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 . cotton planters, owning between 7,000 and 8,000 acres of choice Missouri Maulsby received his early education in the Southern Missouri Academy, andlater was clerk of New Madrid County, Missouri. Miss Maulsby came to Santa Ana with a sister, Mrs. Kate Doyle, now of ElMonte, arriving at Santa Ana in September, 1885. She thus saw both Orange andSanta Ana develop from their infanc
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 . cotton planters, owning between 7,000 and 8,000 acres of choice Missouri Maulsby received his early education in the Southern Missouri Academy, andlater was clerk of New Madrid County, Missouri. Miss Maulsby came to Santa Ana with a sister, Mrs. Kate Doyle, now of ElMonte, arriving at Santa Ana in September, 1885. She thus saw both Orange andSanta Ana develop from their infancy. When the plaza in Orange was laid out sheassisted in the entertainment. On August 18, 1886, at the old Doyle home near SantaAna, she was married to U. J. Ross, oldest child of Josiah and Sarah Ross, who grewup in Santa Ana, but was born in Watsonville. He is now foreman for the HammondLumber Company in Los .Angeles. Mr. and Mrs Josiah Ross came across the plainsin an ox-team train in 1865 and settled in the Salinas Valley for a short time, comingdown to Los Angeles County and settling in what is now Orange County a yearlater. Then there was for the most part only Mexican and Spanish settlers here, and. HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 235 considerable trouble was had with the natives. The early settlers grain would beendangered by the Mexican ponies, which were allowed to graze at random, and itwas necessary to kill many of these ponies before the Spanish element took any meas-ures to keep their animals off the land they had sold to the early settlers. JosiahRoss came across the country in prairie schooners, and if anyone had a story totell, he certainly did. The wild mustard grew so tall that even when one stood onthe driving board of the prairie schooner it was impossible to see over the dried, the mustard was used by the Ross family in place of firewood. Sweetster, sister-in-law of Mrs. Ross, was the first girl born in Santa Ana. Josiah Ross purchased 275 acre
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