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WILLIAM H. GILBERT
The success achieved by William H. Gilbert, since identifying him- self with the agricultural interests of Merced County, furnishes an- other proof of the opportunities offered by this section of California to men of persevering industry. Since 1907, Mr. Gilbert has been associated with various creameries in this section of California and
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for the past three years has been manager of the Gustine Creamery. He is a native of England, born June 4, 1882, a son of Henry Gilbert, also a native of England who owned and operated a hotel in that country.
William H. Gilbert attended public school in his native country and in 1894 went to Ontario, Canada, where he attended the Kings- ton Dairy School; after finishing school he was identified with milk association work in Kingston, Canada, for eleven years. When he came to California he settled at Lathrop where, for a time, he was connected with the Oakwood Stock Farm; he then removed to Ceres and for two years worked in the Ceres Creamery. In February, 1910, he located in Gustine and for the following eleven years he worked for the Dairy Delivery Company as butter maker and tester; two years of this time he was manager of the company. In 1921 he be- came manager of the Gustine Creamery, which has an output of 1,500,000 pounds of butter in one year. This creamery sells to the San Francisco and Oakland markets, and is also associated with the Challenge Cream & Butter Company of Los Angeles ; they also supply the local trade of Gustine, Newman and vicinity. There are thirty people employed in this creamery collecting milk and cream from Stanislaus and Merced Counties.
Mr. Gilbert is associated with Dr. Stagner in a fifty-acre peach and walnut orchard near Wheatland, Yuba County. Fraternally, he is a member of Romero Lodge No. 413, I. O. O. F. in Gustine; he belongs to Leeds Lodge No. 201, A. F. & A. M .; Leeds Chapter No. 132, R. A. M., both at Gananoque, Canada; is a charter member of Modesto Commandery No. 57, K. T., and belongs to Aahmes Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. in Oakland.
ORSON B. CARD
No more satisfactory example of the self-made and substantial business man can be found than Orson B. Card, proprietor of the Card Garage at Arena, Cal. He was born in Potts County, Pa., on September 25, 1882, the youngest of three children born to Orrin and Louisa (Haskins) Card, the others being Oscar M., who mar- ried Maimie Havens and had two children, Ernest and John, who are now living with their maternal grandparents, their father and mother having met an accidental death in an auto and electric car accident at Boise, Idaho; and Carrie A., who married J. P. Berlin and lives at Livingston ; she has two sons. The mother died at Nelson Run in 1900, and the father, who was born at Oswego, N. Y., resides at
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Yountville, Cal., and is eighty-two years of age. He was a Civil War veteran, and after the war he farmed and had a sawmill at Nelson Run, Potts County, Pa., where he made shingles and lumber.
Orson B. Card was reared in Potts County, Pa., and attended the public schools till he was fourteen, when he began to assist his father on the farm and in his sawmill, becoming familiar with machinery at an early age. He was the first member of the family to come to California. Before he landed in this state he was engaged in lumber- ing near Idaho City, Idaho, and in mining at Deadwood, that state. In company with his uncle, C. S. Card, he owned the Dewey mine and they brought in the first stamp mill, which weighed 5500 pounds, through almost impassable mountains. He sold his interest in this silver and gold prospect to his uncle in 1916. When war was de- clared our subject was classified as A 1 for war service and was called just as the armistice was signed. Coming then to California, he de- veloped a forty-acre Malaga vineyard from a wheatfield near Livings- ton, selling out to Clara M. Myhead in 1923. He then erected his garage, fifty by sixty-four feet in dimensions, and established a Ford agency, handling also the Fordson tractor. He has a full line of accessories, gas, oils, tires and tubes and does all kinds of repairing, employing one and sometimes two men, and is building up a good business in his district, where he is known as an experienced mechanic. In politics he is a Republican.
FRED H. CRONWELL
A successful business man of Los Banos who is now serving his township as justice of the peace is Fred H. Cronwell. A native of Illinois, he was born in Rockford, Winnebago County, on September 9, 1884, and attended the public schools of his city until he was eighteen, when he made up his mind he would strike out for himself and see something of the West. He arrived in San Francisco in 1902 and soon secured work as a clerk in the Russ House; thereafter he followed hotel work for several years in California, Oregon and Washington. He finally located in Healdsburg, Cal., and engaged in the tailoring and cleaning business, later removing to San Francisco where he carried on the same kind of business until 1916, when he came to Merced County and located in Los Banos. Here he opened a tailor shop and also deals in men's wearing apparel and furnish- ings, and does a cleaning and repairing business in connection. being now accounted one of the leading business men of the town.
Mr. Cronwell was united in marriage with Miss Nell Jones, of Healdsburg, and they have a daughter Ida May. Mr. Cronwell is
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a member and ex-president of the Los Banos Chamber of Com- merce. Fraternally he belongs to Mountain Brow Lodge No. 82, I. O. O. F. and to Los Banos Lodge No. 312, F. & A. M. Mr. Cronwell was appointed by the board of supervisors to the office of justice of the peace to fill a vacancy and at the regular election in 1922 he was a candidate to succeed himself, was elected by a good majority and continues to fill the office to the satisfaction of his many friends.
INDEX OF NAMES (Numbers refer to pages.)
A
Abbot, William Willis 557
Abell, U. Ora. 808
Adams, Elbert Garnette 607
Adams, Joseph Patrick 862
Allen, John T
847
Alves, Joseph V. 844
C
Calkins, Thomas D. 569
Canevaro, Antone. 474
Canevaro, John L. 474
Angle, Elmer K
739
Applegate, Lewis H
521
Arburua, Miguel 409
Arnold, L. F.
571
Austin, James C.
905
Azevedo, John V.
558
B
Bailey, William E. 865
Baisa, John 791
Baker, Harry M 677
Baker, Harvey A. 786
Baker, William Newton
583
Baldwin, Frank P. 621
Baleme, Modesto V. 593
Bambauer, Rudolph Henry. 534
Banchio, Jack.
617
Barneich, John 682
Barnell, Dwight K
720
Batten, Fay W
631
611
Baxter, George W
450
Baxter, James Campbell
503
Baxter, John Jerdine 610
Bennett, David
779
Bickmore, Edward 859
Bizzini, Charles 615
Bloed, C. J 716
Bloom, Paul D
674
Bloss, George S., Sr 551
Blount, George H
856
Bond, Rev. Lewis Robert.
472
Bone, Harold 860
Bonta, Julius. 901
Borsini Serafino 632
Boyle, James John
656
Bradley, Warren A
545
Bridegroom, Clyde E 673
Buckley, Irwin Jay 395
Bunker, William E 494
Burke, Henry F
860
Burns, John A
455
Bush, Benjamin Howard
809
Andersen, Andrew 645
Anderson, Olof P 759
Anet, Samuel J
791
Card, Orson B 906
Cardoza, John S 496
Cardoza, Joseph 835
Cardwell, Walter C 703
Carlin, William D 840
Casaretto, David
625
Casaretto, Joshua 408
Cassell, Clifford J. 817
Cassell, Margaret C.
817
Castle, Curtis H
539
Castle, Curtis Harvey, Jr
857
Catseftas, Peter. 803
Chinn, Albert Walker. 840
Chipman, N. Genevieve. 841
Clark, Cyrus Stanton 702
Cocanour, Joe Cleveland 462
Cocanour, John Boyd 462
Cody, Nelson Lowell Adams 509
Collier, Ann Eliza 445
Collier, William G. 445
Cooper, Walter B 518
Cordeiro, Rev. Manuel 842
Cornett, J. R. 694
Cotton, William C. 838
Court, Albert 643
Covert, Rufus P. 877
Cronwell, Fred H 907
Crookham, Don P. 848
Croop, Cyrus William 877
Cunha, Manuel T 867
Cunningham, James 388
Cunningham, Robert Clark 874
Curtis, Maury 893
D
Daneri, Ambrose E
833
Dahlstrom, John
826
Batten, Luther
910
INDEX OF NAMES
Dahlstrom, Louis 826
Davis, C. R 646
Davis, Willard R 760
Gibbons, John Paul 901
Gibbons, John Wesley. 524
Gilbert, Francis. 549
Gilbert, William Grant 546
Dessiaume, Henri. 806
Detlefsen, Caspar H 492
Dismukes, Sansom B. 516
Donahue, Charles A. 820
Dooley, Charles T
473
Doyle, Rev. George D.
596
Doyle, Harry E.
842
Doyle, Hugh
621
Drummond, John Quincy.
505
DuBois, Henry A.
737
Dulcich, J. B.
746
Duncan, Frank J. 870
Dunning, William A. 512
E
Ellis, David L. 500
Ellis, Thomas H 500
Ericson, John
764
Erreca, Jean B 889
Erreca, Martin 564
Erreca, Peter. 735
Escallier, Hippolyte P
708
Eshelman, Alvin A. 640
Evans, Elgin 777
F
Fancher, Clarence L. 726
Farrar, Frank H. 489
Ferguson, Fred R
807
Ferrel, Jessie F 455
Ferrel, William J 455
Fessler, Reuben David. 810
Finlayson, M. M. 801
Finley, Asa William 711
Finster, J. M 742
Finster, Harry Wallace 742
Foletta, Edward 635
Fought, Ulysses G. 875
Hunt, Howard M
633
Hunt, Martin Luther 633
Hunt, Russell B 633
Husman, Soren. 858
Hutchins, Luther Quintin 879
Hyatt, Charles M. 704
G
Galvin, Stephen P. 741
Garcia, Francisco S 785
Gardner, L. C. 863
Gavazza, Joseph 804
Gilbert, William H. 905
Giovannoni, Peter J. 479
Givens, Samuel Lewis. 427
Gonzales, J. J. 837
Graham, John R 529
Green, Henry P 897
Greenly, Maurice Gaylord 680
Griffin, William M. 872
Groom, John. 666
Groves, Fred K 852
H
Hadley, Fredrick 614
Hales, Daiton E
903
Hales, Elisha 562
Haley, Daniel T 761
Hallner, John Alfred 731
Halterman, Daniel 493
Halverson, John 579
Hanner, C. B. 729
Hansard, Guy E. 701
Hansen, Fredrick W 839
Hansen, Hans 536
Hansen, Peter C. 881
Harrington, A. A. 782
Harris, Samuel E. 828
Hart, Ira S 880
Heid, Leo
787
Hoard, Ralph D.
829
Holden, Oscar
665
Hollingsworth, Lucy Drum-
mond
505
Horton, Alva O. 823
Huffman, C. H.
417
Huffman, J. Walton 576
Hulen, George Robert 898
Hulen, John S. 898
Fountain, Edwin R 749
Freitas, Jose F 570
French, Charles Mortimer 398
Furtado, Antone .. 836
Furtado, John F 574
I
Iacopi, Angelo 738
Iacopi, Felice
758
Deane, G. Ingram 695
DeGregori, Michael 618
Dempsey, Charles William 892
911
INDEX OF NAMES
Ivers, James C.
883
Ives, James William 449
J
James, Henry George 407
James, John C. 430
Jensen, James Robert 655
Jensen, Matthew 626
Jensen, William Carl 535
Jirsa, Jerry J. 861
Johnson, Gust E. 466
Johnson, John. 814
Johnson, Lewis R. 878
Johnston, Albert Oscar. 600
Johnston, Bennett M. 850
Johnston, Leonard F. 722
Johnston, Oliver Franklin 825
Johnston, Rev. Thomas M. 772
Johnston, William H 772
Jongewaard, Conrad 853
Jordan, Thomas 515
Jueneman, Herman Paul 799
K
Kahl, Adam 397
Kahl, Charles W
504
Kahl, Ernest D. 584
Kahl, George A 458
Kahl, Leslie A.
766
Kerr, Richard F
563
Kinney, Glenn H 876
Klyberg, H 464
Knudsen, Knud Lauritsen 883
Knudsen, Louis H 813
Kruger, Roy
649
Kuns, Henry L 743
Kutulan, Peter
812
L
Lagomarsino, Fred A 679
Landram, Hugh K 864
Landram, John W.
775
Landram, William Edward 429
Larsen, Niels. 891
Lewis, A. A 869
Lewis, M. P. 756
Lilley, Ivan W.
868
Lilley, Walter E.
419
Logue, Harry A. 572
Lounsbury, Charles Edward 700
Lowell, H. R 713
Luiz, Manuel 663
Lundquist, P. A. 670
M
Mack, Thomas Alexis 439
Magnuson, John. 659
Makin, Clyde A 798
Marchese, Charles. 763
Marchy, Joseph 794
Marshall, Manuel A. 653
Martin, Alan B 845
Martin, Charles D 461
Mayes, Nettie H 768
Mazzina, William 890
Meany, Anthony J. 585
Meany, Anthony Warfield 585
Medlin, Florsilin D., Jr 693
Miano, Rinaldo M. 811
Miller, Henry 402
Miller, Walter A. 855
Montgomery, Andrew Earl 873
Montgomery, John M. 381
Moore, William E. 514
Mord, C. A 825
Moretti, Raffaele 817
Morrison, William P 831
Morton, Thomas B. 776
Moyer, Luther Henry
815
Mumby, William 441
Murray, Charles. 383
Mc
McBride, Willard K 650
McCollum, J. C 706
McCorry, William J 555
McCoy, Dan.
559
McCray, Claud Henry 696
McCue, James 869
McHenry, James Robert. 676
McMaster, John James. 589
McNamara, J. Emmett. 692
McNamara, Rev. P. 596
N
Negra, James 821
Neighbor, Gilbert B 428
Neighbor, Melvin. 622
Nelson, Henry 437
Neves, Alfred R 805
Newsom, Hugh L 630
Nielsen, Walter King 884
Nordstrom, John 755
Noya, Antone J. 734
O
O'Donnel, C. L.
675
912
INDEX OF NAMES
O'Donnel, Charles Wilson 675
Olds, Edward Jerome. 800
Olds, Elizabeth Lee. 800
Roberts, William Mason 484
Robinson, Frank D. 693
Robinson, Fred Amherst 460
Robinson, William. 499
Rodgers, Joe A. 846
Rodrigues, Frank R 796
Roduner, John A 423
Rogers, Charles Sheffield. 485
Rogers, Nathaniel Sheffield. 485
Rose, Carl. 824
Rossi, Matt. 750
Ruddle, James G 459
Ruddle, John 379
Ruddle, Ann Elizabeth 387
Rusconi, Fulgenzio C.
774
Ryan, James, Jr. 669
S
Salau, Henry Frederick Ferdi- nand
411
Sarbo, Louis E. 658
Sargent, H. P. 762
Schultz, Edward 773
Schwinn, Adam 544
Schwinn, George A. 544
Searing, W. H 707
581
Silva, Andrew F
899
Silva, Frank
885
Polich, Tom P 699
Pometta, Dante. 639
Puccinelli, Robert L. 793
Pugh, W. B 740
Q
Quail, John Lester
874
R
Ragsdale, James T 619
Rahilly, Peter 574
Ralston, Clarke P 747
Raven, Hans J. 690
Raynor, Andres S 547
Rector, Elbridge Gerry 382
Rector, Elbridge Nelson 543
Rector, Thomas Blackstone. 442
Snyder, John Frank 537
Reiman, M. M. 724
Reuter, Charles . W 863
Soares, Joseph Machado 900
Sorensen, Rev. Soren Emanuel
790
Riedle, Charles F. 765
Riedle, Fred H 771
Riggins, J. W 781
Oliveira, Joseph A. 719
Olson, Carl Edward
888
Olson, Fritz E. 778
Olson, W. B 831
Osborn, W. H. 447
Ostergard, Harold
851
Ostrander, Frank M. 890
Oust, John E., Jr. 871
P
Padula, Antonio 465
Pagnini, Ernest 835
Palmerlee, F. F 797
Pancoast, Joseph S.
896
Pappas, Gust T
849
Parker, Ashley S 819
Parnell, Jasper
621
Pate, Stephen M
526
Pearson, John. 602
Pebley, Frank
721
Pedigo, T. W
660
Pedrone, Fred 815
Perry, Joseph Louis 789
Petersen, Peter
671
Petersen, Peter E 904
Peterson, P. R. 745
Peterson, Walter T. 830
Phillips, Oscar Ephraim 647
Phillips, William Milton 483
Silva, John M 894
Silva, M. L. 821
Silva, Manuel M. 636
Silva, Silverio P 902
Simonson, John H 457
Simpson, George K 592
Sischo, Lorenzo A 757
Sischo, Ranse R. 892
Slavan, James H. 834
Smith, Albert Edward
827
Smith, Charles Philip 780
Smith, Charles W 513
Smith, George B. 773
Smith, H. Boyd. 744
Smith, Oscar Eugene 502
Smith, Samuel A. 780
Snyder, W. D. 537
Rice, Lucinda 822
Souza, Antone A
616
Shaw, William Henry Harrison .. Sheesley, A. N. 733
913
INDEX OF NAMES
Souza, Frank F 599
Souza, Joseph M. 681
Souza, Joseph R 728
Souza, Manual
887
Spagnoli, Joseph William
882
Sparks, Joseph Spencer.
433
Stagner, Charles E
642
Steele, George.
538
Stefani, Pompilio
623
Stevinson, Col. Archibald W 393
Stevinson, James J.
393
Stevinson, Louisa Jane 401
Stoddard, Dower Keith. 784
Stoddard, E. M.
783
Stothers, A. W
609
Stribling, Thomas B., Jr. 866
Swan, John Sanderson. 390
Swan, Stillman Robert 595
Sward, A. W
687
Swensen, Adolph
788
T
Taglio, Louis Peter 896
Taglio, Nellie A 629
Taglio, Peter L. 629
Taylor, William Fielding 412
Tetzlaff, August C. M
573
Tetzlaff, Frank 573
Thomas, Calphurnia Neel 451
Thomas, John W
451
Thomas, Robert L. A
802
Thompson, Charles Rufus
854
Thompson, Walter W
613
Thornton, Daniel K. 422
Thornton, Patrick J.
895
Thornton, Timothy
686
Thorpe, Roy P 713
Tiller, Charles B
732
Tonolla, Elvezia 886
Toscano, James V
421
Tracy, Albert G. 624
Train, Rev. E. N 648
Trick, T. R. 816
Triglia, Giacomo 818
Trindade, Joseph M. 736
Trumbell, Iva E.
866
Turner, John Archibald
533
Turner, Thomas Crawford
727
Turner, William C
415
U
Ukropina, B. J.
753
V
van den Heuvel, Roy. 723
Vasche, Joseph. 434
Vieira, Manuel. 663
Vierra, Joaquin, Sr.
634
W
Wassum, Thomas A
603
Wayne, Thomas A 754
Weaver, Christian Stoner. 672
Welch, Chester E
728
Wherity, James Richard 661
White, Lester Eugene. 689
White, William T. 440
Whitworth, Geo. H 469
Wickstrom, Arthur O 829
Wickstrom, Oscar A. 644
Wiget, Joseph 795
Willett, E. S. 560
Williams, David C. 685
Wilson, L. P 522
Wilson, Lewis B
522
Wilson, Louisa M 383
Winton, Gordon Harvey 657
Wolf, Joseph A. 767
Wolfsen, Peter J 432
Wood, Elmer B. 832
Wood, Jesse Dallas. 688
Wood, Mirabeau Dallas
475
Y
Yosemite Valley Railroad 590
Youd, Joseph James. 705
Youngborg, August.
691
Youngborg, Axel
691
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