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| Ulysses Goates, Knott's Berry Farm employee, 1950s. |
Twenty years ago, I started keeping a list of some of the curious, colorful or unusual names I stumble across in directories, newspapers, etc, while researching Orange County history. Doing so has been purely for my own amusement, but I figure I might as well share a few of them here...
- W. H. Tinklepaugh (Robbed the Fox Fullerton Theatre in 1929. Pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity)
- Eltha Mustard, Geneva Mustard, and Biney Mustard (Family lived in Santa Ana, 1930s-'40s)
- Carbon Petroleum Dubbs (Lived on Easter Hill, North Tustin)
- Girtha Edith Ostrander (Mother of Sondra Myracle of Orange)
- Euphrates Hare (Westminster pioneer)
- Thelma Blackbeard (Lived in Newport Heights)
- Gertie Gurney (Property owner in La Habra)
- Noah Counts (La Habra resident)
- Beaver Goodykoontz (WWI veteran from Villa Park area)
- Ulysses S. Lemon (Longtime local newspaper publisher. Died in Fullerton in 1929)
- Floddie Moan (Los Angeles resident and sister of Melchi W. Hart and Stella Organ)
- Stella Organ (Daughter of Santa Ana's Harris Hart)
- Dummer Kiah Trask (Lived 1860-1914. Trask Avenue is named for him.)
- Melvin C. Roach (Married in O.C. around 1928)
- Rev. Myrna C. Cronic (Preached in Anaheim in 1939)
- Dick Biggins (Acting Clerk of West Orange County Municipal Court, 1981)
- Stephen A. Rumps (O.C. Sheriff's Deputy until Jan. 1983)
- Farnum Phipps
- Minnie Clynick (Santa Ana resident, circa 1930s-1960s)
- Delbert & Dimple Kerley (married couple, lived in Santa Ana in 1930s)
- Thomas Twaddle (San Bernardino resident, as of 1890)
- Noah Cheatum (Contractor working on San Clemente in 1962)
- Fanny Sparks (Phil Brigandi observed, "That's one of the side effects of Olestra.")
