Founding Families Of Long Beach
Stearns, Frank William and Ida May (Woodward)
Mr. Stearns was born in 1862 and died April 1911. His wife was ninety-one at her death March 20. 1960. She came from South Dakota but married Mr. Stearns in iowa. In 1900, the couple with their five children moved to Long Beach.
Mr. Steans soon became part of a real estate company, Counts and Stearns, with an office at 142 Pine Avenue. In 1910 these men proudly displayed a banner across to the Pine Avenue pier announcing the population of 10,000.
The names of Stearns, Counts, Shaw, Townsend and others are recorded in the development of Naples and canals, the subdivision of Alamitos Heights, organization of a church at 5th and Locust and planning the cemetery on Willow Street.
Three decendants of the Frank Stearns family are living - daughters Ethel and Vere in Costa Mesa and Newell in Long Beach and his wife Helen Jackson Stearns, are active in real estate.
From Official Souvenir Program, Long Beach, Ca.
Diamond Jubilee, November 1st Through 30th, 1963
Courtesy of Historical Soiety of Long Beach
Donated by The Southern California Genealogical Society
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft
March 2008
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