[pct-l] What's a Cleghorn Anyhow?

[stewjohns at comcast.net (stewjohns@comcast.net)]

I'm not quite understanding this.  You give a history of this guy going back to the mid 1800's and then talk about him as if he is still alive and doing well in San Bernardino.  Am I mis-reading this or is the guy over 160 years old?

Doc Holiday

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From: "Steve Courtway" <scourtway@bpa-arch.com> 

> MATTHEW CLEGHORN, 
> 
> 
> 
> a farmer of San Bernardino County, was born in Knox County, Kentucky, in 
> 1829, a son of Rev. Lorenzo D. Cleghorn, who was a native of Virginia and a 
> minister of the Christian Church. His mother, Mary (McLain) Cleghorn, was of 
> Scotch parentage. They had five children, of whom our subject was the 
> second. He left home at the age of twelve years and subsequently entered the 
> Mexican war. He enlisted in the Sixteenth Kentucky Volunteers, but was 
> afterward attached to the Eleventh. He carried the express for eight months 
> from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico and thence to Lulusa. On account of 
> sickness he was sent to the Marine Hospital in New York in 1848. After the 
> close of the war he traveled over parts of Ohio, Indiana, Louisiana, Iowa 
> and Oregon, and while in the "Hoosier" State he met and married a lady who 
> has since been the companion of his life, Miss Serena Hendry, a native of 
> that State and a daughter of Isaac Hendry. After his marriage he moved to 
> Iowa and thence to Oregon, where he remained until 1860. He came then to 
> California, first settling at Watsonville in Monterey County, where he 
> remained three years. In 1863 he came to San Bernardino County and located 
> on the farm where he now resides. He arrived here December 25, 1864, and 
> homesteaded 160 acres of land, which cost $16. For several years he was 
> engaged successfully in the livery business. He is now one of the leading 
> stock-raisers in the valley, owning some thoroughbred stock, the Glencoe, of 
> Kentucky, being the principal. He has a magnificent residence four miles 
> east of San Bernardino on Base Line, which commands an imposing view of the 
> fertile valley and the surrounding mountains. He owns valuable property in 
> various parts of the county and is a man of considerable wealth and 
> influence. 
> 
> s.c. 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chuckie V" 
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> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 10:06 AM 
> Subject: [pct-l] What's a Cleghorn Anyhow? 
> 
> 
> > Does anyone know whether or not there's a payphone available near 
> > Silverwood Lake/Cleghorn Picnic Area? Incidentally, what's a cleghorn 
> > anyhow? A hiker musical instrument perhaps?! 
> > 
> > Switchback, you seem like a guy who ought to know... 
> > 
> > And how about the closed store (Summit Valley Store) a few miles prior 
> > (Mile 320-ish); is there a phone outside? 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > Chuckie 
> > 
> > 
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From: reinholdmetzger at cox.net (Reinhold Metzger)
Date: Mon Mar  6 16:37:42 2006
Subject: [pct-l] LOVE ON THE TRAIL
Message-ID: <000701c6416d$d7650380$a700a8c0@sd.cox.net>

SWITCHBACK WROTE......"Love is a beautiful thing.  And trail love is extra
special."
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Yes, Switchback, love in the wilderness is a beautiful thing.
I often wondered if there is a connection between this widespread
backpacking addiction and trail love or love in the wilderness.
Maybe that is what draws us backpacking fanatics into the wilderness time
after time after time.    Boy, I hope my wife does not read this post.
Usually I hike with my wife and or my friends, but the  last ten years, I've
been doing the JMT solo year after year.  I keep telling her I have been
bitten by the JMT bug and every year now I come down with the JMT fever, but
she might not buy this story anymore if she reads this post.
I have done extensive research on the subject of backpacker addiction and
trail love and am convinced there is a connection.

      JMT Reinhold
  Author...SEX IN THE WILDERNESS"...How to do it on the trail, off the
trail, in
 the bushes,  in the bivy sack and 99 other ways for the control of
backpacking addiction