California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

 
E. E. HUNTLEY. The death of E. E. Huntley, in September, 1914, left the son Leon Huntley in 
charge of the home place in Santa Paula, and he is at present looking after the interests of his 
mother as manager of the ranch his father had developed. Mr. Huntley was born in Granger 
County, Ohio, on January 2, 1883, and he is the eldest of the four children born to his parents,  
E. E. and Amy Louisa (Crane) Huntley
E. E. Huntley was born in Granger, Medina County, Ohio, on June 19, 1855, and he is the son of 
Ezra and Katherine (Wolcott) Huntley. He had a public school training, followed by a normal 
school course, and he was for many years engaged in the teaching profession in Ohio. In fact, 
he continued there in that estimable work until 1883, when he took his family to California and 
settled in Ventura County, on an eighty acre tract he was able to purchase.
There Mr. Huntley devoted himself to the development of this place, planting it to apricots and 
apples, both of which yielded abundantly, making his ranch most valuable. Later he sold thirty 
acres of the original tract, later buying back ten acres of it, to which he added an additional 
eighteen acres of foothill land near his place. All this he gave over to the cultivation of apricots 
and apples and replanted the entire tract to walnuts. Under his direction the ranch came to be 
a most attractive and productive spot, and has yielded a comfortable income to the family from 
the beginning.
Mr. Huntley, as a resident of Ventura County, found a field for his interests in the local schools, 
and for twenty-one years he served as a trustee of the Saticoy School Board. His services in that 
line were highly valuable to the city, and much credit is due to him for the excellency of the 
schools of the community. He resigned the office, saying that it was better for a younger man 
and one who had children in the school to take up the work. His politics were those of a 
democrat and he was long a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio and after 
coming to California joined the Congregational Church at Saticoy. Mr. Huntley was married in 
Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, in March, 1882, and their four living children are Leon; 
Beatrice, who married E. H. Cavanagh of Santa Barbara, and Louis and Lois, twins, who are still 
in the parental home.
All four received their educations in the public schools of Ventura County, and Leon, after 
finishing his studies, gave his attention to work on the ranch under his father's supervision. 
When the father died in 1914 the son was well prepared to go ahead with the care of the ranch, 
and is making an excellent success of his work.