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WALTER MINTURN DEAN was descended from ancestors forming interesting strains in the making of the American race. Through his father, Albert Flandreau Dean, he harked back to the Mayflower, to New York and to the French Huguenots, while on the side of his mother, Elizabeth Pope Dean, he claimed as forebears Virginia Quakers who migrated to Ohio when conditions of living were prim- itive and Indians were plentiful.
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Mr. Dean was born in St. Louis, Missouri, September 24, 1874, gaining his foundational education in the public schools there and continuing it in the high schools of Chicago, whence the family re- moved later. Afterward he attended the University of Michigan, where he was prominent in sports and glee club activities as well as in the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Upon leaving the university he was associated with his father in the insurance business, the latter being the author of the Dean Schedule for rating. A flattering offer took him soon to the management of a department of the Goodyear Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio. However, a few years later a desire for a more genial climate was the cause of his going to Cuba, where he learned the tobacco business on a large finca near Havana, but his plans for a residence there were unexpectedly changed and the lure of California drew him back to his own land. He became a progressive citrus grower in Corona, and took the most intense inter- est in his groves and ranches. He was always a public-spirited citizen, serving enthusiastically in the Chamber of Commerce. He was one of the organizers of the Corona Country Club and of the Orange Belt Tennis Association, during the existence of which latter he captured many trophies as a tennis player. He did much social service work among the young people of the Baptist Church. He was a man of fine presence and much social charm. His ability as an amateur actor and a talented singer, together with the fact that his wife is a writer of poems and plays, made his home a rendezvous for those who love the finer things of life. On the 31st of October, 1910, occurred his marriage to Janet Overall Williams, of distinguished Southern ancestry. His widow and two children, Walter Manley and Elise Overall, survive him.
MEMORIE
by Janet Williams Dean.
It is too stark to write the simple words- There he was born-yonder he died-
This he achieved, and that.
Nay, let me sing
Who knew his heart
And let me say
How gladly he did hail
As sentinels of each new day,
The tall, worn trees Grey with the mist of morn ;
How tenderly at dusk he watched
The red leaves in the wind,
Dancing before they died.
How he had tasted ecstasy too sweet,
How he had heard the babbling of the stars And read within man's wild rebellious heart A prayer for beauty haunting him in dreams. Let me make known besides How oft the voice of God Spoke to him in night's hush,
Or when the blue sea broke In bubbles on the sand, Or when his baby smiled ; Or further speak
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How he gave honor
To the men who bend In strength beneath their toil;
How he was touched
By woman's plaintive unpaid ministry ; How he had never stilled The laughter in the heart of any child.
There is no need to chant
The fair and deathless tale
Of days of deeds For this is all :-
Life beat and bent and hammered him
Upon her anvil wrought of grief and doom ; But never was that thing we call his soul Too fagged nor spent too far
To point his camerades- Man, woman and their child --
To that dim, winding path, Leading through darkness To the stars at last.
WRIGHT CLIFFORD FARLOW-An important share in the development work in the citrus district in and around Upland in San Bernardino County has been performed by Wright Clifford Farlow during his residence here of thirty years. Mr. Farlow has in recent years been receiving good dividends from his industry and persevering earlier efforts. He still owns the grove which he developed when he first came here, at the northwest corner of Nineteenth Street and Euclid Avenue, his home being at 203 North San Dimas Avenue, San Dimas, California.
Mr. Farlow was born in Burnett, Dodge County, Wisconsin, May 22, 1855, son of Alfred and Maria Farlow. His parents were farmers and the son grew up on a farm, acquiring a high school education. The first thirty years of his life he lived at home sharing in the labors of the farm. In November, 1886, he came to California and bought the twenty acres at the northwest corner of Euclid Avenue and Nineteenth Street, Upland. The corner ten acres was set to citrus fruits, and later he replanted the west ten acres, then in grapes and deciduous fruits, to oranges. While continuing the ownership and maintenance of this property he has accumulated other properties and has made his groves pay good dividends for his capable management. When he came here there were few im- proved places north of the Santa Fe tracks, only ten homes having been built there. Mr. Farlow served five years as road superintendent.
December 6, 1886, he married Miss Louise Maria Crawford, also a native of Wisconsin. Their daughter, Olive L., was educated in Chaffey College at Ontario, and is now the widow of F. H. Smith, a native of Tennessee. Mrs. Smith has a daughter Frances, born Octo- ber 15, 1909.
The son of Mr. Farlow is Perry C. Farlow, who was born July 11, 1889. He was educated at Los Angeles, finishing the course of the Los Angeles Polytechnic School. He enlisted for the World war in the mechanical division of the aviation service, and later was transferred to the Motor Transportation Corps for overseas duty. He was made transportation dispatcher, a position requiring strategy and skill, and requiring his presence at the immediate front. The
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day the armistice was signed he was between the two hostile lines of heavy artillery. After the signing of the armistice he went with the Army of Occupation, directing truck traffic. On being mustered out he returned to California and is now in the oil business at Taft. While in the service he married Miss Marie Walker, a young lady of exceptional qualities, well educated and a teacher of music in the public high schools of Taft. While her husband was overseas she continued teaching. The subject of this review is a republican, attends the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Pomona, and is a member of Southern Fruit Growers Exchange.
FRANKLIN H. HEALD, who is living virtually retired from active busi- ness at his beautiful rural home of 2,400 acres on the Corona-Elsinore road, thirteen miles distant from Corona, is one of the substantial and honored citizens of Riverside County and has been a liberal and influential force in the civic and material development and progress of this favored section of California.
Mr. Heald was born at West Branch, Iowa, on the 10th of July, 1854, and is a son of Wilson and Sarah (Macy) Heald, who were born at Massillon, Ohio, and who gained pioneer honors in the state of Iowa where the father became a member of the famous underground rail- way system, and one of Old John Brown's men who escaped the gallows. He was a representative citizen of Cedar County. The parents came finally to California to join their son at Elsinore.
The public schools of Hawkeye State afforded Franklin H. Heald his early education, which was supplemented by a course in the Bryant and Stratton Business College in the City of Burlington, that state. Thereafter he was for one year engaged in independent farm enterprise in his native state, and he was an ambitious and self-reliant young man of twenty-five years when, in 1879, he came to California and became identified with orange growing at Pasadena. In the spring of 1883 he purchased the Laguna Ranch and other lands, including what is now Alberhill, of 20,000 acres, and on this extensive tract he platted the towns of Elsinore and Wildomar. He became a leading exponent of the wonderful climate of San Diego County, and through the development of his own properties he contributed much to the advancement of the county along both civic and industrial lines. In 1894 Mr. Heald engaged in mining enterprise in the vicinity of Randsburg, Kern County, where he continued his operations until 1901, when he established his residence at Los Angeles. In 1912 he removed to San Diego County, and upon his return to Riverside County he located at Prado, which continued to be his place of resi- dence until 1920, when he removed to his present attractive home. Mr. Heald has been an omnivorous student and reader, has covered much of the best in literature and is himself the author of a work entitled "The Procession of Planets," which was published and found most favorable reception. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his human faith is that of the Society of Friends, of which he is a birthright member.
September 20, 1874, recorded the marriage of Mr. Heald and Miss Anna M. Hoover, daughter of John Y. Hoover, West Branch, Iowa, who lived but a year after their marriage and passed away during one of those terrible Iowa winters, on the 6th of January, 1876, leaving Mr. Heald an infant baby daughter, who is now Mrs. Edna McCoy, of Elsinore, California. In 1881 Mr. Heald married a Southern woman of Los Angeles, and she is survived by one son, David W. Heald,
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now a resident of the State of Washington. A younger son, Franklin H., Jr., died in early childhood.
On the 5th of September, 1914, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Heald and Miss Ida Louise Meyer, of Oak Grove, San Diego County, she having been born at Richmond, Indiana. She was a college girl, received her degree A. M. at Wittenburg in 1898, and taught in her native city for a number of years. Mrs. Heald is the popular chatelaine of the pleasant home and delights in extending its hospitality to the many friends whom she and her husband have gathered about them in Southern California.
LUTHER MARVIN PERSONS had a scientific as well as a practical training in agriculture in the State of Wisconsin, and for several years has been one of the prosperous fruit ranchers in the Corona District, his ranch being located two miles north of that city, on rural ronte No. 1.
Mr. Persons was born at Sun Prairie, Dane County, Wisconsin, November 13, 1871, son of Agustus Franklin and Melvina (Tyler) Persons, his father a native of Vermont and his mother of Wisconsin. A. Franklin Persons spent his active career as a farmer and died in Wisconsin in 1904, the mother passing away in 1890. A. Franklin Persons was active in public affairs in his home county in Wisconsin, served several years as township clerk, was clerk of the school district, and had a record as a Union soldier, having enlisted in November, 1864, in the 18th Wisconsin Infantry, served as a private and was mustered out in 1865. After the war he became a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, was a republican in politics, a member of the Methodist Church, and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his wife had seven children: Tyler Stephen, of Pomona, California; Flora B., wife of J. A. Hawthorne, of Riverside; Augustus F., Jr., of Los Angeles; Luther M .; Orrin Elsie, of Pomona; Ernest M., of Calexico; and Melvin Royal, of Long Beach, California.
Luther Marvin Persons grew up on his father's farm, attended public schools, spent one year in the Whitewater State Normal School, and took the agricultural course in the University of Wis- consin. After finishing his education he was associated with his father on the farm until 1908. Then for a year he was at Grand Meadow, Minnesota, and from there came to Corona, California, and bought his ranch two miles north of Corona. He has developed one of the best managed fruit propositions in that vicinity. Mr. Persons has served on the School Board, is a republican and a member of the Methodist Church.
September 22, 1915, he married Mrs. Cora Aylworth, of Long Beach, California. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, was educated in public schools at South Haven, Michigan, and came to California with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Persons have one son, Marvin Luther, born Angust 8, 1916.
MARGARET PAINE-While during wife and widowhood she has borne the name Mrs. Ansel Ames, it was as Margaret Paine that she came to the San Bernardino Valley at the close of the Civil War, and her long life in that locality has produced associations that make it appropriate for her to be remembered in history as Margaret Paine. Mrs. Ames now lives at Cucamonga with her daughter, Mrs. F. B. Van Fleet.
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She was born in Illinois March 4, 1848. When she was a child her father, Murrell Paine, who was of Southern birth, moved to Texas and settled in Johnson County, well out on the north frontier of Texas. At the beginning of the Civil war he was the only man in that county who espoused the cause of Abraham Lincoln with suffi- cient courage to vote for him. He was twice married, having ten children when his first wife died, and his second marriage brought him nine more. Five of his sons were soldiers in the Civil war. One served with the Federal Army while four were drafted and against their convictions did duty with the Confederates. All of these survived the dangers and exigencies of warfare. The position of the Paine family in Texas was not altogether a congenial one during the war, and in February, 1865, Murrell Paine started for California, traveling by ox train. He left hurriedly, when his stock was in poor condition, and, his party having been increased by the addition of a number of other fellow travelers in the meantime, they all camped on the Concho River in West Texas to feed up the cattle. Here a party of Confederate soldiers found them and were on the point of taking the men into service, when the travelers made their hurried departure into the desert and escaped. Margaret Paine was at that time seventeen years of age, and she has many vivid memories of the hardships of the journey. The party frequently had to depend on Federal troops to supply them with food as they went along. At the crossing of the Colorado River the soldiers refused them rations, and in desperation the father traded one yoke of his oxen for food. Going on, the party arrived at old San Bernardino about Christmas time of 1865. Murrell Paine had owned a flour mill in Texas. He sold it to a party but was never able to collect the debt, and consequently he arrived in California without financial means. He rented a house in Cottonwood and went to work as a laborer on a ranch for twenty dollars a month.
Margaret Paine shared in the responsibilities of supporting the family in those days, and went out and did washing for fifty cents a day, the same wage paid to Indian squaws. Eventually her father secured a ranch at Cottonwood, at the site of old San Bernardino. Margaret Paine grew up in time and place of peculiar stress and hardships, and the necessity of work precluded any advantages in schools. Only after her marriage did she procure the services of an old man to teach her penmanship, and by subsequent study and reading she attained an outlook on life as that of a well educated woman.
Soon after coming to California and at the age of eighteen Mar- garet Paine was married to Ansel Ames. He was born in Missouri and at the age of fifteen accompained his parents with other Mormons to Salt Lake City and later he was with the Mormon Colony that came by ox trains from Salt Lake to the San Bernardino Valley. He had experiences similar to those of his wife on the journey, the party being without food and once, impelled by thirst, he killed an ox and drank its blood. Ansel Ames learned the trade of brick mason, and became a prominent builder and contractor in the early days of San Bernardino. He died at his home in Redlands in April. 1889.
Mrs. Ames was left with a family of four children, all of whom were born in San Bernardino. The oldest. Vada, was first married to David Johnson, a locomotive engineer who was killed in a railroad wreck. Three children survive that marriage: Murrell, Mrs. Olive Lyttle of Los Angeles and Darius Johnson, a law student. Mrs.
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Johnson is now the wife of Henry Pankey, of Santa Ana, California. The second child of Margaret Paine is Olive, now Mrs. Frank Thurston of Ontario, and they have two children, Dorothy and Margaret. The third child is Effie, who is Mrs. T. B. Van Fleet, and the fourth was Mrs. Essie Pope, of Santa Ana.
Effie Ames is married to one of Cucamonga's most prosperous ranchers. Mr. Van Fleet was born in Illinois, but his parents were pioneers at Downey, California, and he has been a resident of the Cucamonga district for thirty years. On coming here Mr. Van Fleet bought a ten acre tract, including one of the oldest vineyards in the locality. He has since added to this until he now owns a hundred sixty acres, well diversified in citrus, deciduous fruits and vine crops. He has become a man of prominence and means. Mrs. Van Fleet is well educated, has a literary turn, and is the author of a number of charming poems. Mr. and Mrs. Van Fleet have the following children: Vada, Mrs. Muriel Bray of Santa Ana; Nelson M., who was with the United States Marines until the armistice; Mrs. Katherine Krauter, of San Jose, Theresa, a student in the Normal School at Los Angeles; Francis and Helen, both attending the Chaffey High School at Ontario; Ruth, Helen and Stanley, pupils in the Cucamonga grammar school.
Margaret Paine is, therefore, one of the few survivors of that pioneer era when the San Bernardino Valley was being developed as the home of white men, but many years in advance of the modern era of orchards and vineyards and irrigated ranches with beautiful homes. She and her family have done a worthy part as pioneers in . the making of this section. Mrs. Ames and her children are active workers in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ, composed of Latter Day Saints, but not a branch of the Mormon Church.
ERNEST WYCOFF SLYGH is a Riverside County man who has achieved success out of many years of active experience in the farming and fruit growing industry. He is proprietor of a fine ranch four miles north of Perris.
Mr. Slygh was born at Elmwood, Illinois, January 1, 1876, son of George D. and Mary (Wycoff) Slygh, the former a native of Norfolk, Virginia, and the latter of Illinois. The father was a farmer. The mother came to California about a year ago, and is now living at Riverside.
Ernest W. Slygh acquired a public school education in Illinois and was twenty years of age when he came to California. For a time he was located at Riverside, associated with Mr. Ogden. Subse- quently he started farming on his own account by the purchase of ten acres on Boulevard Road, twelve miles from Riverside. Since then he has increased his holdings to two hundred acres, and is one of the successful grain raisers, and has also developed part of his land to fruit. Mr. Slygh is one of the influential members of the Farm Bureau of Riverside County and is . a republican in politics.
July 22, 1896, he married Miss Rose Lamb, daughter of Oswald and Catherine Lamb, of Alhambra, California. Mrs. Slygh was born in Utah and was educated in the public schools of Alhambra and San Bernardino and in the Los Angeles Normal College. Mr. and Mrs. Slygh have one child, Dorothy, now the wife of Orley Bridges, of River- side County.
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THEODORE F. SCHRADER, OPT. D-In professional and business circles of Riverside a citizen who has impressed himself favorably upon his fellowtownsmen and whose name has been identified with pro- fessional ability, business achievements and participation in civic movements is Theodore F. Schrader, Opt. D. His career has been a singularly full and successful one, and while he is still a young man he has had much experience along several avenues of endeavor. Doctor Schrader was born in Viola County, Minnesota, February 18, 1887, and as a lad was taken by his parents to Milwaukee, Wis- consin, where he was primarily educated in the public schools. Later he pursued a course at Bradley Polytechnic Institute, Peoria, Illinois, being graduated therefrom in 1904, and subsequently spent two years at the Young Men's Christian Association Training School, Chicago. When he left the latter institution he faced the West, the next one and one-half years being devoted to the venturesome if not always remunerative vocation of prospecting for precious metals in the State of Wyoming. Locating at Los Angeles, California, in 1911 he enrolled as a student of the Los Angeles Medical School, and was graduated therefrom with the class of 1913, receiving the degree of Doctor of Optometry. At that time he accepted a position as head of the optical department in the establishment of Otto Wuerker, with whom he remained two years, following which he embarked in business on his own account and continued therein until 1916. Doctor Schrader then came to Riverside, where he established an office at 820 Main Street, and has since been engaged in his professional calling with constantly growing success. He has become widely known not only along the lines of his specialty, but in business circles as well, having been one of the founders of the Mahala Oil and Gas Company, in which he is a heavy stock- holder, and being president of the Riverside Copper and Development Company, a growing corporation.
In his fraternal affiliation Doctor Schrader belongs to the Be- nevolent and Protective Order of Elks and has reached the Knight Templar degree in the Masonic order. He also holds membership in the Lions Club and the Young Men's Christian Association. He has supported beneficial civic movements with his means and energies and has stood for progress along material lines. On July 21, 1911, Doctor Schrader was united in marriage with Miss Juanita Ransberger, of El Paso, Texas, who died at Riverside January 26, 1921.
AIVA R. MCCARTY has been a resident of California, since early youth, and is now one of the substantial landholders and represen- tative farmers of San Bernardino County, where he gives special attention to the dairy enterprise. Mr. McCarty was born in Mason County, Illinois, January 16, 1858, and is a son of Cornelius McCarty, who was born in Ohio and who became a farmer in Mason County, Illinois, from which state he removed with his family to Texas and turned his attention to stock growing. In 1876 he came to Cali- fornia and bought a Government claim in Temescal, San Bernardino County, where he died about two years later.
Alva R. McCarty attended the public schools of Temescal, San Bernardino County, and initiated his independent farm enterprise by homesteading a tract of seventy-three acres, which constitutes his present home, five miles Northwest of Corona, where he and his sons are now the owners of a valuable and well improved farm
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estate of 560 acres, devoted to diversified agriculture, the raising of live stock and the maintaining of a fine dairy with the best grade of Holstein cattle. Mr. McCarty and his sons are recognized as among the most vigorous and successful dairy farmers and stock growers in San Bernardino County. The sons now give valuable assistance in his extensive ranch enterprise. Mr. McCarty is a democrat in politics, and, while not a seeker of public office, he has shown his civic loyalty in his effective service as a trustee in his school district, a position which he held for several years. On October 6, 1881, is recorded the marriage of Mr. McCarty and Miss Margaret Walkinshaw, who was born and reared in San Bernardino County, California. She is a daughter of Thomas Wal- kinshaw. Of the four children of this union three are living, Clarence William and Jesse. The only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. McCarty died in childhood. Her name was Ona.
S. A. WHITE-One winter at Riverside and vicinity in 1898 con- verted Mr. and Mrs. S. A. White into enthusiastic lovers of the varied charms of that environment, and from a winter home Riverside became the permanent residence of Mr. White, where he spent the years of his retirement from active business happily and also employed his time and services in various directions for the public good so as to win him a rich esteem, fully recognized in the tributes paid him when he passed away.
In 1899 Mr. White had a winter home constructed at 833 Tenth Street. Intended only as a winter home, he became so enamored with the climate and the city that two years later he disposed of his business interests in the East and became a permanent resident of Riverside. In 1908 he constructed the permanent home at 1017 Tenth Street where Mrs. White still lives. It is an artistic triumph of the Colonial type. and the beauty of its exterior architecture is enhanced by the interior furnishings, which represent many priceless treasures that have come down through the family from two hundred to three hundred years.
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