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

[scourtway at bpa-arch.com (Steve Courtway)]

haha

I realized afterward forgot to cite my source !!!

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.-  606

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler


s.c.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <stewjohns@comcast.net>
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> 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
>
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> 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"
>> To: "PCT-List"
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> > www.trailjournals.com/funnybone!/
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