San Diego County Biographies
  
O. C. TRIPP

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a cattle dealer of San Jacinto, is a son of the golden West, born in Los 
Angeles, March 21, 1859. His father, Mr. S. V. Tripp, was born in New York 
State, was raised in Ohio, and came to California in 1850. He was a pioneer 
brick-mason, and spent a good deal of his time in the mines of Shasta County. 
Mr. Tripp's mother, Rosa (Rumsey) Tripp, was born in Pennsylvania, and raised in 
Ohio. She was married to Mr. Tripp in 1856, and had six children, four of whom 
are still living. The family moved to San Bernardino when the subject or this 
sketch was but two years of age, and he attended school at that place until he 
was fifteen years of age. His mother died in San Bernardino when thirty-two 
years of age, and in 1871 his father and the rest of the family removed to San 
Jacinto. His father and Colonel Hamne took up the two first Government claims at 
the head of the San Jacinto valley, near the Florida town site. His father now 
lives in the Cottonwood district of San Diego, where he is Postmaster. When Mr. 
Tripp first started in business for himself, he had but a few head of cattle. 
His brother William and himself now own 400 head of cattle and horses on their 
Cahuila ranch in the mountains. Mr. Tripp buys and sells, while his brother 
cares for the stock. They furnish the San Jacinto market with cattle, and also 
one of the San Bernardino markets.
        In 1884 he was married to Miss Mattie Logsdon, who was born in San 
Bernardino in 1865. Her father, Mr. J. M. Logsdon, was a native of Illinois. He 
now resides in San Jacinto, and is an owner and renter of buildings. They have 
one child, Joe W., born in San Jacinto, September 28, 1889. Mr. Tripp was 
elected constable five years ago, and has been all over the county. They are 
well spoken of by their neighbors, and have many friends.
 
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.-  357