San Bernardino County
Biographies
B. W. CAVE,
senior member of the firm of Cave & Reeves, proprietors of the Redlands livery stable, was born in Texas, in 1860, and has lived in San Bernardino County ever since he was two years of age. His parents, John P. and Lucy Ann (Barnett) Cave, were both natives of Kentucky. They had a family of eight children. His father first moved his family to Missouri, and in 1850 left them there and crossed the plains by ox team to California, where he remained two years, at the end of which time he went back to his family in Missouri. Here he remained three years, and then moved to Texas, where for seven years he worked at the carpenter trade. In 1862 he crossed the plains via the southern route to California, and was five months on the road. On his arrival he traded his wagon and ox team for twenty acres of land one mile east of San Bernardino. He lived on this land until 1868, and in the meantime gave considerable attention to placer-mining. He was the discoverer of the claim known as Texas Point. In 1868 he traded for a part of the Carpenter ranch in Crafton, which he improved and still owns. The subject of this sketch engaged in mining for some three years, and two years ago went into the livery business. At this time he is part owner of' the ranch purchased by his father, and is superintending the ranch as well as attending to the livery business. In 1882 he was married to Miss Bertie Barrett, of Missouri, and they have one child—a son—Oscar. Mr. Cave is a member of the I. O. O. F., Redlands Lodge, No. 341. At the time the city government was organized he was elected one of the trustees which office he still fills. He is an intelligent and enthusiastic supporter of the Democratic party.
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.- 544
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
DR. S. C. BOGART,
one of the leading practitioners of dentistry in San Bernardino County, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in October, 1852. His parents being what are termed Pennsylvania Germans, spoke and taught their children the language of the father‑land as the sole medium of communication in the family. His mother died in his childhood and he became self-supporting from the age of fifteen years. Soon after attaining his majority he went to Illinois and began the study of dentistry in Macomb; and after completing the study of the profession and a short time of practice in that State, he went to Minnesota in 1876, and married Miss Smith, of Joliet, Illinois, in 1879. During the five succeeding years of his residence in Minnesota Dr. Bogart enjoyed a flourishing professional business. In 1881 he removed to New Mexico. Not being pleased with that country, after a brief stay they came to California and settled in San Bernardino, where the Doctor has been actively engaged in his profession ever since, save about eighteen months. His fine dental practice extends throughout this valley and to the remote parts of the county.
Dr. Bogart possesses a business and speculative turn of mind, which he has indulged quite extensively, and successfully, dealing in real estate and in building enterprises. In 1888 he built the two-story brick block that bears his name and in which his office is situated, adjoining the court-house yard on the east. It has fifty-two and one-half feet frontage on Court street and is 115 feet in depth; the first floor is divided into two fine stores, and the second story is devoted to offices. He has also improved several other pieces of city and suburban property.
Dr. Bogart is recognized as one of San Bernardino's most enterprising and public-spirited citizens. In politics he is a Republican, the only member of his family on either side who is not a Democrat.
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.- 544-545
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
MILTON CANTERBURY, M. D.,
of Redlands, was born in Greenup County, Kentucky. His father, Reuben Canterbury, a farmer, was born in North Carolina. The name originated in Kent County, England, from the estate of a man by that name, and for whom the city of Canterbury was named. Reuben Canterbury married Miss Elizabeth Lycaas, a native of Kentucky. The union was blessed with thirteen children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the eighth. He first attended the common schools of his native county and afterward attended a short time the college at Marietta, Ohio. From there he went to Missouri and took a course at Marion College. He then attended the Medical College of Ohio, and graduated in 1863 from the University of Iowa. After his graduation he practiced medicine for two years in Brown County, Illinois. In 1865 he went to Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, where he practiced four years, and then practiced one year at Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. From the latter place he moved to California, where he has been a practicing physician most of the time for ten years. On account of declining health he bought a ranch of 160 acres, six miles northeast of San Bernardino, on which he lived until January 1, 1889, when he established the drug store in Redlands. He is now located in the Young Men's Christian Association building on State street, and is giving his whole attention to the drug business. Dr. Canterbury was married in 1845 to Sarah Wood, of Zanesville, Ohio, and they have had ten children, five of whom are still living, viz.: James Cyrus Canterbury, the oldest, who is a Baptist minister at Highlands; Lawrence A. is a machinist; Fantley W. and Milton F. are both ranchmen; Avis E. is the widow of James P. Ashby, and for five successive years has been a teacher in the public schools at Colton; California. Dr. Canterbury is an Odd Fellow and a Good Templar. He is a Prohibitionist and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
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.- 545
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler