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 . short time at San LuisObispo. In October of the same year he arrived in Anaheim, coming from San Pedrowith a twelve-mule team, and he soon opened the first blacksmith shop in the newtown. In March, 1860, he purchased twenty acres on South Lemon Street, where heplanted a vineyard and made and sold wine. He helped organize the German Meth-odist Church and was an Odd Fellow. Later on Mr.
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 . short time at San LuisObispo. In October of the same year he arrived in Anaheim, coming from San Pedrowith a twelve-mule team, and he soon opened the first blacksmith shop in the newtown. In March, 1860, he purchased twenty acres on South Lemon Street, where heplanted a vineyard and made and sold wine. He helped organize the German Meth-odist Church and was an Odd Fellow. Later on Mr. Lorenz sold all but one acre ofhis land, and here his two daughters now reside. He lived to the advanced age ofeighty-five, his death occurring in 1902, his wife having passed away in 1885. His daughters. Mrs. Louis Dorr and Mrs. Henry A. Boege, are among the pioneercitizens of Anaheim, having come here over sixty years ago. At that time the countrybetween Anaheim and San Juan Capistrano was a wilderness, as was the territorjbetween here and Los Angeles. LOUIS DORR, a native of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, married ElminaCharlotte, the eldest daughter of Charles Lorenz. He left his native country when a. HISTORY OF ORANGE COLXTY 295 young man to reside in England and afterwards went to Australia. In 1862 he arrivedin Anaheim, where he was engaged as a bookkeeper; he also owned a vineyard andmade wine. Mr. and Mrs. Dorr were the parents of seven children, five of whom areliving: Louis, the oldest member of the family, is a forest ranger and resides nearPalmdale; Charles is a miner at Tonopah, Nev.; Agnes and Dorothy are living at LosAngeles, where they conduct a cafeteria: and Arthur is a mining man and is in Mexico. Mr. Dorr passed away in 1895. Mrs. Dorr lived in San Francisco and in LosAngeles for about fifteen years, then came back to Anaheim and has lived here eversince and has been a witness of the wonderful growth and development of the county. HENRY A. BOEGE was united
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