History of Ventura County, California |
| With |
| Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. |
| Oakland, Cal. |
| Thompson & West, 1883. |
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(A Transcription of the Section on Ventura County.) |
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(Pages 349-360) |
| Old Families - Don Ygnacio del Valle - American Residents - Fourth of July, 1860 - |
| Wet Winter of 1861-62 - Dry Season of 1864 - Town Surveys, etc. - Inhabitants of |
| San Buenaventura - High Water in 1867 - Division of Ranches - Fourth of July |
| Celebration - Building the Wharf - Desire for a County - Newspaper Established - |
| Statistics in 1871 - Passage of the Act - The Law Creating the County - Boundaries - |
| Building of a School House - Number of School Children - Water Companies - |
| Santa Clara Irrigating Company - Farmers' Canal and Water Ditch - Political Affairs - |
| Organization of the County Government - Townships Formed - Supervisor Districts - |
| Election Precincts - The First Election - Republican Ticket - Democratic Ticket - |
| Voting Places - County Officers, 1873 - Dr. Cephas L. Bard - City Council - Road |
| Districts - County Bonds Issued - Settlement with Santa Barbara - Court House |
| Chapter XXXVII - Industrial Developments |
| (Pages 360-367) |
| Bradley Retires from the Signal - Retrospection - Murder and Lynching - |
| Land-holders - Regular Election of 1873 - Year of Prosperity - Bank of Ventura - |
| Trotting Park - Low Fares - Shipments of Produce - The Fourth of 1874 - Hon. |
| Walter Murray - Local Option - Nativity of the Settlers - Chief Tax Payers in 1874 - |
| Excessive Rain-fall - Fire Company - Ventura Gas Company - Ventura Planing Mill - |
| Newspaper History - Free Press - Newspaper War - Political Affairs in 1875 - |
| People's Party - Election Returns for 1875 - L. F. Eastin. |
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(Pages 367-380) |
| Loss of the Kalorama - The Centennial at Various Places - County Officers of 1876 - |
| Presidential Election - Heavy Tax-Payers - W. S. Chaffee - Drought of 1877 - Loss of |
| the Wharf - Petition for a Breakwater - Bard and Murphy - Election of 1877 - Election |
| Returns - Town Officers - Judiciary Elections - Progress - Casitas Pass Road - Hook |
| & Ladder Company - W. E. Shepherd as Editor - Political Matters in 1879 - |
| Democratic Convention - Candidates - Election Returns in 1879 - Agricultural |
| Statistics - Mysterious Affair - A Wild Ride - Commercial Affairs in 1880 - Matters |
| in 1881 - Garfield Obsequies - I.T. Saxby - W.J. Walton - Election Returns of 1882 - |
| Present Condition of Affairs - Furniture Factory - Machine Shop - Societies - |
| Newspapers - "Signal" - F.W. Baker - "Free Press" - Thomas Clark, of the Ventura |
| Mill Company - Edwin Mill's Hotels - Halls and Places of Resort - Ventura Bank - |
| Churches - Congregational Church - The Presbyterian Church - Methodist Church. |
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(Pages 380-393) |
| Rancho La Colonia - First Cultivation - John Scarlett - P.B. Hawkins - John G. Hill - |
| Edward R. Benchley - Hueneme War - Artesian Wells - Growth of the Town - Good |
| Templars - Hueneme in 1880 - Shipments of Grain - The Light-House - James Fenton - |
| Guadalasca Rancho - W.R. Broome's Estate - Las Posas Rancho - Peter Rice - Simi |
| Rancho - Tapo Rancho - Springville - J. B. Palin - Independent Baptist Church - |
| Wm. A. Hughes - The Calleguas - Juan Camarillo - The Conejo Rancho. |
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(Pages 393-408) |
| Santa Clara Valley - John Mears, Joseph H. McCutchan - Fruit-raising - Abner |
| Haines - San Miguel Rancho - Raymundo Olivas - George G. Sewell - Santa Paula y |
| Saticoy Rancho - Rev. S. T. Wells - Briggs' Orchard - Settlers in 1867 - Michael |
| Fagan - Other Settlers - N. W. Blanchard - Orange Orchard - James A. Day - G. W. |
| Faulkner - Pork-raising - John F. Cummings - Towns - The Farmers' Canal - Chrisman |
| and Willoughby - Good Farmers - M.D.L. Todd - John McKenna - Santa Paula - |
| S. P. Guiberson - Saticoy - Geo. F. Rotsler - Santa Clara del Norte - New Jerusalem - |
| Sespe Rancho - Scenega - B. F. Warring - The Camulos - San Francisco Rancho. |
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(Pages 408- 420) |
| San Buenaventura Valley - Ex-Mission - San Miguelito - Green B. Taylor - Rock |
| Soap - Canada Largo o Verde Rancho - Ojai Rancho - Robert Ayers - W. S. McKee - |
| Other Settlers - Theodore Todd - Disagreeable Visitor - Statistics of the Ojai - |
| Schools - Quality of the Soil - As a Sanitarium - Joseph Hobart - Roads to the Ojai - |
| Nordhoff - Frank P. Barrows - Private Houses - H. J. Dennison - Views Near the |
| Upper Ojai - Poetry - John Montgomery - Cloud-bursts - Glacial Theory - Liability |
| to Cloud-bursts - Is There Any Help? - Santa Ana Rancho - Colonization Project - |
| Matilija Sulphur Springs - Other Parts of the County - M.S. Dimmick. |
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Chapter XLII. - Miscellaneous Matters |
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(Pages 420-431) |
| Oranges - Grapes and Wine - Raisins - Olives - Mineral Soap - Agriculture - Gold |
| Mining - Silver - Sulphur - Petroleum - Local Character - Geo. S. Gilbert - |
| Wonderful Springs - The Standard Oil Company. |
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Chapter XLIII. - The Murder of T. Wallace More |
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(Pages 431-442) |
| Libel Suit - Ill-Feeling - The Crime - Traces of the Murderers - Development of |
| Facts - New Evidence - Trial of F. A. Sprague - Sentences - Jones' Defection - |
| Great Excitement - Jones' Second Affadavit - Case Reviewed by the Governor. |