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Levi Hemenway and the early El Toro railroad era
Levi Hemenway, born February 10 1871 in Kansas, helped maintain the El Toro railroad serving Santa Ana and San Diego. He married Arabelle Carlson and had two children, Gladys and Archibald, later widowed then married Maude Izora White. Levi died March 1946 at 75 and was buried in Rosemead. The Hemenways were among Orange County’s first homesteaders with ties to Canyon Acres and El Toro.
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Hemenways
Orange County
Illinois
Company K First Cavalry
Harvey Hemenway
Betsey
Laguna Beach
Canyon Acres
el Toro
Elden Whisler
Charles Salter
Levi
Kansas
Clara Mason Fox
Santa Ana
San Diego
Whiting
Moulton
Arabelle Carlson
Winnebago Canyon
Gladys
Archibald
Arabelle
Maude Izora White
Maude
Wilmar
San Gabriel Valley
Savannah Memorial Park
Rosemead
Hemingway