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On the 15th of September, 1881, Mr. Talley was united in marriage to Miss Sarah F. Moore, a native of Missouri, and to them seven children have been born: Joseph, whose birth occurred in Missouri; Ella, who was also born in Missouri, and who is now the wife of A. P. McComas, of San Diego; Pearl, who married Thomas Gillette, of Glendale; Mabel, the wife of Herman Ott, of La Mesa; Grace, the wife of Milton Benton, of San Diego; Lila, who married R. Thomas, of Imperial; and James, Jr., also a resident of Imperial. The five youngest children in this family are all natives of California.
Mr. Talley is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Foresters of America, and is also prominent in the Loyal Order of Moose. He is loyal and public-spirited in matters of citizenship, never seeking to avoid his public obligations. He served as deputy sheriff under Sam McDowell and also under Benjamin Hill, and was constable in Julian. He holds the same office in El Cajon, where he has displayed great energy, conscientiousness and effi- ciency in the discharge of his duties, making his public life as valuable and as effective as his business career, and is regarded as a force in development.
WORDEN GROVE JACOBS.
Through many years of close connection with important enterprises in var- ious parts of the United States in different relations and under vastly dissimilar conditions Worden Grove Jacobs has gained that indispensable element in all success, executive force. This has been developed in him by work on the steamboats on the Mississippi river, on ranches in Texas, as a member of sur- veying gangs in the southern states and construction gangs building railroad projects, and in many different positions calling for quick thinking, controll- ing force and commanding ability. For the last twenty-six years he has lived in San Diego county and twenty-five business interests of San Marcos have had the benefit of his work along constructive lines of expansion and development. Mr. Jacobs was born in New York state, August 8, 1841, and is a son of Abner C. and Diana (Barnard) Jacobs, the former a native of New York and the latter
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of Canada. On the paternal side Mr. Jacobs is of Welsh descent while his ancestors on the maternal side came from Scotland. He is one of a family of four children: Helen, the widow of O. L. Dayton, of Cloverdale, Michigan ; Hortense H., the widow of Albert Payne, of Nashville, Michigan; Eugene, who has passed away; and Worden Grove, of this review.
Worden G. Jacobs grew up on his father's farm in New York, later removing to Allegan county, Michigan, and acquired his education in the public schools. In the beginning his active career was identified with the historic days of steam- boating on the Mississippi and for many years he was a great force in the develop- ment of this industry, becoming thoroughly familiar with every channel and current in the great river and with the history and traditions attached to the surrounding country. He began in a humble capacity, working as a deck hand and then as a stevedore contractor, becoming eventually mate and finally third owner in a large tug. After five years he returned to New York city, where he became an assistant in the New York State Soldiers' Depot by appointment of Governor Seymour. He retained this connection until two years after the close of the war and then resumed his former work on the Mississippi, operating a line of tugs in which he was interested for ten years. At the end of that time he went to Galveston, Texas, as a member of a surveying party and traveled through all of the southern part of the state for two years, settling finally in El Paso, where he worked at bridge building on the Mexican Central Railroad. He bought a small ranch in Texas but never developed this property, selling it in 1887 in order to come to California. He invested his savings in property in Ocean Beach, near San Diego, and gave his attention to dealing in real estate, becoming rapidly prominent and well known in business circles of the city. After a short time, however, his excellent work along constructive lines drew him to the attention of the San Marcos Land Company, which was at that time one of the largest real-estate concerns in southern California. Mr. Jacobs was offered a position with this company and has acted in its interests ever since, although the firm has been disbanded. After the dissolution all the land which it controlled was divided and Mr. Jacobs was made agent for the stockholders, about twenty in number. He controls about six thousand acres of valuable land and has the entire confidence and trust of the men in whose interests he acts.
When Mr. Jacobs had been with the San Marcos Land Company about seven years he resigned his position and went to Humboldt county to work in the rock quarries. Through an unfortunate accident he lost the sight of one of his eyes and three months later the other became affected and he became completely blind. He returned to San Marcos, assumed his former position and finds no difficulty in discharging his important duties, being ably assisted by his capable secretary, Miss Anna Borchers. He controls and manages important affairs and has shown always in his business dealings the power of quick decision, cool judgment and aggressive action which mark him as a true executive. During the twenty-five years of his connection with the San Marcos Land Company the affairs of the corporation have been ably administered and Mr. Jacobs has gained widespread recognition as a man capable of directing large affairs and making his work a power and force and a vital influence upon general advancement. His accomplishments are more truly remarkable in that they have been effected in
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spite of his affliction, although he seems to rise above it and regard it only as another test of the quality of his hope and his high trust in Providence.
Mr. Jacobs' individual interests in San Marcos and the surrounding country are extensive and important. He owns about one hundred acres of land besides a ranch of forty-five acres which is one of the finest in San Diego county. He also owns a beautiful eucalyptus grove in San Marcos and operates the city water plant. None of these properties, however, equals in value Mr. Jacobs' fine horse Duke, which he has owned for the past quarter of a century. He has given this animal perfect care and personal attention and has trained it to know his voice, so that Duke may be trusted to take his master safely wherever he may wish to go. Mr. Jacobs is a subscriber to the Panama-California Exposition, to be held in San Diego in 1915. He is a cultured, intelligent and able man whose mind has been broadened by long association with important affairs and deep study of underlying conditions. He is therefore recognized as an authority upon business and public affairs and the articles which he writes for the Escondido and the San Diego papers have attracted general interest throughout this section of California.
Mr. Jacobs gives his allegiance to the democratic party. Although he has been offered important public offices a number of times he has always refused, preferring to make his public spirit effective in other ways. He is, however, progressive and loyal in all matters of citizenship, taking a deep interest in those measures and projects which have for their object the further development and upbuilding of San Diego county. All during his life his business methods have been such as neither seek nor require disguise. He deals honorably and honestly · with his fellowmen and his name has come to be regarded as a synonym for integrity in business and honor and loyalty in every relation. Those who know him personally find him a genial and kindly gentleman of generous impulses and a high trust in Providence, whose blindness cannot conceal his possession of that higher vision which sees in the lowest of his fellowmen the underlying kindness, hope and faith.
C. C. BRASHEAR.
C. C. Brashear, who is successfully engaged in the real-estate business in El Cajon and who has since his arrival in the valley in January, 1905, been promi- nent in many important local enterprises which directly affect the general advance- spirit dominates and directs the activities of his life. He was born in Spring- ment and progress, has come to be considered a man, in whom effective public field, Illinois, July 25, 1866.
At the age of twelve years C. C. Brashear left his home in Illinois and went to Emporia, Kansas, where he worked for two years at various occupations, though principally as clerk in the Grange store. At the age of fourteen he attended a Catholic school for four months and in 1880 returned to his old home in Illinois for a visit, remaining there four years. He was in the employ of various firms in both Illinois and Missouri and from 1885 until 1901 was with Chatfield & Duhrman, a hardware firm of Texarkana, Bowie county,
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HISTORY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
Texas. During that time he served for four years as alderman from his ward and in the latter part of 1901 opened a general store and butcher shop at Texarkana, which he successfully conducted for four years.
Mr. Brashear came to El Cajon valley in January, 1906, and purchased a ten acre grape ranch which he sold at a profitable sum later in order to locate in the town and establish himself in the real-estate business, in which he is still engaged. He has an extensive patronage, for his knowledge of land values is discriminating, his judgment sound and his business integrity of a high order. While promot- ing his individual prosperity, however, along lines of progress Mr. Brashear has not neglected the branch of his work which affects the growth and development of the city. As sales agent for the El Cajon Valley Development Company he sold many of the lots, forming here a flourishing and beautiful addition to the city. He is a member of the El Cajon City Club and served as its president for one year. This organization originated the famous "Fruit Day" exhibition, which is held every summer in El Cajon, at which time fruits and vegetables raised throughout the valley are displayed. In 1912 corn eighteen and one-half feet high, grapes weighing six pounds to the bunch and peaches weighing one and one-quarter pounds each were shown. Six tons of grapes and six tons of watermelons were given away to visitors and everything was conducted upon a lavish scale. Mr. Brashear has always taken an active interest in the affairs of this club and in any movement for the public good and has accomplished an unusual success in making his individual prosperity a public asset.
In 1912 Mr. Brashear married Miss Emma F. Fay, a native of Michigan, and both are well known and popular in social circles of the city. He is a man of excellent business ability, well known throughout the valley for his honesty and for the interest he takes in public improvements. He is in every sense of the word a man worthy of the confidence of the people and one of the substantial business factors of El Cajon.
JAMES L. CHAPMAN.
The age of simply material efficiency as the standard of success has passed into that of efficiency combined with beauty. We are no longer satisfied that the works of our hands be adequate for their intended purpose-we require further that they shall not sin against artistic conception in line or color. Thus the standards of the time are rising and expanding and they are influencing every phase of business, political and social life. One effect of this development has been the growth of the idea of organization. Great individual industries of fifty years ago are today incorporated companies and of late years even cities have organized for the further promotion of general growth. 'fo the com- mercial associations for the establishment of trade relations and the promotion of industrial activity have been added societies to direct the growth of the city in beauty and to control its expansion according to an artistic plan which will allow commercial progress without eliminating attractiveness. San Diego is in the front ranks of the new movement and its civic organization is a model for other organizations of its kind. It is not a society organized and then neglected
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but is one of the vital elements of the city and it keeps alive ideals and standards which its members are working to make forceful and effective. The people are particularly fortunate in their choice of a secretary to direct the work of the association for they have chosen a man, expert, able and splendidly trained along lines of civic beautification and improvement. James L. Chapman, sec- retary of the San Diego Civic Association, has practically devoted his entire life to the innumerable phases of this work. He unites with special ability as a civil engineer, architect and landscape gardener a general business discrimination, a broad knowledge gained by reading, travel and study and a natural sense of artistic values and relations. San Diego owes much of its beauty, its attractive homes, parks and driveways to his efforts and it owes also a less tangible but more important debt-the acquirement of new and definite ideals and ambitions
Mr. Chapman was born in Chicago, January 14, 1878, and his early educa- tion was received in the public schools of that city. This was supplemented by a course at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, from which he was graduated in civil engineering in 1901. For a short time he engaged in railroad construction work, but his ambition gradually expanded as he studied conditions and became directed along lines of civic improvement. He accord- ingly entered Harvard University and took a course in city planning and when he had completed it went to Europe and visited many of the large cities in England and on the continent, studying methods and standards. With this splendid special training he returned to America and came to San Diego, where in 1910 he was appointed secretary of the Civic Association. In two years he has fully demonstrated his unique qualifications for this position and he has worked steadily and successfully to promote the beauty and attractiveness of the city. His private work lies along the same lines for he is practicing civil engineering and is one of the most prominent landscape gardeners in the county. To these activities he has added work in architecture and has designed and built many of the most artistic homes in San Diego. However, his interests along this line also are of the broader kind which promotes municipal expansion and beauty and much of his attention is given to planning subdivisions. He drew the plans for the Hillside section of the Cardiff subdivision and also for the improvement of the park at Escondido, California. He is a member of the Rensselaer Society of Engineers.
In 1904 Mr. Chapman married Miss Freda Foote and they have one daughter, Philena B. The family are well known in social circles of San Diego, where they have a wide acquaintance and many friends. Mr. Chapman's career is a striking example of the value of special efficiency. A man of broad culture, wide experience and artistic instinct, he has added to these qualities training along the mechanical and technical lines of his work, the study of conditions in other countries and contact with other standards and the result has been a deepening and broadening of his own powers and the rapid attainment of promi- nence and success.
SAN DIEGO COUNTY INDEX
Academy of Our Lady of Peace 45
Carpenter, H. N. 12
Adams, A. E. 171
Carpenter, J. W.
491
Agard, W. E. 233
Carson, Kit 168
Akerman, J. S. 62
Case, H. H. .512
Alexander. W. E. 8
Casson, Peter 534
Allen, H. D.
386
Allen, R. C.
344
Allen, W. H.
74
Choate, Rufus
36
Almgren, Louis, Jr.
500
Clark, W. S.
353
Ames, S. G.
75
Clark, W. S.
479
Anderson, R. H. 186
Coates, T. W.
296
Anthony, C. E.
53
Collier, D. C.
108
Austin, B. G.
167
Collins, J. W.
182
Austin, C. H. 268
Colton, G. W .. 252
Austin, Fayette 493
Balch, D. M. 315
Cordtz, Robert 474
Ballou, G. H.
65
Bancroft, Griffing 302
Creswell, R. M.
188
Bangs, E. C. 144
Crippen, G. H.
113
Barbour. F. S. 87
311
Barnes, T. L.
96
Culbertson, H. 401
Cushman, W. R. 97
Dadmun, L. E. 276
Daley, T. J. .
94
Daugherty, J. W.
485
Davidson, G. A.
38
Bellinger. W. E.
268
Davidson, J. C.
440
Benard, Ernest 470
Davies, E.
384
Bennett, John 317
Davis, E. W.
.346
Bishop's Schools, The
396
Davis, G. P.
283
Black, S. T. 446
Davis, S. J.
164
Black, William
258
Davis, T. A. 444
66
Blochman, L. A.
248
Bond. C. S.
391
Borgh, J. A.
397
Botsford, F. L.
505
Boutelle, T. N.
208
Bradley, A. J. .
195
Brashear, C. C. 548
Brelin, Gust 395
Eilersficken, F. B. C. 326
Eliason, G. A.
426
Elliott, A. J. 203
Elliott, D. H. 141
English, J. A. .313
Ervast, Andrew 352
Escher, J. F. .237
Evans, C. P. .307
Evans, W. B. 286
Callahan. Z. F. 354
Campbell, Archibald 78
Farnsworth, W. R. .476
Ferry, J. H. 242
Campbell. John 247
Capps, E. E. 372
403
Fletcher, O. P. 122
551
Fleming, J. G. 351
Fletcher, Ed 128
Capps, E. M.
322
Burnham, John
84
Byars, W. R.
43
Derbyshire, A. L.
Dick, Robert
.452
Dingeman, F. J.
213
Dixon, C. E. S. 214
Doolittle, H. E. 143
Dupee, W. N. .288
Dyer, E. Q. 323
407 Brink, G. K.
Browne. Payne 499
Brownrigg. T. J. 117
Bullen, E. L. 305
Burlingame, W. F.
Croghan, H. A. 166
Barrett, S. W. 107
Bartholomew, C. H. 85
Bateman. W. M.
237
Bates, F. M.
378
Belding, S. W.
294
Bell, F. S. .
515
Connell, J. E. 285
Conniry, W. B., Jr. 348
Cox, R. S. 536
Crise, David 420
Barnes, L. B.
Chapin, S. D. . 527
Chapman, J. L.
549
Campbell, E. E. 487
272
Blochman, Abraham
552
INDEX
Flower, Lucy L.
165
Jaeger, R. J. 360
Forbes, E. C.
329
Jameson, William 283
Forker, O. H. P.
511
Johnson, Luther 303
Forward, J. F., Jr.
539 Johnson, P. M. 201
Forward, J. F., Sr.
26
Johnson, S. T.
27
Johnson, T. F.
.277
Franklin. B. V. 183
Johnston, S. S.
.343
Johnston, W. C.
456
Fredericka Home for the Aged
126
Jones, C. J.
235
Frevert, W. L.
318
Jones, H. H.
47
Frisbie, J. C ..
73
Julian, C. H.
516
Jungk, W. F.
86
Keith, G. B. 152
Kerber, H. H.
101
Kettner, William
104
Kimball, G. M.
361
Gaston, A. N.
134
Kimball. W. C.
338
King, W. S.
138
Gearhart, W. F. 308
287
Kirkwood, W. J.
183
Kneale, Thomas
265
Gillmore, James
185
Gillons, J. A.
226
Gilmore, M. T.
535
Glidden, D. F.
392
Goatley, C. G.
144
Gowen, B. S. .
331
Grandjean Gas Machine Co.
503
Grant, U. S., Jr.
14
Green, F. M.
235
Greenwood Poultry Ranch
389
Griffith, A. C.
.398
Guglielmetti, Tranquillo
506
Gunn. Chester
115
Guy, W. R.
222
Gwyn, H. G.
145
Levi, Simon
.262
Lewis, M. M. 284
461
Hamilton, E. G.
64
Hammack, N. S. 191
Hammonds, J. D. 408
Harbison, H. R.
85
Hardy, C. S.
416
Hawley, G. M.
105
Hawley, J. S.
82
Hayes, T. J.
22
McAllister, A. 384
MeCorkle, W. B. 481
McCoy, James 24
McCulloch, J. H. 373
MeCutchen, C. C. 413
McKee, Dempster 265
118
MeVean, A. J. 337
Magee, . T. L. 54
Marsh, C. E. 192
Marshall, Oscar 521
Mathews, L. B. 374
178
Hitchcock, G. N.
148
Moody, A. J. 455
17
Hofflund, S. R.
146
Moore, J. H.
252
Hogaboom, Winfield
206
Moore, J. V.
431
Holderness, W. H.
291
Moore, Lincoln
.296
Holle, Christian
422
Hulbert, R. G.
238
Hutchinson, Allen
332
Hutchinson Brothers .336
Irones, R. B. 263
Isbell, J. W.
475
Neeb, J. E. . 462
Jackson, James 135
Jacobs, W. G. 544
Noeltner, Frank
488
Knight, Jess
367
Knox, A. L. 518
Kollock, W. G.
123
Lancaster, L. R. .244
Lassiter, T. J. 482
Lawler, Eugene 195
Lawrence, John 175
Layman, E. H. 71
Lea, F. J. 88
Leach, E. B. 266
Lehner, Oscar .293
Leonhard, Louis
522
Levi, Adolph .390
Lewis, T. L.
Lindgren, August 316
Little, W. J. 395
Loebenstein, D. A.
116
Loomis, G. D. 125
Lorini, Raffaele 443
Luce, M. A.
46
Hays, H. C. 414
445
Hazzard, G. W.
154
Heffernan, E. A.
52
H.' D.' A. Esp'za Rancho
517
Heilbron, F. A ..
527
Heilbron, J. H. F.
533
Heller, M. F.
198
Henderson, G. L.
321
Hieatt, F. L. 464
214
Hinde, C. T.
18
Mathewson, J. A.
Hizar, J. C.
246
Moon, A. .
Morgan, Addison
362
Mossholder, W. J. 540
Muehleisen, G. C. 161
National City Lumber Company 330
Neale, H. N.
297
Newman, H. P. 204
Frost, G. H.
185
Fry, G. U.
273
Gage, L. J. 32
Gailey, J. A.
480
Gay, H. L. 196
Kinney, F. E. 451
Gifford, C. M.
Gillespie, B. K.
217
Frost, A. A.
385
Francisco, C. F.
434
Frazer, W. L. 184
Halliday, E. W. 458
Hayward, R. O.
McMurtrie, Leighton
Hilton, William
553
INDEX
Nordahl, A. W.
10
Smith, F. E. 11
Northrup, D. B. 304
Smith, S. F. 202
Norton, W. W.
58
Smith, V. J. 324
Smith, W. H. 292
Smith, W. M. 68
Oatman, H. C.
358
Ober, William
301
O'Farrell, Fred 121
Spalding, C. E. 42
Olds. Nelson, Jr. .509
Spalding, F. C. 162
Speer, James 492
5
Springer, R. C.
223
Osborne, E. F.
274
Stell, William
379
Stevens, G. D.
457
Stevens, U. J.
410
Stewart, D. M.
142
Stiles, H. M. .
147
Strahlman, E.
227
Strawn, J. L.
366
Suttle, H. H.
439
Swallow, C. H.
271
Peters, A. M. 463
181
Piepenbrink, P. J.
.216
Plant, E. A.
178
Pollak, Emil
416
Praul, G. L. .278
Puterbaugh, George 256
Rambo, E. L.
264
Randlett, J. F.
.380
Reed, G. W. 504
Reed, J. A. .366
Reidy, Maurice .530
117
Remondino, C. H. E. 158
Trounce, H. D.
231
Tucker, J. Z. 141
432
Richards, C. B. 98
Riddell, Elmo 157
Utley, H. S. .224
Valenzuela, M. R. 177
Valle, C. C.
193
Van, F. W. 523
Verlaque, Theophile 81
402
Samson, Charles 467
Sampson, J. H. 473
San Diego Land & Town Company 335
Walsh, W. C. .428
Sanford, W. O. 383
Ward, M. L. 212
Saum, De Roy 114
67
Warner, B. M.
55
Schiefer, Paul 103
Watkins, E. P. 298
Schoonover, Albert 57
468
Schwab, Michael
102
Scott, C. J.
312
Sears, George
528
Sebree, Uriel
245
Seidel, H. A.
450
Sensenbrenner, August
153
Shaw, A. B.
469
Shaw, H. I.
409
Willoughby, Edward 339
Wills, J. M. 314
Winder, Jerome 106
Sherman, Matthew 48
Shreve, G. H. 233
Sloane, W. A. 91
Smith, Alcie P. 267
Wright, A. H. 174
Smith, E. F. 261
Wright, E. H.
112
Swayne, L.
124
Sweet, A. H. 221
Sykes, E. G. 113
Talley, James 543
Tarvin, E. M.
425
Taylor, H. 163
Thelen, E. 228
427
Thompson, W. L.
282
Tracy, G. M. 295
Tracy, T. H. .494
Traggardh, J. F.
234
Remondino, P. C. 28
Requa, R. S. 215
Riordon, A. C. . 415
Rockwood, L. D. 438
Rodgers, T. S. 232
Rogers, G. H. 377
Rubendall, E. C. 371
Rumsey, W. M. 197
Vogdes, C. B.
Wadham, F. W. 359
Wadham, J. E. .207
Waters, W. C. 325
Schnell, H. F. 340
Weatherbie, J. F.
498
Schumann-Heink, Hans
Webster, David
156
Whedon, D. D.
365
White, G. C.
172
Whiting-Mead Commercial Company
187
Wilbur, Henry
486
Williams, A. G.
225
Williams, C. L. .
61
Williams, S. S.
83
Sheets, W. P. 13
Winter, Max 306
Wray, D. D.Y. 173
Otto, G. F. 124
Over, J. F. .255
Payson, S. C. 275
Peavey, N. J. 404
Penfold, J. L. 63
People's National Bank .345
Perrin, M. J. 211
Swayne, E. J.
218
Oppenheimer, L. .529
Osborn, J. B. .368
Steade, J. M.
Snyder, Nelson 93
Oliver, W. G. 194
O'Neall, C. F. 132
Spreckels, J. D. 136
Oaks, D. T. 16
Smith, W. S. 524
Peters, H. H., Jr.
Thompson, F. G.
Thompson, John, Ranch 510
Reinbold, C. O.
Turrentine, J. N.
Ward, S. L. 137
Schiefer, Frank
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