Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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B. S. WESTON.
 
        To the casual observer, and much more so to one who makes it a study, is 
there something at once interesting and fascinating about the life, character, 
and history of the California pioneers. They were, as a class, exceptional men, 
strong in most of the qualities that make up the typical American character. 
They were energetic, courageous, and far-seeing. Coming, as they did, from all 
parts of the world, and braving many dangers and perils, the careers of many 
were full of incidents, and their life histories read like romance. In 1856 the 
subject of this sketch drifted here on the ocean as a sailor. He was born in 
Salem, Massachusetts, in 1832. His father was a sea captain, had traveled over 
the whole world, and was buried on the west coast of Africa in 1835. With his 
brother, B. S. Weston, he also followed the sea, launching out when he was but 
fifteen years of age. His first voyages were to the east and west of South 
America. Then he made several trips between San Francisco and China. This was in 
the days of sail vessels, and on one of these voyages he drifted to Santa 
CatalinaIslands, where, in partnership with N. A. Narbonne, now deceased, he 
engaged in sheep-raising. In 1868 they removed from the island to the mainland, 
a distance of twenty-six-miles, and kept sheep on the ranch of which he is still 
owner, though now giving his attention more particularly to farming. This place 
consists of 3,700 acres and is a part of the Palos Verdes Ranch. Mr. Weston has 
seen much of the world, and is a man well informed, having by extensive travel 
and observation obtained a vast store of useful and practical information. 
Socially he is a member, in good standing, in the Masonic Fraternity Lodge, No. 
198,Wilmington.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 829
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler