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 76

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 76
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 76
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USA > California > San Bernardino County > An illustrated history of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day > Part 76

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In 1878 Mr. North was united in marriage with Miss Angusta C. Nourse, of Oakland. He has four bright boys, who are the joy and pride

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of his household, viz .: John C., Maurice E., Alfred C. and Richard L.

OHN ANDRESON, prominent among the men whose business sagacity and enterprise have made San Bernardino an important railroad center, and one of the prettiest and most flourishing interior cities of Calfiornia, was born in Schleswig-Holstein, near the border of Denmark, in 1834. He came to America, sailing around Cape Horn to the Peruvian Guano Islands, in 1850, and returned with the loaded vessel to London, England. While there he saw the grand pageant on the anniversary of the Queen's birthday, and saw the Queen near Buckingham Palace. In 1852 he returned around Cape Horn to the Pacific coast, and, - after spending six months in the Argentine Re public, came to California. He continued his seafaring life for a number of years along this coast; during the latter years he sailed a schooner along the coast, and on the Bay of San Francisco, being a vessel owner. In 1861, disposing of his property, he, in partnership with another gentleman, carried on the grocery business in San Francisco until 1863, when, finding it too confining for his tastes and health, he sold out and went to Arizona. He spent several years there in prospecting and mining; was employed as clerk in a store for a while at La Paz, a mining town about 100 miles above Fort Yuma. Subsequently he fitted up a small, crude brewery, and, employing a man who under- stood brewing, started in business. The trade increased rapidly, and with beer at twenty-five cents a glass was very profitable, so that in three years he had accumulated the snug sum of $12,000. The prosperity of the place began to wane and he disposed of his business, and in 1870 visited the home of his birth after an ab- sence of twenty years. On his return in 1871, Mr. Andreson settled in San Bernardino, hav- ing been favorably impressed with the town and

valley when passing through to Arizona teu years before.

He bought an acre of land on the northwest corner of Third and E streets, on which was a sinall brewery established and owned by M. Suverkrnp, an old forty-niner, who afterward represented San Bernardino County in the State General Assembly. Starting into the manu- facturing of beer, Mr. Andreson enlarged the capacity of the brewery from time to time until he made thirty barrels per day. Previous to selling the business and fixtures in 1884, he had erected a large two-story brick block on the corner, the upper floor of which was devoted to offices. The building le still owns. In 1887 he commenced the erection of the Andreson block, a three-story brick structure 100 x 95 feet in size, one of the largest and best business blocks in the city. A part of the first and all of the upper floors comprise the New St. Charles Hotel, with eighty guest rooms, beautifully fur- nished and finished, and next to the Stewart the finest and most commodious hostelry in the city. The ample and cheerful office and the large dining-room and kitchen are on the ground floor, the rest of which is occupied as stores. Having sold the west end of the corner to Mr. L. Harris, of Los Angeles, that gentleman erected a block the same size and style, the whole constituting the largest and most impos- ing business building in San Bernardino County. In 1888, a proposition being made by the Uni- ted States Government for a building for a post- office, Mr. Andreson and H. L. Drew built the Postoffice block, on the corner of E and Court streets,-a three-story brick building, 100x 120 feet in area, and fitted np the postoffice with elegant modern fixtures at an expense of some $5,000, making the building and improvements cost nearly $60,000. The owners lease the post- office to the Government for the nominal rental of $1 a year. Mr. Andreson is one of the stock- holders in the Stewart Hotel, and president of the company. He was one of the organizers of the Farmers' Exchange Bank, and one of its directors. He was also one of the projectors of

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the Third and D street horse-car line, in which he is part owner. Among his individual in- vestments is a valuable tract of land consisting of 251 acres on the " bench " north of Colton, eighty acres of which is in bearing vineyard; also real estate in Los Angeles and San Diego counties.

The family dwelling on the corner of F and Fourth streets is one of the finest in the city. In addition to his numerous interests of a per- sonal character, Mr. Andreson has been actively identified with matters of public import. He was one of the four far-seeing, public-spirited gentlemen to whose personal efforts is due the securing of the depot and work shops of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. thus making San Bernardino the center of the Santa Fé system on the Pacific coast. In an official capacity Mr. Andreson has served several terms as a member of the County Board of Supervi- sors, two terms as chairman of that body. He has also been elected several times on the Board of City Trustees, and was largely instrumental in securing to the city its complete sewer system and the fine sidewalks on the principal business streets.

Mr. Andreson is a domestic man as well as a business man. He married Miss Knapp, a na- tive of Pennsylvania, by whom he has three sons and two daughters, ranging fromn eighteen to ten years of age.

NDREW B. PARIS, attorney, San Ber- nardino, was born in Virginia, in 1839, and was educated in the Virginia Military Institute, at which he was graduated in 1860. Upon the breaking out of the war he enlisted in the Confederate army, served four years, rose to the rank of Colonel, and at the close of hostili- ties was chief of artillery of General Hoke's division of General Joseph E. Johnston's army. After the war closed he studied law in the Uni- versity of Virginia, and was adınitted to the bar in 1866. Locating in Charlotte County, Vir-

ginia, he practiced his profession till 1873. In 1874 he came to California and settled in San Bernardino, and has been actively and promni- nently connected with the bar of the county ever since. Colonel Paris has been associated as a law partner with Henry Goodcell and Judge Jolin L. Campbell respectively, and now has as partner Dwight W. Fox, a promising young attorney. Colonel Paris's special strength at the bar lies in the trial of criminal causes, in which he is very successful, being one of the ablest advocates in this part of the State. He has been connected on one side or the other with many of the most celebrated criminal cases before the courts of this county. In 1886 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of San Ber- nardino County for two years, and was recog- nized as one of the most efficient prosecutors who has ever filled that office. As a local orator Colonel Paris is very popular, and his services are usually in demand on all occasions where terse, pithy speeches are in order.

On August 10, 1889, he was joined in mar- riage with the daughter of Colonel Larkin Smith, of Virginia, an estimable lady whom he had known from childhood. Colonel Paris is financially interested with several local corpo- rations.

EGINALD E. McDONALD, M. D., has been in the active practice of medicine in San Bernardino since 1884. He is a na- tive of the city of Toronto, Canada, born in 1856, and obtained his literary education in Victoria University and Upper Canada College. He spent one year studying for his profession in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in To- ronto, and three years in the California Medical College at San Francisco, and was graduated at the latter in 1883. Before coming to California, Dr. McDonald spent a year and a half, 1881-'82, on North Georgian Bay, as surgeon for a large lumbering company, where he had the oppor- tunities to experience the rigors of an arctic

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winter, the thermometer registering 42° below zero on several occasions. All traveling in win- ter was with dogs and sledges. While upthere he made the circuit of the upper lakes in a tug boat. After leaving college he practiced six months in Oakland, then came to San Bernard- ino. He likes this city and valley mnuch, but he thinks it is not a profitable country for phy- sicians on account of the superior healthfulness of the climate. He says the recent construction of the city's sewer system has materially dimin- ished sickness in San Bernardino, making it one of the healthiest cities on the continent. The Doctor enjoys a liberal share of the practice of the city and valley. He has some valuable in- vestments in real estate, among which is a tract of farming land in Cajon Pass.

The Doctor is an earnest devotee to his pro- fession, and with his thorough educational training therefore has a future of bright prom- ise before him.

YMAN NELSON BEDFORD, D. D. S., a leading dentist of Southern California, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1851. He began the study of dentistry with his eldest brother, Dr. E. Bedford, in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1876, was graduated at the Pennsylvania Col- lege of Dental Surgery in 1885. He practiced in Sioux City until 1886, when at the request of his brother, Dr. A. D. Bedford, he came to California and located in San Bernardino, since which time he has carried on an active and lucrative professional business. Dr. Bedford's . specialty is in fine operative dentistry, and the scientific treatment and preservation of the nat- ural teeth. He occupies a high rank in his profession, both for his theoretical knowledge and practical skill in all branches of dentistry. While residing in the Hawkeye State, he was a member of the Iowa State Dental Society.

In 1888 Dr. Bedford was joined in marriage, iu Sioux City, with Miss Etta G. Smith, a

native of Massachusetts, an accomplished lady, who after graduating from Oberlin College, Ohio, spent two years in Enrope perfecting her studies in music; and after returning taught several years in the Conservatory of Music in the Ohio Wesleyan University. Dr. Bedford owns several pieces of property in the city of San Bernardino, and with his prosperous and growing dental practice has a bright future be- fore him.

LMA WHITLOCK, the pioneer dentist of Southern California, first commenced the practice of his profession in San Bernard- ino in 1857, and has been continuously in prac- tice in the city ever since 1859. He was born in Missouri in 1831. His parents, who were both natives of New England, were brought np from childhood in Ohio. His mother, formerly Miss Abbot, was a relative of the Garfield fam- ily. They started for California across the plains from Tipton, Iowa, in the spring of 1850, and spent the winter of 1850-'51 in Utalı, and resumed the journey on the following spring, reaching Hangtown, now Placerville, on July 16, 1851. Though a physician by profession, his father kept a boarding-honse in the new mining town for a few months after their ar- rival. Removing from there to Santa Clara County they continned to keep a house of enter- tainment during the year of their residence there; then removed to Watsonville, where the subject of this memoir began the study of dentistry with Dr. Irwin in 1855. He practiced in Santa Clara, San Jose and Santa Cruz, before coming to Southern California. Being a natural me- chanic and possessed of considerable inventive genius, Dr. Whitlock has invented several in- struments for use in his profession which are considered valuable improvements over those formerly used. His practice embraces all branches of the profession. As an evidence of his skill in operative dentistry, it may be stated that patients of his are wearing gold filling, in

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a good state of preservation, put in by him a quarter of a century ago.

Many years since the Doctor purchased 108 acres of land one mile east of the city of San Bernardino, for $700, including an ample wa- ter right. He subsequently sold thirty-six acres of that tract for $2,300 and still owns seventy-two acres, with fifty inches of water, which constitutes his homestead, and which he cultivates in fruits and alfalfa.

In 1858 Dr. Whitlock went to Camp Floyd, Utah, and at Springville, Utah Territory, he married Miss Mackenzie, of Scotch parentage. Doctor and Mrs. Whitlock have four sons and three daughters. Their oldest son, W. A., is a graduate of a college of law, standing among the first of his class, and has been admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court.

ILLIAM FRANCIS ALLISON was born September 7, 1847, in Lockhaven, Pennsylvania, and, like many inen who achieve success in business or distinction in pub- lic life, his early years were passed on a farmi, where are instilled habits of industry, and the seeds of a sturdy, self-reliant manhood are sown which ripen into truc grandeur of charac- ter. Young Allison's inclination being rather toward mercantile pursuits than agricultural, he left the farm and took a course in Commercial College at Ponghkeepsie, New York. Though not of legal age, he exemplified his patriotism by enlisting in the Union army, and it was the hardships experienced in his country's service that impaired his naturally frail constitution. After spending a few months in a drug store his health gave way, and he went west as far as Nebraska, seeking to improve it. There he engaged in a milling enterprise, which did not prove satisfactory, and he returned to Lock- haven and accepted a fine position tendered him with the firm of Hastings & Carson, manufact- uring druggists in Philadelphia, on a salary of $1,600 a year. Soon after entering their em-

ploy, the step which determined his subsequent business career, he married Miss A. R. Mac- Manigal, a friend of his childhood and youth.

His health again failing, being attacked with hemorrhages of the lungs, he was compelled to resign his position much to the regret of his employers. Ile tried Minnesota a few months, then he went to Le Mars, Iowa, reaching there with his wife and child at the beginning of win- ter with less than $150 as his total worldly possession. Experiencing considerable difficulty in securing the rooms which served as their habitation for the winter, Mr. Allison em- barked in the drug business in a very small way, struggling with the combined enemies, disease and poverty. Notwithstanding he was confined to his bed part of the time during the winter, he built up a trade in the six years that he carried on business there which yielded a net income of $300 a month. Still suffering from hemorrhages, he resolved as a last resort to come to Southern California, which he reached with his family, in Angust, 1881, so reduced that he was unable to leave his bed for nearly a year. This salubrious climate, aided by his remarkable tenacity of life and indomitable energy, restored him to comfortable health, and in April, 1882, he, in company with Dr. A. D. Bedford, started in the drug business on D street. A year later they removed to the northeast corner of Third and D streets, where the firm conducted a flour- ishing trade until he purchased his partner's interest in May, 1888. Not long after that he took in J. A. Lamb as a partner, which relation continued until Mr. Allison's death on Novem- ber 22, 1889. Besides being the managing head of a very successful drug house, Mr. Alli- son has been one of the most active and success- ful real-estate men in San Bernardino County, in spite of his physical infirmities with which he was affected. He possessed an exceptionally bright, active mind, and in all his relations in life exhibited a conscientious regard for the right, and an integrity of character that was unimpeachable. Mr. Allison was a faithful member and a zealous and efficient worker in

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the Methodist Episcopal Church, by whom the memory of his character and deeds is sacredly cherished. His wife and three children, two daughters and a son, survive him. Of a truth it may be said of him, he lived np to his high- est ideal of duty.

HE SAN BERNARDINO ACADEMY AND BUSINESS COLLEGE .- This in- stitution, which ranks among the first of its class in Southern California, was founded and opened by Professor David B. Sturges, its present proprietor and principal, in February, 1883. Appreciating the demands for a higher grade of education than the public schools of this city then afforded, he established his school for the double purpose of giving advanced pn- pils the advantage of a thorough practical busi- ness education or an academic course which would prepare them to enter the freshman-class in a university. With this end in view, Mr. Sturges has aimed at and maintained a high standard of scholarship by the thoroughness and scope of his methods of instruction. So complete is the academic course in the San Ber- nardino Academy that the graduates therefrom are admitted to the University of California without examination, which is the case with only one other private school in the State. The present building and equipment accommodate seventy-five pupils, and Professor Sturges has made provision for enlarging to double that capacity. Connected with the school is a par- tial gymnasium, which is to be fitted up with complete apparatus in the near future. When Professor Sturges established this school his capital was so limited that he was obliged to go in debt for a large part of the purchase price of the lot. The success of his enterprise has been such that without any outside financial aid he has accumulated a property, in lot and build- ing, on Fourth street near D street, worth from $10,000 to $12,000.

Professor David B. Sturges is a classical

scholar, educated in Michigan University, in which State he was born in 1839. In 1862, he went to Montana and there spent fourteen years, a portion of the time in teaching. He came to California in 1876, and has been en- gaged in educational work in the southern part of the State ever since. The courses of study in his academy and business college are being enlarged and improved each successive year, and a higher and broader standard of excellence in scholastic results is attained. Associated with him as instructors is an able corps of teachers, one of the most efficient assistants be- ing his cultured and accomplished wife. who is also a native of Michigan, and a graduate from Albion College. She has charge of the depart- ment of English composition, which, through her zealous labors, has been developed to a very complete system.

AMUEL W. GARRETSON, mechanical engineer and superintendent of gas and electric-light works for the Pacific Light- ing Company of California, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1844. He served his apprenticeship to the machinist trade during the years 1861 to 1864. Like many patriotic young men who lived during the dark days of the Rebellion he shouldered his musket and vol- unteered his services to our Government, and served in the Twenty-first Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, in the Army of the Potomac. After completing his trade he went to sea and spent about ten years on the ocean as an engineer of steamships. He was attached to one of the pio- neer steamships of the Pacific mail company's service, which enter the ports of Japan, after the government of that country had opened its harbors to the commerce of the outside world. He spent six and a half years as engineer on steamers which were plying between the numer- ous ports of Japan and China. He returned to the United States in 1873 and closed his sea- faring career. He was constructing engineer

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of several gas works in different cities in the East, an.l in October, 1880, came to the Pacific coast, which has been his home and field of activity ever since. He built the following gas works: for the Palace Hotel, the Baldwin Hotel, the works of the Pacific Gas Improvement Com- pany, all in San Francisco; the gas works at Benicia, San Diego and San Bernardino, in California; the Gas Works at East Portland, Oregon, and Tucson, Arizona.

OSEPH BENJAMIN HENDERSON is a native son, born in San Bernardino County, in 1856, and is the son of David Hender- son, who emigrated with his family from Scot- land and settled in San Bernardino County, in 1853, where he and his wife, also a native of Scotland, still reside. He learned the trade of stone-mason in early lite, and has divided his time between that and mining and farming as his chief occupations. Joseph served three years' ap- prenticeshipat the tinner's trade, and worked at it as a journeyman in San Bernardino, San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco over thirteen years; most of his time he was in the employ of John Ruffen & Co. in this city. March 1, 1884, he, in partnership with B. F. Bell, a fellow ein- ployé of the above firm, started a small tin shop in San Bernardino. In July of that year he bought Mr. Bell's interest and has conducted the business alone ever since. Starting with one ap- prentice he has increased his force from time to time as the rapid growth of his business de- manded. He made a specialty of the manufacture of water tanks and pipes. He made galvanized iron tanks in great numbers for water storage, some of them with a capacity of 5,000 gallons each. He contracts for iron water pipes, ranged as high as from two to three miles, embracing $5,000 to $7,000 in a single job, giving em- ployment to twelve pipe-makers. The shop is fully equipped with machinery, and having as much as he could attend to in this department he sold his tinner's tools and ontfit in 1886 to

John Schuyler, of Oceanside, and in 1888 sold his pipe business to J. G. Burt. In 1887 Mr. Henderson bought four acres of land between C and D streets ou First and erected a three- story brick building 60 x 65 feet for a machine shop, and a building for a foundry 26 x 50 feet in area. These he titted up with modern im- proved machinery and appliances necessary to manufacture anything that may be ordered in the way of machine or foundry work, including a number of lathes for working iron and wood, drill presses, saws, emery-wheels, etc. This machinery is all propelled by water, Warm creek and artesian wells furnishing the motive power. He has had a series of artesian wells bored on his premises ranging in depth from eighty-uine to 112 feet and has developed twenty-five-horse power by this system of wells alone. An important item of expense in operating the machinery is thus saved in the cost of fuel. During the busiest season twenty- five to thirty men have been employed to carry on the business, which is still prosperous and satisfactory notwithstanding the depression in business generally.

Mr. Henderson has genius for invention as well as manufacturing, and has invented and makes a new kind of mill-crusher and grinder for pulverizing mineral-bearing rock, which is highly recommended by old minersand is coming into use rapidly. He is a joint owner in some valnable mines, and is giving some attention to mining. He values his plant in San Ber- nardino at $50,000, which together with his thriving mannfactory is the result solely of his indomitable energy and rare business sagacity, a gratifying result indeed.

ENRY WOZENCRAFT, of Wozencraft & Co., compilers of abstracts of title, San Bernardino. Among the oldest and most reliable companies in the abstract busi- ness and searcher of records in San Bernandino County, is Wozencraft & Co. This company

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has been established about twelve years and has a complete set of books, maps and the finest property indexes in Southern California. Henry Wozencraft, the senior member of the firm, is an old resident of San Bernardino County, having lived there for the past twenty years, which makes him thoroughly acquainted with the real-estate business and topography of the country. This firm also have the most com- petent hands that can be employed to assist them in their work. Their abstracts are written np by typewriters in the office and are very neat. They have also under employ Will- iam P. Cave, one of the finest draughtsmen in the State, which affords them to make mapping and draughting a specialty. This firm's office is in the Andreson block, situated on the corner of Third and E streets, city of San Bernardino.

OHN CALVIN DIXON, proprietor of the C. O. D. Grocery, San Bernardino, was boru in 1840, in Reynoldsburg, Franklin County, Ohio, and there spent the first eighteen years of his life. In 1858 he moved with his father's family to Jasper County, Iowa, and there his father, who was a brick-mason by trade, and had also been a farmer, engaged in the grocery business, with John as assistant in the store. Upon the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion he promptly responded to his country's call for volunteers and enlisted as a member of the Fifth Iowa Infantry and served three years and one month, chiefly under Gen- erals Grant and Sherman. At the battle of Inka he was severely wounded, being shot through both thighs by a rifle ball. He was discharged just before the fall of Atlanta. Re- turning home, he remained in Iowa abont ten years, part of the time engaged in merchandis- ing and the rest in farming. Tiring of the vigorous winters of the Hawkeye State, Mr. Dixon concluded to seek a milder climate, and in 1874 came to California and located in San

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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