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Biographies for Cass CountyMrs. W. R. Law Mary Makepeace Morris Law was born in Atlantic, Iowa, the daughter of Joseph Robert Morris and Edith Nichols. Her father is descended from Robert Morris of colonial fame. Her mother's ancestors came from England to Massachusetts in 1635. William Makepeace Thackery, the English novelist, belonged to one branch of her mother's family. She received her preparatory education in the Atlantic High School, was graduated from the State University of Iowa in 1904, with the degree Ph. B. She is a member of three sororities: Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Beta Kappa and Epsilon Tau, a senior girls’ sorority, at the State University. After graduation she taught for several years, Latin and German in the Carroll High School, and English in the Iowa State College at Ames. On Oct. 2, 1910, she was married at Atlantic, Iowa, to William Robert Law, a successful attorney of Waterloo. They have one son, Robert Morris Law, born June 12, 1912. She is a member of Priscilla Alden chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, having joined on the service of William Makepeace. She is a member of the Literary and Fine Arts Department of the Waterloo Woman's Club and of the Fortnightly Club and of two social clubs, the Monday Needle Work Club and the Thursday Auction Bridge Club. In religious faith she is a Congregationalist. She is fond of out-door sports and is an expert tennis player. She enjoys society and has traveled extensively in this country. [The Blue book of Iowa Women, by Winona Evans Reeves, Publ. 1914, Transcribed by Dana Kraft] Charles F. Loofbourow Judge Charles Franklin Loofbourow was born in Knox County, Ohio, on the 4th ofSeptember, 1842. He was the son of John Wade and Mary (Plumb) Loofbourow. In May, 1889, he moved to Utah. Married, March 30, 1870, to Hannah Spooner Hodgkins. He received his early education in the public schools of his native state and by private tutors in Iowa. In 1867 he moved from Ohio to Iowa and settled at Marshalltown, where for some time he taught in the schools of that place and studied law in the office of H. C. Henderson. He was admitted to the bar of Iowa at Des Moines September 17, 1872, and settled for some time at Atlantic, Cass County. On November 7, 1876, he was elected Circuit Judge of the Thirteenth District of Iowa: re-elected November 2, 1881; appointed December 24, 1883, and again elected on November 4, 1884 and served in the above capacity until December 31, 1888. In May of the following year he came to Utah and was admitted to the bar of the State on June 21, and continued in the general practice of his profession until the time of his death. On February 8, 1892, Judge Loofbourow was elected a member of the City Council of Salt Lake City, was President during his term and was one of the city's representatives on the Joint Committee which had charge of building the City and County Building in Salt Lake City. Judge Loofbourow died at his residence in Salt Lake City on the 18th of December, 1904. He was a member of the Masonic Order and in politics, a Republican. [History of the bench and bar of Utah; By Interstate Press Association, 1913] JOHN H. SCHAIN One of the substantial and successful ranchers of the San Jacinto section of Riverside county and one who has ever had the best interests of the county at heart is J. H. Schain, who was born January 11, 1849, in KurHessen, Germany, and accompanied his parents, Casper and Mary (Boath) Schain, both natives of that province, to America when he was four years of age. The family settled in Ohio in 1853, but in 1856 removed to Cass county, Iowa, where they resided until their deaths, aged seventy-three and seventy-five years, respectively. Three of their children reside in Cass county. The oldest of the family of four children, J. H. Schain, was educated in the common schools of his home county in Iowa near Lewis, and his boyhood was spent on the farm. After reaching manhood he still continued farming but on account of ill-health he came to California in 1871, and during the following eighteen months remained in this state, returning then to Iowa and resuming farming. However, in 1874, he again came west and was employed at ranching near Anaheim. He could not break the ties that bound him to the east and in 1877 we again find him in Iowa. It was not until 1881 that the call of the west became so strong that he decided to dispose of his holdings and take up a permanent abiding place in Southern California, when he located near the limits of San Bernardino city. Two years later he came to this section and located in the San Jacinto mountains, where he engaged in raising cattle and hogs and in the growing of apples. So successful was he in the last named business that in 1904 the exhibit he sent to the World's Fair at St. Louis (consisting of Parmains, Ben Davis, Smith Cider and Winesaps) received a gold medal for the finest display of Southern California apples. His industry and skill demonstrated the ideal soil and climate for the successful raising of fruit. Selling this ranch in 1905 he bought twenty-four acres near San Jacinto, which he has improved and put into alfalfa, making his home in town. By well directed efforts he has placed his ranch among the best of the locality. It is watered by wells and they are equipped with a pumping plant with a capacity of thirty inches. In 1874 Mr. Schain was united in marriage in Cass county, Iowa, with Miss Ann Sevilla Armentrout, a native of Iowa. They became the parents of eight children, viz: R. Paul; Nellie, wife of William Barton; Belle, who married Lee Pope; M. Fred; G. Carl; Frances; Allen C., and H. Stanley, the three eldest born in Iowa and all educated in the schools of California. The second marriage of Mr. Schain, in 1908, united him with Mrs. Ruby (Dillon) Hewitt, a native of New York state, as were her parents, who spent their entire lives there. Her first trip to California was made via Panama and she located near Stockton, Cal. Mr. Schain is a social member of the M. W. A., and maintains an active interest in all public enterprises of worth, he is deeply interested in educational matters and served as school director in the Benedict district. For many years he voted the Democratic ticket, but is now a believer in Socialism, and prompts to lend his aid in betterment of social conditions. When he first located in this place Hemet was not in existence and but few claims had been taken up between Riverside and San Jacinto. He has at all times advocated the fact that the best conditions are to be found here for all purposes and has done all in his power to induce settlers to come to this locality for homes. History of Riverside County, California, 1912 |
