EARL G. GLENN — A pioneer resident of Santa Ana who has been privileged to see much of the town develop, and a popular social favorite who has been closely identified with fraternal lodge life and the activities of the local fire department, is Earl G. Glenn, the efficient U. S. mail carrier, who was born in Springville, Iowa, on May 21, 1870. His father, Frank Glenn, moved to St. Paul, Minn., in 1878, and lived in that city for six years as the auditor of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad. He had married Katherine Wynans, and in 1884 they removed to Iowa, going back to Springville. Three years later, in the great "boom" year, they came out to California, but it was not until 1888 that Earl Glenn, who wished to complete his schooling, followed them to the Golden State and the "promised land." His success, with a foundation of education acquired in the St. Paul high school and the junior college at Springville, a high standard of character, and a genial, winning personality, has made him feel that the promises California then held forth she has since quite made good.

In 1888, then, Mr. Glenn came to Santa Ana, and for a year, under Rev. A. T. McDill he worked as a printer on the Santa Ana Herald, putting in the next year on the same paper with Messrs. Shaw and Wallace. When he left them, he was employed on the Morning Blade; and when that was made an evening paper, he became foreman of the job printing department. In 1895 he quit printing altogether, and then he became an employee of J. A. Hankey in the bicycle trade. He was a racing rider, and in 1897 established the record that still stands as the best local effort in Orange County today: he rode twelve and a half miles on a dirt course in thirty minutes and thirty-one seconds.

Mr. Glenn was a charter member of the Santa Ana National Guards in 1890, and reenlisted in 1899, and spent two years in the Philippines, where he saw spirited action in eleven engagements. In 1901 he was honorably discharged. On his return he spent another year with Mr. Hankey in the bicycle business. The next year, however, Uncle Sam laid hold of Mr. Glenn as the most desirable candidate for mail carrier service in Santa Ana, and he has been serving the public in that capacity ever since, to the joy of the public and the satisfaction of his colleagues.

On April 8, 1903, Mr. Glenn was married to Miss Nina Mansur, a daughter of Carlos F. and Columbia L. Mansur, and a native daughter proud of her association with California, where she was born at Camptonville, in Yuba County, in December, 1870.

Mrs. Glenn was sent to the Santa Ana public schools, and was graduated with honors from the high school of this city. She belongs to the Baptist Church. Two children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn: Margaret is the older, and then there is Frederick, and they are both pupils of the grade schools.

Mr. Glenn has been active as past master in Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M., and past chancellor in the Knights of Pythias; and he is also a member of the Elks and the Redmen of Santa Ana. He has belonged to the Santa Ana Band,
and has the longest continuous service in the Santa Ana Volunteer Fire Department, having been identified with that organization for the past twenty-four and a half years, or through the period when it ceased to be a volunteer department and was made a city fire department. With his wife, he belongs to the Eastern Star.

During the recent war, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn supported vigorously the campaign of the Government in the various drives, and they both participated in practically all of the war activities. In 1905 Mr. Glenn purchased their home place at 1803 North Broadway, where he has lived with his family for the past fifteen years, and he also came to own four lots closer in on Broadway. So early did they pitch their tent on North Broadway that they camped there, so to speak, when there were only a few other houses that far out.

CARLOS F. MANSUR --- A pioneer of Santa Ana, coming here first in 1876, and locating here permanently in 1881. He was born in Barnston, Canada, July 8, 1840, where he was reared until he was seventeen, when he migrated to Randolph Center, Wis.

He was married there on September 8, 1861, to Columbia L. Gale, born in Goshen, Vt., October 16, 1843. The day after his marriage Mr. Mansur enlisted in the Eighth Wisconsin Regiment, serving until the close of the Civil War. After the close of the war he returned to Canada, but in 1867 came to California, via the Isthmus of Panama, locating at Camptonville, where he engaged in the dry goods business and was postmaster. In 1876 he made his first trip to Santa Ana, coming here to make his home in 1881. For a time he was manager of an orange packing house. He was one of the organizers of the Orange County Savings Bank and was its cashier for many years, until he resigned about 1902 and retired from active life, making his home in Santa Ana until his death in 1915, Mrs. Mansur having passed away in 1912.

Mr. and Mrs. Mansur were the parents of six children: Ozro is the secretary of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company; Fred is secretary of the Orange County Title Company; Nina is the wife of Earl Glenn of this review; Albert lives in Los Angeles; Lelia is Mrs. Talbott of Brooklyn. Iowa; Carl makes home in Los Angeles. Active in the formation of Orange County, Mr.   Mansur was the first county treasurer, serving two terms. A staunch Republican, he was prominent in the ranks of the G. A. R., and was commander of Sedgwick Post, Santa Ana. In fraternal circles he was affiliated with the Masons, being a member of the Blue Lodge and past high priest of the Chapter. He was also a member of the Elks.

LEWIS TUTTLE WELLS — A splendid example of what a man may do who intelligently, honorably and persistently battles against adversity, is afforded by Lewis Tuttle Wells, the well-known and influential rancher in the Talbert district of Orange County. He was born in Lincklaen, Chenango County, N. Y., on October 20, 1852, the son of John R. Wells, a New York State farmer who was a native of Rhode Island. He had married Cordelia E. Sanders, who was born in New York and was a near relation of Professor Sanders, once so well known as the author of Sanders Union Series of text-books. Elisha Wells, our subject's grandfather, was born in England and settled in Rhode Island, and there, too, he was married.

Lewis Wells grew up in New York State, but as his parents were poor, he had a hard time acquiring an education. Until he was eighteen, he enjoyed but three months a year of schooling; and during the two years, from his eighteenth to his twentieth year, when he stayed at home, he went to the De Ruyter Institute, when harvesting was over, and there made such progress that he was able to pass the required examinations and secure a second-grade teachers' certificate. He taught in Chenango County the next winter, and the next year was able to go to the State Normal at Cortland, N. Y. He then took an examination successfully for the first-grade teachers' certificate, taught again, and went to school, besides; and while again engaged in teaching, took the next important step of his life.

When he was twenty-four, at Brookfield, Madison County, N. Y. he was married to Miss Jane E. Silliman, of that place; after which he taught for another year. Then he removed to Rooks County, Kans., where he farmed for eighteen years. The results were, all in all, very satisfactory until the fifth year when a disastrous hail storm and cyclone destroyed all the crops; and he had to return to teaching, to keep from starving: He taught for four years, and in the meantime his wife died, leaving him with four children. Two of these went to his own school and were taught by him in Kansas. In 1891-92 he had a large wheat crop but only received thirty-five cents a bushel for it.

Mr. Wells sold out in 1897 and came to California, stopping for a while at Los Angeles, where he worked at whatever he could best find to do. Then he came to Artesia and rented a ranch of ten acres. About that time he heard of the peat-land district at Smeltzer, in Orange County, and going there, he bought and sold fruit and vegetables for a couple of seasons. After that, he came to Talbert.

Getting acquainted with W. T. Newland, he rented sixty acres from him for three years. He cleared the land, but during the first two years made nothing; the third year he had the land in such shape that he put twenty acres into sugar beets and the balance in corn and cabbage, and cleared about $1,000 above expenses. He then bought forty acres, his present place — a fortunate purchase — and two years ago, bought another forty acres, so that he now owns two ranches of forty acres each, excellent land, both in the Talbert district. He resides upon one of these, and one of his sons lives upon the other, the last purchased, which is at Talbert Station. He also owns live houses in Huntington Beach, and also six lots there. He raises two crops a year on his land — a crop of barley and a crop of corn. His ranch is very productive and raised pumpkins of monster size, in fact, so large a man alone could not lift one; also raised a sweet potato weighing eighteen and three-quarter pounds, and it, with the monster pumpkin, was sent to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis and placed with the Orange County exhibit. For many years he raised celery and was very successful; in one year his two-thirds shares from nine acres realized him $1,860; however, of late he raises sugar beets and lima beans. Many years ago he also set out an orchard of apples, peaches, pears and plums which he finds very profitable, and his hard, intelligent labor has brought him success. He donates two and a half acres of his ranch for a government experiment station. Since oil was struck at Huntington Beach, he has leased for oil.

Mr. Wells was married a second time, in 1910 in Orange County, to Mrs. Maude (Shanklin) Perry, a native of Kentucky, who had married Harvey Perry. She had two children by him — Lorina, who married Berry Stice, the butcher at Santa Ana, and Eugene, who is in the U. S. Navy on the battleship New Mexico; and her union with Mr. Wells has been blessed with two other children — Lavaughn and L. T. Wells, Jr. Mr. Wells' children by his first wife are: Lena, who is the wife of George. Gilbert, a rancher in Kansas, is the mother of two children; Arthur, another rancher in Kansas, who is married and has five children, and owns 320 acres of land; Seabury, who married Helen Huffman of Kansas, and resides with her and his two children on one of Mr. Wells' ranches; and Gertrude, the wife of Clyde Gilbert, the rancher at Talbert, who has five children. Mr. Wells is a member of the Knights of Pythias at Huntington Beach, and also of the Odd Fellows there.

REUBEN A. ADAMS, M. D. — The passing of a physician of such high rank in the history of American medicine as the late Dr. Reuben A. Adams, and an influential leader in the Grand Army of the Republic, deserves more than ordinary mention; for such men, in more senses than one, have become both pillars and founders of the Union. He came of a noted New England family, and was born at Marion, N. Y., on April. 3, 1841, where he spent his boyhood, attended the local public schools and graduated from the Marion Collegiate Institute. From boyhood he was intensely patriotic; and when the Civil War threatened to destroy the Federal Government, he enlisted, in August, 1862, in Company D, One Hundred Sixtieth Regiment New York Volunteers, and went to New Orleans with General Banks' expedition, serving under him throughout the Louisiana campaign. He was present at the siege of Port Hudson, and later fought under General Sheridan in his engagements in the Shenandoah Valley, participating actively, all in all, in fourteen battles. He was twice wounded — the first time at Fort Bisland, in Louisiana, and the second time at Cedar Creek, Va., and carried the scars the remainder of his life. When he was mustered out of service at the close of the war, Dr. Adams received the exceptional honor of a letter of commendation signed by every surviving officer of his regiment. This he prized even far more than the rare and costly presents and thanks from the imperial household of Japan, for service to a prince and officer of the Japanese, army and navy, whom he came to know when the foreigner was in distress.

On returning from his arduous service in the Civil War, Mr. Adams took up his studies at the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, and was graduated from the Hahnemann College of Philadelphia on March 4, 1868. In July of that year he lost no time to establish himself at Churchville, N. Y., where he successfully practiced medicine until May, 1873. Then, ambitious for a field with greater possibilities, he removed to Rochester, N. Y., where he soon took rank with the most prominent physicians of the day. His ability as both a physician and a surgeon was recognized in his appointment, in 1874, as the city medical officer, and in assuming that responsibility he became one of the first homeopathic physicians to occupy that position.

Dr. Adams also served as president of the Monroe County Homeopathic Medical Society, vice-president of the Rochester Hahnemann Society, and also vice-president of the New York State Homeopathic Medical Society. He was a member of the New York Homeopathic Medical Society, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy, and was consulting physician on the staff of the Rochester Homeopathic Hospital from its incorporation in 1887.

His voluntary and strenuous participation in the War for the Union naturally led Dr. Adams to cherish fondly all the associations of that awful conflict, and as a member of the George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., he was proud to have taken part in the original presentation of a United States flag to each of the thirty-five schools of Rochester, thus starting a patriotic movement that has extended pretty generally throughout the United States. He \vas fond of fraternal life, was a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner.

Besides working long, aggressively and conscientiously for the advancement of homeopathy, Dr. Adams was twice unanimously elected medical director of the Department of New York, of the Grand Army of the Republic, and at the forty-ninth annual encampment, held in Washington, in September, 1915, he was unanimously elected surgeon general of the Grand Army. He also found time to direct the general management of a large grain farm in North Dakota, and orange groves and English walnut orchards in Southern California. He first -came to Orange in the late eighties, at the height of the great realty "boom"; and while others could not see beyond their face and therefore failed, he looked deeper and further into the future, and invested in both country and city property, even developing the same at an initiatory loss. He left two sons, John Adams, of Orange, Cal., and Sidney I. Adams of Rochester, N. Y.; two brothers, Dr. Myron H. Adams and Seth Adams; and two sisters, Mrs. Louise Snyder and Mrs. Helen Gilbert of Marion, and a grand-daughter, Elizabeth Fiske Adams, of Rochester. When he died, in his seventy-seventh year, he breathed his last at his Rochester home, at No. 3 Upton Park, on December 9, 1918.

JOHN ADAMS — An enterprising, successful and influential citizen of Orange County, who is greatly interested in the development of this favored section of Southern California and has, therefore, become one of the effective "boosters" of the region, is John Adams, a native of Rochester, N. Y., and the son of Dr. Reuben A. Adams, who is mentioned on a preceding page of this work. John was educated in the grammar and high schools of Rochester, and later commenced the study of medicine at the medical college; but other matters having absorbed his main attention, he did not graduate. In 1908, on the contrary, he located at Orange to take active charge of the management of his father's property, and since then he has continued the important work of developing the holdings.

The home ranch and also his residence is located on Batavia Street, where he grows Valencia oranges; while the large ranch is at the corner of North Main Street and the Santa Fe track, and there he has fifty acres of Valencias and fifty acres of walnuts. Besides teams he uses two tractors in the operation of the farm; and in all the departments he applies the most modern methods and the most up-to-date machinery. He is a member of the Santiago Orange Growers Association, and also a member, vice-president and director of the Richland Walnut Association.

While at Rochester, Mr. Adams married Miss Dora A. Hooker, a native of New York, and an accomplished lady who has shared his ambition, his toil and his rewards. In the same city he was made a Mason, in Genesee Falls Lodge No. 507.

Orange bid high, from the beginning of her history as a county, for just such go-ahead settlers as John Adams, the worthy bearer of a long-honored name; nor did either the city or the county of Orange bid in vain. The result has been a degree of prosperity, reflecting the high intelligence of their citizens, highly creditable to the state called Golden.

CARL G. JORN — A young man who has been in close touch with the city of Orange since he first came to California at the age of fifteen and who has materially aided as well as shared in the prosperity of the fast-developing town, is Carl G. Jorn, the well-known insurance man. He was born at Chicago. Ill., in 1880, the son of Charles Jorn, who had a real estate, insurance and loan business at the corner of Twenty-sixth and Wells streets and spent several winters in the Golden State. He died in Chicago in 1913. He had married Marie Moehlenbrink, who died when Carl Jorn was four and a half years old. Of this union he is now the only child living. However, he has a half-brother, John F. Jorn, who is continuing his father's business in Chicago under the old firm name, Charles Jorn & Company, and his half-sister, Mrs. Lydia Jaeger, who also resides in Chicago.

Having attended the local parochial school, Carl Jorn was sent to Concordia College in Milwaukee for a couple of years, but on account of failing health he came west to California in 1895, and for fourteen months remained at Orange, where he attended the Orange County Business College at Santa Ana, the proprietor then being R. L. Bisby. Then he returned to Chicago and entered the employ of the J. K. Armsby Company, having a good position in their main office. That fall his health failed again and he came West once more, settling again in Orange, and resumed his studies at the business college, and during this time was secretary to R. L. Bisby of that college. On the completion of the course he spent three months as a stenographer in Los Angeles, when he again returned East with his father and for six years was with him in business in his office until again the lure of California drew him to the West.

In the spring of 1906, Mr. Jorn journeyed back to Orange, where he started an insurance business. He also became the agent of the Oliver Typewriter Company, and such was his success and years of service that he became the dean of agents in Southern California. In 1913 he returned to the East for the summer on account of the illness of his father, which terminated in his death, but he did not give up his association with the Pacific commonwealth, in whose bright future he has such unbounded faith. As early as 1909 Mr. Jorn bought the northwest corner of Chapman Avenue and the Plaza, and with his father erected the original Jorn Building, which he has since materially enlarged. He carries on an important real estate and insurance business and was once secretary of the Orange Chamber of Commerce, in which he is still a member. It is but natural for one so optimistic for the future of the citrus industry and land values that Mr. Jorn is also interested in horticulture and owns an orange and lemon grove in the Peralta Hills above Olive. He was also the first secretary of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Orange County. He belongs to the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, in which he is untiring in his efforts to develop the commercial interests of the town and county, and as a Republican he is no less tireless in helping to elevate civic standards.

At Orange, on July 13, 1909, Mr. Jorn was married to Miss Bertha Loescher, a native of Iowa; she came to California with her father, who located at Orange, and is now making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Jorn. One child has blessed this union, a daughter, Mary Louise. Mr. and Mrs. Jorn are active members of the Lutheran Church of Orange, in which they are both very influential. Mr. Jorn is the leader of Circuit B, District Three, California and Nevada District of the Lutheran Laymen's League, and in that capacity is in close touch with the different congregations of the circuit from Santa Barbara to San Diego and from the Coast to the Colorado River. He also belongs to the Lutheran's Men's Club and the Orange Men's Club. Both husband and wife are intensely interested in the various movements for sociological uplift for the community and Mr. Jorn is rendering valuable service as a member and clerk of the library board of the Orange Public Library; in fact, there is no movement for the building up of Orange and the enhancing of its commercial importance that does not receive his hearty support.

ALEXIS EVERETT FRYE, A.M., LL.B. — Among the regular summer visitors at Newport Bay is Alexis Everett Frye, author of the most widely-used text-books in the world. His winter home is the beautiful ''Villa Cuba," at Redlands, on the picturesque ridge joining Prospect Park with Smiley Heights. His summer home is the stately villa known as "Miramar," meaning "Seaview," fronting on the smiling bay at Newport. As one of his own poems expresses it:

   "And for his home the cunning hand
                That chisels peak and headland bold,
    With chips of sand forms arm of land '
            Twixt smiling bay and ocean cold. "

       Then bloom of snow-white foam he brings,
    To beautify the sculptured rim,
Like brazen sea the Scripture sings,
               With flowers of lilies round the brim."

Enthusiastic about our bay. he has personally made the largest collection of shells ever taken from its waters, and has found several not known to exist here. He now has ready for the press a little volume of poems, from which the above lines are taken, revealing the hidden beauty of the sea birds, the dune plants, the sea shells, the sunsets, the great stone face over the tidal river, and the water sprites, and, of course, the "mermaids — "

   “---the teeming mermaids fair,
   That dip and dive, or ride the sea,
   With shapely form and streaming hair,
Like Nereids in motion free."      

Another proof of his abiding interest in the bay is his purchase of the commodious Engstrom house, the most beautiful on the bay. It is a center of summer life and activity, especially for children.

Mr. Frye was born at North Haven, Maine, on November 2, 1859, the son of Captain E. S. Frye, forty-four years a mariner, who sailed from Boston and other Atlantic ports. Captain Frye is now eighty-eight years old, strong and vigorous, a type of the hardy men who "go down to the sea in ships." He is one of the oldest stock of "Fryes of Maine," his forebears having lived there continuously since 1661, when Adrian Frye settled in Kittery. He is a giant in strength. When going aboard ship one day, he saw two of his sailors sweating over an anchor they were trying to lift and carry from the wharf to the deck. One end would go up, and the other down, then vice versa. Telling one sailor to sit on the crown and the other on the stock, Captain Frye picked up the outfit, anchor and men, and carried all aboard, placing them on the deck as lightly as a basket of eggs. He is a lineal descendant of Edward Doten, who came over in the Mayflower in 1620.

Captain Frye married Jane King, a descendant of six of the Mayflower passengers, including the famous Brewster and Hopkins. Edward Doten came as an "apprentice" to the same Stephen Hopkins. He is the Doten who fought the first duel in the Plymouth colony; and he and his rival, Edward Lester, had to pass a day in the "stocks," to be jeered at by the shocked Pilgrims. Jane King Frye died in Highlands, in this state, April 2, 1912, aged seventy-eight years. Four sons and one daughter were born to the family. One son died in infancy, but the others are living.

While still a boy. Alexis E. Frye removed with his parents to Quincy, Mass., and there completed the grammar school course, and attended Adams Academy. During a large part of 1875 he was at sea "before the mast" with his father. In 1878 he graduated from the English high school of Boston, receiving one of the medals given for scholarship from the fund of Benjamin Franklin. Mr. Frye was the first young man to graduate from the Training School of the famous educator, Francis W. Parker, at Quincy, Mass. He became greatly attached to Colonel Parker, taught with him in Quincy, worked with him when supervisor of the schools of Boston, and went with him to reorganize the Cook County Normal School, now the Chicago Normal School. He was pleased to be known as Colonel Parker's faithful "Man Frye-day." Mr. Frye was principal of the model school, and teacher of methods in the normal school. In recognition of his work he was made an honorary graduate of the western school. Here he worked from 1883 to 1886.

Returning East Mr. Frye took the law course at Harvard University, adding to his honors the degree of LL.B., and was admitted to the practice of law in Boston, but he never availed himself of the privilege, preferring to remain in the educational field and become a lecturer before teachers' institutes and conventions. He has delivered upwards of 2,000 lectures upon methods of teaching. This work led to extensive travel and gave wide acquaintance with the needs of schools in this country. He also found time to roam widely in Europe, Asia and Africa. Both the lecturing and the travel proved a natural introduction to his next great undertaking — the writing of the well known series of geographies which bears his name. It is probably true that his textbooks have outsold every other book in the world, save the Bible. The word "millions" means little, but if one end of the paper used in printing his books could be tacked to the Capitol in Washington, and then unroll with a width of the common book page, the strip would go down to the equator, round the earth, off to the moon (243,000 miles), round the moon, back to earth, again round the equator, and back to the Capitol, with a remnant of sufficient length to wind round the state of California many times.

For more than a quarter of a century Mr. Frye has written all the text-books on geography issued by the great firm of Ginn and Company. His first book was on methods of teaching geography by sand modeling and was called "Child and Nature." This was in 1888. Three years later came "Brooks and Brook Basins." In 1892 he issued a work on psychology, which was well received. In 1894 was printed his Primary Geography, which proved a record breaker. Then came his large complete geography, which set a new pace. Mr. Frye's plan was to embody as much of his ideal as the schools would take, and then write another book as soon as the schools were ready to move forward with him. This plan gave him the field.

Now came a long series of books. In 1898 the Elements of Geography, and a Home and School Atlas. The next year the Spanish Geografia Elemental, adopted for the federal schools of Mexico, as well as Cuba and Porto Rico. In 1902 one of his text-books was translated into Chinese, and is largely used in mission schools of the "Flowery Kingdom," now a republic. One of his books was adapted by authority for use in the schools of Canada. Another was adapted for use in England, by an Oxford professor. Still another was used as the basis for a book for Norway. There is not a nation of the civilized globe that has not been influenced in its school work by the text-books of Mr. Frye. Among the more active of his books at the present time are the Grammar School Geography, a New Geography (1917), and a Home Geography Mr. Frye also wrote the first text-book of geography widely used in the Philippines.

In 1899 President McKinley, through Mr. Root, his secretary of war, sent Mr. Frye to organize and equip the new public school system of Cuba. He wrote the national school law and the course of study for the island. In 1900 he brought about 1,300 Cuban teachers to Harvard University for study, and then led them on a tour of the East, landing all safely at home. Mr. Root placed him in charge of five steamships for the expedition. For this work, and for other work done for the little nation. Mr. Frye received the Medal of the Legion of Honor of Cuba, and in 1904 and 1906 was made president of the National Teachers' Association of Cuba, perhaps the only instance of a foreigner being made president of such an association. Besides the Franklin medal, and the medal of honor mentioned, Mr. Frye was awarded a silver medal, upon recommendation of William Howard Taft. for his text-book for the Philippines. He also holds the silver cup for the wrestling championship of Harvard University, a gold medal from the teachers of the Province of Santiago, Cuba, and others. In connection with the work in Cuba it is of interest to note that Secretary Root, writing to President Eliot of Harvard, said of the voyage of the Cuban teachers: "This body of teachers going back to every municipality of Cuba will carry back more of saving grace for Cuba than the whole power of the (American) government could accomplish in any other way." And it did.

In 1897 Mr. Frye earned the degree of A.M. from time-honored Harvard University. During the Spanish War he helped to organize, and at one time was in command of, the battalion at Harvard, and captained the graduates' company. In 1898-99 he was lieutenant of Battery K, the "Boston Tigers," of the First Heavy Artillery, thus keeping up his connection with military affairs. He has been captain of five companies, including Company E, California National Guard. As head of the school department in Cuba, Mr. Frye was associated with Generals John R. Brooke, Leonard Wood, Adna R. Chaffee, Hugh L. Scott, Tasker Bliss, and the late Surgeon-General Gorgas, all of whom are among the world's great men.

Mr. Frye has been elected a life member of various societies, including the American Geographical Society, National Geographic Society, the Harvard Union, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, and the New England Historic Genealogical Society. It is needless to say that he is an enthusiastic member of the Newport Yacht Club. In the early nineties Mr. Frye became a resident of California. He has improved and owned upwards of 300 acres of orange groves, but has sold his groves to be free to continue his literary work.

WALTER J. COLE — A rancher who owns a prosperous forty-acre ranch on Park Avenue between Hansen and the county road, Walter J. Cole is one of the first settlers in this section of the county. He located here when the ranch was a part of a 40,000-acre sheep range, with only a very few settlers anywhere near him. The Spanish heirs claimed to own an interest in the land, which interfered with a clear title, and consequently stopped the sale of the land for several years. In the course of time, however, clear titles were given, and the property was bought and sold. Mr. Cole, as stated above, bought his present acreage in the early days, and began at once to develop it as he was able. He has from the first conducted a general farming and dairy ranch, which he has continued up to the present time, but he is now contemplating a change to the production of citrus fruit.

Mr. Cole was born in Batavia, New York, in 1859, his parents being Walter and Sophronia (Blanchard) Cole. Here he spent his youthful days, receiving an education in the public schools of his vicinity. When he had reached the age of twenty- five, he decided to try his fortune in the West, so in 1884 he came to California with Capt. Arthur J. Hutchinson, who was then a partner of "Lucky" Baldwin, and who shipped a herd of Devons to this state, paying $600 per car for shipment. Mr. Cole was with Captain Hutchinson for three years, and through this experience became well versed in judging and handling cattle on the great Baldwin ranch in Los Angeles County, which consisted of several thousand acres.

Immediately after settling on his own land, in 1887, Mr. Cole took up the dairy business, which he has since followed. He was the owner of a fine herd of registered Jerseys, some of which he occasionally sold for a fancy price. He is a firm believer in the necessity of raising pure bred stock, and has always been a strong advocate of that belief. Mr. Cole's parents came to California in 1885, one year after their son's arrival, and settled on the Baldwin ranch, where they lived for three years, when they purchased a thirty-acre ranch near what is now Hansen Station on the Pacific Electric Railroad. The father entered the dairy business here, and made this home until his death, in February, 1899. Mrs. Cole still resides there, in her ninety-fifth year.

Walter J. Cole was married on October 1, 1891, to Miss Emma Schneider, the daughter of Jacob Schneider of Anaheim, who was one of the original members of San Francisco Company. They have become the parents of six children: Delos is married and has one daughter, Dorothy; Ethel; Bernice, Mrs. Frank Schacht; Vera, Mrs. Albert Sparks, has two children, Bernice and Maxine; Margaret, the wife of John Sullivan; and Donald. When this locality began to settle up and the necessity of a local school was seen, Mr. Cole donated an acre of land and helped locate and establish the Savanna School district, and has served for many years as a trustee. He was one of those who worked hard to establish Orange as a separate county. As one of the pioneers of this section, Mr. Cole is held in high esteem in the community which has been his home for so many years. Comfortably endowed with worldly goods, the result of honest and diligent labor, he can now enjoy the fruits of his toil.

WILLIAM PANNIER — A far-seeing, enterprising, effectual builder of Anaheim, whose success in his own affairs has been due, primarily, to his tenacity of purpose which led him to stick to his guns when so many settlers, easily discouraged, were glad to sell out and move away, is William Pannier, who has seen the fellow-rancher come and go. and, in many cases, bitterly repent when it was too late, the going. He was born in Prussia in September, 1859, and when six years of age came to Illinois and settled with his folks, sturdy farmer folk, near Belleville, in June, 1866. There were four girls and two boys in the family and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Pannier; and the third in the order of birth, he is the only one now living, as he was the only one who came to California.

He was reared on a farm in the Whiteside Township of St. Clair County, Ill., and attended public school there, while he assisted in the farm work and was initiated into an industry he followed thereafter. On January 12, 1887, in the midst of the great "boom," he came to California and Santa Ana, and for a few months was employed by Mr. Yoch. The next spring he went to Oregon and sought employment in a logging camp in Clatsop County, after which he worked at harvesting until the rains. These proved too much for his liking and he came south again to Santa Ana.

For four years he teamed for Mr. Smiley, and when the boom burst he bought two teams and some implements, and for a year farmed to grain on the San Joaquin ranch. He next sold his outfit and for a year worked in a lumber yard. After that he bought forty acres of raw land in the East Anaheim precinct, where he located, built a home and began improvements, clearing away the cactus and the brush, and at that time he was the only settler there outside of the city limits. He sank a well and got good water.

At Anaheim Mr. Pannier was married to Miss Sarah Hasheider, who in 1883 had come to California with her parents, early settlers of Anaheim, and then he built a new home and made still more extensive improvements. He continued to buy land until he had seventy-six acres, all of which he cleared and leveled. He set out nine acres of walnuts, forty-five feet apart, from which the owner, in 1919, received $8,400. He also cleared away twenty acres for the Bissells. and forty acres for the Boeges; and having sold some, he now owns thirty-five acres in a body on Southeast Street.

For six years Mr. Pannier did general farming, and then he began to set out oranges. Now he has sixteen acres of Valencia oranges, twelve acres of budded walnuts, and five acres in lemons. At first he had a gasoline pumping plant; now he pumps by electrical power. He belongs to the Mutual Orange Distributors Association of Anaheim, and to the California Walnut Growers Association of Orange.

Six children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Pannier: Milton, who assisted his father as only a wide-awake, interested son can, was in the World War and served overseas for seven months; Alice and Ruth are at home, and Howard, Donald and Charles are in the Anaheim High School, about to graduate. Alice also attended the University of Southern California and during the World War volunteered her services in one of the departments in Washington until the armistice, and Ruth took a thorough course at a leading business college. Mr. Pannier belongs to the Fraternal Union and the Evangelical Association of Anaheim, where he has been a trustee for fifteen years, and long a chairman of important committees. In national politics he is a Republican.

DAVID E. COZAD — A man who has met with a large measure of success in life, David E. Cozad now enjoys the reward attending sagacious and painstaking effort, and the adversities he has encountered in toiling along life's pathway have but served to develop the qualities of frugality, thrift and industry that are inherent traits received from a long line of American ancestors who have played no unimportant part in making the nation what it is today.

David E. Cozad was born at Roseville. Warren County, Ill., April 27, 1857. His father, Henry, was a native of New Jersey, and his mother, Mary (Tuttle) Cozad, was born in Pennsylvania, in which state his parents were married. From Pennsylvania they journeyed overland in a wagon to Illinois, where the father farmed in Warren County and worked at carpentering and as a painter. They removed to Iowa when David was between eight and nine years of age, in 1866, and their life was spent on the frontier, keeping in advance of the railway building west through Iowa and Missouri to Nebraska. They lived in many different places and moved often, and when they located at Long Island, Kans., they were thirty miles in advance of the railway. David E. is the fourth child in order of birth in the family of nine children, consisting of one girl and eight boys. The daughter, Elizabeth Hillyard is a widow and resides at Santa Ana. Stevenson, of Lincoln, Nebr. ; James is a rancher in Buaro Precinct; William J. is a storekeeper at Westminster; Charles C. is a carpenter and builder at Santa Ana; Simeon I. clerks in a store at Westminster; Harry W. resides at Santa Ana, and Arthur, the youngest, is a rancher at Hemet.

Mr. Cozad's educational advantages were limited, owing to their frontier life. His marriage occurred in 1880, near Seward, Nebr., and united him with Miss Nancy J. Howard, a native of Lincoln, Nebr., who was educated in the common schools. Her father, Amos M. Howard, was born in Indiana, and her mother, who was Zerelda Ray in maidenhood, was born in Missouri, where her parents were married. She and her brother Titus were the children of her father's first marriage, and they were made half orphans when Mrs. Cozad was seventeen months old, by the death of her mother. Five children resulted from her father's second marriage, four of whom are living. Mrs. Cozad's brother, Titus, is a lawyer at Greeley, Nebr., is county attorney, a Republican of the Forty-ninth District, and still retains his seat in the Nebraska Legislature to which he was elected. Her father was among the early California gold seekers and made his first trip to California in 1849.

Mr. and Mrs. Cozad are the parents of seven children, all of whom were born at Long Island, Kans., except Henry A., the eldest, who was born at Seward, Nebr. He is one of the employees of the Fresno Building Association and married Miss Montana Gibson of Los Angeles, and they have two children. Mary Z. is the wife of Fred Hoffmann of Redondo, an employee of the Standard Oil Company at El Segundo, and they have one child. Charles T. died in Kansas City at the age of seven. David J. was accidentally killed in 1905. when nineteen years old, by an electric shock while working as a lineman at Redondo. Leslie E. died when five days old. Florence is the wife of Richard Criddle, a rancher at Gridley, Cal., and they have two children. Arthur W. is a rancher and owns ten acres in Buaro Precinct; he married Ola Oliphant of Kansas, and they are the parents of one child.

After his marriage Mr. Cozad followed the trade of house painter and decorator for one year at Seward, Nebr., and in 1882 moved to Kansas, where he homesteaded 160 acres at Long Island, proved up on it, sold it, and purchased 160 acres of school land at Long Island. He was principally engaged in farming and raising cattle and swine before he came to California in the spring of 1901. He lived at Redondo in 1902-3, where he was employed as a car builder, and came to Buaro Precinct in 1903, where he purchased forty acres of land, planted twenty acres of it to walnuts and Valencia oranges and gave twenty acres of it to four of his children. Mr. Cozad has the American knack of being able to handle tools of almost every kind, and can do cement work as well as house painting. He and his excellent wife are kindly and hospitable, and Mrs. Cozad is a woman of rare good sense and motherly qualities, a humanitarian in her views and wide-awake to all that is of benefit to the community. Fraternally Mr. Cozad is a member of the Santa Ana lodge of I. O. O. F., and in his political views is a consistent Republican, and both he and his wife are members of the Rebekahs.

EDWARD G. WARE — A pioneer, who deserves the esteem of posterity as well as his contemporaries was the late Edward G. Ware, the planter and grower of the first Valencia oranges in the Garden Grove section. He was born at South Deerfield, Mass., in 1846, the son of Samuel and Mary (Chandler) Ware. The former came to Illinois with his parents when he was twelve years old, and in that state grew to maturity. Mrs. Samuel Ware was born at South Hadley, Mass., and graduated from Mt. Holyoke Seminary. She died at Garden Grove in 1908, aged eighty-seven years.

When Mr. Ware came to Garden Grove, it was a grain field. He tried different kinds of fanning, and became much interested in advancing the farming interests here. He took an active interest in farmers' institutes, and was accurate and well posted, and often gave talks and prepared dissertations for his fellows. Later, he took up horticulture, and devoted his attention to both Navel and Valencia oranges, and walnuts. On the ranch at Garden Grove now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Stanley there still stands the original "Eureka" walnut tree from which all the "Eureka" nut trees in Southern California have originated; also the "Prolific" nut, and the Earhart. All three were propagated and budded here by the late D. C. Dusher, who conducted a nursery and experimental work that later have proved of so much value to the walnut growers of the state. The last named was called after Mr. Earhart because of the fact that he developed the nut that has been such a success for withstanding disease. Such were Mr. Ware's powers of observation and deduction, that the professor of horticulture at the State University called him the best authority on walnuts in the state of California.

As a grower of Valencia oranges Mr. Ware was the pioneer in the Garden Grove section, and enjoyed an enviable local fame. He had prophetic vision, and once said to the pioneer. Albert J. Chaffee, "My daughter will yet live to see the choicest of Valencia oranges in the United States grown here at Garden Grove." In his later years he became interested in poultry, raised white Minorcas, and took the prize at the San Francisco poultry exhibit at the Pacific Panama Exposition.

He married October 14, 1875, at Batavia. Ill., Mary Johnson, and she passed away in 1914. She had been interested particularly in temperance work, and served, with the exception of one year, as secretary of the Garden Grove W. C. T. U. from its organization until she died. They had one child, Lillian Agnes, now Mrs. Arthur C. Stanley, a native of Garden Grove and a graduate of the Santa Ana high school, Class of '97, and Los Angeles Normal School, Class of 1900. She formerly belonged to the M. E. Church, and is now a member of the Friends' Church, in the Alamitos School district, and is active in all church and Sunday School work.

Samuel Ware, the great-grandfather, was a minister in the Congregational Church and was born at Norwich, Mass., on September 5, 1781. He died on August 29, 1866, in Massachusetts. Henry Ward Beecher boarded with him at Amherst while he was a theological student. The progenitor of this family was Robert Ware, who was born in England and came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony some time before the autumn of 1642. When Edward Ware came to Garden Grove in 1876, from San Francisco where he had lived for several years, he purchased his place of forty acres; and at his home, one mile north of Garden Grove, he died on December 17, 1917, and was buried at Santa Ana. He had a wide circle of friends, who appreciated him at his real value and who honored him in death, as they had in life.

HARVEY V. NEWSOM— A resident of Garden Grove since 1890, Harvey V. Newsom has by his industrious and diligent efforts developed a well-kept citrus grove of ten acres northeast of Garden Grove, and is also the owner of a ten-acre grove of young lemons east of his home place. Mr. Newsom was born near Azalia, Bartholomew County, Ind., October 18, 1866, and is the son of Alfred J. Newsom, who died on August 9, 1920, at Garden Grove, being in his seventy-eighth year; the mother passed away here in 1904. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Newsom were the parents of ten children, eight of whom are living, all residents of California: Harvey V., the subject of this sketch; Benjamin W. is connected with the shipyards at Long Beach; Luther R. is a rancher near Stanton; Joseph A. is at home; Maggie is the wife of Orson Moody, a dairyman at Bishop; William C. is a rancher at Rivera; Annis is the wife of Henry West, an oil man at Fullerton; Willis is a teacher and a rancher, and resides on his ranch near Garden Grove.

The parents moved from Indiana to Iowa in 1869, remaining there for three years, and returning to Indiana; from there they went to Kansas, where they resided for twelve years, coming to California in 1887. They settled at El Modena, and also lived at Pasadena and Burbank before coming to Garden Grove in 1890, and here the family home has since been established.

In 1898 Harvey V. Newsom bought his ranch, then consisting of twenty acres, and began its development, selling ten acres of it in 1906. In 1900 he was united in marriage with Miss Mina- A. Robinson, daughter of the pioneer, Richard Robinson, whose biography appears elsewhere in this volume. They are the parents of one daughter, Vesta Marie, a graduate of the Anaheim high school, and now attending Junior College at Santa Ana, and a son, Stanley O., who died in February, 1911. Mr. Newsom located on his place before the building of the Pacific Electric Railway. By dint of hard, painstaking work he has made of his acreage a valuable property and has erected a fine, new bungalow. He is a member of the Orange Growers Association and the Lima Bean Growers Association of Garden Grove, and the Garden Grove Farm Center. A staunch believer in temperance, he has been an adherent of the Prohibition party for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Newsom are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Garden Grove, and are highly respected citizens of the community.

JASPER N. DE VAUL — A pioneer couple representing, in their historic American ancestry, some of the best of American brain and brawn, are Mr. and Mrs. Jasper N. De Vaul, who live three-quarters of a mile northeast of Garden Grove. He was horn in Grundy County, near Trenton, Mo., on January 31, 1845, the son of James R. De Vaul, and the grandson of Daniel P. De Vaul, a veteran of the War of 1812. The De Vauls were among the first whites to settle at Trenton, having come overland from Kentucky to Missouri, and James De Vaul served as a soldier in the Black Hawk War. Daniel De Vaul joined the Argonauts of "49 and came to California, where he mined at Placerville; and shifting to San Benito County, then Monterey County, he died there, aged seventy-six. James De Vaul continued in Missouri and married Miss Sarah Howel; and in 1880 he moved to Oregon, and settled at Myrtle Point. After lives, respectively, of ninety-three and seventy-eight years, Mr. and Mrs. De Vaul passed away in their northern home. They had twelve children, eight boys and four girls, among whom Jasper N. was the fourth in the order of birth.

He attended the little log schoolhouse of his native district, and in 1863, during the Civil War. served for five months in the state militia. In 1864 he crossed the plains with an ox-team train, driving a four-mule team, and taking five months for the journey. He stopped at Woodbridge, eighteen miles north of Stockton, and there worked on a ranch. He was married in San Jose to Miss Mary Meadows, and by her had three children — Nettie, Emma and William. He was married a second time, in 1880, to Miss Mary Holt, a native of Nova Scotia, and the daughter of J. W. and Nancy (Peel) Holt, Nova Scotians of English blood. The father went to sea until he was twenty-five, when he married and took up farming; and in 1868 they came to California with their family, and making the neighborhood of Hollister their headquarters, they moved around considerably. The father died, at the age of eighty-eight.

Mr. and Mrs. De Vaul lived for eight years at Lompoc, and their next move was to Garden Grove, coming there in 1890. They have had five children: Eugene is field manager for the Anaheim Sugar Company, and married Miss Jessie Hickman of Bolsa; they have one son, and reside at Santa Ana; Ira is a rancher near Garden Grove; he married Lulu Chase of Alhambra, and they have one daughter; Oscar died at Lompoc, seven months old; Eva is the wife of W. F. Winters of Garden Grove, and they have two children, and Lola married Earl Crane, an apiarist, and has one daughter. Mr. Crane was in England during the war, and had his right arm badly wounded, and is now a student in the Agricultural College at Davis, Cal. Both Mr. and Mrs. De Vaul are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Garden Grove, and are Republicans, and in every loyal way participated in war activities. Having become the owner of some sixty acres, Mr. De Vaul has farmed the same; while Mrs. De Vaul, having inherited twenty-five acres, retains fifteen for farming. Ten acres are set out to walnuts and two to oranges. They maintain a home that is a model for comfort and attractiveness, and they dispense, in modest but sincere fashion, an old-time, warming hospitality.

JOSEPH M. BACKS, JR. — Orange County points with pride to the rank and file of its public servants, nor need one be surprised in view of the record of such men as Joseph M. Backs, Jr., the efficient and popular county clerk. A native son, fortunate in starting life in intimate touch with the great commonwealth whose destinies he has been called upon to shape, he was born at Anaheim on April 17, 1876. His parents were Joseph and Catherine (Heyermann) Backs, the father being one of Anaheim's pioneers and prominent in the mercantile life of that city for many years; the birthplace of the mother was in Mexico, and she later removed to San Francisco with her father, Dr. A. F. Heyermann, who was at one time connected with the German Hospital, and also for many years engaged in the drug business in that city.

Coming to Los Angeles in December, 1869, then a straggling village, bearing little resemblance to its present metropolitan proportions, Joseph Backs, Sr., for a time worked at his trade of carpenter and cabinetmaker, and then, with his brother Ferdinand, embarked in the furniture business, conducting the same for a year, when it was sold. In 1871 the brothers came to Anaheim, where they assisted in furnishing and equipping the two hotels there, after which they started a business of their own, under the firm name of F. & J. Backs, this partnership continuing until 1890, when the business was divided, Joseph Backs continuing in business for himself. He was a pioneer furniture dealer and the first undertaker and embalmer in Anaheim, and in this capacity, as well as in a general business way, he was widely known, not only in Orange County, but in neighboring environs. He continued actively in business until 1914, when he sold out, and now he is living retired at his Anaheim home, his beloved wife having departed this world in 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Backs were the parents of seven children: Joseph M., Sophia, Katie M., Frieda, Adolph, Clementina and Edward. All are living and are residents of Orange County.

The eldest of the family, Joseph M. Backs, Jr., attended the public schools, and also the Woodbury Business College in Los Angeles, where he received an excellent preparation for some of the work he has since been called upon to do. From boyhood lie assisted his father in the business mornings and evenings and during his vacations. later working for two and a half years for H. A. Dickel in the general merchandise business. Another profitable year of good training was spent in the main post office at Los Angeles, when it was located at Eighth and Spring streets. Returning to Anaheim he entered the employ of the Union Telephone and Telegraph Company, first as manager for the northern half of Orange County, becoming district manager in 1909, having under his supervision all of Orange County, and maintaining his headquarters at Santa Ana. Continuing in this position until 1912, he resigned to become deputy county clerk under W. B. Williams. At the August Primary in 1918 he was elected to the office of county clerk for a four-year term, hence, there was no opposing candidate at the November election, and this office he is now occupying to the greatest satisfaction of all his constituents.

At Anaheim, April 15, 1903, occurred the marriage of Joseph M. Backs, Jr., when he was united with Miss Ella Warner, a native of Minnesota, who came with her parents to Anaheim in her girlhood, and there it was she received her education and was one of the popular belles of the place. One child has blessed this union, a daughter named Edna Inez. Fraternally, Mr. Backs is a member of the Elks, and in national politics is a Republican. About the time he reached his majority Joseph Backs, Jr., served as a member of Company E, Seventh Regiment, California National Guard, and being fortunate in the inheritance of a strong interest in and love for California and Orange County transmitted from parents, who are among the most highly esteemed pioneers of the section, it is little wonder that he loyally responded and served acceptably as a member of the registration board during the recent war and was active in all the bond and war drives, and as such sought to do his civic duty in the highest degree possible.

A splendid type of man. Mr. Backs is faithfully serving the citizens of the county, and through his affable manner and his readiness to assist anyone deserving information regarding the office or their affairs in connection with the county, as well as other investigations they may be making, has so endeared him to the people that he has become one of the most popular officials. His mind and heart have been engrossed in the well being of the county, and such has been his success in the solution of problems that his fellow-citizens more and more have reposed confidence in him. Liberal and kind hearted, his pleasing personality has attracted hosts of friends, who appreciate and esteem him for his nobleness of mind and heart. Thus, still in the prime of life, with apparently many years of usefulness before him, Mr. Backs already enjoys a prestige and confidence accorded to but few.

JONATHAN HARMON — Honored among the interesting pioneers of California, and destined long to be held in grateful remembrance for his part in developing the Golden State, is Jonathan Harmon, who crossed the great plains with his father's family in 1852, a well-to-do rancher and prominent old settler of the vicinity of Santa Ana. They traveled with mule teams, and spent five years as placer miners in the gold regions of Sierra and Plumas counties. In 1857 the family moved to Petaluma, in Sonoma County, and so it happened that they saw California in her formative days.

Mr. Harmon was born at Olean, N. Y., on October 8, 1841, the son of Luther N. Harmon, who was born in Suffield. Conn., a member of the same family as the Hon. Judson Harmon. ex-Governor of Ohio. Two Harmon brothers came from England to America in 1645, and John was the progenitor of this family. While in Erie County, New York. Luther Harmon married Miss Martha Hall; and he being a hatter, and she a tailoress, they were able somewhat to work together in times that were hard. It is no wonder that with a state of affairs when there was little or no money, the effect of the discovery of gold in California was such as to induce the elder Harmon to migrate to the Pacific Coast and to try his fortune here. He set out from Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1850, mined for gold successfully, and had the good fortune to be here early enough to vote upon the admission of the state. But he did not reach that goal without adventures that might have cost him more than they did. On his first trip across the plains in 1850. the Indians stole his horses, and he had to travel 300 miles afoot. Later, however, he went back to Michigan, and in 1852 brought his family here.

Jonathan Harmon grew up in Petaluma. and early worked in the mines in the northern part of the state, and at Petaluma, in 1870, he was married to Miss Martha E. Warren, a native of Lorain County. Ohio, who came to California with her parents in 1864. In Sonoma County Mr. Harmon cleared a farm of the stumps and improved the place, and little by little set out orchards until he had one of the show places in Sonoma County, with a large, beautiful residence and farm buildings. He had a variety of fruit trees, and at the Sonoma County fair took the sweepstake premium for the finest exhibit of fruit from one farm. However, wishing to locate in Southern California, e came south to Santa Ana, in what was then Los Angeles County, in 1888. at the height of the boom, and bought sixty acres of land; and to this he has added from time to time by subsequent purchases, so that he is now owner of 140 acres of the most desirable land. He has sunk wells and equipped a pumping plant not only sufficient to irrigate his own ranch, but furnishes water for irrigation to several of his neighbors. His ranch is equipped with cement pipe lines, this complete irrigating system making it one of the most valuable ranches in the district.

He is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Santa Ana. as was Mrs. Harmon, who died in 1918, at the fine old age of seventy-two years. Two children blessed their fortunate union: Edward W.. a successful dairyman on a part of the Harmon ranch, and John W., an orchardist at Nuevo, in Riverside County.

As a Republican, Mr. Harmon voted for Abraham Lincoln — the first vote he ever cast — an incident of which not so very many men living can boast; but he is really nonpartisan. especially in his attitude toward local men and measures, and always endeavors to satisfy his conscience, and to base his action on principle. In recent years he has favored Prohibition.

VARD W. HANNUM — A well-trained and thoroughly efficient public official is Vard W. Hannum, the city electrician and superintendent of the Municipal Power House at Anaheim. He was born in Hart, Oceana County, Mich., on June 28, 1883, and reared and educated there, duly graduating from the local high school. Then he went to New York City and took the excellent courses at the New York Electrical School, and from 1910 he was employed in the electrical department of the Union Carbide Company at Sault Sainte Marie. Mich., after which he was a year with the Algoma Steel Company on the Canadian side.

in the fall of 1911 Mr. Hannum came to California and entered the service of the Pacific Electric Railroad Company. Los Angeles, giving them a year in their electrical department, in installation work at the substation. On August 12, 1912, he came to Anaheim and commenced to work for the municipality. He began in a somewhat subordinate capacity, as one of the engineers, then as foreman, and gradually and properly worked his way up to his present responsible post, to which he was appointed In February, 1917.

Mr. Hannum has charge of the operation of the power plant, and is also responsible for electrical inspection of the city, so that, with the necessity of keeping thoroughly apace with the last word of science and mechanics, and the actual labor of installing, repairing and renewing parts of the system, it will be seen that he is a very busy man. Fortunately for the city of Anaheim, he had years of most valuable experience before he came, to which his day and night labors are constantly adding, and he is fond of hard work, and both mentally and physically able to bear the strain.

In December, 1912, Mr. Hannum was married to Miss Bessie L. Palmiter of Hart, Mich., a charming lady, capable at all times of creating for herself a desirable circle of devoted friends, and herself devoted to others, and ready for any good work. Mr. Hannum belongs to the Wigton Lodge No. 251, F. & A. M., at Hart, Mich, and to Anaheim Lodge No. 1345 of the Elks.

WILLIAM H. PHILLIPS — A veteran citrus grower who may well take pride in his accomplishment, including the rebudding on an entire grove with his own hands, is William H. Phillips, a splendid old man of nearly eighty years, living on Fairhaven Avenue near Prospect in Orange. He was born near Munfordville, Ky., on June 7, 1842, the son of William Newton and Mary (Moss) Phillips, old settlers of that state. He grew up on his father's farm of 400 acres located on the Green River, and enjoyed a good grammar school education and the comforts of a good home. At twenty-one he left home to seek his own fortune, lie purchased seventy- five acres across the Green River from his old home, and started to farm. He also married, in October, 1871, Miss Emma Hodges, who was born in the vicinity of Munfordville, and received a good education at Georgetown College. She made her home with her parents until she was married, and for seven years after they took up their residence on the farm she enjoyed life there, then she passed away.

In 1878 Mr. Phillips sold out his holdings, and with four motherless children started for California, arriving in Santa Ana on March 17, 1878. Porter, the eldest of the family, died in California at the age of twenty. William Albert is living at Orange, and is in the real estate business. Cora Hanson is married to Edward Gray, and is living with Mr. Phillips in Fairhaven. Mary K. is married to L. Hutchins of Alhambra. In 1880 Mr. Phillips was married to Mary Ella Crozier. a widowed mother of two children — Payne and Nancy, and this union was blessed with two children — Robert Ethel and Ernest C. Robert Ethel is a graduate of the Cumnock School of Expression, and is now teaching at that institution, and Ernest C. Phillips, also a graduate of the above school, traveled a season with Madame Modjcsku and her company, and is now teaching expression in the Santa Ana high school.

After arriving in California, Mr. Phillips purchased twenty acres on Tustin and Fairhaven thoroughfares, land now owned by Henry Rohrs, which was devoted to general farming. He raised two crops of potatoes each year for nineteen consecutive years, and also raised some corn, broom corn and popcorn. He lived there for eleven years, and there the children grew up. In 1889 he removed to Tustin, to his wife's ranch, where the next nineteen years were spent.

In 1908 Mr. Phillips purchased his present home site of ten acres on Fairhaven Avenue. It is devoted to budded Valencias, and he has one of the finest orchards in all Orange County. The grove is under the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. Here he built for himself a beautiful home and large garage, and made many other improvements. He is a live citizen, and aims to support the right candidate, rather than any party. He is a member of the McPherson Heights Citrus Association and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He is now one among the oldest settlers in these parts, and has aided materially in its upbuilding.

JOSEPH H. MEFFORD — Among the ablest drillers of water wells in Orange County — an industry, by the way, of greatest importance to the ranchers of this section, and one requiring, more and more, men of highest expert training — is J. H. Mefford, who has resided in Santa Ana for twelve years, and in Orange County ever since its organization. He was here, in fact, "before the creation," for he was born in San Diego County, on February 17, 1869, and as a boy roamed over the picturesque area now dotted with towns and thousands of homes. He came to the Westminster country in Los Angeles, now Orange, County when a lad, and grew up on a farm there. He also attended the public schools; and if they were not of the best or their sessions of the longest, he got out of the instruction imparted what he could.

When old enough to do so, Mr. Mefford began to work in the water fields. He sought and secured a position with Joe Caldwell of Westminster, than whom, perhaps, no better master mechanic could be found engaged in that occupation; with the result, that when he had finished his apprenticeship, he and Joe were, about evenly mated, the one scoring some points of advantage over the other.

In October, 1917, at Riverside, Mr. Mefford was married to Mrs. J. H. Roberts, whose maiden name was Laura J. Clatworthy, a native of England who came to and settled in America, and finally very wisely chose California for her home, where she has lived for twenty-five years. With her domestic experience, she was able to accord home comforts to our subject, and thus to help lighten the arduous work in which he was daily engaged, and by which he was to build up that enviable reputation of having drilled good wells all over the county.

Mr. Mefford started in business for himself at Santa Ana twenty years ago, and since then he has contributed much to the great work of developing water in Southern California. He understands the difficult technical processes involved, and he also has special gifts in divining the sources of good water. His years of hard labor have enabled him to boast of hundreds of satisfied customers, and among other places of note owing half of their success, in the matter of natural resources, to his skill in commanding an adequate water supply, may be mentioned the famous Irvine Ranch. Mr. and Mrs. Mefford live at 1004 West Fourth Street, Santa Ana, where they dispense a whole-hearted hospitality to their friends.

Mr. Mefford enlisted for service in the Spanish-American War in Company L, Seventh Regiment, United States Volunteers, and was encamped in San Francisco. For twenty years he was a member of the Orange County baseball nines, and in that wholesome sport he is favorably known by many.

MRS. MARY N. TONEY — A well-traveled resident of Santa Ana, who has chosen Southern California for her home, and has come to be favorably known as one of the successful orange growers contributing to the wealth of the Golden State, is Mrs. Mary E. Toney, widow of the late S. Toliver Toney, of 826 North Haker Street. She was born near Little Rock, Ark., on March 30, 1854, the daughter of Benjamin and Sobrina (Stover) Large. Her father was a blacksmith by trade, and he also became a landowner in Arkansas. When three years old, she was brought by her parents to California and given a home in Shasta County, where Mr. Large followed his trade at the mining centers. After a while he purchased some Shasta County acreage and engaged in cattle raising.

In 18S9 Mr. Large sold out and removed to Hydesville, Humboldt County, where he followed his usual occupation, and from there he went to Trinity County, where he had a shop and ran a hotel at Hayfork, near Weaverville, for a short time. Then he went up into Shasta County on the old overland stage trail between Red Bluff and Yreka, and opened the Loomis House, which he conducted for several years, becoming well-known to all the early travelers. He returned to Hay Fork, bought a hotel, and ran it till he moved to Mendocino County. He made several moves, and finally passed away at Hayfork. The old hotel is owned by his daughter and conducted as the Kellogg Hotel by his grandson. Mr. Large was a Democrat in politics and a Mason.

It was in Mendocino County that Miss Mary Large met and married, at Willits, on November 8, 1870, S. Toliver Toney, a native of Fayette County, Texas, where he was born on November 17, 1846. His parents were Seth and Mary Adaline (Cox) Toney, natives of Mississippi and Georgia, respectively. When S. Toliver was eight years of age the family came overland to California from Texas, during which time the Indians were very troublesome, but the wagon train, of which Seth Toney was captain, managed to get through all right, due, perhaps, to the fact that the captain understood Indians, having fought as a volunteer from Texas in the Mexican War. Arriving in California, the Toney family stopped for a time at El Monte, then moved on to Mendocino County and built up a fine home place near Willits. The reason of the Toney immigration to California was that Mrs. Seth Toney's father, the Rev. John Toliver Cox, and family had preceded them, having come by the Isthmus of Panama in the early 5O's, settling first at San Bernardino. Reverend Cox was a Methodist preacher, and was well known all over the state of California. He finally settled near Santa Rosa, and when he died, about 1866, he had accomplished much for humanity during his span of life. He is buried at Mark West in Sonoma County. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity.

S. Toliver Toney was extensively engaged in the raising of sheep in Mendocino County, and Mrs. Toney lived for eleven years near Willitts. Then Mr. Toney sold out, and the industrious couple, feeling the need of rest, spent some time in travel. Finally, in 1884, he settled in New Mexico, where Mr. Toney purchased land near Lordsburg and Silver City and again engaged in cattle raising. In 1909, however, he removed to Douglas, Ariz., where he met with his best success in the cattle industry.

In 1914 Mr. Toney settled up his affairs in Arizona, came to Santa Ana, and purchased a half acre of oranges and a home on East Seventeenth Street, and there, on July 20, 1916, he passed away and was buried at Redlands. He had a wide circle of admiring friends. Mrs. Toney lived at the Seventeenth Street home until February 18, 1920, when the place was sold, and a week later her present home at 826 North Baker Street was purchased. This is a three-acre grove, one-third of which is set out to oranges, and two-thirds to walnuts and apricots.

Mrs. Toney is a member of the Spurgeon Memorial Methodist Church of Santa Ana. and continues to take a live interest in public affairs, as did her lamented husband, who was a school director in both Arizona and New Mexico. She has had six children, and three are still granted her. Mrs. Sarah C. Harper is the widow of the late Francis M. Harper of Deming, New Mexico. William Toliver is a cattleman of Superior, Ariz. Mrs. Maude E. Cox is the widow of Thomas M. Cox, and lives at home with her mother. She was born in Alhambra, N. M., attended the district schools of Silver City, in that state, and on March 7, 1906, was married to Thomas M. Cox. Mrs. Toney has fifteen grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren living.

DALLISON SMITH LINEBARGER — Prominent both in civic affairs and in the horticultural development of Orange County, Dallison Smith Linebarger is a native of Oregon, born near Albany, August 1, 1862. When he was a small child the family moved to California, and he was reared in Ventura County, where he later followed stock raising and ranching. As early as 1899 he located in Fullerton. and bought the livery stable of Thomas Jennings, and with two partners established the business under the firm name of Davis, Drown and Linebarger. They also owned a branch stable at Olinda and besides doing a large livery business they did teaming to the oil fields, hauling derricks and machinery. Mr. Linebarger was general manager of the concern, which was conducted on an unusually large scale, using fifty head of horses, a large bus, and all the necessary equipment for the success of such an establishment.

During this time Mr. Linebarger followed ranching as a side issue, raising stock and grain in Los Angeles and Orange counties, also owning an orange grove near Yorba, which he later sold. In 1910, he sold out his interest in the livery business and that year he began the development of some land which later was increased to about seventy acres, lying between Fullerton and Brea. and this he has developed into one of the finest orange and lemon orchards in the county; forty-two acres are in lemons, and the balance in Navel and Valencia oranges. It has taken large sums of money
and hard work to bring the property into its present state of cultivation, but the right man was at the helm, and it is now in full bearing, with three wells and pumping plants installed and cement pipe lines for irrigating purposes; one of the show places of Orange County.

As further evidence of his devotion to the advancement of his section. Mr. Linebarger has served ten years as supervisor of Orange County, being elected to the office three times on the Democratic ticket in a strong Republican district, the Third. During his term of office the good roads movement was started, and many of the beautiful boulevards which have made Orange County famous were begun by the sale of bonds.

The marriage of Mr. Linebarger, which occurred in Ventura County in 1882, united him with Ellen Stone, and six children were born to them, five of whom are living: Cephas A.. William L., Archie A., Mrs. Clara McWilliams, and Clema D. The sons are all ranching for themselves and meeting with the success warranted by the sons of such a father. It is to such men as Dallison Smith Linebarger that Orange County owes its rapid rise to prosperity, and they and their families make up the representative citizenry of this wonderful county, which stands apart even in a state full of wonders. Mr. Linebarger is a member of the Fullerton Lodge of Odd Fellows.

GEORGE L. WRIGHT — A wide-awake caterer to the public, who has come to establish one of the most prosperous enterprises in Santa Ana, is George L. Wright, proprietor of Wright's Transfer, now an indispensable organization in local life. He was born near Osage, in Mitchell County, Iowa, on July 23, 1860, the son of John A. Wright, a farmer. His mother before her marriage was Miss Mary Fay. The family came West and the father died in California four years later, or in 1913. The good mother also passed away. There were seven children in the family, and George was the third child.

He attended the schools of Iowa as a boy, and then helped his father at farm work. Then he wandered to South Dakota for a couple of years, and on December 19, 1885. arrived in Santa Ana. For a year he busied himself with real estate, and then he worked as a carpenter until he went into the transfer business. On July 3, 1887, he started his venture with one horse, and now, as the oldest transfer proprietor in the city, and the one operating most extensively, he has three auto trucks, and cares for most of the Santa Ana transfer trade.

But Mr. Wright has not only made a success in private business enterprises, he has also participated, as a man full of civic pride, in public life. His national political bias makes him a Republican, and his known fitness for the responsibility of a city father led to his being elected councilman for four years. He held office during the term when the city hall was erected, and he was also charged with the duty of providing an addition to the waterworks and of extending the city's paving. One of the pioneers of Santa Ana, he has seen the city grow from a mere village.

Mr. Wright has resided here long enough to recount the building-up of the entire city of Santa Ana, and in fact the development of Orange County, for he tells of when there were but few business blocks — and they were of pioneer construction — and the streets were unpaved. Nor were there any oranges or walnuts growing hereabouts; the principal industry was the growing of grapes for raisins but the soil was not adapted for their successful culture and the business was later abandoned. He remembers the time when but ten carloads of oranges were shipped from the state and when 110 cars of raisins were sent out from Orange alone. The old pioneers are passing away and to hear such men as Mr. Wright tell again the story of the local conditions is an interesting circumstance. He has always put his shoulder to the wheel and given every project the necessary "boost" to bring Orange County before the eyes of the world at large.

In 1887 Mr. Wright married Emma Moore, and their union was blessed with the birth of four children. Fay Linton has been both a private soldier and instructor in the United States Aviation service and he married Miss Avis Winkle, born in Orange County the daughter of a pioneer family; while Mary has become Mrs. E. T. Brennan. Burton is at Berkeley, attending the State University. Vera died when she was ten and a half years of age. The family are Unitarians and Mr. Wright belongs to the Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the World, and the Fraternal Brotherhood.

ALBERT C. WILLIAMS — A financier and a vigorous promoter of everything calculated to steady the financial resources of both Tustin and Orange County, Albert C. Williams is a native son of California, born near Healdsburg, Sonoma County, October 15, 1858, the only son of Washington Williams, who was born in Missouri and came to California, across the plains, in 1853. Here he had married Elizabeth Martin, a native of Tennessee, and a member of a family well-known in Georgia, whence they originated. They came to California in 1856 by the overland route, in an ox-team train, and located in Sonoma County, and so they also became pioneers of the Golden State. Mrs. Williams failed to enjoy the best of health in the North, and she and her husband came south to Tustin in 1874, arriving here on September 23, after twenty-two days of hardship, crossing the mountains with teams. Washington Williams died in 1911, and his devoted wife followed him three years later.

After completing this arduous journey with all their supplies. Mr. Williams and his family located on twenty acres on what is now known as Williams Street — a thoroughfare bearing their name — and McFadden Street, in Tustin. and Albert C. Williams, in 1874, helped his father to erect the temporary dwelling that two years later was supplanted by a better home. The son also worked upon the farm, while he attended the grammar school at Tustin. His father acquired twenty-four acres at Delhi, which was also farmed to grain and stock. He was an agriculturist and a horticulturist, and he owned several threshing outfits. Associated with his father, A. C. Williams withstood the disastrous effects of the several dry years, and by "sticking it out" reaped the benefits. In 1880 he took a trip north to Oregon, driving four horses hitched to a big covered wagon, going via Siskiyou and Jacksonville, returning to Crescent City, Cal., and there he remained for a winter, coming back to Tustin in May, 1881. When he was twenty-two years old he worked a vineyard. at Villa Park, raising grapes, apricots and apples. He set the land later to walnuts, receiving as his share sixteen acres of the thirty-six acres. At the present time he owns nine acres — four and a half on each side of Williams Street — and his last crop of walnuts was nine tons. He markets through the Santa Ana Walnut Association, and is a member of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. In 1888 he went north to Fresno County, purchased eighty acres there, and set the same out as a vineyard. He also has financial interests in oil and mining stocks.

On November 6, 1889, Mr. Williams was married to Caroline Tatima England, a native of Calaveras County, Cal., and three children have made still happier their union: Ralph E. married Miss Lorina Burd of Santa Ana, and they have one son, Howard E. When Ralph was sixteen years old he entered the Glenn Martin Auto Machine Shop, and later, when Martin began to make aeroplanes, he helped him with the first plane ever constructed in Santa Ana. Martin went East after a few years, and became famous. Then Ralph entered the employ of the William F. Lutz Company, and he also worked for the Santa Ana Commercial Company, and it was while there that he started his own shop, in 1915. A. C. and Ralph E. Williams, father and son, became interested in the manufacture of "Silver Beam" spotlights, and they enlarged their factory; soon, however, removing to Los Angeles, where they were afforded greater facilities. Ralph is now secretary and manager, and A. C. is vice-president, and the company is known as the Williams Manufacturing Company, and is incorporated under the laws of California. Ernest R., the second son in the order of birth, is foreman of the machine shop in the Williams Manufacturing Company, and is an expert tool maker. He married Miss Marguerite Ruth Brown, of Princeton, N. J. He enlisted in the recent war, and served his country from January 1 to December 3, 1918. Albert G. is a graduate from the Tustin grammar school, class of 1920.

Mrs. Williams was active in Red Cross work during the World War, and the whole family generously supported the various loan drives. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are both members of the Fraternal Aid Union, in which Mr. Williams has gone through the various chairs. They also belong to the Methodist Church. Mr. Williams is a Democrat, but not an office seeker, and believes in both trying to make the world better, and in enjoying the world as it is.

WILLIAM T. MITCHELL — An aggressive and successful real estate operator who has attained both influence and affluence despite the handicaps of early life, is William T. Mitchell, a native of Cedar County, Mo., where he was born on a farm on August 9, 1866. His father was James C. Mitchell, a farmer, and he married Miss Jane Fleeman, who shared the hard work of an agricultural life.

Because of the conditions at home, William enjoyed but very limited educational advantages, and when the opportunity presented itself, he learned and followed the carpenter's trade. In 1903 he came to Santa Ana, and for a while he worked as a carpenter for A. C. Black. Then, with C. G. Ramsey he engaged in contracting, and finally he undertook contracting and building for himself. He has erected many of the better class residences in the city.

In 1918, on account of war conditions, Mr. Mitchell entered the real estate field, and therein he has been very successful. His practical experience as a builder, and his wide knowledge of realty and other matters in California, together with his good judgment and high sense of honor, have enabled him to be of much service to others in advising them reliably as to purchase, sales, or investments.

On Christmas Day, 1889, Mr. Mitchell was married to Sarah Elizabeth Savage, and three children have blessed their union. Cammie B. is Mrs. L. S. Haven; and there are Philip T. and John B. The family attend the Christian Church, and Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell have long been active workers in the cause of prohibition.

EDWARD A. LONG — A worthy descendant of an honored pioneer family of Orange County, Edward A. Long, the successful truck farmer, residing southeast of Stanton, was born at Santa Ana on October 15, 1878, the son of Thomas Y. and Melissa A. (DeWitt) Long. In 1859 Thomas Y. Long crossed the plains from Texas to California in an emigrant train of oxen and wagons. Without the fearless and courageous pioneers who endured the hardships and dangers and the discomforts of pioneer life and modes of traveling, the great commonwealth of California would still be a wilderness with barren plains. Those who have more recently come to California to enjoy the highly improved conditions existing today do not always realize what a great debt of gratitude they owe to these early settlers, who laid the foundations of a greater civilization and permanent prosperity.

Thomas Y. Long was born in Tennessee, and was eighteen years old when members of the Long family, consisting of his father and mother and his brothers and sisters, as well as some of their friends, making up a train of some twenty-three people, started on the long overland journey to California. The company invested their money in cattle, buying them for live dollars per head, and accumulating about 3,000 head which they planned to drive across the plains and mountains into the Golden State of which they had heard so much, and where they anticipated disposing of the entire band at a good profit. In crossing the Indian infested plains in Arizona the company were many times attacked by the Apache Indians, who finally overpowered them and succeeded in stampeding and capturing the entire herd of cattle, leaving only the wagons and oxen. After a long, tiresome and hazardous journey of five months the -train reached California.

Arriving in this state the Long family located in San Bernardino County, where Thomas Y. engaged in teaming to and from Anaheim Landing and onto the desert to the mines and he also mined for a time. He was married in San Bernardino to Miss Melissa A. De Witt, a native of Iowa but who had been brought across the plains by her parents when she was a small child. She was reared and educated in San Bernardino and they lived there for two years after their marriage and then Mr. Long bought twenty acres of land south from Santa Ana, paying thirty-five dollars an acre for it. That land is now, with improvements, easily worth thousands of dollars per acre. He improved the ranch and lived there with his family until the fall of 1888, then sold out and moved to the vicinity of Garden Grove and in that locality members of the family have since lived and prospered. It was on their home place there that both Mr. and Mrs. Long passed their last days. He died in 1905 at the age of sixty-one, his widow surviving until April, 1919, when she passed away at the age of sixty-nine. They became the parents of six children: Thomas is deceased; Edward A. of this review; Lena became the wife of E. E. Miles; Jesse is a rancher near Stanton; .Ray is also living nearby; Nellie became the wife of Arthur Lindley a rancher in this county.

Edward A. Long, the subject of this review, born at Santa Ana. was reared and educated in Orange County. With the exception of fifteen years spent in the well- drilling business, he has followed farming and now owns a twenty-acre ranch southeast of Stanton, where he carries on truck farming. In 1905 Mr. Long was united in marriage with Miss Winifred McKee, daughter of Joseph and Mattie (Funk) McKee. Three children have been born to them, only one of whom, Helen, is living. Mr. Long is held in high esteem in the community and is rated as one of its substantial and progressive citizens.

FREDERICK H. TAYLOR — The trite saying, "Tall oaks from little acorns grow," in illustrating the magnitude that may be attained from very small beginnings, has an exemplification in the growth and importance that Taylor's factory, at Santa Ana, Cal., for preserving California fruits, has attained. Fred H. Taylor, president of the company, was born at Freeport, Ill., July 8, 1877, and is the son of Fred G. and Elizabeth (Sharp) Taylor, who came to California from their Eastern home in 1886 and located at Santa Ana. The mother of the family, in common with other good housekeepers, looked after the interests of her family table by preserving fruit for family use. Then, wishing her Eastern friends to taste of the toothsome dainties that California produced, she sent some of it to old friends in the East. They were so pleased that their appetites were whetted for more, and from a few pounds of preserves prepared on the kitchen stove the birth of a new industry was heralded. Tons of fruit are annually prepared and shipped to various places all over the United States. The large plant occupies a commodious concrete building equipped with all necessary modern machinery to facilitate the preparation of the fruit for consumption. One hundred and fifty people are employed in preparing it, and the pay roll amounts to $50,000 per annum, while business amounting to over $300,000 annually is transacted.

Fred H. was a lad of seven years of age when he came with his parents to California, and his education was acquired in the public schools and in the larger School of experience. When the business began to expand, he with his brother J. E., took over the management of the business, the mother retaining her interest in the same. In January, 1918, Fred H. took over the interest of his brother, and in March, 1918, he incorporated the business as Taylor's, a close corporation, of which he is president and manager; he has enlarged the plant, the new buildings all being constructed of concrete and are fireproof. The large warehouse on East Fourth Street has sidings from both the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads.

A very interesting feature of the business is the marketing of the product, for all of the goods are sold directly to the consumer, with a trade now reaching into nearly every state in the Union. After twenty-seven years the business has grown to such proportions that it is now the largest of its kind in the county, and the goods are still prepared practically the same as when they started on the cook stove, only on a larger scale. Mr. Taylor has personally made and invented appliances to facilitate the manufacture, which has increased from 100 cans to 20,000 cans, and each can has the same care as when they started. The company built and own their twenty- ton ice plant, as well as a commercial storage plant with a capacity of twelve cars.

Mr. Taylor's marriage occurred in Sacramento January 1, 1905, uniting his destiny with Miss Rena Collins, a native of Iowa, whose father, the late W. H. Collins, one of the early business men of Santa Ana, located here as early as 1887. Two children have been born of this union: Phillip and Marguerite. Politically Mr. Taylor is a strong Republican, and fraternally is a member of the Elks.

Active in civic and business circles, Mr. Taylor is energetic and progressive, giving his support to all measures that contribute to the general welfare, and taking a deep interest in the growth and development of Orange County.

JOHN McMILLAN — Prominent among the public officials in California of whom the United States Government may well be proud is John McMillan, the experienced and attentive postmaster at Newport. He was born at Campbelltown, Argyleshire, Scotland, on February 5, 1862, and grew up in the land of Scott and Burns until he was eighteen years of age. He learned the sailmaker's trade, and as a sailmaker went to sea for ten years, making the journey -from London to Australia and return several times. In January, 1881, he came to the Pacific Coast, and sailed north from San Francisco to Eureka, and south to San Diego.

He visited Santa Ana, and after his marriage there, on December 13, 1884, to Miss Annie Mills of that city, he traveled on the tow boats from San Pedro to and from Catalina, meanwhile, until 1893, residing at San Pedro. In that year, he located at Newport, which he had first visited in 1881. He is therefore the oldest actual, continuous resident of Newport, and well merits the position of responsibility in the service of the municipality, being in charge of the water department. The water for Newport is obtained from artesian wells about four miles northwest of the town, one of the wells being 242 feet, and the other two each 264 feet deep, and is pumped into a reservoir located on the Newport Heights, and thence by gravity it goes over to Corona del Mar, Balboa and Newport. The system and supply are all that could be desired, proving one of the important attractions to would-be settlers here.

On January 28, 1908, Mr. McMillan was appointed postmaster of the town, and that dignified office he has held ever since. He has two deputy postmasters, or postmistresses — Mrs. A. E. Jasper of Newport Beach, and Mrs. Ida Durkee of the same place, who share his popularity with the discriminating folk of the community.

Five children have blessed the fortunate union of Mr. and Mrs. McMillan: Hugh is the well-known real estate dealer at Newport Beach; Neil is employed near by; John is a student at the Santa Ana high school; Sadie is the wife of W. A. Irwin, the realty dealer of Newport Beach, and Agnes married Don Kelly, the rancher, of Burbank. Mr. McMillan has an interest in the Newport Syndicate. He is also interested, but in another manner, in the Knights of Pythias of Santa Ana, being one of its most popular members.

HENRY WEST — A sturdy old pioneer whose devotion to home duties, together with an intensely patriotic interest in the world-events of recent, exciting years have undoubtedly contributed to keep him hale and hearty when nearly eighty years of age, is Henry West, who was born on March 11, 1843, in the beautiful Wiltshire country of England. His parents were Stephen and Eliza West, and his father was a mechanic. The lad enjoyed a good common school education, and then learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for ten years in London.

In the world's metropolis, too, on December 23, 1871, he was married to Miss Sabina H. Austing, a native of London, where she was born on March 16, 1850. Her parents were James and Sarah Austing, and her father was a brass worker. She was educated in a private school in London. On May 1, 1872, Mr. and Mrs. West migrated to America, and soon after they came west to the Pacific Coast, arriving in San Francisco on May 13.

For a while Mr. West worked in a planing mill near the water front, but in November, 1874, he came to Southern California, and traveling over San Gabriel. El Monte and east as far as San Bernardino, returned to Los Angeles when he heard of the land at Orange with the water, so he came down and bought twenty acres, and then returned to San Francisco and made preparations to move. So, in June, 1875, he brought his family here. Later he sold ten acres to his brother Arthur. He had three acres of grapes, three of oranges, and three of olives; but the grapes having been killed by blight, they were grubbed out, and so were the oranges, which had red scale. He plowed up the entire ranch, in fact, and established the well-known Santiago Jersey Farm. He had nine head of choice dairy, pedigreed cows, and he not only made the choicest butter, but he sold young stock all over the state. On account of the tremendous amount of care, however, Mr. West began to sell off his stock in January, 1902. Two years before that he had embarked in the orange industry, as he found his place ideal for a nursery, and he therefore raised nursery stock between the trees of his grove, supplying the vicinity with fine young orange trees. This nursery he sold out in 1905.

In 1905 it was deemed necessary to make a change for the benefit of Mr. West's health, and Mr. and Mrs. West removed to Los Angeles. He bought a home on Benton Way, north of Temple Street, where he lived until February, 1917, by which time he had regained his health. In 1917 Clarence H. West, the son, purchased the Benton Way home, and Mrs. and Mrs. West came to Orange. They leased a home, where they stayed for a year in 1918, and lie bought a home on North Lemon Street, where they at present reside.

Six children were granted this worthy couple. Amy W., the eldest, is married to Henry Meier of McPherson; Walter L. married Pearl Stone, since deceased, and is living on Prospect Avenue, Orange; he is the father of two children — Leo and Arietta; Percy G. is the husband of Ethel Traynor; they live at Sacramento, and have one child. Robert; Spencer A. is married to Bertha Hawthorne, and is the father of a daughter, Carmelita; Clarence H. married Gertrude McCullah, and lives at the old home on Benton Way, in Los Angeles; A. Roy West is employed at the Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. \Vest are members of the New Jerusalem Church of Los Angeles; they are Republicans in national politics.

Two sons have enviable war records, both having volunteered for the United States service. Both were with the One Hundred Forty-fourth Field Artillery, and both were made corporals. A. Roy West enlisted in August, 1917, and Clarence in November of the same year. Clarence served in the capacity of a clerk, and Roy was in charge of a squad. They went with the Grizzlies to France, leaving Camp Kearny on August 2, 1918, and sailed direct for Brest. From August, 1918, until January. 1919, they saw foreign service. Finally, at the Presidio, in San Francisco, they were honorably discharged.

EDWARD ATHERTON — Exceptionally interesting among the annals of pioneer literature is the life story of Edward Atherton, the rancher and owner of the Fullerton Ostrich Farm, who was born at Capetown. South Africa, on May 29, 1860. the son of John Atherton, a native of Manchester. England, who became a pioneer at the Cape. He was not only a merchant, but he owned 500 acres used for grain, stock and vineyards; and on his farm he had two factories — one for scouring wool, the other for distilling liquor. Edward's mother died when he was an infant; but in common with the other five children, he enjoyed the best educational advantages that the local municipal schools afforded, and until he was twenty-six, he assisted his father on the farm, and helped develop the natural resources of the place.

In 1886 Mr. Atherton came to the United States, being accompanied by a Mr. Conning, with whom he associated himself to sell ostrich plumes. They came to California, bringing with them a large stock of feathers but did not find the ready sale they expected and soon abandoned their efforts. Mr. Conning remained in San Francisco and later engaged in the banking business but Mr. Atherton decided to stay with the ostrich business and in December, 1886, came to Anaheim and arranged to take charge of the ostriches that had been shipped to California in 1881. which originally numbered twenty-one birds, but which had increased to forty-six. The first shipment was on exhibition in San Francisco and was shipped to Anaheim in 1882, and was owned by a corporation known as the California Ostrich Farming Company, of which R. J. Northam was the manager. In 1887 the birds were moved to the ranch now owned by Mr. Atherton and situated two and one-half miles northeast from Fullerton. In 1891 the company sold out to Northam and Atherton, and in 1899. after an auction had been held to dispose of as many birds as possible. Mr. Atherton bought out Northam's interest and became the owner of forty birds. In 1902 he bought sixty-eight acres of land where he now lives, for ostrich farming and this he improved and eventually sold off all but thirty-one acres. He now owns eight ostriches. The land has been set to Valencia oranges and walnuts which are in fine bearing condition. He is a member of the Placentia Mutual Orange Growers Association and a man of much public spirit.

In 1897. Mr. Atherton was married to Miss Carolina J. Sellinger. daughter of John Sellinger. a pioneer vineyardist of Fullerton and Anaheim; and three children have blessed their union. Malcolm is the eldest; then comes Miranda: while the youngest is named Dalton. Mr. Atherton belongs to the Independent Order of Foresters. Both Mr. and Mrs. Atherton enjoy the friendship of a wide circle, and the fruits of long years of earnest, straightforward endeavor.

RICHARD SPENCER GREGORY — A careful student of real estate in all its phases, and of land and realty development, Richard Spencer Gregory, a native of the fine old commonwealth of Virginia, has become well and favorably known in the insurance and real estate fields of California, and has for some time been privileged to influence the trend of events making for a safer and sounder future, with more flourishing conditions, for Orange County. He was born in Chesterfield County on March 30 of the eventful Centennial Year of 1876. the son of E. S. Gregory, a farmer and merchant, who remained faithful to the Confederacy, fought with the Confederate Army, and finally died with an honorable record of forty years as justice of the peace. He married Miss Rosa H. Franklin, a charming Virginian, who is also dead. They had ten children, eight of whom are still living.

Trained for the most part in the public schools of the locality, Richard Gregory reached California at the age of seventeen, in 1893, and at the beginning located in Placentia, Orange County, coming to Fullerton as early as 1896. For four years he followed ranching, and then for another four years he engaged in the transfer business. When he sold out, he began his present business of realtor. With Messrs. Balcom, Fuller and Welton he purchased 100 acres just north of Chapman and east of Spadra, and subdivided a part as the Central subdivision of Fullerton, afterwards another addition, known as "Hill Crest," and the whole is now practically built up with beautiful homes. The new high school, which occupies twenty acres of the tract, is the pride of the people of northern Orange County. His residence on Hill Crest is one of the most attractive homes in the city. Mr. Gregory also laid out the following subdivisions to Fullerton: "Hermosa," "Jacaranda," "Ramona," "Orange Grove," "Wilshire," •"Gregory," "Glenwood Square." as well as subdividing several ranches into smaller tracts. He has always engaged in citriculture, having improved several orange groves, and still owns a splendid orchard in the culture of which he takes much pleasure and pride. He has been very successful in all that he has undertaken, despite, or perhaps because, he was "self-made."

At Fullerton, on August 2, 1899, Mr. Gregory married Miss Mabel B. Schulte, a native daughter, born in Orangethorpe, and the daughter of Wm. and Mary Schulte, pioneers of Orange County. She is now the mother of two children — Erma and Merrill. The family are members of the Baptist Church of Fullerton of which Mr. Gregory is a trustee.

An Independent Democrat, Mr. Gregory was a member of the City Council for six years, the last two of which he gave to the duties of mayor. During his service as trustee and mayor was the era of the beginning of public improvements in Fullerton. The streets were paved, the city sewer plant constructed, the city water plant built, the fire apparatus bought and the fire department started. Not wishing to serve longer, he was not a candidate for reelection, and retired from the board at the close of his second term. During the late war he was a member of the Home Guards.

He is a director of the Home Mutual Building & Loan Association of Santa Ana, and a director of the Farmers & Merchants National Bank of Fullerton. Public- spirited and active in all the bond and war "drives," he is still a director of Orange County Y. M. C. A. work. He belongs to the Fullerton Club and Newport Yacht Club, and fraternally he was made a Mason in Fullerton Lodge No. 339, F. & A. M.

FRED A. STOFFEL — One of the most successful business men that ever "struck" San Juan Capistrano is Fred A. Stoffel, who built up the Mission Inn Cafe and is now erecting, at a cost of about $75,000, a new two-story hotel and store building. His education, experience and industry have contributed to enable him to overcome keen competition, while his genial, sympathetic personality, his disposition to please and to accommodate, have made him so popular that everybody in San Juan Capistrano is his friend, and thousands of the traveling public look back with satisfaction to hours spent in his hostelry and restaurant. Indeed, from a patch of weeds and rubbish to the picturesque, attractive San Juan Cafe, in the short space of five years, is the transformation wrought by the energy of Mr. Stoffel, who first came to San Juan Capistrano in 1915.

Fred was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, on January 1, 1885, the son of John Stoffel, still living, who was a decorator of window glass, a fine art in the industry of glass painting. He had married Miss Caroline Reuscher, who died in 1919. They had six children, and Fred, who first saw the light on New Year's Day, 1885. was the fourth in the order of birth.

He was given unusually good educational advantages, and besides being instructed in his native German, was taught English, French and Spanish, and allowed to travel widely. When he married, he chose for his wife one of the most attractive Women of Bavaria, Miss Louisa Steinmuller. who has made an excellent helpmate; and one son, Fred A., Jr., blessed their fortunate union.

In 1906 Mr. Stoffel came to America, and after spending some time in Canada, Dakota, Milwaukee, Galveston, Houston, and a trip to South America, was in the service of George Borgfeldt and Company, the most important importers of toys and many other lines of high-grade wares in America, doing business on Sixth Street and Irving Place, New York. Coming to California, Mr. Stoffel pitched his tent at San Juan Capistrano in January, 1916, and began business here right after the disaster to the Otay Dam at San Diego, which was carried away by a freshet. Then the Santa Ana River overflowed its banks, and the waters of the Trabuco and the San Juan Hooded the streets of San Juan Capistrano, and buried the Santa Fe tracks, so that traffic was crippled for three months. It was discouraging enough to the young man who had just invested so much opposite the Mission, but nothing daunted, he bought more land, until now he owns about two acres in the heart of the town, the choicest lots in town, and is located on the south side of Central Avenue,, over to the Santa Fe right of way. It is the site of the old San Juan Inn, which burned down in 1918; and there Mr. Stoffel has built the New Hotel Capistrano.

This is a very fine structure of two stories, in the mission style of architecture, made of brick, 125 front by 85 deep in size, on a site 127x120 feet square, and it has three fronts. It contains four stores, forty rooms and six apartments, a social hall and a lobby, and those who are familiar with Mr. Stoffel's way of doing things may rest assured that in all its appointments, and the manner in which it will be managed, it will meet the demands and preferences of the most fastidious and exacting taste, the surroundings will be restful; there will be ample ground for parking the motors of tourists, and the establishment is certain to become the resort both of the transient guest and the student and artist more and more coming this way.

California, from the time of her proud entrance into the Union, has been fortunate in the character and experience of a large number of those who have undertaken to cater to the cafe and hotel wants of the public; and Orange County may well congratulate itself on the coming of this thoroughly-trained gentleman, by temperament as well as by personal knowledge of the ins and outs of his enterprise so capable of success in his difficult field, and so likely, in his success, to do a fine thing for San Juan Capistrano, Southern California, as well as for himself.

ABE W. JOHNSON — A representative of fine old Yankee stock, whose father was a captain in the Union Army, Abe W. Johnson, a Missouri boy, is making good in California, ranching as a wideawake tenant on the San Joaquin, with a full complement of mules, horses, a Fordson tractor and all the other necessary, up-to-date implements. He was born in the interesting old town of Kirksville, in Adair County, on June 13, 1872, and there grew up in an environment which has been helpful to some of the finest types of American manhood. His father, John Johnson, was born at Albany, N. Y., migrated to Missouri, and there, when less than eighteen years of age, enlisted as a bugler — owing to his lack of years — in Company E, Seventh Missouri Volunteer Infantry. He campaigned for four long years, and by merit alone rose to be captain, his sword, one of the precious heirlooms of our subject, speaking eloquently for his devotion to a righteous cause. He had the respect, admiration and confidence of every man in the company, and was a prominent G. A. R. man. But whatever glory he acquired was dearly purchased, for he was severely injured, so that he suffered much from its results. When the war was over, he married, at Kirksville, Miss Mary A. Waddill, then resident there, who was a native of Coles County, Ill., and buying a farm of 160 acres four and a half miles northeast of Kirksville, he pursued agriculture, and gradually recovered from his injuries, which were due to a horse falling upon and crushing him in the chest. When he died, our subject was only twelve years of age, and he then became one of the mainstays of the mother, who is still living at Kirksville, in her eighty-second year. They had four children, and one died in infancy; the others, still living, being Alice M. Grassle, wife of George Grassle, a retired banker and capitalist, at Kirksville; Abe W. Johnson, our subject, and Dr. John K. Johnson, of Jefferson, Green County, Iowa.

Abe grew up on a farm in the country until he was eight years of age. and then his folks moved into Kirksville, where he attended the grammar school, and afterward studied at the Kirksville State Normal, which graduated both General Pershing, and Captain Arthur L. Willard of the Flagship New Mexico, U. S. Navy. For three years he was apprenticed to the cigar-maker's trade at Kirksville, and when twenty- one assumed the management, with his brother, of his mother's farm. At Kirksville. too, he married Miss Jennie Wayman, who was born in Illinois, and after his marriage he continued to farm until 1899, when he decided to come west to the Pacific Coast.

Arriving in California, he farmed for a year at Garden Grove, and then he went to the Fred W. Bixby Ranch at Long Beach, where for three years he farmed 700 acres to barley. In 1904 he came to the San Joaquin Ranch, and he has been here ever since. For several years he farmed grain, planting as much as 1,200 acres to barley and wheat. The second year that he was on the Irvine Ranch he raised a crop of sixty acres of lima beans. Since then he has been successful, and he is one of the pioneer lima bean growers on the San Joaquin. Now he is a member of the Southern California Lima Bean Growers Association.

Four children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson: Leonore is the wife of Oscar Wilson, a rancher on the San Joaquin, one mile south of Irvine; Mary E. married Walter Stromeson of the U. S. Army, who is stationed at the fort at San Pedro, and Wayman K., husband of Miss Jessie Huff, of Santa Ana, is a rancher on the San Joaquin. Mr. Johnson is a Republican in national political affairs, and a nonpartisan, broad-minded advocate of everything worth while for the community. He has always been public-spirited, believing that only in proportion to what a citizen puts into the development of his town or county is he likely to get out, and for several years he served as road overseer of the district.

History of Orange County, California: Samuel Armor

Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA 1921

Transcribed by: Marianne Swan, 16 November 2008 : Pages - 633 - 678

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