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 . d, and being a good manager she is giving a good account of herstewardship. FRANK E. LAUNDERS.—As pioneers of the Southland, Frank E. Launders andhis wife have lived at Garden Grove since 1893. Their ten-acre ranch lies a quarterof a mile south of Garden Grove, and its well-kept acreage, devoted for the mostpart to the culture of lima beans, grown between the rows of their orange trees
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 . d, and being a good manager she is giving a good account of herstewardship. FRANK E. LAUNDERS.—As pioneers of the Southland, Frank E. Launders andhis wife have lived at Garden Grove since 1893. Their ten-acre ranch lies a quarterof a mile south of Garden Grove, and its well-kept acreage, devoted for the mostpart to the culture of lima beans, grown between the rows of their orange trees, be-speaks the ability and energy of its owner. Mr. Launders was born at Fond du Lac, Wis., April 15, 1864, and is the son ofSamuel Launders, a carpenter and liuilder by trade, and Maria (Cobb) Launders, aniece of Silas Cobb, the Chicago pioneer and millionaire street railway man. grandfather Cobb, was a pioneer of Wisconsin, and the courageous spiritthat is the heritage of the sturdy pioneer is manifest in Mr. Launders. As a child heaccompanied his parents when they removed to Sauk County, Wis., and thence toMitchell County, Iowa, where the father farmed and where young Frank attended the. - ^^^
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