Orange County Biographies

MADISON H. BEAR

Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben

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a farmer and dairyman near Newport, was born in Rockingham, County ,Virginia, 
December 6, 1841, the fifth child in a family of eight children of David and 
Maria (Anderson) Bear. Was educated in Harrisonburg and also worked upon his 
father�s farm until he was twenty-seven years of age, when he married Miss 
Cornelia Firebaugh, of Rockbridge County, Virginia, and a daughter of John and 
Ella (McCutchen) Firebaugh. Mr. Bear then bough 120 acres of land four miles 
west of Harrisonburg and managed a farm there four years; selling out then, he 
came, in November, 1873, to California, rented land two years and then purchased 
the tract which he now occupies, half a mile east of Newport. For some years 
past he has been very successful in the dairy business.

Politically he is an earnest and intelligent supporter of the Democratic party. 
He served as soldier in the Confederate army, was captured in the Wilderness May 
10, 1864, and held as a prisoner at Fort Delaware until the close of the war. He 
is a member of the Presbyterian Church, in which for fourteen years he has held 
the office of elder. He has the following named children: Ernest C., Lena K., 
Irene E. and David A.

 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... - 
Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. page 860