Orange County
Biographies
HENRY & CHARLES KUCHEL
HENRY AND CHARLES KUCHEL, editors and
proprietors of the Anaheim Gazette, took charge of this paper in 1887. They are
the sons of Conrad Kuchel, a native of Germany, and one of the earliest settlers
of Anaheim. For several years previous to his arrival in Anaheim he was engaged
in the business of engineering in San Francisco. Henry Kuchel, the senior editor
of the Gazette, was born in San Francisco, June 11, 1859. He received a
high-school education at the Anaheim schools, and learned the printer’s trade in
the office which he and his brother now own. He subsequently worked for ten
years on the principal newspapers throughout the State. He has spent his whole
time as a printer and editor, and the Gazette, of today has for its editor one
of the most practical newspaper men in Southern California. Mr. Kuchel is still
a young man, and, having, so thoroughly acquainted himself with journalism, it
is but natural to predict hat he will in the future hold an enviable position
among the prominent member of the “art preservative of arts.”
{transcriber's note:------ see HENRY KUCHEL- California Newspaper Hall of Fame}
http://www.cnpa.com/CalPress/hall/kuchel.htm
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.
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W. H. TITCHENAL
W. H. TITCHENAL, of Santa Ana, was born in
Harrison County, West Virginia, January 2, 1817, a son of John R. and Rebecca (Harbertt)
Titchenal , both natives of West Virginia. His father, a blacksmith by trade,
moved to Missouri in 1819, and in 1833 to the vicinity of Fort Smith, Arkansas,
where he died January 16, 1831.
The second of his nine children, the subject of this sketch, and a sister, are
the only surviving members of the family. Mr. Titchenal was brought up to the
life of a stock-raiser. From 1835 to 1852 he followed his calling, and also
mercantile business, after 1849, in Texas. He then came overland through Mexico
to the Pacific coast and then by sail to San Francisco, landing July 9, 1852.
After following mining and teaming for awhile, he moved to San Juan, in Monterey
county; was a resident of Mariposa County from 1855 to 1868, and March 4, 1869,
he started for Southern California, arriving at Santa Ana November 9. He first
bought two lots and followed farming and teaming. In 1871 he bought thirty-six
acres of land and erected the first swelling-house in Santa Ana, on lots No. 8.
and 9. In 1881—86 he built the Titchenal block, on Fourth street, at a cost of
about $16,000. The structure is a fine two-story brick, with seventy-five feet
frontage and eighty five feet deep. As a business man Mr. Titchenal has been
very successful , and as a citizen his record is beyond reproach. In former
years he was connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church South, but of late
years, he worships with the “Holiness” branch of the church.
In 1838 he went from Arkansas on a visit to his friends in Ohio, where he met
and married Miss Sarah Ann Dickason, January 29, 1839, and they have had eleven
children, only five of whom are now living, namely: Susan E., now Mrs. McHenry
Morrison, John Jackson; Martha J., wife of N. T. Settle; David D., and Samuel H,
proprietor of the candy store in Santa Ana.
[see obit for McHenry Morrison-
http://www.mariposaresearch.net/DISVIT10.html
see obit for Susan Titchenal Morrison
http://www.mariposaresearch.net/DISVIT12.html
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.
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