Orange County
Biographies
HENRY A. PEABODY
HENRY A. PEABODY, manager of the Santa Ana
Blade, was born in Detroit, Michigan, March 19, 1837; in 1847 he was a newsboy
in Cincinnati, Ohio; in March, 1857, as a journeyman printer. He started from
Columbia, Missouri, for California, crossing the plains, and arriving at Colusa,
California, September 1, 1857, barefooted and without a coat to his back. There
he hired himself out to drive an ox team, three yoke, to Petaluma, California,
earning his first money in the State. About September 20 he took work in the
Democrat office at Santa Rosa, California, and from that time followed his trade
at Santa Rosa and in San Francisco till June, 1859, when he returned east with
the intention of completing his education and studying law. The war of 1861
broke into his preconceived plan, and he entered the Confederate service,
filling the positions of private, ordnance sergeant, drill-master,
sergeant-major, lieutenant and adjutant, and captain, passing through the war,
receiving but two wounds in the four years. At the close of the war he returned
to California penniless, and since then has steadily followed the business of
printing, during that time being foreman of the Sonora Democrat, Vallejo Daily
Independent, Tulare Times, and the State printing office, and associate
proprietor of the Sonoma Democrat, proprietor of the Mendocino Democrat, and
now, in 1890, he is a member of the Blade Publishing Company and manager of the
Morning and Weekly Blade, published at Santa Ana, Orange County, California. He
has a wife, two daughters and two sons, and hopes to live twenty or thirty years
longer in the service of his country.
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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D. C. SCHOLL
C D. SCHOLL, of Tustin, was born December 25,
1807, a son of Jacob P. and Elizabeth Scholl, natives of Pennsylvania. His
father, a blacksmith by trade, moved to New York in 1815, and died there in
1835; then the subject of this sketch, the eldest of the nine children in his
father’s family, returned to Pennsylvania and learned the milling business with
his grandfather. In 1834 he went again to New York, married Miss Lucy Rowell, a
native of Massachusetts, and the next year moved to Goshen, Indiana, where he
engaged in the furnace and machinery business until 1849, when he crossed the
plains to California, returning again to Indiana in 1852. After this he followed
milling until 1861, when he re-crossed the plains to California with his horse
teams. The first seven years in this State he followed farming in Solano County
then was a resident of San Francisco eight years, in Vallejo seven years and
finally moved to Tustin, Orange County, where he has since occupied a fine fruit
ranch in the beautiful Santa Ana valley. Politically Mr. Scholl is a democrat.
He has seen many of the hardships of pioneer life, but by industry and economy
he has succeeded far better than many who have been more favored with
opportunity.
Mr. and Mrs. Scholl have reared a family of seven children; Amelia, wife of N.
Vanderlip; Maria, now Mrs. George Ellsworth; Fidelia, wife of John W. Ballard;
Orlando, a grocery man of Tustin. The others are now all deceased.
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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