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 . popular citizensof the county, in which he has now resided for a number of years, making more thana decade, Harry E. Matthews resides on his own ranch south of Tustin, which hepurchased in January. 1909. He took it when it was in an unreclaimed state, andstraightway set out his orange trees and made the other needed improvements, butby hard, steady work his place is now bringing in 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 . popular citizensof the county, in which he has now resided for a number of years, making more thana decade, Harry E. Matthews resides on his own ranch south of Tustin, which hepurchased in January. 1909. He took it when it was in an unreclaimed state, andstraightway set out his orange trees and made the other needed improvements, butby hard, steady work his place is now bringing in the handsome returns for whichhe labtfred. His products are Valencia oranges and walnuts, and there are none betterin the county. Born in Oskaloosa. Mahaska County. Iowa, on August 28. 1858, Mr. Matthews isa son of Fenelon and Mary (Hogin) Matthews, natives, respectively, of South Caro-lina and Maryland, who were pioneer settlers of Iowa, where Fenelon Matthewsbecame a well-known merchant and successful business man. Showing his patriotismfor the Stars and Stripes, he volunteered his services in an Iowa regiment on the break-ing out of the Civil War, serving until the close of the war, being honorably dis-. HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1185 charged as sergeant. He came of an old Southern family that is traced back toWelsh and French descent. Mr. Matthews spent his boyhood in Keokuk County,Iowa, where his education was acquired at the common schools. Wlien he first beganto work for a living, after his school days, he entered the mercantile field, and a mer-cantile career he continued even after he moved to Kiowa, Barber County, Kans., in1877. He joined to it, however, the enterprise of stock raising, having acquired 320acres of land; 160 he devoted to crops and the remainder to grazing. For a number of years Mr. Matthews was under-sheriflf of Barber County, made a splendid record as an officer, and having an enviable record as a citizen, itis no wonder that when his term of off
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