Identifier: historyoforangec00armo (find matches)
Title: History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Armor, Samuel, 1843- Pleasants, J. E., Mrs
Subjects: Orange County (Calif.) -- History Orange County (Calif.) -- Biography California -- History, Local
Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r and a trustee of the Lemon Growers Association. He had an orange nursery,and was one of the first to set out avocados. He had nine acres of land set out tooranges, olives and lemons, and this he sold, disposing also of some six and a halfacres set out to oranges, north of Whittier Heights. In 1919, Mr. Goddicksen soldhis ranch and located in Orange, where he now resides at 306 North Center Street,still retaining a twenty-acre orchard of apricots at Nuevo, in Riverside County; he alsoowns ten acres of unimproved land there, and twenty acres of oranges half way betweenOrange and .Anaheim. During his residence in Dakota, Mr. Goddicksen was married to Miss EmelieErtinger, a native of Wuertemberg, Germany, and the daughter of Albert and Katherine(Kik) Ertinger. As far back as 1874, Mrs. Goddicksen came with her parents to ClayCounty, S. D., and settled near Yankton, the family later removing to Douglas County.Mr. Ertinger was a judge in Germany, and he never wanted for courteous and com-
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^krc^-f- HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 585 plimentary attention, and the full appreciation of his worth as an American citizen.After his death, his widow was married a second time to Fred Seiser, and they nowreside on East Chapman Street, Orange. Five children of Mr. and Mrs. Goddicksenare still living; Elise E. educated at the Los Angeles high school and at the OrangeCounty Business College, was city stenographer of Santa Ana, and is now a publicstenographer and notary; she is very musical and is a pianist, vocalist and whistler. Sheis a member of the Presbyterian Church; William resides in San Francisco, and withhim is his brother, A. Lenz, an instructor and consulting man for the Cleveland tractor.William was a member of the Three Hundred Sixty-fourth Regiment and saw serviceoverseas for two years; A. Lenz was in the service and did limited duty; Elsie K. isin the Orange high school, and the youngest is Grant C. Goddicksen. Mr. and Mrs. Goddicksen are members of the Evangelical Lutheran

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