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Book Title: An Illustrated History Of Los Angeles County, California. Containing A History Of Los Angeles County From The Earliest Period Of Its Occupancy To The Present Time, Together With Glimpses Of Its Prospective Future ... And Biographical Mention Of Many Of Its Pioneers And Also Of Prominent Citizens Of To-day (1889)

The Sierra Madre Vista
This paper was established and the first number issued March 12, 1888 by Lucius
T. House as editor and proprietor, and conducted by him until April, 1889, when
his two sons, William M. and Ralph E., entered into partnership with him, and it
has since been conducted by this firm of Lucius T. House & Sons.  This paper is
published every Friday at Sierra Madre, and is one of the brightest and best
edited papers in the county outside of the city of Los Angeles. It is
emphatically a home paper, a clean, moral and healthful publication,
particularly devoted to the interests and welfare of Sierra Madre and vicinity.
  It is a marvel of typographical beauty in appearance, and shows a care and
attention in its every detail that well merits the hearty support it receives.

Lucius T. House was born in Macon County, Alabama, June 6, 1844.  His father,
William ll House, a native of Tennessee, was a pioneer of Alabama, and
identified with its early history.  He served as a soldier under General Jackson
in many of his campaigns, and was in his command at the battle of New Orleans. 
He was a political adherent and comrade of David Crockett and with him was a
bitter opponent (political) of General Jackson.  He was an Indian agent in the
early days of Alabama and at one time summarily executed a number of savages who
had ambushed and slain a party of his friends and neighbors.  He died in l845.

Mr House's mother, nee Nancy T. Franklin was a native of Georgia.  She died in
Tennessee in 1883.  The subject of this sketch was reared upon a cotton
plantation until about eleven years of age.  He was then apprenticed to the
trade of printer, and at the age of sixteen years started in life as a
journeyman in his trade.  Upon the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion,
although but seventeen years of age, he entered the Confederate service as a
private in Company B, First Alabama Infantry.  After one year of service in that
regiment he re-enlisted in the famous Robertson's Light Battery, commanded by
Captain (afterward General) Felix ll Robertson.  Mr. House served faithfully,
and besides various unimportant engagements near Pensacola and other places, was
with his battery at the battle of Shiloh, Farmington, Stone River, Chickamauga
and Mission Ridge.  In the latter battle he was taken prisoner and sent to Rock
Island, Illinois, where he remained in confinement until the close of the war. 
Upon the restoration of peace, Mr. House concluded to try his fortunes in the
West, and worked at his trade in Kansas, Colorado and other places until l887. 
He then came to California and located at Los Angeles, where he remained nearly
two years after which he was engaged at his trade in San Francisco, and in
Placer and Sacramento counties until January, l888, he then returned to Los
Angeles County and established his residence in Sierra Madre, and in March of
that year commenced the publication of the Sierra Madre Vista.  He is a thorough
master of his calling and has made a success of his enterprise by his
straightforward course and consistent mode of life he has gained the respect of
the community.  Mr. House has been twice married and is the father of two sons
and one daughter.  The eldest, William M., was born in Ottawa, Kansas, February
28, l867.  He is a practical printer, having become a member of the
Typographical Union at eighteen years of age.  After spending about two years in
Mexico in assaying and mining he returned home, and is now (l889) in partnership
with his father.  the second son, Ralph E., was born in Lawrence, Kansas,
October 28, 1872.  He is also a member of the firm of Lucius T. House & Sons. 
The daughter Beatrice B., was born February 4, 1880.

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