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Unread 11-11-2014, 05:53 AM   #5
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Also a very smart investor. He ended up purchasing much of what is now Orange County when it was literally orange groves, just outside LA, then slowly sold it off parcel by parcel to developers of the expanding city. He left a considerable estate when he passed away.
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