Los Angeles County, CA 1880 Prominent Citizens

Mc DONALD. J. G.
Pp 180

...who resides near Los Angeles, was born in Wilsou county, Tennessee, March 23, 1824. He emigrated to Texas in 1838, where, he lived until 1853, spending the last ten years in San Antonio in the surveying business. He came to California in 1853, arriving in San Francisco JuJy 7th of that year. He acted as State Deputy Surveyor, under Colonel John C. Hayes, for three years, when he returned to Texas and was married to Miss Mary V. Samuels. Came to California
again in 1858, and engaged in the surveying business in San Diego county, which he continued for one year, and removed to Los Angeles where he has since resided. Has been engaged in fruit raising since he has lived in Los Angeles county. He had charge of the celebrated Wolfskill orange orchard for eight years. Has three children- Katie aged seventeen, Ella fourteen, Jimmie five. A view of his place is given in this work.

MONROE, W. N.
Pp 180

... Los Angeles, is a native of Indiana is a descendant of the Monroe family of Virginia. He was an officer in the Union army for four years, during which time be captured a Miss Mary J. Hall, of Marion county, Missouri (a rebel), and married her; has four children, three boys and one girl. He has resided in Los Angeles since 1875 and that he is one of her best citizens is
proven by the fact that in December, 1879, he was elected a member of the City Council, to represent the First Ward. He is the proprietor of the Pacific Hotel, which adjoins the Union depot. All trains stop at the Pacific for meals; it also has a parlor sitting-room for the accommodation ot ladies and gentlemen awaiting trains, street cars to all parts of the city pass the door.
A view of the Pacific Hotel will be found in this work.

MONTGOMERY, H. L.,
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...was born in Brookfield Trumbull county, Ohio, January 1, 1834. He worked on bis father's farm until he was eighteen years of age. February 16, 1852, in company with ten others he left his native home for California They went to New York with the intention ot
going by the way of the Isthmus, but not being able to procure passage by that route, they sailed March 2d on the clipper Grecian via Cape Horn. After being out forty-one days they made their first stop at Rio Janeiro, remaining at that port eleven days. The next stop was made at Talcahuano, Chili, where they remained twelve days, and sailed for San Francisco, arriving in that city August 12, 1852. Mr. Montgomery started at once for the mines, where he remained several months, but not being successful he went to Yuba City, Sutter county, and engaged in supplying steam-boats with wood, in company with Ira H. Wood. He continued in the wood business until 1S55, and engaged in stock raising. January 1, 1857, he married Mrs. M. B. Speegle, of Yuba City. In 1866 he sold his stock farm in Sutter county, and moved to Ukiah Valley, Mendocino county, where he remained two years and came to Los Angeles county, where he has since resided. He bought the place, a view of which will be found on another page, in 1871. Mr. Montgomery's post-office address is Downey City.

MALLETT, MRS. E. N. PARK
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... was born at Berlin, Coos county, New Hampshire, December 25, 1830. It the age of eight years she was adopted by N. Perkins and wife, and taken to their home in Maine. She afterwards accompanied Mr. Perkins to Washington City, where they lived a number of years. Mrs. Mallet has now the old-fashioned dress of pink brocade silk she wore at the inauguration and levee of President Tyler. Later she removed to Boston, and resided on Pemberton Square with her uncle, D. J. Blodgett, a large silk merchant of that city. At the age of seventeen years she married W. H. P. Hollenbeck, of New York, tlay 27,3847, who died in Chicago in 1855. May 25, 1860, she married E. M. Park, of Massachusetts,
and came to California via the Isthmus in 1865, after
visiting friends and relatives in Canada and the
eastern States, arriving in San Francisco in January, 1865. They were on the North Star on the iast side and the. Golden Age on the west side. Mr. Park engaged in manufacturing sash and blinds until the Montana mining excitement, when he vent to that region with cattle. Eight months after he returned ill, and died in a short time, being buried in Lone Mountain Cemetery. Mrs. Park then engaged in business, which she continued until 1875, being burned out once and losing everything. May 1, 1875, she married Alfred Mallett, in Orange, and has since lived here, her husband dying March 25, 1876. Mrs. Mallet has thirty acres of land, twenty acres being an orange orchard and producing well. She has a beautiful residence, built by herself, a view of which can be seen on another page. Her home is called Park Orange Grove, where she
resides in the enjoyment 3f health and vigor.

M c DONALD, E. N.
Pp 180

...residing at Wilmington, is of Scotch parentage. He was born in Oswego county, New York, May 9, 1832. When sixteen years of age he went to Washington county, New York, and learned the blacksmith trade. He came to California in 1853, arriving in San Francisco October 17th of that year. October 23d found him in San Pedro, Los Angeles county, in the employ of Alexander & Banning. He continued with them until June 1, 1858, and the following September
went into the general merchandise business, on his
own account, at San Pedro. In a few months he
moved his stock to Wilmington, and built the first
store at that place. He again entered the employ
of Banning & Co., and superintended the building
of their wharf and warehouse. In 1859, in company with S. H. Wilson, he went into the sheep business on Catalina Island, and engaged in that business until 1862, when he sold his interest to Mr. Wilson, and again went to work for Banning & Company as wagon-master. In 1866 he engaged in the butchering business, and the following year went to Arizona to fill a Government contract returning to Los Angeles county in 1867, having made fifteen thousand dollars, which he invested in land and sheep; the latter business he still continues in. Mr. McDonald was married in 1865 to Mary H. Winslow, of Washington county, New York. A view of Mr. McDonald's residence, also of his property in Los Angeles, is published in this work.

MORA, RIGHT REV. FRANCIS
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...Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles; was born at Vich, in the Province of Barcelona, Spain, November 25, 1827. At three years of age his parents died. In due time he entered the Episcopal Seminary at Vich, where he remained until 1854, engaged in the studies of Latin, Theology,
and Philosophy. In the last-named year, the late
lamented Bishop Amafc (of this diocese) visited
Vich, and upon his return to America young Mr. Mora accompanied him. He went first to Missouri, where he spent some time in familiarizing himself with the English language. In 1855 he came to California, and on March 19th of the following year, at Santa Barbara, was duly invested with sacred orders, and appointed to the pastorate of the parish of Monterey. Subsequently he officiated at San Juan, and afterward at San Luis
Obispo. In December, 1862, the parish of Los Angeles having been left without a pastor by the death of Father Raho, Father Mora was appointed thereto. July 25, 1866, Father Mora was elevated to the dignity of Vicar General. May 20, 1873, by a Pontificial Bull, his late Holiness, Pope Pius IX., elected Father Mora coadjutor of Right Rev. Thaddeus Amat, with the right of succession in chief to the Episcopal See. August 3d following, at the old mission church in Los Angeles,
in the presence of a vast crowd, the imposing cere-
mony of consecration was performed by Bishop Amat. Upon the death of the last-named Bishop, May 12, 1878, Bishop Mora assumed the full powers thereby devolving upon him. Los Angeles has been an Episcopal See since 1859, in which year the Bishop's permanent residence was there established. The Cathedral of St. Vibiana (a view of which appears in this volume) was commenced in 1871, the foundation stone being laid in June of that year. The Cathedral was dedicated June 30, 1876, by Bishop Mora, and is
counted the most elegant religious structure upon
the Pacific coast. The plan of the building was
patterned after the church of San Miguel del
Puerto at Barcelona, Spain. The main building
covers a space eighty by one. hundred and sixty
feet, and the total cost (including the grounds)
was about eighty thousand dollars.

MORTON, MARY A
Pp 181

...William Morton and Mary
A. Moore were both natives of Oswego county,
New York. The former was born in the year
1810, and the latter in 1819. They were married
in 1834. In. one year a son was born to them, two
months after which they moved to Lenawee county,
Michigan, where they resided until 1843, here two
children were born. and their eldest child died. In
1843 they removed to Marshall, Michigan, where
they lived for sixteen years, here two children,
were born, and one of their eldest children died.
In 1859 Mr. and MM. Morton with three children
started across the plains for California, for the
benefit of Mr. Morton's health. They were joined
by a number of families from Marshall - The party
first went to St. Louis, where they purchased their
outfit and then went to St. Joseph, where they
joined a train of about one hundred and fifty
wao-ons. They made a stop of two weeks at Salt
Lake City to recruit - here Mr. Morton was com-
pelled to sell some of their goods - four of their
horses having died on the road from the effects of
alkali, prevented them from taking their goods to
their destination. They arrived in Stockton in
September, 1859, and a few months later Mr. Mor-
ton rented a farm located about nine miles from
Stockton, where he remained until the next fall,
when he purchased a farm of one hundred and
sixty acres adjoining the rented land, stocking it
and building a house. Here their youngest child,
a daughter, was born, and soon after their youngest
son died. In 1867, Mrs. Morton's health failing, they decided to prospect for a new home in southern California. Being favorably impressed with Los
Angeles county, they located near the present city
of Compton. Mr. Morton's first selection for a farm was on too low ground, and they suffered from the effects of droughts. He, however, purchased one hundred and sixty acres on what is known as "The Hill," and built a comfortable home, soon after, homes were built for their two sons. the eldest of whom has held various public offices, at one time was one of the Board of Supervisors. Mr. Morton died in 1874, being sick only a few days. Mrs. Morton still resides at the house built by her husband. A view of the property will be found on
another page.

MULLALLY, JOSEPH
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...resides in Los Angeles, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 18, 1826. He crossed the plains in 1850, and arrived in San Francisco the same year, where he commenced the manufacture of bricks, which he continued until 1854. when he removed to Los Angeles, and again resumed the brick business, which he is still engaged in. In 1857 he was elected a member of the Loa Angeles City Council, and has been a member of that body during four different terms. The residence of Mr. Mullally is situated on the corner of Buena Vista and College streets, is one of the finest residences in the city of Los Angeles. The grounds have a frontage of one hundred and eighty-five feet on Buena Vista street and two hundred and eighty-five feet on College, and contain a fine bearing orchard, consisting of orange, lemon, pear, apple trees, etc. A view of his place will be found on another page.

NADEAU. R.
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...has resided in Los Angeles, since 1862. He did business, freighting in Montana and Nevada for three years. In 1865, commenced freighting between Los Angeles and Inyo county mines. At one time had as high as seventy-two head of oxen hauling freight. Water and grass being very scarce, he was compelled to give up the oxen and use mules, and at one time ran twenty-seven teams of fourteen head each from Los Angeles to Inyo county minea andKernville. The
following note which appeared in the Los Angeles
News under date of September 5, 1871 will give
some idea of the extent of the business he carried
on - 'This enterprising man has for years past spent from three to four hundred dollars per day in
Los Angeles. He has given employment to more
men, and purchased more produce, and introduced
more trade into Los Angeles than any other five men in the city." In June, 1873, he established a company called the Cerro Gordo Freighting Company, composed of himself. E Judson and M. W Belchard (the latter two of San Francisco). The object being to freight between Los Angeles and the Cerro Gordo mines. The company have had as high as eight hundred head of mules at work at one time - two hundred thousand dollars being invested. The company has now about five hundred head of mules in actual work, freighting between the Mojave and the Inyo mines and in Arizona. They also haul large quantities of borax from the borax lake in San Bernardino county They own a large store, comprising a general stock, at Resting Springs in San Bernardino county; also own a large steam mill at Mojave. Mr. Nadeau is general superintendent of the whole business. His latest enterprise is the erection of a large beet sugar mill. which promises to be one of the largest industries in Los Angeles county. The mill is located about eight miles from Los Angeles, near Florence and adjoins the railroad. About eleven hundred acres have been planted in beets in the vicinity of the mill, principally by Mr. Nadeau. That this enterprise will prove a success, there is no doubt. He has also several large tracts in wheat and barley, also an orange grove containing eighty acres. A view of
his residence will he found on another page.

NEWMARK, H.
Pp 181

...of H. Newmark & Co., Los Angeles Is a native of Prussia. He was born in the city of Loebaue July 16,1834. In 1853 he bcame to the United States, and direct to Los Angeles where he arrived October 21st of that year, and was employed by his brother
(J. P. Newmark who came to Los Angeles in 1851 and removed to San Francisco in l855, where he now resides), who was in the dry goods business. He continued with his brother for one year, when he went into the same business on his own account. He engaged in the mercantile business alone until 1860. In 1865 he founded the present firm of H Newmark & Co., dealers in groceries, hardware, hides, wool, etcl., etc. Samuel Cohn, who died in 1871, was his first partner. In 1866 Kasper Cohn became a partner,
and, subsequently, M. A. Newmark became one of
the firm. M. J. Newmark, of San Francisco, was also interested in the firm from 1867 to 3879, when he retired. The property known as the Temple Block was purchased by H. Newmark & Co in 1877, for which they paid one hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars. The main portion of this structure was built in 1870 that portion facing the Court House being built in 1857. A
view of this fine block, which will give a better idea of the edifice than can be described, will be found on another page. H. Newmark was married in 1858 to Miss Sarah Newmark. They have had ten children, five of whom are now living. Although Mr Newmark has been offered high positions of trust in public office, he has never accepted, preferring to keep entirely out of politics.

REISER, THEODORE
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...Anaheim, was born September 7, 1849 in the city of Lahr, Grand Dutchy ofBaden. His parents were John Daniel and Frederica Reiser, natives of that place. When Mr Reiser was three years of age, his parents removed to Freiburg, his father (who was an officer under the Government) being stationed at that place.
Here Mr. Reiser was educated in the Normal school. After completing his education be learned the coopering and brewing trades, then traveled for some time in Switzerland for informatlon and pleasure. In 1849 be emigrated to the United States and landed at New York, where he remained four years. In December, 1853, he left there for San Francisco via the Nicaragua route, and arrived in the latter city January 11, 1854. Here he soon found employment in a small brewery on Broadway above Stockton street, where he remained about two months, after which he entered into an engagement with Mr. Jacob Gaudlach. proprietor of the Bavaria brewery. He continued nearly three years with Mr. Gaudlach, and then through his kindness secured a situation as business manager of an extensive brewery at Columbia, Tuolumne county, where he remained for ten months. He then rented a brewery and began business for himself at Springfield, about one and a half miles from Columbia. On September 3, 1857, Mr. Reiser was married to Miss A. Thiele, daughter of Frederick and Rosa Thiele. Mrs. Reiser was born in the city of Guerfun in 1821. In 1857 Mr. Reiser united with Mr. Jacob Hautmer, his brother-in-law, and organized the Los Angeles Vineyard Society. In August, 1860, Mr. Reiser disposed of his interest in the brewery, and removed to Anaheim, where he arrived September 18th following and immediately began the manufacture of wine from grapes, which he purchased there from Mr. Thomas Scully, of Old Santa Ana. This was the first wine made at Anaheim. He also erected the first still in that place and distilled the first brandy. In 1863, Mrs. Reiser's health failed and he took her to San Francisco for medical treatment. His residence and other buildings were all erected by day's labor, to secure substantial work. His dwelling is a two-story brick, forty-eight by twenty-four, with veranda running completely around it. His cellar is eleven feet deep. While absent from home, Mr. Reiser's brother-in-law took charge of the property. He returned in the fall of 1864, and the following year bought out his brother-in-law's interest. He has since conducted the business alone. Mr. and Mrs. Reiser have never had any children of their own, but in J869 they adopted Emma, a bright little girl of nine years. March 3, 1874, their adopted daughter
died suddenly. In 1874 Mr. Reiser erected the
the brewery known now as Hine's brewery, and on
February 16, 1875, made the first beer therein. He
sold the establishment September 28, 1876, to
Thomas P. Hines. Mr. Reiser is a member of the
Masonic Lodge at Anaheim (No. 287, F. & A. M.),
of which he was one of the original members, and
took an active part in the organization of the lodge.
He was Master of this lodge for four years in suc-
cession, and was then re-elected. He was alao
Treasurer for a year and a half. Mr. Reiser is a
Royal Arch Mason. In politics he is a Republican,
in religion, a Protestant.

SEIBERT, B. F.
Pp 182

...of Anaheim, cashier of the Ban of Anaheim, is a native of Pennsylvania; was born in East Hanover Township, Lebanon county, September 11, 1838. He lived in the State until 1864, working on a farm until he was sixteen years of age, when he went to thetownofBerrysburg, Dauphin county, where he commenced an apprenticeship of three years at iron moulding, after which he continued his trade in the cities of Philadelphia and Harrisburg until the outbreak of the late civil war. He enlisted at the first call of President Lincoln for seventy-five thousand men for three months, and afterwards enlisted in the Signal
Corps, remaining in that branch of the service until the termination of the war in August, 1865. In October of that year Mr. Seibert went to the Vineland Colony in New Jersey, and located at Millevelle, working at his trade until the fall of 1871, when he started for the far West. He was in the employ of Wells, Fargo & Co., at Ogden, Utah, Reno, Nevada, San Francisco and San Diego. Mr. Seibert came to Anaheim in 18^6, where he has since resided. He was married at the age of
twenty. A view of his home is published in this work.

SHAFFER, P. J.,
Pp 182
...of Orange, is a native of Virginia. Was born in Hampshire county, in that State, in 1823. In 3830, with his father he moved to Illinois, where his father engaged in farming for eight years, and in 1838 emigrated again, this time going to Iowa. Mr. Shaffer left Iowa for California April 20, 1852, and arrived in Nevada City September 8fch of the same year, and engaged in mining. This he continued for six months, and then went to Plumas county, where he went into partnership with his brother on a ranch, and continued until 1866, when he removed to Honey Lake, Lassen
county, and again engaged in ranching. In 1868
he located in the Sacramento valley, where he re-
mained until 1870, and removed to Los Angeles
county, where he has since resided, engaged in
raising semi-tropical fruits. Mr. Shaffer has one
hundred and ninety acres, one hundred and sixty
acres of which is under cultivation, thirty acres
being planted in fruit, including one thousand six
hundred orange trees, two hundred lemon, one
hundred lime, three hundred almond, four hun-
dred apple, five hundred peach, fifteen plum,
twelve cherry, nine apricot, five nectarine, one
hundred fig, fifty walnut, four Japanese persim-
mons, besides a nursery stock of two thousand five
hundred trees, and six hundred ornamental trees.
Mr. Shaffer was married in 1879, and has one child.
A view of his place will be found on another page.

SHIELDS, GENERAL JOHN HOWARD
Pp 182

...of Florence, was born in Sevierville, Tennessee, September 15, 1829. He is of the north Ireland Scotch-
Irish Shields family. His relatives include many
distinguished persons, among whom may be mentioned Tilghman Howard, M. 0., and President
James Buchanan. Both his grandfathers were
Revolutionary officers under Washington; both declined pensions, and both freed their slaves.
Gen. Shields is of the alumni of Holston College,
Cincinnati, Ohio; was duly admitted to practice law in that State, and was a member of the Cincinnati Bar for several years. He pioneered the foundry, machine shops, ship-yard, coal mining, transportation, etc., which awoke Knoxville, Tennessee, from a village to a city. He was a Director, and at one time President of the Union Bank of Tennessee (capital five million dollars). He was a planter in the south, and is now a prominent rancher in Los Angeles county. He married Miss M. A. McMillan at her home in Knoxville, Tennessee, January 5, 1852. Mrs. Shields is a graduate of East Tennessee Female Institute. Her father (Andrew McMillan) was a lawyer and banker. Her mother was lineally descended from the English Spencers of the family of three earls, and from the Stovins of Axholme, whose estates date back a thousand years of hereditary succession. Her grand uncle (a portion of whose Cincinnati estate she now holds by inheritance) was Wm. Mc-Millan, a Virginian, who, with twenty other men, founded the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was Ohio's first United States District Attorney-Gen-
eral, and was the second delegate in Congress from
that State, and the donor of the lot on which stands the Masonic Temple of McMillan Lodge, Third street, Cincinnati. Gen. Shields came to California in 1874. Has six children living, and two dead. A view of his property will be found in this work.

SHORB, J. DE BARTH
Pp 182

... San Marino, post-office San Gabriel, is a native of -Maryland. After leaving Mt St Mary's College of Emmitsburg, Maryland, he commenced the study of law with his cousin, W. W. Dallas (nephew of the late George M. Dallas which he continued for a short time, and then engaged in active business of farming and milling, and was a successful man at the age of twenty-two years. He came to California in 1864, and was soon after appointed assistant Superintendent of
the Philadelphia and California Petroleum Com-
pany, a corporation of Col. T. A. Scott's creation.
The company, after a large expenditure of money
in developing the oil interests, proved unsuccess-
ful Mr Shorb, having invested in the enterprise,
was a heavy losnr, whereupon he resigned his posi-
tion and accepted a civil appointment in the
Engineer Corps. United States Army. He was
again appointed Superintendent of the Philadel-
phia and California Petroleum Company, which
office he held until they discontinued. He then
commenced work in acquiring title to the lemescal grant, known as the San Teleciana placers and
developing the water on same. While engaged in
this work he married the eldest daughter of the
late Hon B. D. Wilson. Soon after his marriage
be engaged in the wine business in company with
other parties. In 1876 they extended their busi-
ness to San Francisco, and soon afterwards estab-
lished a branch house in New York. They then
extended their enterprise to foreign countries, hav-
ing correspondents in Australia, New Zealand,
China, Japan, Central America, England and
Scotland. Withdrawing from the firm, he entered
into partnership with his father-in-law, which con-
tinued until his (Mr. Wilson's) death. He then
commenced improvements on his place by cutting
up the lands and increasing the vineyards and
orange groves, and also in developing the water
system. The latter work was all done under Mr
Shorb's supervision, and is without doubt the finest
arranged water system to be found in California.
Mr Shorb is a member of the Chamber of Commerce - was Chairman of the merchants' committee of "fifteen; is President of the Lake Vineyard
Land and Water Association, which controls the
finest lands in the San Gabriel valley. A view of
Mr. Shorb's residence will be found in this work.

SNOW, HIRAM K.
Pp 182
... was born in New Hampshire November l5, 1824. When eighteen years of age he came to California on the clipper ship Witch of the Wave, serving before the mast. He at once went to the mines, and worked in Calaveras and Mariposa counties until 1856, when he returned East and settled in Osage, Iowa, where he was married. on the 3d of October, 1858, to Miss Cynthia 0. Downs, daughter of Dr. E. M. Downs, of Osage. In the, spring of 1859 he moved to Bandera county, Texas, where be followed stock-raising until the spring of 1861. He then went overland through
Mexico to Guaymas, and from there went to San
Francisco by steamer, arriving in October. He
lived there until 1863, and then moved to Vallejo
and engaged in merchandising. He was elected
County Recorder of Solano county for the years
1870-71 and in 1877 disposed of his business, and
came to Tustin City, in this county, in January,
1878, where he had previously purchased a half
interest in the old Tustin Ranch. A view of this
place, now known as the Aliso Orange Grove, can
be seen on another page of this work. This place
is situated one and one-half miles from Santa Ana,
and contains sixty acres of land. Upon it are
nearly four thousand orange trees, three hundred
lemon, four hundred English walnut, ten thousand
grape vines, besides four hundred, apple, pear,
peach, apricot, plum, and other fine fruit trees.

STEPHENS, D. G.
Pp 182

...The subject of this sketch was born in Morris county, New Jersey, in the year 1835. He remained there until he was twenty-one years of age, when he moved to Princeton, Bureau county, Illinois, and engaged in farming. He remained there three years, until 1859, when he crossed the plains for California with an ox-team, and arrived on the coast in the same year. Soon after he commenced placer mining in El Dorado
county, and followed the business for about two
years. He then moved to Los Angeles county
and again engaged in mining in the San Gabriel
canon. He continued his mining operations there
for about one year, and then moved to the city of
Los Angeles, where he has since resided. He was
engaged in various pursuits until the year 1868
when he commenced the livery stable business,
and has followed the same ever since. In 1871 he
was married in Los Angeles to Mrs. E. T. Dowling,
who is a native of New Portland, Maine. Mr. Stephens' first livery business location was on the corner of Spring and Second streets, remaining there for seven years, when he moved his place of business to the present location, corner Temple and New High streets. A view of his fine stable will be found in another part ot this work. Mr. Stephens understands his business thoroughly and is always prepared to furnish first-class rigs. He has in his stable a full line of A 1 carriages, buggies, fine horses, etc. Post-office address, Los Angeles.

WEYSE, JULIUS GUENTHER
Pp 183

...was born in Schleiz Germany, in 1804. With a good scholastic education he studied law, and was rising in his profession. Of a generous and ardent nature, he
imbibed in his youth sentiments of liberty and equality. He took a leading part in the reformatory movement in Germany in 1830, which compelled him to seek safety by emigration. Leaving his native country for the United States, he took an active part in the struggle to free Texas from the oppressive rule of Mexico; holding a Captain's commission, and acquitting himself honorably. The revolution of 1848 again found him in Germany, and after an unsuccessful strife and contin-
ued persecution, he was again compelled to flee.
He came to California, and having married in San
Francisco, he settled to quiet life in Los Angeles.
With other Germans he founded the colony of
Anaheim, and subsequently purchased the vine-
yard which he called " Fernbeim." meaning a home far from home. This vineyard is one of the oldest in the county, and is noted for the quality of wine it produces. Mr. Weyse died in 1863. His widow, Caroline Anna Sophie, and his three sons, Otto, Rudolf, and Hinrich, hold the place and have greatly improved it. A view of this property will be found on another page.

WOLFSKILL, JOSEPH W.
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... Los Angeles, was born in that city September 14, 1844, at the old Wolfskill homestead, where he has since resided. He is the third of the six children of the late William Wolfskill and Dona Magdalena Lugo de Wolfskill. On the death of his father, October 3, 1866, he became owner of the home place. Mr. Wolfskill
has been educated in both the English and the
Spanish languages. September 20, 1869, he was
married to Dona Elena de Pedrorena, daughter of
the late Miguel de Pedrorena, of San Diego, who
was a native of Spain. They have had seven
children born to them, six of whom are now jiving.
The celebrated Wolfskill orange and lemon
orchards contain some one hundred and ten acres,
which is all set to fruit, consisting of two thousand
orange trees. About sixty or eighty of these were
planted in 1841; the others are from twenty-five
to thirty years old; two hundred orange trees
planted in 1866, also bearing (all of the above are
seedlings); one thousand four hundred budded
orange trees, planted five years ago, which have
commenced to bear; three thousand lemon trees
varying from five to thirty years old, including the
Sicily, Malaga, Lisbon, Australian and thornless;
sixty walnut trees, thirty yeara old; two hundred
lime trees from eight to thirty years old. The
remainder of the orchard is made up of almost
every variety of fruit that is raised in the country. In 1879 Mr. Wolfskill shipped ten thousand boxes of oranges, three hundred of lemons, aud one hundred of limes. This will give some idea of the magnitude of his orchard. A packing house is on the premises, and the fruit is shipped as fast a? it is gathered. A view of bis place will be found in thia work. The vineyard and orchard now owned bv Messrs. J. W. and L. Wolfskill, situated on San'Pedro street, Los Angeles, were established by the father of the present proprietors, William Wolfskill, in 1838. At that time the vineyard contained less than four thousand vines, and a small number of fruit trees. Mr. Wolfskill increased the size of his estate from time to time by purchase, until in 1858, he bad some one hundred and forty-five acres under cultivation. At this time the condition of his property was as follows; we quote from the Southern Vineyard of December 10, 1858: "The number of bearing vines is fifty-five thousand, of which twenty-three thousand were planted previous to 1838, and the remainder were planted between that year and 1846. There are thirty orange trees in bearing,
most of which are about nineteen years old from
the seed; two thousand and fifty in orchard, but not yet in fruit, and four thousand in nursery. Six citron trees in fruit and one hundred in nursery. Lime trees in orchard twenty-three, in nursery six thousand. Walnut trees in bearing sixty-one, in nursery three hundred. Bearing apricot trees eighteen (embracing twelve varieties), in nursery forty. Of pear trees there are sixty in fruit, of eleven varieties; and. sixty, comprising twenty varieties, not in bearing; and one hundred in nursery. Apple trees in bearing, four hundred and and fifty. Peach trees in bearing, four hundred, of fifteen varieties. There are twelve quince
trees and four olive trees in bearing, and six of the latter not yet in fruit. Of lemon trees there are sixty-six in orchard and one hundred in nursery. Thirty fig trees in fruit, and ten not yet bearing, and fifty in nursery, embracing several varieties. Of the orange trees in; fruit, some have produced as many as one thousand six hundred in a season, and one of the trees not less than two thousand, which at six and a fourth cents each, makes the handsome little sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, as the product of one tree. Within the past year the orange trees have been attacked by an insect that is proving very de-
structive to the trees. Mr. Wolfskill has here his
residence, which was built mostly in 1838-9, in his
vineyard. His wine-cellars are four in number,
with a capacity of storing sixty thousand gallons
of wine with convenience, and if their capacity
was brought into requisition, would store one
hundred thousand gallons. His distillery occupies
a part of an extensive modern brick building.
The brandies made at this place have been in re-
quest by the lovers of California brandy. There
is also upon these grounds a willow grove planted
by Mr. Wolfskill which occupies a number of
acres, furnishing poles for fencing, and also some
fire-wood."

WORKMAN, W. H.
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...of Los Angeles, is a native of Missouri, having been born in New Franklin, Howard county, of that State in the year 1839. He lived in Boonville, Cooper county, Missouri, until he was fourteen years of age, when he emigrated with his parents to California, coming at
once to Los Angeles, where he has since resided.
He worked at his trade of printer in the Southern
Californian office for two years, and in 1857 went
into the saddlery business. In 1867 he married
Maria E. Boyle, daughter of A. A. Boyle, Esq., and
they have now five children named, respectively,
Boyle, Mary, Elizabeth, Wm. H. Jr., and Char-
lotte. Mr. Workman succeeded A. A. Boyle, Esq.,
in the ownership of Boyle Heights, which are situ-
ated on the east bank of the Los Angeles river,
opposite the city and within the corporate limits.
He has added to this property largely by purchase.
It consists now of eighty acres of bottom land,
planted in orchard and vineyard, and two hundred
and fifty acres of mesa land upon the bank above.
This upper land three years ago was a mere sheep
pasture and supposed to be almost utterly value-
less, but by skillful and untiring labor Mr. Work-
man has transformed this barren pasture into a
rapidly-growing orchard. In 1876 he laid out the
village of Boyle Heights, which now contains
fifty or sixty families. A horse railway connects
the settlement with the city. Mr. Workman has
expended some ten thousand dollars in procuring
water for this upper land, and now has it in suffi-
cient quantities. He has laid out a park of fifteen
acres, beautifully planted with citrus fruits, which
he proposes to throw open to the public. He has
planted out forty thousand vines on the heights
and intends doubling the number the coming year.
There are also one thousand budded orange trees
which are commencing to bear. The old vineyard
in the bottom land contains thirty thousand vines
which are about sixty years of age. In 1879 this
vineyard netted one hundred and fifty dollars per
acre. On this land there are also one thousand
bearing orange trees, varying from seven to twenty
years of age, four hundred lemon trees, from five to
twenty years old, two hundred and fifty lime trees,
two hundred walnut Lrecs, besides a great variety
of temperate and semi-tropical fruits. Mr. Work-
man deserves much credit for the energy and
enterprise he has displayed in transforming this
waste and inhospitable country into a luxuriant
semi-tropical garden. A view of his residence will
be found in this work.