FOREWORD
Everyone in town knew Helen Kennard Bettin -- and loved her. She and her husband, George, used to drive down Michigan Avenue in their vintage Doge roadster, waving to everybody. Helen was always a ready volunteer for civic improvement projects. Her passion for Glendora and its people knew no bounds.
Right after World War II, Helen discovered that many of Glendora's pioneers were thinning out and that she had better get to the remaining ones if details of their early years were not to be lost forever. Then the only written account of Glendora's past was Ruth Pratt Kimball's brief history done at the time of the 1937 Golden Anniversary of Glendora.
A member of a remarkably well-educated family, Helen was graduated from Pomona College in 1911. Her research techniques were simple and straightforward; she let old-times tell their stories in their own way. She sat down with each of them and had a friendly chat, all the time taking notes. Later behind her typewriter she interpreted what they had told her. Since she had lived though much of Glendora's history herself, she was able to give genuine meaning to what had been told to her. Her goal as historic preservation; what she has preserved is priceless...
Donald H. Pflueger, Author of Glendora -- Annals of a Southern California Community
An edition of This I remember: Reminiscences of Old-Timers of Glendora, California
(1990)
This I remember
reminiscences of old-timers of Glendora, California
1st ed.
by Helen Kennard Bettin
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This book is a collection of interviews conducted in the 1940's with Glendora Pioneers. Originally compiled by Helen Kennard Bettin, the book was completed by her daughter Helen Bettin Shaffer in 1990.
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This I remember: reminiscences of old-timers of Glendora, California
1990, Zephyr Publications
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Table of Contents
John P. Engelhardt.
1
Mrs. David Huhn (Betta).
4
Mr. C. E. Groninger.
4
E. A. Wright.
5
Mrs. Edward Silent.
5
Mrs. Mattie Keim.
7
Mrs. Earle Comstock.
7
Mrs. C. C. Washburn.
8
Mrs. E. F. Underhill (Minnie).
9
Captain Samuel Miller.
10
Henri Appy.
10
The Pomological or Farmer's Club.
12
Hal Warren.
12
Fred Nusbickle.
12
Mrs. Paul Roll (Catherine Cullen).
13
Herbert C. Warren (Bert).
13
Mrs. C. C. Warren.
14
Notes from J. C. West (Charlie).
16
Mrs. F. D. Joy.
17
Mrs. F. E. Odell.
20
Mr. Stephen Easley.
22
Mr. M. H LaFetra (by clara LaFetra Darling).
24
Charles Gordon.
25
Joseph Waickman.
28
Mrs. F. R. Sykes.
31
Mrs. Hazel Clark Richardson.
32
Mr. John W. Cook - Mr. James Wamsley.
36
Talk by Sue Harder at the Women's Club.
37
Mrs. Sue Harder.
39
A letter from Willard S. Wood.
41
Mr. Charles Kregelo.
43
The Amphion Musical Club.
46
George Dexter Whitcomb.
49
Charles D. Norcross.
51
Mrs. Ed Mace.
54
Mrs. Etta Cullen Raynard.
56
Dr. John Needham.
57
Mrs. Ed Mace.
54
Mrs. Etta Cullen Raynard.
56
Dr. John Needham.
57
John Bender.
64
Frank Wall.
67
Mrs. Justine Hilliard.
69
Mary Swerdfeger.
72
Mable Rogers Dyer (Mrs. James Dyer).
73
Letter from Mr. E. O. Kennard to Mrs. E. O . Kennard.
75
Leslie A. Warren.
75
Mrs. J. M. Baker.
78
John Lewis Preston.
79
Annie and Ethel Matheson.
81
Harold and Mazie Loose.
83
Mr.s Flora Jones Seaman (Webb).
84
Ida Needham Tucker.
87
Notes that Dorothy Doyle made of thing her grandfather, John Bender, told her.
89
Charles M. Matthews.
91
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fager.
92
Mrs. Hosefelt and Mrs. Fessler, her sister.
95
Basil Gordon.
96
Henry Netzley: Charles Richardson.
98
Cyrus Wilhite.
100
Leadora Whitcomb Dalzell (Account of Wedding).
101
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fager.
104
Mr. Griswold.
106
Mrs. T. W. LaFetra (Lousia).
108
Mrs. Susan Christ.
112
J. C. Whitmer.
113
Mrs. C. E. Needham.
114
Mr. Frank Kuhry.
116
J. Walter Cullen.
119
Excerpts from a letter from a friend of the Needhams, Mrs. Moore.
123
Irene LaFetra Casey.
128
George Brace.
129
E. E. Washburn.
130
Ernest Bradley.
133
Mrs. A. E. Engelhardt.
135
Mr. and Mrs. Lester West.
139
W. C. Miller.
141
Rolfe B. Bidwell.
143
T. B. Netzler and Mrs. Brumbaugh, her daughter.
145
Mrs. H. S. Riser (Hazel).
147
Simeon Wright.
148
Virginia Whitcomb Sloan.
151
Emmet Dougherty.
154
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Goff.
157
Claud Midkiff.
159
Keith Suydam.
161
Emmet Dougherty.
163
Edition Notes
Notes by Helen Kennard Bettin added February 1975
Notes by Donald H. Pflueger added August 1990
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