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January 17, 2013
Welcome to Ku Klux Kounty!
Fanning Elementary, Plummer Auditorium and other OC streets, parks and monuments named after local pioneers who were Klan members
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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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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 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 23, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Dr. Walter W. Davis, Health Officer for Brea
First off, this column has finally been acknowledged for its nerdy brilliance with an award! The Orange County Press Club awarded me the "Real OC" award--essentially, the story that best tells the essence of Orange County. The panel of judges weren't OC reporters but rather outsiders, so they were r ... 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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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 >>
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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 >>
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June 4, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Robert S. Elliott and Dorsey L. Ellis, Santa Ana and Fullerton Police Sergeants
Because we're way too nice with police 'round these parts, let's go back to those boys in blue who donned the white hood come sunset.Robert S. Elliott belonged to the SanTana Police Department at a time when nearly the entire department was Klan. The city ordered their police to drop membership in t ... More >>
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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 >>
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May 7, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Earl L. Matthews, Santa Ana Automotive Electrician Pioneer
One of the most exasperating things about doing this column is writing about these Klukkers but never finding any pictures of the pendejos. I can only think of one other instance in which I've featured a photo capturing the banality of evil that was the OC KKK--until today.I'm glad to report that we ... More >>
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April 23, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Elvin A. Ames and Osborne Garber, Fullerton and Santa Ana High School Teachers
Oh, how we love to hate our public school teachers in Orange County, those indoctrinators of our young with radical ideas of feeling good about yourself, about learning about Cesar Chavez and Harvey Milk. Why can't it be like the good old days, goes conservative Orange County thought, those days whe ... More >>
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April 9, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: George Bird and E.P. Rudy, Brea Constable and Marshal
Man, who WASN'T a Klan member in the early days of Brea, ESPECIALLY in its power structre? (Actually, there were a couple of souls--maybe eight?). You can see below the many Kluckers who helped lead Brea in its early days, who made sure it was such a gabacho town that it makes the Balboa Bay Club ... More >>
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March 26, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Harry Winchell, Brea's First City Marshal
Man, who WASN'T a Klan member in the early days of Brea, ESPECIALLY in its power structre? (Actually, there were a couple of souls--maybe eight?). You can see below the many Kluckers who helped lead Brea in its early days, who made sure it was such a gabacho town that it makes the Balboa Bay Club ... More >>
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March 12, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Earl B. Tozier, Founder of Fullerton High School's Band
Next year, the Fullerton High School band will celebrate its 90th anniversary. Today, it's a fine, multiculti group of kids, including more than a few Mexis who want to become rich and famous blowing the tuba. Given I'm not an Indian (I'm an Anaheim Colonist, and the cosmos take sick pleasure in ... More >>
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March 5, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Dr. Charles V. Doty, Santa Ana Dentist
Not all Klan members are born raging racists, and that was definitely the case with Dr. Charles V. Doty, a longtime SanTana dentist still remembered in the older parts of the city. Doty was one of the OC brave who fought in World War I, and would later on belong to a group of SanTana civic leader ... More >>
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February 27, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Orrin M. Thompson, Fullerton Councilmember
My sincere apology, gentle readers, for being unfair: I didn't previously list all the Fullerton councilmembers who were Klan members, who participated in the burning of crosses on the lawns of political opponents and jailed them for kicks.Last guy missing from the list? One Orrin M. Thompson.He ... More >>
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February 20, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Albert O. Nelson, Placentia Constable
Placentia usually gets the short shrift in the county's history, even though there was no city that had more of a plantation mentality at the height of King Citrus than this town. Most of the city was orange groves back in the day, with most of the Mexicans working as pickers and most of the gaba ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Earl G. Glenn, Santa Ana Postman/Record-Breaking Cyclist
Time was when cycling was viewed as a heroic effort and not the efforts of Irvinites trying to burn off a few pounds on weekends, and Earl G. Glenn was the master of them all in OC. In 1897, he set a speed record that stood until at least the early 1920s: 12 1/2 miles in 30:31 on a dirt course--t ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Arnold F. Peek, Santa Ana Butcher
When the Brave New Urbanists talk about the good old days of SanTana, the days before Mexicans destroyed the Golden City, they inevitably point to people like Arnold F. Peek. Like the Brave New Urbanists, he wasn't originally from the area, hailing instead from Kansas. Like the Brave New Urbanist ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: William A. Culp, Brea Schools Board of Trustees President
Brea is infamous in the annals of Orange County for its unofficial sundown town law for much of its existence, and for just being generally nasty toward minorities, but here's an interesting fact: Brea never had segregated schools for Mexicans. Reason? There was no need for it--no Mexicans in tow ... More >>
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January 23, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Harry E. Inskeep, Fullerton Justice of the Peace
Good news, all five readers of you: I've finally been able to move out all my Orange County history books from the catacombs into my new office, meaning I now have full access to all sorts of directories and local history books that I can match up with the OC Klan's membership roster from the 192 ... More >>
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January 9, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Arthur E. Koepsel, Chair of the OC Republican Party Central Committee
I'm not going to write TOO much about Arthur Koepsel here because...well, you'll read more this Thursday in our paper. But, of course, whenever it comes to the pioneers of Orange County, first we must consult their self-published bios as included in Samuel Armor's collection. So, let's hear it, A ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Frederick Bastady, Buena Park Citrus Rancher/School Board Member
Out in the Central Valley town of Lindsay, Bastady Ranches continues the family's century-long tradition of growing oranges. They've been there since 1955, since Emanuel Bastady moved the family business from Buena Park, a business he inherited from his uncle Frederick, a child of Swiss immigrant ... More >>
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December 12, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Charles C. Kinsler, Brea Fire Chief/Clerk/School Board Member/Pioneer
Charles C. Kinsler was a lot of things as one of Brea's pioneers. He was a recording judge in the rough-and-tumble oil town, served on the first school board, and also did a stint as the town's clerk-recorder. He was a Mason and the city's first fire chief; he also organized one of the first unio ... More >>
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December 5, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Alvin L. Hitchcock, Orange County Chief Deputy Clerk
In the early 1920s, the Orange County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution forbidding any county employees from being a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The supes had a serious problem on their hands, given that the sheriff at the time, Sam Jernigan, was a Klucker.The directive, of course, did lit ... More >>
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November 28, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: George W. Cullen, Brea Schools Clerk
It's no surprise that many Klan members in Orange County were part of the educational system. From superintendents to school board members to trustees, those Kluckers wanted to do everything possible to ensure that White children weren't contaminated by their colored ilk--and that Mexis were educ ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Walter S. Gregg, County Statistician/Aid Commissioner
As a county evolves, there are some positions that eventually become obsolete, renamed, or absorbed by another position. Take county statistician. That would be today here...um, for the whole county? Like, for everything? Doesn't exist anymore in OC. How about Aid Commissioner? God, what kind of ... More >>
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November 7, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Forrest Hurst and Ben Blanchard, Brea Councilmembers
My apologies for missing the entry in this series last week, but I needed to do another post for that day--and why do two posts in one day unless it's timely? This Klan plan, on the other hand, is timeless--and besides, whenever I do miss a week, I come back with a two-fer, which leads us to the ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Evrit S. Boice, La Habra's First Mayor
I was in La Habra over the weekend for...something...when I realized La Habra hasn't gotten enough love in this column. And why shouldn't it? La Habra, per capita, was probably the most Klan of all OC cities, a place where orange growers actually hired overseers to make sure their Mexicans didn't ... More >>
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October 10, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: William F. Espolt, Jr., La Habra Banker/Citrus Grower
William F. Espolt, Jr. was quite the busy bee in his day. He was the chair of the La Habra Midway Oil Company, which sought out black gold up in them thar hills, and a stockholder in two banks. His father was one of the founders of the La Habra Citrus Assocation, and Billy also followed in daddy' ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: George Annin, Fullerton Police Officer, Councilmember
Given that the Fullerton Police Department's murderous ways are getting mucho coverage this week due to the Kelly Thomas killing, let's turn our attention anew to the department's old days, when it featured many Kluckers among its ranks, Kluckers who were hell-bent on turning Fullerton into a ref ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Harry E. Becker, Mayor of Brea
Here's a dirty little secret about the Ku Klux Klan in Orange County during the 1920s: for one part of the Invisible Empire's reach, it was all about class warfare.We're talking specifically about the city of Brea, which wasn't the genteel suburb we know today but rather a rough oil town whose re ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Francis Allen Kidder, Santa Ana Father and Son
The mascot for this legendary column, at right, isn't taken from the archives of the Orange County Ku Klux Klan but rather dates to the 1930s, to San Diego's vibrant Klucker scene. His most famous cameo is in the intro to the HBO series, True Blood, used as visible proof of the Klan's depravity ( ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Rollin Marsden and Roy Davis, Fullerton Councilmembers
My apologies to my loyal white-supremacist audience for not doing one of these last week--I'm busy putting the final touches on...something, so had to skip a week. But fear not, skins: this week's a two-fer, and we return to Fullerton in honor of the civic malfeasance that plagues the city, espec ... More >>
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July 25, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: William French, Fullerton's First Deputy Police Officer
Hey, since the Fullerton Police Department is in the news because half-a-dozen of them beat to death a homeless man who suffered from schizophrenia, why not remind folks this week about the department's friendly past? Yes, Mitchie: Klan members were part of Fullerton's finest, and it started from ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Rudolph Kroener, Co-Owner of Former Gas Station that's Now Orange's Filling Station
The Filling Station in Orange is an okay-enough place once you get over their retro design, one facilitated by the fact that it used to be a auto service station (hence, it's name). Doesn't matter what I think--it's always slammed, especially since they now offer dinner. But just in case yo ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: William E. Fanning, Brea Schools Pioneer, Namesake of Fanning Elementary
The legacy of school segregation in Orange County really needs no introduction 'round these parts. But what still needs to get examined is the political allegiances of the architects of such policies--beyond the mere racism that existed in Orange County before the 1950s, and toward the Coast to C ... More >>
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June 27, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: John A. Leuzinger, Brea Mayor, Founder of Brea Electric
It is absolutely amazing, if not downright frightening, to see the effects Google has on modern-day reporting. Last year, the Orange County Register ran a story on Brea Electric, one of the oldest businesses in the city. Reporter Lou Ponsi lifted the history of the company wholesale from its webs ... More >>
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June 20, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Newton E. Wray, Santa Ana Rancher, Failed Council Candidate
Most of what passes for the early, non-Mission or -Anaheim history of Orange County has come out of Samuel Armour's 1921 History of Orange County, California: with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Elmer E. Heidt, OC's First Scout Executive for Orange County Boy Scouts Council
Today, the Boy Scouts is one of the most multicultural organizations in Orange County--indeed, if you asked me to describe the prototypical OC Boy Scout, I'd say he was a Vietnamese kid from Little Saigon. But the Boy Scouts wasn't always so egalitarian--although the national organization maintai ... More >>
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May 31, 2011
Profiles In OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: James W. Newell, Fullerton-Area Miner/Mason
That old-time racism that once marked Fullerton is rearing its ugly head right now over at the Friends for Fullerton's Future blog, in the comments section in a simple post about the future of the Chicano murals near the Lemon Street overpass. Of course! As we've noted before on this blog, Fuller ... More >>
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May 23, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Garland C. Ross, Santa Ana Dentist, Batted Against Walter Johnson
There is a name on the membership roster of the Orange County chapter of the Ku Klux Klan compiled by the District Attorney's office in the 1920s that matches that of a major league ballplayer. It ain't Arky Vaughn, or even on the same level of major league importance as the Hall of Famer from Fu ... 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 >>
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May 9, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Clyde Fairbairn, Longtime Olive Resident/Nice Guy
The secrets people keep. A couple of years ago, a couple of amateur historians wrote up reminisces of Clyde Fairbairn, for whom Fairbairn Street in Orange is named. Fairbairn was a longtime resident of Olive, a community now mostly gone, gobbled up by Orange in the past half-century, but once cen ... More >>
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May 2, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Charles McClure, Brea's First Police Chief
Anaheim's Klan was more obsessed with temperance than minorities; Fullerton's Klukkers were mostly obsessed with booting out Mexicans from the city limits. But for a bit of the old Klan, the guys who hated blacks and wanted nothing to do with them, you'd have to travel up to Brea, the county's on ... More >>
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April 25, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: John F. Pieper, Tustin Feed Store Owner, Councilmember
It's always a blast to read the polite histories of Orange County and compare them to the true story. Take, for instance, their treatment of Tustin pioneer and former councilmember John F. Pieper, for whom the city's Pieper Lane (in the ritzy Tustin Ranch area) is named.He ran Pieper's Feed Store ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Albert Hetebrink, Fullerton Rancher
If you were a proud, upstanding White man during the 1920s, joining a fraternal organization was a must. Catholics joined the Knights of Columbus or the Knights of Pythias; worldwide-domination types preferred the Masons. The Elks, the Kiwanis, and many, many others: they all did good and upheld ... 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 >>
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