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 84

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 84
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 84
USA > California > Orange 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 84
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 84

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by others after his death and bears his namc. His will divided his large estate equally between his widow and two sons. At the time of his second marriage his estate was worth but $10,- 000, and he gave half of that to his sons to aid them in starting in life; so that nearly all his property was accumulated after he became a cripple, with the help of his noble wite, wliose loyalty never faltered through more than a quarter of a century of devotion to him in his abiding illness.

APTAIN WILLIAM A. ROGERS, of Redlands, is a native of Lincoln County, Maine. Since leaving the sea Captain Rogers has given his attention to the cultivation of his oranges and vineyards and the improve- ment of his home in Redlands, on Colton avenne.

EORGE COOLEY, President of the Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino Connty, is one of the pioneers in this valley. As a farmer he has been eminently successful. An Englishman by birth, and a sailor by occupa- tion, he brought with him to America the push and determination characteristic of his country- men, and a practical knowledge of human na- ture gained by his experiences as a sailor on the " high seas." He was born in Kent, Eng- land, in 1831, and served four years' apprentice- ship as a sailor. May 11, 1853, when eleven miles north of Monte Christo, in the West India Islands, aboard the ship Camillus, Mr. Cooley was married to Miss Ellen Tolputt, also of English birth. June 5, 1853, they landed safe in New Orleans.

The following is copied from a diary kept by Mr. Cooley: "June 6, started for St. Louis; arrived June 13; left for Keokuk the 14th and arrived the 15th; left for Kanesville, June 21, arrived there July 16; left for Utah, July 18,

and arrived there October 16; lay over there three and one-half years, and had innch trouble and annoyance from the Mormons; started from Nephi City, March 6, 1857, and arrived in San Bernardino valley May 11, 1857, and eamped on the bank of the Santa Ana river."

The following is a list of the names of the party known as the English colony: James Singleton, Captain Isaac Bessant, J. Rebbeck, W. Watts, W. Witby, A. Hunt, H. Goodsell, J. Witworth, Sydney Mee and George Cooley. At Santa Clara they were joined by a Mr. Williams with his family in a wagon. Mr. Williams ha ! lived among the Indians and understood their language, and he conversed and treated with them, and thus the colonists got through safely, although threatened by the Mormons.

Mr. Cooley first purchased 200 acres of land on the Santa Ana river at $3.50 per acre, and in 1862 he bought seventy acres where he now lives in Washington school district. . He has added to this from time to time until he now owns one of the finest ranches in Southern California, embracing an area of 400 acres, all iu cultivation except some washed land near the river. Mr. and Mrs. Cooley have raised a very large family, sixteen in all, three of whom are now dead, viz .: Anna, who married William L. Miller, and died at the age of twenty three; George M., who is a leading hardware dealer in San Bernardino; John, who has been one of the most successful dairymen in the valley; Ed. M., who is a successful ranchman; Louisa, Charles Cammillus, named for the ship Cammil- lus and Charles R. Day, her captain, on which ship Mr. and Mrs. Cooley were married; Fred- erick, Ellen, Fannie, Frank, William A., Vic- toria, who died in infancy; Geneva, also died young; Rosa, Scott and Norman H. Mr. Cooley belongs to the Democratic party. For seven years he has held the office of Supervisor, and for the last three years has been president of the board. His integrity and ability as an officer is unquestioned, and he has the confi- dence and respect not only of his own party but of all parties, and when elected to his present

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office ran ahead of his ticket. For twelve years before being elected supervisor he was road overseer in his district, and is perhaps as well acquainted with the affairs of San Bernardino County as any man within her borders. He has a fine residence two miles south of Colton, where, with the faithful partner of his youth, he is spending the evening of life.

ETER J. FILANC, residing three miles south of San Bernardino, is one of the oldest and most prosperous pioneers in the valley. He was born in the southern part of France, November 4, 1820, the oldest of a fam- ily of three children. When a young man he went to Africa, and for nine years engaged in the slave trade on the east and west coasts. In 1845 he sailed from Maca to China and took slaves, then from China to Salem, Massachusetts. He followed the sea for fifteen years. In 1848 he sailed from New York to New Orleans, and thence to St. Louis, trom St. Louis to Council Bluffs by steamer, and there wintered. In the spring of 1849 he crossed by ox team to Salt Lake City, where he wintered, and the next spring started across the plains to California. Their train consisted of fifty-two wagons, under Captain Foote. They had a very prosperous jonrney, and in September, 1852, they all arrived · safely in San Bernardino, when there was but one building (the fort) in the place. His first purchase of land was 225 acres, where he has since been engaged as a general fariner and stock-raiser. He owned at one time 1,000 or more acres of land and kept several thousand fine sheep and cattle. He paid $5 per acre for his land and built the first house, an adobe, in the valley. For some years he was successfully engaged in the mercantile business in San Bernardino. At the present time he is carrying on the dairy business. In 1859 he married Miss Elizabeth Luyhan, a native of Los Angeles. She was the daughter of Joseph and Mary Luyhan, the former born in Spain, and the lat-

ter in California. Her father was one of the first settlers in Los Angeles, having crossed the plains at a very early day, and one time was a general. He died in 1881, having had a family of ten children. Mr. and Mrs. Filanc have reared three children : Louisa, now Mrs. S. Lam- ber, of San Francisco; Enneas; and Peter, who still resides with his parents. Both Mr. and Mrs. Filanc are members of the Catholic Church in San Bernardino. Politically Mr. Filanc affiliates with the Democratic party, and as a citizen, commands the confidence and respect of his fellow-citizens.

LVA A. WARREN, a citizen of Colton, was born in Oakland County, Michigan, July 21, 1836. His father, Z. J. Warren, a pioneer of Oakland County, Michigan, was born in New Jersey, August 31, 1801, and was for thirty years a teacher in the public schools. He also took a leading part in political matters, and held some important public offices. He moved from Michigan to Indiana, and from there to Illinois; then to Missouri; then to Iowa, and in 1852 he crossed the plains to California by ox team. He stopped in Nevada and Utah for seven years and reached California December 24, 1859. His wife, Cornelia A. Pardee, was a native of New York. They had but two children, the subject of this sketch and a daughter. Our subject was married January 29, 1865, to Miss Betsey Parks, born in York- shire, England, April 20, 1845. Her parents came to America when she was but four years of age. This union was blessed with seven children, viz .: Ellenor and Mary E., twins, the oldest of whom died September 27, 1866; the youngest is now the wife of Charles F. Green; Olive Susan, Celeena M., Alva P., Christina I. and Charlotte G. Mr. Warren is an assayer by profession, and has traveled extensively through many States and Territories, but since his marriage has settled down to farming. He owns land in different parts of San Bernardino

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County, and is giving his attention to general farming and stock-raising. He lives on a ranch of 160 acres located one and one-half miles east of south of Colton. He has taken a leading part in in the educational interests of his dis- triet, and has been a trustee for fifteen years. In 1888 he received the nomination of the Democratic party for tax collector, but was defeated. He is a public-spirited man, and is ever ready to help along any enterprise which has for its object the good of the community. He is an honest and upright citizen, and lias many friends.

B. GLOVER, of Redlands, was born in Benton County, Missouri, June 29, 1842. His father, Rev. M. W. Glover, was born near Lonisville, Kentucky, and was for many years a traveling preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He married Miss Elizabeth Osborn, also born near Louisville, and they subsequently moved to Benton Connty, Missouri. In 1850 he came to California and worked in the quartz mines in Amador County. In 1855 he went back to Missouri, and in the autumn of the same year brought his family, via the Isthmus, to California. In this same year he joined the Pacific Conference, and was assigned to Macedonia Circuit, in Sonoma County, and traveled that circuit three years. He was then sent to a circuit in Mendocino County, and was there three years. In 1868 he was sent as a missionary to San Bernardino, where he remained four years. He was then sent to Los Angeles for one year and then back to San Bernardino for two years. His next and last appointment was in San Luis Obispo, where he built a church, and, one year after, took a superannuated relation, on account of declining health. He died April 7, 1877, five years later, having spent the best part of his life as an active, earnest, itinerant minister of the Gospel. The subject of this sketch was thirteen years old when he came to California with his

parents. At the age of sixteen years he began learning the blacksmith trade, and served an apprenticeship of two years, and having earned a little money he went to school for a year in Sonoma County, at Pleasant Hill School. He then worked for wages on a farm until he was twenty-one years of age. At this time he mar- ried Miss Elizabeth A. McGuire, a native also of Missouri, a daughter of Cornelius McGuire, who erossed the plains to California when she was but seven years of age. After his marriage Mr. Glover rented land in Sonoma County for two years, and then went to Mendocino County, and from there to San Bernardino County in 1869 where he pre empted 160 acres of land, located in Lagonia. Here he endured all the hardships and privations of pioneer life. For the first three years during the summer months he had to haul water three miles that he used. Amid all these discouragements, how- ever, he was not discouraged, and to-day he has a home surrounded by all the comforts of life, and is highly esteemed by all who know him. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church Sonth in 1855, and has ever since been an earnest worker in the cause of Christianity. He has held all the offices in a church that a layman can hold, and is at present class-leader and steward of the church. He was superintendent of the Sunday-school in San Bernardino for a period of nine years. He belongs to the Demo- cratie party, but at the same time is a strong advocate of the temperance cause. Mr. and Mrs. Glover have had four children born to them, viz .: Ida M., Virginia L., Edwin M., and Anna K., who died in infancy.

ICHARD STEWART, the youngest son of John H. Stewart, was born in Rock- ford, Illinois, June 2, 1850; came with his parents to California in 1852, and to San Bernardino County in 1865, where he has resided ever since. His principal occupation has been stock-raising and farming. His ranch of seven-

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ty-two acres, situated two miles east of San Bernardino on the Harlem & Rabel Springs Motor Railway, is one of the finest agricultural tracts in the country. being especially adapted for alfalfa and grazing. It is valned at $14,- 000. Ile owns a number of choice pieces of city property, including 115 feet fronting on Third street between F and G streets, on a part of which he erected, in 1887, the fine two-story block occupied by the Grand Rapids Furniture Company, the first pressed-brick front built in San Bernardino. He also owns 200 feet front- ing on Third street between G and HI streets, on which his dwelling is located. He and his brother Clarence own ninety-six feet directly sonth of the Stewart Hotel, fronting on E street. IIe also has 160 acres of superior farming land in Rincon, supplied with water by artesian wells. He is a stockholder in the Stewart Ilotel.

In 1876 he was joined in wedlock with Miss Alice M. Abels, a native of California, born December 11, 1858. Of the six children born to thein the living are: Norman Guy, born Oc- tober 27, 1877; Lottie Mabel, Angust 13, 1879; Wallace Clarence, April 12, 1883; John Sam- nel, May 30, 1885, and Benjamin Richard, March 13, 1887. Lillian was born July 7, 1881, and died September 30, 1883.

Clarence Stewart married a sister of Mrs. Richard Stewart and resides in Riverside, as do the parents of their wives, Mr. and Mrs. Abels. The subject of this memoir in not en- gaged in any active business, except looking after his estate, but contemplates resuming stock farming.

B W. CAVE, senior member of the firm of Cave & Reeves, proprietors of the Red-

0 lands livery stable, was born in Texas, in 1860, and has lived in San Bernardino Connty ever since he was two years of age. His par- ents, John P. and Lucy Ann (Barnett) Cave, were both natives of Kentucky. They had a

family of eight children. His father first moved his family to Missouri, and in 1850 left them there and crossed the plains by ox team to Cali- fornia, where he remained two years, at the end of which time he went back to his family in Missouri. Here he remained three years, and then moved to Texas, where for seven years he worked at the carpenter trade. In 1862 he crossed the plains via the southern route to California, and was five months on the road. On his arrival he traded his wagon and ox team for twenty acres of land one mile east of San Bernardino. He lived on this land until 1868, and in the meantime gave considerable attention to placer-mining. He was the discoverer of the claim known as Texas Point. In 1868 he traded for a part of the Carpenter ranch in Crafton, which he improved and still owns. The subject of this sketch engaged in mining for some three years, and two years ago went into the livery business. At this time he is part owner of the ranch purchased by his father, and is superintending the ranch as well as at- tending to the livery business. In 1882 he was married to Miss Bertie Barrett, of Missouri, and they have one child-a son-Oscar. Mr. Cave is a member of the I. O. O. F., Redlands Lodge, No. 341. At the time the city government was organized he was elected one of the trustees which office he still fills. He is an intelligent and enthusiastic supporter of the Democratic party.

R. S. C. BOGART, one of the leading practitioners of dentistry in San Bernard- ino County, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in October, 1852. His parents being what are termed Pennsylvania Germans, spoke and taught their children the language of the father- land as the sole medium of communication in the family. His mother died in his childhood and he became self-supporting from the age of fifteen years. Soon after attaining his majority he went to Illinois and began the study of dent-

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istry in Macomb; and after completing the study of the profession and a short time of practice in that State, he went to Minnesota in 1876, and married Miss Smith, of Joliet, Illi- nois, in 1879. During the five succeeding years of his residence in Minnesota Dr. Bogart en- joyed a flourishing professional business. In 1881 he removed to New Mexico. Not being pleased with that country, after a brief stay they came to California and settled in San Bernardino, where the Doctor has been actively engaged in his profession ever since, save about eighteen months. His fine dental practice ex- tends throughout this valley and to the remote parts of the county.

Dr. Bogart possesses a business and specn- lative turn of mind, which he has indulged quite extensively and successfully, dealing in real estate and in building enterprises. Iu 1888 he built the two-story brick block that bears his name and in which his office is situated, adjoin- ing the court-house yard on the east. It has fifty-two and one-half feet frontage on Court street and is 115 feet in depth; the first floor is divided into two fine stores, and the second story is devoted to offices. He has also ini- proved several other pieces of city and suburban property.

Dr. Bogart is recognized as one of San Ber- nardino's most enterprising and public-spirited citizens. In politics he is a Republican, the only member of his family on either side who is not a Democrat.

ILTON CANTERBURY, M. D., of Redlands, was born in Greennp County, Kentucky. His father, Reuben Canter- bury, a farmer, was born in North Carolina. The name originated in Kent County, England, from the estate of a man by that name, and for whom the city of Canterbury was named. Reuben Canterbury married Miss Elizabeth Ly- caas, a native of Kentucky. The union was blessed with thirteen children, of whom the

subject of this sketch is the eightlı. He first attended the common schools of his native county and afterward attended a short time the college at Marietta, Ohio. From there he went to Missouri and took a course at Marion Col- lege. He then attended the Medical College of Ohio, and graduated in 1863 from the Univer- sity of lowa. After his graduation he prac- ticed medicine for two years in Brown County, Illinois. In 1865 he went to Corvallis, Ben- ton County, Oregon, where he practiced four years, and then practiced one year at Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. From the latter place he moved to California, where he has been a practicing physician most of the time for ten years. On account of declining health he bought a ranch of 160 acres, six miles north- east of San Bernardino, on which he lived until January 1. 1889, when he established the drug store in Redlands. He is now located in the Young Men's Christian Association building on State street, and is giving his whole attention to the drug business. Dr. Canterbury was married in 1845 to Sarah Wood, of Zanesville, Ohio, and they have had ten children, five of whom are still living, viz .: James Cyrus Can- terbnry, the oldest, who is a Baptist minister at Highlands; Lawrence A. is a machinist; Fant- ley W. and Milton F. are both ranchmen; Avis E. is the widow of Janes P. Ashby, and for five successive years has been a teacher in the public schools at Colton, California. Dr. Can- terbury is an Odd Fellow and a Good Templar. He is a Prohibitionist and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South

ROF. C. N. ANDREWS, of Redlands, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1852. His father, Robert Andrews, erossed the plains to California with an ox team in 1857. They were on the plains at the time of the Mountain Meadow massacre, and were five months and ten days from Boonville to Sacra- mento. He purchased a farm in Sonoma County,

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in 1859, and is still living on it. He had a family of four. sous and one daughter. The subject of this sketch received his early train- ing in the common schools of Sonoma County, is a graduate of several prominent institutions of learning and the holder of four diplomas. He taught school in Sonoma County for seven years. He was principal of the Santa Ana schools for a period of three years; instructor in Heald's Business College two years, and principal of the Riverside schools three years. Then he was superintendent of the schools in San Diego one year, when, his health failing, he resigned. He was president of the board of education at San Diego. He came to Redlands in 1877 and engaged in the lumber and carriage business with his brother, Howard, under the firm name of Andrews Brothers. At the present time he is a member of the board of education of San Bernardino County, and a member of the Redlands city council. His residence is on Palm avenue, where he owns twenty acres of fine orange land. The business house is on the corner of Orange street and Park avenue, where they carry a line of car- riages and buggies and do a general lumber business. Prof. Andrews was married in Los Angeles in 1883, to Miss Jennie E. Davis, of Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. She was educated in Petaluma and San Francisco, and taught for several years. She was one of the assistant teachers in the Riverside schools when Prof. Andrews was the principal, and was after- ward vice-principal in the San Diego schools.

SAAC NEWTON HOAG, a prominent citi- zen of Redlands, was born in Macedon, Wayne County, New York, March 3, 1822. His paternal ancestors belonged to the Society of Friends for generations back, and had uni- formly been farmers. He lived and worked on a farm until he was eighteen years of age and had the advantages of a very primitive common- school education. His father died when he was

eighteen years of age, and one year later the Macedon Academy was organized, and Isaac was one of the first students at this institution. From this time until 1849 he taught school winters and attended the academy and studied law summers. January 1, 1849, he graduated in law, having previously graduated at the acad- emy, and received a diploma to practice law in all of the courts of New York, and the same day be determined to seek his fortune in the gold fields of California. He landed in San Francisco on the last day of June, following, having crossed the Isthmus and having been ninety-nine days in the passage from Panama to San Francisco, on the British barque Colony. This barque carried 100 passengers, who paid $100 each for their passage and board. They were becalmed about thirty days and were for that length of time ou the short allowance of one sınall cracker and a pint of water a day. After landing at San Francisco Mr. Hoag and his friends went directly to the mines, and July 4, 1849, he dug his first gold from Horse Shoe Bar on the American river. In about three months he returned from the inines to Sacra- mento, having accumulated about $2,000 in gold dust. During the winter of 1849-'50 he engaged in the mercantile business in Sacra- mento. In the spring of 1850 he put a steam ferry-boat on the Sacramento river, crossing from the city to Yolo County, and took up his residence in Washington, Yolo County. Dur- ing the summer of 1850, thousands of cattle and horses were driven across the plains, and as the best pastures to be found were in the conn- try west of the Sacramento river, large numbers crossed the ferry at Sacramento. For the months of Angust, September and October, of that year the receipts of the ferry were over $27,000. In the spring of 1851 he was offered $40,000 for the ferry property and accepted the proposition, but a hitch occurred and the transfer was never completed.

Mr. Hoag was married in San Francisco, in Jannary, 1853, to Georgie J. Jennings, whose mother and brother had preceded them to Cali-

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fornia. Miss Jennings came to the State in special charge and under the protection of Adams & Company's Express.

Envions eyes were watching the success of the ferry business, and applications to the board of supervisors for opposition ferries, and snits in court followed one after another, and finally resort was had to the Legislature for amendments to the ferry law, proved successful, an opposition ferry was established, and the property greatly reduced in valne. The ques- tion assnined a political aspect and ended in a special franchise for a bridge. The bridge was built and there was no longer use for a ferry. The property became comparatively valueless and Mr. Hoag again became a poor man, all his accumulations having been expended in better equipments, boats, etc, and in defense of the franchise. Not disheartened he gathered up the odds and ends, and seeing that California was rapidly coming to the front as an agricult- ural country, especially a grain-growing conn- try, he formned a partnership with his brother, B. H. Hoag, to import agricultural machinery. Over $5,000 was invested, mostly in threshing- machines, as a starter. Contrary to instructions the shipper placed them all in one vessel. Off Rio Janeiro the vessel was found to be on fire, put into port, and arrived one year behind time with the machinery badly damaged. Had they arrived on time a splendid profit would have been realized as they would have been ahead of all other importations of that character and were in great demand. These circumstances are mentioned, not so much as personal inci- dents in the life of an early Californian as to illustrate the ups and downs of an active busi- ness man in the early history of the State. Mr. Hoag always took a lively interest in the poli- tics of the State and nation, though he was never, in the common acceptation of the term, a politician. He was an old-line Whig, but when that party went out of existence he joined the anti-Lecompton Democrats and supported Stephen A. Douglas for the Presidency. Yolo County had always been a stronghold of the

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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