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W.
J. Haslam
W. J. Haslam, son of William Haslam,
one of the wide-awake, industrious farmers of Pleasant Valley, was raised
and educated in Missouri, and for eighteen years he was engaged in that
State in farming and stock-raising., In 1885 he came to Pleasant Valley
and took from the Government a 160 acre ranch. He has built a brick house
and a good barn, has planted trees of different kinds, all doing well, and
is doing diversified farming, raising grain, hay, horses, mules and
cattle. He has twenty head of. horses and mules, and thirty head of young
cattle. He has a fine two year-old Norman-Percheron colt, and an enormous
young jack of great value for breeding purposes. Mr. Haslam is working
hard and doing well, and his place has the appearance of enterprise and
thrift. He has also a prosperous apiary of sixty stands of bees.
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He was married January 1, 1876,
to Annice Fast, from Illinois. They have eight children, viz.:
William Byron, James Russell, Winslow Grey, John Jay, Myrtle Viola,
Mable Clare, Maud Eva and Roy Chester. The first five were horn in
Missouri and the others in Pleasant valley. Mr. Haslam is a
temperance man and politically has favored the Greenback side of the
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Source: An Illustrated History of Southern California;
pub. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1890.
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