FIRST NATIONAL BANK, TUSTIN— The history of the finance and the financial institutions of a community are an index to its growth and development as a whole, and the First National Bank of Tustin, Cal., has been conspicuously successful since its establishment, February 5, 1912. Organized with a capital of $25,000, its volume of business grew from its inception to a marked degree, and judicious management increased its capital to $50,000, with deposits amounting to $286,887.96. W. C. Crawford was the first president of the institution and C. J. Cranston its first cashier.  Its present officers are: C. E. Utt, president; John Dunstan, vice-president; C. A. Vance, cashier; W. S. Leinberger, assistant cashier; directors: C. E. Utt, John Dunstan, Sherman Stevens, V. V. Tubbs, I. L. Marchant, C. A. Miller and C. A. Vance.

C. A. Vance, cashier of the bank, has displayed his perfect knowledge of the banking business in the creditable manner in which he has filled his important position. He is a native of Kansas, and in 1912, having disposed of a bank in his native state, removed to Chula Vista, Cal., where he organized the Chula Vista State Bank. He sold this bank in August, 1916, and January 1, 1917, located at Tustin.

William S. Leinberger, assistant cashier of the bank, is a native of Nebraska, and was born in 1883. He is the son of L. F. and Kate Leinberger, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively. He was reared and educated in the public schools of his native state, and in 1910, at the age of seventeen, migrated to California, first locating at Alhambra, Cal., graduating from the business college there, later teaching bookkeeping there for a year. He then was with the Alhambra Savings Bank until he took his present position as assistant cashier in the Tustin First National Bank.

Don Marco Forster died in 1904, the father of six children, among whom John O. was the third in the order of birth. The others were Marco H.. Frank A. — a partner in various enterprises with our subject — George H., Ysidora, the wife of Cornelio Echenique, and Lucana, later Mrs. Thomas McFaddcn of Fullerton. When Don Marco passed away, John O. Forster was made an executor.

Romantic was the career of the founder of this virile family. Don Juan Forster who was a captain of one of the fine old sailing vessels of early days, married into a long-established and wealthy Spanish family, and so later came to control one of the most noted principalities of pre-pioneer days; and equally romantic has been the history of Don Juan's renowned ranch. The ranch really included three old Spanish grants, the Santa Margarita, the Mission Viejo, at San Juan Capistrano, and the Trabuco, each with its own romantic history. The two first-mentioned originally belonged to the Picos; but in the forties John Forster, having captured the heart of Don Pico's sister, secured the ranches also. John Forster became esteemed and powerful as Don Juan; and on his death left such a heritage that it would have required in the days of no irrigation a small fortune to manage, and manage successfully. As it was, his heirs passed it into the hands first of Charles Crocker, then of James Flood, and finally of Richard O'Neill.

John O. Forster attended the public schools at San Juan Capistrano, and later studied at St. Vincent and Santa Clara colleges. Then he went to work on his father's ranch, caring for his cattle, and after that, for four years was proprietor of a general merchandise store and was postmaster at San Juan Capistrano. In that old historic town, too, he was married in 1900 to Miss Mae Marshall, a native of Virginia City, then residing at Reno, Nev., a lady who has proven the most helpful of life-mates. Mr. Forster has become the prime mover in the San Juan Capistrano Walnut Association, and he is also interested in the Capistrano Water Company. He belongs to the Mission Church, and for eighteen years has been a member of the board of trustees having charge of the grammar school. In 1901 he erected his comfortable home, amid some seventy acres of walnuts.

Frank A. Forster, John's brother, who was born at Los Flores on December 7, 1871, is in partnership with John and other members of the family, the children of the long-honored pioneers thus preserving a pleasant tradition of early days. With common interests and generous sympathies, these thoroughly representative Californians are able to accomplish enough to give new force to the old adage, "In union there is strength," and to renew the assurance that property and wealth need not and ought not to be a bone of contention, but rather a source of felicitation among near of kin.

HON. Z. B. WEST  — Orange County has never failed to appreciate the worthiest of its judiciary, and distinguished among these who have deserved the highest esteem and confidence may be mentioned Hon. Zephanian B. West, the efficient and popular judge of Department One of the Superior Court, at Santa Ana. He was born in Wayne County, Ill., on March 1, 1852, and first came to the Golden State in the great "boom" year for Southern California, in 1887. His father was Samuel West and he married Miss Margaret A. Hoover. To this union there were born nine children, five boys and four girls. They settled and did yeoman work in pioneering in Southern Illinois, encountering every hardship incident to making a farm and a home in a new and unsubdued wilderness country, such as that was at that time. They were very poor and upon the subject of our sketch — he being the eldest of the children — the burden of assisting in supporting the family fell very heavily, but ever mindful of his duty as a faithful son, he manfully remained with his parents and shared their burdens and hardships until he was twenty-one years of age; then launched out in pursuit of an education for which he had longed and thirsted; and without aid from any one, even to the extent of one cent, he pressed on and by self-denial, with indomitable energy, optimistic courage and the greatest sacrifice, completed the education he so much desired and began his professional career which has moved onward to higher and more worthy attainments and to his present important and influential position.

Mr. West graduated in 1876 from the National Normal University of Lebanon. Ohio, upon the completion of the full teacher's course prescribed by that splendid institution with the degree of B.S., and three years later from the Central Normal College of Danville, Indiana, with the degree of A.B. He then read law in Illinois and was admitted to the bar, upon examination before the Supreme Court of that state, in 1885. He was thus well grounded in legal subjects before he left his native state to push out into the world.

Coming to California, he settled at Santa Ana and here opened a law office for general practice; was city attorney for seven years, and conducted the legal proceedings by which the Santa Ana Water Works were installed — Santa Ana being the second city to take such action under the municipal law as it then stood. He was chairman of the Board of Education of Santa Ana for four years, and served five years on the State Normal School Board, and was acting in that capacity when the Normal School at San Diego was erected. He was also appointed by the Board of Supervisors district attorney of Orange County, to fill a vacancy for two years, and at the general election in 1902, when he had well established a wide reputation for clear thinking and honest, fearless dealing, he was elected judge of the Superior Court for six years, and has since succeeded himself each consecutive six years; so when he finishes his present term he will have served in that high office twenty-four years. In addition to his undergraduate work, the real foundation laid for much of this public service was Judge West's experience as an Eastern pedagogue. He was superintendent of schools of the city of Fairfield, Ill., for two years, and county school superintendent of Wayne County, Ill., for five years, and was engaged in school work altogether for about fourteen years — a part of this time before he had graduated from college.

At Fairfield, Ill., on May 20, 1885. Mr. West, who is of English and Scotch-Irish descent, married Miss Elizabeth E. Wright, a daughter of Stephen and Emma Wright, of English ancestry; and their fortunate union has been further blessed by the birth of five children: Lulu A. West married R. Victor Langford, and Z. Bertrand West, Jr., married Miss Linna Yarnell. The other children are Marguerite E., Frank Gordon and Edmund C. West. Judge West is a member of the First Baptist Church of Santa Ana, and was superintendent of the Sunday school for almost twenty-eight years. He is still a valued and influential member and also of the Men's Club of that Church.

The Judge is a staunch, broad-minded Republican, and has unbounded confidence in the principles of that great party. He has been initiated into three branches of Masonry, knows the mysteries of two branches of the Odd Fellowship, is a Maccabee and a member of the Fraternal Brotherhood. This interesting career, so typical of American progressive manhood, is of double appeal, for it reveals the many-sidedness of the Judge and easily explains his broad sympathies and his ability — so widely appreciated by both the legal fraternity and the public in general — to enter into almost every phase of social, business and political life, and so render justice far more surely than would have been possible had he not run the gamut.

WILLIAM J. EDWARDS — A resident of Orange County for more than forty- six years, William J. Edwards has contributed a large share to the development of the Westminster district, where he continues to make his home. Born in Derinda Township, Jo Daviess County, Ill., April 22, 1858, Mr. Edwards grew up there on his father's ISO-acre farm, attending the schools of the neighborhood. His parents were Samson and Diana (Rogers) Edwards, of whom mention is made on another page in this history.

Coming to California in 1874, John H. and William J. Edwards rented a tract of 320 acres of land in the Westminster district, which they farmed in partnership, going in on a large scale in raising grain, potatoes and live stock. After five years the partnership was dissolved, William J. carrying on the ranching alone and meeting with great success, later renting 160 acres from his father, which he farmed for sixteen years, then bought it. He had purchased his present place of forty acres in 1881, and gave it to his three older children, but in 1914 and 1915 bought it back. He is also the owner of the original Edwards homestead of forty acres, which he purchased in 1916. He also has owned and improved three other ranches in the Westminster and Wintersburg precincts, and had 1,280 acres of land in Arizona, near Casa Grande, also property at Seal Beach. In 1914 he erected his attractive bungalow on the Santa Ana -Huntington Beach Boulevard, which he has named "The Tortoise Shell."

In 1878, William J. Edwards was married to Miss Ella Johnson of Garden Grove, born in Solano County, the daughter of Irvin and Elizabeth Johnson, who came there from Missouri. She passed away in 1891, leaving five children: Ernest William, a rancher near Bishop, Inyo County, is married and has five children; Elizabeth Lillian is the wife of Glenn L. Baker, a rancher in Tulare County, and she is the mother of six children; Harry James resides in Hemet, and has two children; Frances Henrietta is the wife of J. W. Stufflebeem, a rancher at Visalia, and they have one child; Bessie Ellen is the wife of George Harris of Lemon Cove, and she has one child by her first marriage with James Harvey. Mr. Edwards' second marriage, which occurred in 1892. united him with Miss Nettie Kelley, born in Nebraska, the daughter of John and Mary J. Kelley, both now deceased. Six children have been born to them: Eugene J. is a rancher near Wintersburg and has one child; Cecil Violet is the wife of Benjamin Craig of Phoenix, Ariz., and has two children; Sylvia Juanita is the wife of Albert G. Kettler, a rancher of Buena Park; Ben Samson, Rufus Henry and Nettie Adelaide are at home.

Of late years, Mr. Edwards has been interested in the citrus and walnut industry and he now has twenty acres devoted to orchard, his Valencia grove now being four years old. Although always a very busy man, with many business interests, he has never allowed himself to become so absorbed in business cares as to forget that a reasonable amount of recreation is a necessity in everyone's life. A number of years ago he had a wagon fitted up especially for camping trips, with sleeping and cooking facilities ingeniously arranged. With his family he has taken many camping trips in this wagon, one trip several years ago being through the Yosemite Valley. Mr. Edwards has had the wagon mounted on a Ford chassis so that it is now more of service than ever, especially for long trips, and during the early part of the year 1920 he drove it on a long camping trip in the mountains. Mr. Edwards is a member of the Westminster Drainage District and of the Lima Bean Growers' Association of Smeltzer. An independent, both in religious and political matters, he has lived a consistent, upright life, following his own creed of justice and honesty in all his dealings with his fellowmen. He helped to make the division of Orange from Los Angeles County, and has lived here all those years.

HIRAM CLAY KELLOGG — Perhaps no one does more to help in the development of a new country and particularly to benefit future generations than the efficient civil engineer, and for this reason the name of H. Clay Kellogg of Santa Ana, is indelibly associated with Orange County. His works will live as monuments after he has passed hence. From the earliest days of the county up to the present time, and not alone in this section is his work known, but throughout the state and beyond its confines he has long been recognized as one of the most able men in his profession. The favorite saying of the famous educator, Horace Mann, "We should be ashamed to die until we have done something to help the world," is one of the favorite maxims of H. Clay Kellogg. A native son of California, he was born near St. Helena, Napa County, on Admission Day, September 9, 1855, the eldest son and child of Benjamin Franklin and Mary Orilla (Lillie) Kellogg, both descendants of old New England families who were among the pioneer settlers of Illinois. A sketch of the family is given on another page of this history.

Even in his early years Mr. Kellogg manifested a decided inclination towards the profession of civil engineer, and he was fortunate in being privileged to obtain the necessary education and training to perfect himself in his chosen calling. In 1879 he was graduated from Wilson College (now extinct) at Wilmington, Cal. During the time he attended this institution, through the friendship of Captain Smith, the engineer in charge of this section of the Coast Survey, Mr. Kellogg was fortunate in being employed to work out the triangulations of the survey of the Wilmington and San Pedro harbors and was furnished the necessary instruments for that purpose. After completing his course in the college he did not engage in his profession for about four years as he had taken contracts to set out vineyards at Anaheim, Placentia and Pasadena, this being the period when the grape industry was at its height in Southern California.

Mr. Kellogg's first important contract was the laying out of the town of Elsinore, in Riverside County, in 1883. The following year he was made chief engineer of the Anaheim Union Water Company, just organized, and ever since that date he has been employed as engineer or consulting engineer for the company. He held a like position with the Anaheim Irrigation system until the district was declared invalid. In 1885 he was chosen to fill the office of deputy county surveyor of Los Angeles County. In 1888 he surveyed and built the railroad running from the center of San Bernardino, through Colton to Riverside and operated it for eight months. This is now a part of the Southern Pacific system. In 1886-87 he laid out South Riverside, now Corona, remaining as engineer of its water system until 1900. In 1894 he was selected for the important post of constructing engineer of the dam at Gila Bend, Ariz., where he remained until the completion of the work.

Upon his return to Orange County, which section of the state has been his home since the year 1869, he was elected county surveyor, serving until January, 1899, when he was elected city engineer of Santa Ana. The work before him was the development of the sewer system of the city, a task that he was most competent to undertake and which he completed to the satisfaction of everyone. In 1900 he went to Honolulu, where he was engaged as chief engineer by the Wahiawa Water Company, and built two immense reservoirs by damming up both forks of the Kaukonahua River, running each side of the Wahiawa Colony; he also constructed a canal from the mountains to irrigate the colony and as an adjunct to the reservoirs, one of these having a capacity of 2,500,000,000 gallons. The waters of these reservoirs irrigate the lands of the Wahiawa Agricultural Company, being carried by a canal seven miles in length. In 1905 he was employed as consulting engineer to make a report on, and revise the plans of the Naunna dam above Honolulu and this dam has been constructed on his plans.

Upon the organization of the holding company for the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company and the Anaheim Union Water Company, known as the Santa Ana River Development Company, to look after the water supply and protect, the water rights, Mr. Kellogg was employed as engineer, and still holds that important post. His duties are to measure the water each year from the source to the intake of the canals near
the county line in Orange County and make such necessary investigations for lawsuits which occur in the protection of their rights, and in this field he is recognized as an authority and always called upon for expert testimony. In 1906, when the Newbert Protection District was organized to control the water of the Santa Ana River from Santa Ana to the ocean, a distance of ten and one-half miles, he was appointed engineer and still holds that position. In 1910, after a period of twenty years, he returned to Corona, arranged for and built the storm drains and sewer system for the city, two previous attempts having failed.

Mr. Kellogg has constructed many miles of paving and built bridges in various cities and counties in Southern California, and has built up a clientele second to none of any other engineer in the state. With a decided talent for architecture, he designed the attractive residence at 122 Orange Street, Santa Ana, which has been his home for a number of years. During the year 1918-19 he constructed a beautiful mausoleum, 100x200, of concrete, marble and bronze, at Oakland, Cal., a credit to Mr. Kellogg as a builder, and had he not chosen the profession of engineering, he doubtless could have won fame and success in the architectural field.

Mr. Kellogg has been twice married; his first union was with Miss Victoria Schulz, a native of Iowa. She passed away in 1891, leaving a daughter, Victoria Sibyl, who was graduated from the Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles. She is the wife of Ralph R. Michelsen, born in Los Angeles, a mechanic who works in steel, but with a strong penchant for raising poultry. They have two bright children, Ralph Copeland and Charlotte Augusta. Mr. and Mrs. Michelsen reside in Orange County. In 1895, at Portland, Ore., Mr. Kellogg was married to Miss Helen V. Kellogg, a native of Wisconsin, who spent her early life in North Dakota, and is a graduate of the high and normal schools and of the State University of North Dakota, a talented lady who presides over the family home and is an invaluable helpmate to her gifted husband. This union has been blessed with four children — Helen, Hiram Clay, Jr., Leonard Franklin and Oahu Rose.

In fraternal circles Mr. Kellogg is a Mason, having been made a member of Santa Ana Lodge, No. 241, F. & A. M.; and he belongs to the Chapter; the Council, where he has been illustrious master; the Commandery, in which he is a past eminent commander, and is a member of the Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., in Los Angeles. For years he was prominent in the Native Sons of the Golden West, serving as president of the Invincible Parlor, and also held the office of deputy district grand president for fourteen years, and is now among the oldest of the Native Sons of California. 

He has always been prominent in the affairs of the Technical Society of Civil Engineers of the Pacific Coast. Notwithstanding the busy life he has led, H. Clay Kellogg has never neglected his duties as a citizen of the county, but has given of his time and means to further those projects that have had as their aim the betterment of social and civic conditions and in all such work he has had the active cooperation of his wife and they have a wide circle of friends wherever known.

JOHN H. EDWARDS — Now living retired at Santa Ana, John H. Edwards occupies a distinct place among the honored pioneer ranchers of Orange County, as for close to half a century he has been identified with its progress, and through his aggressiveness and energy liberally contributing to every enterprise, not only of his own neighborhood, but of the whole country round about.

While the greater part of his life has been passed in California, Mr. Edwards is a native of Wisconsin, and there he was born near Hazel Green on October 16, 1855. His parents were Samson and Diana (Rogers) Edwards, honored residents of Orange County for many years, a sketch of their lives being found elsewhere in this history. During the early boyhood of Mr. Edwards, his parents removed to Jo Daviess County, Ill., and there he remained until early manhood. Then, in 1874, he came to California -with his father, Samson Edwards, and located near Westminster in Orange County, and there they rented a ranch, which they cultivated together until John H. was twenty-one years of age. He then entered into a partnership with his brother, William J. Edwards, and for a number of years they were engaged in ranching, leasing land which they devoted to corn, barley, potatoes and live stock. They also maintained a dairy and conducted a meat business, running wagons over a wide scope of territory, and as they were energetic and progressive, they soon became leaders in the agricultural development of the Westminster section.

In 1882 Mr. Edwards purchased a ranch of his own near Westminster, and here he made his home until his removal to Santa Ana. His original purchase was a tract of forty acres, and this he added to until he owned 270 acres of valuable land. In connection with his ranching Mr. Edwards conducted a thriving butcher business for a number of years. In 1907 he rented the land to his two eldest sons, who have since given the ranch their careful attention, keeping it up to the same high state of cultivation. Despite his busy life in the early days of development of Orange County, Mr. Edwards was always keenly alive to the need for betterment of conditions in his community, and to any measure that was of present or future value to the county. As one of the directors of the Smeltzer branch of the Home Telephone Company, he was instrumental in the establishment of the telephone system connecting his neighborhood with the larger centers of the country. He was also a director of the Bolsa Tile Factory, whose products were a much-needed factor in the development and improvement of large tracts of land in Orange County.

Mr. Edwards' marriage, which was solemnized at Los Angeles, united him with Miss Julia A. Penhall, a native daughter of California, whose father, Uriah Penhall, was a pioneer of the Golden State, coming here in the early days and engaging in mining. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Edwards: Reuben W., Lloyd E., Daisy M., wife of O. J. Day of Westminster, Mildred N. and Glen W.

MONSIGNOR HENRY EUMMELEN— If California the Golden, famed to the wide, wide world, is noted for anything besides its matchless climate and all the advantages to health and human happiness arising from that priceless blessing, it is that the great commonwealth is an empire of favored homes, a place where one may find peace and contentment, in an environment of uplift and hope, if one is disposed to be contented, happy and prosperous anywhere. For this second blessing — an advanced and assured state, of society — Californians are indebted to various agencies long and strenuously at work; chief among which have been the untiring ministrations of the scholarly and faithful clergy, working unselfishly year in and year out to make the world a better place to live in, and California, perhaps, the choicest corner of all.

Eminent among these leaders of church work who have thus dedicated themselves and all that they control or direct to the public good, and often to the good of a public not always exactly in accord with them, may well be mentioned the Very Reverend Monsignor Henry Eummelen, distinguished years ago as the youngest Monsignor in the United States or Canada, and now a natural leader among the prelates of Santa Ana, who was born in the city of Lutterade, province of Limburg, Holland, on December 8, 1862 — a day doubtless serenely quiet in staid old Netherlands, but a date memorable for the beginning of General Grant's operations against Vicksburg, which riveted anew the attention of the Old World on America. His father was John Mathias Eummelen, who had married Miss Maria Elizabeth Demackcr; and being God-fearing folk, and having noted the early aspiration of their first-born to consecrate himself to the service of the Almighty, they afforded him every opportunity to prepare for the priesthood. For a while he attended the Jesuit College at Sittaert, Holland, but after four years, when he was just sixteen, he came to this country with his parents.

At Teutopolis, Ill., he resumed his studies, and remained for another four years at the Franciscan College, and then, for a year, he taught school. When he matriculated again, it was at the seminary at Mount Angel, Marion County, Ore., but since the Benedictines were not prepared to take secular students, he went to Vancouver, Wash., on the application of Bishop Junger, and taught at the college there for two semesters. He then went to New Westminster, B. C., where he joined Bishop Durieu in missionary work among the nine different tribes of Indians.

Impelled by the desire to resume his studies and reach his goal, Mr. Eummelen went for a while to the Ottawa University; and, as his parents had removed from Nebraska to California, he came to Bishop Mora, the first Bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles, who sent him to Santa Barbara to finish his theology under the famous Very Reverend Father Bergmeyer. When the latter gave up teaching, Mr. Eummelen came south to Los Angeles and taught languages at St. Vincent's, at the same time that he pursued his theological studies; and on the removal of his parents to Kansas, he accompanied them, to look after their affairs. Bishop Fink, of Leavenworth, was only too glad to welcome him to his diocese, and asked him to become a priest under his jurisdiction.

Our subject was thus ordained to the priesthood in Leavenworth on February 28, 1890, by Bishop L. M. Fink, and said his first mass in the Sacred Heart Church at Newbury, Kans., on the second of March following, in the presence of his parents and other relatives, and his first charge was that of assistant at the Cathedral. Subsequently he had to attend different missions in eastern Kansas, as a result of which the arduous pioneer work of those early days proved altogether too much for his, or the average man's, strength. His health broke down, and he was advised by his physicians to move west again to the Pacific Coast.

Knowing Bishop Durieu of Vancouver personally, he went to him and there, as the only secular priest in the diocese, he labored for nine years, and during that time he made it possible to enlarge, the Church of the Holy Rosary, which has since become the Pro-Cathedral, and he erected the parochial school and St. Paul's Hospital. Not being able, however, to live any longer in that climate, he came to Southern California and took up his abode in San Diego, where he spent three years in the drearisome effort to recuperate his health; and, again feeling stronger, he volunteered his services to Bishop County of Los Angeles. The Bishop sent him to the Imperial Valley, and there, during three years of hardships in a pioneer country, he built no less than four churches. He was then sent to National City, and there erected a church; and he also caused one to be built at Otay. As far back as 1896, at the time of the patronal feast of the Church of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Bishop Durieu, on October 3, had Pope Leo XIII, in recognition of Father Eummelen's worth, ability and eminent services, appoint him a Monsignor, and the year previous he had been made an Honorary Canon of the Holy House of Loretto; and with all the years of added experience, accomplishment, prestige and influence, the Monsignor was given his present charge, in 1913 — the important parish of St. Joseph's Church at Santa Ana.

On March 2, 1915, occurred the silver jubilee of Monsignor, or plain Father Eummelen, as he prefers to be called, and never, perhaps, has Orange County so honored itself in a similar way as in the proper celebration of the event — a celebration that took on more significance on account of the history of the flourishing parish. The first Catholic Church of Santa Ana was built and dedicated in 1887, and it was then called the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary. It was ministered to at first by priests from Anaheim, but later it had its own pastors — notably the Rev. Fathers Byrne, Grogan and Remhardt. In 1896 the little Church was completely destroyed by fire. The congregation rebuilt at once, and the new church was dedicated the same year. After the burning of the first church, the congregation was again attended from Anaheim, until July, 1903.

After successive pastorates by the Rev. Father Joseph O'Reilly, the Rev. Father John Reynolds and the Rev. Fathers F. X. Becker and P. Stoeters (under whom the old debt hanging over the church was paid off), Monsignor Eummelen took charge in April, 1913, of St. Joseph's congregation, and he not only enlarged the church, but also the parochial residence. Now, after its enlargement and restoration, the church's interior presents a fine appearance. The furniture, though not ostentatious, is very pleasing, and contributes to the devotional spirit characterizing the place, and among the useful adornments are beautiful "Stations of the Cross" of very large proportions, painted in oil on canvas, and real works of art. This artistic work was done in the church building itself by the young Belgian artist, M. Ravenstein, who received his education in the art schools of Germany and France.

He also built the schoolhouse and established the parochial school. He is now completing a large addition to the school, which will give an additional seating capacity for seventy-five pupils. The school and high school are under the supervision of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Eureka, Cal. Preparing for future growth he has purchased a block of five acres of land one block north of the present site, on which he plans to build a new church at a cost of $100,000, then the present church and school buildings will be devoted exclusively to the use of the Mexican population of the parish.

During the eight years Monsignor Eummelen has been in charge, eight girls from the parish have joined the Sisterhood and two of the young men have become ecclesiastics, and the Knights of Columbus and kindred church societies are in a very flourishing condition. The school has been brought to a high standard and is not alone patronized by members of the congregation but by children from families of other denominations, who appreciate its high moral standard. It is visited by the county superintendent of schools, who gives it the highest commendations. He has been
very active in the building up of churches and congregations in California, and in this diocese he has built eight different churches. Monsignor Eummelen also takes an active part in civic affairs as well as in the growth and development of the county. Every worthy movement that has for its aim the improvement or upbuilding of the county receives his hearty cooperation and support. During the late war he took part in the different drives for Liberty Bonds and other war funds, and was one of the four-minute speakers. He also organized the Catholic Homeseekers Information Bureau of the United States, with headquarters in Los Angeles. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Santa Ana Lodge of Elks.

On the occasion of the Jubilee referred to, a poem, by Clarice C. Keefe, entitled "Pastor Fidelis," was dedicated to the jubilarian, and there were religious ceremonies at St. Joseph's Church, which began at 10 o'clock in the morning with solemn high mass. The procession proceeded from the rectory, led by the acolytes with their lighted candles, while three little girls dressed in white, carried before the jubilarian a white velvet cushion, upon which reposed a silver wreath of the symbolic wheat and grapes, and the Monsignor entered the church of which he had been the beloved pastor for two years, attended by the Right Reverend Bishop Conaty and the other clergy. The wreath was the gift of Father Eummelen's sister, Sister Mary Elizabeth of the Franciscan Convent in Chicago, who with his niece, Sister Mary Stanislaus of Tucson, were privileged to be present at the Mass. The two small nieces of Father Eummelen, Gertrude Wiedenhoff and Marie Rudolph, and little Catherine Mallen had the honor of carrying the wreath. When the three little maidens presented the wreath they made a pretty poetical address.

Immediately upon entering the sanctuary, the Bishop began the ceremony of blessing the church, whose present beauty bears witness to the energy and generosity of its rector. Following the blessing, solemn high mass was sung by Father Eummelen, assisted by the Rev. C. M. Raile as deacon, and the Rev. Father Golden as sub-deacon. Rev. Frank Conaty was master of ceremonies. The Right Reverend Bishop was attended by the Rev. Father Burelbach and the Rev. Father Hummert as deacons of honor. Father Theophilus, O. F. M., of St. Joseph's Church, Los Angeles, a boyhood friend and schoolmate of the jubilarian, preached the sermon, which so eloquently portrayed Father Eummelen's career during the past twenty-five years. The Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Conaty, Bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles, followed with another sermon, and then the litany of the saints was chanted by the clergy, the music being under the direction of Father Fahey. Before the congregation left the Church, a committee of men of St. Joseph's Society, consisting of J. M. Maag, J. W. Hageman and Henry Cochems, stepped to the railing and presented the Monsignor with a well- filled purse as a slight token of appreciation from the parish. A banquet followed, with toasts by L. M. Doyle, Mayor Ey, Father Fahey, Father Burelbach, Father Theophilus, Father Dubbel, Dr. Jos. Sarsfield Glass, then pastor of St. Vincent's, Los Angeles, and now Bishop of Salt Lake, Father Neusius, Bishop Conaty, Judge Thomas of the superior court. Father Campbell, and the guest of honor, Monsignor Eummelen himself. The receipt of many telegrams added to the pleasure of the event.

LEWIS AINSWORTH — A prominent business man of Orange, whose healthy influence was felt far beyond the confines of both county and state, was the late Lewis Ainsworth, who passed away on March 22, 1914, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. He was born at Woodbury, Vt., in 1829, and came to Jones County, Iowa, with his parents when he was sixteen years of age. They made the trip by way of the rivers and lakes to Illinois, and then continued to Iowa with the aid of teams. In the Hawkeye State they entered Government land; and with from four to six yoke of oxen hitched to a plow broke the prairie and improved their farm. Under this lowan environment the lad Lewis grew up.

In the stirring year of 1849 Lewis Ainsworth crossed the great plains, with other Argonauts, in an ox-team train, and having arrived safely in California, mined for a couple of years. Then, in 1852, he returned East by way of Panama, and on April 24, 1852, was married to Miss Persis Bartholomew, a native of La Moyle, Vt. She came with her parents to Illinois when she was seven years of age, and located at Buffalo Grove, now Paola, and two years later the family moved to the neighborhood of Monticello, Jones County, Iowa. She was the daughter of Daniel Bartholomew, who died in Iowa, and Augusta (Simmons) Bartholomew, who passed away in Napa Valley, Cal. Mrs. Ainsworth received a good education in the schools of Vermont, Illinois and Iowa, and so was a real helpmate to her husband.

The same day of their marriage, Lewis Ainsworth and his bride started across the plains with a horse team and wagon, on a trip which had been recommended for her health; and although she left home an invalid, she could walk and was quite well before the end of the journey. They remained at Jacksonville, Ore., for two years, and then, in 1856 returned to Iowa by way of Panama. They took the steamer John L. Stevens from San Francisco to the Isthmus, and the George Law from the Isthmus to New York; this ship sank on her next trip, with a loss of 365 persons.

Mr. Ainsworth remained on his Iowa farm of 640 acres until 1859, when he again came to California and brought his wife and two children, traveling via Panama. He spent ten years at Weaverville, in Trinity County, where he was engaged in mining and in the wood and timber business, and in 1869 returned to Iowa by the newly-established railway lines. Once more he took up agriculture on his Iowa farm, but in 1877 he sold the farm, and moved to Glasco, in Cloud County, Kans., and there bought several sections of land for the growing of corn and raising of cattle and hogs, which he shipped to the Kansas City markets. In 1888 he removed to Salem, Ore., where he remained until 1889, when they returned to Kansas; and there, with his sons, he started the Ainsworth Bank and ran it until 1900, while he continued to reside there and to prosecute other business interests.

Mr. Ainsworth had been coming in winter time to Southern California, and in 1900 he moved to Orange, and bought a town home and a block of ground. Soon after that, with the aid of his children, he started the Ainsworth Lumber Company, and with the first planing mill there, they made a quick and lasting success. He built the Ainsworth building, was also a stockholder in the First National Bank of Orange, and in the Orange Savings Bank, and was both a builder up and an upbuilder of the city and county. Although never a church member, he was a true Christian, and for over forty years had been an Odd Fellow.

Mrs. Ainsworth, now eighty-four years of age, has survived her husband, and is widely esteemed by all who know her. She is a member of the Christian Church and the Gordon Granger Post, W. R. C., and she continues to reside at the old home on East Chapman Avenue, where her devoted children lighten her labors and shield her from care. Mr. Ainsworth had made thirteen and a half round trips between California and Iowa, and Mrs. Ainsworth made eight and a half trips. For many years she has had the commendable hobby of clipping items of particular interest from the newspapers and pasting them into scrap books, and in this way she made two large books of the Spanish-American War. She has also made fourteen of the World War, besides nine volumes of soldier-boy letters; she began her scrap-book making in 1877, making one every year, excepting years of war, and has made over sixty books in all, and it is probable has never had a rival in California. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Ainsworth are: Frank L., Mitt O. and Mrs. Ina Butler, all residing in Orange.

GEORGE J. MOSBAUGH — Among the most interesting personalities of Orange County must be mentioned that of George J. Mosbaugh, for some time secretary of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and later president of the Commercial Bank of Santa Ana. He was born in a log house on a farm near Cicero, Hamilton County, Ind., on May 17, 1840, and was reared on his father's farm. His father was Conrad Mosbaugh, born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, where he grew up and learned the weaver's trade. He was also married there, on September 1, 1836, to Anna Maria Brehm, and together, the following year, they started for America. They were accompanied by Grandfather Joseph Mosbaugh, or Mosbach, and his entire family. In 1837 they bought land and settled in Hamilton County, Indiana, where
they made a clearing and built a log house, with its mud and stick chimney, from the native hardwood timber, affording them a rude but hospitable home. Joseph Mosbach was born at Offstein, Hesse-Darmstadt, in 1775, and was a farmer by occupation. He married Justina Rasph, who was born in 1781, and they had seven children, and all came to America in 1837. The name was originally written Mosbach, but about 1848 an uncle named Franz began to write it Mosbaugh, on account of the various mispronunciations given the name by English-speaking people. Thereafter, the rest of the kin followed his example. Excepting said uncle, Franz, who was a shoemaker, all the Mosbaughs followed farming.

George Mosbaugh attended the district schools in the pioneer days of Indiana, became a teacher, later a soldier in the Civil War, and after the close of the war resumed his studies at Boyd's Business College at Louisville, Ky., and later studied at the State University of Indiana. After graduating there, he became the proprietor of a commercial college at Terre Haute, Ind., known as the Terre Haute Business College, and still later became proprietor of the Bloomington, Ill., Business College. But, before entering upon his career as professor in business colleges, his first experience was as a teacher in the district schools in Hamilton County, Ind. He was thus engaged in 1862 when he enlisted in the Fifty-first Indiana Volunteer Regiment under Colonel Streight, but did not enter the service for the reason that the recruiting failed to raise the necessary quota of men, and the recruiting officer and himself enlisted as privates in another Indiana regiment. Mr. Mosbaugh then went back to his public school and finished his term of teaching, and after that became a student at Bryant's Business College in Indianapolis, Ind. He was engaged in a mercantile establishment in Indianapolis when in May, 1864, he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and he assisted in guarding the bridge across the Tennessee River, on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railway, and in doing picket duty at Bridgeport, Ala. He was honorably discharged by reason of the expiration of the term of his enlistment on September 5, 1864. After that he took up business college work and conducted the schools already mentioned.

While he was managing the business college at Bloomington, Mr. Mosbaugh went to Indianapolis, and on November 25. 1868, was married to Miss Melissa J. Harrey, a native of Indiana. She died at Santa Ana on October 9, 1896, leaving three children. Edwin H., who was for many years chief of the Redlands Fire Department, is now assistant chief of the department at Riverside; Maude M. is the wife of Dr. J. F. Galloway, the dentist, at San Pedro; and Marie is bookkeeper for a San Diego automobile and tire company.

Mr. Mosbaugh was married a second time, on May 16, 1900, when Mrs. Emma (Palmer) Thelan, the widow of the late Charles C. Thelan, became his wife. Mr. Thelan was a pioneer harness maker of Santa Ana, and they had one child, H. Percy Thelan, of Santa Ana. She was the daughter of Noah and Susan (Evans) Palmer, and was born in Santa Clara County, Cal. Mr. Palmer was a native of Lowville, N. Y., while Mrs. Palmer came from Indiana; and they were married at Laurel, Franklin County, Ind. Mr. Palmer came overland to California in 1849, leaving his wife in Indiana, and in 1852 he went back after her. For a while he mined gold at Placerville, and later he took up a government claim four miles out of Santa Clara, and became one of Santa Clara's early horticulturists. There were three children in Mr. and Mrs. Palmer's family: Almira, Mrs. R. E. Hewitt, came to Santa Ana in 1874, and she and her husband are both now deceased; Emma is the wife of Mr. Mosbaugh, and Lottie E. resides in Santa Ana. Mr. Palmer was very prominent in Santa Ana, where he died on January 10, 1916, preceded some years by his devoted wife, who had passed away on October 28, 1903. They were very highly honored people at Santa Ana, Santa Clara and everywhere else where they had lived, and Mr. Palmer was an excellent farmer, banker and street railroad builder, and was influential in political circles, being a staunch Republican.

Mr. Mosbaugh was engaged as bookkeeper for Lockhart and Company at Pittsburgh, Pa., for nine years, and became a partner in their business in 1873. Two years later he came out to California and settled at Orange, May, 1875, where he lived the first eight and a half years. During this time he developed one of the early orange orchards at Orange. In order to replenish his purse during the waiting time, he accepted the secretaryship of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and at the time of the establishing of the Commercial Bank at Santa Ana, in 1882, he became its first bookkeeper, so that he is able to say, with a smile of satisfaction, "I began as janitor and bookkeeper, and came out as president." Since 1904, Mr. and Mrs. Mosbaugh have resided at their commodious residence at 636 North Broadway.

Mr. and Mrs. Mosbaugh attend the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Mosbaugh is an active member of Sedgwick Post No. 17, G. A. R., in Santa Ana, and has been adjutant and quartermaster for a number of years. He is also a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M.

A few years ago Mr. Mosbaugh prepared a family genealogy, of which he distributed gratuitously one hundred copies among near-of-kin and intimate friends, and in that work he placed the following preface:

 "Aside from our duty and the gratitude we owe to our Creator, to whom do we owe our existence? Is it not to our ancestors, through whom God in His infinite wisdom has given us birth and life? It is wrong for us to say that we do not care for our ancestors. Besides giving us being, they have given us good government, churches, schools and colleges, and laid the foundation for the many blessings we are now enjoying. Let us then keep our family record with pride and reverence. This booklet is intended as s starting point. It is the hope of the writer that each person who receives one will continue to keep an accurate record of his or her family, and will pass it on to coming generations. Read the first seventeen verses of the first chapter of Matthew, and you will readily see that our forefathers in an early day kept a better family record than we are now keeping. Lastly, I desire hereby to express my earnest gratitude to all those who assisted me by furnishing names, dates or information for the completion of this booklet."

Mr. Mosbaugh has always been punctilious, prompt, and most conscientious in all his business affairs, and this in part explains his success in life; he has also been fond of poetry and other idealistic things, and this reflects his inner character. The following are among his favorite selections of poems:

"If with pleasure you are viewing any work a man is doing,
If you like him or you love him, tell him now;
Don't withhold your approbation 'till the parson makes oration,
And he lies with snowy lilies o'er his brow.
No matter how you shout about it, he won't really care about it;
He won't know how many tear-drops you have shed.
If you think some praise is due him, now's the time to slip it to him.
For he cannot read his tombstone when he's dead."

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

“I take it as I go along
That life must have its gloom,
That now and then the sound of song
Must fade from every room;
That every heart must know its woe,
Each door death's sable sign,
Care falls to everyone, and so
I strive to bear with mine. "

“Misfortune is a part of life;
No one who journeys here
Can dodge the bitterness of strife
Or pass without a tear.
Love paves the way for us to mourn.
Our pleasures breed regret.
One day a sparkling joy is born,
The next — our eyes are wet."

“Each life is tinctured with a pain
Of sorrow and of care,
And now and then come clouds and rain,
Come hours of despair.
And yet the sunshine bursts anew,
And those who weep shall smile,
For joy is always breaking through
In just a little while."

GEORGE W. BUCHANAN — A man who has really had much to do with the building up of the town of Orange is George W. Buchanan, since the spring of 1914 superintendent of city streets. He was born in Lafayette township, Medina County, Ohio, on February 13, 1863. the grandson of Samuel and Nancy (Wilson) Buchanan, natives, respectively, of Washington County, Pa., and Brooke County, Va., and representatives of fine old Southern stock. They had a son, George C. Buchanan, the father of our subject, who was born in Wellsburg, Va., and became a carpenter
and builder, and also owned a farm in Lafayette township. On October 12, 1854, he war married to Miss Lydia Carlton, a native of Ohio, where she was born in 1835, the daughter of John and Catherine (Amon) Carlton. In 1864 he enlisted in the Civil War and served as a member of Company D, One Hundred Sixty-sixth Regiment, Ohio National Guard. In the fall of 1910 they came to California and spent over a year in Orange, the father dying in June, 1914, and the mother in July, 1914. The other child of their union is now Mrs. Ida F. Moody of Long Beach.

George W. Buchanan, the younger child, was educated in the grammar schools of his district, and at the Medina high school in Ohio. He then learned the carpenter trade under Henry Prouty, and followed that and farming until his marriage on May 24. 1885. This occurred at Lafayette Township, and his bride was Miss Susan E. Chamberlain, a native of that district, and the daughter of John Chamberlain, who was born in Greenfield, N. H., on June 25. 1829. His father was Abraham Chamberlain, a native of Vermont, where he was born in 1792, who had married Mary Clark, born in 1791. with whom, and their family, he migrated in an ox-cart from Greenfield to Westfield Township, Medina County, Ohio. As there were seven children in the fold, it was quite an undertaking. At Westfield Abraham Chamberlain purchased land in the solid timber and hewed out a farm. In 1856 John Chamberlain was married to Mary Devereaux, who was born in 1830 in Oswego County, N. Y., the daughter of John and Mehitable (Craw) Devereaux. John Chamberlain and his wife were very successful farmers, and owned a farm of 280 acres in Lafayette Township, where they were highly respected.

Of the three children in the Chamberlain family, Susan E. is the only one living who completed her education in the Medina high school. She is not only a cultured woman, but she has been favored with much business acumen, so that she has proven a valuable helpmate to her husband. They farmed together on the old John Chamberlain place, improving the farm and meeting with such success that they had it almost entirely tilled when they sold it in 1904. The last three years of their life in Ohio they resided in their comfortable residence at the county seat, Medina.

In 1904 Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan came to sunnier California, and for ten months resided at Redlands. During this time they looked around carefully, and finally, after due deliberation, selected Orange as the best of all places for a home. Mr. Buchanan purchased lots and built his beautiful residence at 192 North Shaffer Street.

For a time Mr. Buchanan followed building, and was superintendent of the work of erecting the Carnegie Library at Orange; he was also the inspector in charge of the building of the first big reservoir for the Orange City Waterworks. In 1909 he was appointed a trustee of the city of Orange to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of R. C. Dalton, and for fifteen months served his fellow-citizens with singular ability and fidelity. He was chairman of the street committee at the time when the street improvements began in Orange, and later he provided the necessary data for the construction of a sewer three miles long, and watched over the building of this extensive work until it was all completed.

In May, 1914, Mr. Buchanan was appointed superintendent of streets, for which responsibility he was abundantly equipped, and since then he has had charge of all street building and improvement. He is also plumbing inspector, and inspector of  electric wiring and sewer connections.

Two children came to add happiness to Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan, and to do honor to a long-honored family name. Stacy M., assistant teller in the First National Bank in Los Angeles, served his country in Company E, One Hundred Forty-third Field Artillery, Forty-third Division, which went overseas. Mildred became Mrs. Osman Pixley, and resides at Orange. The family attend the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Orange, where Mr. Buchanan is a member of the board of trustees. In national politics Mr. Buchanan is a standpat Republican. Fraternally, he is a member of the K. O. T. M., and Mrs. Buchanan is a member of the L. O. T. M.

FRANK L. AINSWORTH — A successful man of business and finance, whose positive moral influence is felt in notable movements for the betterment of the city or county, is Frank L. Ainsworth, former president of the board of trustees, or mayor, of Orange. He was born in Monticello, Jones County, Iowa, in 1858, the son of Lewis Ainsworth, who had married Miss Persis Bartholomew. When he was one year old, Frank L. was brought by his parents to California, by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and reared at Weaverville until he was eleven years old; but in 1869 the family returned to Iowa, this time traveling in one of the first transcontinental trains. He thus attended school in California and Iowa, and was for a while a student at the. Monticello High School. In 1878 the Ainsworth family moved to Cloud County, Kans., and Mr. Ainsworth engaged in farming and stock raising near Glasco. Ten years later they all moved to Salem, Ore., and there, for two years, Frank was employed as teller in the Ladd & Bush Bank. In 1890 he resigned and returned to Kansas with the rest of the family; and with his father, brother and sister he started the Ainsworth Bank of Glasco, taking the position of cashier. When the bank was incorporated as the Glasco State Bank he continued as its cashier, until 1900.

In that year, at the dawn of the new century, Mr. Ainsworth followed the lure of California and located at Orange; and, wishing out-door work, in connection with his father and brother-in-law, F. W. Butler, he established a lumber business. They opened up in 1902, constructed the first planing mill, started the first lumber yard at Orange, and soon did a very flourishing business. The firm name was the Ainsworth & Butler Lumber Company, which later became the Ainsworth Lunfber and Milling Company, and it stood for reliability in every particular. In 1903 M. O. Ainsworth, a
brother, bought out Butler's interests in the business. In 1914 the Ainsworths sold out their lumber interests, and since then Frank L. has been engaged in ranching. He is the owner of an orange and a walnut orchard near Santa Ana, and is a stockholder in and vice-president and director of the National Bank of Orange; is also a stockholder in the Orange Savings Bank and in the First National Bank of Santa Ana.

While in Kansas Mr. Ainsworth was married to Miss Emma Hosteller, a native of Pennsylvania, whose parents were early settlers of the Garden of the West. They have three children living. Allie is now Mrs. Gearhart, of Los Angeles; Mae has become Mrs. Burkett, of Orange, and Marjorie is at home.

Mr. and Mrs. Ainsworth and family have a fine residence on East Chapman Avenue. They attend the First Christian Church of Orange, in which for years Mr. Ainsworth has been prominent as an elder; was superintendent of the Sunday school for fifteen years, and has been a member of the Southern California Missionary Board. He joined the Odd Fellows lodge at Glasco, Kans., and is still a member there. Mr. Ainsworth is a Republican in matters of national politics, and a member of the Republican Central Committee of Orange County; he was a trustee of the city of Orange for four years, the last two years being president of the board of trustees. He is intensely interested in every enterprise for the improvement and growth of Orange County, and Orange and Orange County may well be congratulated upon such citizens as Frank L. Ainsworth, public-spirited to the core.

CONWAY GRIFFITH — A much-loved and admired artist of the present gifted colony at Laguna Beach is the pioneer, Conway Griffith, who is fond of God's great outdoors, and while on the range in New Mexico in his early days, got to know the West as it really is. He was born in Clark County, at Springfield, Ohio, the son of C. W. Griffith, who was a manufacturer in that city. He had married Miss Catherine Conway, a native daughter of Virginia, who maintained the tradition of her family by living to the ripe old age of seventy-four.

As a boy, Conway was devoted to art, and in time he was an instructor for years in the School of Design at Cincinnati, teaching a special method of painting on china. He had the first establishment in America where the china ware was baked in a specially-built kiln. His health was poor, however, so he decided to strike out for the West. With a chum he spent a number of years in Mexico and Colorado, and became heavily interested in ranches and cattle. He accomplished something more than to ride the range, however, for he profited by the opportunity there, and at Denver, to study landscape painting. He was also in old Mexico for eighteen months, and there invested in stock. When he sold out, it was to celebrate the regaining of his health.

In 1898 he made a short visit to California, stopping at Riverside and Colton, but did not stay, however, until 1904, when he came to Los Angeles from New Mexico. He had always been fond of marine painting, hence he soon set up his studio at Catalina, where he remained for four years, off and on, returning frequently to the mainland, and sketching to his heart's content. Since the spring of 1906, however, Mr. Griffith has been established at Laguna Beach, finding, as others have, that this locality has charms and advantages nowhere else hereabouts to be enjoyed. On account of his long residence here, Mr. Griffith is recognized as the pioneer artist of Laguna Beach; but he also makes annual trips to the mountains and desert for the purpose of sketching.

Mr. Griffith's brother, A. H. Griffith — at whose home the mother made her home until her death — is a noted art critic of Detroit, so that our subject seems to have come to his own talents very naturally. As a self-taught artist, he has an individual interpretation which is much appreciated by the admirers of his work. He is a regular contributor to the art exhibits at Los Angeles and San Francisco, and is a member of the California Art Association, and a charter member of the Laguna Beach Art Association. He also belongs to the Laguna Beach Chamber of Commerce, and in national political affairs is a Republican.

SIMEON TUCKER — One of the substantial citizens of the community whose increasing interests in Mexican lands has by no means diminished his enthusiasm for Orange County and its future prospects, is Simeon Tucker, who was born in Stockton. Jo Daviess County, Ill., on June 1, 1847. His father was F. L. Tucker, a native of Green Mountain, N. Y., who settled in Illinois about 1835, and was a pioneer merchant at Stockton, when he had the post office on his farm, and he had to haul things to and from Galena. In 1859 or 1860 the elder Tucker set out across the plains for California; and arriving in Tuolumne County, he tried his fortune at mining. And there he died, in March, 1884, esteemed by those who knew him in his rugged Americanism. He had married Miss Marcia Hunt, a native of the Nutmeg State, but she died in Illinois. She was the mother of six children, among whom Simeon, the youngest, is now the only one living.

Brought up at Stockton, Simeon attended the Illinois district school, and for some years assisted his father on the farm and in the store. In January, 1874, having come out to California, he worked on a fruit ranch at Shaw's Flat, at thirty dollars a month, after which he peddled fruit. In 1875 he came to Westminster, then in Los Angeles, now in Orange County, and buying a ranch he engaged in general farming, raising hogs and hominy.

When he sold out. at the end of five years, Mr. Tucker came to Anaheim, and in 1881 bought a place in the same district, but one mile below. He put in a vineyard, and two years later it died. Then he set out St. Michael and Mediterranean sweet oranges, and otherwise considerably improved the place. Later he traded it for a ranch in the Newhall Mountains in Los Angeles County. He went into the hotel business at San Francisquito Canyon, and the large stone building he then acquired is still standing.

In the meantime, having thirty-four acres in East Anaheim, he bought forty acres more, all raw land, with cactus and other brushwood covering the surface. He cleared the land, leveled it, drove out the rabbits and gophers, and in many ways agreeably improved it; and then he raised orange trees from seed, and budded them to superior Valencias. He sunk wells, installed an engine and had a fine pumping plant. He devoted forty acres to oranges, and he was the first to set out oranges in this district. In 1914 he also set out twenty-five acres of lemons. He raised much alfalfa, and now he not only has an electrical pumping plant for himself, but he supplies water to seventy-five acres belonging to other ranchers.

In addition to his valuable California holdings, Mr. Tucker owns two sections of land in Sonora, Mexico, and he has a stock ranch of 18,000 acres at Hermosillo in the same state.

In 1881 Mr. Tucker was married at Anaheim to Mrs. Lizette (Parker) Beckington, a native of Marengo, McHenry County, Ill., and the daughter of Leonard Parker. She came to California in 1871 and settled with a brother at Anaheim, and later her parents bought land in the East Anaheim district, near Madame Modjeska's home. In 1908 Mr. Tucker built a new, handsome residence. One son, Earl Robert, who was born on the first ranch they had, has blessed this fortunate union; he married Miss Laura Lensing, a native of Missouri, and assists his father. Mrs. Tucker has a daughter by her former marriage, Mrs. Lottie Bush.

Mr. Tucker has always, both as a genuine American and as a Socialist, been interested, not merely in building up a community, but in the more difficult, more important work of upbuilding as well; and when he lived near Newhall he served with satisfaction to all as a school trustee.

JAMES HARVEY GULICK — A most interesting illustration of keeping one's family tree record so that it may become a contribution to history, is afforded by James Harvey Gulick", who can trace his ancestry back to good old pre-Revolutionary stock. Henry Gulick was a captain of the Second Regiment of Hunterdon County, N. J., in the Revolutionary War. He married Mary Williamson of that county, and of their several children one, a son, Nicholas Gulick, of New Jersey and New York, served a part of his time with his father's command. He married Elizabeth Gano, also of those two states. She was of Huguenot stock, and one of their children was William Gano Gulick, of Clark County, Ind., and Cincinnati, Ohio. He married Sarah Adams, and their son was named Martin Nicholas Gulick. He married Eleanor Welch in Clark County, Ind., 1841, and the same year moved to Macoupin County, Ill. After living on his farm at Plainview for more than fifty years he came to Tustin, Orange County, Cal., and died in 1900.

Their son, James Harvey Gulick, was born at Plainview, Ill., June 18, 1844, and there he attended the district school and lived with his parents on the home farm. After the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred Twenty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served in the West, as some called it at that time, and the last half of his service under that intrepid leader, Andrew Jackson Smith, commanding the Sixteenth Corps. He was in spirited engagements in Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi; was in action at Parkers' Cross Roads, Tenn., and Tupelo, Miss., and present at Nashville, Tenn., and Fort Blakely, Ala. He received his discharge July I5, 1865.

After returning to the Illinois home, Mr. Gulick attended the best business college in St. Louis, and then taught school in several counties in western Missouri. On December 6, 1868, he was married in Appleton, Bourbon County, Kans., to Miss Laura Jane Palmer, the daughter of William and Mary Palmer, of Greenbush, Warren County, Ill. A forbear of Mrs. Palmer, Walter Palmer, came from England in 1629, and her father from New York, and her mother from Ohio. They lived in Chickasaw County, Iowa, during the Civil War, and in 1865 moved to Bourbon County, Kans. Mr. Gulick went to Wilson County, Kans., in 1869, and took up 160 acres of government land, to which he added 240 more, which he devoted to grain and stock.

On removing further west to California in the "boom" year 1887, Mr. Gulick came directly to what is now Orange County and for a while he and his family lived in the Greenville district. Then they removed to Villa Park; in 1893 he sold that farm and moved to the Richfield section, where he purchased 107 acres. Seventy of these he set out to walnuts and the rest in various crops. After nineteen years there, however, he disposed of that holding and came to Santa Ana. Here he purchased a home at 1702 Spurgeon Street, where he has resided ever since. Ten children, eleven grandchildren children and four great-grandchildren have called this worthy couple blessed. William Nicholas married Mrs. Julia Scovil and is living in Tustin; Mary Eleanor died in infancy; Phillip Frederick passed away at the age of nineteen; Fanny Ethel married William Wagner of Long Beach; Lena May married William L. Hewitt of Santa Ana; Arthur Quinn married Jessie M. Lough and is living at Fullerton; Winnie Hope also died in infancy; Laura" Helen married William Huntley of Tustin; James Mark married May Wiley and they reside at Hemet; George Asbury married Maggie Forbes and they live at Tustin. Mr. Gulick belongs to the Sons of the Revolution at Los Angeles, and those that are interested in Gulick genealogy are invited to inspect a fifty-page manuscript on file in the library of that order in Los Angeles.

WILLIAM M. SMART — Highly esteemed as a member of a distinguished family of Santa Ana, the late William M. Smart, was interesting as a gentleman long foremost in movements for the educational and intellectual advancement of the community. He was born at Xenia, Ohio, September 29, 1848, a son of Rev. James P. and Elizabeth (McClellan) Smart. Reverend Smart served as a pastor of the United Presbyterian Church near Xenia for twenty-two years, or until his death. W. M. Smart was given a good public school education and afterwards attended the Xenia Seminary, after which he was for years engaged in the coal business at Xenia with his brother John, until he sold out to him to come to California.

In 1887 he arrived in Santa Ana and for a time served as secretary of the Mc Fadden Lumber Company, later he was for two years secretary of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and from 1901 until 1914, up to the time of his death, he served as secretary and manager of the Santiago Fruit Growers Association. Mr. Smart had been a member of the Santa Ana board of education and of the library board, giving freely of his services when the present building was erected. In politics he was a Republican in national affairs, but most nonpartisan when it came to putting his shoulder to the wheel and working for the best candidates making for local improvements. He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church and lived an exemplary Christian life.

The marriage of W. M. Smart, on October 31, 1882, at Xenia, Ohio, united him with Miss Lydia C. the daughter of William and Mary (Collins) Anderson, substantial farmer folk of the Buckeye State. She was educated in the public schools of Xenia and in Ohio Central College at Iberia, an institution now of national repute on account of President-elect Harding having been a student there. To Mr. and Mrs. Smart six children were born: Mary A., is recognized as a professional photographer and is proprietor of the Mary Smart Studio, Santa Ana; Janet, is the wife of Henry L. Thompson of Moline, Ill., and the mother of a son, Carson F. ; Fannie M., is a teacher in the public schools of Bisbee, Ariz.; James P., who married Miss Loraine Scott, is a rancher in Oregon, and he was formerly in Y. M. C. A. work in Los Angeles for years; he has two children — Margaret and James P., Jr.; William A., is connected with the Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis; and Carson M., is a surveyor and civil engineer in the employ of the city of Los Angeles. William A., and Carson M. were in the United States service during the World War, the former as a second lieutenant of heavy artillery and in line for promotion when the armistice was declared. Carson M. reached France, but did not see active service. Mrs. Smart had the honor of serving on the Santa Ana Board of Education at the time when the Polytechnic was built, and she also is a member of the United Presbyterian Church. William M. Smart passed away on October 11, 1914, mourned by a large circle of friends in Orange County.

ADONIRAM JUDSON SANDERS — The memory of a worthy, self-sacrificing and attaining pioneer such as the late Adoniram Judson Sanders, known by all his friends as plain Judson, is not likely soon to be forgotten, especially when his esteemed widow, herself one of the oldest settlers in these parts is following in his steps. He was born in Yarmouth, N. S., and came of English and Scotch descent; and there he was reared and received his education in the local schools. In his youth he showed a natural aptitude as a mechanic and he, therefore, followed the machinist's trade. Later, he came out to Minnesota, locating at Le Sueur, where he followed his trade, and it was there in December, 1865, he was married to Miss Elizabeth McPherson, who was born in Chaumont, Jefferson County, N. Y., the daughter of Hugh McPherson, born in New Hampshire, but of Scotch descent. The McPherson family were among the first settlers in the Granite State, and Grandfather William McPherson served in the Revolutionary War. Hugh McPherson was a captain in the New Hampshire State Militia, and was also a farmer; and he followed agriculture when he removed to Chaumont Bay, N. Y. He married Betsy Butterfield, a native of New Hampshire, and the granddaughter of Peter Butterfield, who was of English descent and also served in the Revolution. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McPherson were Presbyterians, and died at the old home farm at Chaumont, N. Y. They had thirteen children, and Mrs. Sanders was the youngest and is the only one now living. She completed her education at Watertown Academy, and looks back to those girlhood days, in northern New York, as among the happiest of her long career.

After his marriage, Mr. Sanders followed his trade in Minnesota, and in 1873, they came out to California and purchased a ranch two miles east of Orange, where they resided for thirty-six years. The land was a raw cactus and brush patch when they first took hold; but they cleared it and brought it under cultivation, although for the first five years they had very little water. They set out a vineyard of muscat grapes, and soon enjoyed the credit of making among the finest raisins in the vicinity. Indeed, a Los Angeles grocer selected some of their raisins as the best obtainable hereabouts and sent them on to President and Mrs. Cleveland.

Then came the grape disease and killed the vines, after which, they put in a second vineyard, but this also died after the first crop. They then gave up the vineyard, and began setting out oranges and walnuts, and in time they had groves bearing splendidly. After operating the ranch for thirty-six years, they sold out and moved into Orange.

Here they purchased the residence in which Mrs. Sanders now resides, and where, in November, 1914, he died, aged about seventy-eight years, an exemplary man in all his habits and a consistent Christian. While living on this ranch at McPherson, they purchased 1,000 acres of land near Murietta, which they devoted to stock raising and grain farming; but this ranch was also sold after Mr. Sanders' death.

Two children testify to the ideal marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Sanders: Will Hugh Sanders is a well-known operator in the Los Angeles realty world, and Frank A. Sanders is ranching at Paso Robles. Mrs. Sanders has four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Orange. For years she was a member of the Ebell Club; and, as was her patriotic husband, Mrs. Sanders is a staunch Republican.

JOHN F. PATTERSON — Among the esteemed citizens of Westminster, Orange County, Cal., is John F. Patterson, the successful pioneer merchant and oldest business man in continuous business life at Westminster.

A native of Brook County, Va., he was born a few miles north of Wheeling, W. Va., April 14, 1851, and when two years old had the misfortune to lose his mother. When he was nine years of age his father, W. J. Patterson, came to California and located on the Feather River in Butte County, twenty miles above Marysville, where John F. grew to maturity. The father engaged in the freighting business and ran an eight-mule team, hauling freight to the mines in Plumas County, Virginia City, Nev., Black Rock, Idaho, and other places. The. only child by his father's first marriage, John F. was educated in the schools of Butte County near Biggs. He later attended Heald's Business College at San Francisco, where he pursued a general commercial course. While a m«re boy he worked several years for Maj. Marion Biggs, in Butte County, Cal., the large stockman and owner of an 800-acre ranch. Afterwards he joined his father in life sheep business and they owned a flock of 2,000 sheep. Then with his father and three half-brothers he went to Abilene, Texas, to engage in the sheep business. He was taken ill and returned to California, going to Los Angeles. The father died at Los Angeles at the age of ninety. John F. engaged with Roth, Blum and Company, provision dealers of San Francisco, as traveling salesman for the territory of Southern California, and remained with the firm five years. Afterward he came to Westminster and opened a grocery store in 1889, buying a new stock of groceries from Hellman, Haas & Company, of Los Angeles. Since then he has been the proprietor of several stores, and ran a general merchandise store, dealing in flour, hay, grain, etc. He was manager of the flour and feed business for awhile, but has mainly functioned as proprietor. At present he is proprietor of a flour, hay, grain, mill feed and fuel store.

Mr. Patterson's marriage was solemnized at Westminster, and united him with Miss Virginia Carlyle of Westminster, daughter of H. W. Carlyle, pioneer rancher, who came to California from Independence, Mo. Mr. Patterson owns the two acres upon which he built his residence, and has been active in the civic life of Westminster, donating the right-of-way for .the Southern Pacific Railway through Westminster. Ex-Governor George C. Perkins was a warm personal friend of both Mr. Patterson and his father, and Mr. Patterson cast his first vote in California for governor for Mr. Perkins. Politically Mr. Patterson is a Democrat, and fraternally he is a member and past grand of the I. O. O. F., and recalls attending grand lodge once when Reuben D. Lloyd was grand master. Manly, honorable and public spirited, matters that concern the welfare of his home town receive his interested support, and his disinterested efforts for the community's betterment have won for him many warm personal friends and the respect of his fellow-citizens.

MRS. ADELHEID KONIG-SCHULTE — To know Mrs. Adelheid Konig-Schulte, is to fully appreciate her talents and worth. As one of the pioneer women of Orange County she has been identified with its development for over fifty years, during which time she made Anaheim her home. A native of Hungary, she came to the United States during her girlhood, with her father and stepmother and three brothers. After the death of her mother she was reared in the home of an aunt in Vienna.

Mrs. Schulte is a lady of culture and has many varied accomplishments; the walls of her home are decorated with oil paintings of her own handiwork and as a vocalist of more than local renown she appeared in public before audiences in Los Angeles many times, also has been on the program for vocal solos at the entertainments given by the Calumet Club in their hall in that city at one time appearing before an audience of 600 and singing in three languages, as well as appearing at other prominent gatherings on many occasions. Besides these varied accomplishments she is par-excellence in domestic science, serving one year studying and demonstrating, and excels in both plain and fancy baking. One cake baked by her and donated to the Catholic fair at Anaheim sold for thirty-six dollars.

As stated, Mrs. Schulte came to the New World with her father, Henry Eichler, and his second wife in 1866, first locating at Cairo, Ill., where they joined her uncle. From there Mrs. Schulte came to California, in the following year with her aunt, locating in San Francisco, where these two ladies embarked in business, dealing in dry goods and millinery. They carried on a very profitable business until the earthquake of 1868, which destroyed their building. From San Francisco she came to Los Angeles in 1869, and it was here that she met, and that same year was united in marriage with William Konig. He was born in Hanover in 1832 and was there reared and educated and also learned the art of wine making, serving an apprenticeship of seven years, after which he was employed at the trade for several years in Hamburg. He later came from that city by way of Cape Horn to San Francisco and from there to Los Angeles, where he found employment at his trade.

Immediately after their marriage in 1869 Mr. and Mrs. Konig came to Anaheim and made a permanent location. Here Mr. Konig purchased twenty acres of land devoted to a vineyard, erected a winery and carried on a very profitable and growing business, having one of the largest wineries in this section, which was then Los Angeles County. They shipped wine in carload lots to various places in the United States and even to Europe. Much of their product was kept and sold to be used for medicinal purposes. Mrs. Konig was a true helpmate and worked with him picking grapes in the field with the Indians and also assisted him with the manufacture of the wine. They both labored hard to accumulate a competency and as a result became owners of some very valuable property. Mrs. Konig erected a bath house in Anaheim at a cost of $6,000 which she leased, and where steam electric and mineral baths were given. She presented the bell that marks the old El Camino Real, which was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies February 5, 1911, and to commemorate the donor her name is inscribed on a brass plate in front of the column supporting the bell; by virtue of this gift she holds a life membership in the El Camino Real Association, which has done so much to perpetuate historical features and for the betterment of the roadways in the state. When the public library was secured for Anaheim, this public-spirited woman donated one of the two lots for its site, and was a liberal contributor towards the building of every church in that city. She was one of the organizers and a large stockholder in the German-American Bank, now the Guaranty Trust and Savings Bank, in Los Angeles. Both Mr. and Mrs. Konig were reared in the Lutheran Church.

Mr. Konig was an invalid for many years and his wife proved herself an excellent manager, for she was the means of adding to their holdings of property as well as improving them, thus adding to their value. They were both very generous and recognized as being among the most liberal citizens of Orange County. Mr. Konig died on April 1, 1911, at the age of seventy-nine years. On February 22, 1917, Mrs. Konig became the wife of Anton Schulte and they lived in Anaheim one year, then on account of the ill health of Mrs. Schulte, they moved to South Pasadena where they have a fine home on Diamond Avenue and dispense a generous hospitality. Mr. Schulte is an Iowa pioneer, having lived in that state for forty-eight years and where he achieved prominence as an official and public-spirited man, always striving to do what he considered his duty. He came to California in 1914 and ever since then has booked a permanent residence for himself in Southern California. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks. With Mrs. Schulte, he enjoys a wide circle of friends.

FRED G. AND ELIZABETH TAYLOR — A distinguished American couple of Santa Ana, highly esteemed by all who know them, and especially admired for their many sterling qualities, are Fred G. and Elizabeth Taylor, who established the nucleus of "Taylor's," now so noted throughout Orange County, in Santa Ana many years ago. Mr. Taylor was born in Chicago, Ill., in 1847, the son of John Otis Taylor, a native of New York, who came west to Chicago and as early as 1852 located in Freeport, Stephenson County, Ill., where he was successful as a pioneer business man. He died about 1900, survived by his widow, whose maiden name had been Harriet Eases, and who also died at Freeport. They were the parents of five children: J. B. Taylor, a prominent business man and manufacturer in Freeport and founder and owner of Taylor's Driving Park at Freeport, died in that city; Hobart H. was a very prominent business man in various lines; he belonged to the Freeport firm of Taylor and Wise, grain operators, and as one of the founders of the Elgin Watch Company, had a part of that watch's mechanism, the H. H. Taylor Movement, named for him. He was also interested in Aultman, Taylor and Company, of Mansfield, Ohio, manufacturers of threshing machines, and in the Nichols and Shepherd Company at Battle Creek, Mich., which manufactures the "Vibrator" thresher; he was a banker and a philanthropist, and a Republican influential and prominent in northern Illinois; and he died at Chicago, aged only forty-two years, already rated a millionaire. Charles A. Taylor, another inventor, was a trunk manufacturer of that city and died there. Louise H. makes her home at Freeport, and there is Fred G. Taylor, the subject of our sketch.

He was educated in the public schools of Freeport and at the military school at Fulton, Ill., and for thirty-four years made His home in Freeport, where he was associated with his brother, J. B. Taylor, in the management of Taylor's Driving Park. As a boy he saw the stirring events leading up to the Civil War, and it is interesting to hear him relate the incidents connected with the day of the great Lincoln-Douglas debate in Freeport in 1856 — how the people came for a hundred miles by teams, in wagons and on horseback to witness the literary duel that has gone down in history; and as a boy he had the good fortune to be near the speaker's platform, and to see and hear the great emancipator at close range. During the war he was too young for service, but tried four different times to enlist, each time being rejected on account of his age and small stature.

In Illinois Mr. Taylor married Miss Elizabeth Sharp, a native of Yorkshire, England, and the daughter of William and Martha (Jackson) Sharp. Her mother died in Yorkshire and her father brought his three children, two sons and the little daughter, to Rockford, Ill., but also, passed on soon afterwards. Mrs. Taylor was reared partly in the East, where she had the advantage of splendid educational institutions, until her marriage to Mr. Taylor, a union that has proven very fortunate and happy. Her two brothers reside in Santa Ana, and one of them, Harwood, served in the Twenty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry from 1861 until the close of the Civil War, participating in numerous severe battles, and took part in all the engagements of his regiment during the Georgia campaign — from Atlanta to the sea.

Desiring to remove to California, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor came out to the Coast in 1885 and located on a ranch at Orange, where they resided until, at the end of six months, they located on one near Santa Ana. There they raised deciduous fruits. Northern Illinois is noted among other things for the skill of its housewives in domestic service, and Mrs. Taylor had no superior among them all. Her home always abounded in hospitality, and the excellence of her cooking was often commented upon, and she .received especial praise for her fine preserves and canned fruits. After coming to California, and wishing to establish her two sons in business, she conceived the idea of putting up California fruit for sale in the East, and it was her aim to send out only fruit of the finest quality.

The beginning of the business was quite modest, the plant consisting of the cook-stove in the family kitchen, and during the first year, 1892, she shipped three hundred pounds of fruit to Freeport, Ill., where it found ready sale. The second year the "plant" was increased by the addition of a gasoline stove, and the business was doubled, the entire shipment also going to Freeport. Soon they began to get calls for the delicious products from other cities, and the third year they put up and shipped a carload of fruit. About this time, their son, J. E. Taylor, went East in the interest of the business, and the shipments increased year by year, until they reached 100 tons in 1901, and that, increase has been getting greater with each season. Sales are made all over the United States and Canada, from coast to coast, and the fruit is shipped direct to the residences of those so ordering. Indeed, before the war, shipments were also made to Europe and the islands of the Pacific.

The first cannery was built in 1894, a very small building, and many additions were made, and also a new building erected, as necessity required; and now there is a large, fireproof, concrete building for the main plant, with every appointment most modern and convenient. Visitors to the cannery always find much to attract their attention and hold their interest, and they are especially impressed with the cleanliness in every department. The washing and paring and cooking departments are kept just as clean as are the scalded jars into which the preserves are poured. They used gasoline stoves until they had thirty-seven four-burner stoves, and then they changed to electricity, using 120 electric stoves, and now they use gas burners for making pickles and steam for cooking the fruit.

The fruit is boiled in porcelain graniteware, after it has gone through a systematic process of washing, paring and rewashing; jams and marmalades of all kinds are manufactured, and also peach mangoes, fig, peach, apricot and pear pickles, brandied peaches, pears, grapes, fig and English walnut pickles. All fruit is put up in heavy sugar syrup; and of late years, owing to the heavy increase in their business, they have been obliged to have fruit shipped in from the north, as the local market is not sufficient for their needs. They employ about 150 hands. They also have a large ice and cold storage plant, one of the finest in the state, and manufacture ice for even the wholesale trade. Up till a couple of years ago the firm was J. E. Taylor and Company, with J. E. and Fred H. at the head of the management, when J. E. Taylor sold his interest to the rest of the family, at the same time removing to San Luis Obispo County, and the owners then incorporated the business under the firm name, "Taylors," with Fred H. Taylor as president and manager, and this firm has become celebrated in fruit circles all over the country.

Indeed, those who are experts in judging fruit assert that the products of the cannery have no superior in any part of the United States, and that they have reached a point where improvement is practically impossible. All these years Mrs. Taylor has personally superintended the manufacture of the products, giving them her personal attention, and insisting on the same care and cleanliness as in the old days of the cookstove, and she has every reason to be proud of the commercial results, as well as of her husband and the two sons and daughter, who stood by her so bravely through all the various evolutions of the important industry. It is an interesting fact that the business has grown to its present large proportions without the company ever having resorted to advertising, and thus it is the quality of the product that makes the constant growing demand without newspaper or magazine solicitation.

Mr. and Mrs. Taylor reside on East Fourth Street, in a comfortable, well-furnished bungalow, where they entertain their many friends with an old-time hospitality. They are strong Republicans. Mr. Taylor having espoused the platforms of that party ever since its formation in the fifties at Jackson, Mich. Their three children are John E. Taylor, an extensive rancher in San Luis Obispo County; Fred H. Taylor, the president, and manager of Taylors; and a daughter, Eleanor, wife of A. E. Marker, of Downey.

JOHN J. SWARTZBAUGH — Thrift and frugality, coupled with a judicious management of one's financial affairs, are characteristics that usually bring success to the man who practices them in whatever line of business he may be engaged in. To these characteristics in the life of John J. Swartzbaugh, the extensive and successful walnut grower of West Orange precinct, are due his substantial prosperity. He is justly proud to be called a self-made man, because of the splendid success he has made by his own unaided efforts.

The descendant of an old Maryland family, Mr. Swartzbaugh was born in Baltimore, Md., September 25, 1858, the son of John H. and Mary (Green) Swartzbaugh, both natives of Baltimore. Grandfather John Swartzbaugh was also born in Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Swartzbaugh were the parents of five children, John J., the subject of this sketch, being the second child. When ten years of age he migrated with his parents to Springfield, Ohio, where the father rented land. For two years John J. lived with his great uncle, Samuel Swartzbaugh, where he helped with the farm work; subsequently he was hired by farmers who paid him only four dollars per month for the arduous work done and the long hours of service. The only financial assistance he ever received was thirty dollars he inherited from his sister Susan.

At Springfield, Ohio, Mr. Swartzbaugh was united in marriage with Miss Lola Knott, a native of the Buckeye State, and daughter of Charles Knott, a farmer and a veteran of the Union Army. After his marriage Mr. Swartzbaugh removed with his family to Texas, where he remained for eleven months and then decided to move farther westward, with the Golden State as his ultimate goal. He arrived in Santa Ana on February 22, 1888, and soon purchased a squatter's claim in West Orange precinct. Mr. Swartzbaugh improved his place and has from time to time made additional purchases until today he is the possessor of 110 acres of valuable land, ninety of which are devoted to walnuts, ranging from three to nineteen years of age. He has made a specialty of walnut culture for twenty years, the beneficent results of which are apparent in the high quality of walnuts and bountiful yields of his orchards. He is regarded as one of the most successful walnut growers in the West Orange section of the county.

Mr. and Mrs. Swartzbaugh are the parents of nine children. Arvilla married Welley Wheeler, an electrician for the Standard Oil Company, and they reside at El Segundo; Florence is the wife of Clarence Brittain, a carpenter residing at El Segundo, and they have three children; Olyn, a grading contractor at Harbor City, married Mrs. McClure who had three children by her former marriage; Ina married Paul Morse of Harbor City and they are the parents of two children; Ruth is the wife of J. H. Hutchings of Santa Cruz; Ada lives at El Segundo; Lola married Howard Gillette of Santa Ana; Carl and Mary are at home. In politics Mr. Swartzbaugh is a Democrat. He belongs to the Garden Grove Walnut Association.

JOHN DUNSTAN — A conservative, trustworthy business man, self-made and successful and a good "booster" for Orange County, because of his confidence in the future of this part of the great state of California, is John Dunstan, the able and genial vice-president of the First National Bank of Tustin. He was born on December 5, 1866, near Redruth, Cornwall, England, the son of James Dunstan, also a native of that country, who had married Elizabeth Berryman, a descendant of an old family in that part of England. James Dunstan came to America in 1867, and being a farmer, did not tarry in New York City, where he landed, but immediately came on West, first to Fayette County, Iowa, and then to Pioche, Lincoln County, Nev., making his journey from the end of the railroad to their destination by stage. Finally in 1875 he landed at Tustin. John Dunstan is the only child of these worthy parents and came with them to Orange County and, then a boy of nine, he heard stories of the pioneer days he has never forgotten.

He attended the common schools of that time and locality and worked at home for his parents, helping to improve the twenty acres which his father had bought on East Seventeenth Street, set out in part to grapes, oranges and apricots. He himself in time bought twenty-five acres of vacant land east of Tustin, which he improved with walnuts and apricots and in 1903 he also bought ten acres more, which he planted to oranges and lemons. After a while he sold both of these acreages and bought instead some twelve acres, also on East Seventeenth Street, which he set out to Valencia oranges, and it has grown to be a valuable bearing orchard. He began to market through the Santiago Orange Growers' Association of which he is still a member. Recognizing his ability the stockholders of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company elected Mr. Dunstan a director and he later served as president of the board for two years, during which time he was very active in the improving, enlarging and building up the system. At the end of the period he resigned, not being able to devote the time he felt he should because his personal business affairs required all of his attention. Since its organization, too, he has been vice-president of the First National Bank of Tustin.

In early days he made a specialty of apricots and was rated as one of the largest growers of that delicious fruit in Orange County. His hobby now is Valencia oranges, which from his experience he considers best adapted to this soil and climate, and aside from his grove of sixteen acres he manages his mother's Valencia orchard of the same amount of acreage. On April 16, 1902, Mr. Dunstan was married to Miss Myrtle H. Hall, a daughter of William H. and Susan Frances Hall of Hiawatha, Brown County, Kans. They came to Orange County in 1891 and the father died in 1914, while Mrs. Hall continued to make her home in Santa Ana. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Dunstan has been blessed with three children as follows: Gilbert Hall and Mary Elizabeth are attending Santa Ana high school, while the youngest, Frances Emily, is attending Tustin grammar school. In 1914 Mr. Dunstan erected on his ranch a beautiful residence of nine rooms and furnished the same completely;, and nearby on the adjoining orchard is his mother's comfortable home and thus he is able to look after her wants and give her every devotion and care.

Greatly interested in civic and educational lines he can always be counted on to give his time and means to all worthy objects which are for the betterment of conditions and morals of the community. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dunstan were active in the various war activities and Liberty Bond drives.

C. D. HEARTWELL — One of the natives of the Empire State who eventually reached California to swell the number who have done so much for the development of the state is C. D. Heartwell, the pioneer real-estate dealer of Huntington Beach, who was born in Seneca County, N. Y., on August 12. 1847. His father, Oscar F. Heartwell, known to Huntington Beach residents for years as Grandpa Heartwell, was born at Oaks Corners, N. Y., in 1818, and he married Julia Ann Subrina Webster, also a native of New York and a relative of Daniel Webster. Oscar Heartwell passed the last years of his life at the home of his son, C. D. Heartwell, passing away there at the age of ninety-five years. Grandfather Benjamin Heartwell was born in Vermont and when a young man walked all the way from there to western New York and bought a farm where the city of Rochester now stands. Finding that they had chills and fever in that locality, he threw up his contract and went to Waterloo, N. Y., and bought a farm. He afterwards went to Oaks Corners and engaged in carpenter work as well as farming. Oscar Heartwell was also a carpenter, but spent some years in teaching school, afterward becoming interested in farming.

Of the seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar F. Heartwell all; were born in New York and six of them are living. C. D. Heartwell, the third in order of birth, passed his early years in the locality in which he was born. He attended the public schools and later took a commercial course at a business college at Auburn, N. Y. He then took up railroad work, entering the service as a passenger conductor on the Northern Central branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, afterwards being identified with the railway mail service on the Syracuse, Geneva and Corning Railroad. In 1882, while engaged in this work, he was severely injured in a collision, so that for a time his life was despaired of, and for five years he was an invalid. In 1887, Mr. Heartwell went to Hastings, Neb., and with his brother, J. B. Heartwell, organized the Nebraska Loan and Trust Company.

In 1904 Mr. Heartwell came to Huntington Beach and started on his work of development that has done much for the town. At that time the Pacific Electric Railway had not begun its service there. With his brothers, J. B. Heartwell and J. F. Heartwell, and J. M. Edgar, he organized the Union Investment Company and built for their office the frame building where the U. S. Restaurant now stands; he was president of the company and Mr. Edgar was its secretary. Soon thereafter J. B. Heartwell organized the First National Bank of Huntington Beach and they leased the Union Investment Company's building on Main Street, the company then building a smaller office south of Main Street on Ocean Avenue, and here Mr. Heartwell has been located ever since, being the oldest realty dealer or business man, in point of continuous business, in Huntington Beach. The lands belonging to the Union Investment Company have all been disposed of and the affairs of the company wound up, but Mr. Heartwell still continues a thriving real estate, loan and fire insurance business.

Mr. Heartwell's first marriage, which was solemnized in Buffalo, N. Y., united him with Miss Emma Schermerhorn, who died a few years later at Geneva, N. Y., leaving two children: Julia M., the widow of E. L. Payne, resides with her father and is secretary to the superintendent of the Huntington Beach High School; Emmeline S. is the wife of E. A. Neilson of Huntington Beach. Mr. Heartwell's second marriage took place in Nebraska, where he was married to Miss Georgiana Dennison.

EDWIN BAILEY FOOTE — With few or no exceptions, the Footes in America descended from either Nathaniel Foote, of Colchester, England, who came to Watertown, Mass., about 1630, or Pasco Foote, who settled in Salem, Mass., soon after, or Richard Foote, of Cornwall, England, and later of Stafford County, Va. That the first two were nearly related, if not brothers, there can be little doubt. According to one tradition, the far-away ancestors of these migrating worthies lived near the base or foot of a mountain in England, at the time when surnames were adopted, and they called themselves Foote, Fotte or Foot. However that may be, our subject's family tree throws its branches back to Nathaniel Foote, the settler of Colchester, Conn., doubtless related to William Henry Foote, the clergyman, who was born at Colchester in 1794. Other early and distinguished Footes are Arthur William Foote, the musician, of Salem; Elial Todd Foote, the physician, of Gil, Mass.; Elisha Foote, the commissioner of patents, of Lee, Mass.; Samuel Augustus Foote, the senator, born in Cheshire, Conn.; Andrew Hull Foote, his son, the naval officer, who was born at New Haven, Conn.; Henry Wilder Foote, the clergyman, also born at Salem, and Henry Stuart Foote, the senator, born in Virginia. There are no less than eleven branches of the Foote family in America at the present time, and Edwin Bailey Foote is the grandson of William Foote, a farmer of Stanford, N. Y., and the son of Henry B. Foote, himself the second son, in a family of eight children. He had married Miss Lucretia Eels, of Walton, N. Y., the daughter of Horace and Eliza Eels, steady-going farmer folk, and the ceremony took place on January 30, 1856. They took up their home at Stanford, and there reared their family.

The eldest son, and one of three still surviving, Edwin Bailey Foote was born on February 6, 1857, and grew up on his father's farm of 126 acres. He attended the district school, and helped to care for the milk and the butter which were marketed in New York City. When he was twenty-five years of age, he started westward, and for a year farmed in Michigan, then for a year in Ohio, and finally worked for a year on a farm at Manhattan, Kans.

An uncle, Horace Eels, had come west to Garden Grove, Cal., on November 18, 1887, and liked what he saw; and the same year Mr. Foote followed to the Golden State. He took up carpentering, and for five years worked at that trade. In 1890 Mr. Foote married Sarah Elizabeth Ross, and as Mrs. Foote was a member of the highly-honored pioneer family of Josiah Ross, the first to settle at Santa Ana, he found no difficulty in making valuable connections, and in getting all the work he could do.

In 1892 he took up ranching for the first time, although he had helped on a farm in Orange County three years before. Three years later he became a pioneer of Laguna Beach. He has acquired city property, and shown his interest in public affairs by serving as a trustee on the Laguna school board. He also owns various ranch properties in Garden Grove and El Toro. He is not a politician, but a liberal-minded, patriotic citizen, proud, to begin with, of his own family of three children — Hugh, and the twins, Harry and Hazel; the first-born died Nov. 23, 1917. He tries to live a simple, Christian life, and is never ashamed of the fact that he is a hard worker.

History of Orange County, California: Samuel Armor

Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA 1921

Transcribed by: Marianne Swan, 20 October 2008 : Pages - 330 - 368

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