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November 5, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Edmund J. Finley and Tom J. Simmons, Santa Ana World War I Vets
Remember that controversy a couple of years ago, when the Southern Poverty Law Center released a report talking about the increase in white-power movements in the military, a report that conservatives immediately demonized to the point where the SPLC eventually had to backtrack on its findings even ... More >>
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October 22, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Burton Y. Neal, Yorba Linda Pastor
The First United Methodist Church in Yorba Linda has served the city's Methodists for 92 years now, and a good overview of it is in Yorba Linda: Its History, a book written in 1970. In it, author March Butz gives a thorough telling of the city's pioneer churches; with the Methodists, they first orga ... More >>
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October 15, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Eugene Edmund French and Harry E. Byerrum, Huntington Beach Mayor and Fullerton Parks Superindentent with Parks Named After Them
Do you ever really think about the names given to parks, specifically those named after people? Most of them are named after former city officials, whether mayors, councilmembers, pioneers, and the like. But Orange County being Orange County, you're going to have some parks named after Klan members, ... More >>
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October 1, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Harvy A. Stryker, Famous Dentist
In the world of dentistry during the 1920s, Harvey A. Stryker of SanTana was a bit of a superstar. His articles on the science of orthodontics appeared in the International Journal of Orthodontia, Oral Surgery and Radiography, The Journal of the National Dental Association, and the American Journal ... More >>
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September 24, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Walter Verne Whitson, Santa Ana Lumber Magnate
Dig around the histories of early SanTana and Tustin, and the name of Walter Verne Whitson will eventually pop up. He was second-in-charge of a Masonic lodge and owned Whitson Lumber Co., which helped to build homes in SanTana for decades. His wife was a beauty queen. He ran unsuccessfully for offic ... More >>
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September 17, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Joe H. Royer, Fullerton Oil Baron, Namesake of Street
In the 1920, what wasn't orange groves in North County was oil derricks, speculators, or plain ol' wildcatters. One of the big players in those days was the Royer family, for whom Royer Avenue in Fullerton is named after (technically, it's named after his brother Max, but hold on...). Joe was the ma ... More >>
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September 10, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Harry Ipsen and E.A. Long, Placentia Treasurer and Councilmember
Amazingly, for a city that was founded on apartheid, for a city that has the most severe Mason-Dixon line in Orange County, Placentia didn't have many Ku Klux Klan members during the 1920s.It wasn't as if the city's Mexicans and gabachos got along. In the 1930s, the city would explode with racial vi ... More >>
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August 27, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Emil Carlson, Brea Mayor/Fire Chief, Namesake of Street
Good news, pathetic fanboys: I just unearthed a treasure trove of papers that'll allow me to continue this series for couple more years! Yay!The problem with sussing out the OC pioneers from your average Klukker is that the master list only lists the names, addresses, and occupations of Klan members ... More >>
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August 20, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Jo Lowell, Santa Ana Rancher, Namesake of Street
Lowell Street in SanTana is one of those fascinating streets that skips across the city's various economic realities. It cuts through the muy muy neighborhoods of Washington Square and Floral Park (where, true to its exclusionary background, they call it Lowell Lane) and shady barrios, single family ... More >>
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August 13, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: A. Verd Napier and James E. Rymer, OC Newspapermen
And this series is BACK after my short hiatus...somewhere. Miss it, pathetic fanboys? Of course you did!Since I didn't do anything for two weeks, you get a two-fer: two pioneering Orange County newspapermen who were Klan members, although A. Verd Napier and James E. Rymer were hella difficult to une ... More >>
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July 16, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Lawrence A. Stevenson, Orange Councilmember
The surviving membership roster of the Orange County Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s isn't perfect. There are pages missing, not all the Klukkers have home addresses assigned to them, and some of the names are misspelled--which makes the mystery of finding out which local pioneer was Klan and which me ... More >>
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July 9, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Roscoe Gulick Hewitt, Former Chairman of the OC Republican Party Central Committee
"Child of father is man," goes that well-worn aphorism, and that was definitely the case for Roscoe Gulick Hewitt. He lived a good-enough life, finding a career as an agent for New York Life Insurance Company and being heavily involved with the Masons in SanTana, his hometown. His self-written biogr ... More >>
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July 2, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Oswald Richard Meissner, Brea Councilmember
All good things must eventually pass, and so it came to be that by the end of the 1920s, the power of the Ku Klux Klan in Brea was on the wane. They had a good run, having set up in 1922 as part of the original KKK in Orange County and weathering the jihad that District Attorney Alexander P. Nelson ... More >>
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June 25, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Maurice Enderle, County Assessor
I have a couple of tricks to do this series. Since I'm chained down to this desk, it's a bit difficult for me to dive into microfilm, but thankfully I'm enough of a nerd so that I have nearly every book about the history of Orange County--on a city, county, familial, regional, and national level--wr ... More >>
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June 18, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Stanley Edward Goode, Santa Ana Councilmember
You can call Stanley Edward Goode a member of SanTana's sleeper Klan cell. He was a member of the first OC iteration of the Invisible Empire, the one that issued death threats and was about to lynch a man if not for heroic district attorney Alexander P. Nelson. That first KKK supposedly disbanded in ... More >>
Blogs
June 11, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Albert Ore, La Habra Pastor
The dirtiest secret about the Ku Klux Klan in Orange County during the 1920s--more than all the councilmembers and trustees and city fathers put together--is that one of the most-represented professions among their ranks were ministers.You had virtually every Protestant denomination represented--Con ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Oliver N. Thornton and James Henry "Harry" Whitaker, Brea and Anaheim Postmasters
On one hand, it's rather bizarre to see the membership rolls of the Orange County Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s and see so many postal workers listed. You can find two below in the archives, and the subjects this week, Oliver N. Thornton of Brea and James Henry Whitaker of Anaheim, were postmasters ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Harold S. Twombly, Fullerton Rancher/Black Sheep of Prominent Family
The Twombly name is of some renown in Fullerton. Phillip Twombly served on the city council during the 1950s but is probably better known to JFK conspiracists for supposedly ordering that false documents be made for Lee Harvey Oswald, while George was a prominent beekeeper (earning a story in Collie ... More >>
News
January 12, 2012
Alexander P. Nelson Was the Klanbuster
Ninety years ago, the KKK tried to take over Orange County—only to encounter the district attorney
Blogs
October 17, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Morris W. Martenet, Jr., Anaheim Councilmember, Owner of Martenet Hardware
Last year, Martenet Hardware in Anaheim closed after a century of serving the city. We went there as far back as I could remember for our construction needs, never completely forsaking it for Home Depot or even when a Lowe's opened up nearby. By then, the Martenet family no longer owned it, havin ... More >>
Blogs
June 13, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Samuel F. Hilgenfeld, Buena Park Minister, Founder of Anaheim's Hilgenfeld Mortuary
Look for any hints of Anaheim's Klu Klux Klan past in the city, and they'll be next-to-impossible to find. After voters booted the Klucker-majority council and police force from power in 1925, city fathers did their darndest to eradicate any vestiges of the Invisible Empire, so you'll rarely see ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Ferris F. Kelly, San Juan Capistrano Postmaster
The Orange County men who joined the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s were almost all residents of North and Central County, specifically the cities of SanTana, Anaheim, Fullerton, La Habra, and Brea. The numerical breakdown isn't really surprising: Orange County didn't have that many cities then, and o ... More >>
Blogs
April 18, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: William Starbuck, Fullerton School Trustee, Druggist
With the eyes of America turned to Orange County yet again for our hilarious haters, let's take a moment to focus again on the city that inspired the Obama-as-ape email lunacy: Fullerton. Man, I'm starting to believe that GOP operative who told me a couple of years ago that Fullerton is the most ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Hoyt Corbit, Yorba Linda Pioneer, Fan of Richard Nixon
When Richard Nixon became president in 1968, the national media rushed to the Podunk city of Yorba Linda, the Dickster's birthplace and a town that had just incorporated a year earlier and was still largely citrus groves and rolling hills instead of the exclusive estates and gated communities tha ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Lucien Proud, La Habra Mayor/ School Trustee
Recently on my Facebook page, one of my amigas--a proud White woman--chimed on my status and repeated the tired truism that Anaheim was THE hotbed of white supremacy in Orange County. Sigh...while the Klan did control the city during the 1920s and gets all the attention in the history books, the ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Dr. Roy S. Horton and Marshall Keeler, Santa Ana Unified Trustees
This kid'll be our mascot until we get an official logo for this series...Are you like me and laugh when historical conservationists give names to buildings based on people who once lived there or commissioned said structure? Probably not. Anyhoo, the Dr. Horton Building stands on Third Street in ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Sam Jernigan and Jesse Elliott, Orange County Sheriffs
Baby Klan will do for an image until we get a logo for this series...Orange County has never exactly excelled in electing the best sheriffs. There was Theo Lacy, who most likely participated in the lynching of Francisco Torres, and James Musick, who paraded around Mexicans during court hearings s ... More >>
Blogs
July 24, 2010
For Whom Exactly Was Santa Ana "Great"? And When?
Flickr user Ben DayhoeDowntown SanTana, yesterday and today...Another person has entered the SanTana mayoral race this year--Charles Hart, a man I've never heard of, but who thinks he can take down Mayor-for-Vida Don Papi Pulido and challenger Alfredo Amezcua. I guess he'll be the candidate for r ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2008
The Curious Case of the Bowers Museum KKK Tree
Outside the Bowers Museum (the original part, not the multimillion-dollar addition) stands a beautiful, still growing crape myrtle tree. It blooms every spring, adding a bit of genteel, colorful charm to the already-purty facility. You've seen this tree if you ever drive or walk past the Bowers on M ... More >>

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