http://www.stagecoachmuseum.org/pb/pages/newbury%20Egbert%20Newbury_jpg.htm Egbert Starr Newbury] In 1910, Harold and Edwin Janss of the Janss Investment Company purchased about 10000 acres of land of what is now Thousand Oaks from the heir of John Edwards, John Edwards who had purchased the land from the de la Guerra heirs.