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 27

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 27
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 27
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 27
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In 1866 he was married to Miss Carmen Robidoux, by whom .he had two children, viz .: Christopher, born in 1869; and Frank, born in 1871. He lost his wife, and was again married in 1873, to Miss Felicitus Machado, who was born in San Diego in 1856. Her father, Jesus Machado, was also a native of San Diego, of Spanish ancestry. They have as the fruit of this nnion one boy, Jose Antonio, born July 12, 1875. Mr. Estudillo has held the office of Jus-

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tice of the Peace for several years and was a inember of the board of supervisons for four years, and is now a city trustee. Mr. and Mrs. Estudillo are both members of the Catlı- olic Church, and are held in high esteem by the people of the community in which they have lived for so many years.

R. JOSEPH RODES, of San Diego, is a native of Philadelphia, born October 15, 1863. His father, Mr. James Rodes, also a native of Philadelphia, was born in 1827, and has been in the furniture business nearly all his life. The Doctor's grandfather, Joseph Rodes, was of German descent, but born in Philadel- phia. Margaret (Stewart) Rodes, the Doctor's mother, was born in Philadelphia in 1830. She was a woman of rare natural talents; the daughter of James and Sarah (Potter) Stewart, the latter from the line of Potters, of which Bishop Potter of New York is also a descendant.

His father and mother were married in 1860, and had three children: Aline, born September 7, 1861; Maree, born January 22, 1866; and Joseph. The latter spent his boyhood days in Philadelphia, where he attended the public schools. In 1882 he began to study medicine with Dr. A. R. Thomas, dean and professor of anatomy in the Hahnemann College of Phila- delphia, and continued with him five years. In 1884 he entered the above college, and gradu ated with high honors in 1887. He then en- gaged in the practice of his profession in Philadelphia, and shortly became assistant sur- geon to Dr. William B. Van Lennep. During the following two years he served as chief of the dispensary staff, associate physician to the nerv- ous, eye, and venereal out-patient departments of the Hahnemann Hospital; assistant demon- strator of anatomy, and assistant to the clinics, in the Hahnemann College; also pathologist to the Children's Homoeopathic Hospital.

Late in 1889 he came to San Diego for rest and to see the country, and has now decided to

remain here, to engage in the practice of his profession. He has established himself in rooms 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the Bon Ton Building (Sixth and D streets), where he has most exceedingly well equipped offices. He is a man of culture and ability, the author of numerous medical essays and a member of the Episcopal Church. He will doubtless be quite an accession to the already able medical profession of San Diego.

RANK X. WINTER, baker at San Diego, was born at Schwarzach, Bühl County, Germany, October 30, 1860. He received a common-school education. His father and grandfather being bakers, he followed in their footsteps, and learned the trade in his father's establishment, and spent one year in a bakery at Baden Baden. August 14, 1877, he left for America, taking the steamer Switzerland at Antwerp and arriving at Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, August 27, and worked at his trade, re- maining until September 28, 1880. He then went to California by way of Chicago and Omaha, arriving at Los Angeles, October 12, but left at once for San Diego, going by rail to Santa Ana, and the old Seeley stage line, arriving October 14. He at once entered the bakery of his brother Joseph, corner of Fourth and H streets, where he remained five years. In Octo- ber, 1885, he started the first steam lanndry, adjoining his brother, under the firm name of Burtch & Winter, for a year. He then worked in the Bay City Bakery, for Charles Wold, about four months, when he rented his bakery and bought a horse and wagon with plant and route, which business he has continued success- fully until the present time. By thrift and economy, he has purchased a lot at Coronado and at Ocean Beach, and in February, 1889, bought the bakery and lot which he has before rented on Second street, between C and D streets. In the summer of 1888, he went East to Philadelphia, and passed two pleasant months with his family and friends.

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Mr. Winter was married, June 17, 1884, to Miss Mary Bernauer, a native of Dodtnan, State of Baden, Germany, who came to San Diego in 1883. They have four children, only two of whom are now living: Randolph Albert and Mary M ..

He is a member of the San Diego Lodge, Knights of Pythias, No. 28. He has been a member of the City Guard for six years, and a member of the Harmony and Phoenix Bands.

RTHUR G. MUNN is a "native son of the Golden West," and owner and pub- lisher of the San Jacinto Register. He was born in Kelseyville. Lake County, Cali- fornia, September 10, 1864. His father, O. A. Munn, was a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and has been a resident of California since 1849. Ile is by profession a lawyer, and resides in San Jacinto. Mr. Munn's mother, Sarah E. (Thompson) Munn, was born in Kentucky. They had five children, Mr. Munn being the fourth child. He completed his education at Fresno, September 10, 1885. He then formed a partnership with Mr. J. P. Kerr in the pur- chase of the San Jacinto Register. They pub- lished the paper for two years, when he bought out Mr. Kerr, and is now sole proprietor. He is a member of the Independent Order of For- esters. Was married May 6, 1889, to Mrs. S. E. Grannis, daughter of S. O. Dagget, born in 1864.

Mr. Mnnn is publishing a good paper, fully awake to all the interests of San Jacinto and vicinity.

G. WHEELER, San Diego .- Efficient engineers are necessary to the devel- opment of every new country, and among that list we must class the name of Mr. M. G. Wheeler, who was born of New England parentage in the town of Medina, Orleans Coun-

ty, New York, February 28, 1845, being the youngest in a family of ten children, only six of whom survive. His parents soon moved to Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin, where, after three months his father died, leaving the mother with nine children, the youngest, M. G., one of twins, being five months old and the eldest but nineteen years. He lived in Wis- consin and Minnesota until he was twelve years of age, when, with his mother, he came to Cal- ifornia, having two brothers then located at Marysville, Yuba County. He followed farm- ing at that place for about four years, and then feeling the need of an education lie went to Oak- land and entered the preparatory department of the State University, remaining five years. He then entered the college in the class of 1869. During his education he had to earn his own way and worked at odd jobs, such as collecting, etc., and during vacations worked at farming.

He left college in January, 1867, and entered the office of F. W. Boardman, city and county surveyor, remaining one and a half years. He was then offered a position by Kimball Brothers to survey and subdivide the tract called Rancho de la Nacion, of which National City is a part. On his arrival in San Diego in 1868, the only buildings were the barracks. The town site was covered with brush, and rabbits and quail lived in the streets. He lived on a ranch until De- cember, 1868, when he completed the survey. James Pascoe then offered him the position of deputy and a partnership interest in surveying the county of San Diego, and they established their office at Old Town. The first work was the shore line and the tide line of the bay, a party wishing to purchase. The business was then improving and people were rapidly coming into the town, business in surveying was very active in the laying off of the Pueblo lands in the vicinity of New Town, now San Diego, and the laying off of the park; then followed the survey of Roseville. He was employed by the Government in surveys about the country, and made many in Lower California on ranches, roads and mines, and one time building a road

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from Rafael across to the port of San Felipe, on the Gulf of California. He has held the office of county surveyor for eight years and city en- gineer for three terms, and lias always held com- mission as United States deputy surveyor. He has also done much railroad work in the north- ern part of the State, and also work at Guaymas, on the Sonora branch of the Santa Fe line. In October, 1880, he took the first location party into the field for the Southern California Rail- road, setting the initial stakes at National City, and continued in the employ of the company until the road was completed to Colton. In 1884-'85 he was in the employ of the same com- pany locating a road through Cajon Pass from Barstow to San Diego. He returned to the latter place in the fall of 1885 and opened an office, and by invitation of the Coronado Beach Company entered competitively with plans and proposals for the subdivision of the Coronado tract, securing the prize and performing the work. He then engineered their water-works at Old Town and also their railroad work.

In the spring of 1886 he was appointed city engineer, holding the office one year, when lie resigned and became a resident engineer in charge of sewerage of the city of San Diego, which took one and a half years to complete the work. In January, 1889, he took the positione of locating engineer of the San Diego, Cuya- maca & Eastern Railroad, carrying a survey across the mountains in an easterly direction to Salton on the Desert. He has also filled the following positions of prominence; chief engi- neer of Mission Valley Water Company for two years, chief engineer of Board of State Harbor Commissioners of San Diego Bay, superintend- ing engineer of Pacific Coast Land Bureau, and largely connected with many lines of develop- ment in survey of water and railroads.

Mr. Wheeler was married at San Diego, in Jannary, 1872, to Miss Etta Murdock, a native of California. They have two children: Miner- va A. and Herbert C., both living.

Ten years ago Mr. Wheeler made a sur- vey to carry water from the Colorado river

to the Colorado Desert, which he found practicable and thinks the desert could be irrigated with comparatively little cost. He had occasion to retrace the boundary line be- tween Upper and Lower California from the Colorado river west across the desert to the base of the mountains. A considerable part of the line follows a mesa elevated forty feet above the general level of the desert, and there found abundant evidence of former human habitation by broken pottery. The formation of the coun- try is such as to show that evidently the Colo- rado river turned at one time at a point called Pilot Knob, a little south of Yuma, running. nearly due west and emptying into the great Colorado basin. Broken pottery shows that the Indians inhabited that country and lived on the banks of the Colorado river as it then existed. When Mr. Wheeler arrived at San Diego, on the steamer Orizaba, he was brought on shore on a man's back, and from that wild, unsettled country he has seen San Diego grow to a pros- perous mercantile city.

AMES H. RICE, residing near Winchester, was born in Missouri, May 14, 1838. His father, Benjamin Rice, was a native of Virginia, who came to Kentucky in an early day and afterward moved to Missonri, and again removed to Kansas. The family resided near Fort Scott, and were in, and suffered from, the troubles in Kansas while a territory. He was taken prisoner by Buchanan's troops, but was soon released, as it was found he had done notli- ing offensive. They were farmers in Kansas until 1870, when they removed to Washington Territory, and were there three years. In 1873 they came to, and lived in, different parts of Southern California. In June, 1885, they came to Winchester, where they bought lands, built and opened the Winchester hotel. They now rent the hotel and live on the ranch.

Mr. Rice married Miss Elizabetli I. Stanfield in 1859. Her father, David Stanfield, was a

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native of Knoxville, Tennessee, and removed in early days to Knoxville, Iowa, where he was County Recorder for two terms. They have one daughter, Mary A., born in 1860 and mar- ried to Mr. Lewis Sours. Mr. and Mrs. Rice have adopted two boys, who are now thirteen and fourteen years of age-George L. and Fred L. They are members of the Methodist Church, of which Mr. Rice is a trustee. They are both members of its board of stewards. Mrs. Rice was one of the four who bought and owned half of the Winchester town site, and was also the prime mover in the organization of the Meth- odist Church, having solicited the subscriptions that built it. She was also the first Postmis- tress of Winchester. Mr. Rice was a soldier in the Union army, in Company C, Kansas Vol- unteer Infantry.

LFRED G. CLARK, a prominent citizen of San Diego, is a native of Trenton, Butler County, Ohio, born November 10, 1818. Ilis father, Jonathan Clark, born in New Jersey, September 5, 1776, was a blacksmith. Mr. Clark's grandfather, David Clark, was born in New Jersey, and was a descendant of the Clarks who came to America from England be- fore the Revolution. His great uncle and his father's uncle were signers of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Clark's mother, Mrs. Cath- erine (Jonas) Clark, was born in Maryland, in 1780. Her ancestors were German. She was married to Mr. Clark in 1800, and had a family of fourteen children, two of whom are still liv- ing. Mr. Clark was the eleventh. When he was but six years of age his father removed to Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana, and it was there, in a most primitive school- house, that he received his education. The win- dows of the school-house were closed with greased cotton cloth, and the floor and seats were made of puncheon. That section was then a heavily timbered country. He attended school winters. He afterward attended a seminary

taught by an Episcopal minister. He then at- tended the Wabash College at Crawfordsville. Mr. Clark has always been a student of men and books, and is still engaged in study. In 1835 he became clerk in a general merchandise store in Crawfordsville, and then removed to Michi- gan City, where he continued to clerk. Ilis life previous to this had been spent on a farm. In October, 1838, he went to Jackson County, Iowa, by way of Chicago. There was no rail- road then and he rode on the first through stage from Chicago to Galena, Illinois, and from there to Belleview, crossed over into Iowa, and located on a Government tract of land, 160 acres. He remained on this land five years, when he proved up on it, sold it, and went to Andrew, the county seat of Jackson County, where he engaged in the general merchandise business. He continued in this business for five years, when he sold out, bought a California outfit, and went with oxen to the Missouri river, where he wintered. The following May he was one of a company of thirty-two who crossed the plains. In the Black Hills the company separated for lack of feed for teams, but three of them stayed together till they reached Dallas, Oregon. He sold his teamns and went in a yawl boat to Cas- cades, and from there took the only steamner that had ever run on the Columbia river. It was run by a little four-horse-power engine. He then came around to San Francisco on the steamer Panama, and arrived September 29, 1850. Here he left his family and went to the mines at Woods Creek, seventy five miles from Stockton. Then he returned to San Francisco and went to Cortemardera and assisted in build- ing two steam saw-mills. He received $1 per hour wages, and remained here eighteen months. He had never learned the carpenter's trade, but was naturally an architect, and had learned the use of tools. He again returned to San Fran- cisco and purchased an interest in Port Orford of Captain Tichinor, commander of the Sea Gull steamer, and took passage with him for Port Orford January 24, 1852. They went into Huin- boldt to discharge freight and passengers, and

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on their way out of Humboldt bay the steamer struck, and was so disabled that she became a total wreck. IIe never reached Port Orford, but went to Eureka, California, where he built the first family residence, and engaged in the Ium- ber business for two years, when he sold ont and again went to the mines. He was in the northern mines of California during the year 1855. In 1856 lie sold out and went to San Francisco. He purchased land in Napa valley and engaged in farming and stock-raising. He also had a hardware store in Napa City. In 1856 he came from Humboldt with the inten- tion of purchasing the land where San Diego now stands, which was offered for sale at ten cents per acre. In 1881 he sold out and went to Texas on a land speculation. He was there four years. In 1886 he arrived in San Diego, where he engaged in real-estate speculation, both for himself and others, which he still con- tinnes. He also owns inining interests in this county.

He was married in lowa, March 13, 1842, to Miss Cyrena Philips, daughter of Williamn Philips, a native of Ohio, but of German de scent. She was born January 18, 1826, and has been with him in all his wanderings to com- fort and help him, enduring all the hardships of settling a new country. Cheerfully they have just passed the forty-eightl milestone of a very happy life. They are the parents of five children: Agnes E., born in Andrew, Iowa, Angust 29, 1844, married to Samuel G. Clark and resided in St. Helena, where she died in 1880, leaving four sons: William G., born in Andrew, Iowa, in 1847, and died in 1860; Tomenend Delos, born at same place, February 20, 1849; Alfred Jonathan, born in Eureka, Humboldt County, California, March 18, 1853, and died April 24, 1874, in Napa valley ; and Susie Cyrena, born in same place July 8, 1855. She married R. H. Willey, an attorney, and is now living at Monterey. Mr. Clark helped to establishı Methodism on the coast. The first Sunday after arriving in San Francisco, he went out to see what he could see, and, hearing talk-

ing, he drew near. A man, who proved to be William Taylor, the street preacher, since one of the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Africa, was preaching from the porch of an adobe honse. Mr. Clark has always lent a helping l and to organize, not only the Meth- odist Church, but other churches, assisting them in every way in his power. In the early days when no vacant honses could be obtained, he has solicited saloons to cover their bars and set aside their gambling tables for ministers to preach on the Sabbath, using the billiard tables for a desk. After securing a place for preach- ing he usually took his stand beside the ininis- ter. He has traveled all over California, and has frequently talked with saloon- keepers, and never one has yet turned the cold shoulder to him. They have always acknowledged the busi- ness to be bad, and expressed their intention to leave it as soon as they could. Ever since he became of mature age he has been a worker in the Sunday-school. He is now a teacher of the first bible class in the First Methodist Episcopal Church of San Diego, besides being a member of the official board and class-leader of the church. He has been a most faithful temper- ance worker, and has helped to organize the first temperance societies on the coast. He has helped to organize the State League, the State Alliance, the Good Templars, and was among those who helped to institute the Good Templars' Home for orphans in Vallejo, and was a trustee of that home for fourteen years. He has been in every office of the Good Templars except the Grand Templar. He has been twice elected to the Right-Worthy Grand Lodge of the world. Ile represented the State at Minneapolis, Min- nesota, and represented more territory than any other delegate, including California, Nevada, Sandwich Islands, Japan and China. He helped to organize the Republican party on this coast, and was a strong supporter of John C. Fremont for President in 1856. He was a inember of the Home Guards, ready to go on duty any moment, and was regularly mustered in and out. He helped to organize the first

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temperance political party in the State, and was a candidate for Governor of the State on the first ticket of the Prohibition party. He was also a candidate for Congress from the third district. He is now seventy one years of age, is very strong and bright in body and mind, and has not relaxed in any of the good works in which he has been engaged.

0). PRINCE was born in Westbrook, Cumberland County, Maine, within one

a and one-half miles of the city of Port- land, Angust 21, 1844. Ilis father. Thomas R. Prince, was born in Yarmouth, Maine, and was of English descent. Mr. Prince's mother, Ab- bie S. (Oakes) Prince, was also born in Maine. The father's ancestry on the maternal side traces back to Miles Standish, the Poritan. They were married in 1840. Mr. Prince was the second of seven children. He attended the public shools of Maine and afterward of Cali- fornia. His father went to California in 1852, and the mother and children followed in 1856. The subject of this sketch was then twelve years of age. He learned early how to work, and when eighteen years of age he lost his father and was thrown upon his own resources. He has been engaged in mining in Arizona, where he owned an interest in the McCracken mine. He was in Arizona twelve years and was engaged in the general merchandise business at Signal, Arizona. He sold ont, and in 1888 he came to Florida, San Diego County, California, and took stock in the Fair View Company, and also owned other lands, which he is farming. He is the manager of the company's hotel in Florida. He was married in 1884 to Mrs. Eda Kimble, born May 28, 1856, in San Joaquin County, California. Her father, Mr. G. D. Compton, is a leading member of the Fair View Company, who owns the Florida tract and town site. She had one child by Mr. Kimble, G. E. Kimble, born August 14, 1875, and Mr. and Mrs. Prince have one child, Cland R., born Jnly 24, 1889.

While in Arizona, Mr. Prince held the office of Justice of the Peace, and also the office of Dep- nty County Assessor. He is a man of good habits and a worthy citizen.

OSEPH C. JORDAN was born in Kittan- ning, Pennsylvania. December 6, 1831. His father, Joseph M. Jordan, was a Penn- sylvanian of French and Scotch ancestry. His mother, Eliza Irwin, was born in Virginia, and belonged to one of those famous families that have been there since before the Revolution. Mr. Jordan was the fifth child of a family of nine. He received his early education in Pitts- burg. When a lad he entered a store as eash boy. His father was a merchant, and he served an apprenticeship to the dry-goods business. He was for some time with J. Hanson Love & Co., in their Bee Hive store on Market street, in Pittsburg, which was rightly named, for it was a very busy place. After that he was in the employ of the Sharon Iron Company. When President Lincoln made his first call for 75,000 men to put down the rebellion, he answered that call by enlisting April 21, 1861, in Company A, Eighth Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. From this company he was transferred to Battery C, Fifth United States Artillery, and served gal- lantly until December, 1863, when he was mus- tered out of the service on account of an injury received in his breast by the recoil of the piece, which cansed valvular disease of the heart, from which his physicians thought he could not re- cover, but he did regain his health. While in the service he participated in the battle of Dranesville and the skirmishing which preceded it, on the upper Potomae. It was his battery that opened the seven days fight in front of Richmond, at Mechanicsville. They retreated to Harris' landing, where they got a night's rest. In the morning they were attacked and gave battle in return. Hooker, with a squad ron of cavalry, and Mr. Jordan's battery, drove them, and finally captured them at the

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head of Heron Creek. Back of their former battle-field of Malvern Hill, on the extreme right of the battle-field, they found inany of the Confederate dead still unburied, and it was a most sickening sight. They joined Pope at Fredericksburg, and at the Rappahannock Bridge they met Longstreet. They burned the bridge and he was forced to retreat, Then came the second battle of Bull Run, which was almost lost, when the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps at- tacked Stonewall Jackson and turned the for- tnnes of the day. The actions at Antietamland South Mountain were the two last battles in which he took part. When he recovered from hie injury he became book-keeper for Peirce & McMasters, who had a contract to build a por- tion of the Pittsburg & Erie Railroad. In April, 1861, he married Mrs. Emma Patterson, widow of Mr. Charles Patterson. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson were married in 1851, and one year after their marriage he came to California, where he died in 1852. Her maiden name was Emma M. McCleery, and she was born July 17, 1832, in Sharon, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Her father was a native of Glasgow, and her mother of Westchester, Pennsylvania. Her father came to America in 1820, and was a Baptist minister, but when he came to the United States, he joined the Christian denomination and was a minister of that society also. Mrs. Jordan was educated in the Christian College at Huron, Portage County, Ohio. Much of Mrs. Jordan's life, from the loss of her first husband for the nine years previous to her marriage to Mr. Jordan, had been spent in the care of the sick and the poor. When the civil war broke ont, Mrs. Jordan enlisted. She became an efficient worker in the Sanitary Commission, in connec- tion with Mrs. Rouse, of Cleveland. They so- licited money and goods for the sick and wounded soldiers of both sides of the great struggle, and the supplies were sent to the prisons and hos- pitals. It was truly a philanthropic and Chris- tian work. She had one child by Mr. Patterson, Cate H., born July 21, 1852, in Sharon, Peun- sylvania. She is married to C. W. Frost, who

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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