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GENeALOGY  COLLECTION 


ALLEN  COUNTY  PUBLIC  LIBRARY 


3  1833  01717  2435 


Greater- Los- Angeles 
&•  Southern-  California 


Portraits-  &  -  Personal-  Memoranda 


Robert  J.  Burdette 

EDITOR 


THE    LEWIS     PUBLISHING    COMPANY 

CHICAGO  LOS  ANGELES  NEW   YORK 

1910 


1470894 
PREFACE 


IN  harmony  with  the  original  purpose  and  plan, 
this  volume  is  "An  historical  record  of 
Greater  Los  Angeles  and  Southern  Cali- 
fornia"— combining  in  one  volume  the  human 
interest  alwa3^s  present  in  portraits  together  with 
the  instructive  facts  of  biography.  It  is  with 
more  than  ordinary  satisfaction  that  the  pub- 
lishers send  this  book  forth  for  public  apprecia- 
tion, since  they  believe  that  in  general  scope  and 
in  details  it  more  than  fulfills  the  promises  made  in 
the  prospectus.  None  will  question  that  the  book 
is  a  permanent  contribution  to  the  history  of  Los 
Angeles  and  Southern  California.  The  fact  that 
the  men  whose  lives  form  the  biographical  basis  of 
the  work  are  foremost  representatives  of  city,  state 
and  nation  makes  the  facts  and  illustrations  herein 
contained  a  historical  monument  which  will  be 
prized  even  more  by  later  generations  than  by  the 
present.  As  regards  this  element  of  the  book's 
value,  it  is  only  necessary  to  suggest  how  much  we 
would  value  a  similar  collection  of  portraits  of  the 
men  who  made  the  Iiistory  of  our  nation  one  hun- 
dred years  ago. 

So  much  may  be  said  of  the  salient  purposes  and 
contents  of  the  work.  Of  the  mechanical  and 
artistic  execution,  the  most  cursory  examination 
will  prove  its  superiority  and  excellence.  The 
majority  of  the  portraits  are  recent,  the  photo- 


PREFACE 


graphs  liaving  been  taken  expressly  for  reprodnc- 
tion  in  this  vohnne,  a  process  to  which  both  en- 
graver and  printer  have  lent  their  highest  skill. 
Durability  and  elegance  have  been  constant  ideals 
in  the  making  of  the  volume,  a  permanent  and 
handsome  dress  being  considered  a  proper  adorn- 
ment to  worthy  contents.  Utmost  care  has  been 
employed  to  secure  accuracy  in  the  personal  rec- 
ords, typewritten  copies  and  prints  of  the  mattei' 
intended  for  publication  having  been  submitted  at 
least  once  to  the  persons  concerned,  and  unusual 
diligence  has  been  exercised  in  every  detail. 

The  Publishers. 


INDEX 


PACJK 

Albright,  Harrison    293 

Alexander,   George    289 

Austin,  John  C.  W 269 

Avakian,  John  C 123 

Avery.   M.   N 181 

Backus,   John  J 146 

Baker,  C .  H 142 

Bartlett,  William   S 265 

Behymer,   Lynden   E 60 

Bennett,  James   S 164 

Benton,  Arthur  B 266 

Bledsoe,  Benjamin  F 212 

Blinn,   Lewis  W 271 

Bowen,  Clarence  W 238 

Brougher,   J.    Whitcomb 216 

Brown,  Harrington 84 

Browning,  Charles  C 253 

Bullard,  'Rose  T 252 

Burcham,   Rose  La   Monte 230 

Burck,  Lawrence  B 150 

Burdette,  Clara  B 34 

Burdette,  Robert  J 33 

Cave,  Daniel 69 

Clark,  Percy  H 62 

Claypole,  Edith  J 128 

Cobb,  Edward  S'. 156 

Coil.  Ernest  B 157 

Collier,  Frank  C 83 

Cook,  James   F 52 

Coulston,  J.   B 246 

Cowles.    Josiah   E 100 

Craig,   John   F 188 

Craig,  John   190 

Craig,  William  T 122 

Cronemiller,   William    F 42 

Crow.  George  M 82 

Currier,  A.  T 183 

V 


INDEX 


Davis,    George    R 286 

Dixon,  Charles  E 203 

Dockweiler,  Isidore  B 102 

Dollard,  Robert   127 

Doolittle,  Herbert   E 270 

Doug-all,  John  P 58 

Dozier,    Melville    148 

Drake,  Charles  R 70 

Drake,   James    C 108 

Duque,  Thomas   L 59 

Dyer,  Isaac  T 290 

Easton,   E.   E 168 

Eddie,  Guy   206 

Elder,    Charles    A 205 

Elliott,  John  M 277 

Ellis,   H.    Bert 257 

Estudillo,   Miguel    210 

Parish,   Oscar   E 147 

Ferris,  Dick    104 

Finch,  George  W 48 

Finkle,  F.  C 56 

Fleming,  Edward  J 197 

Ford,    Lewis    E 113 

Forman,  Charles    165 

Foshay,  James  A 149 

Frank,  Herman  W 132 

Fredericks,  J.   D 115 

Fries,   Amos   A 237 

Garrett,  Frank   47 

Garvey,   Richard    187 

Gates,  Lee  C 245 

Gibson,  William  S 51 

Gillette,   Grant   G 176 

Glass,   Joseph    S 224 

Goodhue,    Arthur    M 280 

Goodwin,  Vernon    94 

Gould,   Will    D 88 

Green,   Mary    1 67 

Guthrie,    Charfes    B 144 

Hagan,  Ralph 116 

Haley,  A.  L 178 


liNDEX 


Halsey,  A.  E 39 

Hamilton,   N.   H 124 

Hamlin,  Homer 126 

Hammel,  William  A 192 

Hart,  Georg-e  E 232 

Hauser,  Julius   248 

Hawe,  Patrick   141 

Hellman,    Irving-   H 220 

Hellman,    Marco    H 218 

Hewitt,  Leslie  R 207 

Hill,  Robert  G 272 

Holliday,  William  H 186 

Hopkins,  Ed.  W 258 

Horton,  Rufus  W.  L 80 

Hubbard,   Charles   L 68 

Hunt,  John   N 251 

Huntington,  Henry  E 276 

Hutton,  George  H 120 

Isaacs,    Edward    K 110 

lames,  Frank   288 

Tarrett,  Ben  S 90 

[ess,  Stoddard   273 

Jevne,   H 96 

Jordon,  M.   Evangeline 66 

Kennedy.   WilHam    256 

Kenney,  Elizabeth  L 247 

Keppei,  Mark  86 

Kerckhoff,  William  G 162 

Koebig,  A.  H 136 

Krudop,  D.  Tonjes 180 

Lanterman.    lacob    L 264 

Lee,  Bradnef  W 285 

Leeds,  Charles  T 44 

Lewis,   Samuel  T 287 

Lindley,   Walter    64 

Ling,    Robert    A 213 

Lobingier,    Andrew    S 95 

Loder,    Arthur    E 191 

Longyear,  William   D 262 

Lowe,  Thaddeus  S.  C 173 

Lundy,   E.   A 75 


INDEX 


MacLaughlin,   James    B 391 

Maginnis,   Almon    P    259 

Manning,   Charles   D 328 

Marsh,  ^Norman   F 278 

Marsh,  Robert   70 

Marshall,  Edwin  J 236 

Martin,   William    A 45 

Mathews,  William  B 222 

Mayberry,   Edward   L 98 

McAleer,  Owen    214 

McClure,  Frank  D 151 

McCoy,  James   D 63 

Meek,    William    79 

Merrill,  Samuel   1 263 

Mesmer,   Joseph    55 

Meyers,  Marion  M 208 

Miller,   John    B 194 

Monk,  Edward   R 50 

Monnette,    Mervin    J 294 

Montgomery,   Charles   S 118 

Montgomery,    Ernest   A 38 

Moody,  Joseph  D 229 

Moore,    Ernest    C 134 

Morgan,  Octavius  226 

Morton,  William  0 217 

Mudd,  Seeley  AV 54 

Mulholland,  William    140 

Mullen,    Arthur    B 40 

Munk,   J.    A 46 

Norris,  John   R 1 14 

Norton,  John   H 72 

Noyes,   Charles   J 135 

Oster,  Frank  F 193 

Pease,  Niles    209 

Pease,  Sherman   235 

Pendleton,  Cornelius  W 204 

Pierce,   Fred    E 281 

Pillsbury,    George    E 267 

Pomeroy .  Abram  E 284 

Potter,  ^E.    L 36 

Powers,  Luther  M 1 82 

Pratt,   Frank   F 223 

Pruitt,   Drew    172 


INDEX 


Radford,  Joseph  D 254 

Roberts,  E.   D '302 

Rowan,  Fred  S 161 

Rowan,  Phillip  D 160 

Rowan,  Robert  A 158 

Sargent,    Edwin    W 170 

Scatterg-ood,    E.    F 87 

Schenck,  Paul  W 169 

Schneider,  Jacob  M 196 

Scott,  Joseph    375 

Security  Savings  Bank 260 

Schuyler,  James  D 283 

Shaw,   Ashbv   A 74 

Shaw,    VictoV    E 175 

Shenk,  John  W 250 

Smith,  Gertrude  G 138 

Smith,  P.  H 139 

Smith,  Sydney   184 

Smith,   Virginia   T 200 

Sparks,  C.  Randall 112 

Story,  Francis  Q 244 

Story,  Walter  P 221 

Taft,  Stephen  H 130 

Tisdale,  William  M 231 

Toll,   Charles   H 152 

Trueworthy,   John   AV 53 

Walls,    T-   A 227 

Welbourn,  O.   C 49 

Wheatly,   Wilkes    198 

Whitmore,  Samuel  J 92 

Whittington,  John  W 274 

Wiesendanger,   Theodore    106 

Woodruff,  George  H 166 

Woolwine,   William    D 282 

Works,    John    D ; 174 

Wyman,   Francis  0 268 

Young,  Frank  W 242 

Young,  R.   B 340 


FOREWORD 

You  sit  ou  the  western  piazza  and  watch  the  sun 
go  down.  You  linger  long,  held  by  the  after-glow 
that  tints  the  heavens  like  the  heart  of  a  shell.  A 
crescent  of  silver  gleams  in  the  purpling  skies.  A 
star  shines  out  below  the  yonng  moon.  In  orderly 
splendor  the  glittering  constellations  flame  out  in 
iheir  march  across  the  fields  of  night.  Shadows 
of  pine  and  palm  whisper  softly  under  the  kisses 
of  the  fragrant  winds.  Incense  of  rose  and  helio- 
trope mingle  with  the  odor  of  the  orange-trees. 
The  silence  and  star-shine  and  perfume  is  prayer 
and  praise.  Your  soul  worships  at  the  shrine  of 
perfect  nature.  An  unseen  chalice  of  melody  is 
tilted  somewhere  in  the  upper  darkness — a  ripple 
of  music,  clear  and  sweet,  spilled  from  its  heart  of 
rapture,  runs  down  through  the  shadows  and  fra- 
grance— a  mocking  bird  is  singing  his  hymn  to  the 
night.  Your  soul  overflows  with  a  sense  of  beauty, 
and  joy,  and  peace.  It  is  not  a  '' Midsummer 
Night's  Dream."  Such  a  scene  could  not  be  pre- 
sented ''In  a  wood  near  Athens."  It  is  a  Mid- 
winter Night  in  Southern  California.  An  ordi- 
nary, commonplace  calendar  night,  one  of  many 
such  that  "quickly  dream  away  the  time."  With 
such  a  winter  season,  and  a  summer  time  that  fits 
it  perfectly,  small  wonder  it  is  that  every  land 
under  the  sun  sends  its  worshiping  pilgrims  hither. 
The  wonder  is,  that  so  many  men  stay  away. 

''Climate"  is  California's  principal  asset.  Our 
eastern  friends  tell  us  the  State  deserves  no  credit 
for  that.  No.  Nor  does  New  Orleans  deserve  the 
credit  of  creating  the  Gulf  of  Mexico.  Nor  did 
St.  Louis  invent  the  Mississippi  river.  Chicago 
did  not  dam  up  Lake  Michigan ;  she  only  built  the 


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drainage  canal,  whicli  is  different.  There  is  even 
on  old  tradition  that  the  famous  Harbor  was  there 
before  Boston  was  located,  which  is  impossible. 
All  these  great  natural  advantages  antedated  by 
many  ages  the  great  cities  which  have  grown  up 
because  of  them,  despite  the  shrewd  observation  of 
the  thoughtful  man  who  had  been  impressed  by  the 
fact  that  Pro^ddence  had  wisely  ordained  that  all 
the  great  rivers  should  flow  past  the  large  cities. 
We  reluctanth^  admit  that  neither  the  '49ers  nor 
the  Native  Sons  made  the  "glorious  climate  of 
California."  Men  didn't  make  the  climate.  But 
they  made  the  state.  Men  make  cities,  not  because 
of  natural  advantages,  but  in  spite  of  natural  dis- 
advantages. Else  had  the  east  wind  prevented  any 
Boston ;  the  swamp  had  vetoed  Chicago ;  the  morass 
had  prohibited  New  Orleans,  and  the  grim  specter 
of  the  "Great  American  Desert"  had  forever  iso- 
lated California. 

It  was  destined  to  be  a  land  wherein  fact  should 
read  like  romance,  and  all  the  fiction  born  of  Cali- 
fornia genius  should  read  tamely,  beside  the  quiet 
wonders  of  its  histor}^  Its  very  name  sprang 
from  romantic  dreams,  for  "it  is  taken  from  an  old 
Spanish  romance,  called  Sergas  de  Esplandian 
(Exploits  of  Esplandian),  by  Ordonez  de  Mon- 
talvo,  translator  of  Amadis  de  Gaul,  printed  about 
1510.  California  was  a  m^^thical  island  on  the 
right  hand  of  the  Indies,  very  near  the  Terrestrial 
paradise,  peopled  with  Amazons  and  Grif&ns." 
(Charles  F.  Lummis.)  God  was  very  good  to  Cal- 
ifornia, then,  at  her  christening,  giving  to  her  a 
name  that  was  characteristically  descriptive,  espe- 
cially as  to  geographical  location,  before  some 
closet  geographer  should  name  it  "North"  Some- 
thing, because  there  was  a  portion  of  the  earth  to 
the  south  of  it,  or  "New"  Something,  because 
there  was  alreadv  in  existence  a  countrv  so  utterlv 


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unlike  it  that  the  most  distorted  imagination  could 
detect  no  suggestion  of  similarity  between  them. 
"A  good  name  is  to  be  chosen  rather  than  great 
riches. ' '  Happ}^  California !  That  the  day  of  her 
christening  should  have  come  in  the  time  of  orig- 
inality in  nomenclature,  before  the  growing  world 
had  fallen  upon  the  evil  days  of  naming  towns  and 
states  by  the  simple,  time-saving  and  brain-sparing 
use  of  carbon  sheets  and  multiple  copying  presses. 
Christened  at  the  fount  of  romance.  Cold  Fact 
smiled  at  the  appositeness  of  name  and  descrip- 
tion, and  adopted  the  dream-child  for  his  own. 
So  he  gave  to  her  a  dower  of  valleys  in  which 
never  a  flake  of  snow  flutters  down  from  the  high- 
est clouds,  and  looking  down  upon  them,  moun- 
tains that  wear  white  crown  of  winter  all  the 
months  through  all  the  summer  years.  Deserts 
lower  than  the  sea,  and  a  mountain  higher  than 
the  clouds — Death  Valley,  the  lowest  depression, 
and  Mt.  Whitney,  the  highest  elevation  in  the 
United  States.  He  clothed  his  daughter  of  Ro- 
mance with  nothing  but  truthful  superlatives.  He 
gave  her  the  scantiest,  sourest,  most  unpalatable 
wild  fruits  of  her  own,  and  made  her  the  most 
bountiful  step-mother  of  all  the  fruits  the  earth 
can  bear.  He  famished  her  with  deserts,  barren 
and  desolate,  and  said  to  her,  ''Here,  not  in  the 
mines  of  gold,  is  your  wealth."  And  in  one  year 
the  harvest  of  her  gold  mines  was  a  paltry  $16,- 
989,044,  while  the  golden  harvest  of  her  farms  and 
gardens  was  $131,690,606,  more  than  seven  times 
as  much  as  all  her  gold  that  year  could  buy.  He 
taught  her  how  to  waste  her  rivers  from  their 
torrent  beds,  and  scatter  them  over  the  land  in 
irrigating  ditches,  so  that  the  shallow  river  a  child 
could  ford  became  a  stream  of  fertility,  an  oasis 
of  blossom  and  fruit  and  shrub  twenty  miles  wide. 
On  every  page  of  her  unfolding  history  and  grow- 


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mg  greatness,  he  wrote  down  paradoxes  that  her 
writers  of  fiction  hesitated  to  use,  so  that  the  guile- 
less tenderfoot  believed  in  '^  Colonel  Jack  Haz- 
ard," and  "Trnthfnl  James,"  and  ''Bill  Nye,"  in 
refined  and  rigidly  moral  gamblers,  in  pure- 
minded  harlots  and  generous  stage  robbers  with 
universitA^  degrees,  but  shook  their  heads  and  said, 
''Oh,  California  stories!"  with  pitying  toleration, 
such  as  one  uses  when  speaking  of  the  heathen  in 
his  blindness,  when  told  of  the  "Big  Trees"  and 
the  Yo  Semite,  and  eight  crops  of  peas  in  one 
year  from  the  same  field.  Even  the  meditative 
and  unromantic  cow,  contemplatively  chewing  her 
cud  of  alfalfa  under  the  great  branches  of  the  live 
oak,  looked  down  with  placid  contempt  on  the 
strenuous  efforts  of  the  gold  mines  to  produce 
sixteen  millions  of  dollars,  while  in  the  same 
period,  in  her  quiet  simple  life  in  the  meadows  she 
added  twelve  million  dollars  to  the  wealth  of  her 
state  in  milk,  butter  and  cheese,  a  rivalry  which  is 
enough  to  make  the  old  "49ers"  turn  over  in  their 
graves.  The  gold  is  only  useful  to  buy  more  cows, 
and  improved  agricultural  machinery.  Los  An- 
geles county  is  not  famous  for  its  gold  mines — 
although  one  may  stand  on  the  street  and  buy 
mines  as  they  come  along,  for  she  owns  mines  in 
nearly  every  district  in  California,  Nevada,  Ari- 
zona and  Mexico — but  it  has  nearly  seven  thousand 
farms,  and  the  transmutation  of  farm  products 
into  minted  gold  is  just  as  sure  as  the  mining 
process,  and  requires  far  less  blue  print  and  pro- 
moter's eloquence. 

But  the  climate  doesn't  deserve  exclusive  credit 
for  all  this.  The  climate  was  here  in  all  its  per- 
fection of  beauty  and  gentleness  in  1781.  And 
doubtless  the  cattle  enjoyed  it.  For  the  popula- 
tion of  California  then  consisted  of  the  two  classes 
into  which  the  discerning  cow-boy  still  divides  the 


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denizens  of  the  earth — "cows  and  hnmans,"  put- 
ting the  cows  first,  of  course,  as  the  more  vahi- 
able  and  more  intelHgent.  Los  Angeles  county, 
and  all  California  round  about  it — it  was  all  the 
one — was  a  great  pasture,  and  the  horned  herds 
that  roamed  over  it  would  have  hard  work  to  se- 
cure "honorable  mention"  and  useful  death  in  the 
"scalawag"  class  in  any  reputable  stock  yards  of 
today — long  bodied,  longer  legged,  and  still  longer 
horned;  fleet  of  foot  and  scant  of  beef — the  milk- 
less  kine  of  Pharaoh.  The  only  product  of  any 
value  they  yielded  was  their  hide  and  tallow. 
\A^ien  that  was  taken  off,  and  out,  there  was  noth- 
ing left.  The  people  lived  the  simple  life.  The 
"first  families"  of  Los  Angeles,  the  founders  to 
whose  illustrious  memory  we  have  neglected  to 
rear  a  lofty  monument,  are  not  represented  by 
their  descendants  among  the  aristocratic  loung- 
ers in  the  California  Club,  nor  are  they  corralling 
the  passing  lion  in  the  Friday  Morning,  or  study- 
ing civic  righteousness  in  El3ell.  "Our  Glorious 
Founders"  were  a  polyglot  lot,  which  Mr.  Venus 
would  have  classified  as  "human  warriors."  There 
were  eleven  families.  Not  a  man  of  them  could 
read  or  write.  Two  Spaniards  there  were,  and 
both  of  these  had  Indian  wives.  And  one  of  the 
proud  Castilians,  Jose  de  Lara,  of  aristocratic 
name,  was  very  shortly  deported  from  the  colony 
for  general  uselessness  to  himself  and  the  com- 
munity. The  historians  tell  us,  however,  that 
Jose's  Castilian  stock  was  somewhat  adulterated. 
But  Antonio  Felix  Villavalencio  was  warranted 
"absolutely  pure."  He  had  an  Indian  helpmeet; 
Jose  Navarro,  Basilio  Rosas,  an  Indian,  had  mu- 
lato  wives;  so  had  Manuel  Camaro  and  Jose  Mo- 
reno, themselves  mulattos,  also  Luis  Quintero,  a 
negro;  Jose  Vanegas,  Alejandro  Eosas,  and  Pablo 
Rodriguez,  were  Indians,  with  Indian  wives.  Thus 


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laden  with  limnble  souls  and  aristocratic  names 
our  Mayflower  came  into  port  September  4tli,  1781, 
and  with  religious  ceremonies,  consisting  of  a  mass 
and  a  salvo  of  musketry,  our  step-fathers  formally 
founded  the  Pueblo  de  Nuestra  Senora  La  Eeina 
de  Los  Angeles,  on  the  banks  of  the  Eio  de  Por- 
ciuncula,  which  changed  its  name  to  Los  Angeles 
when  it  went  dry.  The  city  never  having  passed 
through  that  process  of  regeneration  retains  its 
original  name  unto  this  day.  It  takes  an  earth- 
quake of  the  century  class  to  convert  a  Califor- 
nia city  of  the  first  class  to  prohibition,  and  Los 
Angeles  is  not  in  the  earthquake  belt.  Our  fore- 
fathers possessed  the  true  Los  Angelan  spirit. 
They  built  first  an  irrigating  ditch  and  then  they 
laid"  out  town  lots  and  acreage  property,  deported 
three  of  their  number,  one  white  man  and  two  ne- 
groes, for  general  worthlessness,  wisely  and  thrift- 
ily confiscating  their  property  for  the  common 
good.  The  remaining  colonists — twenty-eight  all 
told,  including  the  children — went  to  work,  erected 
public  buildings  and  a  church,  and  began  to  do 
business.  All  of  Los  Angeles  was  in  that  little 
(acorn?).  They  weren't  a  people  to  worry — that 
folly  that  comes  with  the  higher  civilization — and 
they  watched  themselves  grow.  In  nine  years  the 
population  had  increased  to  141 ;  multiplied  itself 
by  five  in  nine  years — a  record-breaking  challenge 
for  succeeding  generations.  The  city  thus  early 
established  the  habit  of  growing;  which  is  to  this 
day  emphasized  b}^  prophetic  and  optimistic  real 
estate  ''pobladores."  The  padres  were  teaching 
the  Mission  Indians  the  arts  of  agriculture  and 
architecture,  and  the  useful  trades.  Los  Angeles 
emerged  from  its  pole  huts  and  erected  palatial 
structures  of  adobe,  one  story  high  and  absolutely 
fire-proof.  In  1800  the  population  was  315,  the 
herds  of  horses  and  cattle  numbered  12,500  head; 


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wheat  was  $1.66  per  bushel  and  the  crop  was  over 
8,000  bushels.  "Dollar  wheat"  didn't  get  into 
politics  that  year.  They  paid  their  taxes  in  grain. 
They  had  a  mail  from  Mexico  once  a  month,  but 
as  not  more  than  half  a  dozen  of  the  citizens  could 
read  or  write,  there  was  no  complaint  when  one 
or  two  mails  missed.  In  1818  two  Americans  be- 
came citizens  of  Los  Angeles,  Joseph  Chapman  of 
Massachusetts,  and  a  negro  named  Fisher.  Things 
moved  with  s}T:nptoms  of  "hustle."  Chapman 
built  the  first  mill  in  Southern  California,  and  the 
gods  of  things  that  are  to  be  began  to  grind  their 
grist.  Three  years  after  that  American  mill  be- 
gan its  tic-tac,  Mexico  achieved  her  independence. 
In  1822  the  flag  of  the  Empire  of  Mexico  floated 
over  Los  Angeles  and  the  Spanish  power  in  Amer- 
ica had  begun  the  march  that  led  to  the  bottom  of 
the  sea.  Three  years  of  imperial  sway,  and  the 
banner  of  the  Republic  of  Mexico  supplanted  the 
imperial  standard,  the  rapid  change  of  flags  flut- 
tering by  like  the  decorations  of  coming  Fiestas. 
Los  Angeles  was  an  agricultural  conununity.  Its 
manufactories  at  this  time  consisted  exclusively  of 
distilleries  and  wineries.  These  were  very  suc- 
cessful, as  an  election  in  1826  was  declared  void  by 
the  governor  on  the  ground  that  "the  candidates 
were  vagabonds,  drunkards,  and  worse."  Graft 
is  not  a  modern  disease  in  the  body  politic.  Our 
fathers  also  ate  wild  grapes.  Some  time  in  1820 
Los  Angeles  was  discovered  by  Boston,  and  a  thriv- 
ing trade  in  hide  and  tallow  was  established,  the 
Boston  ships  bringing  out  assorted  cargoes.  The 
blessings  of  Boston  baked  beans  did  not  reach  the 
land  until  later,  for  the  canning  industry  still 
sluml)ered  in  the  brain  of  inventive  man.  But  the 
Los  Angelans  had  a  base-born,  sable-hued  bean  of 
their  own,  upon  which,  knowing  nothing  superior, 
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continued.  About  1829  the  precursor  of  all  the 
signs  that  dot  the  landscape  and  hide  the  vacant 
lots  and  crown  the  cornices  of  the  highest  build- 
ings, appeared — "Rice  and  Temple."  And  they 
were  New  England  Yankees.  Los  Angeles  was 
marching  on  the  way  of  its  destiny,  and  new  com- 
ers were  already  dropping  the  "Pueblo  de  Nuestra 
Senora  La  Reina  de"  from  their  letterheads.  Tem- 
ple &  Rice  introduced  three  or  four  new  and  dis- 
tinct pronunciations  of  the  rest  of  the  name,  which 
are  still  most  successfully  imitated,  with  intricate 
variations,  by  their  350,000  successors. 

If  ignorance  is  bliss,  the  people  were  happy. 
But  they  were  not  unmindful  of  the  blessings  of 
education.  In  1817  an  old  soldier,  Maximo  Pina, 
opened  a  school  and  taught  the  children  enough  in 
two  years  to  last  them  through  the  next  decade. 
Two  years  of  school  in  forty-six  would  not  make 
scholars  of  a  community.  Indeed,  it  would  barely 
qualif}^  them  for  writing  dialect  stories  and  "best 
selling  books."  They  felt  that,  and  in  1827  Luci- 
ano Valdez  was  employed  at  a  salary  of  $15  per 
month,  to  teach  the  young  idea  how  and  whom  to 
shoot.  He  struck  for  $30  in  his  second  year  and 
resigned.  Fifteen  dollars  was  the  value  placed 
upon  a  schoolmaster  until  after  the  American  "as- 
similation," even  in  the  flush  times  of  '49.  In 
1850  the  salary  was  suddenl,y  increased  to  $60  per 
month  and  house  rent,  and  the  schoolmaster  took 
his  place  among  the  plutocrats. 

But  during  all  the  dearth  of  public  schools  it 
must  be  remembered  that  the  padres  were  teach- 
ers at  the  Missions.  They  taught  along  polytech- 
nic lines  and  largely  on  the  Dotheboys  hall  sys- 
tem. When  the  neophyte  learned  to  spell  hide, 
he  was  sent  out  to  tan  one.  And  at  irregular  but 
very  short  intervals  his  own  was  properly  tanned 
by  the  good  padres  on  general  principles.    He,  and 


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the  public  school  teacher  as  well,  were  instructors 
after  the  fashion  of  Saxe's  '^Pedagogue" — ''Ye 
youngster's  pate  to  stimulate,  He  beat  ye  other 
end."  The  teachers  in  the  public  schools,  up  to 
1850,  were,  as  a  rule,  old  soldiers,  selected  because 
of  their  physical  strength  and  good  fighting  quali- 
ties. 

With  the  expulsion  of  the  Spanish  power  came 
the  downfall  of  the  Missions.  The  country  was 
beginning  to  fill  up  with  people — that  is,  here  and 
there  was  a  family  or  a  man  who  wanted  to  ''lo- 
cate." The  Missions,  established  under  Spanish 
rule,  had  a  land  monopoly  that  would  make  the 
Standard  Oil  hide  its  diminished  head  when  the 
subject  of  monopolies  was  introduced.  From  San 
Francisco  to  San  Diego  they  held  about  all  the 
land  that  was  worth  holding,  and  no  settler  could 
obtain  a  grant  of  land  for  his  homestead,  save  with 
the  consent  of  the  nearest  padres.  The  ranches 
owned  by  the  Mission  San  Gabriel  contained  about 
1,500,000  acres.  And  this  inmiense  tract  of  land 
never  supported  a  population  of  more  than  1,800 
neophytes.  Naturally,  people  on  the  outside  clam- 
ored for  a  new  division  of  the  earth.  The  Mexi- 
can Congress  decreed  the  secularization  of  the 
Missions  and  the  distribution  of  their  propert}^  in 
August,  1833.  The  great  Mission  holdings  were 
divided  into  smaller  ranches  and  passed  into  the 
hands  of  actual  settlers.  From  that  time  the  coun- 
try improved  in  wealth  and  population  more  rap- 
idi}^  than  ever  before.  In  1836  California  expe- 
perienced  a  throb  of  the  Fourth  of  July  and  de- 
clared itself  "a  free  and  sovereign  state,"  with 
Juan  Bautista  Alvarado  cast  for  the  part  of 
George  Washington  and  twenty-five  American 
hunters  and  trappers,  under  command  of  a  Ten- 
nessean  named  Graham,  playing  the  French  allies. 
Los  Angeles  remained  loyal  to  the  mother  coun- 


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try,  and  in  the  battles  which  followed,  her  heroes 
displayed  stanch  loyalty  and  good  sprinting  quali- 
ties, which  latter  on  several  occasions  saved  their 
lives.  The  ''war"  ended,  rather  confusedly,  in 
the  triumph  of  the  revolutionists,  the  appointment 
of  Alvarado  as  governor,  the  allegiance  of  Califor- 
nia to  the  Home  Government,  and  the  downfall  of 
independence.  There  is  nothing  on  earth  that  re- 
sembles the  conduct  and  results  of  the  early  wars 
in  California,  save  the  present  water-rights  laws. 
Whoever  understands  the  one  can  solve  the  other. 
At  4  o  'clock  on  the  afternoon  of  August  13th,  1846, 
"manifest  destiny"  knocked  at  the  gates  of  Los 
Angeles.  Fremont  and  Stockton  entered  the  city 
with  500  real  soldiers  and  no  proclamation,  Cali- 
fornia was  benevolently  assimilated,  and  Joshua 
had  added  to  his  rightful  inheritance  by  the  simple 
act  of  "putting  down  his  foot."  Los  Angeles  be- 
longed to  "us,"  and  the  first  "native  son"  in  a  land 
older  than  the  pyramids  got  himself  ready  to  be 
born  and  organize  a  "parlor. "  The  men  who  were 
to  make  California,  however,  had  got  born  some 
time  before,  and  were  on  their  way  to  introduce 
the  strenuous  life. 

At  the  time  of  the  capture  of  Los  Angeles  the 
white  population  of  California  was  about  5,000, 
of  whom  less  than  500  were  Americans.  Two  years 
later  a  man  found  a  grain  of  gold  in  the  mud  of  a 
tail-race,  and  within  a  year  thereafter  that  tiny 
magnet  had  drawn  42,000  people  from  the  eastern 
states  and  all  over  the  world  to  the  new  gold  field, 
and  California  was  "discovered."  In  ten  years 
the  population  had  grown  to  nearly  100,000.  In 
1860  it  was  379,994.  Today  it  is  more  than  one 
and  one-half  millions,  and  the  greater  part  of  the 
increase  has  been  in  the  south.  Los  Angeles, 
which  came  into  the  Union  in  1851  with  a  popu- 
lation of  1,610,  is  now  the  30th  city  in  the  United 


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States,  numbering  238,000  souls.  In  1850  Los  An- 
geles county  included  the  present  counties  of  San 
Bernardino,  Orange  and  about  half  of  Kern,  and 
the  officially  recorded  population  was  3,530.  In 
the  rush  of  '49,  Los  Angeles  county  profited  a  lit- 
tle with  the  rest  of  the  territory,  but  the  develop- 
ment of  the  mines  in  the  south,  with  other  develop- 
ments, followed  that  date.  And  in  1906  the  value 
of  "the  gold  that  grows  on  trees"  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia citrus  groves,  is  estimated  at  $30,000,000. 
Hides,  once  the  great  staple  of  the  country,  South- 
ern California,  added  but  a  petty  paltry  $150,000 
to  her  wealth.  The  value  of  the  steer  saves  his 
hide  in  these  days  of  prosperity,  while  "humans" 
pay  more  for  a  pair  of  boots  or  a  suitcase  than 
the  whole  hide  is  worth.  Such  is  the  difference 
between  hide  and  leather.  The  area  of  the 
"pueblo"  has  grown  to  be  44  square  miles,  and 
with  an  eye  to  the  annexation  of  the  entire  county. 
Nearly  200  churches  minister  to  the  spiritual  needs 
of  the  people,  while  the  processional  and  migratory 
"religions"  which  howl  on  the  streets  and  camp 
for  a  night  on  the  vacant  lots — of  which  there  are 
very  few  left  in  Los  Angeles — defy  the  activity  of 
the  statistician.  The  Salvation  Army  and  the  Val- 
unteers  of  America  have  homes  commodious,  at- 
tractive and  in  every  way  most  excellently  ap- 
pointed. The  public  school  system  of  the  state 
stands  in  the  first  rank  in  the  Union,  the  census 
of  1900  showing  five  State  Normal  Schools,  120 
High  Schools,  7,119  kindergartens,  primary  and 
grammar  schools;  with  a  total  of  7,706  teachers, 
372,352  pupils,  and  $19,135,722  value  of  school 
property;  two  great  free  universities  and  an  en- 
rollment of  one  college  student  to  every  419  of 
total  population — a  larger  pro^Dortion  than  is 
reached  in  any  other  state. 

The  bank  clearances  of  Los  Angeles  exceed  those 


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of  an}^  city  west  of  the  Rocky  Mountains,  San 
Francisco  alone  excepted.  Half  a  century  ago, 
Los  Angeles  county  was  a  ranclie — hardly  that — 
a  wild  of  grazing  lands,  for  the  assessed  value  of 
all  the  real  estate  in  the  then  enormous  county  was 
but  $748,696  in  1852,  and  the  value  of  improve- 
ments but  $301,947.  Today,  sixty-one  towns  and 
cities  dot  the  area  of  the  smaller  county,  and  the 
assessor's  total  valuation  of  the  county,  after 
equalization  by  the  state  board,  for  1905,  was  $201,- 
509,785. 

If  one  knows  just  where  to  look  for  it,  there  is 
in  Los  Angeles  an  adobe  house,  there  may  be  one 
or  two  or  several  others — crumbling  landmarks  of 
adobe  days  and  adobe  men.  The,y  were  good 
houses  and  good  men  in  their  day.  They  were  the 
best  of  their  time  and  place.  All  honor  to  their 
memory.  It  should  be  kept  green  by  the  preserva- 
tion of  at  least  one  adobe  house.  But  the  great 
sky-scrapers  of  steel  and  terra  cotta  and  rein- 
forced concrete  easily  crush  the  sun-dried  walls 
which  sheltered  the  simple  life.  The  intellectual 
poverty  of  the  moneyed  tenderfoot,  who,  unable 
to  pronounce  ''El  Camino,"  insists  on  changing  the 
name  of  the  street  on  which  he  lives  to  the  name 
of  a  way-back  street  on  which  he  used  to  live  in 
a  way-back  town,  is  like  unto  the  class  of  people 
who  date  their  letters  "Troy"  because  they  can- 
not spell  "  Skaneateles. "  The  antiquity  of  a  city 
225  years  old  is  not  that  of  Baalbec,  but  it  is  suffi- 
ciently venerable  to  demand  the  reverence  of  these 
days  of  gallop  and  gulp.  The  destruction  of  the 
old  names,  memorials  of  the  people  who  laid  the 
foundations  for  all  our  present  day  prosperity  and 
glory,  is  a  profanation,  like  the  erasure  of  aii  hon- 
ored name  from  a  tombstone.  There  is  enough  of 
pathos  in  the  fact  that  the  race  which  christened 
the  city  should  have  been  so  utterly  dispossessed 


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of  their  inheritance.  It  acids  tragedy  to  the  pathos 
when  we  obliterate  even  the  names  of  their  fathers. 
Despite  the  movement  to  make  spelling  easy  for 
lazy  illiterates,  let  California's  native  and  adopted 
sons  alike  continue  to  "spell  hickory  with  a  j," 
and  grant  the  transplanted  tenderfoot  dispensa- 
tion to  "pronounce  her  as  she  is  spelled,  until  he 
learns  to  say  her  as  she  is  spoke." 

Now,  all  this  marvel  of  development  was  not 
wrought  by  climate  alone.  This  required  men. 
And  the  men  of  California,  like  its  fruits  and  flow- 
ers, are  largely  adopted  children.  There  is  only 
one  generation  to  the  manner  born.  The  speech  of 
the  Californian  betrayeth  him  not,  for  every  dia- 
lect of  civilization  is  here.  A  little  pure  Spanish 
and  much  patois  of  ]\Iexican-Indian-Spanish  whis- 
per into  the  Babel  of  today  the  echoes  of  a  roman- 
tic yesterday.  Aspirations  and  exaspirations  from 
the  tight  little  island  have  a  right  to  be  called  na- 
tive Californian  so  long  as  we  sing  the  charms  of 
the  English  rose,  of  which  we  have  adopted  every- 
thing save  the  English  perfume.  The  "sunny 
land  of  France"  speaks  the  language  of  the  boule- 
vards in  her  own  Los  Angeles  colony  and  journal. 
The  Basque  shepherd  cares  for  his  snowy  fleeces 
on  the  sheep  ranges.  The  New  England  twang 
blends  with  the  soft  Southern  accent,  and  a  broad 
touch  of  Pennsylvania  Dutch  establishes  the  Dunk- 
ard's  right  to  the  privilege  of  the  native  born.  The 
right  amalgam  is  stronger  than  the  virgin  metal, 
and  ever}^  state  in  the  Union  has  poured  its  right 
and  due  proportion  into  the  blend  that  we  call  Cali- 
fornia. Russia  sent  her  children  here — or  rather 
they  came  without  being  sent — runaway  children, 
very  much  against  the  paternal  will,  and  they 
brought  the  strength  and  hope  and  liberty-loving 
spirit  that  the  mother  country  now  so  sorely  needs, 
and  which  the  kinder  step-mother  so  gladly  ac- 


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cepts  as  her  own.  Not  only  the  orient  but  the  Oc- 
cident— the  nations  who  dwell  where  the  East  and 
West  join — China  and  Japan,  are  among  us  if 
not  of  us.  Travelers  tell  us  of  the  vivid  panorama 
of  varied  humanity  that  streams  past  "Shep- 
hard's"  in  Cairo.  You  will  touch  elbows  with  a 
greater  variety  of  men  in  the  streets  of  Los  Ange- 
les. Only,  the  picturesqueness  is  lacking.  The 
people  have  become  amalgamated.  They  dress  like 
Christians.    At  least,  they  dress  like  the  rest  of  us. 

The  immigrants  who  have  made  modern  Los  An- 
geles were  so  unlike  the  ordinary  conception  of  im- 
migrants that  a  new  name  had  to  be  applied  to 
them,  and  they  are  called  "tourists."  Not  theirs 
the  toilsome  journey  across  the  continent  or  around 
the  storm- washed  Horn.  Not  for  them  the  daily 
trek  and  the  nightl,y  camp  in  the  midst  of  alarms 
and  cactus,  Indians,  grizzlies,  and  rattlers;  not 
theirs  the  weary  joilgrimage  through  the  alkali 
lakes  and  the  desert  dust,  with  the  complaining 
wheels  shrieking  their  anguish  to  the  sun-burned 
and  wind-dried  axle ;  the  dying  cattle  and  the  long 
and  repeated  hours  and  days  of  despair  and  fear. 
About  8,000  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  that  manner 
in  the  decade  of  1850  and  '60.  The  rest  of  them 
waited  for  the  completion  of  the  transcontinental 
railwa^^s  and  came  with  no  one  to  molest  them  save 
the  train-robber  and  no  one  to  make  them  afraid 
but  the  porter.  In  the  ten  years  following  the 
breaking  out  of  the  Civil  war  4,000  came.  Be- 
tween 1870  and  1880,  10,000  home-seekers  came  by 
the  easy  way  of  the  rail.  The  ten  years  follow- 
ing saw  70,000  added  to  the  city's  population,  and 
the  same  number  in  the  next  decade. 

Our  immigrants  came  not  to  hew  down  the  for- 
ests or  dike  out  the  sea.  They  came  prepared  to 
buy  their  homes ;  they  came  from  homes  of  comfort 
to  make  homes  still  more  comfortable.    Thev  were 


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not  flying  from  persecution  or  tyranny  in  the  east- 
ern states;  they  were  not,  as  a  rule,  driven  here 
by  stress  and  pinch  of  poverty.  They  did  not  have 
to  come.  They  wanted  to.  True,  some  of  them 
came  with  a  diminished  capitalization  of  health, 
but  even  then  they  came  because  they  wanted  to 
increase  their  vital  holdings.  Men  came  here  not 
to  be  made  by  the  country,  but  to  help  make  the 
city,  county  and  state.  The  East  sent  to  Califor- 
nia her  best,  and  California  made  them  better. 
The  work  of  betterment  was  mutual.  Southern 
California  was  moulded  by  these  immigrants  of 
education,  thrift,  and  morality.  It  was  never  the 
California  of  Bret  Harte,  of  refined  stage  rob- 
bers, chaste  and  sensitive  women  of  the  street  and 
camp,  and  high-minded  and  honest  blacklegs.  The 
newcomers  builded  churches,  public  schools,  librar- 
ies, jails  and  other  concomitants  of  a  high  and  pro- 
gressive civilization.  It  was  not  a  drunken,  riot- 
ous California.  Prohibition  became  popular.  One 
of  the  largest  and  most  beautiful  cities  in  Los  An- 
geles county,  the  most  prosperous  outside  of  the 
great  county  capital,  was  founded  as  a  temper- 
ance town,  and  has  not  had  a  saloon  within  its  lim- 
its for  the  past  twenty-five  years.  There  are  half 
a  score  of  prohibition  towns  now  in  the  county,  and 
the  great  city  of  Los  Angeles  restricting  the  num- 
ber of  saloons  to  200,  has  fewer  of  them  in  pro- 
portion to  its  population  than  any  other  city  of  its 
size  in  the  United  States.  Not  '^wide-openness," 
but  temperance,  morality  and  industry,  with  an 
unmeasured  faith  in  the  country  itself,  have  been 
the  great  elements  in  the  prosperit}^  of  Los  Ange- 
les county. 

Founded  as  an  inland  pueblo,  the  city  of  Los 
Angeles  now  looks  out  across  the  Pacific  Ocean 
from  its  own  frontage,  and  the  great  railroad  cen- 
ter is  a  busy  seaport.     The  dream  of  the  consoli- 


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dation  of  Los  Angeles  city  and  county,  with  the  bor- 
ough system  of  government,  took  tangible  form  in 
the  preliminary  report  of  a  consolidation  commis- 
sion in  1906,  which  had  for  its  object  the  effective 
control  of  harbors  and  the  assurance  of  free  wharf- 
age ;  co-operation  and  participation  in  the  benefits 
of  the  Owens  River  water  supply;  regulation  of 
terminal  rates  for  harbor  towns,  and  economy  and 
increased  efficiency  of  city  and  county  govern- 
ment. Since  that  day  of  visions  Mahomet  has  gone 
to  the  mountain ;  Los  Angeles,  finding  that  the  Pa- 
cific Ocean,  which  was  here  first,  and  abode  upon 
its  right  of  priority,  would  not  come  across  the 
meadows  and  up  the  grades  to  the  city,  has  gone 
to  the  ocean,  by  the  simple  process  of  annexing  the 
intervening  territory,  which  was  all  too  glad  to  be 
annexed,  and  Los  Angeles  is  one  of  the  important 
seaports  of  the  Pacific  coast.  And  not  the  least 
important. 

Then  along  in  the  nineteen  hundreds  the  city 
began  to  grow  by  leaps  and  bounds.  It  stretched 
itself  like  an  awaking  giant,  and  added  to  area 
and  numbers  by  the  wholesale  methods  of  annexa- 
tion, always  with  the  glad  consent  of  the  annexed. 
It  reached  down  to  the  sea  and  made  the  great 
harbor  at  San  Pedro  the  harbor  of  Los  Angeles, 
by  making  a  part  of  itself  all  that  portion  of  the 
Pacific  Ocean  and  the  towns  adjacent.  The  mu- 
nicipalities of  Wilmington  and  Colegrove  became 
part  of  the  wealth  and  strength  of  Los  Angeles. 
The  annexation  of  Colegrove  added  ten  thousand 
population  to  the  great  city.  And  having  reached 
its  three  mile  limit  of  jurisdiction  in  the  Pacific 
Ocean,  the  city  is  now  looking  fondly  toward  even 
greater  conquests  nearer  the  mountains.  And 
when  it  reaches  from  the  desert  to  the  sea,  it  will 
probablv  extend  north  and  south. 

The  "inner  harbor"  of  ''Los  Angeles"  consists 


AND  SOUTHERN  CALIFORNIA  17 


of  nearl}^  three  miles  of  wharfage  along  the  chan- 
nel opening  to  Wilmington  lagoon,  where  addi- 
tional shipping  and  industrial  facilities  are  to  be 
developed  as  the  increasing  connnerce  demands, 
man}^  times  greater  than  in  use  at  present.  And 
the  ''outer  harbor"  is  the  great  anchorage  which 
the  United  States  government  is  protecting  by  an 
immense  breakwater,  now  far  advanced  in  con- 
struction. Completed,  it  will  be  9,250  feet  in 
length,  and  will  cost  $2,900,000.  The  protected 
area  will  vary  in  depth  from  20  to  48  feet;  with 
a  channel  from  500  to  900  feet  in  width,  and  a 
turning  basin  1,600  feet  wide.  The  Inner  Harboi* 
will  have  a  larger  area  than  the  great  Liverpool 
docks,  which  handle  an  annual  tonnage  of  nearly 
twenty  millions.  On  July  1,  1909,  2,732,163  tons 
of  stone  had  been  placed  in  the  great  breakwater. 
The  weight  of  each  wall  stone,  on  the  harbor  side, 
is  not  less  than  6,000  pounds.  On  the  ocean  side, 
the  weight  of  each  stone  is  at  least  16,000  pounds. 
The  breakwater  stands  11  feet  above  low  water; 
20  feet  wide  at  the  top ;  38  feet  wide  at  the  water 
line.  The  width  of  the  base,  at  the  52  feet  depth, 
is  nearly  200  feet. 

Should  the  necessity  ever  be  felt,  this  great  sea 
wall  can  be  extended  an  additional  20,000  feet,  to 
the  easterly  edge  of  Long  Beach,  thus  increasing 
tenfold  the  deep  water  anchorage.  At  the  present 
time  vessels  drawing  twent^^-five  feet  of  water  can 
take  on  and  discharge  their  cargoes  in  the  inner 
harbor.  And  within  a  very  short  time,  when  the 
entrance  to  this  portion  of  the  harbor  is  deepened, 
the  slip  can  be  used  by  ships  drawing  thirty  feet. 
Plans  approved  by  the  war  department  provide  for 
the  improvement  of  60,000  feet  of  water  front  in 
the  east  and  west  basins  of  the  inner  harbor.  Ef- 
forts are  being  made  to  compel  the  restoration  to 
the  state  of  700  acres  of  tide  lands  of  the  lae'oon 


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which  in  time  will  become  the  principal  part  of 
the  inner  harbor.  The  importance  of  this  great 
free  harbor  is  not  alone  for  the  city  of  Los  Ange- 
less,  but  for  all  of  Southern  California.  During 
the  year  1907,  956  steamers,  281  schooners,  and  79 
other  vessels,  coming  from  the  mills  in  California, 
Oregon,  Washington,  British  Columbia  and  Japan, 
discharged  at  San  Pedro  harbor  cargoes  consist- 
ing of  484,879,000  feet  of  lumber,  170,284,000  shin- 
gles, 1,348,000  shakes,  36,006,000  lath,  275,689  rail- 
road ties,  12,052  piles  for  wharfs^  18,230  telegraph 
and  telephone  poles,  37,854  posts  of  various  kinds, 
789  tons  of  staves  and  2,206  tons  of  shooks.  And 
the  receipt  of  other  classes  of  freight  from  domes- 
tic and  foreign  ships  that  make  San  Pedro  a  port 
of  call  is  steadily  increasing.  Vastly  increased 
traffic  will  follow  the  opening  of  the  Panama 
Canal;  all  Southern  California  will  rejoice  in  the 
consequent  tides  of  prosperity,  and  the  generation 
of  public-spirited  citizens  who  have  labored  for  the 
possession  of  this  great  free  harbor  will  be  remem- 
]3ered  with  blessings  by  a  grateful  posterity. 

In  proportion  to  population,  more  electric  cur- 
rent is  consumed  in  Los  Angeles  than  in  any  other 
city  in  America.  The  cheapness  of  electricity 
makes  it  popular.  Only  one  great  cit}^  in  the 
United  States  enjoys  such  cheap  electric  rates  as 
Los  Angeles — that  is  Buffalo,  within  eighteen 
miles  of  the  greatest  electric  power  source  in  the 
world — Niagara  Falls.  The  rate  in  both  cities  is 
nine  cents  per  kilowatt  hour.  Three  power  and 
light  companies  in  Los  Angeles  have  a  total  in- 
vestment of  $16,441,092.29.  They  furnish  60,000 
horsepower  for  railways,  manufacturing  and  ele- 
vator service.  The  aggregate  output  of  these  com- 
panies for  light  and  power,  in  1908  was  141,877,145 
kilowatt  hours. 

Los  Angeles  is  also  one  of  the  greatest — if  not 


AND  SOUTHERN  CALIFORNIA  19 

the  greatest — interurban  railway  center  in  the 
United  States.  The  nine  cities  of  Indianapolis, 
Fort  Wayne,  Springfield,  111.,  Detroit,  Cleveland, 
Toledo,  Columbus,  Da3^ton  and  Chicago,  with  an 
aggregate  population  of  nearl}^  four  millions,  oper- 
ate 1,228  trains  per  day.  One  electric  railway  in 
Los  Angeles  alone  operates  1,800  trains  per  day. 
The  three  interurban  companies  operate  1,000 
miles  of  track. 

The  greatest  of  all  Los  Angeles'  enterprises — a 
great  undertaking  among  all  great  enterprises — is 
the  Owens  River  aqueduct.  It  never  was  a 
' '  dream. ' '  It  was  born  a  ' '  plan, ' '  in  the  brain  of  a 
clear-headed,  practical  man.  It  was  never  dis- 
cussed as  a  possibility,  but  alwa^^s  as  a  reasonable 
and  positive  undertaking.  It  was  proposed  as  a 
necessity  for  the  city  and  its  environs,  that  the  mu- 
nicipality bring  from  the  High  Sierras,  230  miles 
distant,  a  flood  of  clear,  sweet  snow  water — 259,- 
000,000  gallons  daily — to  the  homes  of  its  citizens. 
That  means  a  supply  of  water  for  domestic  pur- 
poses for  a  population  of  2,000,000  people  and  the 
irrigation  of  about  75,000  acres  of  land,  now  un- 
productive, adjacent  to  the  city,  and  the  develop- 
ment of  75,000  horsei^ower  of  electrical  energy.  The 
water  will  be  carried  through  230  miles  of  canals, 
lined  with  concrete  and  covered  with  concrete 
slabs,  tunnels,  steel  siphons  and  tubes  and  flumes, 
with  a  system  of  impounding,  clarifying  and  regu- 
lating reservoirs.  It  was  an  immense  undertaking 
for  a  city  of  110,000  people.  But  when  the  elec- 
tion was  held  in  1907  the  people  showed  their  qual- 
ity of  municipal  faith  and  patriotism  by  voting  14 
to  1  for  the  issue  of  bonds  to  the  amount  of  $23,- 
000,000  for  the  work.  It  was  looked  upon  as  a  mat- 
ter of  course.  And  this  faith  was  builded  largely 
upon  the  character  of  the  men  who  said  it  could 
be  done.     If  thev  would  undertake  the  work,  the 


20  GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


people  would  gladly  furnish  the  means.  Honesty 
and  efficiency  conducted  the  work.  The  very  day 
laborers  were  sifted  down  to  the  best.  Only 
American  labor  was  employed.  The  city  con- 
structed one  section  of  the  aqueduct  at  a  cost  of 
less  than  one-half  the  lowest  bid  submitted  by  a 
contractor.  All  the  work,  with  the  exception  of 
ten  miles,  is  done  by  the  city,  under  direction  of 
the  board  of  public  works  and  the  aqueduct  engi- 
neers. The  authority  of  the  city  to  perform  its 
own  work  was  contested  in  the  courts.  The  city 
won  out,  and  then  proved  how  well  it  could  do  its 
own  work,  how  much  better  the  "boss"  could  work 
than  the  "hired  man,"  by  constructing  one  sec- 
tion of  the  aqueduct — the  Jawbone — at  a  cost  of  less 
than  one-half  of  the  lowest  bid  submitted  by  a  con- 
tractor. During  one  month  the  working  force  on 
this  section  was  over  1,200  men.  One  of  the  wisest 
investments  of  the  city  was  the  construction  of  a 
cement  plant  at  a  cost  of  $400,000,  with  a  capac- 
ity of  1,200  barrels  of  Portland  cement  per  day. 
Surrounding  the  plant,  the  city  owns  immense  sup- 
plies of  limestone  and  cla3^  and  a  narrow-guage 
railway,  seven  miles  long. 

Probably  in  no  other  city  of  its  population  in 
America  do  so  many  people  own  their  homes  as 
in  Southern  California.  And  in  no  land  is  there 
displayed  a  greater  desire  for  home  adornment. 
The  bungalow  has  become  a  feature  of  city  and 
country  residence  architecture.  It  has  followed 
the  old  mission  style,  which,  in  this  land  of  Span- 
ish traditions,  must  always  be  popular.  Less 
stately  and  dignified,  the  bungalow  preserves,  with 
the  mission  home,  the  spirit  of  the  out-of-doors 
which  belongs  to  this  land.  It  is  capable  of  an 
almost  endless  variet}^  of  architectural  treatment. 
Its  beauty,  lightness,  artistic  airiness  of  construc- 
tion, combined  with  durability,  its  easy  adapta- 


AND  SOUTHERN  CALIFORNIA  21 


tion  to  the  personal  taste  and  whim  of  the  owner 
and  builder — in  short,  its  charming  individuality 
— endears  it  to  the  home  builder,  and  bids  fair  to 
make  of  Southern  California  the  typical  bunga- 
low-land of  the  world.  It  is  equally  appropriate 
and  graceful  in  the  city,  the  vdlla  and  on  the 
ranche  and  the  mountain  slope.  In  the  city  of  Los 
Angeles  alone,  in  1908,  homes  to  the  value  of  $6,- 
000,000  were  erected.  One  can  build  a  home  for 
$300.  Beyond  that,  the  limit  is  his  purse.  One 
can  buy  a  lot  with  his  money.  He  can 't  get  a  thou- 
sand-dollar lot  for  three  hundred  dollars.  Not  in 
California.  But  he  can  get  an  excellent  three  hun- 
dred dollar  lot  for  that  amount.  And  he  may  live 
in  the  city,  or  he  may  live  ten  or  twelve  miles  out, 
and  be  ."just  about  as  near  to  his  business  in  town, 
on  the  line  of  an  electric  railway  that  has  never 
been  snow-bound  since  frost  was  invented.  And 
if  the  newcomer  cannot  afford  marble,  or  concrete, 
or  brick  or  lumber  for  a  home,  very  well — he  can 
live  out  of  doors.  He  can  do  that  part  of  the  time, 
in  the  severe  eastern  climates.  You  may  live  out 
of  doors  in  Southern  California  all  the  year  round, 
if  you  so  desire.  And  hundreds  of  people,  in  good 
health,  with  never  a  touch  of  any  kind  of  sickness, 
and  of  ample  means,  who  live  in  costly  homes,  build 
the  out-of-door  sleeping  room,  because  they  pre- 
fer to  sleep  out  of  doors.  The  "sleeping  porch" 
is  rarely  forgotten  in  the  plans  of  the  modern  Cali- 
fornia house.  Tent  houses,  consisting  of  a  good 
floor,  a  good  roof,  frames  for  doors  and  windows, 
and  canvas  sides — and  sometimes  the  canvas  roof 
as  well— cost  from  $25  ''up"  to  $200  or  $300,  ac- 
cording to  the  means  and  taste  of  the  owner.  Can- 
vas partitions  give  the  dweller  the  requisite  num- 
ber of  rooms.  Sometimes  you  will  see  little  colo- 
nies of  these  tent  houses.     One  bv  one  thev  dis- 


22  GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


appear.  A  lianclsome  and  durable  bungalow  or 
more  conventional  residence  stands  in  its  j)lace. 
The  tent  house  lias  been  moved  "back."  And  in 
many  instances  some  member  of  the  family  still 
resides  therein,  from  preference.  The  tent  house 
is  a  rent  saver.  It  goes  on  the  $100  or  $500  lot 
with  the  first  payment,  and  some  of  the  happiest 
hours  of  the  home  life  are  lived  in  its  canvas  walls. 
And  all  around  it  the  roses  and  lilies,  carnations 
and  violets,  geraniums  and  lantanas  glorify  the 
little  home  with  the  same  wealth  of  color  and  fra- 
grance that  they  yield  to  the  lawns  and  gardens 
of  the  millionaire.  A  twelve  hundred  dollar  bung- 
alow, covered  to  the  window  casings  and  chimney 
tops  with  roses  and  bougainvillea,  may  be  con- 
structed of  marble,  for  aught  the  eye  can  declare. 
Los  Angeles  county  is  officially  declared  to  be 
the  richest  county  in  the  west,  including  Cook 
county,  Illinois,  which  contains  the  city  of  Chi- 
cago. The  assessed  value  of  Los  Angeles  county, 
which,  according  to  the  State  Board  of  Equaliza- 
tion, is  fifty  per  cent  of  the  actual  value  of  the 
property  within  the  county,  is  $585,401,164.  In 
the  city  of  Los  Angeles  there  are  1,500  manufac- 
tories, emplojdng  over  12,000  men,  with  an  an- 
nual output  of  more  than  $50,000,000.  Among 
other  uses  to  which  the  rich  county  puts  its  great 
wealth  is  the  construction  of  good  roads.  A  few 
years  ago  the  people  voted  bonds  to  the  amount 
of  $3,500,000  for  the  construction  of  a  system  of 
solid,  smooth  macadamized  roads,  radiating  from 
Los  Angeles  city  throughout  the  county,  and  the 
practical  work  on  these  highways  has  already  be- 
gun, in  1909.  A  few  3^ears  more  will  see  the  com- 
pletion of  splendid  boulevards  from  the  Sierras 
to  the  Pacific.  The  production  of  petroleum  in 
eight  California  counties  in  1908  was  48,306,910 


AND  SOUTHERN  CALIFORNIA  23 


barrels — a  value  of  $26,566,181.  This  places  Cali- 
fornia at  the  head  of  the  oil-producing  states. 

If  the  newcomer  has  a  taste  for  forestry,  and 
does  not  know  any  too  much  about  it,  there  is 
temptation  of  eucalyptus  culture  awaiting  him, 
with  its  promise  of  profits.  The  area  of  the  euca- 
lyptus groves  of  the  state  were  increased  over 
7,000  acres  in  the  spring  of  1909.  One  company 
planted  2,250,000  voung  trees  upon  its  lands,  and 
other  concerns  had  at  that  time  200,000,  400,000, 
500,000  and  one  million  trees  in  nursery  stock, 
and  the  demand  far  exceeds  the  supply.  There 
are  twenty-five  eucalyptus  companies  in  the  state 
at  this  time.  The  largest  single  plantation  in  the 
spring  of  1909  was  that  of  the  Santa  Fe  Railway 
Compan}^,  which  had  planted  between  7,000  and 
8,000  acres.  An  acre  of  commercial  eucal^^ptus, 
rightly  located  and  handled,  at  ten  3^ears  of  age 
should  produce  100,000  feet  of  lumber,  board 
measure.  The  stumpage  value  should  be  $2,500 
per  thousand  feet,  for  this  age.  And  the  cost  to 
the  grower  about  $2.50  per  thousand. 

Southern  California  offers  unusual  inducement 
to  the  small  rancher — the  "truck  farmer."  The 
lure  of  the  hen  is  as  attractive  as  a  gold  mine,  and 
results,  while  never  so  dazzling  in  the  blue  print 
and  prospectus,  are  more  certain.  Indeed,  the 
small  producers,  as  a  rule,  are  more  prosperous, 
proportionately,  than  are  the  great  investors.  The 
poultry  ranches  range  from  a  "coop"  in  a  back 
lot  of  a  city  home,  to  the  big  corral  with  a  thou- 
sand or  thousands  of  busy  hens,  announcing  their 
diurnal  output  after  the  manner  of  their  kind. 
The  largest  pigeon  ranche  in  the  world,  contain- 
ing about  100,000  birds,  is  located  in  Los  Angeles 
— the  ranch  covering  eight  acres  of  gravelly 
ground  in   the   bed   of   the   L(»s   Angeles   River. 


24  GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


These  are  common  pigeons.  About  300  squabs 
per  day  are  killed,  selling  at  $2.50  and  $3.00  per 
dozen.  All  the  fancy  varieties  of  pigeons  do  well 
in  California.  Poultry  raising  in  the  state  is  an 
established  business,  all  the  way  from  the  little 
brown  hen  to  the  gigantic  ostrich,  the  hen  being 
a  more  profitable  investment  than  her  gigantic  sis- 
ter— and  more  easily  managed.  In  1908,  the  reve- 
nue from  the  poultry  yards  of  the  state  was  $12,- 
650,000,  results  which  justify  a  great  deal  of  cack- 
ling both  from  the  producers  and  owners. 

And  the  vineyards  call  to  the  immigrant  with 
a  very  pleasant  voice.  The  man  who  is  rich  in 
children  and  poor  in  purse  may  capitalize  the 
labor  of  his  family  in  this  industry.  A  fifty-acre 
vineyard  has  been  known  to  yield  a  profit  of  $3,000 
a  season.  Grapes  raised  for  raisins  alone  have 
yielded  a  return  of  $60  an  acre.  There  are  three 
classes  of  grapes  grown.  The  vines  for  the  wine 
grapes  are  easiest  of  culture.  No  irrigation  is 
demanded,  and  far  less  care  in  picking  is  required. 
Muscats  are  the  raisin  variety,  growing  quickly 
and  fruiting  abundantly,  with  certain  profits.  Ta- 
ble grapes — Malagas  and  Toka3^s — are  the  most 
profitable,  the  returns  sometimes  running  as  high 
as  $1,000  per  acre.  The  eastern  varieties.  Con- 
cord, Isabella,  Delaware  and  Catawba,  are  also 
grown  in  California.  The  new  vineyard  begins 
bearing  in  three  years.  More  than  $100,000,000  is 
invested  in  the  wineries  of  California,  about  $40,- 
000,000  of  this  being  represented  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, which  contains  about  sixty  wineries,  and 
produces  the  bulk  of  the  sweet  wines.  There  is 
one  vineyard  at  Cucumonga  which  alone  produces 
20,000  tons  of  grapes.  Altogether  there  are  100,- 
000,000  vines  in  the  state,  three  times  more  than 
are  grown  in  New  York,  and  nearlv  ten  times  more 


AND  SOUTHERN  CALIFORNIA  25 


than  in  Ohio.  The  raisin  crop,  cured,  is  over  60,- 
000  tons.  Of  dry  wines,  the  product  is  about  30,- 
000,000  gallons;  sweet  wines  about  one-half  that 
amount,  and  brandy,  in  some  years,  about  4,500,- 
000  gallons.  The  prune  product  of  the  state  is 
about  100,000  tons.  From  the  entire  output  of 
natural  resources,  California  derived  a  revenue 
in  1908  of  more  than  $405,000,000.  Of  this  amount 
$300,000,000  came  from  the  soil.  The  florists 
raised  $600,000  worth  of  flowers  and  the  bees  ex- 
tracted $825,000  worth  of  honey  and  wax  from  all 
the  blossoms  in  the  state. 

In  Southern  California  about  12,000  orchard- 
ists  are  engaged  in  the  cultivation  of  oranges  and 
lemons,  the  principal  counties  being  Riverside, 
Los  Angeles,  San  Bernardino,  Tulare,  Orange, 
Ventura  and  Santa  Barbara.  This  industry  sup- 
ports about  150,000  persons,  including  laborers 
and  their  families.  During  the  past  eleven  years 
the  citrus  orchards  of  California  have  produced 
90,089,300  boxes  of  oranges  and  9,780,500  boxes 
of  lemons.  The  amount  received  b.y  the  citrus 
grovv^ers  from  the  vear  of  the  first  shipments  is 
over  $250,000,000.  'in  1908  Southern  California 
placed  on  the  market  600,000  gallons  of  select 
olives,  and  more  than  200,000  gallons  of  oil. 

Ecclesiastical  Los  Angeles  stands  among  the 
elect.  She  has  set  bounds  around  the  saloon 
which  it  may  not  pass.  Two  hundred  saloons 
must  suffice  for  the  city,  no  matter  what  its  growth 
may  be.  and  these,  as  well  as  the  wholesale  liqTior 
houses,  are  segregated  within  borders  which  they 
must  not  pass,  so  that  the  resident  portion  of  the 
city  is  kept  clear  of  this  evil.  But  there  are  more 
than  two  hundred  churches  in  Los  Angeles,  and 
no  limit  to  as  man3^  more  as  may  come.  There 
are  170  houses  of  worship  worthy  of  mention — 


26  GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


some  of  them  beautiful  examples  of  architecture — 
one  of  them  a  classical  structure  costing  $250,000, 
The  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  building 
and  the  Young  Women's  Christian  Association 
building  are  among  the  costliest  and  most  complete 
in  all  their  appointments  in  the  United  States, 
which  is  to  say,  in  the  world.  Los  Angeles  is  a 
church-going  city — the  same  may  be  truthfully 
said  of  every  city  in  Southern  California.  The 
churches  of  Los  Angeles  are  bound  together  in  the 
strong  brotherhood  of  the  ''Church  Federation." 
Church  unity  is  a  practical  fact,  not  a  theory. 
There  is  no  spirit  of  controversy  among  the  de- 
nominations. Jewish  and  Baptist  congregations 
have  worshii3ped  together  at  the  Passover  season, 
both  rabbi  and  minister  taking  part  in  the  service 
before  the  united  congregations.  That  is  the  spirit 
— not  of  religious  tolerance,  but  of  brotherhood 
and  friendship.  The  Protestant  church  member- 
ship of  the  city  is  nearly  60,000 ;  the  Catholic  com- 
munion about  the  same,  though,  of  course,  the 
church  attendance  is  much  larger  than  the  total 
memberships.  The  feeling  of  all  the  churches  is 
well  expressed  by  the  Right  Reverend  Thomas  J. 
Conaty,  Bishop  of  the  Roman  Catholic  diocese  of 
Monterey  and  Los  Angeles:  "The  earnest  desire 
of  the  Catholic  people,  composed  as  they  are  of 
so  many  and  varied  nationalities,  is  to  unite  with 
the  other  citizens  of  Los  Angeles  to  make  our  city 
a  home  to  be  proud  of,  and  a  community  in  which 
it  is  a  privilege  to  dwell."  Pasadena  is  the  Epis- 
copal residence  of  the  Right  Reverend  Joseph 
Johnson,  Bishop  of  the  Episcopal  Diocese  of 
Southern  California. 

With  the  churches  stand  the  public  schools, 
which  begin  their  work  of  education  with  the  tiny 
children.     The  kindergarten  system  of  Los  Ange- 


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Jes  is  expensive  to  the  city,  because  it  is  the  very 
best,  but  it  is  the  cheapest  to  the  patron,  who  se- 
cures the  best  returns  for  the  outlay.  The  Los 
Angeles  child  may  begin  its  education  when  it  is 
four  and  a  half  years  old.  The  kindergartens  are 
so  distributed  that  they  are  for  the  benefit  of  the 
children  of  the  "plain  people" — the  people  whose 
the  public  schools  are.  They  are  not  confined  to 
'Hhe  best  localities."  The  sessions  are  for  half 
days  only — the  best  for  teacher  and  pupil;  and 
the  classes  are  never  large — the  average  being 
thirty-six  pupils.  In  the  primary  schools,  into 
which  the  kindergartner  is  graduated,  the  average 
number  of  pupils  to  the  class  is  about  thirty-six. 
In  his  way  through  the  public  schools,  the  pupil 
is  not  only  taught  the  indispensable  "three  R's," 
but  constructive  work  in  pajDer  folding,  basketry, 
and  weaving;  cardboard  construction,  and  for  the 
bo,vs  two  years  in  wood  sloyd  with  some  mechani- 
cal drawing,  while  the  girls  spend  the  last  two 
years  of  the  elementary  course  in  learning  the  ele- 
ments of  cooking.  All  pupils  have  instruction  in 
free-hand  drawing,  the  beginnings  of  designing, 
and  from  the  day  they  enter  the  schools  until  they 
leave  them  daily  instruction  in  music — an  educa- 
tion for  the  sons  and  daughters  of  the  people.  In 
1908  the  drawing  exhibit  of  the  Los  Angeles  schools 
was  given  the  place  of  honor  at  Edinburgh.  Great 
attention  is  paid  to  manual  training.  It  is  taken 
for  granted  that  boys  and  girls  educated  in  the 
public  schools  are  not  only  going  to  know  some- 
thing, but  also  to  do  something.  The  city  looks 
after  the  health  of  the  pupil's  body  as  well  as  the 
education  of  his  mind.  There  is  a  thorough  health 
inspection  of  all  the  children  in  the  public  schools 
— the  inspection  being  directed  to  five  points — con- 
dition of  eyesight,  hearing,  breathing,  heart  action, 


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and  the  teeth.  A  compulsory  education  law  is 
strictly  enforced.  The  city  keeps  her  children  of 
school  age  cK  the  streets  and  out  of  the  factories 
and  in  the  schools.  Idleness  is  looked  upon  as  a 
crime.  The  high  standards  which  the  city  has  set, 
and  whi'jh  it  maintains,  for  the  qualifications  of 
the  teacher,  secure  for  the  schools  a  most  superior 
body  of  instructors.  No  one  may  teach  in  the 
grammar  schools  who  has  not  received  an  educa- 
tion equivalent  to  graduation  from  a  high  school 
and  a  normal  school. 

On  a  par  with  the  city  schools  are  the  county 
schools.  The  child  on  the  ranche  is  not  sent  to 
the  city  to  attend  high  school.  Of  the  twenty-six 
high  schools  in  Los  Angeles  county,  eighteen  are 
in  the  country  districts.  The  buildings  are  usu- 
ally of  the  mission  style  of  architecture ;  they  are 
all  handsome,  splendidly  adapted  to  their  pur- 
pose; modern  to  the  day  of  their  erection;  sur- 
rounded by  beautifull}^  kept  grounds — educational 
palaces,  each  in  its  own  park.  All  the  county 
schools  are  ornaments  to  the  country  in  appear- 
ance, as  they  are  immeasurable  benefits.  More 
than  20,000  school  children  reside  in  the  country; 
ninety  per  cent  of  them  live  within  easy  distance 
of  steam  or  electric  railways  and  from  fifteen  min- 
utes to  one  hour  distant  from  the  center  of  Los 
Angeles.  Whittier  has  a  union  high  school  which 
serves  seven  districts.  The  Citrus  union  high 
school  at  Azusa  is  a  beautiful  picture  in  the  heart 
of  the  orange  groves.  The  finest  building  in  South 
Pasadena  is  its  high  school.  San  Gabriel,  El 
Monte,  Monrovia,  Sierra  Madre  and  many  other 
of  the  towns  deserve  high  praise  for  their  school 
houses. 

One  of  the  things  the  homeseeker  has  to  do  when 
he  comes  to  California  is  to  unlearn  about  all  he 


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has  ever  been  tauglit  about  soil,  climate,  seasons, 
the  liabits  of  plants  and  the  treatment  of  the  farm 
and  garden.  The  brilliantly  illustrated  '' an- 
nuals" issued  by  the  great  florists  and  seed  houses 
of  the  East  are  joke  books  in  California,  where 
things  grow  thirteen  months  in  the  year,  rather 
than  six.  When  the  hour  is  dull  one  can  read  the 
chapter  on  "Garden  Work  in  November"  and 
laugh  the  tedious  moments  away.  ' '  What  to  Plant 
After  Gathering  the  Peas"  pleases  the  Whittier 
farmer,  gathering  his  seventh  crop  for  the  cannery 
that  year.  One  of  the  duties  of  the  Christian  par- 
ent in  California  is  to  explain  to  the  wondering 
child  the  snow-drifted,  ice-bound,  frost-spangled 
Christmas  cards  issued  by  the  Boston  publishing 
houses  and  sent  to  this  land  where  Christmas  and 
Fourth  of  July  are  born  under  the  sign  of  Gemini. 
Easter  Sunday  is  no  more  beautiful  and  glorious, 
with  its  S3^mbols  of  the  resurrection,  than  is  any 
Sunday  in  December.  How  can  the  emblems  of 
the  resurrection  be  very  impressive  in  a  land  where 
nature  has  no  s^nnbols  of  death,  but  where  month 
answers  month,  all  through  the  year,  in  every  flow- 
er-blossoming cemetery,  shaded  by  fadeless  palms 
and  pines,  crying,  "Life — everlasting  life!"  Our 
children  cannot  understand  Thomson's" Seasons." 
The  pathos  of  the  Christmas  story  of  the  ragged 
little  waifs  freezing  to  death  in  their  wretched 
hovel  on  Christmas  eve  is  largely  lost.  "Why  did 
not  the  children  go  out  of  doors  and  get  warm?" 
This  is  n  land  of  life. 


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ROBERT  JONES  BURDETTE,  Pasadena 

Humorist,  author,  lecturer,  preacher,  philanthropist;  born 
July  30,  1844;  Greensboro,  Pa.  Educated  in  public  schools, 
Peoria,  111.;  private  soldier  in  47th  Illinois  Infantry;  reporter 
on  Peoria  (111.)  Transcript,  1869-72;  editor  Peoria  Evening 
Review,  1872-75;  editor  Burlington  (la.)  i/aw^-£ye,  1876-84. 
Popular  lecturer,  1876-1905.  Licensed  to  preach,  Lower 
Merion  Baptist  Church  (Bryn  Mawr,  Pa.),  1897;  ordained 
to  the  Baptist  ministry  Temple  Baptist  Church,  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  Aug.,  1903.  Married,  first  Caroline  Spaulding  Garrett, 
Peoria,  111.,  March  4,  1870  (died.  May,  1884);  second,  Clara 
Bradley  Baker,  Pasadena,  Cal.,  March  27,  1898.  His  home. 
"Sunnycrest,"  on  Orange  Grove  Ave.,  Pasadena. 


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CLARA    (BRADLEY)   BURDETTE,   PASADENA 

Born  East  Bloomfield,  N.  Y.,  July  22,  1855.  Educated  in  Syracuse 
public  schools  and  Syracuse  Univ.,  1872-6:  one  of  the  founders  of 
Alpha  Phi  Sorority.  Active  in  educational  and  literary  life  and 
In  women's  club  organizations  and  work;  federated  the  woman's 
clubs  of  Cal.  and  was  first  Pres.  of  State  Federation;  also  First 
Vice  Pres.  General  Federation  of  Women's  Clubs,  1902-4.  Builder 
and  donor  of  Pasadena  Maternity  Hospital;  trustee  Throop  Poly- 
technic Institute,  Pasadena,  and  First  Vice  Pres.  and  Chairman 
finance  committee  Auditorium  Company,  Los  Angeles  Mem. 
American  Social  Science  Assn.  and  Archaeological  Institute  of 
America.  Lecturer  on  social  and  economic  questions;  magazine 
and  newspaper  contributor;  author  of  "The  Rainbow  and  the 
Pot  of  Gold"  and  "To  Idealize  Drudgery."  Married,  1878,  N. 
Milman  Wheeler  (died  1886);  1890,  Pre.ssley  C.  Baker  (died  1893); 
1899,  Robert  J.  Burdette. 


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E.  L.  POTTER,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Mount  Vernon,  Ohio,  1866.  Educated  public  schools 
of  native  state.  Long  known  as  a  leading  hotel  man;  from 
1902  to  Feb.  14,  1909,  proprietor  Hotel  Clarendon,  Sea 
Breeze,  Fla.,  patronized  by  wealthy  and  cultivated  tourists. 
Hotel  Isurned  on  date  named  (having  been  expanded  from 
fifty  to  four  hundred  rooms),  and  July,  1909,  Mr.  Potter  came 
to  Los  Angeles  and  bought  "The  Van  Nuys"  business  and 
equipmentof  Milo  M.  Potter,  veteran  hotel  man,  for  $150,000, 
leasing  building  of  I.  N.  Van  Nuys  for  twelve  and  a  half 
years.  The  Van  Nuys  Hotel  contains  two  hundred  guest 
rooms,  one  hundred  private  baths,  was  built  fourteen 
years  ago  and  is  strictly  modern.  Mr.  Potter  closed  its 
purchase  July  19,  1909.  Mem.  B.  P.  O.  E.  Married,  Sept. 
29,  1903,  Jessie  Buell,  daughter  of  A.  C.  Buell,  Evanston,  111. 


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ERNEST  ALEXANDER   MONTGOMERY,   LOS  ANGELES 

Born  Toronto,  Can.,  Nov.  24,  1863,  son  of  Alexander  and  Jane 
(Chapman)  Montgomery.  Great  grand-uncle.  General  Richard 
Montgomery,  was  hero  of  Quebec.  Educated  public  schools 
London,  Can.,  and  Stuart,  la.,  spending  boyhood  on  ranch.  From 
1884  to  1901  mining  in  Idaho  and  Washington;  latter  year  went 
to  Nye  Co.,  Nev.,  where,  in  Montgomery  district,  developed  valu- 
able properties  (Johnnie  Mine,  etc.);  operated  "World  Beater" 
and  "O.  B.  Joyful"  mines,  Inyo  Co.,  Cal.;  1908  identified  with  Los 
Angeles,  Daggett  &  Tonopah  Ry.  Co.;  helped  organize  Goldfleld 
district;  1904  located  famous  Shoshone  mine;  bought  Skidoo  mine 
(1905)  upon  which  spent  8500,000.  Pres.  Skidoo  Mines  Co.; 
dir.  Montgomery-Shoshone,  Sapphire  Oil  Co.  and  First  National 
Bank,  Tonopah.  Mem.  Jonathan,  Sierra  Madre  and  other  clubs; 
Thirty-second  degree  Mason;  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
Commerce  of  Mines,  Merchants  &  Manufacturers'  Assn.  Came 
to  California  1891. 


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A.  E.  HALSEY,  Los  Angeles 

A.  E.  Halsey  is  well  known  as  one  of  the  solid  men  in  the 
real  estate  and  building  business  of  Los  Angeles.  He  was 
born  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  and  has  lived  in  California  since 
1882.  He  located  in  Los  Angeles  in  1897,  and  it  is  needless 
to  say  will  always  be  identified  with  its  welfare  and  advance- 
ment. He  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
Union  League  Club,  Federation  Club,  Automobile  Club  of 
Southern  California,  etc.  President  of  The  A.  E.  Halsey 
Company  and  director  in  several  local  companies.  Mr. 
Halsey  is  also  President  of  The  Los  Angeles  Kern  Oil  Co., 
a  producing  company  with  wells  located  in  the  Kern  River 
district  near  Bakersfield. 


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ARTHUR  B.  MULLEN,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  1874,  son  of  Andrew  and  Mary 
Teresa  (Deane)  Mullen.  The  father  was  born  in  County 
Mayo,  Ireland,  in  1832,  and  died  in  Los  Angeles,  March  4, 
1899.  Arthur  B.  was  educated  at  St.  Vincent's  Coll.  and 
Notre  Dame  Univ.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1888,  and  from 
1901  to  March,  1910,  was  manager  of  Mullen  &  Bluett 
Clothing  Co.,  the  largest  establishment  of  the  kind  in  Los 
Angeles;  since  latter  date  has  been  manager  of  new  store 
corner  of  Broadway  and  Sixth  St. 


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Mullen  &  Bluett  Store 


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WILLIAM   F.  CRONEMILLER,  Los  Angeles 

Born  at  Brushy  Point  Mining  Camp  (near  where  Marshall 
discovered  gold  in  California),  Apr.  30,  1855.  Public  school 
and  business  education;  grad.  from  Sacramento  Business 
Coll.  1873,  taught  for  two  years  in  same  school.  For  five 
years  was  manager  of  W.  R.  Strong  Fruit  Co.,  then  eight 
years  manager  of  Earl  Fruit  Co.  One  of  the  organizers  of 
the  Golden  West  Celery  and  Produce  Co.;  since  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Vegetable  Union,  in  1902,  has  been  its  Pres.; 
handles  ninety  per  cent  of  the  vegetable  produce  of  Southern 
California.  Mem.  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Jonathan  Club, 
I.  O.  F.  and  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden  West.  Married, 
1881,  Mattie  J.  Frazee,  of  Sacramento  and  has  one  daughter. 
Flora  May. 


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CHARLES  TILESTON  LEEDS,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Newton,  Mass.,  May  14,  1879.  Educated  in  public 
schools  of  that  place;  at  Newton  High  School;  U.  S.  Mili- 
tary Academy  (West  Point),  grad.  1903;  and  Mass.  Institute 
of  Technology  (S.  B.,  1906).  Cadet  U.  S.  M.  A.,  June  13, 
1899;  second  Heutenant,  Corps  of  Engineers,  U.  S.  Army, 
June  11,  1903;  first  lieutenant,  same,  Apr.  23,  1904.  Served 
as  lieutenant  of  Engineers  in  the  Philippines  (chiefly  in 
Mindanao,  Moro  Province) until  Dec. ,1904;  with  2nd  Battalion 
of  Engineers,  Washington,  D.  C,  to  Aug.,  1905;  at  Mass. 
Institute  of  Technology  to  June,  1906  (degree  S.  B.);  at 
Fort  Bayard,  N.  M.,  to  Apr.,  1908.  Came  to  Los  Angeles 
Apr.,  1908;  in  charge  U.  S.  Engineer  Office  since  August,  of 
that  year.  Married,  Jan.  12,  1905,  Amy  Lee  Shapleigh,  of 
Newton,  Mass. 


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WILLIAM  ALFRED   MARTIN,  Los  Angeles 

Born  October,  1878,  at  Indian  Bay,  Ark.,  son  of  Micajah  D. 
and  Sarah  E.  (Rodman)  Martin.  Educated  in  common 
schools  and  at  Hendrix  ColL,  Conway,  Ark.,  and  Univ.  of 
Arkansas  (Fayetteville);  also,  Cumberland  Univ.,  Lebanon, 
Tenn.  (grad.  with  LL.  B.).  Admitted  to  Supreme  Court  of 
California,  Apr.  6,  1903;  thus  licensed  to  practice  in  all 
courts  of  the  state;  has  since  been  engaged  alone  in  general 
practice  at  Los  Angeles;  admitted  to  the  Circuit  and  Dis- 
trict Court  of  the  United  States  (Southern  District  of  Cali- 
fornia) Feb.  15,  1909.  Mem.  Fraternal  Brotherhood. 
Republican. 


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J.  A.  MUNK,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Ohio,  Nov.  9,  1847.  Served  in  Civil  War  as  private 
Company  I,  178th  Regt.,  O.  V.  I.;  then  attended  Mount 
Union  Coll.,  Alliance,  Ohio;  grad.  Eclectic  Medical  Institute, 
Cincinnati,  1869.  Now  Dean  of  California  Eclectic  Medical 
Coll.;  Professor  of  Climatology,  Hygiene  and  Public  Health, 
and  frequent  contributor  to  Eclectic  medical  literature.  Dr. 
Munk  began  collecting  an  Arizona  library  in  1884;  first 
published  his  Arizona  Bibliography  in  1900  (second  edition 
in  1908,  with  3,000  titles);  in  1905  published  a  volume  of 
Arizona  Sketches.  His  Arizona  library  now  contains  4,000 
items  and  has  been  donated  to  the  Southwest  Museum. 
Mem.  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  and  Southwest  Society 
of  the  Archaeological  Institute  of  America.  Now  President 
of  the  National  Eclectic   Medical  Association. 


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FRANK  GARRETT,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Sept.  14,  1869,  at  Leavenworth,  Kan.  Educated  pub- 
lic schools  Leavenworth;  Holbrook  MiUtary  Academy, 
Briar  Cliff,  N.  Y.;  Hamilton  Coll.,  Clinton,  N.  Y.  (A.  B., 
1892);  and  Univ.  of  Mich.  (LL.  B.,  1895).  Came  to  Los 
Angeles  1895;  prac.  there  since.  Jan.,  1901,  became  member 
firm  Haas  &  Garrett;  Apr.,  1906.  H.  L.  Dunnigan  admitted 
to  the  firm  (Haas,  Garrett  &  Dunnigan) ;  Oct.,  1900,  admitted 
to  practice  before  U.  S.  District  Court  and  U.  S.  Circuit 
Court.  Married,  Nov.  16,  1899,  Sara  G.  Dickinson.  Mem. 
Los  Angeles  Bar  Assn.  and  Thirty-second  degree  Mason, 
Shriner  and  B.  P.  O.  E.,  No.   99.    Democrat. 


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GEORGE   W.  FINCH,  Los  Angeles 

Born  West  Unity,  Ohio,  Oct.  11,  1851.  Preliminary  educa- 
tion in  public  schools.  Studied  medicine  and  practiced  in 
Ohio,  Indiana  and  Iowa  until  1882,  when  he  came  to  Los 
Angeles.  Grad.  California  Eclectic  Medical  Coll.,  Nov.  28, 
1890  (M.  D.);  continuous  practice  in  Los  Angeles  since. 
Now  Professor  of  Materia  Medica  at  Eclectic  Medical  Coll., 
Los  Angeles,  and  prominent  as  a  botanist;  mem.  Los  Angeles 
County  Eclectic  Medical  Society  and  Eclectic  Medical 
Society  of  Southern  California.  Married,  Oct.  28,  1882, 
Mary  A.  Bradshaw,  of  Omaha,  Neb.,  who  died  June  28,  1908. 


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O.  C.  WELBOURN,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Darke  Co.,  Ohio,  (1871),  of  English  ancestry. 
Attended  public  schools  and  Bethany  Coll.  (A.  M.  degree); 
grad.  Eclectic  Medical  Institute  in  1891  (M.  D.),  and  later 
took  two  years  of  professional  study  abroad.  Resident  of 
Southern  California  since  1894;  now  Pres.  of  Board  of 
Trustees  and  Professor  of  Surgical  Gynecology  in  California 
Eclectic  Medical  Coll.;  also  editor  of  California  Eclectic 
Medical  Journal.  Ex-Pres.  State  Eclectic  Medical  Society 
and  mem.  National  Assn.;  Pres.  of  Westlake  Hospital. 
Mem.  Jonathan  Club.  Thirty-second  degree  Mason  and 
Shriner.      Married   Miss  Annie  Lloyd  in   1909. 


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GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


EDWARD  ROSEBERRY   MONK,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Columbiana  Co.,  Ohio.  Jan.  31,  1861.  Educated 
Mount  Union  (Ohio)  Coll.  (B.  A.,  1882;  M.  A.,  later). 
Admitted  to  the  bar  before  Michigan  Supreme  Court,  1883; 
elected  Judge  Territorial  Court  of  Arizona,  1886,  and  re- 
elected to  second  term.  Appointed  Receiver  U.  S.  Land 
Office  at  Tucson,  1893;  also  Disbursing  Agent  of  Land 
Office,  as  well  as  Civil  Service  Examiner  for  Arizona  and 
Regent  Univ.  of  Arizona.  Came  to  Los  Angeles,  1900.  Now 
holds  chair  of  Medical  Jurisprudence.  Eclectic  Medical  Coll.; 
mem.  Jonathan  and  California  Clubs  and  Los  Angeles 
Stock  E.xchange,  Los  Angeles  Commandery,  K.  T.,  and 
Shriner.  Member  of  Christ  Episcopal  Church  and  mem.  of 
the  firm  of  E.  R.  Monk  &  Co.,    attorneys  at  law. 


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WILLIAM  S.  GIBSON.  Los  Angeles 

Born  Greenville,  Pa.,  1869.  Educated  Denmark  (la.) 
public  schools  and  Denmark  Academy,  having  moved  to  that 
place  at  nine  years  of  age.  Grad.  Eclectic  Medical  Institute, 
Cincinnati,  1882  (M.  D.);  prac.  in  Iowa  twelve  years.  Came 
to  Los  Angeles  Co.  1894;  prac.  since,  with  success.  Vice- 
Pres.  Board  of  Trustees  West  Lake  Hospital.  Mem.  I.  O.  O. 
F.;  Masonic  fraternity.  White  Shrine  of  Jerusalem,  Amoranth 
and  O.  E.  S.  Married,  1884,  Cora  M.  Joy,  native  of 
New  York  state;  two  children,  Merrill  E.  and  Joy  E. 


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JAMES  FRANKLYN   COOK,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Warwick,  Mass.,  Nov.  2,  1868;  parents  brought  him  to 
Boston,  at  three  years  of  age;  educated  at  Waterbury  (Conn.) 
High  School  and  Mount  Hermon  (Mass.)  School;  then  attend- 
ed Harvard  Dental  School,  and  1891  graduated  from  Dental 
department  Univ.  of  Michigan.  Began  prac.  in  Toledo, 
Ohio,  where  he  remained  nine  years;  came  to  Los  Angeles, 
1900,  and  has  continued  prac.  since.  Mem.  Ohio  State 
Medical  Assn.;  Pres.  Southern  California  Dental  Assn.,  1908; 
California  Club  and  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club;  Univ.  of 
Michigan  Alumni;  Masonic  fraternity  and  B.  P.  O.  E. 


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JOHN  WESLEY  TRUEWORTHY,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Troy,  N.  Y.,  May  28,  1843.  Early  education  in  pub- 
lic schools  and  Hillsboro  (111.)  Academy.  Also  University 
Ann  Arbor,  Michigan.  Served  in  Civil  War  as  private  in 
Ninth  Illinois  Infantry.  Grad.  Rush  Medical  Coll.  (Chicago) 
Jan.  25,  1865,  with  professional  degree;  in  active  practice 
since.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  from  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  1892: 
Mem.  American  Medical  Assn.,  California  State  Medical 
Society,  Los  Angeles  County  Medical  Society,  Southern 
California  District  Medical  Society;  ex-Pres.  Los  Angeles 
Academy  of  Medicine  and  ex-mem.  Pan-American  Medical 
Congress.  Ex-Pres.  Los  Angeles  Public  Library  Board; 
mem.  California,  University  and  Sierra  Clubs  and  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  Sequoya  League  and  Archaeological  Society. 
Knight  Templar  and  Shriner. 


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SEELEY  WINTERSMITH  MUDD,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Kirkwood,  Mo.,  Aug.  16,  1861.  Educated  in  public  schools 
of  native  town  and  St.  Louis;  was  grad.  Washington  Univ.,  1883 
(degree.  Engineer  of  Mines).  Assayer  and  Supt.  copper  dept. 
St.  Louis  Smelting  &  Refining  Co.,  1883-5;  mangr.  1885  to  pres- 
ent of  Small  Hopes  Consolidated  Mining  Co.  and  Boreel  Mining 
Co.;  mangr.  May,  1899,  to  Apr.,  1902,  Ibex  Mining  Co.  (Little 
Johnnie  mine);  May,  19()2  to  June,  1904,  western  consulting  engi- 
neer New  Jersey  Zinc  Co.  Moved  from  Denver  to  Los  Angeles, 
1903;  Mar.,  1904,  to  Dec,  1905,  Pacific  Coast  consulting  engineer 
for   Guggenheim  Exploration   Co.;   later,   for  American   Smelting 


dir.  and  a  consulting  engineer  of  Ray  Consolidated  Copper  Co. 
and  Gila  Copper  Co.  For  fifteen  years  engaged  in  private  mining 
and  active  as  consulting  engineer. 


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JOSEPH   MESMER,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Tippecanoe  City,  Miami  Co.,  Ohio,  Nov.  8,  1855. 
Lived  in  Los  Angeles  since  1859.  Public  school  education. 
In  1878,  at  158-60  North  Main  St.,  founded  Queen  Shoe 
Store;  for  twenty-eight  consecutive  years  continued  as  shoe 
merchant;  since  1906  engaged  in  manufacturing;  Pres.  St. 
Louis  Fire  Brick  &  Clay  Co.  In  1904  secured  site  for  new 
government  building,  for  which,  through  voluntary  sub- 
scriptions, he  raised  S281.000,  of  which  $65,000  was  returned 
to  subscribers;  Pres.  Los  Angeles  River  Improvement  Com- 
mission; always  prominent  in  that  public  work;  considered 
one  of  the  builders  of  modern  Los  Angeles.  Mem.  Cali- 
fornia and  Jonathan   Clubs. 


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F.   C.  FINKLE,  Los  ANGELES 

Born  Viroqua,  Wis.,  May  3,  1865.  Educated  in  local  high  school 
with  civil  engineering  in  view;  special  course  In  civil  engineering 
at  Univ.  of  Wisconsin  until  Jan.,  1887,  when  he  came  to  California. 
In  1887-8  was  chief  engineer  North  Riverside  L.  &  W.  Co.,  Jurupa 
Ii.  &  W.  Co-  and  Vivienda  Water  Co.;  1889-96  chief  engineer  San 
Bernardino  Gas  &  Electric  Co.,  East  Riverside  Irrigation  Dis- 
trict and  Grapeland  Irrigation  District,  and  City  Engineer  San 
Bemardmo;  1897-1906,  chief  engineer  Southern  California  Edison 
Co..  Los  Angeles,  and  1907-1910  consulting  engineer  of  same,  as  well 
as  for  Central  Colorado  Power  Co.  and  many  other  large  compa- 
nies in  the  west.  Built  and  owns  Flnkle  Building,  an  eight  story 
reinforced  concrete  block  at  6th  &  Flower  Sts.,  Los  Angeles.  Lead- 
ing expert  and  writer  on  engineering  and  geology.  One  of  the 
organizers  of  National  Irrigation  Congress,  held  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  Sept.  15-17,  1891.  Mem.  leading  engineering,  architectural 
and  geographical  societies,  and  California  clubs;  B.  P.  O.  E.,  K. 
of  P.,  etc. 


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JOHN  PARK  DOUGALL,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  Oct.  19,  1874.  Moved  to  New 
Zealand  in  1875,  receiving  his  preliminary  education  in  that 
country.  Became  a  resident  of  California  in  1891.  Grad. 
California  Medical  Coll.,  May,  1904;  prac.  Los  Angeles 
since.  Professor  of  Bacteriology,  Pacific  Coll.  of  Medicine 
and  Osteopathy;  Pres.  Southern  California  Eclectic  Medical 
Assn.  (1907);  mem.  National  Eclectic  Medical  Assn.  and 
Eclectic  Medical  Society  of  the  State  of  California  (Secretary 
from  1906  to  date) ;  also,  of  the  California  Board  of  Medical 
Examiners,  of  which  Pres.  1908-9.  Past  Noble  Grand  and 
Past  Chief  Patriarch,  L  O.  O.  F.  and  K.  of  P.;  Mason;  Past 
Consul   Commander,   W.   O.   W. 


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THOMAS  LORENZO  DUQUE,   Los  ANGELES 

Born  in  province  of  Havana,  Cuba,  Sept.  5.  1S53.  Educated  in 
public  scliools  and  College  of  Monserrate,  Havana,  and  Friends 
Central  School,  Philadelphia  (1865-9).  In  Sept.,  1869,  joined 
an  unsuccessful  Cuban  expedition  under  General  Goicouria;  spent 
several  months  of  1871  with  his  brother  in  Jamaica;  then  Panama 
Railroad  clerk  until  1878:  purser  on  Pacific  Mail  steamers  between 
Panama  and  San  Francisco  until  1884;  returned  to  Havana  in 
1885  married  in  1886,  and  in  1888  (Apr.  25th)  came  to  Los  Angeles: 
father  of  nine  children.  Prominent  in  banking;  has  served  as 
Pres  of  Security  Savings  Bank  and  Main  Street  Savings  Bank 
(1895-1905):  leading  member  Los  Angeles  and  San  Diego  Chambers 
of  Commerce;  Pres.  and  Mangr.  San  Felipe  Land  &  Water  Co. 
and  Dir.  Southern  Trust  &  Savings  Bank.  For  some  years  Con- 
sular representative     "  "     -^        "-    -"  -"  '^••'^" 


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LYNDEN  ELLSWORTH  BEHYMER,  Los  ANGELES 

Born  at  Batavia,  Clermont  Co.,  Ohio,  Nov.  5,  1862.  Educated 
in  public  schools  ot  Shelbyville,  111.;  engaged  in  mechanical  and 
mercantile  pursuits  in  Illinois  and  Dakota  until  coming  to  Cali- 
fornia in  1886;  since  1892,  manager  and  promoter  of  musical, 
dramatic  and  literary  events  in  Los  Angeles;  fourteen  years  manager 
of  Los  Angeles  Symphony  Orchestra,  which  (with  Harley  Hamil- 
ton) organized,  and  seventeen  years  manager  Woman's  Symphony 
Orchestra.  Mr.  Behymer  is  also  manager  of  the  Auditorium, 
Theater  Beautiful,  Simpson's  Auditorium  and  the  Great  Phil- 
harmonic Course.  Elected  to  French  Academy  and  received 
decoration  of  "The  Palms,"  March  1,  1908;  active  in  all  artistic 
and  cultural  movements  to  improve  the  city.  Mem.  Al  Mala- 
ikah  Temple,  Knights  of  Mystic  Shrine,  Scottish  Rite  Mason, 
B.  P.  O.  E.  (No.  99),  Gamut  Club,  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
M.  &  M.  Assn.  Married  Menettie  Sparkes,  Fredonia,  N.  Y., 
Jan.  3,  1885;  three  children,  Enid,  Elsie,  Glen. 


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PERCY  H.  CLARK,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Jefferson  Co.,  Pa.,  Sept.  20,  1860;  resided  in  Mich- 
igan from  1861  to  1886,  where  his  father  was  engaged  in  the 
lumber  business.  Educated  in  public  schools  of  that  state, 
and  Grand  Rapids  Business  Coll.;  in  lumber  business  at 
Kansas  City,  1887-1890.  Came  to  Los  Angeles,  Apr.,  1890; 
in  1891  established  lumber  business  of  the  Stimson  Mill  Co., 
acting  as  manager  of  same  until  1898;  since  then  has  been  in 
the  real  estate  business.  Mem.  and  Director  Los  Angeles 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  member  Municipal  League  and 
California  Club,  Director  of  Automobile  Club  of  So.  Cali- 
fornia and  member  Los  Angeles  Country  Club.  Married, 
Nov.  18,  1885,  to  Hattie  Youngs,  of  Big  Rapids,  Mich.;  one 
child,  Florence  E. 


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JAMES  DAVID   McCOY,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Orange  Co.,  Cal.;  moved  to  Los  Angeles  when  a  boy, 
Grad.  £rom  College  of  Dentistry,  Univ.  of  Southern  Califor- 
nia. Became  interested  in  the  study  of  Orthodontia  (the 
correction  of  malocclusion  of  the  teeth  and  ma.xillary  deform- 
ities) and  took  post-graduate  work  at  the  Angle  School  of 
Orthodontia,  St.  Louis;  since  then  has  devoted  his  entire 
time  to  this  important  branch  of  Dental  Surgery.  Pro- 
fessor of  Orthodontia  College  of  Dentistry,  Univ.  of  Southern 
California;  member  American  Society  of  Orthodontists, 
Alumni  Society  of  the  Angle  School  of  Orthodontia,  Southern 
California  Dental  Assn.  and  Los  Angeles  County  Dental 
Society. 


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WALTER  LIXDLEY,  Los  Angeles 


Born  in  Monrovia,  Ind..  Jan.  13,  1852.  Educated  at  Minne- 
apolis High  School  and  Keen's  School  of  Anatomy;  grad. 
Long  Island  College  Hospital  1875;  prac.  in  Los  Angeles 
since.  Degree  LL.  D.  St.  Vincent's  College;  ex-Pres.  Cali- 
fornia State  Medical  Society;  Founded  "Southern  Cali- 
fornia Practitioner"  1884;  still  editor  and  publisher;  one  of 
the  founders,  and  sometime  dean  College  of  Medicine,  Univ. 
Southern  California;  founder  1889,  and  now  Pres.  Board  of 
Trustees  Whittier  State  School;  founder  1897,  now  Secretary 
and  Medical  Director  California  Hospital.  Mem.  State 
Board  of  Medical  E.xaminers;  also,  California  Club,  Union 
League  and  University  Club  (ex-Pres.)  Dir.  Farmers'  & 
Merchants'  National  Bank.  Author  "California  of  the 
South"  (Appleton),  and  numerous  professional  and  socio- 
logical articles. 


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M.  EVANGELINE  JORDON,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Fulton  Co.,  111.,  1865.  Educated  in  private  school 
Rochester,  Minn.;  grad.  Los  Angeles  State  Normal  School 
(came  to  Los  Angeles  1887)  in  1891,  and  dental  department 
Univ.  of  California,  1898.  Taught  school  five  years;  began 
prac.  dentistry  1899;  general  prac.  seven  years,  and  since 
entire  attention  devoted  to  children's  teeth;  first  dentist  in 
the  United  States  to  adopt  this  specialty.  Associate  Pro- 
fessor of  Operative  and  Clinical  Dentistry  (children's  teeth), 
Univ.  Southern  California.  Mem.  all  dental  societies  of 
Southern  California  and  National  Dental  Association; 
writer  on  professional  subjects.  Also  mem.  Friday  Morning 
Club,  College  Woman's  Club  and  Woman's  Press  Club. 


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MARY  J.  GREEN,  Los  Angeles 

Born  near  Chillicothe,  Mo.,  daughter  of  Preston  Heming- 
way and  Lydia  (Pace)  Minor.  Educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  Professor  Long's  Seminary.  Married  William 
A.  Green.  Grad.  Kansas  City  (Mo.)  Medical  Coll..  1890 
(M.  D.);  prac.  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  one  year;  since  1893 
in  Los  Angeles.  Practice  largely  devoted  to  diseases  of  the 
nervous  system  and  surgery  of  women  and  children.  Mem. 
Southern  California  Homeopathic  Medical  Society  and 
American  Institute  of  Homeopathy;  charter  mem.  Friday 
Morning    Club. 


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CHARLES  L.   HUBBARD,   LOS  ANGELES 

Born  Jan.  31,  1873,  at  Urbana,  HI.  son  of  L.  G.  and  Helen  (Stan- 
nard)  Hubbard.  Grad.  from  the  Urbana  High  School  1891,  and  im- 
mediately entered  commercial  life  at  Chicago,  111.,  as  stenographer 
and  cashier.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1895;  since  1896  general 
agent  for  Southern  California  for  the  Aetna  Life  Insiu-ance  Co. 
of  Hartford,  Conn.,  in  its  accident  and  liability  department;  also 
Pres.  Investors'  Co.  and  Pres.  Charles  L.  Hubbard  Co.,  promi- 
nent In  real  estate,  loans,  investments  and  insurance.  Member  of 
Board  of  Directors  of  Los  Angeles  Young  Men's  Christian  Associ- 
ation, this  is  a  large  Institution  and  the  Board  of  Directors  is 
made  up  largely  of  prominent  business  men  of  the  city.  Trustee 
of  Temple  Baptist  church,  and  identified  with  other  religious 
and  benevolent  institutions:  also  mem.  Jonathan  and  various 
recreation  clubs.  Married  Miss  Grace  Corwin  of  San  Francisco, 
in  1S98. 


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DAXIEL  CAVE,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  France,  and  after  studying  dentistry  came  to  this  country 
to  familiarize  himself  with  the  American  system;  located  in  Kew 
York  in  1868,  and  after  two  years'  practice  became  a  resident  of 
San  Diego,  where  he  followed  profession  nearly  a  quarter  of  a 
century;  first  Pres.  of  San  Diego  Dental  Society.  Elected  one 
of  the  freeholders  who  framed  San  Diego  citj-  charter;  also  alder- 
man and  for  seyeral  years  Pres.  of  Public  Library;  Pres.  San  Diego 
Chamber  of  Commerce.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1897,  and  since 
devoted  entire  time  to  dental  prac.  Life  member  California 
State  Dental  Assn;  Pres.  Southern  California  Dental  Assn.  (one 
of  its  nine  councilors),  and  an  active  member  Los  Angeles  County 
Dental  Society.  Active  in  Masonry  (presiding  officer  in  both 
San  Diego  and  Los  Angeles  lodges) ;  also  B.  P.  O.  E.  and  Supreme 
Pres.  Knights  of  the  Round  Table. 


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CHARLES  R.  DRAKE.  LOS  ANGELES 

Born  Clark  Co.,  111.,  1843.  During  Civil  War  was  Acting  Master's 
Mate  under  Admiral  Porter.  In  1871  went  to  Tucson,  Ariz.,  where 
he  was  Assistant  Postmaster;  in  1881-5  was  Recorder  of  Pima  Co- 
During  his  thirty  years'  residence  In  Arizona  took  an  active  part  in 
its  political,  financial  and  general  affairs.  Delegate  to  the  Republican 
National  Convention,  Philadelphia,  1900.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in 
Jail  of  1900;  organized  and  is  Pres.  of  the  Seaside  Water  Co.,  which 
owns  and  operates  the  Hotel  Virginia,  Long  Beach,  Cal.;  also  of  the 
San  Pedro  Water  Co.  and  Long  Beach  Bath  House  Co.  Mem.  of 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  K.  of  P.  and  B.  P.  O.  E.,  as  well  as  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  California  and  Los  Angeles  Country 
Clubs. 


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JOHN  H.  NORTON,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Milton,  Mass.,  1847;  when  seventeen  years  of  age  came 
West,  first  to  Colorado  and  then  to  Arizona;  in  that  state 
became  connected  with  the  interests  of  the  U.  S.  Government 
and  for  several  years  handled  a  large  volume  of  business. 
Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1896,  and  there  has  since  been 
engaged  in  active  business  life.  Pres.  of  the  John  H.  Norton 
Co.;  Pres.  of  the  Norton-Morgan  Commercial  Co.  of  South- 
ern Arizona,  and  dir.  of  the  Citizens'  National  Bank  of  Los 
Angeles.  Mr.  Norton  is  the  originator  of  the  magnificent 
lighting  system  of  the  business  section  of  Los  Angeles. 
Delegate  to  the  Republican  National  Conventions  of  1904 
and  1908.     Mem.  California  and  Jonathan  Clubs. 


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ASHBY  ALBERT  SHAW,  Los  Angeles 

Born  at  Port  Burrell,  Canada,  1870  Educated  at  Colle- 
giate Institute,  Toronto,  and  Philadelphia  Dental  Coll. 
(grad.  class  1890-1).  Has  been  a  close  observer  of  dental 
abnormalities  for  twenty  years,  and  is  recognized  as  an 
authority  in  all  difhcult  cases  of  surgical  dentistry.  Came 
to  Los  Angeles  in  1904,  and  has  continued  practice  as  a  sur- 
gical dental  specialist.  In  1897  his  invention,  the  Shaw 
Alloy  System,  was  indorsed  and  used  by  Harvard  and 
Toronto  Dental  Colleges;  latest  invention,  the  antiseptic 
inhaler  for  administering  anaesthetics.  Mem.  Southern 
California  Dental  Assn.  and  Los  Angeles  Co.  Dental  Society; 
also  identified  with  the  College  of  Dentistry,  Univ.  of  South- 
ern California.  -  •  • 


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Dr.   E.  a.  LUNDY,  Los  Angeles 

Born  near  Toronto,  Canada;  early  education  in  the  grammar 
and  high  schools  of  the  Dominion  and  New  York  State. 
Commenced  professional  studies  under  preceptor  at  Brock- 
port,  N.  Y.,  in  1874;  practiced  several  years  and  completed 
education  at  Dental  School  Northwestern  University,  Chi- 
cago. Has  enjoyed  seventeen  years  of  foreign  practice 
in  Hawaii,  India,  Egypt,  Ceylon  and  Australia;  attended 
professionally  the  present  King  and  Queen  of  England  dur- 
ing their  Australian  visit,  receiving  from  them  a  handsome 
presentation. 


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ROBERT  MARSH,  Los  Angeles 
Born  Charlestown,  111.,  Jan.  20,  1874.  Educated  in  public 
schools.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1890.  For  some  time  was 
engaged  as  a  dealer  in  hats  and  furnishing  goods.  Since 
1901  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business,  under  firm  name  of 
Robert  Marsh  &  Co.,  dealers  in  general  and  business  prop- 
erty. Mem.  Realty  Board;  office,  ground  floor  Security 
building  (140  W.  Fifth  St.),  adjoining  Security  Savings 
Bank.  Is  Thirty-second  degree  Mason  and  Knight  Templar. 
Mem.  California,  Jonathan  and  Los  Angeles  Country  Clubs. 
Married  1897,   Miss  Ceceil  Lothrop,  of  Alhambra,  Cal. 


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WILLIAM   MEEK.  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  London,  Eng.,  Dec.  25,  1849;  educated  in  schools 
of  Metropolis.  Came  to  the  United  States  in  1871  and 
located  at  Topeka,  Kans.;  to  Los  Angeles  in  1881.  Has  been 
engaged  in  the  baking  business  for  thirty-four  years  and 
since  1892  Pres.  Meek  Baking  Co.  Since  1900  mem. 
National  Assn.  Master  Bakers  (dir.  three  years)  and  in 
August,  1909,  at  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  was  elected  Pres. 
National  Assn.  of  Master  Bakers  of  the  United  States  and 
Canada.  Fraternal  relations:  Thirty-second  degree  Mason; 
Shriner;  Past  Grand  Pres.  Sons  of  St.  George.  Married, 
1874,  Adeline  E.  Nichols,  of  Topeka,  Kan.;  four  children. 
Eva  I.,  Adeline  Nichols,  Blanch  F.  and  Chester. 


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RUFUS  WILLIAM  LANDON  HORTON,  LOS  ANGELES 

Born  at  Niles,  Mich.,  Sept.  2,  1861,  son  of  Richmond  B.  and  Anna 
Mary  (Smith)  Horton;  representative  of  old  English  (Leicester- 
shire) family.  Early  education  in  common  and  high  schools 
of  Wauseon  (Ohio);  studied  law  at  Dallas  (Tex.)  Coll.,  and  com- 
pleted studies  with  Judge  Shaw  of  Supreme  Court.  Came  to  Los 
Angeles  May  1,  1887;  active  in  civic  matters.  Mem.  Board  of 
Education  (1902);  chairman  of  committee  that  introduced  School 
Savings  banks  in  Los  Angeles;  several  years  secretary  of  Citizens' 
League.  Dir.  and  attorney  for  large  corporation  and  property 
interests,  and  as  attorney  for  the  Westlake  Improvement  Assn. 
prepared  ordinance  that  confined  oil  wells  north  of  Ocean  View 
Ave.  Considered  an  authority  on  liens  and  real  estate  law.  Mem. 
Los  Angeles  Bar  Assn.,  University  Club,  California  Club  and 
Chamber  of  Commerce;  Mason  and  Republican.  Married,  1896, 
Miss  Millie  Kurtz;  two  children,  Joseph  Kurtz  Horton,  and  Rufus 
William  Landon  Horton.  Jr. 


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GEORGE   MAURICE  CROW,  D.  D.  S.  Los  Angeles 

Born  at  Bloomington,  111.,  Aug.  13,  1877,  and  came  to  Los 
Angeles,  more  than  twenty-five  years  ago,  with  his  parents 
Professor  and  Mrs.  George  R.  Crow.  Graduated  from  High 
School,  in  1897,  and  from  the  dental  department  of  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  1901.  Since  then  has  been  engaged 
in  practice  and  in  furtherance  of  civic  movements.  He  is 
Treasurer  of  California  Board  of  Dental  Examiners;  also 
member  of  Los  Angeles  County  Dental  Society  and  Southern 
California  Dental  Assn.,  as  well  as  of  University  Club. 
He  resides  with  his  family,  in  South  Pasadena,  where  he  is 
active  in  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 


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FRANK  CHESTER  COLLIER,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Central  City,  Colo.,  Sept.  14,  1878.  Came  to  Califor- 
nia with  parents  in  1883,  locating  at  San  Diego.  Early- 
education  in  schools  of  that  place;  grad.  law  department, 
Univ.  of  Michigan,  1901.  Prac.  one  year  in  San  Diego,  one 
year  at  Prescott  (Ariz.),  and  in  Los  Angeles  since  August, 
1903.  Mem.  firm  Collier  &  Clark,  general  practitioners; 
admitted  to  practice  in  State,  U.  S.  Circuit,  U.  S.  District 
and  Supreme  Courts.  Married.  Dec.  11,  1905,  Kate  Pinker- 
ton,  of  Los  Angeles.  Mem.  Jonathan  Club.  Thirty-second 
degree   Mason.     Republican  in  politics. 


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HARRINGTON  BROWN,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Washington,  D.  C,  Jan.  1,  1856,  son  ol  William  Van  Horn 
and  Adelaide  J.  (Harrington)  Brown.  Early  education  at  pre- 
paratory school  of  Columbian  (now  George  Washington)  Uni- 
versity, and  at  Emerson's  Institute  Washington;  grad.  Princeton 
Univ.,  1876  (A.  B.)  and  (in  law)  from  George  Washington  Univ. 
(B.  L.).  Came  to  Los  Angeles  from  Washington,  July  7,  1878; 
has  since  built  up  two  successful  oil  refineries  (Pres.  Southern 
Refining  Co.),  extensively  cultivated  vineyards  and  orange  groves 
and  made  important  city  improvements.  Perhaps  his  most  striis- 
ing  work  in  the  latter  field  was  begun  twenty  years  ago,  when 
he  commenced  to  plant  pepper  trees  along  West  Parlt  tract,  which 
has  resulted  in  one  of  the  most  beautiful  and  majestic  avenues 
in  the  West.  Mem.  Merchants'  &  Manufacturers'  Assn.,  Muni- 
cipal League,  etc.;  Pres.  Princeton  Alumni  Assn.  Married,  1882, 
Minnie  Toland  Glassell;  five  children. 


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MARK  KEPPEL,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Butte  Co.,  Cal.,  Apr.  11,  1867;  second  in  a  family 
of  eleven  children;  childhood  spent  upon  the  farm.  Early 
education  in  public  schools;  at  majority  entered  San  Joaquin 
Valley  Coll.,  paying  his  way  by  janitor  service  and  labor  as  a 
harvest  hand;  grad.  1892  and  began  teaching  in  1893. 
Served  one  year  in  alma  mater,  one  year  in  Yolo  Co.  and 
seven  years  in  Los  Angeles  city;  elected  County  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools  in  1902  and  1906.  Has  an  established 
reputation  both  as  an  educational  authority  and  a  public 
speaker.  Married,  1894,  Miss  Mae  Hubbard,  representa- 
tive of  a  pioneer  family  of  California.  They  have  one 
daughter — Esther  Mae,  now  a  student  at  the  Polytechnic 
High  School. 


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E.  F.  SCATTERGOOD,  Pasadena 

Born  Burlington  Co.,  N.  J.,  Apr.  9,  1871.  Grad.  electrical 
department  Rutger  Coll.,  1893  (B.  S.  and  M.  S.,  1896) 
instructor  in  mathematics  and  electricity,  Rutger  Coll. 
1895-8;  Fellow  in  Electrical  Engineering,  Cornell  Univ. 
1898-9  (M.  M.  E.  degree);  in  charge  of  electrical  and  experi 
mental  engineering,  Georgia  School  of  Technology  (engineer 
ing  department,  tJniv.  of  Georgia),  1899-1901.  Now  con 
suiting  engineer,  with  offices  in  Los  Angeles;  consulting 
electrical  engineer  for  the  Bureau  of  the  Los  Angeles  Aque- 
duct, and  chief  electrical  engineer  for  the  Bureau  of  Los 
Angeles  Aqueduct  Power.  Mem.  American  Institute 
Electrical  Engineers;  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  Sigma  Psi;  En- 
gineers' and  Architects'  Assn.  and  Assn,  of  College  Men  of 
Southern  California;  Cornell  and  Rutger  Clubs. 


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WILL  DANIEL   GOULD,   Los  ANGELES 

Born  at  Cabot,  Vt.,  Sept.  17.  1845,  so  of  Daniel  and  Betsa  (Smith) 
Gould.  Received  early  education  in  common  and  high  schools 
of  native  town;  preparatory  cillegiate,  at  St.  Johnsbury  and  Barre 
academies,  Vermont;  grad.  Univ.  Michigan,  1871  (LL.  B.).  Studied 
law  in  office  of  Hon.  Charles  H.  Heath,  Plainfield,  Vt.,  both  before 
and  after  graduation  from  Michigan  University;  admitted  to  the 
bar,  Michigan  Supreme  Court  Apr.  4,  1871,  and  later  Vermont 
Supreme  Court  and  all  courts  in  California  and  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States.  Settled  in  Los  Angeles  February, 
1872,  and  there  continues  in  active  practice.  In  his  younger 
years  teacher  and  superintendent  of  public  schools  in  Vermont, 
Takes  deep  interest  in  public  affairs;  author  of  bill  providing  for 
uniform  township  government  in  California  1909;  Mem.  Archaeo- 
logical Institute  of  America;  Mason  and  K.  of  P.  Married,  June 
26,   1875,  Mary  Louise  Hait. 


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BEN  S.  JARRETT,  LOS  ANGELES 

Born  White  Pigeon,  Michigan,  in  1867.  Educated  in  common 
schools.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1898  and  since  1899  has  been 
engaged  in  cigar  manufacturing;  now,  especially  a  manufacturer 
of  Havana  cigars  from  the  imported  tobacco.  Pres.  St.  Elmo 
Cigar  Co.,  the  largest  importer  of  Havana  leaf  tobacco  in  the 
Southwest;  this  company,  incorporated  March  4,  1903,  was  awarded 
the  World's  Grand  Prize  on  clear  Havana  cigars  at  Alaska-Yukon- 
Paciflc  Exposition  (1909)  and  the  first  prize  at  the  California 
State  Fair.  The  St.  Elmo  Cigar  Co.  employs  130  people,  the 
growth  of  its  business  having  been  rapid.  "St.  Elmo"  is  its  lead- 
ing brand,  for  which  the  prizes  mentioned  were  awarded.  Mr. 
Jarrett  is  a  member  of  the  Union  League  and  a  Mason  (Knight 
Templar  and  Shriner).  Married,  1888,  Miss  Mattie  E.  Smith, 
of  Bloomfield,  la. 


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SAMUEL  J.  WHITMORE,  Los  Angeles 

Born  at  Leesburg,  Va.,  Oct.  29,  1865.  Received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  pubhc  schools  and  academies  of  the  Shenandoah 
Valley.  Prepared  himself  for  teaching  and  began  an  educa- 
tional career,  but  was  diverted  to  business  and  commerce  by 
the  call  of  the  West,  where  he  entered  the  hotel  business 
about  twenty-five  years  ago,  and  has  enjoyed  success  all 
along  the  Hne  from  the  lowest  clerical  to  the  highest  execu- 
tive positions.  About  five  years  ago  he  retired  from  the 
position  of  Vice  President  and  Associate  Manager  of  the 
Baltimore  Hotel  Company,  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  to  become 
Vice  President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Alexandria 
Hotel  Co.,  in  Los  Angeles.  He  is  a  man  of  gracious  and 
charming  personality  and  a  recognized  leader  in  his  pro- 
fession. 


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VERNON   GOODWIN,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Santa  Rosa,  Cal.,  Dec.  13,  1871.  Chiefly  educated 
in  public  and  high  schools  (grad.  from  latter  in  1889).  Assist- 
ant postmaster  of  Santa  Rosa  for  three  years;  resigned  to 
take  a  law  course,  and  admitted  to  practice  in  California 
Supreme  Court,  1894.  Principal  of  grammar  school  for 
three  years,  and  later  took  a  special  English  course  at  Stan- 
ford University.  Served  as  Deputy  County  Auditor  for 
four  years  and  resigned  to  accept  position  with  California 
Gas  &  Electric  Corporation.  Came  to  Los  Angeles,  1895; 
now  Secretary  of  the  Bilicke-Rowan  Fireproof  Building 
Co.,  Bilicke-Rowan  Annex  Co.,  Alexandria  Hotel  Co.  and 
HoUenbeck  Hotel  Co.  Is  Past  Master  of  Masonic  lodge, 
Knight  Templar  and  Shriner.  Mem.  Jonathan  and  Annan- 
dale  Country  Clubs. 


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ANDREW     STEWART     LOBINGIER,     Los  ANGELES 

Born  at  Laurelville,  Pa.,  of  French  Huguenot  and  Scotch  lineage: 
descendant  of  Christopher  Lobingier,  member  of  first  state  con- 
stitutional convention  and  close  friend  of  Benjamin  Franklin 
Preparatory  education  at  Mt.  Pleasant  (Pa.)  Institute;  grad 
Univ.  of  Michigan,  1886,  A.  B.,  and  medical  department,  1889 
M.  D.  Afterward  Prof.  Bacteriology  and  Pathology,  Gross  Med 
College:  Prof.  Pathology  and  Surgical  Pathology,  Univ.  of  Colo- 
rado; Clinical  Surgery  and  Chief  of  Surgical  Clinic,  1893,  Principles 
of  Surgery  and  Clinical  Surgery  1896;  resigned  April,  1902,  and 
came  to  Los  Angeles.  In  June  went  to  Europe  to  attend  meeting 
of  British  Med.  Assn.  and  to  study:  also  surgical  studies  and  invest- 
igations abroad,  1906.  Has  been  Seo.  Colorado  State  Med.  Socy; 
first  Pres.  Los  Angeles  Clinical  and  Pathological  Socy.  and  Mem. 
of  all  state  and  national  bodies.  Well  known  author  on  surgical 
subjects  and   mem.   various  clubs.     Married,    1889;   one  child. 


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H.  JEVNE,  Los  Angeles 

Is  a  native  of  Norway.  After  an  active  business  career  of 
seventeen  years  in  Chicago,  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1882. 
He  started  a  small  grocery  store,  and  now  has  one  of  the 
most  extensive  houses  of  his  line  in  the  West.  H.  Jevne  Co. 
now  occupy  a  seven-story  building  at  Broadway  and  Sixth, 
street — perhaps  the  finest  fitted  and  most  "up-to-date" 
grocery  store  in  the  world,  giving  employment  to  nearly 
three  hundred  people.  Dir.  First  Natl.  Bank;  also,  identi- 
fied with  several  other  corporations,  the  most  important  of 
which  are  engaged  in  the  production  of  crude  petroleum. 
Charter  mem.  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Mer- 
chants' and  Manufacturers'  Assn.  and  the  Municipal  League, 
and  mem.  of  all  the  leading  clubs. 


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EDWARD  L.  MAYBERRY,  Los  ANGELES 

Born  in  Sacramento,  Cal.,  in  1871.  Moved  to  Southern  Cali- 
tornia  in  1877.  Educated  in  Los  Angeles  eountj^  schools,  Los 
Angeles  High  School,  Univ.  of  California  (B.  L.,  1896),  and  Mass. 
Institute  of  Technology  (S.  B.,  1906).  Is  a  certified  architect 
and  practicing  as  an  architectural  engineer.  Member  of  the  firm 
of  Mayberry  &  Parker,  engineers  for  the  following  structures: 
Majestic  Theater,  Alhambra  Hotel,  Elks,  Bryan,  Luckenbach 
and  other  buildings  in  Los  Angeles;  Kern  Co.  Hall  of  Records; 
Long  Beach  Public  Library;  hotel  and  station  buildings  for  the 
A.,  T.  &  S.  F.  R.  R.  in  Syracuse,  Kans.,  Williams,  Ariz.,  and  Need- 
les, Cal.;  and  (designing  engineers)  for  the  Linda  Vista  Bridge, 
Pasadena,  Cal.  (see  illustration),  and  the  215C-foot  re-inforced 
■concrete  bridge  across  Salt  river  at  Phoenix,  Ariz.  Mem.  Uni- 
versity, Sierra  and  San  Gabriel  Valley  Country  Clubs  and  Engineers 
.&  Architects'  Assn. 


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Dr.  JOSIAH  E.  COWLES,  Los  Angeles 

Bom  in  Yadkin  Co.,  N.  C,  May  14,  1855.  Finished  edu- 
cation at  Finley  High  School  (Lenoir,  N.  C);  medical  depart- 
ment, Univ.  of  Maryland  (M.  D.,  1880)  and  post-graduate 
course  at  the  N.  Y.  City  Polyclinic.  Prac.  eight  years  at 
Edgefield,  S.  C;  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1889,  and  there 
since.  Mem.  Los  Angeles  County  Medical  Society,  South- 
ern California  District  Medical  Society,  California  State 
Medical  Society  and  American  Medical  Assn.;  also.  Sons  of 
the  American  Revolution.  Senior  Warden  St.  John's  Epis- 
copal church.  Married,  1890,  lone  Virginia  Hill,  of  Chicago. 
Mrs.  Cowles  is  prominent  in  church  work;  Pres.  Women's 
Auxiliary  Diocese  of  Los  Angeles;  also  mem.  leading  women's 
clubs  of  Los  Angeles  and  First  Vice  Pres.  General  Federation 
of  Women's  Clubs. 


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ISIDORE   B.    DOCKWEILER,   Los  ANGELES 

Born  at  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  Dec.  28, 1867,  son  of  Henry  and  Marga- 
retha  (Sugg)  Do?kweiler,  natives  respectively  of  Bavaria  and 
Alsace-Lorraine.  Educated  at  St.  Vincent's  Coll.,  Los  Angeles 
(Commercial  diploma,  1883;  degree  A.  B.,  1887;  A.  M.,  1889; 
LL.  M.,  1905).  Employed  as  bookkeeper  in  1883-5  and  surveyor, 
1887-8.  Admitted  to  California  bar  Oct.  14,  1889,  and  afterward 
to  Federal  courts  of  the  state.  Trustee  St.  Vincent's  Coll.  since 
Oct.  1,  1890;  dir.  Los  Angeles  Public  Library,  1897-9  and  from 
1901  to  date  (term  ends  1911);  trustee  of  State  Normal  School, 
San  Diego,  Cal.,  from  Dec,  1898,  to  date  (term  ends  July,  1912). 
Democratic  candidate  for  Lieutenant  Governor,  1902,  and  delegate 
to  National  convention,  1908.  Mem.  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
Southwest  Society  Archaeological  Institute  of  America,  N.  S.  G. 
W.,  B.  P.  O.  E.,  Knights  of  Columbus,  Young  Men's  Institute, 
Royal  Arcanum  and  California,  Gamut  and  Newman  clubs. 
Married  June  30,  1891,  Gertude  Reeve;  has  ten  children. 


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DICK  FERRIS,  Los  ANGELES 

Born  Washington,  D.  C,  in  1867.  Active,  practical  life  since 
boyliood,  his  last  position  before  coming  to  California,  la  1890, 
being  rate  clerk  for  the  Wabash  Railway  in  Chicago.  For  years 
been  known  as  one  of  the  leading  amusement  promoters  in  the 
West:  has  owned  and  operated  ten  plays  and  companies  and  three 
theaters,  one  for  four  years  In  Minneapolis;  operated  stock  compa- 
nies in  Chicago,  Minneapolis,  Duluth,  Omaha,  Seattle,  San  Francisco 
and  Los  Angeles.  In  1908  purchased  the  balloons  United  States 
and  America,  the  latter  winning  the  international  long  distance 
trophy  in  France,  and  both  winning  second  and  third  prizes  in 
Chicago.  Organized  first  aviation  meet  Los  Angeles,  1909,  various 
automobile  shows  and  athletic  events.  Manager  of  widely 
known  Ferris  Stock  Company  and  Graustark  Company;  is  heavily 
Interested  in  mining  and  oil  lands.  Mem.  of  social  clubs.  Mason 
(Shriner),  Elk,  K.  of  P.  and  T.  M.  A.  Wife,  the  talented  actress, 
Florence  Stone. 


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THEODORE  WIESENDAXGER,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  St.  Gallen,  Switzerland,  in  1851.  Studied  at  the 
University  of  Geneva,  that  country,  until  1874.  Came  to 
Los  Angeles  from  London,  England,  in  1884;  Professor 
at  the  University  of  Southern  California  until  1885;  since 
that  year  has  been  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  in 
Los  Angeles,  having  built  over  thirty  large  apartment 
houses,  and  subdivided,  improved  and  sold  many  tracts  in 
the  city.      Mem.  of  the  University  Club  of  Los  Angeles. 


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JAMES  CALHOUN  DRAKE,  Los  ANGELES 

Born  at  Cincinnati,  Waslilngton  Co.,  Ark.,  July  26,  1858,  son 
of  Wesley  and  Martha  Kellum.  After  receiving  a  common- 
school  education,  obtained  appointment  as  cadet  to  XJ.  S.  Naval 
Academy,  from  which  graduated  in  1880;  several  years  cruising 
In  the  Meditteranean,  and  along  the  West  Indian,  Central  and 
South  American  coasts;  then  tliree  years  in  the  U.  S.  Coast  and 
Geodetic  Survey,  in  command  of  government  vessels  on  the  coasts 
of  North  CaroUna  and  Georgia.  Commencing  in  1890,  miade  a 
three  years'  cruise  around  the  world  in  the  U.  S.  S.  "AUiance;" 
most  of  the  time,  in  Asiatic  waters.  In  1893  appointed  Inspector 
of  Ordnance,  San  Francisco,  and  equipped  the  "Olympia"  and 
"Oregon."  In  1895  resumed  civil  life  at  Los  Angeles;  has  been 
Water  Works  Commissioner;  Dir.  First  Natn'l  Bank,  twelve 
years,  and  Pres.  since  1903  of  Los  Angeles  Trust  &  Savings  Bank. 
Dir  of  other  companies  and  mem.  of  clubs.  Married  Fanny  Wil- 
cox, Apr.  26,    1893;   two  children. 


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EDWARD  KING  ISAACS,  Los  Angeles 

Native  of  Wisconsin;  spent  boyhood  on  farm;  taught  first 
term  of  school  when  seventeen.  Attended  business  college 
in  Madison,  Wis.,  and  the  Normal  Coll.  (now  the  Univer- 
sity) of  Valparaiso,  Ind.,  in  which  institution  he  was  after- 
ward an  instructor  for  ten  years.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in 
1892  and  has  been  in  active  business  college  work  since; 
is  Pres.  and  manager  of  the  Isaacs- Woodbury  Business  Coll., 
established  in  1884 — the  oldest  and  largest  business  college 
in  the  Southwest.  Mr.  Isaacs  has  a  national  reputation  as 
a  penman  and  business  educator;  during  the  last  fifteen 
years  has  also  gained  a  reputation  as  an  expert  authority 
and   court-witness   on   questioned   hand-written   documents. 


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C.  RANDALL  SPARKS,    Los  Angeles 

Bom  Feb.  25.  1875.  at  Richmond,  Va.  Moved  to  Texas 
In  1876.  Educated  at  Baylor  University,  the  K.  M,  I.  and 
Other  universities.  Admitted  to  Supreme  Court  of  State 
of  Texas,  Mar.  9,  1894;  accredited  as  the  youngest  attorney 
ever  admitted  in  the  state.  Public  Prosecutor  of  McLellan 
Co.,  Tex.,  1895-7.  Moved  to  state  of  Washington,  1898; 
became  a  member  of  the  firm  Fleming,  Johnson  &  Sparks," 
appointed  special  Judge  of  Superior  Court;  left  Washington 
to  become  attorney  for  a  cotton  company,  with  headquarters 
in  London.  Came  to  California  and  was  associated  with 
the  firm  of  Morton,  Pruitt  &  Goodrich  afterward  member 
of  MillsaP  &  Sparks  as  at  present. 


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LEWIS  EUGENE  FORD.  D.  D.  S.,   Los  ANGELES 

Born  Rockford,  111.,  Jan.  29,  1872.  Moved  to  Chicago  and 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  that  city.  Received  professional 
education  at  Chicago  College  of  Dental  Surgery  "Lake  Forest 
University";  grad.  in  spring  of  1892,  youngest  mem.  of  his  class. 
Came  to  Los  Angeles  May,  1892  and  began  practice  of  Dentistry. 
Soon  identified  himself  with  dental  societies  and  was  Pres.  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Dental  Alumni  Assn.  Was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Southern  California  Dental  Assn.  and  served  as  its  first  Sec'y. 
for  six  years;  was  then  elected  Pres.  Has  been  connected  with 
College  of  Dentistry,  Univ.  of  Cal.  for  past  12  years  and  has  been 
its  Dean,  Professor  of  Operative  Dentistry  for  past  6  years;  was 
one  of  the  organizers  and  is  still  a  mem.  of  the  Jonathan  Club; 
mem.  and  Past  Grand  Master  of  Delta  Sigma  Delta  fraternity; 
mem.  of  the  National  Dental  Assn.  Thirty-second  degree,  Scot- 
tish Rite  Mason  and  Shriner.  Married  in  Los  Angeles  in  1897 
to   Miss   Minnie  K.   Ballard. 


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JOHN   R.    NORRIS,   Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Charles  Co.,  Md.,  Sept.  12,  1872;  at  four  years  of 
age  moved  with  parents  to  Washington,  D.  C;  public  school 
education,  but  in  business  for  himself  since  thirteen  years 
old.  For  ten  years  engaged  in  hotel  business  in  N.  Y.  City 
and  Chicago,  and  since  coming  to  Los  Angeles  in  1903,  with 
the  Conservative  Life  and  Pacific  Mutual  and  National  Life 
Insurance  Co.,  U.  S.  of  A.  (General  Agent  since  August, 
1909).  Delegate  to  National  Convention  of  Life  Under- 
writers at  Toronto,  Canada,  1907;  Los  Angeles,  1908;  Louis- 
ville, Ky.,  1909.  Mem.  Overland  Club,  Pasadena,  and  City 
Club,  Los  Angeles,-  Mason.  Married,  Feb.  17,  1901,  Vir- 
ginia Hayes,  of  Ogden,  Utah. 


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J.   D.  FREDERICKS,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1869,  son  of  Rev.  J.  T.  Fredericks,, 
a  Presbyterian  minister.  Classical  education  at  Washing- 
ton-Jefferson Coll.,  Pa.,  and  came  to  California  in  1890. 
Taught  school  and  read  law  at  Whittier,  Los  Angeles  Co.. 
in  the  early  nineties  and  admitted  to  bar,  1895.  Married 
Agnes  M.  Blakeley,  1896.  Served  in  Spanish-American  War,. 
1898.  Republicans  elected  him  District  Attorney  of  Los. 
Angeles  Co.,  1902;  re-nominated  by  all  parties,  four  years, 
later;  has  banished  from  the  county  gambling  and  illegal 
liquor  selling,  and  has  given  the  District  Attorney's  ofhce  a 
strong  and  fair  administration;  has  made  an  exhaustive 
study  of  crime  and  its  causes,  and  suggested  important 
remedies  for  many  social  evils. 


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Dr.  RALPH  HAGAN,    Los  Angeles 

Born  at  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  May  13,  1872.  Public  school 
education:  came  to  Los  Angeles,  1884;  graduated  from  the 
Medical  Department  of  the  University  of  Southern  CaH- 
fornia  January  4,  1895.  Served  as  druggist  in  Los  Angeles 
County  Hospital  1893-S;  House  Surgeon  in  same  Institu- 
tion 1895-6;  Pohce  Surgeon  City  of  Los  Angeles  1897-1901; 
in  general  practice  since  that  time.  Now  Consulting  Sur- 
geon Sisters'  Hospital.  Police  Commissioner  City  of  Los 
Angeles  1904-5.  Life  member  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Asso- 
ciation, prominent  Mason,  a  life  member  and  past  exalted 
ruler  Los  Angeles  Lodge  Elks  No.  99,  and  member  Sierra 
Madre  Club.  Married  May  12,  1897,  to  Mamie  Berke, 
native  of  Northfield,  Minn.,  and  one  of  the  society  leaders 
of  Los  Angeles. 


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CHARLES  S.  MONTGOMERY,  Los  Angeles 

Born  at  Springfield,  Ky.,  Jan.  13,  1870.  Educated  in  public 
schools  and  at  business  college ;  then  engaged  in  railroad 
work  for  two  years  and  for  the  succeeding  four  years  was  a 
commercial  traveler;  since  1895  has  been  identified  with 
the  life  insurance  business.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1904, 
having  spent  several  years  previously  on  the  Pacific  coast. 
Now,  General  Manager  for  Southern  California  of  the 
National  Life  Insurance  Co.  of  Vermont;  Pres.  Life  Under- 
writers' Assn.  of  Los  Angeles,  1908.  Married,  Dec.  4,  1890, 
Elsie  Westhoven,  of  Troy,  Ohio. 


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GEORGE  H.  HUTTON,  Santa  Monica 

Born  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  Aug.  5,  1875;  childliood  spent  as 
ward  of  his  uncle.  Rev.  George  H.  Bridgman,  Pres.  Hamline 
University,  of  that  city.  There  Judge  Hutton  obtained 
his  academic  education;  legal  courses  pursued  at  University 
of  Minnesota.  Admitted  to  Minnesota  bar  1893,  and 
for  four  years  served  as  assistant  attorney  of  Minneapolis 
&  St.  Paul  Railway.  Came  to  Santa  Monica  in  1897; 
continued  in  general  practice  until  his  election  as  Judge  of 
the  Superior  Court  in  1906.  Mem.  Masonic  fraternity; 
K.  of  P.  and  B.  P.  O.  E.  Married,  1897,  Dolores  Egleston. 
a  native  of  Pennsylvania;  one  son,  George  Robert  Egleston 
Hutton. 


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WILLIAM   TALTON   CRAIG,   LOS  ANGELES 

Born  at  Watsonville,  Cal.,  Mar.  8,  1866,  son  of  Andrew  and  Mary 
Catherine  (Pace)  Craig.  Educated  in  public  schools  of  Santa 
Cruz  and  San  Francisco;  Univ.  of  California  (grad.  1899,  Ph.B.) 
and  Hastings  Law  Coll.,  1889-90.  Admitted  to  prac.  by  California 
Supreme  Court,  Nov.  11,  1890:  associated  with  father,  e.\-Judge 
Andrew  Craig,  in  San  Francisco,  under  name  of  Craig  &  Craig, 
until  1893,  when  he  moved  to  Los  Angeles.  In  1900  formed  with 
E.  T.  Dunning  the  firm  of  Dunning  &  Craig,  who  were  attorneys 
for  the  Wholesalers  Board  of  Trade;  has  practiced  alone  since 
1905,  he  (with  Carroll  Allen)  being  attorneys  for  the  body  named; 
also  legal  representative  for  many  mercantile  and  mining  corpora- 
tions; has  made  a  specialty  of  bankruptcy  litigation,  and  is  lecturer 
upon  that  subject  in  the  Univ.  of  Southern  California.  Mem.  of 
leading  clubs  and  commercial  bodies;  Thirty-second  degree  Mason 
and  Shriner.     Married,  Nov.  20,  1905,  L.  Etta  Brown;  has  two  sons. 


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JOHN  CASPAR  AVAKIAN,  Los  ANGELES 

Born  Harpoot,  Armenia,  Mar.  1,  1875;  his  father,  for  forty-three 
years  Dean  Faculty  of  Euphrates  Coll.,  that  city.  Early  education 
in  that  institution;  came  to  U.  S.,  1888;  completed  preparatory 
courses  in  Troy  (N.  Y.)  public  school  and  Cook  Academy,  Montour 
Falls  (N.  Y.),  and  finished  freshman  year  at  Colgate  University. 
Lectured,  1895-7,  in  Canada  and  the  eastern  U.  S.  in  behalf  of 
persecuted  Christians  in  Ottoman  Empire;  commercial  traveler 
in  New  England  States,  1897-8;  student  Rensselaer  Poly.  Ins., 
1898-1902  (grad.  with  degree  C.  E.).  From  graduation  to  Apr., 
1903,  asst.  eng.  Lehigh  Valley  R.  R.  and  locating  eng.  Buflalo, 
Dunkirk  &  Western  R.  R.  Moved  to  Los  Angeles;  asst.  eng. 
(U.  S.  Reclamation  Service)  on  Yuma  project,  Ariz.,  and  Kla- 
math project,  Ore.,  1903-6;  June,  1906,  opened  office  in  Los  Angeles; 
Oct.,  1908.  organized  Riverside  Groves  &  Water  Co.  (capital, 
$1,000,000),  of  which  he  is  Pres.,  Gen'l  Mang'r  and  Chief  Engineer. 
Assoc,  mem.  A.  S.  C.  E. 


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N.  H.  HAMILTON,  SANTA  MONICA 

Born  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  Feb.  17,  1852.  Home  in  Minnesota  from 
1854  to  1878;  grad.  Winona  High  School  1871;  student  Univ.  of 
Michigan,  1872-4;  grad.  Rush  Medical  Coll.,  Chicago,  1877. 
Resided  in  North  Dakota  from  1878  to  1893;  came  to  Santa  Monica 
for  hla  health  in  that  year  and  was  appointed  District  Surgeon  for 
the  S.  P.  R.  R.  Co.;  one  of  the  organizers  and  first  Pres.  of  Santa 
Monica  Bay  Hospital.  Mem.  American  Medical  Assn.  (twenty- 
five  years),  California  State  Medical  Society  and  Los  Angeles  County 
Medical  Assn.  In  Masonry,  mem.  of  Commandery  and  Mystic 
Shrine  (Malaikah  Temple);  Signet  Chapter  No.  57  R.  A.  M.  of 
Los  Angeles  and  S.  M.  Lodge  F.  &  A.  M.  No.  307.  Dir.  of  Western 
Masons'  Mutual  Life  Assn.  of  Los  Angeles,  and  stockholder  and 
dlr.  of  Bank  of  Santa  Monica.  Republican.  Mem.  First  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Santa  Monica;  also,  of  Optimist  Club  of  America 
and  Committee  of  One  Hundred  on  National  Health.  Married 
Oct.  21,  1887,  to  Miss  Bertha  R.  Crookston;  three  daughters. 


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HOMER  HAMLIN,  Los  Angeles 

Born  on  Pine  Island,  Minn.,  1864.  Educated  in  common 
and  high  schools.  Came  to  California,  1886,  locating  in 
San  Diego,  where,  in  1887,  began  civil  engineering  in  City- 
Engineer's  office.  Located  in  Los  Angeles,  1895,  and  since 
been  engaged  in  professional  work;  1904-6,  in  charge  of 
reclamation  work  at  Yuma,  Ariz,  as  Project  Engineer; 
appointed  City  Engineer  of  Los  Angeles  (still  in  office) ,  1906; 
first  year  of  his  service  completed  the  out-fall  sewer  for  the 
city.  Is  Consulting  Engineer  for  Los  Angeles  Aqueduct, 
and  Chief  Engineer  Bureau  Harbor  Improvements  of  the 
city;  one  of  the  leading  engineers  of  the  Pacific  coast.  Mar- 
ried, 1889,  Miss  C.  D.  Smith. 


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ROBERT  DOLLARD,  Santa  Monica 

Born  Fall  River,  Mass.,  1842.  Educated  public  schools. 
Enlisted  Apr.  16,  1861,  Co.  B,  Fourth  Mass.  Inf.,  serving 
throughout  the  war;  promoted  through  all  grades  to  major, 
receiving  that  commission  in  October,  1864.  Located  at 
Galesburg,  111.,  1866;  admitted  to  the  bar,  1870;  prac.  there 
until  1879,  when  became  first  settler  Douglas  Co.,  Dakota 
Ty.  Mem.  of  Senate  Dakota  Ty.,  First  Constitutional  Con- 
vention, 1883,  South  Dakota,  also,  cf  Second,  in  1885;  elected 
Attorney  General  under  provisional  government,  and  on 
admission  of  South  Dakota,  in  1889,  became  Attorney 
General  of  State,  also  member  of  House  and  Senate  legislature 
of  that  state.  Came  to  Santa  Monica,  1907.  Mem.  Loval 
Legion  G.  A.  R.  and  K.  of  P.  Married  1875,  Carrie  Dunn 
at  Yates  City,  111. 


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EDITH    JANE     CLAYPOLE,     M.     D.,    PASADENA 

Born  in  Bristol,  England,  daughter  of  Edward  Waller  and  Jane 
(Trotter)  Claypole.  Grad.  from  Buchtel  Coll.,  Akron,  Ohio  (Ph.B.) 
and  from  Cornell  Univ.  (M.S.).  Taught  at  Wellesley  College  for 
five  years,  two  of  which,  as  acting-professor.  Attended  Medical 
department  of  Cornell  University  for  two  years,  teaching  in  the 
department  during  same  time;  then  came  to  California  and  taught 
one  year  at  Throop  Polytechnic  Institute;  completed  medical  stud- 
ies at  University  of  Southern  California  (degree,  M.D).  Prominent 
as  a  pathologist  and  writer  on  medical  subjects.  Fellow  American 
Assn.  for  the  Advancement  of  Science  and  Southern  California 
Academy  of  Science.  Mem.  American  Medical  Assn.,  California 
State  Medical  Society,  Wellesley  College  Club  and  Cornell  Uni- 
versity Club  of  Southern  CaUfornia.  Attending  pathologist  to 
Pasadena  Hospital. 


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STEPHEN   HARRIS  TAFT,   SawTELLE 

Born  Sept.  14,  1825,  at  Palermo,  N.  Y.  Abolitionist  speaker  at 
eighteen;  entered  ministry  at  twenty-two.  Delegate  to  tlie 
National  Free  Soil  Convention  of  1852,  the  Anti-Nebraslia  con- 
vention held  at  Saratoga  Springs,  and  to  the  Maine  Law  conven- 
tion ol  New  Yorli  that  nominated  Governor  Clark  in  1854.  Came 
to  Iowa  in  1862;  laid  out  the  town  of  Humboldt,  organized  a  church 
and  built  a  saw-  and  grist-mill;  founded  Humboldt  Coll.,  in  1872, 
of  which  Pres.  nine  years.  Has  attended  five  centennial  celebra- 
tions— Battle  of  Lexington,  Boston  Tea  Party,  Declaration  ol 
Independence,  Discovery  of  O.xygen  Gas  and  World's  Centennial 
Temperance  Congress  of  1908;  also,  bi-oentennial  of  the  coming 
of  Great  Ancestor  from  England  to  America.  Has  entertained  at 
his  eastern  home  many  celebrated  reformers,  men  and  women. 
Came  to  California,  1896;  superintended  founding  of  Sawtelle; 
first  Pres.  Los  Angeles  County  Anti-Saloon  League. 


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HERMAN   WASHINGTON   FRANK,   LOS  ANGELES 

Born  at  Portland,  Ore.,  July  4,  1860,  son  of  Abraham  and  Matilda 
Frank,  Oregon  pioneers.  Educated  In  the  public  schools  and  at 
Whiteman  College,  Walla  Walla,  Wash.  Became  clerk  in  general 
store  at  Weston,  Ore.:  in  1S76  identified  with  large  San  Francisco 
wholesale  house,  and  In  1887  came  to  Los  Angeles:  in  1888  became 
partner  in  L.  Harris  &  Co.  (now  Harris  &  Frank),  a  leading  house 
on  the  Pacific  coast.  Mem.  Board  of  Education  for  the  past  four 
years;  Pres.,  for  ten  years,  of  the  Associated  Charities;  dir.  for 
years  of  the  Merchants'  &  Manufacturers'  Assn.  (Pres.  1896-8J ; 
in  connection  with  that  body,  in  latter  year,  raised  (with  Judge 
Charles  Silent)  .?26,000  for  the  relief  of  the  unemployed  in  Los 
Angeles.  Pres.  of  Harris  &  Frank,  Inc.,  Secy.  L.  Harris  Realty 
Co.,  and  Riverside  Vineyard  Co.,  Inc.  Dir.  National  Bank  Cali- 
fornia. Married,  Nov.  14,  1888,  Sadie  Harris,  a  native  of  Los 
Angeles;  two  sons,  Alvin  H.  and  Lawrence  P. 


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ERNEST  CARROLL  MOORE,  Los  Angeles 

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CHARLES  JOHNSON   NOYES,  Los  ANGELES 

Born  in  Haverhill,  Mass.,  Aug.  7,  1841.  Died  October  16,  1910. 
Grad.  Haverhill  Academy,  July.  1860.  and  Union  College,  Schenec- 
tady, N.  Y.  1864;  Received  from  the  latter  A.  B.,  in  1864,  and 
LL.D.  in  1888,  when  he  delivered  the  Honorary  Chancellor's  address. 
Admitted  to  the  Massachusetts  Supreme  Court,  1864;  U.  S.  Dis- 
trict and  Circuit  Courts  at  Boston  1867,  and  U.  S.  Supreme  Court, 
1877.  Came  to  California,  1905,  admitted  to  Court  of  Appeals, 
Oct.  8,  1906.  and  to  U.  S.  District  and  Circuit  Courts  for  Cali- 
fornia, Sept.  16,  1907.  Judge  of  Boston  Municipal  Court,  So. 
Boston  Dist.  (appointed  by  Governor  John  D.  Long),  1882-1905; 
mem.  Massachusetts  State  Senate,  1867;  House  of  Representatives, 
1866,  1877-82,  and  1887-8:  Speaker  of  same,  last  live  terms.  Re- 
publican. Mem.  Masonic  fraternity  (past  commander  and 
past  master),  I.  O.  O.  F.,  K.  of  P.  (past  chan.)  and  B.  P.  O.  E 
Married,  Mar.  9,  1864,  to  Emily  Wells. 


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A.  H.  KOEBIG,  Los  ANGELES 

Born  in  Germany,  1852.  Educated  In  government  technical  uni- 
versities of  that  country,  graduating  from  Karlsruhe  Polytechnic 
University  in  1876;  asst.  engineer  in  German  Government  Service, 
1876-80;  came  to  U.  S.  in  latter  year.  Assistant  and  resident 
engineer  for  various  railway  companies,  1880-8.  Since  1888  has 
made  a  specialty  of  hydraulic  and  mining  engineering;  has  served 
for  seven  years  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Consulting  Engineers 
for  the  city  of  Los  Angeles.  Is  considered  one  of  the  foremost 
engineers  in  the  U.  S.  on  litigated  cases  concerning  water  rights. 
Resident  of  Los  Angeles  since  1900.  Mem.  Engineers  &  Architects' 
Assn.;  also,  California  Club,  University  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  Uni- 
versity Club  of  Redlands,  Los  Angeles  Country  Club  and  San 
Gabriel  Country  Club.  In  1909  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
his  son,  A.  H.  Koebig,  Jr.,  under  the  name  of  Koebig  &  Koebig 
Civil  and  Consulting  Engineers,  with  offices  in  Suite  902  Broadway 
Central  Building,  Los  Angeles. 


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GERTRUDE   GRIFFIX   SMITH,   (Deceased) 

Born  at  Mallorytown,  Ontario.  Canada, June  23rd,  1872; 
died  at  Santa  Monica,  Cal.  Sept.  25,  1909.  Moved  with 
her  parents,  John  and  Mary  Jane  Griffin,  from  Ontario  to 
Grand  Forks.  N.  D..  1878.  Married  P.  H.  Smith,  Dec.  14, 
1898;  three  children;  Seville,  Saloame  (deceased)  and  P.  H. 
Smith,  Jr.  Mrs.  Smith  was  greatly  beloved  for  her  earnest 
devotion  to  her  home  and  friends,  and  admired  for  her 
refinement  and  culture.  During  her  short  residence  in 
Southern  California  she  won  the  affection  of  all  with  whom 
she  came  in  contact.  Her  unchanging  kindness,  her  radiant 
smile,  her  consideration  for  others,  her  purity  and  womanly 
devotion,  won  for  her  the  love  of  all  who  came  within  the 
circle  of  her  influence. 


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p.  H.  SMITH,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Mount  Pleasant,  la.,  May  18,  1861,  son  of  Simon  and 
Jane  (Kelly)  Smith.  He  educated  himself  in  the  public 
schools,  at  Howe's  Academy  and  Iowa  Wesleyan  University. 
On  leaving  college  engaged  in  engineering  and  for  some 
time  was  in  the  employ  of  the  C.  B.  &  Q.  R.  R.  (engineering 
department).  Owner  of  valuable  iron  mines  in  the  Mesaba 
Range,  Minn.  Came  to  Santa  Monica,  1908.  Vice  Pres. 
Merchants  National  Bank  Santa  Monica  and  Mendota 
Coal  &  Coke  Co.,  Centralia,  Wash.  Mem.  California  Club, 
and  B.  P.  O.  E.  Art  critics  pronounce  Mr.  Smith's  collection 
of  paintings  and  Oriental  rugs  the  finest  on  the  Pacific  coast. 


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WILLIAM  MULHOLLAND,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Belfast,  Ireland,  1855,  son  of  Hugh  and  Ellen  (Deakers) 
MulhoUand.  Educated  in  Dublin  public  schools  and  under  private 
instructors  in  mathematics  and  navigation.  Followed  a  sea-faring 
life  from  1870  to  1875.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  February,  1877, 
and  since  1878  has  been  connected  with  the  water  supply  companies 
of  the  city.  Appointed  Chief  Engineer  water  department  Los 
Angeles  1902  and  still  holds  position;  also  is  Chief  Engineer  and 
one  of  the  leading  promoters  of  the  Owens  River  Aqueduct  pro- 
ject. Mem.  American  Socy.  Civil  Engineers,  Engineers  and  Archi- 
tects Assn.  Southern  California,  and  California  and  Celtic  clubs. 
Married,  1890,  Lillie  Ferguson;  five  children. 


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PATRICK  HAWE,  Santa  Monica 

Born  in  County  Kilkenny,  Ireland.  1847.  Educated  at  the 
■Classical  Academy  of  the  CarmeHtes  and  at  All  Hallows 
College,  DubHn.  Ireland,  graduating  in  1872.  Consecrated 
to  the  priesthood  at  All  Hallows  College,  June  24,  1872; 
■came  to  Southern  California  the  same  year  and  has  filled 
various  charges  in  the  State,  having  been  located  at  Santa 
Monica  since  1886.  Father  Hawe  has  erected  a  goodly 
number  of  churches  and  schools,  and  his  priestly  labors  have 
been  long,  arduous  and  effective.  He  is  admired  and  beloved 
"both  as  a  man  and  a  minister  of  the  Gospel. 


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C.  H.  BAKER,  Sierra  Madre 

Born  in  Martin  Co.,  Ind.  Dec.  23,  1869.  Educated  in  public 
schools  of  Shoals,  Ind.  and  State  Agricultural  College, 
Manhattan,  Kansas.  Began  the  shoe  business  when  nine- 
teen years  of  age,  at  Plymouth,  Ind.,  and  has  since  continued 
in  that  line.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1897  and  is  now  the 
proprietor  of  three  stores  in  that  city  at  Nos.  237-9  South 
Spring  St.,  451  South  Broadway  and  629  South  Broadway; 
also  two  stores  in  San  Francisco  and  one  in  Portland,  Ore. 
Is  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 
Mason  and  life  member  of  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club. 


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CHARLES  B.  GUTHRIE,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  Dec.  9,  1875.  Educated  in  public 
and  high  schools  of  Iowa.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1905; 
manager  of  escrow  department  of  Los  Angeles  Abstract  & 
Trust  Co.,  1905-6.  Now  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business; 
Pres.  C.  B.  Guthrie  &  Co.,  incorporated  in  1907.  Mem, 
Los  Angeles  Realty  Board;  delegate  National  Farm  Congress, 
1909.  Mem.  Sierra  Madre  Club;  Masonic  fraternity; 
K.  of  P.  (Chancellor  Commander  of  Inter-Domain  Lodge 
No.  55,  1910),  and  B.  P.  O.  E.  Married,  1905,  Pearl  C. 
Coles,  a  native  of  Iowa. 


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JOHN  JAMES  BACKUS,   LOS  ANGELES 

Born  In  England,  1863,  son  of  Jonathan  James  and  Maria  Jane 
(Lewis)  Backus.  Educated  in  common  schoois;  came  to  U.  S.  In 
1882  and  located  near  Pittsburg,  Pa.;  there  about  Ave  years,  and 
in  1887  came  to  Southern  California.  Engaged  in  business  as  con- 
tractor and  builder  almost  continuously  until  1902;  from  that  year 
until  1905  was  in  the  real  estate  business,  and  in  1905  appointed 
Building  Superintendent  for  the  City  of  Los  Angeles,  which  he  still 
holds.  During  this  oflBcial  period  he  has  closely  studied  architec- 
ture, and  is  licensed  to  practice  by  the  State  Board  of  Architecture. 
Mem.  Southern  California  Chapter,  American  Institute  of  Archi- 
tects, and  dir.  Engineers'  &  Architects'  Assn.  of  Southern  California. 
Married,  at  Allegheny,  Pa.,  1886,  Miss  Alice  D.  Green,  daughter 
of  John  Green,  a  Mansfield  (Pa.)  merchant. 


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OSCAR  EUGENE  FARISH,  Los  Angeles 
1895;  two  children,  Muriel  Estelle  and  Gwendolen. 


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MELVILLE   DOZIER,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Georgetown,  S.  C,  May  22.  1846.  Educated  at 
Furman  University.  Greenville,  S.  C..  and  the  State  Mili- 
tary Academy.  Charleston.  Served  in  the  battalion  of 
State  Cadets  during  last  year  of  the  Civil  War.  chiefly 
engaged  in  the  defence  of  Charleston.  Graduated  from 
Furman  University  in  1867;  came  to  California  in  1868  and 
assumed  the  work  of  public-school  teaching,  in  which  he 
has  continued  for  thirty-eight  years;  Principal  Santa  Rosa 
High  School  from  1874  to  1884;  for  twenty-two  years  past 
mem.  of  faculty  of  the  State  Normal  School,  Los  Angeles; 
in  1906  and  1909.  elected  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Board  of  Education;  Auditor  of  the  great  Los  Angeles  Aque- 
duct from  the  beginning  of  the  enterprise  to  July  1st.  1910, 
Elected  Asst.  Supt.  of  Schools  for  Los  Angeles  City  in  June 
1910.     Has  been  a  Deacon  in  the  Baptist  church  since  1874. 


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JAMES  A.  FOSHAY,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Cold  Spring.  N.  Y.,  Nov.  25,  1856.  Grad.  State 
Normal  School,  Albany,  N.  Y.,  1879;  A.M..  Univ.  Southern 
California;  Pd.D.,  State  Normal  Coll..  Albany,  N.  Y., 
Taught  public  schools  Putnam  Co.,  N.  Y.,  1879-81;  School 
Commissioner,  1881-7;  Secretary  N.  Y.  Assn.  School  Com- 
missioners and  Supts.,  1884-6.  Moved  to  California,  1887. 
Mem.  School  Examining  Board,  Los  Angeles  Co.,  1889-95; 
Deputy  Supt.  Schools,  Los  Angeles,  1893-5;  Superintendent. 
July.  1895.  to  March  1,  1906.  Elected  Supreme  Pres. 
Fraternal  Brotherhood,  in  January,  1906.  Mem.  Natn'l. 
Council  of  Education  and  California  Council  of  Education; 
identified  with  Sunset,  University  and  Jonathan  Clubs. 
Grand  Master  California  Grand  Lodge  of  Masons.  1900-1. 
Married,  March  18,  1885,  Miss  Phebe  Powell  Miller. 


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LAWRENCE  B.  BURCK,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Galveston,  Texas,  1872.  Educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  University  of  Texas.  Engaged  for  eight  years  in 
the  wholesale  importation  of  Teas,  Coffee  and  Spices  at 
Galveston,  Texas.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1904  and  has 
since  formed  several  companies  devoted  to  building,  loan, 
and  investment,  which  have  been  important  factors  in  the 
development  of  the  city.  Is  President  of  The  Lawrence  B. 
Burck  Co.,  and  Vice  President  of  The  Los  Angeles  Abstract 
&  Trust  Co.  Was  married  in  September,  1905,  to  Phila  B., 
daughter  of  Gail  B.  Johnson. 


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CHARLES  HULBERT  TOLL,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Clinton,  la.,  Nov.  24,  1858.  Attended  public  schools 
there  and  college  at  Mt.  Vernon,  la.  Began  to  earn  living 
in  factory  at  Clinton;  served  there  as  Deputy  County  Clerk 
and  Deputy  Postmaster.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  Septem- 
ber, 1885;  conducted  grocery  seven  years;  Councilman  of 
Fifth  Ward  four  years.  Cashier  and  Director  Southern 
California  Savings  Bank,  1900-7;  Vice  Pres.  and  Director 
of  Security  Savings  Bank  since.  Mem.  Jonathan,  Athletic, 
City  and  Union  League  Clubs,  and  Merchants'  &  Manufac- 
turers' Assn.,  Municipal  League  and  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Married,  Sept.  4,  1901,  Miss  Eleanor  M.  Jov. 


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FRANK   D.    McCLURE,   Los  Angeles 

Born  Fremont  Co.,  la.,  1871,  and  came  to  California  in 
1884.  Educated  in  Stockton  Normal  School  and  Val- 
paraiso (Ind.)  University;  grad.  from  latter  in  1894,  with 
B.  S.  (LL.B.,  1896).  Admitted  to  Indiana  bar  and  U.  S. 
Circuit  courts  for  the  district  of  Indiana  in  1896;  same  year 
to  California  courts.  Prac.  at  Visaiia,  Cal.,  1896-1900; 
Bakersfield,  1900-7,  and  since  the  la':ter  year  at  Los  Angeles. 
Member  of  the  firm  of  Woodruff  &  McCIure;  legal  repre- 
sentatiye  of  San  Pedro  harbor  interests  at  Washington , 
D.  C,  before  Secretary  of  War  (1908),  in  controyersy  defin- 
ing and  establishing  the  lines  of  the  Inner  and  Outer  harbors. 
Mem.  B.  P.  O.  E.      Married.   1396.   Miss  Angie  E.  Nugent. 


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EDWARD  S.  COBB,  Los  ANGELES 

Took  full  course  of  mechanical  engineering  at  Worcester  (Mass.) 
Polytechnic  Institute,  1875-9;  1880-2,  headquarters  in  Boston, 
especially  a  testing  engineer  and  designer  of  machine  and  power 
plants;  Professor  of  Mechanical  Engineering,  Rose  Polytechnic 
Institute,  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  1882-8;  general  engineering,  Dallas, 
Tex.,  and  Muskogee,  I.  T.,  1882-92;  special  work  on  designs  and 
tests  for  steam  engine  manufacturers  of  Erie,  Pa.,  1892-3.  Came 
to  California  in  1893;  mechanical  and  hydraulic  engineer  for  Ris- 
don  Iron  Works,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  1893-4;  designer  of  water 
power  plants,  mine-machinery  Installations  and  general  consulting 
practice,  1894-6;  senior  member  Cobb  &  Hesselmeyer,  leading 
hydraulic  and  general  engineers,  and  naval  constructors,  San  Fran- 
cisco, 1896-1901;  came  to  Los  Angeles,  latter  year,  and  has  since 
been  a  leading  consulting  engineer,  chiefly  engaged  in  heavy  con- 
struction work  on  bridges,  buildings,  pipe  lines,  power  plants  and 
re-inforced  concrete. 


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ERNEST  B.  COIL.  Los  Angeles 

Born  Perry,  Ralls  Co.,  Mo.,  Dec.  13,  1877.  son  of  James  A. 
and  Barbara  Amanda  (Ball)  Coil.  Educated  public  schools; 
Mexico  (Mo.)  High  School,  from  which  grad.  1895;  Mis- 
souri State  University,  two  years;  Columbia  Law  School, 
three  years;  and  one  year  of  law  study  under  private  tutor- 
ship. Located  at  Bakersfield,  Cal.,  June  1,  1901;  remained 
until  1904,  being  Deputy  District  Atty.  Kern  Co.;  prac. 
San  Francisco,  1904-7;  and  since  latter  year  in  Los  Angeles; 
until  Nov.,  1907.  associated  with  A.  B.  McCutchen,  and  now 
with  the  firm  O'Melveny,  Stevens  and  Milliken.  In  poli- 
tics, a  Democrat.  Married  in  1904,  to  Miss  Amelia  May 
Reardan. 


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GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


ROBERT  ARNOLD  ROWAN,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Chicago,  111.,  Aug.  20,  1876,  son  of  George  D.  and 
Fannie  F.  Rowan.  Father,  a  wholesale  grocer  and  real 
estate  operator,  died  Sept.  7,  1902.  R.  A.  Rowan  came  to 
Los  Angeles  with  parents  in  1876.  Public  school  education. 
Export  business,  N.  Y.  City,  1893-4;  merchandise  broker, 
1895-7,  and  since  latter  year  engaged  in  real  estate  business. 
Pres.  R.  A.  Rowan  &  Co.;  firm  largely  interested  in  Security 
building;  and  the  Chester  office  bldg.  contracts  for  which 
have  just  been  let  and  which  will  exceed  $1,000,000;  person- 
ally, joint  owner  (with  A.  C.  Bilicke)  of  Hotel  Alexandria. 
Mem.  Los  Angeles  Realty  Board  and  California,  Jonathan, 
Los  Angeles  Country,  Pasadena  Country  and  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Clubs,  being  Pres.  of  last  named. 


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PHILLIP   D.  ROWAN,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Los  Angeles  Co.,  Sept.  11,  1884.  Educated  in  pri- 
vate and  public  schools  of  the  city.  Employee  of  Farmers' 
&  Merchants'  Bank,  1900-01;  in  September  of  the  latter 
year  became  associated  with  his  brother,  R.  A.  Rowan,  and 
since  July,  1905,  identified  with  the  management  and  opera- 
tion of  the  firm  of  R.  A.  Rowan  &  Co.,  of  which  he  is  Treas- 
urer. Interested  in  the  Security  and  Chester  office  build- 
ings and  other  properties.  Mem.  California,  Jonathan, 
Los  Angeles,  Athletic  and  San  Gabriel  Country  Clubs. 


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FRED  S.  ROWAN,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  Jan.  31,  1879.  Educated  in  Pasa- 
dena grammar  and  high  schools.  With  the  Tufts-Lyon 
Arms  Co.,  1899-01,  and  since  1902  associated  with  R.  A. 
Rowan  &  Co.,  of  which  he  has  been  Secretary  since  1904; 
interested  in  the  Security,  and  Chester  office  buildings 
and  other  properties.  Mem.  California,  Los  Angeles  Athletic 
and  Los  Angeles  Country  clubs,  and  Native  Sons  of  Cali- 
fornia. 


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WILLIAM   G.  KERCKHOFF,  LOS  ANGELES 

Born  in  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  son  of  George  and  PhlUiplne  (Newhart) 
Kercklioff,  natives  of  Germany.  Educated  in  tliat  city  and  in 
Germany.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  In  1875;  became  active  in  the 
lumber  business  and  in  April,  1879,  associated  himself  with  James 
Cuzner;  later,  the  Kerckhoff-Cuzner  Mill  &  Lumber  Co.  was  orga- 
nized, in  which  both  founders  are  still  interested,  Mr.  Kerckhoff 
being  Pres.  Corporation  controls  mills  and  lumber  lands,  steamers 
and  schooners  on  the  Umpqua  river,  wharves  at  San  Pedro  and 
retail  yards  through  Southern  California.  Mr.  Kerckhoff 
built  the  ten-story  steel  building  occupied  by  the  com- 
pany and  the  Santa  Fe  road;  is  also  Pres.  Pacific  Light  &  Power 
Co.  and  of  the  San  Joaquin  Light  &  Power  Co.  Mem.  California, 
Jonathan,  Pacific  Union,  Bohemian,  Los  Angeles  Country,  Rocky 
Mountain,  Bolsa  Chica  and  Del  Rey  Clubs.  Served  two  terms 
as  State  Commissioner  of  the  Yosemite  Valley. 


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JAMES  STARK  BENNETT,  Pasadena 

Born     at    Sherburn,    Oneida    Co..      N.    Y.    May    7.    1879. 

Removed  to  California  with  his  parents  in  1888.  Graduated 
from  Pomona  College  in  the  class  of  1903,  and  received  the 
degrees  of  M.  A.  and  LL.B.  from  Columbia  University  in 
1905  and  1906  respectively.  Admitted  to  the  practice  of 
the  law  in  New  York  in  1905  and  in  California  the  following 
year.  Since  January  1.  1910.  has  been  engaged  in  general 
practice  as  member  of  the  firm  of  Fleming  &  Bennett  with 
offices  in  Los  Angeles.  Member  of  the  University  Club. 
Married  October  8.  1907.  to  Ethelwyn  Foote  of  Pasadena 
where  they  have  since  resided. 


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CHARLES  FORMAN,  Los  ANGELES 

Born  near  Owego,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  14,  1835.  Educated  in  public 
schools  of  native  town  and  Owego  Academy.  Came  to  Cali- 
fornia in  1853,  and  first  served  as  cashier  in  the  Sacramento  post- 
ofHce;  in  1857,  at  end  of  Uncle's  term  as  postmaster  went  over- 
land to  settle  accounts  at  Washington.  Returning  to  Sacramento, 
was  Deputy  Secretary  of  State  for  two  years;  then  engaged  In 
mining  in  and  around  Virginia  City,  Nev.,  and  while  so  engaged 
was  made  Major  General  of  State  Volunteers.  In  1882  moved 
headquarters  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  made  his  home  in  1887; 
became  Vice  Pres.  and  Manager  of  City  &  Central  Ry.  Co.  (after- 
ward Los  Angeles  Cable  Ry.  Co.) ;  since  1902  devoted  to  power 
development  of  Kern  River  Co.,  of  which  Pres.,  as  well  as  Sec- 
retary of  the  Pacific  Light  &  Power  Co.  Pres.,  two  years,  Los 
Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Married,  1862,  Mary  Agnes 
Gray;  two  children,  Eloise  and  Charles,  Jr. 


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GEORGE  H.  WOODRUFF.  Los  Angeles 

Born  at  Watertown,  Conn.,  in  1873.  son  of  J.  F.  and  Ellen 
(Atwood)  Woodruff.  Educated  in  Connecticut  public 
schools.  Moved  to  the  State  of  Washington,  1891.  Grad. 
Vashon  College,  Tacoma,  1896,  and  then  attended  Stanford 
University  (Cal.)  four  years.  Admitted  California  bar  in 
1902,-  City  Attorney  of  Whittier,  1903;  associate  counsel 
Title  Insurance  &  Trust  Co.,  1904-6;  chief  counsel  Union 
Trust  &  Title  Co.,  1906-7;  now  in  general  practice  and  mem- 
ber of  firm  of  Woodruff  &  McClure.  In  politics.  Republican. 
Mem.  Chamber  of  Commerce;  Masonic  fraternity  and 
B.  P.  O.  E.;  Jonathan  and  University  Clubs.  Married, 
1901,  Nellie  E.  Brittan. 


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E.  E.  EASTON,  Los  Angeles 

President  of  the  Engineers'  Exploration,  Ltd.,  selected  Los  Angeles 
as  his  permanent  home  in  1906,  because  his  exploration  work  In 
other  parts  of  the  world  left  no  room  for  doubt  that  Los  Angeles 
possesses  more  attractions  for  a  home  than  any  other  spot  on  earth, 
and  the  city  itself,  as  a  business  metropolis,  has  within  its  reach 
dormant  domains  of  unrivaled  wealth  when  developed.  He  spent 
nearly  a  year  in  exploration  work  in  South  Africa;  later  made  a 
comprehensive  examination  of  the  mineral  deposits  north  of  the  Zam- 
besi river.  East  Africa;  had  charge  of  an  expedition  for  French-Dutch 
capital  to  report  upon  the  mineral  possibilities  of  the  Malay  Penin- 
sula and  Borneo;  explored  the  Atlas  Mts.,  North  Sahara  Desert, 
and  did  similar  examination  work  in  Spanish  Honduras.  Married 
Ellse  HoUiday  In  Berkeley,  Cal.;  two  daughters  and  one  son.  Mem. 
Jonathan  Club,  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  Chamber  of  Mines. 


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PAUL  WADSWORTH  SCHENCK,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Albion,  Calhoun  Co.,  Mich.,  Aug.  18,  1874.  Grad. 
from  Lake  Forest  (111.)  University  in  1898,  with  the  degree 
LL.B.,  and  in  the  following  year  admitted  to  the  Illinois 
bar.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1902,  and  admitted  to  Cali- 
fornia bar  at  once;  has  practiced  criminal  law  almost  exclu- 
sively. Married,  1908,  to  Genevieve  W.  Kittrelle,  a  native 
of  California  and  daughter  of  Marvin  B.  and  Mary  (Jones) 
Kittrelle,  of  Modesto,  Cal. 


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EDWIN  W.  SARGENT,  Los  Angeles 
Born  at  Oregon,  Dane  Co.,  Wis.,  August  15,  1848:  son  of  Crovripn 
Sargent  and  Lucy  W.  (Hutchinson)  Sargent;  attended  Wisconsin 
State  University  In  years  1867-70;  enterld  law  department  ofThe 
fn^^ilyV^'rS"^  °'  i°r^  '°  ^^^l-  gi-aduating  in  Law  DepmmeS! 
in  1874;  commenced  law  practice  at  Denison,  Iowa,  remaining 
there  from  1874  to  1879;  moved  to  Atchison  Kan  where  hi 
remained  until  1886.  .  In  July  of  this  year  he  settled  fn  Los  Angel4 
Sf,HLi°  \^f^-  *fe  assisted  n  the  organization  and  became  the  S 
adviser  of  the  "Los  Angeles  Abstract  Company,"  which  made  a 
Proj^^ent  feature  of  nmking  the  full,  or  unlii^'ted  certificate  of 
title.  This  evidence  of  title  soon  became  popular,  and  its  growlne 
business  was  reorganized  in  1893  under  the  name  of  the  "Titll 
Insurance  and  Trust  Company."  From  this  company,  he  retired 
ro,J,?.an,f-'^  rJS^'i^^  the  present  "Title  Guarantee  and  Trust 
i7;^??^H^'„»°'  which  he  IS  Vice-Pres.  and  legal  adviser.  From  his 
long  and  active  experience  in  promoting  and  having  had  successfully 
adopted,  the  Certificate  of  Title,  as  the  evidence  of  title  in  ms 
?h?'?^'i?'*^'  ^^  IS,. known  and  sometimes  called  "The  Father  of 
th2  7"'^,,?"^'A'^a^?'^^l<=°°^"«'^d  in  South.  California.  MeS.  of 
the  Jonathan  Club,  Knight  Templar  and  Shriner 


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DREW  PRUITT,  Los  Angeles 

Born  at  Selma,  Drew  Co.,  Ark.,  in  1860,  son  of  J.  M  and 
Nancy  (Johnston)  Pruitt;  in  1869  moved  to  Coryell  Co., 
Tex.,  where  he  was  raised  on  a  farm  and  ranch.  Educated 
at  Vanderbilt  University,  Nashville,  Tenn.,  receiving  there- 
from the  degree  of  Ph.B.  in  1880.  In  the  following  year 
admitted  to  the  bar  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  Texas.  Mar- 
ried  Wilhelmina  Franklin  at  Waco,  Tex.,  in  1887.  Located 
at  Fort  Worth,  that  state,  where  he  enjoyed  a  large  practice 
in  the  State  and  Federal  courts  for  twenty  years.  Moved 
to  Los  Angeles  in  1906,  and  has  since  been  recognized  as  one 
of  the  leading  lawyers  of  that  city.  Mem.  Los.  Angeles 
Bar  Assn.,  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Jonathan  Club.  B.  P.  O. 
E.  and   Masonic  fraternity.  Knights  Templar  and  Shrine. 


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THADDEUS  S.  C.  LOWE,  Pasadena 

Born  Jefferson,  N.  H.,  Aug.  20,  1832.  Constructed  balloons 
in  1856-8-9,  in  order  to  study  atmospheric  phenomenon; 
during  Civil  War  Chief  of  Aeronautic  Corps;  in  1862  devised 
system  of  signaling  and  valuable  instruments  for  atmospheric 
investigation;  constructed  and  operated  largest  aerostat 
ever  built;  invented  compression  ice  machines  and  made  first 
artificial  ice  in  the  U.S.  (1865) ;  also  refrigerated  first  steam- 
ship for  food  transportation.  Founded  the  Lowe  Observa- 
tory in  the  Sierra  Madre  Mts.,  Cal.,  and  built  Mount  Lowe 
R.  R.  Inventor  of  water-gas  system,  which  revolutionized 
the  gas  industry. — Encyclopedia  Americana.  Later  invented 
Metallurgical  coke  and  gas  ovens;  smelting  furnaces;  includ- 
ing high  grade  steel  converters,  and  "Planet"  airship,  for 
passenger,  exploring,  commercial  and  military  purposes. 


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JOHN  DOWNEY  WORKS,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Ohio  Co.,  Ind.,  March  29,  1847,  son  of  James  Alexander 
and  Phoebe  Downey.  Early  education  in  public  schools  of  Ind., 
with  special  instruction  in  Latin.  Served  from  Sept.,  1863,  to 
end  of  Civil  War  as  private  in  Tenth  Indiana  Cav.;  studied  law 
with  uncle,  Alexander  Downey,  ex-Justice  of  the  State  Supreme 
Court,  and  was  admitted  to  Indiana  bar  in  1868;  prac.  with  his 
father  and  served  a  term  in  lower  house  of  the  legislature,  before 
moving  to  San  Diego,  because  of  ill  health  in  1883.  Has  carried 
on  large  practice,  under  different  firm  names,  being  now  senior 
member  of  Works  &  Works,  his  partner  being  his  son,  Lewis  R. 
Moved  to  Los  Angeles  in  1896  and  is  again  practicing  with  his  son. 
Judge  of  Superior  Court,  1886-7;  Justice  of  Supreme  Court  1888- 
91;  Councilman  in  1909-10  (Pres.  at  time  of  resignation.  Mar., 
1910).  Prominent  in  work  of  Municipal  League;  Pres.  of  various 
industrial  companies;  Mem.  of  the  G.  A.  R.  Carried  popular  vote 
for  United  States  Senator  from  California  at  primary  election 
March  16,  1910.     Married,  Nov.  8,  1868,  Alice  Banta;  six  clUldren. 


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VICTOR  E.  SHAW,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Dec.  15,  1857,  in  Pettis  Co.,  Mo.  Educated  in  public 
schools  Saline  Co.,  that  state,  until  1872,  when  he  accom- 
panied his  parents,  Barnett  J.  and  Sarah  Glenn  (Parberry) 
Shaw,  to  Oregon.  Student  at  Willamette  University, 
Salem,  Ore.,  1875-8;  grad.  law  department  of  same  (LL.B.) 
and  admitted  to  bar  of  Missouri,  1880;  prac.  with  Hon. 
WiUiam  S.  Shirk  until  coming  to  San  Diego,  Cal..  1888. 
Engaged  in  private  practice  there  until  1906,  when  elected 
Associate  Justice  District  Court  of  Appeals,  serving  four 
years.  Mem.  Masonic  fraternity  and  B.  P.  O.  E.;  also  of 
Cuyamaca  Club,  San  Diego,  and  California,  Jonathan, 
Union  League,  Annandale  and  San  Gabriel  Valley  Country 
Clubs,  Los  Angeles.  Married,  Oct.  24,  1883,  to  Miss  Mary 
L.    Parker. 


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GRANT  G.  GILLETTE,  Los  Angeles 

Is  a  leading  promoter  and  operator  of  oil  and  mineral  properties 
in  the  Southwest:  first  entered  the  mining  field  in  Mexlco.when 
he  became  interested  in  the  San  Antonio  mine  in  Chihuahua;  took 
up  other  properties,  notably  the  Quedradillas  and  Los  Muertos 
mines,  which  he  sold  at  handsome  profits;  is  now  widely  known 
throughout  Mexico  and  Calilornia.  Since  coming  to  Los  Angeles 
has  promoted  the  Wellman  Oil  Co.,  the  California  Midway  (con- 
trolling 400  acres),  the  Bankers'  Oil  Co.  and  the  Consolidated 
Midway  Oil  Co.  The  Consolidated  Midway  has  the  biggest  well 
in  the  world- — 60,000  barrels  under  perfect  control.  The  Bankers' 
(in  which  he  is  a  leading  director)  has  made  the  most  wonderful 
progress  of  any  company  in  the  Kern  river  field.  It  is  now  produc- 
ing 600  barrels  per  day  and  has  drilled  30  wells  since  the  27th  of 
December.  Mem.  Union  Club,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  the  Cali- 
fornia, Elks,  San  Gabriel,  Los  Angeles  Country,  Sierra  Madre  and 
West  Shore  Gun  Clubs;  Chambers  of  Commerce  and  Mines.  Mar- 
ried, 1895,  Amanda  E.  Baumbaugh;  children,  a  son  and  a  daughter. 


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A.  L.  HALEY  Architect,  Los  Angeles 

Born  forty-five  years  ago  at  Malone,  N.  Y.;  a  leading  archi- 
tect of  Southern  California.  Is  also  the  inventor  and  patentee 
of  the  Sanitary  Concealed  Metal  Wall  Bed  and  other  inven- 
tions which  has,  and  will  continue  to  revolutionize  apart- 
ment-house building  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Among  some 
of  his  most  important  works  may  be  mentioned  the  following; 
The  Higgins  office  building,  at  a  cost  of  $600,000.  Ivins 
Apartment,  Owens  Apartments,  Burlington  Apartments, 
Ponet  Square,  the  Macdonald  Apartments;  the  Harry  Har- 
rington; the  Wilhelm  and  the  Girard  House.  Besides  the 
above  mentioned  he  is  the  architect  for  a  large  number  of 
commercial  and  private  buildings  in  various  parts  of  the 
City. 


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HiGGiNS  Office  Building 
Reinforced  concrete,  absolutely  fire  proof 
A.  L.  Haley,  Architect  Inc.,  Architect 


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DR.  D.  TONJES  KRUDOP,  Los  Angeles 

Educated 
its  to  that 

city  in  1870;  then  reared  on  an  Iowa  farm  until  twenty;  secured 
a  commercial  education,  taught  school,  and  in  1885  began  the  study 
of  medicine,  at  Hahnemann  Medical  College,  Chicago,  from  which 
graduated  in  1888  (having  previously  graduated  from  med.  dept. 
Univ.  of  Minnesota).  After  post-graduate  course  at  Hahnemann, 
settled  at  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  where  he  successfully  practiced 
until  his  coming  to  Los  Angeles  in  1899.  Began  professional  work 
there  in  1907;  was  prominently  identified  with  Bethlehem  Mission 
and  in  1908  founded  a  free  medical  clinic  at  the  Salvation  Army 
Industrial  Home.  Mem.  Homeopathic  County,  State  of  California, 
and  Southern  California  Medical  Societies  and  the  American  Insti- 
tute. Marrled.in  Philadelphia,  Martine  E.  Muhlig,  ward  of  the  late 
William  Thaw,  of  Pittsburg;  she  was  a  Hahnemann  graduate  (1888) 
andpractitioner;died  Jan.  6,  1910,  leaving  a  son  and  two  daughters. 


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M.   N.  AVERY,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Washtenaw  Co.,  Mich.,  1855.  Educated  at  Chelsea 
School,  that  state;  Eastman's  Business  College,  Pough- 
keepsie,  N.  Y.,  in  which  he  took  a  course  in  commerce  and 
banking;  Michigan  University,  grad.  1881,  M.  D.  Prac. 
medicine  and  surgery  at  Niles,  Mich.,  1881-89,  when  he 
located  in  Los  Angeles.  Incorporated  the  German  American 
Savings  Bank,  Los  Angeles,  1890,  since  which  actively  and 
continuously  identified  with  it — nine  years  as  Cashier,  three 
years  Vice  President  and  eight  years  President  (now  Pres). 
Republican.  Presbyterian.  Mem.  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Cali- 
fornia Club,  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Union  League  and  City 
Club.  Married,  1880,  Miss  Sarah  E.  Gorton,  of  Jackson 
Co.,  Mich. 


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LUTHER  MILTON  POWERS,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  New  Hanover  Co.,  N.  C,  1853,  son  of  William  and 
Lucy  J.  (Murray)  Powers  Educated  in  common  schools 
and  Wake  Forest  College,  near  Raleigh.  Studied  medicine 
at  Wilmington,  and  in  1877  graduated  from  Washington 
University  School  of  Medicine,  of  Baltimore  Md.  Prac. 
in  North  Carohna  and  at  Norfolk,  Neb.,  until  July  12,  1887, 
when  he  came  to  Los  Angeles.  Appointed  Health  Officer 
of  Los  Angeles,  in  February,  1893,  which  position  he  still 
fills.  Post-graduate  course  at  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical 
Coll.,  N.  Y.  City,  1881;  Coll.  Physicians  &  Surgeons,  1884-5, 
and  Polyclinic,  1885.  Mem.  Los  Angeles,  Southern  Cali- 
fornia and  California  Medical  Societies.  Married,  Nov. 
28,  1881,  Miss  Mary  Ella  Stevenson. 


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A.  T.  CURRIER,  Spadra 

Born  in  Maine,  Apr.  30,  1840.  Educated  public  schools 
of  that  state.  Came  to  California  in  1861;  moved  to  Idaho, 
1862,  and  engaged  in  mining  for  six  years;  in  1868  drove 
herd  of  cattle  from  Oregon  to  California,  and  in  1869 
bought  land  in  Southern  California.  Resident  of  Southern 
California  since  1870.  Sheriff  of  Los  Angeles  Co.,  1882-4; 
State  Senator,  1898-1902.  Now  owner  of  2,400  acres  of 
land  at  Spadra,  and  68  acres  of  fruit  lands  at  N.  Pomona 
and  Currier  Block,  Los  Angeles.  Pres.  Farmers'  Mutual 
Insurance  Co.,  Los  Angeles  Co.,  which  now  carries  $5,000,000 
insurance  on  buildings;  also  Pres.  Canyon  Water  Co.,  of 
Pomona,  and  dir.  First  National  Bank,  of  that  place.  Repub- 
lican in  politics. 


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SYDNEY  SMITH,  Los  Angeles 

Born  near  Toronto,  Canada,  in  1868.  Educated  at  Dr. 
Tassie's  Preparatory  School  and  Trinity  College,  of  that 
city,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1886;  also  attended  Day's 
Commercial  College,  of  Toronto.  Has  been  engaged  in 
mining  for  many  years;  owner  of  Sun  and  Moon  mine, 
Idaho  Springs,  Idaho;  then  went  to  Austin,  Nev.,  and  opened 
famous  Phelps-Stokes  mine.  Came  to  Los  Angeles,  1909; 
engaged  in  the  oil  business  in  connection  with  his  mining 
interests.  Has  traveled  extensively  here  and  abroad;  much 
interested  in  automobiling.  Mem.  South  Shore  Country, 
Illinois  Athletic  and  Automobile  Clubs,  of  Chicago;  also, 
of  the  Century  Club,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio. 


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WILLIAM  HARRISON  HOLLIDAY,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  July,  1863.  Attended  Phillips- 
Exeter  Academy;  grad.  from  Harvard  College,  1886. 
Entered  the  Farmers'  &  Merchants'  Bank,  of  Los  Angeles, 
as  bookkeeper,  in  May,  1887;  in  July  of  that  year  became 
identified  with  the  Southern  California  National  Bank_  of 
Los  Angeles,  of  which  became  Cashier  in  1895  (name  having 
been  changed  to  the  Merchants  National  Bank  of  Los 
Angeles) ;  elected  Pres.  of  Merchants  National  Bank,  1906. 
and  in  October,  1909,  Pres.  of  the  Los  Angeles  Clearing 
House  Assn.  Is  director  in  ten  or  twelve  Southern  Cali- 
fornia banks.  Mem.  California  Club,  Los  Angeles  and 
Annandale  Country   Clubs. 


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RICHARD  GARVEY,   Los  ANGELES 

Born  in  County  Mayo,  Ireland,  September  1838,  son  Peter  and 
Mary  (Flannigan)  Garvey.  Came  to  the  U.  S.  1850,  landing  at 
Savannah,  Ga.,  and  later,  1853,  moved  to  Cleveland,  Ohio.  Crossed 
the  plains  in  1858  and  settled  in  Southern  California,  making  Los 
Angeles  headquarters,  which  has  been  his  home  for  flfty-two  years; 
1859-63  carried  the  U.  S.  Government  mail  to  outlying  posts  in 
California  and  New  Mexico,  which  then  included  Arizona;  for 
twenty  years  successfully  engaged  in  mining.  Since  1872  engaged 
in  farming  and  stock-raising;  owner  of  6,000  or  more  acres  of  land; 
1876-8,  receiver  for  the  Temple  &  Worlmen  Estate  and  Bank  of 
Los  Angeles.  Is  a  Roman  Catholic  and  independent  in  politics. 
Married,  1884,  Tessie  B.  Mooney,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio;  one  son, 
Richard  Garvey,  Jr.,  now  attending  Columbia  University.  New 
York    City. 


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JOHN  F.  CRAIG,  Long  Beach 

Born  at  Gibraltar,  Mich.,  May  18,  1868.  Educated  in 
public  schools  and  State  Normal  School.  Began  business 
career  as  Secretary  for  John  Craig  &  Sons,  Trenton,  Mich.; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  that  firm,  1889-1900;  Vice  Pres. 
and  Treasurer  of  the  Craig  Shipbuilding  Co.,  Toledo,  O., 
1900-5;  in  1906  reorganized,  with  his  father,  the  Craig 
Shipbuilding  Co,  and  has  since  personally  directed  the  build- 
ing of  its  works  at  Long  Beach.  Is  also  Pres.  of  the  Western 
Dredging  &  Marine  Construction  Co.,  of  Long  Beach  and  a 
director  in  the  Adams  Transportation  Co.,  Monroe  Transpor- 
tation Co.,  Toledo  Steamship  Co.,  Portage  Transit  Co., 
and  the  Western  Steam  Navigation  Co. 


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JOHN  CRAIG,  Long  Beach 

Born  in  N.  Y.  City,  1838.  Educated  in  public  schools  and 
College  of  New  York  (grad.  1855).  During  Civil  War 
superintended  the  conversion  of  merchant  ships  into  gun- 
boats, and  in  1865  founded  a  shipyard  at  Gibraltar,  Mich.; 
organized  firm  of  John  Craig  &  Sons  in  1882  and  established 
works  at  Trenton,  that  state;  works  moved  to  Toledo,  Ohio, 
in  1889,  and  re-organized  under  the  name  of  Craig  Ship- 
building Co.;  thus  operated  until  1905,  when  the  business 
was  sold  to  the  Toledo  Shipbuilding  Co.  In  1906  re-orga- 
nized the  Craig  Shipbuilding  Co.  and  established  a  complete 
shipbuilding  plant  at  Long  Beach,  Cal. 


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ARTHUR  E.  LODER,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Coshocton,  Ohio.  Educated  in  public  and  high  schools 
Indiana,  and  Purdue  University,  from  which  grad.  in  Civil 
Engineering  (B.S.)-  For  sometime  thereafter  in  employ 
B.  &  O.  Ry.,  in  maintenance-of-way  and  engineering  depts.. 
Pittsburg  and  Connellsville,  Pa.;  then,  for  a  time.  First 
Asst.  Engineer,  U.  S.  Office  Public  Roads,  with  headquarters 
at  Washington,  D.  C,  engaged  in  the  construction  of  roads 
throughout  various  states.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  July, 
1907;  since  that  time  Chief  Engineer  Los  Angeles  Co. 
Highway  Commission.  Married,  1909,  Miss  Aime^  C. 
Strecker,   of   Peoria,   111. 


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WILLIAM  A.  HAM  MEL,  Los  Angeles 

Born  corner  of  Aliso  and  Alameda  streets,  Los  Angeles,  Cal., 
March  13,  1865.  Educated  in  public  schools  of  native 
city.  Since  1885  has  devoted  his  energies  and  abilities  to 
the  capture  of  offenders  of  the  law;  first,  deputy  sheriff  of 
Los  Angeles  Co.;  Chief  of  Police  of  Los  Angeles  for  one  and 


half  years;  resigned  that  office  and  was  elected  Sheriff 
in  1901  and  re-elected  in  1907.  One  of  the  most  popular 
and  efficient  sheriffs  Los  Angeles  Co.  has  ever  had.  In 
politics,  an  uncompromising  Republican.  Knight  Templar 
and  Scottish  Rite  Mason;  also  Shriner  and  Grand  Captain 
General  of  the  Grand  Commandery  of  California;  mem. 
Knights  of  Pythias.  Married,  1893,  Lillian  M.  Phillips,  a 
native  of  Kentucky;  Mrs.  Hammel  died  April  22,  1909, 
leaving  a  daughter,   Physllis   C. 


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FRANK  F.  OSTER,  San  Bernardino 

Born  in  Sparta,  Wis.,  June  3,  1860.  Educated  in  the  Sparta 
High  School  and  University  of  Wisconsin;  grad.  from  the 
latter  in  the  class  of  1882.  Admitted  to  the  Wisconsin  bar 
in  1885,  and  came  to  Southern  California  in  the  following 
year.  In  1887  he  located  at  Colton  and  served  as  City 
Attorney  of  that  place  for  four  years;  was  elected  District 
Attorney  in  1893,  when  he  moved  to  San  Bernardino;  ele- 
vated to  the  Superior  bench  in  1895,  for  six  year  term,  and 
re-elected  in  1901  and  1907, the  last  time  without  opposition. 


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JOHN  BARNES  MILLER,  Loa  ANGELES 

Born  at  Port  Huron,  Mich.,  Oct.  23,  1869.  Educated  in  public 
schools  of  that  city  and  Ann  Arbor  and  the  University  of  Michigan 
Studied  law  and  managed  his  father's  business  (coal  and  steam- 
ship fuels);  later,  had  charge  of  large  plantation  at  Delhi,  La.; 
for  three  years  prior  to  1896,  associated  with  his  father  in  business 
at  Port  Huron;  came  to  California  in  that  year.  Became  interested 
in  the  development  of  the  electrical,  gas  and  water  power  of  So. 
California,  through  the  Edison  Electric  Co.,  of  which  he  became 
Pres.  in  1901;  upon  its  re-incorporation  as  the  Southern  California 
Edison  Co.  he  was  chosen  Pres.  and  Chairman  of  the  Executive 
Committee;  also  director  and  member  of  the  Executive  Committee 
of  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Co.  and  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Los  Angeles.  Mem.  of  several  prominent  clubs.  In 
1895  married  Carrie  Borden  Johnson  at  Yonkers,  N.  Y.  They 
have  five  children. 


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JACOB   M.  SCHNEIDER,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Hessen,  Germany,  Aug.  11,  1869.  Educated  in 
native  country  until  twelve  years  old;  then  in  San  Francisco 
public  schools  until  fourteen.  Since  1883  has  been  engaged 
in  the  drygoods  business.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1896, 
and  has  since  been  Pres.  and  Manager  of  the  J.  W.  Robinson 
Co.  Elected  Pres.  Merchants'  &  Manufacturers'  Assn., 
Jan.  18,  1906,  and  served  for  four  years;  dir.  of  same  since 
1896.  Dir.  Municipal  League  1905-6;  Republican,  in  poli- 
tics. Mem.  California  and  Jonathan  Clubs,  and  Los  Ange- 
les Chamber  of  Commerce.  Married,  Jan.  17,  1898,  Miss 
Angela  Baric. 


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EDWARD  J.  FLEMING,  Los  Angeles 
Born  Cambridge,  Mass.,  March  28,  1872,  being  brought  to 
California  during  the  year  of  his  birth.  Educated  at  Pomona 
schools  and  Pomona  College.  Admitted  to  California 
bar,  April,  1894;  City  Attorney  Pomona,  1895-9;  Deputy 
District  Attorney  Los  Angeles  County.  1903-7;  Prosecuting 
Attorney,  city  of  Los  Angeles,  1907-8.  Mem.  various  Los 
Angeles  city  clubs. 


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WILKES  WHEATLY,  LOS  ANGELES 

Native  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  son  of  W.  J.  and  Gabrell  (Henry)  Wheatly, 
his  mother  having  been  a  niece  of  Patriclt  Henry.  Completed  his 
education  at  Washington  University,  St.  Louis:  then  went  to  New 
York,  where  he  married  Louise  Rogers  in  1882;  and  came  to  Cali- 
fornia in  1886.  First  associated  with  the  Chas.  Nelson  Company 
of  San  Francisco;  for  ten  years  its  foreign  representative  in  the 
lumber  trade,  visiting  all  the  important  seaports  of  the  world;  In 
1901  came  to  Los  Angeles  to  assume  charge  of  the  Consolidated 
Lumber  Company,  of  which  he  is  still  Vice  President  and  General 
Manager.  Improvements  of  the  immense  plant,  at  the  head  of 
Wilmington  Bay,  which  have  been  made  by  him  include  a  2,000- 
foot  wharf,  costing  $250,000,  and  the  construction  of  a  canal,  a 
mile  in  length,  from  Old  Wilmington.  Mem.  Jonathan  and  Coun- 
try Clubs. 


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VIRGINIA  T.  SMITH,  Los  Angeles 

Born  near  Rutland,  Vt.,  1860.  Educated,  first,  in  public 
schools  and  at  a  Burlington  (Vt.)  convent.  Graduated  from 
Medical  department  Boston  University,  1888,  receiving 
degree  of  M.D.;  post-graduate  work  in  Europe,  1894-5. 
Practiced  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  sixteen  years;  five  years  mem- 
ber medical  staff  Grace  Hospital,  that  city.  Grad.  Illinois 
School  of  Therapeutics,  1906,  and  from  Los  Angeles  College 
of  Osteopathy,  1907  (degree,  D.O.).  Was,  for  a  time, 
resident  physician  at  the  Dio  Lewis  Sanatorium,  Arlington 
Heights,  Mass.  In  general,  it  may  be  said  that  Dr.  Smith 
adopts  any  legitimate  treatment  which  her  patient's  con- 
dition requires. 


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E.  D.  ROBERTS,  San  Bernardino 

Born  Cambria,  Columbia  County,  Wis.,  July  18,  1864. 
Educated  in  public  schools  and  Western  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania, Pittsburg.  Began  banking  business  1883  at 
Bridgewater,  S.  D.  Came  to  San  Bernardino  Co.,  1886. 
Pres.  San  Bernardino  National  Bank,  San  Bernardino  County 
Savings  Bank,  First  National  Bank,  of  Colton,  First  National 
Bank,  of  Rialto,  and  Golden  State  Life  Insurance  Co.,  of 
Los  Angeles,  as  well  as  director  in  other  corporations.  Dele- 
gate to  Republican  National  Convention,  Chicago,  1904. 
Knight  Templar  and  mem.  Al  Malikah  Temple,  Los  Angeles, 
and  B.  P.  O.  E.  Married,  Nov.  14,  1891,  Maud  Adams,  a 
native  of  Bloomington,  111.,  two  daughters,  Louise  and 
Marie. 


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CHARLES  E.  DIXON,  Los  Angeles 

Bom  In  Terre  Haute.  Ind.,  In  1869,  son  of  S.  M  Dixon  (City 
Attorney  Elk  City,  Kan.)  and  Caroline  Random)  Dixon.  Edu- 
cat™n^the  publii  schools  of  Kansas,  and  came  to  Los  Angeles 
in  1894.  On  May  8,  1898,  enlisted  In  Battery  D.  California  Heavy 
Artillery,  and  on  the  25th  went  with  the  "f^t  military  expedition 


lo  mc  jrii...p,.."~.  commissioned  Sergeant  and  Quartermaster 
SergeantVand  recommended  for  Second  Lieutenant;  mustered  out 
slnt  21  1899,  at  Presidio,  Cal.  Appointed  policeman  at  Los 
Angeles,  1899;  promoted  to  Sergeant  1904,  Lieutenant  1906  and 
Captain,  1909  Acting  Chief  of  the  department,  1910.  Past  Com- 
minder  Admiral  Glass  Camp  No.  36,  Department  of  CaiifornU. 
U  S  W  V  •  Thirty-second  degree  Mason  and  Shriner;  also  mem. 
Knights  of  Pythias.     Married,  1900,  Allie  A.  Leach. 


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CORNELIUS    WELLES    PENDLETON,    Los    Angeles 

Born  in  New  York  State,  1859.  Educated  in  public  schools 
and  Brown  University  (grad.  A.  B.,  1881).  Came  to  Cali- 
fornia, 1881,  and  admitted  to  State  bar,  Nov.  10,  1884; 
prac.  San  Francisco,  1884-5,  and  located  at  Los  Angeles 
in  latter  year.  Court  Commissioner,  Los  Angeles  Co., 
1890-5;  elected  to  Assembly,  1892,  and  re-elected  1894  and 
1900  (Speaker  session  of  1901);  elected  State  Senator,  1902; 
appointed  Collector  of  Customs,  District  of  Los  Angeles, 
1902.  Republican.  Mason  and  mem.  of  California  and 
Union  League  Clubs  of  Los  Angeles  and  San  Francisco 
and  B.  P.  O.  E. 


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CHARLES  ABBOTT  ELDER,   Los  ANGELES 

Born  at  Kinmundy,  111.,  May  9,  1864,  son  of  Dr.  A.  C.  and  Lavison 
Wood  (Fancher)  Elder;  direct  descendant  of  Ailing  Ball,  maternal 
grandfather  of  Washington.  Grad.  Topeka  (Kan.)  High  School. 
1882;  University  of  Illinois,  1890-4;  special  studies  at  University 
of  Paris,  France,  1895.  First  employment  with  Elder  Syndicate 
of  Topeka,  Kan.,  organized  by  father;  General  Manager  1883-95; 
upon  return  from  Paris  founded  a  branch  at  Los  Angeles,  and 
organized,  with  two  associates.  Pacific  Investment  Co.,  which, 
under  several  changes,  has  become  the  Los  Angeles  Investment  Co. 
Pres.  fifteen  years;  now  the  largest  financial  institution  in  So. 
Cal.  and  largest  co-operative  building  company  in  world;  for 
forty-four  years  has  absolutely  protected  its  stockholders;  built 
over  1,600  homes  in  Los  Angeles  and  vicinity;  capital  and  surplus, 
Sept.  1,  1910,  S4,295,000;  Pres.  for  5  years  of  Elder  Building  Mater- 
ial Co.  also,  Pres.  Globe  Savings  Bank  (four  years.)  Mem.  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  Municipal  League,  Gamut.  University,  Citv  and 
Federation  Clubs. 


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GUY  EDDIE,  Los  Angeles 

Born  on  a  ranch  near  Guadaloupe,  Cal.,  April  2,  1878. 
Received  degree  of  B.S.  from  University  of  California,  1901. 
Came  to  Los  Angeles  Jan.  1,  1902;  studied  law  in  office  of 
Works,  Lee  &  Works,  and  was  admitted  to  the  California 
bar  in  1903.  Appointed  Deputy  Prosecuting  Attorney  of 
Los  Angeles  in  1905  and  Prosecuting  Attorney  in  1909. 
Mem.  Ramona  Parlor,  Native  Sons,  Highland  Park  Masonic 
Lodge,  and  Federation,  Unity  and  Annandale  Clubs. 


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LESLIE    RANDALL    HEWITT,    Los    Angeles 

Born  Olympia,  Wash.,  Sept.  12,  1867,  grandson  of  Hon 
C.  C.  Hewitt.  Chief  Justice  Washington  Ty.,  1861-9,  and 
son  of  Randall  H.  Hewitt.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  with  his 
parents  March,  1876.  Educated  public  and  high  schools 
(grad.  latter,  1885)  and  Univ.  Cal.  (grad.  June,  1890). 
Studied  law  and  admitted  to  bar  Cal.  1893.  Gen.  prac 
until  1898;  Deputy  City  Attv.  and  City  Atty.,  1906-10; 
resigned  a.s  City  Atty..  Aug.,  1910,  and  is  now  Chief  Atty. 
for  Los  Angeles  Harbor  Commission.  Republican.  Scottish 
Rite  Mason,  and  K.  of  P.  Mem.  Union  League  and  Uni- 
versity Clubs.  Married,  1901,  Miss  Mabel  Eastwood  of 
Newcastle,  Cal. 


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MARION   M.  MEYERS,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Paris,  111.,  Jan.  16,  1857,  son  of  Levi  C.  and  Amelia 
A.  (Herr)  Meyers.  Educated  in  grammar  and  high  schools 
of  native  town.  Read  law  in  office  of  Van  Seller  &  Dole, 
of  Paris,  and  admitted  to  Illinois  bar  in  1880.  Practiced 
there  until  1883,  when  he  came  to  California,  after  which, 
he  served  as  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  at 
San  Francisco,  and  Secretary  at  Tacoma,  Wash.,  and  Port- 
land, Ore.  Located  in  Los  Angeles,  1896,  and  since  his 
admission  to  the  California  bar  in  that  year  has  been  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession.  In  politics,  a  Republican, 
Married  to    Miss   Helena  L.    Nelson. 


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XILES  PEASE,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Thompsonville,  Conn.,  Oct.  13,  1838,  grandson  of 
Simeon  Pease,  Revolutionary  soldier.  Educated  in  public 
schools.  In  tin  and  stove  business,  Thompsonville,  1860-84. 
representative  in  Connecticut  Legislature,  1876.  Came 
to  Los  Angeles,  Oct.  20,  1884,  entering  furniture  and  carpet 
business  Nov.  10th  of  that  year;  incorporated  Niles  Pease 
Furniture  Co.,  1897;  sold  Dec.  1,  1904;  incorporated  Niles 
Pease  Investment  Co.,  Feb.  8,  1905.  Pres.  Merchants' 
&  Manufacturers' Assn.  four  years  to  Jan.  15,  1906,  and  Pres. 
Los  Angeles  City  Council  Jan.,  1907,  to  Jan.,  1910.  Dir. 
Central  National  Bank,  Park  Bank  and  Provident  Building 
and  Loan  Assn;  Pres.  Niles  Pease  Investment  Co.  Thirty- 
second  degree  Mason  and  Shriner;  Pres.  Masonic  Temple 
Assn.     Identified  with   Unitarian  church. 


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MIGUEL  ESTUDILLO.  Riverside 

Born  in  San  Bernardino,  Cal.,  1870.  Educated  in  public 
schools  and  Santa  Clara  College.  Admitted  to  California 
bar,  1896;  prac.  since  in  Riverside.  Elected  to  lower  house 
of  Legislature  in  1904,  and  re-elected  in  1906  (Chairman  of 
Ways  and  Means  Committee,  1907);  elected  to  State  Senate 
in  1908  for  term  of  four  years  (Chairman  of  Committee  on 
Elections  and  Election  Laws,  1909).  Republican  in  politics. 
Served  as  Chairman  of  the  California  delegation  at  the 
National  Irrigation  Congress,  held  at  Sacramento,  Cal., 
in  September,  1907.  Mem.  of  Jonathan  and  Union  League 
Clubs,  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Victoria  and  Country  Clubs,  of 
Riverside.  Married,  Feb.  22.  1903,  Miss  Minerva  Cook, 
of  Los  Angeles. 


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BENJAMIN  r.  BLEDSOE,  San  Bernardino 

Born  in  San  Bernardino,  Cal.,  Feb.  8,  1874.  Grad.  Stanford 
University,  1896  (A.  B.);  mem.  Delta  Upsilon  and  Phi  Delta  Phi 
IT.  S.  Referee  in  Bankruptcy,  1898-1900;  elected  Judge  of  Superior 
Court,  San  Bernardino  Co.,  in  November,  1900;  re-elected  Nov., 
1906  without  opposition.  Nominee  of  Democratic  Party  in  1910 
for  Associate  Justice  of  Supreme  Court.  Pres.  Board  of  Library 
Trustees,  San  Bernardino  Pub.  Lib.,  since  1907;  mem.  of  board 
since  1899.  Mem.  of  University  Club,  of  Redlands  and  Uni- 
versity Club  of  Los  Angeles,  Grand  Prelate  Knights  of  Pythias, 
1909-10;  Grand  Orator  Grand  Lodge  of  Masons,  1908-9;  mem. 
B.  P.  O.  E.,  N.  S.  G.  W.,  Knights  Templars  and  Al  Malaikah 
Temple  of  Mystic  Shrine.  Director  of  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  Farmers'  Exchange  National  Bank  of  San  Bernardino,  and 
Oil  &  Metals  Bank  &  Trust  Co.  of  Los  Angeles.  Married,  Dec. 
25,  1899,  Katharine  M.  Shepler  (Stanford  Univ.,  A.  B.,  1898), 
mem.  Delta  Gamma  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  of  Council  Bluffs,  la.; 
two  children;  Barbara,  aged  seven,  Frances  aged  one. 


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ROBERT  A.  LING,  Los  Angeles 
Educated  in  Michigan  public  schools.  Read  law  in  the 
office  of  District  Attorney  Shields,  of  Livingston  Co.,  Mich. 
Came  to  Los  Angeles,  1874.  Admitted  to  California  bar 
in  1885;  practiced  successfully  in  all  State  and  Federal  courts, 
and  is  conceded  to  be  one  of  the  strong  lawyers  of  the  Cali- 
fornia bar.  Thirty-second  degree  Mason;  also  mem.  Shrine, 
B.  P.  O.  E.,  K.  of  P.,  and  Union  League  Club.  Has  a  son 
and  a  daughter,  both  natives  of  California. 


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OWEN   McALEER,  Los  Angeles 

Born  at  Liscard,  Canada,  Feb.  3,  1858.  At  nine  years  of 
age  entered  the  boiler  shops  of  W.  B.  Pollock,  Youngstown, 
Ohio;  founded  the  Youngstown  Boiler  Works  in  1884.  Came 
to  Los  Angeles,  1888,  and  from  that  year  until  1905  was 
with  the  Baker  Iron  Works.  Mayor  of  Los  Angeles,  1905-6, 
having  been  a  councilman  from  the  First  Ward  in  1903-4. 
Uncompromising  Republican.  Now  Vice  President  and 
General  Manager  Republic  Iron  &  Steel  Co.  Mem.  Union 
League  Sierra  Madre  Club  and  B.  P.  O.  E.  Married, 
1898,  to  Miss  Gertrude  Mullally,  a  native  of  Covington, 
Ky.  Mrs.  McAleer  was  elected  Pres.  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Orphan    Home. 


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J.   WHITCOMB   BROUGHER,   D.   D.,  LOS  ANGELES 

Born  Vernon,  Indiana;  moved  to  Oakland  with  his  parents  in 
1882.  Grad.  at  California  College  in  1891,  with  degrees  of  A.  B, 
and  A.  M.;  grad.  from  Rochester  (N.  Y.)  Theological  Seminary 
in  1894,  and  assumed  his  first  charge  as  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church  of  Paterson,  New  Jersey.  In  1899  became  pastor  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church  of  Chattanooga,  Tenn.  He  was  called  to 
the  pulpit  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  (White  Temple),  of  Port- 
land, Ore.,  in  1904  and  since  February  1910,  has  been  the  pastor 
of  the  Temple  Baptist  Church  of  Los  Angeles  {Robert  J.  Burdette, 
D.  D.,  Pastor  Emeritus).  Received  the  degree  of  D.  D.  from 
Carson  and  Newman  College,  Tenn.,  in  1901.  He  has  been  long 
recognized  as  one  of  the  most  eloquent  and  popular  pulpit  orators 
and  lecturers  in  the  country.  As  pastor  of  the  Los  Angeles  Baptist 
Church  he  preaches  every  Sunday  to  an  audience  of  3,500,  one  of 
the  largest  regular  congregations  in  the  world.  He  is  also  a  stalwart 
leader  in  the  discussion  and  advancement  of  civic  and  social  move- 
ments. 


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WILLIAM  ONA  MORTOX.  Los  Angeles 

Born  at  Fayette,  Ala.,  July  30,  1868.  Moved  to  Wise  Co.  Tex. 
when  quite  young.  Educated  in  Springtown  (Tex.)  Baptist 
College  and  Fort  Worth  University.  Graduated  from  that 
Institution  in  1899.  Was  member  of  firm  of  McLean,  Booth 
&  Morton,  Fort  Worth,  Tex.  until  Feb.  1902,  when  he  moved  to 
Los  Angeles,  and  later  became  member  of  firm  of  Morton,  Houser 
&  Jones,  is  now  member  of  firm  of  Morton,  Riddle  &  Hollzer. 
Nominated  for  Congress  on  Democratic  ticket  7th  Congressional 
District  of  Cal.  In  1904  and  for  Atty.  Gen.  on  Democratic  ticket 
of  Cal.  in  1906.  Has  been  member  of  Civil  Service  Commission 
since  Nov.  1907.  Is  Atty.  and  Director  of  several  Corporations. 
Member  of  Jefferson  Club,  Masonic  Fraternity,  B.  P.  O.  E.  and 
W.  O.  W.  Has  delivered  several  addresses  for  fraternal  organiza- 
tions as  well  as  on  general  topics.  Married  Nov.  15,  1900,  to 
Miss  Maude  Hunter. 


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MARCO  H.  HELLMAN,  Los  ANGELES 

Born  in  1878  in  Los  Angeles,  northeast  corner  of  Spring  and  Fourth 
streets,  where  the  Herman  W.  Hellman  ''Building  now  stands; 
son  ol  the  late  Herman  W.  Hellman.  Educated  in  Los  Angeles 
and  Belmont  schools  and  at  Stanford  University.  Has  been 
engaged  in  the  banking  business  since  he  was  nineteen  years  of 
age — for  six  years  Assistant  Cashier  Farmers'  &  Merchants' 
National  Bank;  then  Assistant  Cashier,  Cashier  and  Vice  Pres 
(as  now)  of  the  Merchants'  National  Bank;  Is  also  Pres.,  Vice 
Pres.  and  director  of  more  country  banks  than  any  other  banker 
In  California;  connected  with  fifteen  corporations  other  than  those 
mentioned.  Mem.  Jonathan  and  other  clubs.  Scottish  Rite 
Mason  and  Shriner.  Married,  June  10,  1908,  Miss  Reta  Levis, 
of  Visalia,  Cal. 


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IRVING  H.  HELLMAN,  Los  ANGELES 

Born  In  Los  Angeles  where  the  Herman  W.  Hellman  Building 
now  stands,  May  10,  1883.  Educated  in  the  Los  Angeles  grammar 
and  high  schools:  then  took  special  course  at  Armour  School  ot 
Technology  (Chicago)  In  engineering,  also  studied  under  four 
engineers  of  dlHerent  nationalities,  his  specialty  being  Re-ln- 
forced  Concrete.  Through  a  civil  service  examination,  entered 
the  employ  of  the  city  of  Los  Angeles,  July  5,  1906,  being  appointed 
its  first  inspector  of  re-inforced  concrete.  At  the  death  of  his 
father  (Herman  W.  Hellman)  he  resigned  his  office  to  assist  in  the 
management  of  the  family  estate.  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and 
life  member  of  the  Shrine.  Mem.  B.  P.  O.  E.  (No.  99)  and  I.  O. 
B.  B.;  also  West  Shore  Gun,  San  Gabriel  Valley,  Union  League 
and  Concordia  Clubs. 


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WALTER  P.  STORY,  Los  Angeles 

Born  at  Bozeman,  Mont.,  Dec.  18,  1883,  son  of  Nelson  and 
Ellen  (Trent)  Story,  pioneers  of  that  state  who  located 
therein  during  1863.  Educated  in  public  and  private  schools 
and  at  Shattuck  MiUtary  Academy,  and  in  1902  graduated 
from  Eastman's  Business  College,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 
Since  1905,  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles;  April,  1908,  began 
the  erection  of  the  Walter  P.  Story  Building;  completed 
April  1,  1910,  and  generally  considered  the  most  modern 
office  building  in  Los  Angeles — -eleven  stories  and  basement 
in  height,  with  frontage  of  122  ft.  on  Broadway  and  150  ft. 
on  Sixth  St.  Married,  April  21,  1903,  to  Miss  Geraldine 
Rowena  Baird,  of  San  Francisco.  Member  of  Cal.  Club. 
L.  A.  Realty  Board  and  Chamber  of  Commerce. 


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WILLIAM    BURGESS     MATHEWS,    Los    Angeles 

Born  near  Georgetown,  Ohio,  Mar.  1,  1865,  son  of  William 
B.  and  Margaret  (Salisbury)  Mathews.  Attended  public 
and  private  schools  Maysville,  Ky.;  grad.  Center  College, 
Ky.,  1885  (A.B.).  Admitted  to  Kentucky  bar  1888;  then 
one  year  Columbia  Law  School,  New  York  City.  Came 
to  Los  Angeles  1889;  prac.  since.  City  Atty.  Los  Angeles 
1901-7;  now  special  counsel  Los  Angeles  aqueduct;  mem. 
Board  of  Directors  public  library  1899-1900;  Union  League, 
Federation,  Cal.  and  City  clubs.  Married,  1891,  Miss 
Susan    Avery    Hays.     Republican. 


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FRANK  FAY  PRATT,  Los  Angeles 
Born  in  Chicago,  111.,  Nov.  30,  1869,  son  of  Albert  Harrison 
and  Mary  Adelaide  (Fay)  Pratt.  Educated  in  grammar 
and  high  schools  of  Chicago,  and  College  of  Law,  Lake 
Forest  University  (grad.  1895).  Admitted  to  Chicago  bar, 
1895-  practiced  in  that  city  until  1898;  then  in  New  York 
City  and  London,  England,  until  1903,  when  he  located  in 
Los  Angeles.  Admitted  to  Cahfornia  bar  April  12.  1904; 
practiced  since.  Mason.  Republican.  Mem.  Phi  Delta 
Phi,  Union  League.  Gamut,  Billiken,  Federation  and  City 
Clubs. 


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JOSEPH  SARSFIELD  GLASS,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Bushnell,  McDonough  Co.,  111.,  March  13,  1874,  son 
of  James  and  Mary  (Kelly)  Glass.  Educated  in  private 
and  parochial  schools  of  Sedalia,  Mo.;  at  St.  Vincent's  Col- 
lege, Los  Angeles,  and  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Perryville, 
Mo.  Ordained  priest  Aug.  IS,  1897,  by  Rt.  Rev.  George 
Montgomery,  D.  D.,  in  St.  Vincent's  Church,  Los  Angeles. 
Post-graduate  course  in  Rome,  Italy,  at  Pontifical  Univer- 
sities of  the  Propaganda  and  the  Minerva;  degree.  Doctor 
of  Theology,  1899;  taught  Dogmatic  and  Moral  Theology 
at  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  1899-1901,  and  in  the  latter  year 
was  made  President  of  St.  Vincent's  College  and  rector  of 
St.  Vincent's  Church. 


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OCTAVIUS   MORGAN,   Los  ANGELES 

Born  at  Hothe  Court,  near  Canterbury,  England,  Oct.  20,  1850. 
Educated  at  Kent  House  Academy,  Thomas  Cross  Classic  School 
and  Sydney  Cooper  Art  School,  Canterbury.  Then  spent  five 
years  in  the  office  of  F.  A.  Gilhams,  an  architect  of  repute  in  the 
same  county,  locating  in  Denver,  Col.,  in  1871,  and  continuing 
his  studies  and  experience:  for  about  three  years  was  a  mining 
prospector  in  various  western  States,  locating  in  California  in 
1874;  in  June  of  that  year  resumed  his  professional  work  at  Los 
Angeles.  In  1875  became  a  partner  of  E.  F.  Kysor,  the  pioneer 
architect,  who  retired  from  the  firm  in  1888,  when  J.  A.  Walls 
was  admitted  to  partnership;  third  member  of  the  firm  is  O.  W. 
Morgan,  and  style  thereof,  Morgan,  Walls  &  Morgan.  Some  of 
the  buildings  designed:  Van  Nuys  Hotel,  Hollenbeck  Home,  Sisters' 
Hospital,  and  Farmers  &  Merchants'  Bank,  H.  W.  Hellman  Office 
and  W.  P.  Story  buildings.  Ex-Pres.  Engineers'  &  Architects 
Assn.  and  Southern  Cal.  Chapter  A.  I.  A.;  Mason,  I.  O.  O.  F. 
and  mem.  clubs.  Married,  1884,  Margaret  S.  (Weller)  Offen- 
bacher;  two  children. 


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J.  A.  WALLS,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  where  he  received  his  early  education; 
for  about  three  years  was  in  the  office  of  Richardson,  the 
great  architect;  professional  work  and  study  in  New  York 
supplemented  by  travel  and  observation,  and  in  1882  located 
in  Los  Angeles,  soon  afterward  entering  the  employ  of  Kysor 
&  Morgan,  of  which  he  became  a  member  upon  the  retire- 
ment of  Mr.  Kysor  in  1888;  upon  the  accession  of  Mr.  Mor- 
gan's son  (O.  W.)  to  the  firm,  the  style  became,  as  at  present, 
Morgan,  Walls  &  Morgan.  Mr.  Walls  has  lately  returned 
from  a  trip  abroad,  undertaken  for  the  purpose  of  noting 
the  present  status  of  European  architecture,  and  comes 
back  duly  appreciative  of  late  foreign  work,  but,  at  the  same 
time,  firmly  convinced  that  contemporary  American  archi- 
tecture is  unexcelled. 


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CHARLES  DEWEY  MANNING,  Lamanda  Park 

Born  in  Province  of  Ontario,  Canada,  Oct.  24,  1847,  parents  mov- 
ing to  Rockton,  111.,  wlien  he  was  six  months  old.  Educated  in 
public  schools;  when  sixteen  enlisted  in  Ninth  Illinois  Cav.  and 
served  through  the  Civil  War;  then  attended  school  two  years; 
In  the  saddlery  business  for  some  time  with  his  father;  in  1882 
located  at  Rock  Rapids,  la.,  and  continued  in  same  line  with  a 
brother;  Township  Assessor,  1885-6,  and  Treasurer  of  Lyon  Co., 
1889-93.  Settled  near  Lamanda  Park  in  1894  and  engaged  in 
fruit  growing,  in  which  he  has  been  successful.  Has  served  as 
Road  Superintendent  of  First  Supervisorial  District  for  seven 
years  and  in  1906  was  elected  Supervisor:  in  that  capacity  repre- 
sents the  largest  producer  from  the  soil  of  any  district  in  the  county 
and  larger  in  territory  than  any  except  the  fifth.  Married  in  1871; 
two  sons  and  a  daughter. 


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JOSEPH  D.  MOODY  (Deceased),  Los  Angeles 

Born  at  Ashland,  Ohio,  Nov.  14,  1841,  and  died  in  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  Nov.  24,  1909.  In  1861  enlisted  in  Company  H,  Forty- 
second  Ohio  Inf.  and  served  thirty-eight  months,  for  a  portion  of 
the  time  as  General  Garfield's  private  secretary.  After  the  war 
studied  dentistry  in  the  office  of  Dr.  Barclay,  at  Dalton,  Ohio; 
prac.  first,  in  Upper  Sandusky,  Ohio,  and  later  in  Mendota,  111., 
remaining  in  the  latter  place  for  twenty  years.  Moved  to  Los 
Angeles,  1893,  and  practiced  there  until  his  demise.  Grad.  1885 
Chicago  College  of  Dental  Surgery;  at  time  of  death.  Professor 
of  Hygiene  and  Ethics  in  College  of  Dentistry,  Univ.  Southern 
California;  a  leader  in  his  profession.  Married  1869,  Miss  Kate 
Cameron,  at  Jessup,  la.  Mrs.  Moody  practiced  dentistry  with 
her  husband  for  many  years,  and  is  one  of  the  prominent  women 
of  Los  Angeles . 


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ROSE  LA  MONTE    BURCHAM.  Los  Angeles 

Born  Dansville,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  28,  1857;  daughter  Dr.  James 
and  Eliza  (Pratt)  La  Monte.  Her  father,  born  in  England, 
prac.  many  years  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  and  died  Nov.  19, 
1893.  Rose  L.  Burcham  educated  public  schools  and  semi- 
nary at  Dansville,  receiving  teacher's  certificate  at  sixteen; 
grad.  Rochester  Acad.  1882.  Commenced  med.  studies  with 
father;  grad.  Eclectic  Med.  Institute,  Cincinnati,  1884. 
Located  Highland,  Cal.,  1885;  prac.  there  eleven  years. 
Married  Dec.  1887,  Charles  A.  Burcham,  Los  Angeles;  in 
1896,  with  husband,  became  interested  in  Yellow  Aster 
Mining  and  Milling  Co.,  Randsburg,  Cal.,  and  since  regular 
formation  of  company,  has  been  secretary.  Residence  Los 
Angeles  since  1899.  On  Board  of  Directors  Fine  Arts 
League;  life  mem.  and  dir.  Ebell  Club. 


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WILLIAM   M.  TISDALE,  Redlands 

Born  Adams,  Jefferson  Co..  N.  Y  1860  Educated  at 
Wesleyan  University,  Middletown,  Ct^,  and  Harvard  Coll. 
Read  law,  at  Utica.  N.  Y.,  in  the  office  of  Cookinham  & 
Sherman  the  latter  now  Vice  President  of  the  United  States. 
Came  to  California  in  1888  and  to  Redlands  m  1890. ,  Admit- 
ted to  California  bar,  1901,  and  m  the  following  year 
appointed  Postmaster  by  President  Ro°sevelt ;  re-appomted 
in  1906  Reappointed  by  President  Taft  m  1910.  Strong 
Republican  As  a  director  of  the  Redlands  Board  of  Trade 
Tnd  as  a  writer  for  standard  newspapers  and  periodicals, 
Mr.  Tisdale  has  been  a  recognized  .  factor  m  Prom°t>ng 
the  interests  of  his  home  city.  Married,  1884,  Mmnie  D. 
Cooper,  of  Jefferson  Co..  N.  Y. 


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GEORGE  E.  HART,  Los  Angeles 

Born  New  Hampshire,  Nov.  6,  1859.  Received  common 
school  education.  Engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  lumber 
for  twenty  years,  operating  three  mills  in  New  Hampshire; 
moved  to  Washington  in  1891  and  was  the  owner  of  mills 
in  Seattle  and  Tacoma.  Came  to  California  in  1896,  since 
which  has  been  engaged  in  farm  land  and  oil  product  busi- 
ness. His  residence  is  one  of  the  most  completely  equipped 
homes  in  the  city  and  contains  a  $6,000  pipe  organ.  The 
summer  home  of  Mr.  Hart  is  at  Corona  Del  Mar,  where  he 
has  one  mile  of  ocean  front  and  one  half  mile  on  Newport 
Bay,  on  whose  shore  there  are  many  beautiful  homes,  others 
in  course  of  completion  and  many  contemplated.  Corona 
Del  Mar  (Crown  of  the  Sea)  is  eighty  feet  above  the  sea  and 
bay.  Mem.  Union  League  and  Los  Angeles  Automobile 
Clubs. 


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SHERMAN  PEASE.  Los  Angeles 
Born  ThompsonviUe,  Conn..  1869.  Came  to  Los  Angeles 
1884  Engaged  furniture  business  1885  to  1904,  as  Vice 
Pres.  Niles  Pease  Furniture  Co.;  since  1906  Pres.  Pease 
Bros.  Furniture  Co.  Mem.  Governor's  staff,  with  rank  of 
ColoneL  Knight  Templar  and  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and 
Shriner;  also  B.  P.  O.  E.  and  Union  League  Club. 


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EDWIN  JESSOP  MARSHALL,  LOS  ANGELES 

Born  Baltimore  Co.,  Md.,  Mar.  18,  1860.  Educated  in  country 
schools  Maryland  and  Illinois.  From  1877  to  1887  engaged  in 
railroad  work  for  the  Union  Pacific  and  Santa  Fe  roads  at  Atchison, 
Kans.,  and  Galveston,  Tex.  In  1888  appointed  Cashier  First 
Natn'l  Bank,  Lampasas,  latter  state;  Pres.  1890,  thus  serving 
until  coming  to  Los  Angeles  Jan.  1,  1904.  Largely  interested  in 
the  cattle  business  of  Mexico  and  Southwest,  and  among  his  busi- 
ness connections  are  the  following:  Pres.  Chino  Land  &  Water  Co. 
Sinaloa  Land  &  Water  Co.,  Palomas  Land  &  Cattle  Co.,  Jesus 
Maria  Rancho  (Inc.) ;  Dir.  First  National  Bank.  Los  Angeles  Trust 
Co.,  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Ins.  Co.,  Home  Telephone  &  Telegraph 
Co.,  James  H.  Adams  &  Co.  (Inc.),  and  Home  Telephone  Co., 
San  Francisco.  Mem.  California,  Jonathan  and  Country  clubs, 
Los  Angeles,  and  Bohemian  Club,  San  Francisco. 


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AMOS  ALFRED  FRIES,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Vernon  Co.,  Wis.,  Mar.  17,  1873,  son  of  Christian  M.  and  Mary 
Ellen  (Shreve)  Fries.  Educated  country  and  Mound  City  schools 
Mo  ■  also  in  Nev.  and  Ore.;  grad.  Medtord  (Ore.)  High  bchool 
1893  and  U.  S.  Military  Academy,  1898;  post.  grad.  work  two 
years,  civil  engineering,  electricity  and  practical  astronomy.  2nd 
Lieut  Enginelrs-  Corps,  Willefs  Point,  N.  Y.,  during  Spanish- 
American  War;  on  river  and  harbor  improvements  Portland,  Ore., 
lg98-9-  u.  S.  Engineers'  School  1899-1901;  engineering  work  and 


tary  and  scientific  organizations;  also  of  City  and  Country  clubs, 
Los  Angeles.     Married,   1899,  Elizabeth  C.  Wait,   Medford,  Ore. 


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CLARENCE  W.  BOWEN,  SOUTH  Pasadena 

Born  at  Otselic,  N.  Y.,  1863,  son  of  Morell  and  JuUa  F.  Bowen; 
mother  belongs  to  the  well  known  Warner  family  of  New  York. 
Clarence  W.  moved  to  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  at  an  early  age  and 
attended  Univ.  of  Minnesota;  went  to  New  York  City,  where  lived 
four  years  before  coming  to  California  in  1902;  since  been  engaged 
in  real  estate  business  in  Pasadena  and  Los  Angeles.  Has  now 
extensive  interests  in  California  lands,  and  has  organized  several 
companies  well  known  In  the  state,  such  as  the  Arrowhead  Realty 
Corporation  and  the  San  Joaquin  Development  Co.;  of  the  latter 
is  Pres,  and  General  Manager.  Mem.  Arrowhead  Mountain, 
Annandale  Country  and  Jonathan  Clubs.  Married  Margaret 
B.  Wilson  and  has  four  children:  C.  Winthrop,  who  attended  the 
University  of  Minnesota;  Virginia  and  Marguerite,  students  at 
Throop  Polytechnic  Institute,  and  Neill,  pupil  in  grammar  school. 


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R.  B.  YOUNG,   Los  ANGELES 

Native  of  Canada  and  educated  in  its  schools.  Came  to  Denver, 
Colo.,  in  the  seventies;  then  to  San  Francisco  for  six  months, 
and  finally  (1879)  to  Los  Angeles,  where  he  has  been  Identified 
with  large  building  enterprises  almost  from  the  first.  Among  the 
structures  which  he  has  designed  and  built  are  the  Vlckery  block, 
five  stories;  HoUenbeck  Hotel,  four  stories;  Westminster  Hotel; 
Wilson  block,  corner  of  First  and  Spring  streets;  Rosslyn  Hotel, 
South  Main  street;  Broadway  and  Occidental  Hotels;  Lanker- 
shim  office  building,  corner  of  Third  and  Spring  streets,  and  the 
Lankershim  Hotel,  corner  of  Broadway  and  Seventh  Street.  He 
has  also  erected  a  large  number  of  residences.  Mem.  Jonathan 
Club,  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  Union  League  Club;  also  identi- 
fied with  the  Elks.  Married  and  the  father  of  Mary  Elizabeth 
Moore  and  Frank  Willson  Young,  the  latter  being  his  business 
partner. 


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FRANK  WILLSON  YOUNG,  Los  Angeles 

Native  of  Los  Angeles  and  educated  in  California  schools. 
Interested,  with  his  father,  for  a  number  of  years,  and  a 
member  of  the  well  known  firm  of  architects,  R.  B.  Young 
&  Son.  Mem.  Southern  California  Chapter  Institute  of 
Architects;  Jonathan  and  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Clubs,  and 
Native  Sons  of  the  Golden  West. 


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FRANCIS  QUARLES  STORY,  Alhambra 

Born  Waukesha,  Wis.,  July  18,  1845,  son  John  P.  and  Eliz.  (Quarles) 
Story,  of  Salem,  Mass.;  brother  of  Major  Gen.  J.  P.  Story,  retired, 
IT.  S.  A.,  and  Judge  WUliam  Story  of  Colorado.  For  ten  years 
a  wool  merchant  in  Boston  and  San  Francisco.  Resident  of 
Alhambra  since  1883.  Pres.  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of 
Commerce  1902;  mem.  since  1891;  Cliairman  of  its  Citrus  Tariff 
Executive  Committee  which  secured  the  tariff  of  1897  and  of  the 
committee  appointed  to  receive  the  N.  E.  A.  Assn,  in  1898  and 
1907;  also  of  its  Citizen's  Relief  Committee  for  San  Francisco; 
and  of  Building  Committee  which  raised  the  bonus  required  to 
erect  present  building.  He  is  now  Pres.  Alhambra  Orange  Growers 
Assn,  Semi  Tropic  Fruit  Exchange,  Fruit  Growers'  Supply  Co., 
Executive  Committee  of  the  Citrus  Protective  League,  Los  Angeles 
City  Directory  Co.,  and  San  Gabriel  Valley  Country  Club;  and 
Dir.  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles  and  the  Equitable 
Savings  Bank;  and  California  representative  of  the  National  Con- 
servation Committee.  Married,  1876,  to  Charlotte  S.  F.  Devereux, 
who  died  childless  in  1897. 


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LEE  CHANNING  GATES,  Los  ANGELES 

Born  Preble  Co.,  Ohio,  Apr.  4,  1856,  son  of  Laborious  A.  and  Maria 
(Brumbaugh)  Gates.  Educated  in  public  schools  Indiana  and 
Ohio.  Taught  school  Ave  years  in  Wayne  Co.,  Ind.,  and  Mont- 
gomery Co.,  Ohio.  Read  law  and  was  admitted  to  bar  at  Dayton, 
Ohio,  1881;  prac  four  years  in  Ohio.  Moved  to  Kansas  in  1885. 
ranching  and  practicing  law  until  1892,  at  El  Dorado.  Located 
at  Los  Angeles  1892  and  became  atty.  for  the  Los  Angeles  Abstract 
Co.;  chief  counsel  Title  Insurance  and  Trust  Co.,  its  successor, 
since  formation  in  1894.  Independent  Republican:  active  in  State 
and  municipal  reforms.  Charter  mem.  and  first  Pres.  City  Club; 
Pres.  California  Land  Title  Assn.;  mem.  American  Assn.  Title  Men, 
and  various  local  clubs.  Married,  1883,  Bessie  B.  Caldwell,  Rich- 
mond, Ind.;  two  daughters.  Hazel  and  June. 


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J.  B.  COULSTON,  Pasadena 

Born  Ellisburg,  Pa.,  May  22,  1869.  Previous  to  becoming 
a  resident  of  Pasadena  in  1905  was  largely  interested  in 
Pennsylvania  banks  and  the  natural  gas  business  of  that 
state.  Organized  and  Pres.  of  Colton  National  Bank  and  the 
Covina  National  Bank;  Pres.  Crown  City  National  Bank 
and  Crown  City  Savings  Bank  of  Pasadena;  Vice  Pres. 
Traders  Bank  of  Los  Angeles;  and  interested  in  national 
banks  at  Riverside,  South  Pasadena  and  San  Pedro.  Is 
also  an  e.xtensive  grower  of  citrus  fruits,  with  orange  ranches 
at  Covina  and  Glendora.  Knight  Templar,  Shriner  and 
Thirty-second  degree  Mason.  Mem.  Overland,  Annandale 
and  Jonathan  clubs. 


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ELIZABETH  L.  KEXNEY,  Los  Angeles 
Born  Mattoon,  lU.  Grad.  Sioux  Falls  (S.  D.  )High  School; 
course  at  Leland  Stanford  Univ.;  LL.  B.  degree  Northwest- 
ern (111.)  Univ.  Admitted  bar  Cal.  1897;  first  woman 
practitioner  of  Los  Angeles.  Gen.  prac;  specialty,  probate 
matters  and  administering  of  estates.  Ardent  advocate  of 
woman's  suffrage.  Mem.  College  Woman's  Club,  Cal. 
Business  Woman's  Assn.,  Political  Equality  League  and 
Friday  Morning  Club.  Resident  of  Los  Angeles  for  twenty- 
three  years. 


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JULIUS   HAUSER,   LOS  ANGELES 

Native  of  Germany,  born  1847.  Educated  in  public  schools  and 
learned  trade  in  fatherland.  Came  to  United  States  1867,  and 
for  three  years  was  variously  employed  in  N.  Y.  state;  then  resumed 
the  butcher's  trade  at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.  Moved  to  Sacra- 
mento, Cal.,  in  1870,  where  he  worked  at  his  trade  for  a  time,  then 
established  a  meat  market  at  Broderick,  Cal.  In  1878  he  married 
Caroline  Hergett.  He  located  in  Los  Angeles  in  1882  and  in  that 
year  established  a  retail  market  on  a  small  scale  at  First  &  Main 
Streets,  and  the  business  having  grown  to  large  proportions,  he 
was  compelled  in  1904  to  incorporate  and  founded  the  Hauser 
Packing  Company,  associating  his  five  sons  with  him,  as  follows: 
Julius  Hauser,  President;  E.  C.  Hauser,  Vice  President;  H.  J. 
Hauser,  Secretary  &  Manager;  L.  A.  Hauser,  Treasurer;  F.  M. 
Hauser,  Superintendent,  and  C.  F.  Hauser.  There  is  also  a  daugh- 
ter, Louise  Wilhelmina  Hauser.  He  is  a  member  of  Masonie 
order  (Shriner);  B.  P.  O.  E.;  &  I.  O.  O.  F. 


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JOHN  W.  SHENK,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Shelborne,  Vt.,  Feb.  7,  1875.  Moved  to  Omaha,  Neb., 
1882.  Grad.  Omaha  High  School  1895  and  Ohio  Wesleyan 
Univ.,  Delaware,  1900;  law  course  Univ.  of  Mich.  Mem. 
Fourth  Ohio  Vol.  Inf.  from  first  call  until  February,  1899, 
Spanish-American  War.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  September, 
1900.  Admitted  Cal.  bar  October,  1903;  appointed  Deputy 
City  Atty.  of  Los  Angeles  August,  1906,  and  First  Asst.  City 
Atty.  Jan.  1,  1909.  Mem.  Beta  Theta  Pi  and  Phi  Delta 
Phi;  Master  South  Pasadena  Lodge  No.  367,  A.  F.  &  A.  M., 
1909;  Royal  Arch  Mason,  an  Elk,  and  mem.  Union  League 
and  San  Gabriel  Country  Clubs. 


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JOHN  N.  HUNT.  South  Pasadena 
Born  in  Dewitt  Co.,  111.,  in  1863.  Educated  in  public  schools 
and  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1882.  From  1887  to  1894  m 
the  employ  of  Southern  California  Savmgs  Bank;  from  1895 
to  1907  Deputy  County  Tax  Collector;  then  assumed  office 
of  Treasurer  of  Los  Angeles  County,  to  which  he  had  been 
elected  by  the  Republicans  (practically  without  opposition) 
in  December,  1906;  Scottish  Rite  Mason;  mem.  Union 
League  Club.  Married,  1887,  Hattie  P.  Collins,  of  Los 
Angeles. 


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ROSE  TALBOTT  BULLARD,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Birmingham,  la.,  Apr.  16,  1864,  daughter  of  Dr.  Joseph 
Talbott  (deceased).  Educated  common  schools,  Birming- 
ham Academy  and  Northwestern  Univ.  Woman's  Medical 
School  (M.  D.,  1886) ;  post-graduate  work  in  Vienna,  Chicago 
Policlinic  and  Post-graduate  Medical  School  and  Johns 
Hopkins  Univ.  Since  1907  Instructor  in  Gynecology  Med. 
Dept.  Univ.  So.  Cal.;  medical  examiner  insurance  companies. 
Ex-Sec.  and  Pres.  Los  Angeles  Co.  Med.  Assn.;  also  mem.  So. 
Cal.  Medical  and  State  Societies,  American  Medical  Assn., 
and  Friday  Morning  Club.  On  Board  of  Managers  Y.  W.  C. 
A.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  1886.  Married  Frank  D.  Bullard 
May  3,  1888,-  one  child,  Helen,  born  May  15,  1892. 


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CHARLES  CLIFTON  BROWNING,   MONROVIA 

Born  Denver,  III.,  May  25,  1861,  son  of  Enoch  C.  and  SpPWa  L. 
fpennock)  Browning;  his  father  long  in  Christian  church.  ^Attended 

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SctfS^ttS  Ka/uS?Vrovi^!  ^^.XS^ 
flon  V^c^Pr^  Pottenger  Sanitarium  Co.  Meni  of  American 
Med.  A3?n  and  State  Medical  Society,  as  well  as  Nafn  Ass'n  for 
Study  and  Prevention  of  Tuberculosis,  International .  Congress 
on  Tuberculosis  and  State  Ass'n  (Vice-Pres  )  a  so  of  vamus  other 
organizations  for  scientific  and  socal  investigation  ^em  Mystic 
SMne  and  York  Rite.  Married,  1885,  Miss  Helen  E.  Tillabaugh. 
one  child,  Helen  Gilberta. 


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GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


JOSEPH  D.  RADFORD,   Los  ANGELES 

Born  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis.,  Apr.  14,  1857.  Educated  in  schools  of 
that  city;  grad.  High  School  1875.  Same  year  became  messenger 
In  First  Natn'l  Banli  of  Fond  du  Lac;  in  1883  private  bank  of  Nel- 
son Story,  Bozeman,  Mont.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  1896,  and  for 
three  years  was  Asst.  Cashier  National  Bank  of  California;  located 
at  San  Jose  1898  to  become  Cashier  of  Garden  City  Bank  and  Trust 
Co.,  later  holding  same  position  with  First  Natn'l  Bank;  in  1903 
became  Pres.  of  bank,  resigned  1907  to  accept  Vice  Pres.  of  German 
American  Savings  Bank.  Pres.  California  Bankers  Assn.  1908. 
Knight  Templar  and  Shriner.  Republican.  Mem.  Jonathan, 
Federation  and  City  clubs.  Married,  1908,  Mrs.  Florence  Rivers 
Stowell;  first  wife.  Miss  Maria  M.  Pinney,  to  whom  he  was  married 
In  1881,  and  who  died  In  1901. 


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256 


GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


WILLIAM  KENNEDY,  Los  Angeles 

Until  his  removal  to  Los  Angeles  in  1903,  \A'illiam  Kennedy  was 
a  resident  of  Iowa,  where  he  was  engaged  in  teaching  and  law  prac- 
tice. Born  in  Lee  Co.,  that  state,  1848;  Lewis  G.  Kennedy,  his 
lather,  a  Kentucklan,  who  moved  first  to  Illinois  and  then  to  Iowa, 
where  (in  Lee  Co.)  he  married  Mary  Newsom,  of  a  pioneer  family. 
William  Kennedy,  from  seventeen  to  twenty-five,  chiefly  engaged 
in  teaching,  for  two  years  being  superintendent  of  the  Farmington 
(la.)  public  schools.  Began  study  of  law  at  Chicago  Univ.;  admit- 
ted to  bar  and  commenced  practice  at  Oskaloosa,  la.,  in  1875; 
moved  to  Des  Moines,  1879,  and  continued  there  in  practice  until 
coming  to  Los  Angeles  in  1903,  since  which  in  professional  work 
in  that  city.  Man  of  earnest  purpose  and  substantial  record. 
While  teaching  at  Farmington  married  Alice  Proper;  two  children 
were  born  to  them — Carrie  M.  and  Obie  C.  the  latter  of  whom 
died  in  1904.     Mr.  Kennedy  is  a  Mason  and  a  Republican. 


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H.  BERT  ELLIS,  Los  ANGELES 

Born  Lincoln  Center,  Maine,  May  17,  1863,' son  of  James  H.  and 
Annie  M.  (Bullard)  Ellis.  Directly  descended  from  Thomas 
Davis,  Lord  Mayor  of  London  (1677)  and  (maternally)  from 
Governor  Bradford,  second  Governor  of  Mass.  Educated  public 
schools  of  Fredericton,  N.  B.,  Collegiate  School  (also  Frederlcton) , 
Univ.  New  Brunswick  and  Acadia  Coll.  Wolfvllle,  N.  S.  (grad. 
1884,  A.  B.):  also,  Univ.  So.  Cal.  (1888,  M.  D.)  Post  grad.  work 
Univs.  Goettingen  and  Wien,  1888-9.  Prac.  in  Los  Angeles  since- 
1889;  since  1893,  prac.  devoted  to  eye,  ear,  nose  and  throat.  Mem. 
local  and  nat'l  med.  societies;  Cal.,  Jonathan,  Univ.  and  Sunset 
clubs  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Bohemian  Club  San  Francisco.  Pres. 
Los  Angeles  Board  of  Education  1903-5.  Prof.  Diseases  of  Eye 
and  Treas.  California  Med.  Coll.  Married,  1907,  to  Mrs.  Florence- 
E.  Chandler. 


258 


GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


ED.  W.  HOPKINS,  Los  Angeles 

Born  at  Oskaloosa,  la.,  March  25,  1863.  Received  common 
school  education;  worked  on  a  farm  and  read  law  there  in 
younger  days;  admitted  to  practice  by  Supreme  Court  of 
Iowa;  moved  to  Los  Angeles  in  1891,  but  has  not  practiced 
in  California.  In  1895  began  work  in  the  County  Assessor's 
office;  in  Assessor  Ward's  second  term  became  Chief  Deputy 
Assessor  and  on  the  death  of  Mr.  Ward,  Sept.  4,  1907,  was 
appointed  county  assessor.  In  politics,  stanchly  Repub- 
lican. Is  a  Thirty-second  degree  Mason  and  member  of 
the  Shrine.  Married,  1895,  Miss  Martha  L.  McVicker, 
of  Iowa. 


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ALMON     PORTER     MAGINNIS,     LOS     ANGELES 

Born  Cleveland,  O.,  Jan.  1,  1848.  Educated  In  Cleveland  public 
and  high  schools  (grad.  1866).  Railroad  engineering  1866-8  on 
Kansas  Pacific;  in  1880  timber  contraciing  on  Texas  Pacific;  in 
1882  bridge  building  on  Cotton  Belt  line,  in  Texas.  In  1882  became 
connected  with  the  Santa  Fe  as  president  of  the  colony  of  the  Neosho 
Falls  &  Western  road,  a  branch  built  through  portions  of  Kansas; 
in  1886-7  bought  right-of-way  for  extension  of  Santa  Fe  from  Kansas 
City  to  Chicago.  In  1887  came  to  California  as  Mang'r  Pacific 
Land  Improvement  Co.;  later  appointed  Commissioner  of  Land 
Dept.  and  Tax  Commsr.  and  Claim  Agt.  of  Santa  Fe  lines  west  of 
Albuquerque,  N.  M.;  also  Pres.  Santa  Fe  Car  Icing,  Navajo  Ice 
&  Cold  Storage,  Winslow  Electric  Light  &  Power,  Gate  City  Ice  & 
Pre-cooling  Co's,  etc.  Married  1878,  Alice  J.  Harpham,  of  Havana, 
111.;  three  children. 


260  GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 

Security  Savings  Bank,  Los  Angeles 

SINCE  February  11,  1889,  when  the  Security  Savings 
Bank,  with  only  $68,000  capital  paid  in,  opened  for 
business  in  a  small  storeroom  at  No.  148  Main  street, 
its  growth  has  been  gradual  and  steady,  until  the  present 
finds  the  institution  with  $1,000,000  paid-up  capital  and 
$850,000  reserve,  permanently  located  in  the  Security 
Building. 

In  the  twenty-one  years  of  its  history,  the  bank  has  in- 
creased its  capital  four  times,  and  the  deposits  have  grown 
from  less  than  $200,000  for  the  first  year  to  more  than 
$27,000,000,  owned  by  more  than  60,000  depositors, 
giving  this  institution  the  distinction  of  being  the  largest 
of  its  kind  in  the  Southwest.  The  equipment  is  conceded 
to  be  the  finest  in  the  West,  and  it  has  one  of  the  largest 
and  best  appointed  Safe  Deposit  and  Storage  Vaults *in  the 
United  States. 

At  intervals  of  several  years  the  Security  absorbed  three 
other  savings  banks  —  the  Main  Street,  the  Los  Angeles, 
and  the  Southern  California.  In  every  respect  the  Security 
Savings  Bank  has  lived  up  to  its  name  and  has  won  a  de- 
served success. 

J.  F.  Sartori,  President,  M.  S.  Hellman,  Vice-Presi- 
dent, W.  D.  Longyear,  Cashier  and  Secretary,  and  T. 
Q.  Hall,  Assistant  Cashier,  have  been  with  the  Security 
since  its  organization  —  Mr.  Sartori  first  as  Cashier,  Mr. 
Hellman  as  a  Director,  and  Mr.  Longyear  as  Assistant 
Cashier.  John  E.  Plater,  Vice-President,  was  President 
of  the  Los  Angeles  Savings  Bank  when  that  institution 
consolidated  with  the  Security;  and  Charles  H.  Toll, 
Vice-President,  was  Cashier  of  the  Southern  California 
Savings  Bank.  Mr.  Longyear  has  risen  to  his  present 
position  by  long  and  faithful  service.  Mr.  Hall  began  as 
messenger.  C.  W.  Wilson,  Assistant  Cashier,  was  with 
the  Southern  California  Savings  Bank.  W.  M.  Caswell, 
Assistant  Secretary,  was  Cashier  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Savings  Bank.  J.  H.  Griffin,  Assistant  Secretary,  was 
Secretary  of  the  Southern  California  Savings. 


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261 


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Security  Bun  ding,  Los  Angeles 

Ground  floor  and  basement  occupied  by  Security 
Savings  Bank  and  Security  Safe  Deposit  Vaults. 


262 


GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


WILLIAM      DOUGLAS      LONGYEAR,      Los      Angeles 

Born  in  Jackson  Co.,  Mich.,  July  2,  1863;  after  the  death 
of  his  father,  in  1872,  moved  to  Kalamazoo ;  was  educated 
in  schools  of  that  city.  Entered  Kalamazoo  National 
Bank  in  November,  1884;  resigned  position  in  October, 
1889,  and  came  to  California.  In  1890  accepted  position 
with  Security  Savings  Bank,  of  Los  Angeles,  when  that 
nstitution  was  only  a  year  old;  elected  Assistant  Cashier 
n  April,  1893,  and  Cashier  and  Secretary  (present  position) 
n  January,  1895.  Scottish  Rite  Mason.  Mem.  California 
and  Jonathan  Clubs.      Married,  1893,  Miss  Ida  A.  Mackay. 


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263 


SAMUEL  INGHAM  MERRILL,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Buffalo,  N.  Y..  Nov.  15,  185fi;  educated  In  its  common  and 
high  schools  commenced  business  with  Buffalo  grain  house;  came 
to  Oakland,  Cal.,  Sept.  11,  1876,  and  opened  grocery;  bookkeeper, 
then  manager  for  Hopkins  &  Haley,  San  Francisco  bankers,  1877- 
81.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  Dec.  24th  of  that  year  and  entered  hard- 
ware business  as  Merrill  &  Babcock;  wholesale  iron  trade  as  Per- 
cival  &  Merrill  1883-5;  book  and  stationery  house  (Merrill  &  Cook) 
1885-91;  developed  one  of  the  largest  retail  oil  concerns  in  world 
1891-1901;  Gen.  Mangr.  and  Pres.  California  Industrial  Co.  since.; 
also  Dir.  Western  Gas  Engine  Co.  and  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Organized  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  Los  Angeles  in  Feb.,  1882.  and  Pres.  four 
years;  one  of  the  founders  Baptist  College,  Union  Rescue  Mission, 
Good  Samaritan  Mission,  McKinley  Industrial  Home  and  First 
New  Testament  Church  of  Los  Angeles.  Married,  1888,  Sarah  De 
Etta  Dearborn;  has  three  children. 


264 


GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


JACOB  L.  LANTERMAN,  La  Canada 

Born  in  New  Jersey,  1827;  died  at  Glendora,  Cal.,  1908.  Reared 
as  the  son  of  a  poor  farmer  in  New  Jersey.  Secured  an  education 
by  individual  exertions  and  finally  worked  his  way  through  the 
Baltimore  Dental  College;  then  went  to  Michigan  and  opened  his 
office  at  Lansing,  then  a  little  baak  woods  settlement,  but  soon 
to  be  the  state  capital;  as  soon  as  practice  would  warrant  married 
Ammoretta  J.  Crisman,  who  came  from  near  his  New  Jersey  home ; 
four  children  born,  one  dying  in  infancy  and  three  being  now 
residents  of  Southern  California;  a  competency  realized  from  pro- 
fessional work,  banking  and  farming,  but  at  expense  of  his  health. 
Dr.  Lanterman  came  to  Los  Angeles  Co.  in  1874,  buying  several 
thousand  acres  of  wild  land  at  La  Canada,  which  he  transformed 
into  the  beautiful  family  home,  known  as  Homewood.  There  his 
children,  Stella,  Frank  and  Roy,  were  reared,  and  there  his  wife 
died  in  1902;  he  himself  passed  away  at  the  home  of  his  daughter, 
Mrs.  Stella  B.  La  Fetra,  at  Glendora,  in  1908 — a  man  of  sterling 
character,  as  quiet  in  his  demeanor  as  in  his  charities. 


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265 


WILLIAM  SPRINGER  BARTLETT,  Los  Angeles 

Bom  South  Bend,  Ind.,  where  he  had  practical  mercantile 
training;  commenced  banking  career  in  San  Francisco  as 
bookkeeper  for  CaUfornia  Trust  Co.  (later  National  Gold 
Bank  and  Trust  Co.).  of  which  he  became  Cashier;  sub- 
sequently came  to  Southern  California  and  organized  several 
banks  and  other  corporations;  in  February,  1898,  German- 
American  Savings  Bank,  became  Chairman  Board  of  Dir., 
German-American  Sav.  Bank.  One  of  the  promoters  and 
organizers  of  the  Home  Telephone  Co.,  Los  Angeles;  Treas. 
and  Dir.  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Mem.  California  Club.  In  politics. 
Republican;  in  religion,  Presbyterian.  Married  at  Oakland, 
Gal.,  Miss  F.  C.  Gray,  of  Virginia. 


266 


GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


ARTHUR  B.  BENTON,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Peoria,  111.,  Apr.  17,  1858.  Descendant  Andrew  and 
Hannah  (Stocking)  Benton,  Milford,  Conn.,  1639,  and  Wil- 
liam and  Annis  Chandler,  Andover,  Mass.,  1630.  Educated 
Peoria  schools;  grad.  1877;  student  School  of  Art  and  Design, 
Topeka,  Kans.  Began  professional  career  in  -architect's 
department,  chief  engineer's  office,  Santa  Fe  Ry.,  Topeka; 
there  1887  to  1890;  from  1890  to  1891  in  chief  engineer's 
office  U.  P.  Ry.,  Omaha;  architect  in  private  practice  in 
Los  Angeles  since  spring  1892.  Governor  Cal.  Soc'y  Colo- 
nial Wars;  associate  American  Institute  of  Architects;  dir; 
So.  Cal.  Chap.  American  Institute  Architects;  Sec.  Land- 
marks Club;  mem.  Cal.  Soc'y  Sons  of  Revolution,  University 
Club  of  Redlands,  and  Jonathan  and  Union  League  clubs 
of  Los  Angeles. 


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267 


GEORGE  E.  PILLSBURY.  Los  Angeles 

Born  Tewksbury.  Mass.,  1857.  Educated  public  schools 
and  Lawrence  Acaden^y.  Began  civil  engineenng  in  Lowell 
Mass  and  until  1880  was  in  the  employ  of  various  railroads, 
thtn  removed  to  Mexico  where,  for  about  three  years,  he  was 
a  divis^n  engineer  during  the  building  of  the  Mexican  Central 
Railway  In  1884  came  to  the  Coast  and  since  1885  has  been 
f  resident  of  Los  Angeles.  From  1885  until  1895,  engaged 
fnrllway  and  other  engineering;  since  189.S  m  engineering 
with  Los  Angeles  Electric  Railways,  and  has  been  Chief 
Snginter  o?  the  Pacific  Electric  Railway  since  ^ts  inception. 
Mem  Engineers  and  Architects  Association,  and  Jonathan 
and  San  Gabriel  Country  Clubs. 


268 


GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


FRANCIS  O.  WYMAN,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Macedonia,  Ohio,  May  3,  1839.  Educated  In  public  schools 
and  Western  Reserve  College,  Ohio.  Four  years  a  soldier  In  the 
Civil  war.  Company  A,  14th  Ohio  Vol.  Inf.;  was  in  many  important 
battles  and  participated  In  the  Grand  Review  at  Washington. 
After  the  war,  twenty-four  years  in  drygoods  business  in  Ohio, 
and  twenty-flve  years  in  lime  manufacture;  was  Pres.  Genoa  and 
Rocky  Ridge  Lime  Company,  headquarters  at  Toledo,  Ohio. 
Came  to  California,  1886,  and  Los  Angeles,  1888;  organized 
Union  Lime  Co.,  of  which  Pres.,  leading  manufacturers  in  Southern 
California  (12,000  barrels  monthly  capacity);  also  Pres.  Summit 
Lime  Co.  and  Golden  State  Portland  Cement  Co.  Married,. 
Aug.  25,  1868,  Miss  Mary  E.  Stephens,  of  Erie  Co.,  Ohio;  second 
marriage,  July  29,  1875,  to  Miss  Emma  I.  Bailev,  of  Clrclevllle, 
Ohio,  by  which  union  there  are  three  children. 


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269 


JOHN    CORNEBY    WILSON    AUSTIN,    Los   ANGELES 

Born  Bodicote,  near  Banbury,  Oxfordshire,  Eng  ,  Feb.  13,  1S70, 
son  of  Richard  W.  and  Jane  E.  Austin.  Educated  English  private 
schoo  sf  architecfs  apprentice  under  William  Sampson  Barwick. 
Came  to  U.  S.  1890,  first  locating  at  Philadelphia;  1892-5  in  San 
Francisco,  Cal.,  and  since  latter  year  in  Los  Ange  es.  .In  prac. 
In  US.  since  1890.  Architect  of  the  following  buildings  in  Cal.— 
Potter  Hotel,  Santa  Barbara;  Leighton,  Alvarado  and  Fremont 
hotels.  Los  Angeles;  Wright  and  Callender  building;  F^st JVI  E 
church,  Los  Angeles,  and  First  M.  E.  church.  Pasadena;  Cahfornia 
Hospital  Angeles  Hospital,  So.  Cal.  College  of  Medicine,  College 
of  Physicians^  and  Surgeons,  Univ.  So.  Cal  (re-bullt).  Harvard 
Military  Academy  and  Madam  Ida  Hancock  residence  Scottish 
Rite  Mason  and  Shriner;  associate  mem.  American  Institute  Archi- 
tects; Pres.  Los  Angeles  Humane  Society;  mem.  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce and  Jonathan  Club.     Married  and  has  five  children. 


270 


GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


HERBERT  E.  DOOLITTLE,  San  Diego 

Born  Painesville,  Ohio,  1864.  Educated  in  public  schools 
of  Illinois  and  Monmouth  (111.)  College  (four  years) ;  grad 
Denison  Univ.,  Granville,  Ohio,  1886.  Came  to  California 
1888.  Admitted  to  bar  1890  and  to  U.  S.  Supreme  Court 
1899.  City  Atty.,  San  Diego,  1895-1905:  Republican. 
Prac.  gen  and  corporate.  Mason  and  B.  P.  O.  E.  Mem. 
University  and  Cuyamaca  Clubs.  Married  1893,  Mary 
Susan  Gay,  of  Plaquemine,  La. 


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271 


LEWIS  W.  BLINN,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Dresden,  Me.,  Dec.  22,  1842.  Educated  public  schools 
and  Maine  Wesleyan  Univ.,  Kents  Hill.  Came  to  California 
and  located  in  San  Francisco  1864,  and  since  that  year  has 
been  engaged  in  Lumber  business.  Pres  of  L.  W.  Blinn  Co., 
Golden  Gate  Lumber  Co.,  Lumber  and  Mill  Co.  of  Whittier, 
State  Bank  of  San  Pedro  and  Provident  Mutual  Building  & 
Loan  Assn.;  also  Dir.  of  Citizens  National  Bank.  Inde- 
pendent in  politics  and  mem.  Independent  Church  of  Christ; 
also,  Jonathan  and  Sunset  clubs.  Married,  Dec,  1867, 
Celia  Little,  a  native  of  Maine;  has  one  son. 


272 


GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


ROBERT  G.  HILL,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Lebanon,  Ky.,  1857  and  educated  at  St.  Mary's  College, 
that  state.  Admitted  to  Ky.  bar,  1879;  elected  clerk  of 
Marion  Circuit  Court,  1880;  reelected,  1886;  soon  afterward 
resigned  to  engage  in  the  practice  of  law;  also  became  inter- 
ested in  banking,  and  for  many  years  was  either  a  director 
or  Pres.  of  Kentucky  banks.  Came  to  Los  Angeles,  Sep- 
tember, 1909,  and  organized  the  Los  Angeles  Hibernian 
Savings  Bank,  which  opened  June  1,  1910,  with  Mr.  Hill 
as  Pres.  From  the  first  its  growth  has  been  remarkable; 
Mr.  Hill  giving  his  entire  attention  to  its  establishment 
and  development.  Being  a  skilled  lawyer,  equips  him  as 
an  efficient  and  successful  banker. 


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273 


STODDARD  JESS,  Los  Angeles 
Rnrn  at  Fox  Lake.  Wis.,  Dec.  3,  1856,  son  ol  George  Jess,  an  old 
and  successiuT  California  miner',  and .  Maria  T.  Judd,  daughter 
Sf  Stoddard  Judd,  a  prominent  physician  and  public  man  of  Wte- 
consin  Mr.  Jess  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Fox  Lake 
and^  University  of  Wisconsin  (1870-6).  Cashier  of  George  Jess 
&  Co  .bankers  of  Waupun,  Wis.,  1876-85:  came  to  Pomona  End 
ol  latter  year  (father  having  preceded  him),  and  becameits  first 
treasurer  (1885-6) ;  had  served  as  councilman  and  mayor  of  Waupun, 
wit  First  Pres.  Pomona  Board  of  Trade;. Pres.  Library  Board 
of  Trustees  (1902-4).  Organized  First  National  Bank  Pomona, 
and  cashier  1886-98:  April,  1904,  became  Vice  Pres  First  National 
Bank  of  Los  Angeles,  as  at  present:  also,  dir.  Los  Angeles  Trust 
Co.  and  Metropolitan  Bank  &  Trust  Co.;  Pres.  law  Publishing 
house  L.  D.  Powell  &  Co.  Pres.  Los  Angeles  Consolidation  Com- 
SSttee;  mem.  Clearing  House  Committee  and  various  clubs; 
Thirty-second  degree  Mason  and  Elk.  Married,  1879,  Carrie 
H.  Chenoweth;  two  children. 


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JOHN     WILLIAM     WHITTINGTON,     Los     ANGELES 

Born  Crowland,  England,  July  21,  1867.  Educated  In  public 
schools  of  native  country  and  Univ.  So.  Calif,  (special  course  1900) 
Previous  to  coming  to  U.  S.  in  1890  associated  with  Dr.  Barnardo's 
Home  for  Destitute  Waif  Children,  London,  and  Wesleyan  Metho- 
dist East  London  Mission.  Locating  in  Los  Angeles  in  November 
of  that  year,  entered  employ  of  M.  A.  Newmark  &  Co.  In  1900 
associated  himself  with  Mutual  Benefit  Life  Insurance  Co.  of 
Newark,  N.  J.,  and  in  1903  became  Gen.  Agt.  for  So.  CaUf.  of  the 
Aetna  Life  Insurance  Co.  Pres.  for  two  years  of  Life  Underwriters 
Assn.  of  Los  Angeles:  Vice  Pres.  National  Life  Underwriters  Assn.: 
elected  Pres.  of  National  Assn.  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  1909:  Dir.  Society 
for  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Animals.  Mem.  Los  Angeles  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce:  also  Union  League,  City  and  Federation  Clubs 
of  Los  Angeles  and  Sierra  Club,  San  Francisco.  Thirty-second 
degree  Mason:  leading  Methodist.  Married,  1895,  Ina  May 
Belvllle,  Los  Angeles:  has  three  children. 


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JOSEPH  SCOTT,  LOS  ANGELES 

Born  at  Penrith,  Cumberlandshire,  England,  July  16,  1867,  son 
of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Donnelly)  Scott.  Completed  full  classical 
course  St.  Cuthbert's  College,  Durham,  in  July,  1S88,  and  while 
a  student  there  (in  June,  1887)  matriculated  in  London  University, 
being  a  gold  medallist.  On  May  15,  1889,  located  in  New  York 
City,  engaging  both  in  journalism  and  manual  labor  until  he  was 
called  to  the  senior  professorship  of  Rhetoric  and  English  Litera- 
ture, St.  Bona  venture  College,  Allegany,  N.  Y.;  held  position 
until  1893.  Arrived  in  Los  Angeles  June  30,  1893,  assumed  study 
of  law  with  Anderson  &  Anderson  and  admitted  to  bar  in  April, 
1894;  since  engaged  in  practice.  Has  been  Pres.  Board  of  Educa- 
tion; Dir.,  Pres.  (elected  1910)  Chamber  of  Commerce;  Dir.  Cali- 
fornia Club,  and  mem.  Sunset  and  Celtic  Clubs.  Married,  1898, 
Bertha  Roth. 


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HENRY    EDWARDS     HUNTINGTON,     Los    Angeles 

Born  Oneonta,  N.  Y.,  February  27,  1850,  son  of  Solon  and 
Harriet  (Saunders)  Huntington.  Educated  public  and 
private  schools.  Business  life  has  been  devoted  mainly  to 
building  and  operation  of  steam  and  electric  railways.  Upon 
the  advice  of  his  uncle,  the  late  Collis  P.  Huntington,  came 
to  Calif.,  1892,  locating  in  San  Francisco,  and  later  to  Los 
Angeles;  1904-5;  built  Pacific  Electric  Bldg.  Married, 
Newark,  N.  J.,  1873,  Mary  Prentice.  Pres.  Jonathan  and 
member  Calif.  Clubs,  Los  Angeles;  Pacific  Union  and  Bohe- 
mian, San  Francisco;  Metropolitan  and  Lawyers,  New 
York   City. 


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JOHN   MACKAY  ELLIOTT,  Los  Angeles 

Born  in  South  Carolina,  October  1844  During  Civil  War 
was  a  private  in  Signal  Corps.  Confederate  Army.  Came 
to  Los  Angeles  from  Savannah,  Ga..  1870.  In  the  affairs 
of  Los  Angeles  he  has  performed  an  important  part  for  more 
than  thirty  years.  Entered  First  National  Bank  as  book 
keeper  in  1881;  assistant  cashier,  1883;  cashier  1885;  presi- 
dent since  1892;  always  known  as  a  conservative  banker. 
One  of  his  chief  labors  has  been  to  secure  for  Los  Angeles 
an  adequate  supply  of  pure  water.  Was  director  of  Old 
City  Water  Co.,  and  instrumental  from  that  side  in  sale 
to  city,  since  then  has  been  on  Board  of  Water  Commission- 
ers and  prominent  in  Owens  River  project.  Member  Sun- 
set, California,  Jonathan,  Union  League  Clubs. 


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NORMAN  FOOTE  MARSH,  SOUTH  PASADENA 

Born  Upper  Alton,  111.,  July  16,  1871.  Grad.  Upper  Alton  High 
School;  literary  and  scientific  training  at  Shurtleff  College  and 
grad.  college  of  Engineering  and  School  of  Architecture,  Univ. 
Illinois,  1897  (B.  S.  degree).  Since  1898  in  practice  as  an  archi- 
tect. Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1900,  and  in  his  work  here  may  be 
creditably  noted  the  following  creations  in  his  line:  Venice  of 
America  (senior  architect);  University  of  Redlands;  Columbia 
Hospital,  Los  Angeles;  Polytechnical  high  schools  at  Hollywood, 
Pomona,  Huntington  Park,  Redlands  and  Whittier,  Cal.;  high 
schools  at  South  Pasadena,  Glendale  and  Los  Angeles;  many  ele- 
mentary schools;  First  M.  E.,  Baptist  and  Presbyterian  churches. 
Long  Beach;  First  Baptist  and  Presbyterian,  Pomona;  Christian 
and  M.  E.,  South  San  Diego;  Cliristian  and  Baptist,  Pasadena; 
Christian,  M.  E.  South  and  Presbyterian,  San  Jose.  Thirty- 
second  degree  Mason.  Mem.  Memorial  Baptist  Church,  South 
Pasadena.  Married  Cora  Mae  Cairns,  1901 ;  two  children,  Norman 
LeRoy  and  Marian  Elizabeth. 


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ARTHUR   M.  GOODHUE,  Long  Beach 

Born  Sacramento,  Cal.,  Dec.  22,  1871.  Grad.  Polytechnic 
School  of  Oakland,  Cal.  For  nineteen  years  engaged  in 
lumber  bus.  Pres.  State  Bank  of  Long  Beach  since  February, 
1906,  and  Vice  Pres.  from  its  organization  in  June,  1905,  to 
the  former  date.  Dir.  Chamber  of  Commerce;  Treas.  Sea- 
side Investment  Co.  Republican  and  a  Mason;  also  mem. 
California  Club  of  Los  Angeles.  Married,  Oct.  24,  1896, 
Lilian  Everson  of   Oakland. 


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FRED  E.  PIERCE,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Walton,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  21,  1866,  one  of  eight  sons  and  one 
daughter  now  living  in  Los  Angeles.  Came  to  Cal.  1881  and 
since  has  been  identified  with  the  business  interests  of  Los 
Angeles  and  So.  Cal.  Pres.  Pierce  Bros.  Undertaking  Co.; 
Vice  Pres.  of  City  and  County  Bank  since  organization  in 
October,  1908.  Republican  and  Assemblyman,  1907-8; 
Mem.  Los  Angeles  Commandery  No.  9,  K.  T.;  Grand 
Patriarch  L  O.  O.  P.,  1907-8;  mem.  Union  League  Club. 
Married,  1890,  Miss  Alice  May  Parmeter  of  Los  Angeles. 


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WILLIAM   DAVID  WOOLWINE,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Christianburg,  Va.,  Oct.  19,  1855.  Educated  in  coun- 
try schools.  Moved  to  Nashville,  Tenn.,  in  1873,  and  until 
1886  devoted  himself  to  the  counting  room  and  financial 
departments  of  wholesale  and  manufacturing  enterprises. 
Came  to  San  Diego,  Cal.,  in  1886,  and  from  1888  to  1894  was 
Cashier  First  Nat'l  Bank.  Located  in  Los  Angeles  1894 
and  until  1898  Cashier  So.  Cal.  Savings  Bank;  Cashier  Los 
Angeles  Nat'l  Bank  1898-1903;  Vice  Pres.  So.  Cal.  Savings 
Bank  1903-6;  since  1906  Vice  Pres.  Nat'l  Bank  of  Cal.  Dir. 
Security  Savings  Bank,  Federal  Bank,  and  State  Mutual 
Building  and  Loan  Assn.  Mem.  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
Cal.  Club.  Married  Oct.  18,  1883,  Miss  Lily  White,  of 
Louisville,  Ky.;  two  children,  a  son,  Louis  M.,  and  a  daughter, 
Martha  B. 


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JAMES  DIX  SCHUYLER.  Los  Angeles 
Born  Ithaca.  N.  Y..  1848  son  of  Philip  Church  and  Lucy^ 
Schuyler.     Educated  common  schools  to    i»  ^^i,,^^^^^^^  ^      Rail- 
rrcofs»^n  CoioS^l^ansas  PaciOc.  D^^^^^^^^^      Boulder 
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member   of    commission   to   accompany   i^r^m         ^^^.^    ^    en- 


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ABRAM  EHLE  POMEROY,  Los  Angeles 

Born  at  Clinton,  Mich.,  son  of  Charles  W.  and  Permelia 
(Valentine)  Pomeroy,  both  of  New  York.  When  he  was 
young  family  moved  to  California;  in  1856  to  Santa  Clara 
Co.  Educated  San  Jose  public  schools  and  Univ.  of  the 
Pacific  (grad.  1863).  Deputy  and  County  Clerk;  then 
entered  hardware  and  grocery  business;  also  Cashier  San 
Jose  Savings  Bank.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  1881,  and  has 
since  been  a  real  estate  dealer  and  banker,  having  laid  out 
several  town  sites  and  ranches.  Has  been  Pres.  Board  of 
Education;  trustee  of  State  Normal  School;  Vice- Pres. 
State  Mutual  Building  and  Loan  Ass'n;  trustee  Univ. 
Southern  California.  Charter  mem.  California  Club  and 
Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Thirty-second  degree 
Mason  and  leading  Methodist. 


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BRADNER  WELLS  LEE,  Los  ANGELES 

Born  In  East  Groveland,  N.  Y.,  May  4,  1850.  Early  education  In 
public  schools  of  place  and  under  private  tutors;  studied  law  with 
uncle.  Col.  G.  Wiley  Wells,  U.  S.  Dist.  Atty.  and  Congressman 
from  Mississippi  and  Consul  General  to  Slianghai,  China;  admitted 
to  Mississippi  bar,  1871;  shortly  afterward  appointed  U.  S.  District 
Attorney  for  Northern  District  of  that  state;  resigned,  1879,  to 
come  to  California.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  March,  1879,  and 
admitted  to  all  California  courts  in  April;  in  188.3  became  mem. 
firm  Brunson,  Wells  &  Lee,  and  continued  to  be  identified  through 
various  subsequent  changes  of  firm  until  1908  since  which  he  has 
practiced  alone.  Chairman  of  Rep.  County  Central  Committee 
1896  to  1910  and  Chairman  of  the  Rep.  County  Convention  in 
1906;  Trustee  of  State  Library  since  1896,  also  held  leading  posi- 
tions on  the  Rep.  State  Central  Committee;  Chairman  Law  Com- 
mittee, Chamber  of  Commerce;  mem.  leading  clubs,  bar  associa- 
tions. Sec.  Sons  Revolution  and  Colonial  Wars;  Knight  Templar 
and  Shriner.  Dir.  City  and  County  Bank  and  other  corpora- 
tions. Married  Oct.  16,  1883,  Helena  Farrar;  two  sons,  Bradner 
Wells  Lee  Jr.,  and  Kenyon  Farrar  Lee,  students  at  Stanford  Univ. 


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GEORGE  R.  DAVIS,  Pasadena 

Born  Huntsville,  Ohio,  Dec.  13,  1861.  Educated  in  public 
schools  Wapakoneta,  and  admitted  Ohio  bar  in  1883.  Gen. 
Prac.  in  that  state  until  appointed  by  Pres.  McKinley,  in 
1897,  Associate  Justice  Supreme  Court  of  Arizona;  re-ap- 
pointed 1901  by  Pres.  Roosevelt.  Prac.  California  from 
1905  to  February  24,  1909,  when  appointed  Superior  Court 
bench  Los  Angeles  Co.  Mem.  Union  League  of  Los  Angeles 
and  Overland  Club  of  Pasadena.  Married,  Oct.  16,  1890, 
to  Miss  Katharine  H.  Scovil  of  Circleville,  Ohio;  has  one 
son  and  three  daughters.  Mason,  (32nd  degree)  and  K.  of  P. 


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SAMUEL  THOMPSON  LEWIS,  Pasadena 

Born  in  Union  Co.,  Ind.,  educated  in  public  schools  and 
Valparaiso  M.  &  F.  College.  Enlisted  1861,  assigned  to 
9th  111.  Cav.,  serving  three  years.  In  1872  established 
produce  commission  business  in  Chicago,  and  a  grocery 
business  in  1874.  Withdrew  from  retail  trade  in  1875,  and 
after  being  associated  for  a  time  with  D.  Appleton  &  Co., 
publishers,  in  1877  entered  the  publishing  business  with 
C.  C.  Chapman  &  Co.  He  and  his  brother  formed  the 
Inter-State  PubHshing  Co.  in  1880,  and  in  1885  took  the 
name  of  The  Lewis  Publishing  Co.,  the  business  being 
incorporated  in  1887.  Married  Miss  Harriet  Hosea  at 
Newcastle,  Ind.,  in  1887;  two  children,  Alameda  and  Pauline. 
Moved  to  Pasadena  in  1903. 


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FRANK  JAMES.  Los  Angeles 

Born  Fulton,  Schoharie  Co.,  X.  Y.,  Mar.  16,  1863,  son  of 
Thomas  H.  and  EHzabeth  James.  Educated  public  schools 
and  studied  law  in  office  of  Krum  &  Grant,  of  that  city. 
Admitted  to  New  York  bar  1886;  California  bar  1888; 
Federal  courts  Los  Angeles  1894.  General  prac.  since  1886. 
Attorney  for  California  Fruit  Growers'  Exchange.  Mem. 
State  Assembly,  1901;  Mason  and  K.  of  P.  Mem.  Jonathan 
and  San  Gabriel  Country  Clubs.  Married,  1886,  Miss  Harriet 
Bouck;  two  children. 


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289 


GEORGK  ALEXANDER,  Los  ANGELES 

Born  near  Glasgow,  Scotland.  Sept  21  1839.  In  1850  family  came 
to  U  S  .  residing  for  five  years  in  Chicago;  1856  moved  to  Tama 
(^o..  la.  Spent  boyhood  and  youth  as  a  Chicago  newsboy  and 
working  on  his  father's  Iowa  farm.  Civil  War  soldier  enlistan^ 
in  1862  and  serving  to  close  in  Co.  E,  24th  Iowa  Vol.  Inf  Then 
worked  in  Belle  Plaine,  la.,  for  five  years:  continued  in  grain  busi- 
ness at  Toledo  and  Dysart,  that  state,  and  in  1887  sold  "t  and 
focated  at  Los  Angelei.  From  1890  to  Jan  1,  1901:  identlfle^ 
with  City  Street  department;  Supervisor  Los  Angeles  Co..  froin  lat- 
ter date  to  Jan.  1,  1909;  present  Mayor,  elected  '^ar  26  1909. 
Republican.  Mem.  Municipal  League  and  City,  Unioti  League 
and  Gamut  clubs;  Knight  Templar  and  Shriner.  Married.  Apr. 
15,  1862  Anna  Yeiser.  a  native  of  Ohio;  two  children  living. 


290 


GREATER  LOS  Ax\GELES 


ISAAC  TILLMAN   DYER.  Los  ANGELES 

Born  La  Grange,  Mo.,  1861 ;  attended  public  schools  and  completed 
course  in  Canton  (Mo.)  University.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  entered 
the  railroad  service  with  the  St.  Louis,  Keoliuk  &  Northwestern 
Railway  Co.,  as  telegraph  operator.  Continued  a  number  of  years 
in  various  capacities,  including  telegrapher,  station  agent,  clerk, 
train  dispatcher  and  chief  dispatcher.  In  1887  was  appointed 
Chief  Dispatcher  and  Superintendent  Telegraph,  Burlington  Route, 
St.  Joseph,  Mo.  In  1903,  resigned  to  take  position  as  Chief  Dis- 
patcher, S.  P.  L.  A.  &  S.  L.  R.  R.,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah.  In  1904. 
appointed  Superintendent  Telegraph,  same  Company,  headquarters 
Los  Angeles.  In  1909-1910,  elected  Vice-President  Ass'n  Railway 
Telegraph  Superintendents;  1910-1911,  elected  President,  same 
organization.  Member  American  Institute  Electrical  Engineers, 
also  member  of  all  Masonic  bodies.  In  1885  married  Miss 
Lillian  Watkins,  of  Ohio;  three  children. 


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291 


JAMES  BASIL   M AcLAUGHLIN,   Los  ANGELES 

Born  in  Ross  Co.,  Ohio,  son  of  James  Jefferson  and  Martha  Jane 
(Roby)  MacLaughlin.  Educated  in  the  public  schools  and  State 
University  of  Ohio;  grad.  in  law  and  admitted  to  practice  before  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Ohio.  Taught  school  three  years  in  Ohio; 
practiced  law  in  various  county  seats  of  southern  Ohio,  including 
Cincinnati  and  Columbus,  with  ofHce  at  Chillicothe:  moved  to 
Chicago,  admitted  to  practice  by  Illinois  Supreme  Court,  and 
practiced  in  that  city.  Moved  to  Los  Angeles  and  was  admitted  to 
California  Supreme  Court  in  1899;  prac.  in  that  city  since  (all 
courts,  including  U.  S.  District  and  Circuit);  has  always  made  a 
speciality  of  real  estate  and  probate  law,  and  since  coming  to  Los 
Angeles  of  mechanics'  liens.  Married  to  Elenor  MacDougal.  Mem- 
Melrose  Ave.  M.  E.  Church.  Republican  in  State  and  National 
politics;  independent  in  local  matters.  His  son  (Robert  Delamere 
MacLaughlin),  student  in  Univ.  Southern  California,  and  daughter 
(Anna  Wood  MacLaughlin),  in  Colleges  of  Mus  c  and  Oratory  of 
same  institution. 


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GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


HARRIFOX  ALBRIGHT,  Los  Angeles 

Born  at  Shoemakerto"  n  (Ogontzi,  Pa.,  May  17,  18f>6,  son  of 
Joseph  and  Louise  (Jeannot)  Albright.  Educated  in  township 
schools  and  at  Pierce  College  of  business  and  Spring  Garden  In- 
stitute. Philadelphia,  being  awarded  severai  prizes  by  the  latter 
for  excellence  in  drawing.  In  April,  18Sfi,  e-itablished  architect's 
office  in  that  city;  remained  five  years  de  igning  residences  and 
public  buildings,  and  in  April,  1891,  moved  lo  Charleston,  W.  Va. 
In  that  city  until  1905,  designing  Capitol  Annex,  Charleston: 
various  buildings  of  Marshall  College,  Hun.ingt'  n:  Miners'  Hospi- 
tal, Fairmount:  Shepherd  College,  Stale  Normai  School,  Shepherds- 
town:  Prep,  school.  State  University,  Key-^^er,  and  several  large 
fire-proof  hotels  in  different  states.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  March 
28,  1905,  since  which  designed  many  reinforced  concrete  build- 
ings for  the  A.,  T.  &  S.  F.  Ry.:  hotels  in  Los  Angeles  and  San 
IJieso:  Spreckles  Uni  ^n  building,  San  Diego,  and  residence  and 
public  library.  Coronado.  Married  isoo:  three  children.  Identi- 
fied with  many  professional  and  social  organizations. 


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GREATER  LOS  ANGELES 


MERVIN  J.   MONNETTE,  Los  Angeles 

Born  Marion,  Ohio,  Aug.  24,  1847.  Educated  common 
schools.  Reared  on  a  farm,  and  for  some  years  a  stock 
dealer  in  Ohio.  Also  fifteen  years'  banking  experience  in 
that  state,  ten  years  as  president.  Then  eight  years  in 
Nebraska  as  cattle  raiser  on  large  tract  of  land.  Later, 
operated  the  Mohawk  lease  at  Goldfield,  Nev.,  this  proving 
the  richest  mine  in  America — forty-seven  tons  of  ore  netting 
$574,958.  Came  to  Los  Angeles  in  April,  1907.  Elected 
Pres.  American  National  Bank  January,  1909;  also  dir. 
Citizens  National  Bank.  Mem.  B.  P.  O.  E.,  California, 
Union  League  and  Country  Clubs  of  Los  Angeles.  Married, 
1869,   Miss  Olive  Adelaide  Hull. 


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