San Diego County Biographies

AUGUSTUS K. CRAVATH

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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a prominent business man of Escondido, was born in Knox County, Ohio, April 23, 
1852. At an early age his parents removed to Will County, Illinois, where they 
remained until the fall of 1858, when they moved to Worth County, Iowa, and 
there Augustus worked on a farm during the summer and attended public school
during the winter. In the fall of 1870 he began attendance at the Baptist 
Seminary at Osage.  In the spring of 1872 he came to San Diego County, where he 
has remained ever since, engaged in farming. Eighteen out of the thirty‑eight 
years of his life have been spent in this State. In the spring of 1886 he sold 
his farm and located in Escondido, as the manager of the Escondido Land and Town 
Company, in which capacity he remained over two and one-half years. At present 
he is resident manager of the Pacific Investment Company, and also President of 
the City Council and of the Escondido Mining and Water companies. He is also 
director of the Bank of Escondido. He arrived in this State with only $2.50, and 
he is now a capitalist, worth, perhaps, $30,000.
	He was married in December, 1877, to Miss Kate Sikes, daughter of Zenas 
Sikes, a pioneer of San Diego, and they have three sons and three daughters.
 
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.-  230-231