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The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. John Henry Lang was born in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri in 1882. His father and mother were farmers. He was the seventh of nine children.  He graduated from St. Louis University Medical Department in 1906.…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. Elvin Ames, along with numerous local residents, was interviewed for the Cal State Fullerton Center for Oral and Public History. Here are a few things I learned from Ames’ interview. Elvin A. Ames was a…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. In 1999, Albert “Pete” Hetebrink was interviewed for the CSUF Center for Oral and Public History. Here’s what I learned from the interview, and a few other sources. Some of this was previously published in…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. Christian Anderson was born in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany in 1865. He immigrated to America in 1888.   In 1892, he purchased 20 acres of land east of Fullerton. He first planted cabbage, but then in 1894 he…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. Yesterday, I wrote about the story of the “Pastoral California” mural on the side of the Fullerton High School Auditorium, which was a Depression-era New Deal art project. Today, I’d like to share a bit…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. “Pastoral California,” the 75-foot long fresco mural on the side of the Auditorium at Fullerton Union High School was painted in 1934, during the Great Depression, painted over by order of the Board of Trustees…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. The main source for this information is Louis E. Plummer book A History of the Fullerton Union High School and Fullerton Junior College 1893-1943. In 1913, the high school board of trustees approved the formation…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. Charles E. Harvey was born in Indiana in 1856. As a young man, he moved to Filmore County, Nebraska, and became foreman of  a large ranch for three years. In 1880 he moved to Los…

This Friday, January 6, I’ll be giving a free lecture on the early history of Fullerton High School at ModelMania in Downtown Fullerton as part of their monthly Art Walk event! This will be an interactive lecture with a PowerPoint presentation and brief discussion afterward. The event will take place from 6 to 9pm. I’ll…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. Lately I’ve been writing a series of posts on the history of Fullerton Union High School. As part of this research, I’ve been looking through the digital archives of the annual FUHS yearbook, called Pleiades,…