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 . ears. The following year hewas foreman of the brick works connected with the penitentiary. He then engaged infarming near Lawrence for three years and then removed to Kansas City, where he wasin the employ of the Metropolitan Street Railway for another period of three years,when he resumed farming on their old farm in Wyandotte County. After three years here he decided to locate on the
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 . ears. The following year hewas foreman of the brick works connected with the penitentiary. He then engaged infarming near Lawrence for three years and then removed to Kansas City, where he wasin the employ of the Metropolitan Street Railway for another period of three years,when he resumed farming on their old farm in Wyandotte County. After three years here he decided to locate on the Pacific Coast, so in the fall of1903 he moved to Everett. Wash., and there passed the following winter and in June,1904, came to Pasadena. Cal., where he superintended a ranch for three years. Duringthis time he investigated soil and climate in Southern California and decided on OrangeCounty as the most suitable location for his purpose. In 1907 he removed to OrangeCounty and purchased thirty-three acres of vacant land on West Commonwealth Ave-nue with one-half mile frontage, at that time overgrown with volunteer hay and mus-tard; and when he had cleared and graded the acreage, he planted it to Valencia. X-J^-t,cW<//^^cZ^ --(j^iyi^Hdt^f^ HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1087 oranges. He lias a pumping plant of forty inches capacity, and is a member of thePlacentia Orange Growers Association. On March 29, 1883, Mr. Williamson was married to Miss Luella Watson, a nativeof Leavenworth, Kans., and the daughter of Thomas J. and Barbara (.Coulter) father was a Southern gentleman, born, reared and educated in Georgia, and hecame to Kansas in 18S5. He was a member of the Kansas State Militia when the slavetrouble came up, and although raised in the South he decided that slavery was agreat moral wrong and becaine a prominent Free State man and gave all the assistancehe could to the Union and did his duty according to his conscience. Mrs. Williamsonattended the public schools of W
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