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WINIFRED ABRAHAM MYERS, of Rialto, was born July 12, 1866, in Rensselaer county, New York, the son of J. D. Myers, a dairyman and a descendant of a family that dates back several generations. The father still lives in the old home, at an advanced age. W. A. Myers lived at home until twenty-one years of age and then came to California. He first took charge of the ranch of P. B. Myers; later he worked for O. M. Morris. In the
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spring of 1888, he bought ten acres of unimproved land at Rialto which he has set to Navels, sweets and lemons.
In 1893, he married Miss Mariah Allen, daughter of Wm. Lane, of San Bernardino. They have three children, Ralph A. Ruth L., Alida M. Mr. Myers is a member of the Maccabees.
JEREMIAH L. HATTERY, of East Highland, was born near Canton, Ohio, Septem- ber 11, 1845, the son of John and Mary Baumgardner Hattery. The family were of old Vir- ginia stock, the grandfather, Andrew Hattery, one of the pioneer settlers of Ohio. The father was a contracting carpenter by occupation. J. L. Hattery spent his boyhood in and about Canton. At the age of 18 he enlisted in 169th Ohio Infantry Vol unteers as a private and served one year and a half- until the close of the conflict. He was in the Army of the Potomac under Grant. At the end of the war he returned home and engaged in farming.
In 1887 he came to California and soon located in East Highland. In 1889, he purchased his present home, forty acres beautifully located at an elevation of 1600 feet. He is at present a deputy county assessor. He is actively interested in the Southern California Vet- erans' Association and has been commander of this organization and is a past commander of W. R. Corn- man Post, of San Bernardino.
Mr. Hattery was married in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1866, to Miss Mary Barnhart, a native of Ohio. Mrs. Hattery was a school teacher before marriage. She is greatly interested in the work of the Veterans' Asso- ciation and was president of the Ladies' Auxiliary of that body.
Mr. and Mrs. Hattery have four living children : Etta, Mrs. Melton; Lewis O., Bessie E., Rollin Eddison.
LEWIS O. HATTERY is a native of Wayne county, MRS. J. L. HATTERY Ohio, born August 17, 1869. He is a contracting car- penter and also a fruit grower. He was married De- cember 22, 1897, to Miss Mary, daughter of Charles Y. Tyler, of East Highland. They have two children, Ona Julia and Charles Lewis.
WILLIAM T. HENDERSON, of East Highland, was born in Illinois, December 21, 1850, the son of Robert Huston and Elizabeth McKenney Henderson. His father, a native of Lexington. Kentucky, was a pioneer settler of Indiana and moved to Illinois in 1848. He had a family of ten sons and three daughters, the sons all men of fine proportions over six feet in height and massive in form. The father used to declare that he had over sixty feet of boys. He was himself six feet two in his stocking feet. In the fifties the family emigrated to Iowa and settled on the Cedar river in Benton county. William T. Hender- son spent his youth here on a farm. In 1867, he went to Harrisonville, Cass county, Mis- souri, and in 1876, came to Riverside, California, when that town was in its infancy. In 1880, he located in East Highlands where he owns a navel orange grove of twenty-six acres, has erected a packing house and occupies a beautiful home.
Mr. Henderson married Miss Zarissa Ellen Watson, daughter of Mrs. Rebecca Watson. They have four children, Turey, Robert Huston, a graduate of the State Univer- sity and teacher in the High School at Vacaville: Cora B., Elbert Mathis. By a former marriage, Mr. Henderson has one son, Harry Coots Henderson.
SETH HARTLEY, of Colton, was born in Los Angeles, August 6, 1872. He is the son of Capt. Charles T. Hartley, one of the founders ot Riverside colony. Capt. Hartley en- tered the army at Cedar Rapids, lowa, and served four years under Grant. He was cap- tain of Company H, 22nd lowa Volunteer Infantry. In 1865, he married Miss Leonard. of Marion, Iowa, and immediately came to California. He drove sheep onto the Jurupa Grant and traded with Louis Robidoux for land, receiving one acre for each sheep. In this way he secured several hundred acres, including the arroyo where the old High School and Chinatown now stand in Riverside. In 1879, he located in Colton and engaged in farm- ing. He died May 3, 1887, leaving a small estate and a widow and three children. Alice
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H. is now widow of Henry Randall, Los Angeles; Seth, and May, now Mrs. W. C. Bar- ley, of Lisbon, lowa.
Seth Hartley attended the public schools and the Riverside High School. He carried on a dairy business for five years then engaged in the real estate and brokerage business. He was the promoter of the Orange Belt Interurban road, which was purchased by the San Bernardino Valley Traction Co., who constructed their line upon Mr. Hartley's plan and details. Mr. Hartley was married August 19, 1893, and has three children, Bertha, Chester and Charles. He is one of Colton's most progressive citizens and has made con- siderable investments there.
GEORGE THOMAS HENSLEE, of Highland, is a native of Georgia, born in Put- nam, July 19, 1866, the son of William Brown Henslec. At the age of twenty-one, Mr. Henslee went to Texas and located at Waco, where he remained until he came to Califor- nia in 1889. Here he settled at Highland and after working in orange groves a few years bought six acres for himself some seven years ago and in 1902 purchased ten acres more, the latter place was one of the first improved in this vicinity, having been the property of Captain David Seeley. Mr. Henslee is a member of the Knights of Pythias.
DANIEL BREWER MILLIKEN, of Cucamonga, was born in the town of Brewer, Maine, November 26, 1829, the son of Daniel W. and Rebecca Smith Milliken, both natives of Maine. His father was a sailor, who followed the sea all his life and for many years acted as a pilot in Penobscot Bay and river. During his youth, Mr. Milliken made various trips, one to Cuba, and engaged in coasting along the New England shore. In the fall of 1851, he left Boston and came to California via the Isthmus, arriving in San Francisco in June, 1852. He went to Mendocino county and en- gaged in lumbering, prospecting and contracting, re- maining in the northern portion of the state until 1876. He lived for a time in San Jose and the vicinity of San Francisco and in 1883, came to San Bernardino county and located at Cucamonga, where he purchased, with George D. Havens a tract of 520 acres of land which they set to grapes, mostly wine varieties. Later Mr. Milliken assumed the control of half of the land, which he has since sold off.
Mr. Milliken was married in 1856, to Miss Charlotte, daughter of Thomas Smith, a lumberman. She was a native of Surrey, Hancock county, Maine. She died January 2, 1899, at the age of sixty-three. Mr. and Mrs. Milliken have three sons and two daughters : Newell S., and Reuben M. live at Cucamonga, Richard is in England.
F. M. HUNT, of Redlands, was born at Lodi, Michigan, February 16, 1849, the son of Addison and Cynthia Fish Hunt. His father was a native of Geneva, New York, and was a farmer. Mr. Hunt lived in DANIEL B. MILLIKEN Michigan until his twenty-first year and then located in Ohio, where he followed his trade of carpenter until 1886, when he came to California. In 1887, he lo- cated in Redlands, purchasing a ten acre tract on Citrus avenue in the Chicago colony. Here he has since lived and engaged in orange growing and in raising citrus and olive nursery stock, in which he has been especially successful.
Mr. Hunt was married in Ohio to Miss Clara Church; they have two children, Clara J., Mrs. George M. Smallwood, of Redlands, and Paul H.
S. F. BROOKS, of Colton, California, was born in Clinton county, New York, Sep- tember 7, 1848. He was the son of Schuyler Brooks, a native of Massachusetts who re- moved to New York early in the 30's and following his trade of cabinet maker, owned and operated a chair factory on the Black river. S. F. Brooks left his home at an early. age and joined a brother who was engaged in the freighting business at Whitehall, New York, remaining with him about six years. From there he went to Michigan where he
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lived twenty years and engaged in the lumber business in the vicinity of Newaygo county. He came from there to California in 1887. July 21, 1872, Mr. Brooks married Miss Eva- lyn A., daughter of James Strobridge, a pioneer lumberman of Hesperia, Michigan. She was born at Bentley Creek, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1856. Mr. Brooks is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
MADISON MOSS KINCAID, deceased, was born in Knoxville, Ray county, Mis- souri, December 23, 1832, the son of James and Sarah Cravens Kincaid, both Tennee- seans by birth. They were the parents of fourteen children. Madison was brought up on a farm but was of a mechanical turn and learned the trade of stone mason. He was married at Knoxville, Missouri, September 6, 1860, to Martha Jane, daughter of Hovey Hutchins, and a native of Ray county, Missouri. Her father was a carpenter, contractor and millwright who operated a flour mill, a saw mill, store and post office. He came to California in 1849 and mined successfully in the northern counties, but returned to Mis- souri about 1852.' In 1865 he, in company with his son-in-law, M. M. Kincaid, Tom and James Hutchins, came overland to California, driving seven wagons, via Salt Lake and Cajon Pass. They located first at El Monte but after a year moved to the San Antonio Cañon where Mr. and Mrs. Kincaid resided for twenty years and improved a valuable property. They at one time also owned the Dexter place with 100 inches of water. They then removed to Cucamonga where they lived for four years and afterward settled abow a mile and quarter to the southwest of the post office, where Mr. Kincaid died. The sur- viving children are: William Jefferson, Stirling Price, Martha Estella, Madison Ross Thomas, Walter Edward.
RUFUS E. LONGMIER, of Highland, is a native of Anderson county, Tennessee, born November 22, 1843. In 1867, he married Miss M. E. Steinlever, of his native place. They came to California in 1883, and now reside on a ranch at Highland. They are the parents of five children, Ida, Mrs. Charles Hidden; Mattie, Mrs. John Coy; Kittie, Mrs. Frank Cram, and Charles and James, of Highland.
CHARLES WILLIAM LONGMIER, of Highland, was born in East Tennessee, May 30, 1873. He came to California with his family and since 1897 has been engaged in the livery business at Highland. He was married February 11, 1892, to Miss Catherine Belle Malone.
H. L. SNOW, of San Bernardino, was the son of Loring and Laura Atwood Snow. His father was a captain in the merchant marine service and came of Yankee stock which had followed the sea for generations. They had four children of whom H. L. Snow, of San Bernardino, and Mrs. Upham, of Waltham, Massachusetts, now survive.
H. L. Snow attended school in Newton, Massachusetts, and graduated from the New- ton High School. He was employed as book-keeper by a large wholesale hardware firm of Boston. Upon their failure he returned to Newton and after learning the business of photographer, he remained here for six years. Later he worked in the line of his pro- fession in different cities in Massachusetts, and had a gallery for five years at Fishkill, on the Hudson. In 1899, he located in San Bernardino and opened a gallery. In 1893, he married Miss Mary L. Carpenter, at Norwood, New York. He is a Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias.
GEORGE E. WATTS, of San Bernardino, was born in Niagara, Canada, in 1854. He was the son of George Watts, a shoemaker, and Christina Ingram Watts. Of the five children of his father's family, only Mrs. Mary E. Dagenhart, of Redlands, and him- self are living. Mr. Watts was educated in the public schools of Canada prior to 1867. His first work after leaving school was in a flouring mill at St. Katherines, Canada. In 1868, he went to Lockport, New York, and was employed in a grocery store where he re- mained four years. The four seasons following he was employed in different capacities on lake steamers plying between Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit and Duluth. Leaving the lakes he returned to Lockport and worked in a bakery until 1879, when he went back to Canada. In April, 1881, he again went to Lockport remaining until April, 1886; there he married Miss Rachel V. Watts and soon after, in company with a brother, came to San Bernar- dino. Here he opened a shoe-making shop, and four months after his arrival was joined by his wife in their new home, where he has continued the business of boot and shoe mak- ing and repairing. In 1891, Mr. Watts purchased a ten acre ranch in Rialto, six acres of which are planted in oranges and four acres in prunes, all fruit bearing trees. Mr. ,and Mrs. Watts have been the parents of two children. One died in infancy; the other, Ros- coe Watts, is with his parents in San Bernardino.
JOSEPH B. GILL
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JOSEPH B. GILL, of San Bernardino, was born on a farm near Marion. Illinois. February 17. 1862. The following year the family moved to De Soto and in 1868 to Murphysboro in that state. Here he attended the public schools, and later the Christian Brother College, St. Louis and the Southern Illinois Normal School at Carbondale, grad- uating from the latter institution in June, 1884. He then took a law course at the Mich- igan State University and was admitted to the bar of that state in July. 1886. Soon there- after he returned to Illinois and purchased an interest in he Murphysboro Independent. which journal he conducted until January, 1893.
During this period he was a member of the Illinois Assembly and was the author and champion of various measures affecting the interests of the people and particularly labor interests. In 1892. he was elected on the Democratic ticket, as lieutenant govenror of the state, and by virtue of his office served as president of the state senate, acquitting himself with marked ability. He served as acting governor of the state during various periods when Governor Altgeld was absent from his post and in such capacity was called upon to act upon vital issues during the labor troubles of 1894. Later he was chosen arbitrator for the employees of the St. Louis Division of the Mobile and Ohio road and succeeded in averting an attempted reduction of wages. Soon afterward he was chosen arbitrator by the Illinois State Miners' Association and was engaged in the negotiations which finally resulted in the disastrous strike of 1895.
Governor Gill had spent several winters in Southern California and in March. 1890, he engaged in the lumber business as the head of the Gill-Norman Lumber Co .. with yards at San Bernardino, Riverside and Redlands. In 1001, the interests of the two part- ners were segregated and Mr. Gill became sole owner of the vards and business at San Bernardino. He is largely interested also in realty at Ocean Park and in Southern Illi- nois. He is a member of the San Bernardino Board of Trade and served two terms as president of that organization: he is also a prominent member of the San Bernardino Lodge, B. and P. O. of E., and is an officer of the order.
Governor Gill married November 28, 1893, Miss Pearl Hall, of San Bernardino.
GEORGE K. SHERLOCK, of San Bernardino, was born in New Zealand. August 4, 1866. His parents were J. Wigmore and Annie Purcell Sherlock, and were of Irish des- cent. His father came from New Zealand to California in 1872 and settled in Shasta county, where he engaged in the sheep business. He removed to Montana with his flocks and after a time disposed of them and purchased a stock ranch. continuing in that business until he died.
George K. was the fifth of ten children. He spent his school days in Montana and worked upon his father's stock ranch. He also learned the blacksmith trade. In 1896, he came to San Bernardino and started in the carpet cleaning business, an occupation he has followed with success since that time. He was married in Montana to Addie L. Mc- Kay and they have a family. Mr. Sherlock is an active member of the San Bernardino Fire Department and also belongs to the Fraternal Aid Association.
JOHN W. TURNER, of Chino, is a native of Ohio, born August 13, 1850. the son of John and Margaret Howe Turner. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, and a car- penter by trade. The son learned the carpenter trade with his father. About 1870, the family removed to lowa and later to Kansas and came to California in 1889, locating first at Redding. Shasta county, and coming to Chino in 1890. Here Mr. Turner has been ac- tive in his trade and has done much toward building up Chino. He has also served as constable and as deputy constable.
Mr. Turner was married January 3. 1877. to Miss Maggie E. Phillips, of New Sharon. Iowa. They have two daughters living. Ella, wife of Roy C. Dundas, and Nettie, Mrs. Walter Sissna, both of Los Angeles. Mrs. Turner died February 2, 1892, aged thirty-four years and two children. May and Clyde, died in infancy.
Mr. Turner is noted as an excellent shot with the rifle and is counted an expert with the pistol. He is a member of the K. of P. and of the I. O. O. F. and of the Fraternal Aid Association of Chino.
HENRY STROVEN, of Highland, was born in Franklin county, Ohio, January 23. 1870. the son of Herman and Minnie Vetter Stroven, both natives of Germany. The father came to America about 1865 and located in Ohio where he was employed by the Pittsburg. Ohio and St. Louis Ry. Co. In 1876 he removed to Michigan and settled at Ottawa, where he remained until 1889 wher: he purchased a fine farm at Newaygo, Michigan. where he still lives.
Henry Stroven grew up in Michigan and farmed, worked in a furniture factory in
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Grand Rapids and lumbered in the northern part of the state. In 1892, he came to Cali- ifornia and located at Highland where he now owns a farm of one hundred acres, and is engaged in fruit raising.
May 3, 1900 he married Miss Lizzie Ott, of Redlands. They have two children, Carl and Helen.
FRANK. E. SLAUGHTER, of Rincon, was born in Van Buren county, Iowa, October 19, 1850. He was the son of John Van Bibber and Anna Swasey Slaughter. His father was a native of Virginia, and his family dated back to the colonial days of that state. In 1832, he located in Iowa, being one of the earliest pioneers of the territory and here he became the owner of the Slaughter Coal Mines, which produced coal in large quan- tities. He had four daughters and one son, Frank E.
Frank .E. Slaughter lived in Iowa, with the ex ception of three years spent in Louisiana until 1876, when he came to California. He spent several years in farm- ing near San Fernando then removed to Pomona, where he engaged in contracting and also in farming. He is also a thorough general mechanic, understanding the handling of steam and gas engines, and the practical principles of civil engineering. In the latter capacity he has surveyed and engineered the construction of several extensive water ditch and irrigation systems.
In 1892, he married Miss Margaret Meredith, daughter of William Meredith, of Rincon. They have two children, Vesta Marie and Frank Erle. They now reside on a ranch at Rincon.
O. M. STEVENSON, of San Bernardino, was born in Jefferson county, Wisconsin, November 30, 1865. He was the son of J. H. Stevenson, a farmer, and Clarinda A. Griffith Stevenson. In 1867, the family removed from Wisconsin to Marysville. Iowa; and in 1876, to Spring Creek, Kansas. Mr. O M. Stevenson received a common FRANK E. SLAUGHTER school education at the two last named places, and lived at Spring Creek until 1891, when he came to San Ber- nardino, arriving February 2, of that year. Mr. Steven- son joined the San Bernardino Fire Department in 1895 as "Call man." He was subse- quently elected assistant chief and in 1898 was made chief of the department.
DR. WILLIAM ELLISON LOCKWOOD, late of Redlands, was born at North Stamford, Connecticut, in 1863. He passed his early life in Stamford. In 1883, he grad- uated from the Scientific department of Yale University and received his degree of M. D. from the Yale Medical School two years later. Dr. Lockwood practiced his profession for two years in New Haven and then began to devote himself to the special study of physiology, which he intended to make his life work. While continuing his studies for the post-graduate degree of Ph. D., he was also engaged as instructor in chemistry and tutor in physiology in the Yale Medical School and in the graduate Academic department of Yale.
In 1891, Dr. Lockwood was appointed Fellow in physiology in Clark University, Wor- cester, Massachusetts. Here a very successful career as a scientist seemed open to him, but his strength had already been overtaxed and his health failed. He was compelled to resign his position and in 1892, he came to Redlands with his family. Here he purchased eighteen acres of land on Redlands Heights and had it set to orchards. He built a resi- dence on this property and lived here until his death, June 23, 1897.
Although largely occupied with the cares of his ranch, Dr. Lockwood found time ond strength to act for three years and a half as clerk for the First Congregational Church He also served as clerk of the board of trustees of Redlands school district for parts of two terms. Dr. Lockwood made many friends in Redlands who recognized his high qual- ities as a man, an educator and a citizen, and deplored his early death. Although very re- served and unostentatious he impressed all who knew him with the dignity and worth of his character.
June 30, 1887, Dr. Lockwood married Miss Sara E. Husted, who was for years a teacher in the New Haven High School, making a specialty of English. Mrs. Lockwood
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is the author of several text-books on the subject of English which are now widely used in schools and colleges. One of the most successful is her "Lessons in English." She revised for Prof. Whitney, of Yale, his "Essentials of English Grammar" which is now known as "Whitney and Lockwood's English Grammar." Her latest work is a "Coni. position and Rhetoric," prepared in collaboration with Miss Emerson, of the Bridgewater, Massachusetts Normal School, and published by Ginn and Company, in 1902. Mrs. Lock wood has two children, Lucy May and William Ellison.
FREDERICK C. NICHOLS, late of Cucamonga, was a native of Switzerland, born June 21, 1828, the son of Jacob and Elizabeth Nichols. The family came to America at an early date and the father died in New Orleans not many years thereafter. The family which contained three sons and four daughters then removed to Madison, Indiana. The sons were Charles, Henry and Frederick: the daughters, Mary, now Mrs. Birchen, of Pine county, Minnesota ; Katherine, Mrs. Tuttle; Louise, deceased; Margret, Mrs. Ambrose, of Indianapolis.
FREDERICK C. NICHOLS
Frederick learned the machinist's trade and followed it in Indiana. In 1860, he, with three other young men,. came overland to California, via the northern route, driving four mules with a camping outfit and making the journey in sixty days-one of the quickest trips on record. For ten years he mined in northern Cal- ifornia, being associated with Mr. Hungerford, father- in-law of John Mackey, the mining king. He then worked at his trade in Eureka, San Bernardino and Ontario. About 1887, he located at Cucamonga and in company with P. S. Weaver, now of Eureka, pur- chased and improved some twenty-seven acres of land which they sold out about 1890.
Mr. Nichols was twice married, having no chil- dren by first wife. June 4, 1891, he married Susan M. Burkett, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, born December 27, 1846.
Mr. Nichols joined the order of I. O. O. F., at Madison, Indiana, June 21, 1849, and was a consistent member of the order all of his life. Upon coming to California he joined Yerba Buena Lodge 15, at San Francisco and was a member of this body at the time of his death. He died in Cucamonga, March II, 1901.
CHARLES COURTNEY WELCH, of Needles, was born in San Francisco, February II, 1860. He is the son of Charles and Elizabeth E. G. (Roach) Welch. The family were natives of Baltimore, Maryland, and descendants of Lord Baltimore. His father came to California many years before it became an American possession, or any special interest was taken in the country. He first came into San Francisco harbor in 1828, with a sailing vessel in the Mexican mail service, in which he held an important position under the Mex- ican government. The first building erected in San Francisco by the Jesuit fathers was on property donated by his father. His uncle was Alcalde of Monterey and afterwards founder of the San Francisco Examiner. His father returned to Baltimore, coming back to San Francisco in 1846, bringing with him the brick and mortar with which he huilt the first house on North Beach. He was first in the hide business in that city, and in part- nership with E. Roberts, under the firm name of Roberts & Welch, were owners of the first ship loaded at Meiggs wharf; and was afterwards in command of a ship that ran the blockade of Vera Cruz during the war with Mexico. His uncle, Philip A. Roach, was president of the State Society of Pioneers; his father was a member of the society and his sister an honorary member.
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