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 . in, was sent to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis andplaced with the Orange County exhibit. For many years lie raised celery and was verysuccessful; in one year his two-thirds shares from nine acres realized him $1,860; how-ever, of late he raises sugar beets and lima beans. Many years ago he also set out anorchard of apples, peaches, pears and plums which he finds very pr
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 . in, was sent to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis andplaced with the Orange County exhibit. For many years lie raised celery and was verysuccessful; in one year his two-thirds shares from nine acres realized him $1,860; how-ever, of late he raises sugar beets and lima beans. Many years ago he also set out anorchard of apples, peaches, pears and plums which he finds very profitable, and hishard, intelligent labor has brought him success. He donates two and a half acres ofhis ranch for a government experiment station. Since oil was struck at HuntingtonBeach, he has leased for oil. Mr. Wells was married a second time, in 1910 in Orange County, to Mrs. Maude(Shanklin) Perry, a native of Kentucky, who had married Harvey Perry. She had twochildren by him—Lorina, who married Berry Slice, the butcher at Santa Ana, andEugene, who is in the U. S. Navy on the battleship New Mexico; and her union withMr. Wells has been blessed with two other children—Lavaughn and L. T. Wells, HISTORY OF COUXTY 637 Mr. Wells children by his first wife are: Lena, who is the wife of George rancher in Kansas, is the mother of two children; .\rthur, another rancher inKansas, who is married and has five children, and owns 320 acres of land; married Helen Huffman of Kansas, and resides with her and his two children onone of Mr. Wells ranches; and Gertrude, the wife of Clyde Gilbert, the rancher atTalbert, who has five children. Mr. Wells is a member of the Knights of Pythias atHuntington Beach, and also of the Odd Fellows there. REUBEN A. ADAMS, M. D.—The passing of a physician of such high rank inthe history of American medicine as the late Dr. Reuben A. Adams, and an influentialleader in the Grand Army of the Republic, deserves more than
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