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Mrs. Gardiner, whose inaiden name was Susan
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M. Reeder, was born in Blount County, Ten- nessee, and her parents, Majors and Jane (Williams) Reader, were natives of Virginia and had ten children. Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner were married in East Tennessee in 1864. Their children are: Jennie, wife of Otto des Granges, Jr .; Mary, Frank, John, James, Lilburn and Alex. W.
ON. ISAAC LYONS, residing three miles northwest of Anaheim, was born in Eng- land in 1847, and came to San Francisco as a merchant in 1862. In 1868 he went to Prescott, Arizona, and in 1875 to Yuma, where he was engaged in the mercantile business for a number of years, with signal success. In 1887 he was elected to the Legislature from Yuma County by the Democratic party. Afterward he served two years as director of the Terri- torial penitentiary, his appointment to this position being received in March while he was yet in the Legislature. In 1883 he was elected treasurer of Yuma County for two years, and finally, in 1887, he came to California and bought his present place, where it is his in- tention to retire from active business life. He is still a zealous and able Democrat, and in his society relations he is a member of the Yuma Lodge, A. O. U. W. He was married in Ari. zona, in 1872, to Marcella Zegera, a native of Mexico, and their children are: Joseph, Eva, Louisa, Isabella and Edna.
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B. STONE, orchardist near Fullerton and a worthy citizen of the Golden State, be- gan life in Pennsylvania, July 21, 1831, the ninth in a family of eleven children of his parents, Silas and Susanna (Ward) Stone, who were from Vermont, and moved from Michigan to Van Buren County, Iowa, in 1837. Novem- ber 13, 1851, Mr. J. B. Stone started by a steamer for California, but came part of the way
by sail vessel, landing in San Francisco March 8, 1852. After mining one year he began farming in Alamada and Contra Costa connties. After a time he came to Los Angeles County, and in 1868 bonght land in what is now Orange County, being one of the first purchasers from the Los Angeles and San Bernardino Land Company. He took 200 acres of wild land. on which there was not a tree or shrub, from the old Spanish adobe, Coyote, to Anaheim. He immediately went to work, built a house and began improvements, and, although for several years he had to encounter " hard times," he now has fine walnut and orange groves where once the wild mustard waved in the breezes, and he now feels richly paid for all his patient labor and toil. He is a quiet, peaceable citi- zen, a good neighbor, non-partisan, but a Re- publican in his political sympathies.
Mr. Stone was married, March 6, 1855, in Sacramento, to Annie Smith, who was born in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Williamn and Annie (Blackburn) Smith, na- tives of England. The children in Mr. Stone's family are Charles E., Emma A. (now Mrs. George Gray), Thomas R., Beatrice (wife of W. A. Barnes), Elnora and Roderick.
HEODORE REISER, President of the City Council of Anaheim, was born in the city of Lahr, Baden, Germany, September 7, 1829, and after receiving a good education he began at the age of fourteen years to learn the art of wine-making on the Rhine, and served three years. He traveled and worked at his trade in Switzerland, and at the age of nineteen years he came to New York and worked at the cooper's trade four years. In the spring of 1854 he came to San Francisco by steamer, and was employed in a brewery three years. Next he went to Tuolumne County and established a brewery there, and remained there until Sep- tember, 1860, when he came to Anaheim, being one of the original settlers here in the German
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colony. He at once built a fine brick house, at a cost of over $6,000, which is an ornament to the place. He made the first wine and distilled the first brandy ever made in Anaheim. This business he carried on with wonderful success until the death of the vineyards some two years ago. To his energy, enterprise and public spirit Anaheim is greatly indebted. By his means and influence he has supported every en- terprise which has had for its object the upbuilding of the town; correspondingly his fellow·citizens have recognized his merit by electing him to nearly all of the important offices of the municipalities. Two years ago he contributed liberally to the building of the new Hotel del Campo, which was built at a cost of $40,000. He also built the music hall on Cen- tre street, a structure worthy of any city. One can read his social standing on his card, thus: " Theodore Reiser, W. M. Anaheim Lodge, No. 207, F. & A. M .; Signet Chapter, No. 57, R. A. M .; Los Angeles Council, No. 11, R. & S. M .; Cœur de Lion Commandery, No. 9, K. T .; A) Malaikalı Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S." In 1874 he was appointed Deputy Grand Lecturer for the twenty-fourth Masonic district, and in 1875 he was reappointed for the twenty-eightlı district of California.
Mr. Reiser was married in San Francisco in 1857 to Adelheit Thiele, a native of Saxony, Germany. They have no children, and are living quietly in their beautiful home at the corner of Olive and Santa Ana streets.
HOMAS SPENCER, M. D., of Anaheim, was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, in 1835, a son of Edward Spencer, who was a dry-goods merchant. He came to the United States in 1849, received a common- school education at Burlington, Iowa, and in 1854 came overland to California and attended the Toland Medical College, where he graduated in 1861. He practiced his profession at Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, until 1872, when he
bought land in Santa Barbara County. After making his home there two years he returned to Lucas County, Iowa, and bought a large stock farm, which he still owns. He came again to California in 1887, locating three and one-half miles northwest of Anaheim, in what is known as Orangethorpe. Here he has a beautiful country residence and is practically retired from business and professional life. He is a Repub- lican in his political views. He has held some responsible positions: was president of the Lucas County (Iowa) Agricultural Society, and secretary of that society four years; was a dele- gate in 1868 from the Third District of Cali- fornia to the Republican National Convention at Chicago; Associate Judge in 1862 of Sonoma County, etc. In the recent contests here he took an active part in favor of county division, and is one of the directors of the Anaheim ir- rigation district.
The Doctor was married in San Francisco, in 1857, to Miss Mary Chambers, a native of Boston; their children have been: Homer T., deceased, who for several years was city editor of the San Francisco Examiner; Ida, now the wife of Mr. B. F. McDaniels. Dr. Spencer was married the second time, in Chariton, Iowa, to Miss Mary C. Rogers, and by this marriage there are the following children: Virgil, Milton, Clarence, Ethel, Edith, Howard and Horace.
LEXANDER HENRY, farmer and stock- raiser, near Anaheim, was born in Edin- burg, Scotland in 1838, the son of Innes and Jacobina (Nicholson) Henry. His father had seven ch.ldren by his first marriage, and eleven by the second: Alexander, who was a member of the second family, joined the En- glish navy in 1850, and was in service through- out the Crimean war. He was at first errand boy and then ship's carpenter. After the war lie served six years at the shipwright's trade at Leith. Next he joined the Sidney of Glasgow and came to San Francisco in 1860, where he
b. M. Humphreys
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worked at his trade for seven years. Snbse- qnently he came to Southern California and purchased 200 acres of land, a mile and a quar- ter west of Anaheim, where for several years he was very successful in the cultivation of the vine, and also in the manufacture of wines and brandies; and since the death of the vines two years ago, lie has given his attention to general farming, stock-raising and orange culture. In his social relations he is a Free Mason and a member of the A. O. U. W.
He was married February 20, 1858, to Miss Catharine Mason, a native of Scotland, whose parents were John and Isabella (Simpson) Mason. Mr. and Mrs. Henry's children are Innes, John M. and Archibald.
UDGE C. W. HUMPHREYS. of Santa Ana, was born in Mason Connty, Ken- tucky, and is a son of Robert Humphreys. Following is a history of the family as furnished to the subject of this sketch by his father at the age of eighty-eight years:
"Shortly after the close of the Revolu- tionary war, four brothers, by the name of Humphreys, with their families emigrated from Tyrone County, Ireland, to Virginia, to either Greenbriar or Monroe County. Their names were Richard, John, Robert and Samnel. My grandfather was Robert. His sons were James, John, Robert; daughters, Mollie, Nancy and Jane. John Humphreys married Jane Ward and moved to (now) Mason County, Kentucky, in 1792, in company with Simon Kenton and other early pioneers of Ken- tncky. He moved thence to what was then known as Mad river valley, Ohio, in 1799, and raised sons-James, Robert, Charles, Ward, John, William, Henry, Andrew and Lewis; daughters-Phœbe, Rebecca, and Betsey, who died at the age of thirteen years. Father died March 19, 1857, in his ninety-fourth year. The other three brothers, originally fromn Ire- land, are scattered far and wide with their 54
descendants. My grandfather Ward was raised in Virginia, and of Irish descent. My grand- mother's maiden name was Lockhart. They had sons-William, John, James and Charles; daughters-Hannah, Betsey, Phebe, and my mother, Jane Humphreys. She died March, 1849. Grandfather Ward was killed at Point Pleasant, October 1, 1847, in the battle fonght between troops commanded by General Lewis, of the whites, and the Indian chief, Cornstalk. He was buried on the battle-field and his grave was nnknown. His son, John, was stolen by In- dians at the age of two years, and raised as one of them. He fought, and was killed in a battle against his own people and the Indians. He had children-Rebecca, Sutannney, and a son whose English name was Ward. They emi- grated many years ago with their tribe west of the Mississippi river, and nothing further is known of them. Joseph Waters, together with his first wife (whose maiden name . was Lans- dale) and family, lived near Annapolis, Mary- land; emigrated thence to Kentucky about 1792, and settled in Mason County, and had sons-Richard, Samnel and William; daughters -Elizabeth, Sally, Henrietta, Nancy, Polly, Peggy and Harriet,-all now dead."
From the foregoing sketch the reader will see that the lines of Judge Humphreys' ancestry have been well kept, and of this he is justly proud. His father was sheriff of Mason County, Kentucky, for a period of sixteen years, and he was a well known and highly respected citizen. Judge Humphreys came to Santa Ana in 1874. Here he was elected justice of the peace in 1875 and held the office until 1887: he now holds his ninth commission as notary public, the first of which was given him by Governor Irwin. He was a pioneer real-estate man in Santa Ana, and has done a large loan and insur- ance business, conveyancing, however, being his specialty. He married Cordelia Franklin, of Mason County, Kentucky; and they have had six children. The three living are Frank, Hattie and Jennie, and the three deceased are Charles, who died at the age of twenty-five
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years; Robert, who died at the age of nineteen years, and George E., who died at the early age of two and a half years.
B F. E. KELLOGG, farmer and stock raiser near Anaheim, was born in Morgan º County, Illinois, April 31, 1822. His parents, Elisha and Elizabeth (Derrick) Kel- logg, were natives respectively of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and of Scotch descent. They settled first in western New York, where most of the children were born. They emigrated to Morgan County, Illinois, in pioneer times, where Mr. Kellogg built the first house in the county. Elisha Kellogg was a prominent politician in his day, serving as county judge and sheriff of Genesee County, New York. He died in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, in 1844. The subject of this sketch left Independence, Missouri, in May, 1846, and came overland with teams to California, arriving in Napa County in Novem- ber, before gold was discovered. His journey was a very tedions and troublesome one. He enlisted in Fremont's army and served six months, being discharged at Mission San Ga- briel, in April, 1848. He still receives a pen- sion of $8 per month as a veteran of the Mexi- can war. He is able to relate many thrilling anecdotes of hardship and adventure. He and three brothers came in '44 to the Rocky monn- tains in search of a silver mine, and not finding it they built Fort Laramie by contract. Once he and a brother were attacked by Pawnee In- dians, stripped of their clothes and robbed. They had to eat walnuts and raw frogs, and once he scorched the hair off his buffalo robe and ate the hide! He became sick and exhaust- ed; his brother got lost from him, but afterward they met and were twenty-six days in reaching the borders of civilization.
Mr. Kellogg followed mining for several years after coming to this State, and afterward en- gaged in other pnrsnits. He first pitched his tent at Anaheim, May 21, 1869, and about that
time he purchased 640 acres of land two and a half miles southwest of that point. He at once built a house and began improving the place; and ever since then he has been one of the most successful farmers and stockmen in the valley. Politically he affiliates with the Republican party. While in Napa, he was coroner of the city for a number of years, and he lias held other positions of trust and honor.
He was married September 5, 1854, in Napa County, California, to Miss Mary O. Lillie, a native of Illinois, and a danghter of Luther and Orilla (Morgan) Lillie, natives of Connecticut, who had eight children. Mr. Kellogg came to California across the plains with her brother, L. G. Lillie, in 1853, stopping in the Napa valley Angust 25. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg are: Henry Clay, Elizabeth, wife of B. O. Clark; Erwin, Leonard, Jane, wife of M. Evans; Edward, Lillie, Effie and Carrie.
ACOB MAGGARD, residing near Ana- heim, was born in Caldwell County, Ken- tucky, August 12, 1815. His parents, Jacob and Susan (Bright) Maggard, natives respectively of Virginia and Tennessee, had ten children, he being the fifth. At the age of twenty years he started out in life for himself by working by the day in Scotland County, Missouri, whither his father had moved fifteen years previously. He was reared principally in Randolph County, Missouri. He continued in his calling as a farmer, in which he was suc cessful, until about twelve years ago, when he came to California and purchased property in Sonoma County. More recently he purchased his present residence, where he will spend the evening of his life. He and his wife have long been earnest workers in the Cumberland Pres- byterian Church, and are exemplary in their condnet as Christians.
Mr. Maggard was married in Missouri, Feb- ruary 11, 1841, to Elizabeth Myers, a native of that State, and a dangliter of Henry and Catha-
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rine Myers. Theirs was the first recorded mar- riage in Scotland County. They have five children: Irvine J., M. D., of Oxford, Kansas; James A., M. D., of Denver, Colorado; Wil- liam F., M. D., of Corning, California; Emma, wife of Sidney Holman; and Sarah Frances, deceased.
ENRY AND CHARLES KUCHEL, editors and proprietors of the Anaheim Gazette, took charge of this paper in 1887. They are the sons of Conrad Kuchel, a native of Germany, and one of the earliest settlers of Anaheim. For several years previous to his arrival in Anaheim he was engaged in the busi- ness of engineering in San Francisco. Henry Kuchel, the senior editor of the Gazette, was born in San Francisco, June 11, 1859. He re- ceived a high-school education at the Anaheim schools and, learned the printer's trade in the office which he and his brother now own. He subsequently worked for ten years on the prin- cipal newspapers throughout the State. He.has spent his whole time as a printer and editor, and the Gazette of to-day has for its editor one of the most practical newspaper men in South- ern California. Mr. Kuchel is still a young man, and, having so thoroughly acquainted him- self with journalismn, it is bnt natural to predict that he will in the future hold an enviable po- sition among the prominent members of the " art preservative of arts."
- G. GREELEY, horticulturist, near Ana- heim, was born in Belfast, Maine, in 1817. His parents, John and Mary (Black) Greeley, natives respectively of New Hampshire and Maine, and of English descent, had seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second. At the age of twenty- one he started out in life for himself, learning the trade of carpenter at Searsport, Maine,
being employed in that business four years. He subsequently took np land at Aroostook, and followed timbering for about a year. Next he worked at his trade for a time, building a hotel at No. 11; worked two years longer in Boston, and then on the barracks in New Orleans. In the spring of 18- he went to New York State, and was employed one summer. In September, 1849, he left Boston for California in the sail- ship Harriet Rockwell, as the ship's carpenter. Coming by way of Cape Horn, he landed in San Francisco in February. The first two years in this State he spent in the mines on the Tuol- umne river, the next six years on the Feather river, then traveled some through Oregon, and in 1858 he settled in Oakland and worked at his trade there for nine years. In 1869 he came to Southern California and bought property near Anaheim, where he has since lived, raising grapes, cranges, etc. He owns an interest in the Anaheim Union Water Works, and has been very successful as a horticulturist.
He was married in the fall of 1860, in Oak- land, to Mrs. Hannah B. Greeley, whose ınaiden name was Strant. Mr. Greeley is a stanchi Re- publican in politics. His first vote was cast for Harrison, and his last for the " grandson." Mr. and Mrs. Greeley have no children, and are spending the evening of life in the quiet retreat of their beautiful suburban home.
IM CARROLL, proprietor of the Anaheim Evergreen Nursery, was born in County Cork, Ireland, March 25, 1840, the second in a family of nine children, of Patrick and Mary (Scandlan) Carroll, who moved to Ans- tralia in 1855. He camne to Santa Cruz, Cali- fornia, in 1866, and worked at shipping lumber two years. In 1868 he came to Anaheim and bought fifty acres of land, his purchase being the first outside of the town limits. He then started the nursery business on a small scale, and to-day he has the largest nursery in South- ern California if not in the State. A few figures
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will be here submitted to show what a man of pluck and energy can do: in the nursery stock at this time there are 1.500,000 orange trees; 1,000,000 Jemnon trees, 4,000,000 gun trees, 1,000,000 decidnous fruit trees, besides palms, pines, cypress and other kinds of fruit and orna- mental trees. The nursery is located near the Southern Pacific depot at Anaheim. In ad- dition to this, Mr. Carroll has a young nursery at Los Alamitos, and sixty acres in the Centralia tract, besides other property. He has been eminently successful in the work he has under- taken, and eminently deserves the success, on account of his industry, enterprise and shrewd judgment.
He was married May 27, 1878, to Lizzie Doherty, from the north of Ireland. Her par- ents were George and Mary (Clemons) Doherty. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll are Joseplı M., George P., Mary and Timothy J.
ADISON H. BEAR, a farmer and dairyman near Newport, was born in Rockingham Connty, Virginia, De- cember 6, 1841, the fifth child in a family of eight children of David and Maria (Anderson) Bear. Was educated in Harrisonburg and also worked npon his father's farm until he was twenty-seven years of age, when he married Miss Cornelia Firebaugh, of Rockbridge County, Virginia, and a daughter of John and Ella (Mc- Cutchen) Firebangh. Mr. Bear then bonght 120 acres of land four miles west of Harrison- burg and managed a farm there four years; selling out then, he came, in November. 1873, to California, rented land two years and then purchased the tract which he now occupies, half a mile east of Newport. For some years past he has been very successful in the dairy busi- nees.
Politically he is an earnest and intelligent supporter of the Democratic party. He served as a soldier in the Confederate army, was capt- ured in the Wilderness May 10, 1864, and held
as a prisoner at Fort Delaware until the close of the war. He is a member of the Presbyte- rian Church, in which for fourteen years he has held the office of elder. He has the following- named children: Ernest C., Lena K., Irene E. and David A.
ILLIAM A. FIREBAUGH, farmer and and stock-raiser near Newport, was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, No- vember 24, 1848, a son of David and Margaret (Hnll) Firebaugh, both of Virginia. William, the fonrth in a family of eight children, received but a limited education. In 1870 he went to Cedar County, Virginia, and began business for himself by renting land for two years. In 1872 he came to California and bought land, which he subsequently improved and finally sold, when he bought a ranch a half mile southwest of Newport, and here he has been successfully en- gaged in general farming and stock-raising to the present time.
July 25, 1877, is the date of Mr. Firebangh's marriage to Fanny Jamison, of Texas, and the daughter of J. B. and Jane (Ware) Jamison. Mr. Jamison was a pioneer who crossed the plains from Missonri to California by ox teams and fol- lowed farming a number of years at El Monte. Mr. and Mrs. Firebaugh have five children: Larine, Gertrude, Lee, James and Roy.
T. ARMSTRONG, of Newport, was born in Augusta County, Virginia, in 1844. His parents, Archibald and Betty (Mc- Cutchan) Armstrong, were natives of the Old Dominion, and the fourth generation born and reared on the same farm. They had nine chil dren. Their father died in 1853, and the sub- ject of this sketch took charge of the home place until 1864, when he entered Company A, First Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., and served until 1865. From the close of the war until 1867 he
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again had charge of the farmn; he then sold out, inoved to Rockbridge County, Virginia, and followed farming there until 1871, when he came to California. On arriving here he first rented land for some four years, and then bought the ranch which he now occupies one mile east of Newport. For several years he carried on general farmning and stock-raising, but recently has turned his attention to dairying.
He was married in 1871 to Miss Mattie Fire- baugh, also a native of Virginia, a dangliter of David and Margaret Firebaugh. Their four children are: Minnie, now Mrs. Frank Baxter, of Fullerton; Berta, Willie and Fannie.
ARQUIS L. SELLS, a farmer near Westminster, was born in Wyandot County, Ohio, September 6, 1845. His parents, John and Mary (McKissen) Sells, were natives respectively of Ohio and Virginia, and had five children, three of whom are still living. John Sells was a well-known attorney in Wyan- dot County for a number of years, and died November 19, 1886. Marquis worked on the railroad as a trackman, and subsequently at- tended school at New Hagerstown and Harlem Springs. Then he taught school for some ten years in Ohio and Missouri, and in May, 1871, he came to California with two brothers and his mother. He first rented land in Santa Barbara County and afterward came to what is now Orange County, purchasing a fine ranch one mile sonth of Westminster, where he successfully engaged as stock-raiser and general farmer.
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RANK A. GATES, general farmer and fruit-raiser near Anaheim, was born in Groton, Massachusetts, in 1836, a son of I oring Gates, a well-known merchant in Groton, Massachusetts, and Boston. Mr. Gates attended the University at Hartford, Pennsylvania, and at the age of eighteen years he went to Chicago,
where he was engaged in the wholesale clothing business with his brother, James L. Gates, until 1859. He then went to Lawrence, Kansas, but, finding all vegetation dried up and the prospects of business consequently poor, he returned to Chicago and engaged with his cousin, Charles A. Eaton, in trade in guns and sporting goods. Next he conducted a hotel on the Union Pacific railroad. He took a house on the train up the North Platte to Jnlesburg station in Nebraska; in the fall he moved it to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and there ran a hotel until February, 1870, witlı good success. His next move was to San Diego, California, where he bought a team and drove t> Anaheim, in May, 1870. Purchasing land a mile and a half south of Anaheim, he planted it in vines and all other kinds of standard fruits. In 1877 he sold that place and bought where he has since lived, three miles sontwest of Anaheim, and there he has been a successful farmer and fruit-raiser. He also owns valnable property on Broadway in Anaheimn.
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