Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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ISAAC N. RHYNE.
 
        One of the oldest and most respected citizens now living in this county 
is the gentleman whose name heads this article. He comes from the Old Dominion; 
was born in Bath County, Virginia, January 8, 1817, his parents being Martin and 
Barbara (Hansbarger) Rhyne. Mrs. Rhyne's parents came from Germany and settled 
in Maryland, near Harper's Ferry, before the Revolutionary war. John Hansbarger 
made a farm in Alleghany County, Virginia, where he lived and died. Martin Rhyne 
moved to Virginia at a very early day and "took his farm out of the woods," as 
was the custom there in those days. There he lived and there they buried him at 
the advanced age of eighty-six years. The subject of this sketch was married in 
1843 to Miss Eliza Nesbit, who was reared in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Her 
parents were John and Phoebe (Travers) Nesbit, of Augusta County, Virginia. The 
result, of this union was three children: Susan, now the wife of T. J. Wood, of 
Riverside; Mary, wife of Asa Todd, of Los Angeles; and Maggie, who keeps house 
for her father at the home he has made in this county, near Downey. Mrs. Rhyne 
died at her old home in Virginia in 1850. With his daughters, Mr. Rhyne crossed 
the plains to California in 1865, having previous to this lived ten years in 
Missouri. After residing three years in San Bernardino County, in 1868 he bought 
the forty acres on San Gabriel River, three miles northwest of Downey, where, 
for nearly a quarter of a century, he has been successfully engaged in general 
farming. He owns valuable property in the city of Los Angeles, and may be 
classed with the successful men of this county. He is now, and has been for half 
a century, an active, earnest and consistent member of the church, as was also 
his beloved wife, who died many years ago, and to whose memory he has ever been 
true. He is recognized by all who know him as a true Christian and a man upright 
in all his dealings.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 612
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler