History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . desin Portland, Ore.; during the World War he served in the Spruce Division of theAviation Corps; Ernest is a shipfitter and marine engineer and is employed on a vesselin the Pacific trade; Walter is a guarantee marine engineer and during the war wasinspector for the U. S. Shipping Board at Seattle, Wash.; and Herbert is a graduate inthe first class with eight members from the State Po
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . desin Portland, Ore.; during the World War he served in the Spruce Division of theAviation Corps; Ernest is a shipfitter and marine engineer and is employed on a vesselin the Pacific trade; Walter is a guarantee marine engineer and during the war wasinspector for the U. S. Shipping Board at Seattle, Wash.; and Herbert is a graduate inthe first class with eight members from the State Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo; heis an electrician in the employ of the Edison Company and lives with his wife and son,James Leslie, in Eagle Rock. Mr. and Mrs. Cox are entitled to much praise for theprogress their sons have made in their chosen pursuits, since their home training andeducation have fitted them in a high degree for the advancement they are Cox is a member of the Cooperative Orange Growers Association at Anaheim. Formore than thirty-six years he has consistently voted the Prohibition ticket and hassiipported all uplift movements in the county that have been brought to his ^^^^^^^^ ^ <^^^^^7V^^ HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1421 JOHN C. CORDES.—Orange County is fortunate in the number of its real estaterepresentatives who themselves own and operate property, so that they are the betterable to judge of realty values and rightly and honestly to forecast the future of one ofthe most favored and promising sections in the entire state. Such a man is John , who was born near Bremen, in Hanover, Germany, on May 25, 1863, and rearedon a fruitful North German farm until he came out to the still more alluring was about twenty-five when, in 1888, he first began to assimilate himself with thelife and ideals of the young Republic; and for a while he worked for a farmer inIowa. Later, he bought 285 acres in Iowa County, Iowa, which he so im
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