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public affairs and in educational matters particularly. He served four years on the Board of Education.
In 1908 Judge Craig removed to Riverside and became a partner in the law firm of Collier, Carnahan & Craig. This firm enjoyed a most extensive clientele and handled many important cases involving technical questions and large values. The partnership was dissolved in 1911, Judge Craig and Mr. Collier continuing their association as Collier & Craig. Judge Craig gave most unselfish devotion to the increasing tasks and re- sponsibilities of his private practice until he was elevated to the bench of the Superior Court.
He was appointed to the position of Judge of the Superior Court of Riverside County by Governor Hiram W. Johnson on March 16, 1916. Thereafter he was elected to fill the unexpired term of his predecessor and again elected for a full term, being unopposed each time at the pri- mary and general elections. On September 1, 1921, he resigned, while more than three years yet remained of his term, to become general at- torney of the Southern Sierras Power Company, as he was desirous of again engaging in the practice of law.
In politics Judge Craig is a democrat by principle, and has been a deep student of political questions and issues. A successful lawyer, he never regarded politics as an avenue to power and success, but always as a responsibility involving subordination of private advantages to the general good. It that spirit he exercised his duties on the bench. He was also appointed in 1911 a member of the Board of Education of Riverside, and subsequently was elected to the same position.
During the great war he was Chairman of the County Council of Defense, latterly known as the Riverside Division, State Council of De- fense. He was Chairman of the Legal Advisory Board for Riverside County, was a member of the Executive Committee of the War Relief Council, which was in charge of raising war funds, and was a Four Minute Man.
Judge Craig is a member of the Presbyterian Church and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Modern Woodmen of America, and the Masonic fraternity. November 29, 1905, at Chariton, Iowa, he married his college classmate, Miss Jessie McKlveen, a native of that Iowa town and a young woman of thorough education and social prominence. Mrs. Craig is a daughter of Dr. J. A. McKlveen, for a number of years president of the Iowa state Board of Health and a mem- ber of the state senate. The family is an old American one of Scotch- Irish descent. Mrs. Craig's grandfather, Daniel Read, was president of the Missouri State University at Columbus, Missouri. Judge and Mrs. Craig have one child, a daughter, Katharine.
WILLIAM B. CLANCY-Of the movement that led to the creation and organization of Riverside County William B. Clancy is an authority by reason of the active participation he had in that historical move- ment. Mr. Clancy was auditor of the new county twelve years. He is most widely known, however, as a banker, and has been one of the active executives in the Citizens National Bank of Riverside from its inception. His record as a financier has earned him special pres- tige among California banking circles.
Mr. Clancy was born at Yates City, Illinois, November 15, 1868. He grew up in Illinois, attended grammar and high schools, the Illinois State Normal School and Mussellman's Business College at Quincy.
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He was a young man just at his majority when he came to California in 1889. For a number of years he was secretary of the Banning Land & Water Company, the interests of which company were located about half in what was San Bernardino and half in San Diego counties. The organization of a new county was a matter of direct business advantage to Mr. Clancy and his associates, affording a better means of settling titles and transacting other public business. He, therefore, put himself in the lead in the popular movement to secure a new county, and out of that movement Riverside County was established in 1893. In 1894 he was elected county auditor, being the second to hold that office in the new county. He was re-elected and served three terms, being re-elected in 1898 and again in 1902.
Mr. Clancy resigned this office at the time of the organization of the Citizens Bank of Riverside July 1, 1903. It was organized as a state bank with fifty thousand dollars capital, and its first home was on the southeast corner of Ninth and Main streets. In May, 1904, it occupied the quarters of the Orange Growers National Bank, liquidat- ing the affairs of that institution. At that time the capital was increased to a hundred thousand dollars. In October, 1907, the Citizens National Bank was started, at which time the capitalization increased to a hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The original officers of the Citizens Bank were S. H. Herrick, president; Charles H. Low, vice president, and W. B. Clancy, cashier. Mr. Herrick continued as president when the bank was nationalized in 1907. In 1909 Mr. Clancy was promoted to vice president, and in 1916, when the Citizens National took over the affairs of the First National Bank, he was chosen president. In 1907 the Security Savings Bank and the Citizens Bank of Arlington were organized, the stock of these institu- tions being held by the Citizens National Bank. Mr. Clancy is now president of the Citizens National of Riverside, the Citizens Bank of Arlington, and is vice president of the Security Savings Bank. These are all notable institutions in the financial affairs of Riverside County. The Citizens National of Riverside has capital of a hundred fifty thousand dollars, surplus of a hundred fifty thousand dollars, un- divided profits of one hundred sixty-five thousand dollars, and deposits of three million dollars. The Security Savings Bank is capitalized at two hundred thousand dollars, has surplus of fifty-eight thousand dollars and undivided profits of sixty-five thousand dollars, with deposits aggregating three millions. The Citizens Bank of Arlington has a capital of twenty-five thousand dollars, surplus and undivided profits of twenty thousand dollars and over three hundred thousand dollars in deposits. In the remarkably successful record of these institutions Mr. Clancy takes the greatest satisfaction, and to him is due no small measure of that prosperity and the wise management that produced it.
Mr. Clancy is also an orange grower on a small scale. He served as worshipful master of Riverside Lodge of Masons in 1901-02, and is affiliated with the Council and Knight Templar Commandery at Riverside, Al Malaikah Temple of the Shrine at Los Angeles, and the Elks.
August 10, 1893, at Los Angeles, he married Miss Alice Hampson, who was born in Pennsylvania. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Clancy are : Gertrude M., who is a graduate of Stanford University of California and Columbia University of New York; Marian A., now in the fourth year of Stanford University ; Ellen G., who has completed
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three years of high school work; and Francis E., in the second year of high school.
A. AIRD ADAIR-The name of A. Aird Adair is one which stands very high in the annals of the City of Riverside, of which he has been a resi- dent for thirty years, for he has been an important contributor to its progress and prosperity in a professional and business way. His career strikingly demonstrates the value of early discovering what one wants to do, and then doing it, even if alone and unaided. In his boyhood he de- termined to qualify as an attorney, and every move was made with that idea in mind, and he made his own way on his own resources from an early age. In after life his ability to organize and his keen aptitude for finances took him into the banking buisness in Riverside, and he has achieved the same success in this line as in his profession. He is a man of whom it may truthfullly be said, "he was a lawyer by early choice and training and a financier by predilection."
Mr. Adair was born in London, Ontario, Canada, August 25, 1857, the son of John and Rose (Aird) Adair. He received his primary educa- tion in the grammar schools of St. Mary's, Canada, graduating from High School in the spring of 1873. He earned his own way in the world from an early age, devoting all his leisure time to the study of the law. He kept at this method for five years, and then he matriculated in the University of Toronto, Canada, and completed the regular course in the spring of 1887, with the degree of LL. B.
He at once commenced the practice of his profession but in a year he was appointed to the office of county crown attorney for the district of Muskoka and Parry Sound, Canada, and this position he retained from 1888 to 1890, when he resigned, for the purpose of finding some country where life could be enjoyed without so many discomforts as that some- what austere climate entailed. His attention was attracted to California, and he found in beautiful Riverside the ideal home he was seeking, and also a wide field for the practice of the law. He soon formed a partner- ship with W. A. Purington, which continued for over twenty-nine years and until the death of the latter in 1918. The firm was second to none in importance or legal requirements. Mr. Adair after the death of Mr. Purington, entered into a partnership with A. H. Winder, who had been associated with the firm for a number of years, the new firm taking the name of Adair & Winder. It has met with a continuation of the success and prominence of the first partnership.
Mr. Adair entered the financial field of Riverside through the medium of the National Bank of Riverside, of which he was one of the main organizers and aided materially in its establishment. He was elected president of that institution, and carried it to enduring success and solid- ity of foundation.
He married in Ontario on June 13, 1882, Miss Jennie E. Knight. They are the parents of three daughters: Ada D., wife of Paul D. Wil- lard, residing in Hibbing, Minnesota; Jean, wife of Shirley Houghton, residing at Oakland, California ; Alexina, wife of Frank C. Nve, president of the Riverside Realty Company, residing in Riverside. Mr. Adair is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
GAYLOR ROUSE-The State of New York has contributed many highly valued citizens to Riverside, and one of the distinctive, outstanding figures in the mercantile and civic life of Riverside hailing from there is that of Gaylor Rouse. Gifted not only with practical foresight, but with ability as an organizer as well, he has made a thorough success of every under-
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taking from the time when, yet a mere boy, he made a splendid record for efficiency in the Civil war up to the present time. Today he stands at the head of one of the foremost mercantile establishments in Riverside County, and one which he organized and made the success it is.
Gaylor Rouse was born in Watertown, New York, January 1, 1842, the son of Collins and Dolly Rouse, both of whom were descendants from old eastern families. In 1858 he entered the academy at Belleville, Jefferson County, New York, from which he was graduated in 1862. Immediately afterward he enlisted as a private in the Union Army, Company G, New York Heavy Artillery. He was sent at once to the front, where he saw what war was from the angle of most active service. His record was a brilliant one, for he was promoted to a lieutenantcy and served on the brigadier staff as assistant inspector general until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged. He immediately went to Washington, D. C., where he was needed as a clerk in the War Department. He served here until 1868, when he concluded that mercantile life would be a better outlet for his energies, now the war was over. So he resigned.
He left Washington, going to Philadelphia, in New York State, where he opened a retail merchandise store and where he proved that he was in the right field. He remained there, highly successful, until 1878, when a desire for a more desirable scene of action brought him to California. He located first in Antioch, Contra Costa County, where he conducted another successful dry goods store. It was in that city, in August of the following year, that he was united in wedlock with Mrs. A. R. Jessup. By a marriage contracted in the State of New York, Mr. Rouse is the father of one son, Charles G. Rouse, who is connected with the Riverside firm as vice president.
After spending eight productive years in the town of Antioch Mr. Rouse was attracted to Santa Barbara, where he opened an exclusive men's clothing store. This city held him just three years, when its beauty and charm (and a desire to have a permanent home and a permanent business) brought him to Riverside. With his keen perception it did not take him long to determine that here was the opportunity and the home he had been seeking. The second year of his advent here Mr. Rouse organized the stock company of which he is president and his son vice president. That he was more than justified in his faith in the possibilities lying dormant here, waiting for some one with the vision to understand and the self confidence to initiate, is evidenced by the concrete symbol, the department store of G. Rouse & Company. It is second to none in the county in its line, that of varied furnishings for women and men.
Of the social side of his life it can truthfully be said that "Those who know him best, love and honor him most." He is often affectionately alluded to in public print and speech as "The grand old business man of Riverside." And such he is, for he is an upholder of the best traditions as applied to his daily life, and at the same time his progressive, live ideas for the civic good of the city have always been manifested in no uncertain way, his loyalty as a citizen always a factor to be counted upon as one absolutely dependable.
Mr. Rouse is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the Loyal Legion and is a Knight Templar Mason. He is in religious faith an Episcopalian.
BENJAMIN SHERWOOD HAYWOOD, D. D .- Riverside feels a special degree of affection for the cultured and high-minded minister, Dr. Haywood, who has to his credit many years of service in the Southern California Conference and has been frequently marked for distinction
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and some of the largest responsibilities of the church abroad. He was recently appointed pastor of Nelshire Boulevard Methodist Episco- pal Church of Los Angeles.
Dr. Haywood was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, and during his youth there acquired a common school education. He did his college work in Cornell College at Mount Vernon, lowa, and in Purdue University at Lafayette, Indiana. Cornell College gave him his Doctor of Divinity degree at the semi-centennial of that staunch old Methodist institution in 1904. At Cornell College a fellow student was Miss Harriet Porter, and the romance of their college life ended in a most happy marriage.
Dr. Haywood entered the Methodist ministry in 1890 and for two years was in missionary service in old Mexico, being presiding elder of Orizaba District and pastor at Pachuca. Then followed some years of congenial and useful labors in the Southern California Conference, and he was pastor of the first church at Riverside when in 1904 he was called by the Board of Bishops at the General Conference to the superintendency of Porto Rico Mission. Dr. Haywood was for eight years in charge of the Porto Rico Mission, during which time he directed the work of over two hundred Methodist Congregations in the West Indies.
Following this, in June, 1912, he became general secretary of Hospital Work of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the church, with headquarters at Washington. While there he came in close personal touch with national movements and broad world interests. His" knowledge of men and of the world has been diversified not only by his important duties but by engagements on the Chautauqua and lecture platforms and extensive travel at home and abroad.
Dr. Haywood again accepted the pastorate of the First Methodist Church at Riverside in 1916, and after an absence of twelve years he returned to a post of duty that had manifold attractions for him. During the World war he was appointed by President Wilson a mem- ber of Exemption Board No. 1 in Riverside County, and served in that capacity throughout the war period.
CAPT. W. B. JOHNSON, whose home was in Riverside County from 1892 until his death, is remembered for his business ability, his im- portant public service, and his character he always maintained as a highly patriotic and progressive citizen ..
He represented a family of old American traditions and his great- grandfather, Col. Benjamin Johnson, came from Scotland to Amer- ica, becoming a Virginia planter and serving with distinction in the war for independence. The traditions of the family trace the descent from the Norse Vikings who settled in Scotland. Captain David Johnson, son of Col. Benjamin Johnson, was a native of Virginia and served as a soldier in the War of 1812. He was an Indiana pioneer and shared with Levi Beam the honor of being the first settler of Owen County, which then comprised the present counties of Owen, Greene, Putnam and Monroe. His son, Reuben Johnson, born in 1812, was a farmer in Owen County until 1853, and then moved to the new State of Iowa and lived in Clarke County nearly forty years, until his death in 1892. Reuben Johnson married Elizabeth Barrick- man, whose father, John Barrickman, was a native of Germany, was a Virginia planter and lost his life while fording a river. Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson died when about fifty years of age. Her two daughters, Angeline and Sarah, both died in Iowa.
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Of three sons Capt. W. B. Johnson was born July 1, 1846, at Spencer in Owen County, Indiana, and was a boy of seven when his parents moved to Iowa. He and his two brothers for part of the period of the Civil war were all members of Company D of the 39th Iowa Infantry. David H., the oldest, was a sergeant in the Company, and after the war was for two terms treasurer of Clarke County. The other brother, John C., was also a sergeant of Company D and died at Green Bay, Iowa.
W. B. Johnson in June, 1861, shortly before his fifteenth birth- day, joined an Iowa Battalion and was on duty with that organization in Missouri for six months. He then enlisted in Company D, Thirty- ninth Iowa, with his brother, but after a period was transferred to Company G of the Seventh Iowa. He was not discharged until July 12, 1865, so that his army record covers practically the entire war period. Among the major battles in which he participated were Parker's Cross Roads, Corinth, Iuka, Holly Springs, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, many of the engagements of the Atlantic campaign, and he was with General Sherman on the march to the sea and in the campaign through the Carolinas, ending with the battles of Goldsboro and Bentonville. At the battle of Altoona his brigade held Altoona Pass when General Sherman from Kenesaw Mountain, about twenty miles away, signalled the words "hold the fort for I am coming," words used as the first line and title of a popular religious song that has stirred the hearts and emotions of people for more than half a century. Captain Johnson went through the war with two slight wounds. His alertness, courage and resourcefulness made him valu- able in the scouting service. At the Grand Review in Washington he was barely nineteen when he marched at the capital in charge of the Division Forage Squad of Sherman's army.
His military experience continued several years after the war, and he became identified with several interesting phases in the develop- ment of the great Middle West. He served as a scout and wagon master, fighting in the Black Hills against the Indians and assisting in protecting the builders of the Union Pacific Railroad. Later he was appointed captain of Campany B, Second Regiment of Nebraska, better known as the Cowboy Company, and commanded that company on the frontier, guarding the settlements from Indians. For two years he was a deputy United States marshal in Kansas and the old Indian Territory. He was for two years sheriff of Wheeler County, Nebraska, and held a similar position for Valley County, and while living at Osceola, Iowa, was city marshal and under sheriff four years. Besides discharging the duties of these official positions Captain Johnson was for a number of years identified with the cattle industry in Nebraska.
It was in 1887 that he took up his residence in Southern California, locating at Los Angeles. Los Angeles was enjoying boom times, but the boom collapsed shortly afterward and he lost heavily through his real estate investments. For two years he remained there as a special detective, and in 1892 located at Riverside, where he conducted a livery and operated a stage line from San Jacinto to Strawberry Valley. He was elected sheriff in 1894 and filled that office four years. For eighteen months he was a general merchant at Winchester, and then returning to Riverside engaged in the real estate business and also had mining interests in Riverside and San Diego counties. Captain Johnson was finally elected chief of police of Riverside and was in that office when he died.
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He was a widely known and honored figure in Southern California for many years, where he served as president of the Iowa Soldiers Association of California, was a past commander of Ord Post, Grand Army of the Republic, in Nebraska, past commander of Riverside Post No. 108 of the Grand Army, and was affiliated with the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he was a stanch republican and was its candidate for all the public offices he held except once when elected on a citizens' ticket.
Captain Johnson met and married Miss S. S. Freeman in the vicinity of Osceola, Iowa. She was born in Illinois and is now a resident of Riverside. They were the parents of four children : Eugene, now deceased, who was a volunteer in the Spanish-American war; Laura J., wife of D. M. Hinkle, of Rock Island, Illinois; William A., a well known Riverside banker whose career is briefly sketched elsewhere; and Lois J., wife of H. H. Jenkins, who has charge of all orchard work for the Colony Association of Atascadero.
WILLIAM A. JOHNSON, president of the National Bank of Riverside, was for a number of years active as an engineer and contractor, and has been identified with a number of important business undertakings in the county.
He is the only surviving son of the late Capt. W. B. Johnson, a well remembered figure of Riverside County whose story is told elsewhere. William A. Johnson was born while his parents lived at Ord, Nebraska, March 6, 1885, but has lived at Riverside since he was nine years of age. He attended the grammar and high schools of the county, and from public school his experiences quickly led him into the engineering and contracting business. For a number of years he was associated with R. T. Shea in the firm of the Johnson-Shea Company. Their working interests extended to many points in Central and Southern California and into Arizona. They handled some extensive municipal contracts, building water systems, paving and sewer construction, and performed a large amount of that class of work in Riverside and immediate vicinity.
For a number of years Mr. Johnson has been identified with the National Bank of Riverside as a director, but since June, 1919, has been its president. This bank was organized in 1906 and still retains its original capitalization of a hundred thousand dollars, while the surplus is a hundred seventy-five thousand dollars and deposits aggre- gate a million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Johnson is also one of the directors of the Security Investment Company of Riverside and is one of the owners and directors of the Liberty Ranch Company, operating a five hundred acre alfalfa farm at Winchester in Riverside County.
During the World war he sought every opportunity to do his part as a patriotic citizen, co-operating with other workers in Riverside in behalf of the various financial drives and at the close of the war was made head of the local Red Cross. He is a republican and a member of the Republican County Central Committee, but his business and private interests have absorbed his time to the exclusion of politics so far as his personal candidacy is concerned. He is a member of Riverside Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, has been a Mason since he was twenty-one years of age, and is affiliated with the Lodge, Council and Commandery at Riverside and Al Malaikah Temple of the Shrine at Los Angeles. He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Present Day Club.
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