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 . rus B. Pulver, a native of Pine Plains, Dutchess County, N. Y., where he wasborn April 18, 1835, the son of Nicholas and Margaret (Righter) Pulver, both descendedfrom old York State stock. When twenty-one years of age, Cyrus B. Pulver moved to Champaign , and there improved a farm from the prairie. In 1869 he went to Tuscumbia. Ala.,where he remained until 1872, and then loc
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 . rus B. Pulver, a native of Pine Plains, Dutchess County, N. Y., where he wasborn April 18, 1835, the son of Nicholas and Margaret (Righter) Pulver, both descendedfrom old York State stock. When twenty-one years of age, Cyrus B. Pulver moved to Champaign , and there improved a farm from the prairie. In 1869 he went to Tuscumbia. Ala.,where he remained until 1872, and then located in Coffey County, Kans.; in 1876 hemoved to Wichita, Sedgwick County, the same state, and there on April 13, 1881, hewas married to Miss Isabel S. Hatch, who was born in Jacksonville, Fla., the daughterof Chauncey and Eliza (Huntington) Hatch. The father was born in Craftsbury, Vt.,in 1799, and the tnother in Greensboro, Vt., in 1808. Chauncey Hatch removed toFlorida in 1838, intending to engage in orange culture, and purchased seventy acres ofland near Mandarin, and began setting out oranges. But when the Seminole IndianWar broke out and massacres occurring they were obliged to leave everything and. (^ ^^^-Y <^!h^ HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 983 fled to Jacksonville, where Mrs. Hatch taught school and kept a hotel; later thefamily moved to Key West and there the parents passed away. Mrs. Pulver, theyoungest of their five children, and the only one now living, received her education inthe private schools of Key West. After spending several years in the North andthen awhile in St. Louis she came to Wichita, Kans., in 1878. on a visit, and it wasthere she met Mr. Pulver, the acquaintance resulting in their marriage, and soonafterward they came to California. Mr. Pulver located first at Newport, where he remained for a time, but in 1884he removed to the property upon which his widow now resides. This is a ranch ofnine acres which was brought to a high state of cultivation dur
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