San Diego County
Biographies
LIONEL W. MARSHALL,
a descendant of English-American parentage, was born at
Marietta, Iowa, January 10, 1857. His early life was passed in Iowa, where he
received a common-school education. His father being a cabinet-maker, the
inclination of the son naturally turned in the same direction and under the
careful guidance of the father, with
whom he worked twelve years, he now stands at the head of his profession. In
1886, he came to San Diego and entered the art business, also building and
selling wood mantels of various designs. In 1887, he went out of the art
business and assumed the management of the San Diego Mantel Factory at 916
Second street, where he is carrying on a large and successful business,
employing five men and yet unable to keep up with the orders. The mantels are
constructed from all kinds of hard and soft woods, and combined with neat
designs in wood carving create a thing of beauty and a joy forever. This is the
first and only mantel manufactory in San Diego.
Mr. Marshall was married at Dan Diego, December 12, 1887, to Miss Lizzie Monkes, a native of California. They have one child.
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.- 144
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
DANIEL H. CLARK
came into the valley from the northern part of the State
four years before there was any town platted in San Jacinto. He came very near
being a son of the Golden West, as his father moved to California with his
family when the subject of this sketch was but one year old. His father, H. W.
Clark, and his mother, nee Miss M. J. Miller, were both natives of Arkansas.
Daniel H. Clark was the eldest of their family of nine children, and was born in
Johnson County, Arkansas, October 13, 1855. When he was a boy the family resided
in Fresno County, and there he received his education. When seventeen years of
age he began to do for himself, and
went into the business of raising hogs. When nineteen years of age he was
married to Miss Eliza Winkleman, who was born in California in 1859. The
marriage occurred in 1874. The fruit of the union is seven children, viz.:
Frederick J., Ida H., Henry Franklin, Walter Anderson, Clandy Noel, Clara and
Eliza. The three first were born in Los Angeles, and the rest in San Jacinto.
After his marriage he lived a short time in Fresno County, when he removed to
Arizona and then to Los Angeles. There he bought a place near Westminster,
and in 1879 they removed San Jacinto. There were then about ten families in the
whole valley for miles in every direction. Mr. Hewitt had his adobe house and
store; Mr. Jordan and wife, Mr. Webster and family, the two Mr. Estudillo's, Mr.
Logsdors and family, Mr. Collins, Mr. Carroll, Mr. Larson, Mr. Giar, and Mr.
Proko A. Kimbo. Mr. Clark took a Government claim of 160 acres, which he lived
on and improved, and afterward sold. He then bought twenty acres and built on it
his present home, and planted trees and made other improvements: He is now a
partner with Mr. Hewitt in the livery business. They have a large stock of good
carriages and horses; and in addition to their livery business they are putting
in large quantities of barley and wheat. More than 1,200 acres is now being
sowed by them.
When Garfield was elected President Mr. Clark was appointed Postmaster at what was then called the Rock House (now Wichita). He held the office three years and resigned it in favor of Mrs. Rice. Mrs. Clark is a Methodist, and Mr. Clark is a hard working honorable 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.- 144-145
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler