GEORGE B. SHATTUCK — The lines in the life of George B. Shattuck were cast in pleasant places when his lot in life brought him to the beautiful and fertile section of Orange County in which Tustin is located. He is among its foremost citizens, and occupies the important position of secretary and general manager of the Golden West Citrus Association. Born at Hillsdale, Mich., July 26, 1868, he is the only son of L. B. and Julia B. (Reed) Shattuck. His father was a captain of Company F, Thirty-fifth New York Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War. His parents came to California in 1906 and both are now deceased.

George B. Shattuck was educated in the public and high schools of the city of Chicago, Ill., and afterward entered the University of Michigan, from which he graduated, receiving the degree of LL.B. in 1890, and the degree of LL.M. in 1891. From 1890 to 1906 he practiced the legal profession in Chicago, and in the latter year came to California, where he purchased the Tustin Packing Company, which he successfully operated until the fall of 1917. He was instrumental in organizing the Golden West Citrus Association, and assumed the position of secretary and general manager of the association, his present position. Under his competent management the company has been successful, and occupies modern, up-to-date buildings built in March, 1918. He also has charge of the 1,400-acre Marcy ranch, about 400 acres of which is devoted to the culture of citrus fruit. Always interested in the upbuilding of Santa Ana, he was one of the promoters and is a trustee of the new Santa Ana Tourist Hotel; is president of the Santa Ana industrial fund, which is to be used to induce manufactories and industries to locate here.

Mr. Shattuck's marriage, on June 2, 1898, united him with Miss Jennie Otis, of Chicago, whom he had the misfortune to lose when death's portals closed her earthly career in 1900. He was at one time president of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce and a member of its board of directors, and was one of the founders of the Orange County Country Club, of which he is secretary and director. In politics he sustains the principles advocated in the Republican platform, and fraternally is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and is also a member of the Sigma Chi.

MISS NINFA SERRANO — The name of Serrano is one well known in Southern California, where the family was identified with its early history and among its largest land owners. The youngest of the family; Miss Ninfa Serrano is the daughter of Joaquin and Encarnacion (Olivas) Serrano, the father having been born at Los Angeles and the mother at San Diego. Grandfather Jose Serrano owned the original Rancho Canada de los Alisos, afterwards Rancho del El Toro, a great tract of 11,000 acres which was situated on Aliso Creek. For many years the family lived on this extensive estate, maintaining the old Spanish mode of life and dispensing the liberal hospitality of those days of abundance, but the old rancho has in past years been subdivided and sold and is now the property of others.

Joaquin Serrano, a capable, industrious rancher, bought the land comprising the present Serrano ranch, a tract of 393 acres lying about seven miles east of El Toro and here his children cooperate in the cultivation of this estate, which has grown to be a valuable property. Joaquin and Encarnacion Serrano were the parents of the following children: Frank J. married Juana Olivares; Joaquin F.; Cornelius; Leandro; Jose; Alphonso married Aqueda Pacheco; Ninfa, the subject of this sketch; and Juan Pablo. The ranch is devoted to stock raising and to general farming, a variety of farm products being raised. Reared in Southern California from her birth, Miss Serrano has been familiar with agricultural life from her earliest childhood and takes an active interest in the management of the family estate. Recently the Serranos have given an oil lease on their land and a test well is now being put down near the Orange County Park, her brother Joaquin Serrano being engaged in the drilling. The present prospects are very encouraging and should the well be the equal of a number of others in the district it will be a continual source of wealth to the whole family.

Like their forbears of the past generations, the family are members of the Roman Catholic Church, and are communicants of the Mission Church at Capistrano. Politically they adhere to the principles of the Democratic party.

SAMUEL M. DUNGAN — A successful rancher who was once a professional baseball player, adding no end of luster to the laurels in athletics already won by the Golden State, is Samuel M. Dungan, who was born, a native son, on the "Island" near Eureka, in Humboldt County, on July 29, 1866, the son of Robert M. and Joanna (Jenkins) Dungan, the former who first came across the Isthmus of Panama in 1857. He was by trade a builder of boats and ferries, and himself built the first ferry boat, and established the first ferry on Eel River. He also helped to build the Piedmont Ferry now run by the Southern Pacific between San Francisco and Oakland while living in the latter city. He and his wife moved to Los Angeles County in 1877, settling in what was known as Gospel Swamp, now in Orange County, and soon after he established himself as a contractor and builder in Santa Ana, at the same time carrying on his ranch work. Both parents died in Santa Ana, the father in April, 1915, and the mother in February, 1920.

Samuel Dungan was educated at the grammar school at Newport, now Greenville, walking two and a half miles to school. From 1886 to 1888 he attended the State Normal School at Ypsilanti, Mich., and in the latter year he returned to California. Two years later, he began to play professional baseball, from 1890 to 1891 being right fielder under T. P. Robinson at Oakland, where he had the best batting average of any individual in the league, and was given a gold medal therefore. During 1891 he was with the Milwaukee club in the Western League under Manager Chas. Cushman. From 1892 to 1893, and during half of 1894, Mr. Dungan was with Captain Anson's "White Sox" of Chicago, and from 1894 to 1900, he played at Detroit, Mich., in the Western League, and in 1900 with Kansas City, the first year of the American League, which he led in batting.

In 1901. the first year when the American League expanded under Ban Johnson, he was with the players of Washington, D. C., and during 1902 and half of 1903, with the Milwaukee Western League. From the middle of 1903 to the end of 1905, he played at Memphis, Tenn., with the Southern League, and in those seasons he held every position save that of pitcher and catcher, in the infield. In 1905, he quit playing baseball altogether.

In 1893 Mr. Dungan had purchased twenty acres of open land at Talbert, which he leased out for potatoes and celery and later beets and beans; and when he came back to Orange County he built a home on Fourth Street, later bought a lot and built a home at Laguna Beach, where he lived for twelve years while he was doing carpentering. During this time, in 1912, he bought ten acres at Lemon Heights, most of which is in the Red Hill Water district, the remainder being under the service of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. In 1917, Mr. Dungan built his home at 221 South Broadway, Santa Ana, and retired.

On November 14, 1900, Mr. Dungan was married to Miss Laura B. Lippy, a native of Mansfield, Ohio, the ceremony taking place in Chicago. Her parents were Harry and Mary (Long) Lippy, and her father was a cigar maker in Galion, Ohio. There she commenced her studies, which were finished in Santa Ana, Cal., for her family came out to the Coast in 1887. After their deaths, which occurred here in 1889 and 1891, respectively, the daughter returned East and stayed with a grandmother at Galion, in Crawford County, Ohio, and having studied stenography, typewriting and bookkeeping, she entered the service of a large jewelry firm in Chicago. Two children, who belong to the Baptist Church in Santa Ana, have blessed this fortunate union, and their names are Myron Robert and Dorothy Eleanor both attending the public schools.
Mr. Dungan is a Knights Templar Mason, belonging to the bodies of Santa Ana.

HARRY WOODINGTON — A resident of Orange County for forty years, Harry Woodington is justly entitled to be called one of its pioneers, for aside from his many years of residence here he has indeed been a pioneer in the agricultural and business development of the Wintersburg section of the county. A native of Illinois, he was born at Elizabeth, Jo Daviess County, in that state, April 11, 1875, the son of George and Alice (Neal) Woodington. The father had been a farmer in that state for many years, but after a visit to California in 1870, he cherished a desire to return to this land of sunshine and make it his home. Ten years later in 1880, he carried out that wish, removing with his family to Orange County, in the vicinity of Westminster, where he resided. His death occurred on the San Joaquin Ranch in 1905. He had been engaged in farming the greater part of his life and during the fourteen years of his residence in California he carried on agricultural pursuits quite extensively on the Bixby ranch and later raised grain on the San Joaquin ranch.

A lad of only five years when the family came West, Harry Woodington received his education in the schools of Westminster, but when a boy he always manifested a great interest in farming and even during his school days he worked on ranches in the neighborhood of his home when school was not in session. When a young man he became closely acquainted with D. E. Smeltzer, who introduced and built up the celery business in this part of the country. Mr. Smeltzer was known as the "Celery King," and the town of Smeltzer was named for him. Mr. Woodington entered his employ and was later made foreman of his ranch. After Mr. Smeltzer's death, the Golden West Celery and Produce Company was incorporated, taking over the holdings of Mr. Smeltzer. Mr. Woodington continued with them and in 1903 was made superintendent, a position his knowledge and experience made him most competent to fill, and through his untiring efforts the ranch was brought up to the highest state of productiveness. The celery business, however, reached the height of its prosperity about 1910-1912, and after that date its returns began to decrease, owing to blight and other pests; the large returns from lima beans and sugar beets also was a factor that led to its decreasing acreage. Mr. Woodington remained its superintendent until the company sold out to the Anaheim Sugar Company in 1919.

Meanwhile, in 1918, Mr. Woodington had purchased his present home place of forty acres, formerly known as the A. J. Crane place, and this acreage he devotes to raising lima beans. He also rents sixty acres and planted the entire hundred acres in lima beans in 1920. Always in the habit of doing things on a big scale, Mr. Woodington has been extensively engaged in the bean threshing business. He operates a threshing rig drawn by a thirty-six horsepower traction engine with a 36x60 separator. He has done much threshing in the vicinity of Smeltzer and on the San Joaquin ranch, putting in forty days on the former and thirty days on the ranch, cleaning up $7,000 by that work. He threshed 2,448 sacks of beans on the San Joaquin ranch as a record day's run.

Mr. Woodington was united in marriage on July 7, 1898, to Miss Rella Clemens, a native of Michigan. She was reared in Rapid City, S. D., coming to Wintersburg when she was eleven years of age. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Woodington: Russell and Donald, the elder son, Russell passing away in 1913. The family attend the Wintersburg Methodist Church, which Mr. Woodington helped to build and which he generously supports. He is a member of the California Lima Bean Growers Association and of the Elks Lodge at Santa Ana, and politically adheres to the principles of the Republican party. A man of great force of character and executive ability, one of his greatest assets is in his ability to handle men, and in this regard, especially, he is one of the most successful men in Orange County.

JOHN W. MARTIN. — A worthy example of a man who has risen to a place in the community through his own unaided efforts and in the face of many early obstacles is furnished in the career of John W. Martin, now a prosperous rancher of the Talbert precinct, where he owns 130 acres of choice land. Mr. Martin was born in Freeport, Ill., October 27, 1867, a son of John and Katherine (Claus) Martin, his father being engaged in the butcher business there. The family moved from Freeport to St. Louis. Mo., and there the mother died when John W. was a lad of but nine years, and from that time on he has made his own way in the world. He saw some rough and hard times in his boyhood, but being filled with ambition and determination he managed to secure the elements of an education by working out during the summers and attending the public schools for a short term in the winters. He returned to the northern part of Illinois and there worked out on farms near Rock City, in Stephenson County, and at Pecatonica and Winnebago, in Winnebago County, of that state.

When in his twentieth year, Mr. Martin came to California, locating at Los Angeles, and still with the desire to have a better education he got such schooling as he was able during the winters, finally entering the academic department of the University of Southern California, but unfortunately was taken with typhoid fever and was unable to complete the course. He then worked at various pursuits, farming for a time and then becoming interested in the oil business. The latter did not prove successful, however, so that he had to begin life practically anew at the age of thirty- five. He went to San Jacinto in 1898, and went into dairy farming on a rented farm, remaining there for about four years. In 1902 he came to Orange County, settling in the Talbert precinct, where he bought thirty acres for a starter, and since then he has made two subsequent purchases, so that he now has a well-kept and profitable ranch of 130 acres. Mr. Martin has gone into sugar beet raising quite extensively, and has also had splendid success in raising celery and chili peppers and has planted a number of apple trees on his place. In 1916 he suffered a severe financial loss by the floods of that year, losing a crop of fifteen acres of celery and an alfalfa field. He has put in 3,000 feet of twelve-inch, and 1.500 of ten-inch cement tile for irrigation and has a pumping plant with two wells and has a half interest with his brother. George E. Martin, in another pumping plant with two wells. He has also remodeled his residence and made many other improvements.

On September 29, 1897, Mr. Martin was married to Miss Georgia Smith, a daughter of Jackson and Maggie (Mellon) Smith. Her father was for a number of years in the furniture business in St. Louis, Mo., but after coming to California engaged in ranching near Newhall. Mr. and Mrs. Martin are the parents of five children: John W., Jr., enlisted in the Coast Artillery during the war, but the armistice came before he saw active service; Catherine Marie is a graduate of the Santa Ana high school, in the class of 1919; Edward J.; Floyd Raymond; and Margaret Luella. Remembering his own struggles to obtain an education, Mr. Martin has naturally felt a keen interest in furthering in every way possible the school facilities for the present and coming generation, and has given faithful service for a number of terms as trustee of the New Hope school district, and was clerk for many years. He is also a director of the Newbert protection district and was one of its organizers. While Mr. Martin inclines toward the principles of the Democratic party he is liberal minded in local political matters and believes in putting the best man and the best principles above mere partisanship. The Martin home abounds with hospitality and good cheer, and the whole family are justly popular in the community.

GEORGE R. REYBURN — One of the liveliest of all Orange County wires, both in times of peace and during the recent World War, is George R. Reyburn, the genial, accomplished and accommodating secretary of the chamber of commerce of Garden Grove, where he has given abundant evidence of his faith in the future of the town by investing in the best realty to be found there. A native son who never loses an opportunity to boost the Golden State, he was born at Petaluma on May 19, 1860. His mother died there when he was only four years of age, and his father two years later.

When he was sixteen, George came to Santa Ana and for a while went to school. Then he worked at sprinkling the streets, and next went to Texas for ten or more years. In 1894 he returned to Santa Ana, and for two years was in business there; and since 1896, he has been a leading resident here. The town has used him well, as has the county; and in turn George gives every stranger the glad hand, and so encourages every good project.

At Santa Ana in 1895 Mr. Reyburn was married to Miss Katie McGee, a native of Pennsylvania, who moved to Iowa and thence to California. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Garden Grove, and Mr. Reyburn is president of the board of trustees, having been a member of the church for twenty-five years.

Mr. Reyburn owns three of the best store buildings in Garden Grove, and also his residence, and besides dealing in realty, an enterprise he abandoned during the war, he is the veteran fire insurance agent in Garden Grove, and represents the Phoenix of Hartford. He bought five acres, planted and farmed the land and subsequently subdivided and sold it in town lots, known as the Reyburn Subdivision of Garden Grove; but for four years he was engaged in general merchandising at Garden Grove. In national political affairs a Democrat,, he knows no party lines when it comes to putting his shoulder to the wheel and working for the best interests, now and in the future, of Garden Grove and Orange County, both of which, he is sure, are growing better every day.

For some time Mr. Reyburn has been the popular secretary of the chamber of commerce, boasting seventy-five members; and with an inside view of the real resources of this section, says that prospects were never better than in this year, 1920. Probably because of this valuable experience, Mr. Reyburn was called upon to do much important war work. He had charge of the registration for this district, planned the drives, and was an all-around, confidential man. He worked hard for the four Liberty Loans, and also for the Victory Loan, and gave a willing and most helpful hand for the Red Cross drives.

How valuable has been this work of Mr. Reyburn for the building up of Garden Grove and neighboring sections of Orange County may be judged by certain newspaper acknowledgments, and from statistics found in chamber of commerce publications. Garden Grove now has, thanks in part to these strenuous exertions of our subject, a population of 800 souls, and is in the center of a population of 2,000. It has a strong bank, a first-class weekly newspaper and printing plant, four well-housed churches, a strong Young Men's Christian Association, with a good building of its own, a woman's club which holds weekly meetings: and a public school system, in good headquarters and manned by ten teachers. The town enjoys a good telephone system, electric light and gas for domestic use, streets lighted by electricity, good streets for the most part substantially paved, and an abundant artesian water supply. It has good passenger and freight facilities furnished by the Pacific Electric Railway, and stores equal to those of any town of the size in the state. The irrigation system is the most perfect obtainable, for at an average depth of 180 feet plenty of good water is found. The Garden Grove section produces the most chili peppers, for the area, to be found in all America. A thousand acres of walnut groves are close to Garden Grove. The neighborhood is rapidly coming to the front as a Valencia orange section and there are thousands of acres planted. There are 2000 acres of beans. Sugar beets cover about 2000 acres and over 300 acres are planted to potatoes. Great quantities of garden truck in excess of local wants are shipped away; apricots and other fruits here grow to perfection and prove a fine investment for the planter; and there is a record of 200 per cent on the investment in poultry and eggs.

Speaking of the war work in which Mr. Reyburn took such an active part, the Garden Grove News of April 11, 1919, had this to say:

"In all of the Liberty Loan drives, as in the case of the present Victory drive, Mr. George Reyburn has been the moving spirit, and has had charge of all the local business by direct appointment from the Treasury Department at Washington. And well and patriotically has he performed his duty. At all times Garden Grove has gone over the top with more than its quota, and that the place has sustained this record for liberality and generosity is largely due to Reyburn's indefatigable devotion to public duty without thought of compensation other than the abiding esteem of his fellow-townsmen and co-workers."

The Garden Grove News of May 16, also contained the following:

"Garden Grove's Honor Flag was received by George Reyburn, local chairman of the Victory Loan Committee this week. The quota assigned this district was $30,375, the major part of which was raised the opening day of the campaign. At the close of the drive, Garden Grove had subscribed $33,500, or $3,125 above our apportionment. There were two hundred sixty-two subscribers to the last Liberty Loan in this locality."

WILLIAM H. WICKETT, M. D. — Since coming to Anaheim in 1907, Dr. William Harold Wickett has won and maintained a high reputation for skill in medicine and surgery. Through his association, with Dr. H. A. Johnston, of the Johnston-Wickett Clinic, he has made a valuable contribution to the medical profession of the Pacific Coast. The doctor has kept abreast of the most advanced medical thought and practice of the day, not merely because of the allurements which beckon the student on to that which is purely experimental, but largely from the standpoint of the humanitarian, who is actuated by the desire to alleviate human suffering.

Toronto, Canada, was the birthplace of Dr. Wickett, April 5, 1884, marking the date of his birth. His father, William Marwood Wickett, was born in England, and came with his father, William Wickett, to Brooklyn, Ontario, where he followed farming during the days of his early manhood. He then engaged in the business of a tanner and currier at Brooklyn, later removing to Toronto, where he was extensively interested in the manufacture of leather, being a partner in the firm of Wickett and Craig. Here he continued until 1906, when he disposed of his business interests in Toronto and came to California, locating at Anaheim, where he has since devoted his time to citrus culture. Mrs. Wickett, who was Lillis Balfour before her marriage, was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, and crossed the Atlantic on a sailing vessel with her parents in the days when the journey was a matter- of weeks instead of days. The family settled in Canada and here she met and married Mr. Wickett. Since taking up their residence in Anaheim, Mr. and Mrs. Wickett have been active in the work of the Presbyterian Church of that city. Mr.. Wickett being an elder of that body. Two children were born to them: Annie Marwood, who is the wife of Dr. H. A. Johnston, and William H. Wickett, of this review.

Dr. Wickett was reared in Toronto, and his early education was obtained in the Lord Dufferin school. Even from a youth he had always had a strong desire to enter the medical profession, and when he had graduated from the Lord Dufferin school, he continued his studies at the University of Toronto to prepare for his medical course. In 1903 he came to California and entered the College of Medicine of the University of Southern California, and was graduated in 1907, with the degree of M.D. Coming to Anaheim, he formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Dr. Herbert A. Johnston, which culminated in the formation of the Johnston-Wickett Clinic; and so successful has been this work that the members of the staff have been compelled to give up their general practice and devote all their time to the clinic. Year by year the staff has been increased and new departments added, until it has become one of the largest clinics on the Coast, ten physicians and surgeons, each at the head of his special department, being in constant attendance. Drs. Johnston and Wickett have for some years been large stockholders in the Anaheim hospital and have recently acquired the Fullerton Hospital, a modern, fireproof building that is considered the most complete hospital of its size in the state.

In January, 1918. Dr. Wickett was commissioned a captain in the Medical Corps of the U. S. Army, and proceeded to the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., where he remained for two months. He was then appointed on the surgical staff at Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Ala., later becoming attached to Evacuation Hospital No. 11, detailed for overseas service. Arriving in France, he was placed in charge of an operating team and sent to the Toul sector, serving throughout the St. Mihiel drive. At the close of activities in that sector he was sent to the Argonne Forest, where he was in active service until January, 1919, when he joined his old command at Le Mans. Here he remained on duty until he requested a transfer to the United States, returning as medical officer on the S. S. Roma, landing in April, 1919; then serving as medical officer
in charge of a troop train to Camp Kearny, Cal. He received his honorable discharge from the U. S. Army April 18, 1919, and returned to Orange County to resume his practice. In 1920 he spent some time in Chicago, where he took a post-graduate course at the Bremmerman Urological Hospital.

On June 2, 1910, Dr. Wickett was united in marriage with Miss Ethel Pearson Chapman, the daughter of Charles C. Chapman of Fullerton. Mrs. Wickett was born in Chicago, but from early girlhood has been a resident of California and Orange County. After their marriage Dr. and Mrs. Wickett spent four months in Europe, visiting the Royal College of Surgeons in London, and many places of interest on the Continent. Two sons have been born to them, Charles Marwood and William Harold, Jr. Some years ago Dr. Wickett erected the Marwood Apartments in Fullerton, later
disposing of this property; he is at present interested in horticulture, in addition to his busy life as a surgeon, and is the owner of several ranches devoted to Valencia oranges.

Prominent in the ranks of the Masons, Dr. Wickett is a member of the Lodge, Chapter and Commandery at Fullerton, the Consistory at Bloomsburg, Pa., and Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., at Reading, Pa. He also belongs to Fullerton Post of the American Legion, and in his professional affiliations is an active member of the Orange County Medical Association, the Southern California Medical Society, the California State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. With Mrs. Wickett, he holds membership in the Christian Church at Fullerton, and is a deacon in that body.

SAMUEL Q. CONKLE — The Conkle family trace their origin in this country to their Dutch ancestors who settled in Pennsylvania in early days, and S. Q. Conkle of Garden Grove is the representative of the California branch of his family. Mr. Conkle was born September 8, 1846, near East Liverpool, Columbiana County, Ohio. His father, Daniel, was a native of Columbiana County and his mother, who was Barbara Poor in maidenhood, was born in Westmoreland County and came to Ohio, where she was reared. His parents were married in Ohio, where the father, a stockman and farmer, owned a large farm and bought sheep for the Pittsburgh markets, in early days driving his droves and herds through on foot to that city. He also drove sheep into Missouri in the early fifties. The father, at the age of sixty-five, sold his farm and moved to Minerva, near Canton, Stark County, Ohio, where he lived retired until the time of his death in 1887, at the age of seventy-five. The mother died at the age of seventy. In the parental family of eight children, three girls and five boys. Samuel Q. Conkle is the youngest child, and the only one of the family now living. None of his brothers died under the age of seventy-five. His oldest brother was a civil engineer in Stark County, Ohio; some of the brothers were farmers, and Noah F. was a merchant at Topeka, Kans., for twenty years* Three of his brothers served in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Samuel Q. was educated in the district schools of his native state and at Mount Union Academy, and began life as a clerk in the produce business at Minerva, Ohio, in which he was employed three years, from twenty-one until twenty-four years of age. He then bought out his employer and continued to conduct a wholesale business as a shipper of butter, eggs, and poultry, shipping to the Pittsburgh. Philadelphia, New York City, and Baltimore markets for ten years, and doing a profitable business. Having contracted asthma, he sold his interests in the East and came to Orange County, Cal., then a part of Los Angeles .County, first settling at Santa Ana in 1885. After two years he moved to his ranch of twenty-two acres in the Bolsa district between Santa Ana and Bolsa, being a part of the Stearns' Rancho, where he. engaged in farming.
He also owned eighty acres in the Black Star Canyon where he accumulated some 225 colonies of bees. He had learned the bee business in Ohio, but owing to climatic conditions found it was much different in California, and had to practically learn the Business over again. He succeeded and became one of Orange County's most successful apiarists.

His marriage, which occurred in Sandyville, Ohio, January 24. 1872, united him with Miss Normanrla McFarland, a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and daughter of John McFarland, a hotel keeper at Sandyville. Six children were born of their union, five of whom are living, the second child dying in infancy. Ura Bertie is the wife of Frank Mills, a prosperous rancher at Garden Grove; Hazel is the wife of Samuel McKee, of Los Angeles; Lemon L. runs an auto truck in Los Angeles, is married and lives in that city; Mellie is the wife of John Bedabach, a dealer in stock, and their home is at Pasadena. Roscoe lives in Los Angeles, and is single. Owing to his wife's failing health Mr. Conkle disposed of his home ranch and they made their home with Mrs. Mills, where Mrs. Conkle died in 1910. Mr. Conkle then came to Garden Grove and built a comfortable bungalow on Pine Street, where he now resides. Mrs. Conkle was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Conkle
still owns ten acres south of Garden Grove which is leased. In 1918 he suffered a stroke of paralysis, and lay unconscious for three weeks, but his great vitality enabled him to make a good recovery. He was well acquainted with the late ex- President McKinley, who was his legal adviser while he lived in Ohio. One of Garden Grove's most highly respected citizens he has the satisfaction of knowing that his long and useful life has been well spent, and his children, who were born with a good inheritance, are living useful, active lives, honored and esteemed by their friends and acquaintances. In his political views Mr. Conkle is a Republican. He never was sued nor ever sued any person, nor did he ever serve on a jury or hold office of any kind.

WM. J. CHENEY — A successful rancher operating extensively and enjoying a popularity shared by his estimable wife and children, is Wm. J. Cheney, who was born near what is now Downey, and is one of three sons, all the living children of Tilford D. Cheney, a native of Arkansas, who married Emma Ryle, a belle of Kentucky. Tilford Cheney came with his parents from Arkansas to California in 1856, driving a mule- team, and proceeding along the northern route, by way of the Black Hills; and while they were passing through that country, a most unusual accident took place. A bolt of lightning struck the lad, while he was walking along the side of the wagon train, and he fell unconscious to the ground, where he was picked up by his mother, and although a heavy rain was falling, her mother-love would not permit her to give him up, and for three days she worked over him, until she brought him back to consciousness and eventually restored him to health.

The family settled at first in Napa County, where the subject's grandfather, Wm. W. Cheney, was engaged for several years in ranching, and then they lived in Salinas, Monterey County, and in San Luis Obispo County, before they came to Los Angeles County in 1865. Thus the Cheneys were pioneers in those sections. The mother died in Los Angeles County twenty-one years ago, at the age of fifty-one; the father still lives in Tulare. having passed his eighty-first birthday. Two younger brothers, H. C. and C. D. Cheney, are ranchers in Tulare County.

Wm. J. Cheney is the only one of the family living in Southern California, and here he attended the public schools, topping off with a course at Woodbury Business College in Los Angeles, from which he was graduated in 1896. Ever since he finished his schooling, he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits, at first farming 300 acres of his father's at Calabasas, in Los Angeles County, at which he continued for three years. There he became acquainted with James Irvine, from whom he rented 960 acres; now he operates 600 acres of the Irvine ranch, where he has farmed for seventeen years.

Five years ago Mr. Cheney bought ten acres on Prospect Avenue, Tustiri, the beginning of his home place, and two years ago he bought the twenty acres across the street. He has set out 815 Valencia orange trees on the ten-acre field, and 1600 Valencias on the twenty acres west of Prospect Avenue. This land was formerly planted to Navels and walnuts, but the trees being old and neglected, he grubbed them all out, and now has two of the finest young orange groves in the country. In partnership with James Utt he is operating the nursery which is devoted to the raising of Valencia orange trees, of which they now have 12.000. This nursery comprises two acres he owns at Tustin.

 
On some of the Irvine ranch leased by Mr. Cheney, he has planted 359 acres to lima beans, 150 acres to black-eyes, while the balance of the acreage is set out to barley and hay. He is the secretary of the San Joaquin Lima Bean Growers Association, and was one of its organizers in 1916, as well as the first secretary. Before its organization, farmers got only three and a quarter to four and a half cents per pound, while the price in 1919 was fourteen and one-half cents. As a successful business man, Mr. Cheney is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Santa Ana. He is also a member of the Tustin Hills Citrus Association, which owns a packing house on the Southern Pacific Railway. With Santa Ana and Orange associates he was one of the organizers of the Wyana Oil Company, of which he is president. The company is now drilling for oil on their own holdings in the Lost Soldier oil field in Wyoming.

On December 11, 1907, Mr. Cheney was married to Miss Eva F. Fraser, a native of Iowa, and the daughter of Francis Peter and Rebecca Ann (Scott) Fraser. She came to California when about nine years of age. Her father died in Santa Ana on May 30, 1919, and his widow is still living on East Second Street, in Santa Ana. Two children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Cheney, William J. Cheney, Jr., and Edra Evelyn. Mr. Cheney will soon erect a pressed-brick residence at a cost of twenty thousand dollars. He is a life member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks.

Mr. Cheney also owns and operates 300 acres four miles south of Tulare, in Tulare County, on the State Highway, which he farms to wheat and corn and where he raises mules! He uses mules of his own raising in both Tulare and Orange counties, keeping twenty-four head of Percheron brood mares. He raises about sixteen mules every year, and in partnership with Leo Borchard and Guy W. Wilmot, he owns the imported jack, "Burr Oak," bred at New Boston, Mo., and valued at $3,000, without doubt the finest jack in the county.

P. W. EHLEN — A successful, prominent business man of Orange, a town in whose progress he takes an enthusiastic pride, is P. W. Ehlen, also one of the pillars of the Lutheran Church in this city. He came to Orange as far back as the booming middle eighties, and since that time his advancement and that of the community have been common in objective and character. He was born in Hanover, Germany, on October 11, 1863, the child of devoted parents who spent their last days with him in Orange and died here. He was educated at the public schools of his native district, and went through the gymnasium where he prepared for teaching; and for two and a half years he presided over classes, until he decided to leave the Old World for the New. In 1882 he crossed the ocean to New Jersey, and spent three years at Bayonne, where he clerked in a grocery. In 1885 he pushed on to the West and California, and located at Orange, then a small town. He was employed by McPherson Brothers at McPherson, one and a half miles east of Orange, and while there he packed oranges and raisins in their packing house.

 
In 1887, at the crest of the "boom," Mr. Ehlen started the general merchandise business at McPherson, known under the firm name of P. W. Ehlen, and two years later he removed his store to Orange, where he located on the site of what is now the Schaffert Building on South Glassell Street. He rented a building for the purpose, and the same year Henry Grote became interested with him in the business, and the firm became known as Ehlen and Grote.

The partners removed their store, in 1901, to the corner of South Glassell and the Plaza, where the Mission Pharmacy now stands, and in 1906 Mr. Ehlen incorporated the Ehlen and Grote Company, with himself as president and manager. In 1908 he built his present large business block known as the Ehlen and Grote block across the street from his former location. For 140 feet the lot fronts on South Glassell Street, and for fifty feet on the Plaza. Here he has built up a very large business with the different departments of groceries, hardware, shoes and gents furnishings, and no one who knows his ability as a merchant, and his fidelity in endeavoring to serve his numerous patrons, will envy him his exceptional success. Having started with a capital of $350 he built up the sales, prior to selling out. to over $1,000 in value a day. The strain proved too great for him, however, and finding that his health was being impaired, he disposed of his interests in 1910, and retired from the strenuous life.

Since then Mr. Ehlen has been interested in lands and their development. He incorporated the Ehlen Land Company, which has extensive holdings in the Imperial Valley, which they lease, devoted in part to the raising of cotton. They also own valuable lands in the Sacramento Valley, on Grizzly Island, Solano County, where they have constructed six miles of good canal, thereby reclaiming a large tract of land. Mr. Ehlen is a stockholder in and director of the National Bank of Orange, and he is president and director of the Orange Savings Bank.

Since he took up his residence at Orange, Mr. Ehlen was married to Miss Mant Eggers, a native of Illinois, who was reared in Oregon. They have had four children. His two sons, Henry and Edward are both graduates of Concordia College, Oakland, Cal. Henry, after finishing at the Lutheran Normal School at Seward, Neb., taught school in Detroit, Mich. During the World War he enlisted and served fifteen months in the navy. Edward is now an automobile mechanic; and Adele and Sophia are students in the Orange Union high school.

Mr. Ehlen is a prominent and influential member of St. Johns Lutheran Church of Orange having served as elder and trustee for over twenty-five years and most of the time as secretary of the congregation. He is president of the Lutheran Layman's League for the California and Nevada District and is also the financial secretary of the California and Nevada district of the Missouri Synod for Southern California.

EDWARD W. HARMON — A very successful farmer who has made a specialty of dairying, following the last word in science and sanitation and getting far superior results both in his products and in the economy of operation, is Edward VV. Harmon, son of Jonathan Harmon, the well-known pioneer, who came to Santa Ana and vicinity in the late eighties, bought sixty acres of land and added to that until he had 140 acres, and whose sketch appears on another page in this work.

Edward W. Harmon was born at Petaluma, in Sonoma County, on January 12, 1871, and came to Santa Ana when he was nine years old and attended the local public schools. He was married to Miss Martha May McGuire, a native of Petaluma, and a woman of accomplishment and charm, who has become the mother of. their four children, Ralph L., Gale W., Lawrence Norton and William Warren McGuire Harmon.

He was engaged in dairying with his father on the home ranch for twenty-one years until the elder Harmon wished to retire, when they sold out. For two years Edward raised sugar beets, but found it did not pay as well as the dairy business, so he purchased cows and has now built up a splendid herd of sixty head; the milk is all sold to the Sanitary Dairy in Santa Ana. The Harmon ranch is equipped with pumping plant yielding 110 inches of water, and also has a complete cement pipe line system for irrigating.

In national politics a Republican, in local affairs a nonpartisan worker for whatever seems best for the community, Mr. Harmon is always an American, and therefore one of the best "boosters" imaginable for California and Orange County.

ELMER HAYWARD — It is not given to many men to attain in their own home district the success enjoyed by Elmer Hayward, a resident of Orange for more than forty-four years, who is prominent as a school trustee in the same district where he went to school as a boy, and is the president of the board of trustees of the city of Orange, which has grown up since he came here as a boy. He is now one of the best- posted citrus growers in the county, and, because of his valuable experience and success, his advice is much sought by those desiring to emulate his example. Affable and popular, and thoroughly wide-awake, he is pronounced in favor of the perpetuation of historical records which may show what was done in the building up of the great California commonwealth, and who did the hard work of construction.

He was born near what is now Dysart, Tama County, Iowa, on February 25, 1865, the youngest of twelve children, the son of Joel Hayward, a native of New Hampshire. He had married Mary Barrett, who was born at Salem, N. Y., and whom he met in Michigan, where they were married. After setting up their household, they engaged in farming in Lenawee County, Mich., cleared a farm of the timber, and after twenty years became early settlers in Tama County, Iowa, where they remained another twenty years. A son, DeWitt C. Hayward, came to California in 1872 and settled in Orange County; and three years later Joel Hayward and his family followed, and soon afterward located in Orange and bought a ranch, and engaged in horticulture. On their arrival in California, they stopped for a short while at Sacramento, and from there journeyed by boat to San Francisco, after which they took the steamer to San Pedro, and came ashore on a lighter bound for Wilmington.

Nine of the twelve children referred to above grew to maturity, and eight came to California. Charles served in the Civil War as a member of an Iowa regiment, and eventually died in that state. DeWitt C., who came to California in 1872, died at San Jose. Alonzo, who pushed west soon after DeWitt, also died here. Jennie E. came to California about 1873 and married Millard Parker, a pioneer, and now resides on East Palmyra Street, Orange. Julia is Mrs. A. M. Hayward, and lives at Escondido; Minerva resides in Monrovia; Norman is living at Van Nuys; Mary, or Mrs. Taylor, lives near Minerva; and Elmer is the subject of our review. Joel Hayward died here, aged seventy-one; and Mrs. Hayward also passed away in Orange.

Elmer was ten years old when he came here and began to attend the local schools; and his first teacher was Mrs. Samuel Armor. When old enough to do so, he assisted his father to improve the place they had bought in 1880, and where the original house was built in 1881 — a comfortable structure that has long since given way to the present fine home place; and when he was twenty-one, he took charge of the homestead. In acquiring his present valuable knowledge of horticulture, he went through all the early trying experience necessary to learn just what was best to do with the land. For a while they had a vineyard; then they cultivated apricots, peaches and apples; but finally they decided to raise oranges and walnuts, and therein attained the best results. Mr. Hayward has now set out all the land to Valencia oranges, to which he finds the land best adapted. Eight acres were cleared of the sage brush when they came; and the balance they have cleared since. Joel Hayward paid forty dollars an acre for the land, and $6.10 for water stock, and since his death one of the finest orange groves in the state has been developed on this land. There are sixteen acres in all in the ranch, which is at 420 Cambridge street, and the orange trees, bordered with walnuts, are said to constitute one of the finest ranches of the kind in the district. Mr. Hayward is a member and has been a director of the Santiago Orange Growers Association, and
was a director when they built the new packing house. He helped start the Orange County Fumigation Company, which has grown to large proportions, and he is at present one of the stockholders.

At Orange Mr. Hayward was married to Miss Gallic M. Graves, a native of Green Bay, Wis., and a graduate "of the Oshkosh Normal School. She was a teacher, and came to Orange a young lady. They have three children — Dorothy, who is in the Orange Union High School, Mary Louise and Lucile. Mrs. Hayward is a Presbyterian.

Mr. Hayward is a Republican in national politics, but independent in local affairs; he is a trustee of the grammar schools of Orange, and is president of the board. There are now three schools, instead of one, in the district — a real progress since the days when he went to school there. He is also a member of the board of city trustees of Orange, having been elected in 1918 for four years. He was chairman of the police committee and a member of the street committee until 1920, when he was chosen president of the board, a position he is filling with zeal and to the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens.

CAPTAIN ANDREW HARRINGTON BIBBER — A very interesting representative of fine old Revolutionary stock is Captain Andrew Harrington Bibber, renowned in the late Civil War, and doubly honored today as the husband of a lady whose singular talents and exceptional personality have enabled her also to attain social eminence such as always affords influence for good.

Mrs. Annie L. Bibber was born at St. John, N. B., the daughter of John Annesley, also a native of that place, and the granddaughter of Daniel Annesley, who crossed the Atlantic from Devonshire, and settled at St. John, where he became a shipping merchant operating so extensively that he owned his vessels, and made sixty or more ocean trips. John Annesley was a mill owner, but he gave up milling on account of ill-health, after which he took a government position under Queen Victoria; and that responsible post he held until his death. Mrs. Annesley was Lucy Hayden before her
marriage, and she was born at Beacon Hill, Boston; Grandfather Aaron Hayden was a native of Massachusetts, and was born in the neighborhood of what became Haydenville. He was a merchant in Boston, and married Ruth Alden Jones, of that city, who proudly traced her New England lineage back to the famous John Alden. Lucy Hayden, in fact, was the sixth lineal descendant of the illustrious patriot, and resided at St. John until she joined Mrs. Bibber at Orange, and here she breathed her last. Of the six children in the family, three grew to maturity and are still living; the other two, besides Mrs. Bibber, being Mrs. Frances Paine, of Berkeley, and Mrs. Lucy C. Coulson of the same town.

The youngest of all, Mrs. Bibber was educated at St. John's Young Ladies' Academy and at Vassar College. At Eastport, Maine, on Sept. 27, 1876, she was married to Captain Andrew Harrington Bibber, a native of Lubec, Maine, and the son of Charles Bibber, a native and merchant of the same state. His mother was Adeline Harrington, and she was born at Eastport, Maine. Grandfather Andrew Harrington was a business man whose family belonged to some of the original settlers of Concord, Mass. There were eleven of the Harrington brothers in the Revolutionary War, and all fought in the battle of Lexington, and one, Jacob Harrington, was the first man killed in that battle, so that the Harrington home at Concord, Mass., is now maintained as a relic of Revolutionary headquarters.

Captain Bibber served as captain of the First Maine Cavalry throughout the Civil War, or for four years and seven months, and was present at Appomattox at the surrender of Lee. His regiment was in two hundred engagements from Bull Run to Appomattox. After marrying, he brought his wife to Eastport, Maine, engaging in the dry goods business. His spare moments he gave to painting, for he was an artist of ability, and noted as a marine painter. He exhibited his work in an art gallery in Philadelphia, and at Williams & Evarts well-known art rooms at Boston, and at each exhibition received his quota of praise.

 
In 1890 Captain and Mrs. Bibber came out to California and located at Orange, where they purchased twenty acres between Schaffer and Cambridge streets, to Culver and Palmyra; and this acreage they set out to oranges. They also built a fine residence. From 1895 until 1901 Captain Bibber was again active as a dry goods merchant, this time at Orange, but in the latter year he sold his mercantile business and on October 7, 1912, he died. During his latter years he again devoted himself to painting, and Mrs. Bibber possesses some fine specimens of his art. The Bibbers laid out ten acres of the land in lots, and this was soon sold and built up. In 1919 Mrs. Bibber sold her larger residence and her ten-acre orange grove, and since then has had built for herself a comfortable bungalow at the corner of Van Bibber and Harwood streets.

One child blessed this marriage of Captain Bibber and Miss Annesley — Alice Alden, a graduate of the Girls' Collegiate School of Los Angeles, where she was a member of the Class of '03, and she is now the wife of Ray O. Van Bibber, who is engaged in the oil business.

Captain Bibber's first wife was Miss Sarah Houghton of Eastport, Maine, a daughter of the Hon. Partman Houghton, who was a member of the state legislature in Maine. She died in Boston, leaving a daughter, Edith Prince Bibber, who also
makes her home with Mrs. Bibber. She was educated at Vassar College, and teaches music in the El Modena schools, and she has built herself a studio adjoining their home, where she teaches private pupils.

Captain Bibber was a Unitarian, while Mrs. Bibber is a member of the Baptist Church of Santa Ana. She is also one of the early members, and one of the executive committee of the Ebell Club of Santa Ana. Both Captain and Mrs. Bibber have been Republicans; and he was a member of the Southern California Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, being thrice commander of Granger Post.

JOSEPH S. THURSTON — A resident of California for half a century, Joseph S. Thurston has slight remembrance of any other locality, having been brought here by his parents when a babe of two years. A successful, self-made man, he has acquired large realty holdings entirely through his own industrious efforts and has been for a long time the leading rancher, fruit and vegetable grower at Laguna Beach. Born November 26, 1868. in Cash Valley, Utah, Joseph S. Thurston was the seventh in order of birth of a family of fifteen children. His father was George W. Thurston. born in Huron County. Ohio, while his grandfather was Thomas J. Thurston. His mother, Sarah Lucina Snow before her marriage, was born at Chester, Pa., while her parents were en route from Vermont to Illinois. Grandfather Erastus Snow was a native of Vermont and there he married Artimesia Berman, and they were early settlers of Hancock County, Ill.

Mr. Snow and Thomas J. Thurston and others were members of the pioneer train to Salt Lake City. Mr. Snow and a comrade, Orson Pratt, went ahead of the train, and as Mr. Snow had a splendid, swift riding horse, he blazed the way for the train, picking the trail and camp sites, as well as furnishing provender by hunting. After arriving at Salt Lake he helped lay out the town. He was very prominent in the early days of Salt Lake City and became one of the head men in the Mormon Church, being one of the first group of twelve apostles. He was sent to and founded St. George City, Utah, and there he died. Thomas J. Thurston became a bishop in the Mormon Church and passed away in Utah. George W. Thurston and his wife engaged in ranching near Salt Lake City for a time and then removed to Weber County, where he engaged in
freighting and made sufficient money to purchase machinery for a grist mill, building the first mill in Cash Valley. While living there a little son died of diphtheria and then a still harder blow fell on the family when one of their little daughters was stolen by the Indians. While residing in Utah. George W. Thurston and his wife withdrew from the Mormon Church.

In 1870. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Thurston, with their children, came to San Francisco, but remained there only a few weeks, going by boat to San Diego. Here they acquired land and began raising stock and grain, but being warned of trouble brewing among the stockmen, they sold out and came to Tustin in 1871. Camping at the old artesian well east of Tustin for about six weeks, they then took up .the original homestead of 152 acres at Aliso Beach and in the canyon. The Thurston ranch is the most scenic and picturesque of any on the coast of Orange County and has a frontage on the ocean of a quarter of a mile, extending back three-fourths of a mile inland.

Joseph Thurston began making himself useful at a very early age. When about five years old he herded ducks along Aliso Creek to see that coyotes did not prowl up and get them, and at other times by watching that the ground squirrels did not make too much havoc with the patch of young corn; in each case he would be gone from the old farm house practically the entire day. When eight years old he was told to watch the cattle off the wheat patch in the canyon. He started up the canyon with his lunch zealously keeping his eye out for the patch of wheat. At that season of the year the country was all green and all looked alike, but he finally located the wheat and faithfully guarded it. This he kept up for seventy-two days without interruption, marking the time by cutting a notch for each day in a stick. During this period he had no dog, but had some experience with squirrels eating his lunch and also with wild oats, but was not afraid of them, except once when he had to go into the dense brush to drive the cattle out where he had previously seen a cat. He always carried a tough stick about thirty inches long which he kept in readiness, determined that if the cat should jump out at him he would hit him once, at the least. This stick he carried with him for years, and afterwards when his dog cornered a large cat, he killed it with the same stick. Most of his time for seven years was spent herding cattle on the hills and many times was where he could look down into Laguna Canyon. During these years he was taught to read and spell, the lessons being usually taught him at home by some of the children and he was also taught to write, being given a little time each day until he had filled out two primary copy books, while his mathematics consisted of some of the neighbor's children showing him how to subtract, multiply and divide; that is all the assistance he ever had in obtaining what is commonly known as an education until he was thirty-six years old, when he hired a man and his wife to take care of the ranch as best they could and went to Los Angeles, where he attended Woodbury's Business College for a period of three months, a most enjoyable experience, as he had excellent surroundings, staying at the home of Judge and Mrs. W. A. Cheney. While herding cattle he had always carried his books, but had to carry the same ones for years not having any new ones, Ray's primary and second arithmetic being among the number, but he says he could always find something new in them.

At the age of fifteen his older brother left home and Joseph then had to devote his entire time to the farm work and when he was nineteen, his father left home and the entire responsibility of the farm rested on his shoulders. However, he took hold of the work and as usual mastered the situation, so that in 1891 they managed to build a new house and it was not until then that he had ever slept in the house where the rest of the family were since he was a small boy. In 1893, at the age of twenty-five, feeling that a change was absolutely necessary and hoping that some of the other boys would take care of the ranch he left home, and it was during very trying times, being the time of Coxey's army and work was about as scarce as money. He worked on threshing machines at $1.50 a day; he helped put in some of the first paving in Santa Ana at $1.75 and boarded himself, and he worked for Will Halesworth on the desert, 144 days at one dollar a day.

When he came back to the ranch in the fall of 1895, his mother had moved to Santa Ana and the other children had gone out to work and he found things in a state of chaos. So he and his sister and her husband, W. H. Walles, came down to work the place, but they stayed only about one year and then he was left to work the ranch alone, doing the work previously accomplished by the whole family, and this with his nearest neighbor four miles distant. For seven years he was confronted by that situation; they were seven long years of toil and privation, for five of them were the driest the country had known and one of the others was only half a crop. A volume could be written about his experiences and hardships of those years of constant work and worry. In speaking of it he says, "he felt like one who was trying to sweep the water back from an island that was gradually being submerged."

There were times when he felt like deserting, but then would come the thought that his mother depended on him, and the ranch and all the efforts they had put forth would go for naught if he failed to hold the fort, and that would never do. It was a lonely situation but he kept going. With the small market in Laguna limited to about ten weeks a year and with the expense of twelve months, together with all the pests that naturally would come to the only place (his being the only place for many miles where fruit and vegetables were raised) where they could find what they wanted to eat, the situation was intense. There were birds by the thousands, mice, rabbits and gophers and the surrounding country harbored thousands of squirrels; then there were skunks, coons, coyotes and wild cats, as well as numerous kinds of bugs, all bent on getting all they could of his produce, so at times he found it almost impossible to raise anything. So between these pests and the regular work, to say nothing of the housework and keeping up the machinery and numerous other things that had to be regulated, including trying to make financial ends meet there was plenty to keep him in a fighting mood; so much so that when some well-meaning individual who really wanted to be pleasant would say, "What a beautiful place, pray what do you find to do down here?" he would really find it difficult to keep his temper. During all this time he has cared for his mother, who now resides at Santa Ana at the age of eighty years. A remarkable fact in the family is that of the fifteen children, thirteen grew up to maturity and all are living, there having been no death in the family since nearly sixty years ago, when they were living in Utah. The little girl, Rosetta, who was stolen by the Indians when she was three years old, was never heard from in spite of extended search, and this was always a great grief to the family.

After a number of years Mr. Thurston purchased the home ranch and later added to it 161 acres, so that the Thurston ranch now comprises 313 acres. In 1919 he acquired the 528-acre tract at Laguna known as the Rogers place, which brings his holdings up to over 800 acres. His principal products are early vegetables, melons, corn and fine apples, and he has made a reputation for growing string beans, being the first to ship to the San Francisco and Los Angeles markets and bringing as much as thirty cents a pound. For irrigation he has a pumping plant, while domestic water is piped to his residence from mountain springs. Mr. Thurston has recently leased his ranches for oil, and. the Rogers place is now being exploited for oil, with splendid prospects.

One of Orange County's enthusiastic citizens, Mr. Thurston can always be counted upon to aid in any progressive movement for its betterment, and this is but natural when one considers the wonderful success that he has made here entirely through his own unaided efforts. He was in this region five years before any one settled at Laguna, so he is the oldest settler in this locality, having located here two years after Santa Ana was founded. Very affable and of a pleasing personality, upright, honest and enterprising, he is a man any community may justly be proud of. While a liberal in politics, he inclines toward the principles of the Republican party and is a firm advocate of prohibition.

JOHN W. ELLIOTT — A hard working man whose beautiful home very pleasantly testifies to his success, is John W. Elliott, the retired carpenter, so well and favorably known, with his kind-hearted, devoted wife, for a lively interest in the homes and the welfare of other folks in the community. He was born at Schleisingerville, Washington County, Wis., on November 4, 1847, the son of Thomas and Jane Elliott. His father was a farmer; and while John worked on the farm to help his parents, he attended first the district school of his home town, and later the Cedar Valley Seminary.

In the spring of 1865, Thomas Elliott removed with his family to Floyd County, Iowa, and settled near the town of Rudd; and in 1869 John Elliott became the first clerk of Rudd Township. The father and five of his sons owned jointly a section of land, which they devoted to the raising of corn and hogs; and in 1874 John purchased a quarter-section near the old homestead. In 1886, he sold the Rudd farm and removed to Osage, Mitchell County, Iowa; and near there he ran a market-garden farm of ten acres. This he held onto until 1901, when he came out to California.

At Santa Ana Mr. Elliott took up building and helped to erect the Public Library, the City Hall, the Intermediate school on Sycamore Street, and many of the best business establishments and private homes in Santa Ana, thereby helping materially to build the town and to guide the public taste.

On June 13, 1880, Mr. Elliott had been married near Rudd to Miss Emily Neville, a native of Fond du Lac, Wis., and the daughter of Dr. and Mary (Lancaster) Gallup. One child, Elsie E., who is living at home, has blessed this happy marriage. Mr. Elliott is a staunch Republican in matters of national political import; but his strong love for the community in which he resides, and his deep interest in community progress, never permits him to mix partisanship with a vigorous support of every good measure and candidate proposed.

JACOB DITCHEY — An enterprising and progressive resident of Orange, whose equally industrious wife shares with him the good will and esteem of a large circle of friends, is Jacob Ditchey, who for many years of his life was engaged in farming in Indiana and Colorado, and later in the Golden State. The success he has made is all the more praiseworthy, since it was in the face of obstacles that would have daunted one of a less courageous spirit. A native of Ohio, where he was born at New Washington, Crawford County, in 1855, Mr. Ditchey was orphaned at an early age, a circumstance
whose sadness was increased by the unkind treatment he received by the family to whom he was bound out. Unworthy of their trust, they put him to work instead of sending him to school and thus deprived him of the opportunity to secure anything beyond the rudiments of an education.

Even these hard circumstances did not quench his ambition, however, and as soon as he reached his majority he started out for himself, and at fourteen years of age began working out on farms in Ohio. In 1873 he removed to Clinton County, Ind. He established family ties in 1882 by his marriage to Miss Flora A. Misner, born at Rossville, Clinton County, Ind., and the young couple engaged in farming there until 1905, when he removed with his family to Colorado, where he continued agricultural pursuits at Longmont. For a long; time he had been attracted to the balmy climate of the Pacific Coast, hoping some time to make his home there, so in October, 1910, he came with his family to California, and located at Orange. For several years he followed horticulture and met with deserving success. In 1913 he completed his modern bungalow at 421 South Orange Street, where he resides with his family. He now gives his time to his duties as janitor of the Grammar School at Orange, as well as being janitor of the City Hall.

Mr. and Mrs. Ditchey were the parents of six children, four of whom are living: Ward C. is an employee in the Santa Ana Post Office; Ross is a graduate of the Orange County Business College and now resides in Los Angeles; Dayton D. served his country during the World War, being stationed at Camp Lewis and later in North Carolina; Stella M. is a graduate of the Orange Union high school and is now with the Orange County Trust and Savings Bank. Realizing the handicap that he experienced through his inability to procure a good education, Mr. Ditchey has been especially zealous in giving his children every opportunity within his means. Liberal and kind hearted, he has always been ready to make sacrifices and practice self denial in order to help others, and this generous spirit, combined with his tireless habits of industry, makes him one of the community's dependable citizens.

G. H. FLESNER — A liberal-minded, progressive citizen of Anaheim whose prosperity has very naturally made him love California, the Golden, is G. H. Flesner, who has the added blessing of a good housewife, an excellent helpmate, a true companion. Nearly ten years ago he located at Anaheim, and both he and his friends have good reason to regret that he did not come here years before.

He was born near Champaign, in Champaign County, Ill., on February 16, 1887, the son of Henry Flesner, an early settler, who broke the raw prairie of Champaign County, improved his first holdings, and bought more and more land, until in all he had four hundred of the best acres. And there he died, in 1908, his sterling merits known to all the community. He had married Miss Folke Classen, a worthy woman of her day and generation, who now resides in California, sharing the comfortable home of her son, our subject, who is the only child of the family still living.

He was brought up on a farm, and attended the usual public schools of his locality, after which, for two and a half years, he went to the Watertown, Wis., high school. From his boyhood he assisted his folks upon the home ranch and after his father died he ran the farm, which included not less than 240 acres in operation. In 1911 he came to California, and the following year he disposed of the Eastern home.

On coming here he bought a ranch west of Anaheim, but after a year sold it again. Then he purchased the place on East Santa Ana Street, consisting of twenty acres, thirteen of which are in Valencia oranges and seven set out to walnuts. He also owns four and a half acres on Broad Street, planted to Valencias of the choicest variety. He owns an electrical pumping plant, and he has a fine residence on the property.

 
While yet in Illinois, on October 9, 1904, Mr. Flesner was married to Miss Gertie Duitsman, a native of Pawnee Rock, Rush County, Kans., but who was reared in Illinois. Her father was Henry Duitsman, and he had married Miss Ricken Debuhr, who is now dead. They were farmer folk, and her father still resides on the old homestead. Five children blessed the fortunate union of Mr. and Mrs. Flesner — Frieda, Rosie, Henry, Bertha and Carl, all of whom are at home. The family attend the Lutheran Church, of which Mr. Flesner is a trustee; and in national political affairs he works for the advancement of the Republican standards.

CLAUDE NEWTON ELLIS — An industrious, straightforward business man who is naturally again and again rewarded, in his various enterprises, with an enviable success, is Claude Newton Ellis, for nearly two decades a Californian by adoption, and second to none in his loyalty to the Golden State. He was born in Silex, Lincoln County, Mo., May 3, 1879, the son of Clark Ellis, who was also a native of Missouri and became one of the extensive farmers and stockmen in Lincoln County, and later removed to Montgomery County. Isaac Ellis, the grandfather, was a Kentuckian equally well and favorably known as a raiser of fine stock in his day, and made a good record as a soldier in the Civil War. Clark Ellis married Miss Jennie McDowell, a native also of Missouri; but she died at the age of twenty-three, three years after Claude was born. She had three children, and our subject was the second in the order of birth. Clark Ellis died in his native state.

Claude N. Ellis was brought up on the stock farm in Lincoln, and then in Montgomery county, Mo., and studied for a while at Pike County, in Bowling Green and then at Watson Seminary, in Ashley, Pike County. When, however, his father became ill, he returned home to take charge of the farm; and having formed a partnership with his father, took up farming and stock raising in earnest, and continued at the same until 1903, when he sold out and came west to California. He located in Orange; and here, in March, 1904, he married Miss Lillian Northrop, who was born in Hopedale, near Boston, Mass., and came to California in August, 1898. She accompanied her father, James H. Northrop, the inventor of the Northrop loom, manufactured in Hopedale and used in putting out seventy-five per cent of all the cotton goods manufactured. He retired and chose California as a home place for his latter days; and coming here undertook ranching, and in time invented a date-pitting machine. He is living and resides in Santa Ana. After their marriage, Mr. Ellis had charge of the Northrop ranch, and next he bought an orange ranch in El Modena; later he sold this and removed to Coachella Valley, where he bought a homestead and a deserted claim and proved up on it — that is, he and Mr. Northrop had 320 acres, where they were among the pioneers in raising the date palm, and also figs for commercial purposes. He had two large pumping plants, and laid 28,000 feet of cement piping.

 
During this time Mr. Ellis went to St. Louis, Mo., and spent nine months at the St. Louis College of Embalming, from which he was graduated in 1912, after which he returned to his California ranch. He became a funeral director in Indio, and was also a merchant there; at the same time that he maintained on his farm the finest teams of horses and mules, as well as the latest types of tractors. In October, 1918, he sold out; and the following March he bought out Blank & Mead, the undertakers at Orange, and established his present business. He has a chapel, an operating room and a morgue, and Mrs. Ellis is also an embalmer — the only licensed woman embalmer in Orange County. Mr. Ellis belongs to the Southern California Funeral Directors' Association.

Mr. and Mrs. Ellis have one child, J. H. Northrop Ellis; they belong to the order of the Rebekahs. Mr. Ellis is a member of Orange Lodge No. 225, I. O. O. F., and Mrs. Ellis of Sceptic Chapter, No. 163, O. E. S. Mrs. Ellis belongs to the W. R. C. and he to the Modern Woodmen of America. Both husband and wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Orange.

JOHN LUTHER MAROON, M. D. — No greater evidence could be had of the success in every way of Dr. John Luther Maroon as a physician and surgeon since his advent in Santa Ana in 1917 than in the exceptional confidence reposed in him as one of the most representative medical men of the state by a large number of Santa Ana's best citizens. They find in him a good neighbor and a model citizen, who is devoted to his high professional work, and who goes about doing good with a sympathy and assurance which begets confidence and optimism, and in itself works miracles in the healing art. Dr. Maroon was born in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tenn., in November, 1873, the son of Samuel W. Maroon, a member of one of the fine old families of Tennessee and a merchant who was a leader in the commercial world of his part of the state. He married Miss Sarah Elizabeth Henderson, a representative of another family equally held in high esteem in the South, a charming lady of accomplishment and beauty. They are now both dead; but their six children — among whom our subject was the fourth in the order of birth — attested to their nobility of character, and the good influence they bequeathed to others.

John Luther Maroon attended the grammar schools of his locality, and later enjoyed the advantages of the Chattanooga high school. Then he matriculated first at Grant University at Chattanooga, Tenn., and then at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., where he was graduated in 1912 with the M.D. degree. Having well equipped himself for the practice of medicine by close application under the direction of some of the most learned medical instructors of the day, Dr. Maroon spent a year at Chattanooga Hospital in his native state, and for three years joined the medical fraternity at Portland, Maine, where his agreeable personality soon made for him a host of friends. In 1916, however, he let the pendulum swing far to the westward and came to California, long noted for its pick of surgeons and physicians; and for a year, he was
house surgeon at Loma Linda Hospital in Loma Linda.

He has now been a resident of Santa Ana for three years, having established himself here in 1917 in the practice of medicine and surgery, and it hardly needs to be said that he is doing very well. He is highly esteemed as a Fellow of the American Medical Association, and stands equally high as a member of the California State Medical Society and of the Orange County Medical Association. His scientific bent, his soundly- trained mind, and his helpful ideals have enabled him to grasp the latest word or cue, and to suggest where and how others^ may follow in his lead. As a skillful surgeon he has been able to dare and effect what not every practitioner of surgery would attempt, while as a consulting or visiting physician he has brought light and hope to the sick room, and easily induced those inclined to despondency to hope, look up, go forward, save themselves. Dr. Maroon is very conscientious in his examinations, having always in mind the deep welfare of the patients and no accommodation he can render them is too hard or difficult for him to do. It is noted that his patients are very loyal and have explicit confidence in him, counting his friendship an acquisition to the family.

Two children, bearing the names of Catherine and Dorothy, add to the attraction of the doctor's hospitable home, which is pleasantly situated in a suburban walnut grove at 407 West Seventeenth Street— a large modern bungalow, tastefully furnished. A Republican in national politics, Dr. Maroon is decidedly nonpartisan in all matters affecting local life and development, and has both caught and disseminated the Orange spirit which leads to helpful loyalty to Orange County and her promising towns. As has already been intimated, it has been the boast of California since her entrance amid the sisterhood of States that her medical men and women have been and are, both in respect to ability, experience and character, second to none in the world; and not only may Orange County therefore congratulate itself that Dr. Maroon pitched his tent at Santa Ana, but it is a subject of interest to the old state when such an aggressively progressive man of science comes here instead of going to some other corner of the waiting world.

MILO BAILEY ALLEN — A rancher whose present prosperity is the result of his industrious, untiring work of development, is Milo B. Allen, senior member of Allen Brothers, whose ranch of seventy-seven acres lies on Euclid Avenue, north of Garden Grove. Born at Spring Valley, Fillmore County, Minn., January 9, 1880, he is the son of Lucian Waite and Rhoda Ann (Conklin) Allen. The father was born in Erie County, Ohio, and came to Minnesota in the early days, being one of the pioneer wheat growers of that region, and there he lived for more than fifty years. Mrs. Allen was a native of Pennsylvania, and came out to Minnesota when a young girl, and there she met and married Mr. Allen. This branch of the Allen family are lineal descendants of Robert Allen, a brother of Ethan Allen of Revolutionary fame, and the traditions of this old colonial family were well sustained by Lucian Waite Allen, who had an excellent record in the Civil War. He served for four years in the Union Army with the Third Minnesota Volunteers as principal musician in his regiment, being a fifer. He was considered the best fifer in Minnesota, and after his removal to Southern California he was often asked to play in military bands on patriotic occasions. His death occurred in 1914, at the age of seventy-seven years.

Milo B. Allen spent his early years on the home place at Spring Valley, Minn. Here he attended the local schools, the Spring Valley high school, the Spring Valley Normal, and later taking a three years' course at the Minnesota Agricultural School at Minneapolis, where he graduated in 1901. Thus he was unusually well equipped for the undertaking in which he has made such splendid success. In 1905 Lucian W. Allen came to California, locating in the Garden Grove district, where he bought twenty acres of land. A few months later Milo B. Allen and his brother, Joseph Garfield, whose sketch also appears in this work, also bought a tract of twenty acres. It was a stubblefield, and they at once began to improve it, leveling and irrigating it, putting in several miles of cement tile. They have made subsequent purchases in small amounts, and under the name of Allen Brothers they now jointly own and operate a ranch of seventy-seven acres. Of this, fifty acres have been set to Valencia oranges, that are from three to ten years old; twenty-five acres are in Eureka lemons, and two acres in a family orchard of deciduous fruits. They have developed an inexhaustible supply of water, having a well 195 feet deep. They irrigate by means of an electric pumping plant with a forty-five foot lift. Besides irrigating their own ranch they furnish water to others, having a sufficient supply for 140 acres. During the years of development the brothers did a tremendous amount of work in bringing their holdings up to their present high state of cultivation, for some time raising lima beans and peppers between the trees to help pay expenses. Now the trees are in full bearing and the income received by them reaches a handsome figure.

In 1902 M. B. Allen was united in marriage with Miss Hattie Crosby, a native of Fillmore County, Minn., where their marriage occurred. She is a sister of C. G. and C. B. Crosby, both prominent citrus growers of Garden Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Allen are the parents of seven children: Lucile, who was born in Minnesota, Ruth, Lawrence, Burton, Dorothy, Gertrude and Marjorie. In February, 1919, Mr. Allen was elected president of the Garden Grove Orange Growers Association, and he is filling this responsible position with the greatest success and satisfaction to all concerned. This association, which was organized in 1916, met a long-felt want on the part of the citrus growers of this district. Its first president was John D. Arkley, who served for two years, followed by James Henry, who occupied the office for one year, up to the time Mr. Allen was elected. E. L. Dozier has ably filled the position of secretary and manager since its organization, and J. O. Arkley is now the vice-president. The other directors are: J. O. Arkley, Fred Andres, A. E. Snitiger, Anson Mott, F. .G. Rosselott, James Henry and Mr. Allen. Mr. Allen, with his family, is a member of the Baptist Church at Garden Grove, and he is a member of the board of trustees. The family are very prominent in the social life of the community, and Mr. Allen's affability and generous spirit have made him justly popular among a large circle of friends; his rise to affluence is indeed well deserved, as it is the result of intelligent, well-directed industry on his part.

JOSEPH GARFIELD ALLEN — Dating back to the earliest colonial days, the Allen family has reason for pride in its history. Patriots ever, and always in the forefront at any time of their country's need, one of the outstanding members of this notable family is familiar to everyone — Ethan Allen of Revolutionary fame, the hero of Ticonderoga. It was a brother of this famous soldier, Robert Allen, who is the progenitor of two of Garden Grove's most influential citizens, Joseph Garfield Allen and Milo B. Allen, who as partners in the firm of Allen Brothers, are among the most prosperous citrus growers in this section, their grove of seventy-seven acres being situated on Euclid Avenue, north of Garden Grove.

Joseph Garfield Allen was born at Spring Valley, Minn., January 12, 1882. He was the son of Lucian Waite and Rhoda Ann (Conklin) Allen, natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively, who were both among the early settlers of Fillmore County, Minn., where they met and married. There were nine children and four are now living, all residents of California: Mrs. Charles Maas of Santa Barbara; Mrs. Amy Graves, of Garden Grove; Milo B. and Joseph Garfield, of this review. Mrs. Lucian W. Allen passed away at their Minnesota home in 1896, and in 1905 the father came to California. Joseph G. was reared on the home farm in Fillmore County until he was about fifteen years old, and received a good education in the schools of the district and in the high school at Spring Valley. Later he completed his education with a course at Western College at Toledo, Iowa, now known as Leander Clark College, and upon locating in Orange County he and his brother have worked together in harmony to develop their citrus groves, as is shown in the sketch of Milo B. Allen.

J. G. Allen was married in 1909 to Miss Bertha Oertly, a daughter of Conrad Oertly; she is a talented and accomplished woman and an excellent helpmeet. They have three children, LeRoy Richard, Archie Eugene and Junior Garfield. The family belong to the Baptist Church at Garden Grove and Mr. Allen is the choirmaster, as both he and his brother have inherited much of the musical talent of their father. He is a member of the Garden Grove Orange Association, the Garden Grove Farm Center and the Central Lemon Association of Villa Park. An advocate of prohibition, he is always to be found on the constructive side of all the questions of the day. A hard and industrious worker, agreeable and gentlemanly, he and his family have a large circle of warm friends.

L. W. HEMPHILL — An enterprising, public-spirited man who stands high in the estimation of the people of Orange, who have chosen him to be one of their city trustees, is L. W. Hemphill, who was born at Millford, Dane County, Wis., on August 14, 1874, the son of S. K. Hemphill, a native of New York, who settled in Wisconsin and married Miss Alice Brelsford. They were farmer folk of the finer American type, and in 1875 brought their family to California and settled a mile south of Orange. Later, they bought the ranch, setting it out with grapes, which failed on account of the blight; after that he ordered orange trees, of the St. Michael, Mediterranean and seedling types, which in time he budded to Navels. He also ran a citrus nursery. Finding that Valencias did better he budded some and set the balance to this species.

Mr. Hemphill followed orange culture here until 1905, when he sold out and located at Long Beach, where he engaged in the sale of real estate, and this he followed until he retired, to make his home in that city. His good wife had passed away in 1884. They had three boys and a girl, and all are living save one of the sons. Alice has become Mrs. Ellsworth, of Yakima, Wash.; Earl is in Placentia; and Lawrence W. is the subject of our sketch.

At first the lad went to school to Mrs. Alice Armor, and then he continued to attend the public grammar school. From a boy he learned orange culture and the work in a nursery, under his father on the home ranch, and during boyhood, also, he worked for three or four years in a packing house. Then he clerked in Canfield's Grocery, and after that was in the service of D. C. Pixley's Hardware Store. With Clifton Hamilton he then started a shoe and novelty store at the corner of North Glassell and the Plaza, in Orange; but after two years he sold out, and next suffered a siege of illness. After that he had charge of the boot and shoe department of the Ehlen & Grote Company, and he gave that up only when he decided to take up real estate. He not only sold, but bought and improved several ranches, and did something for Orange in opening subdivisions. He put on the market the Hemphill & Paxton subdivision, on East Culver Avenue, consisting of ten acres, now handsomely built up; also the Thermalita tract on North Glassell and Walnut streets — this last enterprise in partnership with D. C. Pixley and Charles Ehrman There were ten acres in this tract, and all are also now sold and built up. With his brother-in-law he bought and improved twenty acres, setting them out to oranges.

He himself bought fifteen acres at Olive, on the Santiago Boulevard, which he improved with oranges, building a residence and making there his home for some years; and then, with Mr. Spencer, he bought forty acres of sage brush and cactus on Anaheim Boulevard, which he cleared and leveled. He put in a pumping plant and set out Valencia oranges, and now it is one of the finest groves in the county. Finally he sold this at a handsome profit. All this time he was located on his ranch in Villa Park; but in March, 1919, he sold this also, and settled in Orange. He built a residence on South Orange Street, which he later sold; and now he is located at the corner of Palm and Olive, having built two residences here.

 
At Orange he was married to Miss Flossie P. Spencer, a native of Iowa, who came here as a child and attended the local public schools. Both husband and wife are members of the Methodist Church, and Mr. Hemphill belongs to the official board. In the spring of 1920 he was elected a trustee of the city of Orange, and he is now chairman of the committee on streets, and also a member of the police commission. He gives promise of being just the man for these peculiar responsibilities, and Orange is to be congratulated on the choice of such a public servant.

MRS. EMMA BURCHFIELD COOPER — An admirable example of California womanhood, a worthy representative of other worthy Americans, long influential in the communities in which they lived and amid the civilization they helped to guide and develop, is Mrs. Emma Burchfield Cooper, who has long been successfully interested in horticulture in Orange County and is now the owner of a fine ten-acre ranch at Hemet, devoted to apricots and walnuts. Pennsylvania was Mrs. Cooper's native state, her birthplace being near Meadville, in Crawford County. She came of an old family of that vicinity, her parents, David and Elsie (Scowden) Burchfield, both having been born there. Grandfather Burchfield was a native of Ireland, but came to Crawford County, Pa., in the early days and engaged in agriculture there, residing there until his death. Mrs. Cooper's maternal grandfather, David Scowden, was also of an old Pennsylvania family and spent his whole life there.

After farming in Pennsylvania for a number of years. David Burchfield brought his family to Illinois, settling in De Kalb County, and was there engaged in agriculture until a short time before he passed away, his death occurring at his old home in Pennsylvania, whither he had gone on a visit. Mrs. Burchfield survived her husband for some years, spending her last days in Iowa in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Cooper. The youngest of a family of ten children, only two of whom are now living, Mrs. Emma Burchfield Cooper came to Illinois with her parents at the age of nine years and was reared on the home farm in DeKalb County, receiving a good education in the public schools there. On reaching young womanhood she was united in marriage with Oliver Cooper, who was born near Belfast, Ireland, his father being a minister of the Presbyterian faith. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Cooper decided to locate in Iowa, and they became pioneer settlers of Story County; here they homesteaded 160 acres of raw land, putting the first plow in the virgin prairie soil, and improved and built up a nice home. Like the pioneers of every age and country, their task was far from being an easy one, but with youth, strength and ambition on their side, they were happy and successful in their undertaking.

After some years, however, Mr. Cooper's health failed and they decided to seek a milder climate; as a result they came to California, settling in Orange County. Pleased with the prospect of spending the coming years in this balmy climate, with its beautiful surroundings, they purchased a ranch at Villa Park, disposing of their holdings in Iowa. There was twenty acres in their Villa Park place, and through their care and cultivation it became one of the finest orange groves in that locality. The responsibility of its care became too heavy, however, on account of Mr. Cooper's continued ill health, so they sold it and removed to East Palm Avenue, Orange. Mr. Cooper then carried out a long-cherished desire to visit his old home in Ireland, and three months after he arrived there he passed away and was laid to rest beside his father and mother. After her husband's death, Mrs. Cooper continued to be actively interested in horticulture, purchasing a ten-acre ranch at Olive, which she later traded for a ranch at Hemet, which is devoted to apricots and walnuts. This she still owns and superintends most capably, as her many years of experience have given her a thorough knowledge of the varied branches of horticulture.

Mrs. Cooper is the mother of six children: William, who was born in Illinois, died in Iowa at the age of six years; James is a farmer near Des Moines, Iowa; Ralph is also engaged in farming at Springville, Iowa; Lettie is Mrs. Williams of Orange; Bertha, Mrs. Ferguson, resides with her mother; and Maude, now deceased, was the wife of Warren Fletcher. Mrs. Cooper still makes her home at 641 East Palm Avenue, Orange, and takes an active interest in all that concerns the welfare of the community. A firm believer in the future greatness of Orange County, she has, herself, done her full share toward its horticultural development. She has reared and educated her family, giving them every advantage possible, and has lived a useful and self-sacrificing life, and her influence has ever been on the side of good. A member of the Mennonite Church at Orange, Mrs. Cooper is active in its work; politically she is a stanch Republican and a firm believer in the principles of that party.

CHARLES H. EYGABROAD — Emphatically in accord with the true western spirit, especially in the development of Orange County along broad and enduring lines, and one whose confidence in its future grows with his own ever-increasing success, Charles H. Eygabroad had prior to his coming here held a distinguished place in the financial and public life of South Dakota, where he had a prominent part in helping to shape the destinies of that commonwealth in the early days of its statehood.

Iowa was Mr. Eygabroad's native state and there he was born at Fredricksburg. Chickasaw County, on October 25, 1863, the son of John J. and Catherine (Worth) Eygabroad, natives of Utica, N. Y., and Germany, respectively. The Eygabroad family were of old Knickerbocker stock who came from Holland and settled in New Netherlands, now New York, in about 1765. Great-grandfather Eygabroad, who was born in Holland, was but a child when he accompanied his parents to the New World, and at the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, although he was only thirteen years old, he enlisted as a drummer boy, and after three years he carried a musket, serving throughout the whole seven years of the war, and was at memorable Valley Forge with General Washington. Grandfather Charles Eygabroad was a blacksmith at Utica, N. Y., and here John J. Eygabroad, the father of our subject, was born. He came to Freeport, Ill., where he followed his trade, and in 1849, with three companions he crossed the plains with ox teams to California, mining there for three years, when the gold excitement was at its height. Returning by way of the Isthmus of Panama in 1852, he walked across to the Atlantic side, finally reaching his old home at Freeport, where he was married. Here he engaged in farming until he removed to Chickasaw County, Iowa, where he bought Government land for $1.25 an acre. This he improved and he became one of the prosperous, successful farmers of that district, where he and his wife resided until they passed away.

The fifth in order of birth of a family of eleven children, Charles H. Eygabroad received his fundamental education in the rural schools of his native state and this was supplemented by the broader education acquired in the best and most practical of schools — the school of experience. He remained in the paternal home until he reached his majority, then sought his fortune in Dakota Territory in 1884, where with a capital of $1.50 he homesteaded land in Brown County, near the present town of Hecla, S. D. With the undaunted spirit of the pioneer he taught school in the winter, farmed in the
summer months, and turned his hand to blacksmithing and anything else he could find to do. He was justice of the peace, performed marriage ceremonies and practiced law; and when, during this time, South Dakota was admitted to the Union. Mr. Eygabroad was elected a member of the state legislature in 1894. He was a member of the educational committee of the House, acting as its chairman, was chairman of the Federal relations committee and a member of other important committees.

After the expiration of his services in the legislature Mr. Eygabroad was elected auditor of Brown County for two terms of two years each, afterwards occupying the office of county commissioner for three years. During all of this time he was active in the realty business, buying and selling farm lands in South Dakota. For three years he was president of the First State Bank of Hecla, S. D., disposing of his interest in that institution when he came to California December 26, 1908, on account of his health. Locating at Anaheim, he bought an orange grove at the corner of Center and Walnut Streets, to which he gave his care, and in this salubrious climate and the enjoyment of his work he regained his health. Since then he has dealt extensively in orange groves and is now the owner of eight groves in the vicinity of Anaheim. In 1913, in connection with F. C. Krause, he organized the Anaheim National Bank, of which he was president until he disposed of his interest to Mr. Krause. He has since been active in real estate circles, subdividing and putting on the market the Johnston- Houck tract, an addition to Anaheim, and later he laid out the Vista del Rio Rancho tract, and has already disposed of most of it. Besides his realty transactions, Mr. Eygabroad is president of the Orange County Mutual Telephone Company. In 1918 he became interested in the First National Bank of Anaheim and is a director of that institution, was an organizer of the Anaheim Citrus Association, having been a director since its beginning, and is a member of the Northern Orange County Exchange. He still owns valuable farm lands in South Dakota, preferring to keep some interests where he was successful in his early years. In 1916 he drove his own car through to South Dakota, from there to New York, and back to California, taking in Yellowstone Park and making the whole trip in less than three months. Part of his trip was made over the old California emigrant trail over which his father had journeyed with ox teams, fifty-seven years before, some of the scenes being familiar to him from his father's description of his early trip.

Mr. Eygabroad's marriage which was solemnized March 1, 1887, at Kilbourn, Wis., united him with Miss Nettie Stearns, and two children were born to them, a daughter, Lilly, who is now the wife of Lynn Birdsall and the mother of two children; and Lonnie who died at six years of age. In his religious convictions Mr. Eygabroad is a Methodist, and ever since he was twenty-one years old he has been active in church work and has taught a Bible class. In his political views he is a Republican, and while living in South Dakota was elected chairman of the Republican County Central Committee in
1900. He is now a member of the Orange County Republican Central Committee and is chairman of the finance committee of Anaheim district. Prominent in the ranks of the Masons, he was made a Mason in Frederick Lodge. S. D., and later was a member of the lodge at Hecla, in that state and he is now affiliated with Anaheim Lodge No. 207, F. & A. M., serving as master of this lodge during the building of the Masonic Temple. He is a member of the Chapter at Aberdeen, S. D., and in that city was exalted to the Knights Templar degree, Aberdeen Commandery, but now a charter member of Fullerton Commandery, K. T. He belongs to Yelduz Temple, No. 38, A. A. O. N. M. S., at Aberdeen, S. D., and is a member of the Southern California Association of Past Masters at Los Angeles, and with his wife is a member of the O. E. S. He also holds membership with the Odd Fellows and Elks at Anaheim.

As one of the progressive business men of Anaheim, Mr. Eygabroad is naturally prominent in the Chamber of. Commerce, and he has always been a leader in furthering the many projects which have been promulgated for the upbuilding and prosperity of this section, and not alone has he accumulated a comfortable fortune for himself, but he has contributed generously to the growth and wealth of the community, where he enjoys the sincere esteem of his fellow-citizens.

JOHN C. MAIER — A retired merchant whose success was undoubtedly due, in part, to his wise conservatism, is John C. Maier, now active as a rancher, whose straightforward Christian life has contributed to make him a representative citizen of Orange County. He was born in Cass County, Iowa, on August 20, 1858, the son of Sebastian Maier, a millwright by trade, who had married Miss Sophia Hazelmeyer in Germany, his native country, and came to the United States in 1850, when he had been married only a few years. Columbus, Ohio, was their destination, and there Mr. Maier followed his trade for a couple of years. After a while they removed to Westpoint, Iowa, and in the spring of 1853 took up there some 320 acres of raw government land, and secured title.

 
John attended the common schools of Westpoint, and when sixteen years of age commenced a three-year apprenticeship in a tinshop at Atlantic, Iowa. Later he found steady employment as plumber and tinsmith for six years. On the death of his father in 1879 he took charge of the home farm and ran it till he disposed of it to come to California. In 1882 he brought with him to California his already aged mother, to whom was accorded an additional ten years of life in more balmy Southern California, and who died in 1893.

In 1883 Mr. Maier entered the employ of the McFadden Hardware Company, at first working for only three months; but later becoming financially interested in that well-established concern, he remained with them for twenty-three years, continuing to build up an extensive hardware and plumbing trade. He did the plumbing and tip work in such notable structures as the First National Bank, the Medlock Building, and the Lacy and Chandler buildings, the Brunswick, now New Santa Ana Hotel, and many others. For the past twelve years he has been retired from active business life, although still controlling and guiding important interests. In 1890 he bought ten acres on Santiago Street, which he afterward sold at a good profit. In 1899 he purchased his present home site with twenty acres of walnuts and oranges at the northeast corner of C and Seventeenth streets. He also has other real estate, including thirty acres of walnuts and oranges one and a half miles northeast of Garden Grove, with a fine well and pumping plant. He has also owned and improved various other ranches. He
is a stockholder in the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Co., and in the Santa Ana Walnut Growers Association. To provide surplus water for irrigation during the summer he became associated with Mathias Nisson and Henry Rohrs, Jr., and they sunk a well and installed an electric pumping plant, giving them over fifty inches of water. The pumping plant on his Garden Grove ranch has a capacity of 100 inches, sufficient for the ranch as well as supplying some of the neighbors.

In 1887 Mr. Maier was married to Miss Louisa Bartling, a schoolmate, the daughter of Henry Bartling; she was a native of Iowa. Four children have blessed their union: Gertrude died at the age of seventeen; Henry J. married Mabel Laux of Garden Grove, and they live on the Maier ranch; Edwin G., a rancher, resides at home; while Ethel is in Sonoma County. All of Mr. Maier's children have gone through the Santa Ana schools, proud of their association with Orange County as native sons and a native daughter, and Edwin, the second son, enlisted in the service of his country on May 21, 1918. He was sent to the Naval Reserve at San Diego, and was on the Eastern Coast until 1919. He had extensive trips to the island possessions of the United States, and made three trips to Nova Scotia, having enlisted as a fireman and been promoted as
an engineer, and he was finally honorably discharged at San Francisco. Mr. Maier was bereaved of his first wife in 1911, and in 1916 he was married a second time to Miss Minnie Schuler of Pasadena, the daughter of George Schuler of Galena, Ill., where she was born, the youngest in a family of eleven surviving children.

A Republican in matters of national politics, and a strong advocate of the building up of home, rather than club life, Mr. Maier contributes something to steady local finances in the wise investments he has made in California National Bank stock and in the management of his excellent ranch holdings. In more respects than one, therefore, Mr. Maier may be spoken of as a pioneer and an exemplary citizen.

LEROY BENNETT — A good man who, after years of unremitting labor, has succeeded in acquiring a comfortable competency, is Leroy Bennett, whose years are brightened with the recollection of creditable service in the Civil War. He was born in Athens County, Ohio, on December 22, 1845, the son of Clinton Bennett, a native of that section and a farmer; he was in the Civil War as a Union soldier in 1861, but was crippled and discharged, and in 1864 he enlisted in the One Hundred Fifty-first Ohio National Guard, and was with his son, our subject, in Washington, until he was mustered out. He came to Humansville, Polk County, Mo., in 1865, and after farming industriously for years, died there. Mrs. Bennett was Johanna Wells before her marriage; she was a native of Ohio and died in Missouri, the mother of seven children, the oldest of whom was Leroy. A younger brother, Samuel J., who enlisted in the Sixty-third Ohio Regiment in the Civil War, died in Orange.

Leroy Bennett was reared on a farm, attended the local public schools, and left the plow to enlist for service in the cause against slavery and for the preservation of the Union, in April, 1864, joining the One Hundred Fifty-first Ohio National Guard, Company K., and was stationed at Washington, until mustered out at Camp Chase, Ohio, in August, 1864. The following year he removed to Missouri and helped on the home farm; and in that state he remained until his marriage, in 1867, to Miss Susan Minerva Wrentfrow, a native of Missouri and the daughter of James Wrentfrow, who came from Tennessee to Missouri. She had two brothers, James and A. F. Wrentfrow, in the Union Army, and both acquitted themselves as men.

After his marriage, Mr. Bennett engaged in farming in Missouri until 1894, and on New Year's Day started for California, first stopping at Burbank, in Los Angeles County, for a year; but in February, 1895, removed with his family to Orange County and located at Orange. He then bought his present place, a promising tract of an acre, which he improved by the setting out of oranges and the building of a residence; but Mrs. Bennett, esteemed and mourned by all who knew her, died on July 31, 1912, leaving a void in both the home where she had so well presided, and the heart of her devoted husband. With her he has always attended the Methodist Church and served on its official board for several years.

Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bennett: Hester A., now Mrs. W. E. Jones, presides over Mr. Bennett's household; Carrie N. is Mrs. Wm. F. Black of San Jacinto; Sarah Olive is Mrs. J. Z. Smith of Long Beach; and Harriet Eddith,
Mrs. Amos Kaiser, also lives in San Jacinto. Mr. Bennett is a Republican in matters of national political import, but knows no partisanship when work or support is demanded for local uplift or progress, and seeks to help along the best men and the best measures. He never forgets the ideals of the nation for which he fought, and renews his patriotic youth in the circles of Gordon Granger Post, No. 138, G. A. R., of which he is a member.

HARRY B. HANDY — A railway section foreman for a decade and a half who has carefully studied present-day devices in the constructing of railroads, is Harry B. Handy, popular with all who know him, on account of his modest, unassuming personality. He was born at Nevada, Story County, Iowa, on September 1, 1879, the son of Owen Handy, who came to that county from Illinois and who had married Miss Mary A. Parker, who came from Buffalo, N. Y., a sketch of their lives appearing elsewhere in this volume. They had four children, and Harry was the eldest son.

Harry Handy went to school at Villa Park, in what was then in the Mountain View school district, and grew up with ranch surroundings. His father was superintendent of some eighty acres of vineyard, owned by I. W. Hellman and Morris L. Goodman, of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, and in this way our subject has come to be identified with the later agricultural interests of this locality.

November 17, 1897, witnessed the marriage of Harry Handy and Miss .Mary Aline Horton of Orange and formerly of Iowa, and from this fortunate union have come two children — Orval B., born in June 19, 1898, and Robert Le Roy, born November 14, 1899. These sons are at present on the United States Revenue cutter Unalga, and on the Alaska coast; the eldest was in the United States service two years and the youngest has served one year.

H. B. Handy has been in the employment of the Southern Pacific Railroad for the past fifteen years as section foreman on the Los Angeles division, Tustin branch; and for six years he was zanjero and foreman on the ditch of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. He belongs to the Central Lemon Growers Association and to the Villa Park Orchards Association. The family live on a ranch at Center Drive and Villa Park Road where the tractor, representing the modern way of doing things, is used throughout for farm work. Mr. Handy finds part of his social recreation in the circles of the Odd Fellows at Orange, honored there as one of the past grands. He also works under the national banner of the Republican party for better citizenship, and has been active as a supporter of the movements for the local schools and the community church.

HANIGAN C. MOBERLY — A veteran of the Spanish-American War with an interesting record for manly service in the Philippines, who has seen great improvements effected in and around Orange, is Hanigan C. Moberly, who was born in
Loogootee, Martin County, Ind., on August 7, 1874, the son of Irvin Moberly, a native of Kentucky and a member of a well-known Southern family. He settled in Indiana, and there led a prosperous farmer's life, and there he died. Mrs. Moberly was Sarah Calvin before her marriage, and she also was a native of Kentucky. There were two girls and three boys in the family, and of these Hanigan was next to the youngest.

When only five or six years old he was left an orphan, and until he was old enough to hustle for, himself he lived with relatives and did a boy's chores about the farm. He first came to Hamilton County, Nebr., in 1891, and there, until January, 1892, he continued working at farm labor. Then he came to California and stopped at Los Banos, Merced County, where he worked on the canal survey for four months.

In May, 1892, Mr. Moberly removed to Orange, and for four years was employed on a fruit farm. Then he engaged in the confectionery business, and later was with Ben Davis & Company in the bicycle trade. When the Spanish-American War broke out, however, he could not refrain from offering his services to his country: and on August 14, 1899, he enlisted. He joined Company D of the Thirty-fifth U. S. Vounteer Infantry, which was mobilized at Vancouver, Wash., and sent to Manila, P. I., and he served throughout the Philippine insurrection, or until May 2, 1901, when he was mustered out at San Francisco. He was in the following engagements a skirmish at Arayat. P. I., on Nov. 10-11, 1899, and another at San Miguel de Mayumo on December 11, 1899; a battle at Balubid. P. I., on June 11, 1900; a skirmish at Sibul, P. I., on June 12. 1900, and one at Santa Lucia, P. I., on October 29, 1900. He was commissioned corporal on March 25, 1901, or shortly before his return to Orange.

Having retained his interest in the bicycle concern, Mr. Moberly and his partner started at Orange the first auto repair shop, in 1904, at the same time taking the agency of the Tourist automobile; and there, on North Glassell Street, near the Plaza, Ben Davis & Company continued until the spring of 1908, when the firm was dissolved. This move afforded Mr. Moberly an opportunity for foreign travel, and he made the most of it. Sailing for Costa Rica, Central America, from there he went to Panama. Then he crossed the ocean to London, and after an extended trip of eighteen months, during which he saw and learned more on account of what he had seen and experienced in his previous travel to and from the Philippines, he returned to America and California. Coming west he stopped for a while at Indiana, and in due time, glad to be home again, he arrived in the Golden State.

Taking up work again, Mr. Moberly started in the laundry business with the Orange branch for the Santa Ana Steam Laundry, and since the fall of 1910 he has been established at the corner of Lemon and La Veta streets. He began with a horse and wagon; but it was not long before the business grew to such dimensions that he required an auto delivery, and he still serves customers obtained in the beginning. The Orange plant is at the address already mentioned, and there he has his office. Personal attention, promptness and an earnest effort to give every patron the maximum of good service for the least cost have wrought the usual wonders popularly termed "prosperity."

Since coming to Orange Mr. Moberly was married to Miss Elizabeth Williams, a native daughter born at Riverside; and with his good wife he resides at 536 East Palmyra Street. He also owns an orange grove of seven and one-third acres, half a
mile north of El Modena. In national politics a "black Republican," Mr. Moberly is a very "white" nonpartisan when it comes to supporting local issues likely to make for the development of Orange and Orange County, in which great civic work he is second to none in both good will and practical activity.

D. J. BASTANCHURY — A progressive young man willing to help through his time, labors or other means all worthy projects, who has become an influential leader among the men of Orange County doing worth-while things, is D. J. Bastanchury, who has demonstrated his resourcefulness by improving one of the finest ranches in the state, now a famous show place along the State Highway between Fullerton and La Habra. A native son proud of his birthright, and of whom California may well be proud, Mr. Bastanchury was born at Anaheim on August 24, 1881, the eldest of four children born to Domingo and Maria Bastanchury, natives of France, who were pioneer settlers in what is now Orange County. Domingo Bastanchury engaged in sheep raising, and prospered in spite of dry years. He enlarged his flocks, and with deep foresight purchased land from time to time, in order to provide range for his sheep, until he became owner of from 8,000 to 10.000 acres in the La Habra Valley, extending to the built-up portions of Fullerton. He was eventually a very wealthy man, and before his death was rated a millionaire— the most tangible evidence of his rare business acumen. Survived by his widow, his monument is administered by his sons, who have developed the largest citrus orchard in the world. Mrs. Bastanchury has retained her mental gifts to a rare degree, and can relate many interesting incidents, as one of the oldest living settlers in the county, of the ever-interesting early days.

D. J. Bastanchury, as the first-born in the family, was familiar with stock raising as a lad, and after completing the work of the local schools, attended St. Vincent's College in Los Angeles, from the commercial department of which he was graduated in 1899. He continued with his father for a while, and then he entered the offices of the Capitol Milling Company in Los Angeles, and later was also in the employ of the Globe Mills. After that he purchased the Whittier Milling Company, and engaged in buying and selling grain for himself. He extended the milling and grain business to Fullerton, and had the satisfaction of seeing a large trade built up when he sold out, in 1910. to take up the development of his large ranch. This consisted of 400 acres on the State Highway, between Fullerton and La Habra, and was then only a stubble field. He sunk several .wells and developed water, and next installed electric pumping plants. These have afforded some 300 inches of water, and by means of his extensive cement pipe lines, he has an ample supply of water for the irrigating of all his holdings. He set out Valencia oranges, lemons and walnuts, and now the whole place is an orchard, presenting an up-to-date, well-kept appearance indicative of the most scientific procedure highly creditable to Orange County and California.

Mr. Bastanchury is also interested in fine stock and is making a specialty of breeding pure-bred Berkshire hogs of the finest blood obtainable. His stockyards are located on the extreme west of his ranch and cover about fifteen acres; the whole is divided into suitable pens with running water in each pen and cement platforms for feeding, the whole being thoroughly sanitary. The buildings are large and roomy and are painted white or covered with whitewash, presenting a splendid appearance. The heads of his herd, both male and female, were obtained from selected stock from Gentry in Sedalia, Mo.; Baker of Thornton, Ind.; Lovejoy of Roscoe, Ill.; Sid Williams in Kentucky, and also some from the famous stock farm of Mr. Humphreys near Stockton, Cal. His exhibit at the State Fair at Sacramento received highest awards, as did his exhibit at the Livestock Show at Los Angeles and the county fairs at Tulare and Riverside; and no wonder, for he spares neither money nor labor to secure and further develop the best blood for the head of the herd. At the old Mission town of Los Angeles, Mr. Bastanchury was married to Miss Elizabeth Depweg, a native of Ohio and a lady of culture and refinement, who is a splendid helpmate to her husband, encouraging and aiding him in all his ambitions. They have completed an attractive modern residence, where in true Californian style they dispense a large-hearted hospitality; a home that is delightfully brightened by their four children — Domingo, Catherine, Elizabeth and Frederick. He is a member of the La Habra Citrus Association and fraternally is a member of the Santa. Ana Lodge of Elks. He is a stockholder in the Union Bank and Trust Company of Los Angeles, and also an original stockholder and director in the Citizens Commercial and Savings Bank of La Habra, where his counsel as well as his optimistic influence is of the greatest benefit. A man of pleasing personality, as well as of the aggressively progressive action, Mr. Bastanchury never fails to encourage anything which makes for the upbuilding, as well as the building up, of the county in which he lives and prospers, and toward the speedy development of which he and his family have contributed so much.

History of Orange County, California: Samuel Armor

Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA 1921

Transcribed by: Marianne Swan, 25 October 2008 : Pages - 509 - 545

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