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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01103 5968
A HISTORY
OF
CALIFORNIA
AND AN EXTENDED HISTORY OF
LOS ANGELES AND ENVIRONS
BIOGRAPHICAL
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY LOS ANGELES, CAL. 1915
1
INDEX
1204189
PAGE
VOL.
PAGE
VOL.
A
Benton, Arthur B. 827
III
Abascal, Joaquin. 286
II
Bergin, Charles B .. 822
III
Adams, George B.
264
II Bergstrom, George E.
698
III
Allen, Matthew T. 159
880
III Bettis, Horace I. 686
III
Ambrose, Wiley V.
797
III Beveridge, Mrs. Daeida W. 458
II
Anderson, Charles B.
752
III
Beveridge, John L. 828
III
Anderson, Charles S.
449
II
Beveridge, Philo J. 829
III
Andrews, Josias J.
695
Beyrle, Andrew 377
II
Arnold, George L.
581
III
Bicknell, John D. 61
II
Arnold, Ralph. 738
III
Biggart, Thomas 608
III
Arnott, Willard.
686
III
Bisbee, Charles L 512
III
Austin, Aubrey E.
850
III
Bishop, Rufus F. 196
II
Averill, George E. 877
III
Bixby, Fred H.
539
III
Avery, William H 91
II
Bixby, John W
172
II
Ayers, Edward
85
II Bixby, Jotham 17
II
Bixby, Lewis H. 587
III
Blackstock, Nehemiah
30
II
Blanchard, James H. 246
II
Baker, Dona Arcadia 913
304
II Blondeau, Louis.
832
III
Baker, Milo A
305
II Bluett, William C. 139
II
Baldwin Park .678
III Blythe, James T. 462
II
Ball, William F.
198
II Boesch, Mrs. Frances
648
III
Bandini, Don Juan.
911
III
Bohnhoff, Charles W
740
III
Banning, James F.
293
II Boothe, Charles B.
701
III
Banning, Phineas
29
II Boquist, Charles V.
287
II
Bard, Cephas L. 84
II Bosbyshell, William 902
III
Barham, Guy B.
233
II
Bovard, George F. 251
II
Barker, Francis W.
844
III
Bowen, John M .. 746
III
Barnard, Edwin L. 600
III
Bowers, Harry C. 511
III
Barrow, Ireby
186
II
Bowers, Uriah R. 510
III
Bartle, John H. 274
II Boyle, Willis J. 899
III III
Beales, George F. 581
815
III B & F Ranch, The. 576
III
Behrendt, Caspare 124
II Braun, Frederick W 857
III
Behymer, Lynden E. 317
II Bridge, Norman, M.D 817
III
Bell, W. Lewis 547
III Briswalter, Andres 796
III
Bent, Arthur S. 517
III Brodtbeck, Otto. 306
II
Bent, Henry K. W. 37
II Brombacher, Julius 739
III
Bentley, Edward H. 117
II Brooks, James R. 714
III
B
III Bloeser, John.
158
II
Baker, Fred L
III
Bard, Thomas R. 468
II Bouton, General Edward. 914
III Brauer, Adolph K. 732
Beardsley, Volney S.
II Bettinger, Marcus C. 876
III
Allen, William H., Jr.
III
ii
INDEX
PAGE
VOL.
PAGE
VOL.
Brooks, Thomas 209
II
Cole, George W. 387
II
Brossmer, August 112
II
Cole, George W., Sr .. 382
II
Brown, Chester W. .614
III Colver, Capt. Frank B. 378
II
Brown, George T.
222
II Conaty, Bishop Thomas J. 903
III
Brown, Harrington
593
Brown, Thomas B.
297
II
Conner, James 808
III
Browne, Frank E.
227
II
Conradi, Simon 437
II
Bryson, Hugh W. 710
III
Cooper Brothers 257
II
Buley, Amos M .. 901
III
Cox, Harvey H
523
III
Burcham, Charles A. .558
III Cox, John R. 375
II
Burck, Lawrence B. 864
III Coyne, D. Joseph 862
III
Burkhart, Isaac. 889
III Craig, John 777
III
Burns, James F. 220
II
Craig, Mrs. R. L. 515
III
Burns, John. 303
C
Creighton, Telfair. 376
II
Carlson, Milton. 402
II
Curlett, William 363
II
Carter, Frederick W. 685
III
Cashin, John. 145
II
D
Cass, Alonzo B. 518
III
Cass, Bruce H. 819
III
Davis, Alonzo E. 151
II
Castera, John.
390
II
Davis, Charles Cassat. 656
III
Caswell, William M. 364
II
DeGarmo, Henry 100
II
Champion, Earl M. 740
III
De La Monte, J. H 704
III
Chandler, L. L .. 898
III
Deming, Ralph R. 851
ŢII
Chapman, Charles C. 563
III
Denman, Abram C., Jr 826
III
Chapman, Christopher C. 923
III
De Van, William S. 239
II
Chapman, Samuel J 707
III
Didier, Louis 605
III
Charnock, George
770
III
Dillon, Richard.
111
II
Chase, Frank W 599
III Dodd, Allen
864
III
Chauvin, Augustus C. 133
II
Dodson, A. McK.
930
III
Cheever, Edward A.
88
II Dol, Victor. 189
II
Cheney, William A. 394
II Dolland, John. 340
II
Church of the Blessed Sacrament 849
III
Donavan, James G. 831
III
Clampitt, Edward A. 887
III
Donegan, Daniel F. 443
II
Clapp, Albert A. 191
II Dorsey, Stephen W. 683
III
Clark, Eli P. .689
III Dorsey, Mrs. Susan M. 588
III
Clark, J. Ross.
904
III Double, Edward. 846
III
Clark, William V. 227
II Douglass, Frank M. 726
III
Clow, James H. 897
III Downie, William 276
II
Cochran, George I.
642
III Dozier, Melville 228
II
Coffman, Edgar R 288
II Drake, James C. 506
III
Coffman, Frank A. 872
III Ducommun, Charles A. 329
II
Cole, Charles E. 381
II Dupuy, Joseph P 837
III
II Crain, Mrs. Diadama L 660
III
Crawford, James S. 130
II
Crimmins, John. 369
II
Cadwallader, Austin S. 750
III
Cunningham, Daniel. 393
II
Campbell, George W., M. D. 146
II
Cunningham, Thomas J. 461
II
Chapman, Alfred B. 413
II
III Derocher Nurseries, Inc. 784
III
Chapman, Col. Frank M. 904
III Connell, Mrs. Madge H. 226
II
iii
INDEX
PAGE
VOL.
PAGE
VOL.
Durant, Edward M.
727
III
Gates, Lee C ... 632
III
Durfy, Peter T. 192
II
Gephard, George. 240
II
Getty, George F. 880
III
Gibbon, Thomas E. 545
III
Gibson, Frank A. 464
II
Earl, Edwin T. 887
III
Gilchrist, James D. 351
II
II Gilmer, John P., M. D 733
III
Ebinger, Lewis. 323
II
Girls' Collegiate School 571
III
Eddy, Col. J. W
584
III
Glass, Henry 868
III
Edgar, William F., M. D.
55
II
Glass, Rev. Joseph S. 516
III
Edwards, David K .. 281
II
Glassell, Andrew, Sr. 115
II
Eichenhofer, Frederick
.611
III
Godde, Ferdinand
411
II
Eichenhofer, Mrs. Rosa.
.611
Eisenmayer, Emil J.
737
III Golden State Plant and Floral Co. 758
III
III
Gordon, George B.
680
III
Electa Kennels.
763
III
Gordon, J. G., Jr.
852
III
Elftman, Owen E.
548
III
Graham, Dolland M
406
II
Elliott, John M.
19
I]
Grannis, Rollin W.
841
III
Ellis, H. Bert, M. D. 399
III
Greenbaum, Joseph 541
III
Engelhardt, A. E., M. D.
234
II
Greene, Charles G ..
548
III
II Greever, Vincent M 557
III
III
Grier, Arthur W. 734
III
Griffith, Alfred P ..
677
III
Griffith, George W. E.
542
III
Guasti, Secondo 202
II
Guinn, James M. 77
II
Fargo, Duane W
405
II
H
Haben Hospital 667
III
Haggarty, John J. 671
III
III Halstead, Willard G. 142
II
Frank, Herman W 419
ĮI Ham, George I 743
III
III Hammel, Henry 129
II
II
Haneman, Theodore H. 551
III
ĮI
Hanna, Rev. D. W. 183
II
Hanna, George 360
II
III Hanna, Ross.
282
II
Hannon, Patrick 141
II
Hardison, Edwin A. 856
III
Hardison, Wallace L.
474
II
II Harris, George A.
262
II
Galpin, Cromwell 401
II
Harris, Levi 348
II
Ganahl, Christian 215
II Harrison, Arthur M. 808
III
Gardner, I. W.
88
II Harvard School, The. 607
III
Garrett, Robert L 515
III Hatch, Hon. David P. 749
III
Gartling, George
358
II Haupt, Edward P. 894
III
Farish, Oscar E. 536
III
Fesler, Martin. .606
III
Flatau, Herman. 450
790
Francis, John H.
895
Franklin, Fleming 789
Freeman, Daniel
214
French, Loring W.
357
Friedricks, Henry A
665
III
Fulwider, George W. 588
G
Gaffey, John T. 432
Gallagher, Rev. H. P. 850
III
Harris, Leopold H.
371
II
Engelhardt, Henry D.
399
England, George C .. 798
Evans, Herbert J. 630
III
III Goestenkohrs, Joseph 330
II
Eisenmayer, George F
716
II Green, Elisha K. 345
II
Emery, Grenville C .. 565
F
II
Fothergill, Alexander B.
III
1
E
Eberle, Francis X.
327
iv
INDEX
PAGE
VOL.
PAGE
VOL.
Hauser, Julius 213
II
Jackson, Hon. Grant. 879
III
Hawe, Rev. Patrick.
370
II
II
Jaynes, James 417
II
Hayden, John A.
679
III
Jenison, John E. 346
II
Haynes, John R., M. D.
25
II
Jess, Stoddard 430
II
Hayward, Henderson, M. D. 659
III
Jewel City Undertaking Co., The 655
III
Hayward, William. 810
III
Johansen, Rudolph L 341
II
Healey, Charles T .. .
110
II
Johnson, Albert H. .665
III
Hellman, Herman W
219
II Johnson, Benjamin 450
I1
Hellman, Marco H.
157
II
Johnson, Ivan T. .649
III
Hewes, David
309
II
Johnson, William R. 680
III
Hewitt, Leslie R.
.636
III
Jones, Elmer E. 825
III
Hickox, Lory
788
III
Jones, John J. 463
II
Hildebrand, Charles
300
II
Jones, John P
388
II
Hiller, A. W., M. D.
771
III
Jones, Johnstone .617
III
Jordan, Joseph. 232
II
Hiller, Horace
423
II
Hillman, Roy P.
590
III
K
Hinckley, Alexis 751
743
III
Kellam, Edward A. 883
III
Kellam, Milton Y
869
III
Keller, Will E. .625
III
Holbrook, John F.
127
II
Kellerman, J. M.
539
III
Hollenbeck Home
878
III
Kennedy, Isaac. 464
II
Hollingsworth, C. L.
674
III
Kennedy, Karl K. 601
ȚII
Hollingsworth, W. I.
853
III
Kennedy, William H.
746
III
Holly Poultry Ranch
782
III
Kent, Charles S. 728
III
Holst, Charles C. F
339
II
King, Howard S.
685
III
Holton, George L.
480
II
Kinney, Abbot
121
II
Holtzclaw, John B. 839
III
Klein, Arthur M.
891
III
Hovey, Frank W. 696
III
Kleinpeter, Louis
769
III
Howard, Fred H.
863
III
Klokke, Ernst F. C.
629
III
Hoyt, Thomas J.
803
III
Koebig, Adolph H.
534
III
Hubbard, Henry C.
152
II
Koll, August J. .333
II
Hubbell, O. B.
692
III
Krempel, John P.
237
II
Hubbell, Stephen C. 35
II
Kressly, Paul E.
583
III
Hubert, Philip G.
623
III
Kubach, C. J
444
II
Hunter, David W.
470
II
Kuster, Edward G. 371
II
Hutchins, Francis S.
118
II
Hutton, Aurelius W
134
II
Hyatt, Mrs. Mary J.
801
III
Lacy, William 396
II
Lamb, William A.
881
III
Lambert, Elwood. 789
III
Irvin, Edward S.
745
III
Lambert, Reece S. 790
III
Ivins, James C. H. .582
III Landreth, Louis .626
III
III Johnson, George C. 354
II
Henry, William A.
Hiller, George 771
Hitchcock, Harry S.
186
II
Hoechlin, Carl C.
359
II
Holabird, William H.
892
Hawks, Emma L
288
Jarchow, Joachim H. F. 807
III
Hunsaker, William J.
837
III
Kuster, Charles E., M. D. 469
II
L
I
III
III
J
V
INDEX
PAGE
VOL.
PAGE
VOL.
Lankershim, James B.
106
II MacGowan, Granville, M. D. 402
II
Last, Gen. Carl F. A
834
III
Machado, Jose D. 216
II
Laughlin, Homer. 503
III
Mackerras, Robert H., M.D. 902
III
Leahy, Thomas.
335
II
Maechtlen, Jacob. 667
III
Letts, Arthur .891
III
Marble, John M. C. 854
III
Levy, Michael
419
II
Marsh, Norman F. 637
III
Lewis, Edward W.
715
III
Marsh, Robert
882
III
Lewis, Grayson.
809
III
Marshall, Edwin J.
844
III
Lewis, Willis O. 755
ŢII
Marshall, William F
462
II
Lickley, Ernest J.
595
III
Lindeman, H. J.
654
Lindley, Mary E.
393
II
Martin, William M.
594
III
Lindley, Milton
372
II Mason, Dean.
635
III
Lindley, S. K. 92
Lindley, Walter, M. D.
384
Lindsay, John A.
602
III
May, George W.
833
III
Little, D. P. N. 843
III
Mayberry, Edward L. 578
III
Lloyd, Edward. .417
II
Meade, John.
177
Lobingier, Andrew S. 761
III
Mellus, James J.
81
IŢ
Locher, John J. 679
III
Melzer, Louis. 195
II
Lockwood, Jasper
479
II Mercereau, John D. 533
336
II
Lowe, William. 769
III
Mergell, William R. 252
II
IĮ
Merritt, Lewis J.
927
III
ĮII Mesmer, Joseph
923
III
Luther, Daniel E. 884
ĮII
Metcalf, Simeon M. 190
ĮI
Michelsen, Julius.
358
IT
Michener, Park. 722
III
Millard, James H. 423
II
McArthur, John
231
McArthur, Mrs. Kate.
231
McCallum, Harry S. 816
Mines, Harry G .. 861
III
III Mines, William W. 619
III
McDonald, Mrs. Catherine. 178
II Mitchell, Alexander 602
III
McDonald, Mrs. Luella M.
244
Mockenhaupt, Robert J. 298
II
McDonald, Patrick J. 858
III Moffett, Thomas J.
237
II
McElheney, John F. 245
99
= Monlux, John B.
542
ŢII
McGaugh, Philip G.
.342
II Moreland, Watt L. .589
III
McKain, Edward.
636
III Morgan, Vincent 867
III
Mckellar, Daniel H. 130
II Morlan, Arthur F. 523
III
McKevett, Charles H. 874
III Mott, Thomas D. 62
II
McLachlan. Hon. James 836
III Mulford, Shobal P. 763
McLeod, John M. 821
III Mulholland. William 432
II
McMillan, Joseph. 859
III Mullen, Andrew. 521
III
McNutt, Cyrus F. 725
III Mullen, Arthur B. 824
III
MacDonald, J. Wiseman. 866
III Munn, Relly G. 720
III
M
McAllister, James P. .690
Mills, Edward L. 630
III
II Millspaugh, Jesse F. 534
III
Il Milner & Lindeman 654
III
McClure, John. 613
II Mohr, Richard J., M. D.
407
=
McGarry, D. M.
McGarvin, Robert.
257
II Monnette, Orra E. 830
842
ĮII
III Martin, Albert C.
II Mason, Orson H. .352
II
II Matthews, Robert D. 782
III
III
Lott, Mrs. Melvina A. 157
II Meredith, Reuben A.
Luhring, Ferdinand C. .341
Lusk, Hon. Robert M. 553
905
Lee, Bradner W
vi
INDEX
PAGE
VOL.
PAGE
VOL.
Murray, T. W.
.654
III
Pourroy, Eugene
552
III
Myers, Orville. 353
II
Powell, Thomas, M. D.
860
III
Powers, P. W.
756
III
Pulliam, Claud O.
577
III
Pupka, Martin 208
II
Nadeau, George A 153
II
Neidig, Emma R. 540
III
Newmark, Harris 163
II
Q
Niederer, Jacob
848
III
Northam, Leotia K.
879
III
Quillian, C. Fletcher.
887
III
Northup, E. D.
.668
III
Quint, Sumner J., M. D. 522
III
Norton, Albert M.
329
II
R
O'Connor, Patrick J.
835
III
O'Melveny, Henry W.
II
Radford, Joseph D. 839
III
O'Sullivan. John
306
II
Ralphs, George A 201
II
Occidental Poultry Farm 758
III
Reavis, Walter S. 64
ŢI
Off, Charles F.
328
II
Redpath, Frederick H. 795
III
Oliver, William E
536
III
Reed, Boardman, M. D. 775
III
Olmsted, H. A.
898
III
Rees, Samuel. 103
II
Olsen, A. C .. 713
III
Reilly, George W. 721
III
Orcutt, William W .. 900
III
Remick, Gen. David. 207
II
Orme, Henry S., M. D.
57
II
Renwick, George 721
III
Ormsby, Edwin S. 900
III
Rheinschild, George 147
II
Rich, James. 608
III
Richardson, George S .. .847
III
Richardson, William C. B. 109
II
Page, Benjamin E. 572
III
Riley, Levi W. 354
II
Page, Samuel L.
127
II
Rindge, Frederick H 268
II
Parmelee, Charles A.
418
II
Rivera State Bank 595
III
Pascoe, Thomas. 429
II Rivers, Ernest B. 324
II
Patton, George S. 509
III
Roberts, Wesley 198
II
Pease, Niles
93
II
Robey, William L. 745
III
Peebles, James M.
527
III
Robinsnest Poultry Ranch. 764
III
Pegler, John C.
.672
III
Roby, John B.
720
III
Pepper, Enoch 225
II
Roche, John D. 734
III
Perkins, Albert A. .890
III
Rogers, Ralph. 282
II
Perry, William H. 51
II
Rollins, Warren E. 517
III
Petermichel, Joseph J. 897
III
Root, Mrs. W. D. 853
III
Pike, George H. 479
II Rose, Henry H. 873
ĮII
Pike, J. C. 757
TII
Roseberry, Louis H. 820
III
Plummer, John L. 185
II Ross, Mrs. Ida Hancock 97
II
Polkinghorn, William A 731
III Roth, August 867
III
Pomeroy, Abram E. 249
II Roth, Edmund D. 299
II
Pomeroy, Charles W. 250
II Rowan, George D. 473
II
Pottenger, Francis M., M. D. 559
ŢII Rowan, Robert A. 703
III
Potter, Alonzo C. 243
II Russell & Murray Poultry Ranch. .654
III
Overell, Joseph M 719
III
P
Riedeman, John H. 582
III
408
N
vii
INDEX
PAGE
VOL.
PAGE
VOL.
Snyder, Meredith P
921
Somers, William F.
191
II
Sabichi, Frank
169
II
Sory, Walter G.
262
=
Sackett, Horace D.
835
III
Spence, Jay.
510
III
Sandefur, Allan 190
II
Spires, Joseph H. 435
II
Santa Monica Bay Catholic Parishes
Stamps, Charles F., Jr.
569
III
and Institutions 370
II
Sargent, Edwin W. 23
II
Stanton, LeRoy H.
. 623
III II
Savage, George M.
635
III
State Normal School.
534
III
Scarborough, William B.
258
II
Stearns, Don Abel. 913
III
Schaefer, John G.
641
III
Stearns, E. Roger 524
III
Schilling, John. .601
III
Stearns, Frank L 376
=
Schlegel, Leonard. 478
II
Steere, Robert. 929
III
Schloesser, Alfred G. R., M. D. 814
III
Stephens, Albert M 395
II
Schmidt, Edward B. 255
=
Stevens, Will P. 744
III
Schoder, Joseph. 477
II
Stewart, Lyman 442
II
Schofield, Maurice A. 661
III
Stick, John C. 813
III
Scholl, John T., M. D.
.261
II
Stith, Frederick W 638
III II
Schumacher, Paul 733
III
Stone, Jack L.
589
III
Schwarz, Louis.
874
III
Scott, John.
351
II
Scott, Joseph.
504
III
Scott, William B.
625
III
Summers, Mrs. Emma A. 275
II
Sepulveda, Ygnacio.
76
II
Sharp, Charles H.
851
III
T
Taggart, J. W 279
II
Thom, Cameron E .. 44
II
Thomas, John M. 447
II
Shoup, Paul
709
III
Thomas, Owen E. 596
III
Shuler, Eli W. 870
III
Thompson, Frederick 461
II
Shultis, Duane J.
803
III
Thompson, Newton W.
87
II
Sierra Paper Co. 898
III Thompson, Thomas 83
II
Silent, Hon. Charles 456
II Thorpe, Spencer R .. 926
III
Silver, Herman 65
II Throop College of Technology 772
III
Slaughter, Thomas C.
841
III
Tieskoetter, Frank H. 595
III
Slauson, Jonathan S.
31
II Tifal, G. R. .644
III
Slosson, Charles E .. 653
III
Toll, Charles H. 366
=
Smith, Andrew M. 147
II
Torrance, Lewis C.
863
III
Smith, D. Cornelius 666
III Townsend, Stephen 932
III
Smith, Samuel J.
328
II Trask, Walter J. 506
JII
Smith, Sidney. 849
III Tripp, James S. 673
III
Smith. Thomas A.
.813
III True, George A. 713
III
)
.
Schuyler, James D.
647
III
Stowell, Nathan W
291
II
Stratton, Charles E. .650
III
Sullivan, Dennis. 441
II
Sharp, Robert 180
II
Shekels, Noah C.
.781
III
Sherman, Moses H.
893
III
Shields, Henry K. 787
III
Shorb, Andrew S., M. D. 43
II
Stetson, Franklin F. 406
II
Schmidt. Gottfried L 159
Schumacher, John. 285
II
Stoll, E. Robert.
365
III
Sartori, Joseph F.
697
III
Starr, Joseph L.
448
St. Vincent's Church S
.516
III
Stanton, Erastus J. .619
Story, Walter P. 896
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VOL.
PAGE
VOL.
U
Wernigk, Eduard, M. D. 256
II
Weyse, Henry G .. 426
II
Union Oil Company of California .... 436
II
White, Ephraim E.
455
II
White, Dr. Clarence H. 934
III
V
Whitsett, W. P. 560
III
Wigdal, O. J. 86
II
Valla, Antonio. 91
II
Wiggins, Frank. 94
II
Van Ness, Henry. 631
III
Wiley, Edwin H.
722
III
Vawter, Williamson D. 868
III
Wilkins Poultry Yards
783
III
Vermilion, Artemisia S. 840
III Williams, Henry S.
420
II
Vesper, Charles R. 781
III Willis, Frank R. 412
II
Vestal & Hubbell. .692
III
Wills, John A. .930
III
Von Hofgaarden, Hans
.662
III
Wilson, Atlas L. 467
49
II
III Wilson, E. C.
727
III
Winter, Leopold
166
II
Wintroath. John A.
852
III
Wirsching. Robert E.
267
II
Withey, Henry F. 752
III
Wackerbarth, August 82
II
Wolfskill, Joseph W.
107
II
Wade, Robert D.
139
II
Wolfskill, Milton.
24
II
Walker, Frank.
473
II
Wood, Preston K. 365
II
Wardall, Thomas
334
Warner, Dennis A.
865
III
Worden, Perry.
599
III
Warren, James G.
575
III
Workman, William H
79
II
Washburn, William J
862
III Works. John D.
425
II
Watkins, Edward L
294
II
Works, Lewis R.
643
III
Watson, Thomas W.
871
III
Wright, Edward T.
171
II
Weaver, C. B. 716
III Wright, Francis M.
148
II
Weaver, Charles G. 776
III Wright, George. 273
II
Webster, Daniel.
570
III Young, Robert B.
183
II
Wegener, Capt. Gustav P.
347
II Young, William S. 878
III
Weid, Ivar A. 263
II Young Men's Christian Association. .. .884
III
II
Vosburgh, J. J.
559
III
Wilson, Benjamin D.
Votaw, E. J ..
888
W
II Woods, William W. 828
III
Whitaker, Alonzo 210
II
Lothar Bixby
JOTHAM BIXBY
When Jotham Bixby, the subject of this re- view, just turned twenty-one, set sail from Boston, March 1, 1852, aboard the clipper Samuel Appleton, Captain Doane, bound for a voyage of one hundred and fifty days around the Horn for San Francisco, it was doubtless because a certain adventurous fire was still steadily burning in his veins unquenched from that which prompted his emigrant ancestor, Joseph of that name, to come over from Eng- land in the early years of discovery and clear a farm in the virgin forests of Massachusetts, and which, a little later, while this splendid mother of colonies in the first flush of her early matronhood as a commonwealth was busily en- gaged in bringing forth, suckling, weaning and sending out to the frontier so many others of her sturdy offspring, impelled the sons and grandsons of that emigrant to themselves blithely and bravely cut loose from parental ties and as they became of age set their faces resolutely in the direction of more room. Thus it happens that we find many apparently unre- lated families of this name, which is a rather odd one, widely scattered over the continent, from New England, New York and Missouri to Indian Territory, California and Manitoba, all sprung from men who were pioneers of their own particular region and beyond doubt all tracing to a common origin in this single Puri- tan ancestor.
The branch of the family now in question settled in Maine toward the end of the eighteenth century on the banks of the Ken- nebec river, then an outpost of civilization. Here, in the second generation, one of the sons, Amasa, married Fanny Weston, granddaugh- ter of Joseph Weston, one of the most active and capable of the pioneer settlers who in the first year of the war of the Revolution volun- teered as a woodsman guide to accompany the ill-fated expedition of Benedict Arnold through the pathless forests of Maine against Quebec and lost his life in the patriotic discharge of that service.
Under this family rooftree in Maine were reared to maturity eight sons and two daugh- ters, all of whom sooner or later removed to California, and of whom Jotham and his older brother, Marcellus, who came out together around Cape Horn, are now, fifty-five years later, the only survivors.
These two brothers went at once to the mines, and for several years followed the washı- ing of gold with varying but rather indifferent success. Here, through the exercise of that thrift and frugality which had been instilled into them in a home where principle and char- acter and common sense constituted the ani- mating spirit rather than more idle catchwords of daily life, they managed to save a few thou- sand dollars, which they first invested in a small mountain farm supplying produce to the mines.
Later on, having sold this, they invested in a flock of about one thousand sheep, which were then valued at about $6 a head. During the years of drought of 1863 and 1864 these flocks, which in the meantime had materially increased in numbers, were maintained with great difficulty by the partners on free gov- ernment range in the foothills and mountains of San Luis Obispo county. If the crop of acorns in the latter year had not proved ex- ceptionally abundant they would probably have lost everything, but through this providential circumstance and their own untiring efforts, living with their sheep as did the patriarchs of old, they saved most of them.
About this time the half interest of Mar- cellus in the sheep business was bought by the firm of Flint, Bixby & Co., composed of another brother, Llewellyn, who was the first of the family to come to California, and two cousins, Benjamin and Thomas Flint. This firm was already well established and doing business on an extensive scale, and through them the new firm of J. Bixby & Co., then formed with Jotham Bixby as half owner and managing partner, was enabled to buy lands in Southern California and abandon the at best
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uncertain practice of grazing on the free ranges.
As an indication of the wildness and inac- cessibility of Los Angeles county at this time, as late as 1866, it may be mentioned without impropriety that one of the chief impelling motives which induced the elder brother to sell out his half interest to the wealthier firm, whose members indeed did not have to live here, was the fact that he dreaded to bring his family into so rough and distant a region, as it was then viewed even in the not over-thickly set- tled districts of Central California.
Rancho Los Cerritos was purchased by J. Bixby & Co., in 1866, from John Temple, a well-known trader and land holder who had come to this coast also, as it happened, from Massachusetts long prior to the Mexican war, and who died in San Francisco soon after making this sale, his widow, who was a daugh- ter of one of the old established Spanish famil- ies, thereupon removing with her daughter and son-in-law to Paris, never to return to the Pa- cific coast.
The great drought above referred to had all but exterminated the formerly extensive herds of cattle throughout Southern California, the country being of course entirely without trans- portation facilities, and as these cattle ranges were now lying idle and unproductive of any revenue to their owners they were held at what at the present day seems an absurdly low value. Los Cerritos, which contained twenty-seven thousand acres of the best grazing lands in the Los Angeles valley. embracing the present flourishing farming districts of Clearwater, Hynes and Llewellyn, and the townsites of Los Cerritos and Long Beach, was bought for $20,000 and paid for out of the first two clips of wool sold by the new owners.
From this time dates an era of steady progress. The close of the Civil war sent hitherward many homeseekers, out of both dis- banded armies, farming settlements were started in some of the choice alluvial lands of the San Gabriel and other irrigable valleys of the county, and many of the larger grants which had hitherto been used for grazing alone were opened for settlement, their owners being tempted to part with portions of their holdings through advancing values. The first sales from Los Cerritos were made along the northern boundary contiguous to the colony of Downey.
Then followed fourteen hundred acres to the Wilmington Colony, and later in 1884 six thou- sand acres off the north to the California Co- operative Colony, and four thousand acres on the ocean side called the American Colony tract. Here is now situated the city of Long Beach, whose growth has appeared as a marvel of these latter years of improved electric trans- portation, but is, after all, only the natural out- come of her peculiarly favored situation upon gently sloping hills fronting the most attractive of sea beaches, while, moreover, she is no doubt destined to reap high benefits from improve- ments now in process in the harbor of San Pedro, a large part of which lies within her corporate borders. More recent sales from this rancho embrace one of seven thousand acres to Senator Clark of Montana, and one of a thou- sand acres to Mr. Skinner and others of Florida, all of which make up one of the richest and most productive bodies of farming land in the New River district. Mr. Bixby still retains person- ally some thirty-five hundred acres of the rancho surrounding the original adobe ranch house, built and first occupied by Mr. Temple, where he made his own home for so many years, and to this he devotes much of his time in the personal direction of operations in dairy farming and the growing of barley and alfalfa, never having lost a primary interest in the live stock and farming business.
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