San Diego County Biographies
 
BEARDSLEY BROTHERS
Arthur & Nelson 

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Are two enterprising and industrious young ranchers in the vicinity of Perris. 
Arthur, the oldest of these brothers, was born in Yolo, California, March 22, 
1862; Nelson, the other brother and partner in all their fanning transactions, 
was horn in Solano County, California, January 21, 1866. Both of these brothers 
are Good Templars. Their father, E. A. Beardsley, was a native of the State of 
New York, but lived many years in Illinois and Iowa, and in 1860 he moved with 
his family to California, and now resides in Lodi, San Joaquin County. He was 
married in 1854 to Miss Maria Pitcher, and had eight children, six boys and two 
girls. Only one of the boys are dead. Their father and family removed to the San 
Jacinto valley in November, 1882, and took up 160 acres of land which is now 
owned by Nelson. In addition to this he bought a section of railroad land. May 
29, 1885, Arthur took up 160 acres of land, on which he has built a house and 
made other improvements. Nelson is a member of the Independent Order of 
Foresters at Perris. In 1887 they sowed 260 acres of barley and eighty acres of 
wheat, and they are now (1889) getting the ground ready to sow 320 acres of 
barley. The soil of their ranches is a sandy loam and is easily plowed. They 
have excellent water; one well thirty feet deep and the other well fifty feet 
deep. These young men enjoy the esteem of their friends and the community in 
which they live, and will no doubt make capable factors in the growth of the new 
county in which they have settled.
 
C. A. Beardsley has been a resident of California nearly all his life, and is 
now one of the industrious farmers of the great San Jacinto valley. He was born 
in La Salle County, Illinois, April 4, 1859. His parents, E. A. and Maria 
(Pitcher) Beardsley, came to California when he was two years old, in 1861. His 
school days were spent in the public schools at Main Prairie, Solano County, 
California. He was raised a fanner. The first four years of his residence in San 
Diego County was spent in Pleasant valley, and he located his present ranch 
November 13, 1884. He has built and made improvements on it and sows about 160 
acres of grain yearly since he settled in the valley. He was married March 30, 
1887, to Miss Hatty Foster, born in Kansas. August 9, 1864. They have one son: 
Howard A., born in Pleasant valley, January 11,1888. Mr. Beardsley is a 
temperance man, a Good Templar, and a member of the Independent Order of 
Foresters. He is a worthy citizen.
 
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� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  312