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 19

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 19
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 19
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 19
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 19

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DOLPH STOKES, a native of California, a rancher of San Diego County, was born at Old Town in 1843. His father, Edward Stokes, was born at Plymouth, England, and was a seafaring man, being captain of a vessel which

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sailed between Boston, Sandwich Islands, San Francisco and other ports. He first came to Cali- fornia in 1838, and soon settled at Old Town. The mother of the subject of this sketch was a na- tive of California, of the well-known Ortega fam- ily. Adolfo was the eldest of three children. His father was a large land owner, owning one-half interest in the Santa Maria ranch and one-half interest in the Santa Ysabel ranch, each ranch being four leagnes in extent, or 17,752 acres. He was a large breeder of cattle and horses, and on the Santa Ysabel ranch had a wine press and vineyard which has since gone into decay, its history being only legendary. The family early removed to Los Angeles and there Adolfo re- ceived his early education, finishing at Benicia College in Solano County. He then learned the carpenter's trade in Los Angeles, which he followed until 1865, when he went to the Santa Maria ranch, which has since been his home. He owns 500 acres of land and carries on gen- eral farming, in growing wheat and barley, and has a small orchard and vineyard. He is also a breeder of fine horses, of the Black Hawk and Norman stock.

Mr. Stokes was married at Los Angeles in 1868, to Miss Delores Olvera, of a well-known and distinguished family. Her father, Don Agustin Olvera, was a lawyer and judge at Los Angeles, and was one of the presidential elec- tors at the election of Buchanan. Point Concep- cion was named after an aunt, Concepcion Llwn. Mr. and Mrs. Stokes have had eleven chil- dren, seven of whom survive and live at home. Three daughters are now being educated at St. Mary's College, and one son at the Commercial College at San Diego. Mr. Stokes' family re- moved to San Diego in 1887, where they now reside.

ALGLISH & SAULTER'S grocery and provision store is a lively business place in Elsinore. They have the only exclu- sively grocery and provision store in the place.

They formed their partnership and opened with a complete new stock in February, 1888. The building is of brick, seventy-five feet deep, in the center of the business portion of the town, and is full of a well-kept stock of goods. They are both young men of good business habits and are deserving of the large trade which they have. They are also agents for Wells, Fargo & Co. Mr. Dalglish was born in Ot- tawa, Canada, October 25, 1859, came to the United States in 1887, and has declared his intention to become a citizen of this land of his adoption. He is of Scotch descent. He is a member of the Business Men's Association of Elsinore and is one of the committee on immi- gration statistics and publications, and also of the committee on money loans and openings for capital. Mr. Saulter was born in Peterboro, Canada, in 1865, and is of English descent. He is married to Miss Maggie Dalglish, a sister of his partner, and also a native of Canada. They are both young business men who have a bright future before them.

C. PARKER, the oldest photographer in San Diego, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Hle was the fourth child in a family of ten children, six of whom are still living. His father was a contractor and builder, mainly in brick and stone. In 1836 they removed to Peoria, Illinois, where his father carried on his trade. The subject of this sketch was educated at Peoria, receiving only a common-school education. He began his profession in 1857, on both landscape and portrait work, working with Henry Cole, of Peoria. In 1862 he went to Pekin, Illinois, and there started his own gallery, doing a very satisfactory business for ten years. In 1872 he came to California, first stopping for a short period at Santa Rosa, San Francisco and Stock- ton, where he had charge of Spooner's gallery. In 1873 he came to San Diego and opened a gallery with a partner, under the firm name of Parker & Parker, which continned abont two

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years. He then bought out his partner and has been alone ever since. The first gallery was located near the corner of Sixth and F streets, but in 1884 he removed to his present spacions quarters at 740 Fifth street. Ile does a general photographic business, taking landscapes as large as 20 x 24, and portraits fromn life-size down. He does a wholesale business in land- scape work, and has printed 100,000 pictures during the past year, making a specialty of scenes and Indians on the line of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad. He employs three artists and has a very steady, satisfactory trade.

Mr. Parker was married at Peoria, Illinois, in June, 1860, to Miss Mary L. Brown, a native of Ohio. They have two children. The son, Wallace B., is married and living in this city, and the danghter, Lucile E., is still at home.

H. LOUCKS, manager and owner of the " San Diego Bath Honse," was born at Sharon, New York, March 18, 1838. He was the second in a family of nine children, and at the early age of four years his parents emi- grated to Michigan, where his father took up a Government claim of 160 acres, in a wild, unset- tled country. In 1853 they moved to Illinois, and, as times were hard and the family quite large, the subject of this sketch, at the age of fourteen years, began taking care of himself, working on farms until 1862, when he listened to his coun- try's call and enlisted in Company D, Captain Cooper, of the Second Illinois Light Artillery. They fought under both Grant and Sherman, and were in the battles of Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, and the long siege and heavy fighting at Moscow. They were under Sherman in his thirty-two days' march from Memphis to Meridian, Mississippi, and were at Decatur, Alabama, during the three days' fight against Hood, winning by an accident, as until re-enforced they held their position by strategy. Mr. Loucks was in the Quartermaster's depart- ment at Decatur and rendered valuable service

in preserving papers of great value to the de- partinent. He was in no other large battles but many skirmishes through Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky. At Memphis he was taken sick with small-pox and was unstered ont from the hospital, May 30, 1865. He then engaged in farming and other occupations until the spring of 1875, when he came to Santa Cruz, Califor- nia. In 1881 he came to San Diego and was variously employed until 1886, when he built his handsome bath-house and residence adjoining on the water front, Atlantic street, between C and D. The building is seventy-five feet front by sixty-four feet deep, and is neatly and con- veniently fitted up with tubs for either hot or cold water. In the rear he has a swimming tank 30 x 60 feet, with dressing rooms adjoin- ing. The water for baths is always pumped at high tide and from 400 teet out in the channel, thus procuring clear, pure water.

Mr. Loncks was married in Clark County, Missouri, Jannary, 1862, to Miss Eliza E. Lucas. Having no children they devote all their time to the neat maintenance of their establishment.

Z. BUNDY, one of the industrious and enterprising business men of Elsinore, claims as his native place, Springville, Iowa, and dates his birth August 18, 1862. His father, Joseph W. Bundy, and his mother, Martha (Gregg) Bundy, were natives of Ohio. Their family consisted of eight children, but two of which survive: Mr. E. Z. Bundy and his brother, O. J. Bundy, both residents of El- sinore. Bundy spent his boyhood, nntil he was sixteen years of age, in Iowa. In 1882 he en- gaged in the blacksmith business and has fol- lowed it ever since. He came to Elsinore in 1885 and found one blacksmith here before him. He bought him out and built a good shop in 1886 that would be good enough for any town in the State, and here for the past five years he has done the work for the people for ten miles in every direction from Elsinore. Realizing for

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the first time in March, 1889, that it was not good for a man to be alone he submitted his case to Miss Hattie L. Stilson of San José, who had been the school-teacher in Elsinore for the two previous years and who is a native of Cali- fornia, born in Half Moon Bay. This union of two has resulted in a third, Essie Blanch, a beau- tiful daughter, born December 9, 1889. Mr. Bundy is a member of the Elsinore Business Men's Association and of the committee on mines and mining, and is now a member of the city council. He owns one of the hot mineral spring bath houses, for which Elsinore is so justly celebrated, and is steadily with brawny, bare arms and sturdy blows, gaining for himself and those he loves, a good living and a compe- tency for later years. All honor to the men who thus benefit themselves and the country in which they reside.

OUGLAS GUNN, the present Mayor of San Diego, came to this city in the fall of 1869, and assumed editorial charge of the San Di- ego Union, which paper he soon after purchased and continued its publication until August, 1886, when he sold it to the corporation now owning it. He gave the Union more than a local rep- utation, and when he surrendered it to other hands it was one of the most valuable news- paper properties in the State. From the first he has been one of the foremost citizens of San Diego, having been prominently connected with every movement for the advancement of his city, and of southern California. He has al- ways been recognized as a leader among the pub- lic-spirited men of his section. After long years of hard work in journalism his labor was re- warded by the realization of a handsome for- tune. Always a liberal contributor to every worthy object, he was by no means disposed to retire with his wealth, but has been noted for leading the way in aid to all public enterprises. His private acts of generosity have been con- stant and unstinted.

In 1888 Mr. Gunn was elected one of the Board of Freeholders to frame a new charter for the city, and was chosen president of the board. After the adoption of the charter he was elected Mayor by a very large majority, being supported by his fellow-citizens withont distinction of party. As chief executive officer of the city he has shown marked executive abil- ity; he possesses great decision of character, and has clear-cut views of municipal adminis- tration.

He has been one of the most active members of the Chamber of Commerce since its organ- ization in 1870, and was president of that or- ganization in 1889.

Mr. Gunn is the author of several works on San Diego and the southern country, his latest and best known book " San Diego, Illustrated," having been published since his retirement from the Union. He is one of the ablest statisticians in the State, and possesses the rare faculty of making statistical matter interesting to the general reader. His contributions to news- papers and periodicals in this direction have been numerous, and have been drawn upon by nearly writer upon Southern California, his facts being regarded as authority.

Politically Mr. Gunn has always been an earnest Republican, but he is a sturdy advocate of the personal independence of the citizen, and has uniformly refused to submit to party tram- mels when imposed by machine politicians. He was never a candidate for public office until elected to his present position.

Mr. Gunn came to California a child in 1851, and has ever since resided in the State; his earlier years were passed in Sonora, Tuolumne County, where he served his apprenticeship at the printers' trade; from 1861 to 1869 he re- sided in San Francisco, and was a member of the editorial staff of the Times of that city; upon the consolidation of that paper with the Alta, in the latter year, he removed to San Diego with the purpose of fixing here his per- manent home. His faith in the future of this city and southern California has been of the

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very finest kind from the day of his arrival; and he has the satisfaction of seeing a large de- gree of the realization of his early predictions- a consommation to which his own untiring labor and ceaseless energy have in no small measure contributed

F. GODDARD, a business man of San Diego, was born at Palmyra, New York, November 16, 1835. His mother, Mrs. Maria (Fillmore) Goddard, was a cousin of Millard Fillmore. Her father was in the war of 1812, and her grandfather was in the Revolutionary war. The Goddards trace their genealogy back to the Saxon conquest. The original name was Goder, which signified Priest King, and one of the family was a priest who administered the sacrament to Napoleon when on his death-bed. The sub- ject of this sketch was the third in a family of nine children, five of whom still survive; one brother, Luther M., is now judge of the fifth judicial district of Colorado, and his brother Clarence is a physician at Leavenworth, Kansas. At the age of eighteen years the subject of this sketch sailed on the lakes before the mast, and in 1855 went to sea on a whaling vessel from New Bedford, sailing on the Atlantic and Indian oceans. He sailed as foremast hand, but was steadily promoted until he became the head of the watch. After five years of sea service he returned to his home at Leavenworth, Kansas, where his parents were then living. In 1860 he was quite extensively connected with the border warfare, and in 1862 he ran a freight line from Leavenworth to Denver across the plains, carrying a load of corn. Denver was then blockaded by Indians, and at that time Col- onel Chivington made liis celebrated raid at Sandy Creek. Mr. Goddard and two brothers with one team ran. the blockade, reaching Jules- burg and then back to Leavenworth. In 1866 he got up a large mule train from Atchison to Salt Lake, carrying a general supply of grocer-

ies. They were attacked on Lodge Pole Creek, near Pine Bluff, by Indians, and for five days were blockaded with a steady skirmish. They lost eighty-six munles and a number of horses, only retaining one wounded mule. During the fight several Indians were sent to the happy hunting-grounds. Goddard, in the first attack, killed the leader, a renegade white man, and they were only relieved by a company of troops from Fort John Buford, and thus enabled to drive off the Indians and get the freight train to Denver, where the gods were stored. In the fall of 1867, he took a contract to supply the commis- sary department on the building of the Kansas Pacific Railroad to Sheridan, and employed Buffalo Bill in killing buffaloes at $250 per month. After 1870 he was for three or four years connected with the police department at Leavenworth on the detective service. February, 1879, he went to Leadville at the opening of the great boom and located the first claim on the snow crust at Breese Hill. In the following summer he headed a prospecting party to the head waters of the Platte river and Arkansas river. In 1880, backed by ex-Governor Thomas Carney, of Kansas, he took an arined party into the Gunnison country and located claims on the Ute reservation, some of which have proved very valuable. In the fall of 1882 he emigrated to Seattle, running a hotel during the boom, and then to San Francisco in 1883, when he opened a freight transfer line across the bay from Frisco to Oakland and San Leandro. In 1885 he came to San Diego, arriving December 30, and en- gaged first in the real-estate business, and in the summer of 1886 bought out the Pacific livery and boarding stables, corner of Third and F streets, which is one of the largest stables in the city, and is doing a good business with a fine stock of horses and carriages, both light and heavy.

Mr. Goddard was married at Kansas City, in 1870, to Miss Annie Agnes Courtwright. They have no children. Under the new charter in 1889, he was appointed by Mayor Gunn to act as a member of the police commissioners for a

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term of three years, and being a man of integ- rity and morality is satisfactorily discharging his duties.

ARTINEZ CHICK .- Among the gun sportsmen of Southern California, the subject of this sketch stands out with great prominence. He is a native of California and was born in San Joaquin valley, Angust 22, 1858. His early life was passed on the farm of his father, leaving home at the age of twenty years and coming to San Diego. Hunting has been his principal amusement, until he has be- come very skillful with the gun. In April, 1887, he shot a match with Doc. Carver, who is famed for skillful shooting, and Mr. Chick won the match, killing ninety-one live birds out of 100, while Mr. Carver killed but ninety. At the State Sportsmen's Association meeting at San Jose, Mr. Chick made the best average on blue rock and live birds, and won the prize. In blne rock shooting, he broke forty-nine out of fifty in singles and forty-four out of fifty in double rise. In sweepstake tournament in 1888, at Riverside, he made over seventy-five shots at blue rocks without making a miss.

Mr. Chick was married in San Diego in March, 1879, to Miss Cornelia Higgins, a na- tive of California.

OHN C. KITTON, of San Diego, was born in St. Clair, Michigan, February 26, 1847, of English-American descent. His father was a capitalist and a general business manager, having large interests in stores, mills and ına- chine shops. John C. learned the trade of machinist in St. Clair, and for six years was superintendent and manager of his father's foun- dry and machine shops. In 1874 he went to Denver, Colorado, and then to Salt Lake and San Francisco. In 1876 lie acted as general traveling agent for D. M. Osborn, of Auburn,

New York, in the sale of agricultural imple- ments, traveling through the Northwest with headquarters at Portland, Oregon, and remain- ing with them until 1882, when he returned to San Francisco and was superintendent of the Arctic Ice Company, and while there remodeled and improved the plant and secured patents in his own name. Since 1885 he has been manu- facturing his improved ice machine at San Francisco, in connection with W. T. Garratt. In 1887 he came to San Diego and started an ice manufacturing establishment by the ammo- nia process, but owing to complications the business has been closed about one year. The plant is now owned by W. T. Garratt & Co., of San Francisco, with Mr. Kitton as manager. The plant is being carefully inspected and re- newed in view of continuing the business. They will also have in connection suitable warerooms for storage and sale of all castings made by the above house. W. T. Garratt is an early pioneer to California, having come out in 1850, and is largely interested in lands, railroads, steamboats, manufactories and in all the general develop- ments of the State.

Mr. Kitton was married at Portland, Oregon, December, 1878, to Miss Mary Isabel Day, a native of Tennessee.

OHN H. STORER, of Elsinore, is a native of Yarmouth, Maine, born March 30, 1842. His parents were also natives of that State. His maternal grandfather was a pioneer of Port- land, Maine, and president of the Casco Bank of Portland, and also Mayor of that city. Mr. Storer was educated and lived in his native place until manhood, when he became a sailor and sailed for ten years, visiting nearly every foreign port. When the war of the Rebellion broke ont he was abroad, but as soon as he reached New York he enlisted in Company C, Twenty-second New York Cavalry, and served his country until the close of the war. He then went to Cleveland, Ohio, and engaged in the

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mixed-paint business-"Averill's." After this he removed to Boston and carried on a paint factory there, and was engaged in the mixed- paint business from the close of the war until August 3, 1886, when he came to California. He stopped at Los Angeles a year, and then came to Elsinore. May 9, 1877, he was united in marriage to Miss Helen Thew, of Cleveland, Ohio. She was the daughter of Mr. T. T. Thew and Mrs. Helen Thew. Mrs. Storer was born in Marion, Ohio, at which place she was educated, and with her mother learned the mil- linery and dressmaking business. In Decem- ber, 1887, Mrs. Storer opened her millinery, dress and fancy goods store in Elsinore, and is still engaged in the business, keeping a nice stock of fine goods, and dealing with the better class of trade, not only of Elsinore, but of the surrounding country for miles in every direc- tion. Her trade has grown from the first, and she enjoys a very successful business. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church, a member of the United Order of the Golden Cross, and belongs to the Ladies' Annex of Elsinore. Mr. Storer is a member of the I. (). O. F., and Knights of Pythias. They have invested in real estate in Elsinore, and are interested in the prosperity of the city.

GERMAN, the leading jeweler of San Diego, who occupies spacious sale- rooms at 845 Fifth street, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, December 24, 1855, of Scotch-French and German parentage. His ma- ternal ancestors are the famous Mullenburgs of Philadelphia and Astors of New York : his father was a commission merchant, dealing mainly in grain. In 1860 they moved to Freeport, Illinois, carrying on the same business. The subject of this sketch there attended the common schools, and later learned the trade of watchmaker and jeweler. From 1875 to 1880 he traveled through the Territories, prospecting and mining, settling at El Paso in 1880, and opened a first-class jew-

elry store, which he continued for two years, and then returned to the Territories and lost heavily in mining speculations.

In June, 1885, he was married at Las Vegas, to Miss Grace N. Brnce, a native of Cumber- land, Maryland, and a lineal descendant of Rob- ert Bruce. Her maternal grandfather, Colonel Daniel .C. Cresap, was of Revolutionary fame, and her father, Henry Bruce, a prominent law- yer of Maryland. Her father and his brother- in-law, William Price, were appointed by the Legislature to draft the code of Maryland, which was adopted. Her cousin. Francis S. Key, was the author of the celebrated poem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."

Mr. German arrived in San Diego in the fall of 1885, immediately opened a small jewelry store, enlarging as circumstances demanded, and during the three years of the boom his business averaged $100,000 each year. He does both a wholesale and retail business, and sells to dealers as reasonably as they can buy in Eastern markets. He carries a large stock of jewelry and diamonds, has a manufacturing establishment and employs sixteen mnen in the business. He also has an art department, carry- ing bronze pictures and a fine class of artistic wares, also plated and silver ware,-in fact, everything pertaining to the wrought gold and silver department, with skilled workmen to attend to manufacturing and repairing.

OSEPH A. FLINT, a prominent business man of San Diego, was born at quarantine, in the harbor of New York, August 20, 1840, of English parents, who were emigrating to the free land of America. His father was a shoemaker and manufacturer and settled at Pittsburg, Penn- sylvania, where he acted as foreman in a large manufacturing establishment and where they remained until 1852. They then started for the "Golden State " of California, taking steamer at New York and coming by the Nica- ragua route. Their trip was without special in

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terest until they boarded the steamship North America on the Pacific at San Juan. This was an opposition boat, and the captain, as he after- ward confessed, beached her on the coast eighty miles south of Acapulco, for which he received $5,000 from the opposition line. The passen- gers, 1,000 in number, landed without loss of life, but the steamer was a wreck. They then traveled to Acapulco on foot and on mules, a four- days journey through a wild rugged country in- fested by robbers and desperadoes. At Acapulco they took steamer and arrived at San Francis- co, April 10, 1852. Joseph, then twelve years old, went with his parents to Sacramento, and tlience to Bear river, and settled at Rough and Ready, Nevada County, where they worked eight years at mining, and though Joseph was young he was very successful. In 1860 he went to Iowa Hill, Placer County, and worked under ground for three years, going in as a com- mon hand, but was soon advanced and later had charge of a claim. In December, 1864, he went to Smartsville, Yuba County, and there remained twenty years at hydraulic mining, entering as agent, and the last four years was superintendent of the Excelsior Water and Mining Company. They did much heavy blasting, and the heaviest blast ever tried in the State he set off by elec- tricity, using about 50,000 pounds of powder under a heavy bank of earth. On a forty-five days run the company took out $105,000 in gold.

From 1876 to 1879 he was a member of the board of supervisors for Yuba County. In June, 1884, he came to San Diego as secretary, treas- nrer and manager of the San Diego Water Com- pany, which position he still holds. This com- pany was organized in 1873, with a capital of $90,000; H. M. Covert, president. They piped San Diego City, drawing the supply from the bed of the San Diego river. In 1876 Jacob Gruendike was elected president. In 1887 the San Diego Water Company and the San Diego and Coronado Water Company merged with a capital of $1,000,000, with E. S. Babcock, Jr., as president. In 1889 the majority of stock

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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