Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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E. N. PEGG, 
 
proprietor of the Evergreen Nursery, Boyle Heights, was born in Columbus, Ohio, 
March 28, 1840. He received a good common-school education, and after the 
breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted in the Fifty eighth Regiment Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war. Returning to Ohio, he 
remained there until 1875, then spent three years in Colorado, and in 1878 came 
to California and spent two years in San Francisco and one year in Arizona, and 
finally came to Los Angeles, where he has been connected with the nursery 
business. He was manager of the Boyle Heights Nursery from 1884 until 1888, then 
started the Evergreen Nursery, giving special attention to the growth of 
Monterey cypress, hedge plants, Grevilla plants, eucalyptus, palms and other 
ornamental varieties of shade trees, and propagating them from the seed. His 
success in cultivating them is owing to his practical methods. The demand for 
his stock is greater than he can supply. Besides his nursery lands, he owns 
other property. Mr. Pegg belongs to the Grand Army, Frank Bartlett Post.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 797
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler