“Mr. and Mrs. Hurst, of Upper Brush Creek, were trading in the city yesterday,” reported the Aspen Daily Times on Oct. 12, 1900. “Mr. Hurst is one of our hard working and most prosperous ranchmen.

The Hurst family moved from Dover, Ohio to Whittier in 1898. Then, in 1906, the family purchased acreage for a farm on the corner of Orange and Merced avenues in West Covina. Nearly 100 years later, ...