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In April, 1919, he located again at Fullerton, where he intends to make his home, and where he continues the vocation of contractor and builder. Among some of the fine residences he has erected may be mentioned the Wm. Knepp, F. P. Woods and the Willis Maple homes. He has just completed a beautiful apartment house, of his own design, consisting of four apartments of four rooms cach in the Ramona tract,
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at a cost of $13,000. The exterior of the building is of plaster, carrying out the Fuller- ton Improvement Designs, which are found in the new public buildings at Fullerton. His building operations are not alone confined to Orange County, but he is also building in Long Beach, where he erected the George Treher apartments.
As a designer and for ability to execute any class of work he undertakes he is preeminent, and in all his work strives for and attains styles that are commensurate with the high-class of patronage he caters to. His marriage, in Santa Ana, November 25, 1908, united him with Miss Sylvia Hanes, a native of Darke County, Ohio, a daughter of Henry and Margaret (Puterbaugh) Hanes, descended of old Quaker stock who came to Pasadena in 1905.
EARL LAMB .- A promising young man well known and justly popular is Earl Lamb, the youngest son and child of the late W. D. Lamb and his esteemed wife Eliza- beth, both pioneers and highly respected old settlers in the west part of Orange County where they prospered, and where Mrs. Lamb still lives and is one of the largest land- owners. He was born upon his father's ranch at New Hope, Orange County, on August 2, 1892, and while he attended the Fountain Valley grammar school, was brought up to share in his father's undertakings as landowner and ditch builder, stock raiser, dairyman, grain and sugar beet grower, so that he mastered a good deal of knowledge not usually acquired by boy or youth. Later, he supplemented his common school studies by a stiff commercial course in the Orange County Business College at Santa Ana, from which he naturally profited a deal.
Earl Lamb has control of 144 acres of excellent river-bottom lands near Talbert. near the Santa Ana River. in what was formerly spoken of as the Gospel Swamp, but is now known as Fountain Valley; and there for four years, or until about 1915, hc grew sugar beets. For the past four years or more he has cleaned up a neat sum in raising lima beans. Beginning with 1920, Mr. Lamb has planned to rent out his acre- age to three different tenants, who purpose growing beets and beans, while he will con- tinue to reside on the place with his family.
In 1912, Mr. Lamb was married to Miss Etta Bradley, a daughter of George Bradley, of Huntington Beach, who was formerly a rancher near Talbert. He still owns a valuable ranch there, but is chiefly engaged in the warehouse of the Lima Bean Growers Association at Greenville, in Orange County. Mrs. Lamb is a talented and charming helpmate, and the parents are proud of three bright and interesting children. Rachel, Willie and Alvin. The Lamb household is noted for its hospitality, maintaining a pleasant California tradition of which any family might well be proud.
RICHARD FRAZER .- The building and contracting business of Santa Ana is indeed fortunate to have added to its already splendid list of artistic designers and dependable builders the name of Richard Frazer, the large and successful building operator of Kansas City, who recently located in Santa Ana. For many years he was actively engaged in building fine residences in the metropolis of Missouri, and while there built over 300 houses for Roy Russell, now a resident of Santa Ana and a member "of the well-known realty firm of Shaw and Russell.
Richard Frazer was born on a farm in Ray County, Mo., December 9. 1872. He received his early education at the rural school of his district and followed farming until he was twenty-eight years of age. In 1900 Mr. Frazer located in Kansas City, Mo., where he learned the carpenter's trade, and in time formed a partnership with W. M. McCoy. one of the leading contractors of the city. They made a specialty of constructing fine residences and continued the partnership five years, Mr. Frazer after- wards engaging in the business alone.
On October 2, 1919, Mr. Frazer moved to Santa Ana and was so deeply im- pressed with the enterprising spirit of the city and its possibilities that he at once became a stanch booster for Santa Ana and sincerely believes that in the rapidity of its growth it is the coming city of Southern California. He made a practical demon- stration of his faith by investing at once in real estate, purchasing the corner of Van Ness and West Sixth, 125 by 150 feet. He has erected one house, and contemplates building four more on this property. He also purchased a lot 40 by 300 feet at 2012 North Broadway, where he will erect a fine residence for himself. Although a resident of Santa Ana but six months, he has constructed twenty-five houses. Such a record augurs well for the future business success of this enterprising designer and builder of high grade houses and bungalows.
In Ray County, Mo., Mr. Frazer was united in marriage with Miss Frances Miller of Nebraska and they are the parents of two children: Dorothy, now the wife of R. J. Jones; and Charles, who is a student in the Santa Ana schools. Fraternally Mr. Frazer is a member of the Red Men and of the Mystic Workers.
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NEWTON E. WRAY .- A rancher, who is well pleased with his realty investments and with whom, as a capable and faithful public official, the public is quite as well satisfied, is Newton E. Wray, a native of California, where he was born at Placerville, El Dorado County, on March 6, 1874. Placerville used to be known as Hangtown, on account of the vengeance meted out to culprits there by citizens who finally took the law into their own hands. Executions were for a while frequent and swift and it is even said that one man, commencing his downward path rather early in the morning, was hanged before breakfast.
George W. and Ethel (Vanderburg) Wray were the parents of our subject and were natives of Crawfordsville, Ind., and Iowa, respectively, and they came across the unexplored continent with an ox-team train in the gold rush period of 1850 in separate trains, and it was here they met and were married at Placerville and where George Wray engaged in mining for some years; he was prominent in the social welfare of Placerville and with other pioneers was a member of the vigilance committee.
Twenty-six years later they moved to Tulare County and there, five miles east of Tulare, they purchased a ranch of 640 acres. This was devoted for the most part to stock, although much grain was also grown there. There Newton lived with his parents and attended school in the district east of Tulare. When eighteen years of age he left home and worked out for five or six years and the day before Christmas, 1898, when he was twenty-four years old, he was married in Tulare to Miss Isabel Nicholson, daughter of James and Sarah (De Rosia) Nicholson, who had come to California from Iowa in 1887. Mrs. Wray received her education in the public schools of Tulare. In 1901 Mr. Wray bought sixty acres in Tulare County and there engaged in the raising of stock and alfalfa. This fine Tulare property he retained until 1913, when he sold it.
In the fall of 1910 he came to Orange County and for a couple of years rented a home in Santa Ana, when he purchased the property at 611 South Main Street, lived there for a year and then sold it. In 1913 he purchased his present ranch of twelve and a half acres on the Broadway extension, and while operating his place was also in the employ of C. C. Collins Company as a fruit buyer, and thus has become well acquainted with the fruit growers all over Orange County. Two acres of his ranch are set out to oranges and the rest is planted to walnuts. He also owns twenty acres on South McClay Street devoted to general farming and he also has two cottages at Balboa Beach. He was active in the loan drives during the late war and always works for the best men and the best measures, irrespective of party ties.
Mr. and Mrs. Wray have one son, Clayton Elmer Wray, who is at present in the U. S. Naval Service, heing second-class pharmacist mate in the hospital department on the Island of Guam. Mr. Wray holds an appointment under Sheriff Jackson as.a Deputy. He is a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M., and also of Santa Ana Chapter, R. A. M., and Santa Ana Council, R. S. M., and with his wife is a member of Hermosa Chapter, Order Eastern Star. He is also a member of Santa Ana Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he is past grand and with Mrs. Wray belongs to the Santa Ana Rebekahs.
JOHN B. HICKEY .- A prosperous rancher who has followed the citrus industry for twenty-eight years, having been four years longer in the Golden State, and who has thereby acquired a valuable experience which he has at all times placed at the disposal of his fellow-ranchers, thus contributing to the advancement of California agriculture, is John B. Hickey, the proprietor of the Hickey ranch of seventeen and a half acres, three miles southeast of Orange and five miles northeast of Santa Ana. It was a vineyard when he came into possession of it, and now he has twelve and a half acres devoted to lemons, and five to oranges, and his trees are from six to fifteen years old. For twelve years Mr. Hickey has been raising lemons, so that it is fair to assume that he, if anyone, knows a good deal of the problems and prospects of lemon culture.
He was born at Millerville, Clay County, Ala., on October 18, 1866. the son of Richard C. and Jane (Weathers) Hickey, who were married in that state. His father was a planter, and for four years he gave his best service to the cause of the Con- federacy. attaining the rank of a sergeant. They had eleven children, nine of whom are now living, six in California; and our subject was the fifth in the order of birth. With limited schooling obtained during years when he had to assist in the raising of cotton and corn on a plantation of 400 acres, John Hickey grew to be seventeen years old, and then he left for Hot Springs, Ark., where he spent the winter. After that, he went to the Indian Territory for a couple of years, and then he put in a year in Texas. After a visit to his old home, he migrated to California in 1888, the stirring period of the boom, and settled at Santa Ana.
In Orange. on February 4. 1895. Mr. Hickey took for his wife Mrs. Nannie ( Harris) Sitton, the daughter of Andrew Simpson Harris; she was born in San Ber-
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nardino, Cal., and had attended school at El Monte, where her father was a farmer. When she was eight years old, she took a trip to Texas with her parents and returned the next year. At Orange she was married to B. Martin Sitton, Jr., who was born in Illinois; after their marriage they engaged in farming near Downey and later near Orange until his death, December, 1893. They had three children: Zorah D. Sitton became the wife of Dr. Joseph F. Teeter of Los Angeles; Albert H. Sitton is a machin- ist, who married Miss Rose Rogers, handles the Overland and the Willys-Knight auto- mobiles, and resides at Fullerton; while Rachel Annie died when she was three years old. Two brothers of Mrs. Hickey are J. Wiley and W. Frank Harris, real estate dealers with headquarters at Santa Ana.
Andrew Simpson Harris possessed a character, and had an experience by no means commonplace. He was born on October 22, 1816, in North Carolina, but early removed with his parents across the mountains into East Tennessee, then the "frontier." abounding with Indians and game, so that he became an adept with both. the ax and the rifle. While yet in his youth, he removed to Western Missouri, and in Cass County helped to blaze the way for civilization.
The pioneer spirit, however, once more asserted itself, and a move was made to Denton County, Texas, in 1845. At the end of three years, he returned to his home for a visit, and was married, in 1848, to Miss Lou Ann Majors, daughter of David Majors and a native of Madison County, Ky., where she was born on September 3, 1829. The young couple returned to Texas; but Mr. Harris' failing health made it necessary, in a few years, for him to leave that state. In 1857, therefore, when he had to be carried on a bed and three small children must also be provided for, the weary, ox-team journey to California was undertaken in company with friends. Six long months were consumed in the tiresome and dangerous trip, when they made their first long stop at San Bernardino; but about one year later, they located at El Monte, residing at that place until 1867. Believing that he had regained his health, he braved the journey to Texas again, this time by horse teams, but a second time undermining his constitution, he sacrificed much to join another emigrant train, and once more trailed across the desert El Monte was reached in 1868, and six years later, 1874, he removed to the place near Orange where his remaining years were spent. After enjoying fairly good health for years, he suddenly sustained a stroke of paralysis, which was followed by typhoid fever: and on September 28, 1893, when nearly seventy-seven years old, he passed to his eternal reward. In all the years of his experience as a Christian, Andrew Simpson Harris never wavered from a straightforward life of trust in his Savior and devotion to His cause, and he not only helped to organize the first Baptist Church in that part of Texas in which he resided, serving as its clerk, but he also took part in the formation of the Los Angeles Baptist Association. He was also a member of the Orange Baptist Church since its formation in 1886, and was one of its deacons for a number of years. Mrs. Harris, while still in her Cass County home, became a member of the Baptist Church; and thus for more than seventy years she lived an exemplary life. For twenty- five years, she was a widow, and when acute feebleness overtook her, she spent the last two years of her life with her son in Orange. Her demise was peaceful and without illness. Seeing a changed look quietly creeping over her face, her daughter-in-law said: "Mother, I think the end is near-would you not like to go home, to Heaven now?" And she answered, "Yes, I would like to go now;" after which, the gentle spirit calmly departed. Mrs. Harris was survived by her sons, Eli J. Wiley and Frank Harris, and her daughters, Mrs. Nannie Hickey and Mrs. Mary Beard. She left also twenty-one grandchildren, twenty-four great-grandchildren, and even one great-great-grandson, George H. Clem, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Hickey are active, devoted members of the Baptist Church at Orange, where Mr. Hickey is chairman of the board of trustees and a deacon of that organization.
JOHN P. HARMS .- A splendid type of the progressive, loyal German-American is afforded by John P. Harms, who was born in North Hanover, Germany, on Octoher 23, 1855, the son of John L. and Elsie Harms. His father was a farmer, who also did shoemaking; and so the lad, who was given the best of grammar school advantages, worked ont on a farm in summer time, after his ninth year. When fifteen years of age, he crossed the ocean to America and proceeded direct to Missouri; and at Higginsville began his first nine years of farm laboring in America. Now, through hard work, he has become prosperous, a man devoted to his family and proud of the service his sons rendered in the late war.
Removing to Clifton, Washington County, Kans., he there worked out on a farin for a year, after which he purchased eighty acres of land, on which he raised corn, hogs and cattle. Near Clifton, too, at Palmer Church, he married Rosina Botjer, on Novem- ber 9, 1882. a native of Concordia, Mo., and the daughter of Dietrich and Rebecca
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Botjer, well-to-do farmers and landowners. When Rosina was fourteen years old, her parents removed to Clifton, Kans., and there they acquired good farm property. The young lady attended the parochial school at Concordia, Kans., and after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. "Harms farmed their eighty acres for the next fourteen years. During the same period, Mr. Harms also bought an additional farm of two hundred acres two miles to the north. In 1894, he sold these Kansas farms and having decided to come to California made direct for his present home site. For a while, he merely rented three acres of this farm, and then he purchased nine acres; two years later he added five more, making fourteen in all. The land was then planted to grapes; but as these gradually died off, orange trees were set out, and now Mr. Harms has eleven acres of Valencias, one acre of Navels, and two acres of lemons. He built a fine dwelling and the outbuildings himself, and all the improvements on the place are due to his own efforts.
Ten children have come to be numbered in the promising family of this worthy pioneer couple: Arthur D. Harms married Matilda Rodieck, and is at present living in Atwood, Cal .; John H. married Nettie E. Pogue and engaged in the drug trade at Orange; Edward John is a truck driver at Oxnard; Frederick J. C. has a position in the Imperial Valley; Emil A. married Rosa Schnipp and is living on a ranch on Handy Street, Orange; Clara Anna married Otto Ohlde and lives in Snohomish, Wash; George W. is bookkeeper on the Irvine ranch; Ernest A., living at home, cares for his father's farm; Anna M. is bookkeeper in her brother's drug store; and August William, who also lives at home, is a student at the Orange high school. The family are members of the German Lutheran Church.
Frederick J. C. Harms, the fourth child in the order of birth, volunteered as a mechanic, in July, 1918, for service in the World War, and was enlisted at the Jefferson high school building in Los Angeles. He was sent to Camp McArthur at San Pedro, and there he served his country until he was discharged. He was on a list to go to France when the influenza epidemic placed him under quarantine; and he was honorably discharged in April, 1919.
WALLER SINCLAIR HEAD .- Among the most progressive young ranchers of the Anaheim district must be rated "Clair" Head, as he is known to all his acquaint- ances, the owner of two well-kept and fruitful farms, one of thirty acres, on which he lives, devoted to walnuts and oranges, and the other of ten acres, which he reserves for sugar beets. Besides operating these in the most scientific manner, he leases sixty- five acres and there produces lima beans and chili peppers. He purchased the site of his home ranch only in 1913, when he set out his orange trees, the walnuts having been planted some fifteen years previous; so that much of his admirable results have been evolved in a comparatively short time. Indeed, his success thus far would seem to distinguish Mr. Head as a man much in advance of his age in agricultural lines.
Mr. Head was born at Garden Grove, July 5, 1883, the son of Dr. Henry W. and Maria E. Head, a sketch of their lives appearing elsewhere in this history. He attended Garden Grove grammar school and the Santa Ana high school, and then took up farming as his vocation, and this he has followed ever since.
In 1910, on June 14, Mr. Head was united in marriage with Miss Gladys Coates, who was born in Iowa but was reared in California. She attended the Santa Ana high school and later graduated from the Orange high school. She was a school teacher before her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Head are the parents of one daughter, Percie Clair, who attends the Katella school. Loyally interested in all the community's affairs, Mr. Head has served for three years as clerk of the Katella school district.
JULIAN A. PRESCOTT .- Among the worthy and prosperous ranchers of Tus- tin. Julian A. Prescott is numbered. He is the owner of a ranch of twenty-seven and one-half acres, planted to oranges, upon which he erected a beautiful and artistic bungalow in 1912, the year he purchased the property from J. H. Martin. His thrift. enterprise and progressiveness are indicated in the care bestowed upon his ranch, and he holds an assured position among the leading residents of his community.
Of New England ancestry, he was born in Lime Springs, Iowa, in 1875, and is the son of Augustus D. and Sarah (Butterfield) Prescott, natives of Phillips, Maine; they moved to Iowa, then to Arkansas City, Kans. Julian had the advantage of a grammar and high school education in Arkansas City and the additional advantage of association with his father in business. The father, A. D. Prescott, an active business man and real estate manipulator, followed this business a number of years with pro- nounced success, passing away in 1911. Mrs. Sarah Butterfield Prescott traces her ancestry back to Revolutionary days and was a member of the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution. She spent her last years with her son, Julian A., in California and died June 29. 1920. Our subject was the only child of this union and was for some
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years associated with his father in business and naturally acquired a valuable experience. He is well abreast of the time, has a keen eye for business, is well versed in current topics and events, and is a man who will make a place for himself in the financial and agricultural world.
In 1912 he came to Los Angeles, Cal. After spending the winter in looking over California for a location he selected Orange County and purchased twelve acres to which he has since added until he now has twenty-seven and a half acres to which he has given his time and best efforts to bring it to its present high standard. It is beau- tifully located on the Newport Road and Seventeenth Street, four and a half miles east of Santa Ana and is devoted principally to the culture of Valencia oranges. Believing in cooperation he is naturally a member of the Tustin Hill Citrus Association.
STONE WALKER TODD .- How much of the efficiency of Orange County's superior gas service is due to the experience and strict attention to business represented in Stone Walker Todd's superintendency, only those who know the man, and have followed his career and daily work since he took charge, will be able to state. He was born at Richmond, Ky., on January 13, 1885, the son of Huston B. Todd, a business man in that vicinity, who has since died, but is recalled as a successful man of affairs. He married Miss Mary Rucker, a native of Kentucky, who now resides in Knoxville, Tenn., and by her he had six children.
The fourth in the order of birth, Stone Walker attended the grammar school and later engaged in mercantile work, which he followed for six years, adding to his experience with the world and human nature, and preparing for the next important step, he moved to the Pacific Coast. He arrived in Santa Ana., Cal., on February 1, 1911, and entered the service of the gas department of the Southern California Edison Com- pany. On April 1. 1911, the Southern California Edison Company sold their gas prop- erties in Orange County to the Southern Counties Gas Company. Mr. Todd remained in the services of the Southern Counties Gas Company at Santa Ana until June, 1911, when he was transferred to Anaheim to take charge of the work for the gas company at that place. In October, 1911, he was made district agent of the northern half of the county for the Southern Counties Gas Company and remained in this position until October 1, 1915, when the two districts were united and he was made district super- intendent of Orange County, and was moved to Santa Ana, where he remained until December 1, 1919. He then resigned to take a position as general superintendent of the Industrial Fuel Supply Company.
The general offices of the new company are located in the First National Bank Building at Anaheim, Cal., and their purpose is to purchase gas in the Montebello. Brea Canyon, Placentia and Huntington Beach fields from the oil companies and wholesale the same. The Industrial Fuel Supply Company has erected two large com- pressor plants, one at the Placentia fields and one at the Montebello fields. In 1916 Mr. Todd purchased four acres of orange land on West Chapman Avenue, where he makes his home.
THOMAS S. WESTON .- This is an age of specialists and the man who centralizes his efforts on some one particular branch of his trade or profession is more sure of winning a success in his chosen line. That this is true in the building and contracting business is illustrated in the career of Thomas S. Weston, of Santa Ana. He was born March 23, 1875, at Saginaw, Mich., and remained there with his parents until he was ten years of age, when his father moved to northern Idaho. John Weston was a mill man and contractor, and with others purchased a saw mill which he set up at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in 1887, it being one of the first large mills in the state.
Thomas S. Weston finished his education in the public school at Coeur d'Alene, after which he followed railroading with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for five years; the last year of service with the company he was employed as an engineer. After leaving the railway service, he followed the trade of a carpenter and contractor with his father and in 1902 located in Boise, Idaho, where he began specializing on designing and installing store fronts and interior work, continuing along this line ever since. He has become so proficient in this special branch of carpentry as to be regarded as an expert. While living in Boise he was appointed building inspector by Mayor Pence, serving during his term of office.
In 1913, Mr. Weston moved to Los Angeles, where he became foreman for A. J. Crawford. a contractor who specialized in store work. While in the employ of Mr. Crawford he put in the store front and interior for Young's Market on Broadway, the Coliseum Bar and the Chocolate Shop on Broadway. In 1915 Mr. Weston located in Santa Ana, where he engaged in building and contracting. Special examples of his artistic designing and superior workmanship are seen in the following store fronts at
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Santa Ana: Seidel's Market, Smart Shop, Peterson's Shoe Store, Mrs. Enlow's Millinery Store and Miles' Shoe Shop. He also built the Lawrence Block at Santa Ana for A. J. Crawford. At Balboa Mr. Weston installed a refrigerator window for Henry Seidel. These cold storage windows are another feature of which he has made a specialty. At Compton he erected a $20,000 business block for W. J. Zeiss and at Bolsa he designed and built for O. H. Merritt one of the first up-to-date, sanitary dairy barns in the county. It cost $5,000, has a cement floor and is forty-eight by fifty feet in size, with a capacity for accommodating forty cows.
In 1903, Mr. Weston was united in marriage with Nettie Martin, a native of Boise, Idaho, and they are the parents of two children, a daughter, Esther, and son, Darrell. Fraternally Mr. Weston is a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks.
JOHN W. UTTER, M.D .- A descendant of pioneers of California on both sides of the family, Dr. John W. Utter has much to be proud of in his ancestry, and as a loyal native son of the state he is carrying on to the best of his ability the work started by those grand old men and women who made possible the present-day era of prosperity and peace in the far west. Born September 29, 1872, in Willetts, Men- docino County, he is a son of Isaac Utter, who fought in the Mexican war and came to California in 1847. For a time he was located in the Anaheim district of Los Angeles County, in 1877, and he later returned to Mendocino County where he engaged in the cattle business. His wife, the mother of John W., crossed the continent to this state on the first steam train, and a grandmother of John W. crossed the plains with ox teams in pioneer days.
With such a background for his start in life, the young lad could hardly help but make a success of his own endeavors, and his education was started in the public schools of Willetts, later graduating from the Ukiah high school, and for eight years thereafter he taught school in Mendocino County. In 1901 he left his native town and came south to Los Angeles, where he taught school for four years. At the end of this period he entered the University of California, at Berkeley, and graduated from the medical department in 1910, with his degree of M.D.
On leaving the university Dr. Utter came direct to Anaheim, and started the prac- tice of his profession, since which date he has continued in practice here, a well-known figure in the life of the community, prominent equally as a physician and as a man with the best interests of his district at heart, loyal to his state and to the city where he first started to practice his profession.
The marriage of Dr. Utter, which occurred on May 22, 1900, united him with Stella Moore, like himself, a native Californian, born in Sacramento, and three children have blessed their union: Marjorie, John W., Jr., and Marion. Active in the fraternal life of the community, Dr. Utter is a member of the Elks, the Knights of Pythias, and of the Anaheim Lodge of Masons. Professionally, he is a member of the American Medical Association and the state and county organizations.
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