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San Bernardino County (California) Biographies
B. W. CAVE,
senior member of the firm of Cave & Reeves, proprietors of the
Redlands livery stable, was born in Texas, in 1860, and has lived
in San Bernardino County ever since he was two years of age.
His parents, John P. and Lucy Ann (Barnett) Cave, were both natives
of Kentucky. They had a family of eight children. His father first moved
his family to Missouri, and in 1850 left them there and crossed the
plains by ox team to California, where he remained two years, at the
end of which time he went back to his family in Missouri. Here he
remained three years, and then moved to Texas, where for seven
years he worked at the carpenter trade. In 1862 he crossed the plains
via the southern route to California, and was five months on the road.
On his arrival he traded his wagon and ox team for twenty acres of
land one mile east of San Bernardino. He lived on this land until 1868,
and in the meantime gave considerable attention to placer-mining.
He was the discoverer of the claim known as Texas Point. In 1868 he
traded for a part of the Carpenter ranch in Crafton, which he improved
and still owns. The subject of this sketch engaged in mining for some
three years, and two years ago went into the livery business. At this
time he is part owner of' the ranch purchased by his father, and is
superintending the ranch as well as attending to the livery business.
In 1882 he was married to Miss Bertie Barrett, of Missouri, and they
have one child-a son-Oscar. Mr. Cave is a member of the I. O. O. F.,
Redlands Lodge, No. 341. At the time the city government was
organized he was elected one of the trustees which office he still fills.
He is an intelligent and enthusiastic supporter of the Democratic party.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the
Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and
the Peninsula of Lower California. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1890. p.- 544
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler