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 32

Author: Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1038

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and strict military order preserved, but fortun- ately ended with the death of only one man. While in Lawrence at this time, Colonel Horne was promoted to the rank of Major in Colonel Hunt's regiment of Free State Forces. May 13, 1861, Major Horne was elected Colonel of the Fourth Regiment, South Division, Kansas Militia, and received his commission from Gov- ernor Charles Robinson, first governor of Kan- sas. On the 28th of that month Colonel Horne has credit for suggesting the plan which carried the election that secured the State Capital at Topeka, and during his residence there he was a great factor in the growth and in fixing the status of the now large city.

In August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company E, Eleventh Kansas Volunteer In- fantry, and was made First Sergeant Major at the organization of the regiment. While with the cuminand he participated in the battle of Fort Wayne, Kane Hill, Prairie Grove, the tak- ing of Van Buren, and minor engagements. In February, 1863, he was commissioned by Presi- dent Lincoln Captain of the Fourth Regiment, Indiana Brigade, and served in it until it was mustered out of the service in the fall of the same year. In the fall of 1864 he was chosen Captain of Company A, Second Regiment, com- manded by Colonel George W. Veale, for his · faithful and courageous conduct. While en- gaged in this service he received several mani- festations of approval from the commander of the forces, and the post of honor was assigned to him of guarding the main crossing between Kansas City and Westport, where it was ex- pected the Rebels would attempt to cross the Blne. During this time he was a candidate against Colonel Veale for State Senator, and was elected. During the latter part of his two years' term he was President of the Senate. He was a member of the Topeka Council and President of the Board of Aldermen in 1871. Being acting Mayor of the city at the time of the great Chicago fire, he promptly responded to the call for aid by forwarding with all possi- ble dispatch Topeka's generous contribution of

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$5,400. He organized the Topeka Manufactur- ing Company on March 16, 1883.

Colonel Horne was identified with Topeka's interest from 1854 to 1885-thirty-one years. At that time he had seen his most sanguine hopes realized. The town had grown, from nothing to a city of 30,000 inhabitants, and history awards to him and his compatriots the honor of having been the founders of the great State " Free Kansas," nor has this worthy and successful life ended here. In 1885 he re- moved to Oceanside, California, where he found only a few houses, but with his usual business zeal commenced his share of the building up of this new town. Here in full view of the ocean and surrounding country he has built a large and commodious residence and has beau- tiful grounds about his place. He was the first president of the new Bank of Oceanside; also president of the board of trustees, and it will not be the Colonel's fault if Oceanside does not become one of the most attractive and prosper- ons cities in Southern California. He has re- cently been serving San Diego County as fore- man of the grand jury, and in that position unearthing official corruption and fraud which had been secretly practiced to an alarming ex- tent. For this disinterested and manly service the taxpayers of the county owe him a debt of gratitude, and whether he receives it or not, he will have the approval of his conscience for duty well done.

Mr. and Mrs. Horne have had a family of ten children, of which but two survive: Georgie W., born in Woburn, Massachusetts, in 1852, and wife of Mr. McGraw, of Michigan (they have two children); Mary, born in Topeka, Kansas, June 1, 1862, now married to Mr. E. M. Clnett, formerly of Wisconsin. Colonel Horne and his wife are Congregationalists, and he is a man very liberal in religions sentiments. Mrs. Horne has shared her husband's fortunes and has passed with him through the dangers and privations of the border times. He is a mem- ber of the A. F. & A. M. In his youth in politics he was a Whig and was a great admirer

of Daniel Webster, with whoni he was acquainted. Since the organization of the Republican party he has been a Republican, and although now in the sixty-first year of his age, he seems strong and capable of many more years of life and use- fulness.

DMUND WESCOTT, San Diego .- Among the sturdy sons of Maine who were early pioneers to the coast of Cali- fornia, we find the subject of this sketch, who was born at Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine, December 20, 1835. His ancestors were residents of Maine for generations, and an early grandfather called " Post " Wescott, was a messenger under General Washington during the Revolutionary war, carrying messages to and from the State department. The father of the subject of this sketch was a farmer who was born and died in the town of Gorham, and bis mother is still living, at the age of eighty-three years. There were six children, all sons, of whom Edmund was the second. He learned the trade of bridge and wharf building in the city of Boston. In Jannary, 1855, he started for California by the steamer " Northern Light," over the Nicaragua route, and after a passage of abont thirty days he arrived in San Fran- cisco, February, 1855. He then followed min- ing for eleven years, mainly in California, but also in Nevada and British Columbia. He owned his mines, which were placer, quartz and hydraulic, and made and lost large amounts of money, as leads happened to prove rich or poor. In 1866 he gave up mining and returned to San Francisco and there followed his trade, building wharfs and heavy bridges. In 1869 he came to San Diego and built the Jorris wharf, and also repaired the Horton wharf; then work in that line failing he entered into the trucking busi- ness, under the firm name of Hobbs & Wescott, and has continued in that business ever since. He has changed partners several times, but has always been in the lead in the truck business.

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His company consolidated with Simpson Brotli- ers May 15, 1889, and formed the Pioneer Truck Company, with a capital stock of $75,000, Mr. Wescott being president. The Julian and Stonewall stage line which runs from Lakeside is under their management.

Mr. Wescott was married at San Diego, De- cember 25, 1869, to Miss Susie Gillam, a native of Arkansas. They have five children living, one son and four danghters, and all reside at the corner of G and Twelfth streets. Mr. Wes- cott is a Royal Arch Mason, and a member of Centennial Encampment, No. 68, I. (. O. F., also a member of the Society of San Diego Pioneers.

M. CLARK was born in Antwerp, Jeffer= son County, New York, January 4, 1823, his parents being natives of New Eng- land. In 1836 they moved near Cleveland, Ohio, thence to Caldwell County, Missouri, and in 1837 to Hancock County, Illinois, where his father followed the trade of blacksmith, and he attended the public achools and learned the trade of carpenter. In 1846 he went to Galena, Wisconsin, and worked in the lead mines, but soon went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he learned the trade of ship-joiner; and this trade, in connection with that of carpenter, he followed until 1849. In that year he decided to come to California, and accordingly joined a train at Fort Independence, and, crossing the mountains at South Pass, they entered Hangtown, after an extremely pleasant journey. Instead of min- ing he went to Sutter's Fort, now Sacramento, and engaged extensively in live stock, that being headquarters for stock trading at that time. In 1851 he went to Oregon and made large pur- chases of grain, shipping it to San Francisco, but still continuing his interests at Sacramento.

In 1855 he married Miss Magdalena Rich, of German parentage but a native of Wisconsin, and they then moved to Oroville, Butte County, there entering a wholesale and retail mercantile

business, carrying on several retail stores, and continuing about fourteen years with great snc- cess in the business, but losing heavily in min- ing speculations. In 1869 he came to San Diego city and was traveling agent and clerk for the firm of Smith & Craique, who conducted a wholesale and retail liquor business, until 1877; he then opened business for himself until 1880, when he sold out and went to Tombstone and opened a saloon, and also owned and worked the Winfield silver mine, which was very rich at times, assaying $376 to the ton. In 1884 he sold out and returned to San Diego, again resuming his liquor business, under the firm name of Scranton & Clark; later the firm was changed to Craique & Clark. In 1886 he re- tired from the business, and, during that " boom " year, which San Diego can never for- get, entered extensively into the sale of real es- tate, and still follows that business in the care of his property.

Mr. Clark has had three children, two of whom are living: Frank M., who married Miss Annie Lovell, and Ione Feno, now the wife of Juan Allison, all residents of San Diego city.

UDGE GEORGE PUTERBAUGH, of San Diego, is a native of Peoria, Illinois, born August 6, 1842. His father, Jacob Puter- baugh, was a native of Maryland and Pennsyl- vania. Having been born on the line between the States, he is entitled to both States as his native State. The name Puterbaugh is either German or French, as you wish to have it, or perhaps neither. His mother was Hannah (Hit- tle) Puterbaugh. They had a family of eight children, of whom the Judge was the youngest. He attended the common schools at his home, and was sent to Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. He remained there until Horace Mann, president of the college, died. He then went to Jacksonville (Illinois) College. In April, 1861, in answer to President Lincoln's first call for volunteers to put down the rebellion, he enlisted

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in Company F, Eighth Illinois Volunteers, Gov- ernor Oglesby's regiment, for three months, as First Corporal. At the end of his term he was sick with the typhoid fever, and when recovered he again enlisted, in Company E, Forty-seventh Illinois Infantry, and was elected First Lienten. ant, which commission he held until September, 1862, when he was promoted to Captain. He was in what was known as the Eagle Brigade, composed of the Forty-seventh Illinois, Eleventh Missouri, Eighth Wisconsin and the Fifth Min- nesota. They remained together during the war, commanded by Major-General Joseph A. Mower, and were in all the battles of the Army of the Tennessee, thirty-three different engage- ments in all. At the battle of Corinth, in 1862, his regiment lost 130 men, its Colonel and several officers, in less than half an hour. On May 22 this regiment and division made the charge on Vicksburg, and suffered very severely. He remained in the service until October, 1864, and then commenced the study of law with Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll and Judge S. D. Puterbaugh. The latter gentleman was the Judge's brother, and was the author of " Puter- bangh's Common Law Practice and Pleadings," and "Puterbangh's Practice in Chancery." Judge Puterbaugh was admitted to practice law in Jannary, 1866, and remained with the firm of Ingersoll & Puterbangh until the fol- lowing July, when he started business for him- self. Soon after he was elected City Attorney, and held the office two years, and District At- torney for four years. In 1873 he went into partnership with Colonel R. G. Ingersoll and his brother, Judge S. D. Puterbaugh, and upon the dissolution of this firm in 1874, he re- mained in partnership with Colonel Ingersoll until he went to Washington City. Judge Puterbangh continued in business in Peoria until 1880, when he removed to Colorado on account of a throat trouble contracted by ex- posure in the service. He remained there until 1884. His health not improving materially, he traveled east and northwest from June until November, 1884, when he came to California.

He traveled in California several months, and permanently located in San Diego in July, 1885. He has bought property and built a beautiful home on Florence Hights.

He was married to Carrie Troyer James, Sep- tember 13, 1866, by whom he had one daughter, Carrie Mand, born December 20, 1867. He lost his wife in March, 1870. She was the adopted daughter of Dr. M. Troyer, of Peoria, Illinois. October 1, 1874, he was again married, this time to Miss Catherine Hall Wagoner, daughter of Joseph and Emeline Wagoner, in Dayton, Ohio. She was born July 14, 1844. They have by this marriage one son, Johnson Wagoner Puterbaugh, born in Peoria, Illinois, September 26, 1875. Judge and Mrs. l'uter- baugh are members of St. Paul's Parish, and he is its junior warden. He also belongs to the G. A. R., and is a member of Heintzelman Post, No. 33, of San Diego. He was adjutant of the first post established in Peoria, Illinois. It disbanded and was afterward reorganized as Colonel Bryner Post, No. 67. He was its com- mander two years. He was also junior vice commander of department of Illinois, which position he was holding when he went to Colo- rado. While there he organized and was com- mander of Joseph A. Mower Post, No. 31. While in Breckenridge, Colorado, lie was Mayor of the city one term. He was inspector on the staff of Chaplain Renshaw when he was com- mander in-chief of the G. A. R. He is a mem- ber of the Missouri Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. The Judge is an able lawyer, a good judge, and is held in high esteem by the legal profession of the county and his fellow-citizens in general.

MANUEL LOUIS, a native of Strasburg Prussia, was born May 17, 1868, and crossed the ocean at the age of one and a half years, landing at New York. He inime- diately started for California by the way of the Isthmus of Panama, and after a quiet journey

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arrived safely at San Francisco. ITis family soon journeyed down the coast to Los Angeles, but, his father deciding that San Diego was to be the future metropolis of southern California, they removed to that city, then a small settle- ment, in July, 1870, where they have continued to reside ever since, and have seen this city grow up to one of magnificent proportions. During the succeeding years Mr. Louis attended the public schools, and graduated June 30, 1885. He then worked some time for the San Diego Daily Sun. as city editor and business manager, and on January 1, 1886, he took a position with the Russ Lumber and Mill Com- pany, of San Diego, as assistant book-keeper and in charge of collections, which position he now occupies.

Mr. Louis takes great interest in aquatic sports, being at present vice-president of the Excelsior Rowing and Swimming Club; is a member of the Society of San Diego Pioneers, and an ardent brother of San Diego Lodge, No. 35, F. & A. M., which order lie entered on his twenty-first birthday, and already has been ap- pointed an officer of the above lodge, and takes great pride in its welfare. Mr. Louis has been lately elected the first honorary member of the Junior Bar Association of San Diego, an organ- ization composed of young law students, and feels highly complimented for this honor.

He is a keen young business man, and has accumulated considerable property during his residence in San Diego, whichi bids fair to be very valuable ere long. He takes a great deal of interest in anything that appertains to San Diego, city or county, and will always be found to be a progressive citizen.

EORGE COPE was born in Jerseyville, Illinois, June 14, 1861. His father, Na- than Cope, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1829, and his grandfather, John Cope, was a native of Germany, who set- tled in South Carolina. Mr. Cope's father mar-

ried Miss Elinda Day in 1848. She was a native of Buffalo, New York, born in 1831, and was a daughter of Mr. Ira Day, who was an Illinois land-owner and farmer. They had eight children, three boys and five girls. The subject of this sketch was the youngest but one of this family. Ile was sent to the country schools of Jersey County, Illinois, and remained at home with his father until twenty-three years of age. He was united in marriage to Miss Nelly San- derhaus, who was born iu Greene County, Illi- nois, in 1863. They have one interesting little daughter, Laura, born in Jerseyville, Illinois, May 22, 1885. Their ranch consists of 160 acres, situated four miles north of Perris. Ten aeres of the ranch is devoted to the house and ranch buildings and shrubbery and fruit. The house and barns have the stamp of affluence and comfort second to none in the valley. Mr. Cope is a good fariner. He is sowing this year 100 acres of White Russian wheat and 200 acres to barley. Mr. Cope and wife stand high in their county as enterprising citizens.

B UFORD H. COOK, one of the pioneer farmers and solid and reliable men of Menifee, was born in Cass County, Mis- sonri, November 15, 1845. His father, David Cook, was born in Kentucky. His mother was Orpha (Potts) Cook. Ilis father died when he was only six years, and his mother in 1853, in California, when he was eight years of age. He came to California and settled in Sonoma Coun- ty. He went to school there until 1863 and then removed to Esmeralda County, Nevada, and engaged in mining at $4 per day; then he went back to Sonoma County and was in that vicinity as a working man for five years, and then went to Napa Valley, and then to Los Angeles in 1875. He bought a tract of land near Wilming- ton. After this he farmed near Santa Ana, and November 1, 1882, he came to Menifee and homesteaded 160 aeres of land; he also timber- cultured another 160 acres of land, and after-

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ward sold it and rebought, and now has 240 acres. When he began at Menifee he brought a load of lumber and materials for a house with a four-horse team. He left a man to put up the house and went back to Wilmington and got his wife and two children and their house- hold effects, and moved in with his wagon and four horses. When they arrived the house was partly finished. They took possession, and here, in what was then a desert, he has made a nice home that blossoms like a rose. They have had the trials and hardships of pioncer life, but amid it all they have come through, and in the short space of seven years they find themselves in possession of peace and plenty. Mrs. Cook is a native of the "Golden West," having been born in Mendocino County, California, in 1861. Her maiden name was Ella Powers, being the daughter of Mr. John Powers. She was mar- ried to Mr. Cook February 7, 1876, and is the mother of five children, viz .: Etta, born in Los Angeles County, July 30, 1878; Robert Roy, born at Wilmington, Los Angeles County, Oc- tober 9, 1882; Pearl M., born at Menifee, April 24, 1884; Jessie A., born ut Menifee, June 21, 1886, and Charles William, born at Menifee, January 15, 1889. Mrs. Cook is one of the first ten members of the first church organized in Menifee-the Methodist Church Sonth. Both she and her husband have been contributors and workers in the building of their place of worship-the first one constructed for the service of God in this new country. Mr. Cook is this year (1889) sowing 150 acres of wheat and 150 acres of barley. Mr. and Mrs. Cook are people of influence in their community and are very highly spoken of by their neighbors.

ILLIAM NEWPORT, rancher near Menifee. The city of Chester, Eng- land, is one of the oldest cities of Eng- land. It still has its old walls that used to surround it to prevent invasion preserved. There is only one other city in England that has these

ancient walls preserved. In this city was born and educated Mr. William Newport, the sub- ject of this sketch. He was born June 5, 1856. His father, William Newport, was born in Eng- land in 1818, and his grandfather, Thomas Newport, was born in England in 1788. Mr. Newport's mother, Mary Newns, was also born in England in 1820, and married Mr. William Newport in 1854. They had but one child, the subject of this sketch. Mr. Newport's ances- tors were all English farmers and he may be said to be a born farmer, as he loves the busi- ness and brings his great energy of character into the business of his choice. In 1876 he came to the United States for the purpose of buying a 2,000-acre farın and farming in this favored land. It was not luck but his wise judgment that sent him to the most favored and delightful portion of the United States- California. He landed at New York in 1876, and from there came to San Francisco County, and from there to Los Angeles, where he lived and farmed for nine years. He then came to Menifee and purchased 2,000 acres of land, near- ly every foot of it plow land, and he is now farm- ing on a large scale. When he inoved to Menifee, although a young man, he resembled one of the patriarchs, as their were twelve wagons in his train, loaded with implements, provisions, lumber and his cook-honse on wheels, a building one story high, 9x 18 feet. He had with him his men servants and his cattle and asses and horses. He found the valley very dry, with only a few poor people; but poor as they were they pitied the young man who, as they thought, was to make a failure of farming. When they nnloaded their caravan he built a good ranch house and two large barns; he has planted ten acres to fruit and has laid out ample grounds and has planted and has many ornamental trees growing. He runs four gang plows and uses thirty-two work horses. They plow and sow twenty-eight acres of land in a day. He has his Chinese cook. This year he proposes to sow 3,000 acres of grain-1,600 acres of the best Australian white wheat and

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the balance in best brewing barley. He has 200 acres in alfalfa and intends to sow 100 more acres of it this year. He is going more fully into diversified farming. His lands are pecu- liarly well adapted to the production of blooded horses. He now has a fine drove of young horses and mules. He owns a fine thorough- bred horse from Hardwood the dam, by Rich- mond the sire. The animal shows fine breeding and will undoubtedly be very fast. Mr. New- port is also turning his attention to the breed- ing of Berkshire hogs and he has as the head of this a thoroughbred Berkshire that is as fine as any in the United States. Mr. Newport will not be satisfied with anything short of the best. Ile sows the best varieties of wheat and barley and makes it perfectly clean, and is able to make his own price on what he sells. His barns at one time this year contained 20,000 sacks of grain. He has selected the site and adopted the plans for a palatial residence which is to go up in the near future. What a single man will do with such a house can only be conjectured. His present honse in which he baches is capi- tal, has a fine instrument in it and is full of costly pictures. He not only uses his brains, but muscle in his farming. He and his hands are up at half past four in the morning taking care of the stock, and the breakfast is eaten so that they go on the ranch as soon as it is elear. Some of his help have been with him from three to five years. He is a very genial gentleman and makes many warm friends. While others are complaining of hard times, this man of push and vim has barns full of grain and money in the bank. It is safe to say that he is a valuable factor in showing what his section of the coun. try will do when judiciously tickled with the plow.

EORGE M. DANNALS, of San Diego, was born in Rochester, New York, No- vember 2, 1844. His father, R. M. Dan- nals, was a native of New York. His mother, Susan (Bell) Dannals, danghter of Dr. Bell,

was also of New York. Mr. Dannals is a de- scendent of the Holland Dutch who located in the Mohawk Valley. Ilis father was a con- tractor and builder. Mr. Dannals left his home in 1867, and to fit himself for a business life, took a course in a commercial college. After leaving college some good genius put it into his head to learn a trade. He consequently learned the carpenter's trade.

When twenty years of age he offered his serv- ices to his country as a soldier, and was enrolled July 26, 1864. At that time the great war had assumed gigantic proportions, and as thou- sands upon thousands of our brave men had died in prison, and had been slain on many a bloody battle-field, 1864, of all the years in the history of the United States since the days of Valley Forge, was the time that tried the patriotism and conrage of its citizens, and to enlist in such a war at such a time was a most grand and heroic deed. He enlisted in Company E, Fifty- fourth New York Infantry, which was com- posed mostly of young men. They were sent to Elmira, New York, to gnard prisons, and to aid in preventing bounty jumping, and to aid in forwarding troops to the front. He was in the United States service 110 days, and after being mustered out in November, 1864, he was soon engaged as chief clerk in a railroad freight office. March, 1867, he went to Nevada Coun- ty, California, where he engaged in the mercan- tile business, dealing in mining supplies. They bought gold dust, and did a lucrative business. From there he went to San Francisco, and then came to San Diego and went to the Julian mines in 1870. He was there until 1876. They had a long and severe struggle to set aside the Mexican land grant, which menaced their mines and threatened to take them from them. He came out of this successfully, but very much injured financially, as it took a large amount of money to bring it to a close. In 1871 and '72 he was elected a member of the California Legislature. While at the mines, Mr. Dannals was agent for Wells, Fargo & Co., and Post- master, and had all kinds of experiences. Soon

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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