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 . J. STREECH.—The busy, useful life of a highly successful horti-culturist who was esteemed for both his integrity and his industry is pleasanth- recalledin the story of Mrs. Streechs equally successful enterprises in continuing to manage theestate she and her husband had together, as hard working helpmates, acquired. She wasborn at Rio, Columbia County, Wis., the daughter of Frank Galla
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 . J. STREECH.—The busy, useful life of a highly successful horti-culturist who was esteemed for both his integrity and his industry is pleasanth- recalledin the story of Mrs. Streechs equally successful enterprises in continuing to manage theestate she and her husband had together, as hard working helpmates, acquired. She wasborn at Rio, Columbia County, Wis., the daughter of Frank Gallagher of New YorkState, an agriculturist who went in for general farming, and who had married Miss Isa-belle Halpin. born in Wisconsin, and she attended the public school at Rio. When shewas_ sixteen years of age. her parents removed to \\illiams County, N. afterwardsDivide County, and there in 1907 her father homesteaded a quarter section of land, withthe result that for four years she experienced the pleasures and the inconveniencesof pioneer Dakota life. There she completed her education and there, too. she formedthe acquaintance with the estimable gentleman whom she afterwards married at Crosby,. </7r2y O^^^^^^^^ HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1173 August 9, 1911, being united with Fred G. Streech, a native of Minnesota, where hewas born on a farm near Renville, the son of Fred and Wilhelmina Streech. Heattended the district school of his home place, and spent his boyhood days on hisfathers farm. He had been in California in 1910 and had purchased ten acres devotedto the culture of Valencia oranges on South Raymond Avenue, south of FuUerton;and as this land was under the Anaheim Union Water Company, the grove was prom-ising in every respect. Prior to his marriage, and when he was only twenty-one, had also taken up homestead land in North Dakota, and he was thus preparedto develop his new California acquisition. After their marriage they spent a few monthsin tra
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