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Charles R. Stine grew up in the mining country and mined with his father. Later he learned the trade of wheelwright at Tustin and followed that for some time. He located in Chino, where he is engaged in ranching. He was married in 1863 to Miss Sarah Jane Hotel; she died September 30, 1873, leaving two sons. June 30, 1878, he was married to Miss Martha J. Weekly and they have three children. The children are Charles E., Orla A., Rollie A., William A., and Flora D., now Mrs. W. H. Delphy of Chino.
WILLIAM A. STINE, of Chino, was born November 3, 1872, in Bloomfield, Sonoma county, Cal. He was married November 17, 1902, to Miss Annie M., daughter of James Fintel of Chino. She is a native of Nebraska.
ROLLIE A. STINE, of Chino, was born in what is now Orange county, at Tustin, Jannary 12, 1879. He was married December 23, 1902, to Emma S., daughter of John Fintel, of Chino.
CLEM SCHEERER is a native of Germany, born in 1864, November 22d. He came to America in 1888 after serving his term of two years in the German army. He went first to San Francisco, but about 1890 came to Victor, where hisbrother, Joseph Scheerer, had discovered and opened up a quarry of blue granite, about 1888. The quarry formerly employed 50 to 60 men and supplied building stone and paving blocks for all Southern California, the principal market being Los Angeles. The quarry is near the Santa Fe road and the stone is of excellent quality. Mr. Clem Scheerer now has the entire man- agement of the quarry. He also supplies the American Beet Sugar Co. with large quan- tities of limestone for use in their factories.
February 28, 1898, Mr. Scheerer married in Los Angeles Miss Jennie Van Schlick, a native of Kansas. They now have five children.
JAMES ILLINGWORTH, of Upland, was born in Yorkshire, England, August 3, 1843 His father was James Illingworth, of an old English-Scotch family; he was a stationary engineer, for many years in the employ of the Baildon worsted mills. The son learned the trade of house painting and followed it until he came to America in 1865. After his arrival in this country he worked at his trade, at first in Lawrence, Mass., then in Missouri, Indiana, Illinois and Kansas. In Kansas he also engaged in farming.
In 1887 Mr. Illingworth came to California and purchased ten acres of citrus land in the San Antonio Heights tract, Ontario. Later he located at his present home in the mouth of the San Antonio canyon, where he has ten acres in citrus and deciduous fruits. August 3, 1869, Mr. Illingworth married Emeline Jacobs, a native of Springfield, Ill. They lave living two sons-Joseph F., a graduate of Claremont and post-graduate of Stanford University, class of 1891, now at the head of the department of biology, Seattle High School, and Charles Grant, merchant at Randsburg. Flora M. and George E. are dead.
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HENRY S. HUGHES, of Highland, is a native of Virginia, born at Fincastle, June 12, 1848, the son of Andrew and Adelia Kinworthy Hughes, both natives of Virginia. The family dates back for a hundred years or more. When Mr. Hughes was four years old an accidental explosion of powder with which he was playing destroyed his eyesight. He was educated at an institution for the blind in St. Louis. He possessed unusual musical gifts and therefore became a skilled pianist and also learned piano repairing and tuning. After leaving school he traveled through the middle western states for three years with a concert troupe. He came to California in 1873 and was one of the first settlers in High- land. He secured 320 acres of railroad land, most of which he has now sold. He now has seven acres.
In 1872 he married Miss Mary Tush at Manchester, Iowa. They have eight children- Charles, Elwood, Albert, Lyman, Laura, Nettie, Bessie and Mary.
JOHN CARTER WEEKS, formerly of San Bernardino, was born in Mississippi, July 14, 1839. He was the son of Jeffrey Weeks, a farmer and wagon-maker by trade. The family, consisting of the parents and thirteen children, started for California overland. At Salt Lake the father was taken sick and died. The family came through to San Bernardino in 1852. Here the old- est daughter, Tempie, married Benj. Math- ews; Susan became Mrs. George Hubbell ; Minerva, Mrs. David Aldridge of San Ber- nardino; Abigail, Mrs. John Harris; Mar- tha E., Mrs. I. Judson; Seleta A., Mrs. Robert Ridley ; Olive, Mrs. William Terry. The sons-Samuel, James, Britton and John C .- were all farmers.
John Carterr Weeks was prominent in the early settlement and development of the valley. He settled in East Highland in early days and there died.
Mrs. Weeks married May 10, 1863, Sarah, daughter of Goodsell and Elizabeth Harris Cram. Mrs. Weeks was born in Illinois and was married in San Bernar- dino. The children are as follows: Sarah and John, deceased; Andrew J., William Henry, of East Highland; Anna B., wife of Charles Herbert, of Redlands; Elvira Mrs. Joseph Taylor, of Redlands.
SYLVESTER K. WILSON, of Bloom- ington, is a native of Berrien county, Mich., horn January 23, 1840, the son of James H. Wilson. His father was a na- tive of Virginia; he was a mill owner and a manufacturer of hardwood lumber, and JOHN CARTER WEEKS AND WIFE owned a mill on the Galen river, Mich. Mr. Wilson learned the lumber business in all its details, and after coming to California acted as manager for the Riverside Box and Tray Co. at their plant in the San Bernardino mountains. He has also acted as engineer for the Colton Marble Works. He now owns a ten-acre orange grove at Bloomington, on which he resides.
August 20, 1862, Mr. Wilson enlisted in the 26th Mich. Vol. Inf. and served as private, sergeant, first lieutenant and second lieutenant, being in command of Co. C. He was discharged in June, 1865, after participating in many engagements and escaping injury. He served under Major-General W. S. Hancock and General Nelson A. Miles. After the war he engagedn in the lumber business in Dayton, Mich., until 1882, when he became · lumber agent and inspector for the Pullman Co. at Pullman, Ill., until he came to California in: February, 1886.
Mr. Wilson was married in 1867 to Miss C. Aurelia, daughter of Dr. J. M. Philips, of Dayton, Mich. She died in 1881, leaving a child, which died the same year. Mr. Wilson is a member of W. R. Cornman Post, G. A. R., San Bernardino.
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JOHN R. McCAIN, of Chino, was born in Buchanan county, Mo., July 26, 1857. He was the son of Nelson and Mary Margaret Richie McCain. They had twelve children, of whom ten are now living. The father was a native of Indiana and a farmer by occupa- tion. J. R. McCain learned the trade of harness maker when he was eighteen years old in Hamburg, Fremont county, and has followed it ever since. He came to California abont 1886. He first located in Pomona, where he was in business for a time. About 1894 he came to Chino and opened his store.
He married Miss May, daughter of G. H. Thomas, in Hamburg, Iowa. Mrs. McCain i. a native of Ohio. They have four sons-George, John, Harry and Frank. Mr. McCain is a member of the I. O. O. F. and Fraternal Aid Association.
HARVEY E. MOGLE, of Chino, was born in Fulton county, Ind., October 31, 1859. the son of William H. and Harriet M. Smith Mogle. His father was a native of Wayne county, Ind. Harvey E. came to California in 1891 and after two years at Cucamonga located at Chino, where he has since lived. He was married in Fulton county, Ind., to Miss Maymett, daughter of Hickman Phillips, July 27, 1888. They have three sons and three daughters-Fred E., Mildred, Frank, Grace, Hickman and Edith.
ARTHUR D. MINER, of Rialto, was born March 18, 1855, in Grafton county, N. H., and is a descendant of one of the original Puritan families of Connecticut. He spent his boyhood in his native state and in 1876 came west and located in the northeastern section of Missouri. He farmed here and later in Kansas. In 1900 he came to California and settled at Rialto. He married Miss Nellie McDonald in Kansas and has two children, Alice and Harold.
JERRE F. STEWART, of Rialto, was born at Catlettsburg, Boyd county, Ky., October 6, 1838, the son of Ralph Stewart, a farmer who owned a large plantation and did general farming.
The son left home at the age of sixteen and spent several years in wandering through the west, exploring, Missouri, Iowa, and going as far west as Oregon. On the completion ot the Southern Pacific Railway he returned east and for seventeen years lived upon his father's place at the old home. In 1891 he came to California and first settled near Sonth Riverside, but the next year came to Rialto and purchased ten acres, which he has set to fruit. He was married October 9, 1878, to Miss Mary B. Kendrick, of West Virginia. They have had seven children, four of whom are living-Lida B., Clarence E., Claude E. and Stella N. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are members of the M. E. church.
ROBERT S. TOLLE, of Rialto, was born in Glasgow, Barren county, Ky., October 27, 1861, the son of Joseph T. and Martha Ward Tolls. His father was also a native of Kentucky, a farmer and a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. He mar- ried Martha J., danghter of Robert Ward, of Barron county. They moved at an early date to McPherson county, Kansas, and were pioneers of that region. Mrs. Tolle died in 1875, leaving seven children. The Rev. J. T. Tolle was one of the Kansas colony that originally settled Rialto. He died here January 13, 1903, at the age of sixty-eight.
Robert S. Tolle remained in Kansas until 1899, when he came to Rialto, and now owns two ten-acre tracts set to citrus fruits. He married, in 1884, Miss Amy E. Vederstrom, in McPherson county, Kans. She was a native of Rock Island, Ill. They have five children-Howard Leroy, Carl D., Edwin Chester, Alvin Hawthorn and Guy Allen.
CHARLES HENRY ROHRER, of Highland, is a native of Austria, born in Bohemia, March 1, 1838. His father, John A. Rohrer, was a stocking weaver by trade, and the son learned the same trade when a youth. When eighteen he came to America, living first at Buffalo, N. Y., where he remained about eight months, then pushing west to Han- cock county, Ill. He there attended school and learned the painter's trade. He lived in this vicinity until he came to California in 1902 and Located at Highland. Here he has ten acres of land.
Mr, Rohrer first married Mary Strain, who lived but a short time and died, leaving one son, Albert H., now of San Francisco. He married at Carthage, Ill., Miss Hanna L., daughter of Herman Crear, a native of Prussia, who came to America in 1852. His daughter was born on the ocean on the way over. The children of this marriage are : Minnie, Mrs. William Lindsay, Highland; Edwin J., D. D. S., of Iowa; Mattie and Emma, who are well known vocalists, singing under the name of the Rohrer Sisters.
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THOMAS BENTON ROSS, of Pomona, was a native of Carlinville, Ill., born July 15, 1856, the son of Robert and Lockey Sanders Ross, the former a Virginian, the latter a native of Kentucky. The father served in the army as the captain of Co. H, 133d Ill., until discharged on account of sickness. An uncle, Col. Jack Ross, and his son served also, the boy, although under age, being a drummer. Robert Ross died October 30, 1866.
Thomas B. Ross left home while a boy and traveled through Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas, riding and breaking horses. In 1873 he came to California and located first at Orange. In 1874 he began buying and selling stock, chiefly horses. Later he freighted between Spadra and the Panamint region. From 1878 to 1883 he spent more or less time in Arizona. He was then employed for twelve years by the Pomona Land and Water Co. and had charge of the distribution of water under their system. In 1894 he engaged in farming on the Chino grant and in 1896 purchased fifty acres of alfalfa. This he has now sold and he is at present residing in Pomona.
April 17, 1884, he married Miss Sallie L. Moss, daughter of Gabriel Moss, a wealthy ranch owner now living near Fort Worth, Tex. They have nine children-Robert F., Chester, Ella, Gertrude, Walter, Claudia, Edward, Locley and James.
BENJAMIN FOWLER, of Redlands, was a native of New York city, born December 17, 1841, the son of Stephen C. and Rebecca Lawrence Fowler. In 1853 the family, which consisted of the parents, three sons- John H., Nathaniel D. and William-and a daughter, Sarah, came to California via Cape Horn in the vessel Lookout. Two sons, Stephen L. and James, had preceded them in 1849; also coming around the Horn. They were all car- penters and worked for Sam Brannan, who erected some of the first buildings put up in San Francisco. Later they removed to Downieville, where they en- gaged in mining. James still lives in Oakland; Stephen L. died 'at Valley Ford August 22, 1860; the father died November 27, 1878, at the same place, and the mother in San Francisco in 1884.
William Fowler spent his youth in Sonoma county, where he was engaged in farming until 1870. He then engaged in business at Valley Ford with his brother James, and served as station agent for the N. P. C. Ry. for eight years at that place. He came to San Bernardino county to take charge of the orange grove property, at Highland, of Edward Ely. There he lived eight years He located in Redlands in 1894. He still owns a ten-acre orange grove at East Highland.
He was married in Sonoma in 1874 to Miss Louise M., daughter of Elisha Ely, a California pioneer of 1849. They have two daughters-Mabel Ely, wife of Hugh M. Foster, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and Louise, wife of Augustus A. Frank, of New York city.
BENJAMIN FOWLER
MATHIAS VERDIN SWEESY, of San Bernardino, was born in Jackson county. Iowa, May 23, 1850, the son of Thomas Sweesy, a farmer, who was a native of Penn- sylvania. Mathias was educated at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, taking his A. B. in 1873 and A. M. in 1876. He studied law at Marion with Thompson and Davis, leading lawyers of that place. He was admitted to the bar of Iowa in 1874 and prac- ticed in that state until 1877, when he went west to Kansas and located at Halsted, Harvey county. Here he practiced law and edited the Halsted Independent from 1880 to 1887.
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He came to California in 1887 with the Kansas colonists, who located at Rialto, as one of the stockholders and as secretary of the society. He, with the president, J. W. Tibbot, managed the business of the enterprise. He also purchased ten acres of land which is his present residence.
During the Harrison campaign, and until December 1, 1889, Mr. Sweesy edited the Riverside Daily Press. In January, 1889, he, with Mr. Tibbot, formed a partnership in the abstract and title business, now owned and operated by the Pioneer Abstract and Title Guarantee Co., of San Bernardino. Later he was for eighteen months with the Consolidated Abstract and Title Guaranty Co. He spent several years in Los Angeles and a year and a half in San Francisco. In 1903 he returned to Rialto and resumed his connection with the Consolidated Abstract and Title Guaranty Co. at San Bernardino. In 1877 Mr. Sweesy married Miss Laura, daughter of Mrs. C. A. Norris, a native of Ohio. Mrs. Sweesy was for three years supervisor of music in the public schools of Pasadena, and has for the past three years occupied the same position in the public schools of Berkeley. Mr. and Mrs. Sweesy have one daughter, Millie Merle, and two sons-Homer H. and Thomas King. They are members of the M. E. church.
WILLIAM M. ROBERTS, a rancher and fruit grower of Mill Creek cañon, is the son of Berry Roberts, born April 25, 1858, on Base Line, San Bernardino, where he grew to manhood. He engaged in mining in Randsburg district and later in silver mining in Utah. For several years he operated a line of pack animals between Red- lands and various mountain points in the San Ber- nardino range. He is now engaged in fruit growing in Mill Creek canon, where he owns a ranch of thirty- five acres.
WM. M. ROBERTS
Mr. Roberts has been married twice and has six children-Ethel, Mrs. Henry Newman, of Flagstaff, A. T .; Grace, Mrs. Wakely Nittinger, Los Angeles; Roy, Arthur, William and Oscar, at home.
A. B. THOMAS, of San Bernardino, was born May 29, 1871, in Delavan, Wis. He was the son of Judge Alfred Delevan Thomas, who was the first Federal Judge of North Dakota. A. B. Thomas attended school in Minneapolis and Fargo, N. D. In 1887 he entered the employ of Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co., of Chi- cago, and remained with them four years, learning the hardware business thoroughly. He was then engaged in business in St. Paul and in Duluth. In 1903 Mr. Thomas came to California and located at San Ber- nardino, where he organized the San Bernardino Hard- ware Co., successors to C. W. Mettler.
Mr. Thomas was married in St. Paul to Miss Bessie Shirk. They have one daughter, Ruth. Mr. Thomas is a member of the Masonic orders and of the Elks
E. A. and C. M. RASOR, of the firm of Rasor Bros., civil engineers of San Ber- nardino, are both natives of Ohio, sons of Nathan and Margaret MacEniff Rasor.
E. A. Rasor received his education in the public schools of Xenia and Springfield, Ohio, graduating from the Greenville high school. He afterward took a course of study for civil engineer. His first work after leaving school was at Pueblo, Colo., where he was employed on Municipal work; from there going to Montana as mining engineer, and remained several years. He came to San Bernardino May 30, 1897, and with the exception of a few months in Mexico has lived here ever since. His first work in San Bernardino was in the office of Mr. Koebig, remaining with him until Mr. Koebig went to Los Angeles, when, in company with his brother, C. M. Rasor, they succeeded to the business.
C. M. Rasor was educated in the public schools at Greenville, Ohio, afterward entering the office of a civil engineer in that city for the purpose of taking a course in civil engineer- ing. He was first employed in Aspen, Colo., working some years with the best mining engineers of that state; then went to Yellow Jacket, Idaho, where before his twenty- first birthday he received appointment as United States Deputy Mineral Surveyor. He was for a time superintendent of the Columbia Mining Company's property, a well known concern of that state. Upon the breaking out of the Spanish-American war he enlisted
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in Co. D. 2nd U. S. Vol. Cav., known as "Torrey's Rough Riders." While in camp at Jacksonville, Fla., he was attacked with fever and came to San Bernardino on a furlough to recuperate. He found the place so attractive that, after his discharge, he returned and has since made it his home. He has recently received appointmnt as U. S. mineral surveyor for this district, also for Nevada, and has done some excellent work for the department, receiving very complimentary mention from the head of his department in recognition of his ability.
FREDERICK M. BRUSH, of San Bernardino, was born in Ogdensburg, N. Y., August 29, 1846. He was the son of Alexander Brush, an organ builder of that city. He remained at home until his twenty-first year, thoroughly mastering the business of piano tuning, which he has followed nearly all his life, with the exception of five years passed in Iowa, where in consequence of ill health he removed. During this time he was in business in Lafayette, Iowa, in charge of some of the largest cream- eries in that state, and was the first to introduce the cream separator into that section of the state.
Mr. Brush came to California in 1886, and since that time has been employed in Vale's music store as a piano tuner. He married Miss Kate Allen, daughter of James Allen of San Bernardino. They have one child, Fred Brush. By a former marriage Mrs. Brush has one daughter, Pauline Brush. He is a member of San Bernardino Lodge F. & A. M., and also a member of the Elks.
BENJAMIN A. DAVIES, of San Bernardino, was - born in Cold Creek, Utah, March 3, 1853, the son of William and Mary Rabel Wood Davies, both natives of England. The family came to San Bernardino about 1853 and Benjamin grew up in this vicinity and attended the public schools of the city. He worked as salesman in the dry goods store of A. A. Wolfe for a couple of FREDERICK M. BRUSH years and then went to Arizona. For a number of years he was engaged in trade and in buying cattle in Ari- zona. About 1883 he located on his present ranch and engaged extensively in stock raising and breeding.
Mr. Davies was married April 13, 1873, to Miss Arabell, the daughter of Charles Whitlow, who kept a trading post at Marysville, A. T. They have three living children- Mabel, the wife of N. A. Richardson; Lela, Mrs. William Whitlow, and Violet.
GEORGE RENWICK, of San Bernardino, was born in Canada, September 7, 1868, the son of John and Jane Findleter Renwick. His school days were spent near and in Toronto, Canada, where he received a common school education. His first work was on a farm. Mr. Renwick came to San Bernardino in October, 1887, and commenced work as well driller in the employ of Mr. Mauser, with whom he remained five years. Then, in partnership with A. F. Gansner, started in business for himself, and has continued in the business ever since. They are the owners of four well-drilling outfits, boring seven, ten and twelve-inch holes. Their work has principally been in search of water, but they have lately undertaken an oil well. Their operations are mostly in San Bernardino county. The firm owns also an interest in the Parker Iron Works, San Bernardino.
On December 26, 1894, Mr. Renwick married Mrs. Ella Brinkly, formerly Miss Ella Yager, a native of San Bernardino. Mr. Renwick is a member of the order of Odd Fellows.
H. A. REED, of San Bernardino, was born in Otsego county, N. Y., February 29, 1852. He was the son of Elijah and Julina Miller Reed. There were two boys in the father's family, the other son now residing in Laton, Cal. His school days were passed in Laurens, N. Y. He began life by teaching school and working at the carpenter trade, which he had learned. He left New York in 1870 and from that time until 1887 was in Middle Iowa and Wisconsin, teaching school winters and working at his trade of carpenter and builder in the summer months. In 1887 he came to San Bernardino, and the six years following he was employed in the planing mill of the West Coast Lumher Company. Since that time he has been doing a general carpenter and contracting business in San Bernardino.
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While in Wisconsin in 1873 he married Miss Martha Allen. They have one daughter. Miss Arletta Reed, now teaching in the Fourth street' school in San Bernardino. Mr. Reed is a member of the Baptist church, and is a Woodman of the World.
JOHN H. TITTLE is a native of San Bernardino, born July 20, 1866. He is the son of W. S. Tittle and Maria M. (Worthington) Tittle. He was educated in the public schools of the city and became connected with the San Bernardino fire department in 1890 as stoker on the steam fire engine, and remained in that position for six months, when he was advanced to foreman of the department. After one year as foreman and six months as assistant chief he was made chief of the department. At the end of three years he tendered his resignation as chief, and was succeeded by O. M. Stevenson, present chief.
Mr. Tittle went to Needles and engaged in business as plumber and gas fitter, having served an apprenticeship in the shop of J. G. Burt. Later, going east, he worked in Denver and Salt Lake City, and returning to Needlles entered the employ of Monaghan & Murphy, his present position. Mr. Tittle is a member of the Native Sons of the Golden West.
GEORGE MILLER
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GEORGE MILLER, of San Bernardino, was born in Indian Territory, February 11, 1850, the son of George Miller, a pioneer of Illinois and a millwright by trade. His father died in 1856 and the boy went to an uncle and accompanied him to California, driving an ox team and helping guard the stock, although he was a mere child. He reached San Bernardino county in 1862 and has resided in this county most of the time since. He has for many years resided on his ranch near Patton and been engaged in raising fruit.
Mr. Miller married Miss Elenorah, daughter of Joseph Hancock. She was born in Iowa in 1851 and came to San Bernardino county with her parents in 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have had six children-George E .; Elenorah, now Mrs. Roswell Crandall; Ida Ann, Mary C., William T., Charles B. Mr. Miller is a memebr of the I. O. O. F. and in early days was noted as a hunter of large game.
JOHN FLAGG, San Bernardino, was born in Portland, Maine, in the year 1850. He moved westward in his youth and learned his trade as printer in Manhattan, Kansas. He came to California, and in 1888 established himself in the printing business in San Bernardino, and has ever since been actively engaged in this business. He was one of the originators of the Santa Fe Building and Loan Association, one of the solid financial institutions of the city, 'and one which has done much toward its upbuilding. He is an active and influential member of the Masonic order and also belongs to the I. O. O. F. He has a family and owns one of the attractive homes of San Bernardino.
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