anaheim-gazette 1945-12-06

FORMER GAZETTE PUBLISHER GIVES PICTURE OF YOUR HOME-TOWN NEWSPAPER (Although the graphic and romantic history of the Anaheim Gazette has been published several times before, no person ever was or ever could be more qualified to recount the outstanding events in which your newspaper has played such an important role in the life of the city of Anaheim, or review the achievements of the Gazette, for the period the late Henry Kuchel was publisher and editor, a period of almost 50 years, until the time of his death a little more than ten years ago. Shortly before he passed away, he dictated the following article, which is being reprinted in this, the 75th anniversary edition of the Gazette, and which we feel, is a part of his contribution to our Diamond Jubilee.—Editor.) By HENRY KUCHEL The Anaheim Gazette was established in 1870 by George W. Barter in a small frame building standing on Chartres street opposite where the Plaindealer was afterwards issued. Barter continued as owner of the Gazette for a year or so and then sold to Charles A. Gardiner. Gardiner bought the Gazette and continued its publication for about a year. He sold to Melrose & Athearn. However, the new company did not get along well together and Melrose became the proprietor outright. Melrose continued its publication until 1887 when I bought it. Thus 17 years after it started I owned the property. We have had many fights to pull off for the people, one of them the notorious "twilight pat- and then sold to Charles A. Gardiner. Gardiner bought the Gazette and continued its publication for about a year. He sold to Melrose & Athena. However, the new company did not get along well together and Melrose became the proprietor outright. Melrose continued its publication until 1887 when I bought it. Thus 17 years after it started I owned the property. We have had many fights to pull off for the people, one of them the notorious "twilight patent" which sought to impose a royalty upon fumigation for orange trees. Immediately there was a great stir among orange growers throughout the county. William McFadden, our correspondent at Placentia came into this office and declared that he had 55 acres of oranges on Placentia avenue which were not worth one cent if this royalty was suffered to exist. He was informed that the "Twilight Patent" people had sent a man named Smith over to see me, who offered me $250 to favor the patent. Instantly McFadden advanced to the editorial desk and pounded with his fist saying, "Here is all the money you need." The offer was made because Smith had threatened to send us to jail for criminal libel. All the growers then promised to stand by us. I informed them that I wished none of their money, but I wanted them to stand by me in stormy weather. Patent Attacked The validity of the "Twilight patent" was attacked in the supreme court by the growers and after a long fight the court declared the patent invalid and void. Another fight the Gazette had was against the sugar factory on wheels which sought to place bonds in the amount of $600,000 on lands in the trust deed. The first location of the factory was to be at West Anaheim near the Cook warehouse, but after lands had been sold around we were surprised to learn that the factory had been moved to Los Alamitos. Here a sugar mill was finally erected and fitted with machinery by the Dyer company of Cleveland. I asked Dyer if the building would be called the Anaheim mill. the meeting into considerable of a riot and this man was roundly denounced. Of course they went into insolvency. There was considerable printing to be done, including a long list of stockholders who had not paid and the amount of the printing charge went into a respectable sum, but all of this printing and advertising was sent to the little paper around the corner which has long since passed away. Another scrap the paper had was in county division time in 1889 when Santa Ana sought to cut away from Los Angeles county. A delegation of citizens headed by James McFadden conferred with our people. They agreed upon a bill to be submitted to the legislature providing the northern boundary line be placed at New River. But a day or two before the legislature met the bill was submitted providing that the northern boundary line should be at Coyote creek. When the old timers here learned of this there was a snort of defiance. They would not agree to it, and neither would a single man in this town. Many men who had favored it with the northern boundary placed at New River now came out against it with the boundary placed at Coyote creek. This bill was prepared by Victor Montgomery. It provided for a two-thirds majority at an election and again William McFadden came in saying that that ought to be fair enough for anyone. He said there was quite a favorable sentiment in the Placentia and Fullerton districts as well as in Garden Grove and Westminster. He found there was also quite an element supporting the bill in this city. A vote came on and the county was organized by a large majority. Orange was the other town after the county seat. While Anaheim would have liked to have had the county seat, the boys recognized that the chief industry at that time was the growing of grapes and the manufacture of wine. Nearly all of the fifty original plats were planted to vineyards and it is said that at the time this paper was established there were forty-seven wineries in the town. Many ranchers grew grain, and cattle, and sheep by the thousands ranged outside the city. Looking over the first issue of the Gazette we find many names that are familiar. According to the directory published in its columns the city officials were as follows: mayor, Max Strobel; councilmen, John Fischer, president, Harry Kroeger, John P. Zeyn, E. W. Champlin, F. Goodrich; city attorney, S. J. Davis; treasurer, Theodore Rimpau; assessor N. H. Mitchell; marshal, D. Davies. The school trustees were John P. Zeyn, W. M. Higgins and Every business and al man in the small have been represented venturous sheet. In the vertisers we find the Polhemus Bros., dealer ware; Dr. W. N. Haigh Williams, carpenter at Heiman & George, dealer merchandise, grocer ware, wines and liquor hotel, John Fischer, pro B. Beck & Co., furniture ther, pioneer boot maker P. Robbins, watcher Luedke, watchmaker er; Langenberger, Bl Co., lumber dealers a Landing. V. D'Assonville, Charles A. Gardiner, J.A.F. Heyerman, mlic; Anaheim Drug store Higgins; Pioneer Live Goodrich & Mitchell; Bros., dry goods, furni hides, etc.; Arnold & on lands in the trust deed. The first location of the factory was to be at West Anaheim near the Cook warehouse, but after lands had been sold around we were surprised to learn that the factory had been moved to Los Alamitos. Here a sugar mill was finally erected and fitted with machinery by the Dyer company of Cleveland. I asked Dyar if the building would be called the Anaheim sugar factory. Much to my surprise he shook his head and said the factory was of such national reputation that it would be decked out with some national name. This was done and it has been known as the Los Alamitos sugar factory although privately owned by Clark. Of course, no sugar is being manufactured there now, nor has been for some years past. Sometime before the erectors of the sugar factory tried to issue bonds in the amount of $600,000 but the files of the abstract company showed that the head man of the sugar beet company was in the deal for ten shares although voting many more during the years of its organization, and with the secretions of stock from different growers was entirely able to control. When the final day came to vote approval of the bond issue Tim Carroll came into this office and showed that the abstract company had delivered him an abstract of their record showing that this man had only 10 shares in the trust deed instead of the large number he had been voting since the organization of the company. Of course, that put quite a favorable sentiment in the Placentia and Fullerton districts as well as in Garden Grove and Westminster. He found there was also quite an element supporting the bill in this city. A vote came on and the county was organized by a large majority, Orange was the other town after the county seat. While Anaheim would have liked to have had the county seat, the boys recognized that we were not heavy enough for it and the thing was dropped. Later on when it was proposed to issue bonds for the erection of the court house there was opposition, but the bonds carried by a two-thirds majority all over the county and proved to be a very good investment. The building is the best for the money in this part of the state. The books, deeds, vouchers and all county papers representing millions of dollars of property had been stored in a filmsay building on East Fourth street where the county officials also held their meetings. Other minor scraps came along at election time and at primary election time, people had it in their heads that the turn of their section was coming and they would announce themselves for office. I said no matter where he came from we must pick out the best man for office. Several gentlemen who had been especial friends of mine were rather unfriendly to me after that and we became estranged. But this fight will go on and during election time you can look for the men who are anxious for office. In the first issue is printed an ordinance fixing the salary of the various city officials, and in it we find that the mayor shall receive nothing, the marshal $5 per month for the first three months, city attorney nothing, city clerk $12 per month, and $20 extra for the first month. The city assessor got a salary of $150 per year. Section 8 of this ordinance declares that "It is hereby made the duty of the marshal to keep in good order the common council room, and to attend its sessions, to attend the mayor's court whenever required by that official and the duties of his office, and particularly on Monday mornings at such hours as shall be convenient for those desiring the discharge of servants and Indians, to be fixed by the mayor." From this we deduce that servants and Indians were in the habit of breaking into the jail on Saturday nights and were paid out by their employers on Monday morning. According to the directory published in its columns the city officials were as follows: mayor, Max Strobel; councilmen, John Fischer, president; Harry Kroeger, John P. Zeyn, E. W. Champlin, F. Goodrich; city attorney, S. J. Davis; treasurer, Theodore Rimpau; assessor N. H. Mitchell; marshal, D. Davies. The school trustees were John P. Zeyn, W. M. Higgins and H. Werder. Officers of the Anaheim Union Water company were John P. Zeyn, president; D. Strodthoff, vice president; F. Schneider, treasurer; Louis Dorr, secretary, and A. Bittner. In the first issue is printed an ordinance fixing the salary of the various city officials, and in it we find that the mayor shall receive nothing, the marshal $5 per month for the first three months, city attorney nothing, city clerk $12 per month, and $20 extra for the first month. The city assessor got a salary of $150 per year. Section 8 of this ordinance declares that "It is hereby made the duty of the marshal to keep in good order the common council room, and to attend its sessions, to attend the mayor's court whenever required by that official and the duties of his office, and particularly on Monday mornings at such hours as shall be convenient for those desiring the discharge of servants and Indians, to be fixed by the mayor." HISTORY OF ANAHEIM COUNTY INTERESTING DOCUMENT; NAME LATER CHANGED TO ORANGE CO. March 11, 1889, by act of the legislature the county of Orange was cut off from the southeastern part of Los Angeles county. Back of this county division is a very interesting story. Major Max Strobel of Anaheim was the originator of the scheme for separating the southeastern part of Los Angeles county and forming Anaheim county. In the fall of 1869 he drew up a bill creating the county of Anaheim, making Anaheim the county seat. The dividing line was the old San Gabriel river channel to the San Bernardino base line, thence east to the division line between Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. Strobel was backed by some of the wealthiest pioneers of the county,—William Workman of Puente, Temple, Rubottom, Fryer, Don Juan Foster, Ben Dreyfus, A. Langenberger and others. Strobel secured a signed petition asking for the division and with ample funds supplied by the parties interested, went to Sacramento, at the legislative session of 1869-70. The bill passed the assembly without much opposition. After his failure to divide the county, he started a newspaper in Anaheim. It was the organ of county division, called "The People's Advocate," but it died from some source, probably insufficient nutrition and was buried in the grave of journalistic failures. Strobel's last venture was the sale of Catalina island to European capitalists. Supplied with funds by its owners and rich mineral specimens from the island, he sailed to England and locat- 1872. looking west from the vicinity of Los Angeles street. In the right foredge Planters hotel, which was built by John Fischer. It was destroyed by fire was established. Rebuilt that same year, 1870, it burned again 20 years later. First left is the adobe house built by A. Langenberger when Anaheim was founded. used as a store and the family resided upstairs. The J. C. Penney store now is being occupied. of 75 Years Ago Finds ear Anaheim Names Listed to the Gazette made its first appearance. The that time was perhaps three hundred, posthe country surrounding it was sparsely setone mile square. North street, East street, street being the boundary lines. The city was metrable hedge, maintained for the purpose of inside the corporation from roving cattle roamed at will on the unfenced range. There and from Every business and professional man in the small city must have been represented in this adventurous sheet. In the list of advertisers we find the names of Polhemus Bros., dealers in hardware; Dr. W. N. Hardin; D. K. Williams, carpenter and builder; Heiman & George, dealers in general merchandise, groceries, hardware, wines and liquors; Planters hotel, John Fischer, proprietor; O. B. Beck & Co., furniture; L. Gunther, pioneer boot maker; Charles P. Robbins, watchmaker; R. Luedke, watchmaker and jeweler; Langenberger, Blockman & Co., lumber dealers at Anaheim Landing. V. D'Assonville, physician; Charles A. Gardiner, attorney; Dr. J. A. F. Heyerman, notary public; Anaheim Drug store, W. M. Higgins; Pioneer Livery Stable; Goodrich & Mitchell; P. Davis & Bros., dry goods, furniture, wool, hides, etc.; Arnold & Baldwin confined in the city calaboose got free from their manacles, broke down the door and fled during the night. The new two-story building erected by M. Calisher, Esq., and the proprietor of the Gazette, is about completed and will be occupied by both the Gazette and the general merchandise store of M. Calisher during the coming week. Ninety-one pupils were enrolled in the public schools at the time this paper was printed. The school was divided in two rooms, a grammar and a primary. J. M. Guinn was principal and Jennie Swift teacher in the primary. In this issue is printed the roll of honor which contains the following names: Primary, Francisco Rodrigo, Emma Werder, Clem Schmidt, Frances Schmidt, A. Langenberger, Minnie Eckels, Fannie Higgins, Wilbert Martin, Natala Carrillo, J. Langenberger, Henry Poderts, Oscar Luedke, Herman Meyers, Mary Williams. Grammar, Harry Hanna, Herman Zeyn, Louisa Werder, Fred Rimpau, Henry Kuchel, Charles Luedke, Eddie Schmidt, Ida Smith, Emma Thiele, George Champlin, John Luedke, Lee Mead, Fred Fischer, Mariano Garfias, Etle Bremmerman, Burwell Wright, Oscar Zeyn, Emily Fischer, William Roach, Emma Stone, Flora Luedke, Charles Stone, Sarah Smith. Lee & Co.'s celebrated mammoth the wealthiest pioneers of the county—William Workman of Puente, Temple, Rubottom, Fryer, Don Juan Foster, Ben Dreyfus, A. Langenberger and others. Strobel secured a signed petition asking for the division and with ample funds supplied by the parties interested, went to Sacramento, at the legislative session of 1869-70. The bill passed the assembly without much opposition; but when it reached the senate it received strong opposition. The people of Los Angeles awoke to the fact that the most valuable lands of Los Angeles county lay in the proposed new county, leaving little but mountains and deserts, for the new county took in the fertile valleys of Los Nietos, San Jose and Santa Ana. During the delay the opposition increased; those backing Strobel in financing the project kept supplying funds and quoting from J. M. Guinn's History of California," "The proceeds of many a gallon of wine, the price of many a bullock was sent to Strobel that he might convince the honest legislators of the riches and resources of the new county. Another long delay and anxiety that was cruel to the waiting statesmen on the banks of the Santa Ana. Then one day in the idees of March, the lumbering stage coach, with its tri-weekly mail; rolled into the embryo capital of the new county. The would-be officeholders gathered at the post office, eager for the latest news from Sacramento." It came in a letter from Strobel asking for more money. The bill had been defeated but he felt with more money he could yet put it over; but no more funds were sent. Again quoting from J. M. Guinn who, by the way was principal of the Anaheim public school for some eight years was instrumental in building the Central school house. "Major Max Strobel, the originator of the division scheme and its most ardent advocate in its early stages deserves more than a passing notice. A soldier of fortune and a Machiavel in politics ed in London. He succeeded in convincing a syndicate of English capitalists of the mineral wealth and other resources of the island, and negotiated its sale for a million dollars. A contract was drawn up and an hour set for the next day when the parties were to sign and the money to be paid. When the hour arrived to close the transaction, Strobel did not appear. Search was made for him. He was in his room, dead; dead on the very eve of success; for the sale of the island would have made him rich. Negotiations Anaheim Rotary Second Founded In Orange County Anaheim Rotary club, justly proud of its many achievements since its organization in 1921, is the second oldest Rotary group in Orange county, following by about a year the formation of the Santa Ana club. Since then Rotary clubs have been established in Orange, Fullerton, Huntington Beach, Placentia and San Juan Capistrano. To Dr. F. H. Houck went the honor of being the first president of Anaheim Rotary club. Among the charter members who are still active in the organization are Dr. Walter Bigham, S. Cloyd Hartranft, Dr. H. A. Johnston, Thomas L. McFadden and Dr. John W. Truxaw. Again quoting from J. M. Guinn, who, by the way was principal of the Anaheim public school for some eight years was instrumental in building the Central school house. "Major Max Strobel, the originator of the division scheme and its most ardent advocate in its early stages deserves more than a passing notice. A soldier of fortune and a Machlavel in politics, he was always on the losing side. He was a man of versatile genius and varied resources—a lawyer, an editor, a civil engineer, an accomplished linguist. He was a German by birth and reputed to be of aristocratic lineage. "A compatriot of Carl Schurz and Sigel in the German revolution of 1848. On the failure of that movement, with Sigel, his intimate friend, he fled to this country. He drifted down to Nicaragua and for a time filibustered with Walker. He finally located in Anaheim where he bought a vineyard and engaged in wine making; but the life of a vineyardist was too narrow and contracted for his genius. He was constantly branching out into new projects. He was one of the pioneer petroleum prospectors of the state. In 1867 he sunk a great hole in Brea canyon, where, if he did not strike oil, he did strike the bottom of the purses of those he had enlisted in the scheme. Even in this project his ill luck foiled him. In the immediate vicinity of where he bored for oil, 34 years ago, oil gushers today (1902) abound and fortunes have been made in oil." In the legislature of 1874, Wiseman resigned and left the council sessions when special and parish meetings at convene the disdians, to serve the habit on Sat-raid out Monday ANAHEIM GAZETTE — 75th ANNIVERSARY HEIM COUNTY MENT; NAME ORANGE CO. legislature the county of Oreastern part of Los Angeles division is a very interesting he was the originator of the neastern part of Los Ancounty. bill creating the county of after his failure to divide the nty, he started a newspaper in heim. It was the organ of nty division, called "The PeoAdvocate," but it died from source, probably insufficient ition and was buried in the ve of journalistic failures. robel's last venture was the of Catalina island to Eurocapitalists. Supplied, with is by its owners and rich minspecimens from the island, sailed to England and locat- man, nicknamed the "Broad A" from the vigorous way he hewed the "Queen's English," appeared as the champion of county division. Neither his pathetic appeals for the oppressed people of the prospective county of Orange nor his superlative denunciations of their oppressors, the county officials of the county of Los Angeles convinced the Sacramento law-makers of the necessity of forming a new county. In 1878 another change was made in the boundaries, changing the original line from the old San Gabriel river to the new San Gabriel river. In this year a bill to create the county of Santa Ana and making Anaheim the county seat was drafted. The name was a concession to Santa Ana, but it did not conciliate. The town of Santa Ana, that had no existence in 1869, had grown to be a formidable rival to Anaheim. Santa Ana was founded by W. H. Spurgeon in October 1869. In 1881 another division effort was made. Anaheim patched up a truce with Santa Ana. Anaheim was to be the seat of government for two years after which the question of the location of the ORIGINAL LOT OWNERS The following is the list of the names of the Los Angeles Vineyard share holders, who participated in the "Lottery" distribution of the original plot of Anaheim as related in another article in this issue. Some of those who formed and organized the original Colony Association, did not keep up their assessments as funds were needed and their shares were sold by the board of directors to others and some disposed of their shares direct to other parties. There are forty-five shareholders listed as original owners, as some took more than one lot. John Anders Jacob Hartman Chas. L. Poppe John Bach I. S. Hitell Carl Rehm F. Backman Aug. Hoelscher Th. Reiser I. A. Bauer R. Horstman Eva Rooch O. Bergson Aug. Humbolt C. S. Rust Cajus Beythien L. Iaszynsky Hugo Schenk H. Boege Jacob Keller Theo. E. Schmidt J. Boege C. Kroeger C. F. Scholl Henry Bremmermann H. Kroeger Christ Stoppenbach Henry Cramer F. W. Kuelp F. Sturenburg John Fischer C. C. Kuchel I. R. Vineyard Fred Gotz Rudolph Luedke Edw. Wenzel Charles Gulpen John M. Metz H. Werder Ph. G. Hammes Christ Mosseman Jul. Weyse Geo. Hansen H. Padderatz John P. Zeyn F. A. Yungbluth One of Early Merchants Retires Parallelling the growth of the city of Anaheim from a small mill bers of Co."K", 185th infantry, before their departure for camp. One of the founders of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce fifty years ago, Mr. Yungbluth served as a director for many years and as its president several years. He was president of the California F. A. Yungbluth One of Early Merchants Retires Parallelling the growth of the city of Anaheim from a small village to its present magnitude is the story of the growth of the F. A. Yungbluth store, starting in this city more than forty-eight years ago and selling his business to new owners, Swanberger's, just this year after growing and working with the city in all its community activities that has brought fruitful returns to Mr. Yungbluth. Starting his business career as an apprentice to his uncle, Fred Crist, a merchant tailor, and retaining that employment for four years, he then went to San Francisco where he attended cutting school in the tailoring profession and upon the death of his uncle, returned to Anaheim when he purchased Crist's business and established the concern that has so proudly borne his name for these many years and is one of the leading business institutions of this city. Shortly after assuming charge of his new firm, he moved the merchant tailor business to another building, the Ruhmann building on North Los Angeles street and early in 1902, he and Louis Kroeger became partners and went into the men's furnishing line, Yungbluth continuing the tailoring business. Outgrowing the quarters and desiring to improve their store, they moved to a new location three years later, 147 West Center street, the location of the present establishment. Many years later, foreseeing the growth that Anaheim was destined to make, Yungbluth and Kroeger dissolved partnership, each establishing a business of his own; Yungbluth remaining in the storebers of Co. "K", 185th infantry, before their departure for camp. One of the founders of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce fifty years ago, Mr. Yungbluth served as a director for many years and as its president several years. He was president of the California Valencia Orange Show in 1928. He served several years as a member of the city council, being appointed to this position in the fall of 1932 following the death of Mayor Fred Koesel. He completed that term and was elected to the council in April, 1934. Many have been his civic achievements since that time and now Mr. Yungbluth has retired from business and is residing at home where he is enjoying the leisure he so willingly had foregone during his earlier life and putting his finest efforts to the betterment of Anaheim, a city he has seen grow through the years and one that remembers and appreciates his efforts. Backs,, Campbell Kaulbars Has Early History Here The Backs, Campbell and Kaulbars Mortuary of today is one of the oldest business establishments in this city. Established by Ferdinand A. Backs, sr., in 1871, the firm was located in the 100 block on North Los Angeles street. For many years Mr. Backs conducted the business alone, in conjunction with a furniture store, serving most of the families of this city and surrounding community. After many years of active direction of the business, Mr. Backs turned, the management of the firm over to his son, F. A. Backs, Jr., in 1909. Fred Backs is now retired. Some years later, George W. Terry, long since deceased, became affiliated with the company and the name was then changed. In 1889, Col. E. E. Edwards, a resident of Santa Ana, was elected to the assembly from Los Angeles county. He introduced a bill to create the county of Orange, leaving the selection of a county seat to the voters of the new county. However, the boundary lines had again drifted southward and in the Edwards bill, Coyote creek was named, bringing the boundary about four miles from Anaheim. Santa Ana had outgeneraled Anaheim and on the vote to locate the county seat, Santa Ana won hands down. The county of Orange set up in business Aug. 1, 1889, after the longest contest over the formation of a new county in the state. The election of county officers was held July 17, 1889 and resulted as follows: superior judge, J. W. Towner; sheriff and tax collector, R. T. Harris; district attorney, E. E. Edwards; county clerk, R. Q. Wickham; auditor and recorder, G. E. Foster; treasurer, W. B. Wall; county assessor, Fred C. Smythe; superintendent of schools, J. P. Greeley; surveyor, S. O. Wood; coroner and public administrator, I. D. Mills. Supervisors, W. H. Spurgeon, S. Armor, S. A. Littlefield, Jacob Ross and A. Guy Smith. Ten years ago we had plenty of material but we were short on money. Today the conditions are reversed. If there came a time when we had plenty of money and material would we build so many houses that we would have to grow our oranges on our roof gardens? asks the Anaheim Rotary Club's Squeak. Outgrowing the quarters and desiring to improve their store, they moved to a new location three years later, 147 West Center street, the location of the present establishment. Many years later, foreseeing the growth that Anaheim was destined to make, Yungbluth and Kroeger dissolved partnership, each establishing a business of his own; Yungbluth remaining in the store they occupied at that time and Kroeger establishing a business elsewhere. After several years and a continued growth in business, Mr. Yungbluth built larger quarters in 1915, the present building, which he occupied until he sold to the Swanberger interests this year. In spite of the complete stock of nationally-known men's clothing he carried in the store, his first love was the tailoring business and men from over the entire area came to Yungbluth's store when they wanted the finest in workmanship and materials. Born in Dierdorf, near Coblenz, in Rhine province of Germany, he migrated to this country as a lad of 15 years, coming directly to Anaheim, and has continued to make this his home. Always working for the betterment of Anaheim, he engaged in many of its activities, among these being, as a young man, serving with the California national guard for eight years, and during this time, rising to the rank of first sergeant. Following the fire and earthquake in San Francisco in 1906, he saw active duty there. Each year, until the present war, he was host for a dinner to mem- most of the families of this city and surrounding community. After many years of active direction of the business, Mr. Backs turned, the management of the firm over to his son, F. A. Backs Jr., in 1909. Fred Backs is now retired. Some years later, George W. Terry, long since deceased, became affiliated with the company and the name was then changed to Backs and Terry. Mrs. Terry was also affiliated with the concern for many years. Then in 1922 Hayden P. Campbell became a partner of the firm and the name was changed to Backs, Terry and Campbell. In 1912 construction of the present residence-type building at 251 North Lemon street was completed. Since that time a number of changes have been made both to the interior and exterior of the building. J. Ben Kaulbars, for twelve years an employee of Backs, Terry and Campbell funeral chapel, purchased the establishment from Mrs. Hayden P. Campbell, widow of the firm's owner from 1922 until his death. This deal was consummated on August 1, 1940, and Mr. Kaulbars and his wife have continued their thoughtful and beautiful service to the citizens of Anaheim and the community since that time." They make their home in the living quarters of the mortuary. Assisting Mr. Kaulbars in the operation of the establishment is J. Frank Cone, who had been employed by the firm for four years before Mr. Kaulbars became owner.