Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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ALANSON DORMAN.
 
There is not, perhaps, within the bounds of Los Angeles County a more successful 
farmer than is he whose name is at the head of this sketch. He is a native of 
the Empire State, and a son of Alanson Dorman, Sr., who was a wealthy farmer in 
Ontario County, New York, till his death, which occurred there in 1865. He had a 
family of fifteen children, of whom our subject is the youngest. He has always 
worked on a farm, and as a farmer has been eminently successful. After due 
consultation with his excellent wife, in 1887 they determined to exchange the 
rigorous winters of New York for the more congenial climate of Southern 
California. To that end he sold out his various interests in the East, and has 
since been a citizen of California. He owns a ranch of seventy acres of as fine 
land as the sun shines on, one-half mile west of Rivera. From the twelve acres 
of English walnuts (in bearing) he realizes an annual income of about $2,000 per 
annum. He has erected an elegant residence on a most beautiful site overlooking 
the San Gabriel River, and commanding a most magnificent view of the snow-capped 
peaks of the Sierra Nevadas.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 455
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler