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Mr. Reynolds is an enthusiastic member of the Republican party. In 1896, he was elected constable of Rialto township.
PATRICK MONAGHAN, of Halleck, is a native of County Mayo, Ireland, born Octo- ber 3, 1861. His father, Patrick Monaghan, came to America, in 1862, and located at Pittsburg, Pa. Here the son grew up. In 1879 he removed to Chicago, where he lived until 1897. He then came to California, and located at Halleck, built a substantial house of granite from the neighboring quarries and opened "wine rooms."
He has one brother, James F. Monaghan, born in Pittsburg in 1871, who lives at Oro Grande, and is engaged in mining.
MILTON VALE (deceased), a time-honored citizen of San Bernardino, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, October 12, 1816. His ancestors were Quakers. He was edu- cated in the district schools, and learned the trade of carpenter, remaining in his native county until 1837, when he removed to Meiggs county, Ohio.
October 12, 1843, Mr. Vale married Miss Mercy Green, daughter of Rev. William Green, a Unitarian minister. Mrs. Vale was born and brought up in Meiggs county, and at date of marriage was teaching school. In 1874 the family left Ohio, locating on a farm near Fort Wayne, Ind., where they remained until 1856, then removed to Red Wing, Minn The next eight years brought several changes, moving from Mulberry Mountain, Ark., in 1857 to Missouri, and in 1861 to a farm in Oskaloosa, Kansas, remaining there until 1864. when they came to California. They first settled on a farm east of San Bernardino, and two years later purchased a cattle ranch, and removed to Rincon. In 1872 they returned to San Bernardino, opened a grocery store and restaurant; in 1874, removing to Newport Landing on the coast, where they kept a fruit stand and boarding house. Four years later they bought a ranch at Fruitland, near Los Angeles, remaining until 1883, then returned to San Bernardino, locating on what is known as the Vale ranch in Waterman Canyon where Mr. Vale died, May 29, 1895. Mr. Vale left a widow and two sons-Milton W. Valr and W. A. Vale, both well-known citizens of San Bernardino. The widow, Mrs. Vale, re- sides in a comfortable, cozy little home in San Bernardino.
IRVIN BRISTOL was born in De Peyster, St. Lawrence county, New York, on the 16th day of February, 1828. His father, Curtis Bristol, was a shoemaker by trade and also a farmer. His mother, Sarah Washburn, was a daughter of Abraham Washburn, a pioneer of St. Lawrence county. Curtis Bristol raised a family of nine children, five of whom are still living. Sarah, a daughter, is the widow of Stephen Paine. Malinda, now Mrs. Harry , Howard, is a resident of Auburn, Neb. Edna, the wife of Asa Day, also resides at Chino Irvin, the eldest son, married Caroline Zee, a native of Pennsylvania, in Brandon, Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, in 1858.
Mr. Bristol lived in the vicinity of his old home in New York until about the year 1856, when he came west to Wisconsin and remained in that state until 1876. He spent about ten years in Nebraska and in 1886 came to Orange county, near Santa Ana, where he re- mained about one year. He afterward moved to Chino, where he now resides, and owns
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a valuable ranch.
Mr. Bristol has a family of two children. F. M. Bristol has been constable of Chino for two years, and is a well-known and successful business man. Hattie M., the daughter, is the wife of Elmer Scott, of Chino.
JOHN LAURANCE, of San Bernardino, was born in North Carolina, March 10th, 1840. He made the trip to California overland with ox teams, reaching Sacramento in 1857. He afterwards removed to Eastern Oregon, remaining there a number of years, engaged in the general mercantile business. About eight years ago he returned to California, establishing himself in the grocery business at Idlewild, near Redlands. Later he removed to San Ber- nardino, and established the firm of J. Laurance & Sons, and composed of John Laurance, J. H. Laurance and E. P. Laurance. They have done business under the firm name, for a number of years.
In 1860, at Yreka, Cal., he married Adaline Reynolds. They are the parents of ten children, eight of whom are still living. J'. H. Laurance, the eldest of the sons, was born in Oregon, August 26, 1871. He received his education in the common schools of Oregon, and spent one year and a half in the State University. He has always lived and worked with his father, and is at present, in connection with his brother, in charge of the grocery depart- ment of the business. In 1898 he married Miss Carrie Warren, of San Bernardino. They have one child, a daughter, Claire. E. P. Laurance, the junior member of the firm, was born in Oregon, August 25th, 1876. His early school days were passed there, but he com- pleted his education in the San Bernardino High School, which he attended for some time. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.
EDWARD McMANNIS, of Ontario, was born in the County of Renfew, Canada, May 20, 1842. He was the son of Patrick McMannis, a farmer. He learned the blacksmith trade and left home in 1865, going to Rochester, N. Y., where he followed his trade. In 1866 he went to Toledo, Ohio, and from there to Saginaw Michigan. He worked his way westward to Kansas thence to Washington, and in 1872 he came to Cali fornia. He was in Napa in the blacksmith business and from there went to El Paso, Texas, and then t Prescott, Arizona, following his trade. The fall o 1882 found him at San Bernardino, and a few months later at Cucamonga, where he built the first blacksmit' shop in Ontario colony on Euclid avenue, between B and C streets. He owned and operated this shop until 1891 but since that time has rented it. He was one of the very earliest business men of Ontario. The Ium- ber that went into his shop was the first delivered on the Colony tract outside of the building of the Ontario Hotel. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias. He has never experienced the joys and felicities of marriage, and is a good all-around "old -- timer."
GEORGE WEIMAR, of Chino, is a native of Gere many, born. July 22, 1860. He learned the trade of blacksmith in his native country, and came to America when nineteen, first locating in Cattaraugus county, New York. In 1886 he came to California via San Francisco to Los Angeles, and from thence to Hollister where he remained for a year. He returned to Los EDWARD McMANNIS Angeles, and for several years worked in and around that place. He came to Chino in 1889 and worked as blacksmith for Richard Gird until 1891. In 1893 hr opened a shop for himself on Fourth street, and bought his present place in 1895. He owns a twenty-acre ranch and two good residences in this vicinity.
LOUIS PHILLIPS, late of Spadra, Los Angeles county, was one of the earliest settlers of the San José valley and was for many years closely identified with the growth and history of Southern California.
He was born in Germany in 1831 and emigrated to the United States in 1848, locating first in Louisiana. In 1850 he came to California and opened a store on the Long Wharf, in the city of San Francisco. After a year here he came to Los Angeles and engaged in business. In 1853 he purchased a ranch on the San Gabriel river and for ten years
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engaged in farming and stock raising, in addition to his other pursuits. In 1863 he located at Spadra and in 1866 bought the San Jose ranch, consisting of 12,000 acres of fine land. He then entered largely into stock raising, and for many years devoted much time and money to improving the grade of stock and to fine stock breeding. He also highly improved his ranch, planting extensive vineyards and orchards and carrying on general farming. He built a large and well arranged country home, which was surrounded by orchards and gardens and ornamental trees and shrubs, and created a model country place.
Mr. Phillips was also the owner of a large amount of business and residence property in the city of Los Angeles, having three large business blocks there. He was interested in property in the city of Pomona also. Mr. Phillips died March 16, 1900.
In 1868 Mr. Phillips married Miss Esther Blake, a native of Illinois. They had four children-Belle (who became Mrs. Frank George), Charles B., Louis and George.
IRA C. HAIGHT, one of the earlier residents of Redlands, was born in Cohocton, N. Y., April 11, 1830. He lived in several states during his long and active life. In young man- hood he resided in Michigan. With his brother, A. D. Haight, now of San Diego, he lived in Mound City, Kansas, during the Kansas famine and the struggle to make Kansas a free state. His sympathies were with the abolitionists and he was an intimate friend of Jim Lane, John Brown and others of the active partisans of the time. He was familiar with their plans and could afterward relate many thrilling incidents of the border struggle. After the Civil war Mr. Haight lived for several years near Jack- sonville, Fla. Not liking this climate, he re- moved to North Carolina, where he engaged in mercantile business until he came to California. In 1875 Mr. Haight located at Riverside and was one of the pioneer orange growers of that section. In 1889 he moved to Redlands and became the senior member of the Haight Fruit Company. In April, 1891, by appointment of President Harrison, Mr. Haight became post- master of Redlands, and held the office for the four succeeding years. During his incumbency the office was enlarged and the business greatly increased.
Mr. Haight married Miss E. Alzora Green, a native of New York, who still survives him and resides in Redlands. March 1, 1897, Mr. Haight died at his home in Redlands, and Red- lands thus lost a citizen who had commanded the respect and confidence of the community.
IRA C. HAIGHT
WILLIAM M. TISDALE, postmaster at Redlands, has been a citizen of that thriving town since November 1, 1890, and has therefore witnessed most of its marvelous develop- ment. He was born at Adams, Jefferson county, N. Y., May 17, 1860. His father being a Methodist clergyman, his place of residence while a boy was subject to frequent change, and his early life was spent in different towns of Northern and Central New York. He was educated in the public schools, at three different academies, at Wesleyan University and at Harvard College. After leaving college he taught for a year in Lowville Academy and was principal of a graded school at Camden, N. Y., for another year.
Finding teaching uncongenial employment, Mr. Tisdale entered the office of Messrs. Cookingham and Sherman, attorneys, at Utica, N. Y., as a student. Mr. James S. Sherman, the junior member of this firm, is the Congressman James S. Sherman after whom the Sherman Indian Institute at Riverside is named. Unfortunately, after a year in this office, a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism compelled Mr. Tisdale to abandon the study of law for the time. Having apparently recovered from this disease, he spent a year and a half as a writer upon the staff of the Utica Morning Herald, and was then compelled to resign by a return of the malady in even severer form than before.
In 1887 Mr. Tisdale came to California in search of health and went to Arrowhead Hot
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Springs. Findng that he would need to remain there for some time, and desiring employ- ment, he became first bookkeeper and afterwards manager of the hotel at this place. In 1890, having recovered his healih, he came to Redlands and followed the hotel business for nearly five years at the Terrace Villa, the Terracina and the Windsor Hotels. In 1895 he decided that there was a better field for him in other work, and devoted himself for two years to writing for the press, publishing, among other work, a number of stories and sketches of California life which were widely copied. During this period he served as secretary of the Redlands Chamber of Commerce for a year and wrote a number of pamphlets and articles upon Redlands, which were circulated broadcast. At Arrowhead Mr. Tisdale had been postmaster under the first Cleveland administration, and in March, 1898, he entered the Redlands postoffice as assistant to I. N. Hoag, then postmaster, and remained until the fall of that year, when he was elected justice of the peace of Redlands township. This office gave him a living and leisure which he improved by returning to the study of law after an interval of nearly fifteen years. April 9, 1901, at a session of the Supreme Court held in Los Angeles Mr. Tisdale passed the usual examination and was admitted to practice in all the courts of the state.
In 1902 Mr. Tisdale was appointed postmaster at Redlands by President Roosevelt and took possession of the office July 19. This position he still holds, and to it he devotes most of his time and energies, finding that the business of the office has nearly doubled since his first connection with it.
Mr. Tisdale was married July 10, 1884, to Miss Minnie D. Cooper, like himself a native of Jefferson county, N. Y. They have two daughters-Kate, born in New York, and Marjorie, who is a native daughter of California.
CHARLES F. BAILEY, of Redlands, was born July 28, 1857, at Reading, Vermont. He attended an academy at Woodstock and commenced the study of law at Felchville. In 1880 he removed to Iowa, where he completed his law course in the law department of the State University, and graduated and was admitted to the bar. For two years Mr. Bailey was county attorney of Grundy county and practiced his profession at Grun- dy Center until he came to Califor- nia and located in Redlands in 1892. after a preliminary trip the winter before. Mr. Bailey devoted l.imself to the practice of his profession for a time, but has now retired from active practice. He owns a beautiful home on Cajon street and has re- cently erected a fine residence.
Mr. Bailey married Miss Laura E. Wells, a native of New Hamp- shire, June 12, 1888, at Grundy Cen- ter, Iowa. He is a trustee of the Congregational church and a mem- ber of a number of social organiza- tions.
DR. EDWIN THOMAS PAIN- TER, late of Redlands, was born in Newton, Mass., March 13, 1855. He graduated from the Massachus setts State Normal School, and in 1874 from the Worcester Polytechnic CHARLES F. BAILEY Institute, receiving the degree of B. S. He taught mathematics in the Worcester high school for three years and then took a course in medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the medical department of Columbia University. He received his degree in May, 1885, and then matriculated at the universities of Vienna and Berlin. On his return to this country he established himself in practice at Pittsburg and became co- editor of the Pittsburg Medical Review. In 1890 he took further post-graduate work in
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Europe, and the following year was compelled to come west on account of failing health. He located at Redlands, and after he had somewhat recovered his health and strength, opened an office as a specialist in diseases of the eye, nose, ear and throat. He continued in prac- tice 'until his untimely death.
Dr. Painter was married December 29, 1885, to Miss Mary Scott, of Pittsburg, Pa. They had one son, Theodore. During his residence in Redlands, Dr. Painter took an active part in affairs, being a director in the Redlands Electric Light and Power Co. and serving as a trustee of the Redlands grammar school. He was also interested in citrus culture and owned one or two orange groves.
CASS GAYLORD, of Redlands, is a native of Oswego, Kendall county, Ill., born March 5, 1845. His father was Gilbert Gaylord, a native of Gloversville, N. Y., an organ builder by trade. He located in Illi- nois in 1842 and took up government land in Kendall county, which he improved and made a home. Here Cass Gaylord grew to manhood and engaged in farming, an occupation: which he followed until he came to California in 1886. He chose Red- lands as a home and purchased his present property on Cypress avenue of A. G. Simms. He has since taken. an active share in local affairs. He was one of the members of the early school board and aided in establish- ing the present graded system of schools.
He married Miss Angelia Haw- kins, a native of the same place as himself. They have four children -- Etta, Mrs. W. G. Wilson of Red- lands; Gilbert H., Long Beach ; Jen- nie, wife of John B. Walters, Los Angeles, and Earl, at home.
AIRS. A. M. GLASS, of High- land, came to California about 1881 from Lockport, N. Y. Her husband was a native of Watertown, N. Y., and for nearly forty years a promi- nent and successful -business man of Lockport. He died in 1877, leaving CASS GAYLORD two sons and a daughter, who came to California with their mother. The sons are William H., who is superintendent of the Bear Valley Water Co., of Redlands, and Hiram B., of Highland. The sons settled first on what is known as the Pierce place on Church street, and built up a fine place. Mrs. Glass built a home at Highland. Her daughter, Miss Alice F. Glass, lives with her.
WILLIAM C. JAMES is a native of Newport, Vermont, and was born March 12, 1847. His father, John James, was a thrifty farmer, merchant and cattle dealer, and an active man of affairs. He died at the early age of 34 of typhoid fever, leaving his widow, a daughter and two sons, of whom William C. is the eldest. His brother is a dealer in real estate in Boston, Mass. The mother died in 1898 at the age of 79, at Whitefield, Mass., where the subject has one sister living. He left home at the age of 14, and first worked for his uncle while attending school. At the age of 17 he went to work in a cotton mill at Concord, N. H. The cotton mills of the North closing as a result of the Civil war, young James sought other employment. He worked in one of the first excelsior mills in the country for about two years, and later assumed a responsible position in a sash, door and blind factory. He was frugal and careful in his expenditures, and at the age of 19 had come into possession of valuable rental property through careful and judi- cious investments.
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He married in 1886 Miss Amanda Cilly, a daughter of Isaac Cilly of Lowell Mass., and soon thereafter engaged in merchandising in Lowell, Mass., meeting with great success. About 1847 he formed a co-partnership with an uncle, George James, in the wholesale leather business, in Boston. Later he embarked in the same line on his individual account and did a very successful business for about 10 years at 131 South street. He retired from business at the age of 43 and came to California, where he purchased 43 acres of the Hermosa tract, on the base line at the head of Archibald avenue, two-thirds of which is set to navel oranges and to lemons, and he has also acquired some of the choicest real estate in Los Angeles.
Mrs. J'ames died in Boston in 1886, leaving one son, Carlon C. James, born in that city in 1882.
Mr. James has mechanical- genius of the highest order, and has patented several valuable inventions. While engaged in the leather business in Boston he invented and held the monopoly of the use of a sole leather cutting machine, which effected a great saving in time and in stock in cutting leather for the trade. and gave him marked advantages over his competitors. He has lately taken out letters patent on what he appropriately terms "appliances for scientific house-keeping," which to be appreciated must be seen. He has just completed a spacious and attractive three-story apartment house on South Hill street which he has equipped with his scientific utilities, and which is attracting much interest and favorable comment.
LEWIS A. PFEIFFER, of San Bernardino, was born at Vacaville, Solano county, September 1, 1864. He is the son of J'. Pfeiffer, a native of Alsace, France, who was brought to this country in his infancy, and re- moved from St. Louis, Mo., to California in 1849. About 1862 he was extensively engaged in mining in Idaho. He died at Redlands in 1899. His widow still resides in Redlands. One daughter is the wife of Major J. W. F. Diss, of Los Angeles, and an- other is the wife of A. L. Nash, of Mexico, and Josephine, the third daughter, is Mrs. W. S. Shan- non, of Angel's Camp, Cal.
Lewis A. Pfeiffer received a good education. He was appointed deputy county clerk under Major Diss. In 1898 he was elected county clerk of San Bernardino county and at the last election was re- elected to the same office. He was married to Miss Catherine Spalır, in Idaho, in 1889.
ROBERT F. WATT, of Halleck, was born in Clinton county, Indiana, January 1, 1871, the son of William A. and Malissa J. MacNeal Watt. His father was of Scotch descent, born in Canada and was a pioneer of Indiana. He was a dealer in stock and during the war furnished horses and mules for the government. He was also the owner of a saw- mill and a large dealer in lumber.
Robert, the oldest son, left home in 1888 and came to California. Here he at first lived at Santa LEWIS A. PFEIFFER Ana, making his home with his uncle. He attended the Santa Ana high school and later farmed, rais- ing barley and wheat on a large scale on the Moul- ton ranch. In January of 1898 he located at Oro Grande, where he conducts the only general merchandise business, and has been postmaster since 1898.
In 1899 he was married to Miss Buena Maude Senour, a teacher in the Los Angeles city schools. They have two children, Edith Maude and Robert Allan. Mr. Watt is a member of the Foresters of America (F. of A.), Santa Ana Court.
JOSEPH H. RILEY, of Chino, was born near Lima, in Allen county, Ohio, May 28, 1863. He was the son of Joseph H. and Ellen Amanda Barryhill Riley. His father entered the Union army, went to the front, was taken sick and died the year the son was born. He left two children. Joseph grew up on a farm in his native place. In 1887 he came to California and located at Chino. He married Mary J., daughter of Samuel Smith, at Los Angeles, in 1889. They have three children-Edna B., Chino C. and Homer C.
RESIDENCE OF J. W. ENGLAND, REDLANDS
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J. W. ENGLAND
J. W. ENGLAND, of Redlands, is a native of Philadelphia, born in October, 1864. After' visiting California several times he finally located permanently in Redlands about 1890 and made considerable purchases of real estate in the then new town. His father, T. Y. England, an extensive leather manufacturer of Philadelphia, also became interested in Redlands property and purchased the Prospect Hill place, which has developed into a beautiful park, and which he generously shares with the public. He spends his winters in Redlands.
J. W. England was married in 1898 to Miss Nancy W. Dodd, of Point Pleasant, N. J. They have three children-Thomas Y., Margaret and J. W. Jr.
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GEORGE C. THAXTER, of Redlands, was born in Bangor, Maine, October 14, 1842. He attended the public schools of his native city until 14 years of age, when he went to work in his father's marble-cutting establishment. The following year he entered the drug store of B. F. Bradbury, remaining in his employ until his father's death, when he enlisted in the Eleventh Maine Volunteer Infantry, and was shortly thereafter made hospital steward of the regiment. After his return from the service he opened a drug store in Newport, Maine, continuing until February, 1868, when, with his wife and one child, he removed to Iowa. Almost immediately following the completion of the first overland railroad, or early in June, 1869, he again "moved west," this time to ' Carson City, Nevada, where he entered a partnership with his brother-in-law and engaged in the lumber business with mills in that city and at Lake Tahoe, under the firm name of the Glenbrook Mill and Lumber Company. In the spring of 1878 he bought the drug business of O. P. Willis in Carson City. This he disposed of in the fall of 1892, and with his family of three sons and one daughter, moved to Palo Alto. In June, 1896, he pur- chased the drug store of Dr. D. W. Stewart of Redlands, where he has since continued to live.
E. W. SLADE, of Rialto, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, October 3, 1852, the son of Horatio and Elizabeth Camp Slade. His father was born in Bristol, England, and came to America with his father, E. W. Slade, who was one of the very first settlers in Cleve- land. He was a baker and became a wholesale baker and grain dealer and a prominent citizen of Ohio. The son, Horatio, was a mechanic and finally retired to the home farm, where he died in 1881. His wife was a descendant of an old New England family and the daughter of William Camp, also one of the pioneer residents of Cleveland. She is still living.
E. W. Slade came to California in 1891 and located at Rialto, where he bought ten acres of brush land. He now has a fine navel orange grove. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Dolley, daughter of Hiram and Elizabeth Dolley, at Montezuma, N. Y. Her father was a ship-builder and owner of canal boats on the Erie canal. They are members of the Christian church of San Bernardino.
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