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Mrs. Hyatt's son, Chauncey Alanson Hyatt, received his education in military schools. He first attended the Harvard Military Academy in Los Angeles for eight years, starting when he was only eight years old, then was for a year at a military school at Coronado, later going to Lexington, Mo., where he graduated from the Wentworth Military Academy at the age of eighteen years. About this time U. S. Senator Frank P. Flint appointed him for West Point. Shortly after this he was married to Miss Grace Booth, and they are the parents of one child, a daughter, Mary Jane, so named in honor of her paternal grand- mother. Major Hyatt is associated with the Theodore Neilson Company on South Hill street, their home being in the city. The daughter, Mary Jane, is the pride and delight of her grandmother's heart, and already Mrs. Hyatt has taught her the true patriotism. For the past two years these two have gone to- gether to decorate the graves of the soldier dead on Decoration Day, the tiny fingers plac- ing the flowers on the mounds that cover the men who fought to defend the honor of the flag in days long past, while the grandmother tells the child tales of honor and integrity and
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devotion to a great cause. The first time this ceremony took place little Mary Jane was less than two years old, but each succeeding year the recurrence of the beautiful custom will make a deeper impression on the plastic mind of the child, and it is safe to conjecture that the woman grown will have a love and devotion for her country that will be deep and lasting.
In her splendid devotion to her chosen line of work Mrs. Hyatt has done much for the establishment of societies and organizations in California for the benefit of old soldiers, whither they come to pass their last days, and many lives have been brightened and sweetened by her love and sympathy, and the knowledge that this is so is all the reward that she asks, is in fact the highest reward that she might receive, it being the true object of her labors.
DAUNE J. SHULTIS. Widely known as the "Father of Baldwin Park," Daune. J. Shultis is today one of the boosters of the thriving little city and is very proud of his "child." He has applied the latest modern business methods to everything that he has undertaken in the interests of his home town, and, while the general opinion of the public was often to the effect that he was aiming too high for such a place, he has always been proven in the end to have been right, and the support of the community has been accorded him. He is at present postmaster, and is also heavily interested in real estate. He has been largely instrumental in the development of the town along broad and progressive lines, and it was he who organized and established the local chamber of commerce.
Mr. Shultis is a native of Wisconsin, born De- cember 22, 1869. His boyhood days were passed in his native state, and in 1885, together with his father, Jordan Shultis, he came to California, locating at Los Angeles, where for a time he en- gaged in the real estate and insurance business. Later he became interested in the bee industry and at present has between three hundred and four hundred stands of bees in the mountains. He is an authority on the subject of bee culture, having been in that business for twenty or more years, and having made a careful and scientific study of the same.
It was in 1905 that Mr. Shultis first came to Baldwin Park, where he bought twenty acres and
subdivided the same. The main business part of the town is now located on this land. He built the first store and also engaged in the real estate business with much success. There was scarcely a thought at that time that the place would ever become a town, and people laughed at the indomi- table Mr. Shultis when he proceeded on the as- sumption that such would be the case. He con- ducted his business on a modern basis and it has grown in amazing proportions. Some time ago he erected a new business block of two stories of reinforced concrete, costing $15,000, which is the present home of his real estate business and a general department store that is second to none in the San Gabriel valley, and which also houses the postoffice. There is a splendid amuse- ment hall above, with an attractive roof gar- den, mission architecture being employed in the building. Mr. Shultis was a member of the advisory board in connection with the erection of the new $15,000 school house, and is a member of the high school board at the present time, hav- ing served for the past two years. He is a man of rare executive ability and indomitable cour- age, and has the gift not only of large accomplish- ments himself, but also inspires others to renewed efforts and undertakings.
The marriage of Mr. Shultis occurred in Los Angeles in 1894, uniting him with Miss Eugenie Wolfe, a native of California. Of their union have been born three daughters, Sylvia M., Jose- phine and Bessie.
THOMAS J. HOYT. After having lived in some half dozen western states and making and losing several fortunes in the course of his wan- derings, Thomas J. Hoyt finally came to Los Angeles to pass the declining years of his life. Here he lived in peace and retirement, enjoying to the fullest the fruits of many years of active business enterprise, during which he had shared the fortunes of the frontier cattleman in Colo- rado and the state of Washington, been a mer- chant in the middle west and owned large real estate holdings at different points. During all these years he greatly desired to bring his family to California, but there seemed no time when he was able to dispose of the many interests which compelled his attention at other points. This ciesire was the result of an early trip made to Cali- fornia, the breaking out of the Civil war at that
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time preventing the fulfilment of his plans to bring his family and make his home in this state. It was not until 1896, however, that the time came for the fruition of his hopes, and from that time until the date of his death, April 8, 1914, Mr. Hoyt made his home in the Angel City, passing into the Great Beyond at the age of eighty-two years.
Mr. Hoyt was a typical western man, possess- ing a mind open to new thoughts and ideas, a kind- ly heart and a loving disposition. He was a native of Ohio, born in Licking county, May 4, 1832. His father was Robert Hoyt and his mother was Elizabeth Latta. On his father's side he is an own cousin of Hoyt the wholesale grocer of Chi- cago, whose place of business stands on the site of old Fort Dearborn, while his mother was an aunt of Evangelist Dwight Moody. His youth and young manhood were passed in Ohio, where he received his education and made his first busi- ness ventures. Here also he was married in 1854 to Miss Eliza Boudinot, a native of New Jersey and the proud descendant of an ancient French family whose genealogy dates far back into the sixteenth century, while the early years of the seventeenth century saw the men of the house of Boudinot leaving French soil because of the fortunes of war which forced prominent men to flee for their lives and the safety of their families.
Eliza Boudinot, who as the widow of the late Thomas J. Hoyt is now residing quietly in Los Angeles, where she is beloved by many friends, is the daughter of Lucus Von Beaverand Boudi- not and Susan Murch, the latter descended from an old English Quaker family of distinction. The home of the Boudinots, where the future Mrs. Hoyt was born, was fifteen miles from Paterson, N. J., at Beaverwick. It was a huge house, con- taining twenty-two rooms, a perfect manor house, with a retinue of colonial servants. The coat of arms represented a beaver rampant, but this is not used by the family at this time. There were seven children in the family, of whom five only grew to manhood and womanhood. These were Adrianna, Tobias, Eliza B. (Mrs. Hoyt), William and Ellen. Of these, both of the sons are de- ceased. Tobias, the elder son, was shot in a battle in Alabama during the Civil war, while he was fighting for the Union. The other son, William, also a Union soldier, engaged in many prominent
battles during the Civil war, and was also a prisoner in the famous Andersonville prison.
Mrs. Hoyt was only nine years of age when her parents removed to Ohio, settling at Newark, where they were among the prominent pioneers. There the little Eliza attended school and grew into fair young womanhood. There also she met young Thomas Hoyt and married him in 1854. After his marriage Mr. Hoyt engaged in the cattle business and was very successful. In 1859 he determined to take a trip to California and if he liked it to eventually settle there with his family. He crossed the plains in a train of "prairie schooners" and remained on the coast for two years. The return journey was made by way of the Horn in 1861, his intention being to return immediately with his family to make his home in California, taking with him blooded stock for a great farm, including the highest grade of cattle, horses and jacks. The breaking out of the Civil war, however, disturbed the conditions of the country and altered these plans. The family con- tinued for a time to live in Licking county, Ohio, and later removed to Boone, Iowa, where Mr. Hoyt engaged in the grocery business. Here he prospered and remained for thirteen years, at which time he again moved, this time to Abilene, Kans., where he went into the cattle business.
From Abilene Mr. Hoyt removed with his family to Colorado, where he continued his opera- tions as a cattle man on a large scale, ranging many thousands of head of stock over the plains and also buying and selling extensively for the general market. Later he located at Whatcom, Wash., where unfortunate investments caused him to lose his fortune, the accumulation of many successful years. This was only one of several similar misfortunes that assailed this energetic man, but his indomitable courage was never daunted by such an occurrence and he soon found other occupations and investments through which he could recoup his wasted fortunes.
It was in 1896 that Mr. Hoyt finally settled in Los Angeles and for almost twenty years he lived a peaceful, happy life here. His wife had borne him five charming children, of whom four were living at the time of his death, three residing at the present time in or near Los Angeles. They are: Anna, the wife of the late J. H. Lane, whose home is a handsome residence on Winfield street, Los Angeles, and with whom the mother makes her home; Harry R., a successful business
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man at Fullerton, Orange county; and Lucas B., died and he was then obliged to assume a part living at Hollywood. The other children, two sons, Frank and William, are both deceased.
Mrs. Hoyt is a wonderful old lady, full of the grace and charm that have made the women of her family famous in history for many genera- tions. Her reminiscences of her own life are filled with keen interest, sparkling wit and subtle humor, as are also the stories she delights to tell of her distinguished forbears.
JOACHIM H. F. JARCHOW. The life history of a self-made man is always full of in- terest, and when there is added to such a story the fact that he came, poor and alone, to our shores, and carved out for himself a name and a place in the modern civilization of the West, keeping for many years well in advance of the westward progress of immigration, and being a pioneer in the truest sense of the word, the tale becomes doubly interesting and valuable. Such an one as this is Joachim H. F. Jarchow, of San Gabriel, where he has made his home for almost forty years, being an important factor in the growth and development of what is now one of the most beautiful and productive portions of this great state, but which was at that time mostly waste land. It is more than sixty years since he first came to American shores, arriving in New York with one lone dollar in his possession, one-half of which he spent for his first breakfast in the strange land. From such an inauspicious beginning he has climbed surely and steadily upward, by the force of his industry, integrity and application, and now, in his declining years, he is enjoying the fruits of these many years of application and honest effort, at his attractive home at Mis- sion Road and Main street, San Gabriel, where amid his orange groves and flowers, surrounded by friends and neighbors, the days go swiftly by.
Mr. Jarchow is a native of Germany, having been born in the northern portion of the em- pire, some fifty miles from Hamburg, January 13, 1825. He was reared on a farm and at an early age learned to assume his share of the farm duties, aiding with such tasks as milking the cows when he was but a very small boy. When he was eighteen years of age his father
of the responsibility for the support of a family of seven all younger than himself. He re- mained on the farm until he was nearly thirty years of age, when he determined to seek greater opportunities in America, and on October 20, 1853, he set sail from Hamburg on a sailing vessel, three months being consumed in the jour- ney to New York, where he arrived January 10, 1854. There Mr. Jarchow met a friend who sup- plied him with transportation to Buffalo, where he secured employment cutting wood. Later he found work on a small farm, receiving $10 a month and his board for milking the cows, tend- ing stock, and caring for the farm generally. The second year his wages were raised to $12 per month. His next employment was on a large ranch, milking twenty or more cows daily. Finally tiring of this employment he went to Still- water, Minn., where for a year, 1856-57, he worked in a lumber yard, also taking up a claim of government land. Subsequently he left with his three brothers for a point twenty miles below Memphis, Tenn., where they engaged in cutting wood. The Civil war then being in progress and the trend of the fighting being in their direction, the brothers determined to return north, and ac- cordingly made their way back to Minnesota, where they again took up farming on their gov- ernment claims. They owned one hundred and twenty acres, which they cleared and improved, and engaged in farming and raising stock, prin- cipally cows. They were among the first settlers in that locality and were in every sense of the word genuine pioneers, blazing the trails for the civilization that came after them.
It was in 1876 that Mr. Jarchow finally came to California. Tales of the splendid opportunities to be found in the great southwest were continu- ally told, then as now, and finally he determined to find out for himself. Accordingly he sold his Minnesota lands and set his face toward the Pa- cific, arriving in San Gabriel on February 28 of that same year. At first he rented a small tract, but soon purchased his present home place of ten acres, then all raw land. This he at once com- menced to improve, planting it to orange trees, and generally beautifying it for a home place. He has been very successful in his orange cul- ture and is one of the best informed men in this line in the valley. In an early day he sold his oranges for as high as $5 per box, and at one sea-
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son he took the prize at the Pasadena fair, this be- ing a gold medal, and the only one awarded. Many other medals also have been awarded to Mr. Jarchow at other orange fairs and exhibits, all of which he has taken an especial pride in. He was a member of the grange in an early day, and has always taken an active part in the af- fairs of the community, being progressive and wide awake on all questions of public welfare, and standing always firmly on the side of right and progress. The water interests of his dis- trict have also received his active and intelligent support and he has aided materially in many ways in the development of the present system. For a number of years he was water superin- tendent for his district. Educational matters also have claimed their share of the ability and time of this hardy pioneer, and he has served his school district very capably as a member of the board of school trustees.
Mr. Jarchow has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Sophia Bruck, their mar- riage being solemnized in 1862, in Minnesota. Her death occurred at San Gabriel in 1900. Two years later, also in San Gabriel, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Johanna Kretsch- mer, the widow of Otto Kretschmer and the daughter of Henry Lahl. Mrs. Jarchow was born in Germany and came to the United States February 16, 1882. Although now almost ninety years of age Mr. Jarchow is still active and interested in all that concerns the welfare of the community.
ARTHUR M. HARRISON. The success of Mr. Harrison in the line of chicken farming is a good example of what can be done on a small piece of ground in Southern California by a man with no previous experience in that direction. Arthur M. Harrison is a booster for Van Nuys, the California town where he has established his ranch of five acres, where besides the raising of poultry he has interested himself in fruit culture, having set out on his property three hundred trees of peaches, apricots and walnuts.
A native of New Brunswick, Mr. Harrison was born March 10, 1871, and received a business education, at the age of fifteen years leaving school, after which he followed a mercantile life for a number of years, in 1893 removing to Chicago, where he soon secured employment in a
bank, his association with the banks of Chicago continuing thereafter for a period of fifteen years. Ill health caused him to leave that city for Cali- fornia, and in 1910 he came to this state, settling in Monrovia, where he remained one year, there making his start in the poultry business with a flock of five hundred White Leghorns. In July, 1911, he moved to Van Nuys, Cal., where he pur- chased his present property of five acres, and in- creased the number of his flock which now com- prises fifteen hundred laying hens of the White Leghorn strain, and ships his eggs to Los Angeles twice a week. Mr. Harrison has met with success in his new venture, profits for the year 1914 amounting to $1500, or $2 apiece from seven hun- dred and fifty laying hens. Every two years he turns off stock, thus using only young hens, and it is his aim to raise one thousand pullets yearly. The three chicken houses, 15x180 feet, upon his property, were built by Mr. Harrison himself, and he operates three Jubilee Incubators of five hun- dred capacity each.
Mr. Harrison is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Van Nuys, the Federation of Poul- trymen of Southern California and the Van Nuys, Owensmouth and Marion Fruit Growers' and Canners' Association. He was married. in Mon- rovia, July 28, 1910, to Lillian M. Davis, a native of Lockport, Ill.
JAMES CONNER. Situated in the midst of a fine lemon grove of twelve and one-half acres is the pretty California home of James Conner, in the little city of Glendale among the foothills, and on his estate range the Brown Swiss and Jersey cattle which comprise the sanitary farm dairy of which Mr. Conner is the owner and proprietor. A native of County Antrim, Ireland, where he was born March 28, 1874, Mr. Conner came to the United States at the age of seventeen years, and his experience since that time has been entirely in the dairy business, so that he is emi- nently fitted for the management of his California farm, the milk from which is recommended by physicians especially for use by invalids and infants.
In his early life Mr. Conner was engaged in the dairy business near Stamford, Conn., being one of the first to supply the famous Gail Borden with milk for his Eagle Brand of condensed milk. From Connecticut Mr. Conner went to Birmingham,
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Ala., where he was put in charge of a herd of two hundred Holstein cows belonging to the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company upon a testing experimental farm. Thence he removed to California in June, 1903, becoming the first manager of the large O. J. Stough Ranch at Burbank, later moving to Glendale, where he established a dairy. Besides his lemon grove, which produces from fifteen hundred to two thousand boxes of fruit at each picking, Mr. Conner also leases twenty-five acres of alfalfa property which in the year 1914 produced ten tons to the acre. The lemon orchard he farms on shares for the owner, but the dairy is his own property, and after a careful study of the different types he determined to stock his dairy with Jersey and Brown Swiss animals, the latter being the only breed of cows never known.to have tuber- culosis. Many of his cows were purchased from a large importer in Hinsdale, Ill., there being two in his herd that cost $3000 and others worth $5000. It is his intention to make this an ex- clusive Brown Swiss dairy farm, there already being fifteen of that famous breed in his herd, and a full-blooded Brown Swiss bull four years old. A cow of this breed gives eight gallons of milk daily, and these owned by Mr. Conner are the only animals of this variety west of the Rocky Mountains.
Mr. Conner was united in marriage with Lettie A. Wilson, also a native of Ireland, and they are the parents of five children, namely, Helen M., Cerretta, James T., Fred A. and Frank. With his sons Mr. Conner supervises the work done upon his farm, assuming many of the tasks per- sonally, so that the milking, the aerating of the milk, and the milking barn, with its hardwood and cement floors, and good drainage and ventila- tion, are in every respect well looked after, with the result that the patrons, to whom the milk is delivered within two hours after milking, receive the best, both in quality and in sanitary handling.
GRAYSON LEWIS. It was after about twenty years spent in another line of occupation that Mr. Lewis was enabled to retire and devote his attention to the raising of chickens on an extensive scale, which was a subject in which he had always taken much interest. Mr. Lewis is the son of Hon. Edward A. Lewis, a prominent
judge in Missouri, a justice of the St. Louis Court of Appeals and judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri. The son was born in St. Charles, Mo., and grew up in that city, and after finishing his education was engaged in the wholesale woolen business in St. Louis for many years. Coming to Los Angeles as a tourist, in 1895, he de- cided to settle here, and founded the Lewis Woolen Company, wholesale dealers in woolens, and in a few years was enabled to retire from business.
Always having been interested in poultry, and having had a few chickens at his home in Mis- souri, Mr. Lewis now engaged in that business on a large scale on the Los Feliz road, north of Los Angeles, confining himself to the White Leg- horn breed. After having continued at this location for a few years, he removed to his present ranch on Washington boulevard, near Venice, Cal., in the summer of 1911, where he has one of the most modern and sanitary chicken ranches in the county, consisting of two thousand laying hens, which number he intends to increase to three thousand in the year 1916. A student of conditions, feed and the proper care of chickens, Mr. Lewis has made many remarkable inventions along these lines, from ideas entirely his own, which give to his ranch an equipment not found on similar places, and to the vital point of cleanli- ness the success of his establishment is in large part due. He has six houses, 40x50 feet in dimen- sion, with running water in all, and a cement walk for each house, sheltered for a space of five feet by overhanging roof in rear and ten feet in front, for the entire distance of three hundred feet. Also twenty houses 10x40, making this row two hun- dred feet, or a total of 500 feet of chicken houses now in operation. The roosts, which are re- movable, are operated by pulleys, so that they can be lifted when the floor is cleaned, the floors be- neath them being of cement. The brooder house has a glass front, the Philo system of brooding being installed there, which does away almost entirely with artificial heat, and here the baby chicks are kept for one week, after which they are taken to an outdoor brooder. The scratching pens are covered by an inclined roof, which forms a protection alike from the sun in warm weather and from the wind and rain in the win- ter. Mr. Lewis feeds five kinds of grain to his poultry, wheat, cracked corn, milo maize, hulled barley and rolled barley, and uses the Peta-
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luma dry mash, which he always keeps before the chickens in sanitary feeding bins. Al- falfa is kept growing in each yard, protected by wire screens over the top, so that the fowls can eat the green without scratching up the roots, the alfalfa always being well watered and kept green and growing. Mr. Lewis keeps no roosters on the ranch, selling only non-fertile eggs, the baby cocks being sold at one pound weight for broilers. All his chicks he buys in one thousand lots from George C. England, the famous poultryman of Inglewood, Cal., and his eggs he sells at his own door to people from Los Angeles and the beach cities who come in their autos and are sure of getting strictly fresh eggs at the market price. Mr. Lewis has made a life study of the raising of poultry, and is constantly improving his sys- tem, but much of the credit for his success he claims is due to his wife, formerly May Kellogg, of Detroit, Mich., who is his able and enthusiastic assistant in all matters connected with his pros- perous ranch.
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