San Bernardino County, CA, Biographies

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E. G. JUDSON.
 
        About 1881�'82 Judson & Brown secured 1,500 acres of land on  the 
sloping hillsides south of the Mill creek zanja, surveyed and platted the same 
into five, ten and twenty-acre lots, with wide avenues traversing the whole 
plat. This enterprise was regarded as an experiment from the fact that the red 
soil of the slope had never been tested as to its adaptability to horticultural 
pursuits. With plenty of water and good cultivation the doubt as to the value of 
the land was soon removed and the success of the colony enterprise was assured. 
Thus encouraged the projectors enlarged their possessions by additional 
purchases, until they had between three and four thousand acres in their colony, 
which, on account of the color of the soil, they named Redlands. This was the 
fourth city incorporated within San Bernardino County. November 26, 1888, the 
citizens, in accordance with the general laws of the State, voted as follows on 
incorporation: whole number of votes cast, 283; for incorporation, 216. Officers 
elected were: Trustees, E. G. Judson, J. B. Glover, B. W. Cave, C. N. Andrews. 
H. H. Sinclair; Clerk, L. W. Clark; Marshal, W. C. Brumagim; Treasurer, F. P. 
Morrison.
        Mr. Judson was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and was educated there 
and at Amherst. He first went into the book business in New York city, where he 
was afterward for a number of years, a dealer in stocks, brokerage, etc., on 
Wall street. In 1876 he came to California, and Redlands is the result of his 
coming. He is a man of marked ability, and but for his indefatigable labors, 
Redlands would not be what it is to-day. He has been instrumental in organizing 
nearly all the water companies in the place, full descriptions of which will be 
seen elsewhere in this work.
        Mr. F. E. Brown was born in New Haven, Connecticut, graduated at the 
Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College, and came to California in 1877. He 
was the engineer of the Redlands Water System and the discoverer of Bear valley 
as a reservoir; and more to him than any one else is California indebted for 
that great reservoir. The Bear valley dam was built by him, He has been one of 
the foremost citizens of Redlands, and in connection with Mr. E. G. Judson he 
has projected and built up that lively colony.
 
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.-  553
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler