Orange County
Biographies
JUDGE C. W. HUMPHREYS,
of Santa Ana, was born in Mason County, Kentucky, and is a son of Robert Humphreys. Following is a history of the family as furnished to the subject of this sketch by his father at the age of eighty-eight years:
Shortly after the close of the Revolutionary war, four brothers, by the name of Humphreys, with their families emigrated from Tyrone County, Ireland, to Virginia, to either Greenbriar or Monroe County. Their names were Richard, John, Robert and Samuel. My grandfather was Robert. His sons were James, John, Robert; daughters, Mollie, Nancy and Jane. John Humphreys married Jane Ward and moved to (now) Mason County, Kentucky, in 1792, in company with Simon Kenton and other early pioneers of Kentucky. He moved thence to what was then known as Mad river valley, Ohio, in 1799, and raised sons—James, Robert, Charles, Ward, John, William, Henry, Andrew and Lewis; daughters—Phoebe, Rebecca, and Betsey, who died at the age of thirteen years. Father died March 19, 1857, in his ninety-fourth year. The other three brothers, originally from Ireland, are scattered far and wide with their descendants. My grandfather Ward was raised in Virginia, and of Irish descent. My grandmother's maiden name was Lockhart. They had sons—William, John, James and Charles; daughters—Hannah, Betsey, Phebe, and my mother, Jane Humphreys. She died March, 1849. Grandfather Ward was killed at Point Pleasant, October 1, 1847, in the battle fought between troops commanded by General Lewis, of the whites, and the Indian chief, Cornstalk. He was buried on the battlefield and his grave was unknown. His son, John, was stolen by Indians at the age of two years, and raised as one of them. He fought, and was killed in a battle against his own people and the Indians. He had children—Rebecca, Sutaunney, and a son whose English name was Ward. They emigrated many years ago with their tribe west of the Mississippi river, and nothing further is known of them. Joseph Waters, together with his first wife (whose maiden name was Lansdale) and family, lived near Annapolis, Maryland; emigrated thence to Kentucky about 1792, and settled in Mason County, and had sons—Richard, Samuel and William; daughters —Elizabeth, Sally, Henrietta, Nancy, Polly, Peggy and Harriet,—all now dead."
From the foregoing sketch the reader will see that the lines of Judge Humphreys' ancestry have been well kept, and of this he is justly proud. His father was sheriff of Mason County, Kentucky, for a period of sixteen years, and be was a well known and highly respected citizen. Judge Humphreys came to Santa Ana in 1874. Here he was elected justice of the peace in 1875 and held the office until 1887: he now holds his ninth commission as notary public, the first of which was given him by Governor Irwin. He was a pioneer real-estate man in Santa Ana, and has done a large loan and insurance business, conveyancing, however, being his specialty. He married Cordelia Franklin, of Mason County, Kentucky; and they have had six children. The three living are Frank, Hattie and Jennie, and the three deceased are Charles, who died at the age of twenty-five years; Robert, who died at the age of nineteen years, and George E., who died at the early age of two and a half years.
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.- 857-858
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
B. F. E. KELLOGG,
farmer and stock-raiser near Anaheim, was born in Morgan County, Illinois, April 31, 1822. His parents, Elisha and Elizabeth (Derrick) Kellogg, were natives respectively of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and of Scotch descent. They settled first in western New York, where most of the children were born. They emigrated to Morgan County, Illinois, in pioneer times, where Mr. Kellogg built the first house in the county. Elisha Kellogg was a prominent politician in his day, serving as county judge and sheriff of Genesee County, New York. He died in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, in 1844. The subject of this sketch left Independence, Missouri, in May, 1846, and came overland with teams to California, arriving in Napa County in November, before gold was discovered. His journey was a very tedious and troublesome one. He enlisted in Frémont's army and served six months, being discharged at Mission San Gabriel, in April, 1848. He still receives a pension of $8 per month as a veteran of the Mexican war. He is able to relate many thrilling anecdotes of hardship and adventure. He and three brothers came in '44 to the Rocky mountains in search of a silver mine, and not finding it they built Fort Laramie by contract. Once he and a brother were attacked by Pawnee Indians, stripped of their clothes and robbed. They had to eat walnuts and raw frogs, and once he scorched the hair off his buffalo robe and ate the hide! He became sick and exhausted; his brother got lost from him, but afterward they met and were twenty-six days in reaching the borders of civilization.
Mr. Kellogg followed mining for several years after coming to this State, and afterward engaged in other pursuits. He first pitched his tent at Anaheim, May 21, 1869, and about that time he purchased 640 acres of land two and a half miles southwest of that point. He at once built a house and began improving the place; and ever since then he has been one of the most successful farmers and stockmen in the valley. Politically he affiliates with the Republican party. While in Napa, he was coroner of the city for a number of years, and he has held other positions of trust and honor.
He was married September 5, 1854, in Napa County, California, to Miss Mary O. Lillie, a native of Illinois, and a daughter of Luther and Orilla (Morgan) Lillie, natives of Connecticut, who had eight children. Mr. Kellogg came to California across the plains with her brother,
L. G. Lillie, in 1853, stopping in the Napa valley August 25. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg are: Henry Clay, Elizabeth, wife of B. O. Clark; Erwin, Leonard, Jane, wife of M. Evans; Edward, Lillie, Effie and Carrie.
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.- 858
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler