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Mr. Daley married Mary C. Jones, of San Bernardino, July 23, 1883. They have six children-Albert J., William N., Oro I., Herbert C., Cline, Radcliff and Dolly I-all living at home. Mr. Daley is a member of the Order of Foresters of the World.
Mr. Daley figured in an interesting incident of the flood of 1867. John Brackenbury and Samantha Daley occupied a house on Third street, near the present bridge over Warm creek, near Squaw Flats. The water rose so rapidly that the house was entirely surrounded by a stream several hundred feet wide. Mrs. Brackenbury was confined in bed with an infant only a few days old. The people on the banks were much concerned for their safety, expect- ing the house to be washed away at any moment. Uncle Billy McDonald offered to loan his boat, and Mr. Daley mounted his saddle horse and went at a gallop to bring it to the river. Dragging the boat with a rope attached to the horn of his saddle, he got it to the river bank. where it was taken by Gus Knight. Sr., who got into the boat and, in Indian fashion, paddled it to the house. The woman and baby were quickly placed into the boat and brought ashore. Some of the men on the hank, in their anxiety to prevent aceident, waded far out into the stream so as to be ready in case of emergency to render assistance, but fortunately none was needed.
WILLIAM STEWART LA PRAIX (deceased) was a native of the province of On- tario, Canada. He was born Oct., II, 1832, of Scotch-Irish parentage. His father was a mason by trade. and followed his occupation in the line of contracting, in the town of Glen- morris. Brant Co., Canada. In 1852, when he was twenty years of age, Mr. La Praix came to California. He had been in touch with the world, and had a good knowledge of business,
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together with an ambition to do something for himself. The discovery of gold in California, seemed to offer the opportunity, and he started west, making the journey by the Isthmus of Panama. Arriving at San Francisco, he proceeded at once to the placer diggings of Sacra- mento County, and went to mining along the American River. He met with indifferent suc- cess in that line, and soon abandoned mining, going to Sacramento, where he was em- ployed for a year or more, by Huntington. Hopkins & Co., as salesman in their hardware business. In 1868 Mr. LaPraix came to San Bernardino County, and engaged in the lumber business in the San Bernardino mountains. He was first employed as head sawyer by Knight & Dickey, remaining with them until they sold their mill property to Beverly Boren, of whom Mr. LaPraix leased it, and subsequently purchased it from him. He removed this mill to Little Bear Valley, where he did a very successful business, and accumulated a fine property. He later purchased a fine mill property of a Los Angeles firm, near the base of San Jacinto mountain, and forming a partnership with Joseph and Charles Tyler, under the firm name of Tyler and LaPraix, removed this mill to Cedar Flats. in the San Bernardino range, where they operated for about five years, until the supply of timber was exhausted. He then bought out the interests of his partners, and removed the mill to Little Bear valley, locating on the site of his old mill property. Mr. LaPraix was a successful man, and ac- cumulated wealth in the lumber business. He established a lumber yard in San Bernardino city.
In May 1887, while engaged in his mill, Mr. LaPraix met with an accident, which, after several days of intense suffering, resulted in his death on the 13th of the month. His loss was cause for expression of general regret by the whole community. He had only a short time previous to his death, announced his determination to close out his active business interests, relieveing himself of these responsibilities, that he might quietly settle in San Bernardino, and enjoy the fruits of his labors, and the society of his friends.
Mr. LaPraix married Miss Ida May Wills, of San Bernardino, in 1875. Mrs. LaPraix died March 23, 1876, aged nineteen years and five months. Her infant daughter followed May 31, of the same year. Mr. LaPraix was an active member of Token Lodge I. O. O. F., of San Bernardino.
LORENZO SNOW LYMAN, of Bloomington, was born at Lytle Creek, in San Bernardino valley, while the San Bernardino colonists were camped there, November 6th, 1851. He is said to have been the first boy of American parentage born in the San Bernardino valley. A daughter had been previously born to Andrew Lytle, of the same party. His father was Amasa Lyman, one of the first twelve Apostles under the presidency of Brigham Young, a leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He, with Chas C. Rich, was appointed to establish the colony of San Bernardino. The mother was Cornelia Eliza Leavitt, a native of Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio. She returned to Utah with the other members of the colony in 1857, and died in Iron county, Utah, when about forty years of age, leaving two children, Lorenzo Snow and Henry Elias, the latter now a fruit grower in Santa Barbara county.
Lorenzo Snow lived in Iron county, Utah, until 1875. then returned to California and has lived in this county since with the exception of the period between 1881 and 1885, when he lived in Utah.
In 1874 Mr. Lyman married Miss Zuie Rowley, in Millard county, Utah. She died in 1888, leaving six children, Mary, Cornelius, Rosa, Nora, Ina and Amasa. In 1892 he was married a second time to Mrs. Alpha, daughter of W. H. H. Easton, of Bloomington. There is one son, Arthur, and a daughter, Ella Lucille, by this marriage. The present Mrs. Lyman was the first teacher at Bloomington in 1892, the school opening with an enrollment of thirty-two. She has since taught four terms in this school. Mr. and Mrs. Lyman are mem- bers of the Congregational church of Bloomington.
MATTHEW BYRNE, deceased, of San Bernardino, was a California pioneer of 1852. He was born March 13, 1833, in County Kicklow, Ireland. In the year 1841 his parents emigrated with their family to America, he being at the time only seven years of age. Upon arrival in the United States, they went south to Mississippi, and for several years lived in Vicksburg. There young Byrne attended the local schools, and spent the days of his youth. He joined the exodus westward, and the year 1852 found him in San Francisco. He at once proceeded to the gold fields of Amador County, where he mined for several years with varying success. In the year 1863, he came to San Bernardino, and engaged in mercantile business, and sheep raising. As he accumulated capital, he judiciously in- vested it in San Bernardino city and county realty, and when the business "boom," of 1887 to 1889 came, he found himself in possession of property that commanded profitable prices.
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During this period, Mr. Byrne erected the Byrne block, which is one of the most attractive buildings in the city. In 1890 he made an extended tour of the Eastern states and Mexico, where he contracted a severe cold which developed into la grippe and terminated in his death, January 27th, 1892. He was 59 years of age. Mrs. Bryne's maiden name was Olive Parks, she was the daughter of the late Judge Parks, a San Bernardino pioneer of 1857. She was a little girl of four years of age when her parents located at San Bernardino. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Byrne was solemnized at San Bernardino August 17th, 1869. Mrs. Byrne has three sons and two daughters.
JOHN MAYFIELD, deceased, of San Bernardino county, a California pioneer of 1849. was born in Hardin county, Kentucky, September 29th, 1831. About 1845 his parents re- moved from Kentucky to Hancock county, Illinois, and soon afterwards his father died. Later his mother married Sebert Shelton, a resident of that county. Mr. Shelton, who was a very good man, became connected with the church of Latter Day Saints at Nauvoo, and in the spring of 1846 the family joined a party of emigrants bound for Salt Lake City. The party was composed principally of Mormons who, owing to various difficulties with those of different religious ideas, were making their exodus from the state of Illi- nois. They proceeded to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and en- camped for the winter. In consequence of the breaking out of war between the United States and Mexico, five companies of men were recruited from among the Mor- mons and organized as the Mormon Battalion. Cap- tain Jefferson Hunt was commissioned captain of Com- pany "A," and among the enlisted men was Frank Mayfield, a brother of John Mayfield, and Sebert Shelton, his step-father. The enlistments for the war made heavy inroads into the band of emi- grants. John Mayfield, a boy of fifteen, though not a Mormon, had followed the fortunes of the refugees, but was dissuaded on account of his age from enlisting in the army and left with a few others to protect the women and children. The emigrating party moved on to Fort Leavenworth, then to Pueblo, Colo, thence to Fort Laramie, starting May, 1847. into the Salt Lake MRS. HARRIET MAYFIELD Valley where they spent the winter of 1847-48. The fol- lowing winter Mayfield and his mother's family passed in Ogden and in the spring of 1849, proceeded to Cali-
fornia by the way of the northern route to Sutter's Fort and the gold fields of Northern California. In the same year Mr. Mayfield was engaged in mining at Dutch Flats, and after- wards at other camps, with varying success. In 1855 or 1856, he came to San Bernadino county and went to work for Jefferson Hunt, carrying mail between San Bernardino and Salt Lake City, remaining with him for a period of four years. In 1859, he married Miss Harriet, a daughter of Jefferson Hunt, and soon afterwards they took up their residence in San Bernardino county, locating on a farm on the Santa Ana river near Colton, where they lived about three years. The floods of 1862 cansed so much damage to their property they were compelled to abandon the place and Mr. Mayfield entered the service of the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company. He was employed in the engineering department under Fred T. Perris, and remained with them nine years, occupying a position of responsi- bility. The next six years were passed in the office of the sheriff of San Bernardino county. where he was employed as a deputy sheriff, and where his knowledge and judgment rendered him a valuable assistant. He was again in the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad Company as a surveyor, under F. T. Perris. The floods of 1889 did great damage to the bridges of his division, and while on a tour of inspection following, he contracted la grippe, from which he died April 27th, 1889, leaving a widow and three children. John Mayfield was a man whose quiet, unassuming manner covered a generous heart, always open to the appeal of friendless and needy ones, and ever ready in an unostentatious manner to give counsel and aid.
Mrs. Mayfield still resides at the family home 452 Ninth street. She is a woman of strong mentality, retaining a clear recollection of important events in the early history of California, and having a personal acquaintance with many of those who made this history and have already passed away. William, the eldest son of John Mayfield, was born and grew up in
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San Bernardino county ; for twenty years past he has been a resident of Seattle, Washington. One daughter, Lizzie, is dead; Dona is Mrs. B. F. Day, of San Francisco.
DR. OLIVER M. WOZENCRAFT was born in Ohio, June 26, 1814. He graduated from St. Joseph's College, Bardstown, Kentucky, and adopted medicine as a profession.
DR. OLIVER M. WOZENCRAFT
After completing his medical course he practiced at Nashville Tenn., and later in New Orleans, with marked success. He married Miss Lemiza A., daughter of Col. William R. Ramsey, of Tenn.
He came to California in 1849, and was appointed United States Indian Agent. He took an active part in the early history of California, being a mem- ber of the constitutional convention and intimately connected with the organiza- tion of the state. He was one of the first advocates of a transcontinental railway and went to Washington with T. D. Judah to advocate such a road. Dr. Wozencraft was a man of unusual origi- nality and ability and was always deeply interested in projects for public improve- ment ; his favorite scheme was that of converting the desert into a productive field by the use of Colorado river waters. He spent much time and thought upon this problem and visited Washington in its interest. Just as his scheme was on the eve of realization, he died, in Wash- ington, D. C., November 22nd, 1887. His remains were placed in the family vault at San Bernardino
Dr. Wozencraft removed from San Francisco to San Bernardino in the sixties. He was a man of culture and of polished manners and his hospitable home was always a center for social affairs. His widow and one daughter, Mary A. Steinbrenner, survive him.
MANUEL LUJAN, of Colton, is a typical representative of the Spanish citizen of the early days of California. He was born in Los Angeles July 2, 841 ; the son of Jose Maria Lujan and Maria del Carmen Guillen. His mother was a daughter of Isador Guillen, a native of Sonora, Mexico, who came to Southern California in the early days and was owner of large bands of cattle at Santa Cruz, and later at Los Angeles. His father, Jose M. Lujan, a native of Mexico, was a shoemaker by trade and carried on a successful business in that line in Los Angeles from 1835 to 1858, when he removed with his family to Agua Mansa, where he lived until his death May 20th, 1880. His wife survived until 1895. There was a family of ten children, of whom the following survive: Margarita, widow of Jose Atensio, resides at Santa Ana ; Manuel: Luisa, widow of Juan Atensio, of Santa Ana; Antonio, Mrs. T. J. Smith, of Colton ; Trinidad, is Mrs. Pablo Trujillo; Isabel, widow of Peter Filanc, lives near Colton ; and Virginia. is Mrs. Ygnacio Martinez, of Colton.
Mannel Lujan, even as a boy was fond of books and study. He attended the parochial school of the Mission Santa Barbara, under Bishop Amat, and Rev. Ciprian Rubio, and after returning home engaged in teaching school, both English and Spanish, at Agua Mansa, and also where now is West Riverside. This occupation covered the years from 1865 to 1880. Since the latter year he has engaged in fruit growing and ranching. He has creditably filled the office of Justice of the Peace at both Agua Mansa and Colton. In 1874, Mr. Lujan married Miss Mary Dodero of San Bernardino. They have a family of four children-three sons and one daughter.
JAMES B. GLOVER, of Redlands, was born in Benton county, Mo .. June 29th, 1842. His parents were Rev. M. W. and Elizabeth Osborne Glover, both natives of Kentucky. His
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father was for many years a traveling preacher in the Methodist Church South. In 1850, he came to California and engaged in quartz and placer mining in Amador county. In 1855. he returned to Missouri and brought his family, via the Isthmus route, to California. In 1858, he joined the Pacific Conference and was assigned to Macedonia Circuit in Sonoma county, and traveled that, with the Santa Rosa circuit, for six years. He was then sent to Ukiah station, Mendocino county, and spent four years there. In 1868, he was sent as a missionary to San Bernardino, where he remained four years. After a year in Los Angeles, he was returned to San Bernardino for two years longer. His next and last appointment was in San Luis Obispo, where he built a church and one year later took a superannuated relation on account of declining health. He died April 17th, 1878, having spent the best part of his life as an active,, earnest, itinerant minister of the gospel.
James B. Glover was a boy of thirteen when the family arrived in California. At the age of sixteen he entered a blacksmith shop and served an apprenticeship of one year. After earning a little money he attended school one year at Pleasant Mill, Sonoma county. He farmed in Sonoma and Mendicino counties for several years and came to San Bernardino county in 1869. Here he pre-empted 160 acres of land in Lugonia, and endured all the priva- tions and hardships which the early settlers in this region had to undergo. During the sum- mer months for the first three years, he had to haul all the water used, three miles. Mr. Glover was not discouraged however, and today this same property is a beautiful home, with all comforts and conveniences.
Mr. Glover is a democrat and a strong advocate of the temperance cause. His standing in the community in which he has lived for thirty-five years is attested by the fact that, al- though a democrat, he is now serving his third term on the Board of County Supervisors, elected from a district which is strongly republican in sentiment. As chairman of the Board, he has stood for honest and commonsense handling of county business. He has taken a leading part in the movement for "good roads," which has given San Bernardino's oiled roads a national reputation. He is himself the inventor of a road-oiling machine which has done effective work.
Mr. Glover joined the M. E. Church South, in 1855, and has ever since been an earnest worker in the cause of Christianity. He has been tendered every office in the church that a layman can hold and at present fills several responsible positions. He was superintendent of the Sunday - School of his church in San Bernardino for nine years, and in Redlands for eleven years.
Mr. Glover married in Sonoma county July 2nd, 1863, Miss Elizabeth Anna, daughter of Cornelius McGuire, and a native of Missouri, who came overland to California when a child of seven. They have had four children, Ida M., Virginia L., Edwin M., and Anna K., who died in infancy.
ARTHUR PARKS, (deceased), was born in Sheffield, England, February 26th, 1823. His father John Parks was a shoemaker of Sheffield. He was early apprenticed to learn the trade of pattern maker in a stove foundry in Sheffield serving his time and becoming a skilled workman.
In the year 1848 he took passage with his family, consisting of his wife and two children, for America, landing in New Orleans, and soon after proceeded to St. Louis. Here he pro- cured work at his trade in a foundry at Frenchtown, a small town near St. Louis, where he lived about five years, and from there removed to Ogden, Utah, where he remained three years. Two years were spent as superintendent of an iron foundry at Cedar City. Not being pleased with the social and economic conditions surrounding him, and seeing little prospect for any change in them, he joined a party made up of settlers of that locality, and under the leadership of Captain Singleton, journeyed across the desert and mountains to San Bernardino, arriving in the summer of 1854. He started in business as a contractor and builder, which he followed for ten years. During this time he was elected Justice of the Peace for the township of San Bernardino, serving two terms. The business of the Justice Court at that time was extensive and many cases of importance were brought before him for trial, and so sound was his judgment in legal matters that when appeals were taken to the superior courts his decis- ions were generally sustained. He became so well posted in legal matters and proceedings that he experienced no difficulty in passing the required examinations for admission to the San Bernardino county bar, and at the expiration of his terms of office engaged in the prac- tice of law. About 1867, he purchased the Jurupa rancho, a tract of several hundred acres of fine land, now in Riverside county, and engaged in stock raising and professional work, in the latter line generally as counsel. Judge Parks was a pronounced democrat in politics, and a forceful and eloquent speaker upon the issues of the day.
Judge Parks married Miss Mary Ann Fowlston of Sheffield. England, They were the parents of seven children-Betsy, now Mrs. Alva Warren, of Colton : Heber C. Parks, of West
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Riverside, born in England. Olive, widow of Mathew Byrne of San Bernardino; Arthur Parks, Orlanzo Z. Parks of Riverside; Celeena, Mrs. T. J. Boulton, of Los Angeles; and Linda, (deceased) wife of William Preston of Riverside; the three latter were born in San Bernardino.
Mrs. Parks died at Riverside, October 4th, 1889. Judge Parks died at his Riverside home November IIth, 1894. Their remains repose in the old cemetery at San Bernardino, where sleep so many of the early California pioneers.
HEBER C. PARKS, of Riverside county, Cal., was born in Sheffield, England, August 19th 1847. He was the son of Judge Arthur Parks, a San Bernardino county pioneer a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work, and Mary Ann Fowlston Parks. He was the eldest son of the family and came with his parents to San Bernardino in 1854. He re- ceived his education in the public schools of San Bernardino, and at an early age engaged in business with his father and was a most valuable assistant.
Mr. Parks married Miss Ida G. Wallace, daughter of George B. Wallace of San Ber- nardino, 1875. They have a family of eight children: George H., Gertrude, Elmo, Albert, Russell, Archie. Myron and Ethel. Mr. and Mrs. Parks reside on a portion of the Jurupa rancho. Mr. Parks is a successful business man; conservative in his methods, and a sub- stantial citizen.
I. R. BRUNN, cf San Bernardino, is a native of Prussia. born in December. 1836. He was the son of Raphael Brunn, a farmer, and Eda Brunn. Mr. Brunn came to America -at an early age and lived at Chattanooga, Tenn., until 1852, when he came to California. He made the journey by way of the Isthmus to San Francisco thence to Los Angeles where he clerked in a general merchandise store and afterwards started in business for himself. In 1857 he came to San Bernardino, and in partnership with Louis Jacobs, established a general mer- cantile business. Later, with C. F. Roe, he formed the firm of Brunn & Roe, which con- tinued in business for many years. About 1885, Mr. Brunn entered the wholesale liquor business which he has conducted since that time.
Mr. Brunn, as one of the earliest business men of the city has been identified with the growth and development of San Bernardino in many ways. In early days he was for years a member of the Board of County Supervisors. For eight years he was a member of the Board of City Trustees and four years of that time was president of the board. He is a stockholder and director in the Stewart Hotel property and owner of valuable real estate and other property in the city and vicinity.
Mr. Brunn married Miss Dora Sandman. They have one son and two daughters. The eldest daughter is the wife of Isaac Benjamin, court reporter ; Estelle is Mrs. Samuel Living- stone of San Francisco, and the son, Harold, is a practicing physician of San Francisco. Mr. Brunn is a prominent Mason and is the oldest Past Master in the county. He also be- longs to the Knights of Pythias.
HENRY MORSE, of San Bernardino, was born at Summit Creek, Iron County, Utah, April 20th. 1851. He is the son of Justus Morse and Nancy Pratt Morse, hoth parents natives of Massachusetts. His father drifted into Western New York and became acquainted with Joseph Smith in the early days of Mormonism, becoming an ardent disciple of that faith. He was one of the original seventy apostles and remained faithful to the church through various vicissitudes which resulted in the removal of the Mormons to Utah and the founding of Salt Lake City. In 1851 the family were among the early colonists of San Bernardino. Mr. Morse was a millwright by trade and in 1852 built the first mill ever erected on the San Bernardino mountains. It was located about one mile below the place where the Gurnsey mill is now situated. He also put up the first house in San Bernardino. It was built for Henry Rollins and still stands opposite the Southern Hotel on the corner adjoining the city lot. Responding to the call of the church the family returned to Salt Lake City in 1857. but becoming dissatisfied with the leadership and practices of the church Mr. Morse became an apostate and returned to San Bernardino with his family in 1858. He was born in 1809 and died in Decatur county, Iowa, in 1888, at the age of seventy-nine years.
Henry Morse was less than one year of age when the family came to San Bernardino. With the exception of the few months passed at Salt Lake, he has lived in San Bernardino all his life. He has followed prospecting and mining as a business and expects to continue in that line the remainder of his life. He has served the county as a deputy sheriff, constable, deputy marshal and poundmaster, having the distinguished honor of holding three of these offices at the same time.
In 1872 Mr. Morse married Miss Emma Taft of San Bernardino. They have a family of four children living-Effie is Mrs. James Logan : Iva Lois; Herbert Riley and Freda live at home with their parents.
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