History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present, Part 148

Author: Armor, Samuel, 1843-; Pleasants, J. E., Mrs
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1700

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On Independence Day, 1900, Mr. Dolan was married at Indianola, Nebr., to Miss Louise W. Beardslee, the daughter of I. M. and Laura ( Post) Beardslee, natives of Illinois; and they have had three children-Geraldine, Isabel and William James. He belongs to the Knights of Columbus, the Elks, the Mother Colony Club, the Newport Yacht Club, and the Hacienda Country Club.

RILEY B. WARNE .- A public-spirited man and a worthy representative of one of the well-known pioneer families, Riley B. Warne, who came to La Habra with his parents in 1894, among the first settlers in the valley, is naturally a warm advocate of the preservation, in county history form, of the historical data of the community. His father was Thomas P. Warne, who married Miss Barbara Flory, a native of Ohio and a kind and generous mother. Mr. Warne was a native of New York State, and as a farmer, he turned the first furrows in 320 acres of Douglas County soil in the great state of Kansas. There our subject was reared, attending the district school, the sixth in a family of nine sons, while Mr. Warne served as trustee of the high school board of Douglas County. After Riley had remained at home on his father's farm until he was twenty-one his father passed away. in 1908, at the end of a year's illness, and soon after Riley bought ten acres on Central Avenue improved it and sold in 1912. As an illus- tration of the advance in land values since the time when Thomas Warne first acquired his tract of 100 acres, it may be stated that Riley Warne sold, in 1914, a strip sixty feet wide, running through his ranch, for the price paid for the entire tract.

On June 7, 1917, Mr. Warne was married to Miss Pansy B. Remington, a daughter of H. M. Remington, the pioneer photographer of Fullerton, a lady well and favorably known throughout the country for her interest in and work for the Christian Endeavor movement and also secretary and treasurer of the Red Cross of the La Habra branch of the Fullerton Chapter. In 1912 Mr. Warne bought one and a half acres on the State Highway, and later purchased five acres on Cypress Avenue, part set to oranges, and some lemons, and where they are planning to erect their home.

Mr. Warne is a member of the La Habra Citrus Association, and a member and stockholder in the La Habra Water Company, and he also owns bank stock. He is a Republican in matters of national political import and a nonpartisan supporter of the best men and the best measures for the locality. He endeavors to live according to the Golden Rule, and he has supported vigorously the work of the Red Cross.

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ANTON KLUEWER .- Prominent in business circles in Anaheim, and meeting with the success attendant upon years of experience in his line, Anton Kluewer is well known throughout Southern California. A native of Hamburg, Germany, his birth occurred March 10, 1873, and he received his education in the public schools of that country. On finishing his schooling, he was apprenticed to the trade of window trimmer, paying for. his instruction at a private school, and was obliged to serve four years there before following his trade elsewhere. He then served two years in the German army and spent the next year working at his trade in Germany.

In 1900 the young man sought greater opportunities, and came across the sea to the City of Mexico, and secured a position as window trimmer with the large depart- ment store of J. Albert Company, remaining with that concern five years. At the end of that time he came to Los Angeles, and became cashier and steward of the Turner Hall cafe on South Main Street. After six years with them he was steward and cashier of the Louvre Cafe on South Spring Street for two years.

In 1911 Mr. Kluewer located in Anaheim, and started a cafe and grill at 154 West Center Street, where he now has one of the best appointed grills in the county, which is noted for a decided novelty in the shape of two private dining rooms patterned after large wine casks, and seating twelve guests each, an idea Mr. Kluewer got from a Paris restaurant he visited some twenty years ago. He has splendid cooks and serves only the best foods. maintaining a first class and well appointed establishment and has met with deserved success in his business. In addition to his other business interests Mr. Kluewer has bought and sold real estate in Anaheim, and at one time was the owner of a ten-acre orange grove at Fullerton.

The marriage of Mr. Kluewer which occurred in September, 1919, united him with Miss Louise Russmueller, a native of Chicago. Fraternally he is a member of the Red Men, and is past chief in the lodge at Anaheim. With the best interests of his city and country at heart, Mr. Kluewer has entered whole-heartedly into all projects for advancing their welfare, and his broad-minded and generous aid have been of material help in the general progress of this section of California. He is a member of the Ana- heim Chamber of Commerce and of the Merchants Association.

WILLIAM A. CULP .- How much Californians have accomplished both to ad- vance the state of husbandry and also to make this part of the coast areas fruitful and attractive to the rest of the world, is well illustrated in the life and accomplishment of William A. Culp, the orchardist of Brea. He is a Pennsylvanian by birth, having been horn in Clarion County of the Keystone State on December 18 of the Centennial Year; and his parents were J. C. and Louise (Lineman) Culp. His father was an oil man, and had an interesting association with the development of one of the great industries of Pennsylvania. They were the parents of four children. Mr. Culp is deceased and Mrs. Culp resides in Rochester, N. Y.

William A. Culp attended the grammar and high schools at Meadville, and early got into the oil business, which he followed in the East and after coming West in 1911. Three years later, he had entered another field, that of growing citrus fruits and still later became the owner of the Brea Garage, and is now erecting a modern cement block building for a moving picture theater. He is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce, and leaves no stone unturned to contribute to the growth of Brea and its flourishing county.

On August 29. 1900, Mr. Culp was married to Miss Edith Goodwin, who has proven a valuable helpmate, sharing enthusiastically in his enterprises. His children, Helen. Lura, Julia, Margaret and Sarah, have always enjoyed a large measure of popularity. Although a "standpat" Democrat in matters of national politics, Mr. Culp is broad-minded and free in his support of local issues. He has been honored with the presidency of the school board, and also of the Chamber of Commerce.

GEORGE RAYMOND JONES .- Another representative business man of Fuller- ton who has brought to bear, in the discharge of his responsibilities, a valuable expe- rience and a never-failing energy, so that the community in which he has cast his lot has come to feel and benefit from his healthy influence, is George Raymond Jones, of the well-known firm of C. C. and G. R. Jones, agents for the Oakland Motor Car. He was born at Jacksonville, Texas. on March 4, 1895, the son of J. E. Jones, who was once president of the First National Bank of Fullerton, but is now retired. His wife was Texanna Crosby Brooks before her marriage, and she and her worthy husband are still living, blessed by their five children.

The third child, George Raymond, came to California in 1914, having been edu- cated in the schools of Arkansas, after which he went to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Returning to Fullerton. Mr. Jones was for a while in the Fullerton National Bank as assistant cashier. When the opportunity presented itself, Mr. Jones bought

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into the Wickersheim Company and acted as its secretary for two and a half years, at the end of which time he sold out to Mr. Wickersheim, and organized the company he is at present associated with. They have the north end of Orange County, as their territory for the Oakland car, own modern buildings and maintain a show room, and employ six men. Mr. Jones belongs to the Fullerton Board of Trade and cooperates loyally in promoting the best interests of the town in which he enjoys his prosperity.

At Fullerton, in July, 1915, Mr. Jones was married to Miss Frances Jane Sturte- vant, a native of Michigan and the daughter of Frank Sturtevant. One child, Frances Jane, has been granted the fortunate couple. Mr. Jones finds the standards of the Republican party most to his liking in matters of political moment, and he enjoys the social life of both the Elks and the Fullerton Club.

IRA W. POLING .- What Southern California has done and, therefore, what she may do again for the orange growers, is well illustrated in the success attained by Ira WV. Poling, who came to California a little over a decade ago. He was born near Ke- wanna, Fulton County, Ind., on March 18, 1852, the son of Arnold and Lydia ( Hudkins) Poling, born in Virginia, who removed to Indiana and became farmers there. Ira W. grew up on the home farm until he was twenty-three years of age. Then, in 1875, he removed to Pawnee County, Nebr., where he bought a quarter-section of land near Pawnee City, which he improved and brought to a high state of cultivation. Selling out, he went to Jackson County, Kans., near Holton, and there bought eighty acres, which he farmed for a short time. Once more selling out, he removed to Shawnee County, in the same state, and there secured a quarter-section of land near Topeka, which he farmed and afterward traded for a quarter-section near Oklahoma City, Okla., where he engaged in agricultural pursuits for fourteen years. In Kansas he was a member of the Farmers Alliance, and both profited and contributed toward the asso- ciation with others in the same field.

In the fall of 1906, Mr. Poling came to Pomona, where he purchased an orange grove on San Bernardino Avenue, consisting of nine and a third acres, which he after- wards sold. Then he bought an orange ranch of ten and a third acres on East Kingsley Avenue. He erected a fine residence and other desirable buildings, and otherwise greatly improved the property; and after he had introduced the most scientific methods in its management, he took in 1913 about $9,000 worth of fruit from the farm. Since then he has demonstrated that in good years his ranch will produce 6,000 boxes of fruit. He also bought a fine grove on East Holt Avenue of eight and a half acres. As might be expected of so enterprising and representative an orange grower. Mr. Poling identified himself with the Pomona Fruit Growers Exchange and also with the Palo- mares Irrigation Company.

In Pawnee County, Nebr., on March 26, 1878, Mr. Poling was married to Miss Myra E. Ennefer, a native of Enreka, Woodford County, Ill., and the daughter of William and Rebecca (Carpenter) Ennefer, born in England and Ohio, respectively. They removed from Illinois to Nebraska in 1876. The father died in Jackson County, Kans., being survived by his widow, who is now eighty-four years old. Mr. and Mrs. Poling have had five daughters, all popular in their circles. Lulu, the eldest, and Esther. the youngest, are at home; Nellie is the wife of C. F. Compton of Los Angeles and the mother of two children; Minnie is the wife of E. C. Beesley of Ontario; and Eva has become Mrs. O. C. Williams of Pomona and is the mother of three children.

Mr. Poling sold his orchards in Pomona in 1919, and removed to Anaheim, where he purchased twenty-four acres on East Center Street, which is devoted to raising Valencia oranges, and he is now a member of the Anaheim Citrus Fruit Association. With his family he is a member of the Christian Church in Anaheim.

TAYLOR R. REID .- The advanced state of electrical science and technology is daily illustrated in the work of the Reid and Farley Electrical Company, the senior member of which is Taylor R. Reid, a native of Indianapolis, where he was born on March 15, 1889. His parents were Joseph T. and Elina (Dale) Reid. To this worthy couple were granted ten children. Taylor was the seventh in the order of birth, and he was educated at the public and high schools of Indianapolis.

Having finished his studies, he learned the tinsmith's trade and for a while worked as a journeyman in that field. In 1907 he first came to California, and after looking over Southern California, located at Los Angeles, where he was with the Pacific Elec- tric for four years. He then located in Downey where he entered the employ of the Downey Light and Power Company, where for four years he had charge of the con- struction work, after which he returned to Los Angeles and started in the electrical business. He continued there until 1916. when he located in Fullerton, where he estab- lished himself in his present business. In 1917 he enlisted in the electrical department of the aviation section of the U. S. Army, serving overseas until he returned to New

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York where he was mustered out in Febranry, 1919. and he immediately returned to Fullerton. During this time, the business was conducted by J. J. Farley. On Mr. Reid's return, after a year abroad. the two men formed a partnership as Reid and Farley Electrical Company, and now they keep seven men employed steadily doing the electrical work committed to their care. They carry a full line of electrical equip- ment and household appliances, and have done the electrical work, some of it intricate and difficult, in all the principal buildings in Fullerton and vicinity.

Mr. Reid, who enjoys a wide and pleasing popularity, belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Elks, and to the Fullerton Club, and few men, if any, are more welcome in fraternal circles.

ARTHUR W. LINDLEY .- A highly intelligent, industrious and expanding rancher, whose enterprise and ambition enable him to cultivate more land than he really owns, is Arthur W .. Lindley, resident on Brookhurst Street. He was born in Orange County, Ind .. on December 10, 1881, the son of J. A. and Helen S. (Webb) Lindley, also of the Hoosier State, who had five children. Arthur was the third in the order of birth, and he was reared and educated in Indiana, where he grew up to become especially familiar with the problems of agriculture. He has resided in the Golden State since 1907, and is the only member of the family in Orange County.

He lived for a while in Los Angeles, and for eight years was in the employ of a creamery company where his sales averaged $200 per day. Attractive as this activity was, he saw still greater possibilities before him as a rancher operating for himself; and as soon as the opportunity presented itself. he acquired about twenty acres of the best land he could find. He devoted this to truck farm produce, and with such gratify- ing returns, that he rented twenty-five acres in addition, also for the cultivation of garden-truck.

In 1917 Mr. Lindley was united in marriage to Miss Nellie Long, the accomplished daughter of Thomas Y. and Melissa A. Long; they have one daughter, Mary Jane. Mr. Lindley joined the Modern Woodmen as well as the Woodmen of the World.

Work is nothing to Mr. Lindley unless it is planned and carried out with reason- able intelligence and detailed attention, profiting today from the experience of yester- day; and that is why, very likely, when Mr. Lindley totals up the outcome of his thoughtful efforts, he invariably has something to show for them.

JOSEPH WALTER RAIKES .- One of the busiest men in Fullerton is Joseph Walter Raikes, who has entire charge of the pumping plant of the Anaheim Union Water Company. He was born in Fall River, Mass, July 3, 1874, the son of Walter Raikes, a stonemason who had a leading hand in the building of modern Fall River. He married Miss Ellen Hathaway, and in 1882 they removed west to Boulder, Colo., where he followed his trade. Joseph therefore attended school in Boulder, but when he was thirteen years of age, he started to support himself.

He chose his father's trade, and became both a stonemason and a cement worker, and such was the quality of his work that he engaged in contracting stone and cement work. Among others he built the Physicians' Block, the Elks Building, the Washington School, and many of the finest homes of Boulder.

While in that city, too, on November 15, 1895, Mr. Raikes was married to Miss Clara A. Atteberry, a native of Missouri, where she was born near Mt. Maria. Her parents were T. B. and Mary Atteberry, and her father was a farmer in the Iron State. He came to Colorado for his health, and there followed gold and silver mining. Mrs. Raikes went to school in Boulder. and grew up to claim two states as her homes.

In 1918 Mr. Raikes came to California and settled in Anaheim; and he did the cement work for the Anaheim Union Water Company and also for the Telephone Company. On September 1. 1919, he was persuaded to take the position as engineer in charge of the pumping plant, and now he has complete charge of the two wells-Well No. 2 with a capacity of 500 inches, and Well No. 4 with a flow of 300 inches. As part of his responsibility, he has the care of a Booster pump of 400 inches capacity that forces the water of the local reservoir into the distributing reservoir.

On December 1, 1919, the saddest of calamities befell Mr. Raikes, eliciting the warmest sympathy of all who had so esteemed him and his charming wife. That estimable lady died after a severe attack of influenza and pneumonia, leaving four chil- dren. Glen O. Raikes, the eldest. is married and lives in Long Beach; while Dean Horace, Harold Edwin and Ruth Charlotte live at home. The family attend the Baptist Church. Since Mrs. Raikes' demise, the father and mother of her lamenting husband are making their home where she once was the center of an admiring circle. Mr. Raikes is a Republican, but never allows partisanship to interfere with his energetic support of the best men and measures for local advancement and uplift.

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SIEGFRIED M. CHRISTIANSEN .- A far-seeing, hard-working rancher who has reaped in his success a splendid reward for his labors is Siegfried M. Christiansen, of East Commonwealth Avenue. Fullerton, who was born in Schleswig, on Fohr Island, on August 19, 1858, the son of Jens D. and Louise (Bohn) Christiansen. His father was a farmer, and he worked industriously to afford a comfortable home for his family, and to give them the best of advantages within his reach; with the result that the lad received an excellent public school education.

In 1875 he crossed the Atlantic alone and landed at the historic Castle Garden, New York City, N. Y., and continuing his journey west to Illinois, he settled in Cook County, where he worked for four years on a farm. Whatever else he profited by in this Middle West experience, he learned there the spirit of American institutions and also a few wrinkles as to the American methods of agriculture. In 1879 he came on west to California, being employed on ranches near Wheatland, Yuba County. Indeed, he continued in the north near that city for fourteen years, when he returned East and for fifteen years lived in Chicago. .

In 1882, Mr. Christiansen recrossed the ocean to see the old folks at home, and there he tarried for six months before he returned to America. One attraction or another drew him back to the Old World five years later, and on December 20, 1887, he was married to Miss Thomasin Knudtsen, the daughter of Thomas J. Knudtsen, who had married Miss Rebecca Breckling, a native of Tonsberg, Norway. He was for years captain of the sailing vessel, "John Bertram," carrying passengers between Hoboken, N. J. and Hamburg, Germany; and with that trim craft he made the record of the fastest trip in fourteen days. When Mr. and Mrs. Christiansen came to America together, they lived for a while in Chicago, where Mr. Christiansen engaged in teaming.

When he came back to California for good in 1909, he settled at Fullerton and purchased ten acres on East Commonwealth Avenue, part of which he set out to Valen- cia oranges. Three of these acres had already been given to walnuts, but the remaining seven are due to his industry. The Anaheim Union Water Company supplies the water he needs, and he has the services of the Placentia Orange Growers Association in the marketing of his fruit. In 1909 he built a home on his ranch. He belongs to the Mac- cabees, is a Republican in national politics, and the family attend the Lutheran Church of Anaheim.

Three children have blessed the home life of Mr. and Mrs. Christiansen, although all are now away from the family hearth: John is living in Arizona; William is in the Fullerton oil fields; and Bettie is at the Bronson Vocal Studio of Los Angeles, making voice culture her aim. John served overseas as sergeant in the U. S. Army, being stationed at Brest, France. Wm. E. also served overseas, a member of the U. S. Marines, taking an active part at the front at St. Mihiel and the Argonne, where he was twice wounded, receiving a decoration from the French government.

JOACHIM QUEYREL .- California offers men of foreign birth opportunities they were unable to enjoy in their native lands, and the career of Joachim Queyrel furnishes a striking example of what energy and resourcefulness can accomplish when wisely directed and coupled with judicious management of one's financial affairs. Arriving in Los Angeles in 1907, a poor boy with only twenty-five cents as his financial assets, but with a stout heart, good character, a desire to work and a definite goal in life, Mr. Queyrel has, in a few years, become eminently successful in business and is now the owner of a business building in the growing town of Placentia.

Joachim Queyrel is a native of Gap, Hautes Alps, France, where he was born November 28, 1887. His parents were farmers, their home place being situated in the picturesque high Alps. Joachim was reared on the home farm, where he worked hard, early and late, assisting his father in the raising of the various crops, caring for the cattle and sheep and doing the many chores that form the every-day duties of an active farmier and attending the excellent schools in that country. Joachim had friends in Los Angeles, and no doubt they had written him glowing accounts of this land of sunshine and of its wonderful opportunities for young men, so he concluded to cast in his lot on the Pacific Coast and April. 1907, found him in Los Angeles, Cal. His financial condition made him seek employment at once and he soon found work with the Los Angeles Gas Company. Afterwards he secured work on farms in Los Angeles County, and for two years followed farm work for wages. Being thrifty and economical in his living, Mr. Queyrel at the end of two years had saved enough money to lease a tract of land at Norwalk, which he planted to grain.

In 1909, where the thriving town of Placentia now stands, was a barley field. Mr. Queyrel leased 200 acres of the Mesmer ranch, which included the land recently made famous as the location of the celebrated Chapman oil gusher; this land he farmed for one year to oats and barley. With the money he made from his crops he purchased a business lot on East Santa Fe Avenue, Placentia. in 1911, when the townsite was

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just being laid out, his purchase being the second lot sold in the new town. After- wards he bought two lots adjoining, making seventy-five foot frontage. Upon his lot he erected a small frame building and opened a little bakery. He hired experienced bakers, who taught him the business, and as the town grew his business expanded. Possessing keen business foresight, Mr. Queyrel built a two-story brick business block west of his shop, which is now occupied by his retail store. Mr. Queyrel has recently remodeled his bakery, installed up-to-date machinery, and new ovens equipped with new fixtures and made many improvements, so now the famous "Placentia Bread" is known far and wide in this section of the county. Fraternally Mr. Queyrel is a member of Anaheim Lodge, No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks. In Placentia Mr. Queyrel was married to Miss Linda Haase, a native of Texas, born near San Antonio, where she was reared and educated. Mr. Queyrel has seen the town of Placentia develop from a barley field and has contributed his share towards the upbuilding of this progressive and thriving town and the surrounding district.

ROBERT L. DRAPER .- No man has contributed more to the growth and pros- perity of Smeltzer than Robert L. Draper, who rightfully occupies the position accorded him as leading citizen of Smeltzer. His progressive energy is apparent in all his enter- prises, and in addition to farming his own 165 acres he leases in addition the 565 acres known as the Golden West Company's ranch, now owned by the Aldrich Land Com- pany and formerly the property of the Golden West Celery Produce Company.

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History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present, Part 148

Author: Armor, Samuel, 1843-; Pleasants, J. E., Mrs Publication date: 1921 Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co. Number of Pages: 1700

Author: Armor, Samuel, 1843-; Pleasants, J. E., Mrs
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1700