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 . s from Dublin, Ireland, came to the Provinceof Quebec, Canada, with his parents when a babe, and was reared there. His motheris a native of London, England, and accompanied her parents to A^merica from hernative city, settling at Rockford, 111., where later her marriage occurred. After theirmarriage the parents lived in various places and finally settled in Hall County, Nebr.,going thi
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 . s from Dublin, Ireland, came to the Provinceof Quebec, Canada, with his parents when a babe, and was reared there. His motheris a native of London, England, and accompanied her parents to A^merica from hernative city, settling at Rockford, 111., where later her marriage occurred. After theirmarriage the parents lived in various places and finally settled in Hall County, Nebr.,going thither from Illinois. The father traded his team of horses for a relinquishmentand proved up on a 160-acre homestead, where his son John H. was born and reared untilhe attained the age of eleven. He worked on his fathers farm, held the breaking plowand turned virgin soil of Nebraska when only nine years old. The family migrated toOrange County, Cal., and settled at Villa Park, then called Wanda Station, on theSouthern Pacific, where the father had already traded Nebraska land for a forty-acreranch on Vista Street, Orange; here he followed farming until his death, April 11,1911, being survived by his HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1571 John H. is the eleventh child in a family of fourteen children, six of whom areliving. He received his education in the grammar school at Orange, and worked onhis fathers forty-acre ranch. At the age of nineteen he assumed the responsibilitiesof life and purchased fifteen acres on Vista Street, Orange, for $1,200. He was marriedin Orange, July 26, 1905, to Miss Ethel Durler, daughter of Reverend Levi and Alice(Lyon) Durler, who now live at Orange. Mrs. Stinson was born at Stryker, Ohio, andwas reared in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, coming to California with her parents in1904. She is the oldest of four living children. Mr. and Mrs. Stinson are the parentsof a daughter, Jennie Fay by name, and have an adopted son whose name is Stinson own
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