HAZARD, HENRY T., Los Angeles,
was born in Evanston. Illinois. July 31, 1844. He crossed the Plains to
California with his parents in 1852 and settled in Los Angeles county, on a
farm a few miles west of Los Angeles, in the winter of 1853. His father
being in moderate circumstances compelled Henry to shift for himself, and at
the age of thirteen found him driving team from Los Angeles to San Pedro. In
1860-61 he attended school at Visalia, Tulare county. Returning to Los
Angles in the latter part of 1861 he engaged in farming which he continued
for about a year. In 1863-64 he attended school at the San Jose Institute
and College, after which he returned to Los Angeles and commenced the study
of law in the office of General Volney E. Howard. This he continued
for a short time. He then drove a team to Arizona and from the funds thus
obtained he went East and completed his studies at the University of
Michigan, graduating with the law class of 1868. He was correspondent to the
Chicago Convention that nominated General Grant in June 1868; also to the
Convention that nominated Governor Seymour in New York in July, 1868,
after which he returned to Los Angeles and resumed the practice of law. He
is a member of the Bar of Los Angeles county, and has the reputation of
being one of the finest lawyers in southern California. A view of Mr.
Hazard's property will be found in this work.
HELLMAN, H W ... resides in Los Angeles, is a native of Bavaria,
Germany. Emigrated to America at the age of fifteen, in May, 1859,
coming direct to Los Angeles county. California, where he has since resided.
He acted as clerk for several years for General P. S. Banning, of Wilmington
Los Angeles county; also for S. Hellman , after
which he started in the book and fancy goods business in Los Angeles,
and continued until April, 1870 In November, 1871, he engaged in the
wholesale grocery, liquor and hardware business under the firm name of
Hellman, Haas & Co.; consisting of H. W. Hellman, Abram Haas, and Jacob
Haas, with which firm he is still connected A view of Mr. Hellman's
residence will be found in this work.
HELLMAN, L W ...Los Angeles, was born in Bavaria, Germany, came to Los
Angeles when a boy of fifteen, served as a clerk in the dry goods house of I
M. Hellman for five years, when he went into the same line of business for
himself This he carried on successfully until 1868; when he entered the
banking business as senior partner in the firm of Hellman, Temple & Co. This
partnership continued about three years, Mr. Hellman then withdrawing from
the firm and organizing the Farmers and Merchants Bank (the first
incorporated and the oldest bank in Los Angeles), and is now its president.
In addition to Mr. Hellman's banking interests, he has always been a public
spirited citizen, and has proven his faith in southern California and Los
Angeles by building many of the finest business blocks and residences in the
city, and establishing gas and water-works, being a director and stock-
holder in both companies. He is also largely interested in the celebrated
Cucamonga vineyard, and owns several flocks of fine sheep. His residence is
said to be one of the finest in the State outside of San Francisco, a view
of which will be found elsewhere.
HOLLENBECK, J E ...of Los Angeles, was born in Hudson. Summit county,
Ohio, in 1829. In 1845 he moved to Illinois, where he remained two years,
and returned to Ohio and entered the employ of Messrs. Bell & Chamberlain of
Cuyahoga Falls to learn the machinist trade. He started for California in
1850 during the gold excitement, sailing from New Orleans in the spring of
that year for Chagres. At Panama the steamer he expected to have got passage
on broke down, and while waiting he was taken with the Panama fever; spent
all his money and returned to Chagres, and went to work on the river steamer
Billy Green. In the latter part of 1851 he went to Grey Town, Nicaragua,
Central America, and worked on a steamer on the San Juan river; and in 1852
started a trading station at Machuca Rapids. In the spring of 1853 he
purchased the Nicaragua Hotel at Castillo Rapids, which he continued to run
until February, 1856, when he was burned out by the Costa Ricans; the
following spring he opened a small general store at Grey Town.
In
1867 he purchased the river and lake steamers and established a line of
boats between Grey Town and the lake ports, carrying freight and passengers
also carrying the mails for that Government In 1875 Mr. Hollenbeck's
health having failed, he visited Los Angeles after traveling in Europe in
search of health. In the fall of 1875 he returned to Nicaragua, Central
America, where his health again failed; He returned to Los Angeles in March
1876, where he has since resided, commenced to improve his place in 1876.
but did not plant any trees until June. 1877. A view of Mr. Hollenbeck's
residence will be found on another page.
HOOPER J. W. ...Los Angeles, came to California from Worcester,
Massachusetts, in 1874, in search of health. After looking over different
portions of the country for a place to locate he settled in Los Angeles
county, where he has since resided. When Mr Hooper first located on his
place it was a wilderness of weeds and corn-stalks. He moved his family into
an old adobe house, where they lived a short time, when he built a house of
rough boards, intending it only as a temporary shelter. He then commenced
the improvements on his place, first planting out two acres of alfalfa,
which still furnishes sufficient feed for his stock. The balance of the
place h set out in orange trees which are planted twenty-four feet apart,
and between the rows are fruit trees of nearly every variety on the coast.
Mr. Hooper shipped his first crop of oranges to Arizona in 1879, and
hereafter expects to receive a good revenue from that source. He lived in
this board house for about three years, when he built his present residence,
and that he has succeeded in making a beautiful home, may be seen by the
view of his property, which will be found in this work.
HOUSE
R. F., resides at
Pomona. He was born in Haddam Neck, Middlesex county, Connecticut.
When a small boy he went to sea and the end of four years found him in South
America. In November, 1866, he returned to the United States. He left New
York in October, 1867, on the steamer Arizona, for California by way of the
Isthmus. At Panama he took the steamer Golden City and arrived m San
Francisco in November of that year. From San Francisco he went to
Newcastle, Placer county, where he remained a short time visiting relatives.
In 1868 he was employed by the Central Pacific Railroad as conductor, and
afterwards by the Southern Pacific Railroad, in
whose employ he continued until April, 1876, when he purchased his property,
a view of which appears in this work.
His orchard contains five
hundred and forty-seven orange trees (two hundred bearing), forty lemon and
two hundred lime trees, besides a large variety of other tropical fruits.
Mr. House was married in 1870, to Miss Florence Jane Mc-Cullough. They had
one child, a boy, who died at the age of two and a half years. When Mr
House. arrived in San Francisco he had about ten dollars; he has property
now to the value of ten thousand dollars.
HUNT, WILLIAM B., was born March 29, 1837, in Gloucester township, Camden County, New Jersey, and is the son of Samuel B. and Susan Hunt. When he arrived at the age of nineteen years he moved to Ohio. He was married in Springfield, Ohio in the fall of 1858, to Margaret Mulcahy. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted in the Ninety-fifth Infantry Ohio Volunteers, and served three years,being most of the time on detached service. He was at the siege of Vicksburg and Jackson, Mississippi. and at Richmond, Kentucky. In January, 1869 be removed to California and settled in Los Angeles, and in June, 1877, came to Orange, where he is engaged in carriage and wagon making and general blacksmithing. He owns a town lot and blacksmith shop, also twenty acres of orchard, containing orange and other fruit trees, most of them in fine bearing condition. A view of his residence and surroundings can be seen on another page.
He has seven children, five sons and two daughters Julian, Leo and Nellie, were born in the town of California, Ohio; and Hubert, Laura, Homer and Richard, were born in Los Angeles. California.
KONIG
WILLIAM, was born
in Hedfeldt, Hanover Germany. March 20, 1832. At an early age he learned the
art of wine-making in Hamburg and continued in that business until 1858,
when he came direct to California, arriving in San Francisco on the 1st or
2d of October. He passed around Cape Horn in July and was six months and
four-
teen days without setting foot on land. He immediately engaged with a firm
that dealt in wine and groceries and remained with them eleven years In 1869
he came to Anaheim and purchased his present vineyard, and has since been
engaged extensively in the wine trade. He ships wine to Chicago, St. Louis,
and other Eastern cities, and hasshipped to London. He keeps his wine until
age guarantees its quality, never selling any under five years of age. He
has twenty-five thousand gallons of wine now on hand, kept in a fire-proof
building of stone, brick and adobe. He has been a successful business man
and accumulated considerable property, and also owns a tannery not now in
operation. A view of his place is shown on another page. Mr. Konig married
Miss Adelpeit Eichler, June 25, 1869. She is a daughter of Henry Eichler of
San Francisco, and was born in Hungary, Austria. Mr. Konig is a Republican
in politics and adheres to the Protestant faith.
KORN
F A., was born in
Altcnburg, Saxony, Germany, June 21, 1829. Having received his education,
and being a young man of energy, he came to the United States in June, 1850,
and in December, 1851, came to California by the Isthmus route. Like most of
those who came to this State at that early date, he turned his attention to
mining, and followed that pursuit chiefly in Sierra county till 1863 He was
then attracted to the silver mines in Nevada, but soon became tired of the
business and three months later came to Los Angeles with the intention of
embarking in the sheep business. This be found not agreeable to him and,
therefore, came to Anaheim and purchased a vineyard, where he has since been
engaged in grape.raising and distilling grape brandy, and has been engaged
at times in buying and selling wine. He has a good comfortable home, well
shown in one of the illustrations in this work.
KROEGER, HENRY, son of Christian and Catharina Kroeger, was born in Bramsfcadt, Holstein, Germany, November 24, 1830; his parents also being natives of the same town. He received an education in the common schools of his native land, and subsequently learned the cooper's trade. He then served as a volunteer in the Schleswig-Holstein war. Being a young man of energy he decided to take a step none of his relatives had before attempted, to come to America, and sailed from Hamburg in October, 1854, passing around Cape Horn and arriving in San Frrancisco March 29, 1855. He at once commenced to work at his trade, and in 1856 purchased a shop on Broadway and conducted the business until 1862. Having succeeded so well, he sent money home in 1856 to bring his brother to this country, who has since died; and later in the same year for his sister and Miss Sophia Husman, the latter of whom be married January 11, 1857. She was born in Harpstadt, Hanover, Germany, September 2 1833, and was a daughter of Henry and Margartia Husman. His father came with them. In 1858 be remitted funds home to bring his brother-in-law and mother-in-law; and in 1861 aided in bringing another sister and sister-in- law.
He has funds now deposited in a Bremen bank to bring other relations to this country. Having his attention directed in 1859 to the excellent fruit prospects of Los Angeles county, he purchased one share in the Los Angeles Vineyard Society, and later in the same year bought another, the society being afterwards changed to the Anaheim Water 'Company. In 1862 he moved his family to Anaheim, where he has since resided, and accumulated considerable property by energy and prudent management. He owns two vine-yards • D No. 1 and G No. 6, of twenty acres each, being two shares in the association. He was entirely inexperienced in viniculture and wine-making, and has paid dearly for the knowledge he now possesses. On his D No. 1 property is his residence, which he built in 1871 at a cost of four thousand five hundred dollars, wine-cellar and other buildings.
In 1871-2 he built the
Anaheim Hotel at a cost of seven thousand five hundred dollars, and in 1874
erected Kroeger's Hall, of brick, at an expense of eleven thousand dollars,
to which he built an addition costing two thousand five hundred dollars. A
view of his handsome residence forms one of the illustrations in this work.
Mr. Kroeger has had a family of thirteen children, of whom seven are still
living. Marv, born November 24, 1857, died October 26, 1858; Henrietta, born
November 7. 1858; Herman, born July 14, 1860, died January 29, 1863; Willie,
born October 8, 1862; Annie, born April 18, 1864, died July 21. 1865;
Sophia, born November 1, 1865; Helane, born September 9. 1867, died January
3, 1868; Henry, born March 31, 1869; Heunine. born December 9, 1870, died
March 20, 1872; Louis, born May 9, 1873; "Pauline, born January 7, 1875;
Amy. born April 11. 1876; Adolf, born September 9, 1877, died October 20,
1877. In politics he is a Democrat, and in religion a Lutheran.
LANGENBEEGER, A., was born in the town of Stadthagen, in the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany, in the year 1824. In 1846, having arrived at the age of twenty-two years, he left his native land and came to America. He lived in New Orleans and then emigrated to California in 1848, in advance of that great tide of Argonauts that came pouring in the following year. Upon his arrival he found the few people that then were here in a fever of excitement, and all were in the mines, but newly discovered, delving for gold. He also caught the infection and mined during the latter part of 1848 and the first part of 1849 on the Stanislaus and Yuba rivers. In August, 1849, just as the great majority of "forty-niners" were arriving in the mines, he left them and opened a store in the mission of San Gabriel, Los Angeles County. In 1858 he came to Anaheim, soon after the place was first settled, and opened a general merchandise store, which he is keeping at the present time with his two sons, Fred and Charles. Since 1860 he has been agent for Wells, Fargo & Co., a term of twenty years.
He is also engaged in the
manufacture of wine and brandy from a vineyard of seventy acres. A view of
his place can be seen on another page of this volume. In 1850 he married a
daughter of the late Juan Pacifico Ontiveras, who died in 1867. They had
nine children, of whom seven are still living. He again married in 1874,
Mrs. Clementina Schmidt. They have two children, twins, born in 1875.
LEAHY, THOMAS,
lives in Los Angeles, was born in Cork, Ireland. Emigrated to America when
he was fifteen years of age. Came to California and located in Log Angeles
in 1851, where he has since resided. He was for several years a clerk for M.
Keller, Esq., of Los Angeles. In 1865 he went into the boot and shoe trade,
which business he continued in until 1877. He has owned his property on
Alameda street since 1865, and all the
improvements on the same have been made under his direction. When he
purchased the property, it contained an old adobe building, only part of a
vineyard and a few orange trees, it now has a vineyard of twenty-five
thousand vines, a fine orange and lemon grove containing about one thousand
trees, and a comfortable house, barn, out-buildings, etc. Mr. Leahy makes a
specialty in the wholesale manufacture of wine. Oranges and grapes are the
principal fruits grown on his place. A view of his property will be found on
another page.
LICHTENBERGER, L.,
lives in Los Angeles, was born in Prussia. Emigrated 10 the Untied States in
1851 and located in Chicago, where he learned the trade of wagon and
carriage making. He came to California in 1860, and in 1864 established his
present business in Los Angeles. By honest and upright dealing he has built
up a prosperous business. At his factory, 145 and 147 Main street, Los
Angeles, carriages are made that equal the celebrated "Brewster" and other
fine makes. He makes a specialty of the California spring wagon: As many as
three hundred wagons and carriages have been manufactured at his factory in
one year. He ships over the entire State, and also to Arizona. That he is
highly esteemed as a citizen, is proven by the fact that in 1878 he way
elected to the responsible office of City Treasurer, after having served one
term in the Common Council. A view of his establishment is published in this
work.
LOCKWOOD, HENRY,
son of Isaac and Elvira Lockwood, was born in Tompkina Dell, New York,
October 1, 1839. His parents were also natives of New York, and his father
was a farmer and lumberman. At the age of seven years, he removed with his
parents to Calhoun county, Michigan, where he continued to reside until
1873. November 1, 1865, he married Miss Eliza J. Beach, daughter of Joseph
and Eliza F. Beach, and has three children: Clara E., Frederick H., and
Angie. In 1873 he came to California and settled at Orange, where he has
twenty acres in orchard and one-half acre of vineyard; there are one
thousand orange and many other fruit trees. The place is under a good state
of cultivation, and at present prices, is worth from twelve to fifteen
thousand dollars. A fine view of his residence can be seen on another page.
LYMAN, S. of
Westminster, was born in Blandford, Massachusetts, in 1826. He was the third
of a family of ten children. When he was fifteen years of age he moved
with his father to Shiawaasee county, Michigan, where he engaged in farming.
In 1852, with a company of twenty, he started across the plains for
California, arriving in
Downieville, Sierra county, August 20th, being three months on the way. In
the spring of 1853, he went to Forest City, Sierra county, and bought an
interest in the Washington Company's claim- this investment proved very
remunerative.
Mr. Lyman sold his interest,
however, and purchased a saw-mill in- the same locality-this he conducted
for one year. In the spring of 1857, in company with three others he went to
Pike City, Sierra county, where they erected an eight stamp quartz-mill,
this enterprise proved a failure, and Mr. Lyman lost some six thousand
dollars. He, however, continued mining and prospecting until 1859, visiting
the Frazer river country, Vancouver's
Island, etc., etc., in his wanderings. In 1859 he commenced ranching near
Vallejo in company with Mr. John Guinn. Mr. Lyman was obliged to discontinue
ranching, being seriously troubled with his eyes, which were finally cured
by an eminent San Francisco oculist whom he employed. In November, 1860, he
went to Santa Clara county, and located near what is now known as Saratoga;
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.
History of Los Angeles County California :Thompson & West - Oakland, CA
1880
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