A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present, Volume II, Part 44

Author: Guinn, James Miller, 1834-1918
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal., Historic record company
Number of Pages: 1234

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RICHARD P. McINTOSH. A pioneer of Mentone and one of its upbuilding factors is Richard P. McIntosh, who came to California in 1887 and entered the ranch of one hundred and sixty acres which he now owns and operates. He is a native of Ontario, Canada, where he was born August II, 1856; his father, Peter McIntosh, was born in the same place as was also his grandfather, Donald, the descendant of Scotch ancestry. Peter McIntosh was a bailiff or deputy sheriff for thirty years and also en- gaged as a small farmer during that period, his death occurring some time after his retirement from this work. He was a member of the Pres- byterian Church and one of its stanch supporters. His wife, formerly Annie McBain, was born in Ontario, where she died late in life. They were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters, of whom six children are still living.

Richard Peter McIntosh was the youngest son in his father's family. He was reared in Ontario and educated in its public schools, and in young manhood he followed his early train- ing and engaged as a farmer near Cornwall, Ontario. Later he purchased a fifty-acre farm there which he gave to his sister in 1875. when he left his native land and came to Nevada and in the vicinity of Carson City engaged in lumbering with the Sierra Nevada Wood & Lum- her Company. During the summers he flumed lumber and wood to Virginia City and Gold Hill, and in the winters superintended the water sup- ply for the Virginia City and Gold Hill Water Company. He remained in that state until 1887

when he came to Redlands and entered the ranch which he now owns, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, and being joined by his wife the following year he began its improvement and cultivation. Later he sold off all but ten acres on Mentone avenue, devoted to navel oranges, and where he has a pumping plant with a capacity of twenty inches. He also purchased five acres in the Greenspot district, all of which is in navel oranges.

In Carson City, Nev., Mr. McIntosh was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Thompson, of Ontario, the ceremony being performed December 3, 1876. She was a daughter of Robert John Thompson, a native of Ontario and a farmer and merchant there, where he still resides. Her mother, formerly Mary Ann Bend- er, a daughter of Richard Bender, died in On- tario. She is the youngest living of the four children born to her parents, of whom three are surviving. To Mr. and Mrs. McIntosh were born nine children, of whom six are still liv- ing, namely: John, farming in Crafton; George; Alice; Leland; Kate; and Edith. Fraternally Mr. McIntosh is a member of the Woodmen of the World, his wife being affiliated with the Women of Woodcraft; she is also a member of the Crafton Club, and both are identified with the First Presbyterian Church, of Redlands, which receives an active support from them. Politically Mr. McIntosh is a Republican, and through the influence of this party he has served for the past six years as road overseer of the Fifth supervisoral district, and has also acted as school trustee of the Greenleaf district for sever- al years.

OLO J. CHAMBERLAIN. A successful rancher is named in the person of Olo J. Cham- berlain, who is located in the vicinity of Norwalk, Los Angeles county, and engaged in the man- agement of a forty-acre ranch and a large tract of leased land, and although he has been in this section a comparatively brief time he has already established his position among the representa- tive citizens. Born in Lincoln, Neb., October 12, 1880, he is a son of Joseph and Ella (Stone) Chamberlain, natives of England. They located in Nebraska and made that state their home un- til 1882, when they immigrated to California and in Santa Barbara engaged in farming and the cultivation of a fine orchard. The mother was accidentally killed in that county, where the father is still living and engaged in his work. During the Civil war Mr. Chamberlain served his adopted country in an Ohio regiment, and in memory of that time is now affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic. He is an inde- pendent voter, but a patriotic and conservative

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citizen. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. The six children comprising the pa- rental family are as follows : Glenn S., who mar- ried Edith Dotty; Clarence Z., of Bakersfield, Cal .; Roy W., who married Hattie Marritt and lives in this vicinity; Olo J., of this review; Mary E., with her father ; and Ella L., a resident of Teliachapi, Cal.

Olo J. Chamberlain was only two years old when brought to California by his parents, and in this state he received his education, attending the common schools of Santa Barbara county, first in Cathedral Oaks and later in Goleta, where he completed the course. His education was supplemented by a commercial training in the Santa Barbara Business College, under E. B. Hoover. He then learned the blacksmith's trade, following this in Goleta for several years, when, in 1903, he came to Los Angeles county and near Norwalk purchased a ranch of twenty acres. This he finally disposed of and purchased the one he now owns, consisting of forty acres de- voted to grain and corn and general products, while he also leases from W. D. Woolwine, one hundred and forty-three acres, of which one hundred and twenty acres are in grain and twen- ty in alfalfa. Mr. Chamberlain has a comforta- ble residence on his property and also improved it with other necessary buildings and equipment. In his fraternal relations he is identified with the Fraternal Brotherhood of Norwalk, Enter- prise Lodge No. 19, K. P., of Santa Barbara, and Castle Rock No. 151, also of Santa Barbara. Politically he follows the example of his father and reserves the right to cast his ballot for the man he considers best qualified for official posi- tion.

DAVID CAWELTI. Numbered among the industrious, practical and successful agri- culturists of Ventura county is David Cawel- ti, who is carrying on general farming near Somis, his ranch being under an excellent state of cultivation. He has made substantial improvements on the place, his buildings be- ing comfortable and convenient, and well adapted for his purpose, while his stock and machinery are of first-class description, every- thing about the premises being indicative of the thrift, skill and good management of the owner. Of excellent German ancestry, he was born, June 27, 1853, in Cincinnati, Ohio, a son of John and Catherine M. (Wagner) Cawelti. John Cawelti was born in Germany, and when fifteen years of age came to the United States. Learning the trade of a butcher, he worked at the same in Cincinnati, Ohio, for eleven years. Removing then to Iowa, he was for two years employed in farming, after

which he was a butcher in Clayton county, that state, for a number of years. In 1864 he made another westward move, coming to So- noma county, Cal., where he carried on gen- eral farming about four years. In November, 1868, he located in Ventura county, and hav- ing purchased twelve hundred and fifty acres of grazing land was here engaged in farming and stock-raising until his death, in 1893, at the age of sixty-eight years. He was held in high respect as a man of integrity, and was an active member of the Democratic party. His wife survived him, passing away in 1905. Their children consisted of five sons and four daughters, all of whom are living.

Beginning his studies in the common schools of Iowa, where he lived until eleven years old, David Cawelti completed his early education at Healdsburg, Sonoma county, where the fam- ily settled in 1864, after their long and tedious journey across the plains. He subsequently came with the family to Ventura county, where, with the exception of six years spent in San Bernardino county, he has since re- sided. When ready to establish himself as a householder, he purchased land near South Camarillo, and by dint of sturdy and judicious labor has improved a valuable estate, his ranch of two hundred and fifty acres being under good cultivation and very productive.

In 1879 Mr. Cawelti married Mary E. Fay, who was born in California, and of the nine children born of their union, one died in in- fancy, and eight are living, namely : Norman D .; Sadie E .; Chester L .; Edith L. and Effie L., twins; John C. and Lucy C., twins; and Ernest E. In his political affiliations Mr. Cawelti is a steadfast Democrat, and relig- iously he and his wife attend the Presbyterian Church.

RUFUS THOMAS CLYDE. One of the en- terprising and progressive native sons of San Bernardino county is Rufus Thomas Clyde, who owns a ten-acre ranch and residence in Highland, besides a ranch in the Yucaipe valley. He was born in San Bernardino May 20, 1864, a son of Edward Prentis Clyde, the latter a native of New York; he removed to Salt Lake City in the early '40s and thence in 1852 crossed the plains to California and in San Bernardino county pur- chased a farm on the Base Line, where he now resides. The mother was Mary Singleton in maidenhood, who came from England to Salt Lake City, thence to San Bernardino, where she was married. They are the parents of two other sons, William R., farming on the Base Line, and George E., who resides on the Base Line.

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ternal farm and at the same time that he attended the public schools in pursuit of an education he received a practical training along agricultural lines, which has proven of benefit to him in more mature years. He remained at home until at- taining his majority, when he entered into part- nership with his father in general farming, re- maining so occupied until 1889, when he came to the Yucaipe valley and still with his father and brothers carried on farming. Later he pur- chased an interest with his brothers in the tract of six hundred and forty acres of land, where they farmed for some years, finally dissolving partnership. Mr. Clyde now owns one hundred acres of bench land where he has built a residence and necessary outbuildings, while he leases two hundred acres adjoining and carries on the raising of grain and hay. He also owns ten acres two and a half miles southwest of Highland, where he has a residence which is the home of the family during the school year. He was married in San Bernardino to Miss Geneva V. Hawse, a native of San Bernardino county, and they have one son, Robert S. For five years Mr. Clyde served as trustee for the Pass school district and was clerk for three years of that time. Fraternally he is a member of San Bernardino Lodge No. 290, I. O. O. F.

FREDERICK H. ROBERTS. The four hundred acre tract forming the homestead of Mr. Roberts comprises land as fine as any that the San Pasqual valley boasts and has been im- proved with a substantial residence of thirteen rooms equipped with hot and cold water, bath and other modern conveniences. The larger part of the estate is under cultivation to grain, but there is also considerable pasture land for the grazing of milch cows and the other stock kept on the farm. A noticeable feature of the ranch is the creamery, in which Mr. Roberts is one of the principal owners. With the exception of the years from 1893 to 1898, when he was en- gaged in the hardware business in Escondido, he has followed agricultural pursuits throughout his active life, and without any one to aid him in getting a start he has reached a position of independence and prestige.

The birthplace of Mr. Roberts was in the town of Nauvoo, Ill., once the stronghold of the Mormons and the headquarters of Joseph Smith. One of the elders of the Mormon Church at Nauvoo was Calvin A. Beebe, who witnessed many of the exciting scenes connected with the history of the church in Hancock county. After the killing of Smith and the expulsion of the Mormons from Illinois, Mr. Beebe started west- ward with Brigham Young, intending to follow the Mormons to their new home. However, he

became disgusted with some of Young's methods and accordingly returned to Illinois, where he and his wife remained until death. Among their children was a daughter, Harriet, who was born in Sandusky, Ohio, and in young womanhood became the wife of Nathaniel R. Roberts, a na- tive of Maine, but about 1862 an emigrant to Hancock county, Ill., where he followed the stonemason's trade. While living there his son, Frederick H., was born January 27, 1865. In 1874 the family came to California and made a brief sojourn near Bakersfield, but in the spring of 1875 came by team to San Diego county, pass- ing through Los Angeles, then merely a hamlet of insignificant proportions. After his arrival in the San Pasqual valley the father bought a claim and embarked in ranch pursuits, remain- ing on the farm until his death, September 4, 1902, at the age of seventy-two years. The mother did not long survive him, her death oc- curring in February, 1904, at the age of sixty- nine years.

When the family came to California Frederick H. Roberts was a lad of nine years, and after- ward he attended the schools of San Diego coun- ty, also took a course of study in Healdsburg College. At the age of twenty-one years he bought one hundred acres in the Escondido val- ley and subsequently he there located the gold mines, which in the spring of 1900 he sold, to- gether with the land, to the Orofino Mining Company. Immediately afterward he bought four hundred acres near Escondido and erected the elegant country house now occupied by his family. The ranch possesses especial interest because it is the site of the San Pasqual battle. Formerly Mr. Roberts acted as a director of the Escondido irrigation district and at this writing he fills the office of school director. Though a Democrat in national affairs, locally he votes for those whom he considers best qualified to pro- mote the welfare of the people. His marriage was solemnized in San Diego November 1, 1892, and united him with Mrs. Elizabeth Judson Hardy, who was reared in California and has many friends in San Diego county. In religion she is identified with the Advent Church, and her children, Charles Henry, George Beebe and Helen, are being trained in Christian doctrines and kindly deeds. The sketch of her father, J. B. Judson, gives the family history and appears elsewhere in this volume.

LORENZO DOW TWEEDY. The Tweedy family, represented in California by several pio- neers, among whom is Lorenzo Dow Tweedy, is of English extraction, the immigrating ancestor having located in Alabama in the early part of the nineteenth century. Later members removed

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to Missouri, where occurred the birth of Robert Tweedy, who became in young manhood a farmer and merchant. He married Mary Holyfield, a native of South Carolina, the two later establish- ing their home in Arkansas. Attracted to the west by the glowing reports of the California gold fields, Mr. Tweedy oufitted with ox-teams and necessary provisions and equipment, and in 1852 with his wife and children began the perilous journey across the plains. Several months later they reached California in safety and located at the Twenty-six Mile House, near Stockton, where they spent the ensuing year. In 1853 they came to Los Angeles county and engaged in farming and stock-raising for a time, when Mr. Tweedy established a store in San Ber- nardino and conducted the same successfully un- til 1857: Returning to Los Angeles county he purchased a large tract of land, known as the Tweedy ranch and for many years engaged in its cultivation and improvement. Some years prior to his death (which, occurred upon the ranch) he leased the land for farming and stock- raising purposes. He is survived by his wife, who is now in her eighty-seventh year. She makes her home upon the ranch with her daugh- ter. She is the mother of seven sons and one daughter, the fourth in order of birth being Lorenzo Dow Tweedy, whose birth occurred in Conway, Ark., October 2, 1850.

But two years old when he was brought to California by his parents, practically the entire life of L. Dow Tweedy has been passed in this state. His education was received in the com- mon schools of Los Angeles county, and at the same time he received a practical training along agricultural lines. In young manhood he took up the work in which he had been so thoroughly trained, devoting his time principally to the cul- tivation of fruit in the country adjacent to Rivera and Downey. He has met with success in his work and acquired considerable property, now owning three hundred acres of land near Down- ey; twenty acres of this is devoted to English walnuts, while the balance is largely given over to the cultivation of alfalfa and garden vege- tables. For several years the family made their home in. Long Beach, where Mr. Tweedy was prominent in public affairs, but they are now liv- ing in their new home on the ranch near Downey. Mr. Tweedy is a member of the First Baptist Church of Long Beach, and is a liberal contrib- utor to all its charities. Politically he is a stanch adherent of the principles advocated in the plat- form of the Democratic party.

In Downey, in 1874, Mr. Tweedy was united in marriage with Emily Stanley, a native of Ar- kansas, and born of this union are four sons and three daughters, as follows: Eugene E .. Louis L., Angie E., H. Burtis, L. Dow, Jr., Vieva V.

and Alma L. The Tweedy family are known throughout Southern California and held in the highest esteem for their qualities of citizenship; they have built up positions of financial inde- pendence for themselves and at the same time have become citizens of prominence and worth. Personally L. Dow Tweedy is a man of broad character, is liberal minded and enterprising, and can always be counted upon to further any move- ment advanced for the benefit of the general com- munity.

HON. FRANK WILES BARNES. The collector of customs for the port of San Diego is a descendant of ancestors who came from Holland to America during the colonial epoch of our national history and settled on Long Island near the present site of Flushing. After becom- ing identified with American colonization the original family name of Barness was changed to its present form by the dropping of the final "s." The genealogical records show that from Long Island certain members of the family drifted to Dutchess county, N. Y., while that region was still a forest primeval. During the Revolution- ary war Willianı Barnes laid aside his plow and shouldered a rifle, with which he went to the front and served in the patriotic army. A son of this Revolutionary soldier, Josuah, of Dutchess county, was the father of Capt. Henry M. Barnes, who was a supervisor of Dutchess county, a farmer near Poughkeepsie and a member of the state militia. It was he who established the fam- ily in the further west, when he settled on a bleak prairie farm in Madison county, Neb., and took up the task of transforming a raw tract into a fertile farm. At the time of liis arrival the county had not been organized and little attempt had been made to build up towns or develop farms, but in the years that elapsed between his arrival and his death lie witnessed the gradual improvement of that section of country and him- self contributed thereto.

While still living in the east Captain Barnes married Sallie Ann Lockwood, who was born and reared in Dutchess county, the daughter of an eastern farmer and the granddaughter of a Revolutionary soldier. Spared to a venerable age, she passed away at eighty-nine years in New York. Of her five children four are living, of whom F. W., the youngest, is the only one to settle in California. Born on the home farm in Dutchess county, N. Y., September 10, 1850, he was a youth of sixteen years when the' family re- moved to Nebraska, and there he took a high school course. After having studied civil engi- neering under a preceptor lie became deputy United States land surveyor, later served for one term as county surveyor and one terin as county

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judge. In 1870 he entered the land and laid out the village of Madison, which became the county seat of Madison county, Neb., and in 1874 he organized the Madison County Savings Bank, the first institution of its kind in the county. By a re-organization in 1885 he established the First National Bank of Madison, of which he acted as vice-president and with which he is still iden- tified. The city which he had platted and found- ed always commanded his aid and influence. Movements for its permanent upbuilding, received his stanch support. For many years he served as its mayor, in which position he used his in- fluence for the development of local enterprises. At the time of the building of the branch rail- road from Columbus to Madison he donated ten acres as site for a depot and grounds. In 1883 he aided in the establishment of the Northern Nebraska Normal at Madison and was chosen chairman of its board of trustees, a responsible position in which he displayed tact, energy and keen sagacity, besides all of his other interests he owned land near town and engaged in the stock business.

An arduous and long-continued devotion to the demands of his business interests undermined the health of Mr. Barnes, who was therefore obliged to seek a more genial climate and an oc- cupation permitting of considerable outdoor ex- ercise. These reasons constrained him to remove to California, and in 1886 he settled at the pres- ent site of Pacific Beach, where he planted a lemon orchard and carried on a packing house. By the gradual purchase of adjoining tracts lie acquired seventy acres, but in time all of this land was laid out as Pacific Beach. In the fall of 1890 he came to San Diego, where later he was one of the organizers of the Security Savings Bank and the San Diego Title and Abstract Com- pany. Both in San Diego and Lajolla he has acquired property holdings of considerable value.

For two terms Mr. Barnes was president of the city council. In 1900, on the Republican ticket, he was elected to represent the Seventy- ninth legislative district in the lower house of the state legislature, his majority being more than one thousand. During that term he served as chairman of the committee on banks and bank- ing and a member of the committees on irrigation and public buildings and grounds. At the ex- piration of his first term he was again elected to the legislature, and during the session following he served as chairman of the committee on pub- lic buildings and grounds, also as a member of the committees on public printing and banks and banking. Elected for a third term in 1904, he was honored with the chairmanship of the com- mittee on public buildings and grounds, and served on three committees as a member, viz .: banks and banking, revenue and taxation, and

commerce and navigation. After a long and hon- orable service as the people's representative in the halls of legislature, he resigned February I, 1906, in order to accept the appointment as col- lector of customs for the port of San Diego, ten- dered him by President Roosevelt. When first nominated for the legislature it was on a plat- form favoring an appropriation to complete the state normal school building. Such a bill was passed in 1901 but vetoed, but was again passed in 1903, duly signed, and the building completed, and in 1905 an additional appropriation was granted for the improving of the grounds. In 1903 he gave his support to United States Sen- ator Perkins and in 1905 voted for United States Senator Flint. In addition to his many other help- ful services to his party he has been frequently a delegate to local and state conventions, and there, as in every other circumstance and sur- rounding, he has given his voice and vote toward measures of undoubted value to his county and state.

The marriage of Mr. Barnes took place at Madison, Neb., and united him with Miss Phoebe, daughter of Michael Bauch, who in 1870 established his home among the pioneers of Mad- ison county, Neb., having previously made his home in Kankakee county, Ill. (her native local- ity). Three children comprise the family of Mr. and Mrs. Barnes. The older son, Edward Y., is a graduate of the Northern Nebraska Normal School at Madison and is now junior member of the Doyle-Barnes Company. The second son. Theodore L., graduated as a mining engineer from the University of California and is now superintendent of mines in Lower California. The only daughter, Mary Ruth, is a graduate of Leland Standford University. The family hold membership in the Presbyterian Church and Mr. Barnes officiates as an elder of his congregation. The San Diego Chamber of Commerce has long numbered him among its leading members and active workers. Since coming to his present home town he has become identified with Mas- onry through membership in San Diego Lodge No. 35. F. & A. M., and is further allied with the chapter and commandery at San Diego and Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Los Angeles.

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A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present, Volume II, Part 44

Author: Guinn, James Miller, 1834-1918 Publication date: 1907 Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal., Historic record company Number of Pages: 1234

Author: Guinn, James Miller, 1834-1918
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal., Historic record company
Number of Pages: 1234