Fuller Ranch At Eastvale

by Loren P. Meissner

Overview

This publication is a sequel to "A Brief History of Eastvale" (History Press, 2013). Space requirements limited the amount of Fuller family history that could be included in that volume, so this separate book was developed. It contains additional background from before 1925, and presents information from Corona Library history files concerning the Guest Ranch era during the 1930s and 1940s.
Six square miles of ranch land, about 3,000 acres, were acquired by the Fuller family in 1889. For 65 years, till 1954, this ranch was the largest establishment – the only truly large establishment – on the north side of this stretch of the Santa Ana River. Those 65 years represent more than a third of Eastvale's 175-year recorded history.
Almost half of present-day Eastvale was included within the ranch's boundaries, during at least some of the years when the Fuller family owned the land. Almost all residences and business establishments in the southern part of the city, between Schleisman Road and the Santa Ana River, occupy former Fuller ranch land.
East Vale Elementary School District, which existed for 54 years (from Riverside County formation in 1893 till unification with Corona in 1947), occupied school facilities on the Fuller ranch during the first 20 of those years

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149038435
Publisher:	Loren P. Meissner
Publication date:	11/15/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	84
Sales rank:	570,814
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Loren Meissner attended the eight-grade, two-room East Vale schoolhouse on Sumner Avenue between 1934 and 1941. He graduated from Corona High School in 1945 and from Chaffey Community College at Ontario in 1947. He earned a Bachelor degree in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in June 1949, and married Peggy (Pritchard) the following month at Corona.
Loren was the first local member of the scientific staff at the U.S. Government laboratory in Norco when it relocated from Washington D.C. in 1951.
In 1959 Loren moved with his young family to Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics in 1965. He worked for Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory till 1981, when he was appointed Professor of Computer Science at University of San Francisco. Meanwhile, he served for more than 20 years as a U.S. delegate to the international committee for Fortran language standardization, and became slightly famous as a Fortran language textbook author. He retired in 1993, and now lives with Peggy at San Jose, where his three principal hobbies are: eight grandchildren, Meissner family genealogy, and local history.