ircuit and
District Court for the District of Southern California. Married secondly
Mary Elizabeth Pearson, of Tucson, Ariz., Feb. 3, 1883. She was born
June 22, 1863, at Petaluma, Cal., third daughter of Richmond C. Pearson
and his wife, Mary Ayers. In 1884 he was elected Councilman at Large for
Southern Arizona (the Upper House of the Territorial Legislature). While
there, among other bills, he succeeded in having passed those abolishing
the English Common Law Doctrine of Riparian Rights, now incorporated in
the Constitution of Arizona, and establishing the University of Arizona.
In June, 1887, he moved to Los Angeles, Cal., where he at once became
one of the leading members of the bar. Is a K. T. Mason, member of the
Historical Society of Southern California. He died in Los Angeles, Cal.,
Sept. 7, 1894.

Children:

By Flora Belle Williams:

443. FLORENCE ELEANOR, b. Dec. 27, 1867; d. Feb. 21, 1869.

444. EDWARD CECIL, b. Jan. 30, 1870; m. Esther E. Benjamin, (a
Jewess).

445. FANNIE GERTRUDE, b. April 15, 1872; d. Oct. 25, 1873.

446. WALTER HERBERT, b. Aug. 9, 1874.

447. CLARANCE ARTHUR, b. Feb. 29, 1876; m. Oct. 2, 1903, Irene
Steyming, who was born May 3, 1876.

448. ALBERT BLASDEL, b. Jan. 13, 1873; lives in San Francisco, Cal.

By Mary Pearson:

449. CHARLES CECIL, b. Jan. 6, 1884.

450. FLORENCE MAY, b. Sept. 23, 1885.

451. ETHEL ELEANOR, b. July 15, 1887.

452. IRENE MARGUERITE CECIL, b. Jan. 24, 1892.

VIRGINIA PAULINE STEPHENS, (180), daughter of W. H. Stephens, (41), was
born in Hardin, Shelby County, Ohio, April 28, 1845; graduate of Young
Ladies' Institute, of Santa Clara and State Normal School, at San Jose,
California; has been a public school teacher all her life; married David
Kindle Zumwalt, of Visalia, California, of the Zumwalt family of
Missouri, Jan. 18, 1874; was divorced Jan. 12, 1882, for desertion;
lives in Los Angeles, Cal.; has one child:

453. CORA CECIL STEPHENS, b. Nov. 19, 1875.

BASCOM ASBURY CECIL STEPHENS, (182), son of W. H. Stephens, (41), was
born on Monday, March 5, 1855, at 7:00 A. M., in Lockington, Shelby
County, Ohio; assumed the name of Cecil of his mother's family; graduate
of Santa Clara High School, 1871; clerked in the Santa Clara Post-Office
two years; founded the Santa Clara Echo, now the Journal; in 1875
entered the ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; ordained to