Orange County
Biographies
J. P. BOYD, M. D.,
of Santa Ana, was born in Buchanan, Virginia, in 1854, received his literary education at private schools, taught a few terms, and in 1879 graduated at the University of the City of New York. He practiced his profession in Bedford County, Virginia, until 1883, when he returned to Buchanan and practiced as surgeon of the Richmond & Alleghany railroad, until 1888, and then he came to Santa Ana. He has given his whole attention to his profession, and is therefore recognized as an honorable and scholarly representative of the medical fraternity. At the present time he is Secretary of the Orange County Medical Association.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California… Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. p.- 890
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
COLONEL E. E. EDWARDS,
District Attorney for Orange County, is a gentleman whose life history is more interesting to the citizens of that county than that of almost any other resident. He was born in Lawrence County, Indiana, in 1835, attended one term at Asbury (now Depauw) University, at Greencastle, that State, and the law school at Albany,
New York, and was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court. In 1858 he opened out in his profession at Chariton, Iowa, in partnership with James Baker. In 1860 he went to the mines in Colorado, but soon the war broke out and he enlisted and was commissioned Lieutenant of Company B, Sixth Iowa Infantry; afterward he was appointed assistant provost-marshal of Memphis, Tennessee, where he was on duty from the summer of 1862 to the following spring. Returning to Iowa he was appointed assistant provost-marshal to enforce the draft in Lucas County. He was then commissioned Colonel of a regiment, which, however, was never called into active service.
At the close of the war Colonel Edwards was elected to the State Senate of Iowa. In 1878 he moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he was for two years secretary of the board of trade. In 1880 he came to the Golden State and engaged in the real-estate business in Santa Ana. In 1884 be was sent to the Legislature from the Seventy-eighth district, and he it was who introduced the bill for the organization of Orange County and brought about its adoption by the Assembly. In 1886 he was nominated by the Republican party for the Senate, but was defeated by a small majority by Hon. L. J. Rose. In 1888 he was re-elected to the Assembly from the Seventy-eighth district and introduced the bill for the organization of Orange County and also the bill for the location of the Insane Asylum in the southern part of the State; both bills became laws. Altogether Colonel Edwards introduced four bills, and they all became laws. This beats the record. At the extra session of 1880 Colonel Edwards was Chairman of the Committee on County and Township Government, and acting Chairman of the Committee on Irrigation, who reported a resolution for an amendment to the State constitution enabling the different counties of the State to make such irrigation laws as they pleased. He has been twice mayor and once city attorney of Chariton, Iowa. He was nominated by the three conventions for District Attorney of Orange County, and elected without opposition; and to accept this honor he resigned as Assemblyman. This it will be seen that no man has worked more assiduously for Orange County than Colonel Edwards.
He was married in Iowa, in 1863, to Miss Sallie Leffler, a daughter of Colonel Isaac Leffler, a Congressman from the Wheeling district, West Virginia. The Colonel and his wife have an interesting family of four children, and their residence is on Fourth street, in the beautiful county seat of Orange County.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California… Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. p.- 890-891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
C. E. GROUARD,
member of the City Council of Santa Ana, was born in the city of Los Angeles in 1858. His father, B. J. Grouard, came to California in 1850, and about 1855 went to San Francisco, where he was a contractor and builder for a number of years. He subsequently moved back to Illinois, and for some years farmed extensively in Fulton County, and it was in that county that the subject of this sketch received a high-school education. He came to California again in 1878, with his father, and they together have taken contracts and erected buildings, besides manufacturing brick extensively. They bought fifteen acres of fine land in the western part of the State, where their brick yards are located. Mr. Grouard resides in a neat brick house on Olive and Sixth streets. He is one of Santa Ana's enterprising and honored citizens, his fellow townsmen recognizing his ability by electing him to the office of Councilman, in March, 1889. He is a Republican and a member of the order of Odd Fellows.
He was married in November, 1887, to Miss Charlotte Garnsey, a native of Santa Clara County, California, and a daughter of one of the early pioneers of that county.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California… Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. p.- 891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler