San Bernardino County
Biographies
J. B. GLOVER,
of Redlands, was born in Benton County, Missouri, June 29,
1842. His father, Rev. M. W. Glover, was born near Louisville, Kentucky, and was
for many years a traveling preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He
married Miss Elizabeth Osborn, also born near Louisville, and they subsequently
moved to Benton County, Missouri. In 1850 he came to California and worked in
the quartz mines in Amador County. In 1855 he went back to Missouri, and in the
autumn of the same year brought his family, via the Isthmus, to California. In
this same year he joined the Pacific Conference, and was assigned to Macedonia
Circuit, in Sonoma
County, and traveled that circuit three years. He was then sent to a
circuit in Mendocino County, and was there three years. In 1868 he was sent as a
missionary to San Bernardino, where he remained four years. He was then sent to
Los Angeles for one year and then back to San Bernardino for two years. His next
and last appointment was in San Luis Obispo, where he built a church, and, one
year after, took a superannuated relation, on account of declining health. He
died April 7, 1877, five years later, having spent the best part of his life as
an active, earnest, itinerant minister of the Gospel. The subject of this sketch
was thirteen years old when he came to California with his parents. At the age
of sixteen years he began learning the blacksmith trade, and served an
apprenticeship of two years, and having earned a little money he went to school
for a year in Sonoma County, at Pleasant Hill School. He then worked for wages
on a farm until he was twenty-one years of age. At this time he married Miss
Elizabeth A. McGuire, a native also of Missouri, a daughter of Cornelius
McGuire, who crossed the plains to California when she was but seven years of
age. After his marriage Mr. Glover rented land in Sonoma County for two years,
and then went to Mendocino County, and from there to San Bernardino County in
1869 where he pre empted 160 acres of land, located in Lagonia. Here he endured
all the hardships and privations of pioneer life. For the first three years
during the summer months he had to haul water three miles that he used. Amid all
these discouragements, however, he was not discouraged, and to-day he has a home
surrounded by all the comforts of life, and is highly esteemed by all who know
him. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church South in 1855, and has ever since
been an earnest worker in the cause of Christianity. He has held all the offices
in a church that a layman can hold, and is at present class-leader and steward
of the church. He was superintendent of the Sunday-school in San Bernardino for
a period of nine years. He belongs to the Democratic party, but at the same time
is a strong advocate of the temperance cause. Mr. and Mrs. Glover have had four
children born to them, viz.: Ida M., Virginia L., Edwin M., and Anna K., who
died in infancy.
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.- 543
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
RICHARD STEWART,
the youngest son of John H. Stewart, was born in Rockford, Illinois, June 2, 1850; came with his parents to California in 1852, and to San Bernardino County in 1865, where he has resided ever since. His principal occupation has been stock-raising and farming. His ranch of seventy-two acres, situated two miles east of San Bernardino on the Harlem & Rabel Springs Motor Railway, is one of the finest agricultural tracts in the country, being especially adapted for alfalfa and grazing. It is valued at $14,000. He owns a number of choice pieces of city property, including 115 feet fronting on Third street between F and G streets, on a part of which he erected, in 1887, the fine two-story block occupied by the Grand Rapids Furniture Company, the first pressed-brick front built in San Bernardino. He also owns 200 feet fronting on Third street between G and H streets, on which his dwelling is located. He and his brother Clarence own ninety-six feet directly south of the Stewart Hotel, fronting on E street. He also has 160 acres of superior farming land in Rincon, supplied with water by artesian wells. He is a stockholder in the Stewart Hotel.
In 1876 he was joined in wedlock with Miss Alice M. Abels, a native of California, born December 11, 1858. Of the six children born to them the living are: Norman Guy, born October 27, 1877; Lottie Mabel, August 13,1879; Wallace Clarence, April 12, 1883; John Samuel, May 30, 1885, and Benjamin Richard, March 13, 1887. Lillian was born July 7, 1881, and died September 30, 1883.
Clarence Stewart married a sister of Mrs. Richard Stewart and resides in Riverside, as do the parents of their wives, Mr. and Mrs. Abels. The subject of this memoir in not engaged in any active business, except looking after his estate, but contemplates resuming stock farming.
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.- 543-544
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler