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 . their supplies. Mr. Williams andhis family located on twenty acres on what is now known as Williams Street—athoroughfare bearing their name—and McFadden Street, in Tustin, and Albert , in 1874, helped his father to erect the temporary dwelling that two yearslater was supplanted by a better home. The son also worked upon the farm, whilehe attended the grammar school at Tustin.
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 . their supplies. Mr. Williams andhis family located on twenty acres on what is now known as Williams Street—athoroughfare bearing their name—and McFadden Street, in Tustin, and Albert , in 1874, helped his father to erect the temporary dwelling that two yearslater was supplanted by a better home. The son also worked upon the farm, whilehe attended the grammar school at Tustin. His father acquired twenty-four acresat Delhi, which was also farmed to grain and stock. He was an agriculturist and anhorticulturist, and he owned several threshing outfits. Associated with his father,A. C. Williams withstood the disastrous effects of the several dry years, and bysticking it out reaped the benefits. In 1880 he took a trip north to Oregon, drivingfour horses hitched to a big covered wagon, going via Siskiyou and Jacksonville,returning to Crescent City, Cal., and there he remained for a winter, coming backto Tustin in May, 1881. When he was twenty-two years old he worked a vineyard,. HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 667 at Villa Park, raising grapes, apricots and apples. He set the land later to walnuts,receiving as his share sixteen acres of the thirty-six acres. At the present time heowns nine acres—four and a half on each side of Williams Street—and his last cropof walnuts was nine tons. He markets through the Santa Ana ^^alnut Association,and is a member of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. In 1888 he went northto Fresno County, purchased eighty acres there, and set the same out as a also has financial interests in oil and mining stocks. On November 6, 1889, Mr. Williams was married to Caroline Fatima England,a native of Calaveras County, Cal., and three children have made still happier theirunion: Ralph E. married Miss Lorina Burd of San
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