Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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PHILIP SHOREY.
 
        The subject of this sketch is a native of Maine, dating his birth in 
Penobscot County, in 1833. His father, Nathaniel Shorey, was also a native of 
that State and a farmer by occupation. His mother, nee Elizabeth Hurd, was a 
descendant from a well-known family of Maine. Mr. Shorey was early in life 
inured to the labors attending farm operations in New England. In 1850 his 
father emigrated to Wisconsin, and located in Juneau County, where he took up 
Government land and engaged in farming and stock-raising. Mr. Shorey remained 
with his father until he reached his majority, and then engaged in business on 
his own account. He began in the pineries on the Wisconsin River and gradually 
increased his operations, building steam mills at Necedah, and also establishing 
a store at that point. For a portion of the time his brother, Charles H. Shorey, 
was associated with him in his enterprise. Mr. Shorey successfully conducted his 
various enterprises in Wisconsin until 1877. In that year he came to California 
and located in the Azusa Township, Los Angeles County, where he purchased eighty 
acres of land about one mile west of the present town of Glendora, and there he 
engaged in agricultural pursuits. Since that date he has increased his acreage 
until at the present writing (1889) he
is the owner of 212 acres. At the time of his purchase there was only five acres 
of his land that was cleared; and his land, now producing rich harvests of 
grain, was then a rank growth of cactus and brush. Mr. Shorey as yet has not 
devoted much attention to horticulture, but his orange grove of about one acre 
and a family orchard of deciduous fruits are producing some of the finest fruits 
grown in the Upper San Gabriel Valley, and attest the fact that he has one of 
the finest locations for horticultural pursuits to be found in his section. He 
has developed a water supply of some four inches in the ca�ons to the north of 
his lands, which can be increased to twenty inches when required. The most of 
his land that is cleared is devoted to hay and grain, and is yielding rich 
harvests. Mr. Shorey is an intelligent and energetic man, schooled to business 
habits. These characteristics applied to his present calling are insuring his 
success and he is destined to build up one of the representative farms of his 
section. He is well known and respected in the community in which he resides, 
and is a strong supporter of any enterprise that will advance the interests of 
his chosen section. He is a trustee of the Glendora school district, and liberal 
in his support of both schools and churches. In political matters he is a 
consistent Republican. In 1866 Mr. Shorey married Miss Melvina A. Schoff, a 
native of New York. Her parents were Jesse and Mary (Beman) Schoff, both natives 
of that State. From this marriage there are three children living, viz.: Edith 
M., now Mrs. Charles Lee, of Florence, Los Angeles County; Harry G. and Arthur 
E., who are mem�bers of their father's household. The second child, Alta E., 
died in 1881, at the age of eleven years.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 643
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler