John Perry Ensley has done the work of a pioneer in the development of Ontario’s horticulture, and first and last has performed a great deal of conscientious, hard working service for the community from a civic standpoint.
Mr. Ensley, whose home is at 126 West D. Street, has been a resident of Ontario for thirty-five years. He was born near Auburn, Indiana on October 9, 1853, son of George and Lydia (Noel) Ensley. This parents were born in Pennsylvania, and the Ensleys are of original German Stock, though the family has been in America for a number of generations. George Ensley was born in 1815 and died in California in 1888. The mother died in Indiana in 1884. They were the parents of nine children, John Perry being the seventh in age. George Ensley moved out to California in the fall of 1886, acquiring property in Ontario, where he spent the rest of his life. He had been in earlier years a farmer, but had the all around mechanical genius that enabled him to succeed in almost every occupation. At one time he operated a saw mill of his own construction, and after coming to California he was an orange grower.
