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MINOR C. BUTTERFIELD. of Colton, was born at Niles, Mich., Dec. 6, 1862, the son of John W. and Lydia Munger Butterfield. His father was a manufacturer and ,a man of affairs, at one time a member of the Michigan State Legislature. He died in Illinois, in 1863.
M. C. Butterfield lived at Troy, New York, form 1872 to 1887, and here learned the trade of stone cutting. In 1887 he came to California to take charge of the stone cutting for the Colton Marble Co., then operating at Slover mountain, and was manager of this de- partment until the failure of the company. The next three years were spent in the employ
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of the California Loan and Trust Co., representing their interests in the Rialto district. Since that time he has been largely identified with the orange growing and shipping in- dustry. He purchased ten acres in 1889, which he set to oranges, and also has twenty acres at Bloomington. He was for a time manager of the Arthur Gregory packing house at Redlands.
Mr Butterfield was married at Troy, New York, in 1887, to Miss Sadie Bussey. He is a member of the Knights and of the Elks, of San Bernardino.
NICHOLAS S. YOUNG, of the San Bernardino Fire Department, was born at Benton- ville, Arkansas, February 21, 1872. He is of German-American parentage, the son of Ben- jamin Young, a farmer, and Isabella Caroline Young. He received a common school edit- cation in the public schools of his native city. The family removed to California in 1892, locating at Po- mona, where his mother still resides. For two years he was employed as a blacksmith, in Pomona, and then came to San Bernardino and went to work for O. A. Allen, remaining with him about five years. On the breaking out of the Spanish-American war he en- listed in Company "K" and with them went to San Francisco. After his return he went to work for Jim Campbell, where he is at present employed.
Mr. Young joined the San Bernardino Fire Depart- ment in 1899. He held the position of assistant foreman one year, and later was assistant chief. He is a mem- ber of the I. O. O. F.
WILLIAM WATSON DAVIS, Chino, is a native of Waterloo, New York, born December 17, 1853, the son of Clinton and Sarah Lamphene Davis. His father was an artisan. He grew up in New York state and learned the trade of brick layer and plas- terer. In 1871, just after the Chicago fire, he went to that city and worked there for some months. He then went to Fort Wayne, where he was in charge of the round house for the Toledo, Wabash and Western road. About 1876, he located at Marshall, Mich. Hc NICHOLAS S. YOUNG worked at his trade here and at Jackson. About 1887, he visited Southern California and located at Chino. He first engaged in contracting and building and put up many of the buildings in the town. In 1889 he formed a partnership with M. Moyes in a general merchandise and hardware business.
Mr. Davis married Harriet, a daughter of Adam Mesch, of Marshall, Michigan. They have three children, Clark C., employed on the electric railway, Los Angeles, Ruth and Grace. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.
J. H. BAGNELL, of Higland, was a native of Sheridan, La Salle county, Illinois, born Dec. 23, 1848, the son of John and Almira Neff Bagnell. The father was born in Charles- ton, S. C. While a child the parents removed to Kentucky, and later to Indianapolis where they remained till 1833, then located on the Fox river. His mother was the daughter of Ebenezer Neff, a wheel and mill wright by trade, who settled in Illinois, in 1828, and made the first improvements on the Fox river.
J. H. Bagnell grew up on a farm. In 1871, he went to Iowa, and located near the town of Boone. Here he lived until he came to California in 1890. He settled at High- land where he purchased property, and now owns two tracts, one of fifteen, and one of twenty acres.
Mr. Bagnell was married in Iowa, to Miss Ellen, daughter of Absalom Fred, also a native of La Salle county Illinois. They have three children, Millie, Marion and Hazel. The family affiliate with the Methodist church, where Miss Millie acts as organist.
D. M. DONALD of Redlands, is a native of Scotland, born at Perth, June II. 1843. He comes of good Scotch blood, the Donalds and his mother's family, the McIntosh, having belonged to old Scottish clans. The family came to America in 1854 and settled at St. Catherines, Canada. The father there kept a grocery store.
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Mr. Donald learned the carpenter trade and began building in Canada. He after- wards worked at his trade in Chicago and St. Louis but returned to Canada. Ill health brought him to California and he located at Redlands in 1889. Since that time he has built many of the better class of buildings put up in this vicinity. He was contractor for the Smiley Library building.
He was married at Norwich, Canada, to Miss Mary McKee, a Canadian by birth. They have two sons, Davis and Martin.
ABRAHAM W. SHUMAN, of Bloomington, was born March 8, 1833, in Millers- ville, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He was one of a large family of brothers several of whom were prominent men of affairs. Andrew was editor and publisher of the Chicago Evening Journal and in 1897 was lien- tenant governor of Illinois. Another brother, Jacob, served in the Pennsy !- vania State Senate.
ABRAHAM W. SHUMAN
Abraham W. was by nature studious and received an academic education, making a specialty of languages of which he spoke fluently and wrote Ger. man, French and Spanish. On the com- pletion of his education he became a teacher. Toward the close of the Civil War he enlisted in Pennsylvania Volun- teer Infantry No. 215 and served as ail to his commanding officer until the close of the war. He became a teacher in the Soldier's Orphans' Home of New York state and continued to teach until he entered the service of the govern. ment as a postal clerk on a route be- tween Chicago and Dubuque, Iowa. He remained in this service twenty-seven years,or until August, 1902. He then came to Bloomington and located on a ten acre ranch. He died August 5. 1903 He was a member of W. R. Cornman Post, G. A. R., San Bernardino.
In 1875, Mr. Shuman married Ce- lenia, daughter of Wm. Huntoon, of Evanston, Illiois. There are four sur- viving children of this union, Edith, Mrs. Cornelius Lyman ; Minerva, Ralph and Harvey.
WILLIAM HUNTOON, father of Mrs. Celenia Shuman, was born in Ver mont, July 8. 1820, the son of Geo. W. Huntoon, of Vermont, who was one of the founders of the city of Evanston and a capitalist who was well known in the earlier days of Chicago.
William Huntoon lived in Evanston, Illinois, sixty years. He lived on a farm in Eaton county, Michigan three years. He came to California about 1890 and lived for some time at Colton, then located at Bloomington where he died in 1897, at the age of 77.
Mr. Huntoon married Mary Ann Baker at Cleveland, Ohio, July 17, 1840. Mrs. Hun- toon died at Bloomington in November, 1900. The children now living are, George W. Hun- toon, of Lake Forest, Illinois : Chas. H., Bloomington ; Celenia, now Mrs. Shuman : Albert .O., Bloomington ; Fred M., of Riverside, and William C. of Pasadena.
THOMAS A. EWING of Highland, is a native of Edinburg, Scotland, born February 8. 1866. He attended school in his native city and there learned the grocery business. In 1882, he came to America and opened a business as a grocer at No. 16, Christian street, Philadelphia. In 1902, he came to California and purchased the genereal grocery business of Cram and Coy. Highland, and permanently located in that town.
ROBERT W. GRAY, of Highland, was born in Toledo, Tama county, Iowa, Novem- ber 4, 1873, the son of James Gray. His father removed from lowa to Nebraska and thence came to California in 1885. He now lives at San Bernardino. He was a farmer and also
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carried on a dairy and the son learned the dairy business. Robert lived in Pasadena and Santa Monica for a number of years and then located in Highland where he has forty acres of pasture and hay land. He keeps a herd of Jersey cattle and delivers milk.
He was married in December 1894, to Miss Marion Anabel, daughter of Mrs. V. V. Hopkins,of Santa Monica. They have two children, Robert Myrton and Gladys Anabel. Mr. and Mrs. Gray are members of the Congregational church at Highland.
LEWIS SMITH, late of Cucamonga, was born in Surrey, Maine, September 8, 1838. the son of Thomas and Mary Townsend Smith. His father was a farmer and a native of Missouri. Lewis was educated in the public schools of Surrey and when only nineteen started for California via the Isthmus. He went into the lumber region of Men- docino county and found employment. Later he tried the gold mines of Idaho, but not meeting with success, returned to the lumbering business with which he was occupied for twelve years. He then became the mate of a trading vessel sailing out of San Francisco, for the Sandwich Islands and other points. Later he returned to the New England coast of his boyhood and farmed at his old home for eight years. He returned to California in 1881 and in 1882 located in Cucamonga, where he purchased forty acres of land and devoted himself to fruit raising.
In 1876, he married Carrie, daughter of Horatio and Julia Blaisdell-Milli- ken. Mrs. Smith was a native of Sur- rey, Maine. They had three children, Elmer, Sadie M., and Lotta. Mr. Smith was one of the founders of the Cuca- monga Methodist Episcopal church. He died December 8, 1900, and is buried in the Ontario cemetery.
STILLMAN A. PEASE was born in Farmington, Illinois, April 18, 1846. He. is the son of E. A. and Phila Wells Pease. One sister. Mrs. C. T. Kendal !. resides in San Bernardino. His early school days were passed at Victoria, LEWIS SMITH Illinois, where his father conducted a general mercantile business. He en- tered Galva Academy to complete his education, but after two years, at the age of seven- teen, Jeft school to enter the army, enlisting in Company "K" 83 Illinois Volunteer In- fantry. In July, 1865, this regiment was mustered out of service, and recruits transferred to the 61st Illinois Veteran .Infantry where he served until final discharge, September 16, 1865. During service his regiment was attached to the 20th Army Corps, at Fort Donel- son, and the Army of the Cumberland. After discharge from service he returned to Illi- nois. In February, 1872, he went to Nebraska and took up a claim of 160 acres of land. While there he was appointed County Commissioner. Selling his ranch property, he moved into the town of St. Paul and engaged in the lumber business, continuing it with success for about five years. He came to Pomona, California, about the time the real estate boom was in progress, and was interested in the first corporation that exploited the Alessandro coun- try, keeping a hotel and having charge of the post office at Alessandro. His real estate investments were not successful and he lost money. He next went to Pomona and, pur- chasing property, set out a twenty acre orange ranch, where he lived six years. During this time he became connected with the Horticultural Commission of San Bernardino county, receiving appointment as local inspector, under W. C. Collins, of Ontario. In 1896, he was appointed president of the commission, succeeding Mr. Collins, a position he retained three years. In1 1898, he removed to Redlands and engaged in the furniture business two years, then to San Bernardino, his present home.
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Mr. Pease is especially known in the county through connections with the Horticultural Commission. He made a thorough, scientific study of all questions relating to the exter- mination of insect life detrimental to horticultural interests and brought the work of the commission to a high standard of perfection. He rendered valuable service to the county and became known as an expert in horticultural matters, his advice being sought by men interested in that line of work, not only in the United States but in Canada; he was him- self the subject of high cocplimentary mention from scientists of national reputation.
Mr. Pease married 'Miss Ella E. Kendall at St. Paul, Nebraska, September 18, 1872. Of their family of six children,they have lost one child, a boy. The others reside in San Bernardino county : Harry C., Maurice L., Fannie M., Mrs. George Futham; Bessie E., and Ralph W. E. Pease. Mr. and Mrs. Pease are members of the Christian Science church. Mr. Pease is a member of the Masonic Order, Blue Lodge Chapter and Knight Templar.
TILMAN F. ELAM, of Chino, was born in Cannon county, Tenn., Nov. 16, 1834, the son of Reuben and Leah Elam, the father a Virginian, the mother born in Tennessee. They had twelve children, of whom Tilman was the youngest. Tilman F. grew up on a farm and engaged in farming in Green, Douglas and Cass counties, Missouri, until 1888, when he came to California. After five years spent in Pomona, he came to Chino in 1893 and here leases land for beet culture.
He was married in Douglas county, Missouri, to Miss Susan, daughter of Joshua Barnes. They have had seven children, of whom the following are living: Angie, wife of Marcellus Day, of Douglas county, Missouri; James, of Los Alamitos; Charles, of Chino; Goldie, Mrs. Byron Winters, of Los Alamitos.
CHARLES S. ELAM, of Chino, was born in Franklin county, Kansas, January 16, 1870. He came to California in 1889 and in 1899, November 18, married Miss Lina Fleener, daughter of Samuel Fleener, of Chino.
WILLIAM EDWARDS, of Pomona, is a native of Indiana, born October 4, 1841, the son of William and Susanna Small Edwards. The name of Edwards is historic in the southern states as this family is among the earliest settlers of North Carolina, where William Edwards, the father, was born. At an early date, William Edwards, Sr., removed to Indiana. Here he served two terms in the legislature as representative of Randolph county and was two terms on the state Supreme Bench. Judge Edwards removed to Mis- souri about 1843 and farmed in Andrew county, living at Savanah. He was the father of ten sons, of whom William was the youngest. The boy grew up in Missouri and lived there until 1864. He then went to Montana and in 1867 located in Idaho, in the Salmon river country, where he mined until 1884. He also kept a store at Challis, Idaho, and served tas sheriff of Custer county for two terms. On leaving Idaho in 1884, he went to Juneau, where he engaged in mining, contracting and building, and remained until 1889. when he came to California and located at Pasadena. After two years in Pasadena, Mr. Edwards located on the Chino Grant where he has ten acres of land and farms.
Mr. Edwards was married in 1877 to Miss Ellen, daughter of Elias and Margret Wrig- ley, a native of Philadelphia.
AUGUSTUS KNIGHT, Jr., was born in San Bernardino, May 4, 1861, the only son of Augustus Knight, Sr., of that place.
In 1880, he engaged in the cattle business on the Mojave river and continued in this occupation until 1890, when he opened the Bear Valley Summer Resort in the San Ber- nardino mountains which he carried on with success until he sold the business to Mr. Charles Henry in 1900.
He now has a nine acre orange grove in Highland and is interested in horticulture. He is an active Republican and takes an active part in public affairs. In 1891, Mr. Knight married Miss Nancy Henry, of Mt. Calm, Texas, and they have two sons, James and Charles, both born in San Bernardino.
CORNELIUS LYMAN. of Bloomington, was born at Santa Barbara, California, the son of L. S. Lyman. Mr. Lyman learned the carpenter trade which he follows. In the recent Spanish-American war, he served as corporal in Company "G," N. G. C., en- listing at Redlands.
August 9, 1900, he married Miss Edith, daughter of the late Abraham W. Shuman, of Bloomington. Miss Shuman before' her marriage was a teacher in the public schools and taught several years at Agua Mansa. She acquired some distinction as a whistling soloist in local circles and is a musician. Mr. and Mrs. Lyman have a daughter, Dorothy, and a son, Chester.
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GEORGE F. KYLLING, of Bloomington, is a native of Denmark, born September 2, 1851, the son of Hans Kylling. He came to America in 1872 and first went to Chicago, where he followed his trade at watch making. Later he removed to Princeton, Illinois, and then to Evanston, where he lived for fourteen years and was engaged in business. He came to California in 1895 from Danville, Illinois, and located at Bloomington where he purchased 20 acres of oranges and lemons.
In 1879, he married Miss Augusta Dahlstrom, a native of Sweden, who came to this country in 1869. They have four children, Mabel, Clarence, Annie and Paul all living at home except Mabel, who was married to Mr. Harry Woodward, November 18, 1903, and is now residing in Riverside. Mr. and Mrs. Kylling and their daughter Mabel are members of the Congregational church of Bloomington.
CHARLES D. FOWLER, of Redlands, was born near Bronson, Branch county, Michi- gan, December 12, 1860. He is a descendant of the pioneer family of Fowlers who helped to make Southern Michigan famous and the son of Riley C. and Martha J. Fowler, both natives of Michigan. They had six children, four of whom now reside in California. The family left Michi- gan for Nebraska in 1869, and in the spring of 1872 settled on a homestead in Franklin county, where the hardships of pioneer life were experienced in reclaiming that country from the Indians and the buffalo.
CHARLES D. FOWLER
In 1883, Mr. Fowler was married to Miss Mattie L. Betts, of Bloomington, Nebraska. They have five chil- dren, Cecil B., Grace V., Benjamin H., Frederick N., and Maude R. In 1890 the family came to California and located at Highland where Mr. Fowler engaged in fruit growing, packing and shipping. In January, 1904, he removed to 903 Orange street, Redlands, where he conducts the "Eldorado" rooming house. He is a mem- ber of the Independent Order of Foresters and a hrm believer and adherent of the doctrines of Christian Science.
GEORGE J. FOWLER, of Highlands, is a native of Branch county, Michigan, born June 12, 1869. In 1888, the family came to California and located at San Ber- nardino. There Mr. Fowler attended the High School. He now has a fifteen acre ranch at Highland and also owns property at Rialto and Harlem Springs.
November 9, 1892, he married Miss Della, daughter of Paul Van Curen, a pioneer resident of San Ber- nardino. They have four children, Forrest F., Floyd V., Georgia B. and Orland J. Mr. Fowler is a mem- ber of the I. O. O. F.
Reverend CHARLES A. KINGSBURY late of Redlands, was born at Chestnut Hill Massachusetts, November 16, 1839, and died in Redlands, November 23, 1893.
He was educated in the public schools of Massachusetts, was a graduate of Williams College and of the Union Theological Seminary, of New York. His first pastorate was at Marion, Massachusetts, where he remained nearly six years, when he was obliged to leave on account of failing health. After spending some months in Colorado, he accepted a pastorate at West Winfield, New York, and remained there for some years. Again ill- health compelled him to leave the work which he loved and for which he was peculiarly well fitted, and he was never able to resume his labors. After three years of out-door life in his native place, he was attracted to Southern California and after a thorough investi- gation of different localities, decided upon Redlands as a home. This choice he never re- gretted and he often expressed himself as having found "just the right place." He was deeply interested in the religious, municipal and educational affairs of the then new and rapidly forming town. He was a member of the board of city trustees and a trustee of the Redlands school district. In appreciation of his devoted service to the cause of edu- cation, the first school house built in the town of Redlands was named the "Kingsbury" school. He was also a trustee of the first Union High School district and a member of the Y. M. C. A.
It was said of him, "As a conservator of the public good, his strict integrity and in-
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telligent appreciation of the city's interests, gained him the implicit confidence of all. As a citizen and friend, his ready sympathy and rare Christian character gained him a place in the hearts of many who will remember him for the good he has done."
His widow, Mrs. M. A. Kingsbury, and his son, H. P. D. Kingsbury, now live in Red- rends. The son graduated from Harvard college in 1899 and is now engaged in business in this city.
ISAAC JONES, of Redlands, was born November 12, 1836, in Warren county, Penn- sylvania, the son of George and Anna Perrin Jones. The family moved to the western frontier in 1837 and located in Washington county, Michigan, where the parents resided until their death. Mr.Jones farmed in this state until 1860 when he came to California and engaged in min- ing in the northern portion of the state, operating in El Dorado, Sierra and Nevada counties. In 1869, he re- turned to Michigan where he remained until 1882 when he again came to California and purchased property in Redlands. Some of the orange groves that have been developed by Mr. Jones have proved most valuable, having sold one for $1,850 per acre which proved a good investment at this price.
Mr. Jones married Miss Sarah, daughter of Henry Rowe, of Sharon township, and a native of Michigan. They have one son, Charles Henry.
GEORGE T. KENDALL, of San Bernardino, was born in Bennington, Vermont, November 9, 1846, son of William and Matilda Bickford Kendall. He is a brother of A. G. Kendall, also of this city. Mr. Ken- dall received a meager school education in "the old log school house" and acquired the major part of his stock of learning in the active employments of a busi- ness man. In 1868, he removed to Omaha, Nebraska, and was there employed in a government survey carry- ing the chain and compass for three years. then taking contracts from the government for surveys. He farmed for ten years and later engaged in the butcher and ISAAC JONES mercantile business. In 1890, he came to this stat? and located at Pomona where he purchased a ranch. After this he was employed as foreman on the John L. Mead ranch, west of Ontario and in a packing house. He came to San Bernardino in January, 1898, and purchased the gen- cral market of Frank Volk. He is now located in Masonic Temple and carries on a gen- eral market, handling fruit, fish, vegetables, groceries, delicacies, etc.
Mr. Kendall married Miss Harriett E. Whitney in St. Paul, Nebraska, in April, 1873. They have no children. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, a Knight Templar, and also a member of the Fraternal Union of America. He belongs to the First Unitarian Society of Pomona.
CHARLES F. La FOLLETTE, of Highland, was born in Marion county, Iowa, August 10, 1861, the son of Jerome B., a native of Indiana, of French descent. The family came west to Oregon in the early sixties and located at Salem, where they remained until 1871, when they removed to Eastern Oregon, where the father died. Charles F. farmed and raised stock in Oregon until he came to California in 1898 and located at Highland. Since then he has been with the Brookings Lumber Co. as shipping clerk.
He was married at Albany, Oregon, to Annie M., daughter of Nimrod Price, of Albany. They have two sons, Rollin and Sherwood. They are members of the M. E. church, High - land, and Mr. La Follette belongs to Albany Camp, 103, W. O. W., and to Highland Lodge, No. 211, K. of P.
JOHN H. SUTHERLAND, of Upland, was born in Orleans county, N. Y., April 23, 1835, the son of Solomon and Betsey Stephen Sutherland, the father a native of Vermont, the mother of New York. Mr. Sutherland was admitted to the har in Tuscola county, Mich., in August, 1860. He came to California first in 1852, but returned east and was deputy sher- iff and deputy recorder of the city of Chicago. He was chief clerk of the Appellate Court of Chicago for nine years. He then resided at 760 Sixty-second street. In 1895 he settled in
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North Ontario and is now engaged in fruit culture, owning a fine ten-acre ranch of citrus fruit. Mr. Sutherland married Miss Sarah Obnecht, of Buffalo, N. Y., March, 1874. They have one daughter, Miss Matie E. Sutherland.
JOHN PETER BEHLMER, late of Rialto, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1822. He was raised on a farm in his native country. He came to America in 1850 and settled at She- boygan, Wis., and in 1856 located in Buffalo county, Wisconsin, where he was one of the founders of Fountain City. He kept a hotel for many years and accumulated considerable property. He came to California in 1894 for his health and bought five acres of land at Rialto. Here he lived until his death in 1899.
By his first marriage he had six children, all of whom live in the east. In 1868 he mar- ried at Fountain City, Wis., Miss Wilhelmina Ritter, a native of Germany. Adalina, Mrs. R. Guderian, of La Canyada; Flora, Mrs. Robert Henderson; Emil and Erna, born of this marriage are in California.
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