San Diego County
Biographies
AUGUSTUS K. CRAVATH,
a prominent business man of Escondido, was born in Knox
County, Ohio, April 23, 1852. At an early age his parents removed to Will
County, Illinois, where they remained until the fall of 1858, when they moved to
Worth County, Iowa, and there Augustus worked on a farm during the summer and
attended public school
during the winter. In the fall of 1870 he began attendance at the Baptist
Seminary at Osage. In the spring of 1872 he came to San Diego County,
where he has remained ever since, engaged in farming. Eighteen out of the
thirty‑eight years of his life have been spent in this State. In the spring of
1886 he sold his farm and located in Escondido, as the manager of the Escondido
Land and Town Company, in which capacity he remained over two and one-half
years. At present he is resident manager of the Pacific Investment Company, and
also President of the City Council and of the Escondido Mining and Water
companies. He is also director of the Bank of Escondido. He arrived in this
State with only $2.50, and he is now a capitalist, worth, perhaps, $30,000.
He was married in December, 1877, to Miss Kate Sikes, daughter of Zenas Sikes, a pioneer of San Diego, and they have three sons and three daughters.
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.- 230-231
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
JOHN OLIVER WINSLOW PAINE,
attorney at law, was born in Charlestown, Maine, January 16, 1838, the youngest of seven children in the family of his father, Abner Paine. He entered the army in 1861, at Bangor, Maine, while he was a student at Dartmouth College, joining the Sixth regiment. He afterward enlisted in the Fourteenth regiment, under the command of Colonel Nickerson, as Second Lieutenant, and was honorably discharged after a service of about two years, having been promoted to First Lieutenant. In January, 1865, he raised a company of volunteers and was assigned to his old regiment, the Fourteenth Maine. He remained in active service until the close of the war, and was discharged in August, 1865. Part of his military life was spent in Georgia, where he was made provost judge in one of the districts of the State, with general powers. It was one of the first organizations of the courts after the close of the war, made by the commander of the department, General C. A. Steadman. After the war Mr. Paine returned to Maine to practice law, which he had studied previously. He moved to Ottawa, Kansas, in 1867, and remained there over twelve years, being one of the leading attorneys, serving two terms as District Attorney, and was also City Attorney, and retired with a good record and high honors. In 1879 Mr. Paine moved to San Diego, continuing the practice of his profession. He invested in real estate, and owns considerable land at Linda Vista, Poway, and other places in San Diego County, and since 1880 has been Notary Public. He has made a specialty of the public land business, entering Government claims, protests, etc. He is well known to the public, and is a quiet, conscientious citizen. and is interested in everything that tends to advance or improve this county. He believes that this region will attract a larger population in the future than any other portion of the country. He has much to say as to the resources of San Diego County.
He was married in Ottawa, Kansas, in 1868, to Miss Jennie McKinley, a native of Maryland, who died in San Diego in 1883, leaving two daughters, Alice and Aimee. In 1886 Mr. Paine married Miss Anna B. Crotts, a native of Pennsylvania, and by this marriage has two children, Albert W. and Olive Prue.
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.- 231
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler