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Michigan. Declaring his desire to study forestry, he so impressed the faculty with the importance of this subject that, having induced a sufficient number to join it, a class was formed, and this course is still maintained as a regular part of the curriculum. During his vacation period he had devoted himself to practical forestry, and after completing his course turned his attention to it and now has 1,500,000 acres of land under his supervision in Montana, and during the winter months teaches forestry in the University of Montana. By profession he is a civil engineer. He is superintendent of the Young Men's Christian Association at Butte, Montana, and was on his way to an Eastern port to embark overseas in work for that association, but at Chicago was stopped by the signing of the armis- tice, and returned to his duties in Montana. He married Miss Alice Morgan, of Michigan, and they have two children, namely: Laura Emma Clark, who was born in Michigan, September 20, 1911; and Fay Morgan Clark, who was born at Missoula, Montana, September 16, 1914.
Ruby Cleo Clark, the fourth and youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Clark, was born April 1, 1888. She married Edgar Jones, of San Bernardino, and they have two children, Vernon Clark Jones, who was born April 16, 1907; and Mildred Cleo Jones, who was born May 20, 1913. Mr. Jones is a prominent agriculturalist of San Bernardino County, and a very highly esteemed citizen.
WILLIAM LOEHR, SR., is one of the venerable and honored citizens of Bloomington, San Bernardino County, and has maintained his resi- dence in California for more than forty years. He was born on the Rhine River in Germany, September 5, 1847, and is a son of Ludwig Louis and Catherine (Müller) Loehr, who passed their entire lives in their native land. Mr. Loehr gained his early education in the excellent schools of his native province and as a youth he there learned the trade of cabinet maker. In accordance with the governmental regulations of Germany at that time he served four years in the German army, and in this connection took part in the Franco-Prussian war, he having been wounded in the right arm at the battle of Haerient, and the injury having prevented use of the arm for five years. His objection to the military rule in Germany led him to immigrate to the United States in 1880, and he worked at his trade in various cities, including Chicago and Taylor, Texas, in which latter place, in 1886, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Barbara Elizabeth Blum, who was born in Hessen. Germany, and who was sixteen years of age when she came to the United States, and whose death occurred at Bloomington, California, January 17, 1918. In 1889 Mr. Loehr came to Los Angeles, California, and engaged in the work of his trade, besides which he developed a pros- perous contracting business. In 1890 he came to the Bloomington district of San Bernardino County and purchased ten acres of desert land, on which sagebrush, cacti and rattlesnakes were principally in evidence. On this tract, now at the corner of Larch and Bloomington avenues, Mr. Loehr set out orange and pear trees, and with the passing years he developed it into one of the valuable properties of the Bloomington dis- trict, in which he is a pioneer. On his property he has erected five houses, which he readily rents to desirable occupants. Upon coming to Bloomington he paid $100 down on his land, this representing his entire cash capital at the time. The little house which he erected was destroyed by fire, with no insurance, but this was but one of many hardships he here encountered in the early days. As a skilled workman he has
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FAMILY OF WM. LOEHR, SR. Catherine, John, William. Jr., Louis Barbara, Mrs. Loehr, Elsie, William Loehr, Sr., Ferdinand, Frederick.
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erected all of the five houses on his land, and their superior construc- tion causes them to be much in demand, even the doors and windows sach having been made by him. Mr. Loehr has much inventive talent and has patented a process of making fiber for the manufacturing of rope cordage from the Spanish digger or corthis. He has spent years in the study of chemistry and has made extended experiments in the production of a synthetic composition in imitation of marble. a work in which he has been remarkably successful, as his process produces an article equal to the best natural marble in appearance and durability and of distinct commercial value, the cost of production being remark- ably low. Mr. Loehr is a man of broad mental grasp, a natural student and scientist, and is one of the honored pioneer horticulturists of San Bernardino County, where he has won substantial prosperity through his well-ordered activities. Of his eight children the eldest was Cather- ine, who was born at Taylor, Texas, January 9, 1887, and who was educated as a trained nurse, in hospitals at Riverside and Ramona. California. In a professional way she entered Red Cross service when her native land became involved in the World war and she was prepar- ing to go to France in war service when her death occurred, at San Bernardino, November 19, 1918. William, Jr., was born at Los Angeles, February 8, 1889. June 21, 1911, he wedded Mary Belle Wilson, who died November 5, 1918. September 2, 1919, he married Mary McClaren, and they have three children : Elmer William, Walter Stanley and Louise Mary. Louis was born in Los Angeles, April 29, 1891. On the 10th of October, 1917, he married Mary Baker, of Rialto, and they have two children : Eleanor and Dorothy Marie. The family home is at Rialto. John was born at Bloomington, January 19, 1895. July 27, 1921, recorded his marriage to Miss Ruby Robert. He is a student in the State Agricultural College of Oregon. Barbara, born November 27, 1898, was united in marriage February 4, 1920, to Russell Davis, and they reside at Victorville, San Bernardino County. Ferdinand, born October 7, 1900; Frederick, born May 29, 1903, and Elsie, born Decem- ber 13, 1906, remain at the paternal home.
FRED B. KELL, M. D., a physician and surgeon whose work has brought him a steadily increasing prominence in professional circles at San Bernardino, Dr. Kell came to this city in 1915, and was reared and educated and received his professional training in the Middle West.
He was born in Jefferson County, Illinois. His father, Charles D. Kell, is also a native of that state, is a medical college graduate, though he never practiced that profession, and his career has been that of a prosperous farmer and at one time he was prominent in Illinois politics. He still owns a large farm in Illinois. Charles D. Kell married Miss Sarah Faust, a native of Illinois. Her father was a California forty-niner.
Dr. Fred B. Kell attended public schools, the Southern Illinois State Normal University at Carbondale, took a two years' business course in Brown's Business College at Centralia, Illinois, and received his M. D. degree from St. Louis Medical University. Before be- ginning private practice he had one year of training in the St. Louis City Hospital, and in January, 1915, located at San Bernardino. Dr. Kell was in service as a first lieutenant from July 2, 1918, until March 4, 1919. He is a member in good standing of the County, State and American Medical Associations and is affiliated with San Ber- nardino Lodge of Elks.
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At Riverside October 17, 1917, Dr. Kell married Miss Lelia Erma Johnson. She was born in Colorado December 22, 1898, and her parents now reside at Long Beach, California. Dr. and Mrs. Kell have a daughter, Dolores Violet, born March 30, 1920.
THOMAS SHAY-In his long and interesting career Thomas Shay, of Highland, has experienced the wild free life of the early miners and the settled dignity of the modern ranch; the thrill of the newly-made strikes and the methodical sureness of twentieth-century business methods; the good fellowship of the out-of-the-way desert places and the substantial connections of the populous communities. Through it all he has pre- served a buoyant spirit that has lent color to his career and has made of it something more than a matter of the achievement of success. The hardships and exposure of his early years gave him endurance and physical strength, and today, at the age of sixty-five years, he is still the best man on his ranch, in full possession of his every faculty, and performing his every-day routine of duties with the same ability and gusto that marked the days when hard work was not only a habit but a necessity.
Mr. Shay was born March 10, 1857, at El Monte, California, a son of Walter A. and Elisa (Goshen) Shay. His father, a native of Nova Scotia and a cooper by trade, went to Boston, Massachusetts, during the early '40s and was living in that city when he heard the news of the discovery of gold in California, in 1848. Seized at once with the fever that swept across the country, he made some few hurried preparations and boarded a steamer for a voyage around Cape Horn, but when the vessel put in at Aspinwall he left her and crossed the isthmus. On the Pacific side he took the old steamer, "Golden Gate," and arrived at San Francisco in the early spring of 1849. From that city he made his way by stage to Los Angeles, and, having found that the securing of gold was not as easy as had been represented, sought work at his trade there, and later took to ranching. It was at the ranch of Rowling & Workman that he met the cook of the ranch, Mrs. Elisa Goshen, and they were married in 1853. She had crossed the plains by immigrant train, in an ox-team drawn prairie schooner early in 1851, coming via Santa Fe, New Mexico, crossing the Colorado River at Fort Yuma, then crossing the desert and passing through the Carisa Creek country, through the mountains to Chino and on to Los Angeles. Her first husband had died on the way, at Tucson, Arizona, and she came on alone and secured the position before noted. She and her second husband, Mr. Shay, had five sons and one daughter : John Henry, who died as a child ; Thomas, of this notice ; William ; Walter ; and Mary, who became the wife of Thomas B. Hutchings. In 1857, when the Mormons were recalled from this section of California by President Young, the "faithful" sacrificed their San Bernardino lands and all possessions, and Walter A. Shay was able to secure 160 acres of land on Base Line for $900. in addition to which he bought 100 acres of Government land adjoining, at $2.50 per acre. There he spent the remainder of his life in agricultural operations, and made a success of his vocation.
Thomas Shav secured his education in the public schools of San Bernardino and for a time was associated with his father in the work of the home farm. The prosaic life of the homestead did not hold him long, however, for the spirit of the frontier entered his blood and he went into the mountains and took his chances with the other adventurous men of his day. For the next few years he lived a rough. strenuous life, working in the sawmills and mines and passing through many of the
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periods of excitement that characterized the "seventies and early eighties." After his marriage, in 1887, he settled down to ranching on his present holdings, a part of the old Shay homestead on Base Line, High- land. Mr. Shay is now one of the substantial men of his community, and has a number of business, civic and fraternal connections. His reputation is unquestioned and he has many friends in the community in which his home has been made for so many years.
On January 15, 1887, Mr. Shay was united in marriage with Miss Mary T. Gamm, who was born at Stockton, California, August 15, 1861, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Gamm, the former a native of near Nashville, Tennessee, and the latter of Missouri. John Gamm crossed the plains to California in 1851, and his wife was a child when brought by her parents to this state. Her party traveled via the Platte River, Salt Lake, Truckee Pass, by ox-trains with the Indians a constant menace in North Dakota and on the North Platte River. In Carson valley, Nevada, the party packed hay for sixty miles to feed the stock, which had run out of forage on the desert trip. John and Elizabeth Gamm were the parents of ten children. To Mr. and Mrs. Shay there have been born seven children who are living: Arthur, born October 8, 1887, is employed as a United States Government forest ranger in the San Bernardino Mountains. He married Florence Sawyer and has three children, Lawrence, Winifred and Elaine. Marion, single, born April 10, 1889, is associated in partnership with his younger brother, Ora, in the live stock business in Green Valley, where they run large herds. Clarence, born March 18, 1890, single, has been engaged in the lumber business in Mariposa County, California, during the last twelve years, with the exception of his term of enlistment during the World war, in which he trained in various home camps, the armistice being signed just about as he was ready to be sent overseas and he was honorably discharged. Ora, born February 14, 1901, as noted above, is associated with his brother Marion in the live stock business in Green Valley. Lola, born January 12, 1893, married Stuart Lytle and has one son, Stuart, Jr. 'Mabel, born September 16, 1896, married Raymond Nish and has one child, Virginia ; and Barbara, born January 4, 1899, is single and acting as bookkeeper in the Chaffey department store at Redlands. this state. The children have all been given good, practical educational advantages, fitting them for various positions which they have been called upon to fill in life, and all have been a credit to their upbringing and to the communities in which they reside.
WALTER FREMONT GROW .- It is the fortune of some individuals to rise above their associates through the possession in a remarkable de- gree of the salient characteristics which make for success in business undertakings. Their handling of affairs is so masterly that their on- ward progress is steady and uninterrupted, and they make prosperous all enterprises with which they are identified. To this class undoubtedly belongs Walter Fremont Grow. of Highland, president of the Highland Domestic Water Company, who is also identified with numerous other leading organizations and is a successful fruit-grower of San Bernardino County. A self-made man in all that the phrase implies, in his advance- ment he has carried with him a number of associates and has likewise been a prominent factor in the progress and development of the inter- ests and institutions of his adopted community.
Mr. Grow was born in Maine, July 19. 1856, a son of Lorenzo and Harriet (Currier) Grow, the former a native of Vermont and the latter of Maine. There were four sons and one daughter in the family, of
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whom the eldest son, Charles Currier Grow, enlisted in the Union service during the Civil war, and while fighting with the forces under General Banks met his death in the battle ot Sugar Loaf Mountain. About 1865 the rest of the family moved to Monona County, Iowa, where Lorenzo Grow took up 160 acres of school land, and during his fourteen years of residence there improved a good property and became a well-to-do farmer.
Walter F. Grow spent his boyhood on the home farm in lowa at a time when the Indians were still to be found in large numbers in that state, and secured his education in the public schools, having the advan- tage of two years of attendance at the high school at Onawa. An elder brother, S. L. Grow, who was engaged in the livestock business as a shipper and dealer, made several trips to Sacramento and San Francisco, to which points he had shipped cattle, and his reports of the opportuni- ties offered in the Golden State induced Walter F. Grow to come to this locality, arriving at Merced April 10, 1881. He spent about nine months at that point and Fresno, and in January, 1882, came to San Bernardino County and purchased ten acres of land at Highland, on Base Line. This he subsequently sold and purchased his present home site; 86.71 acres, a Government claim, from a man named Bulger, who was home- steading. As a pioneer, Mr. Grow moved to this property, which was chiefly wild land, rocky and covered with wild brush, and here he built his home, the eighth to be built in the colony. He began the work of improving, and soon planted an orchard and set out a vineyard of raisin grapes. His raisins he dried and delivered to Colton, while his deciduous fruits he dried and sold to buyers who traveled about buying fruits from the various growers. During this period his finances were at a low ebb, and he frequently was forced to hire out his services to other early settlers in order to secure the means of a livelihood. As a result of his untiring energy and the good management that has always character- ized his affairs he is now the owner of a beautiful ranch, a modern home with a splendid view of the mountains and valleys, and a flourish- ing orchard of thirty-three acres, yielding oranges of the best quality.
In 1898 Mr. Grow was instrumental in the organization of the High- land Domestic Water Company, his associates in this project being L. C. Waite, Dr. C. C. Browning, A. G. Stearns and S. L. Grow. Mr. Grow, who was the first superintendent and manager of the body, is now president thereof and owns five-twelfths of the stock. He is also a director in the First Bank of Highland. a stockholder of the Gold Buckle Orange Association. and a stockholder in the North Fork Water Company, the Highland Water Company and the General Fertilizer Company. He is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the San Bernardino Farm Bureau, and is president of the Highland Public Library. A republican in politics, for years he has been a mem- ber of the Executive Committee of his party in the county and has been active in its affairs. His fraternal affiliation is with Highland Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and his religious connection with the Con- gregational Church.
In 1880 Mr. Grow was united in marriage with Miss Carrie Ella Burroughs, and to this union there were born two children : Edna May, now Mrs. William Brownlow, of Highland: and Laura Myrtle, now Mrs. T. A. Blakesley, of San Bernardino. Mrs. Grow died in 1890, and Mr. Grow married, December 15, 1891, Caroline Lowrie Wilson, a native of Pennsylvania. To this union there has come one son, Walter Lowrie, born June 4. 1894. Walter Lowrie Grow graduated from Pasadena High School in 1913, following which he entered Pomona
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College, Claremont, California, which he subsequently left, but to which he later returned. Ile then enrolled as a student at the University of California at Berkeley, but on October 3, 1917, left his studies at that institution to enlist for service during the World war in the Hospital Corps of the United States Navy. December 5 of the same year he was sent to Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, and after being stationed there for eleven months was transferred to San Pedro, and later to San Diego. In September, 1919, he was placed on the reserve list and returned to Pomona College to complete his course. He was a member of the Phi Delta, and graduated from the institution with the class of 1920, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He next entered the medical depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania, for a four-year course, and at present is a student of that institution and a member of the Alpha Kappa Kappa fraternity. During his war service he received the rating of chief pharmacist's mate. He possesses a seaman's certificate from the territory of Hawaii and one from Philadelphia in the Merchant Marine. Mr. Grow is a member of Highland Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and is a young man of exemplary habits and great ambition, whose advance- ment will be watched with interest by the many friends whom he has made in various sections.
ARTHUR PRESTON CRIM-Romances deal with imaginary characters and often impossible situations deftly placed in an environment to arouse a reader's interest. Seemingly it would not be a difficult task for even a tyro to pen a romance with its setting in beautiful and opulent Red- lands. It is not necessary, however, to call in romance when truth serves well, and the sturdy, sterling people of this favored community find interest enough in the simple, straightforward stories of quiet achievement that reflect credit and honor on neighbors and friends. One of the prosperous and representative orange men of Redlands who has spent almost two decades here is Arthur Preston Crim, a self-made man who has built up a large business in the growing of oranges and citrus fruits, and made his name well known in the industry through his care- ful and intelligent methods.
Arthur Preston Crim was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, July 28, 1871, the second in a family of four children born to John Ral- ston and Elizabeth Crim. His father was born in Pennsylvania in 1844 and died there May 5, 1901. His mother was born in the same state February 18. 1841. and survives, her home being at Kittanning. Penn- sylvania. John Ralston Crim was a carpenter and became a contractor. In early years he not only prepared all the lumber he used but even went into the forest and cut down trees in order to obtain logs, but he lived to see mills and machinery doing the hand work over which he had labored so strenuously in his youth.
Arthur Preston Crim had educational advantages in his own county and was a member of the class of 1900 in Grove City College, having previously taught school and also, from his twenty-first year, worked with different business firms as an accountant and bookkeener. In the meanwhile he had made plans for the future that included a home in California and engaging in the business in which he has met with so much success, and these plans he carried out following his marriage.
On September 3, 1902, Mr. Crim was united in marriage with Miss Emma Heffelfinger. who was born in Pennsylvania, December 27, 1871. Mrs. Crim is a highly educated lady and a talented musician, and before marriage was a teacher of music. Mr. and Mrs. Crim have three sons : Arthur Preston, Jr., who was born December 4, 1903, is a student in
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the high school at Redlands, class of 1922; Clifford Jackson, who was born November 17, 1906, is in the high school, class of 1923; and Wil- bur Roscoe, who was born September 1, 1909, is also a student of Red- lands high school, class of 1925. Mr. Crim and his family are mem- bers of the Presbyterian Church.
It was on November 5, 1902, that Mr. and Mrs. Crim reached Red- lands, California, with the intention of settling here permanently. Capital was not plentiful and of necessity hardships were encountered and years of hard work followed. Mr. Crim immediately went into the culture of oranges and citrus fruits on the south side of the city, and the family home continued there until August, 1920, when he purchased an ex- ceptionally fine tract of land comprising ten acres located on the south- west corner of Colton Avenue and Nevada Street. In 1922 he pur- chased thirty acres of oranges, of which ten acres are in full bearing valencias and twenty acres in navels, at the northwest corner of Lugonia and Nevada Streets. Here he has opportunity to give his groves the attention and observation that he believes necessary in order to make the business a really profitable one, and is always on the lookout for added knowledge on the subject. Although never particularly active in politics, Mr. Crim is known to be a watchful, interested citizen, in every way anxious to promote the welfare of Redlands. During the World war he gave liberally and was foremost in local patriotic undertakings. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, affiliated with the Royal Arch Chapter No. 77, of Redlands, with Redlands Commandary No. 45, and Valley Chapter and is junior warden in the Blue Lodge and warden in the Commandery. For some years he has belonged to the Order of Elks, and is quite prominent in the order of Knights of Pythias, of which he was chancellor commander for two years. He is not only a leading business man here but commands public confidence and enjoys universal respect.
FREDERICK S. WATERS-Almost the first recollections of Frederick S. Waters are of San Bernardino County in its pioneer environment. His life has covered a wide and interesting range of development and progress, and at the same time he has been regarded as one of Redlands' most useful and honored citizens. His home is half a mile north of Loma Linda Sanitarium, on the Pepper Road.
Mr. Waters by the accident of birth is a native of Utah, though he was only a few weeks old when his parents journeyed into California. He was born on little Cottonwood in Utah Territory March 31, 1854. son of James and Martha Louise (Margetson) Waters. His father was a native of New York State while his mother was born in England and as a child came to the United States with her parents aboard an old sailing vessel that was fourteen weeks on the voyage. James Waters possessed all the mental talents and resources of the real pioneer. He lived his active life in the Great West, going to Utah in the early days. For many years his occupation was hunting and trapping, and he made friends of and was associated with such distinguished frontiersmen as Kit Carson and John Brown, Sr. He hunted and trapped among the Rockies and Sierras, all up and down the Pacific Coast, and came to California as early as 1849. As a trapper he loaded his furs on mules and burros and packed them overland to Eastern markets, making such trips through a country beset with hostile Indians.
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