FRED RAY FRASER.—A hard-working, thoroughly capable young man, who is steadily rising in the esteem of his employers, is Fred Ray Fraser, who divides his time as foreman and rancher. He was born at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on March 6, 1891, the son of Francis P. Fraser, who ran both a flour mill and a farm, and had married Miss Rebecca A. Scott. When he was four years old, his parents, in September, 1895, brought him to California, coming directly to Santa Ana, where his father purchased a one-acre apricot grove in Tustin. He lived at home with his parents, while he attended the Santa Ana grammar and high schools, from which he was duly graduated with credit, and well equipped to take his part in the world’s work.

Immediately after finishing his high school studies, Mr. Fraser went to work for the Gowen and White packing house, and has since then so advanced in work and responsibility that he is foreman of the walnut and apricot departments.  On December 6, 1911, Mr. Fraser was married at Santa Ana to Miss Hazel Crane, a Nebraska girl, who was born in Brown County. Her mother, Jennie Crane, died in Nebraska, and in 1908 her father, Fred O. Crane, came to California with his family.  There were nine children, and she was the youngest daughter.

.\fter his marriage. Mr. Fraser and his wife lived on Valencia Avenue, but in 1919 he sold out and purchased an orange grove at 826 North Baker Street. However, he found the work of handling this new grove too much, with the responsibility of the packing house, so he sold the grove and bought the home at 710 West Washington Street, where he now lives. Three children brighten their home—Velda B., Vivian B.  and Evelyn L. Fraser.

Francis P. Fraser, our subject’s father, lived at his Tustin home until 1917, when he sold out and moved to Santa Ana, where he bought a home at 615 East Second Street. On May 30, 1919, he passed away, mourned by all who had the good fortune to know him. Mrs. Fraser lives at her home on East Second Street. Mr. Fraser did manly service in the Civil War, marching with Sherman on his celebrated campaign through Georgia, and for four long years engaging under his leadership in other battles; and he was well honored as a modest veteran, free from hate or rancor. 

BARRY H. McPHEE.— A native son of California whose success in buying and selling property has been such that he thinks there is no place on earth equal to the Golden State, is Barry H. McPhee, who was born in Elsinore on November 1, 1893, the son of George W. McPhee, who became one of the proprietors of the Santa Ana Blade, and in whose comfortable home he remained until he was married in 1913. He attended the Santa Ana grammar and high schools, and made a specialty of the commercial course in that institution. Being apt and learning easily, he had time to spare, and so, at the same time that he studied, he also worked for the Blade.  On February 16 he was united in matrimony to Miss Helen Neff, the accomplished and popular daughter of L. H. and Lydia Neff, who came from Lincoln, Nebr., in 1912.  Here she attended the Santa Ana high school, and made a host of friends.  Mr. McPhee is employed as a lineman for the Edison Company, in whose employ he has been for the past nine years, and is now connected with the Santa Ana branch, but he ‘is something more than merely an electrician. He has bought and sold two groves and two homes in the past few years, and in doing so has turned over some rather attractive money.

His present holding is ten acres, all in walnuts, one-half of which is intersects with Valencia oranges, and the balance is full bearing, and affords to the eye of even the novice a fine sight. The ranch is served by the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and that means plenty of good water, and at the right time.

One daughter, Joy McPhee, a pupil of the Santa Ana grammar school, brightens the home of this accomplished couple, and bids fair to be herself a young woman of the right sort of accomplishments. Santa  Ana need not worry about her future with such enthusiastic “boosters” as the McPhees.

RUFUS C. McMillan.—The wise man of the old has said: “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.” The successful contractor of Santa Ana, Rufus C. McMillan, has, by his conscientious workmanship and high principles of business integrity, acquired as a reward that much coveted prize—a good reputation. He was born on Christmas Day, 1879, at Pine Bluff, Ark., and was reared and educated in his native state, early learning the trade of a carpenter. At the age of fifteen he began to follow his trade and when nineteen years old began contracting there, and for a time was in the employ of the Cotton Belt Railroad Company and in 1904 located in Muskogee, Okla., where he continued in the contracting and building business and built several fine residences, one of his patrons at Muskogee being a Mr. Williams, the banker and wealthy oil magnate. In December, 1906, he returned to Pine Bluff, where he spent four years in the building” business, erecting many fine homes.  It was in 1910 that Mr. McMillan first came to California, having felt the call for some time previous to inspect that western part of our country. He arrived in Los Angeles on December 31, and for a time visited various cities of the southern part of the state looking for a suitable place in which to engage in his business and finally decided that Santa Ana held out the best inducements to a man of energy and determination.  On February 19, 1911, he brought his family here, purchased a lot and built a home for them and very soon demonstrated his judgment by branching out as a contractor and at the end of twenty-three months, beginning on May 1, that year he had completed forty-three buildings. Judging from the success he has achieved since he took up his residence in Santa Ana, his choice of location was well taken. Up to January 1, 1919, Mr. McMillan had erected 105 residences and business blocks in the town, and during 1919, at one time he had fourteen buildings under construction. During the year 1920 he completed twenty-five important contracts and numerous smaller ones in the county. He has not confined his operations to Santa Ana as Fullerton, Placentia. Anaheim, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and San Juan Capistrano show examples of his skill as a builder. Some of the residences he has built have cost as high as $23,000. Among the buildings in Santa Ana erected by Mr. McMillan mention is made of the Stanley and Gilmacher blocks; Wickersheim and County garages; sheriff's office; and the residences of Bert Annin and W. D. Woodward in Fullerton;

Fiscus home in Anaheim; Ray McClintock’s in Greenville; the Edwards and Hansen family residences in Placentia; Herbert Rankin, C. E. Jackson, Judge Thomas, W. D.  Wilson, Briggs, C. T. Johnson and the Crose homes in Santa Ana; and the Ocean View school building.

Mr. McMillan has been married twice; his first union was on August 4, 1901, in Pine Bluff. Ark., to Miss Callie M. Beach, and they had three children, Daisy Thelma.  Grace and Mary Agnes. On December 16, 1914, in Santa Ana his second marriage united him with Miss Pearl Wilcox, a native of Kansas, where she was born near Ness City, but was reared and educated in Dodge City. They have two children, Eugene and Pearl Larene. Fraternally Mr. McMillan is a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks. The high regard in which Mr. McMillan is held as a builder is best exemplified by the fact that his former patrons have retained him to construct their buildings without asking for competitive bids. Their confidence in his superior judgment and unquestioned integrity in all business transactions assures them that their work will be most satisfactorily completed.

ROY S. LANCASTER.—A wide-awake young rancher intensely interested in the growth of Orange County, and willing to do his share towards the advancement of Southern California interests, for the benefit of his neighbors as well as himself, is Roy S. Lancaster, whose talented wife and true helpmeet is proud of her birth as a native daughter. He was born in Travers County, Mich., in 1875, the son of James B.  and Minnie (Tracy) Lancaster. His father was a druggist and postmaster, and Roy grew up with certain home advantages not accorded every young man.  This did not prevent him, however, at the age of seventeen, from feeling the lure of the outside world, and to such an extent that he went to South Dakota, and in Britton, Marshall County, worked in the harvest field. He also traveled considerably, stopping in each place only for a season, and at Rock Island, ILL., he engaged in mining for a year. From Rock Island he then went to Chicago, where he worked for nearly a year in the Harvey Steel Works, at the same time that he was attending the Columbian Exposition of 1893.

Mr. Lancaster’s next move took him to Idaho, where he secured a timber claim; but he stayed there only a year. The greater attractions of California brought him to Orange County in 1894. and here he found employment working out on farms. Since 1913 he has lived on his present ranch at 1426 North Baker Street. Santa Ana.  On July 2, 1901. Mr. Lancaster was married to Miss Grace Greenleaf, daughter of Eli F. and Lucy A. Greenleaf. who was born in Santa Ana. Her father was born in Maine and the mother in Ohio, their marriage taking place in Missouri. They crossed the plains in the sixties in an ox-team train, and spent several years in Northern California. Pioneer settlers of Santa Ana, they came there in 1871, and both passed away there. Six children—four boys and two girls—have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Lancaster: Berney; Robert is a high school student; Lucile, Catherine and Ray are pupils in the grammar school; and Jack is at home. Mr.  Lancaster is a Republican in national politics, but never allows partisanship to interfere with his loyal and liberal support of any movement likely to make for the betterment of the community in which he lives.

EMIL KRUEGER.—A sturdy pioneer who has become one of the most loyal of American citizens and respected agriculturists of his neighborhood is Emil Krueger, the owner of a very productive ranch on La Veta Avenue, Orange. He was born in West Germany in July, 1863, and his parents were Herman and Mathilda Krueger.  They had five children, and all three of those still- living are residents of California.  Mrs. Krueger having passed away, the father emigrated to the United States nine months in advance of his children. He sought here and found a sheltering government under whose fostering care they could breathe the air of freedom and enjoy equal rights and privileges.

Emil grew up in his native country, and while profiting from the excellent schools there, met and cheerfully accepted the challenge of hard work. In 1883 he came to the United States and spent four years as a weaver in the cotton mills at Exeter, N. H., and in 1887 he came to Orange, Cal., where he worked in orchards and for the Santa Fe Railroad until he purchased his present ranch, which he improved, and thus advanced steadily. He is a member of the McPherson Heights Citrus Association and the Tustin Lemon Association.

In February, 1893, he was married at Orange to Miss Augusta Rosenthal, also a native of Germany, and by her he has had three children: Herman, a farmer here;

Rose, now Mrs. Harris, and Bertha, now Mrs. Cook, both of Orange.  Mr. Krueger purchased his land in 1890, when it was unimproved stubble, and the uneven surface seemed to make it quite unfit for irrigation; but by very hard work during long hours and weary months, he at length set out his fruit trees and accomplished the task of improvement. Now the ranch is so productive and famous that the Valencia oranges are a wonder to behold, and the lemons bring the highest price.  He now has fifteen acres in a body, under the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and he also has a pumping plant. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, and as a self-made man, Mr. Krueger belongs to that type of citizen of which the town and county of Orange may well be, as it ever is, justly proud.

SAM STEIN.—A hustling, thoroughly enterprising merchant who has steadily advanced from a modest beginning to a position of prominence in the commercial circles of Santa Ana, in which city he has gained the respect of all classes, is Sam Stein, the proprietor of Stein’s Stationery Store at 210 West Fourth Street. By the public generally he is familiarly known for his stature and his jollity; while to his many patrons he is the one out of a hundred who not only takes infinite pains to please, but studies the conditions of today and so anticipates the wants of tomorrow. Once a man has come to be a customer of Stein’s Stationery Store, he is seldom found to turn elsewhere for that kind of service.

He was born in Russia on September 5. 1885, and his parents were Samuel H.  and Lena Stein. They had five children, and Sam was the second child born to them.  When he was still a child, the parents crossed the wide ocean to the United States; and as they stayed in New York for a while, he attended the public schools there, and then for a couple of years went to the City College of New York.  When old enough to do so, Sam learned the plumber’s trade, at which he also worked for a couple of years; but on coming to California in 1902 he entered the employ of the Lazarus Stationery Company at Los Angeles. This experience with one of the best firms on the Pacific Coast proved the finest of mercantile schools.  In September, 1914, Mr. Stein came to Santa Ana and started in the stationery business in a small way, with one clerk; and having attended to business, business increased until now he employs eleven persons. He carries a full line of office supplies and stationery, and he maintains such a completely equipped kodak finishing house that, as the only concern of its kind in the county, he does work for many other stores all over Orange County. Naturally, he is a live wire in the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce and the Santa Ana Merchants and Manufacturers Association.  On February 23. 1908. Mr. Stein was married at Los Angeles to Miss Celia Singer of Los Angeles: and two children have blessed their union—.Arthur and Helen. He belongs to the Masons, the Elks and the Eastern Star; but as a man deeply interested in public affairs, he is above party and partisanship.

ANDREW J. KOCH.—Coming to Orange County in 1900, Andrew J. Koch has indeed attained a splendid success in the twenty years of his residence here and is now one of the most prosperous citrus ranchers of the Yorba district. Mr. Koch’s parents were Henry P. and Lydia (Buckting) Koch, the father being a native of Germany, while the mother was born in Missouri. Henry P. Koch was a pioneer settler of Rhineland, Mo., having left his home in Germany in early manhood, arriving at New York March 6, 1854. Some time after his advent to America he located in Rhineland, where he followed his trade of a blacksmith for many years. He was an industrious, upright citizen, loyal to the land of his adoption, having become a naturalized citizen, and he occupied a respected place in his community. He served in the Twelfth Missouri Cavalry from 1861 to 1865 in the Civil War, being wounded in action.  There were four children in the Koch family: Andrew J., the subject of this review;

Theo, a wealthy farmer residing in Missouri; William, also a farmer in Missouri; and Clara, the widow of Louis Flucht, who died in Missouri, September 30, 1920.  Born February 21, 1861, at Rhineland, Mo., when but a youth Andrew learned the blacksmith’s trade in his father’s shop. In 1883 he started a blacksmith shop in Luter Island. Mo., where he continued for a period of five years when he sold out and purchased a blacksmith business in his old home town, continuing in business there until 1900, when he came to California. Arriving here, he followed blacksmithing for a number of years at Fullerton, where he built up a profitable business. In the meantime he purchased seventeen acres west of Yorba on Yorba Boulevard. He sold some and retained eleven acres, and here he makes his home. The grove is planted to walnuts and oranges and is now in full bearing. He has brought it up to the highest state of cultivation and it is now one of the most profitable ranches in the vicinity, bringing in a handsome income. Mr. Koch has installed a complete system of cement irrigation pipes and has erected an attractive modern residence costing $4,000, besides up-to-date outbuildings. The prosperous, well-kept appearance of the place betokens the industry and thrift of the owner. In October, 1919, Mr. Koch leased his ranch for oil„ being included in a blanket lease. Two wells are now down and have struck oil so he is already receiving an income from his lease.

At McKittrick, Mo., February 11, 1884, Mr. Koch was married to Miss Minnie K. Lindhurst, a native of St. Louis, Mo., and a daughter of Adolph and Louisa (Kallmeyer) Lindhurst, early settlers of Missouri where her father died while the mother came to California and passed away here in 1920. Mrs. Koch was the oldest of their four children. Mr. and Mrs. Koch are the parents of three children: Adolph H. is a rancher at Yorba and is the owner of an eight-acre citrus ranch; his wife, before her marriage, was Miss Myrtle Bubach; Albert W. married Miss Lula McClelland and is with the Standard Oil Company at Fullerton; George A., who married Miss Hattie McCoy is with the Union Oil Company at Anaheim. The family are all members of the Anaheim Evangelical Church and Mrs. Koch is prominent in the work of the Women’s Circle’ of that church. Mr. Koch was made a Mason in Yorba Linda Lodge, No. 469, F. & A. M., is a member of Fullerton Chapter, R. A. M., and also a member of Fullerton Lodge, No. 103, I. O. O. F., in which he is past grand and has served as representative to the Grand Lodge, and he is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. In politics Mr. Koch is an adherent of the Republican party, although not blindly partisan in his views. Unselfish, liberal-minded and a conscientious Christian worker, he well deserves the comfortable fortune that he has accumulated entirely through his own industry and perseverance. Since leaving his home state twenty years ago he had made two trips back and so appreciative and enthusiastic is he over California, and particularly Orange County, that each time he was delighted to be back in the land of sunshine and flowers.

ROBERT R. SMITH.—A merchant whose happy combination of conservatism and aggression in enterprise has brought him substantial success in commercial returns, is Robert R. Smith, the well-known dealer in feed, fuel and ice. He was born and reared on a farm near Rockford, Winnebago County, ILL., on September 25, 1861, and he grew up in Illinois on a farm. His father was Robert C. Smith, and he had married Catherine Stewart. Both parents are now among the silent majority.  The fourth in the order of birth of seven children, Robert attended the rural schools of Illinois, and then helped on a farm until he was twenty-six years of age, when he engaged in the grain and stock business in Orchard, Mitchell County, Iowa.  Later he removed to Traer, Tama County, Iowa, where he continued the same line of business for seven years, coming to Santa Ana. Cal.. in 1905. His first trip to California was as early as 1887, then another trip in 1892, when he was married in Santa Ana to Grace Smiley, a sister of his late partner, by whom he has had three children:

Stewart is the athletic coach at Fullerton high school, having served in the U. S. Marines during the World War; Carson, who was a chemist in the U. S. service at Washington, is now with the Goodyear Rubber Company at Akron, Ohio; Harold is attending the Santa Ana high school. After locating in Santa Ana in 1905, Mr. Smith established himself in the grain business as Smiley and Smith, at 401-403 West Fourth Street, which continued until 1915, when he purchased Mr. Smiley’s interest and continued the business of retailing feed, fuel and ice until December, 1919, when he sold out to give all of his time to real estate. The family attend the United Presbyterian Church. In national politics Mr. Smith is a Democrat, and both he and his family are distinguished for their public-spiritedness.

Few men in Santa Ana are better or more favorably known than Robert Smith.  He was elected to the school board in 1915, for a four-year term; and during that period was president of the board of trustees for three years. He installed the Junior College and advocated such radical changes in the direction of the best business methods in the management of the schools that debts were cleaned up, and when he left that high office he turned over to his successor everything in apple-pie order.  It may be added that Stewart Smith has enjoyed the honor of coach at both the Santa Ana and the Fullerton high schools, where he has made a record for handling boys; while Carson Smith, the Washington chemist, who directed the services of twenty subordinates, has made a record for handling men.

JOB DENNI.—A native of Canton Unterwalden, Switzerland, Job Denni was born on September 30, 1878, at Geswil. He was educated in the public schools of his native country and is the only one now living of a family of four children born to his parents. Job Denni lived in Switzerland until 1902, then decided to seek his fortune in the United States, and having an uncle, Louis Denni, who had been a resident of Southern California since 1881, living in Los Alamitos, Orange County, he came here and his first employment was with the Los Alamitos Sugar Company. So faithful was he in the discharge of his various duties that he soon won the good will of his employers, and also mastered the English language by persistency of purpose so that he is proficient in his knowledge of that tongue and feels that it has had no small assistance in his success.

Mr. Denni’s uncle was engaged in the dairy business at Los Alamitos, leasing land from ‘the Bixby Land Company. After working for his uncle by the day, mastering the details of the business, he took over his uncle’s interests in 1912 and has since been the successful proprietor of what is known as Dairy No. 2. Mr. Denni owns 150 head of fine Holsteins, besides which he has an interest in other herds. His stock is kept largely on sugar beet pulp, the home dairy ranch being contiguous to the sugar company’s plant. This is one of the oldest dairy ranches in Orange County and under the management of its owner produces on an average of 90,000 pounds of milk per month, which he finds market for in Los Angeles and Long Beach. The ranch covers 500 acres of ground and he grows large quantities of alfalfa and grain. Previous to buying out his uncle he operated Dairy No. 1, in Los Angeles County, near Signal Hill.  On April 18, 1910, at Long Beach, Job Denni was united in marriage with Miss Juanita Enfield, a native daughter, born in San Francisco. Her parents were of French and German extraction and her mother is still living at Long Beach, but had been a resident of San Francisco for forty-five years. Four daughters have been born to Mr.  and Mrs. Denni—Juanita, Mary, Marguerite and Josephine. Mr. Denni is a member of the Knights of Columbus of Anaheim.

In 1905 Mr. Denni began buying land in the Cypress district, making his first purchase of ten acres, and to this he has added from time to time until he now owns 120 acres, twenty acres of which he has set out to Valencia oranges and the balance is used for alfalfa and barley. He put down a fine well, 618 feet deep, installed a pumping plant and put in a cement pipe line for irrigating his acreage, even supplying his neighbors with water, such an abundant supply did he get. He was the very first man to install a pipe line and many of his neighbors have profited by his example and have connected up with his line. By his progressive methods he has demonstrated that his section is a coming Valencia district and thereby enhanced the value of the properties thereabouts. It had been said that citrus fruit could not be grown successfully west of Magnolia Avenue and when Mr. Denni bought his land, which was composed of what is known as dead sand upon which grain would “not grow six inches high, people said it was useless, but his experimental work has won commendation and others are following in his footsteps and many acres have been set to oranges. Mr. Denni is a self-made man and by his industry and close application to business has won for himself a decided success and stands high in the esteem of all who know him for his square dealings.

RUPERT BEST.—A pioneer of the early eighties, who is hale and hearty in his discharge of home duties at the age of seventy-two, and is still highly esteemed as a most useful citizen, is Rupert Best, for many years an active member of the Maccabees and long their valued organist. Now he lives retired at 1150 Hickey Street, visited regularly by devoted friends who find pleasure in talking with him about old times. He was born in Cornwallis, Kings County, Nova Scotia, on October 29, 1848, the son of Elisha and Mercy Ann (Bishop) Best. His father was a farmer in the fertile valley of Cornwallis, who raised potatoes, apples and various kinds of fruit: and while Rupert was attending the district school, he lived at home and helped his father to run the farm, thus gaining a valuable experience.

At the time of attaining his majority, Mr. Best left home and went to Halifax where for five years he clerked in a shoe store. Then, having learned the ins and outs of that business, he himself embarked in the same line, and continued to sell shoes until he came to California in the fall of 1882. On October IS of that year he arrived at Santa Ana, and having purchased forty acres six miles to the southwest of the town, he lived there eleven years, enjoying the companionship of and assisted by his family.  He devoted his ranch to general farming, and for the most part raised potatoes, barley and alfalfa.

The twenty-fifth of November, 1878, witnessed the marriage at Halifax, Nova Scotia, of Mr. Best and Miss Alice Maude West, the daughter of James T. and Sophia West, who were early settlers of Nova Scotia. Mr. West owned two ships and engaged in trade between the West Indies and Nova Scotia, sending from Halifax cargoes of dried, salted and pickled fish and bringing back West Indian products, including sugar.  Mrs. Best had been educated at the district school in Halifax, and proved an excellent helpmate to her devoted husband. In 1893 he traded his ranch for his present place at 1150 Hickey Street, Santa Ana, which he improved with a modern residence and here he has since resided. On February 8, 1918, Mrs. Best passed away, mourned by her family and friends.

Six children blessed this fortunate union: Ida B. is the wife of Charles F. Conlthard, the alfalfa rancher of Chino; Charles Newton, the second-born, affords his father a comfortable home; Lilly is Mrs. Deardorf of Lents, Ore.; Percy L. is a driller at Oil Fields; Louis K., of Sixth Street, is employed by the Edison Company; and Eddie Grant is also with that firm. In national politics a Democrat, Mr. Best always works and votes for the best men and the best measures in local affairs, irrespective of party.  Mr. Best has always been devoted to the study of music, and for twenty-five years, or from 1892 until 1917, he served as the organist to the Knights of Maccabees.  ‘This extended period speaks much for the vitality of this rugged gentleman who has passed his three score years and ten. Mr. Best’s mother was also of an exceptionally hardy constitution. She joined him in California at the age of seventy-four, and it is said that the balmy climate of the Golden State, and particularly Orange County so benefitted her that she was able to add nearly a quarter of a century to her life, attaining the fine old age of nearly ninety-six.

JAMES CLOW METZGAR.—How much of the success of the Chamber of Commerce as the livest kind of an agency in promoting permanently the best interests of Santa Ana is due to the labors, well directed and untiring, of its secretary, James Clow Metzgar, those who are familiar with his exceptional gifts and fortunate training, as well as his unselfish devotion to the day’s work on hand, know. He was born at Monongahela City, Washington County, Pa., on July 19, 1876, the son of Daniel H.  Metzgar, a dentist of Pittsburgh and a war veteran. He married Mary Virginia Clow, the daughter of Dr. James L. Clow, whose father was a pioneer of Pittsburgh and once owned land from the center of the present Pittsburgh business district five miles up the Alleghany River .to Sharpsburg. James Beach Clow, father of Dr. Clow, was the first town clerk of Pittsburgh and the first elder in the first Presbyterian Church established there. He was a son of Captain Clow of the Revolution, and both families are on record in the first United States census, published in 1790, in the Pittsburgh district.

James C. Metzgar attended the common and the high schools of Pittsburgh, and later entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in its telegraph department. In 1902 he came West to California, and took up real estate and bond brokerage. At present he is the secretary of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce, and also of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Orange County and the Santa Ana Merchants and Manufacturers Association.

At Uniontown, Pa., on March 14, 1899, Mr. Metzgar was married to Miss Belle Hustead, daughter of William Hustead. a prominent coal operator of that city, who had married Mary Brown. Both the Husteads and the Browns were pioneer families of Fayette County, Pa. Three children were born of this union: Miss Mary Virginia

Metzgar is now at the Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles; James Hustead Metzgar has been attending the Santa Ana high school; and Edgar Clow Metzgar is deceased. The family attend the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Metzgar belongs to the Orange County Country Club, the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Elks. In national politics a Republican, he is at all times nonpartisan in his “’boosting” for Santa Ana and Orange County.

A thorough American, Mr. Metzgar naturally takes pride in his ancestry. His father’s family came from Holland, and descended from the French Huguenot, Thebald Metzgar, who established the North German Lloyd Steamship Company, and died in 1642, leaving a large estate, later taken over by the Holland Government. His mother’s family, on the other hand, came from pure Scotch blood, descending from Captain Clow of the Dragoons in the American Revolution. He was the youngest son in a family of twelve, and the only one who came to America.

FELIX YRIARTE.—A public-spirited, highly-esteemed citizen of Brea, who warmly advocates popular education and furnishes the best of examples of industrious citizenship in working eight hours a day in the shops and then eight hours on his ranch, is Felix Yriarte, who was born in Basses-Pyrenees in Spain, November 20, 1884, and came to America in 1889, when he was five years of age. His father was Patricio Yriarte, a sheep and cattle owner and herder, and his mother, Pascuala (Arrese) Yriarte, was also a native of Navarra, in the Basque country. When eleven years of age, Felix tended the flocks of sheep at Olinda, and there was then a number of oil wells there. His father controlled, under lease, 4,000 acres, and had 6,000 head of sheep in an open, wild country. Felix went to school in Orange County, Cal, and here learned his English.

These good parents lived at the old ranch home in Brea until the death of both in March and April of 1915, and our subject worked on the farm for his father until he was twenty-five years old. He had full charge of the machinery and the farm work, and when the time for a larger development came, he was instrumental in erecting the very first oil well derrick of the Brea Canyon, in the hills south of Brea, where the field has proven the largest in the county.

Now Mr. Yriarte understands oil production as well as anyone, and he has also become an expert acetylene welder and does the most difficult lathe work in the shops of the Union Oil Company at Brea. This is interesting in contrast to Mr. Yriarte’s experience in San Diego some years ago, when he was swindled out of $4,000 through an unwise land investment. He had an estate of thirty-three acres left him by his father, which he improved to lemons and sunk his own well and sold in November, 1920.  On Orange Street, at Brea, he erected the first residence, in 1909.  At Los Angeles, on December 2, 1909, Mr. Yriarte was married to Miss Celestine Lorea, a native of the Spanish Basque country, who came to the United States in 1906.  Four children have blessed this union, and they are Mary, Joseph. Paulina and Marguerita.  Mr. Yriarte is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and also of the order of D. O. K. K. of Los Angeles.

WILLIAM J. FITSCHEN.—A young and promising rancher whose career is all the more interesting because he is a native son, and one alert to every opportunity presented by the great commonwealth of California, is W. J. Fitschen. resident on La Veta Avenue, Orange, where his beautiful fourteen-acre ranch is exclusively devoted to citrus fruits. This property, formerly part of the estate of his father, Henry Fitschen, who bought it in 1906, he has owned for several years.

Mr. Fitschen was born in Orange County, in April, 1890, and is the son of Henry and Anna Fitschen, natives of Germany, from which country they emigrated to the United States in 1878. The next year they moved west to California and Orange County, and ever since Henry Fitschen has been one of the producers of Orange County. There were nine children in the family, all Americans by birth, and they bear the names of William J., .Anna, Henry, Emma, Frederick, Louisa, George, Mary and Louis.

Brought up and educated in Orange County, where he enjoyed the advantages of both the common and the high schools. Mr. Fitschen early engaged in agricultural pursuits, and so has traveled further in that scientific and industrial field than most men of his age. On June 2, 1915, he was happily united in marriage to Miss Wanda O. Schoeneberg, daughter of Mrs. Marie Schoeneberg. by whom he has had two children. Marie and William. She is a native of Wisconsin, and is a fine type of the Western woman of that part of the country. The family are worthy members of the Lutheran Church, and are among those most enthusiastic for all that spells the permanent development of Orange County on the broadest and best lines . 

HUBERT H. DALE.—A Minnesotan so keenly alive to the trend of modern trade that, foreseeing the development of the automobile industry, he was able to take the tide at the flood, as Shakespeare says, and attain to fortune, is Hubert H. Dale, of the well-known firm of Dale & Company, proprietors of the auto body, top and sheet-metal works at 418-428 West Fifth Street, Santa Ana. He was born at Fairmont, in the North Star State, on December 14, 1879, the son of D. A. Dale, who became a hardware merchant of Santa Ana and has had a pleasing part in the fitting out of many settlers in this favored region. He married Miss Amy J. Allen, who became the mother of five children, among whom Hubert H. was the oldest. All the family are now living.

The lad grew up in Minnesota and attended the excellent grammar and high schools in the vicinity of his home. Then he took a course in a business college, and thereafter engaged in the livestock business in Chicago. He next went to Wisconsin and entered the trade in building materials; in each of these undertakings acquiring more and more experience of value later when he joined the busy, competitive workers on the Coast.

In 1912, Mr. Dale came to California and Fullerton, and for five years he was engaged in making well casings—a line of activity he abandoned only to take up another, his present occupation, still more attractive. Now he has a large, modern shop, equipped with every kind of machinery needed; and with a trained staff of twenty-five men, he handles the bulk of the business in his field for Orange County.  The reputation of the establishment, not only for fair dealing but also for experience and facilities enabling it to meet almost any emergency, has very naturally brought it steady patronage, with very little solicitation.

At Oshkosh, Wis., on November 11. 1910, Mr. Dale was married to Miss Ivy Guenther, a daughter of August Guenther and a native of Wisconsin; and two children, Hubert H.. Jr.. and Loraine M., have blessed their union. The family attend the Episcopal Church. Mr. Dale is an Elk and a Republican.

Though unable to give much time to public affairs without the neglect of his business, Mr. Dale accepted election as city trustee in April, 1919, and notwithstanding his brief residence here, he has made his presence and influence felt in the unfailing support of every movement likely to advance Santa Ana and Orange County within and beyond California.

JOSEPH HOLTZ.—A self-made rancher who has become prosperous and also expert as a beekeeper, is Joseph Holtz, who was born at Herringen, Kreis Saarburg.  Lorraine, on May 12. 1870, the son of Louis and Margareta Holtz, with whom he lived in that district on a farm until he was twenty, meanwhile enjoying the usual common school education and learning the ins and outs of scientific agriculture. In the fall of 1890, he came to the United States quite alone, traveling almost direct to Los Angeles, and from Los .Angeles to Orange. Here he worked on farms when vegetables were the main crops, and raised potatoes and cabbage. After a while, grapes were planted and raisins became the crop. However, as the growers were not organized there was no profit from the enterprise and labor.

In 1894, he came to Silverado Canyon and became interested in the raising of bees.  He spent the summers in bee culture, and during the winters worked out as a ranch hand. In 1901 he purchased a half-section of land, and this is now the site of his ranch in Silverado Canyon.

Only an adobe house was standing on the property, and he set out to improve the land in many ways. In 1905. he built a ranch house, and the same year he married, in Santa Ana, on January 24, Miss Mary A. Veith, born at Humphrey, Nebr., the daughter of Ignatz and Julia Veith. They came from Columbus, Nebr., in 1903, and having enjoyed community advantages had been able to give their daughter a good common school education. Immediately after the marriage, the husband and wife moved onto the ranch, so that the improvements now there are their handiwork.  They have ten acres in barley, three acres in wheat, three acres in corn, ten acres in alfalfa, and this alone yields from four to seven cuttings a season. Water is obtained from Silverado Creek by private right of irrigation; the acreage was originally railroad land. There is an acre of all kinds of fruit trees for domestic use; and there are also horses, cattle and chickens, and some 160 colonies of bees, and the season of 1920 yielded him thirteen tons, being the best season he ever had; he is a member of California Beekeepers Association.

Six children have come to bless the domestic life of Mr. and Mrs. Holtz. Joseph L., Alban P., Margaret M., Henry A., Agnes A., and Marie A. The four eldest attend the Silverado School, of which Mrs. Holtz is one of the trustees. The family attend the Catholic Church of Santa Ana, and Mr. Holtz is a member of the Knights of Columbus. In national politics, they are Republicans.

ALBERT WILLIAM WOOD.—Not every popular official so well deserves the honors accorded him as does Albert William Wood, the constable of Anaheim Township, the late marshal of the city of Anaheim and license tax collector, nor does every favored office holder succeed so well in carrying his honors with modesty and dignity.  A native of Quebec, Canada, where he was born on June 27, 1875, Mr. Wood was the son of a farmer, John Wood, now deceased, whose wife was Miss Grace Wilson before her marriage. They were the parents of nine children and Albert William was the seventh child.

From twelve years of age he was reared at Vankleek Hill, Ontario, and there received his education in the grammar and high schools, helping on the home farm and teaching for two years after his own schooling was finished. Next he matriculated at McGill University at Montreal, expecting to study medicine, but he found at this time that his health would not permit him to continue the confinement necessary to complete the course, so decided on a business career. Entering a provision house, he clerked there for a couple of years, and in 1899 came west to Bisbee, Ariz., where he engaged in the livery and undertaking business, and under the firm name of Fletcher and Wood, came to have the leading business in this line in that frontier mining town. Wishing to locate in California, he disposed of his interest in the business in 1911 and came to Anaheim. For two years he ran a livery stable, then sold out and went into general contracting and ranching, continuing in this for some time.  On May 1, 1918, Mr. Wood was appointed city marshal of Anaheim and the same year was elected constable of Anaheim Township, and he is now filling the duties of that office as well as that of deputy sheriff. In May, 1920, he resigned his office as city marshal and license tax collector in order to engage in business, and he was the proprietor of the People’s Service Station at 130 South Lemon Street, and also agent for the Motor Transit Company at Anaheim, said to be the largest stage company in the world. In November, 1920, an opportunity presented itself for him to engage in the real estate business with J. S. Howard and disposing of his business to advantage he is now devoting his time to his official duties and the Howard Realty Company, their offices being located on South Los Angeles Street.

At Bisbee, Ariz., February IS, 1904, Mr. Wood was married to Miss Veronica Jane White, a daughter of Patrick and Jane White, and a native of Tempe, Ariz. Mr.  and Mrs. Wood are the parents of four children: John Albert, Mary Patricia, Allan William and Wilson Bowling. The family home is at 422 West Broadway, Anaheim.  While Mr. Wood is a Republican in politics, he is broad-gauged when it comes to issues affecting only the community in which he lives. In fraternal circles, he is affiliated with the Odd Fellows, being a member of Lodge No. 19, at Bisbee, Ariz.  He was made a member of Elks Lodge No. 671, at Bisbee, but is now a charter member of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, of the Elks.

ULYSSES S. AMACK.—The distinction of being the leading contractor and builder of fine homes in Orange County belongs to Ulysses S. Amack. He is a native of Missouri, born March 9, 1869, in Putnam County, and when two years of age the family moved to Iowa. He was the second child of three children born to Bartholomew and Julia Wilson Amack, born in Indiana, who lived in Missouri, and later Iowa. The father served in Company I, Twenty-third Missouri Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War for eighteen months, when he was honorably discharged by reason of physical disability, with the rank of corporal. He had studied medicine under Dr. Carlisle of Putnam County, Mo., and had also taken a course at the Keokuk Medical College and received his degree of M. D. and was just going to start practicing medicine in Summerset, Iowa, when he died from heart failure, January)’ 14, 1872. Ulysses was reared on a farm and received his early education in the country schools. When he was three years old his father died. His stepfather, H. D. Ockerman, was a carpenter, and he taught Ulysses the trade, which he naturally had inherited a taste for, as both his paternal and maternal relatives were mechanics. He was quite young when he began his apprenticeship and after becoming a proficient carpenter he followed his trade successfully in Norton County, Kans., from 1884 till 1890. when he removed to Denver, Colo., where he followed the trade until he returned to Iowa.

In 1902 Mr. Amack came to Long Beach, Cal., where he engaged in carpenter work for four years, then locating at Anaheim. At first he was employed by others, but for the past ten years he has conducted a contracting and building business for himself. At one time he was a member of the contracting firm of Amack. Bever & Wilson of Anaheim, who constructed a number of the leading business blocks there, among which, worthy of note, mention is made of the Yungbluth Block and Carroll Block. Mr. Amack has made a specialty of fine homes, and from February, 1919, to October, 1920, he has besides others to his credit the construction of homes for the following residents of Anaheim: j\I. E. Beebc, Andy Koch, Oscar Dykeman, George Barry, Fred Wisel, Harry Spielnian, Franz Jauernik, J. W. Sebastian, J. W. Duckworth, and many others; also seven bungalows for the Anaheim Improvement Company and three for the Anaheim Union Water Company. Besides these homes at Anaheim he has also constructed residences for James A. Jensen and Oscar Dykeman at Fullerton; the Golden State school building, east of Anaheim, and the club house for the Anaheim high school.

In recognition of his splendid ability as a dependable, high-class builder, the high school board of education for many years secured Mr. Amack to make the repairs and improvements of buildings until now he has too much work on hand. He is a member of the First Methodist Church and served as a member of the building committee during the erection of their beautiful house of worship, and is a member of the board of trustees.

In Wayne County, Iowa, on March 17, 1895, Mr, Amack was united in marriage with Miss Sadie E. Wolf, a native of Ottumwa, Iowa. She was the daughter of Josiah and Minerva (Travis) Wolf, born in Ohio and Indiana, respectively, who were farmers in Wayne County, Iowa. Her father died in Iowa, and her mother spent her last days in Long Beach. Mrs. Amack was educated in the schools of Albia, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Amack had three children, and two are living: Wayne W., a graduate of the Anaheim high school, who is a natural mechanic, is foreman of his father’s building business and also fills the position of draftsman; and Coy, attending the high school.  In fraternal circles Mr. Amack is a member of the Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World, and with his wife is a member of the local Rebekah lodge, and in national politics are Republicans.

DR. HESTER TRIPP OLEWILER.—Although but a recent addition to the professional circles of Santa Ana, Dr. Hester T. Olewiler, the able and efficient osteopathic physician and surgeon, with offices at 114 East Fourth Street, has established a large and growing practice.

Dr. Olewiler is the wife of Claude E. Olewiler and is a native daughter and a descendant of an honored pioneer family. She was born in Riverside County, her parents being William B. and Alice (Hopkins) Tripp, the former a native of California, while her mother was born in New Mexico while crossing the plains to California.  Grandfather Tripp laid the first brick in San Bernardino. Dr. Tripp was reared in Hemet, Riverside County, where she attended the public school and graduated from the Hemet high school. She served two years as an apprentice in the Hemet Public Library and as assistant librarian.

After severing her connection with the library she attended the Los Angeles College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, where after taking a full course of four years she was graduated in 1918 with the degree of D. O. For a while she practiced her profession in Los Angeles and on July 10, 1919, opened her office in Santa Ana. Dr. Olewiler stands high in her profession and is a member of both the state and county associations of osteopathic physicians, being chairman of the public educational committee of Orange County; she is also a member of the Los Angeles Women’s Osteopathic .Association. She is fast winning a reputation as a skillful and conscientious practitioner and can look forward to a long and useful career.

WALDO R. McWILLIAMS.—.An experienced lumber dealer who has naturally had much to do with building interests in Orange County, thereby laying the foundations in one generation for the welfare of another, is Waldo McWilliams, the genial and accommodating manager of the Gibbs Lumber Company of Fullerton. A native of the Hawkeye State, he was born at Hedrick, Iowa, on March 1, 1890, the son of Samuel McWilliams, a lumber dealer, who married Miss Berthenia Smith, a native of Iowa. The family came to Los .Angeles in 1902, and both parents are still living and are residents of Pasadena.

Educated in the public schools of Los Angeles, Mr. McWilliams attended the Los Angeles high school for two years, and then engaged in the lumber trade in that city. After that, he worked at various places, for a while at the Anaheim yard, then coming to Placentia as manager, and finally settling as manager at Fullerton. His father had formerly been manager of the Fullerton yard, and after Waldo McWilliams was married he came to Fullerton to remain. It was not long before he had become a live member of the Board of Trade and the Fullerton Club.

On June 9, 1915, Mr. McWilliams was married to Miss Clara Linebarger, the ceremony taking place at San Diego. The bride was a daughter of Dallison S. and Ellen Linebarger, and a native of California. Husband and wife attend the Christian Church, and Mr. McWilliams votes the Democratic ticket. He is fond of out-of-door sports, and especially interested in baseball.

RAYMOND F. FRANTZ.—A highly respected citizen who has risen from routine newspaper work, both in the circulation and mailing departments in Santa Ana and in Los Angeles, to become a very successful horticulturist making a specialty of citrus fruit, is R. F. Frantz, familiarly known as “Ray” of Palm Drive, La Habra district, one of the most outspoken enthusiasts for Orange County, despite that his ranch property is almost over the county line. He was born in Argonia, Sumner County, Kans., on October 29, 1886, the eldest son in a family of three boys and three girls, the son of F. E. Frantz now of the escrow department of the Whittier National Bank, and formerly the banker at Argonia. F. E. Frantz is a native of Virginia, came to Illinois and Kansas as a pioneer, and now at sixty-eight years of age, enjoys the best of health.  He had married Miss Mary Waugh, of Alsace-Lorraine, whose bi-lingual training made her familiar from childhood with both French and German.

The subject of our review, who was brought to California a babe of three months, and to Orange County when ten years old, attended the grammar schools of Santa Ana and Los Angeles, and then for a term went to the commercial department of the high school in the larger city. After that, he entered the employ of the California Wholesale Hardware Company in Los Angeles, and still later, he and his father opened and managed a hardware and implement store at Whittier.

In 1910 he purchased a citrus grove of two acres in East Whittier, and later he purchased a fourth interest in forty-one acres, and assumed the management of the property. This gave him valuable ranching experience, and for years he has been in close touch with the growing of citrus fruits. More recently he has bought thirty-one acres, and Mr. Espolt sixteen acres of a trim ranch of forty-seven acres, set out -to Valencia oranges and Eureka lemons, and he has joined the La Habra Citrus Association, and has undertaken to farm sixty acres of rented land as a dry-farming enterprise.  He uses a tractor and all the other up-to-date machinery desirable. He is a member and president—1920-1921—of the La Habra Chamber of Commerce, is also identified with the Farm Center, and served as vice-president of that useful organization.  On September 7, 1910, Mr. Frantz was married to Miss Alma W. Espolt, daughter of William Espolt, the pioneer citrus rancher, of Whittier. She was born in Iowa, and has one child, Maribel Louise. Mrs. Frantz is a high school graduate, and is active in the Woman’s Club of La Habra, and in Red Cross work. Mr. Frantz was a committeeman for “drive” work during the late war, and he belongs to the Blue Lodge and the Royal Arch Masons.

LEASON F. POMEROY.—Orange County has been fortunate indeed in the caliber of the men who have elected to make their homes and carry on their business interests within the confines of this fertile spot. Men of affairs, alive to the opportunities to be found here, they have each one aided in bringing about the present prosperity of the county, and in so doing have advanced their own interests as well.  Among these, Leason F. Pomeroy. dealer in automobiles, stands out from the ranks as an enthusiastic “booster” for his home community and keenly alive to the advantages to be found here. He was born in Adams County, Nebr., on a farm, February 23, 1877. When he had reached five years of age the family moved to New York state and he was educated in the schools of East Aurora, that state, and later engaged in the mercantile business with his father, and for twenty-two years he lived in New York state.

Seeking newer fields, Mr. Pomeroy returned to his old home in Nebraska and for seven years farmed 320 acres, meeting with success. In 1910 he came to Anaheim and bought twenty acres of land one and one-half miles east of town. One-half of. this was in bearing Valencia oranges and he planted the remainder to the same variety, developing a finely producing grove, which he sold in 1919.

In March, 1919, Mr. Pomeroy entered the automobile business, at 134 South Los Angeles Street, and he is agent for the Chalmers and Hupmobile cars, both high class in every respect, the Hup car notable especially for the fact that its engineers have built a chassis so free of complications that it is easily understood by the mechanically inclined owner and quick aid given. Mr. Pomeroy is also agent for the Swinhart tire.  The marriage of Mr. Pomeroy united him with Velma M. Eckersley, a native of Illinois, and two sons have been born to them: Wray S., and Leason F., Jr. Fraternally, Mr. Pomeroy is a member of Anaheim Lodge, No. 1345, B. P. O. E.; he is a member and was one of the governors of the Mother Colony Club, and in March, 1918, he was elected a member of the Anaheim Board of Education and was clerk of that body. He has also served as a director in the Anaheim Mutual Orange Growers’ Association, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants’ Association.  It would be hard to find a man more fully in accord with the western spirit of progress than is Mr. Pomeroy, or one more willing to work for the advancement of his district.

WILLIAM J. FISCHER.—One of Anaheim’s earlier settlers, a man highly esteemed among his associates, was William J. Fischer, who contributed generously to the upbuilding of both the business and the agricultural development of this locality.  Born in Saxony, Germany, July 26, 1856, Mr. Fischer came to the United States in 1872 at the age of sixteen years. He had learned the trade of cooper in New York and engaged in this line of work in that city. In 1879 he came to California, locating at San Francisco and here he entered the employ of the Dreyfus Cooperage Company, coming to Anaheim in 1881 in the interests of this company. He later bought twenty acres of land in North Anaheim, planted a vineyard and later sold it to Peter Schumacher of Fullerton. Mr. Fischer also erected a cooper shop on North Lemon Street, near Chartres Street, and here he carried on a large business, making barrels and casks for the wine makers, at one time having six men in his employ. He also planted ninety acres in walnuts near .\naheim for the Dreyfus Company and for a time he also engaged in wine-making.

Mr. Fischer was united in marriage in 1882 with Miss Clara Hattemer, who was born in the Rhine country, Germany. She came to New York in 1872 and ten years later to Anaheim, when she and Mr. Fischer were married. Of the five children born to them, three are living: Birda is the wife of William Zimmerman, an orange grower of West Anaheim; William J., deceased; Clara Maude is the wife of Victor W. La Mont, and the mother of two children—Victor and Allen; Charles H., a rancher in Pomona, married Miss Hazel Cook and they have one daughter, Lela; and Robert, deceased. The children were born, educated and reared in Orange County.  Mr. Fischer died on October 26, 1906, and his passing made a void in a large circle of friends and in the community, for his sterling qualities and devotion to the best interests of Anaheim had given him an honored and esteemed place. He was a member of the Fraternal Aid and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and was very popular in membership of these organizations. Mrs. Fischer has been an upbuilder of Anaheim and has erected two houses on property they owned. She has witnessed the wonderful development of Orange County and is classed as one of the stanch pioneers. 

EBON R. RYAN.—An experienced and successful rancher, who has followed general farming and had just set five of his fourteen acres to oranges when he sold out to buy five acres near Garden Grove, which is set to walnuts, is Ebon R. Ryan, who enjoys the esteem of all who know him. At various times he has owned other parcels of land in Orange County, and as a result of which he is able today to form a judgment of his own as to what are the best producers.

A native of Kentucky, he was born on July 20, 1877. the son of Joseph and .\nn Elizabeth Ryan, both of whom were natives of the Blue Grass State and farmed extensively and successfully. They had fourteen children, and of these Ebon was the twelfth in the order of birth. When eight years old, his parents migrated to Indiana, and there he was reared and educated.

In 1914 Ebon R. Ryan left Indiana for the Pacific Coast; and not long after arriving in Orange County he was appointed foreman for the Water Company at Yorba Linda, in which position he rendered satisfactory service. He saw little prospects for advancement and financial betterment, however, and therefore took up farming, and few ranchers, therefore, throughout the Southland would appear to have better prospects for the future.

In 1900 at Butlerville, Ind., Mr. Ryan married Miss Myrtle Stewart, a native of Kentucky and daughter of James N. and Mary Stewart, and six children have been born of this union; they are Gladys, George, Paul. Mary, Kenneth and Robert. Mrs.  Ryan has two sisters and a brother in Los Angeles County.

OSCAR A. SCHILDMEYER.—A successful horticulturist who owes much of his progress to clear thinking and rational industry is Oscar A. Schildmeyer, who manages a fine ranch of fifty-five acres, thirty-five acres owned by his mother, one and a quarter miles north of Orange, and an additional eighteen acres above the average across the road. Forty-eight acres of the first-mentioned tract are given to Valencias; seven acres to lemons, and eighteen acres to Navel oranges. He was born on February 2, 1894, and grew up in Orange, where he worked for his father. On June 30, 1917, he was married in Los Angeles to Miss Mirl Brown, a Santa Ana girl, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Brown, reside at Santa Ana. Mrs. Brown was born in Missouri and reared in Kirksville. and was seventeen years old when she came to California with her parents and three brothers and two sisters. One child has blessed this union of Mr. and Mrs. Schildmeyer—a son, Robert Oscar.

In 1919, Mr. Schildmeyer bought ten acres of oranges in the Olive precinct, a part of the original fifty-five; in the operation of his farm properties he uses only the most up-to-date methods and machinery, and these include a draw-bar tractor of twenty horsepower.’

Mr. Schildmeyer entered the U. S. service in the World War on August 6, 1918, but was honorably discharged at Camp Lee, Va., on December 16 of the same year.  He is a member of the American Legion at Santa Ana. Before the war he served in the United States Marine Corps for two years, and went all over the Asiatic stations on the SS. “Brooklyn.” He was stationed at Cavite, in the Philippine Islands, for three months before being sent out on the “Brooklyn,” and had an excellent opportunity of seeing something of Philippine life. He served in the military police of the Eighth Division, and was honorably discharged from the Marine service on November 5, 1916. All in all, Mr. Schildmeyer is a very interesting personality, as he is also an Al ranch manager. An instructive glimpse of the development of the Schildmeyer estate is afiforded in another sketch in this work—that of Mrs. Louisa Schildmeyer, the mother of our subject.

HARRY MAYER.—A modest, industrious rancher, whose live interest in the progress of the community makes him naturally an efficient road foreman of the Silverado precinct, is Harry Mayer, who was born in Kolmar, Upper Alsace, Germany, on February 5, 1875. He learned the baker’s trade in neighboring Muelhausen, and as a baker worked in that city for a year. At the age of sixteen, he came to the United States and traveled widely throughout the central and western country; and by 1893 he reached Colorado. He enlisted in the U. S. Army at Fort Logan, and served both there and at Fort Russell. After a service of three years and three months, he was honorably discharged, and returned to civic life.

On October 18, 1896, Mr. Mayer was married to Miss Sophia Bukoutz, a native of Wamego, Kans. She was reared with a public school education and the work and comforts of a home farm, and in 1893 moved to Colorado with her parents. Mr. Mayer farmed in that state for ten years, ably assisted by his wife. On May 22, 1907, he arrived in California, and at El Modena purchased five acres. Meanwhile he worked for John King, hauling fumigating equipment. In 1912 he sold his ranch, and the next year took a trip back East to see the Colorado folks. He was wise enough, however, not to remain there, but returning to California, gave three years to the raising of grain and hay.

In 1917, Mr. Mayer came to Silverado Canyon and bought his present ranch, where a well was recently sunk, in a search for coal. The finest artesian water was struck, instead, so that he now has a good flowing well. Bringing his ranch up to a high state of cultivation keeps him busy part of the time; and he is also employed as road foreman in charge of the Silverado Canyon Road and the roads of the Silverado precinct.

Six children have become the pride of Mr. and Mrs. Mayer: Mary is the wife of Frank Berry of Black Star Canyon; Margarette is Mrs. Walter Whistler of El Modena;

Irene is at home; Henry is a student at the Silverado school; and there are Anna and Lois. In national politics a Republican, Mr. Mayer is first, last and all the time such a thorough American that he is ready to support any good local movement, regardless of partisanship.

JOSEPH LAUTENBACH.—The quaint old city of Wittenberg, Germany, redolent with memories of Luther’s day and the Reformation, was the scene in which the childhood days of Joseph Lautenbach was set. He was born in that city February 29, 1884, and reared in the vocation of his father, who followed the shoe-making business.  Young Joseph worked at his trade in the old country, and when twenty-four years of age, in 1908, came to Pasadena, Cal. He soon secured employment with The Innes Shoe Company of Los Angeles, but like many another of his nationality, was ambitious to work for himself. After nine months in California, he located at Anaheim, June 14, 1909, and with the undaunted spirit that seems to be the heritage of successful men, opened a small repair shop on Center Street, in a room four by ten feet in dimension, and with a capital of ten dollars, eight of which he expended for leather with which to start his business. The shop was a success from its inception, and in four months’ time he installed modern machinery for shoe repairing, being the first man in Anaheim to install electrically-driven machinery for this work. In November, 1914, when the new modern brick block at the corner of Center and Lemon Streets was completed, he moved his shop to that location, occupying the corner store in the building.  He put in a full line of ladies’ and gentlemen’s shoes and conducts the shoe store in connection with the repairing department. He carries a full line of the famous Crawford shoes for men. His business has made rapid strides, and he is now one of the prosperous merchants of Anaheim.

His marriage in 1914 on Christmas Day united him with Miss Caroline Link, a native of Gridley, 111., daughter of William Link, a retired orange grower of Anaheim, and they are the parents of a four-year-old son. named Wesley. Mr. Lautenbach has recently erected a cozy and comfortable new home at Anaheim. In his fraternal affiliations he is a member of the Sons of Herman, and has passed all the chairs. A worthy citizen and a capable business man, Mr. Lautenbach is self-made in the broadest meaning of the term, and has demonstrated what an ambitious and energetic young man can accomplish in a country where opportunities are ripe for those who have the disposition to take hold of the situation and make the most of it.

HENRY WALTERS.—The junior member of the enterprising and progressive firm of Livenspire & Walters, brick contractors of Santa Ana, Henry Walters was born in Louisville, Ky., July 19, 1877. He was reared and educated in the metropolis of the Blue Grass State, and there he also learned the trade of a brickmason. As a virile and vigorous young man he was intensely interested in the great American game and became a professional ball player, filling the position of an outfielder. He played with the Rock Island, 111., Jacksonville, Fla., Decatur, III., St. Joseph, Mo., and Newark, N. J., teams.

As a brickmason, Mr. Walters became a great factor in the construction of large buildings throughout the country, working on and superintending some of the finest blocks in the country, from among which especial mention is made of the largest church and bank building in Maysville. Ky. ; the J. M. Atherton and the Stark Block, both fifteen-story buildings, in Louisville, Ky. In Cairo, 111., he was foreman of the construction of the passenger depot for the Louisville & Nashville Railway Company; also for the freight depot and sheds 500 feet long, for the same company. In Terre Haute, Ind., Mr. Walters was foreman of construction on the five-story building for the Young Women’s Christian Association.

On April 1, 1911, Henry Walters arrived in California. In time he again took up his trade of a brickmason. and was employed by the well-known contractor. Arthur Sanborn, as foreman in the construction of the Congregational Church in Pomona, also a large schoolhouse at Redondo. In 1913 Mr. Walters formed a partnership with Mr.  Livenspire, and they have erected the following buildings in Santa Ana: the Post Office, Spurgeon Block. West End Theater. Phillips Block and the Santa Ana Warehouse, the John Hetebrink residence at Fullerton, and the residence of John Tuffree at Placentia, Rutherford Building, a big warehouse at the Delhi Sugar Refinery, and all the brick garages in Santa Ana. At the San Bernardino Orange Show Mr. Walters built two displays for the Pacific Sewer Pipe Company, for which he was awarded two prizes. On the pier at Venice he erected a large display for the Los Angeles Brick Company, for which the first prize was awarded. Mr. Walters also erected the display room for the Corona Chamber of Commerce and built a brick block at Newport.  At Louisville. Ky., September 30, 1907, Mr. Walters was united in marriage with Miss Ada C. Carnahan, a native of Hodginsville, Nelson County, Ky., born on a farm adjoining the historic Abraham Lincoln farm. However, her schooling was obtained at Elizabethtown in the same county. Fraternally, Mr. Walters is a member of Pomona Lodge No. 246, I. O. O. F., and with his wife is a member of Torosa Rebekah Lodge at Santa Ana, of which Mrs. Walters is a past noble grand. She is also a member of Hermosa Chapter O. E. S., and the Woman’s Relief Corps, as well as ex-president of the Daughters of Veterans. Mr. Walters is emphatically with the western spirit of progress, and especially enthusiastic over the great opportunities Orange County offers to intelligent and industrious men.

RAYMOND L. GODWIN.—Numbered among the successful and enterprising contractors of Santa Ana is Raymond L. Godwin, the well and favorably known plastering contractor. He is a native of the Hawkeye State, born at Stuart, Guthrie County, Iowa, November 3, 1882. ^^’hen fourteen years of age he moved with his parents to Alamogordo. Otero County, N. M., where for si.x years he rode the range for different cattle men.

In 1901 Mr. Godwin came to California and in 1903 he learned the trade of a plasterer, working for W. O. Rowley of Orange, remaining with him for six years.  While living at Orange, Mr. Godwin helped in the construction of the Union high school, and it was he who struck the first pick in the ground for the excavation. He did the plastering on many buildings at Orange, including the German school and Center Street school buildings; also many fine residences. In 1910 he located at Corona, where he became foreman for Mr. Rowley, who had the contract for the Corona high school. Afterwards Mr. Godwin entered business for himself at Corona, doing cement, brick and plastering contract work, and while there built the Lord Block, also the Glass building and a number of fine residences.

Coming to Santa Aria in 1914, Mr. Godwin entered the employ of George W.  Young, a plastering contractor. His extensive experience in building and ability to manage men soon won for him the position of foreman, and it was under his careful supervision that the plastering contracts on the following buildings in Santa Ana were satisfactorily finished: Meyer Apartment Hotel, W. H. Spurgeon Block, United Presbyterian Church, F. E. Farnsworth residence and the Mills and Winbigler Funeral Home; he also worked on the new buildings of the Orange union high school.  On the most memorable day of modern history. Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, Mr. Godwin decided to enter the contract plastering business again. The wisdom of his decision has been clearly proved by the splendid success he has achieved in his business enterprise. Among the buildings and residences he has plastered mention is made of the following: The Sheriff Office building. Wickersheim Garage, eight residences for Justin Bencher, thirteen residences for R..C. McMillan, and in Orange he has plastered eleven residences for Dale and Riggle.

His splendid workmanship and the high character of his business integrity have won for him a leading place among the contractors of Orange County and to facilitate the completion of his contracts he constantly employs from two to five men. Mr.  Godwin is a “booster” for Orange County and believes in aiding all worthy movements that have as their aim the upbuilding of the county’s best interests.  At Villa Park, October 4, 190S, Mr. Godwin was united in marriage with Margaret Hinton of Villa Park, and they are the parents of a son, William. Fraternally Mr.  Godwin is a member of Orange Lodge. No. 225, I. O. O. F., as well as Santa Ana Lodge, No. 794, B. P. O. Elks.

GEORGE W. WARDWELL.—An efficient, faithful and very popular member of the public service is George W. Wardwell, the superintendent of rodent control and the horticultural inspector of Orange County, who was born at Fond du Lac, Wis., on June 17, 1874. He attended the excellent public schools of that locality, and early took up the study of natural history and taxidermy. He had talent for this line of work, and soon became such an expert taxidermist that he was frequently called upon to mount animals and birds for private collections.

Having come to California in 1896 at the age of twenty-two, Mr. Wardwell became both an interior and exterior decorator, and followed this trade in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other coast cities; and in 1904 he located at Long Beach, and continued his work there. In 1902 he moved his residence to Wintersburg, although he still followed his trade in Long Beach.

In 1904, however, when Huntington Beach was started, he decided to pitch his tent there and grow up with the town. He thus became the first decorator to undertake painting contracts, and for years worked on all the residences and business structures of Huntington Beach. After a while he bought the Huntington Beach Nursery, which he conducted until he sold out to its present owner.  In 1913, Mr. Wardwell was appointed by the board of county supervisors to his present office, in which he is doing a splendid work, clearing the county of ground squirrels and gophers. During the past three years, however, he has rid the county of eighty per cent of the ground squirrels. To accomplish this, poisoned grain was given to the farmer, who scattered it freely on the ground. In the winter and spring of the year carbon-bisulphide is used. This is poured on the waste balls, which are placed in the holes of the rodents, next set fire to, so that a poisonous gas is generated, which spreads throughout the little tunnels and caves and does its deadly work.  Mr. Wardwell married Miss Ada Hoflf, a native of Kansas; and their home life is blessed with five children. They are Hazel, Helen, George W., Jr., Elizabeth and William.

DR. GEORGE MARKHAM TRALLE.—Distinguished among the members of the Orange County Medical Society, of which he had the honor to be president in 1919, and eminent among those who have contributed to make Santa Ana one of the most desirable and safest places for comfortable living in the state, George Markham Tralle enjoys an enviable reputation as a specialist in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He was born in Benton County, Mo., July 18, 1871, the son of Henry Tralle, a contractor and builder, now deceased, who married Miss Elizabeth Cooke, a native of Missouri. The father served in the Civil War as a member of an Illinois regiment, and for years he received the honor due him as one who helped to preserve the country. Mrs. Tralle is still living, residing in Kansas City, Mo., and is the mother of eight children, four sons and four daughters.

The third child in order of birth. George M., was educated at the public schools and at William Jewell College at Liberty,’ Mo., after which he matriculated at the University Medical College at Kansas City, from which he was graduated on March 28, 1899. Going to Purcell. McClain County, Okla., he put in fifteen years in general practice and then took post-graduate work in New York City, and canxe to California and did post-graduate work in San Francisco, after which he came direct to Santa Ana. In January, 1916, he began his practice here, and has limited his work to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and has met with very gratifying success and a constantly increasing practice. Besides the Orange County Medical Society, he belongs to the American Medical Association and the California State Medical Society, also the Southern California Medical Society.

On April 18, 1899, at Kansas City, Mo., Dr. Tralle was married to Miss Florence Hunt, born in Missouri, a daughter of J. M. and Nellie Hunt. She shares with him the esteem of those who know them and his deep interest in Orange County affairs.  The doctor is a member of the Blvie Lodge, Chapter, Commandery and Shrine in Masonry, having passed through the offices of the first three named in Purcell, Okla.  During the World War he was on the examining board for soldiers and a member of the Volunteer Medical Service Corps, and in various ways he and Mrs. Tralle actively participated in war work. In national politics he is a Republican.

CHARLES LEO DAVIS.—One of the pioneers in the garage business in Orange County who has very naturally brought his establishment to the fore so that now it is one of the best equipped for its size and pretensions in the entire state, is Charles Leo Davis, proprietor of the Chandler Garage, representative Republican and popular Elk.  He was born at Arlington, Vt., on August 20, 1882, the son of a farmer, R. V. Davis, who was highly esteemed in his day, but is now deceased. He had married Miss Martha Curry, whose home was at Slingerlands, N. Y., and who was the daughter of John Curry, a florist. Mrs. Davis is now living at Santa Ana, the mother of this only child.

The grammar and high schools of his neighborhood furnished the lad. with his first educational advantages, and later he studied at the Polytechnic school at Worcester, Mass., and there he took a course in machine steam engineering, and was graduated in 1904. For seven years thereafter he was with the Spencer Wire Company, of Worcester, makers of gas engines, and there he had the finest opportunity to perfect himself in machine work. In 1910 Mr. Davis came to Santa Ana and entered the service of the Guarantee Garage. Removing to Orange, he took charge of the Buick auto shop, and after that he came to Santa Ana and engaged to work for the Lutz Company. In 1913 he bought into the garage business at 209 North Main Street with George Kellogg; and two years later, he bought out his interest.

The Chandler Garage not only represents that famous company’s cars in the district of Orange County, but it carries a full line of automobile accessories and undertakes to render prompt and the best of service. For the demands of his trade, as only thus far developed, Mr. Davis employs eighteen men. On January 1, 1920, he moved his garage to its present location, at Broadway and Sixth Street, where he occupies the corner, 100x125 feet.

Like most men given to one or more kinds of sport, Mr. Davis is fond of both fishing and hunting, and good-naturedly responds to the many appeals in the community for more serious cooperation, thereby proving his qualities as a citizen and a neighbor.  Fraternally besides being a member of Santa .\na Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks, he is.  a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M., and a charter member of the Rotary Club and of the Orange County Auto Trades Association. 

DENNIS J. DONNELLY.—Prominent among the more recent settlers of Anaheim who have become successful orange growers, is Dennis J. Donnelly, a native of Ireland, born at Tullamore, Kings County, in 1875. His youthful days were spent on a farm in Ireland, and when twenty years of age he emigrated to the United States For many years he followed copper mining in the West, two years being located at Butte, Mont.

In 1898 Mr. Donnelly enlisted in the U. S. Navy, serving during the Spanish-American War, three years faithfully filling the position of fireman, and during his enlistment served in the Philippine station. He was aboard the ill-fated U. S. Warship Charleston when she was lost ofif Luzon November 2, 1899, and subsequently was transferred to the U. S. Warship Oregon, being aboard her when she was wrecked in the Straits of Pechili on the way to the relief of siege of Pekin. He received his honorable discharge from the U. S. Navy in 1901 at Mare Island, Cal.  Mr. Donnelly is justly proud of his bronze medal, inscribed with the name “V. S.  S. Charleston.” awarded to him by the “Citizens of the State of California,” and he is a member of the Spanish-American War Veterans.

Resuming his former occupation of mining. Mr. Donnelly located at Bisbee. Ariz., where he engaged in copper mining for five years, after which he went to the copper mines in Sonora, Mexico. The year 1906 found him the proprietor of a hotel at Seattle, Wash. The fall of the same year he moved to San Francisco, where he helped in the rebuilding of that stricken city after its destruction by fire and earthquake. In 1907 he again returned to copper mining, this time locating at Globe, Ariz.  During the year 1910 Mr. Donnelly visited Anaheim, Cal., and was so favorably impressed with the country that he decided to make Orange County his permanent home. He purchased ten acres of raw land three miles southwest of Anaheim, which he improved by leveling and planting to Valencia oranges. He still retained his residence in Globe, Ariz., but brought his family to Anaheim for permanent settlement in 1912, erecting a bungalow at 115 North Helena Street.

Possessing keen business foresight, a progressive spirit and a determined will to win success in the citrus industry, Mr. Donnelly took up the study of orange culture, soil conditions and fumigation, and his special efforts have been rewarded by an abundant crop, the yield for 1919 being 2040 boxes of fruit, which were handled by the Anaheim Orange & Lemon Association, of which he is a member.  At Bisbee in 1904 Mr. Donnelly was united in marriage with Julia O’Conner, a native of the Emerald Isle-, born near Killarney, in County Kerry. Of this happy union two daughters were born: Mary Elizabeth and Rose Annie. Mr. and Mrs.  Donnelly are patriotic American citizens and loyal supporters of their adopted country’s cause in every time of need, their motto being “America First.” Religiously, they are members of the Catholic Church.

WILLIAM N. MILLER.—A well-posted oil man, whose keen observation, attention to details, unremitting industry and a regard for the experience of others as well as his own previous successes or failures have enabled him to thoroughly understand the oil business, is William N. Miller, who was born near x\va, Douglas County, Mo., on July 6, 1889. His father, J. T. Miller, also a native of Missouri, is a farmer there; he married Miss Katie Shadden, a native of Tennessee, and they had six children, of whom William was the oldest.

He was brought up in Missouri, attended the usual grammar school courses, and when a youth of seventeen came out to the Far West and settled for a while at Condon, Ore. He went onto a ranch, and during the winter rode the range and continued in that line of activity until 1911, when he returned to Missouri to marry Miss Minnie Pugh, a daughter of Missouri, and a sister of S. L. Pugh. On coming West again the young couple settled at Taft and there made his entry into the oil industry. He entered the service of the Union Oil Company, and later was a tool dresser for the Miocene Oil Company, then was with the Head Drilling Company at Taft for three years.  In 1919 Mr. Miller came to Placentia, as a driller for the Heffern Oil Company; and when well No. 1 was completed, he set up No. 2. He then worked on the Olive Petroleum well at Olive and put it down 1,000 feet; and when he resigned, he did so to accept the superintendency of the Placentia Oil Company, where he remained until March 1, 1920. In November he became interested in the Orange County Drilling Company. He is a stockholder in the Heflfern Oil Company, and in the Fullerton Leasing Company, and is doing all that he can to develop the important oil interests of Orange County.

Mr. and Mrs. Miller have had four children, three living: Lois. Glen and Ina.  Carl, the oldest, died aged seventeen months. Mr. Miller belongs to Douglas Lodge, No. 319, I. O. O. F., at Ava, Mo.; and he also belongs to Anaheim Lodge, No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks, and is a member of Anaheim Lodge of Masons.

SUMNER E. REED.—The excellent service of the Santa Fe Railroad at Fullerton has always been appreciated by the townspeople, .and never more so than since the advent here of the present agent, Sumner E. Reed, a native of Wisconsin, where he was born in Green County on December 21, 1865. His father was Samuel R. Reed, a farmer, a native of New York state, and his mother, who came from Michigan, was before her marriage Miss Lucretia H. Post. They, with their two sons, moved to Nebraska in 1877. Now both of the parents have joined the great throng making up the silent majority of humanity.

The elder of the two children, Sumner attended the rural and then the high school, after which he remained on the farm, as have so many faithful American young men, until he was twenty-one years of age. His first venture in the service of strangers was made when he accepted a post with the Burlington Railroad; later he went to the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad, and next back to the Burlington. That was followed by an engagement with the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, and he remained with that company until 1909, when he came to the Santa Fe.

At first he was an operator at Colton, and from there he went to various places along the line. For six years he was at Inglewood. In each place where he was stationed Mr. Reed acquired measurably some valuable experience, had a good” time, mastered railroading, and made many friends. In March, 1917, he was transferred to Fullerton, and here has has been, as fully-empowered agent, ever since. Active every day in endeavoring to promote Fullerton’s commerce with the outside world, it is natural that Mr. Reed should be an energetic worker in the Fullerton Board of Trade.  During April, 1916, while Mr. Reed was at Inglewood, he was married to Mrs.  Myrtle M. (Thayer) Martin, who was born in Michigan. Mr. Reed still enjoys a lodge evening occasionally, and belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America. In national politics he is a Republican, but he knows no partisanship when it comes to boosting for Fullerton, Orange County or even California. Among his recreations are automobiling and outdoor exercise.

SALVADOR M. PADIAS.—A hard-working farmer, operating scientifically, and therefore getting all the good results possible from his various expenditures, is Salvador M. Padias who, through his own honest, untiring efforts, has acquired for himself and his family a comfortable affluence. He is, in fact, one of the leading beet growers on the Irvine Ranch, where he operates 268 acres, 156 of which are devoted to sugar beets and the balance to barley hay.

A native son, he was born at San Juan Capistrano, Cal., on January 29, 1892, the son of Ramon Padias, now deceased, the representative of one of the proud old Spanish families. He was an experienced farmer, and left a competence to his widow, who was Mercedes Mendes before her marriage. She now owns twenty acres of highly improved land, devoted principally to Valencia oranges, and is located on South McClay Street, in Santa Ana, where she now resides, aged sixty-two years.  S. M. Padias, the youngest son and the seventh child, attended the grammar school at Tustin, after which he worked on his father’s farm until the latter died in 1912. Then he began to farm for himself, and he also went out and worked for others with large eight-horse teams. In the beginning, he worked for two different companies, but both failed financially, and he received only forty-five dollars in cash and judgments for $2,200 for his work, from which he has since realized nothing.  This most unfortunate experience, however, did not deter him from starting anew, if in debt, and commencing all over again under such disadvantageous circumstances that he had to borrow money from others. In the fall of 1915 he leased the above mentioned ranch, which he has improved and brought to a high state of cultivation, and it is all under irrigation; his beet crop has averaged as much per acre as any other on the Irvine ranch, and the position he occupies today shows that he could not long have been idle. He came to have time enough, though, to partake in various activities appealing to the patriotic citizen, and to work with the Republicans for better civic standards.

In San Diego, July 23, 1914, Mr. Padias was married to Miss Dorothy Talbott, the daughter of Chas. I. and Leona (Gibson) Talbott, early settlers of Los Angeles County, the father being the proprietor of the Central Auto Park in Santa Ana. Mrs.  Padias is a’ native daughter, born at Glendora, but reared and educated in the Garden Grove grammar and high school. Mrs. Padias’ maternal grandfather, George Gibson, served in a Nebraska regiment in the Civil War, and she is naturally an enthusiastic member of the Daughters of Veterans. This fortunate union has been blessed with one child, now a bright four-year-old boy, Robert Edward. Fraternally, Mr. Padias is a Knight of Pythias, and a popular member he is in that constantly growing order. 

JACOB P. PROBST.—Prominent in business circles in Anaheim, and well known in other parts of the state, Jacob P. Probst was born in Odensa, Denmark, September 7, 1883. He is a son of Hans P. and Rossamina (Petersen) Probst, both natives of Denmark, and in the fall of 1883 Hans P. Probst brought his family to the United States, locating in Warrensburg, Mo., where he built up one of the largest carriage manufacturing plants in the state. His four sons were all associated with him in business, under the firm name of Probst and Sons, and for twenty-seven years they carried on the establishment in their own two-story factory, one-half block in area.  They were extensive advertisers and the name became famous all over the state for fair dealing and high quality of goods. They carried all kinds of horse-drawn vehicles, also manufactured to order, did repair work and painting.

The children now living of Mr. and Mrs. Hans P. Probst are: George, Merentius, Jacob P., Blenda, wife of Victor A. Peterson of South Pasadena, and Thorwald A., the well-known landscape artist of the Pacific Coast, who is at present writing and traveling in California in the interest of reclaiming the old California Missions. The father located in South Pasadena in 1910. where he conducted with his sons a large auto painting, decorating and repair establishment. The family home in Warrensburg.

Mo., was a work of art. all the furniture and woodwork being designed and built by themselves, and the walls and ceilings decorated in the same manner. The home contained many valuable works of art designed and collected by the family, many of which were brought with them to their South Pasadena home.

Jacob P. Probst first came to California as a tourist in 1904, when he traveled all over the state, and in 1907 he returned to take up his permanent residence here, first locating in Alhambra, where, in partnership with his brother, he followed painting and decorating, and erected a home in that city. He later removed to South Pasadena, where he erected a home, and when his father arrived, in 1910, engaged in business with him in auto painting.

On June 4, 1917, Mr. Probst located in Anaheim, where he now follows auto painting and decorating, occupying modern and commodious quarters at 113-115 West Adele Street. He does the finest class of work, including monograms and crests, and his years of experience in the painting line make him a valuable man for his line of work. He takes an active part in the affairs of Anaheim, was a member of the advertising committee of the old Anaheim Board of Trade, and ready at all times to give of his knowledge and effort toward the further advancement of his home city and county. Fraternally he is a member of Anaheim Lodge, No. 207, F. & A. M.  The marriage of Mr. Probst united him with Delia A. Peterson, a native of Iowa, the ceremony occurring at Santa Barbara, in 1908, and three children have been born to them: Blenda, Lucille, and Jacob A., deceased. Mrs. Probst is one of a family of twelve children, all but two of whom are now living. With her husband she joins in the social life of the community and works toward its upbuilding. 

JOHN JOHNSTON.—The efficient chief engineer of the Anaheim Brewery, John Johnston has been a resident of the United States for nearly twenty-five years. He is a native of Scotland, having been born at Glasgow on Christmas Day, 1869, and is a son of John and Catherine Johnston, both natives of the land of the heather. The Johnston family consisted of nine children, five of whom are living, two being residents of California. John Johnston, Sr., died in Canada, Mrs. Johnston still making her home there.

John Johnston was reared and educated in the Dominion of Canada. In 1896 he came to the United States, and after stopping for some time in New York, he migrated to California in 1905, locating in Los Angeles, where he remained for three years. In 1911 Mr. Johnston moved to Anaheim and accepted his responsible position with the Anaheim Brewery, having under his supervision five engines, and has continued with the company nine years. He is an expert machinist, with thirty years of experience, and is regarded as one of the most efficient engineers in this section of the state.  In 1901 Mr. Johnston was united in marriage with Miss Ellen Trelfer of Canada and four children were born to them; Francis, Lillian, James and John. During the World War James served in a California regiment of infantry stationed at Camp Kearney.  Mr. Johnston and his children are all musical and their playing is greatly enjoyed and appreciated by their many friends in the community, where they have gained high repute as musicians.

The second marriage of Mr. Johnston united him with Miss Margaret Fitzpatrick of Belfast, Ireland. Fraternally, Mr. Johnston is a member of the Anaheim Lodge No.  1346, Elks, and Anaheim Aerie of Eagles.

JOHN S. RUNYAN.—A highly esteemed resident of Santa Ana who attained the enviable distinction of being one of the most public-spirited citizens of the town in which he had previously lived—Medicine Lodge, Kans.—is John S. Runyan, who was born in Turbotville. Northumberland County, Pa., on October 11. 1853. His father was George Barton Runyan, a farmer and an early settler in the Keystone State, who had married Miss Elizabeth Schuyler, also a member of an early family there. The lad was sent to the high school at Turbotville, and then to the State Normal school at Bloomsburg; and afterwards for five years he taught school in Montour County, Pa.  In 1878 he moved to Lawrence, Douglas County, Kans., and there for a couple of years taught school.

In 1880 he made a new departure in going to Barber County, Kans., and engaging in the cattle business. Four years later he was in the general merchandise trade in Medicine Lodge in that state; and there he remained until August 1889. On the twelfth of that month he entered the First National Bank of Medicine Lodge and for five years was the bank’s assistant cashier; and in 1894 he became the cashier. After that he rose to be vice-president of the bank; and he was also associated with other banks in Kansas.

On November 26. 1885, Mr. Runyan was married in Warrensburg, Johnson County, Mo., to Miss Nannie R. Holmes, a native of that town and of a fine old Virginian family that migrated to Missouri. Her father was Benjamin A. Holmes, and her mother, in her maidenhood, was Miss Sallie A. Douglas. Miss Holmes took a complete course at the Warrensburg State Normal, where she was graduated, receiving a life certificate as a teacher; and afterwards she taught in Johnson County, and later in the high school at Liberty, Mo., until her marriage.

In 1911, Mr. Runyan came to California for his health, and settled at Santa Ana; and the next year he built his home at 416 South Birch Street. In 1919 he purchased an interest in an orange grove near Placentia, and in July of the same year he bought an interest in a lemon grove at Yorba Linda. He also purchased stock in the First National Bank of Santa Ana.

While in Medicine Lodge Mr. Runyan was city treasurer for twelve years, and he also served on the city council of Medicine Lodge a number of terms, never allowing his preference for Republican political doctrine to interfere with his administration of local office. He tried to begin life aright in his profession of religion, and in Santa Ana found it natural and easy to help the congregation of the First Baptist Church in 1913 begin the erection of their handsome edifice. He is chairman of the board of trustees, was on the building committee, and is also a member of the committee of finance of said church.

For sixteen years in Medicine Lodge Mr. Runyan was both a member of and treasurer of the board of education. Having no children of their own, they set out to rear and educate a niece, Miss Una Holmes, who was a native of Missouri and lived with Mr. and Mrs. Runyan in Kansas, and on August 7, 1907, was married to C. C.  Lewis, the private secretary of the late Senator Chester I. Long of Kansas, with whom, during the season of 1907, they enjoyed the inspiriting life of the capital, Washington.  In the spring of 1909 Mr. and Mrs. Lewis went to Phoenix, Ariz., and later they came to Monrovia, where Mrs. Lewis died, on February 13, 1916. Then Mr. Lewis returned to Phoenix, Ariz., and is now with the State Water Commission. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis. The elder is a girl, Helen by name, and the younger is called John Runyan.

ROBERT WILSON.—A full and worthy life has been the portion of Robert Wilson; from stirring events in his boyhood and early life he passed to the more peaceful pursuits of the business world, and his sterling traits of character have made for success in both. A native of Canada, Mr. Wilson was born near Guelph, Ontario.  August 18, 1852, the son of James and Elizabeth (Ramsey) Wilson, born in Scotland and on the Isle of Man, respectively, but married at Eden Mills, Ontario. The father was an engineer in sawmilling, and later in the manufacture of oatmeal. He made the oat mill on exhibit at the International Exposition at London in 1862 that was; awarded a medal. His death occurred in Ontario.

Robert Wilson was the second eldest in a family of four boys and one girl, and he is the only one now living. He was reared at Eden Mills, Ontario, where he obtained his education in the country schools. In 1866, when a boy of fourteen, he enlisted as a bugler in a Canadian company of volunteers, and was in the famous Fenian Raid and in the battle of Ridgeway, June 6, 1866. For fourteen years he served under Queen Victoria in the Canadian Militia, was bugler of No. Two Company, First Ontario Riflemen, went with them to Ft. Garry, now Winnipeg, in 1871, and was in the Reil Rebellion of that year. Afterwards he was in Infantry Company No. One.  Twenty-eighth Battalion, and later on was in an engineering corps in the second Reil Rebellion in 1884-85, and was at the Battle of Batoche. As early as 1866, between his different enlistments, Mr. Wilson learned the trade of baker and candy maker, and in 1873 located in Buffalo, N. Y., entering the employ of Sibley & Holmwood, wholesale candy manufacturers. Eighteen months later he returned to Stratford, Ontario, and again served in the militia; later he settled in St. Paul. Minn., where for twenty-one years he carried on a bakery of his own with success. While there he was local correspondent for Eastern magazines devoted to the bakery trade.

The year 1906 marks the arrival of Mr. Wilson in Anaheim. He purchased the Powell Bakery, on West Center Street, which he carried on with success until June 28. 1915, selling out to B. Jensen, and since that date he has lived retired, with the record of having been in the bakery business for more than forty-eight years, which speaks for itself as to the steadfast qualities of the man.

Mr. Wilson was twice married, his first wife being Mary Jane Mcintosh, a native of Ontario. Her father was for many years in the employ of the Grand Trunk Railway, coming to Montreal from Scotland, and was the first boilermaker employed by that company, continuing until his death at Port Huron, Mich. Mrs. Mary Jane Wilson died July 7, 1915, leaving three children: Robert, a printer of Los Angeles; Mrs. Agnes L. Every of Tacoma, Wash., whose husband is claim agent for the Northern Pacific Railway; and Clarence, a graduate of Stanford University and a civil engineer by profession, of San Francisco; he was a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission that recently completed a physical valuation of the different railroads, and he is now with the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in San Francisco. He enlisted in the Third U. S. Engineers in the World War and was stationed at Camp Humphries, Va.  For his second wife Mr. Wilson married Mrs. Jennie A. Keeling, also a native of Canada, and they are among the esteemed citizens of Orange County. He was made a Mason in Ancient Landmark Lodge, St. Paul, Minn., and is now a member of Anaheim Lodge, F. & A. M. He has also been a member of the Odd Fellows for forty-hve years and is a charter member of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks, and of the Modern Woodmen. For years he was a member of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce. 

ANTON C. CARLE.—A thoroughly experienced and successful farmer, whose intelligence and industry have spelled for him and others a well-merited prosperity, while his uprightness of character and general dependability have won for him the confidence of all who know him, is Anton C. Carle, the lessee for eighteen years of a ranch not far from El Toro, where he lives and labors with his devoted and gifted wife, in a home made the more attractive through a promising, ambitious daughter, preparing for a business vocation. He was born in Alsace-Lorraine, France, on May 10, 1878, and like all the inhabitants of that region enjoying better advantages, learned both French and German. At Dinsheim, too, the famous vineyard place not so far from Strassburg, he was married, on July 21, 1900, to Mary Catherine Kuntz, a native of that place, where she was born on December 3, 1880, the daughter of Martin Kuntz, of Alsace-Lorraine. He was an expert machinist, but died in 1907, and his wife, whose maiden name was Madeline Myer, was born in the same place. Seven girls were born to Mr. and Mrs. Kuntz, and they attended the schools of the Catholic Sisters.  Mr. and Mrs. Carle were married when she was nineteen years old, and on August 6, 1900, they bade goodbye to parents, and other relatives and friends, and began their honeymoon trip with a voyage across the Atlantic. They sailed from Hamburg and landed in New York, from which city they took the train across the continent, and alighted at Los Angeles on August 26. In Dundee, Los Angeles, and also at Loma Linda and Glendora, Mr. and Mrs. Carle worked out together—he as gardener and she as housekeeper, and when they had made a good start for themselves, they came out to El Toro.

Here he worked for Dwight Whiting, at first as a gardener, and among other things he then accomplished he set out 487 acres of eucalyptus, now almost a forest, half a mile to the northeast of El Toro. He had almost eighty men working under him, and this gave him a chance to add Spanish to his fund of languages, so that he now speaks French, German, English and Spanish. He first came to El Toro in 1904, and when, five years later, Mr.” Whiting died, he took a lease on 320 acres and began to refit. He now raises hay, barley and oat-hay, mixed and pure, and the balance in beans and wheat—eighty-five acres of the former and twenty acres of the latter, and in their comfortable home about two miles from El Toro they reflect with both happy and sober thoughts on the past.

Mr. Carle’s father was also named Anton, and he was born at Gresweile, in Alsace, as was his wife, whose maiden name was Clementine Doersaff. She died two years before our subject came to America. She had twelve children, ten girls and two boys, and among these Anton was the eighth child in the order of birth. He learned gardening in Alsace, but he worked, while there, mostly as a weaver of cloth.  He wove woolen, cotton and silk goods, and he still has some of the fabrics that he wove himself.

His first work here was in Dundee at viticulture and horticulture, and then for Mrs. Frank Taylor, at the corner of Central and Adams streets in Los Angeles, and from there he went to Loma Linda, where he made the beautiful drives from the rocks, planned the roadways and laid out the flowers. In this unpretentious but pleasant manner Mr. Carle began his association with the Southland; today he owns the business block, including the barber shop and pool hall, opposite the’ railroad depot at El Toro, which he built, and for two years he ran a butcher shop, after which he remodeled it and now rents it as has just been stated. He uses eighteen head of horses and mules in his farming operations. He also owns a number two special Ventura bean thresher, and during the season is kept busy threshing in the neighborhood. He is prosperous, and he wishes everyone else to be equally successful. He is an American through and through, and during the recent war patronized each issue of the Liberty Bonds, and otherwise supported the war activities. He is a naturalized American citizen and a Republican.

In 1906 Mrs. Carle returned to Alsace-Lorraine on a visit, and took with her their daughter, Emma Juanita. now a student in the Orange County Business College.  They had a fine time, and have been talking about it with satisfaction ever since.  They have also thought of their home associations with sorrow, for great changes have occurred where once all was so attractive.

AMBROSE F. FISHERING.—Perseverance and optimism have ever been the outstanding characteristics of Ambrose F. Fishering, now a successful rancher near Anaheim, and these qualities, combined with steady, industrious application to the task at hand, have enabled him to rise above circumstances that would have daunted one less courageous. Mr. Fishering’s early memories carry him back to the Buckeye State, where he was born at Xenia., August 16. 1868, the seventh child in the family of Henry and Mary (Beall) Fishering. The father was born in Germany, but came to Ohio in the early days, when he was a lad of sixteen, and he was for many years in the mercantile business in Xenia.

Mr. Fishering’s early education was gained in the public schools of his native city, but his opportunities in that line were limited as he left home at the age of thirteen to make his own way in the world. He learned the furniture trade when but a boy and followed this line of work until he was of age, when he went into the retail grocery business at Dayton, Ohio. He was meeting with good success when the flood of 1899 wiped out his business completely, destroying all that he had. Too ambitious and energetic to be routed by even this disaster, he rebuilt and soon was forging ahead more rapidly than ever, only to suffer a second loss of all his possessions in the great flood of 1900, that caused such a terrible loss of life and property in this Ohio city.  These experiences determined Mr. Fishering to locate in the West, so. in 1901 he came to Los Angeles, Cal., and though practically without capital he undertook the purchase of five acres of land in the Sunrise tract, now Huntington Park, where he built the first house. He took a position with the Van Vorst, Burman Furniture Company in Los Angeles, later connecting with Barker Brothers as foreman of their frame department, a position which he held for fourteen years, driving back and forth with a horse and buggy to his work. In the meantime Mr. Fishering divided his five-acre tract into town lots and sold them off, making a handsome profit in the transaction.  In 1908 Mr. Fishering came to Anaheim and soon after purchased ten acres on Loara Road and Lincoln Boulevard. This was a rough, unattractive piece of land, in poor condition, and one with less foresight and courage than Mr. Fishering would have hesitated to buy it, not being able to see its possibilities. He went to work on it at once, however, developing a sixty-inch water supply, and setting out a citrus grove from his own nursery stock. He has taken great pride and pleasure in bringing his ranch, which they have named El-No-Care-O, up to a high state of cultivation, and works unceasingly to keep it in this condition. Despite the losses he sustained before coming to California, he has retrieved his fortunes and has accumulated a competence since his arrival here.

On April 16, 1902, Mr. Fishering was married to Mrs. Sadie J. (Burton) Myers, formerly of Iowa, but a resident of Los Angeles for a number of years. By her first marriage she was the mother of a son, Edmond B. Myers, who is an expert mechanic and served on a submarine in the Atlantic during the war. Mr. and Mrs. Fishering are the parents of one son, Robert Huntington, so named because he was the first child born in Huntington Park. He graduated from the Anaheim grammar school and in July, 1919, enlisted in the U. S. Government radio service and is now at Mare Island (1920). Mrs. Fishering has ever been a capable helpmate to her husband, cheerfully aiding him in all his undertakings, and he gives to her due credit for a great degree of the success they have attained. They have recently erected a fine residence on their ranch and here they live in comfort. Seeing the necessity for co-operation in all local affairs, Mr. Fishering is a member of the Anaheim Citrus Association and gives his loyal support to the affairs of that organization. He marches under the Republican banner and is a firm adherent of the policies of that party.

CHESTER H. KENYON.—A self-made, scientifically-operating farmer, who has learned by hard study the best of all the various methods for the production of abundant crops, is Chester H. Kenyon, the well-known rancher of Glen Avenue, Tustin, among the best supporters of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company and an energetic member of the Santa Ana Walnut Growers’ Association. He was born near Mt. Union.  Henry County, Iowa, on March 8, 1884, the son of \N’m. H. and Flora (Hale) Kenyon, the father being a native of Wisconsin. Mrs. Kenyon died when our subject was eight years of age, and then he was taken by an aunt, Mrs. Amelia Crellin, a sister of his father, by whom he was reared. There were three children in the Kenyon family, and Chester was the oldest.

Chester attended the common schools in Henry County, Iowa, until he came to California with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Crellin, in October, 1899, and then he finished his schooling here. In June, 1899, these foster parents first came to Tustin, and two days after their arrival they purchased the “Nat Brown” place, now the home ranch of a brother of Mr. Kenyon. They returned to Iowa, sold out and brought the boys along. While attending school Chester worked this estate for his uncle, while he went to work also for other ranchers. In about 1908 his father followed him to Tustin, and for the first time perhaps enjoyed a balmy climate and some well-earned rest; he also became an orange grower and makes his home in Tustin. Chester Kenyon’s first holding was a five-acre citrus grove, which he later sold. In 1913 he bought eleven and a half acres, which he devoted to walnuts; and this is now the home place, where he has erected a very comfortable residence. He has added eight acres of walnuts adjoining, so now has nineteen and one-half acres. He is also at present raising beans, of which he has thirty acres on the San Joaquin ranch, so that, altogether, he manages about seventy acres.

The day after Christmas, 1908, Mr. Kenyon was married to Miss Jessie Scott, the daughter of Chester H. and Elcina Scott, farmer folks of Kansas, who later removed to California. One daughter, Marjorie, has blessed this union. Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon liberally supported Red Cross and War Loan work during the War, and are always ready to lend a hand, when needed, for social uplift and advancement. 

R. W. EDENS.—Orange County has been fortunate to draw within its boundaries men of energy, resourcefulness and brains, who have devoted their time and talents to the development of its diversified resources. Among the men who have closely identified themselves with the oil industry is R. W. Edens, of Fullerton, a large stockholder and general manager of. the Mid-Central Oil Company, now drilling for oil in proven territory at Huntington Beach. He also is financially interested in other companies that are now drilling in that locality. Besides these extensive interests, Mr. Edens is one of the proprietors of the Orange County Fertilizer Company, and a member of the firm of Edens and Wagner, dealers in oil lands and leases, and investments, with offices in the Amerige Block, Fullerton.

A native of Kentucky, R. W. Edens was born in Cumberland County, September 26, 1875, and was educated in the public schools of his native section until he was sixteen, then he came to California, and in Ventura County, secured employment in citrus orchards. He assisted in setting out the famous Lemoneira Orchard, the largest lemon ranch in the world. After he had labored in the orchards of Ventura County a number of years he left there and located in Fullerton in 1904. This was then a small country village with scarcely any civic improvements, and here he opened the first garage, thus showing that he was strictly up-to-date. He then had the agency for the Maxwell and Chalmers cars, also sold auto trucks. As he succeeded he formed a partnership with John E. Wagner, of Placentia, and organized the Orange County Fertilizer Company, which confines its business to Orange and Los Angeles counties.  They specialize in barnyard manure and commercial fertilizer, and to conduct their business they operate five motor trucks, three of which they own. This company has played an important part in the development of the citrus fruit industry in the county since its inception, the volume of business aggregating about $15,000 per month.  The marriage of R. W. Edens united him with Miss Mollie Matthews, a native of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church in Fullerton and a lady of many accomplishments who shares with her husband the esteem of a wide circle of friends. Fraternally Mr. Edens is a member of Fullerton Lodge No. 394, F. & A. M.;

Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks, and of the Fullerton Board of Trade.  Mr. Edens is a man of the strictest integrity, liberal and progressive in his ideas and methods; a live wire and a booster who takes an interest in every movement that has for its aim the promotion of the best interests of the community, and especially of Fullerton, where he makes his home and is popularly conceded to be a leader in all that seeks to elevate the best in citizenship.

LILLIAN PREST FERGUSON.—A painter regarded by many critics as foremost in the delicate art of portraiture, is Mrs. Lillian Prest Ferguson, whose charming personality canto fail to hasten the fulfillment of her dream for Laguna Beach as a center of the best art. She was born in Ontario, Canada, the only daughter of Thomas Prest, a banker and real estate broker at Windsor, who had married Miss Sarah Smith, a daughter of Samuel Smith, the first mayor of Guelph, Ontario. When Lillian was ten years of age she went with her parents out to the great Northwest, and lived in a sod house; and she has many tales to tell of the hardships endured there. There were no schools in that territory at that time, and her mother sent her to Winnipeg, where she was educated in a convent under the instruction of Sister Mary Xavier.  She had a natural talent for portrait sketching, and was early given some instruction; and when only sixteen years of age she finished her first real work. It was a portrait of the mother of Archbishop Tache, a prelate she has always admired, and to whom she has felt peculiarly indebted for her early success; and some months later she put the last touches to a portrait of the Archbishop’s father. She remained in Winnipeg some months, studying and painting, and then she went to Toronto, where she studied with W. L. Forster. She returned to Winnipeg and was made an instructor in the Winnipeg Art School, where she remained until her marriage with Peter Ferguson, an attorney of Ontario, with whom she toured England, Scotland and France.  Then she became a student at the Academie Julien of Portraiture in Paris, and there made rapid progress under the renowned Professor La Fevre. On another trip to Europe she studied in Holland, with her instructor, Alexander Robinson, and from there she made various sketching trips to the most picturesque parts of the Continent, exhibiting her work the next season at the gallery in Paris.

Coming west to California in 191S, Mrs. Ferguson settled for a while at Carmel-by-the-Sea, fortunate in the pleasant association with William M. Chase, who gave instruction in portraiture. Since 1912 she had made sketching trips to Laguna P)each; for, having once become familiar with the unrivalled attractions here, she needed no incentive to urge her to return. During 1918 Mrs. Ferguson planned and erected her home place one and a quarter miles south of the Laguna Beach Hotel, and she has started a school of pottery at Laguna Beach, in which she herself gives expert instruction during the winter months. At other times she is generally to be found at her truly remarkable studio at the beach.

Mrs. Ferguson’s art is to be seen at the galleries at Exposition Park, in Los Angeles, and also in San Francisco. She is an active member in the Independent Society of Artists of New York City, the California Art Club and the Laguna Beach Art Association, of which she is a charter member. She also belongs to the Hollywood Woman’s Club, and to the MacDowell Society.

GEORGE ROHRS.—.A hard-working, progressive and successful native son ot whom California may well be proud, is George Rohrs, whose life reflects his high ideals, and does credit alike to his esteemed parents and to himself. His father was Fred Rohrs, the well-known rancher and realty owner, who was born in Germany, in the historic year of 1848, and came out to America when he was still in his teens. His mother was Anna Gobrugge before her marriage, also a native of that country, and she came to the land of greater freedom, hoping to better her condition—a wish that was amply satisfied. They were true pioneers of the great state of Ohio, where they were married, and later did their part in helping to develop the still greater commonwealth of California.

George was born in Orange County on December 10, 1884, and attended the Central school at Santa Ana. Then he worked on his father’s ranches. In time, too.  he purchased twenty acres to the west of his father’s ranch, where he set out orange and walnut trees. He also sunk a good well, and so has reserve water for irrigation, as has his father on the home ranch. He uses a tractor and horses, and works ht.« ranch at the same time that he operates his father’s. He is a member of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company.

In May, 1914, Mr. Rohrs was married to Miss Dora Miller, the daughter of Mr.  and Mrs. Charles Miller, of Tustin Avenue, whereupon they went to the East on an extended honeymoon trip of several months. He had already built a fine residence upon his ranch, and furnished the same, and it was ready for his home upon their return. Mr. Rohrs was the owner of real estate and specially of buildings for business purposes in Santa Ana, so that he may well be looked upon as one of the men of affairs in the city.

L. E. ALLEN.—A conservative, but enterprising rancher who has had the advantage of seeing the steady growth and sure development of the county from the time that he was a boy, so that it is perfectly natural for him to work for home interests, and especially, with his appreciation of education and love of literature, for the public schools, is L. E. Allen, a native of Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada, where he first saw the light on April 14, 1883. His father, H. A. Allen, was born in Ontario and a descendant of a well-established old Puritan family of the New England states. He became both a farmer and a banker, and married Emma German, a native of the Empire State, a member of that fine old New England circle among whom was Senator Obadiah German.

H. A. Allen came out to California on a visit in 1860. but returned to Canada.  Twenty-four years later, he returned, with his family. L. E. Allen was then a babe; but in the course of his boyhood he progressed through the grammar grades of the local schools. On April 14. 1886, Mr. and Mrs. Allen and their family moved on to the eight acres on Main Street, known as the Potts Place, which constituted the home ranch; and there our subject, as a dutiful son, worked until he was twenty-one years old. When the father died, in 1916. he left over eighty acres of land to his widow, Mrs. Emma Allen.

L. E. Allen helped Mr. Stevens survey the Fruit Company’s ranch and helped to set out many of the best orchards in this section. His brother, A. H. Allen, is a partner with him in their ranch enterprises, operating fifty-two acres of land in the city limits of Santa Ana, with two residences, nearly all set out to walnuts.  They use tractors and horses to operate the ranch. Another brother, Gerald, and the mother, Mrs. H. A. Allen, now reside at Los Angeles. Mr. Allen belongs to the Santa Ana Walnut Association and the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and in national politics is a Republican; but he endeavors to perform his duty in relation to local affairs by a groad-gauged [sic] nonpartisanship, enabling him to work and vote for the best men and the best measures.

JOHN W. SAUERS.—Yorba Avenue borders some of the most attractive ranches in the Tustin District, and of special attraction is the well-developed property owned and operated by John W. Sauers, a native Nebraskan, who is widely known as one of the most practical of farmers. There are twenty acres in the tract, and nine are devoted to English walnuts, while eleven bear Valencia oranges. Ten of these acres Mr. Sauers purchased in 1913, and upon the original ranch he built his dwelling house; the other ten he bought as recently as 1917. All the land was in poor condition when he first acquired it, but now he is able to point to a high state of cultivation. The splendid and well-kept appearance of his orchard demonstrates the large amount of labor and care he gives to the cultivation of his place, leaving the soil and trees in such fine condition that it is the consensus of opinion it is one of the best orchards and counted one of the show-places of the district.

Born at Hooper, Dodge County, in the Black Water State, August 1, 1880, he is the son of John and Jane (Bruner) Sauers, natives of Pennsylvania, who became pioneers of Nebraska. The father was an extensive farmer and stock raiser, who later came to Orange County, where he became a successful and prominent horticulturist at Tustin. He and his beloved wife passed away at Santa Ana, where they had resided during later years. Grandfather John Sauers served in a Pennsylvania regiment in the Civil War. A brother of J. W. Sauers, C. E. Sauers, and a sister, Margaret, now Mrs. Suddaby, are also residents of Tustin.

John W. Sauers was brought up and educated in the public schools of Nebraska, and in time learned the trade of his father, carpentering. After years of application to this handiwork, he came out to California, in 1906, and fortunately settled in Orange County, where he has come to enjoy the confidence and esteem of his fellow-men.  Mr. Sauers has been twice married. His first wife, to whom he was married in 1903, was Miss Maud Osborn before her marriage, and she became the mother of a daughter, Volga Laurene. His second wife, married in 1914, was Mi?»s Hazel, a daughter of R. M. Rowley, who was a pioneer of Santa Ana, coming from Massachusetts to California in the early days. Being a pharmacist, he started a drug store on Fourth and Main streets, still known as the Rowley Drug Store, of which he was the active head until he died in 1918. His widow still survives him. Mrs. Sauers was born in Santa Ana, and was a graduate of the high school. They have one child, a son, John Vernon Sauers.

Mr. Sauers has never affiliated with any lodge, but he is nevertheless popular for his personal worth as a man. Among ranchers he holds his own as a horticulturist and agriculturist who knows what he wants, and who goes about the getting of it in a scientific way. Mr. and Mrs. Sauers take an active interest in civic affairs, as well as a deep interest in religion, both being active members of the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Ana.

ANDREW COCK.—For many years a prominent resident of Orange County and actively associated with the development of the horticultural wealth of this part of the state, Andrew Cock is today one of the best informed and most highly respected horticulturalists in California. He is owner of an exceptionally valuable ranch just south of Santa Ana, located on South Main Street, and consisting of fifty-five acres, devoted to general farming and the nursery business. This property is under a high state of cultivation and is splendidly improved, making one of the most attractive homes in the vicinity.

Mr. Cock is a native of Waco, Texas, born August 22, 1886, but came to California with his parents when he was a baby, locating at Tustin, where the father engaged in ranching. He received his education in the public grammar school at Tustin and in the Polytechnic high school in Santa Ana. When he was nineteen years of age he entered the employ of the San Joaquin Fruit Company at Tustin, being stationed on their 1000-acre ranch near that place. From his boyhood he had been keenly interested in horticulture and here he found ample scope for the development of his natural inclinations. He found the development of this great fruit ranch a task entirely to his liking, and at the age of twenty-two years he was made manager, which position he held, discharging the heavy responsibility which it entailed with ability and efficiency, until 1919. In the development of the San Joaquin Fruit Company’s ranch Mr. Cock was especially successful. He made a careful and detailed study of individual trees and secured the buds only from record trees, that produced fruit of superior quality and in great abundance, thus developing a superior stock of trees. He assisted with the planting of the first tree, soon after his employment by the company, and later as manager, superintended the development of vast groves of oranges, lemons and walnuts. In September, 1919, he resigned his position to engage in farming for himself, and purchased his present property at Santa Ana, where he has since made his home.

The marriage of Mr. Cock occurred in Tustin, and united him with Miss Nellie Gertrude Matthews, a native of Kiowa, Kans., who came to Tustin, Cal., with her parents in her teens. Of their union have been born three children, two sons and a daughter, namely, Leonard, Lewis and Margaret. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cock have a wide circle of friends in Orange County, and have taken an active part in social and civic affairs. Mr. Cock is a member of the Santa Ana Branch of the Federal Reserve Board and a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias, Tustin lodge, of which he is past chancellor.

Mr. Cock is descended from a long line of splendid American ancestry. His father was Linneaus A. Cock, born near Marshall, Texas. April 6, 1856, and his grandfather, Lafayette Cock, was a native of Tennessee. Lafayette Cock removed to Mississippi, where he was married to Bennetta Taylor, a native of Mississippi.  They later removed to Texas and engaged in farming near Marshall, but eventually returned to Mississippi where Lafayette Cock passed away July 31, 1861, and Mrs.  Cock, September 25. 1865. Linneaus A. Cock was brought to Holmes County, Miss., by his parents in 1860 and was reared and educated in that state. He was married in Madison County, Miss., December 11, 1884, to Miss Viola Ward, a native of that county and the daughter of the Rev. T. M. and Mattie (Taylor) Ward, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Holmes County, Miss. Rev. T. M. Ward, was a Princeton graduate and also held a medical degree from Columbia University.  He rode the Methodist circuit for many years, preaching and practicing medicine, carrying his Bible and his medicines in his saddle bags. The maternal great-grandfather of our subject, Andrew Cock, was EHas Taylor, who served through the Mexican War as private aide to General Zack Taylor, of whom he was a nephew.  He was a prominent railroad man, being one of the builders of the Southern Division of the Illinois Central Railroad, and served as its president for many years.  After their marriage Linneaus Cock and his bride went to Waco, Texas, and engaged in cattle raising until 1887, when they came to California, locating at Tustin, Orange County, where they engaged in ranching. In 1899 he bought a ranch near Tustin which he greatly improved, and now has ten acres of Valencia oranges and five acres of walnuts, in full bearing. He is retired from active business and resides in Tustin with his wife. Of the children born of this union, seven are still living, all well and favorably known in Orange County. They are Mrs. Edith Egert, a teacher in the Los Angeles schools; Andrew-, the subject of this sketch; Alma, a graduate nurse, now residing in Los Angeles; Thomas, a traveling salesman for the Sherwin-Williams Company, of Los Angeles; Edgar, a machinist in Tustin; Willis residing on his father’s ranch at Tustin; and Howard, a student in the Polytechnic’ high school in Santa Ana.

S. F. DEAMUD.—A conservative, but progressive man, whose great perseverance has brought him a measure of prosperity which, in turn, makes him a natural, enthusiastic “booster” for Santa Ana and Orange County, is- S. F. Deamud, a native of Wayne, Wayne County, Mich., where he was born on January 22, 1858, eighteen miles west of Detroit. His father, Samuel Deamud, was a native of Toronto, Canada, and as a maker of shoes controlled for his lifetime a large and profitable business. His mother was Sarah Moore before her marriage, and she was a daughter of John Moore, an Englishman by birth. When Samuel Deamud and his wife married, they came to Wayne, Mich., to make their home.

The lad was sent to the ordinary local schools, and being fond of machinery, learned how to run an engine when he was a mere youth. After a while, he moved about from town to town in Michigan, and then he went beyond the state’s borders into and through other large cities, acquiring valuable practical experience.

In 1881 he took up a homestead tract at Arapahoe, Furnace County, Nebr., and staying with the venture, won out and acquired full title, proving up on the 160 acres. Then he sold his Nebraska holdings, and, like a modern knight, motored west to California in a Maxwell touring car. At 1003 Grand Avenue he purchased two acres, which he improved and developed in the setting out of walnuts and oranges. He has stock in the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and so gets the benefit of their irrigation service. He is also a member of the Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association. He is something of a poultry fancier, with a preference for the best strains of Leghorn and Rhode Island Reds, and for the purpose he has an ideal poultry house.

On June 7, 1897, Mr. Deamud was married to Mrs. Ella (Scheeks) Keeler, a widow with two children. Mabel is the wife of Clyde Larson, a farmer of Nebraska, and Lulu is at home. Mrs. Deamud’s father, Nelson Scheeks, was killed in the battle of the Wilderness, in the Civil War; and the mother died shortly after of sorrow. Mr. Deamud has a brother, William H. Deamud, who has been a resident of Santa Ana for the past thirteen years. He also has a sister, Mrs. Charles Amann, of Los Angeles.  In national politics a Republican, Mr. Deamud has supported prohibition as a desirable move for the bettering of society; and he has also liberally encouraged both War loan drives and the work of the Salvation Army.

CHARLES L. COTANT.—A young, but enterprising and very capable business man, who is fast rising in the local commercial world, is Charles L. Cotant, a native of Nevada, where he was born at Elko on September 13, 1893. He is the son of Allen Leroy and Margaret Cotant, early settlers of Nevada and Montana, his father having been engaged extensively in the cattle business. He came to Orange County for the first time with his parents in 1898, when Allen L. Cotant purchased a ranch of seventyfive acres in various tracts at Tustin. The home place was on First Street and Glen Avenue, and was formerly known as the W. S. Bartlett place; it had groves of walnuts and oranges, and there the father still resides.

Charles L. Cotant attended both the Tustin grammar and the Orange County high schools, and took a course in the School of Commerce and Finance in Los Angeles in 1910. He also attended the Los Angeles Military Academy. In 1911, he was employed to make collections for the Cudahy Packing Company, and two years later he associated himself as assistant cashier with the First National Bank of Tustin, a position he held for two years. In March, 1915, he took charge of the collection, escrow and bond departments of the First National Bank of Santa Ana.  On August 31, 1915, Mr. Cotant was married to Miss Eileen Tubbs, the daughter of V. \’. and Lillian Tubbs of Tustin, who came to California in 1890 from Emerson, Mills County, Iowa, where they were landowners. Miss Tubbs was graduated from the Santa Ana high school, after which she pursued an art course at Pomona College.  One daughter, Mary Elizabeth, has blessed this marriage. The family attend the First Presbyterian Church and share in its spiritual, social and sociological life and work.  Mr. Cotant is a Republican in matters of national political moment, but never allows the hindrance of narrow partisanship to interfere with his support of the best measures for the community in which he resides.

BARRETT L. HALDERMAN.—An enterprising young rancher, whose scientific knowledge of horticulture has contributed greatly to his success, is Barrett L. Haiderman, a native of Phillips County, Kans., where he was born on November 11, 1883.  His father, Charles M. Halderman, was a native of Ohio, but was reared in Iowa and removed as a pioneer to Kansas, where he homesteaded 160 acres in Phillips County.

He married Miss Eliza Pillsbury, also a native of Ohio, and of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and became an extensive landowner in the Northwestern States. Coming to California, in time he brought his family to Santa Ana, and bought a ranch at Tustin; and since 1903 he has been associated with ranch properties in Orange County.  Barrett Halderman attended both the grammar and high schools at Long Island, Kans., and for two years studied at the Manhattan Agricultural College. At that time, however, he felt less interest in horticulture, and developed instead a live interest in trade. He became a grain buyer and shipper in North Dakota and Minnesota.  On October 1, 1913, Mr. Halderman was married at Lincoln to Miss May Hadell, the daughter of Alfred and Emma (Nye) Hadell. Her father was a merchant at Long Island, Kans., and was well known for both his enterprise and his high sense of honor.  Three fine boys have blessed this marriage—Earl, Alan and Barrett. The family attend the Roman Catholic Church. Mr. Halderman owns eleven and a half acres on East Washington Street, and the family controls ninety acres of the best soil in the county.  No wonder, then, that they are all good “boosters.”

The three brothers of Mr. Halderman have excellent military records, and all the Haldermans are noted for their loyalty. Barrett Halderman is a Democrat, but nonpartisan when it comes to helping along worthy projects of a local character. He is a member of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, the Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association, and the Anaheim Orange Growers Association. He also belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America and to the Knights of Columbus.

DR. BERNICE BENNETT.—The professional circles of Huntington Heach have recently been augmented by the addition of the able and efficient osteopathic physician and surgeon. Dr. Bernice Bennett. She is the daughter of Arthur W. and Mary E.  (Slocuni) Bennett, and was born in Adair County, Iowa. Her early education was received in the public school of her district and was supplemented l)y the first-year course of the high school at Earlhani, Iowa.

In 1908 Miss Bennett came to California, locating at Monrovia, where she continued her schooling, graduating from the Monrovia high school in 1912. Deciding to enter upon a professional career. Miss Bennett chose the science of osteopathy, together with that of surgery. She entered the Pacific College of Ostopathy, until it merged and became the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, and was graduated from the latter institution in January, 1916, with the degree of D. O., after which, to equip herself more thoroughly for the responsibilities of her chosen profession, she took a post-graduate course at her .Alma Mater, and finished the requirements in time of the same year.

Because of her splendid ability and thorough training. Dr. Bennett was selected as an assistant to Dr. A. E. Pike, of the Osteopathic Sanitarium at Long Beach. She gained much valuable experience by her association with this famous osteopathic physician, which greatly aids her in her professional work.

In November, 1919, Dr. Bennett opened an office at Huntington Beach in the First National Bank Building. Although she has been a resident of Huntington Beach but a short time. Dr. Bennett has already established a splendid practice, and her fame, with her thorough knowledge of the science of osteopathy, which is being spread abroad, greatly augments her clientele. She is a member of the Delta Omega Society, and professionally is a member of the Orange County Osteopathic Association and the California State Osteopathic Association.

JOSEPH A. MERRICK.—An engineer who makes a specialty of steel structural engineering is Joseph A. Merrick, prosperous rancher and business man of Santa Ana, Orange County, and numbered among the enterprising and progressive men of the Tustin district. He is the owner of ten acres devoted to the culture of citrus fruit. He purchased his present home ranch in 1917, and has erected a beautiful and commodious bungalow with all modern improvements and conveniences.

Mr. Merrick was born in 1874 in the state of Kansas, and is the son of Dr. John K. and Sarah Merrick. The father, a man of letters who added the degree of D.D.S.  as well as M.D. to his name, practiced his profession in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Kansas. In the parental family of nine children two became dentists and six of the nine are now living, namely, Henry, Mary, Hattie, Don, Grace and Joseph A. of this sketch. He was reared and educated in California, coming to the latter state in his early childhood. For twenty-five years he has followed mechanics, principally structural steel engineering in connection with the Lacy Manufacturing Company about thirteen years, holding a position with them at the present time. He was with the Union Oil Company eleven years and has been a resident of Orange County, Cal., for fourteen years. His marriage April 14. 1900. united him with Miss Pearl E. Dixon, a native of Minnesota, and of their happy union three children have been born, namely, Vernica, J. A. Jr., and Ronald.

CHARLES L. HANSEN.—An enthusiastic advocate of the superior possibilities of Fullerton and her environing districts, whose opinions carry the greater weight because of the scientific and practical attainments of the “booster,” who can himself demonstrate what can be done through his own high degree of cultivation, is Charles L. Hansen, the rancher of Placentia Boulevard, who is a native son not only of California, but of Placentia, where he was born in the boom year of 1886, on August 7, the youngest son of Peter Hansen, the well-known pioneer. He attended the grammar school at Placentia. and in 1909 was graduated from the Colorado School of Mines, with the degree of K. M.

Since that time, Mr. Hansen has been very successful in mining engineering. He was first employed as a mining engineer with the Quartette Mining Company at Searchlight, Nev. : then he became superintendent of the Investors Mining and Leasing Company at Wall Street, Boulder County, Colo.; then manager of the Dagger Mining and Milling Company at the Vontrigger mines in San Bernardino County,

covering a period from 1909 until 1915. He is frequently employed as an expert, his trips taking him to different parts of California, Arizona and Nevada. In all of these positions of responsibility he has demonstrated fully his fitness for the problems and work committed to his care. Somewhat impaired health, however, led Mr. Hansen to return to Placentia and assist his father to subdivide the home ranch. In the beginning, he purchased two acres and a house on Valencia Boulevard, and now he owns sixteen acres in Valencia and Navel oranges, full bearing. In 1919, with H. C. Head, he bought ten acres adjoining, also developed to oranges. He takes a keen interest in agriculture, and as a result of advanced, intense stud}- and what might be termed intensive farming, obtains the largest returns for all his investments.  From 145 Valencia orange trees, for example, seven years old, he harvested a yield of 1,140 field boxes of fruit. He belongs to the Placentia Orange Growers Association, and also has valuable oil leases.

On December 10. 1912, Mr. Hansen was married to Miss Agnes Hanifan, a daughter of Thomas Hanifan, who lived retired at Los Angeles until his death, November 10, 1920. She is a graduate of the State Normal at Los Angeles, and is most active in club life at Fullerton, being an ex-president of the Ebell Club. In national politics a Democrat, Mr. Hansen is at all times a nonpartisan, supporter of the best obtainable for local improvement, and he is never more loyal to his home district than after such a trip as he recently made of 1.600 miles to the Yosemite and Lake Tahoe.

E. OYHARZABAL.—A sturdy, interesting pioneer of Orange County who. as one of the early settlers in San Juan Capistrano added one more to the French colony in Southern California, is E. Oyharzabal, popularly called “Steve” Oyharzabal, owner of the California Hardware Company’s building in Los Angeles. He was born in the Basses-Pyrenees, on January 26, 1854, and sent to the local French schools, where he received instruction in French and Spanish, while he acquired the idiom of the Basques. His brother, Domingo, who was born in the same locality eight years before, and had come to America in 1863, was already in California; and this fact proved an encouragement to our subject and another brother. W’illiam, who also set out for the western land of promise. William died soon after reaching San Juan Capistrano, and Domingo and “Steve” who was still in his teens, went to Inyo County and bought land, and then embarked in the raising of sheep—an enterprise later carried on at Bakersfield. Their father, Baptiste, and their mother, Saljina (Belsunce) Oyharzabal, were farmers and stock-raisers; and although the father died when “Steve” was only two years old. the lads grew up to have a better understanding of that line of work than any other. The burden of nine children upon the mother made it necessary for some to leave home, and the three sons mentioned took the initiative in striking out for themselves.

Both brothers worked hard, and Domingo, perhaps because he was the elder, soon became prominent. He had a keen eye to climate and conditions, and when he came to Orange County in 1878, and settled at San Juan Capistrano, he believed that he had found here, a combination of advantages to be had nowhere else in the state.  His faith in Orange County’s future led him to make investments in real estate, purchasing ranches from time to time, as his means permitted, until in 1910 he owned over 4,000 acres of choice land. He himself planted 150 acres of walnuts. He also raised large herds of cattle, sheep and livestock, and in time installed a fine system of irrigation reaching to the remote ends of his ranch, thus greatly enhancing the value of his land. He even acquired valuable real estate in Los Angeles, and during his early residence at San Juan Capistrano, he erected the old French hotel, long a landmark of the Mission town. He is especially mentioned by Harris Newmark, the distinguished pioneer, whose “Sixty years in Southern California” is such a storehouse of information concerning old-timers in the Golden State. Domingo died, unmarried, at San Juan Capistrano, in 1913, recalled by all who knew him as a typical Franco-American. Then, for the first time, the long partnership between the brothers was dissolved.

They were equal partners in all building as well as farming operations, and while Domingo was the most enterprising, “Steve” did the hard, outside work. Domingo, for example, superintended the erection of the building now used by the California Hardware Company at the corner of Alameda and First streets in Los Angeles, while his brother was in France, but he never lived to see the edifice completed. He was taken ill and died in his sixty-seventh year; and his demise was regretted by many, for he was a good-hearted, upright man.

E. Oyharzabal owns the building now used for a grocery store on Central Street, San Juan Capistrano, just north of his home, a two-story affair maintained, from 1878 to 1903, by the Oyharzabal brothers as the French hotel, and presided over for seven years by Mrs. E. Oyharzabal, a woman of accomplishment, in maidenhood popular as Miss Lucy Darius, whom he had married in 1896. Mr. Oyharzabal returned to France for the first time in 1884, while his mother was still living; and in 1903, after he had taken to himself a wife and had his business affairs in excellent shape, he went back again to visit his beloved Basque country. He remained in the Basses-Pyrenees until 1905, when he returned to California and to San Juan Capistrano with Mrs. Oyharzabal. Once more, in 1909, this deserving pair crossed the ocean to France and Spain, and set foot again on California soil in 1913, shortly before Domingo Oyharzabal’s death.

Mrs. Oyharzabal is a daughter of Pierre and Antoinette (Pocheln) Darius, residents of Bayonne, and she attended school there and also at Bordeaux, where she acquired, in addition to the Basque dialed, both French and Spanish. She has since added English. Her father was a railroad conductor in France, and that circumstance enabled her to travel somewhat in her country. Mr. and Mrs. Oyharzabal live in a stately adobe house on Central Avenue, near the State Highway in San Juan Capistrano. The years of their hard labor have certainly been rewarded, for Mr.  and Mrs. Oyharzabal, knowing where they can find a million or more when they want it, are about to start once more for France and Spain, to be gone, they hope, for another three years at least.

A. J. ALBERTS. A philanthropist who first very wisely learned the great lesson of doing for himself before attempting to help others, is A. J. Alberts, the successful rancher of 1135 East Washington Street, who began his career as a newsboy in Chicago.  He was born in Sterling, Whiteside County, 111., on March 12, 1878, the son of A. J.  Alberts, a dry goods merchant of Chicago, whose foresight and hard work eventually brought him prosperity. He was a native of Illinois, and he had married Miss Sophie Beuck, also a native of that state.

Our subject enjoyed the advantage of both the grammar and the high schools of Chicago, during which time he sold newspapers as a boy in that city. He earned for himself not only many dollars a day, but a reputation which led to his appointment after five years as the assistant circulation manager of the Chicago Daily News, whicli responsible post he held for fifteen years.

In 1903 he made a trip to Antelope Valley, and for a while he stayed at Littlerock, Los Angeles County. He was connected for some time with a realty company in Chicago, so that when he again came to California and visited Los Angeles in V<\3 he t\’as in a position to profit from a tour of the orange grove districts.  He bought eleven acres of full-bearing walnut and orange trees, nine years old.  joined the Santiago Orange Growers Association, and also the Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association, and subscribed to the Santa Ana \’alley Irrigation Company, getting their service.

When Mr. Alberts married, he took for his wife Miss Anna Koehl, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Koehl, residents of Pennsylvania, where they died, after Mr. Koehl had been for years an active merchant. The Alberts are liberal supporters of the Presbyterian Church of Santa Ana, and they also patronized the Red Cross and helped along the War loans. Mr. and Mrs. Alberts have three children. Grace and Paul are attending school at Santa Ana, and Edward is at home.

JOHN L. PLUMMER, Sr.—A successful promoter of realty in the now famou>ly fashionable Wilshire district of Los Angeles, who has come to have unshaken faith in the future of Balboa and as a logical result calculated to influence others, has already built a great deal there and plans to accomplish far greater things for the bay town and himself, is John Louis Plummer, who was born on Powell Street, San Francisco, on March 31, 1856. The story of his parent’s life, it has been well said, reads like romance. His father, John C. Plummer, was an English sea captain, who came to the United States from Southampton as early as 1832, and sixteen years later crossed the Isthmus of Tehuantepec on foot in his eager desire to reach tlie Pacific. He navigated successive sailing vessels for the P. & O. Company in the Orient, and after years of adventure and even hardship, during which he had done his share to build up the merchant marine on the Pacific, he retired from the sea and lived comfortably at Los Angeles, where he died in 1910. He had married Miss Mary Cecilia McGuire, a native of the Hawaiian Islands, and a daughter of George McGuire.  a well educated woman of advanced ideas and an early advocate of woman suffrage in California. On taking up her residence in Los Angeles in 1862, she acquired Government land, bought and sold real estate, and became the owner of 1,000 acres in the Wilshire District, which the family continued to hold title to until it had greatly appreciated in value.

John Louis Plummer, therefore, had the unusual experience of growing up more or less familiar with life in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, and of being able constantly to make comparisons between the pulsations of the two municipalities.

He came to the Southland to reside in the early sixties, and for many years farmed more or less of the 800 acres or more in the West End, raising cattle, hogs, grain and garden truck, which now rise some of the stateliest residences in the city. He and his folks also owned downtown property of great value in Los Angeles. He laid out 160 acres on Sunset Boulevard and cut it up into two-acre tracts, and 140 acres in Highland Park, which he sold off without subdividing. Besides owning property in Hollywood, Mr. Plummer has in recent years subdivided the Plummer Ridgewood Park on Van Ness Avenue, an estate of ninety acres, into lots sixty by 170 feet, with streets 100 feet wide, on which have been built some thirty houses costing from $6,000 to $30,000 apiece.  Wishing to hie away from city life, Mr. Plummer in 1914 purchased some sixty acres of Brand Boulevard land, near San Fernando, set out an orchard and built four attractive houses, for himself and his children: but as early as 1906 he had begun to invest at Balboa, and he has continued to do so ever since. In 1919, he erected ten bungalows in a court, known as the Plummer Place, and he intends to add eleven more, and a large residence on the Bay front, where he will make his home as his final harbor.

Mr, Plummer was married at Los Angeles to Miss Ellen Dalton, the youngest daughter of Henry Dalton, the famous pioneer of the Azusa, who came to Southern California by way of Peru, and owned among other extensive tracts of more or less historic interest later, much of the land acquired by “Lucky” Baldwin. Mrs. Plummer, it is sad to relate, passed away in 1918, a noble woman who had nobly fulfilled her mission in each community wherein she had dwelt, and mourned by a large circle of friends, and especially by her four sons, John. Charles, Theodore and Anthony, and the four adopted children. Raymond, Henry, Inez and Eudora. Balboa looks to Mr. Plummer with greater confidence than ever in facing the problems of the future, nor will the deserving beach resort be disappointed, for in all that he has hitherto set his hand, this courageous path breaker has always succeeded. 

J. C. WILLIAMS.—An esteemed pioneer who has the distinction of having been among the first to advocate the cultivation of the Valencia orange as a commercial industry is J. C. Williams, the rancher and real estate dealer of Fullerton, who was born in Monona County, Iowa, in April, 1878, the son of J. W. Williams, an expert mechanic, who had married Miss Delphina E. Mendenhall. The worthy couple came to California in 1886 and settled in Los Angeles; and there, for twenty years, Mr. Williams followed his trade. Our subject received his early education in I he graded schools of the old Mission city, and later attended the University of Southern California, where he pursued a business course. Then, at the age of twenty-one, he went into the hardware business. He started modestly, but came to have a profitable wholesale trade with a store in Los Angeles and another in San Francisco, and he sold out when the fire at San Francisco wrecked so many.  Mr. Williams then entered the real estate field, joining his brother, A. G. Williams, in a partnership. They had offices at both Los Angeles and Anaheim, and during their efforts to advance the best interests of this part of the Southland, they took up the possibilities of Valencia orange development, and enthusiastically presented the prospects of the industry. They were thus instrumental in inducing many persons to develop Valencia orange groves, and handled millions of dollars’ worth of property when land was cheap. Such was their experience in contributing to advance valuations that they saw a certain grove jump in price from $1,200 to $1,400, then to $7,500, then to $14,500. and recently to $28,000. This grove is near Anaheim, and is only one of many that the Messrs. Williams handled to the great benefit of successive owners, and to the advancement of the orange industry in Orange County.  Unmarried, and residing with his sister on Orange Grove, near South Spadra, on a ranch of choice land, well irrigated by a private pumping plant. Mr. Williams leads a quiet life, studying citrus and realty conditions, and lending a hand whenever laid wherever he can to elevate politics and civic life, and to upbuild as well as build up the community in which he has so long and pleasantly lived and labored. 

MORTIMER HUGH PEELOR.—A well-known and always interesting pioneer v.ho, having made a success in business and become a prosperous merchant, has been able to branch off and become an equally expert and successful horticulturist, is Mortimer H. Peelor, who helped establish the foundation of things in Orange as far back as 1885. He was born in Henry County, Mo., and came to California when he was sixteen years old. His father was C. P. Peelor, a merchant of Orange, and he had married Miss M. C. Lotspeich. Two uncles, the Lotspeich brothers, were the earliest settlers of Villa Park in the Mountain View district, and they were very worthy men.

Mortimer, the eldest in a family of four children, enjoyed the advantages of both the common and the high schools, and later was graduated from the Woodbury Business College in Los Angeles. Then he worked in his father’s store for a while, and coming to Placentia entered the employ of Stern-Goodman, with whom he remained for a number of years or until he bought them out and established himself in the mercantile world under the firm name of M. H. Peelor. Two years ago, he sold out his well-conducted grocery, and turned his attention to quite another field.  In 1906, Mr. Peelor had purchased ten acres of choice land, on which he set out both walnuts and oranges; and in time he became a member of the Placentia-Fullerton Walnut Growers Association; The Placentia Mutual Orange Growers Association.  He also became a shareholder in the Anaheim Union Water Company. He is interested in bank stocks, and he wishes prosperity to everybody else, hence he is a first-class “booster” for both town and county. He is a Democrat in matters of national political moment, but never allows partisanship to interfere with his enthusiastic, loyal support of things strictly local.

On October 7, 1890, Mr. Peelor married Miss Mayme Jones, daughter of the well-known rancher, O. P. Jones of Santa Ana; and one child, Kathleen, now the wife of S. James Tuffree, and a graduate of the State Normal School at Los Angeles, class of ‘13, has blessed this fortunate union. Two years ago Mr. Peelor erected his residence, where a generous hospitality is dispensed to all of Mr. and Mrs.  Peelor’s wide circle of friends.

JOHN H. KIRSCH.—Descended from a long line of honored ancestors, residents of that stanch little buffer state, Luxemburg, the pawn of kings since the thirteenth century, Jolm H. Kirsch was the first of his family to leave the old home for the New World, which has now been his home for more than thirty years. His parents were John and Marie (Berg) Kirsch, both of whom passed their whole lives there, until their decease, some years ago. The eldest of a family of ten children, four of whom are now living, two at the old home and two in California, John H. Kirsch was born in Canton Diekirch, Luxemburg. November 11, 1865. The father was a well-known miller and farmer, and after receiving a good education in the local schools, John H. from his boyhood made himself useful on the farm and at the mill, learning the miller’s trade and also how to dress the mill stones used in the old water-power mill. On reaching the age of seventeen he left the old home and went to France, working at his trade of miller, near Chalons-sur-Marnc. in the department of the Marne.

In 1889 Mr. Kirsch came to the United States, and located at Winona. Minn., where he engaged in farming, later leasing a large farm which he devoted largely to stock raising. Here he continued until he purchased a farm near Grand Rapids, Wis., which had an excellent location on the Wisconsin River. It was fine, rich land and here Mr. Kirsch was very successful, bringing it up to a high state of cultivation.  Attracted by the great opportunities offered on the Pacific Coast, however. Mr. Kirsch disposed of his Wisconsin farm and came to California in 1906. locating first in Tulare County, where he purchased forty acres of land and engaged in dairying and alfalfa raising. Remaining there for a year and a half, he then disposed of his holdings and came down to Orange County, buying thirteen acres on East and Santa Fe streets, near Anaheim. This Mr. Kirsch set out to Valencia oranges, budding and raising half of the trees himself, and caring for the orchard until it was five years old, when he sold it to Mr. Gruessing, and it is now one of the finest orange groves in the district. He then bought a tract of twenty acres on Nursery Avenue, which he also improved, setting it out to oranges and lemons, and under his expert care it soon became one of the show places of the neighborhood, so that in 1917 he was able to dispose, of it at a handsome profit. Since that time he has bought and sold a number of orange groves, and with his wide knowledge of all of the details of the citrus industry and of Orange County lands and soils, he has been very successful in all the deals he has closed, giving satisfaction to everyone concerned.  Optimistic for the future of Orange County, and believing it to he the finest locality in the world, particularly for citrus culture, Mr. Kirsch neglects no opportunity to prove his faith by his works, taking an active interest in every progressive movement.

In 1891, while a resident of Minnesota, Mr. Kirsch was united in marriage with Miss Lena Lift, who like himself was a native of Luxemburg, and who came to the United States during the same year—1889. Three children have been born to them: Katie, is Mrs. J. W. Heinz, her husband being an orange rancher at Anaheim; Anna, married Ben Heinz, who is also the owner of a citrus ranch at .Anaheim; John F. enlisted when twenty years of age in the U. S. Naval Reserve Corps, serving until he received his honorable discharge, and he. too, is engaged in orange growing at Anaheim. Mr. and Mrs. Kirsch reside in their comfortable, attractive home at Palm and Chartres streets, Anaheim, a property which Mr. Kirsch built and improved. In 1904, while a resident of Wisconsin, he made a trip back to his native land, and spent a happy time visiting his old home, and friends, but returning to the land of his adoption more than ever enthusiastic over its great opportunities. His foresight and initiative have enabled him to take advantage of these opportunities and he has made a splendid success. Liberal and kind-hearted, he is ever ready to lend a helping hand in every worthy enterprise and he shows his willingness to cooperate in local affairs by membership in the Anaheim Orange Growers Association. In fraternal circles he is popular in the ranks of the Knights of Columbus. 

WILLIAM E. STRADLEY.—A man eminent in the busy world of affairs in Los Angeles, who has also become a leader in both the building up and the upbuilding of Placentia, is William E. Stradley. who was born in Humboldt County, Kans., on January 12, 1872, and came to Des Moines, Iowa, as a small boy. He was a mason by trade, and first reached Los Angeles in 1887, at the time of- the great boom in Southern California realty. The next year he made a trip back to Iowa, and then he came out to the state of Washington, and he laid the first brick in any building in Seattle on June 9, 1889, three days after the big fire there.

He followed his trade in Seattle, and then, as a journeyman brickmason, traveled through twenty-eight states, returning to Des Moines in 1898. He took up contracting and building in masonry, succeeded very well, but in 1901 returned to Seattle, and there, as a contractor and builder he remained active until 1904. Then he came south to Los Angeles again, and there he has since resided, reaping the fruits of his own enterprises, started far back in 1898. A general contractor, he is the senior member of the firm of Stradley & Newton, brick, concrete and cement contractors, with an office at 500 Stimson Building in that city. In 1919, he himself erected twenty-eight store buildings in different sections of Los Angeles, and he also put up buildings in Wasco, Kern County, and at Newhall, Cal. Besides, he erected a large number of private residences in Los Angeles.

Mr. Stradley’s entrance into Orange County dates from 1911, when he came to Placentia to construct the two-story brick block for the Placentia National Bank.  He then bought lots and started to build up the promising town, and ever since, he has built additional structures, always holding on to what he has once acquired, these include the Marjie and the Stradley brick blocks of two stories, on Santa Fe .\venue, and no less than forty-four apartments in the town. Those who recall that Mr. Stradley erected the Wilcox Cafe at Seal Beach, will not be surprised at the thorough manner in which he has taken hold of Placentia real estate and the problem of the new town’s development. He is a director of the Los Angeles Builders Exchange, and is also an officer in the Mason Contractors’ Association of Los Angeles.  Mrs. Stradley, who enjoys the devotion of a large circle of appreciative friends, was Miss Marguerite M. Kuntz before her marriage, and is a native of Iowa. Mr.  Stradley is a member of Golden State Lodge, No. 358, F. & A. M.. Signet Chapter, No. 57, R. A. M., Perfection Consistory, No. 3. S. R., Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O.  N. M. S. and Jinniston Grotto, M. O. V. P. E. R., all of Los Angeles. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen, Knights of the Maccabees, and the Sunset Country Club.

HENRY G. MEISER. A very successful rancher owning several tracts of desirable land, and a citizen fortunate not only in the esteem but the hearty good will of his fellowmen, who are familiar with his leadership in various movements making for the broad and permanent development of Fullerton and vicinity, is Henry G.  Meiser, who was born near Lincoln, Nebr., on November 21, 1880, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Meiser, farmer folks of Nebraska. These worthy pioneers came to California in 1881 and settled at Anaheim; and there Mr. Meiser worked in the lumber mill for three years. In 1884, the elder Meiser purchased twenty acres of land, which he set out to grapes, oranges and walnuts; and these twenty acres are known today as the old Meiser home place.

Henry G. Meiser attended the schools in Fullerton, and when only fifteen started out for himself in the world. For five years he worked in the Orange County Nursery, and then in 1904, he purchased a ranch of twelve acres, on South Spadra Street, which he himself set out to Valencia oranges. There, too, in 1916, he built for himself a home. The land is under both the Anaheim Union Water Company and the El Camino Water Company, financed by a company of neighboring farmers and commanding a well of 100 inches. Mr. Meiser took a live interest in this co-operative project, and until recently was secretary of the company.

Mr. Meiser was also president of the Federal Farm Loan Board of Orangethorpe, and soon after the precinct branch was formed, it was taken into the Orange County Organization, in which Mr. Meiser then became a director. How much good this federal loan movement has accomplished here, both to the individual rancher needing the aid of capital, and to the community needing the rancher, only those familiar with the general working of the Federal Loan may realize, but Mr. Meiser and his associates are to be congratulated on the fruits of their strenuous labors.  In 1913, Mr. Meiser purchased ten acres of land half a mile west of Fullerton, a ranch formerly devoted to the culture of walnuts. He grubbed out the latter, however, and set out Valencia orange trees; and now he has a display of citrus fruit worth a journey to see. In the fall of 1918. he also bought ten acres on East Orangethorpe Avenue, near Placentia, and this land with its four-year-old trees bearing Valencia's is also under the Anaheim Union Water Company. He belongs to the riaccntia Orange Growers Association, and markets his products thereby.  At Fullerton, Mr. Meiser was married to Miss Pauline Schnitger, a native of Wisconsin who had become a resident of Garden Grove. Both husband and wife belong to the Methodist Church of Fullerton, and Mr. Meiser is both a Mason and an Odd Fellow. He also belongs to the ranks of the Republicans; but he is too public spirited to allow any party preferences to stand in the way of giving his support, in local movements at least, to the best men and the best measures.

E.         EARL CAMPBELL.—One of the leaders among the scientific young ranchers of Orange County is E. Earl Campbell, who is also making a marked success, not only as an orange grower, but also in agricultural ranching. Enterprising and well informed in all lines pertaining to soils and crop conditions, Mr. Campbell conducts his ranch on modern business lines. Belonging to the third generation of Campbell's who have contributed to the development of Orange County, he is the grandson of Robert Campbell, who came here in 1884, settling on the ranch on South Cambridge Avenue, a part of which is now owned by Earl Campbell.

Illinois was the birthplace of E. Earl Campbell and he first saw the light of day on the Campbell homestead, near Peoria, on October 29, 1886. His parents were D. F.  and Julia F. (Shaw) Campbell, a sketch of their lives being given elsewhere in this volume. There were ten children in the Campbell family, as follows: E. Earl of this review; Henry S., a rancher near Orange: Roy, a graduate of the University of California, is now an assistant entomologist in the Department of Agriculture; Elma is Mrs. Wood of Covina; Ruby resides in Los Angeles, where she is employed; Ensley is assistant farm advisor of Monterey County and Robert attends the University of California; Margaret is in the Orange Union high school; Hazel and Julia attend the grammar school at Orange.

When E. Earl Campbell was but a year old his parents removed to California, where his father engaged in ranching and citrus culture at Orange. Reaching school age, he attended the grammar school at Orange and graduated from the Orange high school, being a member of the second class to graduate from that institution and of the first class graduated from the fine, new modern building. Later he entered the California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo, taking a two years’ course, and was a leader in his class, especially among the debaters of the college; returning to Orange, in 1908 he began working for his father on the home ranch. In 1909, Mr.  Campbell purchased twenty acres of citrus orchard adjoining the ranch of his father, and which was a part of the original tract owned by his grandfather, Robert Campbell.  Here he has a fine orange orchard, which he keeps up to the highest state of cultivation.  Some time ago he erected a modern ten-room residence, old Colonial style, on his ranch and it is considered one of the finest and most beautiful homes in the locality and on which Mr. Campbell spared no expense.

To insure his orange grove being maintained in the very best condition, free from disease and capable of producing its maximum yield Mr. Campbell employs an expert in tree husbandry to give the Wees the benefit of his care. In addition to his horticultural interests. Mr. Campbell is engaged in growing barley and beans. At El Toro, where with his partner, E. B. Trickey, he is leasing and operating about 1,000 acres of the Whiting ranch, he has been fortunate in obtaining large yields and successful returns.  Besides himself, two men are kept l)usy on his ranch and for work stock he uses six head of mules.

In December, 1919, Mr. Campbell was married to Miss Dora Truscott of Sacramento. Two daughters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, Mavis L. and Helen M. Always ready to help in any movement for the advancement of the community, Mr. Campbell is a firm believer in cooperation, and is a member of the Santiago Orange Growers Association. In fraternal circles Mr. Campbell is active in the circles of the Masonic order, being a member of the Orange Grove Lodge, F. & A. M., at Orange. Despite his busy life and many interests he takes an active interest in politics and is a decided protectionist and Republican.

HENRY D. MEYER.—Like many others of his native land, to Henry D.  Meyer, a prosperous citizen and former rancher of Santa Ana, .America beckoned as the land of opportunity, as his immigration here at the age of fifteen testifies.  Born in Hanover, Germany. August 26, 1866, he was the son of Henry and Mary (Luering) Meyer. The mother died when Henry was a lad of but eleven years, the father later in life coming to the United States, passing away in Mason County, ILL., in 1892, at the age of seventy-two years.

Henry D. Meyer received an excellent education in the schools of his native land up to the time when he was fifteen years old, when he left his home for the long journey to America, Taking passage on the SS. Oder, he landed at New York March 25, 1881, and proceeded to Mason County, III. There he secured work on a farm, and was there employed at small wages in those days, for about five years, getting in two months of schooling in the winter time, and poring over his books whenever the opportunity afforded in order to secure an English education.  Feeling that better opportunities still awaited him on the Pacific Coast, Mr.  Meyer came to California in 1887, arriving at Los Angeles on August 4, of that year He soon went down to Wilmington and got his start in the dairy business at San Pedro and Redondo Beach, continuing in this line until 1892. In 1897 he located at Fairview, where he engaged in dry farming, meantime acquiring considerable land in the vicinity. Associated with him in his ranching enterprise are his two sons, Irving B. and Victor C, and his son-in-law, Louis Butterfield. The ranch is devoted principally to beans, sugar beets and grain, the crop yield of the former being very heavy. The raising of cattle and hogs is also an important feature of the ranch.  In 1908 he purchased a fruit ranch of 250 acres at Hemet which is devoted to apricots and peaches.

In 1914 Mr. Meyer removed to Santa Ana and built the commodious Meyer Apartments at Third and Spurgeon streets. This is the finest building of its kind in Santa Ana, being a three-story and basement structure of reinforced concrete, modern in every particular and serving the purpose both of a commercial hotel and on apartment house. He makes his home at 1712 North Main Street, Santa Ana.  Mr. Meyer’s marriage in 1889 united him with Miss Mary Kohlnieier, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Kohlmeier of Los Angeles, the ceremony being solemnized at Redondo Beach. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Meyer:

Irving B., a sketch of whom is given elsewhere in this historical work; Edna L., the wife of Louis Butterfield: Victor C, all associated with our subject, and Florine A.  Fraternally a Mason, Mr. Meyer is a Knight Templar and Shriner. as well as an Elk. A man of industry and foresight. Mr. Meyer has always been very energetic, giving the closest attention to every undertaking in which he is interested. Well deserved success has crowned his efforts and he now stands in the front ranks of Santa Ana’s prosperous citizens, who have succeeded by dint of their own well directed efforts.

OTTO MILLER.—The owner of the Miller Garage at 112-14 West Commonwealth Avenue, Fullerton, Otto Miller was born at Utica, Winnebago County, Wis., March 9, 1870. His grandfather, Christopher Miller, was an early settler in Utica, where he bought Government land and broke the prairie with ox teams, converting the virgin soil into a fertile farm. It was on this farm that our subject’s father, John F Miller grew to manhood, having come there in his early teens, and he, in turn, purchased land and improved a farm. His marriage to Julia Hinz followed this step, which would naturally lead to the establishing of a home. Miss Hinz had also come to Utica with her parents, who were also pioneers of that district, and resided there until their death. Our subject is the third eldest of the seven children who blessed this union and are still living, but he is the only one on the Pacific Coast.  A brother, Paul, who was graduated from the University of Wisconsin, is now Commissioner of Education for the United States in Porto Rico.

As a boy. Otto worked on the home farm and attended the public school. At the age of twenty-three he started in the butcher business in Ripon, and later enlarged his business, adding a line of groceries and building up a large trade. It was there that he was married to Emma Leitz, and two children were born to them, Erwin E. and Sarah. While successfully conducting his business, he also operated a farm which he owned, but after twenty-six years he sold out and decided to locate in California, Fullerton being the town of his choice. It was there he purchased the large business building at 112-14 West Commonwealth in August, 1919, and opened business September 26, his son Erwin E. being associated with him in the garage business. Being a splendid mechanic, Erwin, after completing his schooling in his native city, Ripon, where he was born in 1894, took a course in steam and gas engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He learned the garage and auto repairing business in Ripon and also worked in the factory of the Four-Wheel-Drive Auto Truck Company at Clintonville, Wis. After he came to Orange County in August, 1918, he worked’ in the garage of Albert Sitton in Fullerton, as well as other garages in the Valley. When his father purchased the garage property, he joined him in the business and is devoting his time to the mechanical end of it.  The Miller Garage is well equipped and their show room and offices have been newly refitted and improved, making it one of the best-appointed garages in Fullerton.  Besides doing all kinds of repair work on automobiles, they buy and sell used cars, do welding and carry a full line of Miller Tires in which they specialize, and they have a successful and growing business.

Erwin E. Miller’s marriage to Miss Ruth Baker took place in Wisconsin and they came to California via the Lincoln Highway in his automobile. Appreciative of the great opportunities afforded men in Orange, who are willing to work, Otto Miller foresees a steady growth and wonderful future for this section of California.  Though a strong Republican, he is too broad minded to let party politics stand in the way of any move for the betterment of the locality in which lie makes his home. 

C. FOREST TALMAGE.—Among Orange County’s youngest ranchers is C.  Forest Talmage, who is making a decided success for himself as a citrus rancher at his place of ten acres on East Collins Street, east of Tustin Street. Orange. Mr. Talmage’s native state was Iowa and he was born there January 23, 1900, at Monroe.  His parents were Charles F. and Nanna (Rinemuth) Talmage, natives, respectively, of Ohio and Iowa. The father came from Ohio when a young man and settled at Monroe, and he was well known in that locality as a prosperous farmer and stock raiser, shipping to the Chicago markets from his extensive farm of 348 acres.

In the fall of 1913, Charles F. Talmage brought his family to California, arriving at Orange and soon after purchasing a ranch there. In lowa. C. Forest Talmage attended the schools of Monroe, until his twelfth year, and after the removal of the family to Orange County, he spent one year in the grammar school and three years in the high school at Orange. For the next two years he worked for his father on his ranch and in 1918 purchased from him a tract of ten acres on East Collins .\venue, in the Villa Park district. Here he has developed a splendid orange grove through his scientific management and steady hard work, and it is one of the best producers in the vicinity.

On November 28, 1917, Mr. Talmage was united in marriage with Miss Marjorie Haynes. the ceremony being solemnized at Beaver. Utah. She is the daughter of D. A.  Haynes of Long Beach and was a classmate of her husband at the Orange high school.  They are the parents of a little daughter. Melba Lucile. Mr. and Mrs. Talmage make their home in their attractive residence which had been built and furnished all ready for their occupancy before their marriage. They attend the Methodist Church at Orange, and Mr. Talmage is a member of the Villa Park Orchards Association and of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. While young in years, Mr. Talmage has already taken an assured place in the afl’airs of the community, through his efficiency and dependability and he has the prospect of a most successful future before him.

EMANUEL C. H. FRANZEN.—A prosperous citrus grower, who is naturally rather proud of what he has accomplished, through hard work and careful study, is Emanuel C. H. Franzen, who was born in Little Bendigo, Victoria. Australia, in the vicinity of Ballarat, on July 29. 1866—in the midst of the winter in that antipodes.  His father, Henry Franzen, was a blacksmith and a native of Schleswig-Holstein; and he had married Tina Kryhl of Denmark. This worthy couple moved to Australia in 1857. and they were getting nicely settled there when Emanuel was born.  On account of the illness of his grandmother, it was deemed best to return to the vicinity of a good hospital so that the necessary operation might be performed; hence, the family returned to Germany in 1868 and Kiel, but all in vain, for she passed aw-ay soon after the surgical effort was made to save her life. The Franzens then lived near Flensburg for five years, when they migrated to America and to Illinois. They arrived in Sycamore. Dekalb County, in 1873. and there for a year Henry F’ranzen followed blacksmithing until 1883. When he sold out, it was to come further west, to California.

At Orange, he purchased ten acres on Walnut Street, one and a half miles northeast of Orange, land owned at present by William Grecht; and Emanuel both worked at farming and began to learn the carpenter’s trade, having attended grammar and private schools at Sycamore. The lad began to breathe the milder air of the Golden State when he was sixteen years old. and by 1893 he was able to purchase seven acres on South Tustin .Avenue, a part of his present place. Later, he purchased eight acres from the Gathmann ranch adjoining his place on the north, the whole making a fine block of fifteen choice acres. He has two acres devoted to Mediterranean sweets and thirteen acres to Valencia oranges, and the land is under the water service of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, in which cooperative concern Mr. Franzen owns fifteen shares; and all the improvements, including his splendid residence, garage, barn and pumping plant, have been accomplished through our subject’s own efforts.

On August 3, 1893, Mr. Franzen was married to Miss Mary Gathmann, a sister of John Gathmann, and a native of Fond du Lac, Wis., and the daughter of John and Gesche Gathmann, old settlers in that state. She came to Orange with her parents in 1882, and her father purchased property to the north of and next to Mr.  Franzen’s. Her education began in Wisconsin, and was finished at Orange. Mr.  Franzen belongs to the First Presbyterian Church of Orange, and takes an active part in the many valuable movements there; also participating actively in the war drives. Six children—five of whom are still living—blessed the happy union of Mr.  and Mrs. Franzen. George H. is living on the old Slater ranch on North Tustin Avenue. Edward J. is at home with his parents. Emm;a J. also enjoys the life of her parents’ home; she is a graduate and a post-graduate of the local high school, rnd is employed by the Guarantee Title Abstract Company in Santa Ana. Delia M.  is taking a general course at the junior college in Santa Ana, and Mabel D. is at the Orange high school. Lois died on May 27, 1918.

Mr. Franzen stands for principle every time in politics, and his family share his rugged honesty. Two of his sons sacrificed something in the late war for the sake of the same worth-while ideal. George H. served in the aviation department, having enlisted in March, 1918. He served at North Island and at March Field, and had the care, as a mechanic, of the planes. After being honorably discharged, in the spring of 1919, he returned to civilian life. Edward J. enlisted in the Navy; went to the training school at Gulfport, Miss., in June, 1918, and served as landsman and machinist’s mate. .\nd he was busy there until he was retired as a reservist on January 16, 1919.

HUGH J. HEANEY.—An industrious, enterprising and successful native son of whom California may well be proud is Hugh J. Heaney, head of the Los Angeles Division of Railroad Telegraphers. He was born at Los Angeles on July 25, 1893, the son of John W. and Mary (McDonald) Heaney. His father came west with his parents from St. Louis and was graduated from the Los Angeles high school; and later, as a mechanical engineer, he has served several firms for years in Los Angeles, and acted as road engineer for the fire department. He has also been active in various movements in the City of the Angels for the improvement of the community. Mrs. Heaney came to Los Angeles from Nova Scotia, in company with. a brother and a sister; and she was married soon after settling here.

Hugh Heaney finished the usual courses in the grammar school and then studied for a year at the Los Angeles Polytechnic; but the progress of his studies was interrupted when his folks moved to Elsinore. When seventeen years of age, he became absorbed with telegraphy, and at Elsinore he served an apprenticeship of eighteen months under Oscar Ray. the station agent and telegrapher. Then he went on the road for the Santa Fe Railroad Company, as extra relief agent and telegrapher, and served in the Los Angeles division, which now extends from Barstow to San Diego.  On June 17, 1917, Mr. Heaney came to Santa x\na, and took up the duties of an operator in the Santa Fe office. He has also served as telegrapher at various stations on the road, including Elsinore, Mentone—both of these resorts—Placentia and National City, and also at Redlands. Inasmuch as the telegraph played an important role during the war, in the movement of troops, Mr. Heaney, as well as all other operators, was placed under control of the Government. In 1918, also, he became a member of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, Los Angeles Division, of which he has been made local chairman. He also belongs to Lodge No. 583 of the Elks at Redlands, and to the Knights of Columbus; and in national politics he is a Republican.  On July 3. 1916, Mr. Heaney was married to Miss Grace Callaghan, a daughter ‘of Mr. and Mrs. B. Callaghan, fruit growers of Redlands, whose ranch at present comprises some twenty-five acres. Her parents were pioneers in Redlands. and in that city she was born on September 16, 1898. Two children have blessed this union: Mary Elizabeth was born on October 18, 1917; and Grace Loretta on February 11, 1919. Mr.  Heaney has two sisters living. The elder is Mrs. H. C. Taber of Los Angeles, the wife of a well-known member of the Los Angeles fire department; the younger is the, wife of J. E. Fenton, an instructor in mechanics in the Southern Pacific Railroad shop. Mrs.  Heaney has two brothers and a sister. Bernard J. is a sophomore at Berkeley; John J., a salesman, is proud of his military record; and Mary E. is a student at the Girls’ College at San Francisco.

MACK HENRY MORRISON.—A man who has had a share in various building enterprises in and around Santa Ana, and has thereby helped to construct one of the most beautiful of Southern California cities, is Mack Henry Morrison, who was born a native son in Hornitos, Mariposa County, on January 3, 1867, the son of a sturdy pioneer. Mack Henry Morrison, who crossed the plains and mountains from Little Rock, Ark., to California in 1850. He located in Mariposa County and married Miss Susan Titchenal, the daughter of William H. Titchenal, an early settler of Santa Ana. Five of Mr. and Mrs. Morrison’s children still survive, and Mack Henry is the third son among them.

He attended the common schools in Mariposa and was reared on a farm of three hundred twenty acres, five miles northeast of Hornitos, Cal., where his father raised stock and grain, the nearest market being Merced. In 1883, he was sent to Santa Ana to attend school, after which he returned to his father’s farm. Then he worked out, saved his earnings, and in 1889 came back to Santa Ana and Orange County, and soon thereafter entered the employ of Frank and George Heil as a brickmason.  On October 2, 1888, Mr. Morrison was married, at Snelling, to Miss Ida Hamilton, daughter of Joel and Sarah Hamilton, of Snelling, Merced County. She came to California as a girl with her parents from Moberly, Mo., and it was not long before she had thoroughly caught the California spirit. For seven years, Mr. Morrison farmed for himself in Merced County before coming to Orange County to make his home in this thriving locality.

In 1896, the happy couple located on the old Neal Place on Bristol Street, in Santa Ana, and then, for a year, he went to El Modena and the Hot Springs. After a while, he purchased a ranch at 1120 East Washington Street—a home place with three acres of walnuts and a good family orchard, where he now makes his residence.  Meanwhile, he is an employee at C. H. Chapman Lumber Yards in Santa Ana. He has other important financial interests besides those of his ranch, so that, with his daily labor, he is a busy man indeed.

Six children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Morrison: Crystal is the wife of Dyas Kenner, a rancher, at Tomato Springs, and the mother of a child, Alieen; Loftus B. is at home, with a fine record as a graduat.e of the Orange County Business College and as a soldier; Marvin, a graduate of Pomona College and at present the athletic director, football coach, and professor at the Santa Ana high school, also has a military record, receiving the commission of ensign; he married Miss Cecil Wood, of Beverly Hills; Orval is in the fire department at Portland, Ore.; Rosalind attends the Lincoln school; and Evelyn is in the Santa Ana intermediate. The family worship at the Methodist Episcopal Church South, at Santa Ana. Mr. Morrison, who is a Democrat, has always supported prohibition. He is an active member of the Maccabees. 

JOEL BRUCE HANDY.—Even as a boy the inclinations of Joel Bruce Handy were in the direction of agricultural pursuits and at the early age of sixteen he started ranching on his own account. A native son of Orange County, he has grown to manhood in his home environment and has been a liberal contributor to modern ideas on the subject of vegetable growing, particularly of the Monstrous variety lima beans.  The next to the youngest of four children born to Owen and Mary (Parker)

Handy, Joel B. Handy was born December 5. 1881, on Handy Street in Orange, Cal.  His schooling was received in the schools of Villa Park and he was always a leader in athletics during his school days, being very proficient in all kinds of sports and games.  In 1897 he decided to start out on his own responsibility, although but a boy, and he began the growing of vegetables. At first he grew only small produce, such as peas, beans, corn, etc., marketing his produce at Los Angeles and San Francisco. He was the pioneer in the growing of small vegetables in the Villa Park district and was one of the founders of the Orange County Vegetable Association, with headquarters at Villa Park. Mr. Handy was always very successful in his work and soon became purchasing agent for the large commission firms of Quadroos and Joseph, and Jacobs and Malcolm, both of San Francisco. He was also the representative of the Aggeler-Musser Seed Company for some time and proved up on the Monstrous lima bean here and at Laguna Beach, which has proved the biggest bearer of all lima beans. For about seven years of this time he also had a nursery, raising orange and lemon trees.  For the past fifteen years Mr. Handy has been manager of the Handy ranch of thirty acres, which is situated at \’illa Park, devoted to oranges and lemons. In addition to his extensive activities as a vegetable grower he has also become interested in citrus culture, and is the owner of an orchard of seven and a half acres at \’illa Park, half \’alencia oranges and half lemons, and here the family make their home. He is a member of the Central Lemon Association and Villa Park Orchards .Association.

On February 10, 1904, Mr. Handy was united in marriage with Miss Esther May Johnson, born in Michigan, who came to Orange. Cal.. in 1902 with the family of her uncle, G. J. Stock. She is the daughter of Wm. M. and Elizabeth ; [Stock] Johnson. Her father is dead, while her mother now makes her home at Anaheim with a younger brother, Estel Johnson. A sister of Mrs. Handy, Mrs. J. H. Gunnett, resides at Long Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Handy are the parents of three attractive children: Zelda Elizabeth, in Orange Union high school, and Owen William and Bruce Johnson.  A man of unusual energy and initiative, Mr. Handy makes a success of any work that comes his way, and in addition to his profitable ranching activities he is also of an inventive turn, which frequently stands him in good stead in his ranching enterprises.  Notwithstanding a very busy life, Mr. Handy retains his prowess as a sportsman and has a line bungalow and fishing launch at Laguna Beach, where he gets great enjoyment out of the free outdoor life. A firm believer in protection, he is naturally an adherent of the principles of the Republican party.

THEODORE REUTER.—A self-made man who has won recognition as a successful rancher, is Theodore Router, who was born at the old ranch house at 902 Grand Avenue, Santa Ana, on February 12, 1890. His father, Ludwig Reuter, a native of Germany, married a daughter of that country, Magdalena Herchert; and in 1887. when so many were flocking to California on account of the “boom,” they became pioneers of Orange County, following one of Mr. Renter’s brothers, already comfortably settled here, and Mr. Reuter bought eight acres on Fruit and Grand streets.  The second son in a family of four surviving children, Theodore went to the grammar schools in Santa Ana and then took two years of the high school course; and from his seventeenth year he began to give his attention earnestly to agriculture. In 1902, Ludwig Reuter increased his holdings to twenty acres, and in time the family purchased and improved other ranches and then sold them at a profit. At present Theodore is the manager of nineteen and a half acres, in which two brothers and a sister also have a share. Ludwig Reuter died in March, 1915, aged fifty-four years; but his widow is still living at the old home ranch, aged about fifty-six.

Ludwig Reuter became an early winemaker and also wine merchant of Santa Ana, and the old Reuter home place is a landmark known to thousands throughout the county. The old house, too, was once used in Tustin as the early schoolhouse, and so it still has its associations for many. This structure was removed by the ingenious pioneer, who retained it in good condition. Now Theodore has the management of ten acres of walnuts, and about nine acres of oranges. He belongs to the Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association, and also to the Santiago Orange Growers Association.  On August 25, 1916, Mr. Reuter was married to Miss Dorothy Weber, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Weber of West Garden Grove: and one child has blessed their marriage—the baby, Jean. The family attend the Christian Church, and Mr. Reuter is a member of the Fraternal Brotherhood of Santa Ana. In national politics, he is a Republican. Patriotic to the core. Mr. and Mrs. Reuter supported all the Liberty Loan drives during the war.

A sister of Mr. Reuter is Hedwig S., now the wife of Roy W. Angle, master mechanic of the Union Oil Company. A brother is H. A. Reuter, and another brother is Ernest A., who is at home. H. A. Reuter, who is connected with the Santa Ana Register, enlisted in the World War, as did his brother, Ernest, in August, 1917; and for two years they both served overseas. E. A. was in the First Division of the Mobile Repair Ordnance; and H. A. was in the Supply Service at Neuf Chateau. France. In 1919. at San Francisco, they received their honorable discharges. 

OTTO L. AHLEFELD.—A native of California in all but birth, Otto L. Ahlefcld has lived in Orange County since his third year, so that his memory of his childhood days does not reach beyond its borders. He was born in Lombard, a short distance from Chicago, ILL. January 4, 1894, his parents being George and Louise (Stanch) Ahlefeld, both of whom were born in Germany, the father coming to America from his old home at Hamburg when but a young lad. There were six children in the Ahlefeld family, three of whom are living: Fred E. married Miss Gertrude Lippe of Santa Ana and they are the parents of one child. Richard; Otto L., the subject of this sketch; and Ethel, the only daughter, resides with her parents in Orange.

George Ahlefeld farmed in the vicinity of Lombard. ILL., for a number of years, until 1897, when he brought his family to California, settling near Orange, where he immediately began citrus ranching. He still resides on his original purchase, which he has improved and developed, having erected a comfortable residence on the property some years ago. Otto was reared on the home place, receiving a good education in the public schools at Orange. He early began to help his father on the ranch, so was fortunate when but a boy in getting a thorough and practical knowledge of the citrus industry. In 1916 he purchased a tract of five acres at Olive and this he has developed and improvcd, planting it to oranges, and he has had water piped to it for irrigation purposes from the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. In 1920 he made a considerable addition to his holdings by the purchase of a well developed ranch of ten acres on Palmyra and Santiago Creek. Five acres of this ranch are set to Valencia oranges, while the remainder of the acreage is taken up with the buildings and a thriving walnut orchard. His ranch at Olive is now leased to the Olive Petroleum Company.  On August 30. 1916, Mr. Ahlefeld was married to Miss Verona Strong, born in this county, a daughter of Carl and Alice (Straud) Strong, who were pioneers of Orange and are still ranchers in Los Angeles County, Mrs. Strong being a native daughter of California. One child, Carl G., has been born to Mr. and Mrs., Ahlefeld. They make their home on the ten-acre ranch which Mr. Ahlefeld purchased this year and here he is devoting his time and energy to bringing the place up to the highest degree of cultivation.  Seeing the benefits accruing from organization among the growers, Mr. Ahlefeld is a member of the McPherson Heights Citrus Association and of the Olive Hillside Growers Association, also of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. Politically he is a believer in the principles of the Republican party. He is a member of the Lutheran Church at Orange and botli of them are active in its circles, where they enjoy a wide popularity.

LEROY A. WARREN.  A professional man whose choice of the open-air life of California made him a rancher, and whose common sense and experience have made liini conservative in his progressive operations, is Leroy A. Warren, known to those who really know him as public spirited and patriotic in every particular. He was born in Arkansas City, Kans., on September 14. 1891, the son of Thomas L. Warren, now a business man and property owner at Santa Ana, where he also has a brother in business, Howard T. Warren. Thomas Warren was born in Iowa in 1866, and later moved to Kansas. He had married Hiss Elizabeth Wilson, who was born in Ohio in 1862, and they came to Santa Ana on Christmas Eve, 1900, bringing their three children —our subject, an older brother, Martin W. Warren, now in the post office at Santa Ana, and a younger brother, William H. Warren, who is with the Union Oil Company of Santa Monica.

Leroy Warren attended the grammar schools at Santa Ana. and in 1911 was graduated from the high school of this city, after which and during the academic year of 1912-13 he was a student at Occidental College. Then he matriculated at the Santa Barbara Normal school, from which he was duly graduated in 1914. He first taught in the Visalia high school, where he was the athletic trainer for a year, giving instruction as well in the other city schools, and from 1917 to 1919 he was a teacher in the manual arts department of the high school at Santa Ana, and was athletic trainer and football coach at Santa Ana.

In 1919 Mr. Warren retired from his professional work and on April 26 bought three and a half acres of oranges and one and a half acres of lemons at Villa Park—a small ranch, having a fine residence and an orchard. He has five shares in the Serrano \Vater Company and three shares in the Santiago Well Company, and with tliis most adequate irrigation he is an independent shipper, and has come to enjoy an enviable reputation for the quality of his ranch products.

On Decemlier 28, 1916, Mr. Warren was married to Miss Ruth E. Alexander, of Hollywood, who was a fellow-student with Mr. Warren at the Santa Barbara Normal school. She is a lady of excellent accomplishments, wdio also taught school, instructing in domestic science at the Inglewood schools. Their one child, James .Mexander, was born on May 15, 1918. Mr. Warren supports the Community Church at Villa Park, and under the leadership of the Republican part3’ endeavors to work for improved civic standards.

ALFRED W. LEICHTFUSS.— A live worker and. therefore, a very live wire in the Orange Men’s Club, boasting at present a membership of nearly 150, is Alfred W.  Leichtfuss. who was born in Milwaukee, Wis., on July 1, 1883, the son of August F.  Leichtfuss. also a member of that great commonwealth liy reason of birth. He was a decorator and a dealer in artistic draperies; and after a long, arduous business career, which enabled him to contribute much toward the proper direction and development of artistic taste in Wisconsin, he came out to California to live in retirement, and now resides with his son, our subject, on the home ranch. He had married Miss Auguste Janicke, a native of Germany, who brought to her aid as his life companion the best traits of womanhood and domestic life in her native land, and a tjne appreciation of the social institutions of America and their significance to broad-minded and largehearted women.

Alfred Leichtfuss attended the local grammar schools in Milwaukee, and from his thirteenth year worked hard for a living. He learned the baker’s trade, and was head baker of the busy shop of Heith & Porth, in Milwaukee, continuing in that business for four and a half years. He was the third son in a family of nine children, all still happily alive, and he made good as a salesman. He represented, also, the Edgewood Dairy Farm of Wisconsin, and for years traveled extensively for that well-known concern. In October, 1904, he came to Villa Park and worked as a rancher, and now he owns and operates for himself sixteen acres, ten of which are set out to Valencia's, three to lemons and three to Navel oranges. By hard, steady work, and in various ways he greatly improved his ranch and raised it to a high state of cultivation.  On August 1, 1905, Mr. Leichtfuss was married to Miss Elsie Knuth, and they have three children, all bright students in the neighboring schools. Their names are Wilfred, Harvey and Lawrence. The family attends the Lutheran Church, in which Mr. Leichtfuss has served on the building committee. He is a member of the Villa Park Orchards and the Central Lemon Growers associations, and he marches in his civic endeavors in the ranks of the Republican party.

MANSON ROUSE.—An enterprising ranchman, with a fine knowledge of horticulture and full of the progressive spirit of the twentieth century, is Manson Rouse, who was born at San Francisco on September 3, 1897, the son of D. M. Rouse, a native of Agency County, Iowa, where he was born in 1870. He had married Sarah Mc-Cullough, a native of County Armagh