San Diego County
Biographies
EMANUEL LOUIS,
a native of Strasburg Prussia, was born May 17, 1868, and crossed the ocean at the age of one and a half years, landing at New York. He immediately started for California by the way of the Isthmus of Panama, and after a quiet journey arrived safely at San Francisco. His family soon journeyed down the coast to Los Angeles, but, his father deciding that San Diego was to be the future metropolis of southern California, they removed to that city, then a small settlement, in July, 1870, where they have continued to reside ever since, and have seen this city grow up to one of magnificent proportions. During the succeeding years Mr. Louis attended the public schools, and graduated June 30, 1885. He then worked some time for the San Diego Daily Sun, as city editor and business manager, and on January 1, 1886, he took a position with the Russ Lumber and Mill Company, of San Diego, as assistant bookkeeper and in charge of collections, which position he now occupies.
Mr. Louis takes great interest in aquatic sports, being at present vice-president of the Excelsior Rowing and Swimming Club; is a member of the Society of San Diego Pioneers, and an ardent brother of San Diego Lodge, No. 35, F. & A. M., which order he entered on his twenty-first birthday, and already has been appointed an officer of the above lodge, and takes great pride in its welfare. Mr. Louis has been lately elected the first honorary member of the Junior Bar Association of San Diego, an organization composed of young law students, and feels highly complimented for this honor.
He is a keen young business man, and has accumulated considerable property during his residence in San Diego, which bids fair to be very valuable ere long. .He takes a great deal of interest in anything that appertains to San Diego, city or county, and will always be found to be a progressive citizen.
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.- 206-207
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
GEORGE COPE
was born in Jerseyville, Illinois, June 14, 1861. His father, Nathan Cope, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1829, and his grandfather, John Cope, was a native of Germany, who settled in South Carolina. Mr. Cope's father married Miss Elinda Day in 1848. She was a native of Buffalo, New York, born in 1831, and was a daughter of Mr. Ira Day, who was an Illinois landowner and farmer. They had eight children, three boys and five girls. The subject of this sketch was the youngest but one of this family. He was sent to the country schools of Jersey County, Illinois, and remained at home with his father until twenty-three years of age. He was united in marriage to Miss Nelly Sanderhaus, who was born in Greene County, Illinois, in 1863. They have one interesting little daughter, Laura, born in Jerseyville, Illinois, May 22, 1885. Their ranch consists of 160 acres, situated four miles north of Perris. Ten acres of the ranch is devoted to the house and ranch buildings and shrubbery and fruit. The house and barns have the stamp of affluence and comfort second to none in the valley. Mr. Cope is a good farmer. He is sowing this year 100 acres of White Russian wheat and 200 acres to barley. Mr. Cope and wife stand high in their county as enterprising citizens.
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.- 207
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
BUFORD H. COOK,
one of the pioneer farmers and solid and reliable men of Menifee, was born in Cass County, Missouri, November 15, 1845. His father, David Cook, was born in Kentucky. His mother was Orpha (Potts) Cook. His father died when he was only six years, and his mother in 1853, in California, when he was eight years of age. He came to California and settled in Sonoma County. He went to school there until 1863 and then removed to Esmeralda County, Nevada, and engaged in mining at $4 per day; then he went back to Sonoma County and was in that vicinity as a working man for five years, and then went to Napa Valley, and then to Los Angeles in 1875. He bought a tract of land near Wilmington. After this he farmed near Santa Ana, and November 1, 1882, he came to Menifee and homesteaded 160 acres of land; he also timber-cultured another 160 acres of land, and afterward sold it and re-bought, and now has 240 acres. When he began at Menifee he brought a load of lumber and materials for a house with a four-horse team. He left a man to put up the house and went back to Wilmington and got his wife and two children and their household effects, and moved in with his wagon and four horses. When they arrived the house was partly finished. They took possession, and here, in what was then a desert, he has made a nice home that blossoms like a rose. They have had the trials and hardships of pioneer life, but amid it all they have come through, and in the short space of seven years they find themselves in possession of peace and plenty. Mrs. Cook is a native of the "Golden West," having been born in Mendocino County, California, in 1861. Her maiden name was Ella Powers, being the daughter of Mr. John Powers. She was married to Mr. Cook February 7, 1876, and is the mother of five children, viz.: Etta, born in Los Angeles County, July 30, 1878; Robert Roy, born at Wilmington, Los Angeles County, October 9, 1882; Pearl M., born at Menifee, April 24, 1884; Jessie A., born at Menifee, June 21, 1886, and Charles William, born at Menifee, January 15, 1889. Mrs. Cook is one of the first ten members of the first church organized in Menifee—the Methodist Church South. Both she and her husband have been contributors and workers in the building of their place of worship—the first one constructed for the service of God in this new country. Mr. Cook is this year (1889) sowing 150 acres of wheat and 150 acres of barley. Mr. and Mrs. Cook are people of influence in their community and are very highly spoken of by their neighbors.
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.- 207-208
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler