Married to Elizabeth M. Blackwell Burlew Victor(1849–1938)
Father of
Hugo Victor(1877–1959)
Royall Charles Victor(1878–1926)
Lenora Victor (1886–
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VICTORVILLE, CALIFORNIA named for this man
San Bernardino County Fourth District Supervisor 1891-1895 Chairman 1891-1895
Son of Henry G. and Gertrude(Nash)Victor, Henry was a pioneer farmer of Ohio. Jacob recieved his education in the public schools of Sandusky and also learned the printers trade. This proved not to his liking, however, and at the age of 20 took up railroadingentering the service of old "Mad River" railway, one of the first railway lines in Ohio. He continued with thsi from 1855 to the outbreak of the Civil War. Owing to a Physical disablity, he was not elgible for active service in the army, but for three years he had charge of the military railway construction under General McPherson and was with General Sherman in Georgeia on his famous march to the sea in the same capacity.
After the war Mr.Victor moved to Kansas City where he had charge of the Pacific Dispatch, a fast freight line. During this employement he journeyed to auborn, New York where he met and married Elizabeth Blackwell Burlew.
Mr. Victor next moved his family to Houston and Galveston and for the next eight years was with what is now the Gerat Northern Railway of Texas.
In May 1881, he accepted a position as general superintendent with the California Southern Railway Extension.(now the A.T. and S.F.) He was the engineer who with Fred T. Perris built the line over the Cajon Pass. The railway named one stop Perris(sout of Riverside) and another Victor. Because there was already another Victor in Colorado and to keep them different for mail stops it wwas later renamed Victorville.
He atopped raqilroading for politics. County Supervisor. Those were the years of the bitter county divison war which resulted in the creation of Riverside County on February 23,1893. County divison had arisen over a need for a new court house and the ambitions of several communities to be county seat.
Married to Elizabeth M. Blackwell Burlew Victor(1849–1938)
Father of
Hugo Victor(1877–1959)
Royall Charles Victor(1878–1926)
Lenora Victor (1886–
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VICTORVILLE, CALIFORNIA named for this man
San Bernardino County Fourth District Supervisor 1891-1895 Chairman 1891-1895
Son of Henry G. and Gertrude(Nash)Victor, Henry was a pioneer farmer of Ohio. Jacob recieved his education in the public schools of Sandusky and also learned the printers trade. This proved not to his liking, however, and at the age of 20 took up railroadingentering the service of old "Mad River" railway, one of the first railway lines in Ohio. He continued with thsi from 1855 to the outbreak of the Civil War. Owing to a Physical disablity, he was not elgible for active service in the army, but for three years he had charge of the military railway construction under General McPherson and was with General Sherman in Georgeia on his famous march to the sea in the same capacity.
After the war Mr.Victor moved to Kansas City where he had charge of the Pacific Dispatch, a fast freight line. During this employement he journeyed to auborn, New York where he met and married Elizabeth Blackwell Burlew.
Mr. Victor next moved his family to Houston and Galveston and for the next eight years was with what is now the Gerat Northern Railway of Texas.
In May 1881, he accepted a position as general superintendent with the California Southern Railway Extension.(now the A.T. and S.F.) He was the engineer who with Fred T. Perris built the line over the Cajon Pass. The railway named one stop Perris(sout of Riverside) and another Victor. Because there was already another Victor in Colorado and to keep them different for mail stops it wwas later renamed Victorville.
He atopped raqilroading for politics. County Supervisor. Those were the years of the bitter county divison war which resulted in the creation of Riverside County on February 23,1893. County divison had arisen over a need for a new court house and the ambitions of several communities to be county seat.
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