{"id":20904,"date":"2019-12-20T02:11:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T02:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/?post_type=photo&#038;p=20904"},"modified":"2019-12-27T00:33:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T00:33:54","slug":"reeves-truman","status":"publish","type":"photo","link":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/photo\/reeves-truman\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeves, Truman (1840-1924)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truman Reeves, treasurer and tax collector of San Bernardino county, was born August 17, 1840, at Chardon, Geauga county, Ohio.\u00a0 He was a farmer boy until 1858, when he took up the trade of watchmaker.\u00a0 In 1861 he enlisted in the 6<sup>th<\/sup> Ohio volunteer cavalry for three years, and re-enlisted in January, 1864, to serve during the war.\u00a0 January 5, 1865, he was discharged from service, having lost his left arm from a wound received at the battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia.\u00a0 Mr. Reeves enlisted as a private, but returned to Ohio as a second lieutenant and brevet first lieutenant.\u00a0 After his return he held several honorable positions in Ashtabula County, Ohio, and in 1875 he came to San Bernardino, where he carried on a jewelry business for fourteen years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1883 he purchased ten acres of land in what was then Lugonia, and is now a part of Redlands.\u00a0 The same year he planted this land to oranges, peaches and apricots, and, afterward, having the greater confidence in oranges, he replaced the other fruits with orange trees.\u00a0 Upon this land, in 1890, Mr. Reeves built a house, the middle part of which was the first school house in Lugonia, and was erected in October, 1877.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Between 1882 and 1885, Mr. Reeves served two terms in the legislature of California.\u00a0 The first term he was the only republican member elected from Southern California.\u00a0 The second term he had two republican companions, from Los Angeles.\u00a0 In 1890 he took the recorded indebtedness of the Seventh Congressional District, for the United States census.\u00a0 In November, 1890, he was elected county treasurer, and has held the office continuously since the first Tuesday in January, 1891; the duties of tax collector having been added to the duties of treasurer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Reeves is an Odd Fellow, a member of the order of Chosen Friends, and of the G.A.R.\u00a0 He is a member of the Congregational church.\u00a0 He was married in 1867 to Miss M. E. McConkey, of Oberlin, Ohio.\u00a0 They have two children, Clarence H., a missionary in China, and Clara Bell, who is living at home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Source:\u00a0 <em>Illustrated Redlands<\/em>, 1897, p. 34.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20905,"template":"","photo_tag":[],"gallery":[176],"awards_category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo\/20904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/photo"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo\/20904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"photo_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo_tag?post=20904"},{"taxonomy":"gallery","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gallery?post=20904"},{"taxonomy":"awards_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/awards_category?post=20904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}