If you head south from Corona on the 15 Freeway, one off-ramp you’ll notice in the Dos Lagos area is for Weirick Road. This is another county road named for one of the many supervisors the county has had in its more than 130-year history

Arthur Murray Weirick was born in Helena, Montana, on Oct. 16, 1893. He spent his formative years in Montana, and by 1916 was studying in the Wharton School of Finance. When the United States entered World War I, he enlisted in the new Army Air Corps. He saw action in France, where he was wounded in a dogfight with elements of the Red Baron’s elite aviators.

After he returned from war, he married Margaret Mae Lowry, who was also from Montana. In 1923, the newlyweds moved to Los Angeles, where Weirick worked mainly as an investment banker and citrus growe

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