Orange County
Biographies
LYSANDER UTT
LYSANDER UTT a retired merchant of Tustin, is
a “’49er.” He was born in Wythe County, Virginia, June 1, 1824. His parents,
John and March (Criger) Utt were both natives of the Old Dominion, had a family
of thirteen children, and moved to Jackson County, Missouri, in 1840, where the
father died, in 1849. The subject of this sketch, the third child in order of
birth in the above family, worked at farming until the year named, when he came
to California across the plains with an ox team. In Mariposa County he followed
mining for two years, and then for twenty-three years he was engaged in teaming
and farming in Placer County. Two years ago he retired from active business, and
will spend the evening of life on his fruit ranch near Tustin. He has been very
successful in his business pursuits, and is widely and favorably known.
Politically he is true to the principles of the Democratic party, and his genial
disposition and cordiality are such as only the true “Southern spirit” can
manifest.
In 1864 he married Miss Arvilla E. Platt, and they have one son, Charles E, who
is now his father’s successor in the mercantile business at the old stand at the
corner of Fourth and D streets in Tustin.
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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JACOB MAGGARD
JACOB MAGGARD, residing near Anaheim, was born
in Caldwell County, Kentucky, August 12, 1815. His parents, Jacob and Susan
(Bright) Maggard, natives of Virginia and Tennessee, had ten children, he being
the fifth. At the age of twenty years he started out in life for himself by
working by the day in Scotland County, Missouri, wither his father had moved
fifteen years previously. He was reared principally in Randolph County,
Missouri. He continued in his calling as a farmer, in which he was successful,
until about twelve years ago, when he came to California and purchased property
in Sonoma County. More recently he purchased his present residence, where he
will spend the evening of his life. He and his wife have long been earnest
workers in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and are exemplary in their
conduct as Christians.
Mr. Maggard was married in Missouri, February 11, 1841, to Elizabeth Myers, a
native of that State, and a daughter of Henry and Catharine Myers. Theirs was
the first recoded marriage in Scotland County. They have five children: Irvine
J., M. D., of Oxford, Kansas; James A., M. D, of Denver Colorado; William F., M.
D., of Corning, California; Emma, wife of Sidney Holman; and Sarah Frances,
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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