An illustrated history of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day, Part 103

Author: Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1038

USA > California > Los Angeles County > An illustrated history of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day > Part 103
USA > California > San Diego County > An illustrated history of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day > Part 103
USA > California > Orange County > An illustrated history of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day > Part 103
USA > California > San Bernardino County > An illustrated history of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day > Part 103

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Mr. Packard is a native of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, dating his birth in 1850. His father, Lewis Packard, was a boot and shoe inaker by trade, and as soon as his school days were over young Packard was put to work at that trade. He worked for many years in the shoe manufactories of Brockton, Massachusetts. In 1881 he decided to seek Riverside as a per- manent residence, since which date he has de- voted himself to horticulture. He is independent in politics, but is a strong supporter of all measures of public interest that will build up and improve the Riverside colony.

The only family Mr. Packard has is his wife. She was formerly Miss Mary J. Dunbar, and is a native of Massachusetts.

ARNABAS TIBBALS, owner of a fine orange grove in Brockton square, on the south side of Bandini avenne, abont two miles south of Riverside, purchased this place in Angust, 1887, and immediately commenced his horticultural pursuits At this writing his land, consisting of ten acres, is all in orange trees, except a few deciduous trees and table grapes. Abont one-half of his trees are seedlings, and the rest Washington Navels. He has spent much labor in pruning, fertilizing and cultivating, since buying th? place, and has now a very pro- ductive grove. The improvements on the place consist of a commodious two-story residence surrounded with ornamental trees and flowers, and substantial outbildings.

Mr. Tibbals was born near Rochester, Monroe County, New York, in 1824. He was the sou of Lewis and Betsey (King) Tibbals. His father was born in Cayuga County, New York, and his inother was a native of Suffield, Massachusetts. In 1826 Mr. Tibbals' parents inoved to Michigan, and located on what afterward became the township of Avon, Oakland County. They were, among the earliest pioneers of that section, the country at that date being wild and uninhabited except by roving tribes of Indians. The sub-

ject of this sketch spent his early youth and young manhood in hard labor upon their pioneer farın, deprived of all schooling except such as could be obtained in the pioneer schools of that date. He remained on the old homestead farm until his marriage, in 1852, and then started in farming on his own account. Mr. Tibbals was engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1884. He then established his residence in Ypsilanti, where he remained until moving to Riverside in 1887. Although not an old resident of River- side, Mr. Tibbals is a progressive and public- spirited citizen, and a firm believer in the future wealth and prosperity that await the thorough horticulturist of the colony, and any enterprise that will tend to advance the interests of his section finds a ready supporter in him. He is a desirable acquisition of the Baptist Church and also a member of the Masonic fraternity, retain- ing his membership in Ypsilanti Lodge, No. 44, F. & A. M., of Ypsilanti, Michigan. In po- litical matters he is a straight Republican.

Mr. Tibbals' first marriage was in 1852, when he wedded Miss Isabelle S. Dewey. She died in 1869, leaving no children. In 1872 he mar- ried Miss Jennie Pardee, a native of Michigan, the daughter of Daniel T. and Juliana (Bab- cock) Pardee. Her father was a native of Penn- sylvania, and her mother of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Tibbals have two children: Jennie Isabella and Grace Edith. Mr. Tibbals' father died in 1876, at the age of ninety years; his mother died in 1868, at the age of seventy-six years.

RANK B. DE VINE .- No history of Riv- erside purporting to record her growth and prosperity can lay claim to real value and interest that does not award the merit to her mercantile enterprises, and the men who have conducted them. Most prominent in this record would be the names of Boyd & DeVine, com- mission merchants and jobbers, whose establish- ment is located on the corner of Eighth street and Pachappa avenue. This is one of the most

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important wholesale and commission houses in the city, dealing extensively in groceries, grain, honey, etc. They are also large fruit and raisin packers, placing their products on the markets under the celebrated "Sunbeam" brand. Their packing business was first established by the German Fruit Company, who sold out their interest to Boyd & De Vine in May, 1887.

The few brief facts gathered regarding Mr. De Vine's career previons to locating in Riverside are of interest. He was born and reared in Rochester, New York, dating his birth in 1848, had the advantages of a good schooling, and graduated at the high school of that city with honor. He then entered into mercantile life as a clerk and book-keeper, in the well-known establishment of Burke, FitzSimons, Hone & Co., of his native city. In 1870 he went to New York city, and for the next twelve years was engaged in mercantile pursuits, holding respon- sible positions in some of the largest business houses in the city. He was for many years connected with the firm of Wright, Bliss & Falyan. In 1882 Mr. De Vine came to Sonth- ern California and located at Los Angeles, and there associated himself with the German Fruit Company, and was a director of that company. In 1885 he establisbed a branch office in River- side, and controlled its affairs as general man- ager. He was successful, and established a good business, which he conducted until 1887. In that year he formed a partnership with John Boyd, a well-known pioneer citizen of Riverside, and under the firm name of Boyd & De Vine established his present business. Mr. De Vine has been the active member of the firm, and the manager of the business. The success that has been attained by the firin is in no small degree attributable to his keen foresight. Mr. De Vine promptly identified himself with Riverside and her people, and is liberal in the support of her public institutions and enterprises. He isa mem- ber of the Catholic Church, and has taken an active part in establishing that church in Riv- erside. In political mat:ers he is a Democrat, not an office-seeker, but always ready to work for

his party and principles. He is a member of the Democratic county central committee, and has been a delegate in many of the conventions.

Mr. De Vine is residing with his family on Twelfth street, where he has one of the most pleasant homes in the city. He has been twice married, first wedding in 1876, Miss Annie Moran, a native of Savannah, Georgia. She died in 1877, leaving one child, Annie. His second marriage was in 1887, when he was united with Miss Vinie Collier, a native of Paterson, New Jersey.

ANIEL SCHELL, Riverside, was born near Toronto, Province of Ontario, Can- ada, in 1815, a son of Henry and Mary (Moyer) Schell, both natives of New York, although of German descent. Grandfather John Christian Schell, a prominent citizen of Herkimer County in the colonial days and during the Revolutionary war, was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and lost his life in battle. He built a block house in Herkimer County as a refuge from the Indians: during the war it was attacked by Tories and Indians, and his two children, the father of the subject of this sketch and his twin brother Mark, were captured and carried off to Canada. It was not till long after the close of the war that they were returned to the widowed mother. In 1797 Daniel Schell's father and mother moved to Canada, and there spent the remainder of their days. Mr. Schell was reared as a farmer, at the same time receiving a fair education in the public schools. Before reaching his major- ity he learned the carpenter's trade, and estab)- lished himself in life as a carpenter and builder, also engaging in farming, which vocations he followed for over twenty years, and then engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1880 he decided to seek a home in a less rigorous climate than Canada, and with that in view came to the Pacific coast, settling in Riverside. Upon his arrival he established his residence on a twenty-

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acre tract, on the corner of Adams and Cali. fornia avenues, since which time he has been actively engaged in horticultural pursnits, devot- ing his attention to oranges and deciduous fruits. He packs and markets his products himself, and with his well-trained business principles secures good results and profits. Despite the three score and ten years that have passed over his head Mr. Schell is still a hale, hearty man, of brigbt mental faculties, with a mind richly stored with reminiscences of an active and well-spent life. He still gives his horticultural pursuits his personal attention and achieved a decided success in that calling. He attends not only to his own land, but to adjoin- ing tracts that belong to absent members of his family.

Mr. Schell was married in 1838 to Miss Eliza Mercer, a native of Canada. The children from this marriage are: Samnel M., a physician, re- siding in Hamilton, Ohio; Francis H., also a physician, resident of Cincinnati, Ohio; Charles H., resident of Cañon City, Colorado; Mary A., wife of Dr. Joseph Jarvis of Riverside; Hattie, now Mrs. W. B. Chaflie, residents of Australia; Emma A., wife of W. J. Waddingham, of On- tario; Eliza M., a member of her father's house- hold; the third child, Martha, married Dr. L. F. Crawford; both are now deceased; they left une child, Clara, who is a member of Mr. Schell's household. The sixth child, Ellen, died in 1879, at the age of twenty-six years.

AMES W. WATERS, deceased, a noted mountaineer, trapper, hunter, and guide of the Rocky mountains, was born near Brain- ard's Bridge, in Rensselaer County, New York, June 20, 1813.

In 1835 he started ont, a young man twenty- two years of age, with his rifle in hand, bound for the Rocky mountains and the great West, to begin his career. For nine years he hunted and trapped from the head waters of the Columbia and Yellowstone rivers along the mountain 42

ranges as far sontli as Texas, accompanied by such noted hunters as Kit Carson, the Sublettes, Major Fitzpatrick, the celebrated Bents, Old Bill Williams, John Brown, Sr., Alexander Godey, V. J. Herring, and Joseph Bridger, all famous in frontier life for deeds of daring. He trapped the beaver throughout the country of the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Utes, Sionx, Crows, Blackfeet, Comanches, Snakes, Apaches and other tribes, and had many interesting and ex- citing experiences. On one occasion, while he and old Bill Williams were hunting on the Big Bottom near the Rio de las Animnas for three days and nights, they were besieged by the Apaches. Mr. Waters was severely wounded by a shot in his side. He cut out the bullet on the other side of his body with his butcher knife. After holding the bloodthirsty savages at bay for three days without food he and Will- iams escaped by riding their horses over a bluff ten feet in height and traveling forty miles be- fore camping. Notwithstanding Mr. Waters suffered greatly from his wound, his comrade bolstered him up with blankets around his sad- dle, and they reached Bent's Fort in five days' ride. On anotlier occasion, over 800 Ute and Apache Indians surrounded Mr. Waters, Mr. Brown and sixteen other hunters, who by the most daring bravery repulsed their assailants.

Such was the adventurous life he led until 1844, when he came across the plains with a pack train to Southern California, by way of the Cajon Pass, chartered a small sail-boat at San Pedro and went into Lower California, and re- turned with a cargo of abelone shells, which lie packed on mules across the Rocky mountains, 2,000 miles, and exchanged with the Indians for beaver skins and buffalo robes. These he sent to St. Louis, Missouri, thus obtaining the means to purchase supplies while trapping and hunting.

Abont this time John C. Fremont desired him to act as guide for his expedition across the mountains; but as winter was approaching and the snow on the mountains was likely to be- come too deep to cross in safety, Mr. WaterE

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declined to go. Mr. Fremont went on, and a number of his company perished. Fremont's name has gone into history as the great " Path- finder " of the Rocky mountains, when in fact the paths had been found by such frountiersmen as Waters, Brown, Godey and other hunters, who showed them to Fremont and he traveled them.

For some time after the gold-mining excite- ment of 1848-'49 set in, Mr. Waters remained on Green river, exchanging fresh horses for animals that had become exhausted by con- tinued travel across the plains. In September, 1849, he came to California by the Southern route, through the Cajon Pass, to avoid the probability of being snow-bound in the Sierra Nevada Mountains further north. He served as guide for a company of 140 New Yorkers on this trip. Continuing in the live-stock business, he bought 900 head of sheep from Isaac Will- iams and Victor Prudonne, and drove them to Merced river, where he sold them for $16 a head. He then purchased a herd of cattle and kept them at the Las Bolsas ranch at the junc- tion of Merced and San Diego rivers. At San Joaquin Mission in Monterey County, he met his old friends, S. Brown and Godey, and with them opened the St. James Hotel.

In 1856 he came to San Bernardino, and was there joined in marriage with Miss Louisa Margetson, a most estimable lady, who was born in England, October 5, 1837, and died in Old San Bernardino, February 28, 1879, his old friend Brown, being justice of the peace, performed the ceremony. From that time Mr. Waters has been a permanent resident of this county. The year following his marriage he purchased the Yncipa Rancho, and subsequently bought an interest in the Rancho San Bernardino. From the day he settled in the county to the day of his death he was loyal to its interest and exerted a wide influence in its affairs by his active energy and public spirit. He was a member of the Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County during the years 1866-'67, 1868-'69, 1874-'75, 1880-'81; and his official career was

characterized by his high administrative abil- ity and unquestioned honesty. He enjoyed fair health up to within a few weeks before his death, but long before had retired from active business. He died September 20, 1889, at his home in San Bernardino, surrounded by his sorrowing family.

J. WAITE is a native of Walworth County, Wisconsin, and came to Cali- fornia in 1876, locating at Riverside, where he remained until 1879. In March, 1882, he came to Redlands and worked as fore- man for Judson & Brown. It was he who planted the first orange trees in Redlands, and he has planted and raised more orange trees than any other man in the place. He owns several lots in the city and the finest nursery stock in the whole valley. His property has all been secured by planting and caring for trees for other parties, and taking lots and lands in payment. He is a thorough horticulturist.

In August, 1889, Mr. Waite married Miss . Catherine E. Jones, of Burean County, Illinois, but, at the time of her marriage, a teacher in the public schools of Crafton. She was edu- cated at the high school of Tiskilwa and gradu- ated at the Northwestern Normal School.

AMUEL R. LANGWORTHY is one of the most progressive and energetic real- estate and insurance men of Riverside. He established his office and business in May, 1888, at a time when the " boomers " were rap- idly retiring from the field of real estate in dis- gust. He is not a " boomer," but is a wide- awake, energetic business man, confining himself to legitimate straightforward dealings, and his success in business and the rapid extension of his operations are a sufficient proof that bona-fide real-estate transactions can always be consummated in Riverside, when based upon their

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real valne. It is to his efforts that many desir- able but cheap cottage homes are springing into existence on the east side of Riverside, and are being placed within the means of an industrious labor element that is seeking a residence in the city and valley. By a system of monthly pay- ments but little exceeding fair rental for the property, he has made it possible for the poor to obtain comfortable homes.

Mr. Langworthy is a native of Ulster County, New York, and dates his birth in 1859. His parents, John S. and Emma (Fordham) Lang- worthy, were natives of that State. His father, Major John S. Langworthy, was a prominent merchant of Ulster County. At the outbreak of the civil war in 1861 he promptly offered his services to the Government, and was ap- pointed and commissioned as a paymaster in the United States army. At the close of the war he was discharged from the military service and appointed Deputy Comptroller of Currency in the United States Treasury at Washington. He then brought his family to that city, and there the subject of this sketch was reared and sehooled, closing his studies in the Emerson University. During his university conrse he devoted much attention to mechanical and civil engineering, and in 1879 he went to Colorado, and was for a year or more employed as a civil engineer, after which he located in Chicago and entered into business pursnits as a dealer in drug specialties. He was also at one time connected with the well-known publishing firm of Belford, Clarke & Co., of that city.

In 1886 Mr. Langworthy came to California and located in Riverside. Upon his arrival he established himself as an engineer and land surveyor, and was for the next two years ein- ployed in his profession in varions sections of San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties. In the fall of 1888 he established his present busi- ness and has since conducted it. Mr. Lang- worthy is an educated and practical business man, prompt and reliable in all his dealings, and is justly considered as a desirable acquisi tion to Riverside. In politics he is a Republi-

can. In May, 1889, he was commissioned by the Governor as Notary Public. He is a mein- ber of Riverside Lodge, No. 282, I. O. O. F., and Lieutenant in Company C, Ninth Regiment, National Guards of California.

Mr. Langworthy was married. in 1884, to Miss Agusta Cox, a native of Canada. Their only child is a daughter, Amie.

AVID D. BANTA is the business mana- ger and principal owner of the Riverside Mills. This mill was built by the River- side Mill Company, Walker & Banta, in May, 1887, and conducted by that firm until the death of Mr. Walker in 1888, since which time Mr. Banta has had the sole management of the enterprise. The Riverside Mills ranks as one of the leading industries of the city, being 106 x 40 feet, and is fitted with the most improved machinery for the manufacture of doors, sash, moldings and all class of work required in build- ing and interior finishing. Mr. Banta, a skilled workman of years of experience, is one of the largest employers of skilled labor in the city, engaging some fifteen men, most of whom are mechanics. The machinery of his works is run by steam, requiring an engine of thirty-horse- power.

Mr Banta was born in Bergen County, New Jersey, in 1859, and was reared and schooled in his native place until eighteen years of age. He then went to New York city and entered upon an apprenticeship at the carpenter and builder's trade. After serving as an apprentice for four years he engaged as a journeyman, working in that city. He spent nearly six years in New York eity and then started Westward, and was engaged as a carpenter and builder in Chicago, and later in Kansas City. In 1883 he came to California, and after six months in San Fran- cisco located in Stockton, and was there ein- ployed as a foreman by the firm of P. A. Buell & Co., and later as their book-keeper. In Feb- rnary, 1887, he came to Southern California and

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located in Riverside, and in May of that year established his present business. In addition to his mechanical abilities he is a thorough trained business man, and much of the success of the enterprise is due to his management of its affairs. Mr. Banta identifies himself thorough- ly with Riverside and her interests, and can always be counted upon as supporting public enterprises that add to the prosperity of the city. In political affairs he is an ardent sup- porter of the Republican party. He is a con- sistent member of the Methodist Church, and is also a member of Truth Lodge, No. 52, I. O. O. F., of Stockton.

In December, 1885, Mr. Banta married Miss Emma Stults, a native of Ohio. She is a step- daughter of his late partner, A. E. Walker. There has been born from this union one child: Clare W.

M. GODDARD, one of the leading bnsi- ness men of the city of Colton, is at the head, and is the general manager, of the well-known house of James Lee & Company, wholesale dealers in flour, provisions, grain, etc. It is one of the largest business enterprises of Colton, occupying a large brick store and ware- house west of the railroad depot in that city. The building is 160 x 50 feet in dimensions and is the largest warehouse in the county. The firm of James Lee & Company was established in 1885, composed of James Lee and the subject of this sketch as partners. They, in addition to the present business, were engaged also in banking. The death of Mr. Lee occurred in October, 1886, but the business was continued under the same name, with Mr. Goddard as senior, and M. A. Hebbard as junior partner. The banking house was sold soon after Mr. Lee's death and incorporated as the First Na- tional Bank of Colton.

Mr. Goddard has taken an important part in the business enterprises that have tended to build up Colton. He is the City Treasurer and

has held that office since the incorporation of the city, and is a stockholder in many of the enterprises that have made public improvements in the city. He is the president of the Her- mosa Cemetery Association, and has taken a prominent and leading part in political affairs. He is a first-class business man of enterprise and public spirit.

Mr. Goddard was born in New York in 1854. His father, William M. Goddard, was a native of that State, a carpenter by occupation, but during the childhood of the subject of this sketch he moved to Knox County, Illinois, and there en- gaged in farming. Mr. Goddard was educated in the public schools nntil seventeen years of age. He then started in life for himself, and first became a telegraph operator, and was for some four years in the employ of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, after which he established himself in mercantile pur- suits, and conducted a large grocery business, until 1882. In that year he came to California, locating in Riverside, and was there engaged by J. R. Newberry & Co. in their grocery and com- mission business.

In 1875 Mr. Goddard was united in marriage with Miss Margaret A. Lec, the daughter of his late partner, James Lee. Bessie L. is their only child.

RANK T. NELSON .- Among the enter- prising and progressive citizens, and suc- cessful horticulturists that are doing so inuch toward building up and placing before the world the horticultural interests and indus- tries of Riverside and San Bernardino County, mention should be made of the above named gentleman. Mr. Nelson came to San Ber- nardino County in 1863, and located at Red- lands. There he purchased a twenty-acre tract of uncultivated land and commenced its im- provement. He planted the tract with or- ange trees, and made one of the repre- sentative groves of that section. He sold the

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tract at a good price in 1887, and in the same year eame to Riverside and invested in lands. He is the owner of thirty acres of land on the west side of Bandini avenne, upon which he has his residence; six acres of the land is in orange trees, five or six years old; the balance is bottom land, which is principally devoted to alfalfa. This bottom land has a water-right of somne twenty-five inches from Spring Brook. lIe has also a ten-acre tract on the west side of Cypress avenue, which is one of the finest orange groves in the seetion. There are six acres of seedling oranges upon that tract, the trees are sixteen years old, and under his skill- ful care and cultivation are giving good re- turns, giving a yield that net him $500 per aere. Four acres are in budded fruit that are varying age and not in full bearing. He is a thoroughly practical man, and in his orange growing spares no labor or expense in enltiva- tion and fertilization, that his experience and business principles teaeles him will give a good return.

Mr. Nelson was born in Iroquois County, Illinois, in 1861. His parents were Olat P. and Frederika Nelson, natives of Sweden. At the age of seven years Mr. Nelson went to Newton County, Indiana, and there entered the family of William Russell, a well-known resi- dent of Riverside. He was reared to the oc- cupation of a farmer and stock-grower, receiv- ing the advantages of a good common-school education. He became well versed in his eall- ing, and remained in that county until he came to Redlands in 1883. Although he liad been a resident of Riverside but a comparatively short time, he is well known in his neighborhood, and has gained the respect of his associates. He is a consistent member of the Methodist Church. In politieal matters lie is a supporter of the Prohibition party.

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Author: Lewis Publishing Company Publication date: 1890 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 1038

Author: Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1038