BITTNER, ANDREW, son of Michael and Christine Bittner, was- born in the Province of the Rhine, Bavaria, Germany, February 15, 1816, his mother being a native of Wirtemburg. He learned and worked at the shoemaker's trade for a number of years, and came to America in 1841, arriving in New York in November with his wife, whom he had married the 5th of the previous September. She was Miss Elizabeth Arnold, daughter of Casper and Elizabeth Arnold, a native of Bavaria.
He worked at shoemaking in New York until 1847, and in New Orleans till 1852, when he came to California. Until 1868 he was employed as watchman on the wharves in San Francisco, and then came to Anaheim. Mr. Bittner has a fine vineyard of twenty-four acres, and makes from eight to ten thousand gallons of excellent wine annually. A view of his place forms one of the illustrations of this work. He is a successful business man and enjoys the esteem of all his neighbors.
Both
he and his wife have traveled considerably, she having been all over France
previous to coming to America. In 1856 he made a trip to Peru, Chili,
Society Islands, and Sandwich Islands, and in 1864 visited his native land.
They are now enjoying a ripe and comfortable old age in their pleasant home.
They have had five children, the youngest two now living on California
street, San Francisco. Jacob, born in New York May 9, 1842; Albert, born in
New York, January 16, 1845; Elizabeth, born in New Orleans, October 8, 1848;
Nicolaus, born in San Francisco July 18, 3.858; Albert, born in San
Francisco July 22, 1862.
BOWERS, PATTERSON, was born in Montgomery County, Virginia, March 10, 1825.
June 3, 1851, he was married by Rev. George E. Brown at Taswell,
Virginia, to Miss Maria L. Crockett, of Caswell County, North Carolina. In
1858 he came overland from Texas, with an ox-team, and settled in Los
Angeles County in the same year. He located at his present place in 1873,
when there was not even a shrub, save cactus and sage-brush, where now
stands a beautiful forest of shade and fruit trees.
He
had eighty acres of land, forty of which are in fruit trees-orange, lemon,
lime, apple, pear, peach, apricot, fig, etc, all in fine bearing condition.
A view of his beautiful home and orchard can be seen on another page. Mr.
Bowers has had eight children, of whom three sons and four daughters are now
living, the first child dying in infancy.
BUTLER, L. G., is a native of Wisconsin, in which State he was born February
28, 1851. The family soon went to Iowa, where Mr. Butler's father died, and
hi& mother moved to Cherry Valley, Illinois, taking the subject of this
sketch with her. From Cherry Valley they moved to near Sycamore, Illinois,
where Mr. Butler remained until eighteen years of age, when he again went to
Iowa, and lived in Benton county till 1871. He then went to Lincoln.
Nebraska, and farmed until 1874, when he came to California and located at
Orange, in this
county, where he now resides. He is quite extensively engaged in the nursery
business, and raised and deals in fruit, especially oranges and lemons.
He has twenty acres of orange and lemon orchard, also other fruits, including four acres of apricots. He has been a successful farmer and has accumulated enough to surround himself with the comforts of life. A view of his pleasant home forms one of the illustrations of this work.
He was married October 2, 1873, to Miss M. E. Selby, a native of Ohio.
BUTTOLPH, FRANK D., M. D.,
of the firm of Wilson & Buttolph, horticulturists at Duarte, was born in
Trenton, New Jersey, June 27, 1855. He was the son of Dr. H. A. Buttolph
(who has been for thirty-five years the Superintendent of the New Jersey
Asylum for Insane). He was a student at Stevens School of Technology,
Brooklyn, New York; studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; also
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. He graduated in June,
1878, at the Long Island Hospital College at Brooklyn, New York, and came to
California the following December, where he has since resided; post-office
address, El Monte. A view of the orange grove and residence of which he is a
part owner, will be found in this work.
CAREY, THOMAS, resides three and a half miles from Los Angeles. He was born in Tipperary County, Ireland, in 1823. Emigrated to the United States in 1852; lived a few months in New York and came to California by way of the Isthmus. Mr. Carey's first year in California was spent in the mining districts on the San Joaquin river; after which he located in Benicia, Solano county, and lived there for ten years, during which time he was employed by the Government.
He was married on the 9th
day of November, 1867, to Miss Mary Hinds, also a native of Tipperary
County, Ireland. In 1868 Mr. Carey, wishing to engage in agricultural
pursuits, moved to Los Angeles County and located on a Government tract of
one hundred and sixty acres, where he has since resided. From a wild and
barren tract of land he has made the beautiful home and grounds, of which a
view may be found on another page.
CHILDS, OYRO W.,
of Los Angeles, was born in Sutton, Caledonia County, Vermont; came to
California in August, 1850, and to Los Angeles the following November. He
was engaged for many years in the mercantile and manufacturing business. In
1858 he purchased the magnificent property which he now owns, and with
marked
success has continued to cultivate, adding in no small degree to the
attractiveness of Los Angeles, which will be willingly attested by the
thousands of people that have visited his well-ordered grounds. It would
require a lengthy catalogue to enumerate the almost endless variety of
fruits and plants to be found in a state of perfection in his skillfully
managed fifty acres. The grounds have been arranged in such an artistic
manner that a new surprise greets one at every turn; the well-kept lawns,
the rare and beautiful trees, brought from the most distant and opposite
corners of the earth, flourishing here side by side, and thriving equally
well, forming a happy family, hitherto strangers to each other. Mr. Childs
has been the direct means of introducing into southern California many of
the varieties of semi-tropical fruits that thrive so well in that portion of
the State, he being the pioneer nurseryman of Los Angeles county. A view of
his residence will be found on another page.
CHILSON, D. G.,
was born in Burleson county, Texas, in 1850, and soon after his father moved
to the western part of the State, where he was elected Judge, and held the
office until 1868. With his wife and children the Judge then started across
the plains, and near Fort Cummings, New Mexico, the Indiana made a raid upon
them, and stole all their horses and cattle. Alone in the wilderness, and a
thousand miles from their destination on the one hand, and as far from
civilization on the other, their situation was a desperate one. The Judge,
seconded by his heroic wife, resolved to push on, and after innumerable
trials and hardships finally reached California in 1869. The subject of our
sketch then took his blankets and prospecting outfit and boldly entered
Arizona, braving the dangers of Indians and reptiles in that then scarcely
known region. Over mountains and across deserts he went, the hot sun
blistering him by day, and the quiet sky his covering by night, the earth
his couch. His excellent constitution and plenty of luck carried him through
many exposures and angers, and led him to success. He continued prospecting
five years, opening and marking a number of mines with good success. His
efforts were finally rewarded by the discovery of the famous Silver Nugget
ledge, in Maricopa County, which his years of experience taught him was what
he had been searching for. He at once employed miners to open the ledge, and
in six months had shipped to San Francisco over forty tons of ore, which
yielded him over eighty thousand dollars, besides placing on the dump
sixty-five thousand dollars' worth of low grade ore, averaging sixty-five
dollars to the ton. Remembering the trials and hardships his parents had
endured, he purchased a home for them at Orangethorpe, in one of the
beautiful valley of Los Angeles County, three miles from Anaheim, where they
can pass their days amid the ever-blooming flowers, and listen to the gong
of birds, all the year long. A fine lithographic view of Mr. Chilson's
residence is given in this work.
CORONEL, ANTONIO F.,
was born in the city of Mexico the 21st of October, 1817. Came to California
in the year 1834. In 1838 he was appointed assistant secretary of the
tribunals in the city of Los Angeles; he was occupied in judicial affairs in
that epoch and law questions. His father, Ignacio F. Coronel, and himself
established the first school in form. under Lancaster's system. In 1843 he
was named Judge of the First Instance, and he was the first one that
established public works, and the order of police in form. In 1844 General
Micheltorena appointed him Captain of the auxiliary companies and visitor of
the southern missions. In 1845 he was named by the Legislative body
parliamentary commissioner, in the question which it had with General
Micheltorena. In March of 1846, he was elected by the district of Los
Angeles representative to the general congress of the towns. In the same
year, in consequence of the American invasion, was put in actual service as
Captain. After the battle of October 8, 1846, of the Dominguez Ranch, or San
Pedro, he was put in charge of a special commission before the general
government to take the American flag that was taken in said battle. After he
came back to this place he was named aid-de-camp of the Genera Commander,
and he was present in the battles of the 8th and 9th, of the Bartolo Pass
and the Mesa. In 1847-48 he was elected member of the body of magistrates,
and charged with the regulations and order of irrigation. In 1850 he was
ejected County Assessor, and lastly re-elected. In 1853 he was elected Mayor
of the city of Los Angeles. In 1854 he was elected member of the Common
Council of said city, and re-elected successively until the year 1867
(excepting two years), when he was elected State Treasurer for the term of
four years. His principles have always been Democratic, which party he has
served many times, and twice he has been nominated Presidential Elector. He
is now living on his residence property, the orchard and vineyard which he
commenced to improve in the year 1838, and he calls it Recreation. The
property contains fifty-three acres within the city limits. He has an orange
orchard containing one thousand trees, a vineyard of forty thousand vines,
and many other varieties of fruits upon the property.
CUDDEBACK, GRANT PRICE, was born in Skaneateles, Onondaga county. New York, July 1,1820, son of Peter and Clarissa Cuddeback. At the age of twelve years he moved to Illinois with his parents, about twenty-five miles north-west of Chicago, and when about eighteen went to Lee county, Iowa. Here he lived seven or eight years, and having accumulated some money, purchased a farm of one hundred acres in that county. The California gold excitement brought him across the plains with an ox-team. He came by the way of Salt Lake City and the southern route, arriving in 1819. In the spring of 1850 he had lost most of his cattle, and packing his goods upon the back of a little California horse he started for the headwaters of the San Joaquin river. He mined there but a few months when the Indian war made it a dangerous locality, a number of horrible outrages being committed near Bakersfield. He then came to Los Angeles county and engaged in farming, sowing eighty acres of barley, which he cut with a common scythe alone. This was on the La Puenta tract. He made the first settlement at El Monte, on one hundred and sixty acres of Government land. He was married at El Monte February 14, 1852, to Elmira Hale. He then began stock-raising and farming, keeping his cattle in the Tehachape Pass, in the Sierra Nevadas. This business was continued until he removed to his present home in Orange in 1873, and embarked in vineyard and orange culture.
He owns one hundred and
eighty acres of land in Santa Ana township, having ten acres of vineyard and
fifteen of orange and other fruit trees. From his vines when they were six
years old he picked three tons of grapes to the acre. One of the
illustrations in this work is of Mr. Cuddeback's home.
DALTON, GEORGE,
resides in Los Angeles. His property consists of forty-six acres within the
city limits of Los Angeles. His orchard contains a fine orange grove of
three hundred and fifty trees, from nine to twenty years old, all of which
are bearing: two hundred apple trees, and many other varieties of fruit;
also a vineyard of twenty thousand vines. Mr. Dalton has always manufactured
his wine on the premises, but will hereafter sell his grapes, thus saving
labor. When Mr. Dalton reached Los Angeles 'in 1851, there was not a brick
or frame house in the city. There were not over half a dozen American women
in Los Angeles, and but few American men. A view of Mr. Dalton's place
appears on another page. 'Mr. Dalton's three sons are settled around him,
having been started in life by him upon portions of his estate set off to
them. Mr. W. T. Dalton has fifty acres under a young orange orchard and
vineyard. The latter contains twenty-six thousand vines, principally of the
Mission variety. He has also a variety of other fruits, all young. Mr. Edwin
H. Dalton has nineteen acres, principally under fruit. He conducts a general
nursery business of semi-tropical trees and plants. Mr. George J. Dalton has
thirty acres under a young orchard, which is not yet bearing.
DE
CELIS, MRS. J. A.,
was born in Monterey, California. Her grandfather, Don Jose Maria Arguello,
was Governor of California under Spanish rule, 1814-1815; her father, Don
Luis Arguello, was Governor thereof under Mexican rule, 1823- 1825. In the
year 1844 she was married to Don Eulogio de Celis, a native of Spain, who
had settled in California as a merchant in 1836. There were born of this
union five sons and two daughters. Two of the former and both the latter now
reside in Spain, while the three remaining sons are residents of Los Angeles
county. In 1853 Don Eulogio de Celis returned to his native country, taking
with him his wife and family, and there resided until his death in 1868,
revisiting California only once during; the interval, and then only for five
months. In 1875 Mrs. de Celis returned to Los Angeles and has since resided
on her hand- some property lying between Twelfth and Washington, on Main
street. Here she has seventy-two acres of land planted with one thousand
orange trees, one thousand walnut trees, six thousand grape vines, together
with a large variety of apples, pears, peaches, olives, figs, etc. Ditch No.
5 runs through the property, giving water facilities for irrigation, equal
to any in the county. The residence of Mrs. de Celis is a comfortable
cottage home, a view of which will be found on another page. The Main street
horse-cars pass the door. Being desirous of joining her daughters in Spain,
Mrs. de Celis offers the entire property for sale.
DOMINGUEZ, DON MANUEL, was born in San Diego, January 26, 1803. He received only the education of those primitive days, learning to read and write under the tutorship of Sergeant Mercado, of the Spanish artillery. He afterwards supplemented this, however, by an extensive course of reading. In 1825 (after the death of his father, Don Christobal Dominguez, an officer under the Spanish Government) he took charge of his rancho San Pedro, in Los Angeles county, and he has since resided thereon. In 1827 he married Maria Gracia Cota, daughter of Don —— Cota, Commissioner under the Mexican Government. Ten children have been born to them — eight daughters and two sons. There are now living six daughters. Three are married and three still single. He is a firm believer and follower of the Catholic Church, and has raised his large family in the same belief. He has during all this time devoted himself exclusively to farming and a California rancher's life. In 1828-29 he was elected a member of the " Illustrious Ayuntamiento" of the city of Los Angeles. In 1829 he was elected a delegate to nominate representatives to the Mexican Congress. In 1832 he was elected First Alcalde and Judge of First Instance for the city of Los Angeles. In 1833-34 he was elected as Territorial Representative for Los Angeles county, the representatives assembling at Monterey. In 1834 he was called to a conference at Monterey for the secularization of the missions. In 1839 he was elected Second Alcalde for the city of Los Angeles. In 1842 he was elected First Alcalde and Judge of the First Instance. In May, 1843, he was elected Prefect of Second District of California—California being divided into two districts.
In the same year two
companies were formed for the defense of the county, and he was elected
Captain of one of these. In 1844 the office was suppressed, and he again
retired to private life. In 1849 he was elected delegate to the first
Constitutional Convention which assembled at Monterey. In 1854 he was
elected a Supervisor for the county. He has been at different times offered
high positions in the Government, but has always refused, having too much
attachment to his family and his private interests, and although now
advanced in years, he still oversees the working of his large ranch; under
Spanish, Mexican and American rule alike, Mr. Dominguez has ever striven
faithfully to discharge the high trusts reposed in him. A view of his ranch
will be found in this work.
DURRELL, J F.,
resides in Florence, Los Angeles County, was born in Solon, Somerset County,
Maine July 1 1826. In 1852, during the gold excitement, he started for
California in company with three other young men from his native town. The
party left New York on the clipper ship Grecian, being unable to procure
passage on an ocean steamer. They had a very long and tiresome trip, being
six months on the water, and enduring many hardships. Out of the small party
of four that started, only two survived the trip, one having died at sea,
and the other on arriving at San Francisco. In company with hid remaining
friend, Mr. Durrell went to the mines on the American river, where he
remained a short time, and then went to Rough and Ready, Nevada county, and
from there to Sierra county, where he engaged in locating mines until 1857.
In the fall of 1857 he returned East, and after spending a few months
returned to California with his wife, and again went into the mountains and
engaged in mining and sheep-raising. The dry season of 1863-4 so reduced his
herd that he gave up the sheep business. In the spring of 1878, hearing of
the illness of his father, he again returned East taking his family.
Spending a few months East he returned to California and located in Los
Angeles county, where he has since resided. When Mr. Durrell first located
where his residence now stands, the country was a wild barren plain, not a
tree, house or fence to be seen. His father also came to California from the
East in 1878, bringing with him his large family of children with their
families, numbering some seven- teen persons, all of whom, with the
exception of one family, have settled in Los Angeles county.
A view of Mr. Durrell's place will be found on another page.
EDWARDS, SAMSON,
son of William and Elizabeth Edwards, was born in Berg Parish, County of
Cornwall, England, February 26, 1830. At an earlv age he commenced mining,
and in 1848 emigrated to New York with his parents. They went to Buffalo via
the Erie canal, and then to Erie, where he had the misfortune to lose both
of his
parents by death. He then joined his brother Thomas in Pittsburg, where he
engaged in mining and other pursuits for about a year. Here he did the
hardest work of his life for five shillings a day and boarded himself. He
then removed to the lead mining district of Wisconsin and mined there.
November 1. 1851, he married Miss Deanna Rogers, daughter of John and Jarre
Rogers, a native of England. He immediately began farming in Jo Daviess
county, Illinois, and four years later purchased and moved on to another
farm in the eastern part of the same county. Here his life passed quietly
along until 1872, when he sold his property and removed with his family to
Los Angeles
He has a good residence on
two hundred and two acres of land, fenced and well adapted to pasturage and
grain, a view of which appears in this work. His land is well watered by
three artesian wells, whose supply never fails. Mr. Edwards has had seven
children:—Elizabeth J., born July 25, 1852, died November 10, 1870; John
Samson, born August 7, 1853, died February 7, 1854; John, born October 16,
3855; William James, born April 22, 1858; Mary Isabella, born February 11,
1861; Hester Ann, born December 10, 1862; Thomas Nelson, born September 19,
1872. William J. is married and resides at home. The eldest daughter is also
married to F. J. Rogers, who resides at Garden Grove, in this county. Mr.
Edwards is a member of the M. E. Church of Westminster, of which he is the
principal support; in politics he is a Republican.
EDWARDS, THOMAS,
son of William and Elizabeth Edwards, was born in Crown Parish, Cornwall,
England. He attended the common schools, and then followed his father's
occupation, mining, till 1847. He then came to the United States, arriving
July 4,1847, and immediately began work in the copper mines of Lake
Superior, where he remained one year. He then removed to Allegheny County,
Pennsylvania, and engaged in coal mining. At Birmingham, Pennsylvania,
November 4,1848, he married Miss Sarah Rogers, a native of England. In 1849
he went to the lead mines in Giant county, Wisconsin, and in 1852 he crossed
the plains to the gold fields of California. After mining fifteen months in
Sonora, Tuolumne county, he went to Grass Valley for a short time. and then
returned East. He settled with his wife on a farm in Green county,
Wisconsin, and began life with but a team of horses. By economy and
industry, he built up a good home in sixteen years that he sold for sixteen
thousand dollars. Owing to ill-health, he then made a voyage to his native
land, and spent one year, and upon his return, came West again with his
family. He traveled through Oregon, Washington, Victoria, and the greater
portion of California, seeking a good location, and, finally, settled in Los
Angeles county. He owns .six hundred and two acres at Westminster,
well-adapted to farming and pasturage, and watered by a never failing supply
of water from artesian wells. A view of his residence can be seen on another
page. Mr. Edwards has had eleven children. Two, whom he named William Henry,
died in infancy; his third child also received the same name, and is now
living near his father. The others were: Martha Matilda, living in San
Francisco; Elizabeth- Jane, Sarah Louisa, Samuel Charles, deceased; John
Thomas, Mary Alice, deceased; the tenth child died in infancy, and Matthew
James. Mr. Edwards is a Republican, and is a liberal supporter of the
Presbyterian Church.
FERGUSSON. DR. REGINALD A., proprietor of the sanitarium at Anaheim, Los Angeles County, California, is a son of the late Doctor Edward Laup Fergusson of No. 43 Clermont Square, London, England. He came to this country in 1877, and settled at Anaheim, where he has since resided in the practice of his profession. A view of the sanitarium will be found in this work. Doctor Fergusson has taken the following degrees: M. D.. M.Ch.,Qu. Unio, Ireland; L. R. C. P., L. M., L. R. C. S., Infirmary, Glasgow. Dr. Fergusson is at present in England, where he has gone to settle up the estate of his father recently deceased.
FOSTER, EDMUND B.,
was born in Madison County, New York, December 31,1837. His parents, Albert
and Olive Foster, were natives of Connecticut, and went to New York in 1830.
Mr. Foster was reared upon a farm, attended the common schools of his native
State, and was a pupil for several terms at the Oneida Academy. After
leaving school, he turned his attention to farming and pursued that
occupation until 1876, when he came to California to make for himself a home
in its semi-tropical climate. He settled in Centralia at his present home in
1878, a view of which is given elsewhere in this work. He owns one hundred
and sixty acres of good land, well improved. August 16, 1879 he married Miss
Lizzie A. Hill, daughter of Joseph C. and Emma Hill of Centralia. She was
born in Wisconsin, and emigrated with her parents to Puget Sound, Washington
Territory, then to Walla Walla for a year, then came to this county, living
at Orange and finally at Centralia. Mr. Foster was reared in the Protestant
faith, and is a Republican in politics.
GARDNER, J. W., resides at Santa Ana; was born in Canada in 1844; moved with his parents to Lowell, Michigan, in 1847, where he lived until he was seventeen years of age, when he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-first Michigan Infantry. Returning from the war, he attended school at Grand Rapids, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, for one year.
He taught music until he was
twenty-three, when he was married. Shortly after he went East to attend a
musical institute. In 1872 he commenced the manufacture of the
"Gardner organ," in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He came to California in 1875
and has been extensively engaged in the music business throughout the State,
also in Oregon and Washington Territory; has had music store in Oakland, and
Salem, Oregon. Failing in health, he located in Los Angeles county to regain
it. A view of his place will be found in this work.
GOOCH, THOMAS L., was born in North Carolina in the year 1847, being the youngest of nine children born to Thomas W. and Mary Jane Gooch. In 1859 they removed to Arkansas, taking with them six of their family, Thomas L. being one of these. In 1863, he joined the Southern Army and served until the close of the war, most of the time as a scout. In 1865 he went to Texas, but remained there only six months, when he went to Louisiana.
After about a year in that
State he returned to Pope county, Arkansas, where be resided until , 1870,
when he came to California by rail and settled in the Los Nietos valley,
where he has since resided. In December, 1870 he was married to Miss
Alida C. Shugg, a native of Los Angeles County, who was born January 22,
1854, to James
and Esther Shugg, who settled in Los Angeles county in 1852. By this union
they have five children (four girls and one boy) all living. Emma J., born
January 7, 1872; Clara A., born October 11, 1873; Mary Ella, born October
26, 1875; George L., born September 22, 1877; Esther C., born Mav 29, 1879.
Mr. Gooch has 38 acres of rich bottom
land located between the two San Gabriel rivers being a part of the Ranchito
Rancho. A view of his place appears on another page.
GOTHARD, GEORGE, son of Isaac and Marv A Gothard, was born in Derinda, Jo Daviess County' Illinois, February 24,1852. He was born and reared on a farm, and received an education at the excellent public schools of his native State. Having remained at the homestead until twenty-two years of age, and desiring to build up a home and property for himself, he bade adieu to his friends in 1874 and came to live among the orange groves of California. He located in Westminster, and by his industry and energy, has one hundred acres of land well fenced and under a high state of cultivation, and well adapted to grazing and grain a view of which appears in this work. Mr. Gothard was married July 3, 1879, to Miss Elizabeth J. Edwards, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Edwards.
In politics he is a firm Republican and has been reared in and adheres to the Protestant religion. He had the pleasure of receiving a visit from his mother, now quite an aged lady, in the fall of 1878.
GROVE, M. P., resides in Los Angeles. He came to California with his family from Ray County, Missouri, in the. fall of 1875, and in January, 187C,' commenced the improvements on his place. He was one of the first to adopt the system of sub-irrigation in Los Angeles County, and was so pleased with that manner of irrigating that he has had his entire grounds piped. The pipes are so connected that he can water his whole orchard by turning the water into the pipes, or can water any row or number of rows independent of the balance. Mr. Grove claims that by the pipe system it requires only one-fifth of the water used in surface irrigation. A view of his place will be found elsewhere.
GUINN, JAMES MILLER,
of Anaheim, was born November 27, 1834, in Shelby county, Ohio. He spent the
early part of his life in assisting his father to clear a farm, western Ohio
at that time being an almost unbroken forest.
Three months of each winter he attended school in a little log school-house,
which was his only means for gaining an education. At the age of eighteen he
began teaching, having prepared himself by studying evenings after doing a
hard day's work. By teaching during vacations, manual labor, and the closest
economy, he worked his way through college, and graduated with honors. April
19, 1861, he enlisted in the army in the three-months' service, and
afterwards for three years. He engaged in the West Virginia campaign under
McClellan, and afterwards with Rosencrans. Mr. Guinn made a narrow escape
from capture at the battle of Kesler's Cross Lanes—he made his es-
cape to the mountains, where he remained five days without food. He was
engaged in the battles of Winchester, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, and
Antietam. Losing his health through exposure, he was mustered out of
service; he again entered under the rank of Captain, and again retired In
November, 1863, he came to California, and first located in Centerville.
Alameda county where he taught school for three months. In 1864
went to Idaho and engaged in gold mining in the Boise Basin for three years.
Returning to California in 1867, he taught school in Livermore, and
afterwards in Pleasanton, Alameda county.
He went East in 1868; returned in 1869.and commenced teaching in Anaheim October 22nd of that year and has continued until the present time He first taught in a small adobe building and had twenty pupils. There is now a fine school building and an attendance of two hundred pupils. Four teachers are employed. A view of the Anaheim school, also of Mr. Guinn's residence will be found on another page.
History of Los Angeles
County California :Thompson & West - Oakland, CA 1880
Pacific Press Printing & Publishing House - Pages 176-178
Transcribed by: Martha A Crosley Graham
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