San Diego County Biographies
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W. W. GUTHRIDGE
There lived in Jasper County, Indiana, an honest farmer, who in addition to his daily toil week days, preached the Gospel of the Son of God, without money and without price, to his neighbors and the country about him on Sundays. He was a Christian minister and a very strict temperance man at a time when the temperance cause was in its infancy.
His name was Harrison P. Guthridge.
He was born in Ohio in 1812, and married Emily Williamson, who was born in Pickaway, Ohio, in 1818. They had a family of six children. The father and mother and one child was taken sick with typhoid fever and died in one day, in 1855, and as the neighbors and friends bore them to the funeral it was the saddest day the country had ever seen. Five little orphan children were left.
One of these orphans was W. W. Guthridge, who is the subject of this sketch.
He was born in Jasper County, Indiana, September 30, 1846. For a time after the death of his parents he lived with his uncle, Albert J. Guthridge, at Urbana, Ohio. When older he returned to the old home, and he and an older brother kept house together. When the war began his brother enlisted in Company K, Forty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and in one of the hard battles he was badly wounded, captured and was a prisoner in Libby prison. He was finally permitted to go home, and died May 16, 1866. In 1863, when the war had reached immense proportions, and when it had been discovered that to enlist meant hard fighting and great danger, the fires of patriotism and heroism fired the breast of young Guthridge, and when only seventeen years of age he enlisted in Company A, Eighty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was afterward transferred to the Forty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He saw much hard service; was in the battle of Chattanooga, at Mission Ridge, and at the battle of Atlanta, and went with General Sherman from Atlanta to the sea. He went on foot with the army from Louisville to Nashville, to Chattanooga, to Atlanta, to Savannah, Georgia, to Raleigh, North Carolina, and to Goldsborough. Then peace was declared and he marched to Richmond, Virginia, and thence to Washington and participated in the grand review. He was on foot in that great parade all day, with nothing to eat but what the citizens handed them as they passed by. During the time he was a soldier at the front he was under fire a great deal, and was on the skirmish line for weeks at a time. When in one of the engagements near Atlanta, he received a ball across the stomach which gave him a slight wound but not deep, and his clothing was shot several times. At one time, in the panic and excitement of a battle, three of them took fifteen prisoners, including an officer, and carried the fourteen guns and officer's sword back with then to the Union lines. After the war was over he returned home, and in 1867 was married to Miss McCulloch.
After five years of married life his wife died. He then went to Missouri and farmed in Daviess County one year. Next he went to Coffeeville, Kansas, and took up a ranch. He was on it four years, when he, leaving his wife with her father in Daviess County, Missouri, sold out and went to Prescott, Arizona, with stock, and while there he learned of his wife's death; and from there he went to Los Angeles, California, with a team. He went to Carpenteria, Santa Barbara County, and bought land at $60 per acre. In ten years he sold it for $400 per acre. He was again married August 11, 1875, in Santa Barbara County, to Miss Emma M. Way. She was born April 25,1857, in Blue Earth City, Minnesota. She was a daughter of Mr. W. A. Way, who was a native of Waterbury, Connecticut. They lived in Santa Barbara eight years; then on account of Mrs. Guthridge's health they removed to Los Angeles and were there two years. They then came to Spring Valley and bought 1,000 acres of land, where they have a very cozy home and are farming on a large scale. This year he intends to sow 900 acres of grain. They are doing some stock farming also. They have three children: William Alonzo, born in Santa Barbara County, October 7, 1876; Hallet G., born in Santa Barbara County, June 12, 1881, and Emma Pearl, born in Spring Valley, February 13, 1886, and died April 12, 1890, of curvature of the spine and consequent brain trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Guthridge are people of refinement, and he is a very hard-working and capable farmer.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. p.- 312-313
This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archiveshttp://calarchives4u.com/
W. W. GUTHRIDGE
There lived in Jasper County, Indiana, an honest farmer, who in addition to his daily toil week days, preached the Gospel of the Son of God, without money and without price, to his neighbors and the country about him on Sundays. He was a Christian minister and a very strict temperance man at a time when the temperance cause was in its infancy.
His name was Harrison P. Guthridge.
He was born in Ohio in 1812, and married Emily Williamson, who was born in Pickaway, Ohio, in 1818. They had a family of six children. The father and mother and one child was taken sick with typhoid fever and died in one day, in 1855, and as the neighbors and friends bore them to the funeral it was the saddest day the country had ever seen. Five little orphan children were left.
One of these orphans was W. W. Guthridge, who is the subject of this sketch.
He was born in Jasper County, Indiana, September 30, 1846. For a time after the death of his parents he lived with his uncle, Albert J. Guthridge, at Urbana, Ohio. When older he returned to the old home, and he and an older brother kept house together. When the war began his brother enlisted in Company K, Forty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and in one of the hard battles he was badly wounded, captured and was a prisoner in Libby prison. He was finally permitted to go home, and died May 16, 1866. In 1863, when the war had reached immense proportions, and when it had been discovered that to enlist meant hard fighting and great danger, the fires of patriotism and heroism fired the breast of young Guthridge, and when only seventeen years of age he enlisted in Company A, Eighty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was afterward transferred to the Forty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He saw much hard service; was in the battle of Chattanooga, at Mission Ridge, and at the battle of Atlanta, and went with General Sherman from Atlanta to the sea. He went on foot with the army from Louisville to Nashville, to Chattanooga, to Atlanta, to Savannah, Georgia, to Raleigh, North Carolina, and to Goldsborough. Then peace was declared and he marched to Richmond, Virginia, and thence to Washington and participated in the grand review. He was on foot in that great parade all day, with nothing to eat but what the citizens handed them as they passed by. During the time he was a soldier at the front he was under fire a great deal, and was on the skirmish line for weeks at a time. When in one of the engagements near Atlanta, he received a ball across the stomach which gave him a slight wound but not deep, and his clothing was shot several times. At one time, in the panic and excitement of a battle, three of them took fifteen prisoners, including an officer, and carried the fourteen guns and officer's sword back with then to the Union lines. After the war was over he returned home, and in 1867 was married to Miss McCulloch.
After five years of married life his wife died. He then went to Missouri and farmed in Daviess County one year. Next he went to Coffeeville, Kansas, and took up a ranch. He was on it four years, when he, leaving his wife with her father in Daviess County, Missouri, sold out and went to Prescott, Arizona, with stock, and while there he learned of his wife's death; and from there he went to Los Angeles, California, with a team. He went to Carpenteria, Santa Barbara County, and bought land at $60 per acre. In ten years he sold it for $400 per acre. He was again married August 11, 1875, in Santa Barbara County, to Miss Emma M. Way. She was born April 25,1857, in Blue Earth City, Minnesota. She was a daughter of Mr. W. A. Way, who was a native of Waterbury, Connecticut. They lived in Santa Barbara eight years; then on account of Mrs. Guthridge's health they removed to Los Angeles and were there two years. They then came to Spring Valley and bought 1,000 acres of land, where they have a very cozy home and are farming on a large scale. This year he intends to sow 900 acres of grain. They are doing some stock farming also. They have three children: William Alonzo, born in Santa Barbara County, October 7, 1876; Hallet G., born in Santa Barbara County, June 12, 1881, and Emma Pearl, born in Spring Valley, February 13, 1886, and died April 12, 1890, of curvature of the spine and consequent brain trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Guthridge are people of refinement, and he is a very hard-working and capable farmer.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. p.- 312-313
San Diego County Biographies
This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archiveshttp://calarchives4u.com/
W. W. GUTHRIDGE
There lived in Jasper County, Indiana, an honest farmer, who in addition to his daily toil week days, preached the Gospel of the Son of God, without money and without price, to his neighbors and the country about him on Sundays. He was a Christian minister and a very strict temperance man at a time when the temperance cause was in its infancy.
His name was Harrison P. Guthridge.
He was born in Ohio in 1812, and married Emily Williamson, who was born in Pickaway, Ohio, in 1818. They had a family of six children. The father and mother and one child was taken sick with typhoid fever and died in one day, in 1855, and as the neighbors and friends bore them to the funeral it was the saddest day the country had ever seen. Five little orphan children were left.
One of these orphans was W. W. Guthridge, who is the subject of this sketch.
He was born in Jasper County, Indiana, September 30, 1846. For a time after the death of his parents he lived with his uncle, Albert J. Guthridge, at Urbana, Ohio. When older he returned to the old home, and he and an older brother kept house together. When the war began his brother enlisted in Company K, Forty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and in one of the hard battles he was badly wounded, captured and was a prisoner in Libby prison. He was finally permitted to go home, and died May 16, 1866. In 1863, when the war had reached immense proportions, and when it had been discovered that to enlist meant hard fighting and great danger, the fires of patriotism and heroism fired the breast of young Guthridge, and when only seventeen years of age he enlisted in Company A, Eighty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was afterward transferred to the Forty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He saw much hard service; was in the battle of Chattanooga, at Mission Ridge, and at the battle of Atlanta, and went with General Sherman from Atlanta to the sea. He went on foot with the army from Louisville to Nashville, to Chattanooga, to Atlanta, to Savannah, Georgia, to Raleigh, North Carolina, and to Goldsborough. Then peace was declared and he marched to Richmond, Virginia, and thence to Washington and participated in the grand review. He was on foot in that great parade all day, with nothing to eat but what the citizens handed them as they passed by. During the time he was a soldier at the front he was under fire a great deal, and was on the skirmish line for weeks at a time. When in one of the engagements near Atlanta, he received a ball across the stomach which gave him a slight wound but not deep, and his clothing was shot several times. At one time, in the panic and excitement of a battle, three of them took fifteen prisoners, including an officer, and carried the fourteen guns and officer's sword back with then to the Union lines. After the war was over he returned home, and in 1867 was married to Miss McCulloch.
After five years of married life his wife died. He then went to Missouri and farmed in Daviess County one year. Next he went to Coffeeville, Kansas, and took up a ranch. He was on it four years, when he, leaving his wife with her father in Daviess County, Missouri, sold out and went to Prescott, Arizona, with stock, and while there he learned of his wife's death; and from there he went to Los Angeles, California, with a team. He went to Carpenteria, Santa Barbara County, and bought land at $60 per acre. In ten years he sold it for $400 per acre. He was again married August 11, 1875, in Santa Barbara County, to Miss Emma M. Way. She was born April 25,1857, in Blue Earth City, Minnesota. She was a daughter of Mr. W. A. Way, who was a native of Waterbury, Connecticut. They lived in Santa Barbara eight years; then on account of Mrs. Guthridge's health they removed to Los Angeles and were there two years. They then came to Spring Valley and bought 1,000 acres of land, where they have a very cozy home and are farming on a large scale. This year he intends to sow 900 acres of grain. They are doing some stock farming also. They have three children: William Alonzo, born in Santa Barbara County, October 7, 1876; Hallet G., born in Santa Barbara County, June 12, 1881, and Emma Pearl, born in Spring Valley, February 13, 1886, and died April 12, 1890, of curvature of the spine and consequent brain trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Guthridge are people of refinement, and he is a very hard-working and capable farmer.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. p.- 312-313
This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archiveshttp://calarchives4u.com/
W. W. GUTHRIDGE
There lived in Jasper County, Indiana, an honest farmer, who in addition to his daily toil week days, preached the Gospel of the Son of God, without money and without price, to his neighbors and the country about him on Sundays. He was a Christian minister and a very strict temperance man at a time when the temperance cause was in its infancy.
His name was Harrison P. Guthridge.
He was born in Ohio in 1812, and married Emily Williamson, who was born in Pickaway, Ohio, in 1818. They had a family of six children. The father and mother and one child was taken sick with typhoid fever and died in one day, in 1855, and as the neighbors and friends bore them to the funeral it was the saddest day the country had ever seen. Five little orphan children were left.
One of these orphans was W. W. Guthridge, who is the subject of this sketch.
He was born in Jasper County, Indiana, September 30, 1846. For a time after the death of his parents he lived with his uncle, Albert J. Guthridge, at Urbana, Ohio. When older he returned to the old home, and he and an older brother kept house together. When the war began his brother enlisted in Company K, Forty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and in one of the hard battles he was badly wounded, captured and was a prisoner in Libby prison. He was finally permitted to go home, and died May 16, 1866. In 1863, when the war had reached immense proportions, and when it had been discovered that to enlist meant hard fighting and great danger, the fires of patriotism and heroism fired the breast of young Guthridge, and when only seventeen years of age he enlisted in Company A, Eighty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was afterward transferred to the Forty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He saw much hard service; was in the battle of Chattanooga, at Mission Ridge, and at the battle of Atlanta, and went with General Sherman from Atlanta to the sea. He went on foot with the army from Louisville to Nashville, to Chattanooga, to Atlanta, to Savannah, Georgia, to Raleigh, North Carolina, and to Goldsborough. Then peace was declared and he marched to Richmond, Virginia, and thence to Washington and participated in the grand review. He was on foot in that great parade all day, with nothing to eat but what the citizens handed them as they passed by. During the time he was a soldier at the front he was under fire a great deal, and was on the skirmish line for weeks at a time. When in one of the engagements near Atlanta, he received a ball across the stomach which gave him a slight wound but not deep, and his clothing was shot several times. At one time, in the panic and excitement of a battle, three of them took fifteen prisoners, including an officer, and carried the fourteen guns and officer's sword back with then to the Union lines. After the war was over he returned home, and in 1867 was married to Miss McCulloch.
After five years of married life his wife died. He then went to Missouri and farmed in Daviess County one year. Next he went to Coffeeville, Kansas, and took up a ranch. He was on it four years, when he, leaving his wife with her father in Daviess County, Missouri, sold out and went to Prescott, Arizona, with stock, and while there he learned of his wife's death; and from there he went to Los Angeles, California, with a team. He went to Carpenteria, Santa Barbara County, and bought land at $60 per acre. In ten years he sold it for $400 per acre. He was again married August 11, 1875, in Santa Barbara County, to Miss Emma M. Way. She was born April 25,1857, in Blue Earth City, Minnesota. She was a daughter of Mr. W. A. Way, who was a native of Waterbury, Connecticut. They lived in Santa Barbara eight years; then on account of Mrs. Guthridge's health they removed to Los Angeles and were there two years. They then came to Spring Valley and bought 1,000 acres of land, where they have a very cozy home and are farming on a large scale. This year he intends to sow 900 acres of grain. They are doing some stock farming also. They have three children: William Alonzo, born in Santa Barbara County, October 7, 1876; Hallet G., born in Santa Barbara County, June 12, 1881, and Emma Pearl, born in Spring Valley, February 13, 1886, and died April 12, 1890, of curvature of the spine and consequent brain trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Guthridge are people of refinement, and he is a very hard-working and capable farmer.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. p.- 312-313
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