An illustrated history of Los Angeles County, California. Containing a history of Los Angeles County from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its prospective future and biographical mention of many of its pioneers and also of prominent citizens of to-day, Part 78

Author: Lewis Publishing Company. cn
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1092

USA > California > Los Angeles County > An illustrated history of Los Angeles County, California. Containing a history of Los Angeles County from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its prospective future and biographical mention of many of its pioneers and also of prominent citizens of to-day > Part 78

Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).

sequently sold his interest to Mr. Durrell, after which he purchased the forty acres on which he is now so comfortably located, paying $1,850 for the place. Vast indeed have been the im- provements he has made and that have been made around him. The farm is now managed by his son, Daniel M., who married Miss Mag- gie J. Johnson, a native of Canada, and by whom he has one child, Roy E. Jennie C., oldest daughter of the subject of this sketch, died July 3, 1871. The two surviving children are: Daniel and Rena R. Mr. and Mrs. Hath- ern are active members of the Holiness Band in Compton. Politically he has always been pronounced in his views, was an anti-slavery inan, and now affiliates with the Prohibition party. He is one of the strongest and truest advocates of the great temperance question in Los Angeles County.

TACOB HARPS was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in 1849, and is a son of Daniel Harps. He was early in life thrown entirely upon his own resources. His mother died when he was four years old, and his father, when he was seven. In 1872 Mr. Harps came to California and located in San Francisco, where for a period of four years he was engaged in bridge-building. In 1876 he came to Los An- geles County and located in San Fernando, as one of the first settlers of what is regarded as one of the most beautiful and healthful places in Southern California. He first bought 160 acres of land, which he farmned till about two years ago. Ile still owns the farm, which he is having set to olives, but has gone into the humber business in San Fernando, and deals in Inmber, lime, cement, etc. In 1876 Mr. Harps was united in marriage with Miss Lillian Nick- erson, of Santa Cruz, California. Her parents also died before she was six years of age. They have a very pleasant home on Johnson street, San Fernando. Socially, Mr. Harps is a member of the A. O. U. W., and affiliates with Lodge No.

499

HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY.

214, San Fernando. He was one of the charter members of this lodge, which started out with twenty-one members, in 1882, and which num- bers now forty-nine members. He is the dis- trict deputy of Distriet No. 7, Los Angeles County, having held all the minor offices. He is a member of the school board, and affiliates with the Democratic party.

EORGE HANSEN, the eminent civil en- gineer, is a native of Fiume, Austria. He was born in the year 1824. He came to California via Cape Horn and Peru in 1850, and to Los Angeles in 1853. He is the oldest surveyor and engineer in Los Angeles County. Ile has followed his profession ever since his arrival, and he has probably records of more surveys, made by himself and under his direc- tion, in Los Angeles County and in Sonthern California, than any other living surveyor. He projected and planted the vineyard town of Ana- heim, the pioneer colony of the Pacific Coast, in 1857. Mr. Hansen is a very learned man, and a man of great intellectual ability. He is well read in almost every branch of human knowl- edge, and is familiar with several languages, ancient and modern, including German, French, Spanish and English. He is, withal, of a very genial disposition, and is held in high esteem for his social qualities as well as for his learning.

EV. A. C. IIAZZARD was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1825, and is a son of William Hazzard, an old associate of General Cass. William Hazzard was born in 1798, in Con- necticut. The old Hazzard family were origi- nally from Rhode Island. Ilis ancestors settled in Rhode Island in 1636 and came from Eng- land. As early as 1817 William Hazzard drove an ox team from Vermont to Detroit, Michigan, and walked and carried his personal effects on

the yoke of his oxen. He married Casandra Coan, a danghter of Angustus Coan, who was an officer in the war of 1812, and his father a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Many were the adventures experienced by Mr. Coan. At the breaking out of the war in 1812 he was in Canada and was pressed into the British service. Not wanting to fight with the British against his own countrymen he deserted; was twice captured and was condemned to be hung by Colonel Meggs. On his way to execution, which was to take place just, at sunrise, he watched his opportunity, and knocked his two guards down, springing into the brush beside the road in the twilight of the early morning, and stumbling over a log, fell behind it. Then he crawled to the water and swaiu the Detroit River, thus escaping two guards and two mounted dragoons! If all his adventures and narrow escapes from the British and the Indians could be published, it would be a work full of mnch interest. William Hazzard settled in St. Joseph County, Michigan, on Christmas eve, 1828. He built the first house in the county, and he and old Judge Sturgis, for whom the city of Sturgis was named, were the first settlers of St. Joseph County. He died at Centerville, Michigan, in 1882, his wife having died about the year 1869. They had twelve children, all living but one, James, who died at the age of forty years. The subject of this sketch was next to the oldest. He was educated at Albion College, and decided when quite young to be- come a preacher of the gospel, and was licensed to preach in 1854 in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1851 he married Jane A. Lee, of Branch County, and a danghter of Dennis Lee, a pioneer of that county. After his marriage he joined the Michigan Conference, in 1857, and traveled as a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church seven years. In 1864 he came by steamer to California, landing in San Francisco, April 1, 1864. When at Santa Rosa he joined the California Conference. The fol- lowing are the charges filled by him during his connection with this conference: St. Helena,

499

HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY.

Santa Rosa, Sacramento Circuit, Berryessa, Red- wood, Dutch Flat, Iowa Hill, Eureka, Antioch, Ferndale, Sonora and Clear Lake. Then he took the supernumerary relation, and five years ago bought the large ranch near Santa Fé Springs, where lie has since resided. Mr. IIaz- zard is an educated man himself, and has given all his children a liberal education at the Uni- versity of the Pacific in San José. IIe has recently deeded 100 acres of land as an endow- ment fund for the post-graduate courses of the University of Southern California, and they are named in honor of him. He remained a mem- ber of the California Conference till 1888, when he was transferred to the Sonthern California Conference. Mr. Hazzard is a man of large experience and liberal views, and has accom- plished a great deal of good. The members of his family are as follows: Mary Eva, now the widow of the late Rev. Harry Smith, of Wabash, Indiana; Hattie, wife of Rev. T. H. Woodward, of Chico, California Conference; George L., Fred A., and Alice M., now of Los Angeles County.

EORGE W. HAZARD, manufacturer of and dealer in harness and saddles, whips, robes, etc., Nos. 113 and 115 Reqnena street, Los Angeles, was born in the town of Evanston, one of the most popular and populous of the suburbs of Chicago. His parents were Captain A. M. Hazard, a native of Rutland, Vermont, and Eleanor (Alexander) Hazard, a native of Glasgow, Scotland. They were among the earliest pioneers in Northern Illinois, and settled on the lake shore, on the land now occu- pied by the town of Evanston, and before the town was laid out or a house built. The city of Chicago was then only a straggling village. When the subject of this sketch was only ten years of age, in 1853, his parents emigrated to California with their family, coming with ox teams, and were nearly two years on the way, including several months at Iowa City and

Council Bluffs. Upon reaching this county they located abont four miles from Los Angeles, near Park Station, taking an upland tract. · After living on the land some years, through some technicality it was declared Government land, and their claim was forfeited, and the family removed to the village for the convenience of schools. George attended school here on Spring street, where the Bryson & Bonebrake Block now stands. He also learned his trade in this city. In 1866 he engaged in business here and continned until 1871, then went East and soon afterward engaged in business in Chicago, his native city, for seven years. While there, in 1877, he married Miss Mary Anna Cox, a native of England. In 1881 Mr. Hazard returned to Los Angeles, and since then has been success- fully engaged in business here. Ile is well and favorably known, and has a good established trade. His parents lived to a good, ripe old age. His father died in 1873, and his mother's death occurred in 1883, leaving three sons, namely, the subject of this sketch; Hon. - Hazard, a prominent attorney, and recently elected mayor of the city; Daniel Hazard, of Etiwanda, San Bernardino County; and two daughters, Mrs. Lechler and Mrs. Teft, both living in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Hazard have four children: Mabel, Herbert, Lulu and Eva.

MMI D. HAWKS was born in Bingham- ton, New York, in 1834. His father, Nelson P. Hawks, was a native of Pennsylvania, who, early in life, located in New York, and there married Miss Hannalı Crocker, a native of that State. When the subject of this sketch was three years old his father moved to Wisconsin and settled in Waukesha County. He was a pioneer of that section and became largely in- terested in building up that portion of the State, and besides engaging in farming operations, built and conducted a hotel; also built a flouring mill and saw-mill. He was energetic, public- spirited and a thorough business man, well and

500

HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY.

favorably known to the settlers of Waukesha County. Mr. Hawks was reared and schooled in that county, and learned the trade of a miller. When about nineteen years of age he engaged as a clerk in a wholesale and retail grocery store in Chicago, and later, in 1856, located in Mil- wankee, where he followed mercantile pursuits until the next year. In the fall of 1857 he en- tered upon a course of study at Racine College, which he continued until the war of the Rebell- ion induced him to enter the service of his country. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in Company C, Twenty-eighth Regiment of Wis- consin: Volunteers. He served faithfully until the close of the war, and during that period participated in the battles, sieges and marches of the Thirteenth Army Corps, to which his regi- inent was attached. His soldierly qualities gained him the respect of his superiors and he was promoted to the responsible position of Quartermaster-Sergeant of his regiment. Among the battles in which Mr. Hawks participated may be mentioned the battle of Helena, the Yazoo expedition, the capture of Little Rock, and the siege and capture of Mobile, Alabama. The death of his father having occurred in 1863, at the close of the war Mr. Hawks returned to Wisconsin and took charge of the old homestead and spent the next six years in agricultural pur- snits. In 1872 he located at Green Bay, Wis- consin, and engaged in mercantile pursuits, establishing a grocery store which he conducted until 1875. In that year he came to California and took up his residence in San Francisco, where he was employed as the bookkeeper of the Pacific Type Foundry. Ile held that responsible position for seven years, and then engaged in the manufacture of printers' rollers, after which he established a collection agency, which he con- ducted until 1887. In July of that year he took up his residence in Sierra Madre, on a twenty- acre tract of land that he liad purchased in 1881. This land is located near the corner of Baldwin and Central avenues. The first year in Sierra Madre was spent by Mr. Hawks in his business as a real-estate dealer, he having established an

office on Baldwin avenne, but since that time he has devoted himself to horticultural pursuits and is placing his lands under citrus and de- ciduous fruit cultivation. Of his original tract be now has about fifteen acres, which he is rapidly planting with orange trees. Mr. Hawks was the first to bring to Sierra Madre the cele- brated Japanese orange-the Oonshiu. This is a thornless tree, producing a seedless fruit of rich flavor. He now has over 100 very fine specimens of that tree npon bis place. Mr. Hawks is a thorough-going business man, and as he is applying sound business principles to his horticultural pursuits, he is destined to build up one of the representative places of the colony. He is a public-spirited citizen, taking a deep interest in the future growth and prosperity of Sierra Madre. Politically he is a Republican. He has been prominent in various fraternal and beneficial societies and organizations and is a member of the following orders: George II. Thomas Post, No. 2, G. A. R .; Fidelity Lodge, No. 136, A. O. U. W .; Fidelity Lodge, No. 2,108, K. of H .; and Memorial Lodge, No. 6, U. E. A., all of San Francisco. He was for nine years the efficient secretary of the A. O. U. W. and K. of HI. lodges. He is a member and trustee of the Episcopal Church of Sierra Madre. In 1865 Mr. Hawks married Miss Alınerial A. Topliff, a native of New York. IIer parents were Dyer and Elmina (Woodruff) Topliff, also of that State. From this marriage there are the following named children: Laura T., Ruth T., Daisy E. and Jamie N.

ROF. JOHN J. HART was born in Cleve- land, Ohio, in 1843. His parents, Chris- tian and Catharine (Morgenstern) Hart, were natives of Germany, who came to the United States in 1834. Christian Hart became a business man and a merchant at Cleveland. The subject of this sketch was reared in that city and early displayed a taste and talent for innsic. lle was educated in the schools of

501

HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY.

Cleveland, and after leaving the High School he, entered upon his higher musical studies, and while thus engaged entered into mercantile pur- suits as clerk. In 1864 he volunteered in de- fense of the nation, enlisting in Company F, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer In- fantry, serving faithfully his term of enlistment, in the defense of Washington. In 1868 he crossed the Atlantic and at Leipsic entered the Conservatorium of Music for a three years' course of study. Returning to Cleveland, he founded the Cleveland Conservatory of Music. Professors Underner and Ileydler, gentlemen well known in musical circles, were connected with Prof. Hart in this enterprise, the latter be- ing the principal manager of the institution, which at once took high rank. After thirteen years of his ardnous duties and strict devotion to his work, Professor Hart found himself obliged to not only change his occupation, but to seek a more congenial climate; and he came to California in 1884, and located in Los. An- geles County, taking up his residence in Sierra Madre. He purchased forty acres of land, on the south side of Central Avenue, from Mr. Clement, who had made considerable improve- ments, building a cottage residence, planting trees, etc. Prof. Hart entered into horticultural pursuits upon his tract, which he continued until 1886 and 1887, when he subdivided his lands and offered them for sale, and about the same time opened up Manzanita, Ramona and Mariposa streets. He now owns his home of three acres and other lots, making about ten acres which he is cultivating and devoting to fruit- growing. He also owns a ten-acre tract on the corner of Sunnyside and Central avenues, which is producing oranges, grapes, peaches and prunes. His beautiful home on Central avenue is one of the most attractive places in Sierra Madre. A large variety of ornamental trees and rich floral productions add greatly to its charms. Prof. Hart has, during his residence in Sierra Madre, been closely identified with its best interests and has been a strong supporter of every enter- prise that has tended to advance its interests.

He is a stockholder in the Sierra Madre Water Company, and from 1884 to 1888 has been à director. IIe is well known in his section, and receives the well-merited respect and esteein of his friends and associates. In political matters he is a conservative Republican. He is a member of Cleveland City Lodge, No. 15, F. & A. M. In 1871 Prof. Hart was united in marriage with Miss Emma Corlett, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Robert and Catherine (Giles) Corlett. Her father is a native of the Isle of Man and her mother was born in England. Prof. and Mrs. Hart have three children: John W., Edwin G. and Frank R.

D. HIOWRY, junior partner and manager of the firm of Howry Brothers, roasters of coffee and wholesale dealers in coffees, teas and spices, at No. 113 North Los Angeles street, is a native of Ohio, born in Warren County in 1855. Mr. Howry's first business experience was in the dry-goods trade, in which he engaged until his health was so seriously im- paired by in-door confinement and close applica- tion that he was compelled to withdraw from business entirely. Being threatened with pul- monary consumption, he sought relief in the dry, bracing climate of Minnesota for a time, but grew worse and left there, after suffering from a hemorrhage of the lungs, so reduced that his friends feared lie would never reach California alive. On arriving in Los Angeles he was able to walk only a few blocks. Going at once on a ranch in the country, his health and strength improved so rapidly that in a short time he conld follow a plow all day, and in two years passed a satisfactory examination by two medical experts for life insurance. Mr. Howry has resided over six years in this land of sun- shine and flowers, and his health is so thor- oughly restored that few business men in Los Angeles do more work than he does. In Janu- ary, 1888, W. E. and C. D. Howry, as the firm of Howry Brothers, commenced the coffee and

503

HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY.

spice business, in a moderate way, on Banning street. Under Mr. Howry's energetic and ju- dicious management it prospered from the start, and soon demanded more commodious quarters. In January, 1889, they moved into the ample rooms they now occupy, which are fitted up with roasting and grinding machinery and other necessary appliances. The business has steadily grown, each month showing an increase over the month previous, until the firm now does nine-tenths of the roasting for the city's con- sumption, aggregating 30,000 pounds per month for other merchants. The house enjoys a fine jobbing trade in coffees, teas and spices, it prepares and puts up under its own labels; and as none but the best grades in the market are handled by them, Howry Brothers' goods have attained great popularity. The firm are sule agents on the Pacific Coast for Mrs. Stew- art's liquid bluing, and mannfacture large quan- tities of it for the trade. Six men are employed in the business besides Mr. C. D. Howry, who, being the only resident member of the firm, has entire charge of the establishment.

HARLES FREDERICK HOLDER .- The ancestors of the subject of this sketch came to America, from England, in 1657. They were among the first of the Friends or Quakers who fled to this country to escape re- ligious persecution so common in the reign of the Georges. The little party of eleven Quak- ers took passage upon the ship Woodhouse. Five landed in New York, others going to Rhode Island, while Christopher Holder and John Copeland went to Boston, where they were assaulted and imprisoned for avowing their faith, and suffered minch from the bigots of the time. The extent of the indignities heaped upon them, which are chronicled in the records of Essex County, can scareely be be- lieved when it is remembered that the country avowedly offered an asylum for those who sought religions freedom. The homestead of

the founder of the American branch of the Holder family is still in use in Lynn, Massa- chusetts, standing upon Union street, opposite the Friends' burying-ground. It was built abont 1690, on what is now the corner of Na- hant and Sagamore streets, and was removed in 1855. IIere Joseph Bassett IIolder, M. D., naturalist and author, was born. His son, Charles Frederick Holder, the subject of this sketch, was born in Lynn, August 5, 1851. Dr. Holder was a friend of Agassiz, the elder, and Prof. Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, and in 1859 went to Florida at their suggestion to make an extended examination and study of the coral reef and the fauna of the Gulf. The investigations covered a period of seven years, and much of the eol- leeting was done by C. F. Holder, who here developed a taste for natural-history studies which shaped his subsequent career. He had the immediate contact with rare natural objects so valuable to a writer, and in later years reaped the benefits of the early association. In 1869 Dr. Holder joined Prof. A. S. Biekmore in the establishment of the American Museum of Natural History at Central Park, New York City, Mr. Holder accepting a position as an assist- ant, thus observing the formation of this institu- tion which ranks but second to-day in the country. At seventeen Mr. Holder was a contributor to natural history periodicals, and year after year inereased his work and widened his field. In 1875 he was offered the position of con- sulting naturalist of the New York Aquarium and had charge of the scientific arrangement of the speeimens and publications relating to them. Continuing his writing, he did much to create the interest in natural history that began about this time. ITis efforts were mainly directed to interesting young people in natural history and kindred sciences. Ilis articles appeared in nearly all the periodicals of the day. He also contributed articles on natural history and popu- lar science to the press, weekly and daily, to the scientific publications of this country and Europe, his articles being frequently translated

503

HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY.

into the Swedish and French languages and published in the magazines of these countries; and it may be said that his labors aroused a de- cided interest in this branch of science. In 1877 Mr. IIolder gave up all other interests and devoted himself entirely to literary work, con- tining himself in general to his favorite field, marine zoology. His articles found their way, into almost every publication .in the country, from Harper's Monthly to the scientific publi- cations, and he is perhaps the most prolific writer on popular natural history to-day in this country or Europe. His first published work was a text-book on zoology, published in 1885 by D. Appleton & Co., New York. This was followed by "Marvels of Animal Life," 1886; "The Ivory King," a popular account of the elephant and its allies, published in 1887 by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York; " Living Lights," a work on animal phosphorescence, pub- lished in 1888 by the same firm, this being a subject in which Mr. Holder is particularly interested; " A Frozen Dragon," by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York; a collection of his tales in St. Nicholas and other publications; " A Strange Company," by D. Lathrop & Co., Boston; and " Pasadena," by Lee & Shep- pard, Boston. The last three books were written in 1888-'89; the three former have been issued in London by Sampson, Low & Co. In 1886 Mr. Holder came to Southern Cali- fornia and settled in Pasadena, finding renewed health in the place of his choice. Here he has continued his work and has written much regarding the natural history of the region. He has published two books on Pasadena, especially calling attention to its advantages as a health resort; a guide book on Southern Cali- fornia in general, and numerous pamphlets and articles on its resources. His descriptions of the country, its climate and agricultural possi- bilities, find their way into a large number of influential publications. Mr. Holder originated the Pasadena Academy of Sciences, is a trustee of the Pasadena Library, a school trustee, a member of the Linnean Society of New York,

and a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sci- ences. While Mr. Holder is a naturalist and a specialist on the subject of animal phosphor- escence, he is best known as a writer of books on natural history subjects for young people, this being the labor of his choice and the work in which he is most interested. In his relig- ious belief he entertains that of the (Orthodox) Society of Friends, being a member of that church.

HARLES F. HEINZEMAN is emphati- cally the representative druggist of South- ern California, having been in the busi- ness in Los Angeles twenty-one years. His commodious store, at No. 122 North Main street, is the most artistic and elegant in its finish and furnishings in this part of the State, if uot on the whole Pacific Coast. The ceil- ing and walls are tastefully decorated with fresco painting, and the shelving and counters are of unique and ornate designs in rare finely carved woods, making the whole interior of the place a real work of art and a thing of beauty. In the rear of the ample salesroom, and con- nected by arched aisles, are the laboratory and private office, and back of them a large, well- filled store room, thus giving a completeness to one of the most attractive drug stores on the continent. Mr. Heinzeman does an extensive retail and prescription business, probably the largest south of San Francisco, in which the services of six men and a boy are required. Mr. Heinzeman was born in Wallmerod, in Cen- tral Germany, in 1841. He received a liberal education and a special training for the drug business in his native land, having attended the chemical school of Dr. Fresenius, one of the most eminent analytical chemists in the world. In 1868 he immigrated to America, and, after a brief stay in New York and San Francisco, came to Los Angeles, embarking at once in his chosen pursuit, and has carried on the business for two decades, on the site of his present

Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.

Author: Lewis Publishing Company. cn Publication date: 1889 Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1092

Author: Lewis Publishing Company. cn
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1092