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 . d and unre-mitting labor, for he has twice almost entirelyreplanted his ranch. He has the satisfactionof knowing that it is now one of the mostproductive in this vicinity, as well as in pointof appearance ranking favorable with manymore pretentious estates. JOHN BENJAMIN STEEN. Since 1894Air. Steen has been known as one of the mostenthusiastic citizens of Long Beach, cominghere in that year as a contractor and builder,a line of endeavor fo
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 . d and unre-mitting labor, for he has twice almost entirelyreplanted his ranch. He has the satisfactionof knowing that it is now one of the mostproductive in this vicinity, as well as in pointof appearance ranking favorable with manymore pretentious estates. JOHN BENJAMIN STEEN. Since 1894Air. Steen has been known as one of the mostenthusiastic citizens of Long Beach, cominghere in that year as a contractor and builder,a line of endeavor for which he has every qual-ification, if his success during the past twelveyears can be taken as a basis for this conclu-sion. On the paternal side he is of Englishdescent, his father, John J. Steen, having beenborn in Nottingham, England, whence he im-migrated to the United States, locating firstm Brookbn, N. Y., then in Baltimore, Aid.,and still later in Brookfield, Va. It was inthe latter city that his marriage occurred, unit-ing him with Martha Brooks, who was a na-tive of the Old Dominion. From VirginiaAir. Steen and removed to Missouri,. CAPT. MATTllKW :SIIEI!MAX HISIORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ). 675 from there to Ruslnille, Ohio, and finally toIowa, the death of Airs. Steen occurring in thelatter state. For a number of years Mr. Steenwas a merchant in that state, but is now inAlberta, Canada, where he has accumulatedlarge property holdings. John B. Steen was born in Paulville, Adaircounty, Wo., November 14, i860, and was welleducated in the common schools of the variouslocalities in which his parents settled duringhis boyhood years. As a trade upon which todepend for future years he chose that of car-penter, although for some time he was wellknown as a farmer and stock-raiser in Cham-bers, Holt county, Neb. Relinquishing his in-terests in Nebraska in 1894 he that year cameto Long Beach and gave his attention to histrade, the city at that time being in great n
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