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 72

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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Enthusiastic about our bay, he has personally made the largest collection of shells ever taken from its waters, and has found several not known to exist here. He now has ready for the press a little volume of poems, from which the above lines are taken, revealing the hidden beauty of the sea birds, the dune plants, the sea shells. the sunsets, the great stone face over the tidal river, and the water sprites, and, of course, the "mermaids"-

-"the teeming mermaids fair, That dip and dive, or ride the sea, With shapely form and streaming hair, Like Nereids in motion free."

Another proof of his abiding interest in the bay is his purchase of the commodious Engstrom house, the most beautiful on the bay. It is a center of summer life and activity, especially for children.

Mr. Frye was born at North Haven, Maine, on November 2, 1859, the son of Captain E. S. Frye, forty-four years a mariner, who sailed from Boston and other Atlantic ports. Captain Frye is now eighty-eight years old, strong and vigorous, a type of the hardy men who "go down to the sea in ships." He is one of the oldest stock of "Fryes of Maine," his forebears having lived there continuously since 1661, when Adrian Frye settled in Kittery. He is a giant in strength. When going aboard ship one day, he saw two of his sailors sweating over an anchor they were trying to lift and carry from the wharf to the deck. One end would go up, and the other down, then vice versa. Telling one sailor to sit on the crown and the other on the stock, Captain Frye picked up the outfit, anchor and men, and carried all aboard, placing them on the deck as lightly as a basket of eggs. He is a lineal descendant of Edward Doten, who came over in the Mayflower in 1620.

Captain Frye married Jane King, a descendant of six of the Mayflower passengers, including the famous Brewster and Hopkins. Edward Doten came as an "apprentice" to the same Stephen Hopkins. He is the Doten who fought the first duel in the Plymouth colony; and he and his rival, Edward Lester, had to pass a day in the "stocks." to be jeered at by the shocked Pilgrims. Jane King Frye died in Highlands, in this state, April 2. 1912, aged seventy-eight years. Four sons and one daughter were born to the family. One son died in infancy, but the others are living.

While still a boy, Alexis E. Frye removed with his parents to Quincy, Mass., and there completed the grammar school course, and attended Adams Academy. During 26

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a large part of 1875 he was at sea "before the mast" with his father. In 1878 he grad- uated from the English high school of Boston, receiving one of the medals given for scholarship from the fund of Benjamin Franklin. Mr. Frye was the first young man to graduate from the Training School of the famous educator, Francis W. Parker, at Quincy, Mass. He became greatly attached to Colonel Parker, taught with him in Quincy, worked with him when supervisor of the schools of Boston, and went with hum to reorganize the Cook County Normal School, now the Chicago Normal School. He was pleased to be known as Colonel Parker's faithful "Man Frye-day." Mr. Frye .. was principal of the model school, and teacher of methods in the normal school. In recognition of his work he was made an honorary graduate of the western school. Here he worked from 1883 to 1886.

Returning East Mr. Frye took the law course at Harvard University, adding to his honors the degree of LL.B., and was admitted to the practice of law in Boston, but he never availed himself of the privilege, preferring to remain in the educational field and become a lecturer before teachers' institutes and conventions. He has delivered upwards of 2,000 lectures upon methods of teaching. This work led to extensive travel and gave wide acquaintance with the needs of schools in this country. He also found time to roam widely in Europe, Asia and Africa. Both the lecturing and the travel proved a natural introduction to his next great undertaking-the writing of the well known series of geographies which hears his name. It is probably true that his text- books have ontsold every other book in the world, save the Bible. The word "millions" means little, but if one end of the paper used in printing his hooks could be tacked to the Capitol in Washington, and then unroll with a width of the common book page, the strip would go down to the equator, round the earth, off to the moon (243,000 miles), round the moon, back to earth, again round the equator, and back to the Capitol, with a remnant of sufficient length to wind round the state of California many times.

For more than a quarter of a century Mr. Frye has written all the text-books on geography issued by the great firm of Ginn and Company. His first book was on meth- ods of teaching geography by sand modeling and was called "Child and Nature." This was in 1888. Three years later came "Brooks and Brook Basins." In 1892 he issued a work on psychology, which was well received. In 1894 was printed his Primary Geog- raphy, which proved a record breaker. Then came his large complete geography, which set a new pace. Mr. Frye's plan was to embody as much of his ideal as the schools would take, and then write another book as soon as the schools were ready to move forward with him. This plan gave him the field.

Now came a long series of books. In 1898 the Elements of Geography, and a Home and School Atlas. The next year the Spanish Geografia Elemental, adopted for the federal schools of Mexico, as well as Cuba and Porto Rico. In 1902 one of his text-books was translated into Chinese, and is largely used in mission schools of the "Flowery Kingdom," now a republic. One of his books was adapted by authority for use in the schools of Canada. Another was adapted for use in England, by an Oxford professor. Still another was used as the basis for a book for Norway. There is not a nation of the civilized globe that has not been influenced in its school work by the text-books of Mr. Frye. Among the more active of his books at the present time are the Grammar School Geography, a New Geography (1917), and a Home Geography Mr. Frye also wrote the first text-hook of geography widely used in the Philippines.

In 1899 President Mckinley, through Mr. Root, his secretary of war, sent Mr. Frye to organize and equip the new public school system of Cuba. He wrote the national school law and the course of study for the island. In 1900 he brought about 1.300 Cuban teachers to Harvard University for study, and then led them on a tour of the East, landing all safely at home. Mr. Root placed him in charge of five steamships for the expedition. For this work, and for other work done for the little nation. Mr. Frye received the Medal of the Legion of Honor of Cuba, and in 1904 and 1906 was made president of the National Teachers' Association of Cuba, perhaps the only instance of a foreigner being made president of such an association. Besides the Franklin medal, and the medal of honor mentioned, Mr. Frye was awarded a silver medal. upon recommendation of William Howard Taft, for his text-book for the Philip- pines. He also holds the silver cup for the wrestling championship of Harvard Uni- versity, a gold medal from the teachers of the Province of Santiago, Cuha, and others. In connection with the work in Cuba it is of interest to note that Secretary Root. writing to President Eliot of Harvard, said of the voyage of the Cuban teachers: "This body of teachers going back to every municipality of Cuba will carry back more of saving grace for Cuha than the whole power of the (American) government could accomplish in any other way." And it did.

In 1897 Mr. Frye earned the degree of A.M. from time-honored Harvard Univer- sity. During the Spanish War he helped to organize, and at one time was in com-

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mand of, the battalion at Harvard, and captained the graduates' company. In 1898-99 he was lieutenant of Battery K, the "Boston Tigers," of the First Heavy Artillery, thus keeping up his connection with military affairs. He has been captain of five companies, including Company E. California National Guard. As head of the school department in Cuba, Mr. Frye was associated with Generals John R. Brooke, Leonard Wood, Adna R. Chaffee, Hugh L. Scott, Tasker Bliss, and the late Surgeon-General Gorgas,. all of whom are among the world's great men.

Mr. Frye has been elected a life member of various societies, including the American Geographical Society, National Geographic Society. the Harvard Union, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, and the New England Historic Genealogical Society. It is needless to say that he is an enthusiastic member of the Newport Yacht Club. In the early nineties Mr. Frye hecame a resident of California. He has im- proved and owned upwards of 300 acres of orange groves, but has sold his groves to be free to continue his literary work.

WALTER J. COLE .- A rancher who owns a prosperous forty-acre ranch on Park Avenue between Hansen and the county road, Walter J. Cole is one of the first settlers in this section of the county. He located here when the ranch was a part of a 40,000-acre sheep range, with only a very few settlers anywhere near him. The Spanish heirs claimed to own an interest in the land, which interfered with a clear title, and consequently stopped the sale of the land for several years. In the course of time, however, clear titles were given, and the property was bought and sold. Mr. Cole, as stated above, bought his present acreage in the early days, and began at once to develop it as he was able. He has from the first conducted a general farming and dairy ranch, which he has continued up to the present time, hut he is now contem- plating a change to the production of citrus fruit.

Mr. Cole was born in Batavia, New York, in 1859, his parents heing Walter and Sophronia (Blanchard) Cole. Here he spent his youthful days, receiving an educa- tion in the public schools of his .vicinity. When he had reached the age of twenty- five, he decided to try his fortune in the West, so in 1884 he came to California with Capt. Arthur J. Hutchinson, who was then a partner of "Lucky" Baldwin, and who shipped a herd of Devons to this state, paying $600 per car for shipment. Mr. Cole was with Captain Hutchinson for three years, and through this experience became well versed in judging and handling cattle on the great Baldwin ranch in Los Angeles County, which consisted of several thousand acres.

Immediately after settling on his own land, in 1887, Mr. Cole took up the dairy business, which he has since followed. He was the owner of a fine herd of registered Jerseys, some of which he occasionally sold for a fancy price. He is a firm believer in the necessity of raising pure bred stock, and has always been a strong advocate of that belief. Mr. Cole's parents came to California in 1885, one year after their son's arrival, and settled on the Baldwin ranch, where they lived for three years, when they purchased a thirty-acre ranch near what is now Hansen Station on the Pacific Electric Railroad. The father entered the dairy business here, and made this home until his death, in February, 1899. Mrs. Cole still resides there, in her ninety-fifth year.

Walter J. Cole was married on October 1, 1891, to Miss Emma Schneider, the daughter of Jacob Schneider of Anaheim, who was one of the original members of San Francisco Company. They have become the parents of six children: Delos is married and has one daughter, Dorothy; Ethel; Bernice, Mrs. Frank Schacht: Vera, Mrs. Albert Sparks, has two children, Bernice and Maxine; Margaret, the wife of John Sullivan; and Donald. When this locality began to settle up and the necessity of a local school was seen, Mr. Cole donated an acre of land and helped locate and establish the Savanna School district, and has served for many years as a trustee. He was one of those who worked hard to establish Orange as a separate county. As one of the pioneers of this section, Mr. Cole is held in high esteem in the community which has been his home for so many years. Comfortably endowed with worldly goods, the result of honest and diligent labor, he can now enjoy the fruits of his toil.

WILLIAM PANNIER .- A far-seeing, enterprising, effectual builder of Anaheim, whose success in his own affairs has been due, primarily, to his tenacity of purpose which led him to stick to his guns when so many settlers, easily discouraged, were glad to sell out and move away, is William Pannier, who has seen the fellow-rancher come and go, and, in many cases, bitterly repent when it was too late, the going. He was born in Prussia in September, 1859, and when six years of age came to Illinois and settled with his folks, sturdy farmer folk, near Belleville, in June, 1866. There were four girls and two boys in the family and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Pannier: and the third in the order of birth, he is the only one now living, as he was the only one who came to California.

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He was reared on a farm in the Whiteside Township of St. Clair County, Ill., and attended public school there, while he assisted in the farm work and was initiated into an industry he followed thercafter. On January 12, 1887, in the midst of the great "boom," he came to California and Santa Ana, and for a few months was employed by Mr. Yoch. The next spring he went to Oregon and sought employment in a logging camp in Clatsop County, after which he worked at harvesting until the rains. These proved too much for his liking and he came south again to Santa Ana.

For four years he teamed for Mr. Smiley, and when the boom burst he bought two teams and some implements, and for a year farmed to grain on the San Joaquin ranch. He next sold his outfit and for a year worked in a lumber yard. After that he bought forty acres of raw land in the East Anaheim precinct, where he located, built a home and began improvements, clearing away the cactus and the brush, and at that time he was the only settler there outside of the city limits. He sank a well and got good water.

At Anaheim Mr. Pannier was married to Miss Sarah Hasheider, who in 1883 had come to California with her parents, early settlers of Anaheim, and then he built a new home and made still more extensive improvements. He continued to buy land until he had seventy-six acres, all of which he cleared and leveled. He set out nine acres of walnuts, forty-five feet apart, from which the owner, in 1919, received $8,400. He also cleared away twenty acres for the Bissells, and forty acres for the Boeges; and having sold some, he now owns thirty-five acres in a body on Southeast Street.

For six years Mr. Pannier did general farming, and then he began to set out oranges. Now he has sixteen acres of Valencia oranges, twelve acres of budded walnuts, and five acres in lemons. At first he had a gasoline pumping plant; now he pumps by electrical power. He belongs to the Mutual Orange Distributors Association of Anaheim, and to the California Walnut Growers Association of Orange.

Six children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Pannier: Milton, who assisted his father as only a wide-awake, interested son can, was in the World War and served overseas for seven months; Alice and Ruth are at home, and Howard, Donald and Charles are in the Anaheim High School, about to graduate. Alice also attended the University of Southern California and during the World War volunteered her services in one of the departments in Washington until the armistice, and Ruth took a thorough course at a leading business college. Mr. Pannier belongs to the Fraternal Union and the Evangelical Association of Anaheim, where he has been a trustee for fifteen years, and long a chairman of important committees. In national politics he is a Republican.

DAVID E. COZAD .- A man who has met with a large measure of success in life, David E. Cozad now enjoys the reward attending sagacious and painstaking effort, and the adversities he has encountered in toiling along life's pathway have but served to develop the qualities of frugality, thrift and industry that are inherent traits received from a long line of American ancestors who have played no unimportant part in making the nation what it is today.

David E. Cozad was born at Roseville, Warren County, Ill., April 27, 1857. His father, Henry, was a native of New Jersey, and his mother, Mary (Tuttle) Cozad, was born in Pennsylvania, in which state his parents were married. From Pennsylvania they journeyed overland in a wagon to Illinois, where the father farmed in Warren County and worked at carpentering and as a painter. They removed to Iowa when David was between eight and nine years of age, in 1866, and their life was spent on the frontier, keeping in advance of the railway building west through Iowa and Missouri to Nebraska. They lived in many different places and moved often, and when they located at Long Island, Kans., they were thirty miles in advance of the railway. David E. is the fourth child in order of birth in the family of nine children, consisting of one girl and eight boys. The daughter, Elizabeth Hillyard, is a widow and resides at Santa Ana. Stevenson, of Lincoln, Nebr .; James is a rancher in Buaro Precinct: William J. is a storekeeper at Westminster; Charles C. is a carpenter and builder at Santa Ana; Simeon I. clerks in a store at Westminster; Harry W. resides at Santa Ana, and Arthur, the youngest, is a rancher at Hemet.

Mr. Cozad's educational advantages were limited, owing to their frontier life. His marriage occurred in 1880, near Seward, Nebr., and united him with Miss Nancy J. Howard, a native of Lincoln, Nebr., who was educated in the common schools. Her father, Amos M. Howard, was born in Indiana, and her mother, who was Zerelda Ray in maidenhood, was born in Missouri, where her parents were married. She and her brother Titus were the children of her father's first marriage, and they were made half orphans when Mrs. Cozad was seventeen months old, by the death of her mother. Five children resulted from her father's second marriage, four of whom are living. Mrs. Cozad's brother, Titus, is a lawyer at Greeley, Nebr., is county attorney, a Repub-

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lican of the Forty-ninth District, and still retains his seat in the Nebraska Legislature to which he was elected. Her father was among the early California gold seekers and made his first trip to California in 1849.

Mr. and Mrs. Cozad are the parents of seven children, all of whom were born at Long Island, Kans., except Henry A., the eldest, who was born at Seward, Nebr. He is one of the employees of the Fresno Building Association and married Miss Montana Gibson of Los Angeles, and they have two children. Mary Z. is the wife of Fred Hoffmann of Redondo, an employe of the Standard Oil Company at El Segundo, and they have one child. Charles T. died in Kansas City at the age of seven. David J. was accidentally killed in 1905, when nineteen years old, by an electric shock while working as a lineman at Redondo. Leslie E. died when five days old. Florence is the wife of Richard Criddle, a rancher at Gridley, Cal., and they have two children. Arthur W. is a rancher and owns ten acres in Buaro Precinct; he married Ola Oliphant of Kansas, and they are the parents of one child.

After his marriage Mr. Cozad followed the trade of house painter and decorator for one year at Seward, Nebr., and in 1882 moved to Kansas, where he homesteaded 160 acres at Long Island, proved up on it, sold it, and purchased 160 acres of school land at Long Island. He was principally engaged in farming and raising cattle and swine before he came to California in the spring of 1901. He lived at Redondo in 1902-3, where he was employed as a car builder, and came to Buaro Precinct in 1903, where he purchased forty acres of land, planted twenty acres of it to walnuts and Valencia oranges and gave twenty acres of it to four of his children. Mr. Cozad has the American knack of being able to handle tools of almost every kind, and can do cement work as well as house painting. He and his excellent wife are kindly and hospitable, and Mrs. Cozad is a woman of rare good sense and motherly qualities, a humanitarian in her views and wide-awake to all that is of benefit to the community. Fraternally Mr. Cozad is a member of the Santa Ana lodge of I. O. O. F., and in his political views is a consistent Republican, and both he and his wife are members of the Rebekahs.

EDWARD G. WARE .- A pioneer who deserves the esteem of posterity as well as his contemporaries was the late Edward G. Ware, the planter and grower of the first Valencia oranges in the Garden Grove section. He was born at South Deerfield, Mass., in 1846, the son of Samuel and Mary (Chandler) Ware. The former came to Illinois with his parents when he was twelve years old, and in that state grew to maturity. Mrs. Samuel Ware was born at South Hadley, Mass., and graduated from Mt. Holyoke Seminary. She died at Garden Grove in 1908, aged eighty-seven years.

When Mr. Ware came to Garden Grove, it was a grain field. He tried different kinds of farming, and became much interested in advancing the farming interests here. He took an active interest in farmers' institutes, and was accurate and well posted, and often gave talks and prepared dissertations for his fellows. Later, he took up horti- culture, and devoted his attention to both Navel and Valencia oranges, and walnuts. On the ranch at Garden Grove now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Stanley there still stands the original "Eureka" walnut tree from which all the "Eureka" nut trees in Southern California have originated; also the "Prolific" nut, and the Earhart. All three were propagated and budded here by the late D. C. Dusher, who conducted a nursery and experimental work that later have proved of so much value to the walnut growers of the state. The last named was called after Mr. Earhart because of the fact that he developed the nut that has been such a success for withstanding disease. Such were Mr. Ware's powers of observation and deduction, that the professor of horticulture at the State University called him the best authority on walnuts in the state of California.

As a grower of Valencia oranges Mr. Ware was the pioneer in the Garden Grove section, and enjoyed an enviable local fame. He had prophetic vision, and once said to the pioneer, Albert J. Chaffee, "My daughter will yet live to see the choicest of Valencia oranges in the United States grown here at Garden Grove." In his later years he be- came interested in poultry, raised white Minorcas, and took the prize at the San Fran- cisco poultry exhibit at the Pacific Panama Exposition.

He married October 14. 1875, at Batavia, Ill .. Mary Johnson, and she passed away in 1914. She had been interested particularly in temperance work, and served, with the exception of one year, as secretary of the Garden Grove W. C. T. U. from its organization until she died. They had one child, Lillian Agnes, now Mrs. Arthur C. Stanley, a native of Garden Grove and a graduate of the Santa Ana high school, Class of '97, and Los Angeles Normal School, Class of 1900. She formerly belonged to the M. E. Church, and is now a member of the Friends' Church, in the Alamitos School district, and is active in all church and Sunday School work.

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Samuel Ware, the great-grandfather, was a minister in the Congregational Church and was born at Norwich, Mass., on September 5, 1781. He died on August 29, 1866, in Massachusetts. Henry Ward Beecher boarded with him at Amherst while he was a theological student. The progenitor of this family was Robert Ware, who was born in England and came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony some time before the autumn of 1642. When Edward Ware came to Garden Grove in 1876, from San Francisco where he had lived for several years, he purchased his place of forty acres; and at his home, one mile north of Garden Grove, he died on December 17, 1917, and was buried at Santa Ana. He had a wide circle of friends, who appreciated him at his real value and who honored him in death, as they had in life.

HARVEY V. NEWSOM .- A resident of Garden Grove since 1890, Harvey V. Newsom has by his industrious and diligent efforts developed a well-kept citrus grove of ten acres northeast of Garden Grove, and is also the owner of a ten-acre grove of young lemons east of his home place. Mr. Newsom was born near Azalia, Bartholomew County, Ind., October 18, 1866, and is the son of Alfred J. Newsom, who died on August 9, 1920, at Garden Grove, being in his seventy-eighth year; the mother passed away here in 1904. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Newsom were the parents of ten children, eight of whom are living, all residents of California: Harvey V., the subject of this sketch; Benjamin W. is connected with the shipyards at Long Beach; Luther R. is a rancher near Stanton; Joseph A. is at home; Maggie is the wife of Orson Moody, a dairyman at Bishop; William C. is a rancher at Rivera; Annis is the wife of Henry West, an oil man at Fullerton; Willis is a teacher and a rancher, and resides on his ranch near Garden Grove.

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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 72

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