By Rhea-Frances Tetley Staff Writer John Dexter, who was born in San Bernardino on Feb. 16, 1892, attended school in San Bernardino where he graduated from the eighth grade. He remained an avid reader and learner his whole life. His first mountain trip was to...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Edward Barber Daley played a major role in both mountain history and in the early road development in the entire San Bernardino Valley. Born on March 31, 1825, in Skaneateles, N.Y., he moved near Mentor, Ohio, at age 6 and also lived...
By Mary-Justine Lanyon Editor Those who attended the second of Russ Keller’s historical presentations at the library in Blue Jay will recall he left off with James Mooney – who developed a resort on the shores of Little Bear Lake – dying from the flu. He had no...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Henry Guernsey died 101 years ago, in March 1924. Well-known during his lifetime, which was fraught with disasters and spectacular highs, he bought and sold sawmills, got injured, healed, lost lawsuits and named a town. Henry...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian John Rowland of the Workman-Rowland party, which arrived in 1841 to Mexican California, was more interested in his other businesses than personally operating his sawmill on the mountaintop, so he hired Jonathan James to be the...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Benjamin Davis Wilson was born in Tennessee in 1811. He traveled to Los Angeles in 1841 as part of the Workman-Rowland Party whose plan was to take a ship to China. The Republic of Mexico wouldn’t permit them to leave. (Daniel...
