Orange County
Biographies
G. G. GREELEY,
horticulturist, near Anaheim, was born in Belfast, Maine,
in 1817. His parents, John and Mary (Black) Greeley, natives respectively of New
Hampshire and Maine, and of English descent, had seven children, of whom the
subject of this sketch was the second. At the age of twenty‑one he started out
in life for himself, learning
the trade of carpenter at Searsport, Maine, being employed in that business four
years. He subsequently took up land at Aroostook, and followed timbering for
about a year. Next he worked at his trade for a time, building a hotel at No.
11; worked two years longer in Boston, and then on the barracks in New Orleans.
In the spring of 18— he went to New York State, and was employed one summer. In
September, 1849, he left Boston for California in the sailship Harriet Rockwell,
as the ship's carpenter. Coming by way of Cape Horn, he landed in San Francisco
in February. The first two years in this State he spent in the mines on the
Tuolumne river, the next six years on the Feather river, then traveled some
through Oregon, and in 1858 he settled in Oakland and worked at his trade there
for nine years. In 1869 he came to Southern California and bought property near
Anaheim, where he has since lived, raising grapes, oranges, etc. He owns an
interest in the Anaheim Union Water Works, and has been very successful as a
horticulturist.
He was married in the fall of 1860, in Oakland, to Mrs. Hannah B. Greeley, whose maiden name was Strant. Mr. Greeley is a stanch Republican in politics. His first vote was cast for Harrison, and his last for the "grandson." Mr. and Mrs. Greeley have no children, and are spending the evening of life in the quiet retreat of their beautiful suburban home.
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.- 859
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
TIM CARROLL,
proprietor of the Anaheim Evergreen Nursery, was born in County Cork, Ireland, March 25,1840, the second in a family of nine children, of Patrick and Mary (Scandlan) Carroll, who moved to Australia in 1855. He came to Santa Cruz, California, in 1866, and worked at shipping lumber two years. In 1868 he came to Anaheim and bought fifty acres of land, his purchase being the first outside of the town limits. He then started the nursery business on a small scale, and to-day he has the largest nursery in Southern California if not in the State. A few figures will be here submitted to show what a man of pluck and energy can do: in the nursery stock at this time there are 1,500,000 orange trees; 1,000,000 lemon trees, 4,000,000 gum trees, 1,000,000 deciduous fruit trees, besides palms, pines, cypress and other kinds of fruit and ornamental trees. The nursery is located near the Southern Pacific depot at Anaheim. In addition to this, Mr. Carroll has a young nursery at Los Alamitos, and sixty acres in the Centralia tract, besides other property. He has been eminently successful in the work he has undertaken, and eminently deserves the success, on account of his industry, enterprise and shrewd judgment.
He was married May 27, 1878, to Lizzie Doherty, from the north of Ireland. Her parents were George and Mary (Clemons) Doherty. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll are Joseph M., George P., Mary and Timothy J.
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.- 859-860
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
ANDER MILLS,
deceased, was born May 6, 1814, in Massachusetts. At the
age of sixteen years he left home, and traveled extensively in different States.
In Missouri, in 1852, he married Miss Ruth A. Ripper, and immediately started
across the plains to California, with an ox team. In this State he first took up
about 3,000 acres of Government land, on which he herded cattle for twenty years
with considerable profit. In 1874, his health failing, he came to Southern
California and bought 320
acres in the Westminster colony. His children were: Julia, wife of George
McCormac; Maria, deceased; Amanda, deceased ; Jane, wife of James Young; Abram,
deceased; Frank and George H. The two last mentioned, the only surviving sons,
are now in possession of the Westminster farm. George married Miss Eliza Barker,
a native of California, and they have a daughter named Myrtie. The subject of
this sketch died March 3, 1890, and his wife had died previously, in 1872.
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.- 861-862
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler