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 . of Southern Californiano man has taken a more intelligent interest thanJohn W. Allen of Fernando. During the twelveor more years that he has resided in Los Angelescounty he has been actively employed in horti-cultural pursuits and has established a wide repu-tation as a successful orchardist, the fruits of hisraising surpassing in excellence, it is said, thoseof any other fruit-grower along the coast. Anative of Indiana, he was born, July
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 . of Southern Californiano man has taken a more intelligent interest thanJohn W. Allen of Fernando. During the twelveor more years that he has resided in Los Angelescounty he has been actively employed in horti-cultural pursuits and has established a wide repu-tation as a successful orchardist, the fruits of hisraising surpassing in excellence, it is said, thoseof any other fruit-grower along the coast. Anative of Indiana, he was born, July 23, 1843,in Montgomery county, where he was brought upand educated. Trained to agricultural pursuits,he chose farming for an occupation, and carriedit on successfully for many years in his nativestate. Coming to Los Angeles county in 1800, worked as a wage-earner in Pacoima fora year, after which he was for two years a resi-dent of Santa Clara county, where, as a laborer,he made a study of the best methods of fruitgrowing. Returning then to Pacoima, he bought. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ten acres of wild land and at once began its im-provement, placing it in a tillable condition andsetting out fruit trees. Succeeding well in hisventure, he subsequently purchased another near-by tract of ten acres, five acres of which he im-mediately set out in fruit and olives, while theremaining five acres he devoted to grapes, set-ting out vines in 1904. In 1897, having mademoney as an orchardist, he invested in additionalland, buying twenty acres adjoining his previouspurchases, and to this he added by purchase tenacres more in 1905, increasing the size of hisranch to fifty acres. Twenty acres of his landis set out to fruit and is very productive, bring-ing him in a good annual income. Purchasinga house and tliree lots in Fernando on McNeilstreet, he improved the place, and in 1902 removedhere with his family, and has since been num-bered among the more highly esteeme
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