H. and Lizzie (Moore) Curry, of that place, and by her he has had two children — Margaret and Dwight. The family are members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder and is an active member of Orange Merchants and Manufacturers Association.
 

VICTOR W. LA MONT  — Among those who have endeavored to set a high civic standard for fast-developing Anaheim must be mentioned Victor W. La Mont, the enterprising owner of the Colonial Apartment Building at 149 North Lemon Street, one of the most agreeable in design and best-appointed of all the apartment houses, not only in the town, but in Orange County as well. He was born at Perth Amboy in New Jersey on May 27, 1882, the son of Louis La Mont, a terra cotta maker who built the first kiln for firing that kind of unglazed pottery in Canada. He married Miss Emily Wildhen, and the family came to Los Angeles in 1903. There were three children, and Victor is the second child. Mr. La Mont is now dead.
 
Victor attended the grammar and high schools of Illinois, and for a while worked in photography. Then he learned the machinist's and engineer's trades, and followed them for six years; after that he was in the postal service for six years. In August, 1912, he came to Orange County and then he went into the wholesale liquor business. His most recent enterprise is a strictly modern apartment house, with eleven single and nineteen double apartments — a very desirable and useful addition to the town. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
 
Mr. La Mont was married on June 28, 1910, at Anaheim to Miss Clara Fischer, a native of this city, whose parents, William and Clara Fischer, were pioneers of Anaheim. Two sons, Victor C, and Allan W. La Mont, have been born to this union. Mr. La Mont is a member of the Elks and the Masons.
 
In national politics a Republican and a citizen with a good record for volunteer service in the state militia of Illinois, Mr. La Mont has never neglected an opportunity for the uplift of the community or district in which he lives.
 

CHARLES C. BENNETT — An experienced, highly-esteemed walnut rancher who has proven thoroughly reliable as foreman of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, is Charles C. Bennett, who was born near Humansville, Polk County, Mo., on June 6, 1871, the son of Samuel Bennett, a native of Ohio, who settled in Missouri in 1866. While a resident of the Buckeye State, he enlisted for service in the great war for the Union and joined the Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with honorable mention until discharged from service. In 1866, while still a young man. he removed, first to Illinois and then to Missouri; and in the latter state married Miss Harriet A. Rentfrow, a native of Missouri. He worked at agricultural pursuits until 1900, when he and his devoted wife came to California, and located a mile east of Orange. He bought a farm, which he operated for five years; and when he sold it, they moved to Orange, where he died, in December, 1909, a member of Gordon Granger Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mrs. Bennett passed away in August, 1919, the mother of four children, two of whom are still living. The other son is F. M. Bennett of Orange.
 
Reared on a farm, Charles attended the public schools of his locality, and when twenty-two, entered into partnership with his father, buying a store at Rondo. There, too, he was married to Miss Maude G. Pollard, a native of Caldwell County. Mo., after which he continued in mercantile business. He enjoyed the confidence of the community to that extent that he was also made postmaster of Rondo.
 
In 1903 he came to Orange in the employ of the Santa .Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and continued with them from June until November; then he returned to Missouri and bought a farm of 120 acres near Rondo. He engaged in farming and stock raising, and, also acted as school trustee: but, resigning from that pleasurable responsibility, he sold his property, in 1908, and on account of his wife's health, returned to California and located at Orange. At first, however, for a year he tarried at Oro Grande, or until his wife died, in May, 1909.
 
In March, 1910, Mr. Bennett again entered the employ of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and in January, 1913, he was made foreman of all construction work — a position he has held with credit to himself and advantage to the company ever since. He has also been able to acquire a ten-acre ranch of walnuts one and a half miles southwest of Orange — a choice piece of property, sure to appreciate in the future.
 
By his first marriage, Mr. Bennett had two children — Clyde, who is in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army, and Grace, who is attending high school. A second marriage made him the husband of Miss Hattie B. Tompkins, at Santa Ana. a charming lady who shares with him his responsibilities and his ambitions, and attends the Methodist Church. She is a native of Ohio, born near Jefferson, Ashtabula County, and came to Missouri when only two and a half years old with her parents. James H. and Maggie I. (Noble) Tompkins, also natives of Ohio, where her father died. Her mother now makes her home in Orange. Mr. Bennett belongs to the Woodmen of the World — and there is no more popular member in the order.
 

DR. PERYL B. MAGILL  —  A thoroughly competent representative of one of the important branches of modern medical science. Dr. Peryl B. Magill has done much, not only to alleviate suffering and to prolong health and life, but to dissipate certain prejudice now generally recognized as one of the greatest barriers to human progress. She was born near St. John's, Stafford County. Kans., the daughter of Cyrus N. Magill, a farmer who proved his devotion to the cause of the threatened Union by serving in the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery during the Civil War. He had married Margaret Brady, and they had four children. Peryl being the second in the order of birth. The family came west to California in 1890. and Cyrus N. Magill purchased a ranch near Santa Ana.
 
Peryl Magill attended the Orange grammar and high schools, from which she was graduated in 1909, after which she went in for professional training at the Los Angeles College of Osteopathy, from which well-known institution she was graduated in June. 1912. The following March she commenced to practice at Santa Ana; and here ever since then she has been steadily acquiring an enviable reputation. Her suite of offices is in the Rowley Building, at the corner of Fourth and Main Streets, and she has been more than successful in securing and holding a satisfied patronage.
 
Fond of out-of-door life. Dr. Magill also finds it agreeable to participate in the work and social activities of such organizations as the Ebell Club, the Daughters of Veterans, the Present Day Club, and the Women's Osteopathic Club of Los .Angeles. She is president of Orange County Osteopathic .Association as well as a member and trustee of the California Osteopathic .Association. In politics, she is decidedly a woman above party, and lends her support only, in the most nonpartisan manner, to those men. women and measures she believes to be for the public weal.
 

WILLIAM FRANKLIN WINTERS — A hard-working, liberal-minded and justly popular young man of exceptional merit and, therefore, of interesting promise, is William Franklin Winters, a native of Phillips County, Kans., where he was born on October 30, 1894. His father is John Winters, now a successful rancher near Garden Grove, who married Mary Alice Newman, also living to gladden all who know her.
 
When five years of age. Frank came to California and Orange County with his parents, and began to attend the local school at Garden Grove. In July and August, 1909, he commenced to work by the day for others, and ever since then he has made his way in the world largely by his own efforts.
 
In 1914 he was married to Miss Eva Loretta DeVaul, the daughter of Jasper N. and Mary (Holt) DeVaul. and by her he has had two children. Eugene Newton and Glenn Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Winters are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Garden Grove; and in their endeavor to elevate civic standards, work and vote for the best men and women, and the best measures.
 
Mr. Winters owns in his home place, half a mile north and a quarter of a mile east of Garden Grove, a nice little ranch of five acres of Valencias. He bought the land in 1914, and set it out himself. In November, 1918. he purchased another ten acres and set that out to Valencias; and inasmuch as this second ranch is at the very edge of the town, it must be regarded as unusually choice property. He owns still another ranch of five acres, which he bought just one year later, and that is in full bearing, a quarter of a mile to the south; and to each of these he has given the touch of the experienced horticulturist, so that they bid fair to add materially to the show places of which, more and more, Garden Grove may boast.
 
Mrs. Winters, esteemed by her wide circle of friends as a very attractive and agreeable lady, and a most helpful neighbor and friend, enters heartily into the various projects of her husband, and so proves to him the best of helpmates, and to the community, the most progressive of citizens.
 

JOHN O. GUPTILL  — An energetic young man with ability as a machinist, and an agriculturist. John O. Guptill is a son on Charles E. Guptill. whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. Born near Shirland, Winnebago County, Ill., December 13, 1880, he accompanied his parents when they removed to his maternal grandfather's farm in Rock County, Wis., and was seven years old when the family migrated to Canton. Lincoln County. S. D.. and he w-as reared on his father's 120-acre Dakota farm, where he assisted his father in his farming and stock raising operations. Later he moved with his father's family to Springfield. S. D., where they resided from 1901 to 1909. In the latter year he came to Los Angeles, Cal., where he worked at various pursuits until he came to Garden Grove in 1913.
 
The marriage of Mr. Guptill, which occurred in January, 1917, united him with Miss Elizabeth Trumpy. who was born at Ramona. near Madison, S. D., and they have one child, John O., Jr. In addition to managing his ten acres Mr. Guptill carries on a prosperous freight and transfer business, and is the owner of a ton-and-a-half truck, which he uses in his business. He is a helpful factor in local affairs at Garden Grove, where he and his wife are welcome in social circles, and are forming an ever-widening circle of friends and acquaintances. It is to such young Americans as John O. Guptill that our country looks for its future advancement and betterment, socially and financially, and his public spirit and interest in the upbuilding of Garden Grove is an evidence of his faith in the future of the community.
 

E. A. PEARSON  — In the history of the country no industry has taken greater strides than the automobile business, and about the busiest place in Garden Grove is Pearson and Butler's garage on Euclid Avenue. Mr. Pearson is a native of Philadelphia, and was born in the City of Brotherly Love. September 7. 1888. Educated in the public schools, supplemented with a business college course, he learned the machinist's trade as a young man. and with wise foresight as to future conditions became an expert in the automobile line. He came direct from his native state to Santa Ana. Cal.. going thence to Hollywood, where for several years he was engaged at his trade. There he was united in marriage with Miss Geneva Ball, and they are the parents of a daughter, Elizabeth.
 
In 1917 Mr. Pearson located at Garden Grove, and in June of that year engaged in the automobile business with Mr. Butler, under the firm name of Pearson and Butler. Mr. Pearson has made good at every step of his business career, and in the Garden Grove garage the young men are prepared to do repair work on all makes of autos. trucks and tractors. Vulcanizing is well and expeditiously done, and they deal in Fisk, Goodrich and Oldfield tires. Ford parts, and keep a well selected line of other auto parts and accessories. Thorough machinists and auto men. their efficient service, courteous treatment and square business methods have won so large a patronage that the first Euclid Avenue shop became too small to accommodate their large and increasing business, and they have made arrangements for a long lease on a building erected to accommodate their trade, where is to be found one of the finest and most up-to-date garage buildings in Orange County. In recognition of their high standing among automobilists Messrs. Pearson and Butler's new place is the garage for the Southern California Auto Club at Garden Grove.
 
Mr. Pearson is an enthusiastic member of the Garden Grove Chamber of Commerce, and has entered whole-heartedly into the advancement of the community in which his lot is cast, and the people have reciprocated by making him thrice welcome to Garden Grove, and fully appreciate their advantage in having a man in their midst who is accounted one of the best informed automobile experts in the country.
 

SOULE C. OERTLY — The attractive twenty-acre ranch located on Euclid Avenue half a mile north of Garden Grove, and owned by Soule C. Oertly, is of note among the many well-cared for places on that thoroughfare. Mr. Oertly was born at Lexington, Ky., February 28, 1887, and was five years old when he accompanied his parents, Conrad and Eliza (Widmer) Oertly to California. The parents, natives of Switzerland, are mentioned on another page of this work.
 
When Soule Oertly, who is the oldest child of his parents, was three years old he accompanied his parents on a trip to their old home in Switzerland, and remained in that country until he was five years of age. Returning to the United States the family settled in Los Angeles, and in 1907 removed to Garden Grove. Soule attended kindergarten in Switzerland and also in Los Angeles, afterwards attending the Los Angeles public schools. He was twenty years old when he came to Garden Grove, where he assisted his father. His marriage, occurred at Garden Grove in 1912, uniting him with Miss Dorothy Head, a native of Detroit, Mich., and daughter of George and Elizabeth (West) Head of Garden Grove, who was educated in the Garden Grove. Los Angeles and Santa Ana schools. Mr. and Mrs. Oertly are the parents of three children, Ellen E., George C, and John W., who was born in Alberta, Canada.
 
Mr. Oertly formerly conducted a cement pipe manufacturing business at Garden Grove and at the same time engaged as an irrigation contractor, putting in irrigation systems for different ranchers in the vicinity. He is considered an authority on irrigation, and on laying out orange and lemon groves. For two and a half years he had charge of Dr. Johnston's Rancho Vista Del Rio, above Olive, laid out the ranch, put in the irrigation system and planted the place to Valencias and lemons. In 1916 Mr. Oertly and his family went to Canada, where he became acquainted with Mr. C. S. Noble, and for six months was engaged as a traction engineer. He did his work so competently that he was appointed superintendent of Mr. Noble's Grand View farm of four and a half sections, and engaged in raising wheat, cattle, hogs, and in dairying. He remained in Alberta until after his brother Bernhard's death, then resigned his position and returned to Garden Grove, where in 1919, he purchased his present ranch. In addition to caring for his sixteen acres of young orange trees and four acres of lemons, which is interplanted with lima beans, he does a great deal of grading and putting ranches in shape. He also cultivates and cares for H. A. Lake's seven and a half-acre ranch.
 
In their religious convictions Mr. and Mrs. Oertly are members of the Baptist Church and Mr. Oertly is one of the active workers in and standbys of the Y. M. C. A. at Garden Grove. He has many warm friends at Garden Grove and enjoys an enviable reputation for his public spirit and integrity.
 

HARRY C. FULTON — Among the later comers to the Talbert district of Orange County, Cal., is Harry C. Fulton, son of W. T. Fulton, owner of the townsite at Camarillo, Ventura County, and for the past thirty-five years a well-known and leading citizen of his section.
 
Harry C. Fulton owns the highly cultivated forty-acre ranch located one-half mile west of Talbert, and is a native son of California, born near Camarillo in Ventura County, November 5, 1891. He is one of several Ventura County boys who have made a success in western Orange County. When an infant three weeks old he was made a half orphan by the death of his mother. His education was acquired in the public schools and at Brownsberger Business College, Los .Angeles, after which he entered the United States postal service as a rural mail carrier in his native county. He was the first mail carrier who ever carried mail out from Camarillo, and he served Uncle Sam efficiently eight years and seven months before he resigned from the position. During the latter part of his service as mail carrier he farmed forty acres in Ventura County, and found ranching to be profitable, thoroughly learning the business of growing lima beans successfully. Mr. Fulton purchased the ranch near Talbert in 1917, and has grown two crops of lima beans, in 1918-19, with splendid success and good profit.
 
His marriage was solemnized in 1913, and united him with Miss Mildred E. Stenstrom, a native of Tacoma, Wash., who was reared in her native state and in Ventura County, Cal. She is a most estimable woman, an excellent helpmate to her devoted husband and a fine mother to their two interesting children, Harry Charles, and Charlotte. Mr. Fulton inherits from his sturdy pioneer ancestry the independence and self-reliance that is developed through strenuous experience with hardship in a new and undeveloped country. Successful in his chosen vocation he may confidently hope for the future success in life that attends mature years and rightly directed energy.
 

FLOYD B. KEALIHER  — A large and important industry of Orange County, one not so generally known as the orange and oil enterprises, is the growing and marketing of chili peppers, which has developed, in less than twenty-five years, into a million dollar industry, and statistics show that Orange County grows more than three-fourths of all the peppers consumed in the United States.
 
The grinding and shipping of chili peppers has become an important business in the county and among the most prominent and successful men engaged in this special enterprise is F. B. Kealiher, whose plant is located just outside of the city of Anaheim, to the southwest, where he has for twenty-three years been successfully engaged in this work. He is a native of Illinois, born in Bureau County, July 24, 1876, a son of Hugh F. and Daisy (Murdock) Kealiher. Hugh F. Kealiher was born in Maine in 1843, a son of Sewall and Jane Kealiher, natives of Maine and Ireland, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Sewell Kealiher were the parents of twelve children, six of whom are living, Hugh F. being the sixth child in order of birth. He was reared in Maine and Missouri, his parents having migrated to the latter state in 1857. In 1862, Hugh F. Kealiher enlisted in the Union Army and was mustered into the First Missouri Cavalry. His three brothers, John, William and Amos, were also in the Union Army during the Civil War.
 
Upon his return home after the war, Hugh F. Kealiher settled in Michigan, where he followed the trade of a builder and continued his work along that line until recent years. He moved to California, locating in Anaheim in 1894, and is a member of Sedgwick Post, G. A. R., of Santa Ana. In 1875, he was married to Miss Daisy L. Murdock, and of this union one child, F. B. Kealiher, the subject of this sketch, was born. In 1918, Mrs. Kealiher passed away. Mr. Kealiher's second marriage, which occurred on August 12, 1919, united him with Mrs. Mary McCain, widow of John R. McCain; she is prominent in the circles of the Women's Relief Corps, being past president of the organization at Santa Ana.
 
Floyd B. Kealiher was reared and educated in Nebraska, whither his parents moved in 1878. In 1894 he came to California, and in 1897 engaged in growing chili peppers, and in 1900 he began to ship independently. The demand for ground chili caused him to install a mill in 1904, being the only one in the county. The extensiveness of his business can better be understood when one realizes that he ships 100 tons of ground chili per season, which is shipped from Anaheim, and from 300 to 400 tons of pod chili, which is shipped from his warehouse in Garden Grove, from which place, in 1919, he shipped approximately 600 tons. In the operation of his plant he uses a fifteen-horsepower gas engine, and his product is shipped throughout the United States, where it is extensively used by large canning companies.
 
In 1904, F. B. Kealiher was united in marriage, at Long Beach, with Miss Anna Belle Beach, a native of Minnesota, and of this union one child was born. Vernon, who is now deceased. Mr. Kealiher was bereaved of his wife on April 30. 1918. Fraternally, he is a member of Anaheim Lodge No. 199, I. O. O. F., and of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345. B. P. O. Elks.
 

FRANK WARREN CROUCH — Among the successful ranchers of the Garden Grove district is Frank W. Crouch, who was born at Potosi. Grant County. Wis., November 30. 1867, and was four years old when his parents, R. M. and Maria A. (Foltz) Crouch, removed to Plymouth County. Iowa, where his father filed and proved up on a homestead of 160 acres. The father is a native of Jamestown, N. Y., and was twelve years old when he went to Wisconsin, where he grew to manhood. At the breaking-out of the Civil War he enlisted in Company I of the Twenty-fifth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served a year and a half when he was discharged. There were three children in the paternal family: Frank Warren, of Garden Grove: Lillie M., the wife of W. H. McNeill residing at Hollywood; and A. Blaine, a barber at Early. Iowa. R. M. Crouch and his wife live at Hollywood. Cal.
 
Frank W. was reared in his native state and acquired his education in the common schools, afterward attending the Normal School for a short time. He followed farming in Iowa, and became the owner of 120 acres, which he disposed of in 1900 and joined his father, who was conducting the Bank of Hinton at Hinton. Iowa. Frank became cashier of the bank, and remained with the institution six years.
 
In 1893 he married Miss Effie Patterson, in Iowa, a native of Peotone. Will County, Ill., and they became the parents of a son named Kenneth \V., whose ill health caused Mr. Crouch to dispose of his Iowa interests in 1906, and come to California. The lad regained his health in the genial California climate, and graduated from Leland Stanford University, and is now employed by the Standard Oil Company in San Francisco. With wise foresight, Mr. Crouch planted eighteen acres of his twenty-eight-acre ranch, one and a half miles west of Garden Grove, to a eucalyptus grove, and is now cutting the timber, which yields fifty cords of stove wood to an acre. Fraternally he is a member of the Santa Ana lodge of Masons, and also belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America Camp in that city. He is a member of the Garden Grove Farm Center, and of the Walnut Growers Association, and in his service as a member of the board of trustees of the Alamitos grammar school has been helpful to the best interests of that school district. A broad-minded, enterprising man, he is ever ready for the advancement of his section of country, and his courteous friendliness as a host is supplemented by the cordial welcome extended by his wife to those who are privileged to partake of their hospitality. They have many warm friends and are highly respected in the community.
 

GEORGE P. WILSON — Prominent among the men of affairs who have helped to make Balboa what it is today — one of the really important centers in Orange County, and a community full of promise for the future — must be mentioned George P. Wilson, the pioneer business man there. He was born at Fairmount, Minn., on August 28, 1883, the son of J. R. Wilson, a native and a pioneer of that state, who also became well known to Santa Ana, where he settled with his family in 1899. He was a contracting builder and carpenter used to undertaking large and important commissions; and he died at Santa Ana, about five years ago, at- the age of sixty-seven, having completed a life of hard work and very useful activities. He had married in Minnesota Miss Ella Chamberlain, a native of the same state as himself, and a lady who made many friends wherever she resided.
 
Mr. Wilson came to California first in 1897, and at first stopped at Glendora for a year. Then he moved to Santa Ana, and later went to Garden Grove, where he finished his schooling. Then he came back to Santa Ana. and for a while had a cigar and confectionery store in Santa Ana.
 
When he took up his residence in the undeveloped Balboa, he worked for a while for the Newport Bay Investment Company, now the Balboa Land and Water Company, and he helped to build the roads leading to Balboa. He also ran on the Bay a pleasure boat of his own, named the Comet: and later on he managed the boat for the Balboa Land and Water Company. He also worked for a while with Boswell, the cement contractor there, in each engagement acquiring a more varied experience and getting better and better posted on Balboa and its possibilities.
 
Eight years ago, he embarked in business for himself, and now he has an attractive establishment at the corner of Main and Bay avenues, where he deals in stationery, papers, soda water and confectionery. His honesty and his willingness to try to accommodate and serve have been decided factors in securing for him a good patronage, and in keeping the patrons once so secured.
 
In Los Angeles, Mr. Wilson was married to Mrs. Chloe Saunders, nee Baker, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cana Baker. With his wife he enters heartily into the social as well as the business and political life of Balboa, and besides belonging to the Balboa Yacht Club, and the Chamber of Commerce of Newport Beach, is also a member of Santa Lodge of Elks. He was elected to the city council of Newport Beach, served four years, was reelected, and after serving two years of his second term, resigned, having given six years to the public service in the capacity of city father, and during that time enjoyed the confidence of his fellow-citizens so much so that when a vacancy occurred October 4, 1920, he was again appointed a trustee and is again serving the city with some of his old colleagues.
 

GEORGE TOURNAT — The well-known and highly respected citizen, George Tournat, whose twenty-acre ranch lies northwest of Garden Grove, migrated from Texas, his native state, to California in the fall of 1909. and for ten years has resided on his well-improved acres, which are devoted to the culture of citrus fruit and walnuts. His father, H. Tournat, preceded him to California in 1906, and settled in Santa Monica where he died, his mother passing away when he was eighteen years old.
 
Mr. Tournat was born July 17, 1865, near San Antonio, and his early life was passed on his father's Te.xas farm. Educated in the common schools he afterward went to Virginia, where he attended the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Blacksburg one year. Returning to Texas, he was married in 1891 to Miss Lillie Bundren, a native of Mississippi and eight children have been born to their union, of whom the seven now living were born in Texas: Clara, is the wife of Monte Preston, a druggist at Downey, Cal.; Thomas E. is operator at the Pacific Electric sub-station at Stanton, he was a musician in the artillery during the late war; Waldo E., secretary of the Garden Grove Farm Center, is a graduate of the Santa Ana high school and later attended Leland Stanford University, enlisting from there into the U. S. Navy, in which he served until the close of the late war; Georgia is a graduate of the Orange County Business College at Santa Ana; Stella is a graduate of the Santa Ana high school and now attending Junior College; and Leigh is a student in the Santa Ana high school; Grace is in the Garden Grove grammar school, and Mary, who was born at Garden Grove, died at the age of three. After his marriage Mr. Tournat continued the occupation of farming, and became the owner of 166 acres near San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
 
Mr. Tournat has planted and improved his Garden Grove ranch, and has five acres in Eureka lemons, five acres in Navel oranges, five acres in Valencias, and five acres in walnuts. He built a beautiful bungalow home on the ranch, and the property is well equipped with barns, sheds and wells for irrigation. He has installed a pumping plant and has a new up-to-date air-pressure automatic pump run by electric power. Ever ready to embrace modern conveniences that tend to the lessening of labor, his ranch is not only equipped outside with these latest adjuncts, but in his attractive and up-to-date home he has an electric cooking range. In addition to his ranch Mr. Tournat, owned twelve acres of unimproved land, which he gave to his sons, Thomas and Waldo, to assist them in getting a start in life. The boys are engaged in the nursery business, budding and raising Valencia orange trees for nursery stock, and are meeting with deserved success in their new venture.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Tournat are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Garden Grove, and their interest is ever to advance the general welfare of the community, among whom they are social favorites and are warmly esteemed by their large circle of friends.
 

FRANK J. BUCHHEIM — A wide-awake young native son who, as a progressive rancher employing up-to-date apparatus and scientific methods, promises to make his way rapidly in the agricultural world, is Frank J. Buchheim, who resides on East Seventeenth Street, Santa Ana, on a nine-acre ranch, part of the original thirty-acre tract purchased by his father, Frank S. Buchheim, in 1880, and now devoted to the culture of walnuts and oranges. The father was born in Austria in 1844 and emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1856, when he was only twelve years of age. He located in Faribault, Minn., and there prospered as a young agriculturist, leaving the plow only to serve his adopted country in the Civil War, but he was spared the roughest experiences owing to the near close of the struggle.
 
From Minnesota, Mr. Buchheim removed to California in 1880, and on arriving here purchased thirty acres of waste or barren land, in the development of which he had many and varied experiences. He made numerous improvements and these were added to by his heirs, for he had twelve children, ten of whom are still living. In Minnesota he married Miss Caroline Zymon. a native of Germany, who came to Minnesota when she was a girl of nineteen. Frank S. Buchheim was a successful horticulturist in Santa Ana until his death, which occurred in 1904. when he was sixty years of age, while his wife passed away when almost sixty-nine years of age. Her mother, Mrs. Beatrice Zymon, also came to California, spending her last days with the Buchheims, passing away at the advanced age of ninety-three years. Mr. and Mrs. Buchheim were the parents of twelve children: Lydia, Mrs. Hemenway, lives near El Toro; Aaron at San Juan Capistrano; John at Garden Grove; Jacob is at Downey; Henry at Capistrano; Josie, Mrs. Whisler, at El Toro; Paul at Capistrano; Frank J., the subject of our review; Emile, also at Capistrano; and Minnie, Mrs. Hoeffner, of Bloomfield, Nebr. ; all are successful farmers. Emma and Frederick are deceased.
 
Frank J. spent his boyhood on the farm, attending the public school in Santa Ana, and from a lad on assisted his father on the home place. On the death of his father he took charge of the ranch for his mother until her death, when he purchased nine acres of the ranch, with the home residence, and continues to make his home here, while he also owns seven and a half acres on Santiago Creek, at El Modena, his ranches being devoted to growing oranges, lemons and walnuts. In Santa Ana, on December 1, 1915, occurred the marriage of Mr. Buchheim, when he was united with Miss Annie Bargsten, born in Hanover, Germany, the daughter of Claus and Margreta (Jers) Bargsten, who were farmer folk in Hanover. Mrs. Buchheim came to Orange, Cal., with her uncle, Jacob Bargsten, in 1912, as he was returning from a visit home. Jacob Bargsten was one of the pioneer settlers of Orange. Mr. and Mrs. Buchheim have been blessed with two children; the younger, Robert Frank, is living. They attend the Lutheran Church and take part in all of its benevolences.
 
Having a desire to see his parents' pioneer home in Minnesota. Mr. Buchheim has made two trips back -to that state and also extended his travel to the Atlantic Coast, visiting New York City and other Atlantic ports. Although he was charmed with the country in the East, yet in hi; estimation it does not equal California, and Orange County in particular.
 
Mr. Buchheim is a good example of the efficient builders of the California of today, who not only bring to bear the experience and wisdom of yesterday in the inheritance of pioneer brawn and brain, but who are fortified with something of value originating in a foreign land, and adapted to the institutions of our own country.
 

CHARLES J. SEGERSTROM — A rancher whose carefully planned years of hard work has netted him and his equally able wife and industrious family handsome returns, is Charles J. Segerstrom, one of the most successful farmers in the Greenville district. He was born at Sodermanland Lan, near Stockholm, Sweden, on June 29, 1856, the son of Gustav Adolph Segerstrom. who came from a long line of military heroes, and Anna Charlotta Anderson, whose family were seafaring merchants. The good parents had seven children, all of whom are deceased except two daughters, who are now living in Chicago, and Charles. Gustav Adolph Segerstrom died in Sweden in 1876 and his wife died in St. Paul, Minn., in 1884.
 
Charles passed his early life in Sweden, where he enjoyed the usual advantages of the excellent elementary schools. After graduating from school he took a course in agriculture under the best Government experts, and at an early age began farming for himself, and since then has made his own way in the world.
 
On May 30, 1878. he was united in marriage to Bertha Christine Anderson, who since has proven such a valuable helpmate in Mr. Segerstrom's ventures in the new world. In 1882 he and his wife and three children sailed from Gothenburg, crossing the North Sea to Hull, England, from there to Glasgow, where they went aboard the Fornecia, the largest boat then used in crossing the Atlantic. After fourteen days of stormy voyage they landed at Castle Garden on May 20, 1882, and soon after left for Chicago. Arrived in the metropolis by the lakes. Mr. Segerstrom secured employment with Libby, McNeil and Libby, the packers, and lost no time in entering on the great work of adapting himself to his America environment.
 
After a year spent in Chicago, they moved to Prentice. Wis., where they spent two years in the heart of the great pine forests as pioneers. The family next moved to St. Paul. Minn., and here Charles was naturalized. He was engaged in the railroad business for thirteen years and as a result he received the best of recommendations from the railroad company.
 
In 1898 lured by the reports of still greater opportunities in the West the family moved to California. They located at Orange, first leasing a twenty-acre orange ranch from Mr. Riley. While there they took a pleasure trip to Newport Beach and passing through Old Newport were so pleased with the locality they decided to locate there. The first purchase was a forty-acre tract belonging to Ben Fallert, where they engaged in dairying and alfalfa raising. The holdings have been increased extensively, one of the purchases being the Brooks ranch, in 1912, where a modern residence has been erected and is now the family home.
 
For the past five years Mr. Segerstrom and his sons have engaged in dairying and the growing of lima beans and have enjoyed good and profitable results, the ranch now being equipped with all modern buildings and machinery. Mr. and Mrs. Segerstrom have been blessed with eleven children, all living except Clara who died in 1912. The girls are: Christine. Anne, Ida and Esther. The boys are: Charles Jr., Eric William, Anton, Fred and Harold.
 

FRANK ULRICH  — An expert blacksmith who has become a clever and successful inventor, is Frank Ulrich, in more respects than one a citizen of worth. He was born in Fayette County, Ill., on February 19, 1876, the son of Fred Ulrich, who had married Martha Walker. After Frank was born, his parents moved with him. then their only child, to Barton County, Mo., and there the lad grew up in the public schools, topping off his studies with a course at the Polytechnic high school at La Mar. Mo. In the same town he served a three years' apprenticeship at the trade of a blacksmith, and there the other four children of the family were born.
 
In 1896 Mr. Ulrich was married to Miss Alice Ainscough, a native of Barton County, and four years later he came west to California, and settled for a while in San Bernardino, where he worked in the railway shops of the Santa Fe Railway. Then he went to Banning and put in two and a half years in a blacksmith shop there. Then he shifted to Smeltzer, and worked for John McMillan, who then ran the blacksmith shop at that place, and continued with him for about six months, until he sold out.
 
After that Mr. Ulrich pitched his tent in Wintersburg and once he had decided to stay, he bought of James Kane the shop built by the latter. It is a one-story frame structure, 24x72 feet in size, fitted up with an electric motor and an electric blower, as well as a trip-hammer, an emery wheel, a drill and a power hacksaw, and also two forges. In 1909, Mr. Ulrich built his residence, a pretty bungalow.
 
Mr. Ulrich does a general blacksmithing business, which includes horse-shoeing and horse-clipping, and makes a specialty of oxy-acetylene welding, and he employs at least one man the year around. He builds beet plows, cyclones and a so-called Swedish harrow, and manufactures celery growers' tools. He has invented a tubing drainer, for pumping oil out of oil wells, which he patented in 1918, and two of his inventions are on trial in the Midway oil field at Taft, on the Santa Fe and the Hondo Oil Company's leases. They give entire satisfaction and are well spoken of.
 
As a progressive, patriotic citizen, Mr. Ulrich has found pleasure in serving on the board of trustees of the Ocean View School, and he was on both the board and the building commission when that school was erected. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and served as worthy council; Mrs. Ulrich attends the Methodist Episcopal Church.
 

CHARLES TREULIEB — The pioneer blacksmith of Cypress, Orange County, Charles Treulieb is a public-spirited citizen, who has done his share to aid in the upbuilding of his section of the county by giving his hearty support to all movements for the public good and thereby has gained an enviable reputation among his fellows, who appreciate his good qualities.
 
A native of Russia, he was born in Courland, Dondangen, February 28, 1865, the son of Charles and Julia Treulieb, both natives of that country and the parents of fourteen children, four of whom came to America, and two of these are living in Orange County — Charles and his sister, Mrs. Margaret Yudis. His brother, Christ, lives in Alameda, Cal., and August is a resident of New York. Both parents died in their native land after living useful lives among their neighbors.
 
Charles attended the public schools of his native town and when he was eighteen he was apprenticed to a blacksmith for five years to learn that trade. After he had mastered it he traveled in various parts of the old world and then came to America to broaden his education and to master English by personal contact with the people, first stopping for a few months in Rio Janeiro, where he worked for a short time. 'This was in 1893, and it was that same year that he landed in New York, going thence to the West Indies; later he came back to America and stopped in Maine for a time. The West seemed to hold a fascination for him and he came to Arizona, where for some years he worked at his trade in Jerome. He became an American citizen at Prescott in 1903 and ever since has been among the most loyal of citizens of the country he adopted as his home. In 1905 he arrived in Los Angeles, but very soon came to Los Alamitos and was employed as a machinist at the sugar factory until 1905, when he opened his present blacksmith shop at Cypress, where he has catered to the wants of the locality ever since. He has seen this part of the county grow from an almost unproductive section to one of diversified farming and a very rich and productive center: in fact, as one of the pioneers here, he has aided every movement that meant advancing the interest of the people. Besides a well-equipped shop, where he does all kinds of blacksmithing, he conducts an oil-filling station and sells motor supplies; in both lines of activity he is meeting with well-deserved success. His obliging manner and cheery disposition have made him many friends. He is a member of the Woodmen of the World and politically is a broad-minded man who believes in living and letting live.
 

ROCH COURREGES  — A pioneer rancher who has become prosperous and influential, and who, while forging ahead to affluence, has never failed to encourage any movement worth the while for the development of Huntington Beach, and has thereby been privileged to assist in establishing there most of its important industries and institutions, is Roch Courreges. who owns a fine ranch of sixty acres on the Talbert-Huntington Beach Road, a mile west of Talbert. He was born at Bruges, in the Basses-Pyrenees. France, on November 3, 1850. His father was Joseph Courreges. a well-to-do landowner at Bruges, who conducted a lumber business; he married Justine Laroze, and they both lived and died in France. Roch first came to the United States in 1867, coming via Panama and landed in San Francisco on February 12; he started out into the world equipped with a good French grammar school education, and acquired English after he settled in America. Indeed, he is fond of admitting that he learned many a lesson in the language, of his adopted country while talking with his children, or perusing their school books.
 
Mr. Courreges' first work in California was milking cows on dairy farms in San Francisco and in Monterey County, after which, for a while, he went to the placer mines in Tuolumne County. Then he came back to San Francisco and worked in a tripe factory. At the end of five years, he gave that up and for a year kept a boarding house. He then became a partner in the tripe factory, but sold his interest in 1877. The following year he came to Los Angeles County, and since then he has experienced a great deal and has seen many changes.
 
The marriage of Mr. Courreges took place at Bolsa Chica. in 1880. when he was united with Mrs. Magdalena Smith, nee Mogart, a native of Lower California and a member of an old Spanish family. Thirty-seven years later, on November 29, she died, aged sixty-four years. By her first husband, she had had two children. Josephine Smith and Walter Smith; while through her second marriage, she was the mother of, besides three who died young, the following offspring: Joseph, who married Maria Ramariz, and is a rancher, operating the place owned by Mr. Courreges, and residing there, in partnership with his younger brother John; Elizabeth, the wife of Peter Lacabanne, a resident of Los Angeles; Philippine, the wife of Henry Lacabanne, the rancher of this place; Justine, who gracefully presides over her father's home; and John, who was in the field artillery service in France for three months. He was honorably discharged, and he is now farming at home, as has been stated, in partnership with Joseph.
 
Mr. Courreges came to Bolsa Chica on December 15, 1878, as a sheep raiser, for this was then a sheep country. This section at that time was in Los Angeles County, and there were no railroads, steam or electric. Six years before that, or in 1872, settlers had made their inroads and had squatted here, or taken the land without authority, but they were disturbed by the Stearns Ranch Company in 1880. In 1883, the Secretary of the Interior rendered his decision, but the squatters retained possession until 1890. when they were ousted for good. In April. 1883. Mr. Courreges established his sheep camp on the spot where his house now stands; and when he first rented pasture land, he leased from the Stearns Ranch Company, and when he came to the site of his present farm in 1882, it was also as a tenant of the said Stearns Company.
 
At first, Mr. Courreges was a partner in the sheep business with Roch Sarrail, and they herded sheep at Bolsa Chica. as well as at Bolsa Grande, two places named in the terminology of the miner, "small pocket" and "large pocket." They kept high grade merinos, and when they separated in 1882 they had 6.000 head. Mr. Courreges took charge of the camp at Bolsa Grande, and continued in that line for twenty-one years, and at one time he had 8.500 head of sheep.
 
It was in 1896 that Mr. Courreges bought some eighty acres, including his present ranch, from the Stearns Company, of which he later sold twenty acres to his son-in-law, Henry Lacabanne; and in company with his oldest son he went into farming. At first, he raised potatoes, corn, pumpkins, and alfalfa, and he kept a few cows; and for many years he raised sugar beets in the rich bottom lands, which make up his farm for the most part. He encouraged the establishing of the Holly Sugar Corporation, but two years ago, he planted some lima beans, and in 1919 and 1920 he has had the entire sixty acres planted to limas. His first house burned down five years ago; and since then he has built a beautiful bungalow home on the mesa. He has a couple of good wells and a tank house, furnishing and retaining a good supply of water; and irrigation is carried on by his own pumping plant.
 
Mr. Courreges has ever been a public-spirited citizen, and he has helped in every way to establish good roads. He worked for the state highway, and voted for county road bonds. He donated the right-of-way through his land for county roads, giving a deed therefore, and has paved the county road past his home. He also worked hard for the cannery at Huntington Beach, but it failed, and he lost $7,000 as the result. He invested $15,000 in twenty-nine lots at Huntington Beach, and he still owns the same. He helped to established the Linoleum Company at Huntington Beach, and also to bring about the "Tent City." He was one of the founders of the First National Bank of Huntington Beach, and owns fifty shares of its stock; and was a director from its organization and has been the vice-president of the bank for the past five years. He also interested himself in the coming here, north of Huntington Beach, of the peat-fuel company, and in encouraging in every way the operations of the Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe and the Pacific Electric railways.
 

HENRY LACABANNE — A hard-working and progressive farmer, whose attractive and equally industrious wife shares with him the good will and esteem of a large circle of friends, is Henry Lacabanne, the son-in-law of Roch Courreges, the pioneer. He was born in Estialesq, France, on October 9, 1873, the son of Pierre Lacabanne, a farmer, who had married Catherine Lagrave. They were owners of valuable land, and lived and died in their native country. They had six children, all sons, among whom Henry was the fourth in the order of birth. Two of the boys, besides Henry, came out to California; Jean is a rancher at Huntington Beach, and Pierre is employed by the Houser Packing Company at Los Angeles. Three sons are in France; the youngest, Auguste Lacabanne, served throughout the late war, or until he was taken prisoner, in July, 1918, but is still alive and in France.
 
Henry attended the excellent French grammar schools, and later worked on his father's farm. In 1892 he resolved to come to America, and in the latter part of May landed in New York City. On June 6, he reached the capital of California's Southland, Los Angeles. For a while he worked at hay-baling, and then he went to Ventura County, and in October began a five years' engagement as a sheep herder. After that he bought a band of sheep and with his older brother, Jean, as partner, came to San Joaquin ranch in Orange County. He prospered, and remained there until his marriage.
 
This interesting event occurred in 1905, when he married the second daughter and third child, Philippine Courreges, of the well-known pioneer. Once established as the head of a family, he bought ten acres at Katella, which he planted as a walnut orchard. At the proper time for a good deal, he sold this and came to the other locality in Orange County, where he now resides. In 1910, he bought the twenty acres he manages as a home farm, purchasing from his father-in-law, and by hard work converted it from the bare land, and has brought it up to a high state of cultivation, built a modest but very comfortable home, and has paid for all the improvements, including a large barn, a good well, and a first class pumping plant.
 
In 1910, also, Mr. Lacabanne took out his last papers, and now as an American citizen, and a patriotic Republican, he seeks to do his civic duty in every respect. He lives on the Talbert Road, a finely-paved county thoroughfare, and in his well-kept ranch has something to display as the evidence of a life of intelligent industry.
 

HERMAN F. RUTSCHOW  — Born in Ganschendorf, Pomerania, Germany, on September 5, 1868, Herman F. Rutschow was reared there until in his fourteenth year. On April 5, 1882, he emigrated with his parents, Carl and Wilhelmina Rutschow, to the United States and located at Alma, Buffalo County, Wis. Here Carl Rutschow engaged in railroading for a time until he entered the employ of the brewery in Alma, where he became brewmaster. In 1898 he removed to Seattle, Wash., and was brewmaster for Heinrich Bros. Brewery until he was retired on a pension; he died in Seattle in 1917, while his wife had preceded him, dying in 1904. Of their seven living children Herman F. is the second oldest and received a good education in the schools of his old home town and was confirmed just before he left for Wisconsin, where he continued his education.
 
When eighteen, Mr. Rutschow began to learn the brewer's trade and on completing it in 1892 he migrated to Washington where he was foreman of the bottling department for the Bay View Brewing Company at Pt. Townsend; thence to Vancouver, B. C, where he filled the same position in the Red Cross Brewery for one year, then he returned to Seattle and was employed in the Rainier Brewery owned by Heinrich Bros, (one of them, Alvin Heinrich, was Mr. Rutschow's brother-in-law). He continued with them as a brewer for many years and during this time took a course in Wilson's Business College in Seattle. After many years in the above responsible position he resigned and engaged in business on his own account in Seattle for five years. He built a brewery in Aberdeen, which he called Gray's Harbor Brewery and Malting Company and later sold it to Alvin Heinrich and then purchased another brewery, which he managed for eighteen months, then sold It at a good profit. Next he took a trip to Calgary, Canada, where he took up a farm of 320 acres of land, but the promised government loan failed to materialize so he gave it up six months later and returned to Seattle and became foreman of the bottling department for the Aberdeen Brewing Company, a position he filled very ably for a period of seven years when the state of Washington went dry. He then ran a stage between Montesano and Aberdeen for eighteen months, then was employed in the shipyards at Aberdeen for six months. After this he came to San Francisco, Cal., where he was employed three months with Chas. Bach and Company.
 
In 1917 he came to Anaheim as brewer for the Anaheim Brewing Company and one year later was made brewmaster, a position he filled till September, 1919, when he resigned to take the agency of the E. & A. Extract manufactured by the North Coast Products Company of Aberdeen, Wash., and is representing them in the ten counties of Southern California, having established local agencies in most of the towns, his headquarters being at 118 North Thalia Street, Anaheim.
 
Mr. Rutschow was married in Seattle when he was united with Miss Margaret Antonia Koch, who was born in Zittau, Saxony, Germany, and they have one child, Frederick, who is now learning the automobile machinist's trade in a city near Zittau, Germany. Mr. Rutschow is enterprising and progressive and is always willing to do his share toward aiding enterprises that have for their aim the building up of the community in which he lives.
 

JOSHUA O. PYLE  — Ability and industry, combined with a good practical head for business, are among the qualities that have brought success in life to J. O. Pyle, rancher near Snieltzer, and an able machinist as well as an agriculturist.
 
Mr. Pyle, a young man of striking personality, was born in Washington County, Pa., December S, 1880. His parents, William Wesley, and Laura (Scott) Pyle, pioneer farmers of that section of country, were natives of Pennsylvania and Iowa, respectively. The father died in 1905 and the mother in 1910. Mr. Pyle's uncle, Joshua J. Pyle, is a well-to-do pioneer rancher of the Westminster precinct of Orange County, and the youngest and only surviving member of a family of three brothers and three sisters.
 
Joshua O. Pyle comes of an historic and long-lived family. His paternal great-great-grandfather on the maternal side, William Lyons, attained the advanced age of ninety. His great-grandfather, and great-grandmother, who was a cousin of General Robert E. Lee of Civil War fame, each lived to be eighty-four years old. His grandfather, William Pyle, who in early life followed the occupation of a carpenter and later the occupation of tilling the soil in western Pennsylvania, lived to be seventy-seven years old, and was a member of the Home Guard and captain of the Black Horse Cavalry Company.
 
Joshua O. first started in life as a machinist. He was fireman on the Pennsylvania Railroad for two and a half years, and afterwards a locomotive engineer for one year. In 1906, at the age of twenty-six, he went to Alberta, Canada, and engaged in running a steam plow and threshing outfit. Three years later, in 1909, he came to California, and worked for a time for the old California sugar factory, finally settling at Smeltzer. He holds a lease on eighty acres of land owned by the Anaheim Sugar Company, the forty acres on which he lives, and another forty acres north of Smeltzer. Twenty-five acres of the land is planted to sugar beets, and he will plant the remainder largely to lima beans. He planted sixteen acres of land to oranges in the Garden Grove district, which he disposed of to good advantage.
 
In 1910 Mr. Pyle was united in marriage with Miss Minnie Keseman. a native daughter of San Bernardino County, Cal. , Politically Mr. Pyle casts his vote with the Republican party. Fraternally he is a. member of the Huntington Beach Lodge No. 380, F. & A. M., of which he is past master; belongs to Santa Ana Chapter No. 12, R. A. M., Santa Ana Council No. 14, R. & S. M., and to Santa .Ana Commandery No. 36, Knight Templars and Al Malaikah Temple, A. .A. O. N. M. S., of Los Angeles, and is held in high esteem by his brother Masons. He and his wife are members of the Order of Eastern Star, of which she is past matron and he is past patron. Generous and hospitable, Mr. and Mrs. Pyle are justly popular among their friends and neighbors.
 

ARTHUR A. SCHNITGER — A thoroughly practical agriculturist who has been able to transform rough grain fields into beautiful gardens and orchards, and to create one of the finest ranches in his neighborhood, is Arthur A. Schnitger, proprietor of twenty choice acres on Euclid Avenue, one mile north of Garden Grove. He was born at Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis., on April 13, 1879. the youngest son in a family of nine children, including two brothers and six sisters. His father was Adolph F. Schnitger, who came here from Watertown in 1892, and bought the forty acres known as the Langenberger Place. It was planted to a vineyard, and fenced around with lattice — but the vineyard died out, and Mr. Schnitger turned it into an alfalfa ranch. He became well and favorably known in and around Anaheim and Garden Grove as a man in every way of sterling worth; and when he died, in 1913 at the age of sixty-six, he was widely mourned. Mrs. Schnitger was Caroline Hager before her marriage, and she is still living at Anaheim. Mary, the eldest child, married the Rev. J. Schneider, and now resides at Oakland; Edwin expects to remove from Watertown to California: William E. is the president of the Garden Grove Walnut Growers Association; Lydia is the wife of Martin Fisher of Anaheim;  Arthur Albert is the subject of this sketch. Pauline became the wife of H. C. Meiser, orange grower and nurseryman at Fullerton; Ella died at the age of eleven; Esther, a seamstress, shares the home life of her mother at Anaheim; and Hattie, who married Henry G. Carl, resides at Salem, Ore.
 
Arthur Schnitger attended the district schools in Jefferson County, Wis., and continued his studies at Garden Grove, where he was graduated from the grammar school. In 1906 he bought the twenty acres he has so handsomely developed — an unattractive stretch of grain land, with not a tree upon it; now he has fourteen and a half acres set out to Valencia oranges, five acres planted to walnuts, and maintains a very good family orchard and vegetable garden. He has a fine well 149 feet deep, with a fifty-foot lift, driven by a powerful electric dynamo. His ranch has already reached the horseless stage, where a touring car and a Cleveland tractor do it all, and there is not a horse to be seen. He has also a good blacksmith and machine shop on his place, and there he does nearly everything needed in the mechanical line.
 
The first improvement effected by Mr. Schnitger on his place was his barn, after which came the sinking of a well and the building of a water tank. In 1916, with the assistance of the late Benjamin Oertly of Garden Grove, he built his attractive bungalow without the help of any other carpenters or mechanics. The two friends not only did every part of the carpenter work, but also the porches, steps, chimney and other cement and brick work, and they executed all so well that the house is strikingly attractive and embraces many modern conveniences, provided in plans drawn lo a scale by Mr. Schnitger and his talented wife.
 
For several years Arthur Schnitger, with others, ran a bean threshing outfit, and while his partners sold out from time to time he, himself was interested in the business longer than the others. With the Belle City and the Rumely, both rebuilt machines, the men did a good business in their lines from Tustin to Buena Park and south to Wintersburg. W. E. Schnitger, assisted by Arthur A. Schnitger rebuilt and converted a steam threshing machine into a traction thresher using gasoline. The various men who at different times composed the partnership in threshing were Messrs. Dozier, Schnitger, Andres and Gibson.
 
At Garden Grove Mr. Schnitger. was married to Helen Schneider, born in Missouri, by whom he has had two children, twins, Barbara Joy and Fern Lucile. Leading upright, industrious lives, Mr. and Mrs. Schnitger find time for something beside the acquisition of material wealth, and take especial pleasure in active participation in all the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Garden Grove.
 

VERNON H. KING  — Among the ablest and most successful newspaper editors and proprietors of California, and one deserving in full the popularity he enjoys in his own and neighboring communities, must be rated Vernon H. King, the live wire manipulating the well-conducted Garden Grove News. He was born at Little Rock, Iowa, on May 7. 1884, the son of Charles H. King, who is still living and resides with the subject. Mrs. King, the mother, was Huldah Beeman before her marriage, and she died at Bellflower, Cal., two years ago. These good pare.nts had nine children, and six are living today: Everett, the eldest, was until recently editor and proprietor of the Covina Citizen, and now resides at Los Angeles; Vernon was the second in the order of birth; Ethel has become the wife of Judge Hall, county judge of Brookings County, S. D.; Charles is the superintendent of the Los Angeles Creamery; Laura is the wife of Wallace Cornman, and lives at Los Angeles; Leonard is employed by the Union Oil Company at Los Angeles. Charles H. King was a native of Maine; and Mrs. King a native of Iowa. The father was a farmer and stockman, and moved from Lyon County, Iowa, to Grant County, S. D., where, from 1891 to 1896, he was located at Summit.
 
His first actual newspaper work was done on the Pipestone Leader, when he was for a while the "devil." or boy-of-all work, and incidentally learned to set type. He worked on both of the newspapers there, also the Brookings Press and the Brookings Leader, and added rapidly to his experience; and when the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway was building through South Dakota, he bought lots at Florence, S. D., purchased presses and other necessary equipment for a newspaper office, and put in his printing plant before the rails had been laid to Florence. That was in 1906; and at Florence he established the Florence Forum, and later bought the Wallace World and also the Crocker Tribune, making three newspapers of which he was editor and proprietor, at the same time. He continued to live in South Dakota until he sold out his newspapers to come to California, in 1912.
 
Settling in the Imperial Valley, in 1914 he established the Niland Review at Niland, formerly called Imperial Junction, and that was the first newspaper there. He conducted the Review until 1916, when he came to Garden Grove and bought out Walter Potter, the owner of the Garden Grove News. A most loyal American, first, last and all the time, and a Republican whose counsel is often sought by the local party leaders, Mr. King contributes what he can toward both a better citizenship and to the welfare of the community. He was chairman of the League to Enforce Peace, and participated actively in all war work. From 1917 to 1918 Mr. King was the wide-awake secretary of the Garden Grove Chamber of Commerce, and it is no wonder that the circulation of the News has doubled since he took hold of the paper. His paper includes all the equipment necessary for any variety of high class print job and newspaper work.
 
In 1908 Mr. King was married to Miss Belle R. Ohnstad, a native of Codington County, S. D., and a daughter of the late L. K. Ohnstad, who died in South Dakota in 1918. She attended high school at Waubay and at Watertown, S. D.. and there was well prepared for the duties of life. Two children have blessed the fortunate union, Orville and Velma, Upon coming to Garden Grove, four years ago, Mr. King purchased five acres, planted to Valencias, at present in a handsome stage of their growth; and recently he has bought residential property on Ocean Avenue.
 

GUSTAVE J. AND JOSEPH ALBERT CALLENS — An excellent illustration of the advantages of cooperation in industry, especially among near of kin understanding each other and impelled by common, unselfish motives, is afforded in the operations of the Callens Brothers, Belgian-Americans, who have made good since they established themselves in California. The eldest of these is Gustave J. Callens, the rancher, who resides five miles to the north of Irvine Station. He was born near Kortryk in Flanders, Belgium, on November 13, 1879, the son of Henry Callens, a farmer, who was born and married in Belgium, and is still farming there. He had married Mathilda Seurinck, a worthy daughter of that country, whose fidelity as wife and mother was such that her end, in being run over and killed by an enemy truck, was pathetic in the extreme. They had eight children, two of whom died; and the other two who came to America are Adolphe and Joseph Albert. Adolphe was born about 1884, married Miss Alice Vanderbeke, a resident of Anaheim but a native of Belgium. During 1920 they returned to Belgium for a visit, being among the few thus favored in early seeing the devastated, but still beautiful, country. The third brother of the group is Joseph Albert, whose birth occurred about 1890, also in Belgium. All three of these sturdy boys grew up in their native country, and enjoyed the usual educational advantages for which Belgium is widely known, studying in particular foreign languages, so that they read, write and speak Flemish, the language of the people, French, which is more generally used in business and officially, and English, now especially such a requisite in intercourse with the outside world.
 
Adolphe Callens was the first of the brothers to come to California, in 1907, and he was followed the next year by Gustave and Joseph Albert. They had many relatives in Oxnard. Ventura County, and there for a while they worked around on ranches; and in 1911 they came south to Orange County, where they began to rent six hundred acres of their present ranch. Since then, they have augmented the area of their valuable lease by clearing up and bringing under the plow a lot of land that previously was waste.
 
They are renting, in fact, two farms — one of nine hundred sixty-seven acres, and another of six hundred acres, making over fifteen hundred acres in all which they are operating. They also own a fine ranch of eighty acres at Greenville, in Orange County, devoted to the culture of lima beans, and a forty-acre walnut grove at Anaheim. Of the 967 acres rented from James Irvine, one hundred sixty-five acres are set aside for lima beans, three hundred acres for black-eye beans, one hundred fifty-five acres for wheat, and one hundred fifty acres for barley. The balance is in pasture, or rough land, for this ranch lies close to the foothills. The scientific, economic and progressive manner in which these experienced ranchers handle their crops has been a source of instructive interest to fellow ranchers, and no one in the vicinity stands higher than the three Callens brothers.
 
Gustave Callens, besides being a successful rancher, with something definite to show for his intelligent industry, also has a war record of which anyone might be proud. In 1914. having returned to Belgium, he was impressed for military service; and having previously performed three years of military drill, he went into the front lines as a seasoned soldier. He campaigned for four and a half years in Belgium and France, and was in many very bloody engagements: but. luckily, he was never wounded. After a year's service in the Belgian infantry, he was transferred to the commissary department, in which he served as first sergeant during the last three and a half years of the war. The first year he was in the Third Company, Seventh regiment of infantry.
 
While in Belgium, on May 1, 1919, Mr. Callens was married to Miss Elie Devlies, who returned with him to California, and was nicely settled on the San Joaquin ranch, at the head of an ideal country home, but she died on June 22, 1920, mourned by all who had come to know her.
 

ADOLPHE CALLENS — An energetic, able, "get-there" type of young man whose success has been phenomenal, is Adolphe Callens, one of the three well-known brothers, bonanza ranchers on the San Joaquin, and the first one to come to America and to lead the way for the other boys to reach California. He was born in West Flanders. Belgium, on August 6. 1884. the son of Henry and Mathilda (Seurinck) Callens, worthy farmer folks, who gave themselves to years of honest, exhausting toil. The father is still living in Belgium at the age of seventy-six; but the mother was killed during the World War when run over by a truck of the enemy. They had eight children and seven are living.
 
Adolphe's early life was spent in his native land, where he was given the best of public school educational advantages, especially in the matter of modern tongues, so that he learned French and Flemish before leaving for abroad, and for some time he worked on his father's farm.
 
He first came to America in 1907, and proceeded west to Ventura County, Cal., and the following year he was joined there by his brothers, Gustave and Joseph. The three were not long in hiring themselves out to work on farms, and being intelligent, strong and willing, they became favorites with those who employed them. In 1910 he came down to his present locality, and in partnership with his brothers rented a ranch from Mr. Irvine. Now they are operating two large ranches on the San Joaquin, and they also own an excellent ranch of eighty acres at Greenville, Orange County, on which they grow lima beans, and they own and operate a grove of walnuts forty acres in size, near Anaheim.
 
At Anaheim in 1916, Mr. Callens was married to Miss Alice Vanderbeke, a native of Belgium and the daughter of Angelus Vanderbeke, who was actively engaged in farming until he was eighty-two and now lives retired at the advanced age of ninety-two years. His devoted wife, who was formerly Juliana Vermeerch, passed away April 8, 1919, in her seventy-fourth year, leaving three children: Adiel, a farmer in Orangethorpe; Alice, Mrs. Callens, and Adila, who presides over her father's home.
 
After completing her education in Flanders, Mrs. Callens came to Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, in 1910, and in 1911 came on to Anaheim, Cal., arriving July 4 of that year. She graduated as a nurse from the Anaheim Hospital, where she practiced her profession until her marriage. Three daughters have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Callens, and they are named, Angela, Agnes and Anita. Mr. Callens is a member of the Knights of Columbus, affiliated with the Santa Ana branch.
 
During 1920, Mr. and Mrs. Callens made a trip to Belgium to see the familiar spots and faces, or such as were left of them, again. On their return they landed at New York City on the Fourth of July; but they soon embarked for the West and made such good time that they arrived in their favorite home place in California on July 8.
 

AUGUST L. MARTEL  — A French-American with an interesting history and experience having to do with both the Old World and the New, and with both Northern and Southern California, is August L. Martel, the livestock man, butcher and landowner of Talbert. He was born at Gap, in the Hautes-Alpes, in the southeastern part of France, on February 4, 1865, and had the good educational opportunities of that country. His father, Louis Martel, was a farmer and a stockman, who married Veronica Boudoir, their birth and marriage, as well as their death, taking place in their native France. They had four children — three girls and a boy — among whom our subject was the second in the order of birth.
 
At nineteen years of age, he came to San Francisco in 1884, where he served an apprenticeship as chef and when he was proficient he served in that capacity for the celebrated Bohemian Club, of San Francisco, and also for the Palace Hotel and Maison Dore, and coming south to Bakersfield, he also was chef for the old Southern Hotel, and was there when the city and the old hotel burned. He then ran a restaurant there for several years. Removing to Los Angeles, he displayed his culinary art to the patrons of the old Hollenbeck Hotel, and thousands knew of his tasteful dinners and lunches, and his skill in manipulating great banquets.
 
Three years before he came to Los Angeles, or about twenty-two years ago. Mr. Martel went down to Fountain Valley and immediately he bought his ten acres, of which he has since had such good reason to be proud. Thereon he has erected a store building, which contains his meat market and grocery, residence and barns, and where he employs three men in the business. The balance of the acreage he has brought to a high state of cultivation. Always a hard worker, he has reaped the usual fruits, in success of intelligent, persistent labor. He takes a live interest in the duties of a citizen, and while voting on national issues under the principles of the Republican party, he casts aside partisanship in local campaigns, and supports whatever or whoever is best for the community. Besides dealing in staple and fancy groceries — the finest and best are none too good for him — and fresh and salt meats, in the selection of which he is naturally an expert, he buys and sells, and also butchers, beeves, hogs, sheep and calves.
 
While living at Bakersfield. Mr. Martel was married to Miss Mamie Lincoln, by whom he had one child, who passed away; and in Fountain Valley this good companion passed away. He was married a second time, in Los Angeles. January 24, 1910, to Mrs. Millie Mueller, the daughter of John and Lou F. (Motley) Heaston. who are now residing at Huntington Beach, honored as among the oldest pioneers in this western part of Orange County. Mr. Heaston, who was born in Missouri, is now eighty-two years of age, and Mrs. Heaston. who hails from Old Virginia, has attained her sixty-second year. Mrs. Martel was born near Richmond, and lived there until she was seven. Then, after a couple of years spent in Missouri, she came west to California and grew to young womanhood in San Diego County. There she met her first husband, Emil Mueller, D.D.S.. a graduate of the dental department of the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. He practiced dentistry at Spring and Fourth streets. Los Angeles, and at the same time was professor of dental surgery at the University of Southern California until the time of his death, at the age of thirty-eight, in 1906. She had one child by her first husband, Mary, now nineteen years old and a graduate of the Huntington Beach high school, now Mrs. Emil Keslenholtz of Anaheim. Mrs. Martel has six brothers and sisters, all of whom have been prosperous. One is Mrs. George Bushard: another, James Heaston, who resides at Los Alamitos; a third, Cleve, who is a resident of Los Angeles; a sister, Mrs. Frank P. Borchard, of Santa Ana; a brother named Fields M. Heaston, a rancher of Lancaster, Los Angeles County; and the youngest of the family, John W. Heaston, a rancher of Kern County.
 

ROBERT L. KNAPP — Numbered as one of the ambitious, industrious and progressive men of the younger generation of ranchers in Orange County, Robert L. Knapp is rapidly advancing to the front rank of successful orchardists in the Anaheim district, his ranch being located on Nursery Avenue in the Katella school district. He was born in Canada on December 6, 1896, the son of the late Peter B. Knapp, who came to California and located in Los Angeles County, as there was no Orange County at that date — 1888. The mother was in maidenhood, Christine Livingston, who, like her husband, was a native of Canada. There were seven children in the Knapp family, all born in Canada, and five of them are living: Mary M., Mrs. G. W. Dorr; J. Allen; Rachel J., Mrs. E. M. Christensen; Elmer C; and Robert L. George and Annie are both deceased. Mr. Knapp died in 1903 and his widow still lives on the home place with her son Robert L. After Peter B. Knapp and his son George had been in Orange County about twelve years the other members of the family came here to join them in 1900, and they moved on the ranch where the family now lives.
 
Robert L. Knapp attended the public schools in Orange County, and he at once began making improvements on the ranch after the death of his father. Under his skillful hands, assisted by his brother, Elmer C, who was born in Canada on May 20, 1894, the thirty-acre ranch has been set to Valencia oranges and lemons. While the trees were maturing they raised beans and peppers between the rows to meet expenses. The trees are now in a very thriving condition and much is expected from the model ranch as the years pass. With the exception of the buildings on the place, every improvement has been placed thereon by the Knapp Brothers, and is being operated by them, they having bought the property from their mother and each looks after his portion. Robert is public-spirited and lends his aid to all movements for the betterment of conditions and the upbuilding of the county, and his friends repose the highest confidence in his integrity, and his standing in the community is deservedly the highest. It is in the hands of such men that the future of Orange County is placed and the results they will obtain are certain to' be of the highest order.
 

HUNTINGTON BEACH UNION HIGH SCHOOL AND McCLELLAND G. JONES — Few institutions of learning in California have done more to help shape the destiny of the younger and fast-growing communities than has the Huntington Beach Union High School, whose excellent standing as an accredited high school, admitting to colleges and universities without further examination, is due in part to the scholarly, thorough work of McClelland G. Jones, its principal. The grounds include ten acres, a mile northwest of the business center of the beach, while among the buildings on that site is the two-story brick and concrete structure devoted to manual arts work. There are excellent facilities for athletics, including a basket ball ground and three tennis courts, together with a football and baseball field, and fields and track for general athletics. The high school course includes four years of work beginning with the ninth and extending through the twelfth grade; and there is also an opportunity for graduate work. As in most modern high schools the program includes a commercial department and a department of domestic science; as well as courses in art, music and agriculture. The precinct of the high school takes in all the beach and coast from Seal to Newport Beach, and the school furnishes transportation for those pupils coming from the. cities and places on the line of the Pacific Electric Railway, namely. Balboa. Newport Beach, Sunset Beach and Seal Beach. The school also operates two auto busses, gathering up the pupils from the outlying country districts. The enrollment December, 1919, was 163 pupils, and there are twenty-three seniors in the class of '20. The average daily attendance is 155 pupils.
 
The board of directors of the Union high school are: President, E. R. Bradbury; clerk, C. A. Johnson; and the balance of the trustees. VV. T. Newland, Sr., R. E. Larter, and H. L. Heffner. Meetings of the board are held the second Friday in each month. The principal, as has been stated, is McClelland G. Jones; and the remainder of the faculty is as follows: Miss Nettie Owen, Mrs. T. B. Talliert. Miss Ruth Munro, Miss Margaret Keen, Miss Francis Douthit, Miss Martha Traftord, Miss Florence Larter, Frank Smith, Leon Olds, Ray Walker, and Dr. Paul White. Mrs. Julia M. Payne is secretary to the principal.
 
Principal Jones was born at Delevan, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., on December 14, 1885, the son of Evan Jones, who was born in Wales. He became an educator, having migrated to America, and was graduated from the Geneseo, N. Y., Normal School, after which he taught school in western New York for ten years. Then he went into business in the same region and engaged in the manufacturing of butter and cheese. Mrs. Jones, now deceased, was also a native of the Empire State and was popular as Miss Adda Gibby; she graduated from the Franklinville Academy, and was a teacher before her marriage. In the spring of 1914 she passed away, mourned by five children, among whom the subject of our interesting review was the second in order of birth.
 
McClelland Jones was graduated with the class of '04 from the Delevan, N. Y.. high school, and for three years engaged in business. Then he entered the Liberal Arts department of the University of Michigan, and was graduated in June, 1911, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He served as principal of the high school at Owosso, Mich., from 1911 to 1915, in all four and one-half years, when he was advised by physicians to seek out-of-door life; but remaining in central Michigan until January, 1918, he suffered a complete breakdown.
 
On March 7 of the following year Mr. Jones came west to Los Angeles, and for several months he pursued graduate work in the University of Southern California. On July 1 of the same year, he entered upon his present position.
 
While in western New York, Mr. Jones was married to Miss Mabel Cheney, a native of Bradford, Pa., although at the time of her marriage, a resident of Delevan. N. Y. She is a graduate of Ithaca, N. Y.. high school, one of the best of New York's secondary institutions, and has thus been able to enter intensively into the work of her husband.    

History of Orange County, California: Samuel Armor

Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA 1921

Transcribed by: Marianne Swan, January 2010 : Pages - 1250-1347

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