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 41

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 41
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 41
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September 6, 1870, he was married in San Francisco to Miss Mary E. Whitehead, daugh- ter of John and Sarah B. Whitehead, of Boston; the father and Judge Thomas H. Bush were bookbinders together in Boston. Judge Cooney performed the ceremony in San Francisco. It was a runaway match, and although such do not

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usually turn out well this is an exception to the rule, as it has resulted very happily. They had two children, a son and a danghter: Mand I., born June 24, 1871, and Tillman A., born May 3, 1873. Mr. Barnes is an Odd Fellow in good standing, belongs to Templar's Lodge, No. 17, which he joined in 1871, and he also belongs to the Society of San Diego Pioneers.

AMES M. MARTIN, the editor and propri- etor of the Oceanside Herald, was born in Boone County, Iowa, June 4, 1867. His father, Henry T. Martin, was born in Indiana, June 16, 1839. His ancestors were Scotclı- Irish. Mr. James M. Martin's mother, Sarah (Routt) Martin, was born in Kentucky, August 27, 1838; was married in 1858, and had a fam- ily of eight children. The subject of this sketch was the fifth of the family and was educated at the Iowa State Agricultural College at Ames, and at the Eastern Iowa Normal School at Columbus Junction. After leaving school he engaged in teaching for some time and was principal of the Wall Lake High School for four years. In 1880 he learned the printers' trade. Mr. Martin came to San Diego in 1886, and the same year, with his father, published the San Marcos Herald. In January, 1889, after the death of his father, he removed the outfit to Oceanside, and issued the first number of the Herald, and is now its editor and publisher. He has the entire field to himself, his competi- tors having withdrawn. Mr. Martin's father was a school-teacher in his younger days, and was for twelve years station agent for the Northı- western Railway Company. He was then elected County Superintendent, and while in this ca- pacity he invented the Martin's School Record and Register. It was so planned as to show un the two open pages the complete record and standing of a school for a complete terni, and on the same page it showed how far each class had advanced in each of their class-books at the end of the term. His health failed while engaged

in his school work in Iowa, and in April, 1886, he came to San Diego, where he was connected with the Daily News. He died December 14, 1888.

ELFORD D. ARMS, of National City, was born in Franklin County, Vermont, in January, 1859. His father is en- gaged in agricultural pursuits and now lives within a mile and a half of his native place. Melford, in 1880, went to Kansas and engaged in the nursery business, which grew on his hands until it extended over a large portion of the State. He afterward went to New Mexico, and for several years had charge of the car de- partment and wood repairs on locomotives for the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company. Desiring to remove to the Pacific coast, he re- signed his position, and in January, 1887, he came to San Diego and became a partner in the firm of Arms & Chappell. After doing an ex- tensive and profitable business for more than two years the firm was dissolved in consequence of his partner being obliged to go East to take care of his parents who were advanced in years. Mr. Arms then removed to National City, where he now resides, and purchased one-half interest in the National City Reduction Works. Messrs. Pearson and Arms, the proprietors, soon placed the business on a good footing, putting in a large amount of new machinery, making it one of the largest plants for the reduction of ores south of San Francisco. Mr. Arms, who is an enthu- siast in his business, is the mill and mechan- ical superintendent and vice-president, and will doubtless make a success of anything he under- takes.

F. ROCKFELLOW, a prosperous San Diego merchant, was born in Ashland, Oregon, November 7, 1858. After grad- nating at the public schools of his native town,

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he took a course of study in the Ashland Acad- emy, and later a business course in the same town. April 4, 1880, he was married to Miss Rosamond Enbanks of Ashland, a native of Illinois, daughter of J. S. Enbanks, a retired citizen of Santa Barbara.

E. F. Rockfellow has been a resident of San Diego city for seven years, and is a son of A. G. Rockfellow, who resided in San Diego two years ago, and is now interested in mining in Lower California. Having previously been engaged in the business of general merchandise in Ashland, E. F. Rockfellow came to San Diego in August, 1882, and after three months spent in looking abont he entered in the general business of dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes. In 1883, the city having so largely increased and business becoming classified, lie entered his present store at 757 and 759 Fifth street, in the exclusive sale of boots and shoes, carrying a stock of about $20,000, which comprises all qualities and grades suitable for the Southern California mar- ket. He has a brother who also resides in San Diego. Our subject is not active in politics, but is at the present time a member of the board of fire commissioners.

Mr. and Mrs. Rockfellow have three children: D. Eugene, J. Albert and Ruth.

HESTER W. MAXSON, one of Ocean- side's livliest and most reliable business men, was born in Cedar County, Iowa, September 12, 1853. His father, Willianı Max- son, was a native of Pennsylvania and was born in 1805. He was a pioneer of Cedar County, having moved there at an early day, and was very highily esteemed by his neighbors and ac- quaintances. He was well informed upon gen- eral subjects and took a lively interest in the subject that then agitated the country, and had no sympathy for slavery in boasted free Amer- ica. John Brown and his men often stopped with him, and Mr. C. W. Maxson has many valnable relics of John Brown: one, a hickory

sword, made by John Brown to drill with, and the other a life-size oil painting of John Brown. Mr. Maxson, Sr., had these portraits made and presented one of them to each of his children. Mr. William Maxson died in 1877. Mr. Max- son's mother, Hannah R. (Keisler) Maxson, was born in Ohio, January 4, 1827. She was the daughter of Mr. Josiah Keisler, and was married to Mr. Maxson September 9, 1852. They had a family of four children, of which Mr. Maxson was the eldest. His father had had a former wife by whom he had five boys. Four of them served the country in the great war of the Re- bellion and all of them returned at the close of the war. Mr. Maxson received his education in the public schools of West Liberty, Iowa. When through with school he became a clerk in a general merchandise store and continued in that business about eleven years. In 1878 he went to Leadville, where he prospected for gold for four years, until he had spent all the money he had. He then went to the southern part of Colorado, where he worked as a laborer for the Colorado Coal & Iron Company for awhile, but was soon made weigh-master. While here he became acquainted with Frank- lin Mcveigh & Co., and they put him in charge of one of their stores with which they were not satisfied. He looked the situation over and de- cided that the store could not be run success- fully at that place, so reported, and they consolidated the stock with one of their stores in a better locality. He remained with them until 1885, when he went to his old home, West Liberty, Iowa, for a short visit. In March, 1866, he went to Chicago, and on March 19, 1886, he started for San Diego, where he arrived March 24. After looking the country over, he formed a partnership with C. F. Fran- cisco and opened a general merchandise store in Oceanside, which he continued successfully for a year, when, desiring to engage in the real- estate business, lie sold the store to C. S. Hamn- ilton & Co., who are still running the business. He then formed a partnership with Mr. Griffin in the real-estate and insurance business, after-

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ward bought Mr. Griffin's interest, and added money-lending to the business. He has the ageney for the People's Home Savings Bank of San Francisco, and has done a large amount of business for them. He is a member of the Ma- sonie fraternity, in which he has taken the blue lodge, chapter and commandery degrees, and is Chancellor Commander of the Knights of Pythias. He was elected trustee of Oceanside, only laeking two votes of an unanimous vote.

He was married October 15, 1877, to Miss Flora Cady, of Casey, Guthrie County, Iowa, daughter of Mr. Charles Cady, who was born January 12, 1862 .. They have two children: Gertrude C., born in Colorado, December 30, 1882, and Roy Charles, born in Oceanside, October 17, 1886.

YLVESTER STATLER, County Treas- urer of San Diego County, was born in Piqua, Miami Connty, Ohio, August 21, 1843. His father, Stephen Statler, was born in 1817, in the same town; and his mother, whose maiden name was Nancy Stewart, was born in 1820, also in the same place. Their five children are all still living, namely: Stewart, Amanda, Franklin, Sylvester and William.

At the age of eighteen years Sylvester and Franklin volunteered to do what they could to put down the Rebellion, enlisting in Company K, First Ohio Infantry. September 8, 1861, and joining their regiment at Camp Corwin. Being soon attached to the Army of the Ohio, in com- mand of General Bnell, they marched to Mum- fordville, Kentucky, and went into winter quarters; and here Mr. Statler was taken siek and was sent home on furlough; and after partly recovering he joined his regiment at Columbus, Tennessee, and subsequently participated in the battles of Shiloh, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, and followed Sherman in his great march to the sea. Their time expiring when near Atalanta he and his brother were honorably discharged, neither of them having

received a scratch in any of their engagements; then, in company with their brother-in-law, W. M. Girard, they were engaged in a flour and saw mill for six months. Then Mr. Statler attended a commercial course at Poughkeepsie, New York, and next, in partnership with his brother Stewart, he was employed for three years in the commission business in Chicago; and then he elerked two years for a Missouri River packet eompany at Leavenworth, Kansas. June 8, 1871, he arrived in San Francisco, and on the 17th in San Diego. Here he at first engaged for some time in the real-estate business; was Deputy County Clerk in 1873-'77; County Treasurer in 1877-'83, being elected twice on the Republican tieket; and since that time he has been thrice eleeted County Treasurer, name- ly, in 1884, 1886 and 1888. These facts are sufficient to demonstrate the high moral, social and business character of our subjeet. Ile is a member of the orders of K. of P. and G. A. R. He was married in February, 1867, to Miss Mary E. Peas, a native of Lieking County, Ohio, born in 1847. Her parents died when she was very young, and she was brought up by her grandfather, Samnel Peas, a native of Pennsyl- vania. She is a member of the Relief Corps of the G. A. R., and also of the Woman's Ex- change, a charitable institution for the relief of poor women. Mr. and Mrs. Statler were school- mates, and therefore have been acquainted with each other from childhood.

ILLIAM WALLACE STEWART, one of San Diego's prominent pioneers, was born September 23, 1829, in Hunting- don, Pennsylvania, son of John Stewart. His father's mother and father, his father and him- self were all born in the same house, in the same room in fact. The deed to the property is in parchment from William Penn. The property was one of the manors reserved by Penn when he disposed of the State. The deed and the property are still in the possession of the family.

Chong, Keating

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His mother's maiden name was McDonald. Both the families were Scotch and were forced to leave Scotland on account of persecution. They came to America and were active partici- pants in the war of the Revolution. In 1850 William Wallace Stewart went to Louisville and opened a flour and cement store. In 1852 he sold out and came to California. He and four others fitted up an ox teani (five yoke of oxen and a wagon), and started out together. They were attacked by the Indians at Big Sandy, who got their horses, but the oxen being chained to the wagon they were saved. On arriving at Grass Valley they were short of money, so sold the oxen and equipments for $400, afterward dividing the money between them, each share amounting to $80. They went to inining on the Yuba river; from there they went to the inid- dle Yuba and lost what they had made. Then Mr. Stewart went to Placer County, where there were rich diggings at that time. He remained one year, then returned East with $23,000. During the following summer he traveled all over the United States. In January, 1856, he left New York for California. He went to the same place and engaged in mining and trading. Then he went to Placerville, El Dorado County, and engaged in the mercantile business for sev- eral years. In 1869 he came to San Diego, spent some time in San Diego, and then got a horse and traveled over San Diego, San Bernar- dino and Los Angeles counties. ' After having become convinced of the value of San Diego County and the adjoining counties he came back and went into business. He was agent for the coast steamers and conducted a large grain and commission business up to the present time. He has two warehouses, with a frontage of 300 feet.

Mr. Stewart was married in 1879, and has seven children, four boys and three girls. The oldest son, Charles, is his head book-keeper. Henry is manager of the Escondido warehouse property. Mr. Stewart was member of the City Council for five years and was one of the prin- cipal projectors of the California George E

Waring, Jr., sewarage system of the city, one of the best in the United States. He is now a member of the Board of Education, and has been appointed by the Governor Harbor Com- missioner. He is both physically and in a business point of view a good representative of the grand old Scotch stock from which he sprang.

EORGE JAMES KEATING, deceased, a prominent citizen of San Diego, was a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was born January 7, 1840. His father, Mr. William Henry Keating, was the son of an officer in the English army, and a member of the legal pro- fession, and was married to Miss Eliza Walford Forbes, who was born at Gibraltar, in the year 1818. The result of this marriage was a family of eighteen children, nine of whom still survive. The subject of this sketch was the second of this numerous family. At eighteen he had completed a liberal collegiate education, and having a strong desire to embark in business for himself, and acting with the consent of his parents, he came to the United States. Bishop Chase (brother of the Hon. Salmon P. Chase), of the Episcopal Church, gave him a letter of commendation which he presented to A. G. Trowbridge, Esq., who was then conducting a large farın near Peoria, Illinois. In the year 1866 Mr. Keating became associated with Mr. Smith in the agricultural implement business on a small scale at Kansas City, then a small place of a few thousand inhabitants, but which Mr. Keating thought was destined to become a great business eenter. Acting upon this con- viction in 1866 they established the first agri- cultural implement house in Kansas City. Their first store was opposite Market square, but the growth of their business compelled them to build larger and more commodious quarters. Accordingly, a new store 80 x 220 feet and five stories high was erected. The firm was emi- nently successful, doing an enormous business,

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and in the short space of twenty years they had become one of the largest, if not the largest, agricultural implement house in the world. Mr. Keating's business capabilities were superb. He was energetic, honest and frugal and con- servative in business when in doubt, but bold and daring when convinced of success. His surplus funds he invested in real estate in the wonderful growing city, which rapidly enhanced in value, until he had amassed a fortune of more than $2,000,000. He was interested in the Ninth street cable line, and was one of the projectors of the first cable line in that city. He was also interested in various public and private enterprises. In 1886, on account of sickness (in- flammatory rheumatism), he came to San Diego and invested quite largely in city and other prop- erty, and the longer he remained the deeper be- came his love for, and the stronger his conviction that there was a great future before, San Diego. He purchased the Dells, one of the most lovely places on the coast, and made many improve- ments on it. He recently purchased a beautiful block on Fifth street, San Diego, on which he intended to erect a palatial residence. He had partially recovered his health, and the prospect of a long life of happiness and prosperity was before him when his old disease made another attack, and his death unexpectedly occurred. He died June 28, 1888. of rhenmatism of the heart.

Mr. Keating was married in 1860 to Miss Elizabeth Smith, sister of his partner. May 17, 1882, he was again married, to Miss Fanny L. Woodward, born in Liverpool, Medina County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Henry Thomas Woodward, a native of Droinbarrow, county Meath, Ireland. The Drombarrow es- tate was granted to Major Woodward by Crom- well and remained in the family until 1869, when her father sold it. Her mother, Ester Woodward, was born in Devonshire, England. IIer brother, Mr. Henry Robert Woodward, re- sides in Illinois; her sisters, Miss Loveday S. C. Woodward and Miss Elizabeth Woodward, are with Mrs. Keating in San Diego at present. Her brother, Dr. Walter Benjamin Woodward,

resides in San Diego also, where he is acting as her business agent. The family are members of the Episcopal Church, and Mrs. Keating de- sigus to carry ont all of Mr. Keating's plans and benevolences. In social life Mr. Keating was most liberal and generous, and such were the qualities of his mind that to know him well was to become his lasting friend. Parents never had a more dntifnl or affectionate son, brother and sister a better brother, nor wife a more thoughtful, kind and loving husband. He was charitable to the poor and needy without osten- tation or display. At one Christmas time he gave a large number of needy families in this city an order for provisions to the amount of $5 each; at another time he made glad the hearts of those in prison with a present of $2 each; on another occasion he presented every boot-black and news- boy in Kansas City with a new suit of clothes. He made ample provision in his will for the support of his aged parents, who survive him. His father is eighty-two and his mother seventy years of age, and both are remarkably sınart for persons so advanced in life. He dicd in the prime of life, when he was but forty-nine years of age, and who can estimate the loss of such a man to his relatives, and to the community with which his good and great heart beat in unison?

ATHEW W. SPENCER is another of Oceanside's business men. He is agent for the Russ Lumber Company, and has recently built for himself a planing mill, and in connection with it a grist mill. It is situated beside the railroad track and is of sufficient ca- pacity to do the business of Oceanside and the country around it. He was born near Sidney, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, in 1849. His great-grandfather was one of those men who remained loyal to the English government and did not see it to be his duty to take up arms against the king. At the close of the war the king gave large land grants in Nova Scotia to his loyal subjects and Mr. Spencer's great-grand-

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father went from Vermont and settled on these lands. He was the father of Nathaniel Spencer. who was born in Vermont, and at the age of sixteen went with his father to Nova Scotia. Nathaniel Spencer's son, Philip Spencer, was born in Nova Scotia in 1819, and was a mill owner, lumberman and farmer. He was mar- ried to Miss Maria Martell, who was also a na- tive of Nova Scotia. They had a family of six sons and three daughters. Mrs. Spencer died August 20, 1889, and Mr. Spencer is still living. Their son, the subject of this shietch, was raised with limited opportunities for school education, but his advantages to work were of the best. When only a boy of sixteen he, together with an elder brother, ran his father's saw-mill fre- quently night and day during the busy season. It was one of those old fashioned upright saws, with which they could cnt from 1,000 to 1,500 feet a day. He had some school privileges of short duration each year, and when he becaine older he took a thorough course of study at the St. Johns Commercial College. This proved of great valne to him in after life. When twenty- two years of age he left home and became a clerk in the mercantile business at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and afterward spent one year in business at Antigonish, Nova Scotia. From there he went to Providence, Rhode Island, and worked for Burrows & Kenyon, lumber dealers. He began work as salesman in the lumber yard, but was afterward book-keeper and cashier. He remained here eleven years, after which he spent a year traveling in the State of Michigan buying lumber for eastern shipment. He then estab- lished himself in Detroit, Michigan, where he was part owner of the Climax Door Knob Man- ufactory, but after a year he sold his interest and came to Riverside, California, where he purchased a five-acre orange grove. He sold this however, in 1885, and came to Oceanside where lie embarked in the lumber and mill bus- iness. He was married to Miss Minnie C. Barnaby, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, daughter of Mr. Timothy Barnaby, of Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, in 1872. She was born in Boston,

Massachusetts, July 23, 1853. They have three children, a son and two daughters: Wilbur S., Emma Maria and Sibill Barnaby. Mr. Spencer is a member of the board of trustees of Ocean- side, is a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Baptist Church.

OHN SCHUYLER is Oceanside's hard- ware merchant and practical tinner, having worked at the business most of the tiine for the last thirty-seven years. Notwithstand- ing the time he has followed the business he is alinost as active as a boy. He seems to have learned the proverb. "He that by the plow would thrive, must either hold himself or drive." So, should you go into his fine, large brick store, if you did not find him waiting on a customer, you would find him working away in his shop as fast as though he were a journeyman again working by the piece. He was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, July 2, 1836. His father, Jo- seplins Schuyler, a farmer, was born in the State of New York in 1808, and died in San Ber- nardino County. California, in 1888, having just attained the age of four score years. Mr. Schuy- ler's mother, Nancy (Rogers) Schuyler, was born in New York State in 1801. She was married to Mr. Josephus Schuyler in 1831, and had a family of four children, the subject of this sketch being the third. He received a common- school education. When sixteen years of age he went to learn the tinner's trade, after which he worked as a journeyman in several of the western States. In 1858 he came to California, where he worked in several places, and returned to New York city in 1864. He worked at Hudson for a year and then went to Nebraska, where he remained until 1884, when he came with his family to San Bernardino, California, where he engaged in business. In 1887 he came to Oceanside and started his present hardware business on Second street. In 1888 he built his brick store on Third street. It is 26 x 85 feet, two stories high, and has a glass partition

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which divides the store from the shop. His store is filled with a full line of hardware, and he does business for fifteen miles around, and even sells some bills to people twenty-five iniles away. He was married in 1864 to Miss Ann Frances Barlow, who was born in Connecticut May 19, 1884. She is the daughter of W. S. Barlow, of Stockbridge, Connecticut, who car- ried on a piano business in New York city for a long time. They have a family of three chil- dren, two boys and one girl: Mary, born at Falls City, Nebraska, in 1870; Frank B., born in Falls City in 1872, and Wilton S., born at Superior, Nebraska, in 1875. Mr. Schuyler is a member of the Odd Fellows organization, and is president of the board of trustees of the city of Oceanside.

E. HADLEY, one of the leading land- lords in Southern California, entered upon the occupation of his life at the early age of ten years, as office boy at $4 per month, in a small hotel in Maine. He is a son of a sturdy old New Englander, and he inherited the energy, perseverance and endurance of the inhabitants of that day, His ancestors, as far as known, have all resided in Maine, and William E. was born at South Malunens, Maine, May 22, 1853. He was the fifth child in a family of eight children, only four of whom survive. His father, W. W. Hadley, was a farmer upon a large scale and also managed a large blaek- smith shop. He now resides with his son, William E., and though at the age of seventy- one years is erect, active in mind and body and apparently in the full vigor and enjoyment of life. The mother of the subject of this sketch died when he was but seven years of age.

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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