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 49

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 49
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 49
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stock, and while there he learned of his wife's death; and from there he went to Los Angeles, California, with a teamn. He went to Carpen- teria, Santa Barbara County, and bought land at $60 per acre. In ten years he sold it for $400 per acre. He was again married August 11, 1875, in Santa Barbara County, to Miss Emma M. Way. She was born April 25, 1857, in Blue Earth City, Minnesota. She was a daughter of Mr. W. A. Way, who was a native of Water- bury, Connectiont. They lived in Santa Bar- bara eight years; then on account of Mrs. Guth- ridge's health they removed to Los Angeles and were there two years. They then came to Spring valley and bonght 1,000 acres of land, where they have a very cozy home and are farming is on a large scale. This year he intends to sow 900 acres of grain. They are doing some stock farming also. They have three children: William Alonzo, born in Santa Barbara County, October 7, 1876; Hallet G., born in Santa Bar- bara County, June 12, 1881, and Emma Pearl, born in Spring valley, February 13, 1886, and died April 12, 1890, of curvature of the spine and consequent brain trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Guthridge are people of refinement, and he is a very hard-working and capable farmer.

N. HARVEY, a rancher of Menifee valley, was born in Geauga County, Ohio, March 10, 1847. His father, Mr. John Harvey, was born in England, De- cember 25, 1812, and came to America in 1841; his mother, Anne (Short) Harvey, was a native of England, born in 1806. They had six chil- dren, of whom Mr. Harvey was the fifth. He attended the cominon schools of his native State, and when he became a man he took liis father's farm to work and carried it on successfully for five years. December 10, 1882, le came to California and stopped at San Bernardino. He went into the mountains and engaged in Inmber- ing and followed that business most of the time for three years. In December, 1885, he came

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to Menifee valley, and bought 320 acres of land of the railroad company and built his present nice honse and planted trees. He went back to San Bernardino, where he worked for nearly a year, and on March 14, 1886, was married to Miss Nellia Edkins, daughter of Mr. George Edkins. She was born in England, September,

1854. They moved to their present place November 1, 1886. He is sowing his farm to barley and wheat, and having honesty and in- dustry to back him, he is destined to be a wealthy and influential citizen of the place of his choice-Menifee.

OBERT H. LONG, rancher near Perris, was born ten miles south of Corydon (the former capital of the State, and now the capital of Harrison County), Indiana, July 13, 1841. His father was Thomas Long, and his grandfather, James Long, was a Baptist minis- ter. Mr. Long was born in the house that was built by his grandfather. The family were originally from Tennessee. Mr. Long's mother was Anna (Allison) Long. Her parents were pioneers of Allison prairie, eastern Illinois, which was named after them. His parents had eleven children, the subject of this sketch being the youngest. He was educated in the public schools of his State, and when he was twenty- six years of age he removed to Kansas and pur- chased 160 acres of land in Coffee County. He remained on it three years and then sold it and removed to Indiana. While there he was mar- ried to Miss Sarah C. Rickard, February 21, 1871. She was a danghter of Noah and Jane Rickard, and was born May 23, 1851, near her husband's residence in Harrison County, Indi- ana. Her father, Noah Rickard, was a soldier in the great war of the Rebellion. He was a member of the Fifty-third Regiment, Indiana Infantry, and died at Vicksburg, where he was buried. Her brother, Fielden B. Rickard, also volunteered in defense of his country. He served in the Seventeenth Indiana and was

wounded, but lived through it, re-enlisted and served his country honorably until the close of the war. In 1871 Mr. Long returned to Kansas and bought eighty acres of prairie land and made a farm of it. He remained there until 1880, when he sold it. Here they lost their daughter, Laura C., by diphtheria, and they went to California to get relief from their sorrows. They traveled through the northern part of the State and Oregon. They remained in Lynn County, Oregon, abont six weeks. afterward went back to Sacramento by team and returned by train to Iowa and from there to Indiana, where they spent the winter and then returned to Kansas, where they remained four years. In November, 1884, they came to Los Angeles and from there to Colton and then to Perris, where he took up 157 acres of Government land, and has made his home here since. It is a nice tract of land, east of the railroad track and three miles southwest of Perris, on which he raises stock and deals in all kinds of fruit. The births occurring in their family are as follows: The child that died, Laura C., was born February 10, 1872; Emma J., in Kansas, June 20, 1874; Ollie, October 2, 1878; Ida May, March 13, 1880; James A., January 27, 1883, and R. H., January 14, 1886, in Perris. While in Kansas Mr. Long was elected for two terms township trustee. They are very honest, nice people.

M AJOR WILLIAM II. BAILHACHE, of San Diego, was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. After leaving school he was trained in the newspaper business under his father's direction, with whom he became as- sociated in 1850 in the publication of the Alton (Illinois) Telegraph. He removed to Spring- field in 1855 to take the general management of the Illinois State Journal, and held that position about eighteen years, except while ab- sent during the war. He was on the most in- timate terms with Abraham Lincoln from 1856 until he became President, and the State Jour.

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nal, published in his home city, was regarded as his mouthpiece. It was during this interval that the State of Illinois was the scene of the most intense political excitement in its history. Lincoln and Douglas were contesting for the position of United States Senator, and engaged in the famous joint debate which gave Mr. Lincoln a national reputation. In 1861 he was commissioned by the President as United States Quartermaster, with the rank of Captain. He served through the war, was brevetted Major, and received the highest testimonials from the Quartermaster General, United States Army. The records of the War and Treasury Depart- ments will reveal his standing as an officer in the army, and also in the civil service. Re- moved from Springfield in 1874, and a few years later settled in New Mexico. Was com- missioned by President Arthur in 1881 as Re- ceiver of Public Moneys at Santa Fe, which position he held four years. The desire to go West impelled him to proceed to California in 1886, and he has since been engaged in news- paper work. Resides in San Diego.

His wife, Adaline, is the eldest daughter of General Mason Brayman, of Illinois, whose history is a part of the history of his country. Her father's ancestors were English, and came to the United States at an early date. Her mother's maiden name was Mary Williams, whose ancestry were English and Welsh, but the American branch belonged to Revolutionary stock. Four children resulted from this union: John Mason, Arthur Lee, Adaline and Wilhel- inina Mary. The sons are favorably known in the business circles of San Diego.

The Major's father, John Bailhache, was a native of the Island of Jersey. His paternal grandfather was a teacher; his name was also John. His grandmother's maiden name was Mary De La Perrelle, whose near relatives held high rank in the island. The family history is to the effect that two brothers, John and Nicho- las, came from Normandy soon after the con- quest of England by King William, and the public records of the island give the name Bail-

hache in the list of the first settlers. Jolin Bailhache, the father of our subject, came to the United States in 1810 to visit relatives in Ohio, and being unable to return, on account of the blockade, he engaged in the newspaper busi- ness in Chillicothe, where he edited and pnb- lished the Scioto Gazette many years. While thus occupied he was elected to represent Ross County in the Legislature, and was also chosen Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Upon the removal of the seat of Gov- ernment to Columbus, he disposed of the Ga- zette and established the Ohio State Journal, which he conducted until his removal to Illi- nois. During his residence in Columbus he was elected State Printer, and also Mayor of the city. He filled a conspicnons place in the early history of Ohio, and exerted an influence second to none in molding a pure and correct public sentiment in the then almost unknown and inaccessible Northwest Territory, at a period when society was in its formative condition. He enjoyed the confidence and friendship of Henry Clay, General William Henry Harrison, and the leading minds of his party in Ohio, and took a very active part in the politics of that State. Few men of his time left a more lasting impression there. He removed to Illinois in 1837, and purchased the Alton Telegraph, which he conducted until a short time before his death, September 3, 1857. He represented Madison County in the Illinois Legislature in 1842-'43.

The subject's mother, Elizabeth, was the danghter of Rev. Dr. William Heath, of Vir- ginia, whose ancestors were English. Her mother's maiden name was Sarah A. Watson; she was a native Virginian of Revolutionary stock, a relative of the famous Lee family. Judge Bailhache left three sons, the youngest of whom, Arthur Lee, was a Lieutenant in the Thirty-eighth Illinois Infantry Volunteers, and perished during the war of the Rebellion. Our subject's remaining brother, Preston H. Bail- hache, is the Surgeon-in-chief in charge of the United States Marine Hospital Service on the Pacific coast.

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This history of the Bailhache family in the United States would be incomplete without reference to the sons of our subject's uncle, Nicholas, who came to the United States some years later than his father, and settled in Cain- bridge, Ohio. He left two sons; John Nicholas Bailhache, the eldest, resides on his ranch, which is a portion of the Sotoyome grant, near Healds- burg, California; and Morgan H. Bailhache, who is the Postmaster of Martinez, California. They are both old and popular citizens of Cali- fornia.

OHN H. SNYDER, one of the self-made men of San Deigo, was born in Tuscaraw- as County, Ohio, August 29, 1843. His father, Solomon J. H. Snyder, was a native of Maryland, born near Harper's Ferry, February, 1812, and married Miss Susan Winklepleck. The family on both sides were of German de- scent. The union was blessed with · seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the youngest living. His school opportunities were quite limited. The family moved to Kan- sas in 1854, when it was very thinly settled, and no school-house decked its plains anywhere in their vicinity, so that this young boy was de- prived of the opportunities he would have been glad to enjoy. His young life was spent on the farm, having less than nine months of schooling, and that before he was nine years old. In 1860, when he was seventeen years of age, but so small he weighed only seventy-three pounds, he drove an ox team across the plains. In 1862 he enlisted in Company F, Thirteenth Kansas Vol- unteers infantry. He was mustered in Septem- ber 20, and was all through to the close of the war. He served in the Army of the West under General Blunt, and was in many skirmishes. The most severe battle he was in was that of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. He had many close calls, but was never severely wounded or injured. He was sick several times but never gave ont

bad enough to go to the hospital. After coming out of the service he clerked in a grocery store for awhile. In 1869 he went into the grocery business in Leavenworth, Kansas, on his own account, and in 1873 he sold out and came to California to look for a location. After visit- ing various localities on the coast, he concluded to locate permanently in San Diego. Believing in the future commercial importance of the city, he invested to some extent in city property, after which he returned to Leavenworth, Kan- sas, where in June, 1875, he was married to Miss Jennie Whiteley, daughter of Abner Whiteley, late of Springfield, Ohio, and a mem- ber of that well-known family of inventors and manufacturers of reapers and mowers. Then he came, with his wife, direct to San Diego and bought the place he now occupies. They have one child living, Minnie, born in San Diego, June 29, 1877. Mr. Snyder is a member of the G. A. R., and belongs to Heintzelman Post, No. 33. He was elected city trustee three times and served six years, and the last term was president of the board; during that term he was a member of the harbor commission and also its president. He built the block known as the Snyder block on 6th street, between E and F, and contemplates building a larger and finer block, in the near future. Mr. Snyder's father was a Lutheran, and one of the originators of the first Lutheran church organi- zations in Kansas (at Monrovia). He was a vigorous and fluent writer, and did much to make Kansas a free State. He represented his county (Atchison), both in the House of Rep- resentatives and the State Senate, and proved himself an able and influential legislator. The settlers in Kansas suffered greatly during the time that the effort was made to make it a slave state. Mr. Snyder, Sr., worked in the field many a day with his gun beside him, and the family lived on grated corn for several weeks. The people who lived in Kansas at that time saw trouble that tried their courage and en- durance to the utinost, and such was the furnace through which Mr. Snyder's young life past.

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It is not to be wondered at that he has made the tried, self-reliant and true man he is.

RS. MARY F. CHRISTIAN, of El Cajon valley, is a native of Virginia, being born in Jefferson County, near Harper's Ferry, in January, 1832. her parents being Colonel Brockenbrongh McCormick and Nancy (Timberlake) McCormick. The former was a native of Virginia. Her grandfather was also a native of Virginia, owned a plantation and was wealthy. He had fonr danghters and two sons, to each of whom he left 200 acres of land when he died in 1830. The mother was the daughter of Harfield Timberlake, a native of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. McCormick had three children: Mary Francis, Anna B. and Harfield T. Mrs. Mary F. Christian, the snb- ject of this sketch, was the oldest. When six years old she went to live with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Carter, at Fayetteville, Kentucky. Her early education was received in Pleasant Hill Seminary. When fifteen years of age she went to St. Catherine's Academy at Lexington, where she remained two years and graduated with honor; soon after that she trav- eled with her father, spent a year in Mason, Missouri, then went to Bolivar, Mississippi, where he remained during the winter; then went to New Orleans, thence to Hamilton, Missouri, where her father bought property, and she remained with him until the following fall, then returned to her old home in Ken- tucky. There was a great freshet in the Sontlı in 1849, and the Mississippi river was swollen thirty miles wide. With other young people she made a descent of twenty miles on the river on a raft; the voyage was so hazardous that it made a lasting impression on her mind.

She was married, November 11, 1852, to D. G. Christian, a native of Athens, Fayette County, Kentucky, born August 16, 1824. His father, Thomas Christian, was also a Virginian, and was one of the largest land-owners in that

part of the country, owning 1,000 acres of that beautiful blue-grass land for which that part of Kentucky is famous. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was in General Dudley's defeat. Mr. Christian had received a liberal education, and in 1849, when the gold excitement of Cali- fornia broke out, he was studying law with Judge Robertson at Lexington. He came over- land to California with four or five others. He rode a mule and was six months on the jour- ney. They arrived in Los Angeles and found only adobe houses; he and a friend went into the redwoods and sawed out lumber by hand until they had made, in a short time, $7,000. Then a company of them engaged in turning a fork of the Feather river, expecting to find gold, but were disappointed after having ex- pended nearly all they had made. He then commenced gardening, and returned East, via the Isthmus, to get seeds; and his friends per- snaded him not to come again. After being married they resided on a farm that his father gave him, consisting of 100 acres, to which he added 100 more. In 1860 they went to her uncle's who had a large plantation and kept a number of negroes. Soon after the war broke ont her husband enlisted; later he was taken prisoner, imprisoned at Lonisville, Kentucky, was forced to take the oath of allegiance, and, on giving a bond of $25,000, was permitted to return to his home. In 1871, being in poor health, Mr. Christian came to California, re- maining three months at the San Diego Hotel. Thinking the climate beneficial he wrote to his wife, asking her if she would come to a desert, and, womanlike, s'e consented. He erected the first house on Florence Heights, which cost him $3.500. It commanded a fine view of the ocean and at that time was far out of the town, but now the city has grown past it. They remained six years, then went back to Missouri and lived there five years, then came once more to California and settled in Los Angeles County, having bought a home in Artesia. They lived there about two years. Their son, H. T. Chris- tian, seeing El Cajon valley, bonght the place

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on which they now reside. It contains seventy- three acres, thirty of which are in fruit trees of various kinds and seventeen acres in vine- yard, a portion of which is five years old.

Mr. and Mrs. Christian had four children, only four of whom survive, namely: Harfield T,, Dodridge G., Jennie and Mary F. Harfield is now in the abstract business at San Diego. The father and husband, only two weeks after having settled here, fell from his own wind- mill and was instantly killed; he was an ardent lover of California. Three of the children now reside at home with their mother, who is a mnost interesting and amiable lady. She is a member of the Christian Church at Downey, Los An- geles County, California.

R. CHARLES M. JOHNSON, of El Cajon valley, was born in Jefferson County New York, his parents being Stephen and Mary (Pierce) Johnson; the former was a native of Connecticut, and was engaged the larger part of his life in the mercantile busi- ness in Jefferson County, New York, and had, in connection with his other business, large lumbering interests. He died at the age of eventy-five years, in 1860. He and his wife were second consins and descendants of the Pierces and Paynes, who were the founders of the Madison University, New York .. They had eleven children, six girls and five boys, one of whom died in infancy. C. M. Johnson, the youngest of the family, was educated in New York and is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. From college he went into the army as associate surgeon in the Ninety- ninth New York Volunteers. In 1865 he prac- ticed one year in Watertown, then six years at Camp Vincent, New York, then returned to Watertown, where he remained until 1885. During his residence there he was United States Pension Surgeon thirteen years. He was one of the founders of the New York Med- ical Association, and was sent in 1884 to see a

patient in California, remaining three months. The following year he came over to look into the El Cajon and invested there, buying an nn- divided fourth interest in the Bliss tract, con- sisting of 'nearly 2,400 acres. In the spring of 1886 they broke up and planted 500 acres of Muscat vines and the following year 300 acres more, making 800 in all. It is claimed to be the largest raisin vineyard in California or in the world. It is situated on the west side of El Cajon valley, and has several wide avenues through it bordered with cypress, Grevillea and Eucalyptus trees. They have built a packing honse and several ranch houses, and have a town site of 150 acres. The principal depot is on it, and several residences. They have upon the mesa 800 or 1,000 acres in ten-acre traets, considered to be the choicest orange land in the valley. There is also 300 acres of hillside land, partly adapted to olive culture. And they have 150 acres of granite land, containing large quantities of granite rock, suitable for monn- mental and building purposes; it takes a high polish, and as it is near the railroad tract, will make a valuable industry. The average num- ber of horses used on the ranch is forty. There are about twenty-five mnen steadily em- ployed, and during the picking season, about two months, there are as high as 200. The railroad runs through three miles of the ranch, and in addition to the town depot they have a mesa station. The principal owners are Dr. Charles Johnson, who is president of the com- pany, and M. S. Marshall, who is superintend- ent and secretary; each of these has selected a home site of about sixty acres, and Mr. Mar- sliall bas built an elegant house and improved the grounds. Dr. Johnson has not yet built, but has reserved a most delightful site for his residence. He is still practicing his profession in San Diego, and is a member of the County and State Medical Associations. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for twenty- five years, and he and his wife are both mem- bers of the Baptist Church of San Diego. The Doctor was married in 1867 to Miss Helen

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Davis, a native of Adams, Watertown County, New York, born December 30, 1841. They have one daughter now living, born August 12, 1879. They have lost two children. The Doc- tor is still in life's prime, and has a most prom- ising future.

HOMAS HENRY BUSH .- One of the most prominent of the San Diego pio- neers is Judge Bush, who earned his title by honest service upon the bench. His father, Henry Bush, emigrated to America from London, England, where he had been engaged in the mercantile pursuits. He settled at Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, where he lived until the time of his death, which occurred in 1836, in his fortieth year. His wife, Margaret Crowe Bush, was born in county Monaghan, Ireland, in the year 1793, and died at the age of ninety years. This union was blessed with six children, but three of whom survive: Eliza, who married Jacob Fellnagle, and lives in Potts- ville, Pennsylvania, has one child; Thomas Henry and Margaret Jane were born June 8, 1831. She lives in Pottsville, and is unmarried. On his father's death the family moved to New York city, where Thomas learned the book- binder's trade, in the meantime having received a common-school education. He worked for George F. Coolidge & Bro., on Pearl Street, next to Harpers', until he was twenty-one years of age. The gold excitement in California decided him to go to that State. Accordingly he left New York city, January 5, 1853, on the steamer Empire, and came via Colon and Panama with a party of five, consisting of Alexander Buswell, a bookbinder, who died in San Fran- cisco, February, 1889; Addison Wilson, a tailor, who went East in 1885; Peter Finnegan, a liv- ery-man in San Francisco County; Richard Parr, of Albany, New York, who returned home and died there about 1885, and Samnel East- man, whose whereabouts are unknown to Judge Bush. The fare from New York to San Fran-

cisco was $125, but they bought tickets to Panama for $35, hoping to take the opposition steamer from Panama to San Francisco, but on arriving at Panama they were disappointed to find the opposition withdrawn. They were compelled to wait three weeks in Panama, where a fever was riging, which killed about 1,000 persons. They purchased tickets from Panama to San Francisco for $50. They left Panama February, 1853, and arrived in San Francisco on the steam propeller Columbus, March 1 of the same year. Here Judge Bush first worked for a man named Perkins, putting on a patent fire-proof roof at $5 per day. He then went to the Campo Seco mines, where he remained for about two months, when he returned to San Francisco. He again went to the mines, being successively at Minnesota Flats, Downieville, Chipp's Diggings, Forest City and Smith's Diggings. After three years spent at the mines he returned to San Francisco and worked at his trade. March 4, 1858, he was married to Ellen Augusta Porter, danghter of Rufus Porter, who was for thirty years in the patent office at Washington. Captain Rufus K. Porter, of Cholla Valley, is her brother. The family were from Massachusetts originally. After his mar- riage, Judge Bush went to Sausal, Lower Cali- fornia, to run a store at the San Antonio copper mine, but not liking frontier life he with his wife returned to San Francisco. From 1859 to 1865 he worked at his trade in San Francisco, at the end of which time he removed to San Diego, where he has since resided. He first lived on the ranch of R. K. Porter, his brother- in-law, and then removed to Old Town, where he started a general merchandise store. Here lie was appointed Postmaster. In 1866 he was appointed County Judge, by Governor F. F. Lowe, to fill the unexpired terin of Julio Osuna, which office he held for eight years, being twice elected. He has also held the offices of school and eity trustee. He was in the latter office at the time of the Horton purchase. From 1878 to 1883 he spent the most of his time prospect- ing at Florence and Dripping Springs. In 1883

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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