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 22

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 22
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 22
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 22
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 22

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C DOUGALL & BURGESS .- The firm of McDougall & Burgess, dealers in agricultural implements, occupy spa- cious warerooms, 100 x 100 feet, at the corner of Seventh and I streets. William B. McDou- gall was born at Milburn, Illinois, in 1853, and

caine to San Diego in 1874. He was employed by Klauber & Levi in their hardware depart- ment for seven years. J. G. Burgess was born at Oswego, New York, November 13, 1865, and later, moving to Syracuse, engaged in the hardware business about three years. He then came to San Diego in 1887, and spent one year in the store of his brother at El Cajon. In October, 1888, the above partnership was formed and they bought out the implements, stock and good will of Messrs. Klauber & Levi, continu- ing in the same quarters. They carry the largest stock of agricultural implements in the city and are the sole agents of San Diego County, for the following well-known line of goods: Oliver chilled plows, John Deere's steel plow and farm implements, Buckeye mowers, Thomas hay-rakes, Centennial farming mills, Freeman feed cutters, Schuttler and Studebaker wagons and carriages, and are dealers in all lines of large farm machinery, and are the only jobbers in this line in the city.

MeDougall & Burgess are young men of energy and knowledge, and are largely endowed with business qualities.

ULIUS BERNSTEIN, one of the leading business men of Elsinore, was born in Prus- sia, Germany, in 1851. He received a good business education there, and afterward served an apprenticeship of three years to learn the mercantile business. Mr. Bernstein's parents were both German. He came to the United States in 1873, and was naturalized in 1878, that being as soon as he could become a citizen of the country of his adoption. He entered upon his apprenticeship when he was fifteen years of age, after which he clerked for one year, and then he came to the United States. He accepted a clerkship in a San Francisco honse, where he remained three years, when he returned to Europe on a visit. Then he returned to New York and for a time clerked both in New York and Boston. He then removed to San Francisco

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and was in that part of the State for five years, when he again returned to Europe on a visit to his parents. After a stay of five months he came to the State of Georgia and clerked for five years. In 1885 he came to Elsinore and bought out the parties who had the first store, and has continued in the business ever since. He has a double store and is dealing in general mer- chandise. During the four years he has been in business here, his trade has grown con- stantly, and he has a large stock and is doing the only general merchandise business of the town, and his trade reaches out twenty miles in all directions. He has four men constantly employed in the business. He was married in 1885 to Miss Michelson, a native of Prussia, and they have three children, all born in Elsi- nore: David, Clara and Freddie. He has made some investments in town lots and acre property, and is an accomplished business man. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., A. O. U. W., and the B'nai B'rith.

HOMPSON FRAME, of Elsinore, was born in eastern Ohio, June 20, 1841. His father, Aaron Frame, was a native of Harrison County, Ohio, born June 18, 1815. His grandfather, William Frame, was a native of Ohio also, and his great-grandfather, Benja- min Frame, came from Pennsylvania to Ohio in an early day. They were pioneers of that State and were a family of Quakers. Mr. Frame's mother, nee Talitha Thompson, born in 1818. was the daughter of John C. and Rebecca (Car- ver) Thompson. Her grandfather was Henry Carver, a Hessian soldier who came with the army to America in the time of the Revolution. After the war he settled in North Carolina, joined the Quakers, and married Talitha Mitch- ell. There were eight children in Mr. Frame's family that lived to maturity. He was the second child and was educated in Mount Pleasant, Jef- ferson County, Ohio, in a school of the Friends. He learned from his father the carpenter's trade,

and has never been sorry he acquired it. He afterward engaged with a brother in the car- riage business. In 1864 he was married to Miss Emily Bundy, born in 1844. They had one daughter, Mary T., born in 1867. Mrs. Frame died of consumption in 1873, and his daughter died March 26, 1889, at Pasadena, California, of the same disease, and he was thus bereft of a dear wife and a lovely daughter. After the death of his wife in 1873, he was of- fered the position of governor of the Friends school, Westtown, Pennsylvania. He accepted the position and had care of from eighty to 140 boys. He held the position for eleven and one-half years, and in 1886 he came with his daughter to Elsinore and bought some property and became a real-estate dealer on his own ac- connt. When the Bank of Elsinore was started in 1887, he became interested in it, and is now its vice-president and attends to its business. He was elected one of the first trustees of the city, which office he afterward resigned be- cause he could not give it the attention it re- quired. He has been a member of the school board for the last two years, and is well quali- fied for that position. He is a careful, correct business man and highly reliable, and takes a deep interest in the growth and prosperity of Elsinore.

JOSEPH J. HENDERSON .- A leading member of the bar of San Diego and a lite-long Republican is Joseph J. Hender- son. He was born in Pike County, Missouri, July 19, 1843. His grandfather, James Hen- derson, was a native of Pennsylvania. IIe was a Presbyterian of Scotch-Irish descent, his fore- fathers having fled to Ireland to escape persecu- tion in Scotland. Mr. Henderson's father, Rev. J. H. D. Henderson, was born in Kentucky and was a Presbyterian minister in Missouri, Penn- sylvania and Oregon. He was one of those men of whom it was said " he was born an abolition- ist," and had an intuitive sense of the great

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wrong of human slavery. When a boy in Ken- tucky he was often reprimanded for exulting over the escape of slaves. Ilis dislike in later years for the institution on account of its bane- ful effects on society caused him to remove with his family from the South to Oregon, where he became a prominent Republican, being elected to the United States Congress from there. In Missouri he knew a smart young slave who had learned how to read, write and cypher, and preach to his brethren. He was arrested while preaching in Jefferson City, put in prison, and the anthorities told his master that he would have to get rid of him as " he knew too much " and would be likely to teach their " niggers " things they should not know. It was decided to send him south and he was there put upon the market for sale. Buyers in want of slaves examined him and asked what he could do; he replied among other things: " I can teach your children to read and write; and if you should die I can preach your funeral sermon." Well, they did not want such a "nigger " as that. One slave-holder said to him: " I had a fellow like you, and I took him to the block and chopped the first finger off from his right hand and that stopped his writing." " But," said the slave, " I can write with either hand." The price asked for him was $800. He was finally brought back to St. Louis, where a gentleman told him if he would serve him faithfully he would buy him. He did so, and at the end of the first months' service gave him $40 and said: "If you serve me as well every month I will give you the same, and at the end of twenty months you will be a free man." After three months this master died and in the settlement of the estate he was again to be sold. He wrote to Mr. Henderson, in Pennsylvania, his misfor- tune, and money was soon raised to buy him and he was set at liberty. He went to work and afterward bought his wife. Another cir- cumstance occurred, while Mr. Henderson was in the South, of which he spoke to his family. One of the members of his church was selling at auction some of his slaves, and among them

was a woman put npon the block with her baby in her arıns. The owner said to the auctioneer, " Sell the baby first." His wife, who stood near, interceded with him and urged him to sell the mother and child together, and with a good deal of reluctance he finally consented and they were sold together. Mr. Henderson said, " I lost all faith in the religion of the man who could be so heartless." Mr. J. J. IIenderson's mother, Mary E. (Fisher), Henderson, was also a native of Kentucky, a daughter of Joseph Fisher. They were of German descent. She was born in 1820 and was married to Mr. Henderson in 1839. The subject of this sketch was the second of a family of six children. He finished his law studies at the Albany Law School in 1870, and the same year began practice in Portland, Ore- gon. In the year 1873 he was appointed, by President Grant, United States Consul to Amoy, China. He remained in the consnlar service for five and one-half years, when he resigned to en- gage in the practice of law at Shanghae, China. He was there about three years and atter traveling in Europe awhile finally came to California and settled in Sonoma County, in 1880. where he bought and managed a vineyard. He came to San Diego in 1886, where he invested in prop- erty and engaged in the practice of his profes- sion. He was married in 1871 to Miss Emma A. Woodruff of Albany, New York, daughter of Cyrus L. Woodruff. Mr. Henderson is a Thirty-second Degree Mason.

DGAR VERTREES was born in Brown County, Illinois, February 26, 1856. His father, Joseph Vertrees, was a native of Kentucky, as was his father, also born in Ken- tucky. His mother, Lucinda (Chenwith) Ver- trees, was born in 1834, and had a family of eleven children, but six of whom are now living. Mr. Vertrees was the tenth child, and was edu- cated in Brown County, Illinois. When twenty years of age he became a farmer, and has con- tinned in that business all his life. He moved

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to Kansas, and from there to Vernon County. Missouri. After some years spent in both of these States alluded to, he removed to Califor- nia, March 20, 1885, and purchased forty acres of land about one mile north from the business portion of San Jacinto, on which he built a house and barn, and made a very commodious home. His principal crop is alfalfa hay, of which he gets six crops each year, and an aver- age per crop of one and one-fourth tons per acre. This is the average, one year with an- other, and it sells at from $8 to $12 per ton. He has planted all kinds of fruit for family use, and the trees are bearing nicely. He was mar- ried January 21, 1880, to Miss Naney C. Rate- kin, daughter of Dr. Elisha S. Ratekin. She was born in Terre Haute, Henderson County, Illi- nois, January 13, 1860. They have two boys, -- Leonard W., born in Vernon County, Mis- souri, August 2, 1883, and Clarence E., born May 6, 1885, in San Jacinto. Two of Mrs. Vertrees' uncles and Mr. Vertrees' brother served in the Union armny during the war, from Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Vertrees are members of the Methodist Church, are worthy members of society, and are highly spoken of by their neighbors.

6 W. DAY, of Seotch-English descent, was born at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, July, 1833. He was educated at the Queen's University at Kingston in the classics, and then decided to take medicine. · Ilis profession took the medical and surgical course at the same university and was graduated in the spring of 1862.

Dr. Day was first married at Kingston, in 1859. His wife lived but a few years, leaving one son and one daughter. The Doctor prac- ticed medicine and surgery at Kingston until 1871, when he was again married to Miss Eliza- beth Powers, of Kingston, Ontario. They went to Chicago, where the Doctor opened an office and followed his profession until 1878, when he

was obliged to return to Kingston, and remained three years, his second wife dying meantime and leaving two sons. In 1881, the Doctor again came to the United States and settled at Coun- cil Grove, Kansas, resuming his profession in medicine. In 1886, he was married the third time, at Davenport, Iowa, to Mrs. Addie N. Rambow, and in 1887 they came to San Diego, where he immediately opened an office and has met with very flattering success. The Doctor is a regular physician and apparently well up in his profession, a man well preserved in physique and of pleasing manners and address. His children are all with him except his dangh- ter, who is married and lives in Kansas. In May, 1888, he took up Government land of 165 acres and eighty acres of timber land at Alpine, San Diego County, which he is now improving. The timber land he well set to Eucalyptus trees, and the ranch to walnuts, prunes, olives and a variety of fruits and vines. The climate of Al- pine he considers very salubrious, and especially adapted to pulmonary trouble, being at an ele- vation of about 800 feet, with plenty of rain- fall, yet with a dry, wholesome atmosphere and no frosts. Irrigation is unnecessary, as the water is quite near the surface. Springs are easily developed, and, overflowing, give an abun- dance of pure spring water.

Dr. Day is a member of the Masonic Lodge, No. 35, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of which organization he is the med- ical examiner, and he is also surgeon for the Santa Fe Railroad Company.

F. SHULTZ was born in Muscatine County, Iowa, July 8, 1851. His father, Joshua Shultz, was a native of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and his grandfather was a Hessian from Hesse Darmstadt. He was a soldier in King George's arıny, but was taken prisoner and en- listed in the cause of independence in the Revo- Intion. Mr. Shultz's mother, nee Catherine Fulton, was born in Washington County, Mary-

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land. Her ancestors were originally from Glas- gow, Scotland. They had a family of nine chil- dren, of which the subject of this sketch was the fifth. While a boy he was sent to school in his native place, and when seventeen years of age he went to learn the tool maker's trade, and with it blacksmithing and the machinist's trade, and after working some time in Iowa, went to Minneapolis, where for five years he was in the employ of the Applebee Harvester and Binder Company, and afterward traveled and sold ma- chines for them. October 1, 1885, he came to California, and was two months in Los Angeles, when he learned of the new town of San Jacinto, which was then being started. He came to San Jacinto and bought, and built a very pleas- ant home on five acres of land, a short distance north of the new brick school-house, on Central avenue, in the city of San Jacinto. Here he has planted trees and made improvements, which indicates thrift and comfort. He has sunk an artesian well, which affords a fine flow of splen- did water, and from it a nice little brook of clear water runs across his grounds to his barn and poultry houses. He began the blacksmith business on coming to the town, and has con- tinued it ever since. He is running a good shop, and in connection with it is doing carriage and wagon manufacturing, and his business ex- tends ont over twenty miles in some directions. On May 23, 1875, he was married to Miss Joanna Bachman, a native of Eldora, Iowa, born January 16, 1857, and daughter of James and Emma Bachman. Their union has been blessed with four children, viz .: James J., born in Eldora, Iowa, April 21, 1876; Alice I., born April 17, 1878; Zelma A., born May 17, 1880, in Eldora; Jessie M., born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jannary 28, 1883. Mr. Shultz is a member of St. John's Chapter, Minneapolis, No. 9, and is a member of the F. A. M., Min- neapolis Lodge, No. 19, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a member of Eldora Lodge, No. 77, I. O. O. F., and now holds the office of one of the trustees of the city of San Jacinto. It is need- less to add that he is a man of intelligence and

worth, and alive to the interests of the town of which he is a pioneer.

OWARD M. KUTCHIN, a journalist, ed- itor and publisher, now a resident of San Diego, was a native of Norristown, Penn- sylvania, born November 4, 1842. His father, Rev. Thomas T. Kutchin, born in Pennsylvania, was a Baptist clergyman in Philadelphia. His grandfather, Thomas J. Kntchin, was born in Philadelphia, and for the greater part of his life was a professor in one of the academies in Philadelphia. The family is of Scotch descent. Mr. Kutchin's mother, Amanda (Thomas) Kutch- in, was a danghter of Mr. Ephraim Thomas. Their ancestors came from Wales in 1676, two years after Penn's arrival. There were nine children in the family, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third child, and the oldest of six boys. He received his education in the public schools, and in 1860, when eighteen years of age, he adopted journalism as a pro- fession, and was connected with various news- papers in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Missouri. In 1866 he was married to Miss Elsie M. Irving, born in Racine, Wisconsin, July 1, 1844, daughter of John and Mary Irving, who were of Scotch descent. They have two children -- a daughter and son: Grace E. and Harold I. Shortly after his marriage in Missouri he re- turned to Wisconsin in 1867, and bought the Fort Atkinson Herald, and was its publisher until the fall of 1870, when he leased the estab- lishment and came to San Diego with a purpose to remain. He then became connected with the San Diego Union, and assisted in publishing the first Daily Union. His tenant in Wiscon- sin being unable to carry out his lease, he re- turned, took possession and sold out, and pur- chased the Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) Daily Commonwealth. He owned and edited that paper up to 1884. In 1877 he was appointed director of Wisconsin State prison. In 1879 President Hayes appointed him Collector of In-

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ternal Revenue for the third distriet of Wiscon- son, in which capacity he continued until Pres- ident Cleveland was elected, when he went out as an " offensive partisan."

During his residence in Wisconsin he took an active part in politics. He was chairman of the Republican County Committee, and was chairman of the Republican Congressional Dis- triet Committee for many years. At the State Republican Convention of 1886 he was elected secretary of the State Central Committee, and did the work of the campaign in that capacity. At the close of this, being greatly prostrated by the arduous labors he had performned, he was advised by his physicians to travel, and he re- turned to San Diego in 1887. He returned to Wisconsin in the spring and came back again a few months later, to make his permanent home herc. In the fall of 1888 he took charge of the Daily Union as manager. In the course of a few months he became editor as well, and con- tinned it until June, 1889, when he retired from the paper. He is a member of the Ma- sonic fraternity, is a Knight Templar, and has hela various positions in the order. In the Knights of Pythias he was Grand Chancellor of Wisconsin for a number of years, and Supreme Representative of the State to the Supreme Lodge of the world for four years. In June, 1889, he was recommended by Congressman Vandeon and the Republican State delegation for the appointment of Postmaster of San Diego: he was subsequently appointed, and now oc- cupies that position. He has invested largely in property in San Diego, and is interested in all that pertains to the welfare of the city of his choice and home.

S. BUCK .- Among the early pioneers of California we note the name of Joshua S. Buck, who arrived at San Francisco in 1856, at the age of twenty-one years, filled with the enthusiasm and ambitions of youth, and also possessed of a scientific knowledge which

few acquire at so early an age, as upon his ar- rival at San Francisco he was one of three ina- rine engineers who held first-class certificates from the Government. He was born at Campo Bello, New Brunswick, March 12, 1835, his parents being natives of Maine. He was third in a family of ten children, of whom nine are still living. In 1842 his parents removed to Eastport, Maine, and his father being a mechan- ical engineer, he was early employed as agent of the steamship company which ran steamners from Boston to Eastport and New Brunswick. After a common-school education, the subject of this sketch early adopted the profession of his father, and under his skillful teaching was rapidly pushed forward in his trade, and was often substituted as engineer on steamships of the Eastport line.

In 1856 he left home for California, arriving in New York in October, and being a seafaring man, which entitles him to a vote in any port, he there cast his first Presidential vote for Jolın C. Fremont, October 12, 1856, and in the afternoon of the same day he boarded a steamer as passenger, bound for California by the Isth- Inns of Panama, arriving at San Francisco in November, 1856. The following five years were employed in placer mining, mainly in Tuolumne County. Returning to San Francisco in 1861, he was employed by the Holiday Line of Steam- ers in repairing the steamship John L. Stephens. He then made an engagement with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company as assistant engineer on the line between Panama and San Francisco. At the end of one year he became chief engineer of the line, and remained in their employ eighteen years. He was chief engineer of the old steamship Constitution for four years, a ves- sel very familiar to the early Californians. In 1868 Mr. Buck's wife was taken very sick, and he secured one year's leave of absence and brought her to San Diego. He bought lots and built the fifth house in San Diego, at the corner of Front and F streets, also improved and sold other property. At the close of the year he leased his house and returned to San Francisco,

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but has been a property-holder in San Diego since that year. In 1870 he passed onc year in the Japan service, making four trips to China as c !: iet engineer of the steamship Japan. In 1871 he again came to San Diego, on account of the health of his wife; after one year he re- turned to San Francisco, and continued in the employ of the company until 1880, when he came to San Diego and took up permanent resi- dence. The first five years he passed much of his time at Julian, but in 1885 he returned to San Diego and started in the pottery business at the corner of Fifth and K streets, as agent for the Elsinore Pottery Company, for the sale of their goods, and he continues business at the same stand and shipping pottery and stoneware all over the world, but his specialties now are the Penn pottery of New Brighton, Pennsyl. vania, and the Mica Roofing Company's goods, of New York.

Jannary 1, 1867, Mr. Buck was married at San Francisco, to Miss Emma Hooper, a native of St. Johns, New Brunswick. They have two children: Annie K. and Walter, born at San Francisco. His wife is still living, and enjoys comfortable health, at their new and comfort- able residence on the corner of F and Twenty- first streets. Mr. Buek was elected a member of the Board of Supervisors in November, 1888, and took his office January 1, 1889.

IONEL W. MARSHALL, a descendant of English-American parentage, was born at Marietta, Iowa, January 10, 1857. His early life was passed in Iowa, where he received a common-school education. His father being a cabinet-maker, the inclination of the son naturally turned in the same direction and under the careful guidance of the father, with whom he worked twelve years, he now stands at the head of his profession. In 1886, he came to San Diego and entered the art business, also building and selling wood mantels of various designs. In 1887, he went out of the

art business and assumed the management of the San Diego Mantel Factory at 916 Second street, where he is carrying on a large and suc- cessful business, employing five men and yet unable to keep up with the orders. The man- tels are constructed from all kinds of hard and soft woods, and combined with neat designs in wood carving create a thing of beauty and a joy forever. This is the first and only mantel manufactory in San Diego.

Mr. Marshall was married at Dan Diego, December 12, 1887, to Miss Lizzie Monkes, a native of California. They have one child.

ANIEL H. CLARK came into the valley from the northern part of the State four years before there was any town platted in San Jacinto. He came very near being a son of the Golden West, as his father moved to Cali- fornia with his family when the subject of this sketch was bnt one year old. His father, H. W. Clark, and his mother, nee Miss M. J. Mil- ler, were both natives of Arkansas. Daniel H. Clark was the eldest of their family of nine children, and was born in Johnson County, Ar- kansas, October 13, 1855. When he was a boy the family resided in Fresno County, and there he received his education. When seventeen years of age he began to do for himself, and went into the business of raising hogs. When nineteen years of age he was married to Miss Eliza Winkleman, who was born in California in 1859. The marriage occurred in 1874. The fruit of the nnion is seven children, viz .: Fred- erick J., Ida H., Henry Franklin, Walter An- derson, Clandy Noel, Clara and Eliza. The three first were born in Los Angeles, and the rest in San Jacinto. After his marriage he lived a short time in Fresno County, when he removed to Arizona and then to Los Angeles. There he bought a place near Westminster, and in 1879 they removed San Jacinto. There were then about ten families in the whole valley for miles in every direction. Mr. Hewitt had his

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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