{"id":21004,"date":"2019-12-23T02:42:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T02:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/?post_type=photo&#038;p=21004"},"modified":"2019-12-26T23:48:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T23:48:58","slug":"black-milton-l","status":"publish","type":"photo","link":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/photo\/black-milton-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Black, Milton Leander (1853-1931)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milton L. Black is a native of Ohio, where he was born in Preble County in 1853, but spent his boyhood near Ottawa, La Salle County, Ill., to which place his parents had removed.\u00a0 Having learned telegraphy, Mr. Black was employed for twenty years by the C. R. I. &amp; P. Railroad Company as operator, agent, and agent for the U. S. Express Company.\u00a0 He served four years of this time in Utica, Ill., four in Atchison, Kansas, and twelve in Brighton, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While still in this employment he purchased a ranch in Redlands in 1890, had it improved and came here to live in 1893.\u00a0 This ranch is in a very pleasant location, and now has nearly fifteen acres in bearing naval oranges, making a desirable property.\u00a0 In 1880 Mr. Black married Miss Emma Dodds, a native of Massachusetts, but living at the time of her marriage in Elgin, Ill.\u00a0 Mrs. Black died in Redlands in 1893.\u00a0 Their four children are living with their father in Redlands, and Mrs. Black\u2019s mother and sister are also members of the family.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Source:\u00a0 <em>Illustrated Redlands<\/em>, 1897, p. 17)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21005,"template":"","photo_tag":[],"gallery":[176],"awards_category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo\/21004"}],"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\/21004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"photo_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo_tag?post=21004"},{"taxonomy":"gallery","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gallery?post=21004"},{"taxonomy":"awards_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/awards_category?post=21004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}