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 28

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 28
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 28
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 28
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 28

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is in the real-estate and money-lending business at Santa Rosa, and has seven children, viz .: Jennie E., Walter C., Arthur, Catie, James, Henry and Maud. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan re- moved to Iowa, where they engaged in the hotel business, but, Mr. Jordan's health being broken, they removed to Montana, and in 1873 came to California and settled in Los Angeles one year; then in Santa Rosa for four years, and in 1878 eame to San Jacinto, where they purchased an undivided interest in the company lands. When they first came to San Jacinto they occasionally entertained people but since the erection of the Palma House, Mrs. Jordan has had charge of it. She is not only a pioneer hotel-keeper, but a model hostess, and has the true conception of what a hotel should be. She has the happy faculty of making her guests comfortable and feel at home. She is a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Jordan has been in the stock- raising business since coming to San Jacinto. He first took to cattle-raising, but more recently to horse-raising. He is an accomplished horse- man and an enthusiast at the business. He has some fine blooded colts, of the Nutwood, Ethan Allen, McClellan and Crockett stoek. He is thoroughly posted in the handling and treat- ment of horses. Mr. Jordan is a Master Mason and a member of the I. O. O. F. and G. A. R., Common Post, No. 52, San Bernardino. He and Mrs. Jordan have hosts of friends.

ANCOCK M. JOHNSTON was born in Brazoria County, Texas, December 28, 1847. His father, General Albert Sidney Johnston, was born in the Kentucky village of Washington, Mason County, February 2, 1803. His grandfather was Dr. John Johnston, and his great-grandfather, Archibald Johnston, was a native of Salisbury, Connecticut. The fam- ily was of Scotch ancestry, who had settled in Salisbury.

Mr. Johnston's father, the General, served in the army of the United States and in the army

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of the Confederate States. He took the oath of allegiance to the Republic of Texas, served during her struggle for independence, and her Indian wars as Commander-in-chief of her armies and Secretary of War of the Republic; served under Zachary Taylor in Mexico, in com- mand of a Texas regiment of volunteers, and fought at the battle of Monterey with credit to himself. He was a soldier of marked ability and true to his convictions. On April 6th, at the battle of Shiloh, he was shot in the leg whilst gallantly leading his men in a charge. An artery was severed and before medical aid could be obtained, he bled to death.

Hancock Johnston's mother, Eliza (Griffin) Johnston, was a Virginian, the daughter of John Caswell and Mary Hancock Griffin, of Virginia. They were descendants of promi- nent Virginia families of Welsh and English ancestry.

From the time Mr. Johnston was sixteen years of age, for about five years, he gave his attention to mining and was for three years foreman of the New Almaden quicksilver mines. After this he went to Los Angeles and engaged in the sheep-raising business with his unele, Dr. John S. Griffin, in 1869, in which business he continued for five years.

In 1873 they platted their sheep ranch as East Los Angeles, and built the street railway. It now contains 10,000 inhabitants and all the im- provements of a modern city. He then turned his attention to the oil region and surveyed all that oil country in Ventura County, and in con- nection with Rowland and Lacy commenced the development of the Puente region. During the same time he ran the Los Angeles Herald Publishing Company, of which he was presi- dent. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Los Angeles, and was one of its directors.

In 1870 he began to import and breed stock Merino sheep, Durliam cattle, Berkshire and Poland-China hogs, and Norman running and trotting horses. He still continues in this busi- ness, and in 1881 he paid $5,300 for one black

Angus bull, three cows and a calf, imported from Aberdeen, Scotland, and he has now about 250 of them. He owns a tenth interest in the Hemet Land Company. They have a very choice and extensive land interest adjoining South San Jacinto, with water piped over the whole tract.

He has a mountain ranch of 9,000 acres of timber and grass land, called the Hemet Val- ley Stock Farm. He moves his stock on it in April and the grass is green on it the whole season. He raises on it wheat, barley and oats. It is fenced into five pastures, and a portion of it is planted in cherries, apples and pears. The altitude is from 3,600 to 6,000 feet.

He has 600 acres at his home ranch a few Iniles sonth of San Jacinto. It is divided into lots and fenced with fine timber. A consider- able portion is seeded to alfalfa. It is stocked with thorough-bred standard trotters and Shet- land ponies. The portion of the ranch not nsed for pasture is utilized in the production of wheat, barley and hay. His brick residence is on an eminence at the extreme south of the property against the foot-hills, which formn its background. The house has wide verandahs, sup- ported by rustic columns; trunks of trees with the bark and limbs on them give the idea of simplicity. Sixty acres of the grounds in the vicinity of the house have quite recently been planted to fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, vines and flowers. There is a neat lawn in front of the house and in a few years the place will present a perfectly delightful appearance. Mr. Johnston calls his home Big Springs. He came here in 1887. He spends nine months of the year on this ranch and the other three on his mountain ranch, eighteen miles distant.

In 1870 he was married to Miss Mary Eaton, daughter of Judge B. S. Eaton, of Los Angeles, horn in Maryland in 1850. They have four children, viz .: Mary, Albert Sidney, John Grif- fin and Hancock McClurg. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston have an intelligent family, large flocks and herds, many acres of rich lands supplied with an abundance of pure water, a refined home in the most balmy climate, surrounded

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by grand scenery, and the question may very reasonably be asked, " What lackest thou?" Everything seems happy here, even to the three large Newfoundland dogs that skip and wag a welcome round the feet of the visitor as if to show the cordiality of the proprietor of the place.

T. LINDENBERGER, orchardist, near Winchester, was born in Olive Green, " Ohio, November 16, 1853. His father, Solomon Lindenberger, was born in Delaware County, Ohio. and was a pioneer of northwest- ern Ohio. His grandfather, John Lindenber- ger, was a native of Providence, Rhode Island. John Lindenberger's grandfather came to Amer- ica from Germany before the Revolution. Mr. Solomon Lindenberger was a soldier in the Union army, Company C, Thirty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. When his time of service expired he re-enlisted in the Sixty-eighth Indi- ana, and served to the close of the war. Mr. Lindenberger's mother, Sarah B. (Stephens) Lindenberger, was born in Knox County, Ohio, in 1838. They had four sons. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Williams County, Ohio, and when eighteen years of age entered a printing office at Bryan, Ohio, as an apprentice. Shortly after his ap- prenticeship he went to Toledo and entered the office of the Sunday Journal, and worked two years at the printer's case. After this he was engaged as a reporter on one of the dailies, and acted in nearly every department of a newspaper work for ten years. From there he went to De- troit, Michigan, and opened an independent rail- road ticket office agency, making a specialty of excursion business. In 1887 he canght the Cali- fornia fever and bronght out a large excursion, and with it his own fainily, to visit and see the country. He spent the winter with his family in Riverside, and in looking over the country he was attracted to the Menifee valley, and pur- chased eighty acres of land, section 36, range 5

south, and 3 west of the San Bernardino merid- ian. It lies in an L, and at the foot of the hills, on the east side of the valley, and slopes gently toward the west. On this spot Mr. Lindenberger is making one of the most pleas- ing and attractive fruit farms and homes in southern California. Seventeen acres are planted to olives, six to raisin grapes, and a large num- ber of decidnous fruit and ornamental trees. Mr. Lindenberger returned to Detroit, Michi- gan, in April of 1888, and the following winter his brother, H. H. Lindenberger, who is liis business partner, came out with one of their excursion parties, and purchased the adjoining eighty acres in the same section, and had an eqnal number of trees and vines planted of the same character; so they now have a solid grove of thirty-four acres of olives. Later, Linden- berger Brothers purchased 160 acres more, and they now own the east half of section 36, which they intend in time to cover with an olive grove, and to that end they have erected a green-honse for the purpose of rooting olive trees for these grounds. They will make the growing of olives their leading specialty. Mr. F. T. Lindenberger returned to California in October, 1889, with the intention of making his home here and building up their property. They have already expended between $8,000 and $10,000 in improvements, besides the honse and barns, and have a nice system of water pumped on the place. The water comes to within fourteen or fifteen feet of the surface under all their grounds. They have raised their trees without irrigation. The olive trees, when planted twenty months ago, were only fifteen inches high; they have now grown to five feet. They have three acres planted to orange trees. The grounds are artistically laid out. and the trees planted with perfect regular- ity. The buildings are 300 feet from the main road, and have broad avennes planted with orna- mental trees, shrubs, flowers, lawns and hedges. They intend to erect fine residences on the property soon. H. H. Lindenberger attends to their eastern business, while F. T. is on the

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ranch. They are also raising some fine speci- mens of Pekin ducks and Plymouth Rock poultry; have constructed an incubating house and are now running two large incubators. Mr. Lindenberger was married to Miss Edna C. Gregory, born in Toledo, Ohio, November 28, 1854, and daughter of P. G. Gregory, of Huron, Ohio. They were of Scotch ancestry, but quite remote. They have five children: Agnes, born in Toledo in 1877; Alice, in Toledo, 1880; Mary, in Detroit, 1883; Edwin F., in Detroit, in 1887, and Oliver S., in California in Febru- ary, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Lindenberger are people of taste and intelligence, and are pleasant people to meet. Mr. Lindenberger is evidently a man of successful business ability. "The Garden of the World " is being occupied with snch citizens as these.

L. COPELAND, one of San Diego's representative citizens, who with firm persistence and but a common-school education has advanced steadily in his profes- sion, was born in Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana, Angust 14, 1860, his father being a native of New York, and his mother of Ohio. In 1869, tliey came to Sacramento, California, by the Central Pacific Railroad, where he learned the trade of printer. In 1873 they came to San Diego and his father purchased a farm in Sweet- water valley, where he remained at home for five years. He then went to Arizona and prospected in mining for two years, when he returned to San Diego in 1880, and entered the law office of Judge Lucy and began the study of his profes- sion. He attended the Iowa Law School at Keokuk, Iowa, and by persistent study le ac- complished the three-years conrse in nineteen months and graduated at the end of that time. He then returned to San Diego and entered the office of W. J. IIunsacker, who at that time, 1883, was District Attorney; he remained two years. In 1886, Mr. Copeland was honored with the nomination of district attorney and

was elected for two years, and was re-elected in 1888; and this position he now fills.

In December, 1887, Mr. Copeland was mar- ried to Miss Helen Minor, a native of Indiana, but at that time residing in San Diego. They have no children. Mr. Copeland has been very active in politics, and is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge.

MOS L. CREIDER is a native of Lancas- ter County, Pennsylvania, born January 22, 1844. His father, Jacob Creider, was a member of the Dunkard Church. His grand- father, also a Jacob Creider, was from Germany and a pioneer in this country in the time of Benjamin Franklin. Their home was within a few miles of President James Buchanan, and has become a very rich, improved country, in everything that pertains to agriculture, and is noted for its fine residences. Mr. Creider's mother, Anna (Longnecker) Creider, was from Buffalo, New York. There were ten children in the family, only five of whom are living. His brothers are in West Virginia, and his sister is married to Mr. F. Janvenant, who is in the banking business in Nebraska. Mr. Creider was raised on a farm, and gathered his educa- tion in brief terms of winter schools, having to work the greater part of the year. In 1864 the family moved to Miami County, Indiana, and only two weeks after their arrival there his father sickened and died in his forty-fifth year. His request to his son Amos was that he should take care of the family. This duty devolved upon him at twenty years of age. In 1865 he was married to Miss Olive A. Beckner, born in 1848, and daughter of Dr. J. F. Beckner, of Peru, Indiana. They have nine children, viz. : Annie B., Rosa, John, Jennie K., Olive, Amos, Oney, Gracie and Florence. In 1866 he moved into Newton County and bought a raw prairie farm of 120 acres, and improved it to a high state of cultivation. Owing to exposure and over-work he became sick with the rheumatism

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and fever and was advised to go south. In 1871 he sold his farm and removed to Hunting- ton, West Virginia, the terminus of the Chesa- peake & Ohio Railroad. During the twelve years he was there he had the pleasure of seeing the town grow from nothing to a city of 10,000. He was elected the first Republican Mayor of the city. Being afflicted with throat tronble, he was advised to try the climate of southern California, and on May 4, 1887, he came to San Jacinto and bought twenty acres of land just north of the present city limits. He has built the main part of the residence and a new barn. At a cost of $500 he has dug a seven-inch artesian well, 210 feet deep, on the highest part of his ground, and has water under pressure all over his grounds. When allowed to flow it makes a river of excellent water. He is fast improving the property by planting trees, shrubs and vines, and it will soon be a very fine fruit- bearing ranch. The soil is particularly rich. Mr. Creider, from twenty-four tomato plants, from May until November, gathered and sold $50 worth of splendid tomatoes. He has a ranch of 320 acres on Menifee plains, on which he intends to make improvements. His throat difficulty is very much relieved, and he has all the prospects of a long and prosperous life be- fore him. Mr. and Mrs. Creider are enjoying the comforts of their pleasant home with their interesting family, and have the confidence and esteem of all who know them.

OHNSON WATTS McCLAIN, of San Diego, was born at Versailles, Ripley County, Indiana, January 16, 1826. At the age of six years he moved with his parents to Boone County, Kentucky, the subject being the sixth in a family of eleven children, only three of whom survive, one brother living in Kansas City and one still in Kentucky. J. W. McClain lived in Boone County but two years and then inoved to Lawrenceburg, Indiana, re- inaining until 1838, when he again moved to

the Bayon, southern part of Indiana, where his parents both died, leaving him at the age of fifteen years. In 1841 he returned to Lawrence- burg, and for six years worked on a farın and traded on the Mississippi river in all kinds of farm produce and groceries. In May, 1847, he enlisted at Lawrenceburg, in Company C, Fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, Colonel Gorman in command, Captain Baldridge in command of the company, for the Mexican war. They were ordered to Camp Meir on the Rio Grande, and drilled there five weeks, and were then ordered to Brazos Island at the mouth of the Rio Grande, and then forwarded to Vera Cruz and started on the march to the city of Mexico; but at the city of Puebla, in October, the regiment was stationed and remained in Puebla until the end of the war. In January, 1848, Mr. McClain was discharged from the sick list. Returning, he stopped at Henderson, Kentucky, where he was very ill for several weeks. In July, 1848, he returned to Lawrenceburg and farmned and traded until 1852, when he started for Califor- nia with a party of fifteen. They bought mule teams and came across by the old emigrant route by St. Joe, Laramie, north of Salt Lake by Sublette's Cut- off, and arrived at Hangtown, now Placerville, El Dorado County, July 15, 1852. They were two and a half months on the road, having a very pleas int trip. They fol- lowed mining in Greenwood valley, the same county, until 1853. He then spent one year on Mosquito creek, northern part of Yuba County, and in 1854 he went into Sierra County, where he followed surface mining until 1859. He then moved to Butte County and worked at surface mining until 1867, but the result of all his mining was only a living, as he went in with $150 and came out with a like amount. In June, 1867, he moved to Solano County, and started a blacksmith shop, hiring a workman and continuing until October 1, 1869, when he sold out and went to San Francisco, and then to San Diego, landing on Horton's wharf, October 16, 1869. It being the time of the great El Paso boom, lodging and board were very ex-

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pensive and he immediately bought a lot in Sherman's addition and in one week put up a honse 14 x 16 feet, and moved in. He then worked for wages until 1887, clerking a little but working mainly with the county and city surveyors. In 1887 he was obliged to give up active business on account of severe bronchial trouble.

Mr. McClain was married in Plumas County, California, October 16, 1856, to Miss Lydia Staples, a native of New Hampshire. His wife died in 1883, leaving no children. He has been a member of the order of Odd Fellows since 1862, and is now a member of the San Diego Pioneers.

C. KIRKPATRICK, one of the prominent pioneers of Menifee, is a native of Jack- son County, Tennessee, born August 24, 1823. His grandfather, Robert Kirkpatrick, emigrated from South Carolina with pack horses before there was any other mode of conveyance and settled at Aston Station, Kentucky. There he raised his family and then in 1805 removed to Tennessee. Mr. Kirkpatrick's father, William Kirkpatrick, was born in Kentucky in 1772. He was married to Miss Keziah Chisom, dangh- ter of John Chisom, of Tompkinsville, Kentucky, born in 1782, by whom he had five sons and seven daughters. The subject of this sketch was the seventh of this family. He was educated in Jackson County, Tennessee, and when twenty years of age learned the tanning trade and fol- lowed the business for several years. In 1847 he opened a general merchandise store in Gains- boro, Tennessee, and continued there in business until 1860, and then removed to west Tennessee and carried on a dry-goods store at Union City. In 1874 he came to California and settled at Garden Grove, Los Angeles County (now Orange County), bought land and farmed there for seven years. January 7, 1881, he came to Menifee and took up 160 acres of land. When he had been on the land a year his sons, William T. and

Cladus M., came on and each of them took up 160 acres of land, making a section that they have together in one body. It is an excellently fine section of land. They are farming it mostly to grain, but they are also raising cattle, horses and mules. This year (1889) they intend to sow 250 acres of wheat and abont 700 acres of barley.

He was married to Miss Bettie Thomp- son. daughter of William Thompson, a Tennes- secan and a farmer. She was born February, 1834. They had nine children: William T., married Miss Callie Patton and has a family of seven children; Mr. Kirkpatrick's daughter, N. K., married Mr. J. B. Teel and lives in Menifee. The other sons are in Menifee on the land ad- joining their father's. Mr. Kirkpatrick and two of his sons are members of the Christian Church. The family is one of high respect- ability and honor and take an interest in all that pertains to the advancement of the county in which they have elected to make their home.

ENRY L. SHAUG, a native of Mason County, Virginia, was born December 8, 1832. His paternal grandfather was a physician and came to America from Germany in 1742, settling in Pennsylvania. In 1793 he moved to the town of New Lancaster, Ohio, and spent the rest of his life there. He died at the advanced age of eighty-nine. He had three sons, one of whom never married; another mar- ried and had but one child, a daughter. The family name would have been lost had it not been that Mr. Shaug's father came to the rescue and had a family of fourteen children. Mr. Shang's father and his father's brothers were all physicians. His parents were Methodists. His mother, Mrs. Sherwood Shaug, a native of Cornwall Township, Connecticut, was born in 1801. His father, William Henry Shang, was born in 179%, in the town of Lebanon, Penn- sylvania, and was married to Miss Hannah Sher- wood, daughter of Mr. John Sherwood, a land-

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owner and farmer, of English descent. His father was commissioned a surgeon in the war of 1812. le resigned that position and was commissioned by President Monroe an ensign in the regular army, and served all through that war. In the year 1808 he went down the Ohio and up the Mississippi river in a keel boat and landed at the then little village of St. Louis, Missouri, which had only a few houses. He died in 1859, at the age of sixty-seven.

Mr. H. L. Shaug was the tenth child and spent his boyhood days on the farm, going three months in a year to a little country school. When he was fourteen years of age his father moved to Farmington, Iowa. IIe served an apprenticeship of two years in a drug store in Keokuk, Iowa, and then went to Hannibal, Missouri. In 1852 he crossed the plains with an ox team in company with seventeen pioneers. The company was organized by Captain Hoke. They landed in Calaveras County in August, 1852. In 1854 that county was divided, and that portion which he was in became Amador County. He was a miner there until 1860, when he went by the way of New York to Iowa and there engaged in the art of photography, which he followed until 1873, when he returned to California and settled in Los Angeles. He afterward removed to San Fernando valley and engaged in merchandising for seven years. In 1880 he went to Pomona, where he engaged in horticulture and agriculture, remaining there until the fall of 1885, when he removed to San Diego County, Thermal Heights, two and one- half miles east of Del Mar, where he located on 160 acres of Government land, 100 of which he has cleared, and built for a permanent home a house which cost $2,600. He has planted 400 deciduous trees, of nearly every variety, which are just commencing to bear; he has 200 olive trees and about 2,000 grape-vines, consisting of raisin grapes and four kinds of the choicest table grapes. He is growing a very choice new variety of pop corn (Queen's Golden), a great yielder and considered the best in the United States. It has yielded as high as forty bushels

to the acre. He planted three sacks of seed potatoes, from which he gathered thirty-seven sacks. It was planted on high land, was not irrigated, and received but one cultivation. He raised 2,100 pounds of green peas on one-fourth of an acre of land, 500 pounds of Lima beans; has still 200 pounds of dry beans, and there is still the second crop to be gathered! This is a new variety, called the King of the Garden. He planted one-half an acre in melons, and after the birds had destroyed about one-half of them, he sold five large wagon loads of fine melons. He has grown on this place nearly the entire list of garden vegetables, and has had great success with the Burbank seedling potato, producing a large yield of extra quality. His wife is devoting much attention to flowers, and they have many rare varieties, including twenty- six varieties of the Cereus family. He has pur- chased five acres of land in Chula Vista, and is going to devote it exclusively to flowers. Mrs. Shaug is thoroughly informed on this business and will take charge of it. They get water from the Sweetwater dam for $3.50 per acre per an- num, and the president of the water company, Colonel Dickinson, is taking a lively interest in the project, as it will show what can be done in producing the choicest flowers.

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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