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Mr. Arnold on giving up his law practice came to Riverside in 1913. He purchased various orange groves and now owns twenty-nine acres in citrus fruits on Victoria Avenue, on Horace Street and on Hawarden Drive. He also has some unimproved acreage on the hills above Hawarden Drive. Since coming to Riverside he has been a director in the Victoria Avenue Citrus Association, and for the last two or three years has been a director of the Riverside-Arlington Heights Fruit Exchange, a director of the California Fruit Growers Exchange and of the Fruit Growers Supply Company. The year after he came to Riverside Mr. Arnold was elected president and a director of the Riverside Chamber of Commerce. He served as president one year and has since been retained on the Board of Directors. He has also been a member of the Library Board, is a member of the Present Day Club, and for many years has been deeply interested in the objects of the Humane Society, and has served as presi- dent of the local society.
February 14, 1894, at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Mr. Arnold married Miss Elizabeth Tittle, a native of that state, daughter of John S. and Jane ( Maclay) Tittle. Her father was of English and her mother of Scotch ancestry. Her mother's grand-uncle, William Maclay, was one Vol. 11-23
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of the first two senators from Pennsylvania. Her great-grandfather and his brother were in the United States Senate, from Pennsylvania. The journal of William Maclay, kept during the two years of his service as senator, is one of the most important sources of the history of the first administration of Washington. Another ancestor of Mrs. Arnold was Rev. Thomas Buckingham, a New England preacher from 1665 until 1709, and one of the founders and a Fellow of Yale University. Mrs. Arnold has been a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution for many years.
The interests of her own life have been in keeping with the noble traditions of her ancestry. After the great Johnstown flood of 1889, as a young woman she served as chairman of the committee of distribution for the Red Cross and worked in that connection with Miss Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. Since coming to Riverside she has borne an influential part in civic and club affairs, has been president of the Woman's Club, is past president of the Southern District of the Federation, and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the State Federation. She was chairman of the History and Landmark's Com- mittee. She has expended much time and effort during the last few years to get better legislation for the Indians. Her deep interest in Indian wel- fare was largely influential in having the Federation of Women's Clubs include this as one of its activities, and she was the first chairman of the Indian Welfare Committee of the State Federation.
MARK BAILEY SHAW, of San Bernardino, is one of the most highly esteemed citizens, and while he is not a pioneer he has so thoroughly impressed his personality upon its civic life, has created such confidence in himself, that he is regarded justly as one of its leaders, as de- pendable as the Rock of Gibraltar.
He is, in some respects, anomalistic, for while he spent the years of his early manhood in the fervent and vigilant service of God, having a deep knowledge of the things of God, he is just as successful, just as finely qualified for an active business life. As a public officer, as a leader in educational matters, Mr. Shaw has demonstrated many times that he possesses as burning a zeal for service of the commonwealth as he evidenced in the pulpits he so adequately filled.
Mr. Shaw has never been mastered by circumstances, but always acts upon his own initiative, enthusiastically and decisively, at all times his motto, the time worn, "Be sure you're right, then go ahead." He has the rare gift of adroit facility of speech, is a past master of the art of graceful expression and in popular parlance would be designated as "silver-tongued," but he is something better than that. He has a talent for clothing his opinions in phrases which cling, which live in the memory, and a voice attuned to utter them. When occasion demands he can drive home an argument in swift, frilless, clean-cut English, which is wonderfully convincing.
Mark B. Shaw was born in Waterville, Nova Scotia, November 17, 1862, the son of Isaac and Salome (Freeman) Shaw. David Shaw, grandfather of Isaac, was a United Loyalist and received a grant of 1,000 acres in Kings County, Nova Scotia, as a reward for his loyalty to the crown. Both Isaac Shaw and his father, Sidney Shaw, were farmers and nurserynien, making a specialty of raising fruit trees. Zoeth Freeman, father of Salome ( Freeman) Shaw, was also of United Empire Loyalist stock, receiving also a tract of land in Queens County. He was a miller by occupation, and met his death by drowning in a
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lake near his mill. On both sides of the family Mark B. Shaw's ancestry was loyally patriotic.
When Mark B. Shaw was about six years old his family moved to Berwick, Kings County, Nova Scotia, and here he received his primary education in the public schools, but the most valuable education he ever had was that given him by his mother, a highly educated, talented woman and a graduate of Mt. Holyoke Seminary. At the age of seventeen he entered Horton Collegiate Academy at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and matriculated to Acadia University and was graduated in the class of 1886, with the degree of A. B. In the summer of 1889 he received the degree of A. M.
His natural inclination was towards the ministry, and he began preaching at the age of eighteen. On July 17, 1886, he was ordained at Cow Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He began his ministry there, having four small churches in the district under his charge, and a strenuous life ensued, for he had to do hard driving to preach a sermon every other Sunday in the four churches under his care. For this he received the sum of five hundred pounds yearly and in addition a house to make his home in.
In May, 1888, he was called to Yarmouth, to "The Milton Church" of that city, and in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, he remained until September, 1889, when his health began to fail rapidly, until he was completely broken down, physically. About this time, when a change of climate was imperative for the restoration of his health, D. A. Shaw, an uncle of his who lived in Los Angeles, was there on a visit, and he induced him to come to California to regain his health. He arrived in San Bernardino October 8, 1889, but went on at once to San Diego. Here he met the deacons of the church at Fallbrook, and they at once offered him the charge there. He accepted and took charge of the church there, remaining as its pastor six months.
At this time the Baptist Mission Board of Nova Scotia, New Bruns- wick, and Prince Edward Island had a missionary field in India, at Vizianagran, Madras Presidency, about half way between Madras and Calcutta, about 212 miles from the latter city. They were looking for a minister with exceptional qualities to take charge of this field, and knew that Mr. Shaw had made a brilliant record, despite his youth. as a living, loving channel of truth, and as a pastor who possessed the "spark of Heavenly fire within." And above all that he was a graceful, happy, apt speaker in the church, one who would be quick to pick up the imagery and picturesqueness of the language of India, who would appeal to the native element of that country. They wired him offering him the mission field, asking him to open it. He accepted and resigned the pastorate of Fallbrook, leaving at once for Nova Scotia to prepare for his trip.
In September he sailed for India from Halifax, Nova Scotia, arriv- ing at his destination on December 1. 1890. He found his headquarters was a bungalow of eighteen suites of rooms and only ten feet above sea level. Resolutely he started in his work, collecting six native preachers out of the old missions there and organized the field in fine shape. He speedily mastered the language and worked hard until January 1, 1895, when he resigned and returned to Fallbrook, via Vancouver, British Columbia. He remained in Fallbrook one month, and then occupied the pulpit at Ontario for nine months. On April 1, 1896, he returned to Fallbrook, and there he remained until October 18, 1899, when he came to San Bernardino, where he has since lived.
When he came to San Bernardino it was as pastor of the First Baptist Church, succeeding Dr. Frost there, and the members of the
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church at first thought it was rather presumptuous for a man of his age to even try, with any idea of success, to fill a pulpit so recently occupied by a man of whom they thought so highly. But in a very short time Dr. Shaw proved to them that he was making the church work a greater success than it had ever been. As an illustration of his business acumen he induced the trustees to sell the old church and build on the present site at Fourth and G, the beautiful church located there now.
On November 1, 1909, he retired from the pastorate and entered the undertaking business with J. W. Barton, the firm being Barton & Shaw and existing thirteen months, when he sold out. On February 1, 1911, he started in business on his own account, but now the firm is the Mark B. Shaw Company, the company consisting of his sons, Harold and Douglas.
On June 7, 1886, he married Antoinette Dewis, a daughter of Cap- tain Robert Dewis, of Nova Scotia, and a granddaughter of Joshua Dewis, of England, who was the founder of the Dewis family in America. They were the parents of six children: Harold Dewis Shaw, born in Cow Bay in 1887, married Mabel Johnston, of Upland, and has two children, Dewis and Muriel. He is assistant secretary of the San Ber- nardino Society of California Pioneers. Herbert Carl, born in Yar- mouth, Nova Scotia, in January, 1889, married Grace Hison, of San Bernardino, and has two children, Rosalyn and Glenn. Wayland Bart- lett, born in Vizianagran, India, in March, 1890, married Ilian Hathaway, and has two children, Mark B. Jr., and Robert. He lives at Buena Park, Orange County. Douglas McNeil, born in Vizianagran, India, June 20, 1893, married Marry A. Durbin, of San Bernardino, and they have three children, Antoinette Joy. Clella May and Douglas. Muriel Joy, born September 20, 1895, in Ontario, San Bernardino County, was married to Donald W. Brown, of San Bernardino, and has one child; Donald Shaw Brown. Vernal Emily was born March 22, 1902, in San Bernardino.
Mr. Shaw was for four years a member of the school board and helped to build the Polytechnic Schools. He was elected supervisor for a four year term but resigned after four months service to go into his old regiment as chaplain. He was most unjustly turned down on account of his age, and was immediately reappointed supervisor, serv- ing two years.
On April 1, 1909, Governor Gilette appointed him chaplain of the Seventh Regiment, N. G. C., and he served in this position continuously for seven years.
Mr. Shaw is a member of San Bernardino Lodge No. 290, I. O. O. F .; of San Bernardino Lodge No. 836, B. P. O. E .; Phoenix Lodge, No. 178, A. F. and A. M .; Keystone Chapter, R. A. M .; and San Bernardino Commandery, K. T., of which he was prelate eight years.
He has been a trustee of the Baptist Church ever since leaving his pastorate.
Politically he is affiliated with the republican party.
WILLIAM J. MACKEY is one of the prosperous residents of Riverside and is operating his fifteen-acre ranch in a profitable manner and raising alfalfa, grain, corn and chickens, specializing on the latter. All of his life he has been a farmer and is one of the most experienced agriculturists of this part of the state. He was born in Holt County, Missouri, Novem- ber 21, 1853, a son of Thomas and Mary (Jones) Mackey, both of whom are deceased. They were born in Tennessee, and the latter was taken from the Big Bend State to Missouri at a very early day after her father
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had completed his service as a soldier during the War of 1812. Thomas Mackey was taken to Missouri by his parents in 1810, when he was still a baby, they being among the first settlers of Pike County, that state, and there the family became very prominent. In 1850 Thomas Mackey left Pike County with the idea of going to the Coast in search of gold, but passing through Holt County, Missouri, was so pleased with it that he decided to settle in it. The Mackey family is an old American one, and two uncles of Thomas Mackey lived through their service in the American Revolution, the third dying in the service. Thomas Mackey tried to enlist in the Union army during the war between the North and the South, but was refused on account of physical unfitness. By occupa- tion he was a farmer, and he was a man of importance in Holt County.
William J. Mackey attended the public schools of his native county, and early in life worked in the saw-mills of Missouri. In 1875 he went by team to Idaho and located near Weiser, and there he was engaged in farming until 1913, when he came to California. During his long resi- dence in Idaho he went through some exciting experiences, and was in the campaign against the Indians in 1877-8 when the Bannocks, led by Chief Buffalo Horn, took the war path. It is difficult for the present gen- eration to realize the dangers of those times, but Mr. Mackey knows all about them for he took active part in making Idaho safe for the settlers and placing the Indians under a wise restraint.
In 1913 Mr. Mackey sold his Idaho interests and came to Riverside, purchasing fifteen acres at 225 West Arlington Street, and here he has since resided. His place is specially fitted for chicken raising, and he is doing extremely well with all of his products. While he is a democrat, Mr. Mackey in local matters has espoused the prohibition cause and was one of the active workers in behalf of the movement in both Idaho and California, and no one rejoiced more than he over the passage and ratifi- cation of the Eighteenth Amendment, and he is equally determined that it shall be rigidly enforced. In Idaho he served his party as a delegate to the county conventions. A zealous member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, he is a past grand of his order. In Idaho he belonged to the Farmers Union. The Baptist Church has in him a sincere member.
On October 18, 1885, Mr. Mackey married in Idaho Miss Ada Hopper, a native of Missouri and a daughter of Anderson Hopper, a veteran of the war between the states, who is now living retired at Riverside. Mrs. Mackey is of Irish descent. There are five children in the Mackey family, namely : Mary, who is the wife of Wilbur Seid, a farmer residing on Central Avenue, Riverside, has three children, Evelyn, William and Clif- ford; Alfred, who is a box maker for the Alta Cresta Packing House ; Florence, who is the wife of F. J. Verdier, a veteran of the World war, having served in the Ninety-first Division in France, but now a resident of Riverside, has one son, Lowell A .; Lowell, who is now assisting his father, was for a long time connected with the Post Office at Seattle, Washington ; and Curtis W., who is learning the sheet metal business in Riverside.
ARTHUR B. CUMMINS, assistant in agricultural chemistry of the Ex- perimental Station of the University of California at Riverside, is one of the most efficient and highly trained young men of his profession, and this region owes much to his dependable and painstaking efforts in his special lines. He is a native son, having been born at Los Angeles June 6, 1895, a son of Lon C. Cummins.
Lon C. Cummins was born in Indiana, where he was reared and where he became a contractor. In 1886 he came to California and
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embarked in a real estate business, and was particularly interested in Riverside city and county property. He was also interested in some mining properties in the desert. For some years he was superintendent of the Hall's Addition Street Railway, the first line to be constructed at Riverside. His father-in-law, Robert Lancaster, was the first driver and conductor of the first car operated. Subsequently Mr. Cummins established himself in a hardware business on Main Street, just above the present store of G. Rouse & Company, but later disposed of it and went into the lumbering industry in the State of Washington, and while he was in that state looking after his interests he died. This man of many and varied interests served as editor of the Daily Enterprise in earlier days, and as a newspaperman took an active interest in politics, espousing the republican cause. Fraternally he was an Odd Fellow and belonged to the Improved Order of Red Men.
Lon C. Cummins married Miss Annie Lancaster, a native of Illinois and a daughter of Robert Lancaster, and they had two sons, Roy L. Cummins and Arthur B. Cummins. Roy L. Cummins was born at Riverside, and is now engaged in a tailoring business at Portland, Oregon. He married Sylvia Jackman, and they have three children, namely : Car- roll Etta, Vivian and a son.
Educated in the public and high schools of Riverside and the Uni- versity of Chicago, Arthur B. Cummins was graduated first from the high-school course in 1914, and from his university course in 1920, re- ceiving from the university his degree of Bachelor of Science. In 1915 he entered the Experiment Station at Riverside and remained until 1919. In the latter year he obtained a leave of absence and went to Chicago, Illinois, where he took his degree. Returning to Riverside, he resumed his duties as laboratory assistant, and is still performing them. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Electro Chemical Society. A Mason, he belongs to Evergreen Lodge No. 259, F. and A. M., and he is also a member of the college fraternity Acacia. Republican principles and candidates receive his support but he lias never been active in politics.
In May, 1916, Mr. Cummins married at San Bernardino Miss Hazel Cutting, a native of Massachusetts and a daughter of E. T. Cutting, a rancher of Riverside. Mr. and Mrs. Cummins have one daughter, Thelma Alice.
WILLIAM L. SCOTT. Riverside is noted for its beautiful park system, which compares favorably with any in the West, and the thousands who enjoy the many advantages furnished by the fine parks of the city have ample cause to be grateful to the skill, foresight and artistic perceptions of William L. Scott, superintendent of parks. Mr. Scott was born in Ontario, Canada, May 8, 1863, a son of George and Janet (Irving) Scott, natives of Aberdeen, Scotland, who located in Ontario, Canada. Mr. Scott's grandfather, on the paternal side, died while on the ocean and his remains were buried at sea. George Scott passed away in Canada in 1876, when William L. was thirteen years of age. His widow survived him many years, passing away at home in Canada in'1917, when ninety- three years of age.
William L. Scott attended the public schools of Canada, and his first business experience was gained in a livery business at Winchester, Canada, which he sold in 1886, and came West to California. Settling in River- side County, he was first engaged in work on grading the famous speed- way around the City of Corona, and then came to the City of Riverside, where he found employment in the livery stable of Charles P. Hayt, but
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after a month left him to engage with Edward E. Miller. Some months later he obtained the position of baggage master for the Santa Fe Rail- road, and held it for four years.
The office of constable becoming vacant Mr. Scott was appointed to fill out the unexpired terni, and proved so capable that he was elected to the office at the succeeding election and re-elected four years later, hold- ing it for twelve years, and at the same time he served as deputy sheriff by appointment.
In 1910 he bought the Hotel Warrington and conducted it for seven years, trading it in December, 1917, for a house at 494 Palm Avenue ; a house on South Olive Street, between Thirty-ninth and Santa Barbara streets in Los Angeles and a flat building on Van Ness Avenue in Holly- wood. He also owns his beautiful residence at 1049 Almond Street, Riverside.
In April, 1918, Mr. Scott was appointed superintendent of parks of Riverside, and has occupied that position ever since. Inaugurating a vig- orous campaign upon taking charge of his position he has made Fair- mont Park an excellent paying proposition, turning in during 1920 from the plunge, boats and concessions $8,509.50 to the city treasury as against $3,300, the previous revenue. The year 1921 yielded from the same sources $8,743.35. The park has been greatly improved and the boat capacity increased from $300 to $2,500 annually. The old wooden fire- place in this park has been replaced by a fine, sanitary, up-to-date com- munity kitchen, with sixteen three-burner plates, a cement floor, four- foot walls, all screened in. On the island in the park he has put in four cement bridges, all electric-lighted. A new bandstand has been built at a cost of $5,000, and he is now engaged in putting in forty-seven new dressing rooms for the plunge. There are seventy-three and one-half acres in this park, and a total of probably ninety in all of the parks, in- cluding White Park in the heart of the city, which contains five acres, Low Park, the Palm Garden on Fourteenth and New Magnolia streets, and the park on Eighth Street between Pepper Street and the Rubidoux Drive. He has added many beautiful flowers in White Park, and set out all of the palms in the Palm Garden. In all of these improvements he has had the full support of the park board, as well as of the leading citizens, and as a result has greatly beautified the city, which is recognized to be fully entitled to its name of the Gem City.
On September 17, 1884, Mr. Scott was united in marriage with Matilda Morrow, a native of Canada and a daughter of Samuel Mor- row, a farmer of Canada, whose family was of Irish descent. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have one daughter, Miss Mabel Janet Scott, a very talented young lady, who was formerly connected in a reportorial capacity on the Riverside Press, but is now prosecuting special studies in New York City. Mr. Scott is a Christian Scientist. He belongs to the Independent Order of Foresters, the Pioneer Club and the Present Day Club. During the late war he rendered very efficient service as a committeeman on all of the drives to secure funds for war purposes, his district being the Palm Avenue one. A republican, he is active in his party, and often is called upon to represent it in both city and county conventions.
Thorough-going in all that he undertakes, Mr. Scott is emphatically the right man in the right place and if he is only permitted to continue to carry out his ideas, will work miracles in landscape gardening and city beautifying. His love for Riverside is sincere and practical, and he is not one to rest content with what he has already accomplished, but is ever looking forward toward still greater achievements for he fully believes that there is no limit to the possibilities of the city.
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PRIESTLEY HALL-Among men to whom the Riverside community would gladly do honor none was more worthy by reason of his con- structive energy than the late Priestley Hall. A large area on which beautiful homes and homesteads now stand was developed from land owned by Mr. Hall and his family. Possessed of rare intellectual gifts, he had the foresight of a pioneer and the practical energy to realize visions and make his aims and purposes come true.
Mr. Hall was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 15, 1859. A year after his birth his parents removed to New York City, where he lived and acquired his early education. He was fourteen when the family came to California in 1873. This date is almost at the beginning of the real history of Riverside. Priestley Hall continued his educa- tion in the local schools here until 1877, and after that became associ- ated with his father's horticultural enterprises.
In 1880 Mr. Hall bought a hundred and sixty acres of unimproved land from Mrs. Annie Denton Cridge. This land lay east of his father's place. Later he added another eighty acres, and with forty acres left him by his father he possessed two hundred and eighty acres, all within the city limits. The first important development of this land for resi- dential purposes was done in 1886, when he subdivided twenty acres and sold it. In the spring of 1887 he subdivided and sold forty acres more. The success in handling these two subdivisions encouraged him to plan the improvement and development of the entire tract, and part of his father's homestead as well. This he platted as Hall's Addition to Riverside. Mr. Hall graded avenues and streets, laid out parks, set out thousands of ornamental trees, and during his lifetime sold every lot and parcel except twenty acres comprised in his homestead. As a result of this, one of the largest real estate development transactions in Riverside County, he realized a substantial fortune.
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