Lake County
Biographies
ORMISTON W. SWAYZE, A.B., M.D.
of Lakeport, was born near St. Catherines, Canada, in the year 1865, and in 1870 his parents removed to Michigan, and in 1875 to California. He lived in Quincy, Plumas County, two years, and then moved to Lakeport, Lake County. In 1880 he entered Adelbert College, of the Western Reserve University, at Cleveland, Ohio, where he pursued his studies until 1884; then he entered Homeopathic College of that city, and graduated there with honor. After serving a year as assistant house-surgeon at the Huron Street Hospital of Cleveland, he commenced the practice of his chosen profession in Lakeport, in the spring of 1889, and has been so uniformly successful that his practice is not exceeded by any physician in the city, and extends to nearly every part of the county. He is the only homeopathic physician in Lakeport.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
WILLIAM O. EDMANDS, JR.
a farmer of Upper Lake, Lake County, was born at Newton, Massachusetts, December 23, 1859. He received his education in the public schools of Newton and Harvard College, where he graduated in the class of 1883. In the fall of 1884 he came to Lake County with Messrs. Charles Mifflin Hammond and Gardiner Greene Hammond, Jr., to look for a location to engage in wine manufacture and in fruit and stock raising. They were pleased with this section of country and purchased 1,300 acres of land on the east side of the northern part of Clear Lake. This tract of land was not improved, having been used previously as a sheep ranch. They took possession of this property, since known as “Red Hill Ranch,” November 1, 1884, and immediately entered upon a vigorous and systematic course of improvement. The climate and soil have proven to be admirably adapted for the purposes for which it has been utilized, and the results accomplished in the few years under the management of the proprietors is truly wonderful. Mr. Edmands’ ranch consists of 482 acres, 100 of which is cultivated, the balance being used as pasture lands. He is engaged principally in raising fine cattle and horses, making a specialty of the short-horn Durham breed of cattle and grade Percheron horses. He has a very attractive house, which commands a magnificent view of Clear Lake and the grand scenery surrounding it. He is constantly making new improvements, being now engaged in laying pipes to conduct water from a fine spring on the mountain side about one mile distant, to his residence. Mr. Edmands is very systematic in all he does, which, in connection with his good judgment and enterprise, has led to his present prosperity, and which cannot fail to result in future success. His accomplished wife, nee Hammond, is a daughter of Mr. Gardiner Greene Hammond, a gentleman of New London, Connecticut.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler