Seth Lewelling, alternatively spelled Luelling, was a pioneer orchardist from the U.S. state of Oregon, best known for developing the Bing cherry. Born in 1820 in North Carolina as Seth Lewelling, he used the spelling Luelling for part of his life but returned to Lewelling in his later years.
Lewelling in 1911
Lewelling's house, at 10966 McLoughlin Blvd., was demolished in 1940, and is now the site of a gas station.
Henderson William Luelling was an American horticulturist, Quaker, abolitionist and early Oakland, California settler. He introduced varietal fruits to the Pacific coast, first to Oregon and later to California, and gave the Fruitvale district its name. In his later years, he led a Utopian community from California to Honduras, only to encounter overwhelming adversity, which sent him back to California.
Henderson Luelling, Quaker farmer who planted the orchards of Fruitvale, California