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Mr. Lord erected, on Magnolia avenue, a residence which he later sold, and also built on Main street two fine business blocks, his well-appointed office and apartments being located on the upper floor of one of the buildings. Though greatly improved in health, he has never been robust, and finds his outdoor life most conducive to his physical well being. A stanch supporter of Republican principles, he takes great pleasure in aiding all municipal move- ments of worth, and as a member of the Corona Chamber of Com-
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merce has been enabled to give practical expression to many of his wise suggestions.
In Chicago, Ill., Mr. Lord was made a Mason and later, in Corona, assisted in organizing Temescal Lodge, No. 314, F. & A. M. For many years he has served as a notary, and as a conscientious business man and helpful citizen, enjoys the high regard of his associates. On September 7, 1911, Mr. Lord was united in marriage with Miss Ethel M. Frankum, of Marysville, Mo.
WILLIAM V. DARLING
The superintendent of streets in Riverside has filled the important post with tact and efficiency since he was honored with the appointment in June of 1909. The care of the public highways involves constant labor as well as promptness in action and intelli- gence in supervision; in fact, scarcely any position connected with civic affairs calls for a higher degree of ability and certainly none demands greater tact than does this office and the fact that Mr. Darling is making good furnishes abundant proof of his fitness for the work. The thousands of strangers who annually are attracted to the city by its climate and other attractions invariably comment upon the well-kept streets, which give evidence of the public money intelligently disbursed and conscientiously expended. That such results have been achieved speaks. volumes for the ability of the official in charge.
Descended from a long line of ancestors identified with New England history and colonial development, William V. Darling was born in Island Falls, Aroostook county, Me., August 28, 1861. His father, Lyman, was a native of Baldwin, that state, born in Decem- ber of 1832, and reared upon a farm. During 1852 he moved to Aroostook county in the northern part of Maine, where he under- took to wrest a livelihood from the sterile soil in the midst of conditions made doubly distressing owing to the severity of the long winters. After some years he took his family to Massachu- setts and settled at Middleton, Essex county, where he still makes his home, being now retired from life's business and agricultural activities and enjoying in old age a well-merited release from the engrossing cares that filled his prime.
After attending the public schools of Middleton until 1877, William V. Darling then returned to Maine and began to work upon a farm in Aroostook county, where he remained until 1881. Re- turning to Middleton he remained for one year and then started out
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to earn his own way in the great west. Attracted by the govern- ment lands in South Dakota, he took up a claim near Watertown, built such buildings as were necessary for the shelter of himself and stock from the fierce blizzards of winter and began to place the land under cultivation. Disposing of the property in 1889, he went still further west and settled in Seattle, Wash., from which point he engaged in lumbering. During 1893 he removed to the central part of Washington and bought land, where he began general farming. The year 1895 found him in California. For two years he acted as foreman on a ranch in Ventura county and in 1897 he came to Riverside, where he had charge of orange groves until 1902. In the latter year he became connected with the city street department as a workman and in 1905 he received an appoint- ment as foreman, from which he was promoted in 1909 to be city street superintendent under appointment by the mayor.
Before leaving New England for the west Mr. Darling had established a home of his own and when he removed to South Dakota he took his young wife with him. They had been married in Aroostook county, Me., in August of 1881, and are now the parents of three sons, Charles G., Lyman C. and William D., all of whom have received fair educational advantages. Mrs. Darling was a member of the Record family and was born in Maine, which had been the home of her ancestors for several generations. The Re- publican party receives the support of Mr. Darling at all local and national elections and he firmly espouses the principles that have made it great and powerful. Several fraternal bodies have had the benefit of his active co-operation, notably the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has filled all the offices in the local lodge. In addition he has been warmly interested in the Woodmen of the World and has creditably filled offices in the local camp.
FRANK JOSEPH FARR
An identification with the east dating back to his earliest recol- lections and affectionately deepened through the bonds of an ances- tral association with colonial history met with an abrupt termina- tion when Mr. Farr was brought west by his parents in very early life. Born at Westmoreland, Cheshire county, N. H., March 1, 1853, he was a son of David E. and Louisa B. (Pierce) Farr, both na- tives of New Hampshire and descendants of early settlers of that commonwealth. Possessed of an adventurous temperament, the father had become interested in tales concerning the discovery of 41
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gold in California and had arranged his affairs in the east with a view to settling on the Pacific coast. However, after he and his family had started on their long journey and had covered a consid- erable distance, news came to them concerning the Mountain Meadow massacre. The harrowing story of suffering, privation, anguish and death so affected the prospective Argonaut that he retraced his steps as far as Independence, Mo., where he estab- lished a home for the family. The town was very small, but he earned a livelihood by dint of assiduous labor and until his death about 1873 he remained quietly in that town with the exception of the period of his service in the army during the Civil war. For many years he was survived by his wife, who was a native of Keene, Cheshire county, N. H., and died in Missouri in 1889.
Upon completing the studies of the common schools and enter- ing upon the task of earning a livelihood, Frank Joseph Farr em- barked in the occupation of an apiarist and this he has continued up to the present time. While still a resident of Missouri he married in 1879 Miss Imogene Warren, who was born in New York City, March 1, 1854, being a daughter of Charles B. and Ann C. (Gas- kell) Warren, natives of New Jersey. Her father, who was born August 16, 1818, followed the westward tide of migration and identified himself with the material upbuilding of Missouri. Event- ually in 1887 he came to California and in this state he died Jan- uary 31, 1889. His wife was born January 27, 1820, and died April 12, 1901. The eldest son and only surviving child of Frank Joseph and Imogene Farr is Charles E., born at Independence, Mo., in 1881, and educated in Southern California schools. By his mar- riage to Retta A. Boyd, a native of Indiana, he is the father of three children; the family reside at East San Gabriel in this state. The two younger children in the Farr family were Walter, born in Mis- souri in 1884 and died in infancy; and Stella May, born in Los An- geles in 1886 and removed by death from the home at the age of five years.
Seven years after his marriage Mr. Farr brought his family to California and settled in Los Angeles county, where he established an apiary. A residence of six years in the same location was fol- lowed by a sojourn of one year in Utah, from which state he came to Elsinore, his present home and business headquarters. Five dif- ferent yards, from three to five miles out of town, are utilized for his bees. At this writing he has about seven hundred stands, a fair yield from which would be sixty-seven thousand two hundred pounds. When an abundance of moisture causes flowers, plants and vegetation to flourish, the expense of the bees is nominal, but during seasons of prolonged drought it is necessary to give special care to these diminutive manufacturers of honey and in the course
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of one of these dry years Mr. Farr fed to the bees four thousand pounds of sugar. The care of the apiary requires all of his time and leaves him no leisure for participation in fraternal affairs or in politics, yet he is always ready to support measures for the ma- terial or educational upbuilding of his home town and has proved a progressive citizen during the ten years of his association with the locality.
SAMUEL L. WRIGHT
Throughout the greater part of his life a resident of Riverside county, educated in its schools, skilled in the knowledge of its leading occupation and identified with its gradual development, Mr. Wright possesses a firm faith in the future of this community and ranks among those citizens whose patriotic enterprise materially promotes local advancement. Born in Ross county, Ohio, February 9, 1865, he was yet a small boy when he came to Riverside in 1873 in company with his parents, Martin and Margaret Wright. Imme- diately after the arrival of the family in the then small village he was sent to the public school and continued his studies until he had gained a thorough knowledge of the common branches. When he entered upon life's responsibilities he chose the calling that forms the principal occupation of the locality and ever since 1885 he has been identified with horticultural affairs in some capacity. Until 1888 he assisted his father in the management of an orange grove and from that time until 1890 he was employed as zanjero with the Riverside Water Company.
The qualities of fidelity and trustworthiness that win recog- nition in positions of responsibility brought to Mr. Wright frequent opportunities to assume the supervision of groves at fair wages, but in 1891, after he had worked for others from the time of leav- ing school, he decided to take up orange growing for himself. Ac- cordingly he removed to Perris, where he had bought twenty acres and where he remained for two years busily engaged in the super- vision of his own grove. During 1893 he sold the property and re- turned to Riverside, where he again took up the management of ranches for others. As a manager he was skilled, expert and faith- ful and his work brought satisfaction to all concerned. Since 1899, however, he has devoted his time principally to the develop- ment of his own orange grove of ten acres, surrounding his com- fortable residence at No. 343 Cypress avenue, Riverside. In addi-
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tion, ever since 1904 he has acted as a buyer for the firm of Green & Speich, fruit packers.
Fraternal relations with the Woodmen of the World give Mr. Wright the benefit of the insurance privileges of the order as well as the social advantages connected therewith. Politically he has been a supporter of Republican principles ever since he attained his majority and, while not an office-seeker, he is willing to aid his friends who are candidates for positions of official trust. In re- ligious preferences he inclines toward the doctrines of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church and with his family attends the services of that denomination in Riverside, contributing as occasion demands to its missionary enterprises and many charities. By his marriage to Miss Alleta Curl, solemnized at Riverside April 30, 1890, he became the father of five children, namely: George Edwin, who died at the age of two years; Samuel Leslie, sixteen years of age, now a student in the high school of his home city; Margery Mildred, twelve; Isabel, seven; and Dorothy, five, all of whom will be given the best educational advantages within the power of their parents.
MENNO S. BOWMAN
Among Riverside's energetic and successful business men is Mr. Bowman, whose absolute integrity and exceptional commercial ability have placed him in his present position of honor, as secre- tary of the Riverside Building & Loan Association. His life sets forth his high ambition not only to make the most of himself, but to maintain toward others the consideration which he himself desired. He was born September 13, 1838, in Ontario, Canada, his parents, Jonathan B. and Mary (Snyder) Bowman, being among the early settlers of that town. At the age of sixteen years he graduated from public school, shortly thereafter securing a situa- tion as teacher in an Ontario school. Three years later he entered Otterbein Academy at Westerville, Delaware county, Ohio, gradu- ating at the age of twenty-one, and subsequently accepting a posi- tion as clerk in a mercantile establishment at Goshen, Ind. In 1862 he resumed his profession as teacher in Mackinaw, Ill., serving four years prior to his removal to Sterling, Ill., where he opened a cloth- ing store. In 1878 he moved his stock to Dunlap, Iowa, continuing in the business until 1883, when he located in Riverside, Cal. Purchasing an orange grove covering twenty acres he devoted his interests to his orchard until 1895, when he established a boot and
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shoe store in Riverside. During the succeeding four years he profit- ably conducted this business, selling out in 1899 to E. Grundstrom. In 1904 he disposed of his orange grove.
In 1898 Mr. Bowman was elected to the office of public ad- ministrator, serving in that capacity until January, 1911, when he was chosen to fill the position which he occupies today, his training and natural ability rendering him fully competent to discharge his many technical duties.
Mr. Bowman is an active member of Evergreen Lodge, No. 259, F. & A. M. He is a member and secretary of Riverside Chapter, No. 67, R. A. M., and Riverside Commandery, No. 28, K. T. In politics he has always been identified with the Republican party. A practical worker in the Riverside Methodist Church, he is well known for his efforts in behalf of those less fortunate than himself. In Mackinaw, Ill., August 3, 1863, he was united in marriage with Miss Amelia Baber, a native of that city. No children were born to them.
LEWIS DELANCEY CLARK
The family represented by this pioneer business man of Elsi- nore comes of old eastern pedigree and the genealogy is traced back to the colonial era of our country's history. The paternal grandfather, George Livington Clark, a native of the vicinity of Utica, N. Y., and a farmer by occupation, was a direct descendant of George Livingston Clark, an Englishman by birth, education and ancestry, and the founder in the new world of a long line of pos- terity indissolubly associated with the early development of our nation. Himself a tiller of the soil and a man of fine parts, the original immigrant left to posterity the record of a stainless charac- ter and honorable existence devoted to family and country. In the fervor of his patriotism tradition has it that he displayed unusual zeal in behalf of the land of his adoption.
The family of George Livingston Clark consisted of thirteen children, six sons and seven daughters, among them a son, Joseph Sidney, who was born in Oneida, N. Y., in 1829, and passed away January 6, 1900, at the age of seventy-one years. His was a life of toil on the frontier. As migration turned toward the west he followed the "star of empire" in its course. While still young in years he settled in the lake region of Wisconsin and developed a home in Dodge county, where his son, Lewis D., was born December 18, 1851. About 1858 the family loaded their household necessities
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into a 'prairie schooner" and with a team of oxen for motive power they, in company with others numbering eighty-five persons and sixteen wagons, drove slowly through the southern part of Wiscon- sin, across Illinois and into Missouri, where they engaged in the stock business in Cooper county. Two and one-half years were spent in Missouri and in 1861 they went north as far as Iowa, settling at Knoxville, Marion county. The wife and mother, Adaline Elizabeth (Baker) Clark, who was born in Providence, R. I., in 1832, now makes her home at Guthrie Center, Guthrie county, Iowa, and has two children still living. The marriage of the parents took place in Watertown, Wis., February 23, 1851.
When about ten years of age Lewis D. Clark became identified with agricultural work in Iowa and there he attended the country schools. Although reared to familiarity with agriculture he had a preference for business pursuits and as soon as he started out for himself he learned the tinner's trade, which he followed for five years. Later he engaged in the hardware business for eight years. Upon disposing of his holdings in Iowa he came to California in 1885 and settled at Elsinore, where ever since he has conducted a furniture and undertaking establishment. The business is the oldest in the place and the proprietor has a reputation for energy of character, courtesy of manner and honesty of commercial transac- tions. When he came here he found a hamlet of insignificant pro- portions and little apparent promise. It has been his privilege to witness the gradual development of the town and to aid in its material upbuilding. Through his service as a member of the school board and in other capacities he has been instrumental in advancing the permanent welfare of the community. His interest in local advancement has been continuous and his pride in civic growth steadfast. Since 1873 he has been a Mason and since removing to the west he has held membership with the blue lodge at Elsinore, whose philanthropies have been the recipient of his generous contributions.
While still a resident of Iowa and a business man of that state, Mr. Clark was united in marriage at Newton, October 6, 1875, with Miss Mary Allie May Hardesty, who was born in Ohio December 18, 1854, the daughter of an Ohio couple, both now deceased. Mrs. Clark passed away February 23, 1908, and was buried in the Elsi- nore cemetery. Six children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Clark. The eldest, Harry Richard, born at Mitchellville, Iowa, July 22, 1876, married Miss Clara E. Maloon and resides at Los Angeles. The second child, Beatrice Zora, born at Guthrie Center, Iowa, April 20, 1882, has charge of the home since her mother's death. Alfred C., an electrician, was born at Guthrie Center April 28, 1884, and Delancey Sidney at Elsinore March 9, 1887, the latter
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being now a carpenter at Chino, Cal. The younger daughter, Adaline May, born at Elsinore March 3, 1889, is the wife of John Coulter Neblett, a native of Tennessee, now living in Riverside. The youngest member of the family circle, Wallace Irwin, born at Elsinore November 8, 1897, is now a student in the local schools.
LLOYD W. ZINN
Identification with the educational interests of Riverside for a period but little less than twenty years brings Mr. Zinn into a deserved prominence. among the residents of the city, who are universally appreciative of his permanent contribution to local progress along the lines of his specialty. Previous experience, broad in range and scope, enabled him to enter upon his chosen work in this city with every prospect of success, a hope and antici- . pation that has seen its fruition in the prosperous reality of the present day. As founder and proprietor of the Riverside Business College he entered upon his association with local educational af- fairs. The institution was continued as an independent concern ยท until 1907, when a consolidation was effected with the Heald Busi- ness College, and since then the success characteristic of former years has been enlarged, the year 1911 showing an enrollment of one hundred and eighty-seven students in the various departments. To build up such an institution is an achievement worthy of a life- time of effort by any man and the manager of this school has no reason to feel anything but gratification at the successful outcome of his intelligent activities.
A son of Peter and Charlotte Zinn and a descendant of old eastern families, Mr. Zinn was born in Virginia, in the year 1859 and received his primary education in local schools. At the age of fifteen he entered the Morgantown Academy in Monongalia county, W. Va., and continued the regular studies of that institution until 1877. Returning to his native county he engaged in public school work and continued there until 1880, when he removed to Missouri. For three years he was associated with a brother-in-law in the hardware business at Kahoka and then matriculated in the Kirks- ville (Mo.) Mercantile College. Subsequent to his graduation he continued in the institution as an instructor for six months, resign- ing in order to establish a school of his own, the Western Business College and Normal School, which in 1884 he opened at Hutchin- son, Kan. Six years later he sold his interests there and came to
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California, where he was connected with the Los Angeles Business College.
While making his headquarters in Kansas Mr. Zinn was mar- ried in Hutchinson to Miss Emma A. Gleichman, their union being solemnized in December, 1888. They became the parents of two sons, Edgar and Paul. The elder, now twenty-three years of age, is completing his studies in the Los Angeles College of Osteopathy. The younger, now twenty years of age, is also pursuing a course of osteopathy and surgery with his brother.
Mr. Zinn is a progressive and well-informed man. He is a member of the National Education Association, the Federation of Commercial Teachers and the Business College Managers' Asso- ciation. Besides being a member of the Fraternal Aid Associa- tion he is actively identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and further affiliated with the Woodmen of the World and the Present Day Club, finding in his connection with these various organizations and societies a relaxation from the cares of his chosen profession, and further finding in them an opportunity for companionship with men of congenial tastes and high ideals.
FRANK A. SANDERS
A native of California, his birth having occurred in Los Angeles (now Orange) county, August 29, 1873, Mr. Sanders is one of the most up-to-date and successful farmers of Riverside county, his thirty-five acre alfalfa and potato ranch being among the most productive and highly improved in the San Jacinto section. The parents of Mr. Sanders, A. J. and Elizabeth (McPherson) Sanders, are now residents of Orange, Orange county.
Upon completion of his education in the public schools Mr. Sanders engaged in teaming, and at the age of twenty-four removed to Riverside county, where he remained three years engaged in dry farming with his brother. From there he went to Orange county, where he followed teaming and farming. In 1906, after having surveyed many choice sections in the state, he purchased a place in San Jacinto, Riverside county, and in 1909 bought the thirty-five acre tract upon which he now resides and upon which he has made all improvements, putting down a well of one hundred and sixteen-inch capacity.
February 10, 1896, Mr. Sanders married in Orange Miss Louie F. Brown, who accompanied her parents from her native state,
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Iowa, to Orange county, Cal., in 1892. Her father, W. L. Brown, a native of Indiana, is a Civil war veteran, and he and his wife, formerly Miss Carrie Willis, are residents of Hemet, Cal. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders have two children, both of whom attend public school : Ada C., born in December, 1899, and Donald M., whose birth oc- curred in June, 1902.
A member of no fraternal organization, Mr. Sanders is never- theless deeply interested in the welfare of his fellowmen, and is always prompt to lend his assistance in all movements pertaining to the advancement of the municipality in which he lives, his prog- ressive spirit and kindly consideration for others having won the high regard of his associates. Thoroughly modern in his methods, he has achieved gratifying success in his present industry, which includes the raising of alfalfa and potatoes. A Republican, intel- ligently interested in both civic and national political developments, Mr. Sanders has never sought office, though ever prompt in his support of worthy candidates.
ROBERT P. CUNDIFF
During his thirty-five years' residence in Riverside county Mr. Cundiff has gained, by his unfailing perseverance and sterl- ing integrity, united with most progressive methods, his present position of honor as county commissioner of horticulture, his opin- ion on that subject being widely sought throughout the state. His father, Richard N. Cundiff, was born in Danville, Ky., April 15, 1825, was there educated and later he engaged in farming and stock- raising in St. Francois county, Mo. In 1862 he enlisted in the Con- federate army, Second Missouri Cavalry, under Gen. Sterling Price, and was honorably discharged just before the close of the war on account of sickness. Returning to his farm near Farmington, Mo., he passed away soon afterward, February 2, 1865.
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