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HAZARD, IIENRY T., Los Angeles, was born in Evanston, Illinois, July 31, 1844. Crossed the plains to California with his parents in 1832 and settled in Los Angeles county, on a farm a few miles west of Los Angeles, in the winter of 1853. His father being in moderate circumstances, com- pelled Henry to shift for himself, aud at the age of thirteen found him driving team from Los Angeles to San Pedro. In 1860-61 he attended school at Visalia, Tulare couuty. Returning to Los Angeles in the latter part of 1861 he engaged in farming, which he continued for about a year. In 1863-4 he attended school at the San Jose Justi- tute and College, after which he returned to Los Angeles and commenced the study of law in the office of General Volney E. Howard. This he continued for a short time. He then drove n team to Arizona, nnd From the Funds this obtained, he weut East aud completed his studies at the Uni- versity of Michigan, graduating with the law cluss of 1868. Ile was correspondent to the Chicago Convention that nominated General Graut in Juue 1868; also to the Convention that nominated Gov- ernor Seymour in New York in July, 1868 ; after which he returned to Los Angeles and resumed the practice of law. He is a member of the Bar of Los Angeles county, and has the reputation of being one of the hnest lawyers in southern Cali- foruia. A view of Mr. Hazard's property will be found in this work.
HELLMAN, H. W., resides in Los Angeles, is u native of Bavaria, Germany. Emigrated to America at the nge of fifteen, in May, 1859, com- ing direct to Los Angeles county, California, where he has since resided. Ile acted as clerk for several vears for General P. S. Banning, of Wilmington, Los Angeles county: also for 8. Hellman, after which he started in the book and faney goods bus- iness in Los Angeles, and continued until April, 1870. In November, 1871, he engaged in the wholesale grocery, liquor and hardware business under the firm name of Hellinan, Haas & Co .: consisting of H. W. Hellman, Abram Hans, and Jacob [Faas, with which firm he is still connected. A view of Mr. Hellman's residence will be found in this work.
HELLMAN,, I. W., Los Angeles, was born in Ba- varia, Germany; came to Los Angeles when a boy of fifteen. served as a clerk in the dry goods house of I. M. Hellman for five years, when he weut into the same line of business for himself. This he carried ou successfully until 1868, when he entered the banking business as senior partner in the firm of Hellman, Temple & Co. This partnership continued about three years, Mr.
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Hellman then withdrawing from the firm and organizing the Farmers and Merchant,' Bank (the first incorporated and the oldest bank in Los Angeles), and is now its president. In ad- dition to Mr. Ilellman's banking interests, he has always been a public spirited citizen, and has proven his faith in sonthern California and Los Angeles by building many of the finest business blocks and residences in the city, and establishing gas and water-works, being a director and stock- holder in both companies. Ile is also largely interested in the celebrated Cucamonga vineyard. and owus several flocks nf hne sheep. Ilis resi- dence is said to he one of the finest in the State outside nf San Francisco, & view nf which will be found elsewhere.
HOLLENBECK, J. E., of Los Angeles, was born in Hudson. Summit county. Ohio, in 1829. In 1845 he moved to Illinois, where he remained two years, and returned to Ohio and entered the em ploy of Messrs. Bell & Chamberla.u, of Cuyahoga Falls, to learn the machinist trade. He started for California in 1850 during the gold excitement, sail- ing from New Orleans in the spring of that year for C'hagres. At Panama the steamer he expected to have got passage ou broke down, and while waiting he was taken with the Panama fever: spent all his money and returned to Chagres, and went to work on the river steamer Billy Green. In the latter part of 1851 he went to Grey Town, Nicaragun, Central America, and worked on a steamer on the San Juan river: and in 1852 started a trading station at Machuca Rapids. In the spring of 1853 he purchased the Nicaragua Hotel at Castillo Rapids, which he continued to run until February, 1856, when he was burned out by the Costa Ricans; the following spring he opened n small general store at Grey Town. In 1867 he purchased the river and lake steamers and established a line of hnats between Grey Town and the lake ports, carrying freight and passen- gers, also carrying the mails for that Government. In 1875 Mr. Hollenbeck's health having failed, he visited Los Angeles after traveling in Europe in search of health. In the fall of 1875 he returned to Nicaragua, Central America, where his health again failed. He returned to Los Angeles in March. 1876, where he has since resided; com- meneed to improve his place in 1876, but did not plant any trees until June. 1877. A view of Mr. Hollenbeck's residence will be found on another page.
HOOPER, J. W., Los Angeles, came to California from Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1874, in search of health. After looking over different portions of the country for a place to locate be settled in Los Angeles county, where he has since resided. When Mr. Hooper first located on his place it was a wil- derness of weeds aud corn-stalks. He moved his family into an old adobe house, where they lived a short time. when he built a house of rough boards, intending it only as a temporary shelter. He then commenced the improvements on his place, hrst planting out two acres of alfalfa, which still Inrnishes sufficient l'eed for his stock. The balance of the place is set out iu orange trees. which are planted twenty-four feet apart, and between the rows are fruit trees of nearly every variety on the coast. Mr. Hooper shipped his hrst crop of oranges to Arizona iu 1879, and hereafter expects to receive a good revenue from
that source. He lived in his band house forabout three years, when he built his present residence. and that he has succeeded in making a beautiful home, may be seen by the view of his property. which will be found in this work.
HOUSE, R. F., resides nt Pomona. He was born in Haddam Neck, Middlesex county. Connecticut. When a small hoy he went to ses and the end of four years found him in South America. In November, 1and, he returned to the United States. He felt New York in October, 1867, on the steamer Arizona, for California by way of the Isthmus. At Panama he took the steamer Golden ('ity and arrived in San Francisco in November of that year. From San Francisco he went to New. castle. Placer county, where he remained a short time visiting relatives, In 1868 he was employed by the Central Pacific Railroad a- conductor, and afterwards by the southern Pacific Rantroad, iu whose employ he continned until April, 1876, when he purchased his property, a view of which appears in this work. His orchard contains live hundred and forty-scven orauge trees (two hundreil bearing). forty lemon and two hundred lime trees, hesides a large variety of other tropical fruits. Mr. Honse was married in 1870, to Mias Florence Jane Me- Cullongh. They had one child. a boy, who died at the age of two and a half years. When Mr. II. arrived in San Francisco he had about ten dollars; he has property now to the value of ten thousand dollars.
HUNT, WILLIAM B., was born March 29, 1837. in Gloucester township, Camden county, New Jer- sey, and is the son of Samnel B. und Susan Hunt. When he arrived at the age of nineteen years he moved to Ohio. Ile was married in Springtichl. Ohio, in the fall of 1858, to Margaret Mulcahy. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted in the Ninety. fifth In- fantry Ohio Volunteers, and served three years, being most of the time on detached service. He was at the siege of Vicksburg nnd Jackson, Miss- issippi, and at Richmond, Kentucky, In January, 1869, he removed to California and settled in Los Angeles, and in June, 1877, came to Orange, where he is engaged in carriage und wagon making and general blacksmithing. He owns a towu lot and blacksmith shop, also twenty acres of orchard, con- taining orange and other fruit trees, most of them in fine hearing condition. A view of his residence and surroundings can be seen on another page. He has seven children, five sons and two danghters, Julian, Leo and Nellie, were born in the town of California, Ohio; and Ilubert, Laura, Homer and Richard, were born in Los Angeles, California.
KONIG. WILLIAM, was born in Hedfeldt, Han- over, Germany, March 20, 1832. At an early age he learned the art of wine-making in Hamburg and continned in that business until 1858, when he came direct to California, arriving in San Francisco on the 1st or 2d of October. He passed around Cape Horn in July and was six months aud four- teen days without setting font on land. ile immediately engaged with a firm that dealt in wine and groceries and remained with them eleven years. In 1869 he came to Anaheim and purchased his present vineyard, and has since been engaged extensively in the wine trade. He ships wine to Chicago, St. Louis, and other Eastern cities, and has shipped to London. He keeps his wine until age guarantees its quality, never selling any under hve years of age. He has twenty-five thousand gallons
nf w'ne now un hand, kept in a fire proof building of stone, brick and adobe. He has been a success. ful business man and accumulated considerable property, and also owns n tannery not now in ope- ration. A view of his place is shown on another page. Mr. Konig married Miss Adelpeit Eichler, June 25. 1869. She is n daughter of Henry Eich- Ier. of San Francisco, and was born in Hungary, Austria. Mr. Konig is a Republican in politics and adheres to the Protestant faith.
KORN, F. A., was born in Altenburg, Faxony, Ger- many, June 21, 1829. Having received his educa. tion, and being a young man of energy, he came to the I'nited States in June, 1850, and in December, 1851, came to California by the Isthmus ronte. Like most of those who came to this State nt that carly date. he turned his attention to mining, and followed that pursuit chiefly in Sierra county till 1863. Ile was then attracted to the silver mine4 in Nevada, but soon became tired of the business, and three months later came to Los Angeles with the jutention of embarking in the sheep busine4. This he found not ngreeable to him and, therefore, came to Anaheim and purchased n vinrynrd, where he has since been engaged in grape raising nud dis. tilling grape brandy, and has been engaged at times in buying nud selling wine. He has a good comfort- able home, well shown in nue of the instrutiony in this work.
KROEGER, HENRY, son of Christian and Cuth- arina Kroeger, was born in Bramstadt, Holstein, Germany, November 24, 1830; his parents also be. ing natives of the same town. Ito received un education in the common schords of his untive lund, und subsequentty learned the cooper's trude, lle then served ny a volunteer in the Schleswig- Elolstein war. Being a young man of energy he decided to take a step none of has relatives hud before attempted, -to come to America, -- and smiled from Hamburg in October, 1831, passing around Cape Horn and arriving in San Fran- cisco March 29, 1855. He at once commenced to work at his trade, and in 1856 purchased u shop ou Broadway and conducted the business until 1862. Having succeeded so well, he sent money home in 1856 to bring his brother to this country, who has since died: and later in the same yeur for his sister and Miss Sophia Inmman, the latter of whom he married January 16, 1857. She was born in Harpstailt, Hanover, Germany, September 2, 1833, and was a danghter of Henry and Mur- garitta Husman. llis father came with them. In 1858 he remitted funds home to bring his brother-in-law and innther-in-law; and in 1861 aided in bringing another sister aud mister in- law. He has tuuds now deposited in a Bremen bank to bring uther relations to this country. Having his attention directed in 1859 to the ex- cellent fruit prospects of Los Angeles county, he purchased one share in the Los Angeles Vineyard Society, and Inter in the same year bought an- other. the society being afterwards changed to the Anaheim Water Company. In 1862 he moved his family to Anaheim, where he has since resideJ, and accumulated considerable property hy energy and prudent management. Ile owns two vine. yardy : D No. 1 and G No. 6, of twenty acres each, being two shares in the association. Ile way en- tirely inexperienced in viniculture and wine- making, and has paid dearly for the knowledge he now possesses. On his D No. I property is his
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residence, which he built in 1871 at a cost of four thousand five hundred dollars, wine cellar and other buildings. In 1871-2 he built Analreim llotel at a cost of seven thousand live hundred dollars, and in 1874 erected Kroeger's Hall, of hrick, at an expense of eleven thousand dollars, to which he built an addition costing two thousand five hundred dollars. A view of his handsome residence forms one of the illustrations in this work. Mr. Kroeger hus had a family of thirteen children, of whom seven are still living. Mary, born November 24, 1867. died October 26, 1858; Ilearietta, born November 7. 1858; llerman, boru Inly 14, 1860, died langury 20, 1863; WVillie, born October 8, 1862; Annie, born April 18, 1864, died Jaly 21. 1865; Sophia, born November 1, 1865; lelane, horn September 9, 1867, died January 3. 1868; Ilenry, born March 31, 1869; Heunive, born December 9, 1870, died March 20, 1872; Lonis, horn May 9, 1873: Panline, born January 7, 1875: Amy. born April 1. 1876; Adolf, horn September 9, 1877, diedl October 20. 1877. In politics he is a Democrat, and in religion a lastheran.
LANGENBERGER, A., was born in the town of Stadthagen, in the Principality of Schanni- hurg- Lippe, Germany, in the year 1824. In 1846. having arrived at the age of twenty-two years, he left his native land and came to America. lle lived in New Orleans and then emigrated to Cali- fornia in 1848, in advance of that great tide of Argonauts that came pouring in the following year. Upon his arrival he found the few people that then were here in a fever of excitement, and all were in the mines, but newly discovered, delving for gold. He also caught the infection and mined during the latter part of 1848 and the first part of 1819 on the Stanislaus and Yuba rivers. In An- gust, 1849, just as the great majority of " forty- niners" were arriving in the mines, he left them und opened a store in the mission of San Gabriel, Los Angeles county. in 1858 he came to Ana- heim, soon after the place was first settled, and opened n general merchandise store, which he is keeping at the present time with his two sons, Fred and Charles. Since 1860 he has been agent for Wells, Fnrgo & Co., a term of twenty years. Ile is also engaged in the manufacture of wine and brandy from n vineyard of seventy acres. A view of his place can be seen on another page of this volume. la 1850 he married a daughter of the late Juan Pacilico Ontiveras, who died in 1867. They had nine children, of whom seven arc still living. Ile again married in 1874, Mrs. ('lem- entina Schmidt. They have two children, twins. born in 1875.
LEAIIY, THOMAS, lives in Los Angeles, was born in Cork. Ireland. Emigrated to America when he was liiteen years of age, Came to California and located in Los Angeles in 1851, where he has since resided. lle was for several years a clerk for M. Keller, Esq .. of Los Angeles. In 1865 he went into the boot and shoe trade, which business Ire continued in nutil 1877. He has owned his property on Alameda street since 1865, and all the improvements on the same have been made inder his direction. When he purchased the property, it contained an old ndobe building, only part of a vineyard and a few orange trees, it now has a vineyard of twenty-live thousand vines, a fine orange and lemon grove containing ahont one thou- sand trees, and a comfortable house, harn, out build-
ings, etc. Mr. Leahy makes a speciality in the wholesale manufacture of wine. Oranges and grapes are the principal fruits grown ou his place. A view of Idis property will be found on another page.
LICHTENBERGER, L., lives in Los Angeles, was horn in Prussia. Emigrated to the I'nited States in 1851 and located in Chicago, where he learned the trade of wagon and carriage making. Ile came to California in 1860, and in 1864 established his present business in Los Angeles. By honest and upright dealing he has built up a prosperous hasiness. At his factory, 115 aud 147 Main street, Los Angeles, carriages are made that egoal the celebrated " Brewster " and other fine make -. le makes a speciality of the California spring wagon. As many as three hundred wagons and carriages have heen manufactured at his taetory in one year. Ile ships over the entire State, and also to Arizona. That he is highly esteemed as a citizen, is proven by the fact. that in 1878 be was elected to the responsible office of C'ity Treasurer, after having served one term in the Common Council. A view of bis establishment is published in this work.
LOCKWOOD, HENRY, som of Isaac and Elvira Lock wood, was born in Tompkins Dell, New York, October 1, 1839. llis parents were also natives of New York, and his father was a farmer and Inm. herman. At the age of seven years he removed with his parents to Calhoun county. Michigan, where he continued to reside until 1873. Novem- ber 1, 1865, he married Miss Eliza J. Beach, daugh- ter of Joseph and Eliza F. Beach, and has three children: Clara E., Frederick H., and Angie. In 1873 he came to t'alifornia and settled at Orange, where he has twenty acres iu orchard and one-half acre of vineyard; there are one thousand orange and many other fruit trees. The place is under a good state of cultivation, and at present prices, is worth fromn twelve to fifteen thousand dollars. A fine view of his residence can be seen on another page.
LYMAN, S. of Westminster, was born in Blandford. Massachusetts, in 1826. He was the third of a family of teu children. When he was fifteen years of age he moved with his father to Shia- wassee county, Michigan, where he engaged in farming. In 1852, with a company of twenty, he started across the plains for California, arriving in Downieville, Sierra county. August 20th, heing three months ou the way. In the spring of 1853. he went to Forest City, Sierra county, and bought au interest in the Washington Company's claim- this investment proved very remunerative. Mr. Lyman sold his interest, however, and purchased a saw-mill in the same locality-this he conducted for one year. In the spring of 1857, in company with three others he went to Pike City, Sierra county, where they erected au eight stamp quartz- mill. this enterprise proved a failure, and Mr. Lymau lost some six thousand dollars. Ile. how- ever, continued mining and prospecting until 1850. visiting the Frazer river country. Vancouver's Island, etc., etc., in his wanderings. In 1859 he commenced ranching near Vallejo iu company with Mr. John Guinn. Mr. Lyman was obliged to discontinue ranching, being seriously troubled with his eyes, which were finally cured by an emi- nent San Francisco oculist whom he employed. In November, 1860, he went to Santa Clara county, and located near what is now known as Saratoga;
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. here he remained until the spring of 1863, when he sold out and rented a ranch near Santa Clara. In the fall of 1863, he joined a party of prospect- ors who started from San Francisco for Arizona. The party, after visiting several of the mining camps concluded not to locate and returned to f'al- ifornia. Mr. Lyman then went to Forest City, sierra county, where he engaged in the freighting business: not paying him, he returned to Santa Clara county and engaged in ranching again. Soon after be married Miss Nettie Pollack, a native of. (ireen county, Ohio. A daughter was born to them in August. 1866, whom they named Lucinda. In 1870 Mr. Lyman visited his old home in Michigan. He moved his family from Santa Clara county in 1875, and located on his present property near Westminster. . 1 view of Mr. Lyman's residence will be found on another page.
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MALLETT, MRS. R. N. PARK, was born at Berlin, Coos county, New Hampshire, December 25, 1850. At the age of wight years she was adopted by N. Perkins and wife, and taken to their home in Maine. She afterwards accompanied Mr. Perkins to Washington City, where they lived a number of years. Mrs. Mallet has now the old- fashioned dress of pink brocade silk she wore at the inangu- ration and levec of President Tyler. Later she removed to Boston, and resided on Pemberton Square with her uncle. I). J. Blodgett, a large silk merchant of that city. At the age of seventeen years she married W. H. 1'. Hollenbeck, of New York, May 27, 1847, who died in Chicago in 1855. May 25. 1860, she married E. M. Park, of Massachusetts, and came to California via the Isthmus in 1865, after visiting friends and relatives in Canada and the Eastern States, arriving in San Francisco in lan- uary, 1865. They were ou the North Stur on the east side and the Golden Age on the west side. Mr. Park engaged in manufacturing sash and hliads until the Moatana mining excitement, when he went to that region with cattle. Eight months later he returned ill, and died in a short time, he- ing buried in Lone Mountain Cemetery. Mrs. Park then engaged in husiness, which she continued until 1875, being hurned out once and losing every- thing. May 1, 1875, she married Alfred Mallett, at Orange, and bas since lived here. her hus- band dying March 25, 1876. Mrs. Mallet hay thirty acres of land, twenty. acres heing an orange orchard and producing well. She has a beautiful residence, built by herself, a view of which can he seen on another page. Her home is called Park Orange Grove, where she resides in the enjoyment of health and vigor.
McDONALD. E. N., residing at Wilmington. is of Scotch parentage. He was horn in Oswego county, New York, May 9. 1832. When sixteen years of age he went to Washington county, New York. and learned the blacksmith trade. Ile came to California in 1853, arriving in San Francisco Octo- her 17th of that year. October 23d found bim in San Pedro, Los Angeles county, in the employ of Alexander & Banning. He continued with them until June 1, 1858, and the following September went into the general merchandise husiness, on his own account, at San Pedro. In a few months he moved his stock to Wilmington, and built the first store at that place. Ile again entered the employ of Banning & Co., and superintended the building of their wharf and warehouse. In 1859. in com- pany with S. H. Wilson, he went into the sheep
business ou Catalina Island, and engaged in that business until 1862, when he sold his interest to Mr. Wilson, and again went to work for Banning & Company as wagon-muster. In 1866 he engaged in the butchering business, and the following year went to Arizona to lill a Government contract, returning to Los Angeles county in 1867, Iraving made lifteen thousand dollars, which he invested in land and sheep; the latter business he still contin- ues in. Mr. McDonald was married in 1865 to Mary 11. Winslow, of Washington county, New York. A view of Mr. McDonald's residence, also of his property in Los Angeles, is published in this work.
McDONALD. J. G., who resides ucar Los Angeles, was born in Wilson county, Teunessec, March 23. 1824. He emigrated to Texas in 1838, where he lived until 1853, spending the last ten years in San Antonio in the surveying business. He came to California in 1853, arriving in San Francisco Inly 7th of that year. He neted as State Depaty Sur- veyor, under Colonel John C. Hayes, for three years, when he returned to Texas and was married to Miss Mary V. Samuels. Omme to California again in 1858, and engaged in the surveying busi. ness in San Diego conuty, which he continued for one year, agd reamved lo Los Angeles, where he has since resided. Has been engaged in fruit rais- ing siace be has lived in Los Angeles county. Ilv had charge of the celebrated Wolfskill orange nrchard for eight years. Hlas Three children- Katie aged seventeen, Ella fourteen, Jimmie live. A view of his place is given in this work.
MEADE. JOIN, was born in Limerick county, Ire- land. March, 1833, and came to California in 1857: to Los Angeles county in 1869. Ile married in 1867. at San Francisco, Sarah Aun Nach, also a native of Limerick, Ireland, by whour he has two chil- dren, Mary aged twelve, and Sarah Ann cight. He resides in Vernon district, south of Los Angeles City, where he has fifteen acres planted in a vari- ety of fruits. Ile has here six thousand grape vines, four hundred orange trees, and six hundred assorted northern fruits. Post-ollice, Los Angeles City.
MONROE, W. N., Los Angeles, is a native of Indi- ana, is a descendant of the Monroe family of Vir- ginia. He was an ofliecr in the Union army for four years, during which time he captured a Miss Mary J. Hall, of Marion county, Missouri (a rebel), and married her: has four children, three hoys and one girl. lle has resided in Los Angeles sinec 1875, and that he is one of her best citizens is proven by the fact that in December, 1879, he was elected a member of the City Council, to repre- sent the First Ward. Ile is the proprietor of the Pacific Ilotel, which adjoins the Union depot. All trains stop at the l'acilie for meals; it also bas a parlor sitting-room for the accommodation of ladies and gentlemen awaiting trains. Street cars to all parts of the city pass the door. A view of the Pacific Hotel will be found in this work.
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