Ephriam Wallace Kirkpatrick

E. W. Kirkpatrick

"Wally"

Ephriam Wallace Kirkpatrick as a young man

Wally was the youngest child and a war baby of the Civil War. He was born on his Grandfather's plantation in Paducah, KY. Besides his Grandfather he lived with his parents and 2 brothers and 2 sisters. He grew into a tall thin man about 6 ft. 3 in. with curly red hair. When he grew into a young man he wanted to become a doctor and went to Boston to study Medicine. He become ill and it was decided that he didn't have the physical stamina because of his thin frail body to be a Doctor and came home. The Boston big city experience left a lasting impression on him. He ran an "Oster House" Cafe in Upland. His daughter and granddaughter know how to cook oysters proper as well as steak.

When he returned home he met and married Regina Dishman. She became ill or was ill and Wally took her to California because of the healing qualities of the warm weather. She died in Riverside California.

Wally at about the time he married his Second Wife Ida Gardner

He met Ida when she taught a bible class for single men. During his marriage to Ida he worked as a grocer, onion farmer, and restaurant owner.
	This Ad came out on the day his daughter Grace was Born Sept. 17, 1909 in the Riverside Press.
In Sept. 28, 1908 he went into partnership with a Mr. Patterson, Freeman, Rebhols, Beal and Burrows For the establishment of Kirk Produce & Grocery	FIFTY FAMILIES One Hundred Dollars Each The chance of a lifetime. You invest $100 and get immediate returns. A liberal discount on all goods purchased, and your share of the annual profits of a thriving business, you being one of the 50 to advertise and stimulate the business. You get the best returns for the least investment. And the business will be supported by 50 of Riverside's best citizens. For particulars see. E. W. Kirkpatrick, manager of Kirk Produce & Grocery Co.	This ad appeared a year before Ida died JOHN, DON'T FORGET To stop in at Kirkpatrick's Fish and Oyster Market, and bring home either fish or oysters. Where? Oh you know in the new Pomona City Market. 135 W. Second St. DON'T FORGET

He met Ida when she taught a bible class for single men.
During his marriage to Ida he worked as a grocer, onion farmer, and restaurant owner.

This Ad came out on the day his daughter Grace was Born Sept. 17, 1909 in the Riverside Press.

In Sept. 28, 1908 he went into partnership with a

Mr. Patterson, Freeman, Rebhols, Beal and Burrows

For the establishment of Kirk Produce & Grocery

FIFTY FAMILIES
One Hundred Dollars Each

The chance of a lifetime. You invest $100 and get immediate returns. A liberal discount on all goods purchased, and your share of the annual profits of a thriving business, you being one of the 50 to advertise and stimulate the business. You get the best returns for the least investment. And the business will be supported by 50 of Riverside's best citizens. For particulars see.

E. W. Kirkpatrick, manager of Kirk Produce & Grocery Co.

This ad appeared a year before Ida died

JOHN, DON'T FORGET To stop in at Kirkpatrick's Fish and Oyster Market, and bring home either fish or oysters.

Where? Oh you know in the new Pomona City Market. 135 W. Second St.
DON'T FORGET

This was said about the Kirkpatrick Restaurant in the Riverside Enterprise's Convention Supplement April 14, 1917 pg. 26.

This popular restaurant enjoys a very profitable patronage and for the reason that they serve the best of foods. Mr. E. W. Kirkpatrick owner and manage, was formerly in the grocery business and his insight and experience in eatables has been broad and varied. He has afforded to Riverside in his present establishment, a cafe which can meet the wants of all. A lunch counter has been installed and on one side of the room are booths painted in gray, which afford a combination which is restful to the leisure diner.

He serves a special merchants' lunch from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Mr Kirkpatrick is making special plans to care for the large crowds attending the conventions here this year.

Besides his restaurant business Mr. Kirkpatrick is interested on the raising of onions. Coming from the east to California he soon found that the famous Spanish onion was almost unknown here. He immediately sent to Spain and procured some choice species of this onion, planting them on six acres adjoining the city. Since then he has received large crops from this small tract. Last year was the most profitable of any with Mr. Kirkpatrick since his advent into the raising of onions. He received from his six acres, 40 tons. These onions were sold on the markets of Southern California and it is his idea to send a carload to San Francisco and a like amount to Salt Lake City during the coming year. The Spanish Sweet onion is one of the finest species of the onion family. It is straw colored, will formed, sweet and very juicy. It can be easily kept under the most exacting conditions. Many of the residents of Riverside county are versed with the ingredients and nutritiousness of the onion as Mr. Kirkpatrick exhibited them at last year's count fair. He has brought to Riverside something that holds a future and that will be a principal asset in this community's welfare. It is only in its infancy but if it advances in the next few years as it has in the past three,(He then started to grow onions in 1914 and lived and grew his onions in Nuevo not to far from Riverside) it will have few rivals as a resource of our soil products. (He continued to have the restaurant and grow onions until his wife died in 1922 shortly after he left the area.)

This picture was taken by Grace when they were hiking in the Riverside area. They did this a lot in Grace's mid to late teens.

Wally with his third wife or mistress

This picture is of the woman he lived the rest of his life with. His daughter hated this woman and to the family her name is lost.

Wally did these drawings in 1935. In his youth he watched and probably helped his older brother assemble farm equipment. Grace remembers him taking apart the water pump, fixing it and putting it back together.

During the depression he also worked as a landscape gardener. He used Holly in some of his gardens. Grace remembers him taking aspirin every night to stop the cramps in his legs. He also started a short order stand for truckers to stop and eat. He felt it was a success but the city shut him down because he didn't have the proper licenses.

Here is Wally as an older man with his only Grandchild Kircie. Kircie lived in an housing project while her Dad went to school in Berkeley. She remembers her grandpa running a Motor Court in Twenty Nine Palms. He wore suspenders and was tall with white hair. His hair had yellow streaks in it, left from being a red head. The motel room smelled of incontinence. The visit was short and Wally did invited us to come to his quarters, which Grace refused.