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Dr. Savage married, August 10, 1903, Bernice M. Roberts, a daughter of J. A. Roberts, of Sanger, California. They have four children : Philip Monroe, Jr., Meredyth, James and David.
Fraternally Dr. Savage is identified with San Bernardino Lodge No. 836, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and with San Bernardino Lodge No. 348, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He is also a member of the San Bernardino Post, American Legion, and of Arrowhead Parlor No. 110, Native Sons of the Golden West. He is a member of the San Bernardino County Medical Society, of the California State Medical Society and of the American Medical Asso- ciation, and he is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In political faith he is a voter in the republican ranks. In religious belief he is a member of the First Christian Church and is chairman of its Board of Trustees.
He enlisted for the World war July 17, 1918, at Camp Kearney, and was ordered to San Francisco, where he took a special course in surgery at the University of California, lasting a month. He was then ordered back to Camp Kearney, and was there two weeks, when he was ordered to join Base Hospital No. 108 at Fort Snelling, Minne- sota. Then the influenza broke out, and they were held there until November 25th, when he left there to go to Camp Upton, where he outfitted for overseas service. He contracted the disease just when he was ready to sail. He was on the transport George Washington, Vol. 11 -- 10
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and he was taken off and sent to St. Mary's Hospital at Hoboken, and there he remained until after the armistice was signed, but eventually he recovered. He was held in New York for some time and then ordered to Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he received his discharge December 19th, following, and at once returned to his home in San Bernardino.
CLARENCE D. DICKEY, highly esteemed in San Bernardino as one of the older physicians of that city, which is his birthplace, is not only a Native Son, but the son of one of San Bernardino's pioneers, one of the first physicians to settle here, and he, in turn, is the father of a physician, the three generations having one and all achieved success in their profession.
Dr. Dickey received his earlier education in the schools of San Bernardino and then entered the famous Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from whence he was graduated with the class of 1886. He returned to San Bernardino and commenced practice and has continued in it ever since. He is in politics a republi- can, but has never felt any inclination to assume public office.
Dr. Dickey was born in San Bernardino July 26, 1860, the son of Dr. Dudley Rufus Dickey, who came to San Bernardino with ox teams in 1849, undergoing the usual experiences of the hardy pioneers of that day. He practiced in San Bernardino until his death. The mother of C. D. Dickey was Adelia (Crandall) Dickey, of Iowa, who died in San Bernardino. Dr. Dickey is a member of the Woodmen of the World and was formerly a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He married in 1888 Julia Carnes, a daughter of Lindsay Carnes, of Indiana. They are the parents of two children. Lindsay, an at- torney of Los Angeles, enlisted in the navy in the late war and was made an ensign. He served throughout the war in the aviation depart- ment and was regarded as one of the best aviators in the depart- ment. Clarence, a prominent physician and surgeon of Los Angeles, also enlisted in the war, but as a physician, and he served until the armistice. He is now devoting himself chiefly to surgery and is meet- ing with great success in that branch. Clarence Dickey married Miss Helen Reeves, a native of San Bernardino, and daughter of W. B. Reeves, the present constable of San Bernardino. They have one daughter, Emma Lou.
GAYLORD BRAYTON NORTON-The late Gaylord Brayton Norton played an important part in the horticultural development of Riverside city and county, and is remembered here for his work along this line, but he also made a distinctive record as an able business man in the com- mercial field before he came to this locality. He was born in Herkimer County, New York, May 28, 1837, and died at Riverside in 1905. Mr. Norton was proud of his family record, and traced his lineage back to his great-grandfather, who fought in the American Revolution and was a native of Connecticut. His son, Russell Norton, the grand- father of Gaylord Brayton Norton, was born in Connecticut, but moved to Herkimer County, New York, and there was engaged in farming and wagonmaking. W. L. Norton, son of Russell Norton, was a native of Herkimer County, and was a farmer and contractor and builder of Litchfield Township, that county, until his death, which occurred at the age of sixty-eight years. He married Esther Gaylord,
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a native of Oneida County, New York, and a daughter of Dr. Chester Gaylord, who moved from Oneida County to Herkimer County and was engaged in an active practice in the latter locality for many years. Still later he moved to Illinois, where he died. Mrs. Norton died at the age of twenty-eight years, her only son, Gaylord Brayton, being then but three days old.
Growing up in Herkimer County, Gaylord Brayton Norton attended its public schools and Whitestone Seminary, from which he was graduated.
In 1858 he went to Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, and was there engaged in clerking in a general merchandise store until he enlisted, in 1862, for service during the war between the states. He was assigned to Company E, Twenty-seventh Ohio Volunteer In- fantry, and was detailed as clerk at the headquarters of the Ohio Brigade. In the winter of that year he was located at Corinth, Miss- issippi, but in the spring of 1863 he was detailed to assist Chaplain Eaton in what was known as the Freedman's Department, and cared for the colored men who came to the Union troops for protection. They established a corral at Grand Junction, Tennessee, and another at Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Norton was later sent to Vicksburg, where he was under the command of Gen. John Eaton, and he located a camp at Youngspoint, Louisana, twelve miles from Vicksburg. At one time there were 12,000 negroes at this camp. When the negroes became too numerous for the accommodations at Youngspoint they were transferred to Davis Bend, thirty miles south of Vicksburg, and placed on seven plantations, where they formed an industrial colony, being engaged in planting cotton and fortifying the place. While Mr. Norton was superintending these plantations he was an occupant of the house that was owned by Jefferson Davis. So well did he carry out the work of these plantations that he was commissioned a first lieutenant at Vicksburg, and at Davis Point was made a captain. He organized two colored regiments, the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-fourth United States Infantry, and only concluded his humane work for the refugees when he was mustered out of the service at Vicksburg in 1866.
During the fall of 1866 Mr. Norton returned to Portsmouth, Ohio, but did not remain there, soon leaving that city for Waynesboro, Tennessee, where he became manager for the store, and assistant superintendent of the furnace of the Wayne Furnace Company. Four years later he returned to Portsmouth once more, but left it for Hang- ing Rock, Ohio, where he went into business with his brother-in-law, S. B. Hemstead, of the S. B. Hemstead & Company Stove Foundry. After a year he bought an interest in the mercantile department of the Ashland Coal & Iron Railroad Company, and took charge of it. The company conducted a general store at their Colton mine at the time he acquired his interest, and he soon opened three others, securing the patronage for them all not only of the miners, but also of the people of the surrounding country, so that he made them paying propositions, and for twenty years continued to direct their acivities, and then sold his interests.
In 1891 Mr. Norton came to California for the winter, but was so pleased with conditions that he decided to make this state his perma- nent home. He had invested previously in a stock business in Labette County, Kansas, where he owned 600 acres, but he sold this property after settling in California. During the first winter here he bought a ranch of twenty-one and one-half acres, later adding fifteen acres,
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all of which are in alfalfa with the exception of five acres planted in oranges. This continued his home until his death, his widow in 1914 erecting a handsome residence at 189 Magnolia Avenue, where she and her children still live. For some years his residence on his first acreage was one of the show places of Riverside County. Mr. Norton was greatly interested in all horticultural matters and assisted in organizing the Riverside Naval Orange Company, of which he was long the president.
In 1868 Mr. Norton married Harriet E. Hemstead, a daughter of Dr. G. S. B. Hemstead, of Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Norton became the parents of five children, namely: Benjamin, who is a horticulturist of the vicinity of Artesia, California; Miss Mary E., who is at home; John, who was formerly in business at Lankersham, where he was a member of the Toluca Packing Company, and is now quartermaster of one of the merchant marine vessels plying between the Pacific Coast and Europe and Africa; Miss Helen G., who is at home; and Brayton, who is a veteran of the World war. He served on the Walter D. Munson as quartermaster, and made fourteen round trips across the sea. He had previously acquired considerable repu- tation as an author, his productions being published in the leading monthly magazines, the most popular one being "Sleeping Acres." He is now coast master at Laguna, California, and is still engaged in writing.
Gaylord B. Norton was a republican, but never took any active part in politics. Early joining the Presbyterian Church, he gave it a faithful service, and was a trustee of the congregation at Riverside. The keynote of his character was faithfulness. When he undertook any- thing he gave to his duties his best efforts and never rested content until he brought everything into excellent shape. He possessed great excutive ability, knew how to direct others and obtain from them a whole-hearted co-operation that was very effective. A devoted hus- band, kind and watchful father, sympathetic and helpful friend and conscientious citizen, Mr. Norton left his mark on the civilization of his times, and his memory is cherished by those who knew and appre- ciated his many virtures.
FRANK A. LEONARD, attorney of San Bernardino, has been in active practice there almost long enough to make him eligible to membership in the pioneer class of attorneys of that city. The firm of which he is senior partner is a strong one, doing a general practice but handling so much corporation business it might almost be regarded as specializ- ing in that line.
Mr. Leonard was born in Watertown, Wisconsin, December 7, 1864, the son of Ira E. and Maria (Shepherd) Leonard. His father was an attorney of note, who was born in the State of New York, removing to Watertown about 1862. He was later judge of the District Court in Missouri, holding the position through the strenuous times of the Ku Klux troubles. He was nominated for supreme judge of Missouri, but being a republican was defeated, although he received the largest vote on the ticket. He moved to Missouri in 1866 and was an attorney for the St. Louis & Iron Moutain Railway for some years. On account of his health he decided to leave Missouri, resigning and moving to Boulder, Colorado. He practiced there but finally located in Socorro, New Mexico, where he practiced until his death in 1889. While in Boulder he was one of the regents of the University of Colorado.
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His wife removed to San Bernardino where she lived until the age of ninety, passing away in the fall of 1921.
Mr. Leonard received his primary education in the public schools of Boulder, Colorado, and then spent one year and a half in the University of Colorado. He studied law at the St. Louis Law School, a department of Washington University, and was there one year. He entered his father's office and was admitted to the bar in Socorro, New Mexico. He remained with his father until 1888, when he came to San Bernardino, in November of that year entering into a partner- ship with Henry Goodcell. When Mr. Goodcell moved to Oakland Mr. Leonard practiced alone for a time and then entered into a partnership with E. R. Annabel. This partnership lasted only three weeks owing to the death of Mr. Annabel. Mr. Leonard again practiced alone until he formed a partnership with Howard Surr on July 15, 1907. This partnership has since continued. In January, 1915, George W. Hell- yer was admitted into the firm, which now is Leonard, Surr & Hellyer. They are attorneys for the Fontana Companies; the Citizens Land & Water Company of Bloomington ; the Etiwanda Water Company ; the Rialto Irrigation District; the Muscoy Water Company; the South Mesa Water Company ; the Western Heights Water Company ; the Yucaipa Water Company No. 1; and the Arrowhead Reservoir & Power Company. Mr. Leonard is also the city attorney for Redlands.
He married in 1890 Fannie E. Sawyer, a daughter of A. M. and S. A. Sawyer, of Boulder, Colorado. They are the parents of four children : James S., of Oak Glenn, an apple grower, who has one child ; Marion, wife of Charles H. Dyke, of San Anselmo, California ; Albert at college; and Helen, who is at home. Fraternally Mr. Leonard is a member of the San Bernardino Lodge No. 836, Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World, and the Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the San Bernardino County Bar Association and of the Phi Delta Phi. He is a republican. The family is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church of Redlands.
E. R. BURT is the managing executive of the Riverside business known as the Riverside Tent & Awning Company at 393-395 Eighth Street. This is a manufacturing concern of important proportions, and has fully made good the claims of its motto "if it's made of canvas, we make it." Mr. Burt himself is an expert in every branch of the indus- try and has been rapidly extending the manufacturing processes and the trade demands so that the plant has complete facilities for the manufacture of such varied wares as tents, awnings,, bags, aprons, can- teens, camp furniture, and porch curtains, and an important feature of their business is the supply of the orange picking bags used through- out the Riverside district. The company's factory has a floor space of 10,800 square feet.
Mr. Burt was born at Gadsden, Alabama, December 12, 1882, son of Arthur Chilton and Clara Bell (Gramling) Burt, his father a native of Macon, Mississippi, and his mother of South Carolina. His father was born in 1852, and died at San Diego in 1908. Most of his life was spent in clerical service in banking institutions. The mother is still living in Riverside, near her sons and daughters. Her six sons are: E. R., Lawrence, Walter, Clarence, Claud Chilson and Charles Avery Burt, and the three daughters are, Lena Cornelia, Maggie Riddle and Clara Willie Burt, all residents of Riverside.
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E. R. Burt acquired early education in the public schools of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and after school days were ended took up the carpenter's trade. As a skilled mechanic he arrived in San Diego January 7, 1907, and for a short time did some work as a journeyman carpenter and subsequently was a contractor there until 1910. Since that year he has been a resident of Riverside, and soon after coming here entered the employ of the Riverside Tent & Awning Company. In 1918 he became co-partner and manager of the business, and in the past three years the volume of output and sale has more than doubled.
ROBERT McFARLANE for the past eighteen years has been superin- tendent of the Riverside Cemetery Association, employing his expert skill as a landscape gardener in beautifying and maintaining Evergreen Cemetery.
Mr. McFarlane was born at Killin, Perthshire, Scotland, April 3, 1870, and was reared and educated there. After his formal schooling he devoted his attention to horticulture, which has been a life study with him, and for many years he has specialized in landscape gar- dening.
Mr. McFarlane came to Riverside in 1896 and a few years later was made superintendent of Evergreen Cemetery. This beautiful burial ground, located at the foot of rugged Mount Rubidoux, has been the direct object of his professional skill and devoted care for so long a period that it is in an important sense a monument to his endeavors.
Mr. McFarlane had a brother, John McFarlane, who was a well known resident of San Bernardino, where he died about two years ago. Another brother, Dr. William McFarlane, visited in Riverside in 1911, and left with the intention of making a permanent home here. The World war upset his plans, but since then he has been making preparations to carry out his original design as soon as he can settle his affairs in Scotland.
Robert McFarlane owns a home in Riverside and has a fine orange grove near the new experiment station. For the last fifteen years his annual chrysanthemum show has been an event attended by all lovers of that wonderful flower. He has cultivated about a hundred different varieties of many colors. Mr. McFarlane is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
MAJOR ORIN P. SLOAT is the genial and well beloved secretary of San Bernardino Lodge No. 836, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He has been constantly the presiding genius of the Elks Club House. To his zeal, his love for the order, his devotion to the interests of each and every member is due the social atmosphere that prevails and the harmony and good taste that marked the service of this, one of the best appointed Elks Clubs in the country. When the building was planned Major Sloat was one of those working most unselfishly for its establishment. Not content to direct the work, his own hands laid out the beautiful gardens surrounding the Club House, planting the flowers, shrubs and trees and erecting the summer houses and the hot houses. It was a labor of love, and now Major Sloat has the reward of living in the beautiful surroundings he created. It is one of San Bernardino's show places, with velvety green lawns, lovely flowers and foliage, the building covered with graceful vines over thirteen years ago by Major Sloat.
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Major Sloat has been secretary since 1908. He was already a well known and popular citizen, soldier and business man, and outside of the community has warm friends among the Elks in every state of the Union. The Elks are preeminently American, and it is fitting that such a true American as Major Sloat should be their secretary. Much of the popularity, the comradeship of an Elks Lodge depends upon its secretary, and Major Sloat has been an official of ideal qualifications in this respect. He has a keen eye for detail, keeps the Club House in perfect repair, and it is the first object of his care every hour in the day.
Major Sloat is one of California's most devoted adopted sons. He was born at Hobart, Delaware County, New York, October 22, 1860, son of William H. and Permelia (Peck) Sloat. His father was a skilled worker in wood, and some of the old friends of the family at San Bernardino have cherished specimens of his craft. The Sloat family is an old American line of Holland descent, three brothers having come to this country in Colonial days. One of the family was Commander Sloat, who raised the first flag on the Pacific at Monterey. When the monument to his memory was unveiled at Monterey Major Sloat represented the family at the ceremony, being sent from San Bernardino with Judge West by the Board of Supervisors. Photo- graphs of that event show Major Sloat, Judge West and the artist who created the monument just before the unveiling. Every county in California gave one piece of rock for the base of the monument, and it was twenty years in building. It occupies the exact site where Commander Sloat raised the flag.
Still another ancestor was General Marcy, one of American's great soldiers. Some of that branch of the family were victims of the massacre in the Wyoming Valley in the Revolutionary struggle. The mother of Major Sloat was of strict Puritan ancestry, and many of that line were Presbyterian ministers. A complete record of the Sloat family has been compiled by John Drake Sloat, Jr., of Saint Louis, Missouri.
William Henry Sloat, father of Major Sloat, was a valued citizen of San Bernardino, and his death was a loss to the community. He was for fifty years a Mason, and that order had charge of his burial services. Major Sloat is almost the last of his family. He has never married, and was the only son. Of his five sisters four are deceased, one is living in Chicago, and he has several nieces in New York and one in Maricopa.
Major Sloat was educated at Oneonta, New York, and at the age of sixteen was working for a living in a shoe store there. At the age of twenty-one he went to Kansas, spent a year on a cattle ranch, and on coming to Los Angeles was connected with the W. C. Furry Hardware Company six years. Since then he has been an honored and useful and ever active citizen of San Bernardino. He was deputy county clerk in 1893-94 under Mr. Hamilton. He then became division store keeper for the Santa Fe Railroad, and held that post of duty for sixteen years, in full charge of all supplies issued in the Southern California Division.
He resigned that office to become secretary of the Elks Club, and his old employes and associates with the Santa Fe presented him when he left with a handsome watch as a token of their regard.
The military record of Major Sloat began with his active service in the National Guard of California. He was a first lieutenant in the San Bernardino Company when the Spanish-American war broke out. When its Captain, T. H. Goff, resigned the lieutenant was ready to take
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command of the company, but he and his men were under orders to go to San Francisco before the commission arrived. Company K of the Seventh Infantry, of which Major Sloat was captain, was known in 1887 as the Waterman Rifles, a name given in compliment to Governor Waterman. It was mustered in October 29, 1887, as Company E, Seventh Infantry, was later transferred to the Ninth Infantry, and when that command disintegrated was assigned to the Second Bat- talion, First Brigade. December 9, 1895, this was designated as Company K, transferred to the First Battalion, Seventh Infantry. It was mustered into the Seventh California Infantry, United States volunteers, Independent Division, Eighth Army Corps, May 9, 1898, at The Presidio in San Francisco, O. P. Sloat, Captain.
In the meantime Major Sloat had worked hard early and late to raise the strength of the Company from fifty to the full quota of a hundred and fifty. He made a record as one of the best liked and most popular officers of the command, constantly looking for their comfort and welfare. The company on leaving San Bernardino received a wonderful farewell, and on their return the entire county welcomed them. After the war, when the Guard was reorganized, Captain Sloat was made major, an office he filled two years, until compelled to resign because of the exacting duties of his railroad work. Whether in the National Guard or out he has been devoted to the letter and spirit of Old Glory. When the Riverside Lodge of Elks new club house was dedicated he presented the beautiful flag to the new lodge as a gift from the San Bernardino Elks. He is an eloquent speaker and when occa- sion demands a most forceful one, and has been invited on numberless occasions to speak or serve in public affairs. He has often been written up by the press, and Dr. Owen made him the subject of a rarely beautiful story which he entitled "A Fable." Major Sloat has many interesting treasures in his rooms at the Club House, ranging from the medal presented on the return of the Company by the Native Sons to others received from all over the world.
Major Sloat is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, is treasurer of the Salvation Army, member of the Spanish-American War Vet- erans, of San Bernardino Lodge No. 348, F. and A. M. has been for four years treasurer of the Elks State Outpost Association, and now secretary of the same organization and treasurer of the Elks Outpost Association, an idea that was first originated by him and Dr. H. M. Hayes and has spread to Elks lodges all over the United States.
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