San Bernardino County, CA, Biographies

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AMOS STILES, 
 
retired, San Bernardino, was born in Kennebec, Maine, in 1823.  His father, 
Israel Stiles, a farmer, moved to the northern part of New Brunswick. In 1843 
the subject of this sketch went to Ohio, where he remained four years, and then 
returned to New Brunswick, where he remained until 1819. He was married in Nova 
Scotia, in 1849, to Miss Rebecca O'Brien, and soon after his marriage he moved 
to Utah, where he lived four years. In 1860 he left with teams for California, 
and arrived in San Bernardino in December of the same year. Here he bought land 
and engaged in general farming and stock-raising, in which he has continued 
until quite recently. He is now practically retired and enjoying the labor of 
his hands. He has reared four children, viz.: Rebecca, now Mrs. Ephraim 
Beardsley; Edward, William E., and Rose, wife of Eli Sparks.
        Mr. Stiles is a man of education. He attended the Academy at Farmington, 
Ohio, and taught school for several terms. Religiously, he is a Free-thinker or 
Agnostic.
 
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.-  621
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler