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 . ert. a farmer near thisplace; .\rthur, a butcher of Los .geles: Atary,wife of T. F. Peterson, a merchant of Los An-geles; Richard, a blacksmith, at Puente; Aun. wife of G. L. Matthews, of Los .-geles. His second marriage took place in ElMonte and united him with Ann Hewitt, Avhowas born in England and died in El Monte. .\ft-er her death he married again. AMiile a residentof El ]\Ionte Mr. Slack served as deputy nost-master under
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 . ert. a farmer near thisplace; .\rthur, a butcher of Los .geles: Atary,wife of T. F. Peterson, a merchant of Los An-geles; Richard, a blacksmith, at Puente; Aun. wife of G. L. Matthews, of Los .-geles. His second marriage took place in ElMonte and united him with Ann Hewitt, Avhowas born in England and died in El Monte. .\ft-er her death he married again. AMiile a residentof El ]\Ionte Mr. Slack served as deputy nost-master under John T. Haddock. Politically heis a Democrat. George Slack was born in El Monte. \pril ID, 1864. and was reared to young manhoodon the paternal farm, receiving his education inthe public schools, .^t the age of sixteen yearshe liefjan work with Goodwin & Seward, of learning the trade of carpenter. Heremained with them for four years when he be-g-an contracting in El Monte, where he has eversince been located. He has built residences allover the San Gabriel valley nnd put up manybuildings of various kinds in El Monte, and has. THOMAS CAREY HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 807 also built in Los Angeles, Santa Ana, SantaMonica, Highland Park, and other cities ofSouthern California. He built the family resi-dence on San Bernardino street, which is pre-sided over by his wife, fornicrlv A[is> Lena Kill-ian. a native of Georgia, and with win mi he wasunited in marriage in Los .Angeles. IVaternallyhe is identified with the Independent Order ofForesters, of tvhich he is a past officer, and polit-icallv is a Democrat. NATHAN D. BURLINGHA:M. Prominentamong the enterprising residents of Los An-geles county who have been potent factors indeveloping and promoting the mineral re-sources of California is Nathan D. West Glendale. Following the tide of im-migration westward to the Pacific coast in1850, he located in a district rich with aurifer-ous deposits,
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