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 . o pump-ing plants, one used for irrigation and thectlier for domestic water supply for El ?\ addition to the property already mentionedhe also owns a business house in Puente. In Texas Mr. Dodson was united in mar-riage with Miss Clarimon C. Jones, a nativeof Talladega county, Ala., and a daughter ofW. L. Jones, a pioneer of El i\fonte, who diedhere. Mrs. Dodson died here, leaving sixchildren, namely; William B., of San Pedro;May,
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 . o pump-ing plants, one used for irrigation and thectlier for domestic water supply for El ?\ addition to the property already mentionedhe also owns a business house in Puente. In Texas Mr. Dodson was united in mar-riage with Miss Clarimon C. Jones, a nativeof Talladega county, Ala., and a daughter ofW. L. Jones, a pioneer of El i\fonte, who diedhere. Mrs. Dodson died here, leaving sixchildren, namely; William B., of San Pedro;May, wife of Dr. Bragg Mings, of Los An-geles : E. J. and C. B., twins, the former acontractor of Los Angeles, and the latter lo-cated in Oakland, Cal.; W. L., a business manof El Monte; and Foster, at home. One K., died in infancy some years beforethe mother. Air. Dodson was married thesecond time to Mrs. Minerva (Johnston)Blacklc^•, a nati\e of Missouri and a daughterof Micajah Johnston, who built the first houseand blacksmith shop in what is now El Montein 1852 : in 1884 he sold out and the follow-ing year died in Savannah. Mr. Dodson is a. ^x:/^:u.»*^c^ ^/^2i^v<^ HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. (J4:5 member fraternally of the Ancient Order ofUnited A\orkmen, and the Los Angeles Coun-ty Pioneers, while politically he is a stanchDemocrat, having served for years as a mem-ber of the Democratic connty central commit-tee. On all matters of public import Mr. Dod-son has taken a keen -interest, and is alwayscounted upon to promote movements for thebenefit of community, county, state or nation. HON. SAMUEL T. BLACK. The presi-dent of the San Diego State Normal Schoolis a descendant of an old Scotch family and itssole American representative of his genera-tion. From Scotland the family became trans-planted into England, where he was born inCtmiberland May 20, 1846, being fifth in or-der of birth among the ten children of Jamesand Elspeth (Thorburn) Black, natives re-
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