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M. H. VAN FRANK, of Rialto, is a native of Ohio, born in 1837. His father, Gar- rett Van Frank, was a native of New York, and removed to Elkhart, Indiana, when H. Van Frank was one year old; and in 1861, to Quincy, Illinois. Mr. Van Frank cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, and at a time when it required some courage to do so. He pursued his profession of civil engineer at Quincy until 1872, when he removed to Richmond, Indiana, and the next twelve years was engaged in the milling business; then return- ed to Quincy where he lived until 1887, .when he came to Rialto. Mr. Van Frank was one of the promoters and organizers of the Semi-Tropic Land and Water Co., and by reason of his professional knowledge was chosen civil engineer for the company. Select- ing a piece of land for which he paid two dollars per acre, he has brought it to a thrifty and fruitful condition, and was the first in the Rialto colony to erect a commodious dwelling, which he now occupies with his family.
Mr. Van Frank married Miss May Elizabeth Tibbett, of Noble county, Ohio, her father Isaac Tibbett, having been a pioneer of that county. Mr. and Mrs. Van Frank are the parents of three sons, Elmer, Thomas and Herbert, all electrical engineers.
ALBERT GLATZ, of San Bernar- dino, was born near Wheelersburg, Ohio, October 4, 1859, the son of Theo- dore and Mary Huger Glatz, who emi- grated from Saxony, Germany, to America in 1848 and settled on a farm M. H. VAN FRANK near Wheelersburg where they passed their remaining years. Mr. Glatz at- tended the district school and worked on the home farm. When he was twenty-two, he went to Denver, Colorado, and worked at ranching and brick making. In January, 1884, he came to San Bernardino county and was employed in various capacities, working for sometime in the grist mill of Valentine & Fredrick, clerking, etc. After spending a year at his old home in Ohio, visiting his brothers and sisters, he returned to San Bernardino and May 1, 1889, he was appointed by the city council to his present position as driver for the San Bernardino Fire Department. Mr. Glatz is in charge of the fire apparatus belonging to the company and their excellent condition and efficiency reflects credit upon his thorough methods of work, proving hint especially valuable to the department. There have been many changes in the department since his appointment, but he has continued to give satisfaction and seems to be the right man in the right place.
Mr. Glatz is a member of the local branch I. O. O. F.
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GEORGE B. HAYDEN, of Upland, was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1839. He was the son of David P. Hayden and his family dates back to the Revolutionary period. He received a common school education and at the beginning of the Civil War enlisted in Company C, 2nd Ohio Cavalry and served under General Weir of the western army for a year and a half, then returned to Ohio and re-enlisted. He was then ordered to the army of the Cumberland under General Burnside and later served in the army of the Potomac under Generals Custer and Sheridan.
After many years' residence in Kansas, Mr. Hayden came to California in October, 1893, and located at North Ontario. Here he found employment at fairly good wages and later engaged with the Fruit Exchange and remained with them until he was appointed postmaster at North Ontario.
In 1870, he married Miss Estelle Hayes, of Ohio. His family consists of six children, Myrtle, Luther, Mable, Gertrude, Vernie and Geraldine, The youngest son, Frank, enlisted in the first regiment that went from California to the Philippines and died at Manila.
N. I. HAMER, of Upland, was horn at New Brighton, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May 27, 1871, the son of Ellis G. and Mary Hamer. His father a native of England, emi- grated to America with his parents in his childhood and they settled at New Brighton.
Mr. Hamer attended the public school of his native place and then learned the trade of pattern and model-maker, the trade embracing the making of models for all classes of machinery. He completed his apprenticeship in his trade in 1895 and was then employed by the Pierce-Brouch Engine Co., of New Brighton until July, Igco, when he came to Califor- nia. He located at North Ontario and first worked as a carpenter, then engaged in the fur- niture business. He purchased a lot and put up a two-story business house, and is one of Uplands' representative business men. Mr. Hamer married Miss Elizabeth B. Stevens, of New Brighton, October 11, 1894. They have two sons, Ralph and Clarence. Mr. and Mrs. Hamer are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of North Ontario and of the Fra- ternal Aid Society.
JACOB HUFF, of Del Rosa, was born near Council Bluffs, Iowa, January 12, 1862. the son of Jacob and Mary Elizabeth Miller Huff, both of German descent. His father came west to Montana about 1862 and there died at Bannock, in 1865. His mother mar- ried Mr. Charles Revill and came to San Bernardino with her family about 1868. She died at Del Rosa in 1879 leaving six children, three of who are living in this county.
Mr. Huff located at Del Rosa, purchasing a ranch of nine acres which he planted to oranges and lemons, and has since made this his home. In 1888, he married Miss Viola Zimmerman, whose father, Daniel B. Zimmerman, was an early settler of San Bernardino. dying there in 1877. They have three children, Mazie Elizabeth, J. C. Loyal, and Nona V.
SAMUEL J. HAYES, of Redlands, was born, in Litchfield county, Connecticut, Jan- uary 21, 1826, a son of Gaylord Hayes, a native of Connecticut. In 1833, the family emigrated to Illinois and located near Ottawa in La Salle county. His father purchased a claim in the woods, three miles from neighbors. At that time Chicago had but 26 voters and the country was practically a wilderness. When Mr. Hayes was 11 years old his father died and five years later his mother died. leaving the eldest son to care for three brothers and a sister until the sister married. By saving a little money and borrowing more, at two per cent a month, and later twenty per cent a year, Mr. Hayes acquired a farm of 410 acres which later became a very valuable property. In 1850, Mr. Hayes crossed the plains to California with a horse team, returning east via Panama and New Orleans.
In 1882, Mr. Hayes again visited California and came to Redlands. He was so well pleased with what he saw here that he purchased the five acres where he now resides. In the fall of 1883 he returned bringing with him a carpenter and a carload of material with which to build his house. This was at the time of its completion one of the finest and best built residences in the county. The following year, Mr. Hayes moved to Redlands with his family and has since resided here.
Mr. Hayes purchased more lands and set out orange groves and was largely inter- ested in many enterprises which promoted the early growth and prosperity of Redlands. He was one of the organizers of the Union Bank and was elected a director and the vice- president which offices he held until he disposed of his stock and resigned his position ir 1901, He completed the building of the Terrace Villa Hotel, begun by D. L. Clark and was one of the heaviest stockholders in the Windsor Hotel. At one time he was the owner of the Terracina. When the Santa Fe built into Redlands, Mr. Hayes subscribed $1- 500 toward the right of way. He was one of the largest contirbutors towards the Y. M.
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C. A. building, and has always given freely to public enterprises. He is a member of the Congregational church.
In 1854, he married Sophia W. Cummings, a native of Massachusetts. They were the parents of three children, Emma J., the wife of Dr. Lewis, residing in Illinois; Gertrude, living at home, and Chauncey L. Hayes, a resident of Redlands.
EPHRAIM S. FOOTE, of Redlands, was born at Spring Prarie, Wisconsin, July 14. 1847, and lived on the same farm on which he was born until he was thirty-four years of age. He then removed to Kansas, where he remained about five years and in 1885 came to California and in February, 1889, located in Redlands. He purchased ten acres of land on Cajon street which he set to navel oranges, growing many of his own trees for this purpose. This place is still his home and is one of the best bearing orange groves in the vicinity.
Mr. Foote was for several years a director of the Redlands Water Company, and at one tinie vice-president of the organization. He was a trustee of the Redlands grammar school and was clerk of the board at the time the Kingsbury building was erected. He was again elected to the school board in 1902, and is now chairman of the board. In 1898 he was elected one of the board of city trustees, and served until 1902. He has been deacon in the Baptist church, and the superintendent of its Sunday school since its organization in 1887.
In December, 1871. Mr. Foote was married to Miss Mattie R., daughter of Russel! and Adeline Herrick Waite, at Lyons, Wis. They have three children-Irma E., wife of Dr. W. R. Heacock : Inez A., and Wilfred Rose, who are at home.
SAMUEL L. GROW, of Pasadena, was born at Bangor, Me., in 1843. His early edn- cation was obtained in the public schools of that state, where he lived until 1855, when he removed to Iowa and hecame a teacher in the public schools of Monona county. He later engaged in business, dealing in lumber, stock and general merchandise. He came to Cali- fornia in 1871 and for five years devoted himself to importing stock from Missouri river points to California and the inter-mountain territory. In 1881 he purchased a piece of prop- erty near Highlands and set out a deciduous orchard. He was so well satisfied with the results that he planted another orchard a mile northeast of the first, and on higher ground, and gave his whole time to horticulture for a period. In 1892 he was chosen by the supe! - visors of San Bernardino county to take charge of the county exhibit at the World's Fair. He represented the same interests at the Midwinter Fair in San Francisco in 1894. In 1895 he bought an interest in an abstract business in San Bernardino, and in 1896 again engaged in the mercantile business, but later retired and now makes his home in Pasadena.
Mr. Grow married Miss Ella F. Jepson in 1867. They are the parents of seven children-Alice, now Mrs. Anderson, of Los Angeles; C. M. Grow, manager San Bernar- dino Electric Light Co .; Edward E., the second son, who, after graduating from Stanford, was one of forty students to enlist in Company K, First Cal. Reg. Vol., for service in the Philippines, and is now 'employed as draughtsman with the Pimola Powder Co., of Cali- fornia : Richard and Gladys, students; A. E. and E. L. Grow, proprietors of a fruit ranch near Elsinore, Riverside county.
ELIJAH P. FULLER, of Upland, was born near St. Joseph, Mo., October 3, 1854. His father Elijah Fuller, was a native of North Carolina ; his mother Nancy Sharp Fuller. was the daughter of James Sharp, who settled on the "Platte Purchase," Missouri, in 1835. Elijah P. Fuller was the youngest of fourteen children and lived on a farm in Missouri until 1883. He then went to Washington and engaged in the hotel business at Olympia. He came to North Ontario in 1885, and in 1888 settled in the old Kincaid place. In 1894 he purchased a home on the corner of 24th street and Euclid avenue. He has been zanjero for the San Antonio Water Co. since 1889. In 1876 Mr. Fuller married Olive E., daughter of William C. and Sarah Minteer Goodrich, of Belmont Ohio. Mr. Goodrich left Ohio in 1868 and emigrated to St. Joseph, Mo. In 1886 he came to California and located at San Antonio. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller have three sons-Alva E., Charles P. and Everett H. Mr. Fuller is a member of the I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W of Upland.
WALTER F. FOLZ, late of San Bernardino, was born in Chicago, 111 .. November 10, 1877. the son of M. W. and Philomena Zins Folz, his father being a native of Germany who came to this country in his early youth and his mother a native of Galena, III.
Mr. Folz received his education in the public schools of Chicago and after graduating from the grammar department entered the auditing department of the Illinois Central Rail-
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way Co., where he was employed six years. In 1898 he left Chicago and worked succes- sively in Denver, Colorado Springs and Albuquerque, N. M. He arrived in San Bernar- dino in February, 1899, and at first found employment in the orange orchards of the vicinity and later as clerk and general repairer for Bollong & Stevens, furniture dealers. In March, 1900, he joined the San Bernardino fire department, and the following June was elected secretary of the department, a position which he retained until October, 1902. He was also general agent for several Los Angeles and San Francisco papers, but was compelled to resign all activities by failing health. He died May 24, 1903, and was buried at San Bernardino with the honors of the fire department.
PROF. LEOPOLD STEINBRENNER, of San Bernardino, is a native of Germany, born in Heidelburg of an old and aristocratic German family. He graduated from the University of Heidelburg and also from the Conservatory of Music at Stuttgart, and is an able and thorough musician. During the German-Austrian war he served in the ranks. In 1869 he came to the United States and taught music in many of the eastern cities. In 1871 he came to San Bernardino. which has since been his home. Here he married Miss Mary A., daughter of Dr. O. M. Wozencraft, one of the best known pioneers of the state.
MILTON E. HECHT, of San Ber- nardino, was born in Muscatine, Iowa. February 22, 1862. He is the son of Ephriam and Agnes Bennett Hecht, one of a family of five children, all living. with the exception of himself, in New Jersey.
Milton E. Hecht was educated in Muscatine, graduating from the high school of that city. After leaving school he was sent by his father to Germany to learn the shoe-making business, serv- ing three years apprenticeship at Hesse Castle, in the city where Napoleon III was imprisoned after the Franco-Prus- sian war of 1870. In 1877 he returned to Newark, N. J., engaging in the man- ufacture and selling of shoes, continu- ing the business until he came to San Bernardino in the fall of 1894. Upon his arrival in San Bernardino he at once opened a shop for making and re- PROF. LEOPOLD STEINBRENNER pairing shoes, which has so continued to prosper and enlarge that he is now the owner of a fine stock of goods, and doing an excellent business.
Mr. Hecht married in Rahway, N. J., March 5, 1884, Miss Jennie Seelig. They are the arents of seven children-Louis, Frank, Benjamin, William, Charles Alberta and Viola. He is a member of the Masonic order, I. O. O. F. and of the Fraternal Union.
M. A. HEBBERD, of Colton, was born at Moline, Ill., September 27, 1861, the son of William F. Hebberd, a native of Maine, who came west to Illinois in the early days and engaged in the manufacture of furniture and mill work. Mr. Hebberd received his education in the public schools of Galesburg, Ill., and vicinity and was first employed in the Brown Cornplanter Works. He learned the trade of architect and builder and came to California and followed his trade in Los Angeles until 1883, when he removed to Riverside. Later he removed to Colton and was employed by the firm of James Lee & Co., dealers in groceries and provisions. This was one of the first business houses established in Colton, having been opened by J. R. Newberry in 1882-83 as a wholesale business in staple groceries and provisions. About 1885 J. A. Lee and S. M. Goddard
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succeeded Newberry, and after Mr. Lee's death the business passed into the hands of Messrs. Hebberd & Goddard. July 31, 1902, it was incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000 as the M. A. Hebberd Co., with M. A. Hebberd as president and W. C. Heb- berd as secretary and treasurer.
Mr. Hebberd was married to Miss Martha A., daughter of Dr. J. L. Holt, at Elm- wood, Ill. He has served as city treasurer of Colton and on the board of trustees, and is one of the active and enterprising citizens of the place.
WILLIAM FOWLER, of Redlands, is a native of Massachusetts, born in Hampden county in 1827. In 1836 the family removed west to the state of Ohio, where he lived until he was twenty-four years of age. In 1852 he removed to Minnesota. In August, 1862, he enlisted in the 8th Minnesota Infantry and served until the close of the war. During the first eighteen months service the regiment, under command of Gen. Sully, was engaged most of the time on the frontier fighting Indians; the last year of service was in the South. He was wounded at the battle of Cedars, but remained with the regiment until mustered out of service. He was discharged as Lieutenant of Company F, 8tl Minnesota Infantry.
At the close of the war Mr. Fowler returned to St. Paul, Minn., and resumed his occupation of farming. He was a member of the Minnesota State Legislature in 1877-78; was postmaster at Newport; president of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society for two years; chairman of the board of supervisors of Washington county seven years, and for five years president of the Minnesota State Dairymen's Association.
Mr. Fowler came to Redlands in 1891, purchased a fine property and engaged in growing oranges. He has taken the same active interest in the welfare of the community in which he has made his new home as in the one from which he came. His years of experience and the value of his services have received recognition from the people of Redlands. He has been for several years president of the city board of trustees and has served as mayor of the city. Mr. Fowler is highly esteemed as a private citizen and his public career is above reproach.
Mr. Fowler married Miss Carrie A. Lane of Ohio. They have a family of four children. Two sons-Frank L. and Will L-are living in Redlands, also one daughter, Nellie. Their daughter, Dr. May Fowler Thompson, is a resident of Rangoon, Burmah, India. Mr. and Mrs. Fowler are members of the Baptist church.
MILO GILBERT, of Colton, was the son of Hinsdale and Polly Tyrhill Gilbert, born in Manchester, Vt., September 5, 1823. His paternal grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution, having been captain of a company at the battle of Bennington, Vt. His father, in 1831, removed to Wyoming county, N. Y., and settled on a farm near Castile, where Milo Gilbert passed his boyhood and youth. In 1844 he went to Rockford, Ill., and in partnership with his brother, Seymour, opened a hardware store; he also taught mathe- matics in a night school. After farming for a time he became stock solicitor for the Ga- lena and Chicago Union Railway Co., in connection with W. B. Ogden.
In 1854 Mr. Gilbert removed to Charles City, Ia., and, quickly discerning the advan- tages offered by the water power of Cedar river for manufacturing, he purchased one- half of the town site-450 acres-and began a series of large operations which occupied the whole of his stay in that city, lasting thirty-three years, and converted an insignificant hamlet into a prosperous railroad center. During this time Mr. Gilbert served as town clerk and supervisor, and was chosen first mayor of the city, without opposition. The "U. S. Biographical Dictionary" states that Milo Gilbert was continuously in official posi- tion from the time he became a citizen of Floyd county, Iowa, until his departure from that state.
Mr. Gilbert came to Colton in 1887, bringing with him a business experience of many years, gained in advancing interests beneficial to a whole community. He has manifested the same interest in Colton and has been identified with all measures of public improve- ment undertaken since he became a citizen. He has served on the board of city trustees and was for six years president of that board. His investments have been extensive. Besides owning land and orange groves, he has built two large business blocks-the Gilbert & Wilcox, and the Gilbert, the last the finest block in Colton.
On September 25, 1847. he married Margaret Palmer, daughter of Dr. Nathan Palmer, of Aurora, Ill. Their children are: Emily, Mrs. E. B. Dyke, of Colton; Clara, wife of W. W. Wilcox, of Wilcox & Rose, hardware dealers of Colton and San Bernardino; and Frank P. Gilbert, of Minneapolis.
M. H. EVANS, of Highland, was born at Yorkville, Illinois, December 11, 1851, the
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son of John and Electa Luce Evans. His father was a native of Ohio and a merchant of Cleveland, later a farmer in Illinois. Mr. Evans was educated in his native state and studied music under Dr. George F. Root for about three years, making a thorough study of harmony, composition and voice culture under Professor F. W. Root, son of Dr. Root. Later he traveled throughout the country as a singer, taking charge of the music at evan- gelistic services. He was in charge of the music during Francis Murphy's great campaign in Chicago in 1884. He and Mrs. Evans followed this work for twenty-one years. In 1896, he came to California and located at Highland where he has an orange grove of seventeen acres.
Mr. Evans was married to Miss Emma, daughter of Dr. O. A. Goodhue, at St. Charles, Illinois, in 1874. She was a native of the state, born at Rockford. They have three sons, Evan G., Oliver K. and Merrill D., Mr. Evans is a member of and acts as reader in the Christian Science church of Riverside.
JOHN M. FUQUAY, of Rincon, born October 3, 1853, is a son of Isham and Johana ( Hathaway ) Fuquay. His father was a Virginian ; his mother a native of Missouri; she is now living with her daughter, Mrs. R. M. Thurman, at Pomona, her husband having died in 1890 at the age of 76. The latter was a stockraiser on an extensive scale, and also a mechanic and owned and ran a blacksmith shop.
John M. Fuquay is one of a family of five daughters and three sons ; one sister, Mary. wife of George Vines, deceased, resides in Los Angeles. Serena D. Fuquay is now Mrs. Otis Hidden, of Los Angeles; Tenna, another sister, is Mrs. Samuel Bowers, of Lemore, Los Angeles county. His sister Susan died in San Bernardino county. Of his brothers, Benjamin F. is a resident of Pomona, where he is engaged in farming; and Jas. W. Fuquay lives at Lemore.
John M. Fuquay is the hest type of the native Californian and is a thrifty and success- ful farmer. He married at Downey, September 19, 1878, Sarah A. Neighbors, a native of Mississippi and daughter of Allen W. Neighbors, now of Los Nietos, and nine children were the result of this union : Isham W., Mary M., Tennie E., Henry S., Ida Mae, John A., William B., Clemmey S., Lawrence M. Mr. Fuquay owns and cultivates one of the best farms on the Rincon Grant.
W. F. HOLT of Redlands, was born in Mercer county, Missouri, January 18, 1864, son of James Holt, a farmer, a native of Missouri whose father was a pioneer resident of the state. W. F. Holt took a commercial course in a business college at Quincy, Illinois. His health made a change of climate necessary and he came to Arizona where he established the first hank in Safford, Arizona, in 1897. He soon sold this out and in 1898 he opened the first bank in the town of Globe. He came to California in 1900 and embarked in the Imperial enterprise, purchasing a tract of 2,000 acres of the Imperial Land Co. and Imper- ial Development Co. In 1901, he established the first paper, edited by H. C. Reid. He built a church, now owned by the Christian denomination. He put in a telephone system over a hundred miles in length, connecting Imperial with other valley towns.
He also established a bank, incorporated for $25,000, of which he is president. Early in 1902 he inaugurated the Imperial and Gulf Ry., which he sold out to the Southern Pa- cific in July, 1902. The same season he put in a system for domestic water and erected an ice factory .- these he has sold out.
In the fall of 1903, Mr. Holt opened up a tract fourteen miles southeast of Imperial to which is given the name of Holtville. This has had a remarkable growth, a $15,000 hotel having been erected, two stores a brick plant, restaurants, blacksmith shop, etc., estab lished. A standard gauge road, the Holtville Interurban, was completed in 1904. also an extensive power plant, utilizing the water from the canal, 15,000 inches with a fall of 53 feet. supplying power, for lights, etc.
Mr. Holt has recently completed an ornate and luxurious home in Redlands. He mar- ried, in 1898, Miss Fannie Jones, a native of Visalia, California. They have two daughters, Clara and Esther C.
CLEMENT RAY MORSE, of Ontario, was born in Lorraine county, Ohio, February 1826. His father, Abishai Morse, a native of Massachusetts, was a pioneer of Ohio, hav- ing settled in that state in 1820. Clement was the youngest of a family of twelve. He learned the carpenter trade and followed it until 1855, when he moved westward to Iowa and engaged in farming in Iowa county. He first visited California in 1884 and purchased property in the new colony of Ontario. In 1885, he settled permanently in Ontario and in 1886 put up the building at the corner of B street and Euclid avenue. He has engaged more or less in wagon and house building. He has held the office of town trustee for four
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