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 17

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 17
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 17
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 17
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 17

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He was married in 1850 to Miss Lucinda Stewart, a native of Canada. One of her par-

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ents was Scotch and the other American. They had twelve children. She died in Missouri, in 1868, leaving him with a large family of small children. She was a good wife and a kind mother. The following are the names of the surviving members of this family: W. J., the oldest, now married and living near his father (see next paragraph); Thomas, settled in Mis- souri; A. J., settled near his father; D. A., C. D. and W. S. all have homes of their own in Winchester; Lucinda is married to Mr. Me- Ewen, and lives at San Jacinto; Amanda is married to M. B. Thomas, and also resides in Winchester; so that nearly all the children are living near their father. Mr. Haslam was mar- ried in June, 1868, to Mrs. Elizabeth McBride. Mr. Haslam is a member of the Congregational Church at Winchester, and Mrs. Haslam is a Methodist. While in Iowa he was elected road overseer and township assessor, and also super- visor; he also held the same office a part of the time in Missouri, and at the present time is school director in Winchester. Mr. Haslam is one of the pioneers of Pleasant Valley and is a good and reliable citizen.

W. J. HASLAM, one of the wide-awake, indns- "trious farmers of Pleasant Valley, was raised and educated in Missouri, and for eighteen years he was engaged in that State in farming and stock-raising. In 1885 he came to Pleasant Valley and took from the Government a 160- acre ranch. He has built a brick house and a good barn, has planted trees of different kinds, all doing well, and is doing diversified farming, raising grain, hay, horses, mules and cattle. He has twenty head of horses and mnules, and thirty head of young cattle. He has a fine two- year-old Norman-Percheron colt, and an enor- mous young jack of great value for breeding purposes. Mr. Haslam is working hard and doing well, and his place has the appearance of enterprise and thrift. He lias also a prosperous apiary of sixty stands of becs.

He was married Jannary 1, 1876, to Annice Fast, from Illinois. They have eight children, viz. : William Byron, James Russell, Winslow

Grey, John Jay, Myrtle Viola, Mable Clare, Mand Eva and Roy Chester. The first five were born in Missouri and the others in Pleas- ant valley. Mr. Haslam is a temperance man and politically has favored the Greenback side of the question.

ILLIAM HI. EADON, the Coroner of San Diego County, was born at Sheffield England, February 11, 1840. His father was a hardware merchant in Quebec, Canada, for many years, and by trade a saw-manufacturer; he was the oldest son of Moses Eadon, a large manu- facturer of saws and files, Sheffield, England, the business being still carried on by a younger son, Robert. William H., with his parents, emigrated to Quebec, Canada, in the year 1842. He was edneated mostly in private schools, and finished with a year's course at the Quebec High School. At the age of fifteen years he was apprenticed to a pharmacist (G. G. Ardouin), and during his apprenticeship attended one course of lec- tures on botany, two on materia medica, and two on chemistry, at the Laval University, Quebec. In May, 1859, he graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Upper and Lower Canada at Montreal, as a graduate of pharmacy, and immediately started for Cali- fornia. On his arrival in San Francisco, he registered with the Board of Pharmacy. For twenty-five years afterward he was connected with three of the leading wholesale drug estab- lishments of that city. He first began with Charles Morrill, remaining about two years, and with Crane & Brigham, seventeen years (Charles Morrill, and Crane & Brigham, both retired from business), and with Redington & Co. about six years, the latter being the largest drug house on the Pacific coast. In 1887 Mr. Eadon was attracted to San Diego by the boom, but taking it at its height was unfortunate in his investments. Soon after his arrival in San Diego he was appointed health inspector by Dr. D. B. Northrup. Dr. Northrup soon after

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resigned, and Dr. D. Gochenauer was ap- pointed and retained Mr. Eadon. Mr. Eadon resigned in October, 1888, after receiving the nomination for Coroner by the Republican con- vention, to which office he was chosen in the November election, assuming his duties in Jan- uary, 1889, and this position he has held with honor and credit.

Mr. Eadon was married at Quebec (now the Dominion of Canada), to Miss Honer Sharpe, a native of Quebec, Canada. They have had five children, only three of whom survive. One son, William H., Jr., is foreman of the upholstering department of F. S. Chadbourne & Co., the largest furniture establishment on this coast. Edward H. is salesman for Chadbourne & Co., San Diego, and Lilly B. helps her mother house- keeping. Ed. and Lilly reside at home.

Mr. Eadon is a member of Oakland Lodge, No. 188, F. & A. M., of Oakland, and he takes particular pride in stating that he is a straight Republican.

B. CAIRNES, the present Engineer of the Fire Department of San Diego, was born in the Connty of Tyrone, northern part of Ireland. His parents were natives of Scot- land. In 1844 his parents emigrate 1 to New York city, where they settled, and his father worked at his trade of carpenter. The subject of this sketch there received a public school education at the old Greenwich Street school, and learned the trade of machinist and engineer. In 1861 he became an active member of the Washington Engine Company, No. 20, volunteer service, with which he served until the creation of the Metropolitan system in 1866 and the disband- ing of the volunteer department. In 1869 he started Westward, visiting Omaha, Kansas City, Indian Territory and Nevada, traveling and prospecting. In 1879, Mr. Cairnes first visited California, going to Bodie, Mono County, pros- pecting in quartz-mining. He then went to Tombstone, Arizona, locating claims and specu-

lating in mines. In 1884 he went to Lower California, during the first gold excitement at San Iatruda Mission, but in 1887 he came to San Diego and started contracting in street work, grading, etc. He was appointed chief engineer of the fire department in June, 1889, and having had some thirty years' experience in fire matters the position is likely to be con- tinuous.

OVERBAUGH, who lives in a beautiful residence in San Diego at the corner of . Sixth and Beech streets, overlooking the city. bay and the Pacific ocean, was born in Charlestown, New York, November, 1821; his parents were natives of the same State. His father was a farmer and owned 320 acres in the Mohawk valley, where his only living brother still resides, on the old homestead. The subject of this sketch remained at home until he was twenty-nine years of age, receiving a common- school education, and engaged in the tilling of the soil. In 1850, he started out for himself into the great unknown West, going by rail to Buffalo, then by steamer to Milwaukee, and stage to Janesville, Wisconsin, then the second town in the State. He did a loaning and dis- count business until January, 1884, when he went to La Crosse in the western part of the State and there experienced the first excitement in a real-estate boom. He bought 120 acres adjoining the town, which he subdivided and sold in town lots. La Crosse at that time was a town of 500 inhabitants, but in 1857 numbered 5,000. The town lots sold well, but in 1857 there was a panic, owing to a free banking law which allowed every bank to issue paper re- gardless of responsibility, so that redemption was impossible and bankruptcy seemed to settle upon the town. Business became much de- pressed, until the opening of the war, when trade revived, increasing as the war continued. In 1869, Mr. Overbaugh came to San José, California, and again bought acre property,

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which he sold in town lots. In 1873 he came to San Diego and bought a lot on the corner of Ash and Second streets, and immediately built a residence, to which he moved his family in 1874. This was during the Tom Scott boom, which scon subsided, and business was very quiet until the completion of the California Southern Railroad in 1882, when the town took a fresh start and activity began, reaching the culminating point in 1886. Having experienced two land booms, Mr. Overbangh was a cantions and careful investor, foreseeing the result from the beginning, thongh he is now a large holder · of city property.

Mr Overbaugh was married at La Crosse, Wisconsin, October 3, 1857, to Miss Emily F. Parker, a native of Ohio. They have two chil- dren, who are both living and at home.

Mr. Overbaugh has never sought political distinction, but the honor was forced upon him while at La Crosse, where he served as an al- derman for three years, but at San Diego he has studionsly avoided public life.

W. ATHERTON & CO., San Diego. Per- haps the mission of business educators has never been more clearly understood than by the proprietors of the San Diego Commercial College, and certainly the success attending their efforts to acomplish this mission has been great. These gentlemen aim to foster and train in- dividually, to cultivate executive habits of mind, to give absolute knowledge of useful facts, and thus to prepare pupils to master emergencies.

The college is but four years old. It has been patronized however, by those whose patronage means excellence in the work. It has over forty ex-students placed in responsible positions and doing well. Its pride though, is its Alumni association of over sixty members, banded to- gether for mutual help. A finer body of young people is not to be found. Messrs. A. W. Ath- erton and O. P. Koerting, the proprietors, pur- sne a policy of liberal advertising. They regard

as a favor any inquiries about the college, and are especially grateful for letters asking infor- mation. They have already quite an attendance from outside of the city, and wish to increase it. The course embraces English, arithmetic, penmanship, short-hand, type-writing and book- keeping. Such modern methods of instruction and of discipline are used as make this school life a revelation to the student. The effects produced on character by the work are very marked.

T. GOLDTHWAIT, who came to San Diego in 1880, under engagement with the California Southern Railroad, to superintend the building of machine shops and heavy bridges, was born at Biddeford, Maine, October 12, 1840; his parents were also natives of Maine. The father of the subject of this sketch was a sea captain, and he also has one brother who follows the sea as captain. One brother, Everett Goldthwait, is now mayor of Elkhart, Indiana. At the age of twenty-two years, the subject of this sketch went to Boston, Massachusetts, and learned the trade of mason and builder with Nathaniel Adams, a prominent Freemason and Odd Fellow, for whom he worked fifteen years. He then started independently and under con- tract work built the Boston & Lowell Railroad station at Boston, also the Beebe block on Win- throp square. In 1880, he came to San Diego and was employed three years by the California Southern Railroad Company. He then began building and constructed the Youngs, Lonis & Schnieder blocks, besides doing much jobbing for Babcock, Reed & Panly. In 1886, he went into the real-estate business in acre and city property with very flattering success. He now owns an improved ranch of ten acres at Santa Ana, planted in apricots, oranges, pears and grapes, two small ranches at Elsinore, thirty acres at Linda Vista, and city property at National City and San Diego. In 1887, Mr. Goldtuwait was appointed superintendent of the

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construction of sewers, the Colonel Waring sys- tem, and in 1889 was re-appointed under the new charter. He is a member of the Fremont Subordinate Lodge of Odd Fellows, and the Massasoit Encampment of Boston, and is a charter member of the Silver Gate Masonic Lodge of San Diego.

Mr. Goldthwait was married in Boston, June 12, 1871, to Miss Margaret W. Webster of Unity, Maine, a lineal descendent of Daniel Webster.

ONALD McVICAR .- One of the promis- ing and pioncer ranchers is Donald Mc- Vicar, he having purchased the first ranch in the place. He was born in the Province of Ontario, Canada, May 2, 1855. His father, John Mc Vicar, and his mother. Mary (Ray) McVicar, were both natives of Scotland. Mr. Mc Vicar was the youngest of a family of nine children. He was educated in the public schools of Canada and began business there as a lumberman, cutting and shipping square timber. Ife followed this business for twelve years, and in 1885 came to California and settled in Wildomar, buying the first tract before the first town site was sur- veyed-fifty acres-on which he has erected a very handsome dwelling, and improved the property by planting a large number of trees and vines. He has preserved on his grounds several natural forest trees, which add greatly to the appearance of the property. He has laid out his grounds tastfully and has a good assort- inent of trees and shrubs for ornamental pur- poses. Donald is yet a single man, and what such elaborate improvements are for, will have to be surmised. His house was built in 1887. He is doing general farming, but is fast going into the culture of fruit, having many young peach and apricot trees now in bearing. Mr. Mc Vicar has been forward in all that has been done for the improvement of the town and is treasurer and a trustee of the United Presby- terian Church of Wildomar. When a town is

settled by such young men its future is safe. There is to be another, and we trust a happy and successful chapter in this man's life.

M. SPENCER, of San Diego, was born at Pittstown, New York, in May, 1820, and 6 in early life his father moved to Niagara County, where he carried on the occupation of miller. The son was educated in the common schools, and paid particular attention to farming. In 1849 he came to California by the Isthmus of Panama, in the old ship Niantic. Since then his experience has been very varied, being en- gaged in mining, farming, in a general mer- chandise store and running a hotel; but, judging from his pleasant residence at 1,429 Second street, we must conclude that his efforts have been generously prospered. He has been East several times, remaining at one time from 1865 to 1873, when he came direct to San Diego. He speculated a little during the boom of 1886, but in the main is living a quiet, retired life.

Mr. Spencer was married in Lockport, New York, in 1848, to Miss Marian Miles. They have three children, one son and two daughters. The daughters are both married, one living in Denver, Colorado, and the other in Brooklyn, New York. The son is unmarried and lives at home, and at present is engineer in the office of the city surveyor.

JOSEPH F. SUPPLE, one of the leading ship builders of San Diego, was born at Lyons, New York, February 26, 1854. His mother was a native of New York, and the father, who was a shoemaker, was of Irish descent. At the early age of eleven years Joseph went to Buf- falo, New York, and was apprenticed to a ship- carpenter, R. J. I. Cooper, for whom he worked four years, and at the age of seventeen years he started his own yard in boat-building at Buffalo. He built mainly pleasure steamboats,

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from 50 to 150 feet deck measurement; also many small boats and yachts. Owing to fail- ing health he came to San Diego in 1887 and opened a ship-yard at the foot of D street, and built the steamer Roseville, which was the first steamer ever built in this city, a boat 67 feet long, 18 feet beam, 6 feet hold, registering 37 tons, and now running between San Diego and Roseville on the bay. He also built the sloop yacht Climate, 28 feet long, 10 feet beam, cabin yacht; also rebuilt the steam tug Rover, and has constructed many small boats. Mr. Supple conceived the idea of and built the schooner garbage scow, which has proved a great snc- cess, in economically disposing of the city garbage by taking it far out to sea, and by utilizing the wind, instead of steam, the old method, thus saving the city about $300 per month.

Mr. Supple came to San Diego for his health, but is now a well, strong man and cannot speak too enthusiastically of the climate of this place.

LARA SHORTRIDGE FOLTZ, known as the Portia of the Pacific, was born in Henry County, Indiana, and is a lineal descendant of Daniel Boone, that eminent pioneer, who was ever in the advance, progressive in his ideas yet at all times seeking privacy rather than promi- nence; such are the characteristics inherited by the subject of this sketch, who though very prominent in public life is never so happy and contented as when in the privacy of her home, surrounded by those she loves most dearly. Her remote ancestors lived in Scotland, some four generations back; the family was established in Kentucky, where it produced several great law- yers and preachers. It divided there early in the present century, one branch going north and the other sonth. Mrs. Foltz's father, Elias V. Shortridge, was born in Indiana. He prepared himself for the bar in company with Oliver P. Morton, but, without entering upon his profes- sion, turned to the pulpit and became a clergy-

man of the " Campbellite " or " Christian " de- nomination, in which President Garfield was prominent. The branch that went south adorned the history of Alabama with distinguished names. They were a family of strong mentality and great learning. Mrs. Foltz moved to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, with her parents and was edu- cated in Howe's Seminary of that city. She was regarded by her teachers as possessing an ex- traordinary mind, having at the early age of twelve years finished the first two books of Latin, and stood at head of her classes in philosophy, bis- tory and rhetoric. After leaving school she taught two terms, near Keithsburg, Mercer County, Illinois, the last one closing on the day she was fifteen years of age. Within a few weeks thereafter and without parental advice or authority she was married to Z. D. Foltz, and moved to the Pacific coast in 1872. She began reading law in the office of the Hon. C. C. Stephens in San José, California, in 1876, and on the fourth day of September, 1878, she was ad- mitted to the bar. She was the author of the bill which amended the law of California so that women could be admitted to practice, and was the first admitted under its provisions. After- ward, having been denied admission to Hastings' College of the Law, she sued out a writ of man- damus, argued her own case and won it. The directors appealed from the judgment. Mrs. Foltz was prevented attending the law college, but by the aid of a coal-oil lamp, amid the cries of her populous nursery, she prepared herself for admission to the Supreme Court and was ad- mitted, December 6, 1879. A few weeks fol- lowing the Supreme Court affirmed the college case, and ever since that time women have been free to enter and graduate npon equal terms with men. (See Clara Foltz vs. J. P. Hoge et al., 54 Cal. p. 28.)

From the day of her admission to the bar Mrs. Foltz had all the business she could at- tend to. Patient and kind, she served all who applied for her services, charging for them only when the party applying was able to pay.

Mrs. Foltz practiced law for many years in

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San Francisco, and among a thousand lawyers she was the one woman who with keen sight and natural ability broke down the barriers of con- servatism which had been raised against her sex and won the highest respect and consideration, as well as attaining high honors in the profes- sion as a public speaker. Mrs. Foltz is pos- sessed with great oratorical ability, and takes up the hard and knotty problems of political economy with keen insight and great ability, carrying force and conviction with her utter- ance, as has justly been written of her:

" Thy voice has argued in dehate, In scathing satire sharply fell, In forum and in hall of State, Held listening thousands with its spell; Then dropped its tones to softest keep, And, crooning, sang a babe to sleep. Then hail! thee priestess of the law, Our fair-browed Portia of the West ! Write on thy shield : ' I came, I saw, I conquered!' Thou hast earn 'd the crest. Nay more; it seemed the gods to thee, Had given the Sakhard's mystery. And thou hast proved that woman can- Who has the nerve, and strength and will- Work in the wider field of man, And be a woman still."

In 1880 she was clerk of the judiciary com- mittee of the Assembly, the first woman to hold that important position, and during the same season prepared a brief on the constitutionality of a bill she had introduced : " To enable women to vote at elections for school officers and in all matters pertaining to public schools," which is considered as the ablest presentation of the suf- fragists yet offered in support of the proposition that in States where not prohibited by the con- stitution the Legislature may grant suffrage to women. The bill was defeated, however, though not for want of constitutional anthority.

ACOB SCHELLING, of Elsinore, was born in Schoffhansen, Switzerland, February 25, 1844. His ancestors and parents were Swiss people. The latter came to America and settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania. They had six chil-

dren, three of whom are now living. When the great war of the rebellion broke out our young hero of thirty-six hard-fought battles was but a boy of seventeen, scarcely large enough to be re- ceived, but with his brother Henry was mus- tered in and did his duty as a soldier in every place where duty called. IIe belonged to First Battalion, Yates Sharp-shooters, but re-enlisted as a veteran in Company F, Sixty-fourth Regi- ment Illinois Veteran Volunteers, First Brig- ade, First Division, Seventeenth Army Corps. At the second battle of Corinth his regiment suffered heavily. At the battle of Atlanta they lost twenty-three commanding officers and their Colonel received two wounds, and at the Kene. saw mountains they lost sixty men. At this place a ball grazed his throat. He was with Sherman on his march to the sea, and marched 100 miles with one shoe. They were six weeks at Savannalı, and while there lived principally on rice, which they hulled themselves with the muzzle of their guns. They heard the news ot Lee's surrender and of Johnston's surrender, and the soldiers were filled with great happiness. They took part in the grand review at Washing tou, an army of tried victorious veterans ready to lay down their arms and betake themselves to the peaceful avocations of life. He and his brother came out alive and well. His brother still lives and is now in Denver. His father died in Kankakee County, Illinois, at forty years of age, killed accidentally by a bale « hay falling on his head. His younger brother now lives in Kankakee, Illinois. He was five years in the United States regular army and came out a Sergeant. While in Illinois Mr. Schelling did not make property, so he came in 1875 to Los Angeles, California, and for nine years worked for prominent men there, and then came to Elsinore, where he homesteaded 120 acres of Government land, on which he has built a house and made other improvements. His property is in full view of Lake Elsinore and the Santa Rosa mountains, and is a nice sight. He has made a large tunnel in the mountain on his land, from which flows a nice

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spring of water; besides this he has two wells on the place. Mr. Schelling is a horseman and owns a fine Mambrino horse, Monte, a pure-bred animal of fine size and proportions and in color coal black. His sire's record is 2:27, and the whole progeny are noted for speed. Mr. Schel- ling is a member of the G. A. R., T. B. Stevens Post, No. 103, Elsinore. His record as a sol- dier entitles him to great respect.

ILLIAM H. HOLCOMB, Deputy-Sher- iff and member of the Board of Educa- tion, was born in Washington County, Iowa, November 19, 1886, being the youngest of five children, all of whom are living. In 1874 he was sent by his parents to Colorado to make his residence among relatives, and there received his education, and for that purpose attended the State School of Mines in Colorado, the State Ag- ricultural College, and the University at Denver. In the year 1880 he returned to Iowa, took a course at the Short-hand Institute in connection with the State University at Iowa City, and be- came a master of that art, and on again turning his face to the west he arrived at Denver and began the study of law in connection with his duties as short-hand reporter, but later moved to California, arriving at San Francisco in 1885, and was there employed as a short-hand writer in a responsible position. He came south in 1886, under the excitement of the land boom in San Diego, and being cautions in his specu- lations he made for himself a pleasant home at Coronado. On his arrival at San Diego he im- mediately entered the office of Judge Luce in the capacity of clerk, but the same year was appointed clerk of the Superior Court, which position he held for two and one-half years. Jannary 1, 1889, he received the appointment of deputy sheriff, and at the time of the city election for officers under the new city charter. In May, 1889, he was elected a member of the board of education from the third ward.

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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