Orange County
Biographies
LEOPOLD GOEPPER,
proprietor of the Brunswick dining Parlors, Santa Ana, is a native of the Buckeye State, and was born October 10, 1856. His parents, Herman and Magdalena, were both natives of Germany, and came to America with their parents when quite young. The subject of this sketch, the eldest of their six children, left he common schools at the age of thirteen years. He was brought up on a farm and came with his father to California in 1870, locating in Santa Clara County, where they followed agricultural pursuits for six years. Then they came to Santa Ana. At the age of twenty-one years Mr. Goepper started out in life for himself, and has by his own efforts worked his way up to the position he now hold as a business man. In 1877 he began work as a waiter in the hotel kept by James Layman in Santa Ana. Afterward he was employed in the lumber-yard and then at blacksmithing. In 1879 he went to San Jose and, as times were dull, he went to work as waiter in the Lick House, and next he was night clerk in the St. James Hotel; next he was employed as steward in the Ogle House, the first hotel in Fresno. In 1880 he returned to Santa Ana, and followed house painting, with success, until 1887, when he went into the real-estate business. After the boom was over he kept a restaurant and bar, in company with his brother, and at that he was also successful. Then, in January, 1889, he took charge of the Richelieu restaurant, where he supplied the hungry public with the necessaries of life until he took charge of the Brunswick, May 1, 1890, where he is no holding forth, attentive to the wants, comfort and convenience of the people . He has made for himself a good name as a hotel man and is really very popular.
The Goepper tract of Santa Ana was laid out by him and his father, and is one of the best additions of the city, being located between Main and Ross streets, east and west, and bounded on the west by Seventeenth street.
Socially. Mr. Goepper is a member of Lodge No. 82, A. O. U. W., in which he has passed all the chairs. He was chosen representative to the Grand lodge in San Francisco in 1887, and he is at present District Grand Deputy Master. He is also a member of Santa Ana Lodge, No. 236, I. O. O. F.
November 23, 1887 he chose for his partner through life Miss Fannie Russell, the accomplished daughter of George L, and Nancy (Crowley) Russell, natives of Missouri, pioneers of 1849 to the Golden State. Mr. Russell was one of the first settlers in Santa Ana, building the fourth house in the place.
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, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890 Pages 847-848 Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben
GEORGE W. FORD,
proprietor of the Santa Ana Nursery, is one of the first settlers of the valley, arriving here in 1876, with only $10. The previous year he had been working by the day in Santa Cruz County. Two years later he purchased five acres of land within the city limits, for $400, and to this he has since added twenty-five acres more, most of which he has cut up into city lots and sold at good prices. In his nursery may be seen all kinds of deciduous trees and shrubs. He has recently erected a fine residence on Ross street, in the northwestern part of the city, which for convenience, comfort, a beautiful location and architectural finish would be an ornament to any city.
Mr. Ford was born in Perry County, Illinois, in 1848. His father, John Ford, was a native of Kentucky, and one of the first settlers of Illinois, moving there when it was a Territory. By industry, economy and enterprise, Mr. Ford had worked himself up in the world, and has shown himself worthy of the confidence and esteem of those with whom he has done business. He is recognized as one of Santa Ana’s most industrious and enterprising citizens and is ready to help along any undertaking which has for its object any public good.
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, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890 Page 883 Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben
JUDGE GEORGE E. FREEMAN,
Recorder for the city of Santa Ana, was born in Hallowell, Maine, in 1829, and at the age of twenty-one years left his home for California, coming by steamer and landing in San Francisco November 16, 1851. For seventeen years he engaged in mining and lumbering in El Dorado County. In 1869 he moved to Alameda County, where he worked at contracting and building for a number of years, and in 1877 he moved into the Santa Ana valley and followed his trade there until about four years ago, since which time he has been a citizen of the county seat. He has held the office of Justice of the Peace for eight years. In April, 1889, he was elected Recorder of the city. He is a Republican in his political principles, and he is a member of the I. O.O. F., and the A. O. U. W.
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, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890 Page 886 Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben
C. G. GARRISON, M. D.,
of Santa Ana was born in Swedesboro, New Jersey March 11. 1837, and completed his education in 1859. In 1863 he was married, and then took a medical course at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated there in 1865 but previous to this he was in the army and had the practice in the hospital department of the Thirty-fourth New Jersey Volunteers. After the war he practiced his profession in Philadelphia four years, and then four years at Kansas City, thirteen years at Prairie Grove, Arkansas, and two years ago he came to Santa Ana, where he has a large and lucrative practice He married Miss Anne R. Howe in Philadelphia.
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, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890 Page 891 Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben
Proof read by Betty Vickroy.