Charles Chapman
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Charles C. Chapman was the first mayor of Fullerton, California. Charles C. Chapman, a retired Chicago publisher and a descendant of John Chapman, the legendary "Johnny Appleseed." In 1894, Chapman purchased a 350-acre orange orchard in east Fullerton, which he named Santa Ysabel Ranch. He then set about revolutionizing the citrus industry by championing the cause of the Valencia orange, which, because of its keeping qualities and late ripening period, proved an ideal summer orange. Farmers throughout the area copied Chapman's lead, resulting in an enormous economic boom in Orange County, California.
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