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JAMES S. BROOKS, of San Bernardino, was born in London, England, February 12, 1826. He has a sister still living who resides in Utah. Mr. Brooks' boyhood and school days were passed in London, and there he served his apprenticeship, and learned the trade of carpenter. He came to America in 1848, and spent his first year in this country in Phila- delphia. He then moved to St. Louis, where he acted as agent for a large estate, having complete charge of the property. He remained in St. Louis eight years, and in 1856. crossed the plains to Big Cottonwood, near Salt Lake, Utah, where he engaged in farming, and working at his trade for six years. From there he came to San Bernardino, California, arriving December 1862, immediately after the big floods. His first work in San Bernar- dino was as a carpenter on the house of Louis Jacobs, on "C" street. He afterwards built a number of cottages in the country. Shortly after his arrival he bought a ranch of twenty acres on Waterman avenue, being a part of what is known as the "Waterman ranch," which he afterwards sold and bought the site of the present home, comprising two and one-half acres of ground on G street, in San Bernardino.
On March 10, 1850, while in St. Louis, he was married to Mrs. Lydia Webster, who was born in St. Helens, about thirteen miles from Liverpool, England, where she had lived until 1848. Mr. Brooks had one son by a former wife, and twelve children of the second mar- riage nine of whom are still living and all residents of this valley. They are: Lydia, now Mrs. William Singleton, of El Casco; Rachel Brooks, Riverside; Milo E. Brooks, San Ber- nardino; (Mrs. Mary Anthony, deceased, Riverside) ; Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett, Riverside; William H. Brooks, San Bernardino; Sarah M. Brooks, living in San Bernardino; (Charles E. Brooks and Alfred Brooks, deceased) ; Mrs Martha Delong, San Bernardino; Miss Lulu Brooks, San Bernardino; George T. Brooks, San Bernardino.
S. H. BARRETT, of East Highlands, was born December 10, 1852, in Fairfax county, Virginia, the son of Daniel H. and Caroline C. Barrett, both natives of Dutchess county, New York. The father was a farmer and fruit grower, and a strong Union man, although in a secession neighborhood.
S. H. Barrett attended the public schools and graduated from Columbia College, Wash- ington, D. C. He served for a short time in the Pension Bureau at Washington. In 1882 he came to California and after a short stay at Crafton located at East Highlands, where he has since resided.
March 16, 1898, he married Miss M. V. Hall, a native of Louisville. Ky. They have two daughters-Mary V and Jane. Mr. Barrett is a member of the Congregational church and has been superintendent of the Sunday school ever since he came to Highlands.
JAMES BRADFORD, of Ontario, was born April 23, 1844, in Four Corners, Erie county, Ohio. He was the son of Prudence Tallman and James G. Bradford, who was a collector and veterinary surgeon, a native of Schenectady, New York. The Tallman family were Quakers who emigrated from Elyria, Ohio, to Iowa, and then returned to Maringo, Ohio, where they were engaged in general farming and stock raising. In 1868 he married Barbara, daughter of Robert Hall, a native of Edinburg, Scotland, who emigrated with his parents to St. Louis de Gonzaque, Canada, in 1830.
Mr. Bradford came to California in 1883 and located on Euclid avenue, Ontario, where
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he purchased property. He has always taken an active interest in the religious and indus- trial welfare of the community in which he lives. He has helped to build up the West- minster Presbyterian church of Ontario and the First Presbyterian church of Upland. He was employed by the first board of horticultural commissioners as tree inspector, and was one of the first to practice fumigation, holding a position under the commission for eight years. He has been employed as forest ranger for six years, having charge of the coast range reserve from San Dimas to Lytle Creek canyon.
Mr. Bradford is the father of three children-Barbara, Boyd and William Sinton-all deceased.
FREDERICK WILLIAM DUNN, of San Bernardino, was born in Noble county, Indiana, October 5, 1849, the son of William B. and Emma Hatch Dunn, the father a native of New York and the mother of Pennsylvania. Mr. Dunn began life at the age of twelve as a switchman in the railroad yards at Brimfield, Indiana, and he advanced from this position to the top of the ladder. His first official po- sition was as trainmaster of what later became the Chicago and Eastern Illi- nois Railway. He was connected offi- cially with various lines centering in Chicago, Terre Haute, Ind .; Toledo, O .; Port Huron, Mich., and Birmingham, Ala. In 1879 he was made superin- tendent and managing director of the Nevada Central, U. P. system, and re- mained with this road five years, also serving as vice-president of the Salt Lake and Western, a branch of the U. P. Later he was connected with the Louisville and Nashville Railway as roadmaster of the Florida division, with headquarters at Pensacola. He was al- so assistant superintendent of the Ala- bama division. In 1890 he came west again as superintendent of the Seattle, Lakeshore & Eastern Railway.
FREDERICK W. DUNN
Mr. Dunn has always been inter- ested in mining, both in the east and the west. After giving up railroad work he located at Searchlight, Nev., and was one of the organizers of the Quar- tette Mining Co., in which he is still interested. After looking the state over, Mr. Dunn decided to locate in Sau Bernardino, and since 1902 has made
this city his home. He is one of the progressive real estate owners and always on the lookout for the welfare of the city. He was married in 1869 to Miss Belle, daughter of Henry and Rachael Miller, of Brimfield, Ind. They have no children.
JOHN W. HAMILTON, of East Highlands, was born near Plymouth, Ill., August 26, 1850, the son of W. R. Hamilton, a farmer. The family left Illinois in 1857 for Wash- ington county, Nebraska, and came to California in 1893 and settled at Redlands, where the father died May 17, 1902. The mother is still living.
John W. came to California with his family in 1887 and located at East Highlands, where he has ten acres in oranges. He was married in Omaha, Neb., to Miss Charlotte Brown, daughter of B. F. Edwards. They have two sons and a daughter-Chas. S., George E. and Irene May.
KARL C. WELLS, of Redlands, was born in Waterbury, Vermont, April 30, 1869, the son of Curtis and Frances C. Wells, both natives of that state. He was educated in the common schools of his native town and in the high school of Burlington, and came to California with his parents in 1886, living in Los Angeles until 1887, when the family re- moved to Redlands. When the Union Bank was organized in 1887 he entered its service
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as clerk and was afterward elected to the position of teller, assistant cashier, and president, which latter office he held until his resignation in January, 1905, after the bank had been converted into the national system under the title of the Redlands National Bank.
Mr. Wells was one of the organizers of the Union Savings Bank in 1904, consequent upon the nationalization of the Union Bank, and is now president of that institution, and is also president of the Home Telephone Company of Redlands, a corporation in which he is largely interested.
Mr. Wells married Miss Marie Colby in 1893 and they have a family of four children, two boys and two girls.
SIMON H. BLACK, of San Bernardino, was born in Sumpter county, Georgia, Feb- ruary Ist, 1860. His father, James H. Black was also a native of Georgia and always resided in that state. He owned factories and a tannery and was a manufacturer of shoes. His factory was located at Blackville, a factory town near Americus. He also owned a plantation on which cot- ton, sugar cane, rice, etc., were raised. He raised a family of fourteen child- ren. He died at the age of ninety- three in 1901.
Simon H. Black learned the busi- ness of tanning and shoe making at his father's factories and when he left home opened a retail shoe busi- ness at Birmingham, Ala. He came west with Mr. Dunn in 1889 and be- came interested in mining property. He has become an expert assayer and has been employed in this capacity by many mining companies.
Mr. Black was married August 23rd, 1883, to Miss Helen Sapp, daughter of Geo. H. Sapp, of Colum- bus, Georgia.
JARED ETHAN ALLEN, of Highland, is a native of Bridgewater, Mass., born January 2nd, 1856, the 2 son of Jared Bates Allen, a shoe manufacturer, who was also a farmer. The family were early settlers in Massachusetts, and were prominent in colonial affairs. Mr. Allen lived at home until the age of eighteen, when he went to Boston and became a mem- ber of the firm of Allen Brothers, manufacturers and dealers in rubber SIMON H. BLACK stamps and stencils. In 1880 he mar- ried and later removed to Ponca, Dixon county, Nebraska, where he engaged in business. He came to California in 1886 and located at Highland, where he owns a valuable orange grove.
Mr. Allen has one daughter, Bessie, wife of Samuel M. Hendrickson; he also has one grandchild, S. Allen Hendrickson.
WILLIAM THOMAS LEEKE of Upland, California, was born May 23, 1846, in Hamden, Connecticut, and was the fourth son of Dana Winston and Abbie Goodyear Leeke. he is a descendant of the early English settlers of Connecticut, the first of whom on his father's side, Philip Leeke, was a member of the Davenport party which founded New Haven in 1638. His mother was a daughter of Captain Seymour Goodyear and a descend- ant of Governor Stephen Goodyear of New Haven Colony. His boyhood was spent on his father's farmi and in the ancestral home where he early imbibed intellectual ambition, that birthright of the New Englander. In 1866 he was graduated from Fort Edward Collegiate Institute, and the following year he engaged in teaching in New York state.
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At this time reports of the opportunities afforded in California began to be circulated. Attracted by the prospect and by the advantages of a climate free from malaria, Mr. Leeke came with his brother to California via Panama, and at once began teaching in the public schools. A period of four years was thus spent in teaching and in tutoring for various branches, and a year of normal study in San Francisco. Having during this time gained standing, he was called to be instructor in Ashland college. Oregon, where he spent eight years, during the latter portion of which he was president of that institution. The following year he was supervising principal of the Ashland public schools.
In July, 1880, he entered the United States Indian service, and in November, 1882, was appointed superintendent of the Yainax Indian Training School, Oregon, where the success of his labor was attested by the Yainax school being designated as a model for similar institutions. Mr. Leeke moved to Ontario colony in 1887. and engaged in orange growing. In July, 1891, under President Harrison's administration, he re-entered the Educational Bureau of the Indian service, and was appointed supervisor of Indian educa- tion for Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Nevada.
In the fall of 1893 he returned to North Ontario, where for the past eight years he has been president of the Ontario school board and president of the San Antonio Water Com- pany. He is a director of the Commercial Bank of Upland, and has been a director and vice-president of the Ontario-Cucamonga Fruit Exchange. For the past three years he has served as manager of the Ontario Power Company. At the last general election, occur- ring November 8, 1904. he was elected to represent the thirtieth senatorial district in the state senate.
Mr. Leeke married Annie, daughter of Hiram Farlow, in Oregon in 1874. Mrs. Leeke died in 1876. In 1878 Mr. Leeke married Mary, the daughter of John Quigley, in Califor- nia, who died in 1892. There are three children-Ethel Frances, Dana Winston and Frank . Quigley Leeke.
JAMES EDWARDS, of Upland, was born on the east coast of Scotland, July 17, 1869. His father still resides near Dundee, Scotland. Mr. Edwards was educated in the high schools of his native country. In 1891 he came to America and first located at Nashua, N. H. Later he came to California, and after a brief stay in Los Angeles he settled at Tustin, Orange county. In 1898 he came to Upland. where he has since made his home. In 1900 he married Miss Kate McTaggart, of Ontario, Canada. They have a cosy home at the corner of Twenty-third and Enclid avenue, where Mr. Edwards is engaged in orange growing.
CARL HAMMER, a native of Prussia, was born in the city of Magdeburg, January 2nd, 1846. He came to America in 1871, landing at the port of New York, and immediately started for San Francisco, where he remained about three months, when he engaged in mining in Lake county, afterward following the same occupation in the mining camps of Pinte. Havilah, and the Kernville camps of the Upper Kern river. In 1882, he located at San Bernardino, where he now lives. Before leaving his native country, he married Miss Emilio Renne, the result of the union being a son and two daughters: Carla, now Mrs. Walter Wagner of San Bernardino, and Amy who lives with them. Their son. Ernest, is deputy county auditor of San Bernardino county.
DAVID HUMPHREY of East Highland, is a native of Virginia, born near Milton, Hali- fax county, November 21, 1836, the son of Thomas and Lucinda Humphrey, his father a farmer by occupation. David T. learned the carpenter's trade and followed it for twenty- five years, then settled on a farm in Kentucky. In 1900, he came to California and located at East Highland.
He married Miss Sarah, daughter of Joseph Paxton, a native of West Virginia. Mrs. Humphrey died December 20, 1891, at the age of sixty-three. Six children are now liv- ing, James P., Joseph T., Robert S., Cora E., Mrs. Thomas Durall of Greenville, Kentucky ; Samuel E. and Gertrude I.
CLAUDIUS M. HILL, of Highland, is a native of lowa, born in Des Moines. county, May 17, 1859. At an early day he came to California with his family and settled at Visali .. Here he learned the blacksmithing trade. In 1888, he came to San Bernardino county and the next year opened a shop on Base Line where he carried on business for 10 yars, He re- moved to Highland and in 1899 built a shop 30 by 70 in which he has a full power equip- ment and machinery for blacksmithing and carriage work.
In 1882, he married Miss Ella Crawford, in Iowa. They have one daughter, Mary Olive. Mr. Hill is a member of the Congregational church of Highland.
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WILLIAM HILL, of Highland, was born in Jefferson county, New York, April 29, 1827, the son of Eben and Annie Barney Hill, the one a native of Connecticut, and the other of Vermont. Mr. Hill came to California in 1877 and lived for twelve years in Tulare county then came to San Bernardino where he engaged in the hotel business.
He was married near Bennington, Vermont, in 1855 to Miss Mary, daughter of Abra- ham Banty. They have five living children, W. R. and C. M., of Highland ; Lurissa, Mrs. Frank Jordan, of Exeter, California; Franklin E., of Los Angeles, and Elsie M., Mrs Wat- son, of West Highland.
The HARWOOD BROTHERS of Upland, are descendants of an old New England family that traces its ancestry back to the Plymouth settlement in 1630. Members of this family were among the first settlers of Bennington, Vermont. Their location at this place was a question of denominational preference, the family being staunch Congregationalists and that locality being the seat of Congregationalism. Had they been Episcopalians they would have chosen Arlington as a home, if Baptists, Shaftesbury, etc.
Hiram Harwood, the father of Charles E. and Alfred P. Harwood, was a prosperous farmer of Bennington. His family consisted of six children-three sons and three daughters. He died at the residence of his son, Alfred P., in Ontario, 1894. His wife sur- vived until 1899, dying at the home of her daughter, the wife of Rev. Tracy, at the ad- vanced age of 99 years.
Charles E., the oldest son of Hiram and Eliza Harwood, was born at Bennington, Ver- mont, October 19, 1830. He graduated from Williams College, Massachusetts and began the study of law with Judge Pierpont Isham, of Bennington, and completed his course at Troy, New York. He entered upon the practice of his profession at Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1856, and remained there for five years when in consequence of failing health a change of climate became necessary and he removed to Springfield, Missouri. Here he at once identified himself with the business interests of the city and became director of the Southern Pacific, now known as the St. Louis and San Francisco railway. During his connection of twenty years with this road, fifteen hundred miles of new track were built. He was for ten years president of the Greene County National Bank. Through his efforts the Springfield Electric Light system was organized. He was one of the founders of Drury College, a weil known educational institution of the middle west, and was one of the first trustees, while his donation of $5,000 was one of the first made to the school.
Mr. Harwood made frequent trips to California and in one of them his attention was directed to the new settlement of Ontario and as a result when the North Ontario Land and Improvement Co. which had platted the town site of "Magnolia" became involved in 1887, Mr. Harwood and his brother secured an interest in the property. Since residing in this community Mr. Harwood has become vice-president of the Ontario Commercial Bank and was president of the San Antonio Water Co. and also president of the Lemon Exchange.
In October, 1858, Mr. Harwood married Catherine Seymour, daughter of Pearl N. and and Aurelia Squires Henry, of Bennington, Vermont. Of their children, Isabella is the widow of Dr. Walter Scott and resides at Ontario. Aurelia is a graduate of Drury College and was for two years a student at Wellesly College; Edward C. is a graduate of Stanford University and Paul H. is a graduate of Columbia University School of Mines.
ALFRED P. HARWOOD was born at Bennington, November 19, 1838. In 1862, he removed from the old home in Vermont and located at Crystal Lake, Illinois, where he re- sided until 1867. He then removed to Springfield, Missouri, where he engaged in farming and stockraising. With his brother he was identified with the Land Department of the St. L. & S. F. Ry. and continued in this connection until his removal to California in 1887. Here he purchased one-fifteenth of the stock of the Ontario Land and Development Co. of Chaffey Brothers. He is also a stockholder in the San Antonio Water Co. and is presi- dent of the Building and Loan Association. He is also interested in the Ontario-Cucamonga Fruit Exchange.
Mr. Alfred Harwood married Margaret J., a daughter of Stephen Burton, a farmer of Springfield Massachusetts. They are the parents of six children. The eldest, Emma, is Mrs. Woodford of Upland: Grace H. is the wife of Ernest Thayer, of Ontario; Frank H. is manager of the San Dimas Lemon Growers' Association. Two daughters and a son are deceased.
The Harwood Brothers are properly regarded as the fathers of North Ontario, now Upland. Their dealings have been of a broad and liberal character : their operations of a careful and conservative nature, and they have kept in view the ultimate prosperity and best
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welfare of the community. All lands conveyed by the Harwood Brothers are under a re- striction which forbids the sale of liquor.
T. H. GOFF, late of San Bernardino, was born in Quebec, Canada, in the year 1844. He resided here during his youth but in his early manhood removed to Ontario, where he took up the study of architecture and passed several years in technical schools. In 1878, he was appointed county architect for Oxford county, Ontario. After four years' service here he resigned to seek a wider field in the city of Toronto. Here he designed many prom- inent buildings, his last work having been a group of buildings for the Ontario government.
In 1886, he came to California and after looking about, located at San Bernardino. In this city he was naturalized and took an active part in public affairs while he successfully followed his profession and designed and contracted for many of the most prominent build- ings in this section. His most important work was the building of the Southern California State Hospital for the Insane which was completed in 1893. In 1894, he represented the county as assemblyman in the State Legislature. He served for a number of years as captain of Company K, of the Seventh Regiment and was a member of the Masonic Fraternity and of the Elks.
Captain Goff died at the Pacific Hospital, Los Angeles, in April, 1904. He was married in the spring of 1894 to Miss Jennie Olive Goff, of Ontario, Canada, who, with one little daugliter, survives him.
LAZONA D. HOUGHTON, of San Bernardino, was born in Saratoga county, New York, February 4. 1861. His parents were Silas E. and Milanda Clothier Houghton. In 1865, his father's family removed to Wisconsin and there he was educated. After leaving school he taught two years in Dakota and then came to California and located in San Ber- nardino, Jan. 1888. After following various occupations, he purchased an interest in a cigar business and news agency. Later he formed a partnership with L. T. Olsen, lasting until 1897, when he bought out his partner, since which time he has conducted a wholesale and retail tobacconist establishment, also selling current magazines.
Mr. Houghton is a prominent I. O. O. F., and is also a member of F. and A. M., and of the B. P. O. Elks.
JOHN W. HAMERLY, of Colton, was born in the old town of Jerseyshire, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania. His father, Jacob Hamerly, was a hatter. In 1878, Mr. Hamerly came to Colton and engaged in the horticultural industry, which has since been his princi- pal business, although he has frequently served his town and county in an official capacity. He has been elected treasurer for the Meek & Daley Ditch Company, the oldest and one of the best irrigation organization in the county ; he has held the position as city trustee, and in 1893 was appointed by President Cleveland postmaster of Colton, holding that office until the expiration of his term of office in September, 1897.
In 1862, Mr. Hamerly married Miss Jane Hewitt, a native of New York, relative of the distinguished Abram Hewitt, mayor of New York City, and congressman. They are the parents of two daughters, and two sons, only one now living, Mrs. E. A. Baugus, of Los Angeles.
WALTER HUBBARD, of San Bernardino, was born in Quincy, Illinois, September 29, 1857, the son of Socrates and Sophia Snowden Hubbard. His father was a physician and also a devout worker in the church, engaging in evangelistic work while practicing his profession.
Walter Hubbard received his education in the public schools of Quincy, graduating from the High school in 1875. The family removed to Texas, and he entered the employ- ment of the Waples-Painter Co., at Gainsville, remaining with them three years. He was then employed by the Lyon & Gribble Lumber Co., in various localities in Texas for six years. In 1887, he came to California, and was employed by the West Coast Lumber Co. as book-keeper, at Pasadena. In 1890, he came to San Bernardino in the employ of the same company as cashier and manager, remaining with them until they closed out their business here. He then engaged with Wm. L. Peters as manager of his carriage sales room and was with him three years when he took a position as manager of T. J. Wilson's Carriage Eni- porium.
Mr. Hubbard married Miss Jessie Lee Douglas, of Henrietta, Texas, November 26, 1885. They have four sons, Roy R, Ochiltree S., Walter and Frank W. Mr. Hubbard has been for many years a prominent Mason and has served as Junior Stewart, Senior Den- con, Junior and Senior Warden and was W. M. of Phoenix Lodge and has been secretary of this lodge. He also belongs to Woodmen of the World.
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GAIL B. FISH was born in Jasper county, Iowa, January 18, 1869. He is the son of E. G. and Edith M. (Pease) Fish. His father was born at Charlesburg, Pennsylvania, May II, 1838, and removed with his parents to Mansfield, Ohio, where he lived until 1861, then went to Colfax, Iowa, where he purchased a ranch and engaged in coal mining.
G. B. Fish attended the public schools of Colfax, Iowa, where he lived until twenty- one years of age. After leaving school he went to work in the Bank of Colfax. He first came to San Bernardino in 1888, but went back east and remained something over one year. Returning to San Bernardino he engaged in business with his father, mining, pros- pecting and installing pumping plants, gas engines and teaming from the mountains. He engaged in electrical work September 15, 1892, as operator and engineer in the power house and sub-station of the business.
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