the ministry Sept. 6, 1878; married Sept. 8, 1878, Minerva May
Overshiner; she was born in Sacramento, California, Jan. 15, 1857; she
is a daughter of G. A. J. Overshiner and his wife Minervea Dumpy; in
1879 was President of the Nevada Conference; preached from 1875 to 1881
in Northern California and Nevada, and was very successful in obtaining
converts and organizing churches; left the ministry in June, 1880, on
account of personal differences with church authorities, and resumed
journalism; published papers in Dixon and Santa Cruz, Calif.; in Jan.
1881, went to Arizona; settled in Los Angeles, Calif., in March 1882,
where he has ever since resided with the exception of one year, June
1883-4 in Tucson, Arizona; was reporter several years on papers in Los
Angeles; in 1886-7 published the Pomoa Progress; in 1882, the Daily
Commercial in Los Angeles; in 1883-4, was city Editor of the Daily
Citizen at Tucson; attended the Quijotoa mining excitement in 1884; in
1886, visited Indiana and Kentucky on detective business and took
occasion to visit the ancestral home in Shelby County, Ohio, and
obtained a mass of information of family history, on which he has been
engaged since April 1881. In April, 1890, joined a fillibustering
expedition to capture Lower California from Mexico and annex it to the
U.S. Was selected Secretary of State of the proposed Republic, but
before the scheme was ripe, as proposed by its British promoters, it was
betrayed and exposed; regular contributor to the press and magazines,
and an advocate of State division; author of several Pamphlets on
Southern California, Arizona and Lower California; three years Secretary
of the Historical Society of Southern California; author of a History of
Los Angeles City, and another of Los Angeles County; and another of San
Diego County, and one in MSS of Orange County; also a work on State
Division (in MSS) engaged in oil and mining business; agnostic in
religion; independent in politics; children:

454. BASCOM ALBERT, b. in San Jose Cal., Oct. 11, 1879.

455. MINERVA ELEANOR, b. in San Diego, Cal., Jan. 3, 1882; m. A. H.
Nieman Aug. 25, 1903; child: Minerva Catherine, b. Jan. 12, 1905.

456. WILLIAM ASBURY GIDEON, b. in Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 6, 1886.

ELLEN MINERVA STEPHENS, (183), daughter of Joshua M. Stephens, (42), was
born Sept. 16, 1841; married Joseph H. Baker; he was born Dec. 9, 1835,
and was shot and killed Oct. 20, 1876, whil