A native son, pioneer and son of a pioneer of El Monte and vicinity, Henry Guess, bears the added honor of being the first American white child born in Los Angeles County. His parents were John and Harriet (Holifield) Guess, both natives of Arkansas who came to California by ox-team in 1852. A sketch of […]
Fielding W. Gibson was born in Mississippi in 1809. During the early years of his life, he engaged in farming in Mississippi and Louisiana. In 1851, he traveled from New Orleans, through Mexico to Mazatlan and from there by boat, to San Francisco, and then to the mines were he stayed five months. The scarcity
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Thomas Andrew Garey was born of German ancestry in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 7, 1830. He started for California in 1850, stopping about a year in New Mexico and six months at Tubac, Arizona, arriving at San Diego, in 1852. At Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1850, Mr. Garey was untied in marriage with Louisa J. Smith, a
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