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Mrs. Jordan have a fine little son, James H., Jr., who was born January 29, 1921.
FRANK T. TRUJILLO-The founder of the Trujillo family, whose name is often written in the early history of Southern California and which has been one of the highest standing in the district comprising San Bernardino and Riverside counties, located here as early as 1841. His only surviving son, Dario Trujillo, is a prominent old time mining man now living at Perris, and was born at Spanishtown, on the border between Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
A son of Dario Trujillo is Frank T. Trujillo, who was born at Spanishtown August 22, 1881. In a business way he has become widely known for his success in the real estate field at San Bernardino. He also has to his credit a record of service with the American forces in France. He was educated in the grammar and high schools of Riverside County. After leaving school his first occupations were in line with his father's business, and he worked in the Good Hope, Santa Rosa and Gaviland mining districts of Riverside. Out of his practical experience he became a contractor, handling all kinds of under- ground work. The poisonous gasses from the burned powder caused him to abandon mining as an occupation. He then took up real estate, and is an acknowledged authority on the superficial as well as the geo- logical resources of this section. He is a skilled geologist, an expert in soils, and has been identified with real estate operations both at Perris and Los Angeles.
January 24, 1918, he enlisted in Company C of the 27th Mining Engineers organization. His active service covered a period of ten months. While overseas he was a participant in the battles of the Marne and the Argonne, and was at the historic points of conflict known as Belleau Wood and Paris Farm. He received his honorable discharge May 4, 1919.
After the war Mr. Trujillo opened his offices at San Bernardino. In real estate he specialized in acreage, improved and unimproved. From 1910 to 1913, while associated with H. A. Shiffer at Perris, his firm handled two million dollars worth of acreage property. He also retains some interest in the silica and feldspar deposits and granite quarries of Riverside county. Mr. Trujillo is a member of the Native Sons of the Golden West and the American Legion.
At San Bernardino December 14, 1904, he married Lola Ingman, a native of Kansas, daughter of the late Louis Ingman. The two chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Trujillo are John and Lenore, the former in the class of 1922 and the latter in the class of 1924 at the Perris High School.
TERRY V. DAVENPORT has been engaged in the plumbing business at Riverside since 1906, has built up a substantial and representative enter- prise in this field and is known and valued as one of the wide-awake and progressive young business men and loyal and appreciative citizens of Riverside County. Further interest attaches to his status in the community by reason of the fact that he is a native son of California, his birth having occurred in Surprise Valley, in Modoc County, on the 22nd of July, 1882. His father, T. W. Davenport, who is now living virtually retired at Arlington, Riverside County, was born in Missouri, devoted the major part of his active career to farm industry and served during the Civil war as a gallant soldier of the Union. He is a republican in political allegiance. was active in public affairs in earlier years and served for a time as judge of the Superior Court of Dade County, Missouri. He
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first came to California in 1881, and established his home on a farm in Modoc County, where his son Terry V. of this review was born. Finally T. W. Davenport returned to Missouri, but in 1906 he came again to California, where he continued his association with agricultural enterprise until his retirement, since which time he has resided in his pleasant home at Arlington. He is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic and with the Masonic fraternity. His father was a native of Scotland. As a young man T. W. Davenport wedded Miss Mary Davis, who likewise was born and reared in Missouri, the Davis family lineage tracing back to staunch English origin and representatives of the name having come to America in the colonial period, as attested by the fact that members of the family were found as patriot soldiers of the Continental Line in the War of the Revolution. The gracious marital ties of many years were severed when the loved wife and mother was summoned to the life eternal, her death having occurred in December, 1919.
The early education of Terry V. Davenport was obtained principally in the public schools of Missouri, and his initial experience of practical order was in connection with farm operations, with which he continued his association in Missouri until 1905, when he there learned the plumber's trade. In 1906 he came with his parents to California, the state of his nativity, and for the first year thereafter he followed the work of his trade in an individual way at Riverside. He then formed a partnership with his brother, J. H. Davenport, and they continued the plumbing business under the title of Davenport Brothers until 1913, when Terry V. sold his interest and resumed independent operations. He has built up a substantial and prosperous business, fully fifty per cent. of which is of contract order, and a large part of the new plumbing work in the River- side district in recent years has been installed by him. In partnership with his brother-in-law, C. E. Sunstedt, he is the owner also of a well improved alfalfa and cotton ranch of 120 acres in the Palo Verde Valley, and the place is under the direct management of Mr. Sunstedt. He has varied mining interests in both California and Nevada.
Though he has had no desire to enter the arena of practical politics, Mr. Davenport is aligned loyally in the ranks of the republican party. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World, and both he and his wife hold membership in the United Brethren Church of Riverside, in which he is serving as a member of the Board of Stewards.
December 21, 1905, recorded the marriage of Mr. Davenport with Miss Eva Harp, who was born in the State of New York and whose mother, Mrs. Helen Harp, resided in that state until her death in Sep- tember, 1921. Mr. and Mrs. Davenport became the parents of one son and four daughters, the son having died in infancy. Lois Evelyn, eldest of the daughters, is a member of the class of 1923 in the Riverside High School ; Alta May and Norma Aileen are likewise attending the public schools; and Rachel Ann, who maintains gracious sovereignty in the family home circle, is not yet of school age at the time of this writing, in 1921.
EVERETT C. BLACKMORE has been a Southern Californian since child- hood, and for a number of years has been identified with some of River- side County's most important interests. From grain raising he took volunteer service for the Government during the World war, and since then has been a leader in real estate and insurance circles at Riverside.
Mr. Blackmore was born at Morse in Johnson County, Iowa, in 1888. His father, Charles Blackmore, was a native of England. His mother,
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Mary R. Morse, was born in Iowa and is now deceased. His grand- father was an Iowa pioneer for whom the town of Morse was named. This is the same family as that to which the perfector of the telegraphic code belonged. The Morses are of Revolutionary stock and English descent.
Everett C. Blackmore was six years of age when his father came to California in 1894 and purchased a ten acre orange grove near Santa Ana in Orange County. Charles Blackmore has for a quarter of a century been active in Orange culture. The son received his education in the grammar and high schools of Orange County. When he left school he took up grain ranching on an extensive scale in French Valley, south of Winchester, in Riverside County. For twelve successive years his work was one of arduous responsibility in keeping up the production of wheat and barley on a tract of six hundred acres. Immediately after America entered the war with Germany he sold his interests to his brother, J. M. Blackmore, and joined the War Council of the Y. M. C. A. at Camp Kearney, serving without pay throughout the war.
Receiving his discharge in January, 1919, and, after a few months of rest, he came to Riverside in November of the same year, and became special agent for the Riverside County Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany, which was organized in 1917, and of which Mr. Blackmore has been one of the directors since 1920. This is a company organized not for profit but for saving money, and a full review of the organiza- tion and aims is given elsewhere in this publication. Mr. Blackmore is a pioneer in Mutual benefit projects in Riverside and vicinity. Be- sides his work as special agent for the County Mutual, on August 1, 1920, he formed a copartnership with G. O. Tetley, under the name Tetley & Blackmore, and they now conduct a general real estate and fire insurance business.
On September 10. 1921. Mr. Blackmore was elected a director and acting secretary of the California Mutual Life Benefit Association, a non-profit organization, organized November 25, 1920, in Riverside, the object being a state wide life benefit association. It is now doing business in Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange and Los Angeles coun- ties. Its officers are : President, W. H. Ellis ; secretary, J. E. Harris, treasurer, W. A. Johnson. The directors are W. H. Ellis. G. A. Mills. J. E. Harris, Geo. A. Portus. Everett C. Blackmore The depository is with the National Bank of Riverside
Mr. Blackmore is a member of Riverside Lodge No. 643, Benev- olent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a democratic voter. August 25, 1920, at Santa Ana, he married Miss Grace A. Hatfield. She was born in Pennsylvania, and her father, George A. Hatfield, is a cabinet maker at Santa Ana. She is a member of an old Ameri- can family of English descent.
Mr. Blackmore has two brothers and two sisters. His twin brother, J. M. Blackmore, still continues grain ranching in the French Valley. He married Ednee Nicholas, a native of that valley and daughter of a pioneer, Marius Nicholas. They have three children. The second brother, Bayard C. Blackmore, was the first to enlist from the Santa Ana district when America declared war against Germany, and after train- ing at Camp Kearney was sent overseas with the Fourth Division and was in all the engagements of that command in France and then con- tinued with the Army of Occupation in Germany until 1920. Since his return he has been engaged in carpenter and building work at Santa Ana.
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The older sister, Sue H., is the wife of Roy I. Smith, an orchardist at Trustin, California, and they have two children. The younger sis- ter, Mary H., is the wife of Marius Nicholas, a brother of Ednee, and they live on a grain ranch in the French Valley and are the parents of two children.
CHARLES A. OHLHAUSEN has been identified with the working good citizenship of Riverside for over thirty years. When the use of cement was practically a new thing in building construction Mr. Ohl- hausen began handling that material, and is one of the oldest cement con- tractors in Southern California. He has studied the material and its use, has made practical application of it to every possible form of construction and his experience in the practical as well as in the scientific side makes him a noteworthy authority as a consulting engineer.
Mr. Ohlhausen is probably the only man of that name in the United States. Up to his father's time the name was Von Ohlhausen. It was the name of one of the old titled families of Holland. Charles A. Ohlhausen was born in St. Louis County, Missouri, September 17, 1859. His father, William V. Ohlhausen, was a native of Holland who came to this country when a young man. He was a farmer, also a country mechanic, and had that all around versatility in mechanical lines seldom found nowadays. He was well versed in cooperage and also a wagon and harness maker, and possessed a genial character that made him a citizen of influence in the community where he lived. Ow- ing to physical disability his services were not accepted at the time of the Civil war. William Ohlhausen married Suzanna Terry, who was born in Virginia, of an old family of that commonwealth and of Eng- lish descent.
Charles A. Ohlhausen acquired his early education in the public schools, of Missouri. His life up to the age of twenty-five was spent on a farm and in farm work. In 1888 he left St. Louis County and came to Cali- fornia, and his first employment was at Laguna Beach. The following year he moved to Riverside and joined the fortunes of that town when it possessed a meager population. His work at first was in varied lines, and for six years he was connected with O. T. Dyer in the Riverside Bank. Since then his time and study have been chiefly given to cement, and he is now the oldest contractor in the city and has handled a part of the construction of nearly all the important buildings. He possesses a knowledge of cement construction born of experience since early youth, and his sons have likewise followed him in the choice of a career. A complete list of the work Mr. Ohlhausen has done as a cement contractor would be almost a directory of all the important building construction in and around the city. Some of the more important examples of his work are the Mission Inn. County Court House, Y. M. C. A. Building. Citizens National Bank, Glenwood Mission Garage, Freeman Building and Garage, Girls High School, Manual Training School, Longfellow School, Fremont School and, in fact, all of the schoolhouses in Riverside and Arlington, the City Electric Plant, Congregational Church, Seventh Day Adventist Church, Carnegie Library. Southern Sierras Power Building, the Santa Fe Depot at San Bernardino. Mr. Ohlhausen put down the first street in Riverside made from domestic cement, and has constructed miles of street and boulevard paving. In connection with his other busi- ness he was for many years connected with the Cresmer Manufacturing Company at Riverside.
As a profitable and interesting diversion from his chief business Mr. Ohlhausen has become a bee keeper, and has a fine apiary consisting of
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over 200 stands. For many years he was a devoted democrat in politics, though he now counts himself as a free thinker or socialist. While active in his party, he was a delegate to state and county conventions and for many years was county organizer and served on both the city and county central committees. He was the first constable elected in Orange County when that county was taken out of San Diego and Los Angeles counties. He gave the full strength of his influence to the movement for the forma- tion of Riverside County. He is affiliated with the Knights of the Macca- bees and the Woodmen of the World and has held chairs in both orders.
December 10. 1884, at Clayton, St. Louis County, Missouri, Mr. Ohlhausen married Miss Mary J. Whiteman. She was born in that state, daughter of Charles Whiteman, and is of Scotch and German ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Ohlhausen are well justified in the pride they feel in their family of children, six in number. The oldest, Annie D., is the widow of George Ferguson and lives at Los Angeles. The second, Isabel, is the wife of Robert Smith, a box maker of Riverside, and they have two children, Margery and Robert, both in school. The third of the family is Miss Evelyn Ohlhausen, at home. Carlton, the oldest of the three sons, is a cement worker who learned the business with his father and now has charge of the firm's work for the Southern Hotel Association at Pasadena. He married Louise Hudson, of Hemet, and their four chil- dren are Nelda, Sherman, George and Audrie. Leroy Ohlhausen, also a cement worker with his father, and employed by the Cresmer Manu- facturing Company and other contractors, is an ex-service man, having spent eighteen months in Siberia as a corporal during the World war. He was a member of Company I of the 12th Infantry and later of the 31st Infantry, A. E. F. The youngest of the family, Chester, is also engaged in cement work, and is employed by the Cresmer Manufacturing Company and other contractors.
JOHN CORREJA-The late John Correja began spending his winters in California in 1910, and in 1916 built his beautiful home at 136 Ramona Drive at Riverside. Mr. Correja lived to enjoy the luxuries and beauties of this home environment only two years. He died April 17, 1918. Mrs. Correja still occupies the residence, and is one of the very highly esteemed citizens of the community.
Mr. Correja was a man of remarkable attainments, a thorough business executive and yet also an artist possessed of a range of culture such as few busy Americans can ever expect to attain.
For upwards of a century the name has been conspicuous in the metropolitan district of New York. Until his death Mr. Correja retained his beautiful country home at Iselin, Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. For many years the family lived in New York and Brooklyn, and the late John Correja was born at Brooklyn April 12, 1854. His father, John Correja, Sr., was a native of New York City, and the grandfather, who also bore the naine John, was of Portuguese ancestry, at one time a sea captain and for many years a resident of New York City. He also owned a plantation in Cuba.
John Correja, father of John, Jr., was a very distinguished archi- tect, and between the years 1840 and 1870 erected some of the finest buildings of New York, including the Academy of Design, Dr. Chapin's Church, and many warehouses and business structures.
The late John Correja was a graduate of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and was actively associated with the architectural pro- fession with his father until 1890, when he gave up active business. From 1864 the Correja family had made their summer home in Wood-
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bridge Township, New Jersey. The Correja estate of five hundred acres was one of the most striking features in a section of beautiful rural homes. The residence is surrounded with parks, gardens, farm lands and forest. In that community John Correja proved his public spirit and generosity in many substantial ways. At his personal expense he opened a roadway forty feet wide, known as Correja Road or Middlesex Avenue, direct to New York City. On account of his experience in road building and as a civil engineer and for his deep interest in the subject of roads he was appointed by the Governor of New Jersey a delegate to one of the pioneer good roads conventions held at Buffalo, New York. He was a republican in politics. For twelve years he was a trustee of his school district, being a member of the first board. He was afterward chosen freeholder of the town- ship. He was also a member of the County Agricultural Society, the Colonial Golf Club, the Woodbridge Athletic Association and was inter- ested in banking.
Mr. Correja married Miss Emma Augusta Ransom, a native of New York City, daughter of William K. and Elizabeth Ransom. Her father was a New York business man, and represented an old American family of English descent. Mrs. Correja's grandparents on both sides were born in New York City.
From their first acquaintance with California Mr. and Mrs. Correja were especially charmed with Riverside, and after building their home they showed their interest in many practical ways in the community life. Mr. Correja served as a member of the local School Board. He was wholly the artist not only in architecture but in painting and drawing, and did much creditable work in oil. He was also interested in elec- tricity, and fitted up a model shop with the idea of delving more deeply into the subject. Another interest that was something more than theoretical was automobile building. He built what was known as the Correja car and manufactured a number of both touring cars and roadsters, which possessed not only fine lines but also excelled in power and hill climbing. When Mr. Correja withdrew from the busi- ness and came to California he brought one of his touring cars, and it is still in the garage at the Riverside home.
Mr. Correja was an enthusiastic collector of armor and arms of the ancient type, and the home on Ramona Drive is filled with a wonderful collection of this kind. As a memorial Mrs. Correja gave to the River- side Library his fine and complete collection of architectural books, probably the finest collection of its kind in the state. It is known as the John Correja Collection, and comprises Greek, Latin, Italian, Gothic, French, Holland and German works.
ANTHONY RUSKAUFF, vice-president of the Almo Water Company and one of the representative farmers and poultry growers of the River- side district, has been a resident of California since 1907. Prior experi- ence in various states of the Union but emphasized his appreciation of the attraction and advantages of Southern California when he decided here to establish his permanent home, and in Riverside County abundant success has attended his industrial activities. That he coincides with the opinions of the late and honored Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in the matter of "race suicide," needs no further voucher than the statement that he has a fine family of nine sons and six daughters, besides which he can point with pride also to having sixteen grandchildren-eight boys and eight girls.
Mr. Ruskauff was born in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Feb- ruary 17, 1856, and in Hanover, Germany, were born his parents, Conrad
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and Anna Elizabeth (Fraker) Ruskauff. After coming to the United States, as a young man, the father gave his attention to farm enterprise during the greater part of his active career, and he became a pioneer exponent of this basic line of industry in Richland County, Wisconsin, where he established his residence in 1866 and where he reclaimed from the forest a productive farm of 120 acres. He continud to give his attention to the improvement and operation of this farm until his death in 1873, his widow having survived him by a term of years. Both were earnest communicants of the Catholic Church.
Anthony Ruskauff was ten years old at the time of the family removal from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, where he was reared on the home farm and received the advantages of the public schools of the period. He was a sturdy youth of seventeen years at the time of his father's death, and upon him devolved the responsibility of managing the home farm for his mother. After two years they rented the place and he removed to St. Charles, Minnesota, in which locality Mr. Ruskauff was employed one year at farm work. He returned to the old homestead joining his mother, for the ensuing winter, and during the next year he was engaged in farm- ing near Sun Prairie, not far from Madison, capital of Wisconsin. The next year found him again in charge of the old home farm, which he left the next year to pass the winter in the pine woods of Wisconsin. After this experience in lumbering he was employed successively at Lake City, Minneapolis, and Red Wing, Minnesota, mainly in lumber and shingle mills, and he then returned to the old homestead. May 10, 1880, recorded his marriage to Miss Theresa Mulford, who was born in Pennsylvania and whose father, George Mulford, was a native of Bavaria. After his marriage Mr. Ruskauff continued his active association with farm in- dustry in Wisconsin, on rented land, until the death of his wife, who is survived by three children: Edward, who is now a prosperous farmer near Elsinore, Riverside County, California, married Leona Anderson, and they have one son and four daughters. Abbie is the wife of William Unger, of Rockford, Illinois, and they have two sons and two daughters. Anna, the widow of Henry Schultz, resides at Madison, Wisconsin. After the death of his wife Mr. Ruskauff purchased eighty acres of his mother's farm, and she cared for the home and his children for the ensuing fifteen months, or until his marriage, June 12, 1889, to Katharine Winkler, who was born in Alsace-Lorraine, and who was an infant at the time of the family immigration to the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Ruskauff have twelve children: Johanna is the wife of Leslie Stewart, of Elsinore ; Riverside County, and they have one son and one daughter. Frank who conducts a meat market at Hemet, this country, married Miss Pauline Ward, whose father is (1921) principal of the public schools of that village. Conrad J., an automobile salesman residing in Los Angeles, married Mary Agle, and they have one daughter. Rose is the wife of Henry Ciple, a farmer of Riverside County, and they have two sons. George and Elizabeth are twins, the former being engaged in the laundry business at Santa Barbara and Elizabeth is the wife of Alfred Smith, of Sonoma County, their one child being a son. Henry, who conducts a meat market at Santa Paula, married Beatrice McGrath, and they have a son. William is associated with his brother Frank in the meat-market business at Hemet. Joseph is an acetylene welder in the employ of the Riverside Cement Company. Clements, Matilda and Anthony, Jr., are attending the Riverside public schools. Henry enlisted for service in the World war, but was discharged by reason of physical disability. Frank was called into service in connection with the selective draft, was in training at Medical Lake, Washington, and San Diego, California, and
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