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F. X. AMMANN, of Needles, was born in Germany, December 7th, 1866. He is the son of F. X. Ammann and Louise Marquot Ammann; one of a family of twelve children,
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all of them in this country. His school days were passed in Germany. The family removed to America, landing in New York, August 13th, 1882. His father was a brewer by trade, and the family removed to Northern New Jersey, where he engaged in business, owning and operating a brewery. He learned the baker's trade in Germany and engaged in the same business after coming to America. He lived in New Jersey until he came to California in 1887, locating in Needles, and with the exception of one year spent in Williams, Arizona, has lived there ever since.
Mr. Ammann married Miss Mary Dotzler of New Brunswick, N. J. They have a family of two children-Frank X. and Mary Margareta.
HENRY HERSCHEL LINVILLE, of Highland, was born in Oregon, June 26,1861, the son of W. J. and Amanda Davidson Linville. His father was a native of Illinois, and a pioneer settler of Oregon. He built and operated extensive lumber and woolen mills in Oregon. Later he removed to Napa, Cal., where he engaged in the lumber business on a large scale. He was one of the projectors of the Riverside colony and one of the first to arrive on the ground in 1870 when that colony was instituted. He lived there several years, then in company with his sons, owned and operated one of the largest lumber mills in the San Bernar- dino mountains and also a lumber yard and planing mill in San Bernardino. He died in San Bernardino in March, 1900.
H. H. Linville came to Riverside with his parents and grew up in the San Ber- nardino valley. He engaged in the manu- facture of all kinds of planing work and in the lumber business for several years. In 1890 he became interested in the nursery business and now conducts a thriving busi- ness in nursery stock at Highland. He has a large tract of land devoted to citrus stock and has trees ready for the market at all times. He also owns a handsome business block in Highland.
LEWIS SMITH DAVIS, of Redlands, was born in Stoney Brook, N. Y., June 29, 1823. His parents were Henry and Mary Smith Davis, both descendants of the H. H. LINVILLE original settlers of Smithtown, Long Island, N. Y. The Davis family came originally from Wales and located at New Haven, Conn. In 1785 Mr. Davis' grandfather, Caleb Davis, purchased a ninety-acre farm at Stoney Brook, L. I., from Merritt Smith. Captain Davis still owns this farm. His father was a ship master. Stoney Brook was a harbor for the coasting trade and its inhabitants were largely seafaring folk. Lewis S. was a cabin boy on a coasting vessel and passed through all the stages from cabin boy to captain before he was twenty years of age. For many years he sailed packets along the coast between New York and southern ports, including occasional trips to foreign ports, as Cuba and Marseilles, France.
He left the sea to become captain of port for Jonas Smith & Co., of New York, who owned a large line of vessels. Many vessels were built under his supervision and he became an expert in shipbuilding in all of its details. After the death of Jonas Smith in 1867 he joined the company and remained with it until he retired from business. He was a member of the Marine Exchange of the port of New York, also of the Board of Trade, and holds a life membership in the Marine Society of New York, one of the oldest organiza- tions of that city, composed of the American Masters of the Merchant Marine alone.
In 1894 Captain Davis came to California to pass the remainder of his days in well earned rest. He located at Redlands and purchased an orange grove of forty acres and his beautiful home is known as "Snug Harbor."
Captain Davis was married January 24. 1853, to Christina A., daughter of Joseph
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Harvey Smith, of Greenport. L. I. Seven children were born to them and all the living members of the family are now located in California. Edward Harvey Davis lives at. Mesa Grande. San Diego County; Mrs. C. S. Alverson resides at San Diego; Irving G. and Emma C. make their home at Snug Harbor. Henry Lewis, Oriette Louise and Genevra are deceased.
WILLIAM STEWART BOGGS, of San Bernardino, was born in Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio, September 8th, 1852, the son of Rev. John Marshall Boggs, a native of Pennsylvania, and a Presbyterian min- ister, and Adaline Marshall, a native of Ohio, both of Scotch-Irish descent.
WILLIAM S. BOGGS
In 1856, the father located as a home missionary at Independence, Iowa, and his son received a common school and commercial education in the schools of that state, and began life for himself, as a farm boy at $10.00 per month. He re- cords that for his first season's work, he received $5.00 caslı and a barrel of Iowa sorghum. He also served a full ap- prenticeship as clerk and chore boy in a "country store"; for twelve years was with the Independence Mills Company, as bookkeeper, then as treasurer and manager, then engaged in business on his own account, as "W. S. Boggs and Brother." In 1887 he came to Cali- fornia, and located at Highlands, where he engaged in raising oranges. He was connected with the San Bernardino National Bank for thirteen years, as assistant cashier. In 1901 was one of the incorporators of the California State Bank of San Bernardino, of which in- stitution he is the cashier, and a member of the board of directors; is a member of the American Institute of Civics, New York: Society of the American Revolu- tion, San Francisco; a member of the Masonic body, a Knights Templar and a member of the Elks, of which he is one of the trustees.
Mr. Boggs was married in 1878 to Virginia M., daughter of Asa B. and Margaret Hedges Clarke. Asa B. Clarke was a "49er," having left New York by steamer to the mouth of the Rio Grande river, then up that river as far as boats could go, across Mexico and the Colorado Desert to California. Mr. and Mrs. Boggs have two children, Grace Josephine, a graduate of the City High School and of the State University, at Berkeley, receiving her degree of B. L. in 1902; and Leland Clarke Boggs, now attending the city schools.
HENRY BOHNERT, of Rialto, was born in Washington, Mo., January 9th, 1872. His father, Frank Bohnert, was a native of Baden Baden, Germany, and a cabinet maker by trade. He came to America in 1866 and in 1875 reached California. He located on his present property in 1883, purchasing eighty acres of John McCall. Of this, twenty-seven acres is now in grapes and ten in oranges, the balance is used as a bee ranch with an apiary of 300 stands. Besides the son, Henry, there is one daughter, Mary, Mrs. Joseph Lonegan, of Los Angeles.
Henry Bohnert is a member of the order of Maccabees and of the Fraternal Brother- hood.
JOHN ALFORD of Chino, is a native of Wisconsin, and was born May 16th, 1859. His parents, Thomas F. and Mary (Hawkins) Alford, were of English birth, his father being a native of the City of London. They came to California and located at Orange, in Orange county, where Mary Alford died in 1869, her husband survived her until 1892, being 74
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years of age at the time of his death. Soon after reaching California, John Alford engaged in mining, working in various camps in Colorado, New Mexico and in San Diego county, California. In 1893 he began the occupation of farming, first in the Santa Maria valley, in San Diego county, and in 1894 purchased land in the Chino grant, where he is now com- fortably situated, having some forty acres of the most fertile land in the valley, which he farms in a progressive manner, and keeps in a high state of cultivation.
January 10th, 1892, he married Miss Mary J. Fender, a daughter of John Fender, a resi- dent of Pomona, Cal., and native of Missouri. They have three children, Tillie M., Clarence F., and Katie E.
THOMAS J. MELLEN, of Beaumont, is a native of Nova Scotia, Canada born in June 1849, the son of Daniel Mellen, a farmer. Mr. Mellen started out in life as cook on a coasting vessel between Boston and Nova Scotia. He followed the sea until 1869, after which he lived in Providence, R. I., for a year and then ir Boston until he came to California in 1876. In 1879 he went to work for Dr. W. F. Edgar, of San Gorgonio Pass and remained on this ranch for four years. He then preempted 160 acres; he also homesteaded 160 acres and has since added to his property until he holds 760 acres of land. He raises hay and grain and has an orchard of. 26 acres. He has many varieties of fruit and made an exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, which received a medal and diploma. Thirty-six boxes of fruit, in- cluding fourteen varieties of plums, three of pears, two of cherries, nectarines and peaches, French prunes, loquats and cured raisins, were dried and packed, in original designs, by Mrs. Mellen. The fruit was all grown on their place and was entered in competition with that of many other nations. Mr. Mellen was married at San Bernardino in 1885 to Miss Helen Mayo, a native of Bangor, Me.
WILLIAM PEMBERTON CAVE, the pioneer photographer of San Bernardino, was born in Ken- tucky December 24th, 1842. He was the son of John Pemberton and Lucy A. Cave. His school THOMAS J. MELLEN days were passed in Kentucky, and later he at- tended school in Dallas, Texas, to which place his family had removed. In 1862 five brothers left Dallas, Texas, for California: Bennett W., living at Redlands; John Pemberton, now dead; John Hardin returned to Texas and was killed in the performance of his duty as deputy sheriff in that state; James W. lived at Crafton, where he died, and the subject of this sketch, William Pemberton Cave. His first work in San Bernardino was as clerk in Mr. Levy's store, and later he was employed by Aeneas Quinn. He was one of the locators of the Old Prospect placer claim in Lytle Creek Canyon, where he was employed sluicing for a time. When he left there he established himself as a photographer in San Bernardino. Three years later he gave up that business and did some contract work in the line of painting and building. He then was employed by the Santa Fe Route, under Fred T. Perris, as a draughtsman and map-maker on the topographical survey conducted by that road. Later he made maps for the county, and was in the abstract office of Henry Wozencraft for three years. Then for a time he engaged in doing general surveying, and was also employed in the office of the city recorder. His last work was with a painting crew on the line of the Santa Fe near Needles. He died of heart disease, December 24th, 1898.
On the 19th day of January, 1869, in San Bernardino, he married Miss Sarah Eliza- beth Rousseau, daughter of Dr. J. A. Rousseau, county superintendent of schools of San Bernardino County, for many years. They had seven children. William Lee, employed at the Eagle Soda works at San Bernardino; Florence Evelyn, now the wife of Mr. Bigelow : Sarah Jane, now Mrs. J. A. Maloney, of San Jose, Cal .; James J., an engineer on the Santa Fe Ry .; Walter P., a fireman on the Southern Cal., Ry .; Daisy May, a telephone operator in San Bernardino, and Lester Percival, who is still attending school.
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A. R. CLARK, of San Bernardino, was born in Powsheik county. Iowa. He came to California in 1881 and learned photography at Santa Ana. The years from 1891 to 1895 he spent in Chicago, engaged in the photographing business. He returned to California and since 1898 has been in business in San Bernardino, conducting a photographic gallery.
May 31st, 1900, he married Miss Hope, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Goodlett of San Bernardino. They have one child.
G. H. BUBLITZ, of San Bernardino, was born in Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 9th, 1858. He was the son of Charles Bublitz and Louisa Foltz. He received his education in the the Milwaukee High School, and Fort Wayne, Indiana Academy. After leav- ing school he went to St. Paul, Minn .. and was employed by Noyes Bros. & Cutler, wholesale druggists, and later to Milwaukee, Wis., where he was em- ployed as book-keeper for Dohmen & Schmidt, also wholesale druggists. About this time, June 30, 1881, he mar- ried Miss Caroline Maurer, of Fort Wayne, Ills., and leaving the drug busi- ness went to work for the C. M. & St. P. Ry. With T. G. Shaughnessy, now president of the Canadian Pacific Ry., he organized the store department of the C. M. & St. P. Ry., and was general material clerk of the entire system, hav- ing six clerks under him. Owing to the ill health of Mrs. Bublitz, he was com- pelled to give up this position, and in 1886 he removed to California. For three years and a half following he kept books for J. F. Holbrook of Los Angeles, and for one year and a half of that time was foreman of the pipe shop. He was next employed as book- keeper at the Fulton Engine Works, Los Angeles, where he remained six years- until the incorporation of the business, when his position was taken by a member of the new firm. He was then engaged by Adloff and Hauerwaas, bottlers, as G. H. BUBLITZ traveling agent, in the interest of Schlitz beer. After the George Beam failure in San Bernardino, he was sent to take charge of their business, and has been manager of the San Bernardino Wieland Bottling Works since. In 1901, he bought out the interests of Adloff & Hauerwaas.
CHARLES E. ADAMS, of Redlands, was born in Richmond, Ray county, Missouri, January 21st, 1872. At sixteen years of age he went to New Mexico and later to Arizona. He came to California in 1894, and was for a time engaged in contracting, chiefly for water development work. He did a large amount of work for the South Mountain Water company in the Yucaipe valley, and is now engaged in fruit and stock raising in this valley, having a ranch of 238 acres, which was known as the old Birch place.
In 1899, Mr. Adams was married to Miss Daisy, daughter of W. H. Russell, of Puente.
JOHN S. ARMSTRONG. of Ontario, is a native of Sheffield. Ontario, Canada, born October IIth, 1865, the son of Joseph and Eliza Bell Armstrong, both natives of Ireland. and almost life-long residents of Canada. The father was a graduate of the Dublin Normal school and successfully followed his profession of teaching throughout his life. He lived for many years and died at St. George, Canada. The mother has, since 1890, been a resident of Ontario. Besides John S., there are living of the family, Mrs. T. Herrett of Upland; Mrs. Arthur Yarnell, of Los Angeles; Miss Alice, of Los Angeles; Joseph W., of Pomona, and William R., of Riverside.
John S. Armstrong learned the trade of cabinet making which he practised until he came
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to Ontario in 1889. He then engaged in carpenter work for a time but soon entered the employment of Horsley and Eaton, pioneer nurserymen of the Ontario colony, and then opened a small business for himself. He is now one of the most extensive growers of nursery stock in the San Bernardino valley. He issues an attractive catalogue annually and his business covers a wide extent of territory. Mr. Armstrong married, September 2nd, 1896, Challie, daughter of William Cooper, of Clinton, Canada. They have now two children, Awdry and Olive. Mr. Armstrong is a member of the Masonic order and of the Fraternal Aid Association, also of the M. E. church. He has served on the board of town trustees and is a Republican in political affinity.
CAPTAIN CASPER ANDERSON, of Ontario, was born in Denmark, Feb. 29, 1844. the son of F. M. and Boleta Koefoed Anderson.
After a common school education in his native land, the young man began a sea-faring life in 1857 and followed that occupation until 1897. In 1861, he landed in New York City and remained there until 1862, when he engaged as sailor on a vessel bound to San Fran- cisco. The voyage was made by way of Cape Horn and lasted one hundred and fifty-two days. For thirty-five years Captain Anderson made San Francisco his home while he continued to follow the sea. In 1897 he came to Ontario and located on a ranch.
In 1879, Captain Anderson married Miss Anna Marie Haas, daughter of Paul Haas, of Bavaria, Germany. He is a member of Doric Lodge, F. A., of San Francisco, and of Valley Lodge, A. O. U. W., of San Bernardino.
ORRIN W. DALGLIESH, of Rialto, was born near Ithaca, Mich., August 26, 1874 His father was Walter W. Dalgliesh, a native of Scotland, who came with his parents to Ohio at an early date. He served for four years during the civil war in Battery B, First Ohio Light Artillery. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Gratiot County, Mich., where he now lives.
Orrin W. lived at home on a farm until he came to California in 1895. After living in Los Angeles and Covina he located in Rialto in 1901. February 14, 1900, he married Grace, danghter of J. R. Mckinley. They have one son, Walter Mckinley. Mr. Dalgleish is a member of the Fraternal Brotherhood, Fraternal Aid and of the Congregational church, Rialto.
MALON ADELBERT BAGLEY, of Colton, was born in Bradford Co., Penn., Nov. II, 1851, the son of William and Annie E. Wright Bagley. His father and mother both died in Earlville, Lasalle Co., III., when he was fourteen years of age. Mr. Bagley was educated in the public schools of Earlville and then learned the trade of house and sign painter, which employment occupied him until about 1874. He then went to Colorado Springs and worked at his trade until he had an attack of gold fever and went to mining at Springdale, Boulder County ..
In 1887, he came to California and was first employed as a book-keeper by the Colton Marble and Lime Co. He afterwards engaged in his old business of painting and followed it for several years. In 1894, he was appointed constable and in Nov. 1895, was elected to that office. He has been three times elected to the school board of Colton, and has been clerk of that body. He has also been em- employed as a water tax collector, chief of fire department and deputy sheriff.
Mr. Bagley married, at Springdale, Colo., Miss Ellen Angustus. They have a son, Van Augustus, and a daughter Annie Bagley. Mr. Bagley is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and the Independent Order of Foresters.
T. J. S. CLAPP, of Del Rosa, is a native of England, born in London, Oct. 25, 1859, the son of Dr. W. J. and Eu- pliemia Jane Aitken Clapp.
Mr. Clapp was educated at Monmouth Grammar School MALON A. BAGLEY and Epsom College and for two years studied law, then abandoned the idea of a profession and took a position as an accountant in the house of Clapp & Co., coal dealers, of Newport, Monmonthshire, England. After five years in this employment he came to America and direct to Los Angeles and to San Bernardino in
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1888. Here he engaged in mining until 1895 when he purchased property at Del Rosa and has since been secretary of the Del Rosa Water Company. He has a home place of six and a half acres of lemons and a ten- acre orange grove.
Mr. Clapp was married in 1893 to Miss Ella Jane, daughter of Alex- ander Hamilton, of Urbita. Mrs. Clapp died Feb. 8, 1901, leaving two little daughters, Anna Louisa and Euphemia Jane. Mr. Clapp is a mem- ber of the Phoenix Lodge, of San Bernardino and of the Episcopalian church of San Bernardino.
JOHN GERALD SHAW, late of Highland, was a native of Bath, Maine, born December 29, 1847, the son of George Shaw, a native of St. Johns, New Brunswick, and a ship carpenter by trade. He entered the union army in the late war and was never heard from again, pre- sumably dying in battle.
John G. Shaw was a contractor and builder in the east. In 1886 he came to California with his family and located at Highland where he did a large amount of work at his trade. He took up eighty acres of govern- ment land, improved it and sold off forty acres. Mr. Shaw was married in Jersey City, Sept. 3, 1880, to Miss Sarah Agnes, daughter of Henry Burgess and Margret Hill Wands. Mr. Wands was a wood engraver. He entered the union army in 1864 T. J. S. CLAPP and went to the front where he con- tracted disease from exposure and returned home to die. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw had nine children, Florence M., Gerald, Ella R., Raymond, Margie A., Eva R., Lillian, George B., Carroll; Florence M. is now Mrs. E. E. Gow.
Mr. Shaw died at Highland, December 23, 1902, of typhoid pneumonia.
JOSEPH DRISKELL, of Halleck, was born near Hartford, Warren County, Iowa. Dec. 7, 1857, the son of William Riley and Mabel T. Lewin Driskell. The father was of Scotch-Irish descent and a pioneer resident of Burlington, Ia. He was a veteran of the Blackhawk war and was an Indian trader while his wife acted as interpreter. Their oldest daughter, Harriet, was the first white child born in Burlington. This was about 1831.
Joseph left home at twelve years of age and went to Colorado. He has spent most of his life on the frontier as a vaquero, freighter, cattle-trader and miner. He came to California in 1872 and since then has devoted himself to mining, farming and fruit grow- ing, and has a farm of 120 acres. He owns a third interest in the Side Winder mine, located fifteen miles cast of Oro Grande.
He wa- married in 1893 to Miss Marie, daughter of H. H. Thomsen. She is a native of Germany, born in the Duchy of Schleswig. She came to America in 1883.
CLYDE DARROW, of Bloomington, was born at Kinsman, Trumbull County, Ohio, March 26, 1858. ITe was the son of Nathan Darrow, a painter by trade and a farmer by occupation. His father removed in 1865 from Ohio to Erie County, Pa., where he engaged in his trade. Later he lived for eight years at Council Grove, Morris County, Kansas. In 1887 he came to Riverside and later to Rialto where he died in 1891, aged 63, and was buried at Colton.
Clyde Darrow learned the painter's trade and worked with his father. In 1887 he came to Rialto and with his brother-in-law, Ezra Graft, painted the first buildings and resi-
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dences in the town. Mr. Darrow now owns fifteen acres of land one mile east of Bloom- ington which is planted to peaches, apricots and oranges.
In 1883 Mr. Darrow married Miss Cora Belle Way, at Council Grove, Kansas. They have two children, M. Mand, now Mrs. Frank E. Page, of Colton, and Fred H.
LOUIS I. COY, of San Bernardino, was born in Will County, Illinois, May 8, 1859, the son of Pierce and Maria E. Flanders Coy. His father now is an orange grower of Highlands, and two of his brothers, Proctor F. and John P. Coy, reside at the same place.
He was educated at Grinnell, Iowa, where his parents had moved in 1869 and began his business career as an assistant cashier and book-keeper in a bank at Odebolt, Sac County, Iowa. He also engaged in farming in this county.
In March, 1886, he came to San Bernardino County and purchased a ranch at Highlands, which he improved and sold. He has since bought, improved and sold a number of ranches in this vicinity and now owns twelve acres in oranges.
In 1898, Mr. Coy was elected tax collector for San Ber- nardino County ..
Mr. Coy married Miss Jennie McFarland, in Elwood, Iowa, February 1, 1882. They have four children, Ada M., Winifred, Samuel P., and Milton L. Coy. Mr. and Mrs. Coy are members of the Congregational church at High- lands. He is also a member of Pythias Lodge and of the Fraternal Aid Association.
LEONIDAS W. COLEMAN, of Rialto, was a native of Alabama, born in 1842, his father, James Archer Cole- man, being a member of an old Virginia family. At the age of twenty-three, Mr. Coleman removed to Henderson, Ky., where he remained until 1870. He then went to Kansas and engaged in farming and stock-raising for a time. Returning to Kentucky, he beca,ne editor and pub- lisher of the Henderson Reporter and was elected presi- LOUIS I. COY dent of the Western Press Association of Kentucky. In 1882 he returned to Kansas and there raised and dealt in blooded stock. In 1893, Mr. Coleman came to San Ber- nardino County to reside permanently on a ranch, which he had purchased previously in the Rialto tract, and which he has made a valuable and pro- ductive citrus fruit orchard.
Mr. Coleman has been twice married. First, in 1869, to Miss Isophena Martin, of Indiana, who died in 1881. In 1887, he married Miss Alice Rockwood, of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. The children of his first marriage are: W. J. Coleman, graduate of the Kansas State University, at Lawrence, Kansas, and now a merchant of that city; John A. Coleman, of Boise City, Idaho; Lon M. Coleman, of San Bernardino. The only child of the second marriage is Herbert Coleman. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman are members of the Presbyterian church.
WILLIAM CRUICKSHANK, Rialto, was born November 9, 1860, on the Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland. His father, William Cruickshank, was a farmer and a dealer in horses and cattle. About 1862 he removed to Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and there the son grew to manhood and was occupied as a farmer. In 1889 he came to America and located in California where a younger brother, John, had preceded him. He also has a brother, Alexander, in Victoria, B. C.
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