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in 1824, and had eleven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second. He was educated in Connecticut, and in the academy at Auburn, New York, of which Professor Hop- kins was president. At the close of his studies he learned the carpenter's, and afterward the millwright's trade, both of which were of great service to him in after life. In 1851 he came to San Francisco; from there he went to Sacra- mento, and from there to the mines, where he stayed for five years. He then served a cam- paign with Walker in Nicaragua in 1856; then he settled in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, where he did an extensive business for twenty years as contractor, builder, and manufacturer of Inmber. He was also a dealer in planing- mills and every kind of building material. His health having become impaired, he sold ont, and June 20, 1878, caine to San Diego County, and after traveling all through Lower California and San Diego County, he settled in San Jacinto. Here he bonght an undivided interest in 1,500 acres of land, and subsequently purchased 3,000 acres more, and commenced raising cattle and opened a store. The building was adobe, 20 x 32, on the corner of First and Hewitt streets, the back of which and also the np-stairs he used as a dwelling. The next year he bnilt an addition, also of adobe, and opened a hotel. The goods for the store were brought by wagon from Los. Angeles. The San Jacinto Land Company was formed. They platted 15,000 acres in town and farın lots, and then the settlers began to file in. His cattle raising business increased, as well as his store business, and five years after his arrival in the place he commenced the construction of his large brick block for the Palmna Hotel and stores, two stories high and 164 feet front by 128 feet deep. The whole
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block is filled and run under his personal super- vision. His stores are filled with all kinds of merchandise in all lines of goods, including undertakers' goods. It is undoubtedly the largest stock of general merchandise in the county. He has two large warehouses, and docs & grain-buying and shipping business. He does a very extensive business, his trade ex- tending out thirty miles. He has twenty-five men in his employ. He was one of the organ- izers of the State Bank, but is not connected with the institution now. He has a large livery stable, where he keeps in the vicinity of forty horses, and is sowing 2,000 acres of grain. He still retains 200 acres of choice valley land, and has 300 acres of tim bered land in the mountains. He is a man of large business capacity, and has been a great factor in his town; and while he has been wonderfully successful himself, he has been very helpful to others.
RS. JULIA J. STEWART was born in Philadelphia in 1830, her parents being John R. and Hannah E. (Howell) Vodges. The former was a native of Philadel- phia, a prominent lawyer and a trustee of Jeffer- son Medical College. He and General Israel Vodges were cousins. The mother was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1794, and died at the advanced age of eighty-nine years.
Julia, the subject of this sketch, was educated in Philadelphia, and was a constant resident of that city until she moved to Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, in 1884. She removed to Spring valley, San Diego County, that same year, and bought the ranch on which she now resides. It con- sisted of 320 acres. The property has a fine residence on it, and has been improved since 1870. Mrs. Stewart has made many improve- ments in the way of fine ranch buildings and running water-pipes over it. On the place there are 900 orange trees, 200 olive, 300 lemon, and nearly every other variety of fruit, all in bear-
ing; also many ornamental shrubs and flowers. The ranch is one of the oldest and best known places in the valley; the railroad runs near it, and Spring Valley station is within half a mile of it. Mrs. Stewart has donated a school-house site, and a nice school-house is in process of erection.
Mrs. Stewart has been twice married, first to William B. Duncan, grandson of General Dnn- can, a general of the war of 1812. They had one daughter by this union-Julia, born in 1855 in. Philadelphia, who married George Wharton, had two children, and afterward died. The children, Edith and Helen, are now with their grandmother. In 1861 the subject of this notice was married to Rev. Dr. Stewart, a native of Dublin, Ireland. When quite young he was taken by his parents to Jamaica, West Indies. He was pastor of a church in Jamaica, Newark and Philadelphia. During the war he was Chaplain with Harlan's Cavalry. By this union there were three daughters, viz .: Mary, born in 1862, and married in 1879 to Frederick Phillips, of Philadelphia; Hannah Vodges, born n 1865, and married in 1887 to her cousin, W., B. Prentice, who was born of American parents while abroad. He went to Washington Terri- tory and took up 160 acres of government land, remained one year, then went to Los Angeles and engaged in the dry-goods business for him- self. They make their home with Mrs. Stewart at Spring Valley. The other daughter, Mil- dred Maud, was born in 1868. Having poor health, she was the cause of the family coming to California. She died in Los Angeles in 1885. Mrs. Stewart has engaged quite heavily in San Diego property, and among the rest owns the Buckingham, on the corner of D and Second streets.
EORGE A. COOK, the pioneer merchant of Lugonia and Redlands, also the first Postmaster there, has been a citizen of the Golden State since 1879. He came from the
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" far East," being born in Litchfield County, Connecticut. His father died when he was a boy, and he had his own way to make in the world. He began as a clerk in a store, then as clerk on a steamer . from New York to New Haven, and was subsequently agent for the New York & Boston Express Company.
He came to California for his health, and be- ing pleased with the mild climate determined to make it his home. He bonght ten acres of barren land in Lugonia and put half of it in oranges. His was the third house built in the place. Two years later he started the first store, which in a short time he moved to the corner of Terrace and Orange streets. This store-room was 10 x 16 feet, and he had to enlarge it three times in three years. Two years ago he sold the store and has since carried on the real-estate business. He lives in a beautiful residence on the Terrace, from which he has a most magnifi- cent view of the whole valley. It is both in- teresting and amusing to hear Mr. Cook tell how the jack-rabbits used to destroy the young trees, and how they got up a bounty, and offered ten cents for every rabbit scalp; and how, after he had contributed liberally to the common fund, and had brought in a dozen or more scalps and claimed his ten cents bounty per scalp, it was not paid. Hle laughs and says, " It remains unpaid to this day."
N. BAILEY, a leading horticulturist near Julian, was born in Shelby County, Ken- tncky, in 1840, of Kentucky parents, and of Virginian grandparents. Both his grandfa- thers were Revolutionary soldiers. In his fa- ther's family were six sons and three daughters. On account of ill health he quit school in his seventeenth year, and lived in Texas until 1868, when he came to San Diego County. He was married in Texas, in December, 1862, to Miss Almira P., daughter of IIarry Gray, a native of Logan County, Texas. Her mother, whose
maiden name was Martha Randolph, was born in Alabama and related to the historical Ran- dolphs of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have five children: Ella M., born in Harris County, Texas, December, 1864; Harry R., born in San Diego County, November 1868; Charles A., in 1871; Ethel N., Jannary, 1879, and Lewis Newton, May, 1884; the three last also in San Diego County.
Mr. Bailey is president of the Cuyamaca Horticultural Society, which took about all the prizes at the horticultural fair at San Diego in 1889.
OHN McCOLLOUGH .- One of the im- portant interests of the great West has been that of stock-raising, and among its success- fnl followers we would class Mr. John McCol- lough, who was born in Jackson County, Mis- souri, June 13, 1843, being the eldest in a fam- ily of five children and only son, and his sisters are still living. In 1845 his parents removed to Texas, and his father went into the stock busi- ness, and the son was brought up on the ranch. In 1858 his father started for California, John then being fifteen years of age. They joined a company from Dallas County; the company was composed of fifty-six wagons, and Mr. McCollough, Sr., with John Keener, drove across 2,300 head of cattle, losing about 400 head. They started February 7 and arrived at Tulare Lake, Tulare County, in November, where they turned their cattle loose to graze. Mr. McCol- lough then bought a ranch and began the rais- ing and fattening of hogs, keeping about 1,000 head, closing out the cattle and hogs in 1861. John McCollonghi took a ranch near the old battle-ground on the Tulare river, and began the raising of horses, cattle and hogs, com- mencing in the fall of 1863, and continning with good success until 1867, when he sold ont and went to the Ash Springs, same county.
Mr. McCollongh was married February 10,
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1867, to Miss Mary E. Wilson, a native of Missouri. He continued in the raising of stock until 1871, when he sold out and went to Den- ton County, Texas, and there bought up droves of cattle and drove them to Baxter Springs, Kansas, the nearest shipping point. One year he drove up 100 head, another 1,200. In 1875 he returned with his wife and one child to Los Angeles County, and settled at Gospel Swamp, about ten miles south of Santa Ana, where lie
again carried on the business of raising and fattening hogs continuing until the fall of 1883, when he sold out and came to Oceanside, San Diego County, and there bought town property and erected the first hotel and stable in the city; he has also built two brick stores, and owns other improved property, all of which is well leased, and Mr. McCollough now resides on his ranch of 160 acres, near the town, where he carries on general farming.
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