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Father Hynes' first work in the missionary field was at Sonora, Tuolumne County, Cal., where he was assistant pastor under Rev. P. Guerin until 1911, at which time he came to Max- well, Colnsa County, and became pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart. He also attends Williams, Arbuckle, Sites, and Stonyford. His parish is thus an extensive one, and one in which he has had ample opportunity to prove his fitness as a laborer in the Master's vineyard. He has just completed, in Maxwell, a beautiful new reinforced concrete church, one of the best in the valley, which will stand as a monument to the name of its founder. There are church buildings at Williams, Arbuckle, Sites, and Stonyford, all of which were built by Father M. Wallrath.
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The First Church of the Sacred Heart, of Maxwell, was built in 1880, by Rev. Father M. Wallrath, and was dedicated on June 4, 1882. Father Wallrath had charge of the church until 1910, when Rev. Father J. J. MeGrath became pastor for one year, until his death; and he was succeeded by Father Hynes. The appointment of Father Hynes to this charge has proved emi- nently satisfactory. He makes the needs of his people his first thought, counting no effort too great to accomplish his mission among them; and in the fulfillment of his trust he sets an example of faith and courage that has helped to direct and establish the footsteps of many in the paths of peace and righteousness.
WILLIAM SUMNER GUILFORD
"It is not rank, nor birth, nor state, But 'git up and git,' that makes men great."
Since his connection with Glenn County, Mr. Guilford has been associated with many enterprises for the benefit of the county and the general advancement of the state. A native of Iowa, he was born at Storm Lake, September 21, 1882, a son of Emmett Henry and Anna B. Guilford. His education was received in the high school at Storm Lake and in the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture, from which he was graduated in 1902. Thereafter he at once became associated with the Wiscon- sin Agriculturist, at Racine, as live stock editor, which position he retained for a time. In 1905 he became general agent for the Seabury Live Stock Manufacturing Company, at Denver, Colo .; and in 1907 he accepted the position of Director of Agriculture for the Twin Falls North Side Land and Water Company, Idaho, where he remained until 1910, when he came to Glenn County.
On his arrival in Glenn County, Mr. Guilford at once became connected in a like capacity with the Superior California Farm Lands Co., at Willows. He has done much to bring about the development of the land opened for settlement in the Sacramento Valley and Glenn County, and has made his influence felt in farming and live stock circles in California. He is a contributor to many live stock publications in the country, on diversified subjects; and through his connection with the various organiza- tions, he has become one of the best-known authorities in the West on agricultural and live stock interests. He was president of the Wisconsin Agricultural College Alumni Association in 1902-1903, a member of the executive committee of the National
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Live Stock Association in 1903-1904, assistant general manager of the Denver Live Stock Show in 1905-1907, president of the Western Berkshire Congress in 1916, president of the Glenn County Berkshire Breeders' Association in 1916-1917, and presi- dent of the Glenn County Farm Bureau in 1917. His influence has become far-reaching through his membership in the fol- lowing named clubs, societies, associations and lodges in Cali- fornia and elsewhere. He is a Mason, a member of A. W. Rawson Lodge, No. 145, A. F. & A. M .; Orient Chapter, No. 12, R. A. M .; Racine Council, No. 5, R. & S. M .; Racine Commandery, No. 7, K. T .; Wisconsin Consistory, thirty-second degree; and Tripoli Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., in Milwaukee. He belongs to the Sutter Club in Sacramento; to the Sierra Club, and the Saddle and Sirloin Club, in Chicago; to the Idaho Horticultural, the Wis- consin Horticultural, and the American Pomological Societies; and to the following associations: International Live Stock Expo- sition, American Genetic, Wisconsin Live Stock Breeders', Ameri- can Berkshire, California Live Stock Breeders', California Nur- serymen's, California Shorthorn Cattle Breeders', American Shropshire Registry, Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment, and American Shorthorn Cattle Breeders'; and also to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
BUTTE CITY RANCH
When river navigation was at its height in an early day, it was no unusual sight to see many steamers of light draft plying up and down the Sacramento River between San Francisco, Sacramento and Red Bluff, loaded down with grain and other ranch products for the metropolis, there to be reshipped to the markets of the world; and bringing from that city supplies of all descriptions, to be left at distributing points along the river. In those days the vessels burned wood for fuel, which was supplied from the heavy growth of timber growing along the stream. One of those brush-covered, heavily timbered tracts was located on the opposite side of the river from the little town of Butte City, and furnished its quota of fire wood. This tract was known as Lot 78, Glenn Ranch Survey, after the great Glenn ranch properties were made ready for subdivision and sale, and is now known as the Butte City Ranch.
Butte City Ranch consists of seven hundred fifty acres of river bottom land, partly cleared for orchards of prunes, pears,
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walnuts, etc. The balance, on account of its woodland shade and pasture, is particularly well adapted to the breeding and raising of live stock. At one time, after the development of the ranch began in 1914, there were some two hundred twelve varieties of fruits, nuts, field crops, and vegetables produced on this ranch. The breeding of registered pure-bred live stock began on a small scale in 1914, and this is gradually assuming large proportions as the name and fame of the Butte City Ranch becomes known for its vigorous, pure-bred stock, for which the local conditions are ideal in every way. The specialties of the ranch are Shorthorn cattle, Berkshire hogs, Shropshire sheep, Shetland and Welsh ponies, Bronze turkeys, and White Plymouth Rock fowls.
In building up the herds of Shorthorn cattle the bull Victor Stamford is used. He is a son of White Rock, himself one of the best breeding sons of Whitehall Sultan, known among stockmen as one of the world-famous bulls. The blood of Ruberta, Cicely, Choice Goods, Vermillion, Bapton Valentine, Villager, Glenwood Lavender, and others equally of note, is represented among the females.
At the head of the Shropshire sheep flock is an International Live Stock Exposition prize-winner, and the ewes are selected from the flocks of A. Broughton & Sons, Albany, Wis .; George McKerrow & Sons; and other Eastern breeders.
Fox, a registered bay Shetland, and Richard Collins, a spotted Welsh pony, are in service in the pony herd. A large number of well-broken ponies and pony outfits are kept at all times.
The Berkshire hogs are wonderfully well cared for, as well as the other live stock, being well protected from the intense heat of summer and the cold winds of winter by the big trees in the wood- land pasture, where they find a wide variety of nuts, berries, grasses, and mineral salts, in addition to their regular feed of corn, barley and alfalfa. Here, also, they have ample room for the exercise required for the perfectly developed and healthy animal. There are five great boars in service on the ranch :
Iowana Champion Peer 2d, a son of Rival's Champion, a boar that sold for seventeen hundred fifty dollars when he was five years old. He is the sire of many of the animals of the famous Iowana herd at Iowana Farms, Davenport, Iowa, from which Iowana Champion Peer 2d was bought for seven hundred fifty dollars by the Butte City Ranch.
Mayhew's Leader 6th, son of Grand Leader 2d, grand cham- pion of the world at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, out of a daughter of Rival's Champion. This boar is a grandson of Superbus, whose record is handed down through several genera- tions for prepotency.
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Baron Duke 104th, a Gentry bred boar out of a daughter of Lord Premier, is being mated with some of the best females on the ranch, to reunite the "blood of the champions."
Escalon Star, son of Star Leader, junior and reserve cham- pion to his sire, Grand Leader 2d, at the Panama-Pacific Interna- tional Exposition.
Superior Lustre, a son of Superior and litter brother to Grand Leader 2d. Superior pigs were winners at many of the Eastern shows in 1916.
The sows of the herd are in keeping with the boars in breed- ing and quality. They have been selected with great care from the Iowana Farms herd, and combine the best of the Berkshire breed.
Butte City Ranch demands an individual type of hog, that will make the highest class pork at the least cost-in short, a rational, sensible, and useful hog. This ranch is one of the great pure-bred live stock breeding establishments on the Pacific Coast ; and as such it is doing much to make Glenn County known all over the country.
WILLIAM GUILFORD
In the life of William Guilford is shown a record in which any man might well take pride. Born in Worcester, Mass., June 25, 1825, he was reared and educated there until reaching the age of nine, when the family removed to Orleans County, Vt. In Glover, Vt., he served an apprenticeship as house carpenter. He devel- oped considerable aptitude for his trade; and we next find him, at the age of twenty-two, taking a position as manager of a sash, door, and blind factory at St. Johnsbury, which position he held three years. He then decided to have a factory of his own, and built a sash, door and blind factory in Craftsbury, Vt., which he ran for two years, and then sold.
After selling out his factory, Mr. Guilford taught school for two years at Maquoketa, Iowa, and then went to Tama County, Iowa, where he was engaged in farming for fourteen years, mean- while teaching school in the fall and winter months. While living in Tama County, he served as supervisor, assessor, school trustee and overseer of the poor. He sold out his interests and estab- lished a hardware and agricultural implement business in Toledo, Tama County, and also ran a lumber yard there. In 1870, after remaining in that city two years, he located in Storm Lake, Iowa. In this locality Mr. Guilford spent many years of his life, forty in all; and he was an important factor in the upbuilding of the city and the surrounding country. He was one of the first men to
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settle in Storm Lake, and it is largely due to his efforts and pro- gressive ideas that the city has grown to its present importance. He opened a lumber yard there, built a grist-mill and also engaged in contracting and building, erecting twelve schoolhouses in the county and many residences. He was president of the school board of Storm Lake for six years, president of the park commis- sioners for five years, and overseer of the poor for twenty-five years. In all this work Mr. Guilford was actuated by a desire to serve the best interests of the commonwealth; and he gave himself untiringly to this end. He was a deacon in the Unitarian Church in Storm Lake; and all his life he has been an ardent advocate of the prohibition movement and a leader in its support. He served for seventeen years as Justice of the Peace in different counties in Iowa.
Fraternally, Mr. Guilford is a member of the Odd Fellows, both Lodge and Encampment, and is the possessor of a badge given him by the members of his lodge in Storm Lake, in token of the esteem in which they held him. Few men can show as fine a record for public service as Mr. Guilford; and his descendants have every reason to feel a pride in his achievements.
In Greensboro, Vt., on November 10, 1852, William Guilford was united in marriage with Margaret Sharp. She is a native of Scotland, and was brought to America when a baby. She has been a helpmate to him in every sense of the word, and their happy married life of sixty-five years tells its own story. In 1910, Mr. and Mrs. Guilford moved to Pecatonica, Winnebago County, Ill .; and from there, in 1912, to Orland, Glenn County, Cal., where they purchased a seven-acre citrus orchard. They are spending the evening of their lives enjoying a well-earned rest, content in the knowledge that they have done their share in the field of active toil. They have one daughter, Mrs. E. H. Guilford, who is the mother of six children. With her two youngest children, Margaret S. and Ralph W., she makes her home with her parents. Of her children, W. S. Guilford is the eldest ; Clarence resides in Lincoln, Cal .; and Elijah and Howard are in Illinois. Mr. Guilford, her husband, runs a farm near Pecatonica with his son Howard, spending part of his time in California.
JAMES P. FALLON
A thoroughly up-to-date rancher and dairyman of the Orland district, James P. Fallon was born in Marin County, Cal., March 17, 1870. His parents were pioneers of that county, prominent in the dairy business, and the town of Fallon was named for the
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family. It was on the home ranch that James P. Fallon gained the knowledge of farming he is now using so successfully on his own property. He was raised and educated in the schools of Marin County; and for some time, as a boy, he worked in the creameries in that section, gaining a practical knowledge of all branches of the dairy business, "from the ground up," as the say- ing is. Later, he rented eighty acres near Fallon, and had a dairy of his own; and after his father died, he ran the home ranch of three hundred acres and also managed the large dairy there.
In 1910, Mr. Fallon settled in the Orland district and bought forty acres of land, one and one-half miles south of town, under the Government Irrigation Project. He broke the raw land, and leveled and checked it; and here he now has twenty-eight acres in alfalfa, which produces one and one half tons to the acre, with five cuttings yearly. On his ranch he has a dairy, one of the finest herds of Jersey cows in that section. He has twenty-three thor- oughbred Jerseys, some registered stock, bought from a famous breeder of Petaluma, Sonoma County, who has been breeding thoroughbred stock for twenty years.
Nine acres of the ranch are in almonds, and two acres in a family orchard, with some prunes and walnuts. Mr. Fallon is a firm believer in the future prosperity of the Orland district, and is always willing to do his share to advance the interests of the community. Fraternally, he is a Woodman of the World, a mem- ber of Orland Camp, No. 755.
The marriage of Mr. Fallon united him with Catherine Walsh; and three children have blessed their union: Mary, James, and Laura.
CHARLES S. BLAKE
California can well be called the "Switzerland of America," both in point of scenery and for the many thriving dairy farms which rank important among the industries of the state. One of the progressive dairymen of the Orland section of Glenn County is Charles S. Blake, a native son, horn near Tomales, Marin County, October 1, 1874. His parents, Jeremiah Ladd and Frances (Moore) Blake, were early pioneers of Marin County. The father was a harness maker by trade; and he also farmed, ran a dairy, and raised fruit until his death. Mrs. Blake still lives in Marin County. The Blake family settled in Marin County in the early fifties, and there the son received his education and early training. After he had finished his schooling, he helped his father on the latter's dairy ranch. Later, wishing to venture for
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himself, he leased fifteen hundred acres of land near Point Reyes, on the coast, and engaged in the dairy business on a large scale, milking one hundred thirty cows of the Holstein and Durham breeds, and making butter for ranch use, and also for shipment to the San Francisco markets.
On October 1, 1915, Mr. Blake came to Orland and rented forty acres one and one half miles south of town. Here he is con- ducting a dairy of thirty-five cows, Jerseys and Durhams, many of them registered stock; and he aims later to develop his herd into thoroughbred Guernseys. In butter fat, his herd runs, on an average, better than one and one fourth pounds to a cow on a ten months' test. In addition to his dairy, Mr. Blake has thirty acres in alfalfa, which yields him good returns; farms some of the land to grain; and is engaged also in hog-raising. In all of his ranch- ing operations he brings to bear his thorough knowledge of farm- ing; and, being an enterprising man, of progressive ideas, he is meeting with success in his work.
The marriage of Mr. Blake, which occurred in San Francisco on January 18, 1905, united him with Margaret A. Milligan, a na- tive of Ireland, but a resident of this country since 1899. Her parents were James and Sarah Milligan, of whom the former is deceased.
ARTHUR ERICKSON
A splendid example of what can be accomplished by intensive farming on a ten-acre ranch in the Orland district is being given by Arthur Erickson, one of the successful ranchers of this sec- tion. The wonderful showing he is making is the best advertise- ment any section could have. Of Swedish extraction, he inherited the traits of industry and perseverance for which his native country is noted; and these are the foundation on which rests his success. Born in Warren County, Ill., March 4, 1882, he was raised and educated in that locality, and from there went to Cheyenne County, and later to Scotts Bluff County, Neb., where he engaged in farming.
In 1910, Mr. Erickson came to California and settled in Orland, Glenn County, and purchased forty acres of land north- east of the town. He first engaged in the confectionery business for a short time, in Orland; but in June, 1910, he closed out his business, sold his ranch, and bought his present ranch of ten acres, two and one half miles east of Orland. Here he built his house and barn, sank a well and installed a pumping plant, planted alfalfa on a part of the acreage, and built modern chicken houses.
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Every inch of the ground is being utilized with a view to pro- ductiveness. He keeps fourteen hundred White Leghorn chickens, and maintains a dairy of fourteen Jersey cows, ten of them of registered stock, together with a fine bull. Mr. Erickson started his dairy with one cow, and borrowed the money with which to purchase it. His cows have a very high percentage test for butter fat. At the Orland Fair, in 1916, he exhibited two cows and a bull which took second prize; and his two-year-old heifer took third prize. From his ranch Mr. Erickson averages an income of fourteen dollars per day. When one considers the small amount of land, ten acres, from which he derives this return, one is impressed with the favorable results which attend the consist- ent application of a system of intensive farming. Mr. Erickson is a stockholder in the Orland Cheese and Butter Company, and was one of the promoters of that establishment.
The marriage of Mr. Erickson united him with Lavina Anderson, a native of Sweden; and five children have been born to them: Myrtle, Ethel, Gladys, Edith, and Edmond. The family are members of the Swedish Church.
ERNEST J. BARCELOUX
Ernest J. Barceloux was a most practical farmer, having been reared to a thorough understanding and appreciation of this important industry. He was born in Yolo County, October 29. 1869, the son of Peter Barceloux, of whom extended mention is made elsewhere in this volume. The oldest child in his parents' family, Ernest Barcelonx was reared on the Barceloux ranch, five miles southwest of Willows, in what is now Glenn County. He attended the local schools until he was eleven years of age, when he entered St. Mary's College in San Francisco. After completing his studies there, at the age of seventeen, he entered a college in Canada. Here he became interested in athletics and won distinc- tion for his proficiency as a catcher on the college baseball team. At the end of one year he returned to his home, where he began farming with his father and gained a wide and valuable experi- ence in general farming, handling the big teams in the grain fields, running a combined harvester, and doing blacksmithing and repair work on the farm machinery, so that when he decided to engage in ranching on his own account, he was well qualified for the under- taking.
On May 25, 1892, at Willows, Ernest J. Barceloux was mar- ried to Miss Belle Quint, who was born near Booneville, Cooper
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County, Mo. She was the daughter of Herman and Catherine (Cash) Quint, natives of Missouri and farmers in Cooper County. In 1880, Mr. Quint brought his wife and children to what is now Glenn County, where his brother, Fred Qnint, was a large land- owner. Fred Qnint was one of the early settlers in the county, having crossed the plains in 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Quint are now residing on their ranch, eight miles northeast of Willows, where they located in 1885. Of their four children, Belle Quint was the second in order of birth.
In 1892, the year of his marriage, Mr. Barcelonx rented the Peter Seiple place. After farming this place successfully for seven years, in the fall of 1899 he leased a large ranch ten miles northeast of Bntte City, on the Chico road, where he enlarged his operations, making use of a large farming outfit for the operation of the ranch. He had put in his crops and already had a most promising outlook, when he was stricken with pneumonia and died five days later, on May 20, 1900. After her husband's death, Mrs. Barcelonx operated the ranch until fall, when she sold the ranch outfit. For a year thereafter she. lived with her parents, and then moved to Willows, where she raised her children. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Barceloux, two of whom died in in- fancy. The three who are living are: Pierre Elmer, who com- pleted his education at the Stockton Commercial College and is now assisting his mother; Leo Vernon, a student at Mt. Angel College, at St. Benedict, Ore .; and Ernest J., who is attending the Glenn County High School, at Willows. On November 5, 1905, Mrs. Barceloux was again married, to Pacific Ord Eibe, a promi- nent business man of Glenn County, a sketch of whose life appears on another page of this work.
Mr. Barcelonx was a member of the Catholic Church, and be- longed to the Y. M. I. Fraternally, he was a Native Son of the Golden West.
JOHN PAULSON
A successful rancher and dairyman of the Orland district, Glenn County, John Paulson was born in Sweden, March 9, 1860, and there passed his boyhood days, coming to the United States, with his parents, Magnes and Lovica (Swanson) Paulson, when a youth of nineteen. He has never had cause to regret his coming to the hospitable shores of the New World; for his life here, while filled with years of steady application and unremitting industry,
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has gained for him a name and a place among the people of his adopted country. He and his parents arrived in New York in 1879, and from there went to Henry County, Ill., where they en- gaged in farming. There John Paulson finished his education and learned the English language; and there also he became an Amer- ican citizen. He was at first employed on different farms in Illi- nois, until 1886, when he took up a government claim of one hun- dred sixty acres in Ward County, N. D. This he lost through failure of crops. In 1896 he homesteaded another one hundred sixty acres, in Wells County. This he farmed very successfully, making a productive farm out of the raw land, a task which required courage and optimism, and years of industrious application.
In 1909, Mr. Paulson sold this property. Meantime, in 1908, he had come to California, looking for a suitable and healthful climate. Selecting Glenn County as a favorable locality, he settled in Orland, and purchased forty acres of land one mile southwest of that thriving town, where he started in to farm on a scale which, while it keeps him pleasantly occupied, leaves him more leisure for the enjoyment of life than did his more extensive ranching operations in the Dakotas. He has planted thirty-five acres of his ranch to alfalfa, which yields him seven tons to an acre, with five cuttings yearly; and he also maintains a dairy of eighteen cows, high-grade Holsteins and Jerseys, with a registered Jersey bull. He has built a comfortable home, with shade and fruit trees surrounding it ; has erected a commodious barn; and in fact has done all that was necessary to make of the property a well-improved ranch. For the entire ranch Mr. Paulson paid a purchase price of nine thousand dollars. In April, 1916, he sold twenty acres of it for seven thousand dollars, a transaction which tells its own story of improvements and increased value. His success in Glenn County has demonstrated to him the value of this district as an agricultural center; and he is ready at all times to do his share in promoting projects which have for their object the progress and upbuilding of the district, believing that no section offers greater inducements to men who are looking for an opportunity to make good. Mr. Paulson is a stockholder in the Orland Cheese and Butter Company, and a charter member of that establishment.
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