OC History RoundupHISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY – Samuel Armour (1920) Biographies ELMER ORVAL HOOKER. — Prominent among the interesting pioneers of Orange County who have contributed something worth while toward the development of the section in which they have lived and toiled, must be mentioned Mr....
Hugh T. O’Connor is a name that pops up frequently in any study of the City of Los Alamitos from 1900 to 1940. He was first heard from while a store clerk in town for Felts Co., which was the general store in town. ...
The Bixbys are a legendary name in the history of Long Beach and the Rancho Los Alamitos, and deservedly so. The true start of the family fortune goes back to the early 1850s when cousins Benjamin and Thomas Flint and Lewellyn Bixby returned home...
This bio was originally printed in Samuel Armor’s History of Orange County, Part 2, p. 1606. JOB DENNI. — A native of Canton Unterwalden, Switzerland, Job Denni was born on September 30, 1878, at Geswil. He was educated in the public schools of his...
Clark J. Bonner was a nephew of William A. Clark and J. Ross Clark, the builders of the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory. When J. Ross Clark died in 1927, Bonner who had been a successful businessman in his own right, assumed control of J....
originally published in Long Beach Independent. Sept. 25, 1949 Mrs. Beerling is Mrs. Watte St. Matthew’s Catholic Church was the setting Saturday for a 9 a.m. wedding ceremony uniting Phyllis Marie Beerling, 1770 Stanley Avenue, and George Dennis Watte, son of Mr. and Mrs....
This article was originally published in The News-Enterprise, presumably in the year 1980. Bessie Juszkievicz was the wife of Bronislav Juszkievicz who was the field superintendent for the sugar beet factory. They arrived in Los Alamitos in 1922 from Illinois. Bronislav kept that job...
This was published in the History of Orange County, by Samuel Armor, 1921, p572 JOHN C. ORD.—Orange County is widely known for its recognition of old-time residents who have had to do with the founding and developing of this favored part of the...
from the Long Beach Indpendent, Sunday, Nov. 8, 1950 — page 43-A Rosary or Mrs. Alice Otte Cosyns, 73, of Los Alamitos, who died yesterday, will be recited at 8pm in Mottell’s Chapel. A native of Belgium, Mrs. Cosyns came to Long Beach 39...
originally submitted to the OC Register, and published on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 She tells stories from Los Alamitos’ past Esther Mejia, 94, lives in the house where she grew up. Submitted by Brett Murphy For The Orange County Register Her name is...
