San Diego County
Biographies
McDOUGALL & BURGESS.
The firm of McDougall & Burgess, dealers in agricultural implements, occupy spacious warerooms, 100 x 100 feet, at the corner of Seventh and I streets. William B. McDougall was born at Milburn, Illinois, in 1853, and came to San Diego in 1874. He was employed by Klauber & Levi in their hardware department for seven years. J. G. Burgess was born at Oswego, New York, November 13, 1865, and later, moving to Syracuse, engaged in the hardware business about three years. He then came to San Diego in 1887, and spent one year in the store of his brother at El Cajon. In October, 1888, the above partnership was formed and they bought out the implements, stock and good will of Messrs. Klauber & Levi, continuing in the same quarters. They carry the largest stock of agricultural implements in the city and are the sole agents of San Diego County, for the following well-known line of goods: Oliver chilled plows, John Deere's steel plow and farm implements, Buckeye mowers, Thomas hay-rakes, Centennial farming mills, Freeman feed cutters, Schuttler and Studebaker wagons and carriages, and are dealers in all lines of large farm machinery, and are the only jobbers in this line in the city.
McDougall & Burgess are young men of energy and knowledge, and are largely endowed with business qualities.
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.- 138
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
JULIUS BERNSTEIN,
one of the leading business men of Elsinore, was born in Prussia, Germany, in 1851. He received a good business education there, and afterward served an apprenticeship of three years to learn the mercantile business. Mr. Bernstein's parents were both German. He came to the United States in 1873, and was naturalized in 1878, that being as soon as he could become a citizen of the country of his adoption. He entered upon his apprenticeship when he was fifteen years of age, after which he clerked for one year, and then he came to the United States. He accepted a clerkship in a San Francisco house, where he remained three years, when he returned to Europe on a visit. Then he returned to New York and for a time clerked both in New York and Boston. He then removed to San Francisco
and was in that part of the State for five years, when he again returned to Europe on a visit to his parents. After a stay of five months he came to the State of Georgia and clerked for five years. In 1885 he came to Elsinore and bought out the parties who had the first store, and has continued in the business ever since. He has a double store and is dealing in general merchandise. During the four years he has been in business here, his trade has grown constantly, and he has a large stock and is doing the only general merchandise business of the town, and his trade reaches out twenty miles in all directions. He has four men constantly employed in the business. He was married in 1885 to Miss Michelson, a native of Prussia, and they have three children, all born in Elsinore: David, Clara and Freddie. He has made some investments in town lots and acre property, and is an accomplished business man. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., A. O. U. W., and the B'nai B'rith.
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.- 138-139
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler