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Mr. Wilson was married at Topsham, Me., to Miss Jennie C. Haskell. They have two children-Marguerite and John Sanford, both born in Redlands.
JOHN HARTLEY SMITH, late of Rialto, was born in West Virginia, April 22, 1835. At an early age his family moved to Ohio. In 1853 he came to California, and spent two years in the gold mines, chiefly in Mariposa county. He was more successful than the aver- « ge, and returned to Ohio with money as well as valuable experience. He there engaged in steamboating on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. During the Civil War he acted as pilot and engineer on the Mississippi and Ohio, and also on the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, under the direction of the government. After the war, he continued in the steamboat business for many years, representing large interests and doing an extensive business.
In 1880, on account of failing health he came to California. He at first located at Santa Ana, where he opened the first bank in the town, the Santa Ana Commercial Bank, a private institution. He soon sold this out, and in 1884 opened the Pomona Valley Bank and soon afterword removed to San Bernardino and established the First National Bank of San Bernardino, of which he was president for several years. Although devoting most of his time to banking, Mr. Smith had a number of other investments, among which was a fine ranch at Rialto. Here he resided for the last few years of his life. He died in 1903, after a brief illness, aged sixty-eight. He was a man of strong character and of kindly heart ; he always took an active interest in affairs about him and was a member of the A. F. & A. M., and of the A. O. U.W. . and also of the Methodist Episcopal church.
January 3, 1867, he married at Great Bend, Ohio, Miss Adelaide Virginia, daughter of John Roberts, a farmer. Mr. Roberts was of Welsh descent. He ran away and came to America alone at the age of fourteen. He served as a sailor on the high seas and later as a canal boatman on the Mississippi. Mr. and Mrs. Smith had three sons-Pearl, now in the North ; Harry, living at home; and Hudson, who married Miss Rosa Farley, of San Ber- nardino, has two children, Roen F. and Robert H.
R. L. LOUTHIAN, of Etiwanda, was born in Smith county, Virginia November 6, 1841, the son of John Louthian, a farmer. He entered the Confederate army and served four years under Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. He saw the latter fall at Chancel- lorsville, and himself received sever balls in his clothing at that battle. He followed the fort anes of Lee's command to the close of the war. In the fall of 1865 he went to Ohio, and in 1866 located in Butler county, Ohio. In 1882, Mr. Louthian came to California, and was one of the first settlers at Et wanda, where he bought forty acres of land, which he set to grapes and oranges. His crop of grapes last year was 500 tons, which were shipped green to Los Angeles.
September 2, 1869, Mr. Louthian married Miss Martha, daughter of John Griffis, a farmer of Butler county. They have had two children, John E., who died at El Paso, Texas, in 1902, at the age of thirty-two, and Laura, a teacher in Throop University, at Pasadena. Mr. and Mrs. Lonthian are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Pasadena.
H. B. MARTIN, of San Bernardino, was born in Indiana, near Greencastle. He grew up in that state and served a term in the Indiana state legislature. Upon the breaking out of the Civil war he went to Kentucky, where he recruited a company of soldiers which became a part of the Second Kentucky Volunteers. He was made captain and served throughout the war, being twice wounded. After the close of the war he was appointed to the regular service and was sent to the frontier to help quell Indian outbreaks in lowa, after which he resigned and engaged in farming. He married Miss Helen Hart and there are now five children living.
JOHN F. BROWNING, of Highland, was born near Abingdon, III., October 13, 1866, the son of the Rev. E. E. and Sophia Pennock Browning. He engaged in farming and stock raising in Kansas and Missouri, and in 1889 located on a stock ranch in Joseph-
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ine county, Ore. In 1893 he came to California and settled at Highland, where he took charge of ranches for various people by the year. He now owns twelve acres of land, five of which are set to oranges-navels and Valencias.
He was married in Oregon to Miss Carrie I, daughter of James Dunnavin, a stock raiser. She was a native of Oregon. They have five children-Renella, Charles V. George, Ethel and John.
REV. MARK B. SHAW, of San Bernardino, was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, No- vember 17, 1862. He attended the village schools, Horton Collegiate Academy, and Acadia University, from which he was graduated A. B., in June, 1886. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry, July 17, 1886, and did pastoral work in Cape Breton and Nova Scotia, until October, 1889, when he came to California, and ac- cepted a position as acting pastor of the Baptist church in Fallbrook, San Diego county. He remained here, however, only till April 1, 1890, when he accepted ap- pointment under the Board of Foreign Missions of the Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces, Can- ada. He returned to Nova Scotia, visited Acadia University at commencement, and had the degree of A. M. conferred upon him. In September, 1890, with his wife and two boys, he sailed from Halifax, N. S., for India, via London, Suez Canal and Colombo, Cey- Jon. He took up his work at Vizianagram, Madras Presidency, mastered the Telugu language, and spent four strenuous years, the most of the time traveling with tent, accompanied by half a dozen native preachers. Mrs. Shaw's health became greatly impaired by the cli- mate, and being ordered out of India by the physicians, the family came to California via Hong Kong, Japan and Vancouver, and arrived in Los Angeles March 14, 1895. For nine months Mr. Shaw was acting pastor of the Baptist church at Ontario, San Bernardino county; then he accepted a call to Fallbrook, San Diego county, where he remained until March, 1899, when, having been called to the Baptist church of San Bernardino, he removed to that `city. This church has prospered REV. MARK B. SHAW. under his ministry, and he is now the oldest settled pastor of all the denominations of the city. He is deeply interested in all matters pertaining to the city and county, that may properly come under his notice, and is known as everybody's good friend.
Mr. Shaw was married to Miss Antoinette Dewis, the only daughter of Captain and and Mrs. Robert Dewis, of Advocate Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada, on June 7, 1886, and the fruit of this union is a family of six children-two boys born in Canada, two boys born in India, and two girls born in California.
Mr. Shaw has been honored by his brethren of the Baptist denomination of California having served two terms as Moderator of the San Diego Baptist Association, and one term as Moderator of the Santa Ana Valley Association. He is first vice-president of the Baptist Convention of Southern California, and preached the annual sermon before the latter body in November, 1904.
JOHN JOSEPH BYRNE, general passenger agent of the Santa Fe lines at Los Angeles, was born at Hamilton, Ontario, Can., January 16, 1859. He is the son of Andrew Byrne, an employe of the postal department of Canada. Mr. Byrne attended the common schools of Canada until he was fourteen years of age. From that date to the present the measure of his success is shown in the Biographical Directory of railway officials. It is a record of rapid promotion and increasing responsibility. "Entered railway service April 16, 1873, an office boy in auditor's office Great Western Railway of Canada, since which he has been consecutively to December 19, 1877, clerk in same office; December 19, 1877, to October 14, 1880, in General Passenger Agent's office, Chicago & Alton Railway at Chicago; October 15, 1880, to October 15, 1881, rate clerk St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway; October 15 to December 31, 1881, in General Passenger Department Missouri Pacific Railway ; Jan- mary I, 1882, to March, 1883, general passenger department Michigan Central Railway ; March, 1883, to March 31, 1885, Secretary Chicago Railroad Association ; September 1, 1883, to March 31, 1885, also chief clerk in general passenger office Michigan Central Railway; April I,
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1885, to July 1, 1887, general passenger and ticket agent Oregon Railway & Navigation Co .; August I, to December 1, 1887, passenger agent Atlantic & Pacific Railroad at San Fran- cisco, Cal .; December 1, 1887, to September, 1888, chief clerk passenger department Chicago, Santa Fe & California Railway at Chicago; September, 1888, to December 31, 1889, assistant general passenger and ticket agent same road; January 1, 1890, this road was consolidated with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, and continued with same title with latter road until January 1, 1892; January 1, 1892, to January 31, 1895, assistant traffic passenger manager same road; January 31, 1895, to date, general passenger agent Southern California Railway; January 31, 1895, to March 1, 1896, also general passenger agent Atlantic & Pacific Railway; July 1, 1899, to date, also general passenger agent San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railway ; July 1, 1897, to date, also general passenger agent Santa Fe Pacific Road." Mr. Byrne married Miss Mary Castle, of Chicago, June 8, 1892.
G. WILLIAM KUESTHARDT, of Pomona, was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, May 28, 1866, and came to America with his widowed mother in 1875. His father, Gottlieb Wm. Kuesthardt, a highly cultured gentleman, was for years tutor and superintendent of the orphanage at Hesse, where he died shortly before his family moved to the United States. Besides the subject of this sketch, there are a married daughter, living in Minnesota, and a son, who is the editor and proprietor of a German paper at Post Clinton, Ohio, at which place Mr. Kuesthardt learned the trade of cabinet making, and for several yea . was in the employ of the A. P. Chase Cabinet Organ Works at Norwalk. In 1885 he, with his mother, came to California and located at Pomona, where he followed the occupation of house building, pursuing same until 1894, when he located his present fine fruit ranch on the Chino Grant. In developing his property, he found it necessary to sink a well thereon, and with such success that others sought his services, which have continued to be in demand for this work.
He has a beautiful bome, and is surrounded by all the comforts of life. He is highly esteemed and respected, and is looked upon as a representative citizen of the progressive community in which he has cast his lot. In 1890 he married Mabel, the daughter of Mr. Geo. R. King, and they have one child named Ruby.
GEORGE D. HAVEN, of Cucamonga, was born in Ellisburg, Jefferson county, N. Y., April 19, 1839. He was the son of Daniel Haven, a native of Massachusetts, who was a steamboat captain on the St. Lawrence in early days. The family moved west in 1842, and located in Wisconsin, where the parents both died. George Haven learned the trade of miller in Wisconsin, and followed it until he started westward in 1859. After a stop in Council Bluffs, he started for Pike's Peak with a company, but they met so many returning from Colorado with unfavorable reports that the company broke up, and Mr. Haven with a companion made his way to California by way of Carson City and began mining along the American river. Here he met John Comstock, of Comstock lode fame, and they became friends. He prospected in the Yuba river country and next went to Salt Lake, where he met with some success in mining.
In 1876 he went to the Black Hills, Dakota, and with a partner purchased a gold claim and erected a quartz mill, the first in that region. Within a year he had three other mills in operation in the Black Hills, which were then in the early stages of development. This property was sold for $450,000, the first sale of importance made in the new mining district. Mr. Haven accompanied the late George Hearst on a mining and prospecting trip and they became close friends. Among other prospects, Mr. Haven pointed out the "Homestake," which Mr. Hearst purchased on his recommendation. Mr. Haven has been engaged in mining for many years and has developed some valuable properties. He is now chiefly inter- ested in mines along the Yuba river, where he has some good mining property.
Mr. Haven formed a partnership with D. R. Milliken of Cucamonga and with him pur- chased a tract of land at North Cucamonga and set out about 400 acres of grapes, mostly of the wine varieties. The land was dry and sandy, portions of it being shifting sand, and the enterprise was regarded as a very doubtful experiment by the "old settlers." It has proved, however, most successful, the grapes produced being of the finest quality, although grown without water. This partnership was later dissolved, each taking half of the tract. Mr. Haven still resides upon his portion, which is highly improved.
Mr. Haven was married in Chicago in 1878 to Miss Maria Ann Watson, of English birth. She died in Salt Lake City in 1883.
HIERONYMUS HARTMAN, of Halleck, is a native of Bavaria, Germany, who came to this country in 1866, and in 1867 joined the regular army and was sent with his regiment to Colorado, where one company of a hundred men was detailed to relieve a detachment of the Ninth California Volunteers at Camp Cady, on the Mojave desert. This post, which
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was established about 1865, was maintained to protect the freighters, miners and settlers from the raids of the Piute and Chemihuevi Indians. Outposts, with a few men at each, were kept up at Soda Lake, Small Springs and Rock Springs. The detachment had some lively skirmishes with Indians during their services. In 1870 the camp was abandoned and the regiment sent to Oregon to fight in the Modoc campaign. After his term of three years with the army was completed, Mr. Hartman returned to the vicinity of Camp Cady, and since that time has been engaged in ranching and stock raising on the Mojave river.
HENRY CLAY WARNER, editor and proprietor of the San Bernardino Free Press, is a native of Louisville, Ky., born April 29, 1853. In 1875 he became the editor of the Scotts- ville Argus, in Kentucky. While residing in Scottsvile he met Opie Reid and in 1876 he joined Mr. Reid in the purchase of the Arkansas Traveler, then in its first year. Messrs. Reid and Warner moved the paper to Little Rock and made it a brilliant success. In 1881 Mr. Warner sold his interest to Opie Reid and in 1887 came to California. In 1896 he started the Free Press as a weekly in San Bernardino.
ROBERT C. HARBISON, editor of the San Bernardino Sun, is a native of Indianola, Iowa, born in 1866. He was educated in the common schools and graduated from Simpson College in 1888. He was the son of W. P. Harbison, a farmer and merchant. Mr. Harbison entered upon newspaper work in his native town, acting as reporter and editorial writer. After acting as instructor in Latin and mathematics for two years in the Indianola High School, he returned to newspaper work and in 1892 came to San Francisco, where he was employed as a reporter on the Examiner. In 1894 he came to San Bernardino and since that time has been editor of the Sun.
He was married to Miss Nina, daughter of H. C. Lezotte, of Osage, Iowa, in San Fran- cisco, in 1892. They have one daughter, Nina. Mr. Harbison is a charter member of San Bernardino Lodge A. F. & A. M.
WILLIS C. IVES, of Highland, is a native of Prince George county, Maryland, born September 15. 1859, near Malborough court house, about 17 miles from the city of Wash- ington. His father, Reuben S. Ives, was a native of Pennsylvania, owned a grist mill and a saw mill, and was a man prominent in general local affairs. His mother was Ann Scotton an English girl. Reuben S. Ives died in 1872, his brother succeeding to his business. Youn' Ives spent his youth and early manhood about the mills until 1890, when he came to Cali- fornia and purchased his present home, consisting of five acres, which he has developed into one of the most attractive and valuable homes in that section. In 1882 he married Alice Griffith, of which union there were born two children-Mary and Ann.
Mr. Ives takes an active interest in all that pertains to the welfare of the community where he has made his home, and is highly esteemed and respectd by all who know him.
CARL C. ZEUS, of Anaheim, was born in Munich, Bavaria, in 1830. His father, Ludwig Zeus, stood high in favor of the court, being the counsellor of the Empress, wife of Joseph V., and grandmother of the present Empress, in all that pertained to Art, acting as her adviser and in purchasing and arranging her magnificent art collections. He was also secretary of the Interior Department under King Ludwig I., and under Maximillian II. He was a director of the Royal Art Galleries. He himself owned one of the finest collec- tions of art works in Bavaria, which was the shrine of all art lovers, and was frequented by members of the royal households. It was in such an atmosphere as this that Professor Carl Zeus grew up and received his training in art.
In 1853 Carl C. Zeus, Professor of Fine Art and Aesthetics, came to America. He be- came the instructor of hundreds, training teachers for public high schools. He is the founder of the School of Art and Design in St. Louis, and for years teacher in the Wash- ington University. He became famous as an educator and landscape painter.
In 1889, after correspondence with Senator Leland Stanford, he came to California to make his home. The death of Senator Stanford put an end to the plans for the art depart- ment of Stanford University, for the time being, and since then Professor Zeus has remained in the state and has painted many of its finest bits of scenery along the Pacific coast and the interior of Sierra Nevada and Sierra Madre mountains of Southern California.
JOHN H. WEST, of Needles, California, was born in Bavaria, Germany, November 6, 1858. His parents emigrated to America when he was a small child and settled at Bing- hampton, N. Y., where they remained until their death, leaving a family of six children.
John H. West learned the barber's trade and after eighteen months spent in Chicago, and a brief time in Lincoln and Columbus, Nebraska, went to Durango, Colorado, where he engaged in silver mining, working in the mines and also dealing in mining claims. From
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Durango he went to Albuquerque, N. M., where he lived two years, and in 1885 came to Needles. In 1887, Mr. West was elected Justice of the Peace and filled the office so satisfactorily to his constituents that he was elected four terms in succession, and again the fifth term, but failed to qualify. In 1899, Judge West was elected Supervisor for the First District of San Bernardino county, receiving two hundred and twenty-seven of the two hundred and twenty-eight votes cast, the negative vote being his own. He was re- elected to the same office by a large majority of the votes of his district, his second term beginning in 1901, and again re-elected in 1903.
Judge West is interested in mining along the Colorado river, and owns some valuable properties. Judge West is a member of the Harmony Lodge, No. I, I. O. O. F., Albu- querque, N. M .; Elks, 468, Kingman, Arizona.
JOHN LEWIS OAKEY, of San Bernardino, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Janu- ary 1, 1854. the son of James and Isabel Freeman Oakey. His father was a native of England and a civil engineer by profession, while his mother was a native of Philadelphia. Mr. Oakey attended the public schools and high school at Terre Haute, and then learned telegraphy, and was employed by the Vandalia railroad at his native place. In May, 1901, he came to San Bernardino and at once organized a new financial institution in the town- the California State Bank, of which he is the President. Mr. Oakey was married in 1883 to Anna M., daughter of John M. and Ellen Miller, a native of Enfield, Ill. They have two sons, John M. and Jamie V. Oakey. Mr. Oakey is an elder and trustee of the Presbyterian church, and a member of the B. P. O. Elks.
W. W. WILCOX, of Colton, is a native of Illinois, born near Kankakee, February 23, 1862. His father. Jefferson Wilcox, was a farmer, and also a native of Illinois. In 1864 the family removed to Wisconsin and located at Beaver Dam, where the father engaged in the milling business, and where W. W. Wilcox passed his boyhood days. When he was seventeen years of age he went to Nora Springs, Floyd county, Iowa, where he was engaged as salesman in a general merchandise store. In September, 188;, he married Miss Clara Gilbert, a daughter of Milo Gilbert, at that time a resident of Charles City, Floyd county. Iowa. In 1886, Mr. Wilcox came to Colton, forming a partnership with A. W. Burgess, which was the foundation of the present large business of Wilcox & Rose, hard- ware dealers of Colton and San Bernardino. Upon the death of Mr. Burgess in 1891, the Burgess interest in the business was purchased by Mr. Rose.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox are the parents of four children-Clyde M., Alfred G., Margaret and Robert. The home of the family is one of the best appointed homes in the city of Colton. Mr. Wilcox is a member of the Masonic Fraternity.
WILLIAM SWAYZER HOOPER, of San Bernardino, was born in Delaware county Ohio, December 23, 1854. He is the son of Jacob Hooper and Jane Elizabeth (Lewis) Hooper ; both father and mother natives of the state of Ohio. Mr. Hooper's early life was passed on a farm. He received his education in the public schools, and his first work after leaving school was in 1871, as telegraph operator at La Grange, Mo. In September, 1875 he came to California, and was employed as ticket agent for the C. P. R. R. Co., San Francisco, remaining in their employ until 1888, when he came to San Bernardino and engaged with the San Bernardino National Bank, as cashier.
Mr. Hooper married Mary Caldwell Hickey, daughter of Albert and Cordelia Caldwell, in 1881. Mrs. Hooper died April 15, 1896, leaving five children-Katie Alaska, Elizabeth. Stanford C., Francis Alma and Marjorie Hooper.
Mr. Hooper has served as member of the Board of Education in Colton and San Ber- nardino, and has been an active member of the Republican party. Has served on important delegations, and in 1900 was sent to the National Republican Convention. He is a member of Phoenix Lodge, F. & A. M., of Keystone Chapter, and St. Bernard Commandery No. 23, and treasurer of all these organizations. He is a member of Al Malaikah Shrine of Los Angeles ; Valley Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and a member of the Presbyterian church.
HENRY L. ATWOOD, of Halleck, was born in Lamoyle county, Vermont, October 2, 1830. He learned the trade of cabinet-maker and carpenter and followed the same until 1861, when he engaged in the jewelry business in Stone, Vt. He served the government for three years as a recruiting agent, then joined the army as a sharpshooter, First Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, and served through many engagements to the end of the war.
In 1874, he came to California and located in Ventura county, where he engaged in contracting and building, and also had an extensive bee ranch. He served three years, 1878-1880, on the board of County Supervisors in this county. He came to Oro Grande later, and has since that time prospected and mined. He has several good mining claims,
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copper and gold, in the Oro Grande district.
Mr. Atwood was married in Vermont, November 5, 1851, to Miss Cordelia Wilkins, a ative of the same place as himself. They have one son, Robert Atwood.
JAMES H. POOLE, of San Bernardino, was born in Maine, July 27, 1861. He was the son of Thomas J. and Mary J. Murphy Poole, his father being a farmer. His school days were spent in Penobscot county, Maine, and after leaving school he worked his father's farm. He tried several different trades without settling on any of them. In 1884, he came to Humboldt county, California, and from there went to Kern county, where he worked as fireman for the Southern Pacific Railway Company. In June, 1885, he came to San Bernar- dino. He has followed various ocupations and spent some time on his ranch on the Base Line. He is now engaged in the real estate and insurance busines, having succeeded to the business of R. L. Squires.
July 26, 1888, Mr. Poole married Miss Isabel C. Nish, of San Bernardino. They have one daughter, Marjorie. Mr. and Mrs. Poole are members of the Christian church, and he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Fraternal Aid.
WILLIAM REYNOLDS is a native of Lincoln, England, born in 1863. His father, Park Reynolds, was born on the day of Queen Victoria's coronation. Mr. Reynolds came to Rialto in 1887, when the citrus fruit industry was in its infancy, and by his good business judgment, energy and perseverance succeeded in bringing to a state of perfection and making a valuable orange orchard property. He has sold ten acres of his homestead, reserving for himself a fine young orchard of great promise.
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