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 42

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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Then came the grape disease and killed the vines, after which, they put in a second vineyard, but this also died after the first crop. They then gave up the vineyard, and began setting out oranges and walnuts, and in time they had groves bearing splendidly. After operating the ranch for thirty-six years, they sold out and moved into Orange.

Here they purchased the residence in which Mrs. Sanders now resides, and where, in November, 1914, he died, aged about seventy-eight years, an exemplary man in all his habits and a consistent Christian. While living on this ranch at McPherson, they purchased 1,000 acres of land near Murietta, which they devoted to stock raising and grain farming; but this ranch was also sold after Mr. Sanders' death.

Two children testify to the ideal marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Sanders: Will Hugh Sanders is a well-known operator in the Los Angeles realty world, and Frank A. Sanders is ranching at Paso Robles. Mrs. Sanders has four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Orange. For years she was a member of the Ebell Club; and, as was her patriotic husband, Mrs. Sanders is a stanch Republican.

JOHN F. PATTERSON .- Among the esteemed citizens of Westminster, Orange County, Cal., is John F. Patterson, the successful pioneer merchant and oldest business man in continuous business life at Westminster.

A native of Brook County, Va., he was born a few miles north of Wheeling, W. Va., April 14, 1851, and when two years old had the misfortune to lose his mother. When he was nine years of age his father, W. J. Patterson, came to California and located on the Feather River in Butte County, twenty miles above Marysville, where John F. grew to maturity. The father engaged in the freighting business and ran an eight-mule team, hauling freight to the mines in Plumas County, Virginia City, Nev., Black Rock, Idaho, and other places. The only child by his father's first marriage, John F. was educated in the schools of Butte County near Biggs. He later attended Heald's Busi- ness College at San Francisco, where he pursued a general commercial course. While a mere boy he worked several years for Maj. Marion Biggs, in Butte County, Cal., the large stockman and owner of an 800-acre ranch. Afterwards he joined his father in the sheep business and they owned a flock of 2,000 sheep. Then with his father and three half-brothers he went to Abilene, Texas, to engage in the sheep business. He was taken ill and returned to California, going to Los Angeles. The father died at Los Angeles at the age of ninety. John F. engaged with Roth, Blum and Company, provision dealers of San Francisco. as traveling salesman for the territory of Southern California, and remained with the firm five years. Afterward he came to Westminster and opened a grocery store in 1889, buying a new stock of groceries from Hellman, Haas & Company, of Los Angeles. Since then he has been the proprietor of several stores, and ran a general merchandise store, dealing in flour, hay, grain, etc. He was manager of the flour and feed business for awhile, but has mainly functioned as proprietor. At present he is proprietor of a flour, hay, grain, mill feed and fuel store.

Mr. Patterson's marriage was solemnized at Westminster, and united him with Miss Virginia Carlyle of Westminster, daughter of H. W. Carlyle, pioneer rancher, who came to California from Independence, Mo. Mr. Patterson owns the two acres upon which he built his residence, and has been active in the civic life of Westminster, donating the right-of-way for the Southern Pacific Railway through Westminster. Ex-Governor George C. Perkins was a warm personal friend of both Mr. Patterson and his father, and Mr. Patterson cast his first vote in California for governor for Mr. Perkins. Politically Mr. Patterson is a Democrat, and fraternally he is a member and past grand of the I. O. O. F., and recalls attending grand lodge once when Reuben D. Lloyd was grand master. Manly, honorable and public spirited, matters that concern the welfare of his home town receive his interested support, and his disinterested efforts for the community's betterment have won for him many warm personal friends and the respect of his fellow-citizens.

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MRS. ADELHEID KONIG-SCHULTE .- To know Mrs. Adelheid König-Schulte, is to fully appreciate her talents and worth. As one of the pioneer women of Orange County she has been identified with its development for over fifty years, during which time she made Anaheim her home. A native of Hungary, she came to the United States during her girlhood, with her father and stepmother and three brothers. After the death of her mother she was reared in the home of an aunt in Vienna.

Mrs. Schulte is a lady of culture and has many varied accomplishments; the walls of her home are decorated with oil paintings of her own handiwork and as a vocalist of more than local renown she appeared in public before audiences in Los Angeles many times, also has been on the program for vocal solos at the entertainments given by the Calumet Club in their hall in that city at one time appearing before an audience of 600 and singing in three languages, as well as appearing at other prominent gather- ings on many occasions. Besides these varied accomplishments she is par-excellence in domestic science, serving one year studying and demonstrating, and excels in both plain and fancy baking. One cake baked by her and donated to the Catholic fair at Anaheim sold for thirty-six dollars.

As stated, Mrs. Schulte came to the New World with her father, Henry Eichler. and his second wife in 1866, first locating at Cairo, Ill., where they joined her uncle. From there Mrs. Schulte came to California, in the following year with her aunt, locating in San Francisco, where these two ladies embarked in business, dealing in dry goods and millinery. They carried on a very profitable business until the earth- quake of 1868, which destroyed their building. From San Francisco she came to Los Angeles in 1869, and it was here that she met, and that same year was united in mar- riage with William König. He was born in Hanover in 1832 and was there reared and educated and also learned the art of wine making, serving an apprenticeship of seven years, after which he was employed at the trade for several years in Hamburg. He later came from that city by way of Cape Horn to San Francisco and from there to Los Angeles, where he found employment at his trade.

Immediately after their marriage in 1869 Mr. and Mrs. König came to Anaheim and made a permanent location. Here Mr. König purchased twenty acres of land de- voted to a vineyard, erected a winery and carried on a very profitable and growing business, having one of the largest wineries in this section, which was then Los Angeles County. They shipped wine in carload lots to various places in the United States and even to Europe. Much of their product was kept and sold to be used for medicinal purposes. Mrs. König was a true helpmate and worked with him picking grapes in the field with the Indians and also assisted him with the manufacture of the wine. They both labored hard to accumulate a competency and as a result became owners of some very valuable property. Mrs. König erected a bath house in Anaheim at a cost of $6,000 which she leased, and where steam electric and mineral baths were given. She presented the bell that marks the old El Camino Real, which was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies February 5, 1911, and to commemorate the donor her name is inscribed on a brass plate in front of the column supporting the bell; by virtue of this gift she holds a life membership in the El Camino Real Association, which has done so much to perpetuate historical features and for the betterment of the roadways in the state. When the public library was secured for Anaheim, this public-spirited woman donated one of the two lots for its site, and was a liberal contributor towards the building of every church in that city. She was one of the organizers and a large stock- holder in the German-American Bank, now the Guaranty Trust and Savings Bank, in Los Angeles. Both Mr. and Mrs. König were reared in the Lutheran Church.

Mr. König was an invalid for many years and his wife proved herself an excellent manager, for she was the means of adding to their holdings of property as well as improving them, thus adding to their value. They were both very generous and recog- nized as being among the most liberal citizens of Orange County. Mr. König died on April 1, 1911, at the age of seventy-nine years. On February 22, 1917, Mrs. König became the wife of Anton Schulte and they lived in Anaheim one year, then on account of the ill health of Mrs. Schulte, they moved to South Pasadena where they have a fine home on Diamond Avenue and dispense a generous hospitality. Mr. Schulte is an Iowa pioneer, having lived in that state for forty-eight years and where he achieved prominence as an official and public-spirited man, always striving to do what he con- sidered his duty. He came to California in 1914 and ever since then has booked a permanent residence for himself in Southern California. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of Anaheim Lodge No. 1345, B. P. O. Elks. With Mrs.

Schulte, he enjoys a wide circle of friends.

Adethen Konig Schulte

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FRED G. AND ELIZABETH TAYLOR .- A distinguished American couple of Santa Ana, highly esteemed hy all who know them, and especially admired for their many sterling qualities, are Fred G. and Elizabeth Taylor, who established the nucleus of "Taylor's," now so noted throughout Orange County, in Santa Ana many years ago. Mr. Taylor was born in Chicago, Ill., in 1847, the son of John Otis Taylor, a native of New York, who came west to Chicago and as early as 1852 located in Freeport, Stephenson County, 111., where he was successful as a pioneer business man. He died about 1900, survived by his widow, whose maiden name had been. Harriet Eames, and who also died at Freeport. They were the parents of five children: J. B. Taylor, a prominent business man and manufacturer in Freeport and founder and owner of Taylor's Driving Park at Freeport, died in that city; Hobart H. was a very prominent business man in various lines; he belonged to the Freeport firm of Taylor and Wise, grain operators, and as one of the founders of the Elgin Watch Company, had a part of that watch's mechanism, the H. H. Taylor Movement, named for him. He was also interested in Aultman, Taylor and Company, of Manshield, Ohio, manufacturers of threshing machines, and in the Nichols and Shepherd Company at Battle Creek, Mich .. which manufactures the "Vibrator" thresher; he was a banker and a philanthropist, and a Republican inflential and prominent in northern Illinois; and he died at Chicago, aged only forty-two years, already rated a millionaire. Charles A. Taylor, another inventor, was a trunk manufacturer of that city and died there. Louise H. makes her home at Freeport, and there is Fred G. Taylor, the subject of our sketch.

He was educated in the public schools of Freeport and at the military school at Fulton, Ill., and for thirty-four years made his home in Freeport, where he was asso- ciated with his brother, J. B. Taylor, in the management of Taylor's Driving Park. As a boy he saw the stirring events leading up to the Civil War, and it is interesting to hear him relate the incidents connected with the day of the great Lincoln-Douglas debate in Freeport in 1856-how the people came for a hundred miles by teams, in wagons and on horseback to witness the literary duel that has gone down in history; and as a boy he had the good fortune to be near the speaker's platform, and to see and hear the great emancipator at close range. During the war he was too young for service, but tried four different times to enlist, each time being rejected on account of his age and small stature.

In Illinois Mr. Taylor married Miss Elizabeth Sharp, a native of Yorkshire, England, and the daughter of William and Martha (Jackson) Sharp. Her mother died in Yorkshire and her father brought his three children, two sons and the little daughter, to Rockford, Ill., but also passed on soon afterwards. Mrs. Taylor was reared partly in the East, where she had the advantage of splendid educational institutions, until her marriage to Mr. Taylor, a union that has proven very fortunate and happy. Her two brothers reside in Santa Ana, and one of them, Harwood, served in the Twenty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry from 1861 until the close of the Civil War, participating in numerous severe battles, and took part in all the engagements of his regiment during the Georgia campaign-from Atlanta to the sea.

Desiring to remove to California, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor came out to the Coast in 1885 and located on a ranch at Orange, where they resided until, at the end of six months, they located on one near Santa Ana. There they raised deciduous fruits. Northern Illinois is noted among other things for the skill of its housewives in domestic service, and Mrs. Taylor had no superior among them all. Her home always abounded in hospitality, and the excellence of her cooking was often commented upon, and she received especial praise for her fine preserves and canned fruits. After coming to California, and wishing to establish her two sons in business, she conceived the idea of putting up California fruit for sale in the East, and it was her aim to send out only fruit of the finest quality.

The beginning of the business was quite modest, the plant consisting of the cook- stove in the family kitchen, and during the first year, 1892, she shipped three hundred pounds of fruit to Frecport, Ill., where it found ready sale. The second year the "plant" was increased by the addition of a gasoline stove, and the business was doubled, the entire shipment also going to Freeport. Soon they began to get calls for the delicious products from other cities, and the third year they put up and shipped a carload of fruit. About this time, their son, J. E. Taylor, went East in the interest of the business. and the shipments increased year by year, until they reached 100 tons in 1901, and that increase has been getting greater with each season. Sales are made all over the United States and Canada, from coast to coast, and the fruit is shipped direct to the residences of those so ordering. Indeed, before the war, shipments were also made to Europe and the islands of the Pacific. 17

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The first cannery was built in 1894, a very small building, and many additions were made, and also a new building erected, as necessity required; and now there is a large, fireproof, concrete building for the main plant, with every appointment most modern and convenient. Visitors to the cannery always find much to attract their attention and hold their interest, and they are especially impressed with the cleanliness in every department. The washing and paring and cooking departments are kept just as clean as are the scalded jars into which the preserves are poured. They used gasoline stoves until they had thirty-seven four-burner stoves, and then they changed to elec- tricity, using 120 electric stoves, and now they use gas burners for making pickles and steam for cooking the fruit.

The fruit is boiled in porcelain graniteware, after it has gone through a systematic process of washing, paring and rewashing; jams and marmalades of all kinds are manufactured, and also peach mangoes, hg, peach, apricot and pear pickles, brandied peaches, pears, grapes, fig and English walnut pickles. All fruit is put up in heavy sugar syrup; and of late years, owing to the heavy increase in their business, they have been obliged to have fruit shipped in from the north, as the local market is not sufficient for their needs. They employ about 150 hands. They also have a large ice and cold storage plant, one of the finest in the state, and manufacture ice for even the wholesale trade. Up till a couple of years ago the firm was J. E. Taylor and Company, with J. E. and Fred H. at the head of the management, when J. E. Taylor sold his interest to the rest of the family, at the same time removing to San Luis Obispo County, and the owners then incorporated the business under the firm name, "Taylors," with Fred H. Taylor as president and manager, and this firm has become celebrated in fruit circles all over the country.

Indeed, those who are experts in judging fruit assert that the products of the cannery have no superior in any part of the United States, and that they have reached a point where improvement is practically impossible. All these years Mrs. Taylor has personally superintended the manufacture of the products, giving them her personal attention, and insisting on the same care and cleanliness as in the old days of the cookstove, and she has every reason to be proud of the commercial results, as well as of her husband and the two sons and daughter, who stood by her so bravely through all the various evolutions of the important industry. It is an interesting fact that the business has grown to its present large proportions without the company ever having resorted to advertising, and thus it is the quality of the product that makes the constant growing demand without newspaper or magazine solicitation.

Mr. and Mrs. Taylor reside on East Fourth Street, in a comfortable, well-furnished bungalow, where they entertain their many friends with an old-time hospitality. They are strong Republicans, Mr. Taylor having espoused the platforms of that party ever since its formation in the fifties at Jackson, Mich. Their three children are John E. Taylor, an extensive rancher in San Luis Obispo County; Fred H. Taylor, the president and manager of Taylors; and a daughter, Eleanor, wife of A. E. Marker, of Downey.

JOHN J. SWARTZBAUGH .- Thrift and frugality, coupled with a judicious man- agement of one's financial affairs, are characteristics that usually bring success to the man who practices them in whatever line of business he may be engaged in. To these characteristics in the life of John J. Swartzbaugh, the extensive and successful walnut grower of West Orange precinct, are due his substantial prosperity. He is justly proud to be called a self-made man, because of the splendid success he has made by his own unaided efforts.

The descendant of an old Maryland family, Mr. Swartzbaugh was born in Balti- more, Md., September 25, 1858, the son of John H. and Mary (Green) Swartzbaugh, both natives of Baltimore. Grandfather John Swartzbaugli was also born in Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Swartzbaugh were the parents of five children, John J., the subject of this sketch, being the second child. When ten years of age he migrated with his parents to Springfield, Ohio, where the father rented land. For two years John J. lived with his great uncle, Samuel Swartzbaugh, where he helped with the farm work; subsequently he was hired by farmers who paid him only four dollars per month for the arduous work done and the long hours of service. The only financial assistance he ever received was thirty dollars he inherited from his sister Susan.

At Springfield, Ohio, Mr. Swartzbaugh was united in marriage with Miss Lola Knott, a native of the Buckeye State, and daughter of Charles Knott, a farmer and a veteran of the Union Army. After his marriage Mr. Swartzbaugh removed with his family to Texas, where he remained for eleven months and then decided to move farther westward, with the Golden State as his ultimate goal. He arrived in Sant? Ana on February 22, 1888, and soon purchased a squatter's claim in West Orange

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precinct. Mr. Swartzbaugh improved his place and has from time to time made additional purchases until today he is the possessor of 110 acres of valuable land, ninety of which are devoted to walnuts, ranging from three to nineteen years of age. He has made a specialty of walnut culture for twenty years, the beneficient results of which are apparent in the high quality of walnuts and bountiful yields of his orchards. He is regarded as one of the most successful walnut growers in the West Orange section of the county.

Mr. and Mrs. Swartzbaugh are the parents of nine children. Arvilla married Welley Wheeler, an electrician for the Standard Oil Company, and they reside at El Segundo; Florence is the wife of Clarence Brittain, a carpenter residing at El Segundo, and they have three children; Olyn, a grading contractor at Harbor City, married Mrs. McClure who had three children by her former marriage; Ina married Paul Morse of Harbor City and they are the parents of two children; Ruth is the wife of J. H. Hutch- ings of Santa Cruz; Ada lives at El Segundo; Lola married Howard Gillette of Santa Ana; Carl and Mary are at home. In politics Mr. Swartzbangh is a Democrat. He belongs to the Garden Grove Walnut Association.

JOHN DUNSTAN .- A conservative, trustworthy business man, self-made and successful and a good "booster" for Orange County, because of his confidence in the future of this part of the great state of California, is John Dunstan, the able and genial vice-president of the First National Bank of Tustin. He was born on December 5, 1866, near Redruth, Cornwall, England, the son of James Dunstan, also a native of that country, who had married Elizabeth Berryman, a descendant of an old family in that part of England. James Dunstan came to America in 1867, and being a farmer, did not tarry in New York City, where he landed, but immediately came on West, first to Fayette County, Iowa, and then to Pioche, Lincoln County, Nev., making his journey from the end of the railroad to their destination by stage. Finally in 1875 he landed at Tustin. John Dunstan is the only child of these worthy parents and came with them to Orange County and, then a boy of nine, he heard stories of the pioneer days he has never forgotten.

He attended the common schools of that time and locality and worked at home for his parents, helping to improve the twenty acres which his father had bought on East Seventeenth Street, set out in part to grapes, oranges and apricots. He himself in time bought twenty-five acres of vacant land east of Tustin, which he improved with walnuts and apricots and in 1903 he also bought ten acres more, which he planted to oranges and lemons. After a while he sold both of these acreages and bought instead some twelve acres, also on East Seventeenth Street, which he set out to Valencia oranges, and it has grown to be a valuable bearing orchard. He began to market through the Santiago Orange Growers' Association of which he is still a member. Recognizing his ability the stockholders of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company elected Mr. Dunstan a director and he later served as president of the board for two years, during which time he was very active in the improving, enlarging and building up the system. At the end of the period he resigned, not being able to devote the time he felt he should because his personal business affairs required all of his attention. Since its organization, too, he has been vice-president of the First National Bank of Tustin.

In early days he made a specialty of apricots and was rated as one of the largest growers of that delicious fruit in Orange County. His hobby now is Valencia oranges, which from his experience he considers best adapted to this soil and climate, and aside from his grove of sixteen acres he manages his mother's Valencia orchard of the same amount of acreage. On April 16, 1902, Mr. Dunstan was married to Miss Myrtle H. Hall, a daughter of William H. and Susan Frances Hall of Hiawatha, Brown County, Kans. They came to Orange County in 1891 and the father died in 1914, while Mrs. Hall continued to make her home in Santa Ana. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Dunstan has been blessed with three children as follows: Gilbert Hall and Mary Elizabeth are attending Santa Ana high school, while the youngest, Frances Emily, is attending Tustin grammar school. In 1914 Mr. Dunstan erected on his ranch a beautiful residence of nine rooms and furnished the same completely; and nearby on the adjoining orchard is his mother's comfortable home and thus he is able to look after her wants and give her every devotion and care.

Greatly interested in civic and educational lines he can always be counted on to give his time and means to all worthy objects which are for the betterment of conditions and morals of the community. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dunstan were active in the various war activities and Liberty Bond drives.

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C. D. HEARTWELL .- One of the natives of the Empire State who eventually reached California to swell the number who have done so much for the development of the state is C. D. Heartwell, the pioneer real-estate dealer of Huntington Beach, who was born in Seneca County, N. Y., on August 12, 1847. His father, Oscar F. Heartwell, known to Huntington Beach residents for years as Grandpa Heartwell, was born at Oaks Corners, N. Y., in 1818, and he married Julia Ann Subrina Webster, also a native of New York and a relative of Daniel Webster. Oscar Heartwell passed the last years of his life at the home of his son, C. D. Heartwell, passing away there at the age of ninety-five years. Grandfather Benjamin Heartwell was born in Vermont and when a young man walked all the way from there to western New York and bought a farm where the city of Rochester now stands. Finding that they had chills and fever in that locality, he threw up his contract and went to Waterloo, N. Y., and bought a farm. He afterwards went to Oaks Corners and engaged in carpenter work as well as farming. Oscar Heartwell was also a carpenter, but spent some years in teaching school, afterward becoming interested in farming.

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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 42

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