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 . in of coal, which has been and is a sourceof wealth to the family. In time, therefore, Mr. Dolph became a large and influentialcoal operator in Scranton, and there, too, in earlier days he had married Miss ElizabethWadhams, descended from an old English family. They had five children, two sonsand three daughters, and the youngest, Edward S., is manager of the Dolphs interestsat Scranto
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 . in of coal, which has been and is a sourceof wealth to the family. In time, therefore, Mr. Dolph became a large and influentialcoal operator in Scranton, and there, too, in earlier days he had married Miss ElizabethWadhams, descended from an old English family. They had five children, two sonsand three daughters, and the youngest, Edward S., is manager of the Dolphs interestsat Scranton. Lewis Cass was the oldest son and third child of the family, and he diedwhen he was twelve years old. The eldest born is Miss Florence Dolph, who residesat 2021 Ocean View Avenue, Los Angeles. Another sister, Mrs. Josette N. Robertson,lives at Scranton. Mrs. Dolph outlived her husband eight years and died in 1898 atScranton. Senator Dolph of Oregon is a relative. Miss Dolph attended the common schools of Scranton and later the Universityat Lewisburg. Having a natural talent and love for music she studied the violin,cornet and piano, and came to be in much demand, especially for churches and ^^X^^c^/LCL Jd^£^cC J^cr\dL HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 885 which she was always glad to help, and she also frequently favored communities ofother cities in that region. Thirty-four years ago, on her first visit to California, in1886, she first saw the neighborhood of San Juan-by-the-Sea, where she now had traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe as well as theOrient, and her experienced eye enabled her to pick the site of her home on accountof its beautiful view and natural beauty, commanding as it does a view of the broadPacific as well as the beautiful San Juan Valley, while in the background are the Tem-escal Mountains in their grandeur. She still held, until two years ago, the old homeat Scranton, but six years ago she built her beautiful man
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