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 . loyed by theSanta Ana Sugar Company. While busied there, on October 22, 1918, Mrs. Finch, who had become the centerof a large circle of appreciative friends, passed away, and on the eighteenth of thefollowing month, Mr. Finchs mother died, having succumbed to influenza. One W. Finch, died in infancy. Not long after these sudden afflictions. Mr. Finchvisited his wifes peopl
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 . loyed by theSanta Ana Sugar Company. While busied there, on October 22, 1918, Mrs. Finch, who had become the centerof a large circle of appreciative friends, passed away, and on the eighteenth of thefollowing month, Mr. Finchs mother died, having succumbed to influenza. One W. Finch, died in infancy. Not long after these sudden afflictions. Mr. Finchvisited his wifes people in Minnesota, and then went to Utah to sell a ranch of 240acres. Since then, he has made his home on the North Main Street ranch, livingwith his brothers and sisters, and assists in managing the old homestead. BesidesIiirnself, Raymond C. Finch is operating the home ranch; John A. is with the WesternUnion Telegraph Company in Santa Ana; Leonard B. is with the Beach ManufacturingCompaiiy, Los xgeles, and Jennie I., Mrs. Marion Hopkins of Santa Ana. Leonardserved in the United States .\rmy auto school in Los Angeles during the late Mr. Finch is a member of the Knights of the Qfl^i.:^.^^^ HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1035 EDWARD D. MARION.—For over thirty years the ranch property now knownas the E. D. Marion orange grove, on the Garden Grove-Anaheim Boulevard, has beenin the possession of the Marion family. It was purchased in 1887 by E. D. Marion, Sr.,upon the arrival of the family here from Denver, Colo. He had but limited means andthis he invested in acres of unimproved land located near the Fairview schoolhouse,to which their children were sent until that district was discontinued and a better andlarger building erected at West .aheim. Improvements were immediately started tomake a comfortable home by the erection of a house, which at that time was the onlyone between Anaheim and Garden Grove, and they kept cows and chickens and didfarming on
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