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Mr. Cruickshank married in Aberdeenshire, Miss Maggie Ross-Watt and they have four sons and two daughters,-George, William, Douglas, Helen, Christina, and Donald. The family are members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Cruickshank has a ranch in Rialto of twenty acres.
MARION L. COOK, of San Bernardino, was born near Raleigh, S. C., the son of John H. Cook. In 1865 his parents removed to Ohio where his father engaged in business in Wayne county and became interested in the grain-buying business in Wooster City. Marion L. was sent to school in Cleveland, Ohio, and there received his degree as civil and mining engineer. In 1888 he went to Colorado where he followed his profession. In
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1890 lie came to California and located at San Bernardino. In 1894 he was elected to the office of county surveyor and has since that time filled that office, having been re-elected twice.
Mr. Cook married Miss Ella, daughter of Hugh Allison, of San Bernardino and they have one son.
JOSIAH PHINEAS SQUIRES, late of Redlands, was born in Dansville, N. Y., August 22, 1825. He passed his youth on a farm and received a common school education. He then entered the University of Buffalo and took a medical and surgical course, graduating in 1850. Soon afterward he removed to Makesan, Wis., and began a practice which he continued for twenty years. In 1864 he joined the army as an assistant surgeon and was stationed most of the time, until the close of the war, at Fort Scott, Missouri. Dr. Squire then settled at Austin, Minn., where he re- sumed the practice of his profession. In the fall of 1887 he came to Redlands with his family where he engaged in practice until his death, February 14, 1890. He was the first justice of peace in Red- lands township and opened the first city recorder's court, February 15, 1889. He had been appointed postmaster just before his death. He had been for many years a member of the Knights Templar and of St. Bernard Commandery and also of the G. A. R.
He was twice married, first to Miss Mary Albright, of Dansville, N. Y., who died in 1865. In 1869 he married Miss Emily Welter, of Rochester, Minn., who resides with her two children in Redlands. There was one child, a son by the first marriage, who is also in California.
RICHARD A. DENTON, of Bloomington, was born in Halifax County, Virginia, December 13, 1829. J. P. SQUIRES He was a son of Benjamin Denton, also a native of Virginia and a descendant of an old Virginia family, dating back to Colonial days. Benjamin Denton was a planter, raising corn and wheat, mostly, and was not a slave owner, from principle. Richard A. began his business career at twelve years of age. From 1848 till 1861 he was in mer- cantile business and from 1861-65 he was a cattle trader and beef packer and shipper. During the war he sold supplies to the government. After the war he removed to Linn County, Kansas, and there engaged in ranching and also had a saw mill. He came to California in 1896 and after spending three years in Los Angeles, located at Bloomington.
October 30, 1854, Mr. Denton married Miss Naomi P., daughter of Nathan and Jerusha Lee. They have two daughters, Ella L., widow of John A. Young; Mollie R. is Mrs. Frank Harmon, of Bloomington.
FRANK H. HARMON, of Bloomington, was born near Lacygne, Kansas. His father, Oliver D. Harmon, was for several years U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue, later a successful farmer and grocer, doing business at Lacygne. Frank H. grew up at Lacygne; he received a common school education and while still very young became a brakeman on the Missouri-Pacific Railroad. In 1888 he came to California and was employed by the Santa Fe as conductor on the overland trains between San Bernardino and Barstow. He has also served as conductor on the Southern Pacific and Oregon Short Line roads In June, 1903, he located permanently on his ranch at Bloomington.
Mr. and Mrs. Harmon are the parents of three children, Otto Denton, Mayme Comfort, and Frank Chauncey.
DAVID B. ALVERSON, of Redlands, is a native of Troy, N. Y., born November 29th, 1835, the son of Peter and Eliza Brockway Alverson. His father was a carriage maker by trade and was car builder and master mechanic for the Hartford and New Haven Railroad company. He built the first passenger coaches for that line. The family removed to New Haven in 1836 and David B. attended school there until 1846, when his father moved to Buffalo, New York, and from thence to Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. Alverson located at Racine Wis., in 1856, and with a brother engaged in carriage making. In 1861, he enlisted in Co.
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B, 4th Wis. Infantry, later known as 4th Wis. Cavalry, and served with the army of the Potomac, taking part in Butler's campaign and being present at the capture of New Orleans, the first attacks on Vicksburg and Baton Rouge. On account of disability he was discharged in October, 1862, but soon after joined Solomon's Brigade band at Milwaukee, and served until the close of the war, playing the B flat cornet. He returned to Chicago and for several years traveled as a musician, playing in various bands.
He came to California in 1884 and located at Lugonia, where he secured twelve acres of land. He still owns six and a half acres on Church street and High avenue, where he has his home. He has also followed the trade of carriage painting, since living in Redlands.
Mr. Alverson was married January Ist, 1866, at Brooklyn, N. Y., to Miss Susan M. Dodge. Mrs. Alverson died in March, 1892. One son, F. B. Alverson and a daughter. Clara A., are living. Mr. Alverson is an active member of the G. A. R, belonging to the G. A. R. Post here, No. 162; also a charter member of Centennial Lodge, No. 205, F. and A. M., of Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
LOUIS A. DESMOND, of Highland, was born at Wilmington, Will County, Illinois, September 12, 1859. He was the son of Timothy and Hanna Fineran Desmond, his father a native of New York City and a contractor and builder by trade. Louis A. received a common school education in his native town and learned telegraphy. He became a fireman on the Wabash road and was for fifteen years in the railway service. He came to Cali- fornia in 1887, and was for four years station agent at Anaheim. He was the first agent at Highland, opening the office August 17, 1891. There was then no town here, only two houses in the place,-Wolsey residence and the S. L. Grow house were the only residences. Mr. Desmond soon afterward started a lumber, hay and grain business. He has con- tinued a resident of the town and one of its best known business men. He has been for six years a member of the school board and is a leading member of the M. E. church and superintendent of its Sabbath school. He has also been justice of the peace and notary public.
In 1885 Mr. Desmond was married to Miss Cora, daughter of Mrs. L. V. Jones, now of Highland, at Ritchie, Ill. They have four living children, Edna, Mable, Argyle and Harold.
S. H. ADAMS, of Chino, was born in Sceneatalas, Onondago County, New York, February 28, 1855. His father, William, and his mother, May Ellsburg Adams, were both natives of England. His father was a carriage-maker by trade and made a specialty of fine work-particularly in making cutters. He carried on this business in Onondago County for many years. In 1849 he came to California and mined successfully in the placer diggings. returning to New York state in 1858. Soon afterward he removed to Atchison County. Kansas, where he took part in the exciting events that marked the early history of that state. He died there April 29, 1889. His wife died December 15, 1895. They had three children of whom S. H. Adams is the youngest.
S. H. Adams grew to manhood in the Kansas home. He first came to California in 1887. In 1895, he returned to California to locate permanently. He first lived at Pasa- dena, and in 1901, purchased twenty acres on the Chino grant and began making sub- stantial improvements.
He was married, at Pomona, Cal., May 31, 1887, to Ida daughter of Zenas and Ruth Bloom Hitchcock. They have two children, W. J., born March 19, 1890, and Geo. E .. born October 10th, 1891.
FRANCIS W. CONRAD, Superintendent of the San Bernardino city schools, was born in Prairie du Sac, Wis., May 17, 1850. He was the son of Peter and Eliza J. Bennett Con- rad. His father, a Baptist clergyman, was one of the early pioneers of Wisconsin, organiz- ing the first Baptist church in the city of Milwaukee, and doing missionary work through- out the state.
In 1859 the family removed to New York state. Returning to Wisconsin Mr. Conrad re- mained there until his seventeenth year, then removed to Illinois. Here he graduated from the Graind Prairie Seminary and in 1874 graduated from the Illinois State Normal School at Bloomington. He began teaching in the State Normal School of Castine, Mo .. but r"- signed at the end of his first year to join his parents in Santa Barbara, Cal., where his father died in July. 1875. His mother died in San Bernardino in 1899, aged 82. Mr. Con- rad taught at Santa Barbara and Montecito until 1801, six years of that time being city su- perintendent of schools in Santa Barbara. In 1891 Mr. Conrad came to Rialto and taught there four years; he then came to San Bernardino, where he was principal of the F-street school for six years, and in 1903 was made city superintendent. He holds a High School life diplomas in this state.
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Mr. Conrad married Miss Sarah W. Adams at Middleton, Conn., December 25, 1884. Mrs. Conrad is a member of the Adams family of Massachusetts. They are the parents of five children, Horace M., George F., Stanley A., John P. and Mary S. Mr. and Mrs. Con- rad are members of the Baptist church and he is a member of the Loyal Mystic Legion.
JONATHAN DOWNER, of Bloomington, was born at Hanover, Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1836, the son of Zedock Downer, a blacksmith and manufacturer of edged tools. He raised a family of sixteen children, of which Jonathan is the fourth. He grew up in Ohio and engaged in the lumber business and owned a saw mill. When the war broke out he enlisted in the 104 Ohio Volunteers and was transferred into the quar- termaster's department. He was in the 23d Corps under Gen. Sherman. He served two years and ten months and was mustered out at Cleveland after the fall of Richmond.
He again engaged in the lumber milling business and at different times owned lumber yards in Ohio, Nebraska, Arkansas and Virginia. He sawed and shipped the lumber for his house from Larana Peak, Wyoming. He was twice elected sheriff of Nickoll county, Nebraska.
He married Miss Sarah Johns who was born near Canton, Ohio. They knew the McKinleys and Miss Saxton there. Mr. and Mrs. Downer have four children living and seven dead. In 1892, Mr. Downer left Nebraska and came to California, where he located at Bloomington. He has a beautiful ranch of twenty acres and is engaged in growing oranges and apricots.
OLIVER A. ALLEN, of San Bernardino, was born at Chardon, Geauga county, Ohio, October 5, 1850. the son of Ira and Rebecca Calkins Allen. He attended the public school of Homer, Michigan, to which place the family had removed, and there learned the trade of blacksmith, which may be termed a family trade, as his grandfather, father, several brothers, himself, and now his son, have all followed this occupation. He worked at his trade steadily while he remained in Michigan, with the exception of three years, when he was employed in a wind mill manufactory at Albion, beginning as a blacksmith and closing his connection with the establishment as superintendent. Mr. Allen came to San Bernar- dino in 1884. He was employed three years by Mr. Lehman, then purchased the business which he has carried on with success and in the same location down to the present. He is also the owner of considerable real estate in San Bernardino.
Mr. Allen married Miss Rose Knapp, of Albion, Mich., September 20, 1872. Mrs. Allen died in San Bernardino, November, 1889, leaving two children,-Edna and Byron W., who is now a blacksmith in his father's shop. Later Mr. Allen married Miss Sarah Hiller, of Litchfield, Mich. They are members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Allen is a member of the Masonic Fraternity and of the San Bernardino Board of Trade.
Byron W .Allen served as a member of Co. "K," 7th Reg. United States Volunteers. in the Spanish-American war, going out with the company as corporal and returning as third seargeant. He has since served as lieutenant of the company.
HOWARD B. SMITH, of Colton, was born in the state of Wisconsin, in 1863. He attended the schools of his native state and graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1885. The next year he came to California and located at Colton where he entered the employ of the First National Bank of Colton as assistant cashier in 1887. In 1888 he became cashier of the bank, a position which he has since filled.
The REV. JAMES FRANKLIN HAMILTON, formerly of Redlands, was born near Zanesville, Ohio, May 31, 1847. He was the son of Robert Hamilton, of Scotch birth, and Marv Ibbetson Hamilton, a native of England. He was educated at Princeton, and grad- uated from Princeton Theological School in the spring of 1874. He became pastor of what is now the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church of Columbus, Ohio, and remained until failing health compelled his removal to California in 1886. After a few months at San Bernardino he located in Redlands in 1887 and purchased ten acres of land where the present home is situated, on East Olive avenue. It was in his home that the First Presbyterian church of Redlands was organized and he was the treasurer of the society and bore the burden of the finances of the church for some years. He often supplied the pulpit also when vacancies occurred, even though his health was delicate and he was physically unequal to the strain.
He put up a building on Orange street and also erected what is known as the Hamilton block on the corner of State and Fifth streets. He was interested in everything per- taining to the welfare of Redlands and took a deep concern in the work of the Y. M. C. A He died October 9, 1899.
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He was married, December 15, 1874. at Zanesville, Ohio, to Miss Matilda C., daughter of Robert and Sarah Leader Hazlett. Mrs. Hamilton was a native of Cincinnati, O., and was educated at private school. and the Mcintyre Academy. They were the parents of four children of whom two survive, Mrs. R. R. Richey, of Redlands, and Miss Sara L., at home.
JOHN P. FISK, of Redlands, was born in Beloit, Wis., September 11, 1857. He was educated in the public and High schools of that city and graduated from Beloit College with the class of 1880. After teaching for several years he took an additional course of study and then became a teacher in the Academical department of Beloit College. The close con- finement of this work injured his health and after traveling in the south for a time, Mr. Fisk came to California and located at Riverside in November, 1885. In 1887 he removed to Redlands and began his business career in this city as a real estate and insurance agent. When the Union Bank building was completed Mr. Fisk opened in it the first office in a permanent building in the city. In the first year, beside many other sales, he effected the sale of the Terrace Villa hotel to Messrs. Hubbard and Lambeth; sold the Barton tract of 1,150 acres to a Los Angeles syndicate, for $300,000, and purchased the sites of the two depots. Since that date he has been continuously and actively engaged in business, having handled a large amount of real estate and been a factor in some of the largest deals in the community. He also handles a large insurance and loan business and acts as agent for many non-residents.
Mr. Fisk was married in 1890 to Mrs. Elizabeth H. Eddy. He is a member of the Con- gregational church and has always been active in Y. M. C. A. work. He has held many positions of trust and been prominent in the social and municipal growth of the city.
W. H. BEAN, of San Bernardino, is the only child of L. B. and Mary J. (Hobbs) Bean. He was born in Kentucky, August 1878. Here his early school days were passed and after removing to Phoenix, Arizona, where the family resided one year, in' 1893 they came to California and settled at Redlands, where his father still resides.
Mr. W. H. Bean is a graduate of the Redlands High school, and also a graduate of the Northern Indiana Normal Institute at Valparaiso. At this latter institution he at- tained the honors of his class, graduating with highest percentage in three of the five studies, and in a class of four hundred students. He came to San Bernardino in 1896. and in partnership with S. S. Stephens established the firm of Bean & Stephens, grocers. In April, 1899. this was changed to L. B. Bean & Co.
On December 24th, 1900, Mr. Bean married Miss Eva Gaylord of Redlands. Mr. Bean is president of the Connis Club and a member of the Arrow Head Club.
WILLIAM J. BODENHAMER, of Uplands, was born at Springfield, Mo., July 5. 1842. He was the son of Captain W. Bodenhamer, a farmer and stock-raiser of Mis- souri, and a native of Tennessee. William J. prepared for college but in the excitement that prevailed in Missouri previous to the breaking out of the civil war he joined the Union League of Webster county, an organization which later developed into a union regiment. Mr. Bodenhamer, with others of his associates, were members of the 6th Missouri Cavalry. In 1862 he was appointed captain of Company E, 8th Missouri Cav- alry. Later he served as major in the same regiment, west of the Mississippi river, in the army of the Frontier and in the Seventh Army Corps. He was frequently wounded and lost several horses in action. He was mustered out with honors in 1865. After farming for a year or two at Springfield and engaging in the manufacture of tobacco, he was appointed Receiver of the United States Land Office. At the same time he was extensively engaged in personal business affairs incident to the rapid growth of the city of Springfield. In 1883 he came to California and invested extensively in the colony of Ontario. He has since that time made a special study of the development of water in California and has been connected with some of the important water developments of this section.
JAMES H. YERKES, of Highland, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1856, the son of Huston and Catherine Lesher Yerkes, both natives of Pennsylvania and of Dutch descent. Mr. Yerkes' father was a miller by trade and owned a mill. The son remained in Pennsylvania until 1876 then went to Colorado where he acted as manager for the Marshall-Cole Mining Co.'s store for three years. He then engaged in business for himself, carrying on a grocery store at Louisville, Colorado, and later acted as manager and cashier for different Denver houses. In 1892 he came to Los Angeles as representa- tive for the Allen Bros.' Co., fruit packers and shippers, and in the winter of 1893-4 . located at Highland in the interests of the same firm. He built a packing house and
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managed it for about four years. In 1898 he took charge as manager for the Highland Orar.ge Growers' Association and put up one of the best packing houses in the county. This he managed for two years. He was afterward agent for the Earl Fruit Company until the formation of the Citrus Union which merged the exchanges and larger packing houses.
Mr. Yerkes was married in 1883 to Miss Emma Alice, daughter of Philetus and Phoebe Choate, of Philadelphia. They are the parents of two sons, Claude Lafayette and Marcellus Reed, both born in Colorado.
HON H. M. BARTON, of San Bernardino, was born at San Gabriel, Cal., December 18, 1856. He is the son of Dr. Ben Barton, a sketch and portrait of whom appears in this work. His school days were passed principally at Old San Bernardino, attending a private school at the old Mission After leaving school he engaged in ranching and fruit grow- ing for twelve years; then disposed of his property and moved into the City of San Bernar- din). In 1886 Mr. Barton was elected member of the state legislature to represent San Bernardino county; and has been a member of the city council one term.
Mr. Barton has been twice married; his first wife Miss Ida Hawes, of San Jose, Cal., died in 1887. His second wife was Miss Florence Gibson, of San Bernardino. They have two children-Bessie F. Barton, and Clara M. Barton.
Mr. Barton is largely interested in ranch and fruit lands in the county, and his time fully occupied superintending his own property interests. He is president of the San Bernardino Hotel Association, owners of the Stewart Hotel property. He was a charter member of the Native Sons Parlor of this city, but is not at present connected with the organization. Mr. and Mrs. Barton attend the M. E. church, of which Mrs. Barton is a member.
O. H. KOHL, of San Bernardino, was born in Centralia, Illinois, June 28. 1863, the son of Ferdinand Kohl. His father was a native of Germany who came to this country when a young man. He located in Centralia and was one of the founders of the Old National Bank of Centralia and served as its cashier for forty years. He had five sons, all of whom were schooled in the banking business. Two of them, O. H. and Walter, came to California and located permanently, purchasing the Harlem Motor Road and Harlem Springs. O. H. Kohl married Miss Emma, daughter of John Andreson, Sr., of San Bernardino, in 1890. They have one daughter, Helen. The Kohl brothers live in San Bernardino.
WALTER KOHL, was born May 29, 1870, at Centralia, Illinois, and married Miss Frances, daughter of John Andreson, Sr., of San Bernardino, Nov. 1, 1890.
GEORGE H. BARKER, of Chino, was born in Kendall county, Illinois, September 16, 1856, the son of William Barker, a farmer, who died in 1858. The son grew up in his native place on a farm and at the age of sixteen began to take care of himself. He resided in Kendall and Grundy counties until he came to California in 1887. He was engaged in grocery business in San Bernardino, Redlands and Pomona until about 1900, when he located in Chino. He is now a resident of Los Angeles.
Mr. Barker married Mrs. Mary Farrell, whose maiden name was Bundy, in 1895. They have one son, George. Mr. Barker is a member of the Masonic lodge at Redlands.
LEMUEL PARKER, of Del Rosa, was born in the Province of Quebec, Canada, July 23, 1837. His father was Alfred C. Parker, a farmer in the township of Compton.
Mr. Parker lived on his father's farm until sixteen, then went to Wisconsin and en- gaged in farming there until the outbreaking of the civil war. He enlisted in the 13th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served throughout the war. He was in the army of the Cumberland under Rosecrans and Sherman. After the fall of Richmond and the sur- render of Lee, Mr. Parker went to Texas under Sheridan. After some campaigning in that state he was discharged at Victoria on account of disability and returned to Wisconsin. Later he went to lowa and purchased a farm in Deleware county, where he lived until he came to California in 1892. He purchased at Del Rosa, ten acres of J. M. Steen and now devotes himself to citrus culture. He is a member of the G. A. R., having been a charter member of Henry Howard Post, at Strawberry Point, lowa. Ile is also a Mason.
In 1867 Mr. Parker was married at Albany, Wis., to Miss Adaline, daughter of Philip A. Strong. They have one son living at Del Rosa, George H. He is married and has two children, Fred L. and Marion.
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DWIGHT B. BAILEY, of Rialto, was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, November 9, 1837, the son of Andrew and Emily Goodrich Bailey. His father was a native of New York state who removed to Ohio in 1829 and became a settler of Ashtabula county. He was a mechanic and a manufacturer of wood work, building material, pumps, etc. He patented the first mortising machines and the first rotary pump in the United States.
Dwight B. Bailey lived in his native county until his twenty-third year. He was edu- cated at the Grand River Institute and was admitted to the Ohio bar as attorney in 1860. He then went to Waukesha county. Wisconsin, where he taught school. In 1863, he settled at Appleton, Wis., where he engaged in a general merchandise business and remained for thirty-three years. He has been for thirty years a member and an officer of the Temple of Honor and has held the office of Most Worthy Templar of the World and Grand Worthy Tempiar of Wisconsin. He was made Most Worthy Templar at New York in 1892 and was re-elected at St. John, N. B., in 1894,-the only head that ever succeeded himself since the organization of the order in 1845.
Mr. Bailey has been for thirty years a member and officer of the Royal Arcanum. He was one of the charter members of the United Order of Foresters, which was organized in Waukesha, Wis., in 1894. He was one of the ten members to put up $1,000 each to pay off the first losses. The order now has a reserve fund of $132,000.
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