A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . nia. Subsequentevents have proven the wisdom of his choice. Mr. Stephens was born in Monroe county,Ohio, October 19, 1872. He attended the pub-lic schools of Senecaville until he was eighteenyears of age, thus acquiring a substantial educa-tion, the very best preparation for the future ayoung man can make. Two years later, in 1892,he came to California. His first work in thestate was in a lumber yard at San Pedro hand-ling lumber. After wo
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . nia. Subsequentevents have proven the wisdom of his choice. Mr. Stephens was born in Monroe county,Ohio, October 19, 1872. He attended the pub-lic schools of Senecaville until he was eighteenyears of age, thus acquiring a substantial educa-tion, the very best preparation for the future ayoung man can make. Two years later, in 1892,he came to California. His first work in thestate was in a lumber yard at San Pedro hand-ling lumber. After working there two yearshe came to Long Beach and went to work forthe San Pedro Limiber Company. Long Beachat that time was a very insignificent place; noimprovements of any consequence had been be-gun and there was not a graded street in thetown. During the eight years he remained inthe employ of the company he learned the lum-ber business from the foundation up and becamethoroughly familiar with it in all its the town began to grow and new buildingswere erected he saw an opportunity to go intobusiness for himself. Soon he had a small plan-.
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