Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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A. W. FLORA, 
 
deceased, was born in Loraine County, Ohio, in 1831, his parents being John and 
Alvira (Mellen) Flora, natives, respectively, of Pennsylvania and New York. The 
father was drowned when the subject of this sketch was eight years old. His 
mother married again and moved to Illinois and subsequently to Wisconsin. From 
the
latter State Mr. Flora came to California, in 1852, driving an ox team across 
the plains. He worked at mining from 1852 till 1873, after which he purchased 
sixty-five acres of land a quarter of a mile west of Rivera, where his widow 
still lives. On this farm may now be seen a fine orchard of 900 English walnuts, 
and oranges and lemons of choice variety and in abundant quantity. In 1866, 
after an experience of fourteen years on the coast, Mr. Flora went back to 
Wisconsin and there married Miss Helen Kendall. This lady was born in Montgomery 
County, New York, and is the daughter of Amos and Elizabeth (Fuller) Kendall, 
natives of New York and Massachusetts respectively, and of English extraction. 
Amos Kendall is a wagon-maker by trade, and is now living in Minnesota, at the 
advanced age of ninety years.  He was married three times; had four children by 
his second wife, of whom Mrs. Flora is the second. After his marriage in 
Wisconsin, in 1866, Mr. Flora brought his bride to California by steamer, coming 
via the Nicaragua route, and landing in San Francisco, June 16,1866.  They have 
had two children: Elmer, who died in 1884, and Blanche E. Mr. Flora was an 
enterprising business man until his death, which occurred in 1889. Mrs. Flora 
has since carried on the farm operations, and is doing a prosperous business on 
the old farm.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 468
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler