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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. Paul John Lotze was born in Germany in 1884, the fourth of seven children born to William M. and Augusta Lotze.  In 1899, he emigrated to the United States, settling first in Kansas, where he worked…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. E.C. Miles was born in Keokuk County, Iowa in 1867, the son of Daniel Miles, a farmer who fought in the Civil War for the Union Army. The oldest of 11 children, Miles was educated at…

The following is from a work-in-progress about the history of Fullerton. You can support my ongoing research and writing on Patreon. Hubert C. Ferry worked for the Union Oil Company from 1918-1956, first in Los Angeles, and then in Fullerton. Although his degree was in law, he was something of a renaissance man for the company.…

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…