High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eliza Tibbets (born Eliza Maria Lovell 1823, died 1898) was a Riverside, California founder, who, with husband Luther C. Tibbets, is known for growing the first Washington navel orange and founding the citrus industry and cultural landscape of orange groves in California, United States. Tibbets was a plantswoman, horticulturist, agronomist, pioneer California farmer, spiritualist, abolitionist, universal suffragist, and renowned Riverside citizen.