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 . leven years, untilin 1874, in search of health and a warmer climate, he made a trip to California tovisit his brother-in-law, James Irvine, the original owner of the San Joaquin Ranchoin Orange County. He remained here for three months, and then returned to Cleve-land. He was so well pleased with what he saw of the Golden State, however, thathe decided to return, reaching here on Janua
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 . leven years, untilin 1874, in search of health and a warmer climate, he made a trip to California tovisit his brother-in-law, James Irvine, the original owner of the San Joaquin Ranchoin Orange County. He remained here for three months, and then returned to Cleve-land. He was so well pleased with what he saw of the Golden State, however, thathe decided to return, reaching here on January 18, 1877. He went into the stock busi-ness with James Irvine, raising cattle and hogs on the San Joaquin Rancho, but thatyear was extremely dry and they had no feed for their stock, the sheep dying by thethousand. He was then living at the old San Joaquin ranch house at the head ofNewport Bay, the first plastered house in Los Angeles County, remaining there sixmonths. He next purchased some land of Peter Potts at Tustin, and started anorange grove, and later he bought a tract of fifty acres north of Tustin, part ofwhich he still owns. He paid fifty dollars an acre for this land, and set it to Muscatel. HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 329 grapes, from which he averaged $200 an acre for several years. During the boom of1886-1887 in this vicinit3% he sold quite a portion of his land, some of it at the rateof $4,000 an acre. Land values, of course, receded after this abnormal inflation, andMr. Rice was compelled to take back some of it. He erected a line three-story resi-dence on his property, and now has a twelve-acre orange grove that has been broughtup to the highest state of cultivation and productivity. Mr. Rices marriage, which occurred in Cleveland, Ohio, united him with MissCoralinn Barlow, the daughter of Gen. Merrill Barlow, an eminent lawyer of thatplace, who was quartermaster general of Ohio during the Civil War period. A brotherof Mrs. Rice is Hon. Charles A. Barlow, of Ba
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