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 . of Mrs. Yost was indicative of her Scotch-Irish blood, althoughshe came of the best Revoluntionary stock, and her father, one of the early settlersof Iowa, fought in the Black Hawk War. She died on December 24, 1919, eighty-threeyears old. the mother of ten children. Charles is a vineyardist at Coachella; Clara is thewife of John Miller, a merchant at Phoenix, Ariz.; William R., now a
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 . of Mrs. Yost was indicative of her Scotch-Irish blood, althoughshe came of the best Revoluntionary stock, and her father, one of the early settlersof Iowa, fought in the Black Hawk War. She died on December 24, 1919, eighty-threeyears old. the mother of ten children. Charles is a vineyardist at Coachella; Clara is thewife of John Miller, a merchant at Phoenix, Ariz.; William R., now a farmer, is oper-ating the McQuiston ranch of 120 acres at Talbert; John was accidentally killed at ElToro; James resides in Santa Ana; Mary is the wife of William McLaughlin and residesin Ventura County; George, also a rancher, resides in Fresno County; Malin worksin the shipyard at San Pedro; Myron is in the auto business at Los Angeles: and Leois the wife of Fred Cole, of West Fourth Street, who owns a walnut ranch of twentyacres in Santa Ana. William R. attended the common schools in Santa .a, learned the blacksmithstrade under his father, and in the same town started in business for himself. He ran. ui^dyt^^u/- udaJr^-y^ HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 687 a machine shop and a foundry, and made all kinds of vehicles and implements such aswould he demanded thereabouts, and he did all the blacksmithing work for JamesMcFadden, who was the chief spirit in building the Santa Ana and Xewport Railway-as well as for the Fairview Railroad, now a thing of the past. His shop was locatedat the corner of Fifth Street and Broadway, and there, among other exceptional thingsnot turned out by everyone, he made all the switch plates for the Newport road. After a while, Mr. Yost quit smithying and became a cattle buyer and a drover,raising, buying, selling and shipping cattle in Riverside, Orange, Los Angeles and SanDiego counties. About 1906 he began farming on the ONeill ranch near El Toro,and the
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