Santa Barbara County Biographies

O. W. MAULSBY

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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O. W. MAULSBY, of Santa Maria, was born in "Wayne County, Indiana, in October, 
1856, and moved to Dallas County, Iowa, in 1858, where his father engaged in farming. 
He was educated in the high schools, and at Tabor College in Fremont County, Iowa, 
after which he studied medicine two years. In 1878 he was married at Perry, Iowa, to 
Miss Linda E. Beeson, and in 1881 be went to Colorado and engaged in raining; he did 
the assessment work on the great Iron King Silver Mine without realizing substantial 
benefit. In 1882 he came to Santa Maria, California, where he started a boot and shoe 
store; this he exchanged the following year for a farm, which he managed one year, 
then rented it and moved to Los Angeles, but returned to Santa Maria again in 1886 and 
engaged in the real-estate business. In 1887, associated with S. J. Jones, they bought 
sixty acres southeast of town, which they improved under the name of Olive Hill Orchard 
and Nursery. 

Mr. Maulsby has bred some line trotting stock which he is now having trained; he is a 
member of the County Board of Horticultural Commissioners for Santa Barbara County. 
Mr. and Mrs. Maulsby have two children, Luln A. and Flora B. 

Mr. Maulsby is a member of Hesperian Lodge, No. 264, F. & A. M. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.