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 39

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 39
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Returning again to Monterey, he became one of the prime movers of the project to build a narrow-gange railroad through the Salinas val- ley, becoming one of the incorporators, and remained with them until the road was com- pleted. In 1874 he again engaged in the cattle business, with H. M. Newhall, and they made large shipments to local markets and to northern points. In 1876-'77 Don Soto lost over $300,- 000 worth of cattle, sheep, etc. His ranches comprised over 9,000 acres of land, and the en- tire grain crop was rnined by the rust in 1877- '78. These sudden calamities stunned him so completely that he rested awhile until he recov- ered his pristine energy. In 1879 he started again for Los Angeles to retrieve himself, and became interested in colonizing land and placed a large number of families on the Santa Mar- guerita ranch, which he afterward deeded back to Juan Foster, of Los Angeles. He next went to Arizona and in 1881 started the first min- ing exchange in the territory, in Tucson. When he sold ont his ranch property in California he retired from business until 1889, when his na- ture was again aronsed by exciting discoveries, and he visited Lower California in order to develop its mineral resources. Taking the lead of a gold mining company for the working of the mine in Real del Castillo, he became presi- dent of the company, and he now has great expectations.

Don Soto is well known in California. Al- though not a native of North America, he cast his first vote for Fremont, in 1856, for President of the United States, and was a leader in the establishment of the Republican party

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in California; and all of his sons and sons-in- law are all uncompromising Republicans. He has recently been induced to apply for a United States Consulship at Mazatlan, Mexico.

He has three sons and three daughters. His son, R. M. J. Soto, is a member of the firm of Herman & Soto; and S. J., a lawyer, has been District Attorney of his county-Monterey.

UGENE DANEY was born in Bordeaux, France, October 11, 1862, of French par- entage. He came to California in 1865, when three years old, with his mother and sister, his father, Michael Daney, having come to the coast in 1851, and being the discoverer of the celebrated " Daney Mine," at Silver City, Nevada. Mr. Daney was educated in the public schools of San Francisco, entered the Hastings College of the Law University of Cali. fornia in 1882, and graduated therefrom on the 25th day of May, 1885, receiving the degree of LL. B. After having been for three years a student of law under the late John Norton Pomeroy, LL. D., author of Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence, Pomeroy's Remedies and Rem- edial Rights, etc., he was admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of California, June 1, 1885, and immediately entered into the prac- tice of law at Sau Francisco. After two and a half years practice, there he was attracted by the boom to Southern California, and removed to San Diego, November 7, 1887, and resumed the practice of law there. On the 6thi of February. 1888, he was appointed Assistant Distriet At- torney of San Diego County, and has served continuously since in that position. During that time he has successfully prosecuted a large number of criminal cases, and has earned for himself an enviable reputation as an able and successful criminal lawyer. He also holds the office of Notary Public, having been appointed by Governor Waterman to that office for the term of four years, from July, 1889 .. He also has been prominently identified with politics in 16

San Diego County, being President of the Young Men's Republican League during the Harrison and Morton campaign, -- the largest club in San Diego County,-its membership numbering over 400 of the most prominent young Republicans of the county : and also hold- ing the position of treasurer of the Republican County Committee of San Diego County. Mr. Daney was married November 3, 1887, to Miss Elizabeth Florence Rines, of San Francisco, daughter of the late T. O. Rines, of Red Bluff, California. They have one son, born in San Diego, July 7, 1889.

F. KAMMAN was born at Soest, Prov- ince of Westphalia, Germany, March 11, 1845, and was educated at the Gymna- sium at Soest. He entered the Prussian army in 1862 as a one year's volunteer, and was re- called in the army in December, 1863, to take part in the war against Denmark. In May, 1866, he landed in Baltimore, Maryland, and in December following he enlisted in the Second United States Cavalry Regiment, from which he was discharged for disability contracted in the service, in 1869, on the plains. Soon after he was employed in the quartermaster's depart- ment, United States army, with which he was connected in civil employ until 1884, of which time he was stationed for seven years as pur- chasing and property clerk at the general depot in San Francisco. He removed to The Dalles, Oregon, in February. 1884, and engaged in the mercantile business; then came to San Diego, February 1, 1887, where he established the Süd-California Deutsche Zeitung, and a book and job printing office, of which he is still pro- prietor. He was elected a member of the city council from the Ninth ward (Coronado) in April, 1889. He is also a director of the chamber of commerce, of which he is an active member and local agent of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company and the Red Star Steamship Company.

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He was married in 1882 to Miss Bertha I. Werlin, of San Francisco, and has two dangh ters. He resides on Coronado Beach.

DWARD W. FOX, one of the youngest business men in San Diego, was born at Kasson, Hungary, November 10, 1869. When only eight years old he came to New York. In 1883 he came to San Diego, and for several years was employed as a clerk by the mercantile firm of Fox Brothers. In January, 1889, when less than twenty years old, he com- menced business for himself as proprietor of the " Art Emporinin," a well known art store at 721 and 723 Sixth street, San Diego. Mr. Fox is honest and industrious, and deserves to succeed, as he undoubtedly will.

OHN A. LOVE, agrienlturist, was born at Dalhousie, New Brunswick, May 19, 1846. He was the second of the seven children of Alexander Love, a native of Scotland, who came to the province of New Brunswick in 1835. The family came to San Diego city some twenty years ago. John A. Love, however, was the pioneer of the family in California, as he had lived in the northern part of the State about five years before the family came to the Pacific coast. The first years of his living in San Die- go were spent in speculating in real estate and in agriculture. His health failing, he went into the stock-raising business at Palomar mountain, seventy five miles from San Diego. Not liking to live so far from the city, he purchased a small but choice ranch at Alpine, thirty miles from San Diego. In 1881 he married Lucy R. Hoagland, a teacher who came from the East.

Mr Love takes the delight peculiar to the old settlers in relating the trials and tribula- tions that fall to the lot of the pioneer. He shot cotton-tail rabbits and quail on the ground where now stands the city. Once, after leaving

a ranch out in Tia Juana to stay in town a few days, upon returning to it he found house, barn and all farming implements missing. Taking a chum, he proceeded to Mexico, rescued somne of his property, but of the buildings he could hear nothing. Many of his friends were cruelly murdered by the Indians and Mexicans, who completely terrorized the country in those early days. He gives great credit to Mr. Hunsaker, then the Sheriff, for the quiet that followed his term, and for the extermination of the leaders of the ontrages. Mr. Love now lives on his Alpine ranch, which is being rapidly developed into a model farm. Having traveled over the State in search of health, he considers that at Alpine, in his own county, he has found an ideal climate, both for people and for fruits.

NEWTON PETTY .- One of the most popular and perhaps one of the best known men, in this part of California, is the genial Mr. J. Newton Petty, who was born in Bradford, England, August 5, 1838. He arrived in San Diego in the fall of 1869, and is therefore a pioneer. He has led an exciting and adventurous life; was in the employ of the Hudson Bay Company, and also was interpreter in Alaska for the Lady Franklin expedition in 1860, sent out by the English government, and had his toes so badly frozen that he had to have them amputated. During his travels he became familiar with all the Indian dialects spoken on the Pacific coast. His family are very highly connected, and he is a nephew of Lord Lands- down, the Governor-General of Canada. He is a thorough sportsman, and owns his own yacht, the schooner Sappho, in which he very often entertains his friends, hunting and fishing. He is affable and pleasant in his manners, and witty; is therefore a good converser. For the last few years he has gone largely into the liquor business, and carries on an extensive wholesale and retail trade in all kinds of im- ported and domestic liquors, wines and cigars.

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He is the secretary of the Liquor Dealers' Pro- tective Association of Southern California, and Johnny Petty's name, as pertaining to all sport- ing matters, is taken for authority. His place of business is one of the finest in Southern Cal- ifornia, and the pride of the city. He claims to have one of the finest collections of minerals and coins on the Pacific coast.

ALTER G. MATTHEWS was born in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, June 8, 1867. His father died when he was quite young, and his mother died in 1888. Owing to asthma he was unable to live in Eng- land during the winters, and determined to come to California, where he is now entirely cured of that disease. On arriving he opened a fruit store in Coronado, which he conducted for six months successfully. Selling out, he came to San Diego and commenced the auction and second-hand goods business in the Old Church building on Seventh street. In the fall of 1889 he sold out his store, and in November of the same year commenced again in the same busi- ness in the Sheldon block, Sixth street, where he has already built up a large business. Since the late boom he invested several thousand dol- lars in real estate, which at present low priees will greatly increase in value, so that with his energy and business habits he bids fair to be- come one of San Diego's capitalists. He is greatly pleased with California, and has not only declared his intention to become an Amer- ican citizen, but means to live for the rest of his life in San Diego, California.

E. DEAKIN was born February 1, 1851. He is the second son of J. E. Deakin, F. 0 R. S., of Eastbury Manor, Worcestershire, England, a descendant of the old Norman fam- ily De Akyn, who have been land-owners in that locality since A. D. 1372. Mr. Deakin has

always been a lawyer. He graduated as Master of Arts and Master of Laws in the old Univer- sity of Cambridge in 1873, and as Doctor of Laws in London University in 1875, and was initiated into the mysteries of law in the vener- able precincts of Lincoln's Inn, London, under the guidance of Sir Joseph W. Chitty, Q. C., now senior judge of the Court of Chancery in England. In 1880 Mr. Deakin left London and entered an old law firm, Tyndall & Co., in Birmingham, England, and the same year mar- ried Miss Lily Tarbolton, of that town. In 1885, on the death of his old partner, Mr. Tyn- dall, he decided to try the New World, and came to San Francisco, where he was immedi- ately admitted as an attorney of our Supreme Court and of the United States Circuit Court. In January, 1886, in the early days of the " boom," he came to San Diego, and at once joined the veteran of the bar, Major Chase, with whom he remained until that gentleman retired from active practice. Mr. Deakin is now as- sociated with Mr. Hampden Story, and the firm enjoys a fair share of the more important land and corporation litigation of the place.

OHN MASON DODGE .- One of the best examples of San Diego's self-made men is represented by the name at the head of this article, who is the popular City Treasurer, and has during his residence here made for himself, by a course of uprightness and in- tegrity, a host of friends and supporters of a character which assures his future success in any undertaking his ambitions may point to. Mr. Dodge is the son of Rev. R. V. Dodge, late pastor of the Presbyterian Church of this city. He was born at Springfield, Illinois, July 18, 1853, and moved with his parents four years later to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he resided during the late civil war, after which he resided for a time at Washington, Peunsyl- vania. In June. 1869, he entered npon a course of study at the State University at Madison,

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Wisconsin, which he completed in two years, and entered the hardware business. In 1872, his father accepting a call to become pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of San Francisco, Mr. Dodge accompanied him and there resumed his collegiate studies, this time at the Univer- sity Mound College of South San Francisco, of which the well-known educator, Rev. Dr. Bur- roughs, was then president. Mr. Dodge's next change was to Chicago, where his brother, R. V. Dodge, Jr., then resided. Becoming fasci- nated with the employment in which his brother was then engaged (railroad engineering), he shortly succeeded in securing a position as fire- man on the Illinois Central Railroad, which he held for five years, after which he passed a try- ing examination and was promoted to the posi- tion of engineer. In 1878 Mr. Dodge was selected by the lodge of Locomotive Firemen, to which he belonged, to represent it at the Grand Lodge which convened that year at Buf- falo, New York. Discharging this duty with marked ability, he was elected by the Grand Lodge to the office of Vier-Grand Master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen of the United States and Canada, which office he filled with honor to himself and credit to the order which he represents.

In 1879 Mr. Dodge was married, at Chicago, to Louise Birdsall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Millspangh, of that city, and a year later he rejoined his parents, who had but recently moved from San Francisco to San Diego, His brother had preceded him by a few months, and the two are now interested with their father in creating the attractive how e-place near the city, known so well as Marilon Park.

At the solicitation of friends, Mr. Dodge, in 1882, reluctantly consented to the use of his name as a candidate for the office of County Clerk. Being a comparative stranger in the county, and belonging to the political party then in the ascendency, Dodge's decided victory over his opponent is to be taken as the best evi- dence of the great popularity he already en- joyed. In two succeeding elections he was

equally successful. In the Presidential canvass of 1888, Mr. Dodge was defeated by the small vote of twenty-three. In the city election of April, 1889, Mr. Dodge was elected City Treas- urer and Tax Collector by a handsome major- ity, which position he held until March 8, 1890. when he resigned. He is now engaged in the fire and life insurance and real-estate business, with Captain Thomas A. Nerney as his partner. Mr. Dodge resigned on account of his weariness of political life, etc.

OHN B. STANNARD .- The subject of this sketch was born in Ottumwa Iowa, in February, 1852. When quite young he went with his parents to Ohio, where he re- mained until 1884, when he removed to Cowley County, Kansas. In September, 1886, he came to California and located at San Diego. Open- ing an office in the spring of 1887, his energies and business abilities soon brought him into prominence as one of the best architects in the city. Among the many elegant structures that have grown up in this city under the architect- ural charge of Mr. Stannard we may mention the Grand Pacific, the Bank of Commerce, Louis Building, Lockard's residence on D and Twenty- fourth streets and Mrs. L. F Shirley's residence on Second street. He has also furnished the designs for Jerry Tolles' fine residence now going up on Second and Lanrel streets.

Mr. Stannard was married in 1872 to Miss Mary C. Smith, daughter of Samnel and Caro- line Smith, of Hardin County, Ohio. Two daughters and one son have been born to them.

OLONEL WARNER L. VESTAL was born in Gnilford Township, Hendricks Connty, Indiana, November 28, 1839. His parents were members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and resided on a farm; his education was obtained at the country schools and at the

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Plainfield Academy, located near the place of his birth. When he was tive years old his mother died, and his grandparents on his mother's side "took him to raise." At about the age of fifteen he returned to his father's honse, he having married again. At the age of seventeen he got the " Iowa fever," and with his father's consent emigrated to that State. In the office of the Indianola Visitor he learned the art of printing. In the winter of 1859- '60 he returned to Indiana, and in connection with his brother purchased the Danville Ledger, and continued its publication until the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion in 1861. In response to Lincoln's first call for troops he en- listed in Company A. Seventeenth Indiana In- fantry. The regiment was ordered to Western Virginia and participated in numerous heavy skirmishes and the battles of Phillipi and Car- rick's Ford. He was mustered out in August, 1861, and in the following February entered as a private in Company A, Fifty-third Indiana Infantry. He was first promoted to Corporal, then Sergeant-Major, Captain, Major and to Lieutenant-Colonel, and finally to Colonel, in which rank he was inustered out in July, 1865, by reason of the close of the war. He partici- pated in many of the campaigns and battles of the Western army, under Generals Grant and Sherman, notably those of Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, Meridian and Atlanta. At the latter place he was badly wounded, on the 23d day of July, 1864. Ile returned, however, and again joined the army at Hilton Head, South Carolina, and at a later day his regiment at Goldsboro, North Carolina. He was still very lame and used a crutch. He participated in the grand review at Washington in May, 1865, and was mustered out at Lonisville in July of the same year.

In November, 1865, he married Frances S. Young, at Washington city, and in 1867 moved to Des Moines, Iowa, and was employed on the reportorial and editorial staff of the Iowa State Register. In 1870 he removed to Storm Lake, Iowa, and established the Storm Lake Pilot.

He continued its publication until 1885, when he sold it. JIe was First Assistant Secretary of the Iowa Senate for several years, and also Postmaster and Mayor of Storm Lake for sev- Eral terms. He arrived in San Diego in the spring of 1886, and for three years was business manager for the Daily Sun. He is a Republi- can and has always taken a great interest in politics: Ile east his first vote for Abrahamn Lincoln, in 1864, and in the election which re- sulted in the choice of Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and Cleveland, canvassed portions of the State of Iowa. He is a thorough believer in San Diego and her future greatness and manifest destiny. Her harbor, geographical location, climate and resources will eventually make San Diego one of the grandest cities of the earth.

ICTOR JONES, dealer in wines and liquors at 619 Fifth street, San Diego, was born in Stasburg, West Prussia, on the river Drevens, February 9, 1831. In youth le came to America, stopping in Georgia, and then coming on to California, in 1856. He soon amassed considerable in merchandising among the miners in Placer County. He was also one of the many thousand who rushed to the Fraser river mines in the Cariboo district in British Columbia, in 1862. He remained there until 1870, when again the famous Comstock lode of Virginia city, Nevada, took him to that point, where he many times passed through the rapid transition of being almost a millionaire from his mining stock to the opposite extremne, that of being almost a pauper. He next engaged in the liquor business in Virginia City, in which he did well financially, and became a very popular citizen. He also speculated in mining stock, with varying success, until 1881, when his good luck apparently deserted him, and he lost his entire property from the depression of the inin- ing boom. Eventually he obtained a position in a wholesale wine house in Santa Rosa, where he remained four years. Three years ago, dur-

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ing the great boom in this part of California, he came to San Diego and opened a wine and liquor honse, in which he has a large and growing business. He is an old pioneer, has witnessed many stirring events and has led an active and adventurous life.

RANK M. SIMPSON .- Of the young men of San Diego who have risen to positions of honor and trust, no one is more worthy of mention than the subject of this sketch, Frank M. Simpson. Born of English parent- age in New York city, in May, 1863, he came with his parents to the Pacific coast in 1865, and to San Diego in 1874. Soon afterward he entered the service of the Pacific Coast Steam- ship Company, as clerk in the San Diego office. In October, 1889, he was appointed agent for the company at San Diego, which is one of the most important agencies on the coast. He was married in April, 1887, to Miss Dora Diven- dorff, daughter of Mrs. M. C. Divendorff, of San Diego.

Mr. Simpson is a member of the San Diego Benevolent Society, and for a considerable time has served as its secretary.

ENS BURNHARD NIELSEN, a native of Norway, was born at Tromso, in northern Norway, October 31, 1855. IIe remained at home in his native place until he was fifteen years of age, when he went to sea and was ab- sent four years, during which time he was in fonr Norwegian and one Aincrican vessel, spend- ing most of the time in the East Indies, Black Sea and Mediterranean trade. Three times was the Christmas holidays spent in the Black Sea. During his four years of sailor life he was dili- gently studying to qualify himself for more responsible positions. He returned home in 1875 and successfully passed the examination,

being one of the six successful candidates, a large number failing. In June, 1876, he en- gaged as interpreter and purser in an English ocean yacht, the Glow worm, for a hunting trip to the Arctic Ocean. The trip extended to Nova Zembla, through the Strait of Matochkin, thence north as far as Ice Cape, which is nearly 80° north latitude, thence along the coast to about 74°. In attempting to cross the Kara Sea the vessel became fast in the ice, and but for a severe gale, which released it after three days' detention, doubtless all on board would have died of starvation, as they had only four months' provisions. Passing sonth towards the Strait of Waigatch, they then crossed over to the Siberian coast, which was reached about the months of the Obi and Yenesei rivers; then, after nearly four months' absence, they returned home to Norway. The trip was eminently suc- cessful, as the vessel was well loaded with game, including polar bears, walruses, etc., birds, live foxes, several kinds of Siberian dogs and many varieties of birds. The head of the enterprise, Mr. Charles Gardner, an English nobleman, with Sir Thomas Dancer, Bart., accompanied the expedition and shared in its dangers. Mr. Nielsen left the Glow-worm at Bergen, and in November of the same year went to sea again as second officer in the Norwegian bark Ephrussi, which was engaged in the Black Sea trade. In August of the following year he engaged as second officer in the ship Alert, and remained with it ten years as second officer, first officer and master, which latter office he held for nearly seven years. Arriving in San Diego in 1887, he left the ship and took up his residence in the city. He immediately engaged in ship and real-estate brokerage, and in February, 1888, was appointed vice-consul for Norway and Sweden.

He was married August 23, 1883, to Miss Marianne Peterson, daughter of Merchant Peter- son, of Bergen, Norway. Three children have come to bless their home, two of whom are still living. Lorentz Nielsen, the father of J. B. Nielsen, is a prominent merchant of Tromso,

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Norway, and has for many years been engaged in the wholesale trade.

APTAIN FRANKLIN AUGUSTUS GREGORY, a prominent son of San Diego, was born at Marblehead, Massa- chusetts, on October 31, 1827, the youngest child of John H. Gregory, a pioneer of that State. In 1840 he left school and went to sea in the schooner Erie, in the West Indies. While the vessel was in Ocese, San Domingo, the American citizens and shipping men went into monrning on account of the death of President W. H. Harrison, who was much beloved by the people. Captain Gregory made several voyages to the Indies and Newfoundland. In Septem- ber, 1846, a terrible hurricane swept across the Atlantic ocean and destroyed a large num- ber of vessels, of which at least over nineteen were foundered on the banks of Newfoundland. The Captain's vessel lost her rudder and was very badly damaged, but managed to complete the voyage in safety. During the trip they came across a large number of wrecks withont masts, others on their beam-end, etc., but could render no assistance to them. In 1847 he again sailed for Newfoundland as Captain of the trim craft, who was caught in the ice at St. Pierres, Sable Island. The ocean was covered with ice- bergs standing from fifty to 100 feet out of the water. For three days they were in a field of ice, which was so ragged as to render naviga- tion in their vicinity dangerous. On repairing the ship afterward, the bottom was found in some places worn down to one-eighth of an inch in thickness.

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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